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Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09

and to treat them we'll. ! came from farm
up the country, and was fortunate in getting
this position through a girl friend who used
to live near my home. Harriet and share
room together in a house which takes
dodgers but does not furnish table board.
1t is in respectable locality and is within
fifteen minutes walk of the store. So we
save car fares.
The room is nicely but plainly furnished
and has a large window. We pay SO per
week for it. We might save little by liv-
ing away up town. This saving, however,
would go in trolley car fares.
We get up promptly at quarter before
seven each morning. and at once start TO
make coffee on a little oil stove that also
helps to heat the room in very cold weather;
at other times we are careful not to use a
teaspoonful of kerosene when it can be
helped. By the time we are dressed the
coffee Is ready, and we always have can
OF condensed milk and a little paper of
sugar on hand We each have a cup OF
coffee and two or three slices of bread and
butter for breakfast. Sometimes we treat
ourselves to oatmeal, but not often.
When 1880 comes we start for the store
and must be up stairs back OF the counter
ready for customers the minute the clock
strikes eight, for then the doors are thrown
open and early shoppers are sure to come.
When my lunch time comes ! go down
stairs to the basement, which has big
recreation room so arranged that not one
customer in 5000 knows OF it's existence.
Lunch is served there by the house, and
mighty good food, too; no fancy dishes, very
few sweets, but good substantial stuff For
! cent / can get cup Of good coffee or tea.
Two slices of bread and butter cost l cent.
or stewed fruits 3 cents a dish, and other
things in proportion. ! never yet have been
able to eat 10 cents worth. This sounds
cheap, and it is; but the house furnishes
everything at cost, and in order to cater to
900 people a day it buys everything in very
large quantities
The dinner consists of soup, meat, two
vegetables bread and butter and pudding,
all for 20 cents.
Sometimes we don't eat dinner, but go
home and have coffee and bread in our own
room, and save about 20 cents. A great
many of the girls do this regularly, living
on coffee or tea, with bread and butter twice
a day, and only having one real meal, then
hearty lunch at noon. Do you wonder that
after year or two OF this semi starvation
some Of the girls in great department stores
look pale and thin, or are irritable?
My share OF the room rent costs $3.50 per
week; laundry, % cents breakfasts and
luncheons IS cents dinners, on an average,
$50 That leaves out of Sc per week just
So for clothing charity amusements, .
penny paper every day and money to send
home. | am thankful to say i can usually
send home 81 so a month, which helps Won
derfully, although / am sure ! don't know
how | manage to do it. oh, yes, l belong
to a sick benefit society, managed by the
store, and - cents Is deducted by the cash
Ter every month from my wages in order to
pay the dues. h. M. 5.
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Mrs Nelson A. Miles, with all her travel
ing, is a very domestic woman and particu-
larly fond of managing her house though
she has not, as yet, adopted the fad of cook
ing lessons"
Mrs Waring, the widow of Colonel War
ing, addressed the members of the Public
Works department of New Orleans the other
day, describing the methods employed by
her husband in cleaning the streets of New
York.
Nine. Lili Lehman, who is a vegetarian,
says that her daily bill of fare is about as
follows: A glass of milk at 1880 a. m, with
a little rye bread and sometimes fruit; at
noon, vegetable or rice soup and plate OF
vegetables; at p. m, a cup OF milk and at
7 o'clock some green salad and two eggs or
some cheese Now and then during the day
she eats fruit. When she is to sing at night
she takes plate OF rice at noon and eats
nothing more until after the opera, generally
about midnight.
The late Mrs. Kelley, the actress, used
to tell an anecdote of Queen Victoria on the
occasion when she had the honor of being
received by her majesty On being pre-
sented she excused herself from making a
low courtesy by saying: Your majesty, /
have rheumatism in my knees, and | cannot
courtesy" MRS. Kelley" replied the queen,
Il can't either" and the veteran actress was
put at her ease by the LONELINESS of the re-
mark, and its common touch OF nature,
which made the two women kin.
The crown princess Of Denmark has-and
perhaps enjoys-the double distinction OF
being the tallest and richest royal lady in
Europe She stands six feet two inches and
is worth between 1000, 900 and $50 900 600
Fife-sixt OF her fortune was Inherited from
her maternal grandfat ther, Prince Frederick
OF the Netherlands. Her grandmother was
Miss Desree Clary. daughter OF Marseilles
stock broker. who Tilted Napoleon Bonaparle'
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
WASHING DONE ron GOLD.
Practical WAY In which -Four womcr
Earned Nancy


