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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1915)
9 lb tne Ma Jill flue Three Answers Censored Drawn for The Dec by Hal Coffman. : : : 7 -OS- Dr. Trudeau's Eternal Monument tiik nr.E: omaha. Tuesday. iiECEMnER 21. ini:. .Bees Page e gazi lly JANK M'liEAV. What Is life? The minstrel plays it On a reed of sweetest strain: "Life Is song, that wakes to music Joy or grief or depths of pain. Nature trills it In her bird rails. Croons it in 'her tunefnl rain."- What if life? The mystic sees It In his crystal: "Life is fate Lurking Just around the corner, Coming early, coming late. Laws are fixed and fate Is changeless: Watch the stars and dream and wait." What is life? The man who Hed It Gives hia answer, and he saith: 'Life is love, a hand that beckons Through the dusk, a long drawn breath And a kiss whose warmth we carry Lingeting with us into death." The Bargain Counter of Life By BEA TRICK FAIRFAX. All through Hfe most of us accept sub stitutes for the things we really want. We Justify ourselves to ourselves !y saying that we enn't have what we want, and o we might as well take tho next best thing. We fill up our minds nnd hearts with Idle vanities and feed our souls on empty shells and excuse our MOlves by paying we do this In order to attain contentment. What wc really do attain In lltered up and useless lives from which opportunity Is shut becn'use there is no room for her and from which growth is excluded, because . we force an unnatural development. There are some of life's gifts for which there ts no possiblo substitute. For love there can he none. N'or for honest work, tfruth and honor, and high Ideals, and friendship, and appreciation of beauty, and religion, and ambition, and a hu morous conception of one's place In the universe, coupled with a sane sense of responsibility, must be in every life that is to be fine, and big. and constructive, and happy. Nothing else will take their place. There Is nothing "just as good" as sympathy and understanding nothing else will equip you for love or friendship nothing else will make you so lovable or so worth living with. . Na one can cheat you but you. your elf. You never have to accept substi tutes for the things you really want: you never have to take the next best thing feaartead of your own high desire. Then way do you do It? pecause you are too Bnnatlent to waif for tho consummation OX your wesirew wcauw jruu mio 1 much a doubter to believe life will give' you the opportunity to attain what you long for; because you are too ready and willing to take the opinion of any one as to what is a worthy amMtlon Instead of holding to your own concep tion of It; finally, because you are too lasy to work for the fulfilment of your ambitions or too easy-going and weak willed to formulate clear ambitions for any of these four reasons, you take the first thing that chances to be offered in stead of striving and struggling for what you really want, and what your nature needs for Its fulfilment. Consider the ease of poor, abused love. How many women marry the man they love or any one of the dosen or so men somewhere In the world who might come up to their ideal? Eleanor adores Dick. Dick marries Lucille. ' Promptly then TUeanor rushes Into an engagement with Kohert and marries him partly because he Is afraid of an empty life, partly to prove to the people who might suspect her of an unreciprocated affection for Dick that they are wrong, partly to show Pick that she Is attractive to some man and partly because she craves love and imagines that she Is getting "something Just as good," or tho next best thing to what she really wanted. What happens? Eleanor ha no love to give Robert. Bhe cheats him: she cheats herself; she denies herself and rho man whose greatest mistake and crime la nothing worse than loving where he cannot Inspire love, a chance at real happiness.' If Eleanor had waited, a love greater than the fancied or real one she felt for Pick might have come Into her life. Bhe might have found contentment in work. Bhe would have left open for herself a chance at happiness. But no! Blindly and Quickly she must seize upon the next best thing to what she really wanted. And with the Image of one man In her heart she cannot make herself happy with or give happiness to another. For love there is no substitute love. Take the case of ambition. Suppose you long to be a great singer. Suppose you have the equipment in ability and temperament and even opportunity pror vided you will work arid earn and deserve it. But the road Is long and hard and means deprivations and difficulties to be overcome. The goal la far away. Right at hand lies a certain competence In a chance to sell Insurance. You take the easy path of salesmanship, although In your heart there is one great vision that blots out everything but the one thing fear of work. You have assurance that you could hardly fall as a singer provided you would work. But you are laty. You as sure yourself that an artistic career is