Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1909, Page 51

Atthe *“New Kind of a Women's Sult Store*’ Special Easter Sale Fashionable Easter Suits and Dresses at 409 Less Than Usual Prices Come here for the most beautiful Easter very low prices. Come and choose the suit you like best, and you will pay just about 40 per cent less than other stores charge for similar grades. Our stock of suits and dresses is now complete, and you its in Omaha. Beautiful may rest assured of a satisfactory selection. This sale offers you an opportunity to own a stylish new Easter suit for a very small outlay. Come and avail yourself of this rare chance to save money, and at the same Easter morn. b During this sale we are selling $18.00 Snits for We know these will please you. Big stock of these for you to se- lect from, all leading shades and a great variety of materials. Re- tall value $18; tory price, only. $20 Suits for $12.50 No other store in this town can af- ford to well these $12.50 suits for less than $20. We eliminate middiemen's profits here and sell direct at the maker's price. Your cholce at this price in a variety of serges, pana- mas and shawbd lll"pn s]z 50 creations—all of them, and at time be stylishly dressed om $25 Suits for $15 No words can describe the beauty of the handsome garments, mau)y new models shown for the first time. These suits come in all the leading shades and fabrics, $25.00 vnlue-. : s«ls for $30 Suits for $17.50 \ big selection of two and three- plece suits in a variety of shades and materfals. Bgautiful styles and exquisitely trimmed. , These come in fancy serges, panamas and. hard finished wor- § steds, $30 value, here a 17-50 Eroovs gowwen . reoeive your 10 TR T As. an extra inducement to have you buy direct from the makers, well allow a 10 per cent discount on all purchases made before April 16th, but this coupon must be presented when purchases. are made. GOOD UNTIL APRIL 15th, " "fl- 3“ & SUIT ’Aml. » ivenport Sts. fetall value $20, ere $35 Suits for $20 Haadsomely trimmed and beauti- fully made suits, All new spring shades, handsomely lined with fine sllks. Real $35 szu value, selling here for. Princess Cloak Under Management cf the GOODYEAR RAINCOAT CO. Cor. 16th and Davenport Streets. Open Until 9 P. M. ¥ Separate Skirt Styles Narrow Gored Skirts Show Inset Fan Pleatings in Front and Sides—8kirts Cut Regulation Styles Have Raised Tabs, Front and Back, to Form Panel Effect. HILE there 18 nothing radically new in separate skirts this season, there s just enough novelty in. the new numbers to distingulsh them from those worn during the last season. Firat of all, there is a wider showing of the high cut skirt, which, taking the cos- tume tendency Intp consideration, # well thought of. These cut skirts are es- pecially well thought of for summer wear, for & high out skirt of white or.other light material, when worn with matching waist, has every semblance of a one-plece.dress. For early spring, a number of the cloth skirts show the high cut skirt. Not all skirts, however, are cut Hhigh, for tany show m stitched belt or girdle, which, ‘for practical purposes is better liked than the ugh cut garment. Fewer Gores fi-t !.e- Finre! Although a number of the new skirts are quite full at'the feet, the better style gar- ments show @& decided absence of flare. Skirts are.qut with fewer gores, which does much to eliinate the flare, even in the fuller models.. Ciroular cut skirts are also to be seen, but as geparate garments the gored skirts are betthr liked. Many of the gored skirts show a few fan pleats, not too wide nor too full, set in at side gores. Some skirts are cut so narrow that these pléats are often necessary to the freedom of movement of the wearer. The inverted pleat in habit back effect and the plain cut habit back are seen in all the new models. A few skirts show the fan pleat- ing set In the back gores. Nothing seems to have been found that will answer as a substitute for voile, for it promises for as much popularity as ever. Fancily striped and plain weaves are well liked, with a leaning towards the plain effects. Although volle can stand a large amount of trimming, the tendency seems to be for neater and more tajlored effect: Self and button trimmings are used widely, while the silk and satin band trimmings are still to be seen among the popular priced models, Volle is especlally adapted for the tunic skirt; therefore, this model is oftener to be scen among-the voile than among the heavier materials. Panama seems to have lost none of its popularity of thé last few seasons, serge and mohalr are employed freoly for the utility skirts which are shown In large numbers and In the season's various styles. Skirts Are Comsiderably Longer. Although the uullity walking skirt is again shown In & length that escapes the ground, the very short skirt is no longer considered very ‘smart. Train lengths, however, are not shown very freely in the separate garments, however well thought of they may be In costumes and dresses. The ready-made skirts very seldom show the finished hem. A wide basted hem al- lows the purchaser the choice of length. ‘While front and side button skirts are by no means the