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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1913)
.8 THE BEE. OMAHA, MONDAY, MAT 26, 1913. Making Mother Over By BEATRICE FAIRFAX When a girl reaches 36, and her hoad Is turned as easQy s thistledown, for the reason that It la almost as light, ahr be comes possessed with Uio belief that the is superior to her family, a delusion In "which her foolishly found parents un consciously encourage her. She Is her parents own child that Is a stubborn fact that evsn romantic theories of being the stolen offspring of royalty, of which she has read In the fairy tales, can't conquer. Sha Is a rare blossom on a parent stem that looks like a weed, and she wonders that there la no explanation of audi a phenomenon. She learns at an earlier ace than one would guess that she can't chance her father. Sho can rule him, and does, hut, Ik (rig a man, he Is satisfied to be what he Ik lie admits his offspring la a rare blossom, but does not for a moment think that the fathor stem la a weed. Mother Is different One reason Is that she Is a woman and knows not that self content that la wrapped around a mm like the bondages around a mummy. And a greater reason I- that site is mother, nnd therefore humble. She also recognises that her offspring Is a rn.ro blossom, the quick eyas of her love making this dis covery the moment her baby daughter was first held in her arms, Because of her lore she makes humble somp&rlron, nnd knows also that she Is a weed. She doesn't resent her daughter's air of superiority, but weakly and foolishly en courages It, thereby turning that little thistledown head a little further out of pl&oe. Naturally tha condition that oxtst tn a home where a girl has been permitted to think she U a prince do not pleaito her and she begins the process of maklrg over, altering her work of reformation b tween the parlor and mother, the former receiving serious attention whon she ex pects company and the latter engajrtnsr her energies all the time. Mother's methods of pronunciation are not those In use now and she Is corrected nnd called old-fashioned, a term that loses Its sweetness when a princess daughter applies it. Mother Is too tired when night comes fo put on more becom ing clothes, and daughter begins at the wrong end of the reformation by com plaining about her mother's appearance ln'tead of attaining the same end by mak ing the work lighter. The family purse will not support more than one peacock. Mother is glad to Rive her daughter that royal plumage, nnd the girl accepts and later complains when she struts around that her mother is not dressed as well as other mothers she knows, forgetting that in those fami lies there are no peacocks and the sum allotted for royal plumage la more Justly divided. I do not want glria to cease in this Tri form of making mother over, but I want thim to do at It In a better way. One rnn't change a mother's old-style clothes into new by complaining, but the change can be wrought by buying mother new clothes. If 110 Is given a girl for a new hat and mother she will make last sea eon's do, the daughter can make mother over by giving her the new hat and wear ing the old herself. If mother shows the unbecoming traces of hard labor, another way Is offered for making her over by taking the burden of the home oft her choulders. If the latest whim is & ribbon, a tie, hat, Bloves, dress or shoes will Improve daugh ter wouldn't they also Improve mother, nnd Isn't her need of 'improvement sreaterT One has the adornment of youth and needs little the other is showing all the disfiguring marks of time and nocds every assistance pretty clothes may rrfve. Make mother over by making her think more of herself and less of others! Such, a reformation will be good for the whole family, but don't, girls, I implore you. go at this 'reformation in the high-handed, (selfish way Have pride in her and she wll begin to have pride In herself of which many years of monotonous and unappre ciated household work have robbed her. Make her overl Make her young and pietty and carefree again, and use In Working the transformation the fntry wand of lavel In the Spring the Bather's Fancy Lightly Turns to Dreams Like This MISS NELL BRINKLEY'S Pictorial Phantasy of Surf Bathing in Hawaii Copyright, 1913, International News Service. Advice to the Lovelorn SlT BEATRICE FAIRFAX Accept No Man. liear Miss Fairfax: I am IS years old and deeply In lave with two young men. one five years my senior and the other seven years my senior. Both think there Is nothing Ilka me. There was a young man from another place who enme to see me some time ago. He proposed to me, but I didn't accept, as mother likes the other ones a little better. I don't know whether to accept or notas I do not love him very much and would like jmi tn give me. some advice. BKLLE. A girl of 15 years Is too young to be courted. 1 am surprised that your mother permit It. Tou must refuse all three, and permit yourself to be a care free girl at Unst five years longer. Tell Hint Yon it- None. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a rich young fill ,19 years old and am deeply In love with a young man one vur mv ..ni. I am alone in the World with no mother i" no assea me to marry him, but I do not know If he wants me Tor iovo or me alone or for money. How can I find out? MARGARET. "All's fair in love and war." and. you might try the Plan worn throrih.l i. fiction by telling him you have lost your money. nut better plan would be to refuse him. He la only 19, and a boy pf that us w ioo young to love seriously. Oo, by All Means. Peer Miss Fairfax: I expect to go to , iKvuiniiumeu oy a young man 7",n "?m i nve quite an understand- inff Thiol WAIIH V mm . m -T,t if v " uwi not ounce. AVtn it be proper for me to dance with other young men, or would you deem it advisable for us not to go to this dance at alir K. K. E. The young man la taking you for your pleasure, and knows that means you wtU want to dance. If his experience as a wallflower proves distasteful to him he will not repeat it Could you not persuda him to learn to dancef I am afraid this difference in jour choice of entertainment may other. w make trouble. Certainly. Ter Miss Fairfax: Is it proper for a y ng lady to Mic a gentleman to call en he has hinted at it, or wait until b positively asks to call? MADELON. t-Tie has the privilege of asking a man to rail on her, and a hint between friends a. v.id be unnecessary. ' ' n Neil Brinkloy says: May is a laggard to tho chap and the girl who love the surf and llvo In a bathing suit from dawn till dark whon the dog days come. A loVer of tho water And far Hawaii (restless undor the cool days of May, who moseys along stooping to look Into the eyes of tho flow ers April gavo her), longing for tho sting of the broakers and the restless, doopful bosom of tho sea, said, fretfully: "There's a land for you keen I Summer all year, wator like vlevot, and tho rollers that come marching In from tho coral reef, holding hands and breaking for a mile! Why, you can't oven, when your summer does come, rldo a surf-board In broken breakers." these short. And I admitted It was pitifully true for haven't wo tried It hero on our gray Atlantic and capsized both on the narrow bit of mahogany eighteen inches wide and six feet long, and In, the enterprise? But I will be very, most awfully, grateful for Just the days when I can kick my heels In sea-water and rise to big, green rollers even If our surf won't ,et us ride the furious little Hawaiian surf-Bteedl (Sex aod Suffrage Dorothy Dix Discusses Point Raised by an Anti and Ar gues the Question of Sex Ap peal to a Fair Conclusion By DOJKOTHY DIX Mrs. Arthur Dodge, the leader of the anU-suffr agists and our greatest uncon scious humorist, is out with a brand new explanation of why women want to vote. She says that tho suffrage question is nothing on earth but a vox disturb ance, and that In trying to get the ballot women are only making a sex appeal to men, That's a pretty hard charge for a woman, even an anti-suffragist, to make against her slater woman. It la only explainable on the ground that each antl-suffra-gist thinks that she Is the only woman in the world who has sufficient intelligence and virtu to fit her to vote. I have never met an anti-suffragist who esteemed herself so ignorant and vicious and hysterical and venial that she felt that a ballot would be unsafe In her hands. It' all the other women that sha holds so cheaply. However. Mrs. Dodge's claim that tha suffrage appeal is nothing but a sex appeal to man, is at least, welcome, be cause it is new. What antl-sutfrigisU have heretofore claimed was that the suffrage movement was a sex war. One contention is just as silly and un worthy of the serious consideration of sensible people as the other. On the very face of It. it is ldtotlo that there could be any great popular movement that had for its object the fostering of antagonism between the sexes. Any such Idea would fall at Its very birth. Nature would slay it' in its very be ginning, for as long as men are men and women are women, the cry of sex to sex will be the loudest and most insistent call in the world. Theories and creeds, beliefs and prin ciples, religion and politics have nevr yet stood long between a man and a maid, and the only possible war between the sexes results la the call to arms that both answer and which I arbitrated by the priest at the altar". Anybody who seriously argues that men and women can ever be' arrayed against each other, oa classes,, needs the atten tion of an alienist. Aside from tho -affection between them, the man's Interest and the woman's Interest are Identical. They stand or fall together. Whatever makes for the prosperity of one makes for the good of the other. What drags one down Into the pit carries the other Into the abyss. We are the wives, and sisters, anl daughters of the men who want low tar iff or high tariff; our husbands and our brothers and dUr fathers are manufac turers or farmers or merchants; our for tunes will be affected Just as much as men's by currency laws. We are bound