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Ttirc TIEE: OMAITA, MOX11AV, MARCH 17, 101.1.
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No Rules for Proposals
Uy BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
"I am 12 years of age. and In love with
a young lady three yearn my Junior."
write one who signs himself Ralph.
would like lo propose to her. but do not
know how to begin."
Without doubt one could find tome
where. In books new or musty, a rule
for eveery procedure under the sun ex
cept that of proposing marriage. Vol
umes are given to ways for making a
pudding; there are great libraries de
voted exclusively to a man's rights when
his neighbor's row gets In his corn, and
mnny and varied are the books on
etiquette touching on every social func
tion from serving the soup to proper
onduct as ii pallbearer at a funetal.
Hut nowhere Is there an accepted form
for asking for a girl's hand In niarriage,
and at the most Important moment of
his life a man Is left without a guide
book. "A guide-book," mind you. but not
without a guide! At such a moment the
girl whose hand Is sought becomes the
guide. She may have had no previous
experience; that Is unnecessary. Woman's
wit and woman's Intuition lead her to
safely pilot the man from his flounder
Ings In the pit of declaration to the high
and dry standing of n declared suitor.
Hut If Ralph, the writer of this letter,
man. like, does not want to depend on the
leadership of the other sex. even In mat
ters as tender as this, here are some
suggestions gathered from the experi
enced of others, which may help lilm.
Evening Is the accepted time In poetry
and prose, real life fiction, though de
clarations have been made before break
fast and in the glare of the noonday sun.
However. I would not r;commend n pro
posal beforo breakfast. At that most
becoming hour no man Is In a tender
mood, and If he were the appearanco of
his lady love might chill his ardor.
Twilight Is a pretty hour; tho moon Is
nlways good for romance. Indeed, many
prefer It. and there is something sacred
and holy about a love declared under
the stars that no brighter lighting ef
fects offer. There Is a secrecy about
such a proposal that doesn't accompany
one made In the light of the moon, where
a man's arm around n girl's waist be
comes a target for eyes and tongues six
blocks off.
Vou might begin. Ralph, by holdlnn
her hand. This will not be hard, for
doubtless you have held It many times
before. I hope you have, for this hand
holding Is. the time-honored prologue to
a proposal. This time you will not let
go, an before. Vou will hold fast, 'and
you will find pouring into your baud
such a current of Inspiration and courage
that after you have held her hand at
least a minute, nothing short of tho ap
pearance of a mad bull, or the girl's on
raged father, could keep back your dec
laration. Having held her hand till this psy
chical moment, you may say, "I lovo
you." Of course she knows you do, but
that makes no difference. They are only
thiee words, all short and easy to say.
and, having once said them, you must
say them over and over for the balance
of y.our life. "
However, always say them to tho samo
woman. ' .
Sometimes in the books and in actual
experience the girl looks shyly down, and
the man must lift her face for a kiss. If
statistics were available, however. I am
sure they would prove my contention that
she has Her face lifted up for a Itlss be
fore the last of the three words has
dossed his Hps. 1 hope. Ralph, you will
verify my contention the next time you
w Hie.
If you find you are still shy on words,
here are three more that are so short
and easy to remember they are eligible
to a child's first reader. They are "Sot
the day."
You need not say what day It Is you
want her to set. She, knows It is not a
day for going fishing or for having the
hay cut In tho east meadow. She knows
what day you mean, thus saving you
uny necessity for detail or verbosity.
Proposing. Ralph, Is so easy and so
pleasant that many men become addicted
to the habit and propose to a girl for the
passing enjoyment love-making . affords.
I hope you will not get the habit. Pro
pose to this girl because you love her.
and let It be a proposal that will ring
steadfast and true.
'She will accept you. I am sure, and
the next thing for you to do Is t6 buy
u ring, and I hope you will pay her the
compliment of good sense by buying one
that Is comfortably within your means.
Vhen I.ove looks at diamonds it has a
vi ay of forgetting tho price of bread and
beefsteak.
