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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1913)
1? m m m i Mm n ne w isaom Sayings of Mothers No. 1 "Mi Money" By Nell Brinkley of Seventeen By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. 'A lover writes mef 'Will you kindly m lx Years or ajr and wnnlil llu- fn TIIE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1913. P4 ?un 10 DC inicrcstea in meso mings, ir .or to pet married. For 1 know a great ieal of the world." j&ln what way, my son? , (If by that you mean you have. seem portions of it.- iron, a car window, you on't know the- world. If by that you mrntl 'that Vfill nil VA tvitn tirnlttpht tin h iard Khocks. and have learned much In he bitter school of experience, you don't know -the world, nut granting that you do know the ii 11 r 1 11 r n i i m wnar nA nriannn. r r 1 , I I 1 1 1 1 IT1H IICH. 1 I Jt I linnn Till! KIVH Villi in. light to set married. . You must know something more than the world before you take' such a step 1 1 II I URL UMtlWV vim mp I I 1 You .may know how to find, your "way In foreign lands, or how to take team of ourseif In your own; but you don't know much with the map of the world I your fingers' ends unless you know ourseif. Are your shoulders broad enough, to bear the burden of a family 7 Is your oart so faithful It will remain true. hrrmffh flftv nr iilxtv VAUn. in the. wirl oh loveu lus a. wy i is yuur juubthuxii roalturo you can pick out, when only . -r . i . . I i -..ill fcj 'U vfc oa.a .. .w ..... ww v u . ideal when, you havo become a man? lias patience become a habit with you: Is It a Joy to you to practice self-dental and always and with no. one to com mend or applaud? Is your Income elastic? Will you, when less than SO, be contented to stay at home In tho evening, like an old man in con tended, because tho going' out means' the . . . . m . i i. imil w.j when still a boy, find recreation in such outincs-as are suitable for the wife and the bablos and feel no regret when the other boys Bo unhampered' and carefree to tho "swimming pool and the diamond? Havo you such perfect self-control thai you are fit to control others? Do you really know tho girl you. love? Isn't your admiration for her similar to that which 'you feel for a butterfly? But did vou over, my son. sea a butterfly that survived a storm? The l.qve that lasts; that grows stronger nnil mora tender, and broader and more fcharltible with Ko4 years'! the love that I- love ,-and not a passing sentiment : basedlfon vanity or animal attraction! You have, ino moro comprohehsioa of that than ftjfi havo oft!iotKe aUUwbe of the octwn. Vl? Ynn uliot-n rnlinht la .-rllmTMe dt the ialphairpti and claim. ygjtj arsi, perfect in Ulie linguae. You have heard a strain tof sweet music, and believe you are ifltted to 'lead tho orchestra. 8 My son, you don't know what lpvo it p.oep on. trying' to learn ,-and some .day f ...'111 t. . In l.n. "ZwA 1 1 1. iVUU IWIU 111 imio nuu ii tgaln. Keep a tenant In your heart all the time. That is tho privilege of youth "ruid tfie comfort of old age. But don't, I Ibeg of you, don't think of getting mar- ,cd whoa you are. only 17 years old. transmutation of By GARRETT Y. 8ERVI83. If Sir William Kamsay is right In the conclusions that he draws from recent experiments of Jils and ho Is strongly supported by McsBrs. Collie and ratter- I son we may, be fore long, sco the dreams' of tho ancient alchemists fulfilled in ways of whjch they had no conception. The alchemists, who ' have been universally derided and latughed at un til the last few years, In which chemists have been getting their eyea opened, believed that It was possi ble to turn base metals, such as Mead, Into Bold. Modern sctenco said; "No! The dif ferent elements ar fixed in their na ture. Jt Is Idle to think of. changing one into another. What they aro they will remain." Then came the discovery of the "radlo rrtlve" substances, like radium, and chemistry suddenly learned a new les son, To everybody's astonishment it was found that atoms are not, as had long been believed, ultimate, IndiylMble parti cle, by the heaping together of which, in varying numbers and combinations, the different kinds of matter which we call the chemical elements are formed, but that they are composed of multi tudes of .much smaller particles which revolve around the center of the atom somewhat as the planets revolve' around the sun. Moreover, the atoms of some f substances and possibly of all gradually So to pieces, their constituent particles. r corpuscles, escaping from their orbits nd flying off to surrounding space. Chemists had hardly recovered from their surprise at this startling discovery bef or' an even more wonderful one fol lowed -upon its heejs. It was found that an actual transmutation at elements. that is. a change from one Into another. accompanies, or roiiows, tne going to Jief-fB di tne atoms. i was meraiiy ivith staring eyes that chemists saw the "emanation" that is given off from dis integrating radium gradually change its haracter and turn into helium. Radium tnd helium are two different elements. immediately It was suggested that here was the very transformation 'of matter that the alchemists had dreamed of, and that