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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1919)
I HE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 6, 1919. Whit m a whit itll m dusky WW half lit horisoa'a clouded and half frs Fluttering batwaaa tb dua win and tha sky la bop' lut fleam In man 'a extremity. Byron. I hat ingratitude mar in a maa Than lying, vatnnaaa, babbling, dninkann. Or any tent l vlea, whoa ttrong corruption Inhabit aur frail blood.-Shalispar. ... V, INETEEN-NINETEeV at one hold stroke, casts utterly aside those utilarian modes that have held sway during the past wartime seasons, and has brought forth to take their place other modes that express vividly the buoyant spirit that has succeeded the stern repression of the days now happily past. The fashion experts have entered with zest into the designing of the new modes, and their work reveals the springtime fashions in all their rare charm of supremely rich, riotously tinted fabrics, frills, frills, and frills of lace, miles of it, fluff ing to and feathers, laces and ribbons, folderols without limit, fascinat a degree. Perfect Cleanliness is Next Kin to Loveliness. T ET Mrs. Margaret Gunston, - Delft Hair Parlors, second floor Baird Bldg., 17th and Douglas, help you improve your' appearance. A '"beautifier" to bewitch is the Delft-Gunston rose-tinted Cleansing Creame, 75c, to be used during the day as a cleanser and powder foun dation. To be very smart wear a veil of chic and originality, one of the new "ribboned" affairs. All the chic and originality char acteristic of French creations is evi denced in a small chapeau of rose and violet. Overlapping circles of violet straw are ornamented with pastiles of rose velvet. Queerly charming stripped feathers hang to, the shoulder on the left side. Picturesque Blouses. IF you're brown-eyed you'd be most lovely in the vividly shaded new green peplum blouse just arrived at I.anionds. It's embroidered delightfully in navy chenille, and each point of the pep lum is weighted by a chenille tassel. Fresh as spring flowers are the dainty bits of new neckwear to freshen the old suit, or to enhance the beauty of the new! With the First Whispers of Spring "ARM" yourself with vour trusty Kodak, and companion like, let it share in the views along your "hike." A little "Friend O' Mine has a perfectly wonderful "kodakety" which is a record of each year's "doings" by pictures. These little books are all numbered as to years, in white ink, with here and there a tiny bit of verse, or nickname, at all times the "time,- place and girl." The Kase Studio, 215 Neville Building, the specialty shop Df de lightful developing, printing and en larging, are starting a number of these pleasurable "libraries." Many of the box suits show big rounded scallops around edge of coat. The Voice of Spring. WHACK! Whack! Whack! In countless back yards, upon numberless roofs, thousands and thousands of rags, runners and car pets are being severely chastised this spring. From forte to pian issimo the flail plays upon carpet and rug, raising a cloud of dust and dirt. But this is, after all, a most primitive way' to clean rugs not at all satisfactory. The Pantorium, 1515 Jones street, is doing rug work this spring which is arousing everyone's enthusiasm, it is so distinctly "different," and not so very expensive either when you consider the improvement in looks, wearing quality and sanitary condi tions of your rugs. In this process they're dusted, sterilized, smoothed and resized. For this work is charged the sum of 4c a square foot, which makes a 9x12 cost $4.32. If no resizing is required, the price is 3c a square foot. They would much prefer to have you leave the resizing to their judgment, and I assure you they'll not put you to the expense unless it is necessary. Phone Douglas 963; they'll call for your old rugs, and return them just as clean, bright, smooth and sani tary as when new, and "If they are not pleased with the work, they can have them for nothing," said Mr. Liggett, so sure is he that you'll find the work wholly delightful. