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V THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 15, 1918. 6 B Til III I II III M I I TTM IrlBMIII H I tM !! M II I II I I I II 1 IT I 'Conducted by -Ella Fleishman 411 rr, i " Waitresses, Actresses and Aejrobats Marry Early; X reacners nearly, ii cuar s By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Why is it that waitresses marry earlier and in greater numbers than the: women employed in any other occupation? War-time statistics, that have rent the veil of so many mysteries, have also divulged this highly interesting fact. In a recent canvass, designed to show the number of women available to release men for war, the astonish ing fact was revealed that there are practically no unmarried waitresses. Can it be that this grim statistical fact is to be linked with the ancient proverb that "the road to a man's heart is through his stomach?" I hate to insinuate that .the girls may have taken advantage of their semi-domestic relationship to lonely bachelors, in serving .meat and drink to them, to bring about this matrimo nial boom in their ranks. Insinuated Domesticity. As a matter of fact, the waitress, with her white apron, insinuating sug gestions of domesticity, has things pretty well in her own hands. And the savory dishes that she offers, hot and appetizing if she looks with favor on a patrdTi, might almost be classed un der the head of undue influence. But still consulting these dry-as dust statistics, we discover that the waitress after marriage continues to wait. Thfii argues one of two things x -that she is absolutely a modern woman "who believes in keeping her , "job" after marriage, or that her wages are necessary to keep up the family budget. In either case the figures show that wtfnjn who earn their living by serv ing tables marry early and continue in what economists call "gainful occupa tion" otherwise, hold on to their jobs. .Actresses Come Nxt. "After waitresses, the. matrimonial honors appear to go to actresses. After actresses, it would appear that acrobats, tumblers, and slack wire art ists marry earliest, and are less given to divorce than almost any other pro fession. Indeed the slack wire artist and the lady that "(tyes the flying trapeze" in the circus would appear to be an ex cellent wife and mother. She brings up her children well and wholesomely, that in time they may fly through the air and walk the slack wire. For it is a truism that acrobatic talent remains in families for genera tions. This seems to be especially true of the English and Italians who cherish the family gifts, on wire and trapeze, as jealously as if they were scepter and crown. These people who make a crony of death in the roofs of big circus tents keep their youth to a surprising age, if they manage to survive the perils of their occupation. A strange, interesting people, inhab iting a world of their own, a highly in teresting novel might be written about them by one who knows the world of rope and wire and hoops and swings. Teaching Fatal. On the other hand, the teaching profession seems to be fatal to mar riage. And the number of spinsters that it furnishes is alarming toythe keeper of vital statistics. It would seem that if a' teacher contemplates marriage at alt she must marry in the first years of her profession, as few, indeed, marry after they have taught school for a decade or so. The long hours spent in the class room and the correction of papers that eats into a teacher's scant leisure would seem to be unfavorable to mat rimony. It would be interesting to explain the reason for this state of affairs, uncovered by that curiously prying individual, the statistician, in his at tempts to show the number of women available to release men for war work. Why does the waitress always marry, and why does the teacher marry so seldom Wmini Tea Asm has k Dr. Anna Howard Shaw has put the case of the underpaid women teachers with characteristic forceful ness in a recent letter. Her plea for "a reasonable living wage" for highly trained, heavily burdened women, should have wide influence. She says: "I fully realize the great im oortance of our schools and the work of the teachers, and feel that never before in the history of our country was it more neces sary to secure the very best in structors and accord to them the highest wages possible than at this time. I sincerely hope that your request for a reasonable liv ing wage at least for that is all it is may be secured." At last we are beginning to have a late awakening in regard to school teachers. We are beginning to dis cover that they are human like the " rest of the world. And we ought not to expect a large measure of their compensation should come from the honor and glory of teaching other women's children. I don't know how it was that we first began to regard teaching as a celibate profession forewomen. But having made up our minds that our children were to be taught by spin sters, we didn't hesitate to order the lives of some millions