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l'HE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 19 J 3. 10 The Manicure Lady The Last Day By Nell Brinkley Copyright 113, National News Service. . i II lb II .... ... a 111 II 11 II I H " , i X By WIMJAM F. KIRK "I wonder It there Is anything In signs this season?" cald the Manicure Lady. "All the bad luck signs has failed on me lately, George. Thins Is so rosy that I im all the time looking for the Wool worth building to fall on me and mo alone, I never seen the time when so manr things broke right all at once, and that right In the face of a lot of hoodoo lgns." "It comes that "way sometimes," said the Head Barber. '1 didn't see any hoo doo signs at all last week, and every thing broke wrong. Two skates that I bet on got the blind staggers, and the missus got the quinsy and the kid. caught U from her. I don't believe In signs." ' I used to," said the Manicure Lady, but It's getting so I ain't surreptitious, too. Testerday our biggest mirror broke up at the house. It wouldn't have broke, only "Wilfred was trying to show father how to box, and the old gent threw science to the winds and cut loose with a haymaker that clruv my poor brother through the looking glass In the hall, the one Ma and Mayme and X always stands '.n front of to to see bow we look to go cut for the evening. That was a broken looking-glass for fair, but It didn't bring no bod luck to our household. And Wilfred walked un der a ladder yesterday when he was kok I tig up at the clouds to get a inspiration for a poem called A Cloudy Day In Au gust' There wasn't any comeback on that, either. I fussed a little last night when I seen a crosseyed woman In the ubway, but nothing came of that this far. I guess the poor thins; got cross eyed looking two ways for a seat. I am as happy as a bumming bird, and nothing has happened to ruffle my feelings. I haven't heard a single guy that came hi here all the forenoon say 'I ehoulld worry.' "The old gent says that everything equalizes In this world. He ain't like til young folks, Oeorgs. Brery time that we see three or four happy days in a row we begin to think that we ore going to be like the lilies that toll not whether they do spin, yet BulUvan In hall his glory never bad no clothes' better than them. The old gent says that he never pats himself on the back for having a little run of luck, because he has been too long In the league to think everything in life Is roses and sunshine, lie says that we allought to constder the wallops tlint Is In store for us and act kind of calm In tho moments of our e&cIcKt String." "I don't agree with your father," sold the Head Barber. "Lots of times I think Homo people has a right to be swelled up. They have money and social port tloa and all that Some of them 1 even kings. The rest of ua bate got grub alone and be common people." "FAtherrwould be awful peaslve if '.he knew you d!4n't agree with him," said the Manicure Lady, "llut the old gont Is funny about social position. You see, George, when father had a lot of money tio used to mix la with the swells, and found out that there wasn't as much gold In their hearts and heads as there Is In the hearts and heads of his regular pals. I kind of like hlra for It, George, whether you 60 or not lie never says tnuch about his friends, but you bit they ro his friends, and he would break a date with King Alphonso of Spain to go out to the ball trame with Bob-Klloy, "But that ain't what wo started to talk about I was saying that signs can't mount to much, or I wouldn't he setting here now making a holler about some thing. Well, for the love of Paddy I dee, George, somebody haa took my pocket book!. Oh, Geet It must been some dip cn the Subway! Gee, now I've gotta be surreptitious again!" v Mysteries of Science and Nature The Electrical Voice of Time It Can be Heard All Over Western Eu rope and Northern Africa, Speaking in the Language of Radio- By GARRETT V. SERVISS. Since July 1 time signals, giving the exact hour aa determined by astronomical observation, have been radiating, through tho air from tho lofty Eiffel tower in Paris, speeding in all directions wlUi the velocity of light and all that people who want to keep their clocks and watches regu I a t e d in accord with tho steady motion of tho earth on its axis have to do Is to rapture these fly ing signals with a wireless telegraph receiver attached to a telephone. Away off in Africa, in Algiers and Tunis, tho Invisible electrio waves are caught with perfect ease, and ships at ca, off the French coast can take them HOW ABE YOU FEEDING 1'OUH CHILD HEN? Are you giving them nourishing food food that will develop their muscles, bones and flesh food that is easily aigestea ana cneapT Ever thought about Soajchettl Faust Spaghetti? Do you know that a iuc pacaage 01 Faust spaghetti contains as much nutrition ah 4 lba. of beet? Your doctor will tell you