Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 29, 1915, Page 11

..[E_BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, APRIL 29 1915 THE FASHIONS FOR CHILDREN are causing the mother as much thought as they do for her debutante daughter these days. Her mind is now centered on beach frocks. The wee lad no longer wears the baggy knickerbockers of other seasons. He wears smartly cut little trousers and even little tailor cut coats. Young girls’ frocks, too, have the same smartness in out and original design. ! The Evil Done by Gossip Have You Ever Tried Passing an Entire Week Without Uttering an Unpleasant Comment? el Rl ot { You Will Find it Not an Easy Matter. : : : By ELLA WHEELER WILOOX. (Copyright, 1915, The Star Company.) Time looked me in the eyes while passing by The Milestones of the year. That piercing gaze Was both an accusation and reproach. No s#peech was needed. In a sorrowing look More meaning lies than in complaining words, And silence hurts as keenly as reproof. Oh, opulent, kind giver of rich hours, How have I used thy benefits! As babes Unstring a necklace laughing at the sound . Of priceless jewels dropping one by one, So I have laughed while preclous moments rolled Into the hidden corners of the past. And I have let large opportunities For bigh endeavor move unheeded by, While little joys and cares absorbed my strength. And yet, dear Time, set to my credit this: Not one white hour have I made black with hate, Nor wished one living creature aught but good. Be patient with me. Though the sun slants west, The day has not yet finished, and I feel Necessity for action and resolve Bear in upon my consciousness. 1 know The earth's eternal need of earnest souls, And the great hunger of the world for Love. I know the goal to high achievement lies Through the dull pathway of self-conquest first: And on the stairs of little duties done We climb to joys that stand thy test. O Time, Be patient with me, and another day, Perchance, in passing by, thine eyes may smile. 1t anyone should call you a gossip or infer that you were addicted to sossip you would be indignant. It is a peculiar phase of human nature that not one in- dividual ever has been found who would confess to a tendency in this direction. People are to be encountered who realize thelr sins and fallings in many directions, but the man or woman never yet has The “Know-It-All" By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. ‘mlnd of the been seen who sald: “Yes, I have the falllg of gossiping and of relating un- pleasant things about my neighbors.” Forhaps It is because the habit is so universal that no one finds himself dif- ferefit from his fellows In that respect. Have you ever tried passing an entire week without giving ttterance to ar un- pleasant criticism of anyone? Of course you will exclaim as you read these lines that you have passed many such weeks, tbut unless you were dwelling on a desert island, or in solitary conflmement in a prison with your footl paksed through The only people who are deluded into the beliet that they know it all are those who know very little, The only people who learn nothing as they proceed on- ward’' through life are those who are sure that they have nothing to learn. If Michael Angelo were to come back to earth, he would be willing to learn a bit about color from a poster artist and a bit about sculpture from a modeller in the sand at the seashore and a bit about {line from a newspaper cartoonist. But if all three of thesa knew little enough they would know aiso,too little to learn gratings, it is questionabig whether you cver“allowed seven days to slip by you unmarred by some phase of disagreeable cemment on others. 1f you set out in an undertaking of this kind you will observe that'it is not an easy thing to do, no matter how amiable you may be, how broad in your judg- ments and how kind in your Instincts. After you have passed the second mile- stone in this seven-day journey and lived forty-elght hours without a criticism you will be so set up in your own opinion that on the third day you will criticize somebody for criticlzing somebody. This will be your downfall, and after that you will_probably find something unpleasant in someone you encounter each of the remaining days of the seven, and men- tien 1t Human nature is, indeed, prone to faults and blemishes which are easily discerned and impossible to approve. & is much easier to find f(sult than to praise. The unpleasant qualities in human beings strike us in the face, while the pleasant ones we need to search for. In the new year just beginning there can be nmo more {mportant and no more difffcult undertaking than this attempt to avoid spreading the unpleasant things of life by talking about them, and by increasing the pleasure of life and the &ood qualities of the people you know by discussing them. It would be an in- teresting experiment. Just before retir- ing each night take a mental survey of your conversation since you arose in the morning; mark in your diary with & red G each day which has passed with no disagreeable or unkind comment from your lips; mark with a black B each day auything from Ml The courage to say, “I have mever heard of that" or “I don't understand that” never brought down scorn upon your head if it was addressed to intelligent people. Chiidren learn by asking questions. Education is more than drawing out what