TIIH BKK: OMAHA, S ATI 1? DAY, M RCTI 1.-1, 1013
17
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Some Rooms
eu.ueu.,oeFrrvr LAyr
The Dream of a
By WINIFRED BLACK.
They took her off the train In Kansas
City the other day, the woman who was
going home to die.
She had. been out west to got well, high,
dry air they told
her would cure
her, and so she
left every one she
loved, and every
thing she knew,
and lived alone
for a year. But
It was no uao and
so she started
home to die.
Alas! It was too
late aha had
waited too Ions.
When tha train
wa n caring Kan
Baa City the woman
r o u e d herself
from her stupor,
looked out of the
and I smell water somewhere, running
water. Home, I'm getting home at last."
And so she was, poor thing,, for before
the porter, could call for help she was
gone; Home, well and light of heart.
Thoa.of us who saw her carried
through the raxing throng In the crowded
station wondered where her home on
earth was, and whether It was so beau
tiful really, as It seemed to her.
Water, she scented, running water. It
was near & little stream, the homo. she
loved so well, I'll warrant. A little
laughing, gossiping, friendly stream, with
water-oress along Its shallows, and tiny
darting trout hiding In Its coolness.
Did she play In that stream when she
was a little girl I wonder, did she' make
boats 'with leaves ,fdr sails and set them
afloat so proudly, down, down the spark
ling water to the great open sea a thou
sand miles away?
Did she ' "go wading" when the first
soft days of spring called to her to pome
and be a part of the things out In the
lacy shade of the green and waving" wil
lows? Did she have a play house In the
old willow tree, do you suppose, was the
first broad branch the parlor, and did
she Invite company to see her In the re
ception room higher up tho bough?
Did she make wands of the swaying
tips, and "change her little brother Into a
green frog when ha took her doll and
pretended to throw her Into the river?
Oh, yes! they probably called the little
shining stream a river and thought It
a very swift water Indeed and liked to
tell each other how dangerous It was
down below where It got larger after
Clear creak joined with the Bubbly
Spring.
Where did It come from, that stream
of soft delight? Way up, In the green
hills over past, beyond and further than
way off.
Did she ever run away a whole day to
follow and find out, the little vagrant
girl with her petticoats all askew and
her stockings hanging down and her
hair all unbralded, till the very birds
stared to see her? And did she hold K
supple willow wand In her slender hand
and sing to herself as she went away
across the far green hll)s around the
bend, past the place of the old cross dog
and beyond the house with the red barn?
What was It called to her from the ham
yard? Something shrill and reproving.
Little brother said It was a Guinea hen
and he started to mock the cry, "Pot
rack, pot rack." till she put her hand
over his m",,,K made him run with
her out of hearing;
Who were u.-..f! strange people they
met on tha road, a man and a woman
In a rickety cart with a cover to It and
queer table clothes or something hang
ing out to dry on the covee? The woman
v- Pt"1 bends, an) she had white teeth,
and when she laughed It made the little
KM afraid.
And what a wild dog It was that ran
uwutr the wagon, snaggy and furtive.
The little girl had to drive old Hero away
from him two o three times, he wanted
to fight so badlr. , ,.?ff
And did they find bear tracks alonr
the soft green of the path betide the
laughing stream, or maybe they were
HKer tracks, you never could tell.
Spring sunshine and the spring wind
and the green grass, and In a shady
place a whole flock of spring beauties
striped white and pink and fairly aflutter
with the song of spring, and In the grass
little yellow stars and white ones, fallen
from the skies you told little brother,
and he tried so hard to believe Vou,
flldn't he. Little Girl?
No wonder you loved the little stream,
tho running water, no wonder you
dreamed of It out there In the splendor
cf the burning sand where you went too
i CALL tb Dlscyss -reWAi . hmi To aTAV V l . iSif k Pec6 J Vlu 00 ' ' Bfe BS-I p, ttMB ! llfcteY
Are "Great and
Dying Woman
late to bo helped of the deadly poison
that sapped your strength.
