THE BEE: OMAIIA, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 101.1.
ryhe Jee ne aazire
aire
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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.
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Public Intellect
By DR. O. H. PARKHURST
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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.
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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
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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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