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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1916)
TIfR BEE: OMAHA, TTItTtSDAV, MARCH '2l Wit?. Health Hints Fashions -:- Woman's Work Household Topics -O m I bat v eve r4; ( V (The Star Boarder 7 DOROTHY DIX. A western woman got a divorce from hrr husband on the grounds of "mental cruelty and non-support." Phe has now taken him In to boaru with her. and rport says that the plan la working aJmlrably, and that the dove of peace has taken up Its rooming plate In that mire discordant household. -vn business. There are many men who are welt nigh Intolerable huslinnds, hut who would make delightful boarder. And there are also many women who re disagreeable wives, but who would be charming landladies. 1..e mere fact that certain people are tied together makes them fight like the Kilkenny cats, f- th III t they could get along amiably enough they knew that they were free to pack their trunks and leave whenever they liked.. any women don't get divorces from niggardly and abusive husbands because they are bound to have what money they can screw out of the said husband to support them. Many men remain tied to hateful wives, who fret and aggra vate them almost to death, because, with all thei faults, their wives are still superlative cooks, and they can t bear to tear themselves away from the crea ture comforts to which they are accus tomed. This western woman has cut the Gor Han knot of these difficulties and showed the unhannv married how to eat their cake and have It too. aa It were; how- to hold onto husband's money and wife's nles. and atlll be free. It la to exchange i h unrmnsenlal roles of husband and wife for landlady and boarder. Th. tvntacea of the situation are manifest at a glance. Lt husband be tome a boarder and he at once as mimes camnanv manners, for no boarder would feel free to talk to his landlady In the tone of voice In which the aver- age nusDana aaarejse. u (would he feet at liberty to knock the I od and the general way In which the Vstabllshment was run. As a boarder a man would not, of rse, assume uie riEm i - . . ... . - .ffnlrl Is landlady about ner private On the contrary, realising that an boardlna- house chickens have aa many lege aa a centipede, and only an lnflnlste mal portion of white meat, also that there la real cream and near-cream ana likewise skimmed milk that masquerades as cream, and that the helpe of the pud ding differ as ona star dlffereth from another star In glory, and that It rests with the landlady which of these a boarder get, he would exert all of hie arts and wiles, and blandishment and cajoleriea to stand ace-hlgh with the ar biter of bis destiny. It la equally easy to see. too, how many a man would find his wife much more agreeable as a landlady than he does as a wife. Undoubtedly too many women take advantage of the fact that their husbands can't five notice and leave at . the end of. the week to treat the poor t men a they'd never dream, of treat ng a star boarder. They think that anything is good enough for the man who does nothing but support the whole establish aant. No tidbits are cooked up for him. Nopalnst-Jteatosee that he has the little comforts that n--specially oraTes. Nobody bothers to caUr "ite. one positively shudder -to think how differed Smlthklns. husband. fm wht -ol the status of Mr. bnUlhklns. boarder, who had th. second floor ttwUh bath. And. morally, tne even be greater. lor "7 - -..vtr boarder who acts like a perfect gentleman ever fa disagree wlttt dim oui.uu- - entlon to hto llttla weaknessea. or to " . via aaffliBii and keep a rtgoroue j - gxtf"moral of all of which U that It would be a good thing If ojary wU. woold try to treat her husband a. If he ,ur boarder, and every man would Pon nu wife in the light of his landlady as well as a wire. Is Woman's Love Stronger? The great distinction between the qaulr ity of tha two sens Ues In the different power of concentration. Their hearts are touched by a certain woman, their affections respond to th vibrations seen In motion by her affinity whit claims a responsive clement; but underneath all this their real, ordinary work-a-day per sonality is seldom touched. Their love Is probably sincere enough; but Intermingled as It la with business cares, masculine friends And sports, the iOl odd things go to make up the ordinary bachelor's life, it by no means occupies their existence, and It may truly be aald of even the most devoted of men that S they seldom allow their