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OMAHA, NUN'IUY MOKXINU, A VIA LV). XW'X
The Omaha
WANT ADS
Post Card Albnm, bound In linen
boards, rapacity 300
cards. Buyer' and 9 ".
Marragers' Sale X
Beginning Tomorrow and Lasting All Week, 20 Department Chiefs Will Play the
Ready-to-Wcar Garments
Buyers' and Manager Sals, embracing practically
entire stock. Ttala buyer' best effort.
All Rajah and Shantung Dresses, ono-pleee (P 1 "J CA
styles. In tan, gray, hallo, blue, grcun All a)U
sold at ISO B. and M. "ale price r
MeesaliB and Vonlard Silk Dresses Choice of any In
stork that aold up to $12 U, beat Rtyles. Q
B. and M. Bale prtrs H"1''
All Rami Linen Bulta. worth to 111 SO, CIA
B. and M. aala prtoe
All Tailored Cloth Bulla, worth, $46 00, fQ
B and M. aala price
All Tailored Cloth Bulta for mleaea, worth to re
122 110, aale price ''
All White Serge and Shantung Butts, worth
to 150 00, for .
All Linen Waah Bulta that aold up to $10.00 Ce
will be .
Waah Dreanea that aold up to $1.15, C C
atyllah models at f
Lawn Dressing Sacquee that aold up to in
SI. 01. will be JC
Une-plere 1ressea, worth to 00, (f cfi
B. and M. aala price $'.jU
Waah petticoats, our entire $1.26 and (1.60 tf
linen, now 4I
$2 00 Nainsook and Croaabar Gowns, -e
fine sheer, will be , .iJI.AJ
White Waists, worth $1.00, beautiful, laca tq.
trimmed, for. . . . . . U.t
Wash Goods Sensation
The biggest reductions of the Buyers' and Man
ngerV Hale arc made by the Waah Goods buyer. He
has sacrificed his atock In a sensational manner.
Xote these:
flOc All Linen Suitings 38 pieces, plain and fancy
stjles, game goods you saw In window, 50c to
39c kinds, at 12W
Fluent Waah Fabrics np to 75o Exquisite silk and
cotton fabrics, all must go not a piece reserved,
yard 29
The Climax In HUk Ilargalns 10,000 yards new
silks, $1.25 Pongees, $1.00 Foulards, $1.00 black
and white Wash Silka, a marvelous collection of
most desirable silks in our stock, as shown in
windows, hundreds of women have asked for
thorn, yard 4G
White Wash Silks for Waists, sale price . . . . 15
5 9c White Silk Habutai, 27 inch, sale price .
Embroideries mid Flounrlngs Never in Bennett's
history have embroidery prices touched so low a
point. The manager of this department has as
sembled 24 Inch flouncing!), corset cover em
broideries, allovers, shirt waist frontlngs, etc., all
of which are fine 89c, 69c and 39c imj
goods. At this price It will pack I
the department, yard
54 Inch Cream Serge Strictly pure wool. Our
b8t $1.50 quality. No wool fabrics is in greater
favor right now. Buyers' and Managers' Sale
price, yard 89c
White Goods, Domestics, Linens
B. and M. sale raluea that are lrreslstabl. Bag-aim
like these are crowd-retting. Get your share.
Embroidered Batlatea and Check Stripe Lawn", for
walHta and dreaaea, 11c, 25c and 29a good, "7lr
no limit, yard
11 ktnds fancy Lawns, Dimities, Batlatea; our "en
tire accumulation odds and ends, 26c to 1 e
40c gooda IJt
Bleached Table Damask, (4 Inches wide, three .
patterns, our regular price 8Bc, aale price ... 13'
Huik Towels, hemmed, 12Vc kind, l$x$8, . 71.
aale price "c
lilencherl Sheeting, 2Vi yards wide, "Juat It" brand,
revular price 29c, B. and M. aale "I
price -!C
Blenched Pillow Cases, very nice graded muslin, 16c
kind, else 42x36, wide hem, sale in
nrlce WC
Game of Their Lives to Roll up a Record-Breaking Sales Score.
Just as team-work is essential to win games in base ball, so it is in the game of business. It requires cool, determined, heady
players all working at top speed and in perfect unison to bring home the victory.
