Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 16, 1910, Page 36

DOWRIES OF THE EAST SIDE| Girls Who Provide Their Own Mar- riage Portions. SAVING UNDER DIFFICULTIES ‘ Cheap Living on the East Stde—Am- bitlon One Reason for the € tom—Little Tragedies—Bf- feet on the Huwbands, NEW YORK, Jan. 1 You whl hardly find a girl on the t Side that does not save or at least attempt to save money for a dowry. No matter how small her earn- ings may be she will manage to cut down her expenses so as to get together a sum with which to start lfe after marriage. No matter how hard she may work in the shop she will avall herself of every oppor- tunity to work overtime so as to make this sum as large as possible. “The East Side of course is not devold of romance, and not every young man ex pects the girl ‘he marries to have g bank socount,” continued the young woman who had lived all her life in Grand street. “Nevertheless, every East Side girl feels it Incumbent upon hero save as much as she can. Where a girl in arother part of the city says ‘All is well that ends well’ the East Side girl reverses the saying to ‘All 1s well that begins well,’ and chooses to begin her married life with gome money to her credit. “It 1s not the love of money that impels the Bast Side girl to skimp and worry along for years in order to provide a dowry; it is the fear of poverty and the misfortunes and domestio unhappiness which result from it. Where a girl in an- other part of the city sings and dreams of love In a cottage the Bast Side girl thinks hard over -the Yiddish saying that ‘When want comes knocking at the door love escapes through the window,’ and hence #he secks tp make the eseape of love im- possible by fortifying herself aganst want with a bankbook. “Ambition Is another reason for the RKast Bide girl saving every cent she can toward & dowry. Her ambition is to marry a busl- ness man. The gihls hate the shop_and detest work under somebody's orders. As there are not enough business men to go atound, orkingman, which may mean a tallor or an operator in a sweatshop, wiil do. The girl with ambition who marries such a taflor or operator will never give up hope of turning her husband into & business man, whether the business be that of owning a garment factory or a little s0da water stand on a street corner. “She saves money, therefore, with a definite object in mind, to start and buy & little business of her own, of their own, after marringe. Indeed, so common has #t become on the Bast Side to see a man who had working In a shop prior to his marrfage t some business with the money his wife brought him as a dowry that many a man begins to look forward to such a marriage as the only way of escaping from the shop. “How can the girls save money when thelr earnings are so small that a girl in another part of the eity could not even et rlong on them? Well, on the East Side everything s possible. “No matter how small your earnings you will always find that you can live here cheaply enough so as to save a few cents a day. In fact, there s practically no limit as to how cheaply you can live here. | “Elsewhere yon can hear of the in-| creased cost of living. A boarding house keeper In another part of the city wil raise the price 50 cents or $1 a week for board and again as much perhaps for room. On the East Side you can still get board and room for $250 a week, and if you pay $3 you consider yourself en-| titled to certain privileges, . | “The housekeeper or landlady somehow ' %nows how to meet the high prices. In- stead of eating meat every day and rals- ing the price of board the Bast Slde land- Iady will feed her boarders three times a week on chopped liver, which is much cheaper than meat. Sometimes she will cut out meat altogether and substitute her- ring instead. “As for rent it Is the same. Instead of | ralsing the rent she will rather take in' another roomer, and the room where for- ! merly two girls slept will be occupled by three, and thus a crisis in the budget of | both the girl and the landlady is averted. | “Of course, this sort of life has its ef- fects on the constitution of the girl in the end; but the effects generally are not felt until later in lite, and the Bast Side girl, eager to got out of the shop, eager to get out of her station. as-it were, by becom- Ing a business woman, the wife of a busi- | ness man, does not:stop to think about ef- | fects. “The same economy