Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1909, Page 22

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEM BER 26, 1909. What the Women Are Doing Nrs. Robert Edwin Peary. N a personal sketch of Mrs. Peary, wife of the polar ex- plorer, Margaret B. tells many incidents of an inter- esting career, and quotes the Joyful sentiments over the attainment of the goal of her hus- band's ambition. “I come to Washington,” Mrs. Peary said, “with a feeling of relief after any kind of adventure through which I have passed. Getting back to your old neighbors, to your old friends, to your own level, as it were, gives a restful sensation, Every one here knows all about me, and I feel free with that sense of speculation which agitates every stranger one meets wnen one's name 18 on the lips of many. becoming a little weary and somtimes I dsk why affair at ail Allowing that every minded person desires fame, or, at least tolerates it when it comes, I must plead that nearly every woman would prefer to have her home, her husband and her chil- dren more her own property. The role of the woman who waits in agonizing sus- pense has been so often assigned to me that I begin to think that I fill it actually instead of by the grace of those who sketch my character. 1 often ask what could I do but wait. 1 went once to the frozen north, but such an experience as that twice in one short lifetime was not to be con- sidered.” Mrs. Peary wields a graceful pen, and her graphic account of life In the north has passed into the literature of that reglon, and, besides recording a record of absorbing interest, it has a scientific value. of this publieity I belong to this right- With a thorough training in letters as well | Mrs, Peary s im the position which the twives of few explorers have been. Not only can she &ympa- thize with her husband’s aspirations, but she can fully comprehend all his difficul- ties, compute Lis labors and appreciate the measure of success which has come to re- ward his patient efforts, Though dhe mod- estly disclaims any expert knowledge of polar explorations, Mra, Peary much time to a subject which only from an objective standpoint can have any in- terest for women. She has read practi- cally the entirc Nterature on the 8he can narrate all that pravious explorer: accomplished In the far north, how far they went, what new land they discovered, their adventures and thelr mode of life. Natur- ally she has absorbed all that relates to the native customs and to the sparse plant lite, and her conversation is often enliv- ened by little touches of the domesti méthods among the Eskimos and the pe- culfarities of nature. She is frequently invited to lecture her- self, as she has a fine delivery and easy conversational way of bringing interest- ing facts to the front. eral clubs and has always been gracious about contributing her part to their enter- tainments. Personally Mrs. Peary is a pleasant woman, with a frank countenance and a direct, businesslike way of getting at the bottom of things. She is immensely as #clence, proud of her husband, but she prefers not | to have him the toplc of conversation at | every gathering where she appears. 15 tactful about avolding this without of- fending her questioners. She is fond of her home and takes untold pleasure in the family unlon which she now enjoys. more capable housewife cannot be imag- ined, for she was reared by Industrious, practical parents of the old school and of German descent. She can cook and sew and do everything about a house which may be necessary to do, and she can do all this well. She takes a deep Interest in her culi- nary department and few women can show more successful results where her varied avocations permit her to perform these wonders herself. Mrs. Peary takes a pro- found Interest in the education of her chil- dren, and, owing to the nomadic life she has been compelled to lead for some years past, she has glven it a personal super- vision. She has also been the teacher of her little son. L Millions for Feathers. There is testimony that one commercial plume hunter in Florida boasted of having in one season made a kil of 125,000 birds, says a writer in Everybody's. All the col- lections in this country and Europe, caged or stutfed, do not embrace as many skins as are sold for millinery in one London auction—and there are several London auc- tions in a year. Do you know that imports of millinery feathers to this country are valued at about $11,00,00, while the valua- tibn of dlamond