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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1911)
V THE BEE: 0MA1UL MONDAY, JULY 31, 191.. The ee'g Hlne Magazine (p)a f Astronomical Happenings in August The BEES cTum'cu9 JBiriday Booh f e mm This is Ehe ( t t The day are getting shorter quits no ticeably, being 14 hours 20 minutes lone on the 1st, 11 hour 49 minute on the lr.th and IS hours minutes on tha 51ft. The sun rises at 6:30, t:34 and & 60 reKpectively, on the 1st. 15th and 31st. Mercury Is evening star the whole month and reaches Its greatest distance from the sun, ZTVa degrees, on the 13th. Venue Is rapidly approaching the sun ill the evening sky. It reaches Its greatest brilliancy on the 30th. Mars Is morning star and slowly coming Into better position. It Is In quadrature on the 8th and rises on the 15th and 11:06 p. in. Jupiter is getting nearer the sun In the evening sky. It sets on the lath at 10.27 p. m. Saturn rises on Die 15th at 11:07 p. m. and la In quadrature on the 13th. On the 16th, about an hour before rising, Mars and Saturn will have a close conjunc tion, being only two-thirds the diameter of the moon apart. The poetic cluster of the Pleiades will be about six degrees north and rise fifteen minutes later. The moon will rise at 10:43 p. m. and he about four degreee north of Mars, which Itself will be one-third of a degree north of Saturn. As the moon will rise about a quarter of an hour before the planets and will be al most at the last quarter. Its light will pre vent the conjunction of the planets from being as conspicuous as we might like to see it. The neat night the moon will rise later than the planets, but they will have already separated, Mars Just then going eastward about eighteen times as fast as Saturn. The moon will be In first quarter on the 1st, full on the 9th, In last quarter on the 17th, new on the 23d and In first quarter again on the list. It Is In conjunction with Jupiter on the 1st and, 29th, with Mars and Loretta's Looking Glass ff i n 1 1 i li n i 111 I - - ---- i ii Tf . "' 'Til fount i'iU'I turn nil its HT "i ifeMnl "Don't you think that's a little too low?" you ask regarding the neck of your dress or rather the display of your own neck due to the necklessneoa of the dress In the glass). "Not a bitl Just look at that line! It's too awell for anything! Mrs. Set-up has her cut an Inch lower! And her neck Isn't a way-behlnd second to yours! Don't you have that changed. It's simply smart L" All of this explosive exhortation comes from the dressmaker. She does not have to wear the gown. She probably Is not a woman whose social experience gives her any very definite data about where you will go and who will see you In your din ner gown. And you accept her verdict. The dress remains an Inch below the modesty mark. Now, would you like to know the effect lta revelation had upon one manT For, after all. urge the contrary as we will, women do dress to please men as much at least as to please themselves and each other. So a man's point of view counts. "Mlsa Margaret looks lovely tonight, doesn't she?" I asked, looking across the table at you. The man swept us both who. a non plussed glance. "I well, I don't pretend to understand; I gave understanding girls up as a hope leas task long ago! but I shouldn't have thought she would dress like that, and I shouldn't have expected you to like It. But then, as I said. I don't understand girls!" he concluded, resignedly. "And, Just at this moment, there Is a man I don't understand. Suppose you ex plain yourself." I suggested. "It seems so simple to a man that he cant help feeling as If he were wasting Why Do Women A writer In the San Francisco Chronicle, evidently a wamnn, asserts the custom of afternoon calling Is fast dying out and In sists It never hsd any meaning or cause for being. The writer continues: "About the custom there was never any real spirit of social Intercourse: no fellow shlp, no gaiety, no lmnptus or argument or differing points of view. It was a cus tom insipid, restricted and petty a mere habit of putting In an appearance at cer tain stated hours in certain stated houses. Nothing came of It. either good or bad. "For the most part all she dos carry away with her Is an Impression of dul ness and general Insignificance of talk mingled. It may be. with relief at the con pclousnees of a tiresome duty accomplished. She has shown herself, she has chattered, shs has smiled and departed as soon ss she decently could. But as for enjoying Insects Have Fine Operating Instruments The mouths of all creatures are con structs! upon purely mechanical principles and tn few clashes of the animal world have we more beautiful Illustrations of de sign and contrivance than tn that of in sects. Jaws armed with strong