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8 TFTB BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY. JULY 13, 1914. a m MM in - n if ? Kitty Courageous The Exciting Adventures of a Tom-boy -By Stella Fiores- Copyright, 1914, Intern'! News Service. "TIUs Is tho fastest bont in tho world," Bald Kitty's uncle to hor, "but my driver ha broken bin wrist. I'd give $5,000 to win that cup, but It's too late now. Tbero goes tho preparatory signal. Huht Yen, It starts when you push tliat lover. Now," ho continued, "you sit liero qnletly while I get my marine glasses and we'll watch tlio other Iwnta." "Watch tho other boat?" said Kitty to herself when ho hnd gone, "not if my nanto in Kitty Courageous. If I can drive a car I can drivo a boat. Ho here rocs," and, leaning over, she pushed tho lever that her undo had pointed out to her. With- a leap and a roar the hydroplane sprang for ward llko a thing of life, and Just a tho starting gun sounded It passed over tho lino, "Wow!" exclaimed Kitty, "this Is certainly going some, but I never knew it could bo so btunpety on tlio water. Wo must lo making a mil lion miles a minute. Where aro tho other boats I wonder? I must huvo passed them. Oh, goody! Now I'll win that 85,000 and buy a boat for myself. I never knew thoy were so much fun," and on sho flew over the blue water. "Here's tho striped buoy,"- shouted Kitty as something shaped like a big top with a tiny flag perched on it loomed up before her. "Hurrah!" sho cried as the boat sped past, "I've won tlio race and $5,000. Now to stop and seo Uncle." But, although sho pulled all tho levers sho could see tho boat kept rushing on until Kitty realized that It was beyond her control. "It's a good thing I can swim," thought Kitty as she dived over board, "or I'd probably have to stick to that horrid old hyproplano until wo landed In Europe or Africa, per haps. I hope it doesn't hit any thing," sho continued as she came to tho surface and saw it rushing un manned into the distance. "Now to swim to tho float and get Uncle's $5,000." "Well, I won tho cup for you, Un cle!" shouted Kitty, as she swam to tho float. "Get your fountain pen ready and writo mo a check for $5,000." "Write you a check!" shouted her undo, red in the face with anger as lie looked toward the horizon where the speed boat was a mere speck. "Writo you a check for $5,000?" he shouted again. "Five thousand furies; that boat cost me $20,000." Why a Society Girl Chose the Stage AB TOLD BT 2USO OASBEB OXiABX. The Real Changeless Sex-Women Scientists Ilnvo Just Proved that Vacillation Belongs Not to Femininity, but to Scoffer, Man By DOKOTHY MX. Miss Corroo Clark. By MAUD MILLER. "What I have to say," said pretty Miss Carree Clark of tho "Pair of Sixes" com pany, "Is not o much against the society girl; that would hardly be fair. But let us put It this way: I want to talk about the great advantages tho Independent girl has over her dependent sister, I could have chosen society myself If I had wanted to be hemmed In by the narrow round of things that most society girls live for. Teas, luncheons, dinners, occ&- Resinol stops skin troubles IP yoa hare eczema, rash, pim ple, or other torturing, ugly ekin eruptlon.try Resinol Olnt mentar Resinol Soap.aadeeehow quickly tho trouble disappears, even in severe and stubborn cases. Tbey gtop Itching inttanUy HvOcUa tare prcKriLed tU BmIooI treatment t or It years, for U pert of skin treaties, dandruff, sons, ulcers, burns, J0"114. "d Krtrr drugxUt BcaJool Olatiocnt asd BolaelSosp. For trU! tn. writ to Dept. &B, Beslaol. IUlUmof , jU. Avoid luUUUU. : 4 -' olonally a boring talk with a bored youth who has probably put himself out to the extent of paying a party call. None of the freer, untrammelled ways or lire, but everything hemmed In by narrow conventionality. Society Is In It self Judged 'as a whole, because of neces sity, each and every girl Uvea exactly the some kind of a life. But every girt who decides to do something, who keeps her mind busy with the bigger, moro Progres sive part of life, who has tho courage to fight out a way to her own self respect. oven though her name Is never known outside of her own little coterie of friends, is nevertheless an Individual, "Nowadays a girl must do something to bo progressive or she will stand still and let the world slip by without her. Society In creating Its Ideal girl would do better If It made her less of a enqb and Vnore competent to meot situations. other than those she comes In contact with every day. But" soolety says, what's the use? If a girl lives within the sacred precinct, that In Itself Is enough