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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-05-03
NO PARTY POLITICS
IN CITY ELECTIONS.
Paul Bechtner Advocates Bill for Pure1
Ballot Before Legislative Com
mittee.

MADISON, Wis, April 29.-[Spe-
cial. Paul Bechtner, comptroller of the
city of Milwaukee and one of the best
known politicians in that city, appeared
before the Assembly committee on cleo
tions while here on other business few
days ago. and advocated the passage of
the bill to cut out party politics from
city elections, even for cities of the first
class which means Milwaukee.
He contended that there is no reason
why the Republicans and the Democrats
and the Socialists who stand for princl-
pies of national and state government
should be selected as representatives OF
those parties for the administration OF
city affairs. There is a growing tend
ency on the part of the voters, he said,
to break loose from party ties especially
in municipal elections and he, believed
that any legislation calculated to en-
courage this tendency would be bene-
fetal
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-05-03
PASS TARIFF PACT.
Federal Council of Germany Approves
Trade Arrangement with the
United States.

BERLIN, April 3O.-The federal coun-
eli today passed the German-Americaa
provisional tariff arrangement.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-05-03
No Party Designations.

The bill under discussion was intro,
duced as a committee bill last week ana
provides that no party designation SHAH
be used in city elections. All nominal
tons are tobe made by nomination pa
pers as independent Candidates,
If, however, a petition signed by a ceE-
tain number of voters of the city is
filed with the city clerk twenty-five days
before election, he shall call q prellmIn-
cry election one week before the regular
election At this preliminary election all
candidates for each office shall be voted
upon and the two receiving the highest
number of votes shall be voted upon at
the general election and no others.
Election by Majority.
This would provide that the official
elected for each office must receive a
majority of all the votes cast, and not
only a plurality as at present, the less
popular candidates being eliminated in
the preliminary election. The bill as in
PRODUCED does not apply to Milwaukee,
but an amendment to make it apply to
that city is being considered.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-13
New Patterns in Early Summer Hats

brim down picturesquely and finishing in a
big bow at the back Of the head.
only a charming woman should venture
upon such a hat as that, but II the wearer
Is charming and young, what could be more
delightful with a sheer summer froclS
under a summer sky?
There are other Leghorns not so radical,
most Of them trimmed in roses and ribbon,
either taffeta or velvet, and some Of them
rather narrow Of brim and with these mar
row brims draped up in the most unusual
fashions. These little draped hats and
toques are shown. too, in Manila and other
fine pliable straws, and some Of them are
very smart little affairs, but for the sum-
mer Leghorn nothing is prettier than the
wide Topping brim with its carefully care
less curves and lines.
White chip shapes, flower trimmed, are
numerous and often very attractive. On
the whole, the brims are inclined to droop
rather than to curl upward and the modi-
fed mushroom ideas Of the winter find
echo in many of the straw shapes; but
there are few chip models which recall
the roll brim French sailor, with the brim
rolling slightly upward and narrower at
back and front than at the sides
One French mllliner has used these shapes
punches of tiny roses set closely together
all around the low crown. No two punches
are the same color, but they run through
all the delicate pale tints. melting harmoni-
ously into each other without a single jar
ring note.
Under the brim on the back is a big soft
bow of taffeta in one of the pale tints and
the bandeau is covered with malines in the
same shade. This model is simple enough
so far as line is concerned, but an infallible
color sense is needed for the supremely
successful shading Of the floral trimming.
Il is in this matter of color harmonies
that the French mllllner reigns supreme,
and In nothing does this show more plainly
than in the combinations of red and pink
which she handles so successfully A single
wrong note would reduce these chic color
harmonies to excruciating failures, but the
wrong note is not there when the artist
milllner OF Paris has hand in the making.
All of which was suggested by memory
of daring hat in which erin trimmed in
soft ribbons of shaded pinks and reds and
in masses Of pink and red roses. There was
a white chip hat, too, a hat with a low
broad crown and rather narrow, droop-
Ing brim, which had pink and red wings
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-13

