I Silken Underbodices
As an ally to the diaphanous blouse
—which continues to triumph in the
face of winter—the underbodice of
wash silk and lace is evidently des
tined to divide honors with it. It is
equally soft and attractive, and has
only made its entry on a career of use
fulness that is to grow in importance.
Washable silks and satins, crepe de
chine and some new silk weaves are
used, with lingerie laces, to make
these underbodices. They launder as
easily as cotton or linen fabrics and
are just as durable. With these prac
tical attributes in their favor, and the
elegance and beauty lent by the
silk, to recommend them, it is safe
to anticipate their appeal to women.
Two of the most popular underbod
ices are shown in the picture above,
both very simple in construction. Val
insertion and edging is used in com
bination with silk and with ribbon for
making them. In one of them the
bodice is formed by sewing alternating
rows of lace and wash ribbon together
with machine stitching. In the others
a yoke is made of rows of the inser
tion, machine stitched together and
edged with narrow lace, and having a
wide band of thin silk set on to it.
When codices of this Kind are made
at home the edges of the iace inser
tion may be whipped together by hand
with a little better effect than is pos
sible in machine stitching.
White and light pink silks are used
vrith cream-colored lace for making
the majority of silk and lace bodices,
but they are sometimes made in a light
shade of the color in the blouse with
which they are worn, or exactly to
match it. Some of the prettiest mod
els have narrow insertions of val or
cluny lace let in to the silk in fig
ures, and are finished with narrow
lace headings and edging. Lingerie
ribbon is run through the beading and
used in rosettes and bows for orna
mentation.
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A l’ltalienne.
This autumn fashions are to be "a
l’ltalienne,” if one may believe a per
sistent rumor that is going the rounds.
Several prominent folk in the import
ing world went to Italy this summer
and came back 'with their trunks full
of fabrics from the land of sunshine.
There were laces and beads from Ven
ice, ribbons from Naples, lace basques
from Florence, and the sort of gaudy
striped fabric that the peasant woman
fashions into her short skirts. So b«
prepared. Russian styles have had
their inning. Balkan colors are a
thing of the past. We are weary of
the cry for things oriental. Somehow
the predicted Spanish vogue never
took root. It is all off with the Turk
ish trouser skirt and no one ever has
suggested going to the buxom blondes
of the kaiser's empire for clothes in
spiration.
Gloves With Frills.
New silk gloves for wear with long
sleeved coats and frocks have tiny
frills in contrasting color at the top,
the little frill running down the wrist,
which fastens with snaps. White
gloves have navy blue or black frills
on gloves in the new sand and putty
shades and in a pale champagne tint
which is very fashionable. The frills
on these new gloves are made of the
woven silk fabric 01 the glove plaited
in the tiniest of side plaits.
BUSINESS HARMONY.
This has been a good season for
business men’s outings, picnics, field
days and other summer sports. And
they have served a good purpose.
Business harmony is an absolute ne
cessity to a community. It brings a
closer co-operation to business organi
zations. Boards of trade are worth
less if they are allowed to become hot
beds of petty jealousies, bickerings
and cut-throat methods between the
members. A great many business or
ganizations also fail because a few
officers are allowed to do all the work
and the remainder of the members
stand aside and criticise, fail to at
tend meetings and put up an almost
insurmountable bar to closer unity.
Here steps in the social side. The
picnic, the summer outing, the field
day, when all members of the Busi
ness Men’s Association close shop and
get together to play cannot but re
sult in harmony and a better under
standing. Stiffness and formality
Wholesale Manufacturing of Criminals
“The greatest crime in the United
States is the wholesale manufacture
of criminals,’’ says Henery B. Hyde
in The Chicago Tribune, writing of
the great number of useless laws
passed by state legislatures and city
councils each year. And to support
his indictment Mr. Hyde marshals an
array of facts which fiction cannot
match.
Commenting editorially on Mr.
