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Playing with Cupid and After
Beauty
The "Don't Worry" Recipe, and
Hats as a Striking First Aid.
niB BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1913.
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By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
"Love comes llko a summer sigh," goes
an old sons, and those who have known
lt'qnly In its beg.nning, th.nk, calm-eyed,
that lova la always a, .summer sigh a
!Ute-Hke strain, 'sweet, sooth ng, telling
a story of 'flowers shaking their heavy.
Ij'oey-burdened heads drowsily In the
jiun; of birds giving sleepy twitters from
under the shade of- the leaves.' ana ox
lfczy streams, droning and croon'ng their
way between warm, mossy banks, and
giving no hint In their songs that they
were fcvpr turbulent
That the summer sigh Is followed by
tempestuous winds and devastating
Hoods that tear down and sweep destruc.
tlo'n where all was laxy ptace, nevei
credited by those who do not know love.
iThn arlrl whose love -tale Is In the be"
gtSnln regarts love lh would k Plaj
thins. She tosses mm in tne air, some
tTmes jcstchlng him with fervent arma
ami loving kisses, and as often letting
;jlm fail' that she may laugh at his woe-
begone face and make merry over his
bruises.
Sho tweaks, pinches, slapa and throws
urn , ,
3 Mysteries of Science and .Nature 3
Is Oar Bl:od in Its Composition and Temjeratiire the Counterp:rt of the Water, Whence
By GARRETT P. SERVISd.
Science boksU of ts exactneaa. and
properly so. Tet there is no speculator
comparable In boldness with the (man of
science who is endowed at the samo -time
with the scent for
precirion and the
qlft of.lmaglnatlou.
'pne of the moat
flaring splentltjc
speculations with
wlUch J am ac
quainted, iB. thai of
a French phys
iologist, It. Qulit
ton. who. ventures
to assert that the
blood which flows
la. tho veins 'of
man .and other
animals .derives its
peculiar tempera
ture, (which hardly varies more than ten
degrees, ifr all the host of vertehrae. or
back-boned, animals) and Its peculiar
composition (In which salt always plays
a fixed part) from .the primeval sea that
enveloped the. earth In those eariy ages
when life was. beglnn'ng on our planet
ilan. says this bold specultoi1 In scien
tific assets, is a kind of marine aquarium,
filled w'.th sea water resembling thatof
the ancient ocean .In. which his lower
animal ancestors' bathed millions of years
ago. We call this salty fJuld. from wh'ch
our living cel'.s derive their vitality,
"blood:" but deprive the blood of thi
red and white corpuscles wh'ch have de
veloped In It. and all that Is left Is a
"Physiological salt solution." precisely
like the' salty water of the primeval sea,
and retaining the fame temperature.
In other words, the so-calted vital fluid
of animals Is nothing but sea water, less
salty and hotter than the sea water of
today, but retaining the samd compost
tlon and tho same temperature that It
had when, ages upon ages' ao, the first
living creatures of our world emerd
from their original home, wh'ch was the
o?ean, and, with new todies henceforth
sealed' up. so that the fluid on which
their lives depends, cannot escape, erawlad
out upon the land, and rave rle' by
gradual evotut'on to the higher animals
of the present time.
Th p--Vt' ing'v!"r wnter h
been handed on from generation to gen
eration, for untold aeons pf time, con
tinuing to 'exist, age; after -age, in the
veins of anlnfals. forever the same in'
composition and temperature, notwith
standing the Innumerable changes- of
for" It hss undergone In the ceae'ess
processes of generation, growth, decay,
leath and regeneration.
To re boy this curious speculation
has arisen, let us consider the fact that
the f'rt orrsn'Mn inhabiting the sea
(long before there was life on tho land)
were Mm""' 'ivlnft o" of protoplasm,
open in structure and bathed throughout
In the warm, salty water whlh main
tained the'r vitality As tho sta cooled,
and became more salty tnro'JB i tho
the nttio koU about, finding rtnewedrfter
rlrrieht ,lri every moan and i pretest-
Love," she sings, "la more than a sum
, mer sigh. Ho Is a game. He
greatest Joy in the world,
First hot, then cold; first loving, then
disdainful; the plaything In hec hands
would be driven mad entirely did lie not'
know that, just as surely as .tomorrow's
sun follows today's, h'.s time' will Come
He ,1b the plaything today, Jle Unp.wa
who will be the juggler tomorrow, and
with a face which bears no sign of the
malice In his heart he submits to every
tqrture she Imposes. '
' ; -Ana. rbldssr his -tlrn! mi
vTiaIhour marks the;:beglnning of the
new game where, love Is the Juggler and
the plaything in his hands Is the' bruised
'and aching heart of his tormentor no one
. knows
The Inexperienced declare' ' that that
' hour never strikes. The love-scarred
flux of mineral substances washed down
from the land. It was -no longer a .suit
able ab6de for many or the progressing
animal forms' which ha4 'been nullt,vuD
hy'fhe 'Combination f the original single,
cells, and these assumed the shap, of
closed bodies, In which-the life-sustain
Ing fluid was locked, up; while Its orig
inal temperature was maintained by
physiological action..
