Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25
$3.50 Corsets $1.29

passing basket, and finally seizes both.
At tho noon hour the shopgirl. the bust
ness woman Of the cashier and typewrit-
ing class, who eat cheaply at some of the
aerated bread places. which punctuate the
city, buys her twopenny rose that matches
the color OF her cheeks. With a rim OF
black around his collar, a smudge OF
SCOT on his nose and the pipe in his
jaws, young husband selects for obvious
reason the flower woman with a shawled
baby sitting ON the steps Of the Nelson
monument, and dipping here and there
into her huge basket, energies a spray
of iris, a feathery bit OF spirea and q
pink poppy watches her tie them deftly to-
gether with q string of grass and throw
ing four coppers in her aproned lap, darts
toward Bakerloo Underground.
In the Long Evening Light,
There is a peculiar light in London, a
transforming and an allurlng light. 1t is
formed by the combination of the Ions
twilight, which lasts 50 that one may
read the printed type easily at 9 o'clock,
and the electric light, which marks the
dinner hour. 1t is a light different from
any other, and in it unusual colors and
tints In fabrics and in the atmosphere
are notable. The flowers too, seem to have
chang. their daytime frocks n put OF
evening gowns, for the amethyst look lemon
tinted, and the dead white are pink OF
mauve, the feathery green and ivory
show heliotrope tints and you hesitate
before a well known bloom and ask its
name and origin.
And while you hesitate between the pur-
chase OF an enormous pot of pink lyd-
rangeas, the price Of which is a shilling
sixpence, and great bunch Of varicolored
single petalled peoples. each separated
from its companion by a tiny white flower.
cloudlike and misty, for the same moderate
sum, your attention is momentarily dis
trscted by the intense interest displayed
both by purchaser and seller in the selec-
ton and arrangement OF the flowers. II
is not a smart shop; 1t Is Just like hundreds
Of others, and there is nothing unusual in
the careful attention paid by the pretty girl
who handles the blossoms as IL she loved
them and the man who buys as IL a visit
after dinner 10 any one Of half a dozen
feminine friends would lack Significance
unaccompanied by the usual offering. They
chat in a friendly, but unflirtatious man.
ner as to whether the bunch OF lilies OF
the valley shall be arranged In circular OF
flat form, and having decided each spray
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a half dozen leaves are turned over and
form a cuplike base. Next a pink rose foI
his own buttonhole has It's stem stuck
through its disk Of pink paper, for Londor
modes demand that every artificial ap.
pliance shall be brought TO Natures aic
for the, desired ensemble. Having paid. h,
goes out, holding his purchase with prac
tised ~adeptness. and a middle aged, era,
whiskered, blue eyed, rudy faced beat
Hicks down q sixpence. selects a tea from
the jar Of decorative roses and makes way
for a couple OF lovers who. arm in arm
stand and cling under an archway OF Grim
son ramblers and finally choose a handful
Of tight closed buds, each in its cup o.
moss. for the girl, who pins them on a rec
silk corsage, and two double petalled mar
guerites with attendant green for the es
eort The financial value OF & all is repre-
scented by two thr'penny bits
Flatterlns speeches about the flowers o