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday TT'HERE is to be a continu ance of the Hospe Music and Art Store's Dollar Sales. Here you'll find exceptional bargains in origi nal water colors, Goupiele facsimi les, color prints, charming lamps and mirrors, exquisite bits of ar tistry for' your home. They will be shown in the center window on Douglas street. Watch for your heart's desire in bric-a-brac! Slip-on gloves, Of roguish rumple, Fold and Fold, Yet never crumple. .i Parisienne Remembers Always THAT two indispensable points of elegance in dress are to be found in becoming neckwear, immaculate ly appropriate gloves. Gleeful vests and waistcoats, quafutly adorable , and different in materials and fashionings are those being shown at Brandeis. High necked, round, square, some with the accompaniment of a "back col lar." They are at all times, ma c'nerie, of a great becomingness! Gold, silver, sapphire blue, pumpkin gold, bronze, henna and pastel col ors, in Fan-ta-silk, Baronet satin, metallic cloth, even leather, they're exceeding smart. White lace, net and organdie com binations are most refreshing in their crisp beauty. For those who find fluffiness indispensable are the new marabou pieces, many with body of shirred georgette, some os trich bordered in black, pearl gray and taupe. You'll be delighted with their of fering of new Mocha gloves, in golden coffee shade and pearl gray, with heavy crocheted stitching-., and one pearl clasp. The dainty kid gloves just received are white and champagne with two pearl bead clasps. Effective finishings for the Easter costume. Have you seen the new Pluni bridge baskets of jams, jellies and candies. Packed in dainty glass jars, (each labeled), they're just the most deliciously attractive gifts imaginable. The little gilt baskets in which they come make lasting ornaments for the house, while an exquisitely tied mass of ribbon adds artistry to the whole. Nothing could be nicer for an Easter offering of love 1 To Start the Day's Campaign. IF YOU want a breakfast which will start the whole day "right," one which combines every delecta ble dish of the culinary art, crinkly golden bacon strips, delicious hot breads, perfect coffee, exotic fruits, you'll delight in the Club Break fasts served by the Flatiron Cafe, Seventeenth and St. Mary's avenue. Growing Girls' Corsets SHOULD give pliant support They should be little more than a girdle, little more than delicate support for the figure in the years when it is gaining its lines of grace. Mrs. D. A. Hill, corset specialist, 205 Neville Block, has had many years of successful scientific fitting, and will fit "sweet sixteen" in a most fascinating way. Send for a measurement blank and catalog which enable Mrs. Hill to give her much-talked-of "long distance" fit tings. MAINTAINED for the mv - venience of out-of-town readers is The Bee's shopping service. Merchandise ordered by mail or phone will be se lected with fine 'discrimination by experienced shoppers and sent out either C. O. D. or as a cash purchase. If cash, send money order or check payable to POLLY, THE SHOPPER, Omaha Bee. Iiotdrd) dloppin itli R)y Pari maids of piquant charm, native grace, Gladly set Dame Fashion's merry, merry pace. Nanette, recalling gold-laced admirals, dashing, daring, Fashions chapeaux of utmost chic, flaunting, flaring. Georgette, fairy fingered, quite inspired, Builds gowns, subtly tinted, metal glinted, Florette, rougish, voguish, chic coquette, Almost "vampish" wears wisp of tulle, twist of jet! I'm Sure You've Noticed THE newest style note first featured in moving pictures this season the coat dress. One just received by the Lamond Style Shop, second floor, Securities Bldg., 16th and Farnam, is fashioned of a taupe brown charmeuse. Quite witching is -the loose box back of the coat blouse, while a belt of char meuse crosses over a vestee of nov elty tricollette in the front. The little jacquette is cunningly cluster ' tucked round the edge, in five big tucks. Odd trimming is afforded by groups of overlapping pastiles of black. One really ought not to look at the new hats before de jeuner, for, mes amies, they're most appetizing! Grapes, raisins, carrots, radishes, onions, plums and even tiny lemons and orangesl A Gift For Mother. ARTISTIC in conception, beau tiful in design, a lasting sou venir of the world war is an ex quisite little locket of Homeric green finished gold being shown by Mr. Edholm of the Edholm Jewel Shop, 16th end Harney. Oddly shaped, quaintly engraved very dainty; only three-eighths of an inch wide, three-fourths of an inch long, with a jeweled service flag in relief, it is a jewel which carry in stant appeal to the mother heart. Calibre rubies form the border; the white field, set in platinum, is paved with beautifully cut diamonds, while the service star, most significant of all, is a star-cut sapphire in tiny line of platinum. Specially cut, with as great care as if it were itself a stone, is the glass covering the picture of sailor or sol dier son. A jewel delight to be worn over the heart suspended by a ribbon, or as a pendant from a fragile chain. An unusually fitting expression of