The Archive · 1924

Anything for a Gift

A travelling necktie case will please the tidy men, or more surely his tidy wife, The tics stib into a bookdike case, hanging from rod as usual, then for packing the handle-hook folds in, the book closes and snaps and there you are! Along more utilitarian lines I defy any one to produce any article—coffins ex-chuded—which has not been sugeested by its astute manufacturer a3 precisely the thing to please the strong, silent man, 'There are rain cours and rainjuckets for golf, suits, combs, gloves, razors, gearves, handkerchief, dress shirts and sports shirts,' stockings and socks, "Men's distinctive slip-overs," pipes, tobacco in all its ramifications, um-Drellus—"the sensible gift"—watch es, studs, cuff-Binks, tie pins, bill holders of silver instead of billfolds, and trunks, Indeed the gifts are ited only by the number of adver-fixers, 'Those who make women's specialities turn the trick by heading them up "His Gitts for Her.'

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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