black. was Of erin Chorsehair) with a border
of fine black straw on the rather wide
dropping brim. A wide. soft scarf Of black
chiffon taffeta was folded about the crown,
passing through a big buckle of finely cut
Jet in front and tied IN a big, loose bow at
the back OF the crown.
Two very full, handsome black ostrich
plumes came from under this bow and
curved downward. gracefully over the hair
There was nothing bizarre or conspicuous
about this black hat but Il had a surpris-
ing amount Of cachet and spoke Of an
artist maker.
Another hat. wider Of brim and more
aggressive Of air, was OF chip. Pale blue
taffeta was folded closely around the low
crown and a big bow of blue taffeta was
under the brim at the back At the left
side were posed four handsome feathers,
two short and two long, the latter dropping
low on the shoulder. cluster Of small
pink roses was set at the starting point of
the plumes.
One very wide heavy ostrich plume,
running straight back over the middle of
the crown and falling low on the hair in the
back, is to be seen on a number Of the new
models, and some excellent color effects
are obtained with shaded feathers in this
way, though the lines Of the hat are seldom
so graceful as are those Of models in which
the plumes are left more free.
yellow and white hat pictured here
was a case in point and was a charming
thing in color, but a trihe heavy in line.
The straw was apparently a leghorn in
deep gold yellow tone and was yelled in a
fine silk lace Of creamy white, caught by
little roses shading from yellow to pink. The
one big plume was white next the stem,
but shaded through light yellow to the color
Of the straw at the feather ends.
Exquisite all white hats in chip swathed
in mallnes fold upon fold and trimmed
In white ostrich plumes, or, preferably,
sweeping paradise plumes are proving
very popular with the southwark bound
fashinables, and there are lovely things all
in white malines and plunes.
Leghorns trimmed In ribbon and flowers
are always lovely and some of the new
models are altogether charming though
often so picturesque that they demand a
pauant and pretty face beneath them IL
they are not to be failures in spite of their
beauty. Take, for example, such a hat as
that Of which a back view is aven here.
with its huge roses and taffeta bows and
its wide taffeta strings tying the broad
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-13

running back over the crown and many
folds Of pink and red malines swathed
about the crown and under the brim.
Among the lingerie hats there is a rem
iniscent note. It is hard to ring any radical
changes upon the lingerie idea OF millinery.
Some small lingerie hats in very fine
batiste, with frilled brims OF embroidery or
composed Of many narrow frills Of valen-
ciennes, falling close to the couture, and
with wreaths Of tiny roses for trimming,
have long scarf ends Of the batiste and
lace to be drawn forward over the shoul-
ders or short scarf ends, falling straight
in the back and making a pretty back
ground for an attractive face.
The subject of the summer hats brings
one Inevitably to thought of summer wraps
and parasols, but discussion Of these must
be for another day A few wraps there
are which absolutely court sketching and
description, so picturesque are they, and
yet simple.
These are the cloth wraps Of the cape
order, depending grace of line rather
than on any elaboration for their beauty
Two Of these, the Monte Carlo and the
san Reno, are shown here and every
woman will admit their charm in the ca
pacity Of little wraps to be thrown on over
sheer summer frocks.
The larger cape is OF white cloth. cut
circular and without seams, but plated
UP over the arm to suggest huge sleeves.
There is no lining and the cloth falls in
clinging folds. A collar and narrow waist
coat and the little buttons which are set
down each side of the front are Of small
dull soft shade Of cloth. a dull gold or
raspberry or amethyst, or what you will.
The smaller cape is even more simple and
entirely devoid of trimming and color save
for the velvet collar and the four velvet
buttons near the throat; but the grace Of
the garment gives it a smartness which
many more elaborate CONNECTION lacks.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-13

