Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1909, Page 28

The Incomparable ¢ the coneeive of Melba, Tetraz Patti; in ngs only Viet wingers he risking t for rld's but any, of aingers singing Victer? The Vietor's natural fame The would not of offendin of a a fact thousands ¢ reproduction it enhance Victor way %0 but Victor their company for fear every knows it to be There are the best familles in Omaha in to with and on fam- fllar terms with the ical by means their There other thousands who they ought to and will own one, but there still other thousands Listening to Himself il ot ousand don't know what they are Vicirola $200 missing, and these are the peoplo we want to get In touch with and to whom we extend @ cordial invi- tation to call and see us, We can add years and enjoyment to your lives, We will mber into family, without whom you cannot Keep houre after you make the acquaintance We will gludly \ Vitor ot obligation Vietors $10.00 to $60.00 The Victrolas, § Easy Piano Player Co. 014 Boston Stor, mus of are know soon world v are who introduce a n you place in your home for & few days on trial free ayments if Desired. Second Floor. IF YOU WANT A DERBY for Christmas we have them their equal for the We make Come in and be from— $1 Nothing money. Inall styles. them ourselves. convinced hefore else- w you go ere, OMAHA HAT FACTORY Open Evenings Until 8 0’clock. Opposite Millard Hotel. 114-116 South 13th St. A Premier Christmas Gift, The Mason & Hamlin The Stradivarius Among Pianos, Sold Only By The Electro Plating Silverware, Tableware, Ornamental Articles, Old Clocks, 0ld Souvenirs, Old Candelebra, Old Relics, Heirlooms, any thing made of metal can be made just as good at a small cost in GOLD, SILVER, NICKEL, BRONZE or BRASS, and these things often times make the most acceptable Christmas gifts. Our plant is fully equipped: our inechanic ure exports; our establishment Is the oldest In the state of Nebraska. Mr. Louls Slavin, the president, has had 28 yoars of practical experience In electro plating and nothing goes out of the shop without his closest inspection. Satisfaction Guaranteed Omaha Plating Co. 1220 Harnay Tel. Douglas 2535 Christmas at Henderson's THE FLORIST CUT FLOWERS, PLANTS. Wreaths, Holly and Mistletoe and the very best assortment of Floral Nevelties. Fhones: Mell, Douglas 1358; Ind., A-1368. FROMPFT ATTENTION GIVEN TO OUT-OF-TOWN ORDERS. L. HENDERSON 1519 PARNAM STREET, docinies OMANA, NEB. TRAVELING GOODS If you want a right good Trunk, Suit Case or Travel- ing Bag, get it at a leather store where they know some- thing about leather. We have good leather suit cases fromgRys ((“ ‘;-:1'. $5.00 up. - Good 18-inch leather bags from $5.00 up. Harness, addles Blankets and Automdile Robes. ' Alfred Cornish & Co. Leather Goods Store. S 1210 Farnam Street |WHAT SHOW WINDOW IS Displays Have Become Eye of Soul of | Modern Stores. EDUCATION FOR PUBLIC TASTE | Story Tola wy Deep Effect and Deviding Success of Sty Ofterings. Showing of Shops of Importance In Are you interested in show windows Ot course you are. Every American In | just naturally & “window shopper. Most |of the Ideas that you have about the pre valling styles, bo you busy business man or letsurely mistrese of & palatial home, and half the foundation of tastes, ie unan | mously laid observations taken at a glance into the show windows. That is why the show window is so im- portant & part of the stores of Omaha. Up and down Sixteenth street, Omaha's “petti coat v in opposite direction along Farnam street, aimost every Inch within easy range of eyesight for the lirongs along thoroughfare broad ex plate expose the ares of the shope The known decorat it the on lane F the panses ot glass to view window says of the best | rs in one of the best known one 1t stores, “Is the eye of the store's He has been speaking of the advance of this special form of art which reaches its the holiday and h rather facts and | tigures in regard to it | “Absolutely no expense is spared to make the snop window aturactve I'he profess.onal decorator who has cuar of the business tor one of these big estab shments has & salary which ranges from 10,000 Lo $15,00 @ year and & corps of help- rs—somietimes ten, somelimes Lwenty men. His ardstic facully is of a pecullar kind, tained expertly In this sole direction. Just at window decorations neater more expensively simple than ever before. We don't seek any longer eye of the passerby with conglomeration of materials and furnishing large outiays; rather we a cholce selection in which every to form zenlth in season fur- | nishes some surprising