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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1913)
4 TllK MM: OMAHA, WID.U . .1 ANl AUV 21, VMX i jhe ee'g lTn.e jf af a z, i re p)a We Repeat-It Was Worth It Drawn for The Bee by J. Swinnerton I'oi'vtmt't. 191.. st u t'oinpam e T" The World's Dorothy Dix Says He is the Women Are Without By DOROTHY DIX. Some years ago there was a spirited dlecusslon in tbo papers ns to what type of matt was entitled to receive the medal for the meanest man. If I had the award ing of tlio prize I think I should glvo it to the man whose - attentions to u ' woman are without Intentions. The man who will de liberately win a girl's heart, in tending to throw It away when ho Is tired of playing with it, and who will let a woman waste the best ytars of her lite on him and then desert her for n younger and fairer face when she gets tl.o patient, waiting look that such women have In their eyes. Theso tragedies aro- all too common and a .young woman has Just been telling' .mo a piteous little story In which ono of these champion mon Is the hero or the Villain, to speak by the 'd. When thls'oung . woman was .a 'blqomlng girl' , of 2a she became acquainted with a man who paid her assiduous attentions, and made ardent love to her. though he al ways, stopped, as sho now recalls, Just short of popping the question. Tho girl; however, was not' ready to .marry, as she was the support of parents :l,to whom sho was devote.d. So sho and th nian fell into a pleasant arrangement that sho considered an engagement. He monopolized her time, and thoughts, and affections. Ho camped on her parlor chairs, nnd ate her good dinners, and r was as iniiqh at homo In nor house as , her own family almost, nnd It never oc ;'; curred to her that Jio was not as anxious Jto marry her as she was to marry him, Finally, after twelve years of this senti mental state, fate was kind to the womnn. i A small Inheritance came to her parents! po that they were no longer dependent , mi her, and she felt that she could leavs j -thyrn, and go with a clear conscience to lllto own'-home". ' Trembling with eagerness and the Joy ful news she had to Impart she rushed to the nn and told him that their long watting was over, and that they could be married at last. And the man replied that he wasn't a marrying man, and had never had the slightest Intentions of slip ping his head In the matrimonial noose. The woman Is, heartbroken. Tho man lias been the center of her life so long thut she cannot tear him out of it. and she asks pitifully what she shall do. 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The complete ntl'it which Inrlude Inhaler tosts Jl CO. 4 in bi'.ithe it liu H maclr dosing loi 'al-irr' .onsl" ''- iiil'i sore t, .iat h , ,il ni-t . i in, .i . ., i, AUvi il.gr Mint i ESS Meanest Man One Whose Attentions to Serious Intention. Of course there Is Just one thing that a woman with any self-respect can do under such circumstances, and that Is to take n broom and sweep such trash, out of her house. There are many contemptible men In the world, hut the man who Is u welchcr In love Is the most loathsome of them all. He Is worse than a thief. He Is worse than a murderer. For If a woman Is robbed of her purse she can earn more money; but If she Is robbed of her youth and beauty, that has been taken which can never be replaced. Also It Is les cruel to kill tho body than to kill one's happiness and one's faith and trust. Yet there aro many men who arc selfish enough to amuse themselves by making lovo to women without counting tho cost to their victims. They select the prettlot and most attractive girl they can find, and proceed to blight her life with the at tentions that are without intention. They call upon her continually, they are seen about with her everywhere, they fill up her dance program and monopolize h'ir society. They have no Intention whatever f marrying; but they kceji away the men who would marry, and so doom the girl to' 'old 'maidenhood. It Is a dog In the munger trick, and It Is only after the.o deadbeats in affection have flitted away to some now flame that the girl wakes up and realizes how dishonorably she has been treated. Of course, in these days of the high cost of living there are many men who cannot afford to marry, and who not only enjoy feminine society, but are at tracted to some particular girl whom they would gladly lend to the altar if they could. It Is a test of the true nobility and chivalry of such a man to consider the girl's happiness before his own pleasure, and when he cannot ask her to marry him to withdraw before she has learned to love him. It Is Idiotic, in tho first place, to drive away the men who might propose for the man who never proposes, and. In the second place, the woman who lets nny man, save the man to whom shp is actu ally married, think he Is the only man to her knows little of how to play the love game and of the masculine way of a man with a maid. For In love, as In business, competition Is the life of trade, and nothing enhancos a woman's value in a man's eyes so much as seeing that other men want her. Jinny a -man