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15 S m I i fcii imm -Tii- .1.. ii imn I - ThQ cJizw'ar BM&day Book J Loretta's Looking Glass Hrt r RiST Corrpoo6. t' m THE BEE: CM AG A, SATXTRDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1911. ge n r urn "Iy Dear Lorette Why don't you start matrimonial bureau? You are th teat 'rooter' for the Institution Of marrlsge I fcsever known. Vou seem to look Upon Ihe experience trained In that way as an es sential to the full development of a woman. Maybe you are right." Something, la ob viously' wrong with the present way of looking At woman's place tn the world. 1 am a business nomtn; and t am alo 3: tars Old. 1 git J."5 a wee!;. And I art not happy. Looking ahead do not ccem si' tractive. And when one set out of humor with the future, the iircem sctnis a poor txcuse tor living. "I only know one man I could marry. He makes no more than I. and I know to much about what It comb to live that I ahould be afraid to try It with him. I used to feel like burning your effigy aa I read your remarks. Now, I begin to eee that you have llntd up on the side of nature nd are advocating a journey in which the advantage! of current and wind are with you Instead of against the woman. If you know any nice man comfortably well-off and At lonely a I am, pleae let me know. Sincerely, JOSEPHINE M." Dear thlrty-two-year-Old-thlrty-flvs-dollar-a-week-but-not-ha.ppy Josephine M., thanke fur your auggeation. But I have a matri monial bureau now. its work shows in you. You ar going to, stop listening to people who tell you you are a great auoceea be cause you make luch a very good weekly salary. Tou are going to honestly face that empty future where the only attractions are the possible augumentatlon of your pay to WO and the finding of noma congenial woman companion with whom you have a little apartment. , And Instead of thinking that you must go to the theater every week and have a bit to eat at some rather expensive place, you are going to sit about giving that man, who makes only aa much ae you do. a new idea. You are going to let him se that you are' not In love with life as you are living It You are going to give yourself one of the real Interest In lite, one that you share with every bird and beast that God made, the fitting up of a home. But, more than anything else, you are going to learn (hat of which you are so Ignoreat. that you are totally incompetent to live Jon one-half of. what the man makes. You are going to spend your extra money In attending a clars In domestic science. Ye, you are, Joxephine! You are going to find out the practical magls of making $1 go as far as you could not make II go now. Two cannot live cheaper than one. But two can live very comfortably on a reason -ble amount If the one who spends the money for the living luelf, knows how. You do riot. But you can learn. Don't you think your figure and your feoe, your nice ways and your piano-playing make you what a poor man should have! They make you a luxury. But the man cannot live on them any more than you can. You speak of a "nice man, comfortably well-off." My dear Josephine, every one I know ha a regular feminine fringe-and-taaeel arrangement dangling after him. All the girl want a man with money enough so that they can buy service to cover up their own inefficiency. Men art Idiots to keep on being dragged Into paying a high price for Ignorance; but some one will have to marry the poor men. If I were in your place, with your com monsense, your business training, I should get very busy applying them to the problem of how to get married though poor. You can make your hueband mora successful and higher aalaried by giving him the sym pathy and ambition of a wife and a home. Try it! t alrersr Empty Without Odd. 