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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1915)
TUB HKE: UMA1IA. WEDNlvSnAY, SK ITEM UK It 8. 1015. Tfa'e Bees ome Maaziitie Pa His First Glimpse of the Sea! By NELL BRINKLEY Copyright. IMS, Intem'1 News Service. Cavemen of Our Modern Age How Intra-Mural School Saves Prisoners By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright. 1915, International News service. A former Washington lawyer and busi ness man was convicted of embezzlement of funds of which he was secretary treasurer. He waa sentenced to twenty years In the Mary land penitentiary and began his term In December, 1915. As soon as he en tered the peniten tiary he became In terested In the In-tra-Mural school Just started and In a short time was made superintend ent. Recently the Baltimore grand Jury made an In spection of the penitentiary, and his work became a subject of special inmitrv. The school is . A. ti'i(,m waa mnalriared SO linUSUal and had achieved such remarkable results that the prison ruie was Droiten ana per mlsslon given him to publish under his own name the article herewith describing the school and its efrect. When one wishes to Ret the trend- of I another's mind he watches his unguarded I utterances. It Is through language that I "prisoned thoughts are released." lie who said "language was Invented to conceal UiouRht" must have been a diplomat. The men who are groping for mental I light In the Intra-Mural school are too ' little acquainted with world subtlety ti I fall into the Insincerities of diplomacy. The work of the men In the school for j Illiterates ot the Maryland penitentiary has elicited editorial commendation. Trained educators concede astonishing results. Kvldences of progress, as ex hibited In iwnmanshlp specimens and general written and oral declarations, have lured the mentally elect to Its ses-' slons, r... iUam itmlttl,.- wVilph trtnkp for! VUl llluoc " " : good citizenship may not develop corre-1 epondingly. lias the school touched the decpersprlng of the men's spiritual nature? If so. Its Influence should be ob servable In speech not directly related , to assigned lessons, and In conduct In-' spired by logical thought. Are these men this school's influence making a successful effort to fit themselves to enjoy those blessings organized society offers all her advocates? Remember, many of them have never had a chance. They are In-prison because they didn't think didn't know how to think Twm.uUa .nut -mind, haa dictated physical action. They nave never Deioro i been governed by thought standards Just j emotion standards. Out of -eighty new men total Illiterates , brought Into the class room last Sep-j tember, citizens of Maryland, not one could say. whether George Washington was an American -or a steamboat. Think of JEO In a room, between 20 and CO years of age, sprung from one of the most Imaginative races, who had never heard of "Jack and the Beanstalk." "Cinderella" or "Alladln!" And when they were told the story of "Jack" and later tho first president's life was sketched they vied with one another for days outside the school In repeating the fancied and historical Incidents presented. Think of the possibilities of a school in which a 30-year-old man defined "poetry' as chlckena" the first night he entered and smiled In bewilderment when shown his own name written sending a well penned letter home In three months car rying this thought: "livery line I write you tonight Is a stroke from my heart!" For 100 years the prison had been main tained solely as a place of punishment No attempt was made to Improve the men. They were returned to society im blttered. The first-timers came back In numbers. They had seon no virtue In dominating man or system. Punishment narrows. Expansion of views had been checked. The futility of warring against Hystem comes only with the appreciation that "the stars themselves obey a law." One hundred and ninety are nightly In the big school room, with only one officer present. There has never been a dis turbance an unnecessary commotion. Only the hum of earnest workers each class unaffected by the recitations of Its neighbor. Encouragement, kindness main tain where once physical and spiritual suppression were monitors. The teacher, with twenty years of prison monotony hanging over his head, spends half an hour dally communlngr with a tree. It Is many city Mocks away and visible only to the raised eye from a certain spot In the prison yard. All about him are wells and towers and barred windows. Beyond Is the reart of the city, but to him the city Is only a mass of ugly roofs as far as the vision extends. , Just this tree towering to heaven and spreading its branches to the four winds breaks the wearying view. It stands .upon Cocoanut Oil Fine For Waining Hair If you want to keep your hair In good condition, the less soap you use the better. Most soaps and prepared shampoos con tain too much alkali. This dries the scalp. 