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THE OMAHA KUXDAY BKK:
STORES
DOESN'T LIRE AMERICAN MEN
Gertrude Atherton Shows Herself to
Be Caustic Critic
r-
TYPE SHE ADMIRES IN A NOVEL
Her Hero a Cad of Low Katore Who
Woild Not Bo Tolerates
Outside of Erotic
Literal are.
'It perhaps will come as a blow to Amer
ican men to learn that Gertrude Atherton
does not like them.
In a recent Interview la New York she
had many uncomplimantary things to eay
of them. She said any Kuropran man waa
their superior In everything that goes to
make a man attractive to woman.
American girls, she declared, were not
to be blamed for marrying any foreigner
In preference to an American.
After much going to and fro upon the
earth. Mrs. Atherton has discovered her
masculine Ideal. It Is 'the Englishman.
Here are some of the things that she has
to say on the subject:
"American men have no subtlety. The
Englishman In fact, all continental men
know better how to make love and how to
retain it than the Americans. American
girls cannot be blamed for marrying for
eigners. American men have none of the
subtlety of the well bred Englishman, nonj!
of his finesse, his charm of conversation
or manner."
This sort of thing is the argument usil
. ally advanced to explain the marriages ot
American heiresses and titled Europeans,
says the Chicago Inter Ooean. When a
wealthy American girl marries a foreign
nobleman, we usually hear much comment
from frank persons, usually American
men, about her having sold herself for a
title. Mrs. Atherton would have us be
lieve that she docs nothing of the kind.
As the foreign nobleman Is so much more
charming than American men, as he has
so much more "subtlety" and "flnosse."
why should not the American heiress love
him and marry him, nnt for his title, but
for himself? '
It so happens that Mrs. Atherton has
just published a new novel entitled "Tower
of Ivory." In which she amplifies her for
eign Ideal.
The hero of her story Is a younger son
of one of the most ancient houses In Eng
land, lie has dobts and obfects to earn
ing a living. So ha ntarriea a wealthy
American girl.
She la beautiful, well educated and well
bred. But she Is a republican and he Is
an aristocrat. Consequently, he goes back
to his siren. Ills defection kills his wife.
But to the husband, her death brings only
a sense of escape. He sticks to the siren.
Mrs. Atherton paints her man frankly.
She admits his cruelty, his heartlessness,
his selfishness, his lack of principle, his
utter want of anything resembling honor.
But she does not blame him for what he
does. Though her attitude Is apolgntlc, he
remains a hero to the end.
In America auoh a man would be con
sidered just a plain, ordinary cad and cur.
He would be called so and have to stand
up and resent M. In fact, he would have
to do the same In England.
Bis Hat (or Valentine.
If you were a girl and approaching sweet
If and rapidly developing a penchant for
huge picture hats and a kind-hearted uncle
sent you a Gainsborough hat for our
valentine so big that It had to be hauled
jj .
in an express wagon, wouldn't you think
your unole the best ever? I
And then, when to the admiring and
envious "Ohs" and "Aha" of several girl
friends, you found that the hat waa trim
med with thirty duck wings, so cumber
some that it required four assistants to
place it on your dainty head, and that It
was more of a hoax than a hat, wouldn't
you suddenly conclude that this same uncle
was about the meanest man extant?
' Miss Wanlyn Carswell of the fashionable
Weatlake School for Girls In Los Angeles,
probably can answer these questions better
than anyone else, for she experienced both
of these emotions recently.
But the hatl
Never did monoplane, biplane or multi
plane have more wings. Thirty In all
wings of mallards, wings of teal and wings
of pigeon, trophies of her uncle's deadly
aim with the fowling piece.
The hat was delivered at the school In an
express wagon, encased In a box six feet
square. When unpacked It required the
services of four of Miss Carwell's friends
to carry It upstairs.
Marriage sad Longevity.
Marriage and longevity go hand In hand
says Dr. Jacquea Bertlllon, the great
French statistician, who takes exceptions
to London Punch's advice to those about
to marry, which Is "Don't." After dem
onstrating by figures that the married man
or woman has three times as good a chance
to reach a ripe old age as the bachelor or
spinster. ' Dr. Bertlllon also warns the
widow or widower that their chance for
year of usefulness would be enhanced
If they were again to assume the marriage
relation. He argues as follows:
"Married people live more regular lives.
They are more surrounded, and therefore
more controlled, discreet though this con
trol may be, and It must be discreet to be
useful. Their physical life Is healthier,
quieter and more natural."
