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THE BEEt OMABLti, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1013 The fe 3BL taut. Oh! It's Great to Be Married Drawn for The Bee by George McManua Copyright.! 191, International Nfws Service. )' .RErVT TOO COINQ , , j I I TO THE CI&C05 AT ( ' I 1 1 I THE GARDEN WITH No-PAPVb L HELLO" - THIS TOU Th. JM 0.1. Co OUT t tCOINCi To VTVVf SAM - COMP ON OVER f MEWl - VMJ, YOU AND SHP IP ( S NOAf.' . UN,I flOME AND REWJC HVf A A( AND - CANT Diq UP jqnE.5 HE .DONE J V J OF PoKeR . ALL JrP HftVE To 0 ME ONE HOME " J U J CEJkfc ALONE- WAT.toure To TM OHcuj9 - BE' iKl U0NB- ) TC1RCL TTINc3 ' tJh N4 TO THE , L- j ME! ( ' V lj Divorce Better Solution for Marital Misery than Poison By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX (Copyright, 1913 by Star Publishing Co.) Back In the olden days divorce was known only to kings, who had absolute power to fashion laws to suit their moods and serve their purposes, nnd then to order them Invalid before other com mon Individuals took advantage of them. . Today divorce Is an everyday occur rence. Its preva lence Is, Indeed, something like an epidemic In the land. Yet In the days when no divorce was possible among the masses murder by polEonlng was almost as common as divorce Is today. Any one who doubts this statement reeds only to read the history of the 1 old Italian cities. And not alono In Italy was the amiable art of poisoning popular, but in France, Spain and England political diplomats and court Intriguers thought little of ridding themselves of enemies and rivals by means of subtle poisons. We can ask no greater proof of the growth of public sentiment toward higher Ideals of morality than Is shown by the widespread horror when a case of poison ing Is discovered. The highest circles of Europe did not feel this horror when such occurrences took place a few hundred years ago. Thero was no newspaper notoriety for the murderer to dread; no law which could not bo- made to serve his ends if he held a position of power, and chemical analysis of the digestive organs was not known. So the poisoner had things pretty much his own way. The Borgia family was particularly ad dieted to poisoning people as a pastime But they lived 600 years ago, and the human race ought to make progre-s in half a millennium, surely. Thero Is no form of murder more de liberate and premeditated than poleon'ng It suggests the cold-blooded plan, care fully conceived and unrelentingly ex ecu ted. No man possessed of his reasoning fac ulties, cultured and educated, and with all his senses on the alert, could lend himself to such an abominable act as the destruction of another life by this mon strous method. It surely must be that man allows his reason and his will to become the prey of some hypnotic Influence from the bor der lands of earth and Is possessed bj Women who bear chlldron and re-, main healthy are those who prepare their systems In advance of baby'c coming. Unless the mother aldt nature In Its pre-natal work tho crlcli finds her system unequal to tho do mands made upon It, and she Is ofW left with weakened health or chronk ailments. No remedy Is bo truly f help to nature as Mother's Friend and no expectant mother should fal to use It It relieves the pain anc discomfort caused by the strain ot the ligaments, makes pliant and claa tlo those fibres and muscles vhlcl nature 1b expanding, prevents numb ztess of limbs, and eoothca tho lnflam znatlon of breast n'anda. Tho systeir 1 being thuB prepared by Mother'! Friend dispels the fear that the crlslt may not be safely met. Mother'! 1 1 -. - tucuu bisuiw u oyueu auu compiau recovery for the mother, and she. Ii left a healthy woman to enjoy the ) rearing or her child. Mother's Friend is sold at -rug stores. Wi I fVrlte for our free book for expect ant VTintbfM TOhlnVi fnntiifnn mnph raluable Information, and many sug-1 restlona of a helnful nature !r ..n . UUMJ1L0 aECUUTQaCO., AUatU, Ca. I devils (like the two men from whom Christ drove the demons In the country of the Qergesaties) when such an evil deed can be carried Into execution. However alarming seems the divorce epidemic In our land today, It Is certainly a better solution of marital misery than ground glass or arsenic. When two people find life under one roof