to protect her: there is no necessity In preparing her for orlses she may nover meet Leave that to the girl who must of necessity f aht the world. . Yea, and .leave all the big, worth-while things to the In dependent girl, even the finer, better men she meets outside the pale of society. No wonder there Is nothing left for the society girl but to content herself within her own small territory. "I contend that the gtrl who has lived In constant contact with the world. I whether of necessity of choice, Is better Quipped In every way to meet problems. ana. Having conquered them, to live cap able or feeling emotions and probing aepin mat tne society girl never even dreamed existed. It is rather an unfair division or conditions I agree, but dally mere are girls refusing to live the Idle llfo of the wealthy, and with bigger Ideals beckoning them on, go out Into the world to seek and find the real meaning of life. "IJfe knows how to teach the deeper lessons to tne right kind of a girl, to mould her on a grander plan, to help her worn out ror herself a perfect destiny And yet society says that girls should be Shielded. Shielded, yes. but not cramnnt for existence as nearly every society girl joi loaay undoubtedly Js." 1 I" " 1 - I'ts wonderful the things that science Is discovering about womon. For ex ample. In the past tho feminine sex has always been called tho flcklo sex, and It has been generally hold that n woman's mind has nbout or much stability to It as a weather vane, and that It veered n rou ml In every pass lug breeze of opinion, Indeed, this I n ability of tho sex to hold to any fixed view on a matter has been conceded to bo constitutional with women and a thing that nho could not help, poor dear, and woman's privi lege of changing her mind has been con- Mcred to be one of tho emoluments that clnsolcd a woman for being a woman, Now comes along Prof. Munstcrburg, who has made a great study of the psychology of the sox, and ho snys that women form their opinions and Judg- I ments Just as rapidly and accurately as men, but when thoy have an opinion they stick to It, and no amount of discussion can change It " Thus docs Fclenco glvo the lie to tradi tion, and, as usual, science ts rlht. For what Is tho much-vaunted conservatism and orthodoxy and faithfulness of woman oxcrpt her tondoncy to close her mind to all further knowledge and evidence after she has once arrived at a certain opinion on a mattor? Wo seo this, Illustrated In a thousand ways, but In nothing more vividly than in the question of the enfranchisement of women. If you will discuss this subject with tho average woman she will agroo with everything you say. It you ask her If sho doesn't believe that taxation with out representation Is Just as unjust for women In 1914 as It wan for the men In 1776 sho will say "Yes." If you ask her 1f sho doesn't believe that women are Just as much "people" us men aro and so entitled to a voice In a democracy, sho will sa "Ves." If you ask her If she doesn't think that a woman is entitled to a noit interest, at least,. In the child she has bome, sho says "Yes." If you ask her If she doesn't think that she has enough Intelligence to cast a voto, sho will say "Yes." If you will ask her if It doesn't outrago her sense of Justice that she, ah Intelligent, educated woman, should be classed politically with the Idiot, tho criminal and the Insane, sho will say "Yos." If you ask her if sho doesn't think that sho is as much entitled to a voto In her own country as the forelgnor. who has been here only seven years and who can not speak the language, or the male beggar at her door, or the man she hires to wash her silver or attend to her horses or rake out her furnace, sho will say "Yes." But when she's agreed with even argu ment In favor of the enfranchisement of womon she will end up the dlsousslon by saying she doesn't bellevo tn votes for women. And she can give no reason for her disbelief. It Is merely that In her early youth she accepted a theory that It would make women less attractive to mm If they took part in politics, and would do some Intangible violence to the home, and, her mind having run tn that mould, Is as set as concrete that has hardened Into a block. It Is deeply significant that practically every young woman Is a suffragist, and that nearly every antl-euffraglst has passd her forty-fifth birthday. And the suffragists who are gray headed are those women who are young in mind, Their brains are atltl capable of taking new Impressions. They can still change their opinions, get a broader view and a new outlook, and as long as we can do that we are