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Useful 10 Know.

When flowers are wIited which come
through the mail plunge the stems into
hot water and leave them there until the
water becomes cold; then cut the stems
off little and place the flowers IN
fresh cold water.
Wooden breadboards should be scrub
bed with sand Or salt instead OF soap, in
order 10 be kept IT, good condition.
In order TO bake potatoes quickly boil
them first for ten minutes In salt water
before putting them In the oven.
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plates and the ceiling is so high as 10
leave an ugly blank space above the
doorway an excellent idea is 10 build
narrow shelf over the Intel and bank
1t with plates and perhaps a tall. grace
full vase filled with grasses or autumn
leaves The shelf shoulU, Of course,
be stained to match the woodwork in
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of birch bark and pipes. guns, hunt
ing knives, alpenstocks. and wooden
drinainE cups on the walls will heighteu
the effect HearskIns viii be the rugs.
The furniture will be of rustic wood.
Balsam pillows VIII give an aromatic
odor. and no one could imagine the
room 10 be steamheated and electrically
lighted.
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INTERESTING NOTES or
FASHIONS IN THE SHOPS

against them, girdles are sim with Us,
appearing today in a dozen new forms
most of Us thought the whole gamut
had been runD. from the high. sWathed
effect that takes a wonderful. willOwy
figure TO wear, to the one which Is clio
qUeEt OF Japanese influence
Lace combinations are TO be even more
daringIy made this winter-heavy and
light. or one sort OF heavy lace com
bined with another, or with others. as
many and as picturesquely put together
as possible.
Plenty of the new hats are made Of
felt hats folded and dTaped into
shape. And toques are better than
they've been for years-even the turban
shapes promising to drift in along with
them.
Going TO the other extreme. stock
ings, even those for winter stay as
chlffony as they were last summer. SILK
stockings, by the way, are enjoying an
almost unprecedented popularity. Where
a woman used 10 indulge herself in an
occasional pair, by way of an extra bit
or daintiness, she's apt To have them
by the half dozen.
When a monogram Is used. Il is al
most invariably OF an involved sort
the individual touch got without making
il too prominent.
Embroidery upon stockings grows bet
ter liked all the whole. especially when
the embroidery matches the stocking in
color.
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An exquisite crepe de chine gown.
worn by "a very fair woman. was the
wine color in fashion in our grand
mothers day.
a host of new reds are about-the
soft dahllA shades. really not red at ALL
but wonderful deep, different pink,
loveliest OF an.
Black promises to be very popular
for every sort OF thing from the rich
est of evening gowns To the plainest of
walking suits. As is usual when black
comes in fashion. all sorts of intricate
treatments are planned To bring out
subtlcJes of material or trimming
Shadow effects are among the most
popular of the many striped stufs
shown.
TuIle and MULE and the rest of the
many diaphaEOus sLuffs which promise
10 be exceptionally good this winter.
show embroidery applied in lavish ways.
Radium silk, that wonderful stun that
IS q cross between silk and chiffon,
comes En- the most exquisite gray shown
in any material for many a long day.
Apparently, it is solid color but with
tho shifting OF light the surface Pushes
into rose and pales TO blue simmer
ing back IN a moment 10 its own clear
toned gray.
After all that has been said and DOR
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Mrs. COWIeS' Sitting Room
Like, an Adirondack NOOK

NEW YORK, Nov. Son even the
coolest winter days, Mrs.. William s.
Cowles, sister of President Roosevelt,
need exercise her Imagination only
little. 10 believe herself back in her
camp in the AdirOndacks- She Is dec
Grating her sitting room so that IT viii
be as nearly as possible q representation
Of a forest nook II viii have dado
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a piece OF ammonia viii keep gloves
in good condition II placed in the box
with them. Care must be taken, how
ever, that the ammonia does not touch
the gloves.
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OF LITTLE FAITH

Mrs. Doreas-What became of that
friend OF yours who organized the
IIomemakers' Club?
Mrs. Crabshaw-She is suing for
divorce.-Puck,
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the room, bat II is quite possible for
the home carpenter TO put up such a
contrivanCe.
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Household Decoration.

