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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
Mother Often TO Blampe
For Chlldrem's Neglect

., to the mother who bore them.
There are other mothers who are
shrined like saints in the hearts Of
their children, mothers to whom their
children can never show enough ten
derness and affection. It's all mat
ter of teaching, of adopting the right
attitude toward ones children. 1t
lies with every woman, when her
children are babies, to decide how
they shall treat her when they are
grown up.
1t is the mothers own fault it
her children neglect her. 1t is also
the mothers own fault, to large
degree, if she is an unwelcome in
stead of a cherished guest in her
children's household.
There is many an old woman
who is a good woman and mother
who has made heroic sacrifices
for her children but who is so dis
agreeable to live with that it
would take more than mortal pa
thence to stand her.
There is the meddling old wo-
man, for instance, who can never
go into any household without dis
arranging its whole machinery and
trying to run it her way.
If she goes to her sons house
she criticises the way daughter-in-
law uses her best china every day,
the way the children are being
brought up, the size Of the bills,
the number Of card parties
daughter-in-law goes to, the price
of her dresses.
If she goes to her daughters
house she nags her son-in-law to
death because he drinks beer, and
smokes, and belongs to a club, and
plays golf on Sunday. In any house
she enters peace packs up its dress
suit case and flees for parts TN
known.
And there is the querulous and
complaining old lady who is a liv-
ing edition of the Lamentations
of jeremiah, who is always weeping
and mourning and complaining all
over the place, and is so sensitive
and has her feeling spread around
her so far that you have to walk on
eggs to keep from hurting her.
And there's the argumentative old
woman who can never let any sub
ject pass without disagreeing with
everybody on earth, and the tyran-
nical old woman who wants to force
everybody to do her way and think
her thoughts, and the narrow and
provincial old lady who is certain that
the way she did in some obscure vii
lage fifty years ago is the way life
ought to be run in the city today. And
there are also fifty other varieties
of disagreeable and cantankerous old
ladies who are home wreckers.
Generally speaking, whenever an
old woman is not a welcome guest
under any roof it is her own faut,
for all OF us know. plenty Of sweet
wise, gentle forebearing, broad
minded old ladies whose children
worship them, whose in-laws adore
them, and whom we all welcome
with open arms.
The moral of all OF which Is that
we are mighty apt to get what is
coming to us, and that it behooyes
every woman in her youth to begin
to make herself the sort of a wo-
man that everybody will want
around them when she is old.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
BY DOROTHY DIX.

I get great many pathetic letters
from old women complaining bitterly
that their children neglect them, and
that they are unwelcome inmates in
their sons or daughters homes.
Certainly nothing could be more
tragical than the fate of the mother
who sees the children that she has
borne in agony, for whom she has
toiled and sacrificed and shaved, turn
from her without even an impulse OF
gratitude, and fail her when she
needs their love and cherishing in her
helpless age even as they needed her
love and cherishing i'll their helpless
infancy.
Nor is there any spectacle so re-
voltingly hideous as that of prosper
Gus as that of prosperous men and
women who repay mothers devo-
ton with thanklessness. who be-
grudge a few. dollars to her who has
given her hearts blood to them, who
ruthlessly kick down the patient, bent
shoulders on which they have climed
to higher social position, and who
have no room in their full lives for
the one who bestowed life upon them.
The old mother whom nobody
wants is a very common figure, and
one whom we may all pity, yet she
has brought her troubles upon her
self, and her case is worth consider
ing by every other mother lest the
same thing befall her.
In the first place, every woman's
children treat her just as she teaches
them to treat her. This sounds like
cruel and brutal thing to say, but
it is true. Every mother in the world
writes her own price tag, and her
children take her at her own valua-
ton.
If woman makes a doormat Of
herself her children will use her as a
doormat and walk .over her without
one thought of conjunction. They
will think that that is what she is
there for. But if she makes OF her
self fine and precious vessel they
will admire and revere her as they
would any other valuable possession,
and handle her delicately and ten
derby. ... :.
The mother who permits her s.
year-old baby boy to speak to her
impudently is deliberately raising up
son who will swear at her when ne
is grown. The mother who slaves
and drudges around the house while
her children loll about in idleness is
going to have to take in boarders to
support them when they grow up into
loaefrs. -.f 49,. .
The mother who goes ragged and
shabby that her children may have
silly fnery, who never exacts any
service from them, who lets them de-
ride her opinion, is bringing up sons
and daughters who will despise her
and have contempt for her and neg
lect her when they start forth on their
own careers. fe ,3arrs
She is bringing the curse down on
her own head and she deserves what
she gets, because she had her children
when their minds and characters were
plastic, and she might have instilled
into them respect for her and chivalry
toward her and sense of their duty
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

