Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 20, 1916, Page 10

- Fashions -: THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1916. oman’s Work -:- Household Topics Correct Speech By BEATRICE FAIRFAX, ) “An Interested Young Man" has writ-| n me asking me to plead with my girls | 4 behalf of the much-abused English nguage. | Hers {s part of his letter: ‘Tt has! “purred to me that girls are forever faking the same grammatical errors, id that even if they are beautifully Sessed and very pretty, they will be ‘anded as ordinary when they make ich blunders as ‘I don't know nothing id he ain't such a bad feller, ""Not long ago | stood near two girls tho were very nice looking and well essed. They were discussing one of wr articles They expressed really oughtfyl views, but their grammar was wplorable. Girls glve thought to fash 'n, why not bring some thought to r on how they spemk?” fet me follow this quotation by one om that charming writer, Willlam scke: “We have the richest language | @t ever m people hns accreted, and # use it as if it were the poorest. We Jard up our Infinite wealth of words stween the boards of dictionaries, and speech dole out the worn bronze Il of our vocabulary. ""Wa are the misers of philological his- ¥yY. And when we can save our pen- #8 and pass a counterfeit coin of slang 8 are as happy as If we heard a blind i Get the Round Package ! Used for ¥ Century. VY Made tract of Needs no S e A R e a2 5 Practical Street Pump kidskin, A N o == s e 214 Ask For and GET HORLICK'S MALTED MILK own Malt Houses under sanitary conditions. Infants and children thrive on it, the weahest stomach of the invalid or the aged. WflTfl welt sole. To be worn with or without buckle. In gunmetal, tan, Russia, patent colt or glace -216 No. 16th-- putting a powte: beggar thank us for sixpence Into his hat.” Charming diction marks the real lady and the cultured man, Any of us can be rich in words. It requires a little watch- ing of our own verbal tendencies and quite a little study of good literature But it 1s worth the effort As my correspondent wisely observes beauty and good clothes are not the only hall marks of refinement. ‘The | the world can win it of respectful attention If she talks in & ghabblest woman in a certaln amo from thoughtful people [ well modulated volee and expresses her gelf in well chosen words Americans are famous for their allur ing, slouchy speech, We drop our §'s and elida our final vowels Monst of us pronounce “to “tuh’” and act as If the conjunction “‘and were the article “an’’ The double negative, the split infini tive, the singular verb with a plural subject—all these are toa commor Why eall evarything “cute or peuchy or “bully” or scrumptiou These are cheap words which may be idly flung about hy any careless crentore 1Al L] [ ful) of nice shades of meaning—and i you question my use of the word “nice { here fs our prime opportunity to wearch {out the dictionary and begin to acquaint | | yourself with the beautitul, fertile plains and the lofty abused but Innguage mountain tops of our much vidid, glowing and dignified | THE ORIGINAL from clean, rich milk with the ex- select malted grain, malted in our Agrees with coohking nor addition of milk. Nourishes and sustains more than tea, coffee, etc. Should be kept at home or when traveling, Anu- tritious food-drink may be prepared in a moment. A glassful hot before retiring induces refreshing sloep. Also in lunch tablet form for business men, Substitutes Cost YOU Same Price Take a Package Home 00 5 WHOE CO, 161" & DOUGLAS. | Make Strength Food Your Food! FaustSpaghetti builds brain | and brawn with the least [ tax on the digestive organs. It is so appetizing and deli- cious that it pleases every=- one everywhere, And economical! Ten centa’ worth feeds a family of six, and gives nourishment equal to §1.00 worth of meat! Quick and easy to cook. Recipe book mailed free. Your grocer sells Faust Spaghetti MAULL BROS., St. Louls, U. 8. A, Direct Manufacture YOUR CHOICE FO | drapery at the hip. | S ——— Striped linen is effectively han dled in this tub dress for morn ings. Soulie again shows a prefer ence for the plain bodice. Swiss embroidery and black ribbon vel vet are the only trimming. Bulloz is a lover of the paintings of Watteau and Fragonard, else e | could never attain the airiness and race of his ecreations, says Emile de funralrr “in her letter from Paris in the May number