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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1913)
L'HE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1919. 7 llf Ultra-Violet Rays Fashions of the Moment By GAItBETT I SEItVIBS. g e m - .u 1 1 - ranm- i ' 'rr Business Girl as a Wife By DOROTHY DIX. A young man who has fallen in love with a pretty stenographer, but who fear? that sho will not make a rood house lieeper and manager because she has had no tralnlnc. writes to me fbr my opin ion on the business Slrl as a wife. "What do I think think of the bust neen slrl as a wife? I think she la Uie matrimonial risk, son, and If I wero a young man look ing for a real help meet and not a parlor ornament, no Ctrl Would get me who Hadn't had the benefit of the education, the dis cipline and tho ex perience that come from having earned Iter own bread and butter. Commercial Ufa has cot a col lego course or a finishing school or Euro pean travel" or society left at the post when It comes to fitting a girl for real life. Of course. It's unfortunate for a girl, when she marries, not to be an expert cook and marketer, and maybe while your business-girl wife Is learning how to make bread and broil a steak your digestion may . suffer a trifle, son, but take my word for It that any young woman who lia3 had the intelligence to master the art of stenography, to hold down a good Job as a clerk or bookkeeper, Isn't going to let a little thing like a kitchen range knock her out. f She will get busy with the cook book, and before you know It she will be turn ing out things cn casserole and a la majtre d'hotel that will mak,e the hit or miss cpoktng of the girl who has learned to do things tHe way that mother did them seem like a Quick lunch Joint com pared to Delmonlco's. Any woman who can read can learn to cook like a cordon bleu in six months, if she wants-to. and If she doesn't want to, the mere fact of her, having always been at home Isn't any guarantee that she la domestic. Mother makes the angel cake -in many a homo where the daughters 'sit In the parlor and do fancy work. In marrying a business girl there are many compensating advantages that make up for her rot being a good free. hand cole to begin with. Tho first of those is, of course, that the woman who has earned money Is Invariably a better manager with it and more careful than the one who has not- The woman who has never made a dollar can't get over the Idea that money grows like leaves on a tree,, and that when a man Is away from.,home at work he Is engaged In the pleasing pursuit of plcklngt them off. The woman who ha had to earn her board and keep knows how muoh labor, Mow much, anxiety, how much sweat and "blood ' go into every dollar., and she 'Is careful of how she spends one. If you want a" .thrifty, economical wife who will talced cure of your Income and help you to sa'yVup against a rainy day, marry a business Blrl every time. The business girl has also been trained Into habits of order and promptness and accuracy, and these are every whit as valuable in running a' successful home as .they are In running a successful business. If you want your household accounts balanced to a cent, and you meals on time .than marry a business) girl. Tho business girl also makes a more -easonable and sympathetic wife than the domestic girl possibly can. There are certain things' that we are obliged to have Buffered In our own person before we know. how to appreciate what they mean to another. The ordinary woman wor ries! her husband about trifles, and the minute he comts home begins pouring upon his unfortunate head all the accu mulated mlshapa of the. day, simply be cause she does not comprehend how heavy ar tho burdens he has borne, how nerve-wrecked and exhausted he Is in a struggle- Jn which it has taken every ounce! of his vitality, evory particle of hla Intelligence and every bit of his courage to hold his own. . The business girl has besn through that t Soft White Hands Are promoted arid main tained by the daily use of 'Cuticura Soap assisted by an occasional application of Cuticura Ointment. For red, rough, chapped and bleeding hands, and itch ing, burning palms the Cu ticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment work wonders. Cuticura tMp 4 Otatmeat o!4 ttreuahout tta ortd. liberal unpli at Men mUd IrM. with 3S-P. book, Addreaa -CcUeun. IXpt. Op Bolton. srUn wne h sail itampao with Cuticura BMP wlU BBd it bat (or ixla i4 tcalp. mill. Bhe knows that there Were times, after a strenuous day In store or office, when she felt that It Just ono other featherweight of annoyance, a single dts agreoablo suggestion even, were added to the burden that she had borne It would crush her. This rvmembranoe will give her a fellow feeling for her husband that will make her wondrous kind and pa tient with him. She will know that in sheer humanity a wife should keep her troubles to her. seir. and make her home a haven towards which her husband turns his eyes as a place of peace- and rest and comfort and cheer, a placw where a man can gather up his forces for the next day's battle, not waste them In disciplining the chil dren or speaking to a refractory cook. lour true husband spoiler Is the busi ness girl who understands what hard work means. Above all, the business girl will have been totiffht how to control her temper and her tongUe, That Is the first lesson of the counting-room, and it Is the best guarantee of successful married life. No girt can keep a position who cannot be told of her faulta and have her mistakes pointed out to