THE BEE: OMAHA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. 1911.
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To waking Broadway come the giow
Of hazy Sigh's that April know;
The Vr:ph electric blossoms blow
O r every playhouse door.
New play or violet or weed
Leap sunward from the fruitful aeed.
Appeasing barren summer s need
.' .If thing worth living foi.
The "Bong-hlrCs.'" in nw- plumage light.
Return from their far foreign f'lsrht.
For fashio.is coin and art a delight.
To opera and hall;
And in tocieiy the "buds"
(Some of thrr.i rojses. some but "spuds ')
r- ' : in? '.-.jO.-. cf pre'ty d'Jda
In gay ca'i- rn."inight xeat
Of parties i acantly drepjed
to aJl oli i at .tteet
The lengt. ,f the days.'
The time cf rest beglni for them.
At two or maybe four a. m.
And headache's stinging diadem
Their wish to aieep allays.
The cold vacation days are o'er;
Deserted are the hilla and shore;
Back to the warm department atore
Milady gayly hies.
The. bargain treea are all abloom.
The furrier chads hia furs to whom
soever will buy who talks of gloom
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' Married Women as Wage Earners
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By DOROTHY DIX
A working girl writes me an exceed
ingly wrathy letter in which she Inveighs
against married women who are are
wage ' earners, and declares that they
take tha bread out
f the working glri's
mouth. She also ac
cuses the woman
who haa both a hua
band and a Job of
being a pig. who
wants more than
her share of tha
good things of life.
Softly, littla aister.
The oman who
worka outside of
her iome after aho
la married Is oftener
to be pitied than
criticised. for In
ninety nine casea
out of hundred It
means that her hua-
bar.d
of iupportmg her,
and that to tha
burden of wifehood, and often mother
hood, aha haa to add that of making a
Uvmg. Sometimes the husband la tha
victim of unfortunate circumstance. Ha
loses his health, or la thrown out of
work. And aometlmea ha la Juat plain
ao account and laay.
in nihrr case the woman who must go
out and earn the food for her family and
then come home and cook It la aa pathetic
a figure as you can find. It la hard
enough for a young girl to have to stand
behind a counter, or pound a typewriter
all dav, but how Infinitely wort for tha
woman who haa been up half of the
night nursing an invalid husband, oi
listening for the footsteps of a drunken
one. and perhapa cowering away from
hia blows, or who haa left a little lck
child at home and whose heart atands
still with fear every time a atranga foot
atep draws near, lest It be acme one
bringing her the bad newe aha draada to
bear.
The home la the goal of rreQUcally
every wonian'a desire Not many mar
r.eJ women leave it willingly to go out
into the world to work, and when one
doe become a breadwinner you will find
that she haa almost Invariably been
driven to It by stem necessity.
Of course, my correspondent's view that
the woman who Is married and who has
ostensibly a husband to support her,
should not compete with unmarried
women In the labor market. Is a natural.
If a prejudiced one. Aa a matter cf fact,
however. It haa no standing In Justice.
Every one of us has a right to life, lib
erty SJid the pursuit of happlnata In
our own way. and if a married woman
feela that she can beat help herself by
working outside of the home Inatead of
In it, or that she prefera typewriting! to
cooking, she has a perfect right to do aa
aha leaaea In tha matter. Getting mar.
rled didn't change her taienta and
Should not curtail her privilege of using
them.
The theory of society la that every anaa
la able to earn a comfortable Uvlng for
htm.f and hia family. Tola ahould ba
true, but under present economic condi
tions It la not alwaye tha ease. Thar
are plently of men who do the vary bast
they can and yet caa never keep tha
wolf away from tha door. Should not
tr.e wife of such a maa hava a right to
shoulder her gun and help make war on
tha common enemy, poverty T
Thar are other men, food and trua
and lovable, who are born witauut any
business faculty, . Juat aa most of ua are
born without a tenor, voice. Many of
tbeae men marry women who have the
talent for getting on that the husbanda
lack. Shall auch w-lves ait down and fold
their hands and let their f ami Ilea starve
because, if they go out to work, thoy
will compete with unmarried women?
Again, there are many young couplaa
who are in love and who could marry
comfortably on the combined eaminga of
both, but who must forever remain apart
if the wife glvea up her Job on her wed
ding day.
If a wife can help her husband more
by earning money than ahe can by cook
ing hia dinner and waahing hia shirts, is
there any reason aha shouldn't do it?
There are many cases In which a man's
future prosperity could be aasured by his
wife holding on to her job and bringing
in a little necessary money for a year or
two after marriage.
Nor doea it seem fair to ask the wo maa
who has spent thousands of dollars and
years of time fltung herself to follow
some profession or calling, to give it up
Juat because she marries and some single
woman would like to hava her place.
