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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1915)
THH I'.KK: OMAHA. FUIDAV, XuVKMKF.K 19, 1!Mii. he Bee's iomm e Ma azlitse Pa ge Love, a Cough, Money and Smoke- Cannot Long Be Hidden By Nell Brinkley Copyright, ins, Intern! News furrlc. Love, like the stupid ostrich, shuts his eyes tight, dips his curled head Into a hole in the sand, and then with all the rest of his round person exposed plnkly to view, dreams that not a bouI can see him! Love sighs like the Winter Wind, and then fancies the world thinks him cheerful and heart-whole. Love casts a soft eye and writes the name of a girl when he should be doing bis 'rithmetlc, and smiles when he reflects that the wild thinks him a woman-hater! Love turns his head away w..an the girl of his dreams steps by, turns a violent crimson like' an autumn sky at' sunset and sniffs a deprecatory sniff, and then thinks we think he hates the girl! Ah, Love, my fellow, you are a bit of clear seawater tn the Tropics with the sun shining on you, and we can see right through you! Very deep to the golden sands and the shells of lovely color lying there. So do lovers blush and frown and turn away and scoff and tremble and go white and scorn the voice they listen for yet fancy their love bidden 'way. So the little chap In at twilight at the sound of his mother's bell-like call, his "arc tics" off, his wet mittens dangling, bis wet, numb feet coming to agonizing life In the warm oven on a block of stove wood, the red flare from the stove door flickering through the warm dusk In the kitchen where his mother moves, humming, sits with his small face In a puffed turmoil with the agony of smothering a cough) Wet feet from playing fox-and-goose In the twilight snow, and blue bands from kneading snow balls for the fort and a bottle of something for boys' colda eyeing him through the dim light from the pantry shelf! Oh, If mother will only not connect the three when she hears bis strangled woof! Little "Oh My" In a blue pinafore grows wealthy sud denly one day, on a reddish, round, bright penny. And dream that shell board and bide It. But up It comes over the counter of the store down the road, held fast and persplry In a fat fist, and a lam by little voice lisps, "Uh-all-day-sucker, please!" And the fact of her wealth Is abroad! The small chap In blue overalls with a thirst for age and the privileges that go with It sits behind bis very own white fence In the low cedars, with one of his father's fat, brown cigars. And up In the still blue Autnmn air, lighted by the sun, the smoke wreath curls! For he makes much smoke! . That's why he smoked, you see. The Indian be read about In that wild-life book used smoke to signal across the vasty mllee of bills and prairie country but be never remembers that while the smoke curls high and wide. And down upon him bears the fighting vessel that Is his father. But like Love, who digs his curls out of sight and fore the rest of him, the small thing under the cedars, with a strange, queer sense of foreboding, as though he bad eaten hugely of onions and vinegar, within him, believes himself burrowed away". We are Love the pair who love and dissemble, the little chap with the numb feet and the cough, little "Oh My" with the itching wealth, poor Billy-boy with the future woe within him! We dream that we move In darkness, that neither the folk around us nor the bine sky above us can see wnat we do or think. We hide our loving and our hating, our cheer and our glooms, our poverty and our winnings but tn a little while we can no longer strangle our cough, the signal smoke curls up and the blue sky and all the world knows. We are dear dissemblers and Heaven loves ns! Just the same. Use Common Sense When You Meet Strangers By DOROTHV DIX S It U moat unfortunate that In order to warn young. Ignorant and unsophisticated girls against certain perils that liese.t them It la necessary to overestimate the danger and lay un- neceaaary emphasis upon It They have not Judgment enough to discrim inate tn different cases, and to to protect them you must warn them againat the haiard entirely, as you would keep a child from failing out of the window by tail ing it to atay In the middle of the room. For instance. It la a well known fact that there are gentle, gray-haired moth erly-looklng old women, apparently the very essence of respectability, who travel about on boats and trains for the sole purpose of a An Old, Family Cough t Remedy, Home-Made Easily Prepared Coat Very Little, hat la Proaset, Bare aa Effective w a CM By making this pint of old-time cough syrup at home you not only save about iS, as compared with the ready-made kind, but you will also have a much more rrompt and positive remedy in every way. t overcomes the usual coughs, throat and chest eoids in 24 hours relieves even I whooping cough quickly and is excellent, 1 too, for bronchitis, bronchial asthma, hoarseness and spasmodic croup. Get from any drug store 2 ounces of Pinex (60 cents worth), pour it into a pint bottle and fill the bottle with plain