Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1909, Page 47

THE Orkins Are Grandly Ready for the Corn Exposition and Christmas Shoppers The Corn Exposition and Christmas S8hopping will make this week the busiest of the season and with that in view, we have made extra preparation for great selling of all our fine apparel We invite you to visit us this week, whether to buy or to look. Special Prices on Furs 75.00 Genuine Mink Sets, at $45.00-—These beautif made of the finest quality selected skins neck pieces and muff— Regular $75.00 values of the Finest Quality hands a $£00.00 Genuine Lynx Sets, at $30.50—Rich Sete of finest selected Ivnx skins; with ghirred linings- values, at $30.00 Black Fox Sets, fectiy matched; large thousand of these sets Regular $30.00 values, at shawls but at very handsome pelerines, with Regular $90.00 $19.50—Beautiful and we have only large rug muff, both $59.50 black fox sets; per- Wish we had a $19.50 rug muffs $27.50 Jap Mink Sets, at $17.50—These sets are made of selected skine in all perfectly matched—Regular § $20.00 Black Wolf Sets, at $12.50—Great all perfectly from, in shawis and muffs sets—Regular $20.00 values, at Our Entire Stock of arious styles; trimmed with heads and tails, 0 of styles to choose $i2.50 Beautiful Tailored matched Suits at Reduced Prices $115 Three-piece Costumes $95.00 Three-piece Costumes, $85.00 Tailored reduced $69.50 Tailored reduced $59.50 Tallored reduced t $50.00 Tailored reduced to $40.00 Tailored reduced to $30.00 Tailored reduced to $25.00 Tailored reduced to 00 Suits, te Suits, Suits, o Suit Suits Suits, Suits, reduced duced 1« Beautiful New Waist Almost be obtained in our great showing Special a at beauti and Of much int £10.00 and A A silk petticoat is a very useful and acceptable Chrisim Petticoats made of best quality silke, in all colors—Special holida choose from selection of dainty white and colored embroidered net waists, gift, and here every new style conceivable, from the best designers and makers of fashionable waists is to ttention is directed to our showing of handsome, new chiffon crepe de chine walsts, in all shades, $6.75 87.50 and $10.00 at $5.00 $7.50 $10.00 $12.50 rest are our lines of messaline and taffeta waists, in black and colors, at £6.75 87.50 New vSlik Petticoats $12.50 find a great variety to prices 85 $7.50 $10 you will trimming is approved for every- sealskin to the even- 1t cmbellishes the or goid brocage, the stieet ruit of velvetdyn ‘and, mure- recently, the | costume of white cloth The availability of skunk for so many irposes and its exceediug beauty as de- | ¢loped this make 1t more highly than Moreover, skunk that has become his season. The au- the black and brown a evening wear. and for evening m the heavy i gewn of ehiffon: season formerly tone priced has the soft brown highly fashionable jeclare fo~ both 5 furs as ac aslons principaily of skunk to the reviva of bear furs, which have much the same appearence and which be put to the same uses in trimming, although it is very kely to take on & Shaggy appearance after it has been worn for Cub bear advocated, it is said, especially by Parisian furriers this season for muffs, neck pieces and for the border decoration of gowns and wraps The pelt of the gingery little bear has appeared in some of most nifty creations. The furriers are predicting that in spite of the fact that brown bear is lightef by several tones than ecither the brown seal ar skunk, the bruin peit is paving the way for a much larger degree of apprecistion for next season The scarcity of some of the old-time ‘avoritee in skins has put the manufac- turers to their best efforts in creating new effects out of ordinary peits, and they have in truth almost made new furs by the ex- penditure of ingenulty and skill. For ex- ample, examine one martin set offered In an Omaha shop. In other days this would Lave been just a long stole and muff, a metiium-priced meant for real serv- ce, but not making much for unusual beauty now. The color is glossy black ¢ the long, coarse-haired fu xs martin, and we have a ariant as beautify which supplant in popularity This remarkable change due te the different rent of skins—the dyelng and ocareful blending, but some cfedit should be given to the finish of the garment and the out-of-the-ordinary sty The muff in this particular set is a m one of almost & barrel shape soft puffy lining of silk i angeable greenish shade; It makes nderfully pretty contrast with nish tinge Wt the root of the soft ™ has 3 Jong shoulder piece shaw! and the ends ex- fool of the skirt orities day white essories tmer natu- ing tended can a time is cinnamon season's ut sof ek, Tux pelt, almost threatens I as tynx it 10 is in some part i Las the a a ke e way 1o the n brown is poluted a good rival which It imitates. ffer so much treatment coats in trast- but ef ake It A bl « i stume trimming Mufts are if ast te have wet Ines w