THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH 2- 1913.
11
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SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT
The Judge is Still Wondering
Copvntht, in, National Newa An
Drawn for The Bee by Tad
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I MHiJCAt(AvT) AiT
Married Life the Third Year
Helen's Mother Points Out the Hardships that Confront a
Woman Alone.
. By MAiitli HivrUiEKX IKaKIL
Helen; i la always
I am much worried at year lut
tetter; I hardly know bow to advise you.
As yon know. I have never wanted to
hntartara, ,ln any way between you and
husband or
I
'CDenr
w
'
hla people. And
than an acme
problatna that every
wUa must work
ut for haraalt
"1 a .... . iila
I mot her I heel tat
Ln apeak. 1 ou
7, uaderatand your re
sentment at tha
lettar aha wrote
Warren, but I am
not, aura dear, that
you wera wtaa la
your attitude to
ward her tha day
aha called. What- '
evsr aha ' might
have said, was It
quite polite for
yoei to reffllUts aa
you did?
1 know aha goaded you Into It. and
lit does aeem that you should be free
to rent, your spare roam If you wleh.
But, It, couldn't help matter for you
to say you d'dn t( ,thlnk It concerned
her, ' and thai the' ''only' Interact , aha
)had ever drown had been to criticise.
"Of course, aha exeggerated when
ishe wrote Warren that you wera In
leolent to her,, but. . still, as. the waa
.calling at your home, I hardly think
lyeu aho'uld have aald anything at that
Itlme.
"1 know, you feel you have taken
i great deal and have aald very little,
' , ..... vA.i n. a pr ... hla
OB IHl 1 f . n .....
.people have treated you with mora or
lea discourtesy. But wouia tt nave
helped aay for yau to be discourteous.
toot At least, you have gotten aiong
for these two years without an open
break, and It eeeme to ma It would be
better It you could avoid any just
i now.
'After H,.your Ufa Is not lived witn
his people. Tou eea them oniy occa
sionally. And whatever your plana
for the future It will not make them
any easier to antagonise hia mother.
Tou write that you feet you c.u.ui
go on as thing-, are now. That your de
pendence on Warren la becoming mora
and morh" tntollerable and that you must
find aome way of making at least part
of jour . own expense ' Helen, I don't
knew what to aay about this. I havo
wanted to talk it over with your father,
but have hesitated to do so, for you know
how bitter ha already Is toward Warren.
And I aaa aura ha would Insist on your
oominc home. However little we have
yo are always welcome i '
But you aay you will never do this.
And yet I wonder, Helen, n.
realise how hard It la for any . woman or
year training to be self-supporting or
even partially so, men If you were
wholly free it would be most difficult
But wtth W'tntf red have you thought of
what a handicap aha would bet Tou
i would never want to be aeparated from
her. and yet that Is what almost any
work yea might take up would mean.
Ton write that many women whose
has bands have died and who have had
no more training for bread-winning than
yon, support themselves and their child
ren. That ta true, and were yoa forced
to do It, you probably could. But I can
not bear te think of your facing tha
hardships, anxieties and humiliation
that most surely come when a delicate
woman who has alwaya bean sheltered
faces the world alone.
Tou ask me what Sally Hewitt did
after her husband waa killed on the rail
road. I doa't know what she took up at
first, but now she Is In Chicago workliuf
for some fashion publication doing d
elgning of aome kind. But. of course,
aba always had a knack of drawing
which you have not.
Jlow I wish you had kept up your
music, for I reel you have a real talent
for, that. But I suppose In New Tork It
would be use lee for any one with only a
moderate training to try to give lessons.
Ton apeak of shorthand and ask if I
think yon could learn that I know an
little about tt, Helen, but even if you did
learn t not the pay very email? And
are there not many applicants for even
Soeltlon?
"And this work would take you out la
the business world. Tou would probably
have to be in aome lawyer's or broker's
office, and I know how hard that woul 1
he for- you. Don't think I am trying to
weaken you If you are convinced that
year happiness lies tn being Independent
But t want you to realise more fully
soma of the difficulties.
"At least don't do anything radical
until Warren returns. Perhaps If he
i . 1 "1
, -1
1 V i. X C.A.0 Vr" REMEMBER v (T-WT
. 1 J
What ! Five Cents Extra for Catsup!!
trrltabls when he tt
engaged In aay enterprise that la un
certain. It la bard to wait for develop
ments. And I suppose that Is what h
la baring to do. 8 dear. If you cs-vl
k. naibnt Itttki Innnr and try teXv
think tha future holds soma happier solu
tion than for you to have to work out
side your home.
"About Mrs. Morrison, year roomer,
I hardly know what te advise yon. It
doea seam a Mule unreasonable that you
should not be free to rent the spare room
while Warren Is away. And yet, since
both ha and hla people are ao against
It. I am not aura that you are wlaa In
keeping her.
