Pretty Hocking Costume This costume was especially fa shioned for the athletic "hockey girl." The short, warm jacket, scarf and cap and long gloves, all of the same wool material, is a distinct novelty for this winter. It serves both for keeping the wearer warm and freedom of movement. RHINESTONES MUCH IN FAVOR Really There Is No More Effective Trimming for the Smart Afternoon or Evening Dress. Rhinestone trimmings are promi nent for evening wear, especially in the simple outlining form suitable for edging tunics, necks, sleeves and edg ing elaborate scarfs of chiffon or mousseline. Rhinestones in combina tion with jet are formed into hand some floral and scroll effects. Rhine stone and pearl slides and ornaments are used for catching up draperies. Narrow Chiffon pink rosebud trim mings continue to be fashionable. Fur bands in skunk, mole, fox, ermine and sable continue to be much used for trimmings. Fur is often used in com . biuation with metal with excellent effect. An elaborate evening wrap or gown may be trimmed with a light weight metal band outlined with a nar row strip of fur. DRESSING GOWN /-N. i This is an excellent gown for win- | ter wear, as it fastens quite up to the throat. It is cut Magyar with long sleeves and ' trimmed with fancy galloon. A woolen girdle draws the fullness in at the waist. Materials required: three and one fourth yards 54 inches wide; two and three-fourths yards of galloon. ^ Old Rose Moire Gown. L- Moire silk is particularly handsome, I and has practically all the good quali ** ties of broadtail without its perisha bility. A smart coat and skirt in old rose moire has a high Napoleonic J double collar, and revers of satiu in the same shade, closely covered with rattajl embroidery. The coat is of a tong shape, with a slightly high waist, ^land longer at the back than in the front. It Is fastened by silk cording and buttons arranged in corselet fash ion and a high collar and jabot of lace are arranged on a white lawn founda tion to form the vest. New Handbags. Handbags are seen in a variety of form. The newest is the long double sack bag. passed through a ring to wear over the fingers or sufficently large to wear as a bracelet. These bags are embroidered in steel or dull beads on colored velvet or moire, to (natch the gown worn. Get Rugs First. it A specialist on the subject of rugs |says that in furnishng a room the rug |i should be chosen first. Then the dec orations should be decided upon, that they may above all things be in har I mony with the rug. Walls toned to K harmonize with rugs are better than K those papered. i SMALL COATS OF BROCADE One of the Prettiest of the Winter Fashions, With Trimmings of Odds and Ends of Fur. The winter fashions are getting more and more alluring, and very pleasing are the little coats of brocade with their cutaway fronts and high wayman cufTs. These coats, like oth ers of the swallow-tailed and banded descriptions, display an edging or trimming of fur, skunk, apparently, be ing first favorite. Many of us have been hoarding short, lengths of broche velvet or satin, and rejoice that the present vogue gives us an opportunity to utilizing them. If the length be not quite sufficient for a blouse we are permitted to call into service a plain satin for its successful completion, as a combination of plain and fancy fab rics is a fasionable alliance this sea son. Dry velours is carrying all before it. and in the finest quality is an ideal fabric for princess tailored robes as well as for coats and skirts. The more severe the design the more suc cessful is the result, as one's furs supply the requisite trimming. Wedgwood and Black Velvet. A little girl's frock in a pretty wedg wcod shade is made with kilted skirt and loose blouse bodice set off with a black velvet belt and buttons to match. In this case the finishing touch is given by a sailor collar of white silk. A pretty party dress is kilted in rose-colored silk, and has a gathered bodice set on to the skirt un der a thick cording of the silk and flnelyder a thick cording of the silk and finely tucked round the yoke, which is of cream-tinted lace. One of the sweetest notions for the accordian frock is carried out in cream ninon with a corselet and half sleeves of lace hung round with the little borders of ball frings for which the fancy still continues, though this style of trimming does not. of course, pretend to be new. This type of dress! with or without a trail of flowers or a sash of ribbon, is very graceful and girlish, and it is certain to be a favor ite one. Cuff Reinforced. How many of us have discovered that, when our tailored waists come back trom the laundry the third time the cuffs show signs of wear? As many of mine are bought ready-made, there is no material for new cuffs. Now, when I buy a new w'aist I go over the edges of the cuffs with a tiny overhand stitch that is almost invisible, writes a contributor to Good Housekeeping. The cuffs then wear as long as the waist does. Girlish Gown. A simple and girlsh gown is made of soft white chiffon