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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER, 21, 1913. rr if Sweet "x Sixteen Little Bobbie's Pa Drawn by Nell Brinkley October Copyright, 1913, International-News' SorylceJ Verses by Ella Wkecler Wikex J 9 J) By "BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Dear Miss Fairfax! I am 16 years of aire. and .would like to know If I am not old -enough to write my own postals and letters 'to my friends, as my mother objects I would llko to know who la right. -Hoping" you will oblige. A. U fl. .Sixteen years oldt-dear me, what a Methttselnii In pettlooats. 'Stxteerrsweet sixteen, they call It In theoJd-faahloned love stories, don't they? ;ana sweet sixteen It Is In real life, tJo when It' is sweet- rSofne of the slxteens I know are not sVeet at all they are.Just stubborn and self conscious, willful and foolish! ,T am afraid that that Is the kind of sweet sixteen I was once-a good long time ago. i got the Idea Into my head that the one Important ihlng in lite was to bo a gbod dancer t was one myself and I looked upon any girl who couldn't dance oa' .well as I could aa a poor, stupid creature1 Who ought to be shut up some where for her own good. ,'pralns, character, a sweet disposition, a kind heart, loving thought of others pouf. what did all these things amount to. The one real thing In life Is to dance. jCum to (lira, turn tee turn te turn we didn't tango In those days wo waltsed and some of the grandmothers thought Waltzing terriblyshocking, too, let me fell you. Grandmothers don't change much, do they? !Nor, 1 I'm afraid, does always Bweet Sfxteen. So you think you're old enough to write your own postal and your own letter to your own friends, and you are cross be cause your mother Interferes. Tes, that's the way you are at sweet sixteen. . ' When I was sweet sixteen I thought mV mother was positively malignant,- bet cause' she didn't want me. to choose a certain girl for my intimate friend. tiThere was no sense In It: the girl was as pretty as a picture, and she had & perfect genius for making a cheap hat look Jlket an Imported model Just, by the Way she worn It. Xnd fun; nobody In the world was so full of fun aa that girt. Why. sho could even see a Joke at a funeral. My mother didn't like her and wouldn't let Jno go to her house and stay all night with her, and I cried and sulked, and was as hateful as I knew how to be,, afid rm Afraid that was pretty hateful. though my mother was stupid and unsympathetic and pokey and old-fashioned and Just as mean and spiteful as she could be. I rnay not have told her so In o many words, but she knew what I ' thought well enough. Dear mother,? now green me grass is above her loving' heart today. When the girl I was, so craiy about ran away with heratherUH co-achma"n"TTnar''nTale' a "terrible Scandal' I .began 'to fllnily wbnder whether myj inyuier amnc nave just a, wee bit of sense aftor all, even If she wasn't sweet sixteen. That Slrl has boon married four times slnco then, and . there's been a scandal' about every marrlaire. dnce I went across , .-. . . .... uvti uu itiv nut aieamer witn ner.v "h "iMBijeu on claiming- my mend-, ship.' on Jacpaunt 'lot the old days." I wished I had never even heard of her. So mother "objects,'' does she? Well, now. Sweet Sixteen, the very best thing yqa can ' do Is to listen to mother's objection.. She "Is the best friend you have in the world: 'Don't make any mistake about thataml- she -won't ob ject to anything that -will, make' you happy unless thero Is some pretty good reason for ft. pother!! right, and you're wrong this tlfnt. So yjm Just give her a good hug and a loving kiss and say. "Mother, whatever you say Is best I'm going to do." and Juat watch the look that comes info her tired eyes. It will moke you happy for a week Just .to think of It. ' , - :t . ;4 .fieri Hfn'iAvi'rl k ' "i't.uu:.' $ -- . 'i ' " ,- usk'- e V;tJ ;Jt -.i .- ..-.- -j - .1.- . 'v,. ; N:-SHEV 1 - , ...Mwli' HE. - -Oono are the Sprlng'and the Summer, from tho year;. 