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Pebble Cheviot, blouse jacket, silk I ne 1
black only; special . ...
Other special values $8.50
Suit Headquarters.
Ladies" Tailor-made Suits
Venetian, Covert and Cheviot
clothe, silk lined jackets, I tit
and dip front. latest cat skirt.
7 gore flare or flounce, all col
ore, all szes; special. .SI 6 50
Ldi-s Tailor-made Suit of
th-oughout, 7 gore flare esirt,
SIS SO
SI2.50. $15. OO to $35.00
SILK WAIST HEADQUARTERS.
Our line of silk waists is now very complete. All the prevailing colors
and styles now so popular at all prices
S4.98.S5. 98. 56.98. S7.SO and $9.98
Lidies' Silk Jackets in all the newe. ni's nd designs, in tucked and
corded taffeta and peau d soie silt. r"t -4tin lined
.$9.98, $12.48. $15 OO, and $19.98
Ladies' Black Taffeta Skirts at $9.98. $12 SO and $16 OO
Very Special Values Ladies" Wool Skirts, flounce and flre effect?,
great values $3.50 to$Ia OO
In our showing of Cotton Shirt Waists we claim the larger t assortments
to be found in any store in the Etate the celebrated Griffn brand the
most perfet shirt waist made.
MILLINERY HEADQUARTERS.
Ocr millinery opening the past week was a grand success. Thousands
of ladies visited the department, admirirg and buying the beautiful hats
on display. Hundreds of beautiful hats were purchased. Hundreds of
orders were taken for Easter delivery. Our trimming force has been
doubly increased and we are prepared to take your order at any time for
Easter delivery only the sooner the better. Anyway we guarantee the
finest work in the city, whether your order be in for one or ten days.
An exquisite line of ready trimmed hats for.
$2 50, S3 SO, $4 SO and S5.98
Ready-to-wear hats at 98c. $ I 49 and $1.98
Children's hats at 98c, $1.49 and SI 98
BVERYTHIXG 13? FLOWERS
WASH DRESS GOODS HEADQUARTERS.
The most popular and stylish material for summer wear is the pew Cbee
Fou foulards; come in all colors; has the same effect as a Foulard silk. Ask
to see them; yard - 25c and 43c
Mousseline de Soie, plain and dotted, sold everywhere for 50c yard; om
price, per yard 39c
Egyptian Tissues, in all the new colorings, sold everywhere for 25c a
yard, our price, per yard 18;
Best Irish Dimities and French Tissues, beautiful new patterns, ele
gant quality, per yard 25c
Hundreds of bolts of Lawns and Dimities 15c, 12'jC, lOcand 7'2c
Scotch Lawns, per yard 34c
SILK HEADQUARTERS.
A Great Special All colored Taffeta Silks, fast edges, 75c and 35c
grades, fall line of all light and dark colors; very special, per yard..52Jc
Flannel Taffeta, 21 inches wide, guaranteed not to crack and warranted
to wash: a good weight This grade is only to be found at this store:
peryard 98c
Fancy Silks Handsomest assortment we ever attempted to show;
peryard 49c, Toe, 98c, $1 25. $1.49 and $1.75
DRESSMAKER'S SPECIAL TAFFETA.
Another shipment just received guaranteed to wear; full 35 inches
wide, good, finish, weight and quality Si 49
27inchfor $ I 25 and 21 inch for 98c yard
This is exclusive with us in Lincoln.
DRESS GOODS HEADQUARTERS.
Waistings Largest line of new Waistings in the city. All wool, with
silk stripes, colors, old rose, cadet, cardinal, helio, turquoise, navy and
national, yard 69c
All Challies of imported qualities, satin stripes, French designs and
Colorings, worth to vx, yard..
69c
Best grade of all wool Chal
lies, good culonngs and de
signs, yard 43c!
Satin stripe, 1i wool Challies,
new designs and colorings, pas
tel shades, yard. 33c
$
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OMAHA LETTER.
Omalta, Sebr-.
JfarcJi 'J3. 1501.
Dear EUanor :
Rusticity and subarbanism are de
lightful, when assumed when the part
is well dressed, and gracefully carried
out. The real article is "smelly" to a
degree and is apt to tread on one's toes
with hob nailed shoes, and generally
in one's way in a large bovine style,
which is calculated to exasperate the
denizen of cities to a degree that makes
him want to pick its pocket, fleece it in
any style in order to enlarge the hori
zon of its mental understanding and
send it about its business a wiser if
somewhat damaged commodity. Tou
aren't the real thing; but your poses are
pretty. I actually can fancy yon sit
ting among the lush grasses of a mea
dow land stringing buttercups or
plucking the petals of daisies, your bat
hanging down upon your gingham back.
I can even imagine the upward timor
ous lift of your eye lids as you would
look at any glittering temptation to
doubt, any unholy longing after "other
things." I fairly hear those trembling
tones, as you say, "Go away. Monsieur,
I am very happy with the things I have
besides I do not understand you."' I
use the Monsieur advisedly, since the
masculine element stands for all things
it were best simple country maidens
should not understand. Heaven bless
yourswset Rusticity! Long may the
aroma of such be abroad in the land.
There is something delightfully brac
ing in the idea that I am fascinating.
