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I The
Choosing
Through the mousy-carpeted, scented templo,
where hats are lifted tenderly and deftly on and off
of fair heads and dark, I strolled, the gentle cynic
besldo me, with on bright eye open for an autumn
hat. 'or me, myself.
j All .about the outer edges of the templo glass
;caeos rose, filled with varl-colored chapeaux on
their Blender stands, like so many bright storks
standing on one leg. Out In the green open of the
templo two-faced mirrors stood about, each with a
tiny gilt and mahogany chair before it.
Tall women, slender as race horses? short ones,
round and plump as partridges, all clad in tralllsg,
ankle-binding black,- Insinuated themselves softly
Mysteries of Science and Nature
Our Own rive Sensed Are Simply Windows Looking Out
of the Sphere of Ignorance-. We May Develop Others.
By GABUETT P. SEIW1SS.
Imagine an intelligent being fattened at
,the,center pf a hollow sphere, suspended
ji trie air and having- Ave small openings,
or windows, giving unconnected glimpses
of. tho world put-
side.
One of tho win
dows overhead af
fords him a view
of a patch of blue
sky across which
, clouds sometimes
drift, and at cer
tain times n the
year the blinding
sun passes over It,
while almost every
night he see a
stream of stars
moving slowly
across it
Another, opening n the sld ot the
sphere, enablos him to sea a part of a
large tree whose le&vea and branches are
occasionally shaken by the wind, and as
the seasons change the leaves turn red
or yellow and fall off, to reappear some
months later.
A third window, at the bottom ot the
sphere, shows him a piece of ground cov
ered with sand or gravel; a fourth, not
tar from the third, reveals a portion of
i lawn of grass,; and the fifth looks out
upon a body of water, but does not dis
close Its shores.
The Imprisoned being not only notices
the succession of day and night, but the
difference between winter and summer,
for snow sometimes covers the patches of
Tround beneath htm and ice forma upon
the water.
Now, suppose that the prisoner bad no
knowledge of the word around him ex
cept as he can obtain by looking through
hie five IHUe windows and reasoning
upon what he sees. He will then be in
t situation resembling that of men and
women shut up in the sphere ot ignor
ance that is pierced by the windows of
"JtrJr five senses.
If he had a complete series of windows
affording connected views of the outer
world all around and above and below,
he could form a. correct idea ot the form
of that world and the relations of Its
rarlous parts. But, as It is, he would
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a Hat and a
about, carrying meltlngly perfect little hats on three
fingers, their faces spread with ttao expression of a
slave bearing his master's pot Jewel in his hand.
Wo walkod slowly and at last stood still behind a
little beauty of a woman who twlstod and turned
on a mahogany and gilt chair under countless hats
that were lowered to and lifted in swift succession
from her head.
Oh, la; such a. weighty matter was this! Hero
was good, honest labor and thought spent reck
lessly! The race horse saleslady, in black char
xneuse searched and worked desperately and ab
sorbedly. The girl on the chair, brown-eyed,
golden-haired, sought out her image In the mirror
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have to possess a very high degree of in
telligence In order to infer, from his dis
connected glimpses, the shape of the sky
and the ground and the relations between
them and their various parts.
Now, the five windows ot our senses
givs us hardly lees Imperfect knowledge
of the wider world that Is presented to us.
Each of them Is very limited In its range.
Tho sense of sight covers but a small
portion of the infinite gamut of vibrations
of which visible light terms a parti the
sense of hearing extends over only a
small part of another range of vibrations
to which sound is due. while the senses
of touch, taste and smell, though more
closely connected than those of sight and
hearing, aru in themselves not less nor
rpwly limited.
If the windows of our senses were more
and more widely opened they would tin-
all blend together, thus giving us a com
plete view of the universe In all Its rela
tions. Wo can see how limited our sense
of (ght Is when we consider that there
are animals wWoh see rays of light that
axe entirely Invisible to our eyes. Tet
these very rays form an unbroken series
with those that we do see.
The animals that perceive them are
simply situated at a different point in
the sphere, so that their sight ranges
through the window of vision in a slightly
different direction.
The same Is truo of hearing, of touch
and smell. Insects hear sounds that are
Inaudible to vs; they also have organs ot
touch far mora delicate than ours; dogs
and deer possess a sense of smsll that
seems almost miraculous. I
But not only do the windows of the five
senses afford different glimpses to 'dif
ferent creatures, but some animals evl
dently possess senses entirely different
from ours. Birds, seals and ants havo a
Mnse of direction .which enables them to
find their way through the air, in the sea
and over the ground in a manner irtipos
stble to us. Jf the ant possessed all of
our five senses In perfection, and his sixth
sense In addition, he would be superior to
us in his knowledge of nature. A being
with a thousand senses would surpass us
almost Inflntely In the means of knowl
edge.
