Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 6, 1910, Page 36

THE OM AHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 6 1910, Advance Showing of the Season’s Most Fashionable Attire Women's Spring Suits, Dresses, Coats and Skirts, at BRANDEILS STORES We are prepared to meet the demand of Omaha women for fashionable spring apparel. York have made great efforts to assemble garments that are distinctive and strictly in accordance with the newest style ideas. Authoritative style innovations, 2 and 3-piece tailored suits, afternoon and reception gowns, street dresses of wool fabrics or smart silks, lingerie and linen wash dresses, long cloth coats, storm and auto coats, clever s DOESN'T LIKE AMERICAN MEN Gertrude Atherton Shows Herself to Be Caustic Critio, —_— TYPE SHE ADMIRES IN A NOVEL Her Hero a Cad of Low Natare Who Would Not HBe Tolerated Outside of Erotle Literature. It perhaps will come as a blow to Amer- fean men to learn that Gertrude Atherton does not like them. In a recent interview In New York she had many uncomplimentary things to say | of them. She sald any European man was thelr superior in everything that goes to make a man attractive to woman. American girls, she declared, were not to be blamed for marrying any foreigner in preference to an American, After much going to and fro upon the earth, Mrs. Atherton has discovered her masculine ideal. It is the Englishman. Here are some of the things that she has to say on the subject: “American men have no subtlety. The Englishman—in fact, all continental men— know better how to make love and how to retain it than the Americans, American girls cannot be blamed for marrying for- elgners. American men have none of the subtiety of the well bred Englishman, none of his finesse, his charm of conversation or manner.'" This sort of thing is the argument usi- .ally advanced to explain the marriages of American helresses and titled Kuropeans, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. When & wealthy American glrl marries a forelgn nobleman, we usually hear much comment trom frank persons, usually American | men, about her having sold herself for a | title Mrs. Atherton would have us be- lleve that she does nothing of the kind. As the foreign nobleman is so much more charming than American men, as he has | s0 much more “subtlety” and ‘“finesse," why should not the American heiress love him and marry him, not for his title, but tor himself? %0 happens that Mrs. Atherton has | Just published & new novel entitled “Tower of Ivory.” In which she amplifies her for- elgn ideal The hero of her story is & younger son | of one of the most anclent houses In Eng- | 1and. He has debts and objects to earn- ing a living. So he marries a wealthy American girl. | She s beautitul, well educated and well bred. But she is & republican and he is | an aristocrat. Consequently, he goes back to his siren. His defection kills his wife. | But to the husband, her death brings only | & sense of escape. He sticks to the siren, Mrs. Atherton paints her man frankly. She admits his cruelty, his heartlessness, | his selfishness, his lack ‘of prinelple, his utter want of anything resembling honor. But she does not blame him for what he does. Though her attitude is apolgetic, he remains a hero to the end. In America such a man would be con- sidered just a plain, ordinary cad and cur. He would be called 50 and have to stand up and resent #t. In fact, he would have to do the ssme in England. Hat for V 1f you were a girl and approaching swest 16 and repidly developing & penchant for huge picture hats and a kind-hearted uncle sent you & Guainsborough hat for yoeur | than anyone el |as in the case of men." All the most stunning new ideas. hort coats, dress and street skirts, etc. A SPECIAL FOR MONDAY! SALE OF 75 High Grade Tailored Sample Suits Bougbt from an eastern manufacturer’s show room rack at one-third to one-half off their former selling prices. Our resident buyers in Paris and New These are individual styles, strictly correct, but not to be duplicated. Kvery fashionable color is represented in this lot. Styles vary from the Women's Sample Suits worth $100 at $69 Women’'s Sample Suits worth $85 at $59 Women’s Sample Suits worth $75 at $49 Women's Sample Suits worth $65 at $39 Women'’s Sample Suits worth $50 at $29 Exquisite New Silk Dresses for Spring Jacquard fouldrds with chiffon tunic overdrapes. The season’s newest style effects—embroidered messaline and peau de Cygne draped overskirts, ete. Prices range . .. 