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Here is the latest and most improved gas range elevated oven and boiler, with oven below, giving two ovens. By the use of the elevated
oven one may bake and broil with the same flame. With the body of the stove up from the floor a point of convenience that will be
appreciated by all neat housewives allows the floor underneath to be easily swept. : : ; : : : : :
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Cheapest Fuel
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Always-Ready
Fuel Clean,
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A Gas Range saxes Money, Time, Health
It is a wonderful convenience that every housewife should have. From the standpoint of economy they are valuable saving money as well
as labor. We connect free every gas range we sell. The- range -shown in the cut comes in different sizes, the prices running from $18 up.
We sell them on time payments, and will be pleased to give you a practical demonstration of these gas ranges. Open evenings. : : ' : :
1320 0 Street,
Lincoln, NebrasKa
Why Don't
Women Strike?
These are the days of the improved machine and the broken down
voman. We see the spectacle of the farmer riding a sulky plow un
der a big red umbrella and his wife pulling on seventy feet of heavy
rope to get a bucket of water out of the well. In the business offices
down town we see men wearily at work reading the morning papers
while electric fans cool their fevered and perspiring brows while in
the kitchen at home nervous housewives stand over red-hot ranges
find boil and bake and stew and fry and roast.
In the print shop down town the printer throws on an electric
switch and the job press runs of itself, the man having only to stand
erect and gaily shove the blank sheets upon the tympanum but out
at the house the wife bends wearily over the washtub. bowing her
back 120 times a minute as she rubs the soiled linen over the old
fashioned washboard.
Why'n thunder don't the women organize a labor union and go on
strike for labor saving machinery?
A strike of the United Housewives Union of Lincoln wouldn't last
more than twenty-four hours. Indeed not, for the men would be
starved into submission before the strikers could get their hair crimp
ed preparatory' to a meeting to discuss the situation and lay plans for
picketing the kitchens.
While the men have, by organization and co-operation, secured a
reduction in the working day from twelve hours to eight and nine
hours, have secured improved sanitary conditions under which to
work, have secured improved labor saving devices and materially
benefited themselves in divers and sundry ways while the working
men have done all these things their wives are compelled to labor th
same old twelve and thirteen hours a day without improved machin
ery and in kitchens so hot and stuffy that any self-respecting union
man would absolutely and unqualifiedly refuse to work therein.
Imagine, if you can, a union printer, or a union cigariiiaker. or a un
ion Tcathcrworkcr, or a union electrical workers, or a union barber
or practically any other skilled tradesman who would work in a
room 10x12 feet in size with a big steel range going full tilt and the
r-un outside keeping things up to 100 in the shade. He'd see his em
ployer in Ballyhack before he'd do it. Hut there's a whole lot of them
who never give a thought to their wives at home who are doing that
sort of thing every day in the year, beginning at 0 o'clock in the
morning and keeping it up until 7:30 in the evening.
But the union man who wouldn't do it himself seems perfectly
willing that his wife should. One reason is that he doesn't think.
Another reason is that his wife doesn't complain. The union man
would give a kick that would make Si's mule Maud look like six lead
nickles if his employer asked him to work thirteen hours a day within
a foot or a foot-and-a-half of a redhot steel range when the ther
mometer registered 102 in the shade on the front porch. And the
hick would be effective, too, and don't you forget it!
Mow, why'n the name of commonsense and self protection don't
the women organize and make a kick?
Down town the dentist throws on a switch and electricity turns
the cruel little dingbat that tunnels into your aching molar and
makes your head feel like the quintessence of double distilled agony.
But out at that same dentist's home his wife is running her sewing
machine with her tired feet, and her aching back is bent over the
machine until she comes to believe that her spine is an invention of
Satan for the sole purpose of making women miserable. The dentist
would "holler his head off" if he had to run the dingbat with his
foot while electricity was running around loose, but he never gives
a thought to the wife at home who is running up the long seams by
footpowcr.
When the man in the store or office down town wants a book or
a paper or a sample, it's "Here, Johnny, get me this or that," and
Johnny, the officeboy, hikes off and gets it. BBut out at that same
man's house more than likely the wife is trotting to the garbage box
with a scuttleful of ashes, or trotting from the coal house with a
scuttleful of coal, or out in the coal shed splitting kindling with a
hatchet whose edge is as blunt as the conscience of a Parryite.
