THE TEE: OMAHA. TUESDAY. MAY. 1 1 r 101.".
9.
v
toe
"7 TT
ifiio
Magazl tie ae:
Jiee
6
I
1
l!
What is a Good Woman
By ELLA WHEKLKR WILCOX.
(Copyright, 1515.' Ftar Company.)
There are good women;, there are bet
ter women; there are best women.
There are comparatively good women,
positively Rood women and superlatively
pood women; and v
.USS"
The Tuxedo Girl
all these . defini
tions are modified
by time, place,
climate and tem
perament. Good women a.p
pear ' In publlo
places and before
mrn here in Amer
ica with imcov
ered faces and
shoulders; but In
Turkey no good
woman could do
this, because It Is
not the custom,
and would offend.
The good woman
doea not offend pcirpoely or wantonly.
8ho submits to the Ineonvenlenres and
discomfort of tradition until she oan see
some reasonable prospect of bettering the
race by defying the conventions. "
The comparatively good woman lives
a ha.mtess life, avoids wounding any one,
and submits to all manner of injustice
! at the hands of society because she dls-
i likes to make a fuss or attract attention
j or disturb existing order!",
j The positively good woman lives an
actively good life, under -the same enndi
i tlons, putting herself te great trouble to
'help others and trying -to overcome the
i results of inlustlte without "essaying to
j remove the cause.
! The superlatively good woman doea all
: this and more. She attends to the near
est duty ftrV relieves distress' and be
stows sympathy, but she is brave enough
i to attempt an attack on established
Vtrd!tiongwhen they stand In the way
jot the prqgress of the human race, even
I though the attacks bring suffering and
pain upon herself. Mary Uvermore, Julia
Ward Howe', Victoria Woodhull. I.ticretie
Mott. Susan B. Anthony, Elisabeth Cady
Stanton and nil superlatively1 . good
v women. , "Refined, sensitive and beautiful
souls, they suffered from the brutality
and Ignorance of the world when they
gave their lives to the destruction of
moss-grown traditions which had become
breeders of pestilence, and undertook the i
I construction of the great, broad edifice
I where women dwells today. I
The merely good woman does no evil.-
i Hhe keeps the Commandments, and is
: happy In being harmless.
The better woman does no evil and
J strives also to do good where It comes in
her wajr.
The best woman does no evil, does
much goed and goes out of her way to
Iryplre and encourage those who have
been doing wrong to new aspirations and
tndeavor.
The good woman never -speaks ill of th
absent. jHlic I nJUM, When-, others con
demn, - w ta.'C.l .iva-;;:' '
The better weinan speak well of the
nbcnt when lt-fcv jngssfbte to'.do so. '
The best wemun ..Aelcnda the absent,
even o the risk pt effending those per
sons who are prone' tor condemn. -. '
The good woman is satisfied with being
Rood. 1 '. f :" . .'" :. 1 ... :
The bet uoinuivis. cpntinuallly at
work upon her character. to make bet
ter. ' '
The really good woman Is a good daugh
ter, sister, wife, mother and friend. She
may be, jtimplu, humble, uneducated and
poor! yet If eho fulfills her duty la all
these relations she Is the heat of women,
for they Invariably carts Torth; ttie ' high
est qualities t the' hilman rnatiire, and
often demand self-denial, ' self-sacrifice
and selfccntrtr.
There sr.. chaste scandalmongers , who
were neighborhood assassins slavtna
1 characters-with their adder togues. J
There are" ; Inodels of virtue who are
reckless spendthrifts, , wasting hard
. "artlflH mniintf In hmHIm. ... ,
The good- .women knows how .to curb,
her temper.' hpw to be charitable In
speech, how to economize her expendi
tures. ' ' i ' ,
It requlres-courage.v self- control and
unselfishness for a woman to practice
common seue economy when surrounded
by extravagance and folly. In the heart
of fashionable society', some such good
women may. be found.
It requires the same virtues and faith
and trust In God's wisdom added for a
woman to be cheerful, kind and patient
while but, heart is starved all her life
for the refinements and pleasures of ex
istence; yet many such women are to be
found In homes of poverty good women,
who rejoice In the success and happiness
of others while fated to live a life of hard
work and loneliness from the cradle to
the grave. In shops, factories and kitch
ens, there are good women doing distaste
ful work patiently, and cheefully, using
their earnings for. othera dependent upon
them. i
There are gcod women who stand by
bad husbands." because they believe it
their duty and because they hope for
ultimate reformation.
