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Pi •V Jb JCI tim prei was dint and •tin Si IMS St N»U DAC Km fleati Deal* ventll meam N. W. Office Ei I I *40K TWO Social Calendar. THie evening' there will be an open m*»ting at the Commercial club. K. *i*ction of evening. OB I tin officers, Thursday Prwlyt*rian fair, church parlors. Friday. M. W. A. annual election Thursday fvening. Eagles election of officers FViday evening. Football dance at Commercial e!ob rooms Friday night IJbrary reception, Friday evening. University debate First Baptist church Friday evening. Miss Bertha Fawcpc of Branlford, Ont_, who hn« been visiting Dr and Mt*. John Fawctt of this city "eft ~j& is morning f'-r b*r home Mrs Herb N'unn and Mr* Xaey Njchoia-son enterained a smaU com pany of friends at carls last even tag at the r'»i'ierice of the latter on Che®*. mit srtree:. it was given as a farewi-.: to Mrs John Gletnoker who Veaves tie city tomorrow night. The game 'v'-V" was j!Aye! at which Mrs. O'.erry.^er parried off first honors rad Mrs. Perry •eoowi. both befog very pretty ziven 1 I 4 & ©(girsw rhii-t olive dishes. Deiicio'is refr«h^ enj5 were servvi. and a de'.isrh'fvi: rae rz ioyed. Mr. a®d Mrs. W. J. Hia'srin* who aave been residents of Grand Forks only one month, seem to have taken the hearts of the neighbors by storm, judging by the surprise with they were favored ia«t evening. It was a delightful honse-warming part? with which about thirty-five of their friends and neighbors evidenced their pleasure at their advent into Grand Forks society. One of their number being a talented violinist, gave much pleasure to the guests. Cards and dancing were indulged In until eleven o'clock when a delicious repast was enjoyed, and a most delightful evening was brought to a close. in their honor. Tuesday evening Mrs. ft. T. Cady entertained for them .and las*, evening Mrs. A. T. Thaile gave a delightful luncheon in their honor. •m im. -M -itip Copyright I9* 07 by ChM. Kaufman ft Bros. Cliicafo No goods sold on account or taken ovl 4n approval during IHIh Phone 84 or 361. Both Phones. Mrs. Kate Potter is rh»iT expecting her daughter Mrs. A O Zaercher of Ber wick. N to visit her this w«ek. The Colonial club of Fargo save Srsi party ar Stone's hail last *3s one of tie most beau- week. tiful and enjoyable social function* of the year and wis '.argeiy attended. Dr and Mr*. S. P. Johaeon were guests cf Mrs. J. Moore of Miaot, during the Sunday aebooj ecnventioa '.ately he!-l in tSat city. Tae pupiis of ike High tcioo^. are looking forward with great iea pleasure to :he football iaae* iest Friday sight. It ie aa aaaail everst and wi'.i be -argeiy art#xie»i The .ady oatr&sesaes —\2 ie Mrs. "S^ite- aead. Mrs. Vaa Aistjse Mrs. Ne'son Ke':y 3a3 o-r-i^srri is? been e-gageij :o fsraisi tie x-asie. Mr and 2. ?c.=*r--iT a eosrse ii=-e-r Tassis? •~t.—-s. *T iz-i Mrs E isi ti-r ia^ghters. —Jase iz.-i Xrs. Hen— aad ICas »^rf riestj. Ovr&rf. w»r* iatjd Mr act Mrs. X*ss»s«» ,'cr a rsstasaec s? -era 1: z. ttiskt Mr. izi Mr?. H. w artii .n tie Cr-.fiT TZ sjsi wi'. sa:! r»»-1 t5»ey •y.'' tt-» •".iT.er M- ii't" 3f-s MrCstsi—rry ist ti -jrsz-jt-t. if. Trr^sr. esse fct-i. :a W3.J tie wtit*r i"• -_!•» '3rf T&ft Hale, Vonr money bach If k» deNlred. rt^z". roe *~.~- -T- IZ'i '.VTZti :r T«ry •se-^Vsa: :.• -ie:.r Tie Sarixt' £s«n £-i z-c. hold •.ie:r ?s:i ti a-*rerrot.- be cause of Mr "ST 3 "X".»•?* ieath He wa3 a member of the Knights of Pythias. The Presbyterian ladies have post poned their Christmas sale inti! to morrow, Friday. Refreshments will be served all afternoon and evening. 1 Mrs. Richard Purcell, who has been on the sick list for the last week is daw convalescent. —V- Mrs. Wilson and daughters, Theresa and Vernie of Ellendale, M. 0 arf visiting Mr. F. O. Jackson and fa nily. Several social affairs have been The library reception tomorrow evening wll] doubtless he well at tended by the elite of the city. The decorations were done by the firm DeCamp & I^eighton of St. Paul. Mr. DeCamp was formerly a Grand Forks boy, the son of Mr. 8. O. DeCamp of this city. They certainly reflect credit on the firm of which he is a member. The hangings of golden brown In the main rooms add much beauty to their already attractive appearance, while the entrance hall done in Pompeiian red panels harmonizes well with the Suits and Overcoats 33 1-3 OK 123 S. 3rd Si. architectural design. It la a building of which the -citizen* of Grand Forka may well be proud. In the society columns yesterday the name o{ Mrs. A. L. Woods, recently elected W. P. of the Acadia Ixtrige. 0. E. S. was inadvertently omitted. Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. R. T. Cady have planned a sleigh ride party to night if the clerk of the weather does not frustrate their ptan-a. If he does, the fun will be postponed till tomor row night. A midnight supper will partaken of at Mrs. C-ady's r»s:denciv Miss Hariet Joy will spend the win ter at East Jaffrey. N-w Hampshire. Mrs. I»u:se Conme of 101s Butise aveooe entertained Mr. and Mrs. F. u. Jaoksoa an.i iw-ir guests. Mrs. J. Wii-son insi daughters at finner Su=- •Wark raftftr «aMea ftnttk. Flora Batsen. fcoT: os the concert stage as "Black Pit::." ised sud^iettly :s ?^iiiaje:pfe'.a Sunday A'.thcnrti -v S3 years .i? ace she isc acquired conside-abJe rerow^. it a stager, zx re:- rountry. bat r= Esrope. "STiria iu::e yoag she sazz for O-een vr"r-vie. with ber "w~n har.is. -r-r w- *i. r~:x Jaes. 5-r Ma esty. after tie ysnn? rir: rrnse THE EVEN1KG TDM ORAMD FOKKS, O :ad Tse 1-Sft ®^~mer" !Vfi re truly a "P-i—Z" .i rraiaate .zasiratic pr«wed v»r by -K ~-.£^~r- rsi 'r:~ wtich hive ro :is i~er ss-frt "t-M bles# t. s-3-ee: ~:ssvm of song." p-i"!" sang i!=o for ?--.pe 'if Cl?." i-' i* courts -•Size* was bc-rz Austra'.- TN ZATZ* t&s raitei States: when a siil'f. in Providence, I.. T-_i parents. At the age of 9 sae sa? in a fbrrrea *iesr in that rity aad tie xarvelons 1 and rzA'.iry '3-r vo4ce soon attracted at rs-ie- -he best teachers in irs rr-r.try she was prepared for "he rc.nc-er- rtage which she follower th rr«at snc3!e«s almost ap to the day of her ieath. On Thanksgiving ev eaiag she appeared at a concert in a 'yyal church. Today she visited rea tives and -x returning home was seised with convulsions and died two hoars later. ire Can 9a IC A Baltimore man tells of aa ad dress made to some school children in that city by a member of the board of trustees •*My young friends," said the -speak er. "jet me urge upon you the neces sity of not only reading good books but of owning them, at all tlmea. When I was a young man I used fre quently to work all night to earn money to buy books and then get up before daylight to read them!" Fancy black blouses are quite 7ogue, the trimming consisting of lace and embroidery or silk folds. Some very useful blouses of this kind are of black and white stripe or checked silk trimmed with piain black pipings or bands. A Of Interest Xftvelties ta BraeeMa. In these days fo display a wrist guiltless of ornament ts to confess oneself oblivious of fashion. The bracelet fad. so long dormant, has ootne to life with more than old-time vigor, and it appears to have come to stay. The newest bracelets are, paradox icallv speaking, exceedingly old. That is to say. the -iesigns moat in favor are nearly ail modeled aftar the antique, some of them even after the barbar.- I :e. There are. for instance, bracelets The snake bracelet is one of the most popular of the new models, and. incidentally it is one of the most be coming. So flexible that it adapts It self to every movement of the arm, :t is a veritable nvrvel of the gold smith's art. Occasionally it is stud- I ded with gems, but oftener it displays simply a pair of jeweled eyes, usually diamonds, sapphires or emeralds, These bracelets are especially useful in keeping in place the elbow length gloves. Some of 'be most beautiful brace lets are those made of carved rose coral, set in gold filigree mountings. The best examples are quite expensive the workmanship being of fine quality and executed entirely by hand. The display of cameos and intagiog suggests a use for of the grandmothers in It late idea is the applica tion of plaid silk folds to tiny checked silks. And in order to raise it we have decided to make a MUST HAVE semi-antique brooches and eardrops worn by our ante-bellum days. In Etruscan moan tings of dull gold held together by slender gold links, these make charming bracelets for the twentieth century belle. Among fashionable women to whom money is no object there is a marked fancy for braelets of original and elusive design. A woman artist who has a genius for working in metals has seized the opportunity thus affor ded, and now the gives her time almost entirely in the making of odd and beautiful bracelets, often using over discarded pieces of jewelry brought to her by her patrons. may not be generally known among American girls who go or hope to go abroad that there is In Berlin an American Woman's club, founded in 1694. Mrs. Charlemagne Tower, wife of the American ambassador, is its present president and Mrs. John Cleves-Symmes its treasurer. Clubs 7 December 8 and continuing until Saturday, December the 13th, at 10 P. M. Some merchants advertise special sales every day in the year and loose money every day, Just to please you. We do not do this. Our motto is, to give the Best Possible Value tor the money, and it has proven a success for the last nineteen years. Our stock, which consists of Men's, Boys' atid Children's Clothing and Furnishings, Boots and Shoes, is of the best and highest grade that money can buy. And during this Seven