Tin: HKK:. OMAHA, MONDAY, .U'fJUST f, 1915.
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Censorship for
Parents Needed
Too Mny Fathen and Moth
ers Allow Girli to Grow Up
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as They Please, Without Re
ttraint or Even Advice Pres
ent Day Conditioni Are Not
Properly Met ; : : :
If Wishes Came True
By NELL BRINKLEY
Copyright. 191R, Internati News.Scrvl
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Hy ELLA WHEELKK WILCOX.
"'-pyrlght lil&. by the Btsr Company.)
A little group of men and women sat
mound a dinner table In a refined
?)n tropolitan home.
I'nnr men and four women, all trav-
I render anl thinkers, and the arts,
ii p r o f e anion,
M i' ift nd rnrlnl
' v I t i I m e and
t i" itif w ere all
. triiic I in the
dif r c,
They were d.a-
ner!ns Ihe cver
ld and slwas
m subject of the
iutlons ot the
In domestic
nd social lire, and
Hie growing frc
Miiency of divorce
In America. It
ll nemed to the
majority that rlv
I fod society waa
degenerating, but another recalled the
Unman period, where women frequently
mnrrled ten husband, and cited the caae
of one who, according to reliable history,
married her twenty-third huiband, he
himself having poanesnod twenty-one
wives.-
Then the discussion drifted to the
lrngeil which befall young girls. The
r. cent suicide of one girl who had been
l urnucd by a married man In whoae of
fice she waa an employe, brought other
M nllar and . aadly true atorlea to light,
until the reputation of man. the master,
eeemeil to be torn Into shreds.
Whereupon one man said:
'You women have not the slightest
romprehcnslon of what men encounter
from a certain class of' young girls. In
every American city and in many small
towns hundreds of glils In their teen
re allowed absolute license by their
pmentu tn.m the time they are old
Dough to play In the streets and amend
public school until their minds are bold
and their Ideas of fife mercenary.
"These l.tlle girls, with short skirts
and hanging hair, frequent the streets
at will, loitering on the way from school
and shop and factory, and with deliber
ate Intention pursue men who possess
automobiles, or who sit In club windows.
"They plant themselves In the auto
nn.l)llea. In fact, and when the owner
appears greet him with a bold laugh and
iive us a ride, mister, please.' 1 have
known this to occur to more than one
"ttt. snd known men to be as a lied by
olley of Invectives when the little girls
at re almost forcibly put out ot the car
and sent upon their way disappointed." j
It waa a bachelor who spoke; a bachelor
hose name so far has been unaaaalled
ty scandal, and another bachelor and a
U-nedlct added their testimony to a
knowledge of similar events.
"What would you think." asked one ot
the ladles, "of a woman who found her
car occupied by two or three attractive
oung men and who consented to drive
them about and treat them to dinner,
rather than disappoint them? Would the
fact that they pursued her allay a hus
1 nd wounded pride and confidence?
And then, of course, the discussion
wandered into the eternal channel of
tho dlferent code of conduct and morals
i. a ted by custom, if not by nature, for
i.iun and woman.
Hut, meantime, leaving the little party
l- end their ' dlw usslon, does not the
"hole subject hark back to the first
ouroe of all things, the parents? It can
mt be denied that scores. If not nun-
lieds, of bold and vicious young girls
ie to be found in every American city
lodsy
When not vicious their boldness and
loud manners and slangy language ln-
Icate the ease with which they may de--end
to vice. One meets them every-
here, as frequently coming out of school
AMn t.ielr books as from shop or fac
tory; and, again, a little older and a
Hi tie more subdued In manner, but
arcely more In deportment, tn the sum
mer hotels and walking the beaches of
eashore resorts.
What are the American parents think
ing about, that such utter Indifference is
down tn the matter of guarding their
vlrls? Would It not be well to eetabltsh
a censorship for parents la America?
And would It not be well to restrict the
much, vaunted liberty of the young Anier
Kan girl?
