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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1912)
5 SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT fi ir""" ;vo . v (di ill If Heavens Deceptive-Their Wonders Cannot Be Measured Because of Remoteness By GAKKKTT Last Sunday night, at about 11 o'clock, 1 glanced out of my whitlow ami could not restrain an exclamation of delight mingled with wonder, i Vnst shadowy buildings rose high on all sides or the broad inner court across which I Mas looking', and screened off thu light from the .sticct lamps, so that tho view was like that from a vhugh squnro crater with sleep, Irreg ular walls a 1 1 a round and a per fectly hlack s k y overhead. In the midst of this square of sky, glowing and scintillating like a hundred Kohlnoor diamonds pinned upon ft screen of black velvet, were the stars of Orion, the most magnificent of tho con sultations that make up the universe as we see It from the earth. It was veritably a sight to make one gasp! I think I have nover seen Orion to brilliant. Those far away suns seemed to have drawn nearer, as If the constel lation went actually descending from the sky. Below, toward the left, blazed the immense Slrlus, Its rays flickering with every color of the rainbow. At this sight the mighty truths ,of as tronomy burst upon my mind with ,hri Intensity of meaning which I have sel dom known equalled. As I gazed tho eurth dwindled to the insignificant point that It really is, and Slrlus grew and crew before me until it became supernal In its splendor, and In the sense of boundless power that Its ceaseless flashings conveyed. Space and time vanished, for the moment, and I seemed to be standing In tho Immediate presence of that mighty Mar. In Its light falllar facts assumed a now and grander significance, as It iny human .In telligence had been lifted to a higher plane. Then, In Imagination, I returned and t-clzed our sun In iny hands to fling It out Into the depths of space yonder. When it started It was an all-enveloping Maze of quenchless fire, which swallowed the world, and licked up tho planets. like motes of Inflammable dust. But as It bpun away, It began to, shrink like the jecedlng light of n steamer Bpeedlnff out of a harbor at night, and when It had arrived at tho distance of Hlrlus It wa but a twinkling point, forty times e brilliant than the great star flaming hf side it. Although it had made day vh near the earth, now It could not cist V tiniest shadow with in mtcroscop. The whole Knickerbocker town ralcud Its eyebrown when Chief Kenlon ttUd that a fireproof building with the contents aUaie made a hotter, more deadly fire, than the sumo blaze would make in n nonfircproof structure. The chief- setiiKO to be going ngulnst all generally accepted belief. And not only that, ho made his remarks before thu Wagner commission, which Is a body of gentlemen commis sioned by the legislature to learn the lea suns taught by fhe woeful triangle fire and to brush up on expert fire fighting. tj that they may be able to suggest laws that will afford better protection to Ufa an property. They are officially known as Uio New York Factory Investigating commission, because they aim to propose a few laws for the better safeguarding of persons and property In factories. Cer trtl. ly Chief Kenlon would be the last o.-.e to willingly lead them astray or send t em back to Albany) misinformed. Whut did h mean? How could a fire proof building be hotter than the wooden t'nder structure? To find out ask. . "How can It be hotter In the fireproof bu'.'dlnsT" was the question. "tov,, he replied. ' Ttirther explanation, plsse?" He swunr around and made two plies o. b.oks on the desk. " w, Jt' very simple." said he. "when gt tbe Idun OMdo the Jtflldlng from ll i-ontents. I'-.' a the fireproof building first. Con- t t -t of t rick c r steel frame filled w ith t r cotta o" f'reprx-f blocks It ' I oc s t . i-ttii windows and UuiuH tt is fireproof So Is a ttur. Take 'ttfBVjjSSSSKjBBBBBBBSBj f ; I Fireproof Building Fires - -. ! f - I. SEHVJ8S. beams! Distance had revealed It In Its trim dimensions and stripped from It the false predominance with which It dazzles our