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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1904)
T DIlne of Cowrlcwy. FAHILIAB toast "Here's to Wo man onoa our superior,- now our equal" Is much more than a clev er bit of banquet fooling. It Was a Jest when first spoken; It is taken as fact now. We have seen in recent years a steady diminution of the deference to woman which In the past century was a Hart of every boy's education. Even the bow, once the genuflection of a real com pliment, has deteriorated Into a fashionable shrug; the kiss Is unmentionable except as a microbe exhibit,, and as for surrender ing comforts as a sense of duty, here Is the very latest authority . from the very latest book of etiquette: "The old custom of a man giving his seat In a street car to a woman is being gradually done away with. This Is due largely to the fact that women are now so extensively engaged In commercial business that they are con stant riders at busy hours, .and thus come into direct competition with the men;" and we find this delicious passage In the fur ther elaboration of the rales: "A woman Should not look with a pained and Injured sir at the men passengers because no one of them has offered her a seat." Really It comes as a balm to the soul to be told that "A man should never cross his legs or keep his feet extended In the passage way." Custom rules, and It does Uttle good to sigh for the good old days. Still, we shall cling to the belief that good man ners cannot go wholly out of fashion, that deference to women Is excellent, .not only for the woman but for the man, and that the gentleman who Is guided by the better promptings of his nature, and the higher teachings of his youth will get more abid ing satisfaction out of life than by Ignor ing woman simply because' she dares to try the only way of becoming Independent by making her own living. Saturday Evening Post. ' ' Chicago's MaacTMklns Women. OMEN in Chicago who earn $2,000 a year are .quite common, others who commaud $3,000 are numer ous and there are at least a score who are paid $5,000 yearly. A well known woman of acknowledged general in formation says that there are at least half a dozen of her sex with $10,000 Incomes. Compared in number with the men who receive salaries of this size this woman said that among her acquaintances there is about one $10,000 a year woman to five $10,000 men. Discussing the question fur ther, rhe seemed to think that the women who receive this amount save a larger por tion of it than do men under a similar con dition 'The average salaried man who receives a $10,000 stipend," she added, "is oftentimes In debt. Such men are as a rule convlvai In their habits and find that their retention in a position that pays them so hand somely requires that they be good fellows with those In higher authority as well as with those among their clients. The women who, draw large salaries draw them because of their fitness for the places they occupy and not because they are convivial. "It Is not long ago." she continued, "that Chicago could boust of one woman who re ceived for her services $10,000 nnsually. I have known two women physicians who have received In excess of $10.(00 a year for , their practice and have maintained this level year In and year out for nearly a score of yearsv but salaries of that Rise have been paid to woman in Chicago for less than a decade." It Is reported on good authority that tw women members of ths legal profession of Chicago have made about $10,000 annually $ from their pracrlos, but recent years have seen a reduction in the Incoms of all law yers since the formation of title and trust companies has taken over a large portion of business which formerly swelled the an nual hMtcmc of many lawyers. At the- death of her father several years ago Miss Ida C Sweet took up that por tion of her father's business relating to. pension claims and has continued It sine. She says she has realized as much as $S.90O a year from this work. Though not a practicing attorney she has familiarized herself thoroughly with pension matters 'and her clientele In this department of practice is large. J art prior to the Spanish-American war her business suffered a decrease, but new claims arising from the present war have augmented It - Two young women entered the employ of a State street store nearly a scoro of years ago as employes of the dressmaking department. They showed a mastery of the details of the work required of them and were advanced steadily. They were known then as the Misses Reardon, and, now as Mrs. J. B. Hull and Mrs. Margaret McCarthy. Mrs. McCarthy before her mar riage is said to have been ths first woman In Chicago to receive a salary of $10,000 a year. It Is stated that both site and her Sister each receive this as Joint superin tendents' of the dressmaking department of the big store. They ars known In all parts of the country as - authorities la their lins and number among their patrons many of the wealthiest women of Chicago. Mrs. McCarthy spends much of