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THK mVr. OMAHA. MONDAY, OCTOBEK 12. 1H14. -TnL TG ' -0 Familiar Varieties of the 3. "Know-It-All" 3k By DOROTHY DlX. I ' " Be very careful, my dour child. s you Journey through the, highway and by wsys of life, to avoid the "know It all." Thla In the more easily done because you will observe every body elae making a strenuous effort to sidestep thla affllrt I iix beaut. When you rote an otherwise pleasant and attrac tive looking crea ture flocking by It sctf be warned and approach not too near II, for the chance are that it will prove to be a know It all." T h I t species of boie is found In ev ery country where the foot of man has yet penetrated, and It has done more than religion and philosophy to reconcile us tothe shortness of life, for who could wish to remain In the iale of tears when he is tortured by one who knows It all and tells It with Its tireless mouth. There la an almost endless variety of different species of the Know It All, but they ail have, the same general charac teristics. They have large, swelled heads, abnormally long tongues and cast Iron nerve, a mania for bulling Into things that Is bod of their business, and a vanity that makes them perfectly miser able when they have not attracted public attention ta themselves. To hear -anyone make a statement, no matter how trivial, act! upon the Knew It All like waving a red flag before a mad bull. It ceases It to throw a species of fit and foam at the mouth, aa It falls at once upon the luck less Individual and rends him limb from limb. Among the most common and most ferocious species of the Know-It-All Is the variety known as the I-Told-You-Ro. This fearsome bore la always only too plentiful, but Just at present the country Is overrun with It. 1 This la always the case, however. In presidential years, and Is the main reneon why there la a growing sentiment in favor of extending the term of the presi dent to eight years. One of the peculiarities of the I-Told-You-So Know-Ifc-All Is that It lays very at ill until after an event baa happened and then It springs up and begins Its unholy chortle that drives men to drink. It to hard enough to have to listen to this soul-devaatatlng sound when the matter does not concern anyone more than whether Taft or Bryan was elected, hut It becomes excruciatingly painful when one has to alt and contemplate one's owa blunders and mlatakea the while thla hideous monster feeds on one's vitals. Tet nobody escapes, and probably nobody ever lost their money In a fool speculation or bought a gold brick In the matrimonial market without an I-Told-You-fck Know-It-All bobbing up and taking a few nips t him. Another dangerous species of the Know-Jt-All la the corrector. This mean little beast, which la closely allied to the Skunk family, lies In wait until you make an assertion or tell a story, and then with a shriek of delight It Jumps In with both feet. "Pardon me," It chortles . as It proceeds to make mlnoe meat of what you have Just said, "But you are entirely mistaken about Weatmlnater Abbey being located In London. It Is located In Hal ted street, Chicago, two blocka from the Flat iron building, as you would know If you had ever read the historical works of the famous German author, Wtifpgan brauer Pardon me, also, for correcting your statement that Ulysses 8. Grant was a great general; on the contrary, he was the author of those tender lines that have so often brought the tears to eur eyes. Throw Him Down, McClus ky.' " Quit as afflicting as the Corrector la the variety of Know-lt-All that la called the Accurate. This bores you to death by amending everything you say. Its methods are feline. It watches you aa a rat does a mouse, until you make some trivial statement that does not matter In the least, and then It pounces upon you. and sinks Its fangs Into you. Tou aay that you saw Jan on Wednesday after noon. "Tou ar mistaken." gurgles the Accurate Know-It-All. aa It begins to snjoy itself.' "It was five minutes before 1 o'clock that you saw her." You say that you paid a couple of dollars for your gloves. "Excuse me," says the Ac curate1 Know-It-All. "you paid a dollar and ninety-five cents." Tou aay that there waa a bunch of Jolly folka over at the Smiths' laat night, and you had a bully tint. The Accurate Know-lt-All re counts the names fcf every on who was present, what they said, what they had on. what they ate and drank In weari Here's the Latest, the Ju-Jitsu Dance Jllus-tratino; What is Facetiously Known as the "Kick-Little-Mnry Stop" Why America Should Now Lead in Deautv Cultart and Fathioni Part S some detail, until you fall In a faint of exhaustion to the floor. The female of the Accurate Know-It-AI1 variety of bore la sometimes known as th School Ma-am, and Is far more dreaded than any other known variety. Thla one In particularly to be avoided by those who carry split Infinitives about their person. These latter varieties of Know-It-All belong ti what may be called domestic eNte, and