Days' Sale we will give vou these ENORMOUS DISCOUNTS: STYLISH SERVICEABLE SHOES Never in the history ot (irand Forks have you had the opportunity to boy high class merchandise at sach low prices. Remember this sale will POSITIVELY CLOSE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15th. GEO. SCHWAM this sort are Invaluable to girls traveling or 1 whose Egyptian prototypes were round in the sarcophagi unearthed at Thebes, and there are others, of Ro titan pattern, which are perfect repli cas of ornaments discovered among tie rains of Pompeii. The Orient, too has been ransacked for models. Most these are armlets rather than bracelets—heavy, bangle-shaped gee gaws that niisht have come direct from the brown arm of some Indian Msfcarani. Some of them are beautl 5e{ with precious and semi-precious stones, while others are exquisite specimens o: iliiirree work and beaten metal which need no gems to en hance their quaint beauty. The or ie-tal jade bracelets, mounted in gold or 3ilver filigree, are at once curious and costly. studying abroad, and. as the yearly subscription is small—In this case only |2 50—a membership presents no insuperable difficulties. The club Is at II Kleist Strasse, W„ Berlin, Germany. The New York teachers have taken up the fight for higher salaries, the women asking "equal pay for equal work," and nt a meet'ng of the wom en's association the other day decid ed to ask the board of education to take np their cause. It will mean an amendment of the Davis law, but the taadhara thing that it could be ac complished If the board of education would help the movement All over the country there Is more or less of an agitation in regard to this question, and no doubt the desired result will be produced If the women keep at it long enough. At the doubtful age of 16 when a girl is too aged in her own estimation to be called a child, and yet too much of ai infant for soe'ety, she is ready to fall In love, heart and soul, with the first stylish suit of clothes, stun ning cravat and cuff links which ap pear on her horizon of romance—in other words, the important qualifica tions for her hero consist of outward appearance. At the age of 20 she is able to distinguish good from bad in a man regardless of material posses sions, and at 23 or 24, after experien cing heartbreaking calamities in re fusing a few boyish proposals, she at last chooses the man for his own worth. Sometimes she makes mis takes. but more often she is happy in her selection. The harmoniously mated couples prove her dreams, but the mismated couples—no volume can tell why they choose one anoth er. Not one but half a dozen women have lately figured in sensational and dangerous trips to little known or completely unknown parts of the world. They have been scaling moun tains, pushing into the frozen North of the arctics, and delving in deepest Asia and darkest Africa. Iwefww Trass Lahndar. A woman, Mrs. Stephen P. M. Task er, recently arrived At Fort Kimo, the first woman who had ever crossed the frozen wastes of Western Labrador. And she made the trip aa a honeymoon adventure. Another woman, Mrs. Hubbard, hao gone into, but not across the same country. Mrs. Hubbard made the trip in search of her husband's ill-fated expedition. Mrs. Peary, whose husband has lately returned from the never ceab ing quest for the North Pole, was with the lieutenant on a preceding Journ ey when he touched his farthest nor thern point, and she has a child that was born in the arctics. Accompanied only by natives, Mary Kingsley pushed for long distance? into the interior of the Niger country. As for mountain climbing, the fair sex In actually beginning to distance mere man in daring. The fame made by Miss Annie Peck as a mountain climber la world wide. From the Matterhorn to the Peruvian peaks there is scarcely a mountain she has not scaled. WomMB over Thibet Pass. Much was made of tho recent ex ploit of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, when he went to the top of Mount McKlnlejr, some 10,000 feet high, but Miss Peck went to twice that altitude when she conquered Mount Sorata In Bolivia. Another mountain climber, Miss F. Duncan, whose researches Into Thi bet took her across the Chang-La pass which is nearly 18.000 feet above the sea level, 1.400 feet higher than any pass crossed by the British in the Lhasa expedition, was the ttrat Euro pean woman to conquer this pass. Mrs. Fannie Bullock Workman la another woman whose iron nerves are never so thoroughly under control as when she is making some perilous as cent. She has to lw credit a num ber of marvelous aacenta in the Him alayas. Mrs. Laura Fitzgerald, an American woman, picked out as a task worthy her mettle a tour of exploration Into the great Atlas mountains. Heiress to millions. Miss Margerie Palmer, eldest daughter of