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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1915)
J THE BEE: OMAITA, WEDNESDAY. SErTEMDETt 22. 191.1. onie Magazine Pa ie Bees Parents Seldom Justified in In terfering with Only When Character of Boy or Girl is Weak or Bad Should Father or Mother Try to Prevent Marriage "A Honeymoon!" By NELL BRJNKLEY Copyright. 191S, Intern'l News Ben-Ice. Paris Autumn Styles f Republished by Special Arrangement iS with Harper'a Bazar :::::: 6- lj DOROTHY DUX. The question of how far parent ar Justified in Interfering in their children'! matrimonial affairs ta one upon which youth and age will never agree. All mothers and fathers think that tholr yearn, their wisdom and experi ence in life make them the best judges of what sort f women and men their sons and daughters should marry. And In proof of their con tention they point jt that In the countries where fathers find moth ers do arrange their children's marriages there Is Ttiuch less- divorce than there is In .America, where foung folks manage the matter for them selves. This view of the matter is one in which tr.dependent young America will never mcqulesce. In this country marriage is not entered Into primarily as an estab lishment for the perpetuation of tho family. It Is an experiment In individual happiness. We want to pick out our own husbands and wives, and at least have the pleasure and excitement of making our own mistakes. " To my mind there are three cases, and three only. In which parents are justified ,1n Interfering In their children's love af fairs and breaking off a match If they can. If parents know that a man Is Im moral, or a drunkard, or lasy and shift Jess, they are right to .move heaven and 'earth to prevent their daughter from 'marrying Mm. and thus bringing certsin misery upon her own head. !,' Or if parents know a girl to be care less In morals, of shrewish temper and 'extravagant and slovenly, they do no !nor than their duty In trying to save their son from wrecking his life by marrying her. .! In each case It la a matter of the char. acter of the Individual . to which the parent has a right to object Nothing Hse counts, and the father and mother far exceed their privileges when they object to their son or daughter choosing a wife or husband because she or he happens not to be of the same religious faith, or shade of politics, or have the peculiar colored hair that they admire. '' Religious bigotry should have no plaoe tn this country where people come be cause It guarantees them, freedom t worship Ood according to the dictates of conscience, yet Just sow I know of a ieart-broken young woman who has 'been parted from the man she loved be cause her mother does not believed In Ij'mlxed marriages." The young man is all that one culd desire in a aon-l.i-law except his faluT. which doesn't please the girl's mother and which Is none of the old lady's business. tn such a case a young couple are foolish to let the prejudices of a narrow minded parent wreck their happiness, fhe belongs to the day of religious in tolerance and persecution, the rack and thumb-screw, when people thought It itious and pleasing to Ood to torture -ther people into their way of think ing. The young people belong to a ,1roader and saner and more tolerant era of human thought, and If each Is willing that the other should seek Jteaven In his or her own way they Should refuse to be parted by an old woman's fanaticism. If there's nothing io object to In a man except the church jf-.e goes to he is certainly a matrimonial prize that any girl should grab without stopping to argue It out with her mother. .', Another stumbling block tn the path It true love Is tho family tree. Fathers and mothers, and particularly mothers, 'feci that they have a perfect right to ,)reak off a match If their son or daugh llerls going to marry some girl or boy who Isn't In their particular little social pvt. This Is ridiculous In democratlo 'America, where every man makes his own place in the world, and Is con tinually changing It, so that unless Another has the gift of prophecy she 'never knows where the poor boy she keeps her daughter from marrying la '.guing to end. :' A bitter old maid of my acquaintance, who ekes out a bare Irving as a type writer, often points out to me the name of senator of the United States to 'whom she wss engaged when she was a Klrl, and whom she loves to this day. 