i
ii, JJi-A.
o
Men-Made Gods
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
(Copyright, 19H, by Star Company.)
Said the Kaiser's god to the god of the Car:
"Hark, hark, how my people pray:
Their faith, methlnks. Is greater by far
Than all the faiths of the others are:
They know I will help them slay,"
Said the god of the Ctar: "My people call
In a medley of tongues; they know
I will lend my strength to them, one and all.
WhereTer they fight their foes shall fall
Like grass where the mowers go."
Then the god of the Oauls spoke out of a eloud
To the god of the King nearby:
"Our people pray, tho they pray not loud;
They ask for courage to slaughter a crowd.
And to laugh, tho' themselves may die."
And far out into the heart of Space
Where a lonely pathway crept.
Up over the stars, to a secret place,
Where no light shone but the light of His face,
Christ coTered His eyes and wept.
v Smart Hats from London &
Felt and Velvet Being Worn and Small Shapes Prevail
r ' ' ' 4
4 V"
I v
Remember
the Kiddies
Temperatures at 'the
Poles
K KDGAR UT1K.V LwtRKlX.
v.
By DOROTHY DIX
A tothpestln a teapot can wreck things
as completely as a storm at tea. Tem
per and pride can blast lives as utterly
as the wickedest ain can.
Hera's a story to
prove It. A young
couple both under
SS have been mar
ried four yearn,
and have a little
girl S years old.
Both husband and
wife are uptight,
honorable people,
but they are un
disciplined, and
lack self-control,
, and so they quar
reled about all
sorts of foolish
things and " got
upon each other's
nerves, until last
summer they de
cided that they
would be better
apart and separated.
The wife went to live with a married
Mater. The husband went his way, and
the child was given over to the car f
ibe maternal grandmother, who remained
" vcy,.frlendjjr tcrma with her soi4
law. despite the separation between him
and his wife.
Both of the llttla girl's parents visit
her continually, and to both of them she
puts up a ceaseless plaint. "Where Is my
iapa? Where is my mamma?" as the
case may be. and "why don't you live
here, like my grandmamma and my
;;:andjiapa dot
"But you have your mamma, dear,"
tiio mother will soothe her by saying.
Yes: but I want my papa, too," the
hlld will wall, "I want you "Bof at the
tame time, and I want my home."
The child's ories have gone to the fath
er's heart. He realises, perhaps too late,
tl.at the first duty of parents ts not to
themselves, but to their children, and
that so chUd Is getting a square deal la
Ufe that Isn't reared in 1U own 'home,
and under the watchful and loving oare
of both 1U father and its mother.
In the light of this new knowledge,
and with the pathos of his baby's cries
for her own ringing in his ears, all of the
petty squabbles and spats over nothing
seam very small to the man, and he is
trying to get his wife to ooroe back and
make a new start in a new home that will
b built on a securer loundatton than
the old one.
Let us hop that the woman has gotten
her lesson, too, and that she will accept
the Olive branch bar husband is noiamgi
out to her. In the heat of a Quarrel noth- j
Ing on earth looks so much like a cool .
easts in the arid desert ec matrimony mm
divorce does. Just to be rid of the nag
ging;, of the fault finding, of the per
petual eepionase, m turn niM
of the never-ending fights, now aiiunng ,
the very thought. Just to be free to
live one's own life unhampered, what
bites ta the prospect. I
But the divorced, and especially the
divorced woman, finds out that divorce Is
not the earthly paradise she expected It
to be. She finds out that she has the
perquisites of neither the girl nor the
married woman, that people who sym
pathise with her don't want her to live
with them and that even the privilege of
freedom carries with it the penalty of
loneliness.
Be sure that many a woman who ar
rogantly shakes the dust of her home off
her feet es she leaves it would be glad
enough to creep humbly in at IU back
door. If she could, after a few months of
cvparailoa from her husband. The way
is open to this one. May heaven send her
wisdom enough to go back, and retrieve
the mistake of her youth, and make a
success Instead of a failure of matri
mony. -
After all. what a sordidly pitiful thing
it is to think of a home being wrecked,
of a littio child being orphaned by tem
per! What a confession of weakness it is
on the part of two grown-up . human
beings not to be able to control their
toncues! How little people must lovel
their children when, for the sake of say-!
ing a few biting and- unpleasant things,!
they are willing to Jeopardise that child's
whole life!
In plain English that's what the whole
situation amounts to. Every man and
woman la the world who thinks at all
knows that it takes a mother and a
father working together la harmony to
bring up a child properly. Everybody
knows that the most pitiful thing In the
world Is a Ultle orphan child, and the
next most pitiful thing is a half -orphan
rlu Id
Y.'t, knowing this, simply for the sake
of Indulging their tempers, husbands and
wives will quarrel until, they can endure
it no longer, and then separate, thus de
liberately orphaning their children.
Question "At the 'time when such, ani
mals as mastodons and other large ani
mals lived In ' the northern part of this
earth, was It then warm at the. poles?