Not all the gold of the Klondike is made
in digging 1t out of the ground.
Four smart German girls have made four
snug little fortunes in successful laundry
business at Dawson city.
They got in on the ground floor. the real
pay dirt, so to speak soon after the Klon-
dixie was struck. They came from San
Francisco with small cash capital, but with
brains, energy and courage and a fair
knowledge of-washng gold in placer min
ing? No-of washing shirts.
The plant was soon secured. camp
stove in the open air, a few washtubs, wash
boards and fatirons and soap made the
equipment and the Yukon furnished the
water.
Money flowed in rapidly from the begin
ming The girls made their own schedule of
prices, regardless of other concerns. They
charged 81 each for cleaning and polishing
white shirts. The price was stiff, but it
was Dawson City and besides nobody but
tenderfeet with money and swell gamblers
wore white shirts. Other prices were kept
in like ratio. Collars were 20 cents each
Moreover the professional laundryman
who came later found competitor uphill
work. The girls were popular. They made
many friends and kept the respect of all
There is old-fashioned gallant regard for
good women in the Klondke and this to-
gether with the proverbial generosity of
miners, worked to the advantage of the four
laundresses.
The miners built a cabin for the girls and
told every newcomer about the best laundry
in town. Then the girls had no end of
beaux. During the summer months when
work in the diggings is dull many young
men called at the little cabin to exchange
gossip of the camp. The girls had an eye
to business as we'll.
The callers were told that the supply of
frewood was always short. The hint was
sufficient. The latter was furnished with
an ak and the conversation was continued
to the music of the metal on the wood and
the swash of the clothes on the washboards.
Hot coffee was served later.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
STORY LIKE HESTER PRYNNE's
Modern Instance of "The Scarlet Let.
ter,, Refare IL Church..

