THE OMAITA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1904.
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BUSINESS TALENT OF WOMEN
Commercial Bomancet Diamine the Careen
of Many Society Leaden.
. FAMILY FORTUNES QUIETLY REPAIRED
ImpoTerlahed nine Bloods Earn Hand
om I.lrlnc by Knf mrilnt Dot
mast Talent lome Rf pre.
rnltlltc Inmaorri,
"Wrll, who'd finve thought it?" raid the
society folk of Philadelphia not long ago
when they discovered that on of their
number a woman had been earning her
living and providing for her mother for the
last half dozen years by selling coal on
commlnHion to office buildings and manu
facturing establishments.
There's many a woman In society who
has a cnmmerrlnl romance, but It In seldom
that the world hears of It. The business
woman of social standing usually takes
car to keep the romance to herself, and
usually for bualnM reasons solely.
A typicnl cane Is that of a woman whose
name Is known on the social rosters of
every large city from Wellington to Bos
ton, but whose home la presumably In the
latter city. While sho was In London
drowning her sorrow over the death of her
hurfbati'l, and Incidentally laying In a sup
ply of entrancing half mourning, word
came from her lawyers that the trusted
friend of her late husband. In whose hands
the management of the estate had been
left, had proven unworthy, and her entire
fortune wns endangered. If the truth were
known,, everything might be swept away
on the full tide. With time and skilful
management her fortune might be re
trieved. In tho meantime could she curtail
her expenses? And would she kindly ad
vise?
Arrrtlng Suspicion.
The widow, who had always gone her
own way, did not see how she could cur
tall her expenses. Bhe reasoned that keep
ing up appearances was essential, but sh
also recognized tho fact that her attorneys
deemed It advisable to cut off her allow'
anco for the present. A change In her
mode of living would arouse suspicion.
Kventunlly, but not until after hours of
hard thinking, she cabled her attorneys to
cut off her allowance, use their Judgment
In adjusting and re-establishing her totter
ing fortune, and then went off to a re
ception In her smartest gown.
A week later a London society paper an
nounced that Miss W of a certain west
ern city In America wii sailing for New
York; with Mrs. E of Boston, and would
visit a few weeks with that lady before re
turning to her own homo.
Mrs. E was tho widow. No one thought
much of the paragraph except the two
women most closely Identified with It.
Nevertheless, It was copied In New York
papers,' and somehow Miss W did not
tlon of a few weeks. Instead, she went to
Boston with the widow, and during the
winter' they were seen everywhere to
getherat the smartest winter resorts and
In Philadelphia. New York and Washing
ton.
At first society wondered at the Intimacy
between the two, but It accepted Miss
V as It had always accepted and liked
her chaperon. Later, when, after a brief
stay In her old home, the young woman re
turned to New York with her father and
established themselves In a palatial home,
which had been furnished under the secret
direction of the widow, the doors of society
remained open to them. And only the three
Interested parties knew that the price pnld
for ,the social Introduction had been suffl
clenjrly heavy to tide the widow over her I
financial crisis.
Dormant Talent Mod Profitable.
A Chicago man walked Into his wife's
room one night as she was dressing for
a. dinner and Informed her, In phrases suf
ficiently melodramatic to fit Into a blood-and-thunder
play, that they were prac
tically beggars. When the wife had re
duced her spouse to reason, she found out
that hip Investments had been Ill-advised,
and that certain bulling operations on tho
street had endangered, but not actually
wrecked their fortunes. Tomorrow, or the
next, day, or the next, there might be a
crash. Gossip of the street was already
asking, "How long can he stand It?" In
his nervous condition, he felt that the time
would be short, Indeed.
- The wife was more than a beautiful, ac
complished woman. Bhe had a clear brain
and a vein of originality. Moreover, she
could rise to an emergency and act with
quick decision. In the first place, she
announced that they should not ' change
their, style of living, but In week or so she
would sail for Europe, Just as she had
planned. In the meantime they would keep'
their dinner engagement.