makes ar anything, larger tha The shapes thati in of paradoxical round fiat as popular huve guaranteed. Per haps, bowever is the novelty of the style which may be the cause of the ap- ent lack of appreclation on part of the fashionables. Some styles, it seems from & review of things gfemin are creaied for immediate popularity, while others must g 1hTOugh one or two season of probationiary reatment before public gaze. 1t is lkely so the dealers say. that the drum muff will be in greater evidence next season. rug MUt seems to be a8 popular st I s in the Omaha pointed fox. silver fox, white nd erm There is. however « growing de the Oat muff; and here are th ong the Jeale wanufact predics caat ness a8 thelr ne nand for vers, whe i | tively to supersede the rug pattern. At aha woman seems to be bound any rate the O fond of orders which are being filled in the manu- tacturing Shops of the city In neck wear the tendency is most toward very long effects for occasions and toward the broad flatter effects in garments and fittings for street wear. One of the most luxuriant of the neck pleces of the seeson shown in a retafler’s shop here is sable and lined entirely {# with the stole effeci, {he ends reaching quite to the hem of the dress. The muffs designed to carry with the stoles are large Each especial posi- with ermine. It seems timer season brings it revival of au old introduction of some new pelt. The vival of this winter has been skunk, while the mew peit is Australian opossum. The opossum did not create &ny furore at the beginning of the season. As & matter of truth and fect many fashionable women in all the American citles eyed ft with doubt as belopging more proper to the class of_furs used for linings. But it has come about that so many charming effect in this soft biulsh-gra fur could mot be resisted. Then, although perhaps the falr purchaser would not mit the equator has been such as to raise it up among the aristocratic furs. The future of the meek opossum is fixed among the furs. “The real reason for the popularity of opossum is in the scarcity of Bolivian chinchilla,” said & Sixteenth sireet furrier It is mel of course, an imitation, by rather a substitute, and attractive 10 create an independent vogue on However | beer re quite enougi ts own merits named ‘Adelaide Chinchilla fashion plates, honor, 1 supp Adelaide, Australia, from whence so of the pelts are shipped This new recruit among the furs is to advantage not only in small pleces also for entire garments with good effect Full length wraps are fashioned of it and there are closks display which show even the opossum combined with more ex pensive sale. It has been employed too trimming for evening Wraps velvet, rich brocades and satins A notable reiation exists in th offerings between the lustrous velvels and luxurious furs. This relation, by the way, is & costly ofe in which to indulge. It is now somé years since this ment in style its beginning. and furs have been combined before pecially for band trimmings, but with 80 much effect as th The tur ally more ample than those of (han the fur coat ix one of the new v and fur combinstions, in the fur figures as a trimming. The most instances matches the velvet o for the body of the cos This fur-velvet combinatior very latest. It has its fur coat is in the later we, of in many sed but season's too. saw Velvets never » m seasor ats are f ¢ cloth llowing the but es and genera gene those ar last season. Less which fu best appeal tkely to prov mates where a ! mething of & white able only & few times in & winter fur lined costs are showr and full length siyles and heavy tweeds and diag materials favored. The ocollars fashion and so arranged that they may be converted storm coll deid the ear from the wind and other inclemencies A singularly attractive and becoming fur Is the black lynx, which the dealers de- clare s rupidly resching the stage where 1t will be among the most expensive. There are. how vet many examples ©f the furrier's art in this striking material. One of the new muffs is of plain black lynx & simple fold-over style, almost ruglike shape. The deep glossy black of the skin is only relieved by a ruffie of white chiffon velled with beavi embrotdered black silk which drops down f{rom the Land oa being n quarte three inte ver the fiat muff judging from the | drees | made of Russian | a double frill and runs across | lower edge of the muff. | either side the OMAHA SUNDAY The neck plece which accompanies this | muff is shawl-like for a lining the same white chiffon also with heavy of black lace the white chiffon and around the inside of the neck, where it makes a pretty flower-like frame for the face. Loops of satin ribboms in black and white finish the garment at the throat The piace that mink s assuming this season in the furs shows th is alwars to hold its status as a sort of correlative f the diamond which it shares the cem of the ace. Any