THE OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH .1,
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Only Real
Test of
Christianity
Br ELLA WI1EF.LER WILCOX.
Copyright. 11. Btr Company.
"What la the true meaning of the
phrase, "A good Christian?' Does that
only apply to a believer In Christ?
"Couldn't a person be called a good
Christian. be he Jew or Oenttle. If he la
ploua. charitable, good at heart, etc?
J'y replying you will more than oblige
one that la anxious,"
A fact frequently forgotten la that
Christ waa only the name of the Great
Teacher who taught love and unselfleh
tiess for a "creed."
He gave no name to Ilia philosophy.
It la virtually the same religion which
hn thti central thouaht of every
f great religion the world baa ever Known.
Any cercrui student or trie older re
llarloua faiths nf the human race can
prove this by a little research and atudy.
, Robbed or their cruder and (nor oar
mrtn features, all rellrinna have taught
that Inva nf the rmtAi1 and one's fel
low men and unselfishness and moraltt)
were necessary to aalvmtion.
Christ, the last and greatest of all the
teachers simplified these truths and Im
pregnated them with His own wonder
t il personality.
Much of Hla teaching waa done by
parables, and when He found Hla audi
1 fcncee Ignorant and skeptical He resorted
o working miracles merely to attract
their attention and to lead them to
listen to higher truths.
The world has called the philosophy
w hich He . taught J-Chrlatlanlty." Cler
gymen and translators have perverted
rnuch of His teaching, and distorted
many of .His meanings.
The generally accepted Idea of the
term "Christian" la one who bellevea
Christ to be born of an Immaculate con
ception, and to be the only being ever
go born, and to demand that belief from
aeft. soul before It can be saved." That
in the orthodox Christian.
But Christ himself would. If upon
( (earth, most assuredly call many great
knd beautiful souls who existed before
!iim "Christiana" since they fcllowed
after love,, truth, unselfishness and mo
rally.
T have known Buddhists, Brahmins ana
Jews who lived lives as nearly ideally
tonselflsh as to possible In the body of
clay; and I am sure the gentle and un
selfish Christ would class them among
Ills "Christians" were He here with us.
Jt waa the spirit, not the letter, of faith
that He stood for. He knew that He
T.as absolutely unselfish and that He
tad only universal good at heart and.
because of this, that He and the Father
were onej therefore. Ho said. '1 am
the way."
Only by the, way of abaolute unsel
fishness of life can we be saved' from
the sure punishment, which eelflahnesa
always brings. It has been truly said,
We era punished by our slna, not be
cause of them."-.Tbey are our hell-tire."
to which we aupply the brimetone.
"The- way". ,t aulvatton. Ilea, in drop
ping them., growing out of them and Re
lieving In 'unselfishness and love the at
tribute of Christ. ' '
Whoever possesses " those attributes
and lives that life is a "Christian." Not
cn orthodox Christian, to whom a cler
gyman or priest would administer the
sacrament, maybe, hut a Christian whom
Christ would accept.
To love your Creator with all your
heart, and your neighbor aa youraelf,
to do good to those who despltefully use
you-that la to a "Chrtetlan," no mat
ter whether Jew, Pagan or Oentlle.
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r GRACE DARLING.
One of the questions that Rifle discuss
when they are having, a cup of tea to
gether and talking their real thoughts
Is: "How con a girl tell when she Is
really in love, forever and ever, with a
man, or whether she has merely a pas
sing fancy for Mm?''
We girls don't know any certain, sure
way to tell near love from real love, and
the pity of the thing Is that no one in
the world seems wise enough to devlso
any Infallible test for affection that will
enable us to diagnose our symptoms
to find out whether we hsve got an In
curable case of heart throbs or merely
a pssslng Indisposition that we will re
cover from In a week or two without
Its leaving a single scratch behind.
So far aa I have been able to tell from
my limited observation, the only way to
tell which Is true love and which la false
love Is about the same as the way to
Ifll mushrooms from toadstools. Try it.
and If you survive It was the real thing.
And there you are. sa Mr. Henry James
would say.
