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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1909)
B THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 6, 1900. i i i i VEILS MUST NOT BE BUSCI1Y Follneu Said to Destroy Style of the Bride. , - V7T&E FOBM UTILIZED LIKE "EAT" Briifi ef 1J09 Mast Be Better Lok lav, for Tell a Not Won Ortr Faoa So Mark aa It Wli." 4 aaaaaaaaa. Although the wedding veil and It drap ing depend or should depend entirely upon the general countour of the bride's face, how - aha wears her hair and how she can-tea her head, there la ona detail from which . this season's fashion does not de part. All possible fullness or bunchlness must : be eliminated from that portion that rests upon tha hair and about the head. This fullness that so frequently destroys tha style of the bride. Is eliminated by cut ting the voll or reducing the surplus by means of a fine run of tucks, which will bring the fullness of the fall just exactly where It Is wanted and still do away with tha bulk. Beyond the tucks tha fullness Is shirred to a wire frame. To this frame tha wreath or other ornament 'may be se cured and If It Is wire. It may easily be bent to fit the head. It Is easily and se- 'curcly adjusted and admits of a long graceful fall of the folds of tulle that blend with those of the train. All the full- ' ness is .preferably kept back of the ears. This. falls straight to the hips and there 'the Increaaed fullness spreads In a soft mist that blends and Is lost In the folds of the train. The veil Is not worn over the face as much as It was and for the sole reason that It can not be disposed of as easily or as gracefully after the ceremony Is over and It is supposed to be put back. There Is a pretty little custom descendant from ; an old, ' tradition, that a four-lea( clover shall be put into the wreath that surmounts the bridal veil, but it must be completely hidden. The bridal wreath Is never a conspicuous feature of the head covering. It Is rather one of the delicate details, that while one of the most essen tial parts must seemingly be but one of the touches. Orange blossoms are the time honored flower for this purpose, but lilies Of the valley, sweet peas, and others of the smaller, waxey blossoms are counted . just as good and are Just as popular. Many brides do not wear . the wreath at all but prefer a twist of pearls, of gold or some Jeweled piece. Veils for. tha bridesmaids are coming more and more into favor, but thoy are quite different from the veil worn by the bride. They are never worn over the face and are always short, falling scarcely to the waist line". They may be made of lace or tulle and are always surmounted by a wreath of flowers, a coronet of ribbon or of Jewels or something else to give the effect of a crown. The headpiece for the maid's veil may be worked out in endless variety consistent with the other details. Often a twist of ribbon, a few buds or an aigrette afford the trimming for the head and from this the veil falls to the back, entirely back of the ears. y Several eastern milliners are making a specialty this season of providing the al , ready draped veil. Of course It must be ' draped or adjusted when the order Is . taken, but after that the bride and the , maids need have no further care or thought for It. It will be ready and quite right when ' tha time , coqiea for putting it on tho. head. It Is not absolutely necessary that It be hung or adjusted even at first Two photographs of the bride, one a front and the other a profile view, will serve quite aa well as star.dlnc for the hanging. When it Is ready It Is packed and shipped. Tulle and lacs are both used for the wedding veil, but for the majority of young faces the tulle veil Is more becoming. HOW TO ST0REJ0WER CHEST Bride Xawadays lias to KnraUn Wkat She Wishes for New Home What shall go Into . the dower chest? One practical woman has advised that the first layer be of toft cloths that will be indispensable when the housekeeping be gins. Everything will be new then and a new cloth Is a menace to the temper of any and all who must use It. Here the dosen and the half dosen la an acceptable measure, though the bride Is no longer expected to provide anything more for the new home than she cares to. Time was when no dower chest was com plete without a half dosen pairs of sheets and pillow cases, a dosen face and a dosen kitchen towels, a dosen tea towels and dish