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THE BEE: OMAHA, THUBSDAY, JULY 11, 1912. 13 The e c ', f5 azire SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT Hit the Judge Like a Boomerang Drawn for The Bee by Tad . ' . .... .. i. . - V- . v ' ' . J ywARt cMARfrstt ; . . . - . - V -jKlOllK I jg&sHQWV J m 6O00 VN.TV M5- J S,V - ' ' " Marriage of the Very Young and Need . of Daughter? Being Led to Think of Future Couples Who Embark on the Troubled Sea of Matrimony Must Learn at the Outset the Serious Responsibilities They Will Soon Be Compelled to Shoulder. ; By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. "Poor little couple! .And so you think j you were formed for .one another,, anct you are to go through a aupper-table kind j of life, lke two pretty pieces of confeo ' tionary?" David Copperfleld. There are .girls and boys who marry i at 15 and 18, and who are not more sure . they are alive and in love than they are sure they were made for each other. Having filled the order of their being 1 by marriage, they' are as unf earing of the future as a' baby that was born yes terday. .They look at it with eyes as untroubled and as comprehending as the eyes of 'the baby looks into the faces of those around It. . " It is nature's kindest provision that a baby knows no "fear. If, with its first breath of life. It drew even the dimmest sense of the dangers ahead. It would cry itself .to death. . It ittiblbes "confidence and assurance with- Its mother's milk, and doesn't be gin to fear until it begins to think. The power of" thought and the capacity for fearing come into being at the same time. This may explain why girls and boys of M and 18, who are in love, are not afraid to marry. Love' still all their senses, and when in love they are no longer capable of thinking. And not being capabia of thinking, they have no capacity for fearing. For what they call thinking a prac tical world -would call dreaming. Each thinks of the other. Past scenes are lived over again and coming scenes rehearsed. Love lives on what is said when they are together and thrives on 'the memory of it when apart. Fear? There isn't room for it in the mind of any boy and girl who are in 'love. There isn't room' for anything but the other's charms.1 . ' v They regard the future as a prolong ing of the present Tomorrow will be another day, and all that marred today 'was that they were not together every moment. ... . . . That great drawback to their perfect bliss will be overcome when they are married. Hence, they must marry that they always may be together. Being so completely In love, they don't think, and because they don't think they don't realise how much there is in the future to fear. Older beads must do their thinking for them. This Is also a provision of nature. Just as it is a provision of nature that someone must cover the baby when It is cold, feed It at stated periods and move it back from the fire when it is in danger. The baby sometimes rebels. It wants to play with the blaze, and never hav ing been burned it knows no fear. The mother doesn't let the baby have its way. She knows pain and punishment lie that way. But she sometimes lets a baby of 16, Who Is temporarily unable to dd its own thinking, have its way. More than this, she has been ' known to urge 'that U have its way; r , A daughter of ltf years, who played with dolly only yesterday, falls in love with a boy who is also a baby. The mother who grabs a baby away from the fire, pushes her daughter into it. She doesn't say, "Wait till you are older." . She. regards the marriage as complacently . as if the girl and her boy lover had the wisdom of the ages on their shoulders. When mothers are as foolish as this, the only hope lies in girls learning to do their own thinking. And they must think, they must know, that the respon sibilities , of life are too serious to be shouldered by mere girls and boys. They must know that if - they are meant for each other, time will prove it, and treat them all . the more kindly for waiting. Calf love (boy and girl love) may de velop Into something truer and finer. But I beg of the young lovers, and also hetr mothers, that they give this love me to develop before the wedding day 'set. A SHOT R.ANA OUT OK THP 57A& OP TUB OLPCeNTftAd TWeATRff, ANfCUDe EVANS - - ' v H0W MUCH