- 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"
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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. '
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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-
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ter of the city offer
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and every service.
, " The best food it
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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'.
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The moment that Resinol Oint
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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
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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 .
