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Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02

cross a as a sore-headed bear, and when
he comes home he slams the door. and
kicks the cat, and grouehes about the
dinner. and jumps on US for everything
We do until my mamma says Here's
that box of cigars your brother Jim
gave you. ! hid them away because I
knew you'd want them. and for good
ness sake. smoke up and let us have
peace Ia the family"
And my Uncle Jim always swears off
drinking. and when he comes 70 see. US
and my papa says. will you have any
thing. he says; mo. can It. I've passed
up the drink for good and all. Bill, and
not a drop shall ever pass my lips
again" And then ne sits around and
saws that the country is going 10 he
hogs. and business Is rotten. and people
are rotten and everything is rotten. and
he's Just about as cheerful TO have
around as q funeral. and my papa says;
"Cheer I'D. Jim. and take a little for
sOur stomachs sake and Uncle jim
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02
Are You Your Own
Boss?
BY BEATRIoE FAIRFAX.

The question has no bearing on labor
conditions. or the manner In which one
earns his daily bread. No one, strictly
speaking, is his own boss under oondi-
tons Of labor. The one who works for
others must take orders from them; the
one who has his own business must take
orders from the public or his business
fails.
The question is asked concerning your
friends Do you walk home q certain
way every night because you choose that
street. or because a dominating friend
chooses It for you? Do you spend
your evenings in the manner that benefits
and pleases you most, or do you spend
them at the mercy or the dictation OF
others? Do you stay in and read when
! you long to read. or do you put down
your book with a sigh and partake OF
some amusement or occupation for which
| you have little heart because q friend
insists?
/ Do you resolve to buy an inexpensive
lunch at some cheap little restaurant.
and spend more at a more ornately
furnished place because q friend insists
that you go there? Does any friend slip
an arm in yours and say, Let's" and
with the word do all your resolutions to
DO the contrary vanish in thin ART Arc
you like a feather " ,ch one blows this
way. and anotheE SHOWS that way2
II you are, you are not your own boss
and so long as you remain 20 weak wiilsd
you will never make a resolution that
will live past the first corner
/. Countless millions OF girls ana buys
and people older grown. never have time
to do that which is for their own good
because OF the encroachments OF their
\ friends. The might-have-beens receive
hundreds OF recruits every day through
the waste or time made In the name OF
friendship. and those who count their
friends by the score pay a tar 90 dear
that days, weeks, months. opportunity
and life itself are counted in the cost
of it,
It is as II ambition said 70 one, "I
will walk with you all the way" and Is
pushsdSoff .tbe sidewalk in the next block
by an-effort-monopolizing friends.
One sets out TO accomplished certain re-
suits. and before the work is fairly be-
cum there come friends, who, enither
caring for work nor knowing its neees-
sity. are looking for some one with whom
10 play. Like playful puppies. they can
not play alone. and the comparison does
not. end here. Tor the puppies are also
incapable OF clear. unselfish considera-
ton or thought.
| It sisr not good to be too much alone.
and, e IL less good 20 never be alone
One should have solitude, and one should
learn 70. love It. and regard It as the
most helpful and sympathetic OF friends.
4 You have,a certain task set before you;
every one has; that is why We are here
You will never complete your work. and
the little you do will be poorly done. AZ
you permit one friend to pull you this
way and another that way till you be-
come like a puppet In show. with no
thought, or viii or purpose OF your own
BE your own boss. Have a VIII OF your
own. Make your own decisions and know
a good reason why, and abide by them
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02
Little Mary's Essay
New Years Resolutions and Broken Vows

says he believes he will just this once.
but that he's taking a drink because
he isn't feeling we'll. not because he can5t
keep New Years resolution.
And my mamma makes New Years
resolution that she won't gossip any
more. and she sits up so silent that every
! body says, Are you mad about any
thing? And what makes you so dull and
stupid?" And then somebody comes
around and tells her a real nice interest
ing scandal about some of her friends,
and before she knows II she's going 1t
hammer and tongs. and we all like to sit
! around and listen 10 her.
1 am going TO make some New Years
resolutions, and hope TO goodness that
the people ! make them for will keep
them.
think that my mamma should LET me
sit up as late as like, and not to say
10 me. 'sRsn away. little girl, ana go 70
bed" whenever they begin 10 tell things
that | really want 10 hear.
Second I am going to resolve that my
papa should take me to the movies every
day Oh. how nice a father would be II
he would only keep that resolution.
4 am EOlftb " NtsolNG lndl inc
cook shall keep the cookie Jar on the
lower shelf of the pantry where / can
get 10 II easily
Fourth. am going to resolve that the
cat won't lick all the jam off Of her
whiskers, so that IL will be there when
my mama asks me who has been in the
jam, and say I spect it must be the cat.
Fifth. am going to resolve that all
or my aunts and uneles will quit saying.
tf'My. how she has grown every time
they sec me. and won't all tell me how
much Z look like somebody in the family
that they hate. .rs
Sixth. Il aDa going. to resolve that all
my good, Kind teachers will fall down
tho steps and break their necks. so I
won't have to so to school any more. but
can stay home ana play with my dolls
and my new sled.
On, how much better and brighter this
world would be II we ell kept our New
Years resolutions.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02

