THE BEE: OMAHA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1911.
HThe gee' prng Magazine
When a ivianJ" marijiei
THE, DEfi-a cSUNlOR BIRTHDAY BOOK.
This is fhe Day We Celebrate
Loretta's Looking Glass
blie IUki ix t to (tie Git!
With the Short Slmn.
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There li nothing funnier nor more foolish
than the effort of a -ell-meanlng man to
correct the folly of a, girl who la not well
meaning.
Tour ' bosa" sent for you. You entered
hi private ofllce with the smiling indif
ference which you assume In order to
Impress h!m with the fart that you are
neither fearful nor overawed. The oc
casion demands no such acting. He sends
for his employe to Instruct thPm about
the business. B'lt you, because you are a
girl. Inject Into the experitr.ee something
apart from business.
"Mia F.lank you are new to business
life, I believe." he begin, and he Is oh
vlously fighting with hi own dippoaitlon
to aend you out without completing the
purpose with which he summoned you.
"Would ou that is. would it Incon
venience you to to wear long sleeves in
the office?" he manage to ak.
"Certainly not,; you respond with a
frigidity that notifies him that you con
sider yourself Ineulted.
"Thank you." he responds, and turn
to hi desk, the dlFguet with girls In
business rioting through him. It seize
'every man who trie to eliminate what
doe not advantage hi business and
really harms the girls In It to be treated
a If he were an ogre.
You sail out of the room. You rage
Inwardly at the weakness of men who
cannot see a girl arm bared to the
elbow without thinking other than busl
nesa thoughts. You utterly misunder
stand a kindness, and you do more to
complicate the position of girl In the
business world than all the men whom
they are associated ever can. You de
fend your short sleeve with the asser
tion that they sav washing. They do.
But at an expense of something else.
The world does half It thinking with
Its eye. The Impression of an office
where several girl In short sleeves ars
pecking at typewriter Is about a un
buklness ilk as can be Imagined. It s
almost offensively Indelicate. The sleeve
that looks dainty and becoming and
feminine in the house amid surroundings
It suit, looks immodest and Inappropriate
in an office. I do not care what you
think or how it feels. That Is the way
It looks. Y'ou give a cheap, unladylike
Impression of girls In business. An em
ployer who objects to having his office
atmosphere permeated with that Impres
sion has right to tell you so without
being treated as If he had offended your
sex. As a matter of fact, he Is putting
you in a way to defend it.'
The other day I experimentally entered
the retiring room for the girl employes
in a large office building. The insane
Inmates made me pity the self-respecting,
refined women who are obliged to earn
their livings In the world that such
feminln freaks pollute. The place be
fore the mirror was Jammed. I counted
twenty puffs on one girl' -head, and she
waa not an exception. And the short
leeves on most of them gave a breath
taking Impression of nudity. And I
thought a long thought. How much of
the trouble that girls have In the busi
ness world from the attention of men Is
due to the delicate wearing of clothes
that open the way for personal com
ment and conversation.
If you business girl persist In wearing
short sleeve, you need not be o much
surprised nor Indignant when some
men with open eye sees your arm. And
you have not cause to be affronted If he
tells you so. He 1 quite Justified In
thinking" you will hardly mind when you
make a flagrant display of their round
ness. He may think you want him to
say he see what you Intentionally re
veal. And maybe you do.
How to Train a Wife
"Tha Browna have a new baby," an
nounced the Hopeful Housewife.
"Boy?" asked the confirmed Commuter,
eagerlv.
"No another girl." answered hla wife.
"I think that' perfectly lovely! They'll
be uch company for each other, and
they're o near of. an axe that they can
alwav dres alike. If I were Mr. Brown
I houliJ be perfectly delighted."
Notwithstanding thta onlnion It was
mora than evident that the Commuter'
Interest In the accession of the Brown
family had ceased utterly the moment
he heard It was a irl.
