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Br DOROTHY DIX.
The-en unanswerable argument against
divorce Is the child.
Wo may say that each of us has a
right to his or her own happiness. We
may say that an unworthy husband or
wife forfeits what
ever claim they
have upon us. We
may say that when
we make a mis
take In marriage
there It no more
reason we should
be bound forever to
It than there la why
we should continue
to be victims of
any other error of
judgment.
We may say that'
to be forced to live
with a husband or
wife whom we hate,
and who brings out
all that la worst In
our natures, Is de
moralising to our charactors-that la con
demns us to live-In an atmosphere. In
wlrleh all that la beautiful and Ideal In
Ufa withers and dlea as It blown upon by
the 'bluet of a alraooa.
This le true. There la no other such
blighting Influence In the world as do
mestic discord. However, patiently borne.
It turns the-very soul Into an arid deaart.
and nobody can blame the Individual who
seeks to escape from this death-ln-llfe
There Is no answer to the contention
that we have a right to save ourselves
from the purgatory or an unhappy mkr
rteg. except the wall of a child, weeping
over the wreck of Its home. That Is na
ture's relentless reply to the sophistries
of philosophy. That to duty's stern call
to ua to stand at our posts, whatever the
ooet In suffering, and fulfill the obli
gation we have taken npon ourselvea.
When we have children we have given
hostages to fortune, and are no longer
free to' seek tnrr Own happiness. It Is
they who are to bo considered first.
The ehUdlew may be divorced. If It
seems beet to them, but above the noise
of warring couples with children comes
the cry of the helpleso little ones who
are left fatherless or motherless In the
breaking up of a home.
Listen to thla pathetic, curious, un
chlldlsh letter that comes to me from a
little girl. Hhe writes In a lttle. round,
schoolgirl handwriting. '
"Dear Miss Dtx: I am IS years old.
and I read all your articles In The Bee.
Now. I want you to tell me what you
think of my case. My home Is about to
be broken up by a woman. Of course,
she is younger than my mother, but not
an better looking nor one-half so good.
Tell me, please. Is that the way the
world Is going? Are there ao more happy
homes? My brothers and sisters and I
have made op our minds that we win
never get married. Ho one could have
been more devoted than my mother has
been. the ha been a slave ta us all. and
thla to what she gets. Please answer me
soon. What do you think of a thief who
robe little children of their father?
"A HEARTBROKEN LITTLE OlRL."
Poor little girl, who at It years has
seen all of the gold rubbed off of Cupid
wings, and who baa witnessed ao many
family spots that aha has resolved never
to get married! Poor little girl, who at
It years judges between mother and
rather, and contemptuously condemns
father! Poor Mule girl, whose childhood
has been darkened by the sad and sordid
knowledge of the world, who disc times
affinities and broken homes wjth her
baby sisters and brothers, and who boars
oa her little shoulders the burden of her
parents' weakness and sin!
Doesn't the mere thought of her brtng
tinging tears to your eyes? And don't
you feel that nothing saa Justify the
parents In the way they are doing? Is
It not the plain duty of that father and
mother to keep a homo together for their
cbtldrea and to make their children happy
and give them the chance In Hie that
only children have who are brought up
in environment of decent family life?
CoMpared to the welfare of these Bttle
ones what la the lure of some ether wo
man to the ana? How small a matter
avea ta toe wire s Jealousy and right
eous Indignation!
The real victim of divorce are the
children, not alone because they are aaad
half orphans and homelta by It. but
because It destroy their farm tn all that
la good and true. How. can yon teach
purity to a girt, whoa mother baa the
lime of the divorce court on her gar
ment?. H.-w can you teach honor to the
boy who knows of his father's dtsaowor.
How eaa yon teach steadfast nee to duty
ta csdldrea who hawe ansa raear parent
tun cowardr ay ftm , hard eaa..
The (gecg tjrixe Ma(fazirP p)a
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Argument Against Divorce
atlen? How can the weak breed strength
Into the little ones?
