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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1912. ( ,( age SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT His HocSlii? xious ' Drawn for The Bee by Tad j , & nHOT)et to puu. mome J Tf V r-t - V 5 - ' .V " I ZtttuSe-nkKT J . : 7- r 7S) 6 j Hunting a Husband The Widow Gets a Surprising Letter from Maynard and Writes a Cutting Answer ...--.'' By VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DEWATER. As .. Henry Blanchard had advised Beatrice Minor not to be precipitate In her reply to hit proposal, she was glad to take advantage of his suggestion and think Ion? and almost Joyously over the matter. His letter was delicious balm to her wounded vanity, still smarting from the discovery that the man of whom she bad thought as her probable husband re garded her only. as a friend. ' After all, she consoled herself, no artist ever made a satisfactory life partner. ' She had heard much Jargon of the vagaries of the artis tio temperament, and perhaps she should congratulate herself that she had es caped any : closer ' relationship with it. The ;'. knowledge that a well-to-do. old bachelor, was here for the taking changed the mortified woman into a philosopher. She had need of philosophy before the end of the day, for she received a letter from Robert Maynard that made her cheeks burn and brought tears of resent ment to her eyes. These, however, she laughed away quickly wheV her" glance rented, agaUuon .Htbe.,eaveIppeonlaiolrig, Blanchard's request for her hand. May naid",A letter began .with an , apology - for fisfe-uding jpon. heir tme, and .went ori to fell her that his reason for writing was to ask Jver congratulations upon Bis en gagerpent Ho Miss Damerek " "She tells 'me she his met you once or wice," he wrote. "I hardly dare let my self wrtte of her, lest my enthusiasm run away1 with m,y pen, and yo,u condemn me as' a" man whose head, as-well as' his heart. Is. incurably affected. For nobody but I can know what a treasure I have von even though I am aware 'that all my friends consider me the luckiest of men... Remembering that, you and I .were very good comrades until a wholly in comprehensible something came between us I like to think still of you as one who will rejoice in my happiness. Perhaps 1 would not have the temerity to write to you of this great good fortune of mine had I not learned - from your . fine little son of your matrimonial plans. Hay they prosper as you deserve. But for the fact that you; and I are in the same boat or, at least,, in similar boats about to be launched again in matrimonial watersI might 'not set aside ail. wounded feeling at yeur sudden change of demeanor to ward me. . But as misery loves company, so happiness seeks sympathy from others who are happy. So I hope for your good wishes."1' ' " ; ' - '' - ' ' "Poor little MUs Damereli" sighed Beatrice; "How-'pften it happens that a young- girl, foolish and inexperienced, marfies a.tnan who knows and'1 cares for .the baser things of the world! It is too bad! Were she older and wiser- she would riot let herself think of marrying pobert-Maynard if sh knew of his In temperate habits-." ' Thus far she went la. her self deception, but then checked herself and had the grace, to smile inwardly at her reason ing; I'.Fpr : had , she not ..thought seriously j pnly-.a Itttle: while ago of accepting -'May-hard:' purely. "'she could'rio't. preadyouth .Wid )nf xperl encet ; .,";"V..- X , f 'bbuti ' was" lonely," she argued, "and I.';hid.i been 1n.1jeclpsion ; for 'so long that.I; feikan easy .prey to the attractfonsyif an unscrupulous manl'y.' ' Irfef noriesty. with herself did not move her to inquire Jn what way. she had been Maynard's prey, nor whether,' after all, he was a bit more unscrupulous- than was she.; Instead of going into self analy sis she' reread the letter: and thought that .she detected ' a covert seer in its .tone. Was-. Maynard' making, fun of her and her frustrated plans? She seized pen and paper and hurriedly wrote: ' VDear Mr. Maynard Allow me to con gratulate "you' most -warmly 'on your en-, gagetrient to a yery'-'swe'e.t little girl. It Is not often that a man of your age se cures such a young wife to teach him to renew his youth, and to make him forget -Tst sorrows 'and associations. How'-tenaclw sch memories have here-' tofore been with you. I know well, for you 'have often talked to. me of your dead: wife, and so. deeply did I sympa thfze with you, that it came as a sur prise to me wheij I learned that you had so soon . forgotten her. It did not occur to me that you could bring yourself to marry again, but I .am sure that you will 'do your utmost to protect and cherisn the little girl' who has chosen you a the object of - her