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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1912)
X T11H BKK: OMAHA, SATl'BDAY, DPX'BMHKH 'JK ini2. 9 The ec ne aa z,ire p)a 8e SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT The Judge Gets a Small Yaoht for Christmas Copyright. VM. National News Ass'n. Drawn for The Bee by Tad ON SAV !!! -nl-VJEG- OH BUf I'M A i.UOW P0 S f VlL KAE TO rEUi- MARP-V ABOUT TVMS fiCE-THAT'LL tT- V MES Dtp y&u HtTAR AOOuT MNfc- OP JAfW 0 VNEl-t- uff i (.,r . lit V THAT J I IT CAPPI6S o PSTSPte I OP J"TD WO IT - (00s) oVAChrr sh" j . . But vwho hvs TO PW THE 1 -.-. . J 1 i- GAME" that-" a tumblf Sl sWtS & r. Sound is Marvelous Calculator of Distance if Only You Know How to Use It 1 .J By GARRKTT P. SBRVISS. Toil tan mako your head an arsenal of power If you will simply remember cer tain fcts that havo tho quality of bring ing out other facts. Tako sound, for In stance. It Is a marvellous measurer of illstance. If only you know how to uso it. .Sound consists of waves, or vibra tions, which travel through tho air, at ordinary jlcmper nture's, with a speed uf l.wo feet per second. At lower temperatures the speed la slightly de creased, and nt higher temperatures Increased, but the figures given are sufficiently' exact for common purposes. Knowing them you can, for Instance, tell In a moment how far away from you a thunder-storm Is raging. You have only to count tho num ber of seconds that elapses between tho flush of the lightning and , the sound of the .thunder, and multiply that number by 1,140, which will give you the distance uf tho cloud from which tho discharge took place. The light travels more than .0jbfc0 times as fast an 'the sou'ndT so tliat tho latter has hardly at Started '.before the former reaches your eye. Since there aro 5,'JSO feet in a mile, It Is evident that tho sound of thunder, or any other sound '.ransmitted through the air takes about .'our and two-third seconds to go a mile. The lightning bolt travels on the heels of tiie light, so that Is too, so far out itrips the sound that If it struck you, you .vould neves hear tho thunder. Bven we, however, aro able to send leath-deallng bolts faster than the sound that nccompanles their discharge. A wift rifle bullet goes twice as fast as tho track of the exploding cartridge. The thunder of the gun that sends a shell to I'xplodo In the enemy's camp five miles away may only reach the ears of tho dead ten seconds after they have been ren dered forever silent. Another useful fact to know Is that sound travels faster In water than In Rlr to the proportion of at least four feet toxine. In some experiments sound has been transmitted through the water of a river at the rate of more than a mllo per second, but Its average velocity In water Is about 4,700 feet per second. The suund of a bell warning a ship to keep away from a dangerous shoal would require about twenty-three seconds to go five miles through the air, while tho same .sound could Iw transmitted through the water In about five and n, half seconds. There aro Imaginable circumstances In which the eighteen seconds thue saved might suffice to prevent a shipwreck. Still .more remarkable Is the difference between tho speed of sound In air and In solid bodies, tn the heavier metals, mich ss lead or gold, sounds travel at nearly the same velocity as In water, btlt In morn elastic metals, Uko Iron and. siteel, Its speed suddenly Increases to more (than three miles per second, which ts six or seven times bb rapid as the flight of a bullet. In wood sound travels about as fast as In Iron provided that tho direction In which its waves move Is the same us that In which the fibres of tho wod run, but If tho .sound Is transmitted across tho grain of tho wood Its speed Is reduced tn from a half to a quarter of what it li In tho other direction, the" amount of change varying for different species of wood. In consequence of the sounij-conductlng power of wood, an old-fashioned rail fence, or better u board fence. Is capable of