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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1914)
t4Mi Till: HKK: 0MA1IA. Tl lvSDAV, IK'TUP.KU i. 1!U. 0 n . r - r: --- ? n ii The Real Beautiful Adventure & It's in Finding Yourself and Making tho Most of Yourself, Says Ann M unlock. Venus, the Earth's Mysterious Twin This Planet. Urilliant Now .Jut After Sunset, Kiv.vs N'o lnterelian.ee of Pay and By AXX LlSLK "I've never wanted to he like anyone else. I've never wanted to imitate or ropy anyone. I've Just been glad to be my own self an fully as possible." said Ann Murdork. She was perking up the wee roses and orange bloasoma on a very original wed-din- noun of soft lace. In prepa'ation to going out on the stage of the Lyceum theater and acting the part of the very Indvldual bride of "The Beautiful Ad venture." "Sometlmea I'm afraid I'm a very con ceited young person when I see all the wonderful people 1 might use as pnt-1 terns. Hut I don't believe In borrowing or Imitating. "My biggest Ideals of beauty are pro portion and balance. Everything must . fit In with everything else. Now If you borrow a. trick of speaking from one jer aon and a way of tilting your head from another and a fashion of dressing from a third, and earn It all off with a man ner of walking copied from a fourth model, you'll be a bad assortment of misfits not an individual. "I believe In taking stock of yourself &r ., " S ' V"-x ' . ff Sf " i X " t 1 1 - x 'VL t I f $ ,y rj , x a --a t i Y ,S& K&fr Vif X X 1 j . fX I f , : r : , , a y v V Vl , 1 1 VV Adventurer." Cliaractorifitic poses of the charminjf Ann Murdook, now Ilie Beautiful Jr7; . .... h i ii i AfVt -: ' i4 K'7-. M5'V "'.v:.'K.T.'' 4- rr':'fwv .. VV j-4 " . '-I 5 ' KifciMfiirr ii nitaxii ama f.J.nMni A drawing s,liowin the sunlit and frost-hound sections of Venus. We see only one, the lighted side. A conception of the glacial cold that must prevail even1; at the equator in the sunless hemisphere of Venus. The Venusinn Alps, marked by the letter "A" on the picture, project a hove the clouds forty miles high. it 1 f : l TV t ;:7:-,i7 1 .'ilterw --7 I 'I 1 f n7 aWJ 7 H 7Mf7-." kt7ff:'7 4.V, A Tin? boundary between lay and night is often distorted. " This is ox)lainel in part by mi 1 ujinish ' i of heated ' air. ny UAIIRETT I. SEKVISn. Tho plnnet Venis, very brilliant Just now Immediately lifter Hiiii"t, Is 11 world of extraordinary Interest for two reasons: first, because it Is the rnrth'a twin in slae, and, second, because It ap proaches nearer the earth than any other planet, when t arrives, as It will soon do, In that part of Its orbit which lie between the earth and the Bun. with their finding out yhat you are like, what you can do and then working straight ahead to axpress yourself. "Every girl ought to have one main Interest In Ufa. That will keep her busy and bappy and cheerful looking and well. But that main Interest must be some thing aha admires another girl for doing. "I don't believe In fads. They are only the Jerky imitation! of other people's ldeaa that nervous women who aren't wise enough to be themselves adopt. One big interest keeps you bury and demands minor branch Interests to feed it. For Instance, I study French, literature, fenc ing and singing as aids to my work, and add to these branches another branch of self-expression in the study of my own health and welfare. "Don't take up Spanish because some one says it s a romantic language, . or adopt Pomeranians because some women look smart walking up the avenue these fluffy little animals under arms. "Study what expresses you. Find the enjoyments you take to naturally. Dress In the type of clothes you look well In. Arrange your hair to bring out the shape of your heud. Those are simple beauty rules. As u hl!d I did not like 'copyists. And I don't admire tliem now. Oh, It Is a wonderful adventure to find yourself, and to be a harmonious Individual instead of a Vraiyqullt' of other folks' qualities fitted in together Just anyhow. ' "Harmony spells beauty to you," I sug gested. "And melody," laughed Ann of the slm ply arranged red gold locks, eager blua eyes, slender upright figure and sympa thetic voice, all of which fit so well to gether. "1 like the melody of putting yourxclf in tune und expressing yourself and yourself only. That' my idea of beauty." :: Love Worth Having :: Langley's Airship By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. . When a clerk offers us something just as good" as a substitute for the thing we asked we generally decline, say ing. ''I want what I nsked for." If that applies to a. brand of preberves or a make of cloth, doe It not upply with greater force by far to the big things of life? But when It comes to love and friend ship many of us are pathetically willing to put, up with cheap substitutes for the things we asked for. We wem to pro ceed on th principle that something la better than nothing, even If the some thing la also something w do not really want or care for, and If nothing at least affords us a chance to fill our temivrrily empty lives with worth-while thing some day. Don't litter up your live with cheap substitutes for the things you really want. Don't fill every nook and cranny of your mind and heart with useless and unsat isfactory trifles. If you do, lo and be- hold, some day the big Uilntw of life will pass you by becuuso In your abporptlon In trifles you won't see them. In the matter of filling their existence with cheap substitutes for worth while