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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-17

charming shades this year and many Of
the gowns are so beautifully embroidered
as to be real dreams in dressmaking.
In hair dressng-for the dressing Of the
hair also plays a part-there are lovely
things made up in ribbon and tiny flowers.
These little garnitures for the hair are for
day wear. They are pinned into the Golf
feur when 1t is made up for o'clock tea,
and are worn for dinner and evening
Gloves are becoming very dressy, and
the long gloves with hand embroidered tops
are among the most popular Of all kinds.
There come gloves with tops that reach
almost to the shoulder, with the middle
beautifully hand worked A very handsome
Jeweled glove garter matches the gloves,
For those who can wear plaids nothing
could be more suitable and becoming than
the black and white checks which come
this season I'm the very becoming little coat
effects. They are made with trimmed
skirt and tight-htting Jacket faring in
front, something like the Old-fashiOued
blazer coat, and open IN the throat to show
a becoming lace stock
When it comes to hose there is a hard
and fast rule that the stocking must
match the boot. one no longer sees tan
shoes and black stockings, for the hose in
every case will exactly match the boots.
a marvellous extent, as a pleasing finish
to the foot The newest stockings are
rather heavy silk, with some hand en-
broidery running up the leg, or a quite
elaborate clOcking at the side
One OF the prettiest Of the new scarfs
Is made Of pink chiffon taffeta. IT is
tucked in groups Of twenty little tucks
and It Is the fun width Of the chiffon
It is long enough TO be thrown round the
shoulders and hang almost TO the very
ground The prettiest fashion Is that OF
fastening it at the bust line with a hand
some pin, 50 that the scarf makes an
article Of dress. It serves as a waist
trimming as well as decoration for the
shoulders.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-17

Ostrich plumes, too, have their place
upon the more dressy models in these new
shapes, especially when the hats are in all
black or in all white, but the most distinc-
tive of the models are those with the ribbon
trimming and the moderately narrow and
emphatically bell shaped brim. The wide
dropping brim and ostrich plume trimming,
such as figure in two of the sketches, are
more like the picture hat to which we are
accustomed and have not the interest at
taching to originality and novelty.
A low bowl shaped hat OF fine straw,
with crown and brim in one and showing
no break in the curve, had a half wreath
of roses lying fatty around the front and
back to points just over the ears. There
wide ribbons started and were drawn back
ward and down over the edge of the brim,
tying in a big soft bow at the back of the
neck.
Many OF the picturesque hat shapes have
such scarfs or strings knotted at the back
and upon other models, though not upon
shapes such as those which we have been
especially considering, are strings which
are brought loosely forward and knotted
under the chin. AS for the streamers
falling down the back, they are legion and
are narrow or wide, made of satin or velvet
or taffeta, of lace or of net or of chiffon or
Of tulle as the caprice of the milliner
dictates.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-17
Chat About Women.

The first woman to be appointed an ex-
aminer in the United States patent office is
Miss Mary A. Sanders Of Oklahoma, "a
lawyer, who made good in her own state
before coming east.
A magnificent club house for the Catholic
women Of Worcester, Mass, has just been
opened, the furnishings including over 5000
worth OF hand-Carved mahogany IN the
rotunda, while the other rooms are quite
In keeping with this entrance.
For the first time in It's history exclusive
old BOwdoin college Is able to boast Of
female student. The demure miss who has
upset all traditions Is Bertha II. Irish, Is
years old. Of BOWdOinham. She Is not
allowed 70 take the regular college course,
but Is able, by an arrangement with Prof
Ham, to take certain studies which are a
part OF the regular college work
Mrs Hannah A. Currier Of Manchester
n. H. Is TO give ner fortune Of 100000 for
the establishment Of a gallery OF art In that
city at her death. With this large sum OF
money II is expected that the gallery will
be the largest in New England and will
compare favorably with the most extensive
and elaborate I'm the United States. Mrs.
Currier Is now 80 years Old.
Miss Katherine Handley of Boyesen
WyO.. and Jack Martin, "a scout and dead
shot participated In a shooting match there
n few days ago. With rifle and revolver
she proved the victor Al 30 yards with
a light winchester she hit the center forty
eight times out OF nifty 20 Martins forty
six. With a 2-Caliber revolver she made
nineteen out Of twenty, Martin scoring
only seventeen.
In Oklahoma Miss Lulu b. Russell has
been appointed mail carrier Of the rural
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-17

