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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1919)
Why should I hug life's Ula with cold hmdil To euraa nysalf and ail who lava ma 7 Nay I A thousand timaa nor toed thaa I desarva. God flvM mi ovary day. Mr. Calls Thaxtar. Ws always paint, liks Milton, aur lost paradUs mat Clowlng thaa ths rscalnad ana Ilka Danta, hall battar thaa surf atory. Jmui Paul Richtar. JOtdTd) Slowly I followed on. Stumbling and falling. All the air sparkled; All the air sung. Even to my dull heart Glory was calling; Slowly I followed on, Stumbling and falling. Great wings arched over me, Purple and amber; Night was all color, Night was all gleam, Wearily up the hill Needs must I clamber, Though wings arched over me, Purple and amber. r In Some Famlliei There ii a Tra dition THAT there can be but one jewel in the life of a beautiful woman, and that one of such distinction that it impartt charm and character to the personality of the wearer in a gracious blending of loveliness. The Edholm Jewel Shop, Sixteenth and Harney, is showing just such a jewel a ring of distinctive beauty, three great diamonds in the new mirror cutting, shimmering in soft beauty, held in a pierced platinum and paved diamond setting, specially designed for just these three stones. An appealingly lovely jewel to be se lected with confidence for the wom an who desires a touch of the un usual the one jewel of some beau tiful woman's life. (lopping villi K)lly 0 Proudly the chorus pealed While I was panting. Winds were all music, Voices all praise; Brooks, birds, the waving trees Joined in the chanting; Proudly the chorus pealed, While I was panting. Late came my aching feet, Late to the manger; All slept in silence, All dreamed in dusk Under the same dear stars, No star a stranger. Late came my aching feet, Late to the manger. Kissing a baby's hand, Painfully kneeling, Sweet little drowsy hand, Honey of heaven, Swift through my twisted limbs Glowed a glad healing, Kissing a baby's hand, Kissing and kneeling. ' Th Lame Shepherd, by (Catharine Lee Bates. My Dean: Some people never seem to enter into the real soul of Christmas. Perhaps nearly all of us sometimes fail to realize that the thing that makes Christmas wonderful is the UNSELFISHNESS of it unselfish ness started it and has been its life through all the centuries. It is, sadly, a common fault or failing to forget, occasionally, the Christ in Christmas. "And, of course, that spoils it all. It'a "the little I am and the big YOU" that makes Christmas, with its giving and receiving, worth while. . If each of us will only set about to enjoy THIS Christmas unselfishly, choosing gifts with the thought of each individual friend utterly possess ing our minds and imaginations, surely the Christmas spirit will be ideaL aJ Christmas Beads Delayed in Trasit, Arrive in Riotous Lovliness. GUTTERING, .tumbling in joy ous abandon from their cover ings come the delightful bead chains expected for so long by the Alia Shop, 207 South Eighteenth. Catch ing the December sunlight in fash ion most delightful there are strands of the new cuttings in jet at $2.75 and $4.50, a long chain of pearls, jet and dainty Venetian beads in ravishing combination, these for ' $4.50, a darling amber and pearl chain with dainty tassels of the beads at $2.25. Then for milady who likes a dash of color with he winter frocks there are new cut beads in a delicious color between scarlet and coral, these at $2.50. Real rose coral at from $2 to $10 a strand, those at $10 having a fas cinating pendant set in gold. Then there are those ultra-smart carved vegetable ivory at $4.50 with clasp of the same and a lovely amethyst arrangement with alternating pearls in a rich yellow shade. These at $2.75. - i . Boutonnieres to Delight Mademoi selle or Madame ARE the odd little fruit clusters, queer lacquered effects of rav ishing effect, one-rose creations with veiling of maiden hair fern which they're offering at the Nebraska Clothing Millinery. These ranging in price from 75 cents to 95 cents, while the more ornate corsages in artistic boxings are priced at from $1.25 to $2.25. . i . f Monday to Thursday This Sal of Surprising Values. THERE'S to be an offering of 25 per cent off on all blouses