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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, ArOt'ST 8, 1913. age Science Scorpions That Devour Their Young; A Lesson to Two-Legged Animals -J By GARRETT P. SERVaB Ono of the strangest legends of an tiquity Is the old Greek storr of Saturn, the father of the gods (also calico. Kronos, or "Time"), devouring his own children. Some In genlous ipoeulu tors have endeav ored to fteoouni tor this ourleua tradition by sup. poslna that somtt of the anolsntu Tiad invented the telescope nnd tfa. covered, thousands tit years befar aalilleo, the ring of the planet at urn. Dut their telescope being small, they only saw the rings, as Galileo himself did at first, as appendages, on two sides of the planet, which grew gradually larger ana then slowly disappeared, as It the planet had first created and then swallowed them. The telescope being afterward forgotten, without having been' brought to perfection, the legend arose that Saturn was a cannibal, eating his own tffsprlngt However this may be, the story about Saturn could well have had a much less ingenious origin. Men had plenty ol Instances of cannibalism before their llBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBSBlelsSBBVSfot SjtalfeiW XfeBSBBBSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBaaSBBBBBSBBBBBBBBBBl' sBBBBSBBBBBBhS7.Js issBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBSBBaBBsssB hjhhhhhb Beauty In the top picture is shown it scropion devouring ono of Its kind. Nothing Is seen of tho victim but it last three divisions and ItejBtlng. Tho bottomplcture shows a mother scorpion devouring her young. eyes on their own planet, and, In fact, side of her. lessons which we ao not al their own, race had, begun with cannibal Ways '.perceive. proclivities in the days of th,e cave men. Wo shudder when we look at tlit une oia myth-makers never had any hesitation In ascribing to the gods human qualities and weaknesses, and that ten dency has not disappeared yet, ns wit ness nthe almost universal habit of think Inz of tho Supremo Power of the universe as a klpd of omnipotent man! But while we civilized beings hove rla ourselves of the terrible habit of devour ing our own kind at least in a gastro nomlo way many of the lower animals si 111 practice that kind of struggle for existence, and no doubt will always con tinue to do so. An Instance of cannibalism of the most remarkable kind Is shown In tho accom panying photographs, where wo see. In cne case a scorpion swallowing another adult scorpion, which he has ' overcome In battle, and In the other a femalb scorpion devouring with awful rest u whole flock of her own progeny' Nature is ji great teacher, but It as frequently teaches us what to avoid ab what to Imitate. And there Is a deeper photograph of the mother animal eagerly devouring her children, holding two ol them In her merciless nippers and crush ing another In her Jaws, while a double score of others, Innocent In their trust fulness, crowd before her, Ignorant ot the fate that maternal greediness holdi In store for them. Wa thank heave), that men and women no longer Indulge In such satanlc feasts! But are we Justified In our self-gratu latlon? The poor scorpion has no moral sentiments to teach her the horror of her deed. She has no highly organized brain to enable her to reason on the nature ot that murderous act. She simply obeys brute Instinct. But we have both moral sentiment and reason, and yet we devour our kind! V do not cat children,- but we live upon their life-blood whenever we senu them to wear out their tender bodies ana wither their hearts and their brains In roaring factories and stifling tenements, where the modern Moloch, the Money god, devours hlfl sacrifices. Commercial and Industrial civilization has a. cannibalistic strain In Its nature which can bo worked out If we will that It shall go out, but which Is capable ot ruining nations and races today as ef fectively as It did In the tlmo of Tyre nnd Carthage. It Is well to think a little on tho nature of cannibalism. Tho brute animal knows It In only one of its forms, and does not understand It then; but we know, though we may try to shut our eyes to the fact, that there' Is a moral cannibalism also, which Is moro destructive than the other, and yet It Is practiced by the only animal on this earth that Is capable ol comprehending the nature and conse quences of its acts and of defying, If it will, the terrible law of the struggle for existence. For what were our brain and oui moral sentiments given to us if we can t.ot with their aid and guidance keep the most brutal of mere animal instinct from reappearing In another and morb dreadful orm upon the higher level to which Intelligence has raised ijs? The Wife Who Spends Her Husband's Money By DOROTHY DIX When a young man asks a girl's hand In marriage the first question that her father puts to him Is, "Can you support my daughter In comfort?" No kind and thoughtful parent, however, ever takes the trouble to ask a prospective bride, "Can you spend wisely and Judici ously my iton's hard corned monoy?" Yet tho ono