love, a wondrously perfect gift. Sometimes I THINK that it is merely houghtlessness that lets men go about with such ' tobacco-y" gar ments. At any rate it's a habit that causes some people actual discom fort, for even to those who like the smell of tobacco, too much of it is most repugnant. If these men had the "Dresher habit" they'd send their suits for thorough cleaning every little while. Phone Dresher Bros., Twenty-second and Farnam, Tyler 345; their prompt and efficient service is most gratifying. For a Moment YE'RE inclined to set our heart's ' preference upon an exquisite georgette dress upon viewing the creations presented in Herzberg's Women's Toggery, 1517 Douglas. Then we spy a stunning model in sparkling taffeta with tucks, pleats and glint of color. Just the thing for practictal wear we think. We're real ly so undecided that we take them both we'd like to take them all, they're so attractive! Have you seen these new frocks? Individual Flower Arrangement AMONG hundreds of flower piec es it is easy to recognize the artistically skillful arrangement of the John Bath Flower Shop. When you give them an order you may be satisfied that the work will be all one could desire. Tell them what occasion the flowers are for; they will take care of the order in a way that will make you proud of your floral offering. The other morning while in the shop, one of these flower artists was putting the finishing touches to a large spray of white roses. Imagine the entire loveliness expressed by daintily wired pansies with delicate ly tinted sweetpeas, orchid-hued, scattered in unexpected places. The finish, a large fluff of orchid chiffon. Mignonette, roses, fragrance faint, Form miladi's boutonnierre so quaint. If You Want Quiet Rest, PONSERVATIVE, conscientious service while in the city, you'll be delighted by the entertainment offered at the Hotel Loyal, Sixteenth and Capitol avenue. Your every wish is anticipated, in such a way that you'll never forget the service having once experienced it. While there, don't hestitate to make your wishes known serving you satisfac torily is their keenest pleasure. If you wish to entertain a business friend for luncheon or dinner, you'll find a quiet corner here, with de licious food served in an impressive, unobtrusive manner. Quiet music adds to the hour's entertainment A Delight for the Housewife. TODAY in my journeying through Orchard & Wilhelm's delight fully appointed store, I learned that perfect refrigeration is not a question of merely keeping food cold, but that a most essential thing is the dryness and circulation of air, so that one food will not flavor another. What woman has not been bothered by just the faintest sug gestion of Saturday's onions in Monday's butter? And have you ever felt that the refrigerator was a safe place for pastries? The Her rick Refrigerator has a distinctly "different" refrigeration process and should be remembered when buying this most necessary household item. You'll find they will be very happy to demonstrate the splendid quali-, ties of this refrigerator for you. 1 It's an Era of Happiness. A TD in the limelight of our happiness are the new suit delights! The Lamond Shop for Women, second floor, Securities Bldg., are showing new suits of long slender lines, box coats, and smart blouse coat effects, which give the new suits elegance accentuated by many novel touches in the new "collar-with-the-coat" effect, bright silver buttons, slashed skirts, and ultra braidings. High shirred collars, Pierot, you know, Make Elizabethan ruffs. Stay "put" just so. Tea Jacquettes. ALLURINGLY lovely; the new crepe de chine tea jac quettes at Orkin Brothers, 16th and Harney. In pastel shades, orchid, blue and flesh. They're delightful settings for frothy frills of silky lace. These bits of desirable dain tiness are but $4.95. Graceful Greek Figurines Come to Life in Modish Modern Costume Designs Parisian Natalie, with "gleefuV eagerness Displays "strawfuV beach set of quaint becoming' ness. Marguerite, charmant, sweet, for wear in car or bout the street, Dons hat of tiny brim, pongee trimmed. Military lines, queer, severe, bear haloes sheer, Fuzzy, woolly, 'broidered threads, unusual note to dainty heads, Modern fabrics, gleam and shimmer, softly glitter, We thank thee, Maids of France! Porch Frocks of Dainty Charm. WHY not buy your porch frocks now and have the pleasure of wearing their fresh brightness round the house several months, before they do duty as porch decorations? Thompson-Bel-den's are showing a delicately love ly model in pink, blue and green hand-embroidered in tiny French rosebuds, on