3,
progress and the rest Concerning the
progress of women the bishop says: No
more tremendous change has come to PASS
IN the last half century than that which
mas occurred in the realm of woman. That
change has not, of course, been so great
IN western as in eastern lands; for, in the
FORMER those great ideas which had been
at work, as in England from the times OF
King John and the barons, have produced
their appropriate results in the emancipa-
uon not alone of men, but also of women.
But whether in Europe or America, Two
FORCES have been at work in connection
with the status of women, one of them
progressive, and the other conservative
one of them demanding for both sexes
equal rights and privileges, and the other
appealing to the Bible for the scriptursl
warrant for regarding woman as an in
ferior and for keeping her in bondage A
Chinaman, when demonstrated with for
holding the women of his house fast
bound to the ancient custom of deformed
feet replied, my wife can't walk, and so
she stay at home;" and even an apostle. in
reciting. as becoming in woman, graces
which he accounted as pre-eminently
praiseworthy, brackets with some of
chiefest value the words keepers at
home"
In other words It is undeniable that
half a century ago the ideal OF woman
was domestioity; and the virtues which
find their fittest sphere in the retirement
of the home were accounted Of pre-eml-
nent value. But all that is changed, and
II can never be forgotten (and I pray
heaven that II never may beD that such
services as Dorothea Dix and Florence
Nightingale and Sister Dora and their kind
have illustrated were not rendered by
staying at home
IL is quite idle to ignore the fact that
the whole situation of women is changed.
and is destined to be still more extensively
changed. during this twentieth century.
There burst into my office not long ago
a masterful lady who, with imperious mein
and strident voice. demanded, "Sirl What
is your opinion of woman's suffrage?''
MADAM" 1 replied, crouching behind a
stout oaken desk and taking care that
NY rear was open for swift retreat 'I
have gotten a great way beyond that; I
am trying to make tho best terms with
your sex that cant And though the i'm
perious lady did not seem to be altogether
satisfied with this answer I am sure that
IL embraces the best wisdom to which a
mere man may attain! In foreign journal
which stumbled upon recently in a for
eign land. / saw il stated as the opinion
OF some learned American professor that
In thirty-ive years the reins Of govern
ment I'm these United States win be in the
hands of women.
In word, greatness in womanhood is
like greatness in nature. The mightiest
forces in the realm I'm which men and
women are called to do their work are the
quietest and serenest forces And Just as
We turn from the fierce gust OF the hot
sirocco that tears and roars and beclouds
its way across the desert 70 the silent
and sovereign sun that kisses the wide
harvests into life, just so we turn from
that favored and overhurrying step which
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-13

mn AT sales everywhere: but few hats
It'll left to tempt bargain lovers.
The winter models stlll dis
Ikt9{41l played in the millinery shops are
SAAA as a rule shop worn or so I'M
desirable In all respects that one quite
Understands why they were left over from
the fan stock; but the hats for the south
ern trade brighten hat cases that would
otherwise be unattractlve; and. fortunately.
among these new models are some which
viii do for 'twixt seasons hats for the
woman who is not going to summer cllrnes.
but needs another hat to help her through
the season here at home.
one hates TO buy velvet or felt hat as
late in the winter as this, even IL one does
need it, and straws and lingerie models
are a trife advanced for She New York
January. but there are some charming
malines and lace models which would do
very well for dress and evening purposes.
even in January. and some Of the black
and dark horsehair models trimmed in
velvet and ostrich or paradise feathers
are not too summary for appropriate use
now though they will be satisfactory pos
sessions In the spring.
However. it is to the summer hats that
one turns with interest and a thrill Of ex-
element. They seem to bring warm
weather nearer at a bound and Il is a
pleasure to look at them, even II one is
not Of the fortunate few who will wear
them at Palm beach or in Jamaica-or, per-
haps, on the Riviera.
or course one cannot form rash conclu-
sions from these first experimental models
They follow more or less closely the win
ter ideas, and the late spring and early
summer may crown as favorites shapes
and trimmings not seen at all in this first
showing; but the early arrivals are ex-
tremey pretty this year and almost any
of them will probably be available for
summer use after a brief southern season,
unless too hardly used during that short
time.
Ostrich plumes are as conspicuous upon
the new straw models of dressy character
as they have been upon the handsome win
ter hats. and some of the most effective of
the southern models are in black chip,
black horsehair or fine black straw,
trimmed in black taffeta or malines and in
sweeping plumes our artist has sketched
several hats of this type.
One, a particularly smart model all in
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-13
Woman in Home Life and Business World

