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THE BEE: OMAIIA, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 101.1. ryhe Jee ne aazire aire i The Printer "What man Is that In yon back room, With dirty floor and wallB of gloom That man who raises in his hand A stick of steel like magic wand, A-bendlng over stono and case With knitted brow and sweaty face, . Llko some grim alchemist of yoro Emleav'rlng Bocrets to explore That man obscure behind the sceneB? What does ho do? 'What are his means? As this mysterious one with care Moves 8oIl-ed fingers through the air, Both men and women laugh and cry, Supinely hope and lonoly sigh. With line of type and drop of ink He makes a million people think. He radiates both joy and woe, And like strings on the piano, Or doubtful wave upon the sea, Emits discord or harmony; , Or, like the fabled fountain's glitter, From which pour streams both sweet and bitter. All earthly knowledge passes through His stick, and, whether false or true, By "art preservative of arts," Ho teaches teachers all their parts. Bpfore his wand great tyrants quail, , Or nod In pleasure at his wil). He strikes a key that sets on fire A nation's thought, and mad desire, The deadliest that men abhor, Runs rife till spent in clash of war: Or strikes another key that sends A word of peacefulness that blends Humanity, misunderstood, In one great, glorious brotherhood. With copy In his hands unfurled, He reads the mind of all the world; If of no class, but knows all classes From presidents unto the masses' His task pursuing with a strain, He tolls with muscle and with brain, And, though proverb'ly poor himself, Helps others to amass their pelf. We marvel at his woundrdus might To play with darkness or with light, And make us act upon suggestion Or change our minds on ev'ry question. , Is he a sorcerer resourceful, Wlth'penetrating mind and forceful A menace to the human race, Who should be shuffled off the face Of earth Into chaotic night, Llko Lucifer, the dang'rous, bright? Is't Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll, (A loyal friend and fiendish, fickle? . t , u No; he is like the phonograph? - Recorder, like the photograph, . .; ...,, Of thlngB that are, both good and evil " . . An honest man; he's not the devil. He's but a natural, faithful mirror, Reflecting truth as well as error. t . . When all' mankind aspires to love, And has no thought but from above,, You'll find the printer in the choir A-playing on his heav'nly lyre, A-sotting up the songs they sing Around the palace of the King. Willis Hddspeth. Omaha, Neb., July 17, 1913. rr Public Intellect By DR. O. H. PARKHURST a Is the American mind crowing frivo lous? Are we more indisposed than formerly to do caretul and serious think ing., and less Inclined to prefer the sin cere' and search- lng handling or current questions to a treatment of them that Is more l!ghtand airy? The inquiry Is a practical .one, for. It It be the case that our inclina tions are tending toward a skimming of the. surface things, that will mean that we are experiencing a shallowing of character, for character Is mea sured by the ear- neatness of one's thinking. Men who cater to the Intellectual tastes vf people are the ones best fitted to deal nlth the question Just proposed. Colonel Harvey, who has had a Ions editorial experience, touches this matter In his farewell address to the readers of Harper's Weekly. Ho says: "Would people read even Mr. Curtis' scholarly leading articles today? FRECKLES Wow U the Time to Oat Bid of Ths Ugly Spots. There is no longer the si ghtest need of feeling ashamed of your freckles, as the prescription thine double strength is tuaranteed to remove these homely spots. Simply get an ounce of othlne double strength from The Beaton Drug Co., also any of Sherman & McConnell Drug Co.'n stores, and apply a little of it night and morning and you should soon see that even the worst freckles have begun to Disappear, while the lighter ones nave vanished entirely. It is seldom that mora than an ounce Is needed to completely dear the skin .and gain a beautiful clear complexion Be sure to ask the druggist for lht double strength othlne: it Is this that is sold on the money-back guarantee. We doubt It. Looking over the files the other day, we found no less than twenty long editorials on civil service reform in thirty successive Issues, and very little else. They were sound, cogent articles, and, of course, adlmarbly written, but hqw would they take on the newstarids of this hurrying age? How many way farers would buy them In preference to some of the great number of lively, en tertalnlng and finely Illustrated maga zines? Not many, we fear," Colonel Harvey's Inquiry suggests, what Is probably the fact, that there has de veloped the same change of taste in this ni&tter of literature, as in that of food, and that, whereas people used to think more about the nutritious quality of what they ate, and less of Us seasoning, their principal regard is now given to the con diments and spices and less to the sub stantial stuff into which the spices are put Writers and