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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1914)
11 Parasols With Individuality Which Nobody Will Deny They're English, Made in Striking Colors, and Shapes Which Strike a Harmonious Note rith the Creakiest of the Freak- Fashions in Women's Dress How to Spoil a Housemaid 1 J HE fo: OMAHA. SAT I 1IDAY, A L lib ST 1, 11)14. , ttSM, yfcjfe? viU f sJa t& f IT JMOtTS raff . CVV i x 1 X 4 (4 5 rTSRP.Y- 1 & vtCCi-saasSj a . V iSTTTTnaTT,I.l j itfATt V' HltfWIHfH - -.asw.svssw''' . f ffEiT't" -I "w ;; V V: Jf ' T W011IU ralfctl J& lie w By UOKOTIIV MX. Olio of the loasons why the scivunt question Is a perpetually uoute one In most household la because the uvenuso woman never learns to mind he ow. business. If Cain had been i daugh ter of Eve. Instead of n sol-, lie -would never has- naked' "Am 1 mv 'irotl.er s ik o e j o i"" II o wouldn't even 1 ave Ifcd too point- ould have been Fd perfectly euro that he had a right to manage all or Abel's affaire, and lesulate hit torn. Irps In and his go ings out. Perhaps few re marks are more fre quently hear! In tin: family circle than the exasperated exclamation, "By C : ditiilfs about thi . . i .. . Iteslmut JiMI'-si!lttti)B i way lio des . - , . " ' . J Wlirti li Im.Jji, Hi, uildat of niakuiK out' j bill. or. uldjnip n ii h coh.inn of flguroi", (the proprletdr Uoemi't rimh In with uk rcstloiiH. itr take a lis ml in the work Just long rnotiph ! knock the other fellow s pyhlim silly. On the eotitrary the "in. ptoyer knows H.ut It would simply put the clerk out, ptid-hu ntt-iidn to Ii'h otmi t ifireM.and' lets the elcik atteml t.- hl ! Hut do women allow their servants tn noeriy, -...... They do rot No nilst.'ess would think tvj! Hint he- was riolni? her-duty if she pei mlttcd her coik to nrraiiR lier kitchen in her own .way. with the pci atid patu where thoy were most linndy to lar. ime woulCste (U-ftltil Of letting it maid' plan "' out her work nnd follow her own plana j or nave, a cuaiH'c- io Uhe hucii lyinii anil JudKment un liie J.011I kuvc hu'. Yet . ccrvantfl have their own Ideas and way 1 of dohiK; things Just an much us imy flhu , lludy. , . . . t Xor;ln there any leaion why aeiviint ' shouldn't lis. treated on thy uatiie. pliinu aa any other employe. It Ih hut tight 111 1 1 im 1 i i i P'Pi i' nm lmh-? I Ml ' J ; . 'frtadazne, Iseielh? -Scauiy Lesson i.r.so. xii part n. 3ll . 1 1 Olirsll)' Cnntlnneit, Some systems can take care of moi food than others, due to some jieeiiUarrU of assimilation. Some natures work off fat easily. The dangerous Cases, how over, and, unfortunately, U10 most com mon are those that gain flesh slowly but surely, the first sain helm; so small that the subject la hardly alarmed over it. It Is stated by specialists on this sub ject that the deposit of one-fourth of an Ounce of fat dally will Increase the weight fifty-seven pounds In ten years. Ho, It Is easy to hoc that, It you start In with this little Increase (it the age of 40, to will probably find you a Very stout person. H Is far easier to Ret rid of the excess flesh at 40 and by a Judicious diet and system of exercising keep the weight at the same figure than would be to re duce fifty-seven pounds ten years hence, That would require really heroic treat ment. As 1 have stated before, the kind of food caUn as welt as the amount governs the increase of fat. gome yeara ago when IhU Idea obtained .general recognition tliojo who wished to reduce lived on & diet entirely devoid of flesh-maklnr foods. This wbh "called "Uantlng" after the name of the Kngllnh doctor who ad Wted If for Ills "paUents. The regime recommended by Dr. Canting' and his followers In a followa: Kor breakfast two soft boiled effKS. toasted, t'libutterrd bread, weak Hea. with out sugar. Kor luncheon lean meat, '.either "beef mutton or chicken green vegetable served without buttei', cheese and fruit. Dinner the same na the noon meal with. if doslrcd, tdo substitution of a salad in plnce of tho vegetable, This regime 'oxVludes. on-liquid at all from tho noon and evening meala. Fresh wpter or unsweetened lemonade may be partaken of frerb between mcali, prefer ably an hour before or an hour after callus. Lesson Nil to be continued. Commonsence Party and Its Platform By ELBEKT HUBBARD Hero Is the outline of a new party. The truths It expresses are the oldest known to man. It la at once political, social, economic, e t hlcal, commercial and religious. Women and chil dren oro eligible and vote the same aa men. No one Is too old and none too young to Join. Your past record will not count agalnct you unions