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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1913)
HasBsaasaBMaHenaaeeseesaB rr age s I 1 I to ( 7 The Man Who isTi red of H is Wife "Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder," Says an Old Proverb, and This is Especially Apt in this Situation By DOKOTHY DIX. A man writes me In great distress. He pays that ho has been married about fifteen years and that suddenly a great .weariness of spirit has come upon him. Ills wife Is good and kind, an excel lent housekeeper, a thrifty manager and her one object In life Is to please him and makn him happy, but -while ho recog nizes nor virtues and admires them, they leave him cold end unmoved. In a word, he's tired of his wife. Bhe bores him to death. Jus,t her pres ence Is irksome to him, and when she goes with him on tiny sort of a pleas tire Jaunt It takes nil the fun out of the occasion. This man Is no gay Lo thario. Ho is a good, honest, domestic tnan, who Is honestly alarmed at the Btate of affairs, and ho wants to know what he can do to recover the Interest ho once had In his wife, and the thrills that went through his velnB like fire at the touch of her hand. There Is only one remedy for such cases and that Is absence. Only peoplo who have neither nerves, temperament nor Imagination can stand the horrible monot ony of seeing the same face opposite them at three hundred and sixty-five break fasts, and ditto dinners, to say nothing of having the same form across the drop light for an equal number of evenings a year and 'having to listen to the same old stories. The most beautiful people In the world Brow homely to our eyes If we sec them too often. The wittiest conversationalists grow tedious If wo have a surfeit of their society.' The virtues of even an angel pall upon us If they are constantly before us. Probably Mr. Mllo thought his Venus too fat or too thtn, and asked her why she didn't get another make of corsot. Doubtless there were times, before she got a divorce, when Mrs. Caruso said to herself that If Enrico warbled nnother warble she would scream, and It Isn't on record that the Immediate family of any of our saints and martyrs over handed In any testimony to show what they thought, on the subject of the canonization of their husbands or wives. Why peoplo who cannot eat thirty quails in thirty days,:. who never want, to see the iams, nlay twice, ortead ilbopk a second time; who tire of their 'ciothes he-' Xore tho are half worn out, and spend their lives hunting for new sights, uew emotions, new diversions, new places to go, should over be foolish enough to Imag ine that they could endure the undiluted society of one person, year In and year out, passes comprehension. There are millions of husbands and wives who have hod an overdose of each other's society and are suffering from It, and they are so stupid they don't realize what alls them, nor how simple the rem edy for it Is. Yet the symptoms are un mistakable. When a man begins to dread the thought of going home of an evening, and to wonder what made him idiot enough to get married and to pick out Bally, of all women in the world, for a Photographing By EDGAR LUCIKN LAKKIN. Photographing the invisible sounds like a misnomer, but it Is correct to say, In visible by the unaided eye. This complex and valuable science is revealing won ders and myriad objects, animate and in nnlmat, are brought to view whose exist ence has all along been unknown. Two methods of illuminating the ob jects are In use strong light is passed through the very thin layers of the sub stance, or reflected from the ouUldo sur face of thick masses, and also from the external portions of exceedingly email ppaque bodies. These solid particles can be placed on glass sides or floated In transparent li quids, as a drop of water between two Very thin glasses. Pinch the glasses close together; there Is no danger of killing the smaller animals, such as bacteria and microbes. They have plenty of room in a film of water so thin as to be beyond Imagination. The magnifying lenses for expansion of Images of these minute objects require the most consummate skill In manufac ture. The mlcrocamera, likewise, and the two combined are triumphs of human genius. The finished products, the per fected pictures, are highly educational. "Many different kinds of greatly Improved glass are now made In Jena, Germany, HOW TO PRESERVE YOUTH