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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-18

First of ALL there is the large reaestate interest
in every city. 1t needs organization; it is
organization already. The man whose grandmother
owned orchard of old apple-trees in the heart
of Boston or New-York is glad that his grandmother
owned that orchard. He is glad that he owns the
square feet square inches of that orchard to-day
He knows well as know that those square inches
worth great deal more in money than they were
worth hundred years ago. Now that man does not
mean to diminish the current of population which
falls into Boston New Y ork He means to keep
up the price of real estate in those cities he
And when you address him a civil note, asking him
If he will not attend meeting of gentlemen who
wish to promote emigration to Idaho it is almost
certain that that man will have another engagement
Again it is to be observed that great cities have
of necessity their own spokesmen-shall one say
their own drurnmers?-at work for them even
consciously. Every issue of any newspaper of the
weekday Sunday has its announcements of
the attractions of a great city. The animation of
the Streets the entertainments at the theater
the concerts, the addresses made at public meetings
all are displayed, and certainly they present wonder
full attraction for people whose hours pass slowly.
l was talking once to accomplished young
woman who is now living in the city and will read
these lines and congratulated her that with the end
of that week of the college lectures she attending
she would be able to go to her home in North Brown
wch somewhat earlier than she had expected
Il go to North Brownwich?" said she. Not 1!
l shall stay in NewYork till summer, if anyone will
pay me five dollars week with which 1 can pay
my board" And when | expressed my surprise that
she chose exile from home for three months she said
If you had lived in North Brownwich for
three months you would understand"
Now the average reader who is living in North
Brownwich New-Padua or South Podunk does
know that home life has many stupid sides. In
such stupidity and it's tedium he contrasts against
1T the varied exciting piquant life described in the
metropolitan newspaper, and he says to himself:
If there is for four million people in York,
there must be for four million and Pardon
him. deer reader if he ranks himself as little above
the average of mankind-pardon him. for as you
and know perfectly well, you and do the same.
Every forward step taken in the management
of cities goes to encourage the North Brownwich
open all day and every evening, free lectures.
the Central Park, the hippopotanlus
and the lion in The Bronx, speech
by Mr.. Cochran, or by Mr.. Choate or
- the President-such attractions
these are not set in order by people
who want to enlarge the attractions of
fss a city; but they do enlarge the attrac-
...S tons of city ali the same, and as
western promoter would say, they adj
vertise it to mankind. Now it is in
<zz< face of the inducements to swell the
population of large cities which
thus set in order that the suggestions
or arguments have to be made which
would relieve the congestion of cities.
n. IT, 1A11r
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-18

THIS convenient phrase" The Rush to the
Cities lis used less carelessly to
describe of the misfortunes of the last
century which no one quite understands.
People who have to deal with it in the larger
cities find themselves poweress to arrest it. In the
end they round to see that the causes of it
not of their making and that they have much
they can do in healing the sick, in clothing the
naked, and in providing homes for the homeless
who the results of the congestion of cities. As
academic phrase it means, alas question of
consequence to anybody. 1t is discussed more
less, but often among the writers what is
called sociology where does not get much
comfort.
luSt at this moment two changes
taking place which to give little help
the matter few years before his death the late
Lord Salisbury expressed his hope that the transfer
of power to considerable distances by electric wires
might create a civilization form of
civilized life, by enlarging very much the number
of small factory towns and diminishing the
proportion the number of crowded millionaire
towns of to-day. do not think that this result has
yet followed; still it is to be looked for among
the possibilities of the near future.
More effective has been the curious change in
social order brought about by the trolley. The
operative in the factory town is able to live
two, three four miles from the engine which is
his partner in his daily work As passes through
the large manufacturing towns of New-York, of
New Jersey and all New-England, he already
an increased number OF QW6llIS-nOuS6S
which in what you might call the suburbs of
factory towns. These give homes to the working
people in factories where they can still see Gods
sky and feel His sunshine-homes with cultivated
land by each of them for gardening if you please,
for feeding a pig, goat, horse This
emancipation such working people gain from the
trolley.
Some years ago in walking in New Hampshire |
stopped to make call on old woman, old
friend of mine, in a comfortable house which her
husband had built dozen years before in the
wilderness | found to my regret that he had died
the winter before. His widow carrying
the place with her own hands and with help
besides but that of the good God. She told me she
could do everything but pow and that in the spring
she had to hire plowman. She told me that her
husband had loaded his gun little before he died
for attack the hawks which
troubled their hen-yard but he had
had no chance to fire off the gun and
the hawks had become more auda-
cious. Only the day before talked
together a hawk had entered her
kitchen while she at work and
had seized a chicken which had u
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taken refuge there. Would | not be -
good enough to go into the garden
and see if could not arrest his career?
This gave good text to speak ez5IIZ-
about, and | suggested to her that ~
life SO lonely as hers had great in
conVenienceS. | asked her why she
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

