Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 17, 1916, Page 8

£ THE Tact, the Key to Succe By DOROTHY DIX. | discusses penitentiary reform ———— wives of bank embezzlers, or tells stories Cultivate tact, girls It is the one |Aabout deformed people to hunchbacks, or she abuses suffrage to suffragettes, or quality that will carry you further in life { ridicules wome particular religion to a than anything else. There is more 1o« | gavotes of that faith | v foncy In it than there is in beauty, or | Don't be Iike these tactless ones, girls wit, or all the Ten Commandments When wmong strangers stick to the Who are tho peopls that we like best | Weather or some equally innocuous tople & until you can get your hearings, and find and for whom we will do most? 1985 | sut womething of the personal idiosyn who, in the homely old phrase, rub our | crusies of the people with whom you are fur the right way. thrown V P on, o "0, hink be Who are thoss who sikccesd? The peo-| | When among acquaintances, think ! fore you speak. Reeall the personal his ple who know how to get alon& With | yory of each Individual, and let the con ather people,-those who never step on | versation dally along pleasant and flow other people's toes, who canclliate rathar | ery pathways, instead of making it a fu than offend sll with whom (hey come in | neral march to the graveyard of some Aead sorrow or disgrace contact. i It is the tactful—always the tactful,| Thera is no excuse for n man being a Theirs is the earth, and the fullness | bull In the conversational china #hop thereof. But it's worse than a blunder, it Is A Everybody recognizes the valus of | frime for a woman to e 4 cow In a cuts tact, but the trouble Is that they sesm | K!ass emporium to think that it comes by nature, as| And never, never feel (hat it s your Mogberry thought a knowledBe of read- | AUty to tell people unpleasant truths or ing and writing 14 correct thelr mistakes. That | a form Of course, there are a few fortunate | O tactlessness to which only too man people who are born diplomats and know | BIrls are addicted instinctively fust what to do or say ,"'"';“ul\,R‘V‘:uyy:'r:r"~”va-‘”‘:::“‘“;' "H‘ whg Theirs In the superfine brand of tact, | ‘70 \ I Are & but the balance of us can acquire a yery "o/ WOMAN and patrons 3 you are by taking o little thought and care that turneth away wrath, and that leaves There 18 no excuse, for instance, for people being blunderers in conversation any more than blunderers in conduct And this is especially true of women. A And when you get married, girls, tact woman would be ashmed to come 10| qn0s 1ty great and perfect work and your houss and fall over your tables, | keens you out of the divorce eourt, Tt customer mollified, or & grouchy halr herself finds great who can handle turning a reward employer without and smash your furniture, and drop | iy the tactful wifs who knows how to every bit of china that she took up. | feed a man hefore she asks him for Bhe uses tact in dealing with your be- money for a new dress; how to keep the longings. Why shouldn't she use an| toples off of the carpet that are sure much thought and ecare In avolding | to bring on a family row, and how to | crashing into your feelings and mutilat-| jolly her husband along the road he ing your pet bellefs? | should go instead of driving him with a Yet we all know the woman for whom | goad. forbldden topics seem to have a fatal | Therefore, 1 urge on you to cultivate fascination, She always talks to di-|tact, girls. Tt Is o woman's best weapon vorkees about domestic weandals, and | in life e DIAMONDS - WATCHES ON CREDIT Our Confidential Credit System Conience and coe riicn There Is no red tape, no publicity--everything is absolutely I. You and we are the on| ‘:nn who know anything M%fla‘mlon. No matter what you wish in Diamonds, g il BEE: OMAHA, ELONG shows a very pretty frock of pink WEDNESDAY, .| Smart Creations from Paris | JIEN.‘\'YW o M AY Just How Far Can a Woman Carry on a Flirtation? There are never exhausted a few subjects which are flirting is one of them places Venetian lace in an effective mm“m":"mz'mm:'m;:-mumqifluu cloth with lace collar and insets, and manner on this afternoon frock of black taf A money. sleeves of blue chiffon. Blue embroidery trims feta, Lace yoke forms part of sleeves, which are Yantage of Our Low Prices and Easy Terms. Your credit is good with u the peplum and sleeve caps particularly " interesting p ————— The spring voenings in Paris made | striped satin and plain faille. A df-’ufllrl evening gowns was of shrimp | very clear the fact that, beyond a rn“l‘rd llrpar’:urr (mmI lurm;r stand }nlnk Mfirlva {:anl\l \rv]rd’ hiv -,|l|w-r | & hort, full skirt |ards was the one-color taffeta coat | hite, outlmed with stee veading 10mtadior Ring, 7 general tendency to short, full skirts |0, ging o shis cogtume | All beaded effects, by the