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Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-05
Committee Reports.

The vote on the public utilities bill was the first business. (Printed in another coIunlnl
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-05

Count de Ia Vauix and a friend were thrown out of a balloon while attempt ing to land at Aries. The counts leg was broken.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-05

Many Americans, including Jacob M. Dickinson. secretary of waf,attend- ed the funeral of ex-President Amador at Panama.
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The Senate Leaders are so confident of the passage of the tariff bill that they are forecasting the votes which will be taken was reported from Wash ington.
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Editor of Iondon rru+h bad

London. May 4---HoFace St George Voules, editor of Truth, died today. He was born al Windsor April 2a, lsaA
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-05

President Castro Left Paris for San lander to meet his wife. Vicente Go- meg returned to Caracas and resumed his duties as president.
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A Reduction of from s6 to $1O a ton was announced Tuesday by the Unit ed States Steel corporation in the sell ing prize of wire and wire products. The cut was at once met by the Pitts burg Steel company and other in6e- pendents.
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By the Capsizing of a Canoe in the Hudson river Monday evening William B. Newton, said to have been the son of wealthy parents of Covington, Va, was drowned. Two companions who were with him in the canoe were say ed
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Hartford, May 4.-The senate was called to order at 11.30 by President pro tenn. Brooks. Prayer by Chaplain Sexton.
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Prince Ferdinand Recognized.

Washington, May 4.--The American government has recognized Prince fnrAinAaA e ear af BnigsFia-
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Oregon State Penitentiary Burned.

Portland. Ore, May 4.-According to q. telegram received here the state pen itentiary at Salem, Ore, was burned tonight
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-05

Ii Sum Ling published the first number of the Pel1in Daily News, print ed in English.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-05

President Taft directed that retired naval officers now serving be replaced by men on the active list.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-05

Cologne. May 4.-The cold weather that has prevailed for the last few days in the Rhine and Moselle valleys has done enormous damage to the vineyards and orchards. The cold continues in the Sauerland section of Westphalia. where the snow lies foot deep. There is also considerable snow in the Hartz mountains and the region to the southwest.
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Picking, May 4.-An imperial edict issued today places the China Mer- chants Navigation company under con- trol of the board of communications. The financial control of the railroad, navigation, telegraph and postal de- partments also is placed under the board of communications, but with su- pervision by the board of finance.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-05

The Mems Church at Atlantic City, which permitted men to smoke at the services, closed it's doors, temporarily at least.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-05

Governor Hughes at Albany signed the Murphy bill, designed to prevent the admission of unaccompanied chil- dren to moving picture shows.
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Senator 5uIkeIey Has Closed His Washington House for the Sssoon.

Washington. May l.-Senator BuliSe- ky has closed his Washington house for the season. His family have rs- turned to Connecticut
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-05

Charles Klein Hired Taxieab in the strand and took a journey in it of more than a thousand miles, travelling through Scotland and Ireland.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-13
Gossip and Stories About Noted People

realized one penny"
Mr.. English is a son of Thomas Dunn
English. the poet, who served in congress
as a representative from New Jersey in
the early '9Os.
Three of the verses of the poem were
written by my father a long time before
the POEMS first publication" continued
Mr.. English. I'm fact he had cast the in
complete poem aside, when one day a re-
quest came to him from N. p. Willis and
George Morris, the latter the author Of
'Woodman, Spare THAI Tree for a con-
tribution for their magazine, the New
Mirror, which was then about to make its
my father they were hard up and tbs
any contribution he might make would
really be a contribution, as he was to ex-
pect no pay except their sincere ranks
las a consequence of the letter, the poem
taken up again, two more verses were
written, and 1t was sent on to New York,
where in due time it appeared in the New
Mirror. A copy of the paper is still re-
tanned by my family.
"Since tina time it has been published
and republished throughout the world. 1t
enjoyed a second life through the medium
OF Du Maurler's 'Trilby.'
A itinerant song writer, a brother Of
II. r. Kneass, then a district attorney in
Philadelphia, took the poem and adapted
to it an old German tune. He sang 1t in
Pittsburg and afterward in various parts
of the country, and Ben Bolt became a
popular air. This man, who was then
singing between the acts Of a theatrical
production of that day, entitled The
Battle of Buena Vista, died while at Chilli
Gothic, Mo-, and near that city a monu-
ment has been erected over his grave
which is to the memory OF the author OF
"Ben Bolt."'"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-13
How the Court Ladies' Dress.