imports at the last census was only about $12,00,007 Of course, bawks, crows, owls, black buzzards kil other birds or eat their eggs, or young. The dog, the cat, the alligator, the mon- goose and the fox must be found guilty, ong with the pot-hunters; and woods- men, sparing few trees and neglecting (o provide for new growths, have been un- wittingly accomplices. Storms, catching bitds over great waters In migrating sea- son, destroy great numbers by exhaustion. But plume hunters are at work all over the world. Not long ago & band of Japa- nese ‘ralders were captured by an Ameri- can war vessel on one of the Hawallan fslands, with a billlon skins in their camp, accumulated for the Parls trade. When W. Alanson Bryan went to an outlylng Hawallan island he discovered that that Mttle speck on the sea was yielded 60,000 skins every six months (o traders In one recent instance a physiclan and bis two sons had been busy trying to| “hiake a record.” They had not killed be- cause they could thus earn more in ten hours than otherwise in a month. They hadl not Killed to keep breath and life in théir best beloved. They had killed just to relleve a tedium. The tedium must have been entirely relieved; everywhere lay the dead bodies of the vietims of the holiday - Rediscover the Home, ‘With the coming of the apartment houses 1n cities, little is left of the old-fashioned home. Even domestic arts—sewin and housework—have ceased to be. Joseph Lée in the December issue of~The Survey wiys ‘that: Even in the matter of physical care the school doctor and, scheol nurse have, at first sight, apparently taken over what used to be functions of the home. comes the question of sehool feeding. Now far distant. and vigor as is good food, and public pr _vision of sleeping quarters must follow 1ogteally. This progressive transfer of functions from the home to the school has resulted - from our determination that the ehild shall have the best possible chance; that he shall, if we can bring it about, grow up straight and strong and fitted to live a noble and successful life. And it all looks on the face of it like one process. The Downing | expressed | 1 must confess to| devoted | subject. | She belongs to sev- | Al cooking At| present the proposal is chiefly that of giv- ing one meal & day; but & child without breakfast or supper is still underfed, and the question of giving all the meals is not Pure alr s a3 essential to life offective? The question seems simply how far a single principle shall be carried. Is it such in truth, or is there somewhere an invisible line béyond which we are no | longer doing what we started out to do, but something else, or are we undoing it? Obviously there must be somewhere such a line If the existence of the home is of importance to our purpose. For If we de- prive it of all its attributes the home must cease to be. American Women. “For us Europeans there certainly exists a physical type of American woman,” says Marcel Prevost, the great French psycholo- glst, In the January number of Harper's Bazar, In vain do I say to myself that I have, with my own eyes, seen American women of small stature; others with brown skin al hair like that of Itallan women; stili others endowed with a rather generous plumpness; in vain again do I say to my- self that as the population of the United States recruits itself in all countries ot the globe it must naturally contain speci- mens of every size, of every color of face and halr; in spite of everything the two words, ‘American woman,’ evoke before my mind a tall person, rather slender, though vigorous looking; with rather light, auburn hair, a complexion agreeably, but not excessively, colored. *** I am think- Ing at this moment of a real American, Mrs, 8-, who the season before last, in 1908, was indeed a ‘lion’ in Parislan soclety. A very fair blonde, tall and siender, with the most beautiful complexion in the world |ana eyes of a delighttul blue. She danced |so perfectly that, oblivious of all else, one could have watched her for hours. Im- possible to win greater popularity than she enjoyed that year. She eclipsed—according to many Frechmen—the most celebrated of |our professional Parisian beautles, Mme. -, whom, by an amusing colncidenc she resembled slightly. Welll—that Is how |1 imagine the American woman, taking into | consideration, of course; all the differences \\'hlch would separate an ‘ordinary’ woman | trom an ‘exceptional’ one like Mrs. S—. But even with less brilllancy, grace, and real beauty, it