His opinion, supported by statistics. Is
presented In the following advice to young
men:
"Marry; you will do well even from a
selfish standpoint. But watch carefully
over your wife's health, as even from this
egotistical point of view her loss will be
a terrible misfortune, for your life depends
in a great mrasure on her own."
Addressing himself to young women, he
sa s:
"To you I give the counsel to marry in
your most selfish Inttrest, as married
woman have less mortality than spinsters
ot the same age, at least after the age of
30; but the difference la less for women
than for men. The mortality among
spinsters Is much greater than among
married women, but It is not twice as great
aa In the case of men."
Ir. Bwrttllon does not take a cheerful
view of the lot of the widow. He says:
"The mortality among widows Is dis
tinctly much greater than among married
women of the same age. The sweet stats
of widowhood la, on the contrary, fatal to
young widows. Their death rate from
30 to 25 years is twice that of married
women at the corresponding age.''
.Meet is the Proper laconic.
"Is an Income of $3,439 enough to marry
on?" The query is propounded by Good
Housekeeping, which, for Its March
number has Interviewed (00 bachelors,
purporting to learn tbe cause of
their deplorable condition. The an
swers and explanations raise two main
issues, comments the Boston Transcript.
Many young men seem to doubt whether
they "have the price," which is fairly ex
pressed by the sum named, this being the
average of the amounts that different cor
respondents mention a requisite. A few
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young men affect to believe that the girls
of the present day are not adequately
trained for the duties and responsibilities
of wifehood, though of course we are ex
pected to admit that the young men who
declare themselves so frankly are qualified
to make model husbands.
Other considerations, suggested by cer
tain of the bachelors, seem fairly entitled
to be weighed. One Is, that the purchas
ing power of an Income Is determined by
the locality In which It la used that a few
hundred dollars in a country town might
be equivalent to several thousand In New
York. Another obvious faot Is that the
quality of the wife counts for aa muoh
as the sise of the salary, and that the
"society butterflies" whom some bachelor
reprobate frequently show mora than a
man's capaolty for adapting themselves to
hard facta and unforeseen misfortunes.
There is great wisdom in the philosophy
distilled by two of the unmarried youths
a olty newspaper man who utters the opin
ion that. 1100 a month should support a
home, and adds: "I would hate to force
a girl from a life of luxury Into this kind
of home, but if she would come I would
r.ot try to stop her;" and a Philadelphlan,
who, though he does not believe his fe
minine acquaintances have been "properly
trained," perceives the truth that "most
girls make good, when the love Is real,"
"College women," a Baltlmorean tells
the editor, "are better prepared for the
sacrifices of married life" than are some
others, the explanation being that they
have a standard of values based on some
thing else than fanhlon and society. One
hesitates to disapprove the view, yet one
becomes Impatient at the intimation that
all the sacrifices are for the wife to make
a note that la continually sounded In these
Interviews. Apparently many of the bach
elors hold that the only social gifts and
graces a woman has a right to cherish are
those that enhance her husband's comfort,
Such a circumstance prompts the reader to
quoation whether it is wholly consideration
for woman that leads the 500 young bach
elors with limited Incomes to avoid matri
mony. It may rather be that they have
failed to find women who measured up to
their Ideal of heroic unselfishness.
In a simpler age of the world Henry
Ward Beecher once affirmed that a man
could live, love, laugh and be happy on $1
a day. Thunderous protests and shrieks of
Indignation a rone. Labor leaders affected
to believe that Mr. Beecher and others
were conspiring to have the average man
make the experiment, Yet, if that fate
were forced upon him, he would undoubt
edly find a woman who was bravely willing
to share the dollar provided she felt satis
fied that she was getting a dollar's worth
of man. Much Importance attaches to that
proviso, and It may remind us that, In any
Inquiry like that conducted by our con
temporary, the woman's point ot view
Should bo stated first. Almost any attrac
tive girl could account for one or more
bachelors. It does not necessarily follow
that, because she decided to leave them as
she found them, she showed herself hard
hearted or unwise.
Hard Work, bat Pay Good.
Patent lawyers In New Vork City say
they will gladly pay from Stf to ISO a week
to stenographers who can do their work,
and as much as M a week is sometimes
paid.
The work is hard and exacting, the hours
long. You must be familiar with law work.
You should learn to read drawings, and as
Inventors generally want patents on ma
chinery, a taste for bolts, screws and
mechanism In general would be of great
help.
A wtary patent lawyer poured out some
of his woes In the New York Bun as fol
lows: "In the last four years we have tried
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Prices range $25, $33, $49, $75, $85, $98 and $139
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Choice of 300 new skirts, used by the manufacturer as samples, and sold to us
at a discount of fully one-third. A complete range of the new season's styles,
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about a hundred stenographers. Many of
them we have kept; varying lengths of time,
seldom longer than two years. It takes me
nearly four hours to "test a stenographer
thoroughly."