Is brought to the proposing point by the knowledge that if he doesn't ask a girl to marry him some rival suitor will.. I do not myself believe in long engage ments, which wear the gilt off of to mance before marriage, and stretch love's youuc dream out until It becomes so at tenuated it breaks of its own thinness, but at least the long engagement has the Justification of hope and some definite, end. No such excuse can be offered for a girl throwing away her marrying years and the treasure of her heart on a man who hasn't even asked her to marry lilm, and offers her nothing In the one sided bargain. AH of which Is by way of saying that while the man whose attentions are without Intention Is the yellow cur of humanity, the woman who puts up with these meaningless attentions Is a per fect goose. PLAYING UP NEWS .BOOSTS Newspaper Items are declared by the owner of a department store in a certain thriving little city to be among his best trade "pullers." To cite an example, there was' a robbery In his city a few weeks ago and the thieve made away with a large amount of plunder. The Papers printed columns about It. Ho took the clippings and placed them conspicuously In his display windows along with a full display of locks, chains and bolts In fact, all tho known para phernalia for outwitting a burglar. For several days after the robbery business In the lock and bolt department increased threefold. Last winter this merchant purchased a big supply of rubbers. To his chagrin he taw they were moving slowly. He faced a big loss If he could not sell them. One morning tho papers wore full of an ac count of an accident which happened to a railroad president. He had slipped on 'the icy pavement and was seriously n jjured.. While on his way to the hospital he 'Jestingly remarked that lie wouldn't ven I ttire out again without his rubbers. That 'gave the merchant an Idea. He pasted ! the newspaper account quoting the roll ' roader's remark In the. window with a ' display of rubbers. Did thos-e rubbers el! Tney wee a I ,ii i- In t.K md , f (, . . i en I r, ai. Tiiuuri' Pride in Popularity is Rushing Hy ADA I'ATTKttHON. Woman has a new vanity that eclipses the old. She no longer .-minds entranced before her mirror, but' hangs. Nnielssus' like, over her visiting lift and her engagement book. Mrs. Kate V. Saint Mnur, a culm-mannered English woman with penetrating eyes, has discovered this, and what she has to say of her discovery Is worthy h hearing, if only because tho late Mark Twain, of whom she was friend and neighbor, said she had one of the best poised, most logical inltuts he had ever encountered In a woman. "There Is a new vanity, and women are dying for It," said the even-voiced English author. "My heart aches with pity for them hR I watch them offering themselves up willing victims upon the ! altar." "What Is the new vanity?" I aHked. "It Is love of popularity," she replied. "It delights and Intoxicates them to know they are wanted here and there. I have In mind a young woman who Was staying at the same house I was recently. My hostess being short of maids, this cliavm Ing young woman brought In my brenk fast tray herself and while 1 ate she sat on the bed and swung her feet awhile, then got up and walked aeros the room, then fingered her belt, and the look of strain that Is stamped In nearly- every Anieilcan fnce, became more visible. ""'You aro tired.' 1 said, with genuine sympathy. 'Can I do anything for',you'." "''Oh,' " she answered. 't am always like this, always on the hop, skip and Jump.' " 'But you look tired out. and It Is only half-past B. Do take an hour to pull up. Oo Into the next room and draw the shades and lie down I said. "She shrieked at tjie Idea. 'I have to meet Mrs. Mllltken and go shopping with her In a half' hour,' she said. 'Then I'm on the ways and means committee qf our chapter. That meets at 11. I'm lunching at Mrs. Brown's. I promised to be one of a box party, and we will go somewhere to tea afterward. Tonight I have to go to ' a concert." "She said it with an 'l'm-drlven-tn-dcath; do-plty-me' air, but underlying It was a smug satisfaction. Sho liked being Women Experts With Foils ' JfllsBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBaVHlsttr JQnJur' fvAui iHhBHsmssssbBBbW 'j MRS. H. W. UK WAR. Plans arc being arranged for a return fencing match between Mrs. H. W. Dewar of Philadelphia and the Baroness A. da Meyer of London for the woman's ama teur championship of tho world. Tho bar oness arrived Jn this country last week and society folk are now confident of belpg treated to this exhibition. n the first match between tho two women, which took place at the Colony club, New York, Mrs. Uewar, of whom tho public had heard but little, wag not expected to cause (he baroness, the recognized cham pion of the world, to exert herself. Tl Englishwoman's friends explain that she was tiken off her guard. He that as it 'mav Mrs. Oewnr las c-unsentel in i cturn lilatrh In an It y which (lie ia. oil's mav (hoc A J l)y I I.'ulh the rai" ne t t in. of tl " mk. , jl lt. I--is tit' id u d tf'i!.,- I'. I,, MllS. KATE thought popular She whatever of turning had no Intention back from this human race courso life. "If drunkenness Is slaVlug thousands of men it Is as true that pride In popu larity, foolish satisfaction In 'being In winner Mr 11! .die ims ul o otfrted t engage, tl 'all r a of t e Hdeu. !