TI1K UUK: UMAHA. SATlMiDAY, JAXt'AKV 1s. I'U.i
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Vegetable People
' Uy WINIKKKI) BLACK,
I Ir- hrouKht ini a bunch of violets the
Kncllsh boy who Is visiting in great
'irnle, fragrsut violets, ncav
with
iw and as sweet us thp mrmor of one
we loved In earlv
Violets. sweet
)eet violet, and.
i lie whole s-ticpt
wh! full of puta
ri es ahd cabbages
snd lieets and tur
Irps. and thing
I hat he might have
hoiiRht. I'm clad
he didn't do It
Violets! i-ome-tttueH
I am In dan
ger ot forgetting"
that thern are
such things. I look
at onions and car
rots and potatoes
youth
nnd think what's
for ' 'dinner tilt I don't even remember
that s'imewliere down In the brown I
earth the flowers are asleep, waitlnc
ior'-'Sprlng' to call them from their deep
bfds.'I hs-te that, don't you'' 1 don't be
lieve that It pays
-".'. . -
people-vegetable people-I
ks of anvthlmr that Isn't
S VTTr or
liKilow many
thai .never think
useful something
wear. Poor things, poor things; what a
lot tficy missed, don't tbev?
.-"L..never read novels," said a cros old
woman to me tho other day. "I haven't
time to waste." and she pursed up her
dlsagreeablo mouth and looked virtu-
ously at me out or the corners ot her
t.ulf-righteous eyes as If she were proud
Of what "'she hnd Just said.
"N'ever .read novels!" What a life
what a life! Shut up In the little, nar
row, dark room of her own experience
when all those beautiful doors are open
wide to her if ohe'd only turn tho
handle of them by opening the book
case at the right tlme
, Aro you tired? Come, let's wander far
Afield with Burroughs and sit under a
shady maple on the edge of the green
woods nnd wonder with him If It Is
'colnpr to rain. ,
Mo you bored? There's Mark Tapley
right there at the first turning to tho i
right, down by the book of red fairy
tales. He'll cheer you up. -
Is life a wearisome round of "musts"
and "ought tos?" Come, let's go Into
Wonderland with Alice; the White Itab
1)H Is such entertaining company
1 like to spend an afternoon with the
princess and her maids once In a while,
don't you? What princess? Oh, any of
them, so long ns she has fair hair nnd
roBV cheeks and u lace frock shot with
silver and a crown of sparkling gems
and a poor swineherd for a sweotheart. ;
AVhat food she eats, the princess in
the red hook ambrosia and honey'
fiow all tho fountains where she sits
with her maidens fair sparkle and
'gleam!'" What enchanting-roses, bloom
for hec .what dojleltttul -sonc?. this birds
In tho rose tree sing! Qh, but a princess
is lovely company for a dull day!
' roor'woman. so you never read novels?
I suppose you'd think me crazy If you
'saw me poring over Aladdin and his
.untifinrf lit Initio and wishing I had a
Jamp Just l.'lU that one In tho story, j
wouldn t you..
' Violets, not for you; what good are
thev. nrav tell? Just imprisoned sun
shine, living dew anil air and fragrance.
Just the smilo of the ureal uiver m u
flood.
A loiter from an old friend of, mine will
gladden my heart for hours. I suppose
my practical friend who "never reads''
wouldn't even stop to open the envelope,
unless she thought that there was some
thing In It about money and how to
get It.
A Bmtlo from a rosy baby! Why Its
jiorth walking blocks to get on a dull,
cloudy morning. There's no money In
itv though, bo It doesn't amount to much
In some eyes.
Hark! What Is that? It sounds like
bells, silver bells chiming In tho moon
light under tho Jasmine flowers. Popf
Wan that a yellow primrose opening by
Ihe light of tho stars? All tho Ilttlo four
o'clocks are fast asleep, but you can tell
where they sit along tho edge of tho
path by the perfume of them.
