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19 azi Mme, Schumann-Heink's Failure Put Beauty Into Your Life A New Story: THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1912. he She Thinks that She Has Made a Failure of Motherhood Wiaifred Black Answers in Her Own Way, Giving1 Some Logical Reasons Why She Should Not Think So. By WINIFRED BLACK. Madame Schumann-Helnk, tbs great einger, says she isn't ft good mother. "1 have eight fine children," says Madame Schumann-Helnk "tut J am not the right kind of a mother to them; I haven't had time to be;. I'm too busy singing. "It takes time and attention to be a mother; all the time and all the attention a woman can give, and then a little more than that. A woman who wants to be a good' Mother must make up her mind to be just t h a t-and nothing else. You can't be a mother and a great artist, too. I know. I've tried and failed.?- Failed! Have you, Madame Schumann Heink? Failed, -and that delightful family of yours all dead in love with you, from' the great v boy down to little Gretchen, who does her best to sing like mamma? Falled-rand all the world the better and the happier for .your glorious gift of song? - Failed? Nonsense! What waa the .mat ter the day you said that? Did Hans re fuse to study the lesson you set for him? Did little Lelsel insist on having her own way about ' doing her mop. of flaxen hair? . Fall! Why that's Just a word to you, "Most people are of the Impression that the diamond is more valuable than any other jewel stone, but, weight for weight, the oriental ruby costs many times what the finest diamond .of the, Klmberley field will, bring," said Henri La Velle of Chi cago, who has lately, returned from a trip to, the East Indies, the other day. Vnr instaaik. an eleven-carat ruby sold In Tendon a few years ago for $35,000. An eleven-carat diamond In the market would, not bring anything une wis sura. The smaller sized diamonds and 'pigeon blood' rubles ' are not so' Wide apart in price, but real rubles are steadily In the lead in all gem" markets. "Last fall I passed through that email district In upper Burma around Mogok, seventy miles' north of Mandalay, from which nearly all the rubies of the world come. The pure ruby is corundum chem- inrllv nvM tt aluminum. The aluminum sulphate : ls familiar ' as arum. "The 'Mo i a. . m , ,1 1 TTi. 1 f supnaie iti laimimr as cliuih. - uo- gok district was for three centuries owned by the Burmese ktnj, and in those days, I learned, the possession -of a ruby-by a private individual, if it was worth more than 360, was regarded as a crime. "Those of the larger value were made part, of the crown's property; except in those cases where the. individual, had. suf ficient cupidity to break them up and sell them as several separate jewels. "Some years ago a British syndicate got a lease on the Mogok property for a period extending to 1932, and began bring ing out rubiest over a cart road sixty miles, to the Irrawaddy river. The pro cess of taking out the brilliant red stones is unique. A pit is sunk ten feet square and twenty-five feet, deep and a centrif ugal pump is placed in it. The ground all around iti then gradually loaded into any water encountered being let into the pit, from which the pump removes it. This process continues until the level of the mine reaches the bottom of the pumping pit or the quantity of water exceeds the capacity of the tpump, in which case It becomes necessary to sink the pit farther and increase the pumping power "Chinese in blue jackets and trousers, who eat rice, dried fish and salt pork, load the ruby ground Into trucks, which are hitched to an endless rope, drawn up a slope and tipped Into screens, through which, after- being well shaken and disintegrated, It passes into washing pans fourteen feet in diameter. "Rows of steel 'teeth set in revolving arms churn up the clayey mass, the clay and lighter gravel run off Into a safety pan ana lae ceaviei- gravei, uuiiuuiung the precious stones, is left behind about 1 per-cent of the 'original contents of the washer. - "At the end of each shift a door In the pan bottom is opened and the deposit falls into trucks with covers, which are locked until the sorters are ready to treat "the loads. ' -The sorters tip the deposit tnto a large bin,' also locked; froni which it slowly dribbles, Into a revolving screen covered with various sizes of , meaning. ' The sand is eliminated at once, and the clean deposit' falls through' In five sires, the largest dlreetly to a sorting table, the other four to a puisator, which fur ther separates the heavier from ihe lighter stuff. Because - of the strong temptation to theft no natives are al lowed to handle the larger sizes, and ihe English sorters' conduct the " next nperatlon of working the stuff round and rouna in a. sieve immersed in 'a lun 01 -water till the rubles, have gravitated to the bottom. The sieve