Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 25, 1909, Page 9

PART TWO EDITORIAL PAGES 1 TO 10 VOL. XXXIX-—-NO. 6. THE OMAHA OMAHA, INING, JULY 1 1¢ Post Card Albums, bound in linen boards, capacity 300 cards. Buyers' and Marfagers’ Sale + 25¢ Ready-to-Wear Garments uyers’ and ers Sale, embracing practioally $17.50 Cholce of any in $10 Manag: entire stock. This buyer's best aflcrt.‘ one-ple: n All Rajah and Shantung Dresse styles, In tan, gray, hello, blue, gr #01d at $30—B. and M. sale pric Mossaline and Foulard Silk Dresses stock that =old up to §22.50, best styles B. and M. sale price ..... § All' Ramile Linen Buits, worth B. and o price ......... All Tailorsd Cloth Buits, worth §45.00," B and M. sale price'y. 3 All Tailgred Cloth Sufts for misses, worth to $5 $22.60, sale price .. . N All White Serge and Shantung Sults, worth $25 10 960,00, £OF .,....c0000010 bivide All Linen Wash Suits that sold up to $10.00 $5 will be < Wash Dresses that sold up to 36. 85, stylish models at ... Lawn Dressing Sacqu $1.09, will be that sold up to One-plece Dresses, worth to u 00, B. and M. sale price . $3.50 Wash Petticoats, our 1 lines, now $ $2.00 Nain ui(llll"bn.. Gowia, * "’ $|25 lace fine sheer, White Walsts, trimmed, for Wash Goods Sensation The biggest reductions of the Buyers' and Man- agers' Sale are made by the Wash Goods buyer. He has sacrificed his stock in a semsational manner. worth’ $1.00, beautitul, } {BENNETT'S GREAT BUYERS’ Beginning Tomorrow and Lasting All Week, 20 Department Chiefs Will Play the 109, SUNDAY BEE. [WANT AD Game of Their Lives to Roll up a Record-Breaking Sales Score. Just as team-work is essential to win games in base ball, so it is in the game of business. players all working at top speed and in perfect unison to bring home the victory. That'’s precisely the spirit that dominates this great twice-a-year event.—The Buyers and Managers’ Sale. The all important object to be gained is to clear out summer merchandise. The entire force of department men has been apprized of what is expected of them. The week’s business has been given into their hands to operate in their own way. They must win. In former years they have never failed us. promised buying incentives such as no western store has ever had before. - The buyers and managers have organized and joined forces, each pledging to outdo himself in putting out bargains that will make success absolute and certain. It requires cool, determined, heady These sales proving the wonder of the retail trade of Omaha. Now then, you are Think of the tremendous force of such concentrated effort. It’s the supreme moment of the summer selling and excitement will be intense. Every item in today’s ad is the biggest kind of a bargain—the best that any store ever offered. We make no descriptive talk, but bear in mind that all the goods on sale are new, stylish and desirable. HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR The hosiery buyer is not after profits now—i volume of sales and ouick turnovers he wants. Surely, his offerings show it. Women's Seamless 25c Allover Lace Hose, B. & M. sale prices g : A24e Women's 26c Silk Gauze Lisie Fose, hand nbrojdered, B. & M. salo price. o A5¢ Women's 50c Tan Lisle Hose, hand oidered, le price ... .. 29¢ Women's Lisie Geneva Silic 500 Hose, B & M. 29 ¢ sale price .. fisie e Women's fine G0¢ Allover Lace Lisle Hose. sale price . i 29¢ Women's 12%¢ Sleeveless Vests, with lace yoke, le price 70 A Trimmed Hat “Roundup” As a grand climax to a wonderful season’s business the millinery manager will put on sale tomorrow 800 trimmed hats in all the trimmed artistically in that have be for new summer shapes, newest materials. Hats n marked up to $7.00, $l 00 Another sale of note includes fashionable South American Panama Hats, trimmed with silk sashes values to $12.00. In the Buyers’ $7 50 . and Managers' Sale, at Start early. Women's Oxfords & Slippers The Sh man has dome himself proud. This is the best shoe news we ever had. Such values are sure to break all selling records. 