Ah, thero are the tiger lilies, tall and
atiary. close to the flowery flox. AVhat
n. pretty plug row that Is! You can tell
It oven by starlight. "Rlng-tintf, I wish
tlfiit- I was primrose, a pretty yellow
primrose, a-blowlng In the sun."
What a sweet chime, that was! How
it makes tho stupid city streets over
Tong-tlng-ting-tlng. Why. It's nothing
but a little boy striking two bits of glass
together. Sec hoyv ho laughs to hear the
rlntr!
Chime, chime. Jingle. Jingle, ring, ting,
tlhg. Now he Bhuts his laughing eyes
Ah, Yes! That Happy Home
cone cn,eo.u
m c,oh, Hone'
IF XOU HAD A
MICE HOME LIKE
MINE TOO
WOOLOrt'T BE.
HAn5iN5
AROUND
THE CUUB
or pool1
V it II -'re SET MARttmrt V v 1 . " tuc . .. 'r nt l
- , ii r- I K i rune -rou I :."'? s i I i i i nc waters i ., v i i - ea
T Cd vrxiLWr SETTLC Y ' ' FR07 ik, I nu! ' E1 1
II I r " I X . I I nmju 1 1 m i i " ' 11 I I I v y i j 1 i i
1 Vttf? AROUND 1 1 ' I THtrtK fSABY Y 9 Ji J f
and Flower Talk
J
land blows out Ills rosy checks, like one
j wn" blows bubbles. Hltue. ting, chlnie.
I ehlme. Ho iun t stnnd rtlll for the Joy
of It.
Throw It away. Ilttlo boy. throw It
ewav. and b 11 your prettv dreams with
it. It s nothing hut a hit of broken glass
and wouldn't iotrh even one penny In th'
market
Vliats'. uu won t1.' You love the chimes
and the rhymes anil the faraway ellshr
le'asii ot it? Ynu like It better than the
IjitiKle of pennies Mn a Hank? What a
'stupid little Imiv! Why, you'll never be a
1 man a rcni man If you keep on Ilk-.'
this
You !o music and books, and flowers.
. i0 urliKiit. and thn soft sparkle of
t'H- -tars and you'll lovo to live. Just to
'le as ,i hoalthv child loves It. and
when von die those ttiat you leave be
I hind w ill cry bitterly. Hut they will find
; uothluK :n the chests but sunshine and
I sweet memories. What n disappoint-
mint:
No. no, little boy. this will never, never
'Io- You must be "practical." You must
'""' "innej -nun mint anil bonds and bar
gains and lehts.
Violets, nirpurple and sWeet with dew.
I'm glad the Kugllsh boy brought them
' of buying some potato
for t0,nrrw '"nncr. Hut then 1 am
.. .o n.tle boy with the
e-hlnilnjc glnss verv
Initnactlcal and I
don't get much out nf life but tho mere
Joy of lMng. It Is terrible to be made
so, Isn't It?
Daily Fashions
By LA RACONTKUSB.
Very rich nnd elegant evening gown of
ruby velvet and Bohemian laee. The
chief part of tho -gown happily mixes
tho old princess gown nnd tho pannier
effect. Tho front Is cut on tho bias and
the velvet forms a short over-lapping
skirt which crosses In front and dips
down In back where tho drapery is Caught
by a band of skunks which also out
lines the front. Tho bo,1lco front and
back Is ot silk muslin of the samo color,
covered by an cinplccement of Uohemlan
lace, slightly blduslng and gathered at
the walstllno by a girdle of draped vel
vet, fastened by a round buckle, of strasB
with long ends. Tho einplecehient falls
Very low under tho skirt hiding tho drap
ery. T
Po6t AM
HU OU$HT TO
ET MARRIED
AMD 'SCTTLC
I A 1 .7)l . . POCft -SAM V 1
''2ou "ADA rieoosHTTo K JA wifbS.whats
Follow Instructions of Gaby Deslys
Become a Rival of That Famous
P.) (JAHY DKSLYS.
Hire 1 am once again writing to miii
about beauty.
