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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1906)
WA6EW0RKER WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR Published Weekly at 137 No. 14tU St., Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar a Year. Entered as second-clas3 matter April ,21, 1904, at the postofflce at Lincoln, IS'eb., under the" Act of Congress of March 3rd, 1879. jl ' "Printers' Ink," the recog- jt j ' nfzed authority on advertis- jt Ing, after a thorough investi- 5 gation on this subject, says: 4t "A labor paper is a far bet- J jt ter advertising medium than 9 j an ordinary newspaper in jt vse comparison with circulation. Jt 3 A labor paper, for example, J Jt having 2,000 subscribers Is of & more value to the business J 3 man who advertises in it j j thi an ordinary paper with Jt 12,000 subscribers." & j J LABOR'S WATCHWORD. We w!H Etand by our friends and ad minister a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, neg ligent or hostile, and, whenever oppor tunity affords, secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade union ists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession. Wrt-L YOU HELP? The Wageworker wishes every working man and every working wo man in all the wide world a happy and prosperous new year. This wish goes out to them regardless of wheth er they are unionists or not. Its best wishes include the whole army of toil. As a whole, The Wageworker has been very well satisfied with the year that has Just passed. It has had its disappointments, to be sure, but the compensations have been many and ample. The Wageworker has demon strated that there is a good field here for a union labor newspaper honestly and aggressively edited. "Knockers" there have been, and not' a few. But their numbers have been insigflcant lompftred to the loyal unionists who have given their support to this little newspaper. This support The Wage worker has strived earnestly to merit. The mistakes it has made have been pitovs of Judgment nothing more. In the year just dawning The Wage worker wants to improve in many ways. There is plenty of room for improvement. Hut it will bs impossible to make The Wageworker what it should be, and what it can be, unless the union- men and women of the city turn In and help. This help canjje axtended without xt-ra exertion, and as The Wagcworker's chief mission is to.be of material help to the toilers it believes that it has a right to expect that aid of loyal union men and wo men. Mow can you help? Hy assisting us in getting all the news that is going on in the local labor field. ITndjr 1'ie iicunistances it is phy sically and mentally impossible for thn editor of The Wageworker to get around among all the unions for the purpose of picking up news. In a largo measure he must depend upon his friends. Every union ought to be represented each week in the columns of The Wageworker not merely to help The Wageworker, but to help the unions. Why not have your union select a correspondent and insist upon him or lier acting faithfully? Don't hold back and say, "O, I can"t write for a paper." You do not have to write for the paper. All you need to do is to give the editor the facts, and he will attend to the rest. With jour loyal support and assist ance The Wageworker can be made a powerful engine in the cause of un ionism. Without your help it will just have to "plug along" as best it can. from a purely selfish standpoint you ought to help push ii along. Now, can The Wagfcworker rely upon your help during the coming year? Will you buckle in and help make it a medium through which the members of the army of toil can ex change ideas and news, and bring about a closer fellowship? nrothers and sisters! The Wage worker belongs to you, and it is up to you to make it what it should 'be. Will you help? OUR CHIEF EXCUSE. This Is the one hundred and forty nucond Issue of The Wageworker. For J 12 weeks we have devoted hours that should have been given to Tamily and to rest to getting out this modest little paper, and we honestly believe we have earned a rest. We have been taking it this week, anyhow. We have just "lazied 'round" for the past week, and have made no effort to get either news or business. This is our excuse for the woeful slimness of the paper this week. We hope you will pardon us. But, beginning with next week, we are going to brace up and do better than eve;-. We are going out after news and business, and we are going to make The Wageworker more ag gressive than ever. We are rather proud of having kept The Wageworker alive almost three years. It has