I am sorry, Little Girl, I'm sorry you
didn't get home In time to hear the song
of the little stream again. I hope they
bore your wasted body back homo nnd
laid It somewhere near that running
water.
For those of you who love the water
arc . never really content away from It,
whetner u De a migmy river roiuiiK
grandly to tho great ocean, or whether
It be the bluo lake, opal and pearl at
sunset, and rose and crimson In the early
dawn, or whether It be the great grey
sea Itself, calling, calling, calling to the
children who love her to come home,
come home and be rocked to sleep.
Trees and running water, how long.
how long they live In the memory. The
dying wonian saw those trees there in
the saualor and the crowd ot trie aepoi,
and when the Indians going to Oklahoma,
tbo cowboys going to Texas, and the
women going to Florida, nnd the men
hurrying to catch tho 10:30 to uiucngo,
hurried past her stretcher she listened
and heard only the rush ot running water
welcoming her home at last.
Sleep Boft. little woman, by your run
ning stream, sleep soft, U Is ft long,
long time till spring and waking time,
The Manicure Lady
UyMVlMilAM V. KIRK
"It's funny. George." said the Manicure
Lady, "how many grafters there are In
this world. Now did you happen to notice
that gent with the long whUkers that
went out of here after having his nnlls
did? Don't bo standing- there looking
like a loon. Answer my question."
"I seen him." said the Head Barber,
meekly.
"You shouldn't say 'I seen him' nt nil,
said the Manicure Lady. "You are all
the time correcting me. so I guess I will
have to hand you, a little Jolt. You
should have said 'I have saw him.' I
never dono no correcting of your Kngllsh
before, but this time I couldn't desist the
temptation.
"But. anyhow, what I was going to
say was about this guy with the long
whiskers. I was surprised that you even
seen him, because you take nine barbers
out of ten and you won't oven see them
take the shortest look at n man that
wears a full beard. They are sore at film
because he doesn't come In every day
nnd get shaved once over. This old fel
low, though, was one sketch, and I am
sorry that you didn't get a line on his
talk.. Do you know what lio wanted to
sell me? A history of the world, all In
twenty-four volumes, with nice calf
binding, the kind of calfskin that you cut
off the college boys' faces. He said It
told all about history from the time them
Egyptians made the pyramids and kicked
tome honest folks out of their country
up till the war of the rebellion. He said
that if a girl of my Intelligence got a set
of them books and read about the charge
pf the light frigate, or whatever It Is they
call one of them battleship. I would be
rich In knowledge, and would be able to
make fun of a lot of wise guys that
came In and tried to educate me." '
"I don't think many of them could
educate you much." said the Head Bar
ber. "You and me lias lots of scraps,
but when It comes to telling you where
to get off I guess It would take four col
lege professors and four gamblers rolled
into one to enlighten you .very much.
Anyway, I can't see what good It does
to know a lot of history. It's like learning-geography.
You pick up one of than
large, flat books at school and learn that
Uruguay Is near Paraguay and that there
Is a lot of rubber down thcro and otyar
products, and then you take a slant at
the great Sarah desert, or some other
woman's name like that, and tho teacher
tells you that It Is all saprt and wind
storms, with a little pool of water hore
and there. Hut geography ain't much
good to anybody in this world when thero
1 some little boy with a good sized nose
fitting next to you studying Interest and
percentage."
"That Is what I was saying to the old
gent with the lace curtains on his ohln,"
tald the Manicure Lady, "but I didn't
get a chance to say very much to him
about It after he found out that I didn't
want to buy tho history. He paid me
for the manicure and walked out without
giving me no tip. I guess that most. folk
In this world walks off on you pretty
quick, George, when they don't see. no
nourishment In staying around."
Church A ttcriduiirf .Nil.
Mrs. Whyupp So they have Just had
their first quarrel?"
Mrs. Blase Yes. After fifteen yeaifc
. -4 A ha.. linl'n (lint . 1 1 V
that they belong to opposite churches.
Lire.
Others Are Cells
Who Makes the Best Kind of
f
"WED A 'HELLO' GIRL
AND YOU'LL
i
By FRANCES Ij.
