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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-29

kIOT the maid Of all work in the
IN kitchen, but the mistress of all
work in the drawing room is the
family drudge in these United States
She who presides over the home is not
merely it's officer in chief, but also its
servant in chief in our family life.
A woman who had made a first Visit
to England remarked wonderingly that
her friends in London and the prov
inces alike seemed never to be in a
hurry An air of leisure pervadeds their
household economy. There seemed 10
be time enough for everything. Inc
days were not mortgaged in advance
The children were in a place of happy
subordinatiOn to their elders, and while
their true interests were carefully con-
suited they did not crowd into the
foreground and uSurp all the privileges
An English visitor, here for the first
time. exclaimed, on the contrary, IN
anaazement at the number of things
her hostess had to do every day; not at
the number of things she had TO man
sge. but that actually in whole or IN
part devoIved upon her brain and
hands. 1T confuses me-" said the lady,
ito be in the whirl of business which l
find wherever / go i'm this country"
The American wife and mother keeps
house. pays the bills, gets on with very
incompetent assistance from her do
mestics and assumes that she is doing
only her duty In many places she mas
much trouble to secure hired help, ana
the offer. as i'm California. or $50 and
$40 a month to a housemaid does not
relieve the situation. efficient house
maids in quantities being non-eXistent.
\ woman I'm many villages of the mid
die west is the envy Of her neighbors,
ard Justly 4 she can be sure either of
a tolerably weIl-trained maid. or CT a
Ian us3ress who knows how u wash and
iron. who will not ruin her woolens nor
tear her linen nor destroy the color %
her shirt waists and her children
froeks The working contingent Of wf-
manhood demand high wages and eN
psct inorJinatc gratitude for their Well
maid services. and i'm return render
whatever they please. Exceptions there
are, but / am speaking of the rule
American housewives Lose their bloom
and wear out their South and strength
in the daily drudgery that robs them
too early of hope. cheer and vitality.
That the house mistress is often in
these DAYS a college graduate, who can
read Greek and advanced German.
makes no manner OF difference. She
does Rridget's work with more than
Rridzet's brains, and In addition she
oversees Ladies' Latin exercises, and
tucks Lassies dancing school frocks,
pIays duets with her young lady daugh-
ter I'm the half-hour after supper. and
reads abtruse reviews i'm foreign quar-
tarlies before she gees 10 bed II she
belong 20 club, plus every other en-
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Heroic Schoolteacher


resume our studies. There was another
detOnation from the cannon and another.
ana then a crash of musketry. A window
Hght was knocked out by the cOncuSsion
ana fell noisily on the floor. The pupils
jumped IL in wild confusion.
Miss McKittrfck arose from her chair.
but not in confusion She WAS just mad.
i he school will come away from the
door end resume its seats. she said.
The school did.
She stood in tho center aisle with a
heavy ruler In her hand. The pupils were
more afraid TO risk an encounter with
that ruler than the possible chance of n
stray cannon ball crashing through the
building a teacher Eho could run a
school while people were being bayoneted
or blown 10 pieces right next door. you
might say. was too serious a thing for
our youthful spirits to defy, even IL she
did wear Spectacics
During the entire afternoon the firing
between the two commands continued,
sometimes brca king into volleys that
sounded dreadfuli- slleifF,. We were all
little rebels. because sslfs. ttafents we've,
and we secretly prayed for the success OF
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-29

Porter and his. men. The fighting was
Just across the hills. and. looking
through the windows. we could see the
smoke rising from the valley.
1T was q hard task 20 keep our
thoughts on our books with such thrill
ing event so near us. In our ina gination
every ti-eo the canOnS spoke saw
whole platoons of men torn TO pieces. and
their dismembe limbs sailing skyward-
Once in awhile a cheer would come float
ing across the hills. and we hoped 1t WAS
our side and that we could holler with
them.
But that teacher of ours grim. alert
and determined. seemed to be unusually
successful in finding something for us to
do to keep our minds from the battle.
The long afternoon session ended at
last. and as we babe our teacher d hur-
ried farewell she admonished US not to
go too near where the fighting was. She
needn't have done that. but L suppose she
thought IL would make her conscience
easier IL any Of us were inclined TO get in
the way of the bullets-which we were
not.
As for herself. I believe IL her way
home led across tlse battlefield she
would have commanded the sOldieFSss,to
ccase firing TIL she got up. She had4siAc
nerve.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-29
!, ~ X BY Margaret E. Sanester