her without flying Into a tantrum. It'a only after you arc mar ried to a woman, son, that you appro date how much above rubles Is the price Of a wife who can be told that she may possibly have a little, teenty weenty de fect in her character without breaking Into a- tempest of tears, or going off Into a case of sulks. But of you marry a business girl re member, son, that you are getting a business partner and not a slave; that you artf tleing up with one who Is wise to the ways of ment and not a credulous little goos that you can bamboozle Into believing anything. She'll be reasonable, because she knows that a man can't al ways come home to dinner on the strike of a clock, and she won't make a fuss about giving you an occasional evening out, because she knows that big deals are often pulled off across a cuopei table. But he will expect a fair divide of the famllv Income, and to have her her share handed over In a lump sum regularly Instead of being doled out to her by quarters. She will ajro expect you to play fair and aboveboard with her. and there will he no uee trying to hand her any fairy tor lea about sick friends and lodge meet, infts. Above all. you may be mire that If vou marry a business girl sho loves you Fhe doesn't have to marry for a homo, and a. self-supportlnir woman look a long time at A man before she makes up her mind to give tin her latch ker and her Individual pockatbook tVe htm. And when she does she Is pretty apt. to have one of those chronic cases of affection from which a woman never re covers. And It's love, son. that makes' the wheels of matHnmony go around without squeaking and grinding. Marry the buslnes girl, an? day you can. get her, eon. That's my advice. f The Manicure Lady j By WttldtAM I. KIRK. "I got a notice to go ana learn to b a trained nurse," said the Manicure Lady. "I was Just reading this morning about anothei: Heh man that married the girl that nursed him back from the valley of death Into a life of love and light, or whatever It was the reporter wrote about the wedding. That's a pretty soft graft. George, It seems to me, to nurse a old millionaire back from the valley for a few yearn or so. or oven long enough to marry him and have hla will made proper. "This manicure game is getting on my nerves, Oeorge. The way i came to got Into it at all was because I used to read how some rich westerner came east to do things up and fell In love with some girl which had did hla nails and married her. So I got Into the game and have kept my lamps trimmed and burning ever since, looking for the guy with a nlouch hat and a breezy way about him, but nix. They Jest an't came, that'aall. Either all the rich westerners la mar ried off or they have some new style." "Tou ought to take plde m your call ing." said tho Head Barber. "A girl hadn't ought to take up a profession as noble as yours Just with the idea of meet, ing somebody that she could marry for money. There ain't no class to that I would feel ashamed If' I was In your place"." "I don't jsee how I can take no pride in this profession no mre," sold the j Manicure Lady. "The men that cornea tin here don't care whether they get a j artistic manicure or not. It you, can beam ; on them and let them think they are regular Roroeos, I don't know why It la but all the lovemakers In the whole city, from fresh kids to homely old gents, learn words of love out of the novels and then practice them on us manicure girls. I know every way to propose that was. ever framed up, George, and every trweet nothing that a guy with nothing In his head ever stole out f a book. The gent that marries me will be a wonder, and If he wins roe It won't be with no new words or expressions, because I know them alL There ajn't nothing new for me to hear from the Hps of a man In iove. George. "Why, If a flow of words was to win me I would have married Joe Blow, the bookmaker, long ago. Joe has travelled extensive and hla flow of words reminds me of a brook flowing over a lot of pebble But you can't lire and keep house on a flow of words, George, and sinee racing hob went on the frits Joe couldn't make enough to keep me In that station of lite to which I am acclstomed I to. Ho, I guess I will have to get out of this game and try bain a trained nurse Wilfred used to go with one, and she made to much money the poor bo; wouldn't propose to her for fear she'd think he was marrying her' for her money It's kind of nice to comfort the rick, too." "If I was you I wouldn't change my vocation now," advised the Head Barber. "A girl a swett as you are Is sure to get a grand husband some day.' "1 don't know, George," sighed the Manicure Lady. "The world Is full of sweet girls, but It takes a herolco to land a grand husband." Qharminjr model taupe caohomir lo soio. Tho double baud drapery ou the skirt finishes in a heavy frill above the Waist front aud back, and tho wide arm holes are the diBtinotivo features. 