and silken underthings in the Herzberg Shop, 1517 Douglas, beginning Mon day morning and extending through the day preceding Christmas. Noth ing makes a gift offering more pleasing than a blouse of dainty x georgette in the season's voguish colorings, alluringly beaded, em broidered and hand-stitched. While conceived for attractive holiday "giftings" are the masses of lacy, ribbony "cammies," teddy B's, silken , petticoats for party frocks and negli gees, and negligees themselves, rip pling in laces of exceptional loveli ness, showing two-color schemes of unusual delightfulness. . Just in Tim for Christmas Dinner HAVE come those beautiful little bungalow aprons at the Vanity Shop, Third floor, Securities build ing. These, ranging in price s from - $295 up, are fashioned delightfully to simulate house dresses m ma terials of excellent wearing pro pensities and are just the thing tor the busy little hostess on Christmas , day. Thi is the shop where they have for sale those lovely little slip-on frbeks of lace and voile, and those challis house frocks so comfy and pretty. . . Wext to Toyland Comes Candyland IN the hearts of the kiames, mess them. And you'll find that Candyland, Sixteenth and Farnam, have made special preparations for ' the holidays this year. Big baskets with brocaded lining hold sweets ot ' surprising loveliness and are so dec rative that they'll be pointed out with pride for many succeeding years. And so large are they that they hold sweetmeats for ths wholt Inexpensive Last-Minute Gifts of Character MAY be found in a diversity of charm at Brandeis in the Art department, on the third floor. Silken-shaded mahogany boudoir lamps deserve special mention, for they're priced at $5.95, a holiday temptation not only for gifting, but as delicate additions of loveliness for holiday hospitality. Then there are those artistic , hand-painted pieces of luster china, mayonnaise bowls and ladles, dainty little serv ice pieces at $4.50, individual egg trays with salt and pepper of the same china, also fruit and sandwich trays for the tea table. And you'll find extremely delightful the work of Esther Hunt of San Francisco Chinese maidens, artfully modeled and exquisitely painted, quaint little studies also in Indian, maidens of wistful charm. Treasure trove of gifts these, you can't fail to find gifts to please. Dinner Rings of Artistic Concep '. tion, Rare Fashioning. "TELICATELY pierced platinum, U- artfully displaying diamonds of fiery loveliness, dainty combinations of sapphires and diamonds, large diamonds, exquisite in their perfect beauty; rarely lovely scarf pins for men in all the new and charmingly styleful modelings; bracelet watches, unusual in their delightful useful ness, artful loveliness, the famed Gruen predominating; string after string of exquisitely ravishing pearls of fascinating luster, practical pieces of silver and glass make the John Henrickson Jewel Shop, Sixteenth and Capitol avenue a shop of limit less gift possibilities. You'll find their pricings a positive delight Pre-Holiday Sale on Furs. THE Alaska Fur company, Six teenth and Douglas, second floor, are extending a gift oppor tunity welcome indeed in a pre holiday sale on all fur pieces and coats in their extensive stock. An excellent gifting "buy," I'd say. Oh, I Wish I Were In "Boylandl" T ID you ever think that it would be a wonderful sensation to be a boy on Christmas morning? "Wish I were" a laddie who will receive one of those "just-like-a-bicycle" ve locipedes at the Townsend Gun com pany, Farnam, between Sixteenth and Fifteenth. Why, they have "regular" handle bars and "grips," ball bearings in wheels and pedals, big rubber tires and dandy springs under real leather seats. And wouldn't it be fun to find in one's stocking a set o- Structo building toys and some of those Auto build ers, also the Gilbert instructive toys for boys that teach one all about wireless sending and receiving and the whole process of telephony. There are offered field glasses and binoculars, of extraordinary quality to take on long Boy Scout tramping jaunts or for family use on auto trips; skates and sleds, the very best accepted kinds in the land of boys, and for mother's gift there's the most exquisite Angora sweater of softly knitted