TIIE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 1912.
Sherlocko the Monk
The Episode of the Blundering Assistant
Copright. Mil, Xa'Jonal New Association
By Gus Mager
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Woman's Lack of Pride
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Br DOROTHY DIX.
On at the most curtoui thine about
women to their lack ot sex pride.
A woman ahould glory In her woman
hood a a man glories In hit manhood.
A woman should feel that her very sex
entitle her to high
honor, considera
tion and emolu
ments ' a a man
consider his sex
does him. A woman
should esteem her
womanhood a a
royal rift, for It
God mad man In
Ills own Image. Ha
shared with woman
th power of Omnl
potenc ot th hu
man race.
Therefore, woman
might well walk
through th world
with uplifted bead.
Ilk a quean. In
stead of which ah
dopta meachla' erepln wormltk at
titude, humbly apolegetlo for encumber
ing th arth at all. and only too thank
ful to tak anything that la handed up
to her.
She haa.no pride In herself, no prld
In her ,work, no prld In her sex.. Bh
I a very Uriah Heep for humbleness.
Poet and romancer hav compared her
to th deer, and the fawn, and th ga
aell, and th panther, and th lion, and
so on. when they sought a symbol for her.
Kats! Th real prototype of woman
among animal Is th rabbit. And th
cared rabbit at that.
Of course, ther ara women who ar
Individually and personally win. They
are vain of a No. I foot shoe, or a
twsnty-two-lnch waist, or ot their face
or hair, or of their Intelligence, but they
are never set up over being women.
They bav non of th sex prld that
mak th stupidest and runtiest man
puff out his chest because he is a man,
and If women could be convinced today
that by killing themselves they would
com back In the next Incarnation
men, th visible supply of cyanide ot
potassium would be exhausted before
night.
Why hav women no prld In them
selves Th answer Is dead easy. They
take themselves at th value that men
place upon them. For centuries men hav
written women's price tags, and wmcn
hav accepted them. They have been
either elave or toys, nd ther Isn't
much In either role to swell the head of
th on who fill It
No, It' an axiom of Ufa that no on
succeed In any calling or pursuit la
. which ha does not tak pride, and which
b doe not believe to be th finest and
most Important work In th world. Can
you Imagine an actor gripping your heart
If he was ashamed of being an actor?
can you concclv of a physician finding
a new cur for a disease If be thought
so poorly of bis profession he didn't
even think it worth doing well? Can
you Imagine a grocer making a fortune
out of a store In which he felt that his
service wore so alight that he waa only
entitled to receive hi board and clothe
for them? ,
No. It la the man wh Is so proud of
his calling that he flaunt H In your fso
all th time; It Is th man with a passion
for bis calling; it is th man who think
that there la no business In the world
that reflect such honor and glory upon
one as his own who succeeds, and right
her you find th explanstlon of nearly
all ot woman' failure, and the root of
her trouble and miseries.
Bh ha so llttl pride In herself that
she doe not do her best work. 8 he ha
so little pride In herself that she do
not demand th beat of other for herself.
You doubt th statement? Let us con
sider It. Take th matter of marriage,
for Instance. Ratheran Important thing
to a woman. Much more important to
her than to a man. bacaus It mean not
only her happiness, but her bread and
butter, th whole of ber opportunities in
th world.
Hence inarrlag Is a much mora Im
portant affair to women than to men. A
woman given a million time more In mar
riage than a man does, but so llttl pride
ha she in herself and so little value
does she esteem th gift she nuke that
sh has never even thought that she had
a much right t th selection of bar
mat as a man has to th selection of
hta - - ...
There ar plenty of women, who would
like to marry. There are plenty of women
who know whom they would like to marry
and who ara sitting upon th stool of
patience with their finger crossed for
luck, humbly' hoping and praying that
th particular on they d est re will con
descend to aak them. But they haven't
got enough prld bt themselves to go to
th men and say: "Look bar. I am going
to offer you th grandest present an
earth. I am going to offer you a woman's
priceless love and deathless devotion and
you ought to go down on your knees and
thank m for It."
Oh, no. No woman ha nerve enough to
vain herself so high. On th contrary,
she wait-nd wait-and waits. And If
th man doesn't ask her sh marries some
other man who does, and she, Is grateful
to him for taking pity on her.
