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MEWW MUtlLAf-E
MUG- GH?
Made a Thief
Uy WINIFRED
She sat before mo tho othor day tlio
wife of the thief. She had come to aik
mercy for her husband, who had been
.aught stealing.
hhe was you ne
mid she was pretty,
at.d her black eyes
shone from under
u hat of late lc
slght, and sho wore
coat of flno
cloth, ami the
nhoes on her small
feet were good,
and tho gloves on
her llttlo hands
were not cheap.
"Vou see," said
tho wife of the
thief. "It's this
way: I was away
mid ho got lone
some and wanted me to come home,
unit ho was out of work, and ho got
Into bad company, and he Is not
ntrongm!nded, and they made him think
It was aJI right. And that's how he got
Into trouulo bad company that's the
whole thing. X hope you won't prosecute
him."
"What was your husband's business?"
ald I to the wife of the thief.
"Bookkeeper."
"What does he get a month?"
"Fifty dollars," said tho thlof's wife.
"You make your own clothes?"
Tho thief's wife swept her modish
dress with tho tnll of her dark eye and
laughed a little, llko a mischievous
child.
"Who, me?" she said. "I can't sew."
"Vou do ypur own washing, then?"
The thief's wife looked down at her
little white, useless hands. Hhe looked
as If she didn't know whether to laugh
ir frown. Bhe chose to laugh.
"Why. no," she said, -r never did that
Vlnd of work."
"How do you get on with the cook
',nc? Vou do that, of course."
The thief's wife smiled this tlmev and
What a dimple alio hod, to be sure. ,
"That ain't so hard," sho'srild. "There's
a delicatessen store and I get everything
or almost everything from "them. I don't
iiow how to cook."
Fifty dollars a month the thief made,
and his wife does not cook, can't sew,
and would not wash for unythlny, Vnd
Hhe says he Is In trouble because he got
Into bad company. I.dldn'ttsay .a .word
to the thief's wife about the company;
I vent to see the thief, lleovas locked
up as a thief Bhould be. Ho. ant on the
edge of his cot and he looked as he had
been crying,- and he told mo about the
trouble.
I Joel my Job," said the thief, "and
The Ionian Isles
Hj HEV. THOMAS n. OltKOOHY.
Uy the Treaty of Paris, signed ninety
Heven years ago, December C, 1814 the
high contracting powers arent Urltaln,
Itutsia, Austria and Prussia agreed to
place tho "United
United States of
Ionian Islands" un
der the exclusive
protection of Great
Jlrltaln.
Tills agreement
was made not he
cause It was de
sired by Russia,
Prussia and Au
stria,, but because
It wus demanded by
tirrat Urltaln and
because behind
Great JlrlUiln's de
mand stood her formidable navy, argu
ment that was not to be Ignored.
The Ionian Isles, on the west coast
of Greece, consisting of the seven Islands
of Corfu, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaka,
Cerigo, Cephalonla and Poxo. may be said
to have formed the nucleus, out of which
has come the modem Greek nationality.
U was In these "Isles of Greece" that
the spirit of revolt against Turkey had
Its birth, and, thanks to England, It wa
there that the noble enthusiasm grew (o
the stately proportions of later years.
Great Britain, through the means of Its
protectorate, kept the bands of Turks
and other nationalities off the Islands
and safeguarded them against all would
ito deapollera until the year lfiOt. whn
'hey were banded over to Greece.
On May 90 of that year the lord high
!ommlloflr of Great Britain handed
5Ver the archive to Gsnaral Zatnes, tho
Htcek plenipotentiary, and on the follow
t c day the eoamlattoner left Corfu, tak.
Ing along with Um tha BaglMt troopa
and iN-0-war. On June King Georgo
ad Jets B4ry Jnto the capital and the
ifwseUtlv of the Iolon tele took
voupc one OPTHOJE" rVAfi'J
vJHO CveS Hi HA6ES
M A. GILDED CAPS" AMO
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I
(POBui OUT LftOlOMfr
,3
Sou'U, pMO .SYMPATHY
by Bad Company
BLACK.
my wife went hoina on a visit. I had to
give up tho flat and I couldn't pay my
room rent, and I owed the laundry people,
and the delicatessen man was after me,
and I went Into this flat . you've heard
about and took what I could see."