you are too boastful of it. There, are no rites of lnltlatlon-no An goras to ride nnd you ..can never bje put out of the party unless you hand -in your resignation to your cosmlo self. Here Is the basis of tho comnicnsenso party: Cheerfulness, oo.irlesy, klnuness, industry, health, patience, economy. There are two ways to' live Just two one: way right and one wrong. If your life benefits humanity, you are on the right track; but if you are a bother, a worry, A menace 'and a burden to tho world you aro on the wrong route and will soon be "up against It." Everybody and everything will have It in for ypu, because you will have it In for yourself. Then, when you begin to re. pine, your bodily health will wane, and inrtla and weakness will seize you hand and foot. AVeakness Is the only slavery. Free dom Is the supreme good freedom from "elf-Imposed limitations. It Is the law of nature that the world helps every person who is trying to help himself. If you want to be well and strong and to keen so. barrlnc collision with a benzine buggy, nature Is on your sloe If you prove that you are on hers. We should all be In partnership with nature. If you are sincerely trying to dovyour share of the necessary work of the world, nature will reward you In honors, monny and power. Keep good-natured. Do not look for alights or insults. If you can't get the Job you want then take the one that you can get. The only way to get a big place It to show that you are not ashamed tn fill a little one. The world needs more commonneiue me.a and women juat plain everyday folks who belong to the commontense psrty. The motto of the new party Is this: Do unto others as If you were the others Commonsenie folks, when In doubt. mind their own business an! If they do not know what to say, do not say It. Whtn they speak c their wignbers thev mention only the best tdncernlng them fur commonsense folks Know tha none of us are so very good certainly not good enough to bo put In a elass case. The commonsenoe man knows that ho must get eight hobrs' sleep; that he must not overeat; that ho must give out yoort will if ho Is to get It back; that he must exercise In tho open-air every day if he is to keep well; and he realizes that if he does not keep well he will bo more or leirs of a nuisance to everybody In his vicinity, and that he will fail utterly in getting his share of health, wealth nnd happiness. Commonsense folks do not borrow trouble or aniall sums of money, anticipat ing payday. They live . within their means, pay tbelr debts, accept what comes and are thankful that things are not worse. They are cheerful loj'rn and cheerful losers are always winners." Folks who belong to the commonsense party are healthy, hearty, happy and al ways have all the money theynced even if not all they want. 1hoy attract con fidence, love, success and they succeed because they-Just can't help It. Commonsewse folks know that every duty well done makes the next duty easier to do. Thoy also knoij; that those who never do any njore than they ft paid for, never get paid for uny irore than they do. Come, get In line, and Join the common- seno- party. He one with the people Kipling telle of, who do their work ar.a hold their peace-a part of the tims at least. re you with us? If s open a tavings bank account and deposit the dues of tho commonsenoe party a dollar u week ftr more to your own credit and watch tho account grow. It Is yours. Remember, you are the center of your own local cen ter. alo Its president, we-sretiiry ana treasurer. You aro the captain of your oul. However, you are always to give the high-sign and co-operate with all other commonsense party centers, know ing full well that you can only help your eelt as you help others. A Jolte 011 Vent I. Gioiza the composer, who died recently at Seattle used to tell the following I manage n hundred employes In my store with less trouble than you do 0110 cook! Why, I've got pcoplo thut have been with mc ten years, and you hnvo such a procession of maids through tho kitchen that I never get to know them by plght," wltu which mon greet their wives' announcement that Nora or Hilda or Dinah has left, and they will liavo to huvo a picked up dinner, and begin a now seiixch for n servunt. The man can't Understand why his wife is forever changing maids. The wo man can't comprehend why sho cun never keep a servant. Mho lells you, with tears In her eyes, that tho work is light, tho maid's: room comfortable and Mie pays good wages.' Apparently the situation Is highly dc-t-Irablo, yet nobody remains In It long, nnd the only way shn can account for It Is by