TI1E ItrJE: UMAUA, S.VltKPAV, OCTUUEU 17. 1114.
17
Wf Voies lor
Till column ha been placed
th disposal of th local Wobu'i
Bnffrur association. Herewith ar
extract from th uiocUUoi'i
literature.
Self-Explaining
OMAIIA. Oct 11-Mr. Dear Mrs. Dorr:
Fearing It may have sllrped your mind
under pressure of so many other things,
I write to say that I have arranged to
Mart the department for discussion on
the suffrage question In The Bee Thurs
day, to run two or three times a week,
and possibly oftener later. A column
holds about 1,600 words of straight-set
matter, and we should have the copy to
morrow, Wednesday, noon, and there
after at least twenty-four hours ahead of
time. Thanking you. I am. Very truly
yours. VICTOR ROSEWATER.
Editor The Be.
Mr. Rheta Child Dorr, Omaha,
OMAHA. Oct. 15.-My Dear Mr. Rose
water: Your letter of October 13, to Mrs.
Rheta Chllde Dorr, was received at the
office of the Douglas County Equal Suf
frage association too late to reach Mrs.
Dorr, who resigned her position a
publicity representative or the associa
tion October 10, and left October 13 for
New York, where she expects to enter a
hospital to undergo an operation.
Our association appreciates most highly
your offer to open a department In your
paper for the discussion of the suffrage
question, but regrets that on account of
Mrs. Dorr's resignation it will be Im
possible for us to accept your proposi
tion at this 'time. All our workers are
actively engaged along other lines, where
they are getting excellent result. We
have no paid publicity newspaper repre
sentative, and no one who could give time
to newspaper work at present.
Please permit me to thank you, on.be
half of our association, for your kindness
and courtesy in offering to open the
columns of The Bee to the discussion
of the suffrage question. Very sincerely
yours. ELIZABETH J. LINDSET.
Chairman Douglas County Equal Suf
frage Association.
Hon. Victor Kosewater, Editor The Bee.
OMAHA. Oct. 16.-My Dear Mrs. Lind
sey: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your
letter of yesterday rescinding for your
,'iBsoclation the arrangement that had
ien made by Mrs. Dorr to furnish copy
presenting your side of the suffrage ques
tion, v
For fear you have not been fully in
formed of all facts, let me say that I had
a call from Mrs. Dorr last week with a
view on her part to securing greater
publicity for the suffragist campaign,
which, after talking it over, we agreed
Fhould take the form of a column in The
Bee two or three times a week or oftener,
to be filled with matter furnished by
representatives of your organisation, the
rniv noint left In abeyance being when
the start should be made, as that was to
depend in part upon copy to come from
the anti-suffragists for a similar column.
I took It for granted, having had the sub
ject up first with Mr. John U Kennedy,
by whom she was sent to me, that Mrs.
Dorr had full authority to conclude these
arrangements, and my note to her, to
which you have replied, wa merely ad
vising her as to the day ths column would
start, and the details about the copy.
Under the circumstances, all I can do
is to hold this column open to your use
and In the interval to fill it with ex
tracts from your own suffrage literature,
and such communications a may com
to The Bee from suffrage advocates.
Thanking you for the courtesy of your
letter, I am, Very truly Yours,
VICTOR ROS12WATER.
Editor The Bee.
Mr. Z. T. Lindsay,1 Chairman Douglas
County Equal Suffrage Association.
tFudge Lindsey's Word
"The results tf woman suffrage In Colo
rado, since Its establishment more than
ten years ago, have been so satisfactory
that !t la hard to understand how it en
counters opposition In other states. I
have never observed on evil as th re
sult. Ihave never hear a criticism di
rected against woman suffrage that ever
worked out In practice, or, If It did, was
not equally applicable to male suffrage.
jt uBed to be said that the women
would not vote that they were not In
telligent. I believe, in proportion to
population, nearly as many, If not more,
women voted at the last city election as
men. In no Important election ha less
than 40 per cent of th entire vote been
cast by women, and, considering that
there ar more men than women In this
western city. It Is no more than fair to
say that the women are equally Interested
in the affairs of government, and vote
as Intelligently and as Independently as
the men.