Having emerged Jupon the' land1, those
creatures 'Continued .in 'the coursot of
evolution, 'determined by .thejr Own sur-
, roundlngs, and assumed a great variety
of hrgtie"r Thrifts,' constantly Increas'.ng-.ln
complexity or organization, 'but' always
retaining the secret of life derived from
the sea in the form of a fluid, never
varying much from a temperature i
about 100 degrees, nor from a computa
tion .comprising about seven or eight
The
By DOROTHY DIX
'T. fancy," said the woman who likes
to philosophize above her tea, "that
there are very few of us, either men or
women, who do n&t cherish the memory of
some rare and ra
diant being that we
have met some
where In the past,
and who do not
have moments In
which, we speculate
upon what life
might have been. It
only we had mar
ried the ideal, In
stead of the indi
vidual that we did
marry.
"Of course, for
the most part we
are fairly satisfied
with our own par
ticular . Darby or
Joau. but In times
of domestic strife
we recall with a
sad, sweet pleasure Ihe face of Angelina,
or Edwin, and refltotUhat be or she
never would have -been sueh("a goose,
or so pig-headed, or ra'sed such rows
'about nothing as does '.the wlfo or hus
band to whom we are tied.
"Ah, nol Angelina would always have
been fair and beautiful, and slim and
young, a perfect housekeeper, 'and a
marvel of economy, far different from our
own fat ana gnzsiea miaa.e-agea joan,
who Is a litt-or-mUs cook, and apparently
thinks a man can gather money off the
trees. Our Kdwln. too, would always
have been a romantic hero, who could
mako thrill at hla toKt who would
But It
Ends So.
.,.' it .iriieir when they were mer-
rlest, and that In a twinkling they found
themselves the sport of that which had
been their. -gome.
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'The g'.rl Who 'Is' playing with love grows
Ured and bids lovo go. Ho turns to Je-
part, and thee comes to her a swift
revelation of the dreariness or, me.wun-
.'. ,i vT 'Tr,rr,nniinxiilm in ntav.
' The lian has struck! Ife refu,es--fcnU
thon she drops to her kneea and begs for
that which she once scorned.
"Only stay," she Implores, "and you
may do with mo as you will." And love
stays, and for every tear she' has made
him shed he makes, her shed a torrent,
parts salt to a thousand party of water.
It ,1a a strange fa'cf that from the poles
to the equator all. vertebrate animals
possess bldod, of nfiariy he same temper
ature and .the same degree pf saltncss,
and Qulnton'avers that this -singular uni
formity is dueto the retention In their
bodies, sealed' p, with membranes, of
the .ancestral .composition of the univer
sal fluid that, at the beginning, nourished
the life of tHelr remote predecessors In
the sea. If this be so, then our blood is
simply an Image of the water of the
first ocean, at the time when life was de
veloped in ,it If .we ..did not, posstas It
we co'uld.tnot 'continue tl live..', tn Veer
tain sense, then, we may, be said still to
live bathed Internally by the ltfe-givlng
fluid of the primeval sea..
Looked at In another way, according to
Quinton's hypothesis, the' blood of erte-
One You
murmur beautiful sentiments of affection,
, g", ' I
couched in Booth Tarktngton language, "Fortunately for Susie she had a sen
for forty yearn at a stretch, and who Bible, hard headed father who represented
would have lived on such a high plane to her that a man who had never sup
that he wouldn't even have perceived ported himself was not likely to support
when the coffee tasted like dish water, a family, and as Suslo had too much In
and the soup was cold, and the Ices hot. dependence to want to settle down on a
And ho would havo been uteerly. Incapable poor mother-in-law to be taken care of,
of saying such things under such clrcum- she was kept from marrying tho youn
stances, ub does the common-place Darby man, and, of course, in . time got over
to whom we are united. . I her girlish fancy.