How the Court Ladies' Dress.
Until Just now It has been impossible
for a foreign man to know anything
about the dress of the high Korean lady
except from hearsay. 1 attended a garden
party given by the Red Cross society in
the grounds Of one of the old palaces this
afternoon at which several OF the high
ladies Of the empress court were pres
ent. Among them was a sister of her
majesty. They appeared in their court
gowns, with great gold pins studded with
pearls in their hair and with gold bandages
Of their rank over their foreheads. Each
woman had on a short jacket of white or
light blue silk, which reached only half
way to her waist. and below this a very
full skirt of dark blue silk gauze, which
was fastened around the body under the
arms and tralled upon the ground. AS
they raised thcm l could see their stock
ings of padded cotton and their low en-
broidered white or lilac shoes.
They were bareheaded, and their Jet
black locks were put up in a knot which
rested far down on the nape of the neck
They wore no wells nor face covering of
any kind, and moved about among the
people, interested in all the sights OF the
occasion. During the celebration the court
ladies, who heretofore have been abso-
lutely secluded, sat upon the platform,
with the leading Korean and japanese Of
ficiaIs, representing her majesty the en-
press, and one of them even read a mes
sage from the empress to the assemblage,
No one would have dreamed such a thing
possible five years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-13
New Marriage Customs.

This movement means that there are 10
come changes in all matters OF love and
marriage. Already the Christian girls, OF
whom there are many, are demanding that
they be married in the church after our
ceremony. or as near that as Korean ideals
VIII permit. Today the million odd mar
riages which take place yearly are as bar
barous as those OF darkest Africa. Chill
dren are often betrothed at birth, and a
7-year-old girl may be married to a man
of 20, or a boy OF 9 10 a girl Of 10. As a
rule the marriages take place before the
children have reached the age Of pupils
Of the first class in the high schools, and
a girl is an old maid at Is or %,
Among the queer wedding customs is the
gluing the brides eyes shut, so that she
can sec nothing, and keeping them so for
three days. Another is that the bride will
not speak to the groom for at least a week
after the wedding, and a third that a fight
takes place between her friends and his on
the way TO the ceremony. and the one
represented by the party defeated is con-
sidered unlucky. Neither bride nor groom
sees each other until they are married.
After that the girl Is practically the slave
of her husband and his parents. who may
treat her as they please, As she grows
older or when her husband is tired Of her
he brings one or more secondary wives into
the house and she has 10 submit. Divorces
are easy on the part OF the husband, but
they arr considered disreputable, and do
nestle troubles usually result In adding a
concublne or 30 to the establishment rather
than showing the old wife out into the cold.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-13
Korean GirI's Costume.

The dress OF the new woman will be
far more comfortable and more beautiful
than that Of the present. A Korean friend
of mine has given me some Of the details
as to the costume of the present. Says
he:
1.-The first thing a girl puts on is a d.
vtded skirt, consisting of a pair OF very
full drawers which fall in folds to her
feet. At the top of these is a band about
eight inches wide, which Is fastened
tightly over the breast by q white ribbon
drawstring, tied at the front, The draw
ers are so full that they might be fastened
about the neck instead of the waist, II
the girl so wished. The waistband is
very tight, and it comes high up the
back. Above 1t and just meeting 1t is a
little jacket with long sleeves. This is
yellow, green, blue or white, and It Is
tied together with ribbons Of the same
color. The Jacket is so short that a strip
of bare skin an inch wild shows out under
the shoulder blades when the woman
bends over, and II she goes In the sun
she may rave a red stripe there. The
drawers narrow as they fall to the feet,
and are lost In great stockings OF wad-
ded white cotton, which make her small
feet look five times as large as they aDe.
They are more like boots than anything
else, and they AXE the place OF shoes and
slippers at home. The better class houses
are carpeted with mating, and the women
go about in stockings. Out doors they wear
low shoes with soles Of OK hide or cloth.
In addition to the divided skirt the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-13

Korean woman has on q very full pair OF
white overpants, which reach from the
arms to far below the knees, and over the
whole a cloaklike gown tied at the front
with a ribbon. This garment is often
of silk of bright colors. The younger
women are fond Of red, those OF middle
age like blue and many wear white. Most
Of the women have more or less jewelry.
They wear hairpins of gold. silver or
amber as thick as ones little finger, and
many have two gold or silver rings on
the third finger of the right hand They
paint and powder, covering the face with
white, except at the lips, which are red.
They use India ink to mark out the
line Of the eyebrows, and arch these in
conformity with the Chinese idea Of
Asiatic beauty. This is supposed to be
a curve like that of a line of swans flying
through the sky, and If the hairs grow
otherwise they are pulled out with tweezers
until they approach the ideal.
The winter clothes OF the better class
Korean women are sometimes of fur and
quilted silk. Padded cotton is also used,
the gowns being so made that they can
be ripped apart for washing. Much paste
and glue are employed in d~ressmaking,
and many a woman of these high-class
circles would drop to pieces IL she were
left out all night in the rain.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-13
How Korean Women Live.