he continues present the are and to allure the a which do it by t will blend in the mosaic my of color and form., his i8 because the general intelligence is higher than ever Listen to the remarks of the shoppers and you will dis cover this. W ouwen are more critical they keep the window decorat guessing what they will like and why. important thing. At the naturally we employ | for tasiton has to bow to tradition, and the red berries of the hoily, the ficating streamers of red, do not offend the most fastidious taste. But, senerally speaking, it may be that the softer tints, the pasiel shades and novel | combinations of colors which are produced | |In fabrics by dyes and mixtures of dyes absolutely unknown a few years ago are| |necessary to meet the modern demands. This is the reason the poinsettia is the chosen Christmas flower of this winter. ery year the head decorator of establishment, and the rule is fol- lowed in other stores of lmportance, goes abroad, perhaps on a vacation so termed, but in reality on that unceasing sear for new ideas which makes America the {market for the whole world ““Tuke les petites boutiques of Parls, for example, the arcades of Brussels, where only one sort of merchandise is sold, and |you get wonderful examples of window are, but, on the other hand, the disap- pointment of American shoppers wuen they first visit the department stores of Parls, which have & world-wide reputaiion, Is ex- tre There they see any such artistic examples of window decorating as they are famillar with on Broadway and Fifth avenue, and there is during the tour- Ist season a chorus of wailing Au | volces, ‘You don't mean to tell me this Is| the Bon Marche, or Guleries Lafayette, as the be. Outside of these blg places are cheap stalls, preempting the side- walk space, heaped with bargains of the crudest var | A $10,000 window h was one of the |high marks reached:’ he on, “dis plaved & wedding breakfast table on which fruit and flowers, a complete |service of solid silver and cut glass was | exhibited. The very latest wrinkles in re gard to composition were studled, and the arrangement which might have passed five vears ago, when the principal motive was merely to show goods, was re placed by an ensemble which drew & gasp of admiration from nine out of every wonien among those who kiow and those want to know, of whom there Is an ever Increasing ber | “A window represent before ana busy | 18 Color the lChristmas season masses of scarlet, sald this same do not i case may whi besides real carelss who nu decoration which sure to attract the feminine crowd is the seml-annual exhibit of imported gowns, and In order to make those show off well the richest stock of the establishment is d=iwn upon. Once we used a background of royal purple and gold w ng out richness of winter fur and point lace and the al priceless satine. Another time we had gray of the daintiest tint, order that the dell be properly shown. Perhaps $100,000 1s not too large & sum to name as the valuation of an exhibit of thid sort, and in order to make it effective res of color schemes and groupings were zealously studied. The best criticism for the decorator is the sllent crowd outside, |and that fact that during the weeks the costumes were last exhibited here there was never a moment of the shopping day | when it was possiblo to get your n | galnst the outside glass tells its own | story. The entire stock of a shop is placed | | ix always \he costumes, nost velvets and velours hundreds of yards, in te summer films might se at & decorator's disposal and he can draw on it as he wishes. At the wedding breakfast spoken of a | noticeable lack was the once famous wax | tigure. Not so very long ago a decorator | would not have thought it possible to get | I«unum an effective window without at | least one wax figure to show off a co | tume, to sit at & table and give the human | | toueh. The wax figure has followed the | wooden Indian of the clgar store and dec- | orators consider its use old-fashioned in [ e extroma. | *“The lghting of the window is a very im- | portant feature to be considered, and ihe | §0ods exhibited now have, in mccordance | with the latest insurance regulations, to be fireproofed. This is done by & compa tively new device by which the fluid is sprinkled over everything as it stands com- plete, Instead of the older and more labori- ous method of fireproofing each artic separately before It is put into the windows. “We do not consider as yet the aeroplane » possibility as & window decoration. The shops that exhibit aeroplanes to the curi- | ous usually