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I THE BEE: OMAHA, ttUUAY, SEITKMBKR -'0, 15HL'. ri I ,4 e Vafazire Page SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT The Jury Takes a Slant at a Certain Tree Copyright 1913. National News Asa'n. Drawn for The Bee by Tad TT S CCArs3 THAT HAtBy -j - r J j 7 I n. . 1 I ; v I i f nu.nn -1 I I f nUhcvo.l ' I J V "V i I I v r I fy ' - .tf 5?pnfc - , -, 11 ue. -jo at A6e Ai FA AS I GO ( 00 -00 - ) f JO s-- m .w iismTW" jar , mar .ttttt :s , .! ', , ' ' ; ; a it i 0 r, 9 iMarried Life the Third Year Warren Ridicules the Postcards Helen Has Written to Her Friends at Home i '"i Var Helen nibbled the end -. pt her pen 1 and gazen frownlngly at the post card ! before' her. On 'one side was a picture of London bridge;, on tha other the ad ' dress and the '.'This . ... . ' ! may ; be used tor communication apace." - I She had ' written London, August ' 2, ; 1912, but her Inspir ation' ended there. I At last In deeper; ; atlon :' she . wrote on at least a. doien Mother post cardB. , "Wa are having a very wonderful trip. London is a most Interesting city,'.' j This if ; written J large filled the j apace. ' . ! Then .' ghe took I another ' card, ., (8d dressed it to the next iname on her. Jist-focHelen had consclen- j tioUaiy made list 'of all tha people to I whom; she wanted or felt she ought to !aehd post icards... .. Thia list is always longest on ones i first trip.' The reason is obvious,' The ! first time you are in Europe you wish i all your friends to know it, and send ' most of your time and money in writing ! souvenirs. The next time you have more sense. ; , .. . - . , , ' - And now,, aa Helen wanted to send a card' to alniost every one she knew, the ! task was most arduroiis." Letter writing i was for her always hard," and 'posfcard ' "phrasing" was even more so. She never knew what to say. She would anguish half an hour over a sentence for that j blank space, which was to small to i write anything connected anct too large jfor just "with -much love." .. .' , When she had written about twenty, ; although there were many names still on the list, she pushed the cards aside , and took out some note paper. She would j relieve the strain' by ' writing " to her ' mother. "London, Aug. 2, 1912,-Dear Mother: I know I have written you only hurried notes, but have been so rushed. So am ! staying in this rainy afternoon to write some letters and post cards that I have been putting on rrom day to aay. "Well I have seen really a great deal of I London in, the short time we have been I here. Have had to see most' of it alone, : as Warren has been too busy to be with j me. We did go together to Westminster abbey, and I am hoping he' will, go with ! me to the tower. But even it he had the j time he hates sightseeing so. "However, we go to some different place for dinner every evening, which is really a' most Interesting way to see the city. There are to many beautiful res taurants here and the food is so good and so cheap. I am sending you one of the menus to . shdw you just how chep things are.- Look at all the vegetables that are "only 4d (8 cents). Imagine any Of the good New York restaurants putting anything on their, menus for 8 cents? : And even asparagus is only a shilling, j Ninety cents Is what they charge at home. "But I'm afraid 1'm talking too much about food. Warren says I would make a good press agent for the London res taurants. I can't help being enthusiastic when I find what delicious things you can get for such absurdly small prices. ' But perhaps you ould rather hear of something else. , "About th stores I know you will be interested in them. Much to my surprise, ' X have not found them particularly cheap. So I am buying very little. We have about come to the conclusion that by the time we pay duty the things will 1 cost us more than they would at home. "Of course, there are some few things you can get much better here rain , coats, for Instance. Warren and I, each bought one; they are very 'Smart' as they , say over here, and yery .well made. . 'British, substantial, solid and thick,' is : Warren's phrase. "But I don't care for their gowns. i They haven't as much style and are not ' so graceful as ours. Perhaps I am pre-. judlced, but X din't think the English j women dress r earty .aa well, as we doat j ! least not on the street. I have bought only one dress here, and that is a little ' French hibdet gray "blue chtffon. It is very pretty, fcnd I think reasonable all hand-made and only pounds ($45). , "I have bought you some gloves and ' handkerchiefs. There are two of the i few things "that ' are cheaper. But. mother. I wish you could see the English shoes. They are awful! Heavy, thick ' . t Ten Ages of Beauty -:- The Dora Girl Illustration from Good Housek eeping Magarixic for September. By MABEL HERBERT URXER. and clumsy, and no small sizes. I tried to get a pair of ' overshoes "goloshes'" they call them, and could not get any1. thing small enough. Said they didn't make anything under sice three. "Warren is having a couple of suits made at a place on Bond street. The cloth, of course, is excellent, but he doesn't seem enthusiastic about the tailor ing. Says they want to make every thing too tight