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IHE BLE; OMAHA, MO-NlXU', SKt'iMBUi U, imJ. h rhe See' e yaa z, i rp f)a SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT His Honor Gets Some Bear. Meat from Maine Copyright 1912, National New Assn. Drawn for The Bee by Tad i AlEKTHfrHOEX I tawE'TKCV5 V-fN JlSLvfiJ- IEZLmmJ A ( AH-H-A I voOTHOmE BEAU MEAr IV! , I upwTwneMu.sAr WEU1 J .. - 'ZEJJTi ' I c"" woo err n-uyouLtme now ' ' a oh i wAi-me per rt,vNeo em (AJm im too Zri--- f 51 ) ' ' Vl OM OSTWRi OP TMCM? 7 - ' T, UpOMTHt &O0O I T J POLL TO ) J--W ( I rf f fev tvk, jy. f- W JSs W . r: L& if A Lx: J ML, J TV Hunting a Husband Jean is Taken Suddenly III in the Night, and a Strange Doctor is Called. J By VIRGINIA TERH UNE VAN DE WATER. Jk f tr Hisnntrhtnor hap twn Ipttprn Bitrfr prepared for hed. She undrKed 'In a leisurely manner, so busy with her thoughts with the new . problem which ' she faced. Yet it is possible that her musings on the fact that Henry Blanch ard'a heart and fortunes were awaiting her acceptance gave an added signifi cance to the nest with which she brushed her shining hair and massaged into her lac the skin-food which might ward off the wrfnkles dreaded by all women after herself in the glass as she remembered uwL' Wiui a nusDana or Binnrna.ro f, ' "I will ; look like a girl by comparison with him and his gray hairs," she whs pered. "But he is, after alC a deat man. and a good looking one, too, now that he has shaved off that horrid bunch of whiskers. Any woman might be proud of his appearance." It did not "occur to b,er that she was. - reassuring herself and trying to Btrength- became slightly delirious Beatrice's last veBtlge" of gel f-possession failed her. "Oh, Mary!" she ejaculated, "! can not wait another hour In this suspense! I must get a Boctor at once! Please call up Dr. Gray and tell him to come as soon as he can." Before thd girl reached the telephone, her mistress called her agitatedly. 4 "Mary!" she gasped. "I forgot that Dr. Gray Is away! He left for his sum mer vacation only this week. Oh," with a dry gob, "doctors ought never to be al ldwed to go' away from borne!" , . "Sure,, ma'am," declared Mary with bluntv practicality, "they're - only men after" all,' and the poor things must get some rest sometimes!" . i "What Is then- rest compared with my baby's life?" wailed Beatrice. "But ther's other doctors in New York besides Dr. Gray," Man' reminded her soothingly. "Yes but',1 don't know any of them,"' objected Beatrice, "at least I don't know any 'that I care to; trust. Dr. Gray has ah assistant with whom he ' leaves his practice, but he's a young thing, and I , WAS OD BUTHeG-VC3 LOTS OF PAfN. en her resolution by recalling points la like htm." . favor of a' tnlon with the rather eldattr, -"Can't you think of s6me other docto: bachelor somewhat as a boy1 tvh'stles ih the dark io'showhat he is-lnot afraid. .Nor did she acknowledge to herself thai there was a sense of relief in the knowl edge that she need not say "yea" ot iiw jubi, jrci. iraa tiicio, nwiij um'B ill her mind, the thought that . she would postpone her answer as long as possible on the chance, that in. the meantime a younger and more attractive'' man might present himself? Of too happy a nature to dissect her feelings and motives unnecessarily she sank to slumber with a happy face. It was only twenty-four hours since she had sobbed hersel fto sleep, but If she recalled that fact It was with a self oongratulatory thought at the contrast between her mood now and that of last night She had slept for several hours when, in her dreams, she heard moari. becom ing louder, until it awoke her, and she started to a sitting posture. The weather had been so hot of late that she had put her children to sleep each night In two beds in the room adjoining hers, and she became aware, with a pang of dread, that the sound that had aroused her came from that chamber. Switching on the light by her bed she hurried to her little girl's bedside, for she recognized in an Instant Jean's voice. "Oh, dear, oh dear!" the child was re iterating, "it does hurt me jbo bad:" "What hurts you, darling?'' asked the anxious mother. As the light fell on the baby's eyes the little one buried her face in the pillow wtlh a moan. "My head hurt me," whimpered Jean. "I called you lots of times and you wouldn't come. And' I want a drink of water." "I am sorry, darling," said the mpther. "I was so fast asleep that, I did not wake up right away." . "1 want to go Into yosr bed!" begged the -child. "I'm ajfraid away off in here in the dark. There's been a big dog chasing me!" Thoroughly, alarmed, Beatrice felt the small hands and found them burning hot, while the face, turned now- frm the pil low, was flushed with fever. Lifting the baby in her arms she carried her swiftly