affording many curious experiments. You can hear the sound of scratching cn a wooden fence at an astonishing dis tance. If your ear hnppcns to bo close to the wood, or If your head touches the fence. And so quickly Is the sound con ducted that, although Its point or origin may be a quarter of a mile away, yit. If you aro unaware of the manner In which it has been brought to your of you may bo completely deceived, thli Ing that It must have originated hut few rods off. Ono might easily make kind of telegraph of a wooden fence, ro. veylng messages Ijy taps upon It. kCh suggestion Is dedicated to writers of in genlous stores of adventure. A very interesting experiment, full o.' instruction, may be tried in this waj Select a long, straight fence, nnd stand with your head resting against It. A quarter of a mile away station, a friend with a hammer, und let him strike a sharp blow rupon tho fence, Now. if there are no breaks In tho line of hoaids. or rails, you will hear the sound of tin hammer twice In succession. Klrst it will arrive thiough the fence, and a full Hecond later It will come again through tho air. If you could mako thp tlUtancr a mile, the two sounds of the same blow would reach you more than four second apart. The vibrations In the wood travel on the average of thirteen Urn'"" as fast as those in the air, How long are the waves of sound In the air?' They differ according to the pitch. The average male voice, In ordinary conversation, produces waves varying In length from eight to twelve feet, while those of a woman's volco are only from two to four feet long. Waves sixty 01 seventy feet in length, vibrating at the rate of sixteen times per second, produce a very grave sound which Is scarcely perceptible by the human' ear. w hllo waves only half an Inch In length, vibrating between 20.000 und 10,000 tint's per second, produce n sound so shrill that it, too. pastes beyond the rangn of our hejrlng. although It mny seem .in hoarse -nt the roar of thunder to th- hearing apparatus of insects. All sounds, whether grave or shrill, travel forward it the same rate. SO -IS CHf2 I ST MVo! WAfcK' WHAT WA3 THAT? TtffT OLD COGGER. PUUEO THE SHEETS 'WAY OVER. HIS DOUE, AMD SHIVE0 WITH FRIGHT' STEALTHY STEP-STEPS COULo BE HEARD COMING UP THE HALL SUDDENLY, WE DOO2 OF THE OLD MAM'S ROOtA WA6 PUSHED OPEN, AND THE GLArSE OF A GULL'S -EYE LAfiTEfZfH PLAYED Ori THE GEO. THEM, WITHOUT AMY WARN I KG, THE BURGLAR, CFOR.IT WAS HE) STUCK IN HIS DOME A HO ?ASPD "IF A SICK CARr- PEHTEtL WAS QFFERD?25 A DAY FOR. HIS SERSJICES. OO YOU THINK HE WOODWO2C?'; V TO0GH GUY, AlN' C HA? GEMTLEMEM. QE SEATED, T A- R. A RA -ZAM It! f?A5TU5-"MI5TAH IrtTE'iOCjrAr, DOES YOU WHEH OEY POSTED DEM FIRE RULS M DS YAI2 BUILDH' AM' IT SAin "ANVDNF CAUfiUT liIMP, MATCHE5 WILL OE PROSECUTED? HTRLOC0T02r"YE5, RASTU 5 I f?MEMDEIi; GUT WHATOF' IT?" EASTUS.-'WELL.SUH 00 YOU THINK DAT OS 'IKE DEPARTMENT iTr o o o LADIES AH' 6BHTS T'ftEE ROUlH' PfcELjlMlNARtf, 'KID- KNOT YHflYER- S. YOUNG' ivA-T". SPAYCE. ah! folks, this is the TIME OF Y&are, YHEM JOY IS KING, TH WttfcY BELLS WILL (ZING THErZ. HMTh, GOOD WILL TO MEN, AND GENTS. HEttE WG HAVE A FINE LOUIS 'QUINCE CJGAfc HUMU)OI?J inn yvu, An uip TEN DOLLARS BY THE GENTLEMAN witu tup r?cn Tir. tpM BUCKS;. DO I HEAR. FIFTEEN? rlr TEEM ll?ON MEM 13 QlD; WHO'LL MAKE IT TWENTY COIN 6 AT FTFTEBN OCAN5 GOIN G - GOING - WHAT '5 THAT, S2.7" , "OH, MERELY- WISH TO FIND 6ut',' SIMPERED A LITTLE. RU nTj" I F AH ESKIMO GRASS." v ' , DOM'T BE DOWN IN THE MOUTH R.ENEN&ER;. JONAH CAME. OUT 6HT. ALL WITH CHKI3MUS SPIR.IT THE WOfLLO S THRILLED, AND EVERY HEART VNITTI JOX 15 cLLtO r 1 1 1 rw wruwtiK 1 r 1 I I 111 I I . . V I M ' v ' ' M huh! I WHY AVy.'l'hrlOT WOEKIHG THE MIRTH ON EARTH Scoring a Jail Bird's Plea lly WINIK1U?!) ItliACK. 