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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1914)
Tin: iw:i:: omaha. Friday, dkckmrkk 4, wu. o Hill 4 False Standards y MRS. lTtAXK LKARXKD. A clever and rllstiiiKulshed woman, who returned to this country, her native Innd, after years cf resilience abroad, after years of aoclntlon with the best that Is to be had In social life among cultivated nd intellectual people, win In dismay at the revelations of the false standards which' govern many persons In the land of her birth. The exploitation of "material things de pressed her. For Instance, she was pux sled and thoughtful when her friends, with an air of pride, pointed out the houses of multi-millionaires, or spoke fre quently of the fabulous possessions of this person or that. Pride of wealth seemed a dominating; toplo of talk and that prido of wealth not only was shocking In Its bad taste, but Injurious in destroying the fine sense of discrimination and pro jKjrtlon. With perfect good nature, but with straightforward rriticlsin, she exclaimed: "American women are Inclined to meas ure men by their power of harvesting wealth. They seem to bo under tho childish confusion of thought which con siders wealth as a personal' quality. Are there no persons of Importance or worth mentioning except financial magnates? Has America -no artists, authors, poets," thinkers?" Her friends demurred, hesitated, then confessed that people of that sort do ex ist, but have not a prominent place in the public mind. "The mania for money, progress, speed and prosperity is confusing the people," concluded the visitor. . "The mistake is made of regarding money as the end rather than the means to an end. The people are sacrificing high ideals of per fection and should strive for more sim plicity. They would be happier for It." The impressions of another American woman are Interesting. Her life, slnco her marriage, haa been spent chiefly In Italy and of late years in England. Sli bears a famous name. In her visits here, from time to time, her astonishment and distress have been expressed at the ma terialism of lffe in her native city, the commercialism which has thrust itself everywhere and pushrd homes aside, ro that people must take up their I-eres and Penates and establish themselves else where. I The tumult, confusion, rush, hurry and drive in which people live disturbed her. There was no leisure. Bhe observed that the expression of the faces of those she met indicated a lack of repose of mind and soul. Whether they were passers-by in the street, or those whom she met tn society, most faces showed that lives arc filled too full with a multiplication of activities and are, in consequence, fur from being serene. And she said, regretfully; "I find that so little time is given to reading and less time to thinking. People live in a whirl and believe themselves to be well em ployed. Borne pleasure, excitement, fad jr charitable enterprise keeps them busy, r all of these tilings combined in a lay must go on unceasingly. "Life is made complicated by the dotrrg at things, not because there is an ex-: (icctation of much pleasure or Interest In mem, -not because they are even liked, but because other people are doing them. There does not seem to be a be lief that books, art and musio are sources of quiet enjoyment. Kven when people realize this truth, there ia no time :o do more than skim over the surface it things. "L'nless there are chosen resources' In everyone's life and unless leisure Is made for turning to them, much that Is beauti ful and noble la lost, as well as much that Is Joyful and consoling. The King Reads 4 y - 3 A BOOK POD TttEv lWIG book be5 been noede for book of becity evnd &ri To the good kind's eyes A sno'ile sbeJI rise - flidin the &cbe in bis bzerl - n.d intbe hart &odthcz 4ricf A I i I II I i 'x.ciN-v' m.-jt'.'ii lis. A book h&s hzeo rnede forlraKn, A hnok of h cod nri of b Mht V 'p. To the Greed Kins eyi Tbevt will blevst and wither csnd Xgs, smitcz with just God'5 r As he tarns it , pevge by pge. Ella Wheeler Wiko .JP'T, : IKsF', iT V: : .-'Wii V ' . 1 " " X V -l.KW. .7.V.111 'n' Vi. ' I ,t r. " the king; lfc 'imm'A ' - ?3 Does It Pay Women to Be Modest? 1 AmL:. x . siksvww -5 . waxm- 3fcnit$fr!. i, 'SSi?- -s M:,,. awzM" . r " ' ' ' ' 1 ' 1 , , , 1 - j By DOROTHV DIX. WlaaidC Rrsi in Everyilung frrsr in Quality Fint in Rendu Firtt in Purity Fint in Economy and for these reasons Calumet Baking Towder is first in the hearts of the million of housewives who use it and know it. RECEIVED HIGHEST AWA1DS WwU's r f mi Iikw. CkK. Uhmmrn. Pra Liftiitm. Fnscs, sWck, UU. I'v-'.f f ,r.t .- f ,,s.,..;f ,,, - - - 3 powdpr). iLUMlEf OT BAKING I get a great many letters from girls asking the question, "Does It pay to be modest?" Almost universally they answer their own query in the . negative. They say that unless a 'rtrl will permit familial. Itles from the young men with whom she associates she Is left beauloss, or, as erne woman plthllly puts it, "Unless a . girt will let her escort kiss her good night it .la , good night for hers, foe she'll never see him again." Other letters assert that a girl has to be a good sport, and not too particular, If she expect to re ceive any attention from men nowadays; and still other let ters ask pathetically if there are no mora men who care for modest, shy, retiring girls. . - Queer comment Is afforded on these letters by another letter which I received the other day from a man who says that the reason that. he and many other young men, do not marry. Is because they can find np more modest girls. This man declares that he