to her own noom and bed, then, as is the habit with many nervous . mothers, she took the patient's temperature, and when she saw that the quicksilver mounted to over 104 her heart sank within her, She remembered that Jean had com plained of feeling cold just before she went to : bed, and that she had been fretful while jindressing. The mother had been too much absorbed in writing letters to place any significance on these facts indeed, bad told the youngster. not to be illy, that nobody could be reailjr cold on such a warm night Now aha appre ciated that perhaps the baby had had a chill at that time and that she the mother, had been so self-centered that she did not notice It. In her present anxious state of mind she wondered how she could have put any thought before that of her child's comfort "She ' and Jack are all I have!" she muttered over and over as she prepared-a hot bath. Her fears made her wretched, and she disliked to be alone. She went to Mary's room and asked her to come in and help bathe Jean. The good-natured Irish girl, who, like all her race, was kind and willing in cases of Illness' or suffering, responded readily, and soon the feverish patient had been put Into a hot bath, dried swiftly, though gently, and laid back In her mother's bed. But still she complained of her bead, and when the you've 'rheard of?" .lhBlSted the thalfl. "Haven't. any of the ladies you know got good' doctors?" i " ' .At,' the' question, .Beatrice's thoughts flew to Helen Robbing, and, with a throb of relief, she remembered Or. Haynes with whom she had dined at Helen's home weeks ago. She recalled his kindly face and humorous smile, and his evident interest-In herself. "Yes!" she exclaimed, "Mrs. Robb!n has a friend who is, I've heard, a good physician. Bring me the telephone book quickly and 1 will find his number." Dr. Haynes 'himself, answered the tele phone call, and promised to come Imme diately. Mary eyed her mistress critic ally. "Please, ma'am," she protested, "you'll put on something better than that old wrapper before a strange'doctor comes." Then for the first time since her child's moan had awakened her, Beatrice re membered her personal appearance. Hur rying to her room she threw off the shabby crepon wrapper "which she had donned hastily, put on In Its place a pale blue silk negligee and thrust her feet Into a dainty pair of. soft bedroom slip pers of the same hue. In her care, of the child she had not taken time to fasten up her hair, and it still hung in a large braid down her back. A glance at the mirror decided -her that a more dignified coiffure would add nothing to her attractiveness. . Moreover, she simply could not bear to take more time from her little girl, who during the last ten minutes had sunk Into the heavy sleep that often accompanies fever. So, Beat ing herself in a low chair by the bedside she waited anxiously the arrival of the physician. ! ft MUfcMUeiN&.NIOfi TAKING- HIS MORNIN& CONSTITUTIONAL ALONG- AvtsNue.wMSN hb CAMS TO A SIGN VVMICHRCM f PICKENS WORKS AUTHIS CHEAP SCAB AND RAN UPWE 5TR6ET, VfiUIN IF DOC JOHNSON STAB BCD A DILL PICK16 A.3TH6 PLATE VAS PA656Q WHAT DID WILLIAM SMAK65PcAE6 1 e&?lSa5asS kWErlTIE. WHITAKEE.TME ' CONEV ISLAND WATER WRCN WAS DOING A FAST MILE, WAV OOT O N THE WILD WHEN 5HE WAS SeiXPD : W ITM A CRAMP AN D VeLLFfJ r-ore hslr- paps Devfu TACk-THE SroCfcCOMPAHo LIF6 SAV6fe.DA$Hei 'NTO TUG VAATeR AMP CAOCHT &ERTIE tTOVT AS K6 WENT DOWN POffTHS THIfcD TiMG AS HCE HEAD CAM6 ABOVe TH WATERING CMIRPEDJ IF A G-AMOLER STACKS THE CARDS WHATtQfc5 TrJ g SMOKC STACK. VVA&fCSWLONZO- k'l!.S ME KID NOTBn:G MAKES M6 StujLEAVE THET THAR WOMAN Bq HALT!) r HAITI! GOES THE R Eel XT ME. THAT A MAN SHOULD PROWL ABOOT ATTHU NIG-AT GPntlVmgn oe xcp GPNTLfcMGN OC SCATS O TA-RA-r?A"RA-RA -MRHAVPEN DID YOU EVER HEAR ofa floating aryj MRHAVPfeN-TWCYCALLTUr Bl& OCCAM LINPfr PI ft&TW & ClTlfeX, IP Thr? WMMTVOuMSH CORK FLOAT. iMfc-HAWMfN- V6S.C0RK FLOATS RL0NZ0-VW5LL CORK IS ON RWtR LCt , SIC MlM PRINC6 MG BITyoote PATHER.- I T mo rvou? IK THE BooB THAT POT TUB CHILI-. IN CHILE Beauty Secrets of Footlight Favorites id vice for Woman Who is Getting; Fat Story Spoiled in Making II Bass lake, which is in Indiana and is fished thoroughly all summer by Chi cagoans, is a peculiarly safe body of water. It consists chiefly of a sandbar over which water about four feet deep is lashed into terrifying waves by every little summer breese. . To the stranger It presents the appearance of a real In land sea, where none but the best swim mer should venture. ' . . A Chicago newspaper man and his wife arrived there on the annuat vacation. It was their first visit. Barly the next morning they were out In the middle of the lake fishing. The man leaned over to adjust some tackle, lost his balance and began swimming madly as soon as he