A great deal of the most valuable work
in tha world la done by married women,
because matrimony, whether it la happy
or miserable, broadens a woman' a out
look and deepens her sympathy and com
prehension. Also the married woman who
is a wage earner haa settled down for a
life Job at whatever ah Is doing, aa a
general thing, whereaa tha girl worker ia
looking forward to matrimony to emanci
pate her from slavery to her yardstick
or ledger. And It would be a distinct loss
to the world If It mora deprived of the
service of Its married women workers.
The real objection to married women
being wag earners Is not that they com
pote with young girls, but the moral ef
fect It baa on their husband. There are
some men who are a purred on to greater
effort by the fact that their wtvea are
out In the world tolling, trying- to help
than) by making money, but unfortunately
tha majority of husbands whoae wives
can support them, let them do it. The
statistics of factory towna where many
women work In the mills, show that the
men contribute very little to the family
exchequer. Thay spend their money on
themselves and leave their wlvea to feed
and cloth the family.
All of thhs make tha problem of the
wage-earning wife one that cannot be
settled by the blanket rule. It haa to be
worked out la each Individual case on ita
own merits, not by denying the married
woman the right to oompet with the un
married one
But the lure of tha tiusinea world is
not so greet to women aa many suppose.
Every womaa'a dream Is of her own
home, her own fireside, her awn man.
able with hia good right arm to provide
for her. and she does wot often, after
marriage, apply for her old Job unlets her
oastl In Spam kaa taXea in ruins about
her ears.
Tha wage-earntng wife I not a feminine
freak. Bh I generally incarnate tragedy.
One a Saharan traveller waa Informed
by on of hi Africa cert that he had
Just killed a devil, which proved to be
his master s watch that the tavage had
found, and. hear! a S it tick, concluded that !
there waa an evil spirit Inside. Accord -Utgiy
he smashed the Umepie by hurl
ing tt a-aint a tree.
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An Overworked Sense of Humor
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By ELLA MUEELER AVILCOX
(Cepyrlgh. lSll. Amerlcan-Journal-Ex-aminer
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It has become fashionable to talk about
having a sense of humor; anJ thoe
satisfied people who flaunt their proud
pofslssion of this quality, love to ridi
cule or pity those who they believe are
lacking It.
It is rltlable. in-
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f1 'yJP lacking In a sense
of humor, and to
put a literal mean
ing upon every
phrane uttered In
one s hearing, and
to take as an in
sult what is meant
aa a pleasantry.
Two pretty young
women were vlsit
a woman who could
not underftand a
Jest: and whose
husband was an
Inveterate joker,
in an open and
frank way. ' The
hufhand was leav
ing on an early train: and the young
ladles said good-by with their good-night.
"We will not ae you again." they re
marked, "as you leave so early."
"Oh. yes. I shall surely go to your
room In the morning and kiss you good
bye." the man replied. Whereupon tht
wife responded, quickly and seriously:
"You will do nothing of the kind; you
will say your farewells now."
The same woman replied to one who
spoke of the "prlmroa road to folly."
that ahe had never seen any prim
roses growing about folly's path. To
live with such a matter of fact and lit
eral nature, require a similar nature, if
life' Is not rendered difficult and even
tragic by continual explanations.
But there are many people who mis
take, sarcasm, ridicule and even lying
for a sense of humor. To the latter
category belong those Individuals who
aend telegrams announcing marriages and
deaths, which have not occurred; "Juat to
get a good Joke" on the recipient. And
closely related to these merry Jesters Is
the facetious individual who rocks ;he
boat in a stormy sea, and who pulls a
chair from under his friend who is about
to sit down.
The people who object to the over
turned boat or to the broken limb result
ing from the sudden seat on a hard floor
are supposed to be lacking In "a sense
of humor."
There was a rcent departure of a
young man from New York cn his first
oean voyage. The traveler in question
is a wit and humorist, but to the writer's
knowledge he has never been known to
be cruel, uste'.ecs or brutal In his ute
of the sense of humor. Nevertheless 1t
took these attributes for wit to aend to
the youn man s cabin live mice, canary
birds, a mnnkev. a lobster and in fact
a taxicah filled with thlnss useless and
troublesome to a tueler.
Thing's which ould suffer and give
discomfort and cause worry and expense.
Herein every jester who pjrtook in the
practical Joke exhibited that lark of fine
discrimination and god taste which
makes the dividing line between the
real sense of humor and the vulgar de
sire to raise a laugh at some one a
expense.
There is not one atom of wit. not one
particle of humor, in any word or act
which causes another individual to be
inconvenienced, put to unnecessary ex
pense, startled with causeless fear, or
pain, or subjected to physical accident.
Nor is there an evidence of a sens of
humor, but rather of a lack of fine sensi
bility and humaritarlanlsm. when ani
mals are made to play a psinful part In
a aupposed Jest.