novelty they were the last few seasons, a number of new skirts are made on that model. Side effects aro shown, but back fastened skirts seem to have come to thelr own again, for some $40 Suits for $25 The cream of the season’s entire production in all the handsomest and most novel spring colorings in 3-plece styles. Fashionable suits at very low prices. $40 values on sale, at 325 & Suit Parlors ‘mings Until Easter. of sthe high-class models are fastened that way. Wash Skirts in White and Color. ‘Wash skirts are made of linen, rep, cot- ton poplin and several linen imitations, and are shown in white and colors of tan, varlous shades of blue and evep a number of novelty rose and wistarla shades. Tho panel front cut high above the walst and in few gores Is a favorite style In wash skirts and the trimming conslsts of self material stitching, flat wash braids and SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 4, buttons. In misses' sizes, the plaited models still seem to hold their own, but there is much less fullness and the plaits are not as deep and are stitched down flatly below the knee. A number of the models that show scarc- ity of gores show a few inset plaits at each gore which are about knee deep. Belted Skirts and Trimmin A number of the belted and high cut skirts show the accompanying sash and girdles made of some soft materials and prettily finished with tassel ornament and tringe. The trimming of the girdle is re- Deated In_effective touches on the skirt. Buttons and loops in simulated button hole effect are also much in evidence. Orna- mental loops -are made of silk, satin and flat and round brald, while self material with tiny edge of piping is seen on tre plain tallored models. A number of the high skirts are cut higher in front and back in \panel affect, which leaves the sides considerably lower and forms the correct paneled princess gown when worn with walst to match or harmonize. Black and Color. Although black is always a greatly fa- vored skirt color, this season black is bet- ter thought of than ever. Among the fancy | materfals some blue, shown to quite an extent, the novelty light worsteds, silks and wash fabrics, there is a sprinkling of the light and novelty shades to be seen. become a staple and is especially well thought of for spring and summer and is to be seen among the skirts of cloth well as gmong those of wash fabrics. COME TO PUSH IRISH WARES Mrs. T, P. 0'Connor’s Plan for a Shop in New York. BUSY WOMAN TELLS LOT OF STUFF Talks About the Troubles of the Wife of an M. P—Thinks Eng- lsh Women Will Have Votes in Five Years. NEW YORK, March 3.—Mrs. T. P. O'Connor, wife of the oldest in point of service of the Irish members of the House of Colamons, 1s over here for a fortnight. The famous “Tay Pay" is one of the most popular men of his party and Mrs. Tay Pay s referred to by returning visitors as the best known American woman in Lon- dop. Dz»r reputation In this respect does not seem to have suffered by transplanting. At the Hotel Patterson her sulte of rooms resembles the double set of & Freach farce in which people are coming in and going out with such rapidity that it makes the head ache, or the squirrel entrance of the Waldort-Astoria at tea hour. The electric button at the outer door of the sitting room is presged continually by eager fingers, and accompanying it is the telephone bell. Femibine friends rush in and press her to thrabbing hearts with ecstatic embraces. One ¥ woman in evening gown at 11 a. m. had dropped in the evening before to havg & few moments' quiet chat and had discovered %o many subjects that must be discussed that she had stayed all might. Once & name is announced by the patient Buttons and Mrs. O'Connor looks about helplessly at the mural decoration of spring bats with sympathetic faces beneath. “Do I know her?" she asks. The gany headed decoration makes u noncommittal gesture. Buttons suggests that she is an Intimate triend, | “Of qourse,” says Mrs. O'Connor. “It 1 don’t remember. her name she is sure to She Explains Her Aumoyance. The sadness of an expression which “You see,” she says, “it lsn't & case merely forgetting the name and remem- bering the face; that Is & sort of half way 1 forget both and fn conse- Mte 18 a weries of tragic “One & woman rushed up to me on the street And we became immediately en- bave been so twgbly slad to see me or know so much Wbout me, o as we separ- ated 1 begged her, simply begged her to come into tea very soon. She sald she would and the rext day she came salling in at the tea hour. “The other guests drifted away and we were left tete-a-tete and had & most en- joyable time. Mr. O'Connor happened to &0 through the room once In his usual busy way and I thought I detected an ex- pression of surprise on his face, but before I could really wake up to the knowledge that it was there my guest had resumed her amusing anecdotes of yne and another with which she was regaling me. “When we met at dinner Mr. O'Connor said casually. ‘S0 you and Mrs. White have made up? I thought you sald you would never forsive her?' “Mrs. White was a woman with whom I had ha? a sertous foling out at a previous epoch and my husband with his wonderfully