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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1916)
- THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1916. BeaMH -:- Fashions -:- Woman's Work -:- Household Topics The Day af the City Dog By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D In this era of societies, for the prevention of this and the promo' tion of that some one ought to or ganize a back-to-the-land movement city dogs and cats. Every dog has his day, the proverb assures us, but the day of the city dog is long since past. As a special concession to dog worshippers he might be permitted to have February 29, although June 31 would be better. ; This is not to question for a mo ment that the dog is a delightful fellow and the best of company out of doors: that he is our oldest ani mal friend, the guardian of our flocks, the sentinel at our gate, our com vanion in the chase, and that we are as grateful to him for the past as we are friendly to him in the present. On the contrary, it is just for these very reasons, because we like him so much and have such high regard for his liberty, his rights and his happi ness, that we object to his being condemned to- live in a city. ; The absence of live things to chase, of clean, coot earth to burrow in, of green grass to roll on and race over, of streams and pools to drink trom and swim in, rob him ot every thing which makes life healthy and worth living. He is about as com fortable -as a frog in the middle of an Arizona desert. City life fits him like the cabin which was assigned to Mark Twain on an Italian steam ship. It wasn't big enough to swing a cat in with any comfort to the cat I A real dog, a bogy's dog, a man's dog, fits into city life just about as well as a ccokle-burr fits under a saddle. Cribbed, cabined, confined, fettered on every hand, deprived even of his priceless ancestral privilege trom time immemorial, the freedom of the night, he pines and frets and loses his health and his temper. Con sequently his place is being taken in the metropolis by the lady s dog. Now, a lady's dog is a contradic tion in terms. - What- she most ad mires in the noble canine are his worst pointshis conceit, which is colossal almost human; his serfish ness and his impudence. These are present in moderate amount! in even the realiest and fullest-sized dog, and they seem to have got concentrated in the process of boiling him dawn to toy size. .V , , ' . All the objectionable features and insanitary habits of a real dog have been preserved in these little hairy chrysanthemums which are carried in muffs and worn on sleeves tike wrist watches under the . name of dogs, though they are more like overgrown Squirrels or ' fur-shelled crabs. The fcftly thing canine that is left about them is the capacity to carry fleas and bactr and to make the side walks and parking unfit for children "Fashion Communique" -o- Copyright, 1316, International New, Servlco. .0. By Nell Brinkley to play on. me i ooor little runtt of doglett are not to blame; they are simply wjiat their owners have bred tnem ana per mit them to be. But in the apart ment house and downtown districts of great city they have become sanitary nuisance of the first class, which the community wilt 'not much longer tolerate patiently, but will commission boards of health to deal with them as they now deal with pigs, goat and chickens. Their one redeeming feature Is, of course,1 the pleasure and companion ship which they give to their owners. But this again, like the social graces of pigs and chickens, must be bal- JpROJd THE FRONT: "Neither side reports an advantage." Fashion exverts predict that the situation will " stay unchanged (much to the perplexity of Dan and the maid) until the bubble that skirts have grown to be has bursts , NELL BRINKLEY anced against the annoyance and dis comfort which they cause to the com munity at large. It would be a very moderate esti mate that under metropolitan condi tions for every person who receives pleasure from toy dogs at least twenty are annoyed ana inconven ieced by their yapping and yowling, their doggy smells and hair dropping habits, their snapping and snarling and biting at everything that comes within tltiir rekch, and their abomin able defilement of pavements, park ings and open spaces of every sort, the only spots where mothers and nursemaids can sit and children play in the city. ' ". Tomorrow --anotlier chapter! Last week the third chapter of the million dollar picture novel Gloria's Romance was shown to thousands. Today the fourth chapter will be presented for the first time with a full synopsis of preceding chapters. It's the most costly-Uhe most elaborate picture play, ever presented. Again you'll see , ., Dainties for Summer Wear Artificial flowers are tied to the