wool, Angora trimmed as to collar, belt and band down the front. Most Fascinating Among Feminine Fripperies Is the Ostrich Feather Fan. IT'S BEEN many, many years since the feather fan could Teal ly claim the popularity which it has attained this year. Brilliantly contrasting in shade, or conserv atively toning in with each color expression, you'll find the showing at the Nebraska Clothing Millinery extraordinarily complete. j Everything That You'd Expect to Find in a Fashionable Flower Shop at Christmas Time AND many more things besides, are to be seen at the John Bath Flower Shop, Eighteenth and Far nam. Holiday offerings are to be had at $1 or $25. Quite the most gorgeous Christmas flower baskets I've seen are to be had at from $2.50 up. These in artistic arrangements of perpetuated flowers, ferns and grasses, most fitting to the Yuletide. There's a New Custom Most Charm ing AND that is a way of wearing in expensive finger rings. Set in sterling silver (quite like platinum); there are odd stones in brown, blue, green and purple, semi-precious, most attractive and ranging in price from 50 cents to $2.50.. Exquisite indeed are the big Abalone pearls, oddly fascinating in effect One Way to Help Santa. HERE'S an offering which will help immeasurably '. in old Santa's burden this year. The Omaha Reed & Rattan company, South Sixteenth and Jones streets, has a radical reduction on all its dolls and doll buggies. Cunning af fairs they are, to be sure, wicker hooded, rubber tired. This is that shop of artistic wicker furniture, you know. ' They've an unusually large display this year at prices to delight one's heart (and purse.) V Gifts to Last a Lifetime. "HIRELING & STEINLE'S, Eight eenth and Farnam, have an ex tensive Christmas stock of leather gifts to last a lifetime. Hartmann wardrobe trunks, truly useful gifts, extraordinarily fine in detail, un usually strong in wearing qualities, are priced at from $30 to $100. Then there are those smart new traveling bags for men and women in seal, mountain goat, cowhide and fabri coid, priced at from $7.50 to $75. For salesmen, lawyers and clergy men there are clever portfolio cases at from $3.75 to $19.50. Or if one doesn't find just the case needed, one may have made to order a case of supreme beauty. Purses for men and women, card cases and bill folds, range from 50c to $10 and there are those new and fascinating traveling sets priced at from $5 to $35. These are fitted up with every traveling necessity in ivory and ebony, given the personal touch by a tiny gold monogram, a most ex quisite Christmas remembrance. Other gift suggestions offered in this clever shop are: Collar bags, manicure sets, photograph frames, jewel cases, cigar and cigaret cases, folding clothes hangers, cases for gloves and handkerchiefs. Do You Know That There's One Gift Sure to Bring Pleasure to the Whole Family? NOTHING is quite sq sure of an ecstatic welcome on Christmas morning as a musical instrument. They're showing delightful pianos, player pianos, grafonolas and stringed instruments of all kinds in' the showrooms of the Schmoller Mueller company, Fourteenth and Farnam, specially priced for Christ mas. Their showing of records for the grafonola and music rolls for player pianos is most extensive, em bodying all of the popular musical "hits" of the present day, as well as the famed compositions of the past years in classical music of all kinds. Visit this "Family Music House" before buying the Christ mas instrument. Frivolous Frills and Delicate Em broidery Adorn the Christmas Petticoats WHICH they're showing at Lamond's, second floor Secur ities building, Sixteenth and Far nam. Dainty femininity the world over would just adore the fluffy, frilly, rose "pettie" decorated in gold and blue traceries I Or the soft tan and dull green jersey model nearby, with its pleated knee ruffle and a midnight blue with square insets of old gold, or that audacious bit of a thing in heavy lustrous black with rose trimmings! Every Fold of This Evening Gown Breathes of Quality. QUALITY of material, quality of fashioning and quality of char acter of the wearer. There is an art in the designing and fashioning of a gown such as the one I viewed in the shop of that distinguished little modiste, Miss