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THE BEE. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1J1X ale Si? w j I it A Stunning Hat Fully Described by Olivette L By OLIVETTE. A wonderful picture hat for tho fresh young face Ib the one wo Illus trate today. Black Milanese straw forum the foundation, and a double flounce of accordion-plaited malice, shadowy .the brim. Tho malino covers the rounded crown and a narrow flutlng-of it edges the top of tho crown. At the base of the crown In front nestles a great full-blown rose in glowing crimson, and wound loosely around the crown Is double-faced black satin ribbon which falls in graceful loops and ends from the down-curving back brim. One end of tho ribbon Is almost to the waist, and tho other falls almost. to tho knees a most unusual new feature. Keal Freedom By BEATRICE FAIRFAX (A mother -assigned a', trivial hqusehold tak to her daughter, and tho girl re belued. She preferred to loll In a chair and read the lateat fiction. " detent housework," she snapped; I despise that word 'duty you talk no much about; I hate being ordered around In thl way, I will be glad when I am married and can do at I please." And when the noble bird of freedom heard her' make thU speoch, 1 hung it head on IU breast, and dropped its toll feathers in shame. It knew that no freedom -comes with, matrimony, but that freedom ends at Its portal- It knew that the day waB com ing when the same girl would look' back with .a sigh at the liberty she enjoyed aa a girl, an of which she now showed so little appreciation. The "mother also knew . It, and her reply to her daughter's speech was ;a sigh. ' How many times a mother's an awer 1 a sigh only the good Lord, 'knows. It Js an expression of pain that goes unheeded on earth, but that. Is .re corded against the one who evoked It In heaven- , , Though the amount Is usually Jlmltod, there are few girls these days who do riot have spending money with which to do as they please. Obsessed by the pas sion Of possession they buy flowers, rib bons, hats, gloves, little necessities and more follies, few of which outlast their brief season. There Is no one to object; no ope to. question; no one to seold when he bills' come In. The girt who wants a pretty flower buys it, without the nag ging conscldusneea that It would be bet ter to spend the money for potatoes. ' She Is free, with her little or much, to do s.s she pleases. The majority, ofglris are engaged in some sore of lucrative employment, and . all their time "Is not their own, but the '.hour-comes-at last when the typewriter Is closed, the loom U quiet, the sewing machine' covered, and the books put pack po their .'shelves. Often the day is too Jong, and the labor too arduous for tho pay received, but It always ends at last and for a time the girl Is free She has a few hours of sweet liberty when she may go for a ride, a swln, or a, dsnae. or to Hq undisturbed Jn a corner and rest Her life, for a brief period, is all br own, with today a work ended and no intrusion of the duties of tomorrow. But when' asked' to do a little house hold task for which she lacks Inclina tion, she says Irritably, "I will be glad when I am married and can do as I pleaae!" Tho noble bird of freedom, my dear girls, Is never an emblem of wifehood. That little gold band that Is put on a girl's finger at the altar Is a link In a chain which, in the great majority of cases, is as binding 'as that worn by a slave. The married womah who has as mush freedom as a girl, U a creature existing only. In fairy tale and imagination. Her time, her money, her thoughts, her soul and body are, no longer, her .own- Free as a, girl to sefve herself, she condemns herself to life in' the' servitude of others' when she marries, ' She formerly purchased for., one, anjl bought, & she pleased. She now buys for twp, often with .less money to buy with, and must account for all she spends. In the some way that a dollar Is not Ker own, ' neither may an hour, be called hers to do with as she likes.' If youaoubt this, my dear girl, look at your mother. How often does she say, "J. want thr for mS'self?" Do ybii ever hear her ex press the intention, of going where she pleases T How-many -times In your whole life have you seen her at her ease without household task in her handsT When sh6 takes a seat isn't it that she may hold the baby? Marry, by all means, and may you marry WU and happily. But don't enter that state believing that you will be-as frea as a bird once you are a wife. Oo Into It knowing the sacrifices you must make. On 'Into It knowing that nothing is purchased In this world with out its price, and the price of love is the ending1 of all the precious . freedom of girlhood. Perhaps J.h(s-knowledge may make you better appreciate the liberty you enjoy today, and give you an understanding of matrimony that will rob you of ail discontent