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Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25
Chat ADout Women.

A Choctaw woman who is prominent in
club work is Mrs. j. X. Harris OF Chick
asha, |. Il. She was educated In the east
and is one OF the most intelligent women
OF the territory.
Mayor Alexander of Los Angeles has set
aside the second Sunday in May as mothers
day, to be observed in that city. A moth
ers' fund is to be started from collections
taken up on mothers day, and this will be
used for the support of destitute mothers
The governor of the state has been asked
to issue a proclamation concerning the
matter.
An indirect result of the American &C.
cupation of the Philippine islands was the
organization recently OF a club for women
in Manila. More than 1000 Filipino women
have been enrolled, and the club proposes
to take an active Iart in charity work,
having already established a depot for dis
tributing sterilized milk and a hospital for
ailing infants. The leading organizer Of
the club was Conception Felix, a Filipino
woman, who has been admitted 10 the bar.
Mrs. Winifred Sercombe of Minneapolis
went all around the world alone, and re-
Gently she has been telling how kind she
found the people OF the countries through
which she went, and how easy II is for a
woman to do this kind OF thing without
being troubled by the heroes one sometimes
read about, but seldom sees in real life,
who pursue selfrespecting women to their
annoyance. Mrs. Seroombe found nothing
Of this in all her travels.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

valenciennes lace. Another has a collar
of the silk, with baby Irish insertion set
just inside the hem and still another has
edges of tiny ~scallops embroidered in
white and a design of hand embroidery
bordering coat and practically covering the
collar.
Bengaline is a silk favored for dressy
coats for children, and Is as a rule made
up upon lines somewhat severe, with a lit
tie hand embroidery or heavy lace for
trimming. Some pretty models are quite
plain, with only lace collars and big pearl
buttons for relief. The heavy Ottoman
silks in fine ~lustrous soft quality and
Bayadere stripes make very handsome
plain coats.
Among wool materials, too, corded
weaves are frequently chosen for the
child's coat, and the season offers a large
assortment Of these corded or cotele
woollens. A smart little coat shown by
a Fifth avenue o~utfitter of children is of
\ rose pink Bedford cord. trimmed in wide
white silk braid and fastened with white
BFandenburgs, and another is of light
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

blue corded wool, with a military looking
trimming of narrow white braid loops and
buttons down each side of the front and
on the sleeves.
For small girls past the first short
frock days colors other than the tradi-
tlonal white and pink and blue are ad-
MISSILE, though nothing else is aver so
dainty and as essentially childish as these
three.
Chic little coats in biege tones are made
up in broadeloth, Bedford cord and other
woods, and the soft dull blue and rose and
brown shades are liked. Some extremely
pretty models are in brown and white,
braiding or white embroidered collars and
cuffs of pique or linen, tightening the
somewhat warm tones of the modish
brown.
White braid is good, too, on the rose and
blue shades, but of course 1t makes the
coat less serviceable because more easily
solled, and the more practical models con-
fine themselves to self-color or adjustable
white collars and cuffs.
Some very cunning coats of red serge
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

world" made by Mrs. Yakamine, wife OF
the eminent Japanese chemist and scientist.
for many years q resident OF New York.
Mrs. Yakamine was Miss Hitch, daughter
OF one of the old southern families before
she met \the doctor. and is a stanch de-
fender of International marriages.
"No woman in the world is more pro-
tected and better cared for than the wife
of a Japanese" she said. THE Japanese
husband is considerate, faithful and pa
tient. It is his philosophy, his religion.
He is a home-lovlng man and naturally
he is thoughtful of the little attentions
to his home and family. Every woman
loves these little attentions. Plenty of
women prefer kind words and the thought
that they are appreciated to diamond
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

