GIFTS FOR ALL.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10459, 14 December 1927, Page 3

GIFTS FOR ALL.

A VISIT TO PET TIE’S. The selection of Christmas Presents is no longer looked on a a an unpleasant though necessary task to be postponed until the last possible moment for choosing gifts from a wonderful assortment such as Pet-tie’s are displaying is always pleasant, interesting and profitable. Downstairs has undergone a complete transformation, and there are shown hundreds of gifts for old and young. Gifts useful and beautiful, gifts that constantly remind one of the giver and that have i.iiig periods of usefulness. In the :aiicy section, hundreds of novelties are gathered from world-wide sources, Dainty handkerchiefs from Ireland are shown in artistic gift boxes. Antique novelty .'brassware, with the atmosphere of the Orient exemplified hr the quaint Chinese and Egyptian designs. Beautiful necklets of scented flower heads and luminous heads from France and Belgium. Fancy soaps, perfumes, hath salts, etc. irom world-renowned manufacturers, .and hundreds of articles, useful and beautiful from the hands of English

■rn fts-pccple throughout the Eihpire. Included in the latter are novelty calendars, lamp shades, incense burners, and pot ponvri jars, .quaint periume sprays, fancy stationery, highgrade brushware, novelty hand bags and shopping bags, etc., etc. In the fancy linen section, gifts for the home "are suggested by the big variety of reallv beautiful goods displayed. Exquisitely worked pure linen trav cloths, supper cloths and tea. cloths from Ireland, the wonderful Madeira hand-worked fine linens in trav cloths, d’oyleys, afternoontea cloths, etc., antique hand-worked cream linen in Italian styles, including tea cloth's, supper cloths, supper cloths, and sets, and then there are beautiful damask cloths' and serviet-tes-of pure Irish linen, boadsprends, pillow shams, quilts—all equally useini and acceptable. Gifts of the more, intimate kind, displayed in our showroom, are of lovely silk lingerie, including hand-worked sots of erepe-de-tbine,'"and eelanese, silk and crepe-de-chine nighties, ele. j Gifts that in on like arc displayed in endless > variety in our men’s department, and there is nothing more acceptable than some article oi wearing apparel, for men appreciate this kind of gift above all others. Pettic’s issue a special invitation to all, and "suggest an early visit while displays arc particularly attractive. *••