There are v Kd women who leave bad
husbands because they realise that, self
respect, of the salvation of their children,
demands It. e
Any woman who lives up' to tier highest
I understanding of duty Is a good woman
no matter how others may differ in their
f uiwi vi w net constitutes amy.
; The girt Who gives up her-ambition
j for an education in order to remain at
home and care for aging parents Is a
good girl., but another may prove a bet
, let- gin wno pusne ahead and secures
her education In order that she can give
. her parents a more desirable borne
eventually.
The highest unselfishness must some
times suffer from the misconstruction
of the world, which regards It as sel
fishness. '
We are, all a little better or a tittle
worse than we were last year this time
I a little stronger or a little weaker; a lit
tie wiser or Utile duller.
There Is no such thing as remaining
stationary. The world turns on Its axis
the sun. stars, planets, all revolve. Ec-ven
the rocks arc composed of millions of
ever hoving atoms, ho the mind of the
mortal Is always doing Its work and
making or unmaking the character.
It is for yoa to decide a you analyse
your own DC- whether you are a good
woman or not, whether you are a good
as you know bow to be, and whether
you are better this year than you were
int.
I i i 11111 I'll ft I1U WI If I I I 1 I
13 Iff ; I I 1 I B
I I I II 11 U V WW Mill ! B
' 7 ' ! VV-
HA M
' I H ft v I I v i yy
www 1 v im
Shootingf Millions of Miles
How the Astronomer Aims at Stars He Cannot See
After the rush of winter social activ
ities and before the summer season at
Newport, Narraganwtt Pier and Bar
Harbor begins, the wise girt seeks the
comparative quiet of. Tuxedo to recup
erate from the one and prepare for the
other. But no matter how well laid her
plans for rest may be, there are always
some aocial affairs that require correct
gowning. - -
A simple gown, of white taffeta, which
bore . the signature of Premet, was In
cluded Ira 'the.. .wardrobe 'of .a-recent ar
rival at 'Tuxedo. It might be usei for a
smart function, for afternoon tea or
even for an Informal eyenlng affair. The
skirt was In two-flounce arrangement, the
upper somewhat wider than the under,
and bordered with novelty black braid,
which in turn was edged with a narrow
box-plait . quilling of the taffeta. la
lines the skirt was one of the most youth
ful advanced this season.
The front draping of the bodice was
reminiscent of the basque effects of al
most ono yenr ago, and which this same
designer had the honor. to introduce.
Of particular Interest was the poke hat,
a sor ot modification 'of. the jsao scuttle
shape, with Its tall trimmings balancing
the bell outline of the dress. .
Greatest Gift in the World
, . ''-.''-, 1 r 1 .
I ' 1 .
Br GARRETT I. 8KRVISH.
They were tilling tie tbe other day of
a new Herman gnn cat-able of sending
projectiles across tbe channel Into rkg
land. a distance of wenty-flve or thirty
miles. We have also heard much ot the
marvellous shooting the artillery ot the
Allies, which hits marks that the gun
ners cannot see. The run ! et at an
elevation determined by previous calcula
tion, based upon the known distance and
direction of the Invisible target, a signal
from an aeroplane tells when to shoov
and the great gun drops Its projectile
on the selected point, shatters a trench,
and reveals Its hidden quarry In the
form" of flying fragments In the air.
There Is a close analogy between this
work of the big guns and that of the
astronomer with his gtest telescopes.
The scientific gunner In the observatory
aiso finds his Him by calculation, in
stead of by sight. What he Is "shooting
at In the sky la geneiauy someimn
that he cannot see 'before he hits, It,
People whoso ideas a bant telescopes are
bssed upon the use of spy-glasses have nd
comprehension of the-way the astron
omer goes to wdrk with his huge optical
ordnance.
He does not peeo out of tke observa
tory dome, fix the direction or a star
with his eye and then turn his telescope)
upon It. on tne contrary. yri"-
very much as the gunner behind the lines
in France or Flanders proceeds. .He be
gins by getting the direction and the
range out of a" bonk or a paper, ne
doesn't even glance at the sky; ne iooks
at the fjgurer, and then he turns thumb
screws and handles ana aumnis mrui.au
microscopes fixed over sliding scales and
graduated circles, until lie has swung
the great telescope tube on Its noiseless
bearings, which are as delicate in assign
ns they are powerful and rigid In ma
terial and construction, to the exact
pointing in "right ascension" and "de
cllnatlon"required to bit the spot in the
starry vault for which he is searching.
