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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1912)
17 The ee'g Hne Mai'az'iIP fa SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT r THE NltJTH TlMfc THAT TJOOD HAS VOTCO - Ht H MORS voTHi "MAW CAPTEW HAS pttuS t'U- 3UJT ffPAB MlA KNO GWE 1 A uvr TO TVW CoOLCP- Texas By KLltEKT Copyright, 1913, International News Porvlcc. I have Just completes a three week's tour of Texas. I stopped In twenty-ono towns and cities, dispensing the oratorical caloric under the kindly guidance of the Ad clubs. To say that Texas Is prosper ous 'Is putting It pianissimo. Tfexns Is mlcroby with money. Tho buying power of 'the people Is revealed by the business dono in the depart ment stores. A pioneer people buy things that are coarso find strong, and al way tho Intent is to make the dollar KO as far as that famous dollar which Ocorco Washington oiic-o threw across tho Potomac- river In tho Texas department stores you will find the latest fashions modes from Paris nrul styles from London. Toxaa has parsed .out of the pioneer stage. This 'tiling that litis caused the welling waters of prosperity to flow 'is the de mand for cotton. Cotton is king. Cotton clothes the world. Texas ptoduces onothlrd of the cotton crop of tho United States. Cotton lr raised in Texas at less cost per bale than anywhere else in the world. In most states you hear of "cotton patches," but in Texas there aro cotton fields fields seemingly limited only by tho horizon. Tho discovery that cotton will grow on tho prairie is a new one, Texas, In the year of grace, 1911. is producing 4,000,000 bales of icotton. This cotton Including tho various products of cottonseed is worth $200,000,000. And yet cotton is only one of nlno great products that Texas produces. However, only lialf of tho people are onsaged in farming in Texas, About one half of these ralso cotton. The result when figured up would show tliat in borne districts wholo families will receive In cosh $1,000 for each member of tho family. At- ono place of 1,000 inhabitants I counted over 200 teams that had come to town with loads of cotton. A wagonload is anywhere from ono bale to five; so each farmer went back home with from 60 to 00 dollars in cash or its equiv alent. Tho tendency of the small farmer is toward the small farm, simply 'because labor conditions aro such that the fanner has to do the work hlmfelf, and with 'his own immediate family. As for the hiring a great number of men and systematiz ing tho business this is getting more and more of a problem. The helpers are not to be hod. A big family In Texas is an asfct. 4 Cotton pickers get Jl.K Per 100 pounds. When they wero hired by the day they picked 100 pounds of cotton a day. And ho the Idea of piece work came In and $1.25 waa fixed as a fair rate for picking 100 pounds of cotton. The result has been that piece-work has quickened the process. I saw girls of 12 years that would pick up 100 pound a day. and here In Texas In the country all the children work. And working out of doors, with plenty to eat. in a salu brious climate, they are healthy and well and strong-brown, bronzed, happy. They can sleep all right, and they certainly ent. Some expert women pickers do their 300 pounds'a day, and I saw a few men who, could pick 400 pounds a day. A great number of negroes make from 3 to $5 a day. When pay day comes, and they get $100 apiece, there is a great temptation to go to town and rest up. This. vast amount of cash being dis tributed through Texas for her cotton crop is not without Us drawbacks. Com paratlvely nothing is being put back into th nii in the wav of fertilizer. How M BWMBBb MM M WBMWW M MM W SSjssi VSJSB - r - - - , , II I I " - ' I I I II I II " I - I I 111" I I I ' I I II I I II , I ST " i M -4 1 I ' CjS long the black dirt will produce a yearly cotton crop no one knows, but thcie must be a limit. There was a time when the Texas steer held tho center of the economic state. S'ow the value of the entire number of attle In Texas is about $l6O,OW,00a. and the number of cattle shipped out of Texas brings brack In cash, annually, lay In the neighborhood of $30,000,000. At Fort Worth are immense packing plants conducted by tho Armours and the Swifts. These concerns, I saw, were pay i f- eastern prices for hogs, cattle and (r.r. That is to say, the prices the ia :iur receive in Fort Worth for hogs and cattle wero tho Identical prices being paid by Jacob Dold & Co. in Buffalo. .1 saw carloads of ham and bacon bing unloaded at these packing houses. And. I J 1 