"As the years goby; and we get further "Eventually she made an excellent
and farther away from Edwin and Ange- match. She married a thrifty business
,lna and the gilt rubs more and more off man In a distant city, who was able to
of the ginger bread of matrimony that give her a beautiful home, fine clo hes
we are dally forced to consume, the pic- an automobile, and every luxury that
tures of our early loves grow more and wealth can supply. Also her husband Is
more brighter, with a moro and moro ro- a man of weight In his community, looked
seate halo, until at last we come to the up to, and deferred to.
place where ' we privately consider our- "But alwuys her early love has loomed
selves blighted helnge, who have made in Susie's mind as a fairy prnce, and she
fatal mistakes In matrimony. has contrasted her husband unfavorably
"I am convinced that a greal deal of with h.m, and said to herself how bliss-
domestic unhapplnea arises from this f ul she might, have been with a Hkfi who
cause, and I think that ten years after understood her poetic yearnings, and her
marriage there ought to be a compulsory grasping at the whatness of the. what,
excursion back to the scene of one s early Instead of with a soid.d business man.
romance, so that husbands and wives whose soul was pot on material things,
could get a near view of their first "Well, last month Susie went back
love. Take my word for It. that It would home for tho first time In many years,
do more to make men and women satis- and saw her early love. Also hie wife
fled with tho life partners they did get and ohlldren. The shiftless ne'er do
tliun anything else on earth, for If . well hud gone down, and down, until he
tbero Is one thing that makes you want had become tho village loafer. People
to to out and burn Joss sticks to luck It spoke of him with sneering contempt. His
Is to meet, up with the one you didn't wife was. a poor, pitiful, overworked
marry. drudge who supported him by taking
"I have Just been seeing a most II- boarders. Half a dozen ' dirty ohlldren
lumlnatlng example of the value of my alung to her skirts.
theory. I have a friend, whom I will "You. never saw such an instantaneous
call Susie, bocause that Isn't her name, ture as that sight ot the man sho didn't
who, when she was a young girl, fell In marry forked on Susie. Hlie scuttled
love with a good looking and altiar. bak home as fatt os she could go, and
tlvo : .'ma fellow who was one of t'.'.s
i Every little pinch and bruise on hlB
body has maac a mark on his heart that
I U charged to her account, for which sho
must pay in numi lauon ana nngmsn. no
coia-niootiea, caicuiaung enemy who
etarts out to destroy and lets nothing
under heaven Interrupt or change or ballc
oro" i' ". ;
lets than this Htttle god 'Of '.love. ;
lfov'a Is, as thtfounT-hopei the only
, real Joy Ufo holds.' And onlythose who
1 1 avc known It know tho depths of despair
and sorrow,
In tho beginning It Is the plaything In
tho end the hearts of men and women aro
its toys.
They Say All Lie Sprang?
brato animals gives geologists a clue to
tho temperature and composition ol tho
first sob, waters. We know that these
have changed with tho progress of time,
tho water becoming both saltier and
colder, besides acquiring other Ingredi
ents which it did not possess originally.
This strange hypothesis has met with
a certain degree of, approval from other
investigators, whose criticisms of It re
late to details but do not attack Us gen
eral credibility. Thus Prof. A. D. Ma
cal'.um thinks that the blood , of the
vertebrates represents the sea water, at
0. later . period . than that assumed by
Qulnton. but' still a- period 'millions 'of
years back of our .time,, while Dr. A. d.
Lane suggests ' that the blood tempera
ture may have been raised by physiolog
ical processes above' that of the sea when
the animals left it
IJidnt Marry
youths who live upon their mothers.
sV s btcn bj busy c-'-r since scaiUrlng
Tho best beauty secret, ac
cording to Miss Grace Kimball,
is not to worry especially
othor people.
But Miss Kimball is also t
groat boliover in hats for improving-
natural beauty.
.Van Urate Kimball
By WLIAN LAUKERTV.
"The best beauty secret I know," said
pretty, blond U race lilmball to me, as wo
took possession of Ned Wayburn's office
and prepared to assimilate a bit from and
contribute d bit to the atmosphere of
loveliness all about us at the winter gar
den "the best beauty secret I know Is,
don't worry. Dut, If worry you must, the
next best Is, don't worry other people
with your worries,
"Nowadays, with the popular fancy de
manding youth, the woman who Jtceps
serene, or does a good Imitation of It,
stands also a good chance of seeming
youthful, To be beautiful means to bo
as youthful as possible and here are my
rules:
"Don't worry other people.
