THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1913.
"Jhe ec Hnp Malfa z i rp p)a
f The Forty-Dollar
By WINIFRED BLACK.
Tou paid forty dollars for the hut, anil
you know oil the while you couldn't af
ford more than fifteen, and your hus
band laughed when you wore It home,
and didn't rare
very much for It,
after at), and now
the bill's come
homo and you are
afraid to show It
to him and when
you come to look
at the hat It Isn't
a thing but a
commonplac e
straw. with n.
twist of ribbon and
a foolish, lanky
feather bobbing
like something that
Is broken loose
from somewhere
and what, oh,
what, shall you do?
Take It to the
milliners and try to moke them take It
bock? Polish the thought. You bought
It didn't you. of your own, at least, par
tially freo will; they didn't make you get
It, they Just flattered and oajoleil and
smiled and twitted you Into It-eh?
Well, It's a way they have In shops,
especially at tho hat time of the year:
you knew that when you went, didn't
youT
Cross with th.e girl who made you
buy t. when you really knew all the
time dear, dear, what's the u of that,
she's there to do Just thai very thing;
that's what they pay her for. Bhe nots
a salary to make flfteen-dolltr wonen
buy forty-dollar hats, and then go home
and cry about It. Why not? The KUl
Jias to haye hats herself, you know, and
he's got to earn the money some way
to pay 'or them.
No, It's your own fault poor you poor,
vain, foolish, enslly led you; you've had
your dance, now pay the fiddler.
I know how you feel, my child; the;-
Isn't a woman living who doesn't know
exactly how your heart beats every t'nm
you think of telling Husband about thru
awful bill, especially when he dosn t
like the hat, but don't try to get out of
that.
The bill. Is bad enough. It would bo
tv,lco as bad to docelva htm about It.
The Manicure Lady
Br WILLIAM f. iork
"That must be some Interesting, that
novel you are reading there," remarkod
the Head Barber. "You ain't had your
nose out of It all the forenoon."
"It Is a beautiful story. George. I
almost cry In sorne'parts of It, and when
the laughs come they are surt great. I
didn't skip a lino of It, either, and I havo
Just finished the last page. The title of
It Is 'Starflower,' and It was wrote by
Sirs. Eleanor Shirley Dewfllcker. And
then they say that women can't write!
Mrybe some women writes stories that
is kind of punk and then gets mado fun
of by the critics, but this woman that
wrote 'Starflower' Is some qpeen of a
writer. 0e, there is some love passages
that Is simply superfluous and almost
sublimate. 'Htarflowor Is tho name ot
tho herlone. a little girl that always
lived In the northern part of Pennsyl
vania. She Is so pretty and sweet that
she has lovers come from everywhere to
try to win her hond, but she loves only
one. a voune man who Is doing scientific
farming near her fathers home. Of
course, science Is & great thing, George,
ard I suppose If It helps raise big crops
It .must help a man to make love, too.
Anyhow, she loves him and some 'day
they are to wed. Just listen to this part,
where they are cngogedt
" 'Starflower,' whispered Robert, plac
ing her little trembling palm In his strong
right hand. 'Little girl. I am plain and
direct In my speech, as you, know. I
can't write poetry for you, llttlo girl,
like the Byron poem" Vou read to mc
out In tho orchard, and I ain't no Tenny
son, but I am a man with a man's heart
and two wilting hands. I love your
' 'And . I love you, Bob.' murmured
Starflswer, bewildered by the wonderful
rush of happiness that swept over her
little form" and suffused her cheeks with
the first flush of girlish loVC.
"An oriole flashed brightly through the
crimson sumao and the brook hlppled
along like some soft accompaniment to
the oldest, sweetest story In the world."
"Ore. George, ain't that some writing?"
"Did he marry her and make a lot of
kale?" asked the practical Head Barber.
"No, George," replied the Manicure
Lady. "That' Is the pitiful part of It
A young bridge builder named Walter
Orr came to the little town where Star
flower dwelt, and he kind of dazzled. her
w.th his flne English and hts. wonderful
piano playing. He was a college; man,
and her Robert didn't know .nothing, about
Virgil or Horace or Barneses or any?of
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SKIN TREATMENT
You need never hesitate to use Jtel
ntl Hoap and Reslnol Ointment There
Is nothing In them to Injure the tender
ti: surface, tttslnol Is a doctor's pre
scription wblch proved so successful for
eczema, ringworm and other Itching,
burning, unsightly skin eruptions, that
It hss been used by other physicians all
over the country for eighteen years. No
other treatment for the skin now be-fo-e
the public csn show such a record
or professional approval.
a single .ronth. two hundred and
f eptw-an doctor wrote us endprslng
t' . R41&0I preparations. They would
-vo one so If they had not found
kMv valuable In their own prac
" v Vreserlbe Rtrlnql freely, con-
'ts 'ooth'ntf. healing action
- aents so b1nd nnd
"'t-d it h most dell-
it of a t'ny baby,
i . ruCRlft -'l 1l! Qlnt-
lit $K0 Mid XMtlnel Soap
-ii It ihfH 'ft br w:lt-
. it (i jt nitiniore
Bill for the Hat .
