Bringing Up
Why Mothers Fail as
By DOROTHY DIX.
I often think that mothers are thu
worst press agents on earth, and that
they do far more to queer their daugh
ters' fortunes than they do to boost them.
Practically every
woman who has
girls la on a still
hunt for husbands
for them. She
wants to see' them
married off and
settled In homes of
their own. with
their shopping
tickets 'assured for
life. To this end
she attempts to
present her daugh
ters In an attrac
tive light to the
masculine eye, and
it Is the blunders
that she makes in
Ihls direction that ,
are so appalling
and so pathetic,
for nine times out of ten Instead of
casting a rosy halo about the. girl,
mother succeeds In robbing her of what-,-ever
charms she has.
For Stance, the other day I was at
a dinner given lrf honqr of a woman,
from the -middle west and 'her very' pretty
and attractive daughter. There were
Several delightful young men present
who were Just beginning to get their
feet well planted on the ladder of suc
cess, and any one of whom would have
been, a good match for the girl, for they
were all men with futures.
But mother calmly announced: "Mabel
told them all at home that she was going
to New York In search of a millionaire,
and that no pikers need apply." Possibly
the speech was Intended as a Jest, but
It was' an expression of a desire so sor
did, so mercenary, so vulgar that It fell
like a wet blanket over the entire com
pany, and. push It aside as we might,
none of us could see the girl as anything
but a miserable little fortune hunter,
Willing to sell herself to the highest
bidden
"That lets us out, doesn't It? one of
the young men said with a scarcely
veiled sneer to the other men, "we can't
qualify In the millionaire class by about
J9!,&M.75."
Furthermore, not one of trie young men
who was Invited to the dinner to meet
this girl paid her the slightest attention
while she was In the city, although they
frould have liked her, and been nice to
her, and made her have a good time had
not been for her mother's assertion
that she was In search of a husband
with money. The girl's most malicious
eViemy could not have done her a worse
turn than her mother did by her Idiotic
speech.
Nor Is this type of mother raro. I have
known hundreds of women married to
men In moderate circumstances who made
no bones of proclaiming to any one they
knew that they dldnt Intend that their
daughters should marry poor men and
have to work and economize as they had
had to do'. A mother Of this sort ts as
good a scarecrow to keep suitors away
from her daughters as human Ingenuity
can Invent.
The man who has his own fortune to
make certainly does not want to marry
the daughter of a woman who had not
the courage to do her part In assisting
her husband, nor the affection to make
her feel that it is a privilege -to help bear
the burdens of one you love, so the level
headed man, who wants a wife who will
be a helpmate instead of 'a hindrance,
keeps away from girls that have heen
brought up by such a mother. Nor does
the man who has money yearn to marry
a girl whose mother has taught her -o
look at his check book before she looks
at the man. Even a -millionaire ltkea to
think that he was married for hlmBelf
alone, and that the woman would havti
said "yes" Just as quickly whether h
had offered her a Harlem flat or a Fifth
avenue mansion. i
Another mother who Is a hoodoo to
her daughters is the woman who brags
about how helpless her daughters are.
and how tenderly she has reared them.
"I never let Mamie be wakened in the
morning. I always let her sleep until 10
or 11 o'clock, until she feels like getting
up." "I always keep everything that la
unpleasant from Gladys. She's such a
sensitive nature I reel she must be
shielded." "Sadie couldn't sew on a
button to save her Ufa. 1 always do that
for her. She really doesn't know how to
hold a needle In her hand." "Gwendolyn
has never put her foot inside of tho
kitchen scarcely. She couldn't boll water
without scorching it. I don't want my
daughters to work as leng as I can kep
them from Jt. There'll be plenty of time
for them to learn to cook and sew after
they get married."