it is said to reflect that there Is no fireslile, howsoe'er well guarded, but one of these afflicting creatures la almost sure to I there. Msny are the heartrending tales that are told of th suffering of some unsuspecting, warm hearted man, or some sweet and Innocent woman, who all unknowing of the awful fat they were about to encounter, mar ried and went to their new home, only to find i Correstfir or an Accurate Know-It-All waiting to nun them the minute they put foot within the rioor. Sometimes, after enduring the agony as long as they could, the escape and flee to the divorce court aa to) a temple of rr(unr. but for the most part ' they simply sink Into untimely graves. I When you see a worried looking man, who sits up ss silent aa a clam when his i wlfo la present, and Is the life of the i puny wnen she In absent, you may be ' sure that he is being preyed upon by a domestic Curie. tr, who nudlta hie i grammar, and sits !u Judgment on the ! way he eats, and w hen you nbnerve a j pale, crushed woman, with a frightened expression In her eyes, you may rest' connaetit thnt the 1-Told-You-So Know-It-All la sapping her very life blood. As a general thing, the Know-It-All atnlka Its prey wherever It can. but Its favorite hunting placo Is In the theater and the opera. Then It licks Its chops, and with a loud roar and an utter disre gard for everybody present. It aeixea upon a half dosen people nearest to it, and gorgea Itself by telling the plot of the play ahead of ech act, passing Its opinion on the actors and laying down the law on dramatic criticism. After which. If It happens lo be at the oner with fiendish cruelty it proceeds to hum every air along with toe singer on the stage. Nothing has been done ss yet to abate this nuisance, but it la understood that a bill is to be Introduced into the next leg islature offering a large bounty for the acalps of the theatrical Know-It-All. Further facts: A very larre and fully developed sped men of the Know-It-All has been roam ing around the country of late. On Its right shoulder It was branded T. R. It's a queer thing why the people who could hav told us all along how a thing waa going to turn out never do tell us until It has already happened. Kvery man Is an oracle to himself. Th world Is full of peoDl. with -rood hind eight. What we need la a few more people with good fore alght. The critic on the hearth is love's chief grave digger. None are so tedious as those who re st with accuracy an Infinitude of tin. Important details. Better a swift told He that goes to the Point, than a dreary ma.-s of statistics that never gets anywhere. .In-Htmi aa a dance form Ml ry Hhilllng and Mr. F. A. Ieolle In "Jn-no-kata," at the Kmplif, l.onlon. Th kick movement A step rather risky After aupper. mmeBmm mmA Www.''.Wssy ,js.ie--:-"cl ' - "4 . g iAVrP'''-Vt''' ' "'Ty' '.-;t '- .-i:..a&.'. .-ir - .. i : 1 Prescribed by doctors for nineteen yean. Advice to Lovelorn Maay Points f Behavior. - - - ..ii. jvi inn iiic some games that will be nice, to play at m rH, in v lima giria ana ooya irom l.'i i ; wnii snouid a girl aay for yes when a boy aska her If he may escort her homeT la It sny harm to dance.? If a person gives a birthday party and has a birthday cake with candlea In it. should you out it While th guests are there, or wnatT la It proper or not to aay, 'excuse me" when yoii are through eating and leave the table when at homeT What should a girl say when a boy asks her If he may hav her company? ANXIOUS. I do not make a practto of recommend ing game for people of any age. "Yes" la the only word In the English language that means yes; if you mean "no," aay Assent or dissent can be expressed f asnyii-sw. miiii. i.iiA :.v---nw-ta,,i. mi ..i ;yg.-l TM'i:. f -'jf-'XS'fTTWlX :3jS2!,rul I rT SfitaSI I -a I : :..ks &&'i&5r--Tri ' . -- '-.v. , j - v - ; Lsj.nh imi Ii MS III M III. iMSIXSilln IHIilsilisjSMlBSSMiiililsin 1 1 si si as s n iliBMisaisms saw in" I T im n m 1 1 T if 1iiilfsfn T TiT r"nrirTTs ' 'TTWITf W When dress art in America Is so de veloped that It is the eual of that which has been brought from E'nope let lis hope thst American women will see the Justice and ad- van t a g e of adopting It. For many years this fetish for things Kuropean has had ; reeson . able basis: h young country : In which the ! Btruggle for ina i terlal existence j was the chief factor in de i velopment. was : quite right In i accepting artistic guidance from the old world. But for two generations now' ; foreign tinvel has been general and a certain amount of foreign education an accepted part of all American rt train tug. ! Aside from this all commercial design ers, ouyers, business men connected with ! the producing of all higii clas goods, go ; to Kuropr. not yearly, but In some case. ' monthly, so closely has the connection become between the two countries. This ; hes resulted In a broad dissemination of European ideas in this country, which, i grafted on our American Activity and en ' terpriNc. should make America the equal