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TILE BEE: 03LAHA, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 3. m. 11 uiLK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT Did You Ever See One of Those Things? By Tad ee'3 3 I " I j i i I . 1 K rv I EHt OtT .'3 A PARI ii Am NOVJKJ.TV BR.0U6-HT HO we AFTEH A VNILO Nl6rHf. HNOft VrJOVLD JTICK r ' i zzz " The Kind of Women Men Admire By DOROTHY DLX. ' A young girl, who says she Is very small, writes me a tearful letter in which she complains that men only ad mire large, tall, majestic women, and that no matter how pretty and sweet a short woman Is she Is passed over In favor of some lady of the goddess type. My correspon dent feels that her chances of matri mony and her hap piness in life are blighted by her lack of Inches, and she demands to know why this is tnus. Unto which I respectfully sub mit, for her con solation, that this isn't thus. It is not true that men, taking them by and large, are enamored of the tall and stately woman, or that they prefer her to the little, roly-poly girl. Of course, viewed from a standpoint of pur art, "a daughter of the gods, divinely tall and most divinely fair," has the call over her abbreviated sister. The Gibson girl, the Fisher girl, the Christy girl, all of the various girls with whom w are familiar on the backs of maga zines ai.d in the Eunday supplements, would undoubtedly be about seven feet high if they were translated Into real life. Also, they all have a ' lean and hungry look which -goes all right in a picture, but it is doubtful if any man would care for it in a lady love. In this connection it is interesting to remark that, in a previous aga, when there was more marrying going on than there is now, and a lot more love mak ing doing, the popular Ideal of feminine pulchritude was not the telephone post woman of today, but the small cuddle some woman that was Just a good arm ful. The Immortal Shakespeare set the proper height of woman as pust as high as a-man's heart. Dickens made his Bella Wilfer. his Ruth Pinch, his Dora, his Dot, all of his most adorable women not only short, but plump. All of Scott's heart mashers were little women. The big women did great, heroic stunts, but it was the little woman that men loved. Thackeray's favorite heroines, even to Becky Sharp, were all small. These great writers knew the hearts of men, and they bullded on the fact that while men reverence and worshtp at the rhfine of the tall, maJeBtlc woman, mnety-'nlne times out of a hundred, it is the rute little, cunning woman, with kit tenish wavb. that ran wrap them around her finger. Of course thrre are many explanation of this phenomenon. The most obvious is that It flatters a man's vanity for a p ' - - 1 The Mutual Admiration Society By ELBERT HUBBARD. In the average American village of l.OXi er 2.000 people there is a coldness and in difference existing among residents to ward the majority of the people of the place. Such villages have from three to n ne churches and people who attend one church, seldom at ttnd the others. Among each little denomination swlns a social clique thit looks donn on the others and disdains and politely thwai t and blocades to the extent of its ability all the other sim ilar cliques In the village. There is a public school, but not one parent out ot twen ty ever visits it or take the Uant In terest in its work or members Reli gion, business and society in your average vintage is cpmpetitlve and co operative, and urh a thing as com munism of thought, purpose and ideal does not exist even as a hypothesis Preslderit Hadiey of Tale has recently aid: "Th best thing the young man get in college U the college spirit. The graduate of a university is forever a brother to all who to. have gone or will go to th university." collage to a certain extent 1 a com munity. It la a "collection" and this was ifi&X "j : 7 : J OM 1 TAMrft 3L.AHT" 1 DEPCVOAHT fSTTKtSf 1 1 TV A.6OO0 U 1 !. -V I - . VT 1 I H IJ" X I y A A 1 X I J woman to look up to him physically as well as mentally. A man likes to feel that he Is superior to his wife, and It takes one with as much coinage to marry a woman larger than he Is as It does for one to marry a woman that is more In telligent and better educated than he is. A suj.erlor height .like a superior mind, s really a handicap rather than an ad vantage to