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THE IIHK: OMAHA, WE0NKS1UY, FEBRUARY Ifi, 19K.
The Girl
Who Works
By REV. W. I. DAVEXPORT.
Pastor Duryee Presbyterian
Brooklyn.
Church,
The fact that she muiit work It on of
the vukitMuM of our modern civilisa
tion. That the energy and health that
ought to be conserved against the day
of wifehood and motherhood ahould be
expended" in piling up profits for rich
corporation la a nodal dlaaater.
But aha la caught In the grind of greed.
Wants multiply. The cost of living In
creases. And until auch time as the
nape earner of the family can secure
enough for his toll to meet the demands
or rent, clothing, education and food the
girlhood of the country must be con
demned to hard labor.
And since she Is not responsible for a
ocial system which sentences her to
wo r. nn( nil m. nrni in aiminn orrin
.nrs In return. She may be only a cog
a vast machine, but she Is a living
toy.
She has a right to demand that the
conditions In which she works shall be
sanitary, hygienic and safe. Duties await
her that cannot be performed by a body
broken down or prematurely aacd. The
employer Is bound by all the dictates ot
decency and humanity to take every pre
caution which modem invention can af
ford against the danger of panic and
fire and vocational disease. And when,
through Ma indifference or carelessness,
icath cornea to those in his employ, he is
as guilty of murder as though he stood
them up In a row and had them shot.
Wholesale slaughter, legalised by care
less or criminal Inspection, Is no less
murder than assassination by the gun
man, Fhe hss a right to demand a living
wage. The argument that she hss no
family to support and no home to main
tain, and that, therefore, she ran afford
to do the same work as a man for less
money. Is a fallacy for which even avar
ice ought to bo ashamed.
We can never call ourselves a civilised
nation until in our economic life we cease
to base, the wage scale upon what one
cejr live on and decide it cy what the
ork Is really worth.
The day will come when every employe
will be paid definite portion of the
proftta cf his toll. The man who grows
rich upon an impoverished and debased
womanhood must sooner or later pay for
his blood-stained fortune.
But the girl who works must remem
ber that she owes her employer some
thing. Destiny lies largely, after all, in
her own hands. Common honesty In
common things Is the moat uncommon
thing in tha world.
The manufacturer has ft certain stand
ard to maintain and the employe who
helps to keep up that standard share
In th reputation of th man for whom
she works.
The gtrl who la lat to work or who
fritter away her time in Idleness I ft
surely robbing her employer a though
ah took material from hi factory or
office. . One ef th great Insurance com
panies ot New York maintained a rest
room for their female employe. Medi
cine and th care ot a professional nurse
vwere provided free.
But the privilege, wa so abused that
the corporation found It necessary re
cently to port notice that U person
using th room would have the time
spent there taken from thlr weekly
Wagea. No on who work can cheat
himself without cheating hi employer.
It 1 unfortunate that many girl who
work seem to think that their position
depend largely upon personal appear
ance. Thay bellsrr that all men ftr
naturally connoisseurs of femlnln
heautv and clothing. And to gratify th
. - k- man rivv wnom ut wfli
try ditw wjwiw - - -
Income Justify. Th average man of
buslnes is too much occupied with hi
own affair to notice th dress of hi
employes, utiles it be fantastic or
travagant
And the man who Is attracted chiefly
by the personal appearance of hi office
girl Is ft dangerou man to work for.
Hrrupulou cleanllneaa and modest neat
ness, combined with efficiency, count for
more than silk waist nd leborete coif
fures. It is vastly more Important for
the stenographer that her letter shall be
correctly spelled than tnat ber nose shall
be properly powdered.
The girl who works can do much to
create an atmosphere in the office or fao
otv Rha can accent her toll as dreary
drudgery or make it a pleaaant task. And
once she has set her standard, no one
can do o much to awaken and atlmulate
the chivalry of the men who labor with
her as herself.
The girl who works ought to be proud
of herself and we ought to be proud of
her, because out of her meager resources
she contributes something definite to the
welfare of the home and the community.
There are thousands of young women
supporting widowed mothers, educating
orphan sisters and living simply, purely
snd honestly, whose names must some
time be written high upon the scroll of
ines who nave won out in ine name
life.
