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THE OMAHA DULY DEE 1TXDAT. JAXTAKY 21 1W-SIXTEEX PAGES. 11 HOW TO EDCCATi CI1ILDO TOJ Maoh Obaiiaaos Mtlm Pape' Itntsi def of Esal Msa and CHILDREN COMPARED TO UNSIPE FRUIT I Th-y Should ot Me pritrtl to Art t.tke Grown rolli niflmt UrcnnmaUrr'ii Illll In tlie World ft minute I'acU end ruins The coming educational doctrine that children should be taught how to think rather than what to think mid thut the continued training1 to expect obodienr-e converts tnem to more dummies of putty fleh lacking soul or character is beautifully reflected in the following cilloquy contributed to the column of the Brooklyn Times by Kuth Trpveljan "Children are nv re lab1o than they used to be. They are so considered and catered to. trained and taught in these modern days that they are bocom- inz insufferable.

said good Mrs. Standstill to two of her neighbors who were making a friendly call. "Exactly what my grandmother ncd to tny when I was a pirl. She talked so much of modern laxity in rearing children and of my failings in particular that I felt myself a prodigy of wicked ness. observed Mrs.

Ftcolance with her usual vivacity. "Men may come and men may go. but such talk goes on forever. murmured Mrs. Motherly with smilo.

'But now Mrs Standstill what do you object to in modern children State your charges explicitly for I have five of them and fch uld like to understand the nature of their enormities. Mrs. Standstill hesitated a moment and then vent on. "They are disobedient unchlldlikc and Bolf-nssorting they think and act tao much for themselves have too little respect for parents and teachers or reverence for what is holy. "Precisely the characteristics I have been inculcating into my children from babyhood.1 exclaimed Mrs.

Fieelanee boldly. "I for one don't want a set of puppets so obedient that they only move when father or mother pulls the string. Each child is a sentient thinkingbeitfg and his powers of observation thougnt and reason should be put into action as BOOH as they develop. Faculties like fingers will atrophy if never used. "But don't you teach your children to.bo obedient asked Mrs.

Motherly aghast. "That depends on what you call obedient replied her neighbor. "For the first few years the child has to follow an other's will but as early as possible he should be taught to rely upon upon him self. My children are never disobedient to me because I never command them to do anything. Our relationship i such that there can be no question of obedience or disobedience between us anymore than there is between you and your husband.

Wo talk things over together calmly and dispassionately never clashing because 1 respect their individuality and do not try to force my personality upon them. "You are right there I believe ejaculated Mrs. Motherly "but such methods mean hard It is like teaching in a kindergarten after being accustomed to hear lessons from a text book. "These new fangltd notions may be well enough in some ways but it is by their fruit I judge them" observed Mrs. Standstill who continued solemnly "Do such methods make nice lovable sweet-spoken well-inannerod children "No they do not responded Mrs.

Freelance emphatically. "It is not perfect children wo are aiming for but able intelligent well rounded men and women. You don't expect apples in Juno to have the sweetness ro-ineas and juice of the matured fruit. Why should you expect children in their immature state to be nearly faultless "My boys are not very agreeable I expect but they are quick at their studies and wonderfully helpful to both their father and They are good boys too even if they do not show much reverence for what you call sacred things Mrs. Motherly observed in nor sweet rious way.

"I think the spiritual side of human nature being highest and holiest is in normally constituted boys and girls the last attribute to develop. I have little patience with unripe piety of any description baid Mrs. Freelance. "It consoles me to hear you say so continued Mrs. Motherly.

was really troubled for a time about Jack. He absolutely refused to go to Sunday school because he had to study catechism instead of bible lessons He told me it was the first time in his life he had over been required to learn dogmatic statements by heart you know ho attends a model school and that the mere fact of having to say 'I believe thus and mediately made him disbelieve it. "There That's an example of the tendencies 1 condemn. A properly brought up child should believe whatever his pastor or master tell him to added Mrs. Standstill triumphantly.

"Well I am devoutly thankful that my children are not properly brought up then interpolated Mrs. Freelance. "They are encouraged in every way to think and act for themselves subject only to the eternal laws governing the universe. Mrs. Motherly gave the speaker a quick glance of appreciative understanding then added reverently "May God give us mothers strength to fulfill our manifold duties for they t-eem too much for human nature to undertake unaided.

Among the documents which have been discovered is a tablet which may bo well called "the oldest dressmaker's bill in the world. It was the custom of the Babylonian kings to present to the temples Mils of robes for the use of the priests and priestesses. This was usually done every year remarks Mr. Basunven in London Queen and we have many of those lists in the British museum. The oldest hitherto known has been that of king about 14.10 B.

