Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 18, 1894, Page 10

10 TAE BARRIERS OF ETIQUETTE An Incident of Romantic Friendship Com- menoing with a Gift of Two Roses. UGLY FEATURES OF CONVENTIONALITY Moralizes on the Unwritten undy-—Some Charming Beauties - Femi- Fancies. Grace Mines Edicts of Da South Am n nine Facts and In a Farnam street car the other day sat two pretty girls side by side. They evid tly strangers, for the scrutinized each other after the usual feminine fashion One of them wore fastened to her fur cape threo beautiful pink The other, a Jolly, good looking damsel, with laughing blue eyes and dimpled ch who was clad in a last year's jacket, admiring glances at the pink roses that the wearer thereof detached two, and, holding them toward her nelghbor, smilingly asked: *“Do you like r “Oh! 1 adol was the were, ks, cast such « them; thank you o much," reply, and then followed a rapid acquaintance, and when they left the car together at Fourteenth and Farnam they were chatting as gaily as if they had known one another all their lives. It was quite refreshing in this suspicious and cynical age to see thelr fnnocent mutual admiration. And I do not believe that evil will follow from that quickly formed friend- ship introduced by the gift of two roses. The rule prevailing in polite soclety not to recognize strangers without a proper in troduction is no doubt a perfectly safe on by which to guide the young. But delive me from those stiff people who never upon any occasion venture from the Leaten paths pointed out for them by conventional eti quette, and 1ift their eyebrows in well-bre surprjse It only a puzzled fellow mortal i quire the dircetion of a street. Have you never met upon the public throroughfare, or on the crowded street car, @ kindly, familiar face, whose possessor you Tonged to know, and have guessed by a smile or glance of the eye that the attraction wa mutual, as mutual as that of the magnet for tho pole? And had you not been taught and drilled against the impulse, dreading to be considered rude or forward, would you not willingly have cast conventionality aside and entered into conversation, dispensing with a formal introduction, just as the pretty girl did who carried the roses? But etiquetto forbade. Espectally it most stringent when the attraction is between the opposite sex. We told that in the beautiful city of Prague if a young man meets a strange lady walking alone he may, if so inclined, with her permission, accompany her to her door And no offense. It cannot be gainsald that such freedom would never do in our large cities, nor should we rail against the wisdom of those social, or rather unsocial laws which no doubt often protect the innocent from imposters and which insist that strangers should be re- garded with indifference until presented by some person already known. But in that, as in all other matters, a happy medium can be adopted, and people of fair judgment may trust as a safe guide good common sense. It is but indicative of a suspicious na- ture to carry an absurd reserve too far. There are those who forget that all men are brothers, all women sisters and all people members of one great human family. It is the unexpected pleasant things that mako upon our lives the deepest impres- slons, and the most delightful and lasting friendships are sometimes formed by chance. Friendship—was ever word more abused moro misapplied, more often used as a cloak to hide the secret sting or thought, unkind or covert words that teil against fair fame? To these truths we can all bear witness, for not a man or woman lives who has not felt the sharp, deep cut of the knife deceit held by the thrice cruel liand whose outward seeming above the smiling guise of friend- ship. But like philosophers we should endure those trials patiently, for our lives would hardly be worth living it we went moping around, suspecting every human belng of treason and deceit on account of the few who failed to prove “true blue.” Paor philosophy It would be to refuse to st apples because we had found one rotten At the core, or forever decline to smell the fragrance of a rose because tha last ana wa tnhaled shook from its dainty, perfumed potals a poisonous insect. Or suut ous cyes upon the glorious sunshine today, because yesterday it was hidden behind a cloud. Better by far to be deceived time without number than to miss the gain of one sin cerely honest friend, and for the want.of it allow -one’s heart to shrivel like a dried herring. Human nature is much the same In all ages and In every clime, and friendship a3 generous as that told In the beautiful story about David and Jonathan has lived over and over again, and we might daily observe it enacted around us, if we would but open wide our selfish eyes and see things not “‘as hrough a glass darkly.” 