and envy if your days of girl hood are indefinitely prolonged. Perhaps, also and this is roy greatest hope it rosy make you mora tender and helpful with the burdens of the one In whoso chain of slavery you aro uncon sciously a link your mother ' The Dream of a Pool L L - . Over on tho high greon top of tho Palisades, whero the broojea almost always blow and you can sniff the warm sweotnosB of taffy standB and tho leafy sweetness of tho woods at tho same time, is a great, clear pool, a dream of a pool, lying llko a groat Jado under tho rr Ella Wheeler Wilcox Discourses on the Needs and the Opportunities of These Institutions By KLUA WHEELER WILCOX Copyright. MIS. by Star Company. The following list of questions was sent out by u prominent Institution of learn ing to various Individuals for replies. There Is great hopo,for the future of our nation when tho school authori ties ask the co operation of the public In pointing out the errors of the educational sys tem. "Are our grade and hjgh schools, in your opinion, doing all they can do under existing conditions In fur nishing the best, preparation possi ble for home, for society and for buelpew?" They are not. "Can you suggest any changes' In the present curriculum, or the present metb ods of teaching, which would tend to re move the disinclination which many childron, especially of tho ages of 12 to IS years, have toward attending school, a. g., is the work too easy, too difficult, unsulted to the minds pt the pupils, hours too short, too long; work too confining, too abstract, too -much unlike home life, etc.?" The work Is too varied, and there is not time, euough given to the proper understanding of any one study. There is not enough common sens used by parents, or teachers, in fitting the studies to tho children all aro put through a routine with no consideration of different tastes, needs and capacities. Some system should . be established making wnn , analysis of a child's mind and a .study of its especial needs a .part of the . preparation ' for entering school, and then the-children should be (Classified. "Are the public schools developing in the most effective way the, pupil's, power of- self-controlT Jf not. wherein lies the failure? "Where the remedy? No ev. thousand '.times hoi. There should be two-minute talks on self-control given every day to tho pupils, Koch-.pupil should, bo made; to under stand; what' self-control is. To the ma jority of mature people in the world to day the word has little meaning. "Do you think that' explicit teaching; of morals and religion is practicable or de sirable?" No creeds should be taught in schools. But reverence for the Creator of this mighty universe should be Imparted with suah lessons as botany, natural history and astronomy. Remind the children that with all man's vast learning and power he cannot make a slpgle weed, or star, or animal, and that tho intelligence which conceived the worlds about and abovo us should be thought' of with reverence. In morals there Is no greater factor than the self-control already mentioned. Many people think self-control means elf..repreMon. ' Children should be taught that It means controlling the unworthy impulses only, and that each time anger, indolence, greediness' or selfishness is 'controlled it is one step toweard a higher education nnj toward success In life. To' study when you feet like loafirur. to persevere with a problem when you want to ask some one else to solve it for you to go directly to school or home when you want to lag, to chut your lips close wh,en you want to say unkind words, to put your pennies In a bank when you want to buy candy-, all those are stop SssWfTisE. 7jytfij3yvi IK bisssbIsssbbbbbbbbbbbI JIubbbbbbsbbbbbbVIRbB Our Public Schools toward higher education, and they all moan self-control. Continual brief reference to these facts as a basis of all worth-whllo character should be made In schools. It Is far more Important than teaching children to dissect dead animals. "Should the duties of cltlsenehtp be taught in schools? If so, which method will be more effective, the study of a text book on that subject or the or ganization of the school Into societies similar to real political organizations? Aro there any objections to the latter method? Is there any other better way?" The early ideals of Washington and Jefferson and others men of (treat and broad principles should be taught, and the children given a sense of the re sponsibility of each Individual to malto himself worthy of his- country and to aid in making his country worthy or the world's respect "Can you suggest any way In which publto school education can be more helpful In alleviating the condition of the lower classes of society, L e., tho ex tremely poor and the vicious classes, "the submerged tenth?" What, If any thing, can be done through the schools to lessen Juvenile crime? What