And no V, my dear young man, permit
me to congratulate you!
JUST YOU
(Copyrighted. 1913, by Star Co.)
Hy KFjIjA WHEELER WILCOX.
All the selfish joys of earth,
I am getting through
That which used to lure and lead
Now I pass and give no heed;
Only one thing seems of worth
1 Just you.
Not for me the lonely height,
And the larger view;
lowlier ways seem fair and wide,
While we wunder side by side.
One thing makes the whole world
you.
Not for distant goals I run.
No great aim pursue;
.Most of earth's ambitions seem
IJke a shadow of a dream,
All tho world to me means one
Just you.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox on
Scientific Trainiig oi Children
Few Mothers Are Fitted to Train Their Offspring Hy-
genic Care Only Solution
Uy ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
"Children brought up by other than the
guiding hands of the mother, whether it
bo In institutions or in Bo-callod 'homes'
or by nurses, are machine raised children.
Whoever heard of a genius so reared?"
These words were
uttered by a wo
man opposed to
suffrage: a woman
who believes In the
"good old fash
ioned" methods of
mothers, and In the
tradition of the
"maternal Instinct"
which guides all
women to do the
right and best
thing for their chil
dren. No more falla
cious theory was
ever talked than
this.
Select fifty mothers of your acquaint
ance at random, and you win not find
five who aro guiding their children wisely
In the ways which lead to good physical
development, good behavior, order, sys
tem, concentration and unselfish Ideals.
The old fashioned "good mother" In
New England brought up a whole race
of dyspeptics by her New England food
preserves and pies, and rakes, and
pickles, and fried things galore. And
when they suffered from Indigestion,
rheumatism and "lung complaint,", she
tcld them it was the "will of God."s
It would havo been far better for the
descendants of these good mothers If
soma scientifically organized society hud
taken the children Into Its care for proper
feeding.
Over In Franco recently the wise law
took a child away from the "guiding
hand" of '"a mother who was living such
an Immoral life that she was declared
unfit to have the caro of her child.
(An American woman, too')
This was an extreme case; but there
are thousands of mothers who are unfit
to guide their children, because they are
either selfish, hysterical. Ill-tempered,
disorderly, extravagant or Ignorant of
the common laws of hyglenu and health.
"Loving mothers" allow their children
to sit with stooped shoulders und caved
In chests to study, or sew, or read; and
so to contract not only ungraceful habits,
but weak lungs and a curved back.
Only one mother Is recalled by the
writer who was so unusual that she In
sisted upon her little girl carrying her
books above n cane, held horizontally
nrross her shoulders, In order to produce
an erect carriage a result which made
the chief charm of the young woman
later In life.
The girl stated that after a few weeks
of studying in this way an Incorrect posl
on of her chest and shoulders became
Impossible to hur.
Any mother could teach this simple
aid to health; but how many do?
Rarely does one meet a boy or a girl
of 15 who breathss correctly. Mothers
should begin as noon as the child can
understand to explain the necessity to
breathe through the nostrils, with closed
mouth. And to use all the lung cells.
But how nwny mothers do'
Every child should be taught to fold
Its garments 'when disrobing at night,
and to place the morning clothes on a
in a Quandary
Toward Healthier Children
rhalr neatly, ready for donning; this Is
tho foundation of order.
Hut few children are so taught. Tho
day nurseries where the children aro
kept during tho mother's absence are far
better schools of order nnd good manners
than the homes. Yet no mother Is so
poor she could not glvo, her child this
first slmplo lesson.
They love their children nnd want them
to be successful men and women; but
they do not know how to train them.
Good mothers talk gossip beforo their
children, and speak of tho misdeeds of
neighbors, who nfterward call, and tho
children are frequently puzzled to under
stand Jiow the mother can be so cordial
and welcome the people so wnrmly whoso
fuultx have been so criticised.
This Is an unconscious lesson In hypoc
risy and deceit which has been given the
child.
The list of the falling of pardents.
mothers especially, to properly guld
children fill volumes.
