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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1904)
THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. July 17, lOOt, The Illustrated Bee. Published Weekly by The Be Publishing Company, Bee Building, Omaha, ND. Trice. So Per Copy-rer Ytmt. $100. Entered at the Omaha Postofftce a Second Clans Mail Matter. For Advertising nates Address Publisher. Communications relating to photographs or articles for publication should be ad' dretwed. "Editor The Illustrated Bee, Omaha." Pen and Picture Pointers I..TON BROOKS PARKER, who A was nominated for president by the democrats at Bt. 1-ouis, is U years old and a native of New York state. Ho hns been chief Judge of the court of appeal In New York mince January 1. 1KM. and ts no new figure In democratic politics. He was born at Cortland, N. Y., May 11 1X62, and was educated In the public schools of his na tive town, attended the Cortland academy, the Cortland normal school, and win flnaJl'T graduated from the Albiiny Ljw scho, He was admitted to the bar and practiced In Kingston. In 1877 he was appointed surrogate of Ulster county, which oHJoa be held until 1WA. In 18S4 ho was a dele gate to the democrutlc convention at Chi cago that nominated drover Cleveland the first time. Ho was tendered the office of first assistant postmaster general under Wilson 8. Ulssell of Huffulo but declined the place. In 18SJ be was chairman of the executive committee of the New York tate democratic committee, nnd that year was elected a Judge of the state supreme court. In 1883 he was appointed a member of the court of appeals, Second division, and In 1833 he was made a member of the frnne.ral term, und In li9J he was a Judge sf the appellate division, succeeding to his present office at the close of 1M)7. Person ally Judge Parker la reported to bo a fine type of manhood. He Is ncurly six Teet In height, well proportioned and has the appearance and bearing of an athlete. Hla home ts on a farm at Ksopua on the Hudson river, and there he spends a great deal of his time, only leaving it when called to Albany by hla court business. Ho haa always belonged to the gold or Cleveland Wing of the, democratic party, although he Is reported to have voted for Bryan In 1000. The new chairman of the republican tate committee, IL C. M. Burgess, comes Into hi, own well qualified to conduct an enthusiastic aa well aa a winning cam paign. Hs la a "breesy" kind of man and when he floats Into a room everybody knows hs la there and ha haa the smile that won't wear eft. He cultivated this years ago when hs was stumping' Ne braska In the interest of an Omaha whole sale firm and he has kept It up during ths later years, while manager of the Tribe of Ben Hur. He has already made a reputa tion with hla handshake, which la ths kind that mokas ths recipient believe that lis haa really found a friend. Mr. Burgess became known over the atato last winter when he served hla first term In the legis lature from Lancaster county and was s member Of the sifting committee. He made good In the legislature to the extent that he waa again nominated without op position. Hs was among the first men tioned for the chairmanship of the stats commutes, when It was generally sup posed that II. C. Lindsay would rat Irs and he had a good following. When Chair man Lehr rcslgaed Burgess liad a walk away for ths place. - That the new chair nan has ability in managing political bat tles, there is no doubt He waa one of ths first to taks up the fight to secure the en dorsement of Congressman Burkett for ths United States senate, and while he made tittle noias about It, he visited nearly all of the county eonventlona and was largely Instrumental In bringing in so many pledged delegations. Mr. Burgess came to Nebraska from Naw York, his "birth pjace. some fifteen years ago. since which time IJncohi haa been hla home. He la 36 years old and hs makes friends every day hs Una., Fish Hooks as Winners "Olvs me $10 worth of fish hooks, and I will carry West Virginia tor the demo cratic party," said a well known Texan who haa fished In the state. "The West Vir ginians lovo their country and their state." hs continued, "but they love a fish hook better then their children. When I went Into West Virginia for a few shiners every man I met leaned up against nio, and, af ter a moment's conversation on ths weather Inquired: 'Neighbor, havo you got a real, sure enough fish hookT' "When PI produced one ths stats was mine, and the fulness thereof. If I can persuade ths chairman of the democratic national committee to give me $10 worth of fish hooks, a lot of bait, and pay niy expenses, I can carry the state, whether the nominee be Parker, Gorman or