TITK BEE: OMAHA. "WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, WIS.
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Eugenics and "Obey"
By ItEV. MABEL M. JUHCIX.
Whatever mr ba said In favor f the
fnemogamio Meal of tnaniag which ob
tains today, on thin ! certain; It It
ran be shown that the Institution, as
such, either In form or content, places
motherhood under duress, then It must
re seen to be fundamentally wrong,
either In itself or In the understanding
rf the people to what the marriage
relation Involves.
We hear It said that all form of mar
riages throusrh the centuries, from the
crudities of the cave-dweller dragging
his bride to the seclusion of Mis cave to
the fashionable wedding and the "giving
away" of the bride of today, have been,
1n the main, for the purpose of hedging
bout with a wall of safety the weak
and dependent mother and her child.
. It Is said that these ceremonies, with
ever-Increasing complexity, have com
pel It J man to a. growing sense of ae
I countabtllty 'and responsibility for the
expression of his amatory habits of life,
that through and by marriage women
and the children they have borne have
received an ever-Increasing amount of
protection. ..
It Is said that marriage has always
been, primarily, for the sake of the
woman, and that today monogamlc mar
ringes Is the bulkwark not only of wo
man's virtue but of her economlo protec
tion a mother as well.
The ever-growing sense of responsi
bilityplaced upon the alioulders of the
men of the world by the men themselves
tells, however, but one-half of the facta
of the case, and that, too, , the most
tdent half. To the degree that man
has held himself, and to the children
born of their union, to the same degree
tliM he exacted or expected obedience
of them to his will. t
This has always been the price, de
manded, either actually or implied, by
litm for protection and support
Obedience of children ts a, sine que non
involved In the parental relation. While
women were rated mentally and morally
' as children obedience to their hubeands
as to their superiors seemed due. Man.
as the head of the family, ruled, and his
word was law.
But with the gradual acceptance by the
mind of the world that woman la some
thing more than a grown-up child; that,
rutentially at least, she is man's Intel
lectual equal, and emotionally mayhap
his superior, the obedience due man from
iyman in family life Is being seriously
challenged. Many are coming to sea
that woman's obedience la to a higher
court than man, especially in those mat
v lers for which tha word "obey" was
plainly put into our modern marriage
service. . .
. Just as the "hypooratio oath" is said
to have originated In tha deslra to pro
tect man from the publlo effects of his
Woes, so It would seem that that little,
word I'obey" was slipped Into tha service
U Insuro obedience of tha wife to her
hucband In things marital.
The higher tribunal to which woman."
tha mother of the race, now finds her
' lf responsible. Is tha race itself. The
awakening engenlo i conscience of the
world Is already demanding that woman.
inhumanity's gateway, shall aland guard
In such manner, that nothing unworthy
. or -'unfit shall find entrance. To woman
. In a far greater degree than to man do we
look for humanity's redemption from
" racial Impurity. .
But until woman, under the marriage
covenant, feels that it la her right at cer
tain times to disobey man, and thereby
- 'obey God all the more" that. In fact,
between the married there Is no ques
tion of obedience whatsoever, at any
time aha will fall t o her duty either
to the famjly or to the race.
It la not sufficient to aay that In many
modern marriages the word 'obey" Is
omitted by request f rom the ceremony.
Its baneful influence etll! remains, after
ward to be felt by the sensitive mind of
tho wife, or expectant mother. This is
strong enough, like tha fabled evil eye,
, .to make with her all Um flowers that
( promised , to bloom in their garden of
' love, when the bride with wistful trust,
let fall- softly from her Hps the words.
"i win."
Net only woman but man' must come
to see that Ideal marriage ia a matter
of sex equals,, not of superior and In-
frlA jtftt.AM.l-- .1--
" ihcj m were no upwara
or evolutionary trend. If it were true
tha tha man must always mate down
ward, while It Is left to the woman only
to mat upward, the race would be held
static, and progress would be Impossible.
But slnca it Is with equals, though dif
ferent, that they mate, each important in
its contribution to the offspring, there
has been an upward climb, as wlthuees
our raca today. . .
It may be seen, therefore, that the dif
ficulty lies not In monogamlc marriage
as such one man and one woman Joined
during . llfo-but a misunderstanding of
what tha relation really Involves.