of women on that basis. ' Married Teachers' Bill. There has been no more vigorous opponent to the Married Teachers' bill than the comfortably married wo men who felt quite capable of doing the marrying for the community. It ,may be 4hat her position was all the stronger because it was purely emotional. She hadn't a reason in the world to offer in justification of her demand that the teacher of her chil dren should refrain from matrimony. But if you pressed her hard enough she would weakly recall the fact that Miss So-andjjio. who used to teach at the academy when she was a girl, was certainly a most excellent teacher. In fact, all of her teachers had been unmarried and excellent: therefore, all good teachers should remain unmar ried for all time. But, happily, the married woman who gloried in being tethered to the hearthstone, didn't have things all her own way. The Married Woman Teachers' bilk as we all remember, went through. And with it the .reasonable provision of two years' maternity leave. Spin ster teachers with dependent relations are no longer dbliged to decline mar riage because they cannot afford it. And one more wedge for women's emancipation has been finally driven in. War Again Takes a Hand. Again, the war has made its con tribution to this situation. After the "American entrance into the war. eco nomic conditions changed so rapidly that women teachers, in very con siderable numbers, left the schools for the many forms of government work that offered better remunera tion. The Federal Superintendent of Schools Claxton was overjoyed to welcome the entrance into his list of teachers of any' eligible women he could secure married or single. So it begins to look as if we were taking teaching out of the celibate "Orders for women. t Probably there have been few among these hundreds of thousands of women who have consciously pre ferred not to marry and become mothers. And it is appalling to think of the splendid mothers that an ab surd convention has thus lost to the world. "ft. Women have" been content to re tain the maternal ' monopoly and 'ave also been strangely complacent ut the small salaries of sent to school to get them out of the way to be put in charge of a super-nurse who is supposed not only to educate the children, but to foster their separate talents and have in finitely more patience with their idiosyncrasies than the mothers them selves. It is a situation full of ironies and one that we have only begun to reme dy by starting adequate compensa tion and the tardy redress of the Mar ried Teachers' bill. Ladles First. Dear Miss Fairfax, Omaha Bee: When a young man and girl meet each other on the sidewalk, which one should speak flrst, the boy or girl? E. J. It Is the place of the lady to Indi cate by a nod that she desires to con tinue the acquaintance. In case of a friendship of long standing, the one who flrst sees the other is likely to speak flrst, and this is entirely proper. The Conservationist's 'Wail. Father Adam lucky brute Had us moderns beat a mile I Never found last summer's suit Full of moths and out of style. "Plane News." When Snow Flies W! By GERTRUDE BERESFORD. HAT your winter suit may look like is shown in this very new model At black velveteen and white coney fur. The pelts of many once festive rabbits are called on to keep the winter's blast from reaching the delicate person of "Milady." Black velvet is never so stunning as when combined with white fur. Coney has the distinctive advantage of being in expensive asf fur goes. This Russian blouse model attains unusualness in the panel vest of white coney. Three Pirot buttons of the fur run on one V L9ets do shoirv M Don't vou feel gloriously alive these bright fall days? least wee bit blue (and 1 m sure we have, If Y DEARS vou have bec'n feeling the all of us, reasons for a dark blue frame of mind these days), just clip a few of these little paragraphs I'm giving you today and go shopping. You'll at once feel the contagious joy of the shops. Don t you think, after all, that if we live patriotically that we must first bolster ourselves with a little joy? Never were the shops showing modes more quietly, lovely, without be ing extravagant, nor more practical without being monotonous. Let me help you plan your wardrobe for the season wise buying will save much money for patriotic spending. ies ol jscrnen side and answer tne tnree oouna Dul ler Thev have seirs; 'vonholes on the otner. vvnite aroaa- -eachers ought toC vlfoth 18 used tor pinR ese.D.ul- h of their t: , V ' ' v flTile- A "choker" collar, of fur &f conta ..'o';'plkiffs complete the suit. The brt : f fLlTam" hat is centered by an- r,,S!i n '-A'JIT ft 1U ''fo-pon. The "barrel" muff fcr-ft K v Jcm n;:;Vt trap and ends of iiiMaiflf.V.,.:..y.il .ir.euse satin U ..." .' 