intelligence. His Gar has lost its original
shape through being battered and torn by
the fists OF his conquered opponents; his
frock coat, his silk hat. his Ascot oravat
ana the gardenla In his buttonhole are pur-
ehases made possible by a recent victory
and he 10 very conscious OF the fine figuro
he cuts.
The groups In the background are none
the less worthy of study. There is the
center OF the picture, the aged man, peep
Ing at the fighter with no less interest than
is displayed by his grandchildren; note
with how few lines the expression OF his
face Is portrayed. The same remark may
be made Of the man in the silk hat at the
corner Of the building; he IL a swell" but
his admiration Is undisguised; so OF the
Tat Individual, the woman at the window
and the driver OF the delivery wagon; each
is study in the power OF a few faint lines
TO portray a character.
Even the horse on the left wears an az
preston on his face. but this time II is not
one Of admiration. but OF amusement.
Would Il be fair TO say that Gibson drew
this horse intending to suggest that the
hero worshipping throng before him ia
enough TO make horse laugh7' II GER
tAinly seems so, and II the supDositlon be
true, the artist has put II in with the OBJ
jeet OF emphasizing the satire OF the
picture.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21
A Long-FeIt Want.


Madam said the visitor, 'I under
stand you have several manageable daugh-
tiers, Now. our college OF cookery will
teach them how to-"
MY daughters" interrupted Mrs Nu-
ritch, haughtily, don't need to learn cook
ing. They'll be able to hire all the servants
they want"
quite so, madam, but our special course
is designed to teach them how to keep
cook"
Corporation of Women Exclusively.
Five ambitious Los Angeles women will
control the Land, Sand and Sea Investment
company. Its articles of incorpora ton
have been filed. It will be the only corpo-
ration in Los Angeles whose directors are
women only, and no men will be employed
by the concern, either.
The capital OF the Land, Sand ana Sea
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

every one OF them unconsciously Initiating
his attitude. Look at the slender lad in the
sailor suit; how he holds back his little
brother in order that he may not get In
the way OF the prize fighter; the little
chaps mouth is open in awe, and one can
imagine how he will tell his mother and
father OF having seen the champion Look
at that small pair on the extreme left Of
the picture; two gently bred children. but
Scrappy fellows. who love the sight OF a
lighter Just as much as their more humbly
reared school fellows. Then there IL the
pinched, wistful face OF the tall. thin youth
In the background. who looks as n his con-
stitution had been Slapped by cigarette
smoking. He could not hit a blow that
would hurt a mouse. and he admires the
pug" with deep respect
The free drawing OF the group in the
right foreground is worthy OF close study
These figures have been sketehed roughly
in pencil and drawn rapidly and sketchily
with the pen. 1t Is an excellent example
OF free drawing. not 10 be copied line for
line by any means. but to be studied for
the way in which Il suggests rather than
portrays detail. ana TO be compared with
the accuracy with which the central figure,
that OF '"rhe Champion" is handled. His
face Is fairly good portrait OF Jefrles.
brute force mingled with good nature,
physical courage, with scarcely trace Of
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21
Chat About Women.

