Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1902, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: N THE DOMAIN OF WOMAN. PRING, Which Stocking May ¥ NEW YORK, Dec. 26 girl who, armed with a Christmas check from some loving relative, sallies forth theso days to join the thronge of shoppers It bewildered bachelor uncles only knew the sibilities of checks after the great hollday they would never worry thelr heads about selecting other Christmas gifts, for with the first of the vear comes a general slashing of prices in the big shops, and strictly up-to-date goods can be purchased for one-third less than was asked for them a week or 8o earlier. More- over, who can measure the joy of the woman who folds in her purse a snug little eum which, with a free consclence and no thought of that great damper, @conomy, she may spend just to please herself? The larger the check the greater the care should be exercised In spending it for with feminino trinkets of all sorts over- Came in Your Profitably. How Money . Spent Happy the young VELVETEEN AND LAMB COSTUME FOR YOUNG GIRL, WALKING flowing show cases and counters onme 18 apt to dissipate one's cash and have noth- ing really good to show for it in the end. On the other hand, there is an indefinite pleasure in owning one or two really hand- some accessories of the toflet which will lend distinetion to a costume. Bags should come first under this cl fleation. There s no one thing which in- dicates the up-to-datencss of & woman like this small but eloquent trinket. Small, because no well bred woman allows an ac- cessory of this sort to stand out too strik- ingly in her general scheme of dressing: eloquent because to the initiated it spea clearly of dollars and cents. Opern Bag is the Thing, “By her bag shall you know her,” 1s a tip not: to be desplsed. We have had the vun on chatelaines and wrist bags, and uow the opera bag is the thing. In it you may carfy your handkerchief, your change purse—anything, in fact, save your opera glasses. Still you must call it an opera bag. Naturally it follows that silk is the prevailing fabric for these receptacles, and the .richer and heavier it is the better. Flimsy silk is worse than useless for this purpose, Both oblong and square bags are shown, and the most popular patterns are the Pompadour and Persian silks and the gleaming brocades that our great-grand- mothers delighted in. A woman who is handy with her needle an have several of these bags for the amount of money she would spend for one secured in a shop, for one pays dearly for the cunning workmanship displayed on the bags In windows and show cases. They are beautitully tailored, 6o to speak, and cord- ng and lining give the real finishing touches. Among the beautiful patterns which ean be reproduced is a pale blue satin, em- broldered in silver thread and tiny jeweled spangles. This is made up with silver mountings. A brocade of yellow roses on a white ground Is finished with a heavily chased -mounting of gold and yellow rib- bon. The bags which combine perfectly with the frock are very correct, and the woman who has a really handsome velvet suit should bave a bag made of exactly the same material. The mountings can be purchased at prices varylng from $1 to $10, with prices much higher if one desires g0ld or jeweled effects. One of the mew- est mountings is a curtain pole effect, tiny rings being attached to the bag and then run on rods to match. These come in ex- quisite woods and metals. 1t one still yearns for a chatelaine bag for stpeet wear, either steel beading or the chain mesh {n dull sliver with Orf- ental jeweled finishings Is the best. Here the pendent effect gives a real Oriental scheme, and draws the line between the bargain counter bag and the real article. In purses, snake-skin, which holds its own, goes well with almost any frock. New Theater Hat. Another trifie which will add greatly to woman's wardrobe just now is a new bat. If, o & moment of enthusi- asm at the opening of the season, she in- vested in & white evening hat, a new hat 1s probably a necessity by this time. Here the Christmas check works like a charm, for a distinctive theater hat is regarded by the average woman as a luxury, While the picturesque hat still holds its own for evening wear and pale plumes are masters of the situation, & woman will look about for something more simple in head- wear unless she has delicate evening frocks and cloaks. This may also be sald of elab- orate decorations in frult, which flashed upon our vVicion at the beginuing of the season. It takes a stunning girl to carry ©oft this style of trimming and for frequent wear it actually becomes tiresome. Much wiser is the selection of a hat in which -_— A SKIN OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER T. FELIX GOURAUD'S ORIENTAL