1 Bi "Handsomest Man" Finds Nearest to the Ideal Woman Party Gone, "Ring" Off -J Hy N. P. IJAIJOOCK. Tho telephone ranc and sho anawcrod the call; He stood with his hat and bis stick In tho hull. Ho beard her aay "Yes," and ho heard her say "goone. Then, after a pause, heard her aay, "Of great use." Ho waa an eavesdropper, but what could he do, Whon only the back ol her' neck waB In view? Ho couldn't give warning that he was close by. He Junt had to wait, as would you, or would 1. "Yes, dear," ehe said next, "I'm expecting him now. Not quite that amount; oh, you did, did you? How? Perhaps you are jealous. You're not? I don't know. He'a tho prise or tho year, so I couldn't bo alow. "Yes, father Is willing, and mother la glad; She says I neglected, tho laat chance I bad. You havent forgotton; well, I waa a dunce. I won't let a good thing escapo mora than once. "Got used to his looks? They're not really so had. I don't have to kiss him. Oh, that's just a fad. She does? Well, I always thought Dess was a goose. Why, as a protector I'll find him of use. "Now, listen! I know what I'm talking about: He conies of the very best stock yes, no doubt. Thoy all tried to get him; they hadn't a chance. I nulled a few wires before he left France." The Count de la Paree turned pale where he mood Perdition''' he muttered, and took to the wood Tor how could lie know sho was making report To a friend of a costly Trent h bulldog she d bought ' The limit who was koIiik to tho peniten tiary for flllren yearn, called tho nrwn- paper reportris to his cell In Kiuihou City tlie other day and told thoni onie thine Important, "Hoy, said the man who wan Go ing to the ponlten tlar. "hoys, I wish you would say for trio that till." Is a lesson for all men to keep nwuy from wine and women, It Is wine and wo men that are i;iid Inc ine to prison. If 1 had liept nwny from them 1 would ln at home now ucttliifr ready to spend Christmas with mv wlfo and llttlu girl. Wine and women, that's the fatal combination that drives men to orlme.'' And all the teportera took down every word the man 'said and wrote It up In touching stories, and all the paprn printed It In nice, law, plain type. . "Wlno and women, tho fatal combina tion that drives men to crime." and the man's wife probably read overy word of What tho mm said the very clay he lett for mlson. I wonder what she thought of It? Wine and women, t w the man who had all this wondrou messaBO to Klve to the world, and somehow t wasn't much Impressed by him. He killed a woman you knowt shot her down liecauso nho fell III love with an other man. some ono who wasn t at all Influence il by wine and women, It tumeJ tho man who preaches this ! moral i-irmon left his own wire ana 'hunted down the woman he thousht liri MILS. IIULDA Ilt'NTlilt Knyllsli Moclety woman who comei neaictt to artist conception of beauty. Uy MAItGAIMCT III HUAUI) A.VKK. When In the woman's hour of beauty? "The perfection of physical beauty reached ut about the uU'o of 13. That Is the most exquisite moment of adolescence, when mere physical loveliness Is at Its helKht, liavlriK nelthor knowledge of Its ewn charm, nor the lure of sex, but Is btauty pure and perfect " ' This Ih the opinion of Paul Hwun. Mho, . however, admits that th'cro !i another I Herlari uf beauty of a different kind, hm I at to or thereabouts. Hut the most re ' markshle thine about Mr. Swan Is not what he says, but the way he Ioohh. Mr .Span Is the handomest man In N'iv York Hi Is riNtllv lieu .tlf il if one ir ap, i worrl m.t in a nun He s nn artift, a p'filt ral'ltr und U stultor. Ho waa born In Chlcaco, but he was Impelled by name Innrr spirit to Bo to Greece. In Athens he nai hailed by artists, nrcheologlsts, writers, and the beauty-lovlni; people of the country as a reincarnation of the perfect Ideal of the Greek tye bf youriK manhood. Mr. Swan m followed about In the streets qonslderably to his own embar rassment, and his remarkable resem blance to the well-known statue of Her. nifs mail him conspicuous wherever ho went. His is an astonlshlnir likeness. Mr. Swan admits that he Is 11 reincarnated Greek. I He Iish the small head and the perfect I profile of the undent Greek profile. Ills ha.r Is llKht auburn Hii eyes are dar; lir vw U" han. ve'j lonK black tye- PAl U SWAN. Ho hasn't leen m New York very Ions;. lashes, stralKht ureek brows, and the classic kind of mouth. I know this de scription sounds like our best hand painted paper doll, but fortunately Mr. BWan Is too youn. hardly 20 I think, and so Ingenuous In his manner that he does not make any other Impression but that of extreme youth and remarkablo pagan beauty. Mr. Kwan, In .