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Exodus It Is said of a certain Infidel who ured to rneer at the Bible that he determined to read the Bible In order to be able to refute Ita arguments. After he came to the ten commandments, he said to a friend: "I will tell you what I uted to think: I supposed that Moees was the leader of a horde of banditti; that having a strong mind, he acquired great Influence over a superstitious people, and that on Mount Sinai he played off some sort of fireworks to the amassment of hie Ignorant followers, who Imagined in their fear ana superstition that the exhibition was super natural. I have been looking Into the na ture of that law. I have been trying to see whether I could sdd anything to It, or take anything from It. so s to make It better. Sir. I cannot. It Is perfect. I have been thinking, where did Moses get that lew? I have read history. The Egyptians and the adjacent nations were Idolaters; so were the Greeks and the Romans, and the wisest and the besi Greeks oi Romans never gave a code of morals like this. "Where did Moses obtain that law, which surpasses the wisdom and the philosophy of the most enlightened agea? I am set tled it came down from heaven. It. has convinced me of the truth of the religion of the Bible." Thia man, who came to the Bible to scoff, remained to worship the true and only Ood whJch the first commandment de Clares. Daniel Webster was asked at One time what he considered the greatest thought he ever had. Hla answer waa.1 "The thought of Ood and my accountabil ity to Him." Yet this fact Is pot in the minds of men In our time as Its greatness and all-Importance would seem to warrant Polytheism Is passing away because scien tific truth and general Intelligence la dis placing It. While about every third per son In our country ia a member of the Christian Church and great progress in the extension of the kingdom of God has been made since God gave the law to Moses, there is aa great need for emphasis Of the law today as ever. While men do i I. i mmm i -i n H el . srpi V -s . ;. J ; - v i. Ml REV. C. M. KOHRBOUGH. Pantor First Reformed Church. Twenty Third Street and Central Boulevard. not indulge In gross forms of Idolatry, they do not worship the Lord. And ail men do worship. It Is the law of their being, and if Jehovah Is not their God. some other creature la the object of thet trust. Gross Indifference to true religion Is the characteristic of our age. This con dition Is now bearing fruit. And the fruit ia not of the tree of life. The ignoring of the first commandment results in violation of all the rest The result It low Ideals regarding the sacred Institution of God. The Lord's day la com mercialised, and helpless men In the grip of corporations are denied their God-given right of one day's rest In seven. The In stitution of the home la tottering because of the divorce evil, which make marriage a travesty. And social lights, trempllni law under foot, have the effrontery t pose In the limelight of publicity wlthoU. a sign of a blush of shame. The greed to gold has warped the conscience of men, s that there Is no fear of God. nor devil, no: judgment to come, and human life Is re garded with contempt. There la an effor through organized society and Its lnstitu Hons to correct these evils. But the roo of the whole situation lie in the first com mandment. The stream never rises higtier than Its source. There art various contributing cause which aggravate the present indifference towards worship of God. A very, pro nounred cause Is the fact that for the las hundred years or more our educatlona' system has magnified laws nnrt left li the minds of men a universe goverr.ef wholly by laws without a personsl la giver, which is a fundamental error am" Is prejudicing the youth of our land agalns true religion, and leaves them without Ooi and without hope. Our echools fail to think to a "conclusion." A little reflection will convince most men that a law has no power In Itrelf. It requires a living per sonality back of the law to give it ef fect. Yet multitudes of men look out on God's vast creations and see no farther than a universe Of law. To look upon the earth and the heavens and eliminate a per sonal Ood from them make them terribly empty. It leaves man as god self-sufficient, a law unto himself. Yet It is more rational to think of the rushing express train without a guiding band on the throt tle, than to think of the universe without Ood. Tho purpose of the law I not to destroy but to save. It Is our tutor to bring ue to Christ. It reveal our Imperfections. Ii shows us the perfection and righteousness of Ood. It also convicts us at the