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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1912)
A Tin: v.i:i:: omaiia. wkdxksdav. jantaky i!r he Bee nne Magazine (p)a SILK HAT HARRY IS ALMOST MARRIED AGAIN CVp rlnM. National News AsVu. 5AS BlNK, ME AN9 THC MlS5lS H)T I POROoT 70 TAKE. THt UCENJE 1 A I . . . m . . . ... . J Ann i f - ..... y luinc Y MALL ANO X bT IT- I COT TO p (JT ON A -LEAr-. COLL AH. - A NTSk I By Tad LI. GEfeoAT- TVe.OV VANTS "CEMe? ,V,oT I ,n . n-Lt' wEnui Ar on rwe.i;ooei thm- vwtie the: incp .l m .nC .y lvr jfe -l QL f WEMyir oe je . y;v v . - i -yXjD i , y , T v v y-v -JiS Gtc p-G'e t. . LU t if!', --- --a . I I I I , ! i - - r We Can Be What We Will Be by Doing a Few Simple Things and Quitting Others Just by Lacking Will Power to Bring Them Into Play, Man Has Left Dormant Incalculable Powers and Abilities, Therefore the World is Over run by Failures in Health, Happi ness and Endeavor. Copyright, 1911, by Aincrlcan-Journul-Kxamlner. By ELLA WHKELKK WILCOX. All over our land today ther arc hundreds and thousand of people who begin the New Year with unhappy Ideas about their physical condition who could become well and utronx and full of vitality, before an other year dawned, without the aid of doctors, medicine, or chango of cli mate, If they used enoutth will power to work for auch a result. But the In dividual who has developed will power sufficient to make him do a few pimple things every day, or ; refrain from doing a few foolish things. Is rarer to find than pearls In clams. It Feenis curious to think of the long eons In which man has been evolvlns from lower forms of life to higher, and of his Incalculable power and abilities which he has left dormant, just by lack ing the will power to bring them Into play. Therefore the world Is overrun by failures In health, happiness and en deavor. A literary man who was delicate and slinht of build once decided to taw twenty coida of wood. . Jiefore he hud cut through one log he whs exhausted, and his friends Indulged in Jibes and Jests at his expense. Hut despite this (or perhaps because of It), ho kept at his allotted task. After a few days be found be did not become o quickly exhausted and that he was feeling stronger In his client and mm. Hy tho time Ma task was finished lie experienced such benefit that he resolved to take up some physical exercise culling forth the same amount of energy and ubb of timo every day. Although a mlddlo aged man, he in creased hl chest measure two and five elKhths Inches In six weeks' time, by uxing one hour a day at gymnuslum work. Kesldes enjoying good health for the first time In years and finding his mental powers greatly increased. Nothing truer was ever written than William ISlatke's words on this subject of tho need of regular systematic physi cal exercise in our schools: Physical education should be made compulsory in every school In the land. Is It not as important to possess good health as to figure correctly? "Ixiok at the next ten children you meet, and ay If three of them are well built, strong and hearty; dear-skinned, lustrous-eyed, quick and sure of move ment; rich with II fo and vlnor; and In every way satisfying In build and action. You would not buy a horse that did not embody these qualities. ,I not your child almost as Important as your horse? And there are many special classes. You will find them in every school room In Amer ica; poor, half-built no, not even quarter-built children; with thin legs, thinner arms, slim necks, with every chest cham ber too small; pullld faces, a weak walk, and run they can scarcely run a block and they look ready to faint it they try it. Weak and timid all the time; living well, they exist but do not live. Yet each men child is just as dear to iu parents, as yours are to you. If these can be raised, and not only raised, but built up just where they need It, and can be at length brought to a lusty, splendid manhood, ready for anything, will not he be a friend indeed who does that for such a boy?" Thi can be dune by persistent, unre mitting work; work requiring only one hour a day, added to the reilnuislilug of cigarettes and meat diet Of Ktv. I'r. John A. Hroadus, one of the most celebrated 1 aptlst ministers In America, a scholar and a nobleman, the most popular man in