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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1912. 9Jh ee, ne icif a l i re )a SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT The Judge Met a Namesake, Too, Copyright. 1912. National New Aii'o- Drawn for The Bee by Tad rttRS tOOKw- Pot OMC MESAiD HIS lYAihtrE WAS PKfNTVl BOft THE" JAME Ai NVU-e - HE. WAS hw&w .so suve.v (4m $ AND SEKT KWrVOVEfc TO SIU HAT ftA WtV-' NOW M, ofwe i- 5AS MABftv 0C A time G-vry WITH A TRtCK. PANAMA. Ar Aaour a KlS NAME WAS HO-BUT & U7TL6 GUV UfcE THAT NNfWiAlD IIS NfAlse VN Ai SlUCAT H-AWW CALLPT VrO I GAVE to FE9Ctcr I aj cn nor i- m r a UTTUs G-US rjJ 7H rJANE OP JiUC HAT MAPPVJ (NO - Gur A FEU-OVW AA.MEO Tet'MCIC WAS ) METle AMO I FEW JO j GOOD I (rAviE MiM tfl AnO JEKT im TO SEE ) NO-NO OE AAMSO FEOfNCK CAt-LETj Me bur A feiXqva Owthc name OF ALEV-AhOER HJNVMAU.S6.?- VM AS IN And COULONr? AiJ up A I KAMGiAKe iO I iWlftv nil" $10 AHO TO-0 MM TO CAU, A6A- ,.imat-ne-4 Hecate" ATPUk rAr- VNHNE3 iu. Hfff4r ovg?. 7 VlJAiT trt. MP Mltr. S 32k ( ha-ha A Boob) StFZir TH&POOR $ A ; 'WP? - -n KVMrvW- AWFUL : ' I f cheap- V Q fluac V-ha-A. ; , .c&J V ha-ha; Vzr "ttA Hunting a Husband The Widow is the Hit of the Evening and is Showered with Many Compliments. By VIRGINIA TERH , Although Beatrice did not expect Sidney ' Randolph until after 8 o'clock, 'he had ' finished her light dinner and was dressed and ready to receive him by 7 o'clock. iHie wandered about her pretty draw ing room, surveying critically the pic tures and bric-a-brac with which it .was adorned, studying them from a new view point, " seeing them as she thought the artist might see them. . y Y The light summer curtains, swaying .in the. warm breeze, caught her eye and she gased at .theni with trepidation. They had been trang only a few week ,ago, and, In spite of the open windows and New York dust were fetill Quite clean or would have appearod so to the casual observer. But Beatrice noted suddenly 'that they had lost their pristine starch and fresh-' ness. Moreover, Jack had that afternoon leaned from one of the- windows to watch ; a fire engine passing in the street below, and in doing this had creased the thin net. 4 i " The longer the widow looked at the draperies, the more untidy did they ap pear to her, until, with sudden decision, f!Sh summoned Mary, . and, . with foer as- i stetance, took thenv down and;: huig in ''tnetr place .the" new muelin .curtains she l)d bought that day .for" her. dwh room. 'TC&r. weM VefatftytreVted but they ; were," at all events Exquisitely cln,.nnd fresli. ; - .v ', ' In spite of ; Beatr ice's? , outward com poure. 1 Bhe felt embarrassed ' by her -maid's surprised demeanor. ' All women are secretly in dread of the disapproval or secret ridicule of their servants. Jt has been said that no -man is a hero to his valet. - ant certainly few women are heroines -to their maids. So Beatrice was foolishly conscious of the expression of sup pressed vexation upon Mary's face, and the girl's remark-"Beally, ma'am,' them parlor curtains ain't what you could call really dirty a blt"-made the nominal mistress vaguely uncomfortable, as if she, had been guilty of some misde- mBUishe checked any discussion of the matter by the calm assertion that the Bw- curtains looked far better than the a ha maid that she old, ones o". t . . would let her know if she needed herl hen, a few minutes later, the ddor . I?' , mHRr of china in the Den rune, ' ., kitchen gave evidence that Mary wa busy washing the dinner a...-..-. probably, not as neat in appearance as Beatrice would wish her to be when Bhe ushered in the expected- the widow herself hurried to admit her caller. Her pleasant smile of welcome froae on her lips as she t'?0 man Instead of the expected visitor. The negro, In no wise abashed at her change , expression, took off his hat. grinned cheerily, and. after h' pocket, produced a letter which he handed to Mrs. Minor. "Mister Randolph done sent dls, ne remarked by way of explanation, an he say dere ain't no answer. "Very well," replied weaince, tYlShtm not open the letter until she wtts seated in the drawingroom. for she knew already what the contents would be- - ' ' ' ' " The things we long for most are oftenest denied us," ran the note, and the arrival of . a plutocrat fresh from the' western ranges who Is termlned to elevate western Ideals by taking back with him some of my work is, in this case the messenger of fate to keep me from you this evening. This once mer cury triumphs over ApUrod-te. much to the disappointment and distress of "Your humble servant, "SIDNEY RANDOLPH." A sigh of self-pity escaped the reader as'he looked about the softly lighted room and felt that aU her work and ex pectation had gone tor nothing. She ac knowledged to herself that she was sad dened and chagrined by having her in terview with Randolph suddenly set aside and that her disappointment was acute. She sat alone musing, watching .the stern New . York skyline melt away rgalnst the darkening heavens, and was so deeply absorbed In her. meditations that she did not hear the doorbell ring and started vtolontly when Mary an nounced "Mr. Blanchard.!" j., i 'I am glad to see yw," atammered Beatrice, as her guest entered. Then she stopped short in amazement. For it waa a new "Uncle Henry" who confronted her-a whlskerless, youngish looking man In a fresh new suit of gray, with a carnation in hl buttonhole. "Pon t recognise me, ehT" he asked, v.ith his usual -chuckle. "I hope I don't look, any worse? It was too hot. for whiskers, so I shaved mine off. Now, I feel lens like your father when I come to 'lee you.". . "Te change, is very becoming." .said By MABEL HERBERT URNER. Beatrice, truthfully, for she had not known until now what a fine, clear-cut face the old bachelor possessed. v Her elderly friend chuckled again. "You'd say that anyway," he declared, deprecatingly. "But when did. you get back?" asked his hostess. 