fund this yeLr sent 10000 children into the
country for a real holiday.
When the Dowager Queen Margherita Of
Italy was asked her idea OF a lady, she de-
scribed her as one with perfect self-control,
able to practice self-denial and self-re-
straint, and soft OF speech and manner.
In England neighbors are not allowed to
annoy each other, and a woman living in
Kingston who kept in her back yard thirty
hens, two ROSTERS who had a talent for
Growing, seven cats six ducks and Thu ee
dogs, was summoned before a magistrate,
fined and cautioned
On the occasion Of a long-dstance swim
by members of the Kingston (Eng) Wom-
ems swimming club, Miss Ethel Littlewood
hospital nurse, 70 years old, swan a dis
lance OF sixteen miles and was in The
water for eleven hours; Miss Clair Parlett
II years old, swan thirteen miles and was
in the water eight hours.
Mrs Bertha Bossell, self-rellant young
widow of Berkeley, Cal, built a house for
herself. doing nearly all the work with her
own hands. This was commented upon by
San Francisco papers, and as a consequence
MIRA Bossell is receiving offers of marriage
BY the score. Letters have reached her
from as far as Iowa Her husband died
two years ago He was a carpenter and
Mrs. Bossell used to help in his work
What a sad thing to be the sisters of a
pope and have the pleasure Of a vista
rare treat-marred by crowds of all sorts
OF persons coming weeks beforehand with
petitions, messages and papers of all Kinds
70 De presented to the pontiff, as soon as
the sisters, Maria, Rosa and Anna are in
his presence, for the sisters know he will
pay no attention to such selfish claims.
The president OF Bryn Mawr college, Miss
Thomas. says she places the hazer on the
same plane with the person who hurts
birds, tortures kittens or leases a baby
And In welcoming the incoming class Of
10 girls she said that the college had been
free from those rougher forms of hazing
which, unfortunately, had existed in sister
colleges. such as putting the girls under
the pump. standing on their heads and
tearing on their clothes.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

Boys have in them more Of the primitive
man. unspoiled-or unreined7-by civilixa-
ton than have their elders, and the boy
who would not run block to see Jim
Jeffries or Bob FitEsimmons has some
thing wrong with him. and ought to have
been born a girl Hero-worship Is strong
In boys, and their heroes are the physically
powerful rather than the spiritually or
mentally great. 1t IL this hero-worship
which Gibson has drawn in his picture.
''The Champion"
As lesson to students OF drawing this
is full Of meat. First Of ALL II is a splen-
did study OF boys. let the student examine
each face and each figure critically; he will
md many different types. but one emotion
animating all the faces. There are tough
little street gamins, the children OF we'll
TODD people. oyergrown gawks. lads who
work and lads who play but all are swed
IN admiration before ''The Championships
giant with the bulls chest and the bull
dogs head, who towers above them con-
scious OF their worship. rather bored by II.
and too proud 90 show his appreciation by
even a smile. Look at their attitudes each
hurrying along TO keep pace With the hero,
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

trasted her with hundreds of persons and
my conviction remains that hers was the
most perfect character I have ever met
And may add that she was the most win
ningly dignifed person have ever known.
Her character and disposition were Of the
sort that not only invites worship but
commands Il. No servant ever left her
service who deserved 20 remain In II.
And. as she could choose with a glance
OF her eye, the servants she selected did
In almost all cases deserve to remain, ana
they did remain. She was always cheer
full, and she was always able to com
punicate her cheerfulness to others. Dur
ing the nine years that we spent in pow
erty and debt she was always able to rea-
son me out of my despairs and ma a
bright side to the clouds and make me
see It. In all that time never knew her
TO utter a word of regret concerning our
altered circumstances. nor did l ever know
her children to do the like. For she had
taught them and they drew their forth
tude from her. The love which she be-
slowed upon those whom she loved took
the form OF worship. and in that form It
was returned--returned by relatives,
friends and tho servants of her household.
1t was n strange combination which
wrought into one Individual, 50 to speak,
by marriage--her disposition and char
acter and mine. She poured out her prod
igal affections in kisses ana caresses, and
in a vocabulary Of endearments, whose
profusion was always an astonishment TO
me. was born reserved as TO endear-
ments of speech and caresses, and hers
broke upon me as the summer waves
break upon Gibraltar. I was reared In
that atmosphere Of reserve. AS l have
already said, in another chapter, never
knew a member of my fathers family TO
kiss another member OF II except once.
and that at death bed. And our village
was not kissing community. The kiss
ing and caressing ended with oourtship-
along with the deadly piano playing Of
that day.
She had the heart-free laugh OF a girl.
1t came seldom, but when it broke upon
the ear It was as inspiring as music, I
heard It for the last time when she had
been occupying her sick bed for more
than year, and I made a written note
Of It at the time-a note not to be re-
peated.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21
shop Kept for and by women.