her time In Paris representing her firm as buyer. Occupying a similar position In aaother store Mrs. Catherine Dodd, It Is asserted, receives $M,000. Mrs. Dood Is by many re garded as ths best authority on dressmak ing matters In America. She, too, to abroad much of her time. Mrs. Kate Knox several years ago con ceived the idea of starting a noonday club for women an Idea that has sines become popular here. She is now proprietor of two such institutions, and those who know her intimately estimate that her profits for the year ended would requlro five fig ures to express them. "Of course, I am making money," said Mrs. Knox. "I reap a small profit on everything purchased at my places, so I rely on patronage by a largo number for large profits. My pluces are crowded each noon and by a class of women whom I am proud to claim as patrons." When one of the department stores be gan to expand its restaurant service fif teen years ago they employed Mrs. L. W. Harrlng to superintend tho department So successful has she been that, it Is as serted, the owners see a value represented by $10,000 a year In her services. When she entered their employ she says tho only qualification she had for the place was a good knowledge of cooking and Bblllty to manage in a neat and caroful way her own home. Among the medical fraternity of Chi cago Is Dr. Lena O. Bedell. 8ome say that she makes more than $15,000 annually. Women Was Earners. -IHB entrance of women In large I I numbers to occupations which wrio uiiiro milium KLiuniTriy re strieted to men Is one of the dis tinguishing characteristics of the present Industrial age. Its effect upon social conditions has become the rubjnet of anxious Inquiry. Competition for em ployment In gainful callings la no longer confined to one sex, and heads of families find it Increasingly difficult to maintain their charges unless their daughters be come wnge-earners. Thus ths ' ranks of labor at all suitable for women arc con stantly recruited. Many women, married and unmarried, are obliged by necessity to seek employ ment from which they were formerly ex cluded by custom. Others desire financial independence. Whatever the motive for ths departure of women from ths old ways. It must be regarded as a movement which is having a tremendous influence for weal or woe. Its relation to wage-earning men must not be overlooked. A writer In ths New York Tribune remarks that while we have been trying to discover what ths effect of ths new Industrial progress Is on women, few except those Immediately touched are much concerned over what changes might t working In ths condition of the man "whose place. In many In stances, ths wage-earning woman has usurped." The casual observer cannot fall to not the large proportion of wage-earning women coming from Industrial establish ments at the close of the working day and to contrast this with former condi tions. While ws are felicitating ourselves upon ths opening opportunities for women and their success In new fields, ths lower ing of ths wags seals, ths displacement of fathers of families and young men, obliged by ths new competition to postpone or abandon matrimony, deserrs consideration. It appears from the last census that half the women In the UnlteS States over IS years of ags are unmarried. Ths per centags Is likely to become higher with ths increasing Inability of men to marry. Ths sociological outcoms deserves atten tion. After enumerating ths results of woman's activity better wages, greater opportuni ties for her productive Industry, a "release from ths odious compulsion which drov women Into marriage as ths only means of livelihood," and "ths ampler service she can render society" Dr. Lyman Abbott significantly says In World's Work that motherhood Is ths highest servios of all: "Law governs life, medicine prolongs Ufa, poetry portrays life, art presents a simu lacrum of IKe; the mother creates life. The education of tho future will recognize motherhood as the supremest of all des tinies,, and the curriculum of all schools and colleges worthy of the name' will be fashioned to conform to this standard and to prepare for this service." Chat About Women. Both at Bonn and at Breslau new colleges for girls have been opened, offerinir a nv years' course after graduation from the high school. Emma Calve has founded a sanitarium at Cabrieres, France, where sixty young girls in need of rest and medical care will be received, freo of expense, every summer. A fan on which are written the names of all the members of the-Berlin con grew-, be longs to the Baroness von Langen (nee von Prilllvtz). The possessor obtained the sig natures at several soirees given In honor of tho congress at tho English embassy and the Austrian embassy. Julia Cooley. a little Chicago girl of U years old, is receiving considerable atten tion from the literary world through a book of poems she wrote which has just been published. Richard LeGullienne is her lit erary godfather, and it was he who selected thoss among her verso to appear In ths book. Miss Faith Moore, daughter and heiress of a -millionaire, has broken all records by renting an apartment of fifteen rooms In the building at 7s7 fifth avenue. New York, at an annual charge of $15,000. The rooms are all unusually large, several being twenty Six feet long by fourteen feet wide. Tho ' hiKhest lirlce hitherto known was I1!LH . paid for an apartment not far from thai tj be occupied by Miss Moore. The Gentlewoman is authority foria statement that dancing and astrology are""" ui" prevuiung erases in ungiana. 