825, $35, $49, $75, $85, $98 and $139 The New Long Coats for Street and Auto Wear Very fashionable and very seasonable, corded serges, shepherd checks, novelty diagonals, shantungs, mixtures, etc.; also smart, storm proof coats of every description, Prices.......... Women's Lingerie Dresses More popular than ever this season, smarter effects than ever, variety to choose from—speclally selected group, at ... Stunning New Sample Skirts in Street & Dress Styles and a vastly greater to-date, 10 ceveeveno.. .. 815, 819, $22,50, $25 and up to $49 New Spring Taffeta Dresses Five different styles in this group. New, up- plain and striped taffeta dresses with all the latest 1910 style features—a special group Monday, at .. . 815 Choice of 300 new skirts, used by the manufacturer as samples, and sold to us at a discount of fully one-third. A complete range of the new season’s styles, eloths and colors. Prices are........$10, $12.50, $13.85, $15, $17.50 and $19 An Entirely New Assembl age of Fine Silk Petticoats New colors and designs, new tailored ruffles, etc., heavy taffeta petticoats, in every color, at ..... .$5.00 smart, plain tailored ideas to the fancy trimmed Russian blouse and Balkan effects. PRty seen only at Brandeis Stores. sailors. yours at any time, Brandeis Exclusive SPRING HATS The new hats for spring are charming. was a season when fashion decreed such a wide variety of stunning ideas. Through our Paris office we have secured the models whiech will be most popular on the continent, while scores of original patterns from New York are to be The hats this spring vary in design, color, harmony and style treatment from the hats of previous seasons and every diseriminating woman will realize how essential is that exact touch of style that Brandeis millinery possesses. e are showing in advance of the season, the ultra smart Harem Turbans, the large hats rolled' abruptly from the back, the modish Cashmere hats and the stunning French The assistance and advice of our expert milliners isy!| l\vioAdels There never New Lace Waists Every innovation for spring 1910 is shown in this assemblage— New Lingerie Waists Beautiful and practical, new style for dress or every day wear— $3.98 85 8$7.50 $10 $15/81.50 $1.98 $2.98 $3.98 85 BRANDEIS STORES In an express wagon, wouldn't you think your uncle the best ever? And then, when to the admiring and envious “Ohs” and “Ahs" of several girl friends, you found that the hat was trim- med with thirty duck wings, so cumber- some that it required four assistants to place it on your dainty head, and that it was more of a hoax than a hat, wouldn't you suddenly conclude that this same uncle ‘was about the meanest man extant? Miss Wanlyn Carswell of the fashionable Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles, probably can answer these questions better for she experienced both of these emotions recently. But the hat! Never did monoplane, bipiane or multi- plane have more win Thirty tn all— wings of mallards, wings of teal and wings of pigeon, trophles of her uncle's deadly alm with the fowling plece. The hat was delivered at the school in an express wagon, encased in a box six feet square. When unpacked it required the services of four of Miss Carwell's friends to carry it upstairs. Marriage and Longevity. Marriage and longevity go hand in hand says Dr. Jacques Bertillon, the great French statistician, who takes exceptions to London Punch's advice to those about to marry, which is “Don't.”" After dem- onstrating by tigures that the married man or woman has three tim 00 & chance to reach a ripe old a the bachelor or spinster. Dr. Bertillon also warns the widow or widower that thelr chance for years of usefulness would be enhanced If they were again to assume the marriage relation, He argues as follow “Married people live more regular lives. They are more surrounded, and therefore more controlled, discreet though this con- trol may be, and it must be discreet to be useful. Thelr physical life is healthier, quieter and more natural. His opinion, supported by statist 1s presented In the_following advice to young men: “Marry; you will do well even from & selfish standpoint. But watch carefully over your wife's health, as even from this egotistical point of view her loss will be a terrible misfortune, for your lite depends in & great measure on her own."” Addressing himself to young women, he says “To you I give the counsel to marry in your most selfish interest, as married women have less mortality than spinsters of the same age, at least after the age of 20; but the difference is less for women | than for men. The mortality among pinsters is much greater than among married women, but it not twice as great Dr, Bertlllon does not take a cheerful view of the lot of the widow. He sa: “The mortality among widows is dis- tinetly much greater than