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Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-24

woman's life. She has just left France to
begin her fourteenth series Of explorations
in America.
She ought to be a good explorer, for she
has the requisite qualities, and, besides,
she had the tuition of the renowned Henri
Coudreau, who took her as his bride when
she was a mere girl to French Guiana, and
for several years she shared his lRbors in
revealing the innermost recesses of that
country and of parts of the Amazon basin.
Her husband taught her how to survey
routes, to plot maps, to take ATTITUDES and
longitudes and to record natural phenomena
and material resources He gave her more
than q smattering of the geological equip
ment an explorer needs. She learned his
methods OF handling native assistants, of
studying the wild man and of living in the
untrodden forest.
He died in the field in 1899 and his wife
buried him in the Amazon wilderness,
where he had labored so long. After the
most poignant period of her bereavement
had passed Mrs. Coudreau, equipped in
all respects to follow the career OF an ex-
plorer decided to carry on her husband s
work and devote her life to pioneer dis
covery in South America.
TIE Amazon states of Brazil have as
yet only an inllng of the sources of wealth
that are scattered through their vast do
mains. We know the Amazon and some
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Of It's large tributaries, but there are scores
Of smaller streams. large rivers In them
selves, that have never seen a white man.
Atoms these streams are Indian tribes
no one ever heard Of; rubber trees, wild
vanilla and many other vegetable products;
minerals. and far from the low lying ANA
zon vast open spaces adapted for tropical
grazing and agriculture
The Amazon states are very DESTROYS Of
learning about the untouched resources
in these virgin regions. They have faith
in the efficiency OF Mrs. Coudreau and pay
the entire expenses OF her expeditions.
Thus far she has explored for the state
OF Para five rivers each Of them hundreds
OF miles in length. These rivers are the
Cumina, Trompetas, Curua, Mapuera and
Maycuru For the past two years she
has been IN the service Of the state Of
Amazonas, has made a thorough study
OF the Gamma, a southern tributary Of
the Amazon. and is now on her way to
fulhn other commissions which that state
has ready for her.
At least three Of her reports-those on
the Curua, Maycuru and Mapuera-have
been printed, and perhaps her other books
are now of the press. The story Of her
exploration OF each river is handsomely
produced IN small folio form in Franco,
illustrated with her large maps and many
beautiful photographs.
They are among the handsomest volumes
Of exploration that have been produced IN
recent years. While intended for popular
reading they are scientific as well. giving
both picturesque narrative and also the
solid facts which the explorer was sent
out to collect.
Mrs. Coudreaus printed maps OF each
journey some Of them in FIVE or six large
sheets, are all reproductions OF her manu-
script maps lust as they left her hand,
with lettering big and plain, and on a scale
OF about a mile and a half to an irch.
The scale is so large that she was able 10
insert every bend in the rivers, every
island, the forms Of the land, the brooks
and tributary rivers, each village and
Isolated house, and ATTITUDES and longl-
tudes about every ten miles. They are
models Of pioneer route mapping and are
used by all the best atlas houses 20 improve
their mapping Of the Amazon basin.
The explorer Is always accompanied by
from ten to twenty men. some OF whom
have been in her service for years and are
faithful in every duty. Her men are ne
groes or mixed bloods, not all Of them OF
the most desirable quality. but the little
Frenchwoman is always master Of tho
situation. There may be grumbling, but
what she wishes done must be done.
Madame" said her boatman TO her one
day, 'this is no longer river. There are
more rocks than water. We may work
eight days and we shall still be here"
1T am going on, however" she replied.
UNLOAD the boats and carry everything"
She sent two men ahead to see how far
the river obstruction continued. In two
days the party were afloat above 1t.
Mrs Coudreau has failed only once to
reach the headwaters OF any river she has
explored. This little reverse came on the
Maycuru river, probably 600 or 700 miles
long, one OF the big northern tributaries
of the Amazon.
The explorer had reason to believe that
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cations OF the loose dmono sleeve and the
results are excellent. A Broadway house
noted for les tub frocks is showing several
delightful giimpe models in linen.
