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Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-25
Handy handkerchief Case,

Squares of linen bound with tape and
furnished with a tape for tying are in
valuable for wrapping about shoes, and
probably no woman travels nowadays with
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-25
For the Summer Traveller.

the journey be long or
MI short, the vacation a protracted
" or an abbreviated one, there are
1KN many little conveniences that add
.s4N so matariallY to ones comfort
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-25
PrattIe of the Youngsters.

Ethel-The minister said something about
"apples of discord" in his sermon today. 1
wonder what he meant?
Tommy-Little green apples, guess
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-25
THE BROWN PARK SANIIARIUM
AND MINERAL SPRINGS.

The new mineral spring which has peen
discovered lately at 2lst and SITS, South
Omaha, contains six distinct minerals
Strongest Magnesia Mineral Water In the
world. Sold by case and gallon. Mineral
steam baths in connection.
JOHN HINRICHsEN a SONS, Prop.
alSt and sts.. 30. Omaha. Nsb. Tel. F77A
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-25
WhIttIer's Dog.

JRING one of the birthday celes
brations of the poet Wittier he
was visited by a great singer.
The woman was asked to sing,
md snntInn hnrnnlR O tho ,nln No
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

simply good enough to eat and the
chances are he will be proposing with
in the hour. There is no one else to
snatch him away from you at the criti
cal moment or to dash in in pink Paris
muslin with a Dutch neck (when you
can't wear it) and baby hat. You
have things all your own way, and II
tunities-well, Dorothy, 1 trust neither
of us is the kind of a girl who doesn't
know how to use her opportunities
when she gets them!
your heart. No, they're not, they are
only cribbing fudge when the girl
isn't looking! Well, / had four pro-
posals last week, right in my own lit
tie drawing room with not a new dud
on! Do you suppose any of the girls
at the summer resorts with their lin
gerie waists and twenty gored skirts
could show such a record as that for
one week? Never mind who they were;
you can't expect me to tell you every
thing even if you are my dearest
friend!
OF course, there are also the wifeless
husbands who are floating about town,
just longing to be into mischief. If a
girl went in for that sort of thing she
could elope every day in the week.
The wives are all away at the beaches
enjoying themselves and the bubbles
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

I have seen the thing a dozen times,
and there's not a bit of fun in it.when
you've worked like galley slave to
land the creature.
The trouble with the country is that
there's too much competition, while
here in town-dear old New York (she
looks out at hot, dusty pavements and
wilted passers-by with a loving glance
and throws kiss at a numbering dray),
if We're slangy which I'm not, should
say little old New York for mine,
chaque fois!
What can you do with yourself in
town What can you? Dorothy, child,
your innocence positively amuses me!
Pardon my smiles. Don't you know that
your possibilities in town are almost
unlimited? OF course, there's no use
denying it, the one aim and end of all
right-minded girls in summer-by sea,
mountain or at home-is men. Oh, no.
body hears us! Those women are only
buying peanut brittle-and certainly
there are not as many men anywhere
as in this little old town. There are
always stacks of men who can't get
away at all and stacks of others who
only have a short vacation, and that's
where you have the great big elegant
bulge on the go-away girl. AS sure as
fate she no sooner begins getting him
on the string than his vacation is up
and it's loves labor lost While the
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

| have nothing to do with their evenings
but to kill time, and they are just
suffering to kill it.
You need not be pretty, well dressed
or even half way engaging for these
to consider you positively ideal. and
! there isn't any attention they wouldn't
shower upon you If you would permit
it. But the stay-at-home girl who
would take up with married men is a
first-class idiot. 1t might be well
enough in the country when you have
to have something to sail with merely
to keep the vessel manned-no, honestly,
I won't do it again!-but in the city,
where single men are floating about
fairly longing to be caught-ugh, the
worst possible taste! No; they don't
have twice as much to spend as the
unmarried ones, either! They have to
send a huge weekly allowance to the
wife, and anyway the bachelors who
have to stay in town will spend every
cent they have whether they can az
ford it or not to make up for not hav-
ing a vacation They calculate that
board would be so much and railway
fares so much more, and extras that
much again, and they feel that no
matter what they spend in town 1t is
infinitely less than what they would
get stuck for in the country. Promise
me, Dorothy. you won't tell your
brother Fred a single word of what
I've said today. He thinks young girls
ought not to know too much, and, be-
sides, Fred and have always been the
best of friends.
So you see, my dear, that there is ah-
solutely no use in the wifeless hus-
bands, and the stay-at-home girl
doesn't need 'em for a minute. Be-
sides, you can always marry the other
kind if you find yourself growing fond
of them, while the married-but pshaw!
have you ever seen the married man
yet that you would have married under
any circumstances?
Next to the man question I suppose
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13
A RathskeIIer Car

