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t 111K 1W;K: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JAMIA1U !. 11 o J i - - . " s i Universe a System of Harmonious Vibrations By GAnRETT P. 8ERVISS. "Is It true that when a sound la to hlsh pltihcil that we cannot hfar It, It turns Into some rolor, I. ., affects our optic i,erv? the dlffereno of colora due to the vibra tions or matter? May matter lt?of eventually be re solved Into lilffrr ent rhythmic mo tions? M. M , Bor ough pf Bronx.'' To ariswer your first question eon .elder these facta: ". Sound " du to a vibration of nint ter (either anseoue. liquid or solid) of aurh a ' chtuatcr and frequency Hint It affects our auditory nerves with, a rensatlon which m tall hearing. Ordi nary sounds are conveyed to cur car by Vibrations or the atmocphere. which con sists of a mixture of gases. These vibra tions are known as "sonorous wavrg." Acrc-rding to HelmholU' experiments, the ear. cannot detect any sound if the num . her (if vibrations per second is less than sixteen or more than ! .000. niit this is iin ' extreme estimate. All ordinary musical sounds nre comprisd between lorly and 4M0 vihiaiiona per second, cov ering about seven octaves. The lengths r the sonorous waves corresponding- to freouencks of forty and 4,000 per second are respectively twenty-eight feet and twenty-eight one hundredths of a foot, the latter being a trifle more than three nd one-lliiid inches. Xow. turn to light. Light is due to a vibration of a medium called the ether, or 'luminifetQus ether," which is supposed to pervade all srace and to part freely through all. matter, while, being Itself ex empt from the ordinary limitations and properties of matter. Juat as In the case of sound, the vibrations that give rise (o the sensation of light belong to a series of waves only a small part of which possess the requisite length and "fre quency necessary to affect the nrgans of sight. It In Important to remember the distinction that ' the1 "tight waves-' arc In the ether, while the "sound waves" are In thc atmosphere, or some other ordinary material substance. If the rapidity of the vlbratfous In the ether is less than about 4W million-million ler eeconJ, or more than 680 million million per second they make an Impres sion on the'-optlr nerve, and we see no light.' The wave lengths corresponding; with the frequencies Just mentioned are respectively about one 39,000th of an inch, and one 58,W0th of an Inch. Within the.se limits notable differences In the effects produced upon th eye by waves of various lengths occur. These differences are the origin of colors. The longest and slowest of the waves In cluded In the limits named above produce he sensation of red; the -shortest -and most Vapid produce the sensation of vio let; intermediate waves produce the sen sations. of orange, yellow, green, blue. In digo and Intermediate shades. When all the luminous waves are blended together In the eye they give the effect of white light. From what has Just been said you wilt see that It would be Impossible for such a direct relation, as your question Indi cates, to exist between the vibrations of sound and those of light. A sound that becomes so shrill that It passes) upward on the gamut beyond the reach of the ear may still be a sound for some crea ture, like an Insect, with an organ of vision constructed to respond to vibra tions of very high frequency. But it could not merge Into the minute etherlc vibrations that produce the sensation of color without Itself In some manner pass ing over from the realm of ordinary mat ter Into that of extraordinary matter, which seems to be occupied by the ether. We have no direct knowledge of any such correHpondence. but I ant far from thinking that it does not exist. The an swer to your second question plainly suggests that It does exist, because-that answer is that the difference of colors Is due to vibrations of matter the matter of which the optic nerve and the brain are composed. And since the vibrations which produce the sensation of light and color are, originally, in the ether, they must. In some manner, be able to -pass over lo ordinary matter, else they could not cause any sensation. It Is something like what occurs when sonorous waves conveyed through the air from a musical string set another