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Map Shows Omaha's Shipping Advantage in South Platte Territory % _CHART'Of COMPARATIVE FREIGHT RATES (^.MERCHANDISE CLASSES FROM OMAHA.STJOSEPH.fi KANSAS CITY - SOUTH PLATTt TERRITORY IIWD ARE IN CENTS PER IOO POUNDS AS IN EFFECT H ' DECEMBER i« MS '.Ciraif* |)nni ntlav Mihhi Ir fvliK.n KU>» ®maba Cl|ainbrr_iif Comment 'itmm r-- ’ How Much Should Married People Endure in Order to Keep the Home Intact L- _J By GERTRUDE ATHERTON. Every so often sociologists come to life and fire these questions: How much should men and women condone In order to keep tlie home together? ]* the good of the children of pri mary importance? Should neglect or even infidelity he an exquse for di \orce when there are children? To how many of these ardent so ciologists (the amateurs, at least, who •* ^ierally make the moat noise) has it — •curred that these questions do not 'targue Imperfections in jpere human Mature or even in current laws, but in J the whole process of civilization, which seems to have grown, especi ally as regards the sexes, with the haphazardness of a lunatic running amuck. . Nothing In man is ns casual as nature. Her one desire is to popu late the earth; and if man were gov erned by his instincts alone, nothing would please her better. For man himself she would seem to have no other use whatever, and instead of • ••warding him for his complaisance she has, the time when he first stood on his hind legs, some 500, t)00 years ago, treated him with ruthless indifference. Whether he was devoured by the monstrous wild beasts whose patched remains are ex hibited in our museums of natural history, or failed to snatch substance from the inhospitable soil of the ire ages, was a matter of profound indif ference to her so long as he repro duced himself; to starve and be Sn nihilated again. The Imagination reels when It tries to invoke a vision of the billions of men since the first Neanderthal that have lived and died, lived and died, nothing more. Stone ba.ttleaxes, flints, spears, pottery and a few megaliths—that is their record for half a million years. Even the names of great artists of the Cro-Magnon • ra are unknown, probably were In their own time. Emerging from prehistory Into the classic era, once more the masses merely’reproduced themselves, ate and drank, fought and died. What is hletory? A few great names and a .vague picture of messes that have *;t no more tj£ce of themselves r* than the beasts of the forest or the hatnyard fowls. We have now had 19 centuries of what we call Christian civilization, heaving aside the question of the lingering barbarity of wnT as foreign to the subject in hand, no thought ful person but is amazed at the lit tle man has done to get ahead of na ture. That Is to say In his personal life. He has chopped down forests " AIIVF.RTISF.MKNT. SAYS RED PEPPER BEAT STOPS PI III TEW MINUTES Rheumatism, lumbago. neuritis, backache, stiff neck, sore muscles, strains, sprains, aching joints. When . you are suffering so you can hardly get around, Just try Red Pepper Rub. Nothing has such concentrated, pen etrating heat as red peppers, and when heat penetrates right down Into pain and congestion relief comes at (I jfce. Just as soon as you apply Red Pep £jfr Rub you feel the tingling heHt. 0Tln three minutes the sore spot Is warmed through and through arid the lorture Is gone. Rowles Red Pepper Rub, made from red pepper* roets little at any "drug store. Oet a Jar at npre Be rurr to g»t the genuine, with the name Howl'S on every trackage. OERTIDE ATHERTON. Author of "Black Oxen," "The Living Present,” "The Conqueror," "A Daughter of the Vine," "The White Morning," "Aristocrat*,” "Ancestor*,” etc., etc. “Her youth,** says a fellow writer, of Gertrude Atherton, recalling their meeting some yearn ago In Brittany, “wan astound lug.** He goes on. “In her novel*—which account for tlielr popularity in I iiglaml anti America—she deal* nm»t successfully with women of today. Her women, like herself, ure alive to their toe*.*' Thin lend* particular pltjunncy to the following, from the author of 1 Black Oven." “. . . I don't know what I ran trli you that yau won’t find In *Who*a Who'—r* cept my^ age, wliirli 1 never have given to any curious person. K liav« half a dor.cn age* In u* many publications at tributed to me!" Troceeding with a condensed auto biography of herself, whirl* I* Illuminat ing lu Its selection of !artn and memories from such nn abundant life. she writos: “I was horn In Son I'nmcUco and edu ealed tliere and In I^Klngton. Ky. Before I finished school I married, and was widowed a few y<*ar» later. 