THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1913.
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By ELLA. WHEELER WILCOX.
Copyright, 1913, by American-Journal-Exomlntr.
8o many people people la the world;
So few great bouIb, lovo ordered, well begun,
' In answer to the fertllo mother needl
. So fow who seem
The Image of the Maker's mortal dream;
So many bora of mero propinquity
Of luBtful habit, or of accident.
Their mothers felt
No mighty, all-compelling wish to Bee
Their bosoms garden-placos
Abloom with flower faces;
No tidal' wave swept o'or them with Its flood; v '
No thrill of flesh or hoart; no leap of blood;
No glowing fire, flaming to white desire
For mating and for motherhood,
Yet they bore children.
God! how mankind misuses Thy command'
To populate the earth!
How low Is brought high birth!
How low tho woman; when, inert as spawn '
Left on tho sands to fertlllzo,
She is the means through which tho race goes on!
Not bo. the first intent.
Birth, as the Supreme Mind conceived it, meant
The clear anower. Only thus and thori
Aro fine, well-ordered and potential Urea
Brought Into being. Not by church or state
Can birth be made legitimate,
Unless
Love in Its fulness "bless.
Creation so ordains Its lofty laws
That man, while greater In all other things, '
Is. lesser In the generative cause.
The father may be merely man, the male;
Tet more than female must the mother be.
The woman who would fashion
Souls, for the ubo of earth and angels meet,
Must entertain a high and holy passion.
Not rank, or wealth, or lntlnenco of kings
Can give a soul its dowor.
Of majesty and power,
Great 'love to that great hour.
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Helping Along the Game
By DOROTHY DIX
A great many parents wonder why
th.elf daughters do not marry. They see
other slrli, not .half bo pretty nor at
tntettver as their own, setUlntr themselves
cc'rofbrtably In lffe
with, husbands and.
homes, while their
headed-, lor the
Spliratera' -Retreat.
arid1 (Key puasla
thghv. brain why,
this ;l thus, and
whf one maiden W
called to the altar
an another left.
And It never oc
cur ".to; .them' that
t he y1. . themselves,
r rjv their 'daughters'
matrimonial hoo
doo. ,Tfey don't In
tend to be. Good
sraclous not Far.
frpfn ltl They are
convinced that
matrimony la the predestined career fo:
a woman, and. that the wedding- belt Is
about the surest 'dinner bell that ever
rinks for a girl. If you would accuse
them- of, trying-. to Insure their Mamies
and -Sadies -being old maids, they -would
Indignantly deny the charge. Yet such
Kdhe case. They block tho love game
at' every turn Instead of pushing- It along.
Take the case, for Instance, In which
the family constitutes. Itself a commit-
tee,. of criticism that alts In Judgment
upon every young man that comes to the
hernia a.n& tears him limb from "limb. Is
any,youth -going to subject himself to
that ordeal It .he Knows it? la any girl
going to stand for having her men-
friends vivisected if she can help It?
Not-much. W are all human and we've
all 'got fault andfbtbles, but vre don't
cajfej to have them discussed and ridiculed.-
nor do we enjoy having our
friends wade -the target for the near-wit,
tven. -of our own family.
I 'know a beautiful and charming- young
girl "who Is much admired of men, -who
rt much puzzled aa to why she never
Invites them to call upon . her . at her
home, though sha evidently, .enjoys their
lociety elsewhere, and who wonder why,
fu$x they suggest coming to see her,
that she always makes some excuse to
prevent their doing so.- The real reason
Is .because her family consider every
bead that she has as their game. Only
let' a man come, to see her and. they
make merry over his every peculiarity,
fhey Imitate his walk and his mannerism
and turn him Into such a figure of tun
that It has made the girl have a perfect
horrqr of having a man come to see
herrnd thus offering him up as a fresh
WcUjn. . .
