Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-15

to forgive the errlng girl.
Mrs. Owen Kildare, New Roch-
ellie, widely known New York club
woman, is OF the opinion that:
Mrs. Spiker, herself mother has
shown the divinity strong within,
her. Her service 70 humanity, hei>
example, the precedent set by her, is
magnificent.
The brother, Guy Spiker, is the
hero of the drama. He. is serving
the cause of humanity as truly as
did any soldier in France. This is
the one great story the war so far
has yielded up
According to Mrs. Clarence Burns,
3 West Ninety-Second street, presi-
dent of Little Mothers club and
supervisor OF day nurseries:
There is no question of the
baby's right to name and protec-
ton. 1t is the innocent victim.
approve anything for the ehild's
good"
Rev. Ralph J, Walker, rector of
St. Simeons Protestant Episcopal
church, believes that:
Mrs. Spiker's conduct shows a
spirit which deserves credit from
the standpoint of Christian doctrine.
But her behavior is not to be en-
couragcd from the point of view of
public policy.
She is attempting a difficult ex-
pertinent. l think she has carried
her Christian charity little too
far"
The Rev. Benjamin F. Saxon,
pastor of the Sixty-first Street
Methodist Episcopal Shurch. con-
siders;
at was Mrs. SpiEer's duty to
persuade her husband to, adopt his
child by the other woman.
Il am inclined to praise her as a
large-hearted and very charitable
woman. About arranging a mar
riage for her, and with her brother
lr-law, | am not so certain, though
[ believe everything should be done
to make it easy for her to live a
self-respecting and wholesome life"
Gabby thinks child born out of
wedlock may be an expression of the
highest form of love. If that love is
something which passe. understand
ing and rises above the comments
OF the calculating masses, the
woman may have attained a nobility
OF character which few can compre-
hend: If Miss Knowles were such,
we could have considered her a SUI
perwoman. But had she been, she
would have not passed herself on to
another man who happened to be
magnanimous (0 enough to give
her a name and a home. The
woman who sins in the eyes of the
world, but whose love is holy and
pure in her own heart, is one of
whom the poets sing. But she who
marries to save her reputation,
loses her character by so-doing.
But should we Judge? Gabby thinks
not and wishes the much advertised
Spiker quartette all the kindness this
world-which is sometimes marve-
lously good, and sometimes crush
ingly cruell can give.
A WOMAN living close to
u Dundee, decided to rent a
- room. She advertised on
Sunday and proceeded to forget the
matter. Monday afternoon she went
to the grocer. and, in her absence,
a prospective roomer called. THE
landlady will be here in few mo-
ments," said the pleasant, husband.
Come in and sit down." The hus-
band~proved to be quite entertain
ing. He was an artist and the wo-
man herself had bent that way.
While they were in the midst of an
animated conversation, the woman
of the house returned. When she
entered the room and saw the at
tractive woman seated and engaged
in conversation with her husband,
there was blood in her eye. $50
you're the hussy who has been rum
ming after my husband" she
stormed. "pe read your letters and
now I've caught you,' she cried,
toward the amazed visitor
who fed out the door. Down the
street ran the young room hunter
as fast as she could 60, all the time
hearing the rawlings of an angry
woman back OF her. No more hunt
ing rooms for this particular woman
who told Gabby her tale. She is
still living at her former home, de.-
pite its high cost
ITO STOOP or not td stoop, that
is the question. Whether it i.
more noble to follow the man
dates of fashion, or to take arms
against a world of modiste., and
stand up straight Women have been
offered so many inducements 10
slouch during the past few years,
that Gabby wonders when she sees
woman with we'll developed chest
and good pair of shoulders.
Some women don't know when
they are standing correctly. And
some don't know that standing erect
is not a matter of the shoulders,
nor even of the trunk, but Of the
whole body, from feet up. An erect
posture does not mean that a per-
son standing with his back to a
wall shall touch it all the way up
and down. Remember the body has
curves. 10 acquire an erect car
riage il is not necessary to assume
military stiffness or look as if
you had swallowed a sword. A per-
fectly straight back would be a de-
formity.
A good way to know your own
natural posture when erect is to
stand up, and, without raising your
heels from the floor, make the ef-
fort OF rising to look over some
obstacle, allowing the shoulders to
droop naturally, and keeping the
chin at an easy level. When you
have risen to your full height hold
the position and notice it. You have