Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 2, 1910, Page 10

THE BEE ATURDAY, APRIL From the We place every high grade skirt in these two big purchascs on sale in our bargain basement cloak section. All the Dress and Walking SKIRTS From the Elite Cloak Co. and the 5th Ave. Tailors, WORTH UP TO $8.00, $950 Hundreds of fine skirts on sale on racks in our basement section. Newest spring styles and colors—eolored voiles— fancy worsteds, silk taffetas, panamas, black voiles, white serges, new overdrape cffects —beautifully tailored. There never was such a skirt har- gain as this. e Silk Dresses From the Elite Cloak Co. Hundreds of beautiful new silk dresses, made of Foul- ards, Shantungs, fancy Silks and Taffetas; all the newest styles for spring—a wonder- ful bargain. 3629 Worth up to $20.00 and ‘2 Speculs. Art Needlework Dept. On Our Main Floer 10c From the Elite Stock and 5th novelt; to sel now at . All the \\'omen from the Elite stock and the avenue tallors—worth np to $25.00, at. . Honiton, Point Lace, Battenberg and Renaissance Braids, in white, cream and ecru, 36 yards for. .. Battenberg Thread, all sizes, 4 spools Sensational Music Sale Every popular song of the day included in this list—Bring your list and select what you want, at -10e¢ Silvery Moon, I'm Going Home, You Don't Know How Much You Have to Know, etc.; Cubanola Glide, Come Down Nellle to the Old Red Barn, Tt Looks Like a Big Night Tonight, I've Got Rings On My Fingers, Playmates, Next to Your Mother, How Do You Do Miss Josephine, Be a Bachelor While You Can, Carrie Marry Harry, Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland, Garden of Roses, Put on Your Old Grey Bon- net, Where River Shannon Flows, Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay, Going to Do as I Please, Lonesome, Keep Your Foot on the Soft Pedal. An Extra Special for Saturday, at . 19c “I'VE SOMETHING IN MY EYE AND IT'S \ov D lgc “Twilight Reveries"—It's great . ..19¢ Saturday Special in Brandeis Flower De Large Boston Ferns; regu- Fresh Out Carnations; all larly $1, at colors, at, doz. pt. ' 50¢ Women’s Spring Suits Tailored 8pring Suits, in newest style features ~—new plain light shades, new mixed and cloths; they were made for ‘25 00 and $30.00— Fine 'I‘Allnred Spring Suits BRANDEIS STORES ALL THE WOMEN'’S SPRING SKIRTS Elite Cloak Co., &5, CHILDREN Avenue Tallors 98¢ $1 5th ‘20 5th Ave. Tailors, N. 'S COATS and DRESSES Ohildren’s Spring Jackets-—rieds, greens and mixtures; styles, at $2.98 $3.98 85 and §7.50 Ohildren's Pretty Wash ideas for spring and summer; nice for school and every day wear, at, each— 50 $1.98 and $2.98 Children’s White Dresses—Dainty little frocks On Sale Saturd These skirts are made fabries—all this newest and most desirahle styles, All the Dress and Walking SKIRTS From the Elite Cloak Co. and the 6th Ave. Tailors, WORTH UP TO $15.00, %S Hundreds of high class skirts in these two purchases —all sizes in black and every desirable color, These skirts actually made to sell np to $15.00 and inoclude colored voiles, silk taffetas, worsteds, panamas, fine white serges, ete.