EAM, OR MAGICAL BEAUTIFIER AS you la Barmtat of all the akin preparations.” armtul of all the skin pre 3 sale by all druggiste and fancy §oods in the U. Europe. T INERD. T WOPRINE Propr, ¥ Great Jones Bt. N. ¥. e —— —l =i ® ‘@%@5 good lines and dainty flowers join to give | left $50 for his uses. an alr of smartness and dressiness. Here, 100, one may throw a sop to Cerberus—in other words, coquette with the question of tails or no tails. If its wearer s afraid of the long, very promounced drapery at the back in velvet or lace she may cut the Gordlan knot by selecting a hat with a bow almost Alsatian in its simplicity, yet drooping enough to cover the halr. Two toques on such lines were displayed by a Fifth avenue importer and one now graces the head of a popular actress. The first {s In light bldie of the forget-me-not shade and is bullt on rather broad lines, fitting snugly to the back of the halr. The foundation is folds of satin tafteta, which also forms the bow in the back, held in place by a long, narrow steel buckle. The rest of the hat Is encircled by forget-me- nots. The other hat was of rich cardinal vel- vet in the same shape, the flat crown belng overlald with autumn leaves in richest tints and the bow being of liberty taffeta, held with a large rhinestone buckle. Its beauty consisted of the perfect blending of the crimson tones in velvet, ribbon and tollage. Among the very newest things for chil- dren are bedroom accessories that reek of comfort for cold mornings. The bath robes are particularly enticing, betng shown in elderdown flannel in solld colors and vari- ous combinations. Cunningest of all are those In warm crimson with pointed hoods and belts with “really buttons and straps,” as the owner will describe them. Care should be taken to select large gar- ments for such use, as they not only shrink in washing, but are worn by calldren at a time when freedom of action is a sacred privilege. For the nursery pillow fights and other morning and evening frolics they are, above all things, entieing to childish eyes. MARY DEAN. “IN THE NAME OF JOSEPHINE,” Story of a Remarkable Philanthropist in New Orleanw. - There dled the other day in New Orleans a man who was In some respects the most notable character in that city, Alexander C. Hutchinson, president of Morgan's Lou- islana & Texas Rallroad and Bteamship company. He was one of the most suc- cessful captains of industry in the south. Ho was generally regarded as a cold, austere and even parsimonious man, and yet it turns out that there was mo man in New Orleans whose heart was fuller of sympathy for his fellows, of sentiment, of love of the beautiful, and whose hand was more generous in charity. Indeed, in the extent of his giving he seeme to have been the first of the city’s philanthropists. What most distingulshed his philanthropy was his eystematic effort to keep It secret. It was his habit gruffly to repel those who ap- plied to him for charity and immediately to cause a quiet investigation of their cases. If they were found to be deserving of ald it was promptly and generously glven them, but secretly, and in no other name than that of “Josephine.” He was passionately fond of flowers and emboweted his home In them. He was de- voted to art, his residence being filled with the rarest pictures, statues and books, whilo his taste for music made him the leading spirit {n malitaining French opera in New Orleans. The death of his beloved wite, who had shared his tastes, left him desolate, except for the comfort he” Yound {n alleviating want {n her name. So_live, dear friend, all through your life, That be it short of long, Though others may not know your name, They'll not forget your song. It was thus he lived. The Pleayune says that “he would send & message of cheer and help into some darkened home, and the recipient knew not whence it came. No omo ever su pected bim. How could they? . He was so Eruft, so stolid, so determined to keep up the appearance of enow and sleet lying above his heart of gold. It you would have barely hinted that it wds A. C. Hutch- inson who was finding out the hidden sor- row of tear-laden hearts and seeking to alleviate them, no one would have belleved you.” For many years no one knew who “‘Jose- phine” was, in whose name so much good was being done. According to the Ple- ayune: In the name of Josephine I send these gifts;” that was the way the legend ran’ for many and many a day, coming like a flash of sunlight into an alley and garret, into an asylum and orphanage, into the homes for the sorrowful outcast, and ev- erywhere bringing new life, new purpose. With the simple, rough scrap of paper came offerings of coal, of groceries, of wood, of clothing, of money—substantial gifts that lifted the clouds at the darkest moment. “In the name of