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Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10

munerative field for women work
80 ers. 1t demands the services of
hundreds of them. 1t largely de-
- ponds upon them for ultimate
success. 1t pays them thousands of dollars
weekly. In this one thing alone it con-
spicuously differs from the big hotel Of
yesterday.
The women employees Of the spacious
hosiery of a decade ago were all mere
servants. In it's monster counterpart of
the hour they are graded all the way up
from cleaners to college graduated clerks.
whose abilities to direct the satisfying of
the wants Of the occupants of entire floors
enable them to earn comfortable salaries.
Formerly two dozen chambermaids, half
as many cleaners, and three or four linen
room girls, with a none too well educated
housekeeper over them, constituted an es.
pecially large corps of female help. At
the most typical example of the up-to-date
hotel-the Waldorf Astoria of New York
this force would be just about large enough
to take care comfortably of two of it's four
teen floors. There seven housekeepers, each
selected for her acknowledged intelligent
executive ability, employ, discharge and di-
rect the tasks of fifteen parIor maids. ninety
chambermaids, fifty cleaners and twenty
seamstresses and other workers along allied
lines. Each housekeeper has charge OF
two floors, and all OF them report to the
senior in command.
Large as are these figures, they represent
scarcely more than half the women regu.
larry employed. The floor clerks and
cashiers number thirty-three. Four con-
trollers audit the checks Of the walters.
The laundry employs seventy-fve, the
kitchen fifteen. The glass %pantries are
taken care Of by twelve, the storeroom
by eight, and sixteen. Mattresses serve all
these women, for they live in the hotel
The grand total is 345.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10

A lese, once the conquererS and
rulers of Ceylon, and the found
ers of a mighty empire. They are, beyond
comparison, the most effeminate race Of
men on the face of the earth. Nowhere else
can men be found so much like women.
They have not a single manly virtue, but
they possess all the pretty little ways of
women in a caricatured form. They are
as nervous as the most timid girl. They
will scream or faint at the sight of blood
or violence. If spoken to Grossly, as likely
as not they will cry and go down on their
Bonded knees to beg for kindness. If, on
the contrary, they are shown indulgence.
they will sicken the stranger by behaving
in a coquettish, skittish way-iust like a
young girl in a dime novel.
Not only do they act like the weaker
kind of women; they actually look like
women and dress like women. The Cinga-
lese man, as seen in the towns of Cey-
Ion, or on the plantations in the interior
OF the island, is hardly distinguishable
from his wife, unless the foreigner knows
the race we'll.
He let's his jet-black hair grow to its full
length, and then does it up on the TOP OF
his head with two tortoise-shelI combs.
back and front. The woman does I'D her
hair in the same way, except that she
bralds 1t. The man wears long skirts
reaching down to his ankles, adorns him
sen with earrings, necklaces, bracelets
ana brooches, and carries a parasoI To
project his complexion from the hot
rays OF the tropical sun. In this cos
tune supplemented by an eheminate look
ueilcate features, and mincing ways. it is
no wonder he is nearly always mistaken
for a woman by strangers
The first thing the tourist hears on visit
ing Ceylon. the island of jewels and spices
Vi mystery and romance, is a soft. musical
cry In a delicate womanish voice.
Matchli! Matchli! Bahoot khoob match
Il, lflsh! Fish! Very good fish,
Looking over the taffrail Of the steamer
"hlch mas Just cast anchor in the barber
or Colombo, he sees half a dozen inv
canoes manned by Cingalese, who are hold
Ing up blue-and- silver fish which they have
Just caught, and want to sell to the mas.
sengers. ~
What fine looking women" a-passenpor
eHclaims' How tall and graceful they
are"
Women says the old ouartcruas,or
scornfully, They amt women. They're
the men of this country"
But they look just like women"
well, they are just like women. II YOU
cuss EN-, theylI cry. hit one aboard
ere last wage, an e howlcd for twenty
minutes. 'Strewth, / felt bad-just as II
I'd been wallopirg q gal"
The strangest thing about the average
Clngalese is that he actually takes a pride
in looking like a woman and in being as
much like a woman in all his ways rs
possible. He does not admire any Of the
manly virtues. even from a distance; he
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Discretion the Better

