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Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-14
REeERENcE-oNAHA NATIONAL. BANK.

children and other persons interested in
charitable measures, says the New York
Sun. 1t was opposed however, by sew
eral clergymen and by one or two or
ganizations of women.
The chief reason advanced in favor of
the change is a practical but deplorable
one which has been repeatedly forced
upon the attention of those who deal
with the misfortunes of the young. The
reason is plainly set forth by Mr.. Gerry
of the children's society, who is one of
the principal advocates of the change,
in this case, which he recently cited:
81 know of a case where a man had
wronged girl, but was ready to make
reparation by marrying her. The girl
was under the legal age, and though she
was soon to become mother, yet
justice OF the peace who was
asked to perform the ceremony refused
to do so, saying that it would be a viola
tion of the law. A bill was introduced
last winter changing the marriageable
age. 1t was referred to the judiciary
committee, where it still slumbers.
Somebody or something should be done
to awaken that bill, as it provides the
remedy that is needed to prevent a repe-
tition of such cases as that | have men,
toned and others could speak Of.
A broader statement of the views of
the supporters of the pending bill is
that they believe that under all circum-
stances marriage Is better than Illicit
intercourse. Under this theory, proba-
bly,, England has for centuries main
tanned the limit at the extremely low
age of twelve years. 1t is argued that
in this country of mixed nationalties six
teen is too high limit, and that it
should be reduced at least year. Off
GERS Of the children's society say that
cases continually come to their attention
in which the present law has proved n
bar to the removal of the stigma of dis
honor from the name of young women
and of their offspring. For obvious rea-
sons they are unwilling to render public
| such cases in detail, but they are strongly
of opinion that the law in this respect
should be changed.
The opponents of the measure believe
| that change in the law would do
| more harm than good. While they
| are willing to admit, most of them,
{ that the law may work hardships and in
! justice in some few cases, they argue
! that hasty and ill-considered marriage
of children should be in general terms
| prohibited. Marriages contracted in
| extreme youth, they say, are very apt to
turn out badly. They make more di-
| vorce cases than any others. To prohi-
bit such unions would prevent many
elopements and secret marriages.
| The matter will probably have prom
inent place in the attention of the legis-
| lature and some interesting hearings
| may be expected in committee. The bill
| which still slumbers in committee fixes
the minimum marriageable age of males
at eighteen years.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-14

there, and she brought out a box and we
all sat around the open fire and smoked
and chatted, and had the most awfully
jolly morning imaginable. Dolly didn't
know before that mamma smoked, and
was frightened to death when Nell sug-
gested itn
L know of another case where mother
and daughter hold cozy chats over their
cigarettes They have lived in Europe
good deal and acquired the habit
there. "When we have no company |
always join my husband in cigarette
over the coffee at dinner. He likes it
says it seems so much more social. OF
course LIDO not care to defy the preiu-
dices of my friends by smoking in their
presence, SO do not" This is also a
highly-bred woman who has lived much
abroad.
While buying box of cigars last week
at prominent dealers young lady
came in and asked for half pound Of
best Havana tobacco for cigarettes. She
paid 81. 25 for it, and carefully remarked
that it was for her brother. I asked the
dealer If many women patronized him,
but he said that they did not come to
him. They prefer to buy from their
druggists.
Here is an incident told me not long
uSo' ohC lp ldob Ntch, dDDuU IL, l.
was slowly sauntering homeward, and
passing swell apartment hotel, hap
pened to glance in the windows of the
first floor. The sash curtains were a
tritle open, and there, in soft white
wrapper, sat very pretty young woman,
cigarette in mouth, her head thrown
back lazily on her easy chair. She was
evidently just going to bed, for her hair
| was loose-magnificent hair that almost
swept to the floor. She did look COM
Portable and sweet enough to eat"
A clever young woman, who writes
stories and poems, says:
"Yes, | smoke cigarettes occasionally.
If am tired and nervous they are very
soothing in their effects l do not
parade it, because society is supposed
to disapprove, but in my own room
alone, or in the company of intimate
friends, l see nothing Objectionable in
| it.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-14
THE TINY LITTLE TOOTSIES.
Petite and Pretty Footgear of Some Well
Known Women.
THE MARRlAGEABLE AGE OF GIRLS.
New York's Legislature Will Be Urged
to Reduce il to Fifteen Years
-OfInterest to the
Fair Sex.

