TTIK HKK: OMAHA, TlHK.snAY, KKITKMHKK 2. 101.. ome Magazine Pa 11 Jui e iDees An Ogre of Aeons Gone By - I r- Why We Quarreled : "Bg Sg ! & 1 JJi By Vlrfrlni Trrtanne Van d Water Copyright, 1915, by Mar company. I am almost ashamed to confess the natter about whlrh my husband and I quarrel moat bitterly la our boys. There are two of them fine chape of 14 and 1 years. I fancy that If they were girls we would have fewer dta putea about them. Kor, to be frank, my husband la, I really believe. Jealous of our aone. I mean he Is Jealous of my love for them. He would be furtoua were I to accuse him of that But it la nevertheless true. 1 do not mean to Imply that he Is not fond of his boys, for he Is fond and Proud of them, especially when they do well at school. Pcrhapa If they were jrlrls the man's sense of chivalry would make him love them better. Perhaps then I might be Jealous of his love for them. Who knows? But I do not think I would, for a mother loves a child better than a father does. I made this statement to my husband ence, and he resented It hotly. "Just because I do not humor the kids aa outrageously as you do, you thi.:k that I do not care for them as miu.i aa you do!" he declared. "Well, I do! Mut I do not think they are little tin gods! And now that we are on this sub ject. I will warn you that you are in danger of turning out Into the world the worst spoiled pair of chaps that 'ever ame down the pike!" "They are dear, devoted children," I protested. "They always do what I ask them." "Of course! Because you never ask them ' anything they don't want to do. And they adore you because you sacrifice 'yourself, your own inclinations, even me, to please them." I waa shocked and Indignant. What wife would not e at such language? Kor his accusation waa false. I am a conscientious and loving wife, but my boys need my guidance and companion ship more than my husband does. When they want me to go anywhere with them, 1 feel It is my duty as a mother to com ply with their wishes. I knew that my husband was remember ing something that had occurred the previous evening, when the two boys had Invited me to a moving picture show. It was Friday night, and they had no studying on hand. I accepted at once, and the lads turned to their father with "You'll come, too, won't you. dad?" "No, thanks," he rejoined. I don't care lor movies." 'What are you going to do?" I asked. "I had planned," he said, "to have a The Star that Will Not Fail mm 'Ammm$ .,L-u It tit-i mm s-mm 'I always play second fiddle," said my husband. By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Friends may fail you, love prove untrue and those united to you by ties of blood may grievously disappoint. But none of this makes life a thing of desolation thai is not worth the living. When you fail your own Ideal of yourself then only have you been hurt. But then you can start over and readjust yourself and try again. The ideal that will not fall you is the ideal of growth. The goal from which no on can turn you Is the goal of achievement the mark you set yourself. Help from others will never really avail you unless to It you add your own efforts to make It count. Others may set you on your feet but you must walk. Suppose you have come to the city counting on a friend from home who has preceded you by five years and Is firmly established In high places. John once told you that if you ever needed help he would give it to you. Tou come to town. For a whole morning you cool your heels in the outer offices that guard John's sanctum from the rabble. At last you are ad mitted to his presence, and the august and insincere being a little success has made of John tells you sadly that times are hard and that there Isn't a thing in his office, but that he'U give you a letter to Jones, and Jones to Brown, and at last some one aenda you back to John, whence you started, and in a audden ac cess of fury, you tear that letter up. And in that moment you are started on the highroad to success. In that moment you get an ideal of yourself aa a being apable of doing a few things for him self Instead of trotting around carrying letters from one magnate to another like an idealised beggar. Now you set out on your own merits. Tou are conscious of things you can do, things you want to do, of a goal of achievement you want to reach on your own efforts. And when you become con scious of it when you get that Ideal of success you are aa surely started for It as if one of those magnates had given you a position, which you might have (ailed to fill well No sinecure la a real Job. A real Job is the thing you can do and want to do. To get to the position of editor of a magaslne, a college man I knew once waa a waiter in the cheapest of restau rants. But when he waa serving ham and eggs he was on bis way to success. Ha didn't despise his work. He regarded It as a stepping stone, and stepped firmly so he might leap to the next and bigger boulder that should carry him across the stream of discouragement. He did hit mental Job well, and saved a bit of money from the "demeaning tips" he had to take-end could take fairly cheerfully because he was serving well enough to merit them. Then he wrote his story, and wrote It well. It waa impressive enough to shove Its way Into the aeventh paper he tried to sell It to and then our