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I Should Worry
By WEX JONES
It uflod to bo Jolly to chattor with Polly
On fashion and frivol and froth of tho day;
But. now It's. Bheer folly talking to Polly,
For alio puts "I should worry" Wall thatho'll aay.
"I should worry Hko an onion" '
(Horo sho hyighs, aho feels so tickled), '
. "J should worry Hko an onion
And discover that I'm pickled.
I should worry Hko a saw"
(How that "worry" gets me riled!)
"I should worry Hko a saw
Till my teeth havo all been filed."
' You hear all the flappers, tongues going Hko clappors,
Dandy about this ridiculous phrase:
Pr.ue, Polly and Lizzie will Jabber you dizzy,
Twisting It round In its different ways:
"I should worry soven days s
And become a Httlo weak."
"I should worry," "I should worry,"
Every tlmo they speak.
"I should worry like a fish
And get tho hook."
' "I should worry Hko a gumdrop
And go north with old Doc Cook."
"I should worry," "I should worry"
.Phrase that sots mo In a flurry,
Phrase that sets my goat a-Bcurry
Oh, woll I should worry.
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Conceited Women
They Mis3 Much of the Happiness on Earth and i Bring
Unpleasantness to Those Around Them.
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Copyright, 1913, by American-Journal-Examlncr.
MISTAKES.
God sent us here to make mistakes,
To strive, to fall, to re-begin,
To taste tho tempting fruit of sin,
And find what bitter food It makes.
To miss the path, to go astray.
To wander blindly In tho night:
But, searching, praying for the light,
Until at last we find the way.
And looking back along tho past,
We know wo needed all tho strain
Of fear and doubt and strife and pain
To, make us value peace at last.
Who falls, finds later triumph sweet:
,Who stumbles once, walks then with
care.
And knows tho place to cry "Beware"
To other unaccustomed feet.
Through strife the slumbering soul
We learn on error's .troubled route
The truth we could- not -prize without
The sorrow 'of 'our sad mistakes.
The conceited -girl or woman is ,tlro
come as a, companion, but the morbidly
discontented woman is far worse. Per
haps you'havo met her, with her eternal
complaint of the
Injustice of fate
toward her.
She feels that
she is,' born for
better things Jhan
have befallen her;
her family does not
understand her;
her friends mis
judge herj the pub
lic 'slights her.
If she Is married
she finds herself
superior to her
husband and to
her associates. Sho
is eternally long
ing for what she
has not, and when
she gets It is dissatisfied.
Tho sorrowful side of life alone appeals
pathles of her children like a leech and
snapped their young .lives of Joy.
Tho husband grew discouraged and In
different under the continual strain, and
what might havo been a happy home was
a desolate one, and its memory Is a night
mare to the children today.
Understand yourself and your divine
possibilities and you will cease to think
you are misunderstood.
it is not possiDio to misunderstand a
beautiful, sunny day. All nature rejoices
in its loveliness.
Give, love, cheerfulness, kindness and
good will to all humanity and you need
not long worry about being misunderstood.
Give the best you have to each object.
purpose and individual and you will
eventually receive tho best from
humanity1.
to her.
This she believes is due. to her "artis
tic riature." rho injustice of fortune
and the unkindness of society are topics
dear to her heart. She finds her only
rapture in misery.
If she is religiously inclined, she looks
toward heaven with more grim satisfac
tion lri tho thought that it will strip
fame, favors and fortune from the un
worthy than because It will give her the
benefits she feels .she deserves.
Sh does not dream that she is losing
fears of heaven here upon earth by her
own -mental attitude. ; !
We build our heavens thought by
thought.
If iyou are dwelling upon the dark
phases of your destiny and upon the un
gracious acts of fate, you are shaping
more of the same experience for your
self here and in realms beyond.
You aro making happiness' for yourself
Impossible upon any plane.
In your own self lies Destiny.
I have known a woman to keep her
entire family despondent for years by
her continual assertions that she was
out of her sphere, misunderstood and
unappreciated. The minds of sensltlvo
children accepted these statements and
grieved oyer the "poor mother's" sad
life until their own youth was embittered.
