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"The Wrong Combination
By NELL BRINKLEY
All Hail to Great Jupiter
Copyright. llU. Intern! News Service.
The Chief Planet of the Solar System, Named for the Father of the Heathen Gods,
Is Now on View Look at It; Show It to Your Children
11 IK IH'sR: OMAHA. SATURDAY, SKlTtLMBliR 25, 1!)15
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A bold little woman who beckons to disaster bands the safe of her
heart down to the sneak-thieves and crows. "There, knaves, 1 give it
to you! You are two babies with a bank that has no lock. You are
two birds after a fly In an amber bead. You are two children who
puzr.le over the Japanese box: 'first get the key out and then unlock
me!' Ah-ab! My heart is my own and I know the combination.
The one you have there is wrong. For you see the combination with
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What Virtues Are Really Yours? I
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By EIXA WHRKLEK WTLCOX
Copyright. 1915. Int l. News Service.)
Are you very certain you possess
some shining virtue some distinctive
trait which make you a little bet
ter than your associates?
Be careful that
you Illustrate it in t'T-'"' 'JlW'ri
your dally life h. I", VT' 1
fore you talk about
it.
r call to mind
three woman. One
tells her friends
that if she fall in
II other respects
she knows she ha
pride the sort ef
pride which mala
tains self-respect
and keep dignity
unassailable.
Vet this woman
is always seeking
to benefit herself.
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and will submit to
any hvuniUatloa rather than forego a
temporary pleasure or a possible ad
vancement of worldly Intervals.
She places heraelf in embarrassing situa
tions and Ignores snubs that she may
kaln a point or reach a jtoal; and always
he talks of pride as her dominating
quality.
Another claims to be "sincere and
simple and to abhor diplomacy or policy."
She says she Is so honest that she fears
she lacks tact.
Yet no general preparing- for the bat
tlefield ever laid out his campaign with
more skill and diplomacy than that
woman employs to peculate her conduct.
Her conversation, her actions, her
her thoughts are all those of a skilled
tactician. fthe makes friends ef thoae
Whom she believes capable of being ot
some benefit to her life, and avoids wast
ing her Ume on those who would in no
way serve her beet Interests. Bte U a
good woman, charitable and kind at
heart, but ail bar friends realise that she
is essentially diplomatic, while shs talks
loudly of bar simple, honest, unpolltle
Qualities.
Tbs third says her life baa been out j
which you open any others Is not the
oiuco bits veiiucr wun laugning at you:
Dan's pal studies and frowns and between the two of tbem they
breathe softly and twist and say nothing! And maybe It truly', the
wrong combination.
The mocking lady should never have wooed burglarsfor some
times Dan sits back on his heels and whispers grimly, "Dreak It open!"
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Ions; sacrifice for others, one unselfish
renunciation ot personal Interests.
But she has done everything ahe ever
wanted to do, bought everything she ever
wished for, and been calmly oblivious of
the best Interests of her husband and
children, who wart upon and serve her
like the retainer and maUls-of-honor of
a queen. 8he lives In hotels, or travels
abroad, or takes a house) as the mood
seises her not as the family may desire.
She considers her two sons-in-law monu
ments of unfeeling- selfishness because
they wish her daughter, to bestow time
and attention upon them oocaaionally.
and not use all their strength and vital
ity In the service of a mother Whs) bas
every possible luxury In Ufa
Htill another woman boasts of bar wtll
lnmeu to live on a crust and wear aid
clothes rather than go into debt.
Yet aha wears imported bonnets and
eats strawberries in winter and owes
everybody wko has not learned better
than to trust her
Burely, "Know Thyself." is a eood motto
for all of us who are prtitis to boast of j
our shining virtue.
one you may us for mine
My
NELL BRINKLEY.
Advice to Lovelorn
:T BULTaUOa rAX&TAJ
Ves anil .No.
'ar Wis Fairfax: am a young girl
or IV About a month ago I met a young
man two and a naif years my senior, who
Is conaj'ieied good -look In, the klntf thst
every girl like. The tlurd time 1 met
nun hu naked me to keep steady com
pfy W,U ,um- auid tn sejne day he
a. aia, wnicn i inougni was
veiy lmur.,er. as t had known him
ii V V "j"1?. un?v " refused him.
W 1 1 It: h mill klra m lllu -.. ri .
JWnk I was right In refusing his kUsT
'"wr cvmiHiuy wiui mm:
Too. are right in refusm to klae him,
and perhaps a refusal to keep steady
company with htm till you know hint
better would be for the best. His good
looks have made him too self-ejured.
lepaUs Ua kJaa.