I should hesitate tu do so if It were
not a subset aoout which eej wo.v.un
Is keenly Interested, and which alto oc
cupies the mind of man a good deal of
the time.
I am willing to wrlle about bea aj to
i-'vulge those secrets which have helped
me gain my reputation for good looks,
and when 1 spenk about-my own looks,
understand that 1 do It In the most tm.
personal way.
To bo beautiful, at least-to be a.s beau
tiful as I can be. Is a matter of the ut
,mot Importance to me because ;t helps
me In my work. My looks first attracted
the attention of, the public toward me
and It was due to suoh looks as t had
that 1 gained the approbation of the
critics.
' "
! Inle,,t '" , ' nrl"
j w
I am above all else u business woman
rnlng a eertaln sum of -
111 secure nic complete
" i . . . . . . . .. i
Iniiepenoepco irom naru worn wnen iu
I tim,,r nrrlve when 1 shall be no longer j
-x ouK- uret'iy and full o,f health and vl
tality, ami- no longer have the good
fortuno to please the public.
There Is a great difference between tho
attitude of he so-called professional
beauty and the beautiful woman In tho
ordinary and more sheltered walks of J
life toward this question of beauty
T once heard th- most beautiful actiess
in America say that her reputation for
! beauty was a sort of Iron ball lo which
I she was always chained, and which mado
J her a. slave. "If I should be seen In pub
i He. oven puce, with my hair badly un
, dulated and a shiny nose, it would cost
"j ine an enormous amount or money, be
euue people would say: 'Dear me. how
she's gone off In looks." and that would
' affect the box office, which in turn would
I affect my .salary."
I So this very Intelligent woman who
I often would have preferred to spend her
' time In other ways, who would like to I
1 have kept up with all that wns best In
modern literature, who was imnicnseij
! philanthropic and would have liked to
give some attention to charitable work
spends almost nil her life taking care nf
her beauty and sho admits that It Is
drudgery pure and simple.
; If she were not a beauty and did not
devote, most ot her attention to her looks,
however, she could not earn the largo
sums of money which she gives to charity.
j nor would she bo able to help young and
Uruggllng artists and writers.
Hcntity is a business asset, but tho
llfo of the professional beauty Is not tho
gay butterfly existence It jlfl pictured to
be, but one o'f pnlnstakfiig-, Hysten?ntlc
rare, which necessitates abstaining fi-om
most of the thlnas one would like to eat,
not doing most of i the things one would
like to do.
for there l! no elixir of youth, no
fountain of beauty. They are the result
re the result
! care of the
y, provldfng.
of Intelligent and systematic
bod) . nnd tho modem beauty
of course, she has some foundation of
good looks to start with, studies the mat
ter scientifically and becomes beautiful
by dint of hard work.
In France we say: "You must suffer
to bo beautiful." That was because In
olden times women did so many ridicu
lous and barbarous things to enhance
their complexion. They put clothes pins
on their nosii., and compresses of raw
beef over their faces which could have
been anything but pleasant.
Today the proverb could l(n changed
you must work to be beautiful.
I have been reading a great deal about
eugenics lately In the dally papers. I
take It that this means tho production of
a perfect race,, governed by all the known
laws of health and hygiene. Kugonlc
babies ought to grow up Into beautiful
men and women, for beauty gets Its real
start In babyhood.
Of course, I know that many famous
beauties have come from the most
wretched and even squalid beginnings.
Still, as a general rule, the child whose
advent was longed for, whose babyhood
was carefully watched and guarded over
by love and affection and whoso early
training was Intelligent and even scienti
fic, 1ms the best chance to grow up to
happy and healthy maturity.
Happiness Is the dancing partner of
beauty. They can hardly be dissociated;
where you have a happy child you gener
ally luive a pretty one. But the little girl
who is gloomy and sad ,1s Involuntarily
Copyright,
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THE OOTCHER
VA4!) JUiT HERE
WITH Hit HILL.
