Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 22, 1903, Page 14

.~ ’ | | 1507, but not gemerally used for street be formed to embark into the manufacture |terms will differ very materially. The lo- | foo mrien ] '’'HE OMAHA SUNDAY PAGES 13 TO 24. A R T ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 19 SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS HAYDEN: Woman's Spring Suits, Wearing Apparel HAYDEN; and Millinery. The Fashion Center of the West is Hayden’s Hayden's efforts directed by ability, strengthened by long experience and aided by the best artists and designers in America produced that much sought individuality and exclusiveness in our garments, not to be found elsewhere in the west—not even surpassed by any \ other house in the country, The Hayden NAME stands for much, It represents truthful, honest, square reliable dealing, \ : > Every woman in Omaha who has examined our line of Women's Suits, Skirts and Waists fells us there is nothing to equal them in the city. We want you to see "‘am Vlhefllel' you blly ornot. 200 fine sample suits, made expressly by the best tailors, for exclusive customers—no two alike—on sale at §I25, $90, $75, $60, $45, $30 and $25. 400 women s suits bought by our buyer in New York last wetk; these are the imported spring styles; beautiful cr:ations, in every color, material and style shown in the east; nearly all silk dro; at $15. 0, $18.00, a:d $25.00 ' ' 474 women’s s ats with or without cotton drops; a few silk drops; in browns, blues, tans and ci stors; in all the new styles; advertised in this city as bargains by other houses at $18. Our price Monday only $2.50, 300 suuts, taffeta and satin lined jackets; perfect hang and finish; bought to sell for $12.50. Hay- den's sac price only §7,60, INTERESTING NEWS FOR SKIRT BUYERS Degginger & Aarons, 237 Market Street, Chicago, sold to us their entire surplus line of sk rts, including 700 fine sample skirts (better goods were never made). They go on sale Monday at one-half to onesthird price. All told there are 2250 skirts, 400 of these beautiful skirts; none better in America than the D. & A. skirts, worth §10.00, on sale for $4.90. 300 D. & A. skirts made to retail for $6.00; sale price, $2.95. 300 D. & A. skirts, made to retail for $5.00, for $1.98. 50 #xtra fine D, & A. sample skirts, made to retail for $15, on sale at $7.50. 200 misses’ skirts at $1.25, $2, $3 each. NARY UNMATCHABLE BARGAINS FOR MONDAY MORNING We have taken all our $1.00 and $1.50 wrappers, amounting 25 dozen heavy cotton waists, just the thing for the ;iresent season’s wear; a in all to 38 dozen, and put them on sale Monday morning at 25c. l?—t of samples sent .to us by our New York buyer; they are worth $4,00 to 3 g : g $5.00; Monday morning on sale at, each, 50c. Second floor. 25 dozen women's flannel waists, that sold as high as $5.00. 300 women’s $6 taffeta waists, made of Givernaud’s best silks; on sale Mon- Your choice Monday morning for, each, 50c. day morning at the extra special price of only $2.90. 10 dozen women's white alpaca waists that have sold for 100 women’s silk blouse jackets, for only $5.00. $5.00. Monday morning for $1.90. 200 children’s dresses that sold for $6.00, on sale for_$1.50. 3 From 9 until 11 O’CLOCK MONDAY MORNING 20 dozen | Y % women’s mercerized underskirts, the regular $1.50 quality, on p sale for 29¢. . l Exquisite New Spring Milliner quisite New Spring Millinery Never have your eyes feasted upon such a showing of beau- tiful, stylish millinery as Hayden Bros. show now. Every hat has an individuality, a distinctive tone and style that will charm women of taste, Superb and elegant creations from London, Berlin, Paris and the eastern fashion centers, as well as exclugive new prodne- tions from the deft fingers of our own American milliners, The new spring millinery at Hayden's has that air of buoy- ancy and life and beauty that fits the season.. There is a grace and harmony and charm in the new productions that will bring joy to every feminine heart that desires becomingness, beauty and fashion in millinery. Hayden Bros. are now holding