Gen. Wil liam J. Palmer, has renounced the fashionable world and become a work* er among the poor of the London slums. She has entered the training school of a big London hospital, con cealing her identity, it is said that she might better pursue her chosen catt ing. Miss Palmer inherits her philan thropic instincts from her father, one of the pioneers of Colorado. Gen. Palmer always has been Identified with the growth of.the state and amassed millions In Its progress from the territorial days. A large share ot his money has always gone to chari table and educational work. Gen. Palmer was one of the found ers of Colorado Springs. It was his desire to build a town where whisky and gambling should be practically unknown. When the town was laid out each deed to lots contained a clause forbidding the sale of alcohol ic drinks. To Gen. Palmer the state ia indebted for Colorado College, which Is regard ed as one of the best educational In stitutions in the West Soon after the founding of Colorado Springs, Gen: Palmer and his associates gave a tract of land for a college. This was in 1874, whon Colorado was still a ter ritory. In its early days the Institu tion had a hard struggle for existence For a long time it had no students of college standing anu at one perlott the college was so greatly in debt that It was seriously proposed to close it and sell the property to pay the debts. Gen. Palmer, however, stood by the institution and aided it materially. Queen Alexandra has a safe full of diamonds and pearls. She owns some wonderful gems, rubles, sapphires and emeralds and the great Koh-l-Noor, the property of the British crown has been reset for her. But the jew el she values, the most of all, is her day sale, beginning Saturday morning, 8 urnishi n's Boots and Shoes 1-4 Off 123 S. 3rd St. THU&8DAY, DKOZMBXK 6, 1906. you inese engagement ring—set with a beryl, an emerald, a ruby, a topds, a Jacinth and another emerald. The Initial let. ters of these stonea spell the name by which her husband la Intimately known, and by which aha baa always called him. The new short untipped vamp tends to make the foot look smaller and for that reason Is very popular. As yet It is found only among the higher priced shoes, but that doe« not pre vent their being sought by those who •like to be strictly up-to-date, and some who can hardly afford them will economize In some other direction to be able to obtain a pair of these be coming shoes. In speaking of the hooae frocks of the season, the New Tork Sun says that all the light colors are accepta ble, but emphasis is laid upon the grays, the silvery pastel blues, the rose shades, the lavenders, the light reds of the bacquemlnot, Richelieu and fruit type and a delicate line of yellows running from the delicate ap ricot through pinkish yellow peach shades, gold color and yellows that are rather bright light browns. Some of these beautiful yellow tones In aat in-flnlshed silken stuffs are wonder fully beautiful even when dark enough to be very serviceable. The flaws at Stale. A generation ago—to be. preeiae. about twenty years ago—It waa con sidered the acme of respectability and the sure indication of a comfortable bank acoount to own a silk dress—not a cheap little summer affair, bat a handsome gros grain or brocade that stood out in Imposing folds and en veloped the wearer in dignity and Im portance. The gown was usually a gift A husband touched by some special dis play of wifely devotion frequently ex pressed his gratitude by this means and It was a favorite reward for aerv ices where a money equivalent would wound susceptibilities. Many a poor relation was transfigured for a season by such symbol of affluence. Old re tainers accepted a silken gown as their due. Then It dropped ont of fashion altogether. Now it has come back again—de void, perhaps, of much of its former sentiment but steeped In fashion's approval. Radiant Palrsley and Pom padour silks, beantiful in their soft color harmonies and contrasts ot col oring are favored for the composition of ultra smart evening and afternoon reception gowns. Some white chiffon loulslenne with delicate rosebud pat ternings are offered for the brides and younger matrons. Even the debutante would delight In such a frock elabor ated with motifs of panne or satin to intensify the blossom effect In a showing characterized by the softness and fiiminess of its fabrics the revival of these rich lustrous silks strikes a chord of old world stateliness that should be welcomed by the matronly if not by the dancing eont|gent The Japanese lover .instead of an engagement ring may give his future bride a piece of beautiful silk, to be worn as a sash. m. C°lyright 1906-07 by Cb». Kaufman & Bros. No goods sold on account or taken ont •n approval daring this sale. Tour money back If a0 desired.