retentive mind had quoted me exactly. *~ “Was that—er-er—Mrs. White mered. “‘Certalnly it was Mrs. White he said sternly. ‘Do you mean to say you were taking tea in your own house with a woman whom you aidn't know—a woman you had vowed you wouldn't kmow any more! “All'T could do was to shake my head in absolute and utter confusion. Until that moment I had absolutely no idea who the ‘woman was. Of course, then, too, late, I remembered everything. I certainly gained one lesson, however, and that s that it does not do for & woman who is absent-minded to allow herselt the luxury of having enemies. Other Troublés in Her Life. “Now that we are on the subject, I may as well initlate you into some of the seamy sides of life of a woman whose husband is & prominent figure in the po- litical world. There are people who be- leve it @ rose-strewn path. Take my word for it, there are thorns and rough places. “Mr. O'Connor in & momert of marital confidence following some such event as I have related described to me in most elouent and convincing language the melancholy of the position of a man in the public eye whose wife did not remem- ber from day to day the names and faces of the people to whom was due at least the slight compliment of that kind. “I took the lesson seriously and shortly after it we attended a dinner given by some political club at one of tie fash- fonable hotels in Loadon. It was quite an affair, and there must have been & great many guests whom I had never met before, but whenever I saw anything that approached an expression of friendliness 1 beamed In ecstatic fervor. I even put myself to the trouble of gasing about in search of such evidences of previous ac- quatntance. “Just before dinner was announced & 1 stam- young man came and stood at the door of the saloon, rubbing his glasses and looking about with a shy and bewlldered glance. | He caught my eye and determined to leave no doubt in the mind of my husband that 1 was cordlally inclined toward his con- stituents and their friends. 1 selected this person as example of wifely sentiment. So I arose, rushed, fairly rushed, aéross the room, seized him by the hand and told him how delighted I was that we had met again, “Ldke the ancient mariner, I held him with my glittering eye while I talked in my very best manner, utterly ignoring his confusion, which I attributed to the very natural embarrassment of a young man selected so consplcuously for my atten- tlons, Fortunately dinner was announced very soon after, and as we started for the dining room I cast a look full of triumph in the direction of my husband, expecting to get at least a slight recognition of my charm of manner, which I felt pervading the entire atmosphere. His look was lcy in the extreme. “After we were seated I looked about and discovered that the young man I had chosen as focus for my efforts was the leader of the orchestra of four pleces which accompanied the repast. Son Hopes to Reform Her, “I think it was dating from that moment that my husband realized the futility of any attempt to make me over In this re- spect and has even given up joking on the subject. Not so, my son. Naturally he be- lieve there is still hope of amendment, and I bave no doubt he thinks that the sly jests with which he entertalns our guests on this subject will have a od efifect. 'That is so like a son. Mine, by | the way, is & dear boy and a clever artist. “Son and I were walking one day re- | cently along King's road, and I nodded | and smiled blithely to @ rather pecullar | looking person whom we met and who | looked as If he knew us. “Who is that, mother?' he asked. *‘That,' I responded at once, sure that the name was on the tip of my tongue, ‘why that is—er, why, oh, I cannot re- member his name this very second, but you must remember him. Why we meet bhim every time we go out.’ “'Oh, yes 1 remember him perfectly,' answered son. ‘He keeps a public houn; down the street a bit, but I didn't know | you ranked him among your friends.’ n‘t that unfillal? And I wish you could have heard him laugh, the most irritating laugh. Whenever we meet a' specially disreputable character now son alwoys points him out as one of mother's triends.” At this point Mrs. O'Connor deprecates her own sense of humor and says she had determined to keep the interview along tan and gray are| while among | White has | serious lines, but something had side- tracked her agaiust her will and that now 1909. she intends to follow out her original line of thought. Why She Came Over. This refers to her mission to this coun- try, which is concerned with the establish- ment of a branch shop for the exhibition and sale of Ireland’s products, to be con- ducted under the direction and In connec- tion with the Irish Industries soclety, with which Mrs. T. P, O'Connor has been con- nected for many years and of which Lady Cadogan is now president. “In London we have accomplished a tremendous amount of work in this direc- tion,” she says. “In New York, there should be a larger market for Irish laces than in London. “And the Irish products are not limited by the lace output; that is only ome of many. The Irish Industries assoclation is Just as Interested and pushes