Tlirse are familiar utterances of
mothers and daughters, and with
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daughters that they are anxious to
marry off, too. Isn't that an Insane line
of talk to hand out as a recommenda
tion for wives? As well had a clothing
salesman say to a man, "Sir, I'd ltko
to sell you this suit of clothes whloh I
can conscientiously recommend to you
as a misfit that you will regret taking
If you do takn It to the longest day
you live. It's true II'b pretty and good
to look at, or at least it will be good
to look at until it fades, which will be
soon, but it's 'utterly no account, and
useless, and It will rip and tear at the
first strain, for it hasn't got one thread
of genuine wool In it,' and It's shoddy
through and through, because the
woman who made it made It that way."
What Inspires any woman to think
that a man that's got sense enough to
be out of a feeble minded Institute
would deliberately marry a girl who has
been trained to be lazy, and .selfish, and
Incompetent, and worthless, and who
Is neurotlo to boot, passes comprehen
sion. But mothers go about advertising
thete disqualifications for wifehood in
their daughters, and then are surprised
because they have a lot. of old maids
left on their hands.
Then there are mothers who think that
the way. to catch husbands for their
daughters is "to ,pHe vttrtery tHy- can't
afford on the girls' backs. Th'ey think
that attracts men, whereas It scares
men off. When a sensible man Bees a
poor girl dressed like a millionairess he
sets her down as heartless, selfish and
frivolous. He says to himself that she's
working her poor old father to death to
get good cloothes to flaunt herself about
in, or she's going In debt for them, or
she's willing to starve the family to
adorn herself, and none of -that for him,
thank you. He wants something In a
wife with more to it than a fashion
plate.
Of course mother means well. She's
doing the best she can to boost daugh
ter, but she doesn't understand tho busi
ness as a press agent because it nevel
seems to occur to her to say that SalJIe
is a nice, strong, healthy girl, who
knows how to work, and isn't afraid of
It, and Is ready to help any (young man
that she falls In love with to hustle fot
a fortune. Yet, that's the uopo that
would go with men.
The Amnesty Bill I
By REV THOMAS B. GREGORY.
The amnesty bill was passed by the
United States senate forty-one years ago
May 21, 1872, the vote being 83 to 2.
Charles Sumner being one of the noes.
The act declared
that all political
disabilities were
removed from all
persons whomso
ever except sen
ators and repre
sentatives of the
Thirty-sixth and
Thirty - seventh
c o n g r esses, and
officers in the
J u d tela!, military
and naval service
of the United
States. Before this
became a law. between 160,000 and 160,000
were excluded from office, while this act
reduend the disabilities to a number be
tween 500 and 600. Thus he act of 1S7S
was a strong forerunner of that of 1J98,
which brought full amnesty, wiping the
slate clean, forgetting all.
Once more the country was united.
Upon Urn swearing in of Senator Ransom
of North Carolina, Thurman of Ohio,
sal J; "I take the liberty of expressing
the satisfaction that I am sura all will
feel that now, for the first time since
ISfil, 'every seat In this body is fulL I
think it Is a matter that the country
and the senate may congratulate them
selves upon." Almost simultaneously,
Rogers of North Carolina war given his
seat in th house of representatives, and
a Massachusetts republican exclaimed:
"The representation of the entire union in
this house is now complete." "Happy
event!" responded the members.
, The sober second thought had pre
vailed. Reason was at last asserting
herself In the councils of men, and hu
manity and sense were taking the place
of passion and hate. It is true that the
ground-swell of reconstruction was still
pretty heavy, but the worst was over,
and In tho amnesty bill readers of men
and measures could see the unmistakable
prophecy of the good time coming, when
the long dissevered and discordant sec
tions of the union, onca more strongly
united, shall march all on way.