The new woman movement means that
a great change is to come in the daily
life of the Koreans. What with study,
school going and calling, q new world is
just beginning for these benighted NOR
tails. The well bred woman OF today be-
gins her life OF seclusion at the age OF
Z and from then until her death she is
practically confined to the house of her
husband or parents. She is lucky, indeed,
IL she has a little garden to walk about
In. II she is very high class, she does not
go out at all, or only in a closed box
about three feet square, and not more
than four feet in height. This Is slung
between poles, In bringing II to her house
the chair bearers take Il inside the yard,
and then go away while she crawis in,
The proper signal is given, they return
and carry her to the home of a friend,
leaving the box and going around the
corner until she crawls out Such visits
are rare.
The Korean woman rises with the sun
and after spending perhaps an hour on her
toilet directs her slaves how to attend to
the household. She keeps the accounts
of the family and acts as mistress Of the
establishment. She may do a little en-
broidery or sewing herself, but outside
this she has nothing to occupy her all day
long, She usually sleeps on a mat on the
floor and when she rises, II 1t is cold
outside, her feet rest on a warm surface,
for her bed room has flues under IT and
straw fires are started before daybreak.
She sits down on the floor before a looking
glass in making her toilet and eats from a
little table eight or ten inches high. Her
tatle furniture is composed OF bowls OF
brass and a pair Of chop sticks, and her
food is largely rice, meats, fowl, fish and
fruit. After eating she uses her fingers
In place Of a tooth brush. washing out her
mouth with salt which she also rubs over
her teeth. She takes frequent baths In
the summer and on the whole is reasonably
clean.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-13

And one heel it kept ~a-rocking.
1 danced with a gal with a hole in her
stocking.
She was de prettiest gal in de room.
Mr.. Booth laughed heartily and beat
time with his pipe and said:
John, how did you hold on to that?
1 have not heard it for cons of ages. We
had a darby on our Belair farm who sang
something about the River O-ee-o.'
'Oh," said 1, you mean The Boatman's
Dance How does this mix with your
darby minstrel:
The boatmen dance,
The bOatmen sing,
The boatsman's up to everything,
And when the boatman gifts on shore,
He spends his money and works fur more.
Hi, no, the boatmen row,
Floatin' down de river Ohio,
Well dance all night, till broad daylight,
And go home wild de helfers in de mornin,
We shouted, and Booth slapped the table
and declared he had not enjoyed a concert
so much for many years.
Wait, Beau; pause and listen. Just as
we were enjoying a hearty squeal Mrs.
Booth opened the door and in ak Mac
with her.
What on earth are you two men re-
hearsiug?"
Booth pointed to me as the guilty man
and Mac said:
"Rehearsing! II either of you culprits
utter one more false note I'll rave you ar
rested for counterfetting."
This threat broke up the concert.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-13

she was a girl as one of the court WON
en-. one story states that she started
in as a hair dresser, but this is denied.
She is not pretty, but very clever, and
the queen of Korea, who was assassinated
by the Japanese, took her up and
made much of her. She liked her clever
ness, and she also liked her homely APP
pearance, as she thought hat would
be an obstacle to any love for her on
the part OF the king, who afterward be-
came emperor.
AS the story goes, the king appreciated
c~leverness as well as beauty. He cast
Sleeps eyes at Lady ON, notwithstand-
ing the presence of her majesty, and, as
a result, Lady ON had to flee for her
life. She left the palace and remained
away until after the queen was assassin
ated, and then came back to be the con-
sort of his majesty. 1 do not know that
she herself had anything to do with the
selection of the crown prince as the sue
cessor of the present emperor of Korea,
but 1 doubt not she aided In the manipu-
lation. This boy is only IL or II years
of age, and he was chosen by Prince Ito
over Prince Euiwha, who was an older
son of the emperor by another mistress.
Prince Euiwha is the young fellow who
ran away from Korea to the United States
and received somee education there. He
first went to school at Delaware, o., and
afterward to a little academy at Salem,
Va. He fully expected to be his fathers
successor, but Prince Ito has set him aside,
and he is now living quietly here. The
little prince, the son of Lady ON, is ex-
ceedingly bright, and he will undoubtedly
be the next emperor,
AS to Lady Om's schools, she established
these some years ago, and has been sup
porting them out of her private purse. She
had plenty Of money up to the time the
old emperor was retired, but her funds
and those of the emperor were then re-
duced and she has now barely enough for
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-13
Nov WomEn Appears.

