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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1903, 1D WONAN NOT ALL IS WRONG! | i# as Much to Blame as She for Marital Misery, CHAMPION OF THE SEX ANSWERS SUFFERER Some Weak Spots in Letter Published Last ay Pointed Out and Ray of Hope for Writer | Suggested. OMAHA, Oct, 5—To the Editor of The Dec: As a reader of The Bee for neafly a er of & century 1 cannot refrain from king exceptions to an article in laxt Sun- under the caption “Blames All Woman,” and signed “One of the casual observer of men and affairs see that the article was a fagrant misrepresentation of facts and an unjust arraignment of woman. This subject of | man and woman In their various so- and marital relations is of such in- finite scope as to make it Impossi- ble to state with matematical pre- cision what per cent of shortcomings should be charged to man and what to| woman. But it is a generally accepted fact | among reasonable people that it is a case of “six of one and half a domen of the | other.” So, when “Ome of the Sufferers” tells us that from his observation %0 per cent of the cases of marital unhappiness were aused by woman, he certainly must ex- cuse us for thinking his observations very | ed, and for refusing to accept his state- as applicable in & general sense. Statistios will refute such a statement. The writer further attests his lmited knowledge of the subject by stating he has found the average woman to be “thought- | less, selfish, self-indulgent, inconsiderate | nd cruel,” and then ciinches the nafl by ridiculing her love, for ornamental head dress, and cites the case of a certain cler- &yman, who made investigations and found that the millinery and dressmaking estab- | lishments were making greater rents in our | social fabric than the dram shops. Our | friend’s censure of woman on account of | her love for fine dress is more than an- | swored by rn eastern writer, who says: It we are “fadish” about our clothes ‘tis | the faalt of you mén. Dow't criticise us un- rably, for no matter what we are. we | us. cultivate | cial ] ired brains, we amiable creatures would cultivate brains. But he don't, and so we | cultivate a love for the beautiful e- | small talk. And who's to blame® 1f! are foolish—please harken to George ‘God Almighty made ‘em to match After taking the giad garments from woman and arraymg her in sack cloth and One of the Sufferers” then gives a of exceptional instances of domes- ¢ unhappiness, all of which reminds us of the Irishman, who, having heard that feathers made a soft pillow, piace. ,one feather between his head and a rock, and forthwith declared that if one feather was %0 hard, & ot of them would be propor- tionately harder. Our friend then makes the broad state- ment that “every woman is eaten up by pride and ambition,” and offers to quote volumes from Shakespeare, Byron and others in support of his contention that | woman is the incarnation of all the vices | Feachied the age of 4 years we ought to Suppose you are a good man, or you oot et o Tt emior, “oe| FROM ANSTERDAM TU BERLIN women. I dom't suppose that you would be willing to admit that the worid is - equally as full of vain, frivolous, seinsh, | What a Traveler Sees in Low Oountries aad unconusiderate, cruel aud heartiess men, or A‘n‘ ‘h. n‘n& we will say the towns and citles, as we all know they have their share of such X men, as well as of the women of which | DUTCH THRIFT AND MODERN BRIGANDAGE you write. But, oh, they are not .the It they are, God help the suffer- Breesy Letter from an Omaha Visiter to the Regions of Wooden t are to take our places. 1 everyone of us at has our Vanoss of some kind, and that we could Shees and Siow ®rite voiumes If we saw fit, but i each of s’ Wére to writé our own opinion of all o the people that we know and criticise from —— our own standpoint and were to put these X, —(Spec! Correspond- saghe criticisms in print and scatter them | BERLIN, Sept. 19— (Special C P & ence.)—There is nothing like an extended broadeast among the people, 1| wonder | Wit ocean voyage to create in the heart of & would happen. 1 believe that It would throw the whnole universe into a fiu | of despondency and discouragement, from | which it Woula not recover until the Se Lissie peasmiit, finatation had passed away steamer, the gleaming light of The Lizar There is no ome of us who can reform | Shines out like a beacon of cheer and wel- the world. 