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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1915)
THE r.EK: OMAHA, TUtTKSDAY,' .JANUARY 14, 1 ill .3. 0 Boyolofify ' "Moth and the Flame" Bv Ncl1 Brinkley T& 11,11 "uv V "JvS copyrlglit. 191$. Intern! News Service. l By H. W. GIBSON'. Becretarr Bor Department Massa nhueelte and Rhode Inland Toung Men's Christian Associations. Boyology! Have you ever heard of H? Nol Tt Is the oldest aa well as the new- st of the many varieties of "dories." It Is boy analyst?. Tt la not nn accurate Mlotice, for the subject tho boy Is as changeable aa a chamellon or as fickle , us the proverbial flea. Analysis has revealed 'the fait that a healthy, normal specimen of a boy Is : made up of 50 per "ent noise and 50 per ; cent dirt. The hoy who la never noisy ' and never Beta dirty Is abnormal and , hould ue taken to a physician at once. Frd"m tha moment of hla entrance upon ' the stage of life until the final exit, noise ! is a part of man's' normal makeup. Ob scrve a group of small boys playing: base ball .three-fourths of the time Is spent 1 in noisy scrapping The Individualistic . Instincts arc In control. Team work Is a : dormant quality. j The high school boy has organized his j noise Into a school yell, which spurs his team on to victory. Individualism Is being merged into the larger croup uf humans. What would the Harvard-Yale foot ball arame be without noise, without its cheering sections, without Its battery ; of cheer leaders? Noise Is psycholog-' icsjly necessary to the success of the ! came. If,,however, a nervous, grouchy father happens to come home In the evening, ind this small edition of noise has on hand an unexpected surplus and happens to Rive even as much as a "yip," at once there is an explosion on the part of father and. the boy is suppressed. Again,, if the boy should happen to bo i in one, of hla rare moods of quiet, mother anxiously Inquires, "What Is the matter, iharlle, you're so quiet? Don't you feci well?",. If he Is noisy, he is called down: If he Is quiet, ho causes anxiety! What is a boy to do? Well, he 1 instinctively seeks the gang, that coterie of sympathetic souls, who have many secrety, numerous codes of mysterious . signs and calls, and whose loyalty Is the admiration all social ser vice experts and church workers. More opportunity. at home for some expression and ' less Insane repression would save many boys from the evil influence of misled gan8. When' the home-coming of father be comes an event to be hailed with delight Instead of anticipated with fear, there will take place a wonderful change in our rapidly deteriorating American home life.. Making a living has bcoome so problematic ' that many fathers are fall ing to maf c a -file, either for themselves or their bojj, . .. l.lfe, today. Is speeded to the als cylinder capacity, whether the scene of action bo on upper Fifth avenue or the lower East fclde. The noise of the ex change of the" rumble of irritability, v.lilch, unfortunately for the small box, l.i carried home. 'Will the.trme"eVeir come when father! i an close his office door at night and pay "Good night,, business, you can't go home with me. I have boy there who needs me more than you do.. Bo long until morning." Or the industrial worker lay down his tools at the close of the day's work and say, "Oood night, old paid, here's where. we part. The kids at. home nre lookmg for their day, I II sec Vou In the morning?" ' . A'hcn that time comes, home, be it vrr so humbia, will become tha, eweet-ti-t place on earth, instead of a place of: jars and contentions. As goes the home so will go the na- j ' lion, for desertion of home Ideals means. ! Kounvn or later, a desertion of national rind religious Ideals. No city, state, country or church will rise any higher n its ideals than the Ideals of the home. Not all homeless boys live in the ,'lums. The most homeless boy In tbi world Is the boy who, from the moment of his birth, is put into the hands of a nurse, from there to a governess, from a governess to a private tutor, from a pri vate tutor to a private school, from a private school to a private camp, then nn to college; plenty of houses to live in, but no home. Money can buy him lux uries and conveniences and a following, but not that genuine heart-love which only a mother and father can sujply. Parental delinquency ..is responsible for juvenile delinquency. Ninety per oent of the babies who die In the foundling asy 'urn die not from the want of food and i arcful nursing, but from the lack of "mothering, ' that peculiar something which mothers alone can furnish. Royl