to men by every tie of blood and heart and pocket, and the idea of our fighting themes as absurd as to supposes wo will all go daft and cut our own throats. There can never be, even when we get the franchise, any all-woman political party. There can be no female tariff schedule, no female regulation of the trust, no female banking bill differing from men's. The idea of a sex war between men and women Is so ridiculous that It Is no wonder that . even the anU-eurfragtet Donna Quixotes got tired of fighting that windmill. But Mrs. Dodge's brand new theory that the suffrage movement Is an Insidious sex appeal to men ts equally fantastic and imaginary. , On the contrary, so far from this being the truth, if any women are guilty of using their sex in furtherance of their alms it is the anti-suffragists, not the suffragists. Tho chief weapon in the armory of the antl-auffragists is what she calls femi nine charm, or feminine Influence, and she is forever urging women to use this Instead of doing a coarse and brutal thing like casting a ballot. The antls say that women do not need to vote becaue they ran persuade men to vote the way they want them to. They contend that It is easier to Jolly a man Into 'doing what you want him to than it is to do it yourself, and less labor to work him than to do the work with your own hands. When you want to get a bill passed for some measure you are inter ested In, or an appropriation for your favorite charity, they advise you to put on your prettiest frock and your most bewitching hat, and so up to the legis lature and make eyes at the men. Thev say that you can flatter a maji) particu larly If you are good looking, Into voting for anything, and. such being the case, why. bother with the ballot? Now, when a woman talks about using her "sweet womanly Influence" ' she knows perfectly well that what sho really' means is that she is going to strike the chord of sex with a hand that practice has made unerring in its touch. She's going to use every coquetry and blandish ment, and cajolery, and wile that have come down from the days of Eve and Delilah to the present moment, and be cause she may be doing It .for a good cause doesn't alter Its character one whit. One of the main arguments to be ad vanced in favor of giving women ' the franchise is that It will enable them to do decently and clean-mlndedly the very things that they do Immorally now. When a woman doesnt have to ask favors of a man she doesn't have to do the Salome dance before him. The woman who haa her own inde pendent Income doesn't have to wheedle a new hat our of her husband by tainted kisses and carresses. The woman who can cast her own ballot for whatever measures she wants doesn't have to de base herself by flirting with some poli tician to get him to vote her way. The ballot Is the clean, honest high road to a desired result Using your womanly Influence is the devious and slimy path that leads in the same .direc tion, but that no woman treads without bedraggling her skirts. The woman lobbyist Is no predit to her sex. We want to save any woman from having to stoop to do her .work. That's why we want the ballot Timely Hints. By making tiny loops In the end of the dress shields and etltehlng narrow whin wash ribbon In the lingerie sleeves shields may be quickly adjusted, and there is no metal arrangement to rust the goods. When the low shoe slips on the heel take a damp cloth and wipe the Inside of the sho over the heel and this will de stroy the glase. and the shoe won't slip. While It Is nice to see embroidered In itials upon towels and bed linen, yet there Is no need of the busy woman roik,t-f? tho Initial monogram whon beautiful ones can be purchased ready to sw on The same bright colors ual for woromi are a feature in the children a drt ;s.s of this season. The Granicus By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. Alexander tho Great won the Battle of the Qranlcus, 2,27 years ago. May 22, B. C. SM. Crossing tho Hellespont, near the point "where, more than twenty-one centur ies later, Lord Byron was to take his famous swim, Alexander moved on to the Granicus, where ha was to meet the Persian hosts who stood ready to dispute the progress of the ambitious young occidental. ' The. oattle that followed was short. sharp, decisive, the Persians being routed, "horse, foot and dragoons," losing- heav ily In killed, wounded and prisoners, while Alexander's loss was trifling, amounting to but a hundred or so. The Granicus was the first clash' be tween the saber and the sarlssa a spear some twenty feet long. The phalangites, about two feet apart, and In a body six teen linen deep, moved to the ' attack anned with this dreadful weapon as their chief reliance. It struck terror Into the hearts of the orientals, as well It might, and the mortal fear born at the Qranlcus remained to the end. Again and again after that battle the Persians formed themselves to meet the conqueror, but the fear of the terrible phalanx would not down, and after a show of resist ance they ran away like so many sheep. Th