"After all. It can be only a few weeka
until Warren returns, and Is It worth
going against hla wishes to keep her for
that short timet
"Helen, as I grow alder I think I
grow mere dependent I haven't the
courage that I once had. I can sea
that even In my housework. This spring
we are going to have that door cut
through from the ball to the dining room.
Tou know wo have planned that fur
several years. But somehow, just to
net everything ready for tha men eectvs
to ma such aa effort And I even dread
tlia bousecleaning this year. .nd tha
elcth you sent me Christmas fcr a stilt
i haven't had It made up yet Just be
oauss I drea-cd taking It to tha dress
makers and plan It out I am ao afraid
aha will spoil K that I keep putting It off
"Now, I know all this la lust because
1 am growing old. So perhaps I should
not let my fears Influence you. Tou're
young, and have most of your Ufa be
fore you. And if you think that sooner
r later you will have to make soma
radical change perhaps you bad batter
make It now.
"For your sake. Helen,' I wish that 1
waa younger, so that yen ceald lean upon
me more. But this winter I feel that I
have aged a treat deal. Tha rheumatism
In my band la worse, and at times It la
all through my arm and ahoulder. And
this has been a hard winter on your
father, too; he stoops more that I have
aver seen him. and he Is more feeble than
when yoa were here last year. 8o yoa
see, dear, we are both getting old; and
that is why I so dread to think of you
without all tha protection of your hue
band and your home.
-Well dear. I am afraid thla la not a
very cheerful letter or a very helpful
one. and yet one that I felt I ahould
write. I shall be anxloua Is hear from
you. Write me often, if only a few lines.
Try to keep well, for. after all, health Is
the greatest thing. And It will be easier
for yoa to meet any conditions that may
come up if yon are well and strong.
"With much love to yu and Wini
fred. MOTHER."
Helen read this letter with the feeling
that somehow her mother bad failed her.
She real lied now how .much aha had
wanted to bold to her. But this letter
only showed that ska cauld sot It only
made her feel that mors than aver aha
stood atone.
Again aha read the passage-where her
mother aald she was growing old that
everything now seemed aa undertaking.
It almost terrified her. somehow she had
caver thought of her mother as ever be
mg really old. She had vaguely felt that
aha would never change, that age with
Its weakening; Influences would never
claim her.
And aha had looked forward to thla
letter as oaa that would gtva her' cour
age, and would strengthen her In her
p ana. Instead It had shaken what courage
aha had tt made her tee) all her help
lessness and Incapability.
And more than thla her mother had
Questioned the wisdom of her attitude
towards Wsrren's another, aad alas her
determination to keep her roomer. -
She took up her mother's letter and
read it again. "Don't think I am trying
to weaken you If you are convinced that
your happlneea lies In being Independent"
And yet the letter had weakened her
and her mother knew that It would. '
For tha moment Helen had almost a
fierce contempt for her own sraverlag
Indecision. hs thought of her many de
terminations which aha had never car
ried out. No "Wonder Warren scoffed at
her assertions of independence. Looking
back on tha last few months aho reamed
that aba had made one plan after an
other and had carried out none of them.
There came over bar a feeding almost Of
fatalism that whenever she tried to
assert any vestige of Independence, In
some way some influence alwaya swept
her back to the accctanco of conditio as
as they wen
Was tt always to be Hke this? We
aha really um. v.-... .ue curious
fatality? Or u it ( - t a e she had
sa long been under Wsrren's dominating.
is auceeasfal la bis business deal out tyranmsuig win inai na aaa crusnea out
tstags may be setter. A man any real courage aha had ever had.
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4 V
What Women Do With the Ballot and Suf
fragism and the Liquor Traffic
Br ELLA WHEELKR WILCOX.
V
Just what the effect of woman suffrage
would be on publla morala has bean a
subject of discussion for years In Amer
ica. In New Zealand, according to tha
reports of reatdenta of that srsaderful
land, woman suf
frage has resulted
In marked decrease
of alcoholism.
Drunkenness has
virtually ceased to
be In New Zealand.
In Callfarnla tha
first vote of the
women was not for
prohibition, because
they found organ
ised solutes, with
out principles ar
Id sals, back of that
movement
The women real
ised that the people
must be educated
and prepared
total abstinence; they could net be
forced Into It.
Woman are the sufferers from alcohol
ism; slid wherever they havo power and
prti us to use - ice. It will, la tha
great majority of i-ees, be used for tem
perance. Any one who baa lust read the news
papers with thought, for a d scads or mare
lot years, must havs noticed the large
, percentage of crime which has fallen to
tha share of New Jersey.
