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Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-22
BY ADA PATTERSON.

Al 4-:.. .L,+ 49,
In one OF the cemeteries ludt uoi
the hills about New York is a little
be,dstone that might pass unnoticed
hut for IFS tremendous significance.
II ;s a lamb craven in marble. The
;nscriDtion is simple, the short one
syllabled words of the name of the
one who rested beneath and the dates
of her birth and death. The little
marble lamb and the dates on the
pravestone corroborate each other.
The girl whose passing is comment
Grated bv the headstone was born in
Julv of one wear and died in the sue
ceeding June. Less than a year had
measured the span of her life.
M;oht;lv her narents incurred.
M;phtilv not weakly. for out of the
untimely passing of that infant,
snrang one of the widest reaching,
most practical philanthropies of the
East Coast They erieyed as other
narents grievc. with tears that denote
the ache and void in their hearts. The
child had died because it was not pos
s;ble TO secure for If pure milk. The
diaries and the health department of
the c;tv If New York had not safe
guarded nublic health by providing
aga;nst the contamination. DESPITE
tender and Intelligent care by its par
ents thr cb;ld's second summer. peril
Gus to ali infants had been fatal to
her
But those parents did something
ko.;Ja or;a,o Of I,roe y;s;op thew
said.
LET us try to stop the sacrifice of
which our little one was a part. Let
us fake measure 70 provide clean
MILL for other children Of the CITY,
esnec;allv ~ the moor, who are least
I;kelv 70 have #
Their gaze turned outward instead
of inward Their ;mag;nations MIC
tured a swarm Of other children pin
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-22
Toklmg Advantage
- Of Your Serious

the rest. But he was more often in
her thoughts than were the others, in
part because he was at the outset of
a brilliant public career and because
he was much absent from home, and
a mothers heart is torn by anxiety
about the absent one no matter how
able he is to direct his life far from
the hresidc. On her Bed of invalid
ism she lay and thought of him by
day, and prayed for him at night.
One day terse cablegram arrived.
your son, in delirium, killed him
self"
"Therc will be double funeral"
said those who knew her best.
"She cannot survive it."
She left her sickbed for the first
time for years. Quietly, though there
was a strained look in her dry eyes
that sat others weeping, she placed
her house in order and made ready
for the funeral. 1t was the end OF
her invalidism.
Long afterwards she told me why
she had thus triumphed. my hus-
band was nearly distraight. l thought
he would lose his reason unless |
took charge of matters and comforted
him."
So the house that had been one of
discomfort and melancholy became
well ordered and a place of calm, il
not cheerfulness. So personal sor-
row was turned to general good.
Sorrows should not undermine
lives. 1t should be the means OF
building them into usefulness. Great
sorrow should bring great strength,
! and sweetness and understanding.
Prolonged outward mourning is a
form of selhshness.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-22
M1htdnt Mothers and ,
Crushed D0uQhters