hit the water. In falling he had given the boat a kick with both feet sending It farther eut Into the lake and his wife eojild not row. s- The woman stood up In the boat and screamed. The man swam desperately toward the shore, praying that his shoes and sweater wouldn't drag him under. , He ' and his screaming wife were watched by an old man who sat fishing from a pier, while the wind toyed with his lavish beard. The woman in the boat frantically Im plored this old man to save her husband. The ancient fisherman arose Impassively, megaphoned his hands and shouted to the swimmer: "Stand up, you lunkhead!" Experimenting, the man In the lake let himself down. Then' in water up to his chin he. stalked back to hi boat Chi cago Post . , . t ; By FLORENCE GARDNER. The nightmare of my life is the dread of getting fat. ' Oh, yes, thanks, I know I'm quite thin now, but the fear of becoming fat and falling In large billows over myself must have begun in ray cradle days, for I don't remember a time when I didn't think the worst kind of punishment in the world would be to weigh 150 pounds. I've put the weight up to 300 now, be cause I know there are lots of women who weigh 160 pounds and look all right. But I hope the time will never come when I( weigh more than 130. There's nothing about reducing weight that I don't know. I've studied the ques tion as seriously as If I were training for the human skeleton at the circus, and I've never let any suggestion as to how to get thin escape me. I have a whole scrap book on the subject. I know that I don't need1, to take my own advice, yet, but I may some day, so I am preparing to reduce & double chin long before I've got one, and to deduct pounds from my weight while I am still In the thin category. Just this afternoon I rode in a Fifth avenue 'bus with one of tnose women whom I fear to resembje some day. She was not very tall about my height and I don't think she was very old, either, though that is one thing you can never tell about fat people. When they are all puffed out they have neither lines nor expression to their face, so' theat they took 25 or 66, and all the years in be tween, t Well, this woman had two daughters, who sat beside her. One was evidently 14 and the other was 18. and both were beginning to resemble mamma. Mamma sat In her seat like an enormous feather bed tied .in the middle, with a pair of fancy yellow shoes attached to one end. The shoes dangled about two inches above the floor and 1 ani perfectly cer tain that mamma had not seen them, tor several years, and probably had said goodbye to ber waist line before she was 20. She had five double chins I counted them and ber necklace, at least the front part of It was completely hidden from view bv the large fold of flesh that hung over it Her eldest daughter aleardy bad one double chin, and the little girl who was quite puffy In appearance, had al ready a good sized dent' under her chin, which Is the first promise of what is to be. My eyes were riveted on that fat lady, who by the way, was encased In the most expensive of lingerie dresses. It must have taken a terrible tug to get her Into It but probably the fat children helped. As I sat there, wor rying myself sick, and Imagining that I, too, would look like that I suddenly came to the conclusion that the two girls were what the boys call "chumps." There they sat next to mamma, with her terrible example always before them. Probably when she's at home she groans and grunts and has heat pros tration In the summertime, and nervous chills in the winter and heaves when he goes upstairs, and comes down as if an Invisible derrick was slowly aiding her to descend; yet these girls have not the sense to say, "We won't be like mamma." If I were one of those girls I'd make up my mind to avoid fat It I had to be College Degrees By ELBERT HUBBARD. So long as some men who are not col lege bred take first place . on the roster of fame, and other men who are college bred, working alongside of them, link out of sight, most think i" 1 Ing men are quite willing to. admit the socalled Higher Edu cation is not a ne cessity, Of the college men who succeed, wljo shall say tbat they succeeded by and through the aid the college gave, or in spite of It? Yet many men who win will wall, "If I only had the advan tage of college train ing!" , If so. it might have Ironed all the Individuality out of them. However, I would have every man have a college education In order that he might see how little the thing' Is realty worth. I would have every man rich that he might know the wortltleasnesli of riches. To take a young man away from work, sny at 18 years of age, and keep him from useful labor, In the name of educa tion, for four years, will some day be re garded as a most absurd proposition. It Is the most gigantic Illusion