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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1915)
. L niK nKKt OMAIM. THrKsPAV. XOVKMHKK 11, 1!1;. azilie Pae Liltie Bees- jnlome Ma A Campaniwx Artlcte to "Chemistry in War," Recently Printed in This Col- umnThe World's Best Known Writers on Medical Subjects Bj Moods Hutchinson, A. M., M. I. In nearry every form of manufacturing anywhere from two to five and even ten i"teen different grade and kinds of raw material have to be combined to strengthen one another and neutralise Sue another or blend with one another In uch a way as to produce the required fabric or substance or machine. To take a simple example, tiie different brands of flour are made by blondins lu various proportions the different num bers and grades and qualities of wheat. And as even a given grade of winter or spring wheat from the same region will Vary greatly In different years, accoi ding to the weather and the feaaon, It requires a great deal of skill and Judgment and experience to combine these different wheat In such a way as to produce a particular standard of whiteness and good dough-making and gas-retention flavor, to say nothing of nutritive value. rormerly, this delicate and extremely important wor. was done simply by rule of thumb by some expert of long experi ence, and often very successfully. Now the chemist comes on the scene, takes samples of the perfect finished flour (which, as may not be generally known, bas been carefully tested by baking In tost loaves in various temperatures and under various conditions, and put to the final "proof of the pudding," tho eating, before It will be branded and sold under a certain honorable name), and analyses It, finds out the percentage of gluten and glladln. percentage of starch, of the va rious salts, of wator. of the constituents "which have to do with its absorption of water and holding of gas in bread-making, and In a short time hands to the practical milling expert a precise work ing formula In chemical terms for his famous product. They the different wheats are taken as hey are bought In the market or come Into the mill and a like careful analysis Is made of each one of these. One Is deficient in gluten, but strong in starch. Another Is deficient In certain salts. An other, again, has undergone certain changes in its envelope which will b0 hkcly to give a bad color to the flour when combined with other brands. The whole group la carefully analyzed and graded according to the, amounts of the constituent desired In the final mix ture which each contains. Then a pre scription Is written, such and such a per cent of No. red winter, so much No. 1 spring, so much northern Manitoba, so much .Oregon red, and the result Is al most certain. Of if It be, say. a paper mill, which desires to produce a given grade of wrapping paper, of a certain weight per yard, and a certain toughnecs as meas ured by the amount of pull (expressed in pounds) which it will resist before tearing. A sample of paper which ful fills these requirements Is dissolved and analysed. Then the different pulps, wood, straw, rag, hemp, are worked out, -the qualities of each one placed upon a chemical basis, and again a prescription is written of the proportional mixture of each one of the two, three, five, whic. may be necessary, which will give the proper blend to produce the desired re sults. - Or. In a great metal manufacturing plant, an automobile factory, for Instance, i a particular part, say a bearing, requires a particular kind and quality of steel, not too hard and brittle, not too soft and grindable; or In a spring, where the problem is the . highest degree of elas ticity combined with the maximum of toughness. ' Formerly some old and experienced workman combined certain Iron ores, fused them in a certain way, heated them upon the forge hearth until they looked Just about right, harameieJ until they gave out a certain ringing tone, and sometimes got an excellent result, some times a discouraging failure. Today the chemist la called In, and by Skillful mixing of other metals, nickel. vanadium, etc., tne steel is given quali ties which even the purest and finest iron could never be made to yield; and vrv Atjm In th nrnrp kh t h nraclm. number of degrees of beat to which it is In-Shoots . The man who listens to your story Is never 1 the bore class. ' A woman seldom takes pride in a man that no other woman wants. Even the divorce court does not always Uncover the matrimonial fllm-flammers. Nona save the near-fool will spend much time answering the questions of a fool. . If man does not care to go to war he Can sometime exhibit bravery by marry ing a grass widow. Patriotism that enjoys powder ' smoke often cools at the sight of the trench pick and shovel. The most dangerous woman of