speakers find It increas ingly necessary to give attention to forma of expression, and especially to the intro duction of a certain quality of pungency that shall tickle people's Intelligence into an acceptance of what Would otherwise seem to them tasteless. Their dulled intellectual palate demands that truth shall be baited with some suc culent attraction that shall seduce them Into an unlntentlenal Interest in the truth, which the attractive allurements enter tainingly disguise. Newspaper reading has therefore coma to be largely limited to thi hasty glancing at headline. This is what explains the Increased use which newspaper men make of cartoons. Feople who have to think in order to understand a paragraph can read a pic ture without thinking People who have anything to say, whoth'er by "pen or tongue, have got to accomodate themselves to existing con ditions. We have to take people as we find them, and if we cannot break Into them by the use of one door, try another. But Colonel Harvey is undoubtedly right. Solid thinking Is a little out of fashion. Thre are millions of people today who would father not haVa settled convictions about the tg questions of life than put themselves to the intellectual inconveni ence of thinking their way through to them. But why? Who is the man who under stands well enough the human condition as it exists today to tell us? What Dame Fashion Is Offering r xoaak mm . The Girl and Her Mother Catherine of Russia Illustrated on the left-hand side Is an attractive cornflower-blue charmeuse ggwn very suitable for wearing at Hur llngham or Ranelagh. The skirt drapery cry is graaceful, the charmeuse being combined with velvet-cmbroldcrod volls de sole. The sleeves are long, the wrists and neck boing finished with laco frills. Tho central figure Is carried out In a striking effect of blue and gold brocad3. For the Season. Lace falls from the high waist line to the center of tho skirt and meets with tho By DOROTHY DLY There Is no othor human relationship that should bo so clone as that between mother and daughter. Kvery step that tho girl must tread tho mother has al ready trodden be fore her; every ex perience that the girl must undergo the mother has al ready known; cvory tmpulso that stirs tho girl's heart the mother has already felt. And one would think that out of this very unanimity of sex, and blood, and k n o wlodgn, and e x p e r lence there would grow a sympathy and affection that wuuld bo the strongest tie on earth. This Is far enough from being the case. There Is no other girl allvo with whom the average womnn feels so unacquainted as with her own daughter, and thero Is no othor woman In tho entlro universe to whom tho girl could not easier open her heart than to her own mother. No one will deny the truth of Jhls aBdortldn, or question that this estrange ment botween mothers and daughters offers a grave problem for tho considera tion of parents. For one thing It robs the two women of tho sweetest, the most unselfish, and the purest l6vo they can ever know; nnd. for another, It deprives the girl of the protection and guidance that would prevent many a young creature from making shipwreck of her life. It Is not the girl who Ib friends with her mother and who (ells her what she thinks who goes wrong; it Is tho girl who goes to fortune tellers for advlco, who confides her heart secrets to strangers, who meets on tho streets men of whom hor mother nover hoard, and who finds every place mora homollk than her own home, who furnishes the I f ny REV. THOMAS B. GRKGOHf Cathcrlno II, tho "Semlrnmls of tht North," came to the throno ICO years ago. Catherine, daughter of tho Prlnro of Anhalt. was born at Stettin In 11 29, Sh hud a hard time of It In her chltdhood, her mother being as mean to her as Frederick tho Great's father was to him. At 16. sho was married against her will to Peter, Duke of Uolstcln. Peter was a big, strap ping animal of a fellow but a degreo or two nbovo Idi ocy. Ho passed most of his tlmo flirting with low women and playing with dogs and rats. This fact explains, though it does nol justify, Catherine's various little flirta tions on her own hook. By tho death of Bllxnboth, tho semi Idlotlo dog fancier becamo czar In 17(3 but ha -was nlmost Immediately ect nsld In favor of Catherine. So far as Intolleci and will power went tho princess of An halt was well qualified tor the big plact that enmo to her. Bho was well rca In history, philosophy nnd llteraturo; ha absorbed, In fact, most of the knowlcdg of her time, and was mentally able tc fill ariy throne on earth. Bho irovcd tc bo a great sovereign, as soverolgnn went In thoso days. Bho made Russia power ful, nnd was' In many ways a worthj successor to Peter tho. Great. But the mognlflcence of her court, th marvelous extent of her dominions, her foreign conquests, nnd tho Imposing po sition she held among tho "majesties" ot tho world, could not hide the fact that at heart she caicd but little for tho Russian peoplo, and did but llttlo for the pro motion ot tholr political, social and eco nomic advancement. Catherine demonstrated to perfection tho