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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, APRIL 27. 1912 19 "jlie ee'g ne aa z, i re f)ae SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT - I. f OH- .SAX- ,- . . I ViKAT ? I I . I l V - -, ' I BIS SHOW I I 1HI MEHi. I r hum ruey Ceversoc. mC it's a Good Thing He Djdnshake the Tree Drawn for The Bee by Tad TiTiTf ti TtTiTtf Married Life the Third Year Warren Was Not Displeased It Was Only Helen's Imagination. By MABEL HERBERT CTOTER. Helen tu never a brilliant conver sationalist. No on could aver iccus her of trying to scintillate. A a nil when aha was In company, especlaly when Warren waa pres ent, ah waa mor or 1ms self-con. clous and much preferred to listen than to talk. But tonight sha waa unusually ani mated. We all have ocraalonal m o -merit of exhtlara 1 1 0 n when w chatter away with unconscious vlva city, when w "let ourselves go" and often reiret It af terward. And for Helen ( this waa such a moment. Perhaps It waa be- caus th day had been a very happy one. It waa Sunday, and Warren had been with her all day, and he had been unusually companion able, loathe mornlnc ha had read th papers, now and then reading something aloud, while ah aat happily by with her mending basket. In aoraa way Helen waa quit a little heathen. She could never see why It waa worae to aew or mend on Sunday than to do anything else. And sh vh never happier than when on a Sundat morning Warren could read to her while ah act sewing In a low chair beside him. In the afternoon they had gon for a long walk, and come horn Just In time to dreaa and get over to th Stevensss, with whom they had promised to din. Helen mood aeemed Infectious. Mr. Stevens told torn vry clever stories And even warren, who rarely told stories, but when h did told them with Inlmlt able humor, now related aom Incldenta f hla western trip. Then Helen found herself telling of Pussy Purrmew'a antic. How sh al i ways nosed her way Into every box and how she ha squirmed Into Delia's band box on top of her new Eaeter hat with out knocking off th lid. and how fright ened and angry Delia had been when ahe found her there. Th atory in Itself was very trivial, but It waa th way sha told It that gv It charm. "I say, Helen, give ua that imitation of th woman at th uffragett meeting." demanded Warren. 'Oh. no. no." flushing. "I couldn't do that" 1 "Why not? Of course, you can." Then. turning to Mr. 6teven, "Sh went t a suffragette meeting th other day and tame back and took oft on of th apeak' era. Jove, It waa out of eight. Olv It to us, kitten: let's have It. At any other time Helen could not have been persuaded to do thla before any one but Warren, but now she yielded to thlr Insistence. Sh even stood up to better give the effect If he had don well before, she surpassed herself now. She gave as much of the speech aa ah could remember, and then made up a great deal more. All in the same shrill, ranting tones of th suffragette who waa making her first speech In public, and who felt that It waa only necessary to make many vigorous gesture and us many high sounding phraaea about "woman's 1 rights." "woman' Independenc" and "down-trodden womankind." Helen had a natural talent for mim icry. She could com horns from the theater and imitate th actors with aa Irresistible drollery all her own. And now while they wer tlll con vulsed with laughter at her auffragett Impersonation, Warren insisted that sh take off the star of a play they had Just aeen. It happened that Mr. and lira Stevens had also aeen the play, and they all shouted at the clever mimicry. Flushed with excitement and urged on by their roar of laughter. Helen gav one Imitation after another until she finally sank breathleaa Into ber chair. "Bravo, Kitten, brave:" exclaimed Warren. "We'll have you In vaude ville yet." "Why. dear, you're wonderful." and .Mrs. Stevens leaned forward with gen uine admiration. "Why didn't you let any of us know you could do this?" 'That" what I want to know?" de manded Mr. Stevens. 