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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1904)
&tl tWHTi fliifS B 4 Ml wwn ' m Wove Wk DtrcAi HQ fears of certain eminent ob server that American youth wcr becoming' effeminate through association with women teachers la the public schools apparently need not alarm us greatly if v but pause Ions' enough to consider What the women are doing. That they themselves display a firmness of fiber, a resourcefulness and aggressiveness that would sufficiently equip any man to sare hint from the charge of effeminacy fa ' abundantly shown. 8corce a day passes without some notable evidence of the truth of this. The chronicles of happen ings alone have two shining examples of woman's ability to lay aside her softer attributes and become stern enough to satisfy even the most exacting. Brooklyn furnished one of these exam pies of woman's ability to assume a mas terful role. Mrs. Mary Herrmann was visited In her small corner grocery by two men whose manner was suspicious. Sus picion deepened te certainty when she saw on of tha two behind the counter In the Immediate neighborhood of the cash till. Mr. Herrmann grasped the situa tion and the sugar scoop simultaneously and had at him with such effect that by tha time she found breath to scream and thus secure assistance her mas was in condition to hand over to the poHcei "W hich not only reflects credit upon the woman, but adds a new weapon of de fense to the already long available list. The other case of feminine vigor and re sourcefulness in the face of danger comes from far off Kentucky, where Mrs. I Aid a Morris beat a panther away front her child. Once she had him on the run. It was a simple matter to get down her husband's rifle and put an end to that particular panther's pernicious activities. But tha beating oft in the first crowded moment or two of the panther's appearance was done with the oldest of feminine wea pons, the household broom, thus demon strating beyond any doubt that the more tor less humorous traditions concerning the effectiveness of that implement have a nrm basis In sober fact. New York. Tel egram. 4 College Girls as Farmhands. EGAUSB of a lack of farmhands the- farmers around Whlppany, Aften and Hanover, N. J., have bad to call on their daughters to assist In the harvest. In the ordinary course of things this would be nothing strange. But for the farmers In that section of the country it Is .unusual, for they are a well-to-do lot and moat of their girls are college bred. But college bred or otherwise. It makes no difference to the farmer, who has to get In the hay. Tbia is the haying season and It Is the finest kind of haying weather. The farmers offered high wages for male help, but It was not forthcoming. Just when It teoked as If the hay crop would be a failure on account of lick ef harvest ers Miss Mabel Mowder, who finished at Vassar two years ago, came to ber father's assistance and said that she would take the plaee of a man at S3 a day, the price he had offered. He scoffed at the Idea at first, but this young woman soon showed that she was as good as her word by mounting a mowing machine and driving into the field, where he cut grass like a veteran. Other girls In the vicinity saw their leader at work and It became the fashion at once so that within two days more than a dosen women could be counted within half as many miles, and a3 of them were riding on mow X ing machines; i capers or gang rakes, hand ling a pair of horses and a big machine as If they were used to it. Among- the girls so doing are Kiss lean nette Van Tetter, a pupil In Hotyoke sem inary; Miss Marguerite ElaCe of Wellesley, Miss Connie Mackey of Cornell. Mies Sue Prince of Bernard and Miss Badle Bailey of Vassar. Some of the girls are gradu ates and some of them are still In school, but all of tbem are now causing many per sons te stop along the roads and watch the haymaking: Although the girls have been at their Jobs only two days and some of them now have their hands Is bandages as the re sult of many blisters, all declare that they will stick right through to the end of har vestings New York Herald. Porches Vwswfaa-e mm Lfrlaar URX1SHT.no of a country or suburban home has fee greatly simplified of late years by the architects who supply eom rnodkms porches. The Inside of the house. Is. used, only for sleeping and In case of rain. At all other times the fain- lly lives on the porch, and In cities where houses are buRt with any veranda room at all the porches are turned Into summer living rooms. This custom Is responsible for some specialties in veraada furniture. Where the veranda Is fieep and well screened from storms the vogue In fornl- . ture