"How did you lose your Job?"
"I don't know," said the thief. "They
Just let mo out, that's all."
"Do you know who took your plaoe?"
"Vcs A fellow that lives In the same
house where our flat was."
Tho new bookkeeper's wife wasn't at
all like the thief wife. I went to see
her and found out. She Isn't as good
looking as the thief's wife, but she Is
sweet faced and rosy and her eyes aro
bright and true and loving, her hair Is
pretty and her neat little houso dress was
well made and hung right.
Bhe made It huroelf, sho told me; makes
all her own clothes, oh, yes, Indeed. She
could not afford to hire them made.
Her hats, too, she trims, and the laun
drywell, the collars, she sends them,
hut the rest sho does herself.
The delicatessen shop; Is there one near
by? She didn't know. Bhe does all her
own cooking. It Is cheaper so, and bet
ter, and her husband does not like ready
cooked things.
Picture shows? Oh, yes, once In a
while, but they aro paying for the homo
things now, and there's a lot they want
to get so much down and so much a
month so they don't go very often.
I went to see tho man who pays the
bookkeeper's salary.
"Yes, wo let him out," said he. "No,
nothing definite against him, you might
HAy, but ho and his wife wero picture
show fiends, went every night, and once
I saw them thero and the wlfo was
dressed better than my wife, I can't
see where ho got tho money for that hat.
He handled money for me sometimes and
1 didn't think It was fair to put him
under Bitch a strain, so I got a different
sort of man."
"A different sort of man?"
"Well; no, not exactly, f mean a man
with a different sort of wife. H nmounts
to tho Bamo thing. Don't you think so?"
Ud company, that's what' got the
poor, weak chinned thief Into trouble
There's no doubt about thati The worst
kind of company, a silly, vain, soltlsh,
laiy, wostful wife. A foolish girl, who
marries a poor man and then will not
wash, will not Iron, will not cook and
will not sew. Had company, Indcedl
Poor, silly thlefl Bad company, In
deed! He Is out of Jail now, Is the thief.
We asked -the Judge to bo lenient with
him, aa It is a first offense.
I wonder If It will be his last.
their placea In the national assembly at
Athens.
It will be noticed that among the Is
lands was Corfu and thereby hangs a
tale, the saddest that the world knows
anything about.
Corfu Is none other than the ancient
Coreyrn, the little hit of earth that Is
responsible for thn greatest calamity
that ever overtook the human race.
Corcyra brought on the Peloponnealan
war. which ruined the Athens and practi
cally destroyed Its wonderful clvtlallcu.
Had It not been for that war the
Athenian genius would have continued
Its development tor we know not how
long a period, and the gnln to humanity
would have been Inconceivably great.
Athens, so far as culture went, was
Greece, the home of nearly all the great
trlnkera the center of the art. eloquence,
science and philosophy, which made It
the "enUKhtener of the world.' and when
Athens. went down all that was not bar
barlo went down with It.
Because Corcyra appealed to Sparta
to help It fight Athens, and because, as
a result of the fight Athens was beaten
and practically wiped out, the harm
was done that could not be recalled. It
took the world eighteen centuries to re
cover, even to part, that which was lost
through the Peloponneslan war.
Good Recipe for Frolt Cake.
Ont pound of flour, two pounds of but
ter, one pound of sugar, twelve eggs,
half pint of brandy, four pounds of rais
ins, three pounds of currants, four nut
megs, four tables poonfuls of cinnamon,
two tablespoonfuls of cIotm, three table,
spoonfuls of allspice, two tablespoonfuls
of soda, three.uartera pound of citron cut
very thin. Beat the flour, butter, sugar
etc and sptce well, then add the frutt.