of any country In the producing of ele gant and high class goods. .American silks have long been noted for their eocd wearing qualities and lasting i rohas. They are freer from adulteration 1 tt-.an many of the European lines anil, j otic the demand :s created, there Is no reason why American factories cannot, i produce fabrics In the most beautiful de i signs. And this Is true of most of the materials of which modern costttmea are ! made up. j There are esthetic reasons, too. why I the ' American woman would do well to ' entourage a national dresa art. The i American woman's mode of life is differ- pnt from that of the Kuropean; It is more I a. tivc. freer; she has more household ami i misinem responsibilities n lcl : neceesariiy should take on a more prac tical character. Being physically of a different tyiw from the French woman, gowns that take this quality into account suit her the ! best, and these are best furnished her : In America. Our climate is different from that in ; France. Wp have extremes of heat and (cold that call for a particular kind of I costume. The French who find "chic" In daring oontraata have often worn fur trimmed gowns in summer and tulle in ! winter to good advantaee, but the effect is lost here and only becomes ridiculous. These are only a few of the many reasons to suppose that America stands ready and able to produce dress designs and fabric up to the highest standard of taste and fashion. (To Be Continued.) The Frog-March as a dance movement "A well-placed knock iu the ntnill of the bark." Nursing the fatted ealf The next step after the kick "little Mary." Mysteries of Science and Nature Why It is Cold On a High Mountain, Although the Heat Comes from the Sun, and the Mountain Top is Nearer the Sun Than is the Vnlley below. ! shun to find in reel life, wont It, deer? i Ma anked her. H will be eesy to find i enuff men that is 2-4 brute. A quite a ! few that ft 3-3 brute, but It la hard in ' reel life to find one who Is part brut It part dreemer. Dreemers is usuany su dreems & no strength. I know Is is a rare tip, sed Ma's frend. atua waa rested and ready to do its work ; her nalm la Miss Vane, but you are to again. i bear in mind that this hero Is a rare And the very aamo type of treatment may he applied to jealousy. hero. First I thought I wud maJK him the captain of a sailing vessel, then By CAIIKKTT P. BKUVISS. no. In many different ways, and exactly what to say depends altogether under the cir cumstances tinner wnicn it is to do saiq. ' poesn t It seem Pome people consider dancing very harm- natural that If ful; others do not. I think It a harm- th heat comes less and pleasing form of amusement. ' txvm the sun It Cut th rake after the randies have beenj should Increaae th extinguished, and gtv arh guest a piece. ! MtLnx we get to It ts quit proper to say "excuse me ; i,, ,un7 y.t av when leaving the table at home; nowhere j ators will tell you should you be more considerate of the feelings of others than In the home cir cle, and It pays to be polite wherever you are. Tell him yes or no, as you feel Inclined. "If our heat comes from the sun, why Is It that as we ascend high mountains w come to eternal snow at the summit, whll in the valley below perpetual sum mer Is reigning? -e -h 1 J" ..:- l ,,r mm Heal your skin will' Resinol NO matter bow lone you bava been tortured ni disfigured by itching, burning, raw or scaJy skla humors, just put a little of that soothing, antiseptic Resinol Ointment on the aoree and the suffering stop right there! Healing bgina that very min ute, and in almost every case your skin geta well so quickly you feel ashamed of the money you threw away on useless treatments. Haeiaal Otatasaat and Bssiaai Boas ar at by ail Aruss-Ma Obey Yoar lHotkex. Pear Miss Fairfax: I am a girl of 17 and I am desperately In love with a young man five years my senior. He has told me he loves me many tlmea, and he aeenis to very much. My mother strongly oblects to his love fir me and mine for him, but she still lets me go wilh him. Please let me know would you marry lilm without roother a consent, or part? PATIENT. Your mother la right. Tou are not yet old enough to Judgre for yourself In thla most serious matter. Whatever you do. do not forfeit or destroy your mother's confidence end trust in you. Tell her all. and do not think of getting married scorched the skin. The hard snow, a tlon of heat. It Is transferred from the But th air Is It Is less dense their gasoline will freeso If they go too high. A 8teady Header, Chicago." The aunshine Is, Intrinsically, a lit tle hotter on a mountain top than In-the valley beneath, riuch colder because than some thousands of feet below. The atmosphere acts as a trap for the heat derived Irom the sun, playing for all the lower earth the same part that the gardener's hothouse plays for his plant. The density of the air falls off so rap idly that at a height of about five miles the attnoepher la only liulf aa dense as at th" earth's surface. Through the light, rare