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Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13

fooa ana once in while a nickel 70 pay
our way on the cars.
! II was told by one OF the officers of the
working girls hotel 20 which refer that
the owner was clearing per cent on
! his investment and was thinking OF putt
ting up another, In spite Of this we were
always reminded that We owed that man
| gratitude for his goodness TO ua. IL always
struck me as being the same as being
grateful 70 the man who pays our money
after we have earned II by hard work"
! Another working girl who began as a
stenographer st IS a week was questioned
! by the reporter.
There is one place whore the working
girl gets her moneys worth and IL not
made 70 feel that she is an object OF char
ity." she said. That place Is the up
town branch OF the Young Women's
Christian association,
II have existed, tried to live, in four
homes or hotels for working girls and feel
that I know them all pretty we'll There
are very few OF them that are not IN the
business for their per cent az well as
making the girls feel that they are objects
OF charity
"one place limits it's guests to those
that are receiving tl2 a week and under.
At least that is the way II was adver-
tised, though the three months that
stopped there many Of the girls were get
ting as high as SIS and $50 and made no
secret OF Il. The manager explained that
they would be dropped as soon as there
were other applicants, but most OF them
are there still and II anything are making
more money. They pay $3.50 week for a
comfortable single room with breakfast
and dinner. They can we'll afford It and
think should be allowed to stay. as II
gives them a chance to lay by against
sickness and slack times,
"of course the first hotel that was built
for working women is out of the question
for a girl who is not able TO pay at least
$3.50 a day. ! know a good many old ladies,
retired mllliners and school teachers who
live there and so have found out the
rates pretty thoroughly. The majority OF
the younger women who have rooms in =
the house 80 out for their meals, as they
cannot pay the high prices charged in the
hotel dining room.
THE change is almost as great in the
downtown branch of the Young Womsn's
Christian association. There the meals
have gone UP within the last two years
to such an extent that girls earning less
than S12 a week cannot eat there. The
rooms were never so long as / can re-
member. less than forty cents night,
and hard to get at that, Besides, you can
only remain there one month in each year
So far as can learn mostly college women
coming to town for a short time 80 there.
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chimes. where they could do their sewing,
baths on every floor besides an elevator
and large and small parlors where guests
could not only entertain callers. but
have dances and other simple entertain
ments Then there was a library where
books we're to be had without charge
and a telephone where we could send
and receive messages. or course, any
girl would want to go to such a home. /
was the most delighted girl In the city
the day ! applied for a bed and was told
could be accommodated.
The first SHOCK came when 1 was told
1 must pay for my room and board In ad-
vance. had only begun to work the day
before, 50 / hadn't earned any wages ]
would have had to leave the place and pay
a second quarter to have my trunk moved,
l suppose. II the grl friend who had told
me about the hotel hadn't offered 20 loan
me the $3.50.
Think OF having TO borrow $3.50 when
you are only earning S4 a week. I can't
tell you how many weeks II was before
was able to pay that girl back 1 used TO
pay her Is cents a week, except the weeks
that / got SO hungry / just had to get
something at lunch or when II rained and
was late starting to work, and 80 was
forced to take a car. l hadn't any umbrella
or overshoes, so going on the cars was
cheaper than getting soaking wet and hav-
ing the time you would be forced to spend
drying over radiator deducted from your
wages.
Then l had to buy soap TO wash my
clothes with 1 couldn't afford starch, so
my shirtwaists never looked very fresh
very long, which forced me to wash them
about twice as often as l would have done
had they been stiffened.
There we're five girls in the room where
slept. Each Of us had a bed. a chair a
small dresser and two hooks under cur
tains against the walls to hang our clothes
on We could have washstands, so the
manager Of the hotel told me, but she ad-
vised us to 80 the bath rooms and save the
space in our rooms which the stands would
occupy.
There was nothing that couldn't have
put up with, I suppose, II had been earn
ing more money. Though 1 didn't like any
Of the girls in the room particularly got
along with them very comfortably The
elevator never ran except at night to take
us upstairs. Nobody was expected to ride
down either morning or night
I'VE were not allowed to take any food
away from the table so there was no possl-
bility of taking anything for lunch even II
you didn't want to eat It for breakfast. The
food was clean, well served and generally
well cooked, though there we're many COM
plants about the way 1t was chosen. When
you had fish for dinner the girls didn't like
having fish soup also, and when they had
potato soup the only vegetable would be
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Soldiers of Fortune