special sales on the advance styles and at a great saving in prices to you. - g . Spring Millinery Opening. will take place the latter part of this week and will be an- nounced in later issues of this paper. Prepare for it. In the meantime you cannot spend time more pleasantly or advantage- ously than in seeing and admiring and pricing the hundreds of handsome hats gathered from the world's fashion centers and now on display. Everything in trimmings and ornaments. “The style is in the millinery not in the prices.” The Great Muslin Underwear Sale. Hayden's big New York spot cash purchase of newest and most stylish muslin underwear will be on le Monday. The greatest muslin underwear values ever offered. LOT No. 1—We will place on sale ladies’ fine cambric drawers, extra umbrella ruffies of fine lawn tucked and hem- stitched and embrofdered trimmed, and ladies' fine cambric corset covers em- broidered and lace insertions and tucked, and ladies' knee skirts, umbrella ruffies, worth G0c, at . . NOT No. 2—One lot of ladies' fine draw- \ w4, corset covers, chemise, gowns, long skirts and knee skirts, all handsomely trimmed with fine torchon and valen- clennes laces and Swiss embroidery, hem- stitched lawn ruffles, goods that sold at $1.00 each, at ...... serenen s . Ladies' fine gowns, chemise and skirts, elabortely trimmed In the latest styles and made of fine cambric and nainsooks, c worth $2.00, on sale at X We will place on sale ladies' fine five-plege bridal suits, consisting of a gown, chem- ise, corset cover, drawers and skirt—These suits a dsomely trim- med with fine valenciennes laces, fine lawn tucked ruffies and fin insertions, worth $165.00, on sale at enter into the cost of service and tend to | than that charged by private plant and public {llumination is & matter of the | of their wires to life and preperty, the vitlate comparisons of cost between differ- | oo > T8¢ Price per sixteen candlo powe last twenty years. | tnterference of their poles and equipment ent cliles. In A ndetaent ear charged tn unmetered in- - y t the matter of municipal | cand :aper by Viotor Rosewater at National | The appiication of electricity to lghting | With fire fighting, all constitute points of lighting plants, we have as yet no it | Brice chatged o privara Leots i, Ly Crage : hip Cenventi and its perfection for practical uses came | contact with public needs outside of the | formity of hookkeeping by which we that in all of the groups except two, the Municipal Ownership ention. T e ot ¥ a4 (i | pabtte o qunllEryol gaeviBt anh ycioo Togu: ping by o m|ay | average price charged by the private plants be sure similar entries are made up of the | is consi exCr S8 SRottad the Quesiien af muiatoloa) own- | IAHON. The'asesnt o the BURICIPANLY 16 | sxme Ttepont ‘Tib many stvees moroneer. me | B IR e amicioar Hoote S pinAL charyed ! u'EY'T ON IN ELECTRIC LlG“TlNG ership. Municipal ownership of various required before an electric lighting plant the electricity used for municipal purpos citiea with varying results. The experience | (rough its municipal government to exer- | conjunction with other monopolies of serv- | DEF IAmB per year to the municipeiity of lis Al ometal Imvestigations mave | i it PR TN T alstribution | cito conteol even where its powers are | jca (with water works, for sxample), which | O, FCEVICe {8 very much smaller than the Proved Private Franchises More |of water had been eminently successtul, | delegated to a private corporation is fully | aimost defies statistical ,,p.mf‘,,, "of cost | Blioainarged by private plants to the mu- Contly to the People Than while the few experiments with municipal | conceded. elements, 9ms chnes balns ey thLvios. this o o B Public Service. gk CwOCky Wath AL s avhiegt o8 vy Law of Increasing Returns. The geographical situation also has much | * 5 Rucrege’ muot® SIADIE. voent service municipalities were busily engaged in nu-| 3 Electricity is subject to the law of in- ::(,‘?:, ik a"”;?‘:,",‘“ the S of e | B -"u'l"}:'.“.',‘n’:“i’{.‘.°..