rill". ltKE: OMAHA. WF.P.YKKIUV. DKCKMUKK :!n. 1!M4. S3 o be jSg;!g: ffemc- Ma; Why My Wife Left Me No. 1 -TIip Man Who Was a Domestic Tyrant Tprant Tolls Now Ho Killed L N the measure of tho two generations of women, and H'a cold, hard fact which we men will do well to alt up and tske notice of. "I married a beautiful young woman, with whom I waa head over heels In love, and with reason, for she had every quality calculated to make her, under proper condition, an Idoat mate for a man.' She was Intelligent and highly ed ucated, college bred; she waa keenly alert and alive, and Intereated In everything In tho world; ahe had been In business before we were married, and had com manded a good salary, and ahe nat 'My mother endured her persecutions without a whimper or a protest. My wife went to Reno." By DOROTHY VIX. "The reason that my marriage waa a failure." aald tho first man. "waa be cause I waa the most despicable of human creatures, a domestic tyrant. "Oh, of course, I didn't deliberately go to work to humble my wife's pride and crush her spirit and break her heart, but that's what it came to in the end, and now that I've gotten far enough away from the years of strife and struggle that composed our married life to get a clear perspective on them. I don't blame her fur leaving me. It was the only thing that an intelligent human be ing with an Inch of backbone could have done. "Yes, my sin against her was the Bin of Ignorance, of not understanding, air most the sin of inheritance, for I treated my wife as I had seen my father treat my mother. I didn't have aense enough to see that a new generation of women has arisen that demands to l uealth with on a new platform, and that the arirl of today will no more stand for be ing made a doormat of, as her mother did, that the free man will stand for being kicked around and downtrodden like a slave. "I was no more overbearing and dic tatorial to my wife than my father was to his. I will say that In my own de fense. My mother endured her persecu tions without a whimper or a protest My wife went to Reno. There you have proud and independent, and high spirited. "Wouldn't you have thought that any body with sense enough to bo permitted to mam around loose In a community would Have had sufficient Intelligence to drive a woman like that with a light hand, and to give her her head, knowing that that was the only way to keep her from getting restive In double harness and bolting? "But I didn't. I set out-God forgive me to break her spirit, to make her give tho obedience of a child to me. She was never to question my august will, but only to acquiesce in my decision. You see, fool that I was, I was strong for the archaic Head of the House business, and determined that I was going to be the boss in our establishment. "I began by taking the attitude of a little tin god. I never told mv wife a word about my business. I never con sulted her about anything or asked her views or considered her taste. I simply announced my decisions to her, and from them there whs no appeal. "Soon after we were married T decided that I would like to ilve In the suburbs, and I went out and rented a house, and the first thing that my wife know about it was when I told her that the fur niture men would be arovnd to move us the next day. "But, Tom, I don't care to live In the suburbs." my wife exclaimed. "You are away at your business all day. I am at home. Surely Is It more Important to the woman where ahe lives than it Is to the man. You should have considered my taste in the matter, and at least have let me pick out the kind of a house I want." "I have decided the matter," I re plied grandly, "and that ends the dis cussion." It did end the discussion, lmt It drove also the first nail into the coffin in which our love was to be burled. "I also refused to give my wife an al lowance for the house and her personal I I OVP J The Smile's the Best Doctor nianvhf King Says So, and What's Moiv, Declares She Can I'mve D DlaiK'he Kiujj, in a photographic study of the smile, shewing how it lightens uj) the face niul makes a 1eautiful couutenuuee more lioautifu The reciH of this popular actress for the preservation , of Rood H'llltll is one which every woman can afford and should not be so foolish as to neglect. needs, and forced lirr to come to me like a beggar for every Mnny she sieiit. wasn't stingy. 