CONTINUED from Page one)
earthquake at San Francisco he has had =
hand In the building OF most OF the notably
big buildings OF the country east and west.
In the reconstruction period at San Fran
cisco a certain building concern was hav-
ing a great deal OF trouble over the work
Of a number OF dishonest timekeepers.
They sent Harrison In to straighten out the
tangle and locate the trouble. In this work
he made q record
The call OF the builders trade has cap
tured musicians. Walter Wells once myM
sIclan Of note In London and for yeGrs
viohnIst in the orchestra Of one OF the
English capitals best known theaterA.
helped to put the decorative plasterlng on
the Brandeis building Wells carries with
him a priced violin. genuine "strad,"
the one mamento Of his musical days that
no viii not give up The violin II worth
a small fortune Tor its name alon&
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13
HONE LIFE OF The CHINESE
Phase Of the Orient Seldom Seen by
Foreigners.
BEHIND THE SCENES IN CHINA
opium Couch Part of the FurnishinEa
of the Library-COOIneas In
summer Rather Than
warmth in winter.

China r. rapidly changing. Railways
telegraphs and newspapers are moderniE-
ing II. IL Is worth capturing a glimpse
Of the homo life that hase remained un-
changed since the time Of Christ. II not
Of confuciuA before It disappears, ousted
by the American cookstove, oil heater
kerosene lamp and collapsble furniture
The writer lived in China many years
and had unusual opportunities Of init
mate acquaintance with the home life
both OF the country poor and the city rich.
The sketches printed here were made be-
fore every one carried a kodak. They are
unusual, since Chinese interiors are neither
light enough for photography nor hospita-
bic TO the sketch artist
In the library you see the opium couch
as iuseparable a feature Of q gentlemans
home as the armchairs and cigars Of an
American den. Perhaps It must disappear
now before the prohibition campaign which
IL being waged from Peking or Il will remain
under tho innocent guise Of a reclining
reading table, as some innocent Elobetrot-
bers have described II.
Opium as used in the ordinary citizens
private house is considered no more a
vice than tobacco with Americans. Il is
the custom, that is all. The host waves
you TO the couch for a perfunctory whiff
Just as Americans begin by offering a
guest cigar or drink
Chinese books are like American maga-
zineH, paper bound and stapled with thread.
Consequently they are piled flat on the
shelves instead Of standing upright This
fact may offer a temporary resistance
to one Of the western innovations, the sec
uonal style Of bookcase. But already edu-
Gated Chinese are beginning to read Eng
lish and to exhibit in the place OF the
Confucian classics text books on physiology
and international law.
Chinese writing is done with a paint
brush on blotting paper or rice fllmsy. It
never smudges. The ink sticks, which are
rubbed on a slate as Americans rub a CYL
inder of shaving soap on their chins. are
aromatic and beautifully stamped with
dragons and trade marks.
Tho writing whether scholarly or run
ming, is a thing Of beauty, fascinating
exercise and very quick. Nevertheless the
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and when he was familiarly addressed as
Governor" a man who had been arrested
for stealing a hog, and who was out on
ball. went to the Governor to have him
defend him.
The Governor said: Ibid you walk away
with that shoat?"
II don't like to say"
"Out with H."
YES, SIR"
Have you got the carcassr'
YES, sir"
you 20 home, you wretch; cut the pig
lenEthwise in half and hang as much OF
II in my smoke house as you keep in
yours"
At court, the Governor said: Your
honor this man has no more Of that stolen
shoat than / have"
The man was cleared.-Norman T..
Mack's National Monthly,
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/ the house are liable to be encountered
there.
You would not. however, know II they
were mistresses or servants Rich Chinese
are more or less polygamous. The real OF
number one wife ceases to be ornamental
and might sometimes be mistaken for the
charwoman. Your host will not enlighten
you, naturally Anyhow, by the etiquet
Of the language. he would introduce even
his best wife in terms OF singular deprs-
cation.
Chinese cooking ranges are invariably
built in Of plastered brick or concrete, and
in a large house there may be two or three.
What surprises the foreigner Is the ap-
parent absence OF fues.
Sometimes there Is a flue, the chimney
going only part way up the wall But
often there is none, because the only fuel
used Is, practically dry straw or charcoal.
Fuel has long been the great domestic
problem Of China, all wood having been
cut off centuries ago and coal mining being
Iundeveloped. Coal imported from abroad
has long been In use among foreigners, but
Chinese houses had no stoves suitable for
its use. American cast iron ranges are
now feeling their way in, and coal will be
abundant as soon as the railway anatomy
Is complete
Another change yet to come is the piping
of water throughout central China; there
is practically no water supply above the
level Of the houses. 1t is all lifted from the
rivers and carried into the cities daily by
hundreds Of coolies. who fill the stone
cisterns or earthenware ranges Of each
house at rate not much exceeding 10 cents
q month. There was a tremendous outcry
among the river boatmen when steam
launches were admitted to inland waters,
but the installation of tanks and piping
would invite a revolution.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13

