THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1913.
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Beauty
How Do You Dress Your Hair, Care
of Your Teeth, Keep Your Eyes Bright?
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By LILIAN LAUFERTV.
I Criminal Carelessness !
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J) Vy DOROTHY 1IX
Talking to "Mary Nash Is not a little
mono-dialogue wherein the Interviewer
decider what a girl of the particular type
of the Interviewed outfit to say and says
it for her. Talking to Mary Nash Is, In- i
stead, taking part In a scintillating and
yet deeply thoughtful conversation in
which ono of the most earnest, charm
ingly philosophical and spiritually lovely
girls of the stage spurs the interviewer
on to try to hold up her end" of a chat
that begins with personal pulchritude,
veers to the problems of living this some
times brings to woman and dutifully
swings back to a consideration of beauty
per se. And be It added, finally, that
talking to .Mary Nash and with Mary
Nash means fifteen minutes of pure Joy
between and added to the acts of the
thought-compelling play, "The Lure." In
which sho portrays the latest heroine of
the Maximo Elliott theater.
"Has the play mado you say, 'Beauty
Is- a snare and a delusion' and share
with the mother In 'Fanny's First Play
the thought 'happiness Is from within?' "
asked Miss .Nash with that combination
of desire to know and understand the
humorous appreciation of life that seems
to mo to bo her salient characteristic.
"It is all true unlets beauty has a
guiding forco of mentality and Idealism.
True beauty has to be splrlt-and spirit
Illuminated by the inner glow from the
mam
Inner shrine that keeps a woman's beauty
a pure, flickering flame.
"Nowadays any woman should be
ashamed not to be good looking. Prtttl
ness may result from a combination of
doll-like features and French cosmetics;
but. beauty is clean, healthy body shell
lighted from within by spirit and high
Ideals. .
"I say any woman ought to be ashamed
not i to be good looking,' for good looks
have buen made s easily possible they
mean that clean, ' Just-had-my-bath-look
that is always so delightfully present In
the .pink-cheeked Englishwoman. They
mean carefully brushed and washed and
neatly arranged hair; and' clean cared-for
teeth; and clear eyes .Ujat have nad
enough sleep and cold water bathings;
and a- clear skin that results from a
prpperly considered digestion.
"Good looks mean a controlled nature
that does not exhaust lltselt In unworthy
emotions. Good looks -meaii simple, fresh
clothes as free from' tawdriness as' the
body' they encase or the mind' that has
designed them In '. tuno k with that body.
So, slnco these things have been' lectured
about and taught and written of, any
woman of brains and perception must
stop and look and listen and feel shame
to fall In her heritage of clean, healthy
good looks.. '
"To elevate good looks to beauty, add
Pretty Mary Nash, Who villas Boon
the Leading Woman In "The Lure."
tb your physical care of - tho outer sholl
one part' of Idealism, one part of love"
lor .thfeMorId(one" part-of willingness to
".work, and study, and one part of simple
adherence to duty with these keep the
fire In your inner shrine aglow and
.beauty won't be a delusion and a snare,
but a fact! of universal' delight as your
happy spirit wells' up from within.
t'Do y6o4cnW, I have often noticed' In
the .country that 'the "girls are ffrowing
up wlthb a 'flowerlftt? loveliness that'
makes the youngKthlhgs all 'do pretty and
sweet that thcyBecm. like human flowers7
You see, that is because they are coming
to know how to tako care of them
selves and .to their own knowledge Is
added nature's careful' attention.
"If. only the glrjs In tho city would
forget that they know where to buy per
oxide and rouge and lip salve, and would,
instead, make a science of keeping their
bodies clean and sweet and nourished In
healthiness and tend the inner shrine, too,
I think- qur good old human race would
grow to be as beautiful as It surely must
have been Intended tQ bo befqre we, with
cruelty and - ignorance, spoiled the orig
inal design.
"Oh, If only all the girls growing up
would valuo brains and training as highly
as beauty for they are part of true
beauty's self perhaps the story of Sylvia
and of poor little Charlotte Baker of
Springfield, of all the 25,000 poor young
girls who go yearly to feed the stream of
horror would not be true..''
But this is a beauty talitl We will not
go on Into the problems of humanity;
we will Just content ourselves with won
dering If Mary Nash has not helped us
alt toward a solution of our own prob
lem when she tells us to be healthy and
happy and wise and gives us as her Ideal
of beauty the beauty of Ideals.