He conceded that very few young women
show what they can really do under such
circumstances; that often an Intelligent
and well educated stenographer will not
show what she Is capable of until the first
strangeness of work and surroundings has
worn off, and he said he would gladly en
gage without trial any one who would
come to him with references from another
patent lawyer, but no one ever did. lie
could not conclude that when women left
places with patent lawyers they either
rushed into matrimony or took up quite an
other branch of stenographic work.
He showed some of the drawings which
a stenographer would be called upon to
read. To the unltlated it would be a task
Indeed. A person trained in the work can
read them as a musician reads a musical
score.
In reading notes in patent work context
does not help as much as it does in dic
tations on ordinary subjects. For instance,
in some systems of shorthand you would
write "tap" and "top" not only with the
same outlines, but In the same position.
Yet substituting one ot these words for the
other in the transcript of a dictation might
necessitate a patent lawyer spending an
hour hunting over his laboriously worked
up notes to see which was right. A woman
who could do the work properly would be
nearly priceless.
Women have so much less aptitude for
machinery than men have that it might
seem natural to employ young men as
stenographers in a patent lawyer's office,
but young men are not content to go on
as stenographers. At the and of a few
years they Insist on graduating from the
weary grind of the machine. On the other
band, a woman, If her salary Is judiciously
increased, Is willing to go on through the
patient years taking notes and writing them
out. Of course there la the percentage ot
loss through marriage, but that la not
very large.
Uses of Poetry.
A girl said ot a friend of hers, "I never
In my life knew anybody who had such a
flow of language as she has. She is never
at a loss for a word of comparison, or an
appropriate quotation. How In the world
does she do it?" Well, I asked her, and
this Is what the good talker said:
"When I was a very little girl my great
delight was to read and study poetry. I
learned poems by heart to recite at school,
to say to my mother and my brothers . I
have always kept up that habit, and every
day as I am dressing, I have an open book
on my bureau and learn something by
heart, even If it Is only four lines. I have
never given drawing-room recitations, for
I know I should simply bore people, but I
have gained a great deal ot pleasure my
self from the habit, and I believe it has
done more to give me a good command of
words than anything else."
(Iris, Ifere'a a Chance.
If anyone can suggest a potent way to
the Rev. Norman F. Itlchardson to add
an even 200 young misses to his congre
gation at Cambridge, Mass., lie or she will
be amply rewarded.
Mr. Itlchardson Is pastor of the Harvard
Methodist church of Cambridge, which
numbers among Its members over 00 stu
dents at the university and many of the
college professors and university alumni.
The pastor holds that Massachusetts Is
the hardest state of the union in which to
rulablish a Methodist parish, Cambridge
the hardest city In the state and Harvard
square the most difficult section. Yft Mr.
Richardson, except for the lack of eligible
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young ladles, has a most prosperous con
gregation. At the church meetings and socials the
students outnumber the girls two to one.
Said Mr. Richardson:
"We have Just seventy-nine young ladles
In our church. We have counted every
precious one. But even so, we haven't half
enough. Our church committee, through
me, wishes an appeal made to hear their
lonely cry 'Come to Macedonia!'
"In the meanwhile the students who have
mortgages on the seventy-nine smile down
In pity on their poor unchosen brethern."
Which la Bestt
The managers of the fashionable cafes
of Indianapolis, according to the News of
that city, are not agreed on the question of
the comparative value cf the comoly wait
ress who trips about at her work while all
the men gase in admiration.
Chicago and St. Lou la have made an at
tempt to thrash out this problem, but the
solution SJeniB afar off. Chicago has one
solution and St Louis another. The former
has concluded that the big-eyed waitress
with dimples in her cheeks is a nuisance.
The latter is not so sanguine in the theory
that beauty in waitresses is rtot an asset
when the patronage of a business depends
upon the ability of the manager to please
his customers.
Indianapolis restaurant proprietors are
agreed en one proposition. The waitresses
must please their customers. They differ
as to what pleases.
One manager, who did not want to be
Quoted, said that five out ot seven men
who came to his place were cranks. They
like to chat with the waitresses, he said,
and especially to chat with the pretty ones.
