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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1912)
lflE:'BEE; OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1912. 11 a z l lie p)a SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SlflT-Anything Against Chickens is Against the Judge Drawn for The Bee by Tad , copytignt, 1913, National News ass n. k . , , . - " . TF(5 5 JOME CounTTW CJiATt TWT ""unit HAJ AMD Hfi. VAWTi MP TO tTCK Aftou r0 ics urnjs roj&? ftuJrtes, s-ee one FOR, VOUR. CO AT- I -. , 1 I .MEI9HQ0ft.'J NAM - I i whoso, what Cm ' I OnvowR. PtA& AMD i can iee ir au. but F0ITM6 MPS' OP ME . 4 CANT ies The Drudge Husband Bj WINIFRED BLACK. 1 "My husband Is a good man. He has nvr eaid an unHlnd word .to roe 9ince I've been bla wife. He Is hard working:. devoted, honest but he" is a drudge- Just a plain everyday drudge, and he never will . be , ; anything else. "My" school grlri : companions who ; married when I did ! have gone on and on with their hus bands. One of them I has an automobile, )one has a beautiful home . of her own land one has just gone to Europe on I a pleasure ti'ip, and here I am tied down to the drudge In the aame house we took, when we , were', married." ' - "My girls go to a: public school and learn public school ways. I don't mind for myself, I am not mercenary,' but I do hate to see my poor daughters grow up tn a miserable rut. "I Simply can't stand . It 1'have a chance Aow to go Ihto business-for my self. " Ifc-'wtll take" mWawayJ from home and ! am -going to nt my girls in "sfchool snd go, 'wouldn't yout" ' Ntce confidential' letter. Isn't it? And the worst of It is that it is 'miserably, undeniably true. wery-single word of it and then some more. , , ! I know a dosen 'just such case?. They differ in particulars one man has a pretty home, one draws ; a saliry, one gets wages, one man has girls to supp'ortl one hai boys, and one has only his wife; who despises him for being what she loves to call a "drudge." It is sad, Isn't it? And yet somehow, I always' wonder how much better" the woman who prides herself on her "ambition"; is than the drudge who irritates! her so. It is very ' easy to be ambitious for aomeonfr else. I wonder how much head way that same woman would make with the wtork the "drudge" does so faithfully , and well. y '.' What does your husband have to make , him "ambitious," dear woman? How do you help him, pray tell? By nagging him and' making fun of him? That's a good way, isn't It? Why don't ou try an other One for a change? I've. 'seen a very commonplace man made over into a -comparative suceess. Just by1 the faith his wife had in him. , Have you tried believing in the drudge to see' what that would do? Ton can't nag a man at home and expect him to bear himself like a man away from home. It takes courage and spirit and will power to fight a way tip In the world, and If you take ail these things out of a man before ha leaves the house, what weapons has he to make the figljt? , "Ambitious?"' How do , you know whether he's ambitious -or not? , What do you call .ambition, anyway? The wish to get rich t Fine, noble work that is, isn't It? Selling the body . and the . soul., and .the heart and the mind to lave a fine monu ment and a rich widow? It's all well enough to-live to get rleh, but. why. make yourself believe that you' have "high ideas" luft' beeaiisa you ' want an auto mobfleana.'want the drudge ' to "get it tome way, anyiway. only get it?. . Don't' be tod sure that you are somuch cleverer 'amj so much.'finer hr'eyeiry way than thft" drudge, He may have fits own. ideas oo Oie-subject even though he; does not think "It. necessary to nag you about lhm '. '-. ..- V .