of Harper's Ba zar, Some of his evening and after noon gowns have unlined skirts of voile or chiffon, but a short under- petticoat of silver or lace falls a little below the knees One evening gown of white tulle, called Mon Reve, is trimmed with circular strips of heliotrope ribbon embroidered in silver thread, giving the impression of bhrocaded silk, The skirt is caught up and draped to give a shortened effect on one hip, and a garland of pink roses is drawn across the bodice and into the tulle Another pretty evening gown of pink and blue tulle is entirely without sleeves, Silver ribbon shouiderstraps and a touch of silver at the blend delightfully with the pink roses which trim the bodice. The lower part of the skirt, from about the knees down, is of blue tulle which lays very full over festooned with pink roses For evening wear Bulloz ated superb brocades by embroider ing raised flowers in varied tints on faille, the leaves often being covered by a thickness of tulle touched with a petticoat has cre threads of dull gold. One of these creations, made for Mary Garden, is an emerald green embroidered with pink roses, draped on the hips, and has a simple waist relieved by dull d lace Another “Garden” gown 15 of black net, embroidered with motifs of silver and rhinestones For street wear Bulldoz shows a choice of voiles and taffetas cor bined with chiffon and faille, many f the voiles being trimmed with taffeta an stripes. Mar of ating hittle antles and cape GO TO THE NOVELTY coO. SATURDAY 150 Women'’s Silk Taffeta Suits rs’ Samples--in the Newest Models and Highest Grade Values--Worth From $15. to $22.50 YOUR CHOICE FOR SATUR ONLY Including NOVELTY CO. W MANAGEWENY AY Lingerie Walals-- Pain Whits 8 Naat \-Q'-u ) BERNATEIN & KRAGNE Succomen waist line | For All Hours of a Summer Day Reproduced by Special Arrangement #ith Harper's Bazar Flowered marquisette, showing | pink roses on a white ground, may indeed be sophisticated when made in to a costume for the summer re ception, Heavily braided cord and | tassels of pink silk. | crossing in front, leaving the back) straight and loose, thus assuring a youthful line. The tailored costumes have full skirts, most of them being of the length to which we have become ac customed. As a general rule the | sleeves of his tailored suits are long and the collars are of lingerie. Bulloz has the reputation of creat ing the most spectacular dresses in Paris, and among the great houses | now open, he is the only one using in his color combinations the mmfrrn palette of pure color as seen in the decorations of Bakst The two most marked details of the Paquin collection are straw trimming and the collars, which, by their special cut seem to lengthen and broaden the bust-line The collars | rather resemble fichus, being high at the back and quite low in the front, leaving the throat free. Skirts shown by this house are not very short, and ! H ousehold /Hel ps ‘ Instend of destroying the enamel on saucepans by scouring with gritty try the plan of boiling in them, | now and again, water mixed with a little chloride of lime. It almost immediately restores the most discolored surface to a condition of snowy whiteness sub. stances, When cleaning wine-stained decanters put into them some tea leaves, a littl sand, and some WArm, sOADY WALgr Shake well 4ill the stain Is remo th rinse n clear water and tand upside down to drain dr lored handkerchief handk fs with colored bord nnd - u hould be soaked in 1 wa for a t . A and and & half of wa ¥ ¥ | CAN AND WILE LT THE WHOLE FAMILY ON A SMALEL PAYMENT DOWN BALANCE N WEERLY PAYMENTS M s AL BARGAINS IN MENS MEAE sERGE sLITs AY LARE A LARGE AND COMPLETE LINE M LADBIEN BLITR AND PHESSES AT THE sbA MONS SPECEAL PRICES LAY DM GLAN was el seedih W anhat wa eeple Wille fer sate e Bep I and aee e whas WS R U B s nalaied, ./. " ) S -~ i “ & 7 . Vs Soulie's attention to detail is fit tingly displayed in an elaborate costume of embroidered chiffon crepe and gros de Londres, all in white. The high collar is distinc- tive. some are trimmed with bias strips of straw which help to give the neces. sary flare. Several of the models have mousseline pantalets of .the lightest colors, only visible when the | skirt is lifted Tl'ailored suits at Paquin’s are fairly tight fitting, the coats in some in- stances resembling basques. These coats are full about the hips and gen- erally a little longer than the