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The Nose as an Indication of Character
Physician Invents Apparatus Which' Perfects Telephonic Speech by Utilizing- Nasal Sounds
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GARRETT V SERVlSS.
Napoleon preferred big-nosed men for
his eimy leaders, and the correctness of
his Intuition concerning the significance
of theVnpstf as an indicator of character
seems to have been
vindicated by his
txpe'riene'e at
Watorloo, for tho
fluke ,'of, Wellington
hud on' of the big
gest noses of his
day, and anchored,
as ltiWere, by the
Iron fpuke's nose,
the English army
remained Immov
able i 7 until both
night; and Bluchtr
lxrivscU"-
T-nvnter. the DhVS-
lognoDjlst. laid strong stress upon a
large nose as a token of a sturdy, ener
retlc nature, and this feature bos gener
ally been regarded In that light.
Science has discovered no reason why
the nose should possess this kind of slg
ilflcance, but It has recently been found
out that the note plays a far more Im
portant vart than had been suspected In
Iho utterance of speech. Tho dlragree
oblo sounds of what we call a "nasal
voice" are due to the fact that the nose
does ot properly perform Its functions.
When it is well shaped wtthtn and Un
obstructed, tho nose perfects the voice,
i without Us syllables containing the
consonants .'.'m'1 and "n", cannot,. he
has glveii special study to the f uncltons
clearly uttered..
Dr. Glover of the Conservatory of Paris
of the nose In speech, and he-points out
that the chief ' trcnible with" the ordinary
telephone Ib due ,tolhe oc-that it does
not transmit the sounds, that are peculiar
to the nose. - Only the mouth sounds are
. transmitted to 'the vibrating' membrane,;
I the consequence being that 'many words
are neara ODBCureiy, xne nasai sounds
which would complete their utterance
being absent.
Accordingly he has Invented a special'
form of telephone transmitter, furnished
with an extra tube, which gathers and
transmits the sounds coming from tho
nose. The results have fully corre
sponded with his expectations, for when
one speaks through a telephone of this
kind the words are transmitted In their
Integrity, the "m" and "n" sounds are
distinctly blended with the others, and
the reproduction of the speaker's voice
Is perfect.
The speaker, himself, It Is claimed,
finds it easier to use this form of tele:
phone, for It requires less exertion 04
the voice. It Is not necessary to speak,
loudly in" order to be well. heiM'. Dr".
Glover has also found that Interposition
of a, very thin paper between the mouth
and nose of the' speaker and the vlbrat
1 tory apparatus does not In the least d.
! minlib the distinctness of the sounds.
while It serves to prevent possible- con
tamination, lie calls his new apparatus tho 'phy
siological telephone," not merely because
of the precaution to prevent contamina
tion, but more especially because with Its
aid, for the first time, the full physiolo
gical value of the voice Is utilized In tele
phony transmission. The voice of the
speakor Is, at the same time, rendered
clearer to the hearer and Its timbre ,,is
completely transmitted, so that It sounds
more natural, as If the speaker were
actually present
For th.04p.wh6 are .curious about such
things It may bo Interesting to remark
that this function of the nose In speech
may possibly have- some connection with
the observation of the physiognomists
that the nose Is a significant feature In
revealing the mental character of Its pos
sessor. Every part of the body that is
employed by the mind for expressing It
self Inevitably acquires tell-tale marks
which enable a shrewd observer to dis
cern something of the mental make-up.
It Is notably so with the mouth, not be
cause It Is employed In eating but bev
cause tt Is an Instrument for the expres
sion of throught through the medium of
speech.
Since the nose also takes part In the
verbal utterance of thought, why should
It not, too, exhibit similar Indications of
character? It is not alone upon the stse
of the nose that the physiognomist bases
his conclusions, but upon peculiarities of
shape and appearance which are grad
ually developed and emphuslzed as the
individual grows, older and his mental
characteristics begin to Imprint them
staves on his features.
A v great many of us and we are not
hard-hearted people either read with de
light the other day of a Judge who had
the courage to sentence a man to eight
years In the pen
itentiary for acci
dentally killing his
friend. It Is about
time that somebody
called a halt not
only on tho fool
who fools with a
gun, but on the
other criminally
careless Individuals
who go on their
devastating way
.through the world.
breaking hearts
and ruining homes,
and who think
they have suffi
ciently atoned for
the harm they do
by saying thoy
didn't intend It
In all the length and breadth of con
tradictory human nature there Is nothing
stranger than that we should take this
overly charitable view pt carelessness.
