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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1911)
TKK BEE: 0MAI1A, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1911. flU The &ee'g flnyp M aga z, i rg p)a r Bleat of the Innocent Bystander The BEES Junior Birthday Book9 i mi ii i nisip inwmw jLVJ 1 j "Listen," commanded the Regular Fel low. "A Chicago woman admit she spends tl.Kii y year on powder and other cos metic." "liC.w ran she have the face to do It?" demanded the Innocent Bystander. "Face to admit It, I mean, not to receive the full fore of that Jl,S'0 blast of complexion powder. cosmetics, perfume and toilet water that she Itemised. Hef face In a for tune to cosmetic elle:ii." "Of .ntiraa vnn nut It rather SlTOn . quoting the figure at $175.' If I remember correctly thn lailv merely mif-nds n paltry ; $460 a yeor In Bivlr hrr f-nnt!rtlc 1 whitewashed appearance which Is a kalso- ,nlna of wealth to tho dealer in i.omnlcx- .The rest vti spent for perfumes. tollelt waters, halrdresslng, manicure and cositieflos. Think of It! Only JVO a year on map powder, only a llt'le more than a dollar's worth a day. Ild you ever have a dollar's worth of face powder at one time ahdriC so, did you ever try t- put It all oh aH bnceT' ' "! should Imagine one would have to Wliji 'In It, particularly If imo were a worrten pri-paring for the opera or dinner. !Inwrer, maybe It's possible that the womad In this cane doesn't patronise the l-enta-a-tln-shaker style of powder that tou' Indulge In after shaving. Anyway, when one Uvea In Chicago ono has to be spraying one' features with powder every other minute to cover up the film of coal soot which wafts along from the river tugf and lake front locomotives. "Wa get a Una on the olassy brand of tuff sho buya when the lady says that the special, amellees or insidious perfume tha she buya to the tune of H00 a year cost $7.60 an ounce. I suppose when she hast used up $1,440 her beauty will have tha twelva-po'.ind look ofaweetnesa and ceijtslblllty. "jtnyway, ahe holds her bill for other cosiietlca down to IZ75 a year, and that's 31 I i'OWDEH. pretty conservative for a modern woman that 1h, a modern wopian who can pry loos enough coin to sink $1,S75 a year on beauty. Of course. It would be Impolite to Inquire whether that 1276 was for roay cheeks or cherry red lipe although in some of our best overdreHsed circles lately I've noticed that the prevailing favorite Hp tint Is a vivid brick red although it might have been more appropriately a brick gold. "Of course, the women answer to all this that they decorate themselves the way they do to please the men. Yes, they do, yes! A Pittsburg woman pleased her hus band so well by dyeing her hair after twenty years of married life that hubby started in to break up housekeeping and everything he could lay hands! on. He re fused to be a chromatic widower." "What's a chromatic widower?" asked the Regular Fellow. ""One whose wife dyes," explained the Innocent Bystander. (Copygriht, 10U, by New York Herald Co.) I enca, derylyn adnfat phltl 4 wis fsltli dOC his 1 !. A Few Remarks Concerning the Mule I Bjhold tha mule! Around ma ague xorin rax the discussion, or. science aim th flrsof hatred and of love, the of contempt and the plaudits of Ion, says a writer in tho Vhlladel- Itforth'. American. Into the arena of thel! world-wide argument he nas oecu drlln, sllsnt and patient as or oia; numu the 'discretion of tha centuries, wise the lariLot tV species. lit is dun. of wit and stubborn of dispo ne he la brilliant of intellect ana nmu le thtfuUl' dove he is no better than ratJier. tha Jackasa;.he Is endowed with a qjallty of (enlua that la superior to plain horfe ene;h, Is a hyterlpa,l old maid and) ha la' a 'Irertfleman and a soholar; ha has 'tt sens enough . Ui com . In .when ,t rati s and fie Is better qualified to ron tha wes (her bureau than Its present admlni- tr1 on. ., . Of er in London Prof. Wyndham CotUa of the Royal Colleg- of 'Surgeons, and In the) Isle of Wight Dr. R. Conyngham Brfwn. both, prominent members of the Tjnn.i Bnrlntv for tha Prevention of V cruflty to Animals, hava been investigating Vthejtralt of imiHcbneas from the mystert- 3ua; beast's phlnxllks head to his alto ISifter