TTIE BEE: OMAITA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1912.
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SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT
The Defendant Needs a New Lawyer
CoprrlrM. Wl NMInnsI News Association '
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Truth Between the Sexes
By DOROTHY DIX
"I w," (aid the woman In blue, "that
,k German woman noveliat aaye tbat wo-
'ise . never tell men the truth. I wonder
don't If they nave
fey
, If tbat'a the caaer
"Of course, they
sense enough to .
be let out on the
street without an
attendant," replied
the woman la army.
"Neither do men
tell women the
truth," said the
woman with the
willow plumes.
"Thank God for
all His mercy." m-
o u 1 y ejaculated
the woman In safe
jrreen. "Heaven de-
Ifend that I should
lever , know any
man' 4 real opinion
lot me!-'
I' "None of us could
survive ' knowliuT
Iwhst our dearest friends said of us be
'bind bur backs," aree the woman in
I blue. -
Truth dwells at the bottom of a well,'
ianottd the woman In fray, "and for my
iMrt I am willing to leave It there.'
Men end women never speak the truth
Ito each other unless hey are married and
'entry,'' commented the woman with the
Iwlllow plumes, 'nd then it leaas a
'Keno." ',
"it MurtshlD were conducted on a plat-
.form of strict veracity there Would be no
Ln mariians." said the woman in
safe treetL "When Alferton wooes Ad
lellna be swears to her that sha Is, a per
,ft antral and the most beautiful and
Ifaecinatlaf creature on earth, and that It
... him they will dwell ln a
L.niiid heaven of romance, there they
will trill and coo like two turtle doves, snd
there will never be a singe tbtag to mar
their bliss.
"Of course. Algernon knows that all of
this Is hot air. and that be Is a Tesruiar
Ananias, who ought to be arrested for
perjury for handlnf It out to her. He Is
perfectly aware that Adeline Is no Hvlnf
picture, and that she's fot plenty of tem
per and fussy little ways, and that when
they get married they won't live ln a
caitle of dreams, but In a 1x4 Oat. and he
.lu knows that they'll nave plenty 01
end that he's A lot more In
tonated ln the grocery trade than be Is
In sentiment and romance. Adeline, like
vise knows all of this, but suppose in
stead of bis anveradous love talk Alger
non shell d tell her the plain, unadorned
facts la the case.
"gutmoM be should say: 'Adeline, yoa
lars'shy on looks, but I'm not particu
larly struck on beauty, and you're strong
'and healthy and likely to make one of
the wires that keep a man always paying
'doctor's Mils. Tou'ye got a' temper that's
set ' on a hair trigger, but I've got a
'hunch that I'm ths man that can control
It, and. anyway, you've made a hit
'with me and I want to marry you.
-1 dent get a salary sa big that I
have to bring my pay envelope home
lis a taxi on Baturdsy night, and If you
tie op with me we'll live In a Harlem
i flat, and you'll nave to do your own
kousework. and fight with the butcher
lvr the meat bill, and make over your
eld etatbesL No doabt well have many
s ran la wbea we disagree tbat will make
the people oa the other side of the well
think abort calling for tha police, but I
lot yoa, and I'm wftlicg to work to
j prove It. and along with the lean of mat
rimony we'll get a wt of the tat.'
"Now that Is Just about what a pho
tograph of matrimony from real life Is.
but would Adeline say "year to Algernon
If he proposed In such fashion T'
"No, a thousand times no," replied the
woman with the willow plumes, "there
fen't a woman living who Is so poor a
creature as to accept A man who pro
posed la such a fashion."
"But be would be telling ber only the
truth," urged the woman In sage green.
That's what's the matter with It" ex
claimed the woman with the willow
plumes. "None of ns have the courage to
face the truth of marriage. If we really
knew beforehand what It was going to
be none but the foolhardy would under
take It."
"Well." said the woman In blue. "It It
risky to tell the truth before marriage,
it Is simply suicidal to speak It after
ward. "There Isn't one marriage In a
thousand but would stand the add testa
t tha husband knowing Just how he
looked to ale wife, or the wife realising
Just what the husband thought of ber.