Anything which science can do, and
progress further, In tho way of taking
charge of children, and protecting them
from the wrong methods of their mothers,
will he a blessing to humanity.
It Is far better to be a strongly "ma
chine made" human being than one who
Is handbasted and never sewed and who
comes to pieces at the first strain.
That Is what happens to many home
made children.
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tftlf Rnhhif Pn . He Dedicates His Musa to the
LsUlie IDODDie S ra -.- Greatness of Mexico
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
Wife, sed Pa to Ma last nltc, I know
that you are a keen & thoughful student
of music.
Thank you deerest luv, sed Ma. Why dj
you menshun It?
Keekaus you can help me out, sed Pa.
You can help me out very much Indeed.
I cant help you out much, sed Ma. Ther-i
ts only six dollars left and I guess you
ought to get along on a dollar of It till
you git down to the offls tomorrow. To
morrow la payday, as I remember It.
As you remember It. Ha Ha, sed I'a,
that is Indeed a merry Jest. Did you
ewer forglt anything about a pay day
Wes there ever a Saturday morning, l'a
sed. wen you dldent kiss me goodby with
the lov- lite shining In your eyes and ask
me to be turo & cum hoam early?
I see you do not aniyr, sed I'a. I se
that mv shot went hoam Hut seerusly,
sed Ha, I doant mean about rimnny or
that you can help me that way. I meen
that you can help me by putting sum
music to a new Nashunal anthem wlch
I have wrote the words to. It ought tl
make a dee-sided sensashun.
Indeed, sed 51a, what nashun are you
going to malk Immortal now?
Mexico, sol I'a, the poor country that
ts torn up so much of 'he time with war
& revolushuns.
Well, sed Ma. if I am going to put the
music to It. I want to know that thn
words Is good. 8how me the words,
Many u brite yung muslsliun has wasted
her talents on a lot of words that ment
that much poppycock, Ma sed. Read the
Copyright. 1913. by Journal-Atnerlran-Kxamlhcr,
CI' I'll) 1b in a quandary these
days with all the advlco that
has been given about Mis
tresses and Maids. Somotlmes ho Is
tempted and does advlso his clients
to take the little Maid in prefer
ence to tho daughter of tho Iioubo,
who lords It over tho shrinking girl
who wnlts on hor.
Cupid knows the Maid is better natir1
than her Mistress und is every way more
desirable for a life partntr and awav
down deep In his heart he often wonders
why It Is that more men. when they oomo
a-woolng the spoiled llttlo lady of tho
house, do not turn to the girl who waits
so demurely and carries and fetches, and
serves and vanishes Just at her haughty,
unthinking Mistress bids her.
And here's a little bit of advice Cupid
gives to many who go n-courtlng the
daughter of some proud house "Observe
the little Maid who waits on your lady
love and think to yourself If the Maid
would not maV a better Mistress of your
heart and home."
Advice to the lovelorn
By ItEATRIOE FAIRFAX.
Ills llrmnrka Slunlf)- Nothing.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 20 years old
and am going nut with a young man n
few years my senior for the last six or
seven weeks. I am learning to lovo him
more and more daily, and as my folks
are starting to question me regarding
him, and he doesn't seem to say any
thing, but occoslonally ho remarks thai
men are foolish when they marry, should
T give him up or wait, as I have plenty
of other admirers, but care for none but
him? MARY.
If ho says men are foolish to marry, It
Is evident the thought of marrying Is In
his mind. It seems to me your anxiety Is
iremature. He has been calling on you
only a few weeks, which is entirely ton
soon for him to know his own mind, (live
some of your time to your other admirers,
it will be good for both of you.
.Host Ortnlnl)- .N'nt.
Dear Miss Fnlrfax: I have been keep.