An American gentleman, old enough to
be the father of a pretty child of 14. was
cm the point of going to her rescue re
cently In c trolley car, where she wss
ogled and openly given cause for annoy,
snee. If not fear, by three youiur for.
tlsners. Itefore the man had entered Into
o rracas with the young rowdies he was
horrified to see the American achnnl vlrl
einlle encouragingly at their familiarities.
Something ts wrong In our whole system
or education here tn this land of the free.
Why not look into the causes of so much
i-liame and crime, and why not do a little
common sense, systematic training of par
ents? Many of these parents are country born
and trd, and know nothing of the snares
itid temptations which surround our city
life. They believe their girls will "corns
'lit all ritfht" as they did and consider
' few childish 'flirtations' and friv
i liile-s s only natural diversions of youth.
Tliry are unconscious of the fact that
7ohere in America today exists tha safe,
t'.'npie life which surrounded the earlier
iterations. Motor cars and trolleys,
i.tftiKpera. nifceatlnes and Vaudeville
lw rairted the llfo ot the metropolis
;i t i iciuote places. Tach parents to
i ... id their girls.' Kt fonu must befciti at
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ELE.VE.NI ACtfAIN I
Then the little person of 'leven, pouting and dreaming, costume, and Gran 'mother, sunk in reverie, would be of all old as the oldest one (which is of Love), the storv of Wishes
would be grown-up and covered with glory of tribute and things in the world-just 'leven! That's a story most as
Head It Here See It at tho Moviai.
By Gouverneur Morris
and
Charles W. Ooddard
ONVrtgkt. Itls, gar Oeaaaay.
8nopalg of I'evloua ciutplera,
AfUir tha trula de&th at John Aloes
bury, his urostiaied wife, ono ot Aiuxr-
it s groaUst bvaullos, dies. At her dualh
r-ror. btumor, an aa.'Hl or tne luieruaui
ktUuaoa the beautiful 1-year-old baby
Sill and brings bur uu In u paradlsu
wnere ens ses no uiau, out inuias sue
la taught by augets wno Instruct her fur
ber uusatuu to leforiti the world. At the
age of U she Is suddenly thrust lulu the
urld wheie aaouis or the iuterwaia ax
ready to pi'sleuil to flud her.
t'lftawn jrvais later ioiiiuiy goes to the
Adirondack. The Intervals aru lesponal
ble for the trip. My acvldaiit he Is the I li at
to meet the little Ameabuiy girl, as su
comas form troin her paradise, as Cwiesua
the girl tioin huavau. Maimer Tuiuiuy nor
Calaalla recuKiilscs each other. Tommy
llnda tl au easy tuaKar to rescue Calaaiia
Iioat ro(. biimiai suid lliay hUke in
the mouiitalua; later they are pursued
by KUUiier and escape to au Island Uai
tbey spend tha uignL
Tutuiuy s first aim was to get ceiesiia
away from bUUller. After tney leave
bellevue iotiimy Is unable to get auy
hotel to taka OuleaUa la owing to t.ar
costume, ljut later he persuades Ma
lather to keep her. When he goes out
to ue taxi he finds her gune. btie talis
Into the hands of white slavers, but
escapes and aove to live with a poor fam
ily by the mtme or Uouaiaa. v nu their
son Krvdtlle returns home he finds right
in ni own mum. ceivaiia, the gui tut
which the underworld has offsred a re-
ard that he hoped to gut.
Oelestla sicures work In a large gar
ment factory, where a great many girls
are employed. Here abe shows bar pe
culiar power, and makes rnanas wiin all
her girl companions. My her talks to the
girls she is able to calm a threatoned
atrlks, and the "boas" overhearing her Is
Dioved to grant tlie lellet the girls wished,
and also to right sr" great wrong he bad
done one of tlum. Just at this point the
laclory catches on fire, and the work
room Is soon a blazing furnace. Celaatla
refuses to escape with the other girls.
and Tommy lis relay rushes tn aud car
riva ber out, wrapped tn a big roll ot
cloih.
