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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1902)
AUTHORS AND THEIR CLOTHES Eocentrio Costumes Adopted by Writer! k When Working Gray Matter. tOGA CALCULATED TO INSPIRE IDEAS Raalnt Peeallarltles Mark the Mftk ods of Literary Faiorltes a Wtll lompoirri, Painters ad Sculptors. Many writer, composers, painters and Irulptors have believed that tfaelr flood of Ideas was helped by the adoption of some peculiar style of dress. Dumas, for ex ample, ueed to take off his coat and vest. Unfasten his shirt collar and turn up his Bleeres to the elbows before beginning to write. rrobably he would have preferred to dispense with clothing altogether If he could have had his way. Buffon, on the other hand, when writing his "Natural History," attired himself In full court dress, ruffles, frills and all, fitly to sustain the dignity of the subject. Beranger used to get himself up to look tike an old concierge, and he always wore t red rose In bis buttonhole in order to draw attention to the fact of his not being decorated. It Is said of Scribe that he failed to grasp bis subject unless he were Cully dressed and spick and span. Lamartlne, with curious perversity, pre terred to be known as a polltclan, architect or financial authority, rather than as a poet, and he used to drees. In accordance With these aspirations. In a tightly but toned frock coat. Victor Hugo, who was always bent on calling attention to his genius, startled the world at one time by taking as bis model the figure of the "Creator" in Michael Angelo's frescoes. A fancy costume of black velvet was al ways donned by Wagner when he was com posing, and a kind of Tam O'Shanter cap. A algnet ring presented to him by Freder ick of Prussia was worn by Haydn while he was working, and Beethoven would wash his handa dozens of times before beginning lila composition. Iirdon'i Worklnr Toasw Vtctorlen Sardou composed "La Tosca" as well as most of his other works, "clothed la a little gray Jacket, tight trousers and Scotch cap," seated close beside a biasing Are, being the most chilly of mortals, fires. Summer aa well aa winter were always In . evidence. Masragnl, while working on his ' Japan eee opera, arrayed himself in a flow ing robe, of eastern style, with all h a 'durroundlngs Oriental in character, oceans of coffee being consumed as necessary to Inspiration. Clmarosa, the celebrated Italian com poser, turns out his very best work when be la surrounded by a bevy of children making day hideous by their noise and clat ter. Mendes Is the most absent minded of mortals and often has three or four cigars alight at the same time, while composing, through excessive absent mtndedness. Borne odd trlrks are also credited to Dr. Conan Doyle, who is another absent minded mortal. Red was a color detested by "Lewis Car roll," and a little girl who came to visit him was absolutely forbidden to wear a red frock of bright hue, while out In his company. Pink and gray were bla favorite combinations of color. In personal matters, be had a great fear of extravagance and would only wear cotton gloves. He never wore an overcoat and always wore a tall bat, whatever might be the climatic con ditions. He was devoted to the cup which Sheers, but not inebriates and while writing "Alice In Wonderland" he consumed tea enough to float the English navy. While composing he used to walk up and down the room swinging the teapot back and forth, while the tea ateeped. , Inspiration for Omar, Edward Fits Gerald, of Omar Khayyam fame, when he wrote always sat In a hlarh backed, low-seated, red-covered arm chair, often in dressing gown and slippers, and In variably kept his hat on, which. Indeed, he seemed never to remove except when he wanted a red handkerchief from the In terior. In texture his clothes are described as resembling that worn by pilots; hla trousers were short, and he always wore low shoes and gray stockings. He generally wore a stand-up collar, with a black silk acarf carelessly tied In a bow, and his White shirt front was unstarched, and did not suggest recent acquaintance with the Ironing board. In cold weather he wore a large, gray plaid shawl around his neck and shoulders. He was a smoker, but the same pipe was never used twice, as ha always broke It after the tobacco was con sumed. While writing or dictating his stories. Thackeray used to walk up and down in his bedroom, pause at one end, pace back once more and then stop at the foot of the bed. where he would stand for some moments, rolling his hands over the brass ball on ths end of the bedstead. He usually dictated hla stories his daughter being his amen uensia but when be came to a critical point, he would send his secretary away, and write for himself, saying that he could think best with a pen In hla band. "A pen to tba author Is like the wand of the necro mancer. It compels the spell." Washington Irving was equal to the (even sleepers alwaya being able to fall asleep TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE; SUNDAY, APKIL 0, 1002. 