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Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23
Religious Notes

Rev. DR.. Minot J. Savage. the noted Uni
tartan minister, Is suffering from an ex-
treme case of nervous prostration at the
home OF his son-in-law in Cleveland, o.
On invitation of Archbishop Farley I'VE
Irish Christian brothers, members of the
famous teaching order founded in Ireland
nearly century ago, have arrived In New
York City to take charge Of the parochial
school attached to All Saints church and
eventually to establish classical course.
Rev. Father Joseph Gallagher. the new
president OF Columbia university at Port
land. Ore, has taken up his work there
President Gallagher was born I'm Phila-
delphia in 1859 and graduated at Notre
Dame, Ind. in 1894. He finished his edu-
cation at the Catholic University of Amer
lea at Washington, D. c., In 1898.
Rev. Angus johnson, pastor Of the First
Presbyterian church at Avalon, Texas, has,
Just celebrated his esth birthday by preach
Ing two sermons to his flock-one in the,
morning and the other In the evening. He
recently rounded out the SEVENTEEN ami
versary Of his ministry. He shows few
signs of his great age. He is frequently
called upon TO I'LL the pulpits of other
chul ches of this section and II is not an
unusual thing for him to travel in a buggy
twenty-five miles In one day to ill an APP
pointment
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23
How Artists Use Lines in Pen and Ink

and neck alone appear. gazes with a more
eager interest in her classical face than
Is displayed by any OF the other three.
1t is an exquisite profile this. the upper
lip projecting over the lower, which indi-
Gates a proud and cold disposition. The
shadow on her cheek is a mastery dis
play OF technique, showing how a few
gently curved lines can indicate roundness.
The hair is evidently a glossy chestnut
brown. and the student who desires prac-
tce in drawing hair cannot do better than
to copy it. Studying as he goes along the
intersectiong series OF lines which produce
the several masses OF hair, from the soft
little curls on the neck through the loose
waves that form the pompadour and rolls
at the back and sides, to the solid knot
on the crown of the head.
The figure behind is a splendid specimen
OF aerial perspective; this girl is further
away than the others and her features
and hair are drawn more lightly. thus
throwing her back She is worthy OF
study, II only for this.
Another minor detail that should be
noted by the student Is the bit OF cross
Matching that forms the only background
TO the picture; 1t is seen over the shoulder
OF the girl on the left and behind the ta-
Bile. and its effect is simply to throw for
ward the figures by suggesting that there
is space beyond. instead OF drawing the
details OF what is there. which would
only draw the eye from the group, which Il
the picture.
Note-These Charles Dana Gibson pictures
are used by special arrangement with Col
uers weekly, owners or The copyright.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23

primeval forests Of this country and slicins
these stately armies of spruce and Ar and
cedar into 5.0o0,000.000 feet of lumber and
6,0oo,00o0o0 shingles every year.
Factories have been erected in this coun-
try and In Europe for converting pine
needles into forest wool. This is used for
mattresses and furniture, for manufacture
into hygienic articles and for such things
as undervests and chest protectors.
Prior to 1860 cottonseed was usually
hauled to remote place to rot or dumped
into a stream OF flowing water. Out Of
this product, then deemed a nuisance, there
was manufactured in 1900 by products hav-
ing value of more than S42.ooO.0oo.
10 The male teachers in the United States
are steadily decreasing, as shown by sta
tistics. In 1870 the proportion was Al per
cent; in 1872 II had increased to 42.S per
cent; in 1SS9-90 It fell to 34.5; in 1900 1t
dropped to 29.9 and in 1908 It had reached
Is per cent. There were In the states 49,
242 teachers, and of these 1874 were n en-
and 341. 40s women.
The revenue OF the city of Toronto from
the lease of its street railway franchises
for the year 1905 was 1856, 6SS.72, or more
than 1900 day. OF the total amount
$72,9S2 was from a track mileage tax and
$3.50, 7O672 from percentage on the gross
receipts. Besides being thus profitable to
the city, the franchise last year paid the
operating company net profit Of $752,6so.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23

