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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1915)
The Bees Home Maaziiae Page Every Man a Peter Pan Aspirations! -There's Many a Slip Copyright, 1915, Intern'l Ncvi Hcrvlre. By Nell Brinkley Unlike Women, They sTevsr Orow Vp, and that la Oa iu:i Way Sexes Under, stead Saeb. Other So. Little By DOKOTHY MX. One of the reasons that the two sexes understand and sympathize with earn other ao little In because women are al ways ao much older than men, no matter whs relative age they reallr are. Women are born frown up. They are mature even In their cradles, but the ma jority of men are Mil! boya at heart even when they are gray and gouty. Not without reason did rtarrle make Peter Pan of the maaculine persuasion. No fa male la ever a Peter Pan at heart, bow ever, much ahe may affect the role In her clothe. She may rig heraelf up In Infantile white mns- Hn and blue ribbon, and wear curia, and affect the baby atare. but under neath her poe of youth, her aoul haa wrinkle and crow'a feet on It. Women recognize the fact that men keep their phyalral youth much longer than they do, and that a man of 40 still looka boyish, while a woman of that sge la frankly middle-aged, and heaven alone know the work and worry, and dinting, and maasnglng, and general martyrdom that wive go through In order to keep In their huaband'a ago claaa. TMa la why custom haa decreed that the husband ahall ba older than the wife. Experience haa shown that even when he haa the lead of her by ten or twenty year ahe will catch up with him before the tin wedding anniversary roll around. nut If men keep young In body longer than women do, ettll more do they keep young In aplrlt. They are boya to the end of the ohapter, and thla la what their wlvea never comprehend. When a woman la grown up ahe la all grown up. She la aophlatlcated. and of tho world, worldly. The thing ahe "Joya. the book ahe reada, the playa aha aeea are atrlctly for grown-ups, not for children. On the other hand, no matter how clever and Intellectual or how big and powerful the man gets to ba, ha stilt keepa somewhere In hla aoul the aplrlt of a boy. Hla Idea ot having a per fectly gorgecua time la to get away from people and go fishing with a stick for a fishing rod, and a tin can of worma for alt, aa he did when he was 10 yeara old. It la men who prefer musical comedy and farcea to the problem of Ibsen and Sudermann. and It la man who like to read detective atorlea and W-oent thrill ers. It le.thla boy spirit that make men collector, and that raleea wifely wrath Ucause husbands until they are taught x-tter by their spouses clutter up the house and apend perfectly good money on butterflies, or postage stamps, or old print, or aomethlng els that the mature ladle to whom they ara married con sider childish and fooltah. Most of the marriage that go to smash founder on tho rock of age. The wife lacks the floe vlalon to aee that In tha shadow of her big. strong, competent husband there lurk the little h,. be played with, and coddled, and petted, and mothered. And It la thla little boy who. finding '" wloom nor recognition at home, ao often run away to aoma other woman In hla desperate bunt for a play fellow. You can sea ample proof of thla In the letters hat are pathetic, aa well a ludloroua, that form the main exhibit In almost very divorce ault. and In which the writ er, often men who have achieved mil lions by thetr own shrewdness, or men who have achieved fame In aoma pro fession, sign themselves "Tour Little Boy Blue." or "Your Billy Boy." or some other Imbecility that belnna-a h -l.u to the age of calf love Instead of the iue or maturity. A lao It Is to bo noted that f fascination that appear to be used by these sirens who break up home consists In treating their elderly admlr- it may were indeed Billy Boya In ieea or respected Williams, with a high position In the communltv There U food for thought In these reve lations of the divorce court, fof they show that a man never u - i.i he doesn't want to be petted and Jollied and made much of. Bran wh v.. k.. only one scant hair to brush across hla bald spot he desires Just as ardently to have aoma woman curl It around her finger aa ha did when he had ambrosial locka that were a temptation u the hands of every feminine beholder. ' Likewise he desires to talk nonsense and to listen to nonsense, the gay non eense of youth, and this la another sl.le of man' a eternal boyishness that hla wife can never grasp. Bhe( cannot understand how a man who haa achieved tig thing and who la Interested In blaT thing ran turn in a minute from big thing to little thing, from being 00 yeara old to being or M. The women who make successes of matrimony are the onea who have the Ineplred sight to aee the boy In the man. and whose love hag a large element of tho maternal In It. The-r rmmlu th.t many of the fault of husbands that ao many wives find unforgivable are simply Hie Irresponsibility of eternal boyhood, and mean far leas than they seem to mean. These are the women who sense a great truth that the boy In a man may be