My fascinations, are. I am afraid, of a
brand which has not been particularly
successful, in impressing the general
public In fact, you may have the
proud distinction of being their dis
coverer. I must be essentially unpatri
otic. I cannot hate Lincoln altho' its
fretful porcupine disposition amuses me
sometime. Why should the denizens
of that green embowered nest reach out
their antennae to scratch the battle
scarred face of Omaha?
'Oh! sharper than a serpent's tooth,"
etc. Lincoln did not have to ba hewers
of wood and drawers of water when
there was no wood to hew or water to
draw. Omaha blazed the way. Omaha
planted, Omaha watered, and Lincoln
reached out her dainty ficgers and
plucked of the increase. She has her
seats of teaming you, Mr. Zehrung,
Jack and the Legislature. What, in
deed has Omaha, that she has not. ex
cept more people and people are not
always an unalloyed blessing. Omaha
has all her hundred and two thousand
pair of eyes fixed upon Lincoln at pres
ent. We are a rulerless people, waiting
with bated breath the news that an heir
m
is born to the throne and when one
remembers that the heir should be twins
in order to properly uphold the dignity
of the dynasty, no wonder local interests
are crowded to the wall.
That poor much squabbled ever toga.
Verily it would seem that nothing could
be left of it but melancholy fluttering
rags, after the frantic efforts to adjust
it to so many diverse shoulders is over,
Which would be most amusing E'eanor
the man for whom the toga shall be
much too large or him who shall find it
much too small? The thought reminds
me of the gentleman, who was showing
me pulley belts in the Boston store:
"You see, lady this can be pulled in if
it is too small or let out if too I&rge.'
Blessed be the faculty of adaptation!
In our moments of relaxation, when
we are forced into remembering that
the daily sequence of breakfast, dinner
and supper will go on even though the
body politic is threatened with heart
failure, we amuse ourselves drawing
Auditoriums on paper and having
visions wherein Patti dedicates this
glorious structure with another farewell
performance. It gives our brilliant lit
tle contemporaneous weekly papers with
which we are prodigally blessed or
bored a chance to swell to the point of
spontaneous combustion with civic
pride and loyalty, which chiefly revives
itself by thrusting among the million
aires with its caustic pen-points and
indignantly demanding "for to knoy"
why they so persistently adorn the rear
ranks of subscribers. If there is any
place where the unselfish and progres
sive newspaper fraternity is willing the
modest millionaire should flaunt him
self, it is at the head of subscription
lits. Millionaires are getting scarcer
than hen's teeth, and their offerings
appear anent that most misleading of
all pseudonyms "Cash." Modest of
ferings, they are, too. You know it's
bad taste to make a vulgar display of
one's riches. The millionaires proving
such a lamentable failure, we have in
stituted an Exposition to the same
laudable purpose. The Exposition
well, the less said of it, the better.
There evidently was a spieler or two
left over from the Midway, and they
needed a "job." Xot an unworthy rea
son for an Exposition! Come up and
I'll take you there. We'll buy a num
ber; yon may drop it in the slot, and.
who knows you've always been lucky,
you may draw a package of pancake
flour. That would be hard on Jack;
but he would suffer in a worthy cause.
The Lenten musicales have been a
great treat. The one given at Mrs. Pop
pleton's a week or two since was eepec
ially fine. Miss Bishop and Mrs. Learned
gave Ethelbert Nevin'a Song Cycle
ah, me! that he. so pure an exponent of
modern life, shoulc so soon have finished
his own melodious cycle. Miss Bishop's
great organ-like tones eatisGed one's
musical intellect, although the sacred
fire has not yet burned deep enoush
The waters have never yet rolled quite
over her soul, and we dare not wish the
tempest should rage. Mre. Learned,
with tones less firmly anchored than
those of Miss Bishop, did not lack the
temperamental passion which burns its
way through the thought of the poet an-l
the "wanderf ul melodies" of the com
poser. The musicale was well attended
and was "swell" to a degree. Coupes
and carriages ornamented the sides of
the square where the Poppletons beau
tiful family residence stands and only
lacks the mellowing touch of time to be
a fair representation of an English
country house. In fact, the array of
vehicles was so imposing that Mrs. Jones
on a side street looked at it with awed
interest, saying, "My! I wonder wbu
kin be dead at the Poppleton's there's
a terrible big funeral over there.'
We have a mate for that beau-ideal f
a bachelor of yours to-wit. Frank Zeh
rung in one Hon. Richard S. Berlin if
various fame. I see the local press ha
taken to putting on the title very dilii
gently of late. He may not be quite
good looking as your Mr. Zehrung. bu
he is just as big hearted and unattain
able as a domestec appendage. He 1
Dick to all the older girls, not exception
myself, and Uncle Dick to the risicj
generation from my infant prodigy of i
brother to my debutante sister Gertrude
And that title seems to fit him as wei
as to please him much better than tb--stately
one of honorable. You must see
him these days on your own streets, for
he as well as several other victims v'
blighted hopes spends a goad deal v!
his time in your mid6t. Well, this fun
for-the-boj-B- and - death - to - the - frog
game will soon be played to a finish, arl
it looks as if all the warriors would be
compelled to go home, on their shields.
Have you bought your spring bonnet
This would be hardly an essentially fen
t
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