thing Is Just as Import ant as the other, and tho happiness and success of any. marriage dopends Just as surely on tho wife's ability to gt the full purchasing power out of a dol lar as It does upon the husband's abil ity to make that dollar. Tho ne'er-do-well of a man does not more surely brine a family to want and poverty than tho thriftless and wasteful woman does. There Is a homely old proverb that says that a woman can throw moro out of tho back door with a teaspoon than a man can put In at the front door with a shovel. And It's true. No man, unless he Is a financial wzard, can make any headway against the extravagance of a wife. It Is his wife's discretion as a spender that settles the avcrogo man's fate for htm, and determines whether ho is to sit on a bookkeeper's stool or stand behind the counter the balance of his life, or whether he Is going to bo well to do and prosperous when he Is middle aged. When you see the young wife of a man on a moderate salary always dressed up In the very latest cut In fashion, when you meet her at matinees every week and watch her having tea at a smart hotel afterward, when you encounter her 111 the butcher shop negligently ordering sweetbreads and squabs, you don't havo to go to any fortune teller to forecast tho future of her husband and hcrselr. You can do that for yourself. You can nee a stoop-shouldered man Browing more and more discouraged as the years go by. and he has nothing to show for his labor oxcept a mountain of receipted bills, and at thn end of It alt you see a man dead from overwork or thrown out of his Job Into honeless Dovortv Into which he sinks, On the other hand, when you see the 'Beauty Is wife of a poor young man who does her own housework and makes her own I health. frnnlta nml whn hiivn 11ia nhenn cuts of meat at tho butcher shop and is pur-1 Health does not tlnlilnr nVmllt Vinvllicr' llin linnpi nm! trim. nilnge sent home, you arc equally ablo C'st In tho to forecast the future for her itnd her husband. And you so diamonds and i haggard, motor cars festooning her horizon along I . ,, about the time she Is M. I leathery- There is nothing nw In these state-1 , . . mihtfl. Everybody ha seen hundreds of klanl '"""v sucli cases. Everybody can recite to you . . rinKAitn of InRtnnrpii In thplr rtHrimnnl I lnjr knowledge of men who havo boen ruined by their wives' extravagance or made by their wives' thrif t Every mother and , Jt thrcntcn,IIK fn rVmf rra thnf 111 turn nni-i la-Ill if at ' " U tlV I V MlUk ,. KUS O - , a wife, who has the saving bank habit t,c. should Insttaa of the bargain counter mania, yet ( noDouy mires a linger to prevent a ca- .,vni,i ,vif;iin "My Ideal of Beauty is Health," Says Blanche Ring; and Other Valuable Hints The Head "Waitress By HANK. "What's this I hear about you and Marls having a dato?" asked the head waitress of the steady customer in tho Cafe L'Enfant. "Nothing to It," he replied. "Where did you get It?" "From Mr. Flakes, tho manager," said the head waitress, "and he told me he had It straight, too. He said that Mario asked for an hour off so she could get all dolled up to go out with you. Ot course, it ain't none of my business, and" 'Cut It out," Interrupted the steady customer. "Mr Flakes Is kidding you, or Marie Is kidding him. Not Uhat 1 wouldn't dearly love to take both you and Marie out any time, but I'm getting tco old to go gallivanting around with two such beauteous dames," "I guess Marie was kidding," said the head waitress. "AH them cashiers It great kldders, especially tho blondes. You ice, every guy that goes up to the desk FRECKLES Don't Hlda. Tbsra.WlUt a Villi Remove Thsm with the OtMns Prescription. This prescription for the removal of freckles, was written by a prominent Physician and is usually bo successful In removing freckles and. giving a clear, beautiful complexion that It Is sold by The Beaton DrugCo., also any of Sher man & McConnell Drug Co.'s stores un der an absolute guarantee to refund the money It It falls. Don't hide your freckles under a veil; ret an ounce of othlne and remove them. Even the first few applications should show a wonderful Improvement, some of tho lighter freckles vanishing entirely. Be sure to ask the druggist for the double strength othlne; it Is this that fr rM on the money-back guarantee. 1 ands out something foolish while he's paying his check, and Marie has to toko their money with ono hand and wave to them with the other or they'd be broken hearted. I don't see much nourishment In It myself, hut all those poor boobs act act as If one smile from tho cashier haa taken ten years off their age, and they go out simpering like a lot of love-sli Bwlnes." "Swains, I suppose you mean," cor rected the steady customer. "Have It your own way," said the htad waitress, "you literary guys Is great sticklers or correct pronouncements, ain't you. Well, I'm glad to hear you ain't fallen for no blonde, because I've taken an Interest In you and I'd hate to see you going nutty over a pair of big eyes and a golden dome. Not that Mario ain't a nice girl, and one of the nicest I ever seen, but she shouldn't be wastlmt her time with