This makes two large loaves and will
keep for months.
TIIE BEE:
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fTTvfijf JfcCJffSlZdJEr THE. FLATIRQH Dmt-DING. J
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Lfv I
IT VAb AT THE ClfcCUS . THE
CLOrYfS AAO Fff SHED THEIR.
Ljttle spelamd amid
GREAT APPLAUSE, THE TALKING
House TfiOTTEo into the
ARTfc. HE BOWED THIZt-Efl
THREE TMES, AMD, Gf?A3DING
A HUrtrfv OF SOUPHUft, HE
rV20T w woes OF Fitter -
irACHrtAMAH TAKES
s Queue . ahd oeatj
IT. rVL. A BILL I Pi!Z ft
0AWL?
A 'i
ALL I VYAMT FCC BtZZfK PAST
IS SOME QEFILTE PISH
AND A reADISH . '
rtOYT ALL MY JtWEUV Aod
tH THE HOCK,
eecAuee I dealt irl
WALL ST., STOCK.
Miss
"Cave Woman"
Uy MAROAUKT HUJUUAltD AVKll.
The trouble with the modern woman
has been diagnosed as too much leisure,
which she fills very effectually with club
and philanthropic work to the ruin of her
health and domestic happiness as Well.
According to several prominent writers
the remedy Is to be found. In an abrupt
return to primitive life, to the life of the
cave woman, filled with ordinary simple
duties of preparing food for her family,
tidying up the rave when absolutely noc
cssury, 'and for the rest, getting ac
quainted with her children and Inviting
her sdul to loaf.
Mrs. Daskam Uncrtu, In h recent mag
azine Btory, takes her overworked hero
ine, a member of all kinds of commit
tees and a social welfare worker, nnd
plumps her down In the middle of a nice
and very distant cave somewhere In Ken
tucky. H, Q. Welln. In his laBt novel,
cuts the problems which have" entangled
his energetto ntul up-to-dato heroine, by
yanking her off to Labrador, where she
and her husband once .more "find" them
eelvee, and the happiness of early court
ship days In the Isolated setting of a
snow-covered hut, and an Arctic wlntr.
The women In lltcraturo always fore
shadows tho popular feminine trend of
mind, so we can expect a vogue of cave
ladles, and probably enterprising real es
tate men will be offcrinK distant and iso
lated caves at low prices for women suf
fering from too many nerves, too much
club life, and the ensuing domestic com
plications. Just at present the Idea of being a cavo
woman makes no appenl. In New York's
most progressive circles, because of tho
chilly temperature.
"A cave woman, Indeed," laughed a
somewhat neurasthenic member of a
woman s club, who announces on all cc
caslons that she Is expecting to break
down from overwork.
"No cave for me. My husband Just
gave me a new moleskin coat and hat.
with the loveliest aigrette In self tope,
ou know. Oh, -my dear, my nerves are
Just fraasled with all this committee
work!"
! Th lady In auestlon was working
j hard at a charitable baauar, Into which
; sho had put enough tlm nd energy to
run an averai family for a year.
Jllsa Kancy Sayres was at the fame
bazaar and Inclined to take the cave
woman question more seriously. That
Is becaus Miss Sayres Is herself a
writer, and, while she dotsn't live In
eave, she spends most of the year In the
country, living tho nearly simple Ufe,
with the help of automobiles elsctrle
lights, motorboats, and all tH wily
neosssary adjuncts to country comfort,
"W can no mora go backr to being
primitive cave women axcept aa a casual
xptrimtnt than we can pretend to deny
the AXltttnce of electricity' laid Mlsa
Sayres mphaUc'.ly, "and It U unfair to
Pak disparagingly of womtn'i clubs
and of clubwomen, I admit that the
average clubwoman, of what t call
'dressy social clubs, it given to muddled
ll
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OMATIA, MONDAY, DKCRMHKR. AO, fltf
His Honor Hands a Roustabout a Lecture
Copyright. 1912. National News Ass'n.