That's precisely the spirit that dominates this great twice-a-year event. The Buyers and Managers' Sale.
The all important object to be gained is to clear out summer merchandise. The entire force of department men has been apprized
of what is expected of them. The week's business has been given into their hands to operate in their own way. They must win.
In former years they have never failed us. These sales proving the wonder of the retail trade of Omaha. Now then, you are
promised buying incentives such as no western store has ever had before. - , .
The buyers and managers have organized and joined forces, each pledging to outdo himself in putting out bargains that will make
success absolute and certain.
Think of the tremendous force of such concentrated effort. It's the supreme moment of the summer selling and excitement will
be intense. Every item in today's ad is the biggest kind of a bargain the best that any store ever offered. We make no descriptive
talk, but bear in mind that all the goods on sale are new, stylish and desirable. Start early.
Stationer)- 800 boxes odd lots,
worth up to $1.60, a
biggest bargain lC
this year, at A
HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR
The hosiery buyer In not after profits now it's
volume of sales and quick turnovers he want.
Surely, his offerings show It.
Women's Seamless l!5c Allovec Lace Hose, I7l r
B. & M. sale prices IO.
Women's 26c Silk Game Lisle Hose, hand fie
embroidered. B. A M. sale price
Women's 60c Tan Lisle Hose, hand emhroiilei ed,
sale price "7t
Women's Lisle Geneva Silk 60c Hose, B. & M. in
sale price
Women's fine 60c Allover Lace Lisle Hose. "Qr
sale price
Women's 12 He Sleeveless Vesta, with lace 7 c
yoke, sale price
Women's 60c HUk Lisle Vests, crochet and lace trimmed,
silk tiipert, narrow straps, B. & M. S?Qc
sale price
Kayser's fine Lisle 76o Vests, crochet and Val. Qr
lace top
Women'" 60c Lisle Pants, lace trimmed, every "IVf
size, for J V
Women's $1.00 Silk Lisle t'nion Suits, bSc
lace trimmed, at
Men's Auto Gloves
Horsehlde Auto and Driving Gloves, ventilated back,
strap wrist, $2. 00 kind, aale jjj 39
Cape Auto Gauntlets, leather lined cuffs, Qtl
$2.76 kind 3i.:70
Horsehlde GHUntletg, solid leather cuff, L" Qli
ventilated. HMD kind 4 rfi. -7C
Handkerchiefs at Half
Women's Linen 84c Handkerchiefs,
sale price tC
Women's 2Uc Appenzel and Maderla Embrotd- in
ered Handkerchiefs 1UC
Women's 15c Swiss Scalloped and H. S. J
Embroidered Handkerchiefs C
Women's Lilly White Princess Lace, $1.26 iLQ-,
Handkerchiefs, sale price U-7C
SALE OF PYROGRAPHY
The Art GoodB buyer gives you choice of the entire
stock of Pyrography Woods and Pyro Sets no
exceptions, at a reduc
tion of
25 off
AST BXABS WOJLX. SS PIS CEWT OTP
This new book la similar to pyrography and easily
done. Demonstration Seoond Floor.
S2.50" Corsets $1.29
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Mrs. Wright who has charge of the corsets
expects a crowd with this bargain. "Well
she may for few women will resist such
an offer. It's a line of high grade batiste
corsets, high bust and new long hip and
back, two pairs supporters, size (T j ")(
18 to 30. -Best $2.50 value, at -H
A Trimmed Kat "Roundup"
As a grand climax to a wonderful season's business
the millinery manager will put on sale tomorrow
800 trimmed hats in all the new summer shapes,
trimmed artistically in newest materials. Hats
that have been marked up to $7.00,
for
Another sale of note Includes fashionable South
American Panama Hats, trimmed with silk Bashes
values to $12.00. In the Buyers'
and Managers' Sale, at
$1.00
ible South
silk Bashes
$7.50
ALL WEEK LONG
Wall Paper Sacrifice
The manager of the Wall Paper Department has
'gone the limit in bargain-making. His entire stock,
recognized as one of the cleanest and best selected
lines in all Omaha, is sacrificed almost beyond be
lief, Such selling is simply unheard of. It's the
chance of a life time. You'll always regret "It if
you miss this opportunity.
