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OUR experiencce of past years has demonstrated the fact that
the choicest goods intended for Christmas are always sold early.
It is these days that our stocks receive the severest testthe test
of scrupulous, critical, leisurely judgment but we're confident that
such an inspection will prove to our special advantage in showing
forth the fine points of inestimable worth to be found in every de
partment of our store. If you look, you will not need to buy. If
you buy you will not need to take the article home with you, but
you may have us lay it away until you wish to call for it or have
it delivered.
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Holiday Display In
the Art Needle
Work Dept.
Come and see our beautiful display of Xmas pres
ents before making your selection. You should be
able to make a selection from the beautiful Xmas
showing of Cluny Laces, Drawn Work, Pillows,
Scarfs, Table Runners Baskets of all kinds, Pin
Cushions, Baby Novelties, etc. Below we only quote
a few of the great variety of beautiful Xmas gifts:
t'lnny Doilies, from 6 to 20 inches...' 19c up
Cluny Centers, from 20 to 36 inches. .98c to $12.50
Clun.v Lunch Cloths, 20x36, 20x43, and
20x54 inches $5.00 to $35.00
Cluny Scarfs, 20x72 inches...'. $4.50 to $12.50
Maderia Dailies, 6 inch 25c to 65c
Maderia Doilies, 8 to 12 inch .50c to $2.25
Maderia Centers, 20 to 27 inch. $2.25 up
72-inch Hand Embroidered Dinner Cloths ... $35 . 00
Napkins to match, per dozen .$15.00
Tooled Leather rillows $8.00 to $10.00
Hand Embroidered Pillows, double satin ruffles,
at $5.00 to $18.50
Hand Embroidered Centers, both in white and
colors at $5.00 to $25.00
Scarfs and Library Runners $5.00 to $15.00
v BASKETS
Beautiful Work and Jewel baskets, satin
lined 75c to $12.50
Satin Lined Baby and Hamper Baskets, made of
the best material and workmanship. 98c to $25.00
A large assortment of Waste Paper Baskets
iu all colors and shapes, strongly made, a
fine gift for a lady of gentleman. $2. 00 to $ 4.50
Ladies' "Work Baskets, Whisk Broom Holders,
Match Safes, etc., from 5c to $1.00
NOVELTIES
These include Pin Balls, Pin Cushions, Utility Bags,
Thread holders, Opera Glass Bags, Party Bags,
Party Slipper Bags, etc 25c up
PIN CUSHIONS
Long, Round, Square and Leg Pin Cushions, beauti
fully trimmed in silk, satin, embroidered; colors,
blue, yellow, nile, green, from 59c to $7.50
Plain Tubes 5c
BABY NOVELTIES
Rattles, Trinket Boxes, Baby Clothes Rack, Teeth
ing Rings, etc. All hand-made and hand
painted 25c to $1.50
Hand Dressed Bisk Dolls $1.00 to $3.00
Poinsettas for decorations 10c to 15c
Chrysanthemums, all colors . ...-5c
Opening of Toyland
Here is where cheers and noises ring out from San
ta's Toy Headquarters. It's a bidding that echoes
nd re-echoes through this great new city of play
things. A welcome from Santa. Clans to every boy
and girl in Lincoln and its suburbs. Bring the
children so they can be among the jubilant little
faces watching the Mechanical Toys, Steam Engines
and see the many beautiful playthings.
DOLLS AND DOLL FURNITURE.
TOY FURNITURE.
DOLL CABS AND GO-CARTS
HOBBY AND ROCKING HORSES
MUSICAL AND MECHANICAL TOYS
AIRSHIPS
STEAM ENGINES AND ATTACHMENTS
IRON TOYS v
MAGIC LANTERNS
GAMES
TREE ORNAMENTS, ETC. '
VJost Electric
Hair Curler
Makes a soft beautiful wave in a few minutes
without heat. Will not cut, break or injure the
hair.