"Poor old Brown!" he exclaimed com
mlseratingly. "he'll be o disappointed.
He sort of banked on It's being a boy
thl tlma. I can't tell vou how many
drink he bought on tha prospect'
A child playing on the brink of a preci
pice an up-state visitor getting ready t
bow out the aas Is not more unconscious
of fatality than was the Commuter as he
poke theae hsrmles word.
But tha wind that blows between the
worlds and cuts one like a Knife I a
gentle gephyr compared to the ley ruh
of word that were h'eed from the Hp
of tha Hopeful Housewife as soon a he
had ceased to sneak.
"It would b vary interesting to know
Just why the averaae man is possessed
of that particular obsession." she began,
"Of course. I can understand why a pref
erence for boys existed a few hundred
years ago. It was purelv selfish. A boy
wss something that could be made to
work for his father. He was an economic
asset, while a girl waa a liability-something
to be supported indefinitely till an
other man took tha lob off hi hands"
"But" Interrupted the Commuter. "1 a
girl more apt to .sunoort en old father
and mother todav than a bov Is?"
"A son marries as soon as he's through
high school, and then, of course, he per
suade himself that hi obligations to his
wife and 'Children are uch that he can
It back and see hi iter become an In
voluntary old maid because she can t af
ford to glv up the job that keepa her
parenta alive. That's whv all that talk
about the 'greater family obligations' of
men teachers were so sickening at the
time there w so much discussion of
equal pay. Theoretically, anvhow, sup
porting a wife and children bring active
Joy and compensation with It. but nine
tenth of the worktnr women teacher,
bookkeepers or whatever thev are sup
port parenta or little brothers and Bis
ters, and their joys are all ethical and
pretty drv."
"Ray! exclaimed the Commuter meekly.
"A MAN CAN DIE WITHOTTT A CENT
AND KNOW HIS BOY WILL MAKE
GOOn."
"doesn't it It strike you that It's a pretty
long Jump from the Brown baby to the
principle of equal pay for teachers? Why
didn't you drag In the binominal formula
or the t fourth dimension to nrove your
point? You re way off aa to why men
prefer boy children, anvhow. It's not for
selfish reasons at all. It's because a man
feel that a boy can rough It that, no
matter what kind of a predicament he
get In, he can alwav land on hi feet
Now, a girl' different. She ha to be
protected, cared for. A man can die
without a cent and know that hi bov
will make good if he ha the right stuff
in him
"A girl will do lust the same If she's
brought up properly." Interrupted the
Hopeful Housewife.
And then she added. In a milder man
ner; "There are lota of other -reasons for
preferring girls. Girls are nrettler than
boys, and you can buv such lovely
clothes for tlum. And thev take such
lovely cute photographs, and you don't
have to cut their hair I was talking to
Mrs. Brown about It todav when I went
over to see the babv"
"Well." Interrupted the Commuter, "1
guess It's up to me to go over and buy
old Brown a drink.
"Yes." the Hopeful Housewife assented
"I guess It Is, but remember when royal
children are born thev fire twenty-on
guna for a bov and onlv about iralf aa
many for a girl. Don't let Mr. Brown
rorget mat he s onlv celebrating a girl
babv."
(Copyright. 1911. by New York Herald Co)
Queer Characteristics of Plants
With us. aa well as with the Japanese,
the chrysanthemum la valued simply
beautiful flower. In the Austrian prov.
lnce of Dalmatla. however, and espe
cially In the islands of the -Adriatic, be
longing to that province. It is largely
cultivated for the manafacture of the sub
stance known as "Dalmatian insect pow.
der." On the Island of Lealna. once cov.
red with great forest, but now bare of
tree, there are large fields covered with
a tnica growth of chrlsanthemum. all
of which are used for this purpo. No
other crop raised In the region 1 so prof
itable So promising 1 the Industry that
X Austrian government distributes
plants very cheaply among the Inhabit
ants every year In order to develop It.