air on a mountain the sun- very poor conductor of heat, waa a white shield, from which the blinding sun beams glanced off like billions of tiny arrows. The sunbeams are not heat, but only the cause of heat. They are vtbratlona In the ether that fills all spar (accord ing to th accepted theory), and which have been set going by the agitation of the molecules of excessively hot gases constituting the globe of the sun. These vibration, taking the form of mlnuta waVes, are radiated from the sun in all directions, with a speed of 186.300 miles per second. Some of the ether waves, on reaching the earth, produce the sen sation that we call light, by their Impact upon the nervous background of our eyes. Others, on coming Into collision with the substances constituting the earth and Its etnmsphere, produce. In the mol ecules of those substances, a kind of agitation like that which prevails in the molecules of the sun, and which, as Juxt said, causes the waves In the ether. This molecular agitation generates the senna- sun to the earth somewhat aa your voice la transferred to your friend's ears by a telephone. On Its way from the transmitting Instrument to the receiver, the telephone message Is not a voice, or a series of sounds, but a set of electric vibrations that have been produced by a voice and that can be reformed Into a voice on reaching their destination. So the waves of radiant energy sent out from- the sun are not heat, but have been set going by heat in tho sun ana can be transformed Into heat again on encountering tho earth. When the sunbeams fall upon anybody capable of absorbing them In measur able quantity, they give rise in that body to the molecular agitation called heat, and thlt again sets up waves In the surrounding ether, wheh, In thlr turn, produce heat In other bodies that they meet. Rare air absorbs very little of the energy of the sunbeams; dense and vapor-laden air absorbs much mora; solid bodies absorb more still, but In va rious quantities depending upon their constitution. Pon t strain your badly focussed eyes i I thought that wud be too much like by keeping them fixed on the things for ' one of Jack London's stories, so I have which you might as well envy Susan deeslded to malk him a bralkman on a Brown. Keep your tender feellnga out of . frenght train. the cold blast of wondering If the person j A freight bralkman wuddent have you love makes you a due return for much time to be a dreemer, sed Pa. The your feelings or likes someone else be- I railroad cumpanlca doant want dreemers yond all deserving. And don't feed your ! to turn thar switches. , poor emotional indigestion on scraps of x Newer-the-lees, sed Miss vane, this suspicion flavored with the paprika of , hero in my novel ts to be Jest what I what some spiteful gossip has Insinuated aed. a freight braikman. It is settled in about your best beloved. You don't have to sit around and brood cn how abused you are, do yoj? Nothing compels you to try to catch the people you like In unfaithfulnes to you. There Is no force that Impels you to try to trap your friends into admission that are dam aging to their standing in your affec tions. You don't have to cynically re mark that you "wouldn't trust the best man or woman on earth," do you? You do not. You can get into the habit of choosing sunshine instead of shudow. You can put a smile on your lips and this sentence In your heart: "My friend says he loves me. He would not say It if it mere not true. I am going to believe that in love and trust In it more and more ell the time." Just don't even acknowlege t your self that there Is such a poison weed In all the garden of life aa jealousy, and you can probably think it light of existence! 0 The Green-Eyed Monster 0 without her consent. You owe something beams pvnetrate wun utile onsiruction, Uo her who bore you and nursed you and and the air Itself remains cold, but in reared you that can only be repaid by loving kindness, and it would b a wrong you could never undo It you were to wed without her sanction. Let Her Ala. Dear Vlss Fairfax: A few months ago 1 met a girl In a different town whom I . took out several limes to amusement places. The last time 1 was going down to se ber I asked her permission by writing and I waa refused (very coldl. hinu then I spok to ber twlo tnsld of two months, although I sm In her neighborhood often. A friend of mine kmW8 her well and I would ltks to know whether it would be right for me to call at her house without asking her permission and give his regards to her tih has no telephone, and I would not writ. B. M Let her alone. Why should yon pester the girl, after sti has very plainly showu you she does not car for you? If you care for her, and wish her to car for you, you will make a far better Im presalon by acting the manly part, and l-t i h., ftnt am, fnm hAMir m Kb t i - ' w, .. . . . . . ' ! she has lot la you-t ths valleys, where the air Is both much denser and raor charged with vapors and Impurities, th sunbeams axe com paratively