Also consider woman' lack of prld
in the man ah marrlea Before an ordi
narily decent man will marry a girl she's
got to produce a certificate of character
that shows that ah I a pur as snow,
but no girl ever thinks of Investigating a
man' past, unless It is so notorious that
th newspaper bav already printed It
She doesn't dream of such a thing a ex
pect log to get a good as sh give. In
deed, so humble ar women in this re
spect that every day w see good, inno
cent girl marry bleary old rounder a
It they thought any kind ot a husband
was good enouail for them.
Of course, trouble follows. Broken
heart follow. Death and disease follow,
so that 1 is not toe much to say that
halt 'of th matrimonial misery la th
world could be avoided If only women
had enough pride In themselves to de
mand that the men they marry mak a
fair trad with them, and bring as dean
a elatl as they expect their wive to.
f Big Year for Electrical Development
The new developments and the won
derful growth of the eJectricil Industry
during th year Just closed bear out the
assertions of many eminent scientists
and inventor who claim th Industry Is
as yet in its infancy and that th time
Is not far distant , whea nearly . very
thing Involving the use of power will bo
electrified.
It to difficult to believe that a business
which yearly manufacture more than
56.000,000 worth of machinery and ap
paratus is but an Infant." It Is hard to
imagine what a child of this slxe would
develop to when fully matured, and yet
every' year show that it I growing with
. leap and bounds. In ten year the
value of the electrical products Increased
by V4 per cent and it I still growing
year after year. .
Among the most notable developments
In the electrical field during the year
; lust closed can . be mentioned the foe
lowing: -Wireless telegraphy has been developed
. until messages are being received be
tween San Francisco and Japan, or
across the Pacific ocean.
' The world's largest steam turbo-generator,
a Curtis machine of X.OM rated
horse power, has been built and put in
operation at the Waterside station of
the New Tork Edison company. This
single genera tor. driven by a steam tur-
. bine, engine will generate enough elec
tricity to supply the entire state of
. Ie la ware
Single generators of 3S.OQ horse power
feave been built for large water power
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development In th west;
Electric lighting haa been vastly Im
proved. New lamps hav been produced
and eld processes Improved until elec
tric light is the best and cheapest arti
ficial lllumlnant In the world.
Street lighting ha been developed until
many ehie boast a '"Great White Way"
and night Is practically turned Into day
In the bUKtnesBi sections. -
Electric cooking ha been adopted by
the navy and all th new battleships will
be equipped with electric range and
electric cooking aparatue. The house
hold kitchen ha been thoroughly elec
trified until all the bard work, the light
ing and th beat for the cooking rang
1 taken from the electric wires. .
Electricity haa been extended to the
agricultural districts and today th
farmer enjoy th benefits of light and
heat and power. The hard work of the
farm is now don by th electric motor.
Electric railway hav bean extended
further and farther hue the country.
linking together the Tillage and ham
let, the cities and town, ontfl It Is
quit possible to travel from Boston to
Chicago via th trolley can. Steam
rallrood bav bee eeictrifled and self-
contained cars of th gas-electric trpe
new operate en the many short tines.
The great Industrie of th country
have been electrified. The woodworking
plant, cotton mills, steel plants, ma
chine shops and factories ot all kind
have adopted th electric motor for
power and electric light foe illumination.
What to Wear and How to Wear It
Mary Mannering Gives Some Valuable Advice to Women on the
Way that They Can Dress Stylishly as Well'
as Inexpensively. ,
Br MARY MANNERING.
Do we women ever get beyond the
clothe question ? '
Perhaps torn aspiring souls bav suc
ceeded In not caring about what kind
of garment decked their mortal bodies
or bow those garment were cut and
fitted, but t hav act reached those
heights a yt, and I bop between oun
selves that I never shall.
To m vn th 'most exalted souls
lee comet hlng ef their power It
they at clad la unsightly clothes, -and
I'm sure I always sympathised with
the little beathen child whoa education
had been undertaken by a high-minded
and elt-aacrltloei woman missionary.
When In later year th child wa
asked it. ah remembered her teacher,",
eh said: "Oh, yes! sh waa th one
who wor suck funny hat!"