'makes the hair brittle, and is very harmful. Just plain raulsifled cocoanut oil (which Is pure and entire grease less). Is much better than soap or any thing else you can use for shampooing, as this can't possible Injure the hair. Simply moisten your hair with water and rub t In. One or two teaspoonfuls will make an abundance of rich, creamy lather, and cleanses the hair and scalp thoroughly. The lather rinses out easily, and removes every particle of dust, dirt dandruff and excessive oil. The hair drUs luirkly and evenly and leaves it fine mi si'ky, bright, fluffy and easy to manage. You ran get rnulalfied cocoanut oil at most auy drug store. It is very cheep,, and a few ounces Is enough to last every one In the family for months. Adrrrtlse-inent. an eminence, certainly, for among monu ments of masonry It alone Is distinct tn form and height In winter it Is like a desolate giant In the fullness of summer Its summit and branches are covered with a vast crown of leaves. It seems the growth of cen turies. Storms have failed to make It bow age has brought greater strength. It Is more wonderful to him than the old "Dolly Harbor," the legend tree of his home town, which civil engineers ac cepted for generations as the hub of local surveys. lie had hidden In the great hollow of that tree, from whence, the folk talk goes, the beautiful Dolly and her lover. on elopement bent, watched the Irate father dash by, they then doubling on their course and outwitting him. The tree beyond the walls furnished food for pensive thought. Is it oak or giant maple? Does It grace a rich man's garden, or Is It a public tree? It en grosses his Interest. It represents to him the great world of vendure where nature erte-aks with a thousand toguee. In midsummer he wonders whether tree cricket are among its branches, and, If so, what story their loud calls Interpreted would trlL Does the tree crow, with his long tall and curved bill, find it as secure a retreat from the sun as he from the hot prison yard haa rea son to believe it to be? The mere toad, with his adhesive toes, he thinks la more fortunate than he. Nature has fitted him to climb from ground to summit ami Investigate. He recalls that some tree toads, like chameleons, change color to elude enemies, and he speculates as to this species flourishing there. This prison teacher, whose name Is J. B. Miller, says of his work: "No one who has known from the In side the past and present of the peniten tiary but marvels at the temperamental change the school haa effected. There Is hope In every man's breast and prepara tions are going on to realize It. Abra ham Lincoln's ambitious announcement on one of the blackboards has Im pressed all: " 'I will study and get ready and maybe my chance will come.' Thank Ood for hope! The clouds In the sky never seem scudding to the sunset now. It is always Just before the dawn!" "The strangest school In the world" they call It Perhaps It la. Polak, Greek, Spaniard, neso and white American shoulder to shoulder, youth and old age staring nightly with wonder's wide eyes at the unfolding of this new Influence education! Two years ago over 0 per cent of the prison population more than no men were total Illiterates. The only Illiterates today are the few recent arrivals on the waiting list When a man gropes for his soul he Is on the path leading to decent citizenship. Initiative will help htm to find It the Initiative Inspired by Interest and en deavor. If in eighteen months men have been brought from absolute Ignorance to the Intelligent application of the principles of arithmetic, writing and creditable composition of letters and an interest In geography and history that indicates continuous delving, it la a safe con clusion that the school Is exerting an In fluence that tends toward future stabll- tty. Five thousand library books are now In active circulation through the prison! Intra-mural advancement does not cease with the nightly suspension of lessons. What of the teachers In this school within the walls? Hope is leading them upward and on. Listen! Opfortunlty speaks: They do me wrong who say I come no more When once I knock and fail to find you in. For every day I stand outside your ! door, i And hid you wake, and rise and fight I . and win! .i Do You Know That MoBt spiders have poison fangs, but few are