'V , "H And nm. IIvai ni noil MaV dAftV. f '.' ' ' v , " .. ' '. Inour October find serene delights . T6 lake tho place of ardent Summer nights?., ' ' Not striving to retain a dying-season, 1 Or imitate its pleasures, but "with reason . " Accepting Autumn's quiet, briefer day ' 1 Of calm content; not' seeking to be gay? Oono are the' Spring and Summer; yet boholdt ;Tho radiant woods, supreme In rod and gold And russet colors; and U40 wind harp' Plays A'loudor Bong than in the April days. ' 'Our lives need not bo colorless or sober Because of Autumn, Emulato Octobor, Who will not lot tho aging years grow dull, But koepB Its lovo by Uelng beautiful. I- Bluff J IT Ca. AT Dl, Astronomers Unablo to Accour Otrange AStral DOay Recorded by PracticaUy Unkni 1 Astronomers Unablo to Account for Its Existence as , own Russian Scientist ' By GAnRKTT V 8I5RVISS. WUllam IS. -Wood, the head nf Amort ca great woolen industry, said at a din ner In Boston:. pin socialism of the more rampant port there is a lot of bluff. You will remem ber tho socialist-anarchist who shouted from his red-draped platform: " 'We've got 100.000 men all armed and drilled and ready to sweep this corrupt copltalistlo government Into the deal' J' 'Well, why don't you do It, then: a heckler asked. vThe toclallit-anarchlst roared furiously lnontwer; " 'Why, tho bloody police won't lot 'cmt' Doston Globe. Girls! Thicken and Beautify Your Hair Bring back ita gloss, luster, ettona and get rid of dacirHff Try ' the moist cloth. .To be possessed of a head of heavy, beautiful hair; soft, lurtroua, fluffy, wavy and free from .dandruff is merely a matter of using a little Dandertiie. It Is easy and inexpensive to have nice, soft hair and lots of It Just get a tS cent bottle of Knowlton'a Danderin now all drug stores recommend It apply a little as directed and within ten minutes there will be an appearance of abundance; freshness, fluftlness and an Incomparable gloss and luster, and try aa you will you cannot find a trace of dandruff or falling hair, but your real surprise will be after about two weeks' use, when you will see new hair fine affd downy at flrst-yes-but really new hair sprouting out all over your scalp Danderin is, wa believe, the only sure, hair grower; destroyer of dandruff and cure for Itchy scalp and It never falls to stop falling. hair at once. If you want to prove Jhow pretty and soft your hair really Is, moisten a cloth with a little Daadertn and carefully draw It through your hair taking one smagll strand at a time. Tour hair win be soft, glossy and beautiful In Just a few moments a delightful surprise awaits everyone who tries this. There Is a strange fish In tt)e sky, kind of astronomical "What-is-It" which made Its first appearance to human eyes, on September 6, when a youf Russlau Astronomer, named neujmin, in nis re mote observatory at Slmels, In the ! Crimea, found Its . image on a photo 1 graphic, plate that he had exposed to ; the eky tTireo I nights earlier, ' It did not looH like a comet, and Neujmln thought J that It must be a Utile planet, and as It to the astrono mical world. The matter was turned over to certain astronomers who make a specialty of the study of the asteroids, or Uttlo planets, and they, after a care ful examination, repudiated It. They de that It could not be a planet and must be a comet.' They consequently declined to put It on their list. But the mystery only deepened, for nobody could remember ever having seen such a comet as this. It looked like a itar, but moved, as no real star could do. For a few nights it appeared very slightly elongated, but then It lost this appearance and became round again. There was no tall not even th root of a tail; the great IJclc telescope failed to show the slightest trace of one. Great difficulty was encountered In making out the path in which It traveled. According to some calculations It had been nearest to the sun as long ago as July O, and was, at the moment of Its discovery, fast gliding away again into space. According to others Its nearest approach to the sun -was a day or two. after Its discovery. At the Lick observatory, where they do not call It either comet or planet, but J give it the non-committal and mysterious designation of the "Object NevJmln," a period of revolution around Uie.sun of nearly seventeen and a halt years has been assigned to the stranger, but they add that while there cannot be any doobt about the elliptical nature of the orbit, the period of revolution may bf shortened as the result of further observations. In the meantime the "Object Neujmln" has been provisionally accepted In the cometary shevpfold to be turned out Into' tho cold later, perhaps. If its claim cannot be made good. An "object" in the sky, about whoso imturo the astronomers themselves are )n doubt-i-that Is surely a new ecnxatlotr. And yet wo aught not to be very much surprised by It, The heavens are full of mysteries. Space Is occupied by un known, and ordinarily Invisible, bodies of many kinds. The un Is carrying the earth con tinually into new