They are made With loose biouses laid In
wide paits on the shoulder and opening
IN deep V In the middle Of front. A short
wide oversleeve, set In an armhole which
beneath the arm IL cut down quite 10 the
waist line 10 also Of the linen.
The trimming consists Of bands cf heavy
cluny lace dyed 70 match the linen and
bordering the edges OF neck and sleeve
The skirt is simple box plated model
Joined to the waist by a band Of the oluny
This frock Is TO be worn with a sheer
blouse OF batiste or handkerchief linen,
and its lines are 30 good that the model
has great cachet in spite Of its simplicity.
The average laundress-which unfortu-
nately means the incompetent laundress-
is likely to have trouble with the one piece
models 50 numerous among the tub frocks
Of this season. To be sure, these frocks are
not cut in one piece Blouse and skirt are
made separately and set together by Inset
bands Of lace or embroidery. but when the
material Of the frock IL fairly heavy, as in
the case Of linen, It is diffcult to iron the
garment IN satisfactory fashion.
The skirt dries while the blouse is being
ironed, or vice versa. This must be taken
into consideration by the woman for whom
the laundry problem is a troublesome one
| in summer
Another point about these one piece tub
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figs, with a hole in the bottom to allow
the Juice TO run out; another was a larger
vessel OF the same material for wheat or
corn. The latter would hold perhaps
twenty bushels. There was also a large
clay jar for the olive OIL, which is made on
the little home farm and pressed out by
the family.
asked where the cooking was done,
and In reply the woman pointed 20 a hole
IN the floor in one corner OF the hut. The
floor is the bare rock, so that there IS no
danger OF fire.
As I looked about me I heard a sheep
bleating. 1t was apparently right under my
feet and turning around I saw a long
cared ram and a nanny goat looking AT me
from under a shelf at the back OF the hut
The shelf was the chief sleeping place OF
the family and the space below II served as
a stable. There were some chickens in the
same place. and al night the donkeys and
other amin Is belonging 10 the family are
brought in and all sleep together These
Kabyle sheep are tame and they follow
their masters from place 20 place like dogs
The people have many sheep, which they
pasture on the mountains in one common
flock watched by a shepherd. The sheeI
! and goats are brought into town ever!
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There are hake and ling, cod and conger
turbot and soles, plaice and halibut, ray
and Dream, with perhaps a dozen other
edible kinds in smaller quantities. And
there are always a great number Of young
sharks.
The men clad In oilsl1ins and armed with
knives dive in among the mass and com
mence cutting and sorting the various
kinds into sections. II is in this knitting
work that many cuts are inflicted which
through neglect and the ceaseless applica-
ton of salt water may develop into serious
wounds.
After sorting, the fish is packed In trunks;
and soon the steam carrier is seen forging
up, rolling and plunging in choppy seas
which dash continuously over its starboard
gunwale and pour down on the deck amid
ships in a continuous cascade. Every
man is on deck to take fish aboard with
additional hands engaged by the skipper
from one OF the trawlers, Some of the
boxes weigh nearly a hundredweight, so
the skipper and his men need cool heads to
receive them and stow them in the hold
with a big sea running and perhaps nifty
or sixty boats waiting to unload
Meanwhile the fleets admiral has gone
on board the carrier to have a talk with
prices and catches. Down below under the
mates orders men are receiving and stack
ing the fish trunks which slip down the
hatchway in a continuous stream. The
work must be done at high pressure.
1t is easy to estimate the value of well
equipped floating hospitals TO these fell
lows. In the old days the best they could
hope for was rough and ready treatment at
the hands of their own skipper. Now
the injured are received in beds and have
all the advantages OF electric light, skilled
surgical advice, proper nursing, the best
Of food and medicines and hot and cold
baths.
Altogether there are nine physicians and
surgeons at sea among the men, some of
them acting as shippers of big floating
hospitals like the Alpha, Queen Alexandra
and the Joseph and Sarah Miles. Each
one OF these craft is OF about 800 tons and
was especially designed and built for the
work. And that work is extending to
other seas.
Every one knows about the floating hos
pital strathcona which goes up and down
the Labrador coast among the Esquimau
and Newfoundland codhshers who migrate
thither at certain seasons. The strath-
coma was a gift Of the Canadian statesman
OF the same name, and its surgeon-skipper
is Dr. Wnfred Grenten.
