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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1914)
THK HKK: OMAHA, TUKSIUY, SEPTEMRKtt 8. 1014. 7 Little Bobbie's Pa "The Masqueraders!" 0 How You Can Walk. Around the Truth and Kilt a Romance By Nell Brinkley Copyright, 1SH, Intern I News Service. America's Opportunity in Science . By WILLIAM F. KIRK. I have Jest rote a long letter to rrest dont Wilson, sed Pa. You have? sed Ma Yes, sed J'a. & as soon at I git a answer I may have to maik hurried prepurashuna for a long journey. Bee foar I so, however, If I do go, ned Pa. I will malk arrangements Rll you 4 Uttel Hobble will have nothing to worry about if I shud fall with my fare to th trech erus foe. Deer, Deer, sed Ma, & what is all thia big splurge about? I am going to Mexico, I think, as soon as I git a anser from Wilson, sed Ta. I am going down here & have a end to all this revoluehun that is matklng so much trubble & tiludshcd, & I have thought out a careful plan of ackshun wlch 1 have submitted to Mister Wilson. Isent that grand, sed Mu. What a com fort you must be to our beloved president. It Is too bad that George Washington didn't have a man like you hanging around him In the dark days of the revo lushun In this country, Ma sed. "I have often felt sorry that I cuddent have lived then, ted Fa, but of course if I had lived then you wud newer have had the chanst to meet me & have my proteckshun. & littel Bobble wuddent have been hero to cheer us up, sed pa. But In any event. Fa sed, this Mexican trip Is one of the utmost lm-portance not only to the United States but to Kngland a well. These are my plans: First of all, Pa sed, I am going to des troy the power of this Villa. He is what I call the rock of the revolushun. the storm center of the whole trubbel. I am going to git him & 1 am going to git him good, aed Pa. After I have put him out of the way I am going to talk his men A go after Zapata & destroy him. Then I will malk a slstematlck war sgenst every brigand In the whole coun try, & as soon aa L, have them clee.ned out I will go to the proper guvemment of Mexico & turn oaver all my troops to them & be back hoam as soon as pos sibel. It may not be beefoar sum time In the early fall, sed Fa, but as I sed beefoar I will leave everything here prop erly fixed so you & Bobble will git along fine. ' Well, deerest, sed Ma, if I thought you was ewer recly going to get a reply from Wilson telling you to go down thare I wud flare up now & tell you that you havent got a chanst in the wurld to malk the trip & leeve us here, but as things are I' am not going to bother my tied bout It. You are going to be surprised, sed Pa. I guess not, Ma said - If you want to know what I think, I think that eokane the dentist put in your tooth ft gum la doing a little planning & talking for you, deerest. That is my oplnyun, Ma Bed. Thay eay uch drugs give men ft wtm nrien very exalted idecs of thare grate ness. I wonder if that Is why I have been feeling so bralv & strong all the after noon, ed Pa. Why, I feel aa If I cud rleen up that Mexican outfit slngel handed, without eeven a gun or a jack. That Is just what I think the reason for yure bravery la, Bed Ma. A I wish while you axe still feeling bralv that you wud look oaver these bills with me. If you wait till the drug die out I am afrade- you will faint wen you see the butcher bill, sed Ma. Cum on, noabel hero, A cast yure eye oaver these Blips. Wen Pa had looked at all the bills he dident look bralv at all, he lookd like a man wlch ia driving a hearse. A Case, of Necessity. A man called on an acquaintance and found the little daughter of tho house playing with a gingerbread cat. "That Is a very nice cat you have there." smiled the caller. "Am you go ing to eat it?" "No," answered the youngster, affec tionately stroking the cat with her little hand.. "It is too pretty to eat." Three or four days later the man hap pened to call at the nouse again. "I don't see your cat. Gladys," re marked the visitor, hs the child came into the room empty-handed. "What has become of It?" "It's gone," announced Gladys, with a regretful sigh. "It got so dirty that I just had to eat It" "YOU NIK USE OF CDTICURA SOAP Because of its refreshing fra grance, absolute purity and delicate emollient skin-purifying properties derived from Cuticura Ointment. Samples Free by llatl Cuttours Soep soi rrtnunetkt sold throughout the Vorid. Liberal SMnpUol sorb nisllwl fraa, wit -, Book. adJnas "VuUcurt," iMpt. UUJl HI mate, &mrwmf Ja L -U I w-O' m ' J . F li J t I 1 - W A. -ai "ai XV .li ' Br U 1 V. i Bl .V, I ' aA. XI- J 1 V v v9 studies of medical . i. Love hates masquerade! Unless It's all In play. The black-mask, when It means not telling the truth, Is as a red flag to a stampeding beast, to the glowing eye of Love. So don't tell Summer-fibs. For your meddling with your fate may bring you the long-way 'round on Dan's road and the mate you might have had you'll never meet again. He thought she wag the country-grown little farmer girl that the looked gingham-bonnet rusty shoes and pink print gown and drowsing mind. That she belonged in the mossy brown little bouse on the farm next door and never had her little flat sole on any but a dusty country road since she had "been born!" And she thought he belonged in the potato patch just over the