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TITE BEE: OMATTA, FRIDAY, FETTCFAKY 14, 101H. 7 "he ee' ne Uaiaz,ire p)a Jeff Says, a Turk's a Turkey Just the Same Drawn for The Bee by "Bud" Fisher fCte. Tfc th& A,re s y d - ' v. MWJ W i-'nrn; 750M6 coin. thi wr. n xuRxe MAS KILLED OPP A LOT oP TURXS AWOUfcFTA LOT OF WjrjOWS. I'LL A MATH.IMONIAL, DUMEAU k'&ND GBT HUSBANOS V (3efF, l WANT rou ro Go I WfcHT OJT AMD t in 1 1 a awem lookim, young 1 TRX To ADVCft-TibS. NGVielV I AIN0'VM )0 what) 1 T B LL VQU J and HHw 50 OF WHAT X Gfc.T Foe. WVAR.R.V NG HIM OF P. 1 vsnSM J6FF WOULD i TVJR.V. L COUt-D flfe UlNO. MUTT M The Fate of the Light-o'-Love By WINIFRED BLACK. Yesterday I saw her again, the Light o' LoVC. It was flvo years ago that I saw her first, and, oh, how I hated her; it was all I could do to keep from giving her nn open Insult, for sho was stealing my friend's hus band away. My friend wan a sweet woman, a good woman, a clever woman and pretty and she loved her husband dearly. But she was not well and she took up with a Beet of strange teachings, and be came so absorbed In following out those teachings that sho didn't quite realize what she was doing to her own happiness She went to meetings and she rcaJ books and practiced "rhythmlo breath ing," and "voiceless praise," and "soul sympathy," till It really was quite trying to be with her very much. And the Light o' Love took advantage of these .thing and stole the husband of my friend away from my friend. She was pretty, too, the Light o' Love, and witty, and light of heart, and she was well, perfectly well, and full of the pure Joy of 'living. She saw a great deal of my friend's husband when my friend was away at a "cure," breathing deep and "soul sympathizing," and my friend's husband was quite faolnated. And the pretty, witty, clever, foolish, head-strong, light-hearted girl was a sweet woman no more; she was, poor thing, poor, foltsh thing, a Light o' Love. My friend's husband was very devoted; he was never happy out of the sight of the Light o" Love; he showered her with flowers; he wrote her letters aglow with what he thought, I suppose, was love; he wrote poems to her; he sent her wreathes to wear and soft fabrics for his special delight, and the Light o' Love was at first seoret about It, and then triumphant, and then defiant And we all hated her and wished her no good, we who loved my friend and wished to like the husband and think (veil of him. And my friend found the whole wretched affair out and almost died,- and It was very miserable and very tragic, and some of us who looked on wished something dreadful would happen to put stop to It all. That was five years ago, and yesterday I met her, the Light o" Love. She has Just come back from Home, where she went to study art. Some say the man who made her a Light o" Love sent her there to get rid of her. Some Bay he went there to get away from htm herself, and some say that the wife made the man send her. At any rate, here she is at home again, poor foolish, head-strong, vain, selfish. Light o' Love, a disillusioned woman with hardly a chance for reasonable happiness left for her on earth. The man doesn't care for her any more; she isn't as pretty as she was, nor as witty, and she doesn't laugh so easily. I thought she was roughed a bit yester day when 1 saw her, and I know there were lines about her mouth. She asked me about my friend. First sho tried to get me to speak of her with out being' asked, but I would not. so at last she spoke her name. "How is she these daysT" said the Light o' Love, speaking of the good wife whose heart she came so near breaking. "She Is well." said I. "very well. I saw her and her husband off to Japan the other day, and really she looked like a bride." The flickering light went out of the Light o' Love's poor sallow eyes, and I think she pnled a little. "Have you seen the' children since you came back?" I asked. "They are dreams. Little Mrtry Is exactly like her mother, to her fithor says, and the boy Is his father nsraln. Isn't It lovely?" I "Ye-t. urmered the Light o Love, and I li . sorry for her. poor, foolish thing. Why didn't sho learn tho lesson sooner, before It meant so much of bit terness to her? Five years she gave to that man five feverish, restless, desperate years and now he has gone on his Becond honey moon to Japan with the wife he had fallen in love with all over again. And tho Light o' Love, what will be come of her? Faded, worn, shadowed with whispered disgrace, what man will make her his wife? And yet when we first knew of it we alt felt sorry for the wife and did not pity the Light o Love at all Sorry for the wife! And the wife Is always the winner, always the one who triumphs In the end Over and over have I seen It thus. Tho children, the home, the respect a man feels for the woman who bears his name nothing can stand against all these forces together, nothing, nothing nothing. We always see tho other side In the plays and the stories. I wish some one would write a play that tells the truth the simple, practical, real truth about those affairs of the Light o" Loves. I'd like to take every pretty woman on earth to see thnt play and bid her learn the lesson it teaches. So you thought