granulated sugar syrup. Full directions with I'mex. Keeps perfectly and tastes good. You can feel this tak fioM of a nnuirh or cold in a way that means business. It ?ulckiy loosens the dry, hoarae or pain nl eoucrn and heala the inriameil mom. branea. It also has a remarkable effect ID overcoming the persistent loone coutfh v stopping the formation of phlegm In the throat and bronchial tubes. The effect of I'ine on the membranea is known bv almost every one. Pinex is a most valuable concentrated compound of vennina Norway nine extrart rnmhinf witn guaiacoi ana otoer natural healing ine element. There are manv worthless Imilitlnn, of this famous mixture. To avoid die annointment. ask vour druviriit for "4U ounces of Pinex," and do nut accept any thing else. A guarantee of absolute satisfaction, nr monev Promptly refunded, iroea m it h this preparation. The Pinex Co., It scraping acquaintance with pretty young country stria going to the cltlea to seek employment. It ia the horrible business of these harpies to gain the confidence of these girls, and to benovelently offer them shelter until they can find some thing to do, and thus to lure the poor Innocents into places of Infamy, from which many of them never escape. For this reason the welfare societies for young girls, the Travellers' Aid so ciety and every mother who la wise to the dark ways of the world, impress on the minds of the girls the danger of mak ing chance acquaintance when they axe travelling with' any woman, no matter how much like a mother she appears. Hence, when a benevolent old lady speaks to a young girl she Is apt to be severely snubbed, and should ahe artlessly offer the girl some peppermint drops the girl Iwould decline, because she would be suspicious of being drugged. Nor. If the old lady should faint, would the girl rush to her rescue, becsuse she has been told that that Is a favorite trick. Now, obviously, most of the garruloua old ladies who are travelling about, and who would like to fall into conversation with the girls they meet, and who re minds them of their own granddaughters, are guileless and harmless as babes. But how Is the girl to know which old lady is a leader in the church in Bird Center and which Is a white slaver? .She can't tell and ao In the Interest of her own safety ahe has to be taught to be suspi cious of all strantce women. Precisely the samo thing 1b to be said about the girl's dealings with men. The great majority of men are chivalrous toward women, and a girl would be as safe with them aa sho would with her own brothers. But there is that terribly minority who are wolves in vheep s clothing, and who ruthlessly prey on innocence, and to protect herself against them the girl has to be taught to 'ware every strange man. ' fche has to be taught the danger of what seema an innocent flirtation; not (o pick up acquaintances who have not been properly introduced and vouched for; not to enter Into conversation with men she accidentally nieeu; not to eat or drink with or aycoept courtesies from men she doesn't know. This strenuous rule often brings ab-jut idiotic and ridiculous results, as in the case of a kind-hearted and polite gentleman 1 knew, who aeelng a young woman hav ing a $fiu hat about to be melted down Into a pulp in a sudden shower, and mindful of how his own wife would fsul about such a catastrophe, gallantly proffered his umbrella to the lady. "Kir," she exclaimed, haughtily, "I wilt call the police if you speak to ma again." Still another man of most Innocent In tention, who selzud a girl by the ana and snatched her from sudden death under the wheels of an automobile got 'Whetch! How dare you!" for hU paius. Of course, this la carrying tha matter to a silly extreme. Mill, tn srder to protect the ewe lamb against the wolves It has been necessary to engender a dis- Mother and Daughter trust of all wolves In her confiding breast. But while these sweenlnir rules snnlv to young girls, women of mature age! are not bound by them, and they should ! have enough Intelligence and knowledge j of the world to know when and where to make exceptions, and to be able to discriminate between men who are deep, dark-eyed villains and men who are companionable, and who look upon ' women, not from the point of aex, but; as follow human beings. j This point of view is emphasised by j the experience of a young woman of my 1 acquaintance, a woman of O and a level- headed business woman, who spent a! recent Sunday afternoon tn the park. A ' middle-aged man occupied tha other end I of the bench on which ahe sat, and after j a while made some casual remark about : the passing throng. Bhe answered In ! the same spirit, and they drifted Into a moot Interesting conversation that they both enjoyed and they parted without the man making the slightest attempt to find out who the young woman was. It was all as Innocent and friendly and Impersonal as two ships that hall each other as they pass at sea, but the young woman's family gave her a ter rlflo scolding when they heard of It, and considered that she had committed a grave