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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1913)
Tim OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 2G, lDlb. 11 B GIRLS HAVE HARD TIM OF IT'0 mother 1 vvWWJUUA1WU XVAkkMkiaUUi Those Born of Foreign Parents Often Struggle Under Adversity, PARENTS LOOSE INFLUENCE Are Practically FoTrerleaa When Thar Endeavor to Make Children See- Cmtomi of the 6ld Natlre Country. (Prom the report of an Investigation by j Zioulse Montgomery, carried on under the direction of the University of Chicago Settlement and the Chicago Alumnae club of the University of Chicago). (Exclusive Bervlce The Survey Press Bureau.) "Alma Is a good girl," said the Potlsh mother. "She brings home all her money, butr-she goes out where she pleases nights and Sundays and we can't follow." Ninety per cent of the parents In the stock yards neighborhood of Chicago ad mit that they have as little control as this over their daughters. Many flreeely condemn "the American life," which makes such insubordination possible. Every foreign industrial community in our American cities is confronted with rruch the same situation the American born girt of foreign parents lives between the unseen traditions of the old world and the visible customs of the new. The fcxtlgn parent and the American child axe under one roof, struggling with the misunderstandings common to age and youth, but Intensified by the natural de sire of, the one to cling to Inherited standards and by the strong young will of the other to be a vital part of the present generation. The 800 families who form the back ground of a recent study In the Chicago stock yards neighborhood have been known to the University of Chicago settlement from one to eight years. Within this group of BOO families, 600 girls wero selected from whom It was possible to obtain the information needed with a fair degree of accuracy. Without exception the GOO girls represent a pre vailing type apart from the historical background of the parents the first generation in America, struggling to keep tip with American standards and making every effort to avoid being classed as foreigners." i Get Limited Education. The dominant educational standard of kthe neighborhood is the minimum legal requirement of the state, accepted with little protest by the majority, for the people as a whole are essentially a law abiding people. The reasons for this at titude, however, are various. Among hard-headed peasants, for example, there Is the traditional feeling that education Is a luxury. Polish parents who owned a three-story tenement from which they vere collecting S3) a month rent placed their 14-year-old girl in a factory at 13 a week, not because they were pressed for money, but because in the natural order of things she was destined to marry a Polish worklngman and It would be very unwise) to unfit her for that position by giving her "the education of A Yankee.',' A very much larger number, however, feel an actual need of the child's wages to supplement ths earnings of the father. STbe ea.orlfl09v of little girls to the passionate determination to own property may be found in .any social group, from the undaunted widow who takes In wash lrg six days ot the week and drives her children to any task that will bring In money to meet the payments on ths four- room cottage, to the thriving saloon' keeper who Is landlord over a dozen tenants. Again; the failure of ths elementary school to meet the practical needs ot an Industrial community Is recognised by many parents. "Work with the hands is good," said a German father, "and Amer ican education does not give it." Boys Ahead! ot Qlrls. Apart from the group of parents who accept the compulsory age limit as their educational standard Is another group made up of those who look beyond the law. As a Bohemian laborer of the stock yards expressed It; "People who have learned nothing do the dirty work of the world. I want my children to have a chance at a clean job. That's why I send them to school." The' educational standards of the for eign homes Influence the future of both boys and girls, but In the stock yards district it is a fundamental Idea that the education of the girl is a matter of much less Importance than the education of the boy. A well-to-do Polish landlord who doubted ths advisability of sending his H-year-old daughter to the high school told with