you had him, did you, Light o' Love? You thought it was the wife's heart that would break and not yours? Blind, bllndl What did you have to hold him with, a man who could not be held by honor? How could he give up alt that hts wife meant to him home, children, the respect of his friends, peace of mind, self-respect all for you? Yes, you were pretty, witty, light of heart. But there are thousands like you at every turn of tho road. Those children of his, did he pick them up by the wayside? The home he built with so much pride and care, every stone lh .It spoko to him of the wife of his youth. Did you think you could win In any such battle as that? No, no. Light o' Love! My heart 'has softened to you; you are punished already for your sel fish, cruel folly. Qod speed you on your second honey moon, good wife and faithful mother! Every heart that knows or even sus pects your story will warm to you and wish you every Joy. The man? Oh, he's only third in the story. Nobody really cares much about him. Why should they? Except the children to them he is a great man, a splendid Bayard, without fear and with out reproach. So may he always be. Don't Be an Echo Girl, Says Mary Sandal This Shampoo Helps To Dry the Hair Battle of Roanoke Island "It may sound paradoxical to say '.hat shampooing helps dry the hair," wrttr Mae Martyn. In the Now York Star, "but It is a fact that women using canthrox in cleansing the hair and scalp find' their tresses dry quicker than when shampoo mixtures ara used. Aside from this. It leaves the scalp In a vigorous condlUoti and gives the hair Its natural glossy ap iwaiance. Next time you wash your head try this simple recipe: Dissolve a teusp-Kiii-lul of crnthrox in a teacup of hot water. I o-v on the head and rub briskly until the sealp Is thoroughly massaged, thm rinso ell. 'Canthrox costs but a trifle, but tne oily certain way to get it pure Is to buy au ciituiU package. -Advertiseratnt Br IUJV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. The battle of Roanoke Island, N. C, which was fought fifty-one years ago February 8, 1662 between the confeder ates under General Henry A. Wise and the federals under ' General Ambrose E. Bumslde, while not looming up with many other con tests of the great conflict, fully de serves to be reckoned among the decisive j battles of the broth ers war. The state of North Carolina has a most peculiar coast line. Between the ocean and the mainland proper there runs, from the northern boundary to the southern boundary, a sand bank from one to fit miles wide, cut here and there by inlets leading from the ocean Into the large sounds. These sounds lead well up Into the Interior, and, the larger rivers emptying into them, make It possible for a successful naval power to command the entire eastern part of the state. Iloanoke Island was the grand strategic point in this coast region, and the con federate HUthoritles, early in the war. j stationed at the island a torce, us they ' thought, sufficiently strong to hold It By ADA PATTKRSON. "Be youroelf, raised to the hundredth power." Every Intelligent woman has a mes sage to her sex In this woman's hour, and a thoughtful woman Is glad to con voy it. Miss Mary Sandal Is both Intelli gent and thoughtful. Moreover, Bhe Is young and extremely attractive. Inci dentally, she teaches classes In the smart set the value and cultivation of person ality. It was of personality she was talk ing when she delivered the message I have quoted. "The trouble with most persons, cipe clally women. Is that they do not show forth themselves, but somebody else pomotlmes a dozen somebody elits. LUten to the chatter at tho next tea or recep tion where you happen to bo, and listen to the conversation. Thu girls and women arc all saying the same thing. You might as well Introduce a grapho phone Into the room. It would repeat ns faithfully what you will hear. 'Isn't It lovely?' 'Isn't she sweet?' 'Isn't ho nice"'" 'I'm JUst crazy about It.' All this ready made languago Is as chcun as shoddy clothing, and nB 111-flttlng and unbecom ing, What women need U to be them selves, developed to tho uttermost them selves railed to tho hundredth power. It Is every woman's duty to enhance her personality." What Is personality?" I asked with out any hope of a satisfying answer. I had asked it from persons who repeat, parrot-like, the words "magnetism," "personality" and "charm" and who. when pressed for a definition, reply with vacuous stnres. To my surprise, this slim, gray-eyed, dottcate-faced girl re rlld without an instant's pause: "Personality la the expressed point of view." "Then that Is all there la of a person, his !! -c joint of view?" "Practically all. Not this poor, foolish appearance. Those appearances are a mosaic of what other people think and do and say. But It is an Immensely Im portant thing. It Is In tho psychlo world what radium Is In the physical. "The last time I visited my home In the south I sent Invitations to an nffatr I was given and my sister wanted to strike ,ono name off the list. 