among married | women of the same age. The sweet state of widowhood ls, on the contrary, fatal to young widows. Their death rate from Mo B y s twice that of married | women at the corresponding age.” What (s the Proper Income. n income of $2.438 enough to marry on?' The query is propounded by Good Housekeeping, which, for 1ts March number has Interviewed 6§00 bachelors, purporting to learn the cause of their deplorable condition. The an- swers and explanations raise two malin issues, comments the Boston Transcript. Many young men seem to doubt whether they “have the price,” which is fairly ex- | pressed by the sum named, this being the average of the amounts that different cor- valentine so big that it had to be hauled respondents mentlon as reguisite. A few young men affect to belleve that the girls of the present day are not adequately trained for the dutles and responsibilities of wifehood, though of course we are ex- pected to admit that the young men who declare themselves so frankly are qualified to make model husbands. Other considerations, suggested by cer- tain of the bachelors, seem fairly entitied to be welghed. One is, that the purchas- ing power of an income is determined by the locality in which it is used—that a few hundred dollars in a country town might be equivalent to several thousand In New York, Another obvious fact s that the quality of the wife counts for as much as the size of the salary, and that the “society butterflies” whom some bachelor reprobate frequently show more than & man's capacity for adapting themseives to hard facts and unforeseen misfortunes. There is great wisdom in the philosophy distilied by two of the unmarried youths— a oity newspaper man who utters the opin- fon that, §100 a month should support a home, and adds: “I would hate to force a girl from a life of luxury into this kind of home, but if she would come I would not try to stop her;” and a Philadelphian, who, though he does not belleve his fo- minine acquaintances have been ‘‘properly tralned,” percelves the truth that ‘“most girls make good, when the love s real” “College women,” a Baltimorean tells the editor, “are better prepared for the sacrifices of married life” than are some others, the explanation being that they have a standard of values based on some- thing else than fashion and soclety. One hesitates to disapprove the view, yet one becomes Impatient at the intimation that all the sacrifices are for the wife to make— a note that Is continually sounded in these interviews. Apparently many of the bach- elors hold that the only soclal gifts and graces & woman has a right to cherish are those that enhance her husband's comfort, Such & clrcumstance prompts the reader to question whether it s wholly consideration for woman that leads the 500 young bach- elors With limited incomes to avold matri- mony. It may rather be that they have talled to find women who measured up to their ideal of herole unselfishness. In a simpler age of the world Henry Ward Beecher once affirmed that a man could live, love, laugh and be happy on §i a day. Thunderous protests and shrieks of indignation arose. Labor leaders affected to belleve that Mr. Beecher and others were conspiring to have the average man make the experiment. Yet, if that fate | were forced upon him, he would undoubt- edly find a woman who was bravely willing to share the dollar—provided she felt satls- fied that she was getting a dollar's worth Much importance attaches to that and it may remind us that, in any inquiry like that conducted by our con- temporary, the woman's point of view should be stated first. Almost any attrac- tive girl could account for one or more bachelors. It does not necessarily follow that, because she decided to leave them as she found them, she showed herself hard- hearted or unwise. Hard Work, but Pay Good. Patent lawyers in New York City say they will gladly pay from 325 to $%0 a week to stenographers who can do thelr work, and as much as $0 a week s sometimes paid. The work is hard and exacting, the hours long. You must be famiilar with law work, You should learn to read drawings, and as inventors generally wani patents on ma chinery, a taste for bolts, screws and mechanism in general would be of great help. A weary patent lawyer poured out some | of his woes in he New York Sun as fol- lows: “In the last four years we have tried about a hundred stenographers. Many of them we have kept varying lengths of time, seldom lonser than two years. It takes me nearly four hours to test a stenographer thoroughly, He conceded that very few young women show what they can really do under such clrcumstances; that often an intelligent and well educated