1 uic'n't begrudge a cent It cost me to support my family in good style. On the contrary. It was a matter ot pi klo to mo t hut my wife waa well drcKxed and my house as hand some as that of any in our set. "The only rcamin tliut 1 retried my wife an allowance was because it grati fied my vanity for her to give a visible token daily of her dependence on me. When she had to cuiuu and uol me for a dollar and explain .lust what she was going to do with it, lelt myself some superior being, a source of blessing to a lowly creature who was knocking her forehead three times on the floor In front of me. "And I never sensed how thus humilia tion was burning into the soul of the woman who had been Independent, or how pitifully mean and contemptible I looked in her eyes when I took advan tage of holding the pur-e to degrade her to the level of a medlcant for the money that was as much hers as mine. "And there were other things. She could never go anywhere without ask ing my permission. She could not belong to a club without I graciously consented. She could not read a book or hold an opinion, or see a play without I ap proved of It. She could not have a friend without my O. K. on her. She was nothing but a slave, and at last she did what every other slave with a particle of spirit does. he rebelled. She broke her bonds and escaped to freedom. "The failure of our marriage was my failure. If I had treated my wife as an equal instead of an Inferior; if I had realized that autocracy hns played out Just as much in the heme as it has In government, and if I had made of my wife a companion instead of trying to make her a slave I should not today be a lonely man mourning his lost happiness." I 1 If - ' ., it : v I f - :i:v.'. s i J a 1M is AG ' ' '.j E l'.JS'f .1". J ' .', ... SX J .. . ,' , . t -L,!: iei ."A '"A "V -x 'V . 1 1 m1 t t i ! . ? I I V' , j J;-.'- 1 ' - I ) Land Prices and Fuel Problem By HLANCIIE R1N(J. "uh. Who is Playing at '.he Palace In Papa," a Tabloid Farce. Rhow me tho man or woman wliose smile begins in the heart and Is re flected on the face and I. will teli you without asking that doctors and medicine play only unimportant parts lu that person's life. The dyspeptic, the idle woman whose only occupation in enjoying poor health, Little Bobbie's Pa By WILLIAM F. KIRK. I asked Pa lust nlte what Is a Pick latof. Why? sed Pa, I Jest saw the word in the paipcr, I sed, & I want to know what it meens. A Dlck-tator, sed Pa, that Is a vary Hmpel word. I am surprised to know that you are not familyur with that word, Bobbie. You ought to have lerned that word long ago at skook Well, tell the child what It meens, sed Ma, befoar I beegln to think that you tioant know the mcenlng of tho word yureself. Certlngly I know the meening of the Word, sed Ta, & of course I will tell our lltel son what It meens. A Dick-tator, ced Pa, is one who Dlck-tates. Suppoaa you are my stenograffer, Bobbie, & I How To Get Rid of a Dad Cough t A noaae-Made Kesaedy that Will D It (talekly. Cheap aa Easily Made It you have a bad cough or chest cold which refuses to yield to ordinary reme dies, (ret from any druwrmt 2 ounces of 1'inex (5U cents wortn;, pour into a pint bottle and till the bottlu with plain Krauulated aui;ar syrup, t Start takinz a teasMnful every hour or two. In 21 hours your cougb will be conquered or very nearly so. Even whooping cough ia greatly relieved in this way. 'J. lie above mixture makes a full pint a family supply of the finest cough syrup that money could buy at a coat of only 64 cents. Easily prepared in 6 minutes, i'uil directions with I'm ex. 'ibis Piuex and Sugar 6yrup prepa ration takes right holU of a cough and gives almot immediate relief. It loos ens the dry, hoarse or tik'ht cough in a way that l really remarkable. Also quickly heals the intlaiued membranes which accompany a painful cough, and stops the formation of phleirm in the throat and bronchial tubes, thus ending the persistent loose cough. Excellent for bronchitis, spasmodic croup and winter cougha. Keeps perfectly and tables good children like it. l'inex is a special and highly concen trated compound of genuine Norway pine extract, not in guaiacol, wnicu is so healing to the membranes. Jo avoid disappointment, sV your druggist for ounces of Pinej," do not accept snytning else. A guarantee of ! lute satisfaction, or money prompt ly refunded goes with this preparation. Ihe I'iuex Co, i t. Wayne, Ind, am yure boss. I will say to you, Yung man. take this letter on the tipcrlter. Then you will take the letter & 1 will dlck-tate it, & that will maik me a dick tatoc. It doesnt say anything In this peece