you have it in you to become. It is giving you knowledge and information on which to react. And education does not stop with school or book training. Every day of life ought to educate you and leave you wiser than yesterday found you. Know-it-all people, who sit back with] an air of profound wisdom and smMe superiorly upon the questionings and questings of other folks are sooner or “I don’t know" or Now that summer vacation plans are in the air the question of the proper outing clothes for children occuples the mother who wishes to see her small son and daughter suited and | trocked for out-of-doors. | Children’s seashore frocks are allke in two essentials—they must be simple enough in design and sufficlently dur- able in materlal to withstand frequent tubbings To satisfy the small boy's partiality for his winter sweater this sult of white ropp has been designed for him on sweater lines. with the blouse buttoning down the shoulders. The collar and cuffs are trimmed with bands of blue and white striped linen to suggest the con- trasting borders used in knotted wors steds. The trousers, like those of all smnll boys' today, are made on etraight and tallored lines. Even the wee lad who is still at the romper age no longer wears the baggy knickerbockers of other seasond. He also boasts of a little coat of darker linen that achioves a childish air by a front lacing of braid. Decidedly more grown-up s this young girl’s coat dress that would serve equally well for travelink. The skirt of large checked grevn and white glngham I | pleated, of eourse, like her older slster's The Eton coat Is of plain green linen, trimmed wtih dainty batiste collar and A white pique vestee falling from the shoulders takes the © of her guimpe of other days. ouffs. straight pl e ———————————————— later revealed as the bluffs they are in truth, v Knowing it all is one of the many forms of ignorant self-satisfaction that is so maddening to the nervous, and so pathetic to the sane. It shuts the door of wisdom fairly in the face of Its sad and foolish pdssessor. It is made of two parts or smug conceit that is satisfied with its own shortcomings, one part fool- ish pride that can not bring itself to eon- fess to any lack of knowledge and one part fear or ridicule. Now truly wise and well educated peo- ple will only respect your desire to know® They know that when you, con- fess “I don't know” you fairly request “Inform me.” They know that in acknowledging your lack of information on a subject you are on the road to col- lecting knowledge about it. They won't patronize you—they will tell you what they can and feel that the thing about which you ask enlightenment is simply out of your line and that you have prob- ably the habit of collecting useful infor- mation and so may be well versed in other departments of life. Of all the absurd weaknesses of human whereln you have transgressed by such utterances, Be frank and honest with yourself; no one should see the book save the invisi- ble helpers who are near you, and your- self, and you will gain nothing by self- deception; that 1s the worst possible thing td 4o in any effort at self-development— this yielding to self-deception. When you realize that you have failed, confess it to yourself and start anew the next day. Criticise yourself, but belleve in your power to reform and recreate your- self. - Do you realize that if each individual devoted all his power of criticiem and fault, finding to himself, and made con- tinual efforts to be that which he desires others to be, how soon the world would be evangelized? That i the task given to each of us to do. It is good work for you to attempt this new*year. Do You Know That A deep-water diving suit has been tested n Long L d Sound, Connectiout, to a depth of 212 feet, which is probably a record for deep-sea diving A lens made in France for a new 940,000 andle-power lighthouse in Hawali is ex- pected to project ilght forty miles. Ants can stand extremes of heat or cold. Forty-eight hours’ exposnre 10 frost will not kill them, and one sort has been observed to build its nest in chinks in & blacksmith's forge. The Jordon s the world's most crooked river, wandering 213 miles to cover sixty The albatross is the Mirds largest of sea The following Omaha and Council Bluffs dealers carry complete lines of Victor Victrolas, and all the late Victor Reeords as fast as issued. You are cordially invited to inspect the stocks at any of these estab- lishments. Schmoller & Mueller PIANO COMPANY 1311-1313 Farnam St. Omaha, Neb. Hear the Newest Records in Our Newly Remodeled Sound-Proof Demonstrating Rooms on the Main Floor. 