The city OF Stockholm. Sweden, can
boast the only womens cooperative store
in the world. Shareholders management.
buyers and sellers are all women. Only
two men are employed; these drive the
delivery wagons.
Miss Anna Whitlock. leader of the woman
suffragists In Sweden, was the promoter
of his scheme. Her appeal was to the Gull
tured women OF small means. Her propa-
ganda met with favor and on April g. 1905.
the womens cooperative society was in
corporated, with a membership Of ssi
women and a cepital OF about 5000. Quar-
tiers were found and the women went to
work with a win
But they found themselves, as the Amer
leans say. up against IT," They were
boycotted on all sides. The retail dealers
made up their minds to crush these women,
who soon learned that the markets OF their
own country were closed to them. for
every wholesale dealer had been warned.
To sell "a these women would he nothing
short Of suicidal.
II meant the loss of all other customers
Drivers who deliver 20 retailers were also
warned. says Good Housekeeping. but they
cot around the thing by making night de-
hveries. They did not dare. however 20
drive boldly up 10 the women's store. as
detectives were always on the alert, but
they stopped In a side street. some distance
away. where the women sent thir work
men 20 haul barrels. sacks etc. TO their
own storerooms,
These gentlewonen were determined to
succeed I'm spite OF all opposition. Since
the Swedish markets were closed to them
thy sent their buvers 10 Denmark, Hol-
land. Germany and ENGLAND: they traded
only in ports where goods could be shipped
nv water route, as the heavy railroad
freight rates and h'sh tariff IN Europe
would eat up all their profit
In the face OF all these obstacles they,
have made a good showing. Their sales
hove AVERAGED more than S0 dav for
he yeer and their membership Is inereas-
ing steadily. They are paying dividends
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

BEAUTY doctorins IL a great fad
in New York and a very profit-
y able business for the beauty
81 doctors" 10 touches the tender
- sroe - .,oott,, u ,,o,,ps era ola
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21
women Ready for odd Tasks.

There are all sorts of unusual ways for
woman to earn money in q big city like
New York and there are any number OF
impecunious women continually on the
lookout for just such opportunities.
Large numbers Of women generally APP
pear in answer to advertisements promis-
ing a good return for temporary employ
ment. Many OF these advertisements
have the added inducements Experience
not necessary"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

She hurried down the aisle. She overlook
the man with the collection basket. I'm
In the wrong church." she whispered, and
taking out the coin she had put in she
hurried forth.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21
Menace 20 the Home.

"why is II so dificult for the mistress Of
the ordinary home to obtain domestic
servants?" asks the Portland Oregonian.
Answering the question, the paper says:
zone reason is the very fact that she per-
sists in calling them servants" II the
mistress OF the house would adopt some
title for her help less suggestive Of an in
ferior social position she would have less
trouble in keeping them in that position.
Many girls object to being called servants
who have no insuperable objection to serv-
ants work.
"Still, the word servant is comparatively
unimportant. The essential point is that
women have by dint of long efforts rele-
gated homework, not to an inferior, but
to a degraded position in the social scale.
1t carries stigma. Speaking generally.
the girl who does homework accepts rank
In q serviie class. She separates herself
definitely from the saleswoman, the aman-
uensis, the help in the restaurants; in
short, her employment is the very lowest
which falls to the lot of women. Her en-
ployers have made 1t so and the world has
accepted their classification.
Consider the title ''kitchen maid" Think
what II implies in the way Of social deg
radiation. The girl who accepts it has no
lONSTs Sne mas only LOHOWeTs oHe nus
no parlor but the kitchen. and there her
visitors are frequently spied upon inquisi-
torially Pest their presence corrupt the air
OF the house or lest the maid plumber the
pantry to feed them. Often the mistress
forblds all followers" Then the maid
must receive her company in the street.
Her hours of work are indefinite. She
has no time which she can absolutely call
her own Her ''afternoon outr IL hers only
in case the mistress does not infringe upon
1t. She must begin her task early In the
morning and 1t ends only when there is
nothing more to be done at night The
wonder is. not that good help for the house
is scarce. but that any at all can be found
AS girls learn more OF their opportunities
In other fields household help must become
still scarcer and less reliable Only the
dregs OF womankind will submit to its
hardships. What then will become Of the
homer
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21
Absent-Minded ohuroh-Goer.