trimmed with garlands of green satin leaves, ap pliqued to the bodice and skirt in bor der fashion. These garlands outline the round neck of the bodice, the high waist line in the form of a girdle and the edge of a draped tunic w here it is caught up with a green satin bow. The sleeves are also caught up with a satin bow. Perfume Bags for Clothing. Cloves, nutmegs, mace, caraway seeds, cinnamon and Tanguine leaves, each one-half ounce. Florentine orris root, three ounces. Have all ground to a powder well mixed and put up in small bags to place among cloth ing. This not only gives the cloth ing a fine perfume, but is a protection against moths. Smart Coats. Talored suits have smart cutaway coats or long Russian blouse coats. The collars are high and straight. The straight band of fur used as a collar and finished with a bow or ribbon at the side or just beneath the coiffura at the back is very smart. HAT fixed the time for the ending of one year and the beginning of an other? More light. In the countries where win ter is cold and dark and grim the severest weath er comes after the old year goes. It was in less biting air, but in increasing light, that the proof was found of the “turn o' the year." The dead year is often buried to the dirge of winter's most bitter winds. The frost is going deeper, when the season is normal. Nature's sleep is most profound. There is only one sign that the sun has turned and is coming back. That evidence is a lit tle more daylight, a little less of the darkness of night. But more light is enough. It makes the change a time of joy, of new hopes and mere confident turning 'tc the future. There is the promise of spring in the added light of the day and the promise of growing good and re treating evil in the coining of the new year. It means that mankind has another chance for better things. It gives hope of a new foothold and endeavor to a fresh start. The world is invited to turn its back on the mistakes and sins and troubles of the past and look to the ever-wonderful possibilities of the unknown time to come. There is the charm and joy of New Year's. In that revival of drooping confidence, in that lure of the infinite, lies the appeal of the day which is al ways greeted with enthusiasm, no mat ter how* many generations have seen the hopes of the year's birth wither before its death. After many fail ures success may come. Who knows? That is the magic question—“Who knows?” The world gains front year to year in a thousand little things, and sometimes a great evil long en dured goes crashing down. Who can say what the limit of triumph may be in the better times to come? For the world, like every young { year, is getting more light. It has more of the sunshine of truth, more of the life-giving rays of knowledge. If they seem cold and sterile, at times, it is because humanity's year is still young. “We are ancients of the earth, and in the rooming of the times." .* This increasing li^ht of knowledge, this brighter beacon to guide the steps of mankind, must flower and fruit in richer gains than humanity has yet won. It is an accumulating force, like the warmth which the sun gives the earth in spring The thinkers and dreamers of the world know that this is so. They are inspired by the consciousness that with growing knowledge there must come increased power and higher wisdom to direct and control it for the help and uplifting of mankind. The faith sees the life and growth, the color and warmth of spring, in the lengthening days of winter. They perceive that the world of men and women, and of the children, too, though still far from the full tide of its summer, Is already well into the long new year of the human family. fhm* are as eertain of the spring for all mankind as they are that Jauuary will pass and May will come. It is a mistake to reflect too much upon the past. It has its lessons, but the learning of them should not so absorb our attention as to preclude us from incorporating them into our daily life, transmuting the memory and experience into the gold of use ful practicability and ready work that yields results. Introspection was getting so insist ently a habit of the New Year that we are beginning to forget it was but a means to an end—the re flective porch to the large and spa cious chamber of lofty resolve and ac complishment. \Ve fancy sometimes that a faint suggestion of maudlin sentiment crept into the self-analy sis, converting what should have proved a stepping stone to higher planes of activity into a more pur gatory of self-abnegation ending in a cul-de-sac. We want to make our reflection an avenue that leads through paths of earnest thought to the high tablelands of glorious endeavor and achievement. The soul itself must be utilitarian and not waste itself in unprofitable penance. What has the year accomplished for womanhood? There has unquestion ably been a remarkable renaissance of the feminine. Woman has broaden ed her outlook, established her claim to wider recognition of her talents, im pressed public life with her power for