There is reason for believing that all
animal senses .have been acquired gradu.
ally, and it may be that the most im
portant ones hays not yet been developed.
We get a glimpse of these possibilities in
the strange phenomena of mesmerism,
clairvoyance and telepathy. Electricity,
as we becorpe familiar with It, is teach
lng us stilt more on this subject Who
knows .but, after ages of use, electrlty
may open for us another window in the
walls of ignorance and develop another
sense of which we do not at present
dream T
All th efforts of sclenoe hitherto have
been directed to the bringing together and
comparing of the Impressions made by
our Ave limited senses. In this way we
arrive at more or lees certain conclusions
ooncernlng things that are not directly
appreciable by the senses. But this Is
very indirect and Imperfect road of
knowledge. The final result or all our
progress ought to be, and doubtless will
be, to open other windows or widen those
already existing, so that eventually the
universe will be directly known to us with
a clearness and completeness of which at
present we can form no conception.
THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, AUGUST
rrp yaf azire ?f)af e
Husband
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By DOROTHY D1X.
A young girl who has loved not wisoly,
but too well,' and who has been cast aside
like a broken plaything by the man who
r an done' her oo terrlblo a wrong, asks
me what she
should do under
the .tragical cir
cumstances. My answer is,
forget it all. Put
the past behind
you, and refuse to
let your thoughts
enter the door that
you havo locked
upon your dark
secret. Never let
word concerning
what haa happened
pass your Hps to
anybody, but climb
back into the
straight and nar
row path off of
which you havo
taken a single
step, and lot your
be a lamp to guide
bitter experience
your feet In the
future.
Above all, have nothing to do with the
unprincipled scoundrel who has taken
such a shameful advantage of your youth
and Innocence and Ignorance. Do not
humlate yourself by beseeching him to
come back to you, or entreat him to
jv.nrrv you. He will not do- It. and if
he did do It, It would bring you nothing
but lifelong misery. Such a wan is a
brute, He is lacking alike In heart and
honor, and all considerations for a
woman, and he would use his knowledge
of the indiscretion Into which he lured
you to torture you as long as you live.
It is a terrible thlng-a thing so piteous
that It would make the very angels woep,
for a. girl to have wrecked her life"when
ahe is only 17 years old, but the only
thing that she can do that really helps
Is to gather up the fragments In silence
and as secretly as possible.
Under such circumstances there are
r a rents who sometimes force a man to
marry the girl, to do what they call
"right the wrong he has done her," This
la a fatal mistake. It only makes a bad
matter worse, ntitl dooms the girl to cur
tain misery, as It puts her completely
In the power ot a dastard who has al
ready shown how little regard he has for
her happiness and honor
Sometimes the girl wreaks a bloody
reprisal on the man who betrayed her,
but what a price she pays for that one
mad minute of satisfied vengeance! The
horrors of a murder trial, even when a
sentimental Jury acquits a woman, are
not to be told.
They belong to the Inferno, and the
soul that passes through It comes out
maimed and seared beyond all power of
healing. Tbe woman whose hands are
atatned with blood Is a creature apart,
a thing acoureed, one who goes shudder
Irg through the world and from whom
alt other women draw away their skirts
s from a leper, Tho woman who kills
to avenge her wrong kills also her every
chance of uver being happy.
Sometimes the woman takes her wrongs
Into the court and seeks to soothe the
hurt hr honor fels with money, it
takes a woman of coarse fibre to do this
and to blazon her shame to the publls
tor the sake of a few dollars. Thrre are
many times when money comes too
dearly, and this is one. One would think
Copyright, 1MJ. International News f&rviee.
Nell Brmkley Says
under a myriad of hats at endless angles! Old
Time .trod swiftly by, and at last at last, the little
lady roBO honestly.
"I must," she said, "I must think it over. I
like this little blue one, but I must go home and
think It over!" There was smiling and bowing and
the lady of the startling brown and gold face-coloring
was gone.
Tho gentle cynio turned and smiled wryly.
"Look at that, pray, mademoiselle! That ro
mtnds me, because It Is so different, of the fashion
In which that same careful llttlo lady will go out
and tako unto herself a husband I Of course, some
times a woman walks out of a temple of millinery
VVtien Love
that every 'penny so gained would blister
the fingers of her who touched it.
Of courso, no punishment that human
ingenuity can devise Is hde&uate for the
man who wins a young girl's heart and
then takes advantage of her trusting af
fection to lead her Into wrong doing. He
knows, as she cannot, the enormity and
significance of tho step he beguiles her
Into taking, and In what bitter' tears
and repentance the primrose path along
which he lures her must end for her.
To strip him of his money Is nothing.
killing Is too good for him. He deserves
a dog'p death, but the trouble Is that you
cannot punish him without punishing the
girl a thousand times more.