Card of -5 Curlers 25c
Card of 2 Curlers ..10c
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Demonstration at main entrance.
Holiday Silks
FOR WAISTS
New Persian Silks, Plaids and other fancies, espe
cially designed for the holiday trade, per
yard $1, $1.25, and $1.50
FOR SCARFS
Plain and Fancy Crepe de Chine and other Sdft
Silks, yard, 50c, 75c and $1.00
FOR MEN'S MUFFLERS
Bengaline Cords, Moire, Faile, Surrah Grbsgrain,
Louisine, yard .79c, 85, $1.00 and $1.10
Holiday Bags
and Toilet Sets
Our new stock of the following popular Xmas
presents are all on display. Below we list a few
of the handsome gifts we are showing:
Military Sets, from .$1.00 to $ 8.00
Traveling Cases, from $1.00 to $12.50
Shaving Mirrors, from 50c to $3.00
Shaving Sets, from 50c to $7.50
Gents'. Toilet Sets, from $1.50 to $6.50
Triplecate Mirrors, from 98c to $8 . 50
Perfumes in fancy packages, from 10c to $5.00
Women's $1.50
Slippers at
95c a pair
Several hundred pairs', of "Women's Fine Felt Slip
pers, flexible oak soles, medium round toes low
common sense heels, plain or fur trimmed in var
ious colors, fully worth $1.50, special. ...... . .95c
Ladies' Warm Linen Shoes with beaver tops, plan
or patent tips, comfortable and warm. .... .$1.50
Misses' and Children's Red Felt Slippers with felt
soles, just the thing for cold mornings, sizes
5 to 2.. :'. ............. . ... .... .58c
Books for
Xmas Gifts
There is hardly a gift need that a book will not
appropriately fill, whether you want to give a dain
ty remembrance or a substantial present. Our . dis
play of new popular Xmas presents contains suit
able gifts for all.
Special Bound Gift Books
ANSONIA CLASSICS
These are tasteful little volumes judiciously selected
for their popularity. Paper and printing of thf
best quality and handsomely bound in cloth of
delicate tints. Each book in a box. Titles, Ba
con's Essays, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, Black
Rock, Mrs. Browning's Poems, Courtship of Miles
Standish, Dream Life, Emerson's Essays, Evan
geline, Love Poems, Snow Bound, Whittier's Poems,
etc. Price ' . .25c
Field, Rosemary from Shakespeare, Wild Flowers
from Whittier, Flowers and Fruits from Riley,
Rose Garlands from Tennyson, Violets from Low
ell, Under the Holly Bough,- Holly Berries from
the Poets, Abide With Me, Nearer My God to
Thee, Jesus Lover of My Soul, etc. Price. . . .25c
Hurst's Padded Leather Edition of the Poets. Hand
somely bound in attractive tints, padded, round
corners, full gold edges and boxed. Titles, Jane
Eyre, Hiawatha, Little Minister, Drummond's Ad
dresses, Imitations of Christ, etc. Price ..... 50c
Fabric Suggestions
Nothing is more useful or more appreciated as a
gift than a nice Dress Skirt or Waist pattern.
The Dress Goods and Wash Goods Departments
offer a superb collection for your choosing. Make
your selection now while assortments are best. We
will care for your purchases and deliver them when
desired.
SEE
The New Arrivals
IN OUR
Premium Dept.
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DAYLIGHT STORE
SEE
The New Arrivals
IN OUR
Premium Dept.
Effect of Imagination Shown by Rath
er Humorous Incident in the Ex
perience of a . Prominent
Nerve Specialist,.
x Dr. Charles K. Mills, the nerve spe
cialist of Philadelphia, told at a din
ner an amusing story of the influence
of the imagination on the health.
"A young bank clerk," he said, "feel
ing fagged from the excessive heat of
a trying summer, consulted a physi
cian. The physician questioned him,
sounded his lungs, and then said,
gravely:
" 'I will write you to-morrow.