stenographer will not show what she Is capable of until the first strangeness of work and surroundings has worn off, and he said he would gladly en- gage without trial any one who would come to him with references from another patent lawyer, but no one ever did. He could not conclude that when women left places with patent lawyers they either rushed into matrimony or took up quite an- other branch of stenographic work. He showed some of the drawings which & stenographer would be called upon to read. To the unitiated it would be & task indeed. A person trained in the work can read them as & musiclan reads a musical score. In reading notes in patent work context does not help as much as it does in dic- tations on ordinary subjects. For Instance, in some systems of shorthand you would write “tap” and “top” not only with the same outlines, but in the same position. Yet substituting one of these words for the other in the transcript of a dictation might necessitate & patent lawyer spending an hour hunting over his laborlously worked- up notes to see which was right. A woman who could do the work properly would be nearly pricele ‘Women have so much less aptitude for machinery than men have that it might seem natural to employ young men as stenographers In a patent lawyer's office, but young men are not content to go on as stenographers. At the end of & few years they insist on graduating from the weary grind of the machine. On the other hand, & woman, it her salary is judiclously increased, is willing to go on through the patient years taking notes and writing them out. Of course there is the percentage of loss through marriage, but that Is not very large. | Uses of Poetry. A girl said of a friend of hers,I never in my life knew anybody who had such a flow of language as sho has, She is never | at & loss for a word of comparison, or an | appropriate quotation. How in the world does she do jt? Well, 1 asked her, and | this 1s what the good talker sald: “When I was a very little girl my great | delight was to read and study poetry. I | learned poems by heart to recite at school, to say to my mother and my brothers ., I have always kept up that habit, and every | day as T am dressing, I have an open book on my bureau and learn something by heart, even If it is only four lines. I have never given drawing-room recitations, for 1 know I should simply bore people, but I have gained a great deal of pleasure my- | self from the babit, and I believe it has done more to give me & good command of words than anything else." Girls, If anyone can suggest a potent way to the Rev. Norman F. Richardson to add an even 200 vouns misses to his congre- gation at Cambridge, Mass.,, he or she will be amply rewarded Mr. Richardson is pastor of the Harvard Methodist church of Cambridge, which | numbers among its members over 200 stu- | dents at the university and many of the | college professors and university alumni. | The pastor holds that Massachusetts is | the hardest state of the union in which to | establish & Methodist parish, Cambridge | the hardest city In the state and Harvard ‘-quuru the most difficult section. Yet My ‘mnn-rdlom except for the lack of eligible Here's & Chance, | web feet. | by a woman with & bulldog face is sure | passes him the menu, young ladies, has a most prosperous con- gregation. At the church meetings and soclals the students outnumber the girls two to one, Sald Mr. Richardson: ‘“We have just seventy-nine young ladles in our church. We have counted every preclous one. But even so, we haven't half enough. Our church committee, through me, wishes an appeal made to hear their lonely cry—‘Come to Macedonia!® “In the meanwhile the students who have mortgages on the seventy-nine smile down in pity on their poor unchosen brethern,' ‘Which 1s Best? The managers of the fashionable cafes of Indianapolis, according to the News of that city, are not agreed on the question of the comparative value of the comely wait- ress who trips about at her work while all the men gaze in admiration. Chicago and St. Louls have made an at- tempt to thrash out this problem, but the solution scems afar off. Chicago has one solution and St. Louls another, The former has concluded that the big-eved waltress with dimples In her cheeks Is a nulsance. The latter is not so sanguine in the theory that beauty in waltresses Is riot an asset when the patronage of a business depends upon the abllity of the manager to please his customers. Indianapolls restaurant proprietors are agreed on one proposition. The waltresses must please thelr customers, They differ as to what pleases. One manager, who did not want to be quoted, sald that five out of seven men