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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1915)
TUB BKE:.OM.TT.. WElLNESOAVs SKlvUMMllKUVWi".. - - ' ' r .! I Religious Fossil Unfit to Exist in Modern Day Bound to Do Harm Nar row, Bigoted Pastors and Teachers Hurt Not Only Creed, but Whole Cause of Christianity. : : : : : ; By ELLA WHKELEU WILCOX. Copyright, 191 by Star Company. - "Wcn't you drive a few straight truths "'" on me question OI Mail ITIVIIegeS for All Prisoners!' The writer Is jut determined little woman over hero in ' California. holding down a Job writing: T advertising ropy and 'letters' for bus.ness-- getting, but with a keenly awakened Knie of the need -along prison reform ,ltnes, and every mln (ute possible t o a natch from the 127 aforesaid 'Job' Is de- "voted to working wtth my fellow workers and fcllow .''oiMa over the " c o u n t r y, through , earnest letters, urg ing on and all to I do their part with . - - fx s a3J whatever talent they may have, to lift 1 ' the medieval yoke of tyranny from our J shoulders, and let a little sunshine of " common sense Into the pr.son cond-t.ons : over the country. '! "Thin glorious, civilized, wonderful j country America forever! - 'Ti all - right to say. fellow penwoman. but oiw j ! must say this with his back to the prison ;, conditions of America, If you know, ! you do not need to be told. If not, 1 I' want to urge you to think on these things i 1 and Investigate. Helen Locke Burns." j The receipt of the above Ictier caused : '.' the writer of this article to "think and Investigate." Five hundred thousand " persons. It Is estimated, pass through American prisons every year. Had they been efficiently educated. efflc.ently ', trained to do something constructively, ; this stream of Inefficient humans would be perceptibly reduced. Whl e they I are passing through the penal and re ' formatoty Institutions every avenue of ' igreater enlightenment should bo at their !. service, every stepping stone to greatness '! should be given them. v The privilege of writing and receiving " letters Is greatly restricted In the great majority of American state prisons. A few of the states allow free and unre 1. stricted mall privileges. No prison riots occur In the states that grant the in '; mates the privilege of "writing 'as many ) letters as they desire to their friends and '.relatives. The reason is simple, for their minds are occupied with wholesome and i elevating thoughts. Nothing will make a '! person more morose and sullen than to 'bo denied the God-given liberty of com munication with his loved ones and his !own dearest friends. ;; When a man is sent to prison, there Is no reason why his relatives, friends and !. family should be punished by not being allowed to hear from him. That Is where the wrong individual Is penalized. ' "Why shouldn't a prisoner be allowed to ' write to Ms folks, telling whether he is ; Alive or dead, well or sick, miserable or fairly content? Who suffers? You know ''It is the folks at home. ; It Is a great privilege to write letters, and It is still a greater privilege to re i celve them. Anyone who has ever felt ; the abject misery of looking for a letter that never comes will understand me. . There la no reason under the blue sky ' why a convict should not be allowed to send out as many letters ot a social na- "V, Ti , lor. . The object of Duttlnsr a man In prison la two-fold; first, to protect so ciety, and second, to make the convict - a better man. And certainly, breaking i i off- all connections with the outside ; world TdoeVnoT make for human evTu" Hon I! Eery prisoner In America should be .lowed the full, free privilege of the United State, mall, exactly under the .Barne condition, that men ouUlde enjoy. ; There is nothing in any law in the land ! ;that says that Imprisoned men shall be , "7"CJ ' " v .: ""jj10! ; Ubert Hubbard says: "The forbidding ;the prisoners to send out mall la a foolish, vain, unnecessary rule that has ' t..l J V. . It ..! t .-. 1 a come down to us from the Park Ages. ; "When a prisoner Is sentenced it should , be for a term- of sunshine, fresh air, ; simple and abundant food, and honest work. . All this with the intent that when 1 ', a man Is given back to society he will , I be an asset and not a liability." ' And here is what J. J. Sanders, parole ; clerk of the Arizona state prison, says: n v,. . . Z.L . . "Out here in Arizona a new system of handling the state offenders has been ; inaugurated by the present admlnistra-! tlon. Oreat strides have been taken in ', prison reform, and the greatest of these, , from the standpoint of tho welfare of the i prisoner which only means, in the end, . the welfare of society has been the re moving of all restrictions from the prls- It Ruins Hair To Wash It With Soap , Soap should be used very parln"'y, J it at all, if you want to keep your hs.r ! -ooktng bt. Most soaps and pre- ' vTi Tk, mi" con,aln too mucf l-'ls ; htjr hritVL ? 