‘:§'§“(‘ni PP Tee i merous costly public improvements urgently | CTeasIng returns. In former discussien | TIOWYe PONErTWHSIRr oF ot water power | groups the average price ¢ rsad bos elloe T Y omanded to Tmoet. the needs of rapidly | much was made of this propesition, namely, 3 steam, the quantity and | watt hour by municlpal plants is less than | et [ exposition of 1878. Its introduction and | erate has been abandoned. Thelr exclusive | a wide ared of circumscribed area— MLN[C[PAL l,lGHTL\C PLANTS adoption in this country for both private | use of a portion of the streets, the menace . ibed area—all | charged by municlpal plants is smaller When we come to the comparative cost statisties we meet with many dificulties. prrradhA b Aditions : the quality of the fuel. Still another vari- | that charged by private plants. civilization 18 the increasiog power of man | EFowing populationa. The defective cendi- | (UL 10y fuery ddliicnal ADVesLIbt Of | unt liew In the percentage of dspreciation | o4 AVSISRY Brice of fncandescent service over the forces of nature, The rise of the | tion of legislation and the meager powers | h our to private users: An ex- ore than-n corresponding return from | Which must always be more or less arbi- [amination of the table shows that v modern municipality has been made pos-|reposed in our municipal corporations con-} o100 o bioduct. The point sought te be | Fary. What I will admit, with reference | &8® price is less in every Koo XAl 1| stituted serious obstacles to public owner- P » ught te be g L sible only byI Ihe.l\lhlflxl'flol of n‘amrn et bibe P tire. tor ‘the scored was that the very fact of increasing | t© the use of cost statistics, is that the so- m‘;’:ur.ln:; pi;l‘::::n l:l.lll'::: the corresponding forces, preparing the way for present com- X 3 returns placed & concern; once entrenched. | called average cost is deceptive, that it is | 6. Av 3 B A S : i entrenched, | ptive, that it is Average price of Incandescent servic dicdons of bighly developed wrbea lits, It most part, belpless, as well as unprepared|in position to monojolise the Seld and to | useleas to seek o represent complicated | pet, Smpere hour to private il ] AD ont n| - 5 ol o zle 3 . . a e erage ¢ osn y % e o e ot by the tostalletion of an | P4¥ out all compotitors. But the samo | Drocesses by a sinzle numerical figure, that | in the ‘municipal plants thah in'the priva tinguishes the great citles of today from et h‘:l "I A 1 for | 1mportance no longer attaches te this thesis cost statistics, while ip themselves most | in all of the .rnfum in ‘whic )’."x-‘.,'m !arril‘"' § those of ancient and medieval times, it Is | clectric -ighting plant. A8 4 Fesull. 17| because more careful analysis of the in- | valuable, must be employed as u basts of | CUl Be made, excopt one o g to be found in the services rendered to the | nearly twenty years the dlscussion of B | dustrial organism has demonstrated it to be | comparison only with the utmost care with S, Average price’ per 1mp per vear of o inhabltaats generally by thelr ewa co- | nicipal ownership of electric lELNE WAt | from ano point of view a mere truism and | the fullest knowledge of special conditions Waking ‘up the. price 19 Dty uiteored: operation through the agency of local gov- | contlnued pro and con, and while § believs | trom another simply & measure of franchise | and With dus allowance for the many limi- | 3hen (et In il of the groups oxcept one, ernment or by delegation of these functions | much beadway has been made in the direc- | yajue, It has been found that the law of | tations which afect thelr accuracy. It | ooy '\ 'ra88 Drice charged per lamp per to quasi-public corporations. In a word, | tion of arousiug popular sentimemt to the | jnoreasing returns does not apply exclu- | must not be assumed, however, that I o g Rl T Fitnis than 1 . 