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-.. TILE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. MARCH 1(5. 1912. 13 SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT The New Witness is a Regular Diver Copyright. 1312. National News Asm. Drawn for The Bee by Tad V ) A WITNESS FO. I 4" 9NEHOrTHe0ltrt- V Vs. V f 1 - V-EH 7-M- T 1 ' W, fearv TCk teaJ ' T ' feA feK 1 1- fifci-T iSSfa, (SK? iS-1 - -sir fEsi fefir vS lr-) , -- 1 Irr-Tfft (IS1 . The Eye is.the Great Educa tor, but Things it Sees Must Be Explained , , That is the Reason Why Moving Pictures in the School ' Room, as Advocated by Thomas A. Edison, Can Never Supplant Books. Bjf GARRETT P. SERVISS, It li a. very Interesting projeot which Thomas' A. Edison ha on hand, as de scribed In a masulne called Tbs World Today, for substituting moving pictures In tha place of school book. It dors not appear that the with tliV crowded Idea. In itself. Is original -with Mr. Edison, for I " re member to ' have seen asi editorial In tha Evening Jour nal, soma time sgo,' In which tha im mense educational possibilities of tha cinematograph were pointed . out. But he haa taken It up with his character istic - energy; and when his emissaries, filmst save returned from Africa. Aula. Europe and 'south America we shall have ' chance to sea what this new kind of publlo school will b like. That it wftt be popular nobody can doubt Even , crown-up people would rather- look at tigers la a Jungle than in a cage, and would rather sea elephants, giraffes .and rhinoceroses movlt.g about In Ihe'r native haunts than to read about them. Tha houv life of strange and savag men: tlia netlvo customs of remote peoples; diamond diggers at work In the .mines .of South. .Mrtca; tourists laboriously climbing up th face of the great pyramid of Cheops; tht soldiers of different nations an the mar:h, or per forming evolutions; scenes In the streets and ' parka of the grpnt cities of the world; workmen of all kinds engaged In their tasks-one making a pin. another turning out a steel rail; an engineer in his cab. as tha locomotive speeds on its way. so that the onlonker seemi to ac company him. and caa study his every movement while ho controls tha mechan ism of the engine) carpenters, masons. Iron-workers,, wlre-strlncers, divers, and steeple-Jacks oil these things, scenes and persons are to be Included, together with a thousand ether?, In the new schema, of education through the eye. The basis assumed is sound. Tho eye Is the great educator. Look Into the face of your dog as he settles himself on his haunches at your side, and, with up-pricked ears, surveys the stranger who is aprpoachlng. Observe the Inten sity of his case; be would know thai stranger again It he met Mm in Africa; if he could apeak he could tell you more about the personal bearing of your friends than you know yourself. , . Look at a cat who finds herself, as we say, In a strange garret" her eyes tell her everything in second, and dis cover the road to safety before you can throw a stick at her. Observe the bead like eyes of a little monkey In us cag dartftig everywhere, distinguishing friends in the crowd. Inspecting .what Is offered to It with a decisiveness ot Judgment that surpasses science, and penetrating; even the secrets of human nature with those lightning quick glances. Then look into the eyas of your child, ss they study your face, or gase at a toy, or a tickling watch, or a mechanical play thing, and, imagining yourself: in its plac, demand of your reason whether It would not be through the eyes that all your first knowledge of the world would come to you. r.ut tha proposed motion picture schools will not be quite independent of either teachers or books. Mr. Edison admits that he doesn't see how he can teach grammar with moving pictures, but he thinks he can teach almost everything else. But' In fact, even the scenes In the Jungles and the workshops will have t be explained with words, either printed or spoken, while the elaborate reproduc. tions of such historic events as Wsshlng. ton crossing the Delaware will need great aeai 01 explanation. . And then there la the great world of music, ' concerned not with eights but with sounds. Perhaps Mr. Edison will supply phonographs to cover this ground. But even so, there' will remain man) avenues by which knowledge finds Its way to the mind that .will admit ot no mechanical substitutes. ThounnBs of years ago Plato was quits as well aware si we are today ot the supremscy of tho eye In education, but he was also aware of what we should not forget that human perfection de mands a relatively equal development of all the human faculties. f Questions in Science J Br EDGAR Ll'CIEX LAKKIX 1 am wlthia a horne.ts neat because I Inadvertently substituted the word "ver tical" for perpendicular in the notorious picket-fence problem. Fomebody sent this hsrassing question up here: "Which mile of fence require the most pickets, one en a level plain and the other up the side of a mounts n. pickets to be of same slse and at equal distances apart?? Hurried and 'carelessly I 'replied- both tehees require the cams number of pick ets, if they, are at equal distance, same slse and vertlcle. ' The Bee surely has a circulation, for letters came pouring 19 elevating dm to a high