penetrating hooks for seising and securing active and struggling prey sharp and powerful shears for clipping and dividing softer parts of vegetables saws, files and auger for excavating and boring the harder parts of plants lancets for piercing the skin of living animals siphons and sucking tubes for Imbibing fluid nutriment; all these. In a thousand forms, are met with In the In sect world, and thus provide Insects wtth means of obtanlng food adapted to their habits, and even of constructing for them selves edifices of Inimitable workmanship. Th upper pair of Jaws In the dragon fly are two hard and powerful hooks placed Immediately beneath the upper lip and so PTO Tm.T?rrW. AT OIVnTGTTTON UNIVERSITY. Ssturn on the lfth and with Venus on the rth. On the 24th the sun enters Virgo. WILLIAM F. RIGGE. IleM I p to Garl a the Vrr',nmkrt. -.J time In explaining," he observed, his eyes persistently on some one or something be sides the pretty girl opposite In the low cut gown. "I d' n't understand and I am not giving a seat In front of me to any woman on the Intelligence paltform ao enlighten!" "I can't see why the girls whose privil ege It is to appeal to the best in men adopt the methods of the women whose only chance for consideration eomes to them through the Influence of tbelr sex," he said. "You mean that the girls you would marry attract you by the same way of dressing that the ones you would not marry affect?" I asked, so suddenly stricken with a white light of revelation that I couldn't quite be sure I compre hended. That's It! I suppose a roan's a fool for being disappointed when he does not find what he does not deserve: but it's a knock out blow to his best self, to the Illusions he has cherished, when he discovers that a girl Isn't modest." Just at that moment he shot an angry, fierce look across at you In your low necked, too low-necked gown. The dressmaker and your vanity had cheated you. I raw it in that look. A dream bad become a nightmare. The best and the sweetest, the pure and the high est the love that Is not content with body, but clasps the loving flesh and soars with It into realms unspeakably more wonder fully ecstatic than passion ever opens, was lost to you. And that look of angry disap pointment told that the man resented your t willful destruction of an Ideal. Dressmakers' bills are notoriously exor bitant; but the price you paid for that t gown was preposterous. Bore Each Other? j herself well, one does not pay calls for enjoyment. "There must be a reason, of course, for the fact that while man and man can be Jolly together with ense and on the slight est provocation woman and woman are apt to be bored with each other. The customary masculine explanation has at least the merit of extreme simplicity. It is merely this that women dislike each other, naturally and Inevitably. You must not really blame them, for they rannot help It; they were born to dislike ench other being born to like men so much that they have neither time nor energy left to like any thing else in the world. You do not, as a rule, shine In the company of persons who are antagonistic and obnoxious to you; therefore, Veins a woman, you do not shino when you rail and take tea with your neighbors' wives. So there you are." articulated with the cheeks tliat they irove horlxnntally. opening and shutting Uka ths ( rm- rt sr'ss'ir. Their concave edge la sometimes furnished with cutting . i.c.iaiuua oi artcui kinds, like sharp shears, which will clip and divide the hardest animal and vegetable substances. The variety of ues to which these mandi bles can be turned is. Indeed, aruaxln;. Sometimes they form sharp and pointed fangs, adapted to size, and pierce their victims, and not Infrequently they consti tute a series of grinding surfaces, disposed to triturate and bruise the materials used as food. In the rarnlvnrous beetles, their hooked points, more formidable than the teeth of the tiger, penetrate with ease the mailed covering of the stoutest Insects on which they prey. These organs In the wasps aad bees form the instruments wtth which the Insects build their admirable edifice. Philadel phia Tbnea I I SoT; rr enmmvf W OfCTTMiKt THERE'S nQnmu r Three Rules An old woman who always seemed to be cheerful and happy was ence asked by a young girl how she retained her joyous outlook on life. "I have three simple rules," said the woman, "which I have followed since early youth. The first Is this: Commit some thing to memory every day. something good. It needn't be much; three or four j words will do. Just a pretty bit of a poem. or a Bible verse. "The second rule Is: Ixwk for something pretty every day; and don't skip a day, or It won't work. My third rule Is now mind, don't skip a day: Do something for somebody every day. That is all there Is to It, dear." These rules will work always and every where, for women as well as for girls. 