1 for one do mot think it safe | C°Me. No creeping thing was ever so hear 40 1r¥, but I do think that when we have |IY Welcomed and enthusiastically cheered as this English reptile that assured us we would soon dgafn be stretching our sea legs on land. On July 18 we landed in Hol- land and found the Dutch greens a pleasant change from the monotonous green of the | sea. The Dutch have honestly gained their | reputation for indefatigable industry and Oh, yes, there is just one thing more 1|canny thrift. On every side are the re- would like to say. About this traveling | Suitant signs of prosperity and comfort man and his troubles: Mr. Sufferer, this | The fields, dotted everywhere with large, picture does seem just a wee bit overdrawn, | Dell-topped, four-armed windmills, shine but that's ail right. Allow me to draw the | !ike emerald Herds of cattle graze on the pleture at the olher end of the road. 1 have | OPen flats that stretch, green, rich and been in a position to know a few traveiing | Jevel, as far as the eye can reach. men's families myself. Did you see this| But If this bird's-eye view of Dutch rural same traveling man after he had turmed | life is restful, Dutch urban life is more the cofner and set down the heavy grips, | WOrthy of note. To one inured to the mat- landlubber a longing for terra firma. After ten days' confinement to the limited promenade quarters of an ocean-going begin ¢ e & few of the good things In | iffe an@ make the best of what good we | do see and not waste our time and sour | our disposition by picking flaws with the few frivolous persons that we happen to meet. self, “Poor Marie, it is too bad, but a fel- | the almost primitive ways and easy-going low can’t be expected to sit around an old | methods of the Rotterdam citizens come hotel office all the time; he must have a | With a sensation of picturesque delight and little fun.” And when he reached the hotel | almost of relief. Not that Rotterdam shows how he arrunged his business iaatters;’ /ess signs of a pulsing business life than probably then sent the promised letter to | Amsterdam or The Hague, but that Dutch beloved wife and ended up that night | !ife is nearer its natural and primitive level by taking some girl to the show Put, | The Hague and Amsterdam are court cities then, “a fellow has to have a little fun.” | and, like all centors of fashion and pleas- There could be volumes writteh on this | ure, have taken on a superficial stratum. subject of disposition, for that is all it Life in Rotterdam. amounts to after all. showing up the dif-| 1, poterdam, Dutch life may be seen at ferent disposition of different persons. |y, bese Dogs harnessed to handcarts are which afe as varied as the “ingredients in the favorite agents of transportation, and a caldfon of boarding house hash.” And|ipey geurry along the streets with a speed now if 1 have said too much I hope Mr. | Lo “p h " Lo a not credit Sufferer will excuse me, but I wish to say | heavy-laden mongrels. Its street rallway also that the vain, fiippant men, of Which (oo 0)i1ies have not advanced beyond the every town has its full share, and they are ¢ one-horsed stage. The Dutch policemen, not all under 3 years either. I am SOITY | 40 are at first objects of wonder and sur- SE NS « Mat disgusting to £00d | ,ryep The first member of the Dutch women as these same traits in WOmAR are | .g. . iw tnat I ever met I took for a Dutch to good men. Yours truly, MRS. ELLA EDWARDS. MANY DOLLARS FOR FEW CENTS Ome Hundred a Sixty-Twe Hid in Casket Go with Pro- visions. cape, helmet, braided coat, spotless white gloves and clattering sword. When I learned my mistake I came to the con- provided with an orderly to carry his ac- coutrements in case his services might be required. But of all the quaint sights in this city of canals and bridges nothing was more primitive than the fee-fishing toll- taker. Nearly all the swinging bridges are state property, but here 3 private bridges that the state bas not ac- quired and here the Dutch toll-taker, seated high in a little tower on the bridge, lets- urely collects his toll. ‘Within a few hours the demand for toma- toes will have become feverish. The sup- ply on hand is by no means large and could be s0ld in an hour. It is not that the to- matoes are of superlative quality, in fact they are rather poor and sold early in the day for %5 cents a basket. No, the sudden these | major general so bedecked was he with | clusion that each policeman might well be and there are As the bridge swings demand is for purposes of speculation. Meanwhile F. Babbitt, a gardener from near DeBolt Place, sits alone Loiding bhis head, and wondering how honest the gen- eral public is. In a basket of tomatoes which he sold Saturday morning was $162 cash. The tragedy begins on the dewy, chilly farm about 4 o’'clock Saturday morning. Mr. Babbitt is hitching up to bring a load of tomatoes to the city market. But he has | other business, too, for the rent is due on his lease. 