5 3 e on wparing the coly What (he olden ety Iacked most, as com- | advantages of municipal ownership, 1t must | sively to monopoldes, but 18 to be discerned, | argue for the descrediting of cost statistics | SNOWINE the average price charged by pared with the modern ecity, was those |Dbo admitted that public opinion 1s as yet|though perhaps within lesser limits, :u | altogether; for they embody the financlal | Brovgrs,Biants per lamp per vear to the Uiill'les provided to facilitate social lite | by no means firmly orystallized. industries essoutially competitive, where it | experience of the various undertakings, | MCIpAI Mlancs, e Lo oo fenihed by mi through & chesp and plentiful supply of Some Settled Points. Is traccable more particularly to effeative | both private and municipal, and our course | ETOUPS excepl one, the cost per lamp per FHOR Hahiotent, Dawat AMA'Ehe SRS 88| 1 ‘boiigngiwe ma ol agtee.fhat severn | ISCUE STEAISICON. et e ma | (o6 the future mugh be Guided aresly br Piints is smbller than the prics chosies. bas rapld transit and communioation. Imporiant poiats have bees delnitely settied | BiclP opolles of service are susceptible | the experiments and experiences of the | lamp per year by privats plants 10 the . In the evolution of the medern city the | \MPOTCREC B TS (UL of close and systematic organization goes | past plcipality for the ‘lights used i municipal s o % hout s 4 rvic tatroduction of aad later :‘llphl‘u;!el'ly L “Elestrio lightiog 1s & monopolistic fu. | inout saying. \Looked at from another | It Ls mot my purpose te spread out an im- s fo: lighting purposes, and particularly for | 4l " 1" (he early discussion of mu- . 3 aw of Increasing returns | posing array ef figures contrasting pubiie oF gun in this inquiry by the street illumination, played & most fm- | i flll o rhip the principal argument | page e it Is accentuated o this and allled | and private lighting plants. The offici Department of Labor has been supple- i 3 elds s the varis - ” |(r|’ t r(;‘le We cl.: ;uh Yu::‘cu:ly on the side of the lighting corporations yo.% m;‘:‘[‘;’q‘:;zt .‘;"Ilull’l‘;ml- of _mn hise | of the census bureau have beem eollecting ::nltaa since by annual reports upon the lwagloe what u city Wike New York for |was that all the evils and abuses com- |, yicaqily growin pplled is occupled by | data relating to electrio lghting through- b stica of American cities, confined, cxample, would be If It were to have la| ;lained of would right themselves ubder |wpoye domand ns population, er by people | qut the country, but thelr schedules have [ ONCYEL 1o clties having & population of Rupsly of gus and electricity suddenly ana| S0 B0 ROCC S G e law of com. | ', domand for the service ls increas- | not yet been (sbulated and are, therefor, over 30,000, and including statistics, of permanently cut oft. We can bardly reallse | poiicion. It the people of apy city were | o (S WSreRANE ¢ 3 sy flows {rom | 4i1 " {naccessible. When published they | @UBIcipal financial and other activit that Rome in its palmiest days went 10 | Giiitiianoq with the character of the serv- | LxPaRding busin ® at & rate | wiil doubtiess supply Al the materials| (The paper here quotes from the writer's sleep with the setting of the sun, and that |\, yendered, or the price charged, all they | per’eo A .l L;; of incroased expenses. o . g r coutra, shoul " the n.\m«u‘wu:';ru‘:n‘:(urlfndhon“evmdul:h:t: b o do was 1o harter anoiher Saroie | 1, e s: ) o\,i"ml:\ob':tvl;‘l::: for a7 | aiions as they exist today. In the laat of these roporis and thew pro- o seventec c . ighting company and transfer thelr patron- i ceeds to take up the various o the inhabitants of London were under an | age (o the one that offered the better terms. :":"‘1“‘:; ”(':{'“:‘A] or bf- satisfied with sub- Deparipent of Laker Inguiry. b M g which 1’1;‘ " 4::::::f,.":,: obligation from the year 1416 to hang out | The history of electric lighting both here | surer & more I::n"w:}“zr:::"“"; would | The most comprehensive inquiry inte |private ownership rest their case.) candles at certain hours om dark nights,) and abroad completely' discredits this as- | gjop portlonate diminu- | eleetric lighting plants that has been made | This paper, written by Victor Rosewale: but they never discharged their duty fully | sumption. Nowhere has competition been with any oficial autherity s that ef which | for the national convention on municipal under the statute. The