One of the greatest advantage which
has com to u from woman suffrage is
the fear on the part of the machine poli
ticians to nominate for public office men
of Immoral character or to defeat those
ho have maintained a reputation for
honesty and decency. Again, at critical
times and in Importnnt elections, when
some great principle I at stake, especially
with reference to local conditions, where
the home end family ar Involved, the
women of .the state have always com to
the rescue. The powers of evil reallz
that they have a powerful moral fore to
cieal with when it is once aroused, and
they also real'r.e that, when it Is aroused,
it has the power to strike a blow.
-W have In Colorado the most ad
vanced laws of any state In th union
fur th care and protection of th horn
and the children, th very foundation of
the republic. These laws. In my opinion,
would not exist at this Urn If It wr
not for th powerful Influenoe of women,
which, at all times, has been back of
them and those who have conscientiously
ai'd faithfully administered them.
"I believe I only vole th general Im
pression of the best Informed as to such
mr.ttera when I ssy that w owe this
condition more to woman suffrage In
'-'olorado than to any cither Cause."
Waaa't Heady.
'Put on your helmet an' your rd shirt.
Miss, there's a big fire down th road a
piece.
"Whucks! I can't go. My shirt's in the
washtub an' the old woman's out in the
garden fillin' my helmet with a mess of
beans." Birmingham Age.
Women P
Oondneted By
ansa kabjosus dobjuj.
Tot th sTsbrask Association Op
posed t Wemas mffrg.
Taxing tho Farmers
Ever sine Nebraska wa admitted to
statehood the farmer have complained
that men In the cities and towns llxed
the tax levies and compelled th farmer
to pay.
Would woman suffrage Improv this
condition? In states having equal suf
frage election return ehow that farmers'
wive rarely vote because they roust
travel greater distance to reach th
rolling places than th women In th
cities and towns, who can get to th polls
easily. The net result is that the taxing
power I multiplied by giving th ballot
to women, while the farmer must step
up and pay the captain!
While It I true that taxation without
representation Is tyranny. It is not true
that taxation without votes Is tyranny.
The man who lives In California but owns
property in Nebraska cannot vol In
Nebraska; the man who own property
in half a dozen towns can only vote In
one. Moreover, less than 10 per cent of
the women of the state are paying taxes,
and suffrage Is asked, not only for the
women who pay taxes, but also for th
nine women out of ten who do not.
Woman suffrage will greatly Increase
the taxes of the state and community.
First, because It will double the elec
torate and Increase the expense of elec
tions. Second-, because the proportion of non
taxpaylng voter will be greatly In
creased, and taxes are voted by thoso
who do not have to pay them.
Third, because the city vote, which Is
largely non-taxpaylng, will be increased
at the expense of the farmer vote, which
is lsrgely taxpaylng. City women vote
in greater numbers than the wives of
farmers, for their, opportunity to get to
the polls are greater. In Colorado 90 per
cent of all women voting come from the
cities of the state. In the cities but a
very small proportion of the population
are the taxpayers. The farming popula
tion are the taxpayers. The city non
taxpaylng voto will be tremendously In
creased at the expense of the farming j
taxpaylng vote. j
If the entrance of women Into politic
Is not desired by a large majority of
women, anr" is in no respect allevlatory,
where I there any gain either for womon
or for the state in a grant of the frnn- I
chiee? MRS. J. W. CRUMPACKER. I
Let's Begin at Home
Suffragist ask for the vote In order
to raise the wage and better the living
condition of the 7,000,000 self-supporting
women In the United States. But the
suffragist never mention that about 40
per cent of these women are engaged In
personal service In the home of other
women. Why not begin by solving th
servant problem? What about a nine
hour day in domestic service? Why not
raise your maid's wages at once? In this
way we can draw the girl back from
th street and the factory. Let begin
at home.
Suffragist ask for the vot to obtain
"pur food" legislation. Why not begin
at home? Mrs. Ellen Richards, former
head of the domestic science department
of the Boston Institute of Technology,
said that 75 per cent of all food contam
ination take place In th kitchens of
private homes. Let's begin at home.