arose a hot whisky discussion, Was pot
still whisky the only wholesome one or
was patent stin whisky the one non-poison-
Gus drink? Chemical analysis were applied
70 every whisky going.
"A Llverpudlian entered a public house
near the Albert Docks one night and said:
Ts yer whisky purer
well. should think So the publican
answered. It's been paralyzed by three
anarchists New York Tribune,
-
Taking Things for Granted.
J. Powell Jones, supervisor Of music in
the public schools OF Cleveland. had called
up a prominent citizen and talked him into
buying ss worth Of tickets for the Harmonic
club concert the next evening
Jones forgot to mail the tickets until
after he'd left the office, but on his way
down Euclid avenue he thought OF 1t and
dropped in at a haberdasher's place where
be borrowed an envelope, addressed it and
sent the tickets on their way.
Two or three days later the prominent
business man stopped Jones on the street
and began TO talk to him as unkindiy as It
he were a beef trust mRgnate.
You're a nice one. you are" he observed
saroastieally. You forgot to send me those
concert tickets, and in order 70 put in the
time that evening / took some people out
to dinner and It cost me 50. 1 think I'll
make you pay me the nine"
Jones hastensd to explain how ne had
mailed the tickets in plenty Of time. men
tioning that he had used an envelope from
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13
5Snap Shots Human Life Showing Up Manknds Foibles

ployed in a Lawrence mill, and she was
albout to be graduated from the high school
The bridegroom went abroad to visit his
mother. Baroness Won Breuning, but when
he returned to this country, year later,
he renewed his acquaintance with the girl
Soon after they became engaged She was
sent to a private school in this city and
three weeks ago Mckay took out a mar
rlage license, He is to receive $500 year
by his fathers will upon the death Of his
mother,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13

In Trinity church, Boston, February 10,
Miss Ida Florence Mitchell, daughter Of
John Mitchell OF Lawrence was married
TO Marion Victor Mckay, a son OF the late
Gordon Mckay. he shoe machinery In
ventor who left millions to Harvard uni
verslty
1t is expected that Mr and Mrs. Mckay
will soon leave for the west, where they
Will live on ranch. The wedding is the
elimination Of a romance that began two
years ago at the graduation exercises al
Phillips Andover academy where the
brides cousin was member OF Mr. Nc
Kay's class The brides father ia en-
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13
Herbert GIadstOne's Bull.

Herbert Gladstone, who is governor gen
eral Of United South Africa, was once
guilty Of an amusing bull in a debate on
the question Of disestahlishment.
Dnating on the hold on the affections
Of the people by the Church Of England,
he said: When an Englishman wants 20
get married, 10 whom does he go7 To the
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13
The Best He Gould Do.