daughters red shirtwaist managed 20 avert
what would otherwise have been bad
wreck Of two freight trains
Through the confusion Of orders. says
the Topeka Capital. a wcstbound freight
cleared from Arlington Just as an east
bound freight cleared Turou. the second
station west OF Arlington. The error was
discovered and Miss Breckenridge was in
structed to hold the westbound freight at
Arlington until the other train should ar
rive. The order came too late and as she
received the last word Of the message the
tail light Of the outgoing freight whisked
from her view.
Langdon is a small station between Ar
lington and Turon, but It is not night
station. Miss Breckenridges father Is day
operator there. Thinking that he might
possibly be in the station she began calling
L-a-n-g-d-o-n, L-a-n-g-d-o-n, but received
no reply. Then she tried the telephone,
but could not arouse her father
Something has to be done and that
quickly. She hurried TO the telephone CEN
trail office. She and the girl telephone
operator found the name OF a farmer, John
Spence, living near the railroad track.
They succeeded I'm arousing him. Miss
Breckenridge informed him what had hap
pened and begged his assistance. The
farmer became all action at once. Grab
bling up his old lantern and tying his daugh-
ter's red shirtwaist. the first red object he
came to, about the lantern he rushed to the
railroad track. He reached II Just as the
westbound train came into view. The train
men saw the danger signal and stopped
iust as the other train rounded curve not
half a mile away.
After telephoning the farmer, Miss
Breckenridge hurried back to the telephone
office to wait Pretty soon the reappear-
ance of the red and green tail lights of the
train backing up the track to Arlington
assured Miss Breckenridge that she had
succeeded.
And then she-didn't faint.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-17

free delivery route of the little town OF
Mutual and Miss Hattie Russell, her sis
ter has been appointed her substitute. The
route is a hard one i'm winter, but the
young women have given satisfactory as
surance TO the Postofiice department that
Il will be covered every day If the thing
is within the bounds of human achieves
ment.
One woman who resides I'm "Mllionaire's
row. New York City, maintains private
dramatic critic in order that she may JON
in the small talk of current plays. She
is not one Of the newly rich, nor Is she un-
lettered and is considered one Of the
brightest conversatloualists in the 400
Since employing her private critic she
talks Of new plays brilliantly, for on tho
morning after tho production she is sup
piled with typewriter comment on the
play from which she CLEANS many original
observations to parade before her friends
The number Of women employed on the
Russian railways IS increasing. According
10 the latest returns, there are now work
ing on the twenty-five Russian state rail-
ways no fewer than 22.nND women 1S Eato-
keepers, clerks telegraphel s, etc. Tho aver
age wage var es from l5J TO 10 RULES weary
1865 TO 500. The extremes are great mus,
the women clerks receive ON an average
from $50 70 400 rubles. or about 500 while
the women attending at the station are
paid only 40 rublcs or ABOUT 9l''1 year,
IN addition 10 free lodging ana a Few
extras.
The weaIthiest British woman living. is
a WcIshWomau. more, she l5 single. Miss
Emily Charlotte Talbot was one 81 the
popuIar NJ +. of the mid-Vctorian era.
me only son died in early youth and Miss
TaIbot's sister, somewhat younger than
herself became the wife. just forty years
ago OF MI Fletcher OF SaltOun. Miss Tai
bot remained at home, keeping house for
her father, and ON bis death found herself
left his sole eXecutriX and owner OF all tho
Talbot real estate, valued at about El.JoO-
co., as also OF revcrsionary interest in a
huge trust fund I'm COnsOls,-
For some thirty years Mrs. Aston has
been undisputed leader Of the New York
400. She is now n years old, under the con-
slant care Of physicians and nurses. ana Is
falling rapidly. IL was she who. when she
thought the social list was growing too
rapidly and too big, boldly cut the number
that she considered eligible 20 400 That
act created fuTure I'm and out of sucietysi
IT, was Mrs. Aston who made Ward Mcy
Alltstgr the arbitCr Cleguutarium. The rules
laid down by him for the guidance OF So
ciety became law, because they We're tho
wishes OF Mrs. Astor.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-17

