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Brandcis Gigantic Cash Purchase from a New York Storage Warehouse Co.
We Secured an Immense New Stock of Medium a.nd High Grade Lace Curtains Which Had Been Stored by an Eastern
Drapery House. The Firm Discontinued Business and the Stock Ha.d to be Sold to Pay Storage Charges.
Brandeis Bought All the Lace Curtains and Bobbinet at Bargains that are Almost Incredible
This will positively be the greatest sale of lace curtains that ever took place in Omaha or
any other city in the United States. Itf is now so well known, everywhere that Brandeis always
buys for cash that the very best bargains in the United States are offered first to us.
Don't Fail to Attend this Great SaleSuch Lace Curtain Bargains May Never be Offered Again
To insure against crowding and to secure the comfort of every woman, we devote practically our entire basement to this gigantic sale.
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Curtains. AVe never offered such a magnifi- m &$
cent lot. Many worth up to $12.50 pair, at, pair. . .
S$7- Lace Curtains 8
500 and 750 Lace Curtains and 29 Pr.
All the linen Cluny Curtains, as shown in windows, also immense line
of novelty Curtains, Brussels, Irish Foint, and fine Sfl 98 $ H98
Scotch Lace, etc., etc., as many as 10 pair of a
kind, worth up to $7.50 a pair, at pair
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WOMEN WHO SEEK LEGAL AID
Great Increase in the Matrimonial
Cases.
HELP PROVIDED TOE HELPLESS
Tkc Society Which Una Ppt -Mmur
SlBiublins; Illorks in the Way
of the tleaertlns Husband.
N l V YORK, Oct. 17.-Of late years the
work of the Legal Aid society has Joetlcd
the belief that only the rich can afford to
have matrimonial difficulties and air them
In court or to allow domestic differences
to reach a point whr a lawyer must be
cnlk'd In.
A neatly dressod foreign looklna; younr
woman with pretty black eyes and an o'.ive
kln atood at the corner of Brradway Hnd
Park place the other day trying to find
the Letjal Aid society. In turn she asked
three or four paaaeraby to help her and In
turn each answered with a blank look and
shake of the head. As pronounced by the
woman Legal Aid sofloty might have been
the name of sn Indian chief. A policeman
came up. listened, shook his head and
moved on. A reporter for the Bun arriv
ing at the comer glanced with interest at
the inquirer, whose cheeks by this time
were crimson from embarrassment. The
reporter was patient, helping the woman
out with questions until finally In a burst
of confidence she announced with a tragic
Inflection; "My husban leava me." Here
was a clue,
"Are you looking for the Lgal Aid so
ciety?" aaked the reporter at a venture.
"Yes. yes," gasped the woman delight
edly. She took a firm grasp of the re
porter's sleeve and held, on until ushered
Into the main office of the society at 71"
Broadway, where she took her plate at
the end of one of the benches filled witn
men and women waiting' their turn. Two
attorneys do nothing but note the com
plaints of applicants, card Index and file
them and set In motion the machinery
which will mete out Justice for all con
cerned. Sometimes the machinery takes
tit applicant's case no further than this
' room. Again )t takes h'm to a second room
where cases which must be tried In a
municipal court are handled, or to a third
room apportioned to cases which must go
before the supreme court
Tea-rent Retainer.
. In any case after an applicant has poured
out his tale, of woe In the first room he
pays down a retaining fee of 10 cents, if
he have 10 oents, and goes out with a more
hopeful expression than he came In with
to await orders from the society after ha
atory has been Investigated.
Persons accustomed to studying reports
perhaps know something about the remark
able growth of the work of the Iegul At
society in recent years and of the number
of cases it handles, but as the rank and
file of New Ycrkers have little taste for
statistics, it happens therefore that there
are rery many persons who have not k-nt
In touch with all the work of a society
which has attracted attenthn all over the
world and who do not know that a fe
months ago the emperor cf Ueriiiauy hun-
thur vom Hrlenen, with a "decoration; that
in lf06 the government of France bestowed
the cross of the Legion of Honor as a
token of appreciation of the society's work.
Societies patterned on the same line have
sprung up In eeveral of the large cities of
the United States and In Europe, all of
which co-operate with the New York so
ciety In protecting the legal rights of the
poor, the Ignorant and the helpless.