all Is the one who can keep her tongue still while her eyes flash tire. In the endeavor to start something many persons make the mlstske of sub stituting talk for cold cash. The candidate who are not elected are never called upon to worry about the promises of the press agent. Good jobs always seem to seek the men who have jobs rather than the job- The woman who really loves her hus band can always d-scover any fault in the fit of his clothes. It is better to let the average person worry over hi own troubles. Your time will ome soon enough. Truth crushed to earth will, rise again, but an old joke has a hard time coming back to the same audience. Bvery beat seller sooner or later reaches the cheap pamphlet form. And it is often the case with men of promi nence. Th man who Imagine that he la tn on the ground floor of an investment fre quently finds that he ha beeo dumped aio th cellar. Chemistrv in Pnnnc cooked, the numbered shower of blows which It is struck after it comes out, are registered accurately by the pyro meter and the automatic counter. The automobile. In Its later astonishing developments of durability, lightness and resisting power. Is a triumph In the chemistry of steel. The fllnmcnt or wlclt of the incandescent electric light la an other triumph In chemistry. J"he famous portable baitory, which is to literally whip fifty times Its own weight in wild cats, is or will be another. A metal or element t H ti Hit. will act upon each other sufficiently to produce current and yet so slowly as to Isst for ljng periods without corrosion and be tough enough to ue pi ictically unbreakable, these are the elements of the problem. ' There Is not the slightest question that the extraordinary (efficiency in waging and conducting war on an enormous sale shown by Germany has been largely due to the thorough and complete and mas terly manner In which It hns utllind to the utmost eveiy branch and every power of modern science. It began fifty yesrs ago with the schools, which were carefully planned to Ghosts that By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Too many of us are held by phantoms of our past. Too many of us sacrifice our lives to outworn Ideals. Life is growth and unlets we move with It we muist make of our own. existence a tragedy. "And the way to end dreams is to break them, stand, walk, go." said Robert Browning. In that line of poetry lies a wonderful sermon against yielding yourself to the Illusions of your past. Llfo Is a ghost-ridden thing for many people. I knew onoe a man who lived In his old homestead, a tumbledown, ram shackle place which could hardly yield him a living. His farm was not fertile and his talents did not lie In the direc tion of raising chickens or running a dairy or of making a good living off his ancestral acres. But he had a senti mental feeling for the old place, where his grandparents before him had lived, and for years he Insisting on refusing all sorts of wonderful offers from a real estate company which wanted to build a park along the line of his place. Then he fell In love with a girl and could not afford to marry. He let her youth go by while she sat waiting for him to' make good. He was ghost haunted, held by phantoms of . the past. At last he waa forced to give up the old place to a rartrbad Which wanted the right-of-way. At the age of 40 he found himself in possession of 110,000 and with absolutely no business training. There waa nothing to say that the dreamer he had proven himself to be should become a power in the world of men, and yet suddenly all the latent strength developed. Today at the age of 60 he Is a happy husband and father and one of the "big men" of a large western i city. But the girl who waited died be fore the ghosts that haunted him hod been exorcised and his house of life had been made habitable. Too many of us are hldeounly held by some tradition. It may be loyalty to a place; It may be an accustomed way of doing things; It may even be an attempt with., Hundreds of Omahans have awaited the following two Victor Records, ex quisitely rendered in "TheRosary," "Alohoe Oe-Hawian" Any dealer mentioned in this announcement would be pleased to demonstrate these and other new Victor Records on the Nov. list: SchniolIer&Mn PIANO COMPANY 1311-1313 Farnam St. Omaha, Neb. Hear (he Newest Records in Our Newly Remodeled Bound-PToo lfemonstratlng I loom on th Main Hour. Corner 15th and Pw,fl Tl turn out as many thoroughly equipped, working chemists and physicists and electrician as possible Instead of a horde of literary amateurs and dnbblers In Intellectual culture like our American and English rcho.ls; O-rmany has eeen to it that every boy who showed any aptitude or nnibltlon for a scientific career was provdid with an opening for work and bread and butttr until he could fhow