15 h SICEl UVCP Can work havoc with human happiness. Jt can change the cheerful philanthropist into a morose misanthrope and the opti mist into a pronounced pessimist. The liver has a great deal to do with the removal of the waste of the asdy. When it is sluggish in its action the whole body must surfer ky reason of clogging accumu lations. The excretoty or gans in gensrsl promptly respond to the action of r. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It restores the liver to healthy activity, purines the blood, and cures diseaaea of the organs of di gestion and nutri tion. Mr. Edward Jacobs, of Marengo, Crawford Co., IadUoa, writes i After three year of suHrrtng with liter trouble and malaria I gave up all hopes of ew geutag stoat satin, and the Uat chance was to try your bad tried all the borne doctor hut tittle relief. After taking three riercc iKMtiea Meaical uucorety ma rinuni reucu, j am stout ,i due eutirely to your woadcrhU tive for substitution is to er to make the little more ie sale of leaa meritorious gains: you lose. There- substitute tor "Golden nr." aaant Pellets sasut the Jiacoverv " The v ant V with the weakest do not beget the ptfl The Pope's Testament Reviewed by the New York Independent mm m If s m s 1 1 V 1 1 It Is no wonder that at his ago and with hla weakness Tope Leo should believe that this his Easter encyclical Is his lsst anl that he ehould make it his testament to the Catholic church. Nor is It strange that he should feel the burden of the misfortunes that oppress his church. He regards them aa persecutions. It will take more than one or two papal reigns to teach the leeeon that the tem poral rule of Rome must belong to the Italian nation and not to the Roman church. After another pope or two there will be peace between the qulrinal and tha Vatican and that by the submission of the Vatican to the loss of its temporal power, but it Is too soon now. France Is not yet reconciled to the loss of Alsace and Lor raine, but It Is getting reconciled; and the Vatican will. In time, get reconciled; and will feel the better and work the better and be In a more logical position, not to say more Christian. The pope may well lament the evils that afflict the church. It would seem as if every Cstholic government on the earth was hostile snd every Protestant govern ment waa friendly. That Is because In Protestant countries the Catholic church' la not established; It is free. But in Cath olic countries there Is constant friction be tween church and state. It Is so In Italy, In France, In Spain, In Portugal and In the Latin American states. Socialism is grow ing snd socialism is opposed to establish ments snd so to the Catholic church as a part of the machinery of the state. So the pope finds socialism a great danger, lead ing to anarchism. In view of this great evil which he sees and doubtless exaggerates, the growth of socialism, developing, he thinks. Into an archy and atheism, the pope utters the most remarkable portion of his testament. It Is an utterance to which we would give full attention and all possible respect. He Invokes the union of Christian bodies as the leading remedy to save society from the violent attacks of anarchism and atheism. We regret that we have not yet the full text of this portion of his encyclical, but If the cable dispatches fairly express Its language, holds out a help ing hand, and asks a helping hand from those Christian bodies which are not in communion with the Roman church, with those who are often called courteously, "our separated brethren." For brethren. In a sense, the Roman church holds the rest of us Christians to be. We have been baptized, and there fore Christians. Yet It Is a remarkable thing that there should be this recognition of Protesant and Greek Christians for we suppose this Is what his language allows as allies, not foes. It Is no bad service that the general enemy, the atheists, have done, if they force the mutual kindly recognition of Christian bodies so widely separated, and which have refused, and still refuse too often, to acknowledge each other as churches, however, they may admit that those outside their pale are, or may be perhaps, Christians. It Is not five years sgo that the pope solemnly pronounced that the orders of the Anglican church are not valid, and that It is therefore no true church. It was a decision sharply resented by those whom It unchurched and consigned to schism. We da not suppose there Is the slightest' hope that this decision will be reversed, or that any action or utterance will offer to rehabilitate Anglican Prot estants, Greeks or Armenians, on