would be a privilege in it- self to be compared to the fascinating Mrs, “When I sit down at table beside an American woman of Paris, she immediately |asks me: ‘Have you deen such and such a play? Have you been to such and such an art exhibition? What do you think of this novel or of that philosophical or historical book recently published” * * * And 1 |am forced to admit that I have not seen | the latest play, that for more than {vears I have not set my foot inside the annual ‘salons,’ that I read slowly and | carefully, and am therefore forced to read but few books. And I know my American | neighbor feels great disdain for my in- | culture Still I have infinite sym- | pathy for her charming and universal in- | teliectual curiosity; only long experience | has taught me that man's head cannot con- tain too many ideas at once. “There is consequently an abyss between the way most American women I have met | concelve Intellectual culture and my own way. Iar from me to pretend that I am vight! And I give thanks to heaven, which sends us, In the American women of Paris, the most wonderful public fo:' books or theaters or lectures. But it I had the honor of being professor of French to ysung | American girls I would begin With the fol. lowing truthful anecdote: “A compatriot of theirs, speaking to the poet Francols Coppee, asked, * ‘Do you speak English, monsieur?’ “And Coppee answered, modestly: “‘Non, madame. 1 am still learning French.’ " ten Comcerning the Breakfast Table. Referring to the alleged “Degeneration of the Breakfast Table,”” a writer in Every- body's Magazine relieves his mind in this way: “I am aware that, according to the latest edition of the revised statutes, eating ple at breakfast is now a penitentiary offense punishable by hard labor on the farm for a period not exceeding eighty-five years; but it once shared with early rising the reputation of a virtuous act. There are people today who are well thought of in the community—who even ‘dress for din- ner,’ bless your heart!—who have, none the less, eaten pie for breakfast and have tipped back on their chair's hind lega when the broom was passed, and sat thus with such a smile upon their faces as spoke of peace with all the world, themselves in- cluded. “But nowadays merely to talk of so much fried stuff, pork and eggs and potatoes and pancakes and so much sweet stuff, mo- | lasses, fruit preserves coffee cup a puddle of sugar, pie, and all that, sends us who it to the kitchen cupboard where tha | cooking soda is, first aid to the indjgestive. | To eat such a meal seems hardly less bar- | barous than wearing feathers in a scalp | lock. But remember that we didn’t work | all day’ yesterday from before daylight till atter dark. We didn't tumble Into bed and fall sound aslecp ere ever our heads had touched the pillow, so anxious was the night-shift of the body's repair gang to get on the job of tearing out old tissue and putting in new. We aidn’t waken in the | morning to find a hurry order for more raw material hanging on the hook, and we didn't put an edge like a broken bottle on that hurry call by stirring around at fifty. ven kinds of temper-snarling chores. | We haven't before us a whole long morn- |ing with a mail and glut, splitting rails, | or breaking up new ground with a balky team—a morning so long that it becomes & young eternity about half-past 10 o'clock, when the front of the body below the walst begins again to chafe and grind on the backbone in spite of all the fats and inweel:l that can be put in between at break- | fant to act as tender. “1 do look ahead Into the future, which I verily bellieve belongs to those pure spirits who save thelr appetites till lunch- eon time, when they regale themsely: uUpon a water-cracker and a glass of but- termilk. Nor do I peer stlll farther into the yet-to-be when we shuil all fast two or three days at a time, doing the world's work meantime with that quickening and clarified intellect which comes with free- dom from the shackles that fetter our as- piring souls to anything so gross as grub. | T rejolce In spirit over that coming triumph | of economy when mind suall have at last &0t In the solar-plexus blow that shall cause matter (the low-down whelpi) to take the count. I shall not live to see the day, but |1 know that now the password is: “A cup of coffee and a roll,” and he who gays breakfast is his best meal, but lags super- fluous on the stage, already set for a new scene.” not —— An Abdicated Mother. A mother whose daughter has taken