The morbid mother seized upon the sym-
Today's Beauty Recipes
By Mme. D'Mllle.
"Women may want the vote, but tho
detlra for masculine prerogatives does not
extend to the wearing of whiskers. Su
perfluous hair on face or forearms always
will bs abhorred by women. To remove
wild hairs, make & paste with powdered
delatone and water, cover the hairs with
this paste for two minutes, wash the skin
and the' hairs will be gone.
"Tho use of powder tends to clog and
enlarge the pores of the skin, causing
blaokheads. It Is much better to use a
lotion Instead of powder. Dissolve an
original package of mayatone in a halt
pint of witch hazel and apply In the
morning. It will hold all day and will not
look 'mussy" if you perspire. Mayatone
prevents sunburn, tan and freckles.
"You can restore life and strength to
faded and falling hair by correct sham
pooing. Dandruff causes most hair trou
bles, and Mother's Bhampoo directly at
tacks tho dandruff parasite. Get a pack
age of 'Mother's Shampoo (only 35c at
your druggist's), use It Just once and your
hair -will be bright, clean, wavy, beauti
fully lustrous and easy to arrange." Advertisement.
Social Graft
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
"Seek not to purch&so friends with
gifts, for when thou ceasth to give such
friends will cense to be friends."
The great financier who spends many
anxious hours In courting his resources,
which appear Inadequate to meet his
greater liabilities, has his counterpart in
every girl you know.
If her purse Is flat, and1 kept In that
pitiful condition by necessities; or If it
Is corpulent because of the generosity of
a wealthy father, has no bearing on the
number of times Its owner sees bank
ruptcy staring her in the face,
A bankruptcy Is brought on less often
by purchases for herself, and which either
she needs or thinks she needs, than by
purchases for her friends. She Is a vlc
tlmo of the gift habit, the greatest of all
social grafts.
There Is no occasion these days that Is
not made a holiday for the purpose of
filching money from the purees of friends
for the buying of gifts. Beginning with
New Year and ending with Christmas,
there Isn't a d&to on the calendar that
isn't marked by some mlsohluvous person
as an occasion for giving a" present to
somebody else, the object of the giving
being solely to financially embarrass the
donor and make miserable the recipient
by adding another name to tho burden of
her obligations.
We havo become so obsessed with the
Insanity of giving that we have broken
Into the children's province and make
gifts on Easter; "we have thrust ourselves
among the lovers and send valentines to
friends and mere acquaintances; we must
remember every birthday, or offend; we
must send .decorated cards expressing
lnone sentiments about peace and happi
ness every time the flag Is unfurled, and
after passing through a year of giving
that which we cannot afford, and which
is nover wanted, we throw every bit of
sense and judgment to the winds and go
mad In making gifts at Christmas.
'This social graft is hard on every one,
but Its worst victims are young girls.
They must make gifts they cannot af
ford to their friends who graduate. A
few years later a friend's engagement is
announced, and a girl must gtve a be
trothal gift, followed In & few weeks by
a wedding present and, in what seems a
criminally short time to the owner of a
depleted purse, by a demand for a little
token tp be placed in the baby's layette,
There must be a gift for the christening,
an anniversary -wedding present for the
mother; she has a birthday, her baby
has a birthday; there are more babies,
more christenings, more birthdays, till
the friend who is seeking to keep up with
the demands this custom makes feels
that she will go mad.
She begins to regard every new baby
as a means for Imposing a tax on her
friendship a tax that is collected re
lentlessly, and from which no personal
need for the money thus expended will
release her.
Girls are the biggest-hearted, most gen
erous creatures that walk the earth.
Hopeful to a degree that is dangerous,
they will squander this week's income on
a friend, thinking to be more prudent
with the Income of next week. They
buy first for their friends, and count
their own needs of little importance. They
will buy meager lunches, wear patched
shoes and gloves, if need be. rather than
have it said they refused to "come
across."
