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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1913)
17 How to Judge a Person The Girls He Leaves Behind Him or "The Departing Guests" By Nell Brinkley By ADA PATTERSON. TILE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER J5, 191 a. 1 Judge a man by the way he answer a 'lUPJBtlon. If ha be honest and of good mental fibre and training he will answer the question to the satisfaction or the questioner. Jf he , be dishonest or of loorly trained tritnd he oarlll leave him mystified. The only person who la excusable for 'evading a ques tion, la the young M-oman who la re ceiving a proposal of marrlnge. It Is iv pa,rt of the an cient and honor able feminine code that she hgnitato during this -romantic climax, pr her f-vaslon may bo 1-rompted by a kind heart. She Is a merciful executioner who pauses before letting the axe of her' "No" foil upon the masculine neck. Any other person, male or female, who declines to answer an ordinary" question In a direct and satisfying manner, satis fying to the Intellect If not to the heart. Is either a wanderer as to wits, or one who, is ashamed of the truth his answer would reveal. Now York furnishes In the course of n day'moro dodgers of questions than any city In tho world. Ask a. San Franciscan, a Chlcagoan, a citizen of London or Paris a question and you have a- fair chance of a reply to it. In New York you will get a reply to some other ques tion or a question as to your question. Board a street car In New York, receive a Pink ticket which shows that you are a commodity that Is transferable at certain points on tho road, and you are possessed of a dcslro to know to wh.nt lines that car transfers. You want to know, but the," conductor won't tell you, not until there has been wordy conihat and one of you has been browbeaten, and It the was has been carried far, doubtless fcruTeed. .1 . , . "here do you transfer?" a- portly and', prosperous cltlren Inquired on a Ctoadway line. i ; ; -, . "Where did you want to got" "None ot, your busienssi Tell me-. where sou transfer," returned the man. . "Tho conductor Informed' the passenger that he was a fresh guy." The pas senger caused the conductor's nose to bleed. The car was stopped. A police man arrested both of them for disturbing the peace and twenty angry, shivering passengers were ordered to "Take a car nhead." - , v "Where,' dotyou transfer?" The'aweetl noft voice lh,7wblch B.Vwhlte-half(i woman asked tlilajouldltstlff-Kaveireyntd'i"a softj response. - -- Insteadvthe ruffian who ooUerted tho tickets fna-xledj ."WheTerd'ye want"to loV' 'V " n "It depends 6n whefe 'you transfer,', replied the snowy-haired matron, a faint pink stealing Into her checkV That was a more Intelligent remarks than the beetling-browed Individual ln the uniform realized. A woman sets forth on a shopping tour. Bho wants to buy silk for herself. Tho silk house of Brown & Co. is, we will say, on Thirty fourth street She wants to buy slippers lor her daughter, who Is at school.' Her favorite shoe house Is on Forty-second xtreet. She must have a prescription filled for her son, who Is 111. Sho always ms her prescriptions filled' at the chem rts' on FIfty-nlntU street. AU these naces musi nc visum. 11 uoesn i mailer hbout their sequence. "Which place s5i will visit first depends upon whloh street that car transfers. It was an entirely logical situation that of the lltlle woman, yet I heard tho conductor heatedly com plaining to a man on the platform of the "sass the old woman had given him." Hie heard it, too, and Indignant tears 'oe to her eyes, forced back by her will. The conductor would have spared him Ut laceration of feelings and would have saved vitality and nerve force If he had answered: "At Forty-second and U Twenty-eighth streets." , With this Information she could have Planned her morning' shopping Jo suit her. Transferring at Twenty-eighth, ho could have walked to Thirty-fourth street, perhaps to Forty-second, and tho errands done, have taken a Forty-second vtreet car to one of the tilde lines that v ould have carried her to that block on Flfty-nlnth ahe wished to visit. Yet ie had ruffled himself and Insulted her Cause for By DR. O. II, PARKIIUR8T Under the auspices of a society of vMch the archblshQP of Canterbury Is I lesldent. Dr. Woods Hutchinson has been delivering an address on divorce. In which he urges that drunkenness should be oonsld c r e d sufficient ground for break ing the marriage icntract. Without raising any question as to the soundness of Dr. Hutchinson's position, a line of thought like that which he pursues In his address laiees tho question whether we may not be talking and writing too much about the way by which married people can get out of matrimony and too little about the "freight and narrow way by which alone , ' nmarried people ought to fee allowed to ijter Into matrlmnoy. Easy divorce make easy marriages. fend easy marriages make easy-divorce. The moral soundness of society depend! 