bar of judgment. It takes away every hope of self-righteousness and prepares the way for a great Mediator. The moet beautiful morality will pale In the fierce light uf Mount Sinai. The most wicked sinnor need not despair If he will turn and come to Mount Calvary. For there the law was fulfilled and the forgiveness of sin made a fact. "Having a Good Time" on Paper "Flannels" for Women Am staying with the Brewsters. Eleanor is as good looking and wicked as ever. She has some new clothes, and It's positively heartrending to be In the same room with a woman that looks aa she doe in them. When I sim with her I feel ae though I might Just a well go out and recline en a mud heap. Now, when I'm with Ellen Baxter X feel as though I were a , goddess Eleanor looks so clean. Expensively clean, you know. French maid and perfumed bath clean. I'm clean myself, a far aa that goes, but only just plain oap and bath towel clean. - Che haa a new maid this year, who Is frightfully supercilious. She makes me ter.ibly nervous. I can aee from her man ner that aha doesn't think I am a real lady, and it la becoming an awful strain to try to deceive her Into thinking I am one. If I'd only order cocktails sent up to my room or throw the furniture at her I know I'd go up Instantly In her estima tion. She is putting away aome of my clothea as I am writing, and regard them with a cold and calculating eye. She can hardly apeak any English, but I wouldn't try to talk French to her for anything. I don't mind speaking It to Eleanor In private. She thinks I know a little, but Maria wouldn't It la always safe to aay "Oul" If pronounced enough like a very young pig killed, so I confine myself to that. I don't aee that Swedish masseuse around who was here last year. She burst into my room on one occasion, and in sisted on giving me a treatment that mad tee ill for a week. Jimmy Brewster I just the aama. I can not sea how they let him go around with out a keeper. Eleanor aay aha (imply adores her Jimmy, and would brain any on who aald anything about him, but that he' always been craty a a loon. HI sister was sort of queer, too. Don't you remember, ah always gave such lovely parties that It seemed much more tactful to aay ahe had an artistic temperament. I'll never forget how frightened Jack Tompkins was that time we were all going to a big outdoor affair they gave and ahe looked over a hedge and mad faeea at ua. She used to star at me for hour. and I always felt that she wanted to bite me. It' awfully gay and attractive here. Eleanor believes In doing something ovary minute, and aa you generally happen to want to do Just what she doea, you have a tnarraUoua time. Handsome young men arrive ta drove. They oom over for tennis I FELT SHU WANTED 'U BITE ME. and tea, and sometimes stay tor dinner. Eleanor always has a lot of beaux hang ing around, of all nationalities. She give them tea and drink in her shaded old roe drawing room, and If one of them get at all beyond control she ring the bell and Watta appear to remove the tea tray. That la, of oourte, beyond doubt, the per fect way to have things. Alloa Boyd laid after aha married Tom Atklna. who didn't have a oent, she never dreamed of having young men around. It they became too sentimental and she rang a bell, the one maid wouldn't have an' awered It under any circumstances. She said she had that adorable Cattleton man. who t so stylish, to tea once, and she wae rather hoping ah was making an impres ston on him, when the maid of all work appeared unexpectedly and said that she had found there wasn't enough beef left over to make hash for dinner. Castleton had mentioned asking her to a coaching party, but after h had fallen Into the baby carriage in the hall and broken hie hat he never said anything mora about It. Alice says, contrary to what some people Imag ine, ahe thinks poverty makes you very moral. t Eleanor's latest foreigner Is a Russian. wouldn't trust him with th tennis balls myself, but she thinks ho Is charming Eleanor has presented me with a pair of bronxe slippers that are too large for her Of courts, they have to be too small for me. but I ahall wear them It I have to be carried. As ever, BESS. (Copyright. ttlL by th N. Y. Herald