robbing blind beggar, or taking pen
mics away from child; for well every
mothers daughter of US knows that
never, never, never would we find a
man who would accompany us to the
altar if he had even the remotest
suspicion that we were inwardly/ re-
solved to interfere with every taste
and habit and amusement he had en-
joyed for twenty-five, or thirty, or
forty, or fifty years before he met us,
Suppose, in the days of courtship,
Angelina should casually remark to
Edwin that as soon as they are mar
ried she will break his cherished
meerschaum pipe and put stop to
his smoking. Suppose, in the ante
nuptial days Maud should tell Jack
that after they are married there
will be no more highballs for him.
Suppose Mary, before the cere-
mony, should reveal to Tom that she
will expect him to turn over-to her
his pay envelope every Saturday
night, and that in their household
she will be 1T so completely that
he won't even dare to ask to 60
downtown Of night.
What would happen?
1t doesn't take a prophet to tell
The wedding would be called sud-
denly and violently off, wherefore
women subtly conceal their purposes.
They make man believe they think
him perfection until they get him, and
then they go to work and cut him
over and make him over according
to their taste--which is mighty I'M
pleasant and surprising to the man.
Here again you find potent
source of discord in families, and it
is altogether the womans fault.
No woman has right to marry a
man unless she is going to take him
as he is.
If, as he stands, with all his faults
thick upon his head, he doesn't suit
her, in all decency and honesty and
kindness, she ought to let him alone
and permit him to enjoy himself in
peace in his own way in single bless
edness, or marry some other woman
upon whom his weaknesses will not
CRATE.
No man lives to the manageable
age without hitting upon the scheme
of life that he finds most agreeable,
and ascertaining the kind of clothes
in which he is most comfortable, and
the things to eat that agree with
him.
1t is simply criminal for wife to
interfere with these, yet the majority
of women are no sooner married to
man than they set to work to re-
construct his whole plan of life, from
his politics and religion to the way
he cuts his hair and the kind of col
lar he wears.
The wise wife is the woman who
takes her husband as he is, and who
does not yex either herself or him by
trying to idealize him into some
thing he is not, or fashion him over
into something he can never be.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-22
A Husband Is But Human; Don't
Try to Make Him Over into q Saint

which for Some reason your mother
isn't. Arise in the strength you really
have. Assert yourself"
But the mummies were not more
i mute than she the rest Of that talk
filled afternoon. When the meeting
adjourned and most OF US had left
the mother remained. Her booming
voice followed me downstairs. She
was still saying: II don't know" and
her daughter was keeping back what
she did know.
That night | saw mother and a
daughter OF the same sort on the
stage. The mother was militant. The
daughter was crushed. BUT in the last
act the daughter rose | from her
crushed state.
II am woman and must speak for
myself now, mother" she said quietly
81 thank you for having spoken, being
my mouthpiece while | was child
but now | must speak and think for
myself. shall be glad to have your
advice. will listen. But | have
reached the age of decision"
n SpcCCH WHlIH tuC duuiCllNC dp-
plauded. And the audience seldom &c
far wrong. The instinct is nearly as
unerring as the water witches own,
Both mothers reminded me Of one
had seen drag her offspring through
the crowd and aboard the subway
train with one hand. When the child
whimpcred at the treatment she was
cuffed into silence, The child cast
shamed eyes at the plying crowd
hung her head and stifled her sobs
That woman had committed a crime
She had slain the child's' self-respcct
She bad made it poor confidence
She had made it poor thing in its
own eyes.
There should be a punishment fol
such maternal crimes. That swagger,
ing grenadier mother of the commit
tee meeting should have had thirt,
days at hard labor, on a bread ant
water diet, The woman of the sub
way crowd should have had ten min
utss Of hard pinching. Pinching fol
women should take the place of tn,
indignity offered men by the whipping
post.
The militant mother makes tn,
crushed child. The crushed child be
comes mere human echo or a sneak
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-22
By GARRETT p. sERVIss.