Lar Mlas Fairfax: WntcJi la belter;
To marry a doctor or a common labor-
had M argument wlia souio
body. He sajdjiri would marry a doc
tor wouid (tot live bapoy. I am 2J yeata
"f aaw. jSiXKAla,
Look to the man for aaeurauoe ef
happiness: don't look to tba oocupaUan.
So long aa that is honorable It outs very
lUUe figure la a wlf happiness r sorrow.
OAKHKTT I. SU11V1SS.
The mlghtleM world of which we have
any knowledge Is now before the c es
of everybody who will take the trouble
to look tip and see It. Kvery night Ihe
enormous planet .In
Piter hangs In the
evening sky. under
the starry sign ot
the "Great Square of
leasvs." mounting
hiwly tvwatd the
meridian with the
progrct.a nf t h e
h nn re, and. at mid
nlKiit, glowing In Ihe
center of heaven like
a lamp fur the god.
The half of Its
gigantic globe thai
throws ta''k the
sunlight toward us
like a huge comes
mirror le 12,(V0 square miles In area!
(The entire; surface of the earth has only
JOO.non.OOO square miles.)
A Xew nights ago .lirfrrter was in plain
sight for at least a thousand people
whom I passed, but I beUeve I was the
only est who even glanced at It. I do
not rlutin any credit on that evonnt,
for it iias become an Important part of
my life to look at the sky. But why
alsvtild Intelligent Inhabitants of this
earth lose the most Inspiring sights that
Clod baa placed before them? Thoae
people of whom I speak were) very curious
about the instgn if leant things close at
hand. Home of them ran. and crowded
one another, to watch two miserable lit
tle dots fight and there was Jupiter
looting down upon them, and not one
even saw htm! A poor dor that "bays
the moon" shows mors comprehension
of the universe !
Our educational system fund I mean
home education quite as much a. the
school variety) Is largely to blame for
this. We teach ourselves to keep our
noses to the ground. We bury our
selves In the duet of ttie earth unltl we
can see nothing else. Who teethes his
children the "roography .of the heav
ens?" Who learns anything about It
himself? Even wlwn only the earth Is In
question It Is vmmerclal geography"
that Is habltuallydaught, and not the
geography that given us rest, enlight
ening knowledge about mountains, rivers,
lakes and seas, snd makes us truly ac
quainted with our planet.
Only as representing a stage In the
creation of worlds the great planet Jupiter
Is of Immense Interest. In size, In mass,
tn physical condition, be stands about
mid-way between the sun and the earth.
In round numbers It Is about 1,000 times
(really tjm times) larger than the earth
and 1,000 times smaller than ths sun.
The sun represents the great original
mass, now strongly condensed, out ot
whloh the solar system was formed.
Jupiter is a big chip from the Work; the
earth Is a grain of quarts. So much for
relative six. Now for condition. It Is
all a quostion of comparative tempera
ture. They were all hot, molten, gaseous
at one time. A lanre mass of the same
material takes longer to ooll than a small
one.
Watch the sparks that fly off from a
mass of whtte-hot iron. They flash and
cool and disappear In a moment, but the
big mass retains Its heat and continues
long to alow before its surface becomes
cold end dsric. Bo the planets thrown
off from the ana haws cooled and cessed
to shine, while the sun Itself remains
brilliantly tn candescent.
But a big ship etays hot and shining
longer than a small one. Even when it
has ceased to glow It is still at a high
temperature for a considerable time. You
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feV V-rr J
TOtf'-" t
street!
Commencing Sunday Sep
tember 26th, the near side
stop will be discontinued, and
cars will again stop at the far
side of street intersections to
take on and discharge passen
gers. Respectfully.
OMAHA & COUNCIL BLUFFS
STREET RAILWAY COMPANY.
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ran islch a flying spark In your band
and il alll If evtlngtiisr.iMl o quickly
that you limy not get a burn Hut It
you pick up off Ihe floor larei ch ink
which ha etomd giving forlli lit hi II
will Htlll be hot enough to m'un Ii your
fingers
Just so earth, being bin snurk
tin size), cooled off millions of years kO,
and now covered with a solid net
snd lulinl'led by Ignorant, confiding be
ings which i ume upon It. somehow or
other, nnd found It a passable abode.
Hut Jupiter, more than 1.0HO times larger
than the enrth, Is like the still hot.
thouKh ext itmnlahed chunk of Iron. It
has not yet cooled off to the state
reached by the earth. As far na we rsn
Judge, with our extremely limited knowl
edge of the physical forms that life can
assume. Jupiter la still unfit for Inhabi
tants It Is a huge world In course of
preparation.