science had derided, taking place In nature Itself But further experiment I i 1 1 1 . .. "syf'r--.' , . -i.ir' . ... i i "u'' - ' " ' ' . - ; v.rr., , ..,, in 1 ' " '"" ""''.' '"' "' Theftrst day, we struggle curls a-wavlne little, 'golden crown of our head, our round sweet terror of an unbelievable Know yourself first. Bel love me, when It comos to getting married that Is more Important than knowing the world and all then is in it. Metals to Gold I showed that these natural transforma tions apparently occurred only In one di rection, from heavier to lighter sub- stances. Tho atoms of radium are heav- er.,than those of helium and, In all the cases observed until recently, the result 0f the transmutations was the formation of elements of lesser mass, qr composed of lighter atoms, than the original ele ments. This was, then, no solution of the old problem of the alchemists, who sought to transform lighter elements Into the heavier element, gold, and if that solu. tion was ever to be found, evidently it must be done by reversing what seemed to be nature's sole process of trans formation, and causing the heavier atoms I to form themselves put of lighter ones. Only In that way would It bq possible to make gold from baser metals, because gold Is nearly the heaviest of all. Now, It is this very thing that Sir Wil liam Ramsay appears to have accom plished, not with baser metals and gold, to bo sure, but with hydrogen, neon and helium. Hydrogen Is the lightest of all ele ments, while helium Is four times heav ier than hydrogen and neon is twenty times heavier. Yet, when an electric discharge Is passed through a tube con talnlng only a little hydrogen the. latter Is transformed into helium, and' If then some oxygen Is Introduced Into the tube, neon is formed. The atomic weight of oxygen Is 18, that of helium 4, and that of neon 20. so that tho following curious chemical equa tion represents the effects of the trans formation In the tube, in the last ex periment: Helium (4) -!- oxygen (K)-neon () Two lighter elements are apparently combined to form one heavier than either, but the sum of the atomic weights of the two constituents equals the atomic weight of the product of their combina tion. Sir William Ramsay has gone yet far ther, and has produced, as he believes, argon from sulphur and krpton from se lenium. Now the atomic weight of sul phur Is thirty-two and that of argon nearly forty. The weight of selenium Is seventy-nine, and that of krypton nearly eighty-two. So In these cases, also, heav. ier substances are formed from lighter ones. The result of these experiments Is so revolutionary that some chemists have disputed their accuracy, but Ramsay has recently repeated and extended them with the utmost precaution against error, and he declines to alter his conclusions. while Messrs. Collie and Fatteraon, as already said, hare Independently corrob orated them with our scant little signals -from tho eyes wide with the now adventure, with,. & "A Fashionable Failing" s By VIRGINIA TERIIUNK VAN BE WATER. t Many of us remember the answer of the small ,boy, who when his Sunday sfhool teacher asked htm, "What Is a lie?" replied: 'A lie Is an abomination In the eyea of the Lord and a very present help in trouble." The fact that it la supposed to be an abomination In tho eyes of the Ird de fers few people from using It as "a pres ent help In trouble." Lying is a fashion able railing. Of 'course, we do not always call tho thing we do "lying." That Is too ugly a word for us to use comfortably. We give the habit various titles which are more or less euphonious, such as "harm leas prevaricutlon," "fibbing," "white lie," "evasion," "whipping the devil around the stump," etc, Call It what we will, It Is only the same old habit In a differing guise. We do not appreciate how common It is until we pause to analyze or watch our own conversation and see how often we make remarks that are not entirely truthful. I do not advocate the speaking of uri- ncessary truths the telling without rea son facta that should not be told. Only a fool or a heartless person will be guilty of this unklndness. But why must we lie about things that really do not matter? Why pretend .to have read the book of which we have seen enough re views to enable us to talk of it intelli gently? Why pretend to have another engagement when our friend asks us to go to a lecture on anthropology? Would one lose respect In tho eyes of tho questioner If one said frankly, "No, have not read the book, although I havo seen many reviews of it," or, "Thank you for asking me, but really, while I appreciate your kindness, I am not keenly Interested In anthropology?" It would be a very ndeslrable friend who would care the less for ono because of such frank declaration of facts. Con slder for a moment If you would dlsllko or be displeased with the man or woman who spoke thus frankly to you Instead of insulting your Intelligence by telling you a lie. One of the great disadvantages about lying is that it makes one doubt others, "Higher than himself can no man think," and when one is in the habit of dls- tcrtlng the truth or making false state n nU. one is pretty sure to suspect that those with whom one associates have the same propensity. Tho