THE BEE: OMAIIA, SAT VHP AY, NOVEMBER 22, 1013.
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Hands Thv Re and
11 . This? 'Pintiirfl i Tvnieal of Millions of Girls in America.
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it Shows a 'Yourigomari, in Our "Civilization" Trying' 'to
Make Her Own. Living," the Girl in This Picture is One, of
Many Going Through the World. Victims, Defenceless, Un
protected by Law or Public Conscience.
Many are th$ Hands Stretched Out on the Long, Hard Road
of a Girl's Life The Road That Leads so Rarely to Independ
ence; to Sorrow, Failure and Bitter Disappointment, Nearly Al-
It Should be SOMEBODY'S BUSINESS to Clear' tfhii
Road for the Girl Who Must 4 'Make Her Own Way." J ' "
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Dorothy Dix "Wants Law to Make Men
and Women Honest About Courtship
Four Stunning Hats from the
Paris Shops.
By DOROTHY DIX.
The supreme court has decided that
any kltld' of a mUrepro'sentatfpn '.goes In
courtship, ond that It a young man teUs
a young woman, as on Inducement for
marrying, tha,t lie1
has plehty of
money In the bank,
a lucrative job and
a good home ready
furnished to take
her io 'that the
said young woman
has 'no recourse )n
law .If she finds tfut
that ''none of these
things o'ro true, but
thoH t'h.cy are
merely the pipe
d r 6a m s of some
modern Claude Lor
raine, v
In handing down
theopnl6n the Jus
tlco said:
"It lsa-well recog
nised principle that.
In the state of mental exaltation accom
panying courtship, statements made as :o
the mental, moral or financial condition
of the parties shall not be too closely
scrutinized., nor shall they be held to a
strict accountability therefor."
This Is not only the law, but It is the
commonly accepted view of the matter.
-Men and women who are otherwise
honest and wjio would scorn to gamble
with!',' loaded dice or marked cards do
not, hesitate to play the love game
i rooked.
Men who would not Inveigle another
man Into a business under false pre
tenses do not scruple to entice a woman
Into matrimony by means of glittering
falsehoods and misrepresentations.
Women whose consciences would not
allow them to deduct a year from the
age of & horse they were trying .to sell
take off ten or a dozen years from their
own Ages when they are trying ta catch.
a husband and hear nover a whimper
from the s'flll, smalt voice.
What else Is it but deliberate decep
tion "In a woman to let the man she Is
expected to marry only bee. her when
she is painted and powdered and waved
and curled and dolled up In her very
best and most becoming clothes?
What else Is It but fraujl that makes
a girl In the days of courtship act so
meek, and mild that she makes patient
Grlselda lootc like a termlgant? What
else does; she run than a. confidence game
when she agrees with everything her best
beau bays and break& her neck trying to
please him In every way. and gives him
to understand that she considers him a
cry fount of wisdom?
What else in It than- deception of the
Icpcst dye for a man when he Is court
ing a gill to tel( htjr that he asks npthlng
" life but the bliss of murmuring words
of undying love In her little shell-like
ear and holding her little white hand in
his when he nows that he 11 drop the
Jmie white hand the- minute the marriage
ceremony is said over them as if It was a
hot brick, and the most that the shell
llko ears will ever hear again will be his
cxUloJam of .her cooking? t ,
What Is It but rankr fraud for a. man
when he Is courting a girl to shower
presents and theater tickets on, her and
lead her to believe that her matrimonial
pathway will bo strown with chocolate
creams and violets, when he knows that
after marriage he will row with her over
a quarter for car fare? ' "
what It but a gold-brick transaction
that should land a man In the penten
tlary for. .him. to. induce a girl to marry
him for the sake of having his society,
and then for him to go off and leave her
after they arp married, to spend her
evenings alone? 1
Everybody's doing 'It, of course, and
also very nearly everybody Is getting a
divorce, or wishing that one could be got.
If nine-tenths of the people. In the world
would tell the matrimonial 'truth, they
would say that they were the victims of
confidence artists, And that they never, '
riever, never would have married the ones
they did if they had the faintest Idea of
what they were getting.
Talk about state regulation of mar
riage. What we need is state regulation
of courtship and some law that would
make it a felony for any man or woman
not to give the party of the othor part
h square deal, and not to let him or her
at least know the kind of a matrimonial
bargain he or she was making.