which show pockets, pockets everywhere
and not a one to use.
The plated skirt is about the most prac-
teal and stylish one can order. Every
other kind seems to be short-lived, no
Lace will play more of a part than ever
on dressy hats and frocks, and to run the
be touched up with embroidery In silks of
varied hues.
matter how attractive the cut or finish.
sidered elegant. also the skirt tucked In
groups between eight or ten close rows
of stirring
OF the ceinture, which from time to time
is declared on only to reappear in re-
markably short space Of time. because thus
far modistes have failed to find any salts
tent themselves by changing it from belt
to gtrdle, girdle effect back again to belt,
varying likewise the width OF each.
Since physicians connected with certain
watering places in Germany have found
many microbes in the dust lodging on
women's trailing skirts, proprietors of the
cures" have deemed it advisable to impose
fines upon women who offend the public
health by wearing such apparel. OF course
the reform has been resented in many
moods and in many tones of voice, but the
fines have been paid, and there Is some
probability that all the "cures" will pro-
vide similar rules. The subject has long
toward IL is the most emphatic that has
ever been taken by those having authority.
ITO tell the plain. unvarnished truth, "
says a New York fashion writer, the hats
exploited at the moment are hopeless.
There is absolutely no style or chic effect
10 them, but they do show possibilities
sure to get something of golden mean
The falling feather which is perched
perilously near the edge OF the chapeau
which 1t adorns, will be conspicuous on
large hats, and long plumes will droop over
the shoulder All other garnitures ape this
mode. In fact, everything in the millinery
category reverse
all OF the hats have what might be termed
a lifeless aspect So the young woman
who goes In for the ultra smart In dress
must don a hat as much scooped out and
bell-shaped as possible, must crush II down
over her head, and be sure that her trim
mings all run In the same direction"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23
The Drudgery of Food.

When men suppose that dinner goes On
whether they are at home or not they
labor under curious misconception, says
the Reader Magazine. Arthur Pendenys,
writing about this melancholy fact, de-
clares: Some one once said that an ordi-
nary woman's favorite dinner - an egg
IN drawing room. All women have a
passion for something on a tray. To the
masculine mind things on a tray are I'M
satisfying, but to the feminine body they
embody the very mama from heaven"
II is easy to understand that Arthur PEN
denys or any other masculine mind"
might have trouble in comprehending the
why, and wherefore Of this deblitated taste,
but no woman would be at loss to ex-
plain H. 1t comes from the fatigue which
woman suffers as the result OF her colossal
task Of feeding man. To nourish the
human race is the appointed work OF
woman. At the very inception OF life this
Is her labor. and never can existence be
50 fine, so free, so heroic and so beautiful
that she must not pause three times aday
or more-to bend her mind to the menu
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23

him drawing an idea. 1t is picture that
sets one thinking. ANY man can draw
a face or figure, but 1t takes an artist to
synthetic q social problem in few lines,
THE Weaker Sex" It is called. -Four
charming young women are about a table
upon which is perehed a man, his form
no bigger than that OF a fly. They look
at him through a magnifyins glass, and
one. with her hatpin, is about to spike
him as she would a moth. Is not this a
clever satire on modern American life? II
makes a man ask himself the question::
Which is the weaker sex? II raises the
whole problem OF woman's rights. woman's
sphere. woman's influence, in a way that
is more thought compelling than all the
essays OF the economists. The modern
American woman is shrinking flower
to be picked and worn by the man who
fancles her. She has won such an ex-
allied position Tor herself that men are
her slaves and she can have almost any
one OF them she may select. Socially the
wife or the daughter is the head of the
hOuse-at any rate among the weather.
elasses-and mere man lie an insignificant
creature. This Is what Gibson suggests
10 US IN this picture.
Look at the expression upon the faces
OF the girls; there IL no tenderness. no
coquetry, merely critical interest She OF
the hatpin wears the look Of the surgeon
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23
Shoppers rs Spoilers.


There are in New York City professional
shoppers employed by a detective agency
to spy upon the clerks in a store and make
report to the chief executive. The pro-
fesslonal shoppers make UP one OF the
most successful detective agencies In
Gotham and the operatives Of the agency
are employed by certain large stores
throughout the United States, The profess
sional shopper never stays long in one
place, lest she lose her value by becoming
known to the men or women she is en-
ployed. to watch. For two weeks. perhaps.
a group OF these women shoppers will be
engaged TO make a canvass of store.
They will shop in every department Of the
store, one day appearing in rich attire
and purchasing heavily In expensive ma
terials, the next dressing shabbily and max
ing purchases of small household articles.
Without appearing to do so they have a
sharp eye on the clerk while she makes
her calculations and make quick note II
they detect anything out of the way In
her actions. One of these professional
shoppers went into the hat department of
a Fulton street store recently and bought
hat for s49s. They usually buy some
thing at an odd price so they will be sure
to get change. The purchaser gave the
clerk IS bill. She noticed that the clerk
made out check for a hat costing SECS.
sent it with the IS to the cash desk and
received s2O2 change with the returned
check. She gave the 2 cents change to the
customer, appropriating the So and then
managed to get the s4.9S hat wrapped and
delivered to the waiting room. In some
departments she would have found this
impossible, as the wrapper would have been
wiser than to wrap the s4.9S hat on the
sass check.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23