Of course It win he said that when a
father and mother cannot area, and live
In perpetual discord with each other;
the children are better off with either
one than wltb both; that no home at all
Is better than a home divided against It
self. To this argument one ran only say that
parents have no .right to make such a
horn. No matter how deeply they may
feel In their own breasts that they have
gotten the wrong life partners, and (hat
some other man and woman are their
real mafea, they are bound by every law
of decency to hide this from their chil
dren, and to keep the door of their
skeleton closet fast locked against In
quisitive Utile eyes. To be tempted la the
lot of alt. To yield to temptation la the
act of the craven.
It Is the paramount duty of parents to
protect their choldren even from them
selves, and for fathers and mother t
drag their children Into their squabbles
Is s bsd as If they threw the nelpiesa
little creatures Into the midst of a battle
where they would be trampld upon and
mangled. For a father a.il mother to
let their children become oognlsant of
their amours I worse than tailing them
Into a leprosy camp. It defllea the little
minds beyond the power of deeming.
As for the woman who would tend her
self to the breaking up of a home In
which there are children, the cars of
Ood Is upon her. Truly It were better
for her that she should tie a mils ton
aeeut her neck and cast herself Into the
sea then that she should offend ono of
these little one.
The Manicure
Ladyj
I have lust came back from a trip to
the country." aald the Manicure Lady.
"Goodness kaows, Oeorga, I hated to
leave It- Them country people always
makes you feel so at home. And think
of all them nttle fishes In the little
brooks, and the flora fauna In the tree.
Oeorga"
"I'll bet you don't know what flora
fauna to, klddo," said the skeptical Head
Barber.
"It Is some kind of a treetoad, Oeorga,"
replied the Manicure Lady. "They are
the funniest little things you ever seen.
The landlord's aon found one for ma and
brother Wilfred. It waa green, ao they
couldn't see It among the leave If they
wanted to shoot It. The landlord' aon
wa never tn the cUy, George, and ain't
smart Ilka ua folka, but he wa awful
kind. Ua showed me and Wilfred all
over the place. One of the thing o
showed us wa a cunning little wild
animal called a wampu. He aald that It
always lived on a aide hill on account of
toe tact. George, that I la two right legs
waa shorter than It two left lega And
h explained that It waa all the time on
the right of the hill, and that It always
had to walk straight ahead. He aid It
couldn't turn around, ao H kept walking.
"Did ho tell you aU that?" Inquired the
grinning Head Barber.
"Certainly ha did. Ueorge. and I don't
see nothing for you to be grinning about,
either. If ono of them Mmpla country
lad want to be nice to city folka that
ha had more chance thn him. and
more education. I don't think It to aon
of your business to make fun of aim.
"Another thing he showed me and
Wilfred wa a mineral spring. He aid
that in the winter the water la It taated
Ilk hot whtaky, and that la the aprlng
It turned to sulphur and soots see. Ain't
It grand, the way that nature baa of
taking car of them laneosat people up
there? Ton ace. George, they don't get a
chano to as many papers, ao they can't
read health hint and beauty hint Ilk
the on of which I waa telling you of.
What in the world ar you grinning
about? Anybody would think you wa
ae simple aa tha little fellow that showed
ua around up there."
"I doa't Mama him for grinning," da-
dared the Head Barber. "He waa string
ing you.-
Toifre dippy!" exclaimed the Mani
cure Lady. "Imagine anybody from a
email town stringing a city girl"
SEE GOT IT ALL BACX.
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Tea: she quarrelled wrth Jack and re
turned all his preaenta."
'And h bora?"
'Every ewe of them. Why. he even
went so far a to sand her half a tats
boxes of face puadu with a note ex
plaining that amee be first awt her he
t aava taken that asuak
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Picking up the magasln called Motor
the other day, I became unexpectedly and
deeply Interested In the wonderful expo
sition which I found tiiere of the present
state of one of the greatest practical
problem with which
tkla great country
u ours Is con
fronted, a problem
for the otutloa of
which the motor
ear doing more
than all the other
Influence combined.