-..'i'.r.. What shall you , do? Why, what.in the name of common sense is there for yoii to do but to stick to your bargain and make the best of It? It's good morals, good . sense, and good religion, nothing else will do at all. ' ( Tonr childrenl What do you expect to make of. your children If you run away from their ,. father ; because ' he" doesn't "get on?J'' ' ' , I'd rather give my hJldren''their ' start in Ufa In . a happy ' home., a home where there's-km and trust, and faith, and conrags, ) and patience, and nobility of hoarC than to send them to the finest school on earth and pay for that school ing la. the bitter coin of estrangement from aH that really county. Tou can rt "schooling", in the books-: lots of it and books com cheap in this day.' Tou can't, learn patience, and Jove, snd truth, and forbearance in any, book in the world but the good old book of life, and home is the very best place to stfldy that-V" - V '. Here's today-fresh.' .; hopeful, " wide awake today, splendid today, glorious today-full of promise, full of possibilities; let's make thoee promises .come true,' every one of them.1- . Forget all thts-hlgher-idtfarfwaddie; stop thinking of the automobile we can't get and go to Work hej- in the place where we belong, in our own home, with ourwn children and the man who lovw then ' - Get the poor drudge the best breakfast you can buy with the money you have to spend;, aerve it as prettily as possible, with a smile too;, that counts oh, how much does 'if fcount! ' ' brain into those biscuits, send your little girls off to school with the' "common" children with an "uncommon" song in their happy hearts. - It takes so little to do that- new Joke, a little story, a word of extra praise. When they come home l?e waiting for them. Tou, yourself not the woman with the corners of her mouth drawn ' down, the one they-ve seen at the door so often; not the. woman, who is mad,, because she hasn't any automobile, not the woman who is sick with envy because she can't go to Europe, but you, the mother they love and understand, the mother they idolise. . : At night surprise the drudge with a good dinner, a really good dinner. Give him a smile with it and the same, look you had when you thought he was the one great man of the earth. Why, even the office boy will notice a different set to the shoulders of the "drudge" when" hei get? . ,to, wWlt "tomorrow,- the set of the shoulders of the man who Is lovsd and looked up to and believed in. Maybe he will cease to be a drudge. . Give him a chance; give him a chance. Forget your dreams and your ambltiond, forget everything but the drudge and the children. The drtidge who stood by you in your hour of agony! the drudge who would cut off his hand at the wr(st to make you: and the- children happy. Come, come, my dear, life is with you, good, wholesome, sensible, lusty, kindly, generous, simple life life with its thirsts and the drink to slake them, life with its fatigue and the good rest to relieve It. Life with its tears and its laughter for you can't spare either of these twin sisters and really live. Live -every min ute, of it, with, your heart. and your brain and your soul, and win the right to glory of it every minute you breathe. And peace go .with you, you and the good, kind drudge, who may not be such a drudge alter an u you give mm a chance, and the children who will rise up and call you blessed, as they would never learn to do In any school except the school of a happy and an honest home f that's to KctT v v 7- TWL CHICKEN $ f l"') '.--"' s? 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Device to Keep the Trolley on Nothing" Is more provoking to passen gers in a hurry than to find that the car is "off its trolley." The trolley-wire is narrow apd the grove on the trolley wheels Just fits it;" to try to get them to gether is like trying for the bullseye on a- distant target. All this is to be changod, and consequent delays will be prevented, if the trolley companies see lit to adopt , a device invented by Benja min . R. . Beach of Fleldsboro, N. J., and described in the Inventive Age (Washing ton, June 1). According to this paper it consists of a benevolent screw-thread which obligingly picks up the wire that has gone wrong and with-a few turns puts it. back where it belongs. A series of spiral grooves on each side automati cally feed jthe wire into the trolleywheel in the center. To quote the description: . "It provides a tinder which . automati cally returns the wheel when it misses the . wire, : and- has an arrangement of spirally grooved rollers, which are longitudinally concaved to clear crossing wires. Guard rollers are arranged on opposite sides of the trolleywheel: each roller is provided with an Inwardly ex tending spiral groove. - Each roller Is thickest' at its inner end, where the roller contacts with the side of the wheel and the spiral groove thereof communi cates with the top portion of the groove, to lead the trolleywlre thereto. The outer