What "the manufacturers are selling to the retailers, we, the ultimate consumers, shall shortly be buying, so it. is worth while to look through the trade reports to see our purchases advancing towards us with the inevitable progrss of the popular_fashion. One sensible innovation" is the supplanting of the older crochet and Marseilles bed spreads by~ light dimities and other easily washed, thin materials, in white and colours. Bright huss, incidentally, seem to be exceptionally favoured for the moment. in luncheon sets, bath mats, towels and other household articles.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.