across the" chest, and the work is clumsier than ours. . J in tended to have a suit made here, but think now I can do better at home. "Mother, you would be astonished If you could see all the American goods that are on sale in theahops here. . Every few counters you will come across a sign of some 'American made' article. And I find, too, that many of the shops are selling American goods as their own. Just yesterday I bought some black si'.k stockings, and when I got them home found stamped In gilt on the inside, 'Made in U. 8. A.' And a few dayB ago I stopped in a chemist's for a couple of washclothB,iind,a spool of .dental floss, and they were both stamped 'U. S. A- You asked about Warren's business. He doesn't tell me much about it, but f can see he is . getting very impatient av the slow methods over here. Says they resent the ''bustling hurry up" of the Americans, and that he can't rush things on that account. But he said yes terday he was trying to have everything closed up in about three weeks, so that we can sail on the last Saturday of this month. , , Give my love to father and Aunt Mary. I will -try- to write them both in a few days. Am sending Aunt'Mary a booklet of the Abbey and some post cards. With much love. ' HELEN. When this' letter was addressed and sealed, Helen took out more note paper and began to.' nibble . at her . pen, She must write to V.'arren's mother. Al though she wrote to her on every mail, It was always hard for she could never get over the feeling that Mrs. Curtls's attitude toward iter was a critical one. "London, Aug. 2, 1912. Dears Mrs. Curtis: Your letter of the 23d came yesterday. Am so glad to hear Winifred keeps well. I am sending her in this mail some hair ribbons. Tried to get the blue ones the shade of the lining on her little leghorn hat, the two-yard piece I thought would be enough for a sash. Warren says now we will probably sail in about three weeks, but will let you know definitely as soon as" "Hello, there!". Usually she heard Warren's step in' the hall, but now she was so absorbed. In her writing that she did not hear him until he opened. the door. "Well, it's a beastly day, . all right. Where'll I put this?" holding out a dripping umbrella. . . "Oh, wait, dear; 111 take' it" "What've we got here?' aa he threw himself in' a chair and took up the pack age of postcards Helen had written. "Who are all. these to?" ...... "Oh, to everybody," apologetically "You know I haven't written any' since we've been here." "Oh, this is rich! Here are three: We are having a wonderful trip. London is a most Interesting city.' Written that on them all? Did that phrase exhaust you?" "Oh, don't, Warren please don't read those?'.'. But he held her off with one hand while he turned the cards over witb te other. "Oh, you did vary this one. 'London Is a most interesting cJtj We are having wonderful trip." And her you exerted yourself on this one: 'London is a very interesting and impressive city. We are having a most wonderful trip. " Oh. Warren, please please don't read those!" "Didn't you write any. This is a lovelj i spot. Wish you were here.' That coven ! everything and has a note of hospitalit;? in It I'd recommend that as the standard postcard sentiment." ' "Oh, Warren, you mustn't read any more! I won't let you ridicule my post cards." There was a suspicious tremble in her voice now,' and he let her take them from him. - . , "... ', . Written" mother!" ' ' v . "No; I was Just writing her now. Don't you . want to . write . something, too?" "Not before dinner. I've had about all I want to do for one day. Get on your raincoat and we'll look up a chop-house I beard some fellows talking about at lunch. From what they said it mnst b all right We'll take a chance on It any way. Hurry up now it's after at." THIS PICTURE, BY NELL BRINKLET. 19 REPRODUCED BY PERMISSION AND ACCOMPANIES AN ARTICLE BY OCTAVE UZANNE. ENTITLED "THE STORY OF FURS AND MUFFS." What would .have happened if Dra, David Copperfield's child-wife, had lived to grow old? Would sho ever have learned to man age her household, her husband ' and babies, or would she have been eternally Inefficient childish and irresponsible? The Dora girl will always be a type of feminine beauty which many men will find hewitchlng, for the very helplessness of her makes an instant appeal to the masculine sense of protection. There she Is, looking out of the window waiting for him to come home. Perhaps he is late, detained by business, or per haps he has gotten into some foolish scrape and doesn't want to bring his troubles home, because his child-wife is unequal to the burden of Bharing them with him. Possibly, they had a quarrel In the morning before he left. Something went wrong In the household, something that she could, have avoided, and now she looks out of the window with her tender little heart wrung in an agony t self reproach, tor the Dora girl always re proaches ' herself when It is too late. Her experiences In life leave no Impres sion on her and she gets no further in life's school, despite the hard lessons she has to master. ... , - - . She Is either light-hearted and sunny or in deepest despair; of her own shavt- comings. But generally she is Incapable of helping herself out of