But how can a girl toll whether she is
in love or not? If she goes by the novels
and the plays, she has wonderful thrills,
and ahe grows hot and cold when she
hears his footsteps coming, and when he
la out of eight the whole world la a
bleak desert and she takes no Interest
In her clothe or her looks or amuse
ments. rerhapa girls did use to feel that way
when they were In love when they were
poor, sickly, neurotic Lydla Languish
kind of creatures, who fainted at the
sight of a mouse. But I don't believe
that any healthy modern girl has any
of those symptoms of heart affection,
no matter toow much she Is In love. She
has to devise some new test of love,
I think It's a pretty good test that a
girl Is In love when she gets to the place
where she would just rather alt up and
listen to some particular man talk than
to do anything else in the world when
she thinks It's more exciting to hear him
tell about what he did when he was a
little boy with pale-green freckles, and
used to carry angle worms In his pock
ets than to go to see the moat excltlns
play In town.
As long as a girl doesn't care particu
larly for a man, she wants lm to do
something to amuse her to take her
about to places and so when she de
velops the stay-at-home symptoms,
things are getting serious with her.
Another sign that a girl la falling in
love la when she begins to make a man
economise, and suggest going to the
movlea Instead of to the opera, and hav
ing sandwiches at home instead of din
ner at a restaurant. It abowa that she
is beginning to think that perhaps she is
going to have an Interest In his
pocketbook.
Btlil another sign la when a girt begins
all of a sudden to grow domestic. . and "
take an interest ' In cooktns and new
recipes and the -cost' of butcher's meet'.
When you find yourself Just naturally ''
gravitating toward - the kitchen, c'rls.'
watch your step, for you're on the verge
of plunging .into matrimony.
Finally and this la the real test of
love, I think note -vhether you are really
chums with the man or not, and lay par
ticular stress on whether he bores you
when you have unlimited doaea of hla
society.
A poet aald that unless you could muse
all day on an absent face not to think
you were In love. But absence la no
test. Any of ua can Imagine ourselves in
love with an Individual of whom we see
very little, but It takes the real bona
fide, blown-ln-the-glaes brand, of affec-
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A New and Fetching Pose of Grace Darling.
tlon to enable na to see a romantlo halo testa of love which Is one of the thlnga
about the man who Is always on the spot. I that makes the love game the blcrpest
But, after all, there are no lnfalliable gamble in the world.
BttOtlon i. Promise of marriag ob
tained by business women throuch ex-
aggerated statements as to their earn
ing! may, at the option of the prooiieer,
1) hold null said void.
Section. -2.! No widow shall shoot at a
bian from an ambush of maidenhood.
Widows, when proposing, must wear all
their wedding rings, aav when the pro
pose la a widower. Then all betaand
(intra are off.
Section . No athletic 100-pounder may
pmbrare a chap half her .weight and
hold his ribs 1n peril until he whtatxirs
jes.
Section i. No girl, with intent to de
ceive and ensnare, ahall offer a hungry
boarding house bacfcelor a home cooked
Hieal, alleging that the earn is her handi
work, when in reality It waa cooked by
fcer mother. ' -
Section i. No female tango teacher of
tlx age of 40, plus, shall extract from
uny young and innocent lad a promise
to wed while aald youth Is in her arms
and under the influence of her divine
dancing.
Section. 1 It ahall be unlawful for t.ny
Knald to ply a man with love until he is
Intoxicated, unless she intends to be
come his little bromo seltser.
f Section 7. The avowal, "I love you."
'"uVyJs ii ja hereby declared reprehensible, Illegal
nd or no enect, except wnen it is im
mediately followed by the question: "Will
jou b my husband?"
Section 8. Tne employment of nets,
traps, pits and deadfalls la expressly
forbidden. Provided, that nothing In this
s.Ttlon shall be construed as prohibiting
the use of (a) net waists, which reveal
alluring shoulders; (b) the verbal trap,
which, when sprung, leaves a man en
gaged, though he did not Intend hla re
mark for a proposal; (c) the cosy comer
pit; (d) the Intentional fall with sprained
ankle trimming, whereby a man is forced
to pick up the ankle's owner and carry
her for life.