It la well known that many plant, com
mon enough but by no means troublesome
In their native home, when transplanted
in distant parts of the world grow and
spread to such aa extent a almost to ex
permlnate the native vegetation., some
times becoming a dreadful nuisance. This
has been the case with the European
watercrrfta in New Zealand, where it ha
developed Into a coarse and most
troublesome mat of vegetation, chok
ing the streams and In some place turn
tag their course and causing much damage-
In Chile the most mlchtvn ...-..-
our very useful oat and whit clover. A
uoianiai writing from the Interior of
Chile : "On the way from Traiguen
to Angol one aeea great fields, several
acres in extent, thickly (ovrnw h,k ....
among which no other plants appear. Thla
crop nas not been aown by men, but Is
a spontaneous growth of h..i-.n ....
from southern Europe called tiatlna by
me i m leans.
"The common white clover Is aleo
spreading more and more In Chile and
suppressing native plants aa it goes Aa
European man has driven out the native
American man, so European plants drive
out those Indigenous to the soli."
During the last few year a beginning
has been made in England of the cultt
vation of the Chinese 'soap tre." Thi
tree 1 very useful to the Chinese; the
oft ubianc Inside the pod being used
for washing the face by Chinese women
They do not tell u what the Chinese
men make us of for thi purpo.
Th eed of the tree are strung to
gether and made into a sort of "chaJn
armor undershirt" for wearing next to
the skin In summer by the coolie.
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The world receive (ufflclent heat from
the sun in a year to melt a coat of ice
forty-aix feet thick , all over the globe.
A ton of steel made Into hairsprings for
watchee is worth mora than twelve times
the value of the same weight of pure
gold.
In some canton of Switzerland all the
dead, rich aa well aa the poor, are burled
at the public expense.
Brain worker are proved bv tatitlc
to be long lived. Five hundred and thirty
eminent men and women were taken as a
basis, and their duration of life gives an
average of about sixty-eight and a half
years.
Plants growing near the sea have
thicker leaves than those growing Inland.
Apparently the sea salt la the cause of
this phenomenon, as plants cultivated In
artificially salted soil yield thicker
leaves.
The wild horses of Arabia will not ad
mit a tame horse among them, while the
wild horses of South Africa endeavor to
decoy domesticated horse from their
.rasters, and seem eager to welcome
them.
The air Is so pure in the Polar regions,
so free from harmful microbes, that
throat and lung diseases are unknown
there. The region Is also entirely free
from contagious maladies.
Francis Furgler. a recluse, died near
Burlington. N. J., January 19. 1T7S. after
living twenty-five years without fire in
an oven-like cell.
YES, IT HAPPFNS EVERY DAY!
GodAingwana. Zulu chief, formed a celi
bate army in 1796.
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ANANIAS
TUESDAY,
Name and Address.
September 19, 1911
School. YeMwr.