1 '. AN environment of artistic loveli ness has been created in the handsomely appointed new home of the Brandeis Stores Ready-To-Wear Apparel department, appropriate in deed as a background for the opening fashion display beginning Monday morning, September 16. Here you will see gowns, wraps, taileur suits embpdying the national thought and desire for repression of elaborate ness. Beautifully tailored lines and most exclusive materials have dis placed the varied trimmings and ornaments of garments shown in this store in former years. You'll love the models they are showing for it seems to me that in them I see character, in dividuality and an adaptation to the many needs' we find for our clothes during these troublous war times. And with all the modernizing changes in the department, the management has most graciously made an entrance di rectly on Seventeenth street. You'll find the French room fitted in ivory with cunningly carved flowers and cane insets at the left of the door as you enter. Omaha certainly has rea son to feel proud of this departure in decorative art, as well as pride in the possession of the distinctive styles to be seen in this showing of autumn modes. HOME-keeping lights are happiest! A trifle transposed, but true, nevertheless. You will say the same when you see the delightful new piano and table lamps, also the electric candlesticks just received at the shop of A. Hospe company, 1513 Douglas street. I've chosen one of the very prettiest of the rarely-fashioned shades and lamps to be set aside for holiday delivery. A clever sugges tion, N'est ce pas? IF the stuff dreams are made! mplicity is the keynote of the mode this season, yet a hat I found in the millinery department of the Nebraska Clothing store, Fifteenth and Far nam street, the other day, had gay touches galore. Perhaps it was my mood, but this droop-brimmed model in rose velvet, with a trim of misty silver and French blue, seemed to in vite me to follow pleasant paths of primrose pleasures. Surely nothing but happy hours will be spent in the company of a hat like thisl And an other! A chic bandeau shape of black panne velvet. So offi the face, so new, so becoming to one's youthful ness with its arresting spray of Paradise. Or, a modified taupe sailor, tippy tilted with becoming softening of line on each side by means of glycerined ostrich, and topped with velvet ribbon fold of rose and silver. Everyone will love the demure or capricious models in close-fitting hats, with softening drape of fasion's fa voritethe veils of the season. ' There are skirts that flare and skirts that fit, As round the town Milady flits. WOMEN of culture and refine ment will appreciate the sooth ing qualities of Balmygiene which my good friend Mrs. Humphrey, at the Franco-American Hygienic shop, pre scribed for skin troubles so prevalent during these first cool days and throughout the winter. This little lady is a veritable mine of informa tion. When I showed hef ray hands all rough and red (I must admit I am ashamed to tell it), she at once took out a bottle of Balmygiene of a gen erous size for SOc and poured a drop on my hand. I found that it was suf ficient to soften both hands as it is so constituted that it spreads and dries instantly leaving no 'trace of moisture. Nothing could be more pleasant for use after shaving. Let me suggest that you visit this Franco American shop, 772 Brandeis building, and start the winter by taking the proper care of your skin. The inextinguishable art of war torn France evolves new jet jewelry. The rich, black tone, with its splendid lustrous surface, seems emblematic of the times TO DEFINE the Fall Silhouette nothing holds quite the impor tance of a properly fitted corset. Many of the abnormalities which de stroy the natural beauty of women's forms are due to incorrect corsets and the importance of the application. These abnormalities will never be corrected until the correct corset model is fitted, which can only be done by one who has made a thor ough study of Corrective Corsets and also women's figures. Never before have I realized what a truly scientific fitting really means, especially if giv en by one who has devoted years of careful study to problems presented by individual peculiarities of the fig ure. At the exclusive shop of Mrs. D. A. Hill, 205 Neville Building, 16th and Harney Streets, second floor, you will find, as I have, the services which appeal to those of discriminat ing taste. A leisure loveliness of silk just another way of describing a gorgeous kimono in royal blue. rpHE "Boys Over There" will take keen pleasure in any one of these articles made specially for them and sold with kindly interest at The Omaha Stationery Co., 307 So. 17th St. Read these carefully and let me send them to you at once: An ooze leather covered New Testament, large print, $1.40; same in khaki cloth cover at $1.00 with name card; three songs, "Star Spangled Banner," "Battle Hymn of the Republic," and "Prayer for a Soldier," with refer ences of messages of comfort for a lonely heart. A leather money belt at $2.40, with three compartments for valuables. A note book pad (shirt pocket size) with pencil and envel opes, 50c. A service record for the, home folks to keep clippings, let ters, pictures, etc. This