Bryan." fit Louis Post-Dispatch, OST charming and withal practical M la ths girl feminine when sbs -. tarns to the household circle in the form of the family beauty doctor. it. 4 Herself a picture of immaculate dainti ness, shs Inspires love of personal dainti ness In the younger members of the fam ily. The tomboy sister submits gracefully to having her hands "done" In the riol ahadowa pf the porch or In the shelter of ths living room, when she would scorn the suggestion of visiting a manicurist. The growing brother, secretly annoyed, but openly Indifferent, to his slight skin erup tion, will try "Sls'a" remedy, when lie would bulk at the order to consult ths family physician. So through ths entire family ths beauty suit takes root and flourishes, extreme neatness of person becomes a family habit and the mission of the family beauty doctor Is fulfilled. Tits family beauty doctor . la. a creature of evolution. 8he arose to meet the emer gency. When the world feminine had paid ths price of athletics In tanned, kitge knuckled bands. In sun-burned, rough cheeks, It cried aloud for relief, and ths professional beauty doctor sprang np In every city In ths land, oftlines but Illy pre pared for the work entrusted to his care. Systems were hastily mastered, sometimes . to ths betterment of women patients, some times to their actual Injury, and then ths world feminine began to think out beauty remedies for Itself. Knur then the family beauty doctor, who began by learning to manicure her own hands, to massage her own face, to shampoo her own hair. She discovered that the work came to her as naturally as piano playing to the musically inclined, and she turned to beauty culture as a fad-. In New York alone there are today scores of girls studying In beauty parlors who never expect to take positions of any sort. They are merely laying the ground for beauty culture. Borne of them are' even Studying at schools of pharmacy ths art of compounding lotions, emollients, bleaches eta,, so that their own complexions and those of the entire family circle may not bo sacrificed to Incompetent, Irresponsible beauty doctors and patent lotions. In the art of beautifying the family beautlfler learna that the nails must be filed, not cut; that they must be grace fully rounded, not filed to exaggerated points, and that the well bred woman Bellgirls and Bellboys rT IS not so astonishing to learn that a woman's hotel In New York has replaced ths bellboy by the bellglrl as It Is to discover that ths bellglrl experiences some difficulty In picking np ths polite duties of ths bellboy. Ths bellglrl. It appears, Is unabls to ad Just bsrself to thoss little masculine court esies st which the bellboy Is adept, and which make life In a city hotel one round of pleasure. For one thing, shs has not learned that shs Is not to precede a guest Into and out of ths elevator. And for another thing, shs Is unable to grasp the subtile secret of door rape. There haa prevailed at this hotel, for Instance, a code whereby the bellboy notified the occupant of a room that a male visitor waa await ing her, by three short taps on the door. If the visitor was a woman there were two short taps. If two male visitors called there were six short taps, and If two fs male visitors four short taps. American SRfTT artu alanta hanalf "An I American Lady," writes In a Lon- aV I Ann iwiur nn th avrintereatinflr subject of American divorces: "The game of progressive bos- bands," shs avers, "is entangling the American woman In a labyrtnthlan coll of aocial relatione." Continuing, ahe remarks: "So recklessly have a large number of American women made use of the various and obliging divorce courts of their coun try and the liberal privileges of remar riage that they find themselves no longer asked to solve the simpler problems of the etiquette of divorce. They havo passed from the class where 'how to treat the di vorced Wife of one's own husband on the first occasion of meeting is considered a difficulty. Neither does 'the correct method of entertaining one's former spouse at din ner cause them great anxiety. "They have now to consider more com plicated situations, such aa 'the possible basis in which a friendship with a lady who has been one's husband's' wife be tween his first and second marriage to one's self, may be maintained.' Divorce Is, , In reality, no longer an adventure' In the United Btates. It has become merely a convention. In which 30.000 devotees take part annually. Each divorcee continues to ' think hers an unusual case, a romantic ep isode, fit theme for some great novelist m The Family Beauty does not polish the nail to a lustre which ts conspicuous. When a younger member Of ths household has acquired the unfortu nate habit