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Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20

here is no worse than it was at the other
places. That is the reason / stick. other
girls are for running around, believing
they will get good food somewhere, but
I've given up hope in that line.
THE place where ! think a chambermaid
is better off than a waitress is in getting
clothes. l seldom have to buy my clothes,
We are not required to wear a uniform,
only white aprons. Aprons are about the
only garments have to buy and now that
l have stayed over a Christmas l have
had enough Of them given me to last sew
eral years.
"Of course, the clothes don't always fit
me, but by trading for things given the
other girls we seldom get anything we
can't make do. 1t is the same with shoes.
We don't get as much as the Mattresses
downstairs, but we have clothes given us,
and our evenings, excepting once a week
when we are on watch, are ours to do what
we please. The money l get after buying
food put in the savings bank in the hope
of some day getting enough to go back to
the farm"
In an apartment hotel where the two
room and bath apartments rent for $50 a
month when taken for the season the
chambermaid said her wages was S26 a
month without food or lodgings. She
was Norwegian girl and has been in this
country seven years.
I've tried places where they give you
food and lodgings" she said. They are
all the same. You have to share a room
with from five to three other girls and the
food is never fit to eat. I'm no grumber,
but there's food you can't eat just as
there's beds you can't sleep on. That is
what | got in those other places.
This is one of the few hotels in New
York where you sleep out and get your
own meals. OF course your wages are not
large, but with the tips l manage to get
better room and have nearer what want
to eat than I have anywhere have ever
been.
THE tips are about the same as they are
other places. l am the only maid on this
floor and have seven two-room suites and
five single rooms to attend to. All have
baths AS this is a transient floor | have
only a few permanents; this winter only
! two. One is lady all alone, who pays
me so cents a week and gives me what is
left over. from her breakfast Her break.
fast is brought up every morning and
there are always two rolls and a cup OF
coffee for me.
THE other permanents are man and
his wife. He pays me the same amount
! 80 cents a week, and no breakfast as they
go down in the dining room. They have
| about five times as much as the lady does
but so long as they pay me regular ] an
satisfied and grateful.
THE thing / don't like is when the tran
] sients come. call on me IN do "a lot NJ avtrs
work in the way OF hooking them up in tn,
back and busting their clothes and theI
go off without so much as saying good
by. That is the way some Of them did m,
only last week.
They were a party of four in my tive
two front suites. They has expensiv,
clothes and a-plenty Of them and wer,
going day and night. They were her,
nearly three weeks. When the going tim,
came | helped them pack and took two o
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20