AND BEAUTY. One great secret of youth aad beauty for the yooug womso or the mother is t3aa proper nndegst-s rating of her womanly lysteta sod -frcU-bcing. Erery women Torccf or old, should kieit lunef and her physical make op. A food way to? arts-re at t&b knowledge is to jet a good doctor book, such tor instanoe, as "The fttop9e Common Seme ModicxJ Ad riser," by R. V. Pierce, M. D., which can scmtiStf bo procarod by sending thirty -one cents lor oiodi-bonad copy, addressing Dr. Pierce, at Buffalo, N. Y. The womanly tratem is a delicate rrninhinc; which oaa only bo compared to the in- ttricatts mechanism of beautiful watch Wita flood oato nod toe proper oiling at Max Wnj Ileal, to txy jreur ' FaratJU wife, when ho begins to notice that 8ally has gono off In looks and Is getting n trlplo chin, and to have a feather bed ilgcrc: when his eyes fo'cus on the little mole on Sally's cheek Instead of tho cute way her hair curls around the back of her neck; and when ho commences won dering If all women talk as much drivel and use as many words In telling nothing as Sally Jones then It's time for the man to pack up his grip and hike away from home and Sally. Ho hasn't really fallen out of love with her, as he thinks- he has. He's Just tired of her for the time being. He doesn't really pine to be a gay- rover, as he Imag ines ho does. He Just wants to "ease the pressure of the yoke of matrimony for a little and to him and to his wife a ticket to Chicago, or Pan Francisco, or Bird Center, or nnywhero away from home, la a lifeline that saves them both from destruction. And It's exnetly the same way with women. Of course the theory Is thut women havo such an abnormal talent for loving that a wife never gets enough of her husband's society, but Is a female Oliver Twist always asking for more. Don't you believe It. Women are fickle creatures, and the best wife In tho world can get so Hick and weary of a model husband that she Is ready to dlo of sheer ennui. Every now and then a woman gets so that she can sec nothing but faults In her husband. Everything he does and everything he doesn't do Irritates her, and she, too, gets to wondering what on earth the foolktller was doing on the day that she tied up with tho mlserablo little shrimp that she did, Instead of marrying some romantic and godlike creature that she didn't marry. She thinks that sho Is suffering from having missed her affinity and being married to a groundling that can't understand her higher nature, but the whole trouble Is that she has had too mucn of her husband's society. Ai: that she needs to effect a complete cure Is a month or six weeks' separation. Of course, being ladies and gentlemen, most of us never admit to our husbancs and wives that we are bored. Wo yawn behind our hands and try to look Inter ested, but In our secret souls all of us know tho surging Joy with which we saw our dearly beloved husband or wife start off on a Journey, or tho rapture that filled our own bouI when we got off somewhere alone, or with perfect stran gers. And we also know tho delight wltn which ' we returned home, or welcomed back the wandbrer, our whole point of vision changed' by a little absence, and tho one of whom wo had been so tired .clothed again. In his or her halo. This., Is .why -the .supiroer .vacation Ja such a beneficent Institution, We can lay our weariness of our domestic part ners on the weather, and gat away with a decent excuse. But It Isn't tho change of climate that does us good. It's the change from tho monotony of associa tion, and it sends ub back rested and re freshed and romantically in lovo again. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder," Bays tho old proverb, and this Is espe cially true of husbands and wives. Thov need to break away every few months Just to get a perspective on each other's good qualities and to find out how neces sary each Is to tho other's happiness. You can overdo matrimony as easily as you can any other good thing, and If there were some way by which we could be married three days a wee)c Instead of seven there would bo no more divorce. the "Invisible" -J and these huve almost revolutionized microscopy. And the wonders accom plished by using the moso sensitive plates eer made, and these with many different Hinds of waves of light, aro al most boj.?nd comprehension. The "Arabian Nights' people are eclipsed, Thus, put a drop of stagnant water on glass, lay a thin