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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1907)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 13, 1907. 5 Cashing In Christmas Gifts tET UlTMtW TlATSU tOVM EiT IIARTMAN GIVES THE PEOPLE tr I She E " i-JV H vin i m I It's a part of Hartman'a business policy to treat customers generously to accomo date them In every possible way. We are glad to grant favors and extend courtesies lo our patnona glad to do It. Instead of considering, as other stores do, thai we have done our part when a customer onee opens a credit account, we feel our obligation to grant favors has Just begun. Our generous treatment extends fiver the entire life of rat h trans action from the tlma the ar-ntint la nnened until the last payment is made. We'll pro- Vide for YOtra convenience If you open an account here rive TOU special help whenever desired. We ll exruse vou from maklnv navmenta when 111 or out of wrk, and give you the best and most liberal treatment in all matters at all times. This generous feature of Jlartmen's credit plan Is what distinguishes It from the others Makes It the credit plan for AIiXj the people for TOW o ij 3 m ajnasSsvV'W9,nPJsBSjBBBBn- slaj 1 7V-sSvv7 ' -'f H 1 r 'J CJ J THE KXCILA.NQE FAKE. -ND of the busiest Htioni In the department stores la Immediately following the holiday!, when people axe taking back Chrlat tnaa gift. In th near paat It waa not unusual to see placarda here and there In ahope proclaim ing that no holiday goods would be ex- One of the bualeat departments la that where the dolla and Teddy beare glare at each other. It la a sad time for the doll. Apparently ahe hae had her day and, Judg ing from the proud, unreconciled expression on her papier mache and wax faoe, there la revolt and tumult. She stands arrayed In gorgeoua gowns, blond aa to hair and blue aa to eye. with the exterior of a perl, watching the antics vulgar, ahe denominates them In the mid night hours, when the tongues of dolla are loosed of the kicking, grinning, woolly creatures that have ousted her from the publlo regard. Occasionally she feela like the aristocrats of old who saw theh companions taken from the Conclergerle to the guillotine, the reason being the approach of aome flaxen haired angel, aa like herself aa two peaa, and through the paper package that attendant nurse or mamma carries ahe can aee the head of a doll that stood by her aide the week before and was proudly shift) Wf This Mission Rocker Z9$ In Weathered Oak tj trained to take more Interest In her sales and to help the customer to get what ahe wants. Then purchasers shop much more systematically than they used to do. The oM Mm ihnnrwp w n AmrmA tVnm counter to counter looking about, unable "old ,nto th household of reflnement and to decide between the many articles dis played. Now a woman has her list made changed, just as It was customary to accept up and she dees not buy on Impulse to re phllosophlcally whatever Bulgarian or Ar- pent at leisure. menu troclty In the shape bt knitted The fact that the publlo recognises this TO EXCHANGE PQJt A WASH BOILER. tradition. "Change It, quick," she henra the childish voice chirp and she sees a chubby fist point not to the case of dolls, but toward a rouglnh Teddy who Is dancing to nn lnnud lWe hand organ and whose beady black eyes she fancies hnve defiance In them aa well as undertaondlng. Some apparently grownup women are carrying various articles to the desk of one of these departments, and having obtained the credit cards start Immediately Teddy bearward "They are not getting them for children," one of the salesgirls explains. "It Is quite true that there Is a type of women who are mentally unbalanced In this regard." "Heaven gives ua our relatives but we choose our own friends," quotes one young woman who Is standing at one of the ex change desks to a feminine companion. She has In her arms a good aised package made up of smaller ones. "There wasn't cne friend that sent me a present this year that I wanted to exchange and there wasn't a relative that sent me one that I didn't," sho went on. "About the friends' gifts there always seems to be the touch of personal feeling, the desire to give something' that, however humble, is pretty or useful; the presents from the relatives usually look aa If they were the things that" happened to be nearest the door when they weit in to shop. "This Is the result. I waa mad when I got them and I shall lose the better part of a day In exchanging them." "Well, I have troubles, too," answered ahawla or plated Jewela might be found In exchange habit as part of the routine la the stocking and wait patiently for the fol- shown In the fact that whereas formerly lowing Christmas, when the undeslred people were always tearing the tags off presenta might be sent forward to the next the goods aent out aa glfta now presents the companion