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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-
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and Burned Terribly, Heavy
White Crust. Cutlcura Soap and
Ointment Made Complete Cure.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Base feaQ feaa are woederia If TttHe
BasAsr reoecvesl asur soented netea after
the world's series games this year.