the ec clesiastical side; that Is not the way that harmonious relations begin. It Is as Christiana, not aa organized churches; that recognition must first be asked; and we may assume that In his encyclical the pope has summoned Christians and Chris tian organizations to united defense, with out committing himself to the recognition of any churches, as such, outside of the Roman communion. But of more importance to us Is our right attitude toward such an outstretched hand. How far can we make the Roman Catholic church our ally In the warfare agaiDst evil and unbelief? The general Protestant attitude has, un til late years, been one of positive hos tility. The bloody persecutions by one side or the other. In the days of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, have not been allowed to pass into oblivion. It Is only fifty years since a great political party whose platform was anti-Romanism swept half our states. The American Protective association has only within ten years ceased to be s power. But now there Is hardly a remnant of this bitterness in Protestant circles in the country; nothing like the bit terness that exists, for example, In France or Italy. The explanation is most creditable to the Catholic church. Apart from the very favorable conditions we mean the utter separation of church and state the chfet force which has led to the ' kindlier at titude of Protestants toward Catholics has been the close views of their good Chris tian character. The Catholics have been light in our families, maids and men. They have been faithful to their church while faithful to their work. It was easy to see that the Influence of their church upon them was wholly good. Their priests have been faithful and useful In their place, using more authority than we had been used to, but using it generally for good ends, for morality and religion. Their priests have had the respect of their neighbors, ministers of Protestant churches. They have been loyal citizens, and friends of temperance and all good order. And the aecond generation have made good Ameri can citizens. And we have seen very little of the su perstitions, the utter fetishism, which we know hss elsewhere been allowed in the Ignorant classes, and none of Immorality we have heard of. On the other hand, we have seemed to see a rivalry with our churches to surpass them in churchly service, and apparent desire to empha size those things that belong to the es sentials of Christianity, so that we have seen our best and most active Catholics, those of greatest Influence and highest character, charged by their foreign breth ren with "Americanism," as If they were becoming aeml-Protestantlzed. Indeed, while we have been growing kindlier to ward Catholics, and have been making more of the festivals of the Catholic church, it seems as if Catholics were be coming more like us In preaching and practice. Of course, then, the Presbyterian church is compelled to repeal the article of its confession of faith which declares that the pope of Rome Is anti-Christ. And Protestants hsve no right to deny that the Church of Rome is a true church, It worships the same one God as the rest of us and it holds to the same Savior. It declares that Its worship of the virgin and the saints Is of a different kind from Its worship of the Triune God. We see the danger of such worship, but we see that they make less of saints than they used to snd that they make more of the dis tinction. To our view it is very foolish to ask a saint to Intercede with God when we can go directly to Him, and there Is danger of Idolatry, but it is not unchristian any more than It Is for a Protestant inquirer to ask his living friends to pray for him. The doc trine of purgatory seems to us unscrlp tural, but It Is certainly not unchristian. Even we are beginning to think that we have taught more about the future world than we know. The practice of confession seems to us to be required when it should be only permitted, but It cannot be un christian, and it has its good side. The aupremacy of the pope seems to us a dan gerous doctrine, but one can certainly be a good Christian and be a pope or a be liever In popes. Our chief complaint of the Catholic church Is that it makes so much of rites and machinery that it Is lia ble to forget that God Is a spirit and that spiritual worship is what He wants. But somehow there is enough essential religion taught to bear up all the froth of form, and it is our duty to expect that what we call the excrescences of faith will be less snd less emphasized, that the useless or hurtful accretions will gradually fall oft by the process of desuetude. We must look always for the good snd not what we think the bad, and be more ready to praise than to blame. So we are grateful to the pope if he has asked our aid In the warfare against