a girl so far as getting mar ried is concerned. If you will look about ou you will see that the girls who have .lie most beaux, and the women who hold the matrimonial records are nearly al ways small women with a very llmitexl supply of brains. Of course, tall women are admired and Jo get married, mostly to very small men. but that Is nature's effort to hold the bal ance steady and keep up the average height of the species, and by the same Loken and for the same reason the bigger a man is the more the little woman ap peals to him. It is, however, absurd to claim that men, as a whole, especially admire either the short or the long type of woman, or that her height, unless she is a dwarf, has anything to do with a girl's chances of getting married. Cupid doesn't go about with a yardstick, and whether a man falls in love with a young woman or not depends upon something much less tangible than her slie. Probably every man has a theory, be fore he meets her, that the divinity who will stir his pulses win look as if she had Just stepped down from the top of Mount Olympus, Just as every man imagines that he is a worshipper of beauty, end that no woman who wasn't a real, genuine, bona flde Venus could ever make his heart go pit-a-pnt. , Yet in spite of this alleged devotion to beauty men continue to pick out as wives women who have no standing in the good looker class. In fart, It is notorious that beauties seldom make good marriages, and that while men de light In burning Incense before a living picture, when they want to get married they generally go off and pick out some lady In the chromo style of art to take home with tbem for keeps. It must be a wonderful pleasure and solace to a woman to be tall, and slen der, and queenly in appearance, and able to contemplate the reflection of her fig ure in every shop window she passes without getting heart failure; but her looks do not cut as .much matrimonial ice as she suppose. Men may be drawn to her by her beauty at flrsti but they soon drift away unless she lias some charm more potent than mere good looks wtth which to hold them. Sympathy, comprehension, good nature, a willingness to amuse and be amused all that we comprise in the cryptic phrase "winning ways" these are a thousand fold more potent In securing the admlra tlon of men than any height, or peachl ness of complexion. And In" this is the gospel of hope for my short and saweo of corre -pondent. By taking thought she cannot add one cubit to her stature, bu she can cultivate a charm of manner an! personality that would back the poor god dess off the board. -J) th original meaning of the term. God made the country, man the city, and the devil the small town. The devil always stands for dissolution pulling apart denomlnationallsm. The word "de nominate" means to name and denomlna tionallsm Is a struggle concerning defini tions. i he villages that art beautiful and eue cetkful are where the Inhabitants nub ble least and work together most The act of working together evolves the Mutual Admiration society, and this formf an atmosphere in which Individ ualism can breathe and blossom. "Great men come In groups." e are told The fan is, common men rfften evolve Into uncommon men when they, live In groups that work together. Mother's Lament J The houte is still as still can be. Except the ticking loud and clear Of the old clock; It startles m That quiet reigns about rne here! The cat seems peaceful; not nfra:d; She sleeps beneath the kitcnen dtool; And by these signs all doubt is laid Our llttlu Willie a gone to school! There' no on tumbling down th stair, There's no on making sucn a noise That I at time must e n dclar lie la lh noisiest of boy. There's no on in the Jam or cak. Or "hooking" pi that scarcely cool. My faith to this no words can shake Our little Willi' gon to school! Yes, all the Jam and cake and pie Are thir. 1 know, upon the shelves. I Ifiok at them, and snftly sigh Thev ksern so lonesome b themselves! Ther' less of noise about the place. There mora of peace and order's rule; fiut, oh, I miss a chubby face feme Willi gon to school! .New Tor. Teisgram. Bui lur Bur' j MAvja. Appmr&j Ai MOST Of-nUTM VNIU.TtU.WO TllAAy'.i iTONVAtH THOu HIS THROAT N A i tuT Mf EDfrETD fNTO A (ylLDlTO CAPE ETOE"0 OVSTP TO THE. LUNCH COUNTER- AND ABOUT TOOlP Ml J A AiLCTi. INTO 7ME PlAttCQ- OF CO 1-0 eEri vjuMEh A MoT OOCy &AR.1CET5 VNOU-t VOW BE HLwffW AT ELEVEN O" CLOCK IF- ATTEMU ATE ? OUT OP N Housed NO CHiuO OP fVAiHG Can e-e an Acnv.ess . IUK GOT A SVAJE.LL TDB IN A DRU&JTOUE NOW STRICT AT6A M. JlNSKV fcp AND Du5r cleam tc Jweu Bottles, vnash the m0r-txs.s and &bapuate5 Pot OP rAK.DlC.INE. , YET IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE! BY TOM POWERS. Opyright, 1911, by International New Bervlce. ' f OKILY20 MINUTES AVO RE. ,Y ( SA( oup AAW YOU'RE 5AY. DOAAE. A FAVOR.,N1LLV10U? IEXPECT A 10UNC LADY HERE IN A r"EW AlSUTtS VJILLXOUTELL HER I'U-dE RICMT, v BACK -t V t. A 11. 