plane 'suddenly, saying I had made a m Li take. I should have used ' the word perper.iileuiar la speaking of .the mountain fence; meaning that the picket should be nailed on la a perpendicular to the sot ton rail -of tiie fence that Is. at right angles thereto, and net -vertically, which Is Uie dLrcUoa sssamsd by a plumbllne. Set a vertical 1 post, naif a board Is It at a right-angle, then the board is perpendicular to the post, but is ntrtety degrees from the- ver tical. The arms of a carpenter's square are puerpendlcular to each . other, no matter where- It is in relation te a plumb line. Let a picket tenes run up the ateee side ot a mountain, with pickets at equal distances apart; the a, if' they are "per pendicular te the straight bottom rait the number in one mile Would be the same as In one mile on a horizontal plane. But If tba pickets la the fence on the mountain are vertical. then" fhetr num ber would be leas than those on the plain below greater slant, less pickets. Q. Has the experiment ever been tried of focusing she' image of Mar or other planets as seen through the eye piece of a telescope spots the object -glass of a misroscope? A. The eyepiece "of a telescope ts a tnicroacepe. But for the purpose f again magnifying, the Image of a planet Is let fall on a highly sensitive photographic plate. This flies tho Image, which can be magnified by a microscope. Q. What Is the nearest approach of explorer to the South Pole? A. Lieutenant Shack let on followed the ISStn- meridian southwsrd to latitude U degrees S minutes, point only 1 de gree and minutes from the actual pole. The travelling became extremely difficult the food supply gave, out, so they had to return. ts farthest point was reached on Januasy , ISO. Q Will yon kindly explain through the column ot The Bee why an object is not lighter at the equator than at the poies, owing to centrifugal force? A. A stone weighing S pounds st either pole would weigh MS pounds at the equator on account ot toe action upon it of centrifugal tendency ot the earth's rotation. But the weighing must be made by spring, not scales using weight, as there wotrid also be affected by the same tendency In the same proportion, as the stone. - . Q What la positive and negative elec tricity? A. Electron have been proved to be negative electricity, but postUva electrons har not been isolated a far to ear eVnonatratson. If they nave, then atone kaows what electricity Is. Favorite flctlea. "Angel Cake." "Consensus of Public Opinion." ' ' "Olasees Areuratelv Kilted by Mall." "Mamma's Good Little Boy Must Go to S!eT S.OW." "Mv Account Overdrawn 1 Supposed I Ifad at Least ITi en Deixsnt Here!" Von Knew, old Chap. I'm Willing to Do Anvthlnr I Can for tea " "Jlone-t. 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T TlNC i AW QWM IO0MT NErTP iiZE.a FA MAPfM L 1 A 4 HOTHiN "OOOTrU 1 1 "When Three's Not a Crowd" ByNellBrinkley Copyright, 1912, National Ness Assn.' 1 ----..---m The Work Done by Women's Clubs , ' j hj ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Tha women's club are doing great work for the re-: they are helping to educate women In needed ways; helping to enlarge their tdeaia. and to giro them a better understanding of one another. It la a fact that where you find a who has kept herself aloof from all organisa tions and from all association with women who are active In nubile, work, you will. In 'almost every ease. find her to be full ot tho old-fash ioned pettiness, of Jealousy, ot sarall Uleas of her own sex and of the purely sex selfish nsss which used to make women resorl warfare over a Tr... ; (. ; 4 to any means In man's attention Over In London perhaps on find this Illustrated to a mor marked degree. A very active suffragist was asked by a friend why aha was not satisfied with her own fin social position and her very comfort able Income, and why she did not do charity work and help tho poor and 1st the aufragetto alone. She replied: , "if you could associate for a few months with Ih women who tuke no part In any publlo questions, and who aro satis fied wttk social affair and charity work on tha old lines, yon would understand hew Imposlble It Is tor any woman of mental growth lo be content with aiKb life. 'Why. tho anil-suffragists are the most Impoaatbl creatures; they are filled wllh such empty Ideals, such petty alma, Just to get another admirer away or o outshine another woman In dross, and th war thev talk small scandal fairly sick ens on who think seriously ot life. 1 fear 1 was much Ilk them, until I awakened to the knowledge ot the suf. faring In tn world and the nerd ot earn est women of my class to help other who were not a happily situated to bettor conditions. Now when I go back to the soetsty which used to satisfy ins I feet as If 1 vers on desert Island.' Meanwhile there are many things which tho club women need still to learn: but not alone club women-club men as well. Not alone club men and women, but all men and women who are gifted In ny way vhtch call them to be nubile Instructors or entertainers. Ones upon a time then waa a special matinee, and, a usual on such occasions, the program was over-long. Tse list of entertainer was brilliant, If each had been ready to shew . practical unselfishness) and cemlderatraa ot ethers, all would have gone