hip- line. Sleeves are long and tight, but leg-o'muttons are shown In the Paquin group there are sev- | eral good-looking, very loose taffeta coats specially made to be worn bver fragile gowns, and also silk dresses with tight fitting bodices giving a slender effedt combinations of tulle and lace, have most interesting lines. One of loveliest of mole-tinted tulle and lace blending harmoniously models is | with old blue satin and giving the il- lusion of a faded pastel of the past. 1 nQShoots If things are coming his way, any man ought to smile oy a rainy day Lots of wives don't know the value of money because they never see any Small vices never save a man. He is just as apt to have a lot of big ones on the side A little knowledge is a dangerous thing when the other fellow holds the gun Ihe real gentleman never worries over the thoug that people may t K that he s not one The skirts, charming | the | A Detiloss Dish—Cirtied Biass. Girls Who Win Out | Teacher's Final Success By JANE M'LEAN, Miss Smith taught school. There vas nothing remarkable about that fact, nor was there anything extra- ordinary about Miss Smith herself, the light of a profession, nor of a ca cer carefully chosen and painstal 25 just one of a thousand other school teachers She had never heard « weaial branches; &r if she had, i ver occurred to her to er or not she was suited e She simply tat 1} her eduwsation sihl From the time that she was a small girl he nother had always said with a gratified smile that the ere 1 teacher out of Maud “Her fathcr and | never had the chance, but we want Maud to have a real educatior And so Maud had conscientiously worked her way through the high school and normal, and was now a regular teacher She taught arith metic, geography, history, spelling, reading and nature study. She had no knack of making these subject of peculiar interest to the children who met in her room every day She simply plodded ~ carefully | along, preparing her lessons care | fully day by day-—bored, if she had stopped to think of it at all, and yet considered herself a worker However, there was just onc thing that made Miss Smith differ ent from some of the other teachers She loved children. She liked their attempts at friendship, she liked they brought their small for her to olve, and, discipline in Miss not so necessary vas clsewhere about through was the she shy it “when problem strange Smith's room wa as it It all came Deering, who | bad boy of the school. Teachers dreaded him, and when it finally came time to hand him over to Miss | Smith, Miss Bascom of the grade be | low gave him up with a sigh of relief at the knowledge that a year of tor ment was happily over Johnny knew all the dodges that are usually employed to make teach ers furious, He kiew how to aim spit balls, and how to draw atrocious pictures of teacher in heavy chalk on [ the blackboard. But Miss Smith | never struck his fingers with a ruler, nor did she keep him in after school. She just laughed at the awful pic tures and pretended not to notice when Johnny aimed balls across the room. And when Johnny discovered | that he was not making such a hit, he didn’t find it as much fun as he | had under fidgety, fretful Miss Bas- com Other teachers asked | how she endured life with | Deering, and Miss Smith ‘always made some laughing rejoinder. Ev | eryone marvelled, and life continued to go on for Miss Smith in quite the same way as usual, only she was | really interested in Johnny Deering She wanted to make him like her, | One day she encountered Johnny's Johnny Miss Smith Johnny eyes regarding her interestedly as she explained a point in nature study, and their absorbed interest | made her think of a story that she | promptly told, to illustrate her point. She forgot herself and told the story well, the children hung on her words, and for the first time in her | life she was flushed and happy. The principal had come quietly into the | room as she spoke, and coming up |to her desk after school he said evenly “I think you have quite a knack with children, Miss Smith. I think | | shall put you in charge of the chil dren's special- you are certainly qualified.” Miss Smith's usually quict hands ) tightened in her happiness was Johnny Deering desk and held hand impulsively “Say, you're a peach,” he said shy Iy, “I like you.," And Miss Smith at lap, but her cup of not quite empty slid softly up to her out a rough little last