THY) BKK: OMAHA, MONDAY, SKITKMHHK UH, 1914.
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Twilight Sleep to Increase Fifth Avenue Birth Rate
The mothers of these Twilight Sleep babies, pho
tographed at tho Lebanon hospital, are Mrs. Mollic
Finkelstein. Mrs. Elizabeth Kane, Mrs. Elizabeth Woin
i?ard, Mrs. llose Breufield and Mrs. Clare Vonnard.
NEW TORK, Sept 17. "Now that twi
light sleep la an accepted fact, we shall
see more bablea on Fifth avenue." This
Is the prophecy of Dr. A. W. Ixibell of
Lebanon hospital, which haa furnished
twenty-five successful cases In which tho
"twilight aleep" method waa used, within
the lout month. The 'twilight Bleep"
waa perfected by a Oerman doctor to
make maternity painless and lens dan
gerous than heretofore. The sleep comes
on after a serum Injection In the, arm
and while the mother la In semi-conscious
state the child Is born. Five thousand
successful demonstrations of the method
have been given at Krelburgh, Germany,
and 100 In this city. "I am sure," fir
l.obell sold, "the result of our succe-it
will be that there will be a marked In
crease In the birth rate, especially in
those parts of the city where It has been
small. In another year Instead of seeing
no JjMby carriages on Fifth avenue you
will have to step out of their way." '
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Religion of Kindness
Br ELLA WHEKLER W1L4JUX.
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Copyright, 1914, -By Riar Company.)
Life, In spite of or perhaps because of
our many wonderful Inventions and
modern conveniences, Is a very Intricate
and complex affair. The telephone we
could not live with
out and carry, on a
ducceasful business
or social life. Auto
mobiles are a Neces
sity for traffic, and
pleasure, and they
are doing much to
relieve burdened
and overtaxed ani
mals. They are also
helping to eliminate
the mosquito and
the fly, by lessening
the refuse where
Insert breed and by
causing the oiling of
streets where they
once swarmed In
the dust
Yet the automobile
life in many ways.
It behooves us, tiieref-ire, to be a con
siderate aa poaslblo In the small mutters
of dally life, and tu nave one another
needless trouble and annoyances.
If you are writing a lotter. even to your
most Intimate friend, always prefix or
append your address.
No matter It your street and number
are aa familiar to your friend as her
own address, still give them In your let
ter, merely to Keep the habit.
In the crowded, hurried, busy Uvea most
of ua live we may forget a number when
we want to write It on an envelope, and
we may not have our Held roes book at
hand. Even If we do have It, It la a
waste of valuable moments to look up an
addrrsa which the writer of the Idler
could append with no trouble.
If you wan to practice the religion of
kindness, look to small matters of this
nature and begin to' be thoughtful In
such ways. .
If you write an Illegible hand, do not
write" long letters even to your beet
friends, unless you use a typewriting
machine.
Many Intellectual and highly-gifted
people write a poor hand. Many cultured
and brilliant people write un aUradlvo
and good-looking hand, but one Impos
sible to decipher without the aid of an
expert If you belong to either of these
(lasses, confine your letters to short
epistles, or employ a stenographer or buy
a machine and run It yourself. Ufe Is
too short and too full of beautiful and
interesting things to be wasted in de
ciphering difficult penmanship from even
our best friends.
Many American homes are lacking In
pejice and repose because of the loud
voices which the memlwrs of the house
hold use In planning the dally rout'ne or
In family discussions.
X houee in which careful foresight and
thoughtful planning have provided bells
and speaking-tubea la yet made noisily
irr.Utlng by parenta and children who
call to one another loudly from one room
to another, and from the lower to the
vpper floors.
Dven Dear neighbors are disturbed by
this thoughtless habit of really Intellec
tual and kind-hearted people.
Employee naturally follow tht habits
of their employers, and bo there Is a
medley of discordant sounds which might
easily be silenced with a atUe considerate
thought.
If you are going on a railroad journey
or taking a subway car, iwepare your
purse with the riirht change and have It
ready before you approach the window
for a tli lirt.