Pin Money Frocks
Republished by Special Arrangement with Harper's Bazar.
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Evening
dress of
tulle, four
yards, $6;
six yards
lace, $18;
satin in
all, $12.
The coat for afternoon and evening
wear must be considered as carefully in
spring and summer as In winter, ssys
Harper Baaar. A quaintly fashioned
coat of taffta ha been een cnarm-
Ingly developed In changeable silk of dull
Colors. Belnglnr single-breasted. It look
especially well when . left open. The
plaited niching of the silk. If pinked
rather than hemstitched, will be all
quainter.
-nrh.n' the short aklrt. with Its long
train, first appeared In the fashion pages,
it waa voted Interesting, but not exactly
wearable. Then It appeared on the stage,
and now we find It both interesting ftnd
Ij You Are Well-Bred
Tou will be kind.
You wilt not use slsng.
Vou will try to make other happy.
You will never Indulge In l.l-natured
gossip.
Tou will never forget th reapect duj to
age.
You will not swagger and boast of your
achievements.
You will not measure your civility by
peoples bank accounts.
You will be scrupulous in your regard
for the tight ef other.
You will not forget engagements, prom
ises or obligations of any kind.
Tou will never make fun of the pecu
liarities of Idiosyncrasies of others.
Tou will be as agreeable to your aor-lal
inferiors as to your equals and superiors.
Too will not have two sets of manners,
one for "company and on for home use.
To-i will never under any cJrcum-
ncea cauae another pain if you can
nelp it.
You will not think that "good inten
tions" compensate for rude or gruff
"isnners.
You will never remind a cripple of his
deformity or probe th sore spots of
enaitlte soul
wearable. It I perfectly possible for the
dsnce frock a toe over the arm and th
dancer is free.
This extra trftln hs many possibilities.
Attached to ft whit lac gown. It give
th color not every costume hould have;
again, It may tone down th gown of
brilliant color.
A costume ha been developed In cream
tulle and lac over ft slip of flssh
colored satin. The train, rippling down
from ft big bow, I of turquoise blue aetln.
lined with mauve satin. Remanents of
velvet or brocade are now appearing as
Just auch trains, and sales of short
length are anxiously awaited by the
E veiling coat,
Victorian styl e,
in ehanegable taf
feta, 10 yards,
cost $15. Pleating
oopts $3.
gtrl whose allowance Is always exceeded
by her desire
Fluted brstd, on of the new notes In
trimmings, I used as a finish for many
skirts and bodloea. Th best width 1
about one and one-half Inches. Fluting
change th "weavo of the braid, making
It Impossible to trim the dress with n Tat
braid of the same color. Then, too. braids
are extremely difficult to match up, but
white may be purchased and dyed to
match the material before the fluting la
done. It I worth noting that for short,
full skirts straight line ftr chosen nine
time out of ten.
Pneumonia and the Grip
Earning Her
Own Living
T Tut want to wait ftnd ee," ald the
young girl, "how my friends are going
to treat me, now that I am earning my
Uvlng."
The poor girl had not passed as yet the
first stare of her experiences, but was
standing at th entrance to th castl of
Independence, wondering "what peopie
would say."
It 1 ft good thing to ear tor what peo
ple say, for the verdict of th people Is
worth while, but who are the people?
Not the little narrow ct In which a girl
may hav been placed by With, if she has
outgrown them. The world Is growing
very fast, and every year more and more
girl are bursting through, getting out
of the houses of bondage In which tradi
tion ha kept them and their mothers.
Imagine ft twentieth century girl being
treated brutally by a swine of a man,
who had deliberately made himself such
by catering to hU vulgar appetite. No
elf-respectlng girl In the twentieth cen
tury I going to sit down nd endure
wi ll the door Is open and she may go
forth and b free to do a she pleases.
It hurts sometimes to think of the thous
ands of women who have suffered from
domestic cruelty In the days gone by.
The women to whom ths drunken hus
band did not give the courtesy he would
glv the most ordinary woman outsld
ths house In which his wlf waa a ire
vocably moored as barnacle on ft log.
