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1 THE BEE: OMAHA. TnrRSDAY. FERRUARY 1. 1912. 11 The Eee'g ftnp Jaazine p)af e How to Keep Healthy "Making" a Bed is Good Exercise 1'opyrlftht, Mli, Nations! News Assocu.am By Nell Brinkley ill; xa0mM ' 1 " ' ' I .Is i t ' ' 1 1,1 ' ' " First Drag all the covers off in a bunch it gives you a good twist and stretches all the muscles of the upper part of the body. Second Spreading the covers on again also stretches your muscles. If you're short, you have to stand on your toes. That's good for you. I'm five feet one and a half in my stocking feet and a little OTer five-feet-three In heeli. I weigh a hundred and twenty-three pounds when I've got my this year's muff along with me. I ran stop In the saddle from C In, the morning til 10 at night and not wobble when I land (like when you come In from an all-day tots on the old gray sea In a twenty-eight-foot cruiser with a frapped en gine In ft). You know how you walk at an angle then and sag at the knees, and your body lifts and falls regular, in time with the tide! I don't ever have to count white lambs going over a worm fence-way in the little hours like some folks do. And I ran sprint that "shady lane" from the subway to a "lower level" train In two minutes. Have to have a nice, harmless temper no dyspepsia, good lungs and pat the boards In the walk hard to do that And you cannot go straight, you know you have to kind of just weave In and out. Oh! New Rorhelle-ers and Mamaroneck-ers "and Pelham-ers and such--you know that's a good stunt. And my appetite Is Just where It waa when I was 11 and my mother used to keep a big stone Jar full of fat. spicy Third Tuck the covers in over the feet of the bed if it's low enough. It's a good back and leg stretching exercise. Fourth Then tumble in and loaf on it, for after you exercise you ought to rest, so the doctors recom mend, and I agree with them. brown rookies (not little ones, big ones) on a particular shelf In the pantry for when I came home from school ' like a raging lion seeking whom It may devour." My, look at all the I's from here back. Nobody thinks that artists ran do very much else but just go artlng along making spooky looking things on paper and having a tempera ment but they ran. They ran do anything In the world but add and put things bark where they belong and not turn over the ink bottle. They can when "they" happen to be a lady make a bed. And It's bullee good exercise. When you drag the rovers off drag them all at once and Just as hard as yon ran, and try to keep your feet on the same spot they were when you started to pull. Don't you see that you'll get a good twister then? A regular Greek dance pose. When you put them on again you stand hips bark, chin up and a deep 'bend In your back at the waist and then swipe them on. Aud that swipe takes arm work. When you begin lurk ing, tuck from over the foot If you ran. It puts you upon the tips of your little "mules" and draws your little body all out. Anyway, tucking is good work, for you have to either squat on your heels or twist yourself to do It, If yon make ,,' ah 'bout half-dosen beds and go after them good, work with your body loose and not try to ' save on the reaching and bending, by that time you'll need to tumble In on one of them for a little "breath." Tear It all up and glory In It. Somebody else ran make It over again. But anyhow, It's good exercise to make Just your', little own one It you cannot go halt a dosen. Nell Brinkley. February Astronomical Happenings J The days are steadily getting longer, being JO hours minutes long on the 1st, 10 noun 8 minutes on the lith, and 11 hours minutes on the 3th. The un rises en these dates respectively at 7:3, T: and 7:05. and nets at 6.JS, 6. 16, and :!!. The sun Is from It to 14 min utes alow the whole month, the maxi mum being 14 minutes W seconds on the ISth. According to standard time. It Is on the meridian on that day at 38 min utes 11 seconds after IS o'clock, the latest of the whole year. On the Hh, the sun enters Placet, the laat alga of the sodlac. , llercury is morning star, but moat un favorably placed. Venus also is morning atar and slowly approaching- the sun. Its brilliancy Is pretty constant during the month. Mars comes to the meridian at 7 p. m. on the lith. Juplier is morning star and rapidly weparatlrtg from Venus. Saturn la In quadrature on the 3d. and crosses the meridian at 6:31 p. m. on the :stn. The moon la full on the 2nd. in last quarter on the Mh, new en the 17th, and la first quarter en the ZSth. It la In con junction with Jupiter on the 11th, with f 0 MARS. Photograph of the planet made at the Yerkes observatory, California. Venue on the lith, with Sjiurn on the Sl'.h, and with Mam on the Sith. WILLIAM F. R1GI5B. r Little Bobbie's Pa By WILLIAM F. KIKK. Wife, sed Pa to Ma site beefoar last, i the Kngllsh now ihey have to Hand let us go dowa to the stash un wen the royal train cums in A see sum royalty. ! do not want to be one of a vulfiar crowd of aite-seers, aed Ma. A have my toea atepped on by a crowd of ruffians. You certlngly rib up sum grate eevnlngs here A keep New Yorkers away from the saim peepul. Ouch, ted Ma. you big brute? Ma was looking at a man wfrh had steeped on her long cloke. I beg yure parUing. lady, aed the big man. 1 didn't meen to tred on yure cloke. 