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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1913)
THK UFA'): OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MM Altt 2 "he ec jjri agazirys p)a f "An Old Offender" By Nell Brinkley Father and the Girl J Milk and Music 11)- EMtEHT 11UIIHARD. Copyright, ISIS, by Journnl-Aii.nrlcati-Kxnmlner. Ily WINIFRED UIjACK y What on earth la getting Into all oC the fathers? I get letters from all over the country telling how mean their fathers are about company at the house, and now here Is a letter from a mother who has the same story to tell. "I have three pretty daughters In my house. My husband Is a good man and takes earo of iik all. We have all the pretty clothes wo want, and go everywhere we like spend as much money as we choose but let one of my girls have a man come to see her and her father turns Into a perfect tiger for fury. lie paces the floor and almost, snarls every lime the poor young fellow speaks. I don't want my girls to be old maids but what shall I do with a man like that? What do you think Is the matter with him? 1b he craxy or what?" "PUZZLED MOTIIEH." No, my dear mother, he Isn't crazy; he Is Jealous, that's all. Just little, mean, suspicious, tyrannical, spying, suspecting, Jealous and he ought to be ashamed of himself. You ought to see that he is, too. Don't be a coward about It don't buy peace for yourself at the expense of your daughters' happiness have a plain talk with your husband don't wait till he has lashed himself into a fury' over somo harmless youth. Get him when he's rea sonable and calm and talk the whole thing out with him. Ask him what's the matter; see If he really wants his girls to be miserable t home; remind him of tho time when he, too, was 3.) years bid and liked to laugh and yes, even to flirt a little. Doesn't he trust his girls? "Doesn't ho think that you know enough to keep proper track of them? What doos he want them to do, shut themselves up in a convent? Don't scold, don't cry; Just usk ques tlons; a few calm, well chosen questions you want to know, you know. That's all; you Just want to know what ills plan Is, and how he Intends to carry it out, so that you can help In your poor, simple, affectionate, trusting way. You can't understand yet, but of course, he will explain, and then it will all be clear and reasonable. Tou know, of course, that there is nothing selfish or tyrannical about him at all on, no! You realize that he Is thinking of the girls and not of himself, or his own way. cr his own prejudices at all. You don't Just see, but when he tells you all about It you will be so relieved, and then see what he will eay. What can he say but the sane, sea sonable filing? and you can get him on lecord and act accordingly. Oh, yes It will take courage, but not half tho courage that it took you to walk from your father's home with him. Come; a woman who has brought up three girls must htvo suffered enough to learn self-control by this time. For get yourself, forget everything but those girls and their happiness. Don't let their father make them hato him for hate lilm they will, no matter how kind he has been, If he tries to make them over Into wooden dummies, with no lives of their own and no friends except the friends of his choosing. No, they can't do It, he can't do It. It's your affair. You'll have to manage it yourself. Have It out with him once and for all and then stand by what you say and stand calmly and with dignity. Don't fib to him, don't help those girls to deceive him, it won't do, 't won't do at all, they will deceive you, too, If you once begin that. Invito tho girl friends to the house and Invite them often. If father begins to grumble about being overrun with a flat full of young fools, laugh and go right on Inviting. Your house will be lonely nough, soon enough. If father doesn't know how to get his Joy out of tho Joy of other he'll have to learn, that's all or go without Joy most of the time. There's little Mary all shy laughter and soft allurlngs. What aro you going to ilo with, little Mari'? Hava her meeting men at other people's houses and getting talked about? Not If you are the rlgltt (tort of a mother. You'll have those men ut your own home and you'll know them, too, and If father Isn't crazy he'll want you to do It when you really talk It all over with him. There's Kate, tho athletic girl, the gay, the lively. What about Kate? Is she going to bo ashamed of hej own homo und' finally mako her own home aAhatnetl of her? Is that what you brought her Into tho world for? No, no! Not If you liavo to face a very tyrant to get Kate her rights. And Margery, so quiet, so silent, she Breathe Booth's Hyomei Kill the Loathsome Germs of Catarrh and Banish all Disgusting Symptoms Just as long as you have catarrh your nose will Itch, your breath will be foul, you will hawk and spit, and you will do other disgusting things because you can't help yourself. The germs of catarrh have you In their power; they are con tinually and persistently digging Into and irritating the mucus membrane of your nose and throat. They are now making your life miserable; In time they will lacerate the membrane and prove a fer tile field for the germs of Consumption and other microbes, Thero Is one sure remedy for catarrh and that Is Booths HYOMBI. Juit Wreathe It through tho Inhaler and use the vapor treatment at directed, a complete outfit Including Inhaler and bottle of HYOMEI Is $1.00 at druggists - erywhere Separate bottles of Booth's HYO.MKI f later needed CO cents. 