collar tabs, vestees, cuffs, pocket drapes and sash ends. The blouse is unusually attractive with becoming fullness above a fit ted girdle fastening with big cream buttons. Others in finest ginghams show hair-line stripes and blocks, new this season. One model bound to be most popular has shaped piece in the bodice front which crosses over the belt with a single large button. This style, white collared and cuffed, comes in rose, black and blue. A blue and brown check has dainty sash collar ending in a tie with soft ends. The girdle is trigly pleated with a button on each pleat. As a tailored finish down each side of the waist is a three-fourths inch strip of white pique. Any of these are so well made that one would feel quite at ease if caught by an unexpected guest, safe in the knowl edge that the visitor would at once exclaim, "I want one, too." Of flowers a share, A brim quite flared, Bibbons blue, Quills twisted thru! Tres chic, mes amies. Caps of Personality ARE THOSE of distinctive new shapes and colors now being offered for the new season's wear in the J. T. McQuillin Shop for Men, 1512 Farnam street. Homespun weaves in black and white, heather mixtures (blue, green and brown), light tans and grays, others with a suggestion of blue, green, brown or blue. They range in price from $2.50 to $4.50, and are made up in individual styles such as are worn by the eastern man of means. They're really quite a departure in smart styles for men. , Wrap for Woman of Large Lines. FULFILLING the ever-present need of the large woman to be fitted in the season's mode is a wrap just arrived at the Lamond Shop, second floor, Securities .building Navy blue serge of exquisite qual ity, it hangs in long straight lines, button weighted from a pointed shoulder yoke. The fullness is all pressed into inverted pleats. The collar, high in the back, is fash ioned of gray tricollette attractively shaped. Big cuffs with long points further add to the excellent lines. For the Sun Room. ONE of the most delightful rooms in the house to redecorate is the sun room. No other room pre sents quite such possibilities for happiness. Gay creations of varied colors, wicker furniture (which may be tinted), oddly shaped bird cages of quaint charm, and now tea sets covered with cherry blossoms on a background of vivid rose, blue, green or yellow. Each color has a contrasting handle painting. The set, teapot, creamer and sug ar, has six tea cups and saucers, and is $7.50. They've just arrived at the Eldridge Importing Com pany, Fourteenth and Farnam. ONE of the examples of novel creative work done by girl students of Cooper Union and the New York Evening School in Industrial Art, who under the guidance of Miss Ethel Traphagan, have taken their inspiration from Tanagra statuettes and classic vases in the museum collec tions. Evening gown of black velvet lined with soft variegated silk over yellow georgette embroid ered and beaded in blue and green, designed by Mathilde Walle. If You Love Tea, you will be interested in the new Aizu ware teapots in two sizes, 60c and 65c which Mr. Taso, of the Nippon Importing Co., 218 S. 18th street, is showing. Light tan, rotfgh finished with enameled dashes to form flower designs, they've most pleasing blue borders round the top, and with wicker handles. Even Prettier than the finished garments of rich sumptuousness one can see in the imagination, are the furs, in stacks of pelts, displayed amid the shim mering masses of exotically tinted silks in the windows of the Aula baugh Fur Shop, 19th- and Farnam thisweek. Such exquisite sugges tions of the finished artistry. Dark squirrel on a merging of brown, rose, orchid and gold. Kolinsky pelts in lovely combi nation with a rose, gold and brilliant turquoise blue in lacing of old tra cery. Light gray squirrel, a dream of beauty, in a bed of sapphire blue with suggestions of purple, old blue and gold. ... Dainty white ermine in folds of royal blue, of striking de signs in stained glass colors. Fitch furs and soft moleskins are most exquisitely effective in contrast to a dark blue silk showing cubist out lines in pastel tints. When fash ioned into fancy furs of fascinating ilufhness, the bright linings will, of course, be veiled in georgette shir rings. "Frenchy" Blouses. BLOUSES more feminine and lovely than ever have just arrived at Orkin Bros., 16th and Harney. Figured georgette, fash ion's favorite fancy, combines all the new colors in models at $10 and $10.50. One shows a dainty yoke, frill-edged, another has a cowl collar-roll, threaded in contrasting rib bons. "Baby Vamp" points front and back, are weighted by georgette