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THE BEE: OMAHA. FRIDAY, JANTARY 19. 1911 11 The $ee' jinp JVJaa z i rp p)a HARRY DIDN'T EVEN HESITATE Copright, 1911, National News Association By Tad Av Give OS f COWE OH A CHANCE I Ort WORE 1 TO &T 1 3CHt0T ecu sou I A hai I Ai-Afi M Ik come. OUT I TTT0 WEtTj TYt6 cnF - j I'M I ATE NO y " AAV I OCA OF SOMsTTHNc T rO?T, IS A VATF VNiTrl NCft- VNlFE - ArTHAT iw ." .r A OFFICER DIDVovT Sfi A .SHOUT fAT BUNETTS AROUNO HnE t-ATELV 1 HOPE- Bur ISaujI A BER OF A 00 Ov AiNE I Rl&wT OOVrfN V TrlBUNC TMCTtE IVJHICHimao -'mm 5?r vvv VOM-OIPDi-EY-rtHOA ftiut AJfini Clses, AWJC Mr. Frederick Martin's Remarkable Arraignment of the Extravagant Rich . Mr. F. T. Martin, the wealthy New Yorker, la ona of tha honest and courage oua men of the times, and hl recent volume, "Tbe Passing of tha Idle Rich," ia a surprising commentary on Ui que. tiona now agitating ail thoughtful minds. It la tha bravo utterance of an earnest man. Hera ara a few paragraph! from ona chapter: . "t purpose In tha course oi this book to write down tha eausea that save us , this plague of Idleness. It waa the curse of (old, no more, no lesa the same con dition that laid In the dust the glory of Athens, that hurled to ruin the spender of Rome, that brought upon Bourbon. France, tha terror of the revolution. "Thar la a vast difference between the healthy, wholesome spending- of money for amusements, pleasures and recreations and the feverish searching for aome new , sensation that can be had only at a tremendous coat. "A wearied, bored group of men arrange dinner. They had been attending din ners until such functions had lost Interest for them. Similarly their friends Were wearied by tha conventional dinner of the time. Why hot prepare a meal the like of which bad never been before? Why not amuse society and astonish the part of tha community that la outside of society? They 4M so. The dinner waa nerved on horseback on tha upper floor of a fashionable New York resort, the name of which la known from coast to coast; tha guests were attired In riding habitat' Ilia handsomely groomed horse pranced and clattered about the magnifi cent dining room, each bearing, bco Ha rider, a miniature table. The hoofs of the animals were covered with soft, rubber pane to save tha waxed floor ' tern'- de struction. ' 'How much did It cost r the public In, quired Interestedly. Tha man who paid the bill knows. The puhlle and Its news papers guessed, their estimates running from (10.000 to JjO.COO. TThe fond owner of a diminutive black-and-ten dog gave a banquet In honor of tha animal. Tha dg"was worth.' per haps, 0. The festivities were very gay. The man's friends came to his dinner In droves, the men In evening clothes and tha women bedecked in shimmering silks and flashing Jewels. In- the midst of the dinner the man formally decorated his dog with a diamond collar worth J1&.HW. It contained TOO small brilliants, varying In weight from one-sixth to one carat. The guests shouted their approval; and the dinner waa regarded as a' huge suc cess. - "A bored Individual with a fondness for gems covered aa much of tils person as possible with diamonds. When he walked abroad he flashed and sparkled in the sunlight, lis also became the possessor of a happy Inspiration. lie went to his dentist and had (title holes bored In rla teeth. Into which the tooth expert In serted twin rows of diamonds. He uad found another way of spending money. "At the conclusion of an elaborate af fair In New York City the guests leaned back In their chairs to listen to the sing er. The cigarettes were passed around. Oddly enough, the banquet had not been marked until that moment: and, as the host waa famous for the unusualneaa of his dinners, many' of the diners were dla- Vj KDWIX M.IKKHAM. ippolnted. Their disappointment gave ray to admiration. Kadi cigarette waa rolled, not In while paper, but In a Wt III and the Initials of the host were en- rrared In gold letters. Thla :twnge con. ell waa applauded until in? voices of he singers struggled amid tha uproar. "A well-known metropolitan spender haa an annual bill of some ten thousand foliar for ahoea alone. His order stands in every manufactory In America, and Burope. Whenever a new style of men's shoes la deslgneJ, a sample pair ia Im mediately shipped to him. He cannot pos sibly wear a tenth of the ahoea aent to him. but he haa the satisfying knowledge that he la never behind the style. "The w ife of a western man owns a pet monkey. The little beast Uvea In a private room and la constantly attended by a valet. It rides abroad behind Its private trotter, has Its own outfit of clothes. Its dining table and a bed made of solid Ivory lipped" with gold orna ments. . All told, perhaps, a