Ijou.svllle, an evangelist In General Lee's army, one writer says: "Dr. liroadus never had a strong phjs jue. A year after h began his work in the seminary his health broke down com pletely, and he was forced to give up for a while. In fact, his physicians notified him that he could never do brain work any more, but must satisfy himself with some light . employment, as a clerk or copyist. But the spirit was strong enough to manage the body. By diligent care of himself, and by heroic physical training, he was enabled to extend a life-of almost Incessant toll nigh to the limit of three score and ten, and was permitted to live and serve his countrymen long after his more stalwart companions had passed away. 'While at the Vplverslty of. Virginia he placed himself for a session under the direction of a foreigner who taught gym nastics. From his training he received remarkable benefit, his average In all round physical 'development,' according to the measurements of his teacher, having been exactly ' doubled In one session of regular drill." Women may be found all over the world who arc bemoaning the loss ,of youthful contour of face and form, and of the creeping on of maladies and aliments, who could regain beauty, health and comfort with no expense, no physician and n machinery save the use of the machinery of the brain and persistent exercise of body and mind regulaVly. To Join a gym nasium Is an excellent method of making, such exercise regular; it is most advis able. But if the gymnasium Is not avail able any woman ran gain health and beauty by exercises in her room if ?he cares enough about results to keep up ft:o work and use common sense in her diet at the same time. We can. be. what we will to be. r WIRELESS PHONE COMING II Wireless telegraph messages have been sent for a distance of 6,u00 miles, from San Francisco to Japan, and a telephone message without the use of wires has been carried 310 miles. Inventors assert that the day Is not distant when It will be possible for a woman returning from the opera in Paris to speak to hubby In his club In New York and remind him of the fact that it Is time to go home, and that she does not think so much of his friend, that horrid Mr. Ho-and-Su, anyway and, oh, yes send some, more money. From the toy stage to a commercial in strument, the advance In the wireless field has been rapid. Nowadays no trav eler thinks of taking passage on a ves sel that is not equipped with wireless apparatus, and there are hundreds of in stances of rescues at sea due to the ef ficiency of the system. On the ocean passenger steamers newspapers are pub lished dally, giving the events of the world, carried faithfully through space. H The atmosphere Is networktd with lines of ether, and it is along these that the electric impulses are propelled. At first a powerful and very noisy current was used, but in the case of the telephone the current Is weaker. The action on the ether la described as much the same as a man dropping a stone, in a pond, which sets up a s, rit s of ripples in ever widening circles and constantly diminishing force, as com pared with the constant dropping of grains of sand In the same pool, with the result that a steadv movement of r.pples, one following the other in rapid succes sion, maintains the force to tho desired point. 1 hey go out In all directions alike. The effort of the uirelisi expert is directed MYtard . driving the in pulns in a given direction ami piov:,ling Instruments that will record the impulses at a given point. Variations in the time or systematic teat of the impul-ej are reduced fj sound, and tho telegraph instriinu nt la utilised, by reducing the Vibrati ris of the voice to an electric current which corresponds to thu vibrations, and im pelling them horizontally along the lines of ether picking them up at the other end. and converting the current against the sound waves, the human voice Is leprodtK ed. Agnes! Agnes! We're All Out of Mustard By Tad V HALF THEM0fcU ARF 50UlKRJiL,S AN 6 THE OTHETi HAL AftE lTS V TVAi THE MNNUAi- ONNETt PMAOiNA v MAHOCrArW PolSHclLi. ALJ.7HE DOVJ RAO TH'R FetFT-U rsDET TH LNE.fV PciNd- ih tmC Foddetr Ar -me. gATTS OF A -DATI-S"- A m.nute me-rOAsrMAsrer- BACidH-jc CMAtR. 