Hyde’s charges. The Tribune says:
“Obviously, what Br. Hyde calls the
wholesale manufacture of criminals”
is one of the unexpected results of
! our uncritical reliance upon legisla
tion as a cure-all. When the Ameri
can sees anything he doesn’t like,
his first impulse is to pass a law
against it. If there are no statutes
against gravitation enacted at the
vociferous behest of Americans who
have slipped up on a winter’s day, it
is an oversight which will be cor
rected in due time.
“This is an American failing which
is often commented on. Less often
do we ponder the moral phase of the
American habit of passing laws.
“Undoubtedly we have been passing
through a period of acute social self
consciousness. Many things which
can’t last long in the baseball game
between the fat men and the slim
ones. The sourest grouch in the as
sociation is apt to become almost hu
man under the influences of the sack
or potato races, while the hatched
faced, thin-lipped cashier who has a
reputation of having smiled hack in
’96, is more apt to thaw under the
stories and the luncheon under the
trees than he is if he remains se
cluded in his money cage. These get
together meetings are far-reaching
Bill Jones who has always hated his
competitor, will go back to town
laughing at the story the hated one
told, and. like as not, will get into the
habit of dropping by his store to heat
more of those stories and, in -ident
ally, talk over business matter:-, with
him. Town spirit and good 1 -■-i::ess
grow out of pleasant rela^.o.
Daily sells for less.
WANTED.
Man with car or rig in Sherman
county to handle best selling article
on market. Steady employment to
right man. Commission or salary.
Address Box 244, Central City, Nebr.
PRINCIPLE OF MAGIC CLEANERS.
The principle of the magic cleaner
and similar well-advertised devices
for cleaning silver is so simple that a
housekeeper should be able to make
an outfit with the outlay of a few
cents for zinc, according to the De
partment of Home Economics. College
of Agriculture. The blackening of sil
ver is due to the formation of a com
pound with sulphur. This compound
may be broken up by an electrolytic
current produced in the following
manner: In a vessel large enough to
hold the silver to be cleaned, place a
strip or piece of zinc about the size
of a person's hand. Add sufficient
hot water to cover the silver. To each
were ignored by our fathers we under
stand or think we understand the evil
of, and in attempting to express our
new sense of responsibility and cor
rect the newly discovered faults by
our favorite method of law-making we
have not only far out-stripped our ca
pacity for the more difficult task of
administration, but we have developed
a taste for correcting what seem to be
our neighbors errors which bids fair
in turn to include everything from his
choice of neckties to his religious
creed.
“This taste for censorship is not
discriminating. What seems to the
great mass of a given community as
at worst harmless or inconsiderable,
seems to some moral specialists
heinous and deeply demoralizing. In
no country of the world today, we be
lieve, are there so many good people
who happen to be passionately ener
gized over some particular fact of
our fallible human nature. The United
States is one huge example of Her
bert Spencer’s simile on reform. It
is a titanic sheet of metal on which
the dinges are being furiously beaten
down with the inevitable result that
with almost every blow of our blun
dering hammers a new dinge is made
Christmas In the F)ome
Many of the most beautiful things of life are but mem
ories. Here is an incident which may become for some read
ers a pleasant and recurring realization of joy. It was the
good fort une f the writer a few years ago to be the Christ
mas guer- at home where the true idea of Christmas cheer
and spirit wa. realized. On the eve of the great day the
father of the flock brought forth Dickens’ “Christmas Carol,”
and a well worn copy it was too. After they had gathered
about the fireplace he read aloud the first part of the story.
Then mother and each child in turn participated until the
story was completed. Many times had the writer read the
carol, but under the conditions just related the beautiful tale
had a newer moaning than had ever before been experienced.
“When I came into that home at the Christmas season long
since past.” he said, “I could sense the real and true spirit of
the occasion, and when I was told that the reading of thu
tale had been a custom of years I felt I knew the well spring
in which the spirit had its growth. I have now adopted the
custom in my own family, with a few changes. The story is,
of course, quite long for one reading, so we have developed
the plan of beginning the reading a week before the great
day, reading part each night. Then when Christmas eve
comes I have found it additionally valuable in fostering the
Christmas spirit to have read aloud the wonderful, beautiful
story of the nativity from the second chapter of St. Luke.
