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." &
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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!
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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,
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INQUIRE OF
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Lincoln, Nbr.
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