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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1912. J?S rhe cfiec, i yaazire age SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT The Defendant is a Regular Fisherman Copyright, 1911 National News Aii'n. Drawn for The Bee by Tad r i w w " ' - ..... . A . l (COV-MISVI- writ j jLf.it- a rricww v J 00 CAUO-Hr S ' i ; ' Taking Off the Brakes Sr4C2gV SMELL 0P ON,ON' 4? (. i ll .. . . M MHO I AM" 1 V ' . I . . ... III. t mm 'SSta.'W? W ' I . . ... M lsi ; By WINIFRED BLACK Yesterday we rode high along a level road built at the very edge of a yawning precipice. , ' The 'colors of autumn were already flaunted by the roadside yellow, brown, iull red. The little- mft mountain 8lu!rreU at ' on the gray rocks and chattered . In the. sun,, and the clear, brown water leaped , and spar kled In the rushing stream. . We travcled in a great cushioned automobile and whirled along the highway built and graded by the con victs In the great gray priaon far be low in the canyou. AU at once, down on the winding road below a rickety wagon strained into view. It was below us, 'tut, far down, and yet In the marvelous clear air we could see every board In the old-fashioned settler's wagon, every bit . of rotten : rope that held the old vehicle none too "securely to gether. ; : ' ! , There's the driver walking to lighten the Jtoad... What a wthlp ha-has. and how he cracks - ithark, yes, you can hear it way up here. Crack, snap "Get along there, you old fools." " " ' - The man1 in the front seat leaned for ward. "Wait a minute," he said. "Yes, It's as 1 thought; the fool Is killing his horses for nothing," and he made a cup of his brown hands and ' called down' through the clear stillness of the rarlfied air: " "Hello, there!" he shouted. "Take off your fcrakes, take Off your brakes." He lifted his arm and motioned. The driver down in the road low listened, stood a minute, turne to his wagon, did something to a lump of wood on the rear wheels and up came the we gon, lightly, easily, with no undue effort on the part of, the' horses. "Forgot his t brake and then whipped his horses for it," said the inan on the front seat. . , . ... How many times have I done that very thing -all along the road, and usually !n the very steepest part of it, too. Once I had a big piece of work to do hard work it was and exacting. It took or should have .'taken every Wt of energy and courage and address I had, but there was some one else doing the work with me, some one I didn't like, and I was mis erable. Every night I. lay and thought and planned, how I could get the some one put on some other work. "He is in the way," I kept thinking, f "all In the way." And I used up my strength and my energy and my re sources doing-what? My workT Not at all; but hating my fellow worker, and the work was a failure, a dismal failure. My brakes were on, all the way up that hill, and I got to the top too late. How - many of us do - that very thing every day! The brakes are on, and we'.ye forgotten' them in the very steep est part of the! hill,' arid that Js why, whip vwe-may; the poor- tired horses thai pulMhe vehicle of our ambition can never get up., , . .- ' "' Jealousy is had, brake. I've seen. It send; many good .wagon to the" bottom of the gulcbv ;' -'' , I've seen men, clever men, eat their hearts out-. in misery because another man as clever as they did a good' piece of work' and was praised for It Take' off ' the baakes', my good fellow; take off the brakes; you'll never get anywhere if you don't. ' - t - ' I know a girl, handsome, bright, witty. She has a rich father, arid all that money and devoted affection can give, her, but 3he is miserable. Jealous, envious, doesn't want to hear that any other girl is pretty; can't bear to see that any other girl is admired. "Cat", they call her when they speak of her, and she's growing Into a sour, dis appointed old "maid, just because she's trying to climb the hill with the brakes in, the dreadful, hampering brakes ol jnvy. ' "The good fellow" you know him, don't you? I do. ' Never too busy ,to go out Uid get a drink, never to absorbed In an tece of work to stop and light a com panionable cigarette, never too tired to tay up an hour or so longer. The fellow in the wagon ahead of him started out with a good deal heavier load, and Isn't half such a good driver, but he took the brakes off when he jtarted up the hill. The good fellow itft. his on, poor thing. He'll wonder tome day when the other wagon