THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER IS, 1910. WHICH IS THE WEAKER SEX? An Answer to the Question in the . Instances Related. . . MERE MAN NEAR HIS FDTISH .Rotable Demonstration ml EnlaniM la Daarlaar, nlan aulas, Hon, back Hiding aaa Climbing. Women are doing soma qulta respect able atunta these days. One writer who haa got a little lint f soma of these achievement, submit. It aa proof that the phrase -the weaker " will have to be declared obsolete, at any rate as a syno nym for woman. "It Is the custom wtien a Polish couple Is married." says this writer in the Housekeeper, "to have a big wedding dance. The bride Is expected to earn her dowry herself. Bhe dances In a mad, ceaseless whirl with every man present until each man tires and quits. On stop ping the man must forfeit SI. Naturally the bride wishes to tlra out aa many men as possible, for each man represents II. At a recent wedding celebration In Illi nois Jlosle Zapowa won 1 3 BO. "Bhe began at o'clock Wednesday morning, when she became Mrs. Zapowa, Slid only stopped at 1 o'clock Thursdsy evening, for the simple reason that all tha men ' dancers were human wrecks, the had outdanced men. And then aha looked sorry that she had not Invited more men to the wedding. Mrs. Zapowa weighed 115 pounds. The dance were In watts time; an automatic scale showed that each time she touched her light fantastic to the floor she lifted eight pounds. She lifted this at the rate of StO pounds to the minute or 3M.00Q pounds during the evening. This Is equal to twelve horse-power. "Here Is a picture: It la circus day. White topped tents roof the block. There Is the dull smell of the sawdust ring and the occasional wild, startling cry from th animal tent, the gentle roar of the crowd everywhere. A big cannon Is un covered, a human being Is crowded do i Its muzzle. The cannon booms, and up ..i the air swift as a rocket, rigid, graceful, shoots a woman. "Another picture: It Is the finish ot a great swimming race. The shore Is lined with people. The sea Is running rough and the swimmers floundering an they struggle over the last few yards. Boats In the rear pick up the exhausted men and physicians with towels over their shoulders apply their remedies. A great shout goes up from the crowd as a awlmmer crawls out of the water the winner. Bhe Is a mere slip of a girl. Hoasehold Activities. : "The average housewife who looks after her own home and children expends as much physical energy as the average husband In his routine of business. A pedometer would show that the average woman walks as far as the average man In a day; If there were a machine to measure it would record that she lifts as much. Being more nimble, she makes more motions than a man In a day. There It Is; add It up yourself. She walks as far, lifts as much and makes more small motions. , "But. argues the man with the square at Jaw, such things are accomplished only by the workwoman, by the woman who haa tolled all her life, who was born behind the kitchen hoe. "The woman who danoes all night Im prisoned In tight clothes accomplishes just as much of an athletic feat as the fagot gatherer of Italy who stumblea along' with a donkey's load of wood on her head. The soolety woman often displays strength that makes the washerwoman gasp, A case In point Is that of Mrs. George 8. Robinson of New York. When Mrs. Robinson was a bride of only six weeks. slender, pink cheeked, she set a record that still stands. She had made a com pact with her husband that they should never be separated, and when he entered his yacht In the Upton cup race from New York to Bermuda she calmly announced that she was going to accompany him. Mr. Roblnsvn gasped, but she reminded him of the agreement and made herself ready. "No one thought the Gauntlet, the Rob inson boat, had the ghost of a show, and when It became known that she was going to pilot It. the hope of her friends fled. It was a stormy voyage over the roughest course In the Atlantic for 700 miles and In a twenty-eight-foot boat at that. Mrs. Robinson stood at the wheel day after day, night after night, with little food and less sleep. The boat was a close second; the glory of the race went to Mrs. Robinson. Sir Thomas Upton was moved to eulogy In a cable: " 'Please convey my compliments to that plucky little woman skipper, and tell her she has my deepest admiration.' Horseback Riding. "Another New York woman who has es tablished a record for strength when en gaged In social pleasure Is Miss Edith Col ford, who Is one ot the most daring cross country riders In Amsrlca. When only .18 years ot age she became distinguished tor her high jumps. Few women try to follow .,- her, for she thinks nothing of clearing a six-foot fence. "For pure horsemanship and strength please observe an Oklahoma girl. Miss Lu cille Mulhall, daughter of Colonel Jack . Mulhall. She Is the champion steer roper of the world among women. In a contest at MouUi McAlester, prise ot $10,000, she won by far and away, roping her .steer In the time ot eighteen seconds. When a cowboy In roping a steer gets In ths min ute class he is a personage of veneration. Mis Mulhall laughs at her prowess and deems steer roping only a tonic. "Many hold that women who display great strength On horseback do so only In