'Hul her mother broke off the engage ment because she didn't consider that a carpenter's son was fit to marry Into her august family. Giva Your Children Meat In Moderate Quantities Serve Other Kutri :: lions Foods ;i Chfldifn should be given meat only in t! " quantities. In the first piac. .i la overhestlng when eaten to excess. It ,,lx'!a the cilgestton very severely and. ilrom an economical standpoint, there are many other foodstuffs that are Juat as 'Mitritlous. Writing on spaghetti and allied pro ducts, Vr Hutchison, one of the world's foremost dleUUsns. says that "they are ubsorbrd iJmost In their entirety " V This means that practically every mnr l of Faust parhelU which la made from Durum srheat. a cereal extremely lch In gluten goes to enrich the blood and build up tne body. Fauat Spaghetti it very easy to dlei and easy to pra ter. And the many ways it can be pre pared to tease the pa ate is truly Surprising, 1-arxe package 10c Serve , 1. uftun, Mpeclally to the children. M-atrU. a AO. . fcoaj. v. a. A. ! 1 ";wp-" 1 '' - 'iH j' " fsf Wok f&fo ir h- "JpS wmki M - mm mmm J wm '-liTiM nun ',irni j 'm'ni i m j a.' ijt rn1 .'- .jti 5- s'; 5 .... "C,.' ' - a s-JvJli a. What is a honeymoon? "A honeymoon is lonely, frail swing of silvery gold hung In the sky, far away from everybody, where nobody can hear, where nobody matters at all, and in the honey moon, drifting, uncaring, lost to the world for awhile, swinging their feet over chasms that they never could cross with their feet on the earth, snuggle the bride and the man she's gone with for good! That is a honeymoon! Why is a honeymoon there in the sky for only a little while? Why does it go so soon, like a sand lily in the sun? "Because," says Love, "because no moon lasts, does it? And the honeymoon is the rar est of the moon blossoms. Nothing endures and 5 .to & aax the tenderest and choicest fades the fastest. That is the way of the world. But there will be lots of other honeymoons after this one!" What's in the honeymoon besides the man and the bride? "Oh, new baggage with a new name upon it that makes the bride grow carnation pink when she catches it with her enchanted eye; bon net boxes, railroad folders, rice a-leakln' out; white ribbons, roses and worn shoes, the blueprints for a little bungalow, a treasure chest full of memories not very old and dreams ahead into tho future and a sigh and 'a kiss or two! Enough!" "And I sit." says Love, "here upon by faery stool, swinging 'em to and fro!" NELL BRINKLEY, Advice to Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfax As In the gown to the left, Callot be lieve In the future of the lain frock. Two very full and flaring flounces tipple over a foundation skirt of plaited tulle, and a deep cape of the lace ads beauty to the back of the plaltod bodice. A touch of fur Is requisite even on the more severely tailored suit A band of eal heads the turned-back hem of this smoke gray velveteen suit, matching the shawl collar and cuffs of the same fur. Romance of a Moth mm Be llrr Mather. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 24 and In love wish a girl six years my Junior. tihe loves me dearly, but I have found out that hr mother dlBllkes my alnf r for some reason, and does not rare to have me rail. Plea tell m what I can do In this case? THOI BUKI). Go to the girl's parents and try to find ut why they object to your sister. You are entitled to know. No doubt you can explain the misunderstanding under w-tikh the mother labors. Knrsrt II I m. Ik'nr Mies Fairfax: I am in love with a Iran two years my senior. My love as reclrornied un'il a few mon'us agj, lim he went out west on businaas. We correapondd for a month or two and then he stopped without giving me any reason, lie came to see his folks for two days and did not lak. About three weeks ago 1 rece.ved a card from him, which I answered. Since then I have not heard from him. How can I keep his friendship? My advice would be to pay no mora at tention to this young man. evidently he has tired of you and will think less of you if you throw yourself at him. What would you think of a young man who persisted In writing to you If you had ceased to be Interested In him? ftkcmlaa Lair fur a Blaa. Dear Miss Fairfax: Should a girl ahew her love for a man? If so, when so, and If not, why not? PUZZUCD. A wonu,n may show tier fondness for a man by sweetness, eonslderatln ami Joy In his companlon'hlp, but unless he saka for her love she must not fon:e It upon him, since masculine human naturo la such that men like to do the court ing and do not value what they obtain too lightly. Tell Ulna Voa'ra Sorry. iKar Ulsa Fairfax: A shirt time ago I had an argument which caused me to part from the man 1 Live. I love hlra dearly and 1 am sure that my love ta reciprocated. Kindly advise me what to do. M. a. If you aro not too proud to make the first advance write a note to your friend and tell him you are thoroughly sorry for your share of the mlsundsr. standing. He will probably think you a generous, high-mlndod girl and admire you all the litore for being at le to rise sbove your petty feeling and to make the first altcnpt at a reconciliation. By GARRETT P. BERVI88. One of man's oldest companions on this .lonesome, moon-chased earth la the silent, little lover of dark corners and destroyer of