al ready lived much longer than the av erage labor paper. But the editor is not deserving of much praise. What ever praise is due, is due to the loyal unionists who have given it their un divided support. Some praise, too, Is due to the kind friends whose "knock ing" has solidified the support of the loyal ones. And so, good friends, begging par don for the "pewter plates" of this issue, and promising better things for the future, we wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year. The Wageworker feels so at peace with all the world that it can and does even wish its friend, L. O. Jones, a Happy New Year just as happy as may be coming ot him under the circumstances. Will the street railway men of Lin coin muster up nerve enough to or ganize during 1907? Or will they continue to knuckle under as they have in the past? "High society" has taken up the fad of opposing child labor. The unions will be fighting this evil long after the faddists have forgotten about it. If your local is not represented reg ularly in the central labor union, now is the time to get busy and correct the oversight. What's the matter with the sheet metal workers beginning tbe new year with an effort to perfect an organiza tion? Honestly, now Mr. Post, do you ever eat your own sawdust? Happy New Year! OWN VOIR OWN HOME STOP PAYING RENT We will loan you money to build or buy a home and you " can pay it back in small monthly payments the same as rent. INVESTIGATE. OCCIDENTAL BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION MATSON & HALL, Gen'l Agts. 118 North 14th St. Lincoln, Neb. Lincoln Dental College CLI1NIC Open for Patients Every Afternoon 15th and O 8ts. F. M. Kuil.liug Heny Pfeiff DEALER IN Fresh and Salt Meats Sausage, Povllry, Etc Staple and Fancy Groceries. Telephones 838-477. 314 So. Ilth Street OFFICE OF DR. It. Li. BENTL.EY, ' Specialist Children Office Hours 1 to 4 p.m. Office 2110 O st. Both Phones. Lincoln, Nkbuaska. DP. A. B. AYERS Dentist 1309 0 Street Auto 1591; Bell 91S Bring this ad anl save ten per cent on yjur bills. ESEwtt Ideas in Making Up Plaids. MANY EFFECTIVE COMBINATIONS ARE POSSIBLE. Entire Suit of This Popular Material Looks Weil Only on Slender Wo man Trimming and Accessories Are For Her Plump Sister. Plaids are in vogue once more, but they are pre-eminently the privilege of the slender woman. They are also more becoming to youth than middle age. The thin woman can wear an entire plaid suit. The stout woman must employ the plaid as trimming or in the form of carefully planned accessories. The large plaids of decided pattern and coloring must be made up without trimming, and on simple lines. The small, broken or clouded plaids may be trimmed with velvet, broadcloth or braid. For street wear, the color combina tions in plaids show dark green, blue, a line of purple and gold; dark green, garnet and gold; dark gray, green and brown; brown, green and robin's egg blue in hair stripe; dark blue, dark red and a silk hair stripe of pale blue. For house wear, scarlet, pale blue and gold; golden brown, Nile green or tur quoise blue, with white and gold, golden brown, coral pink, white and gold or silver; various shades of sage green with white, gold and blue. When the suit is of invisible or broken plaid or check, select a bodice of plain silk in tint matching the pre dominating color in the plaid. If the suit is one-tone cloth, select for the bodice a plaid in which the ' predomi Some Good Effects with Lace. Contrasting Materials Employed on the Smartest Garments. In reference to lace medallions it is far more economical to buy them by the yard and separate them than to buy single designs.- And the trim ming by the yard is. all the more ser viceable because of the vogue for fin ishing medallions of all kinds - with tiny ruffles of contrasting laces, usual lyvakrrrfeuiies or a fine Spanish silk lace. There still obtain.he fashion of outlining the bofder designs of ap plique trimmings with colored, gold or silver threads, the idea being especial ly good when a complicated effect is desired with simple treatment. Five or six different colors are used, at least one being dark enough to set off the others, added perhaps, with a dash of gold. j Brussels applique is in the zenith of its popularity as a smart trimming this season, and there is probably no other lace that combines so well with the Irish squares and ovals. It looks remarkably well also with inde Beading Work Pleasing Effects May Be Obtained by Home Dressmaker. On the new fur coats bead em broidery is being applied in the form of an upright collar, belt, cuff bands, and