oceS ULAue THAT B r i - --- TWA5 A WifS FROM LAND A0 PHILIP SAT AT Hl5 desk aslssp hC HAD PbZUKBH OF A HfAVV LONCHeOH AND IT MADE? HM D0A3V NLy HE WAS p.Ck)Ai4 OF THE AJXeo- WbNT AND 3Ev T tfg IF THS THOiTZ KlLLTKAttt yOQtt. nhiSk&bj out CP TUG COSTAfcD ll NOV' amo Gee i mae a ppg OPfcH THe CPU. At. . rr -4 i, I 7W& I CLw W 7M" VAAO, JtApA COAT Of tun me mite an' Down Te iTRgr W)f eBie.t tut bQ6J AND Can . c. WAS TOiStNGTHG Hkf and THe- qrapp was ' HIU.S AfD'i EFFIN(m HAM UAO N SIKIJUCr Ts DO TILL TO-MOflOvV ANPWfi-Jie KaiS0 OPTt tHe FACT THZOWiNb TMffA MOO ACS K7o rue jovwATe wew pugo TMS. &0NJMASL CAME A ahp yffttep JFTMC U6HTAAfrAfAPflf A HIT out My House ' NO CrAV DO fr AV AA C0(7 OU&UTTLe HBU Vf&.iuo lot ATteH r0P ytt rvrs CTtneV pAei op wr; vjaim WS OfjMQ iTkgM AFTEt Fiu.n- m lAMPr I 6AO A Br AO fO TO BEO AT Ml ONI 60- v N6T fOTH( Little Bobbie's Pa By WILLIAM F. KIRK. I see thare is a new author-ess, sed Ma, self. Aha! sed Pa, a woman eeven greater than Elinor Glin. 'The English folks simply dote on her, sed Ma. .She is cumlng oaver to the house tonite, & I am sure . J . that you will be glad for to see her & hear her' talk about writings & , writers. I dare not think of writing & writ ers, sed Pa,' since they threw my last play in the dis card, but this is one thing that I dare think of. I venture to assert, Pa sed without feer of successful con tradlcshun, I veri- tare to say that 'I ' c . : t des-dt care to meet any author-esses or any! painter-esses or any other kind' of ' esi-e- The last two poetesses we had to dinner, rid T?a. was all the time talking about violets & triolets & eating stake. Pa sed. I revter seen anybody with such a thoro nolegji of triolets & violets, Fa sed, that cuAeet sq much stake. All we had was a porterhouse A two tenderllnes, Pa sed to Mk, ft .tf you remember , them two old gals ate 'neerly all of the fodder. I doant mean that I bee-grudge them thare fodder, sed Pa, I only mean that the lit erary life seem to make big eaters. ' Wen this lady cums I guess I will have to do a Httel kidding. You shall do nothing of the sort, sed Ma. : You call it "kidding,'! sed Ma, but I & all the girls call it Just plain foolish clown stuff. Keep yure temper clean. & keep yure mouth shut, sed Ma, & you will find out that you will newer git into any terribui tangel. Now pleese be good to this lady author-ess. , If thare is anything in this world that' I reely & truly love, sed Pa,"1 it Is a lady author-ess.' I never cared to run around with a gent author-ess. sed Pa. That Is a rule I made wen I started. vbeelng a . gent- author-ess my- here Is the charm ing lady herself, unless it be a sorry mistake on my part ' Just then the dore blew open A in cairn Ma's friend. She was a funny looking woman all rite. I wud rather look like myself than be a gTate au thoress! This is one of the poems that she sed the mlnnlt she came Intot the house: Woman, it seems to me thy , sphere Is on the erth I mean right here. That sounds like a pretty good poem all rite, sed Pa. I wish you wud tell me what Is a sphere. j A sphere is sumtbing round, sed Ma's lady f rend. Round ft dee-void of angles. & bilt as round as a appel. I see, sed Pa, you mean round like al Swede's head. Go on & tell us moar, Felicia,' P ed. . May. name is not Felicia, sed the lady. All rite, sed Pa', all rite. In any event sed Pa, I shud like to hear the story of your past. That goes, too. sed Pa, That does not go, sed Ma. Nothing that Pa says goes at our house. ' s '-' . ', ."WoiTtke Bet. It was a tavern where a newly ar rived commercial traveler was holding forth. "I'M bet any one 15," he said, "that I have got the hardest name of anyone In this room." . An old farmer In the background shifted his feet to a warmer part of the fender. : "Te will, wili yer he drawled. "Well, I'll take ye .on. I'll bet ye- ten agin your five that my name'll beat yours." "Done!" cried the commercial trav eler. "I've got the hardest nam in the country, it is Stone." The old man took a chew at his to bacco. "Mine." he said, "is Harder." National Magazine. i i . JTot Edible.. Mrs. Newjeyrich, the wife of a multi millionaire, was dining in a fashionable hotel recently, and being unable to pro nounce the names of . dishes, she pointed to a line on the menu and said to the waiter: , "Please bring me some of that." "I'm