Of course. It would be a discourager
of marriage, MH It would also be a dis
courager of dlvonre. , Fewer people
'might get married If they kjiew what
they were going up against In reality,
but more people .woJld stay married.
Let John Jones, when he courts Sally
Smith, refrain from dealing In glitter-
J1
Ing generalities and telling her thnt he
will stand between her and the cruel
world, and no harsh wind shall ever blow
upon her, and that his one thought ,wlll
be to keep her In a satln-llned box. In
stead let him say to her:
"Bally, I am poor. . I only make
3S a week and If yu marry, mo you will
have to work and economize ' and, wear
year before last's clothes'. In addition.
I'vo got U devil of a temper and you'll
need to have a strangle hold on your pa
tience and forbearance If you live with
me. but I love you, und I'm industrious
and a hustler, and I'll 4o my best to
make you a good husband and a better
and better living as the time goes on."
It would be up to Bally .then to take
him or leave him. and she'd know what
she was letting herself In for If she mar.
pled htm, and there'd be no justification
In her whining thereafter over the lot of
a poor man's wife.
And -Jet Sally, when John comes
a-courtlng, give him a real glimpse of
the real girl as she's going to look when
she settles down to a domesticity that
Is minus the aids of the toilette table.
Let her exhibit herself to John In her
working dress, with her sleeves rolled up
and her hair slicked back and with no
powder on her nose or rouge on her
cheeks, and If she looks good to him
then he Is safe In making the bargain.
Likewise let her give him a sample pf
her temper and her tongue and her bossl
nes In tlme for him to "withdraw If he
doesn't think that they would suit him
for, dolly consumption.
It's the Ilea of courtship that lie at the
bottom of most domestic Infelicity, and
If men and women would be honest with
each other before marriage, there would
be very little trouble after; marriage.
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The Poets
By AVILMAM V. KIRK.
- The poet in the olden days was Blunder as a twig;
His hair was long and wavy, and his eyes wero dark and big. '
He sang about bis lady fair and sent her lines of love;
He mooned around her palace, gazing at the stars above.
The poet In the olden days wasone romantic cuss
The center of attraction when the ladies made a fuss.
While laymen sought to win a girl, their Waterloo was sure
If once the fair one got a peek at Byron, Burns or Moore.
The poet of the present time Is much like other men;
He eats and drinks his fill, and gets a haircut now and then,
More often fat than slender, more often short than tail,
He hangs around the editor and answers to his call.
He moons around no palace where a charming princens dwells;
He's freer far from romance than the poems that he soils.
80 all you dreamy maidens would do well to boar in mind
That poets like those old-time sports aro mighty bard to find.
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The Manicure Lady ,
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The top hat 011 the left Is of black p)ush. trimmed with. ;leated blue ribbon
and two tall plumes of tho same color.
On the right (top) Is a block velvet hftt trimmed with pleated ribbon, blue re
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On the bottom, at the left, la another black velvet hat. with an aigrette of
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Bf WILLIAM F. KHIK
"That word 'wise' Is a funuy word,
ain't It, Georgef said the Manicure Lady.
"There waa two gents In hero this morn
ing to have their nails did and both af
them was wise, only In different ways.
The first gent that came In was ft middle
aged fellow from a small town. lie told
ine frank enough that he didn't have the
habit of getting manicured, and' he said
the only reason he came In was becausu
he had three or four hangnails and had
hoard somew'here that a manicure could
fix hangnails fine. He was awfully nlcn
and gentlemanly to me and told Jne that
he liked It better In the small town than
In tho city. He said that he was a mer
chant In the small town and waa doing
so well that he wouldn't care to move
into a city where everything wa ' new
and strange. He wasn't dresied very
swell, so far as style goes, and he didn't
have no flip talk, but I could see that ho
had lots of brains and 1 know he was
a man."
''I noticed him when he went out,"
said the Head Barber. "He didn't give
you no tip, though."
"I didn't want no tip fron him," de
clared the Manicure I.adyv "Let the fiesh
' guys' tip me, as long an they have the
habit. He probably never lived wheru
folks give tips or he would have tipped
me as liberal as anybody. And now I
want to tell you about the other kind of
a wle guy that was In.