'This morning," replied Blanchard. "I went up to Helen's this evening, ' but found things upset there, so I came on up here." "-" '"Did you have a pleasant trip?" "Yes, in a way. Maynard you know him and I were ori the same Pullman go ing out I had a good trip from a busi ness standpoint I'll be a millionaire one of these days If things keep break ing right" he added, with a laugh. "How nice," responded his hostess, vaguely. "But when does Mr. Maynard return?" .: - "He got back yesterday, I guesa," an swered Henry Blanchard. ; Beatrice . did not betray her surprise. "He's a pleasant fellow," she observed carelessly. As she spoke she remembered with relief that Mr. Blanchard had not recognized him as the chief rioter of the roof garden episode. "Yes," agreed the bachelor, absent mlndedly. -., After ; which observation he proceeded to glye a sway account of his recent trip. '..-..'. When he had gone. Beatrice suddenly appreciated that . although thlB was the day on which Maynard's flowers usually arrived, none had come. Moreover, that he had been In town for twenty-four hours, and had not communicated with her. .V ' ' ; : ' ' ' '' "I always thought, she muttered il logicallyv "that he; -war fickle." f II MATTER OF PERSONAL PRIDE By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. The success of any public reform de pends upon the enthusiasm of .the indi vidual. A plan Is prepared for bettering public conditions. Committees are appointed, city officials assume certain responsi bility, certain days are set aside for put ting the reform Into effec and with a whoop and a hurrah, and perhaps a band or two, that being the mariner In' v h(ch men call attention to their efforts,, the work .Is begun. ' . ;' i v '.. ' It It is a success" or a failure depen Is hot on the committee, the Civic officials with sashes, or those who whoop and hurrah. That "depends on the private In dividual! ' , : - . ' ; ; And. itr ninety-nine reforms. .In every hundred, that "private 'individual" is a woman! ' She is not on any committee. Her existence is not recognized by the men fostering the reform. They do not think of her as having any connection with the success or failure of their plans. But, nevertheless, without her co-operation their most widely proclaimed, their most loudly heralded reforms are a failure. This is particularly true in the com mendable attempts made to establish clean-up days for a city, the same as there are clean-up days in the home. Certain days are set aside for collect ing and destroying ail the refuse found in. streets and vacant lots. In some towns' there ire tin can days, fly days, weed ' days, etc., with an effort to rid the city of certain pests on certain days, with prizes-offered for th individual doing the greatest amount of work. The result of such campaign work doesn't end with a city made more beau tiful; sanitary conditions are Improved, and A pace has been set that means the city will never entirely relapse into for mer unsightly and unhealthful conditions. Backsliding is bound to follow, but the city will never slide back to the point from which it made its first advance on thef first clean-up day. ' ' The mother) of the home in whose busy hands there has been" laid this responsi bility is not the only woman who can help in this Important work. The daughter of the home is equally responsible and I make this statement in the face of a protest that many of them leave their home at an early hour in the morning and work behind counters downtown, all day. They haven't the time, I know, to per sonally engage in clean-up work. They bolt their breakfasts in the morning and rush off to a hard day's work, and are tired .beyond, all clean-up campaign en thusiasm when they return at night Many of them find time to assist over burdened mothers in the care of a house and If any spare time is left it has so many calls made upon it that the charge that these girls must also help in a public campaign seems ridiculous. Make every plan for public good a mat ter of private ooncern and individual en thusiasm. Without such assistance no public reforms wtlieuceeuV.. ...v -,..-. 