sometimes strapping. The effect is pleasing and the work is not diffi cult to do at home. A box of beads gold, silver or colored a fine long needle, and a transfer pattern with some white net to take the pattern on form the stock in trade. An eas ier plan is to bead some lace motifs or insertion of lace, as then the bead ing does not need to be so closely done to produce a good effect. ' When a transfer pattern is chosen it is nec essary to thoroughly cover the ground with the beads and closely to cut away the net around the edges of the design. On a lace foundation there is no such necessity. A white ground, whether of cloth or velvet, Is useful to make the foun dation of a vest, revers and cuffs covered well with heading or with braid embroidery. The white goes well with beading or with every color and the tones of the beads or the em broidery silks or braids worked on this foundation will be chosen to con trast well with the main coloring of the gown. With brown, for Instance, crimson is available, while pink, green, blue and mauve are all success ful as brighteners up of a brown frock. The mixture of two shades, brown and wine color, gren and royal pur iile, blue and heliotrope, violet and "ottle green, produces an effect quite different from that of any one shade nating tint matches the cloth in the suit. The most effective combination shown among imported gowns is a corselet or princess skirt of plaid in sage green, silver gray and black, with a bolero jacket finished with peplums done in sage green broadcloth. The woman who is not slender must have her plaid suit made with a cir cular skirt, the plaid on the bias. The seams of the hip-length, tight fitting tailored jacket should be outlined with Hercules braid, giving a military ef feet, and if possible have a smartly braided vest. The slender woman can wear over her frock of plain color or all-lace a skeleton bodice with girdle, shoulder straps and bretelles of plaid ribbon, the predominating color matching the cloth in the dress, or if worn over an all-lace dress, harmonizing with eyes and hair of wearer. For wear over lace, mousseline or crepe frocks, the home dressmaker can evolve boleros of plaid ribbon, alter nating with bands of black velvet rib bon, each stiipe ending in a point and the sleeves being mere caps or bre telles, also pointed. A stout woman can employ plaid in the following way: Folds of cloth for trimming cloth or plain silk dresses can be piped with plaid silk or ribbon, and the collar or stock and cuffs can also be made of the plaid. The girdle must match the gown. The cuffs should be deep, pointed effects, and the stock should be abbreviated four-in-hand, with a buckle where the knot is made. If the bodice has a pleat down the front, it may be trimmed with plain buttons, made by covering moles with plaid ribbon or silk to match cuffs and stock. pendent trimmings of satin, moire and soft chiffon velvet, the latter fre quently serving as a foundation for a broader trimming of - brussels ap pllque. For separate bodices it makes, an especially effective decoraUojB smart design in shell pin SmJc hav ing a yoke j)fUea gauze and brus selsapfttnUe with revers of pink satin turning away from it into a more com plicated embroidery of Irish crochet and chine ribbon. The ribbon is padded thickly so that - the flowers represented stand . ut "realistically, surrounded with the masses of green and silver-foliage., -'.The sleeves are of pink silk, falling into two circular flounces to the elbow and finished with a border of lace embroidered in pink. ' Fashionable Colors in Velvet.' Velvet, either plain or ribbed, is the material of the hour for all cer emonial afternoon gowns. There are lovely shades of brown, green and red velvet shown, for these are among the fashionable colors of the season. Is Not Difficult. when the shades are interwoven in beads, braids or embroidery silk. DESIGN FOR NECKTIE ENDS. This is a design for necktie ends to be done on the soft tie which matches the equally soft collar now worn with flannel shirtwaists. It may be done on soft colored linen or upon batiste, in white, as the color is preferred. This trim, taut tta is now added wherever the regulatroa shirtwaist is use ). ri9 collars are made to lap under al ter tie fashion of certain masculine col ars, this underneath band being made -Kstii a pocket so that a support i &l a slipped In, ' OOC30XX300C)OOOOOOOOCXXXXXXJ THE PI 0 NEIER BARBER SHOF "CHARLES B0WEN, Prop. Union Cleanly Handy YOU ARE NEKT 101 South Ilth, - Lincoln General Banking Business. 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