impetus vice and | effective. Everywhe has combination | Statistical Limitatio the results kre contalned in the fourteenth | {Fnerehlp and public franchises held under crime derives from darkness can readily | been manifested. Even where competing annual repdft of the commissioner of labor, | York, ;!mt;eum'ulmlftjmirm ‘x:hu" 1\“'" be understood. The wonderful transforma- | companies were originally chartered and | being for {he year 1899. In this report | \ssue. . o tion wrought by the begluning of street | enfranchised, they have all been merged | Commissiower Carroll D. Wright and hi it : e difficy ve - &l an is Mghilng is significantly described by | into ‘ome organization, or have divided | i e, o ;:;i:‘ Himave slready discussed | gasistants fucceeded in gathering data for Tangled by the « Macaulay In the first volume of bis famous | territory, completely cicluding competition. | oo (i o/ * BT CIMATCOR Statistical As- | 955 plants jn the United States, of which e Bistory, where he says: | 1t 18 meediess to go into further details on | LHEUPR RUETE - o 189 (L and 1|30 were phimicipally owned and controlled, | TWO tories are told in Hatper's Maga- { e v & otris ndwant Adaihete | this point. Both sides will agree that com- | Jo", [PCHE S TG EOL TAURES TAML WAVE | while 633 ere operated under private or sine of ministers stumbling on texts of & e s et ey ..o posal are not to be humorous personal applicat ¢ e o tes | ghting Is unaecessary | 1o o0 L o o T corporate fwnership pplication. One was ! dhe Lt e O A e re T the | And_undesirable, that a duplicate elestric compurijon. To undertake to. o Of closs | = pealisin{ the diMcuities of handling the | b aon o8 minister, having charge of r".nv of Lordon. & change which has per- lighting service for the same territory con- i % undertake to figure out ng the | pig first church, and preaching a serles of ith precision how much, 1f statistics fand the utter impossibility of a dded us much to the happiness of N v 4 & By h, If any, advantage ¥ a utte " 3 B e tha peopie. a3 revolutions of ':‘:;";:‘::r f;}:‘:z‘:‘_’i":u :‘f’m:;’:“b:“"“:fi‘:d!.“~ru,. in dollars and cents from municipal | AB4INg a fingle unit to which the product ;.',:fion;h:”v;:'n:.l:e(,“,',' fiteraness of 95 Indeh Eregter. fame. An ingenious pro- q { ownership as agaiust contracts with private | ©ould be|reduced, Commiseioner Wright | pefore taking his leave and durins b eave, and during his T Edward Temming, obtalnea for a single uaified plant. A potential com- | ¢ fr B Tant conveying to him. for & term petition exists between electricity, gas, | oo b0 o o8 I8 quite impossible from the divided t¥e plants into groups according to | ypsence he expected to take unto himself & wite, Mis engagement Laving been an- of years, the exclusive right of lighting Easoline and other Mehting agencies, but | S3t8 St our command. In the Sret place | the total horse-pewer capacity ef their es- ondon. He undertook, for . the e gl ¢! o cl Tondgn. He undertook ' far ‘u mOdSTAle comperiticn as a regulative force between omparison of contract prices by | §ines and classified all his material by cor- O o Pl hinta, Tred | Fival alectria MEHiRg ceacerss ia out of | PSMOSIVes is eiten deceptive Lecause the | FOspondlfe SToups. The tetal isvestment {-haelmas 10 Lady day, and from 6 10 12 | the question. smount of lighting service varies from |10 the eid of the last previous fiscal year | your actention this eveaing of e ek’ Those “whe' now ‘see the : < place to place. In our city the lamps may | 1B the 20 municipal plants 0perated Was | of the evost apostie, -t A& 10 these words Capitch e year ‘vond, from Guse 1o Not a Private mess. burn but & few hours nightly on & moon. | 31090569, and (bat In the 633 Drivate | oered ua: - The' emey udy now to be e i taaticns 'of I Hogue and Hiea | 2 Electric Mgbting s a public or semi- | IIsht schedule, whereas in another they are | Plants Was §113917615. His final con- | wigower, R e Minister o & heim would have looked pale, may pérhaps | public rather than @ private undertaking. |burned all of every night. Again, the | clusion expressed in the summaries bring- | gecer his first .,,,-:",,':.:h 'l,':;:‘" ,",";' riends #mile to think of Hemming's lanterns, The very nature of the business i length of the contract K ther b, TR Raitts Tty heddie ons. Loves siness invests it ontract period 1s important | Ing toghther by groups all the facts which " Th ten durhg & small part of one night in With & public character. A corporation | because in response to an advertisement for | could froperly be brought into comparison ::,‘u.