'And since ray Lady Judge He's a little bit o' pink boy with an itch in his pink palm to be getting it about the free heart of some one all the time. And then he, meaning to be kind all' the time, as kiddles do when they try to hug a baby chicken to death, presses it so tight between his hands that that heart is never; quite the same again. blushes so easily, does Margery. Hava a care for Margery. Sho never needed you when she was little and helpless half so much as she needs you now, poor girl. Her feet are set on the very edge of tho swift stream that runs so close, so frightfully close, to our own very doors these days. Make Margery's home her haven and liavo Margery's friends there by tho dozen, and when the young fellow comes to ask for Margery, bo glad and make her father bo glad, too. It's your buslness-thls business of the girls, little mother; you can't escape It, you can't help the responsibility of It; you must bring father to his senses, and ho'll love you tho better for every time you win an honest battlo for the. plain human rights of your plain human daughters evon against him. Father isn't a brutal fiend. He's Just a man, that's all, Just a selfish, self centered, tyrannical man. It's your busi ness to show him the error of his ways and to do It with a heart full of love and gcntlo devotion, too, for the sake of the girls who are more than life to you and to him, too-when you come right down to It. Advice to Lovelorn. By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. ' Mothers Arc Usually nischt. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young girl and have been going nut for some time with a young man. I have never had him up to my house although I go out with him almost every Sunday. We recently went to a ball with an other young couple, my parents being there also. Now my parents say that it Is no more than proper for me and my friend to sit at the same table with them after each dance. Kindly advise whether my folk are right and whether It Is my place to ask the young man to do- so. alto Is It my placo to ask him to the house? BIANCA. It Is a good rule for a young girl to always let her mother decide. Sitting at the same table after a dance is not Important, but this Is: that you go out with a young man who has never been to your house, I do not like that! Certainly ask him to call. And If he re fuses don't go out with him till ho doei. Your company should bo worth the going after. It Wonlil ZSnt. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am In love with a lady two years tnv senior. As we ire both very young my parents do not think It right for us to keep company. Tim girl saye she loves me and says she will wait for me, I want to do what Is fair and square, so I would like to know If It would be right for me to expect her to give up the pleasures an older neraon would be able to give her now? T. F. Ixve has a way of making a Joy of sacrifice, and the girl may not consider It a deprivation of all that youth holds dear to give up other companionship and pleasures while walling for you. But It Is an Injustice, nevertheless, and I tin glad you are fair enough to realize it. Don't bind her by any promise. Go your way and let her go hers, and If you truly ! love your paths will meet vhen you have reached years of discretion. has taken up suffrage will she SHOULD "American Wives Are Too Self-Centered" By ADA I'ATTERSO.V. A scholar Is among us taking notes, a scholar, young and appealtngly pretty. She received tho degree of bachelor .f arts ftom tho Sorbonnu In Paris and from tho master of n,rts from Columbia university, winning the first when "ho was 18 years old. She Is Catherine D. Grath, a protegee of Maurice Matterllnck and his wife, Georgette I.o Blanc. Of a distinguished Norwegian family she was educated in Paris and pays us occasional visits. Sho I a convincing example of tho charm of cosmopolitanism. Ixive, she believes Is the most Inter esting theme In the world and granting that, wo talked of tho attitude of tho women of America and those of Europe toward the most Interesting theme in the world. "Women don't look at men In the samu way in the two continents," remarked the gifted young Norwegian, who can speak six languages. "Thero Is no adoration In the glance of the American woman. I have heard many European men speak of this. They don't look at us In the same way the women of Kurope do,' they complain 'They look at us In ihe same way a man does.' " "Should there be any difference?" I asked. "The European man thinks so, de cidedly," was the answer, "and