THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1G, 1913,
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Queer Opinions of the Spanish
While Franoe is Seeking Alianoe With
Them a Frenoh Authoress Declares
Their Indomitable Character is Based
on a Ferlessness of Bloodshed
By GARRETT P. SEItVISS.
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One of the questions .Which, most tfO
foundly Interests all thoughtful Fronchi
men mt the present moment Is- that of rfn
alliance between their country and Spain.
The fear of Oer- '
many hangs over
th French repub
llo' as that of tVie
Gauls, hoverlnK In
dark- clouds behind
the Alps, hung over
ancient Rome.
Amid all the talk"
of p-eace, which la
everywhere so pop
ular today, there Is
no mistaking the
fact that In France
very heart Is heavy
with thoughts of
war. If It were a
war of aggression and conquest that
hovered In tho near future, the hearts
of. the French people would be not heavy,
but Jubilant. But the approach of a de
fensive war Invariably saddens the spirits
of those who expect to be -Its victims,
Tho simple fact, which one sees, re
peated again arid attain In tho "French
newspapers, that tho' popouiatlon. of Ger
many Is Increasing at the rate of a mil
lion a year, while that of France la sta
tionary, If not declining, Is sufficient to
awaken the gloomiest forebodings.
It Is a spectacle" that moves the sym
pathy of a foreign visitor to see this
great poopje, with their glorious past Ir
radiating . them, like the splendor of -a
sunset, compelled to meet tho menace of
thefr mighty foe, with his constantly
swelling' armies, by the almost pitiful
deVlce of. forcing their sons to spend an
additional- year of their youth In camps,
because ''there are no crowds of succes
sor ceding (up from the cradle to take
their places. .
Can ! anything bo more pathetic than
this cry-me may- 'call it so from the
Hp's of- M. Itlbot, former minister' of
foreign affairs: the nations must
be lntbrested In seeing, France remain
great ..and strong, for France, van
qulthed would mean, Europe decapitated
andilnStQUrlti for all' the, jjther ptbvltn."
Thai "W, p! cry tt Jbonffitous'' ' weakness.
though'; bb of cowardice;- or; unworthy
fear.' V .
Io oneiponceala the fact that he; wishes
fo'ran ailanee with Spain ijl, order that
Spanish 'armies may aid In the protec-Uo'tC'-of
r&ga'nce' The coming war and
nothing ejie is the, dominant thought In
evifqf FjSchmari'sjmlnd as he does his
boit!. to iwln friends tor this threatened
fa(berlaixdi-' -'
But thertultf' a broader aspect to thje
subject, wh'ffh Is revealed In a remark
of tho famous French authoress, Madame
Adam. When asked recently her opinion
about the proposed Spanish alliance, she
replied that such an '.understanding ap
peared' to her desirable In , every sense
of. the word. And then she added some
remarkable sentences:
"Heroic Is Spain throughout her whole
hUtory," said Madams Adam. "Its women
personify Its heroism, not only In their
defense of Sara'gosaa, but In their passion,
often founded on courage, for hull fights.
In Spain people are not afraid of blood,
and that It Is which makes the nation
Indomitable!"
Everybody knows that Madame Adam
.tells only the plain truth about the In
domitable character of the people of
Spain. Rome haver mastered them as It
'mastered other races. The rush of the
Moors upon them Was, merely an over
whelming wave which eventually was
hurled back again. Napoleon could not
trurnple them Into subjection. The dls
i asior mat 11 . encounurca a ow tdwh
I ago, when it braved the- power of the
United States, has been nobly redeemed.
I because It only threw the nation back
!upon 'Itself.
C .But Is it true that not only a tolerance,
i but a passion, for bloodshed Is, as
Madamo Adam seems to think, the
surest Indication of an unconquerable
, spirit of a peopleT
J Wo might find hlstorlo grounds for
such an opinion. When Rome at the
same time ruled and defied the world
Its people delighted In nothing so muoh
as scenes of bloodshed. Not only bulls
and horses, but elephants, lions, tigers.
and even armed men, had to surrender
their Uvea by thousands In the arenas
In order to gratify tho thirst of the
Roman populace for blood. In Rome,
too, and still more decidedly than In
Spain, ''people were not afraid of blood."
Tet Rome fell when other peoples as
fearless of blood as Us own began to de
scend In hordes upon It. It was the spirit
of Christianity that finally saved Rome
and eternalized It
Madame Adam is undoubtedly right In
wishing to see Spain placed shoulder to
shoulder with France at this critical mo
ment, but she might have found a bet
ter foundation for htr faith In the sturdy
vlrtiie of the Spanish people than suoh as
can be based upon their alleged Indif
ference to bloodshed!
