THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 9. 1920.
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Young Bride's
Idea of Her
New Home
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX
IT'S always interesting to hear a
young bride tell what she wants
most to have in her new home.
Also, what she is determined not to
have. If you listen to her carefully,
you can pretty easily make up your
mind whether or not you would care
to be a guest at her home that is to
be.
If she is emphatic in regard to
sunshine, and easy chairs, and a
piano, and even an open fire, I feel
sure that she understands comfort
and friendliness and real hospitality,
and I know I shall accept the first
invitation that she gives me.
But if her soul's delight seems to
depend on the embroidered initials
of her table-linen, and if she be
trays her fear that her best-beloved
won't domesticate well, but that his
pipe-smoke will injure her drap
cries, I may admit that she couid
pass a housekeeping: test, but
know also that I don't want to be
her visitor.
A woman who says she doesn't
.care for growing plants in he house
because they are so much trouble
tives one a cold stranger-feeling,
but one who bars out caged song
birds because cages are cruel, there
by practically invites one to step
over her threshhold and see what
is there.
The other day a girl said with
perfect seriousness that the one
thing she intended never to allow in
her house was "company manners."
f saw from this that she understood
what hospitality is, and that hers
would always be a home that friends
would troop to eagerly and leave
with reerret.
She had had experience, of course,
that taught her what company man
ners were like from the companys
own standpoint. But who hasn't?
Who doesn't remember being a
guest in households where the com
pany machinery got dreadfully rusty
in between times, and worked only
by jerks and spasms and at critical
moments stuck and stopped alto
gether, to everybody's embarrass
ment and anguish?
Households where the table-service,
for instance, was a failure for
lack of rehearsal, and you could see
the maid growing panicky and
father becoming mute and stubborn
and the giggling children on the
point of breaking out into open mu
tiny. '
Discomforts of Visiting.
Or where the hostess's entire con
versation was made up of explana
tions and apology, and you some
how sensed that behind every , door
and curtain one member of the fam
ily was exhorting another to behave
nicely "because there's comnany."
Didn't it make you feel like run
ning upstairs to pack your bag and
catch the first train?
Nobody ever got any pleasure
from seeing a family straiojnd pre
tend to a domestic standard that it
didn't bother about unless company
appeared. Nobody likes to see a
middle-aged father forced to give up
his familiar habits and youngsters
compelled to adopt stiff garments
and ways that are strange.
Worse still, to realize that one
self is the cause of so much family
discomfort is enough to make one
quite speechless and to lose ' one's
appetite altogether for the "com
pany dishes" that with so much ef
fort are prepared and set before one.
J3ut what shall we do, women say,
if we can't afford to keep up a com
pany standard all the time?
You may be sure that your guests
will be a great deal happier, and a
thousand times more willing to
come again if you simply drop the
idea of a company standard alto
gether. What Is Hospitality?
Hospitality means leaving your
door always unlatched. It means
keeping the pot boiling and inviting
your chance guests to take "pot
hick" with you. A house, that is
clean and a household that is happy
are ready enough for guests at any
time. It's a joy to be a guest when
one is free to come in and take one's
seat by the fire, and one's share of
the mush and milk, or the turkey and
truffles, or whatever it may happen
to be, and when every member of the
family just goes on acting naturally
however many guests arrive.
Perhaps you don't have open fires
and huge boiling soup-pots. Never
mind. You can be just as hospita
ble with a steam radiator and an im
provised dish of macaroni. So long
as your domestic atmosphere is
warm and inviting, and your family
manners are normally good enough
to be inspected at, a moment's no
tice you can offer hospitality to
princes.
Of course this system excludes
family grouches.
Unless the rest of the family are
much more than ordinarily fascinat
ing the presence of an habitual
grcuch will make any home guest
proof. Don't imagine that you can im
pose company manners on your fam
ily grouch with that same quick
sleight-of-hand with which you
dust the piano while you answer
the doorbell. Or, if you do succeed,
they won't stay. Like all artificial,
flimsy things, they will split at the
wrong time.
The only safe way is to rule out
company manners with all other
pretences when you begin your fam
ily life.