innocent love..' ' ' ' "I laughed aloud ' when I read your reference to- "my small son's matrimonial schemes for me. I know,' of course, that you are lesting, and that no sane or sober man would pay any serious attention to the prattle of a mere baby. I suppose my small son heard me say that I ex pected Mr. Randolph, the artist, te call one evening., and In his childish imagin ation he' began to build castles in Spain, about him and myadlf. Jack told me that he had confided his schemes to you, and that you had questioned him about them. Naturally, I knew that yeu did so )mt to humor the silly. youngster. . . "As to' my marrying again perhaps I ought to think- of it. But one who has a nature like mine, and a never-dying memory of her married life, hesitates long before she can bring herself to the point where she can endure the idea of a second husband. Were I ever to get to that point I hope I should not defy common sense, and my chances of happi ness by acceptlpg any man until I had known him ' longer than I have known such a casual acquaintance as Mr. Ran dolph who, by the way, sails for Europe next week. Possibly he and I may never meet again." " -. . ' "There!" exclaimed the widow as She glanced " over her effusion. "1'' flatter myself that Is pretty neat! X think there are 'digs' in there that will make Robert" Maynard squirm.' At all' events,' I hope A M , -" ' ' : : '''' There was still "another letter which she decided to write that night. . It was to Henry Blanchard. , In it she told hlmi truthfully that his note . had been a dls- I ttnet surprise to her.. She. had not imag ined she Insisted, that he cared tenderly for her. She thanked him for the honor he had conferred upon, her, and also for allowing her to take time for thought and meditation before replying to his question, This, she said, she would like to do. "You see," she wrote, "I am not one of the women who have regarded each man as a possible suitor. Therefore I must have leisure In which to ponder the sub ject you mention, for I do not want to do anything rashly, nor to make a prom ise that might not mean happiness, for you." Then she stopped and considered.. Sh feared that. her. reply was too cool, too calculating, and that in reading it the recipient might fancy that she cared so little for him that, perhaps, after all, his vanity might be wounded. To avoid thl she added a paragraph which she tried to make a little tender and a little coy. "You. see," she wrote, "that I am try ing conscientiously to Judge of this ques tion from the standpoint of what would 6e right . for me to do, and what I may allow myself to do. I am not yet con sulting personal 'desires or preferences, for fear that my feelings might, if I con sidered them, tempt me to make a hasty decision. And I want to be entirely fair to you.' ' -"- She smiled .as she sealed .the envelope. "That epistle, also,' is quite clear,', she muttered. Then she called Mary to "run out to the corner and mail a couple of very important letters." And, as the door closed behind the girl, the widow breathed a satisfied smile.- She was finding life very interesting. niri iiSr -TtiAT TTH 14 LICkFP fJ0 S M Alt NEVEr? TOUCH MINE DOCTOR MOLAR PULLER WAS anxiously waiting fo ?aticnts in ml studio and mis patience wa hearly gome. but hat? a knock on the" poor and in walks oor Hero issie cohcn who man fully seats himself in the AGONY STOOL. THE 0C GOT CASrf TO MPPLf THE &A5 WHEN ISSIE JUMPED THREE FEET IN THE AIR AND ON AJfWVINS BACK IN THE CHAIR MUMBLED, IF THE CHANDELIER IS 6ILT I3THL&AS JET.' LEAVE HIM UP . UFs ai i nrr! HALT!! . Ik If? ASTUS-MtSTAH SU AKKET. PiDYouHEAH ABOUT DC Bltf EXPLOSION UP AT DC FLAJIROH E&UILDING TO-DAY INTERLOCUTOR- NO I DID NOT. TELL US ADOUT IT. RAbTUS-WELL TWO GIRLS WASPASSIN DE CORN AH AT ff)C PLATIKON BUILDING- AND DE WIND WAS BLOWIN PRETTY fRESH AND DE WIND BLEW UP-J mTLRLOCUT0R-THATL DO. UNCLE. HOC WILL NOW FAVOR USWl'TH HIS NATIONAL ANTHCN ENTITLED. OH GERMANY, OH GERMANY. WHY 00 NT YOU SET OLD IRELAND FREE." a c OUR &6HT VUIU. HOV P55 . Goto 0OU-AH.3 fvo $0 CTS " AFTER A LUCKUESS PAY ON THC PIER. LUkfe THE LOON WAS WEARILY WENPlNfr HI3 WA-f HOME WARP IN THE F00T9TEFS OPTH6 VILLA&C PdOK:" AND WAS CToSTNUTTeiP- IN& TO HN3Etf THT HB HAD NT CVfEM HAD A NlBi ALL. DAY, WHEN PAST HIM RUSHED A MOB. t-Ufc STOPPEO THE LAST PEPSON AND on His Query what THE MATTER W AS, RECEltfCq TMIS, . . IP YOU CALL FATHER POP WUU YOO CALL MOTHerR MOP"! EASY WITH THE WHIP PHIL! ITS A HlPED HOftfl HALT wwoGcs THERE ME II T AT THIS HOUR . OF THE. NI6HT IT 6CEMS pTRHNSE THAT U MAN SHOULD RCWVL ABOUT r WFLL. ANDl Ro- IMTNEBOOB THAT PUT THC PILL IN PILLOW I r f: Test Train Control System Ij .. Arrangements have been . made by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad for the test of an automatic train control sys tem, which will be installed on its line from Villa'Grove to Saler.i, III. The step is regarded as significant In view of the statement, Issued by experts of the Illinois railroad and warehouse commission, after the recent wreck on the Uurllngton road at .Western Springs, tnt the catastrophe would not have occurred if an automatic stop systim had been in use. " . Engineers in the employ of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois road are now t work equipping the line between Villa Grove and Findlay Junction with automatic block siimals. -. The control device is dmigned to stop a train automatically whenever the block ahead is occupied or "some other condi tion develops which would require a halt. A contact, shoe on the engine a trite a third rail fastened to the ends of the ties and located at breaking dlstanco back, of the signal. The shoe as it strikes is raised vertically and unless prevented by the electrical controlling device, the shoe stem will operate a system of cranks closing the throttle and applying:, the air brakes. The normal position of the device' 1 at danger, and the failure of any essential part will cause an application of the brakes. It also is arranged that the en gineer is able la release the brakes after they have been applied by the automatic system. Chicago Record-Herald. ' The Persistent and Judicious Use of Newspaper Advertising is the Road to Business Success. Beauty Secrets of Footlight Favorites ;:2S , By, ETHEL DONALDSON. I don't believe : that any girl on the stage worries atyjut'her looks when she's well and happy, and not working too hard in a play that she likes, where the ghost walks regularly with well filled pay envelopes. But when you're out In Pocatello, miles . and miles from home, with months of one-night stands behind you and the same before you, and only what the 'hotels out there call plain cook ing to sustain you, well,, tliat's the time when you get out all the secrets of beauty that you ever, heard of and try them on yourself if you've got that much energy, left. . It was the first time that I ever got to one of those jumping-off places, where we had played ' a matinee performance and had an evening performance and a twenty-four lvur Jolt on the railroad to look forward to that I decided that the home folks. who had said I was a pretty girt were evry much mistaken. I looked at myself in one of . the cracked two-by-four dressing room mirrors, and decided that I would try first aid to the beaufy seeker. . I found a modest little sign swinging over the door of a modest looking house, which announced that1 Miss O'Brien was disposed to do- face culture. I liked the name O'Brien and trusted that she was disposed" to "culture" me.. Miss O'Brien was all and mora than I expected. She Was a fat and motherly soul and after she'd looked me over she said: , . ''-. ' "Ter too young to begin with beauty doctors, but I'll give ye one of' these here iittle wooden things for to mas sage yersclf with, and when yer tired, you Just remember what old Miss O'Brien told you, , . ' . - ' "Food first of all, and then rest If ye oan get It Then water and soap, like this." Then she began her beauty culture, and as its the only kind I've ever tried, and the kind I'm going to stick to, I'll pass It along to you,;' for dear Miss O'Brien lives so far away that It won't Interfere with her trade. ' ' '! She began washing my face with warm water and a clean piece of Turkish towel; after that she soaked some more of the toweling In the Juice of a cucumber, which she kept in a glass Jar, and which was nice and' soothing, if a little sticky on the skin. " , Without washing this off, she rubbed quite a lot of cold cream over my face and then produced, four or, ..five . little balls of different sizes, some not larger than marbles, and the b'ggest about the size of an early Bermuda potato. They were made of plain wood, and polished but not painted. .'''. She used the large ball for my neck, chin and cheeks, rubbing it quickly over the skin and pressing it with the palm of ber hand. When she' was through with that she took a ball of smaller size, ran It up and down the creases on the side of my nose, until I felt that all the lines In my face were being Ironed out, ne bade me close my eyes, and. taking a smaller -ball yet, ;. very gently mas saged around the eye, under- the eye- socket and above the eye, but never touching the eye Itself. I had almost fal len asleep when she began upon the fore II U v-'r; . WW jf. j ,i - Ss4 If - MISS KTIIEI DONALDSON. One of Ziefeld's charming members of "The V.'insome Widow" Co. head, for which she used a larger ball again rubbing out "the "weary and tired look which had begun to make me