The wife of tha miners leader Involves
Tommy In an escapade that leads the
miners to lynch him. Cvlesila aa,vea hint
lro;u the mob, but turns from It tut anl
goes to see Kehr.
THIKTKKXTH KTISOOK.
I'rcsently Cclestia'g breathing sounded
slow and regular.
"She's asleep." thought Mrs. Ounsdorf,
"tho time haa come," and she begun cau
tiously 4o edge herself out sideways from
under the bed. Hut Celestla waa not quite
asleep sad the noise Mrs. Uunsdort made
wsked her, and Just as Mrs. tlunsdorf
was begbinlng to rise from the floor,
Celestla slipped from the bed, eluded a
hand that clutched at her dress, snatched
from the bureau a heavy silver hand
mirror, the only weapon of defence that
waa In sight, and darted Into the observa
tion compartment.
Celestla was lent like a creature flying
for its life than one who attempts to un
derstand a situation with a view ot mus
tering It, but who In the meanwhile Is
not going to run any rlak ot being acci
dentally hurt. Had the other been the
case, she must have fled screaming
through the outer door of the observation
compartment, out Into the night. She
did nothing of the kind.
In the center of the place was a heavy
table covered with periodicals; bhind this
Celeatla took her aland; ready, like a
child playing tag to dodge In either di
rection. Her eyes, wildly excited, but
fearless, strove to meet aJj master the
eyes of her assailant, byt could not, m
bound waa Mrs. Ounsdorf by the knowl
edge that she must look anywhere but at
those eyes.
Followed a time of stillness, tenseness
and quick breathing. Then efforts by
Mrs. Ounsdorf to get on the same side
of the table with Celestla, and calm
reasoned thwarting of these efforts by
tha latter.
Mrs. Ounsdorf was at a disadvantage.
Not much older than Celestla, ahe was
heavier, less alert, and she dared not
make a full use of her eyes. Her face
averted, so that with the tails of her eyes
she only had partial glimpses of Celestla,
her rushes were more or less at random.
Once she threw herself headlong half
across the table and stabbed, aa a snake
strikes-only to find that she had mis
calculated the distance entirely.
There was another pause.
"Why do you want to hurt me?" asked
Celestla. "Why won't you look at mr'
Mrs. Ounsdorf's only answer waa an
other rush. Celestla threw a chair In her
way and once more succeeded in keeping
the heavy table between them.
Bhe was getting angry. What right
had anyone to chase her with a knife?
If the woman would only look at her!
Mrs. Ounsdorf thwarted, and murder
ous was nonplussed at the ease with
which, so far, Celestla had eluded her.
Her cyea, downcast, had for their tno
mentary range of vision, a pile of re
views, just In front of Celestla, and
portion ot Celestla'a dress.
Quick as thought, Celestla laid the
hand-mirror with which she had armed
herself, face up upon the pile of reviews,
and beyond In the depths of the shining
refractor the eyea of the tao woman
had met at last.
So great waa Mrs. Ounsdorf dread of
those wonderful eyes, so greatly had the
memory of what they had once done to
her. worked upon and giown In her
Imagination, that the sudden sight ot
them gaalng commandlngly up Into her
own from the depths of tha mirror,
numbed and dased her like a blow on the
head. With a great effort to collect her
swimming senses, she Jerked her head
up. and found herself looking Into the
eyes themselves- Catastrophe was upon
her; she had no longer the power to look
away.
Kirrt hatred of Celestla was wiped
clean from her he'art, she did not know
w hy she had come, what she waa doing In
that observation car. Then the knife tell
from her nerveless fingers, and she felt
peacefully drowsy and aa If many heavy
troubles had been lifted from . her
shoulders.
But Celestla, having about her some
thing of the sterness of a Just Judge,
picked up the knife and put it back Into
Mrs. Uunsdorfa hand.
"At last." said Oelestla, "you shall go
away thinking that you have what you
came to do Celeatla. who has done you
no harm In this world, but whom you
wish to stab to death with that knife Is
asleep oh her bed In her state room, fhe
Is very tired and very' sound asleep; still
you must move cautiously.