| am asked to say who was the
first man, and at the same time !
am furnished with a well written
statement by gentleman who eN-
plicitly affirms his belief that Adam,
the Adam of Genesis" was the first
man, and that he was made by God
from the dust of the ground and
then and there was endowed with
thysical and spiritual power. T.
He also affirms that "the most re-
liable genealogy OF the human race
is found in Luke's Gospel, 3:23:38,"
and adds: "Of course, if one believes
in the Darwinian theory of evolution,
that man came from the lower order
Of creation, it would be easy to ex-
tend his origin to millions of years,
as suggested, but far more difficult
and equally as humiliating, to
acknowledge ones ancestry on such
an insecure hypothesis"
The reader will perceive the pride
OF lineage protruding from what
have quoted. Just as the man born
to throne refuses to admit that aside
from adventitious advantages, he is
precisely the same kind OF a creature
IS his Subject" born to handle a
hoe or a bayonet, so he man who
believes that God specially made him
what he is from the beginning, de-
mics that he has any blood relations"
in the animal kingdom.
The tradition that God made man
in His own image is another express
sion OF the same kind OF pride, Most
well informed persons, no doubt, take
the asserted resemblance between
man and his Maker as referring to
moral and spiritual qualities, yet there
ore multitudes who read the scriptural
statement On this subject so literally
that they believe that il God could
be seen He would appear in the shape
Of superlatively perfect man.
The writer OF the statement fur
Their says: That record (the Bible
record, is good enough for one who
has implicit confidence in the verac-
ity Of the scriptures" Now, ! should
like to point out that the question is
not about veracity, but is about in
depreciation and knowledge. Nobody
supposes that either the writer of
Genesis or the writer OF Luke's Cos
pei was unveracious in stating what
he heard, or what he believed, but
all serious students Of nature and Of
history OF man do suppose that many
pertinent facts which are now well
known were entirely unknown when
those early scriptures were written.
All wise thcologians long ago
bowed to the necessity Of such a
surposition because they wanted
to keep the whole Bible from being
dragged down into the category Of
folk lore tales by the weight Of its
legendary books.
Science does not pretend to have
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-22
Fashions You May Expect

The youthful sash or tie belt is to
| be used on many suits, not only OH
sport suits, but on walking or dressy
models.
In colors. putty sand and beige
shade balance nicely with the more
brilliant red, blue, green and orange.
A goodly number of coats for
spring are quite military in effect and
surely such practical styles will be
highly acceptable for general use
Pastel shades of organdie are being
used for hats to wear with matching
| blouses.
The sphinx is once more appearing
in a new form. this time as trim
ming motif on spring hats.
Lingerie dresses show embroidery
in quaint stitches and in rather bril-
liant, crude com inations of color.
White embroidery, however, will re-
tain its usual standard.
With many blouses and dresses for
spring, the closing is effected in the
back; so we should not ,be surprised
to see the fronts of these garments
prettily trimmed with hand embroid-
| cry.
An unusual application of hand en-
broidery on dresses for spring is in
curiously formed armhole lines.
Slippers and low shoes for spring
are enhanced by bows of ribbon vel
vet instead of BY the usual buckle or
| nament.
Lovely new lingerie dresses have
organdie collars and cuffs, PRETTY
trimmed with hand embroidery in
white or colors.
Eyelet embroidery is present fea-
ture on blouses and dresses of linen
and cotton, and drawn work is also
used most effectively.
The lengthening of dres skirts
quite naturally is having tendency
to shorten shoetops, and new spring
shoes are, therefore, shorter above
the ankle.
Skirt widths for spring average
two and one-half yards at the hem
Many skirts are high-waisted, Others
have fancy belt arrangements.
Two-in-one pockets are spring
style feature of interest. These are
two pockets in one panel, the patch
pocket beng slit at the bottom to
hold small coins for change.
The size of sailor, cape and draped
collars on sport costumes seems to
be increasing with each new model
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-22
Mainly About Women

Baltimore society women plan to
establish cemetery for their pet
dogs.
The Swiss National Council oil
Women embraces eighty-six societies
having an aggregate membership OF
$4,000 women.
Miss S. Margaret Stackpole, Bea-
con street society girl and a member
of the exclusive Vincent club, has be-
come Boston's first woman stock
broker.
The Congressional Union for Wom-
an Suffrage is planning to hold an.
other big suffrage parade in Washing
ton on the day of President Wilson'S
Inauguration.
Women in Switzerland are agitat-
ing for the communal vote. A meas
ure to grant them the desired privi-
lege has been introduced in the can.
tonal parliament of Berne.
The Massachusetts, Woman Suf.
frage association has started cam
paign to obtain for women the right
to vote on the articles of the new
state constitution, to be submitted by
the constitutional convention next
June.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-22
By DOROTHY DIX.