Woman will have the world at her
feet It'll the sun grows cold" Volumes
have been written on the feminine foot;
it has been carved in marble, stamped
on canvas and immortalized in poetry
and song, says the New York World.
All nations have been to tho front with
the best foot forward, but the French,
have been forced to admit that the
New York woman has the most classic
foot on earth.
Lillian Russell has trim, slim foot
that is shot from an A last. She buys a
dozen pairs shoes at a time, for which
she pays never less than 1920, and fire.
quently 5000.
When the Duke Alexis handed beauti-
full Mrs. A. G.. Bettner out in the dance
he paid her n great many pretty compli-
ments, the prettiest perhaps being this:
MADAME, if L had not seen u con-
firmation of the story | should accuse
you of having found the Cinderella slip
per-"
OF all the Vanderbilt ladies Mrs. Fred
erick has the smallest and shapeliest
foot.
Mrs. ]. J. Astor had most beautiful
foot, and her shoes were made from q
mi ss's last.
Mrs. Paran Stevens foot is one of her
best features. Her ankles are remarka-
bly, slender, and she buys her shoes by
the dozen-all low cut, pointed shoes,
with medium heels, in black silk, satin,
suede and hand-glove kid, with turned
sole as thin as paper. Some OF these
shapely shoes and slippers are embel-
lished with cut Jet or metallic embrod-
cry.
Mrs. Admiral lie Roo, who was a rag
ing beauty when she lived in Baltimore,
has shoes from which many and manya
toast has been drunk. She is now wear
ing mourning for the second time. She
lives at the Victoria. She is still beau
tiful and charming, and her tiny black
Spanish ties are the envy of the women
and the admiration Of the men,
Sylvia Gerish wears No. stockings,
the smallest ladies size woven, and it is
the opinion of dukedom and shoedom
that her last appearance was made in
the prettiest and smallest slipper that
ever entered the Casino
Mrs. John @ Calhoun has very par
trician feet. SO has Mrs. Levi III. Nor
ton, Mrs. James Robert Mckee has a
eat little foot and Miss Nellie Arth ur
has the smallest pair of feet that the
white house has known since the days of
Dolly Madison.
There is nothing prettier in boots than
Emma Abbott's feet. She is called the
queerest, best customer in the boot and
shoe business. If the cantatrice is gong
to be married in opera she orders IA few
white slippers'-twenty pairs, as a rule.
All the rest OF the order is for boots
light top button boots made on No. 2
b last They are made to measure al
ways.
Most women have their shoes made for
their feet Miss Abbot has hers made
for her dresses-a pair for each.
When she Is TO be measured for d
Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-14
Mrs. Stanley to american Eyes.

The ladies are gossipiIg about Mrs.
Henry NJ Stanley and her mother, Mrs.
Tenant, in a way that must make their
ears tiugle, says the New York Press.
So much was said about the beauty of
the younger lady at the time of her en-
gagement to the great explorer, and
American ideas of beauty are so differ
ent from those which prevail in England,
that disappointment is expressed on find
ing Mrs. Stanley what l he ard her de-
scribed by Murray Hill society leader,
"a solid-looking Englishwoman, with
too much of the color Of good health"
But that is the Englishman's special
type of beauty. The woman that is
strong, robust, and healthy, who sets
her foot squarely down on the ground
and walks with athletic instead of mine
ing manner, is just what suits him. Be-
sides, | cannot imagine that after his eX-
perience in Africa Mr. Stanley would
have selected any pale, ethereal beauty
as his wife, or any woman who was not
strong and solid, after the English type.
The criticism that she wears her
gloves half buttoned at the theater is
important if true" and SO shockingly
awful that | wonder some of our Murray
Hill danes do not rush down to the Ev
erett house and tell Mr.. Stanley that he
has made a serious mistake in his mar
riage. If Mrs. Tennant, with English
taste, choose to wear n many y-cOl-
ored scarf to the theater it is
Offset by the fact that she has
bred her daughter with such noble quail
ties of mind and heart as to win the
most distinguished traveller of his age,
and that is all there is of it. By the
way, while the London papers We're eX-
tolling Miss Dorothy Tenants beauty,
they seem to have entirely overlooked
her sister, who, now that she is on this
side of the water, is pronounced the
handsome member OF the Tenant
family
Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-14
Wells a Survival Off Barbarism.

