Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-09
Gifts for Graduates.

WILLIE ~
4 In another month school boys and girls
viii be looking toward the goal for which
they have striven since the days when, In
short frocks and knlckerbockers, they
started for school-and that is graduation.
And parents and friends will be looking
for appropriate gifts for the young people.
OF these there are many. Books, or
course. are most acceptable. One wants an
attractive volume OF favorite poems or the
latest novel, got up with good Illustrations
and a fascinating cover. And along with
books are a wide selection of excellent
pictures framed in exceedingly good style.
A gift which any boy or girl is sure to
be delighted with is q coat sweater of gray
or white. For the summer vacation,
whether at seashore or mountains. 1t is in
dispensable. Tho angora ones are light and
warm. but are rather more expensive than
the heavier wooden ones.
For the boy or girl who plays tennis a
racquet of their favorite make will be
warmly ACCEPTED.
Then there are light unlined gauntlet
gloves OF soft buckskin, a rubberized silk
overcoat, chiffon veil and other little &C
c~essories for the girl who motors. Also
a riding crop with a gold or silver mounted
handle. engraved with initials or mono
gram LOT the DOy OF SlIi WV iANS"s
Just now the Jungle is being heard from
n more ways than one. The shops are
showing Jungle scarfpins, which are most
attractive. They are lions and tigers
mounted on baroque pearls. and very lively
Looking monkeys and elephants with
jeweled eyes. There are gayly colored
tronlcal hfrds done in mosaics and enamel.
While these may be only a shortlived fad,
hey are now the smart thing Cuff links
and cravat clasps of plain and frosted
gold. with initials in English block letters,
are a good choice for a boy. Strings OF
crystal beads are very attractive Tor a
girl, and neck chains OF a~qua-marines ana
Iapis lazuli pendants hung on fine gold
chains are sure to make some girl happy.
Jet jewelry is immensely popular, but
rather too old for a young girl. Gold and
silver .fllets for the hair are to be had In
a wide variety of designs and barettas Of
hand-carved amber and tortoise shell
would make an appropriate gift.
A set of hand-embroidered French I'M
derclothes and any number of silk uVook-
ings always touch the feminine heart.
Belt buckles are a. good choice. %particu-
iarly those OF heavy silver with initials in
a deep, bold design. Then a signet ring
of plain gold or set with Jade, turquoise
or OLleT belll-ITttOuS SNphS 10 q BtN va
either n boy or girl.
al kinds OF things for the desk are
shown In leather and hammered brass and
copper. Candlesticks Of the latter are ex-
ceecingly good looking. and there are many
kinds Of bowls and trnvs TO be seen.
Pure MIX for babies.
In an account Of a new method Of milk
supply which is saving thousands OF in
FAINT livcs in New York, Rheta Childe Dorr,
writing in Hampton's Magazine, gives this
Avid pen portrait of the mother and child
problem among the immigrant poor in this
country. Down In New York's Little Italy
she discovered a milk depot which. last
August, onIy forty-nlne mothers could be
coaxed to patronize. They have their own
Ideas about baby culture on the cast side.
The grandmothers OF the quarter opposed
It bitterly. especially when II was known
that every baby had to be taken back once
a week, stripped and weighed. Stripped in
any kind OF weather.! Did anyone ever hear
the likef
Nevertheless. when the young mothers
saw how the babies who were taken regu-
larry to the milk depot waxed fat ana slept
at night they began to rebel against the
--out nna ht,pdrad and fOrtv-Six italian