The Boss-Did Mr.. Grumpey pay the bill?
Clerk-On the contrary, he threatened 10
throw me out of the window If didn't
leave tho premises in%stanter.
The BOss-You ought to have let him do
IT, Mr.. Meeker; we could have collected a
pretty sum In damages.
Clerk-But it might have killed me; in
that case l couldn't have been used as a
witness.
The Boss-True; I didn't think of that.
On the whole, perhaps you were right in
not putting him to the test.-Boston Tran
script.
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Men Who Are the Women of the Human Race

regards them as brutal and detestable.
The soldier-the man who is hired to kill
and to be killed-is an object of horror to
him. In the early days Of foreign rule,
European conqueTOrs tried to make native
regiments cut OF the Cingalese, but it was
no use. Portuguese, Dutch and English,
all failed in that enterprise. The Cingalese
simply would not learn how to drill or how
to use their muskets. They would throw
themselves upon the ground and weep,
until their drill sergeants. IN despair. left
them alone.
1t is not surprising to find that these
womanish men do not like hard work. They
prefer to avoid work altogether, If they can,
and live on their parents, their wives, their
children, or their neighbors. But II they
have to work or starve, they will invariably
choose some light employment.
They are fondest, perhaps, of domestic
service in a European family living in
CcyIon. The work is easy, and the de-
pendent position suits their efeminate ma
lures beautifully-they feel a comforting
sense of protection.
II they enter the service OF an English
man who is new to Ceylon they are apt to
have a bad time at first. Their womanish
ways jar upon him, and he gives them the
rough side Of his tongue and the toe of his
DOOl pretty ollths bAN olANl AANy hoNS
wept copiously he begins TO feel like a
brute and leaves them alone. Then they
are happy.
They make good Servants, on the whole,
except for one great fault. Like all weak
characters the truth is not in them, 1t is
as natural to them TO lie as 1t is to an or
binary man to eat when he Is hungry. They
will tell a dozen falsehoods to save them
selves from the slightest scolding or even
to "please master"
They are complaisant to a degree. To
"obligc master" they will profess Chris
%tianity, but without giving up their own
Buddhism. Also to "obllge master they
will commit perjury by the hour in a court
of law, if told to do so.
Curious as II may seem, their women do
not dcspise them for being so unmanly. Use
IS everything. and the Cingalese women are
not used to their men being anything but
womauish. They are taught from childhood
that it is the proper thing, and naturally
they look on the ways Of other men as
being cruel and brutal, They all marry very
young. and a Cingalcse woman who has
never married is as rare as a palm tree in
LaplaGd.
"Women's rights" are never heard OF east
of Suez. but the Cingalese women have a
pretty good time, because their husbands
are so effeminate. If the men recognize
any duty in life it is "to please the
women, as they say. They will make per-
feet bufoons Of themselves for this end.
playing like children, or capering and
grimacing like monkeys. II they are told
they are silly and undignifed, they will
reply. TT is 10 please the women" as If
that were an all-suficient excuse.
The. Cingalese make excellent mechanics
and agriculturists, provided the particular
work assigned to them Is not laborious.
They excel in the manufacture OF tortoise
she'll combs, which they wear in their hair.
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Some of these combs are exquisitely carved.
The artisans of Trincomalee and POine-
de-Galle have made a specially of these
combs for more than 1000 years. Strabo,
the Roman geographer and historian, men
lions that in his day before the birth of
Christ, the Cingalese made tortoise she'll
combs and wore them in their hair.
Ptolemy, 100 years ago, wrote:
The men who inhabit Ceylon allow their
hair unlimited growth and bind it on the
crown of their heads after the manner OF
women"
Proof positive of how u%nchanging is the
east!
The Cingalese were not always a despic-
able race. Two or three thousand years
ago the empire OF Lanka, as Ceylon was
then called, was one of the greatest in
Asia. Like the ancient republic of Venice,
it held the gorgeous east in fee Today
the ruins of the buried cities of Anurad-
hapura and POllonarua-more wonderful
even than the Egyptian ruins in the valley
of the Nile-attest the magnifcence of an
empire greater than Babylon or Nineveh.
The Cingalese were an Aryan people who
descended from northern India and con-
quered Ceylon. In the golden age of Lanka
they founded one of the greatest of all the
ancient civilizations, spurred on by an in
tense religious enthusiasm engendered by
the dawn of Buddhism in its purest and
noblest form.
For centuries they prospered, until, grow
ing by degrees more and more effeminate,
they were conquered by Tamil invaders
from southern India. The Tamils enslavcd
them, and soon ground all remnants Of no.
bility and civilization out Of their char
aCter.
Then came the Portuguese and the Dutch,
who made slaves of Tamlls and Cingalese
alike. Now, under the fatherly rule of the
British, the Cingalese are able to indulge
their effeminacy to their hearts content.
1t goes without saying that they are a
very doCile people, who give little or no
trouble to their rulers. Their greatest
fault, as citizens, is their ineradicable fond
ness for perjury. In Ceylon a Judge is un-
able to believe a word that nine out of ten
OF the witnesses say. He starts with the
assumption that both sides are lying, and
then tries to strike the happy mean.
The Cingalese are passionately fond Of
litigation, and so keep the judges busy.
They are absurdly sensitive. A harsh word
will lead to an inyeterate feud between
two families. which finds an outlet in
tTumped-up charges in the courts.
Like most towards they are bitterly ma
licious. Doctors practising In CeyIon say
that n Cingalese who had been treacher-
Ously stabbed by another will often make
up his mind TO die out OF sheer spite. so
that his enemy may be hanged for murder.
More remarkable still, his relatives connive
at his plot. They keep his wound open,
give him improper food and let him go
without medical attendance. They mourn
for him, but they think that he is dying In
a noble cause.
One case of this kind is often quoted in
CeylOn.
A certain Cingalese called another a fool.
The aggrieved party nursed his wrath for
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10
Change for the Better