well. But when the friends of some of the ar- Usis gave curtain call. Instead of re spending with a smile and bow (knowing ' any other response would inconvenience th artists to follow . the majority of these entertainers cam merrily forth and sang or recited or played aa extra um ber. In consequence, tho last four artists j played to empty seal, for th hour grew so late that people ooul4 not remain. . At a brilliant banquet given by a wo man's club there were tat be six speeches. , of ten minutes' duration) each. rive ot Ih speakers vera men; an . . waa a woman, a womaa of great activity n club affairs and whose main object In : life is to help humanity. j Tet when this woman rose to apeak, -after thro men had grvsa their ra mm- utes' talk, sns held her position (If not the attention ot Ih audience) for fifty.,, live awful minute. Then the people began t file ami, tor', the hour waa late, and th other two sneakers talked t a bsjadrul of UsUaers. -t This was due to utter lack eat thought ' fulness, utter selfishness, and utter Ignor- . anc ot what constitute good breeding ' and practical Christianity In suck a pest- ' lion. ')', Christianity Is not a thing to us on . 4undayi; It must be used la the dally a-' air of life, in the social etrcl Slid la..', the business meeting. The oleTgymaui who talks to long tn th pulpit Is not a good Christian. H as taking time which doe not belong to bins. , .' Th choir singers, th Sunday school ' teachers, th congregation, are all in convenienced when he talk overtime. Th best thing ar amid quickly; tho. most brilliant speeches ar alaraye th ' shortest, and ths entertainer and, In-' ' structor who leav us wishing w could . hear more are the most successful. - : Oood health Is maintained by leaving. '. the table with a slight sense of hunsjer. .. The speakers and mnssdana who send: their audiences away with thai sauna- sens of not being aatiatad are th pro; motor of good Intellectual hearth. ; It you are club man or woman or an"' entertainer or a musician, . take this ' thought to heart- ...I Consider your audience, and consider- ! those who eons after you. . ; Boll down lo a rich, creamy consistency. whatever you havs to offer a mental food for your listeners, and then aklm It and boll It again before you serve II And do not give encore If there ar other who follow you and the hour h latei Think of somebody beside yourself. "; Tills Is a sure way to become popular. (Copyright, 12, by th American-Journal-Examiner.) t i r Little Bobbie's Pa By WILLIAM F. KIRK. Husband, sed Ma th other nlte, who 1 If you cant give her anything else, give! waa this frond of Mister Oaynor. this ber a blue eye. Mister Epicktetus? I know who he was. ssd Pa. but I dldent know that he was a Mend of Mister Garnor. I have never -tf- SQU A ILEAL EXCEPTIOIfS 10 AIL HULLS MS THIS IS ONE OF THE EXCEPTIONS. met any of Mister Caynor'i fiend. Pa (d. Well, sed Ma. who wa be? I will tell you, sed Pa. Epicktetus was a grate ftllosofer In th good old days wen a man had a cbanst to flllosofis A still malk enough to keep Marv the children. If a roan tried to filloetflse now. Pa sed. thay wud talk his wife A child ren to a tnatltushun for th needy A thay wud send biro t BeUevu. But it was different then, sed Pa. In them day there waa a lot of old guys Ilk gocrateea that was so busy thinking deep thoughts that thay dldent have time to git a ehav onst over in a hurry, seven. Hence th gras en the chin. Pa sed. But them eld timer thought grate thought. A Mister Epicktetus wa one of tho gratest thoughtera, To you remember sum of bis eppT- grams? sed Ma. I sure do. sed Pa. altho I do not I'.W to reeslt eppygrams a a rule. I rigger, sed Pa. that a eppygrani ts summing rots by a man who has been out too late t rile a musical comedy. But nor Is sum of Mister Epicktetus s eppygrams: I. Never explain. Turo friend do not leaulra explanations at yure enem; a iwuddent boeleeve one. I tttve yure wit sum thing every week X A honest man Is a liar with a good memory. 4. A mayor is a man that walk to A from his business A who save ten cent a day from the street car peepul A wants to save mllyuna for them. A There was a time wen our lodges a as the salt of th earth. Sloe I have I got fresh, things Is different. Well, sed Ms, I boa yea har don ! about enuff spouting. I doaat boeleeve that a slngls on ot Lb em eppygram wkth you have Just spok is eppygram ot Mister Epicktetus. It sounds mor ta me like th result of lata hours, sed Ma. . Jest then the doorbell rang A I went . to the door. A it waa Miss Viola Veal. Mis Veal was a poet A flltosofer. A. she was the one that toald Ma about Epicktetus, the frend of Mister Oavnor. i Husband, sed Ma, this la a frend of Mis ter Gaynor A Mister Epicktetus, She wants to read you on of ber poems. I shud be deelighted. Pa sed. How ; crisp A terse Is It? -f 'j It ts vary breef. sed Mia Veal: , Epicktetus, Eplektetus, - Thru the yeere yu grow stlB breeder, ' But If Guvnor had the larynageetus " I think New Tork wud rest muck eesier. Tou ar rite. Viola, sed Pa. I want " you to cum to lunch with me sua day. - Most men who ar shadowed by detatM t lives are more or less abady. ine mail sw uwicu as m path; seldom bands out anything eta. The man who make good doesn't aft dowa and wait for bia abi) to bobssIbV . 1