Irresponsible heels, and they don't I thirSk much of him. They aort of pity hlra, as wa do human Idiots. His Jcussedness, his stubbornness, his imagnitlcebt wrath and his natural-born klci-all these are neither his fault nor his lotV- They are merely symptoms of his affliction. The mule, these astute scientific gentle meft agree, la Just a poor, miserable, wealt- nerted, hysterical apology of a critter, who ra bivaiiably either paralysed with anger or icared Into catalepsy by fear. When he balks he Isn't determined not to move; he Is njerely Involutarlly unable to move. His emrfVona are suffocating him, and all the tl"f yu - lambasting him his over whelmed soul Is vacillating between unut teretl shrleka for home and mother and a passionate yearning to kick where It will hurt the most. Bnt listen to an American lover of the mu(r. Sit Klndig of Philadelphia, who ha haniled thousands of the long-eared ani mals and is considered an expert. He says; "the mulj a fool! .Why. he has mora brMns In his heels than plenty of people I knaw have tn their heads. Nerves T Why, If I sheer, unadulterated nerve, multiplied abViut a hundred times. Is slated by artth- mrvtto tr irn Intn tha nlnra.1 Anil thn AimoMrA. V yeaj the'mule suffers from nerves. Mad? Oh;, any ' minute of the day; maddern a. bartel f hofnets and twice as able to take jv'aii himself. But paralysed and hys li terkral? Not so long as he can take a chujik out of your shoulder with his teeth or land you somewhere in the vicinity of Ararat with hla heels. 'the mule In the best.' bravest, brainiest, kindest, antjonal that , walka on four leg. Nobody "realise the enormous strength a mule oaA muster if his driver knows how t ftnllst Ms Interest. A horse Is a weak lln beside, ilm; a chronle Invalid as well a V feol. .The bore Is always liable to corti; I've never seen a single corn on any of Jhe thousands of mules I've handled. I'vf never aeen a mule Idiot enough to kjeiv bjmanlf at his feed. Take a horse te il stall, whatever hla condition, and he) glut himself on grain It It' there, an It kill JUnv Take a mule In. all over heated, and he won't touch his oat until he tha prepared himaelf with plenty of ha j. -Put, s snule la the circus and he'll r-1 : : s amaze the populace with the tricks he'll learn. Make a friend of him and all you have to do is to refrain from making him an enemy and he'll work himself to death for you. Exaggeration? Not a bit of it. "The weather bureau has an average of about eighty-five correct guesses out of 100. on what'a coming to us; but the mule has an unbroken record of 100 flat. He never falls to raise Cain when a storm's at hand. If the government knew its busi ness it would fire the whole weather bu reau and keep a herd of mules. "And talk about a mule kicking because he's in a comatose- condition, with emo tional attachments! When a mule, kicks, he kicks to put something out of business, and that something has usually .been Inter fering J'WIth his . hjrht to the pursuit of happiness, it we oauid only uaa the-mule marksmanship in : the navy, nil' the gun pointer Vould be stoking coal. . He not only kicks because he wants to kick, but he kicks a bullseye erery Hckj '-A- horse Is a lobster beside him' -1 f Odd Superstitions J A collection of tallow rifting up against the wick of a candle waa styled a winding sheet In olden times, and deemed an omen of death in the family. A spark at the candle denoted that the person opposite to It would shortly receive a letter. I S V WmXT MI VHU1J. If pigs be killed when the moon Is In the wane superstitious people believe that the bacon when cooked will waste away. From the earliest times ornaments fash- toned In the shape of crescents have been regarded as potent charms to ward off evil spirits. In Mecklenburg it is thought that it a nail be thrust into a man' footprint he will go lame. v Skins of seals and hyena were believed by the Greek to be effective protections against lightning. Old-time actors had a superstitious aver sion to the peacock appearing In any form on the stage. In fixing the wedding day May, among month, and Friday, among days, are shunned by people in all walks of life. - Fairies In the Highlands of Scotland are all supposed to be' drowned In a