sorry, madam," replied the waiter, "but the orchestra is Just playing that. ' Judge, . - The Modern Attila An Insect "Scourge bf God" More Terrible Than the King; of the Hum, A common house fly magnified so that you can see how one really looks. ft A U By GARRETT P. SERVIS8. ' Every day the reasons tor making war upon the tiouse fly- Increase in number. One of the latest indlotments against this disseminator of infection and death is that he carries about with him the germs of Infantile paralysis as well as those of typhoid, consumption and other Here is the pic ture of a fly re produced by per mission from Good House keeping Maga zine for July. The picture ac companies a val uable article on the dangers of the fly pest, writ ten especially for Good House- 1 keeping by . Thomas D. Wood, JL D, communicable diseases. It Is now be lieved, says Dr. Thomas D. Wood, in Good Housekeeping magazine for July, that germs of infantile paralysis may live tor forty-eight hours, at least, in the body of a fly. This insect Atllla, whose march Is more destructive than that of the scourger of dying Rome, who declared that grass could not grow where his horse had passed, does not appear in his true character when we see him quietly ' sitting in a window caressing bis sheeny wings with his hind legs or bobbing his head while he fondles the back of his neck, as If he were taking a sunbath and hugely enjoying it Hi diminutive body . covers 1 too small an area in the field of the eye to enable us to see its formidable details. We must get optically near him, with the aid of a microscope, in order to see him as he really is. -: f -." ' ' ' Then, when alt his dimensions are mag nified many diameters we behold a mon ster as terrifying as any of the dino saurs of geological antiquity. Look in the photograph J here si the , hairy body covered with sharpsplnes, at the power ful legs, with their spreading spikes at the Joints; at the . huge repulsive head with its gigantic hemispheres filled wttb the glittering facets of the great com pound eyes, the most extraordinary or rans of vision in the animal kingdom; at the big hairy club, like an extensible feeler, with which the unclean beast ex plores the sources of Its poisonous diet; and finally at the strong wings, ready spread for instant vertiginous flight, which enables it to carry the germs of disease that It has absorbed with ex press train speed to Its destination. Gibbon has described the historical At tila as exhibiting the "genuine deformity of a modern Calmuck, with a large head, a swarthy complexion and a cus tom of fiercely rolling his eyes, as if he From a model in the Milwaukee (Wis.) Public Museum. . - wished to enjoy the terror which he in spired." The description is not inappli cable to this Attila of the insect world. If, after all that has been said by medi cal science, you yet have any ( doubt about' the duty of destroying every fly you meet, then consider, for a moment, these -unquestionable facts: "On one fly s many as 6,00,000 disease-causing bac teria have been found, and. in a recent experiment the average number of germs found on the bodies of each of 414 flies was 1,250,000." Every female fly that Is allowed to live usually becomes, in the course of the summer,' the progenitor of 8.000.000 descendants that actually sur vive as carriers of disease, i ' Keep your house clear of flies, and above all keep- them out of the kitchen and the pantry. Destroy, or disinfect, or cover , with screens, every garbage pall or pan, and every heap of refuse in whtch they can breed. After all, It Is not so Very .difficult to get rid of flies. It costs . something In time and money, . but there could be no better way to expend either. Because - some flies manage to get inside your screens, don't condemn the defenses on that ac count The town is not taken when a few of the enemy have got over the walls. Keep the bulk of their . forces outside, and you can deal with the few that get in. , The Chinese wall, smile at it as we win in these days of mighty r.rtlllery and army aeroplanes, was a mighty effective defense in Its time. Kome was saved more than once from the barbarians by Its walls, although they did occasionally penetrate them. But defense by screens Is pot enough. Go out and meet the enemy on bis own ground. " Remember