C. There are several of later period but the document before us is far older than nnv yet found. Ttio tablet wljich is of limestone was discivorod in the ruins of the temple in the city of Nipur in southern ChaWca This temple as dedicated to the ghost god and had a very large priesthood attached to it. From the style of the writing which is extremely archaic and from the curious system of numerals employed the tablet cannot bo of later date than USOO B. C.

It contains list of ninety-two vestments which were presented to the temple by the king. The uumo of the king is unfortunately not given. The end of the tabk-t rcnas "in all ninety-two pure vestments the bill hstof the temple for the j'nostB this year. Many of the words are unknown to us. as "they ore no doubt many of thorn technical terms employed by the modistes of the period.

Some of the Hues however are of particular interest those that can bo satisfactorily deciphered. Arnonz the items are "twelve white robes of the temple eight robes of the house of his lady ten collars of the house of hlu lady ton pure jold oollari two whlto robea. One i1 -J 'r-n a. A i' ic sn ar t' cr t. i j- n- imnati of tV pea jn Psalms xu speaking th rob'-nrfdolcntof 'nnrrh and al ifi and cai ia.

It was. no do'ibt the custom in Babvlonia to jwrfume the robes as it if to this day in Persia and India. Another iUsm Is also illustrative of eastern Ufa "Two winders. probably scurfs awed for binding round the wufct. This document has likewise an additional value in showing us the great development which had taken plnce in the textile arts inCbaldoaeven at this early period.

The dwirations on the tatue of Judea B. C. the embroidered fringe show that the kill of the weaver and the embroiderer were far advanced and it is a cm-ions feature to n.alc that nearly all the attempt at decorative work in early Chaldea are in patterns which are derived from textile designs. As a conventiin will be held in this state in May. ism.

to amend the institution the advocate of woman's suffrage are organizing tneir for a most strenuous effort to have the word "male" stricken ont of the institution says the New York Sun. Lillie Dovereux Blake president of the Nmv York Suffrage League Bays that suffrage would first reform woman inverting her from a condition of apathy and in- diflerence t'j her absurd paition to a lively interest in which she would claim recognition in all depa-lraents of life for responsibility educates and care broaden4 our liven With woman's suffrage will come Mrs. Blake thinks a revolution which will have nopreeedent but will stand alone. Judge Noah Davis says on the subject that ho bdliex'c that woman suffrage would strengthen and invigorate us a nation not cripple us. It would keep straight a national backbone Jhat too often bonds under the weight of ilitical errors brought about by blundering male suffrage.

"When women vote. to quote the words1 of thin legal authority. "I believe they will frame an expurgated edition of our codes and and criminal and renter impossible the corruption which now disgraces politics. The reforms which woman suffrage would work in this respect would for a time at least be markedly decisive. These reforms would not come through the number of votes cast for most women seem to be in no hurry to votebut through the strong refining influence by which they vould turn the tide of politics in the direction toward right.

"Tnen too put suffrage in the hands of women and you give them a deadly instrument with which they would destroy the saloon power. To this fiend who strews our land with human wrecks female suffrage would prove a hang man's noose. And what stands between woman and suffrage What deprives her of her sacred right One little word in our constitution 'male. Elizabeth Cady Stanton argues that to strike the one word "male" out of the constitution will be an act of momentous consequences "lifting one-half the people ple of the state from the degradation of disfranchi-eraent giving mothers new dignltv and hono'1 daughters added opportunities and respect in the world securing for the pariahs of society the most mournful figures in our civilization protection and redemption. it- Nothing delights me more at times says an elderly clubman in the calumns of the Now York Tribune than to listen to the unsophisticated chatter of very young people.

At Deinunieo's the other day Thappened to sit next to a lunch party of this season debutantes and although their conversation could not perhaps have been compared to either sauce piquante or Attic salt it was nevertheleas very amusing and seasoned my solitary chop quite to my liking for the time bsing. One of their topics interested me as presenting rather a novel exemplification of the influence of mind over matter for I had not before considered never having had the occasion to do so just what the physical effect of shyness would be on the system. In the first place they all declared that it was quite too dreadful to feel sliy and agreed that of all sensations it was about the worst. "I feel it down my back declared a tall handsome brunet'e who looked as if she might be a veritable Amazon on occasion. "It is exactly like the cold trickle of ice water down my spine.

"It affects me in the stomach. laughed a pretty little blonde. "It gives me exactly the sensation that you have in avery swift elevator when it makes that horrid little 'lift' 'just before it stops ongoing down. "I think dizziness is the worst interpolated a third healthy specimen. "Whenever I feel shy everything swims before me and 1 feel ready to drop.