indiscretion. . This la utter nonsense. A woman of SI hud enough sense to take rare of her self unless she Is an Imbecile, and should not be allowed out at all. Also a busi ness woman learns mighty quickly to slse a man up and tell what his Inten tions are. even before he knows himself. Whatever the society woman and the home-keeping woman may think about It, the woman who works with men soon finds out that every man Isn't trying to flirt wtlh every woman, and that no woman has sufficient attractions to make men pursue her after she shows them that she doesn't wish to toe pursued. After all, the best chaperon In the world is good, hard, horse sense. The woman who uses that ran else up sny situation, and tread the aafe path be tween prudence and prudery. In-Slioots The man who attempts to settle a row between two women la in for punishment worse than anything ever Inflicted on tha innocent bystander at a riot. Aa a rule Interesting talkers are rather chary In the matter of conversation. Bome of these army recruiting station handbills have the real estate promoters beat a mile. When nutn's stomach works harder than his hands, everything will become a bore to him sooner or later. Of coarse, one-half of the world be lieves the other half la Muffing. I not Imagine that many persons are tying awake nights worrying over your troubles. rty""iw,rW1sTSr- jt J ' " i lgfr-jififcsMi By ELLA WHEKLKR WTLOOX. What a lovely sight la a young mother with her baby daughter! How charming are the love and tenderness expressed In the mother's face as shs watches her little girl toddling about the room when she first be gins to walk! How sweet Is her sympathy for every childish trouhle. Then how Interested and anx ious she Is that her daughter should enjoy the best ad vantages possible, and how proud she becomes when ths young girl receives credit marks at school. But as this child develops Into wo manhood how rarely does the mother keep ths same close sympathy, tha same tender understanding, the same sweat patience. In the association with her. When a woman falls to win the first place In her daughter's heart aa friend, counsellor and ayropathlser. It U no one's fault but her own. I make this asser tion without reaervatlon or exception. Of course, there will be a clamor of protest from "devoted mothers." but I know what the average Idea of devotion on a mother's part la, and I call It by other names. To make a slave of yourself for your child, to try to save your daughter from menial labor, to try to dress her better than other girls and to tax your strength and purse In order to give bar luxuries, la not devotion. It la unwise ambition and folly on your part. It U sowtng the seeds of selfishness and Indolence In a receptive young mind, that has come Into being through no wtsh of Its own. Having brought the girl Into the world. It is your duty to study her aa you would some plant were you a hortlcultur 1st. and to be patient, loving and gentle with her faults and sympathetic with her requirements. It Is your life work to make a noble and worthy woman of her and to lead her by the power of unfailing love and cheer, fulness to be your pride and comfort and Joy. Tou ran only do this by controlling yourself in her presence, by setting her an example of dignity and patlenee and all -embracing love; by eliminating all bit terness, all gloom, all carping crttlolsm from your heart, and by bestowing upon her nine words of appreciation for every one of fault-finding. ' Tou must win her respect before she ran be asked to respect you, Tou must he lovable before you can expect her to give you more than the duty regard which so many ohlldren are obliged to make serve for filial affection. You must be sweet and responsive and ympathetio before ahe can confide tn you, and you must be tactful and merry and wise in your methods of teaching her to be industrious and unselfish and thoughtful of you and others. The girt who Is reminded of her dis agreeable Inheritance from ancestors, naturally does not feel herself responsi ble for her faults. Yet ahe I for tha divine Inheritance la there, and If she Is taught to cultivate that, no earthly traits can dominate or control her. It Is this truth, madame, which you should impress upon your daughter's mind from the oradle to womanhood. You should say to her: "Tou are God's creation, sent to 'earth to beautify and bless It with your sweetness. I know you will be all that I want you to be. The child used to love and praise feels the force of a merited reproof, while It falls dead upon the ears of one accus tomed to continual fault-finding and nagging and Ill-temper. If you have let your child slip too far away from you to bring her back, and If you have cultivated weeds Inatead of flowers In her heart, at least take tha blame upon yourself and do not assumt the air of a martyr before the world Ycu were the architect of your daugh ter's character before her birth on-, afterward. You could have made her anything you wished her to be had love and patience been your tool. 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