10,000 rolls Wall Paper, worth 9c to 25c--
at, roll 2c
20,000 rolls Wall Paper, worth 9c to 25c
at, roll oC
10,000 rolls Wall Paper, worth 9c to 25c
at, roll 5c
7,000 rolls Wall Paper, worth 9c to 25c-
at, roll 7V2C
Injrrain Wall Paper, the highest 25c and
35c grades; 12 shades, at, roll 10c
We do painting and paper hanging.
Phone Douglas 137.
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Women's Oxfords & Slippers
The Shoe man has done himself proud. This is
the best shoe news we ever had. Such values
are sure to break ull selling records.
2,000 pairs women's low shoes, new, stylish sum
mer footwear, consisting of soft velvet kid,
viel velvet kid with patent vamp, tan kid and
tan calf, also gunmetal oxford ties
and strap slippers, values two and
three times our price, pair
For Women Who Wear Small Sizes Shoes we offer
BOO pairs canvas oxfords, all $1.60 and $2.00
qualities, sizes 2 4 to 4 choice of
white, pink or blue, pair JJs
$1.00
Furniture Rugs Curtains
The furniture man will sell his entire
furniture stock not excepting a single
a wonderful opportunity 10 Off.
piece-
RUGS Best Axminster Rugs, 9x12 ft., 57
patterns; sale price $20.00
$12.00 Stock Rugs; sale price $6.05
LACK Cl'KTAIXS Close out lot 375 Curtains
at, pair 98
Skirt Boxes, Shirt Waist Boxes and Screens take
- your choice 20 PER CEXT OFF
In the Drug Store
Toilet Soaps, Turkish Bath, White Honey, Glycer
ine. Buttermilk, etc., all worth 60c dozen, at 35
.Kirk's Juvenile Soap, worth 20c ea.. at, 3 for 25
20c Hand Brush, large, all bristle 10
Tanglefoot Fly Paper, 35c box, sale price ..25
Antiseptic Folding Drinking Cups, 3 for. . . . .10d
KM v5 M 1
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We Close at 6 o'clock; Saturday at 10 P. SI.; j
Tuesdays at 1 P. M. During July and August, j j
In Jewelry-Section
Just a hint of the wonderful sales that
await you. Bronze Clocks, magnificent de
signs, porcelain dials, Jweled escapement.
$25.00 Clocks will be S10.95
$30.00 Clocks will be S12.75
Bolld Silver Kings, genuine turquoise, ama
zonlte and Jade aettlngs, 6 valuea for tl.00
Men's Watches, gold filled, 20-year hunting
case, 17-JeweI, Elgin or Waltham nickel
movement (13.75
Men's and Boys' Clothing
Men benefit as never before in the Buyers' and
Managers' Sale. The splendid Bonnett assort
ment of snappy $15 and $18 Suits. CO n C
are now cut to
Youths' Long Pant Suits, gray and brown stripe
mixtures, single and double T 7 C
breasted; $7.60 suits, at
Children's Wash Sulta. Russian styles, Clfi
actual $2.50 and $3 lines, now UW
Children's Military Khaki Suits, trimmed AOr
in red, dollar kind, for
The China Man Says
1 am not quoting a single price but will make it
an object of immense importance to all who love
exquisite china and artistic decorative pieces. It's
the one chance I have waited for to reduce a heavy
stock, so here goes. J
Kngilsh Doulton, Coalport and J If Drlftr)
Addeily China, Dresdrn China, M?jI ru8
Italian Hand-pnlnted Ware, Vene
tian Crystal and Gold Glass, Jap- a
anese Awajl Ware, Hammered ftf I 055
Brass Ware, at vl WMV
Hardware, SpTg Goods
Don't forget thai basement departments. Kara too,
you'll find the bargain spirit of the buyars' and man
agers' sals forcing Itself on 70a at every turn.
