TUB BEK: OMAHA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1912. Sherlocko .the Monk The Adventure of the Empty Room Copyright, 111. National Nw Association. By Gus Mager BBER. IN Ml BCAflDiMfV HOU4E I I Shau Finish THIS Sonkta 3 O'fLOCK. ANf uyMA turn Tuc " Tut Cham '. VUSMtl , Room iwri TOO BWC1MNS tv rnj . - . . I 1 iw -r . ... i . i i w- i I COBBER, in L t I Shkl hwaiU rf ' the TOANTcrmnewi I l-'r '16",jh6t i 8 NX SAT MR.GROUCHO.TEU.I 1 f?Vl OWAPCosfitUHcVI I I TV tT. ... . . rJ I I IS AT HOMt IN TA AVnru.4 lj I I I I MUSICAL NEklHBOft'c-FFRrrcV v-r-y. LSrj -RMSlf s HaJ S (Cafn V- V . luvtTw me STX,,L Jf I 9jS- Fahles of the Wise Dame Br DOROTHY DIX. ' One upon a tlm thsr u a woman who ni Um proud mother of an Infant phenomenon. Ho whittled bia marveloue Intelligence by crowing la tho cradle, and by faying goo-goo-googlums just ai cuto a any thing. At a tondar ago h learned to recite pieces of poetry, and atnf for company, and to Inflict other torture on innocent people with a heart lessnes surprising to observe in a mere ft rf "' .- fwHi btked out for the Hlf mother, how ever, mlatook hie nerve- for genlua. and In coneeqyeoce thereof aha went about bragging What ber little Wil lie did and aald ua til ber friend a, who . did not . care for aterlllaed baby talk, toea when they aaw ber coming. "We opt oe." they aald. "that life la full enough of trouble and affliction! without adding Infantile boa mota to It. and that anybody la Juatl0ed la peaaing up the mother of a preoodoua ehud. BeeMee, we kave Juvenile wonder of our own that we deetre to tela about omelvee." New 4he mother of the Infant phe nomenon had no manner of doubt but that ber eoa. had beaded for the temple of fame and that We could break all of the apeed regulatione In reaching It. but one thing worried her. Bhe conlf not decide which laurel wreath would moat become hi noble brow, i Peraonaily." aha aald. "t ,hou!d not object to ha) writing a few play like Bbekaapeare. but a theatrical manager aaya that the bard of Avon I a dead one' now. and that there la no money la poetry anyway. "Neither anould I refuae to let him be enme president If It were not far lb exbauetmc nature of a political cam paign. To be an admiral In the navy, or a major general In the army, I well enough for ordinary creature whoa place can be filled It they. ihouM b killed, but It would aot be Juat to th world to rtk uch a valuable life a my aoa'e In battle, while aa for hi belrg th president of a trutt I canaet bear to think of hla wasting hi great talent la merely piling up mltUom." Unfortunately for little Willie hli fond mamma would never let htm go to school with ether boy for fear he might be kpt back la hi elauee, nor would aha let him play with ftber kid leet he might be Injured by aaaocaUsn with hi ferlara, o he grew up thinking be waa the greatest ever and without ever find ing out what a ptkar be waa. But by and by It became neeeeeary for him to get out from under hla mother' shelter ing wing, and to go out Into the world and scratch for his own living. "I ehall not be gone long." he said to his weeping parent, "for o know 1 have alwaj displayed great talent and It will not take me a long to achieve fam and fortune aa It does people who hare only ordinary ability. I opine that all I will have to do will be to show my self, and I will win all of the blue rib bons, and return to you overloaded With dough and covered with honors." With these words little wnile started forth, but greatly to hi surprise he did aot appear to create a single ripple of excitement In the world. ' Nobody seemed to be walling about with any bouquets to band to blm, or to solicit blm to accept a largo and lucrative position In the financial district, And whea he began to tell about how pre codous he was aa a child, and. to ex plode some of hi baby firework they mocked him. , . . . . Oo to," they cried, -this I not a kin dergartea. and we will not stand for any of little Tlddledum'a cute epeechee. Fur thermore, we are leery ot Infant pheno mena. . for therr stock baa been bulled beyond It market value, and it Is apt to alump when you try to realise