who came to his place were cranks. They like to chat with the waltresses, he sald, and especially to chat with the pretiy ones. “If they get a little encouragement,” he continued, “‘they will walk nine blocks out of their way to be on hand for luncheon or dinner. The girl with the Palmer house walk 18 not exactly to my liking, but I have been in this business long enough to know that there is no place for one with The fellow who is to be served to find some fault with the food. If, on the other hand, a girl with some vivaeity his appetite is not likely to be spoiled at the outset. ““The girl who Is favored with a graceful form, an alry carriage, a dimple or two, and delicately cufved eyebrows will gel more tips, wait on more people, and bring more patronage than the girl who is not 80 favored.” Leaves From Fashion’s Notebook. A much favored color for gowns and hats 18 & blue 8o deep as to be almost black. Pendants and brooches in charming em- pire designs are favorite ornaments for girls and young matrons Upon many new evening gowns the lace tlounce imparts the decorative note as a skirt trimming. The flounce s ul headed by & wide band of embroldery. There is & rumor that the all-red costume will be worn by the young and daring this wring, not necewsarlly & bright scarlet, but the modern rose and pink reds. Long pearl and diamond chains are re- placing the collarette, and owners of cameo brooches are now likely to find some use for them, For morning frocks some leading cou- turlers are turning out smart models of white cloth or gray cashmere with brald trimming, ceintures of soft black satin and neat ifttle turnover collars, Everything almost is velled and the black satin gown with Its corsage nowadays, | of dull gold or oxidized silver lace veliad with black chifton is an effective illustra- tion of this vogue Bralding on tallor-mades shows a dls- tinetly military tendency, Froggings and 10ops, barrel buttons and shoulder knots, id of soutache A eharming dinner gown recently fash- ioned for @ young matron is of mooniight- blue satin velled with smoke-gray chiffon | an Mother-of-pearl embroldery borders overdress and forms the girdle. For afternoon wear are large hats with black moire or satin brims and high crowns of net and jetted insertion, their only trimming being a perle-gris feather and handsome jeweled clasp in Wwhich cabochon emeralds are the dominant note. Included among the newest model large coarse straw hats in purpl black, sharply turned up on one side, after the style of the winter felts, and trimmed with an enormous buckle of ornament of dull chased gold and round the crown a twist of velvet. Hair ornaments of bands. Somet a silk or panne ribbon, or a gold ribbon painted with such designs as & peacock's eyos, embroidered with emeralds and tur- quol or cloth of some metallic tone, edged With rhinestones showing rosebuds in silver. The metallic cioth bandeaux are not only embroidered in tinseled threads, but also painted in green, blue and duli reds. the Chat About Wom: Mrs. Willlam H. Gove and Mrs, D. M. Little are the first women to be appointed trustees of the Plummer Farm school In Salem, Ma; They were appointed by Howard at the request of persons ed in the welfare of the school. Mrs. Lulu Rice of ngmont, Colo,, re- cently recelved a certificate enabling her to practice embalming. She was the only mong the seven candidates who required examination and the only person who got & certificate, The question &s to who has climbed the highest mountain 1s still being debated by Miss Annle Peck and Mrs, ¥. B. Work- man. It all likely that it will ever be settled any more certainly than the Peary-Cook contest in the minds of the friends of each explorer. Washington, D, C., New York and Pitts- burg have co-operstive housekeepers’ as- soclations, whose object It is to force down the cost of high living. Washington has 1,000 members in its assoclation, and New York is not far behind it. There are many standing committees, and they have more or less udministrative powers. Miss Nettle A. Lang is said to be the only woman in America who owns and manages automobile station. The garage is e Shore Auto statlon and is She has been in the business two years and rsenally in- car before it Is allowed to Though she employs only rivers she ported to be in favor of having women learn the business as & means of earning & living. Miss Alice Smith, probation officer in New York, has submitted to the Woman's Municipal league a plan for a house of de- tention for woi prisoners. This was done at the request of the police commit- tee of the ue, of which Mrs, Anna Jackson Is chalrman. The commitieo will work not only for a house