all vice and wrong. His purpose to bring peace to the world, to reduce armaments and war. Is ours slso. We would have Catholics snd Protestants brought into closer relations. It is a delight to us to see their crowded churches which are doing God'a work. If not quite In our way. The only Influence we can see that Is opposed to the Invitation of the pope for fellowship of kindly service is that which seeks to have the church meddle with the state in the public schools. He is a foe to the Cath olic church, a foe to Its peaceful and mighty growth, who. seeks to have the church teach Its religion In the public schools. The Catholic church Is now doing well un der a system which It approves and to attempt to change it would be like kicking a hornet's nest. Asphalt Trust Waterlogged What the In vestigation Revealed. The report of the Audit company of New York on the condition and earnings of the Anhslt company of America, which col- lapaed a few weeka ago, was presented to the Investigating committee appointed by . tuj holders at toe gold certificates of the company In Philadelphia last week. It was decidedly unfavorable, and came as a bombshell to the certificate holders. Some features of the report, culled from the Philadelphia Ledger, will interest people la the west. With authorized capitalization aggregat ing t58.0O0.000, with fixed charges of 12. 150,000 a year, the actual net earnings of the companies for the last two years have been less than $700,000, or an average of $350,000 a year. The condition Is in part explained by the ststement thst extraordi nary expenses have been met In Venezuela and that one of the underlying companies, the National Contracting company, has maed heavy losses, but even with the ex planation the report shows a condition of affairs that was unexpected except by very few persons. In a statement accompanying the audit report the Investigating committee says: "The committee has this day received s report from the Audit compsny of New York of the result of an examination of the account of the American Asphalt com pany and of the National Asphalt company for the years 1900 and 1901. "This report is very voluminous, cover ing the operstlons of some sixty out standing companies, which constitutes the basis for the consolidation of the entire asphalt business, under which all the present securities snd stocks were Issued. "Some of these compsnies msde Urge profits, others made large losses. "During this period the asphslt com pany was obliged to spend an unusual sum of money In defending Its property in Venesuela, and It slso suffered extraordi nary losses in the operation of certain subsidiary companies engaged in engineer ing, contracting and other work not con nected In any essential way with the busi ness of selling asphalt or of laying asphalt pavements. The results of the earnings of the combined companies for the two years, as will be shown by the figures given, are so entirely unsatisfactory and are so mesger in comparison with the basis of capitalization of the American and Na tional companies, that the committee will continue to press Its investigations, which Is mesnt to be thorough in all respects, as to the causes and reasons for such appar ent overcapitalization." The figures for the two yesrs, ss given In the committee's statement, are: "Net earnings for the year ending De cember 81, 1900, from sales of ssphalt snd ssphalt paving, only $186,340.35. "Net earnings for the year 1901, $908, 626.92. "From which should be deducted $400,000, representing the extraordinary expenses in Venezuela and also certain further large losses in the operation of the contracting companies In engineering work sbove re ferred to, leaving the actual net results for the year 1900 $326,748.82, snd for 1901 $371, 427.26." The ststement continues: "It should be noted that In arriving at this result a very ample allowance has been made for a maintenance fund, and also for depreciation charges, which the Audit com pany reports were not duly considered In the publio statements by ths company for ths year 1900." In conclusion the statement says: "The committee will continue, snd ss promptly ss possible complete its Investiga tion Into the promotion, organization and operation of these companies, snd will re port fully to the certificate holders the re sult of this work, ss slso Its recommenda tion concerning a plan of reorganization, which the committee la advised is now In process of formulation." "The discrepancy between the figures now made public and those first given out as the earnings for 1900," says the Ledger, "is so wide as to occasion much surprise thst the first figures should ever hsve been made public, snd slso conjecture as to how they could be arrived at. It waa atated yester day that In making up the figures for the first of the two years, the