'Think of what we've bean missing." I "Oh. it'a a diffident little kitten, and t doesnt often snow orr in puduc, laughed Warren. But In spite of the Hghtoese of hie mm trier waa an unmistakable note yt prld In hi vole that set Helen wart a-flutter. h waa intoxicated with !t ail. with the sens of her own success snd with th praise and admiration they had showered upon ber, and above all with the realisation that Warrea waa proud of her. She was conscious, too, that she was looking unusually well. Every now and then ah caught her reflection In th mirror of the sideboard opposite. Th dainty pal blue chiffon gown, that ah had bought since Warren's re turn, brought out all th fairness snd delicate coloring of her skin. And she knew thst several tlmea that evening there had been a look of admiration in Warren' eye as they rested upon her, that had not been there for many months. "Shall we hav coffee In th other room?" asked Mrs. Stevens "Oh, no, let' have It here." answered her husband. "There's something com panionable about sitting around a table that you can't get anywhere else." And so they lingered long over their coffee, laughing and talking with th sense of well-being that a good dinner and good company sometimes brings. Never had Helen been so animated. Never had she so "let herself go." Sh waa vaguely conscious that for her sh was talking a great deal, but sh was conscious, too, that sh waa talking welt. Never had words and Ideaa com so flu ently. Usually In th evenings they spent with th Btevenses sh would listen quietly to Warren and Mr. Stevens, but tonight they were llatcing to her. But auddenly at the very height of her animation she felt Warren's foot touch her under th table. Sh glanced at him quickly to find him frowning disapprov ingly. It was es sudden and aa subduing a a dash of cold water. All her exhilaration instinctively faded Into an anguished olf-conadouaneast What had sh said? What had ah done? Sh looked at him In mute In quiry. H was still frowning, but he was looking away from her now. Plainly he did not wish to exchange glances for fear th Stevens might nolle. But again ah felt th warning nudg under the table. For th real of th evening ah was as silent as ah bad been talkative before. Kf si - nv tasa avrw m a OAT ADA ft. CHIR.PJ ITJ ARP TO BE PO0K- VetT A GREAT MAC P&OpLC ACCOMPMJM IT. KJP KRAfT WMO riArWaTt Pmocuc sairrn hqkh on tm WM OwinJ WAUFoU JMAfvceANfft TWer CTHEK H'4-rtT HtrVtMiNfr "BttTfrvOODy DOlhCj IV HE ilDPPtO iuPDEVCy upon aectn a bottle Nvtytwu HA HA Hfc UAItce. HOWtCV A MtUI Afr." V JrtAU. SB vtAT Me ih aaa- iet" fr 06rT irTHEJtewAJ A NOTE VtHiCM fie-AO ' IP ELO-TRlC JfAeMt AfcE BOiE IS G-Ai JET? STRIKE ME IGNA.TZ !? 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U MnrMrl TOt: II 'w'"" 4 " and she waa unutterably wretched. Oh, why had sh so let herself go? It seemed to her now that she had talked much mor than ah really had. Her Imitations, too, seemed bow very foolish and undig nified. Oh, how could sh hav let a little ap plause lead her on to make auch a spec tacle of herselfT And o In her mind sh exaggerated everything and tortured her self with the exaggerations, as only a sensitive, imaginative woman can. The rest of th evening seemed Inter minable. 8h waa feverishly anxlou to get away. When at last Ihey left sh could hardly wait until they reached th street before sh asked qulvsrlngly: "Warren, what waa It? What did I dor "What did you dor blankly. "Oh, I know-I know I talked too much! I know I waa excited all vnlng hut what did I say or do Just them that made you atop me?" "Stop you?" (till blankly. "Why, yes, when you frowned and nudged me at th table?" "What are you talking about, anyway?" "Oh, Warren don't! Couldn't you aee I anguished over It all th real nf the evening. I don't know what made m run on so at the dinner you know I'm never Ilk that!" "Wall you were a dam sight mor at tractive than I'd ever seen you. Don't know what you're talking about now." "Why, Warren!" In bewilderment "Then what made you frown at me? What mad you nudg me with your foot?" "Guess you dreamed It." And then as something dawned on him. ha threw bark hi head and roared. "Jove, you re a little goose! Thst must hav beta when my foot went to aleep under the table. Didn't know I waa frowning but waa moving it around to atop th tingle. Well that Is good! Bo that's what you thought? By