of biting the nails, It is the family beauty doctor, whose patient care of the abumd hands pinching the finger tips gently Into shape and restoring ths curve of the nail helps to break the habit by arousing the pride of the little sin ner. Particularly does this gifted member of the family circle teach, the growing sons not to abuse the nails by the use of a sharp pen knife or cuticle knife. She buys for each member a file, an orange stick and a buffer for the dally care of the hands and once a week she gives the hands a thorough treatment, polishing the nails with rosallne or powder, using bleach If necessary, and watching carefully that all of the young people keep their nails In good condition betimes. For discolored or badly tanned hands she uses tliis bleach: Sweet and bitter almonds, blanched and pounded Into a paste, 250 grains each; lemon Juice, CO grains; sweet milk, $0 grams; sweet almond oil, 90 grams; brandy, 180 grams. Many sn overburdened mother has gladly turned over ths task of shampooing ths youngsters to the elder sister, who really deserves the title of ths family beauty doc tor. Not only Is that a relief to ths mother, but it is an excellent thing for the children, as few mothers have either ths knowledge or the time properly to shampoo two or three bobbing little heads. Great harm is done the hair by slovenly or too strenuous shampooing. In ths one case, harsh alkalis or uncleanly soaps remain in the hair, and In the other, too drastic substances sre employed for cleansing the hair from oil and dust. The beauty doctor takes ths rebellous little patient to the bath room, throws a combing cape of Turkish toweling over the bare shoulders and folds another small Turkish towel on the edge of the stationary washstand for the patient to rest her chin on. In a bowl close st hand she has ready the yolk of one egg, beaten thoroughly, with one pint of warm rainwater and an ounce of rosemary spirits. The egg will remove dandruff and cut the excessive oil In the hair. The rosemary leaves behind a pleasant perfume. Dipping both hands into ths shampoo mixture, she works it into the scalp, rubbing thoroughly with the finger tips. When the scalp Is saturated and ths dandruff Is loosened, shs has the patient rest her chin on the folded towel, snd the This Is as much of ths code as has been divulged, end Just what ths signal would be If there were a mixed delegation Is not explained. At any rate, the bellg'lrl has found the code perplexing, and she fre quently causes embarrassment by show ing In a visitor to whom the occupant of the- room would be "not at home" were the signals perfect "The girls sre nice, of course," so one of the guests Is quoted, "but they are not as polite as the boys were. Today one of them who carried my valise bumped It sgalnst my knees going Into and out of the ele vator. A boy would have gone behind." "One girt," complained another, "dropped my valise and broke a brush that cost me $10 In Chicago only last week. And when I spoke to her shs bad ths impudence to say that she didn't oarer' These expressions show very clearly that while woman's field Is constantly widening It does not yet comprehend ths field of ths bellboy. Chicago Inter Ocean. Divorces In truth, even when a divorce Is followed by a marriage to another person, and In turn by a second divorce and the rcnur rutga of the first couple. It has come to be regarded as too common a matrimonial lightning cliango to be talked about. It Is estimated that more than 00,000 divorcrs have been granted In the United States In the last twenty years, during which time in 'all Europe less than half that number have been granted. "All sorts of movements sre on foot to stem this tide of divorce, which has been characterized by one of America's foremost clergymen as 'progressive polygamy.' 'The Daughters of the Faith,' an organization of Roman Catholic women of the highest social standing In New York City, has been recently incorporated, having as one of Ts chief tenets the pledge not to accept or i x tend Invitations tq a divorced woman who has remarried during the lifetime of her husband. But, alasl many of the most prominent members were obliged to with draw when they found that this pledge must bo taken seriously, for, aa they ex plained, they 'couldn't be rude to their rel atives and their life-long friends even if they were divorced.' "An organization ot clergymen was formed a year ago with the object of ob taining a uniform divorce law and uniform action on the part of the clergymen In re-marrying.' Doctor rinsing begins. The hair Is not washed Its full length, but the shampoo, as It Is washed down, cleanses the hair. A rubber tube, which can be adjusted to any pipe, and which has a