and one name obnoxious, separation Is the only moral and decent course to pursue. Perhaps thero would have been less crime In the olden days, when human life was held at such small value, If di vorce had been possible to the common ers as well as to the monarchs of that era. Perhaps, despite our higher Ideals and greater refinement, thero would be more frequent crimes today were It not for divorce. Surely of the two evils divorce Is pref erable to murder. When the god of love goes out of a household there Is always a chance for the devil to get in. He comes in various disguises. Sometimes as disgrace, some times as discord, sometimes as murder, sometimes as Insanity. Where reconciliation and return of the blind god are Impossible In a home, let ltB denizens make divorce welcome be fore the devil enters to take up hi a,U in any form. Whether ho comes as a great tragedian or a vulgar comedian, he is preferable to the devil. Love, and love only, renders murrlago respectable, and only the children roared in homes where love exists are environed with respectability. Children brought up In a home of dis cord are more than orpnans. Daily Fashions Hy LA RACOXTEUSE. This old-rose satin and pearl gown I' an elaborate design of pearl embrolderr in the form of flowers, giving It a very rich effect The same design Is carries out on the "' r,,!R'' ' "rhd Hco"ae' ,he ,u?,e, belns 1 ur,her filched by a seml-clrcular 'wreath of small flowers made of ribbon. Tho belt Is also formed of ribbon. Woman's Those Who Say it is Had Better Check Up Their Own Principles of Virtue, for to the Cor rupt All Things Are Corrupt Controlling Female Dress hy Law is a Joke. Dy DOROTHY DIX. It is one of the notable peculiarities of reformers that when they start out to make the world better thoy always tacklo the sins and weaknesses of others, and try to prohibit the , doings of things that they never do themselves. They want to reform everybody but themselves. It's men who pos sess nothing but a few hideous tubular garments, nnd who are prevented by custom from adorn ing their persons !n fanoy raiment, who are forever trying to regulate tho way that women dress. The latest effort In this direction emanates from Ohio where Bepresenta- tlve IOuls S. Capclle has announced that It Is his belief that tho Immodesty of attlro worn by women on the streets Is the cause of the great wave of Im morality now sweeping over the country. In order to stop the said wave of Im morality Mr. Capello has Introduced a bill Into the legislature that provides for a commission of three married men, between the ages of 30 and HO, whose duties It shall be to "Prescribe rules and regulations for the designing1 and manufacture of women's clothing, and prohibit such styles and patterns of garments as the commission, after a hearing, shall deem to be detrimental to virtue or chastity." This would seem to be n pretty big order, calling for a wisdom and Judgment far exceeding the fabled acumen of Solomon, but Mr. Capclle goes further. He decides upon tho features of the present fashion that he considers detri mental to morals, and specifies that there shall be no "display of transparent stock ings In public places; that no undrnped real or artificial figures shall be dis played In department stores," and he forbids "tho wearing of any outer gar ment trimmed or combined with lace, Insertion, or any kind of embroidery, mesh, or net, through which the color Little Bobbie's Pa By WILLIAM V. KIRK I Wife, sed Pa to Ma the other night, I have decided to hire a stenograffer. My work Is piling up Pa sed that I can't tend to It no more at all. I think that would be a good Idee sed Ma and I know Just the person for the Job. Mrs. Jenkins has a young brother which Is Just out of the blzness college ! and he Is a very deserving young man. ' I doant want any body Pa sed that Is 1 Just out of a blzness college. I have tried that kind before Pa sed. They are all right Pa sed to work for a young lawyer who Is Just out of law college, but I want an expert. Besides Pa sed I doant want a man stenograffer, girls Is more faithful to their employers Pa sed, and takes a more lively Interest In the deetalls of the offli. I The last man stenograffer I had ped Pa was a young sport, lie was fast enough on the typewriter, but he was too fast other ways. Whenever he thought I was out of town he would spend his forenoons reading about how Matty broke Into the big league, and his afternoons about how Amos Itusle broke out ot the big league. I want a girl Pa sed and In fack I have advertised for one. There will be ' seme at the offls Wednesday morning I I'a sed, and after I hava questioned all of them I will make up my mind. Indeed sed Ma I think that Bobble and I will trail along with you that morning, to act as sort of ad-vieory board. 