ea it Th question Is not what your t-year-old-reoord. but what is your present form of peed?" Now little Willie had not made good on hi Juverlil promise, and he boob round that, be was aot a oon ' enough bird to catch the early worm, so be went to a wis old man and put up a moan. "I do not understand this," he aald. "for from my earliest youth my mother ha con -id-red ai a geaiua and I im pacted fate to hand me out hunk of cake. Instead of this the best I have been able to do la to scratch up enough for a 'hand a1 out lunch.' which aeta heavy on my chest. Why I It thur "gome ot u." replied th old man, "are hatched out with all th brain w are ever going to have. and we use them up In the cradle Instead of saving them to do business on. "Tour trouble Is that you were a bright child and when you said smart thing, your mother repeated them In company and that swelled your bead, Moreover, you exhausted your visible supply, ot gray matter on bifantlle tricks that did not pay.. The result is that Instead of being a are card yeu are merely a three-spot, and you will get lost In th burn of the gam of life.". And as the old man had propbsled so It cam to pass. f : Hello, is the Telephone Busy If Not Listen to These Beats J - ; If oral: This fable teaches what be comes of all of the wonderful children that we brer so much about when they are little and nothing of when they are grow. , The Battle of Pavia Bf BEV, THOMAS B. GREGORY. Fcbrwary f, 1S3S. The battle of Pavla. fought W year ago today-February St, l-wlU alway. occupy a distinguished place in niaiory. i The victory wou there by the Bourbon ' and hla Imperialists ever Ftancte the ! First ot Franca. - I while aot followed . by the far-reach-, Ing result ot some other battles, waa yet eaa that changed the caerent of events and made ltif felt in French and Italian history for many geaera Uons. Francis the First and Charles the Fifth were both nrthtoea exploit era of humanity, willing add to th "giory" of their "crown.' ' ould I lance and battle axe. After Pnrla the use of firearms, hitherto In it Infancy, was to become general, and that fact had a meaning that th men who fought at Pavla knew nothing about. It meant the end of the knights, the plumes and the armor, the end of the erttocracy anl their Inherited privilege, and the final establishment of the democratic rule which was to sweep awry all king and nobles, all artificial social ang legal dis tinction and make all men equal before the lew. Before and up to Phyla the Important military arm was the cavalry the ar mored knbrht on hi armored steed was able to ride down the poor devil of a foot soldier whe-. like enough, hat on nothing thicker than a hempen ehlrt. But when th infantryman got a fun In his hand he was more than th equal of th knight and with hi gonpowder ally he hot his way to freedom. There would have been pleniv of Francis ' The moat Insolent thing In modern civilisation is the telephone. It 1 as Imperious as a pretty woman, as Insist ent as a dun. a elamorou as an office seeker, a Importunate a a beggar, as Impudent aa a newaboy and as temper wrecking a a termagant. It la berated and reprobated early and late; .It la damned a a nuisance and condemned as a meddler: It Invades our privacy and In sult our pride; It send the roar of the treat into the ear of th recluee; it drags u from reflection. Interrupts our recrea tion. Interfere with our rest, and de stroy our dreams; It I diurnal, noc turnal, eternal and infernal; and yet there always come a psychological moment whea we forget It dereliction, forglv It depravity and chant It praises to high heaven. - Th telephone I th campanile of busi ness, the whispering gallery of society, th go-between ot Industry, th herald of the press, the agent of the police, the bellrmger of gomlp, the bell-wether of scandal and th cavalier servant ot every petticoat In town. It la aa much at home In the bar room aa In the boudoir; It brings the millionaire In hla palace to the level of the mechanic In hla tenement; and when the pride ot the parvenu denies you sdmtttance, the ring of the telephone will give yeu audience. 