Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-20

Women in suffrage states.
kept forgetting that this was my first
view OF a state in which women have full
suffrage. declares writer in Harper's
Bazaar. I could not discover that they were
any less feminine here than elsewhere.
II anything, they wore white. fuzzy
clothes upon the streets more freely than
eastern women do. They we're given TO
big white hats Of lawn or chiffon and so
determined we're they to get the good Of
their white shoes that theyiwore them even
with black dresses.
50 far as interest in pretty clothes may
be held TO establish the point, It is evident
that more than a few legislative enact
ments will be required to knock out the
eternal womanly. For instance, the pro-
prietor Of the leading millinery shops told
me this tale Of the first time the polls
were open to women
II wasn't prepared for any rush in the
business" he said. I'm fact, 1 don't sup
pose 1 was much interested in the suffrage
question But all Of a sudden I noticed an
increase IN our sales; then mail orders
came In thick and fast and finally we had
crowds around our bargain counters equal
to the week before Easter and even our
imported hats on the second floor were go
ing with n rush.
whats the matter with the womenP'
said to the forewoman. Amy women's
Christian Temperance Union convention,
or public reception, or high church holt
day7
No, indeed she said why, don't you
known They're going to vote tomorrow"
OF course we may have been mistaken
about the number Of pretty girls, for we
did not see all Of the Inhabitants of Den
yer by any means. A great many OF its
people-and let us charltably assume, all
OF its prettiest gilrs-were in the noun
tains.
The trains going thither were packed
And you discovered again the fact which
your romantic imagination constantly
tended to make you forget that there is
no such thing as western chivalFy.
In no other place, south or east, IL
woman so entirely free to climb into and
out Of cars without assistance, pick up her
own handkerchiefs. stand while men sit
mount ker horse without aid Of hand or
horsGblock and generally enjoy perfect
freedom and entire lack OF consideration
OF sourse one likes the freedom, the equal
ity and oil that, but-well, it's human to
want to keep ones cake and eat It, too.
Nor 10 this the result of suffrage
as some writer's sagely observe. II is ex-
aotly the same in Oklahoma, where there
lie no suffrage 1t is merely western and
arises, 1 think, because these men are too
busy to be looking after women and be-
cause they have good reason to suppose
that western women can look after them
selves. And they can-with sigh because
they must.
Every stopping place proved the noun
tains fairly alive with campers and tourists.
They swarmed around the train to meet
friends and carried them of in mud
splashed stages to rough board shanties or
tents set beside some swift stream.
The men wore high boots with spiked
soles, corduroy or khaki trousers flannel
shirts and broad brimmed hats. The girls
wore short or divided skirts, CATERS, sweat
ers and also broad brimmed Fedoras
All looked rough, happy. brown, pictur-
esqAe. Here and there an elderly matron
demure and trim in a summer silk gown
with a bit OF white ruching about the
throat, hoped gingerly among the bouders
in the track of her riotous brood, looking
like canary bird who had Unexpectedly
Matched sage chickens.