young, no matter how many years have pascsed over our heads. The minute we begin to think that there were no times like the good old times, no pits such as mother used to bake, no girls so beautiful and modest as the girts of our own girlhood, no man so courteous and brave, we are growing old. And when wo find ourselves berating the present nnd thinking that the world Is going to tho dogs, and that modern Ideas aro corrupt, and modern progress retro gression, and modern liberty license, why. ve had Just ns well order our tombstones, for wo hnvo censed to llvo. We aro dead ones, whether we know it or not The real reason that women age so much taster than men, and why a woman nt forty Is so often an old woman, and a man Is generally still a boy. It Just be cause women can't change their minds, i ur won i cnangc tneir minds. Thoy get case hardened and mummified, whllo mon, bolnsi more open minded, are for ever changing their opinions, and so us ing new brain colls, and having their youth renewed In them. Another pertinent Illustration of a woman's Inability to change hor mind Is shown In what we call tho faithfulness of women. It has always boon a matter of wonder to us that a woman could go on loving n man who treated her like a brute, who dragged her down Into tho gutter with hlin, and who beat and brulsod her physically and spiritually. Prof. Munsterburg's theory explains this phenomenon of devotion. It Is simply the result of woman's Inability to change her mind. Having once had the Indelible record of a man's charm made upon her, she goes on to the end of the chapter seeing him as sho first saw him. beholding the handsome face of her young lover instead of the bloated and swollen and disfigured countenance of her husband, still hearing the echo of his passionate lovo vows that drown out the sound of his later abuses and curses. Certain It Is that a woman Is romantic as long as sho lives, and can still be a brldo at heart after she has been married forty years, whllo a man's romance never survives the honeymoon, and he ceases to bo a bridegroom at the altar. And this can only be accounted for on the ground that the average woman never gots a now point of view, whereas the averogo man Is always shifting his, and seeing things not as he remembered them, but as they are. Prof. Munsterburg's theory seems to have all the facts to hack It up, but In taking away woman's right to change her mind he is depriving her of hor last privilege. For Milady in the Evening Described by Olivette This charming llttlo "Quaker Girl" costume can bo worn cither for tho fancy dress ball or an evening frock, hcrtha-liko collar and Tho under bodico is of white taffeta finishing directly under the arm. There are a sleeves of white chiffon cloth edged In silver spangles. Under tlio long-pointed bertha is a belt of porcelain blue taffeta which The Girl Who Spoons Land of Southern Cross By nEATIUCE FAIRFAX, "Is it true that unices you allow boys certain llborltles, they will lose all Inter est In you 7" writes Violet "Now one of my girl friends tells mo that she allows her beau to kiss her good night and lets him call her pet names, although they are not engaged. I don't allow such things, and of late the boy who used to he my best friend avoids me nr! La with girls who have far different stand- aras man mine. I want to be told I am loved some day but I want that to mean something, and I think a girl cheapens herself by allowing liberties. But I want friends and popularity. What shall I do7 Let the boys kiss me or Is there another way?" My dear Violet the road to lasting popularity Is not via cheap and silly "spooning." Tho girl who allows a boy to kiss her must always seem to him to be a girl who would permit other boys the rame liberties sho accords him. Gradually he thinks lightly of her as a girl who does not hold herself at high valuation. Finally he comes to class her on tho side of the women whose favors are not favors at all since they can be had for the mero asking, Tho unattainable has a wonderful charm. The fine, the rare, the unusual appeal strongly to all humanity. The girl whoso lovo Is a fine, rare thing to be won by deserving and striving Is the girl who has It In her power to grant a boon when she gives her heart and her klsees. Of course, there are men In the world Who "want what they want when they want It." Such men and boys want to take tight kisses whenever they choose, But the, lnv thnv By REV. TIIO.HAS B. GREGORY. The discovery of the great Island contin ent of Australia by Captain James Cook 1 years ago April 28, 1769, Is fairly en titled to rank among the