prefer to place them in some other part of the establishment. They are uncouth and cumbersome, but we surely believe that it will not be very long before the windows will be filled with an attrac- tive display of aeroplane necessities, just as they have been for several years now | with auto wares. There s & .00 aeroplane | on exhibltfon {n this establishment now, but we have preferred to keep the windows for | more artistic wares “We usually fix the automobile window | to attract the men's eve, and he is sus- i(fl‘uhla generally to fine furnishings, to| traveling gear of all kinds and to novel- Jtiee Nt wugwest comtart, handsome | visible | bag costs . | to $100 the value of the display wiil be seen | wiae | our | the tests all moters that | the cab without breaking the seal IMBER smoking warm fillod with sporting g Then rate ments from hi grounds of ' completed windows displaye a scheme for the 1ib and warm the light { and returns markings. bookbinding yrder one's color that turnishings. o2 with et ooiored § H"}'{,'IL[M‘N WHO BOOMED THE WEST | ases o | Death or ¥, the . Whe Fient® rein, Started “See " Amer some | these turnishing | o, rounder of the new tribe of west with orlental rugs - 4 ture th | - concealed bulbs | 4 of beautiful exhibition of will, but see materia’s that may | clled favorite authors bound in the | and harmoniges with the fibrary | Whit There is no feminine touch | Of the The deep chairs arc leather, | 5and won a broad and long, the book- | ventions for his adopted town to open and Inspect and | ized forty odd admirably adapted to the velvets . w svement the One of compl " ary ahogany fu m the cleverl the reflection novelty is o Salt Lake boomers d! other at catehes | . ed He invented Harr ¥ phrase “'See Europe if America first tion of yo nd whe A an the conve western govern 80 one rommercial which & voRU; a phoned the new al west 1o & thou f con rRan clubs 1 here. points score of more o is easy the table cases the use are lighting of the One of the most attractive of the ex- hibits in the next window, which is filled with a thousand and one articles for the feminine tollet table, brushes and comb boxes and trays in tortolse shel! inlaid with dull sflver or gold. These are hibited on ot flooring and the back- @ of tint 18 | in the shape of embroidered screens fitted | into the window frame that the im- | pression fs of a huge box. The decorator | estimates the value of the display at $5,000, | Another exhibit for men contains won- erful traveling bags of soft tan leathers. of black and of russet. Through (ne hand'es umbrellas are stuck and on the apex of each I8 a cap. The bags them- selves are fitted with every possible con- venlence. Steamer and Auto rugs are scat- tered flasks punctuate the display and outside the window is a line of eritical | men express approval. While the window Is not showy the decorator assures the that article has been | chosen with the eve of the connolsseur. | | ordor hoostiy to the propaganda biz n a farmer I of the T et country 18 room m business basl. Without ever having an organizger and president Missouri Dry Farming congress When his city heard of big con vention at work in any part of the country it forthwith hustled him off to capture for the mountains, come another eldom did he fall the which he won them hood in Virgini war, then of the ox- it L vel the vear. and with vas to tell of his boy- immediately after the ectional bitterness with fitled and finally of west, lived Lincoln was the lived. The the Grand last summer. bocmer of the western states A from hotel clerk in a frontler v of the Salt Lake City which he founded. Here sought choice spirits of his own kind in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and | Denver and began the work for a general propaganda of boosting the west and pre- paring the west to take of its ex-| pected tou His was the result ter for a| general western movement for better hotels, parked r to the attractions and commercial clubs from which a glad hand could be extended to all callers. The bross band for was worthy of the The lat his faith new west is a splendid home, fir fshed, to b sund same ultramarine speech whieh his heart wa Fis migration to the to learn that Ereatest man etfort of encampment As ploneer ke graduat hotel where he Abraham trat lfe ever final his was Army's about Ut al club, out r Commere who s visitor each One window has a setting of Empire furniture, cheval glasses, small divans, tiny spindle ‘egged tables holding bronze | figures which in turn clasp clusters of silk lamps. The background of car- ainal red velours is draped generously and the fittings of the room complete might | supply the needs of a duchess seemingly. But its sole use is to show 100 lace hand- kerchiefs, each In a box—duchesse, cluny, point d'esprit and other fi'my makes, form- inw a bewildering cobweb of beauty. Skins of animals and reptiles form an- other background, all of them chosen for beauty ing. Araing 1148 setting are flung bags made from the prepared materfals—a showing of first cause and after effect. 