remark, "I have another engagement," will be construed li to "I 'do not want to accept your in vitation." So, after all, what has a llo gotten one? One might as well teli the truth aad be done with It. We hear the social lie Justified, but It is not necessary to make use of t as fften as we think Why tell the qaller that you are delighted to see her when you really dislike her and are bored by our linen and flannel hunched In confusion on our tiny back that first day we struggle to our round bottomed, rolling f cot out of the wide emptiness of the room straight ahead are two eyes llko lights, two handa that reach wide and steady like the twin b?r presence? As sho Is your guest, you must throw the mantle of hospitality over her and' treat her politely and pleas antly. But for the sake of your own solf-r?spcct.omlt the "I am so glad to see you!" For you aro not! Perhaps one' of the most Insidious temp tations along the line of falsehood Is to elaborate an. account of some happening and thus jnake it Interesting. One has an annoying little experience and, by adding a bit to it, this story of it will produce upon the persons who hear It much more Impression than would the commonplace facts. Then why say that one waited twenty minutes at one counter for her change when one reaJly waited but ten? It seemed like- twenty? 'Well, It ought to have happened the way I told It, anyhow!" exclaimed a raconteur who was railed to account for exaggerating a certain Incident. "My theory is to make a good story better, It possible. Why let a llttlo matter llko th truth stand In the way of a good story V The listeners, laughed, but It Is to be doubted If aijy one of them will here after quite beneve what this person says. "My brother-in-law told mo that," said a woman to her husband. "Did he? We'.l It may possibly he true, nevertheless," waa the rejolner. "I know one man who has a way of making the most Interesting statements Imaginable, and he does so with a cir cumstantiality that speaks wonders for his powers of imagination, t find him f Battle of By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. The "battle of the Nations." as the great contest at Lelpelo Is often called, took place Just one hundred years ago, October 18. 1812. It Is welt called the battle of the nations, for In It was represented nearly every Euro pean country, and the issues there de cided told, directly or indirectly, upon the whole continent, yes, upon the whole world, Even as a battle, Lelpslc was a stu pendous affair, out ranking nearly other battle of modern times. Napoleon had ieo.000 men, who were opposed by the allied forces of Austria. Russia and Prussia. ttO.OOO strong. Greatly outnumberedi as he was. how ever, Napoleon's genius brought him very near to victory; and but for the fact that seventeen battalions of his Haxon allies turned upon him In the very heat of the confUct, he would havo won arms of a. noft-bosomod harbor, and a molher-blrd volco calling, "AH alonoy!" All throygh our life, Jf we are bo lucky that tho two lights are somowhe'ro on the lifting, falling sea of our Jlfe, if the "two twin" arms of tho soft bosomed harbor are there, If the mother-bird volco distinctly Interesting, but when I am not with him, and think over what ha has told me, I am dashed by the remembrance that one cannot place tho least confi dence In his word. I would be afraid to quote him for fear that the person who heard me do so would consider ma a liar. Yet my Informant gives his alleged facts as "gospel truth" and, to quote .the saying of tho day, of ton "gets away wllh them." , Last winter I listened with genuine Interei t to a man who was telling some of us how he had gone Into an Insane asylum to study conditions there. Nobody knew, he said, that he was not oommltted because of unsound mind. He told Us of things that made our blood run cold, of sights and sounds, that were like the horrors one sees and. hears In delirium. None of us doubted onu of his assortlons. Yet, a week later, when I told two of his friends of the keen Interest his descrip tion had aroused In mo and my guests the pair laughed uproariously. "Why," they said, "that was only onn of Bill's yamsl No, there was not a word of truth In the whole thing. He Just made the- story up as he went along. He Is n born sensationalist and he dearly loves to produce a sensation at any and all times," He had produced upon me various kinds of sensations. One was the con viction that he had abused my hospi tality and the other was that I would not trust such a man on oath. the Nations JJ tho day, notwithstanding the great odds against him. As It turned out, Lelpslc was a crush ing defeat for the Man of Destiny, Its lost 40,000 In killed, wounded and prison er, sixty-five piece of artillery and many standards; and, worst of all, he hadvto give up Lelpslc, which, from the stragetlo standpoint, meant so much to him. Tho results of the battle were far reaching and decisive. It meant the be ginning of the end of Napoleon's rulo in Europe. The first abdication really dates from the fatal day of Lelpslc. Lelpslc meant Elba. From the blow that day received Napoleon never recovered. And Lelpolo meant a free Germany, At Lelpslc Jena and Auerstadt were