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THK PKK: OMAHA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER .TO, 1914.
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Rule of Reason
Advice to Speeders
A Recipe for Softening the Hearts
of Motorcycle Police
By Nell Brinklcy
Copyright. 1914. Intern! News Service.
Man li a reasoning being, but seldom
reasonable.
Usually bis logic I lined as a means for
protecting a prejudice. A man cannot
riew anything aa
apart from himself. .
Everything he sees
has a relationship '
to his own safety
and hia own wel
fare. Thing he llkea
he will approve;
thing he fear or
dislikes, he will
condemn.
That whloh
brings him profit la
right. That which
brtnga other pro
' pie profit la wrong.
Augusta Cotnte
wrote a book en
tities "Pure Rear
eon." Three years
after the writing
he added a chapter atatlng that the thing
didn't exist.
Once a farmer wrote a hot letter to
Seers, Roebuck Co., complaining In I
grieved and sarcastic phraae because!
they had neglected to ahlp the hamesl
among other goods he had ordered.
Then aa a poet script to the Utter waa
this. "The hames I found all right In the
bottom of the box."
Onoe upon a time In a careless mo-1
mnnt General Wlnflcld Scott Hancock I
made a truthful remark, thus: "The!
tariff la a local Issue."
And behold, the remark waa taken up I
and printed la black-face type In a I
thousand newepepers aa proof of the lg7 1
nor an re of the general, who at that time
. happened to be a candidate for the pros-1
Idency. And the remark. It la believed.
brought about the defeat of the remarkcr.
The moral of thla la that one had bet-1
ter think twice before atatlng the truth
and then whisper It to himself.
Belt-protection la the first law of life.
Ou stave Le Don. la hla wonderful
book. "The Crowd." eays that raoe In
stinct la the strongest and moat per-l
siatent tendency of the human mind.
Aa long aa a man can remember the)
country from which his ancestors came, 1
be will feel a patriotism toward that
country which he does not feel toward
any other
In ease of a dispute or -a war ha will
Instinctively side with the country from
which his ancestors came.
And the argument la that any truth
that collides with raoe Instinct, religious
Instinct, sex instinct, business Interests
or social status is going to receive a
ever Jar before It la finally accepted.
We resent any truth that threatens or
seemingly threatens our mental, social
or financial condition and In the face
of social danger reason and socio are
barren idealities,
Heneo the necessity when a witness In
a court of law Is placed on the stand
' of ascertaining who thla witness Is be
fore we lend credulity to his statements.
4b.
rffir 1
I'm not dead certain It will work I've seen soma young and lovely
womankind smile on a "cop" who never turned a hair under the fire of
their eyes and I've seen some' straight and beautiful policemen with
hearts like stones when you were going thirty mils an hour on Pelham
Road, no matter how hard you smiled but It's the best thing I know
If you have the little, speed-call gnawing in your brain If you are of
those motorists who spurn the earth and try to rise off H who wish
that wishes could grow wings to the running-boards take plenty of
girls!
Along with your good-nature, fur rugs, plenty of gasoline and
water and oil, take plenty of girls to melt the heart of the man in blue
who skims alongside and' glowers and puts out an all-powereful hand
that must not be denied. It may be that under the concentrated beauty
of the smiles of a dozen girls his eyes may wander and his conscience
nod and sleep!
To win a "well this time but remember, young fellow, I've got
your number" from the swooping "cop" take plenty of girls.
NELL BRINKLEY.
Why Handsome Women Marry Ugly Men
In "9peuhing on Evidence" there Is a
chapter devoted to the relative rella-1 the prettier a wo
billty of the testimony of women as I man ts tho mora
compared witn men. -
Bpauldlng also Baa- something to say
of the testimony of doctors, preachers.
lawyers, harlots. Bpauldlng- explains that
men of the same profession will always
Instinctively protect ene another.
