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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1913. 7 lv. r Man, Woman and Manners "Sitting Out" the Dance Two Ways the Old Stairs Have Seen It Done: Thcn, "The Minuet" Now, "The Tango" Copyright 1913, International News Sorvlce. By Nell Brinkley By JANET MALCOLM. ge I happened to witness a little scene tn an offlco lately which filled me meat strongly with that sense of contrast by which, as I have said before. J like to got my effect. A man u sitting at a large roll-top detk, Interviewing one woman after another, with the purpoee of engag ing one for a rmllnmHv ntM nf wnrlr. He waited "a lady;" ha also wanted a Ttorxer, ana informed me In a, dolerul aside that such a combination It hard to find in the business world. One or two entered, underwent a short cross-examination, and passed out with put making any definite Impression on my mind. Then the door was pushed violently open, and In swung a woman habited tn mannish tweeds, her hands thrust deep Into her Dockets, her hard felt hut nn the back of her head, her feet eneMl in bright brown boots that loudly proclaimed meir rignuui nome as in the country or mountains. Her voice, as she answered the curt questions put to her, was affectly harsh and strident; her manner was deflant. She ran through the list of her qualifica tions for the post as If she were doing the man favor In applying for It "I am a business woman." she assented again and again: nnd although she Wearied tne. 1 wn n Imrtrf4 fnr mn. ment with the Idea that she could do all she said, or, at least, would Impose her personality to that extent upon a would be employer. Then I saw him give a small shrug and disparagingly glance at his secretary: he cut her off her flood of eloquence with an abrupt iemarkt telllnsr her she might go and ho would let her know his de cision later. She neratsted! hnrnt rM nf her flnnllv by dint of an absolute rudeness that orougnt the blood to my cheeks. "Mark her off," said he to his secre tary. "We want women here, not men In petticoats." Surely, I thought, there Is some justifi cation for the complaint so many women make of the treatment they meet In busi ness. Again the door opened and shut to ad. mlt a woman quiet, though not shy In her manner, light of foot, soft of voice, gentle In movement. She was plainly dressed In navy blue and wore n becoming hat, she was neatly gloved and booted,' and a bunch of violets nestled among her furs. Not a pretty woman not a particularly young one but as she stepped forward the manner of the Interviewer changed, He put his questions with courtesy, he waited patiently for her answers given In a voice I could hardly hear from my corner,; he smiled pleasantly Jn answer to her smile, and took pains to set her at ease. Not a superfluous word from her but somehow she Impressed that clever man of business with her business capacity. She made no extravagant claims forher-,elf-but he plainly believed her. ; When he signified that he had. heard enough and she got up to go, he actually rose as weH, crossed the Jong office, and opened the door for her. As he returned to his desk I noticed that the smile lingered on his Hps; he nodded In a satisfied way to his secre tary. "She'll do," said he. Now the moral of this little story Is not the one that appears on the surface. I do not say-be womanly for the soke of your own advancement. thmih t might. I say, be wpmanly for the sake of :he men with whom you have to deal. It Is easy to. give them a bad Impression. Women are still In business more or less n sufferance, remember. If you do not care for politeness and :onslderatlon yourself, at least you might try to gain them from men for the bene fit of those other women to whom cour tly Is a necessity of existence." Advice to Lovelorn By BEATRICE FAIRFAX Return It, of Course. Dear Miss Fairfax: I was going with a girl for the last two years secretly, but ately. when I returned from my vaea ion. I was surprised to notice that she tried to avoid me as much as possible. .h?le0!, 1 rlyed to go with another girl. This made her angry and she asked .me to return her handkerchief, which I received from her two years ago. Po you think I have treated her right, tnd is it proper for me to return the handkerchief! O. R. r. You did not treat her right when you went with her secretly. .No mn honors the girl he courts that waj.. If she resents It, she Is right. Return her gift if you want the affair to end; If not, go to her, make up, and treat her better. Let Time Decide. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 18 years of age and deeply Jn love with a man one year my senior. There Is another girl whom he seems to care for. Klndy advise me hOW I COUld find out whethnr hn cares anything for me. I am heartbroken. CONSTANT READER. This Is a knowledge future will reveal to you. Any attempt on your part to discover the state of his mind will put you In a ridiculous position. You are only It Don't try to force the future. SPLENDID HOT WEATHER FOOD Vou should eat meat very spar ingly during hot weather meat heats the body. At the came time, rou must eat nutritious food. Try Faust Spaghetti, It is a nu tritious, non-heating food. Made trom Durum Wheat, tho cereal that overflows with gluten, a muscle, bonel J 1 I. I...IIJ . . ' auu hcdu uuuucr. a iuo package o'f Faust Spaghetti contains as much nutrition as 4 lbs. of beef ask your doctor. Write tor free recipe book and find sat bow many different ways Faust tir, n l. I