GARSIDK
When a girl Is In
lovo her happiness
Is' so complete there
Beems nothing left
to ask for, and she
stops saying her
prayers.
But after sho has
been married a few
weeks sho begins
again, and tho bur
den of her petition
Is a prayer for pa
tience, Sho has
found that a sweet
'face, a ready wit,
nn understanding
sympathy, a charm
or two, may win a
husband, but that it
requires patience to
keep htm.
This being true,
and no wife will
deny it, doesn't it
follow that the girl
who will make the
best wlfo Is tho one
whose business call
ing dovelops pa
tience? ,
Tho girl behind
itho counter who
hauls down all her
stock fur a woman
who has no Inten
tion of buying; the
waitress In a res
taurant who Is the
buffer between an
Incompetent cook
and an exacting ap
petite; tho dress
maker who Is paid
for the impossible
task of making a
MISS
Venus out of a natural born scarecrow;
the stenographer to whom a day's accu
mulation of pothooks looks like the In
scriptions on an Egyptian tomb; the wo
man In any and every calling feels that
she, 'and she alone, really knows what
patlenco Is.
But here is one who contends that in
comparison with her education the pa
tience required for other callings la as
an undersized mole hill to an overgrown
mountain. She Is Miss Minnie Maud
Itoesch, and sho speaks for that angel
By KLBKRT HUBBARD.
Sponges have been used since Maro
Antony, the silver-tongued, lived in Alex
andria and Julius Caesar threw up tho
sponge when beset by his enemies in the
Roman Forum.
For 2,000 years
spongeshave been
hooked up from
tho bottom of the
sea. But now, in
Florida, the busi
ness has been
standardized and
divers do the work.
One diver will col
lect as many spon
ges as twenty-five
worklugmen with
hooks from a boat.
After the sponge
Is taken from the
water It is exposed
to the sun for u
time. Tills kills the
animal. Tha outside skin Is then scraped
off and the sponges are thoroughly rlnted
In water so all the fleshy substance is
washed out. They are then put oa'strlngs
about a yard long, all sixes mixed, and
offered for sale at the various markets.
Sponges are sold by the pound, but
thero are ways of Increasing tho weight
of sponges by loading them. Sometimes
they are colored or discolored in order
to make you think that you are buying
a Turkish sponge or a sheepswool sponge,
when you are getting something very dif
ferent. The most important sponge market in
America is Tarpon Springs, Fla.
Sponges are now complimented by spe-
I , Just Sponges
J
MINNIE M. BOESCH.
at the other end of the line whom we
call with mixed emotion varying from
tenderness to disrespect "the telephone
girl."
An angel? Of course, for who but an
angel would take the abuse a telephone
plrl gots and speak in the sweetest voice
over heard in reply?
Miss Itoesch, who has had a long ex
perience In placating the Impatient nnd
smoothing down the feathers on the back
of an .irritable public, speaks for the
thousands of girls who work somewhere
clal legislation that protects them. Lob
sters the samp.
I venturo that the average citizen of
America knows less about sponges that
he does about lobsters.
Florida followed the lead of Maine and
protected her Infant industries. There
are federal statutes also on the subject
of sponge fishing.
There are 137 different grades of com
mercial sponges. Theso range In price
from a few cents up to $W or VtO a pound.
The various grades are sorted Into
firsts, seconds and thirds, and these
again subdivided into various sizes.
I saw a black sponge thrown Into a
tank. In a little while It came out of
another tank a beautiful golden color,
one of those soft, fluffy, blond peroxide
things that you seo in tho druggist's
window.
There Is a book on sponges written by
the world's greatest living thinker.
'In order that no Smart Alecthander
will think that I am talking about my
self, I( will explain at once that tho
world's greatest living thinker is Krntst
Ilaeckel, of the little town of Jena, in
Germany.
Darwin also had a good deal to say
on the subject of sponges In his book,
"The Origin of Species."
All animal life seems to start from
about the same basts. Things then move
off in various directions.
Nature ban tried alout all the proceisfn
that can he Iiuhi,". .!. and a good -nauy
that can't. In her endeavors to maka a
man.