VIXEN the plate rail around the dining
room is not sufficient TO hold all the
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TRIG WINTER COSTUME.


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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-11-08

Embroidery upon stockings grows bet
ter liked all the whole. especially when
the embroidery matches the stocking in
color
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-11-08

Shadow effects are among the most
popular of the many striped stuffs
shown.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-11-08

When monogram is used. It is al
most invariably OF an involved sort
the individual touch got without making
IL too prominent.
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Misses 'WEAR WELL" Shoes, sizes II to G
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.


In the growing agitation in favor of
postal saving banks the important fact
has so far been overlooked that the
government has already gone far in
laying the foundation for such a sys-
tenn. 1t Is, of course, familiar knowl-
edge that all money order postofices,
of which there are tens of thousands,
are banks of exchange selling both
domestic and international drafts for
small fee. 1t is not SO we'll known,
but it is nevertheless a fact, that all
money order postoffices have long been
and are within a hairs breadth of be-
ing banks of deposit. For the effect of
an executive rule put in force about
five years ago, authorizing money or
ders payable at the Office of issue, is
that an unlimited amount of money
may be deposited at postoffice pay
able to the order OF the depositor him
self substantially the same as at any
bank, except for the small money or
der fee. Though a money order ex-
pires in one year from its date, 1t can
either be renewed or transmitted with
out cost into treasury warrant which
will be cashed on demand at the post
office or any bank. And, in fact, an
increasing amount of funds is being
deposited at money order postoflces
as knowledge of the right to do so
spreads, money orders for thousands
of dollars being now annually issued
by the postoffice at Omaha and all
other cities.
Practically the only thing now re-
quired to make every postofice bank
of deposit as well as of exchange is
the petty detail of abolishing the small
money order fee. The only further
alteration required to transform post
Offices into savings banks, so far as
their relation to the public is con-
cerned, is to add payment of interest
on deposits. The change necessary for
the latter is no greater than that
which was actually effected by the exc
cutive order making all money order
postofices virtually banks of deposit.
The machinery for conducting a saw
ings bank as we'll as a bank OF de-
posit and exchange is in the main al
ready in existence and operation at the
postofice in every city and considera-
BILE town in the United States. The
postoffice facilities in all places of
5000 population and upwards. includ-
ing the officials and the regular sys-
tenn for receiving and paying and &C
counting to the government that have
long since been employed in the opera
lions OF the money order department
are the same as those that would carry
It on if the detail of savings deposits
should be added, and no great increase
even of clerical force would be needed
The policy Of the government with
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
GOOD AND ILL IN NEWSPAPERS.
Doctors Disagree and Patient Worries
Along as Usual.