ap pear years older than I really was. After she had gotten all through she wiped the cream away, and then applied hot water again to may face and more cucumber Juice, but this time it was scented with cologne and wasn't sticky, When I got through with my face treat ment I felt like a new person, and. I'm sure I looked like one. Dear Miss O'Brien beamed as delightedly ae if she had ac omptishAd an Important feat. Of course I bought the little wooden graduated balls and some of Miss O'Brien's cuoumber stuff and some of her cream. The last two I uaed up long ago, but I f(nd that I can always em ploy any other good cold cream and lotion Instead. '. I massage my face as she told me to whenever I am tired, and find that It is not only great fun to do it, but that the results are always very encouraging, and that after one of these treatments 1 look much refreshed and feel much happier in consequent? , . V Ten Ages of Beauty The Primeval Girl j Ity MAHWAIIET HUBBARD AYEIL . '; "What type of woman do you consider hooks with wonderful heroines f all" the most beautiful?" This que ton Is the bugbear of the artist and well known llluxtrator. for the man or woman of the bruah and pencil la asked it over the teacup, and by the woman who It sitting for her portrait and always and eternally by the news paper person who oomesi to ask the art ist's view on that r any other subject. "Don't you think there's far too much talk about feoiinlrve beauty, anyhow T" said a very practical man wh la a suc cessful portrait painter, almost despite himself. ' , . . " ' ' "Well," I returned, 'If you want to put it down In doll ait and eenta, it there was no such thing as feminine beauty and the eternal striving towards thi ideal, a whole lot nf people would . g out of business, For Instance, ever three million dollars worth of lace was Imported last year, besides all the lact manufactured In the United (Mates; of all materials lace Is the most feminine, and to me It always sijggeatt the adornment of a beautiful woman. "Billions are spent on clothe, no longer merely for covering, but for beautifying women. The woman who Isn't beautiful and oan raaka ns claim whatever to cood looks, except In a few startling exoep- tlons, is not the ene who spends large sums of money on her personal appearance.- "If all women were quits plain, tha cost of living would fall with a sicken ing thud." "But then would llvtng be worth Whllef' returned the artist gallantly, and so wo got back to our frst question, which is one that everyone asks himself one time or another, Rnd which Is Just' ts important to the girl who Is trying to grow Into a semblance of her Ideal at it Is to the man who expects some day to marry that 'deal sj personified by her charming self. The trouble with the Meal type of beauty is that it is subject to change. At 10 years of age you were quite cer tain that the most beautiful, woman on earth was your mother, but mothers srs In a class entirely by themselves, and so you decide that It would be safe to try to w'sh yourself as beautiful as teachet or sister, or some beautiful friend whose visits cast, a radiance over the home.' A , little later the severity of teacher and sister faded ' that Ideal "and your Imagination knew, no furthers he'ght to seals than the marvelous vision la pink tarton and spangles who rode on the, big white horse on the occasion of your first visit to tbt circus, 'i '...,,;- Then came the -world of history and ' ' - ' .A' .,' -? v... kinds, each Influencing you and swaying your desires and wishes toward he C own particular type of beauty. ..a One week you were for being Hks Oeor patra, and worshipped at the shrine ti ths red haired girl. ; The next your Ideal had changed to ths, : mlschevious - and demurs Jans Austin -tyim of gnl, aod so en s4 tr.fir.ituna, imt'l character and circumstances and the not Impossible Hs molded you into ,; the one particular type Which yon repre sent. Miss Nell Brtnkley's picture, 1 take It, shows us ths elemental woman whose -primitive eharacterhrttca form part of ths . complicated mentality of the girl at, today. Friend of the wolf and guardian of ths . fire, ready to waks with a sprint and v pounos upon ber enemy, or to fall upos her lover's neck, the elemental woman ,' slumbers between wild beast and spark ' of flame akin to ths on with undreamed- . of -possibilities, at one ths hops and ths riddle of the race. 1 This primitive woman with her strength', and her fearlessness, with her uncon scious powsrs, her sharp instincts and Intuitions, has been ths Ideal of virile poets like Walt Whitman, like Kichar ( Wagner, and Is the embodiment of Cos trie's eternal feminine, '"'-, The girl in the picture may have be longed to a savage epoch, but you and t . know that sh sail