any of you newspaper guys." "What's the matter with us?" asked the steady customer. "I'm surprised to hear you talk that way, Louise." "Are you?" said she. "Well, long ago In the dim, distant pastt T. showered my young and Innocent affections" on one of you literary blokes, and for a time I was In the seventh heaven of happiness. He used to write mo poems, too, real love ones, I remember one that went some thing like this: " 'Louise, Louise, you little tease, I'm really mad about you; You say you truly love me, dear, I'd hate to ever -doubt-your -Peroe day we'll married be, and then Odr lives we'll link together, And travel down the broHd h'phwny No matter what the weather.' " "Pretty good, said the steady customer. "Oh, yes, I raved about it," ald the head waitress, "until I found' out that he was travelling down the 'broad high ay1 with about nine others." , "But that's no reason why you should be down (fn all literary lights," exclaim-! the steady customer. "A child once stung, never goes back tc the bo-hlve, as .Kipling Hays," re plied Louise, "and bellve me Kipling warf Ight " Charlotte Corday tastrnphe that threatens every man who gels married and every family that Is started Wheh a woman u wasteful and ex travagant, and throws her husband's good money away wo blame, her, and say all ! products. the hard thing about her that we can I think of. It's a cruel Injustice. It Isn't i By BEV. THOMAS B. GBh'GOUi-. The execution of Charlotte Corday by tho revolutionary tribunal of Paris, 120 years ago, will always challenge the at tention of the readers of history. Charlotte Corday was born at St. Sat- JPk uiiii in iiw. j no uc" l of France run in her veins, and every thing goes to shoiv that, waving the sin gle enthusiasm that ended In the death of Marat, she. was a perfectly normal young woman. After being edu cated In the local convent, Charlotte went to llv with a cultured aunt, In whose house, during her Jonely days, she read freely the workn of Voltaire and the other philosophers rather strange mental pabulum for n girl Just graduated from a convent, It seems that Caen was the headquar ters of the Qlrondlns of that section of Prance, and after listening to their de bates Charlotte fell deeply In love with their cause, and when, later on, tho airondlns were overthrown and many of their great leaders sent to the guillotine by Marat, she resolved to end his career. With a calmness and directness almost without precedent in the history ot as saslns, she went to Paris, sought out thu object of her wrath and plunged her dag ger Into his heart. When brought before the revolutionary tribunal and asked what she had to say, her answer wan: "Nothing, except that I have succeeded." With the cool courage that was next door to sublimity, the young woman passed out rrom tho tribunal to her doom, her mind unclouded, her character unspotted. Marat, the unsuspecting victim of Charlotte's dagger, was about the only cne of the revolutionists who had the , 'till couruge of his ronWa.otu. work nro all nldn to beauty. tier fault It's tho fault ot the idiotic way in which we bring girls up We don't leach them the value of money. We don't teach them how to dtapoHltlon nnd spend It, ana to expect them to make a i willingness to wihe use ot it is an unicaounuuiu hi io expect a land lubber to know how to pilot a ship. The average girl, until she gets mar ried, has never had the spending ot a dollar. Her father has paid her bills, and her mother has decided what she could buy. A little change for street car and soda water Is about all the money that has ever Jingled In her purse. She has never had any fixed allowance for her clothes and personal expenses, and so has never realized that If she paid too much for a hat she would have to do without a drees, and that you can't spend your money and havo it too. Parents are so afraid that their daugh ters will wasto their money that they let the girl learn how to spend on her husband's earnings, which Is pietty hard on Friend Husband. It Isn't the girl's fault that she doesn't know how to spend her husband's money wisely. It's the fault of her parents who havo not taught her one of the most Im portant lessons in life. That this Is true Is abundantly proven by the fact that women who have earned their own living before they were married, and who have tnus icarncn now to nanaio money, are almost Invariably economical and thrifty managers and helps to their husbands. There Is no greater Injustice In tho world than the way women are treated about money. A woman without money la the most forlorn and piteous creaturx on earth. She Is In a thousand times worso plight, nnd more danger, than a man Is under similar circumstances, yet fathers do not concern themselves to try to protect their daughters against such a fate. Boys are given money of their own when they are little fellows In order that they may learn to handle It, but tho little girl Is left to find out this Important piece of knowledge the best way she can. A boy Is fitted for some occupation whereby he may support himself in com fort. A girl's living is left to chance. Hhc Isn't taught