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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1912. 1C eeo SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT Uncle Luther Comes to-the Rescue Copyright. 1911. National News Ass'n. Drawn for The Bee by Tad 5 rrs My vnip& I POftdOT TO 7aw come. ou 1.UTHEIC .Miujeit.TM PMOVK IP : iTi TOU ME .HAvc"WT MOT HEP5 i . "Dont's" for Girls Seeking Husbands; Bachelor Maid Gives Rules for Marriage ly ADA PATTERSON. "No girl need marry now unless she wishes, and half of the girls shouldn't. "Shouldn't wish or shouldn't marry?" "Shouldn't marry," firmly replied Miss Kutherlne Ascherman, the handsome bachelor maid well known In the Intellec tual ee,8 ot New York and Now Haven society. "Not every woman Is adapted to mar riage, Only every other woman you meet Impresses, you as being good wife ma terial. Perhaps she Is not physically strong and hat state presupposes un steady nerves. Marriage built upon a foundation of unsteady nerves Is a state of mutual torment. Another woman may have all tho Sterling qualities except patience, If she does not possess this, either from, inheritance or training, she had better forego marriage, for men, and particularly husbands, are Irritating creatures. "If a woman Is flighty and visionary and full of Ideals sho would much better cut across the fields of singleness Instead jf following the paths of matrimony, for f When i I Buying 1 J Baking I Powder J f For this is the g baking powder a thaf'inakes'thc I baking better." 1 It leavens the P flood evenly 1 throughout; puffs - it up to airy light- ness, makes it de- lightfully appetix- m ing and wholesome. ' Remember, Calu- 5 met is moderate in a price highest in ft 2 quality. - S Ask your grocer for 5 I Calumet. Don't take a 1 0 substitute. ( RECEIVED HIOHKIT AWARDS, W.rM's Pur T Ew.ltl.ii. IChlail.. lllln.l. F'.ri Ip.IU.n, rrtnu. uircn. irii. a ot made by the trI flIA fr -ar-rm aT Till I WJ CHICAGO there Is no human stato quite to essen tially practical or .matter ot fact as mar riage. It doesn't encourage illusions. It punctures them. It Isn't wnc nor tee cream soda. It Is plain bread and butter. "No woman should marry unless, she has a working knowledge of housewifery. In this I think your American customs re inferior to thoe of my German an cestors. When my sisters and I had fin ished school my father said to uso: 'Now It is time that you learned to keep house. " 'Certainly,' I answered. 'Wo will learn from mother. " 'Not from mother said he. 'She would be too lenient to give you thorough In struction.' Ho sent us to spend a year In the home of a friend, where wo did actual practical housework every day under stern, unrelenting surveillance. I thought at tho' time it was very hard, but I know now that It was the best thing father could have done for us. Wo were prepared to administer tho affairs of a household if wo wished. We were at least eligible as candidates for matrimony. "Everything was favorable except the advent of the right man. A man of wealth appeared as a suitor, and my good American friends said, with deep satisfaction, 'How fine. Katherlno's fu ture Is arrnnged.' nut it wasn't, for w'hat,' to-them, -seemed nonsense, but to me was a sufficient reason. I didn't love him. "We Germans aro romantic and I thank heaven for It. It was quite. Imposslble'for me to consider 'settling Irt life' with a man for whom I had no romantic affec tion. That is the only start nature gives to make marriage tolerable. "I declined the man of wealth, and then to a chorus of my friends' walling, 'I told you sos, something happened. Something grave, but not Irretrievable. I found my self without home and money. Hut through my own efforts I soon estab lished mysolf In that position women so much desire In this country financial In dependence. "What I have done other girls can do. There's always a chance to earn a live lihood at something, especlajly If you have been well, trained. I hope your father and mother have done their duty and 'seen to that. No girl need marry for food and shelter and clothing. Hideous thought of barter! And the food nnd rai ment and shelter will be handsomeer and more comfortable if she has learned some one thing well and applied It to the prob lem ot livelihood earning. "Keep your singleness and self-respect until the man of your heart arrives" I say to all girls. "Don't Insult or wrong any man by making him a meal ticket or a human paying machine. That would be unjust to both of you. Don't marry because you aro tired of working. If you are tired It Is probably becauso you or laxy, for work of some kind Is the law of health and of life. If the rich man doesn't come along, live a happy, free and Independent life, filled with the best sub stitute for tho best thing In life. The best thing Is a good home, shared with a good husband and children. Falling this, which you will fall if you marry from any other motive than the real one for marriage, love, still make your life triumphant. Do congenial work, the substitute I have mentioned, and make it as successful as VTaaaK&V wi,' tiJvV-",tV '' MISS KATHRHINE ABCHETtMAN. Miss Ascherman says that no girl should Insult the man she loves by regard ing htm as a meal ticket or a rent-paying machine. She warns present-day girls against marrying unlet they 'huve a working knowledge of houeowlfery. you can. Form strong, worthy friend ships. Mako a' little home ot your own. And If you can possibly afford it, adopt a child. Consolo yourself with tho thought that not more than a quarter if all the marriages are happy. "Then you will be happy though single, and your Itfo of a bachelor maid will be a success." Wln orp n II In II rid r. A tall, chestnut-haired, blue-eyed girl, with a Jl.ono-chaln of gold nuggets dang ling over her well tailored blue coat, arrived In New York from tho land of Robert Bruce. Four years ago Miss MacPhee com pleted her probation as a nurse In the French hospital, San FranclBCO. For her first case they brought in a young man with several ribs broken and other things the matter with lilln. His automobtlo had bucked. The first tlmo that Gordon Itunyan's ribs stopped hurting for a few minutes he noticed the nurse. From that