The Pittsburg & Lake Erie raths-
keller car, operated between Pittsburg
and Cleveland, is a new departure.
The dining section, seating eighteen
people, is finished in dark oak, the
placing of tables and general style
giving the effect of grill room in a
well appointed club. The walls and
ceiling are decorated in subdued rich
colors.
The forward end of the car is a gem
eral lounging room, finished in ma
hogany, with heavy leather uphols-
tered lounges and easy chairs, movable
and cozy.
From the ceiling are suspended
quantity patterned electric lamps, fin-
ished in dull green bronze, with slight
iy tinged stained glass slides, ana
above each table, attached to the side
of the car, small replicas Of the CELL
ing lamps. Accommodation are not
reserved. the club facilities of the ear
being for the use of all patrons OF the
cafe.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

doesn't pay, consequently I want
new number"
The clerk was very nice about 1t.
"I don't blame you," he said. II will
give you 17349. That will head them
off. We don't get many complaints as
serious as yours. However, we receive
many requests for a change of tele-
phone numbers, on one charge or an
other. Usually, the dissatisfied sub
scribers want number that can be
more easily remembered. The hundreds
and thousands are most popular. After
them, double or triple combinations,
such as two twos or three threes are in
demand. Those numbers that can be
remembered by means of some non-
sensical jingle that applies to them are
also favorites. Occasionally we receive
complaint from subscriber who is
out of sorts because some one of the
same name or the same business has
the same number on some other ex-
change. Confusion in calls and conse+
quent disarrangement of business plans
are the result of that similarity.
"A month or so ago our whole force
was called upon to settle the profess
sional troubles of two doctors. One
doctor was woman, the other man,
but both were enrolled as M. 70.
Rhodes. and their telephone number
was 200 on different exchanges. Some
how, no one could ever get those num-
bers straight. The woman's patients
made appointments with the man. and
his with her, The woman, however,
got the best of 1t, and in time she took
over most of the man doctors prac-
tice. Then was when he asked for an
other number We gave 1t to him, but
even that did not seem to clear the
muddle. Finally the doctors got dis
couraged and settled affairs in their
own way They got married and use
only one telephone.
"Another confusing case was brought
to our notice only last week. A theo-
logical seminary and a brewery up on
Columbus avenue had the same num-
ber. The managers Of both institu-
tions kicked. The superintendent Of
the seminary said he was mortified half
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13
BY Virginia Niles Leeds

A FTER her third glass of soda
~ water the stay-at-home girl be-
comes confidential. She assumes
an easy attitude in her cool shirt waist
suit and addresses her chum:
Dorothy, my dear, pity you-yes,
away all summer and only in town
for a day now and thenl Yes, 1 know
you do--so does everybody else-but
they don't know the advantages the
know, 1 wouldn't put in a whole sum-
mer in the country-not if you gave
me every caramel in this shop. Could
say more? There's Aunt Helen just
begging me to spend August with her,
and the Dickinsons simply down on
their knees entreating me to go away
with them. But positively wouldn't
be hired
Why? You ask why? Well, my dear,
confess honestly that you have to fight
and scratch like mad for the men
down at the shore, and that you often
have to take up with any old stick
rather than wander about alone. 1
know, because I've been there and 1
know also that the very moment you
get a nibble from a half way decent
sort some other girl swoops down who
f. a harder fighter than you and
snatches him out of your very teeth.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