any way by which 'she can keep herself out of the noorhouse if she doesn't marry, or It her husband should die and leave her penniless. A rich man leaves his daughter a for tune, but he has not taught her one thing about how to take care ot It, and she Is left to the mercy of executors and lawyers, and she doesn't even know enough to keep herself from being swindled, Perhaps some day men will realize that the only way to protect themselves Is to teach women how to handle money by giving them a definite sum for their own. Instead of making them do thu mendicant act for every cent they got. Then we shall hear less about extrava gant wives. It's Ignorance, not vlclous ntss, that makes women waste money. za ssassasHstsaMSfffffjsaKijiPi ivi Sjfj HHslkzssaHsWtftKn : wmicic omnia Those whd find food prepared in oils nnd Hiigar Magnetlmn, sweetness of By LILIAN LAUFKIITY. "You would never dream of sotting a diamond In paste, would you?" said every one's favorite, Blanche Itlng. And in the deep underlying philosophy of tho magnetic comedienne's remark Ilea tho secret of the popularity and charm that place the Jewel of her beuuty In a worthy setting. "A theatrical star surrounded by a group of poor players, so that her per sonality may bo exploited and may oc cupy the center of the stage nnd of tho attention Is not giving her public what It wants. If she has real merit it will bu enhanced by the presence of clever peoplo ubout her well, Miss B-auty Editor, can't you apply that rule to beauty all through life?" Indeed you cun for beauty that rests the oye and has no further power to charm may oxlst In tho person of a slovenly. Ignorant, unlovely creature who has only the ploture qualltlos of a perfect animal, while true beauty muHt appeal to mind and heart as well as the .vision. "You would never dream of setting a diamond In pasto," I quoted to the author of the remurk. Now, Miss Itlng, exactly what Is your Ideal of beauty and your Idea of tho setting therefore?" "My Ideal of beauty Is health," an swered Miss Itlng, with prompt cer tainty. "And health does not exist In the haggard, leathery-skinned woman who has dieted herself Into a state ot near deoltne. The healthy woman Is at her normal weight, whether thut be pleasing plumpness pr sylph-like sltmness and sho haa not tho nervous, heavy-eyed look of tho woman who lives on a cracker and an apple a day so sho can persuade a figure that might be a healthy looking thirty-eight to a shadowy poster that measures about thirty Inches about Its greatest girth. "Of course, fat Is not pretty and If a woman finds It threatening her she would do well to avoid potatoes, bread, rich gravies and food prepared- in oIIh and sugar products, But after a woman Miss Blanche Ring. reaches SO the red blood corpuscles go on a long holiday and she had better not hasten their demise by furiously bant ing herself to a consumptive shadow or any strain through over-exercise. No. let her live out of doors all she can swimming, tennis und gardening are vho most delightful summer exorcists, and a simple, sane diet with this little secret to help It along will do wonders to bring on attractive slenderness without pain ful scrawnlness. "Hero is the secret? Ono day of every week live on this menu for each of the threo meals: For breakfast, for lunch eon, for dinner eat a baked potato eea Boued with a bit of butter, some skimmed milk nnd peppur and salt to taste. Then you wUl havo tho proper compound ot substance and shadow!" "And for the setting of this properly slender figure?" I queried. "Well." said tho beautiful friend of every ono who has ever seen her, "the world docs not owe me a living, but I owe the world a great deal In return for all It haa done for me. So, I try to give ull I can In uffectlon, In Interest and in oarnest effort to the world. I think It would bo a good plan for girls to think lens about what they have a right to expect from life, and to make suro that they are giving life all It has a right to expect from them; a happy, amiable expression and a sunshiny noc ture to account for It are bound to re sult from that attitude. ' But I started to toll you what I think forms the most beautiful setting for beauty-which Is health. Magnetism, sweetness or disposition and Joyous will ingness to work. The last two one can cultivate, but tho magnetism, charm,, the power that breaks down walls of Indiffer ence and of possible misunderstanding between human und humun that Is the gift women long most to poiaoss and it is the hardest thing In all the world to analyze. "Tho nearest I can come to explaining my idea of magnetism Is to suggest that women glvo all they cun to life In love. In effort und In the desire to mako other liuppj Perhaps In this way they can add Think less Mbout what you hare a right to expect from life, wad make sure you are giving life all that it baa A right to expect from you. Try to make others happy. That glvea 70a a proper setting to your beauty. the final Jewel to the setting about their beauty at least, so It seems to me. "Heem. madams? Nay, 'tis not "emi.' 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