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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1911)
15 The ee'g Hrne jyafazire r Commuter Talks of Quarrelsome Wives ThQ BEE3 Junior BMhday Book rem nmcah THE BEE: -OMAHA. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1P11. i'.ri yi,u to.e that this fellow on trial fr,r hs Ufa swears that ho and the deceaeed wife never exchanged a cross word during their married life?" asked the Confirmed Commuter at he threw ailde the evening paper. 1 Ye.1' answered the Hopeful Housewife, wearily, I read It. He may not he a murderer, hut undoubtedly he's a liar.'' he added. "There never has been a hus- and who could soy that without prevari cating:" "What's the reason there Isn't?" asked the Commuter, wrathfully. "I don't fee why an intelligent man and a enlblo woman can't livt Indefinitely without a quarrel or even a difference of opinion!" "Of course, you cant," the Hopeful Housewife retorted with unusual candor, "for It seem impossible to you that any Sensible woman ihould differ from the opinion of an Inielligt-nt man. Besides, as a rule, intelligent men don t msrry sen sible women and vice versa." "No," the Cummutcr jgreed. "If they did Cupid's batting average would send him to one of the minor leagues Jn one season. But I don't sec why men and women quar rol nevertheless." he persisted obstinately. "It seems to me two intelligent boln should be able to reason out their differ ences qulety and amicably." "So they should." conceded his wif "if men cared for reasoning in women, but they don't. We hadn't been married three months before I discovered that in reason ing with a man one teardrop outweighs a thousand arguments. As wives grow in wisdom they brcome less logical and more tearful. And, anyway, what's the use of rrulng about why husbands and wives houldn quarrel? We all know that they do." "Oh, coma now." the Cummuter eagerly remonstrated, "don't you think you're ex aggerating a little? You and I have been married several yenrs and I can t remember that we have ever exchanged a really cms word." The Hopeful Housewife started then she stared then she giggled then rhe hurst Into uncontrollable laughter. And with every peal the Commuter grew and looked more and more aggrieved. "What are you laughing at?" he In quired aggressively. "At your remark," she answered with un usual candor. "If we had never exchanged a cross word It would mean that one of us had a mind Ilka the blank sheet that opens a moving picture show and that the other supplied all the films. I'm not such a blank and I know you're not. I never thought that even when we were en gaged. And as for quarrels, don't you remember the awful fuse we had because I didn't Ilka your new hat. And you said A Confidential I have just received a desperate letter from Emily Dobson. Phe and Phil have de cided to separata and she Implores me to nimt and spend a few days with her. 6he says she la not responsible for what may happen while I am there, tor It took four atretic man to keep bar from committing sulclda this morning, and the has two trained nurses and a specialist there. 6he aaya Paul Is drinking heavily and has mashed ail the'beat chlnt and has tried to murder every ona who comet to the house. She begs ma to take the first train I can. It seems that her bills have been un usually large lately and Paul refused to pay the dressmaker. Emily did every thing. They were going to pay some vUltt and It waa vital that she should hava a few new things. You know how gentle she Is, Bob. She always says she cannot stand excitement and lean just see how hard this all la on her. She said the bill had to be paid that's all there waa about It. She has never tor gotten that the la a lady, brad and born, and has alwaya confined herself to throwing small vases and teacups. She says a eup ot hot tea accurately aimed at Paul's bald spot win do wonders. Ha knows she's very high strung and delicate and usually gives In before she becomes hysterical. This time. It appears, he was as firm as rock. She broke a w hole tea set on him. but It was no use. She told him she had to have things to wear and said that she'd be without any clothe at all soon. Ha replied that she looked as though It might happen at any moment. She told him he was an unspeakable brute Then he offered to compromise and actually said that If she d let him go with her to any department store In New York Ought to Lose the it "Oh, doctor," the woman wailed, "can't you do anything tor ma? I hava been nearly dead for six months and I don't aeem to get bit better." The doctor looked at her thoughtfully. She waa seated In a willow rocking chair, and while he atudled her she clutched both arms of the chair, braced herself back and giving herself a boost with the tirs of her toes every tune the chair pitched forward, rocked back and forth with a force that gave the impression that making a stated number of pendulurallke vibrations In a atated time was a matter of life and death. "About how long da you da that every day?" he Inquired at length. "Do what?" she asked, in surprise. 