1 hnmediate ly started for New York, to enter upon my career, I did not know much nt Inal Hge blit at least f knew enough to know that I eoold I earn little of the world In California; and know the world 1 must if I would be a novelist. f have been studying the world ever since. [ “The urnall town intercut* me (Mravlon aliy, >»nd I wan deeply Jnt©re*ted In vhdt Inc the old California town*--1 returned for the purpose Nome yearn after I had left—to rind out nil I could about th© Ilf©! iof th© old Snunidi ©ra—whirl* 1 embodied In ‘Reaanov/ *TI»e I loom* wo man* and ‘The Splendid Idle Koiile*.' “Hut life at It* highe«t pitch of clvlll ratlon 1nt©re*t* me nuai—although I do not Mipposo I ever took more pleanur© In writing a novel than In ‘Tower of Ivor*’ whirl* waa laid for th« mod part In Munich. I “An to ancestry t my mother • nMin© waa Franklin, nhe wav descended from a brother of Itenjamln Franklin, and her vmndluth-r, Amo* I'raiikliu. foU*»ded th© t nvn of Oxford. N. Y. My father, 'I l.yman Horn, vvhh »bo of a revolutionary Nordl© family, und hi* ancestor wan on© of the founder* of ktonlngtoii, Com. "M» grundfatlu r, Stephen I rutiklln, went to san Krnnrlnc© in the .Vlo und «*» one of the formative Influence* of tli© young city. Mv father went later, a* well a* hi* two brother*. I wa* educated bv my grandfather, and M* be had the fine*! private library In tli© ©fate, and wii* determined I *hnuld l»© well-read. I owe the more *©rioii* turn of my mind to bln*, although I rebelled bitterly at flic time. . . ." nnd built great title*, he hss given us the arts and sciences, luxuries and ” AlIVKRTISKMETrr Careless Shampooing _Spoils the Hair Koap should he used very carefully, If you want to keep your hair look ing Its best. Many soaps nnd pre pared shampoos contain too much free alkali. This dries the scalp, makes the Pair brittle, nnd ruins It. The best thing for steady use Is Mulilfled cocoanut oil shampoo, which Is pure and greaseless, and is better than anything else you can use. Two or three teaspoonful* Is suf flclent to cleanse the hair and scalp thoroughly. KImply moisten the hair with water nnd rub It In. It makes an abundance of rich, creamy lather, which rinses out easily, removing every particle of dust, dirt, dandruff and excess oil. Tile hair dries i|Uh k ly nnd evenly, and It b-uves the scalp soft, and the hair line nnd silky, bright, lustrous, fluffy, wavy, and easy to manage. You enn get. Mulslfled cocos nut oil shampoo at any drug store, it Is In expensive, and » few ounces will sup ply every member Of the family for months. / iyptfnements, and ninny beneflrlent law* which, for lnhg periods, *t least, permit whole peoples to live not only at pence with their neighbors, but with ell nations within the pale of Inlernatlnal law. Hut In his sex life he Is trtll the slave of nature. In spite of his numerous laws for the protection of society against his more ungovernable Impulses. Mann laws and divorce law s, houses of refuge for girls und Institution* for dangerous hoys arc* manifesta tion* of disease In tie* social older that wise people are trying to cot reel In a measure by enforcing law* pro viding for the sterilization of morons, for eugenic* and birth control. The worst diseases of the social or der may Iti time he eradicated by the passage of such laws, but thoss re forms have less to do with human happiness than tb« foresight of man In his own individual life, and dl vorce must continue to lie a benefi cent Institution until marriage, in stead of being the climax of romance. Is regarded as a state for which as much training Is necessary a* for any of the professions or ai ls The most Important step a man! !> Omaha’* freight rate advantage* over cities such as St. Joseph and Kansas City In the South riatte and Republican \ alley territory, are *et forth graphically in the map above, prepared under tire direction of the bureau of publicity of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, from data compiled by the traffic bureau of the chamber. Reproductions of thi* map have lieen mailed to all Omaha wboleaalers and manufacturers, at the request of I the chamber'* trade extension com mittee. Following a recent meeting of the trade extension committee at which it whs pointed out that Omaha is not getting as much business as it should from this region, which Includes southern Nebraska and northern Kansas as far west as the Colorado line, It was claimed that railroad rates and service placed Omaha at a disadvantage tn comparison with other markets. The traffic bureau figures, as set forth on the map, show that the re verse is the case, and that a carload of merchandise of given clasalfica tiun can be moved from Omaha to virtually any point within the dis puted territory, cheaper than the same car can be moved from St. Jo seph or Kansas City. The bureau of publicity has ex pressed its willingness to supply copies of the map in quantities to Omaha firms who desire to distribute tile information to their salesmen, to be used as a selling talk. takes in his life is the choosing of his mate. Not only happiness but often success is dependent upon it, and yet so far man has not passed a single law to insure its good for tune; his best achievement has been to pass a law which enables