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i- 8 ..IE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1913. rr The Reason Sh ElBalMerWiSm on A Bravo Girl Courage She Shows in Face of Overwhelming Odds Should Make Us All Ashamed to Be Despondent Copyright, 1013, Journal-American-Examlner. age e Said "NO!" By Nell Brkkley Jy KIjLA. WHEELER WILOOX. If you arc thinking your life In mi ratiBfactory, or that fote has used you unfairly, It might set a. new Idea In your mind where you to write a IctfVr to MIbi Kdlth Myers, Brush Valley, Pa., and ask licr to tell you something of her experiences. This irlrl Is to tally deaf. and Itoth her leRS havo lecn amputated. Vet ehc dntcs her letter "Sunshine I 'a tie " and says Fhe has heen get ting along nlcoly and feeling very contented, until of late, when ahe linn been troubled with ecvere tiendaches, and theso hrad achea has becomo 10 pu nf.il thai k.u is d:. Jtiragcd. 'All my friends of old," Bho aaya, "have. Kono out Into tho world to do things, and 2 feel llk a oaBcd lion. "I do not mind It so much In the sum mer, but now that I can no lonKer stay cut In tho sunshine. It la terribly hard for Jno. "Yontcrday I cried nearly all day. "I am Badly In need of financial aid; and all my efforts to earn money meet with failure. Imagino thin girl with loth legn amputated, and totally deaf, making bravo endeavors to cam a living! Think of It, you Idle men who sit playing bridge all day and nil nlKht In fashion able clubs; think of It, you able-bodied Souths and young women who aro going nbout tho world In a half-hearted way, 'American British Matroffl ly MARGARET HUJJBAI'.D AVlMt. "English women are said to make tho best wives, but American women make the best husbands. If they don't get di vorced" "Tho attitude that English people toko toward American divorces Is one of "sour jzrapes,' Mutual Incompatibility la the only real reason for divorce. "Suffrage with the American woman Is a sldo lino; with the 'English woman It'a n Vital question. "I have heard American women dis cussing eating In restaurants with the uttermost seriousness. That habit of eat ing In public Is quite unheard of with us." These are tho vlows of Mrs, Doborah G Millar A talk with Mrs. Millar Is something of a treat. Flrut you are transported to EmjlanS, where Mrs. Millar Is well known an a fiction writers then you get a glimpse of all the authors and artists who frequent her home, and, last but not least, you find yourself talking to d clever woman with an entirely new point of view, who Is "doing" our country ns It baa never been done beforo by the on rushing foreign celebrity. "I have come over here to Beo America through tho eyes of a 'poor relation,' " explained Mrs. Millar, who Is tall, hand- tomo and magnetic "Almott all visitors gather their opinions of Now York and ether cities from the safe retreat of a hfg hotel und go thtrtugh the rest of tho town In a motor car at top speed. Palaces and slums aro more or Iosj atlka nil over the world. It Is the people, those who nro struggling, that I am Interested In. and it 1b those people I've come over to ttudy." Mrs. Millar accompanied her husband, the well known etcher and engraver, lcd Millar, to this country. It was Mr. Mil iar who gave a new Impetus to the art of mezzotinting, which Is the vogue here as well aa abroad. Mr. Millar, being an nrtltt. would not llvo In any part of tho prosaic business neighborhood and hunted out tho only remaining 'corner of New York which times has not touched West Sloventh street and there, between two church at No. 23. I found Mrs. Millar, "If you want to know how tho Eng ish parent looks upon education, I should advlie you to take a glnnce at Bedford," said the authoress. "Bedford la a town of Bchools. People go there only for the advantage the public and Private schools offer, and they are witl ing to undergo almost any privation, both financial and social, to give the children the advantages of the best schooling. When we left our home near Oxford to go to Bedford, I took no letters of Intro duction, because I was going to live In the most modest way. "But understand, everyone lives that way In Bedford. Women with title In the background, with family crests and Sure, Quick Cold Cure Acts Gently Papo's Cold Compound Cures Colda itnd Grippe in Few Hours Contains no Quinine. , Tko most severe cold will be broken, and all trlppe misery ended after taking a dote of Fape'i Cold Compound ersry two hours until three consecutive dosts are taken. Vou will distinctly feel all the dis agreeable symptoms leaving after the very first dose. The most miserable headache, dullness, licad and nose stuffed up, feverlthnesa. sneezing, running of the nose, sore throat, mucous catarrhal discharges, noranaM, stiffness, rheumatism pains and other distress vanishes. Take this wonderful Compound as di rected, with the knowledge that there ia nothing else in the world, which will euro, your cold or end Grippe misery as promptly and without any .other as sistance or bad after effects as a SS-ceht package of Pape's Cold Compound, which any druggist can supply contains no quinine belongs In every home accept no substitute. Tastes nice acta gently.