Recently application was made to the
president of the New York society to as
sist in starting a similar legal aid society
In Sydney, Australia. Facts of this sort
are given annually In the society's printed
report, but the most Interesting features
of the society's work are seldom touched on
in print.
The reports do not tell the tremendous
Increase In the number of woman appli
cants which, says Merrill E. Gates, Jr.,
attorney In chief for the Legal Aid so
ciety. It now one of the most significant
features of the society's work. Heretofore
women, he points out. represented less
than one-third of the number of applicants.
Lust year 10,284 women applied and this
year the percentage will be much larger.
At the Broadway office, the lur;et and
busiest of the six. S,M1 of the 8.894 ap
plications received there during 190T were
from women. At the West Side branch
in Tenth avenue 1,484 men and 1.577 women
asked for leal aid last year. At the Har
lem branch nearly as many wompn as men
were entered on the books, and at the East
6lde branch In Grand street, which deala
mostly with the foreigner, of last year's
4.193 applicants 1.389 were women.
"There Is scarcely a minute of the day,
aid Mr. Gates, "when there are not half
a dosen women waiting In the outer office,
natives of the United States and of other
coutries being represented about equally.
inis comparatively new feature Is ex
plained by the society by pointing out that
wage collection and adjusting domestic
differences head the list of eighty or more
questions of Justice with which it Is con
fronted every day. Persons ou'.side the so
ciety say that it Is a sign of the times
entirely consistent with the women's lights
movement and the Increase, of domestic
problems, and that it indicates also that
happily the era when all a poor woman
could do was to submit Is a thing of the
past.
'Is Is not so easy for a husky Indivi
dual to walk off and leave a frail little
woman to shift for herself and children
as It used to be," said an agent for the
society. "These days a deserted woman
Instead of weeplug herself sick and then
hunting around for scrubbing and washing
and Ironing, puts on her best clothes and
calls at the Iegal Aid society, which in
the majority of the cases rounds up the
deserter, gets the won. an a leg., I sepera
tion If the circumstances warrant It, and
compels the husband to pay a weekly
sum."
Once upon a time a women of the tene
ments whose child was grabbed aaay from
her by its fattier for a reason known only
to himself usually thought she was help
leas to do anything but suffer and watch
a chance to grab the child back again.
She hadn't the nerve as a rule to do any
thing else. Now ahe knows enough, as a
general thing, to make a bee line for the
nearest offiee of the I-cgal Aid society.
Not so very long ago poor w ag-e-arnlng
omen thought their hands weie tied
-I the soclaur Ui.
nrji,1n! A- f 'inst siteni'. is of eruih'ters to Uefra'H1
them. The Legal Aid society's experience
now Is that even the poorest in learning
in this city know the law Is meant to pro
tect the poor as well aa the rich.
During 1907 11,307 persons asked help of
the society to collect wages, and nearly
50 per cent of these were women. More
than 1,700 persona, mostly women, appealed
for aid to straighten out domestic affairs.
On account of the many cases of bank
ruptcy In the last few months, the num
ber of appeals to collect wages will. It Is
said, be larger than ever. In all the of
fices of the society Is hung this extract
from the writings of Abraham Lincoln:
Discouraging Litigation.
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your
neighbors to compromise whenever you
can. Point out to them how the nominal
winner Is often the real loser in fees, ex
penses and waste of time. As a peace
maker tha lawyer has a superior oppor
tunity." This Is practically the society's motto,
the aim and object of the di.-ectur and
attorneys being to make the society, If
possible, take the place of the cju;t.s as a
means of arbitration. As a result only
about one-ninth of the complaints made
become the subject of litigation.
In the case of women, though, this pro
cedure Is not always satisfactory. A young
woman walked Into the Grand street of
fice the other morning and showed a
check for $7 received from a recent em
ployer for whom she had worked as sales
woman In payment for eight days' work.
Without warning she had left her Job,
she admitted, and taken another with a
nearby store, ai though some days earlier
she had had a promise of a raise from S6
to 17.50 a week If she stayed where she
was. Her plea was that she ought to get
17.50 Instead of t for her last week's work
and a proportionate sum for each of the
two extra days.