TWS (MW.OUS HOUOAV m.SssT ( NOT UJ?T
If VNFP IW RIOTOUS " . TAUo- ' V
11,1 -1 - '
i
SUCK SAM, THE PRESS-A6EMTJ
VfAS l1 HIS 05SIF DOPino UUT
A PfZESS STUtiT. HE HAD
JUST DOPEO OUT HOW TO PUT
ONE OVER. ON THE EDITOR. OF
THE "VlOrtrtlHG AFTER.1; WHEri,
SUDDENLY, THE E0ITOT2.IH quESToH
Q20.VE INTO TH& OS5rJ AMD
StiMLEO -'LOOK A HEfcE. SAM.
YOU'VE- PUT SOME fcUMMY STUNTS
OVER. ON ME. NOW TELL ME"J
VYHEfPE YYA9i COLLEEfcf 0AWH?
KOSHA FAR-SULYiss, will
rtovy sirs (6
SWEET PATRICK MCOHEHJ
Or" ALU MY DO06H I'm
NOW BEREFT,
IHAVEH'T 60TAJITHEV
THE 3R.OKER. BUSINESS
IS HO JOKE,
FORTHAT YfAS MINE
LEFT, r
Art' NOW I'M
V
Sayres Defends Her
Idea Impossible, She Declares
1. 1 "
MWafl
isBBHBHBBBaBBB
MISS NANCY SAYKKS.
thinking. It she thinks at all and her
brain flutters lightly from bough to
bough, pecking at every known subject
and never understanding or grasping any
of them.
"That kind of clubwoman goes In, for
culturlne. Bhe Is most superficial and
hopeless of her itx.
"A woman like that would be Just us
bored to death In a cave, she would
flutter mentally without ever getting
anywhere, whether she happened to be
at h North pole or In a hotel tearoom,
surrounded by her friends. If her hus
band took her to a cava he would be the
most disappointed of mortals.
"Both In Mr. Bacon's story and In the
THE EVCITMEHT ON THE CUR.B
WAS INTENSE. SOME OP THE
BfEOKEfiS THfiEVH THEIfZ-
KELLVS INTO THE AIR AS
'EXPEfilENCED PfZEFERRED WEttT
UP THR.UNTY POUSTS, ALL.
LYES YYER.E 6L0E0 ON THE
FIN6ER.-GAQ 5PECIALI3T, WHEN
HIS DIGITS WER.ET SEEN TO
WRIGGLE INTO THE-YOR-DS,
'"DID YOU2, ANTELOPE
WITH YOUR UNCLE?"
AY1 ! " I F;Y6u' H A'D A LlTT L E
HOfcE SEH5E,. YOU M 1 6H1. AT
LEAST BE HALF-VSITTEd!'
LO.
mm good
pftHO
THAT BROKE
THE ,
BROKER,
BROKE.
YUH?
V
Clubs
Wells book, the women were really !n
love with their husbands and devoted to
tholr children.
"Whtre you have that combination,
cave life, or even country life, will make
a great change In the woman's health
and nerves, and consequently In her
mental vision.
"A woman never gets far from her
nervous system. She ntsnds or falls by
the health or abuse of that complicated
mechanism. But cave life or "country
life alone won't mak her healthy or
happy.
"The fanners' wives were emanci
pated from drudgery and unbapplness
and from loneliness as well by the Inven
Drawn for
f '
Housekeeping, Behind-Times Industry J
Selected by EDWIX MARKIIAM.
Dr. Woods Hutchinson, In "We and Our
Children." utters somu rather revolution
ary, but still complimentary views about
woman and her sphere. From the chap
ter on "The American Mother" I cull a
few paragraphs:
"The Increasing participation of women
In buslnpss affairs Is at bottom an at
tempt to make the street, tho mill the
counting house nnd the store as clean,
na healthful and as wholesome cnvlron-
j ments for boys and girls (und Incidentally
for women nnd men as wen as mo nome
now Is; and I can hardly conceive of
any lover of his klml and friend of help
ful progress falling to do otherwise than
sympathize with them heartily.