Feay, second floor, Neville building, the other afternoon. Exquisitely N:ut, cunning in its deli cate little details, it breathes of ar tistry in its planning, for it is bound to impart an air of individuality ap pealingly distinctive to the wearer. Unusual Showing of Table Scarfs EXQUISITELY woven or -hand made of rich brocades trimmed in bits of metallic lace, decorative in deed in beautiful linings and heavy weighted tassels are specially priced in the Orchard & Wilhelm Drapery Department on the main floor this week. A lovely gift for any hornet They've a pleasing price range from ?5 to $5U. Styleful Liveliness and Pep ARE expressed' is ths attractive neckwear they're showing at the J. T. McQuillin Shop for Men, Farnam between Sixteenth and Fif teenth. Imported silken ties, clever in cut and materials, exquisite knitted ties in color combinations of delightful loveliness. And those new heavy silk collars are just the thing for year with the new silk shirts. Have you seen their line of bro caded smoking jackets, lounging robes and bathrobes? Quite the most distinctive in styling, richest in fabric I've vet seen. You'll find them clever indeed. ' Lamps to Shed a Shimmering Soft ness1 Over the Home. T AMPS of extraordinary loveli ness arc the new conceptions in table and floor lamps they're show ing at the Nelson Electric company, one door south of the Orpheum, Fifteenth and Harney. Clouded art glass are their shades, or softly shirred silken softnesses, atop metal or lustrous wood bases. Electrical appliances of all kinds for the home, delightful indeed, sre offered in an extended array. Chief among at tractive gift offerings, the boudoir set, which includes a pressing iron with cretonne-covered ironing table, which folds up in the most cunning way imaginable when not in use, a tiny cuo which just fits the iron; this for the instant heating of water at any hour of the day or night, and a bit of a curling iron most fascin ating in its possibilities. Unique among gifts, it's but $9.75. An elec tric shop at your service, my dears, this Nelson Electric company. Everybody's Going to Be Joyous This Christmas. A ND quite the best way I know to be happy is to go down to the Hotel Fontenelle for their de lightful supper dances. Gayly lighted, with specially selected music, ar tistically arranged holiday goodies, Mr. and Mrs. Omaha need nave no fear that they'll lack for gay amuse ment for their guests on Christmas eve and Christmas day if they'll make reservations in this aristocrat among Omaha's hostelries. In fact, it's a most delightful place to go for a bit of dancing and a jolly chafing dish party on any evening from 11:00 until 12. You'll Be Surprised to Find ON the main floor at Orchard & Wilhelm's table after table filled with most fascinating electrical love liness for the table, boudoir and kitchenett High urn percolators with lines "6f supremest artistrv, holding six cups, with ebony stands and faucet turns are $20. Another of Colonial effect holding seven cups is $16. Then there are pots of alu minum at $10, cunning egg services for six eggs at $11. Toasters with serving rack at the top for $7.25 and the jolliest chafing dishes imag inable for $16 and $16.50 in silver and copper finish with square cut lines most adorable. Disc stoves at $8 and $9, ovenettes to be placed over these little- stoves or on those fascinating little Bachelor (girl or man) Grills at $10.50 and $12, dainty little pressing irons at $6.50 and $7.50, and a most useful big waving iron for milady's straight hair for $6.75. What will you have in an electrical gift? It May Have Excellent Possibilities THAT old hat of yoursl Special ly if you'll take it up to the Kruger Hat Shop, third floor, Bar ker block, Fifteehth and Farnam. They'll block or reblock it, freshen up its feathers or retrim it. They'll liven up your marabou piece too and at prices very low. The shop is closed after 2 on Saturdays. j Each Week There's Added Attrac tions TO the Kase Studio, second floor, Neville block, Sixteenth and Harney. You've no idea of the gift possibilities of enlargements made in this shop from very infinitesimal pictures. You'll treasure pictures of your holiday gathering in the years to come so take the kodak with you on your Christmas day jaunt