THE BEE:
Copyright, 1913. International News
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Mlnmg the Air
The History of Man's Fight for Aerial Supremacy, and How tho Human Mind Has
Shown Itself Capable to Surmount Any Obstacle.
it
How it is proposed to mine the air against .3!!i
The small pictures are (from
top to bottom) : Laudent lo
Gusmnn's weird idea for a bird
like air machine, drawn In 1700;
(2) the plan of Dogcns of Vienna,
showing a man propelling him
self through tho air with hand
worked wing; (a) an Imagina
tive freak evolved, on paper only,
after the Introduction of tho
Montgolfler balloon; (4) Path
ino'a flying fish, constructed at
Placcncla, Spain, in 1784, and
called a dirlble, and, (5) one
of tho earliest types of dirigibles
over put into the air.
By GARRETT P. BERVISS.
If a snail should take It into his
head to run with the bewildering speed
of a West Indian centipede, so dra
matically described by Lafcadio Hearn.
the wonder of the
onlooker would not
be greater than
(hat which any
one must feel In
considering the
udden leap of
invention that has
brought forth the
modern aeroplane
out of the old
flying machines
with which men
had been fumb
ling for centuries
and making no
progress.
They fumbled because the key was
lacking. But the human mind never
goea backward, and it never wants a
key that it does not ultimately find.
Man has always wanted to fly. He
began to try almost in the Infancy of
his race. He envied the first bird ho
saw. Head the anelent Greek story of
Daedalus, which la not the first of Its
kind.
As mechanical knowledge Increased,
freih efforts to invent a mechanism for
human flight vara mad. But the main
OMAITA, SATURDAY, MAY
Service.
The Latest Plan for Aerial Defense
point was always missed. There was no
real progress and, until the Invention of
the balloon, nobody succeeded In actually
raising himself in the ulr.
The older devices Invariably were based
upon an attempt to imitate the wings
and motions of birds. There was no true
Invention about them, because no new
prlnolple was brought Into play, Look at
some of the pictures shown herewith, and
you will perceive at a glance why the
snail continued to crawl like a snail.
In IMS Francis dodwln, who was at the
I same time a bishop and a kind of seven-
tecum tciiiury juie verne, iranuiy con
fessed that the bird seemed to be the
only possible model by hitching his
Imaginary flylnR machine to a big floek
of wild swans. Tou will see him In the
picture as he fancied himself (or his hero)
flying over a mountain.
In 1709 Laurent do Guzman Invented (qn
paper) a flying boat, with tho head,
wings and tall of a bird. It also hod a
sail. De Guzman appears to have been
in earnest in his project, and the newB ar
tists of his day were kept busy making
pictures of his devloes. lie even attached
rotating paddles to some of his designs.
Afterward, when Mongolfler had Invented
the hot-air balloon, De Guzman became
enthusiastic In attaching all sorts of im
practicable apparatus to balloons, in
tended to drive and guide them.
In 17S0 Francois Blanchard attached
routing wtngs and a rudder to a balloon.
3t, 1013.
Drawn for The Bee by George McManus
and he actually made a flight with one
of his machines.
In 178 a Spaniard named Pathlnt con
structed at Placencla a balloon shaped
like a fish, with a rudder, tall and side
wings, which, according to some contem
porary drawings, were Intended to be
worked ltko tho oars of a boat.
At the end of tho eighteenth century,
when the balloon had been Improved, the
Imagination of the public was excited by
such representations of coming airships
a the ono here presented, with a ship
pierced for cannon beneath the balloon,
a sail to drive It, and a huge Gallic cock
triumphantly surmounting the aerial
wonder.
In 1S07 the Inventors went back to the
btrd-wlng Idoa, and one Degen, an Aus
trian, contrived the pair of wings shown
in one of our pictures. But he tou Id n't
fly with them.
Now, turn from these vainly ingenious
devices, which were continued without
muoh reat Improvement, until the latter
part of the nineteenth century, and look
at the arlshlps of the present day, and
note thi contrast. The secret has at last
been found. The Irresistible genius of
man has got its grip firmly fixed on the
slippery principle.