1 am pretty good picker of girl stenograf fera myself Ma sed. Pa looked klnda unhappy. But little Bobble mutn't stay out of school he sed. There Isn't any school Wednesday sed Ma. fjo Wednesday Pa & Ma & me all went down to Pa'a offli. There was four girls setting In the ouulds offls. Three ot them was awful homely, & one of them looked like a doll. I noticed that right away bekaus I notlsed Pa notlslng her. ra called In, on ot Ui homely girt J Dress is Not Immoral or texture of the skin may be distin guished." Also, he fixed a rigid deadline for the low neck gown by providing that not more than two Inches of the neck below the chin shall be uncovered. It Is hard to believe that a bill of this nature Is needed In Ohio. It it Is, Mr. Capello has, In bucolla parlance, got the wrong pig by tho ear. If the women of Ohio must go bundled up like mummies In order not to tempt the men It Isn't clothes that need reforming. It Is the morals of tho men. Tho men of Ohio are a fine typo of clean-mtndod, chivalrous Americans, and thoy must surely resent the Implication that Mr. Capelle makes that they are so degenerate that they cannot bo trusted to look upon a nice girl In a lace-trlmmed shirtwaist, and with her neat ankles encased In openwork stock ings, without being filled with unholy thoughts, to say nothing of their having to be protected by law from the fatal fascination of wax dummies In store windows. lrvln Cobb onco definrd a perfect gentle man as a man who could say leg and think limb, and that dlscriptlon holds good. To the pure all things are pure, and to the corrupt everything Is rotten. Mr. Capelle's Imagination evidently be longs to the latter class, and he would soe evil In Innocence Itself, though It were cloaked In a metal sack. A woman onco asked the great Dr. Johnson If he thought tho nude In art was immodest. "No," he replied, "but the question Is." The samo comment may certainly bo made on the bill to prohibit the wearing of decollnto gowns or lace-trlmmed waists by women. The menace to society Is not In the women's mode of dress, but In the deca dent minds of men who can see anything suggestive In the soft white throat of a girl or tho gleam of pink flesh through a bit of semi-transparent embroidery. A nil this Is the attitude of the average man. Hp has the modesty that springs from being clean minded. What he no tices about a woman's clothes Is merely whether they are pretty and becoming, not If they are a lure to sensuality. So far as the American man is concerned he could qualify morally and mentally first. What Is your name. Pa sed? Miss Klynn ses the homely girl. Well Miss Flynn sed Pa I am a rltor & I rite about many different toplks. The girl I hire sed Pa must have a big fund of generul lnformashun, so I will ask you a few questions. Who conquered Carthage? asked Pa. Rome sed Miss Flynn. What General did Borne defeat at that time? sed Pa. Hannibal sed Miss Flynn. Who was Attllly the Hun? asked Pa. He was a Bar-barrlan Ocnerul which swept over Borne wen that Empire was falling, sed Miss Flynn. She seems like a remarkably smart girl said Ma. She known Roman History Pa sed. but that Isn't everything. Miss Flynn Pa sed name tho date when Bob Fltzslmmons soaked Jim Corblt In the plexts & won the champeen-shtp of the wurld? March the 17th. 1837, at Carson City, Nevada, sed Miss Flynn. Who was Alillles? sed Pa, and where did he bekum famous? Akllles was a famui mlthl-lojlcal Greek soldier sed Miss Flynn. He was one of the gratust warrlera at the siege of Troy. Splendid sed Ma that Is the very girl you need Husband. One moment please sed Pa I am not thru yet Then Pa begin to think klnda hard and sed to Miss Flynn; What was the exaot day and hcur -when they killed Doc Cronln out In Chloago? MUs Flynn got klnda red In the face & sed I am afraid I can't answer that qutstlon Blr I am verry sorry, but I don't believe I knew he was dead. Well It's too bad sed Pa, I had hoped that you would fill the bill, but I am afraid I shall have to look farther Pa sed. Then the offls boy called in the serond homely girl, her name was Miss Jones. Bhe waa even homller than Miss Flynn. Be seated, sed Pa, I would like to ask you a few questions to find out how much genral nolltge you have. What were Vs Inula' Halls 7 i6d p. 1 as a Knight of the darter, and his motto In, "Honl solt qui mal y ponw." After all, custom and fashion mnke the law that determines what Is proper and Improper In such matters. The Turkish woman outrages decency If he exposes her face to the publlo eye. We seo iiath ing Immodest in viewing a womnn's countenance. Our grandmothers would have been esteomed bold It they showed tin tip of their slippers. Wo wear short skirts, and no one pr celves anything any more vulgar In the sight of a foot than a hand, In the summer, on the bathing beach, no one lookii a second) time at a woman with a skirt that comes only to her knees, though tho police Would run her In If sho should appear on Broadway In such an abbreviated costume In the Win ter. , Tlmo was when a woman in tights on tho stago was truly shocking, but such a costume Is Just part of the speta olo now to which we do not give a sec ond thought nor a second glance. The South Sea Island lady who wears a sweet smile and a bead necklace Is Just as modestly attired according to the styles in her country as a Fifth avenue dumo in a sealskin coat Is, as Judged by the st&ndardB of her set. Tho truth Is that propriety la In the eye of the beholder. We seo In every thing Just what Is at tho back of our own minds, and those who find the pres ent fashions of tight skirts, nnd Dutch neckH. and peekaboo waists demoraliz ing, need to do something to correct their own moral obliquity of vision. It's their mental attitude that's wrong, not the styles. Of courso, any bill to regulato women's clothes by law Is a Joke. Women dreBs to please men, and men are pleased with the way that women dress, or else women wouldn't dress that way. The normal, wholesome-minded man finds nothing to cavil at In the present styles, or elso his sweetheart, his wlfo, and his daughter wouldn't bo going about In plpo stem shirts and silk stockings and pumps. The Ohio legislator would have to seek further than women's clothes for the source of Immorality. Thank Ood we haven't arrived yet where women have to appear In public disguised ns haystacks to protect tho morals of American men. That waa the name that tho old Norse man, tho vikings, gave to their heaven, sed Miss Jones. They believed that no body could go there except a warrlur who fell fighting In battle. Correct, sed Pa. Now, Miss Jones, who was Chatterton? Chatterton was the grate boy poet, sed Miss Jones, ho was found starving In a garrlt, when he was only seventeen, after having wrltton some ot the most wunderful poetry In the English Language. That's rite, sed Ma, there Is the girl for you husband. Walt a minute, sed Pa. Who was duy Fuwkcs? asked Pa. Ha Mas tho man, sed Miss Jones, who tried to blow up to English Parlement with sum barrels of gun-powder which ha had hid In the basement. Right oggaln, sed Pa. One more question, sed Pa. How many ring fights did Kid Broad ever havo? sed Pa. I never heard of Kid Broad, sod Miss Jones. I am sorry, d Pa, but you will not do. So Miss Jones went away. When the otls boy went to call the third homely girl she had went away too. I guess Miss Flynn must havi toald her about Dr. Cronln and skafad her. So the pretty one came In. Pray be seated sad Pa, what Is your name? Florence Atherton, sed) the I ratty girl I merely wlsn to ask you a few questions, sed Pa. Don't get nervous, sed Pa, take your time in anserine them. What Is the capltol of New York state? Albany, sed MUs Atherton. Good, Bbd Pa. Who Is William Favr sham7 He Is a actor, sd the pretty girl and I think he Is Just too dear for any thing. Splendid, aed Pa. Who Is the presldopt of the United States? Wilson, ted the pretty girl. Correok, sed pa, now one more oue. tlon and we are thru. Who was the Author of Poems of Pashun? Ella Wheeler Wilcox, sed the pretty girl. Very satisfactory. ed Pa You may