Rene Bache in Kate Fields Washing
ton says the wearing of wells is the sur
vival of the barbarous custom of seclud-
ing women, "Chinese ladies are never
seen abroad any more than are
women of condition among the Hindoos.
In Persia, Turkey, Egypt, and other
lands similar habits are observed.
Among some of these people, however,
the custom of seclusion has taken on an
other phase The women, when permit
ted to go out, carry their hiding with
them in the shape of veil. At the be-
ginning this is an Opaque cloth wrapped
around and around the face and body,
ten or more yards often being used for
the purpose in the orient.
'"The custom of hiding away women
having as its origin the anxiety of the
man to keep his treasure for himself, is
undoubtedly of Asiatic derivation. 1t
seems never to have been dependent
upon degrees OF civilization, but merely
upon race instinct. 1t is but step
from Germany, where any respectable
woman may walk the streets of a.city at
midnight with impunity, to France, in
which country girl is considered to
have sacrificed her reputation if she is
seen in the act of taking stroll at high
noon with her own brother. For how,
forsooth! is a stranger to know that it is
her brottherp
'The Tartars seclude their women, but
they do it by wrapping them up, because
they are moving people and must carry
the seraglio with them. In Africa the
Moors disguise the ladies of their barems
in like manner when the latter venture
abroad, while in Syria women wear long
wells which are elevated above the tops
OF their heads by wnat might be called
Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-14
Peasant Women in Japan.

The peasant woman, clad summer and
winter in the same dress of blue cotton,
and hardly distinguishable afar from
her husband, who wears his hair in a
knot like hers, and is clad in a robe of the
same color-the peasant woman who is
daily seen bowing over her toll in
the tea fields or in the liquid mud of the
rice swales, protected by rough hat on
days when the sun burns, and having
her head completely enveloped when
the north wind blows by a dreadful
muffler, always blue, that only leaves
the almond eyes to view---the small and
funny peasant woman of Japan, wher-
ever she may be sought for, even in most
remote districts of the interior, is in
contestably more refined than our peas
ant woman of the west, writes Pierre
Lott in Harper's Magazine. She has
pretty hands and pretty, delicate feet; u
mere touch would suffice to transform
her into one of those ladies that are
painted on vases or transparent screens,
and there would be little left to teach
her OF hammered graces, of atfectations
of all sorts. She almost always culti-
Yates pretty garden around her ancient
cottage of wood, whose interior, gar
nished with white mats, is scrupulously
clean. Her household utensils, her lit
tie cups, her little pots, her little
dishes, instead of being, as with
us, of common earthenware,
daubed with brilliant flowers, are of
transparent porcelain decorated with
those light and fine paintings that bear
witness OF themselves to a long heredity
of art. She arranges with original taste
the altar of her humble ancestors.
Finally she knows how to arrange in
her own vases, with the least spray of
verdure, slenderbouquets that the most
artistic among our women would hardly
be capable of composing.
She may possibly be more honest than
her sister OF the cities and her life may
be more regular-from our European
point OF view, ofcourse; she is also more
reserved with strangers, more timid,
with sort of mistrust and dislike for
the intruders, Notwithstanding her
amiable welcome and her smiles.
In the villages OF the interior, far
from the recent railroads and from all
modern importations, in places where
the millenary immobility of the land has
not been disturbed, the peasant woman
has probably changed but little from
what must have been several centuries
ago, her most remote ancestors
whose soul, vanished in time,
has even ceased to hover over
the family altar. At the barbaric Pc
riods OF our western history, when our
mothers still preserved something of the
grand and wild rudeness of primitive
times, there lived doubtless yonder, in
Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-14
BOSTON GIRLS SMOKE EN-,
The Cigarette Habit Prevalent Among the
Cultured Hub Ladies.
MRS. STANLEY TO AMERICAN EYES.
An Effort to Reduce the Marriage
able Ages-Gossip OF Prominent
WOmen-Facts OF Interest
for the Fair Sex.
Girls Behind the Counter.