11 is the confederate of the lore that laugh at locksmith: It defies th curmudgeon and circumvent the duenna; it I the life-line 'of Intrigue and th baffler of seclusion; and no occa sion la so sacred, no spot a secure, no atmosphere so sweet, no pride so safe, that the Insolent and Insistent slblilanc of It clamor may not Invade It. Th telephone I th last and most lusty ally of a vociferous civilisation. The roar of th trolley subsides, the whistle of the locomotive ceases, the voice of the dema gogue grow silent, th phonograph ex haust Itself, th clangor of (treet and mart la stilled, th lung of men wear out, and th rnsebud motrtw of lovely woman beromra silent, but the unconquer able telephone is on the Job tweary-fouc hours a day, Mt day la tha year. Hell hath no fury Ilk a woman aoorned; but a woman arorned pale her Ineffec tual fire before the cool, calm, cease! res clamor and constant, confident, calculated cuaswdnes of th telephone! and when the opulent Inventor of thl supreme In strument of utility and torture, useful ness and twaddle, (hall aland at last be fore the recording angel a h read from th book of doom th word and deeds credited to the telephone, he will realise that heaven can furalab him no shelter and hell no refuge from the accumulated wrath of the dead generations. ' and he will rush out Into space to aeek safety In th endless reaches of chaos. Joseph Smith In Life. , The Bight Road to Health FsW women ar satisfied with their figures, and the question I am asked most of tea 1st VWhat should my measurements be and how much should I weigh?" Te answer a many of them a I eaa at-once. I shall glv a chart ot th weight end proportions ot th American Ideal figure." The celebrated statue of th Venus ds lieJId s taken by many as the Ideal In height Thla show woman I feet I Inches high, whose waist measure 17, hip jgf, cheat til ' But the general Ideal . of beauty for women seems to call for a taller statu, an I print th proportion for different heights: lSy AX.NETTK KE1XEHMAX. 1-5 1 .- I v -, w 0 fir v ...'. . I M 9-tfMe&.-i k. ' -4 ..ft . .. MS m ' 'r -i , tt Ideal Proportoni f the . Female figure lad How to Acqaire Tnem. th real ideals, and whea (Bough women acquire th first fashion must adapt themselves to their demands. Then good-bya to th hobbt oklrt. To be healthy you must exercts and you must cxereJ systematically. Also yea must keep It up. - I believe swimming Is about th heat . txerclse In th world for womea who have no organic trouble. .' . . , ', Many torts ule troablet ar curabh). or at least. can be helped by a course ot physical culture, hut no on should try thl without working wndar the ye of a trainer. , M , t . Swimming his mads my flgara what It la. and dally exercise Jn the task .and out of It keep my measurements the same. I seldom wear coresta and I ' don't need them except ta keep a tight The Biggest Letter in the Alphabet Br VIRGINIA TKRHINE VAX DK WATER. It may not be the biggest letter In site, quality which oil the machinery of Ufa 3 bit C-.,;:' 1 ft- 'f. .-'- " jf hr :f,. ? !' . f (ii ltvj I T 1 .7 i, Height. Weight. Chest. i ft. 3.1 ft. 1.2 ft. iJfL M ft. Ufa. i.t ft. i l ft. i t ft. 1 Hi. lKln. lUlhe. lis Ins. 12 lb-. lhe. let lbs. latlb. lMlbs. . In. Tl'iln. 2 In. 2V, In. H in. ' In. IK in Si'.ln. Hit in. Now. most women. aoa to tn giory - or tneir crown, vo : . ,K- . ... . . . ''the Firsts and Charles th Firths tooakj have their subjects murdered right snd A, . lea sad It made but little difference to ",7 . J' of mankind In general which on. won th. jrcatett of .11 the Inrtrumentalltle f gam of war. Whether it waa Charles or ' humM Progress. whether It was Franc!, who was ea the " top. the people suffered all th same, j related raraaraphs. Neither of the royal scotiodrei cared the j Fewer people would lump at conclu- tosa of a pewny for human rlghu or ' tons tf they could see their finish. . . . j inere's no f'JOt like a bnid fool. hussaa aatptsess. j Mot men ara tarim hunters, but few When, therefor, at Pavia It befel that j are. guod shots. FrmU, w defeated by t. no ; .111. great principle was won or lost. The; t-n.naoiy in' re w.mA x.u4 talcc mn's result of the battle was that Frand wa ; 4r.rt if trading stsmm wtnt with It. wmp captured snd held a prl j 1 SISZ for something more than a year, at th M . . exprratioa f which ttme be was reltased , vi e cfrn- wonder That lawyer would after promsring to hM ha smbition run o nr a living if there aci'jaliy was a . . , fool ki.'