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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1915)
TIIH IJKE: OMAHA. MONDAY, FEIJKUAHY 22, 1915 Shall Husbands 1 Support Vage-Earning Wives? By DOUOTITV DlX. . W discussed recently the problem of the woman win hii followed a gainful occupation before marriage eonlnulng to follow It after marriage If h marries a poor man. ThU In turn brings up another question. Khali tha wage earning wife sup port hemclf, or haa she tha light to expect her hua band to provide for her a ha would If ahe did not cam monev herself? T h I . problem v e x e a many of my correspondents, and I get numer ous letters from It II who ar working outside of . their hornet, and yet who fell III- used because their husband do not sup. port them. It acema to me thnt It 1 only a very greedy and granting woman who wanla 1 to hang on to her own pocket hook, and yet dip her hand Into her husband's. A Just and falr-mlmled woman would ace that aha shouldn't expect to hold on to tha old order of things, and jet reap all of tha re wanla of the new. j The very basic Idea Involved In a man feeding and clothing anil ' housing hi wife la that ahe glvea him In return her eervleca In tha houae. She makea the home. She cither auperlntendi the rv anta. or doea with hnr own hand the cooking, aweeplng, cleaning. Hewing, duet Irg necessary to making a comfortable Ilace of bodc. .A man haa been considered to "up port" hla wife if ha paid her bill, even though ahe did all tha homework, ard worked ten tlroea aa hard aa aha would have had to do had ahe labored at any occupation outside of her home. But If a woman elect to work for aon-.e other man in an office Inatead of her husband In the home, ahe certainly haa no ethical claim upon him to buy her clothea or pay her board bills. She haa maintained her financial independ ence, and that glvea her not only th right to support herself, but, morally considered. th neceaalty to do It. What ever of her bill her husband paya I a matter of generosity with him. It U not her privilege. Thl dueatlon. however, thould never arlae between husbands and wlvea, be cauae, If marriage mean anything at all. It ia a partnership In which they have no separate Intereat and in which both work unselfishly for their mutual good, wuroin wno continue to earn money arter aha la married to help buy a home, or to assist her husband In get ting Into business for himself, enjoy on of the greatest privilege that can coma to any woman who really love a man. and If aha l of a nature o avaricious that she cannot fael It to be a pleasure to help her husband she should stay single and keep her little hoard to hersetf. I am convinced, from much observa tion and study of the subject, that thera I no other one thing thnt make so many rlfta In the domestic lute aa th money question, and I am certain that nothing else would do a much to settle tha di vorce problem and Insure matrimonial peace and harmony aa for men and women not only to have a definite un lcrtaniing In regard l the financial question before marriage, but to sign a legal contract settling th matter. Men begrudge their wivea money and refuse to give them any settled amount Women are disgruntled because they don't get what they consider a fair divide. Hence there la unending bickering, be tween tha two. Ail ot this could be avoided If there was a definite matr ir.onlal partnership drawn up between a nan sad woman before they pooled their lives aa there Is between two man who go Into a business partnership and pool their finances and labor. If a man algna a '.ontraet to give hla wife a certain per e?nt of hla Income every month on whlca to run lu house and pay her owu expenses h would know what be was fcnlng Into and ah would know what she had to expect, and If either party didn't like tha term they could withdraw 'un the aafe aide of lite altar. ' , If a woman wanted to keep at her Job after ahe was married ahe louli settle It then with the man lustrsd of fighting It out with him afterward. Also they could settle what part of the family expense she wss expo-ted to pay. or If she was to hsve all of her money to go In tho sav ings bank or buy millinery with it. The financial problem la Just aa acutu in the home it la on Wall streM. and some day we'll have enough sens to fee ii in a common sense way instead vt leaving it all to cl.am-e. and thera k.ju'I be so many tickets sold lu Kino when wo J-i. ' ' EL I l 1 V J ll i'T I Oil sasan-i Shavers rs Listen, an eore-cscea snsTwrwj mm I M M i - -. , . . strop who, S-ln-One k)ft strop j-lnor. Wipe bUd with S4a-Oa ' f ."tr shaving. ' , Ob, dont rnantloa it w"i gl4 N Wb.lpt 1 A L)iclloter sfakuadfcs , . . I Miur oss lit u J I sotll. I i O 1 I aS.si-B terea. in at M. tro,4w,r, Worship and Treachery & Tha wiry, wild-beaded, rough-handed and oft-hearted office boy thinks she's the prettiest thine that ever grew and somewhere In the core If his worshipful Mart. Is a wild dream of ambition a rapid scaling of the ladder of fame and wealth, and the girl of his heart who pounds the keys for the boas putting her hand In hi, -and the far away ringing of a golden wedding bell! Something like that, too fearful and wonder ful to breathe while he's thinking it! And he gives her out of the leanness of his small pocket