of them never goes above % cents and
seldom more than 10 cents. There is one
regular who lives in the house who gives
me 81 a week, but IL the head waiter for
gets and puts another customer at her
table she docks me for the whole week.
ut takes close pairing to pay my room
rent, buy food enough to keep me from
going hungry, keep up my burying insur-
ance and give me the clothes they want
us to wear. When manage to save a few
extra dollars 1 put them In bank against
the time l shall need new pair of shoes
or have to pay a doctors bill
"Our aprons, caps and cuffs are rur-
nished along with our food but we have
to wash and iron them ourselves. AS we
only have two of each and have to have
them clean every morning. you see how
often we have to wash
Between the washing and the cooking
Of our own food when we get home nights
there's not much time we have for the en-
toyment l have heard people talk about
our having. I've heard a lot about wait
resses going to dance halls and spending
their evenings at Coney, but it's seldom I
meet any that have done it. If / take In
81 a week in tips I'm satisfied and So would
make me feel rich. l hear that men wait
ers make money, but l don't know a
woman in the business that gets more than
a living"
The same question was asked of a
chambermaid in the same hotel She comes
on the floor at 1880 a. m. and remains until
p m. weekdays, leaving two hours earlier
on Sundays.
II have fourteen rooms and the hall to
look after" she began Generally my
rooms are full though I have but seven
regulars.
zone of the regulars has a maid and
three rooms and bath, She pays me so
cents a week If l get in every morning
while she is at breakfast and finish be-
fore she returns, If ! fail to do this one
day out of the seven she gives me only a
quarter, II fail twice get nothing.
my other regulars have single rooms,
and three of them give me a quarter a
week, The others give me 10 cents or a
quarter when they think of it, which Is
not very often. The transients seldom tip
me more Than a quarter, and usually 10
cents.
This is when they stay a week or longer,
Those that come for night or two never
think of paying a chambermaid. They
seem to think my work is paid for by the
hotel, and so 1t is in a way. We get S14
a month, with board and lodgings. The
board is bad. Our room is large, with
two outside windows, so we know It is
healthy, though there are six OF us In II
and we have no place TO hang our clothes
and only two dressers for the six.
THE work is not hard and the house
keeper is considerate and the guests. TAX
Ing them all in all, are polite. II the food
was so we could eat II / would not COM
plain Of the size Of the tips or the amount
OF the wages II you are going to do good
work you must have food enough to keeI
up your strength. That is the way my
tips go. buying food to take the place OF
that we get downstairs and can't eat,
There is no use going to the steward
about II. That has been tried by several
girls and they all got fired This is my
fourth hotel in New York and the food
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the bags to the elevator but they didn't
even look at me, ! had waited on a lot
of people from Boston, but those were the
worst
Boston people don't pay tips or II they
do they are small you have to look In
your hand twice TO be sure of them
The best Upper is the western man after
he returns from a trip abroad. / have had
such men to tip me twice within the
morning. Hand me quarter when / en-
tered his room and another when l fin
ished and was going out. The same man
who three months before had stayed in
one of my rooms for a week and never
given me a cent.
They get In training over on the other
side of the Aatlantic and keep 1t up. only
over here they feel they must give more
money quarter over in my country
would be very large tip, here 1t is small
for a man, but as much as the majority
of chambermaids get in the average hotels.
I'm no CRATER and / don't complain about
not getting big tips, but before l got in
here l did complain about the bad food
they gave us and the crowded rooms we
had to sleep in"
The head waiter in this same hotel was
at one time i'm charge of a restaurant where
all the service was done by Mattresses
When asked II he had noticed a difference
in the size of tips given men and women
waiting in restaurants he replied:
They are never as large. Why, In the
place where ] had girls under me 1 never
knew single instance where more than
quarter was received. There was no rea-
son for 1t so far as l could see except the
general belief that women don't need as
much money as men. So far as the service
went, the girls gave just as good, IL not
better, than the men who replaced them.
Oh yes the girls had to go. The hotel
changed hands and the new proprietor
didn't like the looks Of girls in the dining
ROOM He said it didn't look first class.
Perhaps that is the reason the patrons
didn't feel that they should give large
tips.
THE men came in, and though the food
remained exactly the same the same people
gave larger tips. The wages Of the girls
were less than the men received, and 1 can
see no reason for that unless IL is the
same idea that women can get on with less
than men. 1t may be a false idea. but
know when a woman, It makes no differ
ence how attractive she is, goes in as a
waitress she has to take less wages from
the restaurant and smaller tips from the
public"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20
All snarIed Up Again.

Mr. Makinbrakes had just been introduced
TO the fair debutante
Il need not tell you. Miss Glizzard," he
said that | am very happy to-and yet, 1
suppose, of course, it's the proper thing TO
tell you-and | am sure you know 1 didn't
mean it-though / did mean that / was
happy to-to-make your acquaintance in
This informal-though, to be sure, it's
formal and quite properly so, for there Is
nothing so enjoyable as 10 witness the
opening-I should say the unfolding-of the
premature, or, rather, of the immature
which is the word / intended 10 use, OF
course-in this delightful and conventional
function, toto stand with reluctant feet.
YOU know where the-I beg your pardon.
Miss Glizzard, but one OF your hairpins is
coming out."-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20