“:; .,,:Io.:,m:":'g.h:: SR Shoedis :‘:..‘ m;"l:' :‘u.-n was not the feeling of his cannot be launched to go into the business | lighting bids under contracts for one, two, [ are ay follows: e g 4 “““n"dflm g uiduhn. n;- emperaries. of supplying electricity for light and power | three, five or ten years respectively, 1t will | 1. Ayrage price per kilowatt hour charged L 1y 1N Seemety Gas was frst introduced in Londom in om (he same plan that a corporation would | be found that the proposals for the di i ardservice: T-mup the average f:".':‘,.:,';’.":',:; PP Sl e per private plants said: “‘My heived breth- n h group, and it with the You will find my text in the seven- lighting until atter 1817, The electric lamp, | of farm machfuery. The plea that tho|cation of the wires under 3t es underground 5 o €8 we all know, firct found practical demon- | public bas no interest in the conditions | bead—the location of the lamps mo:tuu-'-::. | kiio e by mu ‘:J;‘n:’.'fl‘ifi:'.:: RO0N0 56 the fenrsh chonismiohiig: | stration in the exbibit made at he Paris [ uader which eleciric lighting concerns op- |gr siugly on poles—thelr diatributlon over | bshon “sxcpt oen (e avarss’ Soice :‘n:.a'.":'. MR ek e 1ad the Bible thoughtfully, he sald: “I luvite medessary for a careful study of the con- | Fecent article commenting on the exhibits | nounced. Aft over the | o After turning over the leaves of | whicl are o trifle larger than the ordinary | tcular point, and in this way Mr. Watkins paldce, Msucd at the time of the unveiling upon the occosion of (he hundredth an- Meel st Rather a | Biversary of the old emperor's birth, Many Utilitarian Notion Distorted Into others in her collection bear fine portraiis Bentimental Aspeot. ot members of the reigning family in full regalia and others of their palaces and of B historie places about Berlin, PRETTY MEMENTOS OF FOREIGN TRAVEL | ™5 i1y expensive and precious are cards beariug copies of great paintings and origi- | Some Loeal Coil t Ave|nal sketches by famous artists, some in water colors. Still others show the oldest wine cellars in Leipsic, the locale of a and Which Give a Good ceno from Goethe's “‘Faust’ and another ot ldea of the Fad. the castle figuring In “Tannhauser.’ er. sonally dear are cards from cafes where she has dined with friends, including It was a long, long time ago that Uncle|some from Mary Munchoff and lssay Sam began chopplug manila cardboard into [ Barmas, written at Eversvalde. oblong pleces and printing on one side of Tiia & & each & likeness of the head of the father of his country and the admonition, “This side | Mrs. McWhorter's collection, filling two is for the address only.” largo albums, Is perhaps, more distinctly For a good many years Americans treated | S¢enic, though not entirely so. A journey the opposite side as & more or less sacred | UArough tho albums is almost a tour of spaco on which could be written with | Europe, begiuniug with crowded Piccadilly propriety only the drummer’s statement, [ Cifcus, Regent street, Lelcester square, "Wii be with you 27th iust., and will be | Victoria station, the law courts in Pleet grateful for any orders you can hold until | Street, SL. James' palace, the House of then,” or else Aunt Eilizabeth's 2,400-word Commons and the ever-cougested bridge of epistle, which began at the top of the | London. Ostend hus representation o the card, ran down its full length, bordered it | €Xtent of & picture of the entrance to the three times and was lost in an effort to | POFt, @ bathiug party, and the Grand hotel, e Al the last mentioned being glven life und color That, remember, Was