her troubles or finding the key to her misfortunes. When the Dora giri makes a success of life, though, she has done more than the ordinary Kir! would be capable of, for she has had to triumph over herself, over her weak and clinging nature, over her childish feelings and - general Incompe tency. The strong character can hardly understand her trials and her little child ish temptations. It Is only tha Dora woman who has succeeded who can show her the" Way. One of these little Dora wives had reached the brink of matrimonial unhap plness, and her feet were already trem bling ovar tha dark vutUn-a. By MARGARET HUBBARD AYEIt. Her particular David had always been the most devoted husband, until lately, when he found his home occupied by a mother-in-law, a slBter-ln-law and various other relations of his wife.. Dora had weakly allowed this invasion of her home, and her kind heart could not bear the idea of saying "no" to any of her kin. The consequence was that her husband's home no longer belonged to him, and be ing a very uncomfortable place he avoided It as much as possible, and Dora looked out of the window and watohed for him, until an older woman of her own kind came and pointed out her failings. ' "You'll have to choose," said the older Dora, "whether it is worth while sacri ficing a perfectly good husband to the whim of your own family. You chose him and It is up to you to stick to him. You have virtually given his house away. His wife's time no longer belongs to him, so, naturally, he doesn't come back. If you prefer the others, go with them, but this .Is a house divided, which cannot stand, and you will be the loser." And little Dora gathered up her courage and gave formal notice to her relatives that the house was David's, and he would have to come first. . They left in high dudgeon, but happiness and David re turned. 1 Woman to Man By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Woman is man's enemy, rival and competitor. John, J. Ingalls. You do but Jest, sir, and you Jest not well. How could the hand be enemy of the arm, Or seed and sod be rivals! How could light Feel Jealousy of heat, plant of the leaf, Or competition dwell 'twit lip and smile? Are we not part and parcel of yourselves? Like strands in one great braid we entertwine' And make the perfect whole. You should not be, Unless we gave you birth; we are the soil From which you sprang; yet sterile were that soil ,' Save as you planted. (Though in the Book we read One woman bore a child with no man's aid, ( We find no record of a man-child born Without the aid of woman! Fatherhood Is but a small achievement at the best, While motherhood comprises heaven and hell.) , This ever-growing argument of aex , Is most unseemly, and devoid of sense. Why waste more time in controversy, when ' , There is hot time enough for all of love, , Our rightful occupation in this life? Why prate of our defects, of where we fall, V When Just the story of our worth would need Eternity for telling, and our best ,., . -. ; Development comes through' your praise, As through our praise you reach your highest self? Oh! had you not been miBer of your praise And let our virtues be their own reward, . The old-established order of the world ' Would never have been changed. Small blame is ours " For this unsexing of ourselves, and worse Effeminislng of the male. We were Content, sir, till you starved us, heart and brain. All we have done, or wtse,! or otherwise. Traced to the root, was done for love of you. , Let us taboo all vain comparisons, And go forth as God meant us, hand In hand, Companions, mates, and comrades evermore; , Two parts of one divinely ordained whole. ... ; Copyright,' 1912, by American-Journal-Examiner. 'X -1 t ft What Do You Stand For? 1 . Selected by EDWARD MARKHAM. Out of the Ordinary Name . Thousands of newspaper printers and' proofreaders will have an Interest pecu liarly their own In the announcement of the death of Dr. W J McOee, the well known scientist and author. Their peculiar Interest lies In the typographical difficulty which' the doctor has caused them all over the country for the last thirty . . years. Dr. McGee, through tome bit of parental erraticism, was chris tened W J at his birth. In other words, W J was his "front name," and not mere his initials. Then it was Improper to put periods after the W and the J. Very early In life Dr. McGee pointed out this typographical situation to the printer who first set up his name In type The government proofreaders, especially those handling the publications of the geo logical survey and the Smithsonian insti tution, had to . be instructed as to the surname. 