2,000 pairs women’s low shoes, new, mer footwear, consisting of soft vicl velvet kid with patent vamp, tan kid and tan calf, also gunmetal oxford ties and strap slippers, values two and three times our price, pair $l 00 For Women Who Wear Small Sizes Shoes we offer canvas oxfords, all $1.50 and $2.00 stylish sum- velvet kid, Stationery—800 boxes odd lots, worth up to $1.50, biggest bargain l ool b this year, Men's and Boys' Clothln! Men benefit as never before in the Buyers’ and Managers' Sale The splendid Bennett assort- ment of snappy $15 and $18 Suits, $8 75 are now cut to ... Youths' Long Pants Suits, gray and brown stripe mixtures, single and double $3 75 breasted; $7.60 sults, at Children's Wash Suits, Russian lt)h‘!. 98c actual $2.50 and $3 lines, now Children’s Military Khaki Sults, trlmnml 69c In red, dollar kind, for ' The China Man Says 1 am not quoting a single price but will make it an object of immense importance to all who love exquisite china and artistic decorative pleces. It's the one chance I have waited for to reduce a heavy stock, 8o here goes. English Doulton, Coalport and . Adderly China, Dresden China, a "ce Italian Hand-painted Ware, Veno- tian Crystal and Gold Glass, Jap- anese Awaji Ware, Hammered Brass Ware, &t ...........o.e or Less . . . "W N : W s Boc Silk Lisle Vests, crochet and iace trimmed, pairs H d S t G d by d SIE tared, Metrow thiere. B & M 59 qualities, sizes 2% to 4—choice of ardware, 00ds 30c All Linen Suitings—38 pleces, plain and fancy sale price s < white, pink or blue, pair..... ' (4 { styles, same goods you saw in window, 50c to er's fine' Linle 760 Veris, crochet ana Val. ' 30.¢ ALL WEEK LONG Don't forget thess basement departments. Nere t00, i 30c kinds, 8t ... ... ...l 12% ¢ 3 st yowll find the bargain spirit of the buyers' and man- A 2 Women's G0c Lisle Pants, lac immed, very | Fiuest Wash Fabrics up to 75c—Exquisite silk and e St TR BANA, JAoy e Wty 9 IO Wall Paper Sacrifice R Curtains | r e foreins itself on you at every turm. ¢ cotton fabrics, all must go—not a plece reserved, | Women's 3100 ‘Silk T.isle Union Suiis, 69¢ urniture ugs urtain Any $5.00 Lawn Mower is now marked. 4.00 - yard .... 29¢ s e I LTS LR O e U T The manager of the Wall Paper Department has - . Any $6.00 Lawn Mower {s now marked. 5.00 " The Climax in Silk Bargains—10,000 yards now Men's Auto Gloves igone the limit in bargain-making. His entire stock, The furniture man will sell his entire | Any $7.00 Lawn Mower is now marked. . goo ‘ s $1.26 Pongees, $1.00 Foulards, $1.00 black Horsehide Auto and Driving Gloves, ventilated back recognized as one of the cleanest and best selected o . " > £ . le Any $4.50 Lawn Mower Is now marked 75 e ) y¥is ¢ k @ § k— excepting a single e ~ A 2 . and white Wash Silks, a marvelous collection of | ~ SUaP Wrisl, $2.00 kind, sale .. $1.39 | lines in all Omaha, Is sacrificed aimost beyond be- | furniture stoc k—not Shve gff Blue and White Enamel Tea Kettles—Strictly first W most desirable silks in our stock, as shown in be Auto Gauntlets, leather iined cuff: 'SZ Q& | let, Such selling is simply unheard of. It's the piece—a wonderful opportunity 109 Off. quality, regular price $1.25, \'nd sl,zo. .|..,49¢ windows, hundreds of women have asked for $3.76 kind chance of a life time. You'll always regret it if s 9 c19 57 Double Enamel Roaster, worth 79c¢, sale price 29, ¢ ehide a S—Bes S > ngs, 9x12 ft., 57 ¥ s N them, yard dBe Y T, ,,".’;Z{‘;Tm““”" Teathier outf, .. $2.98 | you miss this opportunity. RUGS—Be "‘tl’\““_”n“" Rugs, $20‘00 Garbage Cans, regular $1.76 kind now. ...81,2 I ‘-".J‘,{’l“e.'h‘:vl:nglli‘lll-(l:t::{nPvnlu's::'n;“:afi;fl;:m.- _:29153 Handkerchleis at m" 10,000 rolls Wall Paper, worth 9¢ to 25c- l”““""']s; sale price 'l' ¢ 2 6.95 HAMMOCKS- :‘ .:I. R.l:‘x:: ;i::’, }:::‘,:::::: ?1:::8 ; Enibroideries and Flouncings—Never In Bennett's “\';\'{2,’7,,‘“1“1” 8%c Handkerchiefs, Y ) G e TR O v B 2¢ | $12.00 Stock Rugs; sale price. . b $ . Base Ball Gloves and Mitts, $1.00 kind. 7| \ history have embroidery prices touched 80 low a | Women's 20c Appenzel and Maderia’ E“‘“'“‘d' o 20,000 rolls Wall Paper, worth 9¢ to 25¢ LACE CURTAINS—Close out lot 375 Curtains | pooo paj Gloves and Mitts, $1.50 kind. ] point. The manager of this department has as- “'fi:‘c,'l*jfi;\:“““:;";L:f"s‘m"‘.d T ol wi I e T 98¢ Base Ball Gloves and Mitts, $2.00 kind. i sembled 24 inch flouncings, corset cover em- Bmbroidered Mandkerchiats .. . 