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���The ''Little Church of the Flowers" and How It Got Its Name

THE latest thing in churches is to be found in a southern California town, in the way of grow- ing plants.

Two rows of seats and a center aisle comprise the middle of the building. On each side be- yond these seats are beau- tiful arches, from which large fern bas- kets are sus- pended, and beyond these arches, on both sides of the building, is a sloping roof of sky lights.

A cement walk extends between two rows of ferns, shrubs and flowering plants. In the columns are little pockets where choice begonias bloom. A similar church will be built in Los Angeles.

This Device Will Take Care of Your Street Clothes at the Theater

DID you ever, dear reader, have the misfortune to reserve seats at the theater and not arrive there until after the performance had started? Do you remember taking your coat off in the lobby and carrying it on your arm down to your seat? And then the wild scramble past all the ^ other people in the row, with the result- ing frenzied grab- bing of hats and coats and wraps so that you would not accumulate them in your career as a snowball grows as it rolls down a hill? Do you remember the .scowls and the bitten-off hasty expressions that

��Growing plants and flowers give a peculiar charm to this little church in a southern California town

��you left in your destructive wake? If this harrowing experience has ever been yours you are going to give the inventor of a new little wardrobe your heartiest and most unqualified support. Here it is:

To accom- modate the hat there is a sli- ding rack un- der the seat w^hich extends and folds up on the lazy tongs prin- ciple. For the coat there is a hanger at- tached to the back of the seat and the coat is protected by a light frame- w'ork, to which, in turn, is at- tached a long cylindrical receptacle for the cane or umbrella. The whole forms a remarkably compact and complete wardrobe that will accommodate all one's street clothes with- out the bother and inconvenience of the checkroom, with its crush and scramble and long line of waiting patrons, and, last but not least, there is no tip.

Owners of theaters might find it good policy to introduce this device in their houses, partly as an advertising novelty and partly as something contributing to the comfort of their pa- trons. It will, no doybt, coat hanger. pay in added good-will. \ protecting

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���Imagine yourself in that man's place and you will sympathize with him

Like a modern trunk this d'.'vice will hold your hat, overcoat and umbrella

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SLIDING E.YE.

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HAT AND WRAP REAR WALL

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