brilliant flashes for a few minutes at a time, and that no woman could ever make a cavalry ride. Miss Adele Von Ohl ot Plalnfleid, JS. i t Is a confutation of this belief. Her early life was spent In South Dakota as a cowgirl, where she took part In the great roundups. Once 1.0U0 cattle stampeded, charging straight at her; she spurred hee horse for a sharp cliff and made a flying leap, .ending safely thirty feet below. Cn the plains she often rode eighty miles in a day. "Nor were these days exhibitions, for now she often rides from her home in New Jersey to New York shops In a day alxty miles and back In a day. She bas spent twenty hours a day In the saddle without evil effects; In fact, she called It a lark. "It Is not the mature woman alone who establishes riding records. There Is a girl jockey In the west who Is the talk of ths race track. Miss Dorothy Klncel has lid- den In a score of races and Is not yet IS years old. She is a Jockey born. Her early Ufa was spent la South Dakota, the same as that of Miss Von Ohl. where she was a girl of the plains. Bhe has rlddsn , In bait a dosen states, and won goodly purses for her backers; she has the knack of making an old skate win. Taklaar Risks. "Once she mounted an outlaw at a race without knowing that the horse bad a jrlolous disposition. While warming him tip the animal suddenly tbrew himself back ward. Tbe girl leaped out of the saddle In tbe nick ot time, but the crowd thought 1 ier killed. "I shall ride blm now If he kills me," aid the girt. "But the crowd protsted to the secre tary. The girl's declaration was announced from the judges' stand and a cheer went up. Ride him she did and win the purse she did. When March comes around she does not go to school in the afternoon, but trains) her horses Instead. She Is her Own groom and spends every possible moment with her mounts. This schoolgirl has won derful stiength, riot merely flashes of strength, but great muscles. While weigh ing only 107 pounds she can pick up a inc-pound keg ot nails with her finger ends. "And speaking of riding. Theodors Roose velt achieved some fame by setting the army officers a pace and riding HO miles In a Any. And the president got no little pleasure out of referring to It. Then one fine morning Mrs. Herbert Wads worth started out for a pleasant little ride. She changed horses several' times, so much did she enjoy riding, and when she drew rein that evening, sixteen hours later, she bad made Just 159 rm.es. Then there was an ominous silence on the part of the cavalry officers who had complained at ninety miles and the president began talk ing about shooting big game. ( oilrili In the Water. "Of all the contest places in .which woman meets man the fairest Is In the water. Every diy practice docs not fit one better than the other. And here It Is that woman so predominantly excels. Man for man, woman for woman, woman Is by far the better swimmer. There are more good swimmers proportionately among women than among men. The feats of two or three women in the water stand out as al most unbelievable. Unbelievable until one begins to look Into the mockery of the phrase 'the weaker sex." "Last fcptember forty contextants set out to swim Hell Gate. New York. Nearly all the contestants were members of the life saving corps and weatherheaten. A slender, nymph-like girl of 18 kept in the back ground as far as possible while the swim mers were lining up. She seemed so out ot place among the thick-shouldered, deep chested lite savers that the crowd gaped at her in astonishment. " 'It's a shame to let a girl like that go Into old Hell Gate,' said a shoreman. 'It will Just play with her.' "The lace began and ' the slender girl set out with long overstrokes that sent up a ripple of epplause. Seven miles she fought her way, with the launches In the rear picking up the spent swimmers. The mill race off Ward Island caught her and buffeted her as If she were an eggshell. Hundreds of people were awaiting her on shore. Thrusting aside proffered hands, she ran ashore and shook out her hair, a heroine. Thus Miss Adelaide Trapp, a teacher in tho Brooklyn public schools, be came the first woman to swim Hell Gate. "Often girls of a very tender age de velop surprising natatorial endurance. At Boston, In the suburb of Dorchester, lives Rose Pitonoff. When only IS years old Rose Pltonotf swam one and three-quarter miles in Just forty-four minutes. For mere child she has wonderful endurance, and scarcely a week passes during the swimming season that she does not make an endurance swim. Walking; and Motorlngr. "Woman has always been mincing of step as accepted thinking tells us, but with all that she has established records that make the greatest male pedestrians nerv ous. Mrs. Frank Savlle, wife ot the British sportsman, Is typical. Her father was celebrated alpine climber and taught her the ait of walking. She Is the only woman who has ever walked across Montenegro. And she carried a parasol. Her longest day'a walk on this trip was from Moracha monastery to Zhub, a distance ot thirty three miles over snow and rough (round. one mile of which wouJd daunt 'aa average man. "Even in motoring woman has shown great courage and strength. Mme. Camlile du Oast of Paris is a great auto racer, com peth-ig with the best drivers 1a