the people are the ideals of the ancient
Roman law. The first laws that were en-
forced in Louisiana were the edicts of the
realm of France and the customs" of
Panis, which were extended to the province
of Louisiana by Louis XIV in 1712. These
customs" of Paris were compiled in 1910.
in somewhat tardy obedience to decree of
Charles VII directing that the then un-
written traditions which had governed the
Jurisprudence of the various provinces Of
his kingdom should be reduced to writing
for the guidance of his judges. When,
some sixty years after the publication of
this edict, the customs" of Paris were
committed to paper. they formed a work
of some sixteen titles and 1862 articles.
In addition to the customs" a number
OF ordinances which had been adopted by
the French government from time to time
we're applied TO Louisiana. OF these the
most interesting was the black code "
first promulgated in 1856. for the govern
ment OF slaves All of these laws remained
in force in Louisiana down to 1863, when
the province passed into the hands of
Spain. In that year Don Alexandra
OReilly, the new Spanish governor, made
extensive changes not only in the law, but
in the entire machinery of government
| had been the Legislative body of the prov
ince since l712. and substituted the Cabido,
a somewhat similar organization, with
rather more extensive judicial powers.
OReilly also caused a series OF new laws
to be prepared chiefly relating to the in
stitution Of suits and the method of pro-
cedure before the courts in civil criminal
actions These were taken from the laws
| n 10 nF
which, in their turn, were based upon the
old Spanish Fueros, dating back to the
seventh century upon the Partidas of
Alfonso the Wise, and upon the re
copulaciones" of the sixteenth century.
o'Reilly intended this compilation to serve
for the instruction of his judges only until
they had acquired some familiarity with
the Spanish law, which was Of course,
put into effect as soon as practicable AS
the Spanish law was based like the French,
! upon the old Roman civil code. they were
similar especially with regard to matri-
monial rights, testaments, SUGGESTIONS, etc,
l,and the transition from the one to the
other worked comparatively little hardship
to the population of Louisiana
Louisiana is not free from freak leglsla-
tion. 1t has a Jaw fixing the size OF carts
| I'm which firewOod may be vended in New
/ Orleans. Another forblds anyone from ris-
I ing from his seat during the performance
/ at a theater. still another makes II a
( serious offense to entice away from his
| employer any hired man or apprentice
/ There is an anti-high hat law which is
| vigorously enforced at all the theaters
and the Jim-Crow street car law is much
In evidence in New Orleans. This last
J cited statute provides that every car shall
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20
Louisiana Law

ownership of the earnings of a married
couple. The code proceeds on the theory
that In the great majority of cases the hus-
band is the Swage-earner of the partner
ship, but assumes that the wife's activities,
though confined within the walls of her
home are of equal value and Importance
Therefore, it is held that one-half of all
the money which he may earn shall go to
his helpmate. However, property inherited
or acquired by either member of this part
nership-called technically the community"
is not subject to this division, but be-
comes the exclusive possession of its
recipient.
OF course the law does not give either
wife or husband any right to property
which one or the other of them may have
ACQUIRED prior to marriage, and the com
mur jty is dissolved by death, Moreover
at the time OF marriage the parties may
make a contract whereby there shall be no
community between them. but each retain
the exclusive ownership OF their earnings
In the latter event the contract must be
recorded in the mortgage office, where IL
may be viewed by third parties, who might
otherwise suffer from their ignorance OF
the status of the couple.
The Louisiana law is, moreover. excep-
tionaly careful OF the interests OF minor
heirs. For instance, II provides for what
is known as the family meeting" This
is a council appointed by the court from
among the relatives or near friends of the
minor which exercises a sort of general
supervision over his concerns, and to which
the executor must report, and without the
authorization of which the executor can
take no step vitally affecting the admins
tration OF the estate.
Regarding the nature of Wills the Louis
lara code is singularly explicit and for
the most part its provisions exhibit an
amazing wisdom and foresight. One form
of win which is peculiar to Louisiana is
the Geographic WILL" regarded by some
Of the ablest lawyers in the state as the
most satisfactory form of testimentary
disposition There is will wholly writ
ten, dated and signed" by the person maxi
ing It. Another form OF will may be
dictated 10 a notary I'm which event II is
known as testament by public act .
The notary is prohibited from offering any
suggestion during the preparation OF this
/ instrument as 10 the manner in which the
| testator shall dispose OF his property; and
| In case he should violate the law in this
regard, the will is volded, but the offend
ing official is made responsible to the heirs
who shall thereby be deprived OF their
! heritage
] The character OF the Louisiana law Is
most readily understood from an examina-
tion OF its history. From such study one
may learn, better than In any other way
how diverse are the elements out OF which
the existing code has been forged, and how
deeply ingrained In the mental processes OF
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20
LESS PAY FOR WOMEN HELP
Tips of Mattresses Smaller Than the
Men Get.
NEW PHAS7i OF AN OLD PROBLEM
Complaints AbOut Food and Lodgings
Supplied in City HOteIs--ChRm-
bermaids Better Off In
Some Respects.
NEW PHAs7i OF AN OLD PROBLEM