at least might cease to be drudges and
become persOnages.
1 remember a woman whose life in
her Kentucky home went softly as an
idyl, or a dream. In tranquil serenity
between s and 9 her family breakfaSted.
and then the little cedar tub was
brought in. with hot water and towels.
and with her CWn hands she washed
and wiped the fragile china and the
heavy silver, precious as having asso-
Citations with her mother and her
grandmother With her to wash the
breakfast things was TO perform a rite
of some Importance and sOlemnity. THIS
sacred duty over. madam proceeded to
her room and spent an hour in her de-
votional reading; this. too. never inter-
rupted. Her gardening, her friends,
her husband. her church. her children.
occupied her long leisurely day she
was deeply read in standard literature,
quoted Milton and Shakespeare, WAS
familiar with Dickens and Thackeray
and Browning. and was 10 her finger
tips cultivated, elegant and distin-
Suished. Hers was the crownins dig
nifty Of repose.
The American woman, being a
drudge, because life exacts too much OF
her, and she has lost the old secret Of
simplicity. is at the mercy Of her
nerves Her tones sharpen, her brow
Fuckers. lines of anxiety are drawn
about her mouth. and she ages fast
She tries to do too much in too short n
time She attempts so many things
that none are well done. God help her.
for the conditions and the atmosphere
and the accepted standards are at pres
ent in combination to drag her down.
She breaks after awhile, and goes to a
sanitariufn. or she breaks altogether
and fields her hands in the grave Yet
there Is A cure within reach. She needs
to see life as a whole. TO be saner. to
start anew Shabby carpets and faded
draLeries should no longer seem to her
( a disgrace or a burden. too arduous
/ scheme of living should be exchanged
for something easier. The woman who
1 does her own work should have herself
/ steps by every device in her power.
/ The woman who finds her club papers
I appalling should resign from her club
4 To get out of a rut may require exer-
/ ton. yet If the end means nervous eX-
4 haustion and an early death, get out OF
! it, even though it take derrick 10
\ lift you.
1 As Thomas Carlyle used to say IN
I those incompatible letters Of his to his
/ little, nervous, excitable Jane, "Cour-
\ age Goodykin. courag el"
i All will come out right if one but has
| courage To break the bonds of drudg-
cry.
Copyright, ZOOS. by Joseph 3. Bowles.)
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middle class. che host of women whose
husbands are on salaries. or engaged in
business which brings i'm small or 1uc-
-tuatiRg incomes. have far too much to
d.. Perhaps this is why the first wife
Of many a good man drops by the way
IN her 49, and leaves a vacant chair for
her successor. chosen after an interval
of grief and loneliness. to fill. The sec
ond wife is said to reap the harvest
which the first wife sowed in painful
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toe ready to sacrifice reality for show.
This is our American weakness. Be
cause my neighbOr does thus or so,
too must do as she sets the example.
The pace is tremendous when we are
marching to the music of drums that
are heralding an cverweening ambition.
If the good French pastor who has bee 4
preaching in our ears his gospel of the
simple life could prevail upon our Wo-
men to try it in earnest some Of them
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and quite different IN appearance and
manners. 1t may be a white breasted
or a red breasted nuthatch, but in either
case he will be seen to be very inn
portant little peFeona ge; not a harder
worker than the woodDecker. perhaps,
but with greater appearance Of bus
tie. The woodpecker usually moves
from a lower point TO a higher, or side
wise If ecessary-seldom down a tree
for any distance, and never head first
iu this direction. The nuthatch seems
TO have no particular rule about this:
when he wants to go UP. he goes up.
and when he wants TO go down. down
he goes. and head first every time.
sometimes pausing i'm the most absurd
attitudes. with his neck stuck out at
right angles from the trunk, to eye an
observer who may be rude enough to
stand and watch him.
or our farmer may see a band of
chickadees, of whose identity no one
can ever be in doubt. since they re-
peat their own name over and over.
wherever they go. as they swing, often
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gagement that brushes her to the earth
she has to prepare Tapers on every sub
ject under the sun. and having pre-
pared them, she has TO read them be-
fore her peers. This caps the climax
of drudgery. For woman ten. fifteen
or twenty years out of school to study
with cropping diligence or with keen en-
thusiasn. according to her tempera-
ment, the Italian renaissance, or the
early Victorian poets, or the women OF
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self-denial and continual drudgery. Is
there a cure for the bother, the strain
the weary, dreary round of toll tina.
blOts out the romance and takes away
the joy and kills the sentiment that
should sweeten every cup? Why must
women die too. seen?
Assuredly there is remedy for every
Ill If people are brave, frank and indie
pendent. We are all a bit too anxious
TO put the best foot forward, a little
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the times of Cromwell. is no slight task.
Mother is writing her paper" say the
children, creeping past her door vita
hushed voices and muffled' steps The
most amiable of women is irritable in
such circumstances. and it is as we'll
not to stir her up needlessly.
Is there cure for this acknowledged
state of things? Nobody with eyes de-
MES that American women of the great
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Chicago TribuncD