An absent-minded Chicago woman one
Sunday morning walked into church, took
front seat and Joined in the service
vigorously. Then the collection basket was
passed to her, and, putting coin into
1t, she looked about
She cast glances in every direction, her
mind cleared and an expression of amaze
ment overspread her face. She got UP.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21
For and About Women Folks

on capital and sales every six months. The
last report shows a payment OF 4 per cent
on capital and 5 per cent on purchases.
Like the other cooperative societies, the
women sell to members only and on cash
payments. So well have these women
succeeded with this first venture that they
have secured quarters in another section OF
the city. for a branch establishment.
Oth7r cooperative concerns have been
watching these women with Interest and
are assisting them by buying in sugar,
coffee and spices and selling to the women
under cover.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21
He Paid the Charges.

A guest who had just registered at the
Shirley hotel yesterday afternoon was APP
preached by boy with telegram, relates
the Denver Post. 1t had 81 charges on It.
WHAT said the guest, before opening
It. "A dollar chargesl 1 won't pay It,
Anybody who cannot pay for his message
when wiring me is certainly a cheap one
Wait a minute. I'll just let you report this
unsolicited and the sender may pay the
charges
At that he tore the envelope open. AS
he read a smile settled on his face, and
pulling a dollar from his pocket. he handed
1t to the boy.
IT'S all right" he said.
Then he threw the message on the coun-
ter. Read IT," he said to C. T. Newton.
the clerk. The message read:
"Papa's little girl sends him fifty bushels
of love and wishes he was home TO kiss
her good night. Nellie"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21
How Artists Use Lines in Pen and Ink

)MIRATIoN Of brute strength,
which is a primal quality Of HUI
man nature. is striklngly Illus
trated in the Gibson Art Supple
ment with this RnndaY,a RAe.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

Investment company s 100000. Only $3.50.
however, has been subscribed. Several OF
the women who make. up the board of d.
rectors are already we'll known In the bus
mess world. They are Susan M. Sweet.
Frances A. waddington. Mary q. Dawes,
Della NJ Sweet, Caroline b. Leonard and
Clara shortridge F'olts.
Very few business fields will be un-
touched by the Land, Sand and Sea In
vestment company The articles OF inoor-
poration say the concern will deal in real
estate generally, take up the settlement of
town sites and colonies manufacture and
deal in rubber. ceramic products and mer-
chandise. open up stores and offices, pre-
pare for market products OF the soil, con-
tract for public and private work, open up
mills, rehneries, factories, acquire water
and water rights, electric power, generate
gas and steam. buy steamboats, and
wharves, mines and minerals, mills and re-
duction works, elevators and warehouses.
explore for oil and asphaltum, build thea
tiers and public halls, hotels and lodging
houses. publish newspapers and magazines,
purchase stocks and bonds. borrow money
and also lend 1t.
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One Secret She Kept.
famous Susan B. Anthony, was talking
about the old. old accusation against
woman that she cannot keep a secret.
"A woman" said Miss Anthony, 'can
keep an important secret as well as
man. The secrets she reveals are slight
and harmless ones. such as any man would
reveal. Where is the woman who ever
tells secret that reflects on her husband
Or her own children
Il know a man who one day refused to
tell his wife the outcome of a business
transaction In which, naturally. she took
a deep interest.
No. he sneered, won't tell you. II
I did, you'd repeat It, You women can
never keep a secret
john said the woman quietly, have
I ever told the secret about the solitaire
engagement ring you gave me eighteen
years ago being paste2"
Absent-Minded Church-Goer.