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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1904)
March 27, 190i. THE ILLUSTRATED DEE. 13 What Happens When Two Trains Meet on One Track CRKTH PIRKMHN nAYING ON TIIK RVR.NINC1 WRECKAGE. Photo by Smith & Ucnnett, Crete, Nel).. f " Wl I KIIH TIIK WIIIS'K PIMM) IP TUB 1IIGIIBHT Dioto by Smith & Itcnnett, Cre tc, Neb. Women as They Were Fifty Years Ago IE Abigail to the nom do did not IN WRITING of men ami half a century ago Miss 15. Podge, bettor known reading public under her plunie, "Gall Hamilton,' herniate to tell of the frailties of cither Bex. "Men are strong; they do things and don't mind It," admits this vigorous woman writer. "They can open doors In the damp est weather. They can unstrap trunks without breaking a blood vessel, turn keys In n moment which women have lost their tempers and lamed their fingers over for half an hour; look down precipices and not be dizzy. You may strike them with all your might on the cheat and it doesn't hurt them In the least (1 nuan If you are a woman). They never grow ner vous and cry. They go upstairs three at a time. They put one hand on a four-rail fence and leap It without touching. In short, they do everything easily which women try to do and cannot. "Moreover," continues this commentator, "men ore so 'easy to get along with.' They re conveniently blind und benevo'ent. Women criticise you, not unjustly, but re lentlessly. They Judge you In detail, men only In the whole. If your dress Is neat, well-fitting and well-timed, men will not notice It, except a few man milliners nnd a few others who ought to be. If you will only sit still, hold tip your head and speak when you are spoken to, you can be very comfortable. I do not mean that men can not and do not appreciate female brilliancy, but If you are a good listener and In the right receptive mood you can spend an hour very pleasuntly without It. "Rut a woman tlnds out In the first thre minutes that the fringe on your dress is not a match. In four she has discovered that the silk of your sleeves Is frayed at the edge. In five that the binding on tha heel of your boot is worn out. l!y tha aixth she ha satisfactorily ascertained, what she suspected the first moment she set her eye on you.' that you trimmed your bonnet yourself. The seventh assures her that your collar Is only 'Imitation,' and when you part, at the end of ten minutes, the lias calculated with tolerable accuracy the cost of your dress, has leveled her men tal eyeglass at all your innocent liit'e sub terfuges nnd knows to a dead certainty your past history, present circumstances and future prospects. Well, what harm If ehe does? "None In particular. It Is only lielnir ptretched on the rack a little while. Yoa have no reason to be ashamed a.nd you fire not ashamed. Your boots are only begin ning to he shabby, and we nil know tho transitory' nature of galloon. Your fringe Is too dark, but you ransacked the city and did your best, angels could do no more. You trimmed your bonnet yourself and saved f-2. which was jtist what you In tended to do. Your lace Is not real, accord ing to the cant of the shopkeepers, but It Is real real cotton, real linen, real si'k, or whatever the material may be, and yoa never pretended It was llonlton or point. "Hut If men, In their strength and cour age nnd Independence, are enviable, men In their gentleness are irresistible," con cludes the writer. "You expect gentleness la weiman. It is their attribute and char acteristic. You do net admire Its presence so much as you deplore or condemn its ab sence. Rut manly tenderness has a pecu liar charm and you meet it everywhere In the house and by the wayside. In e It y and country, under breudeloth arid hrime spun. "You may travel from one end of the Munlry to the other und meet not o.