attributing It to some lnexpllcuble vagary of "girls" us if they belonged to a different human specie from mis tresses. Yet the real explanation l: .slmpl enough,' and It consists In the fapt jthat the averago woman is constitutionally Incapable of attending to her own buslt uess, and she meddles and interferes nnd nags ut hur servants until It gets on their nerves sn they can't stand It. Whenever you find a woman who at tends to her end of the work and lets her maids' attend to theirs you w)ll find a household in which sonants stay on, happy and contented, lear nfter year. It's a woman's mama for huving her finger In every pie that's ut tho root of the servant girl problem. In trying to run her house she attempts also to run her servants' affulrs, in the houso and out of It, and no flesh and blood will hear that. At leant It won't In free America. When man hires a clerk or a book keeper he permits him freedom to do the work, within certain lines, In ils own way, and pretty much as he pleases. If he accomplishes satisfactory results It Is all that Is necessary. His system u his own. No one frets at l.lm continually, or aggravates him with petty und Infln- that the mistress should require that certain work should be dono by it certain time, but after that why not leave the maid freo to do It in her own way with out Intel ferenco? Kvcry ono of us know that tho most aggravating and nervo wcarlng thing In the world Is to liavtl someone, etind over you while you work, deluging you with 11 continual flow of suggestions. Yet that's the way many women treat their maids. "Uso the kitchen spoon for this." "Put a pinch more splcu in,'' "Dcat the eggs to you Instead of from you," "Dust tho bookcuso beforo you do tho piano." So runs the chorus of the mistress's Instruction to tho maws' work. It Is enough to drive cno crnz)', utifl' thoro is no wonder too many cooks spoil so much good broth. Then why should the ijiUUchh arrogate to herself the right to pry Into her mald'H private affairs, and chaperon her more, carefully than she does her own daugh ter? Nora's love iuffalr with .the police man is; her -own affair. Jf goes tp tho -movies Instead of to cnurcu on nun-, diiyv It's nobody pUd's bunlne. If she spends her tnoney for silly finery, Instead of putting it Into the savings bank, it is her privilege. No man. employer attempts to regulato the uffiilrs of tho people he hires outside of working hours, but a woman feels thai because she pays a maid six or neven dollars a week It gives her a perfect right to run the girl's wholo life. Believe me, the one teclpo for keeping u good servant is to Ueet out of tho ltltchun as much us poBimc. iry it. ladles. Concern youiself with lesults llittt'cad of means. Just remember that - A. a wnrlll liftM lifer "Wfiv" of doing tilings to which she Is wedded with a deathlOHS ulfectlon, and that you Interfere with this at your peril. Accord to llrldget the right to cool: In her own way so that tho cooking Is good, let Jdary clean up In her own way so that the house is tidy, and you will nover have to haunt the intelligence agency. Try minding your own business a the best way of keeping a bervant The War at Out Doors story. "Once Verdi and I "had apartments opposite each other In Milan. The street was narrow. It was warm, and our win dows were open. Verdi was writing one of his operas, and after writing one aria he sat down at the piano and played it. I decided to play a Joke on him. bo I closed the shutters, and when he got through I sat down at my piano and played the same thing. Then I peeped through the blinds and saw Verdi hanging half way out of his window, looking In all direc tions. I heard no more from his piano. "That evening, as we .were walking tcgether. he was much preoccupied, awl I asked him what was the matter. " 'Well. Glorza,' he repllel, ' Iwrote a song this afternoon thut I was positive was original, and yet as soon as I played It some one. elve in the neighborhood p'.iyed the fame thing. It worries me to tMnk that I should believe another's com p,.llion was mv ' wn ' Th. n l told him the tiuth, and he wa. hT ' Earthliound By COXS1MNGK (OIjAMCK. I did not choose tho valley road; The way of easo was not my choice. I longed to bear a heavy load; I sought pain In the wlnd'a cold voice, I longed to feel tho breathless: chill Of stranger countries on my brow. God knows It has not been my will That I am untried even now. ' But since I may not scale the heights Whonce fellow souls, have climbed to fame,, I'll linger near tho valley lights .And lave my tired feet In their flame. I did not choose the valley