TIIE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1913.
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Matter of Height
By BEATRICE FAIRPAlX.
One who has never taken heed of that
very homely Faying, that Th6 greatest
values arc done up In the smallest par
cels," writes the following letter:
"I am 17 years of age, and In spite of
my age, I am very short of stature.
Many people often knock me, and espe
cially young men In whose company I
am, and others whom I do not know, and
hardly think I would llko to know, for
the reason that they cal ma 'Shorty,
'Shrimp,' 'Little One,' and other names
thut lrrltato me. This would not be bo
bad, but as I am very well aware of the
fact that I am short. It makes It twice
as hard to bear when they say such
thlnss.
"I try to Ignore ell the remarks thoy
make, but It Is useless and I feel very
heartsick over them. When I go to a
danco or to a ball, I come home usually
very depressed, as I know how to dance
quite well, and I seldom get a good, part
ner to dance with, as young men, as
well ns other young ladles, do not want
to take a chance with a little girl.
"I would feel very grateful If you
would advise me as to what I should do,
a I have a desire to be popular and
Jolly wherever I am. and often these re
marks mar all my pleasure.
"OCTAVUB."
My dear OctavUs, 'popularity Is Tint .1
matter of Inches. If It were, many who
nre now the happiest, merriest, mdst use',
ful, most needed and best loved of all
humankind, would find themselves Iso
lated and despised. And other great,
hulking, awkward, laxy creatures, slow
In wit, loving and laughter, would sud
denly discover popularity a popularity
that In most cases must carry Its meas
uring string as an explanation.
In the first place, you are not through
growing. WTille the majority 110 longer
shoot upward after 20 Is passed, there
are Instances of physical growth being
incomplete at 80. You have at least three
years of grawe, and undoubtedly more. '
I can understand what a hardship your
short staturo appears to you, but I ask
you to forget It, lest brooding over It
result in a greater misfortune. It Is dis
tressing to mourn for a few Inches In
physical growth to such extremes that
the mental and spiritual growth are re
tarded, and that 1b what I fear for you.
You are looking in instead of looking out,
and that unfailingly results In dwarfed
mentality and a spiritual blindness.
Pleaso try to look at It In this way:
The really great people of 'this world
have, with few exceptions, been those df
small stature. The useful ones, the help
ful ones, those quick to scent danger and
alert In averting it, have always been
those who were short, like yourself. But,
unlike yourself, they wasted no time
mourning about It
If you will look among your friends
Vou will find the busiest women the
happiest, the most useful, the quickest
to serve, are the smallest,' In every
form'Of life, f rqm tho .lowest to.tb,o high
est, ,the greatcstjdynaiiilo power has been,
put in the smallest Dodles. It Is the bee,
my dear, that is the emblem of Industry,
and the first sluggard the world ever
know-had his eyes' directed toward the
ant as a rebuke and an example. If
you are "helping mother" at. home I will
woger.Tyqu are a greater help than, .your
larger- sister. If employed In an office
or tore, I am not afraid to Affirm that
you -stand a better chance of promotion,
because you: are quick in your move
ment A Httle .woman Is always more tidy
than, lino who Is larger. Why this Is I
canriot explain, but a button off, a string
banging from a petticoat, a tear in a
walstare marks of a large woman rather
than qf her birdlike sister.
You want to be popular, which means
you --want t be loved. If you are fear
ful of becoming a spinster because of
your size, dismiss , your . fears. The
shorter the woman the greater the like
lihood that she will marry and the
greater probability she' will rulo her
hom'ov And the woman-ruled homes are
tho mart prosperous and happiest
I do not like the names that are given
to you, but I am sure they express the
bad ' taste of those who apply them
rather, than disrespect, for you. We do
not ieaso those we dislike. We keep
away1-from them, Ignore them, and it
wo attack them it is in a manner that
cannot be likened to teasing.