Any $5.00 Lawn Mower is now marked. . . .$1.00
Any $0.00 Lawn Mower is now marked. . . .$5.00
Any $7.00 Lawn Mower is now marked. . . .$6.00
Any $4.50 Lawn Mower is now marked. . . .$3.75
Blue and White Knamel Tea Kettles Strictly first
quality, regular price $1.25, No. 8 size 40
Double Enamel Roaster, worth 79c, sale price 2)
Garbage Cans, regular $1.75 kind now $1.25
HAMMOCKS $5.50 and $6.00 Hammocks 84.50
$4.50 and $5.00 Hammocks $3.50
Base Ball Gloves and Mitts, $1.00 kind 75
Base Ball Gloves and Mitts, $1.50 kind...$l.O0
Base Ball Gloves and Mitts, $2.00 kind... $1.50
Men's Bathing Suits, $2.00 kind $1.35
The Grocery Sale
Extra finestaiiip offers in addition to
low prices.
Capitol Coffee, per pound 28c and 40 stamps
Capitol Pepper, per can 10c and 10 stamps
Bennett's Teas, assorted, lb... 48c and 60 stamps
Bennett's Tea Sittings, lb 15c and 10 stamps
Best We Have 30c Cherries reduced to, can... 20a
Poppy Evap. Milk, can. . .5c; or slsJC.. .-25c
Bennett's Pride-Flour $1.80 and 60 stamps
Scat for Cleaning, 3 cans.... 25c and 10 stamps
Seedless Raisins, 2 lbs. 12 'ic quality 13c
Minute Gelatine, asBtd., 3 pkgs.2.c and 10 stamps
Ice Cream Jello. 3 pkgs 2.1c and 10 stamps
Bl'k Diamond Stove Polish, pkglOc and 10 stamps
.Newport Catsup, bottle 10c and 5 stamps
Macaroni, 3 pkgs 25c and 10 stamps
Pie Preparation, asstd.,, 3 for 25c and 20 stamps
California Ripe Olives, 60c cans, for 80c
FLOWERS OF OLD LONDON
Horning at Covent Garden and the
Rose Show Wonders.
COLORS THAT EXHAUST WORDS
1 So roor that They Mavet Do
IVIthoat Their Poaiea Some
hUght Thouaaad Fl-re Haaw
dreal at tho Show.
LONDON. July 10. Visions of the hot
streets of New York during July and Au
gust, with the closed houses and barred
doors, the canons of skyscrapers where
the air falls lifeless and flat, the thermom
eters with the mercury rising, rising, rls
Int the truck horses falling In harness and
the c!ang of ambulances emphasising the
heat, come persistently before the eyes of
the Manhattanlte viewing Ixjndon all
abloom with flowers, which the moist air
and the cool breesea keep fresh and fair
through the summer days.
The rule that the foot pasenger shall
wait for the quadruped to paaa holds good
even In the case of the donkey cart, and
on your way to the Covent garden flower
market, which you have to visit before
break faat to. sea In Its prime, you stop
without the usual protest to allow a liny
beaat trundling his two-wheeled oart filled
wMh scarlet geraniums and a driver with
blue socks, bowler and a red kerchief
knotted about his neck to pass. Donkey
and driver are headed for Waterloo bridge
and later the sale of the plants will take
place at some favorable locality over the
Thames, possibly In the big Waterloo at
tlon, where travelers stop on their way
through, never too hurried to purchase the
single blossom for the boutonnlere or the
carefully arranged "posy" for the house
hold. Flowers foa Coaasaoa Polka.
The "smart" man in London society no
longer wears a flower In his buttonhole;
even the gardenia, ths carnation or the
spray of stephanotls la eliminated. But
the man In the city, the smallish clerk
(please pronounce Clark), the masses of
the classes pay no attention to a rule that
would exclude the beloved decoration
Hurrying to his home along rieet street.
making for the neareat tuba or the top of
a crowded 'Tnloo Jack" or Vanguard."
a he popular motor buaaea are called
there la still tlms rer the man to stop and
purchase a bunoh of primroses. II' nay
prefer a huge pink rose or one of tl -ar
nations biff as chrysanthemums, wh'
haloed by a circular rim of thick
the earn shade, so that the outlying
will be kept in place. No flower seen too
large or too pronounced for his taste. The
coster, with his flannel cap pulled lown
over his ears, a bit of cord tied about his
neck and his trousers rolled far up to
show a strip of dirty sock, sports a poppy
or a dahlia on his ragged coat and. along
the Btrand, Poverty, Ilka whloti we have
nothing In the new world, stooping tre-
meaa'oualy, hesitate between a cigarette
, butt and a f ewy blossom dropped from a
a
iper
-tali
j passing basket, and finally seizes both.
