Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, March 11, 1915, Page 9, Image 9
i Tin; m:i): omaha. thukspav, maihh n, n:. 9 f MS kl 71 o 1 Divorce and Murder i- - l Br IX) HOT II V D1X. We are all agreed that the divorce evil Is a very great evil Indeed. an1 that It I a terrible thing for a home to he brok n up and the little children In It to tie cast out upon the world half or phaned, deprived of rlther a mother'!) tender watchfulness or a father's wlso guidance. But while we condemn divorce, we must not lose sight of the fact that It Is the lesser of two evlla, and that If there were no divorce thero would be wholesale murder. iBinii a man and a woman Indissolubly together In fetters that they can break by no process of law and they will cut them If they have to uae the knife of the assassin with which to do It. Make It so a woman cannot free her self from the brute who mistreats her, and some day she will turn , Lucretla Borgia and poison him. Tie the woman he has come to hate like the festering corpse of a dead love about a man's neck, and there will surely come a time when In somo access of fury and revolt he will slay her. As long aa humanity Is built as It Is, divorce Is the greatest preventive of murder among the mlsmated. Aa proof of this we have the two trage dies, both double murders, that are now engaging the public attention, and both of which were Innocently caused by wives who refused to divorce their hus bands. The first case is that of Ida Sniffen Walters, with whom lyorlys Klton UogorH, a married man, fell in love. This couple established a home together. They had children. Thej lived on the hope that Hogers' wife, knowing of her husband Infidelity and this second establishment, would divorce him to permit him to marry the woman he loved and legitima tize their children. Mrs. Rogers refused to divorce her hus band, and when Ida Sniffen Walters un derstood that the man she had sacrificed so much for never would be free to marry her and to give their children a name, in a moment of mad despair she killed the children and attempted to take her own life. The other case is that of Hiram Craig, who a few days ago murdered a young girl. Miss Reeves, with whom he was infatuated, and killed another woman who tried to protect her. It seems that seven years ago Craig fell In love with this girl, and had aban doned his family for her. He wanted to marry the young woman, but Ms wife would not hear of a divorce. She knew of his relationship with the other woman, but she forgave and endured meekly, as the anti-divorce theories tell im that woman should do under the clrcum stances. Finally the gltTa conscience awoke, or some glimmering of common aense made her perceive how Idiotic is the woman who wastes all of her youth and beauty on a married man, or some other man caught ner wandering fancy, and she wrote to Craig that she would have nothing more to do with him. Mad with Jealousy, the middle-aged Lothario rushed to her boarding place. and after a soene full of bitter recrimina tion he killed the girl and a woman who sought to Interfere between them, and then shot himself. Neither of these murders would have been committed if the men who had tired of their wives and had falljsi In love with with other wemen could hAye gotten divorces. Weak anj unmoral as Craig and Ida Sniffen Walters are. tliry are not murderers at heart. They were driven to frenzy by the filiation in which they found themselves, and out ot which the was no gate except that of divorce sfnd that Bate wa barred to Ihm. Those two rises and there are many others niinilnr ti them ral.te a very in teresting ethical .question, odd that Is whether a wi.'e does right cr wrong to hold her htitihand when he lias ceased to love her and does love another woman and wants to b set 'ree. Of eourse a woman may he connin tioualy opposed to divorce She may be lieve that the marrla.ge ti in unbreak able no matter how much it gets frayed and worn or how weak it is and -;wer-less to hold the man. She may think it a wire duty to forgive a h"svanJ's ulde utepping even wnen .le doesn't want to be forgiven, and. lelkv'?ij: thla she may hold It a noble thing to refuse to give him a divorce, even though sho is fcrving him down deeper Into the mire ot a de spicable life and trelr.g the crown .if shame on another woman s brow and making helpless llttV children outcasts In Boclety. That In one side of the story. The other sidt Is that noliody ean say that a woman should hand over her husband to any other, woman who happens to an. hlm. The neglected wlf- Is not blnmeJ If she takes her revenge by refusing to give her husband a divorce nn1 per n't him to put her rival la her pl:ce. It is a curious h,uo of the divorce problem, and ono worth considering, be cause It shows one thing clearly, ar d that Is that If we make divorce impos sible we shall make murJer common. AN IDEA which was introduced in the late Winter models and which is being extensively used on the early spring models is the peplum on the tailor suit coat. It can be long or short, full, or extremely so, to suit the figure of