Every experienced Judge res Uses the that may be useful
InablMty of even Intellectual people to to future Investl-
see the whole truth, much less to tell It gators e f t he
An eminent college profeseor, "who may rsrcholory of the
no ine. last wora in oioragy. would proo
ably be capable of expressing only one
view of the military situation, and that
By DOnOTHY DIX. ,
A French philosopher has atarted out to
explore a new region It that terra In
cognito, a woman's fan6y. He Is trying
to find out why beauty so often weds
the beast, and why
do homely men ap
pear to fascinate
bar.
To satisfy hla
curiosity, and to
gain solan tl flo data
fair sex, the
French savant Is
sending cut hun
of circular
letters to totelll-
wnt women, ask'
Just bet comes In a stony about Ihv .v.m to read to
maaael Kant, who was very absent- nlm thU riddle. The
mtnoea. rassing a oeanunii garoen, en
the view of the country In weiloh he was flrda
porn sua uvea. .
"on best '
la
ctose by a burn Iron picket fence, the that th .j,,,. win be "Just because."
proir pbu.su ana peesmj inrougn me f(jr whaB n eomea to a matter Of the
Keyhole of the lock of the gate.
Asked why he didn't look through the
pickets, be mod a logical sidestep and
heart woman disdains analysis and logic.
Phe merely feels; the loves or hates in
strict accordance with the attitude of
explained that beauty Inspected through lmmorU, ,n(MT,aat. who did not like
an aperture waa more
when rased on en masse.
pleasing than
Dr. Fell, but the reason why he could not1
teU.
Nevertheless, whether woman can give
oause for the faith that Is In her or pot.
It Is a fact that homely men, even repul
sively ugly men, have always been able
to fluttter the dove-cote whenever they
entered It-and to pick and choose among
the belles of the season when they chose
to marry. Ia our own day we have aeen
hundreds of aueh cases. Grover Cleve
land, obese, trlple-chlnned, with the grace
of movement of a hippopotamus, and old
enough to be her father, was able to
mirnr Km ut If ul Francs Folaom. Nat
A wound in the right arm. which Fitts Goodwin, oertatnly one of the homeliest
Do You Know That
Mme. Orris, tho famoos woman eclen-
tlx, baa Installed at her own expense a
redlngTephlo apparatus for the wounded
at the Fanttn hospital, near Pari a By
means of this apparatus bullets and shell
Splinters and fractures can Instantly bo
located a powerful aid to the saving of
Ufa
Krelaler, the famous violinist, has sus
tained fighting, may rise an Interesting
question of lnsuranoe law T All great
Instrumental lata now Insure their hands.
men on the stage, has marrioa three
women that were certainly nothing short
of living plot urea, stvelyn Thaw, an al
most perfect pocket Venus, haa con-
sum. etc Paderew.kl. for instance, ha. .tently bestowed her smiles upon men.
luc'ured each finger separately for IX,0Ou.
any one of whom might be a candidate
XreUler. no doubt, has taken similar pre. L ,Q ue,y Wlul., Md th Utt
The last siege of Vienna waa. made by
the Austrian t hern selves? This waa In
IMS, when, daring the H uogarlaa revo
lution, Vienna fell In to the hands of the
Insurgents, who were dislodged only after
two daya' bombardment.
It has been decided that the giant
telescope which Is being built in Cleve
land, O.. for the Caadlan government,
shall be erected nax Victoria, British
Columbia, In a position where klaal aX-
mospherlo conditions exist This will be
one of the largest ' telescopes In, the
world.
In the twenty-five ysars from 14ST to
llill the number of human beings killed
by vnakes In Indt waa fcU.Wl, or aa
average of 11.780 annually, according to
official reports. During the same time
snakes caused tho death ofUH.iS cattle.
The tusks of aa ordinary elephant
weigh 120 pounds and are worth 1300. It
rs-julres 12.0U0 elephaota to supply (GO
tuns of Ivory to tlis English market
M;rtfit!d takes one-third.
