Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-10

spoiled.
To come back to the beginning and re-
iterate what stands first, last, but never
least, beware OF that. arrogant notion,
with which we grown-ups defy common
sense, of regarding the trials of school
life as amusing ~triles. to be taken little
account of. An unjust teacher (such
exist, in spite of what | have said on the
other sidel, a bullying playmate, a diff
cult lesson, a failure to pass an examina-
ton, wiring little hearts with the same
anguish as do the sorrows over which
we make moan, and call the heavens to
witness and sympathize, and taking life
''for by and large" are of equal moment.
For a number of his most impossible
years, school and school surroundings
make up the round world and all that
dwell therein" and il the overruling
providence of his mothers love and
care do not follow him there, he is left
desolatc indeed.
On .he top foor of the Judge build
ing, in Fifth avenue, there are two girls
who are more thoroughly "up to date"
than even '1492." They sit at a long
table under the skylight and paste
newspaper clippings on to slips OF paper.
In an adjoining room, at another long
table, more girls and a number of men
sit and read newspapers all day long.
They get through 800 papers a day, and,
except on Saturdays, when they draw
their salaries, they curse the day that
printing was invented.
1t is n clipping bureau. You would
quickly discover that if you should
60 into the third room where sew
eral men, armed with she longest
shears ON record, cut and slash where
even the blue pencil has left its mark.
There are over 5000 subscribers names
down on the books. Three thousand
| people have enough curiosity or interest
about what the papers say of them to
pay So a hundred for the clippings. or
this number quite one-half are women.
They are mostly writer's, or authoresses
as the literary girl in the front room
calls them. That girl is u marvel of in
formation. You can go through the
whole 1900 names and chtechise her on
them all and she won't miss a question.
She is said to be an oracle in her family
and among her friends. Her particular
work is sitting out the notices Of liter
airy people, and she hasn't much OF an
opinion of the craft. She doesn't aspire
to write a book. She thinks it's too
common.
But uthoresses are not the only women
who want to know what the world says
about them. Society queens are quite
as curious as to the expression in the
eye of the public as it looks at them.
And there are actresses on the list, and
artists-a few of them only, because they
are generally too impecunious-and
wives of prominent men, and, in TACT, all
sorts and conditions of ome
Mrs. Potter Palmer has been the most
popular woman, enthusiastically speak
too l., NL,, ,l,.tr,, l,,rt,r Tho ,,aet
year. In May alone Mrs. Palmer re-
ceived l,3I1 notices of herself through
the bureau. This was q comparatively
small proportion of those that were
printed, for she excluded all Chicago
papers, which, Of course, teemed with
references to her, and received only i'm
portant ones from other papers.
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Sometimes when a woman is in search
of board it seems rather hard that the
l%andladies of the various establishments
where she applies should give her so
plainly to understand that they would
prefer by all odds to have their houses
filed with men, writes a lady in the col
umns of the Philadelphia Times. 1t
seems as though in this as in every.
thing else men have the best of life, and
yet when you take into consideration
NiS hoyo vi q "oi1Sh oo"A tSho L
is no wonder that men are the preferred
beings.
To begin with, a man goes away in the
morning and does not return until din.
ner time at night. AS a rule the man
who boards disappears after dinner as
well, in order to make a call upon some
favored lady, or to take in the theaters
or concerts, but with most women it j.
very different. Unless they are EN-.
ployed during the day they manage tc
make more fuss in their rooms in one noun
than a man would in a month. They
wash out their handkerchiefs and stick
them on the glass to dry: they cook uI
little messes over the gas and, as a rule,
they keep eatables that attract mice tc
their apartments, and if they were
called upon to do so could get a respect
able meal with the number of kitchen
utensils that they have packed around il
ont of the way corners.
When drc5smaKing time comes around
they haunt the kitchen in quest of irons
causing the cool to lose her temper. ant
so d~isarrange the mcdus operandi o.
that central point in the house-the
range-that it is a wonder that meal.
are served on time or cooked half way
decently. A woman never yet hired {
room without demanding some change
III 10 oiO viz Iho u ~
objection to a folding bed ant
must have an upright one, or, OF
the contrary, she is anxious tt
make her room into a little parlor, ant
therefore must have her sleeping place
resemble n bookcase on a piano.
If she is musical there is no telling
what instrument may be tortured dur
ing the waking and far into the sleeping
hours. She is seldom a professional anC
her efforts are pleasing only to herself
If there are other women boarders il
the house she becomes at first franticall,
intimate with them, and later on after
quarrel gossip and scandal runs rife, t.
the dire dismay of the landlady, who hai
to listen to both sides Of the story ant
manage with all the tact possible TO pre-
vent Il rupture when they come IN con
tact at the table.
They are far more fussy about thei,
food then men, and though of cours'
they have many rights that should b.
observed when the case is summed up, /
is no wonder that q woman who has {.
take boarders for her living would pre-
fer having masculine to feminine ones.
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Women of the English court in tn,
thirteenth century used ''skewers'' o
bone, ivory or lockwood, instead of tn
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