The world is doomed to see much
fighting yet. Armies are not going to be
abolished tomorrow or the noxt day,
livery new Invention Is Instantly seised
upon to add to the military power of
the nations. The reign Of the lawyers
Is not going Immediately, to sucoeed that
of the warriors. The Judges, with their
long robes, their powdered wigs and their
heads filled with precedents and legal
technicalities, are, jiqt on the point ot
crowding out the generals with their
swords, their gold-lace' coats and their
strings of glittering medals.
But war, while seeming to render It
self ';moro terrible by the aid ot science,
Is sldwly losing Its teeth and beginning
to tremble in every Hmb.'llko those su
perannuated giants that Dunyari saw In
his vision Inhabiting the cave- at the
termination of the Valleyof tho Shadow
ot Death.
It is stumbling Under the weight It
carries. By and by It will pass away,
and 'then, since human nature cannot
change at the bottom as rapidly as It
changes on the surface, It will behoove
the world to see that It does not take
upon Its shoulders, In the form of a
"Mr. Legality," a mora Insufferable bur
den than It bore In the person of thet
"Apollyoa" of war.
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Advice to the-Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
Follow Your Bent.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young busi
ness woman X years of age, and Intend
to get married In the very near future to
a gentleman one year my senior. I have
up to this time helped support our large
family and now have my parents settled
comfortably. As I earn a very good
salary, I desire to work for a few years
after my marriage to help my husband
pay on a home of our own. My fiance
objected strongly to this at first, but I
being determined, he finally consented If
I would secure a position In the same
office as himself, he having a responsible
position with the firm. We Intend to go
to housekeeping and employ a servant to
take care of the house. My husband
could support me, but I love the business
world, having been used to It, and would
much rather work than keen house. We
both lore children, and I wish to ask If
you think this fact would make me dis
contented with work after I was mar
ried. ANXIOUS.
Continue In your business life If you
aro happiest In that, trusting to the
future and your mutual love to make
you more contented wjth remaining at
home. That It will come to that I have
no doubt. Love, husband and . babies al
ways bring this happy result in due time.
Ask Her.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am U and have
known a girl of 17 for the last two years!
love her dearly. While speaking she al-
. . : . iu marry an
actor, but shows by her actions that
she cares for me.
How can I find out whether she really
loves me or bring her to understand the
true feeling that I have for her7 A. W,
I am quite sure she holds that phantom
actor before you to torment you and
that she really cares for von, rw. i.
It worry you. If she Is a sensible girl she
win soon outgrow such foolish notions.
Tell her you love hr. nnn'i .,..
, - - 'AflWl
such an avowal from her until you have
ruiue u nrsu
Wlr Not Reciprocate T
Dear Miss Fairfax. My friend and I
are members of a social club of which
each fellow (except my friend and I)
has & aAv M.hil Tn . . '
ourselves we must encroach upon the
nuoyiuuiir 01 me laaies present Of
course we do not like to do this, and
we wish to resign from the club against
the wishes of the other members. Do
you thluk we are doing right in resign
ing! FRANK.
If you are tn debt socially to th..
ladles, you must not resign. On the con-
trory, you must remain In the club un
til at least you have had your turn at
entertaining. It would be H VArv nlva fl
ing return for their hospitality to you
and your friend to give a theater party
to ail or the ladles in a bunch.
My Own Beauty Secrets
By Anna Held
v.
No, 6. Care of the Eyes
Eyes aro tho windows of
tho so uJ, and tho single
handed champions of a
woman's beauty.
Luxuriant eyelashes and
eyebrows aro tho frame's for
your eyes nntl should' bo
given dally attention.
Languorous Eye.
Batho tho eyes ecli
morning in cold water.
This will stimulate circu
lation. Tho health of tho body
has much to do with tho
eyes.
When you nro perfectly
well your oyes will bo clear
and bright.
By ANNA HELD. VfKTw mmKBLWLkmLLWo. I
a mmi m in w li" 'i i I I
(Heading "Anna, IIeld'sAll-SUr Varleto
Jubilee," Under; Management
of John Cort.)
Copyright 19W,'- international New
Servtoe.
t'-'&f.n are the greatest 'single-handed
champions of a woman's' beauty.
H(yes are the windows of 'the soul and
the Index of the spirit.
And surely we all long to have clean,
shining "ivlndows" and an "index" that
will tempf the world to read the volume
to. which) they belong.
Beautiful, haunting eyes.
Surely ydu have often said that you
wuld.aVeVfi.' fortune to possess them.