- Advertisement hot me today do something which shall take A llttlo sadness from the world's vast store; And may I bo so favored as to mako Of Joy's too scanty sum a llttlo more Iot mo not hurt, by any selfish deed, Or thoughtless word, tho heart of foo or friend; Xor would I liass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence, where I should dofend. However moaRro bo my worldly wealth, Let mo kIvo something that shall nld my kind; A word of courage, or a thought of health, Dropped as 1 pnss for troubled hearts to find. Lot mo tonight look back across tho span "Twlxt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say, "DccauBo of somo good act to boast or man Tho world Ib hotter that 1 lived today." CopyrlRht, 1013, by Star Company. pretending to make a livelihood, and com plaining Hint no one lins ever given you a lift, and that llfo him not opened tho door to tho right opportunity to develop tho best In you I Think of It, you wives with Rood com fortablo homes, who complain becnuvs you have to do housework for your own families; and think of It, you women of ; fashion who yawn tho early morning hours away In beds or ease, wondering what you can do during Jho day to re lievo tho dullness of stupid life! Then, after you havo thought about It, try to seo what you can do about It. Write a letter to Kdlth Myers, at Bruth Vafloy, Pa., and send her a dollar and a word of cheer; and If this reaches the eye of any man or woman of Influence In the state of Pennsylvania lot some effort be made for tho organized charities of that Women Make Best Husbands" to Study United thus. tuhiouah xi. amaxAu. Britten Riithnrrra. who la "dolns" America from an intimate point of view by rnlnrllnx with Pro pie. From a sketch by A. a. learned. Jowels, are willing to wear last year's tailor-made suit turned and pressed, and evening gowns of an early Victorian date to economise for the children's Bake. It Is a great big society of mothers, with now and then a man who can spare the time, devoting themselves exclusively to the one great object the education of their boys and girls. I haven't found anything like that over here aa yet, but New York Isn't American any moro than IJondop Is English or Paris Is typical of France. "Another thing strikes me as curious and different over here. In England every schoolboy expects a 'tip' from his family or friends when they come to see him, or at Christmas. But he would never be offered a 'tip' for doing any thingcarrying your bag, for Instance, or rendering any other little service. "Now, over, here It is different. Your boys are 'tipped' for doing some actual work, and I hear that many of the boya actually earn their own way through college. "If, ns they say, English women mafco the beBt wives, I must admit that the American woman has made the best hus band. If they don't, they get divorced. If It's true that your women go to Paris when they die, I'm quite sure that Eng lish women must come here," she con tinued. "English women have much to learn from American women. The women from this side of the water train up their hus bands In the way thoy should go. If the man is amenable to reason he speedily takes his place among the best husbands In the world. If he doesn't yield properly the wife keeps after him until he Is a model. That'll what I mean when I say that American women make the best husbands. "Btlll. there are some things that do strike us as very strange over here. Th restaurant question, for Instance. Why, I heard a group of women discussing the prosperous stato to do something toward tho malntonltnco of this unfortunate girl. If there Is uny woman's club In tho vicinity of Hrush Valley, Pa.. It should bo tho pleasure of thut organisation to exert Itself for tho benefit of Kdlth Myers. Or any Pennsylvania stato socie ties In New York City. The bravo wordB of such a sufferer ns this mnkes us all