At tho noon hour the shopgirl, the busi
ness woman of the cashier and typewrit
ing class, who eat cheaply at some of the
aerated bread places, which punctuate the
city, buys her twopenny rose that matches
the color of her cheeks. With a rim of
black around hla collar, a smudge of
soot on his nose and the pipe la his
Jaws, young husband selects for obvious
reason , the flower woman with a shawled
baby sitting on the steps of the Nelson
monument, and dipping here and there
into her huge basket, emerges a spray
of Iris, a feathery bit of splrea and a
pink poppy, watchea her tie them deftly to
gether with a string of grass and throw
ing four coppers In her aproned lap, darts
toward Bakerloo Underground.
la the Loag Evening' Light.
There is a peculiar light In London, a
transforming and an alluring light. It Is
formed by the combination of the long
twilight, which lasts so that one may
read the printed type easily at o'clock,
and the electric light, which marks the
dlnnrr hour. It Is a light different from
any other, and In it uuusual colors and
tlnta l-i fabrics and In the atmosphere
are notable. The flowers too, seem to have
Chang. .. their daytime frocks and put on
evening gowns, for the amethyst look lemon
tinted, and the dead white are pink or
mauve, the feathery green and ivory
show heliotrope tints and you hesitate
before a well known bloom and ask its
name and origin.
And while you bosltate between the pur
chase of an enormous pot of pink 1yd
rangeaa, the price of which la a shilling
sixpence, and great bunch of varicolored
single pet ailed popplea, eaoh separated
from Ita companion by a tiny white flower,
cloudlike and misty, for the same moderate
sum, your attention Is momentarily dis
tracted by the intense interest displayed
both by purchaser and seller In the selec
tion and arrangement of the flowers. It
Is not a smart shop; It Is Just like hundreds
of others, and there Is nothing unusual In
the careful attention paid by the pretty girl
who handles the blossoms as if she loved
them and the man who buys as If a visit
after dinner to any one of half a dozen
feminine friends would lack significance
unaccompanied by the uaual offering. They
rhat In a friendly, but unfllrtatious man
ner as to whether the bunch of lilies of
the valley shall be arranged in circular or
flat form, and having decided each spray
la wired, placed on a dewey leaf and finally
a half dosen leaves are turned over and
form a cuplike base. Next a pink rose for
hla own buttonhole has Its stem stuck
through its disk of pink paper, for London
modes demand that every artificial ap
pliance shall be brought to Nature's aid
for the, desired ensemble. Having paid, ha
goes out, holding his purchase with prac
tised adeptness. and a middle aged, gray
whiskered, blue eyed, ruddy faced beau
flicks down a alxpem-e. selects a tea from
the Jar of decorative roses and makes way
for a couple of lovers who, arm in arm.
stand and cling under an archway of crim
son ramblers and finally choose a handful
of tight closed buds, each in ita cup of
moss, for the girl, who pins them on a red
allk corsage, and two double petalled mar
guerite with attendant green for the es
cort. The financial value of it all Is repre
sented by two thr'penny bits.
Flattering apeechea about tha flowers o
Lunnon town are met by the rejoinder that
no one has really seen London flowers
who has merely seen them in the shone,
In the streets at the "pedestrian refuges,"
Isles of safety we call them, at Oxford
Circus. Piccadilly. Charing Cross, for these
are but preliminaries to the great flower
mart which la held dally in Covent Gar
den. Show at Covent Garden.
The trains that bring the flowers ther
from the various nurseries and conserva
tories all over England, begin to arrive at
3 o'clock in the morning and the market
opens at that hour. The florists find It
not too early for the dally trade, nor do
tha flower women who select their basket
loada and depart to take up their stations,
nor the flower men who lift great wooden
boxes of growing plants to their heads
and make the tour of hotels and private
realdencea; not even for the donkey carts
who go to points too far to reach by foot.