St. Marys Catholic church in
Phoenix, Ariz., bars women wearing
low necked dresses.
Folk Theater Players
has become a national axiom. At
the department conferences, June
19. Miss Alice M. Tyler, Western
Reserve university, Cleveland, O.,
will speak on "The New Concep
tion of Library Service." Miss Tyler
is a forceful speaker and will tell of
the growth of the library spirit dur
ing the war period and of the result
ant enlarged service of libraries
everywhere.
Mr. Jjdward E. Eslick will pre
side at the conference to consider
Cm
My Mother
We read about the mothers of
the days of long ago,
With their gentle, wrinkled faces
and their hair as white as
snow;
They were "middle-aged" at 40,
and at 50 donned lace caps,
And at 60 clung to shoulder
shawls and loved their little
naps,
But I love the modern mother
who can share in all the joys,
And who understands the prob
lems of her growing girls
and boys;
She may boast that she is 60,
but her heart is 23
My glorious, bright-eyed mother
" who is keeping young with
me.
Florence Howard Wolcott.
Miss Arabella Kimball and M. M. Levings as they will appear in
"The Wonder Hat," to be given by Folk theater players on the evening
of May 13. at the Braudcis theater. Others in the cast are: Pleasant
Holyoke, N. S. Wallace and Charles R. Doherty.
Literatur-e and
Drama at Club
Convention
The power of good literature and
the need of library extension will
stand out in one of the great ses
sions of the biennial convention of
the General Federation of Women's
clubs to be held at Des Moines, la.,
June 16-23. Mrs. True Worthy
White of Boston, chairman of this
department, has prepared a program
of unusual interest. With the slo
gan that "A Book mav be as Great
as a Battle," she has wrought a
great program, including a special
session and a series of conferences
accompanied by exhibits. It was at
the Hot Springs convention in 1918
that Mrs. White declared the
greatest state in the union is the
state of mind." The epigram caught
the imagination of her audience and
drama. Mrs. Eslick has given not
able service during the two yars
she has been chairman of the sub
committee on drama. She is a,
leader in her own state and is now
the Tennessee member of the Board
of directors of the General Federa
tion. Mrs. Eslick has contributed
a new study on contemporary
drama to the literature department.
Mrs. John C. Buchanan, of Min
neapolis, who will be greeted for
the first time as chairman of the
Frances Squire Potter Memorial for
the study of Biblical literature, will
discuss the Bible, the book that is
the common spiritual background
for all the races that are making
America. Mrs. Buchanan has al
ready convinced club women of her
sincere vand enlightened purpose to
serve them. She has added several
new studies to her department, and
has been indefatigable in her efforts
to increase attention to Bible study
both by clubs and in the public
schools. The department confer
ence will be held in the afternoon.
June 19. An Iowa poet, Edwin Ford
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Piper, of the State University of
Iowa, will open the conference with
readings from his own works.
A special library dinner is to be
one of the interesting social func
tions during: the convention.
Nova Scotia is to fix a minimum
wage for women teachers.
Bed Making:
The housewife who makes her
own beds will be interested to learn
that it is possible to make a bed
without walking around to tuck in
each cover on both sides, and yet
have a smooth, well-made bed. If
each cover is laid on smoothly, they
can all be in place before any tuck
ing in is done, so that the person
making the bed need not move from
the side on which she starts until
she has all the covers on and has
tucked them in smoothly on that
side. Then is time enough to, walk
around the bed and, pulling the cov
ers perfectly smooth, tuck them in
all at once on the other side. They
stay in just as well, the bed looks
just as good and the housewife
saves time and energy.
Dr. Alice Salomon has established
a school in Germany which teaches
a special course for training women
of the working class to do social
work.
To Fry Eggs.
When frying eggs, put into the
frying pan only half the usual
amount of fat. When hot, drop in
the eggs, and when they are ready
to turn, add a few drops of water.
The resulting steam will finish cook
ing the eggs.
EVERYBODYS STORE
Annual May Sak oi Household
limns Domestics and White Goods
9
SALE STARTS MONDAY, MAY 10, AT 9:00 A. M.