But this Is a long way from the girl,
who. In starting out to make her own
living, wonders what people will say.
Th does care what the people of her own
set will say, but she has begun to grow,
and after a while her first thought will
be whether she Is satisfying her own.
Ideals or not. There are fundamental
principles to which she must, first of all.
be true; ethical problems to be worked
out, moral standards to be maintained,
the opinion of "the pcop'i" to be welghel
in the balance with lier own conviction.
Then she can bravely face the situation
with her own Idial to work forward to.
a bigger, belter, broader exception of
tt.'e than the people, whom shs fears,
tave tver breamed of. -St. Louis Qlobe-I:mocrt.
Do You Know That-
vr.ri na wound In ten Is the result
of ft direct hit nowaday. Most ot our
casualties are from spent fthota, snrapnei
bullet and spllnUr.
One of the mountains In Ceylon ha ft
remarkable shadow. Instead of lying on
the ground, it appear to rise up Ilk
a veil In front of th observer. Thl I
due to mist.
Oreat Tom, th cblef bell of St. Paul'
cathedral. I only tolled on th death and
funeral of any of royal family, of the
bishop of London, the dean of St. Paul',
or tha lord mayor.
Household Hints
To keep the polish on brass, after
pollahlng In the usual way, coat with
clear varnish.
When storing blanket, wrap them In
plenty of newspaper and lay slice of
yellow In the folds.
To polish furniture, us a piece of vel
veteen Instead of chamois Isather, the
former being much cheaper than the
chamois and acting quite as well.
To dean broni. make the article vary
hot by placing It In boiling water, then
rub It well with a piece of flannel dipped
In aoapaud. and dry with ft chamois
leather.
In-Shoots
The average drunkard generally mourns
over the fact that the other bum Is such
a bard drinker.
There Is something wrong with the
woman who cannot be touched by poetry
in the aliaie of an up-to-date gown..
It Is evident that the recording angel
Is going to lose a lot of liter If hs keeps
track of some follows we know.
An Impressive Illustration of th cour
sgs of one's conviction is given by the
bow-leggrd girl in a short dress
The man who pers'sts In taping In
the middle of fie .i is 'iiMe 11 et a
bump on earn Mj In the coursu of M.
Joirm .
PewS5eiJffSJS
ASCC YOjUR G!RCER-
Everybody should eat more nourishing food in
winter. It's the only way to keep the body warm
FV an4 kUiv Mata or rfenerallv linnn.cr1 in hfk
winter foods, but dietitians have proven that
Faust Spaghetti is four times as nutritious as meatl
And a piping hot dish of Faust Spaghetti makes
the best winter food you can buy.
It does not tax the delicate stomachs of growing
children, but it strengthens them and builds the
foundation for long, happy lives. It is so tasty
and good that old folks and little folks like to
have it two or threa nights a week.
Ha your hom any rsfular Faust Spaghetti nights T Fut id
two night a week for Faust Spaghetti and you'll b urpriaed
at tha increased health and economy, and tha delicious appe
tising: dishe our free recipe book will teach you to prepare.
MAULL BROS.. St. Louis. U. S. A.
SBBOTk.
By WOODS HL'TCIIINaOtt, M. D.
The thing we dread most about th
grip Is it after effects. Partly In ,ths
sense of the deadly depression and weak
ness, th feeling of utter good-for-noth-Ingncss
without reasonable cause, which
clings to us for weeks and months after
w have recovered from th acute at
tack. Tartly, and more apprehensively, we
dread It "running Into" pneumonia or
being followed during convalescence by
sn attack of this or some other sever
lung trouble. While this latter danger
la a reel one, It la verv essk to exag
gerate It; Indeed, though figures cannot
lis, they msy readily give a false Im
rresslon to those who do not check them
up by proper comparison.
For Instance, while It sounds almost
alarming to read that there were S;k
deaths In one week from pneumonia,
bronchitis and the grip In New York
City alone, when we remember that thore
were ! deaths from the same causes
n the corresponding week of last year,
It loses something of It terrors.