Section . It shall be unlawful for any
woman to capture a married man with
out first obtaining the consent of the
Courts.
Section 10. No veteran cannoneeress
shall fire at a ealflsh boy with a 43-centl-meter
gun. Nor shall any woman use
the dum-dums known as "Darling. J
need a masterful man to rule me!" Nor
the asphyxiating gases: "You're the hand
someet man 1 ever sew! ' and: "I atever
knew what a great, absorbing passion
was until you taught me!"
Section ll. Feminine fists may properly
he employed In overcoming the recal-
dvAnt male. But knives, pistols and
ngshots are barred.
fiictlon II. Any maid,, widow or other
frmslo person found guilty of violating
the preceding seotlona of this act ahall
b deprived of her game and made to
eland by and see the same bestowed
tipon snrne damsel who Is too bashful
tu ;o -gunning for a man. Trriell I
JiolUclay. in I.Ur,
Marriage as a Crucible
By WOODS 111 T lllOS, M. D.
I'ART 1.
At first sight, the question, Can men
be klllrd mere rjpi.li by machinery
than by han'l? would eoom to have only
one pofHil.lu answci.
The luirrililo vvutsln of f re" whlih
can he po jrrd into and stn trhrd on or
the hostile trenches, until every square
foot of the ground has been sm&atwu
and pulverised as If by gliiMiitlc trip
hammers, would seem to M-lt absolute
annihilation for evrry living tiling that
falls under Its deadly shadow.
The literal tons of both ammunition
and explosive projectiles fired in the
courso of a slngie iluy s battle; tne .
niftrant fact, for Instance, that a modern
army requires at least one doubio-track
railroad in perfect working order and
run to Its full train capacity to supply
It with ammunition alone, would look
as if the slaughter produced by this
avalanche of metal would exceed any
thing ever dreamed of before.
But when we coma down to the actual
cold figures of killed and wounded we
fl'd ouisrlves most happily disappointed
In this shuddering expectation.
With ull its thunder and sputter ana
scientific (rightfulness, the death storm
which is now rsgtng half over Uie world
Is not killing any larger percentage ot
the men on the tiring line than did the
the cruder and simpler methods ot fifty
or a hundred years ago, and far less
than those of two or three hundred years
ago.
Of course, the returns are still far
from complete, and none ot the belltg-
erente are, to say the least ot It, over
stating their losses, but slaughter by
tens of thousands has become auch a
commonplace that most of the war de
partments have become calloused and
post their list of casualties almost as
coolly and aa much a matter of course
aa If they were base ball scores or stock
market quotations.
The latest compilation from all offlolal
sources on both sides, corrected and
checked by experts according to the
known probabilities, shows a total of
Uvea lost, killed outright, of something
like a million and Ihrcc-Quarters.
This Is enough to stagger belief and
defy realisation In the mass, but the
warring nations claim to have over to,-
OOO.Ono mon actually In the field, and
aa thla deroon'a game has disgraced the
earth seventeen months and Ion ago
celebrated Its first birthday In hell, thla
makes only a loss of about per rwnt
per annum, only a little higher than that
of our own civil war, so that the risk to
the Individual soldier la scarcely more
that It waa at Gettysburg or Antletam
So far aa we are able to see at present
the Individual soldier's chancea of being
killed are about the same In this war
aa they were In the civil war, and a
little greater than they were In the
Ftanoo-I'ruaBlan or the Russo-Japanese
and the Boer wars, all of which averaged
about 4 per oent per annum.
As to the pro pec ta of this war's effects
upon the future of the nations Involved.
the mathematical probabilities are In one
sense reassuring although In another dis
quieting.
Even adding M per cent for rood
measure to the known casualties and
making the loss of the five greatest na
tions Involved 1,600,000 a year, this
actually represents only tie-fifth of the
babies born during that period! And after
deducting deaths for the year, the net
gain of these SSO,000,000 of people would
be In the neighborhood of 1000,000 souls,
or to per cent more than the number lost
in battle.