'Don't ask her." she begged, 'she Is tho most bore some person I know, Sho does noth'ng but giggle.' " "'I would llk to see her,' 1. answered. " 'You know every giggle l a groan, a groan of fright pr. nervousness. I'll wager that that woman -han nover had a real chance to express herself In her life. If we knew her life better we would doubtless learn that she had always been suppressed.. She had as a child lived In one of those silent homes where children are always told In alt circumstances to keep quiet When she married, her hus band probably sneered at her opinions, and her children Ignored them. I would like to draw that woman out.' I had my way. The woman came to our 'after noon.' At first she wsb bo nervous and so full of giggles and gasps that my sis ter sent me a glance of triumph, half of annoyance. I talked to the giggling woman. I gave her all my attenUon. I showed that I was Interested In her, not what others thought and said that mado up her appearance, but in what she thought. Presently she began timidly at first, but afterwards with growing con fidence, her beautiful, shy eyes never leaving my face, about a moonlight sail. She described the sketch of black water and the play of tho moonbeams on It and the far away outline of white sails until silence fell upon all around us. Everyone listened. It was a glorious description. That was the woman. When she had finished she tore her eyes from mine and looked around the room. Her MISS MAKY SANDAL. self-consciousness came back. Her ner vousness returned. Again wo heard tho nervous llttlo giggle. But for the five minutes that shu had talked tho door of her dlfftdencu had opened, and through It wo had seen the real woman. That Is what every woman should do, show her real self. "Aren't some selves rather undesir able?" "Not tho real self. Every self Is lovely. The cramped, frightened creature or the egotist Is not the real 'self. It Is tho self distorted by custom or environment Every real self Is attractive and every real self has dignity. Dignity, you know, Is not being what you aru not and not overemphasizing what you are. It !s poise, and poise Is balunce." "How can personality he developed?" "By thinking you own thoughts, re gardless of what others think, and by expressing those thoughts." "Aren't some women overexpresalve.?" "Some of my pupils tell mo their hus bands say they are," Misa Sandall smiled. "I don't blame the husbands for that opinion. But the husbands don't understand that the whirlwind of chatter they hear Is not what their wives think. but largely a roputltlun of what some one or many othpiH think. My oft-reprutcd advice is, 'Don't he purrotty.' The trouble with women I not that they talk to much, hut that they don't tell eno;h. They don't tell what is In their minds. They allow thtunsrlvos to be made echo women." "What Is tho dlfftrouco between the person whom ovoryonu likes and tho person whom nobody likes?" "Ono has developed her ixjrsonallty. Tho other has an undeveloped llerson allty. All nny of us has to give our self. Tho attractive person, the 'mag netic porson,' the pemon with 'charm,' is one who gives of herself, her thoughts. In other wjrds, she frankly, thougli gently, shares her point of view." Which, summed up, means, according to this charming apostle of tho com plete personality, that to raise ourselves to tho hundredth power of efficiency and attractiveners, we must be natural with emphasis. We must break tho Jail of self. "To find yourself you roust lose your self." Miss Kandall quoted thn paradox. "To lose yourself you must find yourself." f When Winter is Coldest It Does Not Occur at. Winter Solstice Because a Balance Must Be Struck Botween Amount of Hoat Radiated Away at Night and That Received by Day. against any federal attack that might come, The sequel proved that their confidence was stronger than their Judgment, Tho force was In no way In keeping with the work that was expected of It. Two or three little sound steamers, mounting one or two small guns each, constituted the confederate naval force, while the works thrown up on the Island were to be held by a raw, undisciplined force of some 6,000 or 7,009 men. Passing through Hatteras inlet on January 26, Burnslde attacked the Roanoke Island defenses February 7 and 8, and, after a hard fight succeeded In gaining a sweeping victory. The two con federate gunboats were destroyed, the forts captured and some 2.500 confeder ates were made prisoners. The immediate fruits of the federal victory at Koanoke Island were trifling, but, nevertheless, that victory was of Imnieiue consequence to the union cause. It Jeopardized the confederate occupa tion of Norfolk, Vu., a most important point. It was a big step toward the enforcement of the blockade. It led to the fall of Elizabeth City and Newbern, with its excellent seaport, thus placing Practically the whole Carolina coart In tho hands of the federals. Most Important of all, It gave tho federals (the confederates having at tho time no navy) the almost undisputed con trol of the eastern half of the state, which, with Its rich cornfields, was of inestimable value to the union army. It may bo Interesting to remember, In this connection, that It was at Koanoke Island that Sir Walter Halelgli planted the flrt English colony in North America, (known as the "Lost Colony"), thirty-sir! ytars before tho permanent English set tlement was made by Captain