Franoa and winning. be carries a mecahnlo, aa all racers do, but she uses blm only when It Is absolutely necessary. She drives a 35- horsepower car, and often makes seventy five miles an hour on cross-country courses. To hold the wheel when an automobile's tearing along faster than an express train demands great strength. In a race from Paris to Berlin with 100 entries she finished nineteenth ,and with that she stopped on the way to assist a friend whose machine had upset, staying with him until help ar rived. "A few years ago a rather slender woman gave up teaching Latin at Purdue univer sity In Indiana and began climbing moun tains. She now has twenty mountains to her credit. Miss Annie Peck, although nearly 0 years of age, scales peaks where human foot Is unknown. In Worcester, Mass., lives a woman who Is noted for her gentle manners and her mountain climbing. She Is a daughter ot former Governor Bullock ot that state. In July, 1907, she set the woman's record for mountain climbing by an ascent on tbe Nun Kun range in the Himalayas. . This trip took three weeks. All this time she was under the greatest strain, both from the height and from the cold. She had to rub snow on her feet to keep them from being frostbitten and to strike them sharply with her Ice ax to find whether or not they really were bitten by the cold. She strug gled on until she bad reached an elevation of M.MO feet" NEW RULES FOR CATHOLICS Text of Decree Goreming Reception of First Communion. AGE FOR CHILDREN REDUCED Slashed with a Haiar, wounded with a gun, or pierced by a rusty nail, Bucklen's Arnica Salve heals the wound. Guaranteed. 25c. For sale by Beaton - Drug Co. A Knock aad a Boost. . Women who havs been abandoned by nuahands ana are seeking an advertlsln scheme to help ths boarding house business might do worse than to copy the form of the following taken irom the Tunkhannock (Fa.) Republican and New Age: "Warning i ake Notice! Whereas, my husband, George Koawnurant, son or th late John RosenKrant and Maria Rosen grant, formerly of Korkston townBhlp, has left the house rented iy me and for wnic I paid the rent and has left my board and taken his bed it end alone with him and sold It. this Is to warn all persons not to harbor or to trust him on my account, from thl bate, as t will pay no bills of his contract inn I shall continue to pay my rent and to keep up my table in the usual form in hi absence, and having one less to feed 1 wl I pardoned. I think, if 1 say in better style than formerly. There is a hard winter creeping- along and he may Incite your sympathies to trust him on my account seeing that I am doing very well, thank you, out you Just keep In mind that you have received this warning and govern yourself accordingly. "THERESA ROSENORANT "Tunkhannock, Pa.. August 10. 1910. "HoMth Hrl1 street." fevea Years tbe Mlslmam Fixed by Cta rest Authorities Some Prac tices Criticised and For Much Interest Is felt In Roman Catholic clroles regarding the degree recently ap proved by Pope Plus X, reducing the sge st hlch children may receive first commun ion. The decree was drafted by Cardinal Ferrate, prefect of the sacred congregation on the discipline of the sacraments. It has not been promulgated officially In the western diocese as yet. but wss read In all the Cathollo churches ot Philadelphia last Sunday. The decree orders radical changes In rules governing the administration of holy communion and the sacrament ot penance to children. Its most Important features are announcements that hereafter the age of discretion at which children may re ceive holy eommunlon, as well as penance, shall be that at whloh a child begins to reason, about the age of 1 years, and that the practice of permitting children at this age to die without first receiving the sac rsment must be stopped at once. In the opinion of members of the Sacred Congregation, "It Is an utterly, detestable buse not to administer viaticum and ex treme unction to children having attained the use of reason and to bury them accord ing to the manner of Infants. The ordln- rlps of places shall proceed severely sgalnst those who do not abandon this cus tom," it says. Admit Children to Confession. Again, the sacred college, discussing the uestion of permitting children to spproach the sacrament of penanoe, makes this strong declaration: "The custom of not admitting children to confession, or of not absolving them, is absolutely condemned. Wherefore, the or dinaries of places using those means which the. law gives them shall see that It Is done away with." In most of the Cathollo churches there Is a rule that children shall not be permitted to receive their first holy communion un til they have reached a certain age. This age varies In different localities from 10 to 14 and 15 years. In some Catholic dio ceses there le also a custom of not allowing children to go to confession until such time as they are ready to receive their first communion. There has been in vogue In this country for many years also the custom of not giving children holy communion on their ileathebed unless they had reached a cer tain age, which Is usually 10 years. Chil dren under that age are permitted to die an "Innocent Infants." Both these practices are strongly con demned bv the Sacred college and priests