To put it in a little different way, the
slaughter, horrible aa It sounds, la only
about four times aa great as the normal
death rate for adult :nalea In the coun
tries concerned during the same period.
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By DO&OTHT DIX.
A Boston woman thinks that much
matrimonial Infelloity would be prevented
if all young couples who are contem
plating entering the holy estate would
be compelled to go before a commission
and make satisfactory replies to a num
ber of queries that she suggests. Among
these leading questions that she would
put to the matrimonial candidates Is
this:
How long have you known eacn
otherr
I wonder what the right answer to
that conundrum la.
A man and a woman who naa never
been married might aay an hour-a day
a week a year ten yeara, according
to whatever they were romantic ana
Impulsive or matter-of-fact and prudent.
But those who have been married have
found out from their own personal ex
perience that it doesn't make a particle
of difference how, much or bow little
previous acquaintance you have had with
the party of the other part berore you
were married to the said party of the
other part, because you never know him
or her until after you are married, and
then It's too late.
The truth Is that matrimony is one of
the crucial experiences of life that bring
out the best and the worst that Is In us,
snd none of us knows until we have
been through It Just how close we, or
another, can come to the angels, and
how near we can descend to the brute.
Therefore, before marriage we not only
unconsciously deceive our husbands 'or
wives, but we are totally ignorant of our
own potentialities.
To a certain degree marriage develops
whatever la the leading characteristic ot
the Individual, so that It may be said
that what a man or woman Is before
marriage he or she will be after mar
riage, only more so.
Thus, the girl who Is flven to making
sarcastic and biting speeches before mar
riage Is pretty apt to develop Into a
shrew after marriage, and the man who
la bossy aa a suitor la likely to be a
tyrannical husband, while he who is close
In the courting days may be counted on
to keep a padlock on hla pocketbook In
domestic life.
So far as these characteristics go, some
thing msy be said in favor of marrying
only those whom you have known long
enough to observe their tricks and their
manners, and draw deductions there
from. In the lottery of marriage, however,
there are no rules for pleytng the game
so as to win. They sre sll exceptions,
ml wedlock Just as often changes a p r
son's characteristics as It Intensifies
thrm. AH of us know men who have
married poor gills who were noted fur
heir thrifty and domestic limts. hoping
herrhv t" get economical helpmates, b'Jt
he minute these models of economy un,1
Industry were married they became ex
travagant and laxy.
We also know girls who wore frivolous
and , fashionable and extravagant, and
who everybody predicted would ruin their
husbands, metamorphosed by the mar
riage ceremony from butterflies Into
household grubs, and who were ever after
the best cooks and managers In the com
munity. Sometimes, too, a man who is hard
and stingy to all the world Is tenderness
and generosity itself to his wife, while he
who Is most admired by the outside world
for his virtues. Is cruel and unkind to his
own family which all goes to show that
you never can tell what sort of a wife
or husband any woman or man will make.
Marriage is the add test of character,
and until It to applied there la no know,
ing what la pinchbeck and what mm
gold, and by the time you have made your
test It's too late for anything but Reno
or maKing the best of your bargain.
Strletly Aneorate.
An agent, approaching a house, met
a little boy at tho rnte and asked:
"Is your mother home?"
'yes, sir." said the boy, politely.
1 he sgent walked across the long lawn
and after rapping several times without
receiving an answer, returned to tho
youth, saying:
"1 thought you said your mother vas
at home?
"Yts, sir; she Is." replied the boy.
"Hut 1 have rapped several times with
out receiving an answer."
"That mnv he, sir." said the boy. "I
'don't live here." I'hlladnlphla Ledger.
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Dangers of Love-Making
y Br.aTRlfri FAIRFAX.
A little while ago a letter came to me
which both amused and hurt me. It
read something like this:
I am In love with a young man whose
feeling for me Is. I fear, nothing more
han a pnartng fancy. But 1 cars tor
him so much 'hat I will be willing to
ske almost any chance to win him.