hero was a reporter. And from the position of reporter to edi tor took him ten years of hard work but of work with a goal In view. No friends had helped this man. He had aa Ideal of himself aa a being capa ble of work and of success. He had an ideal of -the goal for successful achieve ment. He reached It. No disappoint ments counted none could count to his dauntless soul. And a dauntless soul is about the best scire of the fairies. If you are unafraid of work unafraid of failure unafraid of unktadness and afraid only of failing yourself, that frur wl! never be realised. quiet evening at homo and a game of cards with you. After which, aa I am tired, I meant to go to bed early." I knew he wanted mo to stay at home, and I hesitated. I was sure that my boys had set their hearts on having me with them. If I were to refuse them they would be disappointed. They might even fancy that I did not care to ac company them. And at their age must a mother not keep her lads close to her? Why couldn't their father see this? "Oh, do come, too, dear!" I urged. "It will do you good. "I tell you I hate movies!" he ex claimed. I considered this an unkind speech, as the lads had Invited us both, and I suppose I looked my displeasure. "Well, never mind," 1 said to my sons. "I'll go with you gladly. It ts very sweet of you to ask me." When I went to my room after dinner to put on my hat and coat my husband followed me there. "I shall probably be In bed." he re marked, "by the time you get in." "I am sorry to leave you when you expected me to spend the evening with you," I Bald, "but really I think my duty to the boys demand it" "And what about your duty to me," he asked coldly. "I suppose I am not to be considered eh?"' "Tou could go If you want to," I re plied. "Moreover, you were very dis agreeable to the boys when they invited you. Does It ever occur to you that if you made companions of them I might not have to leave you as often as I do to be with them?" "As often as you want to, you mean!" he retorted. "I do not need to be reminded that I must always play second fiddle where the boys are concerned." "Oh, Tom!" I exclaimed, tears rushing to my eyes. "How can you be so unkind! You know very well why I go with them. If I don't keep them close to me they may seek evil companions and drift away from me. They need me." "And I don't need your' he demanded. "Not as they do. Your morals and tastes are already formed, theirs are not." "And because I am a reputable mem ber of society, I can be neglected Is that it?" he argued. Irrationally. "Why not speak the truth that you love your sons better than you love your husband?" I bit back the hot words that sprang to my lips. In my mind t'ne thought was creeping "Would It be any wonder If I did love them better?, Do they ever make me suffer aa you are making me suffer now?" Hut I said nothing, only went quietly from the room. The boys were happy all the evening, and I tried to seem happy, too. Yet there waa a lead-like load on my heart. When we reached home at 11 o'clock, my husband was in bed and asleep; but I could not sleep for wondering aa I often wonder how man can be Jealoua of his own flesh and blood. These are his sons as well as mine. Why then should he resent my giving them the truest devotion of which a mother la capable? Havng brousht them Into the world, do I pot owe them this? Dryjitosaurus, nnimals that once aboumlotl in Montana, and which arc hero shown as restored. ft hts n mi ii mm iu f f " . : ''f.; w'7W"av a - ks- fc V. i ... v( ;f v' mi i man aa ainaw . W y. J . . iff i"A A" r - " ... . . v It is liard to tell whether they lire laughing or exulting in a fiendish rage. By GARRETT P. BERV1S9. The bouncing bundles of animal energy represented In the picture herewith are scientifically named "dryptosaurlus." Nervous people may be glad to know that there Is no danger of meeting a dryptosaums In any part of the earth now, although they once abounded in Montana. That, however, wna ogos beforo the first prospectors began to knock about the rocks for signs of gold and silver. The dryptosaums together with all their relatives and rivals became extinct millions of years ago. They lived in the time that geolnglnts call the Cretaceous or chalk age. Mr. Charles R. Knight's presentment of two dryptosaurt In action, which we are permitted to reproduce here, and the original of which may be seen In the American Museum of Natural History, Is based upon careful scientific studies of dryptosaurlan remains and of the envir onment amid which these wonderful beasts lived, so that It may be taken as representing, with substantial correct ness a scene In American life which was doubtless more foarful than amusing to contemporary spectators. One might be In some doubt aa to whether the two monsters are plnytng or fighting and whether their ambigu ously expressive countenances are wreathed with Joyous smiles or dletorU'd with sardonic grins; but the derivation of the name "dryptosaurus" would seem to settle the question, for It means "the tearing Heard, and surely no animal to which science feels Justified in attaching such a name a a that could be expected to smile In any other wise than as two bull-necked pugilists "smile" when they batter each other's faces out of shape in the glorious ring! It la an Interesting fact that many of