the most absorbing thing to the aver
age girl is the bargain counter and the
things you can pick up in New York in
summer. The highfalutin millners
come down in their prices-in fact, all
most beg you to take their imported
CONNECTIONS off their hands-and you
can get the darlingest slippers and belt
buckles and parasols for almost noth-
| ing.
| BY being away you miss the oppor-
! tunities and even If you do see an adj
vertisement in the papers and are
dying to come to town about 1t you
! may be just in the act of bringing a
| slow moving man to the scratch and
can't leave the scene of action for
| minute. See this violet leather wrist
bag? Isn't it an angel? Picked up.
my DEAR for dollar ninety-efght when
they were precisely three fifty earlier
in the season-they were, too, saw
them with my own eyes and wanted
one just awfully! Oh, don't talk to me
quiet of the country-they are nothing
to the benefits, both physical and men-
tai, you derive in the city! 9-frE
Must be going to catch your train?-
express at f1ve-thirty? Well, dearie, If
you must, you must But think of ME.
won't you, when you are engaged in a
fierce combat, with a dozen other girls
lowering like vampires, endesvoring to
land some puny featherweight not
worth the powder that would blow him
up and whom you wouldn't look at in
town except in a crowd of about four
million! Just picture me in four
year-old dimity that has shrunk al
most beyond recognition and Gibson
front, simply turning men away and
refusing to become engaged until my
ideal appears. No, darling, I
positively decline to give you the
names of the four!
One more round of chocolate sum
daes and then curtain.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

stay home girl-well, she can begin
where the other left off and can take
her time about it.
A man is awfully glad to start with a
second where he left off with the first,
if it was at all pleasant-not like being
taken up with second fiddle? Now,
Dorothy, my dear, which do you like
! better, scrambling till you are black in
the face trying to get man and then
for his vacation to be over before any,
thing happens, or catching him on the
rebound without any struggle at all?
Second f1ddlesticks! It's clear you have
always had to struggle and don't know
| the other. My word for it, the painless
method is a big Improvement on the
old way.
Then there are the stay-at-home
men. They are positively grateful 10
have a nice girl in town when all their
other friends are away, and they can't
do enough for her. Roofs, drives. strolls
in the park-Coney Island if she's that
kind-and something all the time TO
show their appreciation. They may
never have noticed you before and
thought you an Insignificant, pug nosed
little nonentity, but when you are the
only girl they know in the city you
suddenly look entirely different, and the
thousand charmers at the summer re-
sorts, with their bewildering outfits and
calculating smiles, are not in it with
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

IGNoU SEEM to have changed
your mind" said the clerk
when you were in here six
months ago you asked for telephone
number that could be remembered
easily
"I know that did," replied the WIS.,
itor bitterly. "Six months ago / was a
blithering idiot. I've learned a good
deal since then.> I've had telephone
for six months. / want a combination
of figures now that my best friend will
forget two minutes after he hears it,"
won't that be rather inconvenient?
asked the clerk.
81 hope so-for other people.
1t can't be as inconvenient for us
as our present number, A baby
a week old could remember that There
is just one fact that is universal knowl-
edge about our house, and that is
Browns telephone number. There are
twenty-six families in the building. not
counting the janitor. All those fami-
lies have telephones, but they might
just as we'll not have any. They don't
use them; they use ours. Nobody can
remember their numbers. Everybody
can remember ours. All our neighbors
are onto that When they want their
friends to call them up they never
think of giving their own number; they
just say: oh don't bother to look us
up. Just call up Brown, 2OOO;" you
can remember that The Browns live
on the fourth floor. They are very ac-
commodating and will call us to the
phone
$50 they call up Brown. We are
accommodating For the last six
months we have attended to the mar
keting of those twenty-six families and
have arranged their card parties and
weddings and funerals. Half the time
the wire has been so busy that we
couldn't get a shy at IL for ourselves.
Even when my wife's grandmother
died we didn't get the news for six
hours because our neighbors were
using the phone. Last week the rush
got so heavy that had to hire a boy
10 take care OF the messages. That
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13
How the Literary Market Is Manipulated