In the paiper about a tiporiter, I aed to Pa. It is all about a Mexican gentelman named Hurty. It says that he is a Dlck tator. O, sed Pa, that Is another kind of dlck tator. That kind of a dick-tator is one who tries to dlck-tate & gits a kick ou the shins. Any time you want to know anything, Bobble, Pa aed. cum toddling to me & I will fill you full of wisdom. By tho way, wife. Pa sed to Ma. isent it a shalm that I am not down thare run ning Mexico, lnsted of things beelng in the terribul shalp thay are now. I have always had a kind of a dreem that I cud subdus thst stormy country, sed Pa. What maiks you think so? sed Ma. Beekaus I know those Mexicans, Pa sed. I lerned thare ways wen I lived In Mex ico City, yeers befoar I met you. I feel that I cud go down thare now smooth things oaver much better than the man that is thare with force of arms. You can rule a Mexican by kindness better than you can with a ahow of force, sed Pa. I used to rule hundreds ot them. Thay called me a Mexican pet nalm wich meens the Mighty Smile, sed Pa, It thay used to stand around the corners waiting for me to smile at them. Moar likely thay called you The Big Laff, sed Ma, & it thay was standing around the corners it was vsry likely thay wanted to seo you sum tune wen you was sober & not smiling. I doant see ware you cud do anything to put down that terribul civil war thay are having thare. You cuddent do half as much as the yung soljcrs down thare now. Yes I cud, sed Pa. Them yung soljers is single & I am married. You know yuresclf, sed Pa. that a married man knows a lot moar about civil war than a bachelor. I wud go down thare & ex plain to them that It is much nicer not to fite. I would tell them to till thare fer tile soil & live t die happy, not on the horrlbel field of battel. I wud encourage them to raise more ehlidren & Iras Cain, Pa sed. & long after I wud be ded & gone, all Mexico wud tell In huohed ac cents of the grate whit man that raini out of the north & taught thew the ways of peace. Tnat is the kind of a Dick tator I wud be, sed Pa. I get so excited sbout It that my hed rocks back ft forth, sed Pa. Does it, sed Ma. That must be Reesoa tottering on Us thorns. Mysterious Rubber Tree By GARRKTT P. SERVISS. wm.4 n The German emperor, it Is reported, possesses a set of automobile tires msde of synthetic, or .artificial rubber. Two or three years ago artlfidul rubber tires were in regular use on an automobile belong ing to Dr. Duis- berg. In Elberfeld. it does not appear whether this labor atory rubber Is as good as natural rubber or not, but. at any rate, the cost of its produc tion at the present time is prohibitive, from a commercial point of view. The facts above mentioned suffice to call attention to one of the great est triumphs lying at the doors of modern chemistry. Not more than the first stop toward that triumph has yet been taken, but. Judging by the history of all previous advances of practical science. Its complete achieve ment la only a matter c? time, and per bapa of a very short time. Rubber Is one of the strangest products of nature. It possesses properties which, until very recently, could not even be imitated. If its full usefulness to man could have been foreseen a generation ago, it would have been regarded as a secial gift of Providence, Just as it used to be thought that the ' breadfruit," the cocoanut with its 'in:ik" and other similar "read-made foods'' of the tropics were specially designed for the main tenance of human being who lived in climates too hot for daily work. Whatever view one may take of the theory that the earth was deliberately furnished as a home for man and filled with thintcs that would come in handy fur him, it Is certainly a remarkable fact that if there had been no rubber trees the bicycle and the automobile would not have been developed. It was India rubber that made the pneu matic tire possible, and we should have to give up the pneumatic tire today and go back to the Jolting locomotion of our fathers in case the ruLber tree should suddenly fall unless the creators ff those artificial rubber tires in Germany or other rhenilaU still more ekllful could greatly Improve their product and enormously In crease Its finality and decrease Its cost But even the chemists would never have thought of such a thlntr as rubber If nature had not first produced it. And the botanists, on their sldu are yet In a qusndary over the question why nature ever did make rubber, anyway! A more generalised name for rubber