ashamed of our moods of despondency and dissatisfaction. ''Alt summer I was very happy, study ing and working; but my headaches have compelled mo to give up my studies," she says. All render of this article who weru born In Pennsylvania or who ever lived there ought to feel a senso of personal .I ii'ni toward maklnj an effort to relievo tho sufferings and needs of which ilia .iitc ' speaks. States Parents possibility of u waiters' strike as a seri ous thing, and something that affected them personally. They all have the habit of eating In public restaurants. That Is quite unheard of In England, where a din ner or a supper In a restaurant Is looked upon as a treat and something of a lark, lark. "But will you tell me why In sluoh a luxurious land you have not a cheaper tuxlcub rate. No. one can afford to go In cabs here, and no one over thinks of going out In anything else, especially In the evening nt home.-" "Not having found a satisfactory solu tion myself, I was at u loss for an an swer, 'But Mrs. Millar evidently ex pected none and went on to another of our modern Inventions divorce, "Before I came here I had only met two divorcees In nil my life. Divorced people are still spoken of In England with hushed voices und after the children have been sent from the room. But, to tell tho truth, I think that the attitude Qf the English toward the easy American di vorce Is one of 'sour grapes,' and, per sonally, I think that If married peopta find that they are not compatible thoy should be able to separate. Incompat ibility, when It's mutual, Is really the only reason for divorce." Mr. and Mrs. Millar have left their three children in schools while they make thetr American pilgrimage among that xtruggllng middle section of society. Mrs. Millar's Impressions are aure to be different from those of the hotel and private car authors we have had with us of Jute, and they will be nearer a truthful representation of the people of tho States, for, as she says, "the very poor and the very rich of all countries recemble each other. It Is among the struggling olass who are not handl- ! capped with the extremes of wealth .or poverty that the national characteristic and the real mettle of the country is felt" m "If the pink god had been a sharp curve never have let die. It wrecked the nose of the You see It was HkF this. Billy w.us a charming boy. He had a rakish while racer that hud 'an engine like a youns elephant up front under ltn hood whon It had any on a lovely, white racer tliat sniffed nnd complained at seventy nn!.s an hour, roared with Joy at ninety, and crawled Indignantly through country towns at forty. Betty knew she loved tho Joyous little big cnr. Her heart raced In perfect tui'q with Its stealthy hum on tho flat, aivl leapt In time to Its powerful throb up the long Westchester hills. She knew she loved tho car. But vell she reckoned she loved Billy. She waiVt suro n-n-not quite! She adored the rc-t of his shoulders. And gravely she found thut the fact that he could hunch hlM young hack over the position .he hd found and "held down" for hlmsslf is X. Ill I Romer's Discovery IM w l JJ By REV. THOMAS II. GItKGORY. The dlrcoVery of 'the velocity of liqht which was made on or nbout Kuhr iarv IS, 237 years ago, by the celebrated Honor, revealed the stupendous secrets which without that great discovery might never have become known to us. By certain calcu lations based on tho eclipses of Jupiter's satellites. Homer as certained tho fact that It took light sixteen minutes nnd five seconds to cross tho earth's orbit. In other words, ho fixed the velocity of tight at about 1S6.C00 miles per second, an estimate which has been confirmed by all subsequent calcu lations and which was finally demjn strated by Mister Michelson of the United States navy In 1S79. With the speed of light made known -t became possible to determine the dlstnncj of tho heavenly bodies and thus to get some sort of Idea o( tho vustness of tin universe. For example, knowing tnu Hpeed with which light travels, and kiu- Ir.i: that It takes It eight mlnutos end fourteen seconds to reach the earth from the sun, we know, finally, that the big luminary-Is distant from us nbout 92,000, 000 miles a distance that would require a railroad train traveling thirty' miles an hcur 30 years to cover. But when tho swift messenger has reached our earth he has Just started on his Journey, and when wo stop to think that It will require three and a half years for tho messenger to reach Alpha Centaurl, our nearest neighbor among tho suns of space, we know that that otur Is separated from us by a void that Is equal to twenty-one billions of mlUs 2W.00J times greater than that which .iop arates us from the sun. By the discovery of the rate of speed with which light travels It was made oos Bible to determine the staggering fact that Cygnl is distant from us 03.000, 000.000 miles; Lyrae, 75,000.0,000. Sirlus. $4,000,000,000; I'rsae, 117.000,000,000; Arcturua. 