THE NVATER'i
WIFtX! WHAT5
UP'
1
lleauty Is u business atcet, but tho
gay butterfly cxlxtcuco It Is pictured
casting her feutilres Into a look of settled
melancholy or discontent. Neither of
these Is beautiful.
Ko If we nre to start out with the
secrets of beauty, let us begin at the very
beginning with a happy childhood.
It Is said that the women of the hard
laboring classes age prcmatutoly. Nat
urally, they must, for long beforo they
have reached an ngo where tho norma 1
child could understand about sorlous
things, like work and responsibility, t hoy
have taken their load of tho family bur
den and are already hard at work plod
ding and tolling to support their meagiD
home.
A long, slow and very gradual develop
ment, both of tho physical and mental,
are needed to store up vitality and health
which will be used to make tho future
beuuty.
In the meantime there are all kinds
of sports mid nxerches to dovclop the'
Ilttlo body and bring It to Its highest point
of perfection.
If a child Is not properly formed almost
any Imperfection can bo overcome If
taken youne enough and systematically
worked at.
Kyes that are crossed can bo made nor
mal; nnd we havo In France, Just as I am
sure you have here, many schools where
gymnastics are taught for children under
the supervision of u doctor, who exam
ines the children carefully and plves thorn
tho exercises needed to correct whatever
Imperfections they may have.
Don't forget that the foundation 'of
beauty Is laid before one Is 10 years old,
and see that you aro not neglecting the
1113, Imcrnitloml Nrws Btrvlie.
DOtM'T BURN
MCHT THE COAL.
iTr aeOT& nt
HA MO COAL!
eauty
life of a I'rofenMloiuil beiuitj Is not tho
child that is In your cure, and who will
never fnrglvo you If sha has bean denied
her Bhato of health and good looks.
BOBBIE BURNS
J
11 Wll.MA'M F. KIUK.
When the sky iieems lower, somehow,
closing down to shut me In.
Closing down to roof a prison full of
sorrows and of sin.
There's a book I always worship, as a
mother loves her own.
And I con Its pages over when I have It
all alone.
For th" heait that's full of sunshine or
the stricken heart that yearns
AVhat a mine of priceless jmKKi'tH nre the
songH of nobble Hums!
Countlefrs lips with grief have straight
ened, couutlesN lips with mirth Imvo
rill led.
Hlneo the coming and the going of the
Plowboy of the, Win Id;
Hut the lines he fashioned lightly hold a
deep iiiul deathless spell
O'er tho mot tills who are groping through
the world ho knew so well
Just a bonnlo boy who waibled of his
Heottlsh hills and lakes,
He was worshiped for his genius; he
was loved for his mistakes.
How Hypocrisy was riddled by the shod
he fired so. well!
How ho sung his songs of Heaven while
ho laughed at threats of Hell!
I.lttle babies could command him. but no
mouureh hud control
Of his wounih-iuis brain and manhood, or
hi stormy, troubled soul.
Hometltnes strays my fickle fun.-v, l 1 1
forever It returns
To a little hatlored volume Just the
songs of Hobble liurns.
Drawn for
I ' J ' L
I NCCD A
NEW HAT
JlMMI
THAT'LL
DO! THAT'LL
DO!
jinn-,
,
The Ideal Mau of Today
Ily Uliia WIICKI.KIt WIU'OX.
So much Is mm ntiimt the new woman
and so Utile alxiiit the new innn. vet man
i. a er. dlff. lent PoIhk Civmh the on.