The family think all of this a merry
JeAjbuf about ten ye,ars from now, when
Sadie's beauty begins to fade, and they
realize that she Is still hanging on the
parent bough, the fact that they kept
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her from marrying, by making her afraid
to have a man come to see her, won't
seem eo funny. But that's- just what
they're doing. Family criticism explains
why there's many an old -maid.
Then there's the family that kills love's
young dream by' ridicule. A maiden's
budding fancy Js the most delicate and
sensitive thing, in the world, and. It can
be blighted1' alinoa't hy'jo. breath- Heaven
knowa wfey.i Wt a certain potry ' and
romance must surround a man before a
girl can fall In love- with him, and U
you tear 'this away from him there la
nothing- doing la the sentiment line 'for
her.
I once asked a particularly charming;
old maid why she bad sever married, and
he said that, .the reason was that when
she was a girl every time any man earns
courting her her family, would .make fun
of him. They would point out that he
had a nose like a beak, or a jaw like a
bulldog, or that ho waddled when he
walked, or that he sputtered when h
talked, and, having been made to see
him In this absurd light, ehe could never
again behold him as the hero of her
dream. The result waa that she kept
waiting for tho one perfect' man, beyond
family criticism, tq come along, and, as
ho never did, she drifted helplessly Into
splnsterhood.
Another reason why girls don't marry
Is because they have the misfortune to
have parents who are hindrances Instead
of helps. Before you can pull off a suc
cess at anything you've got to have a
good chance to do it. and this is as true
of matrimony as of business. A girt can't
marry unless she has the opportunity,
and It Is up to her parents to provide
that opportunity.
This can be done In many ways; by
letting a girl go to places where she
will meet eligible men, by giving 'her
the best clothes that can be afforded, be
cause her youth Is the sunshine in which
a girl must make her matrimonial hay.
and chiefly by making the home such a
Pleasant place that men will like to come
to It
Tet there are mothers and fathers who
make every young man who comes to
the hoase feel as If he was an inter
loper, or a burglar, with the very natural
consequences that no youth has tho
courage to encounter such an Inhos
pitable reception a second time, and aV
the men In the community flock around
acme girl whose parents give them tha
glad hand. Believe' me, mother and
father have lust aa much 4o do .with
making Mamie and Sadie a belle as the
girl's own attractions have.
Another reason why so many sirls aro
61d maids Is because their parent haven't
enough sense to get out of the way and
give a man a chance to make love. How
can a fellow have the nerve to make
love to a girl when father Is sitting by
tha drop light, not six feet away," read
ing, the evening paper, and mother and
Aunt Jane are gosslpplng within earshot,
una mue oroiner is listening behind the
portlereT And. how can a girl play up
her little arts and artifices with the
family looking on, ready to guy her about
It as soon as the front door closes be
hind the man 7
Every man and woman must remem
ber how they acted In the own court
ing days, and yet In splta of this you
will hear a father say that he Is not
going to let Bally and her fool beaux
drive him out of his own favorite chair
In his own sitting room. Very well. Let
Urn stick to It If he wants Sally to be
an old maid and to have to support her
Instead of her having a husband to do It
or course, the architects that arrange
modern flats don't take love-making Into
account They crowd the little wlmrad
god out which la perhaps one reason
wny mures less marrying In dtlee than
there is in .the country and small town.
Tne moral of all of which la that It
sou want your girls to marry you must
mera a cnanoe. Ycu must help
along the love game, not strew tack In
Its way.
