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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1901)
12 THE COURIER. tu .El m m b 6 C 6 6 lit .u m IHJ i M J f remaking epaFtment Oar Dressmaking Department is now in charge of Mrs. L. Bell, who for several years has been man ager of one of the finest dressmaking departments in Chicago. Ladies who are interested in stylish gowns are invited to call. MlbblR&PAINB HMMIIIIIIIMIMMHIHIIIMMf liniMMMMMMIIHHIHMIHM IMHIIMUMMIlO HIMIIIIMMMOMMMMMMMI A M 11) Skort time loans made on moat any kind of j,er- 1 1 H II II sonal property security, and on unsecured notes .with 1 1 II M two approved endorsers. No charge for drawing' pa- 1 1 II M A pera or comsaiasion on the loan. Permission given to lll repay loan, or any part, any time before maturity, V 1 111 V and payments so made will lessen the interest. We will not file the papers nor give the matter the least publicity. AH transactions considered strict'y confidential. Tel 941 ll No. I2tli. TVKJ TgTSa. 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Reasonable prices. CARL MYRER. 2612 Q Pliorie 5232. (S T1X "?l TV. . V1U VU &VW know a woman to put her foot in it who was not glad of it? We mean the H. W. BROWN Druggist and Bookseller. Fine Stationery tad Calling Cards 127 So.Bleventh Street. PHONE 8 son (7 en if. M.DUf a Sold only by fj WEBSTER I ROGERS, 1043 O St., I Lincoln, .... Nebraska uniinrn tun rinun mm H I Manages Property. S I'lWTRT ILK. . . II1HMDI. : lect your beau, Penelope, at your age when I know we are apt to be more gracious to suitors than when our cheeks were June roses and our eyes were lures. (Old ladies always Bay they were houris in their youth.) Then if we dismissed a beau, there were several more just be hind him only waiting for him to get out of 'the way. Then, Penelope, then we were never without a beau or the im mediate prospect of one or more. But I realize now, dear,-that when I advise you to run the risk of losing your pres ent aide-de-camp I am practically con demning you to a cursed life of single ness. For celibacy is not blessed and I will not call it so even in fun. It is bet ter to be married to just an ordinary man like Jack, than not to be married at all. Because although men have their faults, as well as women, they are not the same in kind or degree that women are sea soned with. A woman cut off from all but the most formal association with man grows more and more feminine. She grows fussy and things get on her nerves that if she were "married would not trouble her. My development of Christian graces since my marriage is due to the discipline of living with Jack and learning not to be disgusted with the Bight and smell of cuspidors, news papers on the floor and transposed pipes in incongruous places. I have observed that even neat men have no sense of the incongruous, irrelevant and - irregular, when the thing objected to is a pipe. Even uxorious husbands reproach a wife with fussinesB when that little black thing that looks like a musical note, but is oftener the leit-motif in a very ur musical discord, is the subject of discus sion. Nevertheless, Penelope, I would rather be stupid me, ridiculed of Jack, me, with the odor of stale tobacco ever in my nostrils and clinging to my lace curtains like a persistent kitten, than a Bpinster, however brilliant, cultured, and comme elle faut This is decidedly not comme il faut: exulting in the pub lic prints over my own counubial dis cipline and evoluted character and con doling with you for not having even as much of a prize as Jack to dust, mend, and keep the flies and moths off of. I have wandered as all married women do from any given point back to their hus bands. That is one thing an old maid should be thankful for: she can still de vote her attention to oae subject long enough to get a fairly comprehensive view of it. Where-as a married woman's mind is so full of the faults and virtues of "Him" that lucid discussion of any thing el6e is out of the question. I started to say that whatever and who ever you neglect, do not neglect me and The Courier. A friend informs me that at a late meeting of The Round Table the new woman was discussed. Nobody knows exactly what the new woman is. Prob ably no two men present could have agreed upon a definition of her. But most men who do not approve of the N. W. have a mental image of a disputa tious, noisy, clamorous woman (there cannot be too many noisy words to ade quately express their abomination) a wo man who dislikes children and prefers the vocation of an auctioneer or of a prosecuting attorney to any other. If there are no vacancies the abomination would accept a position as depot-passenger director or failing that, any sort of huxtering or police work would suit her. This is Bixby's idea of the new woman. All the ministers present de precated woman's increasing interest in the affairs of the world. They unani mously agreed that woman's place was at home with her children when she had them and they were home from school. . Otherwise an exclusive associ ation with her potB and pans was beet tor every woman, who ought to take no more interest in the outside world than the limit defined in each household by the head of it. Fanny, is it not, that the ministers, of all men, should take this view? Have you looked about the congregation any Sunday roomie? on . one of the occasions in the last twenty years that you have chanced to be in church? If you have been in a d1bc a nf vantage where you could observe the worshipers without appearing to etare, perhaps in the slow length of a dull ser mon you have deliberately counted them and noted the preponderating num ber of women to men. If it were not for the women, even in villages where recreation is rare, the churches would close, for lack of nourishment. The sisters hold fairs, entertainments and wheedle men in new and oldwajsto give up enough to support the churches. The men, exclusive of the ministers, do not make church calls, they do not bake cakes, and the piousest of them would not, not to save the church-social from extinction. And would not the churches be lonesome of a Sunday morn-"1 ng if it were not for the women? Yet the Rev. Something , a little man with a very solemn-pink face, was par ticularly anxious that something should be done to put woman back in her plac?, where formerly even little men were ob jects of some dignity to her. Coma to consider the subject, most of the men in this town who object to a woman's at tending to her own affairs are very small, fat, and pink. There are plenty of short men who take large views of the ques tions of the day, but all the small men are afraid that woman is going to get ahead of them. Is it bo in Omaha? You ask it cooks and maids of all work are scarce in Lincoln. They are rare, good ones, all over this country. In New York, which is the lending place of Ireland, Sweden, Norway, and Germany, the well-to do population is taking rooms in hotels because of the scarcity of '.'help.'' Lincoln house-wives are bak ing, washing, scrubbing, washing dishes, sweeping and cleaning lamps, not be cease Bixby, the funny man ot the Journal, (he is funnier than he thinfcj he is) Bays that bouse work is the only womanly occupation and the only one they can understand, but because there is a dearth of "girls." Women who would be about the business of the leis ure classes, are cooking three meals a day. Their hands are hard as a day laborer's, and their faces have the set look that hard, manual labor finally Beals its own with. There are a fen people to whom it has been revealed that a maid is a human being even as the mistress is, that her bones do ache and her heart doth yearn for recreation, for the society of her own friends in a seemly place, and above all for the sym pathy and respect of her mistress and of the family she toils for. In a few in stances a self-respecting, competent girl has found a mistress who recognizes the ethnological connection between indi viduals of all races. When two such women once form the relations of mis-, trees and maid the connection is not ' quickly broken. It is a hard relation to establish, but the mistress who can gain a strong, intelligent girl's affection has solved the domestic question in her own household for a while at least. When the good girl marries, dies or re tires, the mistress will have had a train ing that will be of use to her in associ ating with other "help." Penelope, you speak of the experiences of a rose very feelingly. A rose has more experiences than any other Mower. Do you remember the rose-petals that the old play-lover finally crumbles into dust in his hands? There are roses shut into drawers, and tenderly folded into pocket-books that in a few years will be dusted out of their secret places be cause the antiquary who treasured them is dust himself and no one will know the meaning of the faded petals and of the faint fragrance. There will be fresh er roses in the garden than and then no reason for keeping the old relics in a drawer or a pocket-book. Very sentimentally yours, fclLEAKOK. i