shows mission frames, ' with up holstery in the softest and most supple of Japanese matting. The colors of Japanese mattings are effective on the porch, and the flower designs are particularly popular. Next to the mission furniture rush, rattan and wicker ware are popular. The fea cart, once supposed to be for the very rich alone. Is quite common this summer In rush ware, highly glased. It can be bought as low as U- It rolls on wheels and has a tray protected by a ledge. The cart, with two tiers, can be bought at a slight advance In price. It is not used exclusively for afternoon tea, but when the family desires to eat the evening meal on the porch it is used to wheel the service and the viands from the dining room to the veranda. An accompaniment to the tea cart la a mall three tiered table, with the shelves growing smaller, one beneath the other, and the largest one Is no more than eight or nine Inches In diameter. It Is used for hoM!iig plates of sandwiches and fruit. The fancy of the hour, which will ap peal to the owner of a well cared for dog, Is a porch kennel built of rush ware to match the furniture. This sets flat on the floor, without any bottom, and has a hole Just large enough for tha dog to creep tn. For the large ferns, rubber plants and oleanders, deer to the housewife, the pnle blue majolica Jardinler tn a conventional pattern Is particularly popular. It comes with a tabouretta to match. Japanese matting and Algerian rugs are used for porch floors, and the former makes fine porch cushions. The newest thing in a porch screen that will keep out the rain is heavy denim or canvas, colored on the out Ida to match or tone with the paint of the house, while the Inside shows paintings ts) scenlo effects such as golf and flanking parties. Near the top in the center is a brass tablet which reads: '"Tia better to smoke here than here after," and around the Inscription are little cartoons showing men In outing at tire smoking. When the porch Is turned Into a sleep ing room, as often happens on warm nights when extra guests arrive, the winging berth Is attached by four chains from hoops or staples in the veranda roof. This la like a hjiw"-v large enough for I JL I ,,, a grown person to He full length, and It Is built from heavy canvass, with stout boards Instead of slats. Over this Is stretched a comfortable mattress and the canvas encloses the berth all the way round with net ventilators, se as to admit air and also keep oat mosquitoes. At the top and bottom ends are deep pockets like those on a sleeping car berth for clothes. 3 Caawwaileateee for Inatf Girls. U!E summer girl Is Just now going I tn for the sanitary bureaa. such a thing In the modern toilette and pristine freshness are the fad. She has put away all the beribboned and lace trimmed appurte nances which mark the winter fashion of her dressing table; neither Is there deco rated china nor silver to be polished, but everything about her I pure white and washable. A dresser of white enamel furnishes an excellent foundation upon which to work. The cover Is of fine linen, with a simple finish of hemstitch, but with no open work to admit dust to the surface be neath. Her toilette set Is of "white china, With a scalloped edge, but there are no raised figures to hold the dust. If she can not afford Havlland she has pure white celluloid. This set Includes a brush and comb tray, powder and salve boxes and a ring tree. For her hatpins she has one of two hold era. If she wants to stand the holder on the bureau she selects one of those which looks exactly like a slender flower petal vase. If she wants to hang It against the wall it looks like a funnel, with one side flat to hong smoothly against the wall paper. These hatpin holders are among the desirable novelties of the sea son, as the rage for pins to match dif ferent hats is a feature of the summer girl's equipment. Girls are learning to hang many little trinkets on the wall around their bureau, as this prevents the accumulation of litter on the bureau and saves wearisome . dust ing. For Instance, a girl has a good sized key rack In some dainty enameled wood or light metnt hung on the right side of the bureau, from which swing a button hook, a glove buttoncr, a shoe horn and extra shoe laces. Pretty pin cushions are also made to hang on the walL A particularly pleasing device shows a pair of Cinderella slip pers, which may be made from ktd or silk and stuffed with cotton or bran. For the pins the cover Is of silk and on the side devoted to hairpins the cover is crocheted In fine serbyr. Another convenience for the summer girl who Is away on her vacation Is a pin sheet, A six.