All this has been so for ages, and the
arrival OF the new woman is therefore
the more striking. One sees indications Of
changes everywhere, both in city and
country, When 1 first came here the
Common women and slave girls working
in the fields carried cloaks with them to
shield their faces from the men, Some OF
them turned their backs and ran away
as / approached. On the streets Of Sc
oul those who came out wore green
cloaks over their heads, which they held
close together in front OF their faces.
leaving only a crack for one eye. These
cloaks had flat, well ironed sleeves which
We're bordered with white, The sleeves
were merely pasted into the garments
and were 90 Intended FOR the arms to go
through The cloal s. themselves were so
thin as 10 be Of To ,alue for warmth,
and they were used only as wells. Today
the copmon women lsc the same sort Of
cloak, but they are no, held tightly, and
one ID . a score OF female faces on
any Of the uu!n streets during any work
ing hour Of the day, These street women
belons to the l~aborlng classes. Many
of ,hrl are slaves and they are as a rule
homoly, dirty and frowsy.
So far the new woman belongs to the
nobility or the upper classes. She is usually
tho daughter OF some vaughan who is pro-
japanese o. is anxious TO ape foreign ways.
Many OF these gentlemen now dress in
European clothes and not a few are anxious
to have their wives do likewise. They SEQ
the japanese and European women going
about unveiled and observe how they are
treated by their husbands as a result and
they alloy their wives to copy these for
eign examples. 1 attended a court garden
party the other day at which many OF the
royal family were present. There were
several princes, relatives OF the emperor.
all OF his imperial majesty's cabinet minis
tiers. the high japanese officials and others,
The foreigners brought their wives and
they wore, OF course, European costumes.
The japanese women were dressed in
beautiful kimonos. There were in addition
about a half dozen Korean women. some
OF whom wore European dress and the
others Korean gowns Such women belong
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-13

Various persons have made an aggre-
gate of more than a million dollars out of
the song Ben Bolt" said Arthur Eng
fish, a lawyer Of Charleston, w. Va, quot
ed by the Washington Post, but my
father, who composed the verses, never
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-13

ment. They go out on the streets with
their husbands, and even ride in carriages
or jinrikishas, always creating a sensation
among the natives when they do so. The
older men cannot realize that a good wo-
man who has been raised a Korean would
do such a thing and many of them con-
slider the morality of the new woman ques-
t~ionable, to say the least.
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Girls with DiaphOnous Skirts.
AS to the clothes the new woman wears,
these at the present time are strange to an
extreme. The Koreans have no idea Of
what the proper foreign dress is, and they
appear in the most outrageous costumes,
thinking them correct. For instance, the
wife Of a high Korean official came to an
afternoon tea at an American house this
week dressed In a trailing gown of gauze
tissue, the material Of which was Of about
the consistency Of fine mosquito netting.
dress was properly made. but under
1t there was almost nothing. The woman
had petticoats which reached only to her
knee, so that her pipe-stem legs, clad in
black stockings, could be plainly seen. She
had on heavy cowhide shoes and a hat
OF the vintage of a dozen years ago. The
latter was OF dingy straw, trimmed with
moth-eaten roses, which hung down almost
to her shoulders. The combination was so
strange hat the foreign women could
hardly keep their faces straight as she
moved about among them. Nevertheless,
she was a woman Of wealth, and money
had been no object to her In securing the
proper dress, 1 doubt not she considered
herself more fashionably attired thar any
other woman present.
Such things occur from ignorance as to
what the foreign costume is, and the
shopkeepers here are taking advantage of
the fact that the women do not know.
They have for sale a miscellaneous outfit
OF bygone clothing brought from Shang-
hal and other parts of the east. The
hats are of all shapes and styles and the
dress goods are of every outrageous de-
scription. These things are bought by
Korean parents for their little children
who are going to school, quite a number
of whom are now wearing foreign dress
and almost all Of whom nave foreign
hats. 1 attended an athletic exhibition OF
the girls of the public schools the other
day. 1t was held in the grounds Of the
Mulberry palace and about 800 girls, with
their teachers, were present. They were
all dressed in school uniforms, Korean In
cut, but they wore foreign hats, which
looked as though they had been fished out
OF the ash barrels of the Bowery. They
had flat crowns and broad brims anC
were indescribably ugly.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-13


rs l have said, the new woman move
ment is just at its beginning. 1 doubt II
its members can be numbered by hundreds.
There are certainly less than 1000 who
rave yet attempted to throw off the
shackles Of the old. customs; and the re-
mainder, numbering millions are in the
same condition that the sex has held for
many generations. The customs vary ac-
cording to the class to which the girl be-
longs. Korea has q nobility, a middle
class, common people and slaves. All Of
the rich families own hereditary slaves,
and a daughter of a slave is a slave girl
in turn. In the past such slaves nave
been given away and it is not long since
they were sold. When the member of a
family committed a grave offense against
the government, the whole family OF the
guilty one was often reduced to slavery.
This was the case with the wife and
daughter of Kim-Ok-Tun, the rebel who
was assassinated by the orders of the
king of Shanghai some years ago. Quite a
number Of the singing girls are slaves. and
as such they nave been bought and sold.
Today almost every Korean lady has her
slaves, who wait upon her and do her
bidding. 1 understand that the slaves are
usually we'll treated, and that most of them