fact at that tlmo somewhat In dis putethat a woman could till a throno as well as a man, but she also proved thnt tho woman sovereign can be ns cruelly unjust ns tho man sovereign; for was not Catherine ono ot tho loading spirits In the Partition of Poland, the "foulest deed In tho history of tho world?" draped folds of tho skirt. The corsage Is of white lace over whlto chiffon, flap- onlca colored charmouse Is used for tho skne(on for B0 mAny fftmlly cl0S0tl(i riBnv-nanu mooei nnu manes a very use- Many nMonB may ba glvcn for ln, ful gown for afternoon wear. Tho long fnriinn nfft,. i, sleeves nro put Into the shoulders with a obvlous ot which Is that wo put too much piping; tho cuffs are finished with five stress on what we call natural nffoitlon. small buttons, the. samo decoration in a We do not 'love peoplo simply because larger size belrnt carnen out on the bodice and skirt. The charmouse and ruffles nro ot whlto tullo. they are kin to us; wo love them bocus they nro congenial to us and becaur? they do somethlnng to make us love tlinm. It Is said that blood Is thicker than water, but It Is often also sourer than vinegar, and thcro are no othor Education Is the Cure for Feeblemindedness in the Child, but It Must Be Be gun in Time What Sight is More Pitiful Than a Child Who Goes Into the Battle of Life With Its MindIts Only HopeDisabled? SBSSSSSSfiBSBSSSSSSSsH' By GARRETT P. SERV1B The great study of modern times is that of tho peculiarities, the workings and the weaknesses of the human mind. This Involves tho entire future of the race of man. I have been learning something about a new science, or what aspires to be a science, which haa this for Its object and which is called by its disciples "clinical psy chology" (clinical from a Greek word for bed. Implying that the subject of attention is a per son who is ill, and psychology "science of the mind"), the whole phrase meaning practical study of mental illness. This is something of supreme Interest to parents, because those who are par ticularly, If not exclusively, the subjects of Investigation by clinical psychologists are children. There Is no sight In this world more pitiable than that of a feeble-minded child. It Is his mind that has placed man in 'the proud position which he oc cupies at the head of the kingdom of life on our planet; It is by virtue of his mental powers alone that ho has achieved all his triumphs; they only have brought him up from his original brotherhood with the ape; In the further develop ment ot his mind lies the only hope that he can have of utlll greater progress In the future; each Individual, as ho faces the struggle of life, must depend upon the strength of his mentality, and that the more in proportion as the struggle Increases In Intensity. What, then, can excite a compassion equal to that aroused by the spectacle of a human child which, as the remit of causes that might be avoided, enters the battle of life lamed, crippled, disabled, palsied, Impulssant. In that which constitutes Its only hope, its only real strength Its mind? The reason the new science that I hove mentioned makes an Instant appeal to any person having the good of his kind at heart Is that It comes with the assur ance that the terrible evil of feeh. mlndedness may be eliminated. If it did not promise that, if it presented Itself merely as another form of curious In vestigations having little or no practical application. It would attract only tho Inquisitive, seeking for novel subjects of thought. But when It says to unhappy parents: "Right education Is capable of developing the dormant mental ener gies of your child; only begin In time, and know what you are about," then Its call must be listened to everywhere. It Is this supreme word "education" which I find on every page of what I have been reading ot the work and the alms of the clinical psychologists. Tht body can be educated out ot many of 1U illnesses, and so can the mind. It Is not worth while to stop over any discussion of the question whether, as some put it, "tho mind has a body," or, as others would say, "the body has a mind." Wq all know what Is meant when a person Is said to bo "feeble-minded," and tho ono thing of pressing, lmmedlato Im portance Is the question whether either by medical or hygienic treatment, or by mental or psychological methods, or by both working together, the evil can be remedied. I read this extremely Interesting state ment from Prof. J. H. W. Wnllln: I "Irrespective of whether the cause Is chlofly physical or mantal, It It being recognlzt-d by a number of the leading present-day psychiatrists" (those who study mental diseases) "that drug treat ment for the majority of the Insane, whether Juvenile or adult. Is secondary to the educational treatment. Instead of merely prescribing physical hygiene for the insane, leading alienists are now pro scribing mental hygiene. The cure is being conceived In terms of a process of re-education. Moreover, so fas as con cerns the mentally unstable child In the schools, tho chief reliance Is obviously on hyglcnlo and educational guidance." Thero you see in almost