I know a man who almost committed
sutclde once because his wife was de
ceiving him about a milliner's bill. That's
the way it began, aiiyhow She was
afraid to let him see 1 the bill and sho
cried and moped ind acted queer, and
one day, when he came home and found
her weeping, ho had Just seen an old
sweetheart of hers, going oiit of the pub
(lc door of tho apartment where he and
Is wife lived, and he tried to make her
tell about Die o)d sweetheart and she
wouldn't because she .didn't Jtnow a thing
nbout him and cared less, and husband
nas Jealous and cross and unkind, and
she thought he found out about the bill
and was taking that way to. frighten her,
and she hated him for It. and shn wasn't
very well anyhow, and sho Just ran away
hjme to mother for a few days, and
husband thought she was In love with
the other man and, oh, what a time over
Just such nonsense ns this very thing,
and, when It all, came out, how ashamed
they both were of themselves and each
other.
High strung, of course, they were;
every ono Is high strung when every ono
Is In love; there's nothing sonstbln about
love, you know, never was and never will
be, that's what makes It so sweet. But
there's something honest about It, or
ought to be, and you be honest with your
husband about that bill and' got it off
you'ro mind this very day.
We're all gumps , .about clothes, we
women. Wo think they mean such a lot
more than they really doj clothes are all
right, but the woman who wears them
Is worth ten times as much as any
absurd hat that was ever sold under
false pretenses or true ones elf her, for
that matter.
It Isn't your clothes your husband
lotes, It's you; don't let any milliner or
dressmaker on -earth make you believe
any different; poor things, they live In
such nn atmosphere of'fusi and feathers,
and dingle dangles and flnglo fanglss,
that they' don't know there's a great big
v holesomo world outside that hardly
knows or cares. whether skirts are tight
this year or nmple.
Wear what you con afford, look as
nice as you can, tell husband tho truth
about your bills, nnd let It go at that.
In that road lies your happiness; take
a'our husband's hand nnd walk In It,
happily and truly.
them oldtlmers. Orr knew all about them
all, and he could change his' voice until
It got as soft as the rustling of tho
breeze through the autumn leaves. When
he was talking to his men he spoke kind
of commanding, but when he spoke to
her he always spoke with the soft pedal
Ono night, George, sho agreed to run
away with him, and tho next morning
they were gone. Just after they eloped
Orr got fired, and had to take a posi
tion that paid him about one quarter as
much money as her former sweetheart
made every week out of his" registered
milk from his registered cows,
"When she saw poverty staring her In
the face she took some kind of a powder
and they found her still In death with a
note to Ilobert pinned on her nlghtrobe.
Then Ilobert heard about It and went so
Insane that he called all his cows 'Star
flower.' "
"It sounds all right," said tho Head
Barber, "but I wouldn't go nuts over no
girl that threw me down!"
Fashion Hints
Tailor made costume of Sweden eponge
material. The coat straight In its lines
shows an original effect of Caniuos mak
ing the waist (In on both tldas wllh
huge covered buttons, and at the bottom
curved on the hips and finished by two
stitched points in front and baoc
Tho collars and revere are of hlatk
satin. Small effeot of revers finishing
the sleeves, which are piped with bl.u-k
satin, and two covered buttons adorn the
sleeves.
The skirt, a straight one. out vlth a
long height In' llask to give 'he luie4
effect Is caught uj under a doubli binail
By LA RACONTKU8E.
j band of black satin.
"So Near and Yet So Far" By Nell Brinkley 1
"And thoso who were clear would bo all too near with tho thick
lnost loving couples and with tho cst of friends. Tho ljttto god of Iqvo Is
"a good sport and to forgot all that happened." And, of course, tho man
Cold Days in
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
The "Ico Saints" have paid us their
annual visit this spring with their usual
punctuality.
