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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1913)
i 1 THE BEE; ()MA.IL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1913. 17 1 us When the East and West Are One When One Mile Might as Well Be Ten Thousand and Three Thousand Feels Like Two i BY NELL BRINKLEY CopirliM. 1(13, lBteroatlonal Kewi Bwrtas. This was .orutfie subway, where yqtvtie'ar lota of thingsl ' A 'sweet little voice that .sounded like It usually itBpd better grammar, but was so excited that It forgot piped out right behind my velvet back: "Ain't" jt awful when you'ro here and he's there?" And .1 knew Tight away what was tho matter, and Jjknew hat ltwaa awfuj. Oh, all, lovers who are far away from tho smile of one. another's eyes here's all kinds of wishes wishes that a special letter, is starting .loverward this very night for fortune ..that will suddenly, ,in good humor; twist your destiny bo that you may be where she is and she where you may bo; ,fpr a private' wire to girdle nround tho world; a lover's Jlne, with" gold-dusty headed Danny for Central to fire other folk off. ' Oh, all ,good, good wishes. For when there ar'.e two lovers and the two of thorn mako ono, and tho one is divided into two and one halts on ono coaBt nnd the other half Is on the other" n6thlng'a. right!; Tho eunBot 1b a faded thing.. It used to bo, a heart of flame and feathery fire whoh Bh6 watchod It with you and now It's brownJust brownl Tho end of day used to bo "twilight" and the hills turned tender purple in that short season botWecn night nnd day but now it Just "gota dark!" You watch the theater go dark at a moving picture show, The square of spoechloss romance flashes on tho screon tho girl In tho picture looks llko herl Tho pass ing Btranger who hustles by you on the street makos your heart trip up and hold Its breath for a dzry moment. IJL looked llko him just as tall --with n coat bolted In could it bo that lover of yduro himself? This Is a station (nnd tt'a a wild lunatic thought, for you got a letter an hour ago and ho was cloar across tho continent thea), but may bo ho has .conjured himsolf right Iters. Aid then ho turns tho faco of him around and, oa, my gracious! how could you over think a plain chap like that could bo tho only mat; In the world? It is awful "when you ara hero and ha is there." And, ono mllo might ns well be ten thousand sad tkreo thousand fcola llko two I NELL BRINKLBY. Radium ,as Disease Vtttor Batt,;monopoly The Coiffure of Refinement Four Pretty Styles and as Many Girls By GARRETT P. 8ERVISS. In view ofMltop growing, bejlef that radlun? Holds- odt tho p'ronilsa" of victory over some of the 'most terrible - and In tractable diseases that afflict humanity, such, for Instance, as cancer, there will be rejoicing over the n,dws that n new source of supply, ot th.'s puissant? element has herein' found and rs being l voloped In tho United States,' The first radium over known was discovered In the pitchblende, a bluei black, heavy sub stance, found In considerable abundance In the mines ot Joachlmsthal In Austria, and formerly thrown aaldo as waste. Until recently Joachlmsthal had a virtual monopoly la the production of radium because pitch blende Itself is not very widely distrib uted over the earth, and no other mineral was Known from which radium could be extracted. Moreover, the Joachlmsthal pitchblende Is extraordinarily rich In radium, containing: about one ten.mll llonth of 1 per cent! It will be observed that the chemist's Idea of richness Is widely different from that of the gold miner, Now, -howeren this monopoly has been broken, for It has been found that a new mineral (carnotlte, named In honor of a former president of France, although dis covered In the I'nlted Ptates), Is at least as rich as pitchblende. In radium, and easier to work. The greatest deposits of carnotlte yet found are In Paradox valley, Colorado, but It' also exists In paying quantity In run, especially near areen River. Natur ally, miners are beginning to prospect for !t. and the Denver office of the bureau of mines has Issued a circular describing the appearance of carnoUte and the method ot testing It for the existence ot radium. In view of Its color, and of tho enor mous value of Its hidden contents. It might be called the gold of science. Ii Is a lemon-yellow metal, generally found In pockets of sandstone deposits. Sometimes it forms yellow specks disseminated through the sandstone, and at other times it is seen as yellow incrustations In the cracks. Occasionally It Is found in a more massive form, associated with vana dium ores. The prospecting, says Dr. Charles L. Parsons, Is mainly carried along the sides of canyons, where the stratum contain ing carnotlte has been eroded, and where- ever vanadium and uranium stains are ficen on the rock the prospector blasts hla tunnel, hoping to come upon a pocket of carnotlte ore. The testing of the ore for the existence ot radium within It Is a process that would have appealed to the mysticism of the old alchemists and magicians. The test consists in making the ore take 'a picture. The official directions say: ''Wrap, In the dark, a