Cato's watchword, "Delenda est Carthago," i. e., "Carthage must be destroyed." The great Roman saw that bis country could never be safe As long as Carthage was permitted to survive. Victories were not enough; to kill a few hundred thousand Carthagin ians would not save Rome; Carthage must be exterminated, and exterminated it was. The war ' against flies, like Rome's war against he Carthaginians, la a (struggle for life. We know the enemy now, we know where he , In habits, and where he recruits his forces. Every stable, every refuse heap and ev ery garbage pail is a Carthage; swarm ing with enemies, and preparing new armies of Invasion. Delenda est Car thago. . We are now too far advanced upon the summer to hope to arrest the scourge by the slaughter of Individual files. Too many were allowed-to' escape through neglect or through mistaken mercy, In the first warm days of spring". The per sonal warfare must still be kept up, with ever-increasing vigor, but now the large measures must also be employed screens, fly traps and disinfection; ' Btm, a great deal has' been ' gained. New York Is more free from flies now than It sj a year ago; next year it may, if we win, be as nearly flyless ' as those 'Bavarian towns of which I wrote a few weeks ago. You wl!l find In Good Housekeeping magasine directions for driving away flies from the outside of your screen doors, so that ' they will not ' even ttr tempt the assault of your defenses. And you may gather a vivid impression of the critical necessity of eternal vigi lance In this matter from reading this warning of Dr. Wood's: "Let every thing that goes Into one's mouth- spoons, tumblers and baby's "nursing bottles be scalded after a fly has walked on them, ill Temper as Destroyer of Good Looks Good Done by Those of Sunny Disposition By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. it (I and she seemed to Have you a disagreeable face? Go at once and look In the mirror. Study your countenance, and analyse the prevailing expression. There came Into . " the street car one day a young wo man . dressed. . In taste and possess ing handsome fea tures. But her face was repellant to behold. ' The corners of her fresh young Hps turned down. Her brows were brought together with a disagree able half-frown. Her large eyes shot forth most unpleasant glances. affect the car like an open door through which a cold east wind blows. It was not a mere mood; for the face was so stamped with ugly tempers and angry, petulent moods that any observer could hot fail to see the unfortunate young woman had long Indulged herself in those states of mind which eventu ally destroy all beauty. . A young man of fine nwal character, splendid mental qualities, A good heart, and a handsome physique, has married the whole opulent outfit bya "grouchy" state of mind. . .'. I.-;; ' He finds one person in his acquaint ances to praise where he finds twenty to score; he approves of one thing in life where he disapproves of fifty. He is quick to condemn and slow to praise; and all the Urns he believes it Is his wonder ful "sense of Justice" and his great "power of discrimination" which causes him to take this attitude toward the world. He docs not reaitie that' he is weaken ing his power of usefulness, and In. creasing the misery of the world, and all the evils in it, by dwelling so persistently upon that mental plane. If .you do not like discords In music, how absurd it would be to sit down at the piano and to keep striking the keys, making such sounds In order to call the attention of the world to their unpleasant, nees. Your" time would be better employed practicing harmony. i s If the world seems to you full of cruelty and coldness and selfishness and vice, -go about your business and hi"- H how beautiful are kindness, warmth, sympathy and vlrtuo. . . ' That Is the most effective and practical nd prompt way to Interest the public in your Ideals of better living. ' Give it a sample. i Tou can never Improve anything or snybody by making yourself disagree able and obnoxiousQ In manner, speech and conduct , A fault-finding and over-critical and carping manner is all of those things. 