Suffragists ask for the vot to check
the so-called "white slav" traffic Au
thorities agree that a wise mother and a
good horn a re th best safeguards for
girlhood. Let' begin at horn.
Suffragists complain about th WTI-
boards, and ask for a vot to remedy
this. Yet 86 per cent of the patrons of
th theater ar women. Women control
the box offic receipts. We women must
uplift womashood if we want to uplift
the drama. Let' begin at home.
Old-Fashioned,
Thers wa a big nugget of elear think
ing in the remark of Mr. Oeorge W.
Goethal. the wife of th builder of th
Panama canal, when, giving her reason
for hurrying back to her husband's side
from a visit to this country recently, she
said:
"A woman can do so much (or a man
when he 1 working under a strain. He
mustn't let It break his nerv, you know.
If he one begins to weaken. It 1 all
over."
Old-fashioned, but in these screeching
days of sex equality doctrine, it Is fin to
hear this old-fashioned conception of a
wife's Part so well expressed by a woman
of large vision. Old as th wisdom of
Solomon, yea, older, this primal preoept 1
a true today a ever It was. When the
eddies and current that sow flack the
agitated waters of woman's true place are
settled down It will b found that th nor
mal wife and woman Is exactly at th
place where she wa when the excitement
began at th aide of a man a th
worker, and he at the aid of woman as
her protector. There ar some funda
mentals of the human race that can
never be altered by human effort, no
matter how earnestly w may try, and
th relative place of man and of woman
In the world is one of them. Exchange.
MOTHER'S SONG.
All that I am, my mother mad me.
John Qulncy Adams.
. All that I am or bop to be I ow to my
angel mother. Abraham Lincoln.
Th future destiny of the child Is al
ways th work of th mother.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
Children ar whai th mothers are; no
fondest father's fondest care can so fash
ion the infant's heart, or so shape the
life. Walter Savage La odor.
I.XTKLLIGHXCE Vs. IONOR t XCB.
Th obvious oonoluslon of all suffrage
arguments Is that only suffragists can
cast an enlightened and Intelligent vote.
Tbey ar constantly calling our attention
to the Ignorance, venality and prejudice
of all other women. What a pity than
that suffragist ar a minority of women I
American Design, Material
' jf-. II if 1
; f 1 t t ft
I v B
Parts tias ient'm Borne beautiful destfmi this year. But none of them has bien more distinctive,
graceful or altogether lovely than this evening contof American design, workmanship and material. It
will be shown at the Patersou Style show, which is going to exploit the work of American, dressmakers.
Soft, lustrous velvet in any favored shade may be employed by the woman who want to copy this
wonderful design.- It goes lengthwise over the shoulder, whore several wmall tucks shape It, and then It
falls In deep points front and back, with a cape-like effect acros4 the right arm. Tho points are finished
with cut steel tassel like the one that finishes the throat scarf. The other shoulder Is covered with
brocaded stain In harmonizing colors.
This fits coat-wise and ends In a full sleeve piped In the velvet. The draping of the velvet loops
around the deep armhole and gives this inset of satin the effect of a one-sided yoke and vest. Gray and
rose brocade with mole colored velvet and a lining of rose satin would produce a marvelous effect for th
woman who wishes to copy this stunning cloak. It'lTA 8TUYVESANT.
Advice to Lovelorn
Love or Friendship.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I nut two young
ladles recently and am keeping company
with both of them. They butn are far
above the standard of the other. girls I
have met, and have no faults in any way
that 1 can see. They both like me and
are respectable and ladylike In every
action. As 1 do not think it right to go
out with both of them, and as I do tint
know wftlch one I like the better. I ask
your advice as to what 1 should do.
VERfLfXED.
Thar is no reason why a man cannot
have two girl friends. If you ever com
to lov one you will know it without mv
helping you choose between them! In
fairness tell each friend of th other's
existence.
as ciri " as x,o ve as sstor.
Dear Mies Fairfax: I have kept steady
company for alinuat four years with a
young man four years ray senior, and re
cently w have become engaged. My
mother objects, and says It is because he
Uayed In a theatrical com pa ay last win
ter (sbs is prejudiced against th stsge).