variety. No reader reads all there is
in his Sunday paper. He reads what
strikes his fancy or his taste. All the
rest is rot to him. What is one read
er's meat is another's poison, and all
must be pleased. That calls for many
short articles. Besides, readers haven't
time for long articles. They have too
much else to do on the only day in
the week when they don't have any,
thing to do. If a reader hasn't got
through with his paper by noon, the
chances are that he never will get
through with it. 1 live in a fiat. and
the pile of Sunday papers 1 see every
Monday morning put out where the
janitor can get them for his waste
paper bag has proved this to me, if /
hadn't known it intutively. You go
into any we'll regulated city family
on Tuesday morning, say, and try to
borrow last Sundays paper. One time
in a hundred you will succeed. The
general rule is about this way: The
reader reads the news part in bed or
dI DlSohAdobs Allci III Odhldol nc
looks over the other parts. He reads
the captions and looks at the pictures
Possibly he will read one article of
special interest. He sees several he
thinks he will read later. About the
time he is ready to begin on one OF
these somebody comes along for him
to go some place, or it may be it is the
call to Sunday school or church. At
any rate, something calls him away
from his newspaper He tosses it aside,
goes out of the house and that is the
end of it. The paper isn't laid away,
and If he ever thinks of 1t again he
can't find it and forgets it.
(which brings me to the point where
your magazine argument comes in,
The magazine Is more stable propo-
sition than the newspaper. Readers
don't throw magazines away as soon
as they have glanced over them. TO
begin with they don't pick up a mag
azine in the same spirit they pick up
a newspaper, they go about II
more leisureiy. They will read In a
magazine what they think they
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

the only girl in the big deserted city.
While on the. subject of outfits, have
you ever noticed how good a back num-
ber frock looks when there is no one
near by in a new fashioned, this years
creation to show off its deficiencies
Even sleeves of two years vintage
don't look so utterly hopeless when
seen by themselves. That's another
big advantage. And what a saving in
dressmakers' bills!, You can get out
your two-year-old white lawns and
shirtwaists, and have the laundress
press your ancient piques, and there
you are, as Henry James would say.
Try the effect on a broiling hot evening
of descending the staircase in a nowise
new but perfectly clean white lawn
with skin tight sleeves instead of the
lovely puffy ones they are wearing
"habit" back. A tired man whose fret
ted vision has been chained all day to
dingy Office buildings and greasy type
writer's sits in the drawing room.
You are the only girl he knows in the
city, and he is signing for a glimpse of
the ocean and something to make love
to. You descend, looking cool, unruf-
fled and frankly glad to see him, but
of course, not as glad as you really are
and an angel tumbling right out of the
clouds in a Doucet outfit could not look
more enchanting to him. You are
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

haven't time to read in a newspaper.
You will remember, too, that there are
a great many persons who never read
paper must cater. But to go on with
those who read both. The magazine
is looked over to see what there Is, of
interest, and If there is no time then,
or the reader is interrupted, he care
fully lays it aside and comes back to
1t later. 1t is rarely that magazine
is discarded until it's successor of the
following month comes to take it's
place. What the editor of the news
paper doesn't want may be the very
thing for the magazine editor. A case
came up some time ago in my own
experience. A well known writer
brought in several very bright
sketches. His name and the quality of
but 1 ruled against buying the matter
said it wasn't what our customers
wanted. My associate thought as 1 did
about the name and quality, but diff
fered with me on the other point.
1.-The only way to settle it was the
one usually adopted by syndicates. We
would not run it as regular, but sub
nit to our customers as special, the
author to accept a percentage on all
we might sell. 1t suited him all right,
because If it sold well he would get
considerably more. OF course, If 1t
didn't sell, he got nothing. Well, we
sent proofs of the matter to one hum
dred newspapers all over the country
taking i'm the leading ones. Not one
editor would buy. Then we tried it
on a hundred Of the lesser lights and
at smaller price, The same result
again. Not single sketch was sold.
1t looked blue for the writer, but he
carried the matter straightaway TO a
rst-class magazine, one of the high
priced kind. The editor bought all Of
the sketches published them prompt
ly and wanted more His readers
liked them and so reported That. you
see, was a fair test OF the taste Of
readers. The editor must Judge only
et matter by What his eeaders want
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13
Why They Tire of Telephone Numbers

to death because every day or two
somebody was bound TO call upland ask
him to deliver 400 kegs of beer that
afternoon, and the foreman of the
brewery complained that he was equally
embarrassed when called upon to an
swer inquiries relative to fresh con-
signments of hymn books and mis-
sionary tracts. OF course that was an
many requests where the need for a
new number is so urgent; when we do
we hustle around and make the change
without delay" "c,r
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13
Dining Services Of Solid Gold