Newspapers are the latest subject OF dis
agreement among the doctors. At home we
have Professor Frederick Peterson of Co
luc,bia university. declaring that the habit
of daily newspaper reading leads to mental
deterioration, while in London there is Sir
James Crichton-Browne pronouncing de-
liberately that "the newspaper with all
its faults is one of the bulwarks OF san
ity."
1t is DR.. Peterson's theory that the man
over his daily paper, scanning the head
lines, reading bit here and there. gath
ering a disorderly array of. unstable i'm
pressions, is affecting his brain by wear
ing out the faculty of the tissues for
permanent registration" He is cultivat-
ing 1.-THE art OF forgetting and is subject
ing his mentality to the peril of assault by
'innumerable concepts utterly .incoherent
as to their alignment in consciousness.
Dr. Peterson has spent more moments
I'm theorizing perhaps than In observation.
DR.. Crichton-Browne sees probably, DIR.
Peterson does not. that what the reader
of the daily paper really cultivates is the
faculty of selection, and that this invalua-
BILE faculty is one which the mind itself
exercises with regard to the procession OF
events all through a mans life. Which OF
us remembers everything that happens 10
him or TO those under his eye, to the min
utest detail. day after day? Which of US
would care to be burdened with a memory
that should let nothing get away. from the
trifiing TO the tremendous?
MANY a man." says DIR. Crichton-
Browne, "has been saved from melan-
choly and faulty by his daily paper" The
news sheet Is the antido,s to corrosive
egotism and gives a worldwide horizon
to the purblind and shortsighted." I'm
doubtedly there are victims OF too little
Tins of memories too greatly specialized
the fates of many champion chessplayers
give evidence. Newspapers have neither
made the enc nor saved the other.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Washington Post: The Scranton people
who forced their clergyman to resign be-
cause he attended base ball games would
probably be delighted to have a Pittsburg
millionaire present them with a new pipe
organ.
Brooklyn Eagle; John Murray denied
hell from a New Jersey pulpit 1856 years
ago thereby creating a panic. So we'll are
they getting used to the idea of this de-
privation that some ministers are even
questioning heaven.
Philadelphia Record Forty years ago the
Sioux were unreclaimed- savages Their
name was terror like that of the Apaches
at a more recent date. Ten thousand
Christian Indians are now attending the
convocation of the Episcopal church on the
Santee reservation. Most of them are
Sioux, and some of them have Travelled zoo
miles 10 attend the convention. All those
from distant points are being entertained
by the Santee Sioux. 1t is a splendid re-
suit OF missions to the Indians.
Boston Transcript: Bishop McCabe would
like to have the United States make war on
Turkey ION general principles" He would
like to see I>Sey steam through the OAR
danelles and knock the Sultanate to
pieces. Such was the burden of Bishop
McCabe's discourse before the De-
troit Methodist Episcopal conference
at Ishpeming yesterday. II one of
the ulema should preach at Con-
stantinople that the short and simple way
for preventing the United States Fostering
the sultan about the rights of naturalized
citizens was to levy war on Americans,
what preachments on ulemadan fanat-
icism would come from the American press
and pulpit.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

addition to that of human food, is not
made clear, but the fact of such in
crease is established beyond a perad-
venture.
This fact, too. raises the strong pre-
sumption that the same tendency will
assert Itself indefinitely in the future,
making a firm basis for agricultural
calculations. Excepting advancing
land values and wages. the. cost of
producing wheat under improved
methods of seed selection and cultiva-
ton has in the main been materially
reduced and is known to be capable of
much further reduction. This is par
ticularly true in Nebraska with re-
spect to transportation through COM
petition of new routes to central mar
kets, so that this grain, instead of be-
ing excluded from the list of chief
farm products, as seemed possible not
many years ago, is destined to more
important place than it ever held as a
permanent source of wealth.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

The ready made religion always looks the
part.
There is nothing holier than everyday
helpfulness.
Faith never would know itself but for
foul weather.
A passion for speaking seldom is a pas
sion for souls.
You cannot elevate society at the price OF
the Individual.
The strain of the market should be the
gain OF good morality.
The man who can keep his religion to
himself hasn't any to keep.
There never will be a closed town until
there is a wide open church.
He who does not get his education from
everything gets II from nothing.
The honest man knows himself too well
to think he wholly is self-made.
Religion never will be attractive SO long
as it only offers easy things to men.
= No man worships the divine better than
he Who works for ti4is poor old human
There are some men who, II they were
drowning, would walt for quarter sawed
board. 4t.... 80 e
When a man meets a doctrine that
doesn't square with his living he calls 1t
dogmatism.'
This world is enriched not by the laureis
you lay on the strong, but by the loads
you lift from the yeak.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
BANK DIRECTORS AND EXAMINERS