uncertain at best and you become a mediocre salesman (who will never have to starve. It is true) but, who, with heart and Interest centered elsewhere, will be most unlikely to climb to any position of responsibility In your company. And all your life you sneak away to hear great singers and rouse yourself with a start from dreams of what might have been If you had been willing to wait and work. And now for work the saving grace of humanity. Is there anything "Just as good" as that? Is a ''cinch" or a "snap" or a dishonest get-rich-qukk scheme or a Ife of idle luxury gained through ac cident of birth or In some mercenary way to be compared with It? The only "next best thing" to work is more work. There Is nothing "Just as good" as a chance to make a place for yourself In the world or to prove your ability and strength SJid fine iiicnlalil j . uj.poso you drift into some occupa tion where by going through a quick routine every day, by making the mo tions of attending to business you ran manage to get on. Will this profit you anything? Most doldely not. You may make a living and keep a foothold on earth. But you won't grow. Your power to . meet and cope with situations wilt not be cultivated. You will simply putter along at your task. For love and ambition and work for any of the big realities of life there la nothing "Just as good." . I don't believe In Idle repining. K you long for a college education and pos itively cannot manage to get It, don't whine don't sit around and feet that life is empty. Get an education. It may not be the one you wanted, it may not be Just as good. Don't offer it to your uclf as a substitute but set about learn-. Ing all the things you want to know. Find out what it Is you want to learn and learn it. It won't matter much whether you get your .education In college halls or st night school or out of a course of read ing at home.' The name doesn't count. The point get what you want an edu cation. Don't Just till up your life with humdrum interests and try to forget that you Wanted to ge to colloge. It was to learn you desired. tVell then you can learn. Eleanor, who loves Dick and Is not loved by him is not cut off from all love unless she hastily marries a man for whom he does not care. Editorial for Women "Old Wives for New." By DOROTHY DDL Js a woman of 66 too old to Interest hor 6u-year-old husband? A dentist in New York City says that she is. He has forsaken his wife for a little paaches-and-cream girl, and he ex cuses himself by asserting that his wife is too old for him, yet they are both the same age. Of course in cases of errant fancy one excuse la about as good as another, and any old reason goes for a man wander ing from his own fireside, but. In reality, the question of whether a middle-aged woman la older than a middle-aged man is one purely of temperament. The rec ord In the family Bible has nothing to do with the case, for there are both men and women who are senile In the cradle, and children at 70. ' It cannot be denied that the general Impression prevails that a woman la older and less attractive at a given age than a man ia Perhaps this was true In the past, when women bore many chil dren, had few domestic conveniences, worked like galley slaves in their homes, and when they had little education and no outside interest to keep their minds stimulated. Under such conditions women faded early and became atrophied both in soul and body. But such is not the case in these days, when life has been made soft and easy for most women, when the ear of their persons has become a religion with them, and when the average woman reads more. travels more and studies mora than her husband does because she has mora time and opportunity. As men get along toward middle life they are apt to slump. They grow care less about their personal appearanoe, They hate to dress up. They narrow down to a few Interests and have little con cern about any subjects other than their business, the stock market and politics. Worse still, in only too many cases, they become egotists who will talk of nothing but themselves. As a woman approaches middle life she U In such deadly fear of being shelved that she puts forth every effort to make herself agreeable and attractive. Bhe dresses as well as she possibly oaa. she Joins study clubs, she keeps up with every movement and caa talk on any subject. More than that, she cultivates tact and adaptability, and studiously seeks to make herself agreeable, for well she knows that the feminine Tommle Tucker must sing for her supper. Tha truth is age has gone out of fash ion with women. Nobody know how old Ann U, but the one certain thing is that she is as young as her husband. In-Shoots No want ad ever found a lost reputa tion. ; We can always discover the taints on the other fellow's mone. f It U hot cfl n that a wife can plate lor hujband and her iiiuther-tn-law at t the same time. Mental Concentration As an Asset By CHARLES F. THAVING, LL.D. President Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Mental concentration