Generally speaking, woman is
guided by one or two considerations
in selecting a husband.
She either thinks he is little tin
god, before whom she can spend the
balance of her life on her knees burn
ing incense, or else she looks for
ward to turning matrimony into a
reformatory, in which she will expert
ence the supreme joy of making over
her husband according to her own
taste.
Neither of these expectations is
often realized Hence the frequency
OF the domestic disillusion. .... b
Women's Imagination has caused
half Of the trouble of the world, and
nowhere does it get in its deadly work
as completely and fatally as when
it induces lovesick girls to glorify
ordinary, commonplace men into dem
igods and marry them on that plat
form.
This is what leads women to expect
too much OF men. and most OF the
disappointments of married life result
from it.
The wife has clothed the husband
in the garments that her fancy has
woven and crowned him with a halo
She has figured him out as grand
noble being, who will move Though
existence in sort of spiritual haze
and when she finds out that he is an
everyday man in tweed clothes and
derby hat. who is hnnicky about
what he cats and can swear blue
streak when his collar button rolls
under the bureau, she means out that
she is the most unhappy of her sex
that her heart is broken and her
ideals shattered because she has dis.
covered that her idol has feet of clay
All of which is tommyrot, for the
poor man not only had feet of clay
but was constructed of dirt all the
time.
Furthermore, he never pretended to
be anything else. His name was al
ways Mud, and it was the woman
herself who rechristened him out Of
the depths Of her romantic vocabu'
larry.
A long step will be taken toward
promoting domestic felicity when wo'
men stop marrying men under the
impression that they are plaster
saints, or Booth Harrington heroes
and pick out husband because, while
he may average up pretty small il
collection OF tin gods, he is the mar
who will make his wife a good liv'
ing, and be willing to do his TURF
Of night when the baby has tn,
collie.
When a woman does marry man
though. she is in honor bound to &C
cept him as he is. The meanest ant
the sncakicst thing woman evei
does is to wed man with the deter
mination OF reforming him.
This is taking an unfair advantage
OF the poor, ignorant, unfortunate fel
low that can only be compared t
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-22
By ADA PATTERSON.

An odd and interesting and thought
stimulating pair they are. 1t is curl
Gus that ! saw them on the stage and
in real life within twenty-four hours.
Let US talk of the real life pair first.
Life is so deeply, vastly, humanity abb
sorbing No stage play ever equaled
/, it in holding power.
] met them at committee meet
ing. Both had been drafted to work
for big benefit to be given for war
victims. The need was great. The
answer was prompt The women and
girls who had organized for the work
"came to order" and stated the OBJ
jcct Of the meeting and offered sug-
gestions. All was going merrily for
ward when they entered.
A -shouldered, muscular,
strong-jawed woman in brown led
the way. Sneaking in her wake was
a slender girl in black and white
checked suit, and one Of the soft
sheer blouses that look like bleached
cobwebs and would make the uglicst,
most faded face in the world fresher
and fairer. She needed not such uni
vcrsal beautihed. Although her lit
tic, regular featured face was pale for
a girls and the sparkle Of youth was
somehow missing from it, neverthe-
less il was young All the fragrance
OF the morning OF life, save its JOY,
was upon her. But the woman was
speaking,
II don't knew anything about this
at all. / was asked to sell pro-
grams. | am to get fifty girls 10
help me-" The woman sat down with
thump. fancy she does every
thing with tillinp.
"Can anyone present give us some
salient facts about the work. We
would like to know how many young
men went to the front, what work
they have done, how many were killed
in the discharge OF duty, My dcar
Miss Blank, can you tell usP"
Into the girls pale cheeks drifted
becoming tide OF rose. Her. big gray
eyes widened, grew brilliant, as eyes
do when their owner is interested il,
something quite outside and beyond
herself.
The little figure rose as school
girl rises in class.
Il will try, Madame President
There are 800 OF these young men
Most Of them are from the American
colleges. They were very active Al
Verdun, where they carried
"Millicent, hush There are report
ers present. ! don't want you to b,
quoted about something that 20,
know nothing about" The woman il
brown thrust forward her jaw.
The girl sank into her chair. Sh'
hung her head. The tide of rose be
came a mounting flood of crimson
then ebbed quickly, leaving her fac
like that of one dead Her eyes, too
looked dead. The color fed even iron
her lips, which she bit with her even
white front teeth.
The chairman OF the Commute
rose, futtered, said thank you, m,
dear" and asked: rs there any on
else who can give the information W
dcsire?"
looked at the forid, strong-jawed
square-shouldered mother and longe,
ID shake her--hand, until the SELF
satisfied look was gone, the master
full air had fed, the dominant eye
begged for mercy. Then looked a
the girl, pitiably slim in her checke'
suit, and seeming to be shrinking far
Their and farther back into her chat
as though she wished it were III
wall and she might vanish through il
wished that nigh pat the narrow
slender shoulders. stroke the bowe
head, might whisper: "You are
lovely girl. clever, talented, well bred
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-22
Right to Marry
By ANN Isle.
RiehsMan, Poor Woman,
and Vice Versa.