Up to this time she had nothing egaiuat
Milady's Evening
and Workmanship, and Material
him. He comes of a fine family, hae a
good education, la well able to support
ma and has even lett the Ugn. lie is
always a true gentleman and has no bad
l.aUts. ile has not shuwa any interest In
i li.er gins since he started showing mu
attention. Ho seems to lov me tteurly.
1k you advtoe rue to marry wittiout my
mother's connent if 1 cannot persuade her
tu consent, which I ttilnk is imronibie?
My futher has no objections whatever. I
have known my ftnn e family longer
than 1 have known him, and they ail ar
very fond of me, and there is no opposi
tion from them. What shall I do?
CHERRY.
The people of ths stage today ar for
th most part hard-working, well edu
cated, respectable folk. Probably our
country never had a better loved and
more respected private cltlsen than Jo
seph Jefferson, and there ar many act
or who are men of his fins calibre. So
your mother's prejudice against the stage
1 not fair. It la true that sometime an
actor' wife I given seeming cause for
Jealousy and unrest. ,
But in these case ths man is a weak
ling who would grieve her whatever hi
profession. Bring all your bast effort
to bear, so that your mother will see that
your sweetheart's tamserary excursion
Into stageland ha don aim no harm
Then, If sb cannot b woa over, i and
Cloak
Described by Kita Stuyvcsant
your father Is willing, tell her lovingly
and gently that you must follow the bid
ding of )our heart. I do not advocate
marrying without parental consent, but
your Is an exceptional case.
Jealousy,
Hear Mlns Fairfax: A few months ago
I was acquainted with a very fine young
lady, and on account of JeaJuusy I critl
id her nuvercly to a fnend of hers for
Passing me on the street without bow
ing. My Jealouiy broke oar acquaintance.
Now how ran I cure my Jealousy, and
how can I renew our acquaint-? Hh
will not answer my letters. ED. M.
Th only way to cure Jealousy is to eul
tlvste generosity enough to be glad of any
pleasant thing that happens to thus for
whom you car. Root out any Jealous or
envious thought by simply turning youj
mlnd to other things when jealousy crops
up in your heart. If th girl of whom
you ar fond passed you on th street
without bowing, that was probably meant
as an Indication that hs wished to eut
your acquaintance. Writ her one more
letter and ask ber to help you our wist
you have com to feel Is grav fault
It she Ignores that do not persecute ar
further.
Luck
Sometimes It Is
lVcisive of One 'a
Destitiv. : : :
li CilCOllGK L. KXAl'l.
Luck may be defined as those i Ircum
stancca which matt ran neither control
nor foresee, yet which Influences, some
times decisively, his fate. Some thcio
are who maintain that luck U not only
a great but a decisive factor In the lives
of Individuals and nations; others there
be who will have It that no such thing
as lu k exists. Neither view can be ac- i
cepted by on who takes an unprejudiced
look at the world. There Is such a thing
as luck, and sometimes It l decisive of
one's destiny. Hut more often man nmkes
his own destiny, and the troubles which
he lays to a malign fat ar due to his
own self-indulgence and short-sightedness.
Of course, he may any that It is
had link to have such qualities. That Is
probably true, but it Is further than w
care to carry tho subject. On the sur
face of things, which is by odds the
most Interesting region of them, we have
stated the rule correctly.
If one looks over the field of human
affairs, he will see here and there a
rase that seem the rank fsvoiltlsin of
fortune, but the longer he gaxe the
more he will wonder whether these ap
parent favor are worth having. The
young man who Is left a multl-mllllonnire,
with neither a trade nor the need of
learning one, Is one of the unlucklyst of
men. For, unless he Is born-with a most
unusual measure of foresight and philoso
phy, h will find that his wealth marks
him off from his fellows and Isolates him
In a glided prison, where true friendli
ness and human fellowship may not
enter. And that Is the worst of mis
fortunes. The common lot miy be hard,
but far harder are the fortunes of him
who is separated too thoroughly front
the common lot
Wellington, you remember, enee de
clared that he mado luck. Ile didn't; at
least, not In the sweeping, vain-glorious
meaning of his phrase. It was luck,
that is to say, it was something that he
could neither foresee nor control -which
allowed him to face and heat Napoleon's
quarreling marshals and tholr divided
fotcea, Instead of having to bear the
crushing onset of the united forces of tho
French empire, led by th hero of Aus
terllts himself. Waterloo was the luck
iest day In the history of a vary lucky
nation, for If one of a half a dosen un
predictable events had failed to occur.