It Is the practical side of the tragedy
that we are now considering, what the
girl under such circumstances had best
do, and It Is cynically true that she had
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By WINIFRED BLACK.
"Oh," cried the little boy, "oh, tho devil
Is whipping his wife."
My," sighed the little girl, "my, I
wish his wife would get her turn and
whip him for a change, I'm sure he
needs it"
I looked from the
narrow window Into
the wide world and
saw the little brown
boy and the little
rosy girl running
to get in out ot the
rain, and the sun
was shining glori
ously at the same
time; so then I
knew what the lit
tle boy meant about
the whipping.
I wonder If poor
Mrs. Bad Man ever
does get her turn
and give that
wicked husband ot
hers a good beating
once in a while? Or does he live In North
Carolina and must she stand whatever
he does without one whimper of protest?
North Carolina don t you know about
it 7 I didn't either, till I went there and
then I found It out I saw a notice in the
paper one day,
"Whereas," said the notice, "whereas,
my wife, Mary Eo and Bo, has left my
bed and board without my permission!
I hereby enjoin all persons to refrain
from giving old, comfort or employment
to said wife under extreme penalty of
the law."
I laughed; "what a mediaeval gump"
I thought "I wonder if he wears a tin
coot and a helmet"
I spoke to a lawyer about It he didn't
laugh at all. "That man Isn't a gump,"
said the lawyer, "he's just a brute and
he can do It In this state."
"Do whatt" I quavered In amaement.
"Have you locked up or fined for giv
ing his runaway wife a cup of tea or
asking her to stay all night or giving
beV a floor to scrub, and paying her for
It. That woman Is that man's wife. Site
belongs to him like tbe rest ot his live
stock. If you find her running away,
you mmt corral her and give her back,
29, 1913.
with a fright on her head, Just as Bho leaves the
church door with a fright by her side. But in the
first mistake it isn't because she utdn't spond time
and gray matter on it!
"See, now, this llttlo lady. She worked like a
little tow-hoad, using time, patience, all her brain,
her Judgment, her artistic sensibilities. Sho didn't
stop at one. Bho tried two dozen on the top of her
gilt head. And now sho has gone hoirie to 'think
it over.'
"How will it bo when she takes a mate? Ho
will probablyplck up her wisp of a handkerchief
on the train between here and Chicago, they will
look at once Into each other's eyes and the next day
Is Faithless
best do nothing to the man, nothing to
avenge her wrong. Just to accept It as
quietly and searetly as possible.
To make any fuss about It Is to cry
out aloud her misfortune to the world,
whereas If she says nothing and goes
her way as If nothing had happened there
may be a few whispers, a few surmises,
a little gossip that no one can substan
tiate, and that dies down and is forgotten
In a short time.
After all, the only thtnga that are ab
solutely known about our private affairs
Is what we tell ourselves. Probably
there la never scandal about anyone that
the persoiv didn't start himself or herself.
It's the thing we confide to our dearest
friends that comes back to haunt us,
and hence any secret that we shut our
teeth upon is reasonably safe."
Fortunately, In this enlightened age a
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Queer Laws About Women
Just as you would old January, or Tige
that's the law in North Carolina..
"That woman Is that man's wife, she
can't leave him, no matter what he does
I to her, She belongs to him just as his
dog does, and It you befriend her you
are 'enticing' her, and the law Is strong
against 'enticing In this state."
And when I went to the station there
were no crowds of women there trying
to get out of the state.
Ev erytlme I see an old maid from
North Carolina after this I am going to
know that I am looking at a sensible
woman.
Bverytlma I see an old maid from
from North Carolina I shall feel as If
I were looking at a beaten slave and per-
;hops 1 shall be who knows7
But there's Missouri queer things, the
Missouri laws. I knew a woman down
there who had a bad husband, who beat
her and abused her, but she stood tor it
for the sake of her children.
One day the bad husband ran away
and the' wife went to work, washing by
the day, to keep a roof over the children's
heads, and when she tried to make the
husband help her out with the rent the
law said "no, the woman is keeping a
roof over those children's heads, sho Is
giving them a meal a day, the man won't
have to help," and he didn't for that Is
the law In Missouri.
Advice to
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
Yon Talk litke Man.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am In love with
a girl 21 years of age and I am 19 unit
have a good position and am able to tilce
cure of a wife, the loves me and I lovo
her. so, do you think I am too young
to be in love, as I am thinking ot making
her my wife? Bo, 1 would like your ad
vice, as she Is always speaking of mar
llage, ANXIOUB.