We then complete the Carol, and every one is then truly ready
for the glorious dawning of the morrow.”
quart of water add about a teaspoon
ful of salt. An equal amount of soda
is sometimes added, but is not neces
sary. Cold or warm water may be
used but the action of cold water is
slower. Immerse the silver to he
cleaned. It may be convenient to
place it in a wire basket. Unless the
silver is badly darkened, the stains
will disappear in a minute or two
when the silver should be rinsed and
dried.
I as the old one disappears.
“In this period of an awakened so
j cial conscience we show collectively
; a tendency to neurasthenia in reform,
j an individually a supersensitiveness
as to other people’s errors. If a good
many of our efforts at bettering the
j world over night could be treated with
a dose of humor and sense of propor
tion, a deal of unnecessary suff'erinf
could be avoided and some ver\
serious social reactions escaped.
“But more is needed even than tht
perfecting of law enforcement and ad
ministration, a thing more difticul
to attain. We need a check upon oui
growing tendency to force our neigh
bors into compliance with our owi
special standards. If we are to ac
cept a sterner and more detailed so
cial discipline, let us at least see that
it is shaped by the common conscience
and based on the broad and settled
convictions of the community. Let
us no longer subject the individual
to the heterogeneous tyranny of in
numerable minorities. Too much of
our penal law is made under the cover
of public indifference by that species
of man or woman who would have us
all run into the mold of his or her own
conviction.”
Christmas Eve
The blacklog’e flame has died away;
The embers into ashes drift.
Outside the snows are eddying, gray,
And piling fast in many a rift.
White robed is now the cedar tree
Where once the catbird nightly sang,
And from the eaves by two and three
The icicles like arrows hang.
The shadows on the somber wall
Flit, cross and dance amid the gloom,
And streaks of ghostly color fall
In changing hues about the room.
The spiders in the corners dim
Within their webs the closer cling,
And from the mantel's oaken rim
A pair of children's stockings swing.
O’er field and foaest, lane and road
Fast and still faster swirl the snows,
And in the barn loft snugly stowed
A drowsy rooster wakes and crows.
The clock strikes twelve, and midnight
wanes,
While winter skies stretch cold and
drear.
Frost flowers blossom on ths panes,
The snows float by and disappear.
And then across the rooftree swells,
Borne by the winds that fall and riae, I
A sound of many hurrying bells,
A sound that ebbs and peals and dies.
And next adown the chimney creeps
Ths children’s saint in all the lands,
And, true to all the trysts he keeps
White bearded on the hearthstone
stands.
—Ernest McGaffey in Ladles’ Home
Companion.
A Christmas School.
Some of the very best dolls are made
In Sonneburg, Germany, which has an :
academy of design.
This school was established in 1851,
and its "model room contains many ex
cellent pieces of sculpture and rare old
prints. Modeling dolls is no easy task,
and it is remarkable what perfect fig-1
ures the students of this school are
able to turn out. Molds are made from
the models and from these leaden pat-1
terns the heads, arms and legs are
turned out. a special machine being
used for stamping the hands. The fac- j
tories, especially the kneading room, i
are hot and filled with steam, and for'
this reason the big. brawny Germans
who knead the mixture wear as few
clothes as possible while at work.
R'.JRl’W:—''»! ENGINE THE PRIZE
WINNER.
The largest engine in the exhibit
of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, at
the San Francisco Exposition, which
was awarded the grand prize, was the
Burlington's engine No. 6110. This
is the largest road engine of the non- j
articulated type ever built. It weighs |
nearly 300 tons, is almost 84 feet long
and carries seventeen tons of coal and
10,000 gallons of water. Its fire box
is as large as a homestead shack and
the inside diameter of the front end
of the boiler is seven feet four inches.
It took thirty-seven days to get this
engine across the continent from
Philadelphia to San Francisco. A
number of engines of this type are al
ready in service on the Burlington's
lines.