0 in illll ft A sdflfefc-. W atsBsssB Two modern evening gowns tho ono of heavy bro caded black satin has a fish-tail train, and tho Blurt is caught in a high-Blit surplice to girdlo that forms the foun dation of the waist that finishes 'in ehouldor pieceB of black chantilly. Silver edges tho scarf of black chiffon and brightens tho gown. Tho white gown, has a bolero of net dope in an applique trimming of iridoscent beads; this ends in a long angel sleeve dosign at tho back and is woightcd down by hug tassel of tJio iridoscent beads. Tho skirt has a drapory of tho beadol net this Btarts at tho loft hip in a straight panel and is crossed by a drnpod panol oxtonding com pletely across tho fronti of tho skirt. What Would You Do? By BEATRICE FAIRFAX "Discouraged" writes: "I am In love with a young Wan whom I love dearly. He tells me he loves me, and I always tell him X don't believe It, and sometimes he acts Indifferent to me. Will you tell me how I can prove that he Is really in lqve with me, as I love him dearly?" What would you say to a girl who" loves, and Is loved, and who meets the messenger every girl longs for with skepticism and doubt? Wouldn't you, remembering the happi ness that came to you through a loVe you accepted, or the drearinosn of life where love was rejected, urge her to have faith? i do. This from a man: "I have been In love with a girl of my ago tor some time. I stopped keeping tompany with her some time ago, and lost her love. Now I want to win it back again." Would you dare, remembering the sweetheart your stubbornness lost you, advise him to hunt a new love? I would not. I want htm to go to her humbly and sincerely and tell her he has discovered that he didn't know his own heart; that he knows It now, and knows that so long as he lives It will long for her and beat true for her, it only she will forgive him and take him back. Then I want him to act like a man and be true to his word. A girl writes: "I am In love with a youpg man and he professes to love me. We have been keeping company since last October, but trust me he will not. He always thinks I am with other men when not with him. He seems to think a great deal of me when he Is with me When there are other girls present he likes to tease me by making a lot of them." Would you advise her to marry a roan who gives every proof of being a Jealous tyrant? I wouldn't. He reserves for himself the rleht to flirt with other girls, enjoying himself because It "teases" her, and accuses her of spending every moment when not In bis company with other men. I want her to love and marry; It is tho only lasting happiness there Is In life; but I don't want her to marry a man who will muke her life miserable with his unjust sus picions and reproaches. There Is peace In splnaterhood; there would be nothing but war with such, a man. Bill writes: "I am a young man of 23 and In love with a girl of 18. Every time I call on her her mother say's she Is out, Do you think this girl loves me?" Would you, with dreamy eyes, build up a romance: Loving girl, stern parent, porhaps a dungeon In which the girl Is locked to keep her from her lover. I wouldn't. If she loved him she would be "In" some time when he calls. No mother was ever clever enough to send u. young man away from the door time after time with out a chance to see the girl ho loves un less she had the girl's consent. I am sorry for Bill, but I am quite sure the girl doesn't love him. A very young girl sends the following: "I um in love with a' young man two and a halt years my senior. My parents say that I am too oung to keep company with him. I am 17. They tell roe to wait two years. What shall I do?" Would you urge her to defy the best frlendtt she has In the world? I wouldn't, I want her to remember that two years Is n very short time compared with the lifetime she will give to this man If she marries him. Sho owes that much, and more, to the two who have cared for her all her llfo and who stand ready to con tinue that protection, If need be,? till the end of their days. An easily discouraged soul writes; "I am deeply Infatuated with a girl of my own age who Is wealthy, and I am not, She is also receiving the attention of a young man who is also wealthy. He has more time and money to spend on her than I have, and she vays she can't de cide which one sho likes the more. What Advice to Lovelorn --J Don't Be Unfair to Her. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young man SO ytars of age, and I am In bus.neis for myself and make out very good. I am lr love with my friend's sister, whom I have known for over two years, and who Is probably one year older than myself. Her people are of a very low class, and 1 am putxled whether they will be agree able to my parents. Her people think a great deaf of me. I have only taken her out twice, and I have not informed her of my love, for the renson that I know her people are very anxious to have her married. I do not Intend to get married rwfore the age of 25. I love her very much, and I am afraid that I mlhltoo. A five-year engagement Is most unfair to the girl, and for her sake you must not consider It a moment. , Your problem lies with yourself, Un less you are eure her family Is as gooa as yours, and her entry Into it would cause her neither pain nor humiliation, you must let her alone, to be wooed and won by eomo opinions. one who has no such Don't Take Hint Merlously. Dear Miss Fa.rfax: Please tell me how I should puiush a young man who realty thinks a great deal of me (as all h' friends have told me), but who said to me in a Joking manner that h.s trim liked me and thougnt I was Just tine, but he Is trying to tell him that I am not as line as he thinks I am. I am a very good looking young lady and have many admirers, but like him the best ot all as he treats mo fine when he take me out. This young man Is a ctit.o and criticises everything that comes in liU path. I want to teach htin a koo1 lesson, but don't know how to go about It. N. A. a. Ho likes to tease you, and will con tinue to tease you as long as you lot htm. Don't tako him serious. y; that muy cure him. Hut It muy please you to know that men never tease a girl they do not like, very, very mucfc shall I do? I