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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1913)
7 he e e.' Hnp aa z, i rp p)a THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AT'OI'KT 12, l!t;!. le The Fool By AVILLIAM V. KIltK. He did not know who scut us here To work and rest and die; He did not trust the ngod seer Who wlBely owled the sky. Out peered the stars through the heaveus' bars; The fool did not know why. Ho could uot tell why any man Should wish his brother ill;. -He saw a starving caravan Tottering up a hill. ' Ho could not eeo why this should be When others ate their fill, i v Ho could not understand the scheme Men cull their marriage rite. Ho know a inuld that loved and strayed; He knew her soul was white. The church, her sisters, all the good- They crushed her In their might. All these and many other things He-could not comprehend. To wise men here it seemed bo clear They would have shown their friend; But he was Just n fool, they sajd, And would be to tho end. i It. 1 Live First-Talk Afterward Th Trouble with tWWorld U Tiers Are B6 Kany Teaching the Truth, So rew living It Set Tow 1U Illustrate Towr Tfcsorles. 1 - " v By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Copyrisjit, 1913, by Star Company. Arc you a student of tlio power of mind, over matter? Are you talking to tveryono you meet about "Universal Lite Principle." and "Vibration" and "Mental and Spirit ual Science" and all tho other ex pressions so in vogue today among ad ranced thinkers? If you are, Bee to tt that your life illustrates your theories. Do not let tt cU tnrl to tsUt. haw Ijibbu self - suy porttn g trexnsa to use ell tier tatsxne Ik Eter- tan? nctsftcmr cm tftete nj&j'eiifcts "How fcj Contra! HaXShy "How to Grow Suc- .ess,-"IIow to Attain Self-Mastery" and "Hojjo be. Well and Prosperous," Xct thq was always ailing. She had not one penny' saved, nor respectacle clothing In her wardrobe! she slighted her work ind forgot her. duties and was altogether n unratlsfatcory human being-. At almost any Gathering of people' Identified 'with or Interested In Mental, or Christian Science, or Now Thought, or any kindred subject, a largo majority of the unkempt and nervous and erratic beings are, to be encountered. This Is true, we know, of all new theories and :roeds, for the disappointed and dlsB&t Isttod souls of earth naturally turn to new avenues of thought, hoping to find peace. But when we find these unfor tunate types representing a religion or a theory and talking its precepts to every passerby, It Is a matter of more than temporary regret. Until you can Indicate by your life. your face, your manner and your work that you have found a solution fqr the problem of existence and a panacea for human Ills, do not talk about it. Walt In the sllenco and grow. It Is a simple matter to be filled with a conviction that It Is to prove that con vlctlon to the World. But while there aro thousands of people today talking and writing the philosophy not ten In any thousand are living what they talk. A woman who was all nerves and hysteria and who kept herself and every one about her In confusion and ex citement over her troubles and aliments was urged to try spiritual science. "Why, X teach it," she said. "I do not need any one to help me in that way as I have had a class of young women to whom I liav'e been revealing the truth for some time." That Is the great, trouble with tho world today. We have so many people, teaching and' sb WW 'living the trutHI BecauseTogf r have gained a little light and begin to understand the philosophy of life do not set yourself up for a teacher or an ex- horter until you have proven by your life that what you teach and preach is practicable. Walt until you can keep yourself in health before you begin healing others. Walt until vnu are successful In your undertakings before you tell others the way to win success. Walt until your face expresses peace and calm and happiness before you preach the power of your philosophy to produce these results. Live first talk afterward. The Ball Room Tango A Pretty and Refined Way of Dancing This Popular Whirl : : : lows the same course why, when we In troduce our dance every one will have thtt at-home feeling of knowing Just how to Join In the chorus. "First of all, bo sure you have good music the tango and the bolero. Then mnko sure that you know how to point your toe gracefully In somewhat the same way the ballet dancers do. Then take a waltz position, girl's right hand on her partner's left shoulder, man' left hand at tho back of his partner's walit, the other hands clasped loosely, and held almost at I shoulder height, faces turned toward the outhcld arms, and correspondingly tho girl's left and the man's right foot point ing straight In the direction of tho arm. "Now, to tango muslo take the eight steps and the long gliding slide and re covering stamp that are characteristic of this dance of Spanish extraction via Ar gentina. Then with arms still pointing toward the girl's left, do the same steps toward the right. Swing Into all tho tango steps you know and can do easily and gracefully, arid then suddenly the muslo changes to the real Spanish bolero and you go on, Ralph," said