and dirt have an affinity for each other. The short-trousered boy looks upon soap as an oppressor. He can never be accused of wearing out doormats, for lie 1 an expert In dormat evasion. Moth ers worry over the dirt he brings Into the house, and carpets show the effect of his hard usage. . Hoys are more valuable than carpet. If the latter wears out It can be replaced or .jlone away with, 'but a lost boy Is a dif ferent proposition. Many a boy has been driven away from his home because of i he continual war waged with broom and duster. When he enters into the long trouser period the scene changes. It Is Ifflcult now to keep him away from the irirror; in fact, he carries a small one In i-la pocket. How important becomes the it-ase In the trouser leg and the "turn 'i " at the bottom. It is at this period that he confuses unnlshnea with manliness. He Is In- I tied toward the vices father thsn the virtues. Father should now be his chum and deftly steer him clear of the shoals of life. Moat all the criiues-not the darkest or the deepest, but the most-are committed during the years of sdoles nce, from 13 to 2U yeara. It is signifi cant that conversion is greatest during this period. To capture and harness these two ele ments, noise and dirt, and to make tho first serve as an active element in doing good, and the second as a motive for civic cleansing, for there Is "dirty dirt," or putrid, and "clean Art." or honest sod -Is the aim of all "boyologlsts." 1 ' WJk" Jill rifife dm ksSbtgSSmsk ' Skiing as a Winter Sport One of the Most Spectacular Forms of Amusement and Skill By OARRKTT 'p. KKKVISW. The present winter starts off with an usueual Promise of pleasure- for all thone who take delight In the sports that arc afforded by long slopes ut crusted snow and broad level of flinty Ice. Pkates, elcils, snow-sliown. skis ami all the other Inventions by which man has cmlvsv oi ed to make of himself a sliding anlinut are now requisitioned In enormous num bers In every land where water frees.' i and snow falls. The Norwegan akl is the most spec tacular Of these things, and one of the nu.st remarkable contrivances of human ingenuity. It Is undoubtedly an out growth of the snow-shoe, but while the latter commends Itself at first view a a prohaMy successful device, no one ever saw a fair of skis tor the first time without wondering how their Inventor was able to persuade himself that such apparently unmanageable affairs would work In practice. The ski, as mads In Norway, la a thin and slender atrip of wood, from four to six Inohes wldu, five to twelve feel Ions, and an Inch or more In thlcknesa at the middle, whence It thlna off toward the ends. The forward end curves upward The skldor, or ski-runner, puts one foot In the middle of each ski, and slightly fastens it there by means of a leather loop, or hood, passing over the toe while a leather band running back from the hood passes round tho heel. The result of this methud of fastening la that lh toe is held firmly In place lahhiugh It can quickly be released if necessary) while the heel can be freely lifted from the akl, at from the sole of a 'T-l!..".""""""" ' "I... ''' " """ "' " 1 '" -ptaaiJ without rest.' But in the tournaments;"' which are so popular In Norway, Sweden and other northern countries, pains Is tnkcn to provide ground that will affor a lest of the runner's skill and endurance under conditions as trying ks possible. Kven in such cases good speed is often" made. I find a record of a Norwegian peasant who, handlCAppnd l;y hills,,, ravines and other obstacles, on a course, laid out near Chrlstlanla, managvd to , make a distance 'of thirty-two miles In' less thsn five hours. Ida akl nl fords one form of bold athletics which la tiecullar eki-jumplng. This Is the giest feature of th anaasl' ski tournaments in Norway, which the oysl family regularly attends. The fly-1 Ing leaps that' are achieved by the fam ous experts fairly take away the spec-, tstor's breath. Aided ty an upwarl turn4' of the track at the jumping Off point, the' ' skidor sails 'into the fair from the edge ' or a bluff, or artificial elevation, with' the grace and vigor of a huge bird. and. ' describing a parabolic corve of aaiazlnr J I'-ngth. he lands squarely on his sals and shoots off to safety amid the cheers of the spectators, many uf whom are them : selves amateurs or professionals, cap- ' able of appreciating and criticizing tbe-' In costume, ready to ski with the best of thoni. heelless slipper. This Is similar to the i method of attachment used for snow J shoes, the Idea In both cases being to oh- tain fredom of action together