I' wi-wr- j I IT .. J1 I II WA LHTJHtiA IV r W . NSBSSSSSSSSSSStw- I V f A I ft KJ I MU TW VJ f I - . Siftings llirUBARD. when I asked where this came from, they said: "It is shipped In hero from Kansas City and Chicago." So behold tho curious fact of Texas dependent on Illinois, Mis souri, Iowa and Kansas for food products. I saw mules sold in the stock yards at Fort Worth at from $300 to $600 a pair bought by fanners who had tho go d cash to pay for them. Good horses brought WOi and extra choice galted saddle horses bold for JtiO and $800 apiece. Texas Is neither north nor couth. Euro pean emigrants and tho Influx from the north have broken down sectional lines. You get a good deal of the hustla of Denver In Dallas. Yankeo onterpriso is everywhere noticeable. Long years ago we weor told that Texas lacked two things society and wator. You will find both of those here now In abundance. The two things that Texas really lacks are tranaportatton anJ labor. Thero are no double track railroads In Texas. Melons, peaches, yams, sweet po tatoes1 have been rotting rn the fields for lack of transportation. The black dirt means fortuity of soli, but It also means Impassable roads at certain seasons. It costs big money here even to get the product from the farm to the railroad station, and Just now there Is a dearth of freight cars. Texas has suffered from over-legislation. The provincial mind fears big business. Much of this fear Is temperamental, and has come down to us from tho remote past, when power was polite plllago and not always especially polite. Texas lairs have made it difficult for the railroads to build and operate. The railroads have been overtaxed, over supervised, and subjected to many ha rassing and exasperating exactions. The tide seems to have turned, how ever, and the people of-Toxus now realize that tho prosperity of the state turns on being broad and generous rather' than small and suspicious. Texas Is an emplro in itself, but its resources will be practically unguessed until the state Joins hands with big busi ness say as Canada does and then. In deed, will the desert blossom llko the rose, and tho waste places be made green. Texas could feed the world. Easy if You Know How Just before the ferry steamer San Fran cisco reached its slip In San Francisco and beforo the forward sliding doors on the lower deck had been officially opened, a stout individual slid one of the doors ailde and stepped through to the forward deck. Tho wind was blowing half a gale and when the stout man slid the door back Into position tho tails at his overcoat caught between the two doors. Other passenger, noting his plight, tried to open the doors so as to release the coat, but they refused to open. The boat entered the allp. The doors refused to budge for the big deck hand whose duty It was to open those doors and the ones' on the other fclde. The passengers left by the other door, while tho deckhand Miminoned his mates to help him open the obstinate door nnd release the trapped commuter. They pulled and they hauled, hey used crowbars nnd tackle, Taut the toor refused to budge. A small crowd of the city-bound throng lingered to watch the fun. Passengers for the next trip to the Alamoda shore were then released from the waiting room and In a few minutes there was a big crowd around the Jammed door with offers of advice and assist ance, Jeers, comforting and more or less Impertinent comment. "Great Caesar!" screamed the panting prisoner. "You must release me. I have a most Important engagement." "Doing the best we can, tr," said the mate, "Tho boat will start Irt a minute, and I guess we'll Ret you loose before wo get back." "You must hold the boat hers," In sisted the prisoner, "I'd lose hundreds of dollars if I made that trip back. Break down the door, I'll pay for It." Then the "all aboard" bell rang, nnd the man that lifts the apron stepped up to do his duty. "I'll pay 1100 If you'll hold the boat!" begged the victim. "Make It $3)0!" "Nothing doing!" The mate signalled to have the apron raited and the Im prisoned commuter was about to faint when a small boy, one of those that had lingered to sec the fun, piped out; "Say, mster! Why don't you slip out of your coat? The company'!! take care of It for you!" Ran Franolrco Call. People spend tbelr money and then plan the way thi-y ought to ha'v dun it. The folly of giving women the ballot, would be they'd want to know what they were voting on. I I iffim .At rf .t BRoiw ov nic!