are ordered to make radical changes so as to meet requirements of the new orders. The decree declares that in the preparation of children for their first holy communion It shall not bo necessary for them to have at their fingers', ends a "complete and per fect knowledge of Christian doctrine." They should be taught the catechism according to their ability to gradually understand it. the decree points out. and also be taught to distinguish the eucharlst from common and material bread and to approach the the sacred table with a devotion becoming their age. Children and the Sacraments. After reviewing the various enactments of the early church which permitted chil dren to receive holy communion at the same time they were baptised, the pronounce ment' tells of customs now In vogue re garding the approach to the sacrernenU by children of various ages. Here are the .new regulations coveting the reception of penance and holy com munlon by children as set ubwn by the Sacred college and approved by the pope: The age of discretion required both for confession and communion Is the time when, the child begins to reason, that Is, about the seventh year, more or less. From this tlmo on the obligation' of satisfying the precept of both confession and com munion begins. Both for first confession and first com munion a complete and perfect knowledge of Christian doctrine is not necessary. The child will, however, be obliged to gradually learn the whole catechism according to Its ability. The knowledge of Christian doctrine re requlred In children In order to be prop erly prepared for first holy communion Is that they understand, according to their capacity, those mysteries of faith which are necessary as a means of salvation, that they be able to distinguish the eucharlst from common and material bread, and also approach the sacred table with the devo tion becoming their age. The obligation of the precept ot confes sion and communion which rests upon the children falls back principally upon those In whose care they are; that is, parents, confessors, teachers and their pastor. It belongs to the father, however, or to the person taking his place, aa Is also to the pastor, to admit the child to first holy communion. The pastor shall take care to announce and distribute general communion once or several times a year to the children, and on these occasions they shall admit not only the first communicants, but also others who, with the consent ot their parents and the pastor, have already been admitted to he sacred table before. For both classes, several days of Instruction and preparation shall precede. Those who have the care of children should use all diligence, so that after first com munion the children shall often approach the holy table even dally, If possible, as Jesus Christ and mother church deslrs, and that they do It with a devotion becom ing their age. They should bear In mind their most important duty, by which they are obliged to have the children present at the public Instructions In catechism, other wise they must supply this religious In struction In some other way. The custom of not admitting children to confession, or of not absolving them, Is ab solutely condemned. Wherefore the ordi naries of places using these means which the law gives them shall see that It Is done away with. It Is an utterly detectable abuse not to administer viaticum and extreme unction to children having attained the use of rea son and to bury them according to Uie manner of Infants. The ordinaries of places shall proceed severely against those who do not abandon this custom. I. CARDINAL FERRATA, Prefect. PH. OIUSTINI. Secretary. PICTURE SHOW FOR GOULD Probably the Largest Holler Map Ever Made Jost Finished for Him. When the Missouri Pacific railway di rectors gather for the first time in their new board room at 10 Broadway, New York, within a few days, they will have ready for their deliberations a great wall map of the railways of the United States that Is probably the largest roller map ever made. The map measures thirty-five feet across and Is forty-five feet high when unrolled. In Its mahogary frame, which takes up nearly the whole side of the Gould board room, only a fourth of the depth of the map shows between the roll ere at the top and bottom. The map has been a year In making and eight men have worked nearly con tinuously upon It It wss made In sections about ten feet square. These were as sembled a few weeks ago on the floor of the Twelfth regiment armory and sewed and pasttd together so skillfully that it requires close examination to detect the Juncture lines. Then It wss rolled up on Its rollers and transported down town on a theatrical truck. A shade roller manufacturing company made two rollers. The top one, which Is simply a giant spring roller made of steel Is the largest thing of the kind ever con structed. The manufacturers declined to guarantee that It would work properly, and Mr, Gould had It made at his own risk. The roller is five Inches In diameter and thirty-seven feet long. Sluce It Is impos sible to construct, even cf steel a tube supported at the ends only that would not sag sufficiently to make the map hanging from It show distortion, Mr. Gray used a roller cradle, which he designed for the Harriman map, which