of the age. Set In motion, by the theologians, the Idea was that the young persons should be drilled and versed In 'sacred" themes. Hence, the dead languages and the fixed thought that education should be esoteric. ' . . . . . . .. ; This separation from the practical world for a number of years, where no useful work was done, and the whole at tention flved on abstract themes and theories, often tended to cripple the man so that he could 'never go back to the world of work and usefulness. He was no longer a producer and had to be sup ported by tithes and taxes. , And, of course, as he did not Intend to go back to the world of work and useful res, It really didn't make any differ ence If he did sink into a pupa-like con dition of nullity. In the smaller colleges many lnstances are found of students working their way through school. My experience leads ma to believe that such students stand a very much better chance In the world'a race, than those who are made exempt from1 practical affairs by having everything provided. The responsibility of eating; for himself Is a necessary factor In mkk ' evolution. ' ' ' ' , , And the point of this preachment He right here that to make a young man exempt from the practical world, ft"op 18 to 22, Is to run, the risk of ruining hlu for life. Possibly you have taken oppor tunity from him and turned htm into a memory machine. There are persons who are always tam ing about preparing for life. The best way to prepare for Hfe Is to begin to live. A school should not be a preparation; a school should be life. . Isolation from the world In order,,to prepare for the world's work la folly. You might as well take a boy out of the blacksmith shop In order to teach him blacksmithlng. Any college that does not teach its pu pils to work at practical," useful tasks;, Js a make-believe, and every college student knows it. From the age of t or 7 and up ward the pupil should feel that he Is doing something useful, not merely killing time; and so his work and his Instruction should go right along hand fh hand. The educated man Is the useful man. And no matter how many college .de grees a man has, if he cannot do some thing that the world wants done, he Is an educated Ignoramus, and is one with tho uniniiivi ilnln nedsroale eoosesfeP adown the days to dusty death. . . ' : Copyright 1912. - International News Service. ?'Z r- Works Engines from Bridge i MISS FLORENCE GARDNER. , A Zlegfeld beauty in "The Wfnsome Widow" company. as heroic as Joan of Arc, or a lady aviator. I would not eat fat-building things. I wouldn't drink water with my meals, and I'd give up potatoes and bread and beans and peas and corn and starchy puddings, and eating meats more than once a day. You see, I'd know all about It, for I will never, never be fat I weigh my self once a week, even In summertime, when I get steadily thinner from danc ing. I think dancing is an excellent way to reduce, especially If you take very little liquid refreshment; but you can't ask fat people to danoe. In the first place they look funny when they're try ing, and then they are also lazy, they don't like to exert themselves. Of course, people get fat because they are lazy and even all the methods I know about won't help you reduce un less you are very determined and severe with yourself. When I find I'm gaining more than a pound tor two In a year, I rush to the Turkish bath to melt myself down, and that Is where you"see the most ridiculous display of feminine Inconsistency. A woman will spend 12 for her bath and massage. She will stand heroic pummel ing, and stay in the hot box until i. almost parboiled; then she'll come out and have herself .weighed, say to the patient attendant, "Lbule, Isn't It grand? I've lost'three-quarter of a pound. Oh, dear, I do feel so faint, though. Just, be a good girl and order me a nloe little snack of something to eat let me see, this is the day they have eipare ribs at the restaurant; of course, I'm afraid they are fattening, but I have Just re duced, so I can afford to eat something. And oh, Ltzale, there's some sweet pota toes au gratln, and a little pattle, and I do love macaroni so, and Just a little bit of pudding, and a bottle of beer. Beer is so strengthening, and I feel the need of It" And Lizzie laughs In the sleeve of her bathing suit if it has any, and winks at me, and says, "Can you beat it?" That's how they get thin at Turkish baths. It costs them S2 to reduce, and about J2.50 to put the weight back again, via the restaurant so It is cheaper to stay at home. If you are going to take the Turkish bath treatment you want to be very careful not to counteract the good the bath does you by an enormous supper. With a weekirTurkish...bath, careful It will be news to the genernl public, as well a to the engineering profession and