is a uniting, quickening and vitalising of all the forces of reason devoted to a singlo end. It Is thinking to a point. It is summon ing knowledge to aid thinking, demand ing thinking to enlarge one's reasoning, requiring reasoning to arouse feeling and commanding feeling to hold the will reso lute. Its foes are diffuaeness, discursive ness and Indolence. Dlffuseness is the playfulness of Intellectual youthtfulness. Indolence is a mental Indifference which may or may not be recreative. The support of mental concentration are enthusiasm, interest, desire for achievement, health, strength of will. Mental concentration needs all natural buttresses. For the mind, at almost every stage, likes to wander. It prefers! tha picturesque to the logical, the emo tional to the rational, the passive to the laborious. The will Is, however, to nail the mind close and hard down to Its thought. The heart is to prompt the mind to rejoice In deflnlteness or fixedness, even If it be hard for a time. The conscience Is to be convinced that only by close devotion can worthy results be secured. Health is to be amply sufficient to fill up all the exhaustions made by long continued Intellectual processes. In such a concentration the mind finds forces of which it had not been conscious. It seems often to create new forces. It raises itself to the nth degree of power. It gts Its second wind. Its slow-moving feet become wings. It runs with the chariots, not with the footmen, and it does not become weary. The spirit of the very gods seems to fill Its being. Its sight becomes Insight. It calls out the Intellectual reserves. It discovers the truth of the remark of Wil liam James that each of us has re sources of which he does not dream. Under tha force of mentsl concentra tion great achievements are consum mated. Its lack spells Inefficiency and failure. Its possession is victory. Thus Jamas Russell Lowell wrote his poeraa Thus Lord Kelvin made his great die coVeries and inventions In many dlverss fields of human effort. Thus the great est of modern states achieved. Of Glad stone, Moris? says (Life I. W6): "Ha was never vary ready to talk about himself, but when asked what ha regarded as his master secret, ha always said, 'Concen tration.' "Slackness of mind, vacuity of mind, tha wheel of tha mind revolving without tilting tha rails of tne subject ware In supportable, ttuch habits were of the family1 of faintheartedness, which ha ab- ; herred. Steady practice of Instant, fixed, I effectual attention was the key alike to j his rapidity of apprehension and to his ' I'owerful memory. "Toll Mas his native element; and taeugu lie (nun. I himself possessed of many Inborn gifts, he was never vis. ted by the dream, so fatal to many a well laden argosy, that genius alone does all. There was nobody like him when it came to difficult business, for bending his whole strength to It, like a mighty archer stringing a stiff bow." OI'K.V A CH RGK ACCOUNT DIAMOND Hl FOR HKR CHRISTMAS GIFT. The famous Ixiflls "Perfection" Diamond King. 14k solid gold mounting, Is the most nerfevt rlna tver uroduced. Carried In all atsea from lift tit r,(1 I7i fiuu ana op- "-"ny me nnosi aiamonun, riery nruiiancy are used. Cased In ready ror preientation. trices and terma to suit any man pockctbook. , Open charge account get the ring for her now. 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In the north of Kng land. systemallsed and worked out with the wonderful adaptive and practical faculty of the Teutonic mind, by Brehmer ami Dettweller, and frorfl them received by Trudeau. But he was the great ex- nmpllflor, tho only man that had the courago of his convictions on a large scale. When skeptics scouted our revolution ary Idea that cold air could possibly be good for lung trouble, we pointed to the north woods snd said: "But look what results Trudeau Is getting." When he first went up Into the Adiron dacks to try the open air as the last des perate chance for hia own life, there was not a single sanatorium or Institution in the country for the open-air cure of con sumption. At his death, thirty years later, mere were !'& of such sanltorlums and hospi tals, wtlh a capacity of S5,00 beds, all more or less frankly modeled after Sara nac kake. besides 40 dispensaries solely for tuberculosis, with more than 1,000 physicians and over 4.w nurses asvoieu wholly to the treatment and cure of the disease along open-air lines. Now we demand fresh air In the bed room, fresh air In the office and store, fresh air in the factory, fresh air on street cars and trains. And althoagh our practice lags considerably behind our theory, we are headed in tne ngnt once t'.on. Clet the open-air habit in the summer, because then It IS easiest and most agree able. Stick to it In the fall and keep It up all winter. Feed yourself to match the appetite which It will give you. and you will do more to increase yonr hap piness and efficiency and lengthen your life than by any other step you could nnaslblv take. 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