each other names that don't look pretty.
But when you read in a headline spread
clear across a page, ''Coionel Brown has
Bought rthe, Gray Socks Team" you are
Shocked Unless you delicacy has been
blunted by too much reading OF sports
When read Harry Brandt Has Been
Bought by Jim -Griggs" / felt faint. It
made me think, OF Uncle Toms Cabin"
But that's Just what happened 70
DO you mean that the splendid looking
chap sold HIS muscles and his brain to
anyone on earthG'
HE certainly did,
What rights has Colonel Thingamajig
over his new property"
well. there are certain restrictions.
II a player
''ean he. tell him whether he may call
on girl this EVENING""
1T he's in training, part OF tho"
Don't try to explain. Just answer
Yes OF NO That's what the lawyer
said when l was testifying in my Jewel
robbery case. It's a good rule"
'Well. whacherwanda know"
Suppose Harry Brandt is in loye. Sup
pose. as generally happens. you know,
that he is Jealous; suppose matters are at
q critical point. There's a. now-or-neVer
time in a courtship. You remember that.
my dear?" e+-s .
Whats use bringing all that up7 L beat
him to It. didn't T. 80
"You ala. But suppose somebody with
lot OF money had bought you and you
couldn't have called before he did that
evening? Put Harry Brandt in your place.
my dear"
"M-m When mans training hes no
business to be in love" +
"As though Cupid ever chose a con-
venient time. He's as you would read on
the sporting page a born butter-in.''
Huh" *
Suppose Harry Brandt had to decide
between the game and the girls7 How
do you suppose he would decide?"
He wouldn't decide. Ills owner would
decide that for him. There's only one
thing when you're training and that's the
game"
There you go. His owner How often
mustI tell you that nobody really owns
anybody. The game Is inhuman. II only
confirms my state OF mind certainly
have lost my taste for base ball"
Tn any game you've got 70 conform TO
the rules
but there is a Eraelous way to do
everything
'Uh. Huh What would you suggestg'
The man sighed ana laid down his paper.
I would Danish that word buy from
every Transaction in human beings"
How about buying at Monday morning
bargain rushes?" Aren't those rushes
transactions between human belngs9 ]
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02

Dear Miss Fairfax; am a school
teacher, ~ years old. and know and ad-
miTe q young man OF about n years He
10 very fond Of nee, and OF him but ne
has an artistic temperament. fear that
IL we were 70 marry his artistic tempera-
ment would cause him to ignore me at
times and might be unhappy.
Do you think the difference In our ages
insuperabie7 Would you advise me Cnot
marry, one 20 artistcally inelined1
AMATUS.
DO you think q boy OF 81 years cap
able OF selecting a life partner? Except
in rare cases. ! doubt the advisability OF
marriage for man 30 young. and
think girl OF a years Is really a woman,
and 20 = bit old for a boy Of n years.
However, this Is generalization, and
cannot be made TO suit every case. "Ar-
tistio tempeFapent' IL an elastic term,
and may be used TO cover a nature that
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02