flanges of the convolutions of the spiral groove of each roller are , bent inward, toward the' wheel so as to par tlally overhang the adjacent convolution. These flanges are thus . adapted to act as retaining hooks to hold the wire fall ing into any .convolution of a spiral groove against jumping out, thus 'pre venting the trolley as a whole from jumping out In the revolutions of the trolley the wire Is fed in by the spiral groove until restored to . the groove in the trolleywheel Literary Digest . It is usually safe to Judge a man by his manners. Jumping at conclusions; Is a woman's Idea of physical exercise. , Taking a vacation usually means getting bored at exorbitant rates. By MARGARITE HUBBARD AVER. All you pretty girl know that beauty is founded on. good health, and if there's one special thing that good health de pends on it is a good pair of lungs. Girls who stoop over their books soon acquire bent shoulders and the chest gets no chance to develop properly.' More and more school teachers are paying at tention to this .question of . the proper height of the child's desk, and when there is much studying to be done at home the parents ought to see to, it that the desk or table at whlob the work la done is of the correct height so the child doesn't have to bend over.' ' The bent ' little pupil develops Into a girl with a. weak chest, and she is the one who is constantly writing me, about pala cheeks, hollows under her eyes, hol low cheeks, and . other so-called . 0m plexlon ills which have really nothing to do with the complexion at all, but are caused by improper lung development Fortunately, it Is never too late to learn to breaths right. Whether you are 7 or TO this s your opportunity. I know several dear old ladies who practice their daily breathing exercises at rslisiously as they say their prayers, and who have Only learned to do so in the last few years with great benefit to their health. The simplest breathing exercise is simply to stand erect, preferably before the open window, with arms extended In front and ' hands clasped; toonen the hands, separate and sweep the arms back ward, while inhaling a very deep breath Now throw the arms backward as far as possible,' holding the breath; swing the arms forward and exhale. Keep this up lor rive minutes. . ' A pair of light dumb-bells will help the girl wltlj the weak chest, providing she practices with them rgularlyv But that is the whole trouble. , If you' staff out to oeveiop your lungs, you-cannot make a violent effort one day and then rest for a week or two. Patient, systematic work is necessary, and it should really be cor tlnued in moderation for the rest of one's natural life, if one wishes to keep In trim. Never do your exercises in tight clothes, and in using the dumbbells stand very straight, the chest out, shoulders back. raise the arms above the head, lower them to the shoulders, extend the arms out level with the shoulders and swing the arms and dumbbells backward, tide ways nd forward. All movements of the arms with the dumbbells are good for the girl with the delicate chest, and they are too weir known to be described. These exercises should be practiced tlf teen minutes In a room where the air Is good, or, better still, out of doors. , Don't get overfatigued at first, and do arm and shoulder exercise rather than take long and exhaustive walks, espe cially in summer time. The girl with the weak chest shouldn't let herself get over fatigued, . and . she should be careful to select as nourishing a diet as possible. An egg beaten up In milk and taken dur ing ths forenoon and again in the after noon will put roses Into pale cheek mora successfully than the best xtnd of rouge Another thing I should advise the girl with the weak chest to start In is strengthening and hardening ber throat 8he .can massage it with a skin food if she likes, but bathing It in eold water after the morning bath and going with out a collar right into cold weather win fortify her agslnst winter colds. As the cooler days come use cold water to spray or sponge the throat with, and don't wear fura . Wear a very warm coat If necessary. but it's too warm today, to talk to yon ' ' 1 . . if- ; , if ' v v ) ' 1 HI TV 'aH rf If w -;' xA,f Jil Til a v f ; ; fa iuu U,xr, Z lIv'N : t yyy 1 if ; t tf - , i yA I f I yl l " ' y t" if lit f 2 I y J fJ ill - ; , -VJ $ l 1 i i a t-? Jr 6 x 1 ;g' What Would Happen if Husbands ; Were Always Absolutely Frank Ji.6 ft :r By ADA PATTERSON. V "Wouldn't you like to know what ha thinks of youf one woman asked an other. They had been talking of shlnx Uke, and because silent. Interest-provoking man. If he hsd talked much the spell would prob ably have been broken. "No." replied the othcY, a note of alarm In her voice. "Not always." Tet a little Eng lish woman, who recently married the grandson of v poet Longfellow, tempted the gods of discord by say ing that the Ideal husband is frank. Rash little woman reckpned without moods! Moods are mental weather. Borne times the sun of the spirit shines gloriously. and at such times it is safe to be frank. The sunshine has Irradiated and beauti fied the landscape of facts. But there be times when the sky is overcast Per haps this mood portends a downfall of rain, a rattling of verbal - thunder and lightning. Or It may only be a temporary eclipse of the sun of good humor. , But heaven spare us absolute frankness at these times! Maybe the little bride Confused terms. What she wished to say may "be. "The ideal husband Is truthful." Certainly no normal woman wants lying answers to , those ancient, honorable questions: "Where have you been?" and "Why wa you late?" Husbands do not like these questions. They bore them. But the just husband believes they are one of the Inescapable evils of married life, and ha gives answer more or less truthful, according to circumstances. The only man I know who had the hardihood to dispute hla wife's right to ask the questions, disputed also his mother's, and he has been divorced, as he deserved. Truthfullness may be construed as an accurate answering of questions put; frankness as the voluntary forcing of facts upon us. If the bridegroom last week scqulred by the hardy spirited bride who has been quoted Is truthful he will answer reluctantly when she says: "Do you think this gown Is becoming?" "Not quite so becoming as tho one you wore yesterday, dear." But If he is frank, he won't wait for the question. He will say at breakfast-that trying meal which temperamental' persons should eat alone "What's the matter with that dress? Tou are looking worss than I IH1 ever saw you." . t In ten year aha may say: "I lost my: p fresh color whan I cam to America.'- " I'm dreadfully pale. Don't you think so?" If he is merely a truthful husband h f till nV! "Tou ri llttU n&lr. laar.' '. ni uiuit mu run uuwn mo wm a, ,,'-,. freshen you up." It he is a frank"' S spouse he will not wait for questions. : but will announce: "Tou'rs looking hor- ," rlbly faded. You're not nearly as pretty as you were when I married you." It:'"" the bride is as spirited as a wife I know,-,,.-sbe will retort: "Do you suppose you axe ; the handsome man I married?" If he Is truthful and she asks him if he thinks she has paid too much for a rug he win answer: "Maybe they did overcharge you." The frank man will exclaim: "There Is no limit to your ex travagance." The truthful man, when begged to tall her whether she Is becoming unbearable, " answers: "tour nerves are a trifle upset, dear; you need rest" The frank man will ' . rush into trouble with the remark; "It I had known, what a bad temper youV:: have I wouldn't have married you." The -truthful husband will answer the :' 5 Inevitable post-matrimonlal question: "Do v you love ma as much as you used to do?" '.-t with "True lova never changes." Tn " frank man will not mine delicate rct-,, ters. She will have no Illusions when v. the conversation with him Is ended, and ; be may have no wife. ': It would be rather painful to know what people - think of us at all times,- -f their actual appraisement of us t the '.,'4 moment Because of their mood, or oars, ,,', we might' hav a lower rating than wau itf would have received yesterday, or than' that we wilt get tomorrow. The lightning flash of angor might la.r show us ourselves In a way that we wouia never rorgive ine spesjeer, anay. would be hard pressed to excuse in our-. -, selves. Moods are mighty, ' but theirs- - reign Is blessedly short t J.? Blessed ba the man who Invented si-, V,. lence. In crisis It baa saved bloodshed"!, and spared broken friendships. v . .'!; Many a critical situation haa been savscfr by enveloping it In the blessed veil of.'