NOVELTIES IN UMBRELLAS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11606, 13 April 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

NOVELTIES IN UMBRELLAS.

' A novelty that eomes from Germany is the cane umbrella, which can be used for a cane in dry weather, while within it is contained an umbrella that can be spread in wet. . „ The cane umbrella ,is designed tor use in doubtful weather when .it s all rio-ht when, you start out, but likely to raTn It has a sheath made of a very : thin but rigid! composition material, which, when in place over the umbrella, makes the whole look not unlike a stout bodied malacca walking stick, which you slide off the sheath, which shuts together into a space that makes it coii- , vV.nient to carry in an outside pocket. ' When the rain is over, you roll up the [ umbrella again—it is a tight roller—and F slip the sheath over, it again, and there . you have vour walking-stick. ._ These cane umbrellas are made with v crook handles of the same material as j the sheath, and also with crook bandies of natural wood.' . • " • There is a folding umbrella that has joints not onlv in its stick, but in its - ribs. This umbrella folds into a space ■< of little more than a foot in length, the • ribs, jointed as they are, doubling up-:as t well as the stick. .In this umbrella you s screw- the stick together and then a i- little pull- brines down past the joints r in-the rib's Sliding parts that spre-ad the d r'bs in their natural position and hold s them so. This folding handbag can be t carried and put away in a drawer at e" your office or-kept there for use in case >- of emergency. : e .. Another novelty in iirnbrellas has a n wood colored leather sheatli'making it, d when not in use. somewhat resemble i i- cane. • The leather sheath can be folded'to- place in the pocket on occasion.