"I really am the shyest of all of you exclaimed a black-eyed impish-looking little creature amid the derisive laughter of her companions who evidently had their own opinions on the subject. "It is just because 1 am BO overcome with it that 1 do the things I do it affects me that way. I am so utterly miserable that a horrible feeling of recklessness comes over mo and I have a wild desire to shock the stately stiff old ladies who look at me so disapprovingly. But it is all shyness I assure you. I am really just as timid and bashful as Maud there whom every one considers such a sensitive young thing only you see it affects me differently she concluded while the others exclaimed 'Hear hear with ironical emphasis.

Kisses and embraces are simply unknown in Japan as tokens of affection if we except the solitary fact that Japane-o mothers like mothers all over the world lip and hug their little ones be times. After babyhood there is no more hugging or kissing. Such actions except in the case of infants are held to be highly immodest. Never do girls kiss one another never do parents kiss or embrace their children who have become able to walk. And this rule holds good of all classes of society from the highest nobility to the humblest peasantry.

Neither have wo the least indication throughout Japanese literature of any time in the history of the race when affection was more demonstrative than it is today. Perhaps the wtstern reader will find it hard even to imagine a literature in the whole course of which no mention is made of kissing. of embracing evt-u of pressing a loving hand for hand clasping is an action us totally foreign to Japanese impulse us "flsslng. You may see again and ayuin fathers and sons husbands and wives mothers and daughters meeting after years of absence yet you will probably never see the least approach to a caress between them. They will kneel down and salute each other and smile and perhaps cry a little for joy but they will neither rush into each other's arms nor utter extraordinary phrases of affection.

To the soilologist and student of political science New Zealand is just now the mott Interesting part of the planet. Principled and theories are undergoing the test of practical application. What is known a "adult suffrage which here poems a long distance ahoadj is now almost us far behind. The women have occupied their now dignity with enthusiasm and are availing themselves of every opportunity to prepare themselves for their dulled A permanent Woman's 1 if -a 1 W' hasp'AI ti 'ia at-0 its i i' ati a-jd di iuJ Us i latf inn Tut- main objects 8'iugut an i-'jual rights ifxvmi'n with men. an enlarged share in administrative work and legislative enactments on such subjects ns gambling cruelty to animals and the liquor trutllc.

Ssats in parliament will probably follow in due cjurie but there is a tolera- blj-lanre order without that item. "Fudges a chocolate sweetie that is a cross between a bonbin and a cakelet. are very dear to the smil of Vaasar girl. "Fudge" parties are common in that well known institution and there is a dark suspicion that the moral wnsc of a "fre-hie" only freshie let us hope is blunted when the ways and tneans to provide materials for an impromptu "fudge" are being considered. Chocolate and sugar the two principal in gredient' can bs kept on hand but milk and butter which are also needed are perishable articles anJ have to be provided on the instant.

But freshman knows thing or two. even if she ha not been at college very long. And if she is suddenly attacked an hour after supper with Jiangs of hunger of course she tnust go dow a the refectory and beg for a glass of milk and piece of bread and butter to mitigate her dis tress. And equally of course the sympathetic head of that department was never known to refuse so natural a re quest. Two or throe hungry girls are all that are needed for a sizable party and if the bread is discarded and only the milk and butter utilized why.

Vas ar dormitories tell no tales and "fudges" are too good to be lightly dispensed with. The era of newly educated womanhood seemto be fruit already in the endeavor to place the household in more healthful condition than was pos-dble while women pos es ed little more than a smattering of piano plnving and French and Berlin work. The National Ilou e- keepers Economic association was instituted for the expre-s purpose of rousing women to a sense of their responsibility not only as hou-ekeepers but also as hour-ebuilders. For from the science of true nourishment we are now passing the study of true sanitation as embjdied in the knowledge of boating lighting and ventilation and from this knowledge on to the higher ethics of the close relation between morality and sound living in a healthy environment with proper food and clothing. It is an Interesting fact that it is the younger women iustructjfs in the colleges that are taking up these practical questions instead of the abstruse theories or dead and forgotten languages.

Prof. Lucy Salmon of Vassar is devoting much study to the subject of domestic service and Miss Marion Talootof Boston for several years made sanitary science in practical "form her special subject of study acquiring such a reputation for her investigations that when Chicago university made up its faculty she was called to be a professor ser of sanitary science ith bath women and men in her department. f- ffr -fr it is the unexpected which always happens with children as everyoody knows. A little boy of taken to visit in a household whore there had been no children for along time taxed his entertainers in the effort to amuse him. Books pictures an opera glass a pussy and more presumably attractive things were brought out to be soon discarded the child meanwhile keeping a fasciua- tingey" upon an ear trumpet which the deafness of a member of the family re quired.