Aim vet hen he warns to kiss me and
s.iys that there Is no harm In m little
ove-making. something stops me.
riesse tell me what to do. t'on't say
what you think you ought to say because
t sounds well, but what you honestly
would do If you were a I rl like me.'
Now, It happens that whul I would
oo it 1 were that girl and had the back
ground of sane Judgment her letter In
a testes, and 'what 1 think I ought to
y." are one and the same thing.
W hen a nun tells a girl there is no
harm In a lltue lovo-maktng. he Is try
ing to salve uia conscience and to con
vince himself as well as her. Love Is
e.lher a sacred or profane emotion a big
thing or a trifle. And no modern sophls-
ir.rs about It can lead us awey from
thst. No psychology or psychoanalysts
it other product ot modern tnought can
swing us away from the fact that mod
esty Is modesty, that dlanity Is dignity,
snd that self-respect Is self-respect.
The girl who lets a man kiss her
lightly, In response to the emotion of
the moment, because he is a man and
she Is a girl and the fact that kindles a
"flare of feeling,'' cheapens herself In
that man's eyes and makes herself seem
to him unwortny of a tlno and serious
love. And so It will be aa long as the
world lasts and human nature la human
nature. A man may want very much to
kiss a girl for whom he has a passing
fancy and may fairly fight for his de
sire, but once he has had It tho desire
is satisfied and automatically It destroys
Itself. This Is, of oourse, the case of
passing fancy which my correspondent
J escribes.
True love Is a different thing. It de
clares Itself honestly for what It la, and
It doesn't have to talk about "a little
harmless love-making," becauaa It Is
above making cheap love. Since It feels
true love. It la big and fine and staunch
and sturdy.
"A little harmless love-making
erslly conducts business under such chssp
and undlpnlfled names ss "spooning,"
"mushing'' snd other equally repellent
terms. And there Is no way of getting
wv from the fact thst It Is harmful to
dignity and self-respect and all the dic
tates of decency.
That is not too strong a term to use,
for whoever cheapens what ought to he
splendid and pure and fine Is actuslly
throwing aside all and with deep and
reverent emotion. On the other hand,
there Is cheap feeling, expending Itself
standards of decency.
There Is no such thing as "a little
hnrmlese love-making." On the one hand,
there Is true love, big and unafraid, ex
pressing Itself sacredly where It chooses
and expressing Itself lavishly. It flues
up like a sky-rocket, and there la nothing
else. "Passing fanny" la a delicate way
of describing It. It Is a thing of the air
snd It disappears Into thin air. Real
love haa roots and substance.
The girl who accepts the cheap tribute
of a man's passing fancy lower her
standards and his. She grasps at air
and haa nothing.
This Is not the conventional ad vine ot
an older woman to a young glrL It la a
statement of what every woman knowa
deep In her heart of hearts.
Co-Eds in Training
The honor eyetem haa been put Into
effect among the women of the Wlsoonsln
state university's coed athletic teams.
Here are some of the rules)
Uve at the training table.
Must not go to mora than on dancing
party a week.
Nothing to be eaten between meals em
rept fruit, plain toe cream, crackers,
white or graham, milk.
Must not eat hot breads, biscuits, tea,
coffee, cake or any rich pastry.
Must not spoon.
Must not eat more than one pound of
candy a week.
Must cut out dormitory rarebits.
Must turn In at 10 o'clock each night
Must take one hour of exercise each
day. In addition to the regular training
period.
If the gtrla should ha tempted and fan, '
they must report their violation of the
rules to the physical director. The rules
do not prescribe whether the coed athlete
W rTrf""- ,v" ' name br Dactaer.
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In times of trouble sympathy Is apt
to be Inquisitive.
Safety urst Is another name for the
exercise of common sense.
When you want a man's real opinion
of you, provoke him to anger.
It must make a poor euss feel proud
to be sued for W.OOO damages.
Of course the low-necked gown always
looks better on the other man's wife.
Some of these matrimonial combina
tions convince us that love must at least
have been very near-s'.ghted.
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