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There has ever lurked In the fa mous "Monroe doc trine" the Idea that it is a sort of "mani fest destiny" that the United States of America shall ulti mately have politi cal control of the whole Western hemi sphere, and it was in keening with said Idea that the Lone Star society was or ganised. The prospective of the society, as ex pressed In the preamble to its constitution, was anything but a modest one, its pur pos being "for the extension of the Institutions, power, Influence and com merce of the United States over the whole of the Western hemisphere and the Islands of the Atlantic and Pacific oceani." xne society began its work with an ittempt to wrest Cuba from the domain of the Dons. The attempt was battered with senatorial resolutions and presi dential proclamations, but It kept on I'm because it has to be very strong as well as light. But this would not be necessary The hoop which we ubs Is aluminum, for the ballroom danco, as some ot the features which require a strong hoop cannot be used, , except by an expert dancer. My hoop is covered with heavy satin to match my gown. My partner is in evening dress and the black of his S , f s- jiff xK , (Myr Ui-t I Third FciUon. First Position. (Posed by La Petite AdeialOe and J. J. , Hughes of "The Winter Garden.)" By LA PETITE ADELAIDE. It's difficult to get something really i dances appear at Of course it is not possible to transplant the dance as I dj it On the stage directly to the drawing room, but it can be so modified that it would make a very pretty feature for cotillons, fancy dress balls and parties, where eccentric dan cing Is expected. As most society girls go In for fancy dancing nowadays, some of these odd all balls. The hoop new that will be a simple waltz or two step at the same time. . Now that everybody's doing It, almost everything has been done, but the "hoop dance'' Is really, novel, and I am glad to describe it for dancers who enjoy a new trick that would not be too difficult with a little practice and by simplifying the dani-ft, which Is comparatively dignified .ind sedate when you think of "others we have had, is especially adapted for the bail room. I dance the hoop dance to a slow waltz; the amateur should divide the waltz off In eight bars, using from eight to six teen bias for each one of the steps and ftatutea .... ; - .-i , --..j - clothes and white frock make a good con trast. If this dance were to be used at a cotillon as part of a cotillon, the hoops could be of different colors and might be arranged to match the girls gowns. By simplifying the dances, as I am going to do for you, several eouples could do It at the same time: the hoops oould be of wood, the ordinary hoop used by children at play.,. The hoop should be big enough to go around two partners and leave a toot of space between them. To begin with, the partners advance from opposite sides to the slow move ment of a waltz. At the end of the fourth bar they should m'et. the Klrl having brought In the hoop, which the man takes from ber, holding it behind him. The hoop should be raised above ins head, and both partners must be waltzing, but without touching each other. It is quite difficult for the ama teur to do this, as the ordinary dancer depends so largely upon the guidance of a partner to keep absolutely In step. It will help you to look right into your partner's eyes, and also you must be perfectly sure of how many bars you are going to do together in this way. At the end of the sixteenth bar the man turns the hoop forward and brings it over his head and that of the girl, plac ing the side of the hoop at her back and brining both of them into the circle. They are now held in the ring, and tho leans far back against the hoop, but without holding on ( it. He leans against the hoop, holding it first with either hand. They dance eight bars In this manner, and another eight in slightly quickened tempo, the -man having let go until it materialized in the person of out Nerclso Lopez, who, at the head of an army of patriots, assisted by sympa thiser! from the United States, made the rule of Spain in the "Oem of Antilles" tremble to its foundation. . In the summer of 1861 Lopes and fifty others were captured and executed, and for a time the agents of the Lone Star were inactive. But the friends ot Cuban liberty In the island and In our own country did not despair of achlevipt Cuban independence, and in 1854 thy were again ready for another expedition, when a spirited proclamation from the president put a stop to It ; Hard after the president' proclama tion and the consequent abandonment ot , the expedition came the report of Messrs. f Buchanan, Mason And Soule, recommend' 1 ing the purchase of Cuba by the United , States, but the Spanish minister declared ' that the sale of the island would be the ' "Sale ot Spanish honor Itself," and the project went up in smoke. ' And so matters dragged along from 1851 onward, Tor more than forty years, until, the measure of the mighty being full the United States congress passed the reso lutions which made Cuba forever free from her old-time oppressor. Spanish "honor" would not listen jto the proposition of Messrs: Buchanan, Mason and Soule. but it had to listen jto the thunder of Manila Bay and Sonttaga. At last Cuba was free, and the work et the Lone Star society In the dlrecUoa ot the Oem of the Antilles was finished. The Gambler My ELBERT HUBBARD. w I Copyright 1912, International News Service ur the "morality" of gambling nothing need be said. All I affirm is that it is (imply absurd to enter on a bablt