it does. And Faust Spaghetti coots one tenth the price of meat. Doesn't that aolve a big Item In the high cost of living! You probaly haven't served Faust Bjwg&etu a oiten as you should be cause you don't know bow manr dif ferent ways it can be cooked write for free recipe book today and you'll toe surprised at the big variety of aitaew you can maao worn mis nu tritious food. In Be and 10c packages. MATJIJi JfinOS. BU XobIs, Mo, ' Autumn, red leaves in her BUltry hair, is leaning to the Earth. Already the "quaking asp" In the far west is turning to thin, fino gold the oak in the soberer east is changing from green to dusky red under the tnagio of her hand. Women-folk aro dreaming of their winter frocks "haus-frauB of their coal and hickory logs tho first smoke of fall-leaf burnings will curl soon and spread In fragrant hase through the woods and suburban stroots. .Littlo kids will soon bo kicking a big, brown .ball instoad of pitching a littlo white one lovers of the soa are lingering long and swimming hard in his keen arms, knowing that soon they will be Ice and the city,' tho great core, is reaching a thousand hands and grabbing back her workers who havo spread wido and far. For vacation days are going! Already at country station, sad brown boys aro climbing aboard trains, with sad, brown girls (girls aro the lucky things howover Telegraphy from at will, and thus regulate their chrono mfttsrs and ascertain their position with an accuracy hitherto unattainable. This is truly sctentlflo magic Just think of HI Tou want to know the tru-i time to the fraction of a second, and all you have to do in order to get it Is to open your electrio ear to these sounds, which seem to drop out of the sky as f Old Time himself were speaking to you l It Is very much aa if the wheels of your watch were geared for a moment to the routing earth in order to correct their rate, for the whole thing is done automatically. The pendulum of a spe cial clock in the Observatory of Paris a clock whose running Is kept accurately In accord with the rotation of the earth periodically closes a circuit, which in stantly actuates the wireless apparatus In the Eiffel tower and thus sends forth an electrio voice, traveling with a speed whloh would suffice to carry It seven times around the earth in a single second, and which says in radlotelepraphlc lan guage, "W a. in." or "midnight." as tho case may be. For hundreds of miles around, in every direction, this mysterious voice drops out of space and can be heard In any tele phone attached to a wireless receiver. Beginning three minutes before tho auto mattq transmission of the hour Is made, a set of warning signals is sent out by listening to which the receiver may be prepared to note with great accuracy the difference between the time indicated by his watch and that given by the ob servatory clock. A practiced observer can make the correction to the tenth of a second. Even home-made wireless receivers suf fice for picking up these signals. Within the confines of Paris and Its suburbs the signals are so distinct that an ordinary gas pipe may be employed for an an tenna to catch tne electrio waves and a water pipe to form tho connection with the earth, while the detector may be ot the simplest form, such as any dec trlclan can make. Persons near ths Eiffel tower may employ their own bodies aa antennae, merely pressing be -!i!iL. f'A1 Eiffel Tower tween two fingers the terminal .of a wire less receiver. Similarly, the- wire con necting the electric bells In a house may be used for an antenna. If a cloudy night prevents astrono mical observations in Paris, corrections for the master-clock aro received by similar wireless signals sent out from a series of observatories, as at Algiers, Marseilles, Nlco and Besancon. It Is al most impossible that cloudy weather should prevail simultaneously at all these places, but even if that should happen, provision Is made for keeping the clock regulated by the aid of a number of other very accurate clocks called "time guards," which can be depended upon not to vary more than a small fraction ot a second lit the course of several days. Aa the means ot sending out such signals Improve, so that thoy can be transmitted across the whole breadth of By EDGAR LUC1EN LARKIX. "Can tnere be two kinds ot Infinities; or two Infinite spaces?" A. The writer ot this question must decide. The near est star is distant 25,000,090.000,000 miles. Go write a row of units 111111.,, to the ptar and let each unit represent one mile; then the distance represented by a line of Is, 35 trillion miles long, sub merges all human power of Imagination. But write a row of 222222. , , 36 trillion mites long, then the number of mile repre sented would be twice as great, Then write a row of KSSSCO... equally as long, and the distance expressed would be nine times a great aa that represented by the Is. But no human can think of the dis