THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, ArOt'ST 8, 1913.
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Science
Scorpions That Devour Their Young;
A Lesson to Two-Legged Animals
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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
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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 ' "
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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
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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.
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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.'
For the woman whose power reaches
over footlights and luncheon fables
alike Is the spirit of beauty and magnetio
charm Incarnate so her little sugges
tions for magnetism may surely point
the way to all beauty-seekers."
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