who has a small packet on nhappy one, who In turn would do like- are sent with every help afforded to make the sill of the window. "This Is a oollar wlss with them, forming an endless chain an exchange easy. I)f holiday cheer and Tuletlde mirth. That there Is a type of woman who has Today It Is a daring store that displays the exchange habit la reoognized In these such a warning, for the exchange need stores. No matter what she gets she I has been recognised. At some of the shops sure to bring it back. you simply get an' exchange In the same Christmas season is a Joy singular and k5',: ... ; ,mt::;r m$&l . yrl'WBiasrii'HIT TirH saTII1a1sTi si H ff 1 "' ' ' ' WANTED A TEDDT BEAR. GOT A DOLLY. I from my brother, real Irish point and a beauty." "But I don't see why you want to change that." "All on account 5f thw wonderful observ ant faculties of man. I have been wearing one exactly like this for months and I sup pose my .brother has seen It no lees than a thousand times. Consequently when he selects a Chlrstmas present he gets me this." A young man at the exchange desk la taking the clerk Into his confidence. "I had a pair of sleeve buttons from my aunt," he says. They're pretty," aays the girl as he un wraps the box, showing a pair of red stones set In heavy gold. "Yes, they're pretty enough, but she aent me a pair exactly like them last Christmas. I've been trying to cipher out whr she did It." "Oh, lots of old womn do that," answers Your Monay'a Worth or Your Money Back Rich massive design, exactly like cut, extra well made, exclusive Hartman design, special price Come early; supply limited. ?1 Hartman's Special Sewing Machine wing Machine Special Wee cut, guaranteed fpr 20 years, solid oak case, 5 drawers, complete with full set of attachments and ac cessories, $30 value; sold on easy payments; special price, only 18.75 A Prln cesa 1ZJS Dreer Evrrytolnfl We Sell He Gnarantce Sxtension Tabls Special Solid oak. ex actly like cut, extends feet, claw Teet. heavy legs, fancy carved streachers, else of top' 42x42 inches. You ran see at a glance that its actual worth Q "7 C worth Is 1J. At Hartman's, Q J special now at umy Like cut, In fine quar tered oak or mahog any finish, swelled front, massive French beveled Dlate mirror, carved frame, easily worth $20. Vy' 'yZk 'gr Marked Specials in Stove Dept. J-hole Laundry Stove, only.. .$2. 85 Elegant Guaran teed Oak Heater for $J5 Hot Blast Fuel saving Heater for $5.70 Magnificent B a a e Burner for..$18.7d 8-hole large oven cast Range.. $12.75 Cook Stove, four holes $!.7o Sanitary Steel Oonob.ee O rand clearance of only 120, best guaran teed make, largest size, open to full sixe bed, steel belle la and supports, automatis opener, easily operated; clearance price 3.45 Steel Bangs Special Large guaran teed size, 6 holes, with high closet asshown, elegantly nickeled trimmed, larg oven and fire box; '7 C f special price on 10, A jll only m Credit Ternia, 3 75 Cash, 93 Monthly mm foVd Oak U Special Maple K I 'Chen Cabinet 61? Like cut. Made of white maple, gt Inar It a clean sanitary appurance, top hnn convenient spice drawers; base is well made; elite 3Rx4rt. Chill nier This Is a large size ex tra well made Ciilffn ler. It has beautiful golden oak llnish, large French bevel mirror and neat csrv ingr Center Table New spe cial Hartman design, In fine quartered oak or ma hogany finish, carved top size 24x24 Inches, fancy turned legs and shelf be neath, easily a $3 value, and sold for that else where; special 1 g f at Hartman's, l-Tf I jr i on iv Chase er Couches 6 pat terns to select from, grnnd clear ance, full spring construction, solid oak frame, guaranteed up- hnlsterlngs and cover, small tuftings, value up to $24, only 12.75 CREDIT TERMS: $25 Worth. $2.50 Cashi $2 a Month $50 Worth. $5.00 Cash: $4 a Month 22 GREAT STORES THROUGHOUT THE U. S, i. 1414-1416-1418 DOUGLAS ST. r v S i r a. 71 I 1 I HaiBttttBBBl dtkataasiCal WllrWTfll'Vl? tiBBSBMjBBttw4BSBB CREDIT TERMS: $100 Wortb, $10 Cashi $8 a Month Larger Amount In Proportion Rugs and Carpets Prussels Rugs, Sx 10-8 feet, for $1.7B AxmliiHter Ruga, 0x12 feet, for $24.75 Ingrain Rugs, 9x 12 feet, for.. $4. 75 Ingrain Carpet, per yard S'ia Rrussels Carpet, per yard 6 So V el v e t Carpet, per yard 66c usjIm card system and merely treats the girl at the desk as If she were running a Action library. "I got the 'House of Mirth' and I wanted the 'House of a Thousand Scandals,' " she savs. The girl looks at It i'You can't change It You've cut the leavea." "Well." It Isn't hurt any." "No, It Isn't hurt, but we can't do It." Just at this . moment there appears a young man who has a huge square bundle In his arms. A slit In the wrapping dis plays a scarlet sofa cushion heavily em broidered. "Is there any place I can get a pipe for this?" he asks, with a furtive look over his sholder at the entrance. i Apartment Others go further and allow I