ing. , Last Christmas When ths Dinner Guests Arrived A T the Flatiron Cafe, Seventeenth and St. Marys avenue, a joyous array of great scarlet Christmas candles with accompanying spray of holly greeted their delighted eyes. These candles burning in the center of every one of the tables quite warmed the cockles of many lonely heart further warmed by the cozy hospitality of this homelike placs. The dinner was a miracle of a cuisine efficiently delightful with unexpected little additions in the way of ices, candies and nuts. You're all invited to dinner, from 12:30 to 3, again this year by the hostess, Mrs. Adah Cooke, who makes a specialty of en tertaining the public in a personal way most gratifying. m a m j A Fifth Avenue Offering. ' SURPRISINGLY voguish is the dashing little automobile vanity bag with its tortoise shell fittings which they're showing at the Omaha Printing company, Thirteenth and Farnam. Small and square, just a bit larger than a handbag; large enough, in fact, to carry milady's dainty georgette and lace frothiness necessary for her becoming loveli ness when she motors to a friend's house for the night. Sparkling black patent leather is the outside of this square-cut bag, pearl gray brocade i s lining, and the price, my dears, much, much lower than its Fifth avenue sister is but $70. If You're Appreciative of the Fas cinatingly Unexpected in Chapeaux VOU'LL find most thrilling the showing at the Nebraska Cloth ing Millinery department, Fifteenth and Farnam. A henna duvetyne crown has taken unto itself with a peculiarly delightful effect . motifs heavily embroidered in all sorts of oriental colors inlaid with threadings of gold and silver. Surprisingly lovely is its shoulder tassel of silver, its brim of moleskin. Hats for danc ing and the festive functions of the holidays will quite fill one's heart with joy, so surpassingly beautiful are they. Last Minute Gifts Not on the List ALMOST make us lose our dispo sitions, don't they? But if you'll run down to the Nippon Importing' company, ' 218 South Eighteenth street, all of your cares will vanish like mist befoie the sun, for they're showing gifts of unusual delightful ness priced as low as 10 cents. "Jacqueline" Oriental and Flower Toilet Waters Most Unusual Among Fragrances, rp HE Delft Hair Parlors, second floor, Baird building, Seven teenth and Douglas, have a new line of toilet waters, extraordinarily lovely. Their creams and lotions are most attractive as gift offerings, while the line of switches and spe cial vanity hair pieces are tempting in excellent quality and low prices. . A Peculiar Fascination Is Attached to the Glove Certificate. SUCH an easy gift for one who is not quite sure just what to give, is the glove certificate which they're offering at Thompson-Belden's. Give them an amount of money to cover the cost of any of the delightful gloves shown, and they'll give to you, or send to your friend, one of their glove certificates, assuring painstaking fitting after (Christmas. Ideal Among Gifts the Fireplace Pictures WHICH they've just framed at the Hospe Company, 1513 Douglas street Delightful stretches of artistic color, reproductions of famous paintings, planned in sizing for fireplace adornment, they're ideal among gift offerings. You'll find an efficient framing service here for your favorite print or for the holi day photographs extended in a gift ful way. Beautiful Slipper Buckles Sparkingly Lovely. rPHE F. & M. Boot Shop, Sixteenth and Farnam, is offering their ex tensive line of art slipper buckles at a reduction of 20 per cent To all who have seen these wondrously lovely buckles this will be news of particular interest. Iridescently gleaming they're quite ideal for giftful purposes. "High Flying" soap bubble pipes for sister Sue and her little friend come with oval bars and rubber aprons in dainty wooden baskets $1.75. Such Delightful Whims and Fancies v A RE to be found among embrold eries this season. Not one thin? is left undecorated. from veils and hats to shoes. You'll find most delightful expressions in this work at the Ideal Button & Pleating com pany, 305 Brown block, Sixteenth and Douglas, work done withal so very reasonably. They're in the midyear pleating rush now. Have you any idea how very bewitching