the European woman does, too. The look from the eyes reflect whut Is In the heart and tho European woman's heart Is a shrine for man. Hit- worships him as a hero one moment and pets and pities lilin the nqxt. Women don't seem ' to pet mon much in this country. .So ifar as I have observed, they don't pity' them at all. I have never seen In Amer- ' lea any signs that women regard men 1 as demigods for their worship. I would ' sum up the difference by saying that In Europe women ;hink man Is th- center of tho universe. In America they think women are in the center of the uni verse. ' "You claim to be better comrades of , men than we of Europo are." said Miss t Grath, "but I dispute that." , "Why?" "Because the women don't cat what the mon do and the men don't like It. You smile, but I am most serious about It. I come back from the other side and I see a man and woman dining to gether. He eats roast beef and potatoes. She eats salad. Really, It seems to me that American women seem to live on salads and Ice croam. Of course, men and women will grow apart when they don't cat the same things. The same food, tho same thoughts, you know." "Do European women eat to please the men?" I asked. I "They do," was the answer. "When n dine or lunch with an American he - 1 1, - Ssssss I be "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" now mat iney are so very clever .' ' 1 So evory littlo while ho's up aforo the judgo on tho charge of "Cruelty." Ho'b au old offender, and since my lady Judge has taken up auffrngo and gone out into the world to broaden her mind will she ho "La llelle Damo Sans Mercl" to tho "Old Offender"? Can he play upon hor heart with pltooua, dewy eyes, and wot, red mouth, and u crystal tear a-shaklng on his WOMEN EAT TO PLEASE MEN? BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBIBCBsIBBbBBBBBSBIBCHBB BBBBBBBBBBSBBBBBBBBSBBBBBSBi I MkHBiBK9?2iu' BBBBftSBsHsSItSSslBfl sssssssssSlWslsBBssw MIS rA'I'HKUI.S'H Invariably says, "Thank haavena, you nut real food!" "So, unites we share their mutton chops we must loso tho affrrtioii of our men to European women?' to this 'Old Offender'? and chin, hb ho 1ub always upon the tender hearts of old fashionud mads? Will the Jury be as kind to him, now that they are ho very clever? Ho certainly Is nlwuys deep in crime, this little boy, thiH old man, this angel but oiio'b hoart almost melts away like butter when ho pleads his caso! N13LL BRINKLEY. ! OIUTH "Well," said Mils Ulatfe, "there la a probability that you win be made Jealous by their flirtations with the women of Europe who try to please them. You do not tty," will the jury be as kind to him FROM DESKS TO BENCHES Projected Cliimur In Srntlnir rangrniriit lit llnnae of Itep rrarntntlvea. Ar- It Is taking the house of representa tives a long while to provide Itself with u shell that will fit It more comfortably than the present chamber, flovaral years ago a commission was appointed to re arrnngo and reconstruct the hall, The changes desired were a reduction of Isu mid better ventilation tlm hall Is big enough to house a national conven tion, mak'ng debate possible only to orators with leather lungs, The diffi culty Is Increased by the constant slam ming of desk lids and the bad air the members arc compelled to breathe. As each member has an office where hi nnd his clerk ran do nil their writing and other office work, lie does not need a desk und revolving rhalr In the hall, This furniture would have had to he removed It the chamber had been made smaller; but tho members are conaerva tlvo In tljelr habits. JCveiy city council room and every state assembly chamber lias desks, nnd congressmen seem to Imagine that the business of legislation cannot proceed without thcni. Tho commission to rearrange and re coiiHtruct has dilly-dallied with Its Job, It Is true tliut since Its appointment there havo been two speclul sessions, nnd the sittings of congress have been almost continuous for two years; and the Interval between the adjournment of the present congress and the humid blage of tho new one will probably b only a few days. These conditions have rrz SLEEP. DISTURBING BLADDER WEAKNESS BACKACHE-RHEUMATISM, QUICKLY VANISH Even .Mom Chronic Sufferer Kind Jtcllcf After a Few Dose Are Taken. Backache, urinary disorders, and rheu mutism, are caused from weak. Inactive kidneys, which fall to filter out the 1m nutltles and keep the blood pure, and tlm only way on earth to permanently and positively cure such troubles, is to re move the cause. The new discovery. Croxone, cures such conditions because It reaches the very roots of the disease. It soaks right Into tho stopped up. Inactive kidneys, through tho walls and linings; cleans out the lit tle filtering cells and glands; neutralises and dissolves the poisonous urlo acid sub stances that lodge In the Joints and niua elf) to scratch and Irritate and causo rheumatism; it neutralises the urine so It no longer Irritates the tender mem branes of the bladder and cleans out and strengthens the stopped up, lifeless kid neya so they filter and sift all the pois Copy tight. 