Ndjr-glve'me your attention and then
give Vour eyes the benefit of the course
of treatment I will describe. And I hope
your goal will be reached without loss of
fortune,, , t .
First' let us make sure of a suitable
frame for our ploture.
This means, let us see about acquiring
luxurant eyelashes and eyebrows. Every
morning on prising brush the brows in a
crescent and brush the lashes upward
with a,itlny brush well,1 moistened In
water Alt- growing things rieed water.
AT-night brush with another little
brush -you keep especially for this use.
But molslen this brush tn slightly
warmed vaseline or olive oil or oil of
cocoanut.
. And pure, warm oil will stimulate the
growth of hair.
Be very careful not to Irritate tho
eyeball W to allow any of the oil to get
IntoAthe' eye. ' '
Now we have a splendid dark frame
for our picture, Tho next thing Is to
make our picture beautiful enough to
shine out of the dark frame, which is
a protector, too and guards against dust
and alt harmful Intruders'.
The first rule to remember In studying
the care of the eyes themselves is that
the health of the body has much to do
with the eye-
If you are perfectly well, with glowing
blood In healthy ' circulation, your eyes
win be clear and bright So In the core
' of your eyes go back to the beginning
and have your health good.
Each morning before .you brush up the
"frame" bathe the eyes in cold water.
Make a cup of the hand and dash cold
water against each eye thirty times.
The shock ot the cold water will stlmu-
Thd'.riquaiA Expression of Half -veiled Eyes.
late circulation. Ah, madams, do not be
Jasy, a pray you.
Thirty little dashes of cold water for
each eye,, and they will feel as well as
they look and they will look ravtsaante,
Whenevor you come In front the dusty
streets follow this little "eyedrlll" thirty
dashes of. cold water.
If tho muscles of the eyes ache dully,
lay a bandage ot hot water across the
oyes and renew constantly for fifteen
minutes.
Follow with fifteen minutes of com
presses wrung out In Ice water.
And now I shall tell you two ot my
pet secrets.
AVhen I find that I have unbecoming;
pouches, under my eyts, and tho water
mnnsage will not remove them, I pack
cold cream very tightly under the eyes
and let It remain while I lie relaxed for
fifteen minutes.
Then I wipe it off quite gently and
rub deftly from the Inner corner to
the outer with a soft bit ot old itnen in
which I have a piece of Ice, And,
finally, beginning at the Inner corntr
ot tho eyebrow, I pinch up the flesh
under the brow firmly, hut, not roughly,
All this I can teach you, If you will
but hearken. Bu( above all, I must
make sure of teaching that the eye Is
as delicate as beautiful. Do not. use
any strong cosmetia or drug near this
fine bit of mechanism. Do not use arti
ficial aids to color or brighten. Da not
raurk with lints or paint whore the
brows may easily be if you will spend
your time In acquiring them In reality
Instead of painting them on.
Except puro water, and a. -weak solu
tion of boraclc acid, such as any -pharmacist
knows welt how to make, no foreign
substance should ever enter the eye un
less It has the ticket ot admission from
an ocoullit. Chere amle, will you learn
this rule quite carefully by heart T
The clearness of health, the beauty of
expression and. the charm of sensible
care are what your eyes need. More than
this will harm instead ot helping.
And now, unless I give you a little
chapter on rny own spoclalty-expreaslon
you will say, "Ah. la belle Anna Is a
cat! She will tell us how to obtain 'les
beaux yeaux,' but she will not tell us
how to use them."
First, be sure that you feel that you
have something to express. Than simply
throw that expression Into your eyes.
Tee how coquettish Is the Japanese slant
that I Illustrate for you. Languor Is
txpressed by Ihe half-shut eye. Interest
and animation show In the round, wide
o(en eys.
In the large picture In the renter I am
showing you the plquent expression ot
liaif-velted eyes.
The long lashes, the clear whites, the
bright expression and the. glinting light
of mischief are all things you may ac
quire If you will express yourself and
follow me.
The Right
of Forest
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
One who has loved and lost who has
tasted the joy of married life and known
the desolation of bereavement writes
me!
"Do you think It wrong for a woman
to wish to marry again? I loved my
husband dearly and mourned his death,
hut now, after nearly seven years, I feci
the need of a man's pretence. But, un
fortunately, I eeo few men, and cannot
mako advances.
"I do not long for wealth only enough
to get along oomfortobly. I am not un
nttrnctlve, and I love home life, but tho
tonellnctft of trying to make a home for
only one Is appalling. Would It be wrong
to my husband to marry ngalnT"
One cannot live with the dead, and the
greatest of all authority says, "Let the
dead bury their dead."