musical string to sing ing the same note. The air Is sn Incom parably rarer substance than the string, and similarly the ether is Incomparably larer than the substance of the auditory nerve. The third question leads to speculative ground, which could not be traversed at the end of a brief article. It touches the vast problem of the nature of matter, which is now occupying the best powers of the greatest living thinkers and ob servers. I may say, however, that every thins at present seems to Indicate that motion of a rhythmic, character does He ut the basis of matter. It is often said.' nowadays, that matter is almply elec tricity in motion, but that does not con vey any clear Idea to the mind, because we do not yet know what electricity Is. while there are speculative intellects whose vertiginous excursions would up set all our ordinary notions about motion. ORIGINAL f GENUINBJtr.iv((4.y Th rcod-Drinh for all Am T ich irilk. snaltad train, in powder form. I or inlanuitinvaklsu4grosnii)ciUdraBw t'urenutrition. upbuilding Um whola body. Invigorate nursing mothraaa4 ta (!. Vlers) twalthful tkaa tag, or cod, 'a ski S4ibstttata, Ask Hr HORUCK i i r v i i II II I H I I II Togo and T iiiiiwiiiiinwinjiiiiiii uum .ij.i Iwvv. rH v. m IpA) '" 4v Hon. Major Button wag just telling how he shoo k hands with Kaiser-of Germany. When Hon. lobster grabb that hand he seem orations, retreat are heard from all sides! . Copyright, 1915. Star Co. Great Britain Rights Reserved. , ' To Editor. "Good Housekeeper Mats sin," who print ad paper full of mar ried trouble. ) Dear Sir: Quite recently I retreated from work of job at home of Mrs. Henry Toothmuller, Wounded Leg, Conn. Her husband is also named Henry but Is called Dearie for spite. When I approach to this home I find her standing there in Paris kimono showing a weet hearted expression of fashionable, hair. Tsu might tell how socially she was by hep frozen language when spoken to servsnta. "Togo," she say so hottily, "are you a plain cook or a fanciful cook?" , "I can cook all varieties of Imaginative pie." are smart reply for me. "So good!" she snib with Marlborough eyebrows. "Too many cooks attempt to cover their Irish with French. I shall expect you to -be Delmonlco even while frying bam." , . "I admire your expectancy." This from me. "Tonight we have arranged slight dinner-eat to include two (2) wealthlsh Wall street brokes & wife who are celebrated for their encddlsh digestions. Tou must appease them with following program of foods: . . . Canopy of Caviar Salary Biscay of foup . , -Alive Lobsters ' Squab Ducks ' Meatsweets Dellcattessen Frosted Surprise from Cream Cafe Annoyer She told me thus while arranging New port fingers among her hairpins. "Why don't you reply while you stand there silently?' she ask t. know. "Is there some cookery In this bill affair which you can't unitand?" . . '"flmp'y nothing," I report deceptively. "Tou unstand how serve alive lob sters?" "Courceoualy," I suggest, "I can attend their slightest whim." "Then do so," sho exaggerate. "With Immediate quickness elope to fishery nwrchsut ti buy three 3) of those de licious mammals slfftclent for six () complete persons. Dinner will be eerve with sharpness at ." She go. I go. Mr. KiHtor, when I encroached to fishery store of Capt. Smith ft Co.. prominent sea-fooders, my soul stood endwise to see what wss. I learned considerable edu cational biography about those shall fish. A lobster are a species of green clsm with 26 legs and 3 arms which are con tinuously determined to shake hands. He wears his eyes en the end of strings and expresses hfs peeve by waving his Iron mittens with teeth on the thumbs. "Why should It contain such cruelty of fingers?" I require of Hon. Capt. Smith, retired navy. "To bite with," he tells saltmatei fdlly. ".Nothing can bite wtlh fingers," I re proach educationally. "Perhaps not," snuggest Hon. Capt.. while one lobster grab me by knuckle and remove off on bleeding fracture, whll 1 report, "Ouch!" I should diagust to such dlahagreeabl natures. At last those three 13) lobster dishes was enwrapped In psperboard box and ! digressed In homebound direction ef treet Even to carry such mcnagery give m creeply sensation peculiar to venom. As soonly as. I arrive to kitchen I commence deranging dinner for six (t) personalities. Biscay