v- - . . . ... I 'fiBuiiu u uu Bcrvea iu lease me oalate. Sold in 5c and 10c packages. MATJLL BROS., . St. Louis, Mp. Nell Brinkley Says: The other night at a pretty dance I name out of the warm, perfumed ball room, where the sober-garbed men and the girls, like so many bril-Jlantly-hued butterflies, were Jerking and spinning about in the mad, fas cinating, grotesque antics of the tango and tiot. They looked like an aimless company of bright insects at play, with no longer life than they, and no more care fo,r another day than they. I slipped between the curtains of the big hallway, hunting for an open win dow and dreaming of all the crystal fountains I had seen In my life and wishing myself under their cool rain. For, let me toll you, this tangoing fElla Wheeler Wilcox v. By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX (Copyright, 1913, by Amerlcan-Journal-Examlner.) It Is unfortunate for the great and good cause of equal franchise that women are growing Into ungraceful and unhygl'enlo habits In the world we call civilised. Smoking women are everywhere evi dent: and the habt once Indulged in oc casionally by the few daring ones Is now Indulged openly and almost con stantly in European lands; and, of course, American women arc follow ing sulf as Is their custom ' toward older countries. A middle - aged woman, or an old woman smoking in a public place Is a sight to make angels weep and men sigh over the mem ory of their mothers. The 'young girls who smoke tn publlo or anywhere else ought to make men pause and hesitate before thinking of asking these young wdmen to perpetuate their species. And to perpetuate the species and bring normal, healthy and moral men and women Into the world Is the real business of every young woman, however we may regard other occupations for her, and however wide we are trying to make her sphere ot usefulness. Field Marshall Lord Methuen has now come to the froit in an open denuncia tion of the smoking woman. He declares woman has not man's "sense ot proportion" and does not know when to stop. But he also believes the smoking habit, especially the cigarette habit, a serious detriment to men. Lord Methuen says: "A man Is constitutionally stronger than a woman, and hi nerves will stand the 'strain of nicotine much better than hers will. "Then, again, the throat, chest and On Women Smokers Smoking1 is Serious Drawback to Equal Franchise, and in Addition is One of the Great est Beauty Destroyers That Women Contend With lungs, which are some of the principal organs affected by excesslvo cigarette smoking, are more susceptible in the fe male sex, and consequently Irritation is set up the more quickly, 'But I think it is the eyes which are most affected by the habit. After ex cessive indulgence, these organs generally become weak-looking and uncertain, and often assume a watery appearance, "Another symptom of the habitual cigarette smoker Is a nasty, troublesome cough, particularly In the morning, which arises from the Irritation caused by the nicotine to the throat and chest. This Is more often the case with the person who Inhales the smoke a habit which, I am sorry tp say, Is pretty general among cigarette smokers. "I think you will agree that these ail ments do not add to the attractiveness or the charm ot the gentle sex, but then, in addition, you have to consider the deleterious effect cigarette smoking has upon the heart and the nerves. "The cigarette habit among ladles Is deplored by all doctors, but particularly In regard to the younger memoers of the sex. "At middle age the effects are not so much pronounced, or, perhaps, not so noticeable, but In the case of a young girl her development Is undoubtedly im peded, and thhs must have a detrimental effect upon the future of the race." It Is gratifying to lovers of the human race to have a man of brain and posi tion take this stand toward the smok ing habt, especially an Englishman, for It is English women of prominence who have made the unwholesome custom fash ionable. There are a million more women than men In England, and perhaps the habit first originated in woman's desire for man's society, and in her loneliness she found even the smell of his cigar smoke solace. There was onco a romantic girl living In a retired country place who asked her lover to smoke Into a bottle that she might let smoke escape some lonely even ing during his absence and Imagine him present. Is lively world And out on tho old etnlrs that havo felt tho tread of cen turies of light girl-feet that have heard whispers botwoen a man and a maid that are never told I saw something that gavo me an idea for a pfc turo, Sitting out tho dance was a man and a girl on tho bottom steps, Bho and he both sat with knees carelessly crossod, in distinctly masculines atti tudes, A foo of sea-green silk stockings thrust from beneath her slashed Bkirt. Between her white fingers smoked tho live end of a cigarette, be tween his also-white fingers a thin voll of smoko roso, too; between both their careless lips crept a blue voll to mlnglo above their heads. Ono of his hands was thrust deep and negligently Into a pocket. It was rnther n tasteless picture dry to the taste of a lover of men and maids and their However the present smoking craze originated, It Is most unfortunate. It Is bad enough for posterity to have the vices of the fathers t6 combat, but what hope can the world have of a higher humanity when both parents have vitiated their blood and destroyed their nervous systems by nlcotlneT A young