the huge beasts called dlnosaurus, I. e., "terror lizards," were, at least, realttvely, peaceable creatures, living upon a vet table diet, and probably never getting Into a fight if they could avoid li. All of them, it is true, were more or less ar mored and soma carried armament so formidable In appearance that the mere sight of the, lumbering over the ground, with their tons of flesh and bones, smash ing through a thicket, or rooting in a swamp, may have been sufficient to put most of their enemies to flight It hardly seems likely, however, that a dryptosaur would have hesitated to at tack anything living In his time. His flying leap alone, as Mr, Knight has so graphically represented It, must have been enough to give him an aggressive Initiative altogether Irresistible. He came down on his foe like a bursting shell. Science for Workers By JUDUAR LVC1KN liARKIN. Q."Vhen a rerson gains sight sud denly, like the girl we read of In the papers, does she have a sense of per spective? A young man suddendy gained his sight, but had not this sense. On look ing through a window, the landscape ap peared to be close up against the window, appearing to him as a painting of a land scape would appear, the window framu acting os a picture frame." J. A. Oravea, Ml William street. New York.. A. "And he looked up and ssld: 'I see men as trees walking.' "Mark vlll:2l. The fudden appearance of sight to the blind finds nerves and muscles of tho eye and retina, also the oytlo' nerve, totally unprepared for this new work. The ef fects are various and many different effects are noted in works on anatomy, physiology and optics. And, the optic thalamus In the brain is taken all un awares, and the entire optical mechanism cannot at once accommodate parts to correct vision, with result distortion of Images an retina and brain nerves. The parts usually fall Into harmony and de velop true vision. Q "Is the noise of thunder due to the collapse of the air In upon Itself, and into a partial vacuum left by the spark, or due to the Intense heating of the air, which sends forth a rarefaction or expan sion?" Anxious Bubscriher, San Fran cisco, Cal. A. Not rarefaction due to heat, but In tense condensation of air In front of the lightning. Uniting of opposite charges of pent-up positive and negative electricity whers the velocities are at the rate of lrt.MO miles pir second, compress air to a ststs. tierhsDs. or nor anllHltv T),i. suddenly expands and the sound of these manic upneavais is tnunder. The rolling sound of loud thuudor Is partially due to reverberation between cloud banks and the earth's surface or surface of the soa. Kxpcrlnienta were made Of firing a can non Under a clear kv. whlrh trnv. sharp report. Hamc cannon, same place, nreu wnen neavy clouds were above, gave a long roaring or rolling sound. The clouds had a powerful effect on tho sound. Do You Know That Mauritius han on an uverauu only one -..--irt()i m every eighty yiws. Before the introduction of soap clothes were cleaned by being trodden upon in water. The Swiss reckon that their cupola fort on the Bt. Gothard, manned by 200 artillerymen, could easily hold the pans against an army of 60,000. Always scrub a floor the way of the grain of the wood. If a chlmpansre Is wounded it stops the bleeding hy placing Its hand on the wound, or dressing It with leaves and grass. every tearing claw a shrapnel In Itself, There Is In the National museum at , Washington a pair of horns of the tri- reratops, or "beast with three-homed . five," which bear marks of a fearful bat 'tie. Tho triceratopa had the most re ! marknblo armor of any creature of pre I historic times. Over Its great skull, seven or eight feet In length, It had a mighty 1 shield In the form of a hood of heavy. solid bone, covered with knobs and horns. Yet It was a vegetable feeder, and very stupid, possessing, according to Prof. Marsh, tho bidilest head with the small est brain on record. It has been thought, accordingly, that tho trlceratops was not built for aggres sive fighting, but simply for passive de fense. It had to defend Itself against the more active carnivorous saurlans. Ilka the dryptosaurus, and although F. A. Lucas, a great authority, the director of the American Museum of Natural His tory, thinks that the marks on the horns in Washington were probably mada in a contest for mastery between two mnlo trlceratops, yet It Is possible that tho wounds were inflicted by a fighter of an other species. The trlceratops, the brontoeaurua (thun der lizard), the dlplodocus, "two-beam creature," berause Its enormously long, heavy neck and tall resembled huge beams, the stegosauus (plated lizard), and other motiHters which varied from thirty to eighty feet In length and weighed many tons each, were slow-moving, awk ward animals, which could not do much more, if attacked by agile enemies, than stand fast and trust to the strength of their armor and the effects of their dead weight If only they could get a chance to apply It. , Jiut the dryptaaur was evidently re markahle for speed and might have beaten a kangaroo In Jumping. At tho Siime time he was not merely armortd. but armed fur conflicts. He was like a cruiser which carries a light armor but huge guns and engines of the highest poHslblo driving power. 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