3 a (tai?) (Sure?) lunch? yy THANK- vow MmO $L TH6 Ofciv . R. RyiM srO iNTl THS iAAiu. TDvnm STOMt vmiTH Am AvnFuI QtlNCH Of jAMft-CJ inoa jamplcs of cou;e JimLv iMCfWEMtO the: -JREfLJTETC VM i ry hi l TUN Mfi TXl.-0 eri$ HBo OF TOO AAFXV Hv M-e PiiueO TM6 Chip, froofli P'NALLV THE OlO MAN LOOKED Up AN6 CM,peS ".5irv ypyNfr PE"LjrTi Oo&anaha JnS MAKE &000 JLlppjH.ST BOOM.' BOOn!! BOSS. vmC AR.S. iAviED Ron Oovwm town to THC WHOLESALE.. VA A tuTB TO CAT On THE SNAV, SODAS, JEU. JTAmPJ hwnt or iVAMts n Twer TELEPHONE ro0K FOl. CUSTOM EWJtTTLa Fl&HTS TAKE ClNOE P-S OUT 0 F fSOPLa' stVEJ, AOvije WHAT CAR TO TXfcK T6er td onion pr rHONh PoUPEDfi-E vMlfO HEML VWELU ANO "FT rAJPNl&HT I'M TW10U(ri THE SENTLEMAM flE'O BE PIIC.HT tVCK. I ifoTHovup lu) (y) n .i ul voo'u.rftMK ME TrtATS THE VOnEV MAO tSBN .STAnO tr Cr or tVAT CO-eSiH ALL VNN . rX COpCAMe Atort fip A.H0 A TTCsu TlCKLl M VJM'THH'S C.LOI& ro-o hisa to poli-ohm ' bc.e.xi.'K. OOvNN THL LAnIk MWHAT'S THAT PiPsTD THsr (uu. AVHB TUHK(S TO 0J K H CTLO VM0 HAD MuCbUTO iOMtTHiM I OnL-- AM VETO TTJ KmOvw" SAlO iVD a STOVPK.0 IF A &OOSE IS FIT FOOT TO SAT VNOULO W0l CALX. fT A PROPA&AHOA? Do NT 4O0 DAIC.E-1 OHC-V WOK THAT" sNAV fieET HOTHlH TO DO TICU Will a. j.J A HAPPV LALL CAHT AT 1 CrUV SAID K0) (oh thah Y -MUCH!) -f.?0 Married Life the Second Year Warren Decides on an Appartment, but Helen Objects to the Neighborhood. By MABEL HERBERT URNER. "But. Warren, It will all have to be pspred and painted. I don't see how we can get In by the first." "Why not? They can do over that place In three or four days." "But can e get any on now to move us?" Helen stooped over for th spool of thread that bad slipped from her lap. "All the wagon are engaged week ahead for the 1st of October." "Leave that to me. I'll get the wagons. All you've got to do I to pack." "But, dear, this apartment Isn't rented yt wouldn't they let us stay her until r 6 ATV J XX J the lMh? That would give u so much more time." "And pay rent in both place? Well, 1 guess not." Helen dropped her sewing and came over and rested her cheeek against his. "Ton haven't signed the lease yet?" "Well, what of It?" "Don't sign It. dear. Let's not take that apartment. I don't think we'll be happy ther." "Why not?" "Oh, you know I don t like It the loca tlon the whole atmosphere of the build ing" "Now look here, we thrashed all that out last week and we're not going over It again. By gad, you're a persistent woman! "Nothing's ever settled with you. You're eternally harking back to th sitme thing. Now, I'm going to sign that lease to morrow, and we're going to move In on the first. Is that plain?' Helfn flushed. "Warren, do Sou rea lize how much this means to me? I'm in the apartment all day you're there only in th availing, kihouidn t my wlahes have suuie weight?'' Oh, that your tone Is it? You're try ing to make out that I m forcing you into this. Dldn t 1 tell you all summer to look around to find some apartment where we wouldn t be shut up against a bilrk unit as we are here? And you aid you couldn't find anything wasnt that it?" "1 said I couldn't find anything a good aa this for what we're paying here." "Well, I did find something. You were obstinately determined to stay her, and that was your method ai working It- only It dldn t happen to work." "'Hi. Warren, I didn't lr to work any-thtng-you know that not like me." ' 1 ni not so darnud sure about tnat. "Of toure 1 wanted to stay here. 1 told you that ail along. You know how we looked at apartments before we came back, and 1 uouldn l find anything to cnmpare to this." "Well, 1 found six good size rooms, with plenty of air and light. In a brand new apartment, and not a cent more thun we're paying now." "Oh! but the neighborhood! Dear, there a garage and a Chinese