At first the dirigible balloon had the
lead, and It is Interesting to see an early
form in Krneit Bazln's machine, drlvon
by rotating paddles beneath. Then came
the sliding experiments of LUlentual and
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Racial Difference'
Sermon on American Citizenship and
Christianity in
By DR. O. II. PARKIIURST.
Tho "American Citizen" is a welcome
addition to our magazlno literature. It
exists for n distinct purpose, It ts the
organ of an Idea. It Is Intended pri
marily us nn ad
vertisement of tho
history, quality and
achievement of tho
Jewish people, set
forth In n wry to
dlsabuso tho Gentile
mind of Its antl
Homltlo prcjudtceu.
It will be read by
Jows and ought to
bo be road by Gen
tiles, and will bo.
It there Is In them
that openness of
mind and generos
ity of heart that
are Ingredients
thai aaK
all Christianity
is of the genuine
type.
While there la an essential distinction
between Judaism and Christianity, and
while every Christian should be distinct
and outspoken in his recognition of that
distinction, yet It should never be for
gotten by us that Judaism la the founda
tion upon whloh Christianity builds and
furnishes the root out of which Chris?
tlanlty develops.
It was Jesus Christ, himself, who said:
I came not to destroy, but to fulfill"
The Iron that was In the moral and re
ligious constitution of the old prophets
U still a part, and a very considerable
part, of the strength and aggressive
energy of the new faith.
The Old Testament Is not a back num
ber, and makes out part of tho Chris
tian's Bible, and if he Ignores its con
tents and treats thorn as something
which he has outgrown his system of
belief and tone of character will lack an
Ingredient of which ho cannot afford to
be destitute.
In our contemplation of the Jews, Jew
lull history, character and religion, it
should not bo forgotten that racial dis
tinctions make a largo contribution to
progressive history. They play something
the same part in the make-up of human
progress that the several tones and
climates of the physical world play in
accomplishing the purposes of the ma
terial world.
A part of our earth's perfection con
sists In Its varieties of altitude and tem
perature. The polar and the tropical'
regions arc essential to the earth's well
being and to human success as well ns
the temperate regions.
Bo It Is of the several races. Each h,
its separata function. Each makes its
special contribution to the welfare of the
whole. Differences are more valuable than
resembluuoca. And this observation In
cludes not only the Jews and Oentlles of
the western world, but the peoples of the
east, whose type of character varies so
widely from our own, and who In course
of time will Infuse Into Occidental civili
sation an element that will be to the
betterment of the western world, even as
our civilization hero in the west. If wo
behave ourselves, will prove to the In
tpllcctual, moral and religious enrich
ment of tho Orient.
It is with thoughts such as these in
mind that we require to approach our
contemplation and study of the Jewish
race as of all races distinct from our
own. Differences should not be a bar-
! Her to our approach to them, but rather
Chanute, and the theoretical Investiga
tions of Lapgley on the sustaining power
of the air for swiftly moving aeroplanes.
The snail was beginning to runt And
suddenly, with the triumphs of the Wright
brothers, he set off at full speed)
Now we have, with almost magical
j quickness, arrived at the biplanes and
'monoplanes, the German "Zeppelins,"
, tho hydro-aeroplanes and all the other
i flying apparatus that has become fa-
miliar to everybody, and are eagerly
awaiting news of the first passage of the
i Atlantic by the aerial route!
Flying ships of one form or another,
figure In the military and naval calcu
lations of all the great powers. How
best to employ them; how to use them;
how to resist their attacks; how to de
stroy them: how to protect them these
questions are In alt minds.