Is "latex." Iatex is a kind of viscous, or thick and sticky, Jtlce contained in cer tain plants, in addition to the sap which all plants have. It flows through a set of vessels of its own. Independent of tho sap. In the rubber tree these vessels are I la the inner bark Just outside the cellular network that carries the sap. Any boy who goes to a country school Is likely to know what latex la, though he may not know its name, for he gets It on his hands every time he breaks a "milk weed." India rubber is simply another kind of latex closely related to the "milk" of the milk-weed. The botanists understand . very well what the sap In plants la for, but they sre not sure what the latex Is for, and especially are they puxaled by the rubber species of latex. But however Ignorant botanists may be concerning the uses that rubber aerves for the plants thst contain It In their veins, all the world knows exartly what It Is good for when It gets Into the hands of man. It not only makes his life far more sgreeable snd luxurious, but it helps on the material triumphs of civil ization In a hundred ways. A few years sgo a kind of shudder seisad the riders on pneumatic tires when some pessimist predicted the approaching exhaustion of the rubber trees. It was thle that set the scientists at work to see if they could not make an Imitation of rubber, while at the same time plantntiona of rubber trees and plants were started In various countries. The best rubber Is the product of a tree growing in the Amazon valley, and this is known sa Para rubber. For several years the export from the Amazon dis trict has averaged about .OO0 tone. There are native rubber plants of dif ferent species in Congo, Mexico and else where, while plantations of the true rub ber trees are now flourishing in Ceylon and the Malay peninsula. There does not appear to be any danger now of the exhaustion of native rubber, out the demand la continually Increasing, so thst a flrsUdass artificial rubber would be a aother boon rom science. and whose liesrt goes wrong the minute she Is crossed in sr.ything. seldom smiles. Every frown and every sigh add a tiny wrinkle or an almost Imperceptible line to the face, while a smile does more to eradicate the ruvages of time than all the preparations ot beuuty doi'tora who ever lived. Tho cniilc is the real fountain of iierpetual youth. The mun or woman who looks only on the bright side of lite neve.r grows old. I found that out ono day lust summer when I went to cull oi! some cno de scribed as "a dear old lady of ninety." Of course I expected to see a kind of animated fossil who would sigh feebly and have aomcthlng to say about the expected visit of the angel of death. But when tho wrinkled face was turned to mine I saw a smile that had all the frexhness of youth, and heard a laugh that was as Infectious anJ happy as that of a carefree girl with life and Its beuu- 1k Kxplaaatloa. fteorse Cohan, at a luncheon at tho players club in New York, u talking about a millionaire banker of hi, whoa wife threatened to dWorce him on ac count of his "ward," a beautiful churua girl of 17. "Home," said Mr. Cohan, In his quaint a ay, "home is where Ihe heart Is. Well some of our graui old millionaires are s big-hearted they naturally have to Lavs asvcfal homes."- Vwk Ulobe. Advice to Lovelorn J " By BBATSZOB TAXBTAX I .ratllade. Ileal- Miss Fairfax: Three weeka ago I returni-l from a business trip In tha wet and learned that during my ab seiise my mother had suffered a serious accident and waa nu mod by a girl neighbor and her mother. 1 am g.iing to return to the west shortly. Would It be proper and mnnly for me to extend an invitation to the girl and her mother to Ilve with us, as my own mother needs a companion and 1 will be ralleit away very frequently? Would it also be proper to give this girl and her mother a gift? EI). K. You must consider your own mother first of all. If it would have her happy to have these kind neighbors Join house holds with her, ask them by all means. You might very properly mskn some little gift to each of tl.o two who took care of your mother In her time of need. I like your spirit of appreciation; It shows the depth of feeling for your mother. Tale Hearers. I'e)r M'm Fairfax: I am -3 years old snd expect to be married poon. My fiance lives out of town. Lately 1 found out that the leltcis which 1 wot him are opened by his family, wouldn't wont him to know that 1 was told of this, nor do I want to send any mors mall to his home