is then smartly turned upside down on a table, so taat the . rubles, are at the top and. can.be picked out by hand. .. The rainfall in the Mogok region is ter ' Its Fatal Defect. The glib tongued agent waa trying to persuade Mr. Wtpedunks to buy a diction ary. ....... "It's the latest thing out," he eaild; "up to-date in every particular,, contains more words than any Mother,, has all the technical and scientific " terms that have :ome into use in the last ten years; and there -Isn't a feature missing, that goes to make a first-class work of tbe kind." "Let me look at It a minute," said Mr. Wlpedunks. ... , ' . The agent handed it over and he in spected it briefly. Then he handed it back. "Young man," he said, "you can't work that book off on me." 'What's the matter with it?" -. "It haint got no copious index." Chi axo Tribune.- m J I Rubies of Surpassing Value J Madame Schumann-Heink! Only a fool ish word, that's all. Tou never knew what failure meant In all your great, rosy, healthy, kindly, geherous, whole some life. .:, ,. ". Tou never step out upon the platform, you never make your' entrance upon any stage, anywhere, that everything isn't better and more wholesome and more natural and more as it should be. just because you are there. And you wouldn't be you at all without that brood of chil dren waiting to hear from you just how the concert went at St Louis, and who came to the recital at Kansas City. Who's Ihe meanest, most unbearable child you ever knew, Madame Rchumann-Heink-the one of a large family, whose mother was too busy to ever attend to him, or the poor little mite whose mother doesn't do a thing on earth but "study" him and "bring him out?" I. know a child like that. He never eats without a doctor' certificate; lie never, reads anything but the perfectly right books; he is brought up by rote, educated by rule. His mother lives in his smile, breathes by his breath, wouldn't leave him for a single day, though his father lay dying across the continent and called for her with hie last breath. . Do you fancy a child like that? And what, pray, will he grow Into? j What kind of a world Is that poor, de voted mother of his training ilm for? Who's going to "study" him when she's gone? Who's going to "regulate" the universe for him? Right next door to the "regulated" boy rific. Twenty-five inches have been registered In four days there. With great open pits to be kept free from the results of such deluges the engineers often find themselves in great difficulties, so they have decided to drive a drainage tunnel through the hill On one side of the valley, which will not only curb- the river- flowing through, but also empty th water from the mines by gravity. The tunnel will be more than a mile long. "When the rich deposits have been taken froni the valleys It Is .planned to equip the hillsides with hydraulic ap paratus, as do the gold miners of Cali fornia and Alaska." Chicago News. The Bathing . 'j Out In the west,, my "own country," down In a deep, green valley, tucked away between high slopes, on whose tops the red deer graze, tucked away where two wild, loud mountain rivers join hands and voices and go jolllly on together, there's a bright green, sun-filled pool like an emerald, in a stone-bottomed, stone-walled square. Tou little maids who have the great gray ocean to dip jjour little pink toe in might sniff at my warm,, pretty green pool -anyhow, I know you'd caU It dinky but thats because yon don't know it. It flows from the always boiling heart of the moun Uvea a family of seven children. The mother of these children Is not a great artist, but She's a busy woman Just the same. She doesn't worry much about those children's souls, nor their ' about their bodies, either. . She hasn't time. She makes . all their clothes and does all their mending and all their marketing. When baby cries, mother snatches her up just long enough to find out what's the matter, and then lets the baby take care of herself all the rest of the time. Baby seems to do It, too. v There's a 6-year-old girl who combs her own hair, and a 10-year-old boy who's going to his uncle's farm this summer to work for Ms board, and tickled to death he is to do It tod. And his mother never even thinks of wanting to go with him. Which would you rather be the mother of a family like that or the poor, little self-centered creature who thinks she must give her whole life and soul and brain and body. to. the "rearing" Of on poor, puny, little mite, who'll probably grow up to be a clerk in a bank some where, with just, enough ambition to wear the correct kind of tie and to fall In love with a "classy" girl?" If I were a little, tiny girl, In Never Never Land, do you think I'd pick out that sort of woman for my mother? Would I choose a Woman who bores every one to death telling about her children, a woman who doesn't know a thing in the world, bat the nursery, a