The doing away of tbls misunderstand
ing, and the In-bringing of a truer end
a higher. Is no mean task. It is one to
which all who have the welfare of the
race at heart may well set themwlves.
by precept and example,, to accomplish.
Something for a Man with "a Sweet Tooth" gLlg
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For tha man' who has a leaning; toward the dessert pad of the
dinner who gives the potatoes and steak a nod, true enough but
whose eyes beam and wander toward the plum pudding with the
golden sauce rippling over It who, when he cooks In camp,' slaps
out the earthy things of bacon and hot cakes whose perfection
every one else Is tender over but 'hovers and lingers patiently and
artfully over the making of wild gooseberry pie at the finish for
the man with the sweet, tooth here something In the same class
with sweetmeats and fig pudding and raspberry pie, with clotted
cream of Devonshire lying on It like a summer cloud (sounds like I
lean that way but did you ever eat that list?) --a bunch of girls!
May It (this picture) give you a few minutes' delight. There's
an Irish girl for them that like 'em, with dusky hair like a rain cloud
spraying out over her black brows, with her yes like two blue KIN
larney lakes put in with a sooty finger looking at you out from
under. -There's a French demoiselle with her piquant cheek bones
that give a lift to the shape of her lurlngly modeled face her bright
brown hair with-the glinting lights of wine-color In; it her olive
cheeks touched with the faint color ot Madeira wine the round,'
long chin and bright life thrilling through all her' beauty. There's"
a glimpse of the English girl, with her perfect skia like a peach
blossom in the spring her gray-blue eyes like the light through a
raindrop her golden-brown hair her, mild serenity like a summer
day.
And there Is the "other," who sometimes Is American, and the
sweetest of all (of course)! For her mixed blood mill give her some
times tho marvel of shining blond hair of the nort and the dark eyes
of a more passionate race the mouth of an Oriental and the clear
uneolored cheeks of the TCew Year girl. And tola isn't near all the
sweets on the menu, either. NELL BRINKLKY,.
Confessions of L'Enfante Terrible
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By . DOROTHY PK.
"Oh, yea, of course, IS is awfully young
to be married. Terribly young. As Reta
says and marry when you are Just barely
IS it gives you such a long, time to re
pent it." :
"Or to be . happy
In." said Ronald,
softly. "Eh, llttla
tittle girlT" as he
put his arm around
me and drew ma
down Into the hol
low of his shoulder
la a way that al
ways makes me
feel, somehow, as
if 1 had Just gotten
home at last. But
Reta Just gave a
hateful, - superior
kind ot a sniff that
said aa plainly as
any words could.
Tou-will-flnd - out
better - somet-day,"
end sailed out of the room, and I turned
to Ronald, and I eouldn't keep the tears
back, although I look Just simply horrid
when 1 cry.
"Oh, Ronald, my dear." I said, miser
bly. "I know I am not wise enough to
be your wife. Why, today J was having
lunch with Reta and a lot of her friends,
and they were all talking about marrying,
and they made me feel like a baby.
" 'I don't think I caa ever make up mj
mind to trade my latch key off for a
husband.' said Mary Glfflu, woo Is t If
she's a day. 'After all, it's hideous to
have to think of sacrificing your liberty
and personality to another.'
" The man will have to have money aad
position that I marry.' said Alice Matile.
'I want the consolation of aa estab
lishment to fall back upon whan the
honeymoon wanes. v
"'I really don't, thii.k I am energstte
enough to undertake a life Job of keep
ing a man fascinated.' said Janette Per
kins.
" 'Oh. marriage utu't so bad.' said Reta.
'if people are rich enough to spend most
of their tm in different parts of the
world Instead ef having tg fsce each
ottoer across the breal:faat table every
jromlng. iUppin- in matrimony is
merely a matter o' money.'
"And Oh, Ronald, I said, when I
listened to them talking this way,' I knew
that if I wasn't old enough to marry, I
was young, enough to love, and I was
glad, glad that I ' wasn't wise, and
sophisticated, and hadn't got where I
could weigh the advantages and bar-,
gain about love, tot when yon atked me'
to marry you I 'never thought of what
1 would be giving tip, or of my liberty,
or whether you had any money or not. '
I Just knew that to be with you always
was all that 1 asked in the orl."