Wellington would have been wiped off
tho slate by I o'clock, while Bluchor,
with Ms life saving battalion were yet
mile and mile away. In on sense,
Wellington deserved hi success. He
knew that th only certain thing about
lurk Is that It 1 bound to change, and
he held on with tenacity that even Eng
land has seldom rivaled, till th change
came and th Prussians. But one cannot
help thinking that Wellington would have
hown mor modesty riot to mention bet
ter sporting blood, had h admitted th
help given by his allies and refrained
Shorn slsndorlng hi army.
And, for that matter, w in A merino,
would da well to acknowledge that In
many, many way fortune ha been very
kind to us. Th fact that Washington
lived at th time of the Revolution, that
Cllve died before he could take command
of the British armies In thut war, that
Arnold's treason cam too late to ruin,
that Thomas Jefferson wa able to push
through the first ten amendment to the
constitution these ar favors for any of
which Rome would have burled the altar
of fortune in costly sacrifices. Nor
must we forget that th good fortune of
having Lincoln for our war president,
could not wholly ba counterbalanced, even
by th frightful catastrophe of his death
Just when hi power for good wa great
eat. Of a certainty, we have been a
lucky people. It would be unbecoming,
Perhaps unpleasant, to Inquire too
closely Into how much of our luck we
mad oursolve.
Th man moat frequently thought of
when luck Is mentioned Is Napoleoff. Tet
there was never a man whose successes
and failures could so easily be traced to
himself, his genius and his folly. Na
poleon wa really two men In one; the
first young, sober, a hard working
genius; the other a conceited, Self-Indulgent,
gifted gambler. Kaeh deserved
Just what he got. In hi earlier day
iNapoleon took no chance that genius
and study, and Incredible effort could
rule out. In his first Itsllsn campaign,
for Instance, though he had less than a
fourth of th total number of troops
sent against him, In all but two of his
fourteen pitched battles he outnumbered
hi enemy on the field. These two were
Areola and Rlvoll. Joubert'a corps
marched all night to get to th last
named battlefield, fought all the next
day, and marched all tli next night to
gat back to th fortification before
Mantua.
In hi age. on th other hand. Napoleon
trusted to his "star" and played dice
rather than chess. He left 300.000 vet
eran troops t In Oerman fortresses and
cities, merely to make the stake more
valuable If he won, and fought the battle
of Lelpslc with 120.0HO man, half of them
raw troops and many of them mutinous,
against SM.fr 0 of the allies. There was
no element of "luck" about that defeat,
for all Its factors might have been con
trolled and foreseen.
But what Is the ue of writing prose
when some one else hss already told the
tale In verse. Here sre a few atanxaa
of Saxe s poem on the theme we have
been discussing:
The reel secret of the certain winner
Against the plottlngs of malicious fate.
Learn from the story of a gaining sinner.
Whose frank confessions 1 will here re
late. "In this 'ere business, ss In any other.
By which a nun an honest llvln' earns.
You don't get all the science from your
mother.
But as you follow it, you live and
learn.
"An' L from being much behind the cur
tain. An gettln often very badly stuck,
Find out at last, there's nutbln' so un
certain As trustin' cards and every thin' to luck.
"So now, you w'ich natcherally en
hances ' Th faith In fortun that I uster feel
I take good ear to regulate th chances,
ii alius ha a finger in the deal."
Madame Ise'bell
Recommend Facial Exer
cises for the Woman
of Forty
The Woninn at Fejrly IV.
If a woman wishes to preserve her ap
pears no as the forties begin, she must
spend more time over the car of her
kin and hair Hum Is necessary when
younger. Ths
musclea of the
face commence
to lose some of
their elasticity;
It Is necessary
to correct this
hy facial exer
cises and by
watching t h
expression o f
tho face that
unpleasant lines ,
may b avoided.