report Monday morning at pint. Jf you would like any offls supplies or a dif ferent make of typewriter my offls boy will be at your servls. Miss Atherton looked awful happy we 1 she left the offls, but the way Ma looked I don't think the new stenographer will ever get to Ik a veteran lit Pa's offls. Lightening the lly BEATRICE KAIHFAX. A young man write a very lengthy letter, which from start to finish Is a recital of his woes. lie las quarrelled with his sweetheart. Of .course, sho waa thn one who offended. Complaining letters from men In love are alike In this; It Is always tho girl who started the trouble. This young man claims 1)0 marrlago engagement, nor oven ono of those In definite, understandings that some day drift Into one. Neither wan her company engaged for the evening whan sho com mitted her crime. Ho took It for granted she would go to u party with htm. Bhe went with another mart There aro those on whoso shoulders time has laid nuoh weighty burdens that this Ilttlu grief seems trivial enough to excite only smiles. The weight of such a grievance Is appreciated only by Advice to the Lovelorn lly UII ATKICI3 KAIIIPA.Y, Ortnlnlr Not. Dear MIbs Fairfax: I have, been going about with a young man for some time. Now. lust week I promised to send him a certain postal card; I did send It, but as he did not receive It, he clalnis I did not send any. And, aa we made a date to meet flaturdny, he gnve me a stand up, all on account ot the postal. Do you think he was right In giving me n stand up beforo finding out whether I wrote or not? ANXIOUS. I Judge that "stand-up" means ho did not keep his engagement He waa unpurdonably rude; first, In doubting your word, nnd second, In treat ing you so shabbily. tint Now, tlu Otlirr Lntcr. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am engaged to a girl. Tho wedding dato Is not set. but in two or Ihreo years sho Is. to be my wife. When should un engagement ring and wedding ring be given to her? It. U. XV. Tho engagement ring should be given her as soon as her promlso Is given. The weddltig ring does not coma Into her possession until she becomes u wife. MllUllilf To SI 11 oil of IlrlKbt. Dear Miss Fairfax: Six weeks ago I was Introduced to a young man seven years my senior. Ho has called at my house several times and we wont out to gether to places of amusement and he treated me very nicely. I like him, but my folks aro against him, as he Is much shorter than I am. FI3R13NCE. It his moralH are of the right breadth and length; If his heart Is large, und he has a good, clean brain, the matter of physical stature need not bo considered a moment. Ilespcpt Their Wishes. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young girl, 19 years of age, and love a boy of about 2i years. I have been out with him sev eral times and have met his parents. They are against his going with me for a simple reason. M. R. L. That which seems a simple reason to you may bo an Insurmountable barrier with them. You are both too young to oppose your wishes against theirs. At least wait two years. She Una a Motive. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am In love with a young lady twq years my senior. When I am alono with her she Is real sociable, but' as soon as any ot her other gentle men friends come she doesn't notice mo as much as she deos her other friend. HEARTBROKEN Naturally, sho doesn't want others to know she cares for you, nnd perhaps overdoes an attempt t , hide It She gives you proof of her regard when you are alone bo grateful for that much. A. WOMAN'S WISDOM. The worried mother wakes up to hear her baby's heavy breeth!n a little toughperhaps the croup 01 whooping cough. She does not want to tend lor the dootor when perhaps the trouble do not amount to mucL. Finally the thinks of that medloal book her father gave Iwr, The Common Seme Medloal Adviser, by R. V. Pieroe, M. D. She says " jujt the thing to find out what It the matter with the little dear." Two million houteholdt in thit country own ono and it' to be had for only 31o. in ttampt 1,000 paget in tplendid cloth binding. A good family adviter in any emergency. It it for tithtr ttx. Thit it what many women write Dr. Pieroe in respect to hit " Favorite Prescription," a remedy which has made thousands of melancholy and miserable women