Its surface appears to be In a fluid or
aaaeous- atste. The sppeerancee it pre
Two Cripples
. By ADA PATTERSON.
This morning I as w him In the surf
thst weehee up from the Atlantic ocean.
He was wading out waist deep In the
tumbling, froth-topped wsvea And he
sang. High snd clear
with a note of boy
like melody his voice
echoed across the
roped off apacea of
the bench. Iteming
him the few of the
slimmer colony who
had i cm allied Into
the golden autumn
smiled.
It was a voice to
bring smiles, smile
of s h e e r content
with life, or lest In
It. Thst voioe. Io
you think it came
from a vigor mis boy
glad of this pre-
lous gift of living?
It proceeded from a shock haired man
near sixty and with something; singular
about hla gait. Approaching; trim you
needed not his words, "One side of roe
Is paralysed," for It was evident that
but half of him was alive.
"It happened twonty-flv years ago."
he will tell you, and when you express
sympathy at that slavery of a quarter
of a century to an Infirmity, he will say
cheetlly: "Out how lucky I sm to be
alive"
Kvery morning the live half of him
drags the dead half to the beach for the
tonic of sir and brine, and brought cheer
with It,
"It's good that Ood doesn't leave the
weather tusking to men," he said one
morning when there had been echoes
from the shore hotels of "bad business."
"Kor man would have turned this silvery
morning into a blistering day so that he
might 'make money' from It."
On another morning such s day as hotel
folk pray for to the gods of hotels, a
petulant beauty complained of the crowds
that hd poured down from the hot city.
"O, I'm a New Tork bay, and I love
crowds," he had laughed back. Whether
it rained or the sun shone, whether few
of many dotted the beach, he wss always
esger. Interested, Joyous.
To the same place came a woman. Hhe
walked with s queer, Irregular gait, as
sents are not thoae that a world sttr
lounded by a universal ocean would have,
but rather those belonging to a globe
uceplv enveloped In hot. tumultuous ,
clouds, whose temperature Is rather that
of steam than of valorised metals such
as form the biasing surface of the sun.
These vast, restless clouds covering
Jupiter present a wonderful apeotacln
when studied with the telescope. They
sweep round the great t'lanet In broad,
variously-colored twits, often of greet
beautv, and the speed of the cloudy cur
rents occupying these bells varies with
dialam-e from the equator, so that J inci
ter seems to be surrounded with a aeries
of wind sones at whose contiguous bor
ders violent eddtee sre formed.
tiring Into your Imagine Uon the apoca
lyptic picture, from tne Book of Oeneaia.
of the earth In Its primal state of form
lesennse, "when the spirit of God moved
upon the face of the wateia" and then
turn your telescope to Jupiter, and
meditate.
though one foot were heavier than the
other. flhe sat always tn a far comer
of ths beach as though she hated) contact
with her kind. She mans; her heeafl and
when she looked at anyone It was) with
a half lift of the eyes sa though she
grudged that much attention. Aa air
of sulknnnees enwrspped he.
A physician told me that oT tftetr two
states that of the man was far the worn.
Yet the mau sang, while the woman
sulked.
In one of those cripples we see tf we
see clearly ourselves. For wee are sit
tipples In some degree. We are crippled
in mind or character or body. By so much
as we fall below the standard of perfec
tion are we cripples.
It may he that we are crippled In our
finance. Mke the envloua wife of the
Inwyer who rotadn't beer the shrht of
the prosperity of the doctor's family
next door. Or It may he that though we
have trimmed the wick of oar little flamo
of talent as carefully, and kept it assid
uously oiled, It has never burned aa bril
liantly as has that of our neighbor, be
cause It Isn't a wick of the same propor
tion. Or we may be crippled by reason of a
bad heredity and have to limp through
life. To clear vision It Is apparent thst
all of us have a limp. It may he a slight
limp, but It hinders us, more er leas, all
along life's path.
The difference between u, cripples all.
Is that some of us sing, and some of ua
sink. Home of us sre critical of life. Bet
ter that ws were its comrades.
We may not cure the limp, perhsps.
but wa ran train ouraetve to a cheer
ful adjustment to It Which kind of
cripple shall we be?
In-Shoots 1
Care that Is driven away by drink Is
bound to return with reinforcements.
It would he easier to endure these
human phonographs if they would change
their record mora frequently.
Ths man who la irritable about home
can exercise a lot of patlenoM when hold
ing the end of a fishing rod.
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