There are also floating hospitals attend
ing the mackerel fishers Of both England
and Ireland; and one is surprised to find
that the patients treated in a year-reckon-
ing both surgical and medical cases-made
a total OF 1905 Among the minor work
done by these craft IS the distribution Of
over sixty tons OF literature.
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when her guide was drunk land he was
likely 70 become besotted on suFarcane
brandy when he could set Il from the In
dians) he had not the slightest idea Of what
he did or said. So she was skeptical one
day when he came to her with tears
streaming down his cheeks
Madame" he said. you will not believe
me, but We are all going to die Your food
Is nearly gone. From here to that lake
away OF which have seen there are no
FISH IN the rivers, no game IN the forests.
and when we reach the lake things win
be worse. Oh. 1 wish l had not come on
this journey, for l shall never see my wife
and children again"
Il saw" wrote Mrs. Coudreau In her day
book, that II was the sugar brandy that
made him talk as he did"
A month later, on that journey she
knew that her guide had told the truth.
She was almost out OF supplies the country
was a desert. and her men we're suffering
from their privations.
The obstacles were iusurmountable, and
she had to turn back, She was forty miles
north Of the equator, and perhaps the river
extended 100 miles further north. But its
delineation in the German aliases stops
just where the brave little woman faced
about toward the Amazon and fed from
the evils she could not overcome.
For many months at a time she sleeps
in one OF her canoes, a part Of which is
enclosed with thatch. She is seldom In this
little cabin except in the hours of darkness
Walls cannot be allowed to obstruct he-
vision, for she is in the new land to see
every aspect Of It, She Is too busy to en-
gage in cooking or any other work of that
sort.
The men under her orders must do every
thing excepting the tasks Of actual obser-
walton and research, for which they are not
competent. Her life in the wilds has be-
come second nature to her and she longs
for the Amazon when she goes back to
Paris to supervise the publication of her
books.
Il love Amazonia," she writes. "The
solitude Of the virgin forest has become a
necessity Of my life. Its mysterious silence
attracts me more than anything else in the
world, and only when l am in the great
woods do I feel that / am at home"
She has learned the art of photography
In the tropics, where It is more difficult than
in temperate climates. Her photographs
are a very valuable feature of her work
Many OF them are OF Indians now revealed
to the world for the first time.
She also illustrates the life of the negro
in Amazon regions, shows the tumbledown
settlements on the tributaries, the banks
of rivers, wooded to the waters edge, the
preparation Of manioc, the great food re.
source, and picturesque falls and bits OF
scenery. In fact, her pictures show all
the charm of the unknown she is spending
her life to reveal,
Nine. Coudreau has no admiration for
the freed negro she has found in the Anna
zon wilds. "They do no work they car
avoid They plant a little manioc, hunt
and fish little and win work a day OF
two for silver when they must have money
to buy liquor.
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Pretty Rerber GirIa.

Pretty berDer GlrlHs
Some OF these Kabyle women are fiIiJ
looking. The wife Of my host was about
20, and she would have been considered
pretty in any crowd Of American maidens.
Her cheeks were rosy and her features as
regular as those Of the Venus de Medici
She wore a dress Of bright red calico, which
came almost to her feet, but still showed
the heavy silver rings about her bare
ankles She had heavy earrings and brace
let's Around her neck was a chain to
which many ornaments we're hung, and her
breast was covered with great pins of white
metal set with bright-colored stones /
venture that she had at least two pounds
Of Jewelry upon her. Her eyelids were
blackened TO add 20 her beauty, and she
was also tattooed on the checks and on the
forehead and chin.
Nearly all the Kabyle women have seen
are tattooed, and even the poorest wear
more or less jewelry. Outside this, many
are ragged, and those who go through the
streets have their skirts so pulled up that
they show a large eXpanse OF bare calf. l
see them doing all sorts OF hard labor.
They carry water from the village we'll IN
clay Jars; they gather the wood needed for
cooking and not a few labor out IN the
felds. Indeed. their situation makes one
think Of the vaudeville song
oh. the women do the work. do the work
While the men lie around the house.
| on that other sweet and well known
| ditty-
everybody works but father"
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they make from 20 to 80 cents day ana
save almost the whole OF II. They are
aocumulative, and many of them amass
small fortunes OF a few hundred dollars or
so.