to interior decoration as & business gave & deep sigh, suggestive of regret. p | “There was a tim she sald, “when 1 selected my own w patterns, chose the Tugs and draperies I admired, picked out my own lamps and bric-a-brac, and bought child peeds cducation; he needs Industrial | my own furniture. e needs playgrounds, protection if we can K supply one, why not the rest? Why tndeed | service for which she charges others. sease; he needs food not seem possible any Daughter is happy In giving me a She “But it does longer. must we not supply the rest to make the |says, ‘Oh! mother, that tint is impossible! one—the conceded ore, popular education— ‘That sofa—don't you see it never matches Beginning MONDAY, DEOC. 26th, Handk rchief Sale "An immense lot of and Children's Handkerchiefs, slightly mussed or handling we will close at The Tailor Suits, Coats and the Silk and Wool Dresses—at Hall, Wednesday Children's and Infants' Coats, Dresses, Caps and all other Outer Garments at 3. | 25¢ Handkerch 50c Handkerchiefs at Blanket Sale Clearing out all winter Blankets at very low prices—in some cases cut in two All Cotton Blankets $1.00 quality . quality quality 200 quality WOOL RLANKETS sold up to $12.50, at $1.00, $2.88, $1.47,§2.00, $2.24, $2.48. 6, '$3.30, $4.00, $4.50 and $5.00 SPECIAL ON coml-n $1.00 Comforts Comforts Comforts $2.00 Comforts $3.00 Comforts And o0 on up will go at— .$1.18! R " to ‘the higl HALF PRICE H¢ Handkerchiefs at . 10¢ Handkerchiefs at 16c Handkerchiefs at.. 73¢ | All The Greatest Garment Sale of the Year— the Very Opportunity You Have Been Waiting for AYDEN: So Large Is the Stock That We Find It Necessary To Divide It Into Lots Never before have such complete assortments of charming mew garment styles been shown in a Halt Price Sale, ing that if you are not satisfied of any garment. making a purchase we'll cheerfully You may select from December 1st assortments at Feb. 15th Prices with the distinct understand- refund to you the purchase price Monday Ladies’ and Children’s Coats and Ladies’ Capes at Half and Less Regular Retail Prices All Ladies’ Coats that sold at $50 and $60 at .....$25.00 All Ladies’ Coats that sold at $4C and $45.00 at...$20.00 CHILDREN'S COATS Omaha for your selection. All newest prices- and colors, $1 Underskirts—- Monday styles, $1.00 Waists — Monday ..50¢ All Ladies’ Coats that sold a Best stock in all sizes — day «e... $1.00 Dressing ..50¢ | Sacques ..50¢ | All Ladies’ Coats that sold at $25.00 and $30.00 at. $12.50 $2.00 OChildren's Dress All Ladies’ Coats that sold a t $15.00, choice at ....$7.50 OPERA AND STREET CAPES — Choice styled and materials in matchless assort- ment, values from $15 up to $125, all Mon- veeessees. . JUST HALF PRICE | es at . .$1 A FEW OF THE MANY DELIGHTFUL BARGAIN OFFERINGS in Our Great Pre-Inventory Clear- ance Beginning Monday Ladies’ soiled by 2%¢ .. 5¢ The 12%é -25¢ pieces, at iefs at . All Dr severe cu All $1.00 to reduce stock ALL DAY, 00d! s black or colors ... Goods, black or colors Goods, black or colors ... ods, black or colors . Goods, black or colors . Goods, black or colors . Goods, black or colors . Goods, black or colors . Goods, black or colors . Goods, black or colors . Goods, black or colors . All Al All § All AH All All All All §7.00 All Broadcloths at . go at, yard . 15¢, 1%¢, 35¢, 3%¢, Don’t Forget the rugs? ‘No one ever saw a piano put in a corner like that.' So 1 fold my hands and obey. But sometimes 1 feel a real sorrow for myself as a helpless victim of art.” e Mrs. Taft's Social Ald. Miss Mabel T. Boardman will be the un- official soclal arbiter of the White House | this winter. She has long been a par- ticularky close and intimate friend of both the President and Mrs. Taft. Mrs. Taft, contrary to most of her predecessors, has no social secretary. Her long residence in Washington, which has covered most of her married life, placed her much more familiarly in touch with soclety personages and usages pe- cullar to the social life of the capital than any of the first ladles of the land who have graced the White House in a genera- tion. Miss Boardman is a”sister-in-law of Sen- ator Murray Crane of Massachusetts. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam J. Board- man, are wealthy. Their home In Wash- ington has long been renowned as a meet- ing place for interesting persons and for | the warm and boundless hospitality dis- pensed there. Mr. Taft, who is president of the Na- tional Red Cross society, interested Miss Boardman In the work several years ago, With energy, intelligence and tact char- acteristic of the American girl who starts out to do things, Miss Boardman virtually breathed the breath of life Into the Red Cross society after the confusion into which its affairs fell during the Spanish war. Mainly through her efforts the so- clety was reorganized and placed upon a highly efficient and prosperous basis. When the news of the Messina earth- quake reached Washington Miss Boardman within half an hour took prompt action for the rellef of the sufferers. In recognition of her work the Itallan government deco- rated her with a reproduction in gold of an anclent Roman civic crown. It was be- stowed through the Italian ambassador in Washington. Miss Boardman has a desk in the offices of the Red Cross society in the War de- partment in Washington. Except for a few weeks in summer she is there dally from morning until all the work In sight s dis- | posed of. It was Miss Boardman who got up the white plague Christmas stamps, 25,0.0,00 of which wero sold last year. Their sale was conducted by the Red Cross, which expects to sell many more milllons of them, of a new design, this scason. — Woman as Factory. Goss, After the death of her husband in 1905, Mrs. Ladew, who was made executrix of | his $2,600,000 estate, took charge of his enormous leather business and continued to supply the country with leather belts | for machinery. From the first she showed marked ability, relates the New York Mall She has increased the firm's business a most $1,000,000. Mrs. Ladew was her hus- band's business confidante; she came to know from him all about the most intricate kinds of machinery; like Mrs. Penfleld, she, too, shared a secrel tanning secret in | use in his string of tanneries through Penn- sylvania, Virginis and the Carolinas; and at his death she knew more about leather, especlally about belting leather, than nearly anyone else in the country The only woman among 80 men, Mrs. Ladew's personality stands out all the more remarkably. She dominates them all. Her Indefatigable energy gives inspiration—the inspiration which has made tne Ladew factories famous, “My husband was prob- ably the first New Yorker who found Glen {in our cities.” | with | the wearer, | her tailored costumes and evening clothes. Mrs. Ladew proudly. we bull. here first, to love the place. “We had never thought of making it & factory center, however, until the fire in New York. Then Mr. Ladew decided to bring the business here, and I encouraged him. At first the greatest trouble was in getting places for our employes to live. Old-fashioned Glen Cove had only the houses where lived the people whose par- ents and grandparents had lived before them. To overcome the difficulty we bullt over 100 pretty little houses, most of them cement cottages, So now, you see, we have a little city of our own here in the valley. In the factories we even have our own mi chine shops and repair shops, and every- thing needful for carrying on the business. Tt is too far from New York to send there every time anything is needed, so we are independent.” b ‘“Twenty years ago and both of us grew Py Wasted Tear: Mrs. Newell Dwight Hillls, wife of the eminent Brooklyn homilete, loosed a boa- constrictor in the camp of the Chicago suffragettes the other day by advising them to go home, fall upon their knees and give thanks to Heaven for sending them such excellent and long-suffering husbands. “You talk of your wrongs,” said Mrs. Hillls, “but 1 tell you that your husbands have wrongs a thousand times more bitter. They must work hard while you are idle; they must find the money to pay for your vani- ties. No wonder the death rate among hus- bands is greated than that among wives. No wonder widows outnumber widowers So saying, Mrs. Hillis re- tired from the rostrum, and the assembled suffragettes began an indignant cackling. The affair still engages Chicago, and will do so, no doubt, until the next carnival of crime. oW Leaves from Fashion's Notebook. | Black velvet Is very much in vogue this season and this fancy finds expression in black chiffon velvet, miroir velvet, silk velvet and velveteen Never has blue bee more in favor for| jewelry than this season, The woman who can afford turquoises, sapphires or aqua- marines is reveling in them, whether the color is or is not especially becoming. Tallored dresses of velvet occupy a niche by themselves. They are not so formal in | appearance as the long gowns, nor as in- formal as the tallored cloths. Hence they are