Josephine;" that was all, and nothing more. And so after a while people began to ask: ‘“Who is Josephine, whose the memory -that is so dear that such royal deeds are done in her name, such unexpected blesstngs fall across the pathways of the miserable and torsaken?" i A little over a year ago the city was taken by surprise that a gemerous -friend bad donated the sum of $50,000 to the Charity hospital of this city for the erec- tion of a home for the Training School for Nurses. One day last November the Marine Journal of New York published an article saying that it had leaked out that A. C, Hutchinson was the giver of the besutiful home. Then the Picayune published the story of “Josephine,” and it was the first real glimpse that the world had into the real character of Mr. Hutchinson. It was @ story that was copled far and wide, and seemed fn its entirety more like an echo trom the of faith and charity than a living, breathing product of this prossic age. “In the name of Josephine" this rich and powerful man left a nobler monument among his people than the great transpor- tation system which he had builded up and he made & better disposition of his fortune than 1t he had hoarded it, to be fought over by relatives, devisees and lawyers. HUSBAND'S FINANCIAL RIGHTS. de Domestic @ fons Numinated by the Court: Has the husband an exclusive right to his own money? Apparently mot, If the decisions of courts are of binding foree. It was not long ago, reports the Chicago Tribune, that a St. Louls judge decided a wife could go through bher husband's pock- ets, of course “unbeknownst” to him, and take therefrom whatever sum she could find to apply to hotsehold expenses. An- other judge in New York recently decided that a wife could purchase what wearing apparel she pleased without consulting the This showed that she retained about one-twentieth of her old sympathy and affection for him or that she thought he could get along on much less than she could. When Mr. Harrison found what Mrs. Harrison had done, and that she wouldn’t give up the plunder, he was twenty times angrier than he ever was before, and had his spouse brought into court upon the charge of larceny. The judge at once decided that a wife cannot steal from her husband and Mrs. Harrison went scot free, and Mr. Harrison was out $1,000 in cash, besides ucquiring the humiliating knowledge that his pocketbook was liable to_domestic Invasion at any time, Of course nll these decisions are based SUNDAY. hriet apprenticeshin Mme. Van Vorst found that ehe could éarn from 90 cents fo $1.05 a day“at“pfece work. Aftér'a few weeks fn Pitisburk she left the pickle factory and went to Perry, N. Y., a town near Buffalo, with a mixed population. Here the author found what she considered the true type of the American working girl, the granddaughter of a line of immigrants who had been fashoned through many gene- rations by the influences of environment The chief Industry of Perry is a shirt fac- tory which gives employment to several hundred young men and young women Mme. Van Vorst, after studying the Perry type of ouvriere became convinced that the difference between these working girls and thelr more fortunate sisters in the larger citles is largely superficial. The working girl in Perry, she Insists, is sepa- rated from the woman of fashion in New York only by a few years of culture and cultivation. Theee girls have none of the of the ‘“‘wage elave.” They were gay and laughing and full of vitality, They ttered continually about thelr love af- fairs, thelr work, their wages and.;the aspects e hrdo. SKATING DRESS SQUIRREL. OF BLACK VELVET upon the theory that man and wife are one, hence the wife cannot steal from the husband. Once this deduction becomes firmly settled in the female mind it will be “hard lnes" for husbands. Not all women are as considerate as Mrs. Harri- son. There are those sufficiently grasping to take the entire $1,050. But what can be done about it if the courts go on this way? Who will be safe? If women ‘were only content to be the half, or. even the better half, and divide equally, the out- look would not .appear so depressing, but in those cases which thus far have been made public the woman has taken the whole of the money, except in the case of Mrs. Harrison, who considered herself en- titled to twenty times as much of the con- tents of bis pocketbook as he who thought ke owned it a)l. If this goes on much longer the man. who is bold enough to enter upon the “holy estate” of wedlock might as well understand that he surren- ders his financial rights, and that when he and the charming creature become they do not share the money jointly Either she takes the whole or they sharo in the proportion of fifty for him and 1,000 | for her. It Is a discouraging outlook for man, who but a brief time ago