place called the Ferry. Desiring to cross, they asked an old J woman if the water was deep, and in Gaelic she replied: ' "At tempting to cros ther were submerged, though It's black. It Is not deep." In at- .. WBm mmm f iff; tttmmrr. in. it tw mm wm umig tii e4t-srw wm nculb etx M ttrmwi ' ; Loretta's Looking Glass-Held Up to Girl With Bad Table Manners TTrfst (1 s)V"il T sWl-ssrtl gsYMtlT ll V ' jj-s-"w-"II 11 n 1 3ft JL3 293 BKATRICK BIMCK. North Twenty-fifth Street. This is fhe Day We (elehraie August 21, 1911 Ruth J. Alcorn, 3328 Manderson St Monmouth rark...l8) Josephine Alexander, 1443 South Fourteenth St Comonlua 1897 Corlne M. Anderson, 4210 Nicholas St - Walnut Hill 1J04 Rasmus P. Anderson. 613 Mi Pacific St Pacific 1897 Pearl L. Austin. 2872 Pratt St Howard Kennedy. .1S89 Lena Baker, 2226 Mason St Mason 1899 Deatrlce E. Black, 2923 North Twenty-fifth St Lothrop 1$0G Ruth E. Botts, 606 North Twentieth St Central 1903 Agnus Bozdech, 1314 Garfield St Kdw. Rosewater . .' 1900 George E. Brown. 2124 North Twenty-sixth St Lona; 1904 Margaret Campbell, 8354 South Seventeenth St Vinton 1900 Margaret Casey, 3203 South Twentieth St Vinton 1837 Mayer Cohn, 846 Georgia Ave Park 1896 Irene Cohoon, 1415 Ohio St Lake ' , 1901 Burt M. Corliss, 2323 8ovth Thirty-second St Windsor ........1902 John David. 1408 William St , .Comenlus 1904 Robert English. 625 8outh Thirty-first St Kurnara 1904 Alice Fay, 2604 Emmet St Lothrop 1905 Gerald E. Fltt, 2623 Spencer St Lothrop , 1896 Sarah Fogelman, 1110 North Seventeenth St Cass 1904 Arthur Glasgow, 3815 Ames Ave High 1894 Herbert A. Goodland, 2145 South Thirty-fourth St. . .Windsor 1899 Leonard W. Grace, 2926 Indiana Ave Webster 1899 Jacob Graceman, 1431 North Nineteenth St Kellom 1898 Harry Humphrey, Forty-third and Webster Sts. . . . . .Central Park 1902 Ruth E. Johnson. 2203 North Twenty-seventh Ave. . . .Long 1901 Ameta Kaer, 3615 Hamilton St Franklin 1900 Lee F. Kenney. 1822 Plnkney St. .. Earl Lancaster, 3109 Sherman Ave. Margaret Virginia Laird. 635 South Twenty-fifth Ave. Willy Lindee, 1620 South Twenty-fourth St. Walter Lindell, 704 North Thlrty-thlrd St.. Henry Lucas, 1823 Spencer St. .Lothrop 1904 .Lake 1896 .Mason 1899 .Park 1900 .High .1891 .Lothrop 1904 OrUla ( Hlackaar4. Scullion and lower servant of the Eng lish court who were clothed in sable gar ment were originally called blackguards. Gibbon Informs us that "those who car ried coal to the kitchen, or rode with tha pot and pan, were is derUiion called the blackguards." A proclamation issued in England in 16S3 officially recognized the title by ap plying It to "vicious, idle and masteries boy and rogue, commonly called the black guard, with divers other loose fellow." What is the matter with us women? Why can we never bring oure!ves to a point where we recognise the advisability of keeping everything good that the paat ha developed In and for us, while w appro priate all the advantages of the present? Girls now laugh at the old-taahloned "Pretty is as pretty does," but it' true. And men are the very first to appreciate that particular kind of beauty. A view of a oafe Is enough to make an open-eyed being wonder how long It will be before the human race relapses Into that particular phase ot evolutionary progress which produced the hog. Not because there Is so much eaten! No, indeed! Just because It 1 eaten with such flagrant disregard for the small graces which differentiate the human animal from the four-legged variety. Have you seen a fat porker with It front feet on the fence, voraoloualy awaiting the arrival of the bucket that convey It food? And have you seen a fat woman with her elbow on the table watching the waiter who approaches with a salver of viands? Isn't there a striking resemblance? I am the last one to advocate the "old fashioned" wom-ui a the model which we should eopy. But it looks a wast that of fends my Idea of social economy to cast aside all the excellencies that that old fashioned aister had perfected when we need all the charms and graces we can get! Table manners were a specialty of the women of a generation earlier than ours. So were small waists and the faint ing habit. Maybe one reason we are so so so well, here I say It, even If it is rather