capital events of history. Throughout well nigh the entire period of historic time, from Its dawn among the peoples about the blue mediterranean right on down to the quite modern date of the foundation of tho United States of America, the land of the South ern Cross lay com P 1 e t o 1 y In the shadow, a terra Incognita, without a scintilla of history, tho home of kangaroos, dlngos, and the lowest of the low of human kind. Revealed to the world in 1769 by Cook, and receiving Its first settlement almost twenty years later. In 17SS, Australia, having In the past half century gone ahead by leaps and bounds, Is today the theatre of one of th most virile and pro gressive civilisations to bo found on the planet. Its population foots up some six mil lions, twice that of the United States of America at the time of Cook's discovery. And what a splendid population It Is, too. making up In quality what It lacks In quantlty-a population consisting for the most part; of the very finest stock of the great Caucasian race; people who love ireeaom and' are dedicated to m-szress. But the love thoy would give Is not reai men and women wno " heart and soul love or lasting feoltng. It Is the desire of the moment a passing fancy that needs a new face to stimulate It and seeks btlmulatlon all the time. You are lucky to escape a fancy by refusing to gratify It Save your kisses, your love and your self-respect for a man who will properly value them. Don't buy the cheapest and most fleeting popularity at the high price of your own youthful freshness. A peach with th bloom rubbed off, a flower with Its petals faded from too bright a sunlight are no more pathetic than youn girl whose first sweet modesty Is soiled by the pressure of Hps that kiss and that scornfully tell of It. If animation and amiability and friendly Interest won't hold a boy's friendship, let him go. Brains and character must be the tie between boy and girl friends. Kisses and caresses belong to true love, which makes them sacred. But as a price a girl pays to hold a boy's Interest they are debased from gold to copper coinage. When you cheapen your kisses, you cheapen yourself and love. And both are worth holding high and dear for the lover whojjwlll come some dajt uooten to- the propaganda of human development along the highest and noBlest lines. Nowhere have the sciences of govern ment, political economy and the other problems incidental to the great human advance made better headway than In Australia, acountry that Is already giv ing the oldest nations pointers In more ways than one. As for the country Itself, the physical Australia, It Is well known that its one unfavorable prospect Is brightening every day. Science laughs at much that was discouraging a hundred years ago. The new agriculture has already made a new Australia. Irrigation and the "dry-farming" method are making the Island conti nent bloom like a garden. In a little while its deserts will have become para dises; and "'where the kangaroo browsed and the wild dog barked great herds of cattle and flocks of sheep will be seen. Already Melbourne and Sydney are. great cities, notwithstanding the fact that the one was founded so late as 1837 and the other not before 17S8. It requires no very great Imagination to decry, In the near future, other big towns, the empori ums of a globe-glrdllng commerce, the Sb fi topped by a weo llflll 3 n,etTnd0cauJghtk Tho Latest. proud centres of political power and moral Influence. With a climate that Is excellent upon the whole and on area of more than three millions of square miles, with tremendous possibilities as a btock country and a thoroughly up-to-dato people. It Is mani fest destiny that Australia la eventually to taKe ner place In the very front rank of the world powers. Advice to the Lovelorn By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Ton Yoiiiik. Dear Miss Fairfax; I am 15 years of age. but very tall. With my dress and manner I make an appearance of 17 years or more. I know a number of nice fel lows who have asked me several times to go out with them. Now. do you think I should accept? PERPLEXED. You aro still too young to go about with young men In the evenings. But If a boy friend asks you to accompany him to some perfectly proper place of amusement for an afternoon's outing. It would be quite proper for you to ac cept provided, of course, your parents approve. "Crushes'." Dear Miss Fairfax: We admire the leading lady of a well known stock com pany which la now In Detroit. Would It be posslblo for us to meet her. and how? TWO SCHOOL, GIRLS. 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