NEW YORK, Feb. BINARY, how do
you invest the money given you as tlps?"
the diner asked the waitress in a restau-
rant where all the service is rendered by
young women,
How do / invest it, is it? In food that
can eat and clothes to keep myself de-
cent" Mary answered 1--WE get very
good wages in this place. 1t was no longer
than yesterday that the manager told me
so. 1t is $22 a month and our food three
meals a day If you could only see the
food for you could never eat 1t. Every
day last week we had beef stew and po-
tatoes in their jackets for dinner and not
once could / make myself take a second
mouthful of either,
And the tips that l get and which the
manager tells me should make up for the
food which l can't eat! Them selfsame
wonderful tips that you are always hear
ing about. Today the largest I've had was
a 25-cent piece from a table of six preach
ers that took two hours to consume the
table d'hote lunch The other tables has
paid me In 10 and 5 cent pieces
They say it's because we are in a
woman's restaurant that the tips are so
small, but l have a man what comes reg
ular ever night to get the table dhote
dinner. What do you guess he pays me?
Five cents every night. He's got to have
service in courses, too. One night when
all my tables were filled l brought his
salad with the meat course and he com
planned to the head water. When l showed
the manager the 8 cents he had presented
me with after paying his bill the manager
or 70 Ira
me consider tips.
Then I've another outside regular a
lady, who comes here in her carriage. She
takes the table d'hote dinner. begins at
and seldom gets through before s. What
she doesn't eat she slides in a little box
she brings for the purpose and takes il
back to tho hotel where she lives, for heI
dog Every night i go by and scoop up the
5 cents she leaves for me.
Those are the two worst, but the best
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20

Louisiana is the only state in the union
which has a system of law exclusively It's
own In all the other states the jurispru-
dence is based upon the common law, which
is their equal heritages from the English
founders of the republic. The civil law
which prevails in Louisiana, is based upon
the Code Napoleon, and that In turn rests
upon the old Roman civil law. AS both the
common and the civil law have the same
object - the safeguarding of individual
right and liberty-there is not at bottom
so much difference between the two sys-
TENS as might seem at first glance. The
divergences are largely matters OF pro-
cedura-of the methods by which suits may
be instituted and conducted. For example,
in the United States courts, and in the
, courts OF practically all the other
states there is law side and an
equity side, and the two may not be
confounded In the Louisiana courts there
is no equity side, but the law and the
equity may be passed upon in the same pro-
ceedings by the same judge.
The Louisiana law diverges most widely
from the common law in all that relates to
the family. In the common law the EN-
phasis falls, upon the man as an Individual;
in the Louisiana code, as in the French
Jaw Ht Is NleWeu essentially aS a hANhipNi
of the family. Hence. in Louisiana there
exists the curious statutes by which the
right of testator to dispose of his prop
erty is restricted to certain fixed proper
tions. Under these ordinances a man dying
without children, but leaving a father or
a mother. or both, must leave one-quarter
OF his estate TO them, If at his DEATH he
seaVes children the parents are eliminated
as forced heirs and the children take their
place; in which case, IL the testator have
only one child, he must devise to that
child at least ,one-third of his estate; II he
has two children, he must leave them at
least one-half; while II he has three or
more. he cannot give them in his will less
than two-thirds OF his property.
Under the Louisiana law minor marry
ing without the consent Of his parents
may be dlsinherited. Chattel mortgage.
which is a matter OF considerable prom
inence In the common law, is unknown
In Louisiana Prior to 1908, when the
state legislature amended the code, women
could not legally be witnesses to a win
In general the Louisiana code in all the
provisions respecting women, is remark
ably solcltous to protect them even from
their own weakness. For example. there
ARE stringent prohibitions against a mar
ried woman borrowing money with which
20 pay her husbands debts. married
woman may not. in fact borrow money
or ALLEVIATE her property at all except with
the consent OF her husband or a Judge
or in some Instances. with the approval
OF both
one of the most benevolent provisions
OF the law is that which determines IN,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20
DOrneStiCS

Bleached Sheets; 72x90-in., worth
65c, special, at .........,.. $50
Pillow Cases; 45x36-in., worth
1Sc, special, at ...........1 leo
Blankets all wool, little solled,
worth S7.75, special, at =. @3.08
Comforters; very fine, $4.00 line,
clearing at ..,...... .92.49
Outing Flannel; 90 pieces, blue
and pink checks and stripes;
were 121zc and 15c, at. yd. $40
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20
Two Days Grocery Specials