If .so, why is It cold today? As science
has proved that the sun's rays squarely
strike the poles, once a year, for a short
time, then again, why are the poles
constantly frosen?"
Answer Tee. the climate was surely
very mild at the North pole, for In tho
stomachs of the huge beasts exhumed In
northern Siberia, undigested remains and
seeds of plants were found, but these
plants now grow only In temperate and
even near tropical sorx;s. And the cold
snap came on suddenly, for the creatures
bad no time to escape the morass In
which he was feeding and reach the
higher ground.
The cause of this sudden cold is un
known. Ignatius Donnelly and others ad
vocate the theory that large quantities
of stone and drift fell on earth from
frigid space. . But astronomers cannot
prove this.
The axis of the earth Is Inclined to the
plan of Its orbit at an angle of 23 de
grees 27 minues, therefore the rays of
the sun do not fall squarely upon either
pole.
Question "How la oxygen kept. constant
In our atmosphere?'!... ' ,
Answer-Thls Is ace of the most remark
able adjustments of eatur. Animals ap
propriate oxygen from the air, giving out
carbonic acid gas. . Planets appropriate
this gas and pour forth oxygen.
But the quantity of oxygen mixed with
the nitrogen is the same In proportion In
air in all parts of the world.
Question "ts It true that with the aid
of an ordinary tilain mirror one can see
the moons of Jupiter?" -
' Answer No. , These moons cannot be
seen "by the unaided eye.. Plain mirrors
do not aid; they hinder a little owing to
slight loss of Ught by reflection. It re
quires magnification to see the satellites
of Jupitsr,
V...:. Ir-ri
jr. : ';".: .
Rate of Rotation of Great
Spiral Nebulae
V
V
3
f
' . V -
. it
i
Tty UAUKHTT T. SKltVISH.
We are llvln In a very petty part tf
the universe! Our Immediate surround
ingssun, mnon, tilsnets are of a sor-
J onilary grade. The aulur stem In etnall
, and placed In n
; relatively bnrre u
! res Ion of spnee.
, There Is no sun
: cluster near us.
. and th gnlsxy
lth Its wrestli
of stars Is remote
ko Ihsl f cn only
alliniwe faintly tlit
far away glory of
( Its billion spheres
! like the glimmer
I In reflection on
the itlstlil sky of n
a distant metropolis.
Kvery fresh dis-dim-overy
In astronomy strengthens the
Impression of our loneliness and com
parative insignificance In the great crea
tion. New suns and new fl 'k i of
worlds are not being bovn In our n!nli
iM.rhnod. lull afsr orf, beyond the hoiUt.n
or the lisht-years. Tho mighty spiral
nebulae whirl their trillion-league arms,
and scatter broadcast the flunting seeds
of new stellar systems, deep In the pro
fundities that engdlf us ns tho oi-eiin en
gulfs a snnd-graln.
Yet even here wn dtlcem our phytclal
littleness by that spark of universal In-
i,. JJ. .
1
tclllgeiK e whli h ennlilea us to appreciate
our reel situation, nnd to aspire to some
dereo of comprehension of the vaster
inn tonal Fystems about us. Astronomy
teaches us that we nre exceedingly small,
but nevertheless akin to the greatest.
The proof of this hss been repeated by
the discovery mstlo st the Lowell obser
vutoiy In Arlxiinn.
The splial ncbuine are so far sifay
that none of our means of measurement
csn got a sure grssp upon their distance,
and yet. In spite of this, the astron
omers In Arisonn succeeded not only In
seeing that those Immense appregatlona
or stransely orsnnlred matter are In rota- .
tloti, but even In ascertaining. In one case
at least, the speed of the rotation.
They have found out that, such a nebula
In the constellation Virgo is whirling
alHiut an sxls st the rate of 1,01 kilo
meters (more than WW miles) per second.
Hut so vast Is the nebular mass (although
It Is a mere wisp of faint light in a pow
erful telescope) that a point on Its cir
cumference, traveling MMW.WO miles; a
day, may not complete a single revolu
tion In l.noo years.
Tho manner In whKh this discovery
n.is made, nlthoiiRh already applied, to
oilier problems. Is nn astonishing evi
dence of the rea h of tlio human mind.
The waves of light were compelled, to
yield the Micret. The process was, In
brief, ss follows:
When a llght-emlttliig body swiftly ap
proaches the eye the ncht waves arelln
a stmae, crowded together, and tho re
sult Is a hlft In the siiertrum toward the
violet end. If the body is receding the
waves are drawn out, nnd there is a
II A J J j. T nnnlAsn II spectri.1 shift toward the violent end. If
ACIVICC 10 JjOVClOrn I the body is receding the rsy. are drawn
II J out unl there Is a spectral shift toward
T BATBIC FAIBFAX J . t))( on(1 ,f tnp g rt!,,,. on
- v
i
i . - n'i4,i v ' '
Felt and' velvet bats are seasonable and fash
ionable. Of these four attractive new models,
the first, in black velvet, has a round crown
and small brim, and Is trimmed high at the
back with violet and black feathers, a swathe of
violet brocade silk trimming .the crown. The
second has a. black velvet crown and white vel-
,ttt under the brim; it is smartly trimmed with
fur and pleated silk net. ' A Jaunty little turn
up model of black velvet comes next, with white
feathers springing from a ribbon cockade at the
left side, and the fourth and .last on the page !
of white felt, with a soft white velvet crown and
a band and wing mount of brown. ,
YMst Kaoaah Walt
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a girl of 1..
and for several months have received at
tentions rom a young man six years nty
senior. . I know that I hive him and li
loves nv. As yet h is unable t afford
for me a home such ss I have, hut In n
few years will he nhlc. lie has asked
me to marry him, and 1 have consented.