regions, traveling north ward at least 375.000,090 miles per year, and there is plenty of evidence that the contents Of space, through which we arc moving, vary to on astonishing de gree. In some places vast nebulae spread their glimmering wings and sprawling spirals over billions of miles. The earth caught In one of those celestial mael stroms would be less Important tfyan a chip In the rapids of Niagara. Borne of the, nebulae are invisible by direct vision, "dark nebulae," Prof, Barnard calls them, because their existence Is only shown when, they obscuro hosts of stars behind them, like gigantlo curtains of black gauze. These nebulous monsters may Leset our course like the pitfalls, gins and snares of the Pilgrim's Progress. Elsewhere wa see great stars, some of thorn far mightier than the sun, stagger ing under the burden of one or more huge, dark bodies, or swarms of smaller objects, which have attached themselves to them by the hooks of gravitation and rannbt be shaken off. If the sun should ever like Blndbad, fall Into the clutches of one of these "Old Men of the Sea" that lurk around the shores and shallows of the ocean of space, lie could never freo his neck from Its clinging limbs. There s no wine that can Inebriata gravitation and paralyre its grip. Strange objects In the solar system! If ever they begin to be seen in considerable numbers w shall have, .reason to' fear that the sun is running us into danger in its headlong course. Every great dark body In space must have flocks of them about it. Every spinning nebulae must be casting them off by millions. What occupation so; fascinating as that of the watchers for .these, things, the astronomers, who regard the stars, the sun. the- planets, the comets with tireless patience, keeping account of their be havior and of their motions, and onco in a while, like tho young Russian, in his lone Crimean observatory, spying some thing to which they can give no other iiame than that ot an unknown object In the sky I (C Shift of Suicide Belt J According to statistics ot suicides In this country printed In the current Issue of the New York Spectator, an Insurance publication, the so-called "suicide belt" has shifted from the east to the west The highest number of deaths In propor tion tq population due to self-destruction was In Ban Francisco and Sacramento. Hoboktn. which for many years headed the percentage list ot deaths due to sui cide, has lost Us place to cities more than 3,000 miles away. The rate was some what lower than In 1911; In fact, It hss been on the decline since 1908. Chicago has the greatest number of" deaths due to this cause, and Manhattan and the Bronx Is second. Frederick L. Hoffman, writer of the article, who also compiled the sta tistics, asuerts that the decline In the rate would seem to Indicate that, for the time being, at least, the economlo condi tion of the country Is Improving over pre vious years, as there is close relation In the suicide rate and business failures, The decline." says Mr Hoffman, "also would Indicate that moral conditions I M better although the fact that the present annual mortality from suicide throughout the United States Is' approxi mately 16,000 suggests a far from satis factory state of affairs. The table of comparative suicides -n 100 cities of this country shows that dur ing 1113 the rate Incrsasedever the de cennial average In forty-six cities and de creased, or remained stationary, In the remaining fifty-four places. The rate of Uoboken, which Is always considerably above the average. 'also declined during UU. but a slight Increase occurred fn the rates In SL Louts, Seattle ao4 Bait .take City. The highest suicide rate during 1912 prevailed In San Francisco, where the figures were forty-four per JOO.000 persons, followed by Sacramento with SJ.Sj Ta coma with 317; Los Angeles, with tl.l; San Diego, with 3S.4, and Springfield. 111., with W.2. . lYilllamsport, Pa., has the unique dis tinction of having no suicide during lott and during the preceding decade the rate was only 9.1 per cent per 100.000 of popula tlon, or less than one-half the average 0. 100 cities at large. "J Refinements of Science v. Uy EDOAIl LUCTKN LAKKIN. Go deposit by very delicate electrical methods ppon perfectly flat and smooth glass an excessively thin film ot bromide of -stiver without admixture of gelatine. Ordinary plates have all along been de posited with silver bromide Incorporated with gelatine to hold thelayer of bro mide molecules on., the glas. Then the Advice to the Lovelorn By IJEAT1UOT FAJItFAX. Give Hint Up. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am keeping company with a young man -and am en gaged to marry him. Now he Is very nice to me, but to my folks he Is very Insulting, and as I think highly of my folks, what will I do: Marry him or give him upT "PEKPLBXEIX" If he has so little respect for you he Insults your family, It will be only a Question of time when he will insult you. Indeed, he does It now. Give him up, I am proud to hear from a girl who Is so loyal to her family, Aa a Good Friend, Dear Miss Fairfax. I am a girl pf 18 and some time ago became acquainted with a young man of Zl. For two months we Kept company steadily, but a month ago he stopped calling. How should I treat him when he passes me on the street? I can remember nothing 1 have said or done to make him act so. E. H. P. Treat him as you would any other friend. Be agreeable, Indifferently so, and do not ask him why he no longer calls. ' This will cause him to think you haven't missed him, and he will grow In terested. A Problem In Kcononiy. Dear Miss Fairfax: How much do you think a wife can save each week out ot J2T60. four to clothe and feed? What I mean by four Is two children, myself And husband. I pay IIS a month rept and gas. I am considered a good housekeepe J- w You have 300 a month; tit for rent and gas leaves 171 It has been demonstrated that table expenses for four may be kept within $1 a day, which leaves a margin of !4 for clothes, shoes, sickness, amuse ments, the repair ot household furniture and the tax In the name of friendship, such as gifts, entertaining, etc, which few escape. If you can put away, month after month, as much as f 10 you are doing well Uy WILLIAM F. KIIIK I asked Pa tot a quarter' last nlte to buy Indian clubs with, we have all jrot to swing Indian clubs In our school, now. the boys A the gurls. I do not partlculry-ly approve of In dian clubs, sed Pa, as compared with certlng other forms ot flzztcnl culture as, for Instans, boxing & lite dum-bells. I will gtt you lite dumb-bells lnsted. Bobble, sod Pa. No. It Is too late, I tnald Pa. Thiy alt bought Indian clubs, bcekaus that is what tho trecher toald tis to get. Thare was a yung man nalmcd Blako visiting for the nventng with my cousin Alice. A he sed to Pa that cliib swinging waa grate exercise A that he was sur prised to see a genttlman of Pa'a Intelli gence saying that thare was ether' better exercises. I do not wish you to understand, sed Pa to Mister Blake, that I am dee nounclng club swinging. I waa alwayx a grate . club, swinger myself, sed Pa. Thay used to say about ma at skool that I cud make Indian clubs talk. Bum, evening wen we are ware thare Is a pair of clubs. Pa sed to Mister Blake, I shall take grate plcaeur In showing you a few fancy movements. That will be vary Hind of you, sod Mister Blake, but Ma ft ma know better. Pa hA forgot all about a pair of "clubs that he brought hoani one nlte" oever a Veer beefoar. He tried' to swing them onst wen' thay waa new & Veerly broak his hed, 'ft after that he put thetnaway, But Ma & me remembered them.' & Ma went' tt got them. Wen Pa saw them he remembered, all about the time that he tried to swing them, & ha got awful red In the faco. He started talking aa fast aa he cud about pumthlng else, but Mil ter Blake kep talking about the Clubs he wud like to have Pa teech him sum fancy movements. Presently, presently, sed Pa, hut as I was saying I think there are other forma Of exercise that are superior to club swinging. Polo, for Instans, sed Piu I was always a grate polo player. In one game I played so fast ft furious that I noerly killed three mounts. I remember several English army officers cummtng oaver after a game A patting me on the back. That waa nice, sed Mister Blake, hut let us see what you can do with theee, clubs. , I wud gladly go thru a few move with you, sed Fa, but the fack ta that I have a touch of rumatlsrn in my both, arms, A It wud be a vary painful process rev me to go'through with at present, I doant beleeve you can swing them at all, sod Mister Blake. Look at the way your father Is holding the clubs, Robbie, Here, he sed to Pa, stop four-flushing & give me ihsm clubs. I will show you sum movements. Then Mister Blake tret up & he cud swlag the .ctluba aa pretty as any' man that I ever seen' on, the stage. After ha swung them fpr about ten mlnnlts ha started to. toss them, up In the air & catch them every. war. Hp eeren caught one of them on his eye brows & balanced It thare. Isent that butlful & graceful? ted Ma. Imagine you