Oeorga, thai' rlchl" and again he roared. "Oh. Warren, I don't thing It' a bit funny." Indignantly. It'a simply spoiled my evening. It mad m feel that I talked too much and that I'd been too too" faltering for want of a word. "And oh, I anguish over It so." "Oh wall." Indifferently, "you anguish over anything. Half your trouble com from angulahlng over Imaginary things, anyhow." The Art of Life cWlnrtrd by EDWIX MAHKHAM. Dr. Horatio W. Dresser In his volume called "Human Efficiency" (published by O. P. Putnam's Sons, New York; t) mak a study of th psychology of the principles of human activity. He con sider th term "efficiency" aa only a synonym for th art of Ufa, for adapta tion to nature. I select a few para graphs from th chapter entitled "Our Knersies and Tbelr Control": 'Th principle of efficiency tend to assum quantitative forma at first, through ths dominance of commerrdal standards, and bacaus of th us of method Involving th economical us of tint. Thla tendency, carried to the extreme, would mak of every man a machln for th production of th great est amount of good work In th shortest time. To permit this tendency to rule would lnvolv th surrender of the higher Interest of human life, and man would cease to b human. "Efficiency Implies th bent us of all our powers so fsr as may be consistent with tha stssdy pursuit of on Interest, vocation or profession, to which w glv ourselves for ths sak of being genuinely practical. The end la lf-ralisatlon. th contribution of our share to th world's work, to ths srts or ths sciences. Hence alf-oorolvena should no mor rule than th coercion of authority, "Th right to live, t express. Is Ina lienable, sacred. Th human organ lam Is aa Instrument for th realisation of thla moral Meal. Mind and body move along together. Therefor w cannot ex pert to mak satisfactory headway un less ws taks them both Into full account Control at th center, mental efficiency, Is th Ideal and th means whereby moral efficiency may be secured. "In a widely read artlrl by Prof. Jamas on Th Energies of Men,' atten tion I railed to th fact that there are various levels of energy, and time when th amount of energy available la greater. whlla at other tlmea on ape pari to be out off from th sources Closely con nected with these fluctuations of energy are th Inhibitions which check our en ergy la msny ways. "W ar restrained, for example, by The Adventures of Cupid :- Coprlght, mi. National New Aesoctitloa - Drawn by Nell Brinkley v"T1 1 ' i i 3 J :.JVwfe? v llterallty and decorum, and aa hedged la that wa ar anabi to attala fulnsss of slf-preston. It la plain that I ber are reservoirs of energy not habitually tapped. That these hidden reserves ex lac we know from th fact that at tlmea wa gain our 'second wind,' hence ws ar ah la to press on and work ven after bason ing decidedly fatigued. "Again, we atcompllah a great deal under excitement, or unusual elrcum stances. Th Inference la that If w ao. sessed spontaneity or self-abajadon merit w might frequently draw on our Mddsa resource. "It I hav been In th habit of taking long walks Into tha oountry, I may wall taks advantage of my 'second wind" and walk fiv. ten, even fifteen mil after I am weary; alnc my organism, wed tralnsd in that sort of exereisa, may not be brought Into full activity until I hav passed beyond th Initial fatigue. Th next day I may be awar of no lll-tfcta, and In a few days may b abla to repast the performance. "So, in many klnda of work In which people regularly engage It may be possi ble to continue day after day turning oft an exceptional amount of work without any undralrabl result "This should be true of all who pow ers ars trained to work aystemstlcslly, especially those who are happy In their work. The normal Individual ought to be able to labor a goodly number ot hour without being unpleasantly asn arioiia of hla organism. "That there I enormous waat of en ergy in th human organism is a fact b considered by Itself before w eat out In quest of hidden reserve. Only by mor advantageously employing th energy at hand can w expect to con serve and organise that which la wasted. Our first promising discovery Is likely t relate to th nervoua ystem, lnc It I right use of nervoua nrgy