Modern Instance of "The Scarlet Let
ter" Before n Church.
Before my God and the whole church
confess my sins. l confess that l have
broken Gods law"
The speaker was Miss Celia Overholtzer,
eldest daughter of millionaire orange
grower OF the Pomona valley, Cal.
The occasion was the assemblage Of the
whole Dunkard denomination at the large
church at Lordsburg in services commemo-
rative OF Good Friday, says dispatch to the
Chicago Tribune.
1t is a modern instance of the sin of Hes
ter Prynne and her Puritan pastor, Mr. Dim
mesdale, in THE Scarlet Letter"
Several years ago Rev. Edward A.. Miller
was called to the presidency OF the Dunkard
college at Lordsburg from Philadelphia. He
was bright, active young man with wife
and two small children. Miller became a
power in the new college and his sermons
in the Dunkard church We're considered the
most eloquent ever heard in this valley. The
attendance at the college doubled in one
year and the young pastor and teacher was
in demand wherever patriotic and religious
oratory was wanted.
Among the girl students at the college was
Celia Overholtzer. She was IS when she first
met Miller and an unusually pretty girl
private secretary and until last December
she gave several hours every week of the
college year to clerical labor in the college
presidents study. Last autumn there were
rumors among the college students that
suspicious circumstances had been observed
about the presidents study.
The Dunkards at Lordsburg denounced
the rumors as fasehoods and the congrega-
tion hocked to sustain the reputation Of the
popular preacher
Three days ago, when the Dunkards were
preparing for the observance of Good Fri
day and nightly prayer meetings were in
progress, Miss Overholtzer awoke her father
late at night and. throwing herself on the
floor at his bedside, told him between her
sobs and means that at last her conscience
had overwhelmed her and she must confess
The tenets of the Dunkard denomination
require that all sins should be told the
church. SO last evening Celia overholtzer
rose in the family pew and read her confes-
sion from a sheet of paper.
Her voice was broken and choking tears
ran down her ashen cheeks and she grpped
the rail of the pew to keep from reeling.
When she had finished her white haired
father put his arm about her and held her
close, while father and daughter wept to-
gether conyusively.
over 1900 persons were present and all
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strongly perfumed sachet powder, spread
through tho hair a delicious odor.
Fashions for children.
Undeniably the children made a most at
tractive showing at Easter in spite Of the
fact that their picturesque hats and gay
little gowns we're rather swamped by the
splendors of their elders. The pretty rett-
cules all the little ladies carried with their
fresh Sunday school dresses did not how
ever, escape notice, nor the prevailing effect
OF coats as short as these OF their mothers,
with quaint mushroom shaped shoulder col
lars, and the almost universal wide hat,
turned off sharply from the face.
The coats on the misses Of eleven and
less years were without exception byN-
shaped back and front, with the bottom
edges cut in three or four shallow scallops
and the seams all gay with white and gilt
braiding. The mushroom collar has bidden
successful defiance to the trusty, faithful
sailor shape. 1t is cut quite round, jus
out to the shoulder seam and Is either lined
or faced with silk that is an emphatic con-
trast in color to the coat itself. There were
elegant little paletots on elegant little gem
tlewomen, warm rose bengaline which after
all is quite serviceabe cloaking goods, and
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afterward emperor in order to wed Berna-
iotte, who became king of Sweden and Nor


afterward emperor, in order to wed Berna-
dotte, who became king of Sweden and Nor
way.
For the first time in the history OF the
English Institution of Electrical Engineers a
woman has been invited to read a paper at
one Of its meetings. Mrs. Ayrton-the wife
OF Prof. W. Il. Ayrton +. X. S., professor OF
applied physics in the Central Technical col
lege of the City and Guilds of London Insti-
tute-has just read a paper on THE Kissing
of the Electric Arc at the meeting of that
body. She has carried out a series OF orig
inal Investigations on the eleceric arc, and
has contributed many papers on the subject
to The Electrician
Fire brigades manned" by women are not
uncommon in England. There is one at Cir
ton college where the students have their
own brigade and appliances. Several OF the
hospitals have separate brigades of the
nurses and of the male attendants, and the
nurses are said to be much quicker than the
men. At Holloway college there is brigade,
formed of the girl students, capable Of get
ting the engine at work in less than a min
ute Several establishments in London hay-
ing large corps OF women employed have fire
companies among the employees.
Mrs. Leonard Wood, wife of the general
Interested herself in her husbands work
when he was an army surgeon and under
his direction read medicine to such good
purpose that it is now said she could eeasily
secure diploma from any medical college
Few more splendid types Of the American
girl can be found than Miss Cockrell, daugh-
ter OF the Missouri senator, who has been
chosen TO christen the new battleship Mis-
souri,. She is tall and statuesque, with
handsome and animated face, sweet voice
and manners fitted to grace the most elegant
society.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
wONiAN,s BULB FARM.
Profitable Outdoor Work of a Georgia
school Teacher.