ssphalt officials failed to allow for a guarantee fund and for the extraordinary expenses named. "It was stated that the Audit company Is of the opinion that while the extraordinary expenditures in Venezuela, from the point of view of the earning capactty of the com panies, were not properly chargeable to the year 1901, in which they were incurred, still a certain proportion of these expenses should be deducted from the profits of that year snd of each year. "The Audit company held that tor this unusual expense $50,000 should be allowed out of the profits for each year. "It is thought probable that the affairs of the National Contracting company, whose losses In three years on sewer and other work in New Orleans and elsewhere amounted to about $500,000, will be wound up. Some of the members of the com mittee hold the opinion that the companies, when organized, should confine themselves to asphalt and not carry on a business so widely different ss that of the National Contracting company. "It is stated on excellent authority that an Investigation into the overcapitaliza tion is already being made by the receiv ers. The fact that the committee feels it incumbent upon Itself to go to the bottom of the matter and that the receivers also will doubtless make a thorough investiga tion, renders it almost a certainty that the facts regarding the Inception and formation of the companies wtll be laid bare. The members of the committee feel that the report aa to the result of the operations of the companies must be very disappoint ing to the security holders. "A plan of reorganization is now pretty well determined upon. The matter has beeen under discussion for some time, snd while, in s general way, it has been out lined, the members have held that noth ing definite could be done until the earn ing power of the properties 'should be known. Now that that knowledge is in ths hands of the committee, the question of reorganization will be discussed In a defi nite way." on the slightest provocation, while writing, or even when dining out In compsy, he usually fell asleep at tba dinner table; this occurrence Indeed waa so common with him thst ths guests usually only noticed it with a smile. After a nap of some ten minutes, he would open his eyes snd tsks part In the conversation, apparently unconscious of hsving barn ssleep. Woaiea Writers at Work. George Eliot slwsys dressed with great care before sitting down st her desk. Han nah Moors was fond of sea green silk and most of her tales wers written with the suthoress garbed In a gown of this hue. George 6and, when writing wore "pretty yellow slippers, smsrt stockings and red pantaloons." What Francis Hodgson Burnett Town send illustrates In her heroines as to clothes snd surroundings she practices on herself. Few writers perhsps bavs spent mors on their gowns and few are more sen sitive to their environments; it Is impos sible for her to write st esse, whether st horns or on shipboard, unless surrounded by an atmosphere of refined luxury. A atory Is told that Mr. Edmund Russell, of Del sarts memory, was once consulted by the suthor of "That Lass o' Lowrles" regarding a certain gown. The material chosen was of Urge figured brocade, which on her short person did not promise results that wers alluring. "Which Is the right side of this fabric V asked Mr. Russell. "This." said the novelist. Indicating It to him. "You ars mistaken madam," rejoined Mr. Rus sell. "That side is prose, the other is poetry." His hint or suggestion, however, wss not heeded snd the dress was mads up with Its right side turned outwsrd to the world. Amells Rives, In the first days of her fame, studied her glsas carefully snd spent much thought, time sod money on her gowns, which were La Tosca In design or directolre or empire by turns. She could write most at her ease when clothed In a certain pale rose-colored gown with a Persian sash. India silk peignoirs snd Worth gowns galors were seen in her ward robe. Her Instructions were usually wound up with the admonition "make me lcok as slim as possible." Her gowns were stun ning, they amazed Newport and wrought confusion to the fashion writers, when Amelia Rives waa the sensation of the hour. Her clothes sre also affairs of prime Im portance to "Oulda." She always dresses with elaborate care and usually in rather fantastio fashion, being able to compose In more glowing style It attired in draperlea like unto those with which she clothes her heroines. Tbres Spits dogs sre her con stant companions, even when she is wrltlnc. The presence of animals Is a aource of in spiration to other writers Francois Cop pee among the number, also Gsntler, 8ca clnl and Bandelalre, Montaigne slso kept his black cat beside him when writing, sod whenever puzzled for a word would stroke Its fur. PRATTLE OF THE YOIKGSTERS. "Willie, do