Many persons, doubtless havo shivered
at their touch with
out knowing what
It was. A word of
explanation Is
therefore necessary,
From time Im
memorial It has
been noticed, In
both Europe and
America, that, be
ginning about tho
10th or 11th of May
a series ot cold days
averaging three,
but sometimes ex
tending over a
week, always Inter
rupts the gradual Increaso of the tem
perature of the air In spring. Severe
frosts and cold rains occasionally ac
company the sudden falling ot the ther
mometer. If May sets In, as It did this year, with
delightful balmlness, It Is certain, be
fore the end of Its second week,1 to take
a backward step toward winter temper
a tures.k The .Interruption Is not long, or
very serious, but once In a while ft pro
duces disastrous effects upon early grow
ing plants, and causes people hastily to
resume some of their discarded winter
garments.
Although they shift to and fro a little,
yet, upon the average, these' cold days
center around May 10 or 11, and they
were long ago associated with the Im
aginary Influence of three or four saints.
Their feast days ooour at this time,
and they are called "Ice Saints" or
"Frost Saints." These are St Mamer
tus (May 11), St Pancratlus (May 12),
Bt. Servatlus (May IS) and St. Boniface
(May 14).
Rabelais said ot them that "these saints
are taken to- be makers ot hall, freeses
and pinchers of early buds."
In England tills cold spell In May Is
sometimes called "the black-thorn win
ter," and In Scotland "the Borrowing
Days," although they might, perhaps
rather be called the Paying Days, as
If the season had been borrowing heat
from the coming summer, and was sud
denly called upon to pay up. Many per-
I sons are so sure of the coming of the
I "Ice Saints" that they never put all tbelr
winter garments away until they have
passed.
Nearly u century ago the German as
tronomer Maedler examined the records
for eighty-six years tn tho past and
found at this precise time In the year the
average temperature In central Europe
always declined suddenly more than
decrees. Often, however, the decline is
very muoh greattr, sufficient, as al
ready said, to produce disastrous effects
ion vee,lon
I Another German savant, Krmann,
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Copyright, 1912, by Journal-American-Examiner.
May
Why We Always Get a Low Tcm-
Serature About the Second Week
low Nature Brings About a Balance
Between Winter and Summer : :
offered tho somewhat startling sugges
tion that the cause of the sudden falling
of the thermometer before tho middle of
May was the annual passage of a cloud
of meteors between the sun and the
earth. This view was accepted. as possi
bly correct by the English astronomer,
It E, Proctor, who spoke of the earth
as being at this time In "meteoric
shadow."
Meteorologists, however, are . inclined
tp regard the phenomenon as duo merely
to readjustments In the atmosphere, re
sulting from, differences of air. pressure.
And the sun begins to swing north
after tho spring equinox its -Inoreatlng
heat produces local disturbances of pres
sure and temperature. There Is a kind
of conflict between the northern tnd
southern air currents, and an Inter
change of temperatures. This explana
tion, on account of Kb generality, does
not clearly explain the marked tendency
of the cold days to come at almost ex
actly tho same time every year, on both
sides of the ocean.
In America tho' cold days are usually
followed about a week later by a remark
able rlso of temperature, and General
Oreely has pointed out that on this sldo
of the ocean tho warm weather of the
third week in May Is often more con
spicuous. In the records, than the cold
nell of thfl second wnik. ITn Rhnu'H
that at 't.hls season low pressure storms
commonly pass across the northern
United States, drawing In warm air. from
the south, and these are followed by
high pressure anti-cyclones, which suck
down cold air from British America.' The
next passage ot low pressure centers
from west to east draws still more warm
air from the south,' causing a marked
rise of temperature again, and so on,
until at length summer Is established..
Still, the curious punctuality of the cold
days, In which they differ from all .other
weather phenomena, appeals strongly to
the imagination, suggesting some regu
larly recurring influence more fixed' In
character than simple atmospheric
changes usually are, and It will be a
long time before the "common people."
especially In Europe, abandon their belief
In the "Ice Saints," while more learned
persons will continue to speculate on the
possibility ot the Intervention of some
thing that tho meteorologists have not
yet discovered.
n In a for Silk Salt.
When two colors are combined In a
three-piece costume, the tMxllce matches
either the skirt or the packet and Is em
broidered In the contrasting shade. For
Instance, a skirt of navy blue oree de
shine is completed by a sauay little Dl-
rcctolre coat ot terra cotta taffeta, and
the blue chiffon bodice is embroidered tn
this shade ot red. Another method ot
Unking the bodice to the skirt and jacket
of contrasting colors Is by veiling chiffon,
matching the jacket by chltfon harmonis
ing with the skirt or vice versa.
of the earth between them" Is the
a great peacemaker, and here In this
Is a true lover, and, the reconciliation
Getting at the Facts
WW
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By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Copyright 1913 by Star Company.