woman who couldn't tell a story to save her life unless it was something about a safety pin and a little girl who swal lowed one, and what happened to her? Not I. never! I'd toddle right up to you dear Madam Schumann-Helnk, and I'd look right straight into those deep, clear, loving eyes of yours, and I'd say: "Please be my mamma and please go on singing just the same. Tou wouldn't be you if you didn't sing. I'd rather have a chance to Inherit my nature and my brains and my smile from you than from any other kind of woman In the world, and I'd take my chances with the bringing up. "Just give me a few of those qualities that have made you the glorious woman that you are, and I'll risk growing up all right, even if you do have to hire some one to wheel my baby carriage and pay some one to curl my hair." And I'll warrant that every sensible Little Stranger In Never Never Land would cry and with envy If you sal "Yes," dear Madame Schumann-Helnk. Girl of the Rockies - Selected by EDWIN. MARK1IAM, Dr. Qrlson Swett Marden Is one of the leading teachers of the times, a man who is pouring optimism into the restless life of the modern world. Here Is a pas sage from his last volume, "Self Invest ment:" "Whatever our vocation, we should re solve that we will not strangle all that Is finest and noblest In us for the sake of the dollar, but that we will put beauty into our life at every opportunity. "Just in proportion to your love for the beautiful will you acquire Its charms nd develop Its graces. The beauty thought, the beauty ideal, will outplcture themselves In the face and manner. If you are In love with beauty you will be an artist of some kind. Tour profession may be to make the home beautiful and sweet or you may work at a trade; but whatever your vocation, if you are In love with the beautiful, . it will purify your taste, elevate and enrich your life, and make you a true artist instead of a mere artisan. 'There le no doubt that in the future beauty will play an Infinitely greater part In civilised life than It has thus far. It Is becoming commercialised everywhere. The trouble with us Is that the tremen dous material prises in this land of op portunity are so tempting that we have lost sight of the higher man. We have developed ourselves along the animal side of our nature the greedy, grasping side. The great majority of us are still living In the basement of our beings. Now and then one ascends to the upper stories and gets a glimpse of the life beautful the life worth while. "There is nothing on earth that will so slake the thirst of the soul as the beauty which expresses Itself In sweetness and light. "An old traveling man relates that once when on a trip to the west he sat next to an. elderly lady who every now and then would lean out of the open window and pour some thick salt It seemed to him from a bottle. When she had ' emptied the bottle she would refill it from a handbag. "A friend to whom this man related the incident told him he was acquainted with the lady, who was a great lover of flowers and an earnest follower of the precept 'Scatter your floWers as you go, for you may never travel the same road again.' He said that she added greatly to the' beauty of the landscape .long the railroads oh which she traveled by her custom of scattering flower seeds along the track as she rode. Many roads have thus been beautified and refreshed by this old lady's love for the beautiful and her effort ' to scatter beauty wherever she went, . . " : . "If we could all cultivate a love of the beautiful and scatter beauty seeds as we Copyright, 1912, National News Assn. Cannon-Balling: it Down the Toboggan. go through life what a paradise ' this earth would become!. "What a splendid opportunity a vaca tion in the country offers to put beauty into the life; to cultivate the aesthetic faculties, which in most - people are wholly undeveloped and nactlve. To some it is like going into God's great gallery of charm and beauty. They. find in the landscape, the valley, the mountains, the fields, the meadows, the flowers, . the streams, the brookeand tbe rivers. , riches that no money can buy;' beauties that would enchant ' the angels. But this beauty and glory cannot be bought ; they are wnly for those who can aee them, ap preciate them, who can read their mes sage and respond to their affinity. !'Have you ever felt the marvellous power of beauty In nature? If not you have missed one of the most exquisite Joys of. life. ..' . : .