—the newest and clever- est style features for 1910. Basement Cloak Section. of fine wool spring’s WASH WAISTS Hundreds of spring and sum- mer waists from the Elite and 5th Ave. Tailor stock— worth up to $2.00, 98 at. Pretty embroidery and lace trimmed waists — all the newest styles, browns, the pretty spring Dresses—All new Notable Sale of pring Millinery Beautiful New Models, Worth Up To $15 and $18 at SIO We have brought forward for Saturday's sale 350 beautiful, new spring hats; made and trimmed in the very latest styles. The new light bralds with silk facing; the Java, chip and Milan braids, in the smart roll rim sallors and turned up brims; all the pret- tlest flower trimmings, net bows, ribbons, ete.; strictly up-to-date spring hats, worth $15 and $18, speclal, at— $10 Brandeis Millinery at $5 A Brandeis hat i{s always up-to- date in style, no matter how moderate the price. These smart spring hats are worth $10— now at Hundreds of Ultra Fashionable Spring Hats; New York models and Parls copies; many exclusive styles—now at, each $15.00 and $25.00 Clever New Styles Women’s Low Shoes Our stocks of smart, new footwear for women includes every shape and last that is new. The quality is a feature of Brandels shoes that is always absolutely rejfable. See the new one and two-eyelet ties and the two and three-button patterns, in the short vamps and newest lea- thers; prices— $3 to $6 The Best Shoes That Sell in Omaha for $2.50 Women’s fine welt sewed pumps and oxfords, in the newest leathers and best styles—every pair guaranteed. 2 50 Best values in Omaha at. $ iy Specials in Leather Goods ; Jewelry for confirmation and for dressy wear; a charming variety, at $5 87.50 up to $19 810 up to $3.50, MWOTU\ 31 50 Fine leather shopping bags, leather lined with over- lapping frames—worth regularly up to $1.50, at. Special sale of Women’s Ger- man Silver Mesh Bags—fine kid lined—at' one-half regu- 85¢ Doran Pins—the only collar pin with spring, warranted to wear; 3 on silk pad..25¢ gains for Saturday. 25¢ Lilac| e |2 Talcum Powder 7c Tooth 8c | at 5 cent Sanitol | Pow- | der, at 12¢| 25 cent Samtol Tooth Paste, | RED CROSS DRUG SALE On the first Saturday of each month we hold this Red Cross Sale. It is the greatest bar- gain event in druggists’ sundr ies Omaha has ever known. Read these really wonderful bar- 25 _cent Whisk 5 cakes of Ivory Soap for . 76c Rubber Gloves for 10¢ Bhinola for $1 Travel- ing Cases il special, at TOILET ARTICLES Dentose Tooth Paste .. Colgate's Dental Paste . ¢ Sanitol Tooth Wash 7bc Pompelan Massage .. . 50c Ingram's Milk Weed Cream .. 25¢ Satin Skin Cream $1.60 Oriental Cream 50c Java Rice Powder ¢ Pozzonis Powder .. Satinette Rice Powder Florida Water Florida Water l...3%0 Hellotrope, Locust Bioom, White Rose or California ldeal Perfume, speotal, per o: 250 15¢ Chamols 10c Jap Rose S Genuine Ideal Hair Brush 75¢ Size 59¢ $1 Size 69c Ten cakes American PATENT MEDICINES 60c Milks Emulsion . 50c Syrup of Figs ... 86c Castorla 60c Scott's Emulsion . 60c Listerine $1.00 Smith's Green Mountain Reno- vator; special 490 $1.00 Lydia Pinkham's Veg lble tl( 0 3100 — Y tile Noy‘w’l!‘; PHOTO SUPPLIE! No. 2 Buster Brown Camera. .. $10.60 Seneca Camera, 4xb: bt somuision Mait d (ubes M. Q. Developer . 26c Stronsky Trays .. Metal Tripod .... 2% x4% Hammer Plates 4x5 Printing Frames . 4x5 Plate Holders ve do developing ‘and fintshing. All work guaranteed i5c Fountain Syringe 490 be 3-quart Hot Water Bottle, umin! 3245 Gonibination Fountain i and Wats Bottle Marvel Spi lar prices. New German Silver Chains— 60 inches long . .75¢ and $1.00 Pay As You Enter Coin Purses at special prices. Sterling Silver Spike Hat Pins at .......,.....50c’and 76¢ Patent leather beltss....50¢ Gun metal chains: 75¢ to $6.00 . Human Hair Goods On Our Seeond Floor Exoeptional opportunity to purchase at whole- sale prices. Our Turban Braids—Fine, soft, natural $298 wavy hair; others sell for $4.00; Saturday . Roman Braids—a36 inches long; $6.00 value, $3.98 Gray Switches—18 inches—#$4.00 values. ...