One turns from a grave Inconsolable,
sure that the sting of bereavement will
always remain that the sun will never
shine again that one has known laugh
ter nnd Joy for the last time.
But tho days come and go, and each
one brings Its little quota of forgetful
nrss. Nepnterests arise, hope springs
up again.,' v nor row begins, to look less
drear, nnd yery, very soon those who
had wished they oould stay tn the ceme
ttry with the one who went before are
realising that life is dear and sweet, and
there Is much loft to live for.
The, most selfish person 1ft Ihe. wwU
Is the one who hangs Over a grave for
Ufa It Is an attitude which says: "Re
spect my sorrow. Others may have had
sorrow, but no one has known sorro-y
like unto this," and It Is an atltude moro
often taken by women than by men.
Men are mare' confident, saner' and
hralthler-mtnded. They want to get away
from grief. A woman loves to linger. Ba
fore men expend any emotion they want
to be sure that the expenditure wilt
bring results; that It will change things.
Resignation It nothing more than the
discovery that the wall against which one
Is beating one's head Is harder than tho.
head. A man makes this discovery sooner
than a woman, and soon dealat. A
woman will go on beating her head with
a dull, monotonous tom-tom of protest to
the end ot her days.
The futility of mourning Is not the only
argument against Its encouragement.
There Is the further argument that every
unattached person In time becomes a
problem to his or her relatives. And this
Is tn a measure true no matter what tho
financial condition of the one left alone.
A lover of lovers discovered In happy
rhyme that this world Is built fqr two;
the llttlo garden seats are for two; the
little swings hold only two; there Is room
In the little boat for just two, and tho
little paths are just broad enough tor
two to walk- together. Had this I lover
of lovers gone further Into nature's plan,
he would have learned that jthls world
Is built for two In moro than Its romantlo
aspects.
Every homo Is for two primarily. Every
burden, every humiliation. Every joy
that comes to a home was meant to ba
divided by two. The sorrow is too great
to bear, the humiliation too bitter, to en
dure, and the joy loses half Its flavor
when experienced by only one. When the
children have grown and have left tho
nett, one could not atk a greater boon
of life than that the original two be left
together to live life over again In mutual
memories.
Tho Woman who wroto this letW has
mourned her husband seven years. I con
tend that Is six years too long,- Bhe would
have shown no disrespect to his mem
ory had she married again long before
this, and, on the contrary, would have
paid him the compMmtnt of having so
thoroughly enjoyed her experience as a
wife she was not afraid to repeat It
Bhe has known Move, and learned that
the price of a woman mutt, pay tn greater
responsibilities and self-sacrifice Is not
too great for value received. She would
pay the price again, and pay It In a hap
piness she has not known In seven years.
It Is. the. natural woman's; initinct to
want a mate, and the woman, who- denies
It Is unnatural. Either she Is suppressing
the cry of her heart or there Is some
thing about her that is abnormal.
I want this woman to "let the. dead
bury their dead," and take all the joy
she can find In living, remembering al
ways that If a woman is. just kind and
loving to those about htr she Is doing
Infinitely more for the world, to say noth
ing of her own salvation, than It she kept
her face turned to the wall and tent up
a perpetual chant of woe.
His Mother
By VIRGINIA TEBIIUNE VAN DEB
WATER,
"Oh, John's gone to see his mother
agalnl" the wife said petulantly. "I wish
she would bo a little more, considerate of
his time, and engagements, and not be
hurt If be'does not call at' least onco In
teh days."
Once In ten; days! And the mother's
home "Was .just five blocks away, I could
not help remembering that before his
marriage this son -had lived wttli his
widowed mother and that they had been
close and tender companions. He was
her only child, and as she Is not a poor
woman she gave her boy all the advan
tages of a college education, followed by
a trip abroad with her. Bhe sent htm to
Columbia because she wanted to have
htm In the .same city with her.
'He Is . al ' I have,'' she said by way
of explanation.
'Yes," agreed the son, "and she Is ail
I have, I declare If I were to go out of
town to college mother would have to
give up her apartment here In New York
and come to the place I happened to go
to, and .take a house there. She and I
are almost twins, ybu-kaow."
The lad laughed as he said It, but the
ring of true feeling was In his words.
Of course he may "have been considering
his mother only, and not his own Inclina
tions. It may have been that he, like
some other boys, would have been glad
to get away from the home surroundings.
from tho presence of any member of his
family, and set himself In the midst ot
an entirely now environment" ' If so, he
loved his mother too well to suggest this.