- " . "I was once, going through the.Tose m!te valley, and, after riding 100 miles In a stage coach over rough mountain toad's, I . was so . completely exhausted that It dl not seem as though I could keep my seat until we traveled over the ten- more miles which would bring us to our des tination. But on looking down from the top of the mountain I caught a glimpse of the celebrated Tosemlte falls and the surrounding scenery Just as the aim broke through the clouds, and there was re vealed a picture of such rare beauty and marvelous plctureaqueness that every particle of fatigue, brain-fag and muscle weariness departed In an , instant. My whole soul thrilled with a winged sense Ot sublimity, grandeur and beauty, which I had never before experienced and which I never can forget. I felt a spiritual uplift . which brought tears of Joy to my eyes." . Chinese Woddln. ' Shanghai is all a-gosslp over the first public wedding ever celebrated in that city. It marks a new era In China. The ceremony was performed In Cliang-au-has garden, a favorite resort of the Chinese. It was arranged by middlemen in the old faahloned way, but' Instead Of the brldo being carried In a closed sedan chair to the bridegroom's house and remaining In absolute seclusion throughout the festivi ties, which, In the case of wealthy people often lasted several days, both ' parties came forward publicly in the presence of their friends and relatives and were uni ted with elaborate ceremony, which in cluded piano music, the reading of the marriage covenant, and the public ex change of troth and rings. The ceremony concluded with the presentation of flow ers to. the married couple by all present, and a banquet, in which the bride partici pated sitting beside the bridegroom. Both belong to wealthy Shanghai families. This was a purely elvll marriage, in contradis tinction to weddings In the church of the Chinese Christians. This puhllcr wedding Is regarded as a striking evidence ot the new order of things in China, i By tain that leans above it. and when the snow blankets Its stone Hps; its ; water Is warm as a timid maiden's bath, and this time o' the year, 'this ' Jubj time o' the year, you'd find if you looked In on the green pool,, a drove of pretty little girls with faces that would,, lighten up your old heart" considerable, wreathing its edges about, driving their way through its green flood, and cannon-balling it down the toboggan that curves a graceful length from the tree-tops to the brink. Just the same little mermaids that ride the Atlantic's old gray sea-horses. A Story that Has not Been , -of JUmesses - , By ELBEKT HUBBARD. Copyright, lsli. International New Serv ice. . . Copyright, 1912, International News Ser. We are told that all stories had their rise In Egypt in the. time of. Harnesses H. But here Is a story -which trace no such pedigree. It Is not standard by reason of parent age; . but It Is ' - - A legitimate , by per formance. It has the peculiar and unique quality of being true. So here is the story: A one-legged man in Ptoughkeepsle hobbled into a shoe store, on . his crutches. The clerk, who had studied scientific salesman ship and had Just read an essay on "Charm , of Man ner," wiggled, Jig gled, ambled and minced , forward, smiled serenely and asked in . dulcet tones, "May I have the pleasure of show ing you a pair of shoes?" And; the. one legged man said, "Nix on -the pair, . One shoe-see!" . . ..; The clerk was slightly up In an aero plane. He coughed, hesitated, said "er" and "ah," when the proprietor, who had been viewing the scene through a peek hole from the back of the office, came forward and met the situation as a brave man should by saying to the clerk, "Show the gentleman a shoe! How often have I told you to give a customer exactly what he wants? Tou know we cater to gentlemen with one good er leg. One shoe? Certainly, of course, of course!" , ; So they sold the man the one shoe at exactly one-half the price for the pair, This gave the shoe man fit Idea, and the next day each of the newspapers In that town contained a good)y ad, begin- i By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. What do you think Is a sign that love has oome? Tou have an opinion,' and. without a shadow of doubt, It is based on experience. Looking back to that ex- Nell Brinkley I1 What is a Sign of Love? ;; Handed;DownTfbm the Time II .of Egypt; :i-J- nhig with the slogan, "We cater to one legged men." . ; i. : . Of . Course everybody Interested In ''ad vertising, and thews who were not? read the . ad and laughe!.' ' Also they passed the ad along fo other people, saying, "BtH V; Well, nt)W. wouldn't this give jtDTt the sem-sams?'' Think of It, a shoe store L catering to one-JeKged men!" Every one-legged man in that town and vicinity "had- the aid showed to him fifteen times before lunch. - Also, every one-lejf-gd man in that town went down to that shoe store and bought one shoe. -, . .One legged men can' kick aa hard as men with two pedals. . , ' ' Dissatisfied men are aiwaya great kick er. And great kickers are great adver tiser. . - -.'i; '. ' r '. jPhis' man," who 'rahtVi -shoe store, 'In stead of turning a customer away, 'made a friend of him. Then he took advaatatfa of' the ' adventitious; circumstance --aty turned It Into on advertisement. - One-legged men associate . with people who have two legs.