Flowers Instead of Jewels By Nell Brinldey
Copyright, 1911, by Amoricsn-Journal-lSxatntner
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"Flowers oh breast and hair, at elbows, gir
dle and knees I" Instead of jewels -says
Madame Fashion's crier. . Into my hand the ed
itor thrust a picture of a nymphllko girl some
months ago. Thero were flowers In her black
parted hair, a blossom between her teeth, flow
ers In tho lap .of her gown, flowers strung aboat
her waist and neck, ropes of flowers In hur
hands, a knot In her bosom. "See this," said
she. "ThfB reminds me why not tell tho girls
to try It Instead of the phony and otherwise
Jewolry they decorate their pretty selves with?
"Couldn't they look Just as fetching with
a flower over their ears Instead of a poarl,
whoso sheen would melt off If you licked It,
dangling from them? Wouldn't a tobo at the
clasp of their girdles make as daring a Bpot of
color nB a gemmed bUQkle? Wouldn't a rose
bud silk or the dowy real thing bo as fasci
nating abovo tho dlmplo In a girl's olbow as u
rhlnestono buckle? Wouldn't it? If you think
so, tell 'em that."
And I do think so, and I'm telling you thn.
And hero, eo soon after, comes along a noto In
a smart magazine a magazine full of summery
gowns, and parasols, an vnnity bags, and what
to do with u neck that looks two shades darker
than tho faco that goes with it, nnd how to
mako your fingers taper on tho ends, and all
about tho now puffs In tho sleeves, and and
all that sort o thing and tho noto says, "Flow
ers all over my lady's gown this summer." And
thero you are. If you DO do It, you aron't
going to be out from under the comfy sunshine
of Fashion's smile. Andr Just for Itself, it's a
mighty pretty way of fussing up. If you are
of those ease-lapped maids whose every little
toilet box or bottle Is topped with gold, the
flower-knota at your breast, your olbows, your
kneoB, in your hair, will be freah-and real.
Your gems would hardly cost you more, for
flowers droop and aro gone In an hour. So
will your extravagant Uttlo soul be satisfied.
If you aro of those little maids who have to
tusslo a Httlo, or whose dads do, for the few
evening gowna you sport there aro Bomo won
derful flower makers in town, and tho pretty
fake-blossoms they fashion are almost &a lovely
as tho now-cut real ones. And thoy never die.
There's tho satisfaction for your tender soul
and your slender pockotbookl
Try It! For tho buckle on your pump a
flower: for the gems in your hair and ears
flowers; for tho slash In your gown flowers
where now. thoro 1b a gem!
What is the Silly Age of Women?
By ADA PATTERSON.
A man's silly age Is accepted as his
d&Ure. Wo attribute erratic conduct of
male humans to what platn-tongued folk
called second childhood and others term
senile debility. That there Is no fool
like an old fool Is accepted to be true
of men, and we thtnk a man takes leave
of bis hard common sense, at- least In
matters involving the heart some time
after he" has reached the fifty-year line.
We expect It any time between the ages
of 66 and 0.
But what Is the silly age of women!
A sour-tempered old bachelor who had
not yet reached the age of softening of
the heart, which some times unhappily
accompanies softening of rho head, said
that every age is the silly age of women.
That Is not true, or least not of all
women. But observation, unbiased like
that of the bachelor. Indicates that the
silly age is that time when woman mar
ries a man considerably younger than
herself. Even a girl, who Is expected to
be silly because she has not had time to
mentally grow up, knows better than
to make such a match. Instlnotlvely sh9
either detests or patronizes a boy younger
than herself. But from the age of 38 to
70, and. even W, -many wpmen take leave
of their cpmmon sense so far as the
choice of a mate is concerned.
The fact that some of the world's most
brilliant women' have married men young
enough to be their sons, or at least their
much younger brothers, convinces the
student of woman nature that It is not
because women are mentally defective
that they make curious matches late In
life. Baronets Burdetto Couts. Mrs.
Cornwallls West and the , late Jive
Ixigan, Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett,
Ellen Terry, Myrtle Heed, are among
brilliant feminine minds that lent them
selves to these matrimonial errors, In
most lnstancrs soon repented. That age
may not mate with youth any more suc
cessfully than oil mingles with water Is
a principle overlooked by these keen
bmlned women.