6ooo resolutions TO
give up doing all the
things they like TO
TO do. and they go
about for three or
four days so pure.
and self2righteous
and virtuous that
nobody likes to as
ISOLATE with them.
The they &C back
TO doing the same
old way and are
nice ad comforta-
BILE again.
u cry N e W
Years my papa
makes a New
Years resolution
that he will cut out
smoking for that
war and he a "a
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02
Question Of Preeeaure

out of theater with young lady which
should go first. the young lady Of young
gentleman? Is IL proper 10 give, a young
lady friend o small Christmas present.
A. r. v.
Always allow the lady 20 precede you
in passing through the door, either going
in or out; this leaves You In a position
TO protect her. should she need Il. Tho
proprlety Of giving gift depends ON how
with her. This you can determine for
yourself.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02

tune or a seat at
the opera. II you
were writing 20
an intimate ana
sympathetic friend
you would prob
ably express your
self in terms of
disbursement or
dissRtis faction.
Well. now what
would you do II
for twenty years
YOU had spent the
greater portion OF
the time flat on
your back in bed.
paralyzed!
Then. if YOU had
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02

suppose the woman who crowds you isn't
human She's a friend"
Don't be nippsnt II those headlines
were Colonel Brown Has Invested In
Gray sox Stock II would be more digni-
fled. And Harry Brandt 70 Be Managed
by Jim Griggs,' would not be misieading
Base ball has enough horrors. For PHYS
sake don't oonjure one OF the slave
block"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02

u n ! n telnBiointy OK
the male, when he is
buried in the sport
ing page.
II have" she re-
peated.
''wzzm'tr nowT'
II don't like the
vocabulary of the
base ball field"
Maybe a little un-
derdone-"
"Overdone, I should
say. But I don't
mind its elegance. I
can understand that
in stress men may
urge each other to
slide and NAV call
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02
by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX,

Copyright, 1914, Star Company
You were. perhaps. made unhappy to-
day by a touch OF neuritis, by a sensitive
tooth. by q lame knoe or by the In
ability to purchase fashionable cos
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02
Power Of Mind Over Matter

Remarkable Case of Woman Afflicted for Twenty
Years Who Refused to Let Trouble Overcome Her
Spirit and Faith-Now Encouraging and Helping
Hundreds.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02
They're Buying
and Selling Men
BY ADA PATTERSON.

- have lost my taste for base ball"
tha woman spoke with clearness and
decision.
"R-r-m-m." srunted the man with the
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02

So much has been said recently about
the revival of the plated form of skirt
that its inclusion in the derii-season
modes does not cause much sstonlshZ
ment
1t is here in its original guise and in
various adaptations of the same, But
where It once was cut in straight
breadths and killed from waist to ankle,
it is now shaped in cores and the bell
outline IL accumulated.
BY way of maintaining the slim hip
effect, the yoke feature Is Incorporated
in the killed models.
Women who are anxious to plan an
early wardrobe, may be fairly certain OF
the plated skirt with smooth fitting top
section.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02
BY DOROTHY DIX.

New Years is the time when folks turn
over a new page, and goodness knows
they ought to.
Also at New Years everybody makes
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02
Advice to Love1orn
Copyright. 1915. Internl News Service.
Nk&

occasionally seeks inspiration In solitude.
Also It may be used 20 gloss over a sell
fish nature. The difference in your
ages Is not insuperable by any means
nor Is the difference in temperament a
real barrier. Since you are a girl OF
education. / advise you TO bring your
best judgment 20 bear on your situation.
and after, you have used your head 20
solve your problem follow the dictates
Of your heart a bit. too. Your ordered
nature and didactic habit may be Just
the force needed TO balance his more
erratic habits
How 90 Become Acquainted.
Dear Miss Fairfax: Would you kindly
advise me how to become acquainted
with a few girls? ] 20 TO business and
at night when 1 should DO enjoying the
air / remain AZ home, simply because
haven't any friends with whom / can go
out. / am too young 70 bother with boys
and do not care TO belong to any clubs.
f. 8.
Why not try to make friends With the
girls who work In your business officer
DO you not belong 20 q church, II you
90. you ought 10 have no trouble in meet
inS other girls who attend the same place
Of worship.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02
How 20 become Acquainted.
IIe should Come 20 Your Home.

He should Come 90 Nour Home.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am q and am
- osu's ss,eig N III sSH's n'.n WI
az his place OF business. from which We
go out together Hls excuse IA that he
does not wart u see--Eny parents. They
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02
The DemonstratIve Girl.