I advise everybody,
whether owner of a
ear or not, to read
the May number of
that magastne, for
It win open svery
body aeye to many
thing which about everybody ought to
think, and concerning which everybody
ought to have some knowledge.
Did yea know that we have In thla
eeuntry tlM,et miles of highways
enough la aggregate length ta make four
continuous loop around- tbo earth and
the moon and that, although this I mors
than twice the length of all the highway
la ere weed Curaaa, only kka) mile of
these highway are Improved I. ... graded,
drained and amfaoed with hard material
-while practically all the Cu rupee a
road ar thu Improved?
And dM you also know that moot e'
ths Improved roads that w do possess
have been made In consequence of the
demand of the users of motor car and
motor truck? The benefit aocrues to all
to every user of th road a, whether for
walking, driving far pleasure, or carrying
product to market but the Impulse pro
ducing tha improvement comes, almost
entirely, from the urging of those, who
ride In motor car. In helping thameelve
they are helping all other.
There I nothing that strike th vtoltor
from Kurop so unpleasantly aa soon aa
he venture beyond tha neighborhood of
our great eltlea aa th abominable condi
tion of the majority of the country roada.
Their lack of everything which he ha
been taught to regard aa Indispensable
la a highway frequently make bun lump
to the conclusion that after all this mar
vrloua nation Is but half atvUraed.
Such a coo elusion to, of course, unjusti
fied, and yet one can understand how
rt Is reached. The visitor doe not re
flect upon the fact that we, even with'
out Terttginotm raradlty of execution,
nave not yet had time enough to reform
the fee of th land. The Vnlted fttataa
ha bad to begin at tha beginning. We
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The Great Road Problem
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New Giant Sun in Gemini
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A cablegram sent beneath the sea from
Kiel, Oermany. ta the Harvard college
ohssrvatory, Cambridge. Maaa. an
nounced th discovery of a new star In
Gemini. This la th aodlacal constella
tion the Twin. But every star to a bug
sun Ilka our awn Mar tha sun. But
think well of than facta. Tha new sun
was discovered by Astronomer Enebo In
Europe oo March It On Mareh M two
photograph of th sum space were
taken at the Harvard college observa
tory, and an th 11th two mere plate
were secured. Whea the telegram ar
rived thai four negative war at one
examined, hut no tree of a star wa
vMbla there, although eleventh magni
tude stars ar plainly visible all around.
These stars are very faint; bat on the
next night that of th ltth the new alar
of the fifth magnitude waa distinctly
seen by Enebo. And the discovery mad
by Obaerver Enebo waa confirmed by new
photograph at Harvard. Fifth magnt
tud stars on clear, dark night can he
eeen without optical aid. tha alxth mag
nitude being tha limit ot visibility with
out lenses. Every etar to a colossal sun,
no matter what Its Intensity of light aa
sen from the earth may be; even down
to tha limit of power at oelaatlsl photo
graphy th eighteenth magnitude. Mag
nitude here does not mean the sixes of
the stars, of which very little Is known.
The dimensions of our star, tbe sun. are
known with great accuracy." being KS
tlmee the diameter and U1P.MD th volume
of our homo the earth.
Tbe sew star In Oemtnl to the second
to be discovered In that constellation.
The new eun may have exploded and
liberated hog volume of pant-up gin,
two seventh or eighth or tenth magni
tude una may have collided; or a large,
dark, body may have made midden Impact
on a hot nun, or two dark hodlea may
have been hi head-on cotnatoo we do not
know which. The new sua la Perseus
wa watched, to powerful
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The Bee by Tad
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P. 8KHVIS8. ,
never had a Una at Imperial Caesar !"
work tor a thousand year, or a Napo
leon leading conquering anrtlee to givd
us a great framework of solid hlghwsji t
to start with. We have had to lay all
th foundatlona ourselves. . - T
Th coming of the motor ear ha beerjJVJ
for greater stimulus to the construction
of lasting roada than th eueasttle of I
marching alalia have bean In Europev.
but thla itlmulu baa been at work tor
only a few tears, la contrast with thee
centuries during which th Europe?