the mariners generally, that the en gines of steamships can now be controlled from the navigation officer's bridge with nut the use of signals passing between the bridge and the engine room. , By the use of a little lever on the bridge th engines can be atarted, accelerated, slowed down, reversed or stopped, thu saving Important time, and Insuring ac curacy In handling the ship. The bridge apparatus which controls these operations Is as compact and -reliable as the. air brake control In every railway locomotive, and It Is Introduced to the maritime world by the Inventor of ihe air brake, the great engineer, George Westlnghonse. The remarkable Invention which from the bridge controls the operations of the ship's engines Is not an untried plan ex isting on paper only; It has been working for more than a year on a vessel of the United States navy, the Neptune, where, according to the testimony of a naval of ficer It has not only given entire satis faction, but has twice savedthe ship from serious collision. .v ", When Admiral Cone. englneer-ln-chlef of the United State navy, determined to try on the Neptune Mr. Westing house' system of gearing interposed be tween the propeller shafts and the tur bines, thu enabling the turbines to be driven at high speed while the propellers themselves turned, as propellers must at a comparatively low speed ( he enabled our navy to prove that an Invention hith erto regarded as Impracticable Is of the highest ImportancS to mechanically pro pelled, vessels of any kind. The reports to the Navy department by the engineer In charge of the ship show that the geared drive In perfectly successful, and that by Its use smaller and speedier tur. bines can be used, thus effecting a great diet and exercise, I think that even the fat lady in the bus could bring herself down to something like normal propor tions. The minute I get a double chin, this Is what I am going to do. I shall wear the highest and tightest of collars, because that will remind me to keep my neck stretched up. Whenever I have time I will stretch my neck a If I were a goose, and raise my chin as near to the sky as I can get It Then 1'Jl turn my head very slowly first to one side and then to the other, stretching and lifting the neck, and I shall cultivate the haughtiest and top-loftiest expression, not because I felt that way, but because I refuse to admit the existence of more than one chip- saving in weights and dimensions In the j engine and boiler rooms, a saving which, can be devoted to Increased armament' on warships or Increased cargo or pas-1 aenger accommodation on merchant ship.'' j : ' ' ' ."'. At the same time Admiral Cone ar ranged to try Mr.; Westinghouse's sug gestion for controlling these turbines, from the bridge o&the ship. After using the control apparatus more than a year! the verdict Is: Success beyond the slight est doubt. George Westlnghouse him, t' giva iiiv tun vicuiv tur wuriLing; uut and perfecting the control Invention to his able assistant, H. T. Herr, vice presi-'. dent of the Westlnghouse Machine com-: pany. Mr. Herr . himself acknowledges that Mr. Westlnghouse i suggested - . tho Idea. ' i: "The bridge control mechanism In stalled on the Neptune was moat satis factory, and proved beyond the slightest doubt that the turbines of a vessel can be operated from the bridge with an accuracy and rapidity, which has been, hitherto unattainable. ' "The turbines were operated from the bridge, and, when desired, from the en- ' glne room. It made no difference, which station was used, because the response of the turbines to the1 bridge operator was exactly the same as to the engineer. Both used the same system, but con trolled It from different places. ' "The automatic action of the control mechanism made the, reversals and changes in speed very rapid. . The rapid response of the turbines Is of Importance because it causes the ship to re-pond quickly and handle well. "The gauges provided kept the bridge operator Informed of the steam pressure, speed and direction, so tbat he had :a the information .necessary for opera tin? the turbines. In fact, the officer on th bridge knows exactly what the turblnrf are doing, which is of Importance, ariij which Is not known when the ordinal f installation of mechanical telegraphs1:!" provided. ; ' ""' "When the operating lever on the bridge, is set for a certain speed ttrat speed is automatically maintained. This is true under all conditions, regardless, ot steam pressure, vaeuum, etc., '' which makes the operation easy , and precise. There Is no guesswork as to speed, and there are no revolutions to be counted while maneuvering. This makes it pes- lble for one man to do what several are required to ao with the usual operating methods, and It Is done better by the new device." New. York Timet . , :