Envy
Copyright, 1913, International Newa Service,
By Nell Brinkley
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Tho best little swimmer in tho seaside colony drags
herself out on a wot rock and sits happy and salty, swing
ing her silken-clad feet in the flying spray. Her lashes aro
wet and cling togothor in little starry points; her hair hugs
her bade in sprays of wet gold, close as ivy to a young tree;
her brown arms glisten; salt drops bead her chcoks. Every
wave that shivers into suds on the rocks sends its reaching
spume against bur face and knees. Her foot aro sometimes,
as the sea draws back, high above the water then thoy
are hidden in the welter of white and green. Over and
around the rocks it pours and foams, waving tho long
beards of seaweed on their grim gray sides. The best little
swimmer lifts her chin and smiles. For the sea and she
are in- close allegiance. She Is not afraid of him. Her
strong, brown shoulders and her deep breast never
fall thoy carry her far, and when she clambers
out 'at the sea's green armn nho is as little tired
as when sho slipped Into thorn. She Btretches her
hard llttio arm and Inspects it proudly; sho is also very
proud when she remombers the stunts she can do. She
swings her feet in the froth and exults! Suddenly out of
tho swirling deop water below her a sleek head lifts and
Iridescent, flsh-Ukc, lovely eyes regard her mockingly. The
hair of its head is green as Jade and big, pink shells lio
against Its ears. Sho lifts one arm from tho water and the
wot hand 1b wobbod, Far behind hoi to tho amazed eyes
of tho wot girl on the rock a finned tail lifts from the
surf. Sho rears her body far out and tho scales that dimly
begin at tho pale flesh of hor walat are as red gold ob tho
Japanese fish In a lily pond. And then and thero tho
creature of the sea beginB, with mocking laughter, a string
of marvelous exhibitions,- Sho does all tho wonderful
stunts that tho land-girl can doand all of those she could
do If sho had gills instead of lungB In her deop chest.
Tho land-girl's pride falls. When she has donet tho
mermaid circles seal-like below "her, leapjng high a'tf she
faces hor, liko a wet Jewel In green and goldtriumphant
and speaks. v
"Ho, land-maiden! I saw you showing off this day
showing your little valor in the sen. .What canVyou do that
stands beside all this? In your chest you have lungs that
must breathe air or you diet . The seals and I are. bfood
brothcrs. You nro an alien a pitiful' fcw.immqr. and the
Ben is your enemy!" The sea -creature -laughs and -dives
doep. The flicker of her gold soajea-the , . Jade jot her
writhing hair are vanished. -
Tho land-girl's cheeks woro hot with, envy. .'
"I wish I wero a lung-fish! ".sho. declares.
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Who Has the Right Way?
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By WINNTFRJBD BLACK.
Six people were killed byautomoblles In
a llttio western city within ten days Just
a week or so ago.
All of trie people killed were sober, all
of them were nor
mally active, and
every one of then)
was walking along
on the publlo street
where every cttlten
and every alien is
entitled to walk.
And when the six
different automo
bile drivers were
brought on differ
ent days f to differ
ent courts they all
said "the same thing
In a little differ
ent words.
The first chauf
feur "was distres
sed, he hated to
think of killing the
gentle middle aged woman who lay dead
In the morgue uptown.
"I saw her all right," said the chauf
feur, "and I blew' and blew. My whistle
was In good order, but she never even
turned her head. I don't see how I waa
to blame."
The second man, who had killed a
woman that week, waa not quite so wor
ried. He seemed rather annoyed than
anything else. "Why, the woman saw mo
coming," said the second driver, "and sho
never even tried to get out of my way,"
The third driver waa the owner of
the car, which had' killed an inoffensive
old man. "Ho was walking right across
the street." said the third driver, "and I
saw him plainly. I tooted my horn as
loud' as I could, and when I saw ho
wasn't going to get out of the way I tried
to stop, but It was too late."
The other three drivers were all profes
sionals and they seemed rather amused
than otherwise by the fact that they had
killed people. One said th man he killed
was plainly a "Jay" and didn't know how
to get out of the way or probably didn't
know what the signal meant; and one sold
the woman he kilted looked as If she'd
never heard an automobile horn before jt
was all very Interesting.
And four families were left motherless
and two harmless old men were killed Just
because the drivers of those cars didn't
know and didn't want to know the very
first principles of American law and
American ideas.