dreadful, so beastly, Is because we have larger waists and do not faint. Wa need more food, so we cannot mince over it. But we certainly need not lop over the table. The languid loll of the belle of a day gone by inspires the athletic girl of today with amusement. Tet the tennis champion and the golf expert appropriate it when they sit down to eat Which la worse to loll as th old-time belle did in a place suited to lolling, divan or chalse-longe, or to lop, a does th girl ot aow, over the edge of the table wtth elbow-outposts well ad vanced toward the epergn in th center ot the festal board? It ha been th custom to say that you can tell a gentlewoman by the way she eats. I should hate to think that the de ciding point, for there would be a verdlot awarded few ladles! It' an offensive fact that ladle the real ones, not Just the so called actually allow th loose manners of th women who dress a well or better than they do to influence them. Tea, they do. Tou needn't take my word for It. Just visit any hotel or cafe. It you can tell the ladies from the others by the way they take their food, you do it by an intuition that transcends the power of mere vision. Not long sine 1 heard the cheering new that a girl who wore the prettiest clothes of any member In the freshman class at a certain school, and whose record In her studies left nothing to be especially desired, was barred from the sorority she particularly wanted to enter because of her table mariner. I was cheered. It seemed a sign that the standard was rising. But f saw the girl eat! And I knew that the rejection of her was not an evidence of the dainty taste of the sorority. It was simply an evidence of her being too awfully awful. For one of the other girls edified the banquet table by aiming a small piece of Ice at the tall glass by her plate and neatly hitting the mark. The ice 'was shot trom her mouth. Oh, you needn't say she was an excep tion. She is the daughter ot rich and sup posedly refined people. It' Just this hideous carelessness of table manners that festers like a diseased spot In society. Ethel F. McCullough, 2609 North Twenty-Becond St. .Lake 1899 Florence McGulmsey, 808 Hickory St Lincoln 1897 Theresla Meier, 2213 South Fifteenth St St. Joseph 1901 Pearl M. Miller, 4013 South Tenth St Bancroft 1896 Leo Simon Nelgen4 2104 South Fifty-first St Beals 190" Lillian Millie Nelson. 2104 South Fifty-first St Beals 1905 Galen Newlln, 620 North Seventeenth St Cassr 1900 Alice Nichols, 3516 North Forteth Ave Clifton Hill 1899 Edmond O'Toole, 2807 South Thirty-second Ave Windsor , 1902 Laura Feters, 3305'Burt St Webster ......... 1 898 Fred Peterson, 1520 North Thirtieth St Franklin 1900 Joe Pleuler, 1417 Plerca St comenius .iu Verner Rand, 710 North Twenty-second St Kellom 1901 LcRoy, Richardson, 4760 North Twenty-fourth St Saratoga 1900 Loula Richardson, 4760 North Twefty-fourth St Saratoga 1900 Francis Rosslt, 4018 North Twenty-fifth Ave. . ..... . Sacred Heart ioj Harold B. Savage, 2517 South Thirty-third st wmasor ........ nvi Catherine Savidge. 2228 Maple St Lotnrop iau Elner Seaholm. 3338 Spalding St Druid Hill .1901 Edith Skupa, 911 Atlas St -Edw. Rosewater. .1904 Margaret Turnqutst, 309 North Twenty-third St Central 1901 Anden Walker, 2114 Clark St Kellom 1897 Philip Yonsen, 973 North Twenty-seventh Ave Webster 1899 The "Iiittlest Broiler" at the Ball Game Doolin Was Stubborn People in the matrimonial state, despite Its popularity, evidently do at time chafe under Its bond. Evidence of it 1 found in the court report. There' Mr. and Mrs. Charles Doolin of Decatur, III. They should not have married, but they did and peace fled. During the last five years their do mestic troublea have been aired In court twenty-three time, and fifty warrants have been sworn out. It developed at the appearance of th Doolin in court, last week, that Mr. Doolin had not taken a bath for twenty-four years. Disinclination at having the hublte of a lifetime changed to conform to a mere woman' whlma caused friction In the Doolin family, or waa one cause of the friction there. Ot course, a man can get along wtth a woman Uk this by continuous yielding, but Doolin was not mad of such pliable material. He wa th rock against which these silly