more than evened up. It Is no wonder that today all Germany Is aflame with en thusiasm, wild with. Joy, as It celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of the battle. Oennany cannot celebrate too heartily, for all that the empire is to day it owes to the victory of Lelpslc and, let It not be forgotten, to the bull dog tenacity, lion-like courage and In corruptible patriotism of the rough but grand old war-dag. Blucher. is not silenced for us, our gTown-'np arras reach for her when we stagger and stumble Just as they did then. Every mother cries, "AH aloneyl" to- the grown-up son of her heart, but If ho totter for an Instant her arms aro thoro to catch htm lest he fall. NELL BRINKLEYt Married Women Teachers Dy WINNIFRED BLACK. So Mrs. Bridget I'elxotto isn't fit to teach your children and our children any more, gentlemen of the New York Board of Education, because she had tho lm pertinence to be- come a. mother her- self? Hhe was all right when she didn't know a thing about children except what she had learned In tho school, but now that she has a child of her own, to tho outer regions with her at once and forever I What a singular point of vlewl Where on earth did you get It, gentle men of the board from the man who always says "Hain't she got no children of her own to 'tend to; why don't she stay to hum and 'tend to It?" whenever a woman dares to at tend to her own buetness without ask ing some man about It? What do you want In the public schools, anyhow, a lot of foolish girls or a number of perfectly good old maids? If a woman Is the sort of person who doesn't want children of her own, does that make her nn Ideal teacher, pray tell? What Is there about such a woman that makes you choose her to tesch our children? When you look for a nurse for your babies at home, whom do you pick out, Mr, Board of Education Man? A woman who wants children and who hopes to have some of her own some day, or one who doesn't care a cent about them as long as she gets so much a week and no questions asked? It Isn't the teacher I'm thinking of-lt isn't the teacher we should any of us think of In a case like this It is the children. The children are the ones to be con sidered, and I don't see how the fact that a woman has a perfectly good little boy or girl of her own at home could make her any less efficient as a teacher than she was before that little boy or that little girl came. When you select a man teacher do you ask him how many children there are at home, and whether he takes an interest in them or not? You ought to the more children he has of his own the more likely he Is to know and to care about other people's chil dren. "She'll be thinking of the baby Jt home," says one of the board. 'Instead of the children In the room where aha leaches." What's the difference between her thinking of the baby at home and won dering whether the baby Is asteep or awake or thlnklntr about "him." and won dering whether "he" is, coming to oall or not, and what dress she'd better wear to the party? Too much to think of at home to at tend property to her school work, Why, gentlemen, did you never notice that when you want to got a thlnil dono you have to get the business prsen you know to do It? The idle woman has nothing but niatl nees on her mind, Is always too rushed to do a thing but go shopping. When you want a Job Well done, whom do you get to do It? the busy man or tho. Idler? Which Is the one who will do your work and his own, too, and do them both well? Human nature Is human nature, Just the sun in a woman as it Is in a raan. The type of a woman who falls hon estly In love and marries and has chllt dren. Is tho very sort of woman I'd pick Out to teach my little boy how to read and to tell my little girl where Lake Michigan Is and who settled Alaska Not because she might know any mors about muling or Lake Mlohlgan or Alaska than the other kind, but because she's apt to know Just as much about these thrilling subjects as the sllllsst flrl In the "normal," and, besides that, she'll know lot about children that the other sort of woman would never know it she Joined every child study class In the world. Married wemen taking bread out of single women's mouths what has that to do with the question? A woman Is a human being first and a woraan afterward, and 'way along af ter that she's either married or single. When she goes to teaching In our pub' llo schools, trie one thing and - the only thing that should Interest those who pay her salary Is, What sort of a teacher are you? ; If ft-e's a good teacher that ought to settle the question once and for all Is she energetic, faithful, reliable, com petcntT that's all that concerns any one but her Immediate circle of friends. Who wants to know whether the school superintendent Is widower or bach elor, when his name come UP for ttc Uon? What's his record; what will fee do for our children? That's the important thing. - What do you want to do, start a sys tem of secret marriages In the schools? Get teachers nobody wanta for wtvsV find women to teach our; children who wouldn't know what to do with a baby to save their lives? Tte world, mores, gentlemen of the Board of Education It moveX Why) don't you make up your minds to mors with It?