V91NeJNI one encounters some striking tour
- de force Of the mininer, and
though some of these creations are freak
fish, some downright ugly. there's no deny
ing that all are interesting
One is consumed by curiosity as to the
fate OF all these odd, fantastic little models
which we would pronounce charming on
the stage, but which seem altogether too
picturesque for the average woman of to-
day. VIII American women wear the
things? That the French woman will Is
foregone conclusion.
She revels in such novelties, such orig
inal oddities. She adores the bizarre, pro-
Vided always that the bizarre has beauty,
and she win not grudge the effort OF dress
ing TO suit the quaint hats, which demand
costumes in harmony with them. Aye,
, there's the rub.
1t Is quite impossible TO imagine oneself
in one OF the dish shaped, bowl shaped,
poke shaped, perverted mushrooms OF
which our smartest millinery shops are full
unless one has everything needed TO ASSOC
ciate with the hat One must change ones
whole style at the command Of the milliner
and how many women win do It?
Probably, many venturesome souls more
brave than judicious, will attempt TO bully
the new hat shapes into amicable relations
with their ordinary tailor frocks and other
conventional attire. and the results viii
be lamentahle but when charming
woman wears one Of these sublimated lamp
shade hats piquantly and well, then we
shall have occasion 20 OFFER thanks 10 the
Partisan milliners who have launched the
new-old shapes, for there are delightful
possibilities OF coquetry in these dropping
brims and amusing crown lines
Some OF the simpler hats vaguely call up
, memories OF certain old English portraits
portraits OF the Romney and Lawrence
schools. Take for example, In one Of the
sketches. the soft flexible straw with rather
low crown and wide dropping brim,
trimmed in a carelessly loose bunch Of field
flowers and ribbon and streamer Of black
velvet,
Somewhere there is a we'll known por-
trait-a Lawrence, II memory does not play
us false-of fair young English woman
in Just such hat as that; and the Borta-
lozzi Winter wears such a hat shape as
that other OF smaller crown and narrower
rim. the rim carried down more closely and
sharply around the head.
Difficult 20 wear7 No doubt they are;
but we are inclined 10 take issue with the
verdict or a majority of the women who
cluster around these new and extreme
models, and. with little "Ohs" and Abs
Of horror. pronounce them hopeiessly ugly.
They are not ugly-far from II; but they
will not suit the average woman of today.
We are not a picturesque generation and
only few women with a genius for dress
and the money 10 indulge II can assume
the virtue.
Some OF the little hats OF lingerie or lace
and net are no more than bowl shaped
caps, with soft frills Of lace in place OF
brims. one OF the sketches shows a model
OF this type-a most delectable little AFFAIR;
but how many women could wear L.?
The round bowl shaped crown was Of
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-17
Narrow Escape.

Mr.. Ferguson, two of whose downtown
friends had just dined with him, had taken
them into the library for smoke, relates
the Chicago Tribune.
Il must tell you a good one on my wife"
he said. She's been roasting me because
I look at the headlines in the papers once
in a while TO see IL anything important is
happening in the Thaw trial Well, the
other afternoon, while the girl was away,
she put pan of biscuits in the oven TO
bake, and while she was waiting she picked
up a paper and began to read the stun her
self. She got so interested in It that she
let the biscuits"
At this moment Mrs. Ferguson came into
the library for a book.
"And the joke Of It was" continued Mr..
Ferguson. without a moments pause. that
they found the COW next morning in
forty-acre lot"
"Ha. ha, ha!" roared the guests, Laughing
till the tears ran down their cheeks-but
not at the story.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-17


