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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1913)
s THE BEE: OMAIIA, MONDAY, J ANT ' AH V 27 True Purpose of Life is Self-Perfection By HLliA WHEELER WILCOX. (Copyright, 191J, by the Star Co,) This Is the material ag. and It a necessary to think of material thing in order to he able to play otir part In life's great drama Now am! then e are visited by a religious teacher from Oriental lands who gives no heed to what he shall drink or wear, and who tells it to do likewise. And to Ignore the base thin called money Yet thee teachers have, been brought to us on ships, and by train, and some me had to pay their passage; and Home one paid for their food and rai ment whllo they were here. r One of these teachers, who scored in most unmercifully for our sordid Ideas, nnd bemoaned our lack of spirituality, tYaveled like an emperor, and somo years after ho went back to his native land and It was my goofl fortune to visit his country and to accept his Invitation to afternoon lea. He lived In the utmost elegance, sur rounded with every luxury, and was waited upon by a retinue of servants, and I was driven back to my lintel In his fine motor car. Yet there nro thousands of holy men and priests In the Otlnt who llvo the simple life. In Its strictest souse, travel ing from place to' place, eating berries and fruits, which grow wild, and varying the diet by food bestowed upon them as they pass alone. Borne of these men are really holy their hearta given wholly to Introspcctldh and meditation on divine subjects, and somo of them are merely Idlo vagrants, who take this pose of religious devotee to avoid work. In our country the climate necessitates more clothing than the one. bit oT cloth wrapped from breast to knees, wlUch con stitutes the costume of many of these holy men, and our people are less In clined to believe In the slnccilty of the traveling priest, and correspondingly less generous In their Impulses toward sup Krtlng such men. Therefore, the teacher who come among us must bo paid a salary or allow some of his friends to pay his bills, which amounts to the same thing. 80 even In our religions must money be considered. Yet, while this Is true, nothing Is morn vain than the pursuit of happiness through the possession of great wealth. More and moro inn 1 Impressed with the small part which wealth plays In human happiness. Rome of the most un happy people 1 have ever encountered were dowered with every earthly boon, During this season there has been a man, worth millions, possessed of bright children and a, gentle-faoed wife, yet the man's disposition ruined his own life and that of his family. His face looked like the envclopo of a forwarded lotter. It was marked nil over with the stump of lll-tcmpnr and discon tent. Ills wife's face expressed disap pointment, weariness nnd fcur. nnd hit daughter was a pessimist and n cynic ut 20. They had traveled the world over, yet fcund nothing of 'ntcrcst any where, and for people they had Uttlo but crltlolsm, evon for ono another. No day laborer' family could be more unhappy, surely. A woman of wealth, and of marked Physical beauty, with a young, liundsomo and gifted daughter, is forever seeking happiness and never finding It. The daughter Is restless with ambition, and her face expresses Irritability nnd discon tent, f Both mother and daughter arc looking out, never In. for happiness. Happiness Is like a woman, and so long ns the human heart Is like a pursuing lover she turns her face away. When the lover ceases to pursue, and busies himself In other ways, happiness looks and smiles. The object oi llfo Is not personal happiness It, la self-development, self-completion. Keep that In mind, oh you who ssek Joy! No matter whether you are rich or poor, the Idlo tourist or the day laborer; the spender of unearned Inheritance or the wage earner. The object of life Is the development of the best In you. Once you realize this, happiness will be possible to you. The very realization brings It nearer. Until you do realize, believe and know It to be true, nothing can give you hap piness. You will Keek, and seek vainly, for lasting pleasure. Aa fast as you ut taln some desired object. Its value will de parti ns soon aa Joy Is slezed. It will perish. But once you understand that life Is given you us a season far self development, the great searohllsht of the soul will fall on the way to happiness, and you will know that you are on the road. . It Is useless to say that In order to develop your best self you must havo money and a chance of environment. That Is not true. It J not substan tiated by the history of great souls. 'r(ie most noble, the most successful, the most admirable, the most beautiful lives In the world's galaxy were not those those who from youth to maturity found the con ditions by which they were surrounded to their liking. Neuralgia Sloan's Liniment has a sooth ing effect on the nerves. It stops neuralgia, toothache and sciatica pains instantly. HERE'S PROOF Mrs. CM. Do triers, of JohsiiDeibnrg, MUh..vrltes: "Sloau's Uuliuent re tiered so of Kturnlgla. Thou pains bar all goaeaad I can truly say your JJnlment did stop town." SLOAN'S LINIMENT is also good for rheumatism, sore throat and sprains. At U antes. 