of detention, but also for the Improvement of the accommo- dations for women prisoners In all the New tation hous: M Maria £ Taller has given $25,000 to the New York university to endow & free clinie In connection with Bellevue Hospital Medical colle Thi ft re- clinle, oped to ingrease the endowment $100,000. The money glven by 5. er {s to establish a memorial to the late Willlam H. Taller. Mrs. Herbert John Gladstone, whose hus- band Is now governor general of United South Africa, {s said to be a very fit com- panion for him in his difficult task of gov- erning this part of the world with satl faction to, every one concerned. She woman of most § tact, which qualitl to her in her mew position. gaughter of Bir Richard Paget and of & amlly of conservatives, but is, no doubt, able to adapt herself to her husband's politics. —— \ A ©f ati Curlosity. The bigwest penny in the world has passed out of elroulation In Clneinnati. This penny was the immense wooden repro- duction of a cent which for several years has been used as & sign over what was once the Penny Arcade on Fountain square. This bullding is to be torn down to make way for & new theater. The first work done was the removal of the bronze disk with Its outlines of electric globes. When the rigging men drew up in front of the place Fountain square became jammed with humanity. Thousands who had passed the big penny daily without a glance at once became deeply interested in it. “The people In Cincinnatl,”” said the po= liceman on the beat, “never seemed to appreciate that cent, but you ought te have seen the country people gawp at it. They would go out on the plaza and gase at it for five minutes at a time. It was one of the sights of Cincinnati. Now they are go- Ing to tear it down and there will be one more attraction gone. Of course, the new theater will be pretty flashy on the out- side, from what I hear, but the excurs sionists from the country will miss the blg penny.” The size of the coln was better appre- clated when it was lowered to the sid walk. It was nearly fifteen feet in diame- ter. COURAGE OF THE MODERN GIRL She Not Only Knows the Right Thing to Do, but Has the N to Do It NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—"I don't know what to make of the modern girl," | elderly woman dressed in mourning 15 beyond me. T don't know where she her nerve, her fearlessness, her command of a difficult stuation. “The other day I went to visit & subs urban friend out In Jersey. On my return L W took & trolley Into Newark to take the train for New York. The car was nearly filled with women going to the city to shop or market. “At a village which we passed through slx young men boarded the car and sat down together. They talked and laughed in & loud and offensive manner, made re- marks on the women around them a swore so that everybody could hear thi I sat close by them. They had no respect for my gray hairs or mourning. “Suddenly a clear volce caused every one in the car to look at the speaker. She was & young woman, perhaps 35 or 2. Appare ently meither rich nor poor, nor axtraor- dinary In any way She looked stralght at the group of young men and sald: “I'll have you arrested when I get to Newark." ““The six looked around at her with mouths open. Deep astonishment was printed on their faces. She faced them all and said again clearly: T will have you ar- rested when I get to Newark.' She was perfectly cool and fearless and evidently meant exactly what she sald. ““The effect was remarkable. The car be- came perfectly qulet. The young fellows whispered and tittered together a little but nothing more was sald out loud. On the edge of town before the car reached the general stopping place in the shopping center they &l got off ““Now that girl not only put the fear of judgment Into those young men's hearts, but she put shame Into mine. I felt that I, who was old enough to be her mother, should have proteoted her, not she me. I felt that I, who have brought up boys of my own, should have had dignity and power enough to have gontrolled those youths. But the fact was, T was afrald. ““The age-long feminine instinct to endure annoyance rather than attract attentlon and draw all e upon myself held me sllent. That girl by her looks was a nice, womanly, modest girl, and yet she had none of that feminine fear. And as I r flected on her act I made up my mind g the old fashioned shrinking, feminine .S esty which sutfers long and says nothing rather than endure notoriety boars a rather startling reremblance to plain cowardioce. “But what I want to know is, where the #irl ot the nerve to do & thing which & lot of women old enough Lo be her mother were afrald to do."" 3