Miss Wltchlc, with true sportmanllke desire to ahnro and share alike. Mr. Risgs laughed his appreciation of tho feminine desire to bo the listening Her left foot points forward, her The Manicure Lady n. By WILLIAM P. KIRK. women there about 40 years old or so, and two young chaps that had traveled "I guess there ain't many real human exten8'vel on .l"? " h" 1ay lelni Tthat. goes to the Vboardlng houses rom the Bronx to Frank In street. They at th'o seashore., George said the Manl- , setting there talking to the old Jure liar."' "I was down to Bensorihurst showing how brown their arm. was Z a week end. and I was entertained J". beautiful by a friend of mine that always "ZZ' " fJ . . ,' T. Art of Weighing Now aGreatSoience Br EDGAR LUOIKN LARKIX. The art of weighing has expanded Into a comprehensive science and can nc longer be called a mere art. Scales ar made of meta,l, but the set herein de scribed is not made of anything. Scale! are in hourly use that can weigh a pencil mark whose length Is one-fourth of an Inch, or a section of a hair of equal length. The usual practice In weighing runs from grains, ounces, pounds up to tons, usually one ton, and then up to fifty or more tons In railroad weighing, costing hundreds and thousands of dol lars. But humans would find tt quite diffi cult to mako scales that would weigh millions, billions, trillions, quadrillion!, qulntllllons, sextlltlons, septllllons, octil lions and nontlltons of tons, or decllllons. An Instrument able to weigh a dectllton tons can now be purchased for 1 cent a pencil. The scales are not made of metal; Instead, a set and fixed specific peed is the next to all-powerful engine used. But It is' far more essy to run a locomotive or steamship without know ing a single law of these complex ma chines than to even attempt to use .the speed scales without knowing every min ute detail of every velocity law of mov ing bodies. Let a street car start from rest ana keep moving faster and faster until it." rate of motion la, say, twenty miles per hour at the end of one minute. It the speed of the car Increased uniformly dur ing the entr minute Its average speed partner, and "went on"i "As the bolero i ' n mues per hour, because it startec begins, tho girl Is loft and the man Is . from rest and Increased to twenty miles By LILIAN LAUPERTY ttem, beaming on them Just as If they was grown up men. After tho two chaps had went for their third swim that day, Soes everything right. She and her hus band Is perfect darlings, George. Ho nlwaya takes her wherever she wonts to I - r u.e.r in.ro swim inai aay. to? and she thinks he is the only man telling what divine !r this globe. She Is one of them kind valuers the kids was. and how one of tt wives. George, that thinks wnenen0 " -'- hears about Julius Caesar that her hus band', would have had Julius' job If ho "sad been living then. "But they was the only two regular ?uys on that porch after we had ate our dinner and went out to .let It digest in '.he . shade. There was four married ThiTft is nothing new under tho sun as we have been frequently informed, but there are new combinations of all tho old Ideas, and a clever combination of five or six old' things results In one brand new one. Just a year or two age we fully nurnuaded ourselves than tangos -and I turkey trots and ,bunny hugs and monkey wrenches were the latest inmgs oh Broadway and everywhere else but they weren't, bless yoii-nol They were cake walks and barn dances and two-steps ar ranged In a to-be-well-shaken before taken conglomeration and accompanied by a little hula-hula or other music native to any other soil but our own. Now two of New York's cleverest danc ers have thought up a fascinating new combination and permutation of steps taken from the tango Argentina, the Spanish bolero and tho beautltuland so completely forgotten as to be really new minuet. In a little three-cornered chat Can't Help But Admire Babies Every Woman Cast Loving Glance at the Nestling Cuddled In its Bonnet. A woman's heart naturally respond to The charm and sweetness of a pretty chll, and more so to-day than ever before sines the adv nt of Mother's Friend. This Is a most wonderful external help to tbs museles and tendons. It penetrates the tissues, makes them pliant to readily yield to nature's demand lor expansion, to. there Is no lonrer a cerlod of pain, 11 comfort, straining, nausea or other symp toms so often dlitrecslng during the anxious weeks of expectancy. Mother's Friend prepares the system for She coming event, and its mo brings com fort, rest and repose during the term. This has a most marked Influence unon the baby. since tt thus Inherits a splendid growing sjitfra of nerves and digestive function, And partlculirly to young mothers Is this famous remedy of Inestimable ralue. It enables her to preserve her health and strength, and she remains a pretty mother uj umrmp aroioea an me- suuering aau danger that would otherwise accompany u-u am occasion. Homer s rneoa mor oughly lubricates every nerve, tendon and te invoired ana Is a sure preventivs tnuscli (or caklntr of tho breuits. You will find this splendid remedy oa sals at all drug stores at $1.00 a bottle, ana is nignir recommended for tne purpose, Write nradaeld ltegulator Co., 134 Lamar war.. Atlanta, ui., anl they will mall you sealed, a very instructive book for expec i "But, oh, dear doctor! When the name of one of the younger married ladles came up, a lady that didn't happen to be there nt the time, there was sure some scandal. " 'They say her husband drinks some- thing brutal I' says one of the old hens. I wouldn't bo surprised,' says an otner. "brie would drive any man to drink with that temper of hers.' " "What else do you expect from that kind of folks?" asked the Head Barber. 