7rlcU., 09;tl.O, IV. Ear! S. Sew - Beaton. Macs. The Reason And Love Mouthed to the Girl Hetty wasn't sure n-n-ot quite! She know, that lior heart literally turned over when she heard his foot atops ringing along townrd her house, on a cold January night she knew hIio turned pink to the ears wh she saw a namo like his on a shop window she knew that even if it rained Uko the dickens on nor pulp of It If he was along she wouldn't care. That last nlmost made her know but she wasn't qulto sure. N-n-n-not perfectly. Hut the twilight tlrao he asked her with one black sleeve about her white neck and a rather worried lift to f nni3 HTH V TYTV lVIy 1 11 X UIJ. By DOROTHY DEC. There Is one feature of modern pregress that has not attracted tho attention It deserves, and that Is that Deople are happier and more cheerful than they used to be. In the past, In America at least, piety and gloom were synonymous terms, and the more melancholy tti InrflvMllal ttt ..... ... . j more religious lie : or she was es- . . ..... M'tmicu. 11 w thought that - to be cheerful showed you to be light minded, and those who la u g It o d easily. especially women. were looked upon with suspicion as be ing no better than they should be. Whpn people met together they told each other 1 their troubles, and women enjoyed them .Mtlveii by 'mingling their teurs when they ' foregathered for a pleasant .afternoon. I We have to get u perpeotlve on tho pait to reallte how different condition ' are today and how we have cheered up without realising It. We no longer mistake biliousness for sanctlf.'catlon. Indeed, there are several 'religions with millions of followers that are based on the cult of happiness. - For our souls' sake and our stomachs' sake we are adjudged alike by priest and doctor to think bright and Joyous thought and to dwell on the good In the world Instead of the evil. People with tales of wee to tell find no ready listeners and are made to feel by the public attitude t toward them that they are cowards and whlners, and If women have tcara to shed they shed them In private where they won't afflict unvbody else, nor ruin the'r own complexions. LKe bus n't changed, nor have Its sor- , rows licen vanquished. TUe griefs that . have torn the human heart since the be. ' gliin'ni; of time have not been exorcised. 1 Death still robs us of our beloved; sick li hh t it men UK, tu tietu-berv of those ' nr tiuslrd stab us to the qulek; riches fly out of the nindow nnd poverty crawl 1 in throuch the crock of the door t Women still keep Iwely vigils waiting, ul" lt lways carries with It a sus 1 for tiie uiag of a drunken fontstc. on the P'clon of doubt. No girl was ever hon stairs, mothers bend abovs emuty cradles lured by s proposal of marriage that In She Said "YES" "That is You Two, Many Yeats pet hat and mad. and gray-headed, old wives are deserted for younger and fa(rer faces. Nothing In the whole category of sorrows Is changed, but somehow we have struggled up to a. braver attitude toward life and a saner way of meeting our troubles. Just as many terrible things happen to us now as ever happened to our forbears, rr A Question By WlfcTJAM I KIRK. i "What makes men fight?" the young boy aslced. . His grandfather's eyes grew deep and masked , , As the eyes of an old man sometimes will When he dreams of Saitoh or Chancollorsv)Ile; ' v , When, he dreams of the dayB he marched so well, And Antletam's gore, and Gettysburg hell. The grandfather looked at a printed page That told of cholera, lust and rage That told of things with a ghastly hint, Tales that the types shall never print; The thirst, the hunger, the pitiful all." . Said the old man, letting the paper fall, ' ' 1 "You are only a baby, but tell me tonight . What makes men fight?" r Advice to the Lovelorn By BEATRICE Uun't Do It. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am Is nnd deeply In lovo with a girl one year my Junior. Sly lov Is reciprocated 1 want to marry her within a year, to which she has agreed, but we want to keep our mar riage a secret for at least a year or two because of my financial standing, which I anticipate will reach a different stand point within .a few years. Another rea son for wanting this Is because of my going away for about a year on a busi ness trip. There would be no objections by her parents, but by own. because of Uny youth. TWO THUK IXJVKUS. Dismiss that plan from your mind at once. A. secret marriage may be roman- Copyright, 1913, by Amerlcan-Journal-Mxamlner. Away. Love is Not a Short to Be uontent." his brows Love boat his wings in the dusk, behind his back head and frantically pointed a fat fore-finger at an argument ho had summoned from thin air. Into tho dusk behind tlio pleader's back there grew a misty picture a bent old man with thin yhlto locks and black-llvo eyes broollng under white brows, under his aged throat a low collar and a dingy, fat,- black tie. And the lines in his faco wore deep like scars. In the hollow of his shoulders, filling' it with hor ample little body, hands demurely, folded over her generous belt, plaintive-faced, frosty-haired, seamed' of face and thin QAVQ. World's Progress Marked by the Cult of Happiness SDJT. I W?. Living Are No Longer Sacrificed to the Dead. but