Millard Burress. 212 South wnfylgbth St Farnaru
Ralph ByerB, 809 North Forty-ltatb St Walnut Hill 1S9
Cameron H. Brown, 1814 North Twenty-sixth St.. High 189S
Thompson Berry, 2305 South Thlrty.eoond St. .. .High 1S97
Charleg Brewer. 1821 North Twenty-third St Kellom IS99
George Craig, 5820 North Thirty-sixth St Centrgl Park 1301
Gladys Crounch. 2S The Strehlow Apartments. . , .Lake . . .' 1901
William J. Casey. 1M7 North Eighteenth St Holy Family 1908
Irene Cog, 2810 Davenport St Webseter 1905
Harold Dorsey, 2212 Spencer St Sacred Heart 1899
Viola Forsell. 2237 North Nineteenth St Lake 1905
Erna Falk, 5333 North Twenty-sixth St Saratoga . .1S9S
Marjorte M. Forgan, 1510 South Twenty-sixth St.. Park 1898
Anton Gutschenski, 2919 South Twenty-third St.. St. Joseph.. 1S93
Edwin N. Greevy. 2914 Hickory St Park 1S9C
Era Lo Greco. 2103 Pierce St Mason 1905
J. Peter Gepson, 3318 Grand Ava, ..Monmouth Ptrk...l90S
Elmer L. Gangrstadt. 424 N. Twenty-eighth Ave. .. WebsfVr 1"S9
Lois M. Hoel, 1412 North Thirty-fifth St Franklin 1S9
Volney Hampton. 3226 Webster St Webster 1503
Otis D. Howell, 1522 Canton St Edw. Rose water: ..1900
Harry Jordan, 5313 North Thirty-fourth St Monmouth Park...lS98
Joseph Kirschbaum, 913 Atlaa St Edw. Rosewaterl . .1900
Annie Krakowska. 1939 South Twenty-ninth St..ltu. Conception .... 1901
Clarence Landon. 2215 Spencer St...'. Lothrop 1897
Katie Lueble. 2337 South Sixteenth St Castellar 139
Queenie Martin, 3027 Burdette St Howard Kennedv. . IS99
Wallace Mann, 3311 Haskell St Windsor 1901
Edwin Musgrave. 1904 Ohio St Lake 189?
Fred L. Morledge, 843 South Twenty-fourth St Mason ? .1S99
Donald B. McCutcheon. 3864 Charles St Franklin ,..1902
Catherine McGovern, 2247 North Nineteenth St.. Lake .1897
Howard Magrane, 3524 Lafayette Ave ..Franklin ... .1905
Leighton McCaslin, 602 South Thirtieth St Farnam 1900
Arlene Maytham. 2959 Farnam St ...High 1S94
Lola Mctheny. 221S Clark St Kallom V. '. 1901
Millie Nelson. 3010 Frederick St Windsor 1897
Esther Nordstrom, 4736 Seward St Walnut Hill 1900
Lou R. Purvey. 3412 Sahler St Monmouth Park . ..m."!
Hugh J. Poore, 1721 South Twenty-eighth St. . . . Park .190:
Carrie Robbins. 4804 North Thirty-sixth Ave Central park ..... 1904
Stanley Rynarzewski. 2518 South Thirtieth St... .Im. Conception. . ..1899
Harold Russell. 1805 Wirt St Lothrop 1903
?if "19 Nrth Twent-h St Howard Kennedy. . 1 $99
iiJT bi k . iDg' 108 N'rth F0rtleth St...:.... Saunders IS96
Rse Slobodinsky. 1.154 North Twentieth St Cass i'5
Sahara Sjotolo. 2227 Pierce St..1. Masoll Js
Rudolph Swanson. 321 North Twenty-sixth St. . . .Central 7.7.7.7.7.1302
.,rl? Tal?n' 321 North Twentytoh St. ... Central :002
f,al.r!ra ?.t0?klng' 1128 South Thlrty-aixth St. .. .Columbian 1SD7
narvey v leie. 407 Dorcas St.........;,... Traln ' 19fl.
Grace M. Vaad, 4935 Pacific St I ! : -"S!
Walter Wherry, 2443 Manderson St .7 !! Lothrop
1904
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Woman Arrested for Witchcraft
In a recent issue the Philadelphia
Ledger tells of a woman being haled Into
court at Allentown, Pa., on the charge
of being a witch. What makes the case
still more remarkable is that thla case
was not an accidental and sporadic In
stance of superstition, but apparently a
symptom of a state of mind which is al
most universal In eastern Pennsylvania.
Neither the witch herself nor the people
who cs.used her arrest seemed to see any
thing unusual about the proceedings
brought against her. None of her neigh,
bors did; and yet the community in
which she lived was not a back country
district, but a busy and populous neigh
borhood. In a big. wide-awake and thor
oughly modern city. And the prisoner
was kept In jail forty-eight hours.
