T11K IJEK: OMAHA, TIIITRSDAV. DKCEMHER 31, 1014.
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Gossipcrs and Their
Menace to Society
Ilonest Teoplfl Who Would Not Dream of Stealing
a Pin "Will Kob Their Acquaintances of Tlioir Good
Xainea Without a Moment's Compunction.
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By DOROTHY DIX.
Hr ta a really a-roat picture. Look
at it well. It shows a young woman,
hard driven, hr bar aralnst the wall,
her arma thrown out In helpless despair,
while the wolves of
K o a a I p snarl and
snap at her skirts.
Look st this picture
well, whether y u
one of the o re-
talkers who
iaiy passes a w a r
ry dlrpsxaslrur
rumor about a girl;
whether you be one
of the leerlnK-eyed,
fat-necked mon who
sit In club windows
or stand on street
corners and comment
m the women who
pass by; or whether
yoa be one of the
thin -lipped Phari
saical women who
believes the worst of
every woman and is always ready to
cast the first stone at her.
Tf you are riven to gossiping, either
from malice or Just from lack of thought,
look at this picture and see the result of
your work. Visualise, for once, at least,
your victim, a poor, quivering, tortured,
defenaelees fellow creature who cannot
even fight back, for who can battle
acumst such an Impalpable foe as a
sneering1 word, or a aourriloua innuendo?
The love of gossip is the most inex
plicable of all human weaknesses. It is
the . one savage trait that has survived
both civilization and Christianity, and
that shows how elementally cruel we
still are.
Every day we see people who are so
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Earning a
Living
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By KLBERT HUBBARD
I am fully convinced that the most im
portant thing in the world la earning a
living.
And there la a difference between earn
ing a 11 vine and
getting a living:
Tou can get a liv
ing In several ways
borrow, beg, steal,
by hook or crook
But when It comes
to earning a living,
you turn the trick In
Just one way and no
other you work.
And the more In
tel! lgenoa and love
you put In 'your work
the bigger your re
ward, 1
And congenial
woiV. you do through
o h o I c e is Joyous
work, and Joyous
work Is Just play.
In the country, when we talk about a
boy or glri earning a living, we mean
that the person is performinga needed
aervtos for someone.
If yon 'work for yourself" It means
that you are producing something which
the world needs, and that In return for
the produce you are paid money.
And money is the symbol of value the,
token of a service rendered.
I remember, when I waa about 10 years
old, coming horn one day with a dollar
bUl. ,
I proudly showed the money to my
mother.
She looked at the money In astonish
mentfor money waa a curiosity in that
family and then she looked at me.
"Where did you get that money?" she
asked, somewhat severely.
And I answered proudly, "I earned It."
How did you earn it?"
"Why. Havena" cattle broke into the
corn, and I got on a horse, went and
found Ol" Man Havens and we drove the
steers back in the pasture and fixed the
fence. And he said if I hadn't seen the
steers and helped get 'em back they
might hava foundered so he gave me a
dollar." ...
And my mother kissed me and asked:
"But are you sure you earned that
much?" And I assured her that all the
steers would then be dead were It not
for me.
1 In my boyhood I earned money by pkk-
fjig berries, hoeing potatoes, husking
1 urn, iir iuiui viic, wiuui iiu.b. "fitt
ing on tbe threshing machine, carrying
water to the harvest bands, shingling
roofs, tending mason carrying messages
to Garcia.
And for these services rendered men
liuid me money.
Of course, I didn't know I was getting
n education that was unearned incre
mentsurvival value.
And always for honest labor there Is a
return beyond the' money.
The money Is tangible gratitude, and
must bs paid. , But tbe money Isn't all.
To earn a living is the natural and
rafe way of utilising human energy.
Life la energy focused sad Individual
ized. Human energy unused makes for dis
ease. ,
Human en gj wrongly used la vice
and crime.
Yica is direct Injury to yourself.
Crime is direct injury f society.
Both tend to disease, dissolution, death.
Work tends to health, happiness, prog
ress, prosperity.
And be it known thst health, happi
ness, progress and prosperity are all not
only rontaKtous but Infectious.
Ail good t lilu K-- are 'vatrhln'V Life
U motion. You keep cood Ihlntfs by giy. J
tug tbem awny. I
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tender nearted that thev would not hurt
a fly, yet they do not hesitate to blast n
oman s reputation by setting afloat evil
stories about her Stories that are the
merest hearsay, and which thej do not
take the trouble to Investigate. )
Every day we see people who shudder
with horror ss they read tales of how
savages amusv themselves by torturing
their prisoners to death, yet these human
Italians pass a pleasant evening together
by crucifying the reputation of everyone
they know who has the bad luck to be
absent.