'J"1 "l'aIp make" lht 1 ThJ I . ' U ' , The best thing for steady use Is ! Just ordinary n.uls'fled rocoanut oil I j l which in ,ure and reasleas). and 1st , better than soap or aaythlng else you I ' Ue" I 1 One or two teaspoon fu1 wi'l i-ai i..T .T V . . V1"11""- """Ply ,vn wrier and ru' It rln. It ..! hi'".,,r 0f rlrh. rreamr lather, which rinses out easily removing rrery paitlre of dimt. Mn'. urtnif f and excessive oil. The hair dries nutrklv and evexly, and It leaves the acaln scft. ant the hslr fine an.1 Ailky. britrht, lustrous, fluffy and easy to mans so. Tou can get mulsified eocoaaut oil at any pharmacy, it's very cheap, .nd a f-w ounce will supply ovary member of the family for months. Advertisement. I -1 ' : V V,,;- I I 1S.Y J " ... ' f ' p- ' V ( , v ; V-v I 'II! 1 ! ' - V iflf rt tti it viijj oner's mail, except, of course, ordinary Inspection. "The men are encouraged to write their families and relatives, they are encour aged to read books that will benefit them and if the outside world could under stand 'what all this means to the prisoner, It would be the rame in every penal in- stttution in the United States. j "Nowhere will you find a better con- i tented lot of prisoners nowhere will you find better discipline nowhere will you And less friction among the inmates no- ; where wilt you find a more studious lot of men ,n Pn wrvitude-and the vinre-, . . .. ....... . ' ble. "Over the entrance to the building con- ! talning our library and amusement hall, !'"''!?.. ri"! .k?n!" IZrrort ll'll!. wl' i -,? 7T Vhi M I "fn C.anvoni d -n ?.!B-J cons JtJt, one of tne of i education In this country? Can you build a man up without educating him?' Do You Know That H There are 175 different pieces In an i average watch. . . . Highland plaids were originally worn hv ,h- fm,,m The word "villain" at first simple meant a villager. Some comets have tails 300,000 miles in length. I Divorces are scarcely known In modern I Greece. : The Canary Islands are the tops of a groat submarine mountain range. Sir Joshua Reynolds' picture, "The Five Cherubs." is said to be really five pic tures of one llttla alrL rtalnted from flva different points of view. The earliest book which mentions gold the Bible. In the second chapter of Gnl. eleventh verse, occur the words. "th who,e 1A Havllah. where there u gold." The reason that a "baker's dozen" means thirteen 1 that many bakers In dy tn by w'r afraid of be'ng Hw-a t hh.. .i4.. . k .t, gave an extra loaf with every dozen. In order to make British gunners the beat in the world, the admiralty has even gone so far as to use one of Its battle ships as a target This was the Empress of India, which originally coat K U0, 000, and was sent to the bottom In 19l In a brigade of artillery a telephone set is supplied to enable the officer com manding the brigade to communicate with his three battery commanders. For the Feminine Autumn Wardrobe Republished by Special Arrangement with Harper's Basar ffi) iJ s,, fmf . i urn - I.,. The girl who finds tailored things more be coming: will want to add to her autumn ward robe the good looking shirt of white linen shown above. It Is just an smart when con verted Into a low-necked model, by detaching the satin stock. $3.95. To the left is a one-piece frock of navy blue serge, which wi?l be found Invaluable In the young girl's wardrobe. This one has a full skirt with deep braid-bound pockets. The col lar and cuffs are of white pique. 119.60. Great Mosquito Invasion By GARRETT P. 8EUVIS8. In a tour Including most of the eastern states and eastern Canada, during the last month, I have met, nearly every where, the relnvlgorated and reinforced hosts of the mos quito. New York, New ' Jersey and iong Island may take whatever comfort is to be fotmd in the fact that they have an abundanoe of com pany in their mis ery. The aerial lanc- 1 crs seem to have o o m e charging down on the heels of the extraordl- ... which began to fall about the last of July. As soon as the soli was thoroughly water soaked, the swamps filled, the stream I" - ' -. the forest oeas impregnaica with moLuture, the ideal Wnditlon. for the rapid breeding of "l't ''. " hum. Cities and village. h been boastln, of their sclen- ZTTl.,. mo'1,u,t.oe denly found themselves infested with stinging' swarms, whose numbers and ferocity recalled the old days when mos quito nets canopied every bed in well ordered hnniM mrtA w.-vmv1 a1... 