exists clothed tn the satin and lace of today. I . have seen her . looking from under . her straight and beveled brews, her black1 v hair ceiled smoothly and tightly at the , back of her head, swinging down ths ' streets of the city. Wearing the little" suffragist's parade hat, her face aflame v with the enthusiasm for her cause. She was the primitive woman demand-1 ing once more the liberty that had been-' taken from her; fighting again In a new way not only for the good of her wn ? children, but for the children of other -women, too. . . . ")i But all over the world this primitive..' type of woman with her dauntless cour- age, ber noble beauty and purpose, is awakening to tend the tires of ths race once more and demand her portion of , toil. ' . ' -? The. Ugh! of Inspiration (s in her eye) If yow have sn tier as I have, Workint (or the betterment of society among thi social workers, perhaps ' at, Hull Keusj In- Chicago, or at Greenwich Settlement, or perhaps among the ranks of the Lorf don workers, or la her own modest way IlClit ing te maintain her children,, yo wll recognise her at once and wilt see In r the noblest and grandest' type of fern. Inlne beauty. . , , , ' .' ' " ; -"' Little Bobbie's Pa t i .v. - .v-t.t;. ... t ... . By WILLIAM P. KJRK. I think we ought to go to the mass meeting of the suffry-gets th's evening, sed . Ma. Three of my gurl trends Is cumming up here to meet me at the I rain, the Misses Stokes, O'Donoho ft Qutnn. Thay are members of the Stal wart. Sisters. t"ed Ma, & thay stand fji everything that is best noablest lit womanhood. 1- haven't the least doubt of that, sed Pa, -but I doant see whare that gits me anything. If a mllyun O'Donohos & Stokes girls ft Qulnns wsnt to stand for all. that Is best ft noablest in womin hond. that Is all vary well ft good. Th9 fack reomalns, sed Pa, that I nm now, was beefoar ft always shall be a foe to wlmmlns voats. I doant want to meet these gurls, sed Pa. Isent tharn a chanKfin the world that you can meet them In yure bood-wor? If thare Is sum way that you can frame it, sed Fa. I know whare thare is a swell two dol lar limit poker ga'm run by a man that is a frend of a frend of Becker. I feel kind of lucky tonitc sed Pa, ft I think that If I cud talk little Bobble along foi a mascot I mite clean up sum dough. If you dosnt want to inert the Stal wart Sisters, I guess that they wuddent care to meet you, sed Ma. Go on ft pla yure poker galm, Ma sed, but reemembet if you doant win doant ewer cum back. If you win cum back erly. Bo .Pa ft me went out & we went to the poker club bare Pa thought he was going to be lucky.. He started: .winning all rite at that ' After he had-played half a liour he had sixty.' dollars ahed of the gnlm.'; . . . ' v " t';.,! -V Pa.iu'dged ine'ft sed here. Bobble, talk this sixty' dollars hoajTi''&''put It In yure bank. ' That Is the only1 place' yure mother wud newer think of looking, ft after the storm Is oaver you ft me will split fifty fifty. I thought that was kind of fair of Pa, 1 ) so I took the sixty dollars & started for the door. I got as far as th stairs, with the sixty, ft a poleece tit-tenant stepped up to me ft sed "Give me that'suca.'.'.. I trtald htm that I didn't have any sugar. I sed that all I had was a sixty dollar roll. I bucss I shuddent have tdaid.VWm how much I had, beekaus the tntnnlt I sed (Sixty Dollars' be knocked me on the hed w'.th a blackjack ft that Is the last I know about, , . I doant reemember any moar " until wlmt luppencd this morning. Ma was putting her cool hand on. my f severed brosr & paw was rutting his warm hand In all of my nocketa. r? yr,fi: Bobbie, sed Pa to me. I was willing to go half and half with you. I am still willing to give you a chanst. Whare la that sixty dollars? . I havvent got It. I told Pa. A Cop took It away from me. . , .- All rite, paymnster, sed Pa. But wen you get oalder you will lern not to trust anjbody except yure father. . s Yes. wd Ms. & wen he gits a iittet oalder than that he will learn not to trust anybody. Homelike nhaervatlona. Most of the time a man's better 'half has to beg for a quarter. - ,. . . .. him fly"" b8rM? 8be 19 csrtaln to make A woman will throw a ntnn and hit at fence ten yards tu. 5i2 when. she. tries to. shoot ber husband she never misses tha mark. . . . .. Of course, a woman doesn't know "thing about the value of money, but she uan ihkc a aiuier ana nave express wag ons delivering packages for two days. Before they, are married he would-fight U; whole world for her; after they are married he won't even beat r for heft ;''',:.','.'..,', ! , ,; V.. me women become grandmothers and retain a good opinion of men, while ethers have to shoot a man every now and then to protect their bonoxClacUiQAtt n qulrer. - - . - . .