Do not block traffic for others by
standing with both elbows In the ticket
window while you hunt for your purse
and afterward for your money. This Is
selflkh and InconNlderu'e.
Time, interest and nerve force are all
exhaustod when your frlcnda make linger
ing farewells and stand talking on a
series of subjects aftr they say they
must go.
Then, after proceeding as far as the
door of the drawing room, they think of
something new to say, and another quar
ter of an hour Is consumed.
Whatever pleasure you have found In
their call is lost In this miserable, pro
tracted departure.
Practice the fine art of making a grace
ful, clean-cut exit. If you are leaving a
summer or winter resort, do not bngln
to make your adieus to your acquaint
ances until you are aure you are leaving.
Then, let them be short and concise.
There la an anti-climax often made by
people who cause their friends to say, a
day or two later after they have epoken
elaborate farewells: "What, ere you still
here?"
All these small mattter unite In mak
ing an agreeable personality.
Think about them.
A Secret of Popularity
By ADA PATTERSON.
laundress who had a very absorbing one,
tu her, In how she, an aged negress,
should get on after her son had been run
over by a railway train. A few women
who had kept up their circulation, re
tained the habit of being Interested,
helped her solve the problem by letting
her do their family washing. Now she
la Interested because that problem has
been solved, and because of her grati
tude to those who helped her solve the
problem. She lias kept the gift of being
I interested. We learned that the day tho
, habe of one of the women who had helped
her was seised with convulsions and tho
j old negress staid after her work was done,
and by the necromanoy of her nearly for-
Kotten motherhood, saved the littla one's
life.
I once know a girl who was proud ot
the fact that nobody Interested her. In
turn, though she was beautiful and tat
enteO, no one was long Interested In her.
Indifference begets Indifference. New,
though she Is a white-haired woman and
woman who a- I intemelv lonelv. she la trvlns to cultl-
serts that alio was wot Interested in the vale the power of being interested. Like
prospect of a war of seven nations that ' swimming, It is hard to leant late tn life,
should plunge Kurope Into a sea of blood Her efforla are awkward. Bhe overdoes
made more? than a mere social error. Bhe i It a bit. 8ho works too .hard at It and
offended every lover of humanity 'who I the person on whom she practices is apt
was within hearing distance. F.veryono. to lie amused and become a shade re
present wrote her down In his mental ' senlful. And the dead, barren year ile
"I am not Interested in the war," said a
young woman, and etralghtwiiy her pop
ularity atock went down M per cent. rr
hapa, I hine underestimated the lots. It
may have been H1)
per cent. It Is al
ways unpopular to
be uninterested.
Notli Ins more
quickly' imikcs an
enemy than a wan
dering eye during
a personal recital.
No matter l( the
delivery bo dull.
No liuittrr If the
story bo long. Tho
first commandment
In the social deca
loguo Is "l!o Inter
eeted." But the young
notebook as one of the frog folk and as
soou aa thew had made civil udleua set
about forgetting her as we seek to do
sunn thing It Is unpleasant to remember.
behind her.
The best Investment you can make of
your time and thought and energy after
doing tho work life has given you to du
Tho girl might have said: "The thought! is to bbcome. Interested In persons and
of war Is so horrible that It is a positive events. Those who are Interested will
physical pain to me" and every man and never find life dull nor unduly hard. Be
woman present would have agreed with , cause while you are interested you are
her. it would have been a natural re- interesting. You will lovo life. You will
mark uiid she would have shown herself ' have friends. You will enjoy the sense
human. Hut that she was not Interested , of growth. And no one will ever call
No Headache or
Neuralgia Pain
Wheat your bead aches jrou simply
n.uat have relief or you will to wild.
It's needless to auffer when you can
take a remedy like Dr. James' Head
ache Powders and relieve the palu and
neuralgia at once. Bend aomeone to
the drug ators now for a dime parkag-e
or Ir. J Jilts' Headache Powders.
lRn't suffer. In a few momenta you
Will fell fine heodarhs gone no more
neuralgia lieiu. Advertisement
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when millions were at the point of em
broiling themselves In carnage, when
lives would be lost and hearts and homes
broken and fair lands ravaned and for
tunes destroyed, discloses that she was of
the frog kind and stirred a eenoe of aver
sion In all who heard.