stake-and-rider fence where he worked most every day Just over the fence where she scattered corn and apple-peels to the chickens and called them very loud and sweet so be might hear. "Perhaps he's the hired man or the son of the bent old man who is called Joe Logsdon No. 3." "She is the daughter of the worn, but happy-eyed old person who sometimes feeds the chickens in her place!" And then he leaned on his hoe and reflected that if "she's by chance the 'hired girl,' she's a mighty pretty one, and it's a pity!" And so they masqueraded through two weeks or so of golden Summer days with the quail calling to their city-ears "slt-right-down!" sit-right-down!" with the beads and the butterflies tig-sag- across the fence that lay between white cotton clouds drifting over their si'ily ging like flakes of gold and blue and white hem. How could the neighboring old folks with whom each of these city children were spending a vacation know that they saw one another at the bottom-filled fence a mile away from the farm-yard, and put them right? And Love would not help, for he was furious. And so they fibbed he a New Yorker and she one, too and parted with misty eyes over the gray rail fence. One day weeks later- as he waited on the platform of the subway at the Forty-second Street Station through tho blurring window of a halted local be saw her face in the yellow light Inside under a smart little bonnet with a white glove to her cheek! Their eyes clung he felt a cold thrill down his bark with delight and amaze hers widened and lightened as she knew him for what he was trim and rigged out in his regulation uniform, that of a successful young city-son. And then ho came to and dashed like a madman for the door of the local. But It clashed shut in hiB face in the fateful way subway doors have and the train sailed into the black mouth of the way-tvthe-next-stntlon. And he never saw her again! So that's the end of the story but It wouldn't have been If they had both told the truth. NELL BRINKLEY. . Making of a Husband By DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1914, by Star Company.) I am not one of those who believe greatly in woman's Influence. To my mind the most overworked fiction on earth Is the fairy story about man being guided and ruled In every act In life by the power of some woman. In whose hands he Is aa clay In the hands of the potter. ' It is a lovely theory that pleases the vanity of wo men, and therefore they have accepted it with enthusiasm. Millions of credulous girls who believed It have married drunk, ards and rakes and gambler in the fond expectation that they would be able to work miracles and turn their husbands Into models of all the virtues, but only too late they found out they bad put their faith In a fuke cure, and that as a reformatory agent a wife's Influence wasn't worth a hill of beans. n reality the most that a woman can do for a man Is to be a kind of an ac celerator. Bhe can either hustle him down the wrong road. If he Is on the down grade, or else she can boost him up the ladder if he Is already climbing it. but she cannot scotch him, either way. She cannot supply the Industry and grit 'and backbone that he lacks if he Is a loafer, and she wastes herself In try ing to make good for his deficiencies. By the same token, If a man has In him the qualities that make for success, he will go on to success la spile of his wife. The woman, hqwevcr, who Is married to a man of even ordinary ability can raise that ability to Its highest power She can be an Inspiration to success and help htr husband on to It If she wishes to. Fhe can help him to do big things by keeping alive his faith in htmnelf. There are women who are always like a flutter ing flag of glory, before a man, thrilling him with ambition and with that belief In his power to achieve that is the very foundation of effort. There oomes a time to every man when the battle seems going against him and when further effort appears useless and hopeless and ho is tempted to give up. At that moment his fate rests In his wife's hands. It she tells him that luck Is against him and that he lacks the ability that other men have to get along, his doom Is Mealed. But if her faith In him never falters, if she makes him feel that h will triumph over every obstacle, she breathe Into him the hope and courage that move mountains. A wife can help a man by taking an lnterent In his business. Women's foolish 'jealousy of their husbands' occupations is at the bottom of nine-tenths of the bankruptcies. A wife who affects to de spise the business that supports her, who looks bored whsn her hUHDaml talks shop. Is a millstone about a man's neck. It ia the man who takes his business home with him, and whose wife enthusi astically thrashes out every detail of it with him who succeeds. For, no matter how little a woman knows practically about a business, she has flashes of intuition thst ar genius. Also. In discussing any subject with a sympathetic listener. It clarifies the matter In your own mind and opens up vistas that you had never thought of be fore. A wife can help a husband by making friends for him, or she csn hinder him by making enemies. She can keep him selfishly tied to her aprcn string, or she csn send him out among the men who can help him along. Too mub domes ticity Is Just as bad for a man as