The slmplo testimony that "he didn't
know the gun was loaded" has been ac
cepted as a handsomt apology for murdnr
In Innumerable coses. To say we "didn't
think" the rest of us regard as a blanket
excuse that we can stretch over all tho
lesser crimes In the calendar. We work
It for all that It Is worth, yet In reality
It Is a plea for pardon that nobody but
An tdtot Is justified In putting forth In his
awn "behalf. ,
What reason, that anybody ought to be
expected to accept, can an Intelligent
human being give fqr not thinking'.' It,
always reminds me of a colored phlh
osophcr I once know,t who. meted out 11
stern Justice to her offspring, and who
was particularly severe on them when
they da rod to offer tho excuse, "I didn't;
think," by way of an panacea for their
shortcomings. "Didn't think,, ' didn't
think," sho would exclaim, xvrathfully,
"whuts de good In havln' a thinker f
you don't wuk It?"
80 say wo all, brethren and sisters
what's the use?
To take the matter up In Its most prac
tical aspect Is to recognize the fact thut
It Is other people's carelessness that lays
our heaviest burdens upon us. This' Is
especially true as regards women, and
there Isn't a mother, and wife, and
housekeeper in the land who doesn't
know that it is because her family don't
think that she must slave at a never
ending job, that has no let-up from year's
end to year's end.
Even more to be deplored than this Is
tho lacix of thought we show In our con
duct to those of our ownhousehold and
whose happiness or misery lies In our
hands. I often think that when ' the
great judgment day comes for each of us,
-and we must answer for the deeds dono'
In the flesh, we shall not bo so appalled
by the one or two great wrongs wo
may have committed as by the thousand
little acts of criminal carelessness that
darked our past.
What, for Instance, are thoso husbands,
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woman's happiness In their keeping and
'.hen we're so careless that they threw It
vay? The world Is full of heart-hungry
wives, who are starving for a little ap
preciation, a little love, a llttlo praise.
'e don't recognize It as a tragedy be
cause we are too familiar with It; but
thero is really no sight sadder than that
of the woman who spends her life trying'
to please a husband who accepts her
labor without thanks, who passes over
her achievements without commendation,
and who growls and grumbles over every
mistake.
Another place where we deserve to do
time for our criminal carelessness Is In
the way we talk before servants. We
discuss the most Intimate matters before
them. We hazard gilesses at people's
motives. We repeat rumors of Intrigues.
Wo talk as If the maid who was' waiting
behind our chair were deaf as the adder
of the scriptures and dumb as a coffin
nail, Instead of being an elongated ear
and a talking machine combined.
Then, when a distorted and garbled
report goes forth of some family happen
ing we wonder how on earth It got 'put.
Perhaps it Is not far short of the truth
to say that we are all the outhors of our
own scandals, and that our own ser
vants are' the disseminators. They" get a
word hece and there, and put their own
interpretation on It, and the result Is
that reputations are ruined.
Mr. and Mrs. X discuss family flnancen
at the table, and Mr. X remarks that
they can't afford so and so. Listening
Mary Jane, bringing In the dinner, picks
up a few sentences, and by the time she
has confided what she thought she" heard
to Mrs. Jones' cook, and she has passed
It on to Mrs. Brown's nurse, all the world
Is awaro of a rumor, that tho X' are
toppling on the verge of bankruptcy and
can't pay their servants. We despise the
boso rumor we call kitchen' gossip, but
we listen to It It makes and mars char
acters, arid the pity of tho thing Is that
It Is our own criminal carelessness that
lays Its foundations.
Thero are also the criminally careless
people who terrorize society with the
malapropos remarks. A forbidden sub
ject draws then on to their doom as
surely and Irresistibly as the magnet at
tracts the needle. If there Is a tender
spot In your soul they put their finger
right on It Let an- old maid be present
and they get funny on the subject of
women who are trying to marry. If there
Is a divorced person In the company,
wild horses couldn't draw them away
from a discussion of marital unhapptness.
Has somebody a son who Is a black
sheep and who has brought shame and
sorrow on his family, they dlsccunie on
forgery and betrayed trusts and prisons.