1 ' piles were the principal means of whole sale defense against the enemy. In truth, the unexpected recrudescence of the mosquito plague almost seems a mockery of the recent efforts of science to eliminate this particular species of In sect. It certainly calls out many sar castic remarks at the expense of the ento mologists, and It cannot be denied- that they were more indebted than anybody supposed them to be to general atmos pheric and climatic conditions for the easy conquests which their methods of extermination had achieved. But It would be unjust and foolish to condemn those methods on the strength of what has occurred this summer. The methods are all right, but the scale on which they were applied was proportioned to a different state of things from that which now exists. It takes a blzger dam to obstruct a river than a creek. Tho breeding grounds of the mosquitoes have been suddenly extended. In Some places to ten times their former area. Wherever a swamp or marsh has talfen the place of a dry spot of ground mos quitoes spring Into being as If by mag'o. They are the foster-children of still water, although the ultimate manner of their origin Is still a secret of nature. They are one of the moH' widely distrib uted of all flying creatures, not because they can fly, for they do not go very long distances on the wing, but because their kind has been so many sres on the een so many sges on the developed such Dower of developed sucn poser or (given moisture enough) - earth, and has adaptation that they can live In every gone. I They not only swarm In the tropical fn. k., .. . . . 1 , . ... m northern and southern latitudes. They do not ascend to great altitudes, but this n;ay, in part, be due to the absence of standing water. They love warm, "mug. gy' weather, but can endure the relative coolness of autumn evenings. Their fondness for human blood must be an acquired tests, since they came upon the earth long in advance of man, i and are as abundant today In remote, uninhabited regions as in human neigh borhoods, and even more abundant. When Lw!s and Clark made their cele brated expedition across the Rocky moun tains and thereby saved the groat north west for the United States, they found tho mosquitoes so numerous In some of the river bottoms that the attacks of these Insects almost drove them to de spair. Kvery explorer of wild countries has had similar experiences, and often in places where it would seem that the Insects could hardly have had any ex tensive practice in the art of blood-sucking, since the hides of wild animals are too thick and hairy to be readily pene trated by their flexible lances. It is a singular fact that only the female mosquito "bites," and It has been said that "as it is but a very small proportion of them that can ever taste human blood or that of any warm-blooded animal, blood would not appear to be essential to their welfare." I'erhapa it is like the taste for olives or sweetmeats or tobacco all the more irresistible because it la the result of cultivation, and Involves, for its gratification a certain risk, or the overcoming of a preliminary dislike. It may be no Joke to say that the abundance of mosquitoes Is dependent upon the sunspot cycle. The proof is all the while accumulating that somehow or other the general character of the sea sons varies with the Increase and de crease In the number of spots on the sun. Wetness, dryness and electric state all vary more or less in accord with the so ar condition, and these things are the controlling elements in the life of our globe. So, In a roundabout way, we might throw the blame for the mosquito inva sion upon tho sunspotst Advice to Lovelorn U.fts from Mea. IVar Ml us Fairfax: I am 10, with a great many men friends. One of the boys ssked me If I would go yachting with him. I refused, stat ng that I did not have a top coat suitable for the occa sion, lie said If that was the only reason he would buy me a coat. Now, Miss Fair fax, would it tfe proper for me to accept same? Y. Z. A modest girl never accept gifts of wearing apparel from men who are not bound to her ty ties of kinship or mar riage. Surely you have a heavy sweater or old winter coat you ran slip on over your suit. You need not have a yachting costume for one boat ridel Marrrlav a Widow. Pear Miss K"lrfs: I have known a young wklow (16 years old, same ax as mine), for one year, and as una has many good quilUle is a gi-od worker Intelli- i Tnt. ffprl'nnj.ll) mil pini i T l.v. HMIe bv II' tU. fallen In love with her! H" bs one rhlW " " " nna My oMert very decidedly to wtiat ,hlv (yH ..urn ft ln,,n,lrou, matrh." mm thev wl-h me to marry a ysong girl Mv eneriero wi'h v-nr h mo that most of them today are I frivi.loin preiintur.iis and tioat s "s-im.n'. love verv llirhtlv. th fore f am not Inclined to follow my folk"" 'h ALBERT A. You are really old enough to choose a wl.'e for yourself, and while you are not fair In your Judment of the girl of today, neither are your people fair In feeling that It would be wrong for you to marry a widow. There Is no reason why a young woman should mourn hlr Jr. : Til f : ji Jim mx$ b ' W - rru Vi x : ,,,-.,,. V'iV ', T""s , ; j-"A ... .i :' k- : V-,n - v'' ' ' Ih'X !' ' W '"'!i n -if km Summer By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Most young people go off for a summer vacation with the Idea that Its success depends entirely on whether their two or four weeks Include a love affair. A summer vacation ought to mill rest and