too little. Above all, a woman can help her hus band by keeping him phyilcally fit. The woman who dura not keep her home comfortable and a haven of peace, in which Jaded nerves can be soothed and rested and repaired. Is putting a spoke In her own wheel of fortune. It Is strange how little women realize that home Is the power-house in wlilch the dynamic energy of a man must be manufactured. A man's physical well-being lie In his wife's hands. PMe can build him up with proper food or she ran slay him with bad cooking. Bhs can exhaust his strength on foolish household tasks, or she can save his strength for hie business. Many a man who might liVve been a merchant prince has had .Ills nerves wrecked and his brain paralysed by a bad breakfast. Many a poem and novel that would have madn a man famous have been withered, root and branch, In the brain of a genius by the harassment of a shrewdlsh wife. It la an interesting game and a profit ble one. this helping to make a man. I recommend It as a paiUlme to the dls contented married ladles who are wishing that they had something wortii while to do. Do You Know That Every German regiment has a chiropo dist In Its ranks. The harbor of Rio de Janeiro has fifty miles of anchorage and Is said to be the finest in the world: An express train was beaten by twelve minutes by an eagle whlfh raced it over a distance of eighteen miles. With most of the leading wrestiers of Japan wrestling is an tocupallon which bas been handed down from father to son for many generations. The amount of material carried from the land Into the ocean, in suspension and In solution, has been estimated at 1.7 oublo miles a year. The roar of a lion ran be heard fur ther off than the sound of any living creature. Next come the cries of the hyena, the screech ol, the panther and the Jaikal In succession Sir William Johnson Copyright. 19U, iiy Blsr Company. Hy HKV. THOMAS B. GRKOOHY. Among "the Men Who Made America" we miiKt not forget to reckon Wr Wil liam Johnson, the sllc.k-tongued, strong willed Irishman who tamed the dreaded Iroquois, wheedled t them Into friend ship with the Kng lltth colonists, and so saved this great continent to the rule of the rare whose descendants were to become the people of tho ITnlted States. W i 1 Ham Johnson whs born In the county of Meiith, Ireland, In the year 1716. As young men have been doing ever since young men have existed, Johnson fell In love, and it happened to him as It has hapiened to many another wooer, that the "course of true lov" did not run Smooth." The blui k-haired. blue-eyed beauty whose, charms had enmeshed him did not return his affection In fact, rejected him In the rudest sort of a way, and Johnson found himself at the very bot tom of the pit of despondency. I.Ike Jonah of old, he declared, "It Is better for me to die than to live," and he actually made all the arrangements for lifting againht himself the hand of silf-slaugliter. lint the disconsolate young man wn Intended for a nobler end than that of filling a suicide's grave. His uncle, H'.r l'eter Warren, owned large tracts of land In the Mohawk valley. New York state, and thinking to cure his ntiphew of his love-sickness, and at the same time to make him of some use In the world, he sent him to look after his big estates in the new world. The vessel bearing Jnhnson and his fortunes sutured New York harbor .on the twenty-first day of February, 171S, and at the age of 'a years the young man who was later on to become the king of diplomats, astutest of statesmen, and one of the greatest of the masters of men, landed at the Battery, looked about htm self for a brief spell, and headed himself for thu lund of the Iroquois. The cold-blooded realism of the Ameri can wlldrtrnesa knocked a good share of! the sentiment out of Johnson's soul, and If he ever lost any more sleep over the "girl he left behind him," there Is no record of It. Johnson had other end sterner things to think of, and nutting himself loose from the visions of "love's young dream" he applied himsuir vigorously to the mat-ler-of-faot tasks that confronted lUin there In the forest. He had scarcely planted himself In the Mohawk region when It became clear tJ all that his Influence was going to be tremondous, and that it was going to be In the right direction. Among the red men he became at onoe a king. By the magica! pewnr of his per sonality he made them both love and fear him. Their trust In him was perfect. His (treat common sense. Iron will and un flinching Juxtlce made him the "Great Father" to thousands of savages over whom, up to that time, no other man, white or red, had been able to exert the least control. The strateglo Importance of the state of New York In the great war game was immense, and It was Johnson's diplomacy In preserving that Importance for the Knsllsh that finally turned the scale. The greatest of our American hlstor Isns have accepted the conclusion that, had the terrible Iroquois confederacy been against the Kngllsh It would-have prob ably meant French victory. And right hsre comes In the significance of Johnson's work, for If the French hsd succeeded in the mighty duel there would have been no Kngllsh rule, and, therefore, no Vnitcd States of America as we know It today. Johnson died In 1774, In his fifty-ninth year, rich and full of honor, having dona his full shsre toward the making of our nation. Our debt to hlrn Is simply Inool rulable, and we ran never be grateful enough to the lassie who gave him the mitten and thus opened the way for his oomlng to America. lly (JAKIIKTT 1. HKUVWS. The science as well ns the commere-i - a,.. 