1, for one, protest »ggainst that hackneyed phrase, “‘old friends gre the best.” Why should that be true? Aro there not as good fish in the sea as wera ever caught out. Then who will be 50 stupid as to claim we shall not find new friends as worthy as the old? Narrow, indeed must be the mind which cannot, while fully appre- clating the value of friends already gained, admit within its circle a new one now and then. No life should be complete without ita “rosary of friends” to be “told” over again and again with Increased delight, seeing not the flaws which even the purest diamond may possess, but loving each one for that particus lar eharm which won a place in our esteem, GRACE HINES. hap) The manifold charms of the Portenas, as the native ladies of Argentina are called, have been celebrated in song and story, and #a truth many of them are remarkably fine looking—of the same style of beauty that prevails in Cadiz and Seville, with possibly a little more of the Moorish feature and less of brilliant coloring. A wonderful beautifier of the Latin race is a sHght mix ture of Saxon blood, particularly that of the Irish, as noticed in Chill, Lima and Monte- video, where some of the loveliest women in the world are found, writes Fanny Ward to the Chicago Inter Ocean. The very best word picture of an Argentine girl that I have seen, true to life, though rather flowery, 18 as follows Imagine a brunette of 15 or 16, developed o a precoclcus maturity, an orect figure of yaedlum height but splendidly proportioned, with a bust that would make Lord Lytton's flat-chested heroines green with envy, a proud and graceful carrlage, a face of per- fect oval, spotless complexion, with a slight tinge of creole blood that lmparts to the vteeks the hue of a damask rose. The e are large, dark and lustrous, fringed by ong silken lashes and overarched by brows which, with the “night of her hair,” make the white forehead look like alabaster, small and delicately chiseled nostrils that' dilate nervously at every inspiration, teeth so white and regular that to eatch a glimpse of them through the arch of a smile Is to wonder at nature’s perfection—the only fault of the beautiful face the sensuous lines that surround the full red lips, symbols of a passlonate nature. Imagine this face in its frame of soft black hair, surmounted by a white hat of the most coquettish fashion, on which real flowers repose and living fAve files gleam, and that lithesome figure at tired in a dress of some soft texture and dellcate tint and of a fashion known only to the Worths of Paris and Madrid, with the sparklo of a diamond here and there or glimmer of dull gold, and imagine the wholo being instinct with the grace and vivacity of early youth, and you have the complete portrait of an Argentine girl But, with all these charms that dazzle the eye and captivate admiration, there seems to be something lacking on closer acquaint- ance—perbaps because the voluptuous style does not appeal to the soul like the more spiritual beauty of the Saxon malden—that where the senses only are fed they becom satiated after a time, like one on a steady diet of sweets. Unfortunately, these charming ereatures are universally ad dicted to the rougepot and powder-puft to such an oxtent that the real woman ap pears to be in total eclipse under drifts of white and dabs of red. And, as with the gentler sex in all southern countries, | their beauty wanmes at an early age. women of colder climates and calmer tem- peratures are at thelr prime at 36 or 40, the Portena’s golden age is between the years of 15 ana I7 At or sooner |if marr| , she Is quite passe and n aphorl- call, id upon the shelf. A tendency % corpulence is encouraged by Indolent habits and excessly indulgence In the fle and at middle age many of them hav veloped hirsute appendages that are the envy of beardless youths. The standard tests of a “fine woman" in Argentina seems to be in her weight, and, judged by the cri- terion of pounds avoirdupols, the country abounds in extraordinarily fine specimens. And then that subtle charm, the voics As the majority of my country-women are afficted with thin, high-pitched tones that somehow remind one of a cracked bell owing In part to the climate and partly to lack of chest development— the volces of Argentine ladies are mostly discordant and rasping. It is the same way with the men and, notwithstanding their native eloquence, it is almost painful to lis to some of them, a rich and manly volce being as ra as a sweet-toned female ¢ ancy burly senator delivering his flery speech in the squeaking tones of a child, or a delicate young woman emitting the harsh tones of a buzz saw! The ruling passion of the Argen tine girl is music; and ‘the acme of her am- bition a plano, a string of lovers, and a smattering of the French languag in pur- suit of which coveted objects she is zealous and persistent, The are many very fair musiciar and linguists among them, and no lack of excellent professors to teach them It fs doubtful if the world will ever read another new novel from the pen of Mrs, B D. E. N. Southworth. Not that her creative and fertile brain lacks the strong vitality of invention and theme, but when a record of cighty novels is considered, the crowning Lonor of seventy-four gives right to claim rest and respite. Mrs. outhworth says the Washington Post, passed her T4th birthday quietly at her charming hom Prospect Cottage, in Georgetown, on the 26th of December, and to the congratulations of her loving friends can add a return of better health than has been hers for the past two years, There, attended by her son, Dr. Soutlworth, and his charmng wife, the ven- erable novelist lives out her pleasant days, with miles of the bright Potomaec at her feet, and a daily picture, which-no human hand can equal, of the golden sun setting be- hind the gray Virginia hills. It is a home in which she lives—no room which does not bear the clear wrought signs of daily life dow from whose clear eyes some human eye does not daily gaze. For the first time in two years Mrs. South- worth consented Lo greet an interviewer. strong. pure face presents itself, The pla brow shows more the lines of thought than those of age. The face still preserves