perforated spray nozzle, is useful for rinsing, and warm, not hot nor cold, water should be used. The right band directs the flow of the wster and the left is held at the base of the brain cr on the forehead to prevent the water from running down the, back or Into the eyes. , Soft, warm towels are used for patting the hair dry. It should never be rubbed violently. Then it Is fanned. Drying in the tun makes the hair lighter In tint, but this often Induces headache. The beauty doctor understands scalp mas sage and knows that the mere rotary move ment of the finger tips over the scalp Is not sufficient but the scalp must be loos ened from the skull, because If the scalp fits too tightly to the skull the hair cannot grow. The family beauty doctor is a veritable angel in disguise during the summer, when outdoor life, blistering sun and . arid breeses do their worst for the complexion. With her soothing lotions and creams and her gentle massage, she removes the one sting which exists for the girlish athlete. For the manufacture of her lotions she has an equipment which la put to no other use. It consists of a double boiler In agate ware, a flannel bag, not unlike the old fashioned Jelly bag; a pestle and mortar, a fine hair slevs and a pharmaceutical meas uring and weighing outfit Given these "and pure drugs with which to work and she evolves comforting lotions which may be used with perfect safety. City children suddenly exposed to out door life In the country suffer tortures lrom sunburn, and for this aflliction the family beautlfler will use this simple remedy: Six drams of pulverized borax mixed thoroughly with three-quarters of an ounce of pure glycerine and twelve ounces of orango llower water. As twelve ounces of the orange flower water is equal to twenty four tablespoonfuls, it will be seen that It pays to make this cooling lotion in double quantities and keep plenty on hand, for Its effect Is immediate and restful. When the skin has been roughened by sailing or exposure from long mountain climbs, It should be washed dally with this lotion: One-half ounce of simple tincture of benzoin, one ounce of glycerine, one ounce of alcohol and two ounces of dis tilled or boiled water, mixed thoroughly. The elder members of the family, partic ularly the men, are apt to suffer, during the summer from dust gathering In en larged pores of -the skin. Here Is the family doctor's most dependable remedy: Strained honey,. fifty grams; white soap, shaved In thin strips (either of the floating soaps will do for this, or a pure white Cas tile), forty grams; tincture of benzoin, ten grams; white wax, thirty grams; storax, ten grams. Melt the soap, honey and white wax and mix, then add the benzoin and storax. Use inatead of soap to wash the facs before retiring. A cold cream or a cucumber cream should be applied after the face haa been; thoroughly dried. For the ' cold cream she uses this pre scription, handed down from an old Ken tucky family famous for Its beauties: Rose water, four ounces; almond oil, four ounces; spermaceti, one ounce; white wax, one ounce. Orange flower, lirac, violet or elder flower water can be substituted for ths rose water at pleasure, and the addition of one dram of tincture ot benzoin or a half-dram ef salicylic acid will insure the cream from becoming rancid. An oily skin is particularly annoying In summer, and It can be relieved by bathing the face twice or three times daily with this lotion: Sulphate of sine, two grains; , compound tincture of lavender, eight drops; distilled water, one ounce. The family beauty doctor takes no chances on facial massage, but studies it under the direction of an expert Facial 'massage, improperly administered, is ex tremely injurious to ths complexion. Cer tain movements are Intended to reduce the tissue, others to increase the . amount of adipose matter. Rubbing the face the wrong way Induces wrinkles rather than eradicates them, so self-msseage Is not to be undertaken lightly. The family beautl fler makes her own massage cream from the following receipt: Lanolin, two ounces snd a half; sper maceti, thrce-ntiarters of sn ounce; white vaseline, two ounces nnd a half; cocoanut oil, two ounces; sweet almond oil, two ounces; tincture of benzoin, one-half dram. Melt the first flvo Ingredients together, beat until the mass concretes, sddlng the benzoin, drop by drop, during this process. Extract of violet or any perfume may be added if agreeable. It Is this knowledge of what to do and what to leave undone which makes the family beauty doctor a remarkable comfort in the family circle. Though she cannot write M. P. after her name she Is none the less an nnpel of merry to those with whom she comes In contact. ANNA 8. RICHARDSON.