came out ahtad. ' . I know two women who live aide by Siaetwo friends. Both their husbands are good men, ambitious, hard-working good-tempered. One of them has a home paid for and a good bit of property in the north end of town. 1 " ' 1 The other man started out In life from the same school, with the same chances, but his wife Is the Irake that keeps him down. Wasteful, extravagant, thoughtless, never orders a meal till It's about time to have it, and runs to the shops for whatever she can get.' No thrift, no planning, hit or miss, rough and tumble. Poor husband, he can't take off the brake of such a wife, so he'll stay at the botton of the hill where he belongs for choosing her. ' What a fair, high road we travel most of us, with pleasant shade trees and crossed here and there with singing waters, i "Loon! Over there In the shadow is a pretty knoll for a home. Let's get up to the top of the knoll and lay out the grounds. There shall be a stone door, there the curve of the walk. On this side shall stand a rich bush of flowering purple, and over on this little hillock shall be a brave show of rose locusts, sweet aa honey when the blossom season comes. There shall lie the petunia beds gay, ragged, pretty thing like some flounced country girl ,at qn outdoor ball and here shall blow the popples, and behind them shall atand the hollyhocks, , . What, a .ylew there'lj .be at the . top of the' hill, what a sweep of. landscape, what a wealth of following cloud shadows on the rich wheat fields that spread be low in the smiling valley. At the top, at the top. Let's get to the very top, out of the sun that beats too hard, out of the rain and the work of rising. - The top, the toprsee its rises fair and promising around the next bend of the road. How slowly we go; how the tired horses strain; what's the matter, what Js keeping us back? Ah, there it is the brake, the brake of sloth, of ignorance, of dissipation, of small-minded jealousy of others, of tlm idity, of selfish indulgence. : Take off the brake, good driver, or we shall never reach the top. N Little Bobbie's Pa J . I met' a 'funny scout last nite, sed Pa at the brekfust tabel. That it the reely worst thing that I have aggenst you, sed Ma, you are all the time around meeting funny scouts. But this fellow was a regular guy, sed Pa, I am going to have him up to the house sum ntte this week. He wants to meet you, Pa sed. I to&ld him that you were the sweetest wife In the wurld, & on account of him having a divorce he sed that he was simply dying to meet a woman wich was a sweet wife. But what If he . doesn't like me, sed Ma. The last woman hater that you brought here tried to help me fix sum ice water for the guests & he drove the pick thru the back of the Ice box every time he looked at the gurls standing thare. I can't say, sed Ma, that I have any per-tlckular leenlng toward a gent that doesnt like a lady. Bu this fellow is different, sed Pa. Thare alnt any of them different, sed Ma. Once a woman hater, always a woman hater. Why, sed Ma, long yeers of hating wlmmen gits them so that they hate themselves, sed Ma, & I doant blame them at that, Ma sed." ' 80 this eevning Fa's trend calm up to the house. His naim was Wesley & he looked the part He shook hands with me A Ma. I doant know how he shook hands with Ma, but to me his hand felt like the tall of a pickerel wen you are taking It off a fish hook. Wen a man shakes hands that way I doant like" him. Maybe it Is beekaus I ain't old enuff, but I jest doant like him, & that Is all thare Is to It. Wesley, old fellow, sed Pa, tell us one of those funny stories that you was tell ing last nlte, the one about the 'angry wife, for instens. Pa sed the wife that was laying for her husband with a roll ing pin. Tell my wife & llttel son what she did to him with that rolling pin, sed Pa. I really doant care to repeat It, sed Mister Wesley. Wlmmen kind of bore me. I hardly care to discuss them. Mlater Wesley, sed Ma, did you ewer stop to think that here & thare you can find a woman that gits a llttel weary of hearing a man shoot off his mouth? That la jest what I toald yure husband wen he insisted on me Cummlng up here, sed Mister Wesley.' I , didertt want to cum. Do you want to gd? sed Ma. Hera is yure hat. Poor o'.d Pa. He If all the time getting tie worst cf It fcoNtfa- MR Johnson, i see DAT FIVNN, VZ PRIZE IGW7CR, IS TAKING rlANO LESSONS. IHTETf LOCVTOF-YOU DqnV SAY. HOW IS HE GETTING ALONG. BOMES-WWVHES GETTING ALON& DNE ON TWE WHITE KEYS J8UT HE C ANT BO A THING