L'HE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1919.
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Ultra-Violet Rays
Fashions of the Moment
By GAItBETT I SEItVIBS.
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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.
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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.
A lugubrious suggestion has been made
by Prof. Houllevlgue of Marseilles, based
upon the destructive power ot the ultra-t
violet May It not be possible, he aays,
that some day a wicked magician Of
science will construct a machine capablo
of sending out an Invisible beam ot ultra,
violet radiation to a dlstanco of hun
dreds ot yards, which will strike blind
the eyes ot any person upon whom it
may bo directed? The terrors ot such
a weapon in the hanas of an aviator
may easily be Imagined without going
Into details.
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