who USrd to dmil nate the ui il It
w.miuI lie lmHKlli- iiula it.tr t ih
i H'tiltC Will III u Mil
ii ;rent mix el n
i, i at p -em on wai
"ill! such hem,
a -.'Ilile lustOM
II the iI.ivh
A 1 o X H n r l In
. l eal, ill I rtrn i
Napoleon
'llie taste ii,
t 'l'. s U . ll -.1
in aiise th. n. .,
I ' Mines lui v
Ii II 11 U e ,1 I-., n
tellers in tn r 1 1
f I- 0 ill lie
Fl ('M't'S tu i l . ,1 .1
I I till II. -ll ft . Ill
ir-seel.lug ll I 111
t ii It t n'stli r-tidtui , i s
It would Knuliv hii en' i , lopedin l -niiMie
ami de.erllie all the noble, splendid
o. ' Irish people anil orgitnlKiittnn w',il. :i
an doing successful work for the pies
t dn and the generations to eomn
Th. People's club, an outgrowth or the
no' l. I'ooper Tnlon. the night selumls
si altered all over our great cities, the
in .slenl schools Mr the pour, the "Heir
MiHiery" colony In N'ow Jersey and In
(hb-HHo hii, slmiinr Institution else
where for men nnd women who ha
stumbled In the diirkneas and nre tr.vluq
j walk the straight mail; the co-opern-tlx-
associations, which nro growing In
l 'linber and power; the Joseph Fels Fund
association, which Is doing magliilflcent
work for single tax both here and In
Kurope; tho Salvation Army and the
Young Men's Christian Association or-gHiilziitlons-nll
these Institutions and n
thousand more are governed ami upheld
by men of bra'n. education, power, place
and Influence, nnd each and every one
Is doing his best to make life easier and
sweeter for his fellows
Suoh men and such Ideals of manhood
v o Hire Indeed In the time of the
Alexanders and Caesar and the Na
poleons. It must soein encouraging to the thought
ful mind when wo consider hoK much
more universal the spirit of kliidlless has
bocoino in the world In a hundred or two
years.
Oesplto our unfortunate condition today,
there was never so much universal Intelll
genco on enrth before, and never so innnv
people thinking nlong progressive lines.
Thcio was never before so strong i
sentiment of kindness toward weaker
things of earth.
Imaglnu n society for prevention of
crtiolty to children, or for redressing- th
wiongs of animal In tho days of Na
poleon! Hvcn nt Ho recent a pet lor as Hint
patents were supposed to be Individual
muiiaruhs over their children, no matter
how (hey misused or neglected them. A
I priest might Interfere, with ndvlee, or a
child ho brought Into a convent for succor
through his Intervention, but there was no
organized lawful protection for unfortu
nates. And an animal might bo turturcd by a
fiend in human form arid no one could
Interfere unless ho chose to come to a
personal hnud-tn-hand coubut.
Therefore brute foroo was a necessary
element lit the education of every young
man who wanted to help right and de
fend ueakness. Hut the age of humatil
tarlanlam has dawned. It Is stilt dawn
hut the sun Is mounting tho heavens with
slow certainty, and casting Into shadow
4 he old Idea tht physlcl prowess means
muiillness.
Abraham Lincoln Is jiot famed as n
killed slayer v' deer or ns a pugilist. He
might have failed utterly as a butcher
of men or beasts, nut ho was a great
statcimnn. a great ruler, a great man.
Admlial Dewey was a great war hero,
but wo honor him more today for his
bloodless victories than for an ability to
slaughter his enemies like an old-time
lctor.
No man today stands forth as truly
gieat who does not includo mercy and
liiiin'anltarlanlBin nmong his virtues.
During tho next hundred years brain
and heart will be the most Important
iualltles In leaders and rulers.
Muscle and physical courage will havo
to lake second place. No man can have
complete use of his mental powers, no
matter how raio they may be. unless he
Is well and full of vitality.
Hut health and force do not necessarily
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the Bee by Tom McNamara
." 1 1' i i i i i
THAT
WHAT
WILL DO,
3,
1
I SAY!
I
Include the use of the gun. or the worl
or oven fists.
Manv a splendid fellow endowed with
i ho strength of a oting Olympian god
Ims no inste for shooting or boxing.
dm, I health, good habit?, n love of
iintm, ,i lovo of humanity, and a tnitiil
fined with hlclt Ideals of helpfulness to
lii-mu m t . a brain alert to und"! stand
the woild's needs these are attributes of
the n. w man.