-r. M more in ine airrvi.. . ,im.,. , . , onw to tk, j,n who ) But Pavla is ef In;- T t from the ma,ta. but better H ints come to thecna?, fact that it was the last great battle tat v. ho waits cn "U-lf. v 'r vrt "'k5s '-u.iu"b.i which th knights, plunu-1 snd steel- . MktT h, )lTes wte would like W clad., iaebed at each ether with. mac. . kaow.-Chkago Tribune. Waist. Ifipa. T: In. . K4 in. -! In. n in. ZW, In. 2ts In. lt in.' K In, 2i in. S In. a In. espeelally devotees of fashion who have whittled their figure down to the last fraction by dint ot much eoreetlng and wrong diet. won't approve of the figures. Naturally net. The proportion mean health, seldom syaonomou with fashion; yet If yon put a wo-naa of Meal propor tions according to t o chart and place ber near one. at our faabionabl ley figures; antes you have no real ay for beauty, -you will rote for th Ideal pra pertlona, not th fashionable on. The girl of t feat In height who weigh k pound I not fat. though 1 know nowaday that women want to be Just as slender as possible and th Idea Is to look a If you would break In two. St In- m i" s--' f in. I - I . . SI f) ) -is HEALTH. MAOXETISM. VITA LIT Y. THOSE AI1E THE REAL iUliM-S. It may be fashionable, but It not chart cf Ideal proportions, healthy, and the reason we have so many if, fashlcr.ible luet now to have A-oop-neurastaee'e, nerrou women (round Ing th.uWors and a flat chest; It' with haggard faces I bscaua ot the faehlofiabl to glide, or rather drag, one s and mind. If yeu control the first you violent methods they empisy In getting self along. b'Jt these fsshluus are not stand a better chance of gatnl ng control thin and In keeping Just a little too thin, going to last of the other, and that is what we all are Just a little underweight accardlag t thla. Health, magnetism, -vitality those are after !n these Omen. Un't it? ' a frock from wrinkling. If I ever have to wear one. which Is not often, for the minute my clothes are tight I feel my- muscle getting cramped, and any woman whose muscle ar cramped la awkward, no matter how much money aha has spent In lessons to acquire grace. Only the body that Is perfectly free Is graceful, and the body soon acquire a natural grace If It la not hampered with tight clothea. All children are graceful untlf they get to the age of -tlf nrnsrlnnsnsm Self eonsclousnes acta upon th muscles. Just as tight clothing doe. It cramp them and hinder free, graceful, natural move ments. Every child should be taught to awlm and to dance, bees use thee form of exercis counteract th effect ot lf. onsclousnees and ar beneficial from the mental aid aa Weil aa from the phys ical one. Swimming develop courage, aelf-con-fldenc; It help develop the figure Into line of beauty and grace. The good lisnrer. on the other hand, scq aires that poise of body, the conscious command of every muscle, which b Invsluable In glv. Ing one mental poise and balance as welL Few people realise how very Intimate Is: the relationship between the body but It la mentioned oftener thaa any other. All of ae UK ta speak It. The most silent at us will unbend aad chat freely It some one Introduce Into th converse iKm that ever-Interesting topic ourselves. A woman who was universally popular waa salted by a friend bow she mads mere acqualntaarsa Ilk her. with so llttl apparent effort on. her part to plea. Th popular woman replied franklyi . e "I encourage people te talk about them selves. On self Is th subject of which on never tires. Whea I meet a person waa seem seem utterly Impossible to me. I mak an opportunity to say to him: New what do yeu thlak at so-and-sor nd stnlghtway his tongue Is loosed, snd all I hav te da at to listen." Verily she waa wis ta her general Ion, but hew oftea ah must hav been bored. We all remember th definition