near-by eyea on the earth. It had become but a tiny star In the sky. a satellite of the giant Dog Star, Then I bethought mo that even Slrlus Imposes upon us with unwarranted pre tentious. It looks the mightiest sun In the universe, but it Is not. It, too, de rives a false advantage from relative nearness. Its distance Is only about forty trillions Df miles, but I knew that before mo there were stars so far that their remoteness ."cannot be measured with any means at our command. AVe know that their distance cannot be less than a certain unthinkable amount, but how much greater It may be we can only guess. Thereupon, I glanced back at Orion, and fixing my attention upon the bright star Rlgol, on the uplifted foot of the pictured giant, below his sparkling, "belt." I once more, In fancy, seized the sun and flung it away Into these profounder deeps. Smaller and smaller It again be came, as It swiftly receded, until at last It was not even a visible star. It faded away like a spark swallowed up- in the darkness. in my Imagined omnipotence I had Im parted to tho flying sun a speed or a thousand million miles per second, but I now saw that I had been too moderate, because In my night watch I could not wait for Its arrival In tho presence of Rlgel; It would require two -whole months, even at that frightful speed, to reach the destination that I had Intended! And when It arrived 1 knew that It would find Itsolf In the withering presence of a sun at least ton thousand times more brilliant than itself. What goes on In that region where IUgcl reigns; where even the mighty Dog Star, that makes our nun seem but a Jack-o'-lantern, would be as Insignificant as a tallow dip beside a ship's search light? In that part of the universe are all energies grander than here. In pro portion to tho stupendous magnitude of tho suns that Illuminate It? We cannot douht that there are llvipg creatures, and intelligence there, but could we comprehend them If we met them? In their presence might not a Newton bins If tt. .. than a little child? j These things abash us, and yet at the i fame time, they stimulate us. There is ' l. deep moaning In the inspiration that ivery human being feels" when he con cmplates the heavens. That Inspiration '.th the thoughts which It awakens Is 'i- true astronomy not the prediction eellrses or the mathemtlcs that treats .10 universe as a soulless machine. 1 the contents of a sixteen-story loft build ing. The contents represent the fud In the stove. Suppose, ag Is the case, one big floor spread over with tables and heaps yT combustible muterlal from four to flyer feet hlgh.Now start your fire. It spreads rapidly and the heat Is stored up, and you get the same action as In an oven it cooks. AH life within will bo destroyed becauiw the oxygen will be taken out of the air by combustion and therj will ba no new supply. The windows ure of woven wire and glaen and will stand a heat of 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, under wMch the human body becomes dust. The wlndowv will not fly out ward." 'Then why not open the windows?" "The fire will spread more rapidly. As soon as heat goes out there will be a rush of cold air to the floor, making the fire burn more Intensely, same a open ing the door of a stove. "But don't let that scare you. Too many people, especially factory girls, are frightened now. Tho fireproof building Is better than the other because It con fines the blase to one floor. The remedy Isn't so much in the care of exits as In the simple matter of dividing off the floor space with fireproof partitions. Fire breaks out In one place. Walk a few feet and close the door, which leaves the fire In a (Ingle segregated oven and lets ft die, or, in any caie. allows a good twenty minutes for escape. It ought to be done. There ought to be smoi e towers or outside fire escapes built. The outride eucape I refer to Is a brick tower built fa few feet from the structure and having Individual balconies with fireproof doors. A few feet from a'iy floor acroca a stair- i a and Oi are la another fireproof building. -New York World. t "UPWTW THE SKULL ano CROSS BONES" YELLED CAPTAIN KlDD, PUT SWOT ACR05S HR SOWS) MET HEARTIES'.' 