The latter was something she had viewed
with-more or less disapproval. , Now she
rejoiced that she was to dine out. While
the men lingered over their wine, the wife
studied the art treasure) of the home In
company with the hostess, who was newly
rich. She delicately suggested a change
hero and an addition to that corner, a
painting In this. The hostess was de
lighted. Her guest was a recognised au
thority In such matters; If only she would
make her suggestions in more practical
form. The wife tapped her wrist with her
lorgnette, through which she had been
studying a picture unworthy of Its gor
geous setting. Yes, she was going over
In a week or ten days. Perhaps she might
be able to pick up something on the other
side; and the hostess was delighted.
That was the beginning. There were
Mrs. Parvenu No. 2. and Madame Parvenu
No. S, and others to follow, though each
knew nothing of the great favor the finan
cier's wife was conferring on the others.
The usual trip to Europe was made. The
wife left her husband with encouraging
words that put new faith Into him. She
did not stay so long as she had other
years, and perhaps her letters home were
more frequent. The Important fact Is that
her commissions on purchases amounted to
over 1100,000. But her husband still Insists
that the moral Influence of her stand and
her faculty for keeping up appearances,
had more to do with tiding over the crisis
than the actual money she made.
Talent Turned to Trade.
A single woman of perhaps twenty-eight
or thirty years, who had always lived In
luxury, suddenly found herself bereft of
an Indulgent father, and face to face with
an alarmingly small estate. The principal,
conservatively Invested, would yield Just
enough to provide her decent apartments In
a fashionable boarding house, or a diminu
tive flat, with a small dress allowance.
She feared stock Investments, because
through them had her father practically
wrecked his large estate.
While turning the problem over In her
mind, she Incidentally endeavored to cut
down expensos and stumbled upon a small
millinery shop where she picked up a hat
that exuded French taste. She met the
proprietor, a nervous, wiry man, whose
knowledge of English was as Imperfect as
his grasp on the secret of success in New
York.
Before the young woman hnd left his
shop she had reached her decision. She
would go Into trade, not openly, but as the
silent partner of this artistic Parisian. The
family lawyer was consulted and approved
A smart shop was fitted up In an exclusive
neighborhood, and the young woman, who
was Invited everywhere, whispered the
marvelous find she had made In the way of
a new milliner man. straight from Paris.
Every time she spoke she wore a fresh
confection, an example of the man's handi
work, which made society sit up and take
notice. .
Trade eld not come all at once, snd with
every dollar of her patrimony Invested the
girl had many anxious days. But eventually
the Influx of customers set In,, and today
this woman Is still the silent partner In
one of the best paying millinery establish
ments In the metropolis. So skilfully has
she managed It that not one of her friends
suspects the fact, yet the decorations of
the shop, and much' of the stock as well.
are selected by the silent partner.
Manager of Home Parties.
xt is a wen Known lact that many a
woman makes a comfortable Income as
public entertainer In a hotel. Acting on
this Idea a girl who had always been ac
customed to the luxurious life devoted her
social energies secretly but effectually to
one family. This girl had the rare faculty
of the Ideal hostess. She knew how to en
tertain and when to stop entertaining. She
was a marvel at the management of house
parties. As a result she was always de
luged with invitations to spend a week here
or there, and her week-ends were always
taken long In advance.
When she found herself face to face with
the problem of self-support she was the
guest of a college friend, recently married.
The young wife was deeply In love with
her husband, and anxious to preside fit
tingly over his various town 'and country
homes and his yacht, but she lacked the
talent for playing the role of hostess. She
Buffered greatly from self-consciousness,
which neither finishing schools nor travel
had removed. She recognized that It would
take time and experience to fit her for her
new position, and In the meantime what
might her fastidious husband think and
say?- Something of all this she told her
friend, who was having worries of her
own, and the two formed a partnership.
The girl became the almost permanent
guest of the wife. Society laid It to their
girlhood Intimacy, and never dreamed that
a salary was attached to the Invitation.
Not even the husband was taken Into the
secret But it waa noticed that invitations
for their house parties were In greater de
mand. A trip on their yacht was some
thing to remember. The wife had suddenly
blossomed out as a hostess of marked
ability, and those whom she entertained
neither knew nor cared that it was all the
work of the wife's young friend.