of soup 1 can took somewhat, so 1 do so in intelligent ssuceran. Slightly squab ducks I could also prepare by memory of some I had ate. Extreme Industry,, too. filled my earnest eyebrow wnile 1 turn Icecream the Hon. Alive Lobster Republished by froster with musical elbows peculiar to handorgan. In the meanwhile those three t.1) crabbed lobster-birds was setting in Ice box where they were still retained In cage in which they came in. Samurai Japanese know no fear except when they are scared. I cnloy slight dread to think how I should behave when bringing those rude snap pers forthly from where was. Should I grabb them by tail-feathers and atrongle them drfiy by Ju-Jttsis? Perhapsly could Stranger battles have occurred in kitch ens. At 9:02 p. m. time Hon. Mrs. come snup plng to kitchen and wish find some un pleasantness to speak about. "Did you obtained those lobsters?" she asked to know. "Certainly has," I report dubfully. "You sure they was alive?" are ques tion for her. "Quite distlnctually," I acknowledge while seeing my wounded knuckle. "I am still suspectful," she renig snub bily. "Last time they sent some dead. lAst me observe them to examine." With duty peculiar to militia I lead her to ice-box. I open. I show her paper board enclosure. This I open also. No sooner this were accomplish than one lobster-animal uplift his bone gloves with such rapidity he detain Hon. Mrs. by wrist of her Paris kimono while ahe ex plain. "Help!" amidst considerable so prano. Chivalrously . I permit Hon. Lob to shake hands with my necktie while I spry hlnj loose from her with fearless ice pick. 'When I drop him away he were still chewing 4 Ui yards kimono silk which lie held in the tneth of his fingers. "That one are alive," report Hon. Mrs. while fainting away. "Tou wish to examine life of other IT' I require obligely. "Thanks not to do." she shreech. "I prefer to imagine it." When 6:41 time arrive Income Hon. Mr. Henry Toothmuller in lat-shape.l lim boaine ottomohile contained I pabs of marroed persons of expensive appear ance peculiar to, Csar family. 1 bear stylish how-do talk amidst rocktallj anske-up which all Urlnk for make them fearless before eating. All seem quite Joy-free ard slig'ht-hoarted except me who stood In kitchen making supersti tious eye-glance toward ice-box. Then I knew how martyrs muat feel when observing bonfires. "Dinner ready!" required Hon. Mrs. making beautiful head-poke to door. "Ready for anything" I salute. And w-hen negctly seen I was thrusting csnopy of cavler surrounded by snlary-sprout bc front of those raters who surrounded piste with evening clothes and talked wealthy language. On fat-chin sentle nan name of MaJ. Buttou explained how he had frequently ate snails with King of Denmark and nothing in America ar fit to eat by aristocrats. "Could you not enjov soma lobsters?" required Hon. Mrs. Ilko a nurse. Ravenously:" he report lik a can nibal. e ' have some! smiling. ! say so while "O Joyfully!" all holla 1 ke chorus girls. Mrs. Cicero Nutt, silra-shap lady of beauty, seem somewhat invalid of en thusiasm. "I welcome lobster cordially while eating." she define, "yet 1 never could make It set quietly on my digestion." "I am cnaMcd to unstand this f-ossl-fclllty Pretty ou 1 Mru soup and while do Permission of Good Housekeeping Magazine ?,tfw ,2-, w Jy- ing: so I spill portion of this thin hotness on expjnslv necklace of Hon. Mrs. MaJ Button' ."Why are you nervu wrists so un controlled?" dib Mrs. Poss while all make wipes from napkin. "I am thinking lobster." I derives shlvcrly. ' You are not permitted to think during meal-time!" she abrupt. "Now elope to kitchen . and prepare those Salt-water fowels and dish." ' "No soldier ever walked to gunpowder more stralghtly than I then did; I fetch forth delicious platter of ailver apear ancc. I walk bravely to Ice-box and there I say heathen prayer In Japsnese, Inside that refrigerated compartment I could hear thump-thump, creep-creep sound re sembling crocodiles attempting to es-ape from a garage. Of suddenly one puxzlo thought arrive to my braln. How should I dish out that lively food? I thought of gloves, I thought of knives. Then 1 remembered it are ) always polite to handle foods with forks. Ixibnters must be speared thusly. I fetch. Intense Iron fork from kitchen table. With timid