Finally he crept to his mother and. with his gaze still on the object of his interest asked "Mamma the next time Mrs. Blank has to be wound up may I do it "Tho consternation of the boy's mother was not shared by her hosts and on its being repeated to the owner of the trumpet she promptly yielded the tempting stretch of flexible pipe to her small guest. From that moment his happiness was undoubted. In his hands the trumpet became a telephone a fire horn and a half-dozen other deligbtful things and it was with reluctance tnat he relinquished it when the visit was done.

hAn An interesting anecdote of the late Mrs. Lydia Maria Child is told by the daughter of Mrs. Lyman the lady to whom Mrs. Child addressed her re marks. Mr.

Child was one of the geniuses who "have soarings after the infinite and divings after the unfathomable but never pay cash always planning never achieving having schemes for paying off the national debt but never paying their own devising steps to insure competence to every member ol the human family but somehow excluding his own family. Mrs. Lyman said "Well Mrs. Child what is the latest thinp that your husband is doing Mra. Child replied "Ho is drawing g-avel for the railroad.

Mrs. Lyman asked "Now. how much do you think he is losing on the jjb Mrs. Child replied. "Well as nearly as 1 can estimate it I think he is losing ninepence about 17 cents on every load he draws.

Mrs. Lyman "Well Mrs. Child if your husband is doing anything innocent and is only losing niuepence on load for heaven's sake encourage him in it The mother-in-law of the Mikado of Japan has recently been ill. She was attended by 423 physicians but in spite of that she pulled through. In connection with the illness of Ihis illustrious lady the Buddhist priests have been claiming that it was caused by the introduction of railroads into tne king dom.

Their argument was a very powerful and convincing one too in their own estimation since it showed conclusively that when there were no railroads in the kingdom the empress was in good health and after the introduction of railroads she became ill. They were astonished that any one should dispute so logical a proposition. The Buddhist priests are not singular in this mode of argument. In the United States nearly all our political controversies are made upon the logic of coincidence and under stress of argument an effect is often attributed to cause which as yet has not arisen. One hears a great deal about feminine extravagance In dress and its deterrent effect upon the marriageable young men who shrink ba'k in terror from the altar when they consider what it costs to dress a girl according to the dictates of modern fashion.

Therefore it is Interesting to road of a certain Miss Phraser's new gown made in the year 1070 which cost fclC70 and of which it is recorded "It frights Sir Carr Scroopc who is much in love with her from marrying her saying his estate will scarce maintain her in clothes. Verily there is nothing new under the sun. Not in centuries has there been made a gown so resplendent as that worn by the Medicis queen whereon were embroidered 3,200 pearls and dia monds. And what belle in the last cycle has been arrayed BO reeplendently as that Mmo. do Moutospan who wore at a great court festival "a gown of gold on gold embroidered in gold bordered with gold and over that gold frieze stitched with a gold mixed with a certain gold which makes the most divine stuff that has ever been imagined.

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Other styles in proportion. ones whom fashion at the moment permits to wear them. There are it teems sensitive nerves about the eyebrows which are weakened when the hair is long enough to rest upon thorn. Thof-e nerves directly concern the bight and that important function is more or tampered with by tnis constant though slight weight of hair. And another physician inveighs against another practice which has never been regarded us having any specially serious effects that of having night lights in children's bedrooms.

This he pronounces very Injurious. In- fctead of allowing the optic nerves the perfect rebt aflorded by darkness the light keeps them in perpetual btimula- tion with the result of caubing the brain and the restof the nervous system to suffer. 1 The woman canvasser is a picturesque feature of English iolitics not yet fai ralllar In this country. At one-of the I recent elections the women canvu bers who really love the bent and burden of the received their reward in this world for the day before election the leading liberal paper in London paid a tribute to 'the untiring and tiiicccsbful exertions of the sixty women canvabsers who had been working on behalf of the ministerial candidates "They went in wrote the special correspondent "where the mere male canvasser had iguominiously failed and they came out victorious. A voter whom a persuasive woman cannot get the better of ia clearly beyond the reach of all human argument.