Items Soda and oyster
Crackers, 1S-lb. box S1.15
1rRrmalade Sale-Hartley's
Orange and Sugar Mar
malade. usual 20c kind,
special, jar ....... .15o
Blue Borax Starch. lb. pkg.
lot ''''..,.. 1Oc
And 10 Stamps.
Rex Lye, 3 cans 80. .25c
And 20 Stamps.
Peanut Butter, 2 Jars 20c
And 10 Stamps.
Diamond Crystal Table
Salt, 2 sacks ....... 100
And 10 Stamps.
Bennetts Capitol Oats, 2
lb! pkg. ...........l 100
And 10 Stamps. s
Prunes, 10c quality, 4 lbs.
Red Raspberries. can aOS aOO
Manz Olives, at. Jar .25o
Sugar Cane Juice, Sac bot
Diamond Dian nd c. Soap. 5 for 'asS asS
Bay Shore Tomatoes, at. 8
cans, for .....,.,.... 95c
Royal Honey, 10c size, at,
Ellen, 1Oc sardines, 9 cans
FOR .............. .25c
Daledet Cherries, S5c bot
tie, for ............. .25o
Initial Raisins, 8 pkgs. 85o
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20

have the rear portion screened off for the
use of colored passengers; but as no special
sort Of screen was provided for the act
the railroads supply one eighteen inches
long by fouf or five inches high which,
hooked on the back of one Of the seats,
'unquestionably complies with the letter OF
the law, though plainly violating the spirit
of it.
BY PREDERIC ]. HAsKIN.
Tomorrow-OrsOle Cooking.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20

Following prices apply
on all orders for Monday
and Tuesday:
Benefits Golden Coffee,
And 40 Stamps.
Benefits Challenge Cof-
fee, per Id. .........1 .19c
And 10 Stamps.
Bennetts Teas, assorted
kinds, per lb. ....... .46o
And 60 Stamps.
Benefits Teas, assorted
kinds, per lb. ....... $50
And so Stamps.
Tea Siftings, Id. pkg. lao
Capitol Pure Pepper, a ,lb.
can, at ............. loo
And 5 stamps.
Rioe-2,0O0 lbs. Jap Rice.
&c quality, 6 lbs. -. .25c
2aisins - California Table
Raisins, on the stemi
g our 10c quality, 8 lbs.
Double stamps on But
terine.
Double stamps on Gran
ulated Sugar.
Hypo Washing Powder, 10
pkgs., for ....... .25o
Keystone Lye, 10 cans 25c
Capitol Mincemeat, pkgs.,
And 10 Stamps.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1910-07-01
FATAL saw.
Mill ACCIDENT
Was struck Over tho Heart BY board
This AfternOOn and Died Almost
Instantly.

a. Moryah, aged sixty-four. was
almost Instantly killed at the Black.
we'll mill this afternoon BY belns
struck over the heart with a. board
while working at the hog machine.
II Is not known exactly whether the
fatal accident was due in any way 10
earelcssness on hts part or not. as
no one IN the once Of the company
seemed to have any knowledge what
soeyer OF the particulars OF the acct
dent The deceased lived at La
Crosse and IL survived BY q wife and
one son. who Ia employed in Spokane.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1910-07-01
FOR ASSESSOR.

Through the medium Of the Press
wish to announce to my friends and
the citizens of Kootenai county. tina,
! viii be candidate for the once
OF assessor OF Kootenai county in
the primary election to be held an
August, 1919, on the republican
ticket.
! have always supported the re-
publican principles. as laid down NV
the founders of the republican party
|. g. equality. justice and libertv
and II elected to the once OF assessor
! shall perform the duties of that
ONCE on those principles.
Having had rs years expar,epca
estimating timber and lumber pro,.
ects. the great interests Of Kootens,
county, and the valuation Of real
estate, | think can place a fa,,
and impartial valuation ON All proD-
erty with respect to its locality.
Expecting the support of NV
friends and asking the support ~ Al,
who desire a fair and equal valna-
ton and just and legal assessment,
l am respectfully,
]. II. ELDER.