New York Is a large city, and pneu
monia, now the commonest of all
csuses of death, claiming more victims
than tuberculosis, and ISO or even 300
"iirplua deaths In one week spread ox-er
a poptilstion of J.frin.ftV), peters out pretty
thin when you endeavor to bring It uown
to the actual smount It sdds to your per
sonal risk of dying from pneumonia 'ust
hecaiis you happen to have the grip.
Kven the highest week's death rate yet
recorded 2 deaths means less thsn
one desth In every 100.flfX Inhabitants of
the metropolis, so thst your actual per
sonal chances of being killed by pneu
monia following the grip, this week or
next, are about aa great ss those of
being struck by lightning In a heavy
thunderstorm.
To put it In a little different way. the
average "healthy" death rate from pneu
monia in New Tork City Is about lt.000
deaths a year, and as the overwhelming
majority of these deaths fsll In the win
ter months, from November to April, we
should hnve had. on the law ef averages,
from 100,000 to tfio.ooo desths a week dur
ing the test five weeks If we had no
srlp at all. So that all the grip, with
Its terrific onslaughts, has done Is to In,
crease our natural death rate In Decem
ber and January about M per cent.
But even thl Increase I not quit aa
bad as It seene on account ef another
I ractlcal consideration which la often
overlooked.
That la whst the desth rate from pneu
monia actually means from a broad so
rial point of view. In the current phrast.
of the day, rtieumonla "meana nothing
In our yout life," but mean a great
deal In our old and middle-aged life.
Pneumonia I cn of the greatest an)
most potent shufflers-off of this mortal
coll tor th-xe who have passed three
store year sn.. ten.
It Is the real shears of Atropos that
cut th thtoad of falling life. It welW
tilsh attains tbe dignity of one of the
ri-cai proceatrs of nature, and like must
of these, la so swift, so painless, so mer
cifully shrouded in th Nlrvsna of un
consciousness and non-re0fcnltlon, thHt
most deaths caused t It In the aged ar
Hit do w.i to old site -s leer Inability to
llv any longer.
In fa.t we know that two-third of th
desths called "old age" t.i th tlojth
certificate, are really due to pneummla
of th a red.
I There Is no cough, no pain, little or no
fever Just a gentle, r regressive collapse
of all the vital forces, and so mercifully
swift that all la usually over within two
or three days. Indeed, the dlsesse Is
often not recognised ss pneumonia at
alt, unless the back uf the chest hss
ben very carefully gone over with ths
stethoscope, ss a matter of routine, or
for some reason a postmortem Is held.
rneumonla hss been termed by a great
physlcisn-phllosopher "the friend of the
sged," peacefully and unrecognised
does It waft them across the bar snd
give them their honorable discharge from
the battle of lfe.
Applying this to the high death rate
of on week we find at once exactly
what we should have expected, via., that
of the l.TliO odd dratha during the week,
near 4.10 were persons M year of age
and over. In other words, the Increase
of the death rate among the old waa
more than double that In the ether ages
of life, and a very considerable share of
the US "extra" deaths from pneumonia
during th week occurred among persons
over MX
In faoi oudly enough there were ex
actly U mora deaths among people over
to In that week than In tha correspond
ing week of lest year, although, of
course, many ef these extra deaths In
th elderly were du to other reuses
than pneumonia. The moral of all which
Is, that If you ar under 80 and In fairly
good condition, and behaving yourself
"having conduct," ss th Irish say you
need not b vsry vividly alarmed over
th risk of dying from pneumonia after
th grip.
Little Bobbie's Pa
By WILMtM r. KIRK.
When Ma calm hoam last nlte she had
on a new sute with quite short skirt and
high shoes.
Hnw do you like my new aute, deerest
luvT shs asked Fa. .
Fine, ed Ta, ware is yur to-bogan?
Have you been coasting?
No, sed Ma. this Is the latest style
senslhel gsrb for wlmmen.
It Is senslbel enuff, sed Ps, but shud
think It wud malk you feel kind of em
barrassed like when you go past a groop
of gents.
Oh, no, sed Me, not at all. Gents
doant bother me none, they better, not,
sed Ma.