MfifU JUl DARK KEYS. (DARKEYS) Busty nurw will favor US WITH A S0N5 ENTITLED. IVC OOT INS ON MV FINGERS AND CORNS ON MY TOES." CLIHK CLAWK- BaO-TA-RA- THE BLACK HANDS SENT A NOTICE TO TONY TERHARA. IT READ : ' LEAVE ia00O AT THE FOOT Of THE BIS NAPlt TREE QN THE COIPHER OF UNIPTY- ' 3TCENTH AND BLEAK STREET OR YouR life is in daner: THEN TWO MEMBERS Of THE SOCIETY WATC-HEDTHB TREE TOR RBSULTS- LATE AT NIHT THEY SAW A MAN CAUTIOUSLY APPROACH THE TREE AND LEAVE A 0 THERE. THEY Crabbed the box thnd on THE INSIDE THEY FOUND A card which read, r7Ha drunkard followed TMI DOCTORS INSTRUCTIONS WOULD HE SHAKE THE BOTTLE? JOHN! FEED THE KITTY J rr 1 Li 1 liAt-r who I THERE I 1 I L- , 1 u, 1 if m m IT WAS A BI6 WEDDINS. THE CHUPCH WrtS THRONGED. THE MINISTER WAITED AT THE ALTAR 5ft DID THE BRIDE G-ROOM. UP THE AISLE CAME THE BRIDE ON THE ARM OF HER FATHER. THEN THE MINISTER SETTLED THE PRELIMINARIES AND ASKED THE BRIDE GROOM IF HE WOULD HAVE THIS WOMAN BE HIS'N, THE BRIDEGROOM GOT WHITE THEN RED AND FINALLY STAM MEREDJ "P THE WIND BLEW A HAYSTACK OFF YOUR FARM AND ON TO YOUR NEIGHBORS LAND CQUL.7 YOU MAKE HIM PORK IT OYER? hereS where it hurts most, doc . YOU? POSTTMEU KNOWETH THE PASS WORD' 11 l it THEN WHO IMTHE B005 THAT POTTETH THE PILL IN Pillow The Ten Ages of Beauty The Seeker: There was Erymintrude, a seeker, who looked like this girl in the" picture. She waa frail and beautiful, with ash blond hair and great big violet eyes that looked as if they.'alwayfc' saw '.a wonderful spiritual vision.- " , She was always longing and searching for something more, something higher, finer, greater and more splendid than what life had given her. Not material things, for she cares not for gold or riches, or beautiful clothes, or worldly success. She thought she had a mission, but was not sure what it was. But she was a girl In an ordinary fam ily and, eventually, she married an ordi nary man, and, In course of time, they had a nice, fat baby that would have been ordinary except that every baby is ex traordinary In himself. . Still Ermlntrude went on seeking the unobtainable. Her household affairs got badly mixed, and the food on the tablo Ella Wheeler Wilcox on Rearing of American Children By ELLA WHK Copyright, 1912. by Arrierlcan-Journal-Examlner. , You may be happy In the thought that you are progressive. You are Interested In everything which can help the world along. You study economy, you believe In equal rights; you f. W "3 , Si By MARGARET HUBBARD AVER. What Is your favorite type of feminine beauty? . . ' Do you recognize it In this fair creature disguised in medieval trappings, looking longingly Into the crystal ball, In the hands of the sage ' and seeking so ardently for a glimpse of the future? It Is a familiar type, that of the seeker; It's one that we see everywhere about. The seeker is she who knows that the future holds something vastly wonderful, marvelously beautiful, surpassing all ex pectations; something for her alone. What the search of the Holy Grail was to the knights of King Arthur la this seeking and longing, this quest of the unknown for the girl seeker. She is usually a frail looking girl, slightly built; her ethereal body seems more of the next world than this. Her face Is pale, delicate, Illumined with the spiritual glow, as if a steady flame of high desire and longing, which lights ber on her search glowed beneath the satiny skin and shone In the luminous eyes. ' The eyes of the seeker are large and full of mystery. At another bend In life's road she knows she will find the foot of are a good econom ical housekeeper; you are a cul tured woman, and you take an active par in all move ments which trend toward social bet terment. But . what part are ypu taking In the bringing tip of your children? American children have the reputa tion abroad of ap palling lllmanners. It is almost uni versally merited.