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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1911)
1 The Even the Judge ' fMZfvo rTJRs 1 mXhY See vnmii. i nenervnon a grw-y , Tsmb's, atoosh auv ncwA , I 75 f A7 P" 1" !,!() cO ( ! ; I lifei I .J I -1 r j4 I I 'lHOTlie Law of Loss and Gain .By ADA 1UTTKRSOX A lean, blonde young man sitting at hm Desk in a New york otrico ponders In those between whiles that come In I the busiest days and busiest lives, on the law of loss and , That which seems tVbe loss may bo ' yan and . that '"'"'Twhlch Is train . V- may be loes. At nnv rfltA It ran alt be accounted as experience and what ever Is ex perience Is val uable. This Is the law of loss and gain. The young man's fiancee has jilted m. The mighty nirv has perco lated the homes of the 4,000,000 of New York's, population I that the reason for Jilting Is that.the young man's mother at some low ebb in the family fortunes was ft masseuse, nd that her father had ben a masseur. In: the country where this young man and! all his forbears came the masseur ranks in dignity only a little lowir than I the -doctor and the masseuse is an x i pert- of moral and financial worth equal i to that of the most capable trained nurse. Intelligence, education and several years of. training are required for the art,. ' 'which is that of healing, strengthening , and rebuilding the human frame. The young man who is wealthy and who has proven his alliance with the royal family of his country told his American fiancee of the rise and fall of the family for tunes, told, he recalls, with pride that it was so, that members of his family, too , proud to beg even from relatives, hon estly earned their living by their hands when that was necessary. And both had laughed as light hearted young people laugh at the picture the story conjured. ( For both of them are rich and the prob- I' 'ability that family history will repeat I f very remote- BUll lf tlley nd ,J earn thel Uvlng-an the fiancee held up her pretty, pampered, ring whlted f hands to show tholr capabilities. It was M very youthful and American. llut mark the change wrought by ab ecnce. The young man came back to his dek, for he Is one of the many hard v. 'working rich young men of the metropo- I klis. The Jclsure. of the man of large In l fterests is a myth. Wealth is the mill E tone about his neck that menaces yV drowning; that sometimes brings It about. '-ohe girl remained at a summer resort. VYluckily, so the young man thinks, the girta sister remained with her. It Is Ills opinion that the sister, who, he con fesses, "never liked me," "rubbed It In" about those rubber ancestors, and that which at first had seemed a trifle be came a burden. In other words, the Tubbing" came to irritate his. fiancee. ; The other day when the young man The Courage Ky THK GENTLEWOMAN. 'The courage to be happy" is what, Recording to a recent writer on Germany, Characterizes an ever-increasing number of young men and women in the Vater )and. Modelling themselves on Goethe the serene, self-centered philosopher they yearn primarily after self-expression and self-development as the prin cipal means of producing happiness. 1'hls self same spirit is becoming wide- ad here also. The virtues of self- crlf Ice and self-control are repudiated as barriers in tne way or complete enjoy faient of life. This is all very praiseworthy, perhaps, tf happiness is to be regarded as the highest height to which we can attain. JBut there Is something to be said for the opinion of Lesbla, George Bernard fchaw'a heroine, when she said: "I'm rad I think this rage for happiness Bather "vulgar.' " It must be admitted that what are called "vulgar" people are very often happy. Their wants are easily satisfied. One recalls the plow- Ibiy's ideal of bliss: "To swing on a gate all day long and eat fat bacon." Ho long as one's wants are limited to the phy sical, there is a greater chance of hap piness. A holiday crowd la more easily made Joyful than, say, a cultivated man who has been everywhere and seen everything. The awakening of the soul brings a haw standard of desires, and it is gen- y through suffering that the soul ayfkeni. Nietzsche declared that a n's spiritual rank might be estimated the amount of suffering he had under- tone. Burrerlng, rightly understood, rings Insight, sympathy and understand ing, but when undergone rebelllously it hardens and embitters the soul. Says It's Better opened his desk he pushed aside alt the big bulging envelopes with return marks on the upper left hand corner, and seized a small thin one. lie smiled as ' he sniffed the scent that always clung about her belongings and read the note. His face-' paled and stiffened, as he read. -The note was brief. It broke the engage ment. " That Is the 'reason the young man Is pounding on the law of loss ami- gain. He has lost, It Is true, and doubtless the loss seems great. A pink and white girl with confiding eyes and a careaslng voice with worth many times her weight In gold.'