A wife Imagines that she is always a
nde to ber husband, and a man fondly
believes be le slwaya a hero to bis wife,
land so the domestic circle remains la-
"Suppose, however, some morning John
should look serosa the breakfast table
and speak out the thought that Is In his
xatad. He weald say: "Geew bat yea are
a grbsded.. fat, boznery old socu, and I
Vllea yea get sll&er and stnisr every ,
day of your Ufa. Tou look like a feather
bed tied In tha middle, end your con
versation tHks the clacking of an old
hen. I wonder what on earth I ssw ln
you to msks me pick you out, and what
the fool killer waa doing the day we
were married?
"And Mrs. John, as ahs passes him hi
coffee Is thinking) 'My, but you're get
ting bald and stout, and I don't believe
you think of a thing from morning to
night except your old store, and whst
you put In your stomach. My goodness,
It I'd hsd any idea of how fussy and
close fisted and cantakerous you were
going to be, I'd never have married you
In the world. I don't know how I Kiould
have gotten along with you If you hadn't
been so Immortally vain and conceited
that all I had to do to work you was
Just to pile -on enough flattery.' Of
course neither one of them speaka the
truth and says anything Ilka this, but
that's what they really think"
"Horrible!" ahuddered the woman in
grey. "I wonder what my husband
thinks of mef
"If you want to stay married to him,
doht try to find oat," counselled the
woman In sage green.
"Thet'e right." agreed the woman with
the wtllow plumes, "there's no place In
matrimony for truth."
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The People's Estate
By CHAIU.ES FKItGl'HON.
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Tha social center movement alms lo con
serve and extend the people's estate. It
Insists upon looking out upon svsry
political and aortal- Question from this
point of view. It la the point of view of
the artist, tha,
scientist, tha hon
est Journalist and
man of letters, aa
well as of every In
telligent sngtneer
aad practical civil
leer. '
A mining engineer
of I n t ematlonal
reputatloa waa re
cently Invited to
lake chares of tha
dspsrtment of mlnea
In Columbia univer
sity. He came to
town tad can
vassed tha situ
ation on tha aoa
demls hill. Ha In
sisted that the
science and art of mining could not be
properly taught unless the professor of
that subject waa also a sociologist, and
unless bis department In tha university
waa so relsted to the department of social
sclenoe that students ot mining should
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"When PoYerty Comes in the Door Love Flies Out the Window"
' Coprtsht, Hit National News xaeoeiatlon
By Nell Briokley
rwvr---ar -7--v -a
"Wten Poverty come3 in the door, Iove flies out oi Hie
window.". It doesn't always work that little proverb tut
given a special kind of maid and man you'll get a great mix-up
when you follow the right retripe. Take a little girl named
"Peaches," who need3 silk stockings and a new frock every
week-end if she's, going to keep on living, who goes to Fifth
avenue for her extra hair and gets a new lot every three months ;
who likes.to summer on a beach approved by the iVench madame
"La Mode" in a perfectly dry bathing suit; who winters in
Russian sable and a touring car; who can't even take a tuck in
her petty skirt, and glories in it; take-a chap with an appetite
for good things to eat, and soft things to wear, with nose and
eyes that are easily offended when things kwk ilmt last little
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polish that whisiiers, "I'm the n?ht thing i cost gooti, greeu
money"; with a palate for good cigarettes and a heart for fast
driving; with a love of good Bervice and shining silver, and s
hand that slips easily in and out of his pockets; and then over
this pretty mixture spread a thin layer of affection.
Let it sit awhile, just long enough for poor little Love to
get acquainted with the house and imagine that maybe he's go
ing to get to stay then put in the wolf and the whole thing
will go up in thin smoke, and vanish in thin air as quickly as
ycu could pinch up your mouth and say,"Piff.y And Love
"will take one look at the fast melting layer bf affection and do.
a "Mutt and Jeff" out of the window. Leastways, I tried to
make him do ontw Xell Briokley. I '
be made to understand that their business
waa a social business responsible for the
enrichment of society and the conserva
tion and exteaalon of the public estate.
Ho found the academlo organisation a
Cobymbla unsatisfactory and declined
tha proffered appointment.