aildress. He always gets angry at me when he finds out that I listen to (that people tell me about his family. ANNA II. Co on sending your letters to your fiance's home. Try to put In them noth ing that you would be ashamed to have other people to read, As a matter ot fact tho tale-bearer who said that his people opened your letters Is like all gossips, not worth listening to or be lieving. Get ready to meet the family of the man you love with an open mind and don't listen to tales against them. Keep Hefaslna;. Dear Miss Fairfax: Is It right for a girl employed as a stenographer to ac cept Imitations from her employer to Spend a day on his yacht? He has ofen askeil me to dinner, but 1 alwas refused, liu is keeping company with a girl and exKcta to be married this full. Can you advise me what to do? It. K. tt. I strongly advise you against a"-epting Invitations from any engaged man, par ticularly when that man is your employer. You must not dream of spending the day on any man's yacht unless you are chaperoned. tlfnl possibilities before her, and I knew that my friends were wrong, and that this wasn't old age at all. but youth that had endured In spite of the flight of time. One of the most beautiful and hopeful mottoea 1 ever saw was "Hinile Damn You, rinille!" which hung In a business man's office. The man himself was worth a million, but he still smiled, and the result was that all his employes were prosperous and happy. Kvery tlmo he raised their wages or did something for their amusement lie smiled, because h thought It was such a Joke on other rich men nrounl him who thought they were getting Just as much out or their work men for less money, and who were wrongs You can alwaya smile If you look at a thing from the right viewpoint. The young man Just beginning life who has been discharged from his Job his first because of incompetency should smile, because the Joka is on the boss, who didn't know a good thing when be had it. Then all the boy has to do la to go to work In earnest snd prove to himself and others that his was the right way of looking at It. Tho girl whose more fortunate friend has a new hst of which she Is very proud-snd shows it and. which puts her own last year's one. made over at home, completely In the shade, can smile all the envy out. of her heart snd at the same time add so inuca real, wholesome beauty to her face that her own millinery looka quite beautiful to tha young fel low who doesn't know a thing about a hat, but who can be win so easily with a smile. When hubby comes tiptoeing in very, very late at night, if wlfey smiles before he even begins the splendid explanations he has been rehearsing from the time he succeeds in finding the keyhole until he softly opens the bedroom door and finds her awake; If rhe tells him how glad she Is to see him. instead ot putting him through the third degree as to where he has been and what he has been cluing, the chances are that the next time he wants a littto recreation after his duy's work she will le Incln.led In the festivities. let the tired buaiuess man. the ner vous woman, and the sweet young girl who Is sometimes Impatient and fretful, all try my wonderful preventive and r.iarvelons cute. It is very simple. Be gin with a resolve to smile every time you are tempted to a hasty word or a selfish tliouuht. Give It u fslr trial, Just as you would any other treatment, and you will be surprised to find how you will feel both mentally and bodily. Of course, life cannot be all smiles; but Just ss the sunshine of a summer day Is all the brighter because of an oocastonai tempest, so a little flash of spirit now and then only makes brighter the smiles that precede and follow it. By KDGAR Ll'C'IKN LABKIX. Q. "Where Is destined to be the high est priced bind In the. world In tha future of our race?" W. I.. t Chicago. A. This Is a question of very great Im portance. My emphatic answer: Every arable soon re foot of land between the I tropica of Cancer and Capricorn will ne- come almost a valuable as present city I lots This brlt sround the earth Is twenty three and one-half degrees on each side of the equstor. or a band of forty-seven irgrees width. Humanity In due time must crowd towsrd the equator for solar warmth. All of the surface coal will be mined, and then deep mines will be th only source of supply. This will greatly increase the cost. In the fullness of time only the wealthy can hope to use coal. This problem of fuel must be faced. There will noL be land enough