tance expressed by the Is. Let the twenty-five trillion or fifty trillion or a thousand trillion miles to the east; then a row could be extended toward the west Many millions ot years would be required to write the long rows. Suppose that you tho 0B TacatloH days, together aro Nell Brinkley Says: it is they usually can stay longer than tho follows) on tho platform. Tho sad, brown boy has his city clothes on with a tight white col lar that looks pallid against tho bronze of his neck his duck hat Is in bis trunk, and his stiff town hat torments his sunburnt fore head. Tho Bad, brown girl is still in her heelless sneakers and middy and naked head. Pretty soon she, too, will be in patent-kids with silver buckles tailored and covered of head with her browned cheeks -turned to the city. Every summer hotel tho shores of the gray sea hero, and the shores of the raw-bluo sea in the west; piney woods in the Rockies; lakes in New England; country towns in north and south and east and west aro good-by places now. On the Band-duno they have their last day. There are a million things to say and they say nothing! The sea 1b very still, and a land wind blows her hair in little, ripply banners, whips his tio and all the oceans, from properly chosen cen tral stations, navigation will attain a de gree of safety hitherto unknown. At present the officers of a ship at sea have to depend for the accuracy of their cal culations of longitude or distance east cr west of Greenwich, upon the more or less true running of their chronometers. They can ascertain local time and their latitude by celestial observations alone, but such observations do not give, the longitude unless the true Greenwich time is also known. This the new system of wireless transmission will supply with a degree of universality and accuracy that Is truly marvellous. If such a system bad been in operation at the time ot the wreckof the Titanic there might have been no such uncertainty as was actually shown in the calculations ot the posi tions ot those various ships that played a part In that terrible tragedy of the deep. Two Infinities write 9a both -ways during 1.000 million years each. Then the distance in miles would be thinner than a spider's thread when compared to an Infinite distance. There are possibly fifty persons now llv lng able to think one new thought; they are all transcendent mathematicians. Not one ot these even tries to begin to think of Infinity or eternity. They all knew better. Only the superficial strive to think of the two words; so my questioner must answer his own question, for I can not oven hope to secure a glimpse, last ing a thousandth part of one second ot the meaning of one of the following list ot words: Mind, space, time, duration, Infinity, eternity, beginning, end, space and electrons. Q. (U "Please tell me how far the moon goes north and south from the equator and theory for the same." A. The orbit of tho earth makes an angle with the equator In spaces. On not so sweet ad ibis tho last winged 3fc 3$& Jfc The Question of Winter By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Dear Miss Fairfax: In the office whern I am employed I como In contact with qulto a few men. and one ot them, a Ttidower, has asked me to marry him. 1 cm a young girl 18 years of age. and have a very nice home, good parents and belong to a nice, respectablo family. I know my parents would not like me to n arry this man, as he Is 45 years of ago. I told him that, and he wants me to elope with him. Now. I think, If I did that the neighbors would have a very bad opinion of me. and, then. 1 know my mother and father would worry about me if I were to run away. When he came into the office one day lie caught me talking to his Bon, who Is M years of age, and he was furious and said I should marry him at once. He has plenty of money and can give me everything I like, but I do not love him but like him. I think, as he says, that after we are married I shall learn to love him. Do you think I will? He Is very good to me. and says he will always love me. He is nice looktntr end dresses nicely. He said I should tell rry mother, and If she says yee. why then we'll ahve a churoh wedding, but if not. that we will be married anyhow, but riot have a wedding. Please, Miss Fairfax, what should I do? BUE. So he Is very good to you and cays January ), 1800, tills angle was S3 degrees 27 minutes, E4.22 seconds. On January 1, 1913, 23 degrees, 27 minutes. 