own personality f!? f,f be shadowed or engulfed by their af fections. There Is an element of selfishness, more or less. In all men, and at times the de terminations not to fall, or the thought of a possible rival, are more Important factors in a man's wooing than the actual love, itself. To sum up charitably, men love princi pally with the other shell of their per sonality, - sincere enough, but Inter mingled with so many other personal elements that It Is kept pretty much in the background, and only called into HCtual being as occasion requires. Women on the other hand (with the exception of the few passionless; cold blooded Individuals who never realise the meaning and reality of true love) respond whole-heartedly to the tide of affections. They lovo passionately, with heart, soul and brain. It takes possession of their whole being to the exclusion1 of all else. It la the key-note of their existence, dom inates both thought and action, and so, is proportion to the fate meted out to them, they sorrow or rejoice. It may be a more erratic, sentimental affection than that of men; but when men love truly, they are apt to love to excess, allowing no margin for a middle cou either winding up on aa elevated iform of Joy or sinking into sn abyss despair. Love is at once the bestower of the greatest Joy and the most exqulstts pain. When under its Influence the whole world eema changed, the sun Is brighter, the songs of the birds sre sweeter. Happy the woman who loves and Is '--.'. The Tarn of the Tide By PORTI'MK FREE. If you have a J,b which lasts Ion. which dnmnndn all your spirit anl energy, puts you on every bit of mettle you have In you, there perhaps arrives a time when you come to the unhappy ronrluslon that It Is "no nxid " Us havd. that waiting the turn of the tide. 1 met a friend the other day who had been through a recent experience of the no good" kind. He Is the captain of a small ihlp engaged In very humble oynpt-s. but such as are occasionally full of danger and exciting Incident. He Is one of the toughest old sea dogs 1 can Imnslnp. A week or two back It seemed as if wc had taken farewell of him for the last time. Thero was an ominous silence respecting his ship only news of hi'pe aeas, terrifio gales and shins in dis tress in that part where his vessel ought to have been. , Each day my Heart sank lower aa I knocked at the door of his little home and It waa opened to me by the dally paicr woman nis wire with the eyes that grew more sleepless looking and marked with tears. Clinging to the skirts rf her dress would, perhnps, be a tiny youngster, who seemed to grow wider eyed and paler each day, too. It really appeared useless hoping any more. 1 was prepared for anything that last day when I knocked at the door for anything save the thing that happened. The "lost man" opened the door to mi himself. He told me all about his expe-rlencei In nautical language full of words 1 didn t understand. But It seemed at if every accident that possibly could happen had happened to that ship except the bottom coming out. He and his men had fought desperately for their lives. "At last 1 began to think it was hope- leas nothing was any good," he told me "And what did you do then?" 1 asked "Well, you see," he replied, scratching his head, "I'd been In many tight holes before when I'd thought the same and all had turned out right In the end. ao I just went on." And there he was, safe and sound. You battle with "things going wrong mi ai insi tne aay comes wnen the "no good" fit is upon you everything looks hopeless and black. Where Is the real ization of those hopes you once had? It seems as far off as ever farther, per haps, and "hope deferred maketh the heart sick." It is a, condition which many people go out of their way to make aa bad as they possibly can not inten tlonally, of course. At that time all their failures are recalled and all their success is resolutely Ignored. The luckiest for us can't live for many years without having failures of one kind or another. When things go wronir, till we 'begin to feel that It's "no good, tnose failures simply tumble over one another's heels in their hurry to thrust themselves upon us, and assure us that we ara quite righU-lt realty Is "no good." hone whatever. "Just At the time when one most wants courage and stimulation to fresh efforts," said Lord Beaconsf ield, "I find numbers of peopla . plunge themselves Into the most dismal reoollectlons of catastrophes. By certain mental management the most fortunate persona can make their lives appear to themselves one long succession of failures. They then persuade them selves they are persons marked for mis fortune. It Is a mere trick of the Im agination, and one to be carefully avoided. Don't give In to it." And then he gave the following advice remarkably similar to that of Edison himself: "The courageous person win recall how many difficulties he has been In and sur mounted, If he has come triumphant out of those, why should he not out of this? That spirit almost certainly assures a happy result." 