The sponge seems to be the universal
embryo. Everything in animal life Ue
gins In a sack filled with a Jellylike
subs tana
Drawn
a Wife?
BE HAPPY"
J9
up In a holo In the wnll, yliom we ncVor
see, never know, and yet who nro the
custodians of nil our srcrnls.
"If thcro Is nny position requiring pa
tience, and a senme Acceptance of tho
most unjust and most haBty Judgment,
It Is ttmt occupied by tho girl at tho
switchboard. She Is called upon every
hour of the day to do the Impossible, and
hold accountublo for delays In performing
It that are not In nny way her fault.
"With every nerve rnokpil, wljh her
temper tried by tones that tiro exacting,
Imperious, Impudent .and quarrelsome, sho
Is expected to nlnlnhl'y explain every de
lay, and to remember throiiRh an Inter
vention of fifty-odd calls who called
whom nn hour ago.
"She must know when Jones calls KM
that ho really meant 4500, and that when
the number ho asks for Is engaged she
must give It to him when It Isn't. Bho,
must realize that tho man who hus taken
down the receiver Is In a hurry. His
business Is Important; every man knowB
that, or every mun knows that when he
goes to tho telephone It really Is im
portant, though his object be nothing more
than nn Inquiry nt what hour the baby
cut Its tooth.
"This training In memory, patience and
In long suffering .Is, needed,' by ev-sry
wife. And It has tiecomo second nature j
with every telephone girl who hns AA
her position ns long an six months. She
hns become so trained she will mnke no
sharp reply when complaint Ib made that
dinner Is uot ready qr Isn't cooked to
suit the pampered masculine taste.
"Then, again, her training as a re
pository of secrets is Invaluable. Hhe
doesn't tell nil she knows, and the wlfo
who doesn't tell her husband nil nho
knows retains his Interest longer and
avoids telling him much that would an
noy. Sho becomes a veritable sphinx
and the storms of life blow nrotind her
with as llttlo effect as tho sand blows
around that model of fomlnlno discre
tion and patience In tho desert.
"The training of the telcphono girl
qualifies her to make the best sort of a
partner-In business or In tho closer re
lationship of husband and wife, The roan
..,v, i. wLo enough to appreciate these
qualities will not go amiss when he goes
wlfe-sceklng if he sheets for his partner
a telephone girl.
The central at th office becomes the
central of hU home-one Who soothes the
ImPRtlrnt. who ear. very complain
and who Is the cieanng-no
wrong."
a. o nrnducH a man, nature
draws strings across tho sack, closes It
here, leta It out there, tneti i .v. u,,,
and out of this sack protrude, In the
course of time, arms, head, limbs, eyes,
organs, dimensions, passions, political
ambitions, .thoughts, schemes, plans, that
evolve Into an executive.
The sea is the groat universal mother
of us all. Every subetance found In na
ture Is found In the Bca. And the
sponges seem to represent a very early
form of life that fell a victim to ar
rested development.
The sponge of commorce Is the skele
ton of the animal. The oyster and the
clam and the Baptists alt have hrd
shells.
Tho turtle and the lobster aro evolved
typjtf of Jellyfish, fitted out with armor.
Instead of armor, man has a brain, and
he protects himself with Ideas,
aii n,n.n imlra and apertures In the
spongo are for tho purpose of sending
curronts of water inrougn. mr? -distinct
purpose. The holes In the sponge
carry "eats" to the animal that is in
side. The whole body keeps tip a peri
stals motion, absorbing water and
throwing It out.
From the particles that pass through,
the sponge gets a living, hut ho has' to
work for It, Just as we have to work for
a living.
The sponge Is first cousin to the coral
Insert. Tho coral Insect deposits a cal
careous matter, this being a sort of
waste.
Tho sponge puts out calcareous matter,
hut It la believed that an absolutely
healthy sponge does not allow any lime
to get Into his bones.
Spongee wltli calcareous matter will
Fcratch your autoinoblle body and are,
tlieiofore without muoh tommeiclal
vnliln.