"I tooted as loud aa I could, but ho
wouldn't get out of the way." When the
man, who had killed this man, said that
not one person In that courtroom smiled
or looked at all surprised. The judge
listened as one hearkens to a perfectly
Just and reasonable excuse for strange
and punllng conduct And the courtroom
loungers glanced' at one another as who
should say, "Well, after all, a man can't
be blamed for everything."
And yet, If a man would start running
down Broadway at the top of his speed,
how many blocks would he go before he'd
te arrested? What would happen If ho
shouted to every one in his path "Get out
of my way, I'm In a hurryT,, How many
people would let him push them out of the
way and go by just because he happened
to want to get somewhere In a hurry or
becaue he liked to run and needed the
exercise?
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That's Jjust what tho automobllo fiend
does exactly what he does. He runs his
machine but Into the mlddlo of the street
.and .shouts to all who can hear him:
"dot out of, my way, let me pass-don't
stop me." And If you won't listen to him
and do as he says crunch somebody Is
going to watch a long time at tho win
dow for you tha( night when dinner time
comes.
Who gives these people the light to do
this sort of thing? Do they purchase lm
niuntty from common courtesy, common
ilecenoy and common regard for the
rights of others when they buy tho car?
Who saya so? How do they get such an
Idea?
I've sat in a machine and paused a'
kindergarten at the closing hour, and no
power on earth could make the nan driv
ing It slow down-wlth llttio, laughing
children playing almost under the very
wheels.
Six in a week, or ten days! I wonder
that the toll Isn't ten times as great. It
would be If wo weren't all possessed with
the terror of the machine, so possessed
that we will leap aside at the sound of an
automobllo horn as if It were the trumpet
of doom sounding in our fated ears.
Isn't there any way to get some kind
of Justice, some kind of common sense
about this sort of things
Con't some one open a school for chauf
feurs .and make every man who runs a
machine graduate, or give up his ma
chine? Can't we teach them thero that
the fact that a man Is driving a big en
glno right down the middle of the road
is no reason why ho should Imagine that
the road belongs to him? It does not
It belongs first and foremost to the man
who walks and to the woman who walks,
so the law snis and saya expressly,
Tho automobile Is tho Intruder, the In
terloper, the one to give concessions and
mako allowances, not the man who walks.
Isn't there soma way of getllng this sim
ple little faqt Into tho brains of the per
sons who drlvo us madly from hither to
yon In something that seems very like a
demonlao obsession?
I don't Want to run down the middle of
the road yelling, waving my arms and
telling all who daro to Walk abroad to get
out of my way at the peril of their lives.
But It'a the hardest thing in tho world not
to do It If I venture Into a machine those
days,
New York traffio is pretty well con
trolled. But I wish some one would net a
list of tho automobile murders from one
end of this country to the other day af
ter day. I bellovo It would piove interest
ing reading, and In the meantime what
are we going to do about It? .
Advice to the LQvelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
In a. Difficult IMace,
Dear Miss Fairfax; Sly girl friend and
her friend and my friend ant! I have
been In tha habit of going out together.
Her friend seems to pay more attention
to me than he does to Mr. Sho noticed
this and mentioned It to me, and I said
It was not my fault. We have worn
each other's rings for years and have
been dear friends. She asked me for her
ring and gave me mine. As she Is a dear
friend to me, and aa I do not wish to
win her gentleman friend, will you kindly
advise me how I should act toward him?
H. U I T.
Avoid future plans that Include all four
of you, and If this Is not ntwnv. avnM-
able devote yourself to your bwh escort
ana treat ner escort coolly.
Do not, I .urge, lose this girl's .friend
ship If you can help it She is Jealous,
naturally, and may not behaVe normally,
but I trust you will bo broad enough
and kind enough to remember this, and
cherish no resentment
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hair so naturally and evenly "that io owe
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Those whose- hair la turning gray, be
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