good, and raised her physical and men tal scale of the sex. Thank God. among the general advancement there is one that is inspiringly reactionary—a re version to the old veneration for the sanctity of motherhood—the holiest and divinest calling of all, a calling in volving great sacrifice, great sorrows, but bringing with it, on the other hand, untold compensating joys. In the medical profession woman nas done well, while in the humbler ranks of nursing our efficient hospitals tell their own eloquent tale of the la bor done by those who “watch the stars out by the bed of pain.” For the large masses of the girlhood and womanhood the arena of commer cial life has widened its doors, and evidence is seen on all hands of the efficiency of the new female re cruits to the business ranks. Their presence in this great army of stren uous endeavor will tend to purify and strengthen it, and make it worthier than it lias ever been before. The prizes are many, but those who do not gain them must not be disheart ened. The very striving after them stiffens the fiber. "The athlete ma tured for the Olympian game gains strength at least for life.” While I have dwelt in this short review of woman's progress on the more expert phases of her career, it must be pointed out that ability is not the be-all and the end-all of wom an's existence. It is the great lever that moves things, hut another qual ity is required for the settling down. Greater than all her accomplish ments is her capacity for shedding around her wherever she goes the fragrance of a sweet and beautiful life, and smoothing out the raveled sleeve of care. It is in the belief that she is fully capable of this mission that one looks forward in confidence to the immediate future—a future in which the pulse of vibrant life will throb sympathetically and intellectual ly to the ultimate benefit of the whole of the community. •••••••••••••••••••••••••a • • • Thoughts for New Year • “Resolve and resolve and still go on the same?” Nay! Nay! not so; but rather resolve and with a steadfast purpose- without equivocation or men tal reservation, harness the firm reso lution, the will of your intent to the wagon of your purpose loaded with the dutiful obligations of your every day life. Obligations to home, to bus iness relations, to the proper demand of your church and social environ ment, to civic and patriotic responsi bilities. Duties never clash; something is paramount, something worth while. Do that! Be true to thyself, to that con ception of that self which raises with in you a real sense of self-respect; that self which you admire, to which you aspire; that manhood to which you would attain and toward which energies of mind and will bend, never loosing the call of the vision. Before all men honorable—a high sense of honor is a well spring of conscious joy and a reservoir of power to the possessor. The looking-glass of yourself often may discourage you, but it is the con sciousness of what you ought to be, and the desire to attain, laying aside every weight or hindrance and run ning with patience the race you have set before you. Never stop the cry of your soul, your real self, to the call of the unreached goal. The poets with their wide and deep discernment ofttimes sing truly of the soul cry and its evolution into an abundant life. Lowell: Of all the myriad words of mind That through the soul come thronging Which one was e’er s«» dear, so kind So beautiful as longing? The thing we long tor that we are For one transcendent moment Before the present poor and bare Can make its sneering comment. Tennyson: O for a man to rise in me That the man that I am May cease to be. Holmes: Build thee more stately mansions O my soul As the swift seasons roll! Heave thy low-vaulted past! T>*t each new temple nobler than the last Shut thee from heaven with it dome more vast Till thou at length art free. Heaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea. With every business item and rela tion be honest, and fundamentally, by tdA^TsifilS word of mouth, truthful. “Ah what a tangled web we weave when first wt 1 practice to deceive.” A lie seldom travels alone. It weaves a web, it the meshes thereof sooner or latei we are humiliated. The truth alone ' is courageous, and courage is a manlj virtue. A lying tongue is the curse o1 j a habit grafted on a cowardly nature An individual is not honest with him self or honorable in his dealing:- witt his fellow because he is not willing t< face the unvarnished fart or bear tht brunt and burden which justly is his; j a responsibility only made irksome bj his cowardly lie whereby he would shift the burden and stand behind the veneer of an assumption cr false po sition. Fear not. the man within yot will work out if you will it so; undis couraged. undismayed, pressing on j you become conscious that, having i done your part, it is due to arrive. Be not discouraged, fellow wayfarer Yield to that man within you. whost insatiable longing is the inspiratior 1 that shall bring the nobler self tc ; being; the self that now