Is too widely the gait Of our modern life
TO pace that is more deliberate to speech
that is less vehement-in one word, to a
service that Is quiet and unhurried and
thorough.
But the age" I hear someone say. "Do
you not know that its whole spirit and
habit are hostile to the ideal which you
have painted?" Alas 1 know IT too WE'LL
And you and 1 know the wrecks OF
women-the victims, so often, we are told,
OF nervous prostration" who are its VIC
Tins. All the more, fair sister, friend,
wife, daughter, mother whosoever YOU
may be. does it belong to you to resist
the drift and to chasten the pacel
An Indian Bellies $4,000 Shawl,
"Kiowa Annie,' as she is called, but
whose real name is Ma-me-na Gatal-ka, a
noted Kiowa fullblood girl 10 years of age
owns one of the handsomest shawls in the
United States, reports the Kansas City
Star 1t has cost her $50 and ten years
work, and is said to be worth about IS, OOO
There are 6S3 elks' teeth securely fastened
by tiny silk cords. These teeth have been
handed down through at least three gen.
erations' and were carefully gathered up
from among the Kiowa Indians by this
soonest women in the entire tribe.
i have never named a price for the
shawl, and, what is more. 1 am not going
to sell it at any price. It has cost me a
great many ponies and cattle, which 1 sup
pose would have sold for as much money
as the shawl would sell for today, but
wanted the elks' teeth for my own use
They represent many thousands of dollars
today, but they will more than double in
value within ten years. You know elk
nave been almost entirely exterminated
like the buffalo, and it will be only a few
years until these teeth will be worth their
weight In gold.
Many of the teeth on my shawl were
Kept by my people as sacred emblems, but.
you know, / have outgrown such notions
When indians become educated they get
all such nonsense out of their heads The
ghost dance and other freakish religious
ceremonies are fast passing away, and our
tribe Is beginning TO adopt the WAYS of
white people. 1 am very glad of this. for
we can never hope to cope with our white
brethren until we give up old traditions
and religions. While II is true that nv
rather still clings to the Messiah Idea and
all such unreasonable things, he never told
his children to follow him in such belief.
Il know Of another Kiowa girl who owns
more teeth than do. Her collection con-
sists Of l,l2S. and she would not sell them
for $4,000. I often visit her. She is one
OF the prettiest girls in the Indian country
and is entitled TO the name Of Indian
belle IT, indeed, there are any among us
who might be so considered. Her name is
Ah-a-tone Gotebo. a daughter Of the great
war chief who is now a Baptist minister
among our people. This young woman was
at Carlisle with me, and is well educated.
Her suitors are numerous, but mine are
scarce. ! account for this because she is
handsome and am very, very ugly. Fur
thermore' she owns almost twice as many
elk teeth as l do, and that may be a reason
Tor her greater number Of admirers"
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-13
Busine.s OF Mnnneinr a Home.


TO make a success OF anything, be II
business or housekeeping. SAYS the St.
Louis Republic, the chief thing required is
the determination to use ones brains and
energy TO their greatest capacity, and to
do as perfectly as possible the work that
one takes I'm hand.
II has been rather the fashion among
the present generation TO look down on
housewifery. and somehow or other, girls
expect to know such things by Instinct d.
recty they are married. Now, It takes
some little time and no small amount of
trouble 20 stretch a tiny Income so that
II can be made to meet all necessary ex-
penses and yet leave a margin for saving.
insurance, etc.
Even II a young wife has a very small
amount a week on which TO keep house
for herself and her husband. she certainly
ought 10 be able 10 put by a little each
week.
The easy way in which to manage an al
lowance, whether big or small. is to appor-
ton It out carefully on paper, and decide
exactly how much can be spent on one
thing and how much on another.
Start with some scheme, however rough
ana imperfect and as the weeks go on
and experience comes the various items
can be readjusted TO suit any special re-
Qu.rements.
DO not however, think that II is abso-
lutely necessary to precisely keep 20 all
the details Of your scheme. The benefit
you get by having one is this: Suppose
you allow certain amount per week for
meat, and suddenly find that by the mid
ale OF the week you have already spent
more than half OF IT, Then you know that
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-13