"The next day the bank clerk re-'
ceived a letter from the medical man
telling him that his right lung was
gone and his heart seriously deranged,
and advised him to lose no time in
putting his affairs in order.
" 'Of course,' the doctor wrote,' you
may live for weeks, but you would do
well to leave nothing of importance
unsettled.' 'i
"Naturally, the young bank clerk
was very much depressed by this sad
letter, nothing less than a death war
rant. He did not, of course, go to
work that morning, and before noon
he was having trouble with his respi
ration, while severe pains shot rapid
ly through his heart. He did not get
up all day, and on toward midnight he
had a sinking spell that caused his
people to send post haste for the doc
tor. "The doctor, on his arrival, was as
tounded. ".'Why,' he cried, 'there were no.
symptoms of -this sort . yesterday!
What on earth have you been doing
to yourself?'
"The patient's face screwed up with
pain, he pressed his hand to his breast
and said, feebly: . .
" 'It's the heart, I suppose, doctor'
. " "i-he heart?' said the doctor. 'There
was nothing yesterday the matter with
your heart.' -';'
'"My lungs, then,' the-, patient
groaned.
" 'What ails you?' the doctor shout
ed. 'You don't - seem to have been
drinking.' ' ;
" 'Your letter, doctor you told me
I had only a few weeks to live.' .
" 'Nonsense! Are you crazy? I told
you to take a month's vacation at the
seashore, and you'd be as good as new
again.'
. "The patient drew the fateful letter
from a drawer beside his bed. "
" 'Well,' said the doctor, glancing at
it, 'this is a pretty mess. This letter
was intended for another man. My
secretary mixed ""Up the envelopes.' -
"The patient laughed. He sat up In
bed. , His recovery was rapid. That
night, in fact, he was well again.
"And what " ended Dr. Mills,
"what of the dying consumptive wlw
had got this young man's letter? The
consumptive, delighted with the pre
diction that a month at the seashore
would make a sound man of him,
packed his trunk and took the first
train for New England. That was ten
years ago, and to-day ' he is in fair
health."
, Forty Years of Longing.
A New England man tells of an
elderly woman in a Massachusetts
town who not" long ago found herself
.sufficiently in funds to purchase a new
and complete dinner set.
"It seems a sinful waste o' money,
Sarah," observed a neighbor, to whom
the set was- being shown. "You're
gettin' , along in yearst an' you won't
need chiny long."
"I may not need it long," responded
Sarah, "but I need it now, and have
needed it for forty years. You don't
know how cramped I've been."
"Cramped!"
"Yes, cramped! Look at the big tea
parties I've been invited to! Have I
ever given anything like as big a one?
No! But now, thank goodness! I'm
able to retaliate at last!" Sunday
Magazine.
Not the Usual Romance.
Recently one of our most fastidious
young men bought a pair of overalls
and found in them the name of the
sewing girl who made them.
He very promptly wrote her a letter
with all the effusiveness necessary in
such a case and in due time received
a reply, which, however, was void of
the romance usual in such cases. Here
it is: "I-am a working girl, It is true,
but I make a good living and I do not
care to support a husband, as I would
do if I married some silly noodle who
gets mashed on a girl he never saw.
Permit me to say that I do not know
how my card got in that pair of over
alls, and that when I do. marry, if
ever, it will be some fellow who can
afford something better than a 47-cent
pair of breeches." Muscotah JRe-corder.
His Industrious Family.
"Some months ago," said City En
gineer Sampel L. Cooper of Yonkers,
"a robust laborer asked me for a job.
I gave him work. He did well and
asked me to give employment to, his
brother. 'He's a better man than I
am,' explained the workman, leaning
on his shovel.
"I engaged the brother. His services
were satisfactory, but one day I was
astonished when both men made a
joint request that their fattier also
should be employed. - 'Our old man,'
one of them urged, 'can do more work
than both of us together.'
"'Good,' said I, .'send him along. I
will discharge both of you and let the
old man take your places.'" And that
is just what Mr. Cooper dfd.