1 am aorry. for me. aed Ma. Why doant you sak nij You better tslk low. you big brulte, la go up town to that Uttel dinner party to wich we waa Invited to? , I doant want to.- sed Pa. I om sick of Chicking a la Maryland A that la all than brunette cook can maik up wen there la -company. Chicking A hot pone bred, sed Pa. I bave went there so often A ee-ten that hot pone that I am full of cornmeal. Pa sed. Git them on the phone say that I am In vary bad shape A we cannot fro. Wk-h way shall I tell them that you are In vary bad shape, sed Ma, mentally or fleslkaJly? FliiiKally. of course, sed Pa. My bead Is clear as a bell. sed Ma. ft my husband hears tula argy- ment he Wilt teech you to talk shorter alept. 1 am prltty sure that Pa heard It all. but he kep laying to Ma, Cum a Intel further this way. dcerest luv, A doant lone Bobble. I gueaa wi n Pa looked at the big man he thought it was better to buy a new cloke than to fix up the aalm old fare wlrh he had always wore. Then we got to tlx poleece line A Pa went up to a big poleecemati. Hello, frien. aed Pa. thia la my poleoce card. I am a grate frien of Muter Waldo, Pa toald the poleeceman A he toald me to pkk out the first good-looking poleece- t The Road to Easy Street ly 11AI, COFF.MAX. r. asu. . I . pi u,ff;init',5 i i ess JkH . M sce.-rHK css u fH 331110 RsaaCr. f MMmW. ."SfeiX H i. we." . kwmb MS mm mm 1 t-mwium Mff i.fd i w ii m M?i E&rm. mmwv I A' MfciiC; n I'll'Ui't'fPIZl &.lT(af II 1U II 121 If; .Mi M', Vafl' 'A H i I III II 1 111 s Jjfi. form The Great Draft ;;". By IlEV. THOM "v ' rbraarr t, 1MM Forty-eight yeaie ago today people north and south were opening their eyes l.'i wonder end smasrment at the an uouncement, conspicuously displayed upuu all the bulletin I boards, that Prenl Ident Uncoln had ithat day ordered a draft for JOO.OOO more men! We are Juet be ginning, after the In pee of half a cen tury, to perceive the tremendous signifi cance of that an nouncement and of the colossal char acter , of t he struggle to Which la referred. What that draft meant may be partially understood by stopping to reflect that the mighty Roman empire never at any one time had 300.000 men in the field. With all their world-wide operations, reaching from the Ianube to the aandy waalea of the great Sahara, and from the Pil lars of Hercules to the frontiers of India, Hie Cseaars did nut have as many soldiers as President Lincoln ordered in that one draft. Thia fact will serve to give some sort of Idea of the bigness of the civil war. specially If takes In connection with the further fart that the SOD.oe called for In the draft of February, 1HO. represents; hut a imall part of the total force of the I'mIoii eule. which. Including all cnllM- mnt from start to finish, sggTrgateri .US.13. It Is quite refe to say that n other leople eer presented u-h a wsrllke front ss that which wss presented by the north to the south In ths war between the Maybe it is like the Liberty Bell, sed Ma. A that was cracked, you know. But 1 will call up. If you are sure that you can show us this royal party. 80 Ma called up. Then we went down to the stashun ware the royal train was going to cum in. Mercy, aed Ma. the minnit we got off at the staahun. Did you ewer see such a crowd? How In the wurtd can we ewer git neer enuff to see anything? That will be all rite, sed Pa. I have my poleece card that will let us thru. I know all them honest Irish pohecemen, ed Pa. Poor Irls poleecemea. sed Ma." first they cairn oavcr heer to get away from c an I ssw dc show him this. Me A Mister Waldo waa in the Philippines tugether. Pa sed. You doant eay so? aed the poleeceman. I am glad Mister Waldo got back safely to America. As for you. keep moving. But look at thia card. Pa sed. But look aL thia nite-atlck. ccd the po leeceman. Now you move on. But 1 have my family with me. sed Pa Thay will follow you, 1 turn, sed the poleeceman, tiio I am yure I d(ant know, why. Now move on' 80 Pa A Ma A me niov. d on A we dldent see the royal duke A hi family. I waa gladder, beekaus we weat to a rea terant A had a fine dinner. Its fine to be on Easy Street; it is a pleas ant place; But if you 're going to Easy Street, you'll find you're in a race. Tou can't sit back and shirk your work and look at those who've won, But bid good-by to laziness and just jump in and run. You must jump in, and fight and work, nor care for one defeat; I For if you take things easy you won't reach j Easy Street. It's line to be on Easy Street, free from misfortune's goad, But the road that leads to Easy Street is a long, hard road. Don't mind the burden