Imagine Madison Square Oarden turned
Into a flower market, every Inch of space
a mass of bloom and fragrance, and you
would not even then grasp the beauty and
magnitude of this dally show. At 9 o'clock
It la over, the flower market Is closed, and
only on tha outskirts of tha building are
the sales continued.
Tour way there la indicated long before
you sight the dingy building by push carta
that line the streets. A small girl with
down dropping shawl and touzled hair of
fers you a purchase, her face peering at
you from an armful of "gyp," a bush of
whitey green blossoms which she will sell
for a shilling and which Is generous enough
to fill a country fireplace. A coster Im
plores you to make your 'usband 'appy by
the gift of some potted verbena, tall as
hollyhocks, and a buxom, blue-aproned
flower maid, with an oval bit of catfur on
her head, which makes the customary rest
for the big market basket, courteously re
quests the right of way. Having secured
this she trots along to make one of a
group that ait all day long on the granite
platform at Oxford Circus and sell posies,
stiffly wired, to the shoppers who flee
there for safety. Later the flower sellers,
having disposed of their wares, drift away
one by on until at the approach ot
twilight a single figure sits hopefully de
scribing with terss phraaes, " 'Ere's 'sly
trope and 'eartease, mtm.".
MIoKllaaT of Odors. t
Ths Immediate approach to the flower
market at Covent Garden la through piled
up baskets and straw, a carpet of fallen
leaves and an atmosphere where the smell
of fresh vegetable, market rerusa, me
odor of th great unwashed mingles with
tha delicate perfumes of thousands of
roses, gardenias, stephanotls, mignonette,
for th outlying part Is th vegetable mar
ket and If you had not a differing mla
aion you would stop and admire th heaps
of carrots and beets, the salads, th beds
of strawberrlea th bunches of parsley
and of carefully selected strawberry leaves
on which the berries, big as boutonnieres,
are served at London table. You dodge
a whistling coster who has a tower six
feet high of straw baskets on his head
and both hands In his pockets and make
your way about a skyscraper of empty
boxes and baskets. You carrom against
an early bird who wears pumpa, silk stock
ings, a pleasant smile in addition to his
morning tweeds, and whose cwught worm
has taken the form of a basket of straw
berries, half a dozen to the pound, three
of which would satisfy the average hunger,
and a handful of mauve panstes circled
with maidenhair ferns.
Inside the building you have to step
warily, progress barred by the sellers,
whose limited time forces to quick and
sharp competition. Housekeepers have
come for the breakfast flowers, and sev
ers modish women are selecting with
special discrimination blooms of some de
sired tint to harmonise with gown or tea
table decorations.
Blendlna; of Many Hues.
All the sunsets of the yesterday's and
the sunrises of tomorrow seem to have
been gathered In tha place. Faces ugly
and unprepossessing peek at you from
behind rainbow arches of prismatic hues,
and coster women and men stand in amus
ing contrast to the grace and beauty
everywhere for sale. The flower sellers of
romantic stories are conspicuous by their
absence. The only flower girls seen at
Covent GardVn and elsewhere are fat,
fearsome and fifty-odd.
Iris, London' t most famous flower. If
one except the ever popular orchid and
rose, are riotously evident. Arnifuls of
the deepest mauve are on one shelf, and
below thousands or white, pink, mauve
edged and golden yellow blossoms invite
i'our purchase. Three bunchea, one of
violet, one of yellow hearted Ivory, one of
lemon, long stemmed and fresh as if
newly plucked, are Insinuatingly suggested
In your face, and when from force of habit
o.i lal.-o your eyebrows at the shilling,
nlnepence Is loudly substituted. A step
further along and you are in a huge per
fumed box of sweet peaa, whlrh rise,
covering the wall spaces, tier on tier. You
pass through scented paths of splrea, and
through garden plots of mignonette, you
traverse geometrical designs of heavy
hearted verbenas and gay faced pansies,
you avoid avalanches of sweet alyssuin,
and stand to get your breath In a forest
of palms, with U!i-lerbrush of heliotrope
and waxy petalled star-shaped flowers
whose name seems Insignificant as the
name of a pretty girl passed on the street.
And everywhere roses, and everywhere
Iris. And for half a crown you can fill
your apartment with flowers, every corner
and every vase.