Miss Agnes Oliver is an enterprising
young southern woman who has made
bulb growing a profitable business Her
home Is within a few miles of Augusta, Ga,
and comprises between fifty and seventy
acres OF land, which, when she inherited it,
the neighbors said was too poor to sprout
COW peas.
~ had been a public school teacher"
Miss Oliver explained when asked about
her work, land the confinement and worry
with the children had almost destroyed my
health. Well, this little farm was left me
about six months before the doctors said
must give up my school. l didn't object
but for the fact that it was my only means
of support.
1--WE talked the matter over my mother
and /, and determined to try living on the
farm for one year, as it would save rent,
and perhaps at the end of that time would
be we'll enough to go back to my teaching.
Looking over seed catalogues, / began
to notice the prices of bulbs, varieties that
we trod upon every time We stepped out of
our door Then / sent on samples to several
seed houses and asked what they would pay
for such bulbs Two northern firms wrote
making me offers and asking how many
dozens / could furnish. You don't know
how we laughed over those letters! The
idea OF counting those bulbs by the dozen!
| wrote could furnish them by the bushel,
the barrel the hundredweight, and would
guarantee every one.
II received orders from both firms, and
when the tops of the plants died down had
them carefully gathered. My mother and
sorted and boxed them for shipment with
our own hands. Then we began TO prepare
for another crop. OF course when our checks
came and orders to be filled the next year
we were elated. My health, too, was restored,
I wrote Immediately TO other seed houses
soliciting orders for another year, and also
asked my friends, for l began to look upon
the two firms who first ordered Of us as
friends, II they could make suggestions as
10 newer or more popular bulbs for growing
They not only made suggestions, but sup
piled us with sufficient number TO begin.
"You see my farm? All the hills are
terraced, the fence corners are free from
weeds. and between my crop of bulbs have
corn, watermelons, etc. You know II Is not
we'll to grow two bulb crops in succession
on the same land. ! fertilize heavily but
never with commercial fepilizers-always
with a compost of cotton seed, the refuse
from stables and COW lots, Such fertilizers
keep the bulbs warm, and in loamy land like
this is, 1t is not so easily washed out.
"Of course l plant the different varieties
at different times, but cultivate them all
alike. l use the plow, and for that reason
the rows have to be rather far apart, but
otherwise they grow and blossom pretty
much as they did in our garden.
80 far have had the greatest demand
for the double jonQuil, the Bermuda lily and
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09

ter to go on ones responsibility and be able
to choose for ones self.
The writer knows a case whcTe a mis-
sionary in India sent word home to friend
that there was an excellent opportunity in
his town for any English woman who
wanted to work among the heathen The
truth was he wanted wife and he guessed
that the friend would tell the news to a
woman whom he had often mentioned in
his letters as wanting to do some mission
airy work.
This was just what happened, and, as a
result, the woman went out to India and
was met by the missionary on landing
AS she naturally felt lonely in her strange
surroundings for several days, it is no Won
der that, when she had the proposal about
a fortnight after landing, she closed with it
at once
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09

scarce in some parts Of America. One Of
these was Oregon state. In order to get
women to 20 to the colony there 1t was
given out by the men that they had some
fine openings for school teachers, house
keepers and the like and the most entic-
ing wages were offered. This advertise
mcnt brought out many women who would
never have gone IL they had been told the
reason for Il. They men were wide awake
and knew that once they got the women
there it would be indeed strange IL they
did not get several Of them to stay as
wives
On another occasion a fine looking young
fellow was sent around Massachusetts,,
where he was well known, to collect as
many females as he could, under the pre-
tense OF bringing them to good situations,
and at the end of two months he returned
with many proofs OF his success but he
had captured the heart OF the prettiest OF
them during the journey and the others
were somewhat forlorn until he assured
them that there were more fine fellows In
the land to which they were bound, and
within a year every woman among them
was married. though she had never thought
about such thing when she set off on the
engagement
west Australia at the present uhe Ca
fers good opening for women who are
desirous of getting married and who fear
that their charms are being overlooked in
the old country. Some thousands of hard
working farmers there would be only too
glad to get hold of a good wife, but their
labors and the small number Of women In
the colony make it almost impossible for
them to have their wishes gratihed. Some
beg their friends here to send them a
woman out who is wanting husband, but
it is not every girl who cares to go to
man whom she has never seen. 1t is bet
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
LIVING ON sIx DoLLAns A WEEK.