Ihe commemorative OAris
Dear Miss Fairfax: am a man. %
years old, and. in love with a girl 30 years
When am at her home OF we are out
together she always insists upon sny
showing my affection for her whether
others are around OF not 1 am often
embarrassed because OF this for II j.
my belief that ceFesSes should be kept
for private demonstrations only.
/ have on 4 few occasions tried 10 ad-
monish her for this. but she always gets
angry, and says that II loved her
would not care n the whole world were
looking ON.
Don't you think am right on this
question? W l. ID T.
You were quite right in your feeling
that love and affection are sacred thinsa
The giri wou caro- for Is fortunate in
having a lover who Il 50 high-minded
and considerable. Stick to your principles
and try 10 make her take sooro dis
nified attitude towards your mutual AZ
lection
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-02
By Beatrice
Fairfax

never interfered IN our affairs or said
anything out OF the way TO him. He Is
at present drawing SIS per week, and
claims that Il Is not enough to live on
and see him? DO you think hin, IN
earnest. a severy time I speak to him he
tells mo / am the only one for him and
not 70 mind his dealings with my par
entsy A. b. G.
II this man truly loves you some Of his
tenderness OF feeling must extend to the
parents you love- Insist PLEASANTLY. but
sincerely on his coming to your home and
being amiable 20 your mother and father
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-12-23
The Bat and the Bulbs.

According to the French naturalist
De Parville, a gardener planted n
afternoon $50 tulip bulbs on a terrace,
and next morning he noticed that the
ground had been disturbed and that
the bulbs had all been taken away.
He was confident that rats had done
the work, and. taking a spade, he be
gan to dig in the hope of discovering
their nest. Soon he unearthed a large
female rat, which he killed, and after
digging a few more minutes he dis
covered an underground chamber lined
with hay and leaves and connected by
a corridor with two holes. which were
evidently used as s~torehouses, for in
them he found the $50 tulip bulbs.
This was remarkable, but more re-
markabie was the fact that they were
neatly arranged in two rows and that
not n Of them had been gnawed or
otherwise injured.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-12-23
WHERE COOKS FAIL.
They Carry Their @Move on" Fever
Into Uncle Sans Service.

They Carry Their "Move on" Fever
Into Uncle Sans Service.
Uncle Sam. rich and powerful, good
to his help" and the surest pay in
the world. can't keep his cooks any
longer or better than the ordinary sub
urban commuter. He offers them good
pay, easy hours and lots OF nights
out" but they simply will not over
look the fact that they are cooks. bred
and born, and SO keep moving on.
United States marine corps statistics
covering the last two years show a
greater percentage Of men deserted
who gave occupation prior to entry as
cooks" than any other class that en-
listed during the period.
Desertions from the marine corps are
very light at all times. The average
marine considers that the service Of
fers better advantages than anything
he could find in civil life, and he be-
lieves the opportunities for travel and
adventure to be ~unexcelled, and, were
1t not for the cooks, marine corps Of
ficials believe that the oldest branch
of the service" would have an almost
clean slate with regard to assertions.
No class of men look so lightly on the
oath of obligation as these selfsame
knights of the frying PAN" marine
corps recruiters declare.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-12-23
MURDER WILL OUT.
THE Best Laid Schemes a. Mice and
Men Gang Aft AaIey..

HaS
Men Gang Aft Aaiey.s
Once upon a time there was a lady
who wished to have her real age kept
a secret. In order to get away with
1t she instructed her son, in case any
one asked how old he was. to knock
off about so per cent.
She told people the boy was large
for his age and explained the gruff
tones Of his voice by saying that his
tonsils needed attention.
One day the rector of the church
called, and while waiting in the draw.
ing room for the lady to put the fin
ishing touches to her makeup he talk
ed with the boy, who was pretending
to read Little Lord Fauntleroy" for
the seventeenth time. The boy yolun.
teered the information that the next
day would be his birthday.
"Ah." said the rector, ''and how old
will you be then?"
"Ten years old" replied the boy. as
per Instructions.
'Indeed!' said the rector. II dare
say you haven't any idea what your
mother is going to give you for a
birthday gift
"Oh, yes. | have was the unexpect-
ed answer she promised to give me
a safety razor"
When the rector rushed into the hall
to see what had caused the loud crash
he had heard he found the boys moth.
er lying on the floor in a dead faint.
Morai-0ld Father Time calls all
bluffs.-St, Louis Dispatch.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-12-23
LAFAYETTE DOLLARS.
Why They Wers issued and What
They Are Now Worth.