II were asked to give set of rules or
suggestions for girls whose days are
spent behind the counter, they would
read something like this, writes Kate
Tannatt Woods in the Ladies' Home
Journal:
Remember that all the time spent in
the store belongs to your employer
That courtesy behind the counter wins
even the most captious customer
That gossip about young men, or with
them, is unbusiness-like, and, under the
circumstances, rude.
Never attempt to instruct a customer;
while you may suggest. or politely ques-
tion, the desirability of this or that
Do not say, Here, Sade, hand me your
pencil" to your neighbor
Never say, mo, we haven't got it, " in
short, crisp tone; far better II polite
81 am sorry to say we do not have it in
stock"
Do not thrust package at customer
as you would a pistol in the face of u
highwayman.
Never throw down goods with an air
which seems to say, II don't care
whether you buy it or not"
Remember that the purchaser often
sees more in the seller than she thinks,
and refined young wemen have made
Valuable lrlenus lOr lie Dy Jnelr cOur-
tesy to an accomplished customer.
Always remember that your duty to
your employer demands your best SER
vice, and duty to yourself also.
Seek to be a model saleswoman, and
some one will soon recognize your mer-
it's
Dress modestly and avoid cheap Jew
elry; the best ornaments are promptness,
politeness, "a well modulated voice, ard
strict attention to duty.
Have your hair neatly combed, your
teeth well brushed and finger nails tidy.
Customers are often repelled by untidy
clerks of either sex.
Remember always that you are SUI
perior to circumstances only when you
make yourself so. The most selfish, ex-
acting employer will gladly recognize
the merits of an efficient clerk
Frown down with womanly scorn the
nonsensical title of 'saleslady," 1t is a
grand thing to be II woman anything; if
you are "a true and good woman, a good
clerk is infinitely more respectable than
u o.called ''saleslady," and the term has
shoddyish ring which is totally un.
American.
Out of 200 clerks in large establish
ment, the favorite with nearly all of the
customers Is II young woman who in
variably dresses modestly in black and
has such charming manners that it Is o
positive pleasure to visit her depart
ment.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-14

new stock of shoes she brings n Sample
for each order and wears never less than
three pairs of stockings. The last time
she had on six pairs and ordered Fl tty
pairs OF shoes to wear in her new opera
Maud Oranges, however, has the foot
par excellence. 1t was she who intro.
duced the gay footgear. Her soles are
beautiful, whether dressed in slumbcr
slipper or Louis XIV.
Mrs Harriet Hubbard Aver comes
from Chicago with as pretty II foote's c
Crispin ever dreamed of. Her boots are
made on a Chinese last, No. II, and her
taste runs to red, which she wears with
scarlet, rose and crimson, or rich black
dce.
The beauteous Sadie Martinot, who
has literally tramped on human hearts,
has pair of feet intended for that pur-
pose. She wears u No 2, AA width,
made or a pointed last and made in
Paris at an expense of 60f. She orders
thirty pairs Il year-twenty for the
stage, eight for evening wear, one pair
of Turkish leather sandals for the toilet
and one pair of French goat for the
street With white toilets she wears
braided slippers in flower tinted satin,
but her preference is black hand kid
with patent vamps made on a Louis XIV.
last.
Carmencita's famous feet are dressed
by Havana shoemaker-the one man
in all creation who is kept posted as to
the movements of the capt yating
danseuse. This slipper artist is man
of excellent taste. lie knows the colors
that suit the beauty and style of his
sinuous customer, selects his own
materials, makes them up and Car
moncita gets her dancing dresses to
ma Gch them. She takes u No. 2 A last
with full toe, low vamp and a very
high Spanish heel. They are made on
flexible hand-turned soles of very fine
satin de Lyon, and general y without or
namentation. They cost her 81 pair,
and she kicks her toes through fifty
pairs year. She has weakness for
carmne-red stockings, with which
she wears nearly all her dancing shoes:-
When Sergeant painted her portrait he
took exception to this whim, but the
suple-jointed model only laughed and
told her Spanish attendant to say, 81
wear what pleaees me; he can paint them
to please his own fancy" The red stock
ings, however, went into the splendid
portrait. Carmencita has job lot Of
odd shoes in her trunk, the mates of
which have been stolen or borrowed by
admirers, artists, advertisers and model.
makers. Some of them have been given
away, and the toasts that have been Of
fered in the Carmencita slipper would
fill volume and q vat
Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-14