carried away by a pretty face, or tho temptation of.a moment, or the wayward ness of a fleeting Impulse, and yet leavo the heart and aoul of the man himself absolutely true and devoted to his wife, nd that he eoinea back to hr all the more devoted for having wandered away a bit He cornea back to her Inevitably aa a boy eomes back home. And It la the wis woman who treats the boy in her husoand a she treats her own S-yer-old who ktsar-s Mm when It's good, and ecold l.lru when he's bad. sr.d shows hun off before company, but mikes Mm fuel that the safe harbor of He woild U lu the hollow of her shout tiir where hla head can rest. w There's many a illp 'twlxt the dream and the realization. And there's a wide gulf ometlmes between the ambitions that burn In somebody's mother's heart and the aspirations that flare In the small narrow breast of somebody still In curl-papers, and smocked frocks. Somebody lies In her soft pillows with her eyes fast shut and her cheeks red her white curlers like ghostly horns in the faint light, her weary little legs that ached so when she tumbled in (did you ever have that dreadful leg-ache when you were little at the end of the dayT) humping out of the covers, her busy little fingers still. And dreams and dreamst And her soft-faced mother, slipping in to peek at her before she locks the doors, one last look, and snuggles the covers over the cold, bare knee and dreams and dreams! , "I will make of her (Janey is so sober and bright and sedate; Read By Gouverneur Morris and Charles W. Ooddard IMS, Mat Oemseaf. Synopsis of revlona Chapters. John Ameebury Is killed In a railroad accident, and his wife, oue of America s most beautiful women, dies trout the shock, leaving a I year-old daughter, who ta taken by frof. Sulllier. aaeul of the Interests, far into the Adirondaeks, where she is rested in the seclusion of a cavern, f ifteen tenia later Tommy liurcito. wuo lias Just uusrreted Willi me auoiiied J minor, wauueis into I lie woous una ills covers tlie gill, now Known as lelealia, iu company with 1'iof. Milliter, loiiuny lake the girl lo New Yuik, where sue tails tuto lue clutches of a Holed pro cures, but is able to win over the wuuiau by her petular bypuolio power. Here she altiacia frreiiuie liie tenet. who becomes allacheti lo her. At a but clothing laciory, wliere she goes to woik, she cueicisek ner power over the girls, sua Is Sttietl fium being burned to tlealu by Tommy. About tins Ume Milliter, ttercluy and otneis who are working to gether, deiide It la time to make use of I'elrsliu, who lias been trained to titlnk of hnneir us uivuie and come from leavea. T he Ural piece they send her la to Hiiumeu, a mining towu, whers the coal inlueis mis ou a sirlke. Tummy has gone there, ami Mia OuiiMiort, wllo ihe imneiV leader, talis in love Willi hlin and deajtiucea him to the men wneu he spurns her. Celeua saws 'lummy from being burned, aud alao settle the sulk by wlmung over Kehr. the agent of the homes, and fa relay, sr. Mary lllack Moue, who is ulo in love Willi Tommy, tells n iu the story of i'eleslla. which ana ! has uncovered through her jealousy. Kehr is named aa candidate lor president on a ticket tliut has Milliters suppjrt, and Tommy Uaniay is named on the miners1 ticket. Milliter piofeaees him self In love with 1'elextia and wants lo gel ber for hunt-elf. Tommy urges her lo marry him. Mary liUckstoiie bliliea Mm. Uunsdorf to try to murder I'elestla, while the latter la on her campaign tour, traveling on a snow wl.lto train. Mrs. Uunsdoif ie fixaiu hypnotized t,y Celestla and the murder averted Milliter byrotlxva Telestla and lure, her Into a deaerted v.ooda. where he forces her to undeiiio a mock marriage, per formed by himself lie notifies the tl umvlrate that i'elestla la not coming bauk freed, the Ferret has followed him closely, and lummy Is not far away, having Uen exploring the cava, hoping lo find CVlestht theie. PtUllter flrea at Tommy In the rave and thinks he has killed him. tie tlieu tries lo foree Ce.estta Into a mock mar riage, but Freddie Interferes and In Iim right that follows Fieddie gels eltllllter s glasses ana leitvea nun nilnd. r n-d.lle lakes I'eleaiia lo rind Tommy, and Mil il'er builds a fire to allied aa-ituuce. The fire spreads and he (leea U'foie it. fails In'o a lake ai'd drowns Tummy ; lit L'vleaua return lo New York, where t-ey It Here See It at the Movies find 8turdevant telling a big meeting that Celestla has returned to heaven. MPrKKN'rilEPISODK. Gordon Ba.-clay's servanta had orde.