$2.29 Cluster of Curls—$3.00 values, for. ... $1.50 Turban Crown, sold elsewhere at 50c; Saturday 15¢ Extra L\rge Invisible Silk Net—sold elsewhere at 10¢ —our price ..BC Natural wav Special for 3-stem Switches— turday—Natural wavy inches long—2-0z. in weight—$5.00 value. .$2. 89 Hair Dressing, Manicuring and Massaging. Appointments made by phone. SATURDAY’S SPECIAL SALES IN BRANDEIS BASEMENT Men's Spring Suits—New styles; up-to-date: make good; every day business suits, and wear well speclal, at Boys’ Combination Suits—good cheviots sizes 6 to 16, pos- 8250 tively $3.50 and $4 values, at .... Balbriggan and drawers; special on bar- gain square Says Chamberlain in ege:” his “Things Janan- “The peasantry scrupulously observe the traditional times and seasons in all the operations of agrioulture. FATHER TIME IN THE ORIENT Masquerades Under Various Costumes and Appellations in Japan. COMMON Concrete Illustrations. | Now, It may be well to consider this | timely topic with contrete illustrations. Let USE | us take a year, month, day and hour by | the western calendar, which is practically | mpérnationai in its use, for example 11:30 |8 m. of Friday, November 2, 108, of the Christian era. But, according to the na- | tlonal calendar, \"n»,nnu Who s reputed to have founded the empire of Japan In 660 B. C., it is the year 2569 of the Japanese era. And, accord- | SYSTEMS IN How a Wentern Calendar Looks When Decorated with Japanese Char- acters—New ol Styles. Father Time masquerades in Japan under various costumes and appellations. He may | clal epochs, It is the forty-second year of b called “solar” time or ‘lunar” time; he | the Meiji era, or Era ot Enlightened Rule, may be clothed in occidental or in oriental | which began In 1868, and corresponds prac- £&rb; he may be put in Chinese costume; | tically, though not precisely, to the en- of he may wear the national kimono with | lightened reign of his imperial majesty the different styles of gwments. This may |present emperor of Japan. Again, seom like “confusion worse confounded," abdd It Is not without its possibllities of mixtures and mistakes, but it is not neces- sdry for every one to follow all the calendars. And, while it Is true that the government of Japan has decided to abolish official publication of the old calen- dar, In order to root out more speedily sgme wbuses, superstitions and evil prac- tices ponnected therewith, yet it Is ex- tramely difficult, It not absolutely im- ible, 10 prevent the use thereof by ulturists. fo whor It Is, at least, very convenlent, f hot almost Indispensable. borrowed, as It is often necessary to use |1t for reference. it is the first year of the new Hsuan Tung era, and the second year of the relgn of the new Emepror Puyi Moreover, In the Sexagenary ‘Cycle of Cathay,” it is the forty-sixth yvear of the current cycle, which began in 184, and, according 1o the zodiacal menagerie of that cycle, it s called” tsuchi no to torl no toshi, or wrought earth, cock year, But, according to the lunar calendar, the year did not really begin till January 22, 1909, and 1t will continue for 384 days, till Febru. Men’s 35¢ and 50c quality Undershirts which reckons from Jimmu | Ing to another style of reckoning by spe- | it the | §, calendar of the mighty neighbor, China, be | K Men’s and Women’s Shoes ~—both high and low shoes; =il sizes; other stores would ask $2.26— our price ary 10, 1910, Therefore it is leap year and contains thirteen months by repeating the lunar second month. The regular second month contained thirty days, from Febru- 'y 20 to March 21, inclusive; while the "ntercalary, or extra second month, con- tained twenty-nine days, from March 22 to April 