1' very considerable measure upon the kolldlty and durability of the marriage tie, and every new divorce I another How to soUal integrity and to ti:e who!?- 1 - 4Ih 7T- -si "IA iliH? iWF' T . 47: i " f . . .. V Z- . . r-. I'.tN ., - . ' -i Z-iW . . , w 7-v ' llr NKLLyBRlNJLtWiV, ' . - , From Sumufer's closing gate Oo Dan and I.. He swings upon a crutch "Looks'' with but one blue eye. His pinky knees arc bruised; On his fat cheeks Run through with crystal tears The dlrt's in Bt'reaks! because he had not trained himself to answer questions. In 'shops, in offices, at work or play in the metropolis, we am more likely than not to find the inadequate answer to a warrantable question. I, Itlchard Grant White's maxim, "Wo think In words, and when we lack fit words we lack fit thoughts" applies to the answering of questions. If you notice irritation in the manner and vexation In the face of persona when they talk with you the, . chances are seven put .of ten that you unswer their questions at ran dom. It would be a good mental training to focus your attention upon the next question asked you and, note whether you unswer them crtply and with intelli gence, giving no more Information than asked for and no less. A clvll question Is entitled to a civil answer directed' with such Intelligence as we possess. Divorce J someness of popular sentiment and life. The cdrdlullty accorded to divorced parties, who, half a century ago, would have been regarded as social outcasts, Indicates the ease Hnd rapidity with which the morel sense of the public has become weakened and debated. The greater the ease with which the contract can be broken, the larger the part which will be played by Inconsld. erate passion In forming the contract, i Great credit is due to the Cathollo church for the rigid position which It continues to maintain. The Episcopal church holds to tho old ground with al most the same Intensity of tenure. 'Till death do us part" Is tho pledge Insisted upon In Ita marriage service. That same service furthermore insists that the "holy estate Is not by any to. be entered into unadvisedly or lightly, but revenrently, discreetly, advisedly, coberly and In the fear of dod." It is just the lack of this, the habit of blundering into marriage, that feeds the divorce court. Courtship would be a dif ferent thing and be conducted with an altered spirit if it were understood by each of the parties that once the con tract Is consummated, death of one or I he other of the two is the only way out of It, and that "Tilt death do us part" is not merely a phrase, but a solemn cov enant that cannot be broken. Better than a plan for getting out of trouble Is a policy for not getting into It. and the easier H Is tu get out the more then, will be that will gtt in. And while he hops he sobs In sniffs forlorn, "Had I a heart,' 'twould burst My elfin wings are torn." I stumbled with no crutch No bruise t show, ( But my heart's laced with cracks, And turned with Inward tears to dough! Gone are our lazy days, Man or Woman, Which is Superior? Each Excels, as Each Fails, in Certain Particulars; Are Neces sary to Make Up Humanity; to Argue Further is Futile By DOROTHY DIX. A correspondent writes; "Will you please discuss the subject, 'Is Man Superior to WomanT A neighbor of mine, a foreigner, contends that man la superior to wo man. He holds that he la far superior to his. wife, yet she does twice as much work as he does. She runs both his home and his store, and It Is her energy and In telligence that have made his business a suc cess." To argue about whether a woman Is superior to man, or man is superior to woman, is as futile as to discuss whether winter Is better than sum mer, or rain or sunshine Is more advan tageous to growing crops. Each excels in certain particulars, each falls In certain respects, and both are necessary to make up humanity. Take them by and large, and men and women are cut off of pretty much the same piece of goods. As Mrs. Fowser truly said; 'Women are foolish Cod made them that way to match the men." Undoubtedly, the vast majority of men believe, on Insufficient evidence, that they are far superior to women, and that the mere accident of sex la a sort of genius in itself, so that anybody who Is entitled to wear trousers by reason of that fact is more Intelligent, with a broader vision and a saner judgment than even the most gifted creature doomed by nature to. skirts. A few women also hold of this view, and a great number profess to subscribe to it because experience has taught them that man is woman's superior in at least one quality vanity. They have found out that the easlesttway to work a man Is to sit at his feet and waft him hot air. and tell him how big, and wise, and t strong, and handsome he is, and what a Danny's and mine. Autumn's cold rain chills flesh Warm with, tho Summer's wine. Qohlnd that gate lies Summer, Golden and Blue, Gold for the awoot, warm days, Sapphire the deep sky's hue. Gold for the flowers and bees And butterflies, poor, miserable worm in the dust a mere female Is. It Is these cheerful workers among women, aided and abetted by the fact that the law gives man the right to rule over women, and until lately has given hlra also her property, that has fostered man's belief in his superiority to woman.