photographic plate In two thicknesses- of black paper. On the paper lay a key, and then just above the key suspend two or three ounces of the ore, and place the whole In a light-tight box. Pressure of the ore on the key and plate should be avoided. After three or four days develop the plate in the ordinary way, and if the ore is appreciably radio-active an Image of the key will be found on the plate. Of course, some other metallio object, such ar a- coin, would answer as welt as Specially Posed or This Page by Mem vrt of "The Madcap Duchess" Compay HHBV 'SsssslsssssssssliiBiiBsssssssssiiiiBiBSslissss isssssssssssssssssssssssssssViBssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss 'sssssssssiBsiiBsssssssilsssliiiiBssssisssiiiBssssi JffKSftKSKgW aREEBBSSSKtUSl ssssssssssisssssHBlssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssissssss sisssssssssssssssssssssslHlissssssssssssssssssssssssssssss Ann Swinburne, 4 Beautiful Ways to Dress Beautiful Hair Admiration of the latest styles in coiffures Is largely tinged with rejoicing that the day of tho grotcsquo haystack of Jute is passed, and that tho sim ple, graceful coiffure is coming back into its own. Beginning with left to right, a very effective and simple style of hair dressing is shown by Miss Ann Swin- Margaret Andrews. Peggy Wood. btirne as Soraphlna In tho tltlo role of "The Madcap Duchess." Tho effect Is that of a Psycho knot w.lth the added gracefulness achieved by a braid worn over tho forehead, with tho side hair brought low over the ears. The style adopted by Miss Margaret Androws Is in direct contrast, with the effect almost as simple. The hair la bunched at the crown with tho effect ot a soft drooping pompadour In front. Glen EUls. Tho style so well sultod to the piquant faco ot Miss Peggy Wood 1b simplicity Itself. The hair is parted in tho mlddlo, allowed to fall loosely over the ears, and la gathered In a low knot at tho back. Miss Glen Ellis has the perfectly roundod bead that permits of tho hair being drawn Into a low bunch at the back, with a fluffy effect in front redeeming it from tho trying severity this style would otherwise become. a key, but probably the key was chosen because Its form Is bo pronounced and un mistakable. If the prospector finds the Image of the key on his photographic plate, he knows that he holds in his hands, imbedded In the carnotlte, an al most Infinitesimal quantity of a substance which, weight for weight, is worth at least a hundred thousand times as much aa gold. Already companies have been formed for the exploitation of the American jr Seeking a Husband Ry CONSTANCE CLARKE. "Why am I strange?" I answered. "You might not like me to tell you," he said. "Yes, I would, pleuse go on." "Well, I can't make you out. You are a combination of frivolity and ee- have that kind of mental and moral make-, Ing vigorously out In the den on my rlousncss that Is quite enough to keep up are debating the question whether ; desk, the pink and white pillows on the I any one guessing." ' there may not be easy fortunes for those ; couch were rumpled up Just as I had left "Arc any of the nurses like me?" I who promptly get control of the field. ! them last night and suddenly I remem-1 8aia flippantly, "and why am I frlvo. But it win not be another standard Oil I bered vr. Hammond was coming down , jous?" This morning I. woke up In my little white bed with the thought that some, thing out of the ordinary was going tq radiuni producing ores, and people who j happen. My little French clock was tick- .monopoly at best or at worstbecause a and I was quite excited. I was ourlous, very little pure radium goes a very long ' and I did think he was adorable when way. It-Is estimated that all the doctors In America together do not possess more than a single gram of the substance. A. few ounces would probably suffice for all their needs, and the needs of all the hospitals, out they do need much more man mey nave at present, and in order to meet their necessities and de- tnanMtrfttA the ml valuA nf radium f -medicine, millions of dollars wUI have to he told me quite plainly that he was coming down to see me. 1 guess girls are all the same. We all like the storm-ed-in-a-caetle feeling that some men use toward us quite as a matter of fact. That was this morning, and now here I am In the library reflecting on the good and bad possibilities of my latest caller. It isn't aa If I had the chance to put out my hand and take him that would We put Into tho mining and reducing ot absurd on iny part-lfs Just to be radium-bearing ores, and In this Carthag- ab,s to met ny kind of a difficulty Jlrdan ago the investment of a million that m'ght arise always means that somebody expects to j "You re the strangest girl," he said get back tan or a hundred millions. ' roe tonight Well, no, ta your first question, al though I have a pretty good time with them. And why are you frivolous? Be cause you like to dress well and everything you wear Is out of the ordi nary." "Not very good proof," I rejoined. "I don't see why I have to be dubbed frivo lous for that. How would you like to hear a few things about yourself?" He laughed. "Well, In the first