Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 25, 1903, Page 36

- # 3 B P s b THE ILLUSTRATED BEE., FIVE GENERATIONS OF THE CLAR K FAMILY AT ST. PAUL, Nebh Gifts for Autumn’s Brides HAT to give the autumn bride is a question that is vexing the minds of many a man and woman., As a usual thing the mind uncon- sciously turns to spoons, and the bride gets them till she fancies she was born with one in her mouth. Table silver, too, 18 poured upon her as a hint that she ought to entertain, and the forks and spoons blink a sort of reflection that she ought not to mind if the sets don't match, Buch things are well in their way, but the gift of furniture often reduces a bride to tears, for it is almost certain to be in a style different from that which she con- templated putting into her home. gifts, therefore, are always most certain of a welcome. When did any woman ever have enough personal belongings? These offer a great variety and come in styles sultable for a wealthy as well as a penniless bride, and in patterns and materials new this season and, therefore, deslirable * The friend with a slender purse can send the bride one of the new beaten silver hat- pins with little windmills on top, to pair with one having her new monogram twisted in beaten silver. Golf sticks, flowers, bowknots, dogs' heads, little Father Knick erboockers and heads of pretty girls vie in dainty attractiveness among the new hat- pins of old beaten silver, More expensive is a dressing table set of twelve pleces, wrought in the heavy, raised patterns of beaten silver now so stylish. The set includes brush and comb, clothes-brush, tooth-brush, mirror, nail- brush, file, buffer, sclssors, knife and salve box, with another little silver and crystal box for nail powder. No bride would look askance at such daintiness. For the bride who belongs to the sewing soclety of her church a present that is cer- tain to insure hLer continued attendance at each Dorcas meeting is a set of sewing articles for a chatelaine. A pretty chate- laine buckle helds a suitable number of chains to which are attached a dainty silver barrel or fancy box, holding a thimble with the bride's monogram upon it, a case con- taining needles and one holding pins, a little silver emery, a richly wrought pair of embroidery sclssors for snipping threads, and a case big enough to hold a spool of thread. When these objects are intended for a workbasket as well, a sllver measur- ing rule should be added, with its orna- mental slide to measure the inches graven on the rule., A pretty wrought flower forms a handle. Then there is a glove darner, with its two small silver knobs at the ends of a slender oval stem, and a silver ball on a handle for darning silk stock- ings, and such things in the way of needle books and cushions and button and thread bags and holders as might prove useful in a workbasket Another t(hing that almost any bride would faney Is a little cut glass bot- tle of smelling salts, with a silver or enamelled stopper above the tiny glass stopper. The sllver ones In pointed, round and square shapes can be had for Personal $1, but the enarhelled ones are much higher. ¥or women who fancy gun metal these dainty odds and ends come in that at- tractive metal, ¢ Coin purses, too, ents, They are pretty and look swinging from a to a fancy buckle. are acceptable prese as useful as they are like fat little watches short chain The top flies up at the pressure of a spring and the pres- sure of still another spring discloses a place sufficiently large to hold quite a good deal of car fare. There might be added to the coln purse one of the little boxes of wrcught silver, furnished with a looking glass in the cover, into which face powder is tucked away or bon bons hidden. Of course, only an intimate friend would venture upon a set of distinctly personal articles, such as a dainty rouge pot, with its long silver handle, a box for face cream, one for lip salve, a box hold- ing a small brush with which color is ap- plied to the lips and another for use upon the eyebrows, a charmingly designed fil- igree holder and top for the vaseline jar, a hollow-topped wrought silver hair re- celver to match the other articles in pate- tern, as well as the silver soap dishes with their latticed insides. Just as personal are the manicure sets, of which a woman never has too many, They wear out and break, and are in such constant use that variety in them is always appreciated. Among the novel shapes introduced into these sets are little flat irons of pumice stone with silver handles. While beauty always likes the where- withal to adorn herself, she also has social obligations almost as important. One of these is the answering of letters. Every woman loves to have her own p onal desk belongings and to have them as dainty as possible, although one rich woman was recently heard to complain that all her friends fancied she needed letter holders, and she owned so many of them that she could never find a letter