dangerous to human beings. A sheet of paper J1.000 feet long and six feet three Inches wide was made at , Colyton, Devon, In 1889. I Monaco possesses the smallest army in the world. It consists of seventy-five guards, seventy-five carabineers and twenty firemen. i The tide of the Bay of Fundy is the most remarkable in the world. It rises at the rate of a foot every five minutes, the water sometimes attaining the height of seventy-five feet Polynesian mothers mould and flatten the noses of their daughters, and think that ths long, thin noses ef Kngttsh women are the result of being pulled out In Infancy. The brain Is divided Into two part. If you are right-handed you think with the left side of your brain, while if you are left-handed you think with the right side of it. Nearly every spectator at a Spanish bull fight carries a whistle, which he blows if he considers a toreador to have broken any of the rules of the "game." Bo powerful are the vibrations caused by the explosion of a twelve-inch gun that they are sufficient to shatter win dows at a distance of a quarter of a mil. Microbes are never found on gold coins, while paper money Is an Ideal home for them. The reason la that gold acts as a bactericide. A curious butterfly exists In India. Ths male has ths left wing yellow and the right one red; the female has tbese colors reversed. It has been established that the duke of Wellington at Waterloo never uttered the famous words, "Up, guards, and st them" Lloyd's derives Its name from a nun woo kept a coffee house. In which mer chants uied to congregate y) years bko. The gypsylng Inlander used to waving fields ot pale green and yellow grain (and often be wondered, watching It under the prairie wind. If the pea was not like that) ; used to tiny bodies of water like a drop of a jewel, a chip off the great gem; used to whispering trees and flower fields; used to the brown road instead of the tossing In digo waste and Its invlsiblo trails; used to the blue mountain In Possibility of Man Keeping Himself By DR. CHARLES H. PAItKHURST Keeping young is a science, which means that perpetual youth la ths product of certain definite) and largely ascertain able causes. Bo many years have elapsed sine the writer turned his back on the cradle that he may be presumed capable of dealing with the matter with some degree of authority. Borne of the causes we know without being able to control or ori ginate them. ' We cannot pick our an cestry. Liong-llved parents produce children that ought to be long-lived. If we could thor oughly penetrate the constitution of a new-born child, we should find In htm the figure Indi cating how long he waa Intended to last Some are constructed to endure to old age, soma to middle Ufe, some to die young. We are la that respect like clocks, some of which are built to run three weeks, soma one week, soma twenty-four hours only. This Is a matter that Is laid down In tho mind of the ctockmaker. There Is what might be called a con stitutional destiny such that even con siderable disregard of the laws of health will not be sufficient to thwart or over ride it It Is something of that kind that wa mean by saying that we shall go when our time comes. The fact remains the same whether we call It destiny, foreordlnation or biology. And yet the government we are under Is not so stiff and Inconsiderate as to be altogether intractable. Wherever the rest of destiny comes from a part of It Is of our own making. Bven clocks sometimes stop ticking, not because they have run down, but because their works have been tampered with or the bearing been in sufficiently lubricated. There are people of whom we have all known who continue to live not because th-lr tlm; has not ome, but because they refuse to u. . They teat their own con I mm i -. .. ' stitution. The will and mind of a par son Is an extraordinary thing. It lies In a way outside of the region of matter and even alts In Judgment on Its own body; can quicken or slow the pulse and laugh at biological law. One of the precepts of the Bible is: "Keep your body under." There is more In that than some seem able or disposed to find in It The current disposition Is to keep the body on top and make des pot of that which ought to be slave and Is meant to be. There la no frontier line between mind and body so hard and fast as to prevent the mind's exuberant full ness of life from infusing Itself into the body and thus making a more vital thing of It and therefore a more long-lived thing. Life should bs worked from a spiritual rather than from a physical end. An old physician told me a while ago that It was by the exercise of his own personal Influence