cloths, half a dozen dusters, at least throe tablecloths, with from six to twelve napkins to match each, and from four to six quilt tops. All of these things are Just as necessary In the new home as ever with the exception, perhaps, of tho quilt tops, which have been replaced by the attractive, tight and warm comforts of down or fine cotton so daintily covered. which are to be had for comparatively lit tle in any of the stores nowadays. And then there are all the fancy table pieces tlat most girls like to make, the sofa cyshlons, stenciled curtains, table covers and the many other things that must be made and that, have so Important a part in making a home cozy and attrac tive. All these fit well In the dower chest, as do ths odds and ends In the way of brlc-a-brao, dishes, pictures and the many things that all girls with the home Instinct manage to colleot In the course of their young womanhood. Going back again to the practical things, the kitchen aprons, serving aprons, hold ers for hot cooking utensils, the clothespin bag, two laundry bags, a sunbonuet and a dusting cap must not be forgotten. These are Indispensable and when all ready for use are among the real satisfactions, as any housekeeper will testify. GLOVE FINGER MUST BE CUT Seam Can Be Sewed Up Ago la After Important Gold Band Has Been Slipped On. The gloves have their own Important place In the bridal outfit and trousseau. The wedding gloves should be of white glace kid and long or short, accordingly, as the sleeves are cut. The clerk at the glove counter Is expert In opening the seam of tho left glove's third finger that the wed ding ring may be easily slipped on, and when the wedding Is over she can sew up the seam again so well that It can not be noticed. This is an Important detail and one that should under no consideration be overlooked. As to other gloves, they may be of kid or silk or chamois, and long or short, and In whatever color the gown with which they are worn demands. Silk gloves will be much worn this season, and as they are Infinitely more comfortable than kid In warm weather, will do excellent service for trav eling. They compare favorably with the kid even In wearing qualities, for few women can wear kid in warm weather without staining and Injuring from perspir ation. Only a visit to the glove depart ments of the larger stores can fully decide the bride Just what she wants in gloves. For the Bride The appropriate thing at the right price is the cry of all. Of course, many people buy the regular conven tional things spoons, forks, ladels, bowls and bon "mon dishes (and, we have all these), but many others there are who want the unusual, novel and artistic gift, and yet at a reasonable price. "Ve are ready for the shopper who wants the article that cannot be found elsewhere. Our large wedding business makes it possible for us to carry an unusually large 6tock of Silver and Cut Glass and GORHAM SILVER and HAWKES OUT GLASS make a combination, of high class wares that, for genuine merit in workmanship and style, v cannot be excelled." We carry other lines as well all of standard manufacture. We keep a complete list of presents as they are purchased for the bride and can advise those Who do not wish to duplicate just what to send. A wedding'gift in a beautifhl case is just a little more appreciated than any other. It insures quality and up-to-dateness not embraced by any other name. Mawhinney & Ryan Jcwvltrt and SHvertmitht Fit4nth and DoujUt Streets AFFAIRS FOR BRIDE MANY Small Wonder Heads of Some Get Tarred. 'SHOWERS' OF IG DUALLY MODEST Small Kvents at First, Have Grown to Gte-antlo Proportions In Some Cmr.ru Rivalling Pretentions neas of Moptlals. It Is a privilege Indeed to be a June bride In this day and age when friends and relatives, customs, fashion-directors and manufacturers combine 'In the making of lovely things. The time has never been hen the young woman Just entering Into her first new home and the new life that accompanies It was so generally trie object or attentions tending to make her path beautiful, Inviting and easy. So lavish In fact, is the attention bestowed upon her that K Is a well balanced girl indeed whose head Is not turned at least a little bit by It. From the time the engage ment Is announced until the last handful or rice has been hurled ftps Inst the win dows of the train that carries her off for that season of bliss designed as the honey moon, the present day