Explorers hate to take back or amend
anything they have written" said f. S.
Delienbaguh. OF the American Geograph-
lcal society They are like the Waldo
editor there
"A man entered the Waldo EDITORS office
and shouted angrily:
"You said in yesterdays paper that ia
been hanged. It's false. I've never been
condemned let alone hanged
Well, my friend" said the editor IT'S
our policy never to issue direct contradic-
tions. They shake the confidence Of the
reader But I'll tell you what Wen do
for you Wen say you were cut down
before life was extinct "-Philadelphia
Record.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13

a well known Euclid avenue haberdashery
The business man stopped to think and
his eyes dllated by lingo" he exclaimed,
Il remember seeing that letterhead now,
but I supposed It was a bill they were
sending me, and threw it into the waste
basket without so much as opening IT,
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13

We'll, in the smoke room of the ship l
heard an interesting thing about a Mon
tanan in Chester. Chester, you know, Is
walled. Its wide walls, on which you
could drive a horse are famous. You can
circle the town on them.
But the Montanan knew nothing about
Chester, He had only arrived in Liverpool
that afternoon. And as soon as he fin
ished his quaint dinner, he said to the
waiter in the quaint Chester inn:
What is the best way for me to amuse
myself here for an hour OF two before bed
time?
Well sir said the waiter: it's a fine
evening, the moon is full, and 1 think
you'd find a stroll on the walls most en-
Joyable.'
The Montansn. ignorant OF the popular
promenade upon the wide walls Of Chester.
though he was being guyed. He frowned
at the waiter and said bitterly;
What do you take me for? A tom
eatr New York Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13
Influence of Irish on American History

HAS been claimed that this
country was discovered by st.
Brendan, an Irish monk. eight or
nine centuries before Columbus.
And we are told on good author
ity that the ship that carried
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13
No Feline ProclIvIties.

DEPEW was asked by
reporter, as he was having his
luggage examined, II he had
brought any stories back from
Europe. Tho senator laughed
and replied:
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13

parish priest When he wants to get his
child baptized TO whom does he go2 To
the parish priest. When he wants to get
buried, to whom does he go?"
The house answered with a roar OF
laughter, In which Mr.. Gladstone himself
Joined. adding: "As 1 was contrasting the
English church with the Irish. a bull is,
perhaps, excusabIe.-Toronto Globe.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13
where They Get Done.


Among the gambling stories that the
late Pat Sheedy used to tell in his art
shop" said New York reporter, "was
one about a Jackpot.
"a beautiful young bride, the story ran,
entered a corner grocery one morning and
said:
Have you any jackpots, Mr.. SandsT'
No, ma'am,' Sands answered, and he
lid a smile behind his hand. I've got
teapots and coffee pots, but jackpots
don't stock
Oh, dear" said the bride. frown
wrlnkled her smooth and beautiful brow,
Tn so sorry. You see. Mr.. Sands, my
husbands mother used to cook for him,
and nearly every night he talks in his
sleep about a Jackpot So ! thought I'd
get one, for. since he mentions II so often,
he must be used 70 IT, Could you tell me.
Mr.. Sands, what they cook IN jackpotsT
"'Greens, ma'am,' was the quick answer.
New York sun,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13

Analysed by Three Chemista.
Apropos OF President Taft and his recent
decision about whisky. Richard Le Gal
henne said at dinner az the st. Regis:
While ! was living In Liverpool there
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13
Patrick Henry'a Fee.

It is said OF Patrick Henry that during
his practice or law in the Virginia courts,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-21
Plans for Waging
a Most Vigorous
War Against Sin
Ninety Cities in the United States to
Engage in Crusade, Backed by
James G. Cannon.