Mrs. G. p. Huntington, the wife of the
capitalist and railway magnate, is Il
strikingly handsome woman of rich
oriental type, says the New York Press.
She is brunette with luxuriant hair Of
satiny sort, magnificent large dark eyes
and fine complexion. She is in appear
ance the type of woman whose
photograph might be labeled
'An Odalisque" or an EAST
ern Beauty" She looks like the
most self-indulgent of persons, and yet
she is possessed OF great force of charac-
ter and Of exhaustless energy. She Is a
very clever woman mentally and she is
often her husbands adviser as well as
companion. Their mutual devotion and
their enjoyment of each others society
might afford food for thought-and imi-
tation, too-to many young couple in
their honeymoon. The fine new house
which Mr.. Huntington is building at tho
corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh
street is opposite the homes Of Cornelius
Vanderbilt and William G. Whitney.
When he takes possession of it next year
he will enter right into the hot-bed of
sTelldom, and society will await with
anxiety to see if he and Mrs. Huntington
will develope any aspirations Those
who know Mr.. Huntington best-but
very few people know him at all-say
mo- right now, and very emphatically.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-14
Good News for Reading Girls.

The friends of Miss Constance MAIDEN
dispute the statements made by Herbert
Spencer that her death was caused by
exceptional mental development 1t
was the strength and vigor OF her
brain which kept her spirits even and
allowed her to work without evil effects,
She wrote for some hours every day,
mostly on philosophy, and rose from her
work as fresh as when she sat down,
Her health up TO within eighteen
months of her death was exceptionally
good, and the disease which terminated
fatally was one common alike to the
dull and gifted. George Eliot TO whom
Mr.. Spencer compares Miss MAIDEN, lived
to the age of siXty-Onc, and, though she
suffered from headaches, was no worse
than a vast number of women who sell
dom open book. Mrs Montague But
Ter, Miss Fawcett, and Miss Alvord all
have ordinary good health, Miss Faw-
cett beyond the average,
Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-14
General Nrorgan's Mess Box.

A resident of Richmond, Va, has come
into poss ession of a revolutionary relic
in the shape of General Daniel Morgan's
mess chest, which is estimated as being
125 years old The chest is made of pine,
heavily ribbed with iron, and is closed
by an old-time ponderous lock.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-14

those isles at the east of the ancient
world, these same little peasant women,
SO polite and so mincing, and also these
same little ladies of the cities, so civil
lied, with their adorable courtesies.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-14
To Reduce the Marriageabie Age,

mon tbe IegIsIotYre a. ts Ue
TO secure the passage of a bill to reduce
the marriageable age of girls to fifteen
years. Such bill was considered by
the judiciary committee last winter, but
it was never reported. Its advocates were
members of the New York and other
yocietles for the prevention OF cruelty to
Omaha daily bee., 1890-12-14
7-777z0 -
Natural Gas Giving Out.

II is said that the end Of next January
will in all probability sec the end Il
the use OF natural gas for manufacture z
purposes, as the supply is practically y
exhausted.
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