'I never sat on a boarding house porch In my life, unless It was with some of the old Romans, long after the women folks had went to bed. I never could stand all the cruel things they said about the other women. Many a young married lady has been kissed and called dearie" by the old fat and forty girls, only to be hammered Into a pulp when tiey moved fifty feet away. I waa up In the country not long ago and heard some of those rocking chair dames work ing. Two of the young chaps there hap pened to be live ones, and went to the village to get a few steins on a hot day. They mentioned It when they got back home, and the next morning when they started out one of the dames says, 'Look at Mr. Doonan and Mr. McBherryl and another says, 'Yea, there they gal I suppose when th young fellows got back In tha evening every one of the an cients says, 'Here they cornel "That's the trouble, George," said the Manicure Lady, "This would be a whole lot different world In which to live In If it wasn't for the 'There they go!' and 'Here they cornel' people. If they see a young fellow throwing himself away and going to the dogs, you don't hear many folks shouting 'some back and get wlsst They all say 'There he goes!' and they say it as cheerful as a kid saying 'Oh mama, here comes the circus parade! "This Is too hot a day to do much de moralizing, George, but I do wl.ih that folks would be kinder to each othr and bury the hammer. It ain't hatchets that needs burying in this world, George, it' hammers." with Katherlne Wttchte and Ralph Rlggs of Lew Fields' "All Aboard" company, I learned Just how to do tho new tango bolero, as they medn to call It. Of course, most of us Jack the inherent grace, the careful training and the untiring study of their artistic calling that the clover couple bring to make their dancing a thing of beauty oven tf it le, ulas! a joy for but a few fleeting moments, Instead of tho hours and hours opo would gladly sit and Btudy their twinkling twirls. "But wi.-'ll show you Just how and we'll tell you Just how," paid pretty little Miss Katherlne, "and then If you practise and practise, 'and if every ono who reads fol- rlght arm iu held liluh nb.ivn tim hA Just touching tho tips of tho innn'a fin Bcrs, while tho other hands touch at arms- length at waist height. i.ivu mo man iwiris me girl in a little grapevln In and out and In nnd out uy uio upstretched fingers, At the end I of this movement, he Is holding her at ' nrm's length, his llftod right arm holding her left hand, and from this position he draws her around In front of him and thny do a little flying forward step In perfect unison, right arms held together and weight on the right foqt at the begin ning of the movement, and left foot point In to th6 back and dropping slowly to take the wolght. "Do tills back nnd forth eight times In tango style, and then swing into flgitro three-hands clasped In front and girt' left and man's right foot painting toward the side back In a knee-height position parallel to tho floor. Swing from foot to foot, looktng In the direction at the up. lifted foot! do this eight times, as for all dances for the tango family, And now for tho pretty little minuet flnlsh-yoii Katherlne, please." And murmuring something about "in nt the finish," Miss Wltchle concluded our profitable tittle chat with a descrip tion of the quaint and dainty step. "It is tho conventional dancing minuet bow. The man hold his partner's out stretched right hand In his left, with right hand on heart, and left toe pointing for wnrd. The girls points her right foot, und holds her right arm poised with Up turned wrist, and then gradually through eigni uars iney separate, inio a aeep cur tesy. Don't you think that a dear little conclusion to pur tango-bolero? And don't you think it would be perfectly polite to dnnce that In any ballroom?" . Perfectly polite, and very fetching and pretty, I think, don't you? And I hope wo may all learn to do It with a fraction of the dainty grace and modesty shown by Its Inventors. per hour. If n body moves during one minute at twenty miles per hour the dls. tanso traversod will be speed multiplied by time, or twenty miles multiplied by one-Blxtleth of an l.Dur, or one-third of t mile, but the average speed In case of th car Is ten miles per hour, so that the dis tance moved over is half as great, or one- sixth mile. Tins Is a fundamental Ian Of nature nnd Is of enormous Importance. Law: For uniformly Increasing speed, starting from rest, the velocity Increasei With the time, but the distance traversed is that moved over by tha moving body with Its average speed, or one-half. If measuring the dlstanoe fallen through by a body let