8o he takes out the necessary | $162 from the family bank, which is sbout | all it contains. But Mr. Babbitt has on former occasions been held up twice on the lonely road and relleved of small sums of money. “Ah ba,” says he, slipping the purse down and the source of all our woes. Why not | quote from hundreds of the world's great- | est men, who have attributed more or less | of thelr success to their mothers, wives and sisters?—great men as they were, are we to allow Shakespeare and Byron to sit in judgment on our women? Don't be too severe on the women, fel- low “sufferers.” Your's has surely been a hard row, but remember that “behind the clouds ic the sun still shining.” and that ‘virtue is its own reward” EDWARD BLACK. FREMONT, Neb., Oct. 9.—To the Editor of The Bee: I have been reading the dif- ferent articles in The Bee, written by Mrs. Belle Aldrich and “One of the Sufferers.” I cannot resist the temptation to write a few ines. I would like to say to the suf- ferers that it does not seem wise or fair to form an opinion of womankind, by the few that one man may happen to know in a lifetime. To average women that this poor sufferer * has known have been | (IS ETOCEr, & basket to an Assyrian woman, ‘houghtless, selfish, inconsiderate and cruel Mr. Babbitt hastens to enter into the com- away out in the country. or where, out of your suffering ooe 18 you SERMECBN s was in the basket and went with a sale and women that Mrs. Belle Aldrich telis “Who, who can have #t? Oh, dear, good about, and a great many lke honest world,” softly goes the mourner's mother and aunt. I dom't agree S ] help us all it it is s0.” I have had a fit of the blues whe that letter. You kmow you SeptembBer Shows More Activity Than Any Corresponding Month in Six Years. The real estate transfers ahd building permits for the month of September for Omaha show the largest totals of any SeptembBer since 1897, Seventy-two permits were lssued, aggregating $208.07. Of this number forty-six were for new bulldings, torty ‘for frame structures, six for brick buildings, twenty-six for two-story, fifteen | for ome-story and five for one and one- half-story buildings. The largest permit covered the street rallway power house | for $16.000. The total number of deeds filed was 372, with considerations amounting to @ trifle Mgh? She will probably wear it two winters. and perhaps three, with a lit- tie fixing over. Or suppose the new tailor sult did cost a tnfe more than you had expected; after a while the jacket can be ecolored and made over for little Nellie, and the skirt will make litle May a wheie dress, and everything will be wil right, and by the tizne you have lived tweaty years more you will think that you have got the best wife and one of the best mar- Tiages of the whole universe But think seriously, my good man, for 1 Quality and Class count for more in a stove or range than in any other article of domestic use. Masufacturcd Ouly The Michigan Stove &pmy, Largest Makers of Stoves and Reages in the World, Detroit up the toll-taker throws a long fishing pole and lne, at the end of which is a small wooden shoe, over the side of the bridge. The steersman of the passing boat deposits therein his fee, the fisherman leisurely draws up his silver catch and Rotterfam canal traffic swings serenely on. Rotterdam seems to have grown old as a man grows old. It shows no signs of sudden change. Its ancient, straggling red- tiled houses, in places, lean tipsily out of plumb over the lips of the canals. In other streets it is hard to guess what effect the architct wished to bring out. One wing of a house will jut boldly out, another will hang timidly back as If it has mot quite made up its mind to declare itself. It seems that the Dutch never think of tearing down, rebuilding and remodeling. The churches stand cold, massive, bare and cheerless, scornfully and sternly resisting the comforts that modern heating and lighting facflities might give them. In Amsterdam, an old exchange stands, broken down and empty, facing the busiest thoroughfare in the city. In America it would soon give place to a sky scraping office building, but the Dutch eiing to thelr anclent landmarks with a tenmacity that is wlmost religlous. They would as soon think of removing their grandsires as of remodelirig their ancient buildings, Duteh Inquisitivemess. If there is one other thing as universally apparent as Dutch thrift and industry and Dutch reverence for the past, it is the keen sense of Dutch curiosity. Nearly all the upper windows of Dutch houses are pro- vided with reflecting swivel mirrore, and here the Dutch dames sit, screened from view themselves by a convenient shutter or curtain, but able to discuss at leisure the pedestrian approaching from the op- posite direction, without incurring ihe fate