Ala for all her good Intention! Her
Instruction wa forgotten.
The good precepts sh tried to lm
pros upon her charge fell upon Idle
are whll th child' ' entire atten
tion wa livlted upon th on ridicu
lous and hence Interesting point of her
teacher's apsrel, ber hat.
Every actress realise th tremendous
Importance which clothe play In mak
ing or marring her lucces on the stage.
This 1 especially true in play where
th frock question seems to th audience
to be a very Important one. Of cours)
In costume plays, play which oeeurr at
some historic and picturesque period,
were the frocks and costumes of the
epoch give ths old time atmosphere.
Take the modern play, however, and
the clothe question I really more diffi
cult, for the actress trie to uggeat her
Character, her mood and her occupation
by her frocks, and, naturally she wants
to look well besldea
The Meals of good dressing to me sro
appropriateness, beauty and oharaetrr,
which ran all be symbolised by- adapting
the fashions to one' self and not one
self to the whim of fashion.
A frock must be appropriate tint of
all. Th moat beautiful gown la the
world worn at the wrong time would
look ridiculous, and there can be a real
beauty without the sen ot the tithes
of things.
Aa a sex we have prngrsnsd tremen
dously since we adopted short skirts for
the street. Now, wkea we see a woman
trailing a long skirt through th dust our
ens of beauty and fitness to rudely
shocked.
Whether a the atag or in actual 111
the girl who la earning her dally bread,
and nowaday she i becoming the
heroine of many a successful play, must
dree m suitable frocks.
They must be pretty aa well, but they
must he well adapted to bar occupa
tion aa th automobile togs la which later
en she drives off as th wit of th mil
lionaire. I needn't dwell on the subject of
beauty, for I take It aa granted that any
woman reading the word waata to
look a well a she can or she would skip
to some other part of the paper. '
Now for the character of a dress. This
Is absolutely necessary on the atag be
cause the aetrea has to Impiea the
audience at once with the sort of person
she to supposed to be. and clothe help
to de this. If she Is a light, frivolous
little butterfly lady ah will wear clothes
that match her part, lovely ruffly thing
of filmy, floating materials, all eat up
la abort line.
If she to playing the part ot a noble,
dignified character her frock will show
th long unbroken Mm which In all
time bar been accepted by artist as
symbolising nobility.
Buck a character will wear simple
clothes, no matter what the period of
the play or what th fashions are: Pim
ple dot aee don't aerrssanly mean cheap
On the contrary ths greatest dress
maker bf the world strive tor simplicity
of effect, but no one everseid their
bill were low. It Is this wonderful sim
plicity ef line which to Cor the unskilled
dressmaker to espy. The ordinary dress
maker seems to go by this rule. When
la doubt, us mere trimming.
That la why so many charming women
go about bedecked like Christmas tree
'with gewkaw hearing and dangling
from every inch of material.
Naturally one does not are that they
are really very pretty women, for one
to so sugiasirid bx the inspection ef th
larvclloua confection which enfold
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Narses and the Lombards
Br REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
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MISS MANNERINO GOWNED TO DEMONSTRATB THIS BEAUTY OF LONO,
CRACErUL. LINKS ZS DRES31
tbesa.
I remember once a celebrated play
wright eras presenied to me at a recep.
tlon. I had looked forward to fr.eetln;
her aa. ulkirg to r.er. srd IMcr fo-m t
her a most fascnatlns ami Interestict
woman, but v !: h a soul fr above
clothe, which 1 be left, entirely to hf
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maid bi make for her.
We had no chance to talk that night
and the next day when I was asked whet
. !t 1 rxnld ssy ws: Sh
had twnty-even bow en ber dress.
T.-.er were so overpowering I hadn't a
at.- a (.r.it beaut or '.! a ilftle ewe,
don t let over-elaborate faatdan exUn
gtkah your light.
rebraary IB, BT.
It wa I.MS year ago today-February
K, M7-that th crafty ant vengeful
Narses. th eunuch. Invited th Lombard
Into Italy an Invitation that changed the
whl course of history, nd th effects
of which are still at
work among men.