road; I eyed the beckoning peaks above I did not choose my own abode; God willed that I should dwell with love. if" By ItKV. O. P. AKICD, BD., hh. 1). The woild divides its admiration be tween tho persons who destroy Hfo and those who spend their days In efforts to savo It. The soldier has been the object of all men's regard. In any city In the world whose streets are crowded with monu ments to iieroes those erected to the memory of fighting men predominate. In any country the soldier's uniform Is tho badge of honor. Century by century our race has awarded the prizes of life and pomp and power to the man whos business it Is to kill men. lint the world honors also those who live to save men the philanthropists of all. tho ages. The wealth and learning and; Influence of a great city pay homage tcj a citizen whose name Is synonymous with practical philanthropy and bene ficent public service. Prophets, apostles, martyrs, the poet lain el ci owned, the man of science with calm gaze searching the depths of Infinite being and tho mis sionary who himself repeats creation's primal word, "Let there be light," aro enshrined In our hearts as the makrrs mil masters of men. it Is curious. Why should ws honor him who kills und him who makes alive? Can we not distinguish between them? Are our minds built, Indeed, in water tight compartments and our souls, too? Are our Instincts chaotic? And our emo tions, am they founded In unreason and do they lead but to folly? Itumnn nature Is, Indeed, compounded of complexities and contradictions, but for this apparent anomaly a rational basis may be found. In the ultlmute analysis there Is ono ideal for the fighter and for the philanthropist, for the man whose business it Is to kill und for him who lives to make alive. The ideal ! sacrifice for the common good. In the of the fighting man tho Ideal Is often wretchedly obscured; Is, at limes, lotully loht sight of. Never thelcis the Ideal of the warrior lemalns as an Ideal. And the world has agreed to pay honor to the soldier, not because hg Is ready to kill, but because he Ih ready to die. The world has agreed to pay honor to him becnue it undeistands that, with life and youth and health und Joy and wife and home, umi little ones, and all that makes life woith living behind him, to be won and htld by retieut, with torture, wounds, death In front of him, he will seorn liberty and life, choose death and honor. This is the soldier's ideal. This Is the warrior's glory. The soldier's honor und the wairior's Ideal are not the highest and noblest con ceivable. The uncjent systems of India placed the priest above the wairlor. And for good reason. The Ideal of the war rior Is to die for men The Ideal of the priest Is to live for men. And It Is a no bler thing to live for men than to die for men. So those anneiit s stems thought, and the thought trulv. A death o.f self-s.v -i.lflce seemed gitm a life of-elf-sa rlflce was greater. This Is why John Ilusklii, speaking to a body of young mon In training as officers of the British army, said to them: 1011 fancy, perhaps, that there is a severe houso of duty mixed with these pencoeky motives? Ami In the best of you there is. Hut do not think that ti ls principle, if you cared to do your duty to your country In it prosaic and tir.oiitlnicntal way, depend upon It, thcte Is now truer' duty to be done in raising harvests than In burning them; more In building houses than In shelling them; more In winning1 mbney by your own work, wherewith to Kelp men, than In other people's wtork, taxing for money wberewltli to slay men-more duty, finally, in honest and unselfish living than in honest -and unselfish dying, j though that seems to your boys' eyes j the bravest." Advice, tn Tinvfilnrnll Jin TTnTi vinvix ii MUchler Mutter. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young man, 12 years of age, and tntfaged to a young Inay throe years my Junior. 1 love this girl with all my heart, und I know that she, too, loves me. Hut some of her girl friends aro doing all tn their power to get us apart, much to my misery. First they come and tell mo things about her which I know are not true (even if they were I wouldn't care, as I truly love her), and, when they tto that I don't listen to whnt they havo to say, then they go buck and tell hor untrue thing about me riometlnifls my friend believes what the tell her about me, which makes me- feel very badly. Please let mc know If you think she- loves mo truly when she be. Iteves what these girls tell her. I know I could never live without this girl. ED. X You, as a man,, have tho stronger na ture, In