pride of the plans he had In mind forjthe university training of his son. That the school as It stands today has too little power In drawing their volun- FACE DISFIGURED WITH ERUPTION Sprwd Over Entire Face, Itched and Burned Terribly, Heavy White Crust. Cutlcura Soap and Ointment Made Complete Cure. 810 East Sim 01, Strsstor, IlL "A running tore broke out above my right eye. which spread over my entire f aco. It started as a smiil pimple. I scratched It open and ths content of this email pimple ran down my face. Wherever this ran a new sers appeared. They Itched and burned terribly ; I couldn't touch my face It burned so. It disfigured say face ter- jibly and I couldn't be seen for every oca was afraid of It. It looked like a disease of some kind; It was all red and a heavy white crust on it. Everybody kept out of my way. afraid It would spread. I lost rest at night and I couldn't bear to havs anything touch my face, not even the pillow. I had to lie on the back of the head. I was always glad when morning came so I could get up. It was extremely painful. "I used - salve with small results. At last I thought of Cutlcura Soap and Ointment and I commenced using them. I used the sample of Cutlcura Soap and Ointment, ens twenty-flvo-eent cake of Cutlcura Soap and a half box of ths fifty cent sUo of Cutlcura Ointment. It took three weeks to complete the curs." (Signed) MUs Caroline Miller, Apr. 80, 1918. Cutlcura Soap 26c. and Cutlcura Ointment 60c are sold everywhere. liberal sample of each .nailed tree, with 32-p. Skin Book. Ad dress postcard " Cutlcura, Dept. T, Boston." Cr Men who shave and shampoo with Cu tlcura Soap will find it best for slda and scalp. BBBBBSBBBSBSBBBBB WMMMMMmsmsMSMwmMBUs Ha MISS MARIE DONAHUK. Omaha has more than one Conscience; at least this Is the opinion of the mana ger of the "Bverywoman" company. Miss Marie Donahue left last week to join the "Everywoman" company, to take the place of Miss Charlotte Von Winkle, who joined tho company last season to play the port of Conscience. So great a success did Miss Van Winkle make of the part that when sho left the company to Join the Aborn Opera company a few weeks ago the manager again wrote to Mrs. Millie Ryan, to see If another Con science could not be found in the olty. At the . suggestion of Mrs. Ryan, Miss Donahue left for the oast, where she played her first engagement a few nights ago in Peoria, 111., and received many compliments from the managers upon her success In playing the part. Miss Dona hue will go east with the company and has signed a contract for the season. tary attendance Is the conclusion based on the combined testimony of teachers. parents and children. "My girls won't take education easily," explained the mother of throe daughters with uncon scious Irony, because they're all so strong they like something to do." Of course, by many of the forclgn-bom parents of the stock yards district the girls ore counted as wage-earning chtl dren. There Is no economic surplus that makes the idle woman possible; and the Immediate money value of any position opon to children is too often the first consideration. The women are hard' headed, practical and Ignorant of the city oujslde of their very limited round of shops. Many a father who. persistently refuses even In the face of poverty to secure a position for his daughter In the "vards" because he has soms under standing of conditions there wiU unwit tingly expose her to greater dangers in remote industries. - Push Ont Into the World. Since parents have no constructive knowledge of the occupations open to their daughters, the result Is that the girls are thrown upon their own limited resources. Many of them avoid the set tlement for fear of being advised to re turn to school. It is not Impossible to find them wandering up and down State street, leaving poorly written applications fnr vnrk at the department stores ana even shopping people with the eagerro- duest for "a Job somewhere." The op portunities for indiscretions after many such days OI unguiaea jrceuoia mu.i uut be underestimated. The records of older girls show that 61 per cent of those who leave school be fore completing eight grades accept places In the factories where the opportunity to earn more than H a week must de pend upon their skill as piece workers Sixty-four per cent of those who complete eight grades will find positions In some form of office