"If they get a little encouragement," he
continued, "they will walk nine blocks out
of their wsy to be on hand for luncheon or
dinner. The ghi with the Palmer house
walk Is not exactly to my liking, but I
have been In this business long enough to
know that there Is no place for one with
web feet. The fellow who is to be served
by a woman with a bulldog facs Is sure
to find soma fault with tbe food. If. on
the other hand, a girl with some vivacity
passes him the menu, his appetite is not
likely to be spoiled at the outset.
"The girl who Is favored with a graceful
form, an airy carriage, a dimple or two,
and delicately curved eyebrows will get
more tips, wait on more people, and bring
mora patronage than the girl who is not
so favored."
Leaves From Fashion's Notebook.
A much favored color for gowns and hata
Is a blue so deep as to be almost black.
Pendants and brooches In charming em
pire derlgns are favorite ornaments for
girls and young matrons.
Upon many new evening gowns the lace
flounce Imparts the decorative note as a
skirt trimming. The flounce Is usually
beaded by a wide band of embroidery.
There is a rumor that the all-red oostume
will be worn by the young and daring this
spring, not necessarily a bright scarlet,
but the modern rose and pink reds.
Long pearl and diamond chains are re
placing the collarette, and owners of cameo
brooches are now likely to find some use
for them.
For morning frocks some leading cou
turiers are turning out smart models of
white cloth or gray cashmere with braid
trimming, celntures of soft black satin and
nsat little turnover collars.
Everything almost Is veiled nowadaya,
and the black satin gown with its corsage
of dull gold or oxidised silver lace veiled
with black chiffon is an effective Illustra
tion of this vogue.
Braiding on tailor-mades shows a dis
tinctly military Undency. Froggings and
loops, barrel buttons and shoulder knots,
hussar braidings and touches of soutache
are all in evidence.
A charming dinner gown recently fash
ioned for a young matron Is of moonlight
blue salin veiled with smoke-gray chiffon.
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was a season when fashion decreed such a wide variety of
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the models which will be most popular on the continent,
while scores of original patterns from New York are to bo
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The hats this spring vary in design, color, harmony
and style treatment from the hats of previous seasons and
every discriminating woman will realize how essential is
that exact touch of style that Brandeis millinery possesses.
We are showing in advance of the season, the ultra smart
Harem Turbans, the large hats rolled1 abruptly from the
back, the modish Cashmere hats and the stunning French
sailors.
The assistance and advice of our expert milliners is
yours at any time.
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Mother-of-pearl embroidery borders the
overdress and forms the girdle.
For afternoon wear are large hats with
black moire or satin brims and high
crowns of net and Jotted Insertion, their
only trimming being a perle-gris feather
and handsome Jeweled clasp In which
cabochon emeralds are the dominant note.
Included among the newest models are
large coarse straw hats in purple and
black, sharply turned up on one side, after
the style of the winter felts, and trimmed
with an enormous buckle or ornament of
dull chased gold and round the crown a
twist of velvet.
Hair ornaments generally take the form
of bands. Sometimes these bands are only
a silk or panne ribbon, or a gold ribbon
painted with such designs as a peacock's
eyes, embroidered with emeralds and tur
quoises, or cloth of some metallic tone,
edged with rhinestunes showing rosebuds
In silver. The metallic cloth bandeaux are
not only embroidered in tinseled threads,
but also painted In green, blue and dull
reds.
. Chat Aboat Women.
Mrs. William II. Gove and Mrs. D. M.
Little are the first women to be appointed
trustees ot the Plummer Farm school In
Salem, Mass. They were appointed by
Mayor Howard at the request of persons
interested In the welfare of the school.
Mrs. Lulu Rice ot Lungmont, Colo., re
cently received a certificate enabling her
to practice embalming. She was the only
woman among the seven candidates who
took the required examination and the
only person who got a certificate.
The question as to who has climbed the
highest mountain is still being debated by
Miss Annie Peck and Mrs. F. B. Work
man. It Is not at ail likely that It will
ever be settled any more certainly than
the Peary-Cook contest In the minds of the
friends of each explorer.
Washington, D. C, New York and Pitts
burg have co-operative housekeepers' as
sociations, whose object it is to force down
the cost of high living. Washington has
1,000 members In its association, and New
York is not far behind it. There are many
standing committees, and they have more
or loss administrative powers.
Miss Nettle A. Lang Is said to be the only
woman In America who owns and manages
an automobile station. The garage Is
known as Lake Shore Auto station and Is
In Chicago. She has been In the business
more than two years and personally in
spects each oar before it Is allowed to
leave the garage. Though she employs only
men as drivers she is reported to be in
favor of having women lsarn the business
as a means of earning a living.