holds the roller up at the middle. This consists of two smaller rollers placed Just far enough apart under ths big one to give a little depression, Into which the big one, with the inup rolled around It, sits. They roll with the big one, and are provided with springs and adjustments to make up for the varying lkl.l,n.u f (ha rnll.A 111! Ill HI I. Which Hrolls face-on to the big roller, thus making It so that the little cradle rollers touch only the canvas back of the map. About a fourth of the depth of the map shows at one time. By a crank and auto matic chain and sprocket arrangement a man at one end of the mahogany frame can make the two rollers move In unison and bring any point In the United States down to the eye lesel. It vau Mr. Gonitis first plan to have the map rolled by an electrlo motor, but he was advised that the wnole apparatus might be ruined It some body who didn't know how should try to work the current and make a mistake. The apparatus now works perfectly, the great map rolling up and down smoothly without a hitch or wrinkle. New York Times. Why Johnny Cried. Little Tom and Jack were brothers, Tom being the elder. One evening, as their mother was getting ready to go out, she heard a great deal of screaming In the next room. So she went to find out the cause and asked Tom why Jack wtis screaming. "Oh, mother! He was crying because 1 tried to see how big his mouth could stretch with your glove stretcher." Every automobile livery The Slim Woman is Wincing The day of the slim woman's triumph has arrived. "The thinner one Is the more stylish," say the dressmakers. This would have been sad news for th fat woman a year ago. She would have had to try dieting or exercise. Nowaday howevsr. the woman who is too fat for the styles goes to a druggist and gets a case of Marmola Prescription Tablets, one of which she takes after each meal and at bedtime and so reduces ber superfluous flesh quickly. These tablets, being mads In accordance with the famous prescription, are perfectly harmless, and they are, also, the most eco nomical preparation a person can buy, for thsy cost only 75 oents for a large case, one ot which Is frequently enough to start a person to losing fat at the rate ot U or U ounces a day. Pretty nearly every drug gist keeps this tablet In slock, but should yours be sold out, you can easily obtain a case by sending to the makers, ths Mar mola Company, (& Farmer Bldg., Detroit, kljcu. automobile garage and Everything of the least Every dealer repair shop importance about automobiles and automobile dealers will be printed in the Auto mobile Section of the Ak-sar-ben Number of The Bee. It will be the most complete story of the industry, and of the records of cars ever given here. Prospective buyers will find it of invaluable aid in the selection of cars hand led in Omaha and Council Bluffs. Don't miss it. It will be issued Sunday, Oct. 2 PASSING OF ' LIQUOR CURE INSTITUTIONS Doctors Using New Blackstono Treatment and Curing Their Own Alcoholic Cases. Treatment is an Absoluts Spe cific for Alcoholism Method . is Not a Secret. CURES ANY CASE IN THREE DAYS Blackstone 1 Company Gives Privilege to a Physician in Each Nebraska Town. ' Successful Treatment of Drink Habit Does Away with Big Fees of Institutes. Thirty-four physicians of Nebraska have made spplication to the Blackstone Com pany for the privilege of using the new three-day treatment for alcoholism In their home towns. The Hlsckstone method Is destined to revolutionise the treatment of liquor drinking. In the United States, eseb. year, over $3.0iKV00 Is paid into Institutions by the families and friends of drinking men. nd In return a doubtful cure Is effected. There is no rensmi ryw why the physi cians themselves should not take tip the metier of treating and curing alcohollo patients, thereby greatly adding to their practice as well as keeping the money paid to Institutions by their patients at home. The Mlackstone treatment Is put tip especially for physicians. The physlcta using It In nls practice need not give It out that he Is using the Itlackstone meth od, lvach case will respond in three days all craving and desire for liquor will disappear and the patient will be greatly benefited' mentally and physlclally. The treatment contains no poisonous, delte rious or cumulative drugs. It cures by eliminating the accumulative alcohollo poison from the system. It la the prea- enoe of tn.j poison that cause, nerve demand for alcohollo liquor. lea. than per cent of those treated by the Black-' tone method will relapse within the year of treatment. It can well be called . peclflo for alcoholism. No physloian need hesitate to use the Blackstone treatment In his practice. There Is nothing secret about the method and the results are satisfactory In every case. The remedy Is supplied to Phy sicians at a cost very little In advance of the cont of the drugs It contains and the cost of distribution. It Is sold to phy sicians with the understanding that the results shall be entirely satisfactory to both phyHician and patient or there shall be no charge for the remedy. No otber assurance that treatment has been un satisfactory in any case Is required by the Blackstone company than the phy sician's word. 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