'Then it passed to the proof readers who supervised the printing of the Popular Science Monthly, to which Dr McGee was a frequent contributor. Dur tu St Louis exposition the oaau- liarities of Dr. MoOee's name percolated out to the newspapers. The Evening, Post was erne of the first to become aware of the situation, and it has devoted enough energy to the education of Its editorial and mechanical departments on this im portant matter to run the entire news paper for thirty minutes. The New York Sun Is another news paper which has paid scrupulous atten tlon to this typographical oddity, bul that can't bo said of other New York newspapers. One trouble has been that the thing has spread largely by word o( mouth. If Dr. McGee had bombarded tlu printing world with little yellow slips of paper calling attention to the situa tion, things might have been easier all around. But he never did that. It was an oral tradition, spreading from scientist to scientist, from editor to editor, from proofreader to proofreader. Once learned it was rarely forgotten but there are such a lot of 'tilings to learn In this world and the doctor added an appreciable bur den to tha Dtlal Oiicajfo Viw' James L Gordon, In "Tne Young Man and His Problems," runs together homily and story, setting before young men-the needs and deeds that make life worth while. Here is the opening of his chapter on "Individuality": "When God would move men, He moves one man. This one God-moved man moves men. Then God-moved men move men for God. And then follows the swing and sweep of a spiritual momentum- move menta mighty movement of men; and this is the history of the origin of evsry movement which has ever blest the world. "Every man is the Incarnation of fc thought. There is for .each one of us a peculiar and predominating characteristic. In the Mfe of the great man some leading feature of his character is chosen by tha people and expressed In a popular phrase or appellation. Gladstone was l ne oranu Old Man.' Wellington was the 'Iron Duke.' Cromwell was known as ' 'Ironsides, Shakespeare has gone down In history as 'the Myriad-Minded,' Luther was 'the Solitary Monk,' General Grant was la beled 'the Silent Man,' Garrison Is known as 'the Liberator,' Lincoln has been crowned with the title of 'the Emanci pator,' David is spoken of as 'the Sweot Singer of Israel,' while Abraham stands alone as the possessor of the supreme name, title and appellation, 'the Friend of God.' What fl0 stand for? What Isi thy name? "A wise philosopher has said that we are all alike in one respect-namely, we are all different Most people are right handed. Some people are left-handed.. It is well we are not all alike. "Napoleon's favorite word was Glory.' Wellington's favorite word was . 'Duty.' In the making of modern Italy, Cavour stood for a monarchy; Mazzlnl fought for a republic, while Garibaldi struck for liberty, and was Indifferent to the form of government. "In the American Civil war there came to the front three great generaIs Grant, Sherman and Sheridan. Grant could plan a great campaign; Shorman was a great master of detail; Sheridan was built for hard fighting. Every man to his work. "The English Reformation developed two great characters Wesley and Whit field; Whitfield the orator, and Wesley the organizer. Whitfield left a nama. Wesley left a denomination, "A past generation produced two great prophets Emerson and Cartyle. Carlyle tried to settle everything, while Emerson v. j ...... u umcifluu I im Ilk tha aKanvi C-avlvl was Ilka I t . . . ' : : the lightning flash. Emerson was like the sephyr, Carlyle was like a cyclone; Emerson dwelt In short sentences; Carlyle spoke in long paragraphs. Emerson was the philosopher and prophet; Carlyle was the prophet and poet ' ' "Great men differ. What a difference in preachers Guthrie was strong in Il lustration, Spurgeon dwelt in short, pun gent sentences, Talmage was dramatic, Joseph Parker was the incarnation of or iginality, Beecher was a lover of nature, Luther was the Incarnation of force. Phil-: lips Brooks was boundless In his sympa thy. "It la well for a man to know his, own forte.. The prayer of the Scotch elder was a wise one. "Grant, O Lord, that I may always be right; for Thou knowest that X am hard to turn M Pig-a la Pisa, bat Tortoise "The processes of ratiocination of the human animal is something devious," philosophized Bob Woolley, once a promi nent newspaper correspondent in Wash ington, but now reformed and living on his amateur farm in Fairfax, where he divides his time between writing for the magazines and raining an occasional can of tomatoes. "Aa I boarded the electrio car at the Fairfax terminals today the conductor spted a tortoise I was bringing into Washington to a small boy, " 'No dogs allowed on the car, sir,' he politely objected. f 'But this isn't s, do,' I protested, 'it's a tortoise.' " 'Well, I'll have to ask the office about : It,' he finally dslded, and disappeared in to the telephone.- '"It's all right. Mr. Woolley,' 'he said emerging a tew minutes later and ring ing the starting signal, 'cats is dogs, and rabbits Is dogs, but a tortoise Is a in sect,' "-Washington Times, Queer, bat Correct.' Prof. Brander Matthews in his quality of philologist said the other day i New York!; ; ;. - :.: l "The past participle, 'gotten' has irnsn put in England, though it still lingers On wun us. in England, however, "gotten" is almost as obsolete aa ' putten.-. "In some parts of Cumberland tlie vil lagers still use 'gotten' and 'putten and a pupil teacher once told me of a lesson on the past participles wherein she gave ' her pupils an exercise to write on the blackboard. ' ' " - .- , "In the midst of the exercise an urchin began to laugh. Sh asked him why ho was laughing and he answered: " "Joe's put putten where he should ha.va mil Ion 'nit. " ,