plate upon It. press down, and the layer of water will be thin. Indeed. Put It tinHar fha ml m- I scope, turn bright light through tho layer, una, V. ( n 1 fnV. 1 , 1 n tua , usui uiLu ma vcij smaii camera, and let It fall on a prepared moving film, then the amazing effect of animals j In motion is to be fixed on a film that j Is Itself In motion. This film, a long j strip ,1s then placed on rollers and un wound, so' that It will pass over power- ! ful projecting lenses In a moving picture j outfit I This Is. Indeed, photographing the un- i known. Since man appeared on earth no i such aid to refined research Into nature's labyrinths has been discovered. Then a largo audience can see all that there Is In a minuted drop of water, on a screen, from ten to sixteen feet In diameter. Totally Invisible creatures become mon sters and move with great rapidity be fore the eyes of the people. Thousands of new species of minute living organism? are rescuea irom realms of the unknown, which will keep in good running order only tbe nght tune, so that the delicate mech anism may not be erem xr. Very many times young women get old or rum down before their time through ignorance and the improper handling of tins human mechonUm. Mental depression, a eoofused head, backache, headache, or hot flashes aad many symptoms of derangement of the womanly system can be avoided by proper onderstanding of what to do, is those trying times that ooua to all women. Msa. O. II. 'WnjJAMn. cf Iarnnhwo. Va, wrote; "It u six ran sines roy health gars vmy. I had lemtie trooMa an all the doctor! (I nplofodthras) uU 1 would die I was not abU to do my work, had to hire omoooa aU the tine, HruJly, read In th paper about Dr. Piutw's iararrta Pmcrlptioo. and doeUed to try it. I had not biVea bvt ooe buttle until I locmd It had llano mm mood. I took, ts alL Are bottka of 'Favorite Prcaeriptiaa and two of 'Golden Medical Discovery,' and now I am Ma to do all my btoMwork. and hare rained fourteen tMKina'a. 1 ndviae ell wevrm whe raffar f .n f-nuU trouble Prcecriotkea.' if. the only madids oa culev" rr Be rnhardt, My LILIAN LAUFKKTY. Madame Sarnlr Bernhardt llkcsi an things American except Ice. And she told mo this on a day so warm, muggy and worthy of July Instead of May. that tho mere sound of the word was re freshing to American cars, . "You Ico your drinks,' your butter, your chickens, even your tender little carrots, It Is ab-om-ln-ab-le," she cried in a merry mood that led her to attempt one of the few English sentences she sp kc during our Interview. Madame Bernhardt has the supreme gift of expressing emotion potently and fluently In a tongue that all can under stand. This power of projecting feeling by voice, by facial expression, by bodily motion, and by the unnamenblo "some thing" that makes her acting genius In stead of talent. i stands the Interviewer In good stead, for madame has not. alas! the gift of tongues not of tho English tongue, at any rate. Yesterday, while a "Roumanian night ingale" warbled out on the stage of tho Palaco theater, an .admiring group gath ered about tho "Devlno Sarah" in the specially set-up dressing room that stands now In a far corner nenr the wlnBs, and comes from her theater In Paris, Our chat was In snatches of English, stray attempts at French, and In an exchange of native tongues via Mr. Mark inton, who interprets her words, while tho supreme actress of our day radiates a spirit of fire and feeling that Illumi nates the conversation. To' return to Americans and Icel "Madame," I ventured, "is not the dif ference between American and French meals duo less to the Iced condition of our food than to your artistry In pre- paring and serving? Just a pat of butter is so pretty In Normandy and a fillet of sole a la Marguery at Margucry's Is a dream of artistic and gastronomic beauty' Oh, your are artists in everything you and the French," replied madame, . wjth flattering posltlveness and a wealth of shoulder shrugging and graceful hand wavlngs. "If only you would not Imitate. Originate in everything but Icing tho flavor out of food. "Your women are charming artistic ' uuve 'OBeH s"ow aiauame earan 1013. Truly, this wonderful woman, who, a 1 I 1 The Tragedy of Life on That Planet, Which Seems as if It Has Almost Reached the Last Act in Its Drama gence, is Now Pitted Against Powerful Inanimate Nature. My GARRETT P. SERVISS. No stage was ever set for such a I tragedy as the