1 No matter if you are finding -fault with great evils, and great drawbacks to progress, and great flaws In our civilisation: yet If you carry a "grouchy" face, an aggressive manner and an ir ritating voice with you, then you are dis agreeable and obnoxious, and you are making the world worse Instead of bet ter. You are becoming a publto nuisance. Many reformers are that ' And they repel, instead of attract thosa who might be won over t their views of equity and justice If they went about their reform work with a happy face and magnetlo personality. One of the greatest and moat humane hearted reformers the world has known (since Christ) was Henry George. And Ms face was a benediction. And his voles could win a crying child to smiles. The longer I live the more I am con vinced that the very best way to cure the world of its sickness is to talk health. The best way to cure It of its mistaken Idea of finding happiness in Immorality la to talk (and to prove It by action) the happiness found In morality, The best way to our it of selfishness is to talk and live unselfishness. The best way to drive its gloom away Is to smile and laugh It away. Emer son said: . f "Nerve us with Incessant affirmations. Don't bark against the bad, but chant the beauties of the good." Julia Ward Howe said: "The deeper I drink of the cup of life the sweeter It grows." Another great soul, whose nama I do not know, said; .' "I am not fighting my fight; I am singing my song." Henry Harrison Brown (who lost ev erything but life in the great earthquake) says: f - -"From all life's grapes I press sweet wine." If you have a fins gift for speaking. or writing, and you know that great evils exist which must be talked or written about In order to awaken the - pub 11 o mind to a reform, then go ahead and put your whole soul into an appeal for, a reform. But do not carry a "grouchy," critical face and mind about with you, day after day, and expect to reform the world in that way. Tou are only adding to the unpleasant things In life. , Copyright 1912, National News Association Hada't Take the Hoaae. - - ' Ghosts and weird apparitions which were satd to appear in an empty house were not Inducements to possible ten ants, so the agent had It elaborately done up and decorated and, by way of tempting bait, had some expensive gas fittings put in the house. The next week he heard that some bold, bad man had been after the house. Hie heart leaped with hope and expectation, and he rushed off In frantic excitement to the housekeeper of the haunted grange. "This Is splendid.." he grasped. '"Some one has taken the house, hasn't he?" "I don't know, sir, . I'm sure. Perhaps he'll come back for the house, but he's taken all the gas fittings." San Fran cisco Star. . . - Mettled Knocks. ' . "Auntie, you remind me so much of my grandma, except that she didn't shave the hairs off her chin, she let 'em grow." "I always like to hear you talk, doe tor, even If you don't say anything worth listening to. Your voice Is so musical." "Your boy is a bright handsome little fellow, Ruggles, he resembles his mother, I imagine." "You'll be glad to know, old chap, that business has picked, up amasingly since you retired from the firm." "I always did like that graduating ora tion of yours, Phil; you recited tt beauti fully." Chicago Tribune Together By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. . . We two In the fever and fervor and glow Of life'g high tide have rejoiced together; ' ' We have looked out over the glittering snow. t And known we were dwelling in summer weather. For the seasons are made by the heart I hold, And not by the outdoor heat or cold. '" ' V ' - ! 'i . '. . - We two, In the shadows of pain and woe, Have journeyed together In dim, dark places, - Where black-robed sorrow walked to and fro, Aa fear and trouble, with phantom faces, Peered out upon us and frose our blood, ' Though June's fair rosea were all in bud. J We two have measured all; depths, all heights, : We have bathed in tears; we have sunned In laughterf We have known all sorrows and delights They never could keep us apart hereafter. Whether your ipirlt went high or low, , My own would follow, and find you, I know. If they, took my soul into paradise. And told me I must be content without you, I would weary them so with my lonesome cries, And the ceaseless questions I asked about you. They would open the gates and set me free,' Or else they would find you and bring you to ma, , - v S CM' 1 A tsO, ,1 i I o H s.' v-