'Nebraska s 334 BROADWAY ' Corner 15th and Council Bluffs 407 West Broadway, nature, none seems to me more pathetic- ally Inexcusable than pretending to know what you don't or dreaming that you just naturally are wise enough to know about everything. Surely, it you oould not swim you would not merrily plunge into a mountain lake without as- certaining whether it sheered from the shore at a depth of five feet—or a hun- dred. Why plunge. with equal’ boldnes: In-Shoots. The widow of the henpecked man can look as sad as any. Do not expect to live forever on the Yrulll' of one vietory. Men who follow hign calling often dis- play subway fostincts, One way to become a satisfactory guest is to postpone the visit. Platonic love and the soul kiss never travel In the same company. Gosesips and busybodies seldom stick to clean subjects of conversation Victrolas A. HOSPE CO., 1513-15 Douglas Street, Omaha, and b Brandeis Stores uninformed stupidity into the waters of life? Why take It for granted that wis- dom has come to you ready made? Why not acknowledge the superiority of each specialist you meet In his own depart- ment? Why not try to learn by humility? Here Is an old rhyme T think it would ba well for all of us to learn: Who knows and knows he knows wise. Cleve thou to him And never forsake him. Whe . knows and not that he knows—he sleeps Go thou to him and wake him. Who knoweth not and knows he knoweth not Is a child. \ Go thou to him and teach him. Who knoweth not and knows not that he Knoweth not is & fool— No light shall ever reach him. Most of us are children to knowledge. ‘We ought to ask questions. We ought to #eok enlightenment In our Ignorance. The wise will give it to us gladly—and wel- come us to thelr company in respect for our longing to know and see and under- stand. Don't be silly enough to think that you “know it all"—for thus Indeed you will shut yourself off forever from light. A straight walk fashioned with a border prim Where lavender and stately hollyhocks Grow with some ragged robbins blue and trim, Bweet Willlam and a bed of pink-tipped phlox. Across the door sill straggling grasses stray And on the door the knocker hangs forlorn And many feet that one time found their way Over the steps have left them faintly worn. Seen through the diamond window panes, inside The candle sconces droop, the horsehair chairs Ranged close against the wall, display a wide Stretch of rag carpet to the dusty stairs. The old clock silenced now for many a week, The quaint stitched sampler hanging unaware, Are mute reminders of the past, and speak Of loving hands that once were busy there. Pancakes and Harmony The Booickéeper and the Stenographer Discuss the Art of Cooking. : : : By DOROTHY DIX. “Did you rend in the paper about that New Jersey divorce suit in which a young wife names a German pancake as the co-respondent? inquired the Book- keeper. Al Instoad of being lght and. flakey, a poem of flour and egge, and whatever else pancakes are made of, it is a cold, sticky, flabby concoction, more suitable for sol- ing shoes than for human consumption. “The Inevitable result is utter djsillu- #lon on the part of the husband. He sees the the grave yawning for him If he eats pan- ance polley or I thought that black was becoming to me. “How little you understand the masdculine stomach,” retorted the Book- keeper. “That's why you women lose out so often In matrimony. Give a man what he lkes to feed on and he'll eat out of vour hand. Otherwise he will fly the coop. A man may desert his own fireside, but never his own dining table |cakes that I ever wite's pancakes, and the years stretch- saw, Qerman, al- ing before him full of desdlation and lled or nautral, ‘without comfort if he eschews pancakes, were calculated to for of what value, I ask you, i8 a pan- turn love's young cakeless oxistence? So he deserts wife dream, or any and returns home to mother and her in- other kind of & comparable pancakes. dream, into a “But this man has & heart, as well as nightmare,' replied & stomach. He was generous and for- ho Stenagrapher. bearing. He offered to go back to his ‘It T fed my hus- wife if she would take A thres months’ band on pan- course in cooking. Bhe did. He returned cakes 1t would be to her, but her pancakes were stiil below because he had a par, and he's gone oack to mother and fuley MNttle insyr- her cooking for good." "I guess that when you separats a man from his food you've got a genuine case of allenation of the affections,” re- marked the Stenographer, cynically, ‘The grounds in the coffee pot have furnished the grounds for divorces be- fore now,” replied tho Nookkeeper, “As long as you keep a man well ted comfortable, he will purr under your |hand. That's why it's such & mystery if 1t groans under the pafticular dishes he llkes beat.' than canned eats.” Hugh," miffed the Stenographer, | ™ “feed the brute!™ “You can't picture a bllasful endinig to “Precisely,” agreed the Bookkeeper. |8 romance as saying, ‘and they lived “Now in this pathetic case of a home wrecked by a woman's hand we have a man with an insatiable yearning for German pancakes. Guileless and con- fiding, belleving in the innocence and inexperience of his heart, that the mak- ing of German pancakes ls second nature to & woman, he marries a yourg crea- ture with every outward attraction, but, alas, one without a pancake soul. “He sits down hopefully and trustfully to thelir first meal and takes one mouth- ples like mother made.” “And you don't see many young men who can make the dough like father ma ful of the alleged pancakes. Horrors! |it,” retorted the Stenographer. 3 It’s easy to learn the new steps with the music of the Victrola. The Fox Trot, Rouli Rouli, and all the other new dances =—and the Victrola plays as long as any one wants to nce. There are Victors and Victrolas in great variety of styles from $10 to $2 at all Victor dealers. Victor Talking Machine Co. Camden,'N. J. Soldby |} Council Bluffs, la. Mr. and Mrs. V-rdl:on Castle the Fox Trot lking Machine Department in the Pompeian Room .Harney, Omaha. Liege is the chiel cattle market of iel- | Geo. 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