Patiently the attorney pointed out that
her employer refused to add one cent id
the amount of the check because the girl
had not kept her Job. He earnestly advised
her to accept the check. "No," said she
with a toss of the head. "1 will go to
court about It first," and go to court she
will, regardless of the pay she will lose
by absenting herself from her work to at
tend court and of the fact that the Judge
will probably decide against her. This la
a sample of the persistency shown by
some of the wage-earning young women of
today.
In the same office sat a middle-aged
Polish woman. She was a nurse and the
society was trying to collect S30 due from
her last case. The husband of the woman
ahe had nursed was able enough to pay
the amount, but until the society got aftet
rim he had contented himself with paying
the woman a few dollars and iiiak.ng prom
ts-s. Kaiher than go to court, the attor
ney said, the man Is certain to pay up.
The first as.iisiuut attorney at the so
riety's main office. In ftp akiug of the
great increase in the number of women
applicants, said that there was a propor
tionate Increase In the. number of cases
relating to the abduction of children and
awarding the custody of children. Said he
"Strange to say, in nine cases out of ten
the father makes off with a boy or girl
simply to spit the mother. Often he
doesn't really know what to do with the
youngsters, the usual plin resorted to be
Ing to Install them 1n a furnished room
and get a woman to look after them once
or twice a day.
Klaht for Spite.
"A case of this sort happened the other
day. Tho father, a criminal at one time,
from whom his wife got a legal separation,
decided upon getting his liberty to get
even by kidnaping the children, locking
them up and refusing to let the mother
see them. He told one of our agents that
he was the children's proper guardian and
he refused to arbitrate with anybody. The
only thing we could do was to Issue a
writ of habeas corpus and try the case In
court, which was done, and x-esulted not
only In restoring the children to their
mother, but compelling the father to con
tribute to their support. Parents fight like
grim death over a youngster often more
from spite than for any other reason, and
lately we have had from four to seven
cases of this sort every week.
'Of lata we have had an ur.usual num
ber of applications front women which
needed Instai.t attention. For Instanca,
yesterday morning u woman came In with
a baby In her a'tus. t-ho hud walked down
from Thirty-sixth street. Her husband was
In the hospital; she had been dispossessed
that morning for nonpayment of rent. 81ie
was, weak from hunger. We took up a
collection right here In the office for her
so that she could have shelter and food at
once and then turned ur attention to tlie
matter which had brought the woman here.
which was a claim she had to a legacy of
I-JuO. Without legal aid she could not get
the money and she had no money to pay.
for legal aid. Judging from the facts she
has given us the society will be able to
collect the money.
'The number of cases where a legal
separation with alimony can be arranged
in cases of cruel treatment Is far more
numerous than formerly and deserting hus
bar.da don't find the rod to liberty aa
unobstructed as It used to be. simply be
cause even tr.e poorest ana most ignora-u
woman now seems to understand how and
where to apply fi.r the needed legal as
sistance. "Occasionally an Eaat Side Hebrew
woman comes to ua in a great state of
mind. Phe has got at some time from
her rabbi a separation paper, or ghet, aa
It is called Ir. Hebrew, and believing It to
be equal to a decree of divorce marries
again erhaps. ur wants to marry, and
turns to us fir help to make the thing
legal.
"At all 'he offices except the seamon'a
branch, though, domestic differences, next
to Wage collecting, represent the bulk of
our cases."
Our Own Minstrels.
Bones Mistah Walkah, kin yo tell me
de d'iff'unce 'tween a man pil'.n' up de
goods in a "lectrlc light fae'ry an' a p'lltica:
campaign boss wot caln't git no cont'bu
tlona to de campaign fund?
Interlocutor I couldn't gueaa that In a
million years. George. What la the differ
ence between a man piling up the gonda In
an electric light factory and a political
manager who la unable to obtain contribu
tions to the campaign fund?
Bones De one stscks de lamps and de
uddah lacks de stamps.
lnterlo'Utor Indies and gentleman, the
renowned Tyrolese warbler. Prof. Tatter
de Malion. will now sing the soulful snd
pathetic ballad entitled "I Could lxve Him
lake a House Afire if He Waau'l Knock
Kneed. "Chicago; Tribune.
THE NEW NECK WEAR FOR MEN
Knitted Silk Still High in Popnlar
Favor.