ChicaRo's Five Maiden Aunts.
The more democracy there is in city
the more powerful will its women be.
writes William Hard In the American
Magazine.
There's Mary Mcdowell" said a proml-
nent politician the other day. And there's
Margaret Haley and Julia Lathrop and
Cornelia DeBey and Jane Adams. Did
you ever have a maiden aunt? Well, Chi
cago has FIVE Of them. It's lucky for US
they never got married and had children
of their own. We'd have been cut out.
But now we're In 1t right. They have to
look after somebody. That's their nature.
And so they look after the whole city of
Chicago. II Chicago has a sore throat
there's one Of them running after a flannel
bandage, and II we work too long at night
there's another of them coming around the
corner with a child labor law to stop 1t.
If they didn't look after US, who would2
There's not another city in the country
that's got Eve maiden aunts, healthy and
active, worrying about 1t all the time"
Jane Adams and Julia Lathrop are close
friends. They live together at Hull house.
They both come from the prairies of IL
linois. Margaret Haley, Cornelia DeBey
and Mary Mcdowell come from different
sources. They can be called Irish. Dutch
and Scotch respectively, while Miss Ad-
dams and Miss Lathrop cannot be spe-
cihcally assigned to any nationality. Yet
there is one strong link binding all Ave
of these women. That link is democracy.
With Miss Haley in her ambitions for
the teachers stands Cornelia DeBey Miss
DeBey is a doctor. She has a large and
profitable practice. And she is deeply in
terested in her profession. But after all
she uses it mainly as a means of support.
The main current of her life is the school
system. Whenever she has time for 1t,
she goes off on an educational spree. Her
most agreeable duties are those which fall
to her as a member of the Board OF Edu-
cation.
DIR. DeBey's great aim is to make edu-
cation so democratic that 1t will forswear
It's leisure class affectation and will At
every boy thoroughly and directly for his
duties as a wage Garner and as a voter.
Miss Mcdowell could never have organ
lied her girls union IL she had not been
democratic to the core of her heart. Miss
Haley, with her tax fights, her referen-
dunn petitions and her municipal owner
ship committees, is a kind of epltome of
the history of political democracy in Chi
cago for the last few years. Miss Ad-
dams and Miss Lathrop, living at Hull
house in the Ghetto, have given an UNI
answerable proof OF the sincerity Of their
conviction that the real pivot of modern
life is in the homes of the lowly.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23

mastered the language of the Onondaga
and Mohawk tribes OF Indians, a language
of more than 10000 words, and has COM
piled an Indian dictionary and several
other volumes relating to these tribes
II is calculated that society women at
Newport and other fashionable summer re-
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23
leave. from Fashion,. NotebooIs.

Elizabethan ruffs have taken on second
lease Of life, and all of the Louis and
Empire modes have been stretched to their
limit in the way of variation.
Pockets have made their temperance.
The willy designer has htely made the dis
covery that women cannot get along with
out pockets. At least that Is the idea one
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23
Labor and Industry

dlers.
Santa Cara county, Cal, is raising no.
100000 pounds of prunes this season.
In the Pacific northwest, nearly 100000
men are employed in cutting down ;he last
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23
Girls In Germanx.