What It All Means.
You are sure that this riot of blossoming
has Its psycholugla significance, could you
only think it out, which you do finally to
your own satisfaction at least, as you step
Into the waiting hansom and seek another
evidence of London's love of flowers. For
to th casual reading. London life Is per
fect In form, but It lacks the charm of
color. Were It not for this outlet of
natural feeling, this human Inatlnot toward
th earth bloom, which nothing can spoil
and nothing Improve, it would be Indif
ferently Interesting with ita human autom
atons, the majority of them walking and
talking and eating and thinking alike.
And while you reflect In this wise, the
hansom has turned Into oua of the charm
ing residential streets where Individuality
Is shown In every house, and from this It
passes to another, and so on and on mile
after mil you go.
There Is one house that remains In your
memory after you have passed on. as the
face of the famous Holbein Christina
Princess of Denmark refuses to be ousted
by succeeding features, though you may
sea it but for a moment and then look at
thousands of other masterpieces.
Outside of n House.
It Is a yellow house of stucco and brick,
freshly painted for the season and without
a suspicion of grime or smoke. Each of
tha windows Is edged with a box of dark
green tiles holding long stemmed yellow
flowers, like fringed buttercups; the door Is
of enamelled green, and knocker, handle
and doorknobs are newly polished brass.
There la a red house, cardinal tinted, the
trimmings of which are of dull wrought
Iron, and parallel rows of red genaniums
mingle with glossy leaves. It Is a house
that on a. hot day In New York would
send you flying to a far off shelter; here
with the July sun In evidence It is a
bright and attractive oasis In a desert of
drabs and grays.
A black and white brick facade has for
decorations huge boxes fairly overtopped
with hundreds of golden hearted mar
guerites, and a pink stucco not a half mile
away blooms with roses and white popples.
On the way to Dorchester house. Park
lane, where on Independence day thous
ands of London's Americana are enter
tained by the American ambassador, a
charming residence Invited attention, a
lemon surface with white trimmings, and
on the wide balustrades which surrounded
the flight of steps a row of vases, ure
shaped, filled with rose pink blossoms and
drooping vines. Further along in this same
fashionable quarter there is a residence
done In contrasting shades of green, with
the usual polished myrtle shade for the
door, ar the boxea and vases are filled
only with thousands of ferns.
Rose Society's show.
You are on your way to the National
Rose society's thirty-third rose show when
you not all this, for the flowerlust Is In
your soul and you are not content with a
general exhibit.
The show is held In the Royal Botanic
Garden at Regent's park and it la visited
by the queen and the Princess Victoria.
Incidentally to this, you are extremely
grateful for the fact that the royal family
Is so large that It can always send re
cruits for any function desired. But that
has nothing more to do with the subject
thsn a larkvpur, and a larkspur has
nothing at all to do with It, for only
roses are allnwed-Aut such roses!
Marquee opens into marques, each
filled with the product of various nurse
ries and private conservatories, and to
them a long green path leads from the
carriage entrance, on whose soft turf
your eye notes many an English rose of
the type that has been Immortalised from
time Immemorial In Anglo-Eaxon song and
story. She Is perhaps In a garden party
frock of gray or of old blue or hydrangea
pink, but th color In her soft cheek Is
always the regulation tint and It appears
and disappears with elusive charm.
Through aisle after aisle of roses you
pass to other alalea equally beautiful
and fragrant. Although the census of
bloom Is not published for this year, It
waa stated by on of th members that
there wer approximately 8,600 exhibits,
exclusive of decorative pieces and garden
roses. The society, established since 1376,
has held exhibitions In Crystal Palace,
St. James's hall, th Inner Temple, I.on
don, and as It Is general rather than local
exhibitions have been held In other cities
all over the United Kingdom.
The decorative roses are exhibited each
bloom in a metal cup and perhaps a dozen
to a box, and row after row of these are
shown under a nomenclature strange to the
American visitor. There Is Hebe's Lip, a
tea rose with a scarlet edge; Rosa Mundl,
a variegated sort; Lady Ursula, cream
with a pinkish heart, it Is impossible to
pass by the exhibitions from the .old rose
gardens of Surrey, of Colchester, of Cov
entry without admiring glances. Ireland
sends many varieties, the Irish Beauty,
Irish Glory, Irish Harmony, Irish Ele
gance. The prize takers in several classes
have to adhere to the rule of eighteen per
fect blooms on a bush, and a specially at
tractive one Is Lady Falre, whose dozen
and a half roses are pink with dainty
lipped petals.