way, were | dened b hestablishment | g, ity g N B {and widened hips, eachestar | This combination of faille, satin |much in' evidence is & law unto itself, says Emilie De |and taffeta has suddenly become| An effective and novel Doeuillet Joncaire, in the May issue of Har- | most chic, but the “triple entente” |feature was the black oilcloht trim- 734 ~Round Belcher Cluster Ring, extra heavy 14k solld gold, 7 fine dia- monds, set in plati- num, Jooks ke a single lar; stone worth three or four times an mueh. . per's Bazar, To particularize, Doeuillet’s Ilection contained over two hundred | models. Short coats, with back | hanging loose and straight from the \llmulflrrs. predominated in his tailor col- must be handed very discreetly, | Red was a popular color, with grays and fauns also in favor. A number of suits had striped skirts with plain “jackets, and one short flaring coat of brown and white checked homespun had brown col- lar, cuffs, pockets and belts to match 9. 5 30w, lsui'.n’nlr vests, cither striped or em- "‘?)T‘“’,“ brown skirt broidered, fell in points just below oeuillet contrived to give the full the waist-line in front, and often the | P cylinv in his evening costumes | collars, pockets and buttonholes “f"';”ld" ”"I same time preserve the | the tailleur repeated the tones of the | siender "‘l houette Most of his | vest gowns had long narrow trains fall- | There was one long redingote of ing from the shoulders over short | dark blue serge with gold thread em I'r‘;' ';“' I"*‘“KK""“"‘”Y full skirts. te for eatalog N | broidery instead of pockets. The | ': ‘v‘]'f\' v‘%”l““-” n‘flrn covered by 714 ~ La_ Vailiers, Ilul and o . skirts were somewhat longer (han:“‘ ;;"A‘ 1”1‘ l|r~‘~ of tulle forming solld rold, beautifully R e i et & | Imond Ring, 6 prong §| those of last season and very full |& shott, tight sipege, finished by a . 1 Dismon: i : tooth mounting. 14k In some cases, particularly in cos- | ruche Whneh® ™ 614 THE NATIONAL |20/t gold, Roman o §| ymes of soft silk or voile, Docuillet | As there was no chiffon under- aain..... CREDIT JEWELERS | £1));. $66 || Jut the fullness of the skirt into |lining, the arms and shoulders 81,40 & Month, $6.60 a Month, shirred tucks. He used these tucks |looked very bare BROS & CO. it 400 8. 10th 5t., Omaha (Near Harnay Stree() Don’t Judge This Company by One Act of An Unthinking Employee Every employee of this company has been taught that his or her duty is to render not only efficient service, but to be courteous and absolutely fair in every action. We have been foremost to establish and propose to con. tinue our efforts to maintain good wages and good working conditions, In return we insist upon efficient service from our em. ployees and courtesy and thoughtfulness in their dealings with our patrons, We feel sure that all of our employees are imbued with the spirit of service and conscientiously want to serve you, but all of us are human and all of us occasionally do thoughtless things. When you believe we have made a mistake, when you think we have erred in any way in dealing with you, please call it to our attention. We want you to feel free to do so. We want to correct any error that has been made-any wrong that has been done-—and we want you to tell us about it 50 we may Do not judge us by one act of an unthinking employee Al WAYS Wo are trying to serve you faithfully and well There is a new washing machtme on the market—it is the only electric one that does not require a wringer. It is really a wonder. The clothes are washed and dried in the same tub, bing, no skinned knockles, no lifting, with no rub. no wringing, no torn or wrinkled clothes, no scalded The ¢ hands and no hard work. lothes are washed by the waell NOWN vacuum cup process. These oups ara suspended on a shaft which works down while the Inner tub con- up and taining On the forced t the tub wator t fothea water | the clothes is slowly revolving down stroke the sudsy water Is hrough the fabric, the botte being perforated, permitting the » pass through the while on the up stroke the soa + sucked back agsin thr 1&h the mesh of the clothes. Tt washes comforts without the sltghtest injury and without the touch of the human hand. and dries them so that 75 per cent of the Average wash can placed immediat pon the ironing board. The operatior the machine s & marvel of slmplicity . 1mposaibl nake & mistak ’ Borax in the In-Shoots n Al pa . Family Wash | ming. The oilcloht was cut in nar- {row strips and darned into the ma- terfal to give an effect of jet. Odd | as it sounds, it was handled so ar- tistically and sparingly that in ev- |ery case it brought forth applause from the buyers. Machine stitch- ing in contrasting shades was popu- [1ar, A number of alpaca suits and gowns were treated in this way; | reds, yellows and greens, for in- stance, showed up well on dark blue or black gabardines, | In his afternoon | uillet seemed inspired by the 1830 [period, the falling " shoulders, flounced skirts and lingerie collars | deminding one delightfully of the past. One charming dress of white taffeta cross-barred by blue satin lines and trrimmed by bands of blue taffeta, was so prettily old-fashioned that it awoke flattering com- | gowns Doe most | very cleverly in a handsome skirt .