1
The Arabs were the 'irat to use orange
Mussoms as bridal wreaths. The orange
briu bears fruit and floaers at the
Mr time, and Is therefore considered
U.s euibleiu of prosperity.
showing that beauty actually prefers the
beast to Adonis, can be lengthened In
definitely by each of us from our own
observation. Time and again have we
all seen a fair and radlapt creature turn
her back upon suitors ho were aa hand
some and godlike In appearance aa a
clothing store advertisement, and gaily
march to tlie altar with some slab-sided,
loose-Jointed, carrot-haired fellow whose
face was nothing but a Jumble of the
necessary features.
Nor Is this penchant of women for ugly
men a modern fad. It has always been
ttfBi, and history Is full of such Instances
of woman's erratic fancy. Mayor Ilalley
of Paris, who ruled the city during the
white terror, and whoae name as used
to frighten the children all over France.
had a face resembling a road horse; yet
he waa wooed and won by one of the
loveliest 'women of bis time, a girl of ex
cellent family and great wealth.
likewise married one of the handsome
berreaaea of hla period. lie waa well
aware of his shortcomings and used to
say to himself: "There Is probably no
uglier ' excuse for a man In the wld
world than I; but, repulsive as I am.
have4 never yet failed to gain a lady'
admiration. Give me half an hour's atari
and I will beat the handsomest man In
the room."
Lord Drcughsjn, ugly of lace and gruff
of manner, was the pet' of the ladlea In
Phis own circle of society, and If any
body asked for him as a reception or a
ball the answer waa Invariably, "Seek
him wherever you find a bunch of pretty
women. He will be in the center." Mrs.
Spalding, a rich widow, famed for her
beauty and wit, carried off Lord Broug
ham, and was envied by all the hand
some unmarried women.
Marat, the monster of the French rev
olution, was as repulsive of face aa of
character, yet he had to run away from
Paris time and again for a few days to
escape the attentions of love-sick, pretty
women.
On the surface the fascination ugly men
have for pretty women may seem mys
terious, but . the explanation Is almost
childishly simple, and rests upon one of
the great fundamental facts of nature.
Between the sexes the attraction Is not
of similarity, but of oppoaltes. No man
admires the mannlBh woman, and no
woman but has a repulsion for the ef
feminate man. Whenever this law ap
pears to be broken you will , find that
one or the other has transgressed hla or
her sex limitations. Sometimes a weak
and timorous woman's soul geta Into a
man's body, or a woman's courage and
strength are given to a fratl-HtUe
woman, and when this happena the roan
will marry a dominant, bossy woman,
and the woman will fall In love with
some puny and sickly man.
The normal man and woman, however,
are drawn together not by their likes, but
by their dilferencea. and this 1s why the
beautiful woman la no more attracted to
a man by his good looks than a virile
man la attracted to a woman who is big
and strong and swaggerlngly Independent
and who apes the dress and manners of
men. Every real man hatea a .woman
who Is an imitation man.. Every woman
despises a man who Is an understudy of
her beauty. Each sex feels that It can
do Its own little specialty better.
Women dislike handaomS men Because
thev reuard beauty aa a distinctly fem
inine prerogative, and when a man sets
up as their rival they feel like going af
ter him with a gun, because he la poach
ing on their reserves. What business has
a mere man with a Greek pronto, wun a
peachy akin, with langulahlng eyes ana
lashes that make shadows on his 'cheeks,
and natural wavic hair?
It .ImrJv fills a woman, who la pretty,
but still has to marcel ner nair. wun
rage and bltterneas of spirit to behold a
man who haa. by the grace of God. the
pulchritude that she haa had to achieve
bv art and suffering. Consequently, he
makes no hit with her. She resents him
aa a mistake In nature, an Interloper, a
trespasser one who la lttUe better than
a thief ana rouoer,
She doesn't want htm around, especially
In the position of husband, where her
own looks W'ih! be brought Into con
tinual cjfuparUon with hla Heavens, nol
She -u"t that stupid, for she knows that
however equal their pulchritude might be
start with, men wear hotter than
tmen do: their beauty la built of sterner
Pride and Prejudice
tuff, and that In a few years she would
itnl be able to escape hearing people
wonder what that handome Mr. Smith
lo'Ud ever have seen In that faded little
M.. Smith to make hhn marry her.