"Cultivate a' senre of humor and- an
ability to relax.
"Study the hat question.
"Hats are so 'mportant, and in spite of
all the Jokes about more careful selec
tion being ured In the case of hats than
that of husbands', the gentle art of hat-
roses In the path or the man she did
marry that she has got him guessing as
to what has happened."
"That's right," said the other woman
coolngly. "I never miss an opportunity
of Inviting my husband's early loves to
dinner. They aro sure to be fat and
frowsy, or living skeletons, and I can
seo hla Ideal crumbling to pieces as he
contrasts them In propria persona .with
.the way ho remembered them."
"But we also have .changed since we
inspired love young dream," suggested
a third woman.
"Oh, our husbands are used .to us," re
plied the woman philosopher, comfortably.
"And they've quit looking at us, any
way." Advice to
- By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
Don't Rr DlsequrngeU.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young man
or 19, and every morning on my way to
work 1 meet a girl whom I would like
very much to meet, but w have ni
n utual friends, and 1 am at a los as to
how to accomplish an Introduction, dhc
works at the same place I do, but 1 don't
know in what department
I show her overy courtesy, and some
times she favors m with n smile, but I
am still as far from an Introduction an
when I first saw her, O. H. T
An Introduction Is always best. It is
what you would Insist upon for your
sister. Isn't that true?
I am sure In time you will find a
mutual friend, but If one does not ap
pear, and you are satisfied In your heart
that you will never give her cause for
regretting your acquaintance, aay "Good
la Two of Her Ifata.
ting Is much neglected. Women will In
sist on getting a hat like that 'adorable
dream' Mrs. 'Nextdoor Is .wearing; or. they
I uy. cton .that Madame Milliner
has been trying to foist on some one nil
season long. Getting the ilaht hat .t an
urt and In the study you have to go back
to tho foundation for the hat, which Is
the face."'
"Suppose, you te'.l me how to take, a bit
of care of the foundation, so that It may
be as satisfactory a foundation as pos
sible, and thon let us talk a bit about
the hat to crown it," said I,
"Splendid." said Mlrs Kimball, "t have
a real beauty secret to Impart about
faces. And about hats I am only airing
my theories.
"Now, here Is the secret Whenever
you are tired, or whenever you have half
an hour to spare and a desire to Improve
your skin and facial contour to the ut
most, here Is what you must dot Make
a pasto of Fuller's earth moistened with
water and benzoin, spread this mask-tlfo
over your face. and leavo it on for fteen
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Little Bobbie's Pa
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
Oh, husband, e'ed Ma, to Pa last nlte,. I
havo the cutest thing to tell you. Our
oeer HiH on ' "" iiual city mri
He met her to a, fche .s a llttel city gun
deer Uttel son has a llttel swoet heart.
that lives neer our city hoam. & Bobbie
rowed her all oaver the lake this morn
Ing. How perfectly cunnln, Ma sed. To
think of our gallant llttel son beelng
a Romeo,
1 alnt no Itomoo, I toold Ma. I wish
you wuddent say that
The llttel decra looked so cute out thare
on the lake. Ma sed. Bobbie helped hei
.nto the boat AV out of It Jeit like a
prince holplng a prince's. Maf sed. Did
you enjoy yure day, Bobble, you an,d
llttel QrayeeT .
No I dident, I toald Ma. & she alnt
any sweetheart ot mine, oether, it war
Lovelorn
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morning" next time you meet A closer
acqua.ntanco will develop,
The Difference Immaterial.
Dear Miss Palrtax: I ant In love with
a girl four years my senior, which dif
ference In cur ages seems to stand be
tween us. I have tried In every way pos
sible to convince her of my love, but so
far have not succeeded. I do not .be
lieve I can ever be happy without her.
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You do not state your own age. If
you are old enough to marry, her four
years seniority should be no bar. I am
convinced sho refuses you because shi
dues not love you. Be persistent In your
devotion, and It that does not melt her
heart, try giving your attention to some
other girl.
mlnute then remove. tho mask with hot
wato - tho way this Is ad near as hot
water -vurcoincs to tho skin of my face
next rub your faco briskly with a piece
oi ico.