-Inch strip of silk of the ordi nary width is first covered with sheet wadding and then with six-Inch sash rib bon of a contrasting color. The softer silk side Is studded with pins, stuck in Just as they are when bought In the paper. There are rows of safety pins tn various sizes, pearl headed pins, smaller pins with various colored heads to match different neckwear, and common black and white pins all arranged in gronpe. At one end of the sheet Is sowed two ribbons wblck match the lining silk, and the summer girl can roll up her sheet like a "house wife" and pack it in her bag when trav eling. At the hotel she fastens it up on the wall by means of two stout plus or fine tacks stuck through the corners. Among the toilette conveniences which she will find essential for the summer may be mentioned the rubber complexion brush, which looks not unlike a bath mitt, and slips over the hand. The use of this brush Is much better than constant ap plication of powder to the face. It is used dry on the face, and Is particularly suc cessful In Improving au oily skin. It can be washed, but must be dried before using gain. Care ef the lee ilox. HIS Is the time of the ptomaine. It is the season of all other when the family tarns to the Ice box for luncheons and for sup pers; and tha ice box Is the home of the ptomaine. There Is much to learn of tho ptomaine and of its related poison, the leucomaln. It is In the protrid molecule that both germs have parenlnge, the result of bacterial growths splitting up the molecule. In the albumens and meets of the larder these poisons have homes. Decomposition la meats,- milk and cheese may give llfo to thera in dangerous form. Again, this bac terial destruction may make only for flavor and give seat to the palate. On a micro scopic but almost as dangerous scale. It h the old question whether the fungus picked) up. in the field is a mushroom or a toad stool. Bacterial growths gtve flavor to butter, to cheese, to meats and other foods. It has been discovered that it n tn:s bacterial growth thtre be plenty of oxygen, the poison of the ptomaine does not develop. If the oxygen be limited the developing pto maines may be extremely dangerous at the end of a week. As to range of the poison ous effects, some of these germs may pro duce only painful forms ef cholera morbus, Others kill their victims in a few hours. But while mold ts a general Index, to the possibility of ptomaine poisons, that en meats, cheese, milk and bread is to ha watched most. Do not eat food that shows mould. If tha sense of smell Is offended, throw the food Into the garbage can. Heed promptly a warning from your palate. Even foods that offend none of the senses may be dan gerous. Milk, having the animal heat in It and hurried to market through a hot sua, may be deadly within six hours. Made into Icecream Its tyrotoxlcon may kill like a pestilence. To be reasonably safe, keep the Icebox clean. Scald It out at least once a. week and let It air. Chicago Tribune. Chat About Women. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, who has thor oughly mastered the French language. Is new perlectlug herself In German. Mr. Emily Kdson UrigKS, the first woman newwpaper correspondent of tlte na tional capital,- who wrote under the pm mi mo "Olivia," and whose letters were widely read forty years agu. Is still living in Washington. Iter letters will be pub lished in book form this fall, and will be Interesting as portraying, from a woman's standpoint, events of national importance during and following tho civil war. Mrs. Margaret Hamilton Welch of the editorial staff of Harper's ftuzur and a frequent contributor to u)0(rnziii:i, has died at Liberty, N. .. leaving two hod u u twe daughters. Her husiiHrnf, Philip 11. Welch" was the inventor of the dmttcli form of newspaper wit, and bis twinned para graphs always had a point to make -which cannot be said of the work of his succes sors. The expertness of women In handling utos has long been a matter of comment around New York, but only tiKne whose buMlnesa takes them across the rivers and up the sound are aware that they are alio entering the Held of yaoating with real success. Brooklyn hue come to be regarded as the homes of many women who have the ability to handle sailing craft through tha Narrows or on the wa Urn of Oraveeend and Jamaica bays, like experienced yachts men. The women- have increased some what tn number this season, and hardly a day goes by but they may be seen on the water steering the craft or ha lulling the sails like thorough sailors. The yuchts-wonu-n this summer are practically living on the water, and many a pleasant lltt e sailing party can be noticed almost every morning leaving the Shore for a dny's out ing on I-orig- Iidand sound or along tha Jersey coast. X