thing, women ate far greater jf fenders than men. f,lrl seem to think that they !mii.t have beaux and attention and friends and good times. They can't ser enely contemplate fillinif up the years ray, from 17 to 21 or 2-wlth work and ueeful occuptlons and reading and out door exercise, tilrls have a desperate, feeling that Ufa and love and youth may all pass them by, so they fairly seize on all sorts of cheap cuohtttuteo for what they really want. There la nothing "just as good' as true friendship or real love, ("an you imagine anything taking the place of your mother s love? Is th re anything that day? Can you l equally comfortuble In a thin spring coat and In warm, furs in a December snow storm'.' All your knowlrge of the eternal verities of llf and nature tell you that you can not. Substitutes won't do when It comes to food and warmth and rest and happy family life. And substitutes won t do when It comes to love or friendship. Ii Iter be lonely for a lltle while ttian accept tho friendship of unworthy people who will not be loyal lo you, and association with whom will hurt your reputation. Better go for long years without lova than reconcile your self to accepting a cheap and tawdry sub stitute. By reconciling yourself to an un worthy love you dim your perception so that the real thing will pass you by un- I knowing and unknown or, won. still, I you will atarv your clamorous natura. By EIHiAR Ll'ClEN LARKIX. Samuel I'lerrepont I.angley, of I'ltts- burgh, I'a., Invented and made the first heavier-than-Hlr flying niuchlne. lie worked out the scientific laws of aero plane. The machine was not successful In flight; the aged Inventor could not handle it, and he became depressed dur ing the remaining years of his life. I was present and heard IanKlcy de liver his address as president of the American Association for the advance ment of science. John A. Brashear wbh present alito, and he visited 1-os AiiKclei In February, W14. He told me of his bo Ing with Ianglcy In his last Illness. Ho scarcely left the room, wanting to be with Ills friend from their boyhood days. Brashear, on this visit, to'd me that he held the hand of Iingley at the t'me of death, and that the great scien tific genius really died of a broken heart. Brashear Is the most accurate scientific Instrument maker In the world the "mil lionth of an Inch man." Ingley toiled during twenty years and so well discovered tlv laws of nature ruling heavter-than-alr machines thut no new law bus been discovered since. Now. lilen Oil tins has made a successful light In this very machine of I.angley. Thla Is a historic event. The first machine is sucessful. Usually man falls at first and makes a' new machine; hut here the first has proven Itself! Would that I-anglcy could have lived to see this machine soaring'- It is said that congress would not ap propriate sufficiently for LhiikIcV. Money was always forthcoming for instruments of death, but not for airships in their beginning. Ha'l congress helped l.angley and his workers, oeyond doubt tlu- Atlantic ocean would have been cp'Sscd by aeroplanes before this. iJut LnKley, by this Might of Curtis In the original machine, is at once in cluded in the roll of fifty a hie, to add to the sum of human knowledge. At such times Venus Is only about 'X, OOO.OoO miles awav from us, or a little morn thun a hundred times the distance of tho moon. This is lO.onn.OOD miles nearer 111 un Mara ever gets, and It were not for tho fad that when Venus Is nearest she turns her dark hide toward tho earth she would, at such times, blar.e so splendidly to our eyes that her appearance would be ab solutely alarming to the unprepared spec tator. Venus is a planet of mystery even more decidedly than Mara. There Is something about her surface or her atmosphere which enabled her to reflect the sum's light with the most blinding brilliance, the consequence being that one of the hardest tests of telescopic observation Is furnished by the effort to determine Just what the state of her surface Is. Some astronomers think that we never do see the real surface or Venus, but only that of tho shell of cloudy atmosphere sup posed to envelop her. On the other hand, the studies of Prof. Iouell and his usslslanta Indicate that the sin face of Venus Is rather that of n sul, burnt desert then of u moist, cloudy world, and that the unln-ai ahln brilliance of Its lifcht In Hie telescope is due to the blaze of reflected sunshine from baie sandy or rocky wastes. A still more extraordinary fact (It It bo a fact) which the Investigations of Iowell and of Chlaparell before him, have re- could satisfactorily bo substituted for j "1 ""mo d,y ',llt 11 -omes eoms and your eight hours of sleep a night? Is a cako of chocolate of an ice cream soda adequate to take the place of anood, hot savory stew at noon on a cold winter's For Dandruff, Falling Hair or Itchy Scalp 25 Cent Danderine. . If you cars for heavy hair, that glistens with beauty and is radiant with Ufa; has an Incomparable softness and is fluffy and lustrous, try Danderine. Just on application doubles the beauty of your hair, besides it Immediately dis solves every particle of dandruff; you can not have nice, heavy, healthy hair If you have dandruff. This destructive scurf robs the hair of Its lustre, its strength and Us very life, and if not overcoipe . it produces a fevertshness and Itching of the scalp; the hair roots famish, loosen' and '- b"" the hair falls out fast If your hair has ben neglected and la