-onsiderlnz woman's hour of beauty, skipped ome seventeen years, formative years, nor would he admit that the vlrl of 2 eoinpsrert favorably with the arii rf 01 older. "At M or thereabouts, and, of course, llcil n ,-- r ' o' (he yeuis after 80, a unman hsfc f nd rther resourreH. all of which dd t her rharm Bhe has studied the srt S drets, she hs,s gained conscious Krnce and she heKini her sec ond period of loveliness. That period lusts a Ions or shoit time, accoidlns; to the Individual. "Them is n type of woman who Is very btuiitlful. especially to nn artist, not, pi'ihaps, us much for her own physical perfection an for the beauty which her presence, her (features and posts bur Kst. "Tuke Pavlova, the nusalan dancer, for Instance; nlie Is the vn-y qulnteicenre uf cruce, Kince tluit Is acquired and thut is on art. Her dancing In nn In spiration to every artist because of tho exquisite RT.ice, the beauty and the sue Kistlou of even (jreater loveliness which It given him. "I havo only been In 'New Tork U few weeks, so n yet I am not prepared to say whom I consider tho moat beautiful woman here In town, or who represents my type of beauty among the women of 3). nut here Is Mrs. Hulda Hunter, an l.'ncltsh society woman, who come very near my Idea of beauty " and Mr. flwnn handed ni hex picture, one of a great jiumbur of his sketches of lSngllsh women nnd Klrls. "A Urco portrait of Mrs. Coleman Hlgelow and those of several other beau tiful women of the soct.il and theatrical world, hung about the studio, which showed rnuny pictures and plaster studies of the young artist himself. It Isn't every aitlst who ha a handsome model at hand, and Mr. flwan has made the possi ble use of his own Greek head, which looks down at one from the wall growing out of a Russian blouse or n Greek toga, and which reers up at one In ttnted plas ter from tables nnd pedestals and mantle plects. A statute of the Venus d Mlio camel me in Inquiry- what age the model must have been, and Mr. Bwan nnswtrcd promptly. "35 yesrs, anyhow, and Idertl Irrd, at that." "Do you think, Mr. Swan.' that the American woman as a class comes any where near the Greek Idea of physical beauty?" "No. Indeed," ld Mr, Swan, with de cision. "The Ameilcans ale fuither from the Greek Ideas thn any other natlpn than the German, English and even the French. What strikes mo particularly over here, however, Is that while the people, ss a whole, are far removed from tho Greek. Individuals asserting their own personalities revert to Greek Ideals In thought and physique. "To men physical beauty can never be disassociated from the. beauty of th soul. I don't care how basely a beautiful woman has acted, somewhere In her nature there Is, or wo, the Idesl pcrfec. tlou of the soul which expressed Itself In physical beauty. "The painter (n working 111 a. face must find not only the beauty of color and contour, but this hidden beauty, the beauty of theoul as well. ArUU eyes res p-rfectlon. loveliness, youth, whera others miss It That' why the urtlst'a opinion of beauty generally differ. from the lawmen." was In lovo with and shut her Then he founht llko a cornered rat for I. Is life, ncrusid thn woman lie had killed of v?ry crime on the esicndur, cxavpt bilnir In love with him. trot hi wlfo to spend every dollar sli! Md to try to clear him. nnd noV he (-"ti's tn prlmii weeping about what d ureal and kood man he would have been If It were nrt for "wine snd women." Kudse. fiddlesticks, stuff and iionseus ' You and your "wine und women." you poor little cowaid. you I Whnt -bout tho woman who has t.iken her heart out of her breast and torn It to ribbons to help you. the wife you be trayed, the