8 at, roll """'_‘"( Skirt Boxes, Shirt Wnlsl Boxes and Screens-—tak Men's Bathing Suits, $2.00 kind. ».mh:lslr{leu. ll::wer;é -hsl;l Wl;ut”trontings ete. all | Womens Lilly | White Princess 'Lace, $1.3 10,000 rolls Wall Paper, worth 9¢ to 25c-— your cholce. . . . .20 PER CENT OF of which are fine c, c an c ’ . Foll= Lt dal covaiiani s —_—_—-m - A A _e - goods. At this price 1t will pack l 7 at, 3 The G Sal A ¥ the department, yard ........ C SALE OF PYROGRAPHY 7,000 rolls Wall Paper, worth In the Drug Store e rocerY ale | 54 inch Cream Serge—Strictly pure wool. Our t R L LA g { - : ) | A R L R R4 - ; 3 % S best $1.50 quality. No wool fabrics is in greater | mpa Art Goods buver miv i ” ’ Toflet Soaps, Turkish Bath, White Honey, Glycer- Extra fine stamp offers in addition t G r give hole: : - : o5 ) £ 8 o ! favor right now. Buvers' and Managers' Salo [ ¢ M TIRUR DINEY BIXER YOu cholco of the entire | Tngvain Wall Paper, the highest 25¢ and ine, Butterinilk, etc. all worth 60c dozen, at 35¢ | | 5 1 : 8; ¥ kgt 3 e Py . W prices. ‘ price, yard ........i.iiiiiieen -89¢ exceptions, at a reduc- 257 Off 35¢ grades; 12 shades, at, roll.......10¢ | . Kirk's Juvenile Soap, wo:lmbz‘Ocl ea., at, 3 for fi: oW | tion of ... (7] W snti . q 20c Hand Brush, large, all bristle .......... Coft d 28 d 40 e do painting and paper hanging. Capitol Coffee, per pound. ....28c an stamps White Goods, = Domestics, Linens it RRASE WOl 35 ram Ui i+ s S Pl Douglas 137 Tanglefoot Fly Paper, 35¢ box, sale price ..25€ | Capitol Pepper, per can.......10c and 10 stamps done, " Demonatration Beoond Floor ) S04 easy OHS P RRAR o Antiseptic Folding Drinking Cups, 3 for -10¢ | Bennett's Teas, assorted, 1b...48c and 50 stamps un. .:o. .u'.‘-::::nu e, 5"«‘,’?“ n:l:. o - Bennett' a};ren E;stln(g: lbl dmcdnud 10 nu\u;op: \ broldered Bltlllel and (heuk Stripe Lawns, for e Best We ave c erries reduced to, can... i B B aiots a0 dreeses, 19¢, 256 and 290 §oods, Tie $2 50 C ts $1 29 In Jewe ecuon Poppy Evap. Milk, can. ..5c; or SIX {OFs .. ... .25¢ AR Actndn” ginoy. Lawha, Dismiiies, - Battstes; - oar~en: ~ orse Bennett's Pride’ Flour. . ....$1.80 and 50 stamps \ tire accumulation ddds and ends,25c to . hint of the wonderful sales that Scat for Cleaning, 3 cans. 25¢ and 10 stamps R R e e AR 15¢ | Mrs. Wright who has charge of the corsets Sk {ficent de- | Seedless Ralsins, 2 Ibs. 1234c quality. ....18¢ ched je Damask, 64 inches wide, thr await you. Bronze Clocks, magnificent de- Bleached Tabie D ee 174 ) Minute Gelatine, asstd., 3 pkgs.25c and 10 stam patterns, our regular price 36¢c, sale price c expects a ecrowd with this bargain. "Well signs, porcelain dials, jeweled ““Nm,m nute G S 91 it 3 pke Bge al g ps - Huck Towels, hemm-d 121%c kind, 18x36, Zic she may for few women will resist such $25.00 Clocks will be v 10.95 Ice Cream Jello, 3 pkgs 25¢ and 10 stamps wale price F AN 30 . BI'k Diamond Stove Polish, pkglOc and 10 stamps Blenched Sheeting, 2% v It brand, an offer. It's a line of high grade batiste $30.00 Clocks will be. .. 12.75 N V' Catann, hottle 106 Ah4" K dtanine \ regular price Zflc B and 21 orsets, high bust and w 1 hi Solld Silver Rings, lenulne lu|u\m ge, ama- ewpor D, b . L P price & B o . «lc corsets, higl st and new long hip and We Close at 6 o'Clock; Saturday at 10 P, M.; zonite and jade setti ‘1” 5 \ouluu 1‘;{ u’.oo Macaroni, 3 pkgs. .....25c and 10 stamps \ Bleached Piilo graded ‘muslin, 1bc back, two pairs supporters, size " OCKISE 58 Men's Watches, gold filled, 20-year hunting | pia preparation, asstd., 8 for 25¢ and 20 stamps Kind, sige 42x36, wide i0 ; $| 29 Tuesdays at 1 P. M. During July and Augnn case, 1T-jowel, Eigin or Waltham ni price . 