You look In vain among the many shown
for the most wonderful rose In the world,
the American Beauty, but not one Is dis
covered. Finally, in a corner of one of
the distant marquees a wilted bush meets
the eye; it has onslt a dosen or more slngls
petaled roses of a crude color, but It is
labeled largely, as if to make amends by
generosity of pasteboard for floral defi
ciencies, "America."
Alma of the Growers,
One of the exhibitors pointed out that
to the present time English and German
rose growers have devoted themselves to
pure colors, while French exhibitors have
been occupied with tea and hybrid tea
blendlngs of yellow and crimson. There
is at present, however, a color revolution
going on, and with It a revolution In color
definitions, of which the language Is sadly
deficient, having, In fact, no exact words
or the new tints and shades which are con
stantly coming Into notice. The French
has a new Repertoire de Couleurs, which,
It Is expected, will be adopted as a stand
ard all over the world. These new tints
were ths center of attraction at the rose
show, the Irish apricots, the Dean Hole,
named for a former president, described
as silvery carmine; the Lyon rose shsimp
pink, with coral center shaded with chrome
yellow; the Madame Melanle Soupert, saf
fron yellow suffused with pink and car
mine; Lady Plnie. apricot at the base
flushed with rosy red and Oapuclne yel
low; the countess of Shaftesbury, a large,
hybrid tea exhibition rose, pale pink,
flushed toward the edge with brtght cherry
red.
The table decorations that fashion de
mands at present are very low and several
examples were shown In one of the tents.
A specially notable on consisted of a
series of smsll silver bowls, with a large
one in the center, filled with the carmine
roses of Madame Abel t'hatenay, cultivated
with the Idea of producing an excellent
color for artificial light. With these dell
cat fronds of ferns were artistically
mixed, and on another table nearby was
shown a decoration consisting of tint sil
ver vasas, with two tiny rose sprays of an
apricot tint and a bit of green In eaoh,
deftly traced from on to another with a
path of smllax and in the center a novel
shaped epergne, wide and low, filled with a
profusion of the same rosea and half a
dozen varieties of ferns.
Cholera Finds
American Victim
BridegToom on Honeymoon Trip to
Europe Stricken with Dis
ease and Dies.
BERLIN, July J4.-David Jayn Hill, th
American ambassador. In response to a
telegraphic inquiry regarding the death
from cholera of an American at Koenlgs
berg, Prussia, today received th following
dispatch from Alexander Eckhardt, th
American consular agent there:
"The American who died her of cholera
July 21 was Roger WlnfleJd of Fond Du
Lac, Wis. He was 25 years old. He con
tracted th disease In Russia, but died and
was burled here. His wife's condition is
good, but she must be isolated until Tues
day. Tha couple wer on a honeynufon
trip." '
Franklin's Kite
Test Proves Fatal
Captain Engelstad, Polar Explorer,
Killed by Lightning; Running
Down Kite String.
CHRISTIAN IA, Norway, July S4.-Oap-Jaln
Engelstad of the Norwegian navy
met a tragic death by lightning today. H
was taking meteorological observations
during a thunder storm and happened to
to touch the winch holding the copper wire
attached to the kite, whloh was LOW yards
high. He was struck dead.
Captain Engelstad was an officer of high
scientific attainments. He was to have
commanded the polar exploration ship
Fram on the co.nlng Amundsen polar expedition.
Angry Servant
Beheads Princess
Housekeeper Commits Horrible Crima
in Revenge for Being Discharged.
ST. PETERSBURG. July 34. News has
been received here of the murder of th
young Prlncens Alexandra Mestc.herrky at
her father's estate In Smolensk province.
The hoiihekreper. In revenue for being dis
charged, decapitated the 14-year-old girl
with an axe. The family of Meatchersky
Is one of the oldest In Russia and repre
sentatives of its various branch played
prominent roles la Eusalan history.