the contours which mark the portraits of her most productive age, when from her pen two long and powerful novels flowed yearly. No one can question Mrs. Southworth’s literary ability. Her novels bore strongly the im- press of a period of romanticism. The higher standards of literary criticism have brought a decper ideal of character study, but for the million and not for the thousand did Mrs. Southworth write. Hers were the novels of their need and ideals. Tt is doubtful If there is today a living writer of novels whose works have been read by as many people as hers, no, mot even excepting Zola, who h gained notoriety and circulation through pru- riency, while Mrs. Southworth has never written a line which offends the eye of purity. Eighty novels, not one of them dull or hackneyed, not ome of them without special merit of ingenious plot and circum- stance, dramatic in intensity, and many of them so true to the life which they portray as to receive the value of historical novels, 50 thinly disguised are the people whose lives are inwrought. No other writer has more truly written of certain types of south- ern life, where women were and are roman- tic, and where men were and are chivalrous, brave and impetuous An_American woman who is married to an English squire of high degree tells in the New York Tribune the following funny story of the fate of half a dozen canvasback ducks which she had sent to England as a present to her mother-in-law. The latter an excellent housekeeper and pro- cd to be anxious to taste the renowned transatlantic dainty which she heard so ex- travagantly praised. Carefully packed in ice, the game arrived in good condition, and Lady M—, the recipient, invited a couple of friends to partake of the much vaunted delicacy. “Fancy my feelings,” said the pretty American, describing the affair afterward, “when a pair of ducks were brought to the table done to death and stuffed with onions, sage and potatoes, while my father-in-law, carefully carving up the entire bird—legs, wings and all—distributed the portions to a party of six! I could have shed tears! And’ the climax was reached when, after enduring disappointed -and disapproving looks on the part cf the guests, my b-llc-mere remarked: “I must say, Margaret, that 1 rather prefer our English duckling to your canvasbacks’ I could not tell her that it was the atrocious cooking and stupid carving that had spoiled the chief of all game birds. However, the ducks were there and had to be disposed of, and the next day I had the pleasure of eating a palr of my canvasbacks en salmi, while the others were actually ended up in a pie! It is necdless to relate the mortification I suf- fered_or ‘the vows I made never again to introduce American dainties to British palates,” Lady Carew was known previous to her marriage as the beautiful Julia Lethbridge, says the New York Journal, and is infinitely more popular and more charming in every way than her diminutive husband. Indeed, nothwithstanding his titles and estates, she was considered to have rather thrown her- self away when she married him in 1888. Lady Carew found a warm admirer in the late Duke of Clarence, who on several oc- casions visited her at Woodstown, her place in Waterford. His last visit, however, was brought to a somewhat sudden and 'disas grecable close by a gross piece of discour- tesy on the part of Lord Carew toward the duke. At the conclusion of a meet the duke had ridden back to Lord Carew’s house, chatting with the daughter of a baronet who lived in the nelghborhood. On reaching the door he invited her to dismount and to stay to lunch. She had scarcely entered the hall when she was met by little Lord Carew, who informed her that he greatly regretted that he could not enjoy her company at I house on that day, a piece of rudeness which took the prince 5o aback that he permitted the young lady to depart without uttering a word In her behalf. He himself left tho house the same day deeply offended. Lady Carew’s husband subjected himself to a good deal of ridicule a couple of years ago, when he invoked the protection of the courts to defend him against the attentions of an elderly and unattractive spinster named Miss Flynn, who had become violently enamored of the small p “I suppose,” sald a clever little woman to a writer for the New Orleans Picayune the other night at the play, “that T get to go to the theater more than any woman of my ac- qualintance, means being equal. You see it's this way. One night John wanted me to go to the play, and, of courze, I accepted, for I dearly love the play. After the theater was over John was steering me straight for the restaurant. ‘No, John,' sald I firmly, ‘we can't afford it. The play was treat enough Let's bo sensible; we had a good dinner, and Wweo are not starving.' “‘Oh, hang the expense,’ said Mr. John. ‘Wo might as well round off with a bit of supper.’ But I wouldn't; as John says, ‘I stood pat.” We went on home, and my man wasn't in the best of humors, for when a man is hungry he doesn’t think much of th virtue of economy. In fact, he said, by my plgheadedness 1I'd spoiled all the evening, and he'd ‘ba ding squiz ' (whatever that may mean) if he'd take me out again in a hurry. 