It will be advantageous for every housewife to purchase ample supplies during
this May Sale, for the prices afford great savings. Sale starts Monday, May 10th,
and we advise early shopping.
What a joy to have plenty of reliable linens, towels, sheets, bed spreads, white
goods, domestics, etc., to offer to you, and we are delighted to know that we can
mark them at prices so low,
The Housewife Should Supply Her Needs in
Table Linens
Specially Priced
Table Damask, $2.45 Yard
Irish Linen Table Damask, at $2.45 yard. An excellent
quality, priced at less than today's manufacturers' cost;
70 inches wide; handsome design.
Table Damask, 58c Yard
Table Damask, at 58c yard. A good quality and heavy
weight; several good designs.
Damask, $1.18 Yard
Linen-Finish Bleached Table Damask, $1.18 a yard. This
qualify will give splendid service and will ret5lh its pure
whiteness after laundering; 70 inches wide.
Table Cloths, $125
Pure Irish Linen Pattern Table Cloths, $7.25 each. Made
of pure flax, of fine quality, that will retain its satin finish
after laundernig. ,
Breakfast Table Cloths, $1.95
Breakfast Table Cloths, $1.95 each. A splendid quality
of bleached damask in fleur de lis with Grecian key border;
size 54x54 inches.
Damask Napkins, $1.75 Dozen
A Bleached Damask Napkin; hemmed ready for use; only
one dozen to a customer. '
Indian Head Napkins, 48c Dozen
Indian Head Napkins; size 12x12 inches, at 48c a dozen.
Table Cloths, $3J95 Each
Bleached Damask Pattern Table Cloths, $3.95 each. Fine
quality in handsome circular designs; size 72x72 inches.
r Tray Cloths, 65c Each
Linen Damask Tray Cloths, 65c'each. A plain satin dam
ask with hemstitched edge; unusual value.
N Dinner Napkins, $2.49
Irish Damask Dinner Napkins, at $2.49 for six. An ex
cellent quality and in beautiful designs.
Table Cloths, $425 Each
Hemstitched Damask Table Cloths, $4.25 each; size 70x70
inches; a splendid quality in beautiful circular designs.
Bed Spreads
$2.95
Crochet Bed Spreads, at $2.95
each. These come with the hem
med or sqftloped edge, in Mar
ia'
seilles
beds.
designs and for full size
Bed Sets
$7.95
Satin Finish Marseilles Bed
Spreads, at $7.95 set. Set consists
of spread and bolster cover to
match. These have neat scalloped
edge and come in beautiful em
bossed designs.
Bed Spreads
$2.95
Bungalow Bed Spreads, $2.95
each. These are the kind that re
quire no ironing. They come in
the neat ripplette stripe, for full
size beds; only one to a customer.
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Bed Spreads
$5.95
These are extra large size, 9 Ox
110 inches; in colors of blue, rose,
pinker lavender.
Yards and Yards of Beautiful New
Cotton Fabrics
at Extremely Low Prices
Beautiful white cotton fabrics in the season's newest
styles and weaves.
White Voile, 39c
40-inch Whito Voile, at 39c a yard. A quality very suit
able for waists and dresses.
Suiting, WAc
White Linen Finish Suiting, 182c yard. An excellent
quality much underpriced.
Gabardine, 75c
36-inch White Gabardine, 75c a yard. A very fine qual
ity with beautiful soft wool finish; a very popular fabric for
suits and skirts.
Long Cloth, 29c '
36-inch Long Cloth, 29c yard. A fine weave, with soft
chamois finish; very suitable for underwear and children's
dresses.
Swiss Organdie, $1.25
Imported Swiss Organdie, $1.25 a yard. This very fine
quality will retain its beautiful finish; 45 inches wide.
Lace Voiles, 95c
Beautiful Embroidered Lace Voiles, 95c yard. This sea
son's most popular fabric for the making of dresses and
shirt waists.
India Linen, 19c Yard
A quality made of fine round thread yarn; much under
regular price.
White Pique, 38c
This quality is 27 inches wide and comes in different
size cords; suitable for skirts or suits.
White Batiste, 25c
This quality will give excellent service; much under
priced. White Linweave, 39c
40-inch White Linweave, 39c yard. This quality has
all the appearance of linen and will make very serviceable
shirt waists and dresses.