And Mrs. Ounsdorf. ber eyes fixed and
dead, but the rest of her features wear
ing g wicked, murderous expression, be
gan a horrible, grotesque, tiptoed advance
toward the open door of Celestla' state
room. Then. In her hypnotised brain she
seemed to see Celeatla asleep upon her
bed; and then she was drhtug her knife
many times to the hilt in the beautiful
wl He brenst.
Dr. Pankhurst's Article
On Simpifying LtgtH Procesi 10 that Justice May be Better Served
According to the tTnderstandingof the Layman with Common Sense
Citei Both the Leo M. Frank and the Harry K Thaw Cases
The Man Who Makes Love
Let Women Beware f the Pirate Who Masquerades at a Gentleman
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
(To lie Continued Tomorrow )
Bf DR. CHARLES H. PARK1IUIWT.
It would bo gratifying for us laymen
and contribute to our quietness ot lnlnd
If law were so simple that we oould
understand It, and It Judicial processes
were so free from
complexity that wo
could form some
definite idea a to
what It la they are
designing to ac
complish. We are
not so lacking in
discernment, o r
perhaps I should .
say In Imagination,
aa not to suppose
that In a general
way they are In
tended to prove the
guilt of the guilty
and the Innocence
of . the Innocent,'
but the way of
going about It I
sometime so mys
tifying that ww are obliged to walk a
good deal more by faith than by sight ;
anJ yet we cherish a covert conviction
that If we are normally Intelligent, aa a
good many of us are. even If we have not
studied law, we ought not to be obliged
to assume the validity of so much that
we are not allowed to comprehend.
We cling to the conviction that law la
resolvable Into a very few ultimate prin
ciples that it la not beyond the average
c&pactty to understand. It la easy to
have it retorted upon us that. If we are
unable to see. It must be due to some de
fect In our vision. To that it I quite In
order to reply . that Invisibility Is Just
sa likely to be due to darkness as to
blindness. In a dark closet It Is no
fault of mine that I cannot distinguish
the objects that are contained In It. In
reading reports of court proceedings one
finds that a good deal of stress I laid
upon rule of evidence and that a good
deal of testimony la excluded that Is felt
by counsel to have a direct and Important
bearing upon the matter In hand, and ha
1 better prepared than any one else to
know whether It haa such bearing.
Now a mind legally untutored, but pos
sessed of sterling good sense, would like
to understand why anything of that sort
should be shut out.
It I a remark attributed to ex-Governor
Slaton when he was about to take
up the Frank case that he was going to
take into consideration everything what
soever that bore in any way upon the
question in hand, by whU-h it was un
derstood that he waa going to proceed
without any regard to those technical
limitations that, like barnacles, have
fastened themselves upon methods of
court procedure; and it was Immediately
felt that by going about It In that un
hampered way he would reach results
that would thoroughly approve themselves
to his own mind, and that would admit ot
being similarly approved by an Intelli
gent public; and in those results an In
telligent public has gratefully acquiescent.
Studying law doubtless has the effect
to strengthen the mind, but It sometimes
seem to an outsider to have tha effect
to obfuscate the mind, and tn such man
ner to so submerge the fundamental prin
ciples of law under a sea of technical
minutiae as to emphsaise detail to the
eirbarrasrment and sacrifice of funds
ifVentala. V. e have bulked that the study
of theology sometimes oDerates In thn
same way, and that the graduate semin
ary student easily allows tho great mas
tor truths of religion to be swamped
under a moras of petted particulars that
aro of only dependent value. It require
less mind to be busy with small matters
than to be energetically en groused with
bljr one. ' .
A few months ago the press reported
the case of a will written by a layman
' follow: "All of the property of which
I am possessed I herewith bequeath to
my wife." Signed his name; two wit
nesses added their signatures. The pro
bate court approved the will.
