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Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
British Ban on Hobbls skirts.

What would the fashionable women
Of our country think II high govern
ment authority should decree that no
woman wearing y hobble skirt might
appear at q certain public function {?
II would surely raise some feminine
tempers, but would 1t not also estab-
lish a precedent amounting to a prac-
teal doom OF the hobble skirt, which
no woman OF social ambition would
care or dare TO oppose? II she might
not go in the most select circles with
the hobble skirt, would she not dis
card the skirt instead OF the select
circles?
But no such thing is likely 10 hap
pen in the United States. although Il
has occurred in England. The lord
chamberlain has levied an embargo
upon this garment by barring II from
court functions at the coronation. Now
IL may be assumed that even the
peeresses OF England have been wear
ing hobble skirts; OF course they have,
for they keep up with the styles.
What, then, will the women OF noble
blood think Of this mandate? I'm
doubtedly they will regard it as a
wsnton Invasion of their exclusive
womanly rights. Let them so regard
III; the mandate stands and they will
comply with IT, No lord chamberlain
could hold his job and back up on a
proposition OF that sort
This decree doubtless will prove to
be the boldest assumption OF royal
preorgativs for many. many years and
by all odds the most far-rsaching, for
styles Of feminine dress are not limited
by national boundaries and the effect
OF this ediet will be felt wherever
Dame Fashion assumes TO hold her i'm.
perial sway. We may expect a fierce
bearing OF the hobble skirt market as
direct result OF this uksse Not that
our American women care Zig about
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
The Comfort Of Concsit.

There is a certain sort OF comfort
in conceit-that is, to the conceited
man, himself, not to those who have
to deal with him. A person COM
pletely satisfied with his own attain
ments is usually a very comfortable
person. Unattractive though he may
be to others, he 10 a real Joy unto
No. l. AS the old homely adage puts
It, Where ignorance is bliss, tbs folly
to be wise" What cares the conceited
man for the opinions of his friends,
even If such opinions ever reach him?
"Wrapt in the solitude Of his own
Originality" he Is an opinion in him
self and needs nor desires others
He will brook no disturbing of the
equilibrium of his self-oomplacency,
Yet one must regard with a meas
ure of pity the person who has come
to this status of self-adulation. He
is denying himself the wholesomeness
and helpfulness that interested friend
ship can give, repelling friends by his
selfish arrogance. Self-esteem and a
certain amount of self-conddence are
Indispensable factors of success, but
there is a marked difference between
this element OF character and that
which claims for itself monopoly Of
every desirable trait. Forbidding
boorishness is unlikely to accomplish
a great deal of useful service in the
world.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
The Charm of R.mini,osnce.

TO many people. most, perhaps,
"reminiscences holds a power of IRE
sistible fascination. Habitually in
Ividious comparisons are made between
the past and present, II is partly
boastfulness, for most men like to i'm
agine that they have done deeds worth
relating. Then, II is proof that dis
lance lends enchantment," for surely
not always were the DAYS. OF yester-
day better than those o. now Yet 1t
is something more. something better.
Childhood in Its listless fancy looks
out on life through clearer visions
than does maturity. Care-free, It sees
only the brightness, the ch4erfulness,
the Joy The problems and perplexi-
ties come Just outside its view-line.
Impressions are made which the
bllghting scar Of passing years filed
with care and anxieties cannot efface.
In old age 'memory's eye turns back
upon scenes and friends endeared in
youth to nnd superior charm In
them.
There is no reason why such ilIu-
sions should be dispelled, for life is
barren enough at times of imagery.
What II reflection is distorted by the
mirage of time, the kindly sentiment
stays to minister still Its balm oG sat
isfaction. The JUNCTION OF aattely
may in such case be INDUCED With
full pardon. But, OF course. It is well
not to let our love for the old blind
US completely to the good of the new.
The gilded hues Of youths happy
visions are brightest when they throw
out their rays far enough ahead to
illumine life as II unfolds each day.
Living in the past alone will not suf-
fee, but even magnifying the old may
help, If at the same time one exalts
the present.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

royalty or what royalty wears. but the
very instinct Of fashion will revolt at
the thought of wearing anything that
has fallen under a ban so conspicuous.
Yet who can tell but this very in
trusion Of masculine power may fire
woman with a zeal to maintain her
own rights. All, 1t is in England, even
in London. where the belligerent
forces of womankind are Just now
modified suffragetteism has not
gone in strong for the hobble or the
harem or other devices Of that kind,
but it may see the blow dealt woman
by this iron hand of mighty man
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
SENSE of HUMOR NEEDED.
Hackneyed Misrepresentation of Race
Types on the stage.


