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Have You Ever Tried Passing an Entire Week
Without Uttering an Unpleasant Comment?
You Will Find it Not an Easy Matter. : : :
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
(Copyright. 1315. The Star Company.)
Time looked me in the eyee while passing by
The Milestones of the year. That piercing gaze
Was both an accusation and reproach.
No speech was needed. In a sorrowing look
More meaning lies than In complaining words,
And silence hurts aa keenly aa reproof.
Oh, opulent, kind glTer of. rich hours.
How have I used thy benefits! As babes
Unstring a necklace laughing at the sound
Of priceless jewels dropping one by one,
So I have laughed while precious moments rolled
Into the hidden corners of the past.
And I have let large opportunities v
For high endeavor move unheeded by,
While little Joys and cares absorbed my strength.
And yet, dear Time, set to my credit this:
Not one white hour have I made black with bate,
Nor wished one living creature aught .but good.
Be patient with me. Though the sun slants west,
The day has not yet finished, and I feel
Necessity for action and resolve
Bear in upon my consciousness. I know
The earth's eternal need of earnest souls.
And the great hunger of the world for Love.
I know the goal to high achievement lies
Through the dull pathway of self-conquest first;
And on the stairs of little duties done
We climb to Joys that stand thy test O Time,
Be patient with me, and another day,
Perchance, In passing by, thine eyes may smile.
THE FASHIONS FOR CHILDREN are causing the mother as much thought as they do
for her debutante daughter these days. Her mind is now centered on beach frocks. The
wee lad no longer wears the baggy knickerbockers of other seasons. He wears smartly
cut little trousers and even little tailor cut coats. Young girls' frocks, too, have the same
smartness in cut and original design.
The Old House
If anyone should call you a Kosslp or
Infer that you were addicted to rostip
yov would he indignant. It U a peculiar
phase of human nature that not one In
dividual aver has been found who would
cenfeu to a tendency tn thla direction.
People are to be encountered who realise
their alna and fallings In many directions,
but the man or woman never yet has
betn aeen who aald: "Yea, I have the
falling" of gossiping and of relating un
pleasant things about my neighbors."
Forhaps It Is because the habit Is so
universal that no one finds himself dif
ferent from his fellows In that respect.
Have you ever tried passing an entire
week without giving t Iterance to ar un
pleasant criticism of anyone? Of course
ou will exclaim aa you read these lines
that you have passed many such weeks,
tut unless you were dwelling on a desert
Uland, or In' solitary confinement in a
prison with your focW. passed through
gratings, it Is questionable' whether you
ever-allowed seven days to slip by you
unmarred by some phase of disagreeable
ctmment on others. '
If jrou set out in an undertaking of this
kind you will observe that' it is not sn
easy thing to do. h matter how amiable
you may be, how broad in your Judg
ments and how kind in your instincts.
After you have passed the; second mile
atone in this seven-day Journey and lived
forty-eight hours without a criticism you
will be so set up in your own opinion
that on the third day you will criticize
somebody for criticising somebody. This
will be your downfall, and after that you
will probably find something unpleasant
In someone you encounter each of the
remaining days of the seven, and men
ttcn it.
Human nature Is, indeed, prona to faults
and blemishes whicn are easily discerned
and Impossible to approve. t is much
easier to find ffcult than to praise. The
unpleasant qualities in human beings
strike us in the face, while the pleasant
ones we need to search for.
Tn the new year Just beginning there
can be no more Jmportant and no more
difficult undertaking than this attempt
to avoid spreading the unpleasant things
of life by talking about them, and by
Increasing the pleasure of life and the
ood qualities of the people you know
by discussing them. It would be an in
teresting experiment. Just before retir
ing each night take a mental survey of
your conversation since you arose in the
morning.; mark in your diary with a red
O eacli day which has paaeed with no
disagreeable or unkind comment from
your lips; mark with a black B each day
wherein you have transgressed by such
utterances.
Be frank and honest with yourself; no
one should see the book save the Invisi
ble helpers who are near you. and your
self, and you will gain nothing by self
deception; that Is the worst possible thing
td 4o In any effort at self-development
this yielding to self-deception. When
you realize that you have failed, confess
it to yourself and start anew the next
day. Criticise yourself, but believe tn
yotir power to reform and recreate your
self. . Do you realise that If eaoh individual
devoted all his power of criticism and
fault, finding to himself, and made con
tinual efforts to be that which he desires
others to be. how soon the world would
be evangelised? That hi the task given
to earh of us to do. It Is good work for
you to attempt this new year.
The "Know-It-AU"
My ,1ANK M I.KAX.
A straight walk fashioned with a border prim
Where lavender and stately hollyhocks
Grow with some Tainted robbins blue and trim,
Bweet William and a bed of plnk-tlpped phlox.
Across the door sill strangling grasses stray
And on the door the knocker hangs forlorn
And many feet that one time found tbetr way
Over the steps have left thein faintly worn.
Keen through the diamond window panes, Inside
The candle sconces droop, the horsehair chairs
Ranged clone against the wall, display a wide
Stretch of rag carpet to the dusty stairs.