a tea gown can be when its skirt is accordion-pleated silk, its long hanging blouse of lace and velvet? And the new "undies," my dears, just one delicate piece of georgette a mass of pleats with decorative bit of lace, ribbon-threaded. Important Among Gift Offerings This Year , IS THE artistic handbag. And such possibilities they offer to be surel Just make a trip into the Ne braska Clothing company's millin ery department if you're consider ing a bag purchase. Elaborate beaded creations, exclusively im ported for this shop, richly lovely velvet and brocaded folds suspended from frames of sheer artistry, smart ly cut leather bags of all sizes. A Proper Foundation for the Holi day Gown TVT AY be yours without a bit of trouble on your part, no study ing for the proper effect of this model and that, if you'll call upon Dorothy Hill, the corset specialist in her fitting rooms on the second floor of the Neville building, Six teenth and Harney, she will decide upon the model best suited to your type of figure and fit it to you most expertly before you've had time to bother your tired head. Let the lit tle measure blank be your fitting medium if you're an "out-of-town." "Every Man" Will Welcome With Delight a Perfectly Planned Desk Set AND ths desk sets they're show ing at the Omaha Printing comnany, Thirteenth and Farnam, are perfect in every appointment. There's a metal set in bronze and green, a rich green leather, one in dull blue with silver traceries, a bur nished brass in artistic cutting,- and they're all priced to fit the purse in t way lum 9 iiiusv oui yi 101115, iv.- tween $5 and $10. x Truly it isn't hard at all to think of a gift Mr. Man in this shop for besides their leather gifts, chief among them the Fit-All cases for the bag which hold every needful thing for traveling, they've an espe- . cially complete line of those splen- . did1 ever-sharp pencils-and fountain pens in all of the well known makes. If it's anything in the way of leather, remember this is the specialty leather shop. v There Couldn't be a Better Gift, Than a Kodak t AND they're offering a supris ingly complete . line of the Ansco-Speedex kodaks at the Me- . geath Stationery company, Fif teenth and Farnam, ranging in price from $3.50 to $8.50. Then if your friend has a kodak, a most lovely gift would be a carrying case with shoulder straps, these ranging in price from $3.50 to $7.00. While, -even if no kodak is possessed, a gift most welcome is one of their attractive albums ranging in price from those at 75 cents to the splen , did big leather affairs at $7.50. Hundreds of Christmas Goodies Ar rive Daily A T the Sommers Specialty Shop, one door south of the Brandeis theater. Rarely delicious fruits, del- . icately formed and flavored candies, cakes, rich nuts of unusual kinds, just the thing to tumble artistically into one of those big baskets for .gifting, or to form the centerpiece . of the family table oh this, our great Christmas festive day. But just a word of warning, order your basket early I It will be ever so much more artistic if you do. ine inristmas stocmng is rur ' Lined This Year.' N A ND they're offering a complete line of Christmas gifts in the way of fur pieces 'and coats at the National Far and Tanning com pany's showroom in the Athletic club building. Eighteenth and Doug las. Ravishing fur combinations, . Hudson seal with beaver and squir rel, sables of deep furry richness, mink artistically delightful.s. mole skin coats embodying hundreds of -carefully selected little skins, fash ioned along lines of artistic perfec tion in ways of ultra-modishness. Each hour, so the gracious sales person told me, they sell some new piece, of furry loveliness to line the Christmas stocking. " Why Not a Chic Little Hat as a -Christmas Gift This Year? NOTHING could be more de-v lightful as a gift than one of the little straw and satin chapeai creations, newest note of a style ful spring, or one of those captivat ing brocade and fur turbans, which they're offering at the F. M. Schadell Company's shop, .Sixteenth and Farnam. ;-.-" And do you know that Nancy Jane's come to town With delightful chocolates in boy of brown? No gift could be quite so neat Or offer at $2, so lovely a treat (M Tltto aa Tradimaik Bag latsrst, V. a