recklessness I open lid of box. Six bone hands reach uply to greet my cruelty. Btabbs! What happen? Nothing important. Hon. Fork skid off from hard-shell back of Hon. Lobster like needles , from hickory nuts. But Juat as I were decperate from this battle one lobster retained himself by his honked arms to handle of Hon. Fork and what miracle to behold! All three (3) lobsters, conjoined together in friend ship clasp, are fetchej forthly hy quick haul of fork. But befor I could lift them politely to platter-Ulah those de mented mammals separate away from each other and fell to floor with hard bang resembling living bricks. On skid away under table, one splouch off under stove, on detained himself to my aron, where he appear quite contented chew ing clothes. I permit him to do so and shramble under furniture 'In pursue of his twins. In 9i minutes, by talented Ju-Jltsu. I retained those brutal beasts by tails. Hell ring peevty from dining room requiring more foods. But more earnestly I lay Hon. Lobster on platter, more skilfully he shuttle off. At lustly. hy extreme talent, 1 manage to hold two S down to platter with frying pan on top. Other Do You Know That The exports of Canadian apples to the United Kingdom during recent years nave totalled about I.WO.flnn harrels annum. v pr Men attending the pans In sslt works are generally supposed to be exempt from cholera, smallpox, scarlet fever and In fluenza. The canal syteru of China la the most extensive In the world with the exception of Holland. Wherever the lay of the land permits the Chinese have mads a canal. Thus they are enabled to carry the products of their labor at a minimum expense. Although the diamond is generally re garded as th bsrdest of all subsuaees, tantalum, a rare metaJ, although not one of th rarest, Is harder. A thin sheet of It was once placed under a diamond drill worked day and night for three days. The only effect was a slight in dentation in the tantalum and the wear ing out of the diamond. r ? one I could not do likewise because he wei-e too Ifusy attacking my ankle. Bell ting agsin peevly. ' "1 come!" 1 holls. And thusly, bear ing; alive lubster, 1 onrush to dining room quite hanti.y because lobster' attach ment to ankle were causing hara-knrl sensations. "Where are alive lobsters?" nnarrel Hon. Mrs. ns soonly an I encruarh. "Here Is! I snsggel',' and push Hon. Platter to table in midst of home re finery. What then? Krylng-pnn flew off, Hon. Ix)bster elope forthly without reverence. One walk for Hon. Mrs. Nutt who escape with noise resembling mice. One waltx gainst lion. MaJ Button Just while he was telling how he shook tinid with Kaiser of, Germany. When Una. lobster .l.lih llitil tin... I 1. I .. U - , I .,,,., ,,, n, umtr. j.bii-i guargc, howells. orations, retreat are heard from all aide! Meantime other lobster ate contenterly from my ankle. Pretty soon, after considerable bayonet aoniflOflGfltosD (SsiBodbgDseid0 By Daylight Through Scenic Colorado Every Day to Los Angeles: ' Through Tourist Sleepers from Omaha at 4:10 p. m., via Denver, Bio Grande and Salt Lake Route: Personally Conducted Parties Wednesday and Sat urday!; nine houn for sight-seeing in Salt Lake. Through Standard Sleepers to Salt Lake, tame route, with a few hours In Salt Lake; annex sleepers to Los Angeles. Every Day io San Francisco: Through' Standard sr ?eoers from Omaha at 4:10 p. m., via Denver, over the Rio Grande and Southern Pacif io ; similar through sleepers over the Western Pacific Every Sunday. Tuesday and Thursday to Los Angeles: Personally Conducted Through Tourist Sleeper Parties from Omaha at 4:10 p. m., going via Denver over the Rio Grande and Southern Pacific via San Francisco, thence Coast Line through Santa Barbara. Every Wednesday, Fridsy and Saturday to Saa Francisco: Through Tourist Sleepers from Omaha at 4:10 p. m., going via Denver, Salt Lake and the Feather River Canyon of the Western Pacific; Personally Con ducted Parties Wednesdays and Fridays. . ruuy i-on- J. B. 1502 Farm ui Street. By Wallace Irwin t' :-.X - w ir-'t u less brave. Languages, lioWells, . ... oliarge, faints and heroism, lobsters was kicked forth excepting m. ' : , "What this?" jcllup Hon. Mrs.