Chicago Tribunc.) -t
Mrs GasWeII cat the cOncert)-W hat
horrible discOrdi
Ms MannerboTn-Why. that's Wagner
music.
Mrs C;asswelI-C Certainly. As I was say
ing what horrible discord VogEer is to
some people,
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After some fumbling under his coat
he produced a placard artfully de-
signed in large and nOuriShing letters
This was the order of it;
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HAsTY CORRECTION.

Copyright by s. S. Mcclure Co.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12

nd-a-ha of a
registered the shade the
Kick would be effective, and don't forget it!
Now the self
the women organize and make kick?
Down the dentist throws
the cruel little dngbat that
makes head feel like the double
But his
machine with her tired aching
machine until she believe that spine
Satan for the making miserable The
would hoer his head off, if he had the
while electricity running loose
thought by
ootpower
When the the office
sample it's Here Johnny this
Johnny the ofceboy hikes off gets
with scutteu of ashes, the coal
cuttleful of COAL the shed
Ratchet whose edge blunt the conscience of Parrye
And while this of thing has
menhe God bless en1 haven't made
Is about time that the dear the
horns speak, and make demand for
better work conditions and labor
saving machinery?
I'VE really it" gow dof family lighting
his 10cen cigar and take the his office
blocks No; mother cooked old fashioned
charter oak cook and made complaints
mother fine cook; better We can't afford those
neWanged They much the
blamed robber gas company to right and
And the wife, after hubly asking little kitchen
quietly subsidies and the head of the house
blamed thing sight calculated make his The
slave kitchen
down the office
the Kondke breezes from his pepng
Wouldn't that you? Your blue would
pathetic strike assist fellow unonist securing condi
tlons but OF theO thought the
without modern surroundings
would make business agent call a strike.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12

| ton, no other nomination being made
J. E. Nickel and o. C. Fodrea with.
drew as candidates for delegate, leav.
ing only F. M. Coffey and ]. M. Leaden
as candidates for the first delegate.
ship.
Nominations for local officers for
the ensuing term were also nominated.
and the election will be held at the
meeting on the first Sunday in June.
The delegate election will be held on
Wednesday, May II, time and place to
be announced later.
A committee was appointed to ar
range for the proper observance of
Memorial Sunday.
President Brown of the Pressmen's
and Assistants Union visited the
meeting and explained the trouble his
union was having in securing recog-
milton from the employers associa-
ton. The union informed Mr.. Brown
that it was ready to lend whatever
in their efforts to reach an agreement
with the employers. Mr.. Brown was
asked a number of questions and re-
piled frankly, and the result of his
visit is a better understanding be-
tween the members of the two bodies.
John Moore, head of the Star ad
alley, is in the hospital with an at
tack of typhoid fever. Mrs. Moore is
similarly afflicted and is in the hos
pital with her husband.
F. c. Greenley has moved down
town so he won't have to waste SO
much time getting to his pork chops
and taters. He and his family are
now domiciled in the Mcbride block.
Members of Lincoln Typographical
Union should bear in mind the fact
that the May social of Capital Auxil-
larry will be held at Bohanon's hall
on Wednesday evening, May II.
Charley Turner says it is good to
be able once more to see the sun
rise without having to remain up all
night. He is now working day shift
on C. B. Fighters new machine.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12
THE BARRIERS