And Ronald said something about "out
ot the mouths of babes and sucklings,"
and I Just snuggled my nose down Into
his shoulder au -cried all 1 wauted te,
and had a perfectly beautiful time. And
Ronald 'didn't try to atop me. That's
why he's such a dear. He always under
stands. But I started to tell you how I came
to marry so young. Tou ses there sre
four sisters of us. There's Reta. who Is
lt.Oh, yes; 1 remember the date that
was written down in the family record
In the Bible before she tore the leaf
out. She is t-b-i-r-t-y-t-w-o! And there's
Maud, who is M and there's Annette,
who is 30. I know she Is 20, because she
has been to for the last five years to
my certain knowiedgs, and there was I,
who ' was most 11.
Now, we are Just a well-to-do family,
not rich, and you know that nobody ho
Isn't a millionaire can possibly ' afford
to have four daughters ail out tn so
ciety at the same time. Heavens! Poor,
dear papa has Ms aoae to the grind
stone aa it Is, and so, ot course, they
Just simply couldn't let me be grow up.
And the girls Just wouldn't let me.
They wouldn't let me do up my hair,
nor wear long frocks, and they treated
me like X was a baby of about .
"Mamma, you are not going toilet that
child read that book!" Lulu would say
every time I got anything that was a
little more advanced than "Alloa in Won
derland." "Mamma, you are not going to let
that child go to see that play!" Janette
woeld ery out in horror when I ex
pressed a dlre to so to the matinee te
ses something besides ''Peter Per." or
"Little Lord Fauntlerey." .
"Mamma. mke this rhild go to bed."
Reta would ra' whenever anybody inter
esting came, and they wJUd hustle um
off aa If t was a kid let, and I'd have to
go up and lean over the banisters or I
hide behind tha pantry doors when there
was company to hear what people; said,
and you know how unsatlafactory eaves
dropping Is. ' Besides, it's dangerous.
Once I nearly fell over the stair railing,
and another time I almost got my nose
pinched in a door. ' .
Oh, I tell you I was worse off than
Peter Pan. He wouldn't grow up, and
I wasn't permitted to grow up, .
At last, one day, 1 grewj angry. I said
to myself that if I wai., going to be
treated like a child I wall going to act
like one, and a bad one at that, and I
was going to get even with the girls by
telling on them, and saying the things
I shouldn't, being what the French call
Tenfan terrible," you know,
Horrid little beast I wss. wasn't It
But I did it One day I put on my best
white frock and blue saab regular baby
rig, you knowand I went down in the
library and curled myself up in a chair
sod pretty soon Mr. Ronald Graham was
announced. He la awfully rk h . and
swell, and Reta was just after him like
a cat after a mouse.
Hhe could Just see herself sitting up tn
that fine house of his. W eil, I gave him
a baby stare out of my big blue eyes,
and I said: "Do you like my sisters?"
"I admire them very much indeed,'' he
said, looking at me rather surprised.
"Oh, so do I," 1 gurgled along as If
I didn't know any better. "I think that
Reta has the loveliest hair I ever saw.
My, but It ought to be pretty; it costs
enough. Tou should Just have heard what
papa said when the bill came In for those
new puffs of hers. It was simply awful."
He lodVod shocked, but never said any
thing, and I went on:
"But Maud la the artist of the family.
I think she pslnts better than anybody I
ever saw."
"That's a nice loyal little sister." lis
said, "but I didn't know that Miss Maud
was an artist. What does she paint 7"
"Oh. her face," I said. Just apparently
beaming with pride. "Why, she's got the
beat band-painted complexion In town,
and she la aa expert at making eyebrows.
Why, she's a real old muster."
He looked so amused and so erabir
raaaKl, but all be said was. "I think Miss
i.ulu haa the sweetest expression I've
eer seen. It's so uplifted, so guileless,
so above all sordid things a look scarcely
of this world."