-.ly civility, but the mnut cordial and consid erate kindness. You may be as ugly as It Is possible for virtue to be', and tired and travel-stalne'd and stupid, and your neigh bor ef a day will show you ull the little attentions you could claim from a father or breither or husband. Women would better Improve the rights the-y have before going mad after olhers they know not of. If men will be so good as to do the law-making and stock-jobbing und bribing and quarreling and stump-speaking, I shall le greatly obliged to them. Am I enthusiastic over this involuntary eiutgushing of the stream of kliiilnefs, which flows so continually from men to usward? I have a right to be. A t a lon of men loyal, not to grace, beauty, -mag-nillcenee, but to womankind, to the highest Impulses of human nature, to the love ele ment of the universe. Is a thing to be en thusiastic about." Their Reason A writer In IJpplncott's tells of a young teacher who had taken special pains to Im plant a knowledge of I'nlted States history, who could but feel that much good seed had fallen on stony gremnd when at the final examination the ciue-stion. "What character do you like Itest, and why?" brought forth the following astonishing replies: "Andrew Jackson, because he whipped the Uritlsh with an old hickory." "Grant, who waa elected president twice nnd around the world once." "I like Monroe for doetrin' the people and Jackson, standing on a stone wall, and fell denil." "Lincoln, who was shot and killed stand ing in a booth, anil died savins' 'Jefferson survives, 1 inn e-ontcnted.' " "Ie Koto, who waded ill Hie Mississippi up to his elbows and there found his grave." "(Md General Putnnni, who left his ox and his ass in the Held ami went and licit the liritish." "The reeloiibtful John Paul Jones. hi -cause he said: 'We'll bint tlieni ltritlsh or bust,' ar.il Hun did it." 'Straight-Front Man" "T 'angling Vert as I H'istinted In Assorts Sizes of Avoirdupois" was the tuple which Miss Klizabeth A. C. White diseours -d upon at tin- dresjimake-r.V on vent Ion in New York the other diy, to the cdith-atloti of a host of women and a lone man. "It's a few tips- I'm going to give you.1' an nounced Miss White at the start, "on standing, sitting and walking. "l'lrst. I'll (how yoa." she exclaimed rnergeth ally, at the same time dragging out an unwilling model, whose fairy form certainly tipped the scales at more than 2(i0 pounds. "Now, sit," commanded the Indomitable president. "There, you see h"r neck gets thick and stout, and win-re's tho llgure? She needs a back to that chair, the way she's sitting. And hnik at he-r f ee't ! When a fat woman sits down, square eiut goes her limbs twelve or fif teen Inches apart. They don't help her figure, (let up. Now, pli-k up your skirl high in the bak ami sit elown so the hips uro well back. Now that woman has some' Intelligence. She didn't hav before. "Now, evi-ry woman that's sheirt can look tall If she only stands right. Most women don't have any iKH-k; It's all front. Their real intelligence Is stupefied. Com mence to use your Intelligence, stiffen your knees, keep your feet together, and you'll have a stunning figure'." The lone man was the point of attack ami the centi r of attraction. lie was a reporter for nr. aM"rmn paper, and h ventured to the platform to ask somo questions. "Just wh it I want -a man:" exclaimed Mis Wl.ltc. the demons! rater. "Now. I'll show you how to straighten out a man." Tin- reporti-r stammered and remembere-d another assignment. "It won't lake but a minute," argued Misx White. "And tin ii you'll know how to look re. illy smart. There Isn't over eme rn ui in r.ml hiie lu Ne w York with a really smatt look. Now. this man has a cupid form -short and round and too full here -" The reporter turned purple. "Now, 11 you were pushed up so " e-onllnin-d Miss White', "you'd look an Ini h or two taller and ten years younger." The re-peirter eiuli-avored to retreat. "Just a minute'," smiled Miss White. "Now. you know e very man enight to have a straight front Now-he-e-ls together, knii'S straight, ehest out, stomach In-ob, nifile than that so " The reporter wilted. "I'll come back tomorrow," he promised faintly. "Petter let me lit you today," persisted Mlsn Wtiite. "I inn give- you that smart loeik." Tho audii m e giggliMl und the re porter looke'd foolish. "Now stand or. 'he ball of your feet." Just tin n the re-p irte r got courage and t Bca ped. r MMM-i r Mayden's Easter Millinery Our unrivalled showing, the elegance of which will again demonstrate most emphatically the fact that Hayden's styles are far superior to those shown elsewhere. OUR PATTERN HATS AT TEN DOLLARS Have No Equal Any where irv the Union.