Co.) Dr. Maud Glasgow, an English woman, I quoted by the London papers as being an advocate of men's "flannels" for women's wear. She Insists that flannel trousers and coat form "th Ideal costume for the woman clerk or secretary ; also for th housemaid, and Indeed for th mis tress of the house when engaged in do mes tie duties." Dr. Olasgow Is likewise of the opinion that there will be found not only many women willing but eager to wear the sum mer garb of th rich and frivolous youth. She argues that the cool flannel trousers axe far better than skirts, even from the standpoint of maidenly modesty, and that as the man's coat haa already practically been adopted by up-to-the-minute women. they ahould go step farther and appro priate the trousers. All of which attracted the , attention of the Bachelor on the Claim, who writes: Lt 'em have the trousers, say I, be cause out her in th 'soddies' ws have been commenting with some favor on Mrs. Belmont's farm for women, where ths workers all wear ths bifurcated garment. They seem to be doing good work, end then be women in this section who Insist they could not do all the hard work In volved In holding down a claim and making Silhouettes of the Sidewalk To and fro all day he pace. Bearing on his stooping back Trunks, valises, dress suit rases; Big and little bags, brown or black. Camp kits, rods, golf sticks, umbrellas. Begs for guns and bags for hats. Rsge from Halifax and Hellas, Bag for dogs and bags for cats. Thousands start to leave the city - Thousands more are oomlng back; Dull or witty, clean or gritty, All have bag, or kit. sr pack. And th baggage man, complaining. Carries them continually. Be the weather clear or raining, Mtenwhile iocketlng his fee. Hera's Dam Fashion, oool. unhurried. Lighting from her limousine, ' While her melds, excited, flurrried. Hover "round the changing scene.' Slowly all her trunks are carted Pile on pile to the expreee. rhere'e th whistle! She's departed! Dtd ah tip him? Well. I guess! How he wait to rest a minute. "Porter!" calls a voice In rage. Anger and despair are la It.) "I've been waiting hers an age. rake theea things to track eleven. Careful now! Don't let thjra tail, lere they are theee here! Qreat heaven) They ax not soy things 1 i . i . i- It pay unlees they could suspend Mrs. Grundy's rules and go about In overalls and jumpers. Of course, we do not have out here on the free pra-rea the sams con ventional surroundings as you have In th city, but th morality of th settlers Is of A Fishing Frolic J We went to fish In a mountain stream. Billy and Bob and I. Where waters murmur and catch th gleam Of th eun as they race by. We took new tackle and bright tin cans Filled full of juicy worms; We had dug them gayly wlh our hands. And little we cared for squirms! All day we angled with happy glee Where the rocks had made a pool. The fish were happy and so were ws Knee-deep in the wsters cool. When shadows lengthened end sun had set We gathered up our spoils; We were bedraggled and dirty and wet But paid for all our tolls! And what were the spoils, you wish to know? Too msny for us to tell We had baked quite brown In the sun beams' glow And 'Joyed ourselves as well! Philadelphia Record. J a high type, and no one has been found bold enough to suggest that he would not danca with a girl in skirts who a few hours previously was doing a man's work in trousers. "There is just one objection that I can see, from this dlntance. How could a fel low tell a 'sissy' boy from a husky, up standing girl? It might be easy tn a ball room, or In tho home, but where tho lights are uncertain a girl with a man' hat and ult on would be likely to butt Into some unpleasant situations. And unsophisticated men, too, tn a good many instances would b likely to find themselves .a position to be withered with scornful glances, or win ning a licking from a male friend dresaed just like his girl. "On old-fashioned woman on a claim not far from mine waa told of th proposed reform In woman's dress, and when she was made to understand It was no joke, she said: 'Well, I have always admired a Scotchman In kilts, when he haa nice calves, and maybe th world will be hap pier when skirts are shorter and the women can throw