1 happened to be in Tiffany's re-
Gently and asked one of the head men
il it is true that people really eat off
gold plates.
He smiled, and turning to young
man said, Bring me an after-dinner
coffee set"
And presently the young man re-
turned with small tray holding three
pieces. They were gracefully fash
ioned and looked like gold. And the
tray looked like gold.
What do you think they are?" asked
the head man.
"Silver gilt" suggested.
Hold it," he said, and put the SER
vice in my hands.
ITS heavy" said /, "but-it can't be
solid gold?"
That's what it is" he assured me,
and pointed to the mark. These four
pieces, the tray, the coffeepot, the
cream pitcher and the sugarbowl, are
eighteen karat gold-soHd. The price
is $4,000"
Not only is 1t true that number OF
millionaires in America own plates OF
solid gold or silver gilt (Which latter
is considered good enough for Euro
pean royalty, but there are rich fam
lilies who boast sets OF china costing
from three to five thousand dollars a
dozen. so that the breaking of a single
plate means the loss of several hum
dred dollars-Cleveland Moffett in Sue
cess Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

THE man who writes things was
them. The latter was the editor
of a syndicate. The former wasn't
anybody much. The editor had all the
money, and the writer was wondering
why the dickens he couldn't get more
of it in exchange for what he had to
offer. He went so far even as to tell
the editor that some things which he
(the EDITOR had declined for his
darned cheap old Sunday newspaper
syndicate. he (the writer) had after
ward sold to high class magazine at
several times the syndicate price, to
say nothing about the prestige. The
editor remained calm. He even smiled
amiably not to say forgivingly.
"Let me tell you something" he said,
in his persuasive way "The editor
who holds such a position as mine can
of what he buys for his customers, and
that is what the readers of the vari-
Gus newspapers from Maine to Cali
fornia want in the Sunday newspapers
they take home with them. Literary
value is not considered at all, nor the
name Of an author, unless he is so
great that the mere printing of his
name across the page is about all the
reader is interested in. There are but
a few Of that kind, and they are not
selling a great deal of their brains to
syndicates. They do a little, and it
pays 10 buy IT, but / can assure you
its merit is not in it's purely literary
quality. Readers want it. that's all,
and not one in thousand is capable
OF judging sufficiently to know what
they are getting IL the authors name
wasn't stamped ON the goods.
"As you must know, what Sun
day newspaper wants is something
that viii attract the reader first off;
something that will stand for demon
strative headings and pictures to be-
gin with. Then the matter must be
alive and have active human interest.
Not necessarily current news matter
but stun that is equal TO II in the
catchy quality. Then there must be
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13
Japanese Music

Marching Through Georgia" is the
fayorite band tune of the japanese
soldiers. There is no such thing as
Since the war came. however, Japanese
composers have written a number OF
patriotic airs In which the characteris-
blended with some of ours, notably the
rhythmic swing OF our march pieces.
These airs have been put to patriotic
great delight, picking up the new tunes
readily and shouting them at the top of
their voices.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

and buy that kind-that is to say, if
he is running a publication according
to modern methods which is to run
1t so it will make money"
Money, money" sighed the writer
There is no longer such a thing as
art"
Then he went out muttering damns
because he couldn't exchange his art
for money. Anathema marantha.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13
A Western EpItaph

A gun that was hot
And a deck that was cold;
A hand that was not
What a player should hold;
A word that was quick
And a draw" that was quickeri
A date on a stick
Same old story-Let's liquorl
-. w. Foley, IN NeW York TLmeE
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1905-10-03

Okoso godz. 1890 zakonczyio
sic nabozeistwo; MIN jednako-
woz delegaci powr6cili tramwaja-
mi i zebrali sic W sail, byia godz.
1890.