'M. International News SerWce I am h ery original Individual. That n to say, whet ever I find original Ideas and thoughts t appropriate them and glc thcni lo the world. Now. hetn Is what 1 saw in Oklahoma Clt the other day. But wait a min ute! n All Bitlnv snys. Some people In tho effete and ilronmy east think that Oklahoma City Is awuy off In tho Philippines, at least near Hono lulu, which they think is not (nr rrom New Zea land, sny up a-ound Seattle and Van couver, cities which me In the vlclnltj of Halifax. Oklahoma City Is In tho state of Oklahoma. And Ok lahoma City Is one of the most beautiful cities In the world. It Is pretty nearly Spotless Town. It was built by engineers, architects nnd artists, right from tho start. There was nothing to be ashamed of and little to tear down. Wo have been told that a fire does a lot of good for the average town; that U to say. when a town get a good scorch ing, It starts In and builds up better than It ever has before. This cannot be said of Oklahoma. It was built well from the start. Big business had a deal to do with building Oklahoma. Pavements, electric lights, sewerage, water, ampio strcev ii facilities all sprang Into being "hot off the bat." as Marqunrd, the great soloist might tay. 'When tho people In Oklohamo do things, they do them well. So here, then. Is one of tho things that T saw in Oklahoma. At the end of the. street car line, five miles from the city, was a beautiful little park and play ground, where the band plays Wednes days and Saturdays. The park was there with the depreda tory Intent of luring the people out from tho city and thus getting the consequent nickel for carfare. In many elites there are bean gardens out In the suburb, but hero at the end of this car line there Is a model dairy farm-a beautiful struoturo of concrete atcel and glass. And in this dairy barn there are ninety cows. These cows were milked in the mornlnn and In the afternoon by young men In spotless while. Then the milk was strained, atorlllrcd and bottled right be fore your eyes by beautiful Oklahoma girls, some of whom came from dermany Ireland and Scandinavia. Anyway, the were beautiful, hearty, hM'tny girls. Thun there was a neat little dairy lunch room, where you bought sweet milk or buttermilk and crackers, pie. and such. Everybody who goes to Oklahoma City Is taken out to see the Model dairy. It Is a trip you cannot afford to miss, and fdl of the milk of the ninety rows Is used, sold nnd oonsumed right on the premises It Is a paying venture., Very little of the milk consumed In America Is certi fied; that Is to say, It Is produced In very unsanitary surroundings. But here 1 a. lesson In scientific dairying. If one concern In a medium alse city can make a auccess of a model dairy, why can't the same thing be dona every where In the east, west, north and south? I say, "Yes." Milk Is man's natural food, and every mother In Oklahoma has taken her children out to the model dairy. It Is an education for the youngsters to see the cows and to know how they are cared for, and to see how milk Is handled when It Is handled In the right way. By selling the milk out by the glan It averages a return of 23 cents a quart And I noticed that many people bought bottles of milk and carried them home with them. Hern was a business lifted to the plan of a fins art and an Incidental education for youngster nnd grown-up thrown In fl a premium. been responsible in part for the non action of the commission; the contem plated changes could' not be made In less than two of three months. Neverthe less, the Iti'rtla of the members contrib uted to the delay. Even now, when th Increased membership of the new house has made an alteration of thn seating arrangements lm,peratlY. thft members have consented to the neqes ssry change w'th reluctance. It la pro nosed to remove the desks and revolving chairs and substitute benches, as In the House of Commons; but the new ar rangement Is to b merely "temporary and experimental." The representatives are not quite sure that "tho house could do business permanently without desks."' Philadelphia Record. ons from the blood, and drive it out of the system, Bo aure, so positive, so quick and l&al lug are the results obtained from the ute of Croxont. that three doses a day for a few days are often all that la required to cure the worst case of backache, regu late the moat annoying bladder disorders, and overcome the numerous other similar conditions. It is. the most wonderful preparation ever made for the purpose. It ia entirely different from all other remedies. There Is nothing else on earth to compare with it. It Is so prepared that it Is practically impossible to take Into the human sys tem without results. You can obtain an original package o( Croxone at trifling cost from any first, clasa drug stove. All druggists are auth orized to personally return the purchase price If Croxone falls to gve desired re sults, regardless of how long you hare suffered, or what else haa failed, to cure you. Advertisement.