work or with thaHelephone company, where there Is a possibility of their earning from W to 115 a week. Records of the relation between health and occupation are not complete enough for final conclusions, but one general fact is obvious, under ths existing conditions of life and labor In the stock yards dis trict the first generation of American girls lack the. physical stamina, of the vigorous foreign stock from which they come. WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING (Continued from Page Three ) week later. Miss Jennls X Kedfield win be leader. I rr-l Vmh.Ii V. i-imr nl trill mutt j lua v , cvm utuwtf Friday morning at 10 o'ciook in we lecture room of the public library. ThA Persian history class wilt meet Monday morning at 10: o'clock In the lecture room of the publto library. Th vmtnte woman's class in European history will meet Tuesday evening In the lecture room of the publlo library. The South Omaha Woman's club will meet Tuesday afternoon at S:W o'clock In library hall. Mrs. Claude Talbot will be leader and Mrs. D. Sv Clark and Mrs. M. P. Brown will read papers and the topic of the afternoon will be "American Humor." Miss Orace Llndley of the Church' Mis sions House In New York, will hold a missionary Institute under the auspices of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Diocese of Nebraska at the Gardiner Memorial parish house next Friday and Saturday. The purpose of this Institute Is to Interest every church woman of the diocese In auxiliary .work, and make her eager to share it Everyone Interested In this work Is Invited to the Institute, but all diocesan officers of the auxiliary, all parish officers and all leaders of mission study classes are especially urged to take advantage of this unusual oppor tunity. Don9! get tfWBy from the principal fact filial first of all you get a piano through this co-operative plan for 248 dollars and 75 cents which will ordinarily cost you 350 dollars sK ... IS 111111811111111 I m llllllill I III I TTMT I Sl I I I Th various makes cf pienos for thii co-oprofw ial tcera ptr tonally i i'."-' ttltcUd by Mr. TF. M. JioWntan and wmtmmaMm upon arrival art Mng.UtUdlxnd, in- .asjasssssiessa. ' . """"""ffTT tp cUd by Prof. Joan Oilbcrt Jen. mBHsbbbbbbbV ' II Arrangement eon 6 mads uitK 'V '" I anyofoHrtaliimtn to 'viilttht piano s ( department in th tvining. lAhen it it 4HLbbbbbbbss. iE 1 not convinfcnt (o corns dunny (As day. ' BJP' ' ll Messls kt wpsmmamlmL wVBm . .. Copyright, 1911, by Stone A McCarrick Inc. THERE are nine good reasons why you should get one of these pianos through this co-operative plan, any one of which is a sufficient reason in itself why you should get one. But brushing them all aside and considering only the main reason for the moment and you have a big overwhelming ad vantage which you simply cannot af ford to ignore and that is that you save a big round hundred dollars (one hundred and one dollars and twenty five cents to be exact). When you come to think of it, this is a tremendous saving: nearly half the price you pay for the piano. Think of what you can do with this one hundred and one dollars and twenty-five cents. You can take a month's vacation on this amount. You can take a music lesson every week for two years, at fifty cents a lesson. You can furnish, a room in your home. You can buy clothes, knick-knacks, or, put it out at interest. The fact is, this issuch a big compelling sum that there is no limit to the uses to which you can put it. It is for this reason that we again lay stress on this feature. ; If there wasn't a single privilege; if there wasn't another single advantage to be had in the purchase of these pianos, the hig sating of one hundred and one dollars and twenty-five cents mi itself would carry this co-operative idea to an overwhelming success. Big savings like this are commanding. Wlrat you get besides the Mg saving The plan on player-pianos YOU have read above about the saving that this co-operative sale affords. You can see that this' in itself is enough to command the attention of any one thinking about getting a piano. Bui read this. This is what you get besides the low price. And mind' you, these are all a matter of contract These features are embodied in the face of your agreement. They are not the "say so" of any one. They are the "black and white' facts-printed in and made a part of this big co-operative plan. I. BESIDES