every line tho magic word "education." We can all understand that. Wo must accept this term In a virtually new sense. , Wo must cense to regard It as simply signifying a process by which a certain, very limited, amount of 'knowledgo Is in stilled or forced Into the mind of a child, and we must come to consider It as the key to tho mind Itself, and the means, when wisely used, of opening and developing the mental powerr, even whon they seem to be absent or defective Education Is not a sausoge-stuffer; it Is a ladder by which man mounts toward the summit of his destiny. And when tho feeble are helped upon Its rUngs ihoy are stimulated and Inspired with new strength at every stop upward. rr The Manicure Lady By WILLIAM P. KIRK. much llko a knight as Cincinnati looks like a pennunt winner, and the only scar "That fellow Oldsteln proposed to me on his brqw Is on his cheok Instead, made yesterday, right here In the barber shop," by a razor one time when he was cutting said tho Manlcuro Lady. "I guess he dwn expenses and shaving hlmHelf. The must have figured thot the honeymoon , knights In the story books was always would be cheaper It we started It In the 1 JUBt going to a battle or Just coming summer and went to some quiet board- back from winning ono, and the only lng house along the Maine coast, but any- J fights thnt Oldsteln knows about Is fights how he seemed to bo In an awful hurry ' w"u competitors, ate, George, but there to get his answer. You bet, he got ht wa" regular men In then days! Listen answer In an awful hurry, too. I told to this: him that I would gladly marry him, und " 'Sir Launcelot swept full ten aside he asked ma when, and I said in some , with his great, flushing sword, and previous existence. Ho was too thick plunged more fiercely Into the fray for to see the point until I camo out with the coarse work and told him that I wouldn't marry him to save myself from the guillotine." his Lady Etholreda. Yonder shone her golden hair, and the swarthy foemen , would have spirited her away but for the gleam ot the crimson sun In her won- "You didn't need to throw It Into him I drous tresses. Faster and In ever-growing so hard," said tho Head Barber. "It Is ' circles flashed his sword-till, by her hard enough for a man to know that he J Blde a1"1 holding her to his pantmg breast, lias lost a girl like you, without you mak- ' Hood Sir Launcelot, than whom a lord ing him feel worse. Of course, he isn't ' ller knight ne'er strewed a battlefield your kind of a felloW, but you didn't need with dead.' " to throw the hooks Into him when you ' "What kind of guff Is that?',' asked the sold 'No.' Be gentle, kid. be gentle." (Head Barber. "A girl can't be gentle no more," de- "It out of an old romance Wilfred clared the Manicure Lady. "As I have 1 Kt at the library last night," said tho often told you before, George, tho age of Manicure Lady. "Just think what would shivarees Is dead, and romance has wont happen to me If I was to marry Old Into the discard. Oee, In the old days teln and get carried off by a lot of a girl got some kind of classy proposal, j swarthy foemen! I would have a swell believe me!. It would bo out In the moon- chance of ever being retook, wouldn't I? light, near eome old castle, usually un- ! Imagine Oldsteln with a flashing sword der one of them yew trees or hemlock, ' carving his way across a battlefield! A or whatever It was that used to grow i man can't fight llko this mister Launce when knights wae bold. Tho moon would j 'ot when he hasn't got his mind on any shlne down on a white slim figure of a I thing except his samples or his expensa girl, and on the broad shoulders of a account. Anyhow, Oldsteln is too fat strong, tall knight with a sword, a out to ever be a knight, and ho ain't tall on his pale temple and the foam of bat tle on his wonderful mouth. He would hold her to him for a wild, sweet moment and then they would be bethrothed, her enough." "He would take good care of you other ways," suggested tho Head Barber. That's nothing," said the Manicure and he. There ain't no knights any Lady. "He takes good care of his nails, more, George, This Oldsteln looks aa I but that don't make him no knight." i iimu viiiKnr, nnu incro are no otner people that so set our teeth on edgo as tho uncongenial people of our own family, to whom wo are bound by the ties of relationship. No girl over yet whispered her shy llltlo secrets to her' mother because her mother had a right to know what she thought nnd felt; no girl was over com panlonnble with hor mother bocause sho owed her mother some return for years of care and servlco. The woman who wants to bo her daughter's best friend has to ostabllsh some better claim upon the girl's affection than. that. Bhe has to mako tho girl feel that hor love and sympathy are an unfailing fountain, to which sho can Always turn to refresh herself, and this not only In big things, but In little ones. Few mothers have this comprehension of their daughters. They might sympa thise about a ruined dress, for. clothes are a common level on which all women meet, but When It oomdi to little things