And while this sort of thing has been going on for years, from
good to better for the men and from bad to no better for the wo
men the women, God bless 'em, haven't made any vigorous protest
Is it not about time that the dear creatures grasp the bovine by the
horns, so to speak, and make an organized demand for shorter hours,
better work conditions and more convenience in the way of labor
saving machinery?
"We really can't afford it," growls the head of the family, lighting
his 10-cent cigar and preparing to take the car to get to his office
seven blocks away. "No; my mother cooked over an old fashioned
'charter oak cook stove and never made any complaints, and my
mother was a fine cook ; none better. We can't afford one of those
new-fangled gas ranges. They cost too much money to run, for the
blamed robber gas company soaks it to us right and left."
And the wife, after humbly asking for a little kitchen convenience
quietly subsides, and the head of the house goes down town and buys
every blamed thing in sight calculated to make his work easier. The
wife can slave away in the stuffy kitchen over a redhot coal fire: but
down in the office her husband tilts back in a swivel .chair and lets
the Klondike breezes from an electric fan cool his perspiring brow
Wouldn't that jar you? Your true blue union man would go on a sym
pathetic strike to assist a fellow unionist in securing better condi
tions, but many of them O, so many never give a thought to the
partner of their joys and sorrows, especially sorrows, toiling away
without modern conveniences and in the midst of surroundings that
would make a business agent call a strike.
Why' don't the women strike?
Why don't the wife who slaves away over a redhot coal range get
a few facts and figures to present to her husband. Let her show that
the 10 cents a day he spends for tobacco would pay for running a gas
range and relieve her of one-half of her kitchen work, to say nothing
of adding a thousand per cent to her comfort and convenience. Let
her show by the records that it costs less to operate a gas range
than it does to run a coal range to say nothing of the saving in
the labor. With a gas range the wife has no coal to carry, no ashes
to dump, no litter to sweep up, no soot marks to wash off, no kind
ling to rustle and split. Scratch a match and the cooking begins.
No long waits for the stove to get hot enough to boil the water.
When the cooking is done,, turn a valve and the expense stops.
Ihere have been thousands ot strikes called by labor unions
Hold About Your Jeiv Suit and Overcoat? s
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Correct Styles and the Newest at Armstrongs
all the way up and down the price scalethe fashionable greys in Men's Suits,
the modish tans arid browns in Top Coats"the swellest effects in lltzincoats and
Paletots, and all the little niceties that stamp the wearer as strictly uptodate.
IV hat do you want most in your
swell new Overgarments for
Spring ?
Is it
Fine woolens, the best of their kind, tested for quality, strength
and permanence of color?
The most fashionable weaves in the latest and most elegant
shades?
The indelible stamp of style in length and slope of shoulder
and general "hang" of the garment?
Hand work around the collar, on the lapel, about the shoulder
and wherever the deft tailoring touch counts?
Quality that conforms to the custom make standard of ex
cellence? J Vour money's worth and a few dollars as compared with the
prevailing prices?
Jill these you get here in the Top Coat,
Raincoat, Overcoat and Paletots
with a price ranging from $6.50 to
$30, to meet the limit of every pock'
etbook.
tj. dtJT Men's Top Coats, Hain
fit ) coats and Knee Length
Spring Overcoats.
Over sixty styles new and complete are placed on sale today.
Not a garment offered worth less than $18, some worth $20.
What is your idea of a Business
or Dress Suit for Spring?
Is it
The cut that bears the stamp. of correct style? !!38CllSI1r
The fashionable shape in the newest effects? ""r! ft
A cloth that will stand strenuous tests and hold Its color
against all contingencies and weather conditions?
Hand tailoring at every point where the skill of the expert is
needed to impart the fashion plate effect?
The capacity to hold its shape or return to gracefulness under
skilful pressing?.
An honest Suit that does not call for the last dollar In your
pocket? ........
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Jill these essential points are ably met
in our splendid line of Men's Suits
for Spring and Summer the most
fashionable clothes in Lincoln the
Suits you want most now Prices,
$6.50 to $25.00.
At $15
MEM'S SWELLEST
SPHJNG SUITS
Over 500 new Suits just received and placed on sale at $15.
They are the new greys in single and double breasted style.
Suits that command $18 and $20 everywhere.