You friends call you names because
they .Hke you. It Is not the kindest way
of showing regard, but youth is as oruel
In showing affection as In showing
hatred;
Since you cannot by fretting add to
your physical growth, refuse to fret, re
membering that if you continue to worry
jou will dwarf your spiritual and men
tal development
"Witchcraft"
Drawn for The Bee by Nell Br inkley
OopyrlitM, lilt, JcMimtl-AmnlMn-lCtimtmr
Advice to th3 Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
. Yon Must Not Try.
Dear Miss Fairfax: Until a short time
ago I was thought a great deal of by a.
young man iwo years my senior, but
now, It seems, he cares for another girl
and does not bother with me.
I love him dearly and would like to
win his love back again,
, CONSTANT READER.
lle'had your love and did not prize It
His love Is not worth the winning.
If ''you fret and cry you will convince
him that he Is a prize. Show htm you
do ript cafe a rap for him. Call your
prldpto your rescue.
Neither la the One for Yon.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 10 and deeply
In love with a man five years my senior
who Is employed as a Junior clerk in
the 'faame bank where I am employed as
a stenographer, who does not recipro
cate -any of the attentions I pay him,
ulthough both my mother and I have
asked him to call on a number of occa
sions. I am also acquainted with a very
gentlemanly chauffeur, and, although I
have a great liking for him, still there
Is not the same feellnir of lnvn that I
have for my bank clerk, but he Is genu
'nely and sincerely devoted to me.
I don't know whether to accept the
attentions of the chauffeur and In time
learn 10 love ana cnensn mm. or to con
tinue trying to win over the embryo
banker. The bank clerk at present makes
only 112 a week, where the chauffeur In
salary and tips earns at least five times
that' much and would be able to support
me in iteuer siyie. AUPi&a .
One doesn't care for you;" you don't
!o e the other. - Doesn t that prove that
neither Is the man for you?
I am sorry you paid such marked atten
tion to the first man. Don't do It again.
A man ilkes to take the Initiative In
rourtlng. rflid wh a a' girl take's It H
UiShU'..a fti. a away.
. 'A cpmmon enough cSurt triuieven in these, our enlightened times.
sfl)he Robed Justice, a muchiiyuredjWpeful. oncb wrathful young man, whom anybddy
can see has been conjured xr scandalous;" bewitched into lightheadedness; circed into follow
ing will-o'-the-wisps; spellbound by an enchanting eye.
Tho Offender, a soft, sweet creature perhaps the saving, busy girl who hikes out gal
lantly to a shop or an office dqsk. every morning, blue-skied or rainy perhaps the little aristocrat-who
labors at riding in,1 Central park o' mornings and' serving toa; afternoons , in,. a;
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crown of her head to the strap of her 'broidered supper.
The Counsel for the Dofonse, a small fat person, with a powerful tongue and oloquotffrV
eyes; with wings that are found sometimes to bo slightly singed, who always wins his caso,
He never proves that his client isn't a witch that isn't it but he always get a light son- t
tenco Oh! kisses or. something like thnt. A thousand or so!
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Dorothy Dix
Tells You How to Bo Hnppy Though Fat. Women Havo Got Fat on
on the Brain and Havo Gone Mnd on the Subject of Getting Thin.
By DOROTHY DIX
A fat irirl Vipr written me a tear-BOttkCd
missive In which sho bewails her in
creased belt measure, and asks me If I
can give her any good, reliable recipe
for reducing her-wclght.
No, I cannot If
I knew any way to
mako this too, too
solid flesh melt I
should not be en
gaged In the occu
pation of writing
articles for this col
umn for my dally
bread. I should be
lending Mr. Rocke
feller money, and
helping- out Buch
poor neighbors as
Andrew Carnegie
and Hetty Green.
The people with
even an alleged
anti-fat remedy
rake in fortunes.
A real reduction
cure, that would actually reduce, would
coin so much money that It would make
Alladln's lamp look like old Junk.