We haVe, to a disastrous degree, for
gotten our obligations to our children In
our attempts to build up Industries, to
carve out fortunes, to conquer the forces
of nature. The real end and aim of all
these trlumps Is the child himself, as the
emblem of the future of the race. Until
even our greatest cities aro wholesome,
happy places for children to grow up In
our civilization will be crippled, abnor
mal and a failure upon one of Its most
Important sides. And wo children of a
larger growth need this Intelligent, hu
mane consideration, and will profit Just
as much by It as our little ones would."
"The club-Jolnlng. committee-belonging,
movement-promoting mother of today is
simply endeavoring to organize and apply
tho greatest force known to humanity, tho
one great civilizing power co-operation
to the problem of extending her care, and
the care of humanity, over her children
from the first ten or twelvo years of their
lives In the homo to the equally Impor
tant ten or twelvo years when they are
beginning to get their real start In and
hold upon life,-
"if nnv nf the renulrements of business,
the sacred rights of property, or oven of
our most prccldus and nntlquoteu pouucui
instructions and traditions aro In the way,
so much the worse for them. If they
conflict with the spirit of the new move
ment they oight to be wiped out. and
mmv nf them should have been on gen
eral principles wiped out a generation or
more ago.
"Tho 'direct result In women of this
Increasing Interest In, public affairs Is e(i
to stimulate her Intelligence and to In
crease hf-r breadth of .view as to mali
her not le."s efficient In the care nr.u
management of her children and her
house, out lar nwro uinwiu,
"If there be ony problem In the world
i which Is In urgent need of the appllca
Ition of a little twentieth century Inte
lligence and point of view to It, it Is the
one of keeping house, in point of plan
'ning, or organization, of labor-saving do
'vices, yes,, even of sanitation. It Is fifty
years behind any other of the great pro.
'ductlve Industries of the day.
"Tho best we can do to remedy tlm
situation Is to let the women engaged in
'it get out of It long enough, nnd far
iiiniiKli. so that they can get a good view
of It from the outside. Instead of leaving
tion of the washing machine, the electric
churru) anil the telephone. Before that
tho solitude of their hard-working ex
istence ilrdve many of them to Insanity.
"Nobody knows how much the clubs
have done for country women, who have
every chanrc to become cave dwellers If
thev want t.
"Women's flubs, for the flrnt time In
history, 1 ave brought all classes of
women together, and have made them
foel that while there wus a brotherhood
of maji there Is such a thing as a sister-l-ood
f women ulso.
"It It hadn't been for tho women's
club. fie suffroKJ movement would
nevt.r have spread a It has; the women's
clubs prepnled the way, broadened
v omen's minds nnd got them Interested
li pomttMiig bfslde drefs.
"PctsJhly women's rlubs of a certain
hind- hnvo outlived their usefulness. Per
rorally. I thl;k they have, but It would
not tw right for us to dlsparogo all of
them, Just because a lot of foolish
wompn belonged to them
"If we had more health clubs where
the physical health of the club mem
bers wero Insisted on, the overworked
and neurasthenic clubwoman would die.
appe,r. But if the modern woman was
forced through adverse circumstances to
become a cave woman once more, it
would be a tremendous misfortune and
loss to civilization.
"Modern life may be too complex, but
the life of the cave woman was selfish,
for she centered her interest only on
herself and family, Women have taken
the misfortunes of others to heart, and
are trying to mother other children as
well ns their own. The women lnvestt
gators In th csnnlng factories and the
whole msvemcct which led to such In
vcitlgitlsr.a show that we cannot go
backward and detach ourselves from the
rest of mankind, even for the benefit of
our own particular health and for the
profit of one a mail family."