Ing company with a gentleman for the
last six months, In which time we have
had two or three slight quarrels, not
amounting to very much, and after they
aro all over we seem to love each other
more than ever. He Is very nice when
wo are alone, but as soon as we meet
any of his, friends or my friends (which
Is very, very seldom), he Is very cold and
Indifferent to me and almost Ignores me
Another thing Is, I love him very, very
much and would do most anything for
him, but at times I find myself criticising
him. not his clothes, hut his well, 1
hardly know what to say. It Is perhapi
because hn seems so young to me. lit
is 22, (I am ID). Now, do you really think
I could bo happy If I married him.
J. K.
If verythlng else were In his favor, his
rudeness to you when others aro present
Is enough to condemn him. Let your
next quarrel be the last: you arc too
young to marry, and too young to play
with love.
words to me. Then Pa read:
Nashun that we love the best,
Mextro.
Which is better than tho rest?
Mexico.
Some grand nashuns had their day,
Hut they crumbled all away.
What's the country' that will stay?
Mxlro!
Mexico. Mexico,
Wonderful nnshun.
Running you seems like
A grand occupnshun.
Poor Ilttel country
.Still in vnur teens.
Chill-Con-Carny Mexican beens.
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What's Deep
Hy LILLIAN
"No one but Ood and I know what Is
What's deep within my heart Is known to Ood and me;
He only knows how I can feel and what my thoughts must bo.
Though men may hear my voice and tear oach word apart,
Still only God and I know what's In my heart.
Perhaps I fall perhaps success shall be my mood,
Or tt may chanco that I attain but to my greatest need;
I still must win tho fight within tho world's great mart
If I am truo to what I know lies deep within my heart.
Mhat's fast within my heart I shall not tell to nion,
Hut should you come and look and never quctutloii thun
I'ci dare to feel that you wero of my llfo a part,
If you could sharo the dream that's deep within my heart.
Though only the Great Mind that gave me my Idoal
Can know what thoughts I think can know what lovo 1 feol,
Still, If I have your love, I'll strive with my love's art
To make you happy, dear, with what lies In my heart.
By Nell Brinkley
Folly of Trying to
Ily WINIFRED HLAC'K.
Thrre. now, It's all settled. No moro
Problems, no more troubles, no iuro
debts, no more sorrow, no more rriioltn-s,
no moro the sins of forgetting, no iiioi
I'lncsH, no more
failure, life one
long sweet song
from the crudla to
tho grave. They've
solved the riddle
at last no, 1 mean
again.
This time It Ib to
keep from sleep
Ing. No more
sleep, never, never
again. No moro
alarm clocks, no
moro, rush hours,
nothing but one
long, merry. Joyous
working day for
over nnd evei. Oh.
Joyl Oh, rapture'
0 h . ain't I t
grand!"
Who was the mun who had everything
ettled another way not long ago? Ho
lad It fixed for no moro cooking, no morn
ooks, no more grocery bills, no mor.)
reeling thn butcher fsco to fac5 on a
blue Monday morning, all on account of
tiny pellet which was going to feed lis
all for next to nothing.
1 can't think of the Inventor now, In
grnto that I am. I wbnder how long It
will tnko to remember tho name of the
gloriously endowed person who has dis
covered tho way to llvo without sleep' I
shan't remember It a minute for my
part If I can help It.
Clet rid of sleep, forsooth. Who on
Did I understand you to say, Ma naked
Pa, that I was to put music to that
stuff?
Oh. I thought you mite, seel Pa. Of
course. It may not come to you rite off
the reel, but t guess It will later.
If It ever comes to mo, I ho verses, I
meen, sed Ma, It will go from me so
quick that yure hed will swim. Let sum
Mexican rite his own anthem, sed Ma
You give me enuff soiikk wen jioii cum
hciin lull at nlte.
Within My Heart
LAl'FEKTV.
in ray heart."
Slave .Kong.
Do Without Sleep
earth wants) lo get rid of It? I don't, do
yju? Why, I'd rather sleep than work
any lime, wouldn't you7 And as for
worry, a good nap beats nil tho worry
tliern Ih In the world, twice around the
clock.