2.17 seconds, a decrease ot 62 seconds In 112 years. This decrease has been going on during hun dreds ot thousands of years. It will stop and then Increase during several hun dred thousand years, but the total rock ing ot the earth's orbit Is confined to 1 degree, 21 minutes. The moon's orbit rocks the same way on the earth's orbit, the maximum angte between being 5 de grees, 19 minutes. The two angles added for 1911 equal S3 degrees, $ minutes. S seconds. Many thousands of years ago this distance wan a little greater. And the ascends that far on the other side ot the equator, the total sweep being 67 degrees, 32 minutes, 4 seconds. And the maximum distance within 3 seconds occurred on March 28, this year, the moon then being 28 degrees, tt minutes, 25 seconds south. day." lifts the tawny coat of her collie. The gulls scream and sail against tho keen blue of the sky. And all the time the sea lisps in a little Une of lather on tho sunny sand. The dog's brown eyes aro misera ble. Tho man's gray ones are blank with despair. The girl's are misty and absent. The hours go like swlft-slldlng water. And, oddly enough this their last day to laugh and love and fill with all the delights they find in one another is singularly empty. They touch hands little, their tongues aro tied, his gayety and clover tongue that she adores go suddenly back on him. He is very dull! Her tenderness her alert littlo brain are quite gone away. She is very stupid! And pretty soon the wlne-llke light of tho sunset dyes all the world in claret the girl shivers a little and tho man clears his throat and says in a stranger's voice, "Had wo better go?" And the last, day is over. that he will always love you little Sue of the wistful heart? Well, what you suppose he would be and what would you expect him to say when he Is trying to get .you to marry bim. pray toll? He certainly isn't going to be bad to you and tell you that he is only going to love you while the honeymoon lasts, Is he7 N6t If he's reauy trying to get you for a wife. Decettful-do I mean that he is that? Not the least little bit In thJ world do I mean that but whisper the other day ot tho picnic do you remember how very, very hungry you were, and how you wished that the chocolate cake had five layers instead of three when you saw old Aunt Susan take it out ot the basket? The chicken looked bo good, too didn't It? all nice and brown and flaky, and, dear me, who made those- delicious little Bakes, .all sugar and spice that was be fore luncheon. After luncheon you -were thirsty awful thirsty, and you wouldn't have traded a good cold glass of lemonade for all tho chocolate cakes in the world and ten dozen frosted cookies, would you? You weren't deceitful about It at all, were you you were just hungry before luncheon. That's the way with a nice, amiable looking man some times. Ueforo marriage he's hungry and he talks like a hungry man; perhaps after the honeymoon he may not quite agree with his own opinion of you just now. Did you never stop to think ot that? You're IS and he's tS a bad balance in the bank of years. I'm afraid. It would be all right if you loved the man, but ym tay you do not. And, then, that little affair of the son It looks aa If tho gentleman was a bit disposed to be jealous It he's so furious to see yon talking to his own son before you marry him what would he be to see you talking to anybody's son on earth after you are married? You are not In love with this man the only thing you can find to say In his favor Is that he has plenty of money and can give you everything you want can he? Will he? Why. the very day after you married this man you might meet the one you could really lovewhat then? I and Spring 3fc 3& c -J Sense prudence principle, oh, yes, these things ought to all count in such & case but are you sure they would count In your own particular one7 Cleverer women than you have thrown thoir lives away In Just such a bargain as this. Don't you do it, little Sue don't you think of doing it. Walt till you fall in love, Sue, and then marry and be happy if it's only a month or to be happy for once and laugh at the grim old world. You've found tho secret of it all in that oni month after all. COMB SAGE TEA IN UFELESyRW HI Looi young 1 Common garden Saga and Sulphur darkens so naturally nobody can tell Grandmother kept her hair beautifully darkened, glossy and abundant with a brew of Sage Tea and Bulphur. When ever her hair fell out or took on that dull, faded or streaked appearance, this simple mixture waa applied with won derful effect By asking at any drug store for "Wyeth's Sago and Sulphur Hair Remedy," you will get a large bottle of this old-time recipe, ready to use, tor about SO cents. This simple mixture can be depended upon to restore natural color and beauty to the hair and Is splendid tor dandruff, dry, itchy scalp and falling hair. A well known down town druggist sayt everybody use Wyeth's Sage and Sul phur, because it dorkns so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell It haa been applied It's so easy to use, too. You simply dampen a comb or soft brush and draw It ttirough your hair, taking on strand at a time. By morning the jsray hair disappear; after another appllca. tlon or two, it Is restored to Its natural color and looks glossy, soft and abundant TWENTIETH CENTURY farmer The Paper for the Home. An Interesting1 Howe Paper, T