For women havo gqt fat on the brain,
and they have all gone stark, staring
mad on the subject of getting thin. It
has superseded all other Interests with
them, and where two or three are
gathered together the conversation be
n,riMi nnthine more nor less than an ex
perience meeting of the different fool
things they nave trtea in oraer 10 umu.m
a willowy figure. And at that, they
have failed. 1
How to get thin is the burning issue
In AVJirV fmlnlne breast The choicest
compliment that you can pay a lady Is
to telj her how mucn ana nas ianen on,
ami ih feminine definition of a cat is a
sister woman who says, "Why, my dear,
how well you are looKingi xou mu
have gained ten pounds this winter!"
Nor do women vainly long after atten
(uaUon. What they go through, the
agony they endure In trying to achieve
It make the sufferings of the early
Christian martyrs seem a mere picnic.
The maddening thirst of the ancient
mariner, who saw water, water every
where, but had not a drop to drink, Is
experienced every day by millions of
women who sit at tables groaning under
food and drink, but who deny themselves
everything but a sip of water and a
crust of dry toast for fear of adding
another pound to the weight.
They are thirsty. They are hungry.
Th.lr tnmithn wntcr for the rich nouns.
tha succulent roost, the nlouant sauce.
the bland creams, but they heroically
mince along on a llttie spinacn anq a
bite of zwelback. which are guarantee
not to be fittenir.? and which their ver
tc ' luma ffo;i t"uthlng
V(i dve btuitttiin wid lliett suffer
ings. The tortures they endure In tho
form of exercise It has not entered into
the nlnd of, man even to conceive.
That the living skeleton Is the accepted
Ideal of tho feminine form divine today
nobody will deny.' But why? Who was
the Paris who first picked out (ho skinny
woman as conforming nearest to the fem
inine standard of perfect pulchritude?
' Who originated the theory that a lady
love should have a lean and hungry
look?
Certainly, angles are not as beautiful
as curves.
Surely, bones are not as alluring as
firm, warm flesh. A haggard check, with'
hollows In It, Is not as klssable as a
round dimpled one. A full, mllk-whlte
throat Is more enchanting than a stringy
one that looks like an anatomical exhibit
of glands and muscles.
Of course, to the eye of the cubist, or
the futurist, the thin, aenemlc, tubercular
looking woman may be prettier than the
plump, healthy one, but as a matter pf
fact most of us don't object to a rea
sonable amount of adipose tissue on a
woman. Wo like It.
This Is especially true of men who, as
a general thing, prefer the kind of a
girl who makes a nice armful, Instead of
the kind that looks as If she were noth
ing but the original rib out' of which her
sex, was made. You never hear of a hus
band urging his wife to bant and grow
thin, or to lace a little tighter. On tho
contrary, every husband who takes
enough Interest In his wife to notice what
she Is doing urges her to eat all she
wants, and drink what she likes, and
have her clothes made loose enough to be
comfortable.
This Is what makes women's sacrifices
on the altar of thlnnes's so pathetic, for
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they martyrize themselves In vain. Mon
don't admire them a bit more when they
weigh 130 than they do when they weigh
1C0, and so love's labor Is lost, and they
might Just as well have eaten what they
like as not.
However you look at It, tho cult of ema
ciation Is a foolish one. To begin with,
It Is as broad as it Is long, and It has It
disadvantages as well as Its advantages.
It Is quite true that a slim figure looks
younger than a plump one, but when a
woman achieves a sllghtness In one place
sho ' gets It In another ,and with tho
twenty-Inch waist goes a neck llko a
turkey gobbler's and arms the size of a
yard stick.
Also wrinkles come Quicker In a thin
face than In a plump one, so that In the
end It Is a choice between having a
young-looking figure or a young-looking
face.
As women grow older they either grow
fatter or thinner, and the advantage Is
with the fat woman, because sho never
has the strained, overwrought, nervous
appearance of her haggard sister. She
looks calm, satisfied, prosperous and
happy the sort of a person who Is com
fortable to live with, whose laugh Is hung
on a hair trigger, and who has enjoyed
life and made It enjoyable for all about
her.