145,000,000,000. and so on. Thus Is Is by the aid of Itomer's dis covery that the students of astronomy are able to compass the hitherto Impos sible gulf of space and measure tho dls. tance of the fixed stars, thus lmpresslng us. at one and the same time with the greatness of. creation and tho 'littleness of ourselves. And yet we may find something to cheer ub up In the words of Pascal: "Man ia but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he Is a thinking reed. It is not necessary that the entire unl(er3 arm Itself to crush him. A breath of air, a drop of water suffices to kill nim. But were the universe to crush 'Mm man would still be more noblo than that which kills him. because he knowa that he dies; while the universe knows noth ing of the advantage it has over him " on the job, so he could murmur a b him mix desperate love to a rose of racer and Betty said 'NO.' " well as slither It down In the ariug, back swept seat of the cur his father gava him mndo her heart tender for him when she tilted her shiny gold head to one lde and thought It over! Honest, truly It did. But EroH-rHroH that llttlo snub-noMia chup who sometimes manages a lovo af fair In a much worse shape than you und 1 could do It why he must ha' been loif Infr that day that Billy mado up his m'nd to throw up his chin nnd ask Betty to bj his without a flicker of an eye-lash. Ho must ha' been In the quiet mld9t of a mellow good tlmo by the hearthsldu of some long-married pair. Some Ion happy pair. "Bestlnc on his laurels, ' you know wlillo tho work of his hands that was there for him to do wert all awry! If the llttlo pink god had been whcr Our Daily Fashions r M w saexovx lly IiA RACONTEUSE. Evening gown of canary-yellow char meuse. The foundation of the bodice and the small sleeves are of ecrue guipure lace. The bodice- Is veiled by canarv silk musllne embroidered on the shoujders In an oriental design. The decolletage Is "V" shaped and U bordered by a small band of marten. The draped skirt, which shows a pretty and graceful movement' ut the small train, is covered in its upper part and over each Bide by two bands of the sarru; guipure. A high sash of coral "velour frapp!" richly embroidered with beads, and turquoise, has a long squareloop falling over the girdle top. WUnt In .Needed. "Do you think that wo should have u more elastic currency T" usked the Old Fogy. "It Is elastic enough,'' replied the Grouch. "Why don't they make It more adhesive 7" Cincinnati Enquirer. it o' advice now and again, he'd never have let Billy-boy propose on a girl and the managing of a little white racer in one wonderful mud- most of his wee fat self was needed -in the spare tire at the rear with his face peering between the shoulders of two of' them so he could murmur a bit o' ad vice now and again, he'd never liavfc 'c' Billy-boy propose on a sharp curve, never have let hlm slew sideways In his ap peal carrying tho wheel with him, at the Fume time getting his tall knees In the rake of the wheel, never have let hlni mix desperate, love of a rose of a girl nad the managing of a little white racer In ono fearful nnd wonderful muddle that made them take a stone wall Into a fan lly of silver birches In one fine, grand comet-like flight, with a spray of siiov for a tail! It wrecked the nose of the llttlo whtl racer and Betty said "No!" She had meant to say the other little hissing word that can be so soft jn the Massive Bridges Spanning City Waterways Are Health Fonts Few People Appreciate. By GARRETT P. 8ERVISS. New York now has four bridges acrosd. tho East river. Those four lofty bridges differ from almost all others found In similar situa tions, because of their great height abovo the water. They are great streets through the air, and, as such, aro highways of health for those, who will make proper use of them. I know u Brook lyn physician who prescribes resular walks across the brldgo as the best medicine for peo ple sufforlng from trouble of tho re spiratory organs, weakness of blood cir culation, poqr digestion, nervousness and Inromulo. He 'declares, and 1 believe ho is right that when the city