Well, sed Pa, personally I wuddent'
mind paying a few moar dollars for a
extra yard of skirt goods. It seem to me
you mite economise sura other way. Tou
old gals malk m kind of tired, trying
to b little maids from the pemlnaryi
Every time I see an old gal who I neerer
th cemetery than the semlnery I wish
she wud dress moar according to her agei
Close doant malk the broiler. Pa sed. ,
How much did them high shoe cost?
Only twelve dollars, sed Me, marked
down from thirteen. I got them at a sale.
I am always thinking of you, deerest. A
trying to be a earring little wife.
Well, sed Pa, the next time yen feel .
Ilk aalvlng doant talk any moar off the
skirt, plecse. I alnt that neer broak.
The Ma beegsn to sniff .In her hsnd
kerctv'f. Tou doan't Ilk yur little wlf
and longer, she sed.
Yea J do, sed Pa, but I wud like her
Uttel eklrts longer, too. "
If I wss sum how guri you wud think
I looked stunning, d Ma.
I wuddent want you to be much moar
of a show gurt thn you era .rite now.
sed Pa. Nvver- mind,' dear, wen -th
warm wether cum th style mil Chang
aggen th aklrt will be nice it warm.
Th dress malkera will tatk care of that.
By the- way,- eed Pa,- how do you like
mr new PennyT
It la a butlful ovaroote. sed Me, how
much did you pey for It?
I got It at a sale, sed Pa. only forty
dollars. I think it tnalka m took kind of
distinguished, dont you? "
Yes Indeed, sed Ma. I wish you ud
ware It all the time. In hotel resterants
everywhere. I like It see the wlmmen
edmlre my husband.
Do you honest, sed Ta. I ttaot It mite
malk you Jellus.
It mlt. sed Ma. If I ewer happened
to see one admiring -you.
Then Pa looked kind ef pussled but
he dldent say any moar about Ma's new
Short aklrt.
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The Value of Sanatogen to the Man who Worhs His Drain
"Without albumen, no life: without
phosphorui, no thought" o rum a fa
mous saying.
True, tha healthy body rets enough albumen
and phosphorus from ths daily food, but an over
taxed brain and nervous system will run short of
these vital ubstancea hecaus tha demand outruns
tha normal supply. Then wt hav fatigus, de
pressionand won, if nothing b don.
It it tktn that s!atogen is of splendid aid. Com
bining purest glbumca and Off anie Phosphorus in
chemical union, Sanatogen take to th fundsmen
til sourcts of nst-
manta ndd. It
aupplie the element quickly and without strain
upon digestion, giving tha depleted cells real nutri
ment, real sutteninc and no falsa stimulation,
Tha result of this is well epitomised by Sir
Gilbert Parker when ba writes, ' Ssnstogen to my
mind ia a true food-tonic, giving frnh vigor to
the overworked body and mind." And by Arnold -Bennett,
who tersely reports, "Tha effect of
Sanatogen upon tha bitrvous system la simply
wonderful." .letwwir- ...
' It is good to remember that tha .medical, prole .
sion ha set th seal of approval upon th value of
Sanatogen do less than 21,000 doctors have wriu
' ten letter endorsing its value. -
Should not tha knowledge of these fact create
tha conviction that Snmttin will b hilp ftut
0ftntoi la old br sood ditisfl)
nrywhsf. In is from S)1jOO up
9twm4 Frit, Xalsmaftono Oowi s.i aj Uc4lci, London If II
for Elbert Hubbard's Book "Health in th Making." Written in his attractive manner and filled with
his shrewd philosophy, together with capital advice on Ssnstogen, health and contentment, it la r Ktt. lesr this
off as a reminder to address THE BAOER CHEMICAL COMPANY, I7-J Irving Place, New York City.
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TJ have a right to secure all the trade
II 'hey can In legitimate ways. The
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the men Hnd women who buy your kind of"
good.
How voul.l you like to get a permanent
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If your competitors are doing more buai
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tradeand a more rapid "turn-over" on their
Roods It Is wise to find out how they do It,
but In the long run It ia you and tbe public
that mutt get together.
If you can induce the customers to come
to your store and buy your gooda you will
not have to worry about your competitor
let them do tbe worrying. Your problem la
simply and solely to make the people under
stand that your store stands for certain
superior qualities In gooda and aerrlca.
If you sell gooda that abould be used In
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