Farewell, then" ne cried, melodramat>
ically, you will regret your refusal Of my
profered love. I shall take TO drink, and
then-suiside!"
80 don't say that" the fair girl pleaded.
81 am resolved" he said. 81 shall not
change my plans unless"
90 change them Just a little. | should
hate to ii ink I drove you to drink; try suI-
eide frs Washington Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10
Copyright, 1903 by ,

Dyright, 1903. by James r. Hallam)
The women of the human race
that is what the natives of India
CONTEMPORARY call the Cinga-
lese, once the c]Onquerers and
rulers of Ceylon, and the found
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10

He BIG HOTEL of today is a re-
munerative field for women work
ers. 1t demands the services of
hundreds of them. 1t largely de-
ponds upon them for ultimate
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-28
Miss Blodgett's Sunday Lecture.

On Sunday at her lecture Miss Blod-
gett had for her theme Worship of the
Golden Calf her lecture giving the fol
lowing points:
The next historical event after the Civ
ing of the Law, was Moses call to tho
Mount, where he received from God the
pattern OF the Tabernacle, the type OF
the gospel. Moses remained on the noun
tain forty days and forty nights, leaving
the people under Aaron and Hur Be
fore the forty days were passed, notwith-
standing the recent wonderful exhibition
of Gods power they grew restless at
Moses long absence. Forgetting their
own confident words, "All the words
which the Lord hath said will we do,
they demanded of Aaron gods to go be-
fore them. Already they had lost sight
OF Gods leadership, and were speaking
of this man Moses that brought us ur
out of the land of Egypt" as their
leader.
How we see the experience of the Israel
ties repeated in our own lives How often
we fall into sin because we lose sight
of Gods leadership. If we have nothing
more than a man as leader, we nave not
spiritual life. If God is not our pillar
OF cloud by day, and our pillar of fire
by night, we are in danger. The impor-
tant question for us is, Have we God S
leadership
Aaron stands before the people with q
magnificent opportunity to serve God.
How does ne use it? He calls for their
gold and fashions it with a craving fool,
after he has made of it molten calf. He
yielded to their opportunities, persuad-
ing himself that there could be no harm
in worshipping God through the image.
What motives prompted Aaron? We
may reasonably infer several. Finding
himself in an unpleasant predicament.
he might have thought it cxpedient to
pacify the people for the time being He
might have feared loss of popularity He
might have said, If am too strict, I
snail Hose all my friends" he might
shall lose all my friends" He might
have been merely Sinking responsibility,
claiming that it was Moses business, not
his. to keep the people in order
After one wrong step, the second is
easy; Aaron made an altar before the
image. and proclaimed feast to Je-
aovah Aaron did not say, These be
thy gods; the people said it, But he
permitted it. and their sin was due to
his false leadership. II he had stood
true blue. and had hidden them to re-
main firm in their worship Of the one
God. thew would not have committed
this awful sin.
Aaron did not Worship the calf him
self. he did not tell the people to wor-
ship it, lie simply thought as people
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FLoR,L CARNIVAL AND CANTATA.
Rsvsls of the Queen of May and Her Fairies for
Benefit of Day Nursery