terials. The preference seems to be for
inverted pot crowns, every imaginable pot
shape and size being included in the latest
inventions of the milliners. The straws
themselves are soft. highly finished and
very light in weight. Many of the best
require little trimming. Crush and "fluted"
Tagel and Tuscan straws are among these.
Those In burnt tones or In pale butter
color are among the most pleasing of the
really summer hats.
An artistic fad in motoring millinery
is to rave the veil of some color that
forms a delightful harmony with the bon
net itself; for instance, a nut-brown veil
on a tomato-red straw bonnet, a mole
plant gray.
A dainty summer hat seen recently was
of Milan braid In natural tone, A band of
black velvet was draped across the mod
erately high crown, and the dropping brlm
lined with shell pink MORE, was encircled
by Il wreath Of rosebGds set in green
leaves.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

rings. If a Japanese sees some little piece
OF jewelry, ornament or painting he thinks
his wife would like, he takes it home to
her. 1t is this sort pf %thing-the fact that
he has thought of her during the day
that makes her happy.
Contrast the American and the Jap
anese husband under the same circum-
stances. An American husband comes
home from business tired, nervous and
hungry. Something has happened to the
oven or'the cook has allowed the roast to
burn. He is likely to become very i'm
patient over the delay or the spoiled din
ner. Under similar circumstances does
a japanese husband lose his temper? In
deed he does not. He says pleasantly,
out of consideration for his wife's feel
ings. We'll, perhaps there are eggs In
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

OF the day.
Fine lingerie models are as smart as
they are impractical and wherever modish
me for children ara shown one finds
these dainty sheer coats, fresh, charming.
summary, calculated to muss snd soil with
distressing readiness. but ~undeniably suited
to babyish wearers. All are elaborated
with fine handwork, but some are more
intricstely adorned than others. Fine hand
tucks, insert laces, delicate hand embrOid-
cry all play their part and many OF the
loveliest models, but by no means the least
expensive, have only the hand embroidery
and embroidered scallop edges for orna-
ment. no lace being added to the design,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25
stenosraphers ON a Farm.

SteuO9raphers ON q farm'
Three women stenographers employed
in New York went into partnership about
five years ago and bought a farm Of some
twenty acres in Connecticut. They began
by spending their vacations and week.
ends ON the farm. Now they are com
muters and derive a little income from
apples, chickens and vegetables.
1.-TWO of us are from the west and the
other is a southerner." said one OF the
three. quoted by the New York Sun. 81
think it was loneliness that first attracted
us To each other.
I'VE had seen each other for several
months in a New York lunch room be-
fore either got up courage to speak to
the other. You know how such things
progress. From speaking we got to talk
ing, then making dates with each other.
and when the summer came we managed
to get our holiday at the same time and
go to the same place in the country.
1T was only two short weeks and the
city seemed terribly dusty and hot when
We came back, From wishing We could
go into the country for the week-ends
We finally began to think out plans.
4 we looked into the matter of renting
and buying small country places near
New York and all during the winter di-
vided our energies between saving our
earnings and looking at places offered for
sale. When the spring came we had set
tied on a Connecticut farm offered for
400 on almost any terms.
The house was out Of repair and every
thing on the place had been neglected.
1t belonged TO the estate Of some wealthy
woman who had taken II in payment for
a debt and no one had ever cared enough
about 1t even to close the door OF the
dwelling house. Its only occupants so far
as we could learn had for several years
been stray animals, generally goats,
wen, we got the place by paying 5000
GOWN and the balance la monthly install
ments, After paying that $500 there wasn't
another 500 between us, but we all felt
that once we owned the place the rest
was easy.
u can't say II proved easy exactly, but
taken all together IL has proved both
pleasant and profitable. We didn't do
much that first year besides having the
place thoroughly cleaned and giving the
dwellings and outbuildings a good coat OF
whitewash.
1t Is surprising how pleasant saving
becomes when once you have a real OBJ
teet TO save for. The year before II would
have annoyed me very much not TO be
able TO have a new hat or TO 10 have to
wear the same suit weekdays M Sundays,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

embroidered in color is seen. but is less de-
sirable for all-round use than the all white,
In silk coats for the very little girls one
finds rather more variety than usual.
some adorable little models are shown in
delicate shantuns, tussor and other pongee
weaves.
These are made up very simply, often
with q view Of laundering, for the ma
teFial will launder excellently il proper
care is taken to aveid fading the delicate
color. One straight little model, full from
a yoke, Is bordeFed by plain hens feather
stitched BY hand in white and has a deep
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