feminine notions beat In vain. One would think it would be better to take a bath than to go to court, but we don't know Doolin. It was doubtless a matter of prlnolple with him. A man will suffer tor his convictions as we know trom history and observation. Ho wilt even die tor them. And at that they are probably wrong. Minneapolis Tribune. England ha tho honor ot first making cruelty to animals a distinct subject of public attention by legislation enacted in 1st. Irfue wa In use in Venice at an early period and it wa known to the ancient Greeks and Romans. It Importation Into England wa prohibited in 14S3 to protect the domestic manufacture. What' the matter with your face?" asked the Littlest Broiler a Jean Louise appeared In the wings for tha chorous dance cue; "the skin Is all peeled and your nose looks as if it had heard bad news from home." Jean Louise sighed. "I've been out t the ball game, and believe me, that Is enough to do more than Just take the skin off. Say, did you ever sit in the sun for three hours and ruak faces at yourself? That nice Clark man rang me up and asked would I go to see a ball game. I've been handing out a nice line about how athletic I am and how I love outdoor sports, meaning Clark mostly, so I thought it was up to me to go. But I'll never boast of thing again. "We went to he game in a sreet car, and I had to pretend I wasn't used to them. You know how It Is you raise your head In haughty disgust, say something about the mixed crowds, and then un consciously reach out for a strap. Every body else In the civilized world tries to get that same - car. "When we did get to the game Clark got a couple of nice seats right In the sun and then proceeded to have a good time. His Idea of a good time consisted In telling me u, lot ot unintelligible stuff about a lot of men I didn't care anything about, and Interrupting himself at fre quent Intervals by Jumylng to his feet and uttering noises. Isn't It funny how men act at a ball game? Men who are almost human beings most of the time will climb all over each other, yell, scream, and bit because a bunch of hired ball player run around a square, or don't. "If I could have only told which ball players were good looking I wouldn't have Well, What Dou You Think of That? T (?) tAI y 1 COO-Coo! coo -coo' WELL. WHAT CO YOU TMtrtK or! THAT? 1 I r 3& fM. C.OO Coo- Cool ' Coo-Coo' Co Coo WHAT? I HAVE TO t-WAKK A CALL. AT A. o'clock!. Mill ghi I lr?W 7 J V I a V I s .1 r 1 minded It so much, but you know how It Is they are Jut far enough away o that you couldn't tell whether the star player was the one who looks like your favorite actor or like the cross-eyed man who brings the vegetables to the back door. "I know all about baseball, having road the Inside story In one of the magazines that expose things, but that didn't help me much at the game. As fur as I could tell the game consisted of the player get ting tired of standing In one place. Then either they would run around a bit tor exercise or go and sit down or fight about It. Every now and then one bunch would quit and another would take it place. It's a lot more exciting to watch a game of croquet at a country plcnlo. At least you can tell what's going on then. "Of course It was Just my luck to strike a game that lasted a long time. When It was time to quit somehlng was the matter with the Bcores, both being even, so in stead of giving both of them the game, like you do at a progressive euchre party, they kept -on playing and playing. And my back hurt from sitting still so long, and some dust blew In my eyes, and my foot hurt, and my hair got loose, and the powder all came off of my nose. O, it is a lovely game nit! "When it waa all over- Clark said he liked to take a girl like me to the game because I understood it so well and didn't ask foolish question. And we got a taxi to town and had a real supper with three kinds of dessert. I love baueball, but the next time I'm invited to a game I'm afraid I'll have to refuse. While I could stand running In the hpotlight, I can't sit It outxwhen I'm spotted by the sunlight" St. Louis Olobe-Democrat. Administration of an oath In judicial proceedings wa Introduced into England by the Baxons in 000. . - All Alone Perhapa. 11 r