wool, fur and feathers, called the clothes-moth. The ghost-white wings of these fluttering creatures of the twilight have haunted human habitations from the earliest recorded times. T h patriarch Job, who was a great wool raiser, knew only too well their ravages when he compared him self to "a garment that la moth eaten." it Is prob able that they Insinuated themselves Into the smoky caverns of the prehistoric cave dwellers, and luxuriated In the first fui garment. "The fondness they exhibit nowadays for tailor-made suit and othsr expen sive product of the loom," says C. L Msrlatt of the United State Bureau of Entomology, "la simply an Illustration of their ability to keep pace with man In his development." Lake th still more objectionable. Im pudent and dangerous ..snger-on, the house fly, the clnfhes-moih dogs man's footsteps wherever ho goes, embarks w!th hlra on his voyages of trade or discov ery, crosses oceans with him, and offi cially helps him to Inhabit any new lands that he may find. Thus It appears thst clothes-moths cam over with th pilgrim fathers or some of th early whit settler on this continent, for Mr. Marlalt snnaks of their early Introduction Into th United States, which seem to carry the Implication that they were not here originally. But. If so. they multiplied with astonishing rapidity as soon a they got a foothold, for by the yaar T7tt they had become terror In th village of Philadelphia by their destruction of woolen and fur. It I not. by th way, the moths thenv selve that undermine th hair of your costly fur overcoat, plough winding chan nels through the surface of worsted gar ments and eat hole off th pile of ex pensive garments, twit it la their off spring, th larva, or caterpillars. The ar of a dull whit color and hardly three-eighth of an Inch long, with a brownish whit heed. They are odd-looking creatures, for they cloth themselves as If they carried their unreciprocated found nes for human society to the point of Imitating their big, two-legged unwill ing hosts, by wearing a garment. The garment of the moth caterpillar consist of a kind of sack, or Jacket, woven by It own hand, and lined with oft silk. In which It ensconces Itself up to the ears, and when It take a walk It put out a short length of It neck and a bunch of forelegs and drag along. It never take off it Strang Jacket or come out of It unless pulled out by an Inquleltiv entomologist. Perhaps r. membeiing Its own dealings with laJd-up garments. It keeps Its clothe always In use. Mr. Marlatt has given an Interesting description of this curious appendage? "With th growth of th larva It be comes necessary from time to time to en large the case both In length and cir cumference, and this Is accomplished In a very Interesting way. Without leav ings It case the lama makes a silt half way down on aide and lnsart a trian gular gore of new material. A similar Insertion Is made on the opposite side, and the larva reverses Itself without leaving the case and makes correspond ing slit and additions In the other half. The case s lengthened by successive addition to either end. Exteriorly the case appear to be a matted mass of smalt particle of wool; Interloly It Is lined with soft whitish silk. By trans ferring th larva from time to time to fabric of different colors th caa may be made to aasum as varied a pattern as th experimenter desires." When It feels Its end drawing near the larva usually attache Its case to th gar ment on which It has been feeding, but sometime carries it elsewhere to be at- Itached. About three weeks later th J transformation Is finished, and th moth ""' . reauy io lay eggs ror in pro ductton.of a new generation. Tl eggs 'are laid In April, May, of June, according to the latltuda, as a certain warmth 1 required, and usually they are deposited directly on th gar ment that la to serve aa th foraging field for th larva. The eggs ar scur clly visible to th naked eve. Sometimes I they ere deposited In crevices of tr inks and boxes, tn which garments' hsvs been laid away, and as soon as they ar born th larvae creep In through the minute cracks and begin their forbidden feast. The best way to protect garments is to begin In April or May and beat and brush them thoroughly every few day before they are put away In tightly closed receptacles, with camphor, tobacco, naph thaline, cedar sprigs, or soma of th other "repellents" commonly used. But If any ggs have been left In the garments they wl'l hatch, and th larva will promptly act to work. The surest protection Is cold storage, th temperature never being al lowed to rise above 40 degrees Fahrenheit Thin Folks Who Would Increase Weight ancrx.B srmaoTzoirs zajit to rouow, Thin men and women that big, hearty, fl'lng dinner you ae laat night. What b- came of all the fat-produel.ig nour sh rr.en. It contained? 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