(Sw or wwwo' Beauty vSi Duty gj surir , - . &: TANlSo-MfSTflW CRO&&.I SOW YssTiDoy ro gclliho liquor tAlfn. i- - INTERLOCUTOR, is THT 30? TAMl3Qm Vi?A CftaJ .CMj JtAMJ wm.tftD tf f TO THE NffVVtSDMiAHS rtrtv UOOKeO fT ONC Of de PMfiH THeN He nexeDTbtl SAt-d. &ERLER SftIO YES. OEM, QA DFtflP i uodcict wvi ELLiii' LIQUOR MPMim CPwftf? INTERLOCUTOR - WHY WHAT x rnrSfZ WS T f TAMBO-Je LOH&OM PUNCfi BACK! don't WALK MTHE FORKOVfeR THAT KNIFE. SOU?. What Girl Taught to By PRANCES L. GARSIDK. Tho little Ciod Cupid tapped three times with his bow on the trunk of a hollow tree. The sound was a call to the heart that was heard through all tho city and country, and there oamc marching forth all the maidens the world holds. Thero were stenographers, serious and sedate; pert llttlo milliners; parlor maids, wearing .saucy llttlo aprons and caps; col lege girls, looking as if tho world 'were theirs, and they Were on their way to claim It; waitresses, ho starched and Im maculate in their white linen uniforms that they looked llko Homebody's wash on the line; much behatrci clerks, from the department 3tores; drciBinakersI wear ing that air of patience and weariness that too closo association with tho needle always gives; cooks, bellicose and bel ligerent, nnd girls who had always slayed at homo under tho shelter of protecting parental wings. Thero wero girls from every rank Q 11 to, Including the lielrcBH whose money could buy a duke, and tho poor child of poverty, who hndn't tho money to buy a ribbon to attract the admiration of a butcher boy. Every division had a spokesman who told of the claims for recognition from Cupid her girls possessed. Let you men listen! De you tottering from tho cradle, tottering to the grave, or standing upright and fearless on the short walk that lies between, makes iio difference. All that you need say Is that you are unmarried, and this sad confes sion of an illness that is so easily .cured entitles you to a front seat. The waitress, starched and Immac ulate, stepped to the front. Trim of fig ure, neat of hair, with bright, healthy faces and a cheerlncfs thnt comes with no other calling, every man's heart In the audience begins to topple before their spokeaman, Miss M. E. McDonald, has said a word. "I have from ISO to SOO girls In my em rHay,' said Miss McDonald, "and I know whereof I speak when I make the ?nm that the work my girls do fits them to bo good wives. "Thoy must be neat and trim to hold their positions, and this becomes a habit. I will not have a girl in my employ who paints her face. In this way they learn to despise the artificial and cling to tho natural. It Is a casting off of false standards and clinging to the true. "I do not countenance frowsy hair, nor hair of such quantity It looks as If bought by the ton. My girls do not wear hobble shirts, these uniforms give them freedom of breath and limb. They get the best of food In the lunchrooms, tea rooms and restaurants in which they serve and havi learned to discriminate between good food nnd bad. As a result they do not live In poorly kept boarding houses, but thote who are motherless rent rooms and do housekeeping. "in this way they acquiru the house wifely Instinct and I have found that every home I have visited is as neatly I- The Judge Meets a Copyright. 1912. National 'l AM WILLING iO VIS TORMY COUNT?y,"fffl&Peo THE DViNG SOLDIER THE MOTION PICTURE tAfN FtStKED.' Hflve you NV MESSAGE TO SEND TO yoUP OLD MOTHER " "VlTS; WHISPER ED Tre ouN-Ltfr6e7?, "n&K her the m&resT MOTOR BOT RONS ABOUT GXTV AN OUTO MOBILE yN-flOOtTM Slow your whisils! VOtiKE COMING TO f CROSSING WHY, FRESH GfUY ( NvOULDSTl AtM'T YUH? SPOON? I 4 1 II ME NOT, GrOOK? T is the Ideal Be Neat Brightens the Home MISS M. E. kept as the girl keeps herself. Tho ap pearance of the girl tells what kind of ?, housekeeper she Is, "Iook at my girls," stepping aside to givo an unobstructed view of the smil ing row behind her. "It there a girl In tho line who doesn't look as If sho had Just stepped out of the proverbial band box? "When serving a meal they learn the caprlalousness of the man-stomach, If u girl Is quick and bright she remembers the second time a man eats at her tablo If he wants cream In his coffee, and how much, und Just to what turn he likes his steak. Repeater News Ass'n. routvsioRY mussy thc RIVFTTlNO CHHMP WAS OPbOHKiH ON THe BUJLDIN6 THM HC HOD TO STOOP TO KtrCP PROfl DUMPN6, MIS HEAD ON THC SKy HE HEFWZD THE NeWSICS MOWLIN& ft SPECIAL IN TNe. STREETS BELOW HE CLIMBED DOWN, IT TAKlNtf- HIM fiN HOUR, ThETN &OUG-HT AM EXTRA, OPENED IT OND ON THE FPoNT PAGE WITH F FULL-PUW HEACV IT Sfl, 1r f POT WAS ON and you Drew a paii? on