rhafes al limitations; that opens the window: ! through which you see the visions o: j jour undj’iug hope, though distant j'el existent, and yours to obtain if you will but hold your straight-way course Laugh at Your Burden. Most of us are bending under tht | burden of some great load. It may bt j care, it may be disappointment, it mat be injustice, it may be physical pair or spiritual discouragement, but it it heavy. Often it seems heavier that j we can bear and we cry out and pro ! test. These burdens are very real i but really they are not half as big ant! ; heavy as we make them, declares t ; writer in the Universalist Leader. Wt ! have had them upon our shoulders j entirely out of our sight, so long that j they have been magnified by imagina tion or weariness or impatience, unit they seem unbearable. Now, then whatever your burden' may be, how : ever long you have been carrying it ; and however proud you may have be ! come of your self-imposed martydon , just take your burden down and loot j at it honestly, and you will be sur | prised how it has dwindled away whilt ; you have been magnifying it in vout mind. Look at it frankly and fearless j ly and in nine cases out of ten wil * your tears be tuned te laughter an* ; your sighing into song. Most Famous City in History. The one spot which more than anj other has controlled the history ol Europe lies, strangely enough, not ir Europe itself, but in Asia. For thi possession of the site where Chrisl “suffered, was buried and rose again.’ more blood has been shed than foi any other. An immense number oi . lives were laid down during the Cru j sades; and for 600 years before tin . Crusades, and even to the presen) j time, a constant stream of pilgrims has poured into Jerusalem to worshii at the spot made sacred by the cruci fixion of Christ. From the fourth cen tury after Christ until 50 years ag( this site was generally conceded tc be within the Church of the Holy Se pulclier. Now two sites dispute tin claim of being the actual Golgotha This latter claimant is known as “Gordon's Calvary.” though to ai American, Dr. Harlan P. Beach, o: Yale university, is due the actual dis covery of it. General Gordon, the hero of Khartoum, having first se cured for it general recognition.— Christian Herald. — Too Strenuous Plan of Teaching. “Once upon a time, many years ago," says the Western School Jour nal, “this editor visited a school ir which the teacher in the grammai class tried to illustrate every verb bj appropriate actions. Thus the vert run was pictured In a scamper around the schoolroom; the verb strike tool) form on a boy's back. ‘But,’ remarked the visitor, 'what are you going to d< with the verb lie (to tell an untruth)* You surely wouldn't ask the childrer to lie, and when the verb howl is ir the lesson would you bid them howl? She had never thought of that, but the absurdity of her method seemed j visible to her. We hope so.” MERCY OF THE COURTS The justice of the peace was in the south and a marked state of igno rance. He was approached by a man desiring a divorce, and he did not know what to do. Calling a friend to his side, he whispered: “What's the law on this p'int?” “Yon can't do it,” was the reply. ’It's out of your jurisdiction.” The husband, observing the con sultation. and feeling keenly his desire to escape from his matrimonial woe, explained: “I'm willin’ to pay well; got the money right here in this sock.’’ At this the justice assumed his grav est judicial air. Obviously he was deeply pained. Never before in all his life had he been so bowed down by grief. “You knew before you came here,” he said sadly, “that it wasn't for me to. separate husband and wife, and yet you not only take up the valuable time of this court by talking, but you ac tually propose to bribe me with moDey Now, how much have you got in that sock?” “About six dollars and a half, youi : honor.” “Is that so? Then I fine you five dol lars for bribery and a dollar and a half for taking up my time with a case out of my jurisdiction; and maj the lord have mercy on your soul!”— The Popular Magazine. War Balloon Destroyed. The German paper Schuss and Waffe describes a bullet named for Its inventor, Lentz, for which great things are claimed in the way of de stroying dirigible balloons, which will undoubtedly appear in the next war between nations of the first rank. Instead of being a shell fired from a howitzer, like other projectiles of this sort, this bullet can be made up into cartridges for the ordinary rifle. Two prongs are held in slots in the bullet while it is in the barrel of the rifle, but fly out when it is in the air. When it enters a balloon casing, the strain on these prongs releases a spring, which explodes a primer, set ting the gas on fire. While a dirigible might escape the few shells fired at it by a cannon, it would hardly hope to pass unhit through the hail of bullets fired by a regiment; and ^)ne such bullet ex ploding within its envelope would de stroy the balloon, as the unfortunate Wellman balloon exploded last sum mer. Dairy Cow