John Smith at Jamestown, it is especially interest ing to remember that It was at Koanoke Island ou August 18, 167, that Virginia Dara saw the light of earth the first English child born on the North Ameri can continent. The JudRf I'lrad. French law courts often devulop pnases of humor that can have no counterpart In American or English procedure. Monsieur Hugot Is president of the Ninth chamber, one of thu courts of Paris. The other day Maltre C appeared at tho bar, and with muny gestures, pointing to his throat, inadti the court understand that he had lost Ills voice. "Yes, maltre," said the Judge, sympathetically, "the court notes that you liavo a severe cold; that it Is Impossible for you tu plead, liut your client shall not on that account be deprived of defense. If you hud been able to plead you would not liuve fulled 1 to snow tnut Hie nan u goou reputation and that she stole from her employer to nourish her four children. In short, thit the accused committed a fault accl denully, and that Hh will enguge never again to appear before tho tribunal. There, Maltre C, Is your pleudlng, Is It not' very wen, now mo judgment ot this tribunal Is one month In wrUon." In. dUtnapolls News. By OARRKTT I HItHVIHH. A correspondent asks a question which appears to be perpetually puullng to a great many people, and since the answer Involves one of the most important rela tions between the sun and tho curth, It ih hero given, This Is the ques tion: If as astron omers say. the causa of winter Is tho low elevation of tho sun, why, thon, since tho sun la lowest in the south about the 22d of December, tho winter solstice, does the temperature continue to fall after tho sun has turned hack north, and hus been rising higher for several weeks? I should think It would be the coldest ut the winter soUtlcd, when the sun is lowest, and Its rays full the most obliquely." Hero Is the answer; The cold of winter Is due to two causes which act togethor; first, to the low angle at which the sun's rays strlkn the earth, causing the same quantity of heat to be spread over a much greater area, and second, to the fact that when the sun Is below tho equa tor tho nights In northern hemispheres nro longer than tho days. Let us take the second first Look at the first figure, showing the north pole of the earth leaning away from tho sun, its It does In winter, while the south pola leans toward It. The shaded side rapre sents night and the other, day. Starting from the equator, where day and night are always of equal length, no matter what tho position of the poles with refer ence to tho sun may be, you perceive that as you go north the length of night In creases as compared with that of day. At forty degrees north latitude, which Is the median latitude of tho northern United States, the difference Is very evident on the diagram. At the time of the winter solstice, which Is that hero repre sented, when the sun is tweney-three und a half degrees south of the equator, the night at forty degrees north latitude Is ubout four and a half hours longer than the day. As you continue to go north the differ ence Increases until when you have ar rived at the Arctic Circle, within 234 de grees of the pole, day vanishes com pletely, and It is alt night. In the south ern hemisphere exactly the reverse oc curs, so that they have their winter when wn have our summer.' Now, as to the second cause mentioned above; look at the second figure. Yov know, no doubt, that corn stalks always grow up vertically out of the ground, whether It la a flat valley or a hillside. But a farmer will tell you that he cap raise mors corn to an acre of flat ground than on a steep hillside, even It thore If no difference In the fertility of the soil The reason is evident from an Inspection of the diagram. The same npmber of stalks is represented on the upper pari of the figure as on the lower part Utif they cover more ground, because the sloping lino Is longer than the level ono If the lower line, then, represents tho side of an acre, the upper one, containing the, tamo number of stalks, must represent the side of a square much greater than an acre. The same thing happens with the sun's ' rays. They are equally numerous ' whether they strike the earth vertically I or sloplngly, but when they fnlf sloptngly they aro spread over a greater surfuce, and consequently their heating effect, for a given area, la less. The combination of theso two causes, as wo havo said, brings on the cold of winter. It remains to explain why tho cold 1b not greatest when tho sun Is low est. It Is becAUso tho cold will accu mulate or more correctly, tho relative loss of heat will grow greater as long as more heat Is radiated away at night than Is accumulated by day, and this continues to bo tho caso for about six weeks nfter the sun has turned back from the winter solstice, and begun to riso again toward tlio north. Although the, sun Is lowest about December 22 the greatest coUl of winter ordinarily occurs ubout February lj but tho precise date Ih variable owing to local or accidental Influences, An soon as the amount of heat stored by day equals that lost iu night the temperature wilt begin to rise. 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