in wnicn the mother has no personal In terest, the girl who expects 'sympathy of her mother generally alien for bread and Is given a stono.. In the majority of cases a mother's sympathy narrows down to purely personal tastes, ' and when you hear a Woman lamenting that her Mary Is "queer" or her Bully such a "disap pointment," ninety-nine times out qf 100 It is morely a case of Mary or Sally want ing to do something that her mothor never wanted to do. Another 'bar between mothers nnd daughters Is that tho mother so often allows herself to bo nothing but the critic on the hearth, and keops herself In a sternly disapproving attitude that frightens away every confidence as com pletely as a scarecrow does timid birds. If there ever was a time .when she was silly and giggling she has forgotten It. If there ever was a time when she thought It a triumph to adorn herself In seventeen secret fraternity pins and wear college colors, and considered It madly fascinating to have callow youths write their names on her fan, she Ig nores It. Now tho girl Is miserably conscious that sho and her friends fall far below that exalted standard. She knows her mother despises them accordingly, and she pro-v tects herself as best she can by silence, and by keeping her chums, male and female, out of her mother's sight. It's no wonder that the girl who knows thot her mother Is going to ridicule her friends meets them elsewhero than In her own home. It's the mother With the chronic "don't" habit who drives her daughters Into actual wrongdoing. Another potent cause of friction bo tween mothers and daughters la In the Inability of mothers to realize that their daughters are grown and have the rights of grown people. There Is, apparently, po other thing so Impossible as for parents to see that their udult children resent being treated like babies. Some times a father rises to the h,elght of granting his son liberty to do as ho pleases, but as long, as a girl remains at home her mother considers she has a perfect right to dictate to her about hor clothes, what she shall cat ,and think, and believe, and how Bhe shall breathe. Thero is nothing new In theso sug gestions. Almost every mother's daugh ter of us has had a good mother, who would have died for us and who rubbed ua continually tho wrong way. We re member how sho worked for us, and sac rificed for us, and' how she bossed us, and the wonder of It all Is that, having been through It all, and knowing Just how a girl felt, we should be passing the same kind of blundering affection on to our own daughters. How We Are Injured1 by Insects -JJ Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM. Now that the year has swung nround io vacation time, it is worth while to note what Dr. Woods Hutchinson has to say on tho pests ot country life. From br. Hutchinson's book, "Common Dis eases," sent out by the Houghton Mifflin ompany, I gather the following tbr you: "In most parts of the United Btntes, during the season In which the weather permits ono to sit out of doors with any comfort, life in rondorod a burden by files, gnats and mosquitoes unless behind the protection of screens. "Tho real battle of tho human specie for tho possession of tho earth nay, even for the right to oxlst upon Its surface-must bo fought, not with mam moths, but with mosquitoes; not with Hons and tigers, but with fllos and gnats; not with bohemoths, but with bacilli. "Our Instinct to kill Insects at sight la perfectly sound. Out of the quarter of a million species now known to science, a were handful are even remotefully help ful to man, and most of these only by their power of living upon other and more dangerous Insects. On tho other nana, tnousanas of species are actively hostile to man, to his food plants and la nis uomesuo animals. Whole tribes of men have been swept out of existence by tho attack of insects carrying bacilli within the last two decades In Cen tral Africa, by tho dread 'sleeping sick ness' carried by the tsetse fly. Whole nations have been weakened and crip pled and whole civilizations retarded by another Insect-borne disease, malarlu. "Closer study of the habits of the mos quito during the last five years haa brought out the curious and at first sight Incredible fact that the majority- of these Insects whloh carry disease, such as tho malaria mosquito, the yellow fever mosquito and the house fly, can live and multiply, apparently, only In the Immediate neighborhood of human habi tations. In other words, they are liter ally domestic animals and part of our farm stock. This Is absolutely true .if the houso fly and the yellow fever mos qulto, neither of which is ever found more than a mile of two, and usually noT more than a few hundred yards, away from human habitations. "Dangerous and deadly as the mos quitoes aro, thoy aro only 'middlemen,' rt'Mr'buters, common carriers of vl's which they havo picked up from out side sources For the most part thes outBlde sources are diseased or dlry human beings. Bo that we have really ourselves to thank for most of the dam age they do." 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