Th Empress 80
phis, la recalluu
Narses from the In
flucnllal posllloi
that h bsd ton
held, sent blm 1
golden distaff, am
bad hint, as k
aa not a man
to td and spin woe,
In the a part men li
of the women.
"I will apln her
aucb a hank," re
torted Narses, "that sh will not find
th end of It In her lifetime." And he
kept his word.
The Lombards cam at hi Invitation,
wrestsd th greater part of Italy from
th empire, and changed th destinies ef
th peninsula.
The famous people known In history as
the Lam bards were ot Scandinavian stork,
their original bom being In Jutland.
Front Jutland they - pasaed southeast
toward th Danube, from which region
they mad than- descent axon th fair
section of northern Italy, which ha ever
sine born their name. .
From Ilia teat of their power In th
rich plains ot Lembardy this vigorous
people ruled the greater part of Italy
for more thai Ml years from M to TT
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whea their last king tell before th
of Charlemagne.
Originally worshiper ef Wdea
Thor along with In rest at th
dlnavtan folk, they war tlsally soa verted
to Christianity, but aever haunt,
"orthodox." They war Unitarians, aa
opposed to th Orthedea or Trinitarian
Christiana, and. as aucb wr leaked npea
a being but llttl better than th
beathen.
Th Blahop ef Rome cordially hated
them, and about th year TM he visited
Pepin, who bad aa ay a th threat at
Franca, to 00 me aver sad drtv the de
tested heretic from th Sternal City
sod ths surrauadlng reeioa Pspta earn,
beat lb latmbards, and took tram them
the exarchate of Haven a, waiob he
gav to th Mahe. Thta wa the) baia
nlng at th temporal power of th church.
In consideration of his gsnerosHy Pwata
wa crowned by th bishop klaff at tan
Franka
But th Lombard, though erf paled,
were still strong, and rental to aata
old mease t th hurehi baa, ft seats
shout that, sum twenty-four year later,
Charlemagn, th 0n of papla, waa
asked by Adrian I t osvte over and fin
ish up th "foul and horrid breed."
Charlemagne cam, snnthilatsd th
Lombard pewv. , and en Cbrlataua da
SOD. waa crowned "Bmpenr at th Ra
man." la return for that srtwa Cbartod
confirmed th temporal power at the
bishop, a sowar that wa to bast LM
yearsfrom that Christmas day, Ht, t
the December day, 1TO, whea Bom wag
declared th capital at United Italy.
And so we reach the "end" at th
"hank" that wa spua by the goefra dis
taff of Nereea.
Souls and Faces
Ity DR. FRANK CRANK,
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Of lt known frauds and humbugs that
of personal appearance Is th worst.
It counts for nothing In th last analyaia.
Phrenology to a fake, physiognomy Is
a delusion. A man head, face and
form mean absolutely nothing.
Ho me times I think Nature haa her
Jokes, Is prtnky, and even cruel In her
outlandish misfits. I know a perfectly
dear girl-soul, th sweetest, homiest,
loyslest. most unselfish darling Imaginable-end
with a fan Ilk as monkey!
It s positively wicked.
And I know several absolute ninnies,
complete and post-graduate fuols, who
bav th loveliest fscea complexion of
milk and rosea, mouihs Ilk Cupid s bow,
adorable neck and soulful eye. nd they
don't know enough to come In out of Ihe
rain. Then think of those other man
souls, In handsome Hash eastings gorg
eous mustaches, Jovian brows, supple
form, elegant aosr and th svelt sad
lively man-souls, all delicacy and llthe
news, and eyebrow, yet who real
selves, actually If you could X-ray them,
would look like frog encased In big fat
bodies!
And the talk t me ot reading one'
character In one' face! It shows how
poverty-stricken people are for ideas,
somebody thought of this, that perse n
allty ahlnes In the face, and straight
way all the troops ot novelists, moral Ix
ers and hot pullet caught up Ihe thought
told and ran wy with It Ilk a dog
tilth a bone.
Talk' ot guilt in the eye! Th most
arrant raaca I ever knew had aa ere
like a dure. Talk of sensuality always
cropping eut en the face! I have Just
seen a portrait ot Diana of Pointers,
that hard-hearted, mercenary, devlou
end poison -tooled adventures that
stopped at nothing, and I swear to you
he looked like a prise saint
I remember the shock I had when I
ssw John Fisks. en ef the most rare
and spiritually perceptive minds ot this
country, and found him to resemble
some hues bewhlskered animal.