that befell Lot's wife. Possibly this same characteristic is responsible for the Dutch citizen's fondness for cafe life. The Dutch- man will take his seat in & cafe, opening on the street, order a glass of Holland beer, half and half, or a cup of the finest coffee in the world, and discuss it and passers-by for a couple of hours. A street sceme at night from the vantage of one of these of life and color. The Kalverstraat, Am- sterdam, especially 'affords the spectator a typical Holland night street scene and for variety and animation can be surpassed only in Parls and Brussels. The narrow street, not more than fifteen feet wide, is a solid mass of moving humanity, ot braided officers, uniformed soldiers, serv- ant girls, marked by their long striped overskirt and little lace mufin caps, orphans in thelr strange garb, one half black and the other scarlet, peasant women in their monotonous costume, consisting of long white head dress, golden crullers and drab skirts, saliors, eivilians and sirangers. Getting Out of Town. From Amsterdam to Cologne may be three hours as the crow flies, but I found it some eight hours, as the Duich accom- modation train crawls. European trans- pogiation faciliies are far behind our American service, both in method and equipment. For instance, I wished to freight & trunk and was presented with aa official document. capacious enough to in- ventory & small department store and enough time was consumed in filling out, signing and franking the document and feeing the various officials, to check and freight & whole depot full of baggage in America. One finds, however, that a drop of ol of “Trinkgeld” makes the lesser cogs move considerably faster. Through- cut Europe there scems to be no definite and adequate system of salary, and the traveler loses much valuable time, to say nothing of coin of the realm, when the porticrs, kellners and other empioyes ap- pear, to demand their salaries. So anne ing and persistent is (his system of Licensed brigandage that Americans might weil re- adapt & few bars of the “Star Spangied Banner” and sing them with sest and en- ihusasmo The pirate’s forever ve black shall Over the land of l:.{oq and the l«:- ot the knave. in this frame of mind I arrived at Co- popular cafes affords a splendid panorama | composed | the Kalser Glocke was sounding the knell of Pope Leo XIIL This colossal bell, in the tower of the cathedral, weighs T tons and requires the combined efforts of thirty- two men to swing it. It was molten from the French cannon, captured in the war of 1870-1571 and was presented to the catehdral by William 1. As for the cathedral itself, tempt to describe it is only to cheapen Wordes cannot adequately convey the impresssion of grandeur and immensity, symmetry and beauty, massiveness and delicacy, overpowering oppressiveness and exalting inspiration this fluted. gargoyled, 8 pinnacied, buttressed mass of spires and | towers makes on the beholder. The towers and spires are models of symmetry and | proportion. Every stone leaf, even In the { @arkest corner, is as delicately and per- | fectly carved as the figures on the great | bronze doore. This massive temple unites | in itself the fineness of a coral formation, | the amplitude on a mountain, the delicacy |of filagree work and the majesty of & | heaven touching peak. l Ome Day on the R . | A day on the Rhine from Cologne to thz carries the traveler through the moet beautiful, picturesque and historic | portion of Germany. The splendid river | steamers, siip swiftly up this stream | through ever changing scenery. The bold | rise_and Attic clarity of outline of the | mountains, -the long green sweep of the | covered hills, the myriad shades of the | parti-colored fieids, laid out as carefully |and accurately as if by the hand of & | landscape gardener, meke a charming | pieture on a glorious sunshiny day. | Ancient casties, in all stages of ruin and | restoration, line the whole course of the { Rhine. The ruin of the Drachenfels, with |its fallen towers and portcullis, perched | like a great gray eagle on the bald cuft 500 *!gave Bis bionde mustache an extra curl | ter-of-fact, up-to-date ways and the rush | feet above the Rhine is perhaps the most |and winked the other eye and say to him- |and hurly-burly of American urban life, | tamous, but there are many others more | picturesque. Almost all stand on seemingly | inaccessible hills. Their walls are falien and shattered. Vines clamber up and fiil the breaches. The blue sky saining | through the Gothic-pointed windows give | them the appearance of sightless eyes while the broken machicolation of the battle- | ments looks like the grinning jaw of death s | head. A tall, angular, rawboned American teacher standing