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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 18, 1916)
Our Women and Children Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards. ON UGLINESS. “Extreme admiration put out the critics eye” is an adage old and true. The homeliest persons are attractive to those who love them. Physically speaking, there is no one ugly in this whole world. The ugliest woman, so called, has some man who is just “crazy” about her. Even so we find beautiful women attracted to so called ugly men. Ugliness then is not physical but psychical and is not ap plicable to individuals or races. It is more mental. It is more moral. The descriptive use of ugliness can be applied only to character. Purity of life contributes more to our charm than all the adornment and finery that money can buy. The cultured mind, the clean life, the pure heart, entrances and charms when the face and form have lost beauty and youth fulness—"handsome is as handsome does.” L. S. E. Mother’s Hands. Such beautiful, beautiful hands, They’re neither white nor small, And you, I know, would scarcely think That they were fair at all. I’ve looked on hands whose form and hue A sculptor’s dream might be, Yet are these aged wrinkled hands Most beautiful to me. Such beautiful, beautiful hands! Though heart were weary and sad These patient hands kept toiling on That the children might be glad. I almost weep when looking back To childhood’s distant day! I think how these hands rested not When mine were at their play. But, oh‘ beyond this shadow land, Where all is bright and fair; I know full well those dear old hands Will palms of victory bear; Where crystal streams, through end less years, Flow over golden sands, And where the old are young again, I’ll clasp my mother’s hands. —Selected. The Prudish Attitude of Parents. There are certain stages in the life of every boy and girl when the con fidence and advice of the father and mother may prove of inestimable val ue. If parents have not cultivated a relationship with their children which will enable them to discuss the prob lems which budding manhood and womanhood bring, they have fallen far short of doing their duty. The evasions, lies and prudish at titude of parents have been respon sible for mistakes which have result ed in agony of soul and body for in numerable growing boys and girls. There is no period in life when chil dren are more sensitive to influences for good and evil than in this forma tive stage. They will accept and seek information from other sources if they cannot get it from their parents; the chances are a hundred to one that what they get will be misinformation and the injurious lies of companions with a distorted moral code. SHOP NOTES FROM BURGESS-NASH Miss Sturgeon. The girlish loose pleated Peter Thompson serge dresses are just the thing for the little School Miss. They come in sizes for 6 to 16 years. Yards and yards of soutache braid wends its way around the front and around the deep collars of the new blouses. Many smart designs are worked in this much-in-vogue braid. “Holiday and Kodak days.” Every winter outing, every home coming of the boys and girls hold fascinating subjects for the kodak. Those ribbon novelty bags come in so handy. One can carry them to the theatre, to the afternoon tea, to the bridge club or to the kensington. Veils are uppermost in the minds of the women who want to protect their complexions against the wintry winds. A new practical drape veil is made of hand run chantilly lace. Clever little knit hoods, sweaters, sweater sets and mittens are among the new in “Togs for Tots.” Bunches of radishes, onions, brus sel sprouts, carrots, crates of lemons, oranges, bunches of grapes, all candy of course, will make your Thanksgiv ing festivities a success. IT<3HEN iBUPBOARD 1 AUTUMN SALADS. FRUIT salads form an admirable dish at any season. But the fruit called for In the following reci pes are all seasonable to autumn and so may be used to add zest to the menus of the first frosty days: Sweet Fruit Salad.—Three ripe yel low pears, a bunch of white grapes, a blood orange, two red bananas, a glass of maraschino cordial or the same quantity of rum and sugar to tuste. Peel the pears and quarter them, tak ing out seeds; seed the grapes, peel and slice the bananas and cut the orange fn slices through the skin, dividing the slices then or leaving them whole. Put all the fruit together and sugar It liberally, then put It away on the ice. When ready to serve put on the liquor used. If this salad Is served In a glass bowl and the red orange slices are left whole the effect will be very ornamental. Endive and Grapefruit Salad.—Sev eral crisp endive heads, a ripe grape fruit, French dressing with paprika Instead of the usual pepper. Wash and dry the endive, breaking the leaves apart first, then cut them down In thin strips. Peel the grape fruit and take out the ment in plugs, denuding it of pith and the skin about the core. Put the fruit and endive together, tossing the salad In the dressing and putting on as much pa prika as Is agreeable to taste. After it la well mixed, pile it on a mound of romalne or plahi lettuce leaves, also tossed In a French dressing. Mixed Vegetable Salad.—This may be made of any green vegetables, but in the smart restaurants the chefs put the following things together: French lettuce, endive, cucumbers, celery hearts, green pepper, asparagus tips, pimentos and sometimes string beans. A nest Is made of the plain lettuce, the endive Is cut In fine strips, and if the asparagus or string beans are of the canned sort they are first washed off with fresh water and then thoroughly drained. The cucumber is cut In pa per fine slices. All of the Ingredients are put together In a mixing bowl and tossed lightly In a French dressing— olive oil, vinegar or lemon, salt and cayenne. Unless requested not to do so, the French chef also adds a taste of garlic or onion. When served this salad lies in the nest of lettuce leaves with a border of sliced cucumber or radishes cut to look like fucblas. ' Q SHIPP'S °P,ical Wa,ch and Shop Highest Quality Lowest Prices 518 S. 16th St., Opp. Rome Hotel i | ARE YOU SATISFIED with your Dry Cleaner? If not, try the ROYAL DRY CLEANERS 1 1 i BEST WORK AND SERVICE NONE BETTER Call Us First PHONE DOUGLAS 1811 24th St., 1 block north of Cuming Street —- - —• -**- “ Buy a Sweet-Toned Schmoller & Mueller Piano or Piano Player at Factory to Home Price, saving the middle man’s profit, which means $75 to $100 Our Schmoller & Mueller Pianos are noted for their fine tone and durability, in fact, are guaranteed for 25 years. We have several different styles to select from. A visit of inspec tion does not obligate a purchase. TERMS, $5.00 PER MONTH; 3 YEARS TIME TO PAY. Schmoller& Mueller Piano Co 1311-13 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. ASK FOR AND GET Skinners THE HIGHEST QUALITY EGG NOODLES 36 PAGE RECIPE BOOK FREE SKINNER MFG. CO., OMAHA, U.S.A. LARGEST MACARONI FACTORY IN AMERICA Now’s the Time TO PLANT BULBS I 1 I Tulip Hyacinth Narcissus Crocus Lily II i For Winter and Spring Bloom Stewart’s Seed Store 119 North 16th Street (Opposite Post Office) ii WONDERFUL BARGAINS IN Ladies’ Coats AT BONOFF’S N. Y. SAMPLE STORE 206 North 16th Street. 1 1 i Including plush coats, wool velour and broadcloth. The very newest styles. Over 500 beautiful coats on sale at a saving of ONE-THIRD off. Every fall suit, velvets, ga berdines or broadcloths, at ONE HALF off. Fine selection of furs at ONE-THIRD off. COME EARLY 1 AUTUMN Is Here Off with the old, and on with the new! Months in advance of demand we must provide for your needs. We are all ready with new stocKs and receive fresh arrivals daily— whether by the yard or ready-to wear. A safe place to trade at is Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. PLEATING BUTTONS HEMSTITCHING EMBROIDERING BRAIDING and BEADING BUTTONHOLES ii ' Ideal Button & Pleating Co Douglas 1936 OMAHA, NEB. 107-109-111 S. 16th St. i ..)