why do so many marriages go on
the rocks3" said my friend, the doc
tor. And then he answered his own
question very wisely. Because they
are not based on anything more last
ing than.-love; and love is generally
a beautiful dream" gn.~
3 Everybody knows that sunset is
beautiful-but nobody expects it to
last forever. We all gasp at the ex-
quisits beauty Of rainbow--but we
know it will fade. So as listened
to the doctor thought Of the transit
tory nature of most beauty and ad-
justed myself to his viewpoint.
Love 10 for most people Of cob
web illusion. 1t is desperate at
traction formed of desire for kisses
and caresses and thrills. But no sub
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29

Ice coffee in glasses is refreshing
summer drink, suitable for dessert
ice or for porch or tennis parties, and
is made as follows:
Take four large tablespoonsfuls OF
freshly ground coffee, put it into dry
coffee pot and pour over it two cups
Of boiling water; allow the pot to
stand in q pan containing boiling
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
Ice Coffee in Glasses
By CONSTANCE CLARKE.

water while the coffee is drawing;
then pour off and mix with it half a
cup OF sugar and one cup Of cream;
when cold put it into the freezer and
freeze it into semi-frozen state; then
pile it up in tall glasses and garnish
the top with whipped cream. Serve
with any sweet waters.
Tuesday-Fish in Scallop Shells.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-24
MOTHERS BIRTHDAY IS THE
GREATEST OF ALL DAYS

In a Kansas rural school few
days ago the teacher-a young man
just out of normal school asked his
pupils, one by one. to tell what each
believed to be the greatest day in
the year.
The answers were piped up
promptly, "Washineton's birthday"
Christmas THE Fourth. Z"
Thanksgiving. and so on.
But I'm afraid you're all
wrong" said the youthful instruc-
tor. The greatest of all days in
the year is Mothers Birthday"
Were sorry we haven't a chance
here to tell just how much we think
of that young man. Suffice it. such
teachers are the crying need, not of
our rural schools. but of our his h
brow city institutions of learning
For if those youngsters learn no
mpre than what mother really means
they will not have trudged miles to
the little frame sehoolhouse for
naught.
We fear we are all pupils. more or
less, when it comes to learning our
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-24
THE NEWCOMERS VALUE

People as a general thing do not
stop to consider the advantages ac-
crulng to community from an in
lux of new residents -otherwise we
are sure there would be more siren
uous efforts rlt forth to secure such
an increase of citizenship.
To the business man-and by the
term we mean every man who buys
or sells, or who offers professional
or mechanical skill for considera-
ton the advent Of every new citi-
zen means possible new customer.
and a consequent enlargement of ev-
cry line of trade is effected
To the man who is not engaged in
business. or who is neither a profess
sional man nor employing mechanic,
the benefits of every augmentation
of citizenship, while perhaps less ap-
parent, are positive and considerable.
Whenever a man becomes citi-
zen of community granting that
he is man of average character
he assumes a portion of the moral
and civic burdens of that commun-
ity, and to that extent these burdens
are lightened for the remaining resi-
dents.
He helps to build churches and
schools; to pay teachers and preach
ers; to defray the expenses of NUM-
cipal and county government; to
make public improvements; to ac-
quire those things that make life
easier and more pleasant; and in
thousand ways he is benefit to ev-
cry resident of the town and county
to which he comes to make his abode.
Therefore, because, perchance, Mr..
Business Man, you may know of a
newcomer who has not brought to
you any actual money-who has not
handed you the dollar direct-,do not
conclude that it is not worth while
to offer inducements to the stranger
to come and settle within your city's
gates.
Money spent in an effort to secure
new citizens is an investment, and
not an expense
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-24
GUARANTEEING NATAL SEED