that the East Sids Eirl resorts to In her board and lodging #he also practices In dress. No girl in New York, perhaps, loves finery more than the | East Bide girl, yet no girl manages to| satlafy her taste for finery as cheaply as | @oen the girl of the Bast Side. She Is a bargain hunter, and as the East Side is filled with all kinds of second-hand ana bargain stores she generally manages to | oyt down her clothing expenses to a little | less than what she expected to pay. - | “You will find on the East Side hundreds of girls who buy thelr everyday apparel In | wecond-hand stores, and it is only thelr Sunday wear that they buy new. The shoes they wear every day are hought in | 8 second-hand store often and are & dollar | or @ dallar and a half cheaper than they weuld cost In another Store. Thelr every- day dresses they get in a combination second-hand and job lot store re the same skirt which is marked in some | #how window uptown is sold for §2. Her cont or jacket she buys the same way She knows the places which make a spo- clalty of buying job lots from factorles | and selling them cheap.” Sometimes this custom of saving up a dowry for the husband-to-be causes trage. dies and disappointments. With the growth | of the custom to save dowries there has | Erown up a class of men who expect to De pald for marrying. When after marriage the money thelr wivef brought them in spent or lost In some 'enterprise, or It it turns out that the woman did not have as much money as the man expected, either | there follows a life of quarrels or the man deserts the woman. The marriage broker or schatehen profits from this dowry saving. He generally re. | celves from the bridegroom a commission of 80 much per cent cn w hat the supposed o have, Immediately after the engagement the marriage broker Is paid and his share in the affalr is settied, | 044 situations sometimes arise. young man who thinks that a certain girl has money and who s tired of the shop sees an excellent chance to become a busi. mess man by marrying the girl. Being perhaps more Americanized than some of his companions, he does not ask her the amount of money she has openly. The girl may lead him to belleve that she has money and then After they are engaged she will tell him the truth, that either hgs none at all or very little. Then It is up to the Young man to put on & pleasant smile and #ay that he never really cared whether she had money or uot, which he generally does. When the disappointment is too great or the man does not care much for the girl been girl is Thus a HA SUNDAY BEE: Greater Values Than Ever! During Our Clearance Sale. Broken lots of Men's Over- coats, $10.00 values, at— $5.00 - Men’s fashionable Pants— specially priced at— $1.90 . Men’s Sweater Coats— 39c Black Sateen Shirts—75¢ values, for— 39c¢c Men’s Kersey, leather and Corduroy Oaps, with fur in- band; very special, at— i 39c¢c Men’s and Boys’ heavy fleece lined Underwear,. at—. 25c¢C Fancy Cotton Hose; reg\f- lar 15¢ values, at— 9¢ GUARANTEE CLOTHING CO. 158-21 Douglas St. ‘‘High Quality at a Low Price.”’ » e | TWENTIETH CENTURY FARMER| One Dollar n Year. No higher--no lower but exagtly the ridiculously low prices yqu see quoted below. Qur pre-inventory clearance sale is nearing its inevitable ending. The stock is thinning out, as we desired it should. But still there are many astonishing bargains left that will pay you an extra trip to town many times over. DIAMONDS Special Offer Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Only. 1% Carat perfect white diamond, Ladies’ 14k tiffany or fancy mount- ing; extra special price $34.50 WATCHES Ladies’ O size Watch; case warranted to wear twenty-five years; has solid gold, raised ornamentations; a genuine diamond set in case; Elgin or Waltham movement, at .