the wearer. Patent leather belts with "pouch pockets" are a smart novelty. Read it Here See it at the Movies. I i&p&rfr I x Vi f j urn I i Birds as Clever Architects How the Crested Cassique Builds to Foil Its Enemies I5y special arrangement for this paper a photo-drama corresponding to the Install ments oi "Runaway June" may now be seen at (he leading moving picture the aters. By arrangement made with the Mutual Film corporation it la not only p. sible to read "Runaway June" each day, but also afterward to see moving pictures Illustrating our story. (Copyright, 1916, by Serial Pulbtcatton Corporation.) NINTH EPISODE. suffered. Their love would be all the stronger for It, and It would be pure al ways. Could she have seen Ned at that mo ment all her theories and all her deduc tions would have taken swift flight, and the would have bathed with her tears the swollen wrist which he had Just freed from the rough rope that had bound It Kidnaped. To Be Continued Tomorrow. One of the smartest American-made and American-modelled tall leu r suits shown at one of the best known Fifth avenue shops Is of blue gabardine, which has practically supplanted the serge, dear to the heart of the French woman, and which In lis infinite variety of weave or rather texture is certainly a most delightful substitute. In the picture above the suit la a serviceable little early spring model modea't in design, as our ultra fashion ables would have their Lenten garments', but withal -a chic that ia undeniable. It Introduces tho full peplum under a belt of patent leather with little side leather . t r- -- "military" now so necessary. The akirt is full actually voluminous at tho hem but so cut as to give an out line to the hips. A' little hint to the would-be wearer of tho new full skirts they must be more carefully cut and considered than tho coats, if that be possible, for a full skirt In these very modern days means a skirt still with a suggestion of "llgne." With this little frock Is worn a blouse of marqulHette. embrnldcred and with two hand-hemstitched overlapping "wing collar points." The hat is of black Milan atraw with a smart double white wing at the back "pouch pockets" which suggest the Jauntily perched to one side. By GARRKTT P. SKRVISS. The Interested visitor to the American Museum of Natural History In Central 1'ark West, will spend a long time among the bird, and the more he studies them the mole amused he will be by the beauties, and what he cannot but regard sn the Ingenuities of tho winged InhaV Itants of the earth. I-3vcrythtng that they (lo may be guided by Instinct and not by reasoning Intelligence, hut the result, in many cases, aripeara to lie just about hat the intellect of man would hare produced, If placed amid similar elrrum stancea and furnished with similarly re stricted means. Take, for InMance, the little hanglns. village constructed in the branches of a tropical tree by the birds called crested casatquns, a South American species, re lated to our beautiful Baltimore oriole, which alt.o constructs a tanging nest. The nests of the cassique (or cacique, for tho name Is a copy of that given by the Spaniards to the Indian chiefs), are often a yatd or more In length, constructed of strips of bark and long grasses Intricately Interwoven Into the form of an old fashioned money prrse, such aa our grandfathers used to carry. These nests, which would make purses for Oulllver's giants, are suspended from the tips of twigs at the ends of pendulous branches, and their purpose Is clear at a glance. loing at full speed the cassique ean un erringly enler the aperture In his hang ing nest. In Its native country the bird, lis eggs and Its young are exposed to the attack of monkeys and of aerpents. To escape these persecutors It doss the very thing that we should no doubt do In a similar situation. It accomplishes In a reverse way what the farmer does when ho wishes to project his corn against the In roads of rata aid squirrels. The farmer sets his cornerlp up o(i stilts and puts a tin pan upside down In top of each stilt In order that tho climbing marauders may he arrested by an Insurmountable ab straction Just when they thing that the prlxo la theirs. The cassique has to look out about Instead of below for enemies, and ao he hangs his crib, or nest, at the end of a long, slender, tremulous branch, and, If possible, over tho water so that his prowling foe may not only be defeated, but exposod In addition to a ducking. Tho casait'iue, as I have aald, Is related to the orioles. Ilia color la sometimes all black and sometimes black relieved with yellow, red, brown or green, Mr. Bate In his travels In South America met the cassique under the name of the "japlm." In the neighborhood of Para, and he lik ened It to the English magpie. "It has light grey eyea," he says, "which give It the same knowing expression that the mag pie has." He describes the entrances to the tiects aa being near the bottom, but In the museum you will see some of the birds sitting In openings about halt way up to the top. It is deacrlbud, aa a noisy and Imitative bird, capable ot mimicking