19, inclusive. was formed by combining the twelve signs of the szodiac with the ten stems,” obtained by dividing into two parts each of the five elements (wood, fire, earth, mental, water). This process gives | Just sixty combinations. The names of the | oriental signs of the zodiac are, In order, |as tollows: [ Names of the constel- lations in the Sin | Rat (ne Ox (ushl) . | Tiger (to | Hare (u s | Dragon (tatsu) . erpent (mi heb! Horse (uma) . Goat (hitsujl) | Monkey (saru) {Coeck (torl) { Dog (Inu) Amunrl\ Boar (1) . Pleses The month of November is in the lunar calendar the tenth month of the year. That month, moreover, used be glven more poet- fcal appellations, such as Ko-haru (Little Spring), known as Indian summer in the west and Kan-na-sukl (Godiess month); for the Shinto dieties, except Ebisu (god of wealth) who s deat and does not hear the summons, were all supposed to leave the Names of English corresponding con- stellations. Sagittarius “apricornu The Sexagenary Cycle mentioned above | “celestlal | | Venus day-- 5 Women's ribbed ankle 39c val- ues, at, each long sleeved, undervests, also length pants— FRAMED PICTURES AND PICTURE FRAMES. 50 ‘Women'’s ion suits—-all sizes — worth 59¢; special, at. ... Torchon and Valen- ciennes laces and in- —great bar: 25(: ':z"!]lglz;‘s;(l:l up 5c Children’s summer union suits, all sizes S summer un- 39e Hundreds of attractive subjects— , and to assemble [in a day, so six hours counted twice. The many in colors— nice for your hiome—a grand bargain—atur- day._each. in their ancestral |schedule was as follows: Therefore, the month wa: called Kaminaki-tsukl, or Kami-na-suki or Kan-na-zuki (God-not-month); and it | | wan considered useless to offer prayers | Yjisu-dokl | ana sacrifices, except to Ebisu, whose great | Nanatsu-dok |testival was on the twentieth day of the | hour) ... | Mutsu-doki tenth month. nour) .. | tsutsu-doki” | “hour) i by the | Yotsu-doki but m( hour) 9-11a. m. and p. m or the We may add that this style of computa- The present ar- ‘Hnn is based on multiples of “‘pine” and | rangement 1s a8 follows: —Qetsuyobi— | that in each case the “tail' tighre of the | Moon day—Monday; Nichiyobi-Sun day |Product was taken as the name of the Sunday; Kwayobi—Mars day—Tuesday; |hour. An hour was subdivided sometimes Suyyobl—Mercury day—Wednesda; Mo- | juyobi—Jupiter day—Thursday; l\mynbl“ln just sixty minutes long. Thus 11:30 Friday; Doyobl—Saturn day— ®. m. becomes the upper koku of the ninth Saturday. This Is apparently an adapta- | hour. tion of the western arrangement of the week, which was entirely unknown, as the | days of each month had numerical names. Moreover, the hours of the day were also For Instance, the twenty-sixth day of the |hamed according to the heavenly menag- month, according to the oceidental calendar | erlc in the following way | becomes in the orlental calendar the rour-‘ Hour of the Rat—11:00 p. m, to 1:00 & m.; | teenth day of the tenth menth. a m.; Hare- The hours, too, in Old Japan had a spe- Serpent—9-11 » cial schedule of thelr own, quite different |m.; Horse, 11 &. m.—1 p. m.; Goat—1-3 p. from the present one. And, while it is com- [ m.; Monkey—3-5 p. m.; 57 p. m.; paratively rare to hear the old style used, | Dog—7-9 p. m.; Boar—9-11 p. m. it is so common In literature that some| Thus 11:30 a. m. is also in the explanation is necessary In the first koku of the Hour of the Horse. place, it should be stated that the common | Hour of the Ox, by-the-way, being the Interval of time was 120 minutes in length, | time of sound sleep, was sacred to women w0 that fhere were only twelve hours {crossed in-love for taking vengeance upon | other parts of the count |in “annual conference’ home in Isunio. <okonotsu-doki (ninth 11 p. m.