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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1904)
Tr 16 7 '11 fy Vki( gome TViim Herd. CCORDINO to a dtepatch from Berlin, says the Chicago later Ocean, women assembled there from all over the world have formed on International suffrage league and adopted a platform containing' at least one very curious plank. This is & declaration that woman, not having the suffrage, owes obedience neither to her husband nor to the slate, and that every government taxing women without the suffrage exercises tyranny irreconcil able with Justice. The point of obedience to a husband need not be discussed in the United States. It is without interest here, for the reason that the practice of the typical American husband, regardless of theory, is to do his level best to get his wife everything she wants. If anything like a majority. If even a large minority, of American wives wanted the suffrage their husbands would get it for them just as Boon as the neces sary legal formalities could be complied with. But the position that women owe obedi ence to the state because they have no direct voice in its government is curious and interesting as showing to what absurd ities the "social contract" theory may be carried. The "social contract" theory Is pretty well exploded now. AH serious students know that there 'never was a time when "independent" families got together and agreed to form a state and submit them selves to Its laws. And even In Its best days that theory never went below the family to the Individuals te find the con stituents of its state. That is what these women have tried to do. They declare that the state is merely a compact between individuals, and that those individuals who are unequal in priv ileges in the state owe no obedience to It. They refuse to obey the state because they have not the privilege of the suffrage. In effect, they declare themselves outlaws, and differ from anarchists only in that they do not openly seek the destruction of the state. However, It Is unnecessary to discuss the vagaries of Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Dr. Anita Augspurg and their associates seriously. What some of them need Is husbands, and what all of them need Is not the suffrage, but just a little historical knowl edge, and, above all, a sense of humor. RrSectioaa of m Bachelor Girl. O WOMAN with a lick of sense ever lets on that she knows more about any subject than the Man I- tallrtnir L'lth Procrrestdve women inclined to be Impatient with their more oackward sisters Bhould remember that it talus quite a while to convert a Jellyfish into a verte brate. Those men who object to sharlag the world's work with women don't really ob ject to sharing that at all They ouly ob ject to sharing the results. A naive advertisement appeared in an English paper not long ago which pei'hnpa contained some unintended truth: "Wanted, by a respectable girl, her pas.-ia.ge to New York; willing to take care of children end a good sailor." An esteemed contemporary reoemly raid In Its household department: "Put sugar In the water for hasting cats of all kinds. The Intelligent compositor undoubtedly meant meats instead of cats, but it it-n't much worse than a good deal of tho sage advice handed out in the alleged "woman's page." Mrs. Sarah Piatt Decker, recently elected president of the General Federat'c-n of Woman's Clubs, is a vofer and ha been married three times. One of her f-I po nents, referring to the former fact, said she thought the federation ought to stand for the feminine type of worn in. One of her friends, referring to the, litter, wild she thought a woman who could get tnree husbands mast be pretty feminine. A young woman who had been do'ng newspaper work In New York toft her position on one of the My stalls recently and returned to her iome a. very c mfort able and pleasant one In an up-stte lorn. Shortly after she wrote the bachelor girl desparlngly: "Oh. the hades like Inanity of the true sphere!" Marriage is a lottery, but all men are born gamblers. Men who are fools very speedily rhake down to their proper plac In ihe com munity. Women who are fools would, too. if It were not for the men. If a man could slide eat'i" through the world because he happened to have curly hair and a dimple he wouldn't develop as much sense as a woman does under toe sr. me circumstances. The bachelor girl v'sii-id an old woman recently wh' had kept house for forty years. During fifteen yeiri cf the time New Wrinkles 1 summer costumes which came In a at I nrith thA 1 Rl fnBKUna ninp hfivA been more eagerly welcomed than half-sleeves, chemisettes