- when cslm. "Alive lobster," I scknowledgnd, think ing how far to railway station. "How dare you?" ahe cat-cry. ' "I never shall again." I Snuggest. "Yet duty make he heartless. Next family I work shall not have those Basco habit of food." ' "1 did not toll you to this dementia." ahe sodder from sobbing. "Live lobster should not be served alive." "How can live lobsters be dead?" I snuggest Bernard Hhawfully. . i "If you remain Vt Instant long I shall show you!" growell Hon. Henry Tooth muller prlfteflghtfully, ' Bo I banished spryly away from that hmiait With ftilfilttnnal I, ailll kill . w -,. U,,.S silk n with hllnanr i.,,llu.. to starved snake. Hoping you are the same. Yours truly, . ' HASHIMCUA TOGO. Whether you qo direct to I os Anrjeles, op to San Francisco via Los Angeles, or to Southern Calllornla via Son Francisco you can qo with our Personally Con due tea Tourist Sleeper parties -widely known fixtures In the Darlington's passenger organization! Reynolds, City Passenger Agent. "Fifty-Fifty" By ADA PATTEKSOW A Brooklyn judrot ' compelled irRrelfully to admit that v:hat a woman s.tves out of the money her husband has Ivf n her Isn't hers, hut hi. ..unrene Court .K'stlce Hlackmar's derision caused o o n s t e r n at Inn among mai rlrd ! women In New York. The more were they d!s- ttirbed bc-rause the admlselon was made not with "tlu background of pas : sion" that I'res! -; di nt Wilson 1e j plure In any dl! I curt.ilon, but In th' cairn tone mat voices the inexorable I rrgiet to say that our taw has not - reached the point of ho14ing that prop erty which is tbe joint result of the earnings of the hnahand and thf economics of the wife, is their Joint prop erty. No matter how careful and prudent" the wife may be and no matter if her prudence I i-ally the cause of the -cuii-ulated saving. if the money niirlnally belonged to the hueband . lt I j still his. unless the evIJcm e shows' thnt It was a gift to .he wire. "Charles S. Montgomery had made no such gift. Not he. An I when he and his w ife quarrelled, and a separation 'was being; considered, he tried to withdraw their saving account he discovered that his wife had ordered the ank to, refuse payment, Charles S. Montgomery rushe 1 to the court, with his troubles with- tho result I Imve detailed. What'n the moral? That wives shouldn't save? .Mo tie we're getting at the root of woman's extravagance, llevlng an Intuition, If not absolute knowledge, that their husbands not themselves will enjoy the sum of their economies they don't ronoml!-, or, If they love' their "lords enough to economise for them, they msy have the fear of the 'other woman In their hearts, , the woman who may become Madame No. J. Tin an ancient adage, and one that brings a sheen of steel Into a first wife's eyes, that the first wire saves money for the second one (o spend. - Also another rea son for womuu's disinclination to hoard for .t pro bl em a tic day of rainfall Is "if I don't spend the money it wl!) go for worse uses." A woman hates lo see the pennies for which she has skimped gi down her. ous's throat In thcfront of flrewalur. To learn that the Iw is so creaklngly ancient and Inadequate as. In the Instance ruled upon by the Brooklyn Judge Is to recall what DLken made a characte: aay: "Does the taw'' any that? . Ther the law is an ass." Almost does the Cisco very of the Brook lyn Justice niske suffragettes of us alt. Some states there are that go still far ther back toward blundering antiquity, by denying a woman the right tj'lier os'n savings. Not only does she not own what her husband owns, but lis acquires full and Instant ownership In whst she earns. The words "taint fair" generally start a skirmish on the school ground. Every woman 1. who digested with her mornlnif gratfefrult or baked apple the unwelcome truth spoken by the Brooklyn Justico of the supremo court exclaimed "Taint fair" or Its equivalent. It will arouse women. ' And when women are aroused something happens. What will happen? Wilt women exclaim "What's the use?" and Justify the charge that they are extravagant? Or Will they; rreato a public sentiment thst will eventuate In a public demand for fairer1 laws? "Money saved Is money earned" would be the slogan for such a movement and Just husbands would Join In Ha utterance. Young man. If the girl upon whom your eye is cast Is too much a fopt to save and share your money she1 I too much a fool to marry, .' IF Tel. D.' 1238 or D. 3530. JWWD iiiWS.