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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1913)
K is e Oh! It's Great 00H-T,aT "J 552 KP L mi 11 IDEAL , WHATS I W HOUE K;" sMSf 0 1 UhOOT' V ME cwXiTJ matter: Ella Wheeler Wilcox Says Meat Eating Will Be a Thing of the Past Before Another Hundred Years By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Copyright 1913, by Star Co. "It was only yesterday that man learned tha choice of his nourishment that a that choice, of his nourishment that a little fruit or milk, a few vegetables, farinaceous sub stances now the mere accessories of the too plenti ful repast ho works 00 hard to pro videore amply sufficient to main tain the ardor of the finest and mightiest life. "It must be ad mitted that of the objections urged against vegetarian ism no ono can withstand, a loyal and scrupulous in quiry. I for my part can affirm that those whom I have known to submit themselves to thts reKlmen have found Its result to be im proved or restored health, marked addi tion of strength, anS the acquisition by the mind .of a c't.arnets, brightness, well being, such as might follow the release from some secular, loathsome, detestable dungeon." Maeterlinck, on the Human Diet Much discussion has recently taken place In these columns regarding the vegetarian diet) It has been claimed that while physi cal prowess was obtainable with a meat less diet, mental strength, which pro duces clear, virile thinking, could only come with eating meat. Maeterlinck is ranked among the first thinkers of the day, and his words seem to give weight to the contrary theory. Ralph Waldo Trine, one of our best and clearest thinkers, and strong; force ful writers of the day, has partaken of no meat for twenty-five years. He Is & splendid specimen of phy sical manhood, and any one who ques tions his mental force needs only read his books to be convinced. Mr. Trine does not write of politics or war, but he writes of subjects which are vastly more Im portant to the whole created universe today, and he writes words of enduring power: words of vital importance to all humanity. The writer of this article Is a mere woman, and one who cannot claim to be a strict vegetarian, and much less can she claim to mental prowess. Tet she rarely partakes of a meat diet, and during the last five years, while eat ing less and less meat, she has found her self stronger in every way, physically and mentally. And possessed of a belief that she was doing her best mental work. It Is an easily proven fact that a meat diet creates a quarrelsome and belligerent disposition. 7" HfLet Older Heads Decide By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. It sometimes happens that a cat gets a bad name all Its life for once having eaten a very tough canary. It likewise has happened that a young man has erred, and borne all his Ufa the burden ot a bad name though he was more aggrieved than the aggressor. It is one of those deplorable cases which call for a victim from the ranks of young men, and, sp wide sweeping and firmly fixed U the belief that the woman is always the one sinned against, that the man who sinned can't live so long that he will find any- one courageous enough to credit that there are two sides to a story. Perhaps the following letter refers to aa Incident of that charaoter, Let the older heads who read It. and who know man Is occasionally tha tempted, and not always the temptsr, decide Just the moral Bradstreet rating of the man Involved. "I am coming to you for advice on a Tery delicate and vital question It Is not for myself I ask, but for a girl friend, (We confide In each other, but a question like this needs more authority than we oan give It. "About a year ago we met a young man who Is a trifle our senior. He has always behaved In the most gentlemanly maar. respecting us lo every way. He to Be Married An amiable dog or cat. accustomed to a mixed menu of scraps from the family,, table, and milk and animal biscuit, can be made 111-tempcred and Inclined to fight, on small provocation. If given ah exclusive meat diet. It Is reasonable to suppose that human beings are affected In a similar manner, even though they may be unconscious of the fact. Whatever nutritious properties meat may contain, can be found In other foods, If ono is willing to give the subject care ful study. Without question, domestic science will eventually discover some special food, probably chemically pre pared from various Ingredients, which will bo as palatable and as satisfying to the appetite as meat; and which will not necessitate the slaughter of living creatures, or "the taking Into the system of dead, bodies of animals. There Is such