and tuckers. But for the vogue of old-fashioned names and styles the latter would be called detachable yokes, but the tucker Is Quainter and more appropriate to the sloping shoulder lines and voluminous skirts. By the use of tuckers and half-sleeves the summer girl with a limited wardrobe can convert her party gown into just the right thing for a garden party or porch tea. A young girl who can boast as an heirloom some exquisitely fine duchesse lace edging has Just completed such a set for use with an organdy frock. The gown itself has a delicate rose pattern. The skirt is shirred and the blouse has a Dutch ne?k, outlined with shirring, which runs down in three rows on the puffed elbow sleeves. With a sash of pale, soft pink ribbon, tied in butterfly bows at Intervals on the long ends this gown is just the thing for an evening hop. . For an afternoon function, its young owner has evolved the tucker and half sleeves of pure white organdy and the duchess lace. The half-sleeves are formed of three graduated flounces, each running in three handworked tucks an eighth of an inch wide and edged with lace. The tucker is shirred to follow exactly the lines of the shirring on the blouse, each cording being outlined hy the lace, held loosely, but nit gathered too full, and the lace also finishes the top of the soft crush collar. For linen dresses the most suitable tuck ers and half-sleeves are those made from finely plaited lawn, edged with Valen ciennes or original lace. Sometimes Inser tion Is also used above the hem, but the general effect suggests that the dainty accessories will "tub" beautifully. For voile and canvas frocks nets of every description are desirable for half-sleeves. They come In pure white, cream and ecru or natural color, with laces to match. Finely tucked and accordion plaited brus eels, net or point d'esprlt are most pop ular and clean beautifully. Both Valen ciennes and fine torchon laces are used for edging the net. Oriental lace Is pretty, but does not always launder well, and the heavier edges and galloons, such as mech- she kept a hotel, doing the kit jh.cn wotk herself, while her husluiil ran the iflHe. At a conservative esilnto, reckoiilns in th fifteen years" hotel kepin. eh" h:d cversf.n the getting of lad. -NO inc.iK Beck oning five eatables or Jrlnkab'-js t. a nifsl, tl.at meant the conking cf TSu.tfrt liffervnt things, and the wanning. nt getting wj.Iuh! afterward, of l.OOOOno dishes. 'If Id V seen tlstm million riMios pbl up nhe.id cf me it hen I gvt married, my loar." said the old woman, "I'd 'a' laid down and diel on the borders of matrim.iny. ' XfW York Times. Perfumes sad Tailet Waters. T NO reason of the year should a woman exercise greater care in the selection of perfumes or toilet waters than In summer. Contrary to the usual belief, the hotter the weather the more delicate should be the perfume. In winter only are the sensuous, heavy odors, suggestive of the Orient, en durable. And even then they are not con sidered In as good taste as the more deli cate perfumes. A denier who caters to exclusive and fashionable trade says that the really smart in Many Things lin, point de vcnlse and point d'ulrncon, are employed if the half-sleeves are to bo worn with summer fabrics of the heavier weight. For the elaborate frock of summer silk or inousseline there Is nothing more ef fective than a tucker and half-sleeves of repousse lace, a net top with graduated lints. PUiln or appiiqued chiffon is com bined in danciug dresses with allover luce or net. A charming dinner dress, to be worn by a young matron, was of llerre allover, with a Jacket showing- three-quarter bell sleeves. The under sleeves were puffs of chiffon, la I.? In tucks an Inch and a half deep, and the tucker was of shirred chiffon. The shirrings ran up and down from the deep yoke line to the top of the collar, whiih gave the wearer a remarkable slen der look and sloping shoulder lines. An exquisite gray voile afternoon gown had half-sleeves and tucker of white chif fon overlaid with gray silk duny, find a gray crepe de chine showed a tucker of Irish point all-over and pointed haif-s'.eeve ruffles of t he s ime lace. For surptice waists laid in folds, a pretty contrast is affordod by a cliemisette or vest of plain embroidery or lace, and a tight-Sitting half-Bleeve to match, the up per sleeve being made In a puff and rded with a flounce. A surplioe waist Kh'.wn In champagne meas-illne had a thc-.nlHctte and half-sleeves, plain and smooth-fit tins, of Spanish lace over chiffon. The tucker and half-fleeves must be fitted as carefully as the blouse proper, and tho Junction of