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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1903)
1C TILE IXJjUST II ATE D BED. -'..'I jr. MISS ET.I.A. FI.YNN OF YORK, WHO TTAS "QUEEN OF THE TIGERS" AT THE FIREMEN'S TOURNAMENT AT NORFOLK. Carpenter's Letter (Continued from Page Twelve.) Stusulan villages. There are 600,00 of them la Europe alone and they are also to be ' found along the Trans-Siberian railroad sad In the valley of the Amour river. They are the same everywhere, differing only aa to the character of building ma tarlaL In northern Russia and In the black Bona the houses are log cabins, roofed With boards or thatched with straw. Fur ther south where timber Is scarcer they are mada of sun-dried bricks or wattlod twigs. The ordinary village has but one street. It la a country road with grass along the aides, and buck of this the huts, irregularly placed and running a distance of a mile or mora up and down it. The cabins are sel dom of more than one story and an attic. They have no gardens and often the barn Will be a part of the house formed by a lean-to at the back. The common house Is not mor than twenty feet square and eight feet la height to where the roof be gins. Sintering we first come into a sort of a storeroom filled with rude farming tools. Id harness, and perhaps chickens and pos sibly a calf. From this we pass into the living room of the cabin. It is often the only room, being kitchen, dining room and sleeping room all in one. One-fourth of It is taken up by the oven or stove. This Is built of bricks, a ledge being left un- ' der the roof large enough for a half dosen or more people to sleep (JUwe at Bight. They lay down in the clothes they wear In the daytime, men and women hud- -dllng together that the annual heat may aid the bricks In keeping them warm. The furniture of such a house la scanty. There la a rude table, a few stools and a bench and It may be a box or so for cloth ing. In one corner you will see an icon, a picture of the Virgin or the Saviour with a candle burning under It, and if you are a good man you will cross yourself and make a prayer before this as you enter. There are no comforts of any kind and the ordinary farmer Is almost aa poorly housed as his cattle. The most of the cooking la done In the wen, although the bread sometimes comes from the publlo oven belonging to the vil lage. .This oven, strange to say, sometimes forms the publlo bath houBe as wall. After big baking water Is thrown over the bricks, creating a dense steam, and those who wish crawl In and parboil themselves. X am told that In some of the villages people of both sexes go Into these baths at the mi time, men, women and girls bathing together. Such baths are very cleansing. They open the pores of the skin and there Is tittle danger of taking cold from them. The food of the poorer farmers Is chiefly rye bread and vegetable soup, with now and then a bit of fish or meat as a change. The soup bowl la put In the middle of the table and everyone dips Into It with his own wooden spoon and thus carries the oup to his mouth. The peasants are fond i sour cabbage and cucumbers. Most of them have chickens and other fowls. They (2 I xfn fp! ft ffm.0 IN ':.-..-..V. i L. L. BROWN OF SIDNKY AND THE STRING OF BASS HE CAUGHT AT OBKRFKf iDKR LAKE, LODGE POLH, Noh-Photo by Dr. Breed of Sidney. AUTOMOBILE AN AID TO UTIG ATI ON V. K MUSSELMAN AND II C. . CORKHILL OF OMAHA START! N G FOR A RUSH TRIP TO FRKMONT rhoto by a Staff Artist. MRS. MARY V. LYDICK OF 11AR1V INGTON, Neb., WHO MADE A BRIDLE FOR PRESIDENT ROOSB VELT. . ' have cows. As a rule a family la well off If it has meat once a week. One of their peculiar dainties la sunflower soeds, which the peasant carries about with him in his pocket and eats as we do pea nuts. He uses the oil of such seeds for cooking and salads, and that to such an ex tent that sunflower farming has become a great induBtry. There are 700,000 acres or sunflower farms In central and eastern Rus sia, and 1&0 mills which press out 200,000.000 pounds of sunflower ofl every year. The oil sells for 1 cents a pound, and the re fuse Is valuable for stork feed and also for pigeons and poultry. The sunflower crop Is planted In the fall, the seeds beine; drilled In. FRANK G. CARPENTER. The American Mother (Continued from Page Three.) stiltatlon room. We have too groat respect for the womanhood of our land to stlgw matlze it with the Infamy of a large and growing class that beset the physician In hysterical phrases that mean nothing less than the laying of murderous hands upon their unborn babes. They have been duly instructed In the Black art of foeticide, but . . . i v v a L. KHENGEL, ATLANTIC, la. they often first try to tempt a physician to give safety and professional responsi bility to their plans. Thousands of Amer ican women of today are pastmasters In practices that rob the cradle of Its Jewel, the home of its Joy and hope, the nation of its heritage, vouchsafed by the mingled blood of the Puritan and cavalier. "Physicians must set their faces like flint against the common practice of abor tion so prevalent among the women of America. Something must be done to stop this nefarious business. Young married women are early tauRht how to murder their unborn babes and so escape the tem porary inconvenience of pregnancy. We are called In such emergencies to save them from the dangers that threaten, to remove the remains of their Innocent and helpless victims, to comfort them by the assur ances of our skill In overcoming the phy sical result of their baseness, and to cover up all evidences of their crime. How many times do you suppose that this crime has been committed in our land during the past year? I believe the time has come when physicians should assume the Initia tive In drastic measures to stamp out this MRS. a It KRBNGBL, ATLANTIC, la, monstrous and growing evil. If reputable physicians would assist in the criminal prosecution of all such offenders it would be very markedly decreased after a few wholesome examples of civil and social retribution. Publicity would cure It. Laws should be placed upon our statute books making It obligatory upon physicians to report all cases of abortion to the local boards of health, giving the causes, age of foetus, and disposition of same according to the usages of a civilised nation. The physician is required by law to make a full report when the death of his patient occurs. Is an unborn child of so little con sequence that his death needs no notice! Such a plan aa herein mentioned would make effective the laws defining and pua lshlng foeticide. Such an amendment or addition to our present laws would relievo physicians from particeps crl minis' In aa evil that Is monstrous In all Its aspects. Such a provision In the laws of our several commonwealths Is practicable and Is demanded as an herolo and effective rena edy for a condition so Intolerable, so fraught with national danger and diBa grace." D. A. FOOTE, M, D,