Armstrong Clothimg Company
GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS
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for far less substantial reasons than a thousand Lincoln housewives
have for striking. The man who don't buy his wife a gas range
when the gas is at his door and there is no cost for connecting up,
deserves to find his wife on strike when he comes- home in the
evening. More than that, he deserves to be boycotted iby the
Amalgamated Order of Good Fellows who have enough regard for
their wives to give them the advantage of all the labor saving and
health saving and energy saving conveniences that they demand for
themselves.
If the housewives of Lincoln who are toiling and sweating over
coal ranges through the long summer when gas for fuel is to be had,
will organize and strike for their rights, The Wageworker will back
them up in their fight until the last canine is suspended and the k'ine
return lowing to their domicile.
Let the Housewives' Union of Lincoln inscribe upon its banners,
"We Demand Justice and Gas Stoves." Let it go forth jfanoplied
in the robes of right and conscious of the justice of its cause, and the
mere men will capitulate without resistance.
What about gas for fuel ? Cheapest fuel known to man. You can
do the cooking, washing and ironing for a family of five for $3 a
month or less and there's no coal to carry, no kindling to split, no
litter to clean up. No weary waiting for the stove to warm up
and make the kitchen a furnace. The minute yoa touch a match to
the gas you have the hottest flame imaginable - When the cooking
is done the heat is turned off and the kitchm is as cool as the
parlor.
It's all so nice, so hand', so convenient, so co nfortable, that the
wonder is that any wife in Lincoln would consent to be without a
gas range. V
If you don't believe what we say about gas, as your neighbor
who uses it. We know a man who wouldn't dare t Wen hint at cut
ting out the gas range. And he wouldn't do it an how. It's too
cheap and too handy and too easy for the little wom?.n.
The gas company people can tell you all about g?"3 ranges and
sell you one cheap. Better see the man. ,
THAT UNION BAND.
Several Old Bandsmen Agree to Take
Hold and Push It.
The Wageworker has heard from
I several old time bandsmen who are
anxious to take hold and push a union
band proposition. . There are others
who should get to the : front and make
themselves known. There is enough
musical talent in the 'union organiza
tions of this city to mjake a band that
would be second to none in this sec
tion of the great west.
When a few more have signified
their willingness to help the project
along The' Wageworker will arrange,
for a meeting to discuss the matter.
In the meantime let every union man
who has ever played in a brass band
drop The Wageworker a card, giving
his name and address and stating the
instrument he plays on.
CAPITAL AUXILIARY.
News Notes from the Printers' Very
Best Friends.
Capital Auxiliary will give a social
May 17th (Wednesday) at Bohanan's
hall, to which it is hoped all members,
their husbands and friends will attend.
Let each member do all they can
toward making this as good as our
April social. There is plenty of room
for a still larger crowd.
Our next meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. Freeman, 1200 D street.
A delegate to the national convention
will be elected at this meeting, so
every member should be present.
The writer would like to ask how
many auxiliary ladies have patronized
the milliner who advertiss in The
Wageworkr? We have (and told her
why) and got as good satisfaction as
we ever did elsewhere. If you have
not purchased your summer hat, see
her before buying and thus help our
paper, The Wageworker.
A MEMBER.
To Be Sure
When Mr. Gompers challenged Mr.
Parry to meet him in a Labor Day de
bate on the "Open Shop" question, Mr.
Parry declined, saying, "I do not wish
to make an attraction of myself at a
picnic."
No doubt the "attraction" he re
ferred to was the "holy show" that
he would have made of himself had
he accepted the challenge. Painters'
Journal.
To the WorkingmenI
...We handle...
..UNION MADE GOODS.,
and am a working-man myself.
Allen's Kushion Komf ort
Shoe Parlors.
133 NORTH I4TH STREET.
.RAG AN 'S
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1228 O STREET
HANDLES EVERYTHING IN
SEASON
MODERATE PRICES. FIRST
CLASS SERVICE
MEALS, I5cts AND UP
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CHRISTMAS? PHOTOS
STUCKEY'S
1-430 O.
Confectionery
' Ice Cream,
Dr.ciirrord r. Tern
DENTIST
Office Over Sidles Bicycle Store
Pattern and Street Hats
t am regularly receiving and showing
Street and Pattern Hats
ever brought to the city. Never before
have I been able to offer such gen
uine bargains in the Millinery
line. It will give me pleas
ure to show you my goods.
SADIE PUCKETT