The silly age of woman would seem to
be that period in her life when t she Is
Inclined to make a foolish .marriage,
especially with ono much younger than
herself, This Inclination has Its pathetlo
as well as its ludicrous side. For the
woman whose cheeks have lost their
youthful plnkness, whose eyes often
looked tired, and about whose eyes and
lips Indelible lines are beginning to form,
Is not In love with the youth who pre
sents hlmsejf as a suitor, but Is In lovo
with her own youth.
It Is & matter of grief to any woman,
no matter how strong and clever and
solf-retlant, when sho feels and tees that
her youth Is slipping away from her.
Deep in her heart, though, she makes a
bravo show of not caring she profoundly
cares. Then appeares the youth who
makes love to her In the manner of
youth, who addresses her in the terms
of youth. Ho tells her she Is as young as
himself, that she looks young, Is, In alt
save "years whose passing have Jeft no
traco upon her, as young as himself."
"Younger, my dearest," the adolescent
suitors usually odd, and the foolish
woman, trying to lay hold upon a will,
o'-the-wlsp, hesitates and marries. The
elderly woman who hesitates over an
offer of marriage accepts. The marriage
of the old woman to a man many years
her junior Is a search for the pot of gold
at the foot of tho rainbow. What she
finds Is usually an unpleasant hour In
the divorce court.
The foolish age of woman, then, s the
time when her youth has passed and she
allows some callow male to convince her
that It Is still with her, The reasons such
marriages nearly always end unhappily
Is that the woman was not In love with
the lad who wooed her, but the picture
he drew, of herself. It Is the last dVlng
flame of her vanity.
Colors and the Eye
By GARRETT P. BERVISS.
I know n. lady who cannot endure the
color red. She says It hurts her eyes to
look at It. More than that, sho dcolarca
that It almost turns hr sick If shn Is
compelled to see it for a oonsld'erabln
time.
Hut blue delights
icr, and gives her
an Indefinite sense
of Inward pleasure.
Bhe Is not fond of
yellow, either, but
all shades of blue.
grpun or violet are
delightful to her.
She likes to have
them about her,
and nvers that
they stimulate her
nervous system and
make her msntally
brighter and more
cheerful.
All of us havo similar, though less
pronounced, preferences or prejudice!
about colors, sometimes without belna
fully awaro of the fact, because wo have
never analysed our feelings about them,
, myself, like nearly all colors, but my
favorites are a bright red, a rich yl
loy and a deep blur, so that they ex
tend nearly from one end of tho spoo
trum to the other. If I were compelled
to make an absolute choice I should
probably select some shade of blue.
mow, there is reason for thinking that
this question of color preference poss
esses an Importance far greater
than Shows on the surface. It nuv
deeply affect our physical and mental
well-being.
Soma think that It Is merely a. mil.
ter of artlstlq temperament or training,
out it strikes deeper than that It Is a
matter of sensitiveness to vibration, and
recent discoveries show that vibration,
in one form or another, lies at the
basis of all physical existence.
The nervous system Is a vlbrntorv n.
Bine of almost unimaginable sensitive
ness, it governs the body and Ml tho
manifestations of tho mind through the
Drain. Every different color is a differ
ent vibration effecting the nerves. If you
have a horror of red, like the lady of
wnom i nave spoken, it Is becausa your
nervous system of light is no
to vibrations of lleht
lengths so great as one forty-thousandth
wi n men. iour brain Is something like
a wireless receiver, keyed, to short waves,
which Is confuted by tho impact ot
-r. oi reiauveiy great length. The
blue waves please you, and are agreablo
to your sense because their vibratory
"",H uu no' exceed about ono fifty-five-thousandth
of an in, ....
oscillations are congenial to you.
uv neuner the red waves nor the blue
ones havo any color in th.m..i..
ll ' mPly a Uoular impression
w f ,v .', M8 oy W'oulor num.
ber of vibrations per second striking upon
"l'"B "onro- ght waves move
'th '"Uno m they
- same length there would bo
only one color,
But tho short on. .(Hku ..
eyp than tho w . A on 11,8
n11i, . ., , f me conse-
quince is that they produce an Impression
duc an", Cal1 b Ua th h Pro
duce an Impression whloh w call red.
tnZrZ rMn,D, musical notes. Four
an?rti,W,,1 nrt milllon.mllllon
Hht waves striking the eye per second
Produce the color redi .i.mm.. I
waves striklfur th2 J ;" "?
due t, c ,0P blur-
t7 !T pcp """"a Prto the
r no 80 aon o-called oolor.
and each so-called mn,i,.i .