was “the | tyrant.” one WORKING b A French Woman's Observations and AMERICAN WOMEN, Conclusions, A companion piece in'a’ way to “The Workers” of Walter Wykoff appears in the December number of the Revue des Deux Mondes, under the title “L'Ouvriere sux Etas Unis"—"The Working Woman in the United States.” In order to study the life of the Amertcan working girl for herself Mme. Van Vorst, the author, de- ¢lded to go Into the factory and earn her living as best she could. Her first expe- rience was in a pickle factory in Pitts- burg where the work was hard, conditions far from ideal and the female employes daughters of foreign-born parents, mostly Germans, Hungarians and Irish. After a | —those |w WITH YOKE AND MUFF OF SIBE! superfority of existence In the city as compared with existence In the country. They never spoke, however, of domestic duty, of the kitchen or of housekeeping. Man and dress were the favorite themes. Saturday night after they had received their pay they swarmed the stores and epent what remained of their wages for finery. ““I don’t want to economize,” seemed to be their motto. From Perry the writer went to Chicago, where she established herself in a tenement, worked first in a sweatshop, then in a printing office “and studiea. another phase of industrial life, .A's a result of it all she concludes that while the working women of Ametica are divided into the two common types, the women of thie Household and the women of the factory, the latter clags has produced a variety of workers 'that exist only in the United States. The woman who is forced to carn her living has always ex- isted, but in the United States machinery | has brought into existence the woman who works not to earn her own living, but for her own pleasure. These are two classes who ilve at home, but contribute bmething toward their own support, and those who live at home and spend their s wholly for personal luxuries. The industrial complications which they have produced are apparent even to a foreigner who devoted only a few weeks to the Amer- ican factory. The girls who are not com- pelled by necessity to work for a living lower the wages and the standard of living of the women who are forced to depend on their own efforts, while both lower the scale of wages within certain limits for men. The remedy proposed by Mme. Van Vorst is somewhat utopian, to express the case | mildly. She herself confesses that It would be chimerical anywhere but in the United States. It is neither more nor less than a plan to turn from machine work all these girls who are supported either in whole or in part by their familics by offering them free instruction 'in jndustrial arts, appren- ticeship in useful trades and the possibility of attaining through education a superior place in the wage-earning class. The end of all this is the formation of a class of DECEMBER 28, 1902, CALIFO No matter how you want to go, “Southern™ or “Scen RNIA ? ic” route, in a tourist sleeper or aboard the finest train in America, the Rock Island is the line to take. Don't make ‘any mistake about that. Thro’ tourist cars daily from Kansas City and once a week from Omaha to Los Angeles and San Francisco via El Paso. Tourist cars three times a week from Omaha to San Francisco and Los Angeles via the “Scenic” line through Colo- rado and Utah. Golden State limited leaves Kansas City daily and offers unrivalled service to all points in Southern California. Berths, tickets and full information at all Rock Island ticket offices, or addressing, CaRUTHERFORD, D, P, A 1323 Farnam St, Omaha, Neb, P. S. Write for «The beautifully illustrated of California, practical—sent free o hand workers who would add quality of production to quantity of production. Hand industries that had been destroyed by the machine might be resuscitated under these | conditions and give a true indusfrial art This 1s not Impossible, of course, but it is temporarily improbable, unless the public can pay enough for petroleum to warrant | Mr. Rockefeller in turning his attention to this particular form of scientific benevo- lence. WOMEN DEMAND CAR ATS, y Are Pursuing the Right Course in New York, The expected has happeried at last. Ad- vanced womanhood, scorning longer to ask or to expect little gallantries from the de- spised male sex, has organized to demand as a right what scems to be generally de- nled as a courtesy. Women of New York who have swung on the straps of overcrowded strect cars gnd stepped on the foot of men sitting in front of them have formed the Car Passengers' Rights society. innate gentlemanliness of the men. passen- gers they will first make an attack on the street rallway companies, and failing here, they will appeal to the legislature. These women have adopted a wise course. They are keen enough to recognize that the