obstructed, and the air ab sorbs a great desl of heat from them. Thus th lower air serves as a blanket, accumulating en4 retaining th heat If you are on a lofty mountain, like Mont Blanc, with eternal snow all about you, the sunshine burns like a blister; but the heating effect is superficial, be cause, owing to th rarity of th air, th heat is radiated away again Instantly. without obstruction. Thla la why th snow does not melt If th air lylni upon th snow were dense. It would absorb and retain the heat, and the snow would b melted, as It Is la ths valley. Th fiercest sun-heat thst I hav ever exnerlenced was on the top of Mont IUanc, wher the snow (so deep that M Janssen could find no rock on which tr found ha observatory), la packed ss hard and crlup ss salt in a' bag. It was t the oppressive heat of the lower air. but a raking furnace breath that simply lly 11KATRICK FAIRFAX. In all the world there ts probably no characteristic that causes more unhap- plness than Jealousy. Jealousy ends friendships, destroys love and makes faith snd trust and confidence slink away from the knowledge of the human who ta guilty of Jealousy. Jealousy causes misery to the point of insanity and dictates all sorts of crimes. It destroys sll power of Judging and weighing things it makes it Impossible! to give the proper value to circumstances snd It magnifies trifles until they seem like events of the greatest importance. Jealousy I like a weed in a garden. And wher It is found other weeds spring to meet it. Take th case of a woman who Is Jealous of her husband. Sb rapidly be comes susplcloue and distrustful and her faith and confidence die and take all th fin flavor of love with them. Consider the girl who la Jealous of ber friends. 8he is likely to feel abused be cause they have more than ahe has. Bh Is embittered at th thought that some one she loves cares more for another friend than for herself sad so she goes through tho whole gamut of ugly emu I tlons till bitterness and envy have choked the garden of her nature with so many weeds that there Is no room for sweetness and fragrance and the bloom of a personality that is worthy of at tracting friendship. The jealous person Is always looktug for trouble. He rummages around to find faithlessness fnd 111 faith. He so persistently expects disloyalty that human nature la at last fairly hypnot ized Into giving' what is looked for. 'But what are you going to do about it, if you have a Jealous nature?" aks the possessor thereof. Well, what should you do about It it you had a tendency o tonsitttts or a weak digestion? Bit with folded hsndt, peering at print you could, not see, ot assiduously put yourself la drafts, or feed yourself on lobster and Ice cream and hot rolls? Not at all. For those ho' he ; some eyes you would consult an ocnl rv, you'd bathe the weak throat in cold water night and morning and avoid damtcr toots and you would live on a renkiWe diet until such time as your refractory digestive sppsr- Little Bobbie's Pa By lVTIXIAM F. KIRK. On of Ma's yung lady trends that bee longs to a lltery club with Ma calm up to th house last nit. She sed she Is rltelng a novel, & she was telling us about the kind of a man shs waa going to maik the hero. I thought it wud be best to maik him about 2-3 brute, ah sed, & the other third a dreamer, a ldeelist, a deep thinker. That will be a kind of hard combina- my mind, &. nobody cud chsnge my mind now, she toald Ps. 11 Is to be a tall, powerful, hanaum man naimed Jack Darndon, & he is to fall In love with th daughter of the President of the rail road, whom he salvs In a wreck car ries ten miles to a place of safety. At first sh does not know who her pre server Is, so she reeturns his luv, & he sees her often at the little farm hous war ahe Is con-vslslng. She wonders who he Is ft what be Is, he Is so ctronR & tall sc hansum, like a Greek god. . at last, one day after she has told him yes wen he asked for her hand, she asked him what he did for a living, only she dident put it that plain, ft he toald her he was a bralkman.' I hav sum vary pritty dialog there, sed Miss Vsne. It gose like this. Phlrley Dresden looked up ooyly. A soft evening seffer tossed a lit eurl on her white brow In the brlte moon lite. & yure life work? she asked shyly. I am a braikman, a freight bralkman, answered Darndon. A bralkman! she gasped. Yea, he replied, a trifle unsteddlly. & not even a passenger bralkman! ex claimed the fair gurL Not eeven that, lie answered sadly. Perhaps one day I shall reach that proud plnnaktl. Shirley Dresden shivered, as If f a win ter breese had struck her tcuy. You may go, sh sed simply. My dream la oaver. Not that! h cried hoarsely. Yes. that! was bersad answer. Go, Jack Darndon. ft every time you turn a switch think of Bhlrley Dresden, the gurl you duped! I doant know, sed Pa to Ma after Miss Van had went. I think Bhlrley Dresden was tb wlch did th duping. IA 3f"7C andeiibilt Xof cf j "WAXTOW st.MA-RPHALL, Hamate- An Ideal Hotel with an Ideal Situation Summer 'Twites