armed power of jeaiou .government
pushing oa th work. But. now that th
ork baa been begun here, it ta going
forward at aa aatonlshlng rata. A atmpl'.
comparison of the annual aapeadltureavy
on rand, which I borrow from Motor."'!''
win tell tha etory t American prneTree"
better than a peg ot word enuld do ItU
Th UnMad Htatas now expends every
year on the building and nalntaruuic
of road th sum of tltf.ago.agt. Prance
expends M.4sll.axr, Oermany ISS.fteXOM
England fs.sBS.Ods. for th same purpose, $
But th Barop th menay la spent fora-u
maintenance th road are already gonr
while her a targe per cent must bt
expended fir preliminary ooutructlonte, -Th
Vnlted BUto have 0.l yard e
highway f "r ovary Inhabitant Bumpe
with three tlmee the aggregaU populatlonu
ha only O yard for every Inhabitant.
But th European road art all gootl,
thougb tbey vary In quality, whll onltVr
seven per cent of our roada ar good. -r
But read what to being dune In U partsw
ot ur oouatry. wherever th motor caeV
la entplayed. Read of the acraunta' tf
th prograaa of the axivenieot for "betteu"
roada m Dixieland." Head of what ha-
bean done, and to being dona; In th
middle Wert and along tha wonderful?
Padflo roaat. Look at some f th ploeC
ture of these roads, which do not toi';
for mountains or glaciers, or any natural,'
obstacle, and you win quickly be coa-4
vlnced that we are at th beginning ef
revolution In road-making which wirf n
place, ua at th forefront, - ,
Thla to n work m which every tltiaen-
should aM with all hi force and 14
fluenco. M la aa Important that all otut
road should be brought up at least to"'
the European aland ard a It I to thia
simple pleasure seeker. In fact, this
work Is not being done for the pleasureV "
seeker, but for th whole people, and ta-'a.
I eaa tn which th Instinct of pleasure.?
seeaing aomiraniy serves toe need 07
the work-a-day WorIA W may thank -but
stars that we tiave not had a Napo-'
leon, but have had the motor car to ooml'
vine u of th seoesslty of good roada
Br EDGAR Ll'CIKX LARKJV. A
. scope until It vanished in thla eaa.
pended over a wide area in spare. .
' All of the Instruments availabl wilt ,
be turned on the new sun In Omlnl Jt,
the new eun waa surrounded by world;
Ike tbe earth-all Inhabited thav the.
, People, Boon expired. v:
The term "new sun" means new fT
astronomer on our rntnuto world tlja'
earth. Ita age may be hundreds of
lion ot yeara, And. Uka our sun. It may
have Illuminated eight world, and sup-'
plied bsat and light-In ui home eg
many trllllea Inhabitant, euppoea. W f
sua that suddenly sppeared between tha .
Mth and 12th of March, 1X12, L,op) i,g
time more distant than our sua very
reamnabl suppoeitlon-thee Hgtrt trsrefr
Ing with the known sped no apeed elj
mm miles during en, asooad of tJmsE
ha been almost sixteen yeara en the"
wy to our earth. Then tha outburst o"
curred sixteen yeara ago. ..-
If s.uAtf time farther away than tj
eon also a vary reaaonablo, tlmt-.
then the event happened eighty yearg -ago.
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A QUESTION IN SCIENCE "
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Question-Please tell ua why there to now:
rain during the summer hi southern Can"
fornla? - --:
Answer-Only on reason, and that ut.?
because water Taper always suepeadeaV?
with,-greatly varying auaauta- doe nof
eon dense. This la self-evident. And thj
reason why It doe not condense aver thv
area of southern California to-on accounts
of tha Sierra Madra range of nwuatalnn
They ar made ef stone, a good subJ
suae to retain heat Up here I have boa
ttced heat tn the rocky peak until 1 a.B'
m. that had been stored during the hat
days In summer. Air caumot cool uftv
dently to allow Ma water vapor to coa
den into liquid drop. Heated air ate
nans so th summits trans the Malar
deaart la ahothar reason, - '