Many of the most shocking crimes la
far
"Should Auld Acquaintance' Be Forgot?" By Nell Brinkley
Copyright. UU, National News Ass' a.
the annals sec ui real ta that stats.
Aa Intellectual sraenan of East Orange
has made some Interesting lavaatlgatloas
and has reported them ra a statiatieaJ
he tells us that Ksw Jersey has had te
pay !VM mors annually tor the ears of
eons-lets than nine ether states of larger
population.
Her statistics era so brtereetiasT that
they will be worth reading by every oas
who has a regard for the publla wel
fare.
"New Jersey outranks Ksw Cngland
la the Paresniaca of ertme, and the data
show that mainly Is das as tha ass of a
tosloanta," she says.
"Tha at at let lea anew there Is sas drink,
tna plaoa la New Jersey for every B4
population, or one to every fifty voters.
while New Bngland has sas saloon te
(11 of population. New Jersey has sas
sonnet to I ar) of population and New
Bngland one to MQ.
"New Jersey haa had for years to pay
annually M,W mors for tha cars of
onvlcts than nine other states - of
greater population.
"We learn tram tha Best swlenUOe
authorities that amoe the chief causes
of Insanity la aloohoHstn. Thirty per
cent of tha men aad N per cent of the
women committed to tha stats asylums
are suffering from sassdttlsns das directly
to tha ass of alcehot"
And hers Is what another woman aayg
on the sasss subjeett
Rum before eoffna or a sscktall be
fore breakfast m tha tropica, then com
mit sons little Imprudence, aad yeu ga
horns ta sea."
That Is what Dr. Margaret Terk telf
a good-atasd audleaos at the Academy
of Medicine. "Alcohol In Heiatoa IS
Bfrksaoey" was tha tapta at the aubtls
health lecture for tha day. Dr. Tork
talked of Its relation to the stomach aad
liver, and tha mformatioa coejoemlng
tho tropics bad soma from a rosy,
cheeked, healthy Kngltahmaa, was told
why many uaa who had preceded hint
In a post la the tropics had succumbed
to tho oil mate.
They fait the need of stimulant la tha
morning, took a glass of Iktuor, lost their
appetite for nourishing food, and tha
result wss physical dlassmtisa,
"I took a cup sf coffee tn tha morn
ing, " said tha Kngllahmaa, "eta a little
simple, aoortshuig food, 1st Mqoor aloaa,
and I could sleep oa the ground, wear
damp clothe and still keep my health.
All the evidence was against aioshoUa
drinks.
These women ana but tws of thousands
who are awake on ovary subject which
pertains Is the welfare of the race. Ex
cessive ass of aloo hollo beverages nsa
iiarsaasd amsslngiy In the last decade
It has ditrsaaod slats tha days of Geont
Washington, when every "gentleman"
was suppsssd to get drunk sa occasloaa
It will deersaae still mora, in the neat
d scads: because ear schools are teaching
the dangerous effects sf alcohol, aad
secauee oar womsa are actively engaged
fca research ta every Una which aaabisi
there ta understand what la good aad
what Is aet good for tho rising genera
tioa. Aad because tha (deals of the wertd are
being a fled, slowly but eerely, to a higher
sttltudav-Copyrtght, UO, by
JearaalrKntsnlnsr.
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NIX ON THE HELLO STUNT (f
"CO "WAX, UlSm. I CAST PUT WITH TOU FOB A WHILE MA TOST LTX 3tX"
Slowly, ant sorely, the Word "hello"
psssea from the offleial literature of tele
phone talk and etnas Into tho discard.
Telephone companies long have frowned
upon the expression. Recently the Pars
Maro'iette railroad tabooed It and now
ths Chicago A Northwestern railroad has
done the same thing.
"Hello" Is such a delightfully Impolite
and expressive word that Its rTtrg to
the shades seems a pity, aad its sandy
revivification, or at least its reincarnatlea
in some form, seems Inevitable. It has
behind It a history, which Is lengthy tt
not particularly distinguished, and which
entities It to eoosl deration. Thswgh
i "hello" waa officially recognised by liter
ature only about thirty-fire yeass agsw
jlta first known form, "hollow," sates sack
sno uie BDHraio Bssai ruwiini w aa mvj
to tnoits soldiers, heaters sod deem ts
activity and slaughter, la the seventeenth
century It masqueraded as "bine. In the
j eighteenth century it Secerns "hallo" and'
I in ths nineteenth century, hullo'" and
finally "belle." In the reuree sf He sd
' vwntarea It ale oosnrtimes appeared as
, "holla, halloa and hollco."
f Reeirr, It seems a pity te shirs aMe
' each en historic, breezy, familiar, demv
eraUc little word aa "hello,"' for the pr as.'
1 maidenly, colorless exprew'on thai he.
succeeded It. "Number, p'esse." -I!roU
Fit. ITess. t