- Dut why, goodness only knows, because It Is woman who takes care of man at every atage of the game, from the time when she washes out his little eyes when he's bom, to tho day when she closes them In death. And all between times she helps him, she braces him up, she tugs him into the right path, and keeps him going. Many a big and successful man Is really a little inferior man made by a superior woman. Of course, men are superior to women in certain respects. A man. for Instance, Is stronger than a woman. He has big ger bones, more muscle. The average man can lift his wife with ont hand. But It is the woman who stands an Ugh. teen-hour workday, devoted to the most monotonous labor on earth, a strain under which any man would break down, or take to drink. It Is the weak mother who can nurse a fretful, teething baby month after month; who can be up with it half of the night, and In times of sickness hold it In her arms for a week at a time without get ting nervous prostration. Any Sunday taking care of the children on the nurse's afternoon off leaves an ablebodled man worn to a frazzle. Men have greater physical endurance than women. Yet any doctor will tell you which bears pain better, a man or a woman. Jtt a man get a toothache, or a headache, and he howls to heaven about it and wants doctors and trained nurses and everybody in the fardlly to be on the jump waiting on him, while there are thousands of women' who never draw a breath that isn't fraught with pain, and who go uncomplainingly about their daily duties without even mentioning how they feeU Men are braver than women. There are even women who are afraid of mice, bill every woman who bears a child goes smUlngly forth to look into the face of death by torture. Only the exceptional man ever has his courage put to the test that practically every woman experi ences, and when he doesn't flinch they Blue for. tho Summer girls.! , Dear, untrue eyes. - '4 Back In thai' Paradise ( We leave all bliss; T-here lisps a velvet sea Thoro lives a vanished kiss. The girl who swam with me The smothering surf. The girl who "drove" the ball -.J call him a hero, but woman's courage Is so common that we never notice It And women have far more moral cour age than men. Men are afraid of shame, of ridicule, of having the finger of scorn pointed at them. A man turns a dis graced daughter out of doors. He di vorces a drunken wife, but a woman stands, by her own no matter how low they fall. It Is women, and, not men, who are waiting outside of the peniten tiary doora to take the freed convict home. Men are the financiers of the world, but the average woman can make a dollar go twice as far as a man can when it comes to spending, and In those families where the wife is the cashier you will nearly always find prosperity. It Is also notable that In a" business where both men and women are employed, although the women receive a smaller salary than the men, they will have a little bank ac count, and tho men be borrowing money. Men have better health, as a rule, than women do, yet when the head of a big firm which employed both mate and fe male labor was asked If he did not find that the women lost a lot of time on account of sickness, replied: "Not so much as the men do from drunkenness." A man Is the official head of the fam ily, yet it is men who desert their Uttlo children and leave them to starve. It Is men who commit suicide when life gets over hard. You hardly ever hear of 'a woman abandoning her helpless little children to the mercy of the world. Undoubtedly men have displayed more genius than women. They have written the big books, painted the great ploturcs, made tho marvelous Inventions, yet what man- has ever done anything so wonder ful as the creating of a man? A woman does that. Oreat men seldom beget great sons, but evory great man has a great mother. And so you might argue the question endlessly as to which Is the superior, man or woman. It is, in reality, a per sonal question. Some men are superior to some women, and some women are su perior to some men. But they average up about the same percentage of wisdom and folly, of weakness and strength, of nobility and meanness. If It Is any pleas ure to a man to think he is superior to his wife, let him enjoy it. She, and gen erally the neighbors, know better. 