and the bigness of his Read it Here Bee Djr apeelal arrangement ror this paper a photo-drama corresponding to tha Install ments pi "itunaway June" may now be win at tha leading moving picture the ater. Mi arrangement made with tha Mutual Film corporation it ia not only possible to read "Kunaway June" each day, but also afterward to sea moving pictures illustrating our story. (Copyright. Plo, by Serial Pulblcatloa Corporation.) SEVENTH EPISODE. The Tormentor. (H4PTKE I. Tha Widow O'Keefe stooped quickly ami snatched something from th floor while five atrangera peered Into every absurd nook and corner of the two rooms and bath which comprised the Widow t O'Keefe'a top floor auit Th object waa small anapahot of June, The deserted husband of pretty Jun J Warner wa at the hall door with hi hand reached out for tha knob, and In j another Instant Ned Warner and June j would have been face to faca. In that ! instant the Widow O'Keefe whipped tha ,nap,hot under her apron, and th very wiftness of the motion struck Into tha corner ot Ned Warner' restless eyes. He turned, ana he and the father of June glanced at each other. Thera wa some- thing suspicious In tha bent and warped ' and w ithered Widow O'Keefe and her tsll slip of a son. Ned cam abruptly from tha door and renewed hi search. At that very moment June. Just outside, had paused to ret is tha bow upon her saucy little sttPPr and to give It a vigorous pat. to make it brhav and atay in place. fcilm young Bammy O Keefe walked to the' window, whist ting, and glanced out with aa air of great Indifference. On the other aide of the Street stood Officer Toole, and hla cyea roved anxiously from window to window of tha narrow, dingy alica of a house which wa tba Widow O'Keefe'. At eight ef tammy .Officer Toole pointed energetfcraUy toward tha door. II waved bot arms and pointed toward Las doorway. Sammy then alipped quietly out of th room. - June! Th listless Bammy used tha next tiuuivsl niclbod tq. wireless. With, oue I I It at the Movies. .' nolaelewa spring he straddled the banister rail, whlssed around the curve and down to June, who wa halfway up the atalra. Jumped off with a footstep a light aa a feather, grabbed the aatounded girl by th wrist and dragged her down the steps at th risk of both their neck. Bammy shoved June Into the second floor hall closet. Bammy locked tha door and stuck.. tha key In hla pocket and the springs In hi thin legs to work and was aittlng lastly on tha top step, bored and whittling softly, when Ned Warner and Mr. and Mrs John Moore and Bobby and Iris Blethering eamo out. Bobby extremely de jected and Iria explaining volubly that It waa all a mistake. June couldn't possibly have been here. Hut she must have been, after all, because still, liow could It be? June In the ilrl oi0-- -,, 0ff from all light and sound, stood bewildt her eyea dlstemle, i.. ... v. Lurja, while Ned Stood not two feet away from her. Wa had paused beloi than very door, aa If some delicate magnetism had caught and held him thera. No trace of her any where; no trace of Marie, the French Canadian maid with tha high cheek bones; no trace of the mysterious black Vandyked mun. whom none of them had cared to mention to the Widow O Keefe. uuoeri uiy! .Ned clinched Ma fists, and hla brow grew black aa his mind filled with the Image of that dark, handsome faca with ita glowing eyea and auave smile. That image had never been absent from Ned'a mind sine tha disappearance of hla beautiful bride. Ned became aware of the Widow O Keefe eying him from mldstalra. His waa a frail looking old woman, with her gnarled handa clasped before her. but her beady little eyea were aa sharp aa the unexpected flrea from dull Jewels, and thera was not one move of Ned'a party wnien escaped her. Sammy, atlll whistling with overnonchalanceA waa so amalstenily not gaslng at tha cloeet door that It wa a wonder no on asked for the key. 'We're wasting out time." finally said Iris Blethering. -We're probably letting them get away." And June a frlenJ took her husband with her.. The rest ot the party fullowed. ' It L'wuiiuudTwuiorTovi 7) Have Our Girls Lost Charm? Why is it that Thousands of Young Men with Fair Salaries Do Not Marry? ny BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Do the girls of thl generation deserve the admiration of men? lo the men ot today care for the type of woman who prefers dignity and charm to frcaklah nesa and fadsf Who la to blame for tha fact that thous ands of young men who earn fair salaxiea live In hall bedrooms and find their only relaxation "In playing curds with the boye." or "shooting a iiltlo Kelly pool." while the girl flutter Ir. group to the movie or sit at home and bewail their fates because they do not know thi "tally Waters'' type of nic young man? Tha great fault In tha relation of th sexes today is that they are no very differently trained. Thoy ara brought up on a different set of catchwords. As Robert Iuls Stevenson ssys: "They are taught to follow different virtues, to hat different vices, to p'ace their Ideal, even for each other. In different achleve mente. When a horaa ha run away, and th two flustered peoplo In tna gig nave each possessed themselves of a rein, we know the end of that conveyance will b in the dttch." Modern aortal existence I exactly comparable