upon his patients that Advice to Lovelorn She Is Tired of Yoa. poxr Miss Fslrfsx: I am in love with a girl of my age. Lately alia has been acting queer, and as she does nol want me to go to parties or dances without i -i out she goes to parties and dances with out telling me, and as I never asked her she docs not know that I know that arte . a. K. The next time you know she Is going to such a place, appear there yourself with another young lady. If your devo tion has bored her, shs will grow les bored. when she finds you Interested In another. Dear Miss Fairfax: Would it be proper for a young lady to pay for a gentle man's meal at a summer rert when he is her guest t GtNTLHMAN. It Is most belittling to a man to have a girl pay for his meal if there Is any money transnrtlon. However, If a girl 'is a guest at a hotel and arranges In ad vance to have no bill presented to a man who takes a meal with her. but to nave thut i!atged on hi r bill, tl. man stead of the towering seas where the great swell run; used to the soft murmur of the clattering creek Instead of the great voice that fills the world around the coast; used to the unending vistas of land instead of the abrupt white line of land's end and the blue terror that moves beyond at his boot's toe the gypsylng Inlander saw the sea! And he wrote home and said: "It is lovelier than ever I thought sure sure!" -Nell Brlnkley. he did more for them than by his pills and powders. He put his main work at the mind-center of his invalids and let It work out from there through lungs, stomach and liver. He was nominally an old-school doctor, but was not so the victim of tradition as not to realise that It la the Immaterial aids of a man what we call mind or soul that la primarily intended to be to him a center of au thority and source of supply. All of which Is good scripture, sound biology and good sense. Which reminds me that It Is In the reykin of the head and the heart that we need to put a kit of work if we are going to secure to the body that tone and fullness of life which means health, youthful freshness and longevity. If a person Is well alive In tho tone of his thoughts. In the flow of his feelings. In the strength of his Impulses. In ths wealth of his Interests and in the warmth By Beatrice Fairfai has no reason to feel anything but pleaaud at her courtesy In entertaining him. Ysssg Essstk to Wait. Dear Miss ralrfax: I am U and In lore with a girt of 11 I believe my love Is returned. We are not engaged. Alinough we have no intention ef mar rying for at least three yeare, I feel downhearted because I've been out of employment for the last five months, and, although 1 try hard, I cannot place myself. iti-r purents think a gret deal of me. Do you think 1 ought to give the girl up while unemployed? I do not trunk it proper to ask the girl to wait for me to make good. My only prospect, In case I do not lot a position soon, is thst I am on a few civil service Hats, and fool sure of an appointment before the year Is up. IHJtWNHEARTED. Toe are a manly young fellow who Is surely going to win his way to success. In keeping with your frankness to me, have a talk with the rarenls of the girl you love. Tou are young enough to wait Why not see esoh other ome a week on a lais of friendship? Young of bis devotions, these work In him a tide that will be likely to anticipate and preclude such physical tendencies as make for invalidism. If the body in certain ways ministers to the mind, ths mind In vastly superior ways must be In condition to take care of and carry the body. Sickness Is abnormal. Premature death la against nature. The vices which gnaw Into the physical system and which precipitate death are due to ths assump tion that man Is essentially an animal and onty Incidentally a soul. Compar atively few people take themselves at their true value. Their thoughts are rather upon the tmminenoe of death than upon the prospect of life. Mortality is so present a thought with them as to hasten their own decease, for It discour ages their entering Into life In all the fullness of Its meaning, and therefore makes them the easier victims of mor tality. There la sense In the expression we sometimes use when we say: "I am toe bu-ry to be stck." There Is svea finer sense In being able to My; "Le means so tremendously much to me that It seems to me I ran never dle I am so Immensely alive that death is a word that has no meaning for ma" It Is only upon experience of that kind that can be founded any sterling eonfldence In the doctrine of Immortality. The more It means to a man to live, the more power he has to believe that he always will live. The doctrine of