'Cross groon plush- turf "Black-eyes" who dancod with iri'd Through moonlight 'hoar , ' "Brown-eyes," who, boyllko, 4 raced Young- Dan and I along tho shore. SlghB, songs oud girls Long, lovely Says My tennis shoos white stocks Aro all there by tho ways. Dynamite a Great Aid in Fertilizing Farms By GARRETT P. SERVIBS, The Swiss farmers have token a hint from America and are beginning to plow up the soil and stimulate Its productivity with dynamite, after tho fashion of those whom they still call Yankees. Wo on this sldo of the ocean havo known for somo time that this Is an excellent method of breaking up hard soil and making worn-out land as tonishingly fertile, and now they aro learning the truth In the old world. They have set about It Very sys tematically in Swltxerland, under the It ad of the federal department of agri cultural chemistry, and thry have ob tained results which flit them with en thuslasm. The cultivation of fruit trees has been their first rate, and they are delighted to find that this Yankeo no. Hon of shaking the earth awake works Ilka a charm. Trees planted In soil pre pared by dynamite explosions grow fastor and produce more fruit than thoxn stand ing on. land cultivated In the old way, The explanation Is plain and easy, Tho fortuity of the soil which Is mostly noth ing but disintegrated rock worn und rest ing upon the hard akult of the earth depends upon certain chemical elements that nourish the life of plants. Some of theao elements are soon exhausted by the plants, where crop rapidly succeeds crop, and thus constant manuring Is re quired to keep the land In a productlvo state. Another portion of the plant food Is washed away by rains or buried deep in the soli, beyond the reach of plows and cultivators. At a certain depth, below the level or dinarily cultivated there Is often an ac cumulation of valuable oherolcal elements that the roots of plants cannot attain. No plow can go so deep, and If It did It could not break up the hard, rock-like layers which are full of unused nourish ment. But a dynamite cartridge skill fully exploded two or three feet below the top of the ground causes an instan- Of Summor laud, beyond Tho gateB. Thoy fly (Girls, flowora, all Summer things)' To Summer's stop kissing good bye! Into October's rain Oo Dan and I. Scuffling through dry, sad leaves, Blackened of heart and eye! tanepus overturning of tho soli' and a releasing of Ita chemical energies. By planting tho cartridges front twelv to twenty feot apart and exploding them simultaneously by electricity a largo space of ground may be thoroughly broken up and the soil completely tri turuUd In an Instant. Ground thut is thus prepared possesses more than ordinary fertility, because not only Is a greater depth of roll, tll(ed wth nourishing elements, brought into action to feed tho plants, but the pulverising by tho explosions of virgin layers that were nevtr beforo broken up into soli brings a fresh store of plant food Into use. Then, too, It has been shown that the greater degree of fineness to which tho explosions reduce tho particles of earth Is an Important matter, since it results In tho freeing of chemical ele ments, oven from soil that is regarded as worn out, that the usual methods of cultivation do not reach. The Swiss exponents confirm the pre vious ones made In America in showing that cultivation by explosion can be con ducted without danger It the most ele mentary precautions are used. A alnglo dynamite or gamstte cartridge exploded at a depth of about a yard produces a cone of pulverized-a(th froni thirty-six to forty square feefln area at the suifaco, and the force of. the explo sion Is so completely usod up' In tritura tion of the sol( that there la no serious throwing about of fragments at the top. A young fruit tree planted in ona of these conea qt triturated earth shows immediately the stimulating effects of the process. ISvldently we haye hardly scratched the surface of the earth hitherto., U Is filled wlthiriches only a few -feet downj which only need to be brought to th top In order to double the capacity of the land for the production of grains and fruits. I am writing this In the hope that thou sands of young Americans who now crowd the cities to overflowing and pass their Uvea in occupations that add virtually nothing to the wealth and well-being of their country will perceive how interest ing and how worthy of their utmost pow ers and efforts is the life of tt)e modern tiller of the soli, aided by the discoveries that science Is continually making for him. i