to answer. Several styles of desk sets are in vogue this season—green filigree work upon brass red metal combined with brass, Russian enamel, brass and old beaten silver, that is, old only in name. The latter is most fashionable just now and charming effects are produced in it. A well furnished desk should have silver letter and card holders, paper and envelope holders and racks for pens, pencils and paper cutters. A little sponge cup and one for the ink brush are supplemented by a silver holder for the mucilage bottle, a stamp box, tray, seal, candlestick and tray and iInkstand and tray. Some attractive silver holders have an eraser in one end and a brush in the other, while even the sponge for putting on stamps has a heavy silver handle, The season brought in some decorative Greek designs and floral effects in beaten silver that make a modern desk set a joy to the beholder When the prospective wedding guest con- has attached « ,humanity . Wealthiest MRS W. H. CLEMMONS OF FREMONT, PR F 3 WOMAN'S CLUB, HOSTESS CLUB FOR T NEBRASKA FEDERATION OF glders the jewelled garters, the pearl- studded tucking and side combs, the new card cases and purse, the chains and bangles and dangles, which now have their vogue, she is vexed, not by the question of what to give the autumn bride, but what personal gift to select from among an al- most endless variety. Ocean Democracy (Continued from Page Five.) are in a better position to than the average traveler. Two good reasons exist natural disappearance on shipboard of the distinctions that exist where between the average run _of and the financially and Boclally elect. For one thing the luxury of ocean travel has advanced to a point where it leaves little to be desired even by the most fastidious persons. The cuisine, the service and the appointments on a great Atlantic liner are as perfect as the tourist is accustomed to on shore. In railway travel the man in the private car has many advantages over the ordinary passenger, but in sea travel noth- ing else equals the liners in comfort, con- venience and speed. The most luxurious yacht compares unfavorably with them when it is a matter of an ocean voy: and yacht owners who take their ve across the ocean usually travel the by one of the big ships. When Vanderbilt and the party of friends who have crulsing for several months in European waters returned recently made the Atlantic crossing in one of the big passenger shi all except Mr. Vander- bilt himself, who a yachting enthusiast and who came over in his own craft, A second reason is that the spirit of sea travel has always been one of equality and friendly intercourse. ‘Steamship acquaint- ance,” like summer flirtation, does not involve any obligations beyond the end of the voyage, and the whole atmosphere of a blg Atlantic liner encourages the friendly intercourse and democratic soclability which make an ocean voyage so delightful an experience. Perhaps the democracy of ocean travel cannot be better illustrated than by cert that the writer recalls on pander to it for the else- 1selves Cornelius been they 1 con- board FREMONT NCE OF THE WOMEN"' one of the earliest voyages after that magnificent specimen of ocean architecture was first put into com- mission. Thé concert was presided over by the venerable Lord Pauncefote, the late British = ambassador Washington, An- drew Carnegie gave a short talk which was sandwiched in between a song by a variety favorite and another by a salesman for a firm of Bradford spinners. An English duke, since married to an American heiress, played the piano, and the collection for the seamen's fund was taken by a well known society woman and a fgvorite actress, Imagine such a gathering on land if you can. The Dramatic Motive , “How do you figure cut the plots of your plays?’ inquiréd the ‘anxious novice. ““Motive is the only key that opens the portals of dramatic action,” said the pop- ular dramatist. ‘“And motive is best tested by the que ‘Why? See how I have ap- plied the principle in my latest work. Why are the children on the stage? Because the scene is a nursery. Why does the vil- lain come to the nursery? Because he is pursuing the mother, Why is the mother in the nursery? Because she is attending the children.” “But why do you have a nursery on the stage at all?” the novice. “Why not something else? “Becaus said the popular dramatist proudly, ‘“because 1 had a commission to wrile a play with a nursery in it. York Times. queried Hard Lines “You have asked me to tell you,” the doctor said, *“your exact condition. There is no hope for you. There will be times when you will seem to be stronger, but you will be gradually growing weaker, You may last a year yet, and possibly two, but no longer."” “Well. it won't make much difference,’! sald the patient, philosophicolly. “I've never been able to acquire anything abso- lutely in less time than that, and it will seem perfecely natural to get a lot in the cemetery on the instalimeat plan.''—Chis cago Tribune,