Of course we are “buying it at home
this Christmas.”
There are many beautiful
stories associated with the
origin of the first Christmas
tree. One legend says that on
the holy night all nature, even
the animals and the trees,
was rejoicing and that the
cedars, Instead of pointing
their branches upward as
pointed, slender trees, spread
their brandies wide to pro
tect the mother and her new
born child.
The Sentries'
Christmas Dinner
Raymond P. Sanfojrd, a robust and
healthy undergraduate of Cornell, lived
for scientific purposes on 85 cents a
week, his food Including buttermilk,
lentils, peanuts, raisins, cabbage, pep
pers, oatmeal and apples.
“I thrive on this fare,” Mr. Sanford
said. “I admit, however, that to stick
to it takes will power. I have to gov
ern my sybaritic propensities. I must
not imitate the young sentries.
“There was once a Christmas
masquerade ball in a European palace,
you know, and a squad of young sen
tries stood guard out In the snow.
“Well, as the ball progressed the con
duct of a certain guest disguised as a
Santa Claus astonished and perplexed
everybody. This Santa Claus would
dance with the prettiest women for
fifteen or twenty minutes, and then,
hurrying to the buffet, he would drink
a bottle of champagne and eat lobster
salad, lees, caviar sandwiches, truffled
turkey—everything in sight
“The host, after several hours of
such gluttonous and intemperate con
duct on the part of the Santa Claus
guest, conferred with his butler and
to his amazement learned thnt the of
fender had by actual computation de
voured forty sandwiches, sixty ices and
eight quarts of lobster salad, while he
had drunk thirty-one bottles of cham
pagne and ninety glasses of punch.
“It seemed incredible! Yet there he
was, as vigorous and fresh and sober
as ever, now whispering compliments
in a pretty matron’s ear, now rushing
to the buffet for more wine and more
lobster.
“Puzzled and vexed, the host took
Santa Claus by the arm and led him
Into a recess.
“ ‘Show me your invitation card,’ he
snid.
"Rut Santa Claus, alas, had none.
“ ‘Then unmask!’
“Dolefully the spurious guest obeyed.
“ ‘Why, you’re one of the sentries!’
“ ‘Yes, sir.'
“Tie was indeed one of the sentries—
one of the squad of sentries stationed
outside In the snow.
“These young men had hired a cheap
Santa Claus makeup and, donning It
•no by one, had each enjoyed a brief
but delightful share of the Christmas
festivities—the dancing and lobster and
champagne in the ballroom.”—Wash
ington Star.
Some men are always ready to rest
on their laurels, and if they haven't
any laurels they just keep rifiht on
resting anyway.
buyFng here
MEANS HOLIDAY MAKING
Appropriate (gifts jFor
Urntnp anil ©lb
^ Christmas shoppers will find
at this store a complete line of toys
and dolls for the children; dinner
sets and fancy dishes; gloves, hosiery
and fancy handkerchiefs. Em
broideried novelties and many other
useful and Valuable articles.
An endless assortment of fine
candies and nuts.
M. LESCHINSKY
Dealer in Reliable General Merchandise
Electrical Presents
Always Useful
Automatic Washer
$50.00
All Fixtures Installed by Sweet
man Always Give Satisfaction
Usable
Christmas Gifts
Inexpensiv
Beautiful
r*
Practical
Portable
Vacuum
Cleaners
Three Sizes
$47.50 and up
rresrern 'Lmlnc
Household Helps
Inter-phone*
($15.00 per P»ir
Flat-iron, $5.00
Toaster, $4.00
These useful gifts
will give you and
the recipient new
pleasure and satis
faction. . . . .
Every woman
wants one or more
electric cooking
utensils for quick,
tasty lunches. . .
Vacuum Cleaners
are great labor
savers. . . . .
Inter-phones will
be welcome as
step-savers. . ,
They use little
current_. .
I Call and fee them,.
Ideal Gifts for the
Women Folks
C. R. SWEETLAND
Steam and Hot Water Heating and Electrical Works