Ho uinv not write oimys on the nest
wax to slaughter wild animals, but h
ulll l. now how to slay the wild beasts or
pelf hness and lust, slid greed In li s
owe nature and how to deal with them
ll "thru
llowei war may lie inglni; upon the
earth toda. yet the dav of the war Item
1.1 0e l
Mumn.ilt.x culls for a higher type, an 1
it is coinlnc.
Wlictievei the wolltl ileimiuds a new'
. n'er of hero, hi- arrives.
i:en now he is on tlir way the man
t,. be'
ml he will nol ho n "mollvcoddle "' it
"Ht-iloi. oi n hunter but a thinker a
statesman, and n humutiltarlnn, In the
hngest sense of those wotd.
Here in I his new world he will bn
born and bred, the giiindet type of stei
IIiik man tho woild has yet seen.
The wot Id Is Just beginning to know
thill thought Is the most wonderful foic
In the uulveise. It Is greater than dyna
mite, or gunpowder, ur electricity. Th.
matt to bo will understand the limitless
puwer of lightly dliected thought, and h
will not need to ho a pugilist or a huntT
to coiKiupf or attoln.
Just as the old monsters of land and
n parsed away front the earth, so will
tho soldier and the hunter pass and give
Ware to better types.
For nliuvo the ind woild sobblnr,
And the strife of elan with clan,
I fan hear the mlghtv throbbing
Of the heart of liod In man.
A lid a voire chants throned the chiming
Of the bellb and seem to say
Wp are climbing, we nro climbing.
A wo circle on otir way.
Copyilght,. lll:i by the Star Company,
Advice to Lovelorn.
Hy HKATHICK FAIIUWX.
Wrllc lllni.
Dear Miss Fairfnx- I am In love with
a, young man a few yours my senior, and
I know my love Is returned. A few days
ago wo were talking about other people,
and I said u great ninny things t know
he did not like to hear come from my lips.
1 deeply regret ihoni. us I am ,i very
decent girl, and wont him to think so,
too, Would you advise mo to telephone
to him and explain, nnd aslt his for
(liveliness? I-'OUUKT-MK-NOT.
It would bo better tasto to write a Ilttlo
note saying you regret what you said.
Don't make it ns penitent as If life de
pended on his forglveuness, nnd don't.
1 beg, be so reckless with words In the
future. "
Ask llrr.
Dear Mli Fairfax: I am a young mnli
of 17 and have known a girl eight months
my senior ror a year and, n half. I curU
a gond deal for her, and am sure sh'"
knows It, for I have shown It In every
way. How can I find out If she cares
for ino? A. M
If you must know tho state of hw
heai t, ask her. Ilut think, first: Am
'you not too young to be speculating Ih
hearts? Tho question you would ask
tho girl W eiiulvalent to a proposal of
marriage, You' uro too young for that
Walt until you ore old enough to know
your own mind, nnd In position to sup
port two.
, Don't Npenk to Hint Aunln.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 16 years af
age. hast summer I met a man six year
my senior whom I-havo learned to love
dearly, and know that my love Is reclpro!
cated. My father was opposed to hliti,
and Insulted him, which he took like K
man, and I was forbidden to speak U
him. I hail not spoken to him for about
three weeks, and one duy I met him
Breaking my Lather's command, I spoke
to him. nnd four wn loved each othea
drurly. I speak to a number ot other
men, but I find that 1 couldn't love any
as I love hlin. TnUPTFC't.,
You are only 10, and your father know;
better than you know who Is the best
company for you. Don't speak to thp
man n Kill n ; mako no attempts to so
htm nnd don't deceive your father or
disobey him again,
.ot n Urent Issue.
Dear Miss Fairfax: Is It a young man's
Waco, when In church, to put In a colM
lion for tho young lady, or Is it her pln
to put In her own? FANNY.j
It' the young man puts In the collcctkm
for the girl. It shows u spirit of gallantry,
but It is not sho who docs the giving if
her conscience tells her to give to tHe
church, her escort cannot relieve her coij
sclenco of that duty.
A NAM MAHED
liILL tAIO HE'D
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ovEr!
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