JACKS WOULD YOU CALL T A "CAN OPEN ER" LETinUR HE5au CUT PE.wnd I'M THEB00H THAT PUT Tilt CUT IN CUTLETS. Wife? M'DONADD. "The men are finding that what I suy is true, in the past two years twenty flvo of my girls havo left me to become wives, and every one of them has made a good wife." Ueimrtec. A perspicacious young man, panMng where an old colored man was Limy sot ting firo to Urn (lil grass In a meadow, auooeted til in tlmtt: "Don't do that, Uncle Kb, don't do that!" "Why so, sah, why so?" "You will make that meadow as black as you ure " "Never mind tint, aah, never mind dull Pat wrasH will all grow out an' be us greerf as you is' -Judge Drawn for The Bee bv Tad By W1NIFRKD Well. Well. Vlda Faulkner Tage. so It's a sign of mental deficiency to bo fat! Tou raid so right out In meeting, your meeting at a big hotel In New York. Also you said: "The woman who Is Indif ferent to her looks ought to be sent to an Insano asylum. Oood nowfl nil this, Isn't It sis ters? cheery, early. morning greeting but whisper, I don't believe a word of It. Do you May Irwin, dp you Fay Tcmpleton, do you Mrs. Cornwnllls West? Mentnl deficiency I That's good. Why. some of tho clever est pcoplo I know nro fat, and good and fat at that. And some of the stupidest are little scrawny, half-starved creatures, who look ns If they'd break In two if you gave them a good hug and ait old-fashioned kiss, "A woman who doesn't care all tho time how she looks ought to go to a sani tarium," so you think, eh, dear Miss Tage. Well, thon, most of the women who amount to n row of pins In this ivorlfl ought to bo shut up In dark cells, padded nt that, and never let out again. "Care all tho time how she lookB?" Do you know what that would mean to most women, dear ladyT Bo you reallxe that tho average woman has about as much time to devoto to manicuring her nnlls ns tho average dock laborer? Manicurist, hair dresser, complexion specialist: why, you might as well say gold dust from Mars to the average every day woman not tho women crowding to your funny llttlo meetings, hut the women who count, tho women whoso work amounts to something, the women who help the world along every day, all day, nnd sometimes half the night, too. What time ha a. woman with six or seven children to give to her complexion? If she gntH tho tlmo to take a good bath every duy that Is about as much oa sh.t can oven hope to accomplish, and mostly, sho's too busy for that. What houi shall she ha,vo her hath before breakfast, and keep father willing for his coffee? After breakfast? Who'd get the girl nnd thu boy off to school, luncheon packed, buttons nil nn, pencils In their case, ImioIih In the strap, hall combed and faces washed? Iloforo noon? Who'd make the. bedx, air the roomn, Hwecp the dining room, order the food for the day, luncheon on the Mioke of 12? After luucti? I.lttle Hobble In home from kindergarten, his finger is hurt and ho has to he petted a while, ' Jano has torn n. hole In her skirt, there's n rent In the hall rug, those curtains need rehanglng. Who's that at the phone? There's, thu door bell, Indies canvassing for tld church huppvr: yes she will give one of her flno chocolate cakes and a cranberry pie, too What, 5 o'clock, and the mending no even looked at? John will be home In half an hour or so. and he does hate to come In and not see the tab! set for dinner. Hurry, hurry; there, dinners .jeody to the mlnuto; Just what John likes, too. Of course those corn cakes were a bit of trouble, but look at John's face when ho catches sight of thorn. Eight o'clock Just a mlnuto for tho evening paper. Nellie must have fomo help with her urithmetlo first, though. Oh, the ribbon Is half off tho hat nnd the stockings must bo darned. Ten. o'clock, they are all In bed asleep, nil but mother. She's luylng out the llttlo clothes to bo put on In the morning, fold ing tho ribbon careless Mary dropped where It fHI, opening a window here, shutting a dnor there. What, going' to bed without a com plexion trout ment! No beauty rub to night! Look nt those hand of yours who would want to kiss them; and that hair, you ought to get It brushed at least 100 strokes a day. Well, well, you poor foolish good-for-nothing half-wit, you'll have to go to a sunltarlum tomorrow, you haven't even thought of your books since you washed your face and combed your hair this morning. And you are not a oliim dtvsller, either, by a long ways, or vn a very poor woman, Well-to-do thoy :all y.ju dawn In the little village you came from. Just an average, rather bettor off than most American women, and