0 mm March Victor Records Are the best that have been issued in many months. Go to any of the Victor Dealers mentioned in this advertisement and hear them played. You're always welcome to their sound-proof concert rooms. MICKEL'S Mil ASK A CYCLE CO. 15th and Harney Sts. Omaha, Neb. 334 Broadway, Council Bluffc, Iowa Grace Darling's Talks No. 4The Traits in a Girl that Men By GRIC-H DARLINO. The Charming Toung American Moving Ticture Star. Coprlght. 11. International News Service. One of the most pathetic things In the world are the near-geniuses the people who have some spark of talent that raises them a bit above the ordinary, but that la not strong enough to blnse up Into the fire of success. They can write a little Just enough to have gotten a story or a poem published In some obscure paper. They can paint little Just enough to pell a few dinner cards or Christmas cards. They can sing or act a little Just enough to shine In amateur theatricals, or get an encore at the church sociable. But that little Is enough to make them think that they are gplng to set the river on fire with their genius, and so they go on struggling and striving, year after year, trying to do something that they can't do, and getting poorer, and shab bier, and hungrier all the time. These near-geniuses never make good, who ran never sell their stories or their pictures, or get a position, fill the outer offices of newspaper, and maxaizlne, and theatrical offices, and moving pictures, and they are the most forlorn sight In any great city. - - - 1 have seen so many of these near geniuses that I want to entreat you girls who have talent not to waste It. Of course I believe In trying and In never giving up. but if after a long period and consistent effort you discover that no elltor will .accept your stories, no maga Ins will buy your pictures, no theatrical man will give you a place In a road company, no moving picture director will give you a try-out. why, make up your mind that you have chosen the wrong calling, and try something else. There are so many of the trades now where the artistic touch can find a profit able outlook. If only you are willing to do the commonplace things of life well, Instead of doing the unusual things badly. The girl who hasn't got enough Imagin ation to write a sixth best seller, for In stance, may have enough Inspiration to see what would make a catchy adverr tisement for a department store. In the last two years we have seen girls who had not the skill to become high priced stage dancers coining money teaching women and men the fox trot, and many a girl la travlng trying to be an artist might make a fortune It she would go Into the dressmaking or mil linery business. There she could make her feeling for color and her sense of line and form pay royal dividends, for while the market for pictures la, at least, a small one. the demand for more beautiful hats and gowns grows bigger year by year. . If you have talent, girls, thank God for It. but don't be misled Into thinking that a penny candle of ability is an are light of genius. Try to compare your work dispassionately with the work of master minds, and abide by the de cision. Don't let your vanity misled you Into thinking that you can do things that you never can do. I Household Hints To make coffee without boiling In a Jug First warm the Jug, then measure out the cofee, say, a good teaspoonftil for each cup, pour the boiling water on It, stir well, cover It ever and let it stand for five minutes; then stir it round again, put a tabteapoonful of cold water and a good pinch of salt In to fine it, cover up and let stand for ten minutes, when it will be ready for use. Serve with hot milk. do the best you can to suppress the in stinct to rub the eye. Then pull the lower lid up and the upper lid out and ths par a KBiiasiical B randei Stores Victrola Department in the . Pompeian Room wwtw. .mm i sfu-'i imii i I 1 i ' .. ' - J Delightful Photographic