1 have known his fsmlly for years.
Now, I would llk to know If 1 am not
Justified In waiting for ,,lraANXun,a
You an very young, hut your letter
sounds mature and thoughtful, so yoJ
srs pro bf. lily callable of feelings deernti'
than thosti ordinarily experienced by on
of your years. Now, because you bps
only 17, you can afford to wait a few
years for the man you love to work his
way to sucress. But ordlnsrlly 1 disap
prove bf ths Idea of a woman letting tb
best years of her life go by while she
waits for some worthless and unreliable
man to "make i good." But you can af
ford to trust and wait for three or four
years to come; In fact, you will be loo
young to marry before they have claimed.
Ilas'l Worry.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am in love with
a boy and last beptember he told me lie
loved me very much. Hut abuut two
weeks sgo one of m best sir) friends
wh i was always making fun of him got
him away from me and she tells me tnat
he told her he loved her much more than
he dors me. 1 don't he!kove what she
says. Now, this hoy treats me as he
always did, anil speaks to ine whenever
he gets a chance, I still go with the
girl friend, as I always did. PleBa ad
vise me what to do. bUl'K UYES.
You are too young to be worrying your
head about such matters. If you do not
i believe what the other girl says and the
! boy still treats you well, your cause for
. complaint seems to vanish at once. At
all events, you ehould stick to your school
books and not let silly thoughts of love
or jealousy distract your sttention from
your studies. . .
n sxls placed st rignt-angies to ine
line of sight the light from the side of
the body thut Is rolling- toward the eye
Is shifted toward the violet, while that
from the i'lo that is rolling away Is
shifted toward the red. The amount of
this double shift Is mecsurenble If t?"
rotation Is sufficiently rapid, and, taken
In connection with the known speed , of
light, it gives a means of calculating the
velocity of the rotation.
This methr.d has been applied In meas
uring the rotation of the sun. of the
planet Jupiter, of the rings ef Saturn,
and of other similar bodies. The Ariaona
observers tried It upon a nebula whose
form (that et a long spindle) suggested
that it was a spiral In rapid rotation, like
a wheel, with Its axis lying across the
line ot sight. .
- The- ivsult Justified the experiment
The srxctia! lines were shifted In op
posite directions at the two ends ot the
tubular sp'.ndle. and the amount ot the
shifting gave the Information that, s
sgld above, the nebula Is spinning at the
rale of G miles per second.
It Is Inconceivable that a nebular mass
whose circumference Is moving at such
a speed can remain unbroken. It must
be tearing Itself to pieces like an over
speeded t'lywhovl. This Is In accord with
the appearance, presented by ether spiral
nebulae which lie with their broadsides
toward us. As shown in photographs,
they have the look of fiery ptnwheels
from whluh streams of sparks are being
continually thrown off with fearful velo
rlty and to stupendous distances. But
until now no direct proof ef their motion
has been obtainable.
ho :nuetv we have learned from eur ie
mote and Insignificant corner conoerning
soma of the mighty operations going on
In the great active venters of creative
energy In the universe. The meaning of
those operations remains to bo discovered.
Win
wouldn t be
n
to
get
I
two
(Qi
yp '-1 --'--vrTl"-"'
iror Uhrn
The following Omaha and Council
Bluffs dealers carry complete lines
of Victor Victrolaa, and all the late
Victor Records as fast as issued.
You are cordially invited to inspect
the stocks at any of these estab-
lishments.
PIANO COMPANY
1311-1313 Farnam St Omaha, Neb.
Victor Department on Main Floor
TT TV
Tl Branch nt
Corner 15th and fX,.-Tl P
There are Victors
and Victrolas in great
variety of styles from J
10 to $200. and any
Victor dealer will
gladly demonstrate
them to you.
Victor Talking Machine' Co.
Camden, N. J.
ST..
Victrolas iS old by
A. H0SPE CO.,
1513-15 Douglas Street, Omaba, and
407 'West Broadway, - Council Bluffs, la.
Irailds -.Stores
Talking Machine Department
in the Pompeian Room
I ..ia'. Ii - -.4 r-r" ''
! :! U1
h -'if' f'
It : . . i I J , im
K - W ;f
Victrola XVI, $200
The instrument by which the value of
all musical instruments is measured
Mahogany
or oak