bride Is the reci pient of attentions fitting for a princess and that, it must be confessed, often border upon mistaken kindness. First there conies that announcement. If the girl Is "In society" this Is usually made through the medium of some unique, or at least smart, social affair. The strife after something out of the ordinary has evolved the cleverest sort of "announcement" par ties. It is the popular thing nowadays for a girl to keep her engagement secret even from her best gill friend until she is ready to tell everyone about It, and the more complete the surprise the greater Is counted the success or the announcement. And after the announcement Is made. If the wedding Is set for within a month, the round qf given-ln-honor affairs begins. It seems preferable Just now to reserve the announcement of the engagement until a short time before the wedding a month or two. When at last the date of the wedding Is given out then begins the round of show ers, and luncheons, and teas, and dinners. and kenslngtons, and all the other things that have been devised In honor of brides. The "showers," originally the most mod est little affairs given only by the most In timate girl friends, and then in absolute secrecy, have assumed proportions almost as pretentious in point of outlay as a tea or even the wedding Itself. There is no longer any seerecy about it, for It appears on the social calendar a week In advance and Its scope ranges from kitchen utensils through the linens, brlo-a-brac and every thing In the way or personal lingerie to a supply or preserved fruits sufficient for the first few "spreads" In the new home. Of course all these attentions are most acceptable to the young couple Just start ing out, but taking Into consideration how general has become the custom or making wedding presents, these preliminary gifts are a bit hard on the friendo for, of course, the kitchen utensils must be of the very best enamel, the linen must be fit for "oc casions," nothing but silk hosiery and nainsook would be fit for a bride, while "cheap" bric-a-brac would be Inexcusable. And when the cards have been issued for the wedding there comes a new round of gift-making and as the wedding exceeds the shower In Importance, so tha wedding gift must surpass those previous offerings. However, all this Is the affair of the friends; the bride is the princess and all of this is her right and her due so long as her friends 'will. "; GOWN CRUXJDF TROUSSEAU CCrownlnsj Triumph and Cklef Anx iety of Little Bride, of Count. . I Of course the crowning anxiety, but the triumph of the whole trousseau Is tho wedding gown. . Of what shall It be made? How shall It be made? For answer to these all important ques tions It would be well for the bride to visit some of the large stores that handle ready-made gowns and see what she can find there. If not Just the gown she wishes she will certainly find Ideas, bet ter ideas of the effects the fashion books uesinue man sne couia possiDiy get front the pictures, for she la DrlvlIeeAri in I her own Image clothed in one of these In tricate models and the folds hanging just as they might if It were her bridal day, Instead of the amazingly long-walsted, hip less, bustless figure of the fashion cut with arms spread In soaring attitude and body leaning serpent-like beyond all pos sibility of retaining an equilibrium. To be sure, satin is the most brldey of all materials for the .wedding gown and the present-day satrhs are marvels of softness and richness, but they are a bit warm also for the June wedding, which brings the exquisitely sheer, fine mulls, lawns and batistes Into favorable consider ation. While the satins preferably follow the more severe styles of the princess and the empire, the sheer things may be com bined with "loads" of Valenciennes lace or. hand embroidery in a result at once girlish and dainty and June-like. The later sum mer styles, with their full-flounced skirts and intricate trimmings, are admirably suited for the batistes and mulls and lawns, and for the bride who cherishes no sentiment for her wedding gown they are admirably suited also to use for subse quent occasions. Among the developments of the present season that come to the rescue or the more severe wedding gowns is a supplement resembling a court mantle as much as anything else. It is attached to the shoulders and hangs in long, graceful, sweeping folds back over the train. Sometimes It