ticle in the eye will be dislodged by the tears which flow serosa the eyeball In a torrent; they will be washed out and will appear in the corner of the eye. If any Chemical is thrown Into the eye, do not wait to look in a book for an antidote; the best thing is plain water; or If you have time and it is handy, use. a plain alt solution, a teaspoonful in a pint of water, either hot or cold. This will wash It out quicker than you can wait to neu tralise it in some other way. Onions should be taken out of the ground aa soon ss they are well formed. Let them He on the ground until they are well cured In the air, then spread them thinly In a dry place. s Vlctirola to Girls Like Study of Grace Darling. In-Shoots Occasionally a, man has been boosted to greatness by the knocks of his enemies. ' The young woman who keeps her ears warm by the arrangement of her coif fure Is often csreless about her neck. Some women lovs remnants so well that they are willing to marry them. The shortest mrnth of the year is the one that is aooompanted by a thirty-day note. If you cannot look on the bright side of things,, better keep your eyes closed ss much aa possible. A good many New Tear resolutions are only skin deep. ' im oegiimg . It enables you to hear the greatest singers and musi cians whenever and as often as you wish. There are Victors and Victrolas in great variety of styles from $10 to $400 at all Victor dealers. Victor Talking Machine Co. Camden, N. J. 1 A. Mospe Co, 1513-15 Douglas St., OMAHA And 407 West Broadway, COUNCIL BLUFFS "jy wwmpw i inn imnim Concerning Brag as Human Yearning By BF.iTltKK KtlRFt. Have ou ever noticed Hist It Is nlw.i) he unattractive, unimpressive, rliah little- women who toll of their exciting n.li-cn- urea along the p.Hhway o' life, ami the plortdlnK. unmacni tic . vtim- p-.. . .'tint, men who recount lonvinlc nJ i. lures .' Have ou ewr unlil to yotnselr. 1 wonder why Mmy lio'ninsKii !w:. eem to r so much mlnnrst.on f.vm traniiers and so much atteni'on iroiu seem a bit nt- ier rtletiils; Hie ilnesn t ractlve to mc." The point of It Is that the uninterost- n(. nal.tetic leotures who me iiiitum. hv romance nve ilie ei oins wh. ciuuli most srxlo !.ly at her f;mmntH. l ull o ones I'tul unt trsi'l i e Miirv It blnsuli pet Iiu rtrl -ciii.anee ftom life. i they ive in n rom.'tntlc Utile world where thiy mnglne tie i ,! r .mvI H:ht tor which they lonp. Ion't Hnli'.c tiient liarsh'. lon't lnut;h at them as .imitl: iinC iille ln.i.i:ei j.. They long so 'nr enm.tnce, thev dreini of her sn cnqriv tint ilnioi-l they pi r suadn themsel is t'uit t'.ie'r ilea. is hnve rome true. file bn u':t lie.r t d not so t f t belonu -to the recotin'er of gay t:Vs of roimues;. hu; iiion. oitcn to tile h lent nnd semnful lielivniv.al who s'.ts by ntnl iHreovcrcil tliei'e foe Irpiosy, r. ut Ic.is assumrs ui iir of i :ilt:t supei inrlly w !ic;. r. remedy whli h produces most hope'ul .ties or i'lmve.is am) tilumph ai' toM. I lioastlng I' t ot ii .olcmlltl and fine I thing, hut i''.ier a wr:tk ond Ineffectual I way of disguising the truth from yourself, If she has any f De feeling. Ihe popular girl who Is Invited about und made muc!i of doep not discuss It In the presence of les fortunate people. But sometimes the unpopular girl. Just because of II le flnr- tiess and delicacy of feeling that Buffets through lack of apprcclmlon ami through being more or less put In n corner tu.d gnored, boasts of what she hnl not. Most of us boast less of what we hnve than of what we wish we hnd. The nouveau rlche who flaunts his fortune In your face is either amusing or annoy ing In his Ignorance and bad taste, but not at all to be tken seriously. The man who la earning $.'.&n0 a year, and who tries to make you think Ms earning ca pacity tulce that sum. Is a pathetic faker who fools nobody ao much as himself. Boasting has to fall Into one of two classifications: Either it I a pathetic attempt to gloaa over unfortunate cir cumstances, or It la a disgusting vaunt ing of good fortune. Tho ssd creature who Imagines ro mances and recounts them, who tells of deeds of daring Incompatible with lh narrator's very nature, who fancies un founded Importance lo employers or an earning capacity that is desired but not ttalned. snd who boasts about all these Imagined things. Is an object of pity and who wants to be thatf Tbe successful man or woman who flaunts his victories and triumphs In the face of the world either hurts the un successful or becomes an object of amused acorn to the