Persians were a brave people, and all things being equal, would have ac quitted themselves honorably enough, but against the phalanx and the carlssa thoy were simply helpless. It was not so much the genius of Alex ander, or the superior personal courage of his Macedonians, that won for him his famous victories, as It was the peculiar military organisation he had received from his father. Philip was a most ex traordinary man, a captain of ttrst-rate powers, a mighty administrator, and The Manicure Lady By WILLIAM F. KIRK above all a prince of organizers: and It was largely through his wise forethought j p:an It out careful, like Napoleon used "Things ain't spread out even In tho world," declared the Head Barber. "I am getting to be more and more of a socialist every day. The old stiff that Just went out Is worth about 11.000,000 and he hasn't give me a tip since he has been stopping at the hotel. His two sons are live wires, but they make their own way In the world, and it's Just as well. I'll bet neither of them could Jimmy a dollar out of papa." "Oh, well, they'll get It all when he kicks off," said the Manicure Lady. "But It don't look like ho Is ever going to do that little thing," replied the Head Barber. "The old. wart ts as hard to kill as an angle worm. You can break one of them Into four pieces and every part gets along and seems to be able to tako a little nourishment, Just like a full .slzed worm. No, I guess the old chap will be here till he Is around 100 years old, and by that time, the way the boys are going, they will be where they don't need no Inheritance." "I have often thought It was funny myself," said the Manicure Lady, "the way some folks has everything they want and then don't seem to want anythlng.- That sounds kind of mixed, George, but you know what I mean. Look as my Uncle Prank, for Instance. He Is so mean, George, that he rolls himself around the parlor in a rubber tired chair so ns not to wear out tha rugs. Poor Wilfred knows that Prank haa all the coin In the world, nearly, and not a long time ago he braced uncle for JI00 to print a volume of his poems. It seems Wilfred was over In Boston and met one of them phoney publishers that will publish any body's poetry If the poet pays for pub lication In advance, and he thought he Just had to have $200 to get out his book. Father tried to tell him that no good publisher done business that way, but the boy was set on getting the J200. so he decided to brace uncle for It. Wil fred prides hlmceir, George, on the way he goes about making a touch or asking iny kind of a favor. He says that he and genius that Alexander won the fame whloh otherwise, in all probability, he would never have reached. to plan his battles. "About a week before he went to see about the 1100, he wrote- a little poem Eealistic Stage Battle and Its Ending1. boosting his dear Uncle Prank, how it went: This is My Uncle Frank, to Mm I point with pride. He is my uncle on my mother's side. Like her, he Is so gentle and so kind. So noble In his loving, so refined. That all who know him think the world of him And love to gratify his every whim. Sr.ds2meJ face beneath a snow white head, Afmii1!?,8 "i" ot.ine Caesars that are dead. Almighty Provldenco I always than For sparing through the years my Uncle r rank. "That's a pretty good boost for the uncle," observed the Head Barber. "It sounds all right If you don't know the uncle." said the Manicure Lady, "but there ain't a line of truth In the poem except that Prank Is mother's brother. He Is as much like my dear ma as apple jack is like warm milk. Nobody never gratified none of his whims without get ting paid for It. and they mostly had to wait for their pay, too. And a far as his handsome face reminding anybody of the dead Caesars, all rve got to say is that after the Caesars looked in the glass they must have been glad to die. "I guess Uncle Prank must have been wise to the salve In Wilfred's poem, be cause he ain't no fool and knows down In his own heart that he is a miserable old skinflint. Anyhow, he didn't make no reply to the verses, and when Wilfred went to get the $200 he didn't get nothing except the gate. Tes, indeed. George, the money in this world ain't divided right It is was, I wouldn't be Betting here broke the day after pay day' Ptorenee Rockwell tells hew a cer- rrroached the erstwhile Othello and spoke tain actor well known on the Amerteun to Mm ? i tuf eugseca in a most e.retxJv . lie nlta lago. wiitm u XKB I 0:ht-:kt The rlayrs nwt and I -ins' imko iY me liiroal. Lflzin to "in mrni.it- rml I low.. choke him. The tagi flht whs res!-, confound th fellow, he was trying to Mutually presented, so much so, In a-t. '- - "t 'if the spotlight." San Fran- that, after the pcrfwwjince a friend ap- dsco Argonaut MORE NOURISHING THAN ME A! COSTS ONE-TENTH THE PRICE. These high cost of living days gtva you an excellent opportunity to got acquainted, with a food that is more nutritious than meat and costs but one-tenth the prlcS Faust Spa ghetti. 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