planet Mars presents. It is the. last act In the drama of a world's history. TUa. 4 e-eri an 4 i attrt a HfOrTia M at I M i at , of BCene f r 0 m ( chaos. The huge planet Jupiter of fers us a spectacle of that kind, In its streaming belts of thick clouds and Its whirling vapors, glowing like steam above a furnace. The second act Is represented by the earth, with Its fer tile crust, Its cool, Invigorating atmo sphere, and Its life-sustaining seas eeSBBBV i'M. IVBlBBBBBraBBBBBai WsM BaaMNBeaaH that give birth to the clouds which, condensing on tho mountains, furnish the rains and set the rivers flowing. The closing act Is the role of Mars, where the seaa have vanished, the atmo sphere has thinned out, the rivers have disappeared, tho continents have turned Into deserts, and life, driven Into a corner, Is battling against final extinc tion. That there Is yet Intelligent life on Mars Is tho universal relief of all tho Fountain Youth, chic. You and the French have the gift of selecting and wearing clothes. Ameri cans anil French stand alune for. taste and. ability to carry out Ideas. ' "Hut why not carry out your own Ideas? Why Import Ideas and gowns and laces and silks and velvets. You havo the first; why not make the ret and do It your own way?" tiornnaat as sno appeared in ism), ltwo nwi at 69 years of age, plays La Tosca. Ca- observers whom Mr. Lowell has gath- ered about him at his Flagstaff obser- vatory, where tho extraordinary phe nomena of that wonderful planet are studied as nowhere else In the world. Moroithan that, they tell us, with ever Increasing emphasis, that the peopla of Mars, compelled by necessity, have developed a command over natural forces which would seem miraculous If xhiblted upon tho earth, With them (t has become simply a ques tion of brain power against the Inanimate powers of nature. They havo nights and days of the same length as ours. They have seasons pre clsely corresponding to ours, except that they are each twice as long. But thlr oceans are dried up, no rains fall (though there may be dew), and nearly all th atmospheric moisture Is alternately looked up In one or the other of the polar snow caps. In such a situation no vegetation can flourish unless artlflcally stimulated by a gigantic system of Irrigation. And without vegetation, which builds up the protoplasmic substances, animal existence Is impossible. But whence can the Inhabitants of Mars derive the water needed for IrrlgH Hon? The answer given Is that thy get It periodically from the melting of tho polar snows. Being without seaa and rivers they have no other source of supply. of Praises "Wllnt would becomo of the French shops then?" said a during voice. "Tho Kronen could teach and dress the rest of the world. The Americans have taste they can afford to express It In their dress. . "Your women nro so superior superior to your men. you know." Madam twinkled her gray blue eyes at Interpreter : mlllu nnd On Hurry with all tho flro of bygono years, is a veritable fountain ot youth. Each day sho seems to grow younger; her voice, mind and figure Invul- nerablo to the damaging shafts of age. f On Mars .ne reign of universal peace I must have begun ages ago, introduced not by moral or sentimental consldera Hons, but by the necessity of uniting ill the inventlvo powers and all tho physical forces of, tho entire population of the planet In a common battle for life) Their fleets of battleships (if they ever had any) lie, llko the bones of prehlstorio monsters, whitening In the sun blaze on boundless deserts that were once seas. The metal of their cannon has been turned Into enormous engines for pump ing water and for dredging ditches. The only thought of their Inventors Is of Im proved moans for controlling the slowly lessening supplies of moisture that, once In about two of our years, may be drawn away from one of the poles while tho summer sunshine Is dissolving Its thli snows. This universal concentration of mental energy upon a single ulm is conceived as having developed upon Mars a knowledge of the hidden forces of nnturei such as has, up to the present, merely been dreamed of on the earth, They would need sueh knowledge to enable them to achieve tho superhuman works whleh the telesonp appeurs to reveal. We, have Just bpgun to learn how to use electricity In the mechanlo arts, but they may have unlocked the secret forces Inclosed In tho atoms of matter which cur rln o hsis rcently