It Is reported of Hanna More, tho Eng
lish woman poet (a woman writer Is no
more "poetess" than a woman artist Is
an "artistess"), that when gossip' about
anyone was re
peated to her she
sold, "Well, let us
go at once to' this
person and find out
how true this stoo
ls," and she drag
ged the terrified
gosstper to the per
son under discus
sion and Insisted
on' having the
story Bitted to the
bottom.
Of course, scan
dal mongers and
gosstpors soon
ceased' to tell her
the tales they
heard; for not ono
person In ono hundred who hears a
story .about another and repeats It ' Is
filling to stand before the accused and
say where the story originated.
That is the only right and proper way
'to do, however. If we wish to be thought
fair In our dealings with humanity.
When any one starts to tell you a
tale on condition "that you swear your
self to secrecy," let the matter go no
further.
Say In reply, "I will not make any such
promise; 1 do not want to hear a tale
that I cannot hunt to its source; and If
you tell me scandal about some one I
kpow 1 must reserve the right to refer
to you as tho Informant If It becomes
necessary for me to do so," ,
There are occasions when we must
warn ono person of association with an
other. A very young girl must be told
that the companionship of an older
woman Is not safe for her reputation, or
a young man (or an older man for that
matter) needs to know that a certain
acquaintance must not be permitted to
become an Intimate friend If he would
avoid besmirching his good name.
In such a case the. request not to re
peat the gossip should be followed by the
statement, "It you find yourself at any
time obliged to speak ot this matter give
me as your informant. I do not want to
take part In an unpleasant scene unless
necessary, but It it becomes so I will
tell what I have to say against this
party."
A mother ef a yonnir lartv In
. . ,
had positive proof that a guest of the
house was unfit to associate with l-iru
m.n Rh living nr. f dMit
and Infamy. The mother said to her
daughter. ' Treat this woman whom we
I have met here politely, but she doe not
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way It sometimes happens wiUi the
Instance he la telling the man to bo
follows Just as It really should.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Tells
How to Silence Gossip ers
and to Keep the Records
Straight At All Times
strike mo as one who would benefit you
by her association. Do not accept any
Invitations from her.
"Say nothing derogatory of her to any
one, but should she at any time ask. you
why you had ceased to go out with her,
refer her to me.
That was honest and straightforward
dealing. The daughter was protected
from an unsafe association without hear
ing mind-soiling facts, while there was no
coward shelter behind a vow of secrecy
taken by the' mother.
A young girl was told that one ot her
admirers was nir unsuitable man to ad
dress a good woman. She demanded
proof But while the first and second in
formants gave the source of the tale, the
third was sworn to secrecy to protect her
Informant.
It so happened that this protected In
formant was possessed of strong "cir
cumstantial evidence" of what sh had
told. But she was not brive enough to
come to the front and declare It, nor
wise enough tq keep her own counsel.
So she had embroiled half a dozen people
In what seemed to be malicious gossip,
because she had told factH which she did
not stand ready to prove.
But those who listened were equally
culpable.
One's own father or mother has no
right to extract such a promise when
telling unpleasant facts about another
human being; either the facts should not
be tpld or the one telling should not le
afraid to be quoted.
Refuse to listen to any story you can
not help to disprove or prove.
SLEEP DISTURBING BLADDER WEAKNESS
BACKACHE-RHEUMATISM, QUICKLY VANISH
Even Most Chronic Sufferers
Find Relief After a Few
Doses Are Taken
Backache, urinary disorders and rheu -
matlsm, are caused from weak, Inactive,
kidneys, which fall to filter out the Im-
purities and keep the blood pure, and the for a few days are often all that is re
only way on earth to permanently and quired to cure the worst backache, regu
posltlvely euro such troubles is to re- late the most annoying bladder disorders.
' move the cause.
I The new discovery. Croxone, soon re
lieves such conditions because It reaches
i the very roots of the diease. It soaks
! right Into the stopped up. Inactive kid-
nays, tnrougn ine wans anu linings;
cleans out the little filtering cells and
. glands; neutralizes and dissolves the Pol-
! onoUfl urlc ubtnte that lodge
i In the joints and muscles to soratch and
k irritate and cause rheumatism; heal the
A New. Type of Man
By KLRERlTnrBBARl).
A new type of man has been discovered.
Solence has placed him on the slide,
analyzed, diagnosed and duly labelled
him. He Is known as "the Intellectlc.'
The type Is as
clearly defined ns
.the paranoiac, tho
dipsomaniac or tho
kleptomaniac.