-'t utftrl hot'L II iiii'.ph ' ur tl i nli M t t i tr t - ' t t 1. 1 o sm in th t n t' b uii'i'iii, mat' h V. i ' II U JNrSM HI! MI YElt Sex to Death SAINT MAUR. It,' Is slaying thousands of women. The, new vanity Is tho disease of tho modern, the nineteen hundred and thirteen wo man, and Its symptom Is that sho won't stay at home. "Hut while. It harms mid even kills women, think of what this mad pursuit i of popularity, this high-pressure race of ,1ml rled living will do for the children. The child needs the Impress of the peace 1 thoughts of the houic woman. What Is the half distraught, won't-stay-at-homo I woman thinking of? How to get from this place to that to keep engagements. She. Is Working herself Into a nervous ex plosion by pushing the elevated or the Miliwny train or her own motor car. In her Imagination calling to them to go fuster "The sturdlness of the average' Ameri can I because of his home-staying mother The woman who stayed at home had time to think. She meditated nnd the habit of meditation gave her lilld nientul poise and liervotis foice. I honestly fear that, half of the future generations will he in .various suultarl tuns, unless women see their error and m k this foolish, needless, headlong speed of living. "Hut If the argument of tho rights of rhlldren ilueH not appeal, one ur all of three others should. The problems of j the high tost of living would he solved ; l women staying at home and giving more thought to the management of their kitchen. It would reduce the per- entuge of divorce one-hnlf, for one of lie fiihi rlfth In the family lute occurs 1 when the husband scolds his wife for gadding, and she makes peppery retort. Also the complaint wl,lch carries the American tug, dyspepsia, would be linn- 1 ishud if women stnyed nt home." Oarpet-Rags BY MINNA IRVING Granddaughter Mllly poundH the keys t pou the baby grund, And Mubel warbhwi foreign songs I cannot understand; And Dolly, with dramatic alms, Of elocution brags. Their grandma, when I saw her first, Was sewing carpet-nigs. .-'ho wore a purple cnllco MV how her fingers flew Amor.g the variegated strip Of red and green and blue. Not many in the state could beat MI'S Ann Berenu Haggs (That was her miilden nume, yon know) At sewing carpet-iogs. And when she changed her name to mine Our cottage floors wero laid Ith bright, clean, newly woven breadths Of carpet that she made. "For me." she used to say and smile, "Time somehow never lags." , And looked the cradle with her foot, While sewing carpet-rag. Hun llobeit.-. house Is big and fine He entertains a lot At bridge and ten and parties, where Folks daii'e the turke' trot Itiit when I h't und look at th"n Mv splilt --'lit of flags 1 In v ought to do norne u-ful thing, iK' -ruing i um t-rHL-i rr Women Should Save Birds Ella Wheeler Wilcox Says Suffrago Organizations and Clubs Ought to Unite AgainBt Practice of Using Dead Birds as Plumage on Millinery, Hy IH.ia WHUKIjKU vii,co.. Copyright. ;9I3. bv Star Company A short time ago a millinery establish ment was raided in Now York City and one hundred dead humming birds and ninny bird of paradise nnd other corpse of pluiuavc birds were seized by tho authorities. The law In New I York Mate, forbids the killing or sell ing of. these lovely. harmless Xiul use j fill creatures, and forbids the uillllu I ery cstalil'iihnieiits ' from keeping them i In stork for the I a d o r n m e n t of I women's heads. 1 And a year has I linoii given the trade to rid Itself o' old stock nnd to i devote Its energies W 1 dS; vymH toward creating more, ojlgliml and sanitary and humiuie decorations for hats and bonnets. Tet tho demands of heartless. Inconsiderate nnd selfish women have caused the managers of the millinery houses to defy the lay and place themselves In the category of culprits nnd receivers of lllegul goods. No mnn on earth ran be blamed for this traffic In birds. The crime against Advice to Lovelorn, By HBATHICE FAIRFAX. Mini llecldedl)- Wroim, Uear Miss Fairfax: I am In love with a boy of 1G. the same ago as mine. I love him very much and bIso his pa rents. Ills parents are against me, He called up my hous n few times. The thing that 1 am anxious to know la how to go to his house. Or, Is it not right for me to go to his house? At least 1 would like to meet his parents norne where. FRANCES. My dear, you arc so young you don't, realise that If his parents were told you "also love" them they would be only amused. Yon are too young to know Just what love Is. Don't go to his house, nnd make no attempts to see either him or his parents. Give yourself a few more sears of A happy girlhood before becoming Involved j In anything so serious as love. There t'ertnliilj- Is. Dear Miss Falrtax: WJtat Is your opinion of a young man who,- after court ing a girl tor over a year, leaves tier without as much as a "why," and turns his whole attentions to another girl? My friend Is deeply affected, nnd will not Interest herself In some one else. Hhe can't s'em to forget him. On account of this I have broken friendship with the niiug man. Was I right In doing this? Isn't there something tho matter with young men who net this way? A Fit! UN I . You are right In showing your disap proval of it man so dishonorable. It Is a Pity nil do not do the same. There Is something snionsly the matter with the young man. He Is selfish. Insincere, flelde. weak mentally, and lacking In moral stamina. I for lin.ollur Ler. . JfijfTank of the stove full. Don't use a can of more than two gal- i 0J -"Pnclty. iuii i mpo n .