off their physical hobbles. Na ture unadorned waa once thought to be de cent and modeet, and the female form par tlally adorned would bs mors useful, even if not aa ornamental as it Is now.' " WHEN A MART MARRIED Then mors scurrying, rushing, lurching la and sut amona the crowd. T1U at last, by dint of searching. He 'nest s new pile Is bowed. When they're checked, he yells. "Hey! sorter, Look out Jim. for thinas 'round hara!" Folks are looking for the porter. And he's looking for a beer. (Copyright, lsu. by ths N. Y. Herald Coj , rZ SMITH'S" a ( Ml WO JU5lt, , ' MVlFC-TOltO I pTg J 50ME -THING- . -j;, tT " 2 I A.Bi2LUT-v ( ZKrri-PA-rf! LOST PovuoS f- W . you MlSfc2AE?LfL NIK ON TH' . DARE VOU ? ( ScwW, , WTONLY J f 'A"r- St. Name) and Addrt-aa. Ardon Adwera. 3712 North Twenty-third St, Carl V. Bilger. 2626 Sprague St Earle Bilaky, 1723 Davenport St Fred Bird, S07 Bancroft St Elal E. Bloom. 4S31 California St Dorothy Bruce, 2802 Franklin St Carl E. Carlson, 8209 8eward St Hflen M. Carrier. 1514 South Twenty-ninth Nellie-R. Crulckshank, 28S0 Meredith Ave Mary C. Dalton. 181 Paul St Harre Eaton, 974 North Twenty-sixth St Bessie Farach, 1407 South Thirteenth St Remo Florelda. 170fi North Thirty-fourth St... Frank Gilcrest, 4809 Leavenworth 6t Leota Graham, 1204 Oust St.... Vernon orlm, 2622 Davenport St Edna B. Guermsey, 17S6 South Tenth St Marion Hanaen, 2817 Nicholas St Eugene Harold, 2214 South Twenty-eighth St.. Haiel Helnstedt, 1812 Spencer St Frank Hunton, 2138 South Thirty-fourth St... F.lrera Karah, 250 4 Tatrlck Ave William Lisle Keys. 4023 Charles St Clara Louise Klura. 267S South Thirty-first St. Jennie Krestul. 609 South Thirteenth 6t Frank Kroff, CS17 South Twenty-aixth St Palma Larsen, 2622 Taylor St Wlllard C. Latey. 45 26 North Thirty-ninth St. . . Arthur Lawler, 2252 North Twentieth St George William McNiece, 2608 Charlea St Jessie Menziea, 214 North Twenty-fifth Margaret Menziea, 2 714 North Twenty-fifth St. Rudolph Meiger, 2202 South Twentieth St.... Margaret Moore, 848 South Twenty-third St... Georgia Nelson, 343C Curtis Ave Eugene Neville, 1309 South Thirty-second St. . . Frank Novak, 1717 South First St Winifred Owen, 207 South Twenty-fourth St... Mildred Petersen, 1720 South Sixth St William Plager, 6403 North Sixteenth St Grace A. Poland, 37 2S Lake St Violet Porter, 1516 North Sixteenth St. Arthur Rasraussen, 1318 South Fifth St Harry F. Shepherd, 3209 North Twenty-seventh Anna Sroka, 2809 Walnut St Roy Stromberg, 712 Bancroft St.. Rachel S. Wriff, 6904 North Thirty-third Are. This is &e September 9, 1911. ; : a 1 v (fiD Tcr? ARTHUR LAWLER. 131 North Twentieth Btreet. Ave ftchool. .Lothrop .Saratoga Central .Train .Saunders Long .Franklin .Hlgti .Monmouth Park .Holy Family. . . .Long .St. Philomena. . High .Beals .Sherman Webster .Lincoln . Webster .Franklin .Lothrop .Windsor .Long .High .Dupont . .Leavenworth .Im. Conception. . . . Saratoca .Central Park. . . . .Lake .Long .Howard Kennedy. .Howard Kennedy. . Castellar . Mason .Saratoga . .' .Park .Train .Central , . Long , . Sherman .Clifton Hill . .Kellom . . Train ..Long . .Im. Conception. . . . .Bancroft ........ . .Central Park. . . . Tear. .1904 ,.1S96 ..1905 .1893 .1S95 ..1903 .ISM .1895 .190 4 .1S93 ,.noi . U!6 ..1890 . 1001 .inoi 1!03 ..1M01 .1301 1;01 .1:100 .1901 .U00 .1804 .1.1') J ..1904 .189!! .1894 .1903 .1896 .1904 .1905 .1896 .1900 .1896 .1899 .1893 ..1893 .1899 .1900 .1896 ..1897 .1901 .1904 .1903 ".1898 , .1901 .1902 How to Train a Wife For weeks th Hopeful Housewife had worn an air of great importance, solemnity and secrecy. For a corresponding period there had been a marked falling off In the quantity and quality of the feed served In the Confirmed Commuter's horns. It the Commuter had been highly skilled In the reading of domestic signs he might have Inferred from the conjunction of the two phenomena that the Hopeful Houaewlfe waa trying to save money. One morning whan the breakfast was more meagre than usual an air of serene triumph prevaded his wife and her surroundings. I'm going Into town with you thia morn ing,' she announced. "Shopping?" he ssked perfunctorily. "Shopping." his wife answered. And that was every word she said. The Commuter could not account for it Ordinarily his monosyllable Inquiry would have launched the Hopeful Housewife into a minute description of everything shs intended to buy, with a running com mentary on the comparative merits of the vsrlous department stores. 