Is' your opinion of the value of manual training, cooking and sewing in the public schools? Why?" Manual training, sewing and cooking are of great Importance in the schools. Dut before the "submerged tunth" enters the public or graded schools it f The Woman Behind the Tracks it I read a groat truth by a great teacher this morning. ''Did you 'happen to. read it, too? It was about a man named Jesus, who wont . unto Mount Olives, The scribes and Pharisees brought unto Him one of these women whom we usually find behind tho tracks in our cities. According to the Mosaic law these men had the right to stone the woman, and they were anxious to fulfill the law. But Jesus says: "He that Is without sin among you let him first cast a stone at her." "And they which heard it netnf convicted by their own conscience went I out one by one, beginning at the eldest tven' unto the last." If we would stop our everlasting wrangtln over creeds and doctrines and pay more attention to tho vital thine Ot ltfe, the unfortunate woman behind the track, and the cowardly, Ignorant mother who re fueod to- speak to the woman who saved her child, would rapidly become past history. It's true, perhaps, that these women of the other world wear showy nlothes to attrart attention. But, Sister Wlnnlfred Block. If you will t me some way by which you can distinguish them from some Of our best "sasslety," I will pay for the Texatones, Maybe the men do grin sheepishly when she posse. Maybe it the women were not so busy looking the other way. they might learn a few things. It's to a man's interest to keep women .looking the other way. Perhaps If they would sometimes look the other way, thry might learn more of the young men who are entertained by their puro young daughters. When a woman who has made a mis take in life has the. courare to don a gingham dress and come forth Into Ood's clean, good world; when a woman ha enough appreciation of the greatest Vnd on the Palisades & By should have a careful klndorgnrten' train ing. All the educators and philanthropist and reformers In America 'should band together to establish kindergartens for the children of the poor and vicious. In Its Instruction order, system and self-reliance are contained. Noo one child in American need bo de prived of this advantago were our won derfully generous and phllanthropio peo ple aroused to the Importance of the work. Then the public schools should amplify their manual training - advantage and add to tho number of teachers In those departments. Besides this a thorough course of hu mane education should become a part of every school course. Until this Is done It Is Impossible to eradicate tho tendencies, toward cruelty born in the children of the vicious and selfish. The majority of parents never do, and probably never will, unaided by the schools, educato their children to be hu mane and kind to creatures weaker than themselves. Wherever humane education has been Introduced in schools there may be found a remarkable decrease of cruelty and vlclousness among children. They become proud defenders and pro tectant of suffering or misused animals or human beings they encounter. But to produce the desired results in cluded in the last question we must change our Industrial conditions Instead of our school curriculum. commonest things of llfo to cost oft eaudy finery and make a flower garden; when a woman has enough mother love to minister to a eck baby, she is not past redemption, and It Is natural that she should take the preachers and thou sands of church members at their word and expect them to give her ti helping hand. God never Intended such a woman to live behind Uie tracks, while we go around over town shaking hands with her partner In sin. We meet him in the church. Yes, we often listen to him In tho pulpit We Invite him Into our homes to meet our pure young girls. We ask no questions and get no lies. Good story, Isn't It, and sound nice and easy from the preacher's lips? But Just as long as we tolerate a doubio rtandard of morality, we need not call ourselve a Christian country. The poor thing from "behind the tracks" did belong in the neat little cot tage up the street, and if good women think they are protecting their homes by forcing women bock to their sins, they make the same mistake as tho ostrich who thinks he is safe when be covers his head. As long as women continue to be cowards and look the other way, ak long as there are such oases of Ignoranca and ingratitude as that referred to by Sister Black, Just so long will there be women behind the tracks to ensnare your boy and my boy, and Just so long will father grin sheepishly while mother re fuse to look the other way. After all, Is It through any merit ot our own If we stand where others fall? When it comes to the final reckoning, 1 would Just as soon take my chances with the woman behind the track as with tha