To be interested Is to live. To be unin
terested Is to be dead, though alive. To
be Interested Is to keep young. To be In
different to the events of every day is to
grow old. Iliougli you are still 20 It U
a sign of Impending age to narrow your
liitifta. As we grow older life should
grow richer and deeper and broador and
If they do we will never grow old.
We all have froggy moods. Damp
moods they are In which our world nar
rows to the chair on which we are sitting
or the bed on which we llr und ourselves
become the center of this mean, self,
created universe. They are wretched
moods. We find expression for them by
saying we aie "blue." We should say,
"I am suffering from an acute attack of
selfishness." The only cure Is to start
anew the circulation. Start It bounding
through the body by a walk In the sun
shine or by a gsme with laughing chil
dren.' Stimulate the circulation In your
mind by gathering a new idea from book
or magailne, from lecture or conversa
tion, and If It be a aane idea, and not
dwelling on It an Instant, then tossing it
upon the scrap heap of The Things You
Have Forgotten, but entertaining it so
hospitably that It decides to stay and
become a part of your fund of know ledse.
tart a new circulation In your char
acter by forcing yourself to an Interim
in some one. We all have eraonal prob
lems. Perhaps your laundress has one
that should engaae you. kusw
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you, nor will you suspect j-uuisen ui
being like a frog.
Household Suggestions
Old stocking k-gs covered with part of
an old kid glove make excellent Iron
holders.
Red rust en any part of the grate can
easily be covered with blaOc Isad If a
raw onion is first rubbed over It.
When pouring boiling water Into an
empty glass, put a spoon into the glass
first.' This will prevent It from cracking.
After frying onions pour a little vine
gar Into the frying pan, let it get hot,
and it will remove all smell from the pan.
To remove grass stains, wash the stained
article In alcohol or ammonia and water;
If the oolors are not delicate use paste
made ot soap and cooking soda.
A siphon of soda la an excellent fir
extinguisher, as the carbonic acid gaa In
tike soda water helps to stifle the flames.
The siphon can be tilted and the fluid
will carry to a considerable height, such
aa the top of a biasing curtain.
To set colors dissolve one tablespoonful
ot common salt in each quart of rinsing
water.
Floor boards sluiuld never be scrubbed
trrou, but up and down with the grain.
After being scrubbed with soap they
should tie washed oxer again with clean
water and a soft doth and then well
. dried.
Advice to Lovelorn
i By BBATSIOX VAULT AX I
Wlaalag Boy Krie.nds.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am In high school
and am very fond of having a good time.
As I have no brothers or ulsters to take
me any place, I nm kept at home pretty
close. I have a neighbor girl who I could
go with, hut 1 don't care for her com
pany. I have several bov friend, thm i
would like to have call. I like them very
much and I know they like me. Now,
will you tell me how I can win a boy
companion, Should the girl go out of the
door with her company when be leaves?
BLUE EYK8.
Do not worry about "winning boy
friends." You have all that a girl of
your age can ask, In health and a good
home, while you are still at school. Ask
your boy friends to call at your home, if
your parents do not object. If the donr
Is left open, no harm Is likely, but the
better practice Is to bid your caller good
night while standing In the house. You
are Just at the springtime of life, when
all the wonderful glories of girlhood are
unfolding to you, and you ought not to
miss any of them, which you surely will
If you begin to worry about "wlnntng
boy friends." Time enough for that
twenty years from now, if they have not
already come. Juat now, In your parents,
your schoolmates, your books and your
teachers you have all the companions
you need.
Talk It Over with Mother.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young girl
of 1H, considered very beautiful. About
a year ago 1 become eilKaged to a young
man of remarkable ability. Hut about
two months aso his legs were amputated.
As 1 love hliu very dearly ami cannot
xlve him up, 1 want to marry him. Hut
ehould 1 marry a liiun so disabled?
IIKD CliKEKS.