1 kept my temper, as I was grateful for having seen so beautiful a play as ‘Old Homestead,” and said nothing. Well, when we got home John threw the bedroom door open with a bang, and there in the middle of the floor was my sewing table with as dainty a lunch as one could wish. We had had a leg of mutton for dinner and I had shredded some of it, chopped up a couple of shallots fine and ad two cold potatoes cut into dice, and covered the whole with mayon nals Then there were a fe olives and some dainty slices of bread and butter and bottled by All on a white cloth with chairs brawn up, and as cozy as could be. John was simply delighted. Since then he often asks me to g0 to tho theater, for b says can stick me for a supper that tastes betwer than any hot bird and cold bot tle that heé could order down town. The gentlemanly girl is the splce of mer- THE OMAHA DAILY while [ BEE UNDAYy FEBRUARY 18, 1894-~SIXTEEN PAGE hant tailoring._She Is as natty as a dude, says the New York World; her whims are captivating, her efforts to be businesslike are most amusing, and if taflors don't make any money out of her custom they never lose a dollar. Between seasons she goes to have her clothes “busheled,” and then the tailor sees her best and feminine side. The lining of her dainty little vest Is stained with scent, the odor fs faint and fluctuating, but as fast as the dye In the cloth, and it affects the tailor who tightens the buttons and presses the collar like chloroform. Dur. Ing these visits the fashion plates are seanned with Interest. But you can't show her a ladies’ journal. She positively objects to the suggestion. Every ultra-swell outfit- ting firm has a ladies’ depariment, where the taflor-made dresses are ordered, but when a gentlemanly girl goes there to give an ordér she prefers to look over the cloth in the men's department before going upstairs There is never a plece of material downstairs suitable for a dress, and the attendants tell her 50, but sceing is believing, and she has Ner own way. Aside from having the style that is indispensable to wear a regular man's vest or cutaway coat, she Is consistent. Sh doesn’t attempt to combine milliner's, la and earrings with English melton or a box cloth top coat, and there is where her suc- cess begins Mrs. Ei ing “‘experience: printed by the New York other day she went into partment, approached a was chewing gum for “The Pace That over on the insect the girl. Years ago, in the beginning of her career, Mrs. Wilcox wrote a poem She had writ ten a great many poems, but this particular poem had a history. She sent it to an editor; he rejected it She sent it to an- other; he too, was cold. But she kept on sending it, but it came back many times. until looked jaded from its wanderings nd faded from inappreciation. Finally its appearance became so disreputable that on one of its returns it hore the following wd: “This poem is dead. Better bury The of Mrs. Wilcox was aroused. The next day she went down to the sanctum where the manuseript had last reposed, pre- 2 to ask what the editor meant by g such an scription on her verses. unately the man was out, but his wife, who liappened to be there, declared le hiad never written the horrid words, and hinted darkly at the office boy's guilt. Mrs. Wilcox retired, balked but unconvinced. Once again she sent the poem into th world. A few days later, to her great joy, she received a cheek for She sat down forthwith and to the editor whom she stul suspected of having made that odious re- mark she wrote: “I have buried it. I got $75 for the corpse. About this time Mrs. Wilcox sent another poem to the St. Nicholas, It was accepted and paid for. Long years she waited to see it in print, but it didn't appear. She went on writing, made a reputation for herself, got married. But that poem haunted her. Einally, in despair, she wrote to the edi- tor: “Several years ago you accepted a poem of mine which I sent under my maiden name, nce then I've married, and when you publish the poem I want it to appear under my present name, so that my grand- children ‘may know I wrote it.” The poem ppeared in the next number of the maga- X I8 always hav- few of them, Recorder. The Macy's book de- young woman who assiduously, and asked Kills You'll find it powder counter,” cried Feminine Notes. In Thibet a woman is entitled to three sband In Melbourne a man may se- divorce if his wife gets drunk three if she habitually neglects her household duties. It was a man governor who said recently in a lecture, after describing the power of Joseph Jefferson to amuse: “I would rather possess the power to remove dull care than to be president of the United States, afflicted with the Sherman law and disappointed with two girl babie Among all the industries for woman’s labor corset making is about the best. There is work the entire year, it is clean and compar- atively light and a skilled operator can make $1.50 a day whenever she likes. It is not difficult to earn $1.25 a day on the cheap goods; fine work will pay a girl $2 a day the year round. The ploneer and great organizer of the campaign for woman's rights in France, Mme. Maria Deraismes, is now stricken down with fllness, but she has a devoted band of disciples, who have lately issued a spirited address, which appears on the walls of Paris, and in which they claim for the French woman the right to dispose of the fruit of her labor without male interference. Mrs. Helen Campbell has issued a new book entitled ‘“Women Wage Barners.” It is based on the series of articles on that subject contributed to the Arena last year. Mrs. Campbell has entered into an almost unknown fleld. She has carefully compiled all the data to be had on the subject, and her long experience in industrial affairs and her deep sympathy with women wage earners specially qualify her