strapped and buttoned with uncompro-
missing tailored severity, and occasion
ally they have plain collars of vel
vet or of corded silk In a shade darker
than the coat, by way Of a relieving note.
Models Of this style in khaki brown, in
beige and in a warm dark blue, with white
pearl buttons, or with pearl buttons match
ing the cloth, have been vary successful in
one house devoted to children's interests,
and this same house has turned out very
jaunty little plain coats of the popular
black and white shepherd plaid or block
check which succeed in looking childish in
spite OF their somber coloring.
Another model launched by this firm is
a straight coat Of piaue with collar and
cuffs embroidered in English openWork,
scalloped and ~buttonholed, and a scarf OF
satin ribbon run through wool embroidered
nyelets in the pique at the waist line and
knotted at the left front.
1t is predicted that the favorite colors
for summer aside from the usual amount
of white and string color, wiz be yslloWs
and browns.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25
For and About Women Folks

These seemed very trivial matters. indeed.
compared with fitting up our home.
The three OF us used to comment about
different girls in our offices. how silly
they were to spend their wages for such
trifles. In order to be able to save a
little more we took two furnished rooms
together and got our meals ourselves. II
is surprising how much a woman who
knows the rudiments OF cooking can save
that way. Why, we used to compare our
expenses with what they had been when
we boarded and feel as though we had
been shamfully cheated.
1T was a pretty tough pull that year,
but when the time came for US to move
back into town none OF us wanted to 20.
After a while we succeeded in getting a
man and his wife to take the two rooms
at the back Of the house free OF rent for the
sake Of having some one with us nights.
I'VE got him by giving him ten acres Of
land free of rent. In return he worked the
garden, cleaned up the orchard, built
chicken houses and did the thousand and
one things that make the difference be-
tween a place and a home. That year we
sold vegetables. eggs, chickens and ten
barrels OF apples.
since then the produce of our farm has
been steadily increasing. Having paid
for the farm we are now making IL not
only self-supporting but profitable. Last
years we cleared $50 on chickens and eggs.
$40 on apples, six hundred-odd dollars on
vegetables and 1856 on butter and milk.
We have only two cows. The dairy and
the orchard are my province. The south
ern girl devotes her time to the poultry
while our western friend looks out for the
vegetables.
Every department is run on strict
business principles. Each of us keeps
books that are open to the others at any
and all times. / know exactly how much
each batch of chickens Matched from the
incubator costs, just as the other girls
know what the harvesting OF the apple
crop amounted to.
when we bought our farm the roads
out there were abominable and there
wasn't a trolley within several miles.
Now one of the finest automobiles roads
in the country passes In front Of our gate
and there is a trolley within two minutes
walk.
This has not only increased the value
OF our property but 1t has brought us
nearer New York. We get to our work
in Just half the time we did that first
year we made the break from furnished
rooms and oil stoves.
Il don't want you TO think we haven't
worked for all that we have. We not
only have had to work and deny our
selves, hut We had to keep at it for two
good long years before there was even
a glimmer of a chance Of getting out of
the woods.
Now that 1t is all over and we have a
good comfortable home besides a divi-
dend producing piece OF property we all
feel that it is we'll worth all that we have
given up for it, IL anything should
happen and one of us should lose her
position in town she would not be penni-
less She would have a home and a third
of the earnings of the farm.
That is a great point to be considered.
especially by women, Though we are
all earning good pay in pleasant posi-
lions we are all looking forward to the
time when we will have laid up enough
to retire from business"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

are attractive OIleT-
ings for general util-
ity purposes, look
ing childish and yet
being dark enough
not to show dirt
quickly, and there
are good d too.
in dark blue serge,
frightened by a lit
tie red or light blue
and gold or white,
but, as has been
said, all these col
ored coats are for
children a little older
than the tiny girls
for whom the sheer
lingerie coats of the
sketches were de-
signed.
For children from
4 to 6 there are
knowing-looking lit
tie tailored coats cut
on the same gen
eral lines as the top
coats OF their ell
d ers S IL c h @ d
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25
A womaR Farmer.