If you feel capable of making the sacri
fice that will be usked of you, in devot
ing your Ufa to the care of a cripple, who
will be helpless to a very great extent,
you may find your happiness In your
wedding with the man you love. But do
not let romantic notions of duty blind
your eyes to the facts In the case. It
would not be fair to him. should you wed
with him and later repent It. Weigh all
the circumstances well, for It Involves
your future aa well as his. Talk the
matter over with your mother, and with
the young man. when he has sufficiently
recovered from the effects of the acci
dent. Let your head have some share in
deciding this question, as well as your
heart
Dss't Let tt tlrlev Yam.
of 1, rather short for my age. I have
been going wuu a Doy iwo yrui nu
senior, exceedingly tall for his age. A
i. . .1.1. n or. Ijialmn 1 1 f tilrt
have been leaning him about the differ
ence In our heights, and he has treated
me Very COOI tor TOine luira, wiuvu iim
. . ...... u ... XC mi I.I L' . . 1 1
sxievru nie tj, ..-... .. .-
Please advise me how I may best regain
IDs aiieciionst
iw nnt vrleva after affections so
lightly thrown away. You are too young
to be forming permanent, auecnmenis.
and should not take the matter seriously.
It la not very nice for your girl friends
to tease the boyr who may be unduly
....iiiv u tn hts conspicuous height.
As tor yourself, recall what Robert Hums
once wrote when ho was asked wny one
lady waa so tall and another was so
small:
You ask why God made the gem so
small.
a. .i o nut the aranlte?
It waa because he meant that "n
Should put the greater iu on -v.
Dssrlsg Lessons Will Help.
Dear Miss Fairfax: How can a ttirl he
roine more graceful? Why (s It some
people cannot . become good dancers?
ould going to dancing school help any .'
What can a person do to make more
friends? IGNORANCE.
Dancing lessous will develop grace tn
manner and carriage. Anyone not a crip
ple can learn to dance, but not all ran
excel. No golden rule for making friends
Is known, but a good" way Is to be agree
able and attractive, dignified, but not
stiff, keep! eg always the sunny side out.
MsrrUi
Dear Miss Fairfax: Do you consider it
wrong for children of first cousins U
marry? Do ail states permit It? Do you
think five years too great a difference In
agee If the man in ?1 and the lady W, if
both parties are deeply In love?
TROCBLED.
For eugenic reasons the law forbids the
marriage of blood cousins tu any degree.
Such marriages sometimes turn out very
happily, but are more frequently accom
panied by such terrible consequences that
only misery is the result. The disparity
In axes la also a valid, but not an Insur
mountable reason against the luariiage.
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Life on Mars and on the Earth
Wlion the Two Planets Are Shown on the Same Scale Nobody Cau Say That Ono
J s More Likely to Have Inhabitants Than the Other
" r-j1" 1 x
If the
Earth
Were the
Size of
Mars.
Globe'
Drawn
Same
Size
Shows How
Small a
Portion of
the Earth
Would Be
Required to
Cover One
Martian
Hemisphere.
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4Sss" m i ' TJl 4
f if' " 44S. , 4 V .VI i
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H 4 t i ir - i ' a M - 1 s'ivo ;- 1
II " i i . " " it K A ' J k JK S
Mars,
Showing for
Comparison
the Most
Familiar
Objects,
Such aa
Sabaeus
Sinus
ami
Syrtis Major
Visible in
Ordinary
Teleseopos,
and also
Other
Prominent
Details.
By GARRETT P. SERY1SS. 1
' I other earth, with Its oceans and contl-
llere are two worlds belonging to the I n"1" arranged on a slightly dlffcrpnt
sun's system, usually called the solar sys
tem, placed side by side and drawn to the
same scale In order that the eye may
more quickly grasp their likenesses and
their differences.
They are Mars and the earth, and thus
presented they look like twins, with no
greater variations In feature than human
twins sometimes present.
In fact, the general likeness between
them Is startling, and, knowing that the
earth is Inhabited, the spectator can
hardly resist the conclusion that Mars Is
probably inhabited also. ITe sees a white
rap of snow about the north pole of each
planet, and the darker and llKhter regions
that diversify the surfaces of both seem
to spell the words "land" and "water,"
for Mars as well as for the earth.
lie says to himself that a voyager
through the universe coming in siRht of
these two planets would surely look upon
both of them aa promising islands in
space, and would steer for either with
equnl confidence as to finding upon It
wood, water and "natives."