for the work. The women of Colorado are beginning to enroll themselves in ‘partisan clubs" in support of the various existing political or- ganizations in preference to taking a separ- ate political attitude as women, all of which is as it should be, for the object of woman suffrage should be to abolish the sex line in politics altogether, and to convert exclusive organizations of men alone or of women alone into co-operative associations of men and women. No overworked professional man or col- lege don looks forward more eagerly to an autumn_holiday among the Alps than does Queen Margherita, who delights to don the plcturesque costume of the women of the Val de Lys and to linger after tho frosty autumn nights have driven away less hardy visitors. ~ The beloved Italian queen is de- scribed as taking part in a recent “‘ice expe- dition” to the summit of the Vincent Pyra- mide and camping out amid snow and ice. Fashlon Nof The crab, although not a thing of beauty, figures among fancy jewelry. Soft beautifully dyed Fayetta and camel's hair fabrics are made for dressy afternoon wear. Brocades, it is sald on good authority, are to be in small designs, chiefly with flecks and dots. The hair is being dressed very simply just now, even on full dress occasions, and orna- ents are important. Pink rosebuds on white Is one of the se- lect jpatterns; blue Nepatica and purple chrysanthemums are stylish. a The newest idea in table decorations is to match the color of the flowers in the recep- tacles provided for them. Small diamonds are never used to more advantage thar in the dainty flower- wreathed brooches that are in vogue. The new gem-set dagger-like ornaments serve the purpose of hairpins, béing at the same time much more ornamental, Spangles of all kinds and colors seem to have hypnotized everybody, and the latest are fashioned in aluminum, and are as light as feathers. Glossy supple-faced cloths in medium and light shades are growing In favor for hand- some gOwns worn on occaslons when semi- dress Is required. A black hat trimmed with plumes may be brightened® with a bow or rosette or pink, blue or yellow ribbon, and will look quite jaunty with the addition. The very popular surplice or serpontine waists are now made with collarettes spreading shoulder-frills and mutton-leg sleeves edged with embroldery. Long, graceful French polonaises of cloth, open up the front or at the left side, are completed by skirts of repped silk with slocves and vests of the same. Among the cotton fabrics none Is prettier than dotted Swiss. Insertions and frills of Valenclennes lace are used on gowns made of this diaphanous goods, The most modish design for buckles, whether intended to clasp belt or garter, is a colled serpent of lustreless gold, with a ruby or sapphire In its flat head One of the vivid reds is geranium, which is of almost dazzling brightness. None but 4 brunette with a pale olive complexion should be reckless enough to wear this shade. Among the delicately colored fancy wool- cns are crepe bareges embroidered with dots and geometrical figu nd cordurette ere- pons in all the lovely evening shades A lesson which might with advantage be learned 15 to read old prints—plctures of fashions in the days of the Stuarts. There were then a number of quaint modes whose excellence time never has withered. SOMETHING 0 PONDER OVER New 8tyle Puzzle on Whioh You Oan While Away Sémfe Idle Moments. | | BOTH OLD AND YOUNG CAN MAKE GUESSES An Excellent Oppoktunity to Dollars in CAsh by a Little Braln night's Move | | Make n F Labor-The in Chess. It Is a great mistake to suppose, as many do, that Boys' and Girls' Departments great newspapers are read only by boys and girls. They are read by every member of the family, as a rule. So are the juvenile Journals—Harper's Young People for in stance. Here Is a new style the principal point of which turns on the Knight's Move In chess. This move Is, you remember, one square up, down, right or left—but never diagonally—and then two squares at right angles to the first part of the move; or, two squares up, down, right or left, and then one spuare in any direction at right angle to the first part of the move, But there are other questions in the puz- zle. Answers to them may be found in most books of reference. The riddles are, of course, to be guessed. The verse which 80 puzzled the crazed knight is to be written out in full. Anybody, of any age, may try his hand at solving t zles, and answers must be mailed, not to us, but Harper's puzzle, come | tennis courts of | house of refreshment with its name—"The Castle—embiazoned on the sign board In the rear of the house was the “choss board,” a huge space, the sjze of a dozen accurately divided of turf and hard yel low sand, and in the center of each square was a word or part of a word, engraved on a motal plate imbedded in the ground. Thus I noticed “king." “queen,” “castle,”” “‘pawn,"” and other words, all referring to the game of choss, but without any apparent connecti with one another. The mystery was ex plained, however, when I read the following notice affixed to a post near by 1o alternate square “This puzzle may be rend by making the Knight's move iching overy square of the chesa board in it proper There ixty-four syllables formir vers 1in, Ach line composed of ¢ ruly,” sald I, “it would seem to require the fvory tube of Prince Al (11) to enable one to see clearly into this, but per it 18 not so difficult as it appears. You cannot rest while I study this problem?” asked 1, seelng the kn