laundry right across the street, and all the rest of the block Is" . "But we're not living across th street nor on th rest of th block, either. We'll be comfortable In that apartment and that' all I'm aiming at. If you've aspirations for a fashionable address you've married the wrong man to gTatify them." "Oh. Wsrren. how unjust! Tou know I'm not thinking of a fashionable address. But I didn't want to be In a street over run with dirty children. And it s not oni the street It s the whole atmosphere of the building. Dear, I know w won't be happy thfre." "Well, he haven t been so infernally happy here have we?" "No. perhaps not," in a low voice, "though It hasn't been the fault of the apartment." With an oath Warren rose and flung his paper to th floor. "Now, se her, I told you w wrn't going to discuss this. Well. I mean Just what I said. "Now," emphasizing each word with a vigorous thump on the table. "We're going Into that apartment the first of October. You had your chance to find something and dldn t do it. So now we re going to take this, and we re not going to talk any more about it. Do you hear?" He went out slamming th door after him. Helen heard him getting his hat and coat In th hall and then cam the bang of the outside door. For several moments bhe sat motionless where he had left her. Then she went over to th window. Wsrren was standing on th corner waiting for a ear. Th street lamp lit up his face, and even from that dlstanc she could see the grim set lines of his mouth. The csr came claiming by and he swung on the bark scat before It stopped. She knew he was going to the club and would probably not be back until late. But somehow tonight she didn't care. She was filled with a sense of bitter tin- Justness It was not often that she felt so strongly about anything as she did about this apartment. For so long she had considered his comforts and his Inclinations before hers. that It had come to he almost a second nature. But at least In the choosing of a home, her happiness should be con- - Jldered. His words, "We haven't been so Infer nally hsppy here," kept running In her mind. fhe leaned her head wearily against the, window pane. A sense of the hopeless ness of it all swept over her. "We haven't been so Infernally happy here." Her thoughts went, back over the stormy two vears of their married life. There had been moments of haprlness. of course, and yet. how few In proportion to those jf unhapplnesa. Was It so In every married life? Suppose a great scale should be erected and each married couple should lay on one side every happy moment they hart hod together, and on the other side every "nliuppy one. In most ca.e wWlch s;d would be the heavloi ? r The Cubs' Lament By II. L. FRANCIS. We've played with many clubs, both east and west, And home of them were fast and soma were not. The Giants and the rirates and the rest; But the Dodgers were the toughest of the lot. We never on a series from that crowd; They sent our finest pitcher to th mat; All we ran say and that don't mak ua proud We Imlped to make their hatting aver age fat. So. here to you. Mr. Dahlen, And your bunch of Brooklyn men. You beat us all this reason. But we're coming back again. Mr Barger and Nape Kucker Put ua on the slab for fair. But we ll be back nxt year. Bill, And we're glad that you 1 he ther. We thounht we'd win the pennant sur enough; And so we would had Brooklyn cleared the track. But when we met our luck was alwayg tough. Instead of going on we ifot art back. They played like amateum without a bit Of fxrnse againut most of th other clubs. They couldn't field, they couldn't run nor hit. But Just the same they always trimmed, the Cub. S3, her' to vou, Mr. Dahlen, And you other Dodgers, too. You made us lose the pennant, And we're very fond of you. We're not th lest bit ngry. We'll try to see th Joke. Our feelings are the kindest. But w sure do hope you choke. Candor Won. A a result of a wager the following" advertisement was recently printed la New York paper: "I promts nothing. I engag to perform nothing, but send m 25 cent in stamp. Perhaps there is a little surprise In tor for you. Address 241." The Impudence and apparent candor of this cool appeal met with apparent suo cess. Stamps poured In for several day. No fraud order could stop It. Had th bet not been won and lost In abort tini It might b running yeL