Every day you see rood, moral neonle
who really believe that they have the
weirare or tneir rellow creatures st heart,
who do not hesitate to disseminate scan
dalous ftorlos that break up homes and
wreck the careers of mon and women.
Every day you meet honest people who
would not dream of stealing a nln from
you, but without a moment's compunc
tion they will rob you of your good name.
And the gosaipcr Is not only more dan
gerous that the thief, more cruel than
tha savage, ho or she is also more cow
ardly. The thief takes his chances of
detection and punishment. The aavaae
comes out Into the open when ho sticks
his darts Into his victim, but the gosslper
works under cover, hidden nnd safe.
Your gossiper never says, ,-I know
that Mr. X. Is in love with bis stenog
rapher because I saw him kiss her," or
"Mrs. Q. has an affair with young B.,
for I have seen them repeatedly together
and met them fox trotting around at a
dozen afternoon tea places," or "I know
Bailie Jones writes love notes, because I
have read them."
Not at all. The gosslpers never back
up a story by personal knowledge for
which they could be sued for libel. On
the contrary, they take refuge In hear
say. "They say," Is all the authority they
give for taking away a woman's honor,
or destroying a man's standing In a com
munity. Sometimes gosslpers will even
go so far as to say that they do not be
lieve a word of the very scandal they
are .telling, and having tHus salved their
consciences they proceed with their
nefarious work of knifing a fellow
creature's reputation and knifing it In
the back.
There can be no Justification for gossip.
It is the most despicable phase of man's
inhumanity to man, and seeing how we
are all alike weak and human, and all of
ua stumble and fall, we mhrht at fenst
oover with alienee the faults and frailties
of our brothers and sisters. Heaven for
give ua If we set upon any trail the
wolves of gossip. -
But if tha picture printed upon this
page has In It a lesson for the gosslper.
It has no less a pertinent one tor the
Individual. And especially It has a lesson
for girls, and It is this: Be so discreet
In your conduct that you need not fear
the gosslper. Keep your skirts Immacu
lately sclcan. Never forget that the
tiniest splash of mud from the gutter
on a girl's petticoat Is like the scent or
a dead carcass that sets these wolves of
society on her .track.
They will follow her snapping and
snarling and tearing at her until they
tear her to pieces. Many a eirl vhn ho.
not been bad, only foolish, has been
bounded into her Brave bv these ini
beasts. 'Ware of them, girls, and re
member that your only protection asrainai
them la not only to ba good, but to look
gooa, and act good.
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with a series of godet plaits, running from each
aide of the box-plaited front to the back, and
each godet is embroidered In gold thread. The
tight-fitting corsage, draped surplice, closes
with a motif at the side and has gulmpe, sleeves
and high collar of gold lace veiled with black
net.
The long, loose, princesse line is featured by
Martial Armand, as in this frock of black satin,
generously enhanced with black Hercules braid.
The black chiffon collar is weighted In the front
with gold tassels and a narrow band of sealskin
finishes the neck in tbe back below the nigh
flaring collar. It, is impossible to exaggerate
the fullness of the tunic.
All Hope of the .Future
is in the Imagination
By GARRETT I. SKRV13S.
"A assorts that Imagination Is nlne
tetiths of invention; II replies that In
vention Is nlne-tcnllis linaslnatlo.i. Each
admit that he may essFxerate, the pro
portion, but Insists uno:i the general cor
rectness of his view. Which is right?
A. ., Ilrooklyn."
This resembles
the old "iletallng
school" poser on
which so much ar
gument ami elo
quence have been
expended by
sprouting orators
and at a teamen:
"Resolved, that the
pleasures of antici
pation are greater
than tho of par
ticipation." Imagination and
Invention are not
expressions having
a precise rlnlficatlon, I. lie mathematical
terms, but they are words, as Matthew
i hnnatcxMS
1
The Boy
Without Ideals
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By A NX LISLE. N
"The young men I know arc well odu
rated and have good professions. But
they all Insist on kissing ma and If I re
fuse they say that I'm not 'sociable'
and that the fellows are fond of a socia
ble girt who permits them to show that
they are fond of her. Now, are alt the
young men that way, or Is It my bad
luck to come in contact only with men
like theseT How can they be made to
realise that girls do not like such con
duct? And how can they be made to pay
any attention to what girls do llkeT"
writes a girl of IS.