per petual youth easily' prolongs Itself Into ths doctrine ef ths endless life. There Is more ot that doctrine In printed ooav fesslons of faith than In practical ex perience. It Is clearly evident why It should be so. If the life we are living hare is not j realised as soma thing Immense, no Im- puise is given ror conceiving or lire's Indefinite continuance. Indeed. If life as we have It today Is fraught with so few fine fruitions as to be already burden some, there Is scarcely any thought more disheartening than that of supposing that it la going to go on stretching; forth Into an everlasting future. For life does not hold for us now and never can hold for us anything more than what we are fitted 'to flue la It Hy GA11KKTT P. SEHV18S. The art of architecture in atone, the most glorious aoliievemnnt of the build ing Instinct in man, had Its origin among the prehistoric cave dwellers. The germ of the magnificent Parthenon and the other Oreek tem plea and of the great Oothlo cath edrals, "the stone bibles" of the mid dle ago, waa nour ished by the Mi man contemporar ies of the saber toothed tiger and the cave bear. As the caverns In the rocks were his first homes and re fuges, so the dis tinguishing features of those natural shel ters, and the material of which they were composed, impressed themselves upon man's mind, and when he began to construct more elaborate dwelling planee) for hlrmelf he imitated and reproduced the things that ha had been exKUstomed lo from the childhood of his race. The dim, ancestral memory ef the rocky homes In which his remotest pre deosssora dwelt leads civilised man today to prefer stone to any other kind ot building material It la not merely that he knows stone to be more enduring, but he feels that no other material Is equally suitable In texture, pleatlolty and appear ance. Looked at la this way, the cava dwel lings, ancient and modern, with which the earth la dotted ever a belt that, as J. Walker Kewkes haa shown, extends from China, across India, Asia Minor and Arabia, the Mediterenean basis, the Canary Islands, the West Indies, Mex ico and North and Bouth America possess fascinating Interest Maa has never given up ths habit of living In caves. lie haa not been content with the caverns furnished by nature, but has both en larged and Improved them, and eon etruoted other with his own hand a Cappadoola. in Asia Minor, for Instance, haa always been a land of troglodytes, or cave dwellers. A recent traveller In that part of the world says that near Urgub, oven an area some fifty miles long by forty wide, the cliffs and rocks "are bored with strongholds and villages which swarm with people living of eholoe tn the old wsy." In Urgutt itself the traveller found that the town consisted largely of mere house fronts, which are no more than, masks ot masonry covering rooms hewed out of the solid rook of the cliff behind. When he entered the little rock-hewn apart ment about nine feet square, tn which ha was to pass the night, ha found a mys terious door In the rear wall, and, open Ins? It, heard voices and the clank of chains, and his Imagination began to make a fearful picture of what might exist in the hidden labyrinth beyond, so that he passed the night barricaded be hind his baggage and with bis face to ward the Inner door. The cliffs are honeycombed with rooms, Stables, mangers and chapels, and some of the latter have paintings on the walls, recalling the artistic efforts of the pre historic Inhabitants of the eovems of the Pyrenees, who likewise endeavored to represent the life of their time, and even, as the most recent discoveries show, something of Its mythology and perhaps of Its religious ideas. There are other cove habitations in Cappadocla beside thoee visited by the traveller Just mentioned, which exceed, In strangeness anything that he describes. These are known to archaeloglsts as "cone dwellings," and a very curious fact la that precisely similar structures exist in 2ew Mexico. The "cones" are huge masses of soft tufaceoted rock, which has been shaped by erosion Into the form of gigantic beehives. The Interiors ot these havs been artificially excavated to form rooms, superposed floors, stairways and i passages, while doors and windows are ' bored through the sides. Mr. Fewkes thus described one ot the CaPPadociaa cone dwellings: "On entering we find ourselves In a spacious chamber with shelves or niches excavated in the solid stone of the walls. The stairways resemble round tunnels, through which one ascends to an upper story through holes like those lateral openings by which one enters the room. 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