One of the most important steps
ever taken by the Lake County
Chamber of Commerce, in the opin-
ion of the Comemrcial, was the
authorization OF the body by vote of
the full membership present at Cler-
, mont, to Agricultural Agent William
CONNIE, to inspect Natal hay seed
offered for sale in Lake county and
place upon such seed as passed the
test the seal of approval of the coun-
ty organization.
The rules under which this in
spection will be made are to be out
lined by Mr.. CONNIE and submitted
at the May meeting at Grand Island
for the approval of the board of
governors of the body. From that
date, everyone who desires to try out
Natal hay in south Florida can get
seed that is perfectly cured and that
will terminate. The only precaution
necessary is for the purchaser to in
sist upon being furnished seed with
the stamp of the chamber of COM
merce upon it.
This inspection is to be free but
the rules will provide for a certain
quantity of seed being collected in
nj 20
by Mr. CONNIE will be answered
The advantages of this system to
the purchaser will be of great value,
even though he has to pay much
higher price for the seed which pass
es the rigid test Mr. CONNIE will
make. Poor seed is never cheap,
even if it is received free, and
pound of S100 seed that will germi-
nate 80 per cent is worth a great
deal more than $4,000 worth of 25-
cent seed that will terminate only
FIVE per cent.
Lake county, through this action
Of the county organization, Will hold
the place she now has as headquar
ters for Natal hay seed, but without
this, she is in grave danger of not
only losing her prestige as the seed
center for Natal grass, but of losing
her reputation for fair dealing There
has been a great deal of poor seed
sent out from Lake county and it is
due the people who pay their money
in good faith that they receive fair
.rcatment Lecsburg Commercial
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-24
SAVING MONEY

Thrift is that feeling which comes
over you when you know you've been
stung Did you ever notice the man
at a summer resort who steps boldly
up 10 the counter, lays down mex
ell, picks up three balls and throws
them wildly at a negro's head, row
of grinning dolls, or some other con-
traption devised to lure him away
from his nickel, hit nothing and
| walk away with a detected look?
Did you ever go on an outing, or on
a nights pleasure bent, and be
good fellow" good spender,
anG 20 home with that what-did-l-
get-out-it feeling?
cid you ever attend an auction,
lose your head and buy something
you didn't need and couldn't use, at
a price twice as much as it was
worth and have the same sensation?
That was your conscience entering
"a protest against waste-your
thrifty, self struggling against your
thriftless self. trying to show you
that you waste money only to regret
it, and. even though you forget it,
you won't alter the situation.
Every summer resort is built upon
the proposition that most everybody
wastes certain amount of money,
gets foolish at times, takes throw
or two at something they know they
can't hit, just to see how it feels.
Coney Island and the movie" do not
despise the nickels all they want
is enough of them. Did you ever stop
to consider that nothing at amuse-
ment resorts costs over 10 cents eX-
cept food? Summer resorts know
that human nature is frivolous in
summer time, bound to spend a part
of the weeks wage in being foolish,
generating thrills, that even though
innocent are costly, and only thrills
after all. And if the crop of foolish
folk were not bumper one every
year, and if the stin9s of conscience
were needed there would be many
an empty booth at the beaches this
year
You can spend money foolishly so
long that your conscience will not
trouble you, just as YOU can cultivate
a BAD habit SO long that you cease
to think it wrong Even the best
of US, with the most careful manage
ment, are bound to waste a certain
amount of money. Somehow it gets
away from us, try as We will to pre-
vent it. But the man who deliber-
ately throws his money at something
he cant hit, whether it be a negros
head or a business proposition. must
not complain if the ball GOES wide of
the mark.
The crowd would rather look on
while you throw your money away
than to throw their own, but what
have you? When your
money is gone they will buy no
shoes for your babies, nor pay your
rent when you're down and out.
Many catastrophe in life is caused
by throwing money at something you
cant hit, whether in business. in
society or at the beach, but listen
to that still, small voice-that sting
Of conscience, and do what it tells
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-24
WINDOW GARDENS