That done, he puts his eye at the eye
piece, or Ocular, of the telescope and the
object that he Is after leaps Into sight
before him. whether It be a new comet,
or a double star, or a variable star. r
one of those marvellous spiral nebulae
which crawl In the proCoundest deeps of
stellar apace like luminous cephalopoda,
spawning the glittering germs of new
suns and solar systems.
The astronomer doea not see ,the sky
when he is In his observatory, working
with his telescope. He Is as Wind to the
universe as Is the steersman of a sub
marine to the broad surface ot the ocean.
The narrow silt In the observatory dome,
through which the long tube ot the tele
soope almost emerges, . high above hi
head, is his only, periscope, and that ho
rarely uses, for his tables of figures and
his graduated and movable circles are ail
that he needs for his sub-celestial navl
gatlon.'
Often when he comas out from the
confinement of the dome Into the fresh
air, under the vast star-apaagled vault
of night, he looks up with admiration,
and sense ot refreshment, and of in
spiration, at the eight of all that spark,
ling multitude, as ft It were to him a
novel spectacle.
In the Increase of range the telescope
Is again 'like the cannon. The great gun
shoots farther in proportion as It Is able
to withstand more and more pressure
from the powder gases. .The gieat tele
scope reaches deeper Into universal space
In proportion as Its lenses or Its mirrors
are able to collect and bring to a focus
more and more light.
Br BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
It Is, with time' that we buy all the
good that comes to us in the world. It
is by a . wise use of time that we get
wisdom and riches and happiness and
love and health. And the only reckless
spendthrift in all the world is the man
or woman who wastes and squanders
time.
The only thing In the world that is
freely and without handicap-, the -possession
of us all. Is time. Evtery day every
one of us has all there Is. Every day
each of ua has precious hours and min
utes and seconds to spend and the free
dom of choice as to how we will spend
them.
And, if at" the end of the day, you
measure nothtn but "waste on the credit
side of your ledger that marks the one
and only absolute waste. A broken
friendship may be renewed, a' lost fortuno
may be retrieved, .a waste city may ls
rebujlt There la nothing fatal about
most loss In the world. But at p t of sun
the dsy is gone it will never come again
It, is over.. That la an awe-Inspiring
thought, and a true one. '
There is plenty of (tlmc in the 'world
but none to throw away. IJfe la for
work and patient attempt t understand
and accomplish. Idleness, grieving, re
grit,, useless pleasure-seeking, gossip all
thane are inefficient thefts from your
own treasure of hours. You deduct them
from the grenJ total of your own life.
The day l yours yours fully and freely.
What will you do with it?
Ufe Is tor work and growth, for kind
neas anj inve. it at the end of every
twenty-four hours you have actually done
something on -which you can look and
aay, "It li mine, and it ia good," you
have made a worth-while use of your
time, i Work doesn't necessarily mean
marching along ateadlly at one Job it
takes In interruptions and deviations from
the cnurso you have mapped out for your
self. It Isn't the plan that counts, It Is
the effort and growth and ability.
Suppose you start out one day with a
definite Idea of ( leaning your china closet
and silverware. A messsge comes from a
rick mend who longs to have you come
and read, to her. If you go with a feeling
of irritation because your scheme for the
day has been interfered with, you are
wasting your time. Hot if you do the
particular thing whi li lies before you
cheerfully and amiably, your dav Is not
wakied. Tbe actual s heme of things Is
much bigger than ycu and your P'TiihI
designs It takes In more th -"- lit
tle wne woman perspective permits you to
ee. ,
In reading to a sick friend there is
cheer- and eoxifort for her and growth'
and unselfishness for you, snd for both.
oi you tne cnance or Knowlnoge to ba
gained. Your time wasn't wasted at all-
It was simply spent differently from what'
you Intended. There lies the distinction
snd the differonoe, . i ,
livery day a mental Inventory ought to
be taken. At nlghtfull ask yourself ques
tions like these: Have I grown today?
Have I given : something to life "and
learned something from UT Have I ao-
tunlly used my time, to advantage? Have
I the right to a warm feeling of content
mcnt over my accomplishments for the
aay.' or navo I frittered my time away
idly and uselessly, seeking amusement and
(Jlvernion-'"kllling timer'
The thirst for amusement grows In
proportion to your placid Indulgence of
It. If you get to a state of feverish un
rest or your one desire Is to go dashing;
about madly seeking all sorts of forms of
Idle amusement that "appeal to the sur
face of your consc loustiess only, you are
wasting your time badly.