Whereas, If she .marries fin ugly man.
she will never have a rival near the
throne. Khe will always tilt upon a pedes
tal and have her sc'.'ptr aa the beauty
of the family.
Another reason that women, dislike
handsome men Is because' the Instant
men get 1 per cent above par In look
they become Insufferably vain and con
ceited. They pone. They strut. They
have to he continually flattered, and thla
gets upon a woman's nerves. If there's
to be any bouquet throwing, abe feels
that It's the man, who haa the stronger
arm and the better arm, who ought to
hurl the nosegays, and It makes her mad
clear through when she has to do it.
Therefore, she does not qualify for tho
Job with any great enthusiasm.
Give her every time the homely man
who will talk about her eyes. Instead of
expecting her. to elng sonnets to his; who
will praise the shape of her nose and
tell her that her mouth is Cupid's, bow,
instead of sitting up and angling for a
compliment about his looks until. In
sheer humanity, she Is bound to pass him
one, as one throws a bone to a hungry
dog.
SUH another reason why handsome men
do not fascinate women is because the
extremely good looking man is nearly
always dull and stupid. Old Dame
Nature deals out the cards with a more
even hand than we give her credit for,
and when she spends an extra amount In
adorning the outside of an individual's
head, she nearly always skimps 4 lot on
what she puts Inside of it This Is true
of women as well as men, but while
beauty In a woman la enough to satisfy
men. It doesn't fill the bill with women.
A man will fall In love with a pretty
tool and apparently adore her to the end
of the chapter, without ever wearying
her, but no man alive was ever handsome
enough to keep a woman thrilled after
she found that hla conversation was
barren of Interest and palled upon her.
The fascination of the ugly man Is. In
the first place, that knowing be has noth
ing In his looks to appeal to a woman he
studies her moods and tenses and learns
to play upon her as upon an Instrument
fashioned to ber hand. He learns that
subtle art of Incense burning, so that he
Intoxicates her,, without her knowing it.
by his adulation.
Moreover, the homely man, having; to
rely upon his tongue and not his wit, be
comes an adept In the art of pleasing.
He cultivates tact, savolrJMre. He learns
now ut laia, 10 say ine origin, iigm, witty
things that women love, to pay tho deep
compliment and strike the deeper per
sonal note that - tells her she haa . been
thought worthy of stady. It Is this that
makes the homely man able to, like Tony
LAimpkin, charm the very birds off the
bush.
Observation shows further that the
homely man la the only man that there Is
any comfort and peace In marrying. He
does not expect his wife to spend her life
In a gasping state of - admiration Over
him, nor to have her perpetually telling
him how much better looking he kt than
Apollo. He doea not preempt most of the
family Income for his own adornment, aa
a handsome man la sure to do,' nor mo
nopolize the mirrors In the house gaslng
Y hla own reflection. Neither is It neces
aary for him to waste any time posing
on street comers to try to catch the ad
miring glances of passing women. The
ugly man knows his place In the domes-
Uo economy as an exploiter of hla wife'
beauty, and as an humble Instrument of
provtdenoe to Increase that beauty by
providing It with the proper setting of
Paris raiment. . This Is as heaven de
signed, and great la the happiness In the
household where this obtains.
Woman never shows so much sense as
when she prefers the ugly man for
husband Instead of his handsome brother.
It was no midsummer madness when
Tltanla fell In love with the beast
waa, and is, all-the-year sanity.
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
In the nature of each of us Is a fine
grain of conservatism that makes us
like that to which we are accustomed,
that which ia familiar and known to ua.
The strange, the unknown, the different
strike a certain terror to our hearts and
we are In awe of what we cannot under
stand. And It is this dread of the unknown
that Is at the foot of' all the crual pre
judice nation feels for nation and race
for race, e , ,
I am going to quote from a letter I
hare received from a girl who has bitter
pride and Is ashamed of It and who feela
the aloftneaa of prejudloe and criticizes
herself for It and yet who Is not quite
able to rise above her feelings.
I am much in love with a man, and
yet arri not willing to marry him. Can
you show me how to conquer my feel
ings and be happy T" writes Alma J.