most appropriate in the darker shades. | For the evening white cloth is trimmed brown fur, skunk, sable, mink, etc. The linings are very often the color of the dress, light blue, flfl.l( green, light pink satin'and white linings being less in tavor than heretofore. There is an art in wearing all Jewelry. It must not only be becoming to but must harmonize with the color scheme of her clothes to be in good | taste, Kqually important ls it to wear Jewels at the proper time and place. The up-to-date woman recognizes this need by having totally distinct sels #or use with | colored To wear with a brown frock or blouse, a smart handbag can be made on ecru | Brussels net of fine mesh, covered with & double scroll, two loops’ facing in one side like a flattened out W, then carried over by a diagonal I'ne to form a simlilar W on the opposite side fucing toward the other loops. The design was developed in brows satin cord, the color of the frock. One of the best of the simple desk for an afternoon costume of velvet in walk ing length shows a gored skirt with & panel front ending in & double box plait at | the knees. At these points velvet o ments are pleced. The bodice conslsts of & surplice walst with the fronts crossed over a tunic yoke of embroidery below a squgre yoke of dotted net. The sleeves arc cut with the bodice. An evenlng gown for a woman of mod- erate means has to be a more or less Extra Sale on Broadcloth—These are colors only All the remnants and short lengths of the Christmas sales will | ton DFlig Co. |on an anigator. versatile affair that ppear equally well under & d t conditions and clroumstancy Loyd in the It must go to & Cove to be an ideal summer resort,” sald dinner one night and the opera the next It bas to answer invitations to theaters Marvelous Bargains Monday in Our Pre-inventory Silk Sale All odd pieces and short lengths must be closed before inventory and will be marked for quick clearance regardless of their cost. Plain and Fancy 8ilks, actual values to $1.50 yard, thousands of yards, hundreds of patterns, both plain and fancy, black and colors for your selection in two lots. .. 59¢ Black Satin 20|$1 Black Taffeta, 36|$1.25 Black Taffeta, inches wide, just 10|inches wide, 15 pieces|36 in. wide, 8 pieces, cee...35¢|—yard You'll Never Find These Monday Bargains Surpassed. .59¢ |yard Pure linen, 72-inch clal, yard . | Grass bleached heavy suln Damask, good value at $1.50 yard, Monday .. Huck and Turkish mussed, Monday, Heavy kiotted, fringed Bedspreads, full size, good vllue n'L [ Monday, each The Thlrty-sucond Annual Half Price Sale of Women’s and Children’s Garments t $10.00, choice at .....$5.00 $5 Dress Skirts | .$2.50 50c Embroid- eries 18-n, Corset C eries, béautiful Sets, Allover Em 48¢ and 35¢ 650c, on 79¢ Fine 18-in. Skirt Flouncings, and Insertings, actual values to le Monday. . Rare Values You Must See Ladies' Suits and Walsts and Silk Under- skirts at . . Half. 25¢ Dresses, 'over Bmbroid- wide Matched broideries, fine Fridn.y A Grand Half Price Clearance Throughout the Entire Depart- ment., cambric and nainsook Edges -25¢ to Appreciate High Grade Wool Dress Goods Sale |Grand Clearance is Our High Grade Linen Dept. Goods must go before invoicing. We will make some Damask, worth per yard $1 Towel each .- good size, worth | Grand heavy hemmed Crochet Bedspreads, full size, wnrn‘lt Monday, each .. Three special lines slightl Hundre worth 20, (nu bllckl)a xactly 34 Price 480, B9c, 790 and 980 high grade seamless Sheets, size solled, worth $1.15, Monday, each dozen Pillowcases, size 45x36, extra hu\ Monda: . Mail Orders Filled While Goods Last. TRY HAYDENS FIRST ., , each Monday spe- 760 » Huck Towels, large size, heavy quality, very absorbent, Vorth 39¢c, Monday, each .19¢ ¢ each, ullghny 100 Domestic Room SEEETINGS, MUSLINI LINENS, ETO, FROM € TO 10 A. M, 1 case of 10c bleached Muslin, yard wide, fine for the needle, 10 yards 1imit at, yard .. FOR ALL DAY 80c Sheeting, 9-4, bleached, yard, 20¢ 86c Sheeting, 9x4, bleached 240 $1.00 Sheets, 81)&90, on sale. 750 T6c Sheets, 90, on sale . 860 19c Towels . 1le 16c Towels .. 100 Towels, 3%c. ige and . 150 Amoskeag Flannelettes, 86-in, wide, sold at 16¢ ..100 Amoskeag Outing Plnnneln‘ THho, 100 12%c Percales ... 730 Apron Checks Lonsdale ....930 Frult of the Loom . 