Though Miss Clara Webb of Oregon, is
an educated woman, a musician and
widely travelled. she finds no occupation
more alluring than farming, She spends
her time in the management of the large
farm her father. A. T. Webb. bequeathed
to his daughters, twelve miles from
Portland, Ore, and for all she is a woman
there are few finer model farms han
hers. Mss Webb goes upon the theory
that since AN inferior animal eats Just
as much as one of the best breed, and is
worth much less, II pays to keep blooded
stock. so, too, with fruit. Ten of the
zoo acres of land in the Webb farm are
laid out in cherry trees-the fruit which
has brought Miss Webb first prizes at
innumerable exhibits, medals at the PAN
american exposition and cups at the
Lewis and Clark fair. Also the 1900
trees in this orchard yield the owner an
income larger than that brought by the
crops OF any two or three of the adjoin-
ing farms put together. Last year the
trees bore tons of cherries. luscious fruit
averaging three and one-hslf inches in
circumference. Miss Webb intends to
set out another ten acres in cherries,
Miss Webb sees to II personally that
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

He coats for small girls are
more than attractive this
spring, for though the lines
remain much the same. details
and materials vary and an ex-
ceeding daintiness Is the order
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

Leaves from FASHIONS NOteDoOk'
The high ruche has quite disappeared,
but the little frill is still worn at neck and
wrists.
Some of the cabriolet hats with their
deep natter blue faille and large pink
roses as trimmings are charming.
Sem-fitting coats allied to the princess
gowns or high corset skirt are much IA
vored, and the corsage must match the
skirt in color, even II 1t is the blouse type.
There are signs that women are begin
ming to weary of the very high n~eckband
and ruffle about the tbroets, and the little
turnover collar of embroidery or lace
makes a welcome change.
Ash gray cloth gowns relieved with pip
ings OF black silk poplin and touch of
emerald green velvet at the edge of the
collar and cuffs are among the exclusive
tailored productions of the season.
For the motorist there is a new shaped
bonnet that seems to be all crown and
no brim. One model on these lines is fash
toned from net In |prunella shade, with
pipings at intervals and the crown edged
with two rows of gray fancy straw.
The climax of ugliness would seem to
have been reached at last in the eccentric
millinery of the late months, and this in
spite of the appearance of really charming
Straws and unusually lovely trimming ma
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

ONSoSAOildliy II
finds a model other
than the straight,
full coal with deep
collar, but the pref
test things are on
the latter order and
the departure from 1t
lose in babyish-
ness " h a they
gain In originality.
The model illustrated
here, with slightly
s h a p e d waist and
wide cluny lace
bordering the fronts,
is a fine and beauti-
full little coat, but 1t
has not the charm
Of the models OF
straight line.
NJ ore seTviceable
coats of tub ma
terials are made up
in pique, the soft
Ere C h pidue, of
white or pink or
blue. often witt hand
embroidery OF white
and seallOped edges
m o d e d in
white, and there Is
a pique with fine
~hensyeomb or check
weave. which makes
up very prettily. Real
eluny lace and baby
Irish are used upon
the pique when lace
is required, the heavy
Irish crochet bead
ing giving good eff
feets In simple mod
els. White piaue,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