It requires no brain, no originality,
no talent to do these coarse and un
kind things. Real wit and humor are
talents; and those who posseaa them are
a blessing to this world, which otlierw-is
would become unendurable with con
tinual and unremitting seriousness. . I
have heard a woman whose Jealous and
envious nature found vent In biting
sarcasms, rpeak of her own great sens
of humor; and aocus any of her ac
quaintances who objected to her ridlcul
of lacking in that quality which she re
garded as her chief blessing. Before you
pride yourself on possessing a sense of
humor give a little careful analysis to lha
quality you are cultivating.
Any clown, any monkey, can rais a
laugh.
Any fool can rock a boat and- pull
away a chair, any vicious mind can
utter an unkind sarcasm; sny lout can
send a false telegram, any idle mind can
think up a practical joke which will
cause trouble and expense; but these
things are not witty.
Better be too serious than too vicious,
brutal, coarse or unkind.
Unless you possess clean, spontaneous,
good natured wit. do not pride your
self upon your sense of humor.
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The American Boy
Copyright, lill. International News Servlca,
By THOMAS TAPPER.
This Is what I beard the schoolmaster
say:
"A boy's honor and common sens help
him to obey th lawa because they enlist
his reason. When he lets go of honor
and common sense, he also lets g of
reason, and then. 11k a bull in a china
shop, he does damage.
"Now, boya." said th schoolmaster,
"why la It. th moment frv or six or
ten of you get together that the general
average of your honor and common senae
falls? Each of you alone la a boy of
honor. Why ia It th moment five of alx
or ten of you get together that the gen
eral average of your honor and common
sense fails? Each of you alone Is a boy
of honor. Why Is It that ten of you will
do things 'as a gang-' which no on of
you would do alona?
"This cbang of conduct Is true rf
men as well as of boys. Unless they
come together for a special purpose
of high order or for definite business,
they al! let go of something;. Now that
something la a manly quality which each
Is jroud of alone, but of which he seems
to be ashamed when he is with others.
"Street car row die always travel in
gans, and tha gang seems more Intent
on disorder than on crime, but It ts a
short step from one to the other."
"Is th gang always a bad proposi
tion?" I asked tha schoolmaster
"I hsrv studied boys for a long time."
he said, "and It Is my opinion that no
boy can be on of a gang without losing
something that made his mother proud
of him But this refers to those groups
of boys who have not h lag to do. The
moment, hooievsr, that a lot of hoys
corn together for a purpose. Uk th
boy scouts, their finest qvsllties come
out. and they com out rapidly.
"It la strange, when a lot of boys come
together, that the good principles of th
best of them should not rule but they
rarely do. Generally th loose ends of
tha principles of them all are th main
Influence.
"Perhsp courage Is born of numbers,
that la why a gang of young men have
the nerve to clean out a street car. But
if courage la born f number, why hsv
they not the nerve to sit still 1n th ear
and behave? It take courage to be
have." "Does It mesa that boys who sra sans
when alone go insane when they mako
up a gang?"
"I think that is true." the achool
master went on. "and thla form of In
sanity is not confined to boys alone. An
automobile party tonaUting of two mm,
two woman and the chauffeur are re
ported to have knocked an old man down.
He died a few minutes afterward. TMd,
tbs automobile party (or. rather, 'gang')
stop and ask sny questions sbout th
damage they had done?
"Not they.
"They kert on. going faster so as to
escape. The men laughed, and tha
women waved their handa to the crowd
that had gathered around the old gentle
man. "Thla la Insanity in lta cruelist form.
"Almost any man or woman has som
sympathy for an old man knocked down
by a car.
"What has happened to the woman who
can speed on. laughing, and wav her
hand at the corpse in th street?
"What has happened?
"The woman ts Insane.
"When she gets home away from th
gang, the horror of the Insanity begins
to show Itself to her. She waved her
hand at the dead old man. Now she
shudders at the thought of It. and every
where she goes 'upstairs, downstairs.
In my ladv'a ehamber' a dead eld man
looks up at her. Thla U the dead, crooked
thing she laughed at and to which ahe
waved her hand It keeps looking up at
her and asks, 'Why did ou do It?'
"And the only answer she can give to
the horror that lies everywhere before
her. on the stairs and In tha roome. is
thst tha speed of the csr snd the rest of
th gsng gsv her courage; or. what ah
thought was coirsge but In reality It
was plain Intanity thst they gave her.
"Now, that women and that dead,
crooked old man In the atreet. is a fair
picture of the boy. the gang and their
Insanity. No woman alone would laugh
and wav her hand at a crooked corps
In th atreet; no boy alone -will break:
windows In a car. or knock down child
ren, or steal people s property; but I hey .
sll will do these things In a gang.
"What can a boy do to escape the in
sanity of the gang? What can a woman
do to avoid the horror of a crooked, dead
old maa everywhere before her eyes?
"Keep honor and common sense uppermost."