quiet and preparation for the strenuous winter to follow, Instead of which moat young people long to plunge Into the violent unrest of a summer flirtation. "Never the time and the place, and the loved one all together," wrote Brown ingbut that Is not allowed to apply to summer vacations. Girls put up with men at whom they wouldn't actually look in the city. Men imagine them selves wildly enamorded of girls for no better reason than that having "an af fair" In summer seems mo obviously the thing to da. A few years ago I was at a summer resort at which there were a very arts tooratlQ, ambitious, snobbish woman and her daughter. The clrl was pretty and seemed to have a desperate feeling; that the summer wss wasted because there were no young men In the hotel. Suddenly a youth arrived. lie By Beatrice Fairfax Ills away for a dead husband and never know happlneae again. Try to persuade your people to be more broad-minded In the matter and not expect you to sacri fice love to a really antiquated prejudice. Let It Ue J. Iear Miss Fairfax: I am a girl of U and have two gentleman friends. 1 Is vrrv wealthy and willing to n rry me. Hi Is willing Uj support my mi thnr and tbr- yiuniiir slitters. J Is the man I love and he has also proposed to me, but I t is too poor to support my mother and three younger sisters. WORKINO OIRU A me triage to D would prove unhappy for you, though he supported all your relatives. Follow your heart. The prob lem of your mother and threo sisters will find some other solution. I am sure they would not ask you to sacrifice your self for their sake. S.. f it Krla4lr We. Dear Mine Fairfax: I am a young girl IT years of age. snd having hea d re marks pataed about mv girl friend, I discontinued my frlendnh p with a young man whom I car! for ry inucii. I have met Mm recently and he has shown rlgns of wsntlng to renew our acquain tance. Kindly advliw me what to do In order to fcpuak to film. WAli'I.Mi. If you show your friendliness, he will take the next fctep if he wants to be re conciled with you. Hut I hope you are not renewing a frlcncVMp with one wlu has slandered one of your gl:l friii1. That would l the wort kind pf disloyalty wo Tartan s!l Xormlng the un derwatst and sleeves, adds a dashing bit of color to this frock of blue serg. . The side fastening la fin ished with a trimming of braid and but tons. There Is a becoming lit tle white collar, and a fold of white In the V shaped neck. $23.60. Flirtations good looking, had pleasant manners and seemed to have plenty of money to spend. The girl fairly flung herself at him, and sympathising friends In the hotel aided and abetted the affai. The mother had sense enough to per mit of no engagement, but the girl made her Infatuation so evident that the whole hotel looked for announcements In the fall Early In September I was In a party of which the girt was one. We rolled up to the theater In her mother', limousine and were ushered to a box by a blue uniformed youth who turned out to be her summer admirer. Of course, he was obviously out of the girl's world, although his two weeks' va cation hod brought him In touch with It. Tho young woman was far too design ing and calculating to permit herself any further Interest In him. But surely she must have suffered a little, and her proud mother have resented the critical comments of her friends. As for the youth, he must have suffered at least from thwarted ambition. This Is fairly typical of summer flirta tion. In the ideal world, social barriers would not count, and true worth would make the man. but few people are happy when transplanted from their natural en vironment, and still fewer are brave enough to go calmly from one social rank to another. There lies the first danger or summer flotation, which Is based on "Insufficient evidence." But a grave difficulty rests In the undignified, unwarranted love-making which a summer sea and summer moon seem to call up from youthful hearts. A girl permits herself freedom of action shs would never take In a city. A man la far more daring than he would ever be when meeting her In her home town. Hpoonlnr seems fairly to be taken for granted. F.very one excuses Ms own foolish In discretion on the ground that It Is the order of the day. or takes It for granted without any effort to excuse It Otrls put themselves fslrly Into the mouth of gossip. Men signify Intentions they do not Intend to carry out. Unhapplneas and unfavorable comment follow. Most sum mer flirtations end with a crash or dwindle away Into nothingness and re gret. The people you meet at summer resorts might easily turn Into pleasant winter friends if only yeu made haste a llttla more slowly. Rushing Into a summer flirtation and that I-am-looklng-for-so ms-one-w ho-will -know -how-to . love-me feeling Is very unlikely to lead to any. thing worth having. Permanent liking and respect are not based on wldly unrestrained emotion; they are based on Interests and opinions congenially