"Nobody loves a fat man," said the dis
consolate hero In a recent play, but
everybody loves a fat old woman. Look
about you and you will see that the
most adored wives, the most beloved
mothers, and the women with hosts of
friends are not nylphllke creatures, but
comfy, stout old ladles, who would break
the hearts of a straight front maker
So, ladles, throw your anti-fat remedies
Into the fire and be as stout as nature
made you and happy!
G
arrett
P.S
erviss
On What Would Happen if tho Or
bital Motion of Earth was Retarded
Interference Might Precipitate it
Into the Sun or Into Different Orbit
Changes
By WltMAM F. KIRK.
Pink' Morning comes with petals In nor Hair,
As fragrant as the kle&es of a bride;
Bright noon cornea marching with its dazzling glare
To scatter spears athwart the countryside.
The purple twilight follows dreamily,
Soothing the senses like a mother's breath;
Kaah of these changes through the years we see,
And then comes Night and Death,
How many, many changes have I seen
, Dawn, Noon, the purple Twilight and the Night,
H6w6ften have I watched them with a queen,
Dear queen pf lave who' made my years po brlgb'
Still shift tho scenes and' still the seasons Whir),
And eagerly I watch them, for I see
lu every tint the tresses of the girl
Who smiles' and Ueckona hfr
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IJy GAHUETT I. HKHV18S.
' "What would happen If, by some un
foreseen obstacle, the orbital motion of
the earth were retarded? Would the do
orcase of the earth's centrifugal force
cause It to be
drawn Into tho sun,
or would the orbit
be automatically
adjujted, so tha
equilibrium' would
be restored."
The writer of that
may seem to some
readers to be bor
rowing trouble
trouble about notli
nr, but in reality
he has asked a
very practical
question. The kind
of knowlcdgo he seeks Is of the same na
ture as that sought by the stcumshlp
passenger who insists on knowing what
provision has been made for an encoun
ter with Icebergs.
The earth rushes eastward round the
sun nt a velocity of about UK miles per
second, Hut, while Interstellar , space,
like the Atlantic ocean, offers plenty of
open room for speeding suns and planets,
yet It also contains many potential ob
stacles, such as great nebulae, both lu
minous and dark, soma of which are bil
lions of miles across; and wandering com
ets, and shoals of meteors, and huge In
visible bodies Which nro only known to
exist by tho effects that they produce
upon visible stars that have fallen under
the influence of their attraction; to say
nothing of the millions of other suns
which, like ours, are rushing In all direc
tions, tike ships' at sea, each seeking Its
own port
Some of these, like the Immense star
Ancturus, which exceeds our sun thou
sands of times In magnitude, are moving
with appalling speed, as If they were
glunt, battleships ' running their' way
through the universe,
Ho It Is evident that accidents may
happen even to the best ordered solar
systems, and an Inquiry like that made
above Is worthy of an nnswer.
If the "unforeseen obstuclo" should ab
solutely destroy the earth's orbital mo
tion round the sun, the consequence
would be that the earth would fall
straight Into the sun and bo consumed
almost In a flash. But there would be
time for Its Inhabitants to make digni
fied preparation for their end, since the
earth would take about sixty-four and a
half days to fall to the sun after Its or
bital motion was arrested. If the orbital
motion of the moon wero similarly de
stroyed It would fall to the earth In about
four days and twenty hours.
If the obstacle acted for a short time
only and destroyed but a psrt of the
earth's orbital motion, then the earth
Charles Flees to Scotch
By THOMAS B. GRKGOItV.
The Cth day of May, 1610. will always be
an Interesting date In English history, for
on that day King Charles the First, stag
gered by the crowning disaster at Naseby,
turned as a last re
sort to the cannle
Scots, who were
destined to estab
lish a precedent In
yfo line of commer
cial .transactions oy
selling the king for
sp much hard cash,
'The Scotch hated
the ' English and
loved liberty and
lucre, and, the clr
oumstances duly
considered, thoy
not greatly to
blame for turning the king to their pe
cuniary advantage.