No sleep! Why, we would bo a world
of mud men In six months. It Isn't thn
lrd that needs til that sleep. It's the
mind, the tireless, Indefatigable, woary
iiih. worrying, grinding, mulling mind
mat won't let the body rest, or tfie soul
i! ther unless you tuko It by the throat,
1 wonder If minds do have throats, by tho
way. and fairly s trim gin It Into stlllms
and subjection.
No sleep! Pear me, what fiend over
conceived such a plun?
No Hlee and tho butcher to inoflt -nnd
no money In the bank and none com
Ins till next week.
No bleep, and tho boy going wrong and
won't listen to a word you say, and
you vo got to stand by and watch li'm
tear hlu perfectly good life Into tattors,
and gel ready to help him piece It to
gether again when ho finds out what ao's
done and what you aro trying to tell him
right now!
No sleep, and daughter In love with a
Icw-browed, shifty-eyed person with a
tenor voice and a knack of singing iovo
balliidH, and doing all tho now dances
with n kind of diabolical grace!
No sleep, and In other letting his part
ner rrHko a fool of htm and calling you
nuddlesome when you try to open hU
eyes!
No sleep, and the doctors tell you thorn
Ih something Wicked gnawing at your
very vltalB something that will give no
quarter and take none.
No (deep, and one you lovo loves you
no longer, and trie to cowr tho coldness
of thn heart under nn excesn outward
endearment!
No sleep, and the other fellow la get
ting ahead of you In business by trick
ery, and you won't stoop to compete
with him on his own groundl
No sleep, and tho wind sobs In tne
chimney nnd tells you of days long, long
gono when you were gay nnd believed In
people nnd luughcd at nothing- nnd s.mg
Just for tho pur Joy of living!
No sleep, nnd tho woman who bores
you to madness coming for a two hours'
visit tomorrow.
No sleep, and Mlllan Russell telling
women how to be beautiful at 100 years
of nge. and you can't think how tn bo
even passuble at 40 years. X
No sleep, and every time you look In
tho glass you seo that you've gained n
pound or so.
No sleep, and tho bright stars fade to
dawn and tho gray broadens Into rose,
nnd tho tall poplars ut tho foot of tho
garden whisper and whisper In their dry
branches.
No Bleep, nnd tho toostcrs begin to cry
that day Is coming, day Is coming.
No sleep, and from the house next
door comes tho stir of new life, some one
sliakeH down thn furnace, nnd milkmun Is
heard. Chirp, chirp, tho sparrows twitter
tn each other about the fine unns they
had when the wind went down last night
scrape, scrape, some one Is early with
the snow shovel.
Mfph. mfph. bacon and eggs next door
on one side, ham on thn other, chops
across the street, sausage and cakes
downstairs. Hurrah. Tho house Is up
at last
No sleep, why that's the way they pun
ish the worst criminals of all In China.
What have we dono In this year of grace
thnt we should Imi tortured so?
Bleep, blessed, balm-giving, wholesomo,
sorrow-drowning sleep, Out upon the
man who (hires to Invent any way what
soever to do away with It, say I.
Saint Patrick
By ItEV. THOMAS U. GREGORY.
St. Patrick was horn, according to th
most reliable arcouut that we have, in
tho year JW, at Hnnovem, Toberme,
Scotland. In all probability Banovem
eorrcsiHinds with
the modern Dum
barton. When nbotit IS
years old Patrick
was captured by a
baud tif pirates
nnd taken to Ire
land, whelo he
was sold as n
slave to n noted
north of Ireland
rlileftitln named
Mllluc. 1'or five
nr six years Pat
rick remained with Mllluc, looking after
his master's cattle nnd doing; such other
work tin was required of him.
Hilt the hlKh-splrlted youth naturollv
did not relish slavery, and at the first
opportunity he ran away. Reaching the
coast, he happened to strike a Vessel
that was salting for France, upon which
he secured passage. After some four
years In Prance, spent we know not how,
le returned to his native Scotland.