Sponges lay eggs. We have the male
and the female living In happy relation
ship, without scandal, near each other,
for The Bee by
ContemplcLting Matrimony
Dorothy Dix Writes an Open Letter to the Young Girl, Who
la Feeling tho Call of What She Thinks Is the
Great Love of Her Life.
By DOROTHY DIX.
My Dcur Llttlo Olri! You toll me that
you nro 17 years old, and that you are
thinking of eloping with ji young chap
who clerks In tho haberdashory store
thut you pass every day, nnd who has
perfectly iitunnlng
eyes, nnd weurs tho
swcllest clothes.
Whenever y o u
cutch n gllmpso
of him your heart
Just goes fllppety
flop, and' you have
little chills a n d
fevers Just exactly
llko Iiuly Gwen
dolyn experienced
In tho "Earl'H
Daughter," nnd you
could listen for
ever to him talk
while he called you
"Baby vDoll" and
"Oh. "You" Kid."
Dcsldea w h I c li
mntchos Uls in dancing, nnd ho likes
piuK strawberry ice crenm line you uo,
ana lies just craxy nnoui mo movies,
un y6u aro.
By all tlicKO signs nnd tokens you
Uitmv (hut wtuit vnil feel for him Is a
deep, unalterable lovo, tho passion of, a
lifetime, ana mat no is mo ouo man in
tha world that rate ana nature aesunea
for your mate.
And 17 docrin't seem so very young to
you, You feel qultc-qulto old, and very
wise, nnd experienced, ntld you haven't
a doubt that you are perfectly capablo of
deciding tho most Important proDiem oi
your wholo life.
Of course, your mother nnd father ob
ject, and say that you aro nothing but a
baby, und that there'll be plenty oi umo
to think of lovo and getting married when
you aro really grown up, but parents ara
such old fogy people, anu so unproK
iuo mieh nltnuether back numbers that
it's mere weakness to listen to their
vlows, or to bo Influenced by tnem.
un vm ami Prrcv Isn't that Just the
most romantic namo?-are thinking about
eloping, and getting married in spue oi
yoUr mammas and papas.
Oon't do it, llttlo girl. I know you oato
figures, but Just cast your eye over the
cold, hard statistics ot divorce, and they
win nhnvL- vnu that more than 75 Pr sent
of thg jnarrlageH that end Jn disaster
voro the result of elopemenis. or wmo
.. vminv nennln irot married. Natur.
ally you ara sure that you and Percy
would prove a grand exception 10 me
utoviu. vnu would, but the experi
ence of thousands and thosands of other
miserable men and women snow now ter
ribly tho odde ara against you. You
havon't got even a gambling chonco for
domestlo happiness.
You think that tho feellhg that you cn
i.riain tnr Pnrcv la love. R ! not. It
Is tho dawilng of sex consciousness. It
la your first realization or me
you are a woman, and that Percy 1 a
man. nnd that between the two there la
tho mysterious call of sex sounded by
nature.
Your mother is too modest to talk to
you about such things, und that Ib why
you and millions of other little, young.
Ignorant girl", blunder Into matrimonial
misery. They mletako the flutter that
happily attached to ono big rock. 1 Wing
out a beautiful life of self-saorlflco.
ralslpg a big family that go off Into the
sea and attach themselves. In turn, to
.- i nn hnnoHt llvlnr.
roonn nun .... ---
Sponges usually attain growth In nbout
ten yoars, but In some centers wo aro
told that they grow for fifty or a hundred
years.
used In America come
largely from Cuba and the coast of
Florida. , Li
ti.. ar ntiier tiecullar and valuable
sponges that are found only nlong the
Mediterranean coast ana among mo
of Greece.
A Orent 8peec.li.
A young Newarker had listened to the
Gettysburg address at school. On hla way
homo he snld to his big sister:
"Is that a great speech?'
"Yob."
mi. . it,. ..runtnut unpptfh In the world?"
"It Is thought to bo ono of the greatest
ovur spoken.'