The Bee by Tad
:
I H C 11 III
1 r l it
i-rvi-
3Sw BY H.T
loop-
them swimming round and round and
round In It, like goldfish In a bowl, S65
days In a year, all their lives long. That
soit of Isolated, perpetual drowning In
petty details would dull the most brilliant
Intellect and kill the Initiative In any
body. "There is no better training for Intel
ligent, uanltary, efficient housekeeping
and home-making than a short business
or other public career before marriage.
Wo are doing everything in possibly can
to Incrcnso tho Intelligence and efficiency
of the workers Itx a" our ether great pro
ductive Industries mills, and factories,
and shops, and schools shortening the
hours, raising the wages. Improving sani
tary conditions and yet we throw up our
hands In horror at alt proposals to In
crease the Intelligence and the Individual
ity of the workers in our greatest most
vital nnd most profoundly Important pro
ductive Industry for fear It will 'mak;
them, loss efficient.
"The woman who has broadened ha
Intelligence, Increased tho horizon of both
her knowledgo and- her sympathy, de
veloped her individuality, her Judgment
and her self-reBpect, by that most whole
rorne and profitable form of nil educa
tions, earning, her own living nnd male
lng a ' success of It this woman Is n
much superior to the old-fashioned r"ule
of thumb, wash-day, baking-day, way-grandmother-used-to-do-lt
type of house
keeper as a stream engine Is to tho stage
coach.
"This Is, nut a mere glittering generality
based upon a priori reasoning. Ask any
doctor of twenty years' experience In ony
American-born community or class, and
he will tell you without hesitation, nine
times out of ten, that the best mothers,
the best-kept and most healthy homes
and the best trained and fed and cared
for children are in families where the
trother has either earned her own living
an a teacher, a clerk, a shop girl or In
telligent factory operator; or has had
either tho means or the determination to
specially develop her Intelligence and her
Individuality by, sny, a college course,
or some form of private study or Interest
or active work In philanthropic and tho
more intelligent social movements.
"Time and tlmo again I have heard
the expression from my colleagues: 'Now
that's a family It's a real pleasure to
practice medicine In; that mother Is al
most as good ns a trained nurse, and
better than a good many, because he
knows how to use her brains In an
emergency, Instead of being carried off
her feet by her emotions, or" stampeded
by her feelings.'
"There is no better mother anywhere
cn rarth, In my private opinion, formed
from a very extensive experience on both
sides of the Atlantic, nono within 20 per
cent as good ns the Intelligent, self
specting. Independent American mother
of today."
r
Family Doctor's Song
J
Dr. Charles I.. Dana, at tho anniversary
meeting of tho New York Academy of
Medicine, pronounced what may be fig
uratively termed a funeral oration on tho
general practitioner, of whom he spoke
as follows:
"Thero has been much said about the
disappearance of tho old-fashioned family
physician urid general practitioner. H
was a splendid figure and a useful person
In his way, but he was badly trained. He
was often Ignorant. He made many mis
takes, for one cannot by force of char
acter and geniality of person make a
diagnosis of appendicitis or recognize a
tumor of the brain. I think the old fam
ily doctor is going, and it Is a good rid
dance." i
Considering the time, place, and cir
cumstances, this -may be regarded as
an official "hall and farewell" by the
specialists to the mere doctor. But Is
It bo sure that a pub'.lc which has long
put Its trust In tho family physician
will accept his summary dismissal?
Stranger things have happened In tho
development of medical science than that
the methods of today should be dis
credited tomorrow, and It Is by no meaud
certain that a coming generation of pa
tients will rely more on specialists than
on doctors trained In the general princi
ples of medical practice.
The limitations of the "old family physi
cian" are admitted. But he knew tha
family history, and that knowledge may
bo thought to have compensated for lack
of familiarity with the newest drug from
a German laboratory or the latest deft
process in the use of the knife. The faith
his patients had In him was a curative
agency of no mean value. That faith
may have been partially lost, but it Is
premature to pronounce his obituary. For
the general physician who keeps abreast
of medical progress there Is sttlf a well
defined field of usefullnees equally witU
the specialist Austin (Tex.) Statetmon.