Omaha daily bee., 1893-07-23
ALL "SHE'S" CUSH ANDCOSSlp
The Much Abused but Patient Husband
Not 50 Horribly Out of Luck After All.
GOLDEN ROD, kRBUrUs OR PANsY7
Diplomats Talk OF Beau,ies-The much
Abused Hsirpin = wonder-workingw WIZ
Ed-Crare for Nerve TonIc.-Fem-
=, iniue Fads and Fanoies.

perlenced and competent young man
does space work while the staff is away
having the balance wheel adjusted and
the movement regulated ready for an
other years hard labor. One OF the
favorite walls Of this aforesaid Y. NJ. is
the narrowing and cruel story of the
woman who firts like butterfly to the
cool sea shore and leaves her other half
TO sweat and groan in his particular
chain gang in the heat and dust of the
unhealthy city. II the 'eoitor" were
only woman once he would not worry
himself into an early grave over such an
unfair division Of labor. Suppose you
take your children and about dozen
trunks and go off to live in a crowded
hotel or miserable cottage" with no con-
veniences and fun of rats June bugs and
infinite ugliness. The children get so
badly mixed" with the neighbors that
they can only be separated in sections
and one Is never certain whether they
will be drowned or commit suicide in
some other manner before night. At
the resorts you fuss and fume, the pow
der will not stay on, the crimps will not
stay in and OF all vile and uncomfortable
things those same airy robcs which-the
unsophisticated young man thinks are
30 divine, are about the most unbearablc.
About the time you get all together and
are just about ready to expire with the
herculean efforts made to keep pro-
Bentable in comes your rival looking as
though she had never been anything but
cool and anguid in her life. Although
you see through the sham, the knowledge
that some one else does not makes your
life burden and you vow you will go
home and stay there like sensible
woman should, where you can at least
be comfortable and not be eter-
nally nagged and sized up" How
Is it with the man all of this time,
who might just as we'll have gone too
but that he declined to be bored? The
poor husband and father is at home
where the house is closed to the hot sun
and is cool and inviting, or at least cool;
the papers will be knee deep, of course,
and ends of cigars lying all 'round to re-
mind him that though the ruling power
is absent, his consolation is left. He
dimes off the fat of the land his bust
ness, about which we hear so much, is
at n standstill. He puts in a few hours
each day just to help keep alive, and
then he goes off with the other poor
martyrs and makes night of it with
the sure knowledge that he will not
have to make any excuses in the morn
ing. Life is just as he likes it, no
worry, no restraint and no fuss, every
thing his own way. In fact in this di-
vision as in most others of this world
the MAJ has the best of it and no one
realizes this more fully than he. for if
he had the least desire to go with his
wife in her annual outing he would go.
Who ever heard of n man not being able
to afford anything which affected his
comfort? But woman can only survive
death by being in fashion, no matter
what she endures so long as other women
have to stand it too.
Women are all right, and especially
those who have charge of the woman's
department at the Worlds fair can
hardly make a mistake, but when they
discarded the dress making exhibit they
certainly came very near, doing what il
man had taken hand In, would have
looked like a great blunder. All the
foreign exhibits include needle work of
various kinds, and while, of course a few
renowned dressmakers are men. it is not
In America that the man dressmaker
flourishes in all his gold and glory. In
this country dressmaking is pre-emin-
emily woman's job, and while it does
not come in the slime class of work or
art" as painting, sculpture or writing
books, still it is work that requires in
finite tact, taste and patience. Women
who are angels to every one else on earth
are often unreasonable to an insufferable
degree when dealing with drcssmaker
The dressmaking exhibit was excluded
on the grounds that it was not ''educa-
tional." The Chicago trade schools have
begun suit for damages and the outcome
will be watched with great interest by
women in all parts of tho country. 1t is
claimed that the exhibit is educational
in the highest degree and properly be-
in f1,.,I Il Il
done by women, and nearly every one,
outside the committee, will agree with
the trade schools and hope for favora-
BILE decision at the hands of the court
This is the season when nasturtiums
bloom, and sweet peas, the dainty, old
fashioned howers that our grandmothers
loved and which were ''rcvived" by
"fashion"as very artistic and beautiful a
few years ago. But as flowers never
change in their grace and lovcliness, it
matters not what fashion says, and if in
this one instance the foolish old dame
has shown wisdom adequate to her years
and experience, we will humbly enjoy
the bright CHEEKY blossoms which her
decree makes more plentiful, and pray
that the fashion will not change. Mas
turtlums Will grow anywhere and sur
ylve any kind OF harsh treatment. and
the gay, frail blooms, with their spicy
odor, will come in such abundance as to
repay thousand times the time spent.
Speaking of flowers reminds one of the
heroic efforts Miss Margaret b. Harvey
Of Philadelphia is putting forth to have
trailing arbutus. recognized by vote of
congress as our national flower. While
1t Is impossible for any one to agree with
Miss Harvey when she says that golden
rod is coarse, for under favorable condi-
tions nothing even in the floral
world could be more graceful or
beautiful than this product of Ne
braska lraiiies; STILL the arguments
presented in tayor Of the arbutus are all
good, sound ones. The flowers are blue
and star shaped, it is liberty loving,
never having survived transplant ing,
and it grows in profusion in all of the
thirteen original states. Miss Harvey
has recently published poem in favor
of her hobby, which is strong one and
will bring the subject before many peo.
pie in new light, Tho pansy is real "
the only rival which golden rod and
arbutus have, and the trouble is that
the ones who will decide the matter in
cong ess are all men, and every man in
America admires pansies-old men,
small boys and all, and it will be nc
wonder il the pansy W ins the day by its
rare beauty and its popularity, as other