BUFFALO. NJ Y, Aug. 2O.-CSpecial Tele-
gram.)-The eYangelisuc committee OF
forty, headed by James @. Cannon, presi-
dent of the Fourth National bank of New
York City, which will conduct a nation
wide campaign against evil will hold a
meeting in Niagara Falls Monday to out
line further plans for the great national
revival.
The crusade proper will not start until Sep
TENDER 10, 1911, and in the intervening year
elaborate arrangements will be made so
that the movement can start simultaneously
In every state in the union.
1t is planned to make this the most gigan-
tic evangelical crusade in the history OF
Christianity, and It will be backed by every
lay organization connected with the
Protestant church.
The campaign will last year and half
and 1t is hoped that in that time an appeal
will be made personally to every man in
the United States.
Ninety cities will be centers of the cru
SADIE. Bankers will be utilized as evangel-
lists and meetings will be held in churches
stores, Young Mems Christian association
buildings. factories, farms and opera
houses. Invitations will be extended per-
sonally to men of all classes from flnapciers
down to the men doing the lowest labor.
The crusade will be promulgated for the
Christianizlng of men only. In each of the
ninety cities the main committee will send
men to set the movement afoot. Each
Young Mems Christian association will lend
speakers; so will the Congressional brother
hood, the Methodist Brotherhood of Andrew
and Phillip, the Presbyterian brotherhood
the Baptists and the st. Andrews society OF
the Episcopal church.
Every man engaged in the work will be
layman without any direct help from any
church or minister. There is a great amount
of money behind the movement and Mr.
Cannon is credited with donating $1,000, 0Ot
himself subcommittee will be appointed
on Monday.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-21
CROWDS AT PASSION PLAY
Commercialism Begins to Threaten
Future Of the Exhibition.
VILLAGERS GREEDY FOR CASH
United states sends More Than one
Hundred Thousand visitors to
Attend the Perform
nnces.
iERs GREEDY FOR CASH

OBERAMMERGAU. Germany. Aug. 20
Especial Cablegram) with this weeks per-
formances the passion play season reaches
its climax and this little Bavarian town Is
swarming with tourists. Although the per
formances continue until late in September
II Is already possible to estimate the i'm
portance obersmmergau Is assuming merely
as an economic factor
The villagers are at last studying the
business side OF the question seriously, as
on this may depend not only their own
future welfare, but the preservation OF the
play itself from commercial exploitation.
From an official source a correspondent
obtained today figures showing how i'm
portant the commercial aspect has become.
up to date said the correspondents in
formant. there have been thirty-four per-
formances. The theater seats $500 and as
a rule is we'll filled. This means that more
than 10000 persons have journeyed hlther
to see the play. l should say that three
fourths OF the visitors are Americans. I'm
doubtedly the total number will exceed 2OO,-
600 before the season Is over.
Estimating the average price paid for
seats and lodgings alone as low as As
marks (S11.25) the amount spent here will
aggregate 100000 marks (s2.250 OOO), to say
nothing Of souvenir sales, fares and Incl
dentals.
"Oberammergau's problem is how to re-
tain control OF the business in its own
hands. The village gets now the arbitrarily
fixed sum OF $1,000 marks (s7,75O) for each
performance. The keepers OF hotels and
pensions share In the receipts with the tour
list agencies, with which they have made
contracts. The villagers are not avaricious
and luckily the sincere and dignified char
acter of the play has remained untouched
by the money changing. II, however, 1920
witnesses another great increase in the at
tendance, something will have TO be done
to rescue the play and the town from the
danger of comnerclalism."
1t is expected that $500 visitors from
the United States will attend the play to-
morrow.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-21
Roosevelt Denies
Ultlmatum Story
Former President Says Report is a
Tissue Of FalsehoOd from Be-
ginning to End.

OYSTER BAY, Aug. 20.-TheodorS Roose.
Welt denied emphaticalIy today that he had
sent an ultimatum TO President Taft de-
nlanding that the president break with
Vice President Sherman.
Colonel Roosevelts attention was called
to report that Lloyd c. Griscom, chair
man OF the New York republican commit
tee, was to so to the summer capital next
week to carry the terms Of peace between
Beverly and Sycamore Hill"
The report had II that Mr.. Sherman was
chiefly responsible for the action OF the
state committee in refusing TO select Colo
mel Roosevelt as temporary chairman OF
the New York state republican convention
and in recommending the vice president
instead.
+ Il have sent no ultinIatum to President
Taft" Colonel Roosevelt said. The report
Is tissue OF falsehood from beginning TO
end"
NEW YORK, Aus. @.-Repuolican lead
ers here today heard the report that Vice
President sherman might announce, in the
interest OF harmony. that he did not fully
understand the position in which he was
placed when he let his name 90 before the
New York state committee for temporary
chairman OF the state convention, and that
he would retire in order that Colonel
Roosevelt might have the unanimous vote
Of the committee for the temporary chair
mAnship.