'moss who are inuklng a cult of nstrology begin nothing, not even a social engagement, without making suro that the signs ars propitious, so that many entertainments1 have been spoiled through lnd omens oc curring at the last moment A number of New York women have set themselves the task of securing admission to the floor of the Stork exchange. It Is not so much their purpose to try their hands at the bulls and bears In an endeavor to increase their already large bank rolls as to elevate the tone of the exchango and by their premince lend to It a refining In fluence. This is the result of the recent announcement th.it a woman has applied for membership on the Dublin Stock ex change. A late grndunte of Trinity college, Wash ington, will henceforth be held up as a suf ficient proof that u college course does not influence a young woman against marriage. Miss Mnry Sheridan of lubuue, la., was the first young woman to receive the de- fcreo of bschelor of letters from the col ege. The next day sho wns married. Cardi nal Gibbons, on giving her her degree, nttldt "She not only wins a bachelor of arts, but she had the arts to win a bachelor." Krllla of Fashion. The Windsor tie Is a popular favorite. The velvet cabochon Is a fancy of ths season. Broad-shouldered effects will prevail In shirt waists next season. Shirt waist sleeves tend toward the bishop order, with a somewhat wider cuff than in tha past. Convenient little traveling essentials ar celluliod shields rounded boxes of the cel ludod, which come In both white and am ber. A silver basket, with a moveable handle, represents a new and handsome example of the silversmith's art It may be used either for fruit or call A white straw hut on the sailor order Is trimmed around the crown with a wreath of large, deep orange roses the coqus ds roc he shade, as It is called. A handsome fan with a frame and long stem handle In silver gilt is In Turkish de sign. It is set with different atones sap phires, pearls, rubles, coral, etc., and ths top, or fan purt Is of bluck ostrich feath ers. There Is something brand new for ths shirt waist man. It has only jurft appe.-irvd and is to match his pearl cuff links and ths pearl buttons of his waistcoat when ho wears one. It Is a watch In a coho of whits pearl. It Is a compartively new Idea to have bamboo furniture upholstered with leather. One pretty set has a French wreath in gold upon the back of each piece. AH have springs in the seats and are more com fortable than the ordinary bamboo fur niture and just as cool. In silver ornaments the Indians do much Interesting work. Uncle Sam furnishes all the material. Indian Jewelry Is made of the sliver that they ran most easily ob tain and that is United Stalest money. Ths designs are Indian, crude but Interesting, and the longer the pieces are worn ths more attractive they become. Some of them have already the finish given by wear, for they are the rings or bracelets the Indians themselves have used. Pretty things In horn combs or pins for the hair are carved In the shape of flowers or insects, tinted, and In noma oasts set with jewels. One comb, which Is charming, has an Insect on the order of a dragon fly, but much larger than life, ret across ths top and In delicate colors. I'lns for the hair with two teeth are In the shape of flowers or leaves with stems, the stems forming ths teeth, the flower the top. One of theso has the top in the shape of two loaves, tinted a delicate green and showing jewels, one a pale green stone set in ths green of the ' leuves. Others have ross tones, and ail of thorn are charming. The wearing of falsa Jewels Is coming more In vogue every day in the east, es pecially in New York. The women who ' wear them nowadays, however, do not In tend that their ornaments shall be taken for real stones, and the whilom prejudlcs against wearing Imitations seems to havs altogether disappeared. In tbs majority of case ths women who take to falas Jewelry do It either because they cannot afford to buy what Is in the expensive vogue of ths day, or do not care to tls up so much money in such an invest ment or because they are afraid to travel iklHtut with tbelr real gems. New York women who have large collections of Jew elry keen their valuables in sale deooait v nits. When they want their Jewelry to wcMSolss- a dinner or a ball there Is a great nuisance of setting it out of ths vaults. They must go in person, so It Is much raster to have ths imitation dupli cates that cost only a few hundred dollars and can be kept In safes at homo.