Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-26
IT'S QUIT
The women are sewing the Lent away.

The women sewing the Lent away.
Everybody was SO lavish this year that
- than good wife has drawn
her allowance for all 1t was worth-and
all really nice people can't be mlllonaires besides
1t was different matter to think OF paying
for the gown frock when few yards was all
needed for the garment. But with skirts wide
enough to stick out the smart distance all around
that is another matter.
There is also something else to be considered
when styles get abundantly voluminous-
depart from the strict lines OF smartness that only
the artisan skilled in tailoring can accomplish,
and II becomes mere matter OF artistic sense
and judgment in creating a striking costume
Just consider how many thousand dress forms
on skirt standards have been selling this season.
They have been featured at great sales and went
like Kalamazoo celery the market
In many upstairs room these Lenten days
many good lady of the house is arranging the
skirt OF the myriad folds upon her own likeness
lr black guernsey and papior macho, devotion to
thrift If not to ritual
And then the other things, which are trimming
the gowns this year, the like of which we have
hitherto only in n "Godey's Lady Book" or
some old magazine tucked away for two score
years, things made by gathering and turning in
and puckering and turning; "doodads" is perhaps
fitting name to call them as anything else
Any woman handy with her needle or clever at
fancy work, make them herself.
The garment sewing spirit has come strongly
into all the church organizations and guild
societies Where formerly sofa pillows and all
sorts OF things de luxe made to sell at bazars
to raise money for night gowns and little skirts
and bousos for needy children, the are
now getting directly at the ssue--they are maxi
ing the garments themselves-cutting, stitching
and finishing the cotton flannel things and sewing
on firmly the plain china buttons. This method
may not be exquisite the old way, but il all
goes to show the practical unpoetic age in which
living.
1t was dear old early father Of the church
wonder which of the saints he could have been?-
who allowed us music in Lent. In the week just
passed there were the Mendelssohn Choir and tha
New York Symphony concert to bring delight to
local music lovers. This week comes the de-
layed and long-ooked for Fritz Kreiser concert az
the Auditorium, the last of the charity course.
Quite contrary to the poor chap who cried out
at the art booth of tho charity bazar, "Oh Charity
what crimes are committed in thy name" the
Omaha business men who promoted these charity
concerts may well pride themselves upon the edu-
cational force they have been. AS gouty old gem
tlemen will buy tickets for the Charity ball and
prim old ladies of Purtanic tendencies will take
a hand at a benefit bridge, will many shame
less Philstine who openly dotes rag tunes. feel
he cannot refuse to subscribe to concert to raise
funds for local charities
The Philistnes got the best music from the /
best artists this season at the Auditorium-and
good missionary work it is now proving itself to
have been-like imported endve, even the T. B. /
NJ. may acquire a taste for the best in music
The week just passed marked by few
informal affairs with lion guests who did not dis
port themselves In the least way leonine. Mr. (
William Faversham and Mr.. Walter Damrosch both
were entertained while in Omaha and both acted
the everyday guest at an every day affair.
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