8314 per cent cheaper t and restaurants and card parties. It must be sufficiently smart looking to make a woman feel well dressed, but not too pro- nounced in style or color to attract atten- tion to the fact that it is doing duty for half @ dozen dresses. Satin charmeuse is an excellent material for a gown of this kind, for it has more endurance than any of the chiffons or tissues. The annuncia- tion or Della Robbia blues with black Chantilly lace answer admirably for an all-round evening gown. gt Chat About Women. Mrs. John Worth Kern, whose husband was the democratic candidate for the vice presidency at the last national election, in in favor of woman suffrage, and in a talk at Indianapolis recently she said that ex- periment has proved the fact that women are qualified to hold political office. Miss Ida Loulse Younsg, sporting editor of the Trinidad (Colo.) Chronicle-News, en- joys the distinction of being the ohly’ wo- man in all newspaperdom who makes a speclalty of writing sports. Miss Young's especial line Is base ball and she {s thor- oughly versed in all of the details of the big American game. Chancellor McCracken of New York uni- versity, at the recent annual luncheon of ike doctors of pedagogy, at the Hotel St. Regis, said that the registration ia_the two schools of pedagogy at the New York university had fallen off this vear from 10 to 15 per cent. ‘“There are silll enough students to occupy the instructor: £aid, “but thero is an undoubted diminution in that department. The other departments aro full.” Mrs. Phillip N. Moore, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and the blennial chairman, Mrs. Phillip 'Car- penter, submitted the plan of the biennial meeting of the federation, which is to take place at Cincinnati in May, to the execu- tive board meeting at Washington last week. The local Cineinneti committee con- #ists of fifty members, with Mrs. Lawrence Maxwell as the chairman. Mrs. Moore was also present at the Cincinnati meeting a week carller. Lucla Ames Mead says that the noble arnry of doetors. n es and health boards 1s doing incalculably more than all our bat- tleships to defend the country from real foes, and to these should be added the women with the brooms making war on dirt. Our women cannot take up arms, as dld the Boer women In the trenches, she says, but just as truly as men they can defend the country from its only real ene- mies, illiteracy, crime, disease, poverty. in- temperance, unthrift and that blindness to real issues and genuine dangers which mark the beginning of national decay. | The wife of a Bedouin shelk in the prov- | ince of Fayum, Egypt, has made her ap-| pearance as the plonecr suffragist of her | country. She has been working on the | subject for a_number of years. but Always under a pseudonym. Recently she disclosed her identity by glving at the headquarters of a newspaper a lecture on fhe woman question In Egypt. She demanded monok amy, reform in the divorce laws. higher education for girls and equal rights fe women before the la: ®ha is sald to have been listened to by more than 200 women from the most distinguished families of the capital | Die on the Scaffold nless, compared with the weak, lame back kidney trouble causes. Electric Bit ters is the remedy. Be. For sale by Bea- Adventures of Panama Pioneer | (Continued from Page Two.) cho, where I might succeed in making my- | self heard PSS Chased by an Alligator. T found progress terribly slow, I sank above my knees at each step, and the place | was full of little channels, and runlets ill full of water. In some of these runs the water was almokt upto my neck. 1 was also In momentary ‘terror of stepping | Then as I plunged for- ward I presently heard a soft patter, pat- ter bebind me, and kpew what It was. It was an alligator 4t last, coming right after | et | that boat start across the water | ments. | puma, jaguar, howling apes behind. T confess I was genuinely scared. I have heard of men who never know what fear 1s, but I have more admiration for the man who knows what it 1s and yet survives and lives to fight another day. It was pitch dark. I could not ses my hand except by the phosphorescence of the water as I struck it. I thought at first I would try to escaps without shooting at the beast in the dark. But the mud was so sticky and miry that I saw it was vain, The alligator had the advantage of me by reason of his long body sliding on top of the ooze. Then it occurred to me to follow his methods, and I began to crawl along alli- gator fashion. Even then he gained on me, until at last I decided to try to frighten him, and turned the gun in the dQirection of the pattering noise he was making and pulled the trigger. I think he must have been hit