to grow wood for fuel and food also. ThS gunny southland must sosr In prlo s so thst It will be sold by the square ysrd or foot K. notorial atinshlne will then be worth as much as the precious metal Iron the magnetic metal the most valuable of all. riiless science shall find a way or tak ing electricity directly from the cosmic store, unless the heat of Ihe sun shall be msde available mechanically In solar heat englnrs to run dynamos to generste electricity, or unless solar energy can bs trsnsformed and stored In accumulators. I. e., storage batteries, to be surrendered as flows of electricity: unless thsse con quests ot nature sre msde by discovering laws, the fuel ot heat problem will tax the human race. Then the chilled mil lions will go ever toward the south not westward will .the "course of ejnphe tHke Its way." If the energy of the aim now wasted on Sahara snd all other arid areas can finally be conserved as electric heat. Hbbt and power by electro-magnetic In duction, the rspldly becoming fuel prob lem will be solved. If not from sun, winds and waves, running streams or cosmic sonri's. then man must secure heat in some other way when coal has vanished. Tills other wsy cannot even bs surmised now. Coal and Iron consumed in the manufacture of one Audacious dread nought, if nil heaped up In a pile, as a real object lesson, would startle th most thoughtlc at man's awful waste of precious materials. F.normously In creased value of land must ensue in be tween latitude 30 degrees and the equa tor. , . Houston. New Orleans snd At. Augus tine are In the vicinity of th 30th paral lel. Mexico must become by far the most, valuable land on earth, and Florida, with southern. California, also. Q. "If a. solid metal Is made of severat compounds and It ia wasted to find what they are. and respective proportions, how would chemists proceed? A -claims that no matter what metals they are they can be dissolved In acids and then an alysed. B claims that to a certain ex tent this Is true; but how can a metal such as platinum be determined when it cannot be dissolved by acids?" R. II. T., New York City. . A. But platinum Is dissolved by aqua regla, a mixture of nitric and hydro-; chloric acids. No acid known to chem ists alone will dissolve this metal, but these two combined, In the proportion of one volume of nlrrlc and three of hydro chloric, wilt. Q. "Kindly Inform me whether tha same projectile propelled by tha same power will travel farther on a horizontal line four feet from the ground than if projected vertically." Nat Boas, Ban Francisco Stock Kxchsnge. A. Fsrther vertically. Thus a bullet fired vertically with a velocity of, say, I'M) feet per second wilt ascend to a height of lftu.3 feet; while if fired with tha game speed horlxontally. four feet from tha ground, will strike the esrth at a distance of fifty feet. Q. "If an automobile or motorcycle maintains a speed of, my, sixty miles sn hour to hold its momentum on a 30 foot saucer-shaped track with a T-degre slope, would the same machines hold their momentum on a mile saucer-shaped track with the same slope, TS degrees, and at the same speed?" C. R. Austin, Union Oil Co. of California. A. Yes. Momentum equals mass multi plied by velocity. Q. "Kindly inform rue ot astronomical telescopes, tl) What Is th six ot th largest? O If on of great sis could b manufactured, would knowledge of planet be Increased? (3) Have attempts been made recently to manufacture , laig onesT' N. W. Mohr, San Francisco. A. Yes. Knowledge of all planets would be Increased, and millions more suns b brought Into view. - Each increase la dimensions ot lenses In the past has been followed by Increase In the number of stars made visible. It ia not known, how ever, whether there Is nn end to the stara Knowledge Of these stars, however, can not be obtained without th spectroscope attached to the telescope to analyse th light. No telescope alone can analyse light and thus discover what Incandescent elements emitted It. Th largest telescope Is not finished; they are at work on the 100-Inch mirror In Pasadena, two miles front this ob servatory in th valley that area cut out ot Paradlne below. I can set th. roof of the optical Instrument factory. Th en tire sf lentlflo world is watching - and waiting to see what this huge mirror wilt reveal In sidereal daeps when mounted on Mount Wilson, nine miles east ot Mount Lowe. Pfc ANDERBILT$oUi bii iuan,vii.x An Ideal Hotel with an Ideal Situation WALTON H. MARSHALL Manager e s I