dosen human beings minister to the comfort of the little simian, and its mistress cheerfully pays from flftnot to I15.CC yearly on this one extravagance. She became dissatis fied with the dining service in the monkey room of her borne and her pet now eats Ita meals off solid silver plate. "At a dinner parly given by a notorious millionaire each guest discovered In one of his oysters a magnificent black pearl. It waa a fitting prelude lo a sumptuous banquet and It contained an element of surprise. It la said that tha dinner cost tha giver 120.000. An Italian savant and student has vis ited America. He haa set down his opin ion and aome of them are Interesting. He finds, tor Instance, that tha wife of ona of our foremost millionaires wear a necklace that cost more than ams.Oto. The infant son of this favored lady reposed. during his tender year. In a cradle that waa valued at llO.oos. and Immediately following the birth of the boy an event that was flashed by telegraph to the fur thest corners of the earth a retinue of servants waa formed for the sole benefit Lot tha Infant. Tbe corpa of retainers con sisted of four nurse ladle, four high priced physicians, who examined the child four times a day. and posted serious bul letin for the Information of the ctamaat press and public A man of common name, but of un common wealth, decided to have a home ia New York- City. He purchased the palace of a friend who had died, and paid for It S2.UN.0ue. which was popularly supposed to be one-half the original eoe-t of lb pile. On his garden, to make space for which he tore down a building that had cost tlOe.OM, the new owner speat tWO.000. Ills bedstead I of carved ivory and ebony. Inlaid with gold, it cost $,. The' walla are richly carved and decorated with enamel and gold they coot PaVW. On Ihe celling the happy millionaire expended C0.O90 In carvings. enamel and gold: and ten pairs of filmy curtains, costing COOS A pair, wave In Ihe morning breeae. The wardrobe In this famous bedroom represents an outlay of XUPWI. and the dressing table ta.OO. The washstand cost B.0O, and the bed hang ings K a yard. The chimney piece and overhanging mantel tnrew Into general circulation ti.ets more, and tbe four door consumed another IIO.WO." The Manicure Lai There ain't been much talk lately about that Italian war, baa there. George?" aaked tha manicure lady. I never paid any attention to It from the beainirin-." said tha bead barber. "I got battles enough on my own bapda." "I wouldn't have notlcad it much my self," raid the manicure laur. "only brother Wilfred haa took s much In terest In It. and be Is thinking right now of going either to Italy or to Persia He thinks Pesla might be the beat etunt. because b say the Italians can take the beat cars of themselves, while Persian need cool bead." "You can Jump from one war to an other faster than any girl I ever seen," tec tared the head barber. - minute ago you was talking about Italy, and cow It ia Per." Well." retorted the manicure lady, "didn't I Just tell you that it waa Wil tred'e talk that got me Interested at all. la cither way? Wilfred Is a kind of a bug on them tilings, ever since be read bow Lard Byron went over to Greece to help free that poor little counry. I don't know why that Intent Wilfred o much, except that Wilfred Is a poet and I believe that this Lord Brroa dashed off some verse himself. 'That s the trouble with Wilfred. George, He la all tbe time looking for tone republlo to save or aome king to stab wtth hie pen. He never thinks e selling down lo hi wriUag desk and writing a nice ad for some new kind of breakfast food. Oee. I wish I could writ poetr. you bet I would bo there with the old bank books. I see lots of vereea In the subway every day when 1 am reading tha ada on my way down to work, and If they ain't finer than the stuff I read In the books 1 get out of the library I , will marry you tha first time you are a widower." "Porta la born, not made," raid the head barber. "Tou ain't the first guy that ever said that," responded the manicure lady "but 1 don't care who said it, I think there la a lot of hot air about It. I can make up aome kind of verse my self, and, goodness knows. George. 