"This youivt fellow tetls me before he
Is in the chair a minute that he Is a
wlso fish. He thought he waa so deep
that he was all the time saylrig: 'Old
you follow me?' I couldn't have lost him
in his cheap chatter If I had been ten
times as stupid as I am, which I ain't
Yes, he says he Is a wise "lh, or a wist
owl, I forget which he said, put any
how wise all the way. 'if there Is
anything that anybody ever put over on
mo. he says, 'I want somebody 16 walk
up and 1 r 11 me. I am good and hep to
everything,' he says,
'Just when the nice middle-aged fellow
was going out this young wart comes In.
The mlddleaged man asked the young
fellow which way tq go to find a set of
scales, and the young fellows says, 'Why
don't you go dawn to ths Aquarium and
ask a fish?' That made me kind of tired,
so I tells tho middle-aged gent where,
there Is a big hardware store, and after
ho had went I gave the young sport a
swirt call for getting fresh with his
elders. I talked to him until I deiausted
all my elegance and It didn't do no good.
He just kept grinning that wise grin of
his at me and winking his right eye. He
sure did give that wink a merry game.
They ve got to get up early In the a, m.
when they put one over on me. Ambrose,
the live one,' he says to me, 'Maybe I
might have let one go over my head once.
but If I ever did It must have been when
I just got up and was rubbing my eyes,'
he says. He pulled three- of the latest
stage jokes, gave me a Imitation of
himself Imitating George Cohan and
pulled a lot of flash conversation all dur
Ing tho time I was hurrying madly to get
hla nails did and get him out of the
shop.
"That Is the kind of wise guys that our
big city Is getting ch.okid.up-wlthV5edr&.
When they know erfough long to keep
everybody guessing about wliit tliey r.
talking about .they think they aro' deep, ,
They ain't any deeper than a 'saucer',
and nobody ever got drowned In a saucer.
If you ever want' tp-get In dutch wtyll '
me. George. Juat". come arpund,' ' 6mer '
morning and tell tno that you are-' wlsei
fish." " ' - V
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By HKV. THOMAS, B. qREQOR.W . 4
John Bldwell did aot discover" Aiwerica,-.
or the planet Jup'.ter,, or the X-rays, "but '
h discovered Jhe-.-lg Jfi'tei" pjr W.
irornla, and tho great find was Ma tie on .
or about Thursday .
seventy-two years
go November JO,
The mighty Be
quota of Calaveras
county are nmopg
the "wonders" of
the world, and are,
Easily the-most re
markable, of trees
In age and size,
being, from 900 to
W feet In height
and from fifteen
to forty feet In
dlanisteix- A fallen trunk Is said, to tiava,
nieasured eighteen feet In diameter' 900
feet fropt the base. TGe "Keystone
Ptate," the tallest ottheBequola now ,
standing, mi astire"?- Jaelnhelght, an4 '
4 feet around lit the ha?e.
As to tMe'age jof.,the;'bigrtree tt .canr
only be said that' ft must be ' lmmth3.'.
A high authority declares that a tree has
iiu mini pci.uy ntiiujo- iu ,uio icrm pi iib
existence, Us decay being the riJli'V Of
accident rather than of 'any"laV "inherent '
In Its nature.
"There re several, trees that aj-e Known
(o be very ancient the Lomttardy oy '.
press, for whose sake the frreat Na- .
poleon bent one of his military roads
put of the straight line, Is known,-to be J
as old as the time of Caesar. The(cdars ,
of Lebanon- date bock to the time ' pf ;
Eolomon., The KalnUs oak Is ,3,000 years
old. The Mount Etna, chestnut li kijowu. - -to
have stood since the foundation of
Rome. The yew of Waburni itLJfito
years oldi and the cypress of Jsanta'
Maria del Tale Is declared by.'jiq, less "an '
authority thai) the late rof. si. Gray "
to be- ovor 1,000 years old,
But It Is claimed that the big frees lit
those just mentioned, They' welfe 'p'rob- -ably
standing on the nbbTe plateau, 5,000
feet above the Pacific, at thV time oiJ
King Cheops began the building bf his
great pyramid by he Nile: It ts pos
sible, and probable, that the giant con
ifers of the Sierras are more ancient
than any monument erected 'bythe hands
of man. yes, older than civilization -It'
self. x
At any rate, the big trees are- among
the most Interesting things on tbelaaet.
appealing to us with their hoary age- as
scarcely anything does ln4aKtharld,f
tcron's plunres ind knot of moire conl ribbon.
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