The American consul general at Lon
don has good humoredly suggested to the
dramatic profession in that city the de-
STABILITY of abandoning the conventional
earicature Of the typical American on the
English stage, a caricature which seems
much like q survival from the pages o.
Martin Chuzzlewit with adornments by
Mrs. Trollope; and we are told that some
leading English actors agree with him.
We have hitherto heard similar sugges-
ttons-perhaps rather appeals and demands
from other sources. Irishmen have been
particularly strong in their insistence on
the suppression Of the Irishman of the
stage and also of the comic papers, while
Jews have been second and Germans prob
ably third in like utterances, We do not
know that members Of any other race have
made such demands at least 10 any such
extent, though we are not sure that the
Africans have not had about as much
ground for complaint as any, while Eng
lishmen are by no means immune.
There can be no doubt of the grossness
OF the caricatures. The typical Irishman
is not gorilla-faced ruffian with red
whiskers, a clay pipe in his hatband and
his speech punctuated with BE jabers!"
and BE gorra!" The typical Jew, German,
scandinavian and African are not what
the burlesque stage or even the high-class
Legitimate" depicts them. Neither is II
truthful 10 portray the typical English
man as wearing a monocle and an air of
vacuity, with speech consisting chiefly OF
''AW, WEAKLY. don't you know" or the
American as a gawky tobacco chewer and
eXpectorator, calculating Wal / swami
The fact is that better sense Of humor
Is needed 10 abate what has become a
nuisance. And II Is needed not so much
In those who object 10 these things as IN
those who perpetrate them sense Of
humor may well restrain men from dignf-
Tying such iampoons by getting angry at
them, but IL should certainly much more
restrain others from resorting 10 such
haekneyed Misrepresentation For II there
ever was anything really humorous IN
these caricatures II long ago died OF over
work, or else Of hamilton and old age The
sense Of humor which would Danish these
things from the stage and from the car
toon would be superior 10 that which
giggles over them.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
Restoration. Not Revolution.

Governor Woodrow Wilson, of
course, strikes a popular chord in his
Kansas City speech. asserting that we
are in the midst of an era of reform,
but he throws out a suggestion that is
worth needing, namely, that our re-
form work should aim at restoration,
not revolution. 1t would be great
thing for the country II all the leaders
in this campaign Of reform would tab @
similar ground and see that their eff
forts are directed toward construction
and not destruction. Merely to bring
about changes for changes sake is not
enough. will not do. All changes in
modes and methods of government
made even during eras of reform are
not necessarily improvement or pro-
gress.
What both democratic and repub-
lican parties need to keep constantly
before them is the supreme impor-
lance OF selecting wise, safe and hon
est leaders for carrying out these
great plans of reform 1t would be
fatal to commit tasks so grave to in
competent or unfaithful leadership.
If 1t were possible to secure leaders
who could put their own fortunes be-
low real patriotism the country would
be much more likely to secure the re-
form and changes IL actually needed
without injury to It's future.
1t is to be noted that in his attitude
toward the recall Governor Wilson
comedies with Colonel Roosevelt that
this experimental principle should not
be applied to the judiciary. but only
to those who make or administer laws.
We believe this will come to be a more
generally accepted view by the most
radical OF the recall exponents. Where
Governor Wilson gets down to party
politics, while he admits that neither
great party has a monopoly on the re-
forms or reformers. he claims for the
democratic party the advantage in be-
ling freeT from influences that would
retard progressive policies than the
republican party. In which, OF course,
there is nothing that need occasion
any special discussion. Governor VIII
son is a democrat, holding high office
as such and a possible presidential
candidate for that party. But the
country will be inclined to the view
that the party through which all the
great constructive work OF the govern
ment that is worth while has been
achieved is able still TO accomplish
other great things and is entitled to
be commissioned for that service
rather than the party that has failed
lsignally whenever entrusted with con-
troll and responsibility.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
EXPRESS TOLLS EXCESSIVE.
Pertinent Facts Revealed by Mime
sofa InVestiEation.