Now It Is doubtful If any lawyer, after
having experienced the diffusive effect
of a full course In the law school would
have compressed the testamentary wishes
of that testator Into anything short of a
couple of pagea of professional verbiage.
Presumably It Is not because of any Idea
on his . part that prolixity will produce
the Impression of profundity. Nor would
we be so discourteous as to suppose that
o elaborate a atyl of phraseology Is
availed of a mean of preventing lay
men from thinking they can write, their
own will without help from the legal
profession.
There appear to be three kind ot sense:
common sense, supersense and profes
sional sense. This three-fold classifica
tion explains a good deal that Is other
wise difficult, among the rest the legal
eccentricity Just noted.
The last trial of Thaw (that Is to say.
the last up to date) I a matter In which
the lay mind finds food for perplexity.
The Jury was composed of men pre-
sumaoiy of such quality aa to aattav k.
demands of the counsel, respectively, of
the prosecution and the defense. After
deliberating less than an hour, they
brought In a unanimous verdict for the
defense.
Due to our condition of legal unen
llghtenment, we supposed that that made
him a free man. and that a unanimous
verdict means either final acquittal or
final conviction. It seems not. It ap
pear that there are numerous appliances
fitted to the Judicial machine that are
held In reserve for particular occasions
so that when a man Is acquitted tt may
mean that he Is acquitted or It may
mean that he I being held over for an
other grilling
After the acquittal It was authnrlt..
lively announced that the Judge might
reverse the Jury's verdict. We allowed
ourselves to wonder why then the whole
matter waa not put up to the Judge In
tne first Instance instead of havln u
put through the tedious and expensive
formality of a Jury trial.
Still later It has been nubliclv ataieH
that the prosecution Is going to take an
appeal. To the Intellectually
rate that would aeem to denote that the
prosecutor la going to keep trying the
poor fellow till ha succeeds In mvl,.tl
hiin. Thaw haa had eight years of It
already. The future must look long to
him.
AH of this ts a lesson to Innocent nonnla
to try to keep Innocent. It Is also a lesson
to all conoarned that Judicial procedure
needs to be absolved from some of its
technicality and simplified from some of
Its mystery before It will quits comport
with the dignified simplicity of law or
perfectly hold the confidence of the un
professional sense of the public
"Hee who mine heart would keope for
long
Shall bee a gentlll man and strong,"
Quote the heroine of a well known
novel. How wisely she choose her
motto!
However love wander for a time, how
over the heart of woman goes a-gypsylng
at the call of fascinating freebooters. In
the end love come home. And the
"home" of a woman's love can be only
In the harbor of a loyal man's heart.
"The man who understand women"
I all too often nothing more than a thief
of love, a bandit and pirate. He studies
woman after woman to their cost. Each
one he' leaves, having "learned about
women from her'-and then on to tha
next he goes, to give her a little tirlef
fevered happiness and then to leave her
sadder and wiser and either miserable In
her disillusionment or clinging to a mem
ory that la not worthy of a thought.
"The man who understands women"
understands their emotions because he
play upon them. The most sacred feel
ing he examine and classifies. Ills
game Is scientifically conducted but since
It is a game It ought never be dangerous
to the woman who will stop and think.
Women ought never to cease to remem
ber that In marriage thelrappines I
made for them by the love they accept
Any woman who let a weak, selfish, un
stable man gain power over her through
hi pirate gift to steal hearts. Is prepar
ing for herself an aftermath of misery
to follow a harvest of weeds Instead of
grain. The weeds may be bright-colored
. it..i .
nnuiuis to tne eye out tney can
shame if only they would forca their
Intellects to Join hand with ttielr emo
tions. The romance need not go out of life
but one may Judge what I trus romance
and what .play-acting. If a woman haul
herself up short In time and listen to
reason listens to the voice of her In
stincts, of her sentinel soul behold tho
evidence and weigh it sanely, she may
save herself heartache and agony.
Selfishness, disloyalty, lax moral
standards, dishonestly, cruelty, egotism
all give signs ot themselves to any but
wilfully blinded eyes. And though they
be blended with a power to stir emotion
and to stimulate wild affection, they are
sign of shoals and reefs that must wreck
the frail craft of love.