Indeed, these people have many qualities
which distinguish them from the Arabs and
Moors, by whom they are surrounded. Their
white blood crops out In their desire for In
dependence and self-government. They are
ruled by the French but as to local mat
ters they govern themselves. Each town
is little republic, with its own council
and public meeting house where town af-
fairs are discussed. II has its own munici-
pal laws and elects it's own officials. Each
village has a mosque and school. The
school Is supplied with teachers by the
French, and the children are taught to
speak and write French as well as Arabic.
The mosques are rude AFFAIRS. but the
Kabyles go to them regularly and face
Mecca as they pray. They are naturally
religions, but they have changed the Mo-
| hammedan faith to suit themselves, and
they have their own ideas OF morals, right
and justice Many OF them are intelligent,
and altogether they have most OF the quail
! tiles which have made the white race the
ruling one In other parts OF the world.
FRANK q. CARPENTER
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favor. The chances are that later in the
season these tones will be more modish
in millinery than in entire costumes, and
certainly many of the loveiest effects
among the new hats are obtained by ar
tistic use of the browns in combination
with other tones.
The blues too, are exceedingly popular,
and are offered In a very wide range of
shades. The familiar hydrangea tones are
as well liked as ever. Gentlan, Natter
Copenhagen (Which is a new version of
the China blue, turquoise a deep tone
called night blue, indigo and navy are all
modsh
There is, too new dull blue, called in
Paris bleu mort which figures prominently
in the new millinery and there is line Of
egg she'll blue and green which melt into
each other so that one hardly knows
whether to call the shades blue or green.
There is a very kindly feeling toward the
greens-moss green; mignonette green;
almond green and many other soft medium
hued tones. These greens combine well
with some Of the browns, the grays and
! the blues.
Running up the scale from the browns,
one finds a wealth of beautiful yellows,
ochre, sulphur, gold, apricot sauterne,
straw color, etc, yellow Will be consider
ably worn, the bun and straw color shad-
ings being much fancied both for linens
and for voiles and other sheer stuffs.
A new biscuit or sand color known as
terre d'Egypte, is a recent favorite with
the French, and there is a long line of
popular pink, rose and fruit shades. Few
OF the fashionable colors are really fam
boyant, somewhat dull and subdued tones
having the preference, though the coloring
may be exceedingly light and delicate.
Soutache braiding appears upon materials
OF all kinds from mousseline and marquis
cite TO silk and cloth. It is usually, how
ever combined with other embroidery and
is more successful upon the imported model
than upon domestic models, for It requires
very artistic stamping and skilled work
manship II it is to be really original and
successful
In commonplace design and careless
handling IL loses all OF its distinction. The
frock OF pale blue marquisette pictured
among the sketches was a particularly
happy Illustration Of the possibilities in
soutache work, but It would be difficult
to obtain such results on this side OF the
water.
Tassels and fringes OF various sorts are
making a strong bid for favor but the
single pendants are more generally liked
than are the fringes.
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he woman whose picture Is given
here Is likely to be known here
after as one Of the most earnest,
faithful and energetic geograph-
icai eNuioio-s OF her time. She
Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-24
KIMONO LINES MUCH USED
japanese Ideas Are Taken Up BY Paris
Fashion Makers
CHANGES IN The M0OlSH FIGURE
Higher Dust Line and More Pro-
nounced waist Curves-RadicnI
Innovations In the sleeve
This Season.
CHANGES IN tn: NoDlsH FIGURE

NEW YORK, March "A. - Openings 70
right Of US, openings to left Of US; and at
every opening the host Of delectable things
for woman5 wear! The deluge Of Partisan
models will come a little later, but already
~ stream Of such models is pouring into
New York and confident prophecy concern
ing spring and summer modes Is daily be-
coming more possible.
Just how far present tendencies will go,
just how cordial an Endorsement the fas-
tidous will give to modes already popular
lied remains TO be seen. But there are
enough straws 70 show beyond doubt the
direction Of the current.
