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Match Boxes For Women

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
November
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Bince the passage of the city ordlaance pertaining to lamps on blcycles, women who ride wheels find it necesary to carry a match bs. Therefore there are any number of new match boxee, wbich are smaller and more dainty than anything in this line ever geen before. "Do the girls buy them?" a prominent jeweler was asked. To which question he answered: "Yes, indeed. The smaller sizes are made particularly for their special use." The prettiest of the new match boxes for girls are of gold, with an enameled decoration. The enameling either takes the form of a college or yacht club ftag, or it resembles a hand-painted Miniature showing a giri on a wheel, or the head of a dog. Many of these match boxes are made with a concealed recess for a photograph. It is only when a certain spring is touched that the picture can be seen, so skillfully is it hldden away. The silver match boxes, decorated with the outline of a tiny bicycle in enamel, axe also new and much lesa

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register