- even In diamonds, to the man who loves her. ' Or he thinks she is. The fairy that throws dazzle dust into our eyes at mating time always looks after hat Important detail. She provides the Illusions, plenty of them, otherwise there would be' few marriages. The loss Is the vanishing of the' girl as he' thinks she Is. But over against every loss, an expert bookkeeper sets an opposing and equal amount. That, by some compeusatluft to bookkeepers and necessary for the bal ancing of accounts, represents gain. What is the young man's gain? Ills loss. The loss of a girl who cares so little for him that she cares a great deal for his ancestors. Practical gain set over against a visionary 'loss.' Fortunate though, un happy young man. . The net loss a heartless girl, probably a mindless one, toe, lf she allowed her sister to make a weathervane of her. The net" gam" freedom "to "seek"!' wife who cares not at all for his ancestors, but all-the. world for him. .The loss, .his belief that girls are 11 as simple and loving as they seem. The gain, his knowledge than in the United States, whose cornerstone is equality, there are persona who cannot forgive a masseuse in a family even for relationship to a king. It would be Interesting to hear this young foreigner, honest enough to tell his sweetheart about the masseuse as well as the king, honestly thinks about oir free and equal land. The young man will not relish the knowledge that there are such Americans, as be will not relish the loss of ' the girl, but It will be a. curious anomaly worth his con sideration, that in a land here a rich founder of one of the richest families was a ferryman, and the founder of an other peddler of mousetraps, that the presence of a masseuse In the family annals could' not be overlooked. Loss, gain,' and valuable experience, most 'valuable' experience. ' The computation of loss and gain will cut some lines into 'the young man's face than newer and softer experiences will not be able to erase. But when years have brought discrim inating wisdom he will think the keeper of ills life's accounts has made a huge mistake lf the 'sides 'of that particular page of his ledger do not balance. For he knows that the bookkeeping was mere Juggling that In truth ho lost nothing and gained everything. of Happiness The courage to be happy consists not so much In tramping on the rights and feelings of others as in accepting with a brave and Joyful spirit wheatever fate may be meted out to one. Sidney Hmlth once gave as a recelpe for happiness, a bright fire, to remember all the pleasant things said to and of one, to keep a box of sugar plums on the mantelpiece and a kettle simmering on the hob, which, being interpreted, means, of course, that hap piness is to be found in grateful apprecia tion of the ordinary and simple pleasure of life. To live whole-heartedly In the present is undoubtedly a great promoter of happiness. So many people spend their time In anxious fears or vain regrets. Part of their consciousness lies behind la the past, and part is projected Into the future. They are not "all there." Peo ple can train themselves to be happy Just as they can train themselves to be healthy. "Look within," said Marcus Aurellus, "within is a fountain of hap piness, and it will ever bubble up lf thou will ever dig." f Truthful Tips J Fame's laurel wreath flu mighty few heads. A dollar will go further If you mall it than lf you bet It. It Is natural to respect gray hairs, espe cially lf we happen to be bald ourselves. Woman Is only the weaker vessel be. fore she Is manned. The fellow who depends on' a train of thought doesn't always get there on time. New York Times TI1H IM'IK: to Hear 'Em Say "There He Goes!" Than "Doesn't He Look Natural?" By Tad Throw 'Em an W THE. TIP57FRS CLIENT VNEB AL. WAiT-iMCr POP THe TPTWEV ao,r 3A.io OrOOO Oaotrrt foe . IT WAS A MINUTS BEFORE tE PAiCE . i ...lo nn.FiMAt.ts (ahHE 50ICE vNHliPfTP-ETP . ,FA5CHOO--r-ACHP2HO touBLS VNITH MET. POPlt-? . . . - NJES VOOP. UNCLG was Kiivj time HE eJER DREW Wl ' - v. i . . rvwortivNsirt a paffue'.: . 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AHAPPV .TCrAOFOVV s y I ill ' i By Gus Mager Coprrltbt, 1111, Natloiml Imwt Aituclillon On With ny MILKS Pa mo fashion, ruler e'an of queens, And fat and lenn and tall and short, Has said that women now must wear With accent on the "everywhere." She nays to wear the dresa aright, 11 1 That, woman mny with greatest ease She says the best results are seen if Which, paired with buttons down The hobble skirt is out of style, although It held 'em for a while; The tube is atso on the run except In suburb-land. The new that fits like Persian rugs, like walls that fancy paper hugs, Has sort of been declared the stuff that gets the bacon-and It's hard to think that women thin, wltth figures like a safety pin, Will undertake to don a dress that fits so dad-blamed soon But Fashion's Issued her decree, and so It's up to you aud me To stand near by and lend a hand, a shoe-born or a spoon. Vanishing lly EIM1AH LUCIEX IjARKIX. The man of a master mind, Michael these combinations Faraday, more than seventy years ago looked forward to a great day and "trembled." This eventful day Is the lay when man should experience one of the mtiKt remarkable entities In nature the absolute aero of temperature, the total absence of heat, an appalling state of matter, f7 degrees C, or Ml F., be low ordinary sero. And were Faruday nllve now he would stand in awe before that very nature he so fervently loved. Finite man no, lei me here say once and for all, infinite mun has now actually reached this long-sought wonderful point, ntute or condition of matter to within IV degrees C Wonders never cease. Entirely new conceptions of matter and electricity may now be formulated. From a num ber of methods of research it becomes dally more and more apparent that nothing exists save two magnificent en titles mind and electrons. When all the mattes now In the sidereal universe ex isted