1 ain't a post. Tbe kind of vereea I waa talking about ain't very hard la make as the advertising kind. I waa thinking of couple this very morning: 'If I was Just a child again. And listened to them oootnx dove. I'd wear no mittens made of yam. I'd wear McDugan'a aeamleaa glove. The head barber grinned aardonlcaily, "If you let them krow who wrote that, be ventured, "you would be shot at sun rise." "I didn't think It wa bad at all." said the manicure lady. "I know I ain't no regular poet, but that ona sounded good ! to me, and so did this: , "If I wss a bird thsl could saH and all nay up In the eky eo high. Tn Ihe nlsnee V? e? !!l "et&nt sae I would fly and fly and fly. And when I got to them distant star 1 v-wikl buy O'Sullivana Chocolate Bare." Again the head barber grinned. "Keep on trimming nail, k !,- waa ell he said. Felix! Behave!! e Ey Tad THE I AlJAs JOrABTHlNG- DO"-"' M THE OF WEN n-rvriUevwr w rut wojro" EKSrKT,Twe'i vgHCre EH C.,xf, CMAinjwAe, oPTWe COmrA. ON tVHOU-CO iu.J j-jt Von trmi MEj,Tt fxA fr 0 ICrtifljtr, .Ht w0UJE0 cTUT TWffotO CORNCOB FiOCO IT itTM 'MfcANlAl L0n cT AMO HMC Hit EN in HA MO t Hv4T ' tArt ANTHONY A PICC6 Of Mil MlNp. ATTHAT MOMErtr HU UTH W HUXCT FNTd Teh fUjOfA A- iTBfftr, r ar fort AiKCO. 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CA5 INAoiJlflU) XP SOLUTION On rug coHTWAarf, Nt 0aA Man. IT wIMPUFrlfc TMt CAM INNEMXU IT 1 VUUM TO ot fog ajue. f you ste- there's OM6 BEAU FURtZj Trie StlA, OF THAT WlNPOV, UT ! p" I've had a curious experience lately One day I chanced to hear a dlsrusslu among three college girls, who talked of life with a big L. They all expected to elevate the world and were very seri ous In their views of the uplift they would give, but a nearly as I rould make out from tha consensus of opin ions expressed the two thing that they regarded a the greatest calamity that oould befall a woman were, first, to get married, and, second to be lied down to a home. Tha next day I met a beautiful and wealthy young wo man whs waa a reigning bell In society, who calmly told ma that aba had broken ker engagement to the young man to whom she waa engaged to be married. Hbe gave as a reason for doing thla that ah had been to see on of her girl friends, who had been mar. ried a couple of years, and who looked faded and weary, and whom she found wrestling with crying baby, no r vents, and a husband Whe waa cross because there was no dinner. "Of course. I'M awfully fond of Jack." the girl went nn,"W I took one louk at Lulu, and one t myself, and t came home and wrote aek that matrimony waa loo strenuous for me." The third day I heard somebody ask a working girl If aha aver Intended to marry, lo which she replied, with em phasls, "Never. Catch ma giving up my poeketbook and latch key for any mas that lives." These thre group of women may not represent their se as a whole, but they do undoubtedly repreaeat the thre type of women of tedy-th Intellectual, the gay and frivolous, and tha working woman, and the thing that struck me so forcibly waa that all of them dta played an absolute taek of sentiment. The college bred women did not want to marry because It would Interfere with her career. The society girl did not want to marry because ah would lose her beauty and have to worry about ser vant. The buetnes woman did not want to marry because she would have to give up her liberty and her salary. All three travelled by different roads, but Ihey reached the same goal. To them matrimony waa a Ufa sentence, and home a prison, and It wa plain that If love ever came Into their Uvea, It would be In tha nature of surprise party. It wa nothing that they counted on. They were net on the lookout lor the 'alry Prince. They were dodging hlm- Of course, this may be rather an ex treme Illustration f tbe modern dis illusioned young woman, but nothing Is more obvloua than thai women are growing lees sentimental all of the time, and It begin to look as If the woman who Uvea only la her emotions, and wbe views the facta of Ufa oaly through a bale of refinance, will toon be as extinct aa tha dodo. A thousand little proofs of Ihe de cadence of sentiment in woman force themselves on one's attention. Take i novels, for Instance, which are written mostly by women, and for women, and which fairly reflect women's point of view st every period. Compare the Be lindas, and Kvailna. and Amelias, who simply exuded sentiment at every pore, Kith tha strenuous heroine of tne modern novel! It I the dlffereac between Mis Edgeworth and Ilichard Harding Davis Rven the broken-hearted heroine, and the heroine who suffered and was strong, have gone out of fashion because women are no longer sympathetls with that state of mind. What Interests women In no tion I a heroine who sees things fairly and squarely, and perhaps unconvention ally, and who grapple with problems of real life. She mut be Involved tn love story, of course, but the love story 1 side miw, not the whole thing. The theater, which ia also largely sup ported by women, show the earn Indif ference to sentiment. Tn moat euooses ful ply of late year hav been the problem playa of action, and not tboea that depended on sentiment. Women are the most eathuahutla fhawltet and lusrnile. who appeal Is always to tha Intellect and not to the heart, Two other straw that show