'I come from a light-hearted northern
race, and hla is a southern nationality.
have a feeling of superiority that I
hate myself for having. 'And yet he Is
more of a gentleman than my other
friends, and Is better educated and
more refined. But some of hie ways
seem queer to me, and I can't quite make
up my mind to stand the smiles of the
friends who are of my own people. But
never knew a man so fine and worthy
of love. He is of Spanish descent and I
am of Norwegian blood. I love him and
am ashamed of my love, and In the
next breath I am ashamed of myself for
being ashamed. What shall I do?"
My dear Alma, do one of-two thlnca.
.Either say to yourself, "I can not dream
of marrying thla man. ' I am one of
those narrow-minded, easily prejudiced
people, who can see no good In anything
that la at all different from the customs
of the narrow little world In which they
have always lived and moved, and In
which they prlgglshly choose to stay for
ever. I came of those whose horlxona
never change. .' I like only that to which
am accustomed.
"I have not sufficient strength of char
acter to stand the criticism of people who
will ridicule jne out of the notion of ac
cepting what I really want, and then will
offer me nothing In place of that which
they Influenced me to resign. I am not
strong enough to make my friends Judge
fairly. I cannot Influence the point of
view of my prejudiced friends. But thej
can hold nie In their circle of narrow-
mindedness. I want the things to which
I am accustomed 'served up to me as my
dally portion.
"I couldn't possibly grow and broaden
and come to see that there Is world
after world apart from my own little
sphere. I am not tolerant or kind. I'd
be miserable ith a man whose traditions
are ' different from mine, and I'd make
bim a bit unhappy, too. I suppose. So
I won't many him."
Your warm-blooded southern admirer
will probably declaim a bit about his
bleated life- But some day be will give
thanks to the powers that be for deliv
ering htm from the thraU $t a creature
riveted In the cold tempered steel of
pride and prejudloe. V
But If you can take a saner, kinder
point of view, marry tho man you love
and you will find that yours was a true
love. Indeed.
Marry him. If thla la what you can say
and feel and think:
"My husband and I have had different
upbringings In keeping with the different
traditions of OUT races. I shall enjoy
learning his point of view. And I shall
aoqualnt him with, mine, gently and pa
tiently, In the hope that be will love my
Ideas aa well as his Ideal of me. I want
to broaden my horlxon. I love his ways
and customs because they are a part of
him.
Because of our very difference we
will ausrment each other's natures and
supply each' to the other what is lacking
to make a full and rounded personality.
am proud that a man so different from
me has been attracted by me. His people
shall be my people and mine his. We
will win our friends to admiration and
understanding of the differences that
climate and location have brought out
n our ancestors and given us to inherit
We wjll always find new things to' study
and admire in one another, v
"Our life together will be stimulating
and free from the boredom that might
result from marrying some one who was
the exact replica of ourselves. We are
setting out on tho splendid adventure of
life together, and It shall be a happy voy
age of discovery."
Heavens in
December
By WILLIAM P. RIGGE.
I Advice to Lovelorn j
(T By SIATXtCB 7AX&7AX
Try to Wla Her Mother's Approval.
Dear Miss Fairfax: Last summer I
met a young girl of 18 years, and since
then we have been good friends. A week
ago I asked permission ' to take her to
the movies, and she consented. To go
with me that evening ahe had cancelled
another Invitation to go with a few of
her girl frionds. we returned to ner
home, after getting drlnka at a soda
fountain, and we talked a good bit I
did not have my watch along, and I did
not realise what time It was till her
mother calltd for her. I quickly told
her that I must leave and ahe fully un
derstood tho reason. She has eince told
me that she received a severe lecture
from her parents In the morning, and I
wrote her a letter telling her that I was
the cause of It all, and that I wished to
apologies for It, and that I wanted her
parents to fonrlve. Of course we are only
kids, but I would cherish very much to
have her friendship aa she Is of the best
class of people In the city, and I would
not like to loss her acquaintance so
easily. What further atepa shall I take,
as I know I must take the initiative if I
want her to consider roe her friend 7
ARTHUR.