to Stevepson "gig in the ditch." The whole object ot a liberal education today aeema to be to magnify tha difference between boy and girls and mouse in them a trong consciousness of this difference at th same time thst it obscures their knowledge of one another. Girls are ehown a small field of ex neriome and taught a very etrlet cods of Judgment for all a tlon. Men ara shown a tar wider cross-secuon ni me and given a proportionately wider cod of morals. Then, what mora natural than that two young peopla looking at one another across a gulf of self-conacloua natural dlfferencea and dlfferencea cultivated in their codea of morale should fall to un derstand each other? Young glrla long or pleasure. To their natural craving for masculine society Is added an actual need for masculine escort as well as a sense ot o ial failure unless that masculine escort can be pioduced. Men bav trained and cultivated their heart a read apple. A scarlet apple with the sheen of cbarmeuse on its chubby sides. And holding it she dreams of another fellow whom he has never seen! Talk about the perfidy of women! , She eats his , golden-hearted, crimson-frocked apple and. the sandwich he has run all the way to a resturaht to get for her, and sees behind the film of lazy dreaming two hearts linked by a barbed arrow, and the heart isn't his. Here Is worship wletfulyed, grinning worship and unconscious but black treachery! NELL BRINKLEY.. . ' ' ambition into the way f dealring to be the. envy of all beholders. They do not seek feminine society purely on the basis of their own Ustea and admiration, but they measure women by their charm for other men. What la the result of these general difference? A girl goes out with a young man and take far too much Interest In hi ability to spend, danca and "show her a good time" In general. She la all too likely to prefer the society ot a handsome, amua lng good-for-nothing to that of the ' un omamental man who Is worth having. This ta because she ha been trained to admire the showy externala which make a good Impression on the casual observer. With "show" aa a standard and "bluff aa a measure of auccess, a girl does not stop to investigate tha real character of the man with whom she la dealing. Nor doea her best self get a chance to appeal to him. A little ability to make women thrill to hla love-making glvea a man vaat power over the opposite sex. And, like all power that is not earned by actual merit, this is abused. When these tinsel virtues appeal to women, , what more natural than that aterllng' quality should find Itaelt a bit neglected in feminine society, and should either turn hermit or satisfy Itself In the society of other men of Uka stability and Ilk social unpopularity? The niau who earns US week could afford to take a girl for whom he cared to the theater If ahe would lt In th bal- cony, a pound box of candy would be a gift well within hla means, but If the girl haa once mentioned to hlin tha delights of aa auto trip to Long Beach or a boa party or a doaen American Beauties some lucky friend of her received from a wealthy admirer Immediately between the fc a week man and th girl tor whom he might care the breach wklena. On tha other hand, this same M a week young man strolls up Fifth avenue and look with admiration en the limousine beauties and tha stunningly clad daugh ters of millionaire. Immediately th girl who is earning 115 a week, or wb ia By Nell Brinkley Copyright, 1913, Intern ! New Service. being supported by a father who earns but a moderate salary,- longs to emulate the well dressed beauty who haa attracted the desired masculine attention. ' The girl of sterling -simplicity, the girl ot homely ability, the girl of real com. mon aense. Is the on men truly admire In their heart ot heart but they express too much admiration for external. And across the gap training haa made between the sexes girl have no way of guessing what masculine nature really craves. Men advertise their auccea by tha ele gant trapping of their women folk. Boy Impress other boys by th pert pret tlneaa and, cheap charm of the girl with whom they are seen. All of thl repel worth-while men and leave worth-while girla a foolish feeling that they must aoon ape the tawdry tin sel that attracts or stay at horn and b neglected. Who I to blame? Who I at fault for these trifling differences, these silly mis understandings which hold men of caliber and women of character apart? I think the first fault Ilea with mother who fall In their sacred duty to gtva their boys and girls an absolute standard of values. The next fault Ilea with father who era too wrapped up In their ambition and efforta 'to atop and try to make tha younger generation look at thing from a sturdy viewpoint. But most of all. boy and girls, young men and women, have themselves to blame. If they wpuld be honest with themselves. If they would dare to be in dividual Instead of exponent of a type or mere member of a aex, it would be far simpler for thera to understand each other, ebnpliclty and honesty speak no language of aex, but on of universal hu manity. Io tha thlnga that la natural for you to do, express your own nature, cultivate tba beat in yourself, don't try to attract by the method some one else employes, don't have a little standard of values and