covered buttons. Daintily desirable is a third, whose elongated neck and cuffs are threaded in brightly tinted ribbons. Bewitchingly beautiful blouses! Hats Reblockeed THE Kruger Hat Shop, 429 Paxton block, reblocks both men's and women's hats, cleans and dyes, repairs and refashions feath ers of all kinds and renovates and refreshes marabou pieces. .Little bunnies carry joy To little people, too, This one's very, very glad to take A lot to you. Foolish, funny well, perhaps, but infinitely heart-warming, this bit of verse found on one of the hand tinted Easter cards in a local gift shop. Lovely remembrances, they're 5 to 30 cents. Frocks Distracting in Their Diversified Trimmings. NEVER were frock decora tions more distractingly love ly in their dainty diversity. "For every frock, a different suggestion, something novel for each one," said Mr. Ver Mehren of the Ideal But ton & Pleating Co., 305 Brown Blk., 16th and Douglas, the other morn ing, as we walked down the aisles of the work rooms. Such a beehive of artistic, enthusiastic workers, all busy with the 'broidering, braiding, pleating, hemstitching of a thousand frocks and suits. One room is given over completely to the button ma chines, that's why you never have to wait for buttons in this promptly efficient shop. Have you one of their new catalogs? Singing birds at Thome's lend sweet "tone" to the surroundings. In their joyous songs of springtime gladness one refrain seems to ring: "As the cost of things nice Soar and soar One like's Thome's cash price More and more. Decorative Problems 1 UST needs be solved by a dec orative expert. I've been tak ing all my color problems in papers, prints, even drapes, to the Sam Newman Paper Shop, 18th and Farnam. You'll find this a shop just overflowing with artistjc interior and exterior color plans, many of them hand-tinted. You'll want to have your whole house radiate a sparkling welcome to the lad who has been spending such weary months in the service, and in this shop you'll find just the things you want It Is the Character of the Cadillac Car WHICH sheds luster on the Cadillac name, not the name which confers luster on the car, (another of the famous maxims). Yet Cadillac is a namt famed among French aristocracy and the shield borne by every Cadillac car is significant of the heroic origin of the Cadillac arms, and is the form in which the Cadillac family's coat of arms was first displayed by some ancient Holy Crusader. In all France there ars few families more ancient than the Cadillacs. In both dignity of de sign and significance of detail, the Cadillac coat of arms speaks vol umes in courage and honor for the forebears of the Father of Detroit. Worthy, indeed, is tht royal family of cars assembled under this name in the showrooms of ths Jones-Hansen company, Twenty sixth And Farnam. Truly beautiful in 'line, wonderfully planned to the smallest detail, frosted silver fit tings, rich velvet and soft leather upholstering, clever weather adap tations, they've a standardization of performance which makes one at once appreciate and approve this aristocrat among cars. I'll be glad to send booklets show ing excellent pictures of the differ ent cars now on exhibit In shine or rain, without stain, The brightly tinted parasol Will serve both short and tall. The Importance of Being Chic TS nowhere more evident than In a smart woman's footwear. She recognizes that dress distinction means shoe distinction, too, and that she must display perfection in details if she is to be truly well dressed. Shoes seen in F. & M. Boot Shop, Sixteenth and Farnam, distinguish the vivid personalities from the drab quiet, distinctive, in dividual they appeal to every wom an whose aim is to achieve perfect harmony in dress. New arrivals this week are dark brown and dull kid, two tie colonial pumps. Smart? Indeed they are, madamoiselle! Also new this week ae wonderfully dainty kid pumps with a cut steel bead buckle shaped in with the body of the pump. Pine cone needles, j' Coax and wheedles. Fairy grace, On sheerest lace. High Among Artistic Home Furnishings jS THE place occupied by wicker art furniture. New designs in pieces of unusual beauty and finish are offered by the Omaha Reed & Ri ttan Company, 640 S. 16th St., in their large show room. Dreams of loveliness are their daintily finished odd pieces, tea carts, day beds, breakfast sets, bird cages and stand ards, lamps, lounging chairs and baskets of enticing beauty. Fair as cherry trees in bloom, Gentle as the mellow moon, Charms of Nippon in its essence, Wistaria Talcum, its twenty cents Courtesy, Convenience, Conscience. - THAT a