14n
n azine sets out the following
~ practical ways in which the
k-r average woman can protect
her home from disease and raise
S9 It's moral and physical standard:
by refusing TO be ignorant. Enlighten-
ment' the w~atchword Of the twentieth
century, must be written over her heart.
She can refuse to be blinded by appear
ancesi IT Is in her power TO demand true
knowledge OF the facts surrounding her;
torpor and apathy must be unknown in
her home.
by stirring up her husband and sons to
vote and take an active interest in civic
betterment. She can influence her city
and her times through them.
BY demanding cleanliness and fresh air
In every department. Of her home at what
ever cost.
BY placing her children under the care
OF a reputable physician. and abjuring pat
ent medicines, headache cures and sooth-
ing syrups as dangerous. =
BY i~ntelligently studying the question Of
food supplies-purchasing only where the
surroundings are sanitary, and as far as
possible only such articles as are protected
by the pure food laws.
By boiling all drinking water where there
Is the slightest doubt of its purity. and
all milk in hot weather, IL advised by the
physician.
By screening her house from flies and
informing her children of the menace they
are to life, showing how easily typhoid and
other virulent disease germs are carried
upon their feet and wings.
BY insisting upon fourteen hours Of sleep
daily for her children. This sleep taken in
a wcll-ventilated room and upon a clean
bed in itself will protect the children from
a faded, overtired nervous system. one OF
the great dangers of city life today.
BY acquiring a knowledge of the funda-
mental facts of physiological history, so
that she is able, when the times comes.
TO open for her children the mysterious
door of self, leading them past the dis
asters and tragedies lying in wait to be-
tray inexperience.
If the average mother will embodv these
Few principles of life in her home she will
be making her country a valuable con-
tribution indeed, the most valuable in her
power--one healthy, normal, enlightened
home on which to draw for its future
rulers and leaders. The home is the center
Of the country's strength and-let her not
forget tilt is the mother who is RESPONSE
bio for the home.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25
c~o-oreratIve Living.

Each passing decade sees a larger and
larger share of the life of the child trans
ferred from Individual TO cooperative In
fluences, says Everybody's Magazine; In
other words, transferred from within the
home to outside the home. We have al
ready observed that the same law of de-
velopment exists in respect to certain other
elements Of home life. We have seen how
productive industry, once located largely In
the home, has almost entirely departed
from 1t. We have observed how the arts
of housekeeping have begun to die in the
home and to be revived In domestic
science courses outside.
simultaneously, naturally, there has
arisen a great demand on the part or
housewives for food already cooked. This
applies not only to cereals and breads and
canned vegetables and canned fruits, but
to meats and fish.
In one of the Chicago department stores,
last year. the manager of the grocery de-
partment sold more than 100000 OF chick
en- ~croauettes. salami sausage, cervelat
sausage, Southern hash, mutton stew, veal
chops, fried perch, fried frogs legs, COM
bination salad, boiled ham, beef tongue,
fried oysters, baked white fish, bologna
sausage, deviled crabs. and so on, all
ready TO eat. OF course, even 100000 Is a
small amount compared with what a city
as large as Chicago spends a year in food.
but II shows in which direction the tend
ency is setting, There is probably ten
times as much cooked food sold In Chi
cago today as there was ten years ago.
All these changes tend to contract the
scope Of the home, but 1t does not follow
that they tend to destroy it's vital prin-
ciple.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25
Now York City.

the house, and after all they might be
better for us to eat
"If there is anything that will IN
crease rather than diminish this consid-
Grafton for his wife it is the fact that
Japanese women are just beginning to go
into business like their American sisters.
With this change the men will realize,
too, that Should they not treat their
wives we'll the women can leave them
and earn their own livelihood. So far no
such threats, I believe, rave been put
into practice, but 1t has been unneces-
sary, for 1t is born and bred and trained
in the Japanese men as part of their re-
ligion to treat their wives with respect
and courteous, thoughtful attention.
I'm Japan matrimony is built on a
sort of equal rights plan. Husband and
wife nave each his and her duties and
his and her particular rights and privi-
leges, and neither one would think of en-
croaching OF the others well defined
rights"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25
Who Does Not Want
Kayser Gloves?

There is not a woman in all America
who doesn't want Kayser silk gloves.
You've worn them since you can
remember. The finish and fit, and the
patent tip, were all that made silk
gloves desirable.
But many a woman gets inferior
gloves because she doesn't look in
the hem.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25
Japanese Husband. Are the Rest.

The recent outburst Of race a~ntagpnism
In a Pacific coast city, directed against an
American girl for marrying a Japanese,
lends interest to the public assertion that
Japanese husbands are the best in the