The German girl leaves school at about
Is years Of age, by which time she has
learned to sew mend and supposedly to
speak English and French, says Modern
Women. She has not learned higher math-
ematics, but she learned the small things
which At a girl for a housewife or COM
panion, and that. in Germany. is woman s
only sphere. However much we American
girls may enjoy our college we dare not
pity the German girls for they have some
thing which takes their place and of which
We nave no conception until we reside in
Germany for a few months.
DID you ever hear Of a pension? II Is one
OF the most enjoyable things which ex-
lists. Certain influential ladies, mostly
widows or maiden aunts. make known that
they are willing to take a limited number
Of young ladies into their families We
went to Hanover, two OF us girls, with a
horror and dread of a boarding school, as
we heard pension" described. We found
ourselves in a family of eight girls, all
from the very best class Of Germans, and
all placed under Frau Won HIS care for a
year or more. None of the girls had any
special object in life; a few wanted to
learn how to keep house, few INDUCED
in an hours music lesson a week, but
most of them came, as Is the German Gus
tom, for the sake of becoming polished
and being escorted to concerts, theaters,
balls. receptions. student Kneipes, ETC., OPP
portunities not afforded in the smaller
cities and even not in many cities that
are larger than Hanover.
Consequently our chaperon accepted in
vitations for the girls. parties were given,
and the great intimate family spent a year
full of pleasure
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23

that shall please her lord. She has been
accused Of writing no epics; 10 Is said
that she is incapable Of composing an
oratorio. of designing a cathedral or con-
ceiving an heroic statue or painting q pic
ture OF the first quality. The retort is that
she might have done something of the kind
II the men had not been hungry so fire.
quently and 20 insistently. To be the nour-
Usher OF the human race Is an undertaking
so prodigious that IL Is a marvel that the
mere evaporation OF being chained TO the
larder has not made fiends or lunatics out
OF women-and from squaw TO countess
their sufferings In this regard have points
Of similarity. Is It any wonder, then. that
with the ever-hungry man out Of the way
the woman seeks escape from the tyranny
of food and eats strawberries by moon
light on a iowery bank7"
%
Women in Secret Orders.
An interesting article in the National
Magazine gives the history Of women in
secret orders. AS Freemasonry is one OF
the Oldest orders, It was natural that
women should first be admitted. as the
members of that order were too broad
minded to believe that a woman could not
keep a secret. At any rate, while they
were not quite willing to trust her with
their secrets. they approved Of her keeping
secrets of her own. The order Of the
Eastern Star was organized in Boston in
1873 and It did much charitable work dur
ing the revolution and war OF 1872. This
was, however not the society that IL now
known by that name, which later was
organized In 1851. and a ritual was written
by Robert Morris, Freemason and
poet. 1t IL a charitable and benevolent
their wives, widows, sisters and daughters
are eligible. Its ritual is based on the BIZ
Bile, but 1t is not Freemasonry. nor is it in
any way connected with x. Schuyler Col
fax, afterwards vice president Of the
United States, appeared in 1861 as the
champion of women, declaring that they
should be admitted into secret societies. He
was appointed one OF a committee to pre-
pare a degree for wives OF Odd Fellows,
and the Daughters of Rebekah was the
outcome. The ritual is the same today
as that prepared by Schuyler Colfax, and
1t is admitted that no other odd Fellow
degree equals 1t In beauty and effective
ness. The work of caring for the sick. the
widow and the orphan Is intrusted to the
Rebekah.
From the knights Of Pythias has sprung
two organizations for wives, daughters.
sisters and mothers-the Rathbone Sisters
and the Pythian Sisterhood-but they are
not organized as branches by the supreme
lodge of the Knights Of Pythias. The Py-
THAN Sisterhood was organized by Mrs.
Alva A. Young of Concord, N. H, and the
Rathbone Sisters at Warsaw, Ind, In 1888.
The Order of the Red Men has the de-
gree Of Pocahontas. Besides these there
are many fraternal and beneficiary So
pieffee he Of haa hnfpO
the largest of strictly women's societies.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23
A Knock on Porches.

