THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 191:
SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT
Some Fire and Some Smell
Drawn for The Bee by Tad
Copyright, 19U National News Attn.
Hunting a
The Widow Finds that She
Again.
By Virginia Terhune Van DeWater.
Two days after the theater party
Beatrice received a note from Robert
.Maynard inquiring it he might call that
evening.
'"I want." he added, "to ask you to go
driving with me on one of, these beautiful
May afternoons, but I believe that con
ventionality and etiquette .demand that
1 shall have called on you before I make
6i4ch a suggestion. Moreover, I count it
a pleasure always to be in your society,
and I hope that you will allow me to
see you tonight." ...
'I was told to wait for an answer,"
said the. messenger who .brought the mls
give. Beatrice was' ashamed at the unsteadi
ness of,,her hand , when sb sat down to
pen her repiy. "I might be a silly girt
of sixteen," she exclaimed disgustedly.
"A. woman of my age..must be a fopl to
be 60 much excited at the prospect of a
tall from a mere man."
Her answer was brief: "Dear Mr. May
nard, I shall.be very glad to see you
this evening. Beatrice Minor.
Vithin ten minutes, after she. had sent
away the messenger' Tier telephone rang.
She recognized. HehryVBlaaehatd's voice
cm the wire, but It. brought. hex. no .thrill
am calling ; 'ju'p?' he said", '"to inquire
If, you are" going' to.be. at home tonight.
If no, J would -like to call"..,
"It never, rains but 'it comes down In
buckets thought Beatrice: "With hosts
of evenings all by myself, both. of these
men have to ask to come on the same
night." : ' "
But her voice was gently regretful. . .
"Oh, Mr. Blanchard, I am so sorry. I
have Just made an-engagement .with a
friend for tonight It's too bad. Can't
,you come some other evening instead?"
"I am disappointed," said the man
"for I am -leaving town tomorrow on a
business trip that will keep roe absent
for a week, and I hoped to see you be
fore going. I suppose it would not do
to put your friend off until tomorrow?
Do you think she would be offended if
you did?"
iShe! thought Beatrice amusedly. Did
this old bachelor suppose that he was
the only man who ever paid her any
attention? But she resisted, the impulse
to tell him that he had made a mistake
in the sex.
"I'm afraid," she said, reluctantly
"that It would not do. One's friends are
sometimes sensitive, you know. But do
qome to see me after your return.
"Indeed I will, my child. Meanwhile
take care of yourself, and think occa
sionally of this one of your friends."
"Of course!" replied Beatrice. "I could
not help it if I would!"
Was she really flirting with this old
bachelor? she wondered as she hung up
the receiver. And why was she doing It?
Was It sex-lnstlnct or was it because
she did not want to let him slip through
her fingers until she was sure that she
had secured another man? But she did
not answer the question. What waa the
use of analysing one's motives anyway.
She found her little tasks about the
bouse uninteresting that day. They bored
her, and she kept looking forward to
the evening and what it might bring.
She opened her piano and played over
some of the oW songs she had forgotten
for several years, singing them in her
clear, sweet voice, and enjoying the
Bound of her own tones. Robert May
nard had said that he' liked parlor music,
and that it was always a joy to him to
listen to the love songs with ' which he
had been familiar as a young man. Of
QUESTIONS IN
By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIX.
q. "Would it be possible for the Chi
nese republic to adopt our calendar?"
A.-Tes. Why not. Ancient modes of
reckoning could be prohibited by law,
and the caleridar in use by us substi-
tuted,
Tbus, a law making contracts
and
deeds illegal unless dated in the
Tiflw style would soon force the change.
By the way, world problems are soon
to be acted upon by the Chinese, really
a mighty race. Their modern - engi
neers have Just completed the Pekin
Kalgan railroad,, entirely without out
side aid, mathematics and all. ' To build
tunnels requires mathematical ability.
q. "Is the doctrine of evolution estab
lished, or settled as a fact?"
A. No. Evolution Is itself evoluting,
changing, transforming. After a lull,
books are now coming at a renewed and
rapid rate. Heredity Is heing discussed
as never before. Animals and plants have
ever been developed, produced, propo
gated, by plan; but the original plan of
Husband
is Really Falling in Love
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late Beatrice bad neglected her music.
There had been nobody especial to play
for and sing to. Tom had enjoyed her
little talent and that had been on of the
few subjects on which they had not
quarreled, as he had always urged her
to take lessons and . to practice. After
his death the sound of the airs he loved
had made her sorry for him in a senti
mental way that brought tears, to her
eye, and she did not like to be sad.
Therefore the piano and her songs had
been shunned by her. But today it was
different, and she rejoiced in the fact
that, though out of practice, she could
still sing. She found the piano sadly out
of tune, and hurrying to the telephone
called for a tuner, who promised to eome
up . at once.
By the time she had eaten her dinner,
ami seen the children tucked into bed.