After Considerable Backing and Fill
ing Agreement about Reached
The BARRIERS Union has been having
a long siege with the employers over
the scale and shop rules, but an agree
ment has almost been reached and all
signs of trouble have about disap-
peared from the tonsorial sky. The
boss" BARRIERS wanted reduction of
the guarantee from $12 to $40 week,
and also some changes in the union
rules. The union conceded reduction
in the percentage from the sale of
tonics, but stand pat on the guaran-
tee.
The boss" BARRIERS wanted the unioI-
to discipline members who showed up
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12
GENERAL MENTION
Some Items of General Interest Gath.
cred Here and Elsewhere.

] Some Items of General Interest Gath
cred Here and Elsewhere.
For union made shoes go to Rogers
& Perkins.
The Commoner force is preparing
for it's annual picnic.
Bricklayers are warned to keep
away from Decatur, Ill.
Rogers & Perkins handle full and
complete line of union made shoes.
Look for the union card when you
enter barber shop. If it is not in
plain sight, go elsewhere.
The annual convention of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Papermak.
ers began at Holyoke, Mass, on May
9Th.
Wait for the appearance of the Full.
ton Stock Company at the Oliver, be.
ginning the summer season on June
9Th.
Newburgh, N. H., brick makers are
on a strike for an increase of 20 cents
day. The strike is spreading to the
nearby towns.
Read "Why Don't the Women
Striker" And then do the right thing.
Patronize Wageworker advertisers
and help your friends and your paper.
Organized labor is warned to keep
away from the Pacific coast. There
are hundreds of union men walking
the streets of the Pacific coast towns.
Union machinists at Quincy, ILL.,,
who have been on strike for two years
against the open shop, have won out.
and have returned to work on the
closed shop basis.
1t took the Cigarmakers thirty-two
years to establish the 8-hour day. The
Horseshoers worked thirty years be-
fore they secured the 8-hour day. The
typographical Union has been in ex-
istence fifty-two years, and on January
1, 1906, will inaugurate the 8-hour day.
The Windsor cafe, under the man
agement of Mr.. Pennel is open and
doing good business. This cafe
promises to become a favorite with
merchants and wage earners who are
compelled by circumstances to eat
down town.
The local coal dealers combine has
fixed an arbitrary schedule of prices
both for the coal it sells and the wage
it pays, and so far has refused to
meet the teamsters in conference for
the purpose of adjusting differences.
The consumers never had chance
with the dealers. n
Governor Pennypacker has signed
the child labor bill advocated by Presi-
dent Mitchell OF the Miners Union.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12
THE CLOSED SHOP.
Omaha High School Defends it Will
Signal Success in Debate.


Signal Success in Debate.
The work of Parry and his crowd
has had the good effect of calling pub
lie attention to the merits of the union
contract, and the more the people
study that question the better the
standing of the labor unions. The
Closed Shop VS.. the Open Shop has
been debated all over the country,
especially by high school and univer-
sity debating teams, and so far fully
80 per cent of the decisions have been
in favor of the defendants of the
closed shop.
Last week the Omaha high school
debating team met and vanquished
the Beatrice high school debating team
the questing being, Resolved, That
for the present the labor unions in
America are justified in opposing the
movements of employers for the open
shop" The Omaha team, composed OF
Arthur Proctor, Charles Bronze and
Carl Van SAINT, upheld the affirmative
and won decisive victory. The de-
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12
SOME BAD ADVICE
New York Schoolm'am Gives Some Al
mighty Bad Advice to Graduates.