-a to admit no one without orders. The city was In a turmoil. With each fresh edition of the newspapers the situation of the conspirators became more serious. In the public parks effigies ot them were hanged or turned. It became neceeanry to keep a ordon of polio about Bar clay's house. In Bemnies' house and Murtevant a no window remained wholo. For twenty hours th,ese two men had been Jiarclay'a guests. Ounsdorfs great hour had come thjt hour for which he hud plotted all hla life, and lied fur and achemed for. He had been the leading figure in the mob they had tried to lynch the trldinvirale In the first burst of rage. And ha found himself suddenly at the head of all tho lawlesa elements In the city. Ha waa drunk with power and a sense of his own Importance. Rut openly he apokc of his love for mankind. Through a man friendly to him and deep In Ounsdorfs councils. Tommy learned that the life of the man who had adopted hlin and been good to him was In danger. Hla house waa to be stormed over the heads of the police, and himself hanged or torn to pieces, as mlgnt happen. All their differences fled from Tommy' mind and he remembered only their mutual affection; so ha hurried to the old familiar houae and waa presently admitted. "It's Just to ssy a few words," said Tommy, and ha told Barclay what CKins- dorf was planning for that 'ery day. Gordon Barclay had turned very gray In the last daya. He waa a broken and disappointed man. Mill he clung warmly to that remnant of life which remained to him. "We'll go to Gull Island." ha said sim ply, "till this thing baa blown over. I suppose you are not unhappy about what haa happened. It's a pity she came back Tommy, when we Quarreled I vti ambltloua for power only. Later I began to think that Olestla was a real panacea for a sick world. So that If I bad been destined to rule, I would have ruled for the good of the people. I want you to know that what began In cynicism endid In faith and honeety. I have put you back In my will for practically every thing I poasess. Carlton Fitch has turned knave. Mary, if she marries him, will be worthy of him." "You II need somebody to keep house for you nt Hull Inland" silj Tommy. He waa too moved to refer to what ho had she has brain and heart and gentle ways and demure), we'll make an educator our of Janey. A teacher. Mathematics perhaps. Girls must know how to do something nowadays. And Janey loves babies. And gets wonderful marks in arithmetic! And, of course, Janey won't have to do that. But she can if anything 'should ever happen to us.' And Janey somehow school teacher is Janey's type." So dreams the soft-faced mother and aspires! But Janey! "Oh, to be a circus-rider with a pink fluff skirt and a glitter all over! On a big white horse. To go 'round and 'round and 'round and jump through paper hoops and never care. To wear satin slippers and walk, nippy, nippy, nippy, across the saw dust. To run across the ring as fast as anything and run up the side of the big white horse who never Bays a thing. To have yellow curls and dl'monds. And teeter on tip-toe on the broad, fat back of the ' ' ' ' ' Juat learned. "I ll get Celestla there as quickly aa I can." "Have you married herT" Tommy looked very manly when he said in ne nao. Ana nareiar siniieu o ; of hla old-time daasllng smiles. i "And I think." ha said finally, "that you had better get out of thla house , ii.i.. . . i ' m i , I can't afford to ba a hero." They shook hand and parted, never to meet In thla life again. ' Late that night Tommy and Celestla and Freddie the Ferret, whom Tommy waa trying to train to be hla valet, caught the last boat for Bartelle. on Bartell'a Island, from which Gull's Ialand may bo ManhoH In an hnur In a faat launch, i They had had no word of what had hap pened In New York. At -Mlasaquid, tho point of departure for Bartell'a, there eeeoned to be some sort of a rumor In the air and a state of suppressed ex citement. Usually it Is a town that goes to bed very early. But thla waa not the iim tonight There waa a rough looking crowd at the atatton. and at the wharf. Tommy, without arousing suspicion, could not find out If Barclay, Semmea and Sturtevant had gons on ahead or were following. "if they are behind us." ha aald to Ce lestla, "they'll have to charter something. lVrhaps father will come all the way by boat that would bo best. Hla own yacht would be spotted. But he'll work some thing." Gull Island resembles a loaf of bread that haa risen too much. A rounded. blllowlng top la set upon high, almoat perpendicular sides. There Is only one j landing place, and from thla the habitable ' portions of the Inland are reached by a j steep and narrow path. A determined man with a pile of cobblestones could j at and off an army. i It waa Gordon Barclay's favorite ea-1 tate. The timber waa mostly scrub oeJt i and acrubby little tines, but In a dense j grave of these Barclay had built a low, i rambling houae which waa very dear to him. and wonderful roae gardens, which were even dearer. I In this Uland retreat, open and ready for the master the year round, the tri umvirate, if only they could reach It. would be aa safe from mob violence aa on a ship at aee. 1 A ateep climb, a wild expanse of star lit moor, little ancient trees growing very close together, a strong perfume of buy berry bushes, of sw eet fern and rosea, and then the Inw-cetllnged. aoftly-llghted hall, with many men servants, a cool de lightful nUht. soundly slept these were Celeslln's first impressions of Gull Island. llu lie Couliuuvd Tomorrow.) New York is Uy ADA PATTERSON. New York la the rudest city In the world. A city may be safely and juatly Judged by the mannera of Its people. By that standard New York holds the sorry championship of 111 breeding. More women can i stand, and. do ,Und , m publlo . 