-iiuvr- uitti irnna, Don't use a small ga-ollne stove unless it Is properly fastened down. Don't employ a leSky funnel in filling. Don't fill u gasoline, stove In a closed loom. Have plenty of ventilation to earn' bwhj the vapor und out of tho room. Issue's Weekly. mm Cleans The Hair and Makes it Beautiful-25 Cent "Danderine" In a few moments your hair looks soft, fluffy, lustrous and abundant No falling hair or dandruff. Surely try a "Danderine Hair Cleanse" If you wish to Immediately double the beauty of your hair. Just moisten a cloth with Dnnderlne and draw It carefully through your hair, taking on small strand nt a time, this wilt cleanse the hair of dust, dirt or any excessive oil In a few momenta you will be amazed. Tour hair will be wavy, fluffy and abundant and possess an Incomparable softness, lustre and luxuriance, the beauty and shimmer of true hair health. Resides beautifying tho hair, one ap plication il' Danderine dissolves every particle ot Dandruff; cleanses, purifies lWJffH 'T - bur' feathered kin must bn laid at the door of gentle nnd lovely woman she nho Is clamoring for the ballot that she may mnkn the world better, Since this statement Is a fact (which requires nn proof other than a moment's reflection) It should now become. the duty of all women who really wnnt to Justify the, claim of worthiness of tho sex to take part' In affairs of state toJotn In a crusade against thes use of dead birds or the plumage of dead birds in millinery e livery equal'-' suffrage-' organization Should make thhua plank In Its platform. All clubs oiennlied by nny Immune or reformatory oi charitable word should further the movement. Thefe Is not one argument which can be offered to support the use of thess decorations, There are arguments which can he pre lentml with a certain amount of reason for the wearing of furs. Furs do keep their wearers warm In uold weather, Life, would bo almost un endurable In many northern lands unless tho Inhabitants wore clothes, of skins of animals. y anhnals endanger human life. In our own country there are a goodly number of humnne worker's who refuse to wear furs: but I havo yet to meet one wio refuses to wear leather shoes. There seems to be no substitute yet provided for this necessary footgear, and so, while alt of us protect that one portion of the body with the sttln of animals we should bo lenient to those who protect the whole body from cold by tile wenrlng of furs. 'Hut an aigrette or a bird .of paradise or a humming bird on a woman's hat ntver protected her from cold pr offered the least service In the way of health or comfort. it simply adorns her In the eyes ot those who like herself are blind to the unpleasant and cruel phaso of such adorn ment. To those who are awakened on this subject thero Is no beauty in a hat loaded with corpses of birds or decked with aigrettes which have been torn from the bleeding breast of a mother bird, who almost Invariably dies a lingering death In consequence and her brood dies of starvation. Death and blight are brought upon an cient trees, beautiful with years, or chards filled with fruit and fields rlp with grain hy the slaughter of birds anil Mm consequent Increase of destructive. InscctB. Surely It Is time the lw took j tn maHtr ,n hand Bn(J cg ; ,0 K,ve up le,0 unllncenry adornments. The whole subject should be treated from a scientific standpoint In women's colleges, and a knowledge of birds and, their use In the world should become a part of woman's education. Many women of wealth and big hesrt belong to the Audubon society and to thn humane organisations, and they would, further the Interests of the birds wero they to combine and offer prizes to the millinery trade for the most urtlitlo crea tlons In the way of headgear whloh used no dead birds. I'lume.i r.ro always beautiful and n more object lonM.ln than feathers plucked irom the goose or duck for pillows. The ostrich lives to a very advancta age and grows a new plume when th old one has been rwnoved, as the gooss gtowsliew down. Resides ostrich plum.es, thero are Innumerable beautiful things which can be used on hats. The law which has been passed for bidding the slaughter of birds should now be extended, and make It n flneable of fense for a woman to be seen wearing an nlgrette or a bird of paradise or other bird corpse. The woman who will not think on this mibject should be mado to think. and Invigorates the scalp, forever stop ping Itching and tailing hair. 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