you know what happens to ths bad little boysT" "Sure." "What?" "They bavs mors fun than ths good little boys." Deacon Refused to fight him, did yout Ah! that's a noble boy! Now, Tommle, tell the little boy why you refused. Tommle 'Cause be kin lick me. Mother Oh! Tommy, what have you been doing? Tommy (who has just returned from the first day of a preliminary course at the village school) Fighting with Billy Brown. Mother That horrid boy at the farm? Don't you ever quarrel with him again! Tommy I ain't likely to. Mother There were two spples In the cupboard. Tommy, and now there Is only one. How's that? Tommy (who sees no way of escape) Well, ma. It waa ao dark in there I didn't see the other. "Aunt Mary seems slmost like a mother to me," said little Bobble, soberly. "Does she?" replied Bobble's mother, very much pleased. "Yea; she licks me every time I go to her house," concluded Bobble. "How old la your baby brother?" asked little Tommle of a playmate. "One year old." replied Johnnie. "Huh!" exclaimed Tommle, "I've got a dog a year old and he can walk twice as well as that kid can." "Well, he ought to," replied Johnnie. "He's got twice as many legs." The Wee Boss. Amos R. Wells In Good Housekeeping Just a little bit of baby. Twenty pounds and nothing more: See him floor his giant daddy, Weight two hundred, six feet four. Just s little bit of baby; And beauty? Not a trace; Bee him stealing all the ruses From hla lovely mother's face. Just a little bit of baby; Ignorant aa he can be; See him puzzle all the sages Of his learned family. Just a little bit of baby Walking? No. nor trawling, even: Bee him lead a dozen grown-ups Te lus very gat r heaven " mm Half v sa v . - mi -M ""ar . T . I Price Sale e AliTETS, Linoleum and Mat ting remnants for one ilay oulv. An opportunity seldom of fered. This is a clean-up sale of in grain carpet remnants, short' lengths and drop patterns of inlaid and printed linoleums, short length qnd drop patterns of matting, all go on sale Monday morning for Monday only at one-half regular price. llriug measurements of your rooms and come Monday. Note a few of the prices and values. Ingrain Carpet Remnants from 5 to 2$ yards to a piece consisting ot all grades ot Ingrains, go at exactly half price. 80c Ingrain carpet remnants Monday only, per yard 40o ingrain carpet remnants Monday only, per yard 60n ingrain carpet remnants Monday onlv. tier vard 75c Ingrain carpet remnants Af Monday only, per yard .- ' Linoleum 15c 20c 25c JWadeup I To fit all size Carpets I rooms from 9 ! feet long by 9 feet wide, to 12x15 feet These carpets are made from all grades of ingrain goods on sale Monday at Just half price. Mattings I 1,000 yards of mat ting of all grades. 1 A clone out sale of all remnants and hort lengths. 8ome pieces containing as much as 85 yards. For Mondav and Monday only they go at half price. 15c matting, Monday, per yard 25o matting, Monday, per yard 25c matting, Monday, per yard . SOc matting, Monday, per yard 7ic 10c ;zi2ic 15c All printed linoleums worth up to U per yard and none ot it sold leas than go0 per yaT(j ,u go i one 0t at one price for Monday only 25c per square yard. Thla is very desirable for kitchens, pantries, bath rooms, etc., etc. Inlaid Linoleum The never wear out kind where the pat tern goes entirely through the goods. The $1.50 and $1.75 goods, all remnants, short lengths and drop patterns, Monday Imported Lace Curtains snd Monday only at one price 75 cenla per square yard. We have received a large importation of colored lace curtains which consist of the newest effects la high art draperies such as Aetx. St. Gall. Arab, Church-Heraldic, art embroidered. Etamlne, block net colored .embroidered, stained glass, long stitch Fluer-de-lis, besides a complete line ot Bash curtains to match window curtains. This 1b by far the largest Importation of lace curtains ever shipped to Omaha and aa the goods were purchased by us direct from the manufacturer at 6t. Gall, Swltierland, and shipped directly to ue, wa are able to place them on sale at surprisingly low prices. Monday we make a special display of them In our drapery depart ment. We extend a cordial invitation to call and see the new high art curtains. Monday morning we rlace on sale a very large stock of Saxony brussels. These sre very And goods snd rsrs bar gains. Note the values. ' I mm mm $15.00 Brussels Curtains, per pair....... q7.oU $15.00 Saxony Brussels Curtains, per pair $10.00 $17.50 Saxony Brussels Curtains, per pair $25.00 Saxony Brussels Curtains, per pair $35.00 Saxony Brussels Curtains, per pair Bedroom Furniture Values $12.50 $17.50 .. .$24.50 SEW Go-Carts are here All the new styles In re clining back and sta tionary carts, some very nobby rattan head carts. Folding go-carts, rubber tire wheels, $2.50. 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