mighty Bad Advice to Graduates.
We were prevailed upon the other
night to attend the commencement of
a public night school for women and
girls. We thoroughly enjoyed it all
but the address made by the estimable
principal to her pupils. After COM
plimenting them in the usual way up
on the advancement they had made,
etc, she advised these graduates
they were largely stenographers and
dressmakers-to not take advantage
of their enhanced skill by asking their
employers for higher salary. She
said that, as taxpayers, their employ
ers were supporting the school, and
in this way practically paying for their
education; in fact, that as they had
little or no business experience. they
were really paid while learning.
But for the nature of the occasion
we would have felt tempted to have
taken issue with the fair speaker,
electing to be ungallant for the sake
Of truth. Working girls as the future
mothers of the country fulfill their
duty to the state, we opine, and per-
haps in higher measure than mere
taxpayers; by remaining good, de-
spite the temptations sometimes asso-
ciated with small wages, they do their
share towards supporting the state;
by taking care of themselves in such
a way that they have nc need of re-
formatories, hospitals and prisons they
are a valuable asset and more. The
aid they render the state in fruitful
womanhood contributes to the popula-
ton, and makes theirs the RESPONSE
bility for the early education of the
future citizens of the country. Be-
sides, the taxpayer does not pay taxes
for their sake, but because he is OBJ
liged to do SO.
Moreover, such talk is out of place
in a public school. The public schools
belong to the people, and whether they
are day or night schools their pupils
are not objects of charity; and when
they become graduates they have
every right to make the most of the
education they have received.-Brick-
| layer and Mason.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12

for work in an intoxicated condition
or threw down the shop because Of
that fact. But the union refused, say
ing that the employers had the mat
ter in their own hands, and could dis
charge any man guilty of that offense
The union men insist that they have
benefited the employers by making 1t
sure that every shop is placed on an
equal basis SO far as hours are con-
cerned. The owner of the union shop
knows that when he closes at s p.
m. all other fair shops are closed
Prices are maintained and better
class of workmen furnished. For a
time there were signs of serious dis
agreement, but the conservatives on
both sides are in majority, and as
a result the difficulties have practi-
cally all been settled to the mutual
satisfaction of the parties to the agree
ment.
The BARRIERS have organized base
ball team and claim to have the best
one in the city. Any other union that
imagines itself the possessor Of win
ming aggregation of ball tossers is
invited to meet the BARRIERS club. Sun
day afternoon the BARRIERS met the Lin
coin Park team at Lincoln Park and
pulled of victory by the score of
II to 10.
Jack Scott, who has been in the
business for upwards of fifteen years
in Omaha, has purchased the Pioneer
shop at Eleventh and 0 streets. The
Pioneer is 7-chair shop and favo-
rite with the public. and Mr.. Scott
announces his determination to make
it even more popular. And Jack"
is the man who can do it.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12
To the Workin9menl
1--WE handle...
..UNION MADE GOODS.
and am a workingman myself.
Aliens Kushion KomfOrt
Shoe ParlOrS.
1873 NORTH i4TH STREET.

When the law becomes operative it
will take about 1000 children out of
the Pennsylvania mines and put them
in school. Did Parryism ever do az
good work as that?
The teamsters' strike in Chicago is
still spreading and the ranks of the
strikers are being augmented every
day. Mark Morton continues to
breathe threateningB and slaughter,
and his gang continue to import MUIR
derous thugs and irresponsible heroes
from the south to act as "scabs." The
teamsters are standing firm and have
the situation well in hand.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12
Left Alone

1t was an actor man who spake
While tears rolled down his cheeks
And wet the roots of stubby beard
Unshaved for several weeks.
Alas" he cried, I'm left alone;
He's gone BEFORE" he said.
But two men e'er could play old Rip.
And one of them is dead"
He struck me for dollar bill
With which to drown his woes.
"How often have spent my wage
That was my way, and Joe's.
What's mine is yours, and yours is
mine
He often to me said.
Aalas, but two could play old Rip
And tn other one is dead"
The old school actor man turned round
To hide his swelling grief.
''The way we used to chum,'' he said
us almost past belief.
If Joe grew tired he wired me
And l played in his stead
Yes, only two could play old Rip
And tn other one is dead"
begged the old school actor man
To come and with me and dine.
Said he: my grief is such load
l really should decline
But yet I'll go; perhaps the change
Will do me good" he said.
Il may forget there were two Rips,'
And tn other one is dead
when next you play the good old
part"
Said I, ''Tll surely co.
The old school actorman looked sad
And shook his head for no.
FdT'11 no'or again D1au that old mart
'Twould break my heart" he said.
To think that of the two great Rips
The other one is dead"
A victory bought by money is al
ways failure.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12

80 Daily except Sundays.
sss Daily except Saturday.