"A poor woman has no more right
to marry than a poor man" writes
an interested CORRESPONDENT who min
giles old world philosonhv with the
new world ideas.
He goes on to saw: 81 do not see
any plausible reason WHY husband and
wife should not be attending some
kind of work both at the same time
1t seems to me quite contradictory
to house economy 70 emnlov a talent
ed young girl to do the housework
which can be done equally well II
not better. by a SIS maid.
Il believe it is lust as much mans
business to look into the financial
standing of his mate as il is the duty
of a woman to see that she gels
bread as we'll as love. We can Bet
1.-THE most valuable we have that in
the future the time-honored custom
of dowry will be revived as a neces-
sary consequence Of our economic
| life and to the advantage of mankind
A poor woman has no more RIGHT
to marry than a Door man"
My excited correspondent has let
his idea as well as his English run
away with him.
| Before | reply to him | wish TO
write myself down an earnest feminist
la believer in my own sex and its
ability. But before ! believe in FEM
lnism | believe in nature! And | be-,
lieve in the social law as we'll as a.
necessary aid and adjunct to both.
There is no reason why both hus.
band and wife should not be working.
Giyen woman who has marketable
ability and who has successfully taken
It to the market place, 1t is most un-
TAR that she be asked to give up her
interesting task simply in order to
take charge OF home. vi course,
wiIe should superintend her home,
put II sne can earn Soo week draw
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Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-22
Hacking Night Cough Relieved.

Dr. Bells Pine-Tar- Honey taken a little
at time will stop your cough soothes irri-
tation. only csc, All druggists.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-09
COMING THE FARMERS WAY

One Of the most important enterprises of our gov
is the establishment kelp-potash pro-
ducng plant the Pacific coast near Santa Barbara
which plant will be in operation by April 1.
As the government nitrate plant may make us indie
pendent of Chile, the production of
potash from kelp may make us independent of the
German potash syndicate Later. these
may make the American asriculturaist independent of
the American commercial fertilizer manufactures.
For some time, private concerns have been produc-
ing potash from Pacific kelp, a large profit.
Whether there's sufficient profit in the business in
times is still question. there's question
about the wisdom Uncle Sam in getting busy in the
matter He has got of kelp and he is
quite likely to discover that he produce potash
from kelp cheaper than the Germans mine and
transport it, in peace times.
And here's sunshine for the American agricul-
turaIst:
The part of binding Irvine is sisal
of Yucatan. X has been discovered that phormium
tenax the New of lawns and flower gar
dens. will flourish the southwestern part of the
twine rope hawsers known the plants renew
themselves without replanting. Experiments with this
flax being made a large scale particularly in
Imperial valley, which has already the world in
the matter cotton.
Suppose farmers get cheap American fertilizer
and binding Irvine. Why, it's likely be Christmas
every day in the week for the farmer!