we do not let' a.. single misfortune, however- great, ruin' pur Uvea as they did, Jt Isn't tho fashion to be miner-able, and so wo make a bluff, at cheerfulness. We should be as. much ashamed to be pointed out as 'brokcn-Iieartetl.asyYe would b to be pointed out as having n penitentiary record. FAIRFAX. eluded the request that'thc marriage be kept secret. .Nut tlie Man fur Yon. Dear Miss Fairfax: 1 am a girl of 11 Two months ago I met a man of 20 at a Party. lie has culled to see me at my boarding place quite frequently . ijjst Saturday night we went 'to a dance, and while there he became Jealous of another young man and he did nut tak mo home. 1 have not heard from him or seen him ulnce. DOnOTHV. Marriage to such a man would be equivalent to sentencing yourself to serf, dom for life. Don't write to him. and do try to get hint out oX )our mind. Thing It must Last Years Are of Up with her curve of her choek And love mouthed to the girl "That ts you two many, many years away. Love is not a short thing it must last years are long and you must KNOW to be content. Do you KNOW? Will you, care THEN?" Xnd Betty dragged her misty eyes away from Love's bit of sorcery, the picture faded and she looked back at the worried, dark eyes coaxing hor own and answered "YKS." And that was the reason why. NELL BRINKLEY. Any of us who ore n.Iddlc-aged can re-' call two or three 1)1.1 ladles with long-, sweeping black veils, and mourning gar ments and'melancholv countenances, who used' to come nnd visit our mothers. They looked like ravens, and they spent the day In a perfect orgy of tours. Whtn they went away four mothers would ex plain that' these ' women had lpst their husbands, or u child, or a mother, some thirty or forty yoa:s before, and that since that time they had nevor worn a stitch of colored 'clothes, or let up thf parlor window shades, or .smiled. They had been monuments to grltf. Tb.cy had put In a lifetime carefully cultivating their sorrow, until they had actually be come melancholy mad Where are those sable ladle? today? You never see them. Nona of these Nlobes come and bedew our carpets with their tears. . We wouldn't stand for such an affliction, and no modern woman, no matter what her grief, would think of burdening her friends with It. Women as Just as devoted daughters, Just as adoring mothers, Just as loving wives as they ever were, aiid when they lose parents, or children, or husbands they. are Just-as grieved, as any woman of the past ever- was. But, they no longer maue a cuit or sorrow. ;rney no longer sacrifice the living to the dead, and In stead of paradjng thVlr woe before the public, the)' hide It out of flight, and try to add their mite of cheerfulness to the -world instead of burdening It with their gloom. In other (lays it was the fashion never to recover from any heart affair. If a man was fllr,ted by a pretty coquette, or a girl, was Jilted by a faithless swain, public sentiment, demanded that he should become a surly misanthrope who hated all women forever after, and that she Bhould cither pine away with a broken heart, or else live on, a sweet, sad spin ster. Nowadays we take an Injury to our heart about as seriously as we do a pin prick to our fingers. It may hurt for the minute, but wo apply u little of the antiseptic of some other Woman's or , man's society to the spot, nnd know that ; by tomorrow It will be entirely healed. You couldn't find a broken hearted lad or lassie with n search warrant, yet peo ple lovo Just as honestly and truly as they ever did. They have simply recog- f nlxcd that all cmutlons are transitory, and that nothing Is so easily transferable as the affections. Rvort poverts ed to be a greater source, oi mil cry Uuui It U UUy. In By Nell Brinkley Long and You Must Know once lovely throat fallen and the luring a hollow, nested a little old Lady. J) former times when peopla lest their money about three generation sat down and cried over (the split milk, and walled over what they timid to have. And every body sympathized with thorn. Now when people lpne their money they roll up their sleeves lind go to work and get It' back again. They don't waste any tlmo beating upon their breasts or recounting their former gloiles, bocausc they tho con tempt In everybody's eyes for r has been. x -V Undoubtedly the greatest sorrow In tho world is to be unhappily married, nut people are beginning to meet even th'n misfortune more sanely than they mspu to. Tho courageous lecttfy the mtsukn as they would any other that they had made, by getting out of it. Those that lack tho nerve for this heroic treatment have at least philosophy onough to bear their lot with fortitude or decency enough not to whine In public, sf that we .