Chicago News.
some very pertinent facts bearing on the
reasons for the high rates paid in this
country for the Transmission of packages
and parcels we're brought out last week
before the Minnesota railroad and ware
house commission in ST. Paul. 1t was re-
vealed, for example, that the Wells Fargo
Express company, by capitallzing its vast
earning power, had increased it's capital
stock from 5000. OO00 TO S24,OOO,0OO II gave
bonus of 100000 In stock to a single
railroad company The company, after
paying very considerable annual dividends
for sixteen years, had so large a surplus
that in 1909 dividend OF $40 per cent was
declared. Yet 1t now has an annual income
OF per cent on its capital stock from
Investments of its surplus funds.
The physical property valuation of com
panies like the Wels-Fargo may fall much
below their total capitalization. An i'm
mense amount of the capital might be
charged up to good will or TO contracts
with railroads whereby the latter are paid
from 10 per cent TO IS per cent of the
gross receipts OF express companies for
transporting packages. Practical people
might regard much of the large returns
paid to the railroads as a rakeoff at the
public's expense.
IN any event the american people are
paying much too heavily for having their
goods transported by express. Relief from
national and state commissions and from
the courts is hoped for. There must be-
however, supplemental legislation I'm some
states in order that greater power may be
given TO regulate agencies such as the
Illinois railroad and warehouse commits
sion.
The most effective way 10 put an end to
excessive express rates is TO establish a
parcels post. The demand for this i'm
portant benefit is certain to grow TO over
whelming proportions unless relief comes
soon from agencies already established
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
Coming of the Income Tax.

Ratification of the federal income tax
amendment is regarded by the National
City bank officials of New York as a GER
tainty by next year II not this year. They
say also in their circular for May that
congress may be expected to impose such
a tax as soon as this authority is given. to
take the place of RENTED tariff taxes.
Those who are antagonizing ratification,
chiefly for the purpose of saving wealth
from bearing it's due share of the ma
tional tax burden, have lost their fight
1t is now in order for them to admit it.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
Can We Lose the Middleman,

Middlemen are being squeezed out in
various directions Trade customs will not
save them. So far as they perform a
necessary function they will survive, but
the room for them is being steadily cur
tailed. Some recent changes in the method
OF handling its business occasioned reports
that the steel corporation would hereafter
deal directly with consumers. That was
premature, at least, but it is not unlikely
that the direct trade will come into use.
The latest move in this direction is the
offer OF some large mills manufacturing
WOODEN and worsted dress goods to sell
direct to retailers.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
THE RECALL.

John Kendrick Bangs in Harper's Weekly
l would that there might be
Two lives on earth
For those of us who see
Too late its worth.
The first, a study hour
To learn its ways;
To comprehend the power
OF passing days
To Z nd Hfe's deepest reach
The things that give
The Soul its strength, and teach
Us how to live.
The second, that the Soul
May nobly rise,
Prepared 10 win the goal
Where Honor lives.
What JOY to know mid all
Lies stress and pain
We but await the call
To try againl
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
shutting out Professionals.

N'ttsDuIB DlSpdISn.
IL Is announced that the comptroller of
the currency has ordered that hereafter no
consideration VIII be given to any applica--
ton for the chartering Of a national bank
that is being organized by professional
bank promoters. AS the chartering of a
national bank is an operation under the
law this seems to cali for a legal definition
OF professional bank promoters"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
Was Il n jan Rnset
New York Post.