Two Historic Characters Meet.
While wandering feebly around the neigh
borhood one day In search of something to
eat Job's turkey encountered the church
mouse.
"Thank heaven," soliloquized the turkey,
"I am not quite reduced to the social level
of that skinny little creature!"
"If that hideous old bag of bones thinks
I'm going to recognize her," said the
mouse, sotto voce, "she's got another guess
coming. I draw the line right there!"
And they passed without speaking. Chi
cago Tribune.
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AGENTS Hugo F. Blls. 1C4 Douglas
Street, Omaha. Tel. 1544. Lee Mitch
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SOITII OMAHA, THOSE 8.
BASE BALL MEN IN WINTER
Where the Diamond Farorites Go When
Snow Covers the Field.
OMAHA PLAYERS WILL SCATTER WIDELY
Many of the Team Will Upend the
Told Weather In Omaha, Where
They Will Hold Good,
Paying- Jobs.
"What becomes of all the base ball play.
ers after the regular season Is overT' is
a question oft asked by fans, old and
young.
"Do they sink Into the innocuous desue
tude in the winter months and blossom
again In the springtime like butterflies?
asks an old votary of the national sport who
has not missed one game during the season,
The fact of the matter Is they do like
other mortals, namely, do the best fhey
can. Some have bullded wisely and saved
enough while tho sun shone to tide them
over during the night, while others of
more prodigal nature do whatever comes
to hand at the end of the base ball season
As a rule, base ball fans take more or
less of a personal Interest In the members
of the homo team and. whether at home
or abroad, their movements are watched
with zealous care.
The regular base ball season will close
this afternoon with a double-header be
tween Omaha and St. Joseph. Tomorrow
afternoon the same teams will play for
sweet charity's. saTte, the box receipts going
to the Home of the Good Shepherd. Then
the following members of the Omaha team
will go on a barnstorming tour throughout
the state: Schlpke, Dolan, Howard,
Thomas, Carter, Gondlng, Freese, Lleb
hardt, Compnnlon and Quick. Hostetter of
the Denver team will also accompany the
team on the tour.
Nick Carter, Joe Dolan, John Gondlng,
"Butch" Freese, Eddie Quick, Pa Rourke
and the little boy on the center field fence
will winter In Omaha, according to their
present plans. "Butch" Freese says he
will start a feed store or engage In some
other lucrative business, yet to be deter
mined, after the barnstorming expedition.
Harry Welch, who goes to the Washing
ton American league team next season,
probably will remain In Omaha this winter,
Welch is an Omaha boy from the ieet
up and has a host of well-wishers here.
Buck Thlel, Omaha's popular left fielder,
who sprained his ankle during the week,
will go to St. Joseph and spend the wintry
months In a meat market.
Dell Howard, who goes next season to
Join the Philadelphia National league team,
will go to his home In Sheldon, III., after
the barnstorming Junket.
Jack Thomas, BUI Schlpke and Paul Com
panion will go. to St. Louis, which place
they call their home. They are undecided
Just what they will do before rejoining the
team next spring.
Jack Pfelster, one of the luckiest dogs
in the bunch, will go to Cincinnati, where
he owns a nice home. Jack is one of those
providential fellows who looks out for the
rainy day. He Is never without an um
brella. Charles E. Brown, the Ames college
pitcher, will hie back to Onawa, la., where
Dan Cupid is said to have something In
store for him.
"War" Saunders, he with the quick, re-
turn ball, will go to his home In the Ten
nessee mountains and spend the off months.
Glen Llebhordt will go to Indianapolis.
Pa Rourke and the little boy on the
.fence will keep open house at the clKar
store until the sound of "play ball" is
heard again in the land next spring.
Umpire Kelly takes the first train for
Shamokln, Pa, after tomorrow's game.
nrsLiGioi's.
Rev. A. P. Dovle Of tho PmilUI TTnthor.
of New York City will leave New York on
October 1 to take charge of the new a post o-
iiu iiunpiun. noune in vvasnington.
The eeneral missionary nnmmitt.. nt Vn
Methodist Episcopal church will hold If.
annual session, beglnnlnar on Wednesday.