Queen. e. :. E. =. Miss Mamie Lee
Herald. . . . =. Master Cowper
Crown Bearer -. -. Miss Flossie Busbee
Maids of Honor: Misses Patsey Smith,
Lizzie Lee Foster and Baker, represent
ing daisies; Misses Busbee and Ray, rep
resenting butter-cups; Misses Swindell,
Fleming and .Busbee, yiolets; Misses An
HE and Frances Strong, Lee and Phillips,
forget me nots; Misses Swindell, John
son and Knox, pansies
SYNOPSIS.
Act /: Garland drill and song, Joyous
Spring Time; May Pole Dance and
song, Il have heard of twelve sisters, -
BY Misses Montague, McCullers, MCGEE,
and Ray, Masters Hill, Cary Hudson and
Wharton.
Entry of Queen and Fairies song, I'VE
come from the woodland skirt dance,
by Misses Patsey Smith. Lizzie Johnson
and Ruth Lee
Act 2; Village lads and lassies pay
homage to Queen, Queens welcome to
fairies and hears their pleadings' songs,
Spring Gentle Spring and Forget
m-enot." Highland fling, by Misses Phil
lips. Swindell Busbee and Ray
Act 8: Fairy song, Queen surrounded
by sleeping fairies.
Act 4: Sailors ashore sailors horn
pipe by Master Chas Busbee' Misses
Patsoy Smith. Annie Strong and Lizzie
Johnson.
The above is the programme for the
delightful entertainment to be given on
Friday night at the Academy OF Music
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have been thinking ever since, Il can do
this without harm to myself neither
thinking nor caring about his influence
on the people committed to his charge.
God tells Moses what has happened,
giving him at the same time severe
test. God proposes to destroy the rebel
lious Israelites, and MAKE of Moses a
great nation. Does Moses listen to the
tempting offer? Far from it; he pleads
for his people He pleads first Gods
glory. He asks what the Egyptians will
think when they hear of the destruction
of this people, lead out OF Egypt with
so many signs and wonders. He pleads
next Gods word. God had promised TO
make of these people great nation.
God yields to his entreaty. and Moses de-
sends to his SHINING people.
Moses is in thousand times more
danger than was Aaron, is he afraid? Is
he governed by expediency or desire for
popularity? Does he shirk responsibility?
On the contrary, he burns the calf.
grinds it into powder, strews 1t upon
the water, and makes the culprits drink
the consequences of their own sin.
Moses then calls out. "Who is on tho
Lords side?" And these who declared
themselves for God. were commanded to
Stay those who had sinned Was the
Staying Of these people unmcrciful? God
had chosen this people to manifest Him
to the world by preserving His truth in
purity He could not do otherwise than
cut off this cancer, to save the rest Of
the body.
He demands of us today to take an alb
solute stand on His side. He recog
nizes no middle ground. To be on Gods
side requires the Staying of everything
in our hearts and lives contrary to His
Will.
Miss Blodgett's Sunday lectures arc
based on Old Testament subject, and
have no connection with the lectures
delivered during the week.
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sXX/OnAN
! w /: Society.


Miss Pearl Haughton returned to the
city yesterday. after a visit to Durham
Mr.. and Mrs. p H. Mayo, Of Rich
mond, are here, guests of Col and Mrs.
Benehan Cameron.
Mrs. ID. p Mcclellan and Miss Nc
Lellan. of Morristown, Pa, are at the
Marlborough.
Miss L. M. Jones, of Franklin, was
in the city at the Marlborough yester-
day.
Mrs J. J. Thomas left yesterday to
visit in Franklinton and Warrenton.
Miss Anne Taylor, of Pittsboro who
is to be one of the attendants at the
Raney benson marriage tonight, arrived
yesterday and is with her sister, Mrs.
T. b. Womack.
Mrs. John f. Mitchell left yesterday
for Richmond.
Mrs. Speight. of Fremont; Mrs. S.
r.. Scott, of New Bern; Mrs. G. p. Jc-
rome, of Durham, and Mrs |. j. Har-
rell of Durham, who were here as dele
gates to the Womans Homo Missionary
Sunday, have returned to their homes,
Mrs. T. R. Kendall, Of Owensburg.
Ky, who spoke here at the meeting of
the Womans Home Missionary Society
left yesterday for Atlanta.
Mrs. VIM. M. Russ and children, re-
turned yesterday from Greenville where
they visited relatives and attended the
Williams Jarvis wedding
Mrs. II. B. Moore, of Tarboro, ar
rived yesterday to visit Mrs. w. H,
Riggsbee.
Miss Matte Satterthwaite, of Green's
boro, who has been visiting Miss Mary
Andrews, left for her home yesterday.
The Ladies Hospital Aid Association
will meet this afternoon in the office of
Col. Thomas Kenan at five o'clock.
There will be an important meeting
of the u. A. c. Club with Miss Sackie
Latta this afternoon at four O'Clock.
Miss Mamie Belvin, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Charles Horne,
in Clayton, has returned to the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. H. Burroughs have
returned to their home in Hamlet after
a visit here.
Mr.. and Mrs. John c. Drewry have
returned from a visit to New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Laymon, of
Illinois, who have been guests at the
home of Mr.. ]. o. Smith. left for their
home yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Allen, of Smith
field, are guests at the home Of Mr..
James M. Allen.
Miss Julia Davis, of Louisburg, was
in the city yesterday, on her way to
Winston to visit friends.
Mrs B. F. Dixon leaves this after
noon for Spartanburg, S. c., where she
will visit her son, Mr.. Robert Lee Dur
ham, and attend the May Festival.
Rev. and Mrs. A. B. Hunter returned
yesterday from Richmond. Va, where
they attended the educational conference
Mr.. w Harry Heck, secretary of
the General Education Board, is in the
city, visiting his mother.
Mrs l.. j. Haughton, Mr.. Henry Lon
don, Jr., and Miss Betsie London, of
Pittsboro will arrive today to attend
the Raney- benson marriage tonight.
The Fortnightly Review Club viii
meet on Thursday afternoon with Mrs.
Hubert A. Register
Mrs. "A. Spiers left for her home in
Smithied yesterday afternoon after al
tending the meeting of the Woman's
Home Missionary Society.
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Miss Arlington Entertajns