fall at the rigidly exact beginning of one second of time to tli rigidly exact end thereof Is difficult, wha hall be said of finding how fast It is fall ing at the end of the second? Go try; work from the age of W to 60 years dally and you will fall. The tact Is the time re quired to find the mathematical exact specific speed ot a falling body In still air wns almost that required to measure the distance of the nearest star about 12 years. Then Atwood Invented his machtno and this finally1 oame to some near approach to accuracy. But this Instrument of pre cision fell far short of the electrlcal-chro- nographlo apparatus. When all ot this very complex mechanlum is In perfect order It releases the ball at the exact beginning of a second and records tho absolute time on tho cylinder ot a chrono graph electrically and repeats the process at the absolute end of the second so far as human hands are able to do rigidly accurate work. Tho moment that those supermen, New ton and Ltebnlts, discovered that mighty power, beside which all else human pales into Insignificance the stupenduous cal culus of dlfferentlala every mathemati cian aw immediately that one of nature's most magnificent laws was found In fall ing bodies. And then began the relent less and arduous self-Imposed work of more than a hundred years to find the set speciflo speed acquired by a falling body at tho Instantaneoua and absolutely exact end of the first exactly measured aecond of time Mince man appeared. The result is one grand, all-potent, alt powerful mean or average of a century of world-wldq measures, tho diamond of diamonds, the triost valuable number In possession of mcn-tho astronomical bal ance; 18.1 feet fallen to end of the first second; 13.1 feet per second speed at ond of first second. That is, a body let fall will, under the actlqn of the earth's attraction of gravi tation, fall feet during the first abso lute second of time, and at the absolute end of the second will be in motion with a velocity of 8.2 feet per second. These numbers constitute the most accurate and all-powerful scales In eslstenoe. Lowe Observatory, Mount Lowe, Cal. TV. A On .Chances for Boys-The Like of Booker Washington Proves , JUT. IarKnUrSt S ArtlCle Who Wish to Oan Succeed-Work tho Secret. ::::::: Ail' By DR. O. II. PARKHIIRST I curiously and asked him what he wanted, Although thinking that It wan perfectly If the boys that read the Tho Bee could 1 evident what he wanted, he respectfully have listened to an address delivered by Booker T. . Washington in the town hall at Lake Placid last Sunday afternoon they would have gotten a stirring in their inwards parts that would have kept them on the run all the rest of their life. That magnificent negro, the admired of whiten and blacks, gsvo the story of his life, dwelling particu larly on the first move which he made while still a lad, and which led on to his becoming the man1 that he is and to the great work all the world knows so much about. While working one day In a coal mine, far under ground, he overheard two men talking about a school that had been es tablished somewhere In Virginia where boys could attend without having to pay He said to himaeit; "That is tne place for me, The school was at Hampton, WO miles away. He had no money, but that did pot discourage him; neither did the fact that he would have to walk in order to get there , He put himself on tho read, and by the aid of an occasional lift that nome wagon driver gave him or a ride that he stole on the cars, he arrived in course of time at Hampton. In his soiled and bedraggled condition he at once presented himself at the school house where boys were being examined for admission. The teacher eyed him replied that he wanted to go to school Without' a word of explanation the teacher gave him a broom and told him to go Into tho next room and sweep the floor. He took the broom and swept tho floor three times and dusted the room four times till there was no more dust to be had. When the Job was finished the teacher came In and with her handkerchief rubbed oft the table and tho chairs, thou pried Into the corners In purxult of'somu cranny Into which Booker's duster had not penetrated Tho search proving un successful she turned on the boy and simply said, "You will do." "That," said Mr. Washington, "was my examination for Hampton Institute, best college examination I ever passed." Now any young fellow who has any stuff In him and any ambition to be somothlng more than a mere common place, ot no particular use to himself or to anybody elso,a ought to learn some thing from this 'story of the way in which young Booker started in to mako a man of himself. Thousands of boys today are complain ing that they have no chance. Tho trouble is that. Instead of making a chance for themselves they wait to have some one mako it for them. They want to he cosseted and babied, wheeled In n baby carriage Instead of using their own legs und feet. How many of the white boys that read this article care enough about going to school to bn, willing to foot It 100 miles, for the sake of the opportunity? How many would sleep under a board side- Advice to the Lovelorn Ry BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Certnluly. Dear