a growing demand for non-meat foods thatthls need will in the natural course of- events be supplied. Such a bouillon has already been found, composed wholly of vegetables, yet quite satisfying to the appetite which has I rormea tne meat namt stimulating taste. and requires the And other foods will follow. One of the most Intelligent men ot the writer's acquaintance, a man who has' mode a place for himself as an inventor, (and who Is on the eve of reaping the reward of a great Invention), Is a strict vegetarian and has been for many years. It has been urged by some writers, that we take life when we pluck vege tables, or fruit, or berries, or nuts, for Our sustenance; as, all life Is one, and all things suffer to spine, extent when-taken frpm, their, .nature element. But while there is no doubt truth In this Idea, It Is somewhat far fetched as a comparison. One cannot help feeling that he Is more merciful when he takes the potato from the earth or the apple from ,the tree, than when he takes the young lamb from Its mother and sends It to the, slaughterhouse to undergo untold misery' In transportation, and unmentionable horrors In the slaughter pen. It Is Impossible for one who has be come aware of the sickening details of animal and fowl transportation, and kill ing, to eat meat of any kind without an accusing conscience, which speaks In a still small voice, asking If this means of sustenance Is necessary for the maintain ing of life and strength. And It Is Impossible to think much on the subject without growing more and more convinced that another century will 'find the meat diet almost a thing of the past, and new foods, products of the oarth and the orchards, and vines, and of discoveries of new properties In the elements, supplying the place of corpses of our lesser kin. ' And man, as Maeterlinck says, will be "released from a loathsome, detestable dungeon." ' J. is. a young man with very few girl friends. He told us he keeps shy of girls because he had got ito trouble with a certain girl, and evidently has the Idea that all girls are alike. "I told my friend what I thought he meant, and she doubted my word. Only a few days ago she learned from' a yood authority that what I had said was true. Now she Is at a loss to know what to da I know it will be hard for her to glvo him up, as he is the only man she has ever loved. "She asked my opinion, and I told her he had been misled and was unfortunate, and not to be condemned. She Is a girl who could guide him aright. If he were not already inclined to behave." The young man- has been punished so severely that the recollection of the whipping stays with him, and there. Is no fear that he will offend again. Hav ing tasted humiliation, shame, dlsgraco and degradation, and appreciated all tbelr bitterness, It Is very certain that the ex perience will not be repeated, I Judge so because of his attitude. His experience did not make him reckless. It made him cautious, and caution has been the re demption of many a man. This Is In his favor, and I hope the girl whose love he has won will remember, and not Judgo him. too ,ti.arrhl& Tlffi BKB: OMAHA, SATURDAY, APR II, C, Copyright, 1918, Contemplating Matrimony Dorothy Dix Writes an Open Letter to an Aged Widower Who l Again Considering Marriage, and Who Has Selected as His Bride-to-Be a Frivolous Young Maid About One- V By DOUOTIIV DIX. My Dear Colonel: And so you are thinking.' of essaying matrimony again, and have picked out little Maude Thomp son as a suitable companion for the bal- ance of ' your life Journey.' Balaams, colonel! I have always re spected "your brav ery, but I nover realized' until this moment how fool hardy -and dare' devilishly courage ous you are. It is not without rea- on that you wear a hero's medal pinned above your heart. You will de serve a Victoria Cross, or a Car negie souvenir, or whatever other red badges of courage they bestow on those who display great personal bravery In the face of im minent danger on your marriage day, for no man ever leads such a forlorn hope as he who leads to the altar a girl young enough to be his granddaughter. To expeet such a marriage to turn out happily Is to demand the Impossible of nature. The flowers of spring never wreath the loe crags of winter. Young feet and old never march to the same fcuno. Age and youth have different thoughts, different ideas, different as pirations. How, then, shall the old man and the maiden walk hand in hand in marriage T Ton say you are lonely in your great house. Tou desire companionship. Tou want the face of a woman smiling at you across the breakfast table, and some voice other than your admirable servants to weloome yot when you come home. That