which way a woman's mind moves are the fact that women nave ceased to swoon, and almost ccax to w ep- The woman of the pest Was so sentimental that she could be touched to tear by anything. SB wept for Joy, and she west for sorrow. Just as sic rseoned sway when anything un expected happened. Till b , estttiSvd literetiii. but a woman now who couldn't control herself j would be rondoered the victim of hys tcrla. and would hustle off to lb nearest nerve rpeclailtt u get herself treated, because sii would know that ah was an Jubject of deriJIJa ti other somen. The ladles who died of broken heart.'' becaii they were JIUd by a fallhlas swain, and wha spent forty or fifty yeare weeping over a packet of yellow-old let ter, seem else to have left no successors. A woman whs had no more backbone and pride than to pine away for a falthlsse lover does not now appeal to other women as a romantic figure, On tha contrary, they have such a contempt for her that It stings her Into bracing herself up. and keening quiet If she does not adopt the modern uoUr of tha forsaken, and sue for damages to bar heart, and bad and vulgar as the breach of promise suit U. It I better than for a woman la grieve over a man wha didn't want her. Keen the deserted wlfa, who surely haa cause. If anyon haa, to bemoan her fate, is beginning to take lea aentl mental and mora practical view of her situation. It haa keen tha traditional attitude for a woman whose husband forsook her to bemoan bar loas and love him still and wait patiently for hi re-' turn. But Women are Beginning t ask them selves why they should grieve for the loss of a worthless man. or weep over '. '"ng deprived of a husband wha was willing lo humiliate them? And Ihe re sult haa been eminently satisfactory. To the fact that women regard the marriage tie with lea aenUment la also attributed much of the Increase In di vorce. There used to be a sentiment about the matrimonial fetter ulat glided It. and made women endure any kind of treatment rather than break It. There waa even a hsls about husband that made It right for him to be cruel and tyrannical and gave him the right to do a lie pleased. Mhe could not oven Im agine a life In Which she would have to etand alone, and as ah endured an un happy married life a being tha better of two evils.- Thai waa In sentimental point of view,'' The practical on Is lhat man I human, and marriage a contract, and that If her marriage yoke gall unendurably she haa . a right to free herself from It. Just as many women In the past had grievance against their husbands, hut the woman of the past bore her wrongs In sllsnce be- -cause ah regarded marruuj from a sen timental standpoint. Tha woman of tha present la lea sentimental and aha gets ' her divorce. And In this leas of sentiment may be found one explanation of a great moral problem. Doable-Ended Stories t By WEX JOXK9. Estrlle Wss dissatisfied with Ufa tn tha country town where aha lived. , Ker parents had a beautiful home anl" Kstell hid many friend In Osceola , Corner. On In psrtlculsr, young Jack Snoogle.' waa a very close fiiund Inroed. Jack wax a fine, honest young man who owned a I large and prosperoua farm on tha country " road. But r.slelle wa tired of Jack. Ho lacked polish, she thought. Ha bad not the city way that are eo fascinating. Accordingly, when Kstelle left Osceola - Comers lo gon on the stage, she didn't'; sent Jack Snoogl her address. . ENDIXd NO. L . Ten years later l'-sielle ' returned to Osceola. - The old village looked much tha same. . But Kstelle had changed. ha craved the. Intense life of the vocalist In a moving-! picture huse. 1 So she quickly shook the dust of Osceola Comer from her feet, hal. glove and . aklrt and hurried tnek to catch the dally ' train east. I Aa for Jack Rnoogle. ho kept on win- i "owing hie potatoes, all Ignorant ot the fact lhat Eeteile bad been In tha villa-. Anyway, he would have been afraid to shew any Interest In her. for Mr. Snoogla waa what t:ia neigh bore called a holy KXDINO NO. 1 A Jack Pnoogl didn't know where I EsteUe was living In New Tsrfc. he had to make a bouse-to-liouse canvas of tha entire city. This took quite a long time, and when Jack bad covered the Bronx and Brooklyn he waa about ready to give) up the quest. But he persevered, and finally be had Inquired for Eetello in every boOdlng In Q rearer New Tor. Alas. BeteTi had moved la Brooklyn' Just after Jack had finished Ids tnqsrlea In that korangh. Bo they never met. ' ad! fstats R::i rkil.i.pfcr. There Is comfort for everybody; a big man can carry twice aa much, and a little man get around twio aa fast There Is a certain word that will, nine time out of ten, cause a fight, whan an ansa hurts It at another. And I hav a. ' Uced that It u aot used muck. J