Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-05
Proposes Now to Erect New Theater
to Cost 100000.
HIS PEOPLE DEEPLY CONCERNED
Prof. Thilo Declares Female Beauty
is Fading.
TOO MUCH EXERCISE Is CAUSE
Outdoor sports, Says Eminent Author
ity, Has n Tendency to Destroy
the Curves of WOmnn's
Pretty Form.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.

BERLIN, June 4-(Special Dispatch to
The Bee.)--The news that the American
congress has decided to build two more
dreadnoughts u 1900 tons each was re-
ceived with interest here. Germany, in
fact, is intensely interested in all news
relating to navy building the world over.
The position of Germany and the United
States from the official Berlin viewpoint
is precisely the same in the matter of
navy. In neither case is the building of
warships being carried forward for pur-
poses of aggression, but in each case it is
held that an efficient, powerful navy is
essential for protection against aggression.
Germany fears nothing on land and her
sole aim in navy building is to be inn
pregnable against attack by sea and to be
able to give ample protection to her out
laying possessions.
For some time past Berlin has been
rather concerned over the extravagant
manner in which the kaiser conducts him
self, While 1t is asserted that formal re-
monstrances have been addressed to him
by several influential members Of the
Hohenzollern family. Matters, however,
are likely to reach a crisis over his latest
proposal to spend sum of something like
s., 600 900 upon the erection of a new opera
house in Berlin. The existing opera house
is one of the finest buildings of its kind
in Europe, and it would scarcely seem as
though another were required. What is
being asked, however, is where the en-
peror proposes to raise the necessary
money since he has made very consider
able lnroads upon the vast wealth of his
house since first he came to the throne.
Launching of BattIeship.
1t is expected that the battleshp Ersatz
Frithjof, which will be the eighth German
dreadnought battleship will be launched
from the Shichau at Danzig on June Is
by Prince Eitel Frederick of Prussia. This
is a battleship of the 1909 financial pro-
gram, the construction of which was be-
gun before the end of the previous year
! The official date of completion is April
1912, that is just over twenty-one months
after the launching. The last German
dreadnought battleship completed, the
Posen, went to sea less than twelve months
after it was launched.
Prof. Reinhart Thilo of Berlin, writing In
the North German Gazette, gives it as his
opinion that female beauty is fading al
over the modern world. For this fact, II
indeed it be fact, he assigns three causes
The first of these, says Prof. Thilo /.
| ONCoSslNS indulgence III OUTDOOR
| He thinks it well that the size of woman'I
hands and feet is increasing by athletic
| sports, for their worship of small hands
and meet is pure fetishism." Bue he says
almost regretfully that too much exercis,
spoils the feminine curves and produces
lumpy, muscular excrescences wher,
nature intended only smooth roundness
The second cause running womans beaut!
is her craze for slender figure, The so
called robe collante" (the dress glued on)
says Thilo. simply falsifies the natura
lines and Injuries health. The craze 70
slenderness is working harm, particular!
in the United States and Sweden.
Thirdly and last according to thi
authority, the change in the female mind
in womans way of thinking. is affectinI
her outward appearance. For example, in
stead of desiring sincere love, moder1
women encourage filtration. That mother
illness which appears clearly in the bes
medieval statuary and paintings, even o
maidens, is disappearing from the fea
lures Of modern women.