'hl5' . wh" Z' ll ' ll t"n any other community. ! I have aeen more , f1 Mv"- tlon with women lnan ,n other Clt I hav "tailed on either Continent. Ho many men converse with cigars be tween their teeth that there la a new dia lect which I have named clgarese. Here it is a commonplace for men to push past women, while crowding Into a car. If they did not do ao the women ', would be surprised. It waa auch an ex ceptional standing back and raising of a hat that caused a woman onlooker to say to a friend. "What a queer, old fashioned man!" In the friend kindled a transient spirit while she answered: "Everything that la kindly or conniderat New York calls queer and old-fashioned." More than one corroborates thla statement. For instance a young man led an old woman across a street crossing and one of the leading newspapers made a "story" of it. Ask someone for directions aa to houae or atreet and he will either walk on wlth- out answering or will look upon you with a auspicious eye while he makes curt reply. Pare to ask a atreet car conductor a question and you will either be barked at or will be the butt of hla heavy wit. New York la the city of Impassive facea. The impassive face Is the trademark of rudeness. If our countenances are ao very wesry that they are unable to show a response to the persons who give their time to conversation with ua we should seclude them and ourselves until they are rested. Responsiveness is courtesy. Un- responsiveness is boortshness. I met a young girl from California who had come to aoek that "fortune" that the few find and the many mlaa. I naked about her mood and her progress. Shs burst out: "I am miserably homesick I think I shall take the next train home. I am not getting on at all. How can any one get on In a city where everyone wears a mask? I wuit to go back to California, where facial muaclea can still relax. I want to live in a town where people ainlle." Tb gill, though angry, was right New ? " ! circus rocking-horse! To have the clown always along and hare plenty of lemonade and popcorn free! Oh gee!" My gracious; what a yawn between the two! But this is truth. Across the gulf that lies between all souls the teacher with chalk and arithmetic and the circus rider In pink tulle look at one another out of the dreams of parent and little child. And both would be amazed If they could read the other's desire. Both dreams may fade. The circus-rider may vanish as though her pink bobbing skirts were set a-flre! The teacher may fall Into ruin along with the bareback rider and leave no shred behind! Dreams change, and the little boy who burned to be a cab-driver may go to congress, and the mother who aspired to make a lawyer of him may follow her Pole-hunting son as far as the great Ice-barriers! So it is! NELL BRINKLEY. the Rudest City York Is a city of tired, unsmiling face. The smile la a algn of a fluid spirit. The spirit of the metropolis Is rigid. Nowhere In the world will you see such cold eyes as in New York. In other cities of the United States and of Europe a stranger Is not necessarily regarded as an enemy. In New York he la looked upon not only as an enemy, but as an object of police surveillance. In every other city there Is a flatter ing interest In the denizen of another city. The typical cltisen of the metropolis Is Indifferent to every town save his. "We do not need to travel." "Everybody and everything comes to New York." Is his amug conclusion. He la as Inhospitable to ideas aa tq persons. Why is New York the rudest aggrega tion of men and women In the world? For two reasons. People lead the most hurried lives here. The foreign element la enormous. When an evil la emphasized remedy should be offered. The cure In the case of New York's grossly bad manners is twofold. One may be found wherever, from train or ferry, you step into an out lying town. There folk are less hurried, j They have time to think of other, tlm: to smile, time to turn on the pleasant ' glow of human Interest. When out of the crowded Island of Manhattan citizens move to more leisure communities, leav ing the Island to be a clearing house of business, and of Ideas, there will be an improvement In the atreet mannera. For the manner reflects the life of the man. The whip should ba the municipal aign of New York, for everyone la under the whip laah of hurry. There Is so much to do, so little time In which to do It. Rush, crowd, trample, la the municipal rule ot conduct The man who'haa left off the shelf life of the New Tork apart ment and sleeps eight hours a night In a room with a yard he doesn't call It a lawn with a tree and a few blades of grass In It will feel an unwonted relaxa tion of the muscle of his face. He will remember to spevavk to tho elevator man and he will have kinder thoughts of his office boy. There Is no hope for the newly arrived Do You Know That A barking fox at night Indicates the coming of a heavy storm. Bhakespeare , always endowed hit beautlee with very whit skins. 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