Miss Alice Smith, probation officer In
New York, has submitted to the Woman'a
Municipal league a plan for a house of de
tention for women prisoners. This was
dona at the request of the police commit
tee of the league, of which Mrs. Anna
Jackson Is chairman. The committee will
work not only for a house of detention, hut
also for the Improvement of the accommo
dations for women prisoners In all the New
York station housss.
Mrs. Marl C. Taller has given $26,000 to
the New York university to endow a free
cllnlo In connection with Bellevue Hospital
Medical college. This Is the first gift re
calved to the endowment of the free clinic,
and It Is hoped to Increase the endowment
to at least $100,000. The money given by
Mrs. Taller is to establish a memorial to
the late William H. Taller.
Mrs. Herbert John Gladstone, whose hus
band Is now governor general of United
South Africa, Is said to lie a very fit com
panion for him In his difficult task of gov
erning this part of the world with satis
faction to every one concerned. She Is a
woman of most gracious mien and Infinite
tact, which qualities will be very necessary
to her In her new position. She Is the
daughter of Sir Richard Paget and of a
family of conservatives, but is, no doubt,
able to adapt herself to her husband's
politics.
A Cincinnati Cariosity.
The biggest penny In the world has
passed out of olroulatlon In Cincinnati. This
penny was the immense wooden repro
duction of a cent which for several years
has been used as a sign over what was once
the Penny Arcade on Fountain square. This
building Is to bo torn down to make way
for a new theater. The first work done was
the removal of the brotise disk with Its
utllnss of electric globes. When the rigging
man drew up In front ot the place Fountain
square became Jammed with humanity.
Thousands who hsd passed (he big penny
dally without a glance at onoe beoama
deeply Interested in It.
"The people In Cincinnati," said the po
llceman on the beat, "never seemed to
appreciate that cent, but you ought to have
seen the country people gawp at It They
would go out on the plaza and gase at it
for five minutes at a time. It waa one of
the sights of Cincinnati. Now they are go--Ing
to tear it down and there will be one
more attraction gone. Of course, the new
theater will be pretty flashy on the out
aide, from what I hear, but the excur
sionists from the country will miss the
big penny."
The size of the coin was better appre
ciated when It was lowered to the side
walk. It wus nearly fifteen feet In diame
ter. COURAGE OF THE MODERN GIRL
She Kot Only Knows the Right Thing;
to Do, hot line the Nerve
to Do It.
NEW YORK. Feb. iW.-'I don't know
what to make of the modem girl," said an
elderly woman dressed in mourning. "She
is beyond me, I don't know where she gets
her nerve, ber fearlessness, her command
of a difficult situation.
"The other day I want to visit a sub
urban friend out In Jersey. On my return I
took a trolley Into Newark to take the
train for New York. The car was nearly
filled with women going to the city to
shop or market.
"At a village which we passed through
six young men boarded the ear and sat
down together. They talked and laughsd
In a loud and offensive manner, made re
marks on the women around them sn4
swore so thst everybody could hear trnnA
I sat close by them. They had no respeet
for my gray hairs or mourning.
"Suddenly a clear voice caused every one
In the car to look at the speaker. She was
a young woman, perhaps 36 or 26. Appa r
ently neither rich nor poor, nor extraor
dinary In any way. She looked straight
at the group of young men and said: "I'll
have you arrested when I got to Newark.'
"The six looked around at her with
mouths open. Deep astonishment waa
printed on their faces. She faced them all
and said again clearly: 'I will have you ar
rested when I get to Newark.' She was
perfectly cool and fearless and evidently
meant exactly what she said.
"The effect was remarkable. The car be
came perfectly quiet. The young fellows
whispered and tittered together a little
but nothing more was said out loud. On the
edge of town before the car reached the
general stopping place In the shopping
center they ah got off.
"Now that girl not ouly put the fear of
Judgment Into those young men's hearts,
but she put shame Into mine. I felt that I,
who was old enough to be her mother,
should have proteoted her, not she me. I
felt that I, who have brought up boys of
my own, should have had dignity and
power enough to have controlled those
youths. But the fact was, I was afraid.
"The age-long feminine instinct to endure
annoyance rather than attract attention
and draw all eyes upon myself held me
silent. That girl by her looks was a nice.
womanly, modest girl, and yet she hsd
none ot that feminine fear. And as I re
fleeted on her act I made up my mind V'afA
the old fashioned shrinking, feminine y
esiy wnicn suiters long ana says nothing
rather than endure notoriety boars a rather
startling renemblance to plain cowardloe.
"But what I want to know Is, where the
girl got the nerve to do a thing which a
lot of onwn old enough to be her mother
were afraid te do."