5 c 18 to 30. - Best $2.50 value, at . movement h .,;" California Ripe Olives, 50c cans, for.......... h A 'ERS OF 0LD LONDON passing basket, and finally seizes both. Lunnon town are met by the rejoinder that | boxes and baskets. You carrom against|passes to another, and so on and on mile | thers wer approximately 500 exhibits, path of smilax and in the center & novel i FLOWERS A At tho noon hour the shopgirl, the busi- no one has really seen London flowers |an early bird who wears pumps, silk stock- | after mile you go. | exclusive of decorative pleces and garden |shaped epergne, wide and low, filled with a ’ ness woman of the cashier and tYPewrit-\ who has merely seen them In the shops, |ings, a pleasant smile in addition to his| There ls one house that remains In your |roses. The soclety, established since 1576, | profusion of the same roses and half a | In& class, who eat cheaply at some of the | in ihe streets at the “pedestrian refuges, | morning tweeds. and whose ceught worm |memory after you have passed on, as the | has held exhibitions In Crystal Palace, dozen varieties of ferns. Mol’ning at Covent Garden and the Mr‘hled bread places, which punctuate ‘he‘(filvx of safety we call them, at Oxford | has taken the form of a basket of straw- |face of the famous Holbein—Christina | St. James's hall, the Inner Temple, Lon- 2 Rica Bhinr 'Wokihase clty, buys her twopenny rose that matches| oyrous, piccadilly, Charing Cross, for theso | berries, half a dozen to the pound, three |Princess of Denmark—refuses to be ousted | don, and as it is general rather than local | Cholcra Flnds 5 {the color of her cheeks. With & ¥im Of y1o yui preljminaries to the great flower | of which would satisy the average hunger, |by succeeding features, though you may | exhibitions have been held in other cities | black Asound - hig” oqlla 8 smuds Ot mart which is held Qaily in Covent Gar.|and a handful of mauve pansies circled (860 It but for a moment and then look at| il over the United Kingdom. A 5 Victi so0t on his nose and the pipe in his| . | thousands of other masterpieces. The decorative roses are exhibited each COLORS THAT EXHAUST WORDS for obvious| 3™ | with maidenhair ferns. o merican victim t :::,'c'my::‘:'m:':’:';':m::':':m o o Show at Covent Garden. Inside the bullding you have to step| . v:'xlxl;::.;u:: ;" ""“'X'c':;-md prick, | Ploom 1 & metal cup and perhaps a dozen \ 5 . Rl Tha teatos tie s TRty L prostanbaivads b tha Milaa as . +|to & box, and row after row of these are ) Few 8o Poor that They Must Do Dby sitting on the steps of the Nelson| "he tains that bring the flowers therf| o), 0™ n o0l 0 "huick and | freshly painted for the season and without | ynown under a nomenclature strange to the 3 4 With Thet: " monument, and dipping here and there from the various nurserfes and conserva- % |a suspicion of grime or smoke. Each of | \iioiian isitor. There 1s Hebe's Lip, a |Bridegroom on Honeymoon Trip to § oyl elr Posles—8Some | ini; her huge basket, emerges a spray| tories all over England, begin to arrive at | SNATP competition, =~ FHousekeepers have . .'iinqows iy edged with & box of A8TK |ter rose with o scarlet ds: Rosa Sunald Europe Stricken with Dis- 3 Hight Thousand Five Hun of Irls, a feathery bit of spirea and a|3 o'clock in the morning and the market |°0M® for the breakfast flowers, and Sev-|groon yijes holding long stemmed yellow | okt ia g pes g g i 2 dred at the Show. Pink poppy, watches her tie them deftly (o-| opens at that hour. The florists find it [ €™ modish women are selecting WIth|figyerg jike fringed buttercups; the door s |1 4 e iy Thbaaatbla it ease and Dies. gether with & string of grass and throw-|not too early f special discrimination blooms of some de-|o¢ enagpelled n, and knocker, handle| ™!l @ pinkish heart. 5. LOPOSPINIS | #0 y for the daily trade, nor do of enamelled green, 2 3 . 4 sired tint to harmonize with gown or tea- r v 4 |pass by the exhibitions from the.old rose \ LONDON, July 10.~Visions of the hot | "5 fOUF coppers in her aproned lap, dasis|the flower women who select their basket [y (U0 10 "M : |and doorknobs are newly pollshed brass.| ., .o ot gurrey. of Colchester, of Cov-| BERLIN, July #.—David Jayne Hill, the = treets of New York Guring July snd Au-| 0y Bekerloo Underground, loads and depart to take up thelr stations, ek Rine. 