THE LOW PRICE you homo for thirty days. If you aro ttion got tho easiest sort of terms. Regular " dissatisfied for any rcason,you can get terms on a piano of thiB grade aro never less than twenty dollars down and ten to twelve dollars a month, with inter est t six per cent, on top of this. Pay ment on the pianos wo are selling on this co-operative plan" aro five dollars as a first payment, then one dollar and twenty-five' cents a week without in terest. n. BESIDES THE LOW PRICE each and every one of theso makes of pianos are doubly inspected, first by our Mr. W. M. Eobinson, head of our piano depart ment, then tried and inspected by Prof. Jones when they are put upon our floors. HL BESIDES THE LOW PRICE you get a guarantee whioh gives yon absolute protection for five yeara from the day the piano is pliaced in your home. IV, BESIDES THE LOW PRICE, you are privileged to try the piano in your your money bacn. V, BESIDES THE LOW PRICE you are given a wholo year's time to use the piano and fully convince yourself that it is worth all and mere than you paid for it. If a year's use does not prove this conclusively you aro privileged to ex change for any other now piano in our house of equal or greater value. VI. BESIDES THE LOW PRICE you get , an agreement which voluntarily cancels all remaining unpaid dues in event of your doath during tho timo your pay ments aro being made. VH. BESIDES THE LOW. PRICE you are given an opportunity to still fur ther reduce this price low as it is by earning cash dividends or cash prem iums by taking less time in which, to pay for your piano than you are entitled to take. One Hundred player-pianos will alBo, be sold on this co-operative plan. Tho usual pries of theso plnyor-pianoa Is fire hundred and fifty dollars each. Tho co-oporatlve prlco la three hundred and nlnoty-flvo dollars, with NO 1 NTH REST to bo ridded. Tho player-pianos will be delivered Immediately upon the payment of fire dollars. Tho payments will bo two .dollars a week giving you one hundred and nlnoty-flvo weokg' time In which to mako your paymonts tho same as on the piano. Tho same unconditional gunranteo that Is given on the piano Is given on the player-piano. You can also got your money back at any tlmo within thirty days. You get the same privilege- of exchanging within a year, as that given with the piano, , AH the unpaid balances will bo voluntarily cancelled in event' ot death. Also, a player-piano bench and one year's free use of our library are In cluded without extra charge. An arrangement will bo made with each purchaser wlfereby new player .rolls can be procured at a special discount of 20 from the regular catalogue prices. , Wo attribute the success of our Flayer Department largely to the fact that we have been careful to select only such Player-Pianos that would not only give satisfaction to the purchaser, but that would lend prestige to this department of our business. Wo believe that we have Bold moro player-pianos than any other piano concern In this country, and in this great Co-operative Sale we havo been careful to select only such Player-Pianos that can bo sold upon, not only the manufacturer's guarantee, but OUR GUARANTEE. All of tho features of the co-operative plan are carried- out In offering the playor-planos, with the llngl axctptlon that tho terms on tho player pianos are two dollars a week Instead of as on the piano one dollar and twenty4lve cents a week. Copyright. 11(12, by Stono & MoCrrlck ino. u How to make this saving yours To take advantage of this unusual sale, all yon have to do Is to send or bring In ttv dollar for which we will at once give you a receipt. This five dollars Is credited to your account on the co-operative books, The co-operative plan then allows one hundred and ninety-five weeks' time In which to pay the remainder at the rate of one dollar and twenty flv cents a week if you select a pUno or two dollars a week If you se lect a playr.plano There are no further payments of any kind to be met. You may make your own selection at once-tomorrow next day next week or any time convenient to you. It will be delivered Im mediatelynext week or next month. The timm you select your Instru ment and the dat of dtlivtry is wholly optional with you. ... W ft convenient for you to personally select your instrument w will make the selection for you under your Instructions, with the under standing that. If at the end of a thirty days' trial you are dissatisfied. u; will rtfand your money and send and get the Instrument The GI4tITand Is seen when liver Inaction and bowel stoppage- flies before Dr. King's New Life Pills, the easy regulators. 