THE r.EK: OMAHA, TUtTKSDAY,' .JANUARY 14, 1 ill .3.
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Boyolofify ' "Moth and the Flame" Bv Ncl1 Brinkley
T& 11,11 "uv V "JvS copyrlglit. 191$. Intern! News Service.
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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
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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
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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
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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.'
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You are cordially invited to inspect
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lishments. ScHiiaolkr & Miidlcr
PIANO COMPANY
1311-1313 Farnam St. Omaha, Neb.
-Victor Department on Main Floor
The Fox Trot, Castle Pol
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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.
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A teaapoonful of beat glycerine put into
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