sort of a mink garment e a this season and i a long season son's handling st @ serious rival of that of all Russian sable. But sables alone that woman can pil reckiess extravagance and not even look in the least overdressed. It is no aifficult matter to put a matter of $20,00 into sables for a single tallored suit and sable-trimmed and set to match. By the way there are some sabies owned by Omaha society women that rival the best that Russia has produced This season has resulted in the develc ment of & most charming series of furs f the various occasions. The very “pioper” | motor coats is of the black Siberian pony or caracul black furs to match. The street garb much favor includes a three-plece biack set with turban, muff and collar. Of course, this does not e against wearing of | ighly proper seal i three-piece sets and ful The I¢ w muff of in veiled with pop be set or t thing of an in meant for wear vestment f mink has made it alm the most furs, th n witk; Iynx & white f VEAT NOW highly approved for ermine turbans are particul opera pleces are wear. The attractive A fad of striking wearing of artificial at fanc lowers. With whit much w all f red fulness n only kind furs th. while vio- A brilliant poinsettas worn the freeze srehids are lets ar favor with effect is gained from n caracul coats MENUS OF MANY PEOPLE Various Foods the Different Nation. alities Tackle ut C Time. delicate s familia up shi-sp the C! aking ra pudding and minoe « what they eat in foreign s Christmas 1 s va and extensive and ack pud who can very hear Frenchmar s & wonde nt parts of fattened Eee fole gras tuffed w raytis fu yeters trog le Christmas sters, end and and by means least, snalls Russia of served with two dishes—ong of w honey, and the curious compound of stewed pears, apples oranges, grapes and cherries, sweetened with honey and served cold. To this meal the Muscovite sits dow with a plentiful supply of vodka side. The Aus Ch a delicacy s Fruchth argely ridge at stmas-time od and Pped dates. o cake, baked hot. tian which there is nothing dearer to the Austrian taste. This piece de accompgnied by chopped carp baked. boiled bee! and vegetables and beer Talians fond of indigestiie dishes, made raising This ¢ currants ch ustitutes & sort o, ar ather especialiy and s s shape and x.nl black silk lace, and a frill | | [ | | % Gifts for Men and Things They Buy for Themselves T'HE bewildering proposition of the Holiday Remembrances for men is very much simplified in such a store as Browning, King & Company’s. Here are some suggestions. They do not involve large expenditures, but you will find that these lists contain most acceptable presents for men and boys, Fur-lined Overcoats, Link and Scarf Pin Sets, Full Dress Suits, Hose, Tie and Handker- Tuxedo Suits, chief Sets, Business Suits, Traveling Bags, House Coats, Suit Cases : Toilet Sets, Lounging Robes, X Bath Robes, Collar and Cuff Bags Umbrellas, Fur Gloves, Canes, Silk and Opera Hats, Initial Handkerchiefs, Fur Caps, Holeproof Hosiery, Shirts, Gloves, Pyjamas, Suspenders, Night Robes, Mufflers, Exclusive Neckwear, Sweater Coats. Be: chases. utiful holiday boxes free with pur- If you can think of anything else, we have it if it belongs to a complete stock lof men’s and boys’ apparel. In shopping for men shop here. Browning, King & Co. R. S. WILCOX, Manager Christmas. One of their favorile combina- | commenced their Christmas day, a mer> tions is that of eels, periwinkles and ver- | appetizer to them, wae ample enough to micelli; while the inevitable macaroni and | rob the modern gourmet of all zest for spaghetti form, of course the principal [food for several days. The sideboard of articles of food at all times. the old English mansion groaned under The German Christmas dinner offers as |iis leviathan round of beef, its corpulent its principal attraction the goose, without |pork pie, the Yorkshire ham, the’brawn which true German would feel that |and chine; while op the table itselt he had not had a real holiday feast. Ger- deviled turkers’ legs, home-made sausagos mans, like Austrians and Itallans, have a | cutiets, an@ kidneys sent up & mingled and very sweet taste, as evidenced by their |Erateful incense from an environment cf mohnplelen—a dish composed of white | Piles of hot buttered toast. new-laid egss. bread, almonds, raisine and poppy seed | honey, and frumenty stewed in milk. To these they add the| But this repast, substantial as it honey cak N mberg, the Dresden Was trifling as compered with the dinner Stollen and compounds composed | the rTeal dinner, that follawed not many principally and pepper. Another hours after. The feast was heralded by < h in favor at Christ- | the boar's head, preceded Ly ervitors el ke who blew resounding flourishes on thelr the temdency In all |trumpets. The boar's head ftsclf was car. huge dinners at Christ- Tied, sometimes on a dish of gold or that ver, into the bangueting hall &t the hesd is of & stately procession of guests As in these times, mince pies formed a part of the old English Christmas feast; but the present-day mince pic could net for s moment stand comparison with the article of that period There has come down to us a description of such & ple as eaten in the eighteenth cemtury. It coa- Their hospltality was conducted on e scale |sisted of two bushels of fiour, iwenty that would make the housekeeper of to- | Pounds of butter, four geese, two turkevs, day shudder. The meal with which they | three rabbits, four wild ducks, three wood- your w h of ginge German delicacy u mas, 1= carp cooked Notwithstanding countries to offer mas, would seem holiday bill fare becoming simpler with the course of time. An_ interesting comparison may be meade of the Christmas dinners formerly served In England and in this country, with those of today, albeit the latter are by no means scanty. The forebeurs of modern Englishmen must have possessed magnificent appetites. sil- it every nation's cocks, sir snipes, four partridges, ts' tongues, three curlews, seven birds and six pigeone. Whatever dish might be omitted from the old-time English dinner, no ome ever thought of leaving out frumenty and plum porridge. Frumenty was made from wheat bruised in & mortor and seethed un- til it burst. To this was added clear fresh broth, sweet milk, and the yolks of eggs, all of which was boiled. When it hed settled this interesting compound was mixed with fat vension or fresh mutto Plum porridge was the ancestor of plum pudding of our time Other fegtures of the old-time mas dinner included geese, turkeys, capons Ppheasants, sirio of beef and haunches of venison. That thess were washed down with gallons of ale and wine goes without saying ¥ might be written of the old English The most eloquent 1 petite of our forefathers in England les n the fact that, after tting ewey with a dinner o the character outlined above, it was us to have wheeled the drawing-room about midnight a ba rel of oysters with pheasants roasted on the side, the whole of which formed an sccompaniment of several big bowls of steaming-hot punch! the Christ- another liquid element Indeed, of the dinners bute in to the ap- nto | To be or not to be? What shall 1 do? Shall 1 buy Jones a Christmas gift vear? Of course, 1 am unwiiling to appear Stingy, and he's a friend both tried and true. 1 am not ome of those close persons who Hang on to every cent, and yet 1 fear That I may find his friendehip all dear, That later my extravagance I'll rue 1 think this Christmes giving is & bore— An imposition—Why should 1 expend Five dollars. or it may be even more® They always come to more than 1 intend. And yet 1 know 1 ought not to lgnore Old Jones, for after all he is my friend 1 Last year Jones sent 1o me & case of wine The year before, cigars, Havanas straight This coming Christmas he'll anticipate Something from me, and something pretty fine. Of course T must do something in that line 1 can’t afford to show myself a skate But I've been paring out a lot of late And gift, too, might not compare with mine, If_he came up with something rather nice T might be willing something nice to buy, But 1 can't think of any smart device To find that out. and that's the reason why 1 sort of hesitate about the price. I think T'll compromise upon & —8t. Louis Republic. this tie A *““Victor” Talking Machine for Christmas of ld a mas day is A Picture Makes a Fine Gift Christmas xt the The custom presenting one's &lkcing machine on ver on the in and theusaasds of “Victors s0ld for this purpose year We carry ail models by the Victor Talking Machine ¢ will as well as & comprehensive array eret records. and selicit your trade a s r- these lines auy pr tw t exhaust of framed 06 and still n with Chris ent showing pi crease will be t tfered “BARGAIN) turned ¢ AE of framed o of on shoppers be Visit our greatly enlarged depart of talking raachines tals week see and hLear the newest “Vic- Ne. ludes 2 men pictures &t 20c; table Thc values at 38 cludes ap o $1 values while table N up t Jues @t Toc. Mission, gol ts, and some oval framed tures, are among .he lines 1513- 1515 Douglas Street w0 60 No. 2 and makes are ment, and make waloome § n tomorrow and figure thing of this sort for Xm er on some- Musical Instruments for Christmas larger en and § rosew fered a: ogany each §7 ma with Attra and all e Pianos at Special Prices for Christmas This and art rare plano bargain this week es on e & number of lightly used. shop worn, but high grads plancs of fine makes g offers many & Such well known instru the “XKzabe,” “Stein vay™ Bach,” “Hallet & Dav. ‘Oramoer, “Tmperial,” “Kimball,” « Weber Bros." and “Marshall” planos arc in the lot and should you find an instrument » wult, the, terms be arranged & mauner exceedingly e for as wil An will meke & gift, an we offer ese bargain remembered lessen sour and death pian fire sold insurance