Since her mother permitted her young
daughter to go to 'the motion pictures
with you she must regard you as a boy
to be trusted. .You must merit this trust
and not aain be so careless as to re
main over late. On returning home you
should' have taken your friend to her
door, but should not have gone In. Sup
pose you call there soon and tell the
mother that you realise your blunder and
will be very careful In future and hope
she win continue to regard you aa
worthy of her daughter's friendship.
On the 22d at 10.21 a. m. the ana roaches:
Its farthest south, enters the sign of Cap
ricorn and is at the winter solstloo. Then
astronomical winter begins.
The sun rises on the 1st ttth, Slat.' at
7:31, 7:44, T:&2 and set at 4:66, 4.64. (.02.'
From the 19th to the Oth the days are;
nine hours eight minutes In length, the(
shortest of the whole year. There is a.
loss of sixteen minutes, between the Irt,
and the 19th, and a gain of two minutes;
after the 2Sth. On the lat tho euh Is.
eleven minutes fast according to the
sundial, on time on the 28th and three
minutes slow on the Slst On standard ..
Ultra 1 1 im l n li irrii uunuua wvw vn tuv -
nineteen minutes on the lEth and tweny ?
six minutes slow on the Slst i v't
Venus is conspicuous In tho morning H
twilight. Mars Is near the sun. Jupiter
Is still visible In the evening, although It
sets on the 15th at 9:20 and on the (1st
at 8:32.
Saturn Is In fine position about half
way between Aldebaran and Castor and
Pollux. It Is In opposition on tho 21st
The noon Is full on the 2d at UH p. m
In last quarter on the 10th at S:tt a. m..
new on the 16th at 8:36 p. m. and la.
first quarter on the 24th at 1:26 a. m. It
ts In .conjunction with Saturn on the 4th
and 31st and with Jupiter on the 20th.
This last conjunction will be so close as
almost to amount to an occulatlon at'
Omaha. But unfortunately the moon and
the planet will be In the horison at tho
time.
While Jupiter and Altaic are disappear
ing in the evening sky. Lyra and Cygnus
very low and the Square of Pegasus,
well past the meridian the Big Dipper Is
ascending. Chpella and Aldebaran are
very high. Orion with Castor and Pollux,
and Slrlus and Procyron and Saturn are
climbing higher in the east and the
Mllkyway Is at Its highest
Crelghton University Observatory.
Omaha, Neb.
Bo Proa of Yoar Nationality.
Dear Miss ralrfax: Im am a youiur
man of L and for the last two years
have been keeping company with a young
lady one year my Junior.
1 respect and love this young lady
dearly, but her parenta and friends ob
ject because 1 am of foreign nationality.
I do not resemble the foreign nationality
Or whlcn I am sorry to say 1 tin one,
tlon. Don't let any one make yott
ashamed of your own people or you
birth. As for the rest, hold your head
high In self-respect, work honestly and
well and compel the respect of people,
who have no right to Judge a whole
nation by one or two unpleasant ex
amples they may have met Tou can win
over the family of the girl yo love if
you will force them to see that you
deserve regard and respect. Don't elope.
The people who think badly of you al
ready, will be the more likely to con
demn your nation If you do such a thine.
When Women Suffer
No remedy Tves greater relief tha
nti-kamnia (A-K) Tablets in all oondi
still. 1 go home once in awhile (not very tions generally known a "Women's
often aa I do not associate with that ; Aches and Ills." One trial 'will SatisfJ
class.) Is It wrong tor. me to throw my . ,w,.t .y,. ka. onn
time and love toward thla young ladyt woman Uiat She Has at las lounq
I should die If I knew she were to love
another. I was born 'a thla country.
1 have also tried every posjtble way to
win the affeHlon and respect of her
parents and frienda 1 am very sad alid
timely without her. I am aura she would
elope. K. A. V.
Cultivate a spirit of loyalty to your
own nation. Each nation has its good
arid Its bad points, and I have no
patience with the ignorant prejudice that
condemns members of any raoe or ba
the remedy she has so long been look
fog for.
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