Is natural and right, and I, for one, am an ardent advocate of second marriage. The young may marry or not, as they please. They can find amusement enough outside of their homes. But when a man and woman get to the age when they have wearied cf theaters and restaurants, and bridge parties and dinners, and their own fire side looks better to them than any other spot on earth, then they need a husband or wife to share that sollude of two. And they need a home of their own, not to live around with their sons and daughters, always on their p's and q's for fear that they will offend some touohy daughter-in-law, or cantankerous son-in-law who bristles with feelings as a porcupine does with quills. Every middle-aged man and woman who is able to support a wife, or a hus band, should get married, but there should be a benevolent commission with arbitrary matrimonial powers appointed by the government to pleto out a suitable mate for tho afflicted party and see that she or he was of appropriate age, char acter and habit For when we hear the last call for dinner In the matrimonial dining car, colonel, there Is something that makes us all, both men and women, want to order nothing but squab chicken. And, belleve'me. that's an Indigestible morsel for those who have arrived at the years of indiscretion. Still, there are those who try It and risk the consequences. Look at the rich old men who marry debu tantes. Look at the old women who kid nap baby boys for husbands. And look at how they have to send In a hurry call for Dr. Divorce. Of course, It's all easy enough to un derstand. The older we get the more the wonder, and the glory of years appeal to us. The more atrophied our emotions the more alluring the enthusiasm of the young. The d.eader our interests In things the more we try to borrow the Interest of the young. Oh, It Isn't hard to see why youth at tracts age. But-and Ifs a. big exception what age f&rgefs l that It does not attract youth. yagaz.ire International News Servlee- third His Age. It repulses youth. Age Just of Itself is hideous, loathsome to tho young. There Is something about the decaying flesh, the falling faculties, the very disillusions of age that fill the young with the same horror they have of the tomb. Age gives Itself to youth, but youth always has to be bought by age. Even our children's attentions are largoly a matter of purchase, and the more that we can do for them the more certain we nre of their dutiful devotion. When It comes to marriage It Is only the rich who can persuade Cupid to overlook the 'dlf-. ference In years. Tou nover hear of a young girl falling In love with a poor old man, or of a young man entreating a poverty stricken old woman to bo his bride. t entreat you, colonel, to dispassion ately consider the chancov of happiness that you have In marrying a girl liko little Maudie Thompson. She Is sw'ent and 20, and her feet Just won't behave when the band plays the turkey trot. She Is mad for clothes,- mad for pleaesuro, mad to run about and see things, and to have Jthe luxuries that she has been too poor to possess. You are ahem old enough to know better. You have rheumatism In your knees so that i-ou creak as you walk, You have been everywhere, .you have seen everything, and what you ndw de sire Is to sit down peaceably and quietly and enjoy the litlo span of life that Is rr- The New Art By JAMES J. MONTAGUE. I have been to boo the pictures which tho Futurists avow Shadow forth the coming Will Bo, and the passing of the Now. ' I beheld a pile of brlckbatB undorneath a cellar stair, Which was labelled: "Spanish Dancer, With tho Limelight Qn Her Hair." I remarked a slab of limestone on a dingy rubbish heap, And was told it web tho portrait of "An Indian Ohlld, Asleep." Seven lengths of cedar scantlings wore "My Lady's Easter Hat"; I don't hanker for tho Future, If It's going to be like that. And the sculptures, ah! the sculptures, thrilling, throbbing things of stone, I observed a dozen boulders marked: "A Shipwrecked Girl, Alone." While a cracked and crazy section of a granlto garden wall, Bore the entertaining legend: "Beauty Blushes at the Ball." Broken scrape of asphalt pavement heaped in curious disarray, Wore, according to the label, "Little Chineso Boys, at Play." If when dawns the distant Future things like this' are going to be, I can only say tho Present Is quite good enough for me. When three years old or thereabouts, I often used to draw On walls and doors of barns ahd sheds the objects that I saw. I also sculped from nice red clay small smiling crocodiles And other birds and animals of sundry sorts and styles. ' But when my parents sneered and scoffed I put theao things away