- Most of their friends have two leg.', Some tone-legged men have families; and Dr. J. II. TUden, th eminent senacologlst, assures me that when' ' one-legged men wed and have families most- of the children have two good feet . : - ': s... f The argumeut Is that one-legged men buy shoes for two-legged people as welt as themselves. -"'':. And tbe result of advertising shoes fop. one-legged men .brought a lot ot publicity and a goodly number of customers 'to that particular shoe store. - It Is a great man who can seize the, psychological moment by the marcel , wave and swim safely Into port on thai tide of opportunity. V . -' Scientific advertising is psychology! I and a sympathetic attitude toward toe; needs of humanity Is the -first item iai the recelpe for success, . .. , Never turn a possible customer away.j Meet people rightly, but do not fall to part with them In a ' way so that when ! you again meet you will both be glad. '- perlence; would you say the writer of ths letter Is In love?. ,f . .'-' -',' " "' ain.a . "youth," and considered good-, looking by the fair ee4"vj; think I am, .-in love with a girl, -but eh seems to be In different to mbv I think -of her day and .bight" la that a signal that I love her?' I eay it la. To.dreamvbf a girl all night and think of her all day. is con clusive proof of. love. Of no one in the world does a man think so constantly except of the girl he loves.. , mere are -fiso tuner 'signs, many .of them more convincing He sees no fault in the girl. He. la never with her so long at a time that lie has had a surfeit of her society. ''' ,' ,;' ,. '..-" . The hours fly when wfth jier, and drag when away. Tbe only happiness he knows when -they are apart Is counting the time when he wlll be WltU heagain. . ---He-has -flo-'hoses that 'are not centered -acound her. - He can imagine no Joy that is independent ,f her existence, and,' "if trouble coineS iq him, his first thought Is of the effeot it may have on her. -S lie wants to shield her. . He longs: thv the right to protect her from every ad verse wind that blows. He regards money as only a means for making life pleasant for her; , he Counts all his friends of; n value unless they are also friendly to her, The signs of love are legion, but tfiia young man has the one that Is unmlstak- aoie. in tne constant ttunking of her wilt originate every dream for her, every hopet for her, every ambition.' ' "" rie continues: "She is very populfB among the boys, and she treats them alt as she treats me. A friend of mine .sar her once, and now be is apparently emit-, ten with her. Would you consider that cause of breaking off my friendship witk him, or would you step aside and let hfmt have hor?" . ' , ' " " . ' ' I Ah, here is a iHgn that doesn't point tot genuine love. . No - real - lover entertains, the thought of "letting; some other man have the girl ha lbvei - i , ' If the most peaceable man in the world, every drop bf, blood in his velna become fighting blood at such a prospect "Let, him have her! Not if constant devotion, if patience, if a fight for every inch ef ground: with every weapon love calls -Its own can-win her! , , :t- The man' who steps' meekly aside 'in such a contest la one of love's molly coddles. He has water In his veins, ami luke-warm water at that We will never win anything he wants In life ' for that reason that there is aiwaya " some other 'man who wants the 'same. thing, i"; ,';'., '!'.- . - - - . -;r ilie wlll fmd ttere areothera who wand What s he, want.. in. every walk of life. If he will meekly iive up a fight for the girl he lovea he- will meekly surrender the round of the. ladder he has reached because some other man wants it. He will get -nowhere. Indeed, J doubt if be will ever - atart, for even -at the starting place fheTe are-aiwaya othera who want, to have their turn with their 4oes' an. ; the .;lineJ . ; .. .. . He loves this; girl. Of this there is o doubt .5 But. it is a weak,', splnleaa sort of affection; the kind that clings with out giving aupport; the kind that drags and pulls down. - - If he goes to her and aaya, as he has - aald to me m." effect. "I love you. I think of yoi by day and by night Another man loves, you. Shall I step aside and let him have you?" ' If he says that and she has "the sense she needs (oft "her own protection,; .she will tejl him it is not In his power" to JlrfOTyrnyknVaher. That is wltjiin np .one"power ibut her own. - - "vr But if he feels that way about it- she will add wltfTscorn, he need never at tempt to. see tier' again. ...... .Then; she" "viU regard-him as a closed lK!ident;:.book ihat.has been read and that left. a. disagreeable impression. '' "One half of .the-world doesn't know how the; other r half Jives-and what's imore.rtt-doesnVeare. ' . . - ' But' a man 'never keeps on being craiy over-a -woman verv'lonr nft.ch gins to act crazy, over him. ,J