little shop is planning to keep a complete line for us to send from "here" to "there." JUST as necessary to the fall and winter wardrobe as the blue serge, whose charm no one will gain say, is the added zest to be obtained by wearing a string of carved ivory beads, which I saw in the Eldridge Importing Shop, 1318 Farnam St. They are also showing a complete line of artistic beads of alluring ar ray, ranging in price from $1.50 to $5. Combining hatters' pulsh with bea ver or velvet, one in black and the other in a color, is one of the ways the designers have of making simply trimmed hats among the most charm ing and interesting creations shown in many a season. THE F. W. Thome Shop is inaug urating a gather unique feature this year. It is a department of coats, classified according to appropriate need, into three distinct classes. One, the very exclusive fur and velvet coats. Among these, is a royal blue velvet wrap with much real beaver fur. For more general wear are coats in soft veloor, duvetyn. All the soft and becoming materials of the season, have been modeled in coats of sur prisingly individual styles. Fur of all kind's is used conspicuously and gen erously on these models. Following the good Engilsh custom of utility as first requisite in outdoor garments are the substantial coats of the third class. The reasonable prices on these makes it possible for everyone to have one of these useful coats in addition to other and more dressy coats. There are several in this class for $19.75. . WHERE there is embroidery or trimming it should have the much of art that distinguishes the -cry good. Nothing gives quite the air -.f distinction to gilet, vest or bodce of a gown as artistically applied braid :ng. It is my great pleasure to visit very often the workrooms of the Ne Vaska Pleating and" Button company. 406 Paxton Block. I'll be delighted to take your materials up there for the attractive touches they alone can be- ;tow- "Dollars to doughnuts," indeed! Every one of Omaha's society Women were downtown this week, selling doughnuts for dollars to give to the Salvation Army that they may make doughnuts for the boys in France. In all the ages Fashion's whims Both droll and serious, Never followed ways more devious. At first thought patriotic ladies, Piquant, charming, Found wool conservation most alarming! ) A RESTFUL haven of soft gray and dainty' color invites you to settle comfortably in one of the many wicker arm chairs and shop unhur riedly inthe Lamond Shop for Smart Women on the second floor of the Rose building. Here you will find "the suit that was made for you" if you are a "Stylish Stout." Perhaps you have used otner words in de scribing yourself. You need not if you get any one of the three suits I saw having all the cleverest new fea tures developed of quality for the Lamond Shop by a company who de sign and tailor exclusively for large women. The straight contours will delight your soul and the sizes range from AP, to 48tf . The three suits I liked particularly were: A beaver brown with beaver fur collar and straight flat silk thread embroidered design; a gray in strictly tailored line; a taupe with large Yukon seal collar. These three smart tailleurs, although wonderfully made, have di versified the flat, -long lines with magic touches that change the suit into wondrously soft and feminine creations! Imagine a softly gracious blue coat with high, soft collar of gray squir rel and big warm pockets, patched on the outside also of gray squirrel. D''fferent! . DESIGNED to be worn with ap propriateness on many different occasion are the ultra-modish autumn dress boots I saw in Napier's Boot erie this week. Their cnarm as the smartest high-cut boot I've yet seen is due to the fact that they're made on a perfect-fitting new last. They're fascinating, too, in- the new shades of dark gray and brown. The dark brown kid at $10 should be ordered as T-3108. the dark gray kid at same price is G-3108. I'll be glad to get these for you or vou can order direct from Napier's Booterie, Securities Bldg., 16th and Farnam streets. Dorothy, Grace, Marie and Molly, . LET'S ASK POLLY To help our wardrobes grow With furs and hats, . Coats, gowns and suits, Gloves, blouses, hose. (And dainty undie frills) With dainty shoes all in a row. FABRICS d'Automne are being combined by the skillful fingers of Kneeter the Tailor into garments of a charm extraordinary. The mod els I saw in his shop were character ized by the enviable simplicity of really high-class designing. You'll find this shop on the second floor, 506 South 16th Street. Milady of fashion wears a veil with perfect assurance that it is the thing to do and possibly she is not unmind ful of the bewitching charm it gives the face. AND now! To those who delight in a breath from the Orient. I've discovered delightful pieces of Tokonabe pottery at the Eldridge Importing Company. You'll enjoy the collection of flower holders, can dlesticks, trays and incense burners at only 25c each. A true