And bent my childish energies toward other forms of play. But now, alas, I know these works In which I put my heart Were soul compelling oamples of tho 1913. Drawn for -.J left to you In a well-earned rest. Of course, you are very sure that Mnudlo Is marrying you for yourself alone, and that she and that hungry fam lly of herB have no eyes on tho present Pickings and your future will. But do you imagine for a moment that Mnudlo Is marrying you to sit at home of an evening and play crlbbage with you, or to nurso your Kout, or to llston to your reminiscences of tho civil war? Not at all. What she's planntng to do Is to have n box at the opera, and tho dinners she will give, and the parties she will go to, and the Jewels and clothes sho will have. That's the price she fig ures on for being an old man's darling. You think you can control her, but axe has not the strength to struggle with youth, and the old husband Is as wax In the hands of the pretty young wife. Youth must havo Its fling, and If you marry a young Btrl'ybu milsf be content to, drag your"; old bones around to enter tainments of - ntghtB when they are ach ing to bo In bed, You must see your young wife giving to young men tho smlto she will never have for you. You will be torn with the futile Jealousies and suspicions ot age, and you will bo bored oh, colonel, how you will oe bored with tho companionship of a child who does not know one thing that you know, and regards all of your opinions as fossilised. Coming Cuiilc Art age The Bee by George McManua Know Your By WINIFRED BLACK. Dear me, so your mother-ln-lax says that the reason your husband I falling In love with another woman Is that you aren't as pretty aa you were when he married you, oh, doarl what shall we do about It? Tho first thing to do, It seems to me. Is to ask your mother-in-law very gently and kindly it she was' as pretty aftos she'd been marriod ten years as sho was the day she was a bride, and then to ask her again If she thinks your husband Is as pretty as tho day that you were married; then sit down and listen oalmly to what she has to say. It's. a good Idea to talk a nood deal with your mother-in-law as long as vo'i an talk pleasantly. You'll get a good many Ideas as to the kind of woman nht Is who had the forming of your hus band's character, and making him Just tho kind of a man that he is. It will alt help you to understand what doubtless Is Incomprehensible at times. What kind of a woman la mother-in-law, anyhow? Does she love her. proanio old husband, too? Does she make him. happy or are there whispers that all has1 not always been Just as It should oe tn tho home? Is she a woman who cares a great deal for looks and nothing at all for tact? Would she rather have things look right than to be right? Does sho wear a plpv stem skirt and a drug store coniplcxl. n at m lias she a heart, a real heart, or Just something that beats and tells her when she Is running upstairs too fast? How did she bring up that son of hers? Did she train him to take his part In tho home life, to bo one of the family, or Just to be an idol to be wor shiped? Was he a "let me do that for you, mother" boy, or a "Ma, whero's my hat" young man? , , When some one had to go without a new spring suit, who did It mother or the young man? Advioe to Lovelorn HV HISATIMCH FAIRFAX. Certainly. Dear Miss Fhlrfax: In the event of a young lady getting married I would llko to ask you If she forfeits her maiden name? C. P. BROWN. If Sarah Jones marries Robert Black, she becomes Mrs. Robert Black. How ever, If she does not want to lose her Identity she may be known as Sarah Jones Black, This Is the preference ot all women who are more or lers In public life. She is Klulil. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 21 and se oretly engaged to a young lady of 18. Now on her summer vacation sho wrote me a letter and addressed It "Dear A.' and signed herself "Your sincere friend M." On her return I asked her why she addressed and signed herself the way she did, and aha said she did not want to address It anv other way for fear that some one might see the letter. Now, would there be any harm In her address ing me as her sweetheart? Also, what would be a nice birthday present to give her? A. M. N. Endearing terms should be confined to conversations, and never reach pen and paper. Your engagement la secret which Is In itself undesirable, and letters have a way of sometimes surviving love Itself. Be gratoful that your sweetheart Is a girl of such good sense. A book, a box of perfume, stationery, etc., make pretty gifts for a girl. The fact that your en gagemnt Is a secret makes a more ex pensive gift undesirable. Yon Are A Bravo Ulrl. Dear