Of course, these people always excuse
themselves by saying they didn't think
It should never be accepted. People who
haven't enough brains to think have no
business , in society. They should be
locked up In asylums for the feeble
minded until they learn enough Intel
ligence to keep them from wounding
other people by their dangerous conversa
tion. For my part, I would prefer to be
killed by the clean stiletto stab of an
enemy to being kicked to death by a
donkey, and I would Just as soon have
my feeling hurt, or my vanity wounded,
by an Intentional unklndness as by the
blunderlg stupidity of the criminally care
less -who never think.
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This Blmplo tallor-matlo. or dirk, greon duvotyn
cn .th'q.left' 1 absolutely the "dernier crl" of tho
Paris modes. Tho -woman who moans to copy It
must mako stiro that her tailor is an adopt at lino.
For graceful easy lines are moro than ever neces
sary when simplicity rulos In tho tailor-made realm.
Tho three-quarter coat Is cut away aboro tho waist
and ends In a swallowtail at tho back. At tho nock
there lB'ii round collar of Ivory liberty. Tho sloovoa
havo Uickg -at tho lino that would ordinarily mark
tho cuff. A drapod bolt of the duvetyn passes
through straps formed by cuts In tho coat and Is
knotted at tho back in two sash ends finished by a
double row of silk tassels in self-colored silk.
Tho plain, round skirt hao a panel of pressed
pleats extending across the back in sunburst fashion.
Tho afternoon frock in tho center is of coppcr
colorod crepe meteor, with a dash of sapphire bluo
in tho Boft silk girdle. Tho kimono bodice opens
to the waist lino in a surplice. The deep collar and
cuffs are of embroidered white linen odged with a
double row of knlfo-plaltod valenclonnes. Tho little
waistcoat is mado of folds of ivory not. Tho blue
glrdlo ties' In a square bow at tho loft sldo of the
surplice. "
The short, round skirt Is gathered at the waist
and falls straight to tho ankle, whoro a narrow fold
finishes tho bom. Tho front panel is trimmed at
tho center of Its length by four close-set two-Inch
tucks,
This stunning afternoon dress on tho right bears
all tho hall-marks of the smart French dressmaker,
and yet tho woman who has a bit of skill or a clever
seamstress can fashion ono like it. Tho matorials
used nro pralrio green satin for tho coat and bro
caded cropo of tho samo beautiful shade for tho
skirt and slmplo bobo waist.
Tho waist, which is Invisible In oUr picture, has
a deep yoke of not trimmed in simple flounces of
tho same material. Tho coat 1b slightly blousod
with broad, low armholes, from which tho material
extonds in a long, half-flttod sloovo, buttoned with
tiny round buttons up to tho elbow and finished
with little net frills. Not is tho broad shawl collar
edged in ploatod flounces of tho samo.
A hugo ornamont of embroidery In light tones
fastens tho draped glrdlo at tho middle ffont. Two
poIntB gathorod at tho waist extend from the glrdlo
on each Bldo of tho front. At tho back there Is a
small square panel for tho same height.
Tho skirt fastona in front and 1b' trimmed In
groups of tho satin buttons; and at the foot thero
is a short silt to show tho foot 'Just to tho anklo.
Tiny tucks extend bolow the'lilp-llno and from them
a bit of f ullncBs goes to rellovo tho scant line of the
Bkirt.
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Of Poetic Authority
By BKATIUCU FAIKKAX.
"I am In love with a girl of my own
age, which Is 20 years," writes a young
man who signs himself "K," "and, though
I have seen her only three times, she al
lowed me to kiss her when we parted.
Can a love like that be true?"
"None ever loved but at first sight they
loved," wrote George Chapman, and the
poet who knew more of the human heart
than any slnco his time, Shakespeare,
held that love at sight was the supreme
test. He wrote; "No sooner met but
they looked! no sooner looked but they
loved: no sooner loved but they sighed;
no sooner sighed but they asked one
another the reason."
The times have changed. The human
heart Is just the samo Impulsive organ It
always was, but the head has grown
wiser. The head warns against love at
first sight, or, if that Is beyond control,
against Its manifestation. The girl may
love you truly; I hope she does, but It
would be better for her sake not to kiss
at the third meeting.
"Miss 'Impulsive" had-received the at
tentions of a man four months. lie told
her' he loved her., She refused to tell
him the state of her heart. Ho failed to
keep an appointment, and In her wrath
she refused to accept his apologies. "Of
course," she writes. "I was not respon
slble for my words then."