The old clock stlenced now for many a week.
The quaint stitched sampler hanging unaware,
Are mute reminders of the past, and speak '
Of loving hands that once were busy there.
By BEATRICE jr"AUlFAX.
The only people who are deluded Into
the bellof that they know it all are those
who know very little. The only people
who learn nothing aa they proceed on
ward' through life are those who are
sure that they have nothing to learn.
If Michael Angelo were to come back to
earth, he would be willing to learn ,a bit
about color from a poster artist and a bit
about sculpture - from a modeller In tho
sand at the seashore and a bit about
line from a newspaper, cartoonist. But
If all . three of these, knew little enough
they would know alsoJoo little to learn
anything from Mlohaalangelo, - ,
.The courage to say, "I don't know" or
"I have never heard of that" or "I
don't understand that" never brought
down scorn upon, your head If it was
addressed to intelligent people. Children
learn by asking questions. Education is
more than drawing out what you have It
tn you to become. It is giving you
knowledge and Information on which to
react And education does not atop with
school or book training. Every day of
life ought to educate you and leave you
wiser than yesterday found you.
Know-it-all people, who sit back wlttl
an air of profound wisdom and araMe
superiorly upon the questionings and
ques tings of other folks are sooner or
Now that summer vacation plans are
In the sir the question of the proper
outing clothes for children occupies the
mind of the mother who wishes to see
I her small sou and daughter suited and
I frocked for out-of-doors.
Children's eoashore frocks are alike In
two essentials they must be simple
enough In design and sufficiently dur
able In material to withstand frequent
tubbings.
To satisfy the small boy'e partiality
for his winter sweater this suit of white
repp has been designed for him on
sweater lines, with the blouse buttoning
down the shoulders. The collar and cuffs
are trimmed with bands of blue and
white striped linen to suggest the con
trasting borders used In knotted wor
steds. The trousers, like those of all
small boys' today, are made on etraight
and tailored lines.
Even the wee lad who Is still at the
romper age no longer wears the baggy
knickerbockers of other seasons'. He also
boasts of a little coat of darker linen that
achieves a childish air by a front lacing
of braid.
Decidedly more grown-up Is this young
girl's coat dress that would serve equally
well for traveling. The skirt of large
checked greun and white gingham Is
pleated, of course, Ilk her older sister's.
The Eton coat Is of plain green linen,
trimmed wtlh dainty batiste collar and
cuffs. A white pique vestee falling
straight from the shoulders takes the
place of her gulmpe of other days. '
later revealed aa the bluffs they are In
truth.
Knowing It all Is one of the many
forms of ignorant self-satisfaction that
Is so maddening to the nervous, and so
pathetto to the sane. It shuts the door
of wisdom fairly in the face of Its sad
and foolish possessor. It is mad of two
parts or amug conceit that la satisfied
with its own shortcomings, one part fool
ish pride that can not bring itself to con
fess to any lack of knowledge nJ one
part fear or ridicule.
Now truly wise and well educated peo
ple wftl only respect your desire to
know.! They know that when you. con
fess "I don't know" you fairly request
"Inform me." They know that in
acknowledging your lack of Information
on a subject you are on the road to col
lecting knowledge about It. They won't
patronize you they will tell you what
they can and feel that the thing about
which you aak enlightenment Is simply
out of your line and that you have prob
ably the habit of collecting useful Infor
mation and so may be well versed in
other departments of life.
Of all the absurd weaknesses of human
nature, none seems to ma more pathetic
ally inexcusable than pretending to
know what you don't or dreaming that
you just naturally are wise enough to
know about everything. Surely, If you
oould not swim you would not merrily
plunge Into a mountsln lake without as
certaining whether It sheered from the
shore at a depth of five feet or a hun
dred. Why plunge, with equal' boldness and
In-Shoots.
The widow of the henpecked man can
look aa sad aa any.
Do not expect to live forever on the
fruits of on victory.
' Men who follow hign calling often dis
play subway Instincts.
On way to become a satisfactory guest
Is to postpone the visit.
Platonic love and the soul kiss never
travel In the same company.
Ooaslps and busybodles seldom stick
to clean subjects of conversation.
uninformed stupidity Into ths wsters of
life? Why take It for granted that wis
dom has come to you ready made? Why
not acknowledge the superiority of each
specialist you meet In his own depart
ment? Why not try to learn by humility?
Here Is an old rhyme I think It would
bo well for all of us to learn:
Who knows and knows he' knows Is
wise. Cleve thou to him
And never forsake him.
Wh. knows and know, net that he
knows he sleeps
Qo thou to htm and wake him.
Who knnweth not and knowa he knowath
not is a child. t
Go thou to him and teach him.
Who knoweth not and knowa not that he
snoweth not la a fool
No light staall ever reach him.
Most of us are children to knowledge.
We ought to ask questions. We ought to
seek enlightenment In our Ignorance.