And yoe know of etocnuee, the finest
brain ever enclosed In a human skull,
th greatest of all thinker living or
dead, the supreme Intellect usl product ef
the race of man. and you recall - his
deecrlptlon-eyes protruding like lobsters,'
thick, fleshy bps, baM aad bullet bead
and absurd ears.
Just now I have been reading a svodem
book at saye aad hav eon across
this old piarittjde again which anger
me: "Th oul ot Interior spiritual kfs
of ma la Incessantly weaving Itself kite
the structure ot bis body, suffusing it
w.th Hs own subtle essence, until the
glance ot the eye, the line ot toe mouth,
the est and exprewtou ot the features,
nay, the very carriage and gait, reveal
'jo the experienced eye the character of
he Inhabitant within."
Tiaa to a very clear and interest lea
utateaamt. There to aery one sUgM dlf
Oraliy with It. tvwtt: It is set so.
That mr pmdttoa hi otrnd) to proved by
the fiction which on the whato 14 usually
trace than Ufa. feeeeue N to life dl Mined
lo types. In storlss there are two kinds
of bad women the beautiful bad and th
ugly bad; a also there are twe kinds'
ot good wontesv handsome wod aadk
plain good. All ot which show that II.
make so difference.
If there I any difference, if appeaxanoa
doe mean anything. It to safer to tak
It la mean th opposite of what H seems.
I'sually, net always, of sours, the per
fectly beautiful young wsatan wants to
marry for money; at any rate ihs to nor
apt to be selfish aad hard than other
wise. Usually, also, th unattraettv girl
win mak th best wife aad mother.
Usually the maa with a taking way i
looking for omthlng of yours to tak.
Usually th thy, awkward, sensitive,
modest fellow la th beat to tie to.
I don't blams people fee wanting tar
s attract!, nor wonder that they
patronise beauty doctors and mssssi
their wrinkles, but ther la a more x-
euni way. A tdy, years-long. u. -ward
Ufa aad parposs ef swst aad)
kindly thought will creep out and mak
an iaMbl but bom to tea perceptible
halo around any Taos. Jtak ta most at
thai aaalredlefjah.
This modern prevalent horror of old)'
axe to on ef the alckUest symptom at
our Urn. The real kind of personal at
tract !vE ess kaeras with age. Sweet
souls. Ilk good win, Improv th longer
they ara kept. For those who know how,
to appreciate human -value, white hairs
and crow feet count for nothing.
Do not b deceived. Dreee the gover
nor, or the paraen, ar the bank sr. la
striped clothes, shsvs then beads, put
them In calls and fed them aa mush
and molest , and you would exclaim r
"What perverted looking creatures. How
true It to that you eaa tU a irixalual
by bto looks."
A Oasae Beth Ceeld Play.
One whoee ear has been trained to read
Intel U gently th cheat of a telegraph In
strument sometimes puts this training ta
the test under stress aeadltlona. aa
instance, which resulted In ima
sent, apoiogle, aad finally ta a pleasant
acquaintanceship among the persons east
oemed, to told by a certain Ohio faranr
who seem! bto early year to the employ
of the Western Union Telegraph com
pany. Borne years after Impaired health bad
driven blai from the telegraph office to
the farm, be and his wife were ependtng
a short vacatloa In the seuth. While
they were dinina In a hotel in Memphis
twe yeunej mea entered and seated thun
srivee the same uat with the coupe
from the west.
After a survey ef the strangers, one of
the youths took up bis fork, and tanptnaj
it In an apparently careless way aaairak
the edge of his plate, spelied eut ta the
llorse code:
"Va yea think they' are (ride and
groemT'
"Tea. surely." tapped hi companion.
"Just watch bow soft they are."
Immediately, to the dismay ef the yejeng
men. law fern ef the supceeed briiexroooi
Joined la the conversation. Wits, great,
rapidity It tapped eut:
"UeeUeeDen. you are mistake." Wa
have been married five years anThav)
tare children." Tout a CofauB.