do not want to wast her time and mine. It would be very hard for me to give her up." Would you, rnade skeptical perhaps by some bitter experience, advlue him to get out of the race, telling him that no man stands a show when Ms empty hands are opposed to hands that are filled with money? I wouldn't. I insist that lovo Is Independent of wealth, and that ha stands as good a chance as his wealthy rival. The other man's wealth will never defeat him. It he Ioich It will be because of his own faint heart, and his fear that by con tinuing to make lovo to the girl he will waste "her time and mine." I have no patience with such a weak-willed person, Bessie also has troubles. Sho writes: "I have been keeping company with a young man for nearly two years, and I love him very much. He has never come right out and asked me to marry hi in, but, some way or other, we have Just drlttod Into talking about it, and we ex pert to be married In the fall. Now, what I don't understand Is why he has never said anything about an engagement ring. He nover goes with other girls, nor wants me to go with other young men, nor do I care to. He has given me some beauti ful presents, but never a ring," Would you urgo her to grow indlenant, and demand It? I wouldn't. Happiness Is not dependent on a band for the girl's finger. If it had been, there would "havo been Uttl happiness In the world some years ago, when engage ment rings were unknown, and many a happy bride was married with a key as the marriage symbol. ' There are some men who never think This man didn't think to propose. He Just drifted Into the engagement, and In the same happy way will drift to the altar, I am sure the thought of a ring has not entered his head. I am also suro that If Bessie goes about It right, by suggesting Instead of by knocking, he will visit the Jeweler before he calls again. Don't you think that would be wiser than to frighten love away with angry reproaches? 1 do. One f the most astonishing announce- ments recently mado In tho naroo of sctnc ts that a means may be dis covered, with the old ot tho ultra-vlole rays from the sun, to free man from tha necessity of con tinually colUvAtlnv the soil In order to furnish hlmsoif with food. If thU expectation should bo fully carried out man kind would no longer be forced, as they been over slnco the loss of Adam's parndlso. to earn their broad In tho sweat of thtlr brows. That necessity has hith erto rested upon man because tbo plants of the fields possess a kind ot secret laboratory lr which they utilize th Power of the sunbeams for transform Ing mineral substances Into foodstuff. But now the French chemists. Bethe- lot and Gaudechon, have found out a way, with tho aid ot the ultra-vlolec rays, to Imitate, to a certain extent, tha action of plants. Tholr experiments give rise to the hope that, aftor a while, wo shall be able to make In the laboratories. out of nitrogen, chalk, carbonlo acid and water, a immbor of alimentary, or eat. able, subetances, like thoso which hereto, fore have been furnished only by plants. Tho ultra-violet rays, which form tha basts of this modern scientific miracle, are contained abundantly In tho sun'n radiation, but they are Invisible to tha eye. They can also bo produced artifi cially by means of thn mercury vapoi' lamp. It Is with theso artificially pro duced rays that tho experiments hava Wn performed. They are of very short wavo length, and most of thoso coming from tho sun ar Intercepted by the atmosphere. It It were not so, life fould probably bo Im possible on tho earth bocaURo the ultra violet roys have a deadly effoct when they fall unimpeded upon an nhlmal or ganization. It Is believed that tmnntnoka ts due to the effoct of these rays. They are also fatal to mlcroben, and havo beon utilized for tho destruction of many kinds of noxious germs, Ilccently th6 Automobile Club of Paris has Installed In Its hcadquartrs a swim ming tank whose wator ts freed from all germs by means of a largo mercury vapor lamp Immersed beneath tho surface. Tho deadly rays pass out through a lens of quartz, which Is transparent to them, and cjulckly disstroy nil tho foatlng germs In the water around tho lamp. Drinking water Is purified In a similar manner. The ordinary mercury vapor lamp would bo dangerous to the eyes but for the tact that the gloss of the tubes In which tho light is produced Is opaque to these rays. It allows the luminous rays to pass, bufr obstructs tho ultra-violet ones, quarts, on tho contrary, allows all tho raya to pass. These somo rays are bolng extensively employed 'in medtolno. The celebrated Flnnen rays, used for the cure of maladies of the skin, are of thla character. Thoy have a strong photographla power and are able to produce many chemical re actions that cannot be produced other, wise. One of the wonderful things about the ultra-violet rays proceeding from the sun Is the fact that they, themselves, ap pear to produce In the atmosphere of tho earth the obstruction which prevents their own passage, except In a vor- small quantity. This Is due to their transforming atmospheric oxygen into ozone, for the osone thus formed Inter, cepts the very rays which have produced It There is very little ozone In thu air, but the quantity existing Is usually sufficient to shield us from the deadly rays whose action upon the atmoophcro fcas created It . If the air were suddenly stripped front the earth It Is believed tho ultra-violet rays falling unimpeded upon its nurfoca would swiftly destroy all animal life. 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