Cat this out and keep if for use in
planning your window boxes. A
Moultrie lady sends it in and recon-
mends the ideas as being of practi-
val value:
Everybody can afford a flower gar
den. even if it is only window box
that is placed on the outside of the
house
These can be made at home, and
while plain grocery boxes can serve
the purpose, it is better to use cy-
press wood The reason for this is,
cypress is easily handled, has lasting
qualities, and can be stained any col
or desired. The boxes are generally
from one to two feet deep, and vary
from foot to two feet in width. The
length is determined by the width of
the window. To keep the box from
rotting, it is well to bore holes in
the bottom and to fit into it an inner
box of zinc.
Place bits of broken flower pot or
charcoal on the bottm of the pan to
insure proper drainage. Add three
inch layer of rough SOIL then four
inches of better soil on top. This
should be carefully pressed around
the SIDES of the boxes in order to
prevent skrinkage.
The best filling that can be used
is good rich loan, such as is found
under the roots of grass in any good
This should be mixed with rotted
manure, and one-third sand is a
good combination. The best results
are obtained by letting this stand a
few days before planting.
The selection of the plans is
matter that requires careful consid-
Grafton. The amount of sunshine the
box will have will determine what
kind of plants will thrive best in it,
For the north windows, fuchsias, ivy
geraniums, fancy caladiums, vincas,
asparagus, plumosus, sprengeri, Jap
anese morning -glories and begonias
are also suitable, also numerous
species of ferns These last are al
ways effective; some boxes are filled
with nothing else lex.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-24
BIGGEST AIRSHIP IN THE
U. S. IS NOW IN FLORIDA
Whale of an Air Vessel One of the
Greatest Ariel Cruisers
Ever Built

Pensacola, March "a A fifteen
ton Curtiss air cruiser. the largest
flying machine yet to be put in serv-
ice by the United States navy, has
ing assembled for official tests The
navy department has placed orders
for twenty machines of this type
The giant flying yacht is described
as looking not unlike a whale with
windows and extending fins on the
fore part of the body The body with
out the rear rudders is So feet long
and the hull is ten feet wide at the
widest point. On each side of the
body there are fin-like planes eX
tending out five feet, which when the
machine is driven at certain speed
makes it rise freely from the waves.
The machine is triplane, with
three wings superposed, about 1873
feet over all, with substantial struts
between them. The weight of the
machine complete is about 10000
pounds. Besides the weight it will
| lift about five tons of fuel, passen-
GERS and useful loads This means
that it could carry four men and
supplies and the fuel necessary for
crossing the Atlantic. which it is
said to be capable of doing in about
thirty hours. She will be able to
carry twenty passengers.
In the hull are three compart-
ments. or cabins. The main cabin is
10 feet long, s feet wide and feet
body is cabin fitted with windows,
forming an enclosed pilot house.
There is false keel with bilge
phmps and three water-ti2ht COM
partments at the stern and two at
the bow, to prevent sinking if there
should be puncture.
The large propellers will be driv-
en- by four 12-cylinder Curtiss mo-
tors of $50 horsepower each. They
will he mounted between the planes,
where they will be easily accessible
to the mechanics who will attend to
them while the aeroplane is in the
air. An additional motor of so horse
power will operate screw propeller
to use when the machine goes in and
out of small harbors, to stop it by
reversing of propeller, and for other
purposes for which it will be I'M
' necessary to set the large motors
going.
When on the water the machine
is like yacht and will be piloted
in the same way when in the air it
will be controlled as aeroplanes are
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-24
THROWING IT AWAY
(Chattanooea News)

