TUB BEK: OMAHA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1912.
Sherlocko .the Monk
The Adventure of the Empty Room
Copyright, 111. National Nw Association.
By Gus Mager
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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Height. Weight. Chest.
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In.
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2V, In.
H in.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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;