cheerful and happy, by curing the painful womanly diieatet which undermine a woman'a health and ttrcngtb. "My desire Is to write a few lines to let you know what Una, Zumct and Babx. to all my friends." Lover's Burden -J those who are In lovn. They know that a smile of less fervor, a sigh too long, a glanca that for tho moment was more absent minded than loving; a second I00K after a rival; all those, and less, have sent Innumerable lovers flying apart. Each claims his or her love Is ns strong as a cable, yot tho moat trivial circum stance will rend It as easily an If It were made of gossamur. Tho writer ot this lettor goes Into every dotall of his sweet heart's crime, and concludes his woeful eqlstlo as fallows: "I told this girl I would never forgive her or call on her again. Now I love her dearly, and wish you would tell me how to regain her love. In tho meantime I am keeping company with another girl." It Is the last sentence that will cause even tho mildest ahamplon of her sex! to rago and storm. Read It again: "In the ineantlma I run keeping company with another girl." This man Is engaged in the exercise of his rights! it Is the privilege of the man, when lovers quarrel to take his bruised heart to another girl nnd devoid himself to her whllo sho applies the oint ment ot sympathy nnd flattory. TJje sweetheart with whom this man quarrelled, and who Is not to blame, must sit Idly by with hands folded. Bhe, tno, would enjoy flaunting another lover In the face of her former one. Rut her sex Is a barrier to search for such con solation. I'nless 11 second man comes voluntarily, sho must mlii In the seclu sion of unappreclatlon and neglect. 8Je mny pot caro for the lover who Is cross; I hope she doesn't; but conditions place her in that position. Against her wll, against her deslro, sho Is like ono who nits and mourns. She may prefer her loneliness to Injustice and does not grieve over her Ions, hut no far as out ward evidence goes, she Is left sighing on one of lovo's forgotten shelves. Nino limes out of ten the lover returns to his first love, having In the meantime, man fashion, complicated his affairs by making love to the other girl, The first girl has an opportunity for teaching him a lesson. Instead, she welcomes him and forgives. If there wns one little grain of fair ness In this man's mako up, I would ap. Mal to that grain In this way: Your sweetheart had the right to go with tho other man. She broke no en gagement with you In accepting his In vitation and she violated no social or moral law. If you, a bundle of Incon sistencies, want her love you must not treat her as you would treat an office boy whose time Is yourn to command. Don't get into nny heart entanglements with a second girl. That is not a way out ot trouble. See the second girl no more, and de vote every effort to proving to the first glr that you lovo her for her sake and not for your own. Always remembering that love Is not the fruit of tyranny and Injustice. You wrote that you told her you woud never forgive her. Don't go to her and say you have forgotten her. Bite farther Into your share of humble pie by de claring that there was never anything to forgive, and she must forgive you for thinking so. You said you would never call on htr again. Ask forgiveness for that also, and regard every opportunity to call as n prlvlloge you do not deserve. When you havo "made up," which I do not doubt will result, the heart of a girl being as easy to believe as a house of cards, devote the balance of your days to assuring her you never cared for the other girl. This will be a part of the pennane.j she will exact from you to the end if your days. your valuable medicine has done for me," writes Mrs. Makoaket ZuEHEitT, ot S23 8. Bftnt&lon Street, Baltimore, Md, " Before the storok came to our bouse I was a very sick woman I wrote you for advice which was kindly given and which made mo a different woman in a short time. After taking the first bottle of 'Favorite Prescription' I begin Improving w that I hardly knew I was In such a condition. I rid my own housework washing and Ironing, cooking, sewing, and the worst of all nursed throe children who had whooping cough. I hardlv knew of the advent ten minute bofon so easy was It. 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