'ab Moy Hate Ehere 185 100 howes c“rdfln.dl ,'.'"“d‘ ‘::‘emry without admiring glances. Ireland | American ambassador, in response to a 5ust, With the closed houses and barred 0 o Wb o KL nor the flower men who lift great wooden ! ' trimmings of which are of Aull Wrought| . .. riany varieties, the Irish Beauty, | telegraphic inquiry regarding the death There is a peculiar light in London, & poyes of growing plants 1o their heads| All the siunsets of the yesterday's and|iron, and parallel rows of red genaniums 3 : e ot A At T doors, the canons of skyscrapers where | (ranstorming and an alluring light. It is . . | the sunrises of tomorrow seem to have|mingle with glossy leaves. It is a house [Irish Glory, Irish Harmony, Irish Ele- |from cholera of an ho air falls lifeless and flat, the thermom- | formed. by (he combination of the long| S0 Make the tour of hotels and private | ie Funtser of tomortow weem to have | Ie W o New York would | ance. The prize takers in several classes | berg, Prussia, today recelved the following eoters with the mercury rising, rising, ris- | twilight, which lasts so that one may | cSidences; not even for the Aonkey carts and unprepossessin FE you from |send you flying to a far off shelter; here have to adhere to the rule of elghteen per- dispatch from Alexander Eckhardt, the nE, the truck horses falling in harness wnd | read the printed type casily at § o'clock,| WNO 80 1o Points (oo far to reach by foot. | pil HNPIAPSSCSS RS POC prismatic hues | With the July sun in evidence it s a|fect blooms on a bush, and a specially at- | American consular agent there: e clang of ambulances emphasising the [and (he electric light, which marks the| IMagine Madison Square Garden turned | oo vo " omens i men ‘stand in amus. | PFIEht and attractive oasls In o desert of |tractive one is Lady Faire, whose dozen | “The American who died here of cholera heat, come persistently before the eyes of | dinner hour. It Is a light different from !Nt & flower market, every inch of space | . .o trast (o the grace and beauty | 4rabs and grays and a half roses are pink with dainty [July 21 was Roger Winfield of Fond Du the Manhattanite viewing London all |any other, and in it unusual colors and|® Mass of bloom and fragrance, and you | oo oy B S LR LT of | A black and white brick facade has for | lipped petals Lac, Wis. He was 35 years old. He con- adloom with flowers, which the molst alr | tints In fabrics_and in the atmosphere|Would not even then grasp the beauty and | onoyie wories are conspicuous by their |d6corations huge boxes fairly overtopbed | you look in vain among the many shown | tracted the discase “l‘ R“’*‘{"v but died and | and the cool breeses keep tresh and fair |are noiable. The flowers to, seem to have| maknitude of this daily show. At 9 0'clock | gpsence. The only flower girls ssen at|W\th hundreds of golden hearted mar|(for the most wonderful rose in the world, | Was burled here. Tis wite's condition is m mTr::u-m:m Rt deve. | chank. . thelr daytime frocks and put on|it ia over, the flower market Is closed, and | Covent Garden and eclsewhere are fat, | KuCTites and a fi:."fofl‘.w:a":‘nLh::pm:1“"‘ American Beauty, but not one s Als- :-:y'fl- '3‘3:“-’1; u':;:"::"l-fln . ::;:y"‘"",; . . e that the foot pasenger shall |evening gowns, for the amethyst look lemon|only on the outskirts of the bullding &re |geq come and fifty-oad B T et e Do o, | covered. Finally, in & corner of one of et T < Wait for the quadruped to pass holds good | tinted, and the dead white are pink of|the sales continued. Irls, London't most famous flower, If|jame. wh_"’ Padltiy sl jaad, Say thouss'| 1h® Gistant marquees s wilted bush meets | g \ even in the case of the donkey cart. and |mauve, the feathory green and IVOFY | Your way there is indicated 1ong befors | gne except the ever popular orchid and| .. wpro on Independs "us”| the eye; it has on.it a dozen or more single- o - ! on your way to the Covent garden flower | show heliotrope tints and, you hesitate|you sight the dingy building by push carts | rose, are riotously evident. Armfuls of| s Of London's Americans are onter-| ....q roses of & crude color, but it is Franklln s Kltc i market, which you have to visit before | before a well known bloom and ask 115 that line the streets. A small girl With | the deepest mauve are on one shelf, and «:'1..