23c For sals by your druggist AdvertUsmsut. AGAINST COMING OF SALOON Irvington Villagers- Protest Peti tion for Thirst Parlor. WOULD SPOIL IDEAL HAMLET Ereryone Wow Mrlnr In tfce- Place Absolutely Iw JLbldlna; n Automatically Regardful of His Metff.Bber. Thst a community exists In Douglas county whera lawbreakers, Jells or police are unknown, wljero the sheriff never comes, and where a constable. If elecUd, always refuses to qualify because hs Is Unable to get enough business to psy for his bond, was Information given to the Board of County Commissioners by a delegation of fifty men and women of Irrinsjtori. who came to protest against the granting of a license for a saloon in the village. A saloon was never allowed In Irving ton, with ths sxoeption of a period of one year several years ago, when It was ousted by court actl6n. Now M. W. Wil liams Is asking the board to grant him a license and sufficient, signatures of prop erty owners In Union p reel not have been affixed to a petition, but the residents of the village proper, which Is unincor porated, assert that nearly all the names are those of property owners In the out skirts of the precinct and that a saloon should, not b allowed In Irvlngton. Commissioners McDonald, Harte and O'Connor heard the protests, of the dele gation. Those opposed to the saloon were represented by an attorney as also was Williams. Arguments of lawyers will be heard next Friday. Rev. 8. It Drewer, 80 years of age, told the commissioners the sentiment of the village was against a saloon. F. D. Hlb bard, prominent In the populist party years ago, said that Irvlngton was an un. usual community settled many years ago by emigrants from New England and that Its standard of morality was high. "We have no lawbreakers." he told ths board. "We have no use for Jails or police and the sheriff never comes there. Girls and women go about unescorted without danger and theft Is unknown. When a constable Is elected he never qualifies because he cannot secure enough business to pay him to secure a bond." The delegation rose In a body to Indi cate to the board Its unanimity of senti ment In opposition to a saloon. FLORENCE FOLKS STAGE A BIG MINSTREL SHOW Friday evening a minstrel show was given at the. Fontenelle hall In Florenoe under the auspices of the Ladles' Aid so ciety of hs Presbyterian church. The following program was rendered: Bong, The Plqkerton Detective Moon," Miss Nerwcomb and Miss torman; banjo solo. "Silver Threads Among the Gold," Mrs. Hans Ooettschel "Ths Bells, Old Time Bell," Mrs. R. II. Olmsted; "Scotch Bell," Miss Lyman and Miss Newcomb; "eve ning Bell," Miss Hazel Nelson, Dolly Morgan, Mrs. F. Wkllaoe; "Wedding Bell." Mrs. F, Wallaoe; "Monastery Bell." Mrs. J. . Price; "liberty Bell," Miss Ethel Hersklnds; juvenile sketches and song, Miss Joe Lyman; Irish sketch. Misses Joe Lyman and Julia New. comb; pantomime, "Too Many Lovers," Miss Betsy Elklns. Miss Mabel Ander son, Messrs. Martin Hersklnds, Lloyd Rogers, Harry Swanson and F, B. Wal lace, Plantation scenes: Interlooutor, B, U Plats; bones, W. A. Boott; Umbo, Warren Wortmaa; Chloe, Miss Joy Ly man; Sunshine, Miss Julia Newcomb; Magnolia, Mrs. J. H. Price; Serphlna Snow, Mrs. Hans aoettsche; Their Laving Chile, Mrs. Bit aramllch; Rambo, A W. Klomer; Sambo, R. A. Ooldlng Lastus, B. C. Webster Rastus, J. H. Price; Aunt Jemma. Mrs. W, H. Thetnaej Dinah, Dotty Msrsaat Cls,uU. Kaasl Xlmm J ode, Mabel Andersoa MaadTV Vtbst Hersklnd; Susie, Miss Oiwlnsi acoom- panlsts Miss Mabel Owens. Mrs. Paul a?kell arid Mrs. Ell Oramllch. BUSINESS ALONG THE NORTHWESTERN IS GOOD Passenger Trafflo Manager Johnson ot the Northwestern. Johnson. c&ro in from C.Mr relative- hero, leaving for homo last even ing. Mr Johnson reports business good on the Norttnrestern. without any prospect of letting, up, and is well pleased with trafflo In and out of Valentine since the registration for land commenced. He admlU that the Northwestern has made a nloe stake out of hauling the 18,000 or more people who have gone there to register. leemtei etXa. Base feaQ feaa are woederia If TttHe BasAsr reoecvesl asur soented netea after the world's series games this year.