knew what it meant to have a real career The heaviest cannon used at the time of the American revolution were eight een pounders. By CONSTANCE CLARKSE. acknowledged | Engaged Couples and Love Blindness By DOROTHY DIX, There {8 no subject concerning which there 18 & wider difference of opinion that there Is about the ethics of a be trothal. Among foreign people a marriage olemn and serl In the east WImost a wedding an engagement is a engagement s {ous & matter as the of our own country ort of a quafantine {hat keeps ever other man except her flance away from girl, while it doesn’t bind him to the altar If ho happens to change his mind [In the south, where they know how to Iplay the love game, an engagement is | merely a preliminary skirmish along the | matrimontal line, and, short of the wed |ding day, elther party can draw back | with honor, and without breach of prom | "Nor do individuals agree as to what privileges and rights un engagement b | who think that an engagement gives them and that to boss thelr Turk the full authority of matrimon they have n p ot right do the je other their atten particular tion ladylove the think that gives them the betrothed thelr ed to a m privelege of policing thel and [to ralse Caln every time own that there look at another t they are Romeot evidence th AW {16 another skirt in the world This 18 pushing This s tyranny of the brand the too far st galling do gh for on and a good thing m mentic It s time, eno! to assime attitude of a keeper he-obeyed when one acti ind the after all has been performed he one-who-must ally marrie { flect that | ceremon ha. hould re ding engaged ntil the we or of the only an option on the part | other t. The t losed nor the g It Is selfish and overbearing vefore o marriage to narrow a glrl down nods dellvered for a man and whatever at be excluglve societ he time enough for that to hi ‘ chooses 1§ bestow upon her when she take ntion Phere wife and can make him her she My # | hig cattish for tied to her ahout to place wishes | wise 1t 45 both woman to keep a man strings dyring the ment, He will have of thing afterward when he apron days of her engage of that sort will have to plenty produce an, alibl for every evening h {#pends away from her. i As a matter of fact | great many happy marrlages If engaged couples looked upon thelr be {trothal as merely a period of probation Aduring which they undertook the serio's task of find'ng out something about eac other's character and whether thes temperamentall sulted and likely t@®make of matr mony u Kilkenn there would be a more disposition and were glad sweet song instead of a cat fight There are a great many worthy men and admirable women who, with the best In tentfons in the world and even with a sincere affection for each other, antagonistic by nature that if they marry they will make each other more miserable {than any deliberate villain eould, Tt #hould be the province of the engagement to reveal this state of affairs and to give the hapless couple a chance to withdraw on the sate side of the altar. 1t s a thousand pities that engaged couples, instead of billing and coolng and asking each other “oose ducky is 00?" and will “oo ever get tired of me?"’ and does “oo love me a million, billion trilllon bushels?” don’t use the precious opportunity to find out what each other thinks of the real problems_of real life, | and investigate each other's tastes every subject from politics to pie 1 There wouldn't be so many divorces if every engaged man would pin a girl down to brass tacks hefore he married her and ertain if she was prepared to do her own cooking. and undertake man’s wife. family & are 50 asc and make her own clothes the hardships of a Nor would there bhe poor 0 many ta, or so many neglected wi it the engaged youn< man would find out whether his sweetheart had views about women's rights, advane and intell gence cnough to understand when h talked to her about the books in which he was interested Nor would there be so many discon tented wives If engaged girls would ge the views of their subject of a wife's rights, otherwise future lords on the financial and and find out whether the man she was pury g to marry intended t make an unpaid vant, a plaything or re companion of her Every engaged man and nar d ma 1 ha 1nd \ed rd hed ' " be s take t hould Advice to Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfar, The “Other Girl nindw : D . ! \ 4 M