Mies Fairfax: I am IS and am keeping company with a young man for tho last year, Now this young man's folkH live out of town and Invited me to their home. Should I accept their Invi tation? A. B. 8. If the invitation Is from his mother I would havo you accept by all moans, It will mean a great deal to your future happiness td bo on good terms with them, and the visit may give yqu n.i enlighten ing view of your lover, I hope it will prove favorable. You Were Mala Dear Miss Fairfax: I am It) und Jiavo bven keeping company with a young man about three months. He has been sick and he telephoned and asked tne to I come and see lilm. I told htm It was Improper for u girl to go to a man's houso. and ho got angry Was I right? R. M. Don't worry, my dear, you did Just right. I do not admire him because of his request or his reception of your re fusal. Never go to see a man under any clroumstances unless your mother goos with you, Kerplnir Kvcrlutlntfly nt It. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 10 and dearly In love with a girl two yenrs my Junior, whom I have known for the last seven years. Home time ago she met a young man nt u- weaaing, ana nas since neen ri.itlni? nil of hut- attention to him I levo her dfcorly and would ask von how 1 can win ner love again. r . r. Your seven years' devotion merits bet1 j lor returns. He devoted and persistant, and If this falls change your tactics to Indifference. The appearance pf your rival stirred you. Has it occurred to you that tf she found she had a rival it might renew her Interests? A SATISFACTORY HUNSBAND walk, as .young Washington did, because having no money to pay for a bed? How many huve spirit and independent ambition to pass Booker's style of ex amination, and thus prove the sincerity of their ptirposo? There is a chance for boys that will make a chance. If you get left It is because you have not spirit enough to keep up. While Booker used difficulties as means of victory, the average white boy uses difficulties as cause of defeat. Obstacles stimulated Booker; most boys are frightened by them and fall not because they are really fools, but Just because they are cowards. If, as soon os the ordinance against producing soft coal smoke had been en ucted, the first violators of that ordi nance had been dealt with promptly and roundly, the entire nuisance under which we are suffering, and are going to suffer move and more, would have been avoided, and we should not be destined to the fuliginous condition that constitutes the misery of Pittsburgh and certain manu facturing districts of England. If, aa soon as statutory restrictions were put upon automoblltng, the very first trans gressors had been held up, and homicides had, from the very start, been treated aa homicides, hundreds upon hundreds ot fatal disasters would have been pre vented. And automoblllng would not be the public curse that It Is today. Such treat ment would have been trying to the In dividual trespasser, but the distress of one Is not to be counted against the com fort and safety of the many. In the long run it does not pay to deal, In mushy sentimentality, with Infractions of intelligible and reasonable statutes, In such cases Justice Is tho greater mercy, and mawkish consideration shown to the Individual becomes cruelty as to ward the j ubllc. Llstep patiently and pretend that you are interested, Acquire the habit of admitting daily that her family Is much superior to yours. Buy her every thing she wants and look as if it pleased you to do so. Don't lie to her, unless you do so In telling her how young and pretty she looks. Make her believe that you are mad with Jealously whenever ahe speaks civilly to another man. Make her think when she has a head ache that you could not live it you were to lose her, Call her "Darling" when other people are present Give her a bigger allowance than yo) can afford, Give her to understand that you con sider all other women frurnps. Insist that her new gown Is the most becoming one she has ever had. If she is beginning to be stout assure her that she doesn't snow It. Be good, be kind, be prosperous. Chi cago Record-Herald, Taktag Off Fat by Heraly Eating Candy (From Town Tattler.) Multitudes of fat oeonle will draw a universal breath ot relief when they learn of the newest nesn-reaucwg ireswienu This consists merely of the eating of a delicious sweetmeat, known aa the "bor anlum Jujube." It contains an extract of a certain vegetable aubstanctt found cling ing to rocks in the ocean, possessing the peculiar properties oi dispersing uiu w sorbin abnormal fatty material. The method ot Incorporating this with candy seems to have come from Germany, the birthplace of so many atartttng discov eries In medicine and science. This Is likely to become the favorite method of taking off avoirddupols, not only because of Its effectiveness, but be cause It does away vlth ttrenome gym nasium stunts, weakening baths, starva tion dieting, digestion-ruining drugs and other cbpoxious things. One need but eat three or four boranlum Jujubes a day. Druggists say this unique optslty remedy, though little known in the United State until recently, la already quite Popu'w. Advertisement, tant moioen.