discovery, you'll agree, and just the thing for original gifts and unique favors. "D ATRIOTIC women throughout the world are doing "their bit in this great world war by conserving and preserving their clothes, particu larly the ones of wool. On a visit to the Pantorium, 1515 Jones street, I saw suitsand coats being cleaned and dyed and presto I as good as new they'll serve another season, the faded garments are dyed a serviceable shade. One suit which had been a mus tard color is now a rich Burgundy shade with new lining in the same color. If the edges are frayed, but tons missing, coats to be relined. or belts to be mended, there are skilled tailors and seamstresses in this inter esting shop who will give touches which make you glad to wear the clean garment that fairly sparkles with patriotism. Remember, I'm always happy to help you out with ideas and to do your shopping for you. The Bee maintains this service for its readers, and it is absolutely with out charge. Be sure to give as many details as possible when writing and please do not forget to enclose a 3-cent stamp, for every letter requires a reply. If you -should have occasion to return purchase kindly send same directly back to store from which it was made not to me. Purchases will be sent C. O. D. unless accompanied by money or der or bank draft. , Address POLLY THE SHOPPER. Omaha Bee, Omaha, Neb. Now at social functions Arid weddings militaire We see few "wools" but silks in goodly share. The million shades and fabrics With ultra dash to smart, Styled In terms most Hqueerllke," art in a class apart We've helmet gray and can non gray, Khaki, taupe and rein deer hue, With Kongo and Algiers . from the Geography, The fabrics tooof a grace and chic, And charm to naivette, Are peu de peche, evora, duvet and tricolette. T AINTY baby dresses, magfett in their sheer lovelineess, I've found in the Tiny Tots' department of Thompson, Belden & Company's, 16th and Howard. Each tiny tuck and frill has been fashioned with infinitely loving care for no one but a lover of wee ones would have the patience required in the making of these tiny garments. There are hand-made baby dresses in quaint, long-skirted effects for the tiniest tiny tot, short skirted dresses for the six months old and quite grown up affairs for little people of cne and two years. Little brother, Vho loves to "look like daddy," will revel in a cozy bath robe of manly colors. Sweet baby sister will be a rosy cherub in the soft-toned blue and pink eiderdown robes. We all want to be remembefcd. I do; don't you? In a gift envelope, cunningly framed in hand-tinted fold er, I found a bag of tea and these words. "Just enough for a cup of tea. Perhaps when you are sipping it you'll think of me." "D EFRESHING in their simplicity of line, exquisite in fabric and color, are the autumn blouses iri the cases of the Lamond Shop, Second Floor Securities Bldg., 16th and Far nam. All the fascinating new touches ate found in these bits of feminine annarel. There's a blouse of French blue, with a round neck outlined in jet beads, and sleeves of a soft full ness. Andl a grayish taupe (also round-necked) opening coyly on the shoulder, and as a trimming of luxur iant daintiness, parts of roses em broidered in design to form yoke. Of course, the added touch, which we have learned to use, is supplied by the judicious use of tiny jet beads sprinkled here and there through the embroidered petals. A variety of styles that runs the gamut of desires, mcs amies! ALL LOVERS of beautiful and rare blossoms should visit the John Bath Flower Shop, 18th and Farnam, to see the wonderful new rose on display. It has the gracious outlines of the Ophelia rose and is of a rich redness in color. Ask to see the Mrs. Hewitt rose, which is only one of the many pleasurable things to be seen in this interesting shop. A DELIGHTFUL new experience awaits you if you have not visited the new home of the Milton Darling Gift Shop in their new location at 18th and Farnam. In reality this is an old location, just like getting home for this charming shop was formerly lo cated on the opposite side of the street five years ago. In this shop, for many years called The Wedding Gift Shop, you will find in keeping with that name, an arresting display of gifts with supreme artistic beauty as the dominant feature. I must tell you of their truly wonderful display of the English china we've all been trying so hard to get. Truly I feel that I've found a gold mine I for the colors and designs are so varied. You'll find ar tistic service in picture framing, and if you love pictures, and who does not, you'll enjoy thej large and splen didly lighted showroom which invites and encourages art study. rn HERE'S a piquancy about the ex elusive originality of the models shown in the Hat Department of the Orkin Brothers Store, 16th and Har ney streets, that makes a fascinating story of millinery to tell! Luxurious or simple, each one is a work of char acter. There is one I simply couldn't leave. Haven't you seen hats