'Hock as you are doing now.'' "Oh, I don't know." she replied, looking at him with a piualed air. "Whenever I ' get time. It Is the only thing that rests me." "Rests you?" exrlaimcd the doctor. 'Great heavens! Do you know thai half Chicken Am Good J w Senator alanine of Xew Jersey t'.ie farmer senator." as it Is his pride to be called was relating in Washington mem oriae of his furm life. "What quaint minds." he said, "have those New Jersey colored folk who work Xew Jersey farms! I remember an old uncle who one paused In a Job of potato hoeing to sing In my ears tha praise of vhleken. " "Cblckana,' ha said 'Is ao aceommodatin'. suit To' can eat 'em be to' dey's bown, an' ' can iet m ahftah'e dey's dead'" To drrem of efcgs lurxnu yjj will get a beaUntf. ' "WHAT ARB TOO LAtr.HINO AT T" HI l.NQI'IKED. you rronldn't take It back. And I said I wouldn't go out with you when you wors It It was one of those hats that looked an it it needed a hair cut and you said. "Very weil. I might even be able to hear up under that misfortune. and I flung my engajo ment ring on the floor and you picked It up and stalked away with it and you wouldn't give It back for a week!" "Oh, that was when we were engaged. All couples fuss a little then. It's a trying time," the Commuter added. "I mean that ever since we were married we've got along as any two grown-up sensible persons should, even If they didn't care for each other" "How about the time I broke your five ounce fishing rod letting Woof-Woof Jumi over It? And the time the twenty times that I've been lata for trains or In meeting you at the station? And the time I bought a hobble skirt? And the time you ordered six pans of bright red blankets for the house?" At the mention of the red blankets the Commuter's face set rigidly his eyes emitted an ominous flash. "There was nothing the matter with those blankets!" he declared sternly. "All you could say against them was that they were not pretty pretty!" he repeated con temptuously "not pretty!" An answering spark burned In the eyes of the Hopeful Housewife. "They were hideous, common tenement housey!" she exclaimed angrily and then suddenly she began to laugh. "That's right!" she said, "let s have one more quarrel, Just to prove that huahauds and wives never disagree." (Copyright, 1911, by the N. Y. Herald Co.) Communication I J Luo Shi's U. Vrrwovr any CjdtvzS ATAU.SOOK and aeleet a real dress with a collar to It. and a real lining in It. and get a real pet ticoat to wear under It. ha d ba perfectly willing to pay for It. Then Emily's nerves cava way com pletely and the bit a large piece out of the sideboard and threw it at his head She says no woman could think of living with such a lunatla and she's got to leave him as soon as possible. She wants me to come and talk this thing over with her and help to save her reason. You see. Bob. I've got to go. I am afraid Paul Is hopeless. He Inherits petticoats and linings and things from his mother She wrote books for girls and a little volume called "Golden Grains of Sand for Tired Eyes." BESS (Copyright. 1S11, by the X. Y. Herald Co.) Rocking Chair Habit J the women in town are literally rocking themselves Into prematura craves? I have treat many patients who ara not seriously m. dui lingering along in a atate of seml InvaUdlsm, and those that complain moat about being tired and worn out ara the onea that do the most rocking. The aver age woman expends more energy keeping a rocking chair on the go than would be required to do a small washing "The trouble with rocking is that It brings the wrong muscles Into play, and remits In the wearing away of strength and tissue. Comfort can never be com patible with the majority of rocking chairs. The back and the head are thrown back to an unusual degree, the feet dangle, and It ia onlv bv an effort tht h ba brought to touch the floor to keep the ooay in motion, imoi a nerve in your body is now in repose, vet vou call that retin If I bad my way about it I would replace 'y rmung cnur wnn plain easy chairs, but the change would drive away half my woman patlents."