begin to tremble. *“Then solve this riddle of mine, while I try to solve welght but never fight srtfoned as to breadth ar t 1 am like an it very long wan who flls on me—whate'er his strensth, Bofore e dreams |s measuring his Tength, And’ there uncon will oft_remain, inture can restore s sen: in. nomy 1 K they 1 1 height v spring, next mom & my power, that any luck s imprisoned, Let him alive, (12 and began great ches dia- Never wo hard he comes not th I seized the bridle of the hor making the knight's move on the board, of which the following is a gram: (13) queen Young People, Franklin Spuare, New York City, previous to March 15, 1894, putting in the lower left hand corner of your envelope the words, “Round Table.” Do not write out the text, but send an- swers by numbers, in every case as briefly as possible. Put your name at the top of your first sheet of answers and fasten your sheets together. | Harper's Young eople of- fers a first prize of $20 for the most correct answers to all the questions, §10 to the sce- ond, §5 to the third and $1 cach to the next ten. ~ All prizes are cash. Correct answers, with names of prize winners, will be pub- lished by The Bee at as early a date as pos- sible after the close of the contest. Here is the puzzle: THE HOPPING KNIGHT. My wanderings have led me through the English Pale (1), the site of the prehistoric Crannoges (2), the Alnsty of York (3), and other parts of Great Britain, I crossed the channel to the continent of Europe and con- tinued my journey through many strange countries on foot. One morning, on emerg- ing from a dense forest, I found that I had entirely lost my bearings. The next instant I heard a voice singing the following song: ‘A noble company are we, you know us well by sight, Some schoolboys trent us hatefully, But wise men greet us gratefully, They recognize our might. “Our_captain leads us proudly stand, His fect aro firmiy planted within our mitive and. Now tell me, who are To every bright, young plain can be''” (). I looked to the left and beheld a strange apparition, a knight In full armor—helme:, corselet and_shield, complete— while the noble steed he rode was as well protected as if horse and rider had come straight from some joust or tourney of bygone days. The two formed a_ perfect silhouette (5) against the sky. As he approached me I saw that the face of the knight was melancholy enough to have won for him the title of “knight of the rueful countenance” (6), but his volce was cheerful. “Good morning, fair sir! You behold be- fore you the Mighty Tottipottimoy (7). You are right welcome to our Land of Puzzles.” “Many thanks, your High Mightine: replied. “I heard your song just.now would gladly know the meaning of it. “Oh, that is a puzzle. It is all a pu here, and the chess-board is the worst of the lot. Haply you play at chess, good sir?" “Yes," I answered. “Then come with me,” said he, “and as we journey I will relate my gloomy tale. In yon castle now faintly visible once dwelt the ruler (8) who played chess with living fig- ures. He designed the chess-board puzzle and left it as a ‘heritage of woe' to the wretched inhabitants of Puzzle Land. I loved the fair princess, his niece, and he or- dered me to solve the puzzle before daring to sue for the lady’s hand. I began the task | at once. It is like the labor of Sisyphus . I always find myself as far from the accomplishment of my design as I was in the beginning. The lady became tired of waiting and left the country, and I have heard that like Britomart (10) she has spent her life in wandering from land to land, T have never beheld her since. The king died long ago, but his cruel decree still holds, and I am doomed to leap about the chess board for six hours every day of my wretched life until I have guessed the puzzle. The ir- reverent peasantry have named me ‘The Hopping Knight.' ~ But here Is the castle, and yonder Is the ehess board.” I looked and saw nothing but onward, behold him who's our captain? and tell me, puzzier it's plain as a modest CONNURIALITIES, A groom of 50 ladyto the altar a blushing bride of 15 in Richmgnd, Ky., recently. When marriage/ is a failure tho bankrupt usually.puts it all in his name. ¢ chief wife's San Francisco s’ the greatest proportion of divorces to marrfiiges of any city in the i ry 10000 marriages there.are divorces 4 “Do you « “it 1 marry e, ddari" inquired Mrs. Lovelly, agalp when you are dead and “Of courad pot,” responded Mr. L.; “I am sure I can stdnd it if the other fellow can,” An Oklahoma boomer, who eloped with a 17-year-old girl from Findlay, 0., was yanked into court on the charge of deser tion and a verdict for $15,000 damages secured. Rev. Alfred W. Anson of Martinsville, Va. who was recently married to Miss Eleanor M ene, s the gon of the canon of Wind or, chaplain of Queen Victoria at the royal residence, Windsor Castle. The man who jokes his wife about the girl he is going to marry for a second wife gonerally gets mad when she retallates some day by Joking him about the man she Is going to marry for a second husband A Widowers' assoclation has beon f: 1 in Dresden. No man Join wife Is dead, and If he marrie becomes an honorary member of the chiel purposes of the & Old Lady (to niece who ls porti can unless his | and a marriage | geth | the Arec de I leaped like Cheeshahteaumuck (14) in one of his mative dances. After a few false moves 1 began to see my way more clearly, and not more than an hour had clapsed when we had completely mastered the puzzle The poor knight's gratitude