You are not too young to be in love,
but 19 Is rather young for a man to
marry. Vou say you are in position to
support her, which would Indicate that
you are older than your years, and are
a good deal of c, man after alt
But why not watt just two years? Be-
By Nell Brinkley
woman Is not bound down forevor by tho
mistake she has made in her past. ?he
has her present full of opportunity, and
her future overflowing with hope. She
can fill hey life with work, with kind
ness, and service to others, and win tor
herself a high and honorable place In the
community and bo esteemed and admired
in society,
To this girl, who so far has kept the
secret of her one false step, I say keep
it still Until It Is locked In the silence ot
the grave. Confession Is a weakness and
a temptation in cases where It can do no
(possible good, and no reparation to an
other Is to be made, Let the dead past
bury its dead, and do you go forward and
live a life so pure and whke, and so
fragrant with good deeds, that the re
cording angel will drop a tear upon your
one poor little sin and blot It out.
Skin deep, some civilisation, it seems
to me,
"Women have all the rights they need"
what a silly cry that It. Did any class
ever have Its rights when any other class
has all the say about itt is there a man
In this country who would be willing to
let women mako the laws governing him,
without his having any voice at all 7
"Marriage Is tho protection or a woman,
and the duly of a man," said a nice, kind
antl-sutfraglst the other day.
I asked her If she had observed 'that
nine-tenths of the divorces were obtained
by women.
"Not so crasy for that kind of 'pro
tection' as they used to be, seems to me,"
I said. "I wonder why,"
And the nice, kind antl said I was not
logical and she hinted that I was not
womanly, and she said she Was amazed
to ate me so bitter, but I wasn't surprised
at all I had Just come from North Car
ollna by the way of Missouri that was
all.
I wish. I knew something definite about
he laws concerning women In all ot the
other states doesn't somebody know
some statistics? They'd be so enlighten
ing. I'd lqve to know positively about that
Whipping business, and I wonder If the
little girl's funny wish will ever come
true anywhere-even In North Carolina.
Lovelorn
lleve me, the time will go rapidly and
you will never regret It
Make tbe Overtures.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am In love with
a Klrl and she is in love with me. We
had been keeping steady company, but
laiciy wd kui mat!, ana wo ao noi ipeait
to each other. I would like a reconcllia
tlon and eo would she. B. B. L.
You are a man and stronger to bear
the burden. Take on your shoulders the
burden of the blame, persuading your
self that you offended and deserve It
Tell her you alone are to blame, beg
her forgiveness, and promise never to
offend again. If you are not wilting tu
say i was wrong." then you are not
fitted to say "I love you."
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there will be a woddlng and their pictures in thh
paper. Bho'll nover know it he's becoming to hcr
style 6f disposition until after she hns him. Sh'H
never in a thousand years walk out with tho first
hat that ravished her eye. Sho goes homo to 'think;
It over.' But Bho walks off with the first man who
touches her heart. And It's after that sho 'thinks
it over.'
"Toll mo why that Is when tho hat may ;bg
chucked Into the yesterdays when this" season Is'
over and a husband laBts forever!"
So I havo mado a plcturo of It for tho cynic's
delectation. If ho is right or not I do not know.
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Father if fkrtftfbfy
fiy REV. THOMAS 8. Cnk'GP'lY,
Tho first pub'-lo notice of the "Fatbes.
of Phrenology" appeared In Wicland's ,
''Dutch Mercury," one hundred and fit-'
teen years ago, August II, 1793.
anil was a prac
ticing physician of
Vienna and early In
his career he be
came a firm be
liever In the Idea
that the talents
and disposition of
men are dependent
upon the functions
of tho brain; and,
furthermore, that
they may be In
ferred with perfect
exactitude and pre
cision from the ex
ternal appearances of the skull.
Gall was an able man; ho set forth his
theory in a graph!, unctUQUs manner,
and In a very brief period he had alt
Europe at the top notch ot excitement
The Idea spread like wildfire, and In all
grades of society people were discussing
"the greatest of all discoveries." The
new theory had to meet the vcustomary
opposition from the custodians ot truth
and the preservers of morality, but tfco
opposition only Increased the popularity
of the theory and Gull's celebrity in
creased by leaps and bounds. His lec
tures were Interdicted, and he was
threatened with the direst penalties un
less he ceased his "immoral and athelstt-"
cal" teachings; but ho kept on with h(s
propaganda, visiting all the large townV
of Germany and tho Continent and by
1SC6 all Europe was Interested In therw
Vienna doctor, ! T
It is not meant that phrenology waif
altogether false, and that It served To'
good purpose In Its day There waS'
soul of truth In It, and It did welt In call
lng men's attention to the fact that theW
Is such a thing as natural law, witK
which It is dangerous to trifle, ttjflf
against which It Is foolish to pray or pxp-.
test In the natural philosophy ot th'
time to como there will be a most honor,
able mention ot the work that was done
by Fran Joseph Gall, the jrainer-TOT.
Phrenology. "
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