-yi One of the daintiest of the Doe- | ment Washer Works Without TOII(‘]IV()f Hand (might cousge Injury are underneath and protected y 4 meta snleld Electric shock is Impossible e | also the over- loading of the machine or motor, or the burning out of the connections. Imagine the joy of feeling that the washing and ironing can be all finished and put away in less time than heretofore thought pos sible, and rog of tho weather or of the laundress An esg beater that ata everything in more meanings than the usual ons is a double-barreled metal affal within a tumbler-shaped glass jar, and it s op ated by a ol which extands above the metal cover A metal filter funnel for adding various ingredients when the nnaise als pping whipping the sed for mixing may A, For beater Is projects above the w cream, making stiffaess this By CONSTA | ening of the wits Serving Fish Tm;ptlnglv The reason why we never come to the end of it is that we never come to the end of flirts, both male and female. Like Tennyson's “Brook,” they “go on forever.,” | | The only thing that alters is our idea of what is flirting. It used to be a flirtation if a girl sat out with her part- ner after a dance instead of going back to her chaperone the moment the music topped | Without thought of flirtation it must be admitted that few young men are equal to keeping up a flow of talk any with not only a strange girl, but her eaually unknown mother or aunt, or | other guardian, while few of the chap- erons have anvthing to say o the strange young men with whom thelr wards have and the girls have heen brought up to be demure and retir ing, and consequently aull In Europe it considerad advanced for a girl to have something to say for herself, and it I8 even allowed by a good many people that a girl who cannot flirt (one has never met her out- | ide of old-fashioned poetry) is not prop erly equipped for social life. It all de pende upon what view take of flirt ing; It stch despleable amuse ment; it can be such a harmless bright Do not you think that the harmless kind has savedl a great deal of boredom? janced themselves very 8 no longer we Girls know men a great deal better nowadays than they used to, because they ars allowed to see more of them. It is a very with the right girl and the right man, that he may take her to a theater, or a pleture gallery, for a walk on an afternoon, without starting all his and her relations talking like jays about when he will propose and how she will answer. It approaches to that very sengible custom of “keeping company, { Which is essentially far more modest than | the notion engendereds by the old-fash foned system that every time he spoke to a girl it “meant something' That was a system that produced unhappy mar- | riage on the one hand and heartiess flirts the dozen, and when it | d1a nelther it very often prevented a man and a girl from coming together who would have suited each other eplendidly. A little while ago an accustomed man who does not dance sald with a very wisc {and proper air that “one could say what | one Iiked, but a ball was the easiest place good thing on the other by to flirt at that could possibly be imagined, | and that sitting out did a great deal of harm.” Now, a man who does not dance and vet goes to balls has no way of gauging what a ball means to thoke who go thers for the purpose of dancing. He has noth- ing to occupy him except to sit out and | | f1irt, and he has the whole evening in an | uninterrupted stretch fn which to do it, whereas dancers have only a few inter- | vals of about five minutes in which to get into mischief. | 1t one goes to a dance to flirt there is | no doubt that one can do it there very | thoroughly and very extensively; but as most people go to dances, the kind of | f1irting that goes on is mostly of the light social kind, without which conversation between two people who have no known | interest in common would very soon come | to an end. | Does anyone belleve that this kind of flirting does real harm? On the con- trary, it brightens the wits of the play- | ers, and it fs an excellent way to study character. | Of course everything depends on who | 1* is* that plays the game; it ought not to be anything more than, jn a literal sense, “a pastime’—a pastime which con- #ists of a pleasant mutual pretense that the other person is for the moment in teresting to one. After all, this is the root of courtesy As soon as there comes any A”Kfll'!""’ that the will be interesting to one the next day, or even an hour later after separating, | that is verging on ome of three thing | Priondship, love or flirtation in its baser torm Friendship and love are serious sub. | jects, Base flirtation i, in another way, | almost as serfous. It is a heartless, sor- rowful kind of thing, in which one does | not like to think of girls engaging, and | whieh fills one with scorn when one re- flects that there are men who think it smart to play with girls and mean noth- ing. coat of plain mate A pretty sult has a rial, and the skirt in wide stripes, match ing the color of the coat stri brown and black collar and cuffs are a pretty trimming for the suit of Copenhagen poplin than ry popular a little darker and it {5 v s & shade At Is new There eparate coat __ NCE CLARKE other person | With the Head Down By ADA PATTERSON. “He is funning with his head down It's a pity,” said the man who sat in front of me. We were on one of the swift mov ing that carry workers to seashore homes in His remarks concerned a handsome tawny collie that, separated from its master, who was walking on the edge of the high bank of the railroad cut, had chesen to follow the railroad Everyone who watched knew From the opposite whistle city the trains summe track the dog's doom direction warning Around the curve came a huge en gine, snorting, powerful, inescapable unless the dog should its head, unless his eyes should be the channel to his brain of the warning of the imminence of the engine and his own approaching fate came a raise He ran But he did not look up straight ahead with his head down his eyes unseeing. The next second women turned from windows with Men set their jaws a than they had been set disap muffled cries little firmer to meet the onslaughts, the pointments and exasperations of the | day's business, The dog uttered no cry. Or if he did the rumble of the train drowned it, The few who had the hardihood to look back, whose nerves were of a steadiness to with stand the sight, saw a crushed heap of yellow and white, a plumed tail outstretched upon the track and a fast spreading stain of crims Down the shelving bank of the rail road cut came two men toward the yvellow and white heap. They were the dog's master and a friend who were taking this Saturday afternoon stroll that ended in the petty tragedy T'here's a moral in this tale, thoug! it be but the story of a dog The man who sat in the seat in front of me was right, “It was a pity he didn’t look up.” Tt is a pity that so many of us do not look up. A fine old book has said, “1 will look unto the hills whence cometh my help.” The fine old book did not mean lit eral hills. At least [ prefer to think it did not. I like to think that it meant that whatever our environ ment, whatever our task, that while we are doing our work, we shall look unto the hills of inspiration and the hills of aspiration, “whence cometh | our help.” Workers have need to remember | that the law of gravitation is a hard master, Always it draws us toward the earth. Always it combats our desire to rise physically or in spirit, Yet one of the chief differences be tween individuals and people is in | their bouyancy, their habit of look- | ing above and beyond the sordidness of today into the beauty of tomor | row. When T see a man of bent | head and brooding brow going sul- | lenly about his task I think of the | dog that woéuld not lift his head Today may be discouraging. Our | perceptions may be blunted by rou- tine. Our imagination may be tem- porarily stifled by an accumulation of petty tasks. But the hills lie be- :ynnd, We should lift our eyes to | them. Now and then in the busiest days there are moments to think upon something that is beautiful and farther on. Twice today 1 met a woman worker. In the morning, in her of- fice, her head was bent, her brow clouded, her eyes gloomy. In the evening as she came from a famous art gallery her head was lifted, her forehead clear, her eyes brilliant “I've just come from my dressma ker's,”” she said. “I was deadly tired but T stopped for twenty minutes to go through the Rodin gallery [ went only half way down the cor ridor. I came to the ‘Hand of God Have you seen the group? A man and a woman emerging from a of marble, but held in the might grasp of a great hand. You have no idea how it strengthened and re freshed me to look at that work of Rodin's.” She climbed on a south going stage, but left the lesson be hind her, We should put all of inspiration all of imagination, all of artistry, all of enthusiasm that is possible into every day's work But we should | look beyond it and thereby make it better The most practical way I know to do this is to gather some ir spiring thought before going forth to Tt your k each day | Jea Paul, 1 think, who said A great thought that it ma ¢ up.” Books ve pocket volumes o { can be bought for the cost A Cig f a supreme court N ) draw from s pocket such a A H Id t \ At va