'There Is every possible bag here except the ugly, prac- tical one. Some exquislte ones are of the fashicnable shades highly polished, with dull gold settings, lined with fuede and Mtaining an array of useful | One has a gold pencil attached to hung outside the bag, the held in place by & small leather Another which modestly assumes to be designed for shopping, displays a com- plete assortment of makeup matarials. This and as there are perhaps ranging In price from $25 care sts. See America” convention the covered and it became cer arned out whoso nor est exp ssion of in the not yet quite | ¥ to the devoted of exclusi of markings and colo propaganda Commeretal club, His instructions to its architects, after he had made the speech which oversold the bonds for its wction, was to make it something that would leave Chicago's club a s When he dled the people without regard to religion and political differences in a community where such differences are | especlally bitter turned out masse m; cond rater. of mauve, things. a long pencil band en chain attend his funeral. He has shaken the hand of every guest of Salt Lake City for the last ten vears and he spoke to | those for whom were arranged until his voiee impaired a vear ago | In an eastern convention getting campaign ~Collier's Weekly a notable banauets o was 100 other bags How w the Tw to be large. Al reati 000 in the east that we | The Beverly twins, Fred and Frank, were | i e 7 | such exact counterparts of each other that can use in artistic window treatment, for (none of the ueighbors could tell them apart, | tha (DTG TeesBh practically unknown |and even their mother sometimes had her | " . e doubts, The resmeblance s accentuated there,” says decoratol 0 o 4 SuLaLeC here,”” savs this decorator. “The oriental by the fact that they are dressed exactly | werchant has his little bazaar or his small | alike. b selling place in @ big establishment. You ‘“;;f*;'“'l in 1}'\'?}“""" can you yourself tell ch s which, X everly ?" aske are not Invited there by any outside allure- |ealier one day. " N bovan Lo ment; in fact, just as soon as he has any-| ~To tell the truth' she answered, I thing to sell he apparently is unwilling to | C81't AIWava: but if I hear a nolse in the it L ool . pantry and 1 call out, ‘Fred that you? sell it and welcomes vour departure with- |and he says, ‘Yes, mamma. I know It's out it with cheerfulness, It not actual|Frank, and that hé's in some kind of ‘mis- i chief.”"—Youth's Companion He shows general ruls, one | Quite Differe article at a time, and the matter of haste| “I'l have to tell you" said being one that they consider entirely for the mackintosh, “a tunny thin the weak-minded vou can take an hour wo two to make up vour mind: but until you do make it up up will see nothing else. The Chinese are especlally careless about |the uproar had subsided making the Japanese heing Anore! ‘'You blamed fools,” he said, I was going AR ¢ {to tell you a funny trick my little -year- 2 |ola fox terrier does. but if you don't care The decorator takes up several articles to hear it you can go to thunder!"—Chicago in the window designed to the latest | Tribune orfental novelties to oecidental eyes “A peculiar thing about the Omahan the fact that must have his imported wares Americanized,” he ‘Art for art’s sake he approves of as a sentiment but when it comes to paying out his money | he wants be that lLe is getting something useful as well as beautiful, and in consequence many of our goods are changed here mand For instance, the huge jars that to oriental need no excuse for being, are| turned into lamps for the American trade, and the lanterns of the workmanship must have placed by glass; bits of ed to pins for hats, and of brocade that a Japanese somewhcre in view and sit attention must be turned ens you, as the man in my little or 0 ned the othes 1 boy said!" Whe .an in the mackintosh walted until “he's lttie in concert us something his brigh ow e | he says to sure most exquisite to meet this de. | \ most the ivory exquisit paper must be rough would plac before in rapt into opera bags | at |or pin cushions. | “One