The Omaha
Sunday
Bee
PART TWO
EDITORIAL
PAGES ONE TO TEN
PART TWO
SOCIETY
PAGES ONE TO TEN
VOL. XLV XO. 3.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, .TUIA 4, 1915.
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What the New'Dean of Girl
Believes Should he Made
of the Position,.
rHE'S our darling D. o. o. "
L When you hear that, however, It
Oiiill not mean anything disrespectful,
but will refer only by abbreviation to
the new job of "Dean of Girls," a sort
of foster-mother to all the high school daughters,
which Jessie M. Towne has been appointed to fill.
Miss Towne Is a young woman who laughs
laughs all over her face when she laughs.
Most women can laugh (accent on "can").
But a lot o4 them laugh only occasionally or
semi-occaslonally or rarely.
It Is not a long distance back along the well
known corridors of Time when It was considered
quite "de trop" for a school teacher to laugh al
most as bad form as for a minister to do so.
Happily that time Is past.
Nowadays the teacher who laughs is the popu
lar teacher. Some of them even giggle and are
beloved.
Miss Towne does not giggle. But she laughs
with her whole person. Her face lights up and
her big eyes dance with amusement, merriment
and sometimes she rocke to and fro. She laughs
with perfect freedom. She laughs with girlish glee.
The sage who said something to the effect that
the woman who laughs easily is "all right" and al
ways well-liked proved by that statement. If by
nothing else, that he was entitled to his member
ship card in the Amalgamated Union of Sages.
But, mark you, the new dean of girls does not
laugh coptinuously. She has serious seasons. She
laughs only when there is occasion and she sees
many occasions because she has a goodly sense of
humor which the above-quoted sage or one of his
brethren stated truly to be a noble quality In
woman.
New Dean Has Taught Twenty Years
When the interviewer called upon the dean-to-be,
she laughed and entered zestfully Into the
rather novel experience of "being Interviewed."
Tall and slender and dark of complexion Is
this young woman with the dignified-sounding
title. Her eyes are big like those of the "ox-eyed
Athene," to quote from Friend Homer.
"Yes," she smiled, "I've been a teacher here
in the high school for twenty years."
"Eh I beg pardon," gasped the interviewer.
"I began teaching here in 1895," she repeated.
"Well, well," said he, "I didn't know they
took teachers at the age of 10 or 12 years."
The dean of girls laughed right out.
"And I haven't a college degree," she con
tinued. "It's a standing joke among us that Miss
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Kate McIIugh and I are the only ones that never
had college degrees."
"Perhaps that's an argument against colleges
and college degrees," ventured the Interviewing
gentleman.
Another little laugh and' then seriousness.
"I went to Radcliffe for two years," she said,
"and after that I bad to go to work. Later I spent
a year at Leland Stanford and I was going to col
lege again, but I decided to take a trip abroad,
which I think was of more value than a year at
college would have been.
"The appointment as dean of girls came to
me as a complete surprise. I wasn't even aware
they were going to create the position, aside from
the fact that we had talked of the subject here at
school and had mentioned among ourselves that
there ought to be someone to whom the girls could
come with their troubles and difficulties. Miss
McHugh rather filled this position unofficially
while she Was -principal, but since then no one
has done it."
Just ask high school girls about Miss Towne.
"Oh, she's a dandy." "She's a good fellow' "She's
all right," say they.
Will Be the Students' Steady Chaperone
When there are student "doings' and a chap
erone or helper is needed. Miss Towne has often
been selected for the place. And, though she is
naturally busy with the work and responsibilities
of her position, she has always cheerfully accepted,
though it has meant many hours of extra work for
herself. This year, for example, she chaperoned
the rehearsals of the 1915 class play, which pro
ceeded every afternoon and evening for over a
month. She helped to prepare for the senior ban
quet and for the graduation. She has been the in
timate friend and confidante of her girls and
her boys.
"I like girls," she said, and there was some
thing In the way she said it that made It plain
that she meant "I love girls."
'"You like the boys, too, don't you?" we re
nigged, as the Japanese schoolboy used to say.
"Oh, yes, of course I do, but I love to help the
girls. You see, they have so many problems. Espe
cially difficult Is it for 'the Incoming freshman
class every year. Their grade school ties have been
broken and they find themselves suddenly in a
vast building, with halls and rooms full of strange
faces. All seems more or less confused to them,
"Even those pupils who have come with them
from their several schools are more or less lost in
the crowd. And they feel lonely and are apt to
get discouraged. I shall make an effort to get
Into close personal touch with those girls without
Gutzon Borglum's Fine Life
What the Lines on His Face and Hands Indicate to
Mask of Bryan
Those Who Study Them
A FEW DAYS before William Jennings Bryan ten
dered his resignation as secretary of state in
President Wilson's cabinet he submitted to hav.
in a plaster mask of bis face and a cast of his
hand made by (itilzou Burlum, (lie well known sculptor
and artist, presumably for later use in connection with
tlio modeling of a bust or statue, (iutzon Borglum is
well known in Omaha as a member of the Borglum
family, who made their home here for lhany years, some
of whom still reside here. Gutzon Borglum, himself,
was a visitor to Omaha last year, delivering an address
upon progress of American art at one of the Commercial
club luncheons at which lie was the honor guest. Mr.