try to live on a acal you can't afford, and you will find understanding and being understood by the other sag a vastly sim plified matter. Miraculous Movies By ELBERT-HUBBARD I am a film fan. do not drink, and I do not smoke, but I spend 10 cent on a moving picture show whenever I have the chance. Sometimes I spend a dollar and take nine kide; with me. The moving pic tures cheer, but they do not in ebrlte. They lubricate the wheels ' of exist ence, rest, refresh. stir the Imagina tion, bring Into play a new set of convolution. They never itlve you that dark brown tftste the day after, nor a headache and that tired feeling, nor make a hike to the booby-hutch. I know a great doctor who prescribes picture show every afternoon for a patient whose nerve were getting on the outside of hla clothes. The man who lived a mile from down town, and has to walk the distanoe to the show and back. The patient rebelled. He scouted the Idea. lie wanted to take something out of a bottle or be operated on. 'Do aa I say," firmly ordered the doc tor; "a picture show every afternoon top week." "But I hate them." "Then grin and bear It." ' "I'll bear it, but damme If I grin." "All right, but go come back In a week " In a week the man came back. Two grins had grown where there was only a grouch before. He had gotten the taata. Thl story ha thS rnre and unique quality of being true. And the moral I thl: That the thing which lift ua out of ourselves, that make ua forget our trouble, that stops brooding snd puts tha kibosh on introspection, 1 good. For nervous prosperity try tns moving pictures. If you go to the races you'll probably bet and, anyway, you'll got excited. If you go to the theater you will have to dress for It, perhaps have a carriage an 1 a little' feed afterward. And you'll get tired out. But the moving picture Is Jeffersonlan simplicity and practical democracy. You slide in and out, and the whole thing ia free from frills, fada and fusslnes. You always get your money's worth, and there are no haunting regrets as to your hav. ' Ing made a fool of yourself by spending a whole evening on a bum play and knocking a (6 bill to flinders. Another thing about moving picture Is that the invention 1 one of th great educational factor of the' time. It .Is one of the things 'thst Is helping to mako thl old world over into a better and hap pier place. Up to fifty year ago civilisation waa provincial. Only a few people could travel; see and know. The many were, submerged In Ignorance and" supersti tion. The sailors who went around the world were nature fakers. Th stories they told us would make your hair curl. Read John Mandevllle and you get a pretty- good Idea of the snake stories thnt once passed as truth. Even Christopher Columbus gave out a few. You remember how he told of two islands Just off the coast ef America where on one Island lived all men and on the other all women, and once a year all the people on one Island went over and had a picnic. That was Interesting, but it wasn't true. Now we are getting acquainted with the world. Quick transportation, tha malls, the dally paper, the telegraph, the telephone, the talking machines and mov nng pictures are bringing the world to our door. r once knew a dear old lady who had a way of aaylng when you told her any thing: "I want to know I want to know." I used to laugh at thi, but now i sym pathise with the sentiment. "I want to know I want to know." In Missouri the folk ask for visual demonstration. This to me Is slso beau, tiful. "Show me." The moving picture satisfies our deslm to know because It show ua. The ex tent of knowledge which It distributes a to the way, custom and habit of the people of the world is great, and far-reaching for good. I am a writer. In my writing I de scribe what I have seen snd tha things that seem to me to be true. Juat to tha degree that I express truth and make men think do I benefit them. No criti. clsm can be brought against movlea which cannot be brought against booka with equal truth. There are good books, there are bad booka. and there ar bum books written by punk part lea with lit erary ecxema which are neither good nor bad. It I exactly so with moving picture. These picture tell you a story, playinr th thing out while you sit and look. Good people want to see only th truth ful mil th ,-Arih A- - - . . - - rm inw netter we will have better moving picture. Aa I now. I believe the silly and aburd are being eliminated, and the helpful snd the true ara, coming to the for. Show me I want to know. HOW TO HEAL SKIN DISEASES A Baltimura doctor suggest this sim ple, but reliable and inexpensive home treatment fcr people suffering with ecxe ma, ringworm, rashes and alratlar Itch. Ing. burning skin troublea At any relUble druggist's get a Jar of reainol oinUnuut and a cake ot reelnol soap. Theea 111 not coat a bit mora than seventy-flvs coots. With th reslnol op and warm water bathe toe affected part thoroughly, unlit they are free from crusts and the akin ia softened. Dry very gently, spread on a thin layer ot th resinol ointment, and cover wlta a light bandage If necessary to protect tilt clothing. This should be dona twice day. Usually the distressing itching an i burning stop with tlie first treatTuei t. and the skin aoon become clear nJ Uwdtby aiu,Aaverueuiat