what was in him. If there was no Immediate visible open ing for the younn technical srhooi uate, Germany either employed him as a docent or assistant teacher In some of us numerous schools and universities or Use It quietly but f rmly quartered him upon some manufacturing establishment which It thought was not showing a suf ficient degree of scientific progressive ness. Chemistry Is not merely the basis of industry, the basis of modern life, but tho basis of life itself; and no problem Is solved until it Is leduccd to chemical terms. A frank recognition and adoption of this In our schemes of education and of Industrial organisation la the most urgent and wonderfully helptul step In eight at present. Haunt Us to keep faith wltj. n outworn love. We fancy ourselves fettered and shackled and the links that hold us are rusty and ready to fall aparat a touch. It Is a hideous thing that life should bo handicapped by an outgrown pat. It Is ghastly that one's future should be built on a tissue of lies. The only honest thing to do Is to face the present If It Is marred by circumstances rising out of a past to which one has a sentimental desire to be loyal, the acid test of com mon sense must be brought to bear at once. Progress demands that none of us live In a house of illusions.' Who would light his house with candles because his grand father had used tallow dips or read by the flickering light of gss when he can have steadying burners or even elec trlcltyT None of us ruin our eyes as a matter of sentiment nor go out in the pouring rain without umbrellas because there waa once a time when umbrella were unknown. We take advantage of all the discoveries of a modem world of science. Why not take advantage of every dis covery you make about yourself and your own worldT If you are tied to an outworn love, to an outworn method of doing things, to a place in life you find uncon genial, or even to a profession you were mistaken to take up, make a clean breast, and make It at once. Lay the ghosts of your past. They need not haunt your life if you have the courage to figure out what in honesty and fairness to yourself, and so In honestv anri r.in... to the rest of the world, you want to do. "To thine own self be true; thou canst not then be false to mv mn " in living today according to the standards or xen years ago you are utterly false to yourself as you are tndav nH it i. that self you must feel. You would not at twenty-eight insist on being a toe dancer or a vendor of peanuts because at eighteen those had looked like Ideal occu pations. Apply that principle all through your life, for the ghost of your past will haunt you only if you alt weakly and impotently by and permit them to control your life. tasfai a- Victrola in the string music eiier Branch at 334 BROADWAY Council Bluffs Plume Trimmed Hats Return i ', I 1 '" . n I. -Ill I Hi ui i I. il ,,,, ii... i I j; . . Vl & ,11 I;: tv Ad' H . 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HOSPECO., 1513-15 Douglas Street, Omaha, and 407 West Broadway, - Council Bluffs, la.- D Talking Machine Department in tho Pompeian Room It is sure to be quite a feature. The colors vary, though usually there is a desire to effect a combination that will har monise with a complete outfit. Illustrated Is a roll brimmed velvet hat with deep crown, featuring a crushed ribbon band and to plumes. A smart Jet buckle af fords an Interesting detail. a irea There are Victors and Victrolas in great variety of styles from $10 to $350. and any Victor dealer .will gladly demonstrate them to you. Victor Talking Machine Co. Camden, N. J. milkm sgtrf. n Stores The Marriage Bond She Compares Socialistic Marriage and the Common-Law Marriage. Uy ELLA (VIIKKXKIt UlI,CtX. Copyright. IMS. Star Company. The Rev. Bouck White performs a socialistic wedding recently. It differed from other marriages only In substitut ing "While love lasts" for "Till death do us part." The Rev. Houck White a y a very truly, "Where lov is not, true love Is not." Rut In tn a k i n g this change In the mar riage ritual no re formation la being made In our do mestic or social conditions. It will unquestionably re sult In greater license and more f r quent separa tions. There are living in the world today numerous happy couples who have passed over danger reefs In life's voyage and weathered great storms and come forth Into ealm sesa. During their tempestu ous time, had the socialists tugboat been at hand one of them would no doubt have gone ashore and left the other to continue the voyage alone. There are tides . In love a there are In the ocean; thcr are time when the tide runs very low; there are certain shores where the tide goes out for mile, leaving bare aand dune or mud flats; but the wave come back again and the tide runs hliih. There are certain temperament that are like these certain shore at the time of the going out of the tides; if they break their marriage tie they may live to realise their mistake at a later hour. They may live to know that love did not die, but It only receded for a time.. This new socialistic clause In the mar- If VV. rri ; - . Advice to the Lovelorn IT BBATmiCB Be Patient with Her. Dear Miss Fairfax: I have been paying attention to a young lady for three yeara We had an engagement at her home. When 1 called 1 waa Informed by hei Parents that she waa out for the evening. 