forms the train and Is Independent of the gown Itself. This, of course, goes with the satins and heavier silks and It Is more or less elaborately trimmed, hand embroidery affording the most effective adornment It should be superfluous to caution against any but the most stately of brides using such a wed ding gown. ' GIFTS TO HERJMAIDS VARYING Bride Nowadays Exercise Freedom In Selecting? Souvenirs of Wedding-. The fancy of the June bride seems to have wandered far this season from the bench of the gold or silversmith, the studio or the novelty cases of the jeweler's shop, In selecting the souvenirs for her attend ants. So widely has she departed from the old custom of giving something that might bo kept always, that ber selections might almost be criticised as Inappropriate, so transient must be their service as remind ers of the bride and her wedding day. The new parasol In all its dainty ex tremes, the dalnl?, fragile little fan, two or three pairs of gloves, a suit of very fine lingerie and a box of silk hosiery are anions the choice JuEt now. "A frivolous departure consistent with direclolre gowns and coalscuttle hats," commented a practical elderly spinster. But nut all the June brides have gone to Kitchen Cabinets; wo arc agents for the celebrated Mc Dou ga 1 Kitchen Cabinet; prices range from $31.50 to $7.50 Greatest Lace Curtain lie ti ft ate' fi We are exclusive agents for the Vul can Gas Kan go, tho kind that saves gas and is positively odorless. Every kind of LACE CURTAIN. Nothing that the omitted in this largest of OMAHA'S LACE CURTAIN We take inventory this month and have decided to dispose of nil patterns in Lace Curtains, of which we have only six pairs or Jess. They are this season's very newest, best selling styles, but the quantity of each pat tern is small and many can not be duplicated this com ing season. The variety of styles shown, however, is much larger this season than we' have ever before offered for clearance. Reel Arabian Battcnburg Lace Curtains. Thirty-eight patterns, from two to six patterns each, all fresh and new. $5.76 value, sale price, per pair $3.78 17.25 value, sale price, per pair 94-75 $ 10.00 value, sale price, per pair 97.00 $14 Value, sale price, per pair 910.00 $17.50 value, sale price, pair $13 50 $20.00 value, sale price, per pair 915 $26.00 value, sale price, per pair $19 Novelty Net Lace Curtains Sixty different styles to select from. $4.75 value, sale price, per pair 93-75 $5.25 values, sale price, per pair 93.75 $5.75 values, sale price, per pair 93.90 iiliiller, Stewart & Beaton 413-15-17 South 16th Street.' Scotch and Cable Net Curtains More than 100 styles ment, suitable for all to t pair of a pattern. 66o value, sale price, 76c value, sale price. $1 SO value, sale price, $2.25 value, sale price, $2.50 value, sale prlre, $3.25 value, tale price, $3.75 value, sale price, $4.76 value, sale price. In this assort rooms, from t per pair, per pair, per pair. . per pair. . per pair. . per pair. . per pair. . per pair. . , 47a . 88o 91-03 91-38 91-79 $3.10 Cluny Lace Curtains These are the choicesst of imported nets and the highest grades made. $7.26 value, sale price, per pair. .94.65 $7.50 value, sale price, per pnir.. 94.75 $8.00 value, sale price, per pair,. 95-58 $9.50 value, sale price, per pair.. 98.50 $12.00 value, sale price, per pair. . 97.00 Ruffled Muslin ' Curtains Pretty bedroom curtains of excep tionally good quality Swiss. 75c value, sale price, per pair. . 48o 85c value, sale price, per pair.. 62 o $7.25 value, sale price, per pair.. 83o $3.50 value, sale price, per pair. . 93-00 More Bargains . . 3,000 yards Colonial. Net, white and Arabian, per yard, from 25c to $1.80 Duchess and Irlh Point Lace Curtains More than fifty new styles offered at these great reductions: $3.75 value, sale price, per pair.. 98.33 $4.76 value, sale price, per pair. . 93.13 $7.00 value, sale price, per pair.. 93.90 $7.75 value, sale price, per pair.. 94.75 $8.75 value, sale price, per pair.. 95.50 $10.75 value, sale price, per pair 98.50 $13.60 value, sale price, per pair 97.00 Real Brusscl Net Lace Curtains Beautiful Parlor and Bedroom Cur tains. Fifty styles to select from. $3 15 value, sale price, per pair. . 99.09 $4.00 value, sale price, per pnir. . 93.83 $5.00 valuo, sale price, per pair. . 