the dls contended to try It again—the make shift. divorce. What civil engineer ever yet built a bridge without a severe course pf training’’ A medical course covers six years if a doctor would win a diploma and the right to prartice. Who, unless poverty-stricken or hopelessly 'credulous, but prides him self on going to the best dentist? In structors of youth must pass the most grilling examinations, and every art, to say nothing of the sciences, demands years of study, practice and hard work. Kven a cook cannot command an adequate wage without adequate training, although the training often fRils to tha lot of some unfortunate house wife compell ed to employ green hands. For marriage alone, ths event upon which the destinies of the contract ing parties turn as definitely as al liances between nations, there Is no preparation, no training, no exaqilna tlons to be passed. I am speaking of course, of the Anglo-Saxon races; this Is not the place to discuss the possible superiority of the < I-atin methr t of allotting to the parents’ placing the marital fate of ths chil dren. We have a large enotjgh order at home. In thp Anglo-Saxon world young people fall In love and marry. In exceptional cases they are Influenc ed by consideration of fortune and ambition. But the general run ere the mere slaves of ths race, the sheepish tools of nature. Here man, for all his vast achievements, his numerous and truly magntfirent con quests of nature, deliberately slips the blinders on his eyes and mur murs: "Do your worst.” Romance Is beautiful and all life as all art would be the poorer without It, but unbridled and undirected. It Is the curse of modern civilisation Romance, in fact, Is merely a fancy name for the violent determination of the race to survive. Arguments nre wasted on young people of legal age who have fallen In love. Noth ing will save them from their folly but what I have already suggested; an unwritten social law which mnkea it Infra, dig for girls to marry before they are 21. men before they are 25. All young people, no. matter now Independent they may think they ore, are conventional an fond, and dlallka extremely being out of fashion. Moreover, a fashion, like a habit, be conies a fixed Idea, and If they look a certain age they are the loss likely to let themaelven go too soon. When people have forme,! the habit of eat in* at regular hours they rsrely feel, hungry except at the approach of the hour. Moreover, one of the most liencfleenf gifts bestowed uiam mor tals la resignation to the Inevitable —especially when the future Is full of hope! But any age limit for the youth ful excursion Into matrimony Is but one factor toward ^making a success of It. Nothin* will Insure success In matrimony blit ns dellbernle a train ing aa la necessary In nny of the srts nnd professions, tn business snd In politics. Even then It will not l>« a unlveranl specific, for human nature Is still Imponderable! But If reduced to a science, so to speak, It will aland a fair chalice for healing the greatest, of social Ills as w Ise laws have done for the state. The flrat course for the adventure of matrimony must naturally l>* In prosaic and material thlr.gs, for • V psychology Is founded upon physi ology. Inasmuch as ihe greatest philosopher that ever lived needs a body to work with. If the machinery of the liody lie Imperfect, as in the case of Darwin and Nietzsche, the brain may still accomplish great things, but at what a cost! Had en docrinology reached its present stage in their day how much might they not have accomplished? Kverk girl should learn how to cook. Servants In these days are more a curse than a blessing and are growing almoHl as rare as the dodo. Bright girls do not want to enter service, not only on account of the [exacting hours and the loneliness, but because it is tho American in stinct to rise in the social scale. No working girl is going to do general housework if she can find a place In a factory or shop, much less if she he equal to stenography. By and by there will lie no servants who nre noti morons, and a* morons have the brains of 12 in an otherwise mature and perfectly functioning body, it will be with a child's memory and no sense of responsibility. Itich people can employ chefs, but the very rich are a handful. More over, the daughters of the rich some times marry men both poor and proud. Also, even fashionable so ciety is padded out with many who are n*>t wealthy enough to dower tlielr daughters when they marry. And, leaving fashionable society aside, there are in small towns and great, other social circles, any num ber of them whose girls have little thought of earning their own living, little thought of anything—unless they are ambitious for independence, or gifted In one of the arts—but mar rying at the earliest opportunity. Therefore, girls of every class should be forced to learn how to cook, ns well as to become proficient in all forms of housekeeping. Many a mar riage