MANUFACTURERS FALL DOWN
Dark, Holld Colors Are Proving; to
Be the Moat Deialrable Satin
la Sow Heluar Put
Forward.
NKW YORK, Oct. 17. Contrary to thu
expectations of the manufacturers the kuli
tits have held their own in the favor of well
dressed men. They were headed for tho
discard last spring when the dealers de
cided that the style had been so overdone.
But the public has a way of deciding for
lt.se If what, it likes, quite independently
of what It should like, and ii.ere is this
year as much demand as ever tor these
expensive but satisfactory semis. There is
no doubt that the public la weary of one
kind of a knit tie. That Is the highly
colored combination In straight or slant
ing stripes. Gaudy reds and bluea, yellowa
and pinks, greens and browns are out of
favor. But the dark solid colors are as
much worn as ever. There are this year
even new stitches in the crochet and these
form the only variety In the dark scarf.
Dark blue and purple silk tlaa have an
Intricate shell pattern and the same design i
relieves the black silk scarfs as well In
solid colors these silk ties are perhaps the
smartest of the winter.
One of tho varieties Imported from Eng
land Is a broad plastron or Ascot scarf In
these crochetted silkn. These are not less
than three Inches hrjud and are aoceptab!'
as something altogether new by the mer
who inu:;t have something just a little dlf
feienl. The.-e scurfs tied in the Asco.
fashion, especially when they are In crj
dark green, blue, red or purple, are un
deniably smart. Yet there are some draw
backs to them. The rilk crochet Is so thick
that It makes a very bunchy tie and then
again there la scarcely body enough to
make an Ascot heavy and firm as It should
be. Perhaps the greatest objection of all
to these ties is the fj ono Is expected to
pay for them. .
Satin Fonr-ln-HaaU.
The dealers ar trying once more to
brirg back the satin four-lii-l.and which
used to be so popjlar, with men who like
elegant but unurientattous dress. Time
was when the last word In smart dressing
for men was a Mack satin four-in-hand.
lhis year they have been put forward In
dark blue, purple still the most popular
of t utor a for men's w ear green and ma
genta. The same material is alao used for
tlie bow or butterfly tiea, although differ
ence In the width of the tie at ihe ends
and in the center la not now sufficient to
make any illusion of a butterfly In the tied
scarf. So far the satin ties have not been
much worn In either shape, although proph
ets of professional at lea aay that aatln ia
the material that will auperaede the knitted
ailk scarfs.
One reaaon that this honor seems due
to satin can be found In the failure of the
dealers to make the crepe de chine ties a
fad. They are beautiful In colors and tex
ture, and they knot gracefully whether
they be lined or the plain broad and four-in-hand.
But they are too expensive In
original price and wear poorly. Two or
three wearlngs will leave them so wrinkled
that they cannot be worn without press
ing. An original outlay of S2 or more for
a tie that ia capable of se little uae 1s too
much for the average New Yorker.
In the cheaper priced neckwear there Is
a return to silk as a change from the
cheap knit ties. These new scarfs are most
striking in the combinations of what man
ufacturers call "high colors." The shades
could be no more beautiful whatever was
charged for them. The two tones of blue,
light and dark; of purple and mauve and
of two shades of brown are as pretty as
any of the English manufacturers send
over here at twice the cost. The so-called
varsity four-in-hand which were always
striped with the colors of various colleges
and English athletic associations used to
be unique In respect to their combinations
of color. They are not more attractive,
however, than the silks produced hure, al
though they are made up in a much more
modish shape. The home-made bearfs of
these striped silks are almost Invariably
found in the wide end four-in-hands,
which is a shape devoid of smartness ex
cept In the crepe ties. If the American
manufacturers could only be persuaded to
mane up these attractive combinations of
color In a rather narrow four-ln-hand made
with the silk the same on both sldea, they
would have done quite as much aa the
English makers, who for so lung had a
monopoly of this field.
Single Color Effects.
In spite of the successful combinations
of beautiful color that aie now so cheaply
attainable, there Is little temptation In them
to men who aim to be more than ordi
narily well dressed. These seek single color
effects and of rattier sombre tone at that.