BANK DIRECTORS AND EXAMINERS
There will be emphatic and war
ranted protest against the assertion
which William b. Ridgely, comptroller
of the currency, insisted on before the
Pennsylvania Bankers association,
"that there can be no justification in
blaming the bank examiners when the
crash comes through dishonest man
agement," and that 1.-The only guaran-
tee of safety for a bank is the vigil
lance of the directors in watching the
officers and checking up their accounts
and supervising their methods" There
is, indeed, no objection to insistenee
upon the Importance of the duty of
bank directors, which is vital and
which has lately been illustrated by
numerous criminal crashes. 1t is also
true that except from rare causes
there can be no good excuse for the
failure of a bank or trust company IL
the board of directors do their full
legal and moral duty. But none the
less, is it fallacious and vicious, espe-
cially on the part of the comptroller
of the currency, to whom the national
bank examiners are subordinates,
either to- exonerate them from blame
or to depreciate their responsibility?
1t is the bank examiners duty,
without which there is absolutely no
reason for his existence, TO examine
and report the facts for the informa-
ton of the government and the pro
lection of the public. The government
stands charged with the obligation to
know whether banks board of direc-
tors is guarding all interests under the
law against the incompetency, dis
honesty or fraud of any of its mem
bers or of the executive officers and
employees, and the examiner is the
special and almost the sole means of
such knowledge. 1t Isl indeed, inn
portant that directors do their duty
individually and as body, but it is
not less important that the examiner
by doing his duty shall discover and
make known the default before it
ripens in disaster to depositors and
stockholders. . $50 =
The demonstrated and dangerous
fact is that too many boards of bank
directors do not direct, though gener-
ally intending no harm, neglecting or
abdicating their functions to the mercy
of some officer or employe, with the
inevitable, frequent result, against
which the examiner then becomes the
sole protection; that the bank is
ruined before even danger is suspected.
Experience admonishes that both di-
rectorial control and official examina-
ton are remiss and ineffective, and
that the latter especially is in crying
need of reform and refrigeration.
The law without doubt is defective,
but all developments indicate that
there is as much room for reform
through administrative rigor, so that
examiners shall examine whether di-
rectors direct and precisely how they
direct, as through new legislative
remedies.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

perjury eight more have been indicted and
await trial, and three are slated for dis
barment. And the government drag net is
still busy.
Cassie Chadwick has concluded to serve
out her ten-year sentence without further
effort for new trial. Ohio bankers are
thus relieved of considerable worry.
To show its zeal for the rate law and
confound critics, the Boston & Maine rail-
road has abolished the annual free junkets
provided for stockholders and their rela-
tives.
Mrs. Russell Sage settled for $4,000
Will contest that would have cost a million.
The family traits survive the late lamented.
In carrying out plans for the city beauti-
fur In St. Louis, the men in charge have
been informed by interested parties that
railroad track or two with busting trains
would materially enhance the picturesque
charms OF Forest park Strange to say, the
suggestion hasn't called out a responsive
cheer. 1t wasn't presented properly
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30


Ak-Sar-Ben has come to be more
than a name. 1t is now an institution
end belongs to the people of the won
derfully fertile region of which Omaha
is the natural commercial outlet 1t
is supported by the business men OF
Omaha, irrespective of line, and is to
be participated in by all the world.
But the people of the country around
Omaha have come to regard the au-
tumnal festivities that attend the cele-
bration of his coronation by the good
King Ak-Sar-Ben as being as much of
a fixed festival as the recurrence of
Christmas and New Years.
1t is coincidence worthy of note
that ever since the establishment of
Ak-Sar-Ben the region round about
Omaha has been bountifully blessed
with full crop yields. This has in
sured the material prosperity of the
people, and the carnival and pageants
have brought them to the city in the
season of their rejoicing. 1t is graft
bhhe bhC PlCoCht oGdoOn udo DOCn
noteworthy. even among a series of
notable years, for its abundant har-
vests and for its indications of con-
tinued peace and plenty in the land.
Omaha was never in better condition
to welcome visitors or to invite inspec-
ton. Every external evidence of in
dustrial aud commercial activity is to
be observed, and the generally invit-
ing appearance of the city in every
quarter betokens the prosperity of its
citizens.
All hail! King Ak-Sar-Ben XIII
May his reign be no less serene and
beneficent than that of his predeces-
sors. And a most cordial welcome to
all his subjects who journey to his city
to do him honor during the week.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
LOWER RAILROAD RATES PAY.
Greatly Increased Business Follow
Reduced Fares.