$17.90 Gentlemen’s Watch; case warranted to wear twenty years; fitted with genuine, 17-jewel, adjusted Waltham movement; regular price of this watch is $21.00; our special price is .. - SOLID GOLD BROOCHES Solid Gold,\ Diamond and Pearl Brooches; regular prices $25.00 to $38.75; extra special price $12.38 FOBS Ladies’ and Gents’, all gold Fobs; best quality gold filled; warranted to wear fifteen to twenty years; regular price $6.00 to $9.50, your choice now, at . $3.98 JLadies’ and Gents’ regular price $3.00 to $6.00, your choice, at....... BABIES’' BRACELETS Best quality Babies’ Bracelets; regular prices $2.50 to $3.25 sale price Baby Spoons; sale price special $1.29 special - 98¢ sterling silver Four-plece; tea pot, sboon holder, créamer and sugar; satin finish, hand engraved; regular price $12.00, our special price ‘We can’t promise you unbroken lines in everything, but if you see what you want we will certainly make you a satisfactory price. Our new stock has arrived, we must make room on shelves and in show cases. Call first at Brodegaard’s. AT THE SIGN OF THE CROWN. JANUARY 16, 1910. Copyright 1909 by Hart Schaffuer & Marx prices. it isn’t nece quickly. t’s seldom you’re offered such a chance for real clothes bargain getting as you re offered Monday 1n HAYDEN: THE RELIABLE STORE Hart, Schaffner @ Marx Hand Tailored Clothes At 331% off Regular Prices We always have a surplus, must have—and always at this season of the year dispose of this surplus by quot ing specially low prices on it. It's bad poliey in such a busines as ours to carry winter goods over till next fall and we don’t do it. But you have here Monday an exceptionally great opportunity, not only in the unusually deep price cutting, but in the chance to select not only from our regular sur. plus, but also a large late shipment of these, the world’s best ready-to-wear clothes, which has just been received. 518-0 %‘:::coats 1 325.0 %l;i_::coata 537.5 ?)‘:;::coats 530.00 ?)‘:llscoats $20.00 5 §35.0 $22.5 %T::coata H $40.0 %‘tri::coats Suits ] Suits At 33 1-39% Discount Monday Overcoats Overcoats It’s seldom that such clothes as Hart, Schaffner & Marx are sold at less than regular 7, for they’re worth the price, but our unusually large surplus, together with this big late shipment, forces us to take drastic measures to reduce stock Don’t miss this matchless opportunity Monday. WATCH FOR BIG SALE OF BOYS’ AND YOUTHS’ CLOTHING THURSDAY. (ot ot TRY HAYDEN’S FIRST o JanuaryClearance . THE HOT SPRINGS OF ARKANSAS More than a mountain resort, more than a fashionable playground—these wonderful springs, with their mysterious health-giving waters, have become world-famous as Nature’s Greatest Sanitarium set apart by the United States government for the benefit of humanity. Where modern medical sci- ence joins hands with the wonderful curative agencies of nature—a retreat for the careworn or suf- fering in the great, beautiful out-of-doors. | Water is the greatest eliminator of human ills and the Hot Springs of Arkansas are the greatest waters known to mankind Patronized every year by more than 150,000 people from every part of the world—the ;ecuperating station of our army and navy, the training ground of the world’s greatest athletes, the assembling place of statesmen and the rendezvous of society. There is No Substitute for the Hot Springs Baths The marvelous cures cannot be exaggerated. No one can afford to deprive himself of the quiet, rest, the exhilerating joy and-the wonderful ton- ing-up that comes'from a course of these baths, coupled with the rehabilitating" influences of the mountain ozone and woodland landscape. Luxurious hotels, medium-priced hotels and high-class boarding houses with every modern conven- ience. For information regarding hotels and boarding hrding houses, address Secretary Business Men's League, Hot Springs, Arkansas, Best reached by the MISSOURI PACIFIC IRON MOUNTAIN Let us tell you more about it and help you plan your trip. For train time and railroad rates, address herself such an engagement is speedily broken. Indeed it has happened more than once on the East Side that a young, man has left the young woman just before the | wedding, when all sorts of viands and fish | and wines were on the table and the guests | were beginning to assemble for the wed- | ding ceremony and feast; the cause of his | desertion was his discovery that the bride- to-be had no dowry. Gir are often assisted in this matter of saving for a dowry by thelr parents. | The mother of the girl will economize in | her household expenses, she will take in boarders, she will engage in occupations | which will enable her to earn something, | even If no more than a quarter a day, so| a8 to provide or help to provide her daugh- | ter with a dowry, | “Talk about your foreign noblemen look- | Ing for American heiresses to put them on | the road to prosperity!” commented ,an | East Side resident. “Why, wedhave plenty of men around here who are not noblemen | and who are looking for a dowry all the| same. 3 “Of course there is no objection