or badly alarmed, for he stopped and I heard him no more. Then I went on. After foundering along in this way for more than half an hour at last I came up to where the river narrows and began to call to the men on the other shore “Santo Domingo!” No answer. “Eduardo!” Not a sound in reply. “Juan!” Probably drunk after the usual Sunday spree. “George ing. Then I let loose a hurricane of yells and shouts. After a while in answer to “Amigo” in I do not know how many tones, 1 thought I heard a faint answer. I have a voice which has done duty under conditions requiring some carrying power and it was well tested. T redoubled my Then a lght moved among the bushes on the other side and a voice de- manded what was the matter. | 1 explained and Federico came on a trot | to the beach and began to look up a canoe, With what feelings of rellef 1 watched | as the moon rose above Cabra mountain the reader may well imagine. When it came to where I stood shivering on the bank Federico gasped In astonishment as looked at me. I was one mass of from head to foot. We soon reached the other shore and 1 He is old and hard of hear- he mud thick as the calf of my leg. My heavy shoes had not been benefitted by their salt bath and one side of the left shos gave way completely after the first mile, ellowing the shoe to take up & load of gravel which ground my toes until they were raw. Occasionally some of the flery red ants would vary the monotony by getting in through the split and craw! ling up under my leggings. Once a gr vampire bat flow across the road overs head plainly showing his hideous head in the pale moonlight. At last the sound of cocks crowing for midnight announced that I was near the haclenda. A few hundred yards of the road now seemed lined with rubber as I trudged on, but there was the light in the western window, showing that a midnight vigil was being kept for the wanderer. The babies had long ago gone to sleep, but their mother was still up and keeping calm with that wonderful strength which only the wife of a ploneer can fully under- stand. A strong dose of quinine went down with the belated dinner, and I suffered no worss effects from the experience than a day of extreme lassitude. The horse was duly recovered, the hoat was found where [ had left it In the swamp when the water admitted of its being taken out, and the natives all averred that All Saints Day fell on an occasion of great good fortuns for the Americano. 8. P. VERNER. DrBens FBaney. SANATORIUM Lo Tk This insutution is the only one in the central west with separate buildings situated in their own amvle grounds, yet entirely dis- tinct and rendering It possible to classity cases. The one buillding being fitted for and devoted to the treatment of noncontaglous and | hurried to a small brook which was near and took a bath, washed my clothes and | got the mud off my boots and leggings. | Then I went up to where a charcoal kiin | was burning and allowed myself to steam | a while, and never did a fire feel better to a half frozen mariner just in from | fighting a nor'wester Lake Michigan How I almost hugged that black smoke, and how deliclous was the tarry odor from the glowing mass of thickly covered coals Trafl in the Woods. Needless to say the village was soon up in astonishment, and many were the com The dectsion on all sides was that I was & lucky man to get out alive, and as it was the first of November next morning It was decided that slpce the “Flesta de todos los Santos” was to begin at midnight I was evidently under the pro tection of them all. 1 started on my four mile tramp with lght heart. There was no horse any- where, for mine had got {ired walt and had broken his bridle and gone | home. * The trail was rough. woods In It paswed through which may have been lurking or serpeats of many & fold and horrid aspect. In fact, on my wearch for the horse next day I actually killed & boa right in the path over which 1 had passed the night before I judged that he was about {ifteen yards which measured eleven feet long and as gt his long | — nonmental diseases, no others be- ing admitted. The other, Rest Cottage, béing designed for and devoted to che exclusive treatment of select mental cases, requiring for a time watchful care ana spe- cial nursing. Be a Trained Nurse $25 00 a Week lludvnn ‘are carefully guarded. Miss CAROLINE SOELLNER, SUPT, Lakeside Hospital Training School for Nurses, W4T LAKE AVENUE, CHIGAGO, LA, MANDO 'fi‘r‘ypnun‘;m.n u rug Co., Halnes Blutts., u uu. um.cca Drug Ceo., Councll