It was 8 o'clock, and Beatrtce felt that
the stage setting was- ready for the
drama of the evening. The visit had as
sumed to her mind immense significance,
and when she heard. Maynard's ring she
was conscious that she was nervous and
short-breathed as ' she wondered if he
would care more-6r less fof her. t the
end of a couple' of hours of uninterrupted
tete-a-tete. He looked, she decided, hand
somer than ever this evening. She had
always thought his correct evening dress
becoming, as is the conventional dress suit
to the man who has a distinguished bear
ing, although' it seems to commonlze the
boor. I have known of cases in which
a woman never discovered that a man
was handsome until she saw him in
evening clothes. Beatrice was glad that
she had worn a pretty and dainty frock,
a pale violet, because she remembered
that Robert had expressed admiration for
that particular color.
"It is a strange coincidence," he said
delightedly, "that you should be wearing
tonight Just that shade of soft purple, for
as I passed Thorley's I saw a bunch of
violets that were simply screaming to be
brought to you and they will blend beau
tifully with your gown."
"I wore it because I knew you liked this
color," murmured Beatrice, as she re'
moved the wrappings from the superb
bunch of sweet blossoms. "Ah," as she
Inhaled their fragrance, "how delicious.
And they are my favorite flowers."
"I know it!" was the grave response
and as Beatrice raised her eyes she saw
a tenderness in the gaze fixed upon her
that made her flush hotly, and she be
gan talking rapidly of Indifferent topics.
She did not wish her good times spoiled
by an untimely declaration of affection
nor did she care to be obliged to give a
decided "yes" or "no" until she knew
her own mind and Just what she wanted.
The evening slipped away quickly. It
was full of thrills of gratified vanity
for Beatrice, as Maynard was one of the
men who know how to say pretty things
to women and his admiration for his
hostess was sincere. It was like a lorely
dream to the widow. She sang in a way
that surprised herself, while Robert
seemed to enjoy her and her music even
more than she had expected him to do.
Before he left-he told her that he would
like to take her for a drive the next day.
"I keep a fast horse and trap," he said.
"They are my one personal extrava
gance."
And Beatrice, concealing her Joyous ex
dteroent, promised demurely to go with
him at S o'clock the next afternoon.
SCIENCE
any kind of animal or plant has not
changed fundaraentally-the primordial
specifications are still in activity, in use.
The Idea of a court of science has been
advanced. That is, a court of high Juris
diction in each stats, before which all
cases Involving strictly scientific problems
and questions should be tried- The Judges
would be selected upon sdentlfio quall
flcationa Suits involving patents, or for
damages for electrical or other mishaps,
and all others where technical procedure
is required, would be tried 6ut before
these tribunals. The Sciences are now so
immense and cases so numerous, that
the idea of scientific courts is a very
good ore.
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By REV. THOMAS
Jane 10, 1840.
It was sixty-six years ago today that
the president of the United States, find
ing himself In somewhat of a dilemma,
asked the senate of the I'nlttcd States
for the bit of "advice" which, being
given, prevented a
war with England,
and at the same
time, brought to a
happy close a con
troversy between
Great Britain end
this country that
had been raging
with more er less
passion for almost
half a oentury.
With the excep
tion of Abraham
Lincoln, no presi
dent had a storm
ier time of It than Jamrs K. Polk. His
very candidature was tempestuous with
anarv discussion. The democrats were
moving heaven and earth for the annex'
atlon of Texas, and the antl-ilavery
people were furiously opposing the plan.
Not only so. but the freesoilers. con
vlnced that the Texan annexation would
probably come, were looking for the
"balance of power" between the slave and
free states, toward the acquisition of
the Oregon country, which had so long
b'cn In dispute.
And so between the slave holders
"hollering" for Texas and the IVee-
loilers shouting for Oregon, poor Mr.
Poik had a dreat deal more excitement
on bis hands than was comfortable for
him. However, he got out ef the situa
tion very creditably to hlmmself and to
his party.
He was of course committed to the an
Science and
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By WINIFRED BLACK.
"The breding of .good human stock is
the highest work of the new humanity,"
says the Rev. Mary Andrews, Unitarian
preacher and sociologist.
"The time is coming, and coming fast,
when we wilt exer
cise as much rare
evoluting men and
women as we do
now in evolving
stock.
"Our children may
marry because they
'fall In love,' but
our grandchildren
will not. Our grand
children will be
examined to see
whether they are
fit to marry, and if
they are not fitted
to be parents they
will not marry.
that's all. So shall the higher race be
evolved." 1
Great idea, splendid plan-no more
criminals, no more "weaklings." no mors
degenerates, no more drunkards, no more
fools, no more villains ; everybody good,
everybody clever, everybody sensible,
everybody happy, everybody sane, every
body "normal."
"Be good," says Dr. Andrews and her
followers. "Not because It Is right to b
good, but because you bad the right kind
of a grandfather. Be kind, not because
you are happier when you are kind, not
because you wish to make others happier
too, but because you had a kindly grand
mother, and that's why your grandfather
married her, not for her sake, and his
own, but for yours." Wasn't it nice of
him?