Borgium has briefly analyzed in his own word the
features and traits disclosed by the Bryan life mask, and
the cast of the Bryan hand has also been read by a palm
ist who has attempted to draw conclusions from its lines.
THE BRYAN FACE
By Gutzon Borglum
MR. BRYAN possesses one of the most dra
matic faces in American life. As re
vealed by the cast. It Is one of exceeding
strength and determination. Ambition, however,
Is not the word with which to describe its traits.
It is a face remarkably mature. Lincoln's coun
tenance was old in some features, but in other re
spects It was Immature. Mr. Bryan's eyes, and
especially his mouth, are finely mature. For
twenty years ha has been one of the great Amer
ican orators, so that his mouth, which has uttered
millions of phrases, has been shaped into a beau
tiful maturity. His face U that of a consummate
artist.
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THE BRYAN HAND
(Analyzed by a palmist unaware that
it wat Bryan . )
AS A WHOLE, the band denotes great emo
' tlonal qualities, executive ability and utter
freedom of expression. The width of the
waist of the thumb Indicates complete lack of tact,
and the idealistic effect of the Index finger Is dam
aged by the Inward slope of the top Joint which
means commercialism.
The distance between the Index finger and the
second finger is Indicative of Independence of
thought; Independence of action is denoted by the
distance between the third and fourth fingers.
The distance between the heart-Una (which
runs from the outside of the palm up under tot
second finger) and the headline (which runs di
rectly below and parallel to the heart line) be
speaks a thorough broad-mindedness, with a lean
' ing toward mysticism.
The Mount of Luna (extending on the outside
of the palm from below the heart-line to the wrist)
is over-developed, and Is a mark of an exaggerated
imagination.
The slight taper at the end of the thumb de
notes refinement. . The first phalange of the
thumb indicates a vigorous will; the second, sound
logic, and the third strong affections.
The peaks In the middle of the first phalanges
of the fingers Indicate genius, but the absence of
squares between the bases of the finger marks the
owner as one who It easily carried away by his own
eloquence one who forges ahead without fully
analyzing things.
Finally, the little breaks and lumps in the
heart-Una denote poignant disappointments.
any delay and to make them feel at home. Poor,
lonely little things, they often have gone back to
their grade school teachers for comfort during the
first days and weeks of high school.
"Then there are a thousand little difficulties
that come up in girls' lives when they need ad
visers and it has always been a pleasure to me to
help them solve their problems which are usually
(jultealmpra'anj Hasy'for grown-ups.
' "WVrta miw-my uava trial to bridge the
gap between the grades and high schools by means
c( a 'Junior' and 'senior' high school.' Ia Chi
cago they are trying to keep the incoming students
la groups, retaining those from each school to
gether as much as possible when they enter the
high school.
Tact, Sympathy and Hard Common Sense
"Junt what qualities go to make up the ideal
dean of girls is hard to say. Should she be a so
ciety woman In the best sense of that term who
wlll.be a model for the students? Should she be
a learned woman who represents the best Jn higher
education and ranks high la her chosen field?
Must she be a woman with human sympathies who
will 'win' her girls? Must she be an administrator?
Should she be a 'dragon,' a policewoman?
'1 should answer decidedly no to the latter
two. Undoubtedly she should be a woman of tact
and deep sympathy. These, I think are the two
most Important qualities. Tact and sympathy with
good, hard 'common sense' will do more for girls
than anything else I know of.
"Jollity and good comradeship go far with
girls. But they must be Judiciously leavened with
firmness. A dean of women or girls should know
each girl personally and by name and should have,
also, the ability to draw out those that are abnor
mally self-centered or backward as well aa to tone
down those that may be too 'forward.'
"There was once a member of a board of
trustees of a certain college who, in casting about
for a dean of women, stated that he wanted 'a
woman of the type of Mary Lyon, Emma Wlllard
and Alice Freeman Palmer.' He didn't want much,
did he?
"Girls are critical and they are quick to de
tect artificiality on the part of a teacher. Natural
ness is here, as elsewhere, a golden quality.
"I do, indeed, look forward with a great deal
of pleasure to the duties of the position."
Miss Jessie M. Towne, "dean of girls," did not
comment on the fact that it looked like rain, which
would seem to Indicate that she Is a practical young
woman who doesn't waste words.
She has plenty of ideas on live subjects. She
has opinions, but doesn't force them on people, ex
pressing her ideas decidedly and concisely, but
with the pleasing effect that she believes your own
opinions may be Just as good, or even better.
It's all right, oh, trembling freshmen andwiae
sophomores and dignified Juniors and worshipful
seniors. It's all right, girls.
Ask Miss Towne.
A Sensitive Soul
A minister must be very careful In choosing his
words if he Is to give no offense to any of his Cock.
In a certain congregation there was a dear old
lady who loved flowers and who had a beautiful
garden. Each Sunday It was her bouquet that
adorned the pulpit. She was especially fond of
sweetpeas, and she once brought them for several
Sundays In sucression. Suddenly other flowers
appeared. The minlnter noticed the change end
after the service asked the old lady why she
brought no more sweetpeas.
She Btniled sadly and answered: "You don't
like them. Last Sunday you pointed rigkt at my
sweetpeas and said, 'God loves even toe meanest
flower that grows.'" Philadelphia Ledger