If the two really were of the same siae.
as they are represented here, the chances
would be very great in favor of their sub
stantial Identity of condition with regard
to habit ability. But. in truth, the earth's
surface Is nearly three and a half times
more extensive than that of Mars, and
its mass, or the quantity of matter in it,
Is ten times as great.
This makes a vast difference In the
probable state of affairs on the two plan
ets. Curiously enough, it Is the physicist
and the chemist and not the astronomer
who have discovered the strongest argu
ments concerning the habitablllty of Mars.
The Instruments of the laboratory have
proved more potent upon this question
than the teleseppe.
It has, for Instance, been shown that no
planet can retain a permanent atmos
phere or water on Its surface unless It
has sufficient mass to restrain the little
molecules of the aerial goaes and of
watery vapor from gradually escaping
Into space. The speed with which these
molecules continually dart about among
one another has been measured for each
of the principle gases, and thua the fact
has been established that the earth pos
sesses the requisite mass, or restraining
force, while Mare does not Mars can re
tain some gases, but not those which are
essential to the support of life and the
existence of seas, lakes, livers and rains.
Rut how, then, fame Mars to be
Marked with such striking ' gcograph-
pattern? .....
The reply to this may be that in times
long past Mais had both air and water In
sufficiency. Then, although so much
smaller than the earth, it may have pos
sessed seas and lands swarming with life.
But, owing to Its lack of mass. It could
not keep the gaseous elements on Us
surface. Thoy would not escape all at
once, but slowly and gradually.
The little planet would be like an heir
whose capital or income was not suffi
cient to enable him to retain the costly
property that had been bequeathed to
him. Little by little it would pass away
from hint and go Into stronger hands, on
tbe principle that "to him that hath shall
be given, and from him that hath not
shall be taken away even that which be
seems to have."
The analogy la very strong, for the law
of gravitation requires that the atmos
phere which Mars and tho moon and
other weak worlds have lost must fly to
Jupiter, the earth, the stm and other
gravitational giants. For a planet, mass
Is capital, and without a certain amount
of this capital no world can enjoy the
luxuries of life.
According to this view, the apparent
landscapes and seascapes of Mars are
only shadows of an earlier, happier day,
when that small globe knew not yet Its
poverty.
Light and Magnetism
Ky EDC.n LVCIKN LA It KIN.
Question "Since it seems to be a law
of the univerve that suns, planets, moons
and comets shall move In orbits and be
held therein by some other central power,
is It not probably true that there Is a
6reat niannetlo i!oerninrf center?" Allen
Knscnklnna, I'ennfleld, Pa.
Aiitwer That very high, imposing,
mathematically "proven ' science celestial
mechanics demonstrates that there ia no
necessity for a Colossal dominating cen
tral sun. The Idea of a central sun con
trolling the entire sidereal universe was
advanced by what are called nwtaphysi
clans, totally opposite In nature from
mathematicians. Kor one guesses, the
other either proves or admits that he
cannot.
If the universe Is finite it has a rreclse
center. Photos of tne entire celestial
the entire congeries of suns hi
of gravity. And It knows thl
r of gravitation, even If emptl
dominates all motions of at
1
lYa ilt reveul at least lOO.OOO.CUO giant suns,
our sun being one of the smaller. And
the or some of them are known to be
two quadrillion milts apart. Mechanic'
know that
a center
this center
and void,
millions of suns around It.
But all sups move aa bees In a swarm
and no such Immense body has been
sensed tn spare. Kapteyn's discovery of
drifting of suns In opposite directions In
opposite regions of the stellar structure
may Indeed be the beginning of a din
covery of rotation around a center; but
the rotation would as well be maintained
If the center is an absolute vacuum.
If the universe Is Infinite It has no cen
ter, and the above line of argument
backed by rigid mathematics cannot
apply.
36e NDEHBILToUi
WTO!! H.MARHAXL. Manager.
An Ideal Hotel with an Ideal Situation
Summer '7fzter
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