Foreign News: Beautiful Things

Monday, Aug. 01, 1927

Smart Londoners first ignored, then snubbed, then socially embraced Mr. H. Gordon Selfridge, keen but eccentric U. S. born founder of the first U. S.-type London "department store," Selfridge's.

Last week Mr. Selfridge spoke before students of the Liverpool University School of Architecture. Said he: "I will tell you the order of the five most beautiful things in creation: A beautiful woman first, then a beautiful child, a beautiful flower, a beautiful sunset, a beautiful edifice."

Years ago Drygoodsman Selfridge acted upon the truth which he stated last week, by putting the elevator girls at Selfridge's into a uniform so trig and abbreviated that few who enter his store have eyes for the beauty of the edifice.

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