oi a bore aa "a maa who talks sa an sea about himself and hi affairs that he allows you no Um to talk about yourself and your affair." And If a man talking ot hla business and his own special Intsr- esta I a bore to a woman, hast think how a woman, whoa conversation I limited to her ewn sphere or work mutt oor a man. For. dray Is aa wa Buy, there are more things at Interest ta a women In the III of th average man than Ihers ar of latsrest to a maa In th llf of the aver age woman. W ar oftea edified and enlightened by hearing eur husband aad brother aad their friend discussing poli tics, clvto reform ar Ih stock market. We feel that we esn learn about those things from them and would be glad to know mora about them, for the ar at concern to u women. But what maa Is Interested ta hearing of "th. trivial round, the common task" of housework, f how th maid forgot to put an her whit apron whoa she went to th front deort or how she at ail th huge choco late cake that wag left from sXiadajr night supper, which should bar lasted for at least two more meals? So long ea the maid haa dinner ready when he gets home, and It I a good one, and there Is something far him to eat that he like aa well a be did th chocolate ease at delectable memory, what do th man oar about the It html trivial details preceded the satisfactory results They are not a pert and parrel of his life as h see It. And. such being the res, be I bored by hearing of them. To avoid being bores wa must rnsra to get away from the personl M of things. Men claim that few women ran do this. and hear often n men' lip th story ot the husband who remarked t his wife that women mad a personal metier of every question Introduced, at which tat- t hi wife protested with, "Oh, ao, John; all women won't! I don't, d IT" The husband wa satisfied; eh had proved th truth of hi contention. Tea aa doe get tired of the I s. Don't yea know how hard It Is ta- get some persem t talk of abstract aubjecta? Dis cussion of such to delightful when per sonalities ar avoided aad generalities death with. But In a group of a bait dosen people It 1 difficult to carry oa any Una ot argument without, bearing same on begin S, sentence with, "Well. I knew la mr owe case, theft"1 tc It la fatal to freedom of discussion. Of course, the 1 In every on' lit I tss all essential, most Important letter. Tills Is as true aa that selt-preeervalloB 1 th tint lew of nature. But we do Dot keep thaa latter truth uppermost when mingling with ether people. We do, hew. ever, bring ourselves and our feelings to the front to a wearisome exteat upon many acctstona. Thl eaaJtatlon of th ego 1 a (core ot much Individ aal m leery. No matter how big oos's own Is nobody else Is going to think a much of It as doe the possessor, aot evea the closest friend and confidant. This lav perhaps, ea ream why so many wives ar dissatisfied and unhappy. A womea finds K hard to be come reconciled to th tact that th man she love best In all th world doe not took at all thing from Iter pout of view. 8b feel that he should believe as shs does; that he ai&ht'te hold th same standards that she holds. When she 'hints a thing Is admirable, an want blm ta admir It: whea she feet K b Inexpedient he must avoid It. It would be amusing if it were not ao sad. It takes net a few years and harts for some wemsa te appreelat that, after all, many at th thing that cease heart burnings really make very little difference. When en find her own particular capital I Is getting la the way ot actual peace and happiness. It I well to use K to form a combination ef other letters. One of the most fortunate of these com bination begin with th letter I Itself. and the world Is good enough to be writ- tea entirety hi raptur. It K imairina tioa. The vary best employment H can be put to Is to ens Me one te smsgtae an' self in the place of another person. W hear (such- ot -tct that effectually, but what la tact but th possession of ao lively aa Imagination that on ran. In an Inatant'a time, sea thing from th viewpoint of "the other fellow." Have you ever observed that th tactless person I always th en, who ha aa imagination? If