- On board a large oceA )dmi Wi passenger list composed of many na tionalities) four children at a table in the dining room were noticeable for their bad breeding. They were handsome children, well dressed ,, and carefully groomed. But they laughed loudly, stared at neighboring tables, made audible com ments upon people, whispered and pointed and giggled, until some of the other pas senger called the attention of the head Stewart to their annoying peculiarities, end they were requested to behave them selves In a seemly manner. , 'These children were from America,' and the most offensive of the four was the 12-year-old daughter of an American banker. They had been given govern esses, ' tutors, schooling and traveling benefits, but they bad never received the refined training of a wise mothqr. Oth erwise they would not have shown such vulgar and offensive traits. Children are born mere hungry little animals. They have no way of knowing what Is good tasto, and what la kind, and what Is graceful and agreeable, un less they are taught by their elders. All refined manners are things , of growth, from the animal state to the higher human state. It has been a thing of slow evolution. " I Our Temote ancestors all ate raven ously and used their hands to tear food Into morsels. They smacked their Hps and made loud sounds and drank noisily. They flung their limbs about ungrace fully and picked their teeth With thorns or slivers, and they did not hesitate to slap and bite and kick one another when angry, as animals do. Gradually an Idea dawned upon these more highly developed creatures that there was such a thing as behavior, and that it was something for which to etrlva -something better than mere Impulse. Po through eons of time good manners developed, and the more delicate and gracious the manners, the farther away the man is from the purely animal state. Mere conventions, jmere formal cere monies, do not indicate good manners. Good manners are the result of an unsel fish desire to avoid annoying others and to give pleasure to one's associates. Children should be taught these things from the time they are able to sit upon a mother's knee. They should be taught ELER WILCOX. that their hands are not to pull and tear'""; their mother's hair, or gown, or slap her-'-S, face or otherwise be offensive." ' ' A little dog can be taught that h-; must not Jump on people, and put hir1 paws on their ll; It requires a very"1 short time to train the average puppyJi In this manner. So a small child can' be taught to be gentle If the mother care ' to give the time and effort. And as thai;!'", child soon understand language, It catt! be trained by tender, sweet counsels toj'. show courtesy In all the little dally mat-1 d ters of We, ;f It is the habit of most American chU- ''M dren to dispute with their elders, anft flatly to contradict In argument. I'j European countries audi a thing is aMvc most unknown. ' ents to fetch and carry objects for plea1"''; sure and rarely say thank-you uhleBS re minded. It Is an easy mat ' to teach a"1 small child to say "Panli,.. me, but I -' think you have made a mistake,", whery !r": the child In confident, to an elder or k vi, companion who has made a 'mistake relating some incident. Every child ha"11 a right to express its opinion, that Is th'P' way childish minds expand; bue wteii'' they say, "That's no such thing." "Ktnk you didn't either," and the parent allows" the flat contradiction to paas as a proof of the child's smartness, then a great American evil Is being countenanced and'.','; abetted. , ; , . , Amerlcn aohlldren are rarely taught tjj'j listen respectfully to their elders. They,,;,;; whistle, sing and Interrupt, and walk.l' away In the midst of conversation wlth,Sf",j.'i: out making an apology. Boys sit in thajj presence of older people who stand; they:.'T' rush Into and out of a room where there - Is conversation or music, with no apology; -,f and usually unrebuked. Proper attitudes of body, proper posi tion of growing young Jlmbs, proper handling of table utenslla, tharetlrej.'. mnt to the private room for use oljoo' toothpick or attention to the person WJ1;; any way these are a few om the many',1'.!;' things which it is the mother'a duty(ti teach her children early and continually.''! Any woman, however poor and humblejl,; can Instruct her children to be gentle mannered, courteous and refined In voice and deportment, If she realise the valui' , of good manner In the world. ,, '2 - Good manner, without education, wlli.j; pass many a man and woman through :".1; the world and Into, gadd society; but" , education without good manners will only "';. enlarge a human being', opportunity to,;v',-j be offensive to his fellow men.' - '' " - ' ' ' '' 14 t This picture by Miss Nell Brlnkley Is reroduced by permission from Good House keeping magazine for September-, where it ' uppeai-a lri ronnoctlon with an article by Octave Ujsanne entitled "The Story of Furs and Muffs'." her rainbow, the meaning of everything which has puzzled her. and her dream come true. . And that bend In the road may come at any moment, so she's always ready; a wise virgin wtith her lamp well trimmed