-.ear less of ruined Uvea than we usd to, and 1 ure not called upon to listen to so many tales of matrimonial Doubles. Undoubtedly the world grows a clienile if not a better plucu In which to live. If wo haven't done anything else we have climbed out of the slouch of despont In whjch our grandparents lived ind that's going some. Got Indigestion? Belching Up You don't want a alow remedy when your stomach Is bad or an uncertain one or a harmful one your stomach is too valuable; you mustn't Injure it with drastic drugs. . Pape'a Dlapspsln Is noted for Its speed In giving relief; Us harmlessness Its certain unfailing action in regulating sick, sour, gassy stomachs. Its millions of cures In Indigestion, dyspepsia, gastritis and other stomach trouble has mada It famous tha world over. PAPE'S ' 22 GRAIN TRIANCULES OP DIAPEPS1N MAKES DISORDERED STOMACHS FEEL FINE IN FIVE MINUTES. cures Indigestion, dyspepsia. t rrrf SOURNESS, GAS. HEARTBURN. LARGE ;t0 CENT CASE ANY DRUG STORE. The Exclusive Set By ELBERT HUBBARD. Copyright, 1913, bj" the International News Service. When a business man attains a certain Income, a speculator "strikes lt rich," a manufacturer secures a monoply, or any Impecunious son of earth Is struck by lightning and receives a legacy, straight way he moves his household to the other side of town. And for this man's family, when they go, the scenes that knew them once know them no more forever. They do not say good-by a n A the friends thoy ones had aro no longer theirs; the neigh bors with 'whom they used to chat over tho gate read WW S2r 1 fJ I of them In thn social events 6-a umn, but they never see thcin. The grocwr who onca was so friendly to them Is dead; the Jolly butcher Is forgotten all are gone faded nd swallowed up In the misty pRst; that past so full of work, and xtruggle and difficulty; that past of youth and hope, nnd tho end for which they tolled nnd longed for has come. The golden galea has opened they Jiave moved to the other sldo of town. Men who have Incomes of J4.000 or more (say In Buffalo) mako hot hnsto to live on Delawnro avenue; In Pitts burgh It Is the Kast End; In Cincinnati. Walnut Hills; In Clcveland,Euclld nve nue; In Chicago, Hyde Park; In Boston, Commonwealth avenue; In New York, up town. And In these social migrations there Is something pitiful, for the man who goes can never return of his own frea will, nnd to bo forced back by fate is to suffer a humiliation that ts worse than disgrace that comes through crime. AVhen a rich man say In Albany. Syra cuse or Boston loses his money, and his family has to "come down," the sym pathetic souls of earth shed tears for the glory that Is gone. We tell how ho has to give up all he gavo up his horses, his billiard tables, his club, his solid plate; he discharged his gardener, his couenman, ms uuuer. 110 is now iiecpi lug books for $25 a week, nnd his wlfo Is going her own work, and wc relate how hlB children aro now compelled tu attend public school. On questioning a good many men wha havo taken part in the social exodus, I find that the responsibility. Adnm-llke, of the change is thrown entirely on tha woman: "My wlfo was dissatisfied and 1-we had to go." Not once could I ever get a man to acknowledge that the ques tion of pride, tho desire to parade his success, or tho hope of a better social position for his daughters ever weighed in the scale. Tho women of the exodus tell me that the reason they moved to Commonwealth avenuo was because tho sewerage was im perfect In the old home, the water was bad, the air full of smoke or the neigh bors' children so vory, very rude. And In various Instances these wort'iy mothers, following the examples of their husbands, unload the responsibility on their children. "When Mayme came homo from Wcllesley she could not stand It here," or, "When CJeorge got back from Harvard ho found the society so awful dull." And right hero let us note this preva lent fact: Tho first effect of college llfo Is often a deslro to separate from the old companions a drawing away from t 9 plain and simple; a separation from (I'a mass and a making of cliques; an unlit ting for life's commonplaco duties, and me iorming or n condition that makes "-riches a necessity and their loss a ra- lamlty. Have your beautiful ul things, of c.'-r?" - ( o tln vvtk'oiM In nity ney tr decor.: te nQ wny not? Encourage and use your mone beautify; but do not think that ti,j thing will benefit you If you Join the socle! exodus and make hot haMe to ut distance between you and those wl-.i nra less fortunate. Owners of art mufel build no spite fence. .Show the marbles, tnat fill your nlche.1 and the canvases '.hat v H'uiii your -vans 10 tuofe wnn elri. m see such sights; give your education t.-j those who need it. your culture to those who have less, and you double your trei. ure by giving lt o.way. la n Wife a Family f Is r. wife a "family?" Married men laughed light out loud when they learned that the court of ap peals has been asked to answer this ques tion, the lower courts being uuab!t to agree In tho matter. That the vnlunbla time of the highest tribunal In the s-tate should be taken up with a question which any benedict could answer with his eyes shut and both hands tied behind his back has provided no end of merriment for tho matrimonial captives. "The wife Is always the famUv," said one married martyr. "When there ure no children she Is the head of the family. If tho Judges of tho court of appeals doubt whether ono woman can constltuta a family I'll send tljem a few Assorted Christmas bills. They'll be convinced that my wife Is a t-olony. If they wanted to give the court some real work why didn't they try to find out what part of tha family the husband Is?" New York Her ald. Stomach Upset? Gas or Sour Food? IttaWsWWr V vv ui sava m ras -A