To be taken out of yourself at the end
of a hard dsy's work through amua.
ment is a very sane proceeding. If you
have been leeching a class of geometry
ail day lone, and have arrived at the
state of nervous tension where yop are
likely to lie all riitrht on a sleepeas couch
figuring out squares of hypothenuses and
radii of circles, ycu are on your way to
a scholarly waste of time which ought to
be spent In the recuperation of slumber.
And so a little harmless, diversion that
will rest your tired mind Isn't a waste
of time at all. It Is a prime necessity of
your being.
.Nothing constructive. nothing that
builds up your life and that of those with
whom you come in contact can be waste
ful. Seize upr.n work. Make up your
mind that it occupies your mind, your
body, y.u heart snd your soul. Be sure
that It s individual and suitable, that It
Is legitimate and vital. Gather in all its
opportunities with s feeling that It la aa
imperishable part of Nre, do It thoroughly
and well.
Turn your attention to your family re
lationships, tirn twat you are being fair
to tliem and tr. them. slake sure that
your ambitions are not overshadowing
your affections lilve jour attention to
the tend. in. y ej owe to your friends
and to aII who tote you. .See to It that
tl.o common ilHc of your life are being
attcn 1 4 to. MiJiy yur. ofti- talents and
develop. Ilievt tp the. -utmost ul
y.jur ability. I your duty by iour
V"S '. - -
v-iii- ... i ... j. .
: -- ' if ' :
I " 711 T. v ,f
J '""'' J i" - . B
r T f 7.. I
te m f
1 i -... i
;i I
I L - ,.
1 r '. ,r; r i . v- v' 4 1
'
Science for Workers
By KIKtAR LVC1K5 LARKIN.
j Question "If it be true that the repro
id notion f life l entirely a chemical pro
jeess. 'merely a chemical reaction,' as
seems to have been ormonstraten ny
Jacques l.oeb and Pr. Kastian and other
eminent scientists, does not this estab
lished fact explode the theory that noth
ing exist but electrons and that thev
were created by mind?" Alansn Rlker.
Answer Has no effect on the theory
that sil matter In existence Is composed
entirely ot moving electrons. If life Is
a result entirely of a chrmlesi process or
reaction, then this has nothing to do with
the origin of the enemies!. My theory
thst mind created electrons Is based on
the fact that mind la the only at present
known entity In all that part of the uni
verse within the range of man that has
force to create that is, to add to itself
by thinking a thought that had never
been thought of before. At the present
advance of science it has not beea proved
that life Is the result of merely chemical
processes or reactions. Nono knows what
life Is. Hut creatures i-oduced by chem
ical methods, if they are living cteatutes
really, hsve not been able to produce
young creatures. That is, it hss not been
proved with absolute scientific rigidity
that is. beyond the faintest trace of
doubt, as to whether the motions and
growths In Ixieb's and nsstlan's, also
Burke's, products, were aetua'ly caused
by life. To become scientific this mutt -be
proved."
Question "I have read that the human
body sustslne an sir. pressure of some
thing like fourteen tons. Suppose a pet- .
son were placed in a compartment which .
had been rendered as near a vacuum as
possible and tbe person . breathing
through a tube from the outside. What
would be the effect oh the body'
R. Kelly.
Answer The person would soon die.
The pressure of air on an average, with
normal' conditions at mean sea level. Is ,
14.7.55 pounds to one square ihch nearly
fifteen pdunds. This force in the delicate
tissue of the tungs would destroy them
and death would follo.v almost Immedi
ately. And blond easels In all partes ot
the body, or at least near the surface
would be Rreatly distended. If hot rup
tured. Dire results would follow the re
lease ef air pressure from a living body.
A photographic refractor frith object glass thirteen 'inches
in diameter. The observer is holding tbo switch connected
with the driving clock. ' ' . . ' . ' j
"How, fa can a telescope see?" la a
question often asked. In order to give an
approximate answer we must make cer
tain assumptions. A sixth magnitude
star Is the faintest celestial object visible
to the miked eye. Now, It appear that
the average sixth magnitude star is at
a distance of about JTP light years, or say.