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TOO HUCW otrtAiN on twe Nerves, JiCS. 5HEfLCO;CV (.anc. i have decided ' rM Erne a i or. 1 "V-f-rfSL LlTHIKG, TOO HUCW ( . IHAT'S THE WORST OLD fASHIONED EVEFV AW ( 1HAT 'S THE WORST ) x6u IDIOT I. - I've 1 lOLDfASHIONED HAT J A CVCXDD MlND TO l lgAW THRASH TOU 'AftfcAT SCOTT, TlCiHTtfADDO J 1 ERE COMES Mt WIFE. rr L AKE HER. HOME IN (TROLIET.SO 1 CAN 6EAT C But that'll.) II COST ME A A , J I k . BLACH PPTr ' c rca,.. I I rNOVM SY THF- PATru nu rur 1 ronr. Li (ft csv v.,.- . . 1 ! C DMu7 RUN to on i r MY A'.ttT.uVr- KHtft.LOCKOl 1 -1 How to Keep Young and Pretty The Art of Resting ,' liy AIIY The other day one of your public speak ers, a very prominent woman, stated that the only thing necessary to beauty was plenty of rest. As she was talking to girls who earn their own living and consequently have little or no time to rest during the day. It seemed rattier foolish advice, but when I caught a glimpse of the speaker I was truly very astonished, for she doe not look as If she even understood the mean ing of tho word. This woman Is very rich, consequently she does not have to worry about money matters. The chase for tho silver dollur Is a very restless occupation, and If It la long continued It leaves Its mark on every fare, no matter how much massage you use to eraae the lines. The lecturer on rest has a face aeamed and lined and such unquiet eyes, such a reposeless body. She Is not young, but In all her years she has not mastered the art of resting or even of looking restful yet she lectures on rest and she la right. Without plenty, of rest you can't be beautiful or retain your youthful looks very long. Fhe has not done so. Many people never rest excepting dur ing their hours of sleep, r think being too vivacious is as exhausting to others as It IS to one's self, and the fascinating person .varies being vivacious and quiet by turns. ' American girls are usually vivacious. They make a gres,t to-do about every lit tle thing. Then as they grow older they grow fatigued and liavo loss enthusiasm. They settle down more and look either bored or tired, unless they become Inter ested In public things, and then they as- DK8LY8. sums that restless animation which wear them Into nervous prostration. Many women try to look very Intense over everything. It is a kind of affecta tion which deceives nobody and will only wear you dot physically. Why should one be Intense about trivialities? Rave your olf for your work and for things that really count. When I am not on the stage I rest all I can. Unless I am "on parade," as I call It, I am laxy and as Indolent aa can be. I could spend all my spare time doing any one of a hundred things, but I cal culate that I only havo Just so much energy and I have chosen to put that Into my work. When I am not working I am thor oughly and completely relaxed. Just Ilka a kitten. The cat can teach us many lea sons, not only In perfect grace, but the use of our forces and the way to save such strength aa we have. You can t get a cat to make all kind" of useless movements as a dog wilt. If a cat wants anything that you have It tries to get It. At other times it relaxes; every muscle and rests or goes about its own particular business. I don't think the cat ever makes an uncalculatkig ' move, I am sure they have wonderful ' brains, and the only reason some people., dislike them Is because the cat Is too' clever to give her secrets away. Mho Is either fuly energised or perfect In ' her repose. Kho Is completely fascinating, because perfect master of herself.' If you want to learn how to rest' study the cat.. It rests In perfect comfort, anywhere, at any time, and Is the greatest example of perfect relaxation and grace. The Greatest Woman lly WIMPIIE The twenty greatest women In the world. It Is interesting to read the dif ferent things different people think about them, isn't it? Now, the greatest women I ever knew never got Into that list at all. And yet It has been my good fortune to know about seven out of twenty of the women in every list I have seen published. The greatest . wo man 1 ever knew was a country school teacher. And she was many things besides. She was a min ister's wife, and she was an Invalid, and she and the minister were poor, end they bail a fumily to bring up, so the minister's wife opened a little school In the little, village where I lived, and we a I went to it all the queer, little, half formed, half-savage creatures we called children' In those days out there In that little village. The minister's wife did her own house work, and often und often I have seen her leave a class In I.atln and run into the kitchen to see if the beans were dry ing out or if the graham bread was ready to set. And she taught Oreek to such of us as could learn It, and mathematics and history, ancient arid modern, and tho be ginning of French, and a little, of tier man and, most of ail, she taught us a love of learning. She read to us "The Lady of the Lake," "Ivanhoe," "Marnilon." 