Pharisaical mother and mistress. Amen. BKATRICH CI UAH AM TEIUULL. COO Oak Lawn Avenue, Dallas, Tex. blue Bky. There are broakors and thoro la; snnd, and water as clear aB.sprlng water bo sldo a mountain road, It'a great! Noll Brlnkloy, The Hpllyhock Dolls By WINNIFRBD BLACK The three little girls eat by tho old stone wall, making dolls. They picked ehoh a' silky blossom from the hollyhock nearest at hand. The tall girl with the china bluo eyes chose a scarlet blos som, the chubby girl with the" freck les chosa a pink , flower, and tho lit tle girl with the curly hair chose, a hollyhock of satiny white. "Now," said tho three girls and they took slender blade of grass and tied the hollyhock blos som about the mid dle and made a pet-tl-s k I r t flounced and ruffled and fluted and they tied a llttlo silken hood of pel Ms over the green button that Is tho center of tho flower, and lol there stood a daliitj Indy balanced on tho stone wall like a d&fietr bowing to a great audience. "My doll is a country girl," said tho tall girl with china blue eyes. "She's never had any chance. Her folks are poor and she has to work.. I'm going to send her to the city and have her go to school; she shall go for yesra and years and ehe shall team all there Is to be learned. She shall play the piano, she shall play the fiddle, she shall play thff organ. "Sho shall talk French and Latin and Italian and German, and she shall write the loveliest hand, and she shall be edu-cated-my doll, and then ehe will never have to hold down her head. There's nothing like being educated It's the one thing that makes you proud. If you are educated you can do anything you want to do, and folks will say you are smart no matter how dull you are- Mother says so." "Pooh!" sniffed the chubby girl. "My doll isn't going to .school-she's going to stay home and learn how to make creamy biscuits, and how to churn and how to set bread, and make pie, and what's the best way of scalding out a crock, nnd where to plant flower seeds so they'll grow, and what to have when the minis ter comes to tea. "And how to keep bees, and what' th best way to keep cream sweet; and apple dumplings and doughnuts she'll make and all in pink she'll be, and a prince will ride by and she'll be making butter and he will stop his horse In the red and white clover and get down and fall on his knees and ask her to be his prinoess. And she will blush and say, 'Yes, prince and they wilt rldo away to the loveliest little white cottage In the green tree, and she will keep house all the rest of her life, nnd never see a book or know What time It is, only sup per time " The little girl with tho curly hair took her doll in her slender, sensitive hands and held It carefully. "She's a slater," salii tho little girl with curly hair, "and she lives in a convent. There are lilies on the altar and my little girl raises them in her convent garden. It is cool Jn the convent garden the tall trees make a pleasant shade, and thero's a little clear stream running by the gray wall and white rose climb on the wall, and the bluebirds build there. "And It Is always quiet and -palm and nobody comes there but sisters but some times a little girl who is to moke her first communion; she wears white flowers in her long white veil and carries lilies In her hands. Thero"-the little girl with the curly hair caught up a spray of bluebells from the Thick grass at the edge of the Nel1 Bdnkley old wall and swung it in her hand "there," sho said; "sister, don't you hear the chapel bells ringing?" And tho tall girl with the china blue eyes is the daughter of a poor woman who has never been to school and who thinks that all that Is good 1 shut up in tho books sho can never understand, Tho chubby girl who never wants to hear nf a book la the daughter of a school teacher and has never been in a real home in iter lite. And tho girl with curly hair has for a mother a great actress a very beautiful and a very vain woman who likes a crowd about her night and day, and who never waa quiet in her rest loss life. Is It so with all of us, I wonder what wo cannot havo wo long for bitterly? Hero comes the shaggy dog; he wants to play. Hurrah! The little girls aro off for a scamper. Up hill and down dalo they go;, laughing, panting, calling to each other for help. "Down, Towser down, sir!" What a stir about) nothlngl" Hum-hum, the bees are busy down tbero In the clover. Why do they work so hard all day? There Is honey enough, and to spare. In tho round hives there under the water birch What's that on tho gray old wall White, pink and scarlet? Why, It is the wise woman, tho milkmaid and tho sister of charity. How quiet thoy all are, there together oh tho, wall, In tho soft wind and tho shining sun. If it should rain now. Tho hollyhocks stand tall and proud and yet humble, too nt tho gate. 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