b'ouse and tucker must be rarefully concealed. When the blouse la made from transparent maletl-il, tucker and sleeves must be halted in. Where the outer blouse is not tr.inspaie-it. the tucker may be made on an abbreviated waist pattern, which is cut off and hemmed just below the arm's eye. Thl4 keens the tucker In place. If tucker and half-sleeves are not failed, but are made of tight-fitting all-over lae; or embroidery, to be worn undiT an opaque material like linen and ri'k, it will jay to make them o-.i a fine lawn-wal-it lining. The blouse then slips down over them, and no hooks or bastings are rieetuB.iry to keep them In pluee. The l'.tM style-i nre loote and voluminous, but never "sloppy" or untidy. woman seldom or never uses extracts In summer. Her bath Is rendered more agree able mid refreshing by a dash of her fa vorite toilet water hut her garments, trunks and chests and drawers are per fumed only with orris .root or orris root tinted with the most delicate tif sachet. Tlio two mtst popular summer odors nre Russian Niolet and flwlss powder, toilet water, sachet powder and extracts, and they are also used for perfuming ammonia water Intended for the toilet. The really fastidious girl never mixes perfumes. She never uses, for Instance, violet soup with a carnation extract, but tempers her favorite scent with orris root, and associates It with all her pcrstnuil be longings. She uses one of two methods fur per fuming Iter summer garments. One Is to make n bag of climp lawn or dimity, big onrugh to cover the entire divas, and te keep it free from dust. Incidentally, he hangs in this u long, nrrov sju-liet the length of the drwi, or nils with tlws powder the padded hungiT on which the dress and bag nre hung. Ttwt second method Involves the use of several little sachet Tiags, eight or ten, hung on ribbons of various lengths from the inner silo of her skirt in the back, where they will not Interfere with the fw-t of the garment. The bugs are not larg'i' than half-dollar pieces. Some are even smaller. They may be made of silk to match the color of the gown. Bodices are takl away In drawers lined with thin sachet pads, and the boxes In which the summer girl ke-ps bcr belts, rib bons, etc., nre perfumed In the same way. Her garments nre thus permeated with a delicate odor, lew pronounced than that which follows the use of extracts or toilet waters. Anx.ng the new odors for this summer 1 "chrysanthemum," but It would require a ccDBhlcrabie stretch of IniHrinatlon to find nny connection between the Bower and the perfume. Two very strniv-r ierfiinieR, wblcU come in extracts and soup only, are the cs sldeal, a Ocrtnnn compound, and ditctylis, which is of Kngtlsh manufacture. What Women Arc Doing Though totally blind. Miss I if 1 la Pltts fotd of Salcrna. Ind., has practical charge of a large Sunday school clsss and of the clad:' ot a 4eiltH: cMirrii in helm i. She also does com idei ublu literary work and Is u skillful typcwi Her. Monrcevllir, (., bun a woman bank presl dt nt in the person of Mrs. Annie M. Steuz, who is a Inlander of ability and has man aged her large private fortune in a manner that has multiplied it many times. Mrs). Klens was thr- wife of a lormer bank presi dent of the r'irst National bank of Monroe ville and wan ic-eull cuun.li to till I ha same othie herself. Three proiuincjit Kha i h women who are devoting thrnim-lvcs to the science of HHtroiioiny are l.adv Hugins. Mis Agn- M. Clarke und Mrs. l-i. Mailer Maunder, ludy liuggins is the wife Sir William lltiggliiH, atal it Is ackriOAledg.il that con siderable of his .-not ess In ppeetroHcope has been due to her, hla assistHnt. Mrs. I). It. FranclH, wife of the president of the Loumiui a t urctime expnsaem, bun nniu.uuKil that the' Will n it wear decul e!e gown et World's fair function. Mrs. Francis said: "It was reported that I wished to Kit the example to other St. I.oiiIh women and 1 want everyone to know that Filch is not the chkc. It Ik none of my affair what other women wear, but as for niywlf I consider a low-neck gown very poor taste on the exposition grounds." Tlx- first woman puiuti r to receive an order from I lie (j -rmun government is iid to b.! Fraulcln finle Waldan, who decor ated the hall of the (i rnuui building at the Pari expoMU in bud who was alsu toru inlssiuned to furnish paintings for the St. Ii-ils 1 1 position. These laitt are four In iiiiitiliir for the hull of niin and metal lurgy, two Tf iiroentlig ihe mines of Kcnigshulte In Sllisiii and two views of tlia Kropp plant. Another painting for the educational building siuiws the fatuous lur 1 1 ii thoroughfare, "1'iiter deu Linden."