thin, faded, dry, scraggy or too oily, get a 2 cent bottle of Knowlton'a Danderine at any drug store or toilet counter; apply a little as directed and ten minutes after you will say this was the best investment you ever made. We sincerely believe, regardless of everything else advertised, that if you desire soft, lustrous, beautiful hair and lots of it no dandruff no Itching scalp and no more falling hair you must use Knowlton's Daiv If eventually why not nowT then there are death and destruetioa and devastation lo pay In a few hearts, Most ef U4 are capable of appreciating the itenuins article when w gr pep intttea (a observe it, And many ef ua an In melt a hurry tu gsasp at shbuows thai we are othorwlsa riguged when itiilitua Btima up way. Don't aeeept elieaa substitutes far lev ana liiuiidBlup, Wait uatil ha ra thing 'in tu nu, Tlrt U nothing iu fauod ga what ia bst,( i( yuuf nature SdUd, piirt wliic:l U may flxiuuHd turns duy n j . ,, i,e htbuaHl m a fnupaa Kt Ububfifrwth ud laagia af hOs Masked tka Boat. ', wa.; in (he furnet Wools sack that siau Mi-.Vv . wt. lot almost 16, ' ?.y hour thrir-t va allowed be crQUuj; "lev te "nl oen uua 1. , I . 1 neniy tn' tlrv Sf-utch OVerlir.sr.S '.: I r. he n-red the nin'ttiiif'staiV Shotted. a Wr.eve" rtci the Uut,-imi.n "Right lurV n.-tui'.itd the oiW boat. And ric'.n'rni: 'n :.' --. , - sM of his c-raf-t. "I cut ? "notch r'ght' where she went Tvei-."J-Clnuiniatr Com mercial Tribune, vealed is Ihnt Venus has lost nearly all Its axlnl lotatiou, so that it now man ages to turn only once on Its axis in the roiirse of its year, which Is 22T of our days long. This means that on Venus there Is no Interchange of dny and night as there Is upon the earth, but that one half of tho planet lies In perpetual sun shine -and the other half In unending night. If this be the true stnte of nffalrs the condition of Venus, considered as an In habited world. Is In the highest degree amazing. If we suppose both of Its hemispheres to he Inhabited then It must contain two races' of beings almost diametrically opposed to each other In their physical characteristics. I The Inhabitants of the hemlepheie where ieretual dny reigns niui't be Inured to a degree of lien! mil light Intolerable to us unless, and this Is physically quite pos sible, tin le he something In, the composi tion of the atmosphere wlrfu redures the effects of both the light and heat coming from the sun. If there Is no such reduction then they lire, on the nverape, twice as Intense as upon the eorlh. And not only that, but the glare and blase nre continual, slm o the sun, as we have seen, never sets on that half of the planet, from which It Is visible. Moreover, tremendous storms and overwhelming floods may prevail there. On the other, or night hemisphere, the Inhabitants, supposing any to exist, must bn organized to resist a degre of Mld greater than prevails anywhere upon the earth, and that, too, continual. But hr again there may be an ulmospherlo ad just nii-iil which ameliorates conditions which seem lo our experience altogether insupportable. Another thing that the Inhabitants of the unillumlnated hemisphere muat be organised to endure la the total absence or daylixht. They are so situated, how ever, that their sky Is probably always cloudless, so that their endless night Is not a very dark one, sines they have Mia full light of the stars. Our earth, too. must l.e an Important source of Illumi nation to them at such times of the ysar as it shines in their mid-heavens, for Its light must be sufficient to cast a distinct shallow. We might guess that the nlght slde people of Venus were beings with huge eyes and covered with natural furry coats. The accompanying pictures show soma of the effects of the predlrament that Venus Is In since the loss of most of Its rotation, and slso the remarkable nature of its surface, which may contain moun tain of almost unimaginable elevation, amounting In one case. It has been cal culated, to no less than forty miles, or right times the altitude of the loftiest mountain on our globe. But It Is likely that something else has been mistaken for a mountain In this esse perhaps great white cloud. Do You Know That In Jerusalem there are neither policn mcn, postmen, street lamps nor news papers. While the population of France In creased in 1913 by 41, M; that of Germany by about Sno.flnO. The fishing Industry In Krigland and Walra employed 37,442 men and lo s regularly In 1913. A project has been started at Winni peg, Canada, for the manufacture of starch from potatoes. The risk of being struck by lightning Is estimated to be five times greater in the country than in cities. There ars no tradea or guilds In Ice land, every man being cwnixdli-d to de pend upon his own skill for his supplies. The natives make their own shoes, shoe their own horses and manufacture their saddles. A few artisans are found In the capital for example, a bookbinder, s jeweler aail others. wsm Feel Well and You'llWorkWell "Feeling Fit" depends on that morning cup of coffee more than you euspect Old Golden Coffee gives you a pleasant exhilara tion that makes the world seem brighter and your labors lighter. Try one pound of Old Golden Coffee in the air-tight, moisture proof, sealed package, if you like genuine coffee goodness. At your grocer's, steel cut ground or in the whole bean for those who have a coffee grinder at home, as you prefer. TONE BROS., Des Moinea (EstahluUd 1873) Mdlcri of th Famous Tonm Bros. Spicm TONE'S Old Golden Coffee