net. watch' and you will find It I true. On who. cannot Imagine for a moment what It would be Ilk to be disappointed rasaot say tha right thing to th man who la suffering from a great disappointment. Th person wh cannot fancy what be reavement would be cannot comfort tho friend who la Buffering from It. Imagination ran b cultivated, and grows with tha aalng. It to. however, a mlstsk to use K to mak a mental picture of all tha good things that might happen to one's self-tor there the ago agala enter hi and causes a disturb neebut let It assist to the anpreota tlon of the many happening la the' Uvea ot thorn about on. Th woman who dors this will erwrnember that behind tho taotitum. perhaps sura, demeanor of her husband, I tha aaxtou brooding on tho morrow and the Mil that must be met. er esncMtratwa ot thought on a certain business transaction that mean gain er toss for him and privation ar eemfbrt tor hi llttl family. Then ah will aot ask fretfully, 'What's tho matterf or remark thst shs "should think that,' dur ing tho little while he Is horns, h ight be cheerful." If aa Kerr tee s, little Imagination site wfU appreciate that heedlessness and happiness, not d llbarat disobedience, kept the boy out skating until past th dinner or supper hour, and will forbear ta speak that angry renivof that would mar th child's mem-- ory f a good time. Bven If sh ha been etused a little IncoavMnonc. b will forget herself, and th nilr family will be mora comfortable for 1L "Dear," aald on ludlclou toother to er small son, "won t you try to think, lee of your favorite totter. If - "Yes, mother," agreed th child, "I'll try to think lew of llttl I and more of capital V." , . A poor pun, I acknowledge, but nor av bad Met, i RUN OVER BY ENGINE. - LIVES-NURSE FAINTS : Fast Chicago, I rid., wa given a thrill Returns y. February It, when. little Mar jory Johnson, 4 years old, snd her nurse,, stsrted for "th photographer'." Not( that there waa anything particularly thrilling In their going to hare their I picture "took." It wa their refusal to. travel In street car when th sidewalk! "er Ice coated, and Invited an Eskimo styls or locomotion, and th result. ' About 1 o'clock liary and her nurse' left the JoluMon residence, bound for the "picture man's" Th aura, Marrl Oarepa, impersonated a pack ot Eskimo dogs. Marjory waa a doughty explorer. ' who waa to penetrate the Inmost fast-, aesse of th "Klondike" oa a sledge. As they approached the tracks of thai Baltlraor Ohio railroad th Ban had' Ber head bent low to ward off the north! wise. Marjory wa hanging aa t the' tde of th sledce and shouUBg glee- fully. Consequently neither aaw er heard a. switch engine rapidly neering, from th cast. On went tha twa up th hill leading to the railroad crossing. . Across tli trsck nurse went, the sled bouncing and bumping along else ho-1 1.1 C-. . , J I , ..in,. Duwrcniy a. warning Bcrescn Ot a locomotive whistle sounded close by, and 1 th nurse for the first time realised their peril. h Jerked the (led forward la an effort to get it across th track quickly, but thst tamo Jerk. 1 tended t aav Mar jory' llf. threw the girl off the sled and dumped her oa th track" in th pathway of tho onrushlng engine. ,Th aura covered her eye with both hands and fall to tho ground la a "dead faint." Marjory bad fallen right tn front of th engine, and th last thine th nurse saw waa the beginning ot tho ngla paaalnaT over MarJorTa body. . It wa fully five minutes before tha nnrs began to regain consciousness. A sh wa alowlr recovering she felt the all pressure of two band etrohmg ber cheek. She opened her eyes ami aw Marjory kneellcg beside her and murmuring: -poor doggy dipped on th ce; doggy fell down; poor doggy." Martory had not received a crarrrt. True, ah had fallen directly la tba path of th engine, but aa It -was a switch engine and had no teesger It had passed safely over tho child. The engineer had net aeea the child and proceeded aa bia wsy.-Chicago HerNird-tlerald. The better a man can flv his kit lner the more he wests to fly it high sadly. Nothing astonishes a farmer as murk as to bear how city folks think they ears;