93.34 $7.76 value, sane price, per pair.. 94.75 $8.75 value, sale price, per pair.. 95.60 Saxony Brussels Iice Curtains t These curtains are made specially for our fine retail trade. $11.75 value, sale price, per pair. 98.35 $16.00 value, sale price, per pair. .911-35 $24.00 value, sale price, per pair 918.75 $27.00 value, sale price, per pair 919.60 More Bargains 1,500 yards Scotch Madras worth up to $2.50 per yard, closing out the en tire stock at, per yard, 60c, $1.00. $1.25 and V Season calls for is STOCKS. This stock consists of more than five hundred dif ferent styles of the best of both foreign and domestic manufacturers' products such as Cluny, Battenberg, Saxony Brussels, Duchess, Irish Point, Novelty Net, Muslin, Cable Net, Snow Flake and many others. A glance at the values we herewith name should con vince you that the time has arrived when you should an ticipate your . lace curtain wants. Snowflnkc Curtains For ovcrdrapes and summer cur tains, an exceptionally nice assort ment, all colors. $2.26 value, sale price, per pair 91-60 $2.25 value, salo price, per pair 91.78 $3.00 value, sale price, per pair 99.00 $3.50 value, sale price, per pair 93.35 $4.00 value, sale price, per pair 93.60 $5.60 value sale price, per pair 93.60 Flemish Toint Lace Curtains Twenty styles in this selection, great values. $9.25 value, sale price, per pair 95.50 $11.60 value, sale price, per pair 98.50 $11.75 value, sale price, per pair 97-00 Refrigerators If you are in need of a refrig erator, before making your pur chase, you should see the BOHN-SYPHON DRY AIR REFRIGERATOR, the great ice saver. The best and most Sanitary refrigerator made. Let us show their superior qualities. Porcelaln-llned Bonn Syphon Refrigerator, 65-pound Ice Capacity at : -931.75 Porcelaln-llned Bohn Syphon Refrigerator, 90-pound Ice Capacity at $38.00 Porcelaln-llned Bohn Syphon Refrigerator, 125-pound Ioe Capacity at $43.50 Porcelaln-llned Bohn Syphon Refrigerator, 150-poiind Ice Capacity at $48.00 White Enameled Refrigerator, 50-pound Ice Capacity .$19.00 White Enameled Refrigerator, 50-pound Ice Capacity $23.75 White Enameled Refrigerator, 80-pound Ice Capacity $28,50 White Enameled Refrigerator, 100-pound Ice Capacity $31.00 White Enameled Refrigerator, 50-pound Ice Capacity $15.00 Zinc Lined Refrigerators up from $9.50 ' ' i " 9 4 tl kJ w m J! u it il 'Ml . ' t, V t 'AT"" - rr II 1 1 Mr VlMWahiatbalttesMaWiiHiMiSisiSMSssiiaii.ii ' -s Summer Furniture for Porch ad Lawn Our display of Porch and Lawn Furniture for this Btason excels all previous efforts both In variety and style quality of construction and range of price. We have overlooked nothing which will add to your summer comfort. Plenty of nice roomy chairs and rockers, settees, couches, hammocks, porch and lawn swings, porch shades, porch rugs, in oriental de signs Imported direct from India. Waito graas porch rugs, pillows and cushions of all classes of descriptions, all at a nominal price within the reach of everybody. Come and see the display on our first floor. e e s 11.00 1.60 11.80 83-18 3.35 Porch Rocker, reed seat Chllds' Rattan Arm Porch Rocker Misses' Rattan Arm Porch Rocker Rattan Arm Porch Rocker 1 A a.m D.tt.n Pftl-f-h R(vb.F Rattan Porch Rocker, without arms XaSJ Rattan Arm Porch Rorker Large Rattan Arm Porch Rocker ZzX Double Rattan Seat and Back Porch Rocker ' TZTl Double Rattan Seat and Back Brace Arm Porch Rocker 93.60 Double Rattan Seat and Back Porch Settee 96-60 Red or -Teen Porch Settee. 3 ft. 6 Inches long 81.85 v Double Rattan seat and back Porch Rocking Settee 88.75 Red or green Porch Snttee, 4 ft I Inches 81.40 Double cane seat and back Arm Rocker 94.40 Double cane seat and back Arm Chair , 94.98 Large double cane foot and back Arm Rocker 95.00 Large double cane sent and back Arm Chair 93-00 Reed Porch Swing with pocket arms and chains 815.75 6-ft. fumed oak Porch Swing with chains 918.00 Complete line of CrQX Green Porch Furniture, consisting of Rockers, Chairs and Settees, with wide range of prices. Our line of Kalkl Porch Swings, with felt mattresses and wind shields something new and luxurious at a small cost. Three different styles. this extreme and the beautiful though In expensive brooches, bracelets and many other trifles that all girls love are still In demand, and an hour at the Jeweler's must convince any girl of their attractiveness. INVITATIONS JN WRITING Kot Written In Third Person aa When EngrsTid Cards Are Sent Oat br Parents. If the mother or the father do not write a plain, legible hand, and many elderly neonle do not. It is permissible for some