is on the search for a shrinking violet sort of a ' wife, as Diogenes was on the search for an honest man, but that so far he had never found a girl with whom he could not take liber ties of speech and action, and so he re mains a bachelor. Here are the masculine and the femi nine points or view on the same subject, and it la an illuminating one for girls. It shows one of the least admirable of man's dealings with women, and that la the fact that a man will deliberately lead a woman into doing the very thing that he condemns her for doing. Also it shows a thing that experience has tauht every older woman, but that no Ignorant young giri knows, and that la that practically every man she meets puts her character through a eort of third degree tt. see how much she will stand. A men, for instance, will urge a girl tu drink, to takt Just a little cocktail, or a glass or two of champagne, or to have one more highball, and then he will peak of her with blighting contempt and aay. "None of that drink sltfTT for the girl I marry." A man will tell a girl off colored stories, and loathe her for laugh ing at them. He will use every art. and wile, and persuasion to Induce hsr to kiss him. and suspect her because aha does. Girls don't understand this. They se that the loud, free-and-ay eort of young women who put no restraint upon men. alwaya seem to be having a grand good time. They see hordes of men swarming around Blowslhella. and hear of hsr go. lug to this place and that place, and they think that her recipe for attracting men must be the right one. So. although avery fiber of their shrink ing maiden souls revolts at a caress from an unloved band, or the touch of coarse Hps. they feel that they mustn't "be too "nice" or sgueaniUh, or old maldlsh, or else they will be Kft as wall flowers and receive no attentluns from men. 8uoi .girls crucify their modesty to gain popu larity. f ... ' ; ; They cheapen' themselves because they are under the misapprehension that men only want bargain prices feminine society, wl'ille all the time what the roan la look ing for, and hoping to find. Is a girl who is a pearl above price, one ao rare, ao fine that she is worth all he haa to give, and more. The girl doea not realize that the very man who la tempting her la Just trying out her strength of character. Just testing her loyalty to her Ideals, and that In his heart he may really be praying that she will resist him, and renew his faith in the essential purity and goodness of womanhood. , rossibly there are cases where the vil lain still pursues innocent virtue, but such Instances are as rare aa hen's teeth. There la nothing that the ordinary man so re veres aa goodness and modesty In a woman, and when he sees a girl who wants to ro straight, ha la not only will ing to help her. he la ready to defend her against other 'men If necessity arises. Girls make no greater mistake than whan they think that men do not care for modesty In a. woman. It is the one quality they value above sll others, and If they want proof of this let them look about them and sea how seldom do they marry the Blowsibelta girl with whom they drink, and gamble, and swap double entendre Jokes. Not until men prefer the sunflower to 'the violet, the full blown rose to the bud, the bruised peach of the dusty street stall to the peach with the down still upon it, will they prefer the good sport girl to the modest girl when they come to pick out their wives. Modesty pays, girls. It pays In your own self-respect, and tt pays In the ad miration that It commands from men. Men are looking for modest girls to marry, and they are finding It difficult to discover them In this age of decollete clothea and manners. . Science for Workers lty EDGAR MCIKX LiARKIN. Q. "I read that the principle of the Plesel International combustion engine Is: The upstroke of the piston condenses air in the upper portion of the cylinder until it (the air) baa taken approximately 1.0TO degreea of heat Fahrenheit. At this moment there Is Infringed upoa this superheated air. spraysd oil, denatured alcohol to bring about the power produc ing explosion. I also read that liguld air (which has an extremely low tem perature) ia also produced by compres sion. If these statements are correct, I am unable to reconcile them, and aak that you help out through The Bee." J. K. I., Ban Francisco. A. A matter of rates and consecutive state of heet In the air In the Pleaet engine cylinder. Air when compressed, become heated. If compressed In an exceedingly short time, the heat endures for a vtry short time; but therefore must be greatly concentrated that la, the air becomes momentarily very hot. Keep the pressure on the piston and the heat will radiste away. When the air in the cylinder assumes the' temperature of that In the room suddenly release the piston; the air will expand, force it out, but Instantly be comes muoh cooler. Work utilised the heat la the cylinder air, which at once descended to lower temperature than that of the room. Inclose air at great pres sure In a strong tube, compress air around this tube, suddenly release It; the ex pansion carries away heat and fool the Inclosed air. Koep It op and you may eool air until It becomes a frigid liquid In closed cylinder. g "If an automobile er motorTela maintains a speed of, aay, sixty miles an hour in hold It momentum on a Mo-foot saucer-shaped track with- a IS degree slope, would the same . machines hold their momentum on a mile saucer-shaped track with the aame 'slope, 75 degrees, and at same speed?" C. 11. Austin, Vnlon Oil Company, Kullerton, Cal. , A.