to a | woman helping her husband-to work up a | business. There is no objection to & woman saving money so that she may have a few hundred dollars of her own when she_gets \ | great for the young man. |even encouraged. /" T.F.GODFREY, (' Passenger hnd Ticket Agent, 1428 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. | married. But It seems to me and to a great many people besides me that this | encouraging the working girl to save a dowry Is doing a great deal of harm. “In & measure as the girls save the boys become more and more shiftless. In a measure as the girl denles herself neces- saries in order to save no luxury is too Shiftlessness and ecklessness In the boy s tolerated and | — “If you call the attention of the parents of such & boy to” their sow's snittiossness | COCKTAIL ~ MIXERS they will only smile at you and tell -you — that after he is married and gets a good woman with & large dowry he will make & fine business man. “More lasting §0od to both the men and the women on the East Side would result If the girls were taught to save less and preserve their health and the boys In turn were taught to spend their money less fool- ishly, to save and not rely ‘upon the dowry and the business sense of thelr wife-to-be to smooth over all the weaknesses and habits of shiftiessnoss they have acquired before their marriage.” A medicine need not v be effective. Is pleasant to take und always cures.p Flowery ten Liquid Con- ¥ou proceed along a dusty The journey carried by coolies. aisagreeable to |dations acocrding to Chinese Catebing On When you leave the train at Nankon,|are found beyond the twenty-seven miles from Peking, and make | Kalgan, where th your way toward the great wall of China, road in sum-| mer and & sea of mud during the rains. | comforts and ideas of civilization depart, | is on donkeys or in ghairs|but it is possible slmost anywhere along DENTISTS Best equipped dental office in the middle west Highest grade dentistry at Porcelain filliugs, just like the tooth. reasonable prices All {nstru- | ments carefully sterilized after each patient. THIRD FLOOR PAXTON BLOCK ‘ Cor 16th and Farnam Sts. | | | IN CHINA | stble to procure a vottie of champagne or a gluss of beer In fact, ways the enterprising | host has an eye for business. He has learned how to mix & cocktall and travelers can procure baths. These inns wall on the road to rallway will run in the before retiring in many Chinese near future. As you get further inland European | the main roads to purchase soda water, | In the middle of the Nankon pass there | The inns are invariably built in the form | is & Chinese inn where the caravans halt. [of a square, )| The manager offers travelers accommo- customs, Chamberlgin's Cough Remedy | but European beds are pliced in the dais| carts and wheelbarrows are always placed |In the compartmencs, and it is even pox-|in the quadrangle~Wide World Mugasine 1 At one side distingulshed | travelers and Europeans stop, and opposite the coolles and servants live. The chairs, | FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL GIRL We have finally succeeded, after many months of search and planning, in securing a shoe huilt especially. for the grown up girls—young women. going to high schdol and colleges. The long walks necessary by these young women require a shoe spe- cially constructed; this we have now secured. The shoes are made of the very best quality plump and lour calf, and will stand the hard usage a girl will give ghoes in fall and winter. They are made on foot-form lasts; styles, button and lace, medium heel and toe, and will positively outwear any two pair of shoes at the price. List of sizes is complete— THE PRICE—$3.00 MISSES’ The correct shoeing of Misses’ feet is our speclalsy. A few shoe stores do it well. Most Shoel Stores make poor work of it. We've the torrect styles in Misses’ Shoes and we pride our- selves that we do it to perfection MISSES’ SHOES AT $1.50, §2.00 to §2.50 The leathers selected for our Misses’ Shoes—the lasts over which they are \made—the style and many important details in the making—combine to make our Misses’ - and Children’s Shoes— perfect Shoes, FRY SHOE CO. THE SHOER 16th end Douglas Streets. 1419 Farnam Street. i I I ! H””Hm NHHlIlllllllm|;|||l'n\inmn\||l|l|;i1!i!Ni!wwnmll “ H The Train of Real Lights, Just a Detail of Service Note the berth light. 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