member of the family to write the Invita tions, who does write a good hand, sign in the tiarenta' name. These Invitations are worded Informally not In the form of the formal, engraved invitation. If both A. aaSr 'tilaesaST or a parents are living, the father issues the In vitation in the name of his wife and him self. Such an Invitation was Issued not long ago for a small Informal wedding and read: 6200 Park Avenue. Central City, Ala. My dear Mr. and Mrs. Brown: Our daughter, Helen Elizabeth, Is to be married next Tuesday evening, May 2a, at half after eight o'clock, at our home, to Mr. James Andrew Gardner. Mrs. Smith and I will esteem it an honor to have you present at the ceremony and for the in formal reception which is to immediately follow It. We trust you will be able to be present Cordially yours, HENRY BROWNING SMITH. Tuesday, May 18, 1909. Invitations are Issued all the way from one to three weeks before the date of the ceremony. From ten days to two weeks used to be the accepted time, but the last year or so. Invitations for seme of the larger weddings have gone out nearly four weeks before the wedding date. It goes without saying that all the In vitations should be mailed at the same time. Cards that are to be sent abroad mav he tnAilri ejirllep And the nut.nf.tnirn I nrta a Anv fihemV but thfialt in th friends in the same city should all go at the same time. Wedding Gifts Worth While The main thing about giving a wed ding Jresent Is to select one that will stand diHtlnrtly apurt from all others, r ev'nu with It the most whole some thoughts of the giver. To be fully appreciated and long remember ed It must ua practical and useful. Let us fulfill these requirements with an Artistic Droplight We sell them From Ten Dollars Up Such an Immense stock as ours gives you an unlimited selection and you may rest aasured that your pres ent will be duplicated by no one else Omaha Lighting Fixture Co. 41T Bout 16th Strtot. LINGERIE SHOWS PERSONALITY Daintiness and Refinement or Lack of These Revealed by Choice Made. Into no part of all her trousBeau does the bride put her own personality as Into her lingerie. If she is dainty and refined in her tastes, here It will assert Itself, and if she is content with the common things, here she will bo content to substitute mus. tin and Hamburg and raw seams for cam brlc, hand embroidery and lace. It Is only the comparatively few and the privileged few at that, who may select their lingerie from the tempting assortment now offered in any of the better stores, but every one Is privileged to look and to admire and to take away all the Ideas they are capable of carrying. In our grandmothers' day it was counted essential to have a dosen suits of under wear In the trousseau, but the girl of today has reduced the standard to half that al lowance, though many have -more. There is reason for this, and it is found in the incessant changing of fashions. Fullness this spring Is exchanged for scantiness In the summer. Then, too, the advent of the silk petticoat and the lisle and silk knitted things has done iiway with the necessity ot the many whlto things. Moreover, the general style Is developed In underwear just as in other garments. Where the ki mono effect held, sway last year the em pire and princess are In vogue this season, manifesting themselves distinctly in the cut and general style of undergarments. All women are, or should be, familiar with the deterioration of white goods that lie packed away "done up," and so the trous seau supply does not exceed what Is likely to be worn out. 1 H ?2i ; THE PRIDE OF THE BRIDE IS SATISFIED ani so is the Fate of the Graduate Aesthetically and commercially speaking we are abundantly prepared to serve and sat isfy buyers of wedding and graduating QifU. For Weddings Finest Sterling to the life-wearing plate and the famous Sheffield Silver, Brass, Cut Glass and richest Pottery. Favors for bridesmaids, groomsmen and ushers. For Graduates Cleverest display of Watches and Find ings in the west. Goldfilled $G.OO up. The $10 OMEGAS. Any grade, size and price imagin able. Pin,. Link and Stud Sets; Desk, Mani cure and Traveling Sets, Spoons, Bags, Um brellas, Neck Chains, Pendants and various rich and rare ornaments that make Juno events happy and long remembered. Our splendid workshops are at your service. X. L. COMBS Sl Col ...JEWELEIlH... 1520 Douglasst. Omaha Bee Want Ads Boost Your Business fUat I ) jr"k