regard to gossip. It la too bad that these inlschtvf-inakers can influence your fiancee; but they probably play on her feelings cleverly. I am sure, how ever, that love ns sincere as yours means much to her. Teach her .how fle thf se gossiping friends, ait, and. urge her to give them" "lip. fineulc Vlalnlr to Jler. Dear Miss Fairfax: I was somewhat attracted to a girl, but quarreled at ou tline and after reconciliation could not Fhe seems , I come to like hen any more, i Let us do honor to the woild's noblest to be un ler the Impression that I am still warrlors-those who batl e w th human' enticed by her charms, although 1 told ... ,i.i . .,. , her my affections are directed elsewhere, stupidity. Jluxloy was -as gallant a x0w, as I have different occasions to go righter for life and llbartyibs ever tossed ho her house other than to seo Jier, what his hat Into theoing and followed it with P hall I take to vividly Impress my .... - .., v. .... ,..,.. present sent inputs .upon her? I don t a cry of Jo,y. Yet when he contemplate ! vant he!. ,0 otlllJ opportunities, the. agc-lons olupldlfy of 'the race hl ' V. K pi uluilum Is so pessimistic, that, like the- Tell her frankly that you have -other Upyptlau dnrknes'lilt can be felt. Here 1 Interests, Instead of hurting her In It Is: jdnflnltel) by allowing her to mlsunder- "I know no study which is so unut-j stand, risk .hurting her, or yourself, by ui ably tfaddeiilng-h -Unit of thr evolu- ( stating the- case plutnly, It is ppsslble tlnn of humanity, as it ismjt forth. In tin, that you oveiestlmate your charm for her annals of history. . Out of the durkne's ! as much as she does heis for you. of prehistoric arrs mull errtclKes with' M. m-rl;. nt Ills Inwlv nrllrin 'm'rimr . V" Mwp A-JoloiO'. r.., m ti i h ur. i Por .MUs . Fairfax; Last winter intelligent tlinn the, other. hru(te;.a blind Dear SIUs Fairfax; Last winter 'boy friend ot mine made six engagements with me to go out and I kept two and the t'est I disappointed him. Now when we meet on the street he tips his hat ami says "IloW do you do?" 1 regret the loss of lit friendship ami would like to 1 tgaln It. DOLORES. You treated this boy outrageously. The street nd bear prey to linpulsos which, as olten, us -not, lead him to drstiuctlon; 'u via in ot endless Illusion which make his mental existence a terror and a burden and fill his physical life with barren toll and battle. hHmIiik rnitflln fleet-ee of tihvsl-1 tal umifoit. and devlops h mp.e or less j l0 animosity. Suppose you write Mm a workable theory of life In such favorable 1111,0 ""te say ng that you regret your situation, a, the plains of Mesopotamia i w" 'uP'd't' not making more effort or of Kgypt. and then, for-Ihouwnn.' l.iiu,,,,,!. ,f v..r truirirle. with I """ - - " " j fact that he recognises you 011 the , Jst.ow that he in a gentleman and aial by Infinite 1 friendship Mill exists by coming to spend ! a certain f.vening at your home. SUr Is High. varying fortunes, attended wickedness, bloodshed nnd mlsrry, to mblntuln himself at this point against 1 the gteed und amb.tioii of 11 a fellow men 1 jjcur x1(sm Kalrfux; I alh a man i'- "iie makes a point of killing and other-1 earn old and 1 deaily hive a lady wife persecuting--all thoso who first try i years old. She UUes me as a son, but she to get h.m to mo o. and whe he ha. j "wlllA-: moved on a step, foolishly confeis pjst- J B,oa husband. Don't you think I nm oM mortem deification on bis victims. Ueienoupn J'lease auvtso me wnai jo ao. avmpIIv retiAHtM- lh ni-nrvu with si Who ' .... 4 wunt to mav a te yet farther." V It Is .simply not true.-not true tn splilt and i prppheoy. "Agu'nst stupidity the gods themselves fight poKerless," said the Wire ancients. Hut they were wrong, or. if they were tight, men and women huve done what thu gods could not do. For we 1110 winn.ng In this war. Hvory body may have a shsre In the Victory. The fighting Is good all along the line. From the preildent or a state university to the kindergarten leader, and from the editor with his million readers to the man In the smoking car who knocks a httle cjninioii enie '.Into the stupidest The lady I right, rlhe might love you as a hon, but us a husband, nover. Look around for someone nearer your age. -.nan he ever met in his life," tr all have our chatue. Heslden, theie U oneself! Does not Curlyle exhort us: "A 1 rest your kns.ea atid dastards! Airfcst yourself! Make yourself an honest man. and there wilt tie one rogue less in the world!" Thlnlc of what each one of us can dc to reduce the sum of our natural Ignor ance' Th'a I the war which Is at out doors