«1' by the. Am"!lw;' d'*""“‘"‘u““ o |labeled largely, as i to make amends by e helf, d | g o) vites ! . breakfast to see in Its prime, you stop |name and origin. down dropping shawl and touzled hair of- | below thousands of white, pink, MAUVE|lemon surface with white m;,m',:‘:““d Kenerosity of pastebourd for floral defi- T t P F t l i without the usual protest to allow a tny | And while You hepitate between the D™ | fers you a purchase, her face peering al | edged and golden vellow blossoms Invita| g the wide balustrades which surtoanded | clencies, “Amerfca.” cs roves r'ata h_'l::" '""l‘a‘"" N'| "'°""‘a“"" oart filled | chase of an enormous pot of pink 1¥d-| oy grom an armful of “gyp,” & bush of | vour burchase. Three bunches, one of|the flight of steps a row of vases, ure Aflms of the Growers. \ b e ::;' ‘::’;‘.:“'“'“‘;‘ .‘r:‘;": :‘1‘: ::‘::"':" ‘::d"'“:"“b:":":'" “' :fl""“"“: whitey green blossoms which she will sell | Violet, one of yellow hearted Ivory, one of | shaped, filled with rose pink blossoms and | One of the exhibitors pointed out that z 3 Kioited ahiat S rask: & s w_“m" fen eanh | teparateq | for @ shilling and which is generous enough lemon, long stemmed and fresh as If|drooping vines. Further along in this same (o the present time English and German |Captain Engelstad, Polar Explorer, o pa onkey | sing pobples, e separated | T " T ntry firplace. A coster im- | Dewly plucked, are Insinuatingly suggested|fashionable quarter there is a residence and driver are headed for Waterloo bridge and later the sale of the plants will take place at some favorable locality over the \ Thames, possibly in the big Waterloo s tion, where travelers stop on thelr way through, never too hurried to purchase the single blossom for the boutonniere or the carefully arranged “posy” for the house- hold Flowers tor Common Folks, / ‘smart” man in London soclety no The > 2 even the gardenis, the carnation or the \ spray of stephanotls Is eliminated. But the man in the city, the smallish clerk (please pronounce clark), the masses of the classes pay no attention to & rule that would exclude the beloved decoration. Hurrying to his home along Fleet street, making for the nearest tube or the top of a crowded “Union Jack” or ‘Vanguard,” he popular motor busses are called, there s still time or the man to stor and 4 purchase a bunch of primroses. H: nay prefer & huge pink rose or one of {1 ar- nations bif as chrysanthemums, wh haloed by a circular rim of thick the same shade. 50 that the outiying will be kept in place. No flower seen.s too large or too pronounced for his taste. The coster, with his flannel cap pulled lown over his ears, a bit of cord tied about his \ neck and his trousers rolled far up to show a strip of dirty sock, sports & poppy or a dahlia on his ragsed coat and, along the Strand, Peoverty, llke which we have ‘ nothing in the mew world, stooping tre- /-u-‘m-y, hesitates between & clgarette - per e longer wears a flower In his buttonhole; | =1 tals | from Its companion by a tiny white flower, cloudlike and misty, for the same moderate sum, your attention is momentarily dis- tracted by the intense igierest displayed both by purchaser and seller in the selec- tion and arrangement of the flowers. It | 1s not & smart shop; it is just like hundreds of others, d there Is nothing unusual in the careful attention paid by the pretty girl Who handles the blossoms as if she loved them and the man who buys as if a visit |atter dinner to any one of half a dozen feruinine friends would lack significance unaccompanied by the usual offering. They chat in a friendly, but unflirtatious man- ner as to whether the bunch of lilles of the valley shall be arranged in circular or |flat form, and having decided each spray 1s wired, placed on a dewey leaf