with se- uilty against the consequences of an ! accidental overturning, in which the vic tim might bo rendered helpless If his feet were Inextricably fastened. Imagine, yourself trying to skate with skates ten or twelve feet long, and you will be able to form some notion of the difficulties that confront the beginner In the art of nkl-runntng. At first, and for a long limt after the first lesson, be must continually use a balancing stick, The skillful runner learns at last lo get along with but little aid from the stick, which he can cut down to a minimum length, , The speed obtainable Is surprising. .like that In all gliding, or partly gliding, forma of locomotion. Pklll counts for more than strength. On good, level snow even an ordinary runner can go eight to ten miles an hour with so little exertion that he may keep on for several hours quality of toe .pel Cormanca. Probably th ski jumper comes nearer experiencing' the sensation of an aviator -In rarrfd flight than any other sthlete. ' ' In Norway, and elsewhere' in ; Scan: dinavia. skis are employed In' ordinary1 is Inter locomotion In many cases Just a; skates are In Holland. In fact, as I barer' already indicated, the ski Is simply sm elongated snowshoe. rkl-running as mi popular sport has ' had much success In Canada and in Minnesota and other west-: em states. , , . Snap-Shots r , - Dy ANN LISLE. TI.ere wss o re a mai who was "ex ceedingly well-informed." He could tell you the exact day of the month when Columbus discovered America. He knew precisely how Welssnmn's theory diff ered from Darwin's. Ho- know all about the Inner life of Neltscsha, He was very critical of the post-lmpresaionlat school of drawing. And he could tell you just what influences had moulded Ibsen's con tribution to the drama. Women particularly fell under hla dia pleasure, because they had "no con structive plaoe In th world's history." He insisted thst the feminine iox was Inferior mentally, alnne It had produced no explorers, great warriors nor master scientists. He was quite sure that no great moral reform had even been Insti tuted or carried out by women. He thought the desire for the vote a mere fad, too silly to be cornbatted and Just worth being sneered at. At a cabaret one nUht he met a girl with Titian hair produced by Judicious application of a bottle of peroxide and with very tractable (eet. He danced with her every evening for two weeks, and at the end of a month she was suing hlin for breach of promise. His letters proved very Interesting read-. Ing and that case gained a great dee pf notoriety. When a man who knows 'every x thing starts to woo a cabaret singer rm tuiiiis of Helen of Troy and tho origin of species. the publlo finds Itself deal- Ing with a very human comedy. It cost-! the man "who knew everything" fc&etu to learn a few facts about a certain typ, of woman. '. ; The man who knew evsrythlhlf in hist-, ory and .literature had failed to graspj one important piece of information. Alii the theories in the world will not stand? before the practical knowledge of llfaj of a young womsn who has gone tc ' school to humanity. And area the tnarJ who knows everything ounght to know; this much he Is likely to be human, too.' Bsnntwirf,swasSKg' 4 V .::uzry Irs easy steps wilfe Victrolao I the muisic the mew f tl me Vktrola IV, $15 Oak The following Omaha and Council Bluffs dealers carry complete lines of Victor Victrolas, and all the late Victor Records as fast as issued. You are cordially invited to inspect the stocks at any of these estab lishments. ScHiiaolkr & Miidlcr PIANO COMPANY 1311-1313 Farnam St. Omaha, Neb. -Victor Department on Main Floor The Fox Trot, Castle Pol ka, and all the other new dancea all played loud and clear and in perfect time. There are Victors and Victrolas in great variety of styles from $10 to $200 at all Victor dealers. Victor Talking Machine Co. Camden. N. J. sVHmsai mSSm i Household .Hints ' i m lj(iiib chops are Improved ff dipped in .cmon Juice Just before cooking. A teaapoonful of beat glycerine put into a cake mixture helps to make it light and leathery.' Branch at 334 BROADWAY Council Bluffs Metorasta Corner 15th and Pe-.Ii ' P s.a iycie. u Victrolas Sold'by , A. HOSFE CO., 1513-15 Douglas Street, Omaha, and 407 Vett Broadway. Council Bluffs, la. Jraiiids Stores Talking Machine Department in tho Pbmpoian Room Mr. and Mr. Vernon Cattle, tesveherg and greatest expo, nents of the modern dance, use the Victor exclusively and superintend the making of their Victor Dance Records. Mr. sm1 Mrs. tfc Castle Polka ..'...ii,.i f " mini J v'.Tt'C..'.. ' . C. . t -, I Curassi tug