shared and the slow d'scovery of things to admire and respond to In an other nature. Summer friendships mU'ht be splendid lifetime things If si-mmcr flirtatious er not In existence. r I How to Misunderstand Women - By ANN LISIjK. There was once a man who called him self a student of life. And the most in teresting topic he could find was the in veMlKRt.on and class flcation of women. This man knew women of all sorts-oid, ' young; good, bad; hesutlful, ugly; Clevel and stupid. He was so busy knowing ll. sex that he Imd very llttlo time to know either loe or MinlMf. Hut he ment . make hH invest gallons count In tcrm:i ' r a series f great novels In which the ml undeiMiwd. lemlnlno six should for um be clearly explained, championed . nn lug tied. And thin the mnn met a girl wli was est; I iat lv ,tc-od snd eerenely tnisl talnnl'le. ), .r hW.l that she piv sent".! t!.- i t .ir.nt.' i.oud In woman, tli tngelte t 't which all msnknd Vainly groiics. I inn ic nn b.M m nd tu. some tiny, :f he oouM win her, this woman must lie Ms wife. In the mean time, he hsd work to do ha must li-nri to know the sex of which this woman was so shining nn example. And now aoross hix path there canv a flower of evil, a more exotic creature than ho had ever known- a greater and a wor:e than Carmen. And the man made up his mind that when he had studied her mental processes and hud catalogued them, he would turn to the winning of his angel. . But the wicked Carmen person wax vory, very beautiful, ami. the man did not find investigating her at all implead an lie lingered and did tho Job thor oughly and with gusto. Of course, whst concerned h:m was her mental processes, but In studying them ho found It not at all unpleasant (o Investigate too the sweetness of her Up. His soul was quite untouched by the affair, but his eyes were gladdened and his mind, he felt sure, was enriched. In due time he returned to his angel with the idea of courting her and making her his wife, Kut the angel slammed the door of hm- heart In his face after giving him quite clearly to understand that aho wouldn't have tho rejected suitor, cast-off would-be lover t the Carmen person. "But I wasn't In love with Carmen at all," he exclaimed. "I found her a re markably interesting typo to Investigate, Ws'U use her In the great book about women we are going to write together. That will be a wonderful book. With you, to help me I shall do marvelous things for yaur sex." The angel sneered. ."My dear man, I know something about the world. , No man could take a purely Intellectual In terest In such a lovely creature as Car-, men. Don't tell me. I wouldn't be soiled by having a man In .my life, who bad once loved her. Your admiration lowors me In my own eyes." And she drew her Immaculate angel draperies away from tho contact with such as he. The man cased at her In 'mounting horror. Her unJuK accusation staggered him. He had never supposed that his angel could think so basely or Judge so cruelly. He hesitated between suicide and marrying Carmen. But he comprom ised by using the angel as the lady vil lained In one of his books. Moral: Even for her who evtl thtnketh, It U sometimes Impossible te do anything but good. Household Hints To wash discolored embroidery, place in a vessel with cold water, blued,' hut not too deep, and with the Juice of a lemon. Boll for half an hour, and 'afterwards rinse In cold water and dry in fresh air. Bread should never be covered with a cloth when taken from the even, but laid on the side and allowed to become per fectly cold, then kept In a closely covered tin blx. without wrappings. REMARKABLE CASE of Mrs. HAM Declare Lydia Z. Pinkham'. Vegetable Compound : Saved Her Life and Sanity. . R1talMMV VTr. ..'T ..1 It , vK, v. .voi uiy uuij . to tell the public the condition of my Deal to. beiora using; your medicine. I had falling-, inflamma tion and congestion, female weakness, pains in both sides, backaches and bear ing down pains, waa short of memory, neither strenirth nor energy. There wss always a fear and dread In my mind, I bad cold, nervous, weak spells, hot flashes over my body. I bad a place in my right side that waa so sore that I could hardly bear the weight of my clothea. I tried medicine, and doctors, but they did me little good. a.id I never expected to get out again. 1 got LydJa . Pmkham'a Vegetable) Compound and Blood Purifier, and I cer tainly would have been in grave or in am asylum if your medicines bad not saved me. But now I can work all day, sleep well at night, eat anything I want, have no not nasnea or weak, nervous spells. All pains, aches, fears and dreads are gone, my bouse, children and husband are no longer neglected, aa I am almost entirely free of the bad symptoms I had before taking your remedies, and all is pleasure and happiness In my home." Mre. Josib Ham, R. . D. 1. Box 22, Shamrock, Missouri. If you want social advice writ JLydla K. Pinkliam .Mt dlrl-.u- fo (coniideuUul) Lyuj,Maeb. UxxM