'HIS HEART I ES YANKED UP THE BLACK FMQ AN5 FlfJEO A CANNOtL ONE OF THE PIRAJES, IHKGuqH HIS Classes, spco the OTWere, 5HIP SNALLINCr, AND RfcAD- "(f A ATHLETE CONTESTS IN A STANDI rff Bl?OAD JUMP DO YOU THINK THE MISTLETOE THE MAGilCV rbACK! BACK! BNCKTO CHICAGO. OF ALL THE. EMBLEMS THERE OF THE CHRI5 MUS FROM THE" MAINE COAST TO THE ISTHMUS. I If 1 -J rm i Happiness Brings Singer Tells When Supreme Hour of Faminine Lovliuess Comes inating Than Perfect Features of Venus de Milo Most Hungarian Type. By MA KG AH ET IIUJUIAHI) AVKU. When Is 'woman's hour of beauty? Mme. Charles Cahler Is the latest to answer this question, which has been put to so many artists, and tp which no two have answered alike. The moat beautiful period of a woman's life has been placed at anywhere from 13 to 45 years of age. according to the Ideas of the painter or sculptor, while women have answered the question ac cording to their own age and occupation, the one Insisting that young motherhood glorified even the plainest face and made woman supremely beautiful, while the bunlness woman was quoted as myliur that success In her particular line of en deavor brought the modern woman of affairs her hour of beauty. According to Mme. Cahler, the hand some and talented singer of the VlumiA Opera house, who has recently been heard at the Metropolitan, a woman's Mjpreinit he ' beauty Is when she Is absolutely happy, "llapplntLi, i.ngs out everything' thut It most beautiful In the human face.'' said Mme Cahler who despite her French nanc s .in Amclean Years of travel and a long residence abroad has trade p "fi-t i of this charming n etr wl n. ; r r wher In turope and is known and nppre The Turkey Belongs to Copyright. 1913. National CORK LEQS COME IN VERY HMOY IF THE WEAtllTC HAPPENS TO AC IMASHIPWR.WK, I1 THE. MU1Y CMeSTAfAS SHOPPERS WERE CROWOINQ THE STORES AND THE STREETS. IT WAS IN ONE OF THE Uf STORIES?, ON THE R.OO2 WHERK THEY SOLO 'TOYS, tHAT THE PROXY SANTA CLAUS JUMPED UP AND CROAKED - "WHO KNOWS W7AT THE. TOY DEPARTMENT? 50! LUD I KEE TCKtLE MUCKLE, YOU LITTLE THO.OHT I COULD PENETRATE VOUtH. DISGUISE - HA HA'. IS NONE THAT'S WITH ITS LITTLE QUITE SO tJOLLY AS THE CHRS'MOS BBfZKS, VUV1 MER.R.Y' MME, elated In the artistic and exclusive circles of the older countries. "Of course, happiness menus many dif ferent things to as many different people, but whoredver sou see a truly radiant and beautiful face yen know that that woman enjoying her hour of happiness. jt is Impossible to tell at what ase tWs hour will strike, for It depends so or the personality of the Indh Idual. what their Ideal of happiness mid mn .tfiiicnil, when th will find 1U if mm ar' thi t mMti f 11 thhhb i the Judge All Right New As'n VlHMIE, CAN YOU TELL ME kNYTHINr ABOUT THEC PAINPALL IN AFRICA f ASKED THE TEACHER, "SUPE- IT'S WET 'SAID JMMY. X0RRECT1, SAIO TEACHER '"AND NOW EH, WHAT IS IT TON Y?" TONY SOLEMNLY ROSE FROM BEHIND HIS DESK, AND LCHlRPED oAY TEACH . SHOULD ' CONGRESS ENACT I A SANTA CL. A'US?" YOU LIL RASCAL, lo! CRIN90M I M THE BOOB THAT PUT THE ATcE. HOLLY IN THE HOLIDAY. fi YUH? Beauty 99 Power to Charm More Fasc Beautiful of All the Dazzling OAHIBR. "There Is the shser Joy of living of early youth, the happiness of perfect physical health, which Is t.quallod ugaln later In life l' the exultation of some intellectual work accomplished, by the Inspiration or art: and there Is, of course ubovo all t:,mg. the supreme hupplness of love. It is am. rit as If life were graded, so that at diff-rent periods It Is posslbl' to enjoy a happiness of a new kind which I shuJld a begin with th Drawn for The Bee by Tad Q A GOOD pen-Sft- DRt&TEM UP TB DARK Vouo Be ov Olympian Personality of J. P, Morgan SrleoWHl lj KOWAIU) MAHKIIAM. Mr. KCaU-Hovey. In "The Life Story of a tHiwiUu Kronoh historian Is best applied J. I'lerpotit Morgun." depicts his hero by force of tmture. siting forth Mr. Morgan's alms and ob- j "Kvrrythlnir Indicates that Mr. Morgan . . , , , s , .... I" personally much too proud to be called Jects and his wnir anil means of attain- ; , . .,,. , a'very good democrat. If tho success of lug them, lie thus sketches tho man 111 nl, nf,w.ori imrt In tho least depended