Rocky Mount. N. c., April 25.-(Spe-
cial)-Miss Mary Arlington Thorp de-
lightfully entertained the N. 0. Y. b.
Club at her home on North Church street
on Friday evening The game of Finch
and serenade by the Rocky Mount Con-
cert Band were the features of the even
ing. Those present were as follows:
Misses Gertrude Oppenheimer, Mamie
Walker, Julia Wacksmith, Ballard Ram
sey, Nemmie Paris, Mamie Daughtrey
and Amy Ophenger; Messrs. Hugh Will
ford, Kemp Battle, Thorpe Ramsey, Paul
Capelle, VIM. Williford, Lawrence
Horne, Flournoy Morton, VIM. Bassett,
Basil Muse and Thomas Hines.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-28
WILMINGTON SOCIAL LIFE.
A Pythian Reception and Colonial Dame
Pilgrimage,

Wilmington n. c., April 81 Special
The Pythians OF the city gave an en-
joyable reception to the ladies Of Will
mington this evening in their new hall
on the third floor of the Murchison Ma
tional Bank building. Music and light
refreshments were among the features
which contributed to the pleasure of the
evening.
The annual pilgrimage to the ruins of
old St. Philips church, at Old Bruins
wick. by the North Carolina Society Of
Colonial Danes, will take place next
Tuesday. May 5th. Memorial exercises
viii be conducted and basket picnic
cnjycd on the grounds.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-28
Kentness Book Club.

The Kentnss Book Club as most
charmingly entertained yesterday after
noon by Misses Susan and Theodorca
Marshall
The subject of the afternoon was Cap
tain Cook and the South Pacific and
excellent papers were read by Misses
Mary Armistead Jones and Miss Frances
Jones. After the literary features We're
over, delightful refreshments were
served and the afternoon spent most
pleasantly.
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The Life of Christ. "

The next regular lesson on the Life
of Christ" by Miss Blcdgett, will be
given this afternoon at four o'clock BY
request of the class the next lesson on
the Second Coming of Christ" will be
on Wednesday afternoon at four o'clock.
Both lessons viii be at the usual place
Mrs. j. w. Foy and Mrs. Edwards,
representing St. Luke's Circle, will leave
this morning for Salisbury as delegates
to the Kings Daughters Convention that
begins there on Wednesday. Mrs F. A..
Odds, the Recording State Secretary is
Unavoidably detained at home.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-28
CHROMEG SORES
Signs OF Polluted Blood.

There looking and disgusting old
worry grows weary work with until the
erng sicy looking
place makes you irritable respondent and desperate
blood unhealthy
and impoverished condition. that constitution breaking down under
taking medicines, like
potash vate the blood and
obstinate
non-h OF character.
Often breaks ighu eating the limbs
ndeli refuses the blood
fault while anpc washes slves and powders
to will
deadly
and with S. s. this accomplished
Tolluted blood purified and invgorated, and when
S GC rich pure blood lis circulatingfreey throughout
body the around the old begins to
olk0XhOSo color the discharge Of matter
>- >@w~ sNz% the place heals
blood in
builds general
write charge for medical advice.
TIE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, Ga.
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Raney-Densou Wedding.

The marriage of Mr. r. B. Raney and
Miss aKte benson takes place at o'clock
this evening in Christ church.
After the wedding the bridal party will
go to Pinehurst where they will be en-
tertained at the Carolina Inn. After this
Mr.. and Mrs. Ranev will leave for the
North on a bridal tour.