1 1 and ImluMry or America can nanny nn to benefit enormously through the mania, cif self-lestnictlon that has seled upon the clvlllsntmn of Europe. For many years the work of the tier mnn labora tories his been the envy nf American and other chemists. The (tcrman In vcstlRstors have hitherto In nnm- I ers, at least led (he world. In In dustrial and bio logical chemistry they obtained an apparently hope less lead. In tnelr tpeclflcs ami Inoculants they took first place. Their chemical products went everywhere, and everywhere they were tegarded as almost unrivaled in quality and rellahll'ty. The consequonce of the shutting off of the German supply Is already seen In the Increased coat of drus. A vivid Idea of the position of advan tege which the German chemists have maintained Is given by a glance at anv up-to-date ststlstlcal books. I turn to an Fngllsh year book of that kind and find that during the year 1!UJ slxty-ona Ger man Investigators In chemistry and chem ical physics ean.ed a mention of their names, while the English investigators. Including Americans, numbered thirty three, the French fifteen and the Rus sian two. No doubt the character of the Teutonic mind has something to do with the lead which Germany has had In flhemlcal In dustry, but there Is no good reason why American chemists should not, now that an extraordinary opportunity Is offered them, susume the lead and keep It for an Indefinite period In the future. We have the knowledge, the skill and the rawr materials to work with. Hitherto we have lacked Incentive to to our best. and. bowing to Kuropean prestige, have con centrated our attention upon other things. Now, necessity and opportunity to gether rail upon us, Consider for a moment the subject of radium. The greatest deposits of radio active minerals known In the world exlBt In our country, and yet we hava been rending this precious material to Europe, and mainly to Oermany, to have Its vir tue extracted and made available for medical use. Hnreafter, It la probable the ITnlted States will be the gret csnter of the radium Industry. A hundred other Industries in which chemistry plays the chief part, and which have hitherto had their principal seat In Germany, will now bo developed here. If only the will to do is matched to the op portunity. There Is, for Instance, an In dustry of continually growing Importance that has hardly found a foothold In this country, although Its products are very widely used here-tha manufacture of op tical glass and of glass for laboratory use. Whenever our American astronomers, who as observers lead the world, wanted a new and greater telescope they hava heretofore sent to Germany or to France for the material of which to muke the lensea and the mirrors. The optical glass of Jena, In Germany, Is world-famous, and that of Pt. Gobaln, in France, Is equally renowned. We have the greatest telescopes In Istence and the best telescope makers, but up to the present time we' have never learned to manufacture the glass, without which no telescope could exist. All our college laboratories are crowded with apparatus made In Oermany; all our drug stores have their shelves loaded with drugs prepared In German; all our technical libraries abound with books printed In Germany and describing the results of German scientific Investiga tion. Rut since Germany now has her atten tion absorbed by other things than tha advance of knowledge and Industry, and rlnce the other Kuropean nations that have hitherto held the lead over us in these matters are straining their energies also on the fields of bloodshed. It be comes a duty for . American man of science to prevent the halt and tha reces sion which science would surely ex perience If her torch were not kept alight and her march accelerated on this side of the ocean, loytul Anticipation of Motherhood There Is ant to be a latent apprebanaton of distress to mar the complete Joy of expectation. Eut this Is quite overcome by the advice of so many women to mso "Mother s Friend." This la an external application designed to so lubricate tho muscles and to thus so relieve the pres sure reacting on the nerves, that thm natural strain upon the cords and liga ments la not accompanied by those seVer pains said to cause nausea, morning sick ness "and many local distresses. This splendid embrocatiou la known Co a multi tude of mothers. Mai.y people believe that those remedies which have stood the test of time, that have been put to every trial under the varying conditions of age, weight, general health, ete., may be safely relied upon. And Judging by the fact that "Mother's Friend" has been In continual use slnos our grandmother's earlier years and II known throughout tha Vnlted States U nay be easily Inferred that It la some thing that women talk about and glfrdJQ recommend to prospective mothers. "Mother's Friend" is prepared only la our own laboratory and ia sold by drug gists everywhere. Ask for a bottle to-day and write for a special book for expectant mothers. 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