and finally & balf dozen leaves are turned over and form & cuplike base. Next & pink rose for his own buttonhole has its stem stuck through its disk of pink paper, for London modes demand that every artificial ap- | pliance shall be brought to Nature's aid for the,desired ensemble. Having paid, he goes out, hold his purchase with prac- tised adeptness, and & middle aged, gray whiskered, blue eyed, ruddy faced beau | flicks down & sixpence, selects a tea from [ the jar of decorative roses and makes way | for a couple of lovers who, arm in arm, stand and cling under an archway of crim- son ramblers and finally choose a handful of tight closed buds, each in its cup of | | moss, for the girl, who pins them on a red silk corsage, and two double petalled mar- Suerites with attendant green for the es- | cort. The financlal value of it all is repre- sented by two thr'penny bits. plores you to make your 'usband the gift of some potted verbena, holiyhocks, and a buxom, flower maid, with an oval bit of catfur on her head, which makes the customary for the big market basket, quests the right of way. appy by tall as blue-aproned courteously re Having secured in your face, and when from force of habit you ebrows at the shilling, ninepence is loudly substituted. A step further along and you are In a huge per- alse your e through garden plots of mignonette, you done in contrasting shades of green, with the usual polished myrtie shade for the | door, an/ the boxes and vases are filled | | only with thousands of terns rest [ fumed box of sweet peas, which rise, | Rose Society’'s Show. { | covering the wall spaces, tier on tier. You| You are on your way to the National| | pass through scented paths of spirea, and| Rose society's thirty-third rose show when you not all this, for the flowerlust is in this she trots along to make one of & ayerse geometrical designs of_ heavy|your soul and you are not content with a group that sit all day long on the granite | poarteq verbenas and gay faced pansies,| general exhibit platform st Oxford Cirous ahd sell Posies, | you avoid avalanches of sweet alyssuin,| The show fs held in the Royal Botanic stiffly wired, to the shoppers who flee!and stand to get your hreath in & forest| 1 there for safety. Later the flower sellers, having disposed of thelr wares, drift away one by one until at the approach of twilight & single figure sits hopefully de- of palms, with underbrush of hellotrope |ana waxy petalled star-shaped flowers| ncidentally (o | whose name seems insignificant as the 2 of & pretty girl passed on the street Garden at Regent's park and it is visited by the queen and the Princess Victorla this, you are extremely the fact that the royal family can always send re grateful for is ®o large that it scribing with terse phrases, " 'Ere's 'aly- | roses, and everywhere| . ,iy for any function desired. But that trope and ‘eartease, mim. And for half & crown you can fil has nothing more to do with the subject cias af Blev your apartment with flowers, every corner| qu " IR I 10 68 I L e s The immediate approach to the flower &nd every vase nothing at all to do with it, for only market at Covent Garden is through plled What it All Means. roses are allowed—but such roses! up baskets and straw, & carpet of fallen| You are sure that this riot of blossOming | Marquee opens into marques, each leaves and an atmosphe: where the smell h“"v". pn\f‘hflluxh' significance, could you filled with the product of various nurse- of fresh vegetables, market refuse, the|only think it out, which you do finally 0| oo ang private conservatories, and to | odor of the great unwashed mingles with l)lml \l)v\n satisfaction at least, as you step them a long green path leads from the the delicate perfumes of thousands of Il the “g“l“!d""“";"‘ '“‘: :"‘“ AnOther| o rage entrance, on whose soft turf | roses, gardenias, stephanotis, mignonette, | Svidence of London's love of flowers. For| ;. "¢,y notes many an English rose of for the outlying part is the vegetable mar- | °¢ sual reading, London Mfe is per- ||, '\\ e that has been immortalized from ket and if you