Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-13

Inc department OF ABflCultufe - u
opinion that the cookbooks do not tell all
the truth. so II has commissioned Mrs.
Mary Hinman Abel to investigate condi-
tions in the pantry. Mrs. Abels conclu-
sions are contained In a pamphlet entitled
Care OF Food in the Home" which the
secretary OF agriculture win furnish for
nothing on application.
Countless numbers OF tiny living things
called heterogeneous, a word meaning
simply small living things. are every
where found which win grow in the food
man has prepared for his own use and
cause It to SPOIL says Mrs. Abel. In
deed. the kind OF food required by man
and animals seems to be that which is best
suited to these microscopic plants. It is
this very demand for highly organized food
which brings them into such close rela-
tions to all problems that concern the food
OF man. These microscopic plants flourish
in the kitchen, storeroom. ice box. milk
room and cellar. IL the conditions are
favorable. they reproduce themselves with
Incredible rapidity, one bacterium in a day
producing 100000 more minute plants like
itself.
"Molds, yeasts and bacteria may be
found In the cleanest room, but they exist
in far greater numbers in dirty quarters,
where, for instance, crumbs OF food have
been allowed to decay and dust TO ac-
cumulate. Not only do the micro-organ-
isms appropriate our food. with the result
that the food sours, rots or putrefies, but
they sometimes. in addition. leave behind
disagreeable consequences. like the musty
and moldy odor and flavor OF some spoiled
foods, or the substances called ptomaihes,
which are sometimes poisonous"
A Girls Paul Revere Ride.
Miss Alice M. Trimble. a pretty Trenton
IN. j. girl, proved herself a real heroine
when she rode Portico. a valuable horse. n
distance of twenty-five miles to save her
mother and little sister from possible
death.
Miss Trlmble and her family were Wis
iting relatives at Pennington. Her mother
and sister were suddenly taken IN, and as
II was impossible to get a physician in the
vicinity the girl. who is a brave horse
woman. volunteered TO ride to Trenton in
order to summon the family physician.
Her relatives did not want her to under
take such a journey, alone. but their per-
suasions could not deter her from her pur-
pose, and she undertook the ride. AS II
seemed to her TO be a ride against death
she made Portico let out his full speed.
and although several times the animal al
most threw her she reached the city in
record breaking time. and soon afterward
DR.. James Gordon was speeding on his
way in an automobile to the bedsides OF his
patients.
ans of DressmakInE.
More and more nowadays New York
women buy their everyday gowns ready
made, and go to some expensive dressmak-
ing establishment for their dinner and
evening gowns.
"A drcssmaker who began in a humble
way SOME years ago. and whose real talent
in her profession was rewarded by her
customers refusing to disclose her identity
to their friends, woke up one morning TO
her situation.
1T came to me-" she said. that | might
so on forever doing work by the day at
t~Wo-and-a-half a day unless l got up and
evolved a business head. i had some
money in the bank and / borrowed more
In the recklessness of inexperience.
one thing / had sense enough to do
to hire a floor In a good building in the
Fortes, a street crowded with tailor mil
linery and dressmaking shops. l agreed to
pay Sl,6W a year rent. L covered my win
dows with good looking lace and furnished
my reception room in mission. made a
deal with a fashionable tailor to make
the waists to match his sults-New York
women who dress well still go to a tailor.
sent out announcements and had my
windows dlscreetly lettered in gold.
My old customers came at first, looked
around, shifted, and ordered a gown apiece.
Not one of them suggested buying the ma
terials herself. although In my former
days. none Of them had allowed me to fur
nish the materials and so gain my dress
makers commission. 1t costs the customer
no more and l make money thereby, but
they would not do 1t until / set up an es-
adjustment. Then they became lambs
they acquired a respect for me when my
prices went up. Women are funny.
Il didn't have time to worry about my
expenses. From the start / was busy-so
busy that ] hadn't time to make many at
t%ractive models to stand about in my re-
ception room. l had no money to buy any
French models, but wait two years-I in
tend to go abroad in two years. Instead
of models, l showed inquiring women
gowns / had in the work. One Of my old
customers-in return for whose kindness to
me my prices do not rise-even allowed
two women to see her fitted one day I'm
a good fitter-they came back and gave
me two orders.
Il have gotten in with some western
people-the daughters are here at school.
For instance, one girl of 16 came in the
other day to be fitted for a chiffon cloth
waist she had ordered to go with a tailor
suit. She had stipulated the color and that
it must have some hand embroidery upon
it-that was all. Casually enough. at the
second fitting. she said, "Oh, madame.
how much are you going TO charge me for
this waist?'
Fifty dollars I answered as casually,
my mouth fun of pins.
AN right" she answered, 4 just wanted
TO know. You see, l live on an allow
ancev
"oh, there's room, here in New York,
for the big dressmakers. plenty OF them,
but the little ones are hunting jobs
A Female sherlock Holmes.
Five hundred shoplifters have been
caught by New York's star girl detective,
a young woman OF mystery. employed In