near, after looking in- and balf in the dream of the past, ex- claimed: “Where are the owners of these | robber castles now?' To which a fellow | passenger, smarting from a recent experi- | ence, remarked that they must have moved down into the neighboring cities and taken possession of the hotels and | restaurants. Evening was a fitting close to a day of | interest and beauty. The hills that all day long had stood out 0 sharply &s to weary the eye were now shrouded and softened by the evening's shadows. The vIvid green of the fields darkened as the shadows crept over the hills. The tolling of village belis came softened trom the distance like the coolng of a dove. The Rhine lay behind us in a broad bronse, almost rippleless stream, over wmich night gradually drew a curtain. over which night gradually drew a curtas MAX MERRITT. PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS. “Tommy,” asked the teacher of a small pupil, “what does N. B. stand for?” “New Brask promptly answered { Tommy, who was third in a geography class of three. There was a look of sadness on 5-year-old Margie's face and her father asked her what was the trouble. “Oh,” sighed the Mttle miss, “I've got such an awful headache in my stomach!™ “Say,” said the little boy in the country, after he had watched proceedings atten- tively for some ime, “let me see if 1 can’t pull the milk out of her, too.” “How 0ld are you?" the teacher asked the new student. “Six years old,” lisped the little one. “When were you six?™ iaked the teacher. “The day our hired girl came,” said the little one, coaclusively. “How much is them wstermelons, mis- ter?" asked a ragged lttle miss of 5 years. “Oh, go "long with you,” replied the ven- der. “You ain't ot no mone ‘Well,” rejoined the small female, “ain’t 1 got as good a right to go shoppin’ as the other ladies™ Little Elmer—8ay, Uncle Bob, what makes you walk lame? Uncle Bob—There was a street-car accl- Gent to-day and I got caught in the jam. Litte Simer—Well, | know how that is. Mamma caught me in the jam one time and I walked lame for a week. An amiable roung woman whose artistic ability enabled her to draw a fairly rucog- nizable cat, relates Harper's baza:, was wont to amuse & 3-year-old boy by delin- eations of this domestic creature. Untor- tunately, in his picturebook explorarions the child encountered a peccary, and cne | day he asked her to draw him one of those. Diffidently, but sustained by the thought that the youngster was no more familiar with this interesting beast than herself, she essaved its portralture. After ‘s mo- ment of silent and somewhat aggrieved consideration of the result he handed it back. ™ he said curtly. RELIGIOUS. The Baptists are to four meets houses in Cuba at a cost of about $13.000. The work there is reported as being most | cheering in fts progress. | The report of the International Commit- | tee of Becretaries of the Young Men's Chris- an assoctation shows great progress dur- | the last year. Eight new secretaries will shortly sail for foreign flelds. E. A Johnson, chesen moderator erect man other than a Caucasian ever elected to such a position in the United States. Rev. Milton J. Norten of Immanuel Con- gregational church. St. Louis, has declined an offer to take charge of a mission sta- tion in Turkey. He says more need of missionary work in St. Louls than in the domain of the sultan. Vacation Bible schools in New York eity i el of the workers of the Baptist City Mission society during the mer proved very successful fifteen schools, with a total 440% and an erage 11%. Almost unaided, Rev. W. A Lewis of the Cherry Valley, Pa.. Methodist church rebuflt the house of worship in which his congregation assembled. He did the paint- ing. mason and carpenter work and even carried the bricks and foot ladder. last Sunda The British and foreign Bible soclety P ed last year in mission lands 8% jan Bible women who live where only women can t sum- were enrolment of dally attendance of mortar up a thirty- The church was rededicated to an average of . omen and have taught 348 women themselves. Douet, D. D. each week to read for Rt Rev. C. F. coad; Jamaica, who is i and = mission cha, wholly wrecked by the late hmfl.m.':: forty-four Mission chapels were seriously and twelve rectories partiall completely destroyed. e tently at a number of these ruined castles | Orchard & Wilhelm @ARPET CO. 1416-1418-1420 DOUGLAS STREET RICH LACE CURTAINS cost little, but they add lyxury to the room. Just about one hundred years ago lace curtains were first made by machinery, previous to which none but the very well-to-do could afford the plainest of curtains—now the most beautiful curtains are within the reach of all. 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