as electrons, a state where no mat ter then existed, the absolute tempera ture reigned In supreme and regal majesty. Hut from recent researches It sppears that when absolute cold held sway electricity encountered no reelxt atice at least In pure metals. The most vivid Imagination cannot think of a universe In which the tltanlo force, elec tricity, is unable to appear as heat and light, for it cannot until It Is resisted. Then electricity In Its natural state is always without temperature. Carbon and tungsten filaments In all Incandescent light bulbs offer resistance to the flow of electricity and become so very hot that they emit bright light. liquid helium is colder than solid hydrogen. Chemically pure gold wire was placed In this frigid liquid helium a gas made into a dense liquid by subtraction of Its temperature. Resistance offered by gold disappeared all the electricity passed through the wire. Liquid quicksilver mercury at Its normal density of our ordinary sero or 10 degrees C. of F employed In the ex periments offered a resistance to cur rent of electricity of 172.5 ohms. Then the mercury was frozen to a rigid solid when resistance dropped to 33.7 ohms. Then the temperature of the mercury was lowered to within 43 degrees of the absolute and the reslxtance went down to .084 ohm. Would that Faraday had never died that he might have seen what followed. The temperature was lowered to S degrees and then even down to within 1 degrees of that most wonder ful point, absolute cold. The resistance ran to, what Is practically soro of nothing only S,000,000.000,0(,000ths of one ohm. This resistance of matter Is what we call a flow of current; but electricity is granular I. e, consists of electrons or separate particles. Then since nothing exists but these electrons, the gold and mercury are themselves at the base elec trons. For electrons form atoms, cor puscles, molecules of elements, and these unite Into compounds, and these build structural matter the stellar universe and all It Includes. AH matter known to chemists contains electricity. One may bay "of course" It nothing exists but elec trons. Hut they can be, and a vast majority are, In a state of neutralisation under the familiar but totally unknown senses "positive" and "negative." Then the human senses are unable to detect the presence of this formidable force. Dut here the Impressive word "nasceny" comes In. Nascent electrons at once be come sensible and they can Instantly destroy our Uvea and tear apart all ot e the New up i is, y OVKUHOLT old maids and women In their teens thoxa In and out of love, a drafts that hups them everywhere. tight-fitting like a glfiVe. got to be so dog-gone .tight go tbrouglt her huabanda jiurac lt'a put on with vaseline. the back, Is only bad and worse. Resistance named -r the ele ments or, (more properly) phases of matr ter. Therefore, science cannot now exr press an opinion on the primordial state of matter before suns and worlds began to form. For If matter once or oftener has been unable to present opposition ) electric flows, then all forms of force, energy, work, heat, light, would be un known to a normal human In this utterly strange and unique environment. Thus, day by day, hour after hour, all nature Ib becoming more and more complex to Inquiring researchers. , r Proved Her Case J The suffragist organiser, Miss Kate Koob, was hard pressed by an elderly anil-suffrage banker at a luncheon in Philadelphia. "Women," said the elderly anti-suffragist, rather rudely, "are far below men In the scule of Intelligence." "I think they are men's Intellectual su periors," Miss JOcob contradicted. 'Trove It," cried the banker warmlyl "Prove it. If you can." . Glancing at his thin locks, the young girl smiled and said: "Poeo a bald-heuded man buy hair re? storer by the gallon?" "JIm-well-yes. I suppose he does," the banker admitted, patting his ill-thatched scalp ruefully. "Well," said Miss Ecob, "a woman doesn't waste her money on hair re storer. She buys hair." f Scoreboard Man J By CHKSTKK FIRKINS. Old Alexander tossed a world; AUKUXtUM was sumn irlnk- Itome always won when Caesar twirled, lie was siiiK, Kid Hannibal could surely sling To suit the Cai-llmpe fan, But which of 'em hail anything Upon the scoreboard man 7 Until the Russian Cubs appeared, Napoleon could rap At least .6U0, while he steered The best team on the map. Dut, Ilka the others, he went wrong on his world series plan The people's tributes now belong Unto the scoreboard man. We've seen some actors In our day And orators renowned; We've seen 'em shoot the gesture play And make the welkin sound. But Where's the fellow on the stage . Who's tbrillud the human clan As he, the figure of the age The chalky scoreboard man? Our art fans plank their fortunes down. For paintings old and great. (Mike Angelo was sure no clown When sliding to the plate.) Hut who has drawn such wondrous line, In all the ages' span, Such vivid truths, such soul-felt glgnS, As he the scoreboard manT . Serene and silent, perching high, ' At Park Place and Broadway, AH heedlt-ss of the throng's glad cry Or wall of black dismay, . lie writes the same's progressive stati For spullbound hordes to scan; His Is the modsrn hand of fate The good, grim scoreboard man. "Going to look for another Job?" askei' one office boy. "I'll have to," replied the other, "be. fore next base ball season. The funerals 1 got off to attend last summer hu given the boss an Idea that all my relet Uvea are dead." Washington Btax,