that were so appealing you returned to them again and again? Although so smart, this little hat is a combina tion of tailored lines and frivolous, for the brim is a straightway round drooping affair of dark brown about four inches wide. The crown in light tan velvet is careful m the careless ness of its soft folds. Most appealing of all. is a wreath of tiny French flow ers in shades of, mahogany, blue and green with bronzed silver wheat heads. Attractive mon enfant! The acme of smartness and beauty, I as sure you. If you'll say the word, I will send you something very attractive. Sweet heart stationery for yonr letters "Over There." n OAT-FROCKS are certainly here to stay. This is one I saw at F. W. Thome's Shop the other day. A stunning combination. A frolicsome bolero of navy chiffon serge over a bodice of tricolette sleeves of same, shaped to make one's arms look graceful to a satisfying degree. It has a skirt of the new open pleats, an astonishing version of the wellknown accordion pleating. As a crowning touch of charming novelty, hanging from the shoulders in the back, with belt passing through slashes at waist line as the sole restraining influence to this frivolous fancy of femininity, the popular and effective panel A CALL to those who would know of the newl To you Madame, and you Mademoiselle! Two suits at Herzberg's Women's Toggery, 1517 Douglas Street. When I asked Mr. Herzberg to show me the very new est things he had in the shop, behold! Tailored with that sure touch in the fashioning of details, that gives them uncommon smartness, and in shade and fabrics oh, very new. The first, Kongo shade, (a rich dark gold) is developed in velour cloth. The fullness of the coat is gathered into a four inch, shaped belt coming in one piece from the back. It opens i trifle to the side in front with single art button. Hudson seal completes this winsome suit by furnishing large collar and cuffs. The other suit, also one of Fashion's newest colon, Algiers, a dark wine shade with suggestion of brown. This, too, is velour. The plain er lines of this suit depend entire! upon cross tucking for trimming. This new trim is found in very exclusive garments and is composed of tucks forming sauares. In this case they are about four inches square. The ef fect is at once attractive and modish to a degree. You will be delighted with both these suits I'm sure, for they are clever reflections of Parisian smartness in designing and workmanship. Hp O give the finishing touch to the. tout ensemble nothing has quite the importance of carefully chosen and well fitted gloves. The Thomp son Belden Store, at 15th and How ard streets, has a very complete line of gloves from the French House of Trefousse. They combine qualities of beauty with those of service. There are cape skin and leather in tan gray and khaki, washable my dears. A gauntlet for driving had such an of efficiency that I'm sure it will give the driver confidence in her ability. These are both lined aqd unlined. A clever glove of wool for servioe has a wrist clasp to keep out the cold. Those for dress this famous company have designed a glove of glace kid- they're truly delightful too, in a wide range of shades. I Aw brown, white, gray, taupe and navy. The tiny fol lowers of fashion are not slighted, for this very complete department is showing almost the same gloves for the tiny miss that mother wears to the grown up affairs. If you choose, you may find here, "the ever popular charaoisette and double silk gloves "XTORD comes from the easteri marts that skirts will be wora no more than four inches from th ground this winter. Indeed they go so far as to say that one can tell tha size of the city by the length of the skirtsworn. Omaha, attention I U1 OR a few minutes' pleasure in t , busy day, I love to drop into the Nippon Shop, on 18th street, just a few doort north of Farnam. Mr. Taso is sure to have some surprise. This week it is a "chocolate tea and coffee sets in dainty Nippon china, just ar rived from Japan. The dainty graceful birds in soft creamy white are painted on a background of delicate 'blue and white cloud and mountains as only the Japanese artist can paint them. V ARNS we hive always with us, that is if we keep them in one of he clever paper bags we mentioned in this column last week. Teacher dear would love one for her papers 'xamin ation time she also might use it as suggestion for Christmas "busies. Q CORES of suits for women of petite and dainty lines are to be found at the F. W. Thorne Shop, 1812 Farnam street. Right out of its tis sue wrappings is this little reindeer brown suit! Foregoing all trimming, it is charming in its beautiful simplici ty of line, and clusters of small cloth covered buttons. Pockets to be sure, but they're hidden under a side line of buttons hanging straight under each arm. The skirt has several dif ferent touches to delight the heart feminine, while the price, $47.50 will captivate the masculine side of the family. They have the same suit in navy. ' Ad 4 i " I I :