years ago. Later by delicate tinsel ropes woven dexterously Highly Prized by Their Owners ur of Burope. | tho Yankee found out that his cousius | ebout the contour of the building, and the across the water were making fancy affairs | 0utlines of its multitudinous windows. The of their cards and ‘went into the business | RUssian pulaces are given a semblance of Bimself. Now the souvenir postal card is | Woonlight and lamplight effect by per- made and used in practically every country | forating the outer plcture card in bun. under the sun, and with the spread of its | reds of places and placing under it popularity came the notion of collecting. | §10Wing yellow card. 1n the same portion The notion. bowever, 1s easier than its|©f the albums are cards showing sledge execution. Indeed, to collect souvenir|Faces and the native Russians In many postal cards one must either travel or en- | ¥8rbs, together with the palaces and the dear one's self to other people who travel, | F0¥al caunon at Moscow. The examiner The postal cards are 5o literally and so es. | theD sirays into Finland for & fow pages, sentially provioclal, you see. A card bear. | 10 e precipitated next to sunny France, Iog o Venice view would be at & discount | With Its historic avenues, its palaces gay with the recipient if it were mailed from with tinsel and memorable figures of the London, and vice versa. There are soma | Nupoleon cra who deal in the cards of all countries, but | The cards most gally colored are those thelr business is not flourishing. The de- | from Luzerne showing the qualntly garbed mand always is for the card that typifics | POSSDLTY. In contrast are somber onca the locality of its purchase; “Job lots" are | fFom Siberia. The others are In such di ot popular. versity as to show almost everything from A i Csicas 1h i &u English hunting scene to the log of the steamship Minneapolls; from the memorabio polnts about Dresden and Leipsic to the quimaux village at the Buffalo exposition, and from the city hall and court house of Chicago to “Satan,” Colorado's most his- | torie donkey Men Not Stroum on Cards. This explains why it Is that so many persons have a few cards and so few many cards. In Omaba the “collecting” vogue 1s practically in its infancy and large col lections are scarce. There are, however at least two really notable ones, the first treasured by Miss Ella Ethel Free and the second by Mrs. 8. A, MeWhorter, both ot | Very few men own collections, and none whom in collecting had the convenlence of | OWD Vvery large ones. Albert Watkins, extonsive travel abros ' Jr.. has one that atones for any weakness In Miss Free's collection there are more! 10 quantity by its strength in diversity than 500 cards, yet each is @ gem and the | 8nd galety. A college chum touring Europe diversity remarkable, though all are the made it a point to send Mr. Watkins the same in size except the Ger cards, | breezlest card io be obtained at each par United States cards. She coufesses to| has come into possession of a panorama especially treasuring the Russian cards| of frisky bathing parties, Bohemian luach- from Moscow and QOdessa, but the casual ers, eccentric musicians and romantic boat- examiner early loses himse!f in admiration | cursions of others from Italy, Bulgaria, Africa, The The fad, if it be & fad, has reached the Netherlands, Australia and the Britiah isles, | children and some of them at very early and could not express a preference if he age have made cxcellent beginnings. Albert had to. Cahn, jr, hus quite & number, greatly There is one from Lyons with a girl's | diversified in design, and Nellle Elgutter head wrought iu silk and the head decorated has a collection which includes the World's with & hat on which there is & dainty and Fair set, Transmississippi exposition get, & resplendent flower. Many gthers in thread, particularly fine Italian set, and individ- of almost equal excellence, are from Japan. ual cards showing views in BerMn, Hano- Amoug German cards s a preponderance | ver, Amsterdam and ey of those showlng statutes of 3-;-- aud | Mexico. :. ')'“w 4 ik