assured us exist with; it shotting us how to utilize them. America and Interviewer alike. "Superior but those nasal voices. I do not llko sat quallte." ventured Madam Sarah In Eng lish. "Ah, but your voice. Madam Bernhardt! How could American women learn to keep theirs young and vibrant like yours?" Madnm tilted her while throat with tho graceful life thnt may bo tho menus of warding off lines of time. "Sly voice-It is Just what It Is. 1 do not know how or why." In fact, this marvellous young woman of K) years, this great actress whoso art holds the world spellbound Just us much today as In Its youthful freshness and mature power, seems to be a charmingly unconscious person after all. Ufe and work mean too muoh to her for her to think of herself. "I work 1 lovo to work. Variety, ef fort theeo make life. Woman need work. To bo a mother Is the beautiful neces sitybut the wife should go on with her ambitions, oven after her children come. To work Is to keep young, fresh, In touch with llfo. Women need work so;, thus they express themselves. "Perhups your American women do not work enough. la It so? They nro a little lazy-a very little! Madnm laughed mer rily. "Kxcopt, of course, the professional women." You sec. this great woman of tho world is so fine In her sensibilities that sho hurts no feelings. "Tho profes sional women of America work and nil the women ore charming." t took her smooth, white hnnd, laden with great emernlds In diamond settings nml with lustrous pearls as big ns tho first cherries of spring. I looked nt the gold-robed figure In the costume of Lucreila Borgla-rat the red aureole of hair under Its chnplet of purple flowers. "Madam, this has been nn unforgettable honor." I said. "Oh. no, no, no," said tho spirit of genius modestly. Tho wide nostrils and tho corners of her sensitive lips quivered more than their wont, though Mndam Bernhardt's mobile upper lip Is seldom still and shapes Itself to every emotion. But pi also, applause, the laurels sho de serves, are dear to her each kindly thought warms her. A moment more at tho shrine of art and then Broadway's turbulent sea sweeps about uh again. But to talk with 8arah Bernhurdt Is an "unforgettablo honor." Mars of World-Life and Inteli- Only by such suppositions can ths "cunals," hundreds of miles wide and thousands of miles long, be accounted for, If. as the Flagstaff obsorvers Insist, those objects are really of artificial prlgln. It should bo said, however, that In Mr. Swell's opinion the bands called canals ar. In fact, Irrigated belts. The real canals within them aro In visible, while the progressive darkening of theai belts, ns the polar melting In creases. Is due to the growth of vegeta tion, stimulated by the water. After the world Ufa drama closes thero Is left an empty stage, and this Is repre sented by the moon. The lunar' world has lost all Its water. Its tragedy In finished. Tho actors are all dead. Mil lions of ytafa ago there may have been a battlo for life there, like that which now appears to be raging on Mars. And millions of years In the future the stage of the earth will probably bo set for a similar tragedy. For, to the eyes of the overlooking gods ' (to change a little Shakespeare's figure)! 'All the sky's a stage. And alt the worlds and suns are meroly actors." To lie Done nt the Last Mluute. Mother (annoyed) Vou procrastinating boy I Haven't I told you time and again that nothing should be put off till the last minute? Willie How about dlnj. ma?' Boston Transcript. I The Bashful Boy My HKATRICK FA I UFA X "What r would llko to asv," wrltoa Re. heoofl, "Is why It Is better for a girl tc associate with a bashful boy, On severa occasions 1 have noticed thnt you state thnt a girl should honor such a young man, but you havo never stated why " Tho qualities In a bashful boy which mnko him a welcome suitor nro more of a negative nature than of a positive It In not that which ho docs, so much as that whleh he dfxn not do. His sins are of omission and they are small compared with tho sins of commission of his bolder brother. Tho bnshful boy doesn't flirt. With n tongue that halts nnd stammers, and n tell-tale color that li quicker than the blush of ii young girl to proclaim his dis honesty did he attempt to be dishonest, ho Is not an adept at hypocrisy or con cealment Ho Is not a dandy, neither Is ho a lady's man. and, my dear Helxxcou, the presi dents of banks and railroads, the