Imported Voile, 95c
A quality very adaptable for graduation or confirma
tion dresses; beautiful finish.
Great Savings in
Sheets, Pillowcases and Sheetings
Bleached Sheeting, at 55c a yard. A fine round thread quality; 54 inches
wide.
Bed Sheets, $129 Each
These are size 72x90 inches and are made of good quality of muslin, neatly
hemmed; not more than two sheets to a customer.
Cheesecloth, 10c Yard
36 inches wide; much underpriced.
Pillow Tubing, 59c Yard
40 or 42-inch width. A fine round thread quality that will give extra satis
faction. "Mesco" Sheeting, 82c Yard
The Celebrated "Mesco" Sheeting, at 82c yard. A heavyweight sheeting,
without dressing or filling; 81 inches wide; this is unusual value.
Bed Sheets, $235 Each
Extra Heavyweight Bed Sheets, at $2.35 eacli. This is an excellent quality;
In the large Slxgg-inchsize, and is priced at about today's mill cost.
Outing Flannel, 32Y2c Yard
A soft, fluffy quality, priced at less than today's wholesale cost.
Pillow Cases, 45c Each
These are size 45x36 inches and are made of very good quality of muslin.
Wonderful Values in
Towels and Towelings
Warranted Linen Weft Crash Toweling, at 19c yard. A very absorbing qual
ity; a very unusual value.
ffuck Towels, $2.25
Hemmed Huck Towels, $2.25 a dozen. A splendid quality of huck, without
filling of any kind; riot more than one dozen to a customer; size 17x32 inches.
Crash Toweling, 38c
Pure Linen Crash Toweling, at 38c yard. A very absorbing quality ,K priced
much less than regular; not more than 10 yards to a customer.
N Huck Towels, 59c Each
Union Linen (half linen and half cotton) Huck Towels, at 59c yard. A very
fihe quality, with handsome damask Grecian key border; size 21x40 inches.
Huck Towels, $125
Irish Huck Towels, at $1.25 each. An excellent quality with damask border
and monogram space; size 20x36 inches.
Turkish Towels, $2J95
Bleached Turkish Towels, at $2.95 dozen. A good quality and of generous
size; only one dozen to a customer.
Turkish Towels, 85c
Extra Heavyweight Turkish Towels, at 85c each. A large size; made of two
ply yarn; a very absorbing quality.
Turkish Toweling, 39c
Bleached Turkish Toweling, 39c yard. A heavy quality; 18 Inches wide; very
absorbing.
Handsome . f : W Soeciallv
Collections of u or auve Linens RedUced
Dresser Scarfs, $2.75 Each
Irish Linen Dresser Scarfs, $2.75 each. These are round thread Irish
linen with hemstitched edges; in sizes 18x54 or 20x45 inches.
Dresser Scarfs, 98c Each
Lace Trimmed Dresser Scarfs, 98c each. These have lace insertion as
well as embroidery work ; size 18x54 inches.
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Luncheon Sets, $3.75 Set
Set consists of 13 pieces round thread Irish linen; one centerpiece and
12 doilies of two sizes. These have neat scalloped edges.
Lace Cloths, $1230 Each
Size of cloth is 72 inches in diameter, with 6-inch lace edge and filet lace
insertion with eight filet lace motifs; excellent value.
13-Piece Madeira Luncheon Sets, $6.95
Sets consist of one centerpiece and one-half dozen each two size doilies; in
beautiful hand-embroidered design.
Pillow Cases, $5.00 Pair
Round Thread Irish Linen Pillow Cases, $5.00 pair. These have hemstitched
edges and are of excellent quality.
.Mosaic Luncheon Napkins, $925 Dozen
These are of very fine round thread Irish linen, with very handsome de
signs in corner.
Tea Napkins, $430 Dozen
Scalloped Edge Tea Napkins, $4.50 dozen. These are of Irish linen and
are much under regular price.
Dresser Scarfs, 59c Each
Lace Trimmed Dresser Scarfs, 59c each. Size 18x45 and 18x54 inches;
not more than two scarfs to a customer.
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