-New York Herald. r Pithy Pointers J Gift make beggars bold. Scatter with one hand; gather with two. A good name keeps Its luster In the dark Spread tha table and contention wil! cease. A rainbow Is the smiling daughter ot tha storm.' Young man Idle makes an old man need The cnoieno drinks, the melancholic ata, tha phlfgmatlo aleepa. Ha who Is negligent In his dn-es at 20 will be a sloven at 40 and Intolerable at SO. To carry a hoe through the house la 111 luck. C.rmmn Work at Hand. If the church would keep orthodox, let It get hold of the social problem as It stands close to its very door. Let young men be taught not only to revere the names of tlie grest and good, but alto to revere the man that Is unfortunate, "down and out." and let a man believe that finer than a Greek verb and nobler that a Hebrew psalm Is the burst of manly Joy out of the soul of a re deemed human being There are better days for the church of Chrift and they are Immediately ahead ot us. These days are coming because of a greater loyalty to the divine message; a more Christian Christianity is taking rs seseion of religious forces. We also plfid for a teaching of this kind upon the ground of patriotism. Man's right relationship to God depends largely upon man's right re lationship to man. A school of socialism Is crying out, "Jesus Christ Is the first great socialist." and that cry Is true. I know and w.e all know that we will have that socialism of Jesus to sweeten or biers all man's relationship one with another in the spirit of true brotherhood, or we will have that socialism that belongs to anarcny and murder and ruin. There are no great battles to fight for the slaves in black, but there are a thous and battles to fight for the slaves In white. Let the call go forth to emancipate the souls and bodies of men. And let all know that a political economy that makes men less manly and more Felflsh and the mas- Loretta's Looking Glass-Held Up to Letter from Worried Widower I "My Dear Madam: I have read your abie advocacy of marriage as the natural end and aim of man and woman. But I venture to say you would commiserate me on my exposure to a popular misinterpretation or the Idea. I seem to be the aim of several women. Wind you, I am not accusing the whole sex of being engaged In archery with cupid's arrows, all leveled at me. I am a man, and have the usual amount of con celt; but 1 am not monster enough to think that. 1 am a widower. I want to marry when I love some one who wants to marry me. But I object to having them want to marry ma off-hand, or as a mere board- and-lodglng proposition. 'Since my wife died, two years ago, I have had a succession of housekeepers. And I have been threatened with two breach of promise suits, besides being made miserable. Will you tell me why women re fuse to ba businesslike In a business where they naturally havo a monopoly. If they care to create It housekeeping? All I want, all I ask and I pay 50 a month for the privilege of asking It Is some one to manage my home. It Is all In first-class order. We built It only four years before my wife died. It cost between J40.000 and $42,000 to complete it. There Is every con venience known in modern domestic estab lishments. And I just want some one to make the machinery go as smoothly is possible. 'What I have gotten so far is some one who wants to acquire the rlght-of-posses- WHEN A MANJ" "ST" JONE.S CAU-E.D -THlS ATTE-fSNOOH AND 5he. HAD ON A FHilGrfTFUL- Go)VN rrHEV ckxe. Evtrzy Booy ON THE. pi. OCX. AMD rE. T h-THtyve. Ju5t eouK-r a piANo-PLAvtK on (Kl STALXMtLMTS" S V 7 V C Ece t uk n Huerr ' V'' If ' '. ..v ' inlimnnmaMaMM lim i linn- in in REV. EDGAP. PRICE. Pastor First Christian Church, Council Bluffs. ters of men more powerful and tyrannical is wrong, outrageous and unchristian. Our country Is act to be saved from a slon of myself and the- house. I am Just on the verge of shutting up the place and taking to the discomforts of hotel life. If I get a housekeeper who Is young, I am constantly reminded that she Is not a re spected employe; she is a woman about whom disagreeable things may be said. If I get an old one. she insists on being a mother to me. If I get an uneducated one she cannot Impart the requisite air of re finement to the service of my meals or the arrangement ot the house. And all house keepers seem possessed with ttie Idea that widowers engage them to housekeep Just to hava a chance to engage them for matri mony. I had one married one. She waa very satisfactory. But her husband got on his feet and into business, and when she left she took most of the silver. I should ba grateful for tha expression ot an In telligent woman's opinion on the possi bility of finding a woman who can at tend to the business she is hired to look after. Very truly, "A