In round numbers, , 2.17S t million-million
miles. Let us take that distance, then,
as representing the utmost range, In an
astronomical sense, of the unaided human
, A telescope wllh a one-Inch object glass
will snow stars down to the ninth mag
nitude, but tho average ninth magnitude
star is about l.ono Ub'ht-years distant, or
aay 5,800,O0O,000.fJOO,O0O mllea. Accordingly
the "range" of the one-Inch telescope is
more than two-and-a-half tlmea' that of
the naked eye. A ten-inch telescope will
perceive stars down to the fourteenth
magnitude, which rarrlcs the range up to
t . .
1,000 light-years, or say 4.u6.KO,Ctt,OQO.OM
miles. With a forty-Inch telescope, like
thai of the Terkea observatory, the' range
goes up. to S5.A00' light-pears, reacting
seventeenth' magnitude stars, and with
a hundred-Inch telescope like the giant
now under construction for Mount Wil
son. In California, the range should
theoretically extend to stars ot the nine
teenth magnitude', which are on the aver
age W.OJu light-years, distant A. llght-
vear is the distance which a ray of light,
traveling with the known speed of 1M.S30
milaa per sicond,, woilrt go In one year.
It only needs to be said that the dla
tonces shore stated for atars of various
magnitudes am based upon the assump
tion" of a roughly regular average lumin
osity ot the whole body of the stars, and
should not be taken as representing exact
facts of observation. . The results arrived
at however, are not. in a broad sense.
Nothing to Eat ;
but Shredded Wheat"
and tho richest man in the world could not buy anything more nutritious or more
easily digested. Happy is the man or woman who "has learned through stress of
stringent economy the real goodness of
IiFedldled.
t
It means good digestion, physical and mental vigor the power to do' things that
are worth while. A daily diet of Shredded Wheat will put the weakling on his
feet Try it for ten days.
Made in America -
Two Shredded Wheat BUcuita, heated in the oren to restore crisp
nesa, terred with hot milk or cream, make a complete, nourishing,
tatufyinar meal at a total cost of five or six cents. Also delicious
with fruits. TRISCUIT is the Shredded Wheat Wafer, eaten as a
toast with butter or soft cheese, or as a substitute for white flour
bread or crackers. ' 1
, Made only by
The Shredded Wheat Company
Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Advice to Lovelonil
ay maaTmxca vasavAX n
Do Not Iletarn It. '
Pear Miss Fairfax: A voung man who
ras been calling on me gave me a 'sval-
ilere for Christmas snd I gave h'm a
present in return. He had very bad
ha hits, which he would not try to break,
so I thought It best to give him up. I
wrote him about it, saying he should re
turn my pictures also,-, but have not heard
from him. Now I am going out with an
other young man who I know I really
nam for, but he teases me about this
otner yoims; man and the lavalllor. le
you thiuk 1 aught to return the Isvaller?
FUZZUSD. .
Tou should not have accepted a gift
of Jewelry from a man whom you were
not engaged to marry; Neither has this
other man a right to criticise your ac
tions unless you are engaged to bin).
Keep the gift, but be eharjr about ac
cepting valuable presents, '
Go to See Her Relatives.
Dear Miss Fairfax: Am golnfc out with
a young la.'y and love her dearly. Bhe ,
has l o parent and s boarding with r
Istlvee. They object to me for no reason
at all. rshnuld she stay with them or -board
somewhere else? J. AND .
Why not ask her relatives frankly what
they have against you and assure them
that they are misjudging you? 'Tell them
you admire the young lady, and would
prefer to see her at their home.
The Shredded Wheat Company . kW&TM'' -?X - 'yZ'
W Niagara Falls, N. Y. jfir '
t W'f Sill
.....i.i.i . M...f.(..... I.,., ....ii.i... , Minn i r in, in,.HI f- - - - i i
'4
J
T
U
. .1
it
rf
0
'. 'J
is
a
. i!
' li)
rcJ
f
'' e
XT
' ,
nt
.
H
t.
:
14
. '
Yi
'ot
. 'n
V
si
' n,f
ii
t
(
-If
, .t
5
VI
e:t
t'i
t
m
I"
v
IM
1
it
.iT
1
oi,
I
. A
:.h
.'f
,m
. r
j
1w
.
TS
. -Hi
,
, .ja
, s,a
1
s-r
:-r
it
X
'-i
1
l
VI
ij
O.l
n
t
ti
-:
1 1