power!1 In commercial life, the most profound thinkers nnd the men of letters tho world honor, wero never ladles' men. He does not know what to do with his hands when out In society, but his em ployer will tell you he knows good use for thrm when nt work. Afraid of girls, ho Is forced to seek com panionship In books anil boys. The fear of girls gives him a respect for them which In wholesome; the companionship of boys gives him tho outdoor exercise over young man needs. H needs this tiring of every muscle, not nlono for the results that arc physi cal, hut for moral returns. You are not too young, my dear, to know that tho wolf that has been racing furiously up nnd down hill all day fuels at night only the cry of tired limbs and aching musclci begging for rest. Ho Is not tho wolf that goes Hcklng an opening .to break Into the shcrpfold! It a bashful boy loves n girl It Is with a Bonso of humility and his own un worthiness. He knows thnt he is the ono who will be honoiod If his love Is re turned; his bolder brother has a faint suspicion, which tho homogo of silly girl" confirms, thnt It is the girl who should bo on her knees. During his calf days he does all hit sighing for lovojs sake at a distance, which mothers will agree Is the only safe and snno way for young girls to bo loved. He Is always a good listener no woman was over bored to death by tho talking of a bashful nvin. Saying little, ho says little for which ho or others havo cause for regret. He Is h note depository for secrets, a good man In whom to havo confidence. If ho is not a girl's lovor tho next best thing thnt could happen her would bo to havo him for a brother or a friend. His compliments aro not practiced, and are thereforo slncoro. When It takes ef fort nnd stupendous courage to hand a m'odoMt little flower to a girl, It follows that he will never throw bouquets at tho head of every woman ho' meets. Best of all. Ilobecoa. tho bashful boy Is a homo boy. Ho Is, unafraid when with his mother and finds In her companion ship, the delight less bashful boys stplc from home, He Is '"a good boy" In the sweet ola fashloned sense, a boy who has escaped contamination ft few yiors later than it cornea to boys more bold. Advice to Lovelorn My MEATRICK FAIRFAX. mother Should (nil First. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am keeking com pany with a young lady and wish to know If it 1b proper for tho young lady mother to cnll on my mother, or my mother to call on hot my mother helm? the elder. We will soon bo engaged. S, S. u. Such overtures nhould come from tho family of the man, never from tho family of tho girl. Drirtlim 'Hint AVoy. Dear Miss Fairfax: I met a J'ounB mart a year and a half ago. Since then I have met many more, but I caro for none but him. He Is ten and a half years my senior. Ho has written to me and his let ters aro nice and polite. I see ho some, limes six times a day, but mostly twice. Whenever he is away I like htm Just the same. He always speaks to me and ueems glad to see me. He sold he liked mo and speaks well of me whereever he pes. Every ono likes him. Do you think liu cares for mo and that I love him? INQUISITIVE. Ho llkos you; you llko htm. If your friendship Is drifting into love, don't hasten It. And don't puzzle your head over your feeling for each other, That will develop In due time. Stork and Cupid Cunning Plotters Many a New Homo will Haro a LltUa aunbeam to Brighten ft. There Is usually a certain degree qf dread In trery woman's mind as to the probable pain, dlatresi anj danger of childbirth. Hut. thanks to a most semarkable remedy known aa Mother's Frieafl, all fear Is ban ished and the period Is one of unbounded. Joyful anticipation. Mother's Frtend is used externally. It Is a most penetrating application, makes the muscles of the stomach and abdomen pliant so tbey expand easily and naturally without pain, without distress and with none of that peculiar nausea, nerrousneta and other symptoms that tend to weaken the prospecttre mother. Thus Cupid and the stork are held up to veneration; they are rated as cunning plottera to herald the coming of a little aunbeam to gladden the hearts and brighten the homes of a host of happy families. There are thousands of women who hare used Mother'a Friend, and thus know from experience that It Is one of our greateat eontrlbutlona to healthy, happy mother i hood. 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