outline; upon cultivating the friendship of tho "Mr. Mikgnn Imp become the dominant common people he would surely have business force In tliV- country and the ' '"l'01'' strongest slnglo financial power In the whole world; and. us a matter of fact, he has reached a point where no category whether the number Is correct or not it will contain him. You cannot put Mr. iH cortnln that his acquaintance I rela Morgan In the pigeon hole of n class. Ho tlvoly small, mid that his real friendships Is a goiihi. a spirit, u vory conspicuous nre reserved for n very few people, chloriv Instrument of tho economic evolution of , ti,n mp whom he has known all his life his time. You cannol call him n miiennd with whom he Is very likely not as money maker. Interested In temporary rfneiatetl "U In a business way. gains. H.i Instinctively jdans for omc- ! ..An nrcmmt of u,0 porsonul traits of thing permanent In the ntruutuio a living man tends to become a piece of money making nctlvlty; ho hns fnmlrtlioJ j V! lwoctlon," more or less unwarranted, the grooves by which nil our industries , MP.,, t, nm to suggest his person shall be run for a very long tlmo to . ,vmy. rnthcr than to nnalyne It exactly, come. j Mr. Morgan's Imposing stylo and thu ex- "Ills enemies may charge hint with trnatdlniirv sens- or vigorous llfo which many faults-ami he umloutedly 1 ns ' cuinuiitos from him always jnako him n many but they can never say that ho j citonallty which suggests Itself In destroyed a pioperty. Ills lallroads hnvo j nverytliliu: ho doe, whether It Is a inat- beee.n working rollroads, with mils and steam and rolling Block; his factories have been smoking factories, aglow v(th life, and workors-.not paper railroads and paper factories that exist only In 'the Imagination of the stock Jobbers. "There Is nothing of the charlatan sug gpittnd here; J. I'. Morgan Is so solid. Furthermore, his rehabilitation of n Vast amount of doomed propel ty Is nilglltlly suggectlvo of broad public tervlcc. Other men have built up Industries from the I beginning, chiefly for theinnelves, ns ( Ilockefellcr constructed tho Standard Oil trust. nut Ttockereller Koanerl up m competitors llko a sponge, while Morgan puts them upon their feet and teaches and enforces co-operation among them all. "It Is to J. rierpotit Morgan, of all living Americans, that tho expression of physical plwsure of health In the very young, and climbs upwnrd through the Intellectuul pleasures of knowledge and art to the suhllmest happlnoss of re nunciatlon and spiritual perfection, such as one sees pictured Its the faces of calntr. "Of course," laughed Mme. Onhle-. "we're not all ready to wear halos yet. though tlnre are some people In the world whose beauty Is of so fine ami spiritual a quality that It hardly seem ot this world. "The artist's hour of beauty Is that or her artistic triumph, for It Is In her art that she finds her greatest happiness." Madame was Interrupted here by her husband, who Insisted that beuuty, that Is, the clasole beauty, hod little real power to attract, and that probably even the Venus de Mllo herself, If ! could come to life, would not be as fas cinating as woman of less perfect cast of feature" who had that Inrteflnnblo power of fascination called charm- TV c'ns'lc beuuty, that Is to say, the fare cast In perfect clBSfl" muld, 's toUlly devoid of many of the,ie ottrlbuto-i which constitute beauty to tho modern psr.on ' agrted Madam' Ca'.'er. ' 'The girl who Is pictured on candy boxes, with a face like tha big rrnieh dollr. may be the Ideal type of perfeotlon I to thu chlldisn mind. But as one de velops one experts face to epres something of the churacter of the person. "One man may see no beauty even In i perfect features und a poach und crcum complexion. If It Is devoid of Intelligence. V I "A face with the sense or inimor may appeal to another, while a third sees beautv In Inogular featu'e?. lightened I by the play of expression, or transformed ,hy the sympathy acquired through suffer- ling. j "Hut whatever the face, it I most per- , fact, expressing u'l the beauty of whl-h tt Is capable In the hour ot supreme nap- plness." Anothor-discussion ensued u tu what race of women were