WORRIED WIDOWER." Tes. Mr Widower. I'll tell you why women refuse to ba businesslike about a business on which they could have a mo nopoly. They cannot be businesslike about something that they are educated to un derestimate, that is, regarded aa a lower ing of their social standing, and which they think is "fit only for servants." If you have found, from painful experience, that it's impossible to get a good housekeeper Cue Lst.tr'LTz rv. Se-e how oe fTAf4D THPEe. op StarS i r,N C A I Said . e;w Saw foreign power, but saved from the rebel against God a law in all the experience of public business, saved from the anarchist, from the man who dnesn't want to work, saved from the men besotted with drink. Nubs of Knowledge Monks at Pisa Invented carmine In l.V0. The manufacture of thimbles was estab lished In Bone dust was discovered to be a fer tilizer in 112. . Sk.itlng on lea was en.'oyed by the Danaa In 1124. Electric light with carbon points was produced by Sir Humphrey Davy In 1W. Galileo discovered, in IS, the pressure ot the atmosphere to be fifteen pounds to the Inch. Tallow candles in 1 commonly substi tuted the tallow-dipped splinters of wood previously used. "It is odd that pickpockets are such an unpopular class " "I can't see why they should be popular " "Don't they always keep In touch with the multitude?" Baltimore American. who is not crazy to give up the Job in order to becoma the mlatress of yourself and home, or who wante to bosa you around for the salary you pay her, why don't you ba one of the men to begin an active cam paign against our silly educational methods for women? Etart a finishing school where girls can go after they are through getting the un necessary and decorative training of the average school. Use the laboratory method of Instruction. Have fully-equipped little apartments and a course ot domestic train ing that will make good housekeepers ot every pupil. Tou might get either the wife or tha housekeeper from among the women enrolled. At any rate, you would ba help ing to' dignify the work that women ara now so eager to avoid, that they try to marry you as a means of escape. Women will do desperato things to avoid .what hurts their pride. And, as things are now, to work in a home not her own makes a mere menial of a woman. Can you blame her tor preferring to be your second wife? They war a young Couple, and talked In loud voices on account of tha rattle of the elevated train. He was not in a good humor. "I wonder," she said, 'why the allow ances of money made to wives by hus bands are called 'pin money?' "I suppose," he explained crossly, "It's because it sticks the husbands." Popular Magazine. MARRIED TVtff. "N Could fLlGm f- LOOK HE.T2&. SjSIC Af2TE VOU c5tM& TO PLAY PINOCHLE-, oft EIPTHE NEJSHBOCS UP"T' BACK "2 aft v This is (he DayWe September 16, 1911. Name and Address. School. wIter Anderson, 2219 North Twenty-eljthth Ave. . . .Long Myrtle Arnston. 1814 North Nineteenth St Kellom Clarence L. Bain. 2610 Spalding St Druid Hill... Alice V. Brazcr. 3151 Farnam St Ceclle Boggs. 3015 South Sixteenth St Ernest Carlson. 2228 Ohio St Lothrop 1896 Margaret Chrletensen, 217 Porpleton Ave Train 1900 Arthur B. Cox. 1460 South Seventeenth St . . . . CrmiTi i ii c 10.O1 v,iara m. a. uavie. 2329 South Twent v Mildred Davie, 3105 South Nineteenth Mary Drake, 2529 Capitol Ave Ralph J. Dunff. 3026 Seward St Eugene R. Ely. 2120 Blnney St Ruth English, 525 South Thirty-first George Garlick, 201 Lincoln Ave George B. GlKord, 2S14 Xorth Thirty-first St Howard Kennedy .. 1900 Josephine Godfrey, 2205 North Twentieth St Kellom 1S95 Ruth C. Goerne. 4138 Burdette St Clifton Hill 1900 Myrtle Hansen, 512 7 North Eighteenth St Sherman ........ 1895 Philip A. Helgren, 2721 Davenport St Webster ........ 1901 Carl Hess, 5416 North Twenty-fourth St Saratoga ........ 1899 Harry L. Hlrsh, 2609 North Fifteenth St Lake, . . . ....... .1894 Elizabeth Howell, 401S Izard St Saunders 1901 Joseph L. Hummel, 524 North Eighteenth St Cass 1S97 Kenneth Hutton, 2721 Pinkney St Lothrop 1902 Anna Kaplan. 1422 South Sixteenth St Comenius 1904 Lillian Kavan, 2709 South Nineteenth St Castellar 1899 William E. Jalman, 1711 South Tenth St Lincoln 1905 Harold G. Larimer, 2730 Caldwell St High 1892 Robert McClaren, 2622 Caldwell St Long 1905 Eugene C. Meston, 3936 North Twenty-first St Saratoga 1905 Llizie Meyer, 709 North Eighteenth St Cass 1899 Wendell Moore, 109 North Twenty-sixth St High 1895 Evan R. Morris. 1823 Capltol 'Ave Central 1896 Annie Moskowltz, 2053 North Nineteenth St Lake 1902 Bennie Novitsky, 1010 North Sixteenth St Cass 1896 Agnes Pert. 318 Poppleton Ave Train 1905 Elizabeth Rase. 422 North Thirty-fourth St High 1894 Gertrude Read, 3212 North Twenty-first St Lothrop 1896 Cecil RJggs, 3112 Corby St ....Howard Kennedy .. 