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Mme, Schumann-Heink's Failure
Put Beauty Into Your Life
A New Story:
THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1912.
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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.-
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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