moment he wanted to get well solely becaust he wanted to get the nurse. "I haven't got any money," hn said, ( when he told her about it, "but I'll run up to Alaska and dig some. Walt a little , while and I'll be back." It was a long time before nunyan struck It rich. When he did he cleaned up $100,000. He tiont Miss MacPhee the nugget necklace and told her to come to Alaska. Jurt now she's returning from a visit to her parents In Scotland. The honeymoon will be spent on the shores of Bering sea. Has the Fighting Turk, Once the Terror of Evrope, Lost His Cunning By GAKH13TT T. S1SRV188. Probably nothing connected with tho war now raging has so much surprised nil readers as the prompt nucocss ot tho Greeks, Servians and Bulgarians against their common and heretofore! dreaded enemy, the Turk. Blnco his first ap pearance In Europe, about tt)0 years ago, the fighting Turk has bocn a terror to aJI his foes. Ho liaa ex torted tho admira tion of his enemies by hla dash, his desperate courage, his dogged resolu tion, his defiance. of the most fearful odds, and IiIb con tempt of life as the price of victory. Rlx hundred and thirteen years ugo Othman, otherwise called Ottoman, whence the name "Ottoman Empire," Invadod Greece from Asia Minor, and from that day to this Greece has boon like a lamb caged with a tiger. The prodding Irons of the great Christian powers, wielded at critical moments, luive saved her from being devoured, but every time sho has sought a little moro freedom from restraint a cuff from the mighty paw at her side has laid hor low. Four hundred and tifty-nlno years ago, In the fateful year 14SS, the Turks took Constantinople, breaking the last- ten dons that bound tho world to Imperial 'jSKjDIPHjal Home by putting an end to tho Eastern empire. Then began tho subjugation of tho Balkan peninsula, and tho terror of tho Turkish nntne wan fearfully enhanced by Its association with a great comet, one of tho most Imposing apparitions of Hal ley's comet, which hung like u sword of Damocles over frightened Christendom while tho Turks were advancing to Bel grade, now tho capital of Hervla. But the comet was a good omen after all, for tho Turks wnro defeated. But In 16S3, and strangely enough with the sama comet, on unothcr of Its returns, for their hor aid, .they pushed as far as Vienna. They failed to capture tho beautiful capital ot the Danube, but they had obtained a broad foothold In Europe, from whloh no power has yet succeeded In pushing them back, Thny havo lost ground, It Is true, ana tho modem kingdoms of Scrvlu, Bulgaria and Itoumanla, have been carved out ot territory which they won In their first resistless rush upon Europe, but still they havo Constantinople, the prlro that llusnla hUH vainly grasped ever elnco thri days of Peter tho Great, and still thero si-ems to be no power In Christian Europe great and courageous enough to drive the waning crescunt across tho Bosphorous, No great power would bo permitted to do so becnut-e of tho Jealouny of Its rivals, but possibly tho handful of lltllo powers which have now flown at tho throat of the tiger, nnd found tho weight appar ently gone from Its blows, may bo al lowed to accomplish, It they can, a work that every one would ltlto to soo done, provided that the doing of It dors not up set tho equilibrium of Europe. Who would not wish to sco Oroeco tri umphant In theso modern days. It only for the sake of the glory that was hers when sho laid tho foundation ot tho white man's civilisation? Who would not re joice to see Sorvia and Bulgaria nchtovo tho freedom of tho Balkan peninsula by tho unaided arms of Ur Inhabitants? Yet wo cannot forget tho tradition that tho Turk Is a terrible fighter. His comet has lost Us terror, but has ho lost his battle heart? Settled. "At lasti Honry, the question of votes for women Is to be submitted to th Ioople." "8o I see.", t "Henry, you will admit that women aro lis Intelligent as tho men." "Freely I admit that." "And that as women pay taxes, they ought to havn a say oh to how their money la to be spent." 'That stms reasonable. But let us discuss the question. I earn tho money wo have, don't I?" "Yck." "But do I havo any voice In how that money Is to be spout?" 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All the way to tho farm Pa was talking about how much he knew about honey I used to keep bees myself, sed Pa, when I was a young mun back lit Wisconsin & the mlult I sco tho bees I can tell thu kind of honey that thay make. Thu ml nit I look a. bee In the eye, Pa sed to me, I know just how much he knows about honey. If ho looks at you steddy, sed Pa, I know he Is a honest bee that doesn't becleovn In slltclng his work, but if 'he looks kind of shifty, like Uyp the Blood, I wuddon be sur-prlscd If his honey wuddent bu fit to eat, Wen we got to ware the honey was Pa culled the old farmer oaver & sed I want to buy sum honey to send back to New York. All rlto, the old man sed, that la what me & the bees Is hero for- How much honey do you want? I want to get a whole case of It, Pa sd, fourteen boxes, the salm as my frend John Dick got here last week. Ho sed that your bees was as honest and bard working as the day Is long. Tho only thing Is, sed Pa, the days Is glttlng shorter now, so maybe the bees ain't on the level any moar. Doant worry about the bees, sed the farmer to Pa, thay mode all this honey along In the summer anyhow. Jest talk a taste of It Sc. see. Me & Pa. both tasted the honey & It tasted fine. This seems to be the reel artlkvl, sod Pa, but beetoar I take It I wud like to look the bees oaver. You can look at the bees If you want to take a clianst, sed the farmer, but I can't see for tho life ot me what dlt ferns It malks how the bees look, as tong as you llko the honey. Cum on & look at them If you want to. You bet I want to, sed Pa. I have lived among bees too long to git stung In a blxness deal. I ain't going to sting you, but the bees mite, sed the old man. Bo then ho took Pa oaver to one of the hives, & I stayed rite whare I was. All I want to look at Is one of them, sed Pa. Thare Is one on the outside ot the hive now, sed the old farmer, Pick htm up & look him oaver. 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