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REORGANIZE WORK
CHRISTMAS BAGS REACH
NEW MARK FOR BEAUTY1
Shops Display Great Variety in All Qualities and Designs From
Shopping to Opera, Money and Powder-Puff Containers
BIG MASS-MEETING
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County Committee Is Called to
Meet Monday to Act on
New Plans
FIVE NEGRO POSTS FORMED
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A call was Issued yesterday for n
lucctinc of the county committer1 of the
American Legion, department of Penn
sylvania, in tho Widener IiuildinR,
Chamber of Commerce assembly room,
for next Mondny night to consider a
plan of reorganization alone lilies de
fined at the fltato cantonment nnd the
national convention in Minneapolis.
, Simultaneously there was called, n
conference of all employment officers
in tho seventy-seven posts of the Le
gion in Philadelphia nt the City Club
next Tuesday evening, to open tho way
for effective co-opcrrftton betnen the
posts in the matter of cmplojmcnt.
These two meetings will be of vital
Importance to the Legion. The new
county committee will determine nnd
carry out tho policies of the war vet
erans' organization in the largest mu
nicipality in tho btate, and on the exe
cution of its work will depend in great
measure the standing of the Legion
hero for tho next few years.
Up to date the Legion has functioned
through district leaders nnd tho county
committee. The question undoubtedly
will bo raised at the meeting Monday
night as to whether or not the dis
trict representation ou the exceutitc
committee shall be continued or the
committee shall be elected by the direct
vote of the post representatives.
The county committee will be called
upon to determine the extent to which
it shall undertake to boho the problems
of the cx-bcrwee men and women with
respect to war risk insurance, allot
meats and vocational training These
matters, together with that of cm-
AN1 and varied arc the
bag's on sale In the btores
this season Ihere Is al
most an unlimited Christ-
inno diuttln if i if lintti m
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".unusual and attractive de-
xlgns Everywhere arc
these beautiful bags to be
teen, fashioned of beads,
tnelal brocade, ductjn, cltet and silk.
Lneh is a frivolous nccessitj and de
signed for a purpose.
The beauty and artistry of the beaded
bag, its lining, top and clasp, makci
one stop and gnsp In ndmlration. These
bags are to be found in all hapes and
sizes, nnd. it would seem, tho queerer
the better. The designs arc invariably
brilliant, presenting unique iloral pat
terns. Some look as though thev were
beaded reproductions of an old 1'ersinu
prayer rug. They are absolutely fas
cinating to gaze upon.
Here and there n bag is to be found
drawn to with the old-fashioned draw
string, made, however, of beads todR.v
Others arc attached to odd tops made of
decorative bone compositions, imitation
tortoise nnd ivory. Inwiriablv Hie tops
are decorated with unusual Mowers,
rural scenes nnd grotesque figures of
frogs, dragons nnd birds
The imported silk bags arc equit'.lj
beautiful. Many aro designed to meet
the needs of a small purse . Some nrc
finished with genuine ivory clasps.
Thec are usuall importations fioni
Japan, nnd nrc carved in the image of
Iluddhn or some other heathen god.
Another particularly smart importn
tion is u lather large bag of black
velvet lined in coral red. It is finished
with a clasp of genuine led coral,
(nived in the shnpc of a ferocious
dragon about to descend upon the land.
J'or the opera, it seems bag hac
been designed in luxurious prolusion.
One seen reeentlj in n store wns mad
of a combination of black and while
panne x 'Ht t. Where the black and
white inteiseeted, the seams weie out
lined by alternate black anil white os
trie li bands. The top of this bag is of
genuine ivoiv nnd has n clasp of blaek
onjx studded with peails.
Hags of metal brocades to match the
siltcr or gold of milnilj "s gown nrc ex
ceptionnlly good. I'sunlly theso me
imported in exquisite fabrics, -with their
tops and clasps of piecions metals and
studded with jewels
1'or shopping pui poses it is consid
ered ultr.i smart to possess a bag of
velvet or dinctvn embroidered to match
ono'H hat. These combinations are
found in bngs in black embroidered in
gray wool; blown duvet vn in bisque
and bisque duvet u embroidered idvlnik
blue. The designs'nij widelv, and are
usunll done in minute Trench knots.
These are bags of coiwenient size and
as useful ns thej nrc beautiful.
Episcopal Campaign Will At
tempt to Reach People Who
Do Not Attend Services
EXPECT BISHOP WOODCOCK
The first of the gieat mass meeetings
in the drive of the 1'piscopnl Church
to leach the people who do not go to
services will bo bold this evening in
tho Academy of Music. Preparations
for this rally have been made nil over
the city. 11 is expected that the audi
torium will be filled.
'tho speakers expected aro Ulsliop
Charles L 'Woodcock, of Kentucky:
' Reorgc G. Thomas, of llaltimorc, and
, the Itcv. It. Tddlngs Hell, hyid of St.
Stephen's College.
The campaign now under way is the
ilaigest ever conducted by the Episco
pal Church here. It will close on De
cember 7.
Thomas Hubert-Jones, executive sec
retary of the campaign in this diocese,
.estimates that -100,000 people in this
city never go to church. Part of the
I purpose of the campaign is to get in
, touch with these people nnd interest
them In religious work. Pranklln S.
Edmonds is chairman of the men's
committee.
Mrs.J. Andrews Harris, Jr of the
women's committee, Bays women wotk- the campaign will help tho labor sltua
era in the drlvo will go into the f no Hon and fill tho great spiritual need
lories nnd tnlk to the mill girls just as Lthat has been made felt by the war.
was done in the Liberty Loan cam- f More than .$l,ri00,000 will bo nppro
palgn. She believes that Ihe lcsult of I priafed to the newly orgauicd depart
ment of Christian Americanization,
which, with the approval ot ttio federal
department of the interior, will conduct
nu Americanization campaign among
the foreign bom.
Kp uilMAs cLnujfcmiio(jfrii&lfa
ploymcnt, has been handled and is now
being handled by the respective posts.
Pour posts, composed tftclushelv ot
negro veterans, have been org.nilc'd in
Philadelphia count. The Legion, at
the state cantonment, saw to it Wiat the
negro a scmoo mu had rcpiesentatiou
in the delegation to the national con
nuion Allen Prenlon, of Post !I7, hav
ing beeni boson to leprrsent them
Tho first nrgro unit In rioted ill the
citv is Imioln Post No is'.), which has
elected those officers : W. II Thompson,
post commander; Everett II. Johnson,
post ndjutnut. The other posts and
their officers are: Temper Paint us Post
No. 07. Allen Prcclon. post com
mander, lleuiv Itiiulv, post adjutant,
Cnspus Attueks Post No. 151 . Gn
innd S. Wilmoro. post loimnnnder, and
the (ieorgo T Cornish Post No. '21VJ.
of est Philadelphia. James A Cic
diti post fommnudt'i nud Moms 1!
Dabnoj, post adjutant
1 p: ;?qi F'l'iniiirii'iiiiiif iiiiiiii wn mu rati
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Take a good long whiff of the rich, mild
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