place," I went one, "you are conceited. I think the nurses spoil you. In the second place, you are somewhat selfish: you do only in the third I what you like to do. and to place, you really are nice I eagerly, pulling his chair closer, "now way, I don't think he's a bit serious with let's get down to business." "Business?" I queried politely. And he laughed. "Qee, you are different," he said again, running his fingers through his hair In a funny, boyish way he has. "I believe you kald that before," I said demurely, drawing away from the hand that was suddenly stretched out for mine. And then I know that I really did like him. "I'm afraid," I said severely, "that those nurses spoil you worse than even I Imagined. You ically need some very severe discipline. I think I shall begin right now " And I did, If sternly repuls ing all his advances meant severe disci, pllne. I guess he liked me as well us the nicest nurse, too, If I wouldn't say good night In the "proper way." I'm not fond of having people touch me, any way, but I suppose the right one would make a difference. Out how am I to know when the right one does come along and when tho right time comes and all the other hundred and one things "Well, that's something like,'' he said 1 that one has to Know, I suppose? Any- "Come and see me again." I said, as he was leaving. "You haven't bten so very nice to me," he answered. "Don't tell me that you have to be bribed, and do you still think I'm very strange?" "1 haven't changed my opinion of you at all," he said decidedly. "And still I h&vo my allusions," I In terrupted rather breathlessly. "What do you mean?" he said, his fin gers tightening on mine. "Nothing at all," I said, drawing back; "that will give you something to think about." "Till next time," he said under hi breath. And then the door closed, and I went slowly upstairs. My pink lamp was lighted In the den and my clock was tick ing Just as It had been when I woke up In the morning. I brushed back a lock ot hair reflectively, and my hand had that funny medicine smell. Then I curled up among the pink and white pillows of my couch and had a good think. TjK Manicure Lady By WILLIAM P, KIRK "WUfwd must have something the mat ter with his heed," said the Manicure Lady. He got hit with a bai Bill bat when ho was a young boy, and I have often wondered If it wasn'.t boUiartag him In the last few years. They my man can get a bona out of place In his head and that It won't worrv or bother him for years sometimes, and then turn and make him kind of nutty long after the accident. I guess It must be that way with Wilfred, though good ness knows I don't see how no bona would havo room, to get misplace in his head. The first I not I cod that ha vu a little queer was when he began writ ing poetry, about three years ago. The worse the poetry was the better he Liked It. and when folks knocked It be would say that he did not blame them, teat that they did not understand. Ha has had a lot ot fool notions la hla head slnco then. Including falling In leva with that elderly widow from Chicago, but tho craxleat notion that ha has ever took la that he wanta to go out In the forest somewhere and be a woodchopper. "It seems that tho poor boob was up In the woods hunting last week and ran across a woodchopper that knew aH about Hobby Burns. The two of thorn talked about Burns all the afternoon and Wil fred cams home without no partridges, but he said that he wouldn't have traded his visit with that woodchopper for all the partridges In the world, and now he wants to go and cut cordwood the same as tho gent he met. Can you beat that?" "It ain't no snap cutting cordwood," said the Head Barber. "I had to cut a lot of It when I was a kid on the farm, and you can take it from mo that I didn't love the Job. I would a whole lot rather cut hair." "That's what the old gent told W1I frrd," said the Manicure Lady, "but h couldn't change the boy none. Father said that it took a real man to out hardwood and pile It up, and he says, that there ain't many real man grow ing up around the city these day. Re laughed at Wilfred" when the kid tried to get five beans off-him to- buy an axo with, and said ho wouldn't gtva him 5 cents' to make; no such fals start as that in life. "Wilfred had It figured out .(jut, if he could get a nice axe am soma heavy clothes he could go bac;'k .Ufl..thexaad go In partners with thla fellow thabknew about Burns, but the old gent pointed out to hlin that no experienced wood chopper would take In a green kid. as a partner In anything except talking about, a poet, Wilfred thinks 'that away off in the woods ho can write better' poetry. He even -wrote a poem aboUt a wood chopper and read It to the old gant. This IsVbat ho wrote. "He fells the maple and the beech And other trees within easy reach. Day In, day out bis keen blada. sta, In tho forest he reigns Just Ilka a klag, I. too, a chopper of wood -ftrouH be, Thinking about the stars and atermlty. flopping ma mapie ana roe Deaen, And the other treea trlthln essjr reach." "Did his dad like that?'', tasked thfc Head Barber. "Maybe." said the Manicure Lady, "but Wilfred didn't get not five off ef bins. 1 1 f 11 1 f