—1a, m. and 1a, m—1p. m (eighth o 1-3a. m. and p. seventh 3-5a. m. and p. ixth m m. m .5-7Ta. m. and p. | Day Names. (titth 7-9a. m. and p. m. ‘ This day is called in English (fourth name of Friday, or Frigga's day, | Japan it is Kinyobl, or Metal day, | day of the planet Venus. Hour Names. {a. m.; Dragon-7-9 a. m.; upper | into upper and lower koku, each of which | The | gains, at. .. fot Tok He will find ‘many of them | shrine of Fudo, used; and, as If to emphasize the contrasts It has already been stated that last year |between the old and the new, he will find, was “Cock year'; and it may only be ad- | cheek by'jow! with them, notice of much ded that, since “a cock on & drum’ be- |modern time-saving devices as telephones! came symbolical of peace,and prosperity, | ~-Ernest W. Clement in Japan Magazine, a “cock year' Is considered lucky. And, | ) | as one contemplates the events of the past| When Man Takes Hest Photograph, | year, and reads the reports of extraordi- | “Men who need a shave take a better | nary good crops, he eannot deny that peace | picture than those who are freshly shave! | and prosperity appeared to Japan Inn\“‘““' a local photographer one day ) . . week. “The short hairs soften the lines cock year lof “the face and altogether give a less The year [ | harsh and more even cast of expression, | inu no toshi, or natural metal, dog year, | while all signs of unshavenness can bé | by the old calendar, in Which, eliminated by a few strokes of the re- ‘H does not really begin until February 10, a straw image of the recent lover at the 1910 would be called Ka-no-e, however Dogs.’ Don't 0o 1t ‘s face. Some of these story by his connection with the famous “Two or three days' growth of beard in's famous novel, entitled “Hakken- |ness is eliminated, but at the same time before going down to the photographer, | heroes of semi-canine parentage, Clreumlocutory Luck. inates and he renders valuable assistance #, You don't think it bring heads, makes them stop crying.' toucher's brush. The sensitive plate of does not miss & single and will run over into January, 1911. The fo p ‘has beel 0 ed 1 pa ness ut too much re- dog 'has been immortalized 1 Japanese fouching is done the result is 10 take e all_expression from the face. Momotaro in the successful expedition 3 & d b v o a prom- |Just nicely conceals the worst of thes against the devils. He has als ‘F‘ + wrinkles and roduces the retouche s wnr; ¢ place In Japanese literature through | {0 ‘minimim Jy thin mesne ah haro€ " or “Story of Eight This |the normal expression of the face fs re. raciklined e A . tyles it '...mu"'od Very few men realize this fact enormous work,”” &s Aston style SRarning Out o avers e i hle ¢ | rates the adventures and exploits of eight It have pooter pictires for i [represent the eight cardinal virtues. phla Record. | B e —— |dog also figures extensively In Japanese | | tolk-lore, where his better side predom- f “Look lm-m doctor, see thal supe r‘mlll’ni\n ot tryfng o' Let's give him to mankind. \Bapecially the papler-mache | 804 trying 1o, pick up a pin! Let's & i dog is the perpetual protector of little | ehildren, and, when hang above théir it y one thinks that thes old styles of reckoning are absolete, let him exa ine. one of the dally vernacular newspapers | Kra Iuck do _you? I do. The pin Is probably rust stick 1t in his '!)IAK'"I Tn};n mean polsoning—and blood poisoning means DUBneRE Tar par Lot him alone. —Cleveland Plain Dealer