which un derlies mental efficiency, without doubt th nervou system Is capabla ot far mor work than w uaually get from It "Tea. whatever th real or apparent power of ths nervous system. It Is prl marlly a question ot tha Individual who makes full us of hi powers, or habit ually behaves below hi highest point ot activity, as th case may be. "It make good us of our powr wa must nggs la a work which w believe worth while. Granted an Inspiriting Ideal which calls ths best from th sslf th question Is: Where shsll one begin In the effort to master the enwgtr ot th organism and employ them to advaa- tage? If able to command sufficient repose to analyse a eubject carefully, discern ing Its parts, arranging them In order, singling out essential points and formu lating laws, you hsvs already made Sev eral attainments In this direction. Such control Implle th ability to adopt point of trie and follow It logically to Its conclusions, and thla Im plies command of ths brain. It also In volves ths mechanism that secures exter nal order and system. Insures confident and enable ons to strlk out and reach goal. "Some People show In a few minutes conversation why they have become neurasthenics. That is, they speak with enormous waste of energy, using their powers Ilk th person who does three days' work In one and then rests tor three day to recover front th exosM. To catch on' self In th act of forging shead Is to resits what a whirlwind of excitement la ordinarily taking place within, what tensions, frictions and strains sv'M remain to be overcome. One cau hardly leant precisely what la taking place without at the same time seeing what should be done. Catching one's self In ths act, one la able t trace effects to causes. Hence, one eees at what point ths organism must be eared for is a wiser wsy. Just where the centers of nervous sctlvtty must be overcome. But all this call for more elf-koowl- edge end composure aa th basis for con trol of the organism. This In turn de mand. simple life, with mor tiro tor reflection." I WORKS OF WOMEN By BEATRICE FAIRFAX "It is difficult." says Longfellow, "to know at what moment Love begins; it is lest difficult to know that it has begun." A modern writer declares love) to be "the despair of philosophers and sages, the rapture of poets, the con fusion of cynics, and the warrior's defeat." Furthermore it has become the preTailing them ot the novelist. Almost every story is a. love story, and th adventures of cupld are told on all the Dazes. -His First Step. From the Man's Heart to the Woman's. Th picture above represents him taking bis first step Uncertain at his strength in bis little fat legs, he wab ble and would fall if not supported by the strong arms of the maa who is sending him with a message ot lose to the girl who has arms outstretched to receive him. Would yoa follow th adventures of this Utile love Imp who Is going from th heart of the man to seek ad mittance la ths heart of the maid? If joa would yoa need not be ashaiaed to'contea iL If you are not interested in eupid s adventures, if the sighs of rapture and longing attending him awaken no kindred emotion in your breast, then you're not living, loving human being. Yon are simply a casket for a rusty piece of mechan ism called a heart All that love does to mortals, whether they welcome or flaunt htm, is told in the picture series ot "The Adventures ol Cupid." Th stat labor commissioner In Ohio will appoint a woman to Investigate th social conditions ot women In factories. working glrf In shops and stores, and to discover any Indications of the existence of the white slave traffic Bbe will visit the women at their places of work and in their home to discover actual Condi tions under which they live and work and what can be don to better auch oom tiona .' When th national republican conven tion Is held In Chicago June tt ther will be some surprises for th delegates In the way of suffrage demonstratiows. A balloon, with "Votes for Women" printed upon Its banners, will float lastly over th city the all who see may read. Ther ar to be speeches and a Sf OLes slon. sin. Chatfleld-Tayior. Mrs. Ttffaaa Blake, alias Jan Addasns and ether, prominent women ar hacking th tea-tures,"- .