The Prince Charming who ride up a
woolng in a sixty horsepower car may
be a splendidly eligible party from the
worjdly point of view; the Adonis who
thrills you at sight, may be rich In
emotions but . is either a man a real
man worthy of your best? On your
nonest answer to that on your honeat
abiding by standards of worth and fine
ness depends ycur happiness.
"Hee who mine heart would kcepe lor
long
Must bee a gentlll man and strong."
THIS WOMAN'S
SICKNESS
JfpnJfenoth,n' of p1""" value into Quickly Yielded To Lydia E.
Too often a woman's lov transform a, i ruikh&m Vegetable
Compound
man until ahe does not see htm as he Is '
but as she longs to have him be. To her '
self-deceived eves, droaa becomes i-Im,
gold. The plrats of love cleverly helps Bridgeton, N. J. "I Want to thank you
her keep up her Illusion at first while a thousand timg for the wonderful
the game Is new and stimulating enough
to make htm feel the urge to njay well.
But after a time laxlneea or wearin-Ms
makes him too selfish and Indifferent to
struggle to preserve a woman' happiness.
The woman goes on believing and believ
ingbelieving In the face of the evl.lne,
of her burning eyes, and the testimony
of her aching heart. But at lst one
day her heart comes Into the heiitao
she prepared for herself when she ac
cepted the unworthy love of a moral
weakling and her "bread is sorrow," and
her "drink la tears."
. Think of the women you
f rA. toad
k or attend
good Lydia E. Pink-
ham'g Vegetable
Compound hat done
me. I gartered
very much from a
female trouble. I
bearing down
ns, waa irregular
at times could
ardly walk across
room. I waa
,bl to do my
to my baby I was
' houseworl
about you an weaV T.vrlia FL Pinkham's Vegetable
all too often-women with dull, cried-out Compound did me a world of good, and
looking eye and an air of dejected hop. now 1 trong healthy, can do my
lessneas-women who are old before their . , ,,.' y..hv l -Hvlaa all
time-women whose health 1. gone be- U "'a t Z? i
cause they do not feel the urge of spirit , JWOmenwt ka lt "d &et
and the uplift of faith that keep 0uU, ' We " I d"-Ml FaMKB COOFICB.
and health. A wickedly large proportion R-F.D., Brldgeton, N.J.
of them are suffering from the cynicism, j f Lydia E. Finkham's Vegetable Com
the loneliness, the corroding longing that ftwnd, made from native; roots and
follow on giving a heart when with it herbs, contains no narcotic or harmful
cannot go respect and admiration and ,),-., . w-1,4- .u- 1 -j
( Ui Ult KilU tAS-Uajr UIV CVUdJ Ol
being the most successful remedy for
female ills we know of, aud thousand!
of voluntary testimonials on file in the
Pinkham laboratory at Lynn, Mass.,
seem to prove this fact.
For thirty years it has been the stand.
lation and no promise of ecstatic ro- ard remedy for female ills, and has ro
mance. Stored tha healthof thousands Afsrnman
But the love of a true man holds simple who have been troubled with such ail
Joy and contentment and trust and menu as displacements, inflammation,
tenderness. It may not key her so high ulceration, tumor, irre fmlaritl
as does the love-making of a practiced
Uothario but it will not drop her so low " yu nt Special advicO
tn despair and unrequited longings when Tlte to Lydia 12. Pinkham Med
once ah ha, with simple good faith, icine Vxk, (confidential) Lynn,
given faith to requisite its imitation. Mas, Your letter will b opened.
women might save themselves heart- read and answered by wonua
burning and sorrow and misery and , and held in Strict WOfldeaCa.
faith.
In the love of a true man a woman,
finds a haven and a home. It holds
atlmulation to be her best le'f and da
her boat work. It give her kindness and
understanding and faith- tho' perhaps no
fevered lore-making and no wild stimu- !
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