The Japanese Antartic expedition has
abandoned its dash for ;he south pole.
Strange as 1t may seem even a Japanese
expedition cannot discover a pole without
s!edges, dogs and provisions. Unless, as
Captain Hobson may point out, the whole
expedition was a ruse and was really in
tended to attack San Francisco by way of
the Antartc circle.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
Justice Overreoched It.elf,

St Paul Pioneer Press.
The wearer of hobble skirt was given
five minutes by an Omaha Judge to get
out Of town. The sentence was unjust
and unfair The woman would have to
take ten or fifteen minutes to get out Of
the skirt before she could start toward
getting out of town.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
Spare Change for Decorations.
Chicago Inter OCEAN

notwithstanding the fact that the finan-
cial situation does not suit everybody we
do not seem to be actually suffering for
spare change. We spent last year for
jewelry bought in this country $500 900, 900;
for gum, SIS 1000 600; for candy $4,000 600
and for soft drinks over the soda water
counters SS20O00,OOO
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

A French aviator has been killed
by fall while exhibiting at Shanghai.
few more experiments of this kind
in various corners of the globe will
doubtless convince that air climbing
is equally dangerous wherever at
tempted
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

What a Earring sound that news
note from Germany about Emperor
Williams 100, 000-strong maneuvers
must have had on the peace confer
ence harmony.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

According to the supreme court of
Nebraska chiropractor doing bust
ness in this state is not violating the
Law requiring those who practice
medicine to be licensed. Look IL up
IN the dictionary.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
Uniform pixoro. Law.

The increasing prevalence of d.
vorce has revived agitation OF uni
form state or national law for dealing
with the evil But how to proceed to
bring about such regulation is the
question frst to be determined. Con-
gress has no power to enact, law af-
fecting marriage and divorce except
after constitutional amendment, and
that is a very difacult end TO achieve.
Most OF those who have advocated
uniformity In divorce laws have ia
Vored enactment of q model law for
all the states. but they have not gone
far enough with their plans even to
agree on a model statute.
There is a wide divergence between
the state laws now in operation. In
South Carolina, for instance, divorce
is not permitted under any eircum-
stances, while in Nevada and a few
other states II is permitted for almost
any reason or excuse. the main eondi-
ton being a mere form OF residence
for a brief period. Here We have the
extremes of the case. In Massachu-
sets divorces by collision are not per-
missible. and for no reason except
that which may be construed as
humane.
II IL not certain. however. that the
state laws are tending more toward
diversity, though II is fact that d.
vorces are increasing in number every
year One thing is admitted by all
who care 10 protect the home against
this insidious evil. and that is that
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
Persistence Give. vitality.
PittsburE Dispatch.

IlltSpuIB DlSpdtCn,
President Taft's declaration that annexa-
ton talk is "bosh" we regard as indis-
putable. But sometimes bosh is persisted
in long enough to give it some tenuity
The talk of taking the Philippines was
also bosh as most people now recognized
but we have the white mans burden there
just the same
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

An indignant friend OF the Wells
Fargo writes TO say, Just suppose We
did not have any express companies,
then what2" Then the weus-Fargo
would have no $40 per cent dividends,
that's what
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

Five more hydrant rental judg-
ments aggregating trifle over $780,
600, and bearing interest at per
cent, are handed down against the
city. Rather costly this Water board
of ours.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
APRIL CIRCULATION.
48,l06

State Of Nebraska, County of Douglas. So
Dwight Williams, circulation manager OF
The Bee Publishing Company, being duly
sworn, says that the average daily circula.
copies, for the month Of April 1911, was
B,lS DWIGHT WILLIAMS.
Circulation Manager
subscribed In my presence and sworn tc
before me this LIST day Of May, 1911.
(SeaL) ROBERT HUNTER
Notary Public
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
Fen.tinr nIock. a Firht.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.

st. Louis Gobe-Democrat
II frequently happens that a banquet
can do more to keep down international
hostilities than a bsttleship. The bubble
convivial is more to be desired than the
bauble heroic.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