successful, who have ths good taste not to sing their own songs ot triumph. , Nobody respects a. boaster not aven 1 think, the boaster himself. Do You Know That "Penny weddings," formerly so popular In certain parts of Bootland, were those where the guests were each charged ths sum of 1 penny equivalent to the present shilling for the privilege of being pres ent . If you are troubled with an oven that will not brown anything, throw a hand ful of sugsr on the hottest part of It and shut tbe door quickly, Just before the food Is ready to come out It is more difficult to read a line of print when ths upper half Is oovered than when the lower half is oovered. me Jmoinnie o n am VV; ' i ' -zzr:-'-"- t "7 7 jj 'r ! ' Is::-. ' -j it ' I ! -i . i. 1 r hi' til ' 'I- J! ", i 1 : if, I 1 : : &. ' i, .. ''A 'Victrola XVIII. 1300 Victrola XVIII, electric, Mshofsoy Hope for the Leper By Moon llt'TCHISSOW, M. T. PART I. Occasionally proverb happens to be true. That famous old cheanut about the J"''"" " " "rT "" n c.oun-i nt,t "cl' n,rr of 'PMeh ot lti "Cheer up. the worst l jet to Cnme r,ior as mlahl he sunnosed. Sometimes the stiver is only lunar caustic Instead of '' 14 u 1 electroplate, hut often It Is the genuine "plut.i" of the Ppanlsrds. our "pint"" on! of which birth-spoons nro made. We have hml a most curious douh'c lllus-trati.ui of t.ils cheering paradox lust iecentl In regard ti the lost develop ments In t!mt scour "p of the r.iMdls Sues .mil pl.iRtie of barbarism leprorv. Onl n few wce'ss ago the anerUl-'i j ami cNperts who had assembled st I Wn.-hlnirton to urce the pnsnp.e ef thit humane end mcst necessary bill for the ' . :nt Ishim nt of a national Icproe.irlii it nsMtiod us of the disouleting fnrt tint Ac hid nearly r 0 lepers at Itirge In thes-" I 'lilted Suites. I In tho very rime month, almost th? I rin.te eek, comes the report front Hr. - Virtor llilecr. the h'l'llr.nl and fico'.e.l '.. rector of public he.ikh In the FhlTp- n!c thai h cure hail apparently r: results In h consiilerahle proportion of cases, eha nlmooKra oil. This rncourncing news Is a strong nrt rilHonnt argument for the establishment of a leprosarium, heeause it rdds to the .edvantageg of protection for the rest of the community and the kindest trest . ment and most oomfortitblc life possible for these poor unfortunate, the hopeful , possibility of effecting n cure In a fair' ! percentage of them. Incidentally It may be remarked ss an other silvery glenm that while 5m) lepers at larse Is believed to be an over-st.ite-ment rather than un under-estlmate, in asmuch as there are only about :K) known cases, ond i5 per cent of these are In colonies or hospitals yet so slow Is the dlsoase In spreading under elvfllxed co't dltiona that the whole of these girt are not as great an actual menace to tbe natlonil health ps fifty "third-stage," or ad vanced, case.fi of tuberculosis. Though hundreds of cases have hen brought into this country by tmmltrant from Norway and Sweden and from tropical America, and by sailors and other visitors from the far east snd frs.u northern Africa, practically scarcely a single case is on record of the catch'ng er development of the disease on our American soil. Outsid-) of two small na tive leprosy areas, where the dlitcasi gained a foothold nearly 2"u years aso, one In New Brunswick and the other i:i T.ouialnna, now numbering about for'.y In the north and about ninety In the south, both among the same Norman French people, poverty-stricken fisher men and scratch farmers, and both de mlnlshlng In numbers. . ' The new probable cure reported from the Philippines is not so much the dis covery of a new remedy ss a new and greatly Improved ' form of application of an old one, ehaulmoogra oil.. This is an aromatic vegotabls oil of Oriental origin, wnicn for many years past has had a considerable reputation both popular and scientific, as a curs for ths milder forms of leprosy. '.: Many of the severer forms would also be considerably Improved by It, but the great obstacle to Its use In advanced cases was Its pungent, nauseating taste and Ira Irritating effect upon the stom ach, which Increased rather than dimin ished with continued use, so that in most cases it was physically Impossible to re tain the dose or continue, the treatment after a few weeks, or at most a month or so." Bo that just about the time ths system was getting sufficiently satorated to con trol the disease In an sdvanced esse the us of the .remedy had to be abandoned. $350 , meet 4