the most charming and who. In the opinion ot Mme. Cahler, would bear off tho palm of beuuty In un international beauty contest. "Of ull the. women I have ever weun. ' said the singer, "It seems to mn tl.fct the . Hungarian woman of the upper classss ' "There Is something about the aristo cratic Hungarian woman that affects one like some "of their beautiful national music. There Is an air of race and dis tinction about them that Is superb. They are Immensely Intelligent, and keenly alive to every emotion. "Generally- the Hungarian woman has dark hair and dark ayes and n round f inure, with them oveiy movement is j graceful, eery glance full ot spirit and temperament. "Home of the-tnost beautiful women 1 , have seen were Russians, but thev ore of a very different type, more introspec- 1 Uve and languorous. "IT T .J "It Is said there Hre scarcely fifty tuen In tho flnanclnl district who have a speak ter of adding to his collection some very desirable picture or piece of china, or ot strnlghtcnlng out the affairs ui ,nn nit but ruined bank. "It- Is a personality of tho Olympian or der, Incapablo of doubt and Indecision, as slmplo in action ns a thunderbolt and ns little to Ih) arffticd with. Tljc effeiVs of his Instantaneous decisions o'ftcn sutpaai those of the most deeply laid plans, no Important factor bus been overlooked nc objection, on, tho other hand, has been set out of proportion. In'hni mind's ce he sees both tho end and the way to roach It. and after all has been credited that need be credited to the painstaking labor nnil preparation of his partners It remains true that tho touch of the mar vellous which stamps his success and the success of his firm Is due to Mr. Morgan's own genius." "The iirlsocratlc Hungarian wumun Is as hlghstrung us nn Arablun horse, nmt In lludaprst or at the opera In Vienna, and espi-dully nt tho big court balls, the Hungarian ladles nre qultu duizllug, und generally succeed In throwing tho women of other nations In the shade." It seems that brown hair and curls belong to this beauty, and that blondes have very little chance. In fact, anion1 tho middle classes tho girl with light hair, especially It she Is tall und thin, Is con sidered ugly. The nutlouul Ideal Is embodied In tlu picture of Countess Appouty, u member of tho AiiMtro-lltinBarlau court circle, whose fiery beauty Is equalled only by her graceful and perfect figure Thu countess Is u mugnlflcont horsewoman and u perfect dancer, as aro most of her countrywomen. j ECZEMA BROKE OUT ON HEAD Al FACE In Rash. Dry, Scabby, Sore, Itched Intensely. Used Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Eczema Disappeared Entirely. 4818 Calumet Ave.. Chicago, III, "Ths fcxema broke out In the form of a rash on my btad and face. It w.-w a dry scabby sora that Itched Intensely and became very much Inflamed from scratching. It broke out all over my fuce and scalp, the worst being my forehead at tho roots of tbo balr. I used a salvo for several months without relief. Having heard a great dral of Cuticura Soap I Bmi ointment I thought I would try them. ; I used Cuticura Ointment freely three times a day and no other soap biit Cuticura Soap, I'.l about two months the eczema disappeared and I have had no trouble since. I will ajadly recommend the use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment to any one suffering as I was." (Signed) Miss N Meyer, Feb. 20, 1912. SORE, ITCHING HANDS 'CURFD Pimples and Rash on Them, Very Painful, Nlsula, Mich. "I had long been suffer tag with sore Itching hands. There wera pimples and rash ou them, and they were very painful. Water hurt them dreadfully My bauds looked very red and rough, and sere unsightly, I lot sleep, and would banduge them up for relief. I wanned my hands with Cuticura Soap and applied Cuti cura Ointment. Every night before rotiiing I dldJILonlse. My hands arc entirely cured, ' .Binned) Oustavo Nlsula. Dec. 31. 1011 ' Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Olptmcot ore old throughout the world Liberal sample of ach mailed free, with 3 -p. Skin liooV Ad- I dw,w post-card "Cuticura, Dept T, Boston " 4rTender-faced men should us Cuticura . Bop ShavlnR Slick, 25c Samplnfjts