-Yf. iu.mntum euuals nisss mul UWIp1 by iclocllj Advice to Lovelorn By sUaa.rmxoa -taxbtax , U Ue te Year Parent a. Dear Miss Fairfax: About two years ago I met .a young lady who later be came intimate with my sisters. I fell ill. Hearing of this, she came In and showed a great deal of affection for me. She called mc endearing names, petted my hair, etc. By this Urns 1 was deeply in love with her, and 1 suppose showed It plainly. My father noticed this and objected. He went to the girl's parents and quarreled with them. It enued with her parents having a very deep hatred for my father, which seema to be. the main reason fur their objection to me. Hlnce then our trouble began. Iter mother especially made hsr life so miserable that several times she threatened to take iir life. We have met pretty often, each time saying It was the last, but we were sure to meet again. We find that we could not give each other up. That is how mattera stand now. 1. K. Tour situation Is unfortunate, aa family quarrels that start over nothing are hard to straighten out I advise each of you to go to your parents and stats your feelings and aee If their excitability toward one another cannot be dismissed for tha sake of you- love. Perhaps the girl was a bit bold to come to see you and to treat you aa she did. but slnco your slater Is her friend and you were 111, there are mitigating circumstances If your parents realise that you are in love and Intend to marry I am aura your father will be willing to tell her parents that he ia sorry for what hs said, un less) It was based upon some known facts. Ile'a Ntrt Blacere. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young girl and considered good looking. A few years ago I kept steady company with a young man white he was here on his vacation, but when he went away ha did not even send me a card. This young man re turned last summer and I treated him aa though nothing had happened. We went together aaaia and he went away and haa not written since. Please tell me If you think he caree for me and advlbe me how to treat him If be returns sxaln and wishes to go with ms. ANXIOUb. . This young man aesma to consider you as a pleasant aummer acquaintance, and nothing more. Therefore, In sMf-dttfense, when he returns to your town, treat him merely ss an acquaintance, and U-t him show if he has more than a pasting re gard for . Don't Buy Ugly Dolls for Your Babies Hjr Arthur norkhain, A. K. W. H. Do not buy ugly toys and repulsive dolls for your little boys and girls. Children should be brought up among entirely beautiful surroundings. There is one doll In particular to which I have a' strong aversion. I mean the repulsive, red-nosed policeman. We have had more than enough of the red-nnso cult In the musio halls and else where, and to introduce such hldeousneaa "i j tm iai iwiiiunn vnuu- i llOOd With an lip-lv 1,1am frvtm whlnh U ' should be kept free. , Drunkenness under the ntoat charitable interpretation la a form of disease and a knowledge of diseaae la the last thing which we should wish to Instill Into young people. I know very little about children. My own little girl ia only 10 months old. At present the toys she haa are those which she can put In her mouth without fear of paint or wool coming off them. But I shall never surround ner with toys or dolls I consider ugly, for I know only too well from my own experience the Importance of early impressions. Whan I waa a ohlld tha furniture In moat houses waa In tha highest degree Inartistic, and such surroundings had their bad Influence on me. I remember when I waa about 26 years old being asked by my father to design a mirror. ,1 aimed at simplicity, but under the Influence of my childhood's Impressions produced only something ugly. Golliwogs and Punches 1 lok upon aa grotesque and not perhapa harmful, be cause the ohlld Is conscious that they are intentionally rotnlo, but I 'should pre fer to give my little girt a nice warm woolly bear aa being a representation of a natural creature. ; I'gly toys unfortunately lose their re pulslveneas for children if they become accustomed to such things from an early age so that soon they forget the ugliness, A.id it Is a bad thing when a child takes ugliness for granted, i Then there is this aspect of the ques tion. Little girls-and little boys aa wall use their dolls to cultivate the dramatle Instinct that all children possess. They live In a world of make-believe. And with dolls they try te make real tha stories that are read or told to them. The Trlnca Charming and Cinderella of Hie story are to be embodied In tc dolls, and for many yeara of their a' life they retain. Jin their minds picture of the hero or . heroine of 4 early days. it is because of the lasting qualitial the childhood tmpresnton, then, t those should be mada beautiful and i repulsive. ; Of course- animals are not necesaas ugly, and the erfeot on tha mind of t child depends largely on tha story that', woven round tha doll. t For Instance, In a fairy story, the go! fairy always gets the better of tk wicked fairy. As. the child knows thH there . is no harm in showing him picture or representation of a bad fairjl dark and ugly, but not deformed, ' , 1 1 1 Household Economy S i J 2 nw e ITave the Seat Cesujh 5 IS Ressedy aaul gave II tr 3 I staking It at Hesse 3 Couch medicines, as a rule contain a large quantity of plaiu syrup. A pint of granulated sugar with '.j pint of warm water, stirred for ' minutes, gives you aa Kod syrup as money can buy. Then pet from your druggist 2 ounces Pinex (M ctnta worth), pour into a pint bottle and lilt the buttle with sugar rup. 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