When beauty
culture was In
Its Infancy, the Immobile face wss.th
Ideal, on the theory that laughing and.
In fact, (nny piny of expression was re
sponsible for lines forming In th face.
We have no patience with that theory
now. Better the permanent record of
pleaKant, worthy thoughts, than a stupid,
expressionless face. Moreover, unused
muscles would soon sag and fall, a most
Unpleasant form of facial deterioration.
One of the questions to back tip ths
theory that expression causes wrinkle Is
"why do our face grow lined and wrin
kled, while our bodies ar smooth and
unllned."
Those of you who read th lessons on
the construction of the skin and the
nerve and muscle underlying It can an
swer this question. The fact I furnished
with counties nerves and muscle, In
character unite unlike those In any other
part of th body. 8om of these control
the organ or seeing, smelling, tasting,
hearing, while other seem merely to be
used in the reflecting of thought. That .
is one of the object of thee muscles, to
Indicate the emotions, anger, fear, joy
and so on; otherwise the face would have
no Interest beyond that of mere booe and
flesh.
These muscles should be used wisely,
cn not at th expense of another; there
should he unity and harmony. For this
reason I recommend facial exercise rather
then massage. ' 1
Knclal massage ha a decided value
when (lone by a well trained operator. It
I wonderfully resting and relaxing to the
nerves, especially If the muscle and
nerve of the neck are treated and, as ha
been described In previous lessons, I meet
valuable In conjunction with facial exer
cises. Tho skin secrete less oil in middle ago
than in youth and this lack should be
met by th dally us of good toilet .
cream. ' ,'
Any soap, even the purest, has a cer-
tain drying affect on the skin and should
bs discontinued. The skin I cleansed bet
ter by a ood sleanslng cream which at
the same time acts a a mild emollient.
Neither facial exercises or massage
should be don without a liberal applica
tion of massag cream. A properly pre
pared mssssge cream contain fats that
the skin I capable of absorbing, and, a
th Ik In grow older, It need a certain
amount of feeding In this way.
Horn treatment consists In scrupulous
care of the skin, massage and facial ex
crclfes don with maasag cream, and
patting In gently about th eye and
place where wrinkle form easily an
amount of creom that the skin may ab
sorb during sleep.
(To Be Continued.)
Household Hints
Meats for salad should b eut with
scissor Instead of a knife.
If green are boiled In plenty of water,
and with the lid off, they will both look
and lasts better.
When putting blouse away, place .a
sheet of tissue puper hot wee a them. This
will keep them fresh looking.
When' chopping suet. If it Is sprinkled
with a little ground rice It will not stick
to th knife and will chop quite aslly.
Knives can be cleaned In half th usual
time If the knlf aboard I thoroughly
warmed In front of the tire before being;
stains, no matter how hard and
dry, can be takon out of woolen clothing
with equal part of turpentine and am
monia. To render garments nontnflammable,
rlns them in alum water. It is 'a good
plan to do thl with ail the children's
clothes.
Clean mirror with ammonia water: da
not let the direct ray of the sun fall on,
mirror if It oan be avoided, as they
affect the metallic coating on th glass. - -
Insects will never attack books which
are dusted occasionally with powdered
alum and whit pepper; three part of
alum to on of pepper make th right
formula.
If wine Is accidentally spilled on a
table cloth the stain thou Id be covered
thickly with salt. At th end of th
mal, when th cloth Is taken off, the
stained psrt shouM be soaked In boiling
wter. ,
When a kettle 1 "furred" Insld fill it
with water, add a good slsed lump of
borax, and let It boll well. Then pour
away the borax and water, and rinse
thoroughly with clean cold water. This
Cleans the kettle perfectly.
If a small brass-headed tack la driven
Into tach lower portion of the picture)
frames, it prevent th mark on th
walls that are so troublesome, as th
pictures ure held from th wall a fraction
of an Inch, thus allowing th air to circu
late behind them.
Intitead of peeling potatoes for steaming
or boiling, simply cut a narrow strip en
tirely round the center of each on. After
being cooked, drained and dried. In th
ordinary way, th potatoes slip aaally
from th skins when th opposite nda
ar pressed betweea tn thumb and fore
finger.