The wlsu will give It, to us gladly and wel
come us to tholr company In respect for
our longing to know and see and under
stand. Don't be silly enough to think
that you "know it all" for thus Indeed
you will shut yourself off forever from
light.
Pancakes and Harmony
The Bookkeeper and the Stonographer
Discuss the Art of Cooking. , : : : ,
By DOROTHY DIX.
"Did you resd in the paper about that
New Jersey divorce suit in which a
young tfe names a Herman pancake as
the co-respondent?" Inquired the Book
keeper. 'All the pan
cakes thst I ever
saw, German, al
lied or n-Milral,"
were calculated to
turn love's young
dream, or any
other kind of a
dream, into a
nightmare," ruplled
the fenoTnpher.
'If I fed my hus
band on pan
cakes It would b
because ho had a
Juicy Itttlo Insur
ance pollry or t
thought that black
was becoming to
me."
"How little you
understand the
masculine stomach," retorted the Book
keeper. "That's why you women lose
out so often In matrimony. Oive a man
what he likes to feed on and he'll eat
out of your hand. Otherwise h will fly
the coop. A man may desert his own
flresld. but never his own dining table
If It groans undor ths particular dishes
thst he likes beet."
"Hugh," sniffed the Stenographer,
feed the brute"
"Preclsoly," agreed the Bookkeeper.
"Now in this pathetic case of a home
wrecked by a woman's hand we have a
man with an Insatiable yearning for
German pancakes. Guileless and con
fiding, believing In the Innocence and
Inexperience of his heart, that the mak
ing of German pancakes Is second nature
to a woman, he marries a yourg crea
ture with every outward attraction, but,
alas, one without a pancake soul.
'He sits down hopefully and trustfully
to their first meal and takes one mouth
ful of the alleged pancakes. Horrors I
Instead of being light and- flakey, a poem
of flour and eggs, and whatever else
pancakes are mad of, it Is a cold, sticky,
flabby concoction, more sultaM for sol
ing shoes than for human consumption.
"The Inevitable result Is utter disillu
sion on the part of the husband. He sees
the grave yawning for him If he eats
wife's pancakes, and the years stretch
ing before him full of desolation and
without comfort if he eschews pancakes, .
for of what value, I ask you. Is a pan
rakeless existence? Ho ha deserts wife
and returns home to mother and her In
comparable pancakes.
"But this man hss a heart, as well aa
a stomach. He waa generous and for
bearing. He orfered 'to go back to his
wlf If she would take a thre montha'
course In cooking. She did. H returned
to her. but her pancakes wer still below
per. and he's gone oack to mother and:
her cooking for good."
"I guess thst when you separate a
man from his food you've got a genuine
case of alienation of the affections," re
marlred the Stenographer, cynlcatly.
"The grounds In the coffee pot have
furnished the grounds for divorces be.
lor now." replied tho Bookkeeper. "A
long aa you keep a man well ted and
comfortable, he will purr under your
hand. That's why It s such a mystery te
me that women don't spend their tlm
learning how ta cook Instead of trying
to learn to play on the piano. Belieoe me,
canned music goea better In the home
than canned eats."
"You can't picture a blissful ending to
a romance as saying, 'and they lived
happily ever after out of the delicates
sen store," admitted the Stenographer.
"Rlght-o," responded the Bookkeeper.
1 "A man who loves to eat is delivered,
bound and tied Into his wife's hands,'
said the Stenographer, reflectively:
"she's always got a way to work him."
"True," replied th nookksoper, "bfit
you don't ses many girls nowadays that
can make pies like mother mad.
"And you don't see many young men
who can make the dough Uk fatktss mad
It," retorted the Stenographer.
Do You Know That
A deep-water diving suit has been tested
In I ng Island Sound. Connecticut, to a
depth of tn feet, which la probably a
record fcr deep-ae diving.
A lens mad In Prance for a new Wo. 000
candle-power lighthouse In Hawaii Is ex
pected to project light forty miles.
Ants can stand extremes of beat or
cold. Forty-eight hours' exposure to
frost will not kill them, snd one sort has
been observed to build Its nest in chinks
In a blacksmith's forge.
The Jordon Is the world's most crooked
river, wandering US miles to cover sixty.
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The following Omaha and Council
Bluffs dealers carry complete lines
of Victor Victrolaa, and all the late
Victor Records as fast as issued.
You are cordially invited to inspect
the stocks at any of these establishments.
Her & Mueller
PIANO COMPANY
.1311-1313 Famam St Omaha, Neb.
Hear the N'ewent Records in Our Newly Remodeled
Hound-Proof Demonstrating Rooms on tfae Main Floor.
The Fox Trot, Rouli Rouli,
and all the other new dances
and the Victrola plays as
long as any one wants to
dance.
There are Victors and
Victrolas in great variety of
styles from $10 to $250
at all Victor dealers.
Victor Talking Machine Co.
CamdonN. J.
The
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allstross Is the largest at ses
Corner 15th and
Branch at
334 BROADWAY
Council Bluffs
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407 Tt Broadway, - Council Bluffs, la.
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