-"' silence, for thoughts make no sound, and" there is always hop that they may change. . , , . n'l" Mark Twain Inscribed on a photngrapU7J I have seen: "Truth Is precious. Let uiJV economise it." Doubtless he had sufi., ; fered at. th hands of some volunteer of l; unpleasantness who called himself frankf:.,tj Tn worm nas some ugiy, jaggea rocks-- of fact. Life will be more. beautiful iff we screen thefr")igllness by planting j' flowers of consideration about them. V ,1 3i can at least refrain from brutality . in") the nam of frankness. . , ( The Manicure Lady - t-i . 1 THE GIRL WITH THE FLAT CHEST.. . ''' about furs and winter clothing.. Learn 1 comes you won't be in the class with the to breathe now, and by the time winter I other girls whose chests are weak. "I am glad that th convention is over," said the Manicure Lady. "Now all them candidates' can settle right down on the job and ga around the country telling the fake reasons why they should be elected and hiding the real reasons why they should not. Goodness, knows, George, I am mighty sick and tired of this here political stuff. All the old gent talks about at home is the chance that Mister Taft will have against Mister Wilson and poor brother Wilfred, who Is still out of a Job 011 account of the tight money situation that has been brung about by them scrapping candidates, can't do nothing but ' babble about Thomas Jefferson. I don't know who this Jefferson man Is, George, but I do know that Wilfred hss him on the brain." "I don't car a rap about politics," said the Head Barber to his fair friend. "If folks is going to fight, I believe that they ought to fight in-a ring. I was up to the Garden the other night to see Mike Gibbons trimming that English chap. Bums, and believe me,, tiddo that was a regular right. Billy Gibson framed it up for me and three other fellows, and, as all of us came from St Paul, of course we was pulling for Gibbons, who also csme from the land qf the brave and th home of the Swedes. Say. klddo, you could live a" thousand years and never see another left like that left jab Gibbons has got It came out like a snake's tongue." "Don't be talking to me about fight ing," said th manicure lady. "What do I care about fighters and fighting? We get enough of the fighting at home when Wilfred and father get to quarreling and as far as fighters themselves Is con cerned. I don't want any pert of them. Let's talk about what I started to talk about politics."; ; "You got a swell chance to talk ti me about politics," said th head barber. "I hear nothing else all th long day'.''; Th young college boys come In here and), talk about Wilson when I am shaving the- . down oft their lips, and. ma all the tim. ', ' afraid I am going to cut thorn. The ol s rounders come in and tell about what a r great country this was ' when Thorns. 2 Jefferson was running it, forgetting all " the time that If they had been on tue'V? -job when Tom was running the country;'" It would have been very hard leddlng.T;t for the father of democracy. I'd tell josl'ir how much I think about politics." I nln'i' even going to register this year. I don't . s want to vote." , ' "A. friend of . mine lias got 1 broth that feels the same way as you," said th manicure lady, sweetly. "He nevsr votes.'; He Is up the river, where all tbwi grim" gray walls are." .' . -.' is The head, barber glared at tn manicuref , , ,? "You have got some queer friends," h said. "I atn't aumrlud ' .3-1 i; ).'v,l Dead at Ills Post. - A farmer engaged a Swedish youth new to this country, and informed him that he would be expected to be on the job each morning at 4 sharp. The "hand" failed to show up on time, and th fanner ' threatened to discharge him. Then toys ? , "hand" Invested In an alarm dock, and . '. ' for tome time everything . went along . nicely. Then ba got into th field fifteen ' -minutes late one morning. The farmer '' Immediately discharged him, la spite otfT bis protestations that It was bi alarm -."' clock that was to blame. .!-vf Sadly returning to his room the dlS-i'V charged employe determined to ascertain' -the cause of his downfall. . He had taken.f, the alarm clock to pieces when he dls-. ' .. covered a dead cockroach In the work-.i lng. ' ' ; "Well," he soliloquised, "Ay tank It bane no wonder the clock wouldn't run . the engineer bane dald." Philadelphia"". Record, ' , ' ; t