"Oaso for a moment with satisfaction
on tho clear, wrlnkloss slowing face you
have Just snatched for youras'f from tho
talons of time and realise that you don't
have to worry when It Is such a slmplo
and Inexpensive matter to keep, your
faco young and colorful and cjear.
sklnned. Next, do your hair In the sim
ple, becoming fashion that my prede
cessors in tho beauty Interviews have
schooled yon to affect and effect and
now nit aboard for a hat
f "Sit you down In front of a mirror that
Is Illuminated by honestr. all-revealing
dayl ght It you are .a blond demand a
hat that'ha sameiolcarico'.or Dotty to. ac?
oont your twle- colorjntr. Personally, I
think a black velvet facing is about the
most wonderful background for bringing
out clear coloring, and It Is particularly
klrd In Its treatment of blend lialr. A
t'ttlo up-ttlted hat will m.ake you look
perky and sauoy. A b'g, drooping affair
will give you. a plcturesnue 'look. , Bfut
bewaro of droonlng hats If yqu are
. short woman with a neck on the'sam
i ge-eral lines. ' ' ':
i am verv rouna pi .nev "'as "
white or- black and white jeowiblnatlons.
for myself, and for all blonda' T wquld
recommend the same. A facing to match
your eves often accents the'r co'or-de-clde
whether that 's dearabt and If
Is, cultivate a linb't of rutting . king's
blue over vour cornflower blue eves, pur
plo over your pansv orbs and gold-brown
ovr- vour Kloe-bprries.- 1
"The soft mallho frllllngsron the hats
of tofinv xofton almost nriV face. But If
you substitute for tnallne good taste an4
an honed tudy of line, t Is always pej
s'b'e to fnd a ."hat that will 'soften the
face beneath It by -.throwing, '1(lndly
shadows In Jut the rleht places. Make
uo your .mind, that ybur hat'l"rirt. rome
thing to ret nton of vour, head as an
ornament, but Is something to cover Vour
hend, and with the aid .of softly fluffed
out hair, to make a background for .your
.face,' ...
And n Miss Klnball. gases out at rou
from the two' prrttv background hata
she ha chosen, dres. no 'her I'ttte theory
sound to you well worth a bit of pre
t'ceT
her fathers boat & "she flfdent know
aow to row It & I wanted to row, ao"l
-ot In & rowed the bote. I dident like b,?
ary much. I toald Ma. bekaussabe-laffed
it me wen 1 spelled her nalm -rong. JC
'. without a Y. I sed. '& that la
the' "way to spell Grace.'
Bobble, Pa sed. I tell you what to fla
If you want to win llttel Grayce. You
must rite her a poem. I will rite her a
poem for you to reed to her, sed Pa, &
you can say you rote It
BOblilo will lose her sure qt he lrlas
that, sed lla. H has a llft'el boy Trend
that r'tes gQocl. .poetry. ' lute aeorgio
Crowley, & he can git htm to rite- the
sed Pa. I wtil rite the poem. Bo
Pa went & got a sheet of paper, and ro(a
this poem for mo to show to Grace.
T Ittel Qravce charming Grayce,
I luv yure voice, I luv ypur fayce.
Thou art tho Idol of mv hart.
. from thy side I'll never part
Sum. dav wen I Arit grbwn to manhood
deoslde to marry, as every man flhood,
I'll cum to you. deer.-with a smile,
nd'ask to lead you up tne.ats!v .
Trou are the wrtest,gurl in this place,
" I a'nt ro'ng to show her that I toalA
Pai I doant luv her & she alnt my
swetftnart. 1 a'nt folng to Mart Ih no
yur.g telling -aurta -that I luv them wen S
doant luv them at all. t sed, '
Tou havo got to do that sed Pa, to git
along. Why, wen I was yure age I
toald all the jjurls I luved; them, Ja ed.
They dident tell me thay tuved. roe, but I
could see thay did. I was vary hansum
as a boy. sed Pa. & I had a grate war
with the ladies. I used to write them
verges & thay .throw down all thare other
beaus .for me. I wi'.l jtlve you a, quarter.
Bobble, If you will show this poem to
Mtuel Grayce, & 'f she doesn't call you a
darling boy I will give you fl besides.
I showed Grayce the poem $ sed I
otu it tt she laffed & sod It sounded Jst
the eumthlne that a green kid rote, so t
nada a dollar and a quarter from Pa.