woman on one of the large ocean liners was seen always with a cigarette between her Hps. She re marked to some fellow passengers that she had taken the cure once at a sa.nl tarluro, but that the habit was too strong to overcome. Many women who are subject to nervous breakdowns and who are sent to "rest cures" and sani tariums to recover from "overwork' or "over-pleasuring" are really suffering from nicotine poisoning, were the truth known. It seems appalling that such a condl tlom of society should exist; appalling that smoking among women has attained such a hold upon the community, that men like Lord Methuen are alarmed. But It is well that one such man has raised his voice In protest The erase for smoking started with the English women and it Is befitting that English men should make eome effort at miti gating the evil. For evil It Is, and one which menaces the generations to come. It woman Is to have the franchise and use It to better the world, let her not emulate the vices of men to prove het worth and ability. And let her value her beauty and health and attractiveness enough to enable her to give up the disgusting cigarette habit. Let us hope Lord Metheun a prophet when he says: . "I do not think the time Is far dis tant when there will be aa strong a crusade against smoking to excess as there has been against drinking to ex oets. "I believe It will be the doctors who will lead the crusade against excessive smoking, "They will tell a person plainly that It Is ruination to his nerves to smoke cigarettes, as some people do, from the .age of 10 years onward.' The Shades of Death By REV. THOMAS B. GREGOU The Wyoming massacre, one of the sad dest and most execrable affairs connected with our struggle for Independence, took place 1SS years ago July 6, 1778. There Is no lov- ller region on earth than tho Valley of the Wyoming, In northeastern Penn sylvania, and es pecially attractive was the spot on the morning of the day nf the mas sacre. Its 3,000 set tlers, mostly from Connecticut, with town meetings, schools, churches and all the charac teristics of New England orderliness and thrift, were happy as could be In the midst of this earthly paradise, Tho demon, John Butler, with 1,200 Tories and Senecas, pounced suddenly upon the settlement, July 2, while the strong men were away, and began his depredations. On the Fourth ot July a few roldlers, together with some old men and boys, to the number of 400, went out to meet the Invaders, but were utterly routed, the odds against them being too great. Home escaped to the fort, others fled to the hills, but all were later on captured and put to torture and death. Some were burned at the stake, some were laid upbn hot embers and held down by pitchforks, some hacked with knives. The liousese -were plundered and burned, and the Bufferings of the women and chlldrel who fled to the forests can never be told. Oyer 100 women and children perished ot fatigue and hunger, and the hills and dales were dotted with the bodies of the aged men who fell by tho way. The beautiful settlement was com pletely wiped out, and the desolated region received the name of "The Shades of Death" But the avenger was to overtake John BUtler and his Tories and Senecas. Wash-- Ington sent out an army of 5,000 men, and the following summer at Newtown on th'e site of the present town ot El mlra the score was more than evened up. Butler with his barbarous men were de feated with great slaughter, and the power of Tory and red man was given Its death b)ow. Not In vain was the Wyoming massacre. Its horrors served only to exasperate the American soldiers and to make them fight the harder to win out In their bat tle for Independence- affairs. If romanco was there, you might not soo it! There was no lean ing, tender grace about tho girl, nothing ot the unsuro Booker about tho boy. Thoy had Just como awny from a tango they woro decidedly nlne-toon-thlrtoony and thoy woro Bitting out tho donee. And it made mo think that porhaps tho old stairs stirred and groaned under a memory ot other sittings-out when romanco was like a porfutno on the air, so tangible was it; when a maid hung nor head and a man Bought and was tender and had other things for his hand to do than dig into his pockets and hold a cigar etto; when tho maid's lips woro( untainted by smoko and tho man watched them under cover ot dim lights and thought them sweet. Tho old stalra creaked and motuought the old clock sighed! The Life of By WILLIAM V. IQRIC I used to know a bright young man named Aloxander Blake, Who kept his neighbors laughing till it made their framework ache, Somo gift, some intuition you may call It wjiat you will Would give your sleeping funnybono a now and startling thrill. Beside this prodigy's remarks, served fresh and piping hot, Tho works of Twain and old Bill Nyo woro that much dusty rot. No party was a great success, no minstrel show would take Without tho bubbling presence of young Alexander Blako. Ho was tho wittiest person that tho country ever knows He was n constant kfddQr, and the best that evor grew. Bofore his shafta of satire and his wealth of rldiculo, The brightest of his comrades would appnar a blinking fool. Ho robbed the village bank ono day his last and merriest Joke And now said Alexander has to woar a convict's yoke. It always makes me gloomy, melancholy, glum and pale. To think of all the humor that Is bottled up in Jail. The easy Resinol way PIMPLES and blackheads disappear. 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