llttln alrl there at home, not U yeats old yet? She'll ho a woman, too. tome u,y. wm some weni; rool uure drss hex Into his sermon on "wlno nnd women" and say Hint If she had nove lived he would never huvo rone wronR" "Wine and women!" How much whin did you ever tasto anyhow, you pitiful wiricnr now mum am 11 uw to mitKn a' hrnst of you you who preach so ejllbly about Its snare? I don t think you ever hnd a glasR of real wine In your life, or tasted a drop Cf It. Deer was about votir limit, nml whisky and gin and. whatever you could fci 10 snarpen your nun wita for a few minutes and make you feel like something you thought was man. And women I What kind of women do you know, you who say they are to blame for ypur wicked waste of life and op portunlty? Your mother, ihe was a woman, wasn't she? Did sho "luro'' any perfectly good man from the path of rectitude, pray tell? Or did she Maud llko a rock hv som weakling and his duty-did she keep the roof over the heads of her chil dren and make them think the man ther called father was but little lower than the angels-even If he did drink them almost into tho almshouse? Your sister! What's her record, pray tell us, Mr. Moralist, you with your "wine and women" preachment? Did she tlo In wait for men nnd "tangle them In the wllos of her net" till they forgot honor, decency, fulth and hope? Or did he work like a little beaver for $6 a week to get the money to keep vou In school? Did ahe do her best to make a man of you, and did you laugh at her for a "Jay" when site trUd to koep you out of the very kind of trouble you are lu now? How about the girl you married? S)io stood by you, didn't she: ttood by you to the bitter end, and will ntnnd by you till the prison door swings wide ond lets your shadow fall In the sun light again? She'll work and save and tcrlmp and plan to have something laid by for you when you get out. She'll be slsge the governor day and night, she'll write letters nnd importune people, and niAko life miserable for overy man of prominence h1i ever heard of trying to get you out of your cell, Why? Be cause ahe Is a woman, and she loves you. "Wine and women!" Why, you poor, little, good for nothl nr. tinn riots Iven mention the namo of woman, you "w i...iiua your ouck on all the good they tiled to teich you, you who dragged the faith and love of good woman In thn mire of your cruel life, you who wouldn't even remember the little girl baby at home und keep the name of her father num jiudiic siiume. "Wine and women!" The cry of the I weakling, tho excuse of the shameless, u w-asn t women whj 1 , ... iv flteull, Mr. It was your weak selfishness, your own lack Of decem-v . egotism hat would have what It wanted, i though the very streets ran blood. I m m!!? namo of Wo'" off your lips. I Mr. Jailbird, it doe, not become them. ! Ilw rime. vr manned. I Miss Mary Donnelly, the New Tork suf i fragiit. .aid t the suffrage lunchrooms I 1 was walking the other week In Ing ! Island. Tho sky wan blue. The crystal J nlr was pure and frosty. The trees wet painted with autumnal color-gold and junR una raw red. How beautiful It was' "in a meadow a half dozen young women were practicing putting. They looked very smart in their trim golf suits their skirts of rough homespun and their scarlet Jackets. As I watched thsm an old farmer and one of his farm hands approached. " 'floss,' grumbled the farm hand, 'them girls tn the medder Is scar In' our cows. "The. old farmer shook his head and sighed. " 'Ah, Timothy,' he said, with profound truth, 'times Is changed since J was young. In them days tha cows scared the gals,' ' Washington Star. A Fatal .Mlxui. "They tell me Tompkins' engagement 1 to Miss Blinks is off." said Hlatherj., "Yes. You see Miss Blinks knitted a pair or ear-tans lor Tompy, and u couple of tea cuddles for her mother and somehow or other the packages got mixed, so that when Tompy got the tea caddies, marked, 'To keep your cars worm," it made him terribly angry, and he returned them, with an all-ls-over-between-us note," Judge.