sashes and apptiqued to the draped girdles of the latest summer dresses. A plain linen frock for a small tot is fittingly trimmed, if edged all around, .including the bottom of the skirt, with large scallops of hand em broidery. A veritable boon for shorf-waisted figures are the Russian blouse dresses, all in one from neck to hip and made of soft Georgette crepe, chiffon cloth or crepe de chine. There are collars made of striped cottons to wear with sport blouses. These are usually accompanied by a scarf of the shade of the predominat ing color note in the collar. Collars of ptain tone are also worn with such blouses; pink in a little deeper shade than flesh, yellow and the deeper tan shades are legion, and there are also collars in various shades of blue and green. Many sheer and dainty collars are made of chiffon. "A large collar ot white chiffon shown among the cuts is made in flat, sailor effect, and ex tends over the shoulders. Large re vers are joined to the flat sailor col- frainttd by Ceorg Kletna tf iftael arrtupmuu ivitk F. tiifJiU, Jr. irs. ,9i an ' . - AMobPfcKlolByMt6'Mi:C RUPERT HUGHES YouTlsee Billie Burke in new costumes -in mttf scenes in new adventures. Don t miss this beau . Stul, l .biblitg work of fiction. You'U.oJoyiU Go today! Tomorrow-MUSE THEATRE Xmltht Story "n tko Ommh B Entry Monday , ' Cfr Nr JmekmHt Bind. The Hotel Success of Chicago. A comfortable home-like hotel in the business cen ter of the city offer ing every convenience and every service. , " The best food it . served in the ' , - , New Kaiserhof Restaurant at . moderate price : 450 Room $1.50 up With Bath 42.00 up lar at the shoulder and fall in folds down the front, reaching almost to the waist line. The edges of the white chiffon collar are trimmed with a two-inch band of pale rose chiffon. Drop-stitcli stockings are tne new craze. 1 he drop-stitching is arranged in even rows or in gtuups up the front of the leg from the instep, and is well displayed by a low pump or dancing slipper. These stockings are rather expensive and are the very latest nov elty in stockingdom. They come in various evening shades and in black, white and navy blue as well. The drop-stitch pattern extended . far enough up the front to show an inch or two above the. top of a tall but toned boot of glazed kid, or of white washable kid and these new drop- stitch stockings are very muck the fadV' Graduation Gifts The memory bracelet is a popular gift for the girl graduate. The mono gramed memory bracelet is fashioned c , i. : t : it. ui units, cacn iinx Bearing me giver s monogram, and these are strung on narrow black velvet ribbon and tied around the wrist. Watches with fobs or cms often emblematic of the school, class or college are in the front rank as the most desirable gift. lhre is such a wide variety of styles in these that they would make a chapter in them selves. . Week-end and toilet sets are on the girls' list, and ever so many things for outdoor pleasure and use, includ ing field glasses, on the boys'. tl 'I neat nis ucn- ing skin with ' Kesinol The moment that Resinol Oint ment touches itching skin the itch ing usually stops and healing begins. That is why doctors have prescribed it to successfully for over 20 years even in severe cases of eciema, ring worm, rashes, and many other tor menting, disfiguring skin diseases. Aided by warm baths with Resinol Soap, Resinol Ointment make a skk skin or scalp healthy, quickly, easily and at little cost ' RmumI Ofstntat m4 Rwlnol Soap ill STMUy help to cleft, mwvr pimplM I no dsn. drvS. Sold by til dragfiita. for Iml (tm, niH to JUoiaol. Doot. U-K Btltuoor, Ui. The Wife Who "Nags" . , By DOROTHY DIX. i There is one passage in the Scrip tures in which no woman, not even the most devout, believes. It is the declaration that we are not heard for much speaking. ' The feminine idea is the exact re verse of this. Women cherish an abiding faith in the efficacy of words, and nothing ever alters their con viction Hhat the way to work miracles and move mountains Is to talk enough about them. I Hence the nagger, and the fact that, so far from regarding nagging as a crime that ought to be punishable by solitary confinement in a dungeon cell, women actually accounted unto themselves for righteousness. Never do the angelic creatures feel so surethat they are doing their full duty, especially to their husbands, as when they are harping for the millionth time upon some subject that is as sore as a boil and that is mak ing their listeners hate them. Every woman knwos the danger of nagging, and that she nags her hus band at the risk of her marriage hap piness, and yet the one who didn't do it who wasn't always Sally on the lecture platform, 'reminding her hus band of his faults would consider herself a pretty poor, slack sort of a wife. Why