- l$s&sat tcy SSIS NOW w oFSN, 9HS&ssaS&
In 1899 congress ordered $1,000
Lafayette dollars to be coined In aid
OF the fund for the erection OF the
Lafayette In Paris In 1900.
The first one of the issue was struck at
the Philadelphia mint Dec. IA. 1899. on
the N hnndredth anniversary of the
death of George Washington. This
roin was set apart for presentation by
the president of the United States to
the president of the republic of
France.
The Lafayette dollar is a legal tender
dollar and bears upon its face a double
medallion of the heads of Washing
ton and Lafayette and on the reverse
a miniature reproduction of the eques-
TRAN statue of Lafayette, with the in
scription. I'm Commemoration of Mon
ument Erected By School Youth of
United States to General Lafayette.
Paris. France, 1900"
The Lafayette memorial commission
was authorized to dispose of them at
50 apiece. the profit going to the mon
ument fund. The whole proceeding
was to honor the memory of Lafay-
cite, and there was but one issue Of
the coins-viz. 10000. They have be-
come widely scattered. mostly in the
hands of collectors. and are worth
$1.10 to $1.25 apiece. New York
Times.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-12-23
All Are on Time at sydney.

At Sydney. Australia. any telephone
subscriber can obtain correct standard
time by calling up the Sydney observa-
tory, says the Scientific American. IL
he wishes merely to check his watch
or clock he asks for Thine" and Is
connected with in operator who reads
of the correct time to the nearest half
minute from a clock controlled by the
standard clock Of the observatory. Ii
more accurate information be required
he asks for Exact time" and is con.
nected with a high frequency buzzer
which transmits the actual beats OF
fhe observatory clock.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-12-23
The Microscope.

A spectacle maker, Jan Leippersheim
by name. living in Holland. invented a
crude magnifying glass in 1908. Anton
Won ~Leuwenhoek, born in Delft in 1892.
improved this clumsy toy and evolved
a compound microscope which has be-
come the most valuable sanitary tool
yet devised by That first micro
scope was as far removed from the
high powered instrument OF today as
is the modern American from the orig
inal cave man. Yet by this faulty
means L~euwenhoek, naturalist. physi-
clan and %botanist, discovered certain
minute bodies which he called little
animals" He made drawings of these,
and today they are known for those
useful friends and malignant enemies
Of man-bacteria. -Argonaut.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-12-23
HEARING AND SEEING.
Tho Ear and the Eye and the Power Of
tho Brain to Memorixe.

-
tho Brain to Memorixe.
Ii the ear more retentive than the
eye? Are we more impressed with
what we hear than with what we seer
There is a familiar legend of Macau-
lay reeiting a good part Of Paradise
Lost during q voyage to India and of
the historians ability to rise from a
book and repeat word for word what
he had read. There are also records of
John Stuart Mills ability to remem-
Der the printed word
But the balance of evidence seems
in favor of the power to memorize that
which passes through the ear Into the
brain. Memory Woodfall. who lived
in the latter part of the eighteenth
century. could attend a debate and re-
port it exactly without notes. a pure
feat of aural memory. Toscanini can
conduct a number of difficult operas
without the score before him, Thomas
Beecham, the London orchestra leader.
conducted from memory Strauss
"Rosenkavalier upon twenty-foul
hours notice, Won Buelow is said to
have memorized a Stanford symphony
on the train between Hamburg and
Berlin and to have conducted it with
out the score in the latter city. DR..
Kunwald can conduct from memory a
large number of orchestral works, with
all their n Of Interpretation.
1t is a question for the psychologist.
The popular verdict probably would be
in favor of the prowess of the ear
rather than of the eye. There are a
large number of people who can re-
member an air exactly. but to whom
the printed word Is an evaporated
thing as soon as it passes from their
eyes.-Cincinnati Times-Star.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-12-23
Who Got the RahY9

Once upon a time a crocodile stole a
baby and was about to make a dinner
of it. The frantic mother begged so
Piteously for the child that the croco-
die said:
Tell me one truth and you shah
have your baby again"
The mother replied, You win not
give him back to me"
Them said the crocodile, by our
agreement | shall keep him, for If you
have told the truth ! am not going to
give him back. and If 1t is a lie | have
also won.
But the mother said. "If told you
the truth Won are bound by your prom
Use, and If it is not the truth 1t will not
be a lie until you have given me my
child
Who got the baby?
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-12-23
Nothina to Worry About.

The wife was tenderly sympathetic.
Why. George. dear" she said when
she noted her husbands tense attitude
and set eyes. what is the troubled"
He looked at her a~bsently. as upon a
total stranger.
oh" he said at length. there was
something l was going to worry about
II know there was but for the life of
me I can't think what it is."-Puck.