'What la a masher T" inquired his wife suddenly when they wets halfway to town. I don't mean men, you know, but some thing to play golf with.' 'A mashie!" laughed the Commutter, who, like ail, golf player, eonaidered a knowledge of his favorite game as a part of the A U O of life. "Why do you went to know?" he asked, unsuspiciously. "Just because Mrs. Brown came in to tea yeaterday afternoon and shs said something about only five clubs being really necessary to the game, and they had. auch funny names that I remember them at least I think I do a driver, a lofter, a piftter, an Iron and & masher." Mashie," corrected tne commuter again. "Well. It's ths same thing." shs replied. And is It really so, that those are the five necessary, clubs. "Yes," the Commuter snswered. "Whence this sudden interest In golf?" She made no reply and a quick, sharp misgiving shot through him. Hs had neither th time nor the courage to voice It. how ever, tor just then bis wit had reached her destination. Lata that afternoon bis fears were realised. Looking up from hi desk In a room where by good fortune hs wss momentarily alone, ha perceived a very small messenger boy staggering toward him under th load of the largest, flossiest, newest golf bag he had ever beheld. In color It was the brightest possible yellow. It had brass trimmings. Also the seams were laced In the fanciest of designs with thongs of whit leather. It was so hopelessly, so gorgeoualy pretty, so very loud that ths Commuter felt sure that a penny dropped Inside the bag would cause it to pisy a variety of Scotch lunea. He grabbed a dosen big sheets of msnila paper and la a moment th onoe glorious golf bsg was wrapped up in a long, shapeless, non-committal bundle. It was by this narrow margin that the Commuter escaped a public shame! Qreat was his relief, and when from the window of the 45 train he saw his wife waiting with Woof-Woof, his pet coins, at the Mountalnvllle station, genuine grati tude welled In his heart. The Hopeful Housewife's first glance was tor th shrouded bag. "Oh!" she exclaimed, "you've got it all wrapped upl Pont you think it pretty?" HE PERCEIVED A VERT SMALL MEB 6ENOER BOT. aha asked with trembling eagerness. "Pretty!" echoed the Commuter with feeling, "I think it's the prettiest bag I ever saw!" (Copyrighted, 1911, by the N. T. Herald CO.) r Feminine Progress J "I consider trousers for women to be not only desirable from a hygienic and sani tary point of view, but distinctly desir able tn ths way of economy and simplic ity," said Dr. Sargent of ths Hemlnway gymnasium. Harvard. "They give free dom of movement, do away with the in jurious corset, and are leas immodest than soma of the latest gowns. They sre In every wsy more desirable for the girl who works tor her living. "Trousers sre not a bit more Immodest than any other costume." Jsurez, Mez.. Is believed to be the Only city In ths world In which ths direction and control of the city parka have been turned over completely to women. The parks In Ciudad Jsures still will be eared for by men, but above ths men will be a board of eight lady managers, com posed of four "dames" and four "senor ttas," who ha vey exclusive control and dl dectlon ot all parka. Miss Kate Ban born, the authoress, for merly a professor in Smith, college, whose literary came Is Katharine Abbott Ban born, expresses, the pellet that the daugh ters of the rich, tired of being pampered, tired ot living the empty life of society with men who sre often weaklings and aeldom mors than mere puppeta, are de liberately giving up many of their ad vantages and are turning to men whose physical makeup is more nearly the ele mentary. The elopement of Julia Estelle French, niece of Mre. Elale French Vanderbllt, with a chauffeur. Inspired the statement. The Wrtttasjt ths Mmp. "There Is some lettering to be done on this map of Alaska, is there not?' said the draftsman. "Tea," replied the eminent geographer. "Just mark it hands oft snd let It go Si that "Washington Star