1 -5 7 - raw i w y T .-CONNED il mio CLIMB M T Hr I CUMB, BUTQK mope is mlSJkrv riyuP and fix L i gues i iH3i Ji&X CAUGHT. i!lS?LV I UIT' IT IS - fell .flffll (CAN MAKPpEf EK WmiM nfipimiLlgli VMr (MTvFTa) If l! Ioke thaTI) O ((the wind) TING NEAR, j 0 1 CALCULATED ft SCEMS Wi the Tof? mvi AU li Und i am fU fiow?tOwJR IT WAS QUI7EjfjT CJ JSQMEWHATl Wl Ztym i r ) f - I UP HRE f CAN DO To" ftri'UP") YD")) MORE THAU HANG ON! I HERE FOR Q JOOWN ON MUST FIX THISU- sS ) DO NoTX ?) ftM 2 ATHE GROUNDS IfUllEY WHILE A A WANT T0- V VTt f (7 1 IM D Tij IC If . t i ' I, r, , . . , Vctwis, AT THE es- 3MOfltT MAYBE lit 'COP otT AH M6IRE33 m IAMB JW.T M- for Happiness They are so plain any one can understand them, so simple any one can carry them out If they have the will. Take the first rule, for instance. Not only will the habit of committing some beautiful things to memory every day make of the mind a valuable storehouse, but It will broaden one's outlook on life through contact with the thoughts of others. If one strives to see something pretty every day the habit will soon become so fixed that all of life Will seem to be seen through rose colored glasses. And as for doing something for some one every day this is the best rule of all. It Is a rule which will turn a farmhouse warm In the chill of winter, and a tenement cool' In the heat of summer; It will touch hardened hearts with sympathy and make all hu manity glad. POLE A6AIKJ I Kg'ffefg - Nubs of Knowledge During th eday on which the traffic census was taken 12,505 cyclists entered the city of London. In India the scale of pay for high ap pointments Is more liberal than In any other country In the world. In the new liner Olympic there are twenty-nine boilers, each measuring twenty feet long and fifteen feet nine Inches In diam eter. From 11.173 In 1S97 the number of bur glaries and cases of housebreaking In the United Kingdom had Increased to 19.SS8 In 1909. Weighing 709 pounds or nearly a third of a ton the largest halibut on record was re cently lsnded by a Hull trawler. port! 1 WAS AiUt THAT C0HFOOMe0, RARE BIT W THAI! UM! AO. ME 0, ! i nr v- '.x ' .V III M 1 -u M m a VL F July 31, 1911. Name and Address. Mamie Alpine, 3018 Webster 8t """"u orausuaw, jau Binney si Lotbrop 1901 Kdith Barrett. 501 WlliJam St Train !!l900 Iva Barber. 207 North Seventeenth Et Cas . A 902 Edalym V. Benson, J810 Ellison Ave Miller Park 7.7.7.1902 Gould L. Brown. 6933 North Thirtieth St. ...... Miller Park: .....1904 Benjamin W. Cottln. 10 South Thlrry-eishth Ave. .. Columbian 1905 Mildred Clark, J 90 4 North Twenty-second St Lothrop 1904 Ruth Coorldre, 1S05 South Sixth St Train 1904 Helen Councellor. 947 North Twenty-aerenth St.... High .'. 1395 Helen Chester. 1023 Mason St Pacific .7.7. 19iTJ Harriett, Callahan. Bouquet Hotel Leavenworth 1903 Katherlne P. Doyle, 1719 Cuming St.- Holy Family .7.7..'l895 Marier Erlxson, 213 Davenport St Farnam 1905 Meyer Frank, 214 South Twenty-eighth St..... Farnam 189S Chester Gulnane, 1908 North Twenty-sixth St..... .Long 1905 Flowle M. Qlllett, 1118 South Thirty-first St Park ......18M Mary Gllllland, 1336 South Twenty-fifth Ave. ..... Mason -1898 Lester E. Gulnane, 1906 North Twenty-sixth St Long . . . 1905 Gertrude Hoden, 223 South Eighteenth St Castellar ..1897 Augusta Heinze, 2635 Seward St.....' Long 1896 Joseph H. Hardy, Thirty-sixth and Redlck Ave Monmouth Park ..1901 Mildred Harrow, 2428 Camden Are... Saratoga 1896 Helen Johnson, 4201 Decatur St .....High 1895 Jack Jordan, 1115 South Thirty-third St.. Park 1901 Roy Johnson, 313 Bancroft St Bancroft ..1903 Louise Jursensen, 1659 North Eighteenth St Lake ....1903 Jennie Korisko, Fifty-fourth and Center Sts. ...... . Beals 1898 Clarence Klttell, 632 South Twenty-eighth 8t Park ...... ,, . ...1904 Doris . KanaUher, 2334 South Thirty-fourth 8t. . . . Windsor 1902 Catherine Kaneft, 3822 North Twenty-third St ..... . Lothrop 1899 Daniel Mulcahey, 2736 South TentlTst Bancroft 1900 Nellie M. Moroe, 3106 Maple St Howard Kennedy. .1901 Blanche Modlln, 3840 Grover St Windsor 1897 Ermle Newhouse, 6402 North Twenty-fourth St. ... Saratoga 1904 Faye A, Nelson, 2518 Capitol Ave Central 1902 W. G. O Dell. 1825 Locust St Lothrop 1902 Stanlop Peter,, 1439 Phelps St Edw. Rosewater ..1901 Edwin Phllbrick, 1056 Vi South Twentieth St .Mason 1 -1896 Hazel F. Pierce, 2614 Dodge St Central 1895 Irene' Porter, 1616 North Sixteenth St Kellom 1900 Louise Rlngle, 1405 Davenport St High 1891 Frank C. Roberts, 2218 Blnney St Lothrop 1905 James Ryan, 313 South Thirty-sixth St...... ..Columbian 1902 RcseSchulU. 