' That, my dear,. Is where you are mis
taken. There comes' the time In no man's
or woman'srilfc when he' or she Is not
responsible for every word spoken. This,
notion of claiming Irresponsibility bo
cause of temper Is akin to the plea of.
temparary Insanity made by- the mor
derer.
Rebuffed, he stopped coiling. Then she
began to miss him and asked him to call.
He appeared delighted at the invitation,
but- never called.
"There Is no sweetness In lovers .quar
rels," wrote Kdward Ilulwer Lytton,
that compensates the sting."
"MIbs Impulsive" should olgn herself
Miss Temper." The mistake Is a conti
mon one. All who are quick-tempered
claim to be Impulsive Instead. She
laughed ut love, she flouted It, she abused
St, and tt turned away and comes back
no more. I am sorry, for "there Is no
calamity In life that falls heavier upon
human nature than a disappointment In
love." There Is nothing "Miss Impulsive"
may do but benefit by the experience.
"Perplexed" writes:: "I am 21 years
old and for the last two years have kept
company with a man of the same age
whom I love very much. About a month
ago we had a slight disagreement and he
(old me It would be best for us not to
See each other, as we were having too
many arguments. A month has passed
and I cannot forget him. I have now
made the acquaintance of another young
man who has asked to take me out, but
my mother objects, as sho thinks It Is
not right for mo to go out so soon after
having been with the other young man
so long."
You lovo tho first man, and It seems
that you have lost him. - Under tho cir
cumstances, the attentions of the second
young man seem almost providential.
"Jealousy," writes F. Marion Crawford,
"Is the- forerunner of love, and oftan Its
awakener,"
Perhaps the knowledge that another
man seeks you may awaken the first
man to tho danger of losing you. If you
are not willing to try this means, wrlto
him a note telling him that," so far as you
are concerned, there will' be no mora
arguments. Hut can you do It, knowing
that this means you will never have your
say for the rest of your life? To marry
a man with whom one argues through
the engagement Is like undertaking a long
oorney when all signs point to a storm.
"Argument," my dear, i a- word that
means nothing moro nor less after mar
riage than quarrels.
"I am M years old," writes R. 8 "and
I am earnestly In love with a man one
year my senior. I know he loves me, as
he has declared himself many times. I
havis been keeping company with' him
for eleven months. This week he called
on me, and when he was about to de
part he attempted to kiss me, which I
resisted and refused Htm. PleaBe tell me
If I did right by refusing, as he has
turned very o4ld since."
The foolish fellow thought that a klsa
was tho proof of love. He does not know
that If evory ks proved love, no ona
would be single-hearted. You love hint,
but you want the engagement ring on
your finger before you kiss him and you
are right.
"Tho greatest sin 'twlxt heaven and
hell Is first to kiss and then to tell."
The girl who kisses freely Is In danger
of kissing promiscuously, and the man
always tells.
Ho has professed his love for you. Can
you not ask him, my dear, If that means
he wants you to be h)s wife? For under
no other conditions may you kiss him. I
am sure the laws that govern loving will
give you this right without stamping you
as forward or unmaldenly.
Advice to the Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
Your Mother Knows Best
Dear Miss Fairfax: We are two chums,
both 19 years Of age, considered, attractive
ai)d good dancers. The young men of
our set are very slow about asking girls
to affairs, and we have been In the
habit of going without male escorts. Now
our parents have tojd. u Sye cannof do
this any more, as they think It isn't nice
for girls to attend dances alone. Please
tell us If they are right In their attitude.
Wo have been told that, the reason the
young men do not offer to take girls to
dances Is that their salaries are so small
they cannot afford It, Also pleas ad
vise us whether It Is proper for a young
man who escorts avglrLCto Jt'drtnce to
stay with her throughout the; evening, or
to provide other 'partners, for-Jiet!
STATEN ISLAND,
Two young girls should not go to dances
alone, but this does not mean that Ihey
must deny 'themselves the ' pleasure be
cause no mftii'tscort them. A mother or1
father should be' willing; to act as es
cort, or If a number oi girl chums can
get on' olderly"lady to chaperon' all ot
them, the trouble will be mastered. When
a man escorts a girl to a. dunce; If Is-hts
duty to see that she has a partner foi
every dance.
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