1897 Howard Roberts, 2634 Parker St - Long 1897 Joe Rosenberg, 708 North Thirtieth St High 1893 William Ryan, 1227 South Eleventh St Lincoln 1895 Minnie Schlll, 2414 Oak St German Lutheran. ..1901 Caroline Schramek, 514 Poppleton Ave Train 1903 Frederick Spraktes, 1231 South Eleventh St Pacific 1903 James Swoboda, 42 West Arbor Windsor 1901 Harry Trowbridge, 2011 South Eighth St! Train 1904 Vera J. Walker, 1810 Corby St Lake 1896 Jeannette Weare, 3315 Decatur St Franklin 1905 Fleurange Whittaker, 821 Pine St Lincoln 1898 Theodore Wood, 2457 South Seventeenth St Castellar 1901 Jack Wyman, 3416 California St Webster 1902 Mary Zelel, 316 V4 Poppleton Ave Train 1902 Anna Ziszsberger. 1837 North Eighteenth St Lake 1896 Silhouettes of 1 When the Harvest Moon waa high In the clear September sky Master Chauffeur fairly flew Up the silent avenue. Past the town's electric lamps. Through the country dews and damps. Taster than the wind he went On a breathless Joy ride bent. By his side a vision sat Jn a chic Parisian hat Tied with motor veils that streamed Round a face of which he dreamed Through the long day's toil and grind. These were now left far behind. Nothing mattered he waa free In tha Joy ride's ecstasy. That was several hours ago. Matters now are growing slow. Common daylight floods tha sky Where the moon once rode on high. Sentiment has fled away From the garish light of day. Who would wish for Joy rides when Frosy work hours come again? Now and then a casual fare Hails the chauffeur here and there, And be speeds his car along Where the crowded shoppers throng Over that same road he spun Hours before the rising sun. But how changed the Journey seems a ...Miint of tha Brooklyn Eagle ealls attention to a new idea la philan thropy has been recently started in Lonaos, h.,- .n sKunclatlon baa been formed tor supplying "poor men's dinners" for 2 cents. Each dinner consists or soup, noi. meai enu Moreover, the meals ara served at the door, being taken around In barrows resembling Ice cream wagons, outsiae eacn ...... v...r. th iiien "Pro Bono Publico People's Hot Dinner association." Not only are meals served in tne poorer oiir.ci iur 2 cent, but school children may purchase their lunches for 1 cent. The movement Is the outgrowth of aa ..., inn fnr auDDivinc meal "at cost" of the poor. Tha first one to take up this plan was Sir Thomas MPton, wno uraiy sends out upwards of 60,000 "poor man s ,..1. Rut while the Upton dinners are supplied at 3 cents and cents, the organ ization puts up a fairly good meal for ! cents. So far, the idea has appealed mostly to driven housewives on washing day, wno do not wish to stop to get dinner. It Is a great convenience to them to be able to buy a hot dinner off a "bony publico waggm," aa they call it. for tha nominal sum of 2 cents. The associations supplying these cheap meals buy their foodstuff In large quanti ty e and hence are able to supply meals at I Cheap Dinners for London Poor I : '- ' OERTRCDE READ Xorth Twenty-tint Street. 3212 Year. .1901 . 1900 1901 rrnm HA; Castellar - f event h fit nmwnt 1S99 1905 1901 1896 1905 1897 1905 St Vinton Central Long Lothiop St Farnam Train the Sidewalk From the Joy ride of his dreams! Here where few fares will disturb He draws up beside the curb. Yawns and gapes and droops bis kvead, ' Nods and longs to go to bed. Drowsy thoughts upon him steal He's asleep upon his wheel. While the girl he loves, it seems, Rides beside him In his dreams. (Copyright, 19U, by the N. Y. Herald Co.) the low figure mentioned. The poor, doing their own shopping, could not begin to get meals at the price at which they can pur. chase them from the Dinner association. So far. the movement baa met with great success. Wouldn't Ask Too Macb. An old negro prescher did the honers and tha candidate for baptism was a coal black negro woman. The preacher led his victim far out in the stream where she could ba thoroughly lmmerted. and at tha auspicious moment he cried In a loud voice: "Ba stiddy, slstah be stiddy, an' you'll Come up wbitah dan snow'" "Ob, parson." she exclaimed, "dat s askin' too much; a cream color'll do! "Na tional Monthly. Ko Chase for Diogenes. Apropos of a flagrant piece of political corruption. Cenator Borah said the other day: "Diogenes went sround for years with a lantern looking for an honest man. In thla era. If he attempted to same course some body would steal his lantern the first day." In the early history of Plymouth colony clams were seversl times the principal sus tenanc ot the people. i 3