The boy looked unconvinced, ''atc,"
he said, "I Just wish my father would
write a speecn," v-ieveiana .riainasaier
oAl
"Bud" Fisher
. -
man in general produces in their breasts
for lovo of sonio particular Individual
mun. Distrust your omotlons, my dear,
as you would a band of traitors that
Wero trying to deceive nnd luro you into
slavery. Dm't marry any man until you
Imvo known many men, and can distin
guish between the excitement that the
attention of society of anything In mas
culine garb Inspires In you from the deep
nnd porvadtng contentment you feel n
the presence of the Ono Man. In tha world
for you.
And don't answer every call that conns
along, for f ear you will, miss saying
"Yes" to tho right one. When ho arrlvc-s
you will lienr his voice, though it whis
pered to you aaross tha ocean.
Ypu say that you arc perfectly confl
flrnt that Percy Is your Ideal of all tha
you wish In a husband nnd that you
could novor, novor tiro of him, though
you lived to celebrate your diamond wed
lng anniversary, To got a line on how
Jastovchangc" at,xpur,OKB. Jus try to, re
call how craxy you we're dvqr that pint?
dress last winter. You thought It the.
very quintessence of stylo, and amart
ncss, and 'beauty. .Now you wouldn't be
caught dead In It.
Also recall the way you had, ynur room
fixed up with collego flags, and photo
graphs of tho girls and boys, and dinky
little souvenirs, and how perfectly grand
you coiisldcerd it. They went into the
discard utter you took that course of art
lectures and found out thnt bare sim
plicity woh .tho thing. And da you re
member how mad you were over choco
late fudgo until you got an overdose of
It? Now the very name of fudgo gives
you nausea.
Bellove me, nil thoso disasters, and
more, aro almost sure to repeat them
selves if you marry whep you uro 17.
Your taste Isn't formed In men, any mora
than It Is In hooks, or foods, or clothes.
You are at the growing time of life, and
your point of view, yqur demands, your
Idcnls cnlnrge with every year, and, tin
fortunately, you can have no guarantee
that your husband will develop in tho
same way that you did.
Ho may stay Just what he was when
you married htm, or he may go back
ward, and then what are you going tu do'
Take It from me. little girl, n last year p
husband is sometimes harder to put up
with than a last yenr'a hat, and you can
lmvo a spiritual nauvoa nt the compan
ionshlp of a man you've outgrown that
Ih a million times worso than an physical
affliction. So put off getting married
till you have come to your maturity.
Thero are enough risks In matrimony
without taking any risk on the kind of u.
womun yon are going to be yourself, or
the sort of a husband you'll want when
you grow -up.
Consider, also, llttlo girl, that If you
marry when you are still a child you
deliberately cut yourself out of the only
play tlmo of life that the average woman
ever has. Her girlhood Is the golden
hour of a woman's exlstenco. It Is the
tlmo when sho Is care. (roe, and everv
one conspires to mako hor happy and give
her a good time. Even the happiest wlf
has her burdens, her restrictions. She
must sacrifice herself to her husband und
children. Take a look at some poor
sickly young mother wrestling with n
poor sickly little babo boforo you let
yourself in for walking the collo at an
ago when yqu should be turkey trotting.
Finally, beloved,- don't elope. You may
not believe it, but your parents aro yom
best friends. They have nothing at hear)
hut your Interest, no desire, but tor youi
happiness, and If they arenot w.llllna
for you to marry, rest assured they have
good and sufficient reasons.
Don't elope. Don't sneak oft and marry
unbeknown to those who have made so
many sacrifices for you.
Walt until the law makes you respon
sible for your own notions and gives you
a right to do as you please. Then you
won't have to elope, and the chances are
that you wouldn't look at the youth you
once contemplated running off to marry
it will give you such cold shivers when
you think ot what you have escaped that
you'll turn up your coat collar.
Think a long, long time before you
marry, llttlo girl. For It takes five nn:
utes and a, dollar and a halt to get mm
rled, but It requires sorrow and tcr
snd lawye.r. and much nionoy to set i
dlvorae. It's always a lot easier to gei
Into trouble than to get out' of Itnil'
may heaven preserve' you from the folly
ot an early marriage.