11 135 ? "W'on on
frequency. ' 0"8 Peclal
JLVt? hUW UP th0 Vibrations ot
wive. 51 r 'Una ,0 th" th0 "
rh.n ?r0 tnwtuU, you. will
chsnge tho color, or tho note, as tho
case may be. if th( ,lgnt way 8
cause pain to tho lady who d.Usts the
color red, could be mad, to enteV her lyl
tJ ? ?Vf W4 """""-""Hon per s
ond Instead of only m mtlllon-mlllion.
sb. would be delighted by seelnV h
favorite "color" blue-and y.t the 'aye.
ctsel'"' WUld b th 8amo '1 both"
Since the sensation which wo all
effect of particular frequencies of vlbra-
dent that thero must be a physiology
m'L eC ence)' of 00,or' 'e study of
which might prove of great benefit to
humanity. It has already been proved
that certain light waves have I "JK
ful effect upon living things, such as
and h.a ,,T l th' ,0wer ""a18
and tho well known Fensen rays (which
are simply the waves of ultra-violet light)
"8 W eradlcatlngTome d.
of he human skin. There have been ex.
f!S..mB"t,,V.1J,oh emea t0 Indicate -that
baths" of blue tight may have ,tlmu
latins' effect upon tho nervous system of
some persons. OI
.t.1.' rff clenc could be built up obout
his subject It might be possible to find
tha vibration frequencies that were most
congenial to different Individuals, and
thus to develop a valuable system of
color bathing that would be a boon to
humanity, " 10
Music Hath Charms
By FRANOEsTE. CIAR8IDE.
When you can't think of any other
way of complimenting the ploying of a
girl at the piano, say that she plays "with
expression." This will please her and
means anything. If she murders the piece
there Is the expression of murder In every
bang of her fingers. Another pleasing
compliment Is to say she has a "good
touch." This Is also a pill she will swal
low and believe till her dying day that
It was sugar all through.
(tome girls think that to sing with ex
pression means to keep the tremolo stop
In their lungs pulled open.
ISvery girl who plays the piano at a
concert demands that tho piano bo turned
to the right or left, or the lid be raised
or lowered, or the stool turned. She
makes more fuss than a general getting
ready for battle.
When a girl stops in playing because
she has lost her way, her mother thinks
the pause Is te give "expression."
Ask any girl who was tho greatest
musical composer and she will think of
the wedding march and say "Mendels
sohn." There are some women who never Play
the piano in any other way. than as If
trying a piece for the first time.
Every girl has so much faith In hsr
friends standing by her that when she Is
on a program at a concert she takes a
second piece wllh her for the encore.
How Englith Beauties
Keep Face Youthfu
Pht-i.Man Mill. T7. SI f . . .
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health expert, attributes the early aging
or American women mainly to the "na
tional nervousness." The women of Eng.
land, she says, can teach us the inestim
able lesson of repose.
Another valuablo lesson to b learned
from the English woman Is that sho does
not go In much for cosmetics, tho con.
tlnual use of which must ruin any com
plexlon. The beauty devotees of King
eorge'a realm have tho roeroollxed wax
habit, a more wholesome method of keep
ing the face gtrllsh-Iooktng and helthy.
Orldnary meroollxed wax, used like oold
cream, rejuvenates the worst complexion.
habit, this wax being obtainable at drug
stores generally in the United States. 'It
Kvfiicu i jnim biu wuBiiea oil in me
,,.w. .,. v,p , su&iiuiciii to com
pletely renovate a bad complexion. It
free from the particles of dead and de
vitalized scarf skin which are constantly
appearing. Woman's HeraJd.-A4vrU.
menf,
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