The woman was Meta Imtnerman, a
New York dressmaker who had gone to
Allentown to start a sort of Kneipp san
itarium. She believed In various theories
of the kind which the frivolous minded
termed crank." That of Itself would
have been enough to convict her of
witchcraft In the eyea of her new neigh
bors at Allentown. The very Idea of such
a thing suggested the weaving of spells.
8o. the first time Meta was seen walking
barefooted In early morning her case
was permanently diagnosed.
However, she did not leave ber neigh
bors with merely this evidence. She car
ried a little poeket electric light, and
sometimes on dark night she would pull
this out and use It say for some such
purpose as to read the number on the
street door of some house ah was look
ing for.
So there were now two counts In the
Indictment, snd the evidence was almost
overwhelming.
First She wove spells by walking bare
footed through the grass at dawn.
Second She cast spells by throwing a
witch light on house at dead of night.
She wa lodging with the family 'of
George Ktpp. A young couple by the
name of Sober also lived In the house
It was the male Sober, John by name
who brought thing to a crisis. He was
seised one night with what he tubse
quently called "a terrible pain In my
stomach."
That waa enough. All the suspicious
circumstances of Mrs. Immerman's case
flashed at once to tha minds of the So
bers and the Klpps. Then a new and still
more damning thing was remembered,
which waa that Miss Immerman lived on
nuts and raw eggs. It was obvious to
them that she was living on a witch's
diet.
They did not proceed to extremities at
once. Klpp relied on a charm he had put
over his door to keep witches away
Sober'e pain, however, wss too real and
too severe for him to Halt for reaiUts
His wife advised Mm to lose no tirrv, but
to go and see a witch dotur . icht a way.
Fortunately, one of the bent witch doc.
Mrs In Allentown. lived right across thr
street. Ovnrga Kistlcr by name, and fcobei
at once consulted him "No," snld Fol.ei
afterward, "he didn't give me any medi
cine. He just closed his eyes and asksd
me it I felt as though somebody waa
clutching at my kldea. That was Just how
I reit. and I told him so, and ho closed
his eyes again and seemed to go Into a
trance. Then he said: 'Young man. some
woman has cast a spell over you. I said.
"Do you mean a witch?' He closed his
eyes again, and eald that was Just how
people wore bewltchod.
"I came home and told my wife, anl
she said rlKht away It must be Miss Im
merman. Then I knew when It was that
she had caat her spell. She bad asked
me to help carry her trunk to the third
floor. Of course. I obliged her. and as
I took it up the stairs she kf pt her eyes
fastened on me steadily. Instead of look
ing at the trunk. I didn't think anything
of It at the time, but now I know that It
waa then she was ensting the spell. '
Klstler. the "pow-wow" doctor, never
charged Miss Immerman with witchcraft;
It seems that "hex" doctors never give
names. They simply diagnose the ease)
aa any other doctor would do, and dis
cover th .bewitching from the symptoms.
So Klstler had merely diagnosed the case
aa one of witchcraft., and it was the So
nera who settled en Miss Immerman as
the witch.
The AUentown authorities felt it w
necessary to get Miss Immerman out of
Allentown and back to New Tork. where
she is now and where she can weave her
spell with Impunity and even, ride a
broom If she can find a good steady na;
of that kind. Mis Immerman took the
hint and hastened back to her Infidel and
materialise town, wher, it there' are
people who believe In witchcraft, there
I at leat no great danger of getting ar
rested for practicing It.
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Tabloid of Wisdom
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Bitter pills are glided. '
Avarioe la the pur of industry
Dignity increases more easily tr.aa It
begins. ,
Things sweet to taste prove In digestion"
sour. .
Nothing emboldens sin so much a
mercy.
Who moves pick up. who stand still
dries up.
Many thing difficult to dejlgn prove
easy of performance.
All men commend iaUen.e. although
few be willing to practice It.
Tls aaid that to dream of a white
horse I a ngn that you ate .lrg to i
fome rich.