knew no bounds, and flinging himself at my feet he poured forth his thanks: “How can I thank you, my benefactor? For years this puzzle has been on my mind, gnawing at my br the golden dog of Quebec (15 bone, without cessation.” a difficult puzzle after all,” I answered, “if one but starts right. - It is not a Franken- stein’s Monster.” (16) We seated oursely and the knight alled, “What ho, there! bring wine, the puzzle is guessed, guessed, guessed!” ‘A girl, somewhat the size and shape of Gwenny Carfax, (17) appeared, bringing wine. *‘Oh, the poor gentleman!” she said to me, aside; “when my father built the inn he calied it ‘The Castle,’ he lald out the chess board and composed the rhymn as a source of amusement for our guests, but never did he imagine that it would addle any one's wits. Hark to this song.”” The knight was now chanting in a monotonous ow was riding upon his When a boy with a bean shootc He fell off and squirmed in the road ke an — O, what 4 bad boy i as) “What means your song, sir knight,” I asked. “That Is another pu “Find the word to fill the first blank; take off the first letter and leave a word for the second blank, and still another by the same process for the third, and there you are! Here is the next verse: <O bad language he But the boy had Just wait il I there Some fellows ns clover as hot” (19) “I told you this was Puzzle Land, you know,” he sald. “In my checkered career,” he continued, with a smile at his own feeble joke, “I have had much time to ponder th welghty matters—now that the chief puzzlo is guessed, thanks to you, I intend to leave this_country and travel. Whence come yo good friend? From Amecrica? A, I thought so! ‘Westward the star of empire takes its way,' as the poet (20) says. Yo are very clever in America; Brother Jona than (21) is always ahead. 1 want to visit your country. I would like to meet the Her- mit of Goat Island (22), and many other strange personages. Did you ever meet Flood Ireson?’ (23) “Oh, no,” 1 v “Was he a locofoco (24) or a Barnbur “Indecd, [ think he was neither, much amused. “Well, T wou! strange people and places—the . Cardiff Glant (26), the place where stood Herne's Oak (27), the home of Ginevra (28), and as for the Sick Man of the Bast (2), T would give him such a dose of the Aqua Tofana (30) that he would rest like the Seven Sleep )and as if he were in the great Bed of e (32); and I can assurc you I would not a rap (33) when I came home again.' ou have made out a sort of Omnibus Bill"” ), I sald, when he had finished. “I wish you success in carrying out your plans. With a grasp of the hand he mounted his steed and passed out of sight, singing as he went: ot at his — le,""he answered. y like o Mim, 11l show him see Ithough I'm offen hungry [y [irst |8 sometimes poor, hance the Innprovides me, Perchanoe the cottage door My Second gives me witer And ax I Am my L car nate 1'm reckoned.) Vring never man? you How s it, kindled a my dear, that you have flame in the bosom of a Niece—the reason, dear aunt, 1s, as well know, that I am not 1 match to help newly-made widowers by looking after their wives' funerals and caring for their children A doctor who was summoned early one morning to a fashionablo residence on Madison avenue, New York, to rolieve a young lady who'was nd hyster fcal, pulled a set of six upper fal of Ner throat. Sho Is a brile of a and her husband’s - look of showed plainly that he was unawar wore them. Judge Bellinger of the trict court of Oregon has (e case of a Chinese woman who desir to join her husband whom she i, that a betrothal at th x months ugo by sewing t two cards on which articulars of the engagement had been written, was a valld marriage according to the laws of and must be recognized by the United amazement that she United States dis ided, In the d to land had never —— 15 said_that M. one of the richest actors In said to have a fortune of Besldes income paying investments he has nearly 1,000,000 francs invested in fa mous pictures at his splendid h fa Triomphe in Paris DeWitt's Little Early safo plils, best pills, nstant ¢ France 1,000,000 Risers. Small pills, e ¥ 10 and hall have all of this week a line of dollar suits that we have been showing, which are the cheapest for the price that have ever been shown in Omabha. B6. $6. In our Custom Department we have a large line of cloths from which we are mak- ing Pantaloons for 6 dollars. opportunity. NUSSER'S PLEA FOR LABOK What an Eight-Hour Day Would Mean for the Toiling Masses. T He Thinks Judge Placed Labor Org Step In Ady This is your Remember the place. WwouLbD Confinenta ine House, 18TH AND DOUGLAS STS. ADVANCE The good advice and Mr. w. years Mr, Mus good authority to labor. chosen was of the as one of in the him his affliction and inquiric a and in c his mail f by u About se who know matters pert sars ago M. Samuel n six all Caldw personal efforts of B. Musser of this city have greatly missed in organized labor circles of late from the fact that, on account of sick- ness, he has been scarcely able to leav residence since last September. er has been one of the lead- ing spirits in advocating unionism and an eight-hour day, and with the years of service as a union carpenter he is considered by the President his n il mpany v r the week w of American of Nebraska, capacity place the Feder organizers and his rey s look s Words Have izations a Long News from the Genoral Field of Industry. faithful organizer Tearts union men that he will hold for 1 His friends in other states, not keep sending him