Now the Hodal Centre movement Is
ths sort of thing this first-rats engineer
waa contending for. It stands for tha
Idea that a public school an Institution
ot publlo education ehould be a rally
ing ground for the kind of politico thst i
Is first of all public-spirited and that
weighs and Judges all private rights
from ths point ot view of the common
wealth. People sometimes spesk of the Amer
ican public school as If Its main Interest
were to equip Individuals to fight for
their private fortunee-a if Its highest
slm were to give poor children an equal
fighting chance against rich children.
But, of course, this Is a false and foolish
notion. 1
Ths publlo school stsnds rather for the
principle that all knowledge le the com
mon heritage of the race. All tha good
wafa of doing things, tbat make up the
um of the arts and sciences, are tha
common property of the people. Nobody
should be permitted to sslss upon them
and carry them away aa a prise. But
svsrybody should be so equipped by pub
Ms teaching that be may be able to de
fend the common right against all
egotists aad monopolists, and may know ,
how to make bla own private fortune In
some manner that Shall ba helpful to ,
the publlo fortune.
The failure of what Is called "practical
polltica" la due to tha fact that It looks
st svsry publlo question from tha point
of view of some. privets Interest. It
wastes the people's eotate, partly be
cause of corruption and cynicism, but
mainly beoauee It etupldly refuses to un
derstand that the people's eetate la real ,
and tangible, and that It la practically
poselblle to defend and axtsnd 1L
New the publlo school under tha re-.
vlvlng touch of the Social Centre Move- .
(rent ta aeea to be the Impregnable fast
ness of ths people'a Imperial demesne. .'
That Is to say, In plain prose. It la Dos-,
ttlvsly the solidsst Institution la tha
United State. Nothing slse If grounded
so deep In the effeotlon and loyalty of
the American people. And nothing slse
commands so ungrudging an eoonomlo i
support.
It follows-snd thla la the logto of thai
odal Centra Movement of Amarleait
that there la no local community la thuH
oountry where a email garrison of publlo f
school Americans, stsndlng tor what tha .
publlo school la built to stand for. could ;
not ad wage their fight as to make the
fortress of tha people's estate mora
dangerous to assail than to defend.
IT'
LEARNT BUSINESS YOUNG
STANDARD OIL MAGNATE
Every now aad then Joba D. Archbo!d-i
whose brain la oenaldered la Standard Oil
only as second to that of John D. allocs !
off a thick wedga ot his fortune and con
fera It upon some diaeolng Institution. ,
But It Is to be observed that Mr. Arch
bold always doss the siloing. Ns one aver
hurries ap aad takss money away from
him. Aad when he la engaged la a bast- !
nsss undertaking he oan figure ecata and i
credits down to tha ultimata decimal. .
"1 learned ta do all that la Leeeburg. .
0., where I waa bora," said ba to a '
friend. "I began my business Ufa by ,
clerking la a grocery store la Ohio. Tha
wives ot farmers would come ta with .
eggs and butter aad trade them tor
oaltoo aad sugar aad other eommodltfee.
Ia those days there waa aa such, thing
aa a aaa prloe rule. We got what wa
could aad. as markets had not been sys.
tematlaed as they are now, and trans- ,
portatloa farllltlea were poor, wa paid ,
what wa bad to, and roughly triad to
figure out a profit One could not take
a alata and half and hour and do that
figuring ta tha rear at tha store, eier. -It
hsd to ba done right off the reel, and
convincingly. I've learned a lot ot other
things la limlniaa since then, but tha
beat training I aver bad waa ln that little
Ohio grouty store. It taught ma tha -value
of absolute knowledge of the de
tails of my business "
Borne one suggested that Mr. Arch bold
probably bud tha foundation of his fur
tuns there,
"Let ma ten you," said he. Impressively.
"There Is a lot of good financial talent
going to waste oa Ohio tanas. Most of
tboas farmers' wives skinned me." On- ' -slaBatt
TaaeaBtar.
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Saaflavm Thoaskta.
It may have occurred to you that girhm
waste a lot of kleeee on each other.
Most men. when talking about a rood
tows, geasrally mean a wide-open town.
Bo many people want ineiraown war
that there la lees barmony than the poll
ttdeae V timet a.
There are gooa ooerorag Douses, ruse
s thetr la borae cooking which hmt so
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