the writer, who signs herself
49, simply AN Elderly Woman"
has been revealing many secrets of an old
woman's heart. In the April number she
says, among other things: Each genera
ton permits different type Of young girl,
but the older woman must not change her
outline is fixed and immovable. She must
be like Eleanor's grandmother, always
there"-waiting, waiting, with a smiling
face through the long, quiet empty hours,
for her grandchildren to come home. I
do not think am eXaggerating when 1 say
that there is no class Of society 80 bound
down by convention, and for no good rea-
son, as are the oldest Of ALL A young
and pretty woman must of course, walk
carefully along life's paths; she must take
care TO avoid even the appearance Of evil.
As she grows older a suitable amount OF
convention in the mother Of a family is a
wholesome balance. But when a woman
grows old, when she has climbed the lad
der Of years beyond the point where scam
dal could touch her, one would think that
she might lay aside minor conventions Of
life, that at last she might do what she
pleased, only limited by her own failing
strength. There are so few things, after
all left for us to do, so few that we have
the heart left for or the wish for now, that
IL would seem only right that we should
follow our caprice in the small matters
that stil belong to us.
/ had an old friend who happened to
fancy as accessories TO a costume in which
70 pass her declining years a hustle and a
certain false front Bustles went their
way, and few people stin chung to them:
even the faithful gave them up; and still
my friend wore hers valiantIy. 1t suited
her so to do-and why not? Hadn't she
followed the fashions long enough? Hadn't
she earned her right to wear what she
chose? That was the way she looked at H.
She was a valiant, high-spirited old woman.
fun Of good-tempered anecdotes about
everyone you ever heard OF, fond OF an the
bright things OF hfe-young people. dance
music, company and bright colors-the last
she wore unfinchingiy; so gayly indeed and
gladly did she walk up the road Of time
that she died advanced In years without
old age having seemingly laid finger on
her blithe spirit II the young people had
a quiet smile az the expense Of her hustle
Il was q tender one. II and the false front
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-17

''The day for women to walk through the
world with bowed heads and weeping eyes
has passed by. Women are no longer the
accomplishing, oppressed creatures whose
only cause to be thankful is that they are
alive"
Thus was the progress of womankind set
forth by Mrs. Mary e. Coggeshall Of Des
Moines, Ia, at the convention Of the Ma
tional womans Suffrage association at
Music hall, says the Chicago Chronicle.
The feminine audience that filled the audi
forum showed by it's repeated applause
that 1t was in hearty accord with her senti-
ments.
Throughout the centuries the woman has
been the quiet, the uncomplaining, the OPP
pressed" said Mrs. Coggesball Indeed,
she has had cause to be thankful that she
has been created at all. For from the
record in Genesis she has always had the
suspicion that II Adam had happened to
tend the garden himself our much-maligned
foremother would not have been made.
"The primitive mother would seek safe
place for the young and would defend
them with tooth and claw. 1t is the same
mother spirit which today is asking for
legal power to protect the homes. We have
gained nearly everything, we will gain all.
Even in these happier days there are
some things left over from prehistoric
times. Among these is the ant-suffrage
woman. A few rare specimens have been
observed on the Atlantic seaboard and
there are a few in the middle west, but be-
yond the Rocky mountains there are no
such formations visible Some social biol
ogists claim that she is the product of the
stone age.
I'VE cry no more, and fainting is at a
discount. Sixty years ago no society func-
ton was complete without fainting
woman. Oven fifty years ago a sympathlz-
ing clergy would devise and console women
by conjuring them to be content in the po-
sition in which divine providence had placed
them. They were told that if they would
continue penitent and steadfast to the end
that after few more signs and a few
more tears they would all be waited to
Abrahams bosom.
Now even heaven must bid higher for
the souls of women, for today each one
Of us would demand the whole of Abra-
hams bosom for herself, not even divid-
ing it up with Sarah and Hagar."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-17
women who shoot Elk.

One of the most interesting exhibits at
the Sportsman's show at Madison Square
garden, New York, is a collection of three
large elk, the result of the rifle work of
two women, who shot the elk in the wild
part of Wyoming in the neighborhood of
Jacxsons Hole near Mount Teton, where
Presidetn Roosevelt shot some of his big
gest game on his hunting trip three years
ago. These elk heads are the first ever
exhibited as trophies of women shots. The
largest and smallest Of the two were shot
by Miss Annetta Newell of New York
City, who spent two weeks hunting under
the care of John Con, who was President
Roosevelt's guide.
L. H. Joy, ranchman, was one of the
party with Miss Newell when she bagged
her big game. He says that when Miss
Newell made her first visit TO the elk coun-
try she saw the buck coming in her direc-
ton. She got a bead on It and then became
tearfully hysterical and threatened all
kinds of trouble because Con- shot It. The
second year that she visited the locality
she was able TO hold her own with any of
the hunters. On the trip she bagged the
two elk whose heads are on exhibition It
was necessary for her to travel several
miles over rough trails and long distance
up the side of the mountain, the distance
proving too great and hazardous for the
majority OF the male members Of the party.
She succeeded in making the kill, and, while
she did not get the biggest head of the
season, she did get the biggest head that
any woman has ever shot in that part Of
the country. The smaller elk was shot by
her after all the other members had aban-
doned hope for the day and returned TO
the camp The other elk head was shot by
Mrs. Rupernahn Of Butte Mont. one OF
the best women shots in the west.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-17