at the Head. The dairy cow owes a salute to th< Country Gentleman for the compll ment paid her in saying that "civili zation and the dairy cow are closelj associated.” As a food producer, sayi the Country Gentleman, the cow re turns eighteen pounds for every hun dred pounds of feed given her, whil« her nearest competitor, the hog, re turns only fifteen pounds, and the hen with all her cackling, gives the ownei but a scant ten pounds of food in re turn for his investment of a hundred I IT ‘Father, Hi I’m Glad You Smoke Duke’s Mixture” Before we tell you about the boy and bis air rifle, we want you to hear al>out Liggett <$• Myers Duke s Mixture —the tobacco that thousands of men find just right 5 for rolling—or tucking into a pipe. 1 I i ! i i This favorite tobacco is fine old Virginia and North Carolina bright leaf that has been thoroughly aged, stemmed—and then granulated. It has the true tobacco j taste, for the very simple reason that it is pUfC tobacco. Pay what you will—it is impossibla to get a purer or^more likeable smokethan Duke's Mixture. It is now a Liggett «J' Myers leader, and is unsurpassed in quality. In every 5c sack there is one ar.d a half ounces of splendid tobacco. How tlic Coy Got His Air Rifle In every sack of the Liggett A Myers Duke's Mixture we now pack a Free Present Coupon. These' Coupons are good for all kinds of useful articles—something to please every member of the family. There are skates, sleds, balls and bats, cameras, um brellas, watches, fountain pens, pipes, opera glasses, etc., etc. As a special offer, during Jan uary and February only, we tvill send you our new illus trated catalogue of presents, FREE. Just send us your name and address on a postal. Coupons from OukC: Mixture mas' be assorted roil ft ta-s from HORSE SHOE. J. T.. TINSLEY'S NATURAL LEAF. GRANGER TWIST, coupons from FOUR ROSES (lOc-tin double coupon). PICK PLUG CUT. PIEDMONT CIGARETT ES. CUX CIGARETTES. and other toes or coupons issued by us. Address—Premium Dept. SL Louis, Mo. -I* FOR BEST RESULTS SHIP TOUR CATTLE. HOLS AND SI OMAHA LIVE STOCK COMMISSION C SOUTH OMAHA, NEBRASKA y R. E. Rogers N. R. Bryson A. E. Rogers T. H. Brtson B. C. RJ DREW THEM UP TOO SOON Testimonials Had Wrong Effect on Youth Whom It Was Desired to ' Get Out of the Way. Here is an emigration story told at a meeting held in England recently, j In a village was a youth who had got ! himself into such a variety of scrapes that his people thought it would be better to dispatch him to Canada, so as to get him away from old and doubtful associations. He agreed to go, provided those interested in his departure secured him some testimo nials. Half-a-dozen were got for him. They sang his praises in unrestrained terms, spoke of his geniality, and all the other virtues that fewr men have, but many get the credit for.f When the young man read the tes timonials he turned to his father and j exclaimed: “Well, I’m hanged! I had no idea j people thought so much of me. And now I know7'how much they like»me I’m blowed if I’ll go away at all.” Free View at the Lake. “Finest and viewfulest place. Baths i and toilets on moderate principles ' The hotel not being adapted for health resort of ills, is only preserved for the sojourn of passengers, tourists and sportsmen. “Reputed excellent cooking. Noble, real, well-lain wines, different beers The magnificent outlook is grandious. Daily six trains to all parts of the globe. Free view at the lively lake." —From a foreign hotel guide. Treasure. “My wife is he most economical ! woman in the world,” said Dubkins, proudly. “Why, do you know, she’s even found a use for the smell of my ■ motor-car.” "Great heavens—you don’t mean it!” said Harkaway. “Yes,” said Dubkins. "She hangs cheesecloth over the gasoline exhaust and packs her furs in it to keep the moths out during the summer. Lucky Star. “This is the third time you have been here for food,” said the woman at the kitchen door to the tramp. "Are you always out of work?” “Yes'm,” replied the itinerant. “I guess I was born under a lucky star.” Baseball Reason. I “Why was Napoleon so successful?"! "He managed from the field,” ven-J tured a voice from the rear of th® class. “The kings he went against managed their campaigns from th® bench.” 7 Her Dancing Nights. “Is your wife fond of dancing?” I “Yes, especially the nights I pre-\ fer to stay at home.”—Detroit Free! Press. I It’s the easiest thing in the world to I go from bad to worse. HE KInJew HIM. "The doctor is keeping old Skinem's cough dow n." "Yes, and after he has cured him he'll have to give him something to make him cough up.” % The Best Way. “How can I float a loan?” Borrow from the men who are try. ing to get into the swim.” Bed Crops Bell Blue will wash double as many clothes as any other blue. Don’t put your money into any other. Adv. His satanic majesty grins when he hears a man say he will reform—to morrow. The mild mellow quality of LEWIS* Sincle Binde' /par is what the smoker* want. Adv-'. A brafe man is always ready to “face ttie music”—provided it isn't that