New York World.
When the New Haven Railroad company
reduced its passenger rate to 2 cents a
mile the officials estimated that there
would be a loss of about 100000 a year In
gross receipts.
The reduced rate, which affects nine
tenths of the system, has been in operation
several months, and instead of the pre-
dicted reduction there is an increase In
gross earnings. Lower fares have given
the company enough new business to more
than make good the lessened profit on each
fare
When the Michigan Central charter was
repealed and a 2-cent rate fixed by the
legislature the company brought suit
against the state of Michigan for 5000 900.
By the time the case got before the courts
the receipts already showed large in
crease in passenger earnings. Instead of
losing by the repeal of charter which
gave it the right to charge cents a mile
the Michigan Central had actually bene-
fted.
The recent reductions in fare on the
Pennsylvania were made in a confident
business belief that there would be more
profit for the company in carrying people
for less money. Other companies are plan
ming similar reductions.
The next five years will witness I'M
precedented reductions In passenger fares.
Railroad managers are coming to under
stand the simple scientific principle that
there is more money in doing a large bust
ness with a small margin of profit on
each transaction than in doing a small
business with a large margin of. profit on
each transaction.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
SEEING AMERICA.


Wallace Irwin in Life.
He never really saw a town
From Maine TO Frisco bay,
The hills were merely streaks of brown,
The cities streaks Of gray.
Save when he slowed down for the night
Or took on gasolene.
The rivers were a blur of light
The woods a daub Of green.
A passing honk. splash. sizz--
Was that Niagara?
Tooti through New York, then whang! and
whiz!
Through Philadelphia.
Chicago like a dusty daze
Reeled by and faded hence:
He saw the buildings in a haze,
Like pickets on a fence.
"Alphonse Alphonser' at last he cried,
What was yon blur we saw7"
II think that 1t was Great Salt Lake,
Or maybe Omaha"
what are those streaks OF black and
white
All mixed with blues and greens?"
The chauffeur skidded 10 the right,
Were passing New Orleans"
And when at last the tour was done.
IRE chauffeur and the yaD
They sat them down at set of sun
To draw an auto map.
Wherein their native land they showed
As one gigantic blot.
A hyphenated country road
Between a dash and dot.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

The great peril OF the Cuban situation
is that 1t may put Havana cigars in the
scent class.
One William Travers Jerome realizes that
there is more truth than poetry in the
song Put Me on at Buffalo"
Banker stensland can speak seven Ian
guages, but his audience is not such as
will promote linguistic exercise.
A Philadelphia man strangled himself by
wearing a celluloid collar. For promptness
celluloid seems to have the edge on brass
neckwear.
Automobiles are enthusiastically in IA
vor of the federal government putting s20.-
100000 into a good road between Chicago
and New York.
A young man In Chicago who persisted
In marrying the sister of two big brothers
received a pair OF black eyes as a wedding
present The bride got one.
The Oregon land fraud prosecution is
playing havoc with shady lawyers. Four
have been convicted OF conspiracy and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

Mr.. HearstS platform declaration
that he believes Tin the restraint and
regulation of trusts and monopolies
by law" collides with Colonel Bryan's
platform declaration that there is no
such thing as regulating monopoly and
that all monopolies must be com
pletely expunged. Mr.. Hearst also
proclaims his belief lin the protective
principle" while Colonel Bryan de-
nounces a tariff for protection as rob-
berry. A few little discrepancies like
these, however, do not seem to pre-
vent Colonel Bryan from swallowing
the Hearst nomination.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

respect to disposal of savings deposits
under such a system, as to which, how
ever, there are numerous presidents
In other countries which long have had
postal savings banks. is another mat
ter. But the very general assumption
that inclusion of the savings function
in our postal system necessarily in
wolves elaborate. radical and costly
changes of governmental machinery is
quite unfounded