The advance sale of seats for the
Willard Moran prize fight in New
York March 20 is already $4,000,
with the practical certainty that the
receipts will be over $4,000. Will
lard is to receive a fortune, while
Moran is to get something like $780,
600 or more.
The bout will be ten rounds and
no decision will be rendered. In all
probability it will be fiasco. Ten
round no-decision prize fights offer
a fine chance to fleece the public
which goes in for prize fighting.
Willard, it is said, is not in condi-
ton
Prize FIGHTING of the old sort has
gone out. There is no place in this
country now which would counte-
nance one of the old-time pugilistic
battles In time the ten round no de-
cision affairs will be driven out also
| Possibly the Willard Moran bout will
help to do. it. Let us hope so.
For ten rounds of dancing around
the ring the two heavyweights will
be paid far more than the most skill
full fighters of other days were paid
for finish fights. The Jeffries-Shar-
key fight at Coney Island drew only
| $65,300 in gate receipts. The Cans
Nelson. Johnson Burns and Johnson
Willard fights at Goldfield, Sydney
4, and Havana, respectively. brought
receipts that ranged between $780,
900 and $4,000. Those were long,
decision fights, with great risk to
the fighters.
For the $4,000 which will be
paid to see the ten-round affair in
New York, every poor youngster in
that great city could be given a
whole day in the country during the
hot summer. For that amount. which
will be thrown away on a en-round
no-decision prize fight, New York
could give such a jolly, giving
outing to Coney for the East Side
kids this summer as was never seen
before. -
| The fight can hardly be a great
one, as fights go There is hope that
! it will be such bad one that ii will
cause America to ponder over its
! reckless waste of money and its bad
taste in the matter of sports.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-24
LEARNING THE AUTO
BY Walt Mason

I'm learning the automobile; as,
trembling, | sit at the wheel, and
steer her along, through the hurry
ing throng, how nervous and awk-
ward feel. l jolt people out of
their lids, run over chickens and
kids; a squirt she will throw when
| want to go slow, she scampers,
skedaddles and skids | sweat, and
I'm weak in the knees, when swift
around corners she fees, she whimp-
ers and whirs and she eurgles and
purs, and runs into fences and trees
My courage she constantly damps by
running down bow-wows and tramps;
she collided today with big heavy
dray, and busted her tenders and
lamps. | drive her around for an
hour. this engine of terrible power;
wherever | stray, on my death deal
ing way, of feathers and fur there's
shower. At night, when | go to my
bed, fierce Nightmares abide in my
head; l dream my new truck is just
running amuck, and leaving a wind
row of dead Il run over chickens and
goats, | run over ROSTERS and shoats;
and oft, in my dreams, do raucously
scream, My auto is feeling her
OATS"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-24
GOLF

Since Lakeland is soon to have one
of the finest golf courses in the State.
work on which has already started,
the following editorial appearing in
the Clearwater Sun will be of inter
est as it appears that golf is good for
everything:
Those not initiated into the game
of golf cannot understand the hold"
it has on its devo.ees. They marvel
that business man can FORGET his
cares and spend an afternoon on the
links; that an old man who cannot
walk to the postoflice once a day can
chase over the green fields to the
extent of Is holes or nine holes in
an afternoon and come home re-
freshed; that man SO crippled with
rheumatism that he couldn't pick up
a ten dollar bill from the floor can
smash a 160-yard drive and wonder
how he didn't get the distance that
was behind the blow.
r. d. Forgan has written this
beautiful tribute to the new nation
al game, and he tells just why golf
is so popular. so fascinating, and why
it makes men forget their business
troubles and physical affiictions
Golf is a science. study of a life
time, in which you may exhaust
yourself, but never your subject 1t
is a contest, duel or a melee, call
ing for courage, skill, strategy and
self-control.
II is a test of temper. a trial of
honor, revealer of character. II
affords a chance to play the man
and act the gentleman. 1t means
going into Gods out of doors, get
ting close to nature. fresh air. exer-
else. a sweeping away of mental cob
webs, genuine recreation Of the tired
tissues. Ii is a cure for care. an an
tidote for worry. II includes cham
pionship with friends, social inter
course, opportunities for courtesy,
kindliness and generosity to an OPP
moment. 1t promotes not only physi-
cal hsalth, but moral forck.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-24
LET HIM OUT

81 want TO be excused" said the
worried-looking juryman, addressing
the judge. II owe a man s. that
borrowed. and as he is leaving town
today for some years want to catch
him before he gets on the train and
pay him the money"
You are excused returned the
judge, in icy tones. Il don't want
anybody on this jury who can lie
like that"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-24
THE LAKELAND NEWS,
{! Heekly newspaper giving a resume
:. loca! matters. crop conditions.
county affairs, etc Sent anywhere
Tor $3.50 per year.

Harry Floyd writes of some one
as being affected with "a continuous
rush of words to the face " That's
not a good thing for a candidate.
We have known several of them who
talked to death their chances of
election.