I In the first place, Charles had "done
.them much evil." He was the bitter foe
'of I'resbyterianlsm and Presbyterians.
1 and In more ways than one had shown
l that the freedom which Scotchmen so
urdently loved held a pretty low place
411 his esteem.
n
J
.
In the second place, the king had, by
his habitual and rersistcnt Insincerity
and double dealing, forfeited all claims
upon the respect and consideration of
mankind, and, having no principle him
self, the Scotch felt It would be violat
ing nothing very sacred If they sold him
to the English.
Charles had to go. That was all there
was to It. "nut," said the thrifty BcoU,
"while he Is going we will make a little
something out of It." And they did.
They sold him to the English for four
hundred thousand' pounds J2.000.000 not
a bad price for a king who had already
lost his throne and crown.
U would not be Just to wlthold in this
connection a certain mitigating circum
stance. The 1400,000 was only part of a
much larger sum that the English had
been owing the Scot oh for a long time
and would not pay. Hallam, In his "Con
stitutional History of, England," says
that the English Parliament did not in
tend to pay 'this debt and would never
have paid it but for the desire of gaining
possession of the king. The Scotch were
well aware of all this, and when the
requisition tor the king was made
they agreed, to deliver him.
I
would 'drop hearer the sun and begin o5' i
travel round It In a smaller orbit Jr '
that case the earth would adjust ItseM"
automatically to the new state of affairs.
Hut probably It would not be very agree
able for us to be carried, say, twice 'e&HVi!
near tho sun as we are now, for then VM r
quantity of solar heat falling upon th'ttc
earth would be quadrupled.
If tho obstacle acted as a continuous ,
resistance to the earth's orbital motion,
then the earth would gradually approach J
the sun on a spiral path, until, at last,
it would plung Into the solar furnace.
Tho sumo result would be produced, but
much more slowly, If the resistance wel!
encountered by the earth periodically at
some point In its .orbit. The orbit would.
then become a little smaller after each
encounter, until, at last, It might beconj$w
so small that It would pass within the j
body of the sun, which is 86,000 miles jtf
diameter. j
Something of this kind seems actuallr, g
to have occurred to Encke's comet, whosa s
orbit has been observed to become
slightly smaller at several returns, as jf,'
at some place, It encountered a swarm m
of meteors lying In Its path. S
It would also, be possible for some vas t g
mass, llk an extinguished sun, passing
near the solar system, to so act upon tlje J3
earth as to' Increase Instead of decrease) tZ
Its orbital velocity, and In that case t!i(J 5
earth would adjust Itself to the new con? 5
dltlons by moving away from the surj. 55
and traveling in a larger and mow re-
mote orbit, perhaps away out In the cold 2
of distant space. It It were carried as &
far away as Jupiter la from the sun, the
heat that it received would be only about N
one-twenty-fifth as much as It now gets; &
Uut the earth might be dragged off) fg
like a kidnaped child, by a huge passim; M
body, and then it would never see Its Q
family again. All the other planeta'woudj fiS
suffer similarly, the solar system would! jS
be broken up and scattered abroad, and
the sun Itself, owing to the tremendous Jj
tidal forces set In action by the near ap- s
proach of the disturbing body, would! mi
probably bo burst asunder, and the entire J ,
system reduced to n chaotto state of a! i
whirling, spiral nebula. S
This Is not purely a fanciful pictur,-
for there are many reasons for bellevelns j
that Just such catastrophes have hap-J Z
pennd to other suns and solar systems Jjj
and have been visible to us In the form oij S
new, temporary stars, some of which, Ukej 4
the great new star of 1901, have actually; 3
beet) seen to turn into nebulae.
But the universe Is only the more laJ
terestlng for these things. The Joy qC
the Creator is In making, unmaking
remaking, and, perhaps, In a higher
of existence we shall take the same Pleas
ure in these vast changes that we now
find In watching the progression frcsjt
seed to flower and from flower back to
seed, while spring, summer and autuosg.
flit over our gardens.
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