Elizabeth Knight Tompkins, writing in
indoors and Out, takes a fall out of the
great American home institution the porch
In all parts parts of the country" she
writes, THE passer-by sees innumerable
porches on which no one ever sits-a waste
Of r'ore things than space and lumber
Deluded home builders attach to the
fronts of their houses a shelf eight feet
wide In full sight OF the street, or encircle
their sitting rooms and libraries with a
twelve-foot light snatcher, making the
legitimate functions df the rooms impossi-
BILE on cloudy days and sending the family
up stairs TO their bedrooms for cheer and
comfort better plan, however, is
10 put the porch in an angle made by the
main house and wing or to build out
large square porch projecting in the fashion
OF porte-cochere and screened by glass
perhaps at one end to give the sense OF
the outdoor room rather than the exposed
platform, for to possess the livable quality
a porch must have a certain quality which
we will call coziness, for lack Of more
exact word. Such porches as these can be
made to ful1ll the porch ideal: they can
be partly, or completely. glassed. II the
climate demand. heated. and made available
for all weathers. Personally, I should
put my porch and all my family life at
the back OF the house, RELOCATING my
kitchen to the side. or even the front.
Better still, ] should devise a spacious up
stairs balcony. A properly planned balcony
is delightful place; It lends itself to negli-
gee and intimacy in way that no down
stairs porch can do. not TO speak OF its use
as sleeping room in warm weather. A
roof garden is the best OF all 1 cannot
imagine building house without one. l
should put my servants on the lower fioors,
as well as all the unindividual rooms. and
reserve the top floor for the holy OF HOLES
a library worthy Of the name. opening wide
upon roof garden. awning-shaded, or
even temporarily rooted. open to breezes.
yet made private and coy by a hollow
railing two feet wide, flled with earth and
| drained at the bottom. full of blossoming
plants What a delightful retreat Il would
be. out Of the way Of the work and con-
fusion OF the household. a place 10 bring
ones favored guests to- a place 70 dream,
work. eat or tend ones babies i'm Why
do We not have more of them and Danish
our unused porchesf
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23
A whistIiRg woman.

Colorado has young woman, Una Proctor
by name. who, according to musical ex-
perts, will become known from ocean TO
ocean within few weeks as the champion
whistler Of the country. II not OF the world.
She was discovered In an obscure little
town-Canon City.
While attending the state normal school
at Greeley, where she graduated a few
months ago. she took to whistling, and at
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23
For and About Women Folks

once excited the admiration OF her musical
instructors. who -are willing TO help her
n abe VIII 60 upon the stage This her
mother objects TO. although the girl Is re-
ceivinE many offers from eastern managers.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23
The Latest style.

Cokeley-It's queer how the styles change.
Jokeley-Yes; II seems It will be the fash
ion for the women to wear high hats this
fall.
Cokeley-High hats7 Nonsensel
Jokeley-At any rate, my wife just told
me 1t would be impossible to get stylish
hat for less than SIS.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23


nITH the season for girls TO go to
~I college at hand. anxious mothers
A will read with interest the words
1l{lNi Of the president Of Radcliffe col
49, on the subject OF higher educa-
ton for women.
mo strong woman can be too gentle"
said President Briggs. and no gentle
woman too strong. 1 have little sympathy
with the higher education OF women II II
battles against those distinctions between
men and women that are radical and
eternal. That. indeed. is the lower educa-
ton of women. No woman was ever the
better for limiting a man; few. II any. are
better for some forms OF professional life.
! had rather a girl however highly edu-
Gated. were a nurse than a criminal law
yer II is the profession OF the latter
rather than the former that would degrade
her. As a nurse she would bring to bear.
enlarged and refined by college training,
those tender accomplishments that have
made women the comfort OF the world.
Every disa greeable detail of her work
would take on a mind Of glory because
an essential part Of a noble and self-lnspir-
ing self-sacrihce; as a criminal lawyer
she would rapidly and surely lose what
ever charm OF sensitiveness that might
belong TO her as a woman and would be-
come at best a poor initiation OF man
A woman's problem is not to blunt her sem
sitiveness; for a man TO do that IL bad
enough. II Is 10 turn her sensitiveness
into strength to make herself, by Just so
much the more sensitive she is, just so
much stronger. Any education that dwarfs
her power to do these things renders her
20 much the less a woman; no education
can make her a man. College women, as
I see them. are the best women In America
mot a whit more masculine than other
women. but trained to clearer thinking, to
clearer seeing-trained, above all, to a con-
stancy of earnestness With this training
they have learned to put away childish
things. 1t must be that some of the
former things shall pass away; that the
lower JOY shall make room for the higher;
that the happiness Of play, though no
healthy mind can lost 1t altogether, shall
yield more and more to the happiness of
work. 1 believe that in all our better
known colleges the standard is, as 1t should
be, standard Of womanhood."
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-23
(CopyriEht, les, Herbert Kaufman.)

he Gibson supplement In today's
Bee is a good illustration OF
side OF the artists work which
has had not a little to do with
his great popularity. 1t shows