"Isn't It?" I cried rapturously, "That's
the look she always puts on when she's
going to do people, and the way It works
Is something greet. he thinks she's going
to get that rich old Mr. Thompson with
It. You know fee's got millions, and lie's
so suspicious that all the women are try
ing bo marry him for hla money, but he
thinks Lulu so angelic that she wouldn't
look at'a dollar If you'd hold it right un
der her ryes. She says she thinks he's
going to fall f-ir the angel expression all
right."
"ttee here, little girl, why are you tell
ing me all these things about your sis
ters," said Ronald Graham, with thai
quiet, steady look of his that goes right
through you, and in an Instant whst I
had thought whs 'Just fun, and'gettlng
back at the girls for keeplsg me shut up
in the nursery on bread and butter when
I was Just hungry for plum cske, didn't
seem sn amusing revenge at all.'. It Just
sltowed for the plain, sneaky thing it was,
and I broke down and boo-hooed, and
told him' how the girls wouldn't let me
grow up, becauee there were already
three out In society, and that I never
could be grown, or do up my hair or wear
long frocks until they got married, and
anybody could see they were going to be
old maids, and that I supposed that when,
I was "0 years old I would still be wear
ing plgtulls and being sent to 'bed at I
o'clock at night.
In-Shoots
Real charity needs no brass band ac
companiments. "
Anyhow, tha alienists seldom prove that
the victim of the murderer Is not dead.
Eloquence is the art of making a craay
political theory sound lika common sense.
Soma men love their homes so much
that they want their wives to stand
guard over them night snd day sml
avoid the bargain sales.
It is Impossible fur a married. man of
modeat means to hustle fur tha dust snd
keep up a Romeo style of love making
at tha same time. j
Bread oast upon waters in (he form of
a campaign contribution docs not always
come back lu the shape of a fat appointment-
Science Pr.blenis for Workers
Ily EDGATt LUCIEX liARKIN.
Q.-"(l) The Encyclopedia Brittanlca
says: "A piece of sealing wax rubbed
wHth woolen cloth Is electrified snd attracts.'-'
Klectrlclty la thus created by
friction. Myriads of worlds with their
two motions on orbits and axes create
friction, thus create electricity, therefore
is not attraction electricity?
"(2) la not a comet a desd world
dropped off the circuit and Its tall merely
luminosity created by rapidly moving
through the electric lights between the
live or electrlfeid worlds? -
"(3) Is not our sunlight really electric
light? ' .
"(4) ' Was not the first chapter of
Genesis written when there was knowl
edge of electricity and the second chap
ter when that knowledge was lost during
some convulsion of nature er soma great
war?" Prank C. Howe, Providence. R. 1.
A.-1 Klectrlclly Is not created by
friction. . Tho natural electricity te sepa
rated Into positive and negative; and
when ao separate 1 the ordinary phe
nomena of attraction and repulsion ap
pear. Man cannot create. Primordial
mind created electrons, and only these,
slnre nothing else exists.
Worlds moving on orbits or revolving
on axes do not exert friction. Space Is
so nearly an absolute vacuum that the
moat sensitive instruments that can bo
made failed utterly in the handa of
Michelson to detect a minute trace even
ef friction of the entire earth, 7,ls miles
In diameter, rushing ou Its orbit with the
high speed of 18.402T miles per second.
. Therefore the attraction of gravitation
is totally, different from the type of
static electricity that appears on wax.
glass or many other substances when
ruhbei. And what gravitation ts cannot
be told by present science.
J) A comet is not a "dead world
dropped off the circuit." The nucleus is
made of millions of meteoric bodies and
bolides; all la a state of activity as the
comet resches the nearest point to the
sun. The streamer is of extensively
small particles Inixed with gas. cyanogen
beinr prominent In some, as now it
vealed by tha spectroeuope.
The particles emit faint light of tholr
own when near perihelion and also re
flect sunlight. No comet has ever
"dropped off the circuit." Every one
moves on a regular orbit, mn ellipse, a
parabola or a hyperbola-
13) Sunlight, as shown by Maawell. U
an electro-magnetic entity a) wet alone
electric. ,
i) None knows when no by whom
the Book . of Uenesls was written. But
the writers did not know of a single law
of nature, and no hint Is given that they
were cognisant of the existence of even
one magnificent law now known. Indeed,
tbey could not have discovered any one
of these basic laws, not having scientific
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