shirred net; a sort blue taffeta ribbon was
drawn around the edge of the crown at the
beginning Of the lace fril and tied in the
back a single lovely pink rose was posed
at the left front.
Fancy the right face under that babyish
headgear, the soft lace friI falling against
the hair and shadowing the forehead, the
iutter of blue ribbon behind the head.
Charming! But the puzzle is to find the
right face.
Slightly less trying are the hats of fuller,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-17
Women in Home Lie and Business World

the ear. succotash, butter beans, string
beans tomatoes, peas Irish potatoes, sweet
potatoes, buttermilk, sweet milk, "clab-
ber," watermelons, muskmeIons, canta-
loupes-all fresh from the garden-apple
pie, peach pie, pumpkin pie, apple dump
lings, peach cobbler-I can't remember the
rest The way the things were cooked was
perhaps the main splendor-particularly
certain few Of the dishes. For instance, the
corn bread, the hot biscuits and wheat
bread, and the fried chicken. These things
have never been properly cooked in the
north-in fact, no one there is able to learn
the art, so far as my experience goes. The
north thinks 1t knows how TO make corn
bread. but this is gross superstition. Per-
haps no bread in the world is quite as good
as southern corn bread, and perhaps no
bread in the world is quite so bad as the
northern imitation of II. The north sell
dom tries fried chicken, and this is well;
the art cannot be learned north OF the line
Of Mason and Dixon, nor anywhere in Eu-
rope This is not hearsay; It is experience
that is speaking"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-17
Lenre, from Fa.hIon,. Notebool..

The scarf is new this spring and sug-
gests the Spanish mantilla. II Is romantic
In It's appearance and only needs the right
kind Of person TO make II immensely be-
coming
Two varieties OF gowns claim attention
this spring Of many fashions. These are
the gay walking costumes and the res
taurant gowns. One shades into the otner
so that It Is almost impossible 70 tell them
apart.
For those who want a handsome spring
dress the chiffon broadcloth will necessarily
play q very important part II comes IA
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-17

which she wore with great artlessness were
part of her. None who loved her. and
they were many, would have had her al
tered in any repect. There was but one
exception to this, her widowed daughter
who, with her little girls, made her home
with her mother. The hustle and false
front caused her the keenest pain. 1 do
not believe my friend ever got herself
ready for party" without the daughter
trying TO decrease the size Of that hustle,
She never gave up trying My friend loved
everyone to be happy and contented around
her, and / often think how many small an
noyances she might have been spared had
her daughter not had such firm convictions
concerning the conventional dress OF age.
I am glad TO relate, however, that my old
friend wore her hustle, her daughter not
withstanding, almost to her dying day. I
hope they buried it with her-she made a
brave fight for 1t.
can remember when I was a young
woman how many OF my mothers foibles
fretted me, for I was like the rest. l
hadn't reasoned It out any more than most
people do, but I held the same immutable
opinions about the conduct OF age II 1
had my life to live over again l should
know better. / should cherish each of my
mothers restless days, because I would
know that her very restlessness and oc-
casional discomfort were the signs that
life was keen within her. and that myself
had made her restless, because as a too
jealous daughter / had in a measure, to-
getheT with time, taken from her some Of
the occupation that sim by right belonged
to her. ! would let her have her way on
all the minor points Of dress and occupa-
ton. 1 would know she had earned her
right to disregard the minor conventions.
having kept the greater ones all her days.
Mark Twain on Southern Cooking.
In the last installment Of his reminls-
cences in the North American Review Mark
Twain eulogiEes southern cooking in this
style: 1T was a heavenly place for boy.
that farm OF my Uncle Johns. The house
was a double log one, win a spacious
floor (roofed in) connecting Il with the
kitchen. In the summer the table was set
IN the middle Of that shady and breezy
floor, and the sumptuous meals-well It
makes me cry to think OF them Fried
chicken, roast pig, Wild and tame turkeys,
ducks and geese. venison Just killed, SPUR
rels, rabbits, pheasants, partridges prairie
chickens. biscuits, hot batter cakes hot
buckwhest cakes, hot wheat bread" hot
hollis. hot corn pone, fresh corn boiled on