For two years after his graduation he
continued to live at home. Not a day
passed In which the mother and son were
not togothor for a shorter or longer
period of time. He talked to her about
his buslneis, his prpsp'ects. ; The pair
wore not only mother and son, they were
confidantes -and chums.-
Then he married. That wss natural
and proper, and Just what the mother
hod always expected him to do. In foot
she had hoped that tome day he would
meet a good woman whom he could love.
"I cannot be here always to make a
home, for him," the said, "and it would
make me happy to know that he had
his own little home and a wife to care
for him." When he became engaged he
told his ' mother' of his happiness and
she. rejoiced with htm. She did not let
herself think that she was loalng her
boy, for the would ste Mn often. Noth
ing oould alienate htm from her, nor
could anything mar their tender In
timaoy, she averred.
"I want the young people to 'have their
own home," was her declaration, "and I
shall not make a nuisance of myself by
running In there too , often, or by sug
gesting to the happy wife how she ihall
conduct her household. Young people
ought to live by themselves, and It will
be enough for me to know that the dear
son and daughter,, are near me in case
I need them, and, of course" with a
proud smile "I know that Dick will
come to 's'eo 'me every two or -three days,
for he would not know how to get on
without seeing his mother .constantly."
That was' ten years ago. "Dick" ellll
lives a quarter of a mile from hit mother
and...be. "tries., .to run in, once, every ten
days" to see her., feeling -that In dofng
this he is porforrring"a"dq;ty, "Mothers
expects ut" ne-says -patronuinsiy -to ni
wife, "and as ' she Is .'getting old I do
no't IIkS to'dliaDjiolntth "
What about his wife? How does she
take this attitude? Why, tho smiles her
approval of Dick's magnamlty. She en
courages hlm.lnj-hls selfishness and In
the Idea that bo. Is a martyr to anoth
er's whim. Indeed I strongly suspect
that It was she who established the onoe
In every ten days habit.
For. after all, when a man marriet he
becomea the kind of son that his wife
makpa him. If the be a coorte-gralned,
common pron, unused to refined asso
ciations and high Ideals, she will do alt
In her power to gain the solo supremacy
over her husband, and, unlet! the thinks
there may be some subttantlul benefit to
bo reaped by his Intimacy with his
mother, she will discourage such Inti
macy, I know there Is much written
against the mother-in-law, but I Pity
her, and my sympathy la purely Imper
sonal, Yet, I 'have watched -her in her
efforta at peace-keeping and lelt-Immola
tlon, and J 'am sorry for her. It must
be (a, hard;, thing, to have one's ton la.
belled' Htads qff !" when be has been
one's very own, 'bono of one's bone, 'flesh
of one's. fllrshV for over twenty years. I
do not think that the average' mother is
jealous of her sou's wife. In fact, I
think the Is ready to welcome her at a
daughter or as a dear frlond. Then why
do to many tons' wives persuade or al
low their husbands to forget the 'duty
due a no-Iongtr-young but always de
voted mother?
Of course, no man - who It worthy of
the name would allow hit wife nd matter
how much he loved her to ettrangt him
from, bis mother. When one considers
hJ fact It opens up a long vista of
Conjecture as to the number of men who
are rnlttermed. For that-there are grown
matcuunet wno are 19 ;wOX ana un
grateful as to permit their 'love and al
legiance to their mothers to wane Is
proved by the fact that one hears quoted
with sad tlgnlflcance, and with a dis
senting opinion, the line
A ton's a ton till he gets him a wife.
"Tom Is dear and sweet, and has suoh
high Ideals," sold a young wife. "I have
never known another man with tuch
gracious and graceful manners." A min
ute later she was saying: "John Is so
good about going to tee his mother when
ever be can make time to do so, 1 hope
the old lady appreciates what a sacrifice
he makes to go to her. But probably
the doesn't. Old people are so queer td
to exacting."
"Yet, hit mother made him what ha
It." I exclaimed Involuntarily. Courtesy
prevented my saying that, marriage, must
have marred him it he felt it an Incon
venience to coll on the woman to whom
he owed everything,
The joke orient the mother-in-law Is so
old that It has lost Its point, for tho
mother-in-law of today Is, with few ex
ceptions, neither a bore nor a Busybody.
She Is just as willing to sacrifice herself
for her married children as for thpto who
are unmarried, and Is just as fair In her
dealings with her son as her daughter-in-law
will allow her to be.
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There la nothing so destructive to, the
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eventually producing a ererlthness and
Itching of- the scalp, which If not reme
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Oet a cent bottle ot Knowlton's
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It will become wavy and fluffy and havo
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