has gone down to disaster be cause the meals are indigestible and the house untidy. Children, moreover, j cannot grow up to a healjhy matur ity unless properly fed, and any nat ural good taste they may have Is blunted If they grow up In a illsor derly household. Just ss their psy chology Is warped In an atmosphere of constnnt bickerings over dally grievances. Young married women, obliged to do their own work—for which they have no scientific preparation—often complain of feeling tired. They are probably Buffering from temporary poverty of endocrine secretions, par ticularly of the thyroid gland A visit to an Intelligent physician would result In a renewal of these all Im portant secretion*; and Ihe.ie is noth ing that so discourages a young hua liand, working llks a dog himself, as a woman who Is always tired. In these advanced days there ts no ex cuse for It. Of rnurso this training of girls must begin In the home. Kvory child should he compelled to take care of her own room, and. ns she grows old »r, to help a little In the kitchen and about the house generally. Hut this Is merely by way of contracting one of the many good habit* that nil In telllgent and conscientious mothers In cnlcatc. Studies must not ha Inter fered with. nor. what Is squally Im portant. the hours for play. nut the curriculum of the Inst year cf high school should embrace s conta in general housekeeping on the most scientific lines. Good restaurant cooks should come at. least once a week and criticise the culinary ettempts of scholar*, w ho .meanwhile "f studying under graduate teachers of the *rt, And there should !«• lectures at least twice .1 month on the scientific values of foods and the proper admixture of calories and proteins, acids and starches, in the daily diet. Then there would 1* no more heav iness after meals, one of the contribut ing causes to the dullness of do mestic life, and no more dyspepsia, which has broken up as many home# as infidelity, if It is Impossible to extend the curriculum of the high school any farther, then the state should build and endow' such schools, and all girls of every class be com pelled to attend by law. One of the most important studies included In this course should be the art of decoration. Nothing conduces more to love of the home, both in the husband and children, than har mony of line and <-olor. Houses that are a mess of color and inappropri ate furniture cause a subtle discon tent, for the sense of beauty is exist ent in the most Inarticulate, and men are often drawn to some predatory female as much by the charming room In which she receives him as by his "'Wi predatory Instincts. Children, still more Inarticulate, haunt the houses of playmates whose homes are more attractive than their own. For thoae who hava married without education in thia important branch of domestic science, I know of no book upon which they can rely, not only In decoration, but in all matters of taste, more surely than on Kmily Post s "Ktlquette." There is little that can ba taught hoys by way of preparing them for the practical part of domestic life l«yond teaching them the value of money and preserving their health tut there should be a law which would make it a criminal offense for a man to marry a girl unless he baa a steady lob and at least $2,000 in the bank. One way to abolish poverty is to forbid It. The psychological and intellectual preparation for matrimony must be loft for later discussion. (CopyrlSht. ISil )_ English Writer Buys an Island Taunton, Mar. 1.— Defeated for par liament on the labor ticket and de spairlng of the future of Europe. Norman Angell, the well-known pacifist writer, has bought an l» land on the east coast of England and settled down there. The Island, which lie* near the mouth of the Klarkwnter river, contain* a farm house and. at low tide, about 400 seres. Mr. Angsll's London friends understand that It also contain* a bed of oysters slid a flock of J00 ducks The owner's yacht, a convert ed lifeboat. Is moored In a little cavs behind the born. Angell has mads a number of lec ture tours In the United State*. Cure for Vermin Poisons Rabbits Huntsville, Ala., March 1—Much discussion has been precipitated In this section over the scarcity of rah hits this season. Many reason* have been Riven, but those best Informed seem to agree the condition la the re suit of Imre quantities of calcium arsonsts placed In the cotton field* to poison boll wsexlls and ontton caterpillars. A larse quantity of this poison tot on vegetation the rabbits nt», poisoning hundreds of them. Capturing Wife H^fls Intellectual Step in Civilization, Professor Says Syracuse, N. Y., March 1.