3053 South Nineteenth St Vinton 1902 Gertrude W. Seals, 2532 Patrick Ave .....Long 1904 Elizabeth Tlllotson, 4202 Hamilton St High 1892 Fera E. Taylor, 2813 Ruggles St Druid Hill 1905 Albert Tuckerhagen, 3125 South Eighteenth St Or. Lutheran . . ..1903 John Welch, 3012 Oak St High 1895 I'l 1 1 1 Tl . A r . Important Events Admiral Dewey's fleet annihilated the Asiatic squadron of the Spaniards In Man ila bay on Sunday, May 1, 1K98, and the Philippine Islands passed Into ths posses sion of the L'nited States. Corinth, celebrated in the ancient' his tory of Greece, was reduced to ruins by an earthquake on Sunday, February 2L 18SS. In modern times it was the seat of an archbishop and was noted for Its flourish ing trade in raisins. Although Columbus landed at the Island of Sao Salvador on Friday, ha waited until daybreak of Sunday, October 14. 1491. to reconnolter the new discovery, exploring its principal parts In row boats. In the evening be returned to the caravels with his crew and seven Indians, to act as In terpreters, "weighed anchor and departed, the admiral being Impatient to proceed to the wealthy country further south. Klrst devotional exercises of the Chris tian church was held tn New England were observed on Sunday, December to, 1630, on board the' Mayflower In ths haven on the west side of the bay at Plymouth, Mass. Battle between the Monitor and Merrt mac. Ironclads, was fought In Hampton Roads, Va., on Sunday, March . 1862. A confederate naval invasion of ths north was thus averted and the method of con structing war ships was soon thereafter revolutionised throughout the world. Greatest fire of modern times began at Chicago. 111., on Sunday, October t, 1S71. and raged for two days. The area burned over consisted of three and one-half square miles In the heart of the city. Two hun dred and fifty lives were lost. 17.430 build ings were consumed and 3,SuO persons Water Tank Wisdom An unre'lable switch Is a menace is an unreliable man any better? "If Is a stop order. Some men can build a philosophy of life on tiat word. Build yours on "I will." Golr, ahead oa "pull" Is like traveling on a deadhead. If it wasn't for some one else you'd pro oat ly be put off the train. The man with twice as much experience as you might be compared to a semaphore. It's worth while paying attention to him. Some men's hops travels at eighty Bills an hour and their effort at twenty. Strik ing an average would result tn . a pretty fair headway. You may hear of much ef "that bright young freight man who drinks." Forget It. Sober mediocrity la more valuable thaa bibulous brilliance. If you can't aontrol yourself, yen need never heps to Issue orders.' Tsks the big mea on your Mno; they're plain, svery-day fellows, but here's the - 4 : Tj mnNB PORTKR. lil North Sixteenth Street School. .... Webster Year. icon itn.n.JOVI Occuring on Sunday J were made homeless. The damage amounted to 1195,000,000. Before the end of 187S the whole devastated district bad been rebuilt. , , Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox on Sunday, April 9, 1S6S. and the civil war came to a close. Cervera's Spanish fleet was destroyed off Santiago by the United States men of war. under command of Sampson and Schley, on Sunday, July J. In the suburbs of Pera, Turkey, occupied by the foreign population and native Christians, a fire broke out on Sunday, June a, 1870, and destroyed 7,0no buildings. The loss was 125,000,010. Duks of Wellington defeated Napoleon1 at Waterloo on Sunday. June IS, 1SU. General Andrew Jackson won the battle of New Orleans for the Americans on Sun. day, January S, Ulft. Sir Edward Packen ham, ths British commander, was killed. Jews of Great Britain were In 1871 re leased from the compulsory obaervace of the Christian Sabbath. The act became operative on Sunday, May 28. Napoleon forced Louis, King of Holland, to abdicate l.ls throne on Sunday, July 1. 1810. Washington carried by storm the outer works of the BritiKh at Yorktown on Sun day, October 14. 17S1. Four days later Comwallls, having been severely repulsed, signed terms of capitulation. News that the revolution had ended was borne to congress on October 23, on which night the watchmen t Philadelphia gave utter ance to his welcome cry: "Ten o'clock! Starlight night! Curnwallls is taker!!" J secret: The operations of a man's mind are silent and Invisible. Ir drawbridges were human, some of them would not permit trains to cross. Lou of men are like that. They'd rather be useless than do their bit to assist some one who's more Important to get aotne where. Charles A. Williams In Railroad Men's Magaslne. r Current Credulities Carrying ashes out of a house after sun set Is bad luck. If your Initials spell a word It means that you will be rich. Walking across ths room with one shoo off la a sign ot IU luck. To find money and keep It insures good luck through the year.