had mot & differing mis- | £t IR form. but it lacks the charm of color. Were It not for this outlet of time immemorial in Anglo-Saxon song and sion you would stop and sdmire the heaps | of carrots and beets, the salads, the beds of strawberries the bunches of parsley and of carefully selected strawberry leaves on which the berries, blg as boutonnleres, are served at London tables. You dodge a whistling coster who has a tower six feet high of straw baskets on his head and both hands in his pockets and make / ‘ butt and & dewy blossom dropped from a | Flattering speeches aboul the flowers o | your way about & skyscraper of empty natural feeling, this human Instinet (oward the earth bloom, which nothing can spoil and notbing improve, it would be indif- ferently interesting with its human autom atons, talking and eating and thinking alike. nd while you reflect in hansom has turned into oue of the oharm- ing residential streets where individuality is shown In every house, and from this it | Wi the majority of them walking and |8nd disappears with elusive charm. this wise, the | story. She is perhaps In a garden party frock of gray or of old blue or hydrangea pink, but the color In her soft cheek is always the regulation tint and it appears | Through aisle after aisle of roses you ags to other alsles equally beautiful end fragrant. Although the census of blooms s not published for this year, I | series of small |cate fronds of rose growers have devoted themselves to pure colors, while French exhibitors have been occupled with tea and hybrid tea blendings of yellow and crimson. There is at present, however, & color revolution (going on, and with it a revolution In color definitions, of which the language Is sadly deficlent, having, in fact, no exact words or the new tints and shades which are con- stantly coming Into netice. The French has a new Repertoire de Couleurs, which, it is expected, will be adopted as a stand- ard all over the world. These new tints were the center of attraction at the rose show, the Irish apricots, the Dean Hole, named for a former president, described as silvery carmine; the Lyon rose sheimp pink, with coral center shaded with chrome yellow; the Madame Melanie Soupert, saf- fron yellow suffused with pink and car mine; Lady Pirrle, apricot at the base flushed with rosy red and Capucine yel low; the countess of Shaftesbury. a large, hybrid tea exhibition pink. rose, pale flushed toward the edge with bright cherry red. The table decorations that fashion de mands at present are very low and several examples were shown in one of the tents. A specially notable consisted of a silver bowls, with a large filled with the carmine one in the center roses of Madame Abel Chatenay, cultivated with the idea of producing an excellent ecolor for artificial light With these deli terns were artistically mixed, and on another table nearby was shown a decoration consisting of tint sil- ver vases, with two tiny rose sprays of an apricot tint and & bit of green in each, Killed by Lightning Running Down Kite String. | | CHRISTIANIA, Norway, July 4.—Osp- | tain Engelstad of the Norwegian navy met & tragic death by lightning today. He was taking meteorological observations during & thunder storm and happened to to touch the winch holding the copper wire attached to the kite, which was 1,000 yards high He was struck dead Captain Engelstad was an officer of high sclentific attainments. He was to have commanded the polar exploration ship Fram on the coning Amundsen polar ex- pedition. Angry Servant Beheads Princess Housekeeper Commits Horrible Crime in Revenge for Being Dis- charged. BT. PETERSBURG, July M.-—News has been received he of the murder of the young Princess Alexandra Mestchereky at her father's estate In Smolensk provinge. The housekpeper, ln revenge for being dls- charged, decapitated the l4-year-old girl with an axe. The mily of Mestchersky |15 one of the oldest in Russis and repre- | sentatives of its various branches played stated by one of the members um|¢-my traced from one to another with & | prominent roles in Russian bistory. . W