snIeswomun Tells just How She Lays
out Her Income.
l am a salesgirl at the perfumery counter
of enc of the largest department. stores in
the United States. There are 1000 women
employed in this beehive, and as many men
and boys. The editor has asked me to write
something about the life we lead, and how
such girl can live in great city on a
salary of Sc per week, and sometimes send
home little money to her family
In the first place, l work in one of the
best managed stores in the world, Every
thing is done to get self-respectng employees
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09

were sympathetic il was some time before
the presiding elder could recover his voice.
Then. in faltering accents, he read more
detailed confession. Some one moved the
expulsion Of Miller from the church and 1t
was carried amid tears and cries.
Miller knew what was coming. He had
gone with his family to Los Angeles few
hours before, but left note confessing his
guilt and asking the prayers of his church.
Miss Overholtzer was carried from the
church to her home helpless and in daze.
One of her four brothers is today said to be
insane with grief
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
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several varieties of gladiolus, but try al
ways to plant according to my orders, leav-
ing good margin in case of accidents. As
a result always have a good surplus, which,
UP to the present have always managed to
get good prices for No have never had
a poor crop, and can see no reason why
should anticipate one. Bulbs come at a
season when rain is plentiful. our winters
are never severe enough to kill them, al
though they are often nipped and have to
make more than one effort to hold their
heads up
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09

on the bengaline was applied the most
graceful figures done in cream gutpure. or
course a cream guipure collar swept about
the shoulders and the white leghorn hat
worn with this was decorated with pink
wings and had corded white taffeta swath-
ings on the crown. In some respects these
small Easter worshpers outshone their
mothers, for nowadays no toilet is consid-
cred too splendid for the pretty American
child. MARY DEAN.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
Something Every Man
Woman and Child
Ought to Know.
WHAT ''HYOMEI" MEANS.

"HYOMEI" on the Bottle means that it contains the
only Dry Air Germicde known which will destroy the bac
of catarrh bronchitis and consumption.
"HYOMEI the Inhaler means that you have the only
method by which dry air germcide be carried to all
parts of the head, throat and lungs
"HYOMEI" on the Outfit means that this is the only
treatment for which the money is returned it fails to cure
"HIOMEI' in the House means that asthma, catarrh,
bronchitis Group pneumonia and consumption cannot exist
there.
"HYOMET in the Pocket means that you have an i'm
mediate and positive cure for coughs and colds
the to
druggist The that advertising specialists who have heretofore claimed
methods adopting old
'llyomei'
There germciie which be
breathe
mel" by the
1T CURES BY INHALATION.
the bronchial
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Bottles
Hyome Guaranteed Dyspepsia Cure, Soc All
r. T. BOOTH CO. Auditorium Building, Chicago
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09

The 27-inch Winslow taffeta is the latest
in lining silks. The 19-inch taffetas are be-
ing rapidly displaced by the Winslow, be-
cause OF It's extraordinary width and wearing
qualities. The worlds most fashionable
recommend Wnslow tatteta.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
WHERE WOMEN ARE A RARITY.
Ministering Angels Are Very Much I'm
Demand.

Women are not always in the majority of
numbers and where they are found wanting
comforts are not superahundant for the
forlorn man left TO his own awkward de-
vices.
Not very long ago women were very
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
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strongly perfumed sachet powder, spread
through the hair q delicious odor.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-07-01

lists OF Lincoln and Lancaster county
are invariably surprised at the small.
ness of the personally holdings OF
men who are known to be the richest
men here. IT the burdens were
placed more evenly real estate would
Immediately advance in value because
the rate of taxation could be inn
mediately lowered
Mrs. Blaine's example Is not likely
to be widely followed. l. is So much
easier to give away in requests a
large sum Of money than it is to deal
justly and tell the truth even to the
assessor while we need the money
ourselves.