We may exclude the japanese from our
schools, but no legislation could keep the
kimono out Of our calculation this spring;
for the Partisan autocrats have developed
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Ships That Minister to Fishers
Continued from Page Three,)

(COnunued from rage Ihree.)
doctor wrote home; With all these
wounded men on board, our floating hospi-
tai looks a veritable battlefield"
And even today It may look equally a
battlefield" after the sea has declared war
upog the fleets. For instance, in the great
gale in March 1888, forty-hve smacks were
totally lost, eighty-nine were more or less
damaged and hundreds Of men and boys
persisted or were sorely hurt. In the York
shire city OF Hull alone nearly 900 wives
were made widows on that day.
And even a storm of less violence may
MI the little hospital In these floating
towns accidents viii happen that no fore
sight can avert Il may be the sudden
tautening OF a steel trawl warp, which on
one occasion decapitated one man in sec
ond and cut another in two. or IL may be
a crushed Limb, a smashed hand, a case
OF blood poisoning or any one OF a score OF
mishaps TO which the hardshps Of these
men make them especially Liable.
Trawling is usually carried on in a depth
varying from ten to twenty fathoms The
net is an oblong Of about 100 feet by 20 feet
and immediately on arrival at the fishing
ground this is lowered and the trawler set
IN motion at half speed-say. FIVE knots an
hour
After six hours or 80 the net is wound up
and detached. AS II comes to the surface
you may see a vast, siivery, moving mass.
And a few minutes later a moose at the
bottom is opened and al the hsh-there
may be four tons-shot out on the deck, a
struggling. wrlggling mass
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Thrifty, hut Lazy.

The Kabyle men are a strange comblna-
tlon Of thriftlness and laziness saw
many Of them loahng about the streets
while the women passed by loaded with all
sorts OF burdens. While at home they let
their wives do as much as they will, but al
the same time they will hire out 70 the
French farmers Of the Tell 10 aid in plant
Ing and harvesting the crops At such time,
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night As soon as they enter the village
each runs for its own home and remains
there until morning,
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lie wearing the garb Of a man, but this does
not detract from her womaniy dignity. No
other attire is NJ for the pioneer routes she
blazes through the wilds OF the Amazon
basin.
No man today has greater experience as
a South American explorer than Mrs. Henri
Coudreau. Probably no other living ex-
plorer has spent so many years as she has
given to virgin fields Of research in that
continent
Though she has lived most Of the years
since 1898 IN the wildernesses Of South
America, she is stl in the early prime OF
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-29
PERSONAL MENTION.

Miss Ida Merrill of North Windsor
called on friends in this city Saturd"y'
Mrs. Celia w. Perry Of Washington.
D.. c., is passing few weeks IN IN
city as the guest of friends.
Mrs. l.. +. Dearborn was called To
North Windsor Saturday by the illness
of her sister, Mrs. N. +. Thorne.
Mr.. and Mrs T.. S. Hall and Master
Chauncey Hall passed the Sabbath as
the guests of relatives in Rcadiieid.
Harry NJ. Smith, clerk of the office
Of the State highway Commissioners,
passed Sunday at his home in Bangor
Mr.. and Mrs. r. NJ. Cunningham OF
New York were in the city Saturday
and were registered at Hotel North.
Mr. and Mrs L. S. Young and fam,
lily ard Mr.. and Mrs. F. F.. Robbins ana
family are at Ocean Point for an out
ing
Miss Jennie A. Russell, one of the
nurses at the Augusta City hospital.
has returned from a visit to her home
at Newcastle, N. B.
Mrs. George f. Fletcher and son Leon
have gone to Fredericton, ~ -,
where they will make a three-wceks'
visit with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Robinson and chill
dren. who have been passing their va
cation at Belgrade. have returned to
their home on Court street.
Miss Mary Hunt, stenographer at
Thomas J. Lynch's office, has gone to
Bar Harbor, where she will pass her
vacation as the guest of relatives.
Ralph Norman Burgess, who has
been passing his vacation with his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. II. Burgess. at
the lake. returned to Lynn, Mass, Sat-
urday
Miss Minnie F. Cowley, local man.