with just as much vigor the knitted work, the embrold- erles, the manufactures of silk and linen and the homespun! ““We want especlally tp make popular the poplins, which had a decided vogue here & few years ago, but for some reason have died out in avor. Certainly mo one can dled out in favor. Certainly mo one can Irish fabric which is so woven that the surface is altogether pure silk, while firm- ness is given by the wool in the Interior. Such skill and watchfulness are required in the manufacture that the Dublin poplin makers refuse to allow any one who has not served a seven-year apprenticeship or who 18 not the oldest son of & poplin maker to work as & poplin weaver. The beauty of the colorlugs has been attributed to the popularity of the Dublin water.” She’s a Suftragette. Mrs, Connor disclaims any wish to be classitied as a clubwoman, although she is & member, not very active, of the Ly- ceum club, which has many American members. She was also one of the first presidents of the Soclety of Women Jour- nalists, to which office she was succeeded by Mrs. Humphrey Ward. Naturally, some- thing has to be sald about the suffrage mevement. 1 am not a militant suffragette—please say suffragette,” says Mrs. O'Connor, ‘‘but I heartily approve of their methods be- cause I do not belleve In any other way could the public attention have been focussed on the couse. I predict that in five years women will get what they want in this respect, five years at the least. 1 mean, of course, the women of England. “One qf my reasons for this is because they have the sinews of war, and when you think that this money comes from women—a great deal of it by the sacrifices of the sex who do not love sacrifices—you appreciate the fact that it means more than the face value would seem to signity. Take Elizabeth Robins, for example, When the play ‘Votes for Women,' recently given here, ran at the Court theater in London she devoted all the proceeds to the cause, and Miss Robins is not a rich woman. “Her example has been followed by many others, and to these gifts are added the contributions of women who have plenty and are Interested in the cause. If another reason was needed for my belief It might be found In the saying of some celebrated statesman that when two women lotrigue monarchies may fall. ““There were not less than 10,00 women who marched in the famous procession of last year from Westminster to Albert hall, all working, or lutriguing as that states- man would have called it, for universal suffrage; and If two can arouse suspicion that their efforts will be rewarded it is no wonter, is It, that the present policy of the English statesmen is one of close scrutiny and arrested action? He doesn't apparently dare W announce hlmsell inlwical, and so he hesitates; and T suppose the man, like the woman, who hesitates s lost. Why She Didn’t Go to Ja “My reason for mot going to jall is, I suppose, found In the temperamental fact that T am not really a fighter. I am one of the council of peace who expect and hope overything will be settled by arbitra- tion. But I am an ardent admirer of all the militant crowd—especially of Christabel Pankhurst, who s the plcturesque figure in the demonstration, “Like the Englishman, I am a lover of nerve and pluck, and besides these quall- | ties she is the possessor of wit and youth | and charm. A very significant fact, it seemed to me, was shown at the suffra- gette ball given not long ago, where she was the undoubted belle, and she could have filled her program over dozens of times “After it was over you'd meet some fine English chaps, about here and there, who would tell you with the air of having done something really remarkable that they got half a dance with Miss Pankhurst at the ball. Let & woman stay in jail & few days now and if she has feiled to get converts before she went in she'll have plenty after- ward. You'll see the Englishman rush to her side then, murmuring, ‘Jove, she's got pivek! " Mrs. T. P. O'Connor when she first came from Texas to New York was engaged for some years in journalistic work. Occasion- ally she interviews a celebrity or some politiclan on an important question. She goes about it in a glit-edged manner, hav- ing & secretary accompany her, who takes down all the conversation. She laughs, however, from the summit of this journalistic pedestal at the story of the New York newspaper woman who responded to the remark made by a friend who had just seen her name on the title page of a magazine devoted to fiction. ‘Why, T didn’t know you wrote fiction?" with the rejoinder, “Didn't you? Ycu have seen my Interviews, haven't you?" “I know that kind—the imaginative sort,” Mrs. O'Connor answers with a reminiscent laugh. “I have perpetrated a number. “Once 1 was assigned to an Interview with & very noted 'cellist, Holman. Liké most of his profession, he was no conver- sationalist at all and while he coul¢ play divinely that did not do me any good as he could not play the interview. “S0 I let my imagination have a good time and wrote really a most charming article about what he had done and his plans and his opinions and all the rest of the regular interviewing talk. Lots of people sald to me after it was published, ‘What an interesting man Holman is. I had no idea he had such temperament and wit and such @ cultivated mind.’ Holman himself sald when we met afterward, refer- ring to the interview, ‘I love it. I love it and after a minute or two's sllence, 'Y I love it “Several years after I met Holman at the house of a friend. He came toward and referred again to the interview. love it,' he sald, ‘I love it.' " CHEAPER TO LIVE THAN DIE Coffin Makers and Undertakers Wax Melancholy Over Thelr Owan Misfortunes. 1 . “Manufacturers of coffins, caskets, and other funeral goods have felt the hard times as much as anbody,” sald Mr. C. T. Baird, representative of an important Cincinnati house. “When & financial slump comes, people practice economy even in the disposition of thelr departed loved ones, and there 1s & falling off in the demand for the more The Rome Hotel Suite 40-A Second Floor Convenient to Elevalor and Stairway rigimal Gowns For Street, Reception or Country Club. Women will find it decidedly to their advantage to wvisit this Exclusive Quality Shop Linen Frocks, Street Suits, . $17.50 to $35.00 $25.00 to $65.00 Reception Gowns, $35.00 to $97.50 Moderate Prices Predominate. No Charge for Alterations. The Rome Hotel Suite 40-A We are prepared to carry out corrvectly every EASTER sugggestion, in pri- vate homes or public places. Besll Doug. 1258 il % Ind. A. 1358 1519 Farnam Street - -~ ¥ L. Henderson, THE FLORIST. Manufacturers of \ UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS and Supplies 1822 Farnam St., expensive burial apparatus. This tendency does not find an outlet 1a the adoption of cremation, which Is, after all, the cheap- tst mode of disposing of the dead, but rather in the purchase of & less costly style of coffin. Cincinnati has one of the best cremation plants ever bullt, and yet its Increase of patronage from year to year is small, perhaps not over 100 cases in that period. In flush times well-to-do people think nothing of purchasing a sheet bronze casket of the value of $2,600, which Is the best thing yet discovered as & final resting place of the dead, for it is practically indestructible. The gmeat welght of the bronze casket and also of the cas.-iron kind, is the principal objec- tion to these metallic receptacles. They welgh about 800 pounds and are exceedingly aitficult to handle. Next best is & copper- lined affalr which is not nearly so heavy, but which if used in connection with costly woods like mahogany, may cost well up into the hundreds. A mahogany coffin with elaborate hand carving and a lining of copper s easlly worth $1,200. Curiously enough, the manufacturers have been effected by another factor that has no connection with bad times, and that is & reduced death rate all over the coun- try. Not so many people are dying now, relatively speaking as did a few years ago. In New York city the decreass has been extraordinary. It mmast be that more attention 13 being paid to hygiene than ever before and that the masses of today are giving better heed to sanitary laws than those of past generations.”—Baltimore American, — STORING THE SUN'S RAYS Remarkable Claims Set Forth and Demonstrated by Boston Inventor. That he has successtully solved the prob- lem of storing the sun's rays and convert- ing them into electrical energy, s the Omaha, Neb. claim of a Boston inventor—George 8, Oove, He has demonstrated the success of his invention by lighting his workship in Bomersville with electricity generated from his apparatus. No electric wires of any sort entor his bulldings from outside Hght- Ing sources, yet the incandescent globes twinkle merrily day and night, and el triclans from the Institute of Technology have declared themnelves enthusiastic over his success. Cove has demonstrated that his device will store up sufficlent electricity for an entire house. He also says that machin which can be bullt at a cost of $100 each, when incased in glass will last for ten years without repair or alteration. Cove's invention consists of a framework placed in an opening where it will receive the direct rays of the sun. Short plugs of metal composition are set into this frame. The framework is of thin steel, divided into mquares, each one foot square, con- taining sixty-one plugs. These plugs pro- Ject from the cement in which they are set and come in contact with thick glnss, which the sun strikes. ¥illed In around these plugs & a body of heat absorbing materfal. The plugs are about on inch apart and are connected in series by a strip of metal. The difference of tempera- ture of the two ends of the metal plugs, one being in the sun, the other in the open with & circulation of alr around it, gen- erates a current of electricity. If the sun goes under a cloud and the voltage drops below that of storage bat- teries, an automatic cut-out breaks the circuit between the generator and bat- terles. The device is thus entirely auto- matic. Cove is a practical Inventor. He recently recetved a gold medal from the Canadlan government for & plan for harnessing the tides in the Bay of Fundy.—Boston Globe, Sturdy oaks from little acorns grow— advertisiog in The Bee will do wonders for your business