—“They treated 'em rough, with caveman stuff,” and right then and there civilization. \s marked by autos, free thinkers, radio, millionaires, fur coats, flappers and Santa Claus, came into being. This was the substance of a lec ture by Prof. J. C. Duvall, Syracuse university, who traced modern civi lization to the habit of wife capture which our fur-bearing forebears In dulged In several thousand years ago. In those good old days, when man was tha boss of the family cave, relationship was traced through the woman, said Professor Duvall, b» cause daddy, the trifler, might have one wife today and another perfectly good one tomorrow. The “old man" used hie club as a persuader when the fair one of hie fancy refused to glisten to his love songs with favor, and so the progeny, not having much confidence in the fickle main meal ticket, stuc . to mamma for support, the profess said. Thus, when father had a whole set of wives and a flock of husky kids to beat off the saber-tooth tiger whs he came around to pay his morning call and to look for some human per-, chops for breakfast, his mind had a chance to work. Professor Duva;: said. He sat around the cave doing son * heavy thinking, said the prof's?' and as a result he sallied out, got another flock of wives by mair strength and started in planting gardens and taming dinosaurs on a big scale, having plenty of help te do the heavy work. Thus "pop" got rich and began trading with his friends and neigh hors. Then he took up the writing craze and lots of other things, and thus, said Professor Duvall, civiliza tion was well on the way. Chinese Woman Dope Peddler Buried With Full Celestial Rites Salt Lake City, Utah. March 1 — The departed spirit of Lucy Long has started on Its last Journey. Lucy J,ong. Chinese woman, known to opium smokers throughout the intermountain territory ns "Mamma." and notorious in Salt Lake as a deal er in the poppy product, was given the most unusual funeral this com munity has witnessed since the days of the frontier. And as her relatives mourned silent ly In their oriental stoicism, hun dreds of Americans, some friends and others of the idly curious type, passed before the bier, while Department Of Justice operatives, federal narcotic officers and uniformed ai|d plain clothes policemen watched every move among certain strange Chinese on lookers. Tong men from Butts. Mont., be lieved to be of s rival faction to that of which Lucy Long was a member, were reported in, attendance at the services. Her ao$ety. the Bing Cling tong, was in charg# of the funeral. The ancient Chinese funeral rite was observed, even to the scattering of coins along the streets and the disposal of hags containing brown sugar “to bring sweetness after bit terness." \ Lucy Long had been under both federal and state charges many times, only recently being freed from a gov ernment Indictment alleging posses sion of narcotics. Her physical cond - tion and age was such as to make prosecution and conviction almost im possible. She was more than 7#. Office Boys Skillful in Hoodwinking Boss Br In! rmslIodsI Ness Smiff. T«ondon, March 1.—England is inter ested in, if not always Impressed, b American efficiency, but there is nothing but sympathy and praise f r the committee of American efficiency experts which has tackled the tough job of investigating the lives and habits of office boys. That 12 per c»rt of them read cheap novels, 4 per cent sleep on their jolts. 2 per cent collect stamps. 17 per cent write their names scores of times daily, and 7 per cent prac tice typewriting on forbidden ma chines. is not questioned. Howeveh ths Haily Kxpress thinks the finding of the American experts that S5 per cent of offlc* boss are sufficiently clever in their actions to hide fnttn their bosses what they are doing. Is slightly wrong. The newspa per say* this figure should have been put at 99 per cent. AunurrmRMKrr. ai»vkrtij>kmicst. DO y(HI BET UP WITH A LOME BOCK Have You Rheumatism, Kidney, Liver or Bladder Trouble? Pain or dull ache In the back 1* often evidence of kidney trouble. 11 is Nature's timely warning to show you that the track of health i* net clear. ' Danger Signals. If these danger signals are unheed ed more serious results are sure to follow; kidney trouble In Us worst form may steal upon you. Thousands of people have testified that the mild and Immediate effect of Swamp-Root, tlie great kidney, liver and bladder medicine, is soon real; ed —that U stands the highest for its re markable curative effect in the most distressing cases if yon need a medicine, you should have the hest. I Ante Hack. I.nme bark la only one of many symptoms of kidney trouble. Other symptom* showing that you may need Sw amp-Root are. being subject to cm Ibarrasslng and frequent blades* t: > i Me» day and n sti! .miration, se! m«nt, etc. I.*ck of control, smaitmg. uric acljj atiam, bloating 'oaa tloah, sallow complexion. Pretalency of Kidney lli*o.i» Most |tc.q>le do t* ot re-dire, alarming increase and ran prevalency of kidney disease, kidnev dn-crdcrs .11 1 am 1 . 1 (Simmon diseases that prev .re . ften the i ,«! . >cn. . 1 nuts olio content tin no doctoring the electa, original disease contt.an mines the system. 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