In Hcotlnnd, however, Patrick was not
destined to remain. "Voices" began np
Peullng to him to return to tho green
inland In which he had been Mllluc's
cnttle tender. "The volco of tho Irish, '
he rnys, cried out: 'We pray then
tome and henceforth walk among us.
Putrlck was about SO years old at tho
time, nnil, changing his namn from Hu
cat, or Hucceath, to Patrick, he proceed, d
forthwith to obey tho volcn that called
him 'to Krln.
From all accounts thn Irishmen, of that
distant day worn the worst pagans to bo
found anywhere on earth. The Irishman
never docs anything by halves. Like the
"old horse that lived In clover, when ho
died he died all over," the Irishman, when
he goes Into a thing goes In "all over."
No halfhearted measures for tho irish
man. He votes thn straight ticket or
iiono at all. Bo, when tho Irish wero
pagans, they were ral pagans and none
of your adulterated variety.
'Rut Halnt Patrick wan not a man to bo
Intimidated by anything. His original
name, Succeath, signified "valor In war "
Ho was a born fighter, fearloss, of jplrlt
unconquerable, nnd because he loved tint
Irish and was determined to make Chris
tiana of them, ha permitted nothing to
daunt him, but went right on with his
work as fearless as though ho had bcn
gathering flowers In a meadow full of
skylarks.
And groat was tho victory that ho won.
With unbounded love for the Irish peo
ple, with a porfect knowledge of tho
Irish language, and with unlimited grace
and grit, Saint Patrick won tho victory
of which It Is said: "He found no Chris
tians and left no heathen,"
For forty-four years Patrick lived mil
labored among his Irishmen, dying at
Armagh In -lOT, In his seventy-fourth ye.Vr,
beloved aa but few men havo been since
thn world began.
And It Is no wonder, for In addition to
his saintly virtues, nbnut which thcro
has nuvcr been so much ns the shadow
of n suspicion, wo nre told, upon unques
tionable authority, that St. Patrick was
a gentlemnn. Now, thn first grcnt pre
requisites to gentlemanllness arc klndll
hisH and consideration. Tho man who la
Invariably thoughtful of others' feelings,
and In his own feelings nlways warmly
sympathetic with tho misfortunes of his
fellows, Is ii gentleman. And such, from
nil accounts, was tho patron saint of
Ireland.
It would probably bo not very wide or
tho mark should wo venture tho con
clusion that St. Patrick never staggered
under a great burden of prudery. Could
he, by anticipation, have known of tho
Frenchman who refused to save a drown
ing man because he had never been In
troduced to him, fit. Patrick would un
doubtedly havo hotly condemned tho
business. A thoroughly good man, ha
wns at the samo tlmo solidly human, and
Invariably natural, A man among men,
ho mudo thorn lovo him as a man ns a
fellow human being.
Hence tho wide human Interest that Is
found In his story oven at this dlstnnt
day. Hence tho explanation of the very
hearty, whole-souled fashion In which,
after tho lapse of almost fifteen centuries,
tho millions of Irishmen scattered about
the earth hall tho thought of "St. Pat
rick's Day In the Morning."
MusliiK" f Cynic.
The fellow who blows his own horn is
always a soloist.
Charity begins at home, oven wnea
tho homo doesn't need It.
Mnny a woman regards a husband sim
ply as a necessary audience.
Kven the continual changing of one
mind is apt to wear It out.
If to thn pure all things aro pure, how
can we havo any reformers.
Travel will broaden some fellows 1-.
most as much us a padded coat will.
Success Is always due to our own ef
forts; failure wo can blamo on someona
else.
A woman hates to feel that she Is old
enough to bo Justified In lying about her
age.
It Isn't Ignorance of the law that de
feats a client so often as the Ignorance
of his lawyer.
Tho theatrical managers who are scour
ing th country for pjays might try
scouring a few of thosa plays they al
ready have.
Thu girl who thlnkn no man Is gooJ
enough for her Is qulto surprised to find,
that the men uro satisfied to have her
think tu.-New York Times.
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the street can I cot a bottle which quickly
relieved me." It. I). Uubqoyhe, Mays
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