letiers regarding the labc th.q what might be contained the to the p Therd Théodore Birk, Waiters ) t he wants . from of the it and see wh The letter was re answe request new short was union of time ia al Mr. the ago and aske of conslderable importance tere A od. letter Samuel magazine want and get the blanks year were sent Gomie commencing with this month the Federation of Labor would publish a monthly American would be 50 cents subscribers entitled tionist and that the Several with 50 in the price blanks for and read which he letter the local work nd get up subscription lists, a be a great elght forms hour's that Accompanying the letter nouncing the title the known authors, labor ation of Labor. Mr. forw Seve on Musser considers 1 and says that lahor paper day laboring and peoplo wi en or more books of a do problem that th nothing ople faster than the -al other were read and ar Jabor the in which do Mr not thing that made about force ment make in particular thoe employe n and that or differ jeets of th AN know me fc Ie Ider workin it elght-hour 1 mistake that they allow is to not to int dutl Juest IMPORTANT f wered que or that vid ith ne | b when 1 1 i peopl cmployes law governing i an b 1 h MOVEMEN Musser, national se ational union, 1 and upon Mr ed. organiz to call at lo what lie that many written now at the headquarters of the America readin turo upon the labor question wr who thoroughly understand. the | tiers of minor and a gencral talk ned in ald guard CIVILIZATION For several xperience of knowing of d over to see in of interest in Omaha a several questions to the partics in they can vy ays this wili labor ur { 1t ‘introduces no new principles or theorics into society. It proposes mo arbitrary in- terference “with cconomic and social re tions. It will not disturh any existing in- terests nor change the relation of buyers to sellers or laborers to employers. In fact, it would not in any way arbitrarily disturb existing economic and social relations. All it asks for is that the laborer shall have more leisure that the development of his mind may be in pace with the productive power of labor and that he may be cnabled to enjoy the pleasures of a comfortable and cultured home. This proposition has been periodically discussed for more than three- quarters of a century. The characteristic feature of the controversy is that the meas- ure has always been favored by the labor- ing classes and their symputhizers and op- posed by the so-called statesmen, economists and_employe “The opposition, however, is commonly assumed, all due to selfishness on the part of the employing class. The average employer is not more unsympa- thetic and indifterent to the welfare of society than is any other citizen. There is nothing in the mere fact of being an em- ployer of labor which necessarily destroys one's interefl In the social well-being of others. The opposition of the employing class to this measure is not so much from an aversion to improving the laborer's condi- tion as from a misconception of their economlie relations to the community, and especially to the laboring classes. Nor are they responsible for this misconception any more than other citizens, but it is due mainly to the false teachings of political cconomy. The lessening of the hours of labor would bring about increased consumption, a vaster display of productive activity, a - higher intellectual and moral ~ developmnet of the toiler and a wider demand for the more artistic products of our factories and workshops. It would stimulate inventive gentus, develop better and grander civiliza- tion and bring about an almost fabulous in- crease of national property and wealth. The general struggle for a reduction of the hours t labor Is a struggle for a better civiliza- n, a struggle for work for willing hands who should be employe “Relieve the poor drudge in the mine and factory from his long hours of toil and put many of those who can find nothing to do to work and they will at once be raised the soclal scale, Bight hours per day should and 1 hope soon will become firmly fixed as neral custom hardened nto national habit.” not, as is Notes. Lahg Union have won a strike Buffalo In Russia factory hands work from § a. m, to 8 p. m There are 5,000 ldle granite cutters In New York Clty. A central labor union has been organized at Winnipeg Three thousand women in Parls belong to ns. printers Omaha carpenters will hereafter work clght hours. A tin plate plant is Elwood, Ind. AIl union brewers arc the St. Louls strikers. Union machinists of Chattanooga to be established at taxed 10 cents for favor vill educatc d as when I government ownership of telegraphs Ketall butchers at Denver have refused to allow wholesalers to join their union 3ight hundred dollars was appropriated by New York framers for idle union men Massillon green glass workers againat the Ko of the Wilson bill The bullding trades In Indiunapolls hercafter work only elght hours per day dollars has been sub daily labor paper in protest will olphia are giving s to aid, strikers in Glass workers at P 10 per cent of their wa their trade Three of the ford, Mass., ar five day ¢ Boston unions have denounced the ernment’s action In reducing wa A Island navy yard, K's Extra Dry Im; Wamsutta mill now Funning rial Champagne has u Its purity is undoubted. One hundred employe of the New York Central r laid off on account of the de lon About 200 cigarinakers ar rk City. The tr ment of & upon division Irond haye been in busl- ubl 1 wan cau reduction of 2§ per cent ot