you the privilege of exchanging anywhere. IC you want to get a wasbboiler Instead of (a vanity bag you can do so. Some of the will return cash for the goods. one of the shops tn town It waa said H while the holiday trade had been rliker than ever this season ths exchanges Not so the woman of the exchange. Ilemanded had been fewer In number, the She gloats over her holiday gifts. She reason being the Improved relations be- flnaers the suede-covered book and fulls tween purchaser and seller. Th olerk Is on her husband. Just in time to prevent his w 1 i H k 1I fPtt S y x: unusual to her. As a general thing the buay housewife or professional woman Is torn between two conflicting forces shall she keep what she has, even if she doesn't care for It, or shall she take the hour from some pressing duty and get rid of the un-desh-abls fsr something she really needs? VAV' . J ii ic i 1 iara ave HE-j, . 5 ar t w nit ana 111 1,1 hsmL. the girl. "You'd be stirprtied. They get nn Idea like that In their heads and don't seem to be able to remember. We have one man who gets the same present every year regularly from an aged relative and conies In every year and changes it" A woman unwraps a red-covered book. Ehe apparently knows nothing of the credit HE NEEDED SOCKS. Some Oddities in the Desk Habits of Business Men CT mi URIOUS about men's desk hablta," said a man whose business takes him about more or less into vari ous sorts of offices. "I was In an office yesterday where I had occasion to write something. " 'Here, sit down at my desk,' say the man. I guess you can Bod a place there.' "And I did find a place there after mov ing one or two things, but that was all I found place Just big enough to write In. and that square In the middle of the desk. "This was a flat-top desk and, except for that small bare spot In the middle, It Was Just covered with papers and things of every description, and these not folded or but fair and exact In his business ways. "How he ever did business with his desk littered up In that way, how he ever found anything there that he wanted or how he ever remembered anything I don't see; but, as far us I know, he never forgot anything that waa important. "It made me think of something a mln ltter said to me once. I was saying lo this minister, talking about preaching extem poraneously, that I should think when a man got up In the pulpit to preach without any notes that he'd be apt to forget some of the things he wanted to say, and the minister said that sometimes you might forgot things tn that way, but then he bare spot on the desk. And so he hal stuff piled up on bis desk overlapping aud lying around any way all around the top of his dek, and actually sloping down from all around to that bare spot like a little WOMAN WITH THB EX.CHAX- or sha ct tightly leaves, a kills aki haven't read ft," be asserts. . Is prod u,I haven't." shs answers, "but I i carriage, je It." bright rtll f bedroom slippers which she The French (he returns and gets a belt that flat valley, where he wrote In the oentor apital advontaars; the shirt waist, whloh at the front xenlus and theful and eannot be dUDUoated. rinciple, to carrfc and gets a candlestick ot detuils. Moat ofrn. alibouah both as and Qeriaun er Yfonnuher for the pushing of a women they eniplo Ungs are French; talk to her. She la Incurs, are not allowed te re., of department stores. stacked or set up about in any orderly recalled what an experienced old clergyman manner, but all apparently In the utmost had said to htm. In reply to the same sug- gestlon from himself, which was to the "The desk looked as though Its owner effect that the things the preacher forgot when he had got through with a document to say were usually the things not worth or bill had Just pushed It back from the remembering. 4 EVERYTHING that u "j interesting, (sscinsliog. and spectacular in biuineai is bound up in the one word, SALESMANSHIP. Ilk the ideal occupation (or the young man. It offers more chances of succeu, greater buil of victory than any other field of work. The earning power of a salesman i limited only by hi ability to sell goods and taleunanthip is only ths development of your poweri of concentration, your ability to reason, to per made the use of logical thought and convincing argument All this can be taught, taught ai easily, carefully and thoroughly a bookkeeping, stenography or any other bunnest profession. CfpMP 1 I T"!' There may be a few "born" saletrean, in the sense that some KJVxlJUllVJLi V5. LiUVlV men have more natural adaptability than others, but it n the carefully trained man, the deep thinking man, the man who hat studied the "whys, how and wherefores' of hi calling that continues to bring in business and makes hi selling ability the ground work of a permanently successful career. The "natural' talesman may forge to the front spasmodically, just as the spectacular soldier may