Even the atmosphere must be "mined"
now, like a harbor exposed to an enemy's
fleet, Iook at the picture of the latest
device of this kind, where the air above
a great fortification, and military depot,
Is filled with anchored balloons charged
with explosives, which would be as peril
ous to a fleet of Invading aeroplanes or
dirigibles as a mined harbor to a fleet
of btUMhlp
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its Broadest Meaning 1
a provocation to closer and more 1 in
terested access to them. (
They are no nioro different from us
than wo are different front them, and
If it be true, as Christians are apt to
claim, that Christianity is possessed qC
rnoro of the spirit of universal brother
hood than any other religions, or than
any other religion, then it will be espe
cially true of the Christian and one of his
evident characteristics that whatever
racial peculiarities exist in Jewish char
acter will not operate dlscouragtngly nor
In a way to- alienate. He la a Cheap
Christian who can admire and love only
those that aro ltks himself.
Jews have never been In favor with
Gentiles, and that was as much tho case
prior to the Christian era as since, a fact
whloh taltea all the vitality out of the
theory that the prejudice against Jews ia
duo to their having been the cruel tiers
of Christ. Aside from that thero Is too
much Innate Justice in tho human hcarl
In general to allow of passing an ad
verse Judgment on tho race at largo
for what waa done by a): little knot of
Jews 2,000 yeara ago.
The cause of anti-Jewish prejudice Is
further to seok, and Is to be discovered
In' the fact that their religion was from
the start all exclusive religion. It con
stituted a barrier set up by the iJews
themselves.
Tho intensity of their loyalty to
Jehovah created on thetr part a corre
sponding Intensity in their enmity to
ward those who were not believers lrl
Jehovah.
They would neither ally themselves
with Gentiles nor seek to have Gentiles
ally themselves with them.
They were a separate people.
They Islanded themselves as far as
posslblo from Gentile contacts. WJjat
waa really religious devotion to their
holy faith was Interpreted by aentllsi
as being devout superciliousness, a sort
of "holier-than-thou" piety. They were
narrow In their religion, but they weri
devout.
If Christians were as true to the doe-J
trlncs i which they profess as tho Jews
were they would be looked upon In some
thing the same way, and the words of
our Lord would be found to be true, "Be
cause ye are not of the world the worll
hateth you."
That I believe to be the origin of Gen
tile antipathy, and having onca becomd.
established It has maintained itself by;
Its 'own momentum.
Gentiles have gotten Into the hablU-ot
thinking and speaking disrespectfully oC
Jews, and have not enough of the graco
of God In their hearts or enough of thsr
love spirit of the gospel to break loose
Xtom the habit. r
It Is difficult to get an Idea Into peo
ple's hearts, but ten times more difficult
to get tt out when once it is there.
Advice to Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
Ask Her.
. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am desperately In
love with a girl named Catherine, of
Katie, as they call her, who is threti
years my Junior. 1 love her very much
and I would tike to know If she cares for
me. She has a sister, Minnie, who like?
me very much and I think Katie Is leal'
pus over her sister, although 1 have given
her no reason. ADAM D,
Ask her If she loves you. tdiinr hr
first, of. course, that you love her. Therei
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unior nay m una out, mougn hen
Jealousy is encouraging. If she did not
care for you a little, aha would not be
Jealous.
Let Him Decide.
Dear Mfts Fairfax: I am a girl of W
of the Jewish faith, and am desperately
In love with a young man of a, who iZ
a gentile. 2
My. folks are greatly opposed to mR
marying horn on account of his religion
That la their only objection, as tn am
other Tapcts they consider him a modeH
young man. HGs?js
You owe it to your parents to constdett
their wishes first of all. 7
Think of this coolly and fairly; If yot
married this man and your parents cast
you off, could his love make up for what,
11(8 would mean without a friend among"
all your kinfolksT
Both Too Young.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young roar
IT years ot ag, anq navs oeen aeepinj
company with a girl one year my Junto
for the last fifteen months, with whom
um rtoaulv In love. DurlWC the lastthra
months ihe has grown cotd-hearted to
ward me. G. I. B, j
Few girls of 14 know their own hearts?;
and I am sure boys of IT don't
Lov la too serious an emotion to b
playsd with by one of your years, Forf ej,
the girl and give her a chane to forg
you.
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