built Its high brldicr It unknowingly furnished a free tonlf for its Inhabitants that Is worth more than millions of bottles of patent medi cines or druggists' prescriptions. I also know a man who was onco threatened -with consumption, and who avers that"he escaped from its clutches by persistently walking across the oldest of these bridges twice a day, winter and summer alike. Up there, HO feet above the water, the air blows freely, the breezes blow as un interruptedly ns over a country hilltop and much cf the contamination of, the bottom strata of the atmorphere Is elim inated. The noxious germs are less numerous, and their power to-do ovll Is weakened. In that open space the solar rays can do their purifying work farmore effectually than they can' In the choked and dusty streets. Besides the greater purity of the air and the advantage derived from Its con tinual circulation, there are two other Influences that add to the health-giving property of these bridges. The first Is the stimulating effect of the wonderful views that are spread beforo the walker's eyes. They have all the usefulness of a mental distraction. If one of those bridges had been built solely for the pur pose of affording a view over the metrop olis of the western world It would be one of the most popular exhibitions In ex istence. People would pay a good price to enjoy It. But since they can have It free hundreds of thousands neglect It. It Is a speetaole that never grows old. but, on the contrary, becomes more fan otnatlng every year as the great city climbs higher and higher toward heaven. Every change of weather and every ohange of light produces a change in the aipect of that marvelous hive of 5.000.000 human bees. When foggy clouds descend lips of u child or a girl who loves you. But when Billy lowered his gloves frjm his dazed face and finished up his su tenet "will you?" all these thing.' bruises and a lost hat; a tumbled head, and a trail of hairpins, -the outraged con sciousness of her hat being cocked over her eyes and her own llttlo self sna.tcncd Into a hurried, flight in tho heart of Um sweetest mln'uto of'her life; the slgnt of. the chap who had 'done it; with his blark hair upright; the death of the little white racer all this made a mighty rage to seethe up In Betty's heart and she tunJ upon him In thn snow In a deadly cal n and sent "Nof' crackling through the Icy quiet air! And that was the reason she gave that emphatic "no." NEIjIj BRINKLEY. upon the city the view of New York's now famous "sky-line," as Been from the bridges, rivals a mountain sceno in majestic Imprcsslveness. In the early evening tho rowa of lights In the twenty, I hit ty and forty-story buildings form a spectacle of civic magnificence such as the whole world cannot equal. On n bright day tho llfo of the crowded river nnd the busy water fronts la almost In finite In Its variety and Its distractions. The second stimulating quality of a walk across the bridges ia to be found In tho exercise itself. City people becom? Vt too fond of ridlhK. You will Vee n-e:i and women stopping a street car to rldo three or four blocks, not becausd they have not time to walk that distance, but because they have grown too lazy to us3 their limb?. They even ride across tho bridges wlien they have plenty of time to walk and when the walk .would be worth ten times the price of the j-ide. Biding In street cars Is destructive of thought, but walking stimulates tho bra'n. It is tho best of all exercises for people who have to use their mental ma chinery, and who wish to keep It in good condition. I will quote another acquaintance who has found out the advantages of bridsp walklng. He is a lawyer. Ho lives In Brooklyn, and does hl3 business In Man hattan. All the year round he walks across tho bridge. He says he has won many a case by It. During the walk hU mind Is btirred to extra activity. Thoughts aro stirred up like partridges In tho woods. Mind and body are stimu lated together. The awakened blood circulates through the brain nnd arouses its sluggish clls. The whole aspect of the world, outwardly and inwardly, is changed for the better. Not onlv does one think more clearly, but one thinks moro cheerfully. Sloan's Liniment has a sooth ing effect on the nerves. It stops neuralgia, toothache and sciatica pains instantly. HERE'S PROOF Mrs. C. M. DowKEn, of Joliaiinesbnr? rao of Jyeurulgla. Those palm hare all 8lodno.t:onp1e,;ua:,. ,ru uj ur IPMEIT is also good for rheumatism, sore throat and sprains. r. Earl S. Sloan - Boston, Mass. SLOAM'S f 4