carry the isolated fort by his brilliancy of dash and courage. It take more than mere dash and "go" to keep oa winning facts and order. It take the brilliancy of Sheridan and the dogged persistence of e Grant to win permanent victory. It is the determined, deep thinking, far-seeing General who cuts the notches on the winning stick, no matter whether the notches mean victory on a battle-field or profit in the cash drawer. No matter how little natural ability you have, you can develop your persuasive powen, your will power, your ability to convince other. Take a .moment to look over your future in perspective. What does it offer you Are you engaged in work now that suit your taste and ability ? Have you free play for your ambition Are you held back by lack of opportunity from making a name for yourself Don't you want to break the cord that are binding you and tVe iomubodyf THF 9HFI nON MFTHfiH l the only practical, complete and rational system oCae required nearly a minion dollar to promote this wonderfully successful system and spread Its teaching. Jfow the woia oi mi. doouiub is Dcins icu in every country on ine glone. The school aa over ls.ooo student scattered throughout th world. Over 1 ,000 prominent nrm have adopted our ytem in the handling of thalx selling force. Over 80S of our student ar veteran taletmta In all line of buslnes managers, proprietor, and executive bead of gieat Institution. Ho matter what yourpreaent position Is you eanpare a shortftirat retry day to acquit th latest and most approved methods ot getting and holding trade Increasing sale and profit. Tke Instruction la earned ee entirely by mail. Without losing one moment from your present work, or Interfsring with your regular duties yon hav aa opportunity HOW to acquire the information and experience which every veteran-in th sailing buauMM ha taken year of the hardest kind of effort to acquire. Do not tak oar word for that atattment; but writ for thm noma of sf usfsnfs in your own neighborhood. We are willing to 1st tham talk for u. 1764 Tke RepufaUe CHICAGO THE SHELDON SCHOOL are r free Cheek the sublects'below that ynu i Interested In and receive absolu isly f our valuable booklet of snllinii intof niiiion. ' 'Why, Wherefore acd Theie fore,' 'or sand lo cents with the coupon andb eeeive also ' As a Man Thinkath," that rauiarkable little book (jjy James Allen, and the magazine, BaiueM fhilo&opher," for true mouths. kliaMfetp Sfitoa Hi Casts .. Mrltlaf .H.I(ilMlW. HuIhn !fis .Jhimh f laoaatrla! .... tt)BM r ,Slsfy i.mm ... 'r.-.il.B Jaaa i S-fall ...a.ll IWnlipaiiaS r it 'n Mania Tows. OocupaUoa. "Ana maybe It was so about the forgotten couldu't write unless they had their paper things should not be moved or shifted squares just right, and all that; precise about; juot simply and only that their things in the pile of papers on that desk. "But he wasn't the only man I have met who kept his desk apparently In the great, est disorder, but was nevertheless success ful; cud thtn I have known plenty of men who went as far ths other way, and who would have a fit unless they could keen "And this waa a business (nan, too, anil. moreover, as J was told, a man who had everything on their desks lust so, accumulated a comfortable property In the "The Inkstand must be here and the pursuit of his business. And I found hlin stamp box here, and ths pen rack here; ail In the dealings I had with hint not only Just so, and kept so: and with no Utter personally amiable In all things, as lndl- anywhere, with everything free and clear cstd by his cheery call to use his desk, and In order. And I nave known man who men. wno must have everything Just so before they could get to work; all the very opposite of the man with the littered desk, who has at least In bis favor the fact that he doesn't worry himself over trlnea, but keeps on serene through It all. "AJ-d while I have known men who Kuet have everything Just so neat about their desks; fresh blotters and clean Inkstands and s'l that, I have known other men who didn't ears If their desks were a foot thick wlUi dust and ho only asked tnat their desks should be let alone. "Aa a matter of fact there la In these days less an J less disorder In buHlrens mt thods and more and more sy.tcru; this Is an age o( system." Now Tork Bun. Protested Proverbs "You can't Judge by appearances." Can't you, though! How else can you Judge an actor but by his appearance? "Never say die." Nice, roperous under taker you'd make with that motto, wouldn't you? "Marry In haste and repent at leisure." Baeh! Married men don't have any lulsure. "(live the devil bis due." What's the use of bothering, he's surs to got It. "Seeing Is believing." Not always. Tour wife sees you when you come home late from "sitting up with a sick friend," but she doeen't believe you. "Faint heart never won fair lady." Well; what of It T Ours la a brunette--?ostaa Transcript.