teechlng that boy anything, she sed to Pa. He swings tho clubs fairly well, sed Pa, Jut I wish I dlden't have, the rum atlsm In my arms, A-rny- bock Is soar too. Probty yure back Is sore from ware the English army officers patted you after that polo game, sed Ma. minute molecules were hindered. In; any chemical reaction la any , motions, they might atempt to make by the moUcslet of ,the gelatine. But If the layer of wiole pules could be attacked to the glass iwtth out being mixed with any other sub stance, then the efficiency of each mole cule would be vastly enhanced. The photographlo sensitiveness would become so much Increased that unheard-of, waves of energy from the sun or frorn. electric light hitherto unknown from thtr ex cessive shortness, could be detected. This has been done, and energy .waves have been discovered whose length is only one-tenth ml., I. e., one-tenth of a micron. Amloron Is the ope-thousandth part of a millimeter, and a millimeter Is the one-thousandth part of a standard In ternational meter, original now in Paris. But one Inch contains H i millimeters. A micron Is the one-thousandth part of this, but the new short waves are down to one-tenth of a micron, or 2&4.000 to one Inch. r Thus a new universe has been dis covered to add to the list of "new uni verses," that is, "universes within uni verses," If such an expression Is allow able, when the word universe means on turn. These exceedingly short undula tions of radiant energy are so far out beyond the very faint violet end of the spectrum that one extra word ultra has been added, and they are called the ultra-ultra-violet waves, For the limits of alt ImagtnaUon hitherto Invoked on delicate manipulation are fulfilled In the new ultra-ultra rapid metallic film work on truly flat glass. Nature Is cauaht all un ! awares In her esoteric work and Is forced ( to surrender to the powerful demands of I modern research. I Micro-photography and micro-projection In moving picture apparatus is an engine of the highest educational efficiency, In fact, It Is destined to completely reversn and upset all at the now obsolete educo, llohal methods. Thus two grand discov eries of the age have been recently made. First, that of Maria Montessorh that no two minds are alike; and, second, extremely rapid micro-photography of living bacteria and other minute organ isms In motion for projection, where all the children can see. Q. If our earth and moon are so In flnltesimally small, why are they not disturbed by the other planets! A. They are disturbed. The earth is often "off Its .track" several thousand miles and Is off Its regular ellipse now, as I write, from the action of Jupiter now magnificent. Low Observatory, California. Hoboes Bury a Dog An unkempt line of man. trailed behind a rickety express wagon that creaked Ita way up "Hobo hll," a anack-covered clay bank In the slum quarter of the north aide, Kansas City, following to lis grave all that remained 'of "Snowball," a nondescript terrier, known and 'loved by all the human derelicts who have fre quented the cheap lodging haasee of North Main street In the last five years. "Here lies Snowball, the hobo'a friend. May he rest In peace." These words were roughly scrawled 1m crayon on the home-made coffin In the express wagon, and painted on the smooth side of the wooden slab that was driven Into the ground at tho grave's head, Snowball was run oyer and. mangled by a street car In front of the Helping1-Hons Institute last night. The dog, covered with sleet froxen to his hair,' slipped into a cheap North side saloon one. winter night five years ago. The foatln class nf men that frequent the district adopted him, taught him tricks, fought over him and for him, and often put in their nickels to ball him out of the pound. Kansas City Journal. ' Coming of The SwibtMH Kw ts Arete! These Pains awl DbtreM WWch co Mur Mather, Htyc'guKsred. PUT MoUtr's Friend, It U a more women da not mow s lim 1. r.J, that oftAAhat tts mc1, eattln tens to cxpind wlCfcueC say UJs spaa th IliuatfiU sn4 setbUe vsmts to go Urouxh ndtrsltr ltooot pels, stun, taoxstsg tlekneai or sax of th dread! symptoms m fsmllUr to suoy mother. Men U s rool)Q dUt ta bar. t&e mini. Ttt Utoosbts to net dwelt poa pla sod stir Utltg. (or U ach are STolded. Tbound of wooms DO Vongtt tflta UOBUctros to ' tb Uouskt tttt slekaeM and dfttre sra baton!. Vtij know bttttc. Xor is Mother's. friod Ur bare foaad s woratrrful, Msttratlsc rcstd te fcanlak sU thooe dreufctd raperleaet. .. 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