of the most attractive windows of | establishment for the holiday will show a collection of jewelry | reality also Americanized, the actual orl- ental jew having been found to be a little too barbarlc for the New York woman's taste, So the designs are modi- fied and modernized, the seml-precious stones, imported in the rough and oleverly set, giving the impression of the east, but preserving the utiliarlan of western world."” Acroas the window of a small antig shop an interesting collection |s displayed. Here are strange pharmacy jars rescued | from the oblivion of the sixteenth and | seventeenth century hiding places and re- | calling the time whon each chemist in Italy and Spain had his particular shape size and marking for the porcelain recepta cles In which he kept his drugs and herbs Many of these are extremely beautiful many merely curlous. Already fastidiou shoppe are finding in them poesibilities for rose jars and for perfume holders. In (his same collection are bits of alsbaster, coples of 0ld Etruscan Painted furniture—the Ing the fashion eves is in ry | Ermine Searf and Muft, value $100.00 the | White Fox Scarf and Muff, British viewpoint Seal Caps, worth $12.00 . . Seal Caps, worth $20.00 .... Seal Caps, worth $25.00 Seal Gloves, worth dishes and vases. | latest fad—imitat- prevalent In the relgns of Louls XV and XVI, Is another novelty | We have a few more of those exhibited in u Sixteenth street win- | dow, and th | Baltic Lynx Sets at $9.75. of the fashionable ;‘.u‘..“:f"‘;;;‘“"Othera advertise them at $15. flowered baskets, that are now shown in every possible material, as pendants, show 18 charming paniers value $85.00 Columbia Mink Scarf and Muff, Russian Pony Coat, 48 inches long, value $125.00 , FOR THE Raccoon Auto Coats, Ask to see our classy Auto Caps in muskrat and raccoon Christmas Gifts For Physicians, Nurses, Invalids doctor eases your Re pain pember your and suffering Remember yvour nurse that faith fully watches over you while helpless, Remember your sick friend with some Invalld ap- pliance that will add to thelr com= fort. Physicians’ bagw, cases, hypodermic ®yringes, micro- scope! Nurses chate- 1aines, thermom ters, fancy oas and water bottl Invalids’ wh chairs, bedside and H. J. PENFOLD & CO. Invalld and Sick Room Supply House in ‘he West, The Largest i #1410 ‘ana 1412 Harne, t, Omaha. Buy Pickering Umbrellas Because they are the best, Everybody wants a Pickering Um~ hrella. New, snappy, up-to-date styles— made up on the best frames and silk on silk unions of the best qualities. Engrav- ing and packing for safe shipment withe out charge, ED. F. PICKERING 105 South 16th 8t. ighteen Years in This Location Are You Read for Christmas? We are showing one of tha ~ handsomest lines of watches, diamonds, jewelry, cut glass, clocks, sterling silver, (illette safety razors, umbrellas and novel- ties that we have ever shown. Spend a few minutes in our store. Look for the name, S. W. LINDSAY, Jeweler 1516 Douglas Street |A few special prices on furs suitable for Xmas Gifts $70.00 60.00 95.00 value $150.09 90.00 MEN: -8 7.501 5.00 20.00l $20.00 worth $100.00 ....... 1613 FARNAM STREET brooches, embroidered on handkerchiefs as receptacles for the table, In gold and sliver novelties, in bits of em. broidery and eceptacies for bonbons for the table metal tollee in o8 Rew ca imeta D the taxicabs in #tis 1s to be Inspected and sealed tate department of welghts and all found defective will be | condemned. Commissioner Paimer, head of | the department. has laid out numerous | courses in Various parts of the state. an the cabs will be tested over these A!I»?" have passed will be sealed in such 4 way that the meter | head cannot be detached or removed from In a in each cab t Massachu by the m res and ditlon w card will be placed certifying that the meter In_use on that vehicle has been sealed —New York Tribune. | Two Sides to Everythi A little boy was given too much unde; done pie for his supper and was s0on roar- Ing lustily 11s mother's visitor was visibly dis- turbed | “If he was my child.” she said. “he'd get | a good sound spankin { He deserves it the mother admitted, | but | don't believe in spanking him on & | full_stomach. | “Neither do 1" sald the visitor, “but I'd turn him over."—Succesa. | GIFT... We make the best candles and sell them at a price that sults all purses, Bitter Sweet choc- olates, packed in at- tractive %, 1 and 3 pound boxes, st 50c per_pound make for %6 qu. for schools, churche o8 and socleties. special Remember Us Also To the Children CRYSTAL CANDY CO. 16th and Capitol Avenue ————————/