The chief requlbites for tjils eort of work it would seem are a robust constitution an infatuation for politics and a distinct call for the work. From New Zealand comes an amusing and suggestive etory of an occurrence which took place since the recent election when women enjoyed the right of franchise. It scorns that some of the laoles seated in the stalls of a theater were wearing hats which interfered with the view of those sittina behind them a circumstance not altogether unknown in New York. Suodenly a male voice from the pit exclaimed in a tone of pathetic remonstrance "Ladies now you nave got the franchise you might really take your hats off. Whether the suggestion produced any other re-ult than the inevitable roar of laughter is not related but it is safe to conclude that there were women in the theater that realized that to be permitted to vote did not make life's roses entirolv thornlebs.

It is told of Hannah More that she had a good way of managing tale bearorh. It is said that whenever she was told anything derogatory to another her invariable reply was "Come wo will go and ask if thib be true. The effect was Bometlmo ludicrously painful. The talebearer was taken aback stammered out a qualification or bogged that no notice might be taken of the statement. But the good lady was inexorable oil she took the Bcandal monger to the scandalized to make inquiry and compare ac counts.

It is not likely that anybody ever a fcecond time ventured to repeat a gossipy btory to Hannah More. One would think her method of treatment would be bure cure for bcandal. "It is a curious paradox says an exchange change "that the large-handed man loves small things details exquisitely finished objects and IB microscopic in his tendencies while ho whoso hands are small delights in colossal things of every sort loving Ostentation and display immense houses majestic estates and' all else that is upon a great scale. His handwriting is large and perhaps full of flourishes whilothut of the large- handed man is bmall and precise. This is true of BO prominent an example as President Cleveland who a large man with largo hands writes with remarkable fineness and a page of his facript is destitute of unnecessary lines.

feminine Affairs. Edna Eaglefnather a young Indian girl is a graduate of tbu Dreicl Insti School of Stenography and Type writing. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts is Bsid to own the finest flock of goats in Eng land. The queen of Denmark in her 70th year ib one of the finest harpists in the world. Mme.

Sarah Bornhardt is about to publlbh her memoirs which will fill two volumes. The duchess of Cleveland is an enthusiastic botanist. She is now in Africa hunting specimens. The empress of China when she travels takes with her a modest wardrobe composed of 3,000 gowns. Leland Stanford university though only in its third year has already nearly 900 students of whom over one-third are girls.

An establishment has been started in London where housemaids are supplied by the morning or by the day. as the employer prefers. Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago has a penchant for Mexican and duchoaso laces. She probably owns one of the finobt assortments1 of these delicate embroideries in the world.

Mrs. Ormiston Chant has this fine thing to soy of the American woman "Her good humor under difficulties is Burpassed by nothing 1 have i eon. Mrs. Daniel Butterfleld the wife of General Uuttorfield adores fine paintings and during her many trips abroad bhe has gathered together uploudid collection. Only two women in England have the right to npjKjnd the mystic loiters M.

P. H. to their names. The one is Mm Cneape who is master of the Bentley pack with her daughter as whipper-in while the Comtosc.0 do Paris ib master of the Woodnorton hunt. The Amsterdam court of appeal has decided that a young man who in the street kisttod against her will a young lady who was a stranger to him committed no offense fcf alnst the law inasmuch "as to kiss a person cannot bo an offensa because it is in the nature of a warm mark of sympathy.

I'llhlllOll The independent waist in fit ill an important feature of the modern toilet. Corsages of white chiffon with bands of sable are much admired for evening wear. Novelties in hosiery will constitute ona of the factors in the forthcoming fancies of fashion. Skirts of Btnped materials have the Beams arranged BO that they form bliarp Vandykes. A deep gathered ruffle of velvet lined with silk finishes the edges of many long capes.

Many a last year's sealskin has been brought ui to date by new sleeves of a' different fur. A fine striped velvet that is both shot and moiri-d is novelty among spring dross fabrics. Bayadere stripes of old rose and faint1 sea green appear on lustrous grounds of fawn-colored bilk. Among the black stockings are thoho covered with minute gilt stars thut are warren ted washable. Young girls wear short tight-fitting Hungarian jackets of dark blue or military rod for walking.

Stately-looking brocades made up with great taste and elaboration appear to rule among evening gowns. Yountr women wear satin or woollen crepons in preference to brocade which is bettor suited to mature omt-n. A handsome shuue of Venetian brown of a ruddy tinge appears among borne of the handsomest fabrics of the season A double reversible shot silk hab mauve ground with a pale green spot on one bide and one on the other A dark green broche called Persian brocatelle is shot with pule blue and has trefoils in turquoise blue and gold. New shades of green are absinthe water cress and osier. Combined with bluck these colors give a dlttiuctoguo..