They puss by lae allurlns colors so well
suited tJ the fall season witliu.it a tegret.
l'l.at is only pail of the general tendency
of men who tiy to be well dressed to avoid
anything consplcious in atliie. Some of the
Imported acarfs for sporting wear have,
charming combinations of tone especially
well suited" to the fall season brown and
magenta for Instance. They are bought
and worn in the country, for which they
are very well adapted. But the carefully
dressed men at all events those beyond
Die age of college shun them. Dark tones
of blue and purple or 'perhaps a very
deep red are alone possible In the opinion
of these conservative dressers.
They follow the same rule In regard
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The black ties for evening wear arc only a
little broader at the ends than at the center,
black tie to be smart must be at least
two Inches In width. They are now straight
Instead of rounded at the ends.
This Is true of the white ties for full
evening dress. They come In lawns and
piques without any pattern and sometimes
with an elaborate allover design. But they
are smartest when they are made of pique '
about two Inches broad at the ends and cut
straight across. The white tie remains
the most Important feature of full evening
dress. A faultless fit In the shirt and
waiatcoat may be altogether nullfled by
the poorly knotted tie.
LIFE INSURANCE IN FCRCE
American Lives Insured for Hums
Aggregating Twelve and Half
Billions.
The amqunt of life insurance carrleil by
the people of the United Slates readies
lae a.nazlnrr total of J12, 000, 000.000. A
nummary of the business for 1807 com
piled by the New York Spectator shows
that tho companies received during the
year. In round numbers. 1450,000,000 In
premiums and paid losses aggregating
$160,000,000. Policies were written for
Sl,K0o,0G0,0OV but the net gain for the
year was only $500,000,000. This huge
aggregate of capitalised human life Is
distributed pretty evenly over the states
in proportion to population. The report
shows that on the first of the present
year New York led all states with a total
of $2,100,000,000, Pennsylvania holds sec
ond place with $1,600,000,000 and Illinois
third, with $900,000,000. In the western
states Nebraska Is credited with $110,
000,000 In life Insurance, Iowa $220,
000.000. Montana $42,000,000, Colorado
$125,000,000, Kansas $146,000,000. South
Dakota 147.000.000. North Dakota $42,
000.000. Utah $40,000,000 and Wyomi
112.000.000. The figures Include on
ordlnarv life and Industrial life pollcl
taking no account of the vast amount of
life Insurance. In the aggregate, carried
by millions of Individuals constituting
the membership of beneficial associations.
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LESS PAINT A Nil I0VDEtt
by
Xarmful Cosmetics Being; Discarded
Eastern sotuaiy woman.
New York druggists report a great fall
ing off in the demand for rouges, cosmet
ics, lotions and other manufactured "beau-
to Uflers." Wheu this tendency is a part of
the colors of the a'.rlng tie or bow. This 1 the movement for the Inexpensive almple
style has been so neglected during recent j life, or whether the New York women have
years that for one. man wearing one of
those ties there ure ten four-in-hands.
Gradually there seems to have come Into
exlstance the belief thai these bow ties
are adapted only for summer wear, tnd ll
is only at that time one now aeea them in
any variety or In large numbera.
For the black tie that la worn with the
dinner coat there la the aame dia-ernlble
ittempt to bring back aatln Into fie fahln.
The back eatln Ilea well and IniparU a cer
tain dresaineaa that the dull blaek silks
never did whether they were plain or bro
caded. There Is this year the dull black
with any pattern as well as the figured
reps and ottier silks. Anything approxi
mating the butterfly Is now out of mode.
awukened to the harmful after-effects of
those chemical compounds Is not stated.
Anyhow, there la a revival of the use of
old-fashioned home preparations, thou
that have stood the test of '.line. Here luTV st.j
a recipe for a home-made face wash that V-
a uown town uruggiat iineu v uuni ua uu
day;. Rose Water. 2 ouiufk; Kpitotone, 4
ouncca; Cologne Bpirlie. 1 ounce. To make
the face waah put the Kri-otone In a pint
of ho, water tnol (tolling) and after It has
dlaaolved atrain and let cool, then add the
Roae Water and Cologne Bplrlta. The dally
uae of tlita preparation la absolutely harm
less, and there lu nothing better than Eppo
tone to soften, wbilaa and fcoautlfy th
complexion.
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