What you are is nothing, but what your
grandfather was Is the main thing. Look
up his record and see what you've got
to be, willy nilly.
What! The son of the village drunkard
In your town is the president of the tern
perance society says his father's exam
ple started him on the right path. Tut,
tut, that's Just sn accident don't even
remember It, it Isn't scientific to do that
What kind of a woman was your grand
mother? A giddy thing with an eye for
fine feathers and not an idea of economy
in the world? Take off that sober frock,
throw away your daily account boOk
you've got to be what your grandmother
was; it's scientific.
Courage, will, principle, the right kind
of home training are nothing, not a thing
in the world to do with you, it's grandma
and grandpa that do it all. That is the
rule with horses and dogs, so, of course
it must be the rule with human beings
too. There is no difference between the
capacity of a man to rise above hie nat
ural laciajtUoQS and a monkey's, any
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B. GREGORY.
nexation of the "Lone Star" atate, and
was b yno means opposed to the settle
ment of the Oregon boundary matter.
But how was it to be settled? WMC..
democrat, snd everything else, were
making the welkin ring with the martial
cry of "Fifty-four forty or fight," and
the cry could not be ignored. It had a
sound of earnestness about it that l4
to r taeded by all parties. England
was at last ready to discuss the boundary
question, and would the Unted States
mt her half wayT
It seemed doubtful. The "Fifty four
forty" sentiment was so strong that ,it
became a question whether the country
would stand for a settlement based .on
the forty.nl nth parallel as the boundary
line. But something had to be done s.nd
done quickly, and Polk turned in his
dilemma to "Old Bullion," Thomas H.
Benton, the long-headed senator from
Missouri.
Benton proved his salvation. There
was an obsolete custom by which th
president, in times of uncertainty, would
ask the advice and counsel of the sen
ate. Now said Benton to Polk: "Fall
black on the old rule, and request the
senate to give you, as president, its ad
vice as to the terms of settlement with
Great Britain regarding the Oregon
boundary dispute, submitting for such
advice, a draft of the treaty that had
been drawn up." Thus was the respon
sibility for receding from the "Fifty-four
forty" line shifted from the president to
the senate.
In the meantime Benton, by personal
solicitation secured a sufficient number
of the opposition senators to carry the
dayi and the treaty was confirmed which
forever fixed the Oregon boundarr and
staved off for all time the threatening
war clouds between the United States
and Great Britain.
Marriage
authority on heredity will tell you that
or Imply it anyhow.
Where do all our great geniuses come
from? That's a HUle confusing, I'll ad
mit Caesar, Confucius, Gsllleo, Napolron,
Mahomet, Bt Paul, not one of them "nor
mal," not one of them In good health, b
one of them the right kind of folks, and
their parentage, oh, that won't bear in
vestigating at all. This new rule won t
work backward a bit.
Just stretch out your hand and pick
few names from the great roll of honor
through the centuries. Pick them out at
random, from every climate, every race,
every field of endeavor. -
Thomas Csrlyle, Daniel Webster, Rich
ard Wagner, Joan of Arc, Robert Louis
Stevenson , Edwin Booth, Bret Harte.
Richard Mansfield, Sarah Bernhardt,
Robert Burns, Lord Byron, but what's
the use. not one of them would pass
muster at a "scientific examination" for
a right to live. Something wrong with
everyone of them, not one of them bred
right, not a single one, from a scientific
point of view.
Oh! Tes, I suppose some little cut snd
dried professor in some little cut and
dried school, Is Worth more to the world
than Napoleon with bis record of blood
shed, and yet w :
Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Angela,
Raphael, Abraham Lincoln, Oliver Crom
well; who were the fathers of this brood
of gianta
"Selected" perents. scientifically chosen
husbands, altruistically mated women of
perfect physique and wondrous moral
fiber ".-
Be careful, professor; you are going
to step off Into deep water before you get
much farther from the safe and sane
shore with the boobs and the theories
and the teachings.
"Sentiment has no place in marriage," .
says Doctor Andrews. "Not the selfish
sentiment we call love these days, ' a
higher, holler Ideal will take its place,
and when it does we shall have the foun
dations of a perfect race."
How encouraging, how uplifting, how
spiritual! Wouldn't you love the kind, of
woman who would pick out a man to
marry, not because she loved him, am)
couldn't help it and would rather die
than live without htm, but because she
considered the future of the race?
Fine race any future would have that
sprang from such a soul and such a body
as that. . ...
And once again, dear Doctor Andrews,
tell us prithee, Why do you consider your
grandson so much worthier of consider
ation than yourself, or your own son?
Why Is it nobler to be good tomorrow
than it is to be good today? , '
And wouldn't it be a Joke Dr. Andrews,
If we should find out some day tluti there
really is a good deal of common sense
Jabout the old law of selwUon after ail I