Mies Fairfax: I have been keep ing steady company with a young man for over a year. He often told me he loved me and I learned to love him. He always said he had another girl. The other day I got a letter from him, telling me he was to be married that day to an old sweetheart of his. I wrote a letter of congratulation to him to let him think I did not care. Do you think I did what was right or should I havo acknowledged the letter at all? S. U. You did the very finest thing you could havo done. You have shown him you do not csre, and In time you will find that you don't care. He is unworthy even of contempt, so please do your best to for get him. 13 Mother - jn - Law Did sister have to give up her piano lessons to keep .'brother In spata ami new neckties? And when Aunt Harriet came to visit who took her around to seo the slrhts? Funny old Aunt Harriet, who could make the best cookies In tho world, and wore the queerest of clothes; wan It sister or brother who did the honors for her? Did mother go to the church sewing society and let brother pound llttla brother almost to a Jelly trying to make hltn do something ho didn't want t6 do, and when mother came home and waa told of It, did sho say, "Oh, well, don't bother me about It" How docs sister-in-law, get along wits her husband? Is she pretty, too at pretty as mothcr-ln-law thinks you ought to bo and In her husband fond of her Vet What does fnthor-ln-law say about it all, or haven't you asked him yet? I would It Is aometelmes a good thing to get father's Ideas of things from, the man's sldo of tho house. Maybe you have been wrong, maybt you havo been careless maybe you have let a fairly good husband drift nway from you because you don't take the trouble to keep him In (lovu with you oh, ye love requires euro and attention Just as much as any other delicate fruit. Of course, husband has worked hard to keep your love all thts time or you wouldn't care so much about his falling In love with some one else, would you? If you have been wrong the truth Is no less tho truth because It Is told to you by your mothcr-ln-law. Listen to what she has to say, listen with your mind and your heart as well as your ears you may learn something It will profit you to know. Even If -she speaks In. nnggr, listen. Think the thing all over, Just as you would think It all over for any on, else. Leave personality out' of It. Just get your mind in this frame: "What's tho matter with this woman I know? Her life seems to be drifting into troubled waters. I wonder If I can't help her get it out again." Don't be angry, don't be miserable. You have' a problem to solve; get to work and solve it And when you have done, write to us and tell us how you did- It. There 'are thousands of women trying to get nn answer to the same kind of puc slo you may be able to help them, too. Getting Ready for My By LILIAN IiAITFERTY. Say It's raining and It's gloomy, and there must be leaden skies far above my office window, where I cannot Mft my eyes. And the air's so dark and murky that tho very smoke looks white, while I know below are puddles I must struggle through tonight. Isn't that a dreary out look for a pair of tired eyes, with tho very smoke discouraged bo it dots not dare to rise? Well, they tell me that tomorrow wilt be rainy like today, so you see there la no prospect for a fellow to feel gay or to write of "spring" and "flowers' or the sort of verse that'a due, Just to fit the time and sesaon and to come along In lieu of the Christmas verse and snow stuff and the lovely valentines that must run along each season In their well-appointed linos. Gee! some fellow, when 'twas raining, said 'twas pouring daffodils, and I a'pou he had lumbago and the fever and th) chills! Still he had to put the stuff across as perfect sunshine dope, and tH you that In gloom there lies the promise and the home of the wondrous days aroomlng which the rainy day has .made. That won't do for me, I'm thinking, though I'm Just a bit afraid that the time will ooroe next summer, when Old Sol Is burning bright, when I'd like tu see sprue rain-clouds come along ami douse the light. - THE. OTHER LpVE . By WILLIAM F. KIRK, The love you lad for Her, my boy. Before your hopes were blasted. Was blissful, blended fira and joy. And wondrous while It lasted. One love remains for you. my "boy, Flxey as the mountain ranges; The other love, the mother love, Tho love that never change. And so when things have gone amiss- Ai d memory swings Tie r lashea. Itemlndlng you of torn mad bus That turned to Dead Sea ashes, L'ke some small boy you creep back bom Ta find, while grief assails you. The other love, -the tnethr love. The love that never falls you. t