The Intellectlc Is
a by-product of
civilization. He Is
a man who lives on
his roof, as com
pared with the op
posite pole that
lives In Its base
ment. He has a
superstructure, but
no base. He knows
everything but the
obvious, and can
do anything but
make a living.
Savage, barbaric
and pioneer people
never produce a man of this class. He
seems to be a sort of sport of civiliza
tion, one of nature's llttlo Ironies. He has
Intellect, but Is deficient In common
sense. To that degree science rightly
classifies him as a defective.
When you get tho "highbrow" who
lacks common sense you have the in
tellectlc. Common sense Is the common and
natural utilization of the senses. Com
mon sense Is the sense which the com
mon people possess. In fact, they have to
possess It, otherwise they wolld perish.
It Is a part of tho great law of self
elf- .
"7
preservation. It is Intuition wisely
reeted.
Common sense means the sbllltr to
take caro of yourself. And, Inasmuch as
man Is a herding animal, common eenso
implies an Intuitional rlpht adjustment of
man to his fellows.
The first Item of common sense Is a
cheerful willingness to mako yourself
useful to other people. Without this
ability the Individual would starve to
death were ho not taken care of at the
hands of charity.
Stanley Hall, in his wonderful book,
"Adolesence," makes tho statement that
all of tho common sense an Individual
over possesses he acquires before he is
fourteen years old. After that, so far as
common sense is concerned, .his case Is
hopeless. Tou can send him to college
and he will acquire lcnrnlng, expanding
his intellect, but all you will over get
will be an Intellectlc that is, an In
dividual morally and mentally defective.
The intellect Is no guide In matters of
getting a living or dealing with the primal
and basic things In life. Breed enough
lntellectlcs, and the race would die.
The discovery and the proper labelling
and classification of the intellectlc ex
plain the presence of theological and
medical piffle.
It is said that there are more of them
now than ever before In all history, this
on account of the fact that Inherited
wealth makes, in many instances. Indi
viduals free from the nesessity of earn
ing a living. And one so handicapped
will not be apt to evolve these primal
instincts which we all should possess.
Children born Jn the country of poor
parents or In villages where every one
works for a living run very small risk
Indeed of evolving Into lntellectlcs. The
product comes from tho cities. To a great
degree the habit of paying honors and
doing deference to certain professions no
doubt has had a good deal to do with
evolving the intellectlc.
Always and forever, the true type of
Intellectlc Is a paraatt usually a re
spectable mendicant. He lives off the
labor of other people. He wastes, he
destroys, he consumes he does not
create.
The safety of the race lin in the fact
that the Intellectlc has been located and
tho psychic domain that he Inhabits has
een, in a degree, mapped and the life
buoys placed. We have been duly
warned.
Tho paranoiac may show a seizure and
work dire' mischief or sudden death. The
Intellectlc Is just as dangerous, and per
haps more so, because the poison that he
distils is Insidious and slow In Its action.
He is the man who upholds the religio-medico-legal
fetish and spreads their bale
ful Influence.
Any man who Is unfamiliar and out of
sympathy with tho simple llttlo common,
everyday things of life, who Is not In
touch with the multitude and whose
heart does not go out to the many. Is on
the preserve of the intellects, and is a
good man to let severely alone. No mat
ter how plausible his arguments, give him
absent treatment. Flee any man who does
not have common sense, no matter how
great his mental attainments.
Safety lies in living like a poor man,
no matter how much money you have,
and, above all things, bring your chil
dren up to bo useful, to perform tho
necessary tasks of life, never to be above
doing good, plain, old-fashioned work.
Any one who uses the term "menial" Is
touched with intellectlclsm. There are no
mental tasks. Tho necessary to the
sacred and the useful Is the divine.
Keep your feet on tho earilt, even
though your head Is In the clouds. Do
not be exclusive and set yourself apart
os something special nnd peculiar. Tho
poet, the artist and the musician all
token the Intellectlc, Have intellect, of
course, but build it on a basis of common
sense.
inflamed membranes of the bladder, and
cleans out and strengthens the stopped
up, lifeless kidneys so they filter and
Blft all the poisons from tho blood, and
drive It out of the system.
1 80 sure, so positive, so quick and last-
Ing, are the results obtained from tho
use of Croxone, that three dasm a dav
and overcome the numerous other sim
ilar conditions.
It Is the most wonderful preparation
ever made for the purpose. It is so pre
pared that It is nranllnnllir t
take It Into the human system without
ut
t-
s.
An original package of Croxone costs
ui a inne. ana all druggists are author
lied to return the purchase nrlce li
Croxone falls to irlvo ileslrMl rtiU
regardless of how did you are. how long
you have suffered, or what else has
failed to cure you.
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