Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-22
THE QUEEN OF OUR HOMES.
Some of the Achievements of the
Fair Sex.
PRETTY MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.
Women and Perfumery-why Charles
Dickens Was Refused - White
House Pets-An Authority
on Dogs.
PRETTY MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.
Governed by Women.

amazed to find what a storm of inquiry
has been raised by their innocent and
w~ell-intended action in awaiting them
selves OF a state law granting women
the right TO vote and hold office in
cities in Kansas. A modest press
dispatch announced the result, and
then came a deluge of kilograms, re-
porters, letters, etc. Mary ID. Lowman
was elected mayor, Sarah L. .Balsley,
Hannah A. Morse, Emma X. Hamilton,
Carrie l.. johnson and Mittie Josephine
Golden members of the council. They
were elected in the interest of public
Improvement and law and order in city
affairs, and their majority was more
than two to one, demonstrating that
where the I'M will turn out and
vote the hoodlum element, the riff-rafi
OF politics-where there be such-hav Q
seen their last victory in municipal
elections in Kansas.
The ladies are cultured, intelligent
wives and mothers, thorough represent
atives of the community. The notoriety
gained by the first of their sex called to
such duties was entirely unexpected
and unsought, and their final acquies-
cence in the demands for information
comes from q determination to shirk
nothing that may devolve upon them
in n legitimate way.
Mrs. Lowman is the wife of q former
register of deeds of this county, is the
mother of two children, q native of
Pennsylvania, aged 40; a Presbyterian
and u republican, as is her husband.
Mrs. Balsley is the wife of a leading
physician. u native of Ohio, aged So; is
a Methodist and a democrat, her hus-
band being q republican.
Mrs. Morse was born in England in
1913; she is a democrat like her hus-
band and a Methodist, unlike him.
She is the mother of one son and the
grandmother of an infapt girl. Mr..
Morse is a prominent attorney.
Mrs. Hamilton is native of Tippe-
canoe county, Ind, aged 80; a Jealous
member of the Methodist Episcopal
church and q republican, as is her hus-
band, who is a member of the Blue Rib
of five children.
Mrs. johnson is the wife of the cash
Ter of the Oskaloosa bank and has been
a mother; is the youngest of the offici-
ais being aged twenty-three, and was
born in this city. She is of u democrat
ic family, her husband being an active
republican. Religiously she is an
E~piscopalian.
Mrs. Golden was born in Missouri
t%hirty-one years since. She is the wife
of a mechanic and the mother of two
bright little ones. She is of a repub-
lican family, her husband a democrat;
religiously a Methodist. ALI the ladies
are strcng prohibitionists.
This city is not a wild frontier town,
but an old, well settled community, the
county seat of Jefferson county, in north
eastern Kansas, forty-six miles from
Kansas City, on the K. c., w. & N. w.
railroad, and twenty-eight miles from
Topeka, the capitol, and Leavenworth
being exactly the same distance from
each, on the L~eavenworth branch of the
Atchison railroad. The country is
thickly settled with well to do farmers
from all the states east and north of us.
The people of the city are highly in
telligent and make this experiment of
woman's government advisedly, with
full faith in the wisdom of the action.
In a retired room yesterday the new
officials took the oath of Office in d body
and enter upon their novel duties with
a quiet determination to endeavor TO
show that woman's rule may be for the
best interests of the city at large and
for the welfare morally of the young
men and youths, whose temptation
from saloons will be largely decreased.
Women and Perfumery.
It is a pleasure to note that the indis-
criminate use of perfumes among mem
bers of the fair sex is rapidly decreasing
and that the woman who employs triple
extracts to sprinkle herself has become
the exception rather than the rule.
Like everything else, perfumes may be
legitimate or not according to circum-
stances.
Delicate oders, such as violet, hello
trope or orris root, are always permissi-
BILE, just as %patchouly and musk are al
ways to be Stunned. In any event, per-
fume in the shape of a sachet powder is
to be preferred to liquid extracts, if we
except II or two English preparations.
This subtle, delightful scent was first
used by the princess of Wales and later
by Mrs. Langtry, until it finally became
the rage. The chemist, meanwhile,
has made a fortune. A peculiar custom
with fashionable is to pour one
or two drops of perfume into their ears.
Nobody nowadays ever thinks of putting
perfume on a handkerchief or rubbing
it on ones hands. Laces, underwear,
ribbons, note paper, gloves and all small
articles of dress are made fragrant by
large sachet bags that are Of a size COR
responding to the bureau OF dressing
table drawers.
IneSe DdBS are OHpOSe Oh SILK anu
are lined with raw cotton, upon which
the powder is spread. This, in addition
to a very moderate use of a faint sug-
gesLlve odor, such as the wood violet,
for instance, is all in the way of perfume
that is allowable by really refined
women. Partisan dressmakers have a
way of sending perfumed gowns to their
customers. A strange feature connected
with this fashion is the fact that
the odor remains forever. A lady of
this city having purchased a costume
whose every fold breathed the most de-
licious perfume, sent an order to Paris
for a sample of the scent employed. The
dressmaker forwarded to her by express
a small bottle of ordinary looking
sachet powder. Accompanying it was a
bill to the amount of $40. The lady paid
the money, but since then has generally
inquired the price of things before or
dering.
A Female Authority on Dogs.
Boston special to the New York
World: A Yankee girl, Miss Anna H.
Whitney, acted as judge of the st. BeK
nard dogs on exhibition at the New
England Kennel clubs fourth annual
meet. She is about thirty years old
and is the first American woman to fill