Note-Colonel Roosevelt and Dr.
Wilson both oppose the recall for
judges. There are radicals and rad
icSls, you know.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

subsoFtbeFs leavtns the city tsns-
Dorariiy shOula have TIE Bee
waited te thsn. Address viii be
changed ~ oftsA a. reaaostsd.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

they will" We could prove that the
moon is made Of green cheese If we
could only get a piece of It for a
taste
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

A recent report Of moral crusaders
finds that many New York gamblers
are dishonest This looks as II It
might be surrsndsring to the enemy.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

The farmers free list bill will save
consumers more than S3O.OO0,O0O an
nually III the bill becomes a law and
prices settle down in time as some of
tina advocates Of the measure believe
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

What a bully time they are having
out In Seattle over that recall, The
mayor who got the hook" is now try
ing TO hook a Judge,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

Echoes OF the civil war are ap-
parently dying out everywhere but in
New England,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTRIEs.

Architect (showing plans)-rhis room will
be your library.
Mr. Newlyrich-My nb'ry? Oh, yes, of
course. l must have a place 20 smoke
Boston Transcript.
Il know lots Of folks" UnoIe Jerry Pee
bles remarked who think they're standin'
up fur religion when they're only boostin'
their own church."Chicago Tribune.
do you think / am really your affinityH'
Solomons nine hundred and eighty-fifth
wife asked, coquettishly.
My dear" the Wsest Guy said. you
are one in a thousand"
Mrs. Crswford-"It's an awful job to
move"
Mrs Crabshaw-"But look at the advan-
tages, my dear I'm never so happy as
when I'm picking out a new style Of wall
paper."-Judge.
why 1t is that we never hear anything
about the wife of Atlas, the man who had
the world on his shouldersT'
There was no Mrs. Atlas. II there had
been do you suppose that 1t would have
been permitted him TO create the impress
sion that the entire responsibility rested
on himY-Chicago Record-HeTald.
"Gustave's letters to me are exceedingly
dull and commonplace" said one fair girl
Don't you know WHY responded the
mo"
'Gustave once served on the jury In
a breach Of promise case, '--Washington
Times.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

Shall the democratic party be
Aldrichized2" is Mr.. Brysn's question.
Shall the democratic party be Bryan
izedg" is the echo.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

Delaware is the faster American
battleship. Good thing the state
leads in something.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

One needful thing to learn lie where
to head in" and, having located the
place. take long slide forward.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

1t is TO be observed that President
Diaz did not send any delegates to the
third annual Peace conference at Bal
timore.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

This kidnapping stunt must be catch
ing. A Kansas girl is now doing the
heroine act In It.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

Folks will soon be able to talk from
Omaha to, New York, but 1t will take
them some time to get the habit.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

The democrats have split in only
three different parts over the wooden
schedule, But give them time.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

Does anybody know whether Lee
o'Neill Browne made trip over to
Ohio during the winter!
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

II the Washington ball team is wise
It will take immediate precautions to
have the extra session run along in
definitely.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

Senator Frye is no longer leader Of
the senate, but a lot of smaller fry
would like to be.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

Dealers who have been carrying
over fruit Jars from year to year
ought TO unload this time.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

Mayor GGynor insists whiskers are
no Disgrace No. a. mans Hyde Is
often tougher than his beard.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07


still. Milwaukee has spoiled no rec
ords In making a failure of Its expert
ment with socialism.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

Representative Longworth objects
TO the obscure wording of the free list
bill. He wants nothing but the bald
facts,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

II eaterpillars stop q train in Okla
homa, trains must run very slow down
there.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

Hard times or not, the railroads
continue to order equipment.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

"Anglo-Japanese Treaty Ratified"
Headline Then the United States is
safe at last it will not get that lick
ing.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

The Ice trust will quit the state of
New York. Frozen out at last?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

Russia is said to favor womans
rights. That is news, since >it ap-
peared she favored none but the
ears.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

Il know lots Of folks" Unole Jerry Pee
bles remarked, who think they're standn'
up fur religion when they're only boostn
their own church. Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-07

'Gustaves letters to me are exceedingly
Don't you know WHY responded the