November 9. In Trpmnnt nrre.t rhnroh
Boston. '
Rev. Guv P. Burleson wn recently nr.
dained Pastor of the F.nincnnHl rhnrnh nt
Langdon, N. D. Ho is the youngest of five
brothers to enter the ministry, the other
four being present at his ordination.
Rev. Dr. George Hodires. rtenn of the
Episcopal Theological seminary, Cambridge,
juase.i ana one or tne ablest preachers In
the Episcopal church, has collected his
sermons and will publish them shortly.
.Rev. Thomas Scott Bacon, who was chnn-
laln of Admiral Farragut's squadron during
the civil war, has JuHt died at Buckeys
town, Md. He was the author of several
books and pamphlets on religious subjects.
It Is Drocosed to build a small concrete
church on the top of Croagh Patrick,
Countv Mavo. Ireland, for the celehratlon
of the annual pilgrimage mass. The church
will De almost z.ttuo leet above the sea level.
Rev. S. Suglhara is pastor of a Japanese
Methodist Episcopal church In Portland,
Ore. His people, who are mostly domestics
servants or day laborers, have made great
sacrifices to raise J3.0U0 toward a church
building, .
Rev. L. Lochner of Chicago has Just re.
turned home after establishing a Lutheran
synod In Brazil, miring five months spent
in urazii ne traveioa miles
and on foot to consolidate fifteen
churches In that country.
Rev. E. J. Vattman, for twenty-seven
years an army chaplain, twelve of which
were spent at tort Sheridan, has reached
the age limit and will retire this month.
He Is the senior or the eleven Human
atholio chaplains In the United States
army. '
The Antloch Presbyterian church, east
of Mexico, Pike county, Missouri, where
tho presbytery recently met, has had but
three pastors In the last eighty years, dur.
ing which time the congregation has not
len a month without a leader In the
straight and narrow way.
Ht. Rev. J. C. Hartzol, bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal church of Africa, Is
making a tour of the world; with the view
of arousing Interest In religious ' work In
the dark continent. He is now in the
south. Eight years ago he was elected
I lahop of Africa, and in that time he has
traveled 150,000' miles In the discharge of
his duties.
miles by wagon
Lutheran
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LABOR AMD IXDl'STRY.
Throughout the world about S per cent
of the people gain their living directly from
the sea.
The first threshing machine was recently
set up in Damascus. It Is a steam
thresher from Indiana.
California produces more dollars' worth
of oranges than gold orunges over J18,
UuO.Ow and gold tlT.ouo.OOO.
Paper car wheels, made by pressure from
rye straw paper, are usually In condition
for a second set of steel tires after the
first set is worn out by a run of 800,000
miles.
Colorado today cultivates about 2,500,000
acres of land and has nearly lo.oOO miles of
Irrigutlng cana'.s and ditches, its agricul
tural products exceed by far the mineral.
One of the latest forms of railroad ties
Is from leather. 8c runs of leathtr from
various sources are ground and mo'ded.
They can lie made so hard thut a spike
cannot be driven Into them.
The production of American. Iron ore In
13 waa :t6.0i:U'j8 tons. That quantity rep
resents 14.tkjl.2iv tons more than the aver
age annual production for the fifteen years
from 1S to ltXi Included.
About 60,000 water wheels are used for
manufacturing in the United States, yield
ing 1.3i0,0uu horse power or one-quarter to
one-third of the whole power used. Of this
total aV'.ouo horse power is used by the
2,f u .mills In New England.
There Is the greutest demand for cotton
pickers In the cotton region of Texas
known In twenty years and In many cities
and towns draymen. dellery boys, clerks
and even hotel help have been Induced by
high tirtcc paid for picking to go Into
the fields.
The stute of Iowa has bought a printing
olttcu and will eutablit-li a printing house
on a small scale suitable for teaching boys
the art of printing. This will be located
at Die State Industrial Schnul for Boys at
Eldora. It is believed that at this office
tho slate will be able to do a large amount
of printing necessary on slate Uocumenta
Commencing Next Sunday, October 2
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