Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-23

Flowers That Might Inspire Spring
A WEALTH of blossoms over
A flow from Chinese coolies
hat serving as basket in one of the
cases at the Eldridge Importing
company's showrooms, Fourteenth
and Farnam. True beauties these
great sprays of purple and white
liiacs, three or four branches on
each spray, SIPS. Sweetpeas mari
colds and appleblossoms, 50 cents
and rs cents, rosebuds, dainty in
deed and fashioned with a painstak-
ing artistry are IS cents each. Cos
mos in richly gorgeou colors $l.25.
While English violets, the flower
dear to the poet heart, form a cor
sage of sumptuousness with back
ground of glossy leaves and tinsel
finished stems.
Hats that Reveal the Latest French
Modes.
DARIS has dipped into the past
L for the new millinery modes.
The Nebraska Clothing ,company's
millinery department, Fifteenth and
Farnam street, are showing charm
ing adaptions from the Directoire
and Louis XVI periods, when
femininity was interpreted in feath-
ers, flowers and ribbons" This in
fluence is revealed in bonnets, tur-
bans and sailors, rich in color, dar-
ing in contour. extravagant in tilt
The new fad of chat for Nancy and
bag for fancy" is depicted most ex-
travagantly in two models of leg
horn straw. One in deep rose silk
trim with narrow ribbon iacings of
velvet, has bag which seems to be
founded upon the crown from an
other hat with high richly finished
silk top. The other expression of
the new idea in hats and bags, has
a French combination of daintiest
blue and pink, with trim of silk
fruits on both hat and bag. The
bag in this case is oddly shaped with ,
lining turned back to show a deep
rose tinting. Careless may be the
lady fair who bangles this bit of
vanity, for there are four cords
silk-padded by which it is suspend
ed!
Women to Whom Smartness is
First Thought
MI welcome the news that
w they can have their hats fresh
ned and reblocked at the Bertha
Kruger Hat and Feather shop, 428
Paxton block. Phone Douglas 1894
Miss Kruger is just brimful of
hat suggestionsl
If You Don't Believe in the Fairies
M sure you will after visiting the
= lace department at the Thomp-
son-Beiden's. Sixteenth and How
ard. Real filets, in a splendid as
sortment of lovely patterns excep-
tionally fine for dainty neckpieces as
well as for fine negligees and
blouses. Imitation fiIet laces, very
pretty and satisfyingly dainty if one
cannot afford the real filet, are to
be had for 35c a yard, in designs
dainty indeed. For linen frocks. ,
torchon and cluny edgings. And if
you're Sewing up" just yards and
yards of "lovelies" there are true
bargains to delight the thrifty heart,
Twelve yards of walls in round and
diamond meshes, for Csc a bolt, also
dainty pieces for Sc yard. Truly
department of resourcefulness this,
for here are to be seen laces to suit
the decorative requirements of any
frock. There are metallic laces,
bead trimmed, many with sequin
adornments of strange exotic shades,
as we'll as a natural colored silk EN-.
broidered in pastel shades (hardly
a lace this last) yet of too gorgeous
beauty to be classed with the most
fascinating of laces.
"If a Body Meet a Body Need a
Body Cry7
TT AVEN'T you sometimes felt it
IL a calamity to meet a body"
especially if the meeting involved
"eats?" I've found a little shop
where you can run in at any time
of the evening, even after the show,
for ali the good things that go to
make up an impromptu meal. The
Rialto Delicatessen, just two doors
east of the Rialto theater, is all
bedecked with shining mahogany
cases in which you'll find all kinds
of imported (also domestic) eat
ables. Olives direct from sunny
Italy, cheeses of all kinds and sizes
from all over the world, dainty fish
in marvelously delectable
ways, fruits of amazing perfection
and bread and cakes freshly baked.
DON'T CRY IF 1T is LATE AS
LATE CAN BE-SOMETHING
GOOD TO EAT YOU'LL SEE!
Beauty That Does Not Wane
PEAL gems, lace, works of art
~ all possess enduring beauty;
limitations soon appear tawdry. A
similar test may be applied to ways
Of cultiyating beauty Only sincere
effort and skillfully trained fingers
can accomplish the work of delight
ful perfection to be found in the
shop Of Mrs. Margaret Gunston. the
Delft Hair Parlor. second floor,
Baird building, Seventeenth and
Douglas. Phone Douglas 1875 for
an appointment and learn beauty
secrets Of which you've never