man who pays a nickel to ride in a street car is as much entitled to a seat as is the woman who gives up a similar amount. Instead of asking the men to waive this right they will seek to persuade the rallway companies to furnish seats tor every nickel fare, or else to secure legis- lation compelling the companies to charge only half fare for passengers who are forced to stand. As the average woman bargain nunter,’ this latter provision, it enforced, might keep every street car strap in Gotham decorated with its femi- nine burden while the men were permitted to enjoy the full measure of comfort to be secured by a G-cent fare. But eyen in the face of this possibility, the new soclety is to be wished every suc- cess. In Chicago its progress will be watched with lively interest, in the hope that the society may form branches and make the movement general. For we have been known here to let an aged woman hang on to a strap until she died—which, by the way, Is no less a re- flection on our courtesy than on a system of transportation so funereal in its prog- 1s a confirmed BMART COATS FOR SMALL MAIDS, daughter opened buds, of season 18 blen ery spangl ress as to make death in transit seem not | wholly anomalous ‘ For and Ahout Women. Mrs, Harriet Earl Hunt and ner daughter, | Mrs, thryn Hunt James, the first women 10 go into business In Stoux City, In., have prublished a paper cal “The Stylus" for twelve years. Mrs. F Just_dlec iza Walford in Santa Kea Ana the of Ci in Anthory Forbes of | British army and was born on the Rock ibraltar while her father was In com- and of the fortre Migs Florer appolnted spec ha yward, who has been 1 commissioner of the St Instead of appealing to the | W i I t TOILETTE OF BLUE AND BLACK TAR- TAN WOOL, SQUIRREL PELERINE Louls xhibitlon to Burope, is sald to be the fi be st woman who has been appointed to such an Important post. She was born in New Mexico and has lived in St. Louls since her childhood, though she was for several years a resident in this country as corr Bpondent of one or more American new: papers. Miss Frances Power Cobbe has just passed her elghtieth birthday and fs spend- irg the winter at Clifton, England. The occaslon was celebrated by the presenta- tion of an album and an address. The al- bum eontained the signatures of 3% men and_women of note 1ding the ducheas of Butherland: ' Mark Tw X bishops and the master of Balliol. For eighteen years Miss Cobbe was honorary secretary fety she founded to oppose vivi- ndfor the last four s she president of the Britfsh Un bolition of Viviseotion. Her arti- | & h the better treatment of women, children and animals have been numbered by the hundred [y ¢ W 1 ¥rills of Fashion, [t Chinchilla is used for trimming smart costumes of velvet In dark violet, gray and brown. A soft, leather covered golf score has a four-leaf clover painted upon outside. Tollet sets of i spicuous, as well productions The latest In umbrella stands fis affair in umbi pe, the in serving to hold the umbrellas A handsome muff chain is d trregular-shaped pearls, turquol vari-colored sapphires and rubies "ur s used considerably on evening gowns, Siberian irrel ‘combining ad- mirably with white, gray or yellow chiffon or crepe de ehine White net and crape gowns for debutante wear are given a distinct charm this season by the Introduction of ®iny seed pearl ga- lons and button roses An old-fashioned looking plece of fancy work is & small work basket of silk, which | 8 appears to be supported on the outside by a number of scallop shells While & multiplicity of colors fs observ- able in the bead card cases and pocket- books that greet the shopper at this time of the year, white and gold appears to be the favorite combination In white enamel and gems is a_dainty | necklet, showing an arilstic bleading « color. Bapphires in tints ranging from the tamillar dark blue to pink, yellow and blue rubles and green and yellow chrysobels being the stones linked in the neckiace by @ pretty design In enamel Chrysanthiemums, with bright red Parma_violeis with a fringe of s flecked with brilliants and c tiny rosebud truils, are a few effects in floral garniture f, black net or crepe brought book the non- sliver and ehony are as the perennial brass gores yrated with matrix, a fringe of un. Virginia ereeper Ik As embroldery for s turquolse with go! and white alds mingle with fine gold stitch nes, finely cut jet and st llized for the adornment and em: Ri BN Yerdons black fancy 1 kid shoes, and an extreme is erfly embroldery decorsting the toes of some beautiful shoes, infailible Sleeplessness Night Sweats, Bad Dreams, DR. W. oL Waler, lew, KLOW ledge: Rrmied inebriate, & “Uppler, or drunkard. bave an appetite tor aicoholic UQuors after using White Ribbon Remedy. 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