stantly at her books" says one Of the large
staff of women at Wellesley, quoted by the
Boston Herald, land she draws the long
bow now and then when she wishes TO get
a few hours or a day OF liberty for a ride,
q drive, a foot ball game, and attraction Al.
the theaters or for any of a thousand ~
one side issues. We had a girl here IN
who asked permission to go carriage ridspg
one afternoon with young man who waS
visiting in town.
Are you engaged to him." we asked her
in a severe tone.
why, no. she replied very thought
fully, as If struck for the first time by THAI
aspect OF the question. Then she bright
ened up wonderfully and added: But maybe
II you will allow me to go riding 1 shall
be when return
There was another girl who requested
leave to go riding with her brother and the
woman OF whom she asked permission
oueried looking at her with an eye loaded
with a twinkle: And is your brother any
relative of yours?'"
DIR. j. ]. Kinyoun, Americas foremost
mosquito expert, was talking In washington
about the mosquitoes coming extermination.
1T will come" he said, but to hasten
it's coming the public must be draw, hAto
the fight. 1t is on the public that WIZ u
depend for the mosquitoes exterminHnon,
and to interest the public all sorts Of
methods, the finest diplomacy, must be
used.
Diplomacy, you know, is a remarkable
agent The other day woman said To
her husband:
james have decided TO do without a
new fall street dress. and with the money
1 shall have mother here for a nice. long
visit.
James turned on her excitedly.
"'Wear that old brown cloth thing an
other season? ] guess not he exclaimed.
You go down town TO your tailor's today
and order something handsome. Remember.
please, that as my wife you have a certain
position TO maintain
'"The wife bowed her head in submission.
On her lips played a peculiar smile"
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-13

II ~
l&I a group of sightless children were
S$sA talking over the coming of Santa
RQU&oI Claus at the Blind Babies home,
- each one wondering what he
would bring him. One Of the girls was
prompting Cornelius, a 5-year-old, in his
recital.
Don't you remember, Cornelius" said
she, you wanted one of those games you
win money on-what do you call it?'
"Oh. yes" returned Cornelius, suddenly
remembering his principal wish, "a cash
register, that's what ! want. One of them
things you press a button and get all the
money you want
Post-hoIiday labor in the savings banks
of the city revolves about the receiving
teller mainly, Before Christmas it was the
paying teller who was overworked paying
out money with which to buy gifts but the
day after the holiday the tide turned and II
was the receiving teller who had scarcely
time to eat Every one was banking pres
ents of money received on Christmas day.
This was particularly the case in those
institutions that women frequent.
None but those who live in fats knows
how difficult It is to hide Christmas pres
ents. No best rooms. attics or store rooms
are available; only the already over
crowded floor space beneath divans, beds
and couches.
This scarcity OF storage rooms was the
cause of a catastrophe In a fiat household,
the feminine branch of which had the
modification Of seeing her husbands
gift fairly precipitated into the midst of
the family meal the night before the holi-
day. The gift. a willow chair. had ar
rived In the afternoon and the question
what to do with It until morning was
solved by its being tucked away in a small
passageway between the dining room and
hall, which was curtained of and used as
a store room.
The chair could not rest upon the floor,
mainly because the floor space was al
ready pre-empted by numerous other arti-
cles OF household use. so II was perched
up on top OF the clothes basket, a trunk
and what not.
All went well until the family were in
the midst OF supper when for some I'M
known reason--probably pure cussedness
there was a crash and the chair sud
denly few out into the room, taking the
portiere with IL and nearly landing In the
center OF the dining table. It's arriva
was so sudden and unexpected that con
sternation prevailed for a moment Their
there went up a howl from every on,
and the husband is still telling the story
OF the Christmas present that obviateC