that yon bear; be true of hand and heart; Whether you reach the goal or not, don't play a loafer's part. Don't waste time in envy, and never say you're beat, For if you take things easy, you won't reach Easy Street. r Pithy Philosophy a you n it man th hoon. when It wasn't Hi hou. he wanted. Chicago X. Ji If yo would be a l?ilrr you must art the pa J Whe-n truth Rt huny. fiction is apt to (eel ashamed of its? If. One way to discount a woman's argu ment to to agree with hr, AaA MSAetimes'u cuTs Xbusmt ieffcfe A man knows more at than he may be able to forget at jfc The theory that mt1 ry loves coniiainy account for some marrta-", Vrr a man to est his wn wonls and he will iMPuii lose Ins appciitf. Mnnv a woman with vaulting nrwifti ambition keeps her husband on the Jump. A Wirfii.sv m-lUom irfdit. a man w tli to her. ' Sec Silk Hal Harry on Sporl Page AS & tUWGOHY. " slates. Split In two as It waa by -ths se cesstoo of ths southern members ot Ihft, union, ths hslf of ths country that r-t malned under ths old fiac put Into th; field the military mlsht that sulipsM th. hauls array of any other nation that ev went to war. On tlis other hand, the south. In success' fully standin up acalnst this anuulucly., sreat battle front for so Inna, won th fame which nuns are more wllliria tu rant them than are their one-tlms sntst. onlats. 1 la ths south In ml thers wer l,0r.0Uj whlts men fit to hear arms, out of wblcb. number COti.inv went Into the fight an the CW.Oin held their own atalnat ths' iws.ino for fuur years, win nine on ths battlefield far oftener than they lost, and oulttlns. finally, nut because they wers "whipped," but berauss they war lit--srally worn out and exhausted by ths at", (rltlon of the unequal conflict. Of the fight that ths southerners put up ths north Is today as proud as ths , south Itself. In fart. It has ceased to be a sortional pride. The men who helped to make the names of lies and Jackson Im mortal were Americans, blood brothers of"1, tho men whose surely tried courage stood ths tret without flinching, hept to their work through victory and through defeat, until they flnrlly prevailed, saving the nation, which was ever afterward to be tho proud and happy boms ot tho cont qucred and ths conquerors, of tho Ameri cans who fought with t.e and Jackson and tho Arnerlcans who fought with Grant and Hancock. We may be sure that In tho heart of the great and good man who called for th" memorable draft ot 16I, titers lurked nu malice cr III will, and aura wo are, again, that If ha wers hero today he Would be ' immensely hai py at tho sight ot the grand harmony now everywhere prevail- 1 ing among the American people. More Than" Memory By BKATKin: FA'tVAX. It ii quite the thing thne davs to cut :tvat the memory to an extreme that would haie made our fore mothers ra-i with setonlahment. They know certain pasmtea of thj niblo by heart, snd carried in mind sim ple rectpea for root dyes snd medWInei made of herb. They cherished little aneclotes told l' their grarnllre and made history l falthfulnrna to detail?. l!ut to have made a marathon uf memory', a in titers days, would have been regarded a cliallenge to insanity. In a sweet, :.irnple fcsiiimi tlicc eanied one motto which we with all o: memorised have not learned, and that was the charity of forgetting. They learned to remember to forget We learn to remember many thtnaa. b:it full short of their degree of eacellencs bxauae we do not learn to remember la forget. A pretty poem Is pasted above the pink, or pinned to an embroidery frame. and a girl commits It ro memory, a n?tr I torn a day. 1 Her brain tecomes a storehouse. Hut it lacks the fragance of the mental -torehousea of centuries ago unless there is conaptcuoua on It. he:ve this motu born of sweet charity: Remember to Forget.' Keats, Fhelley, Uroanlng, appropriate ts. any occasion, her mental storehouse will suggest a charnrl home if there Is also tucked away on Its shelves a memory of the Indiscretion of any man, the folly -of any friend, the sin ot any woman. It Is not enough, girls to learn to re-, swniber. It Is worth more to learn to rget. J rif you ere a tall fellow aheal ot a . crowd, A leader of men marching fearless and; proud. Aud you know of a tale whose mere telling aloud V'ould caiute his proud head to In an- guieh be bowed. It's a pretty good plan to forget it. '.! j. .ii know of a skeleton hidden sway a " ii and guarded and kept from.' the day. Tn the dark, and whose showing, whose sudden display ould cause gi te( and anguish and life long dismay It's a prt.ty guod plan to forget It. "If yc." knnw of a thing that will darken ; 1 the Joy I -Of a ii. or a woman, a girt er a le'. That will blot out a Joy or In the least . way annoy a icuow. or cause any giaanesa to cloy. It's a pretty good plan to forget it. I The key to success tn business is the ' if a Fin snows many poems oy Ten judicious and persistent at ex a n;;vn and can r telle front Uoncfellowj advertising.