foundation for the serv ' ice, which the Jacob-Lee Drug Store, Fifteenth and Douglas, represents. You will find instant helpfulness in this shop, whether it is a prescription to be filled, a favor to be done (don't hesitate to ask) or a purchase to be made. Each week finds something special being featured. This week it is Armand's Powder, that lovely powder in dain ty rose-checked boxes showing a tiny black silhouette. It is a SOc and 41. n '"PR i LJLv There Are Dolmans and Dolmans, YOU'D never think so many beau tiful models could.be evolved from a style so pronounced. Herz berg's Women's Toggery, 1517 Douglas street, are showing clever adaptations of this newest fashion fad in stunning new colors and fab rics. A bright rose velour has a yoke with buttons following a swinging pleat from each shoulder. French blue crystal Bolivia is delightfully becoming in another .wrap of ex treme richness. For the small woman, there's a cunning wrap with rows of bias ripples under each arm and on the flaring cuffs. The dropped shoulder line is seen on a wrap of tan silvertone. Gracefully sweeping wraps of versatile useful ness! V i Trimmed Hats, Seasonably ntw estingl IS IT the flowers that make them so lovely this year? For truly they're irresistible. The shapes are so cleverly devised, the models so flattering and those with ths hand made flowers subtract several years at least. The quaint little' Mitzi, the sailor for young girls, is titled at a saucy angle because of its flower laden bandeau underneath. Then those large, sheer vanity hats for dinner and teas are graceful and very becoming. Although I call very often, ft seems that there's always something; new in the Nebraska Clothing Mil linery department, Fifteenth ane Farnam. This week its the Gaga tailored models, in all colors and shapes, and droop-brim models if loosely woven straws in the higi shades. Fashion' Fads FrtUa and Foible. Among tha new ribbon especially traded for ua In trimming hata ara aonv la cotton that promise great vogue. TbeJ ara aeon In printed design and are uita bla for trimming! or for making an antln hat Among tha new thlnga that ha-ra baa In high favor for aoma little time an the veil plna made of dlamonda or rhino, atones, tha amarteet of which are In an row ahape In every daytime gatherlni of smartly dreaaed women It la oaf t any that a quarter of tha number an making use of this decorative device U keep a veil on a smart toque. On new ribbon is of blaok valve, apangled with little cut-atel bead) thai outline a dealgn. Lcy atripea worked Into the fabric at Uk atocklngs extend In parallel a tripes from toe to knee. Thee stocking com In black and white, aa wall a shade ol brown, (ray and blue. A lovely new boudoir cap 1 made i otton crep In an ecru shade. It la It blue, green, brown and rone. In rathe dull shadea, with a bit of yellow. ThU cap cost about 19. Brown moire ribbon of very heavj quality la formed Into a handbag, set In a tortoise shell frame. a A deep chiffon hem was used on tht atln wedding frock of a recent bride, a New colored neckwear eet are madt of organic. They are the very dalntleal bit of neckwear that the ehopa have ehown for a long time. Many of then show tuckera to match the collars, an aome of them show cuffs as well. The) as made In several lovely shades of boti blue and pink. In eoft yellow, an (quail) oft green and In lilac shadea. y Rlntlnttn and nlnnette, tt might be thought, would have worn out their wel come before this, for these llttl French good-luck omens hav had much popu larlty. But they are still In vogue. Tha latest place for them to appear la at the tassels on the ends of the belt of a wool en sweater, and they are really quit ap propriate for this purpose. " Soutache braiding is heavily applied to many of the new afternoon frocks. The braiding usually matches the (ieorgette In color, although black Is sometimes used on dark blue. Butterflies cut out of chiffon or Georg ette and applied on Georgette negligees are charming and so easy to- make that they couW be accomplished at home. The two upper wings am cut from the shade, the two lower ones from another, and they are applied with floss of the same shade In allttle chalnstiok or buttonhole stick. The body 1 worked In the silk flos The Chateau-Thierry club In New Tork for convalescent soldiers, the clubhouse and furnishings donated by Mrs. William K. Vanderbllt, contains everything tending to rest and comfort mind and body. T glv the boys a sens" of unrest rained free dom, women are absolutely liarted fro the three upper floors, hut are permlttej to run a canteen on thn first floor. -Adv. i a F t L