1 can see her jjreat blue eyes now, when she came to an especially tin tiling part; and she taught us to love poetry, and to appre ciate fine prose, und she made us scorn tlm things that were low und hate thtnK that were evil, and she loved and uioth eied mil li of us us weru motherless, and she scolded such of iih uh were woldly, und Klin encouraged sin h of us us hud ainliltlon, and aUvuys she held in her delli ute, tremulous hand the flag of honor and courage and loyalty, and tuUKht us to know Its colors and to love them. Ami nil tlie time slia was dying, and we never knew it. Mn- hud a cancer of the breast, and day after day she stood and taught us, and was patient und gentle arid kind, and the dreadful agony must have been eating her vny heart out, and we never knew. Her own family never knew till the t mi was almost there. Mlie had a plain little party for us oil oik o, a plain Utile party In a plain little house, but there were nuts and raisins to eat, und. oh, the stories she told us, that ib'reat-souled woman, and the games she I U DLACK. taught us to play, and the way she laughed and made merry, and all the time the agony tore at her very life, and she smiled and never spoke of it. And she made her children's dresse. too, and dressed their dolls for them, and knit mittens for them at Christmas, anil when any one In the little village was in trouble there was the greatest woman I ever knew at the house of sorrow-first. A foolish girl paid, for her folly In mis erable disgrace, and when she came home from the city humiliated and broken hearted, it was the greatest woman I ever knew who met her at the train and held her In her arms and said, so that all might hear, "Welcome homo, my dear; we've missed you." No scandal where she was: no cruel telling of cruel tales; no mean envies; no small triumphs among those she gov erned and knew so well. It was glorious to do some little kind ness and reap the reward of seeing the pride In tho eyes of one who taught us to do such things. J'oor, struggling, not beautiful ti IoiVk upon until you knew her. the greatest woman 1 ever knew, and when she died the whole village cried, and the poor young fellow who was trying to lift him self from the mire of hereditary humilia tion came und brought a wreath of wild flowers for her grave, and then It was that we first knew that it was she who had encouraged and helped him to study late at night when none but her own family could know. And the town drunkard brought a knot of old-fiishloned "plneys" and begged to lay them on the coffin. "She knew how hard I tried," ho said. And the little girl from the family we all .ailed "queer" walked three miles In from the farm to sing at the funeral. She would have come, she said, if she had had to crawl on her hands and knees. "She understood my mother," said the girl. "No one else ever did." Ieud and burled in u low grave In a little, country church yard, the best woman I ever knew and the greatest. There are many of the uame stripe here In this country of ours. I wonder If we half appreciate them, wo who mufce out lists of "great women" with a cold hearted courtesan and a shallow mlmo to lead the names? A l ittle lilrl'a Reason. The following conversation was over heard between two little girls who were not yet old enough to go to school: "What mal.es a horse act naughty when he sees un auto?" one asked. "It's this wiii," replied the other. "Horses is used to seeln' other horses pullln' rigs, and they don't know what to think of 'cm goln" along without a horse. I guess if you was to see a pair of trousers walkin' down the street with- out a man In 'em you'd be scared, to" ' The liam'a Hm