barnyard fowls, and very active, continually flying to and fro, and keeping up a great chat tering. Its nests sometime encircle a tree on all sides, when It Is favorably placed, nnd are at no great height above tbe ground, which Is another circum stance that might be credited to the shrewd intelligence of the bird, since by going too high It would plane Itself more completely at the merry of Ha climbing enemies. Here Is a fact concerning this question of animal Intelligence which Is worth thinking about. Among savago tribes, for Instance among the American Indiana, some bird or other animal, is often re- P f lrH I A Colony of Crested CassiquoH and Their Nests ns Seen in thi American Museum of Natural History garded not merely aa a general symbol or type of wisdom, but Individually aa a peraonage of more than human shrewd ness and experience. It la certainly good testimony to the excellence of the ways of animals in dealing with the dangers and difficulties of Ufa when a human avage asks advice. In a light place, from "his father the beaver," or some othei animal whose Ingenuity has awakened his admiration and awe. , It la sometimes pointed out as an in dication ot an essential difference between human and animal Intelligence that the snlmals keep on for endless generations doing things the .same way. But there are inxtances on record In which animals have varied their methods to accord with new conditions, while on the otlier hand, where trlbos and races of men have re nfalned undisturbed by foreign Innova tions for many centuries, they have led their lives and constructed their home according to a plan as unvarying as that followed by the builders of the hanging birds' nests. Advice to Lovelorn By Be&trice Fairfax Be Nataral. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 18 years old. Previous to this year I've been away at a boarding school, but nuw I've reached tho age where my parents will permit me to go out. How can I make myself popular. Aa a rule I am fairly well liked, but am rather homely. Uoea thut cause unpopularity? Which Is the beat way for a girl to act Independent and cool or Just natural? M. (1. Don't assume an attitude of independ ent coolness. .That Is not at all a love able type of womanhood to strive to be. Be natural and try to augment what you feel Is a lack of physical attraction by a manner of sweet cordiality. Above all, don't permit yourself to be at all af fected. That Is far from admlrablo and will win you ridicule where natural Sim plicity will make friends. Married Womaa as a Wage Karaer Iear MIfs Fslrftx: Is there any shame or hurm to a woman to work after site is married? I mean Just for awhile to a-t lunula straightened up. .Have a nice position snd wouldn't know what to do at home all alone anyway.- A CONSTANT READKH. Married women are mora and mora coming to see the wisdom ot working and helping their husbands bear the financial burdens. Keep on working and try to lay up something fur a rainy day. bu CHAPTER 11. Continued.) June was already halfway up the stairs. She turned. Mrs. Villard, without a word, fallowed her. Side by side the two women ftood looking at the man and the loir. Mrs. Villard needed no explanation, to tell her what had happened. For the first time in her married life she gave way to anger. "You beast!" she cried, her cheeks s.arlct and her eyes flashing. "This is I he last' I warned you to leave this girl alon"! I hate you! I could see you torn to shreds! Go on. Bouncer!" Tho coille crouched at June's feet. The man rose cautiously, you forget!" husked the man. 'W"e have a bargain!" Mrs. Villard lowered her eyes for a moment. it la broken!" she suddenly flared. "You have paid me well, and I have served you well! But we wore not to In terfere with each other's life! You have Interfered with mine! I am through!" 8he stripped her hands of her ringa and threw tliem at him. She swept from the room, followed by June an3 Bouncer. They heard the man telephoning for his I raeer at a nearby garage, and wblle Mrs. I Villard was still packing her clothing her j husband came along the hall. He stopied I at the door. j "I don't think you will find thut your new line of rwork will pay you as well as being my wife." the man snarled. Mrs. Villard sprang to the door anJ closed It In his face, and Villard laughed mockingly. "Ha Is a beast!" 'said Mrs. Villard and sat down, as If she wished to say r.ame, thing more. There was the nound of wheels at the door. Mrs. Villard sud denly burled her face In her lisnds and tried. June left her sobbing and .went to pack lier own apparel. Money! Again June was face to face ' with another angle of this eternal prob lem, which, It seemed to her, had com plicated the entire relationship of men snd women. Mrs. Villard had plainly and palpably sold herself, and the price ! never great enough for any woman who has done that. Always in June's rapidly widening observation the man gave and the woman received, and her very dependence made the question of matrimony one of essential barter and sale. It was wrong. 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