when success Is defeat and to win a calamity. The successful am ateur gambler gradu- u.iuo into a profes sional he has to, for business men shun him. No 'man who plays cards for money can p his position ' long. The fact la. o. us has a surplus of b r a i n s , and if we are going to succeed in busi ness all the power we" have to our credit Is demanded,' The', man who can play ' cards at night and ' do business In the ' daytime hasn't yet been born. Life is a bank account, with so much divine energy at your disposal. What are you going to do with It? If you draw your checks for this, you cannot draw for that. Take your choice. And above all, do not draw on the Bank of Futurity by breathing bad air, keeping bad hours and bad company, The man who succeeds in business is the one who goes to bed before 10 o'clock at night; and only one thing is he Jealous of, and that is outdoor exerclMe. Gambling robs a man of rest, and the keen edge of life la lost In shuffling the pasteboards. All he gives to his em ployer or the world is the discard. Out side of his play he Is a weak, inefficient person, and his weakness la very .apt to manifest Itself in burdening his friends. The curse of gambling does not fall on the gambler alone, any more than the drunkard alone suffers for his fault. Suffering falls upon every one within the radius of the gambler. If your gambler Is on a salary he very titl mn AAmai arAllMit frti 1la txa iau kafnua pay day, then he gets to discounting his 1 others, with ill soft sentiment omitted tnl.ni ,a v.AM. U n . I. . 1 4 V. 1 AaV. 1 1 , V - 1. I . . salary to a money shark; then, If he can he will "borrow" his pay before he earns J In our work It, without first consulting you. He In tends to pay it back, oh, yea! He wins and pays Jt back. This en courages him to borrow; more the next time. He takes more In order in win more. He is now obliged to play heavily because his debts are accumulating. It Is an old story, and dosens of men in Sing Sing can tell you all about It To do business with gamblsrs leads, as a rule, to disappointment, because with gamblers the idea of reciprocity mutuality and co-operation, except to skin somebody, does not exist - From betting to beggardom la only a step. No man can play the pasteboards, or the races, continually, and win. And of all the fools, the biggest is the man who bets on "a sure thing.'" ', John Madden has followed Tthe business for a quarter" of a century, and says: ,"l quit betting years ago, and If I ever bet again It will be because the disease has gotten the better of my business Judg mentt'; 4 ; The bookmaker gets It all-he has but to wait and the whole thing Is his. It Is Just like the game where the dealer takes care of all the bets and gives the first booster an ace In the hole. If the boosters do not get ths "Uv one's" money the dealer will. He gets all the others have, as sure as death, if they continue to play. Do not Imagine that all gambling Is done in the cities. "Man made the cities, God the country, but the devil made the small towns." Hardly a village In America is free from the scourge. Gambling means blurred vision, weak muscles shaky nerves. Loss of sleep, lack of physical exercise, Irregular meala, bad air, excitement form a devil's mon opoly of bad things and the end ! die grace, madness, death and the grave. ' I am not a member of the Christian Endeavor soeiety. the Epworth league, the Baptist union, the Knights of Colum bus or the Soeiety for the Suppression of vice, ana an I say here is simply a little plain talk by one business man to Boys, we need all the brains we have of the hoop, so that they are whirling around, keeping the hoop In the air by prensing against It with their backs, Another eight bars are danced with the hoop circling them around the neck; to keep the hoop firmly In place, you have to press backward and it takes some practice before you can waltz this way, each one bending back, with the hoop around the neck. . - Of courte if the stronger partner pulls In one dlr sect Ion, the weaker one has to follow, but this looks awkward, and the direction in which the dance is to be taken must be carefully planned before you do a dance like this for your friends. Continuing to waltz, but without touch ing, the girl turns round Inside the hoop. Tnis brings her with her back to her partner, facing the rim . ot the 'hoop round her. neck. She takes the hoop, swings clear of the man., raises It above her head, so that it makes a frame; the man standing behind her, or I should waltzing behind her, holds the sld ' . hoop out and sixteen more bars are danced In this position. This makes a very pretty effect, and Is not difficult if you have already gotten accustomed to the modern dances In which v the girt dances in front ot the man, so much of the time. Without, losing step, the girl waltzes round again, facing her partner, awing the hoop over his head, so that It catches them both around the waist both partners bending very far back and con tinuing to waltz. This of course. quite difficult but an lnexp-" dancer would not have to b-"o far, and , the dance coui-geS' of at this part. - - After - this,- In--.' - ' ". ; rg,!l,ar.u- K ' s o m e t h i n.g Inside att fcyie 1KJV. 1 J