you ought to go to an asylum because you didn't sit In front of a glass half the day making faces at yourself and th'nk'.n ' that that would keep the old man with the rothe away from your door. Thirty-five and you look It. What an outrage, what a ln! Why, your ciltne HIjACK. Ugalnst your sex cries to heaven. Don't you know that It Is a woman's first duty to he beautiful? Children, husband, work, duty? rout! whistle them down the wind; what you want is a completion oven If you have to get It In a bcec. What you wait Is shiny hair and a figure; that's the way to keep your husband. You nro away behind the timet, really, you're hopeless, quit hopeless. And yet. do you know, little woman, that I believe you are more than half right? I don't bellovn your husband John Is Uoh a fool a-i these beauty cranks would try to make us alt bellov. I be lieve John cares something for such women an you without the complexion and tho shining hair, Iio certainly han spells of acting as If he did. AiM ns for the rest of us, do you know that the whole American nation Is hold together by Just such women as you, tho plain, unassuming, hard-working llttlo mothers In the little homes all ovor this great soft-hearted, hard-headed country Of ours? I do hope Miss Tage and her followers will not hear about you and have you all sent to nsylumn Just yet. Not till all the Httln children are grown up and all the hungry hard-working men are fed, and all tho lonely hearts aro comforted. I'm afrnld wo should miss you. Just a little. ir Blindness of Youth j lly HtSATUICE KAIHKAX. A young man, ono who la unmarried, picks up a newspaper. lie turns first to the sports. Perhaps ho roads tho tele graphio news; he undoubtedly does If Komcthlng ecjivatlonal has occurred. If he Is a thinker ho reads the editor ials. IIo looks at the oomlo platures and then throws the paper away. A young woman? one who 1s not mar ried, picks up u paper. Perhaps she reads the sporting news; sho usually read the telegraphlo news) she always looks over .the society page, and sometimes glances up and down the obituary column. Oc casionally, she reads tho editorial?. Hut, young man and young woman alike, thero Is ono part of tho paper that )i always overlooked. It Is tho part that refers to tho onward Jump of high prices. If potatoes havo gone up,; If butter has advanced: if flour has made another Mrlde; If It costs more to live today than It cost yesterday, nnd there are threats that It will cost morn tomorrow;tha young man and young woman, If unmarried, think that is a matter for mother and futlier to worry over. They aro sorry, of course. Or, rutlier, they would he fcdrry If they had read sucli dire reports. But they don't read them. Letters like tho following, of which scorcn are received every day, prove It. A young man signing himself John, writes: "I am 11 years of age. and I am keep ing company with a young lady two years my Junior. Now, we would like very mdeh to get married. I am earning $10 a week and I would like to got your opin ion as to whether or not we could get along happily together on said sum." "When poverty nbldeth In the house," runs a new maxim, "love's young dreams beoomns love's old nightmare." John, no doubt, knows the season's base ball score. Docs he know the score butter a,nd eggs have made, He knows who are winners of the prize fights. I contend hi' doesn't know that (lour and meats and potatoes have romanced down, and that It will not rise to the count. A man und wife can live on $10 a week and be happy, but not in a large city If they live in a little country town, where there Is room for a vegetable gar den, and carfare doesn't enter Into the account, and the wife Is an economical housewife, $10 a week leaves a i.iorgln for a rainy day. Iiut does John smoke? Ia his wife a soda and ice cream victim? Are they addicted to the moving picture habit? Do they crave all the little luxuries and amusementR of tho day, Inexpensive, per haps, token singly, but amounting to tho prlca of a good steak In the course of a, week? Will she do the family laundry? Will she make her own clothes? Will his love survive the sacrifice of good dressing? Why not make this n test? Let John and tho girl he loves take that $10 every week and open an account with an Imaginary landlord, butcher, baker, grocer and dry goods merchant. If there Is any thing left at the end of tho week, they cannot be exultant, for there Is a bill ot sundries to bo met that sometimes amounts to half they have taken Into account. Ask those who have tried It. They know. ) :r ' 4 la