The young men this girl knows are of
one of two definite aorts. They are either
selfish young fellows who want to enjoy
themselves lightly, thoughtlessly and for
the moment. They have no fine Ideals of
womanhood or of the "conduct becoming
a gentleman."
Or else thy r thoughtless boys who
Just merrily whirl along, taking what they
want of life.
A boy of this sort hss a sordid "noth
ing for nothing" attitude toward life, and
hla "quid pro quo" la that a chap ought
to be rewarded for hla attentions ta a
girl by a few little "harmless" love-making
privileges. Dut it la not harmless at
all for a girl to cheapen her caresses and
her . expressions of love by using them
each day as coin of the realm of society
and popularity.
Much handling aoila even a coarse fabric,
and the flno weave of a girl's emotions
ought not to be dragged out Into every
day use. A little love-making leads to
more. The moment a girl takes down
the barriers of tier own modesty shi
makes noulble the most dansreruua aw
tacks on the citadel of her heart.
The boy who has no Ideals Is a danger
ous companion for the girl who has, un
less she has also strong Ideaa about in
stating on carrying out her own concep
tion of right and wrong and Inspiring; her
companion with a few Ideals, too.
Arnold would ny, which "are thrown
out at an Idea." They express their mean
ing In a general, and c.ften In a variable,
or iinccrtrtln. manner. This uncertainty,
or Indeflniteness, of lengusa-e Is trm
cause of nlnn-tcnths 'if all dlrputcs and)
arguments.
As "A" and "IV probably understand
them. Imagination means the representa
tion In the mind of an end or object
which is not at the time being attain
able, or not actually existing, while In
tention signifies the contrivance of ways
or means to attain ilisl end or object
or to bring it Into' actual being
Taking tne worlds In this sense, it
seems evident that Imagination is the
master fa-ulty. or the directing force,
while Invention is its servant, following
out Its susgnstlons ami depending upon
it for guidance
Prof. John Tyndall. whose booka are
more fascinating, nntl infinitely more
useful than any novels, says: "Sclentlfli!
education oiiRlit to tench us to sec the
Invisible as well as the visible In nature;
to picture with the eye of the mind those
operations which entirely elude tha eye
of the body."
This picturing with the eye of the mind
of which Tyndall spends Is Imagination
and because he oHsed tho scientific
Imagination In a very high degree ho
waa extraordinarily successful both aa
an experimenter and as an expositor in
science. Yet he was not an Inventor In
the sense In which Mr. Brllson la.
But the latter woukl undoubtedly put
the Imagination on as lofty a pedestal
as Tyndall did. Our great "wtcard of in
vention" mi-st feel that, at vory atop In
his career, he has been sustained and
guided by the power of the Imagination.
It la the only human faculty that can
look Into the future, and without a look
ahead there can be no advance. But tho
Imagination la not merely a far-sighted
pioneer; the Inventor who Is allured by
Ita pictures and strives after them feels
Its hand holding hla at every atep.
Oo Into a library and read the atory
of Edison's Invention cf the incandescent
electric lamp, or tho phonograph, or the
klnetoscope, and you will see that the
driving force for his mind was always
the Imagination, or in other words, the
power to picture clearly tha end or ob
ject to be attained. At each advance the
Imagination went ahead .and selected tho
place for the next nail; then the In
venting, or contriving, power drove tho
nail home.
To show the supreme importance of
tho Imagination In leading the way to
Invention let us take x specific instance,
such as the klnetoscope. In contriving
that wonderful Instrument; the basis of
all motion picture apparatus, the Inventor
probably got hla first suggestion from
the old child's toy, In which a aerlea of
rude pictures of a running; horse were
made to blend Into a moving view by
causing them to pas In swift succession
betore tho eye. Then cam tha recollec
tion or :naianianeous pnoioarapny, ami
the Imaglnntlon pictured. In an instant,
what would 1 the result of similarly
combining a aeries of photographic vlowa
of a real moving object. Then the Im
agination, by ita power of combining'
Ideas, struck out the soheme of the
klnetoscope, and showed how It could
be made. After that the coutrtvlng
faculty, Invention, set to world and by
means of careful experiments produced)
tha actual Instrument
So Marconi and the other Inventors of
wireless telegraph apparatus 'began by
brooding with their imaginations upon
the possibilities Involved In combining
the far-ex tcndjng Herts electric waves
with the old system of telegraphlu
pals.
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