women nag no one knows. Probably they do it because they like the excitement it affords.. It gives them some of the fearful joy we, all feel in stirring up the man eating animals at a circus to hear them roar. . - Certainly no'wife of experience de ludes herself with the belief that her continuous performance monologue has any beneficial effect upon her husband. On the contrary, she knows that the direct result of forever re minding a man of his short-comings is to make him get his back up and cling to his weaknesses. Now, nagging is not the innocent pastime that women seem to think it is. It is a crime that is the run ning mate with drunkenness and in fidelity, and itshares equally : with them in the divorce prize. If the majority of men who have become neglectful of their wives were asked when love's young dream first began to frazzle out around the edges, and when they first commenced to dread to go home instead of yearning to go, they would say that tV time coincided to the minute with the hour in which they first realized that their wives could not mention a mistake they had made and let it go at that, but insisted on rehashing the same fault for breakfast, dinner and supper. A great part of the glamour of love and romance lies in the fact that a man believes himself to be a hero in a woman's eyes, and a wife de stroys this illusion at her peril. Such is human vanity that none of us, not even husbands, enjoy listening to an account of the things we have done that we should not have done, and the things we have left undone that we should have done, i - ; Still less do we enjoy the society of the individual who points out our blunders to its, and this is the reason why many a wifewho not only per ceives her husband's faults, but tells him of them, finds herself forsaken. He has gone off after some other lady with less clarity of vision and more discretion of tongue. No man was ever made any bet ter or turned from the error- of his ways by nagging, but millions of men are driven from home into clubs and saloons by the certainty that the min ute they cross their own thresholds or settle down by their own fire sides, their wives wilt begin for the billionth time to thresh over some old grievance. A wise woman never tells her hus band of his faults at all, but the un wise woman, who lacks the self-control to maintain complete silence, should, at least, have enough com mon sense to mention a weakness but once. Let such a woman stand up and have a fight to' the finish, and then let the matter rest without for ever plaguing him by harping upon the same unpleasant theme. So shall her husband rise up arid call her blessed, for there is nothing that a man will not do for the wife who can let bygones be bygones and grant him the right to have a few pet faults without forever trying to reform him. , The pathetic thing about nagging is its utter uselessness. A woman jeopardizes her husband's love, she makes him "perfectly miserable, and all for nothing. . In proof of this re gard the experience of the women you see all . about you who have fussed for fdrty add years about Iheir husbands' smoking . or mussing the sofa ..cushions or tracking .mud into the house, without ever being able to cut out a single Pipe or drink or teach a man to wipe his feet on the door mat. ' The nagging wife accomplishes nothing. But she leaves a mighty reconciled widower behind her when she dies.- Advice to Lovelorn 1 By Beatrice Fairfax. j.How Cm Ha Ba Happy With Tout Dir Mlii Fairfax: t tm a stenograph naming 111 week md really extsavaicant. I am very fond of a young mar. ot ny awn ana 21 who li earning 2l a wtlc, and who hai two mora yean to complete hla itudlei at law lohoot. He hai aik4 me to become hla wife, and, while X know ,that t can never honeitly love a inan who 'a not better iltuated financially. X have given him my promlie to .-onlder mvnif engaged, and ha contemplate! marriage wit b ma ioon. Do yoti Iblnk It win for ira tt marry thii young man, who, while ho ti very poor uid hae only about 1300 In thai hank in. v tnina, a promiiing future? Do yt th'nk I coutd be happy with this man on bit malt wage?. HOHHV . tinea your Idea of "honeit love" aeimi to be exactly tha opaoalto of the accepted standard of fine feeling, I think tha man who wine you to going to be decidedly fht loaer. Don't marry because you feel that If yon give up thla man yon may ha aacrifla Ing your laat chance. That la what t eu as pect aa tha real raaaon for your acceptance of him. Aa long aa" money la. tha mala theme ot xour calculations ana! yon pride yourself on your extravagance, fton't do any man lu lnjustloa of becoming hla wife. Tow are not going to prove a wife ta the real aenae af beirtg a helpmat until yoir point of view cbangea and money caasaa being all'iinportaAt tav yaab .