1 learned from an authentlo source she was out with another man. Later I con fronted her with It. She admitted auto mobiling with a married man. We quar relled and parted. Since then she ha been trying to effect a reconciliation. If 1 take her back do you think I could trust her again. ANXIOUS. What the girt did waa very wrong, par ticularly so if she deceived her parent a well you, but do you feel that you have the right to judge her for one such blunderT Be patient with her and try to persuade her that she cannot afford to carry on an affair with a married man. Your loyalty may save her now. and If you desert her great harm may coma to her. i. j The Hoy Will Add to Your Happiness Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young roan of Zi, and have iund that I am deeply In love with a young woman who is a stenographer In this city, and who re ciprocates my love. I now occupy a po rtion with a large electrical corimratlon, and my prospects for advancement seem excellent. Now, dear Miss Fairfax, the onlv thing that would tend to mar our happiness Is the fact that the woman Is a widow with one boy. who Is a very dear llttl fellow I love the woman dearly, but I think the yaTI ft home Mi : I :. i It K i It r i il Ik 1i rtliZWW i I lis... irfM J; in; -m:;f"rm iV m I I mm-' m m Victrola XVIII. $300 . Victrola XVIII, electric, Mahogany riano service scorns to put the Institutl n very much on the plane of the oomrrv. law marriage. The conunon-law marriage requires l ceremony at all. The man and ,t woman live together and he rails hrr b wife, and so In the eyes of the remrrv law she becomes his wife. Hither c: leave the other at any time without l bother of the d;vor.-e eurt. . , Tte realistic marrHre prsweseea itll tarrt ribentty ttma tkia. Il It likely to lead mm and anmi" Into formlnc tie which they know wi only be temporary; m auad worn, who. facing the solemnity of a marrUi "Until death do us pajt." ,ou i . tate and desist from talcing the Mei knowing their infatuation waa only froi the senses and that It poasssed no stup quality. If we are to take the solemnity, If. seriousness, tho sense of great response billty out of marriage, then why n settle dovn to the common-law marrla and be done with It? Marriage is In tended as a school for the cultivation all the great principle and virtues: sell control, patience, sympathy, unselflshf ncss that old. old quartet, a old a Clod these .hould stand guard over mart riage. Tho Socialistic marriage would die Dense with them. Rin from a difficult situation was at ha why exercise the sterner virtues? ' Every married couple ought to this.; of love as a perennial not a an annua plant Perenlals and annual requlti different treatment In one's garden Prepare the soli then for the nerennla plants. Give them the right care, pro tect them through the hard winters n nourish and fertilise the ground wher. they grow. a It will make a more beautiful and satis fytng garden than the planting of seed In shallow soil each Min and th throwing away of the faded flower at tne rust touch of frost rirtriz' boy might detract front our happiness. She assures me that this would make no difference Will yu kindly give me your advice In this matter? FRANK. L, There Is no reason why the little lad you love should not be still dearer to you if he became your step-son. If you really care for his mother, marry her by all means, and try to give the bow Urn benefit of a father's love and compan ionship, - -Don't Sarrlfler Voir Work.' : ' rear Mis Fairfax: I am i9 and an I Jin taJ,e,eim,n"d n,m wlth me f I do not give up my position. Now. Mm mhouli wi "P my livelihood aaw I??"."u? Wu,i9 h9 against it. or shall I me her uu? ti XKi1", 1 "ht to leave her af er ,h up ir I did not give up this position? p I. R. 55. The stage la an honorable calling f.r which I have deep respect. Don't sacri fice you work for a stubborn and fool ish girl whim. Devote yourself to earn est effort In your profession. Try to make a great success, which training and endeavor will aid you to" gain, gee if you cannot put thoughts of love Into the background until you are more ma ture. The girl you choose today may not be a companion for the man you are go ing to make of yourself. t I jr. fail; ,t i $350 V t