and her eyes .wide open, always seeking, Sometime I am afraid she la anything but practical. The common needs of life and human nature' dally food she Ig nore as much as possible. They are beneath" her, for she Is full of sympathy and tenderness once her attention has been called to thing more humble than her high, exalted thought. But she long and seek eternally for the great and higher things and some times her path leads her through all kind of tangle. was pretty poor, but Ermlntrude was above such things, for It took very little to nourish her and her adoring husband was the sort that will atand for anything from the woman he loves, and he loved Ermlntrude everybody did. , When she bent her gaze earthward, she was capable of the moat complete and unselfish devotion," but, mostly, she looked up Into the sky, searching for the rainbow with' a pot of fairy gold burled at Its foot. Then an ordinary, thing happened. The fat baby contracted an ordinary and very bad disease, and the ordinary doctor said that he wouldn't have had to have that sickness If he had ordinary care. And the ordinary husband was distracted. Then the longing, searching look van ished forever from Ermlntrude' eyes. It was as If he had suddenly and unex pectedly come to that bend in the road that she's always been looking for, and had found the rainbow and tha pot of gold being trampled under her feet. "If here; it s right here, and I've been looking for it all the time!" she cried. Then she set to work with all the forco and power of her nature to recapture what she had almost lost. With heroic jinlf -sacrifice ,that compelled even the doctor.'s admiration, he-wretled for the baby's life and then set about to reor ganlze her household, and to find In every detail In the work th beautiful and spiritual lgnlflcance that ehe'd been looking for in dream and visions. The ordinary baby, fat once more, prob ably realises that he has the finest type of mother, now that the Seeker ha come down to earth. And perhaps be wonder why ehe call him 'Pot of Gold" when she hugs and cuddles him at night. It must seem A silly name to a sensible, pudgy little baby with a good appetite and no Imagination. As for the husband, he knows that hi wife la the one perfect type of beautiful womanhood, the Seeker who ha found her quest. And, she Is making a successful man of him, for she has turned those vague spiritual power of her to practical everyday use, and la the Inspiration, the guide and tha source of hi happiness and contentment Cheapest' Vacation' Th young man employed in the City" V hop or office often does not know what to do with his two weeks' vacation.. i( Usually he solves the problem by going to the "beach." He pays a high- price for' an unattractive room In a hotel or. ?.7rj boarding house; tie spends more than he': can afford at moving picture shows, cafejti 1 and amusement pavilions; for exerclsa.;!. he takes an occassional dip In the sea and otherwise passes his day trying to kill time. i,::i The rest the Indoor worker need Un usually the rest that come from health. , ' ful activity In the open air. For most '! persons the vacation should supply 'a1",; : topic. Let tha young man set forth.. ' with one or two congenial companions-..U : Kn a . two weeks' walking expedition '' I. through the open country. ' 'J To wear old clothes and not to- mind the dust of the road or the pelting ol the rain; to count off the mile and grow more and more comfortably tired ! and then,, at the end of the day, to sit' ' town to a good dinner at some Invltiag" little inn there is change and rest- JJTV thi for any city person whether (h Wfrk'Ts at a desk or a turning lathe.-; The motor cars' rush by' film; but'hjr does not envy their occupants. When a -view- Invites' him hi makes "excursion from the road; he takes the picturesque, trail over a mountain, the short cufitf through a meadow; he exchanges friendly,-,, words with those, he meets; he learns to know the faces of the people; his mind la enlightened and his vision 1 broadened; and his body Is made weary only to' bA ' so much, the more refreshed.- Eacl morning, when he rises, tie feels eagr S " for a largtH- task, a greater distance ; straplng the knapsack oq hia back, givfs Kim the sensation ' that' the athlete tit when he girds himself for &. race; as he strides along, the' feeling of that weight against his shoulder help h,lm to holrd hi head up and to keep-his eyes opnK It la good for every man to bear burden even In vacation. Youth's ' Con panlon. .