Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 1, 1915, Page 17

(Copyright, 1015, Up to the Gates of gleaming Pearl, The Answer By ELLA WHEELER WILOOX. Star Company.) There came the spirit of a girl. And to the white-robed “Dear Angel, am I truly dead? Just yonder, lying on my bed, I heard them say it; and they wept. And after that, methinks I slept. Then, when I woke, 1 saw your face, And suddenly was in this place. It seems a pleasant place to be, Yet earth was fair énough to me. ‘What e tuere here to do, or see? Will T see God, dear Angel, say? And is He very far away?” The Angel said, ‘What men call dead. Is full of terror; but it Only a change of tasks, You have been brought Guard she said: “You are in truth That word to youth meAns and scenes. to us, because Of certain ancient karmic laws Set into motion, aeons By us you will be guided on From plane to plane, and sphere to sphere, Until your tasks are finished here. Then back on earth, the home of man, To work again another span.” “But, Angel, when will , After the final path is After you no more long, or crave, To see, or hear, or own, or have Aught beside—HIM. Then shall His face Reveal itself to you in space. And you shall find yourself made one With that Great Sun, behind thé sun. Child, go thy way inside the gate, Where many eager loved ones wait. Death is but larger life By IRENE WESTON. “The girl who sings to herself at her avork is the best worker,” declares a physician In & newspaper. has been going into the question of the effects of pinging on man and woman, and says that if you want to be “happy, wealthy and wise,” you should have at léast one #ong and sing It at least twice a day. It Is one of the most potent tonics. His lotters arose out of the stories we have been reading of spldiers. A British officer wrote him that “Tipperary” warmed his very heart. When he heard the fellows singing that he felt every- thing was going right. He didn't care what it was they sang so long as ‘they sang something. He was not at all par- ticular as to “execution.’ One of the most exhilarating concerts, he sald, he had ever hea#d was that he came across one day When he discovered & troop of Indian soldiers—who didn't understand English—singing * ‘“Teeparoo- 700,”" Onme of them with an ear for music had “picked” up the words, as he imag- ined, and passed them on. He had not got thém very accurately, and his puplls had got them still worse, but it was “a row.” And It evidently did them an enormous amount of good. The French troops sing “Tipperary” as = compliment to Britain, and British sol- diers return the compliment with the “‘Marseillaise.” It is, of course, a well known fact that a regiment marching ‘with a band or singing covers the ground faster than If it had no such accompani- ment. It goes farther with lecs fatigue, “People might do well,” says the phy- siclan, “to study the question of singing and music as tonde." It is cheap—"‘within the means of all.” Joseph Hatton, the novelist, once told me of & man who was the head of a big commercial concern, and who was gen- erally known as “Old Up Skies.”” He was not particularly old. The term was ap- plied *o him as we speak of “'Old Jones” or “Old Smith—men we admire because they know a good deal more about things than many. “OM Up Skies" was always bright and cheerful. Nothing cloudy about him. One of his acquaintances declared that 1t you met “Old Up Skies” in the morn- ing before setting out, it would probably Jead to your going out without your um- brella whatever the weather threatened. He filled you with the idea that there was beaps of sunshine about. Yet he had occasionally very bad luck. When the news spread around amongst his friends that things had gone wrong with him, people who didn't know him well received a shock when they crossed over the street, suitably arrayed in their most dismal faces, and were greeted by him with a hearty, “Good day, ol chap. How are you? You're looking dismal. What's the matter?” The secret of his perpetual cheerful- ness was, he told Hatton, his singing & song every morning as he dressed. ‘It twas & cheerful song to a cheerful tunme, of 1” , “Try it, my boy,” he said, “try it. Only take care to get the right song. Den't ming “The Last Rose of Summer” or “Ob, [Where Are the Once Happy Days that | Have Fled,' or stuff like that kind. If wou live in an apurtment house and are afrald of the fellow in the next room, sing It sotto voice. Even a hum s worth a lot.” Some time ugo an Itallan physiclan gaade experiments on & number of men and women to find out what effect musio bad. He found that cheerful, piooes sent Fapkdly tn Singing and Winning gone, 1 see God?” trod; begun.” had just the opposite effect. There was only one man whom . the music had no effest upon at all. Nothing would dis- turb the sluggish flow of his blood. A Jig or a wafl did not add 4 single beat or take one off. He informed the doctor that all the music was the same to him. He couldn't tell one tune from another. He applauded at the end “because it was over.” It music without words will send the blood coursing faster or slower through one’s veins, music with good words will do the trick a thousand times better. But take “Old Up Skies' " advice and be cares ful as to getting both right. P Toole, the actor, knew & man who was fearfully timid at weeing strangers. In some remarkable manner he became a commercial traveller, of all things in the world, and tapping at an office door he did so with terror in his heart. He composed a little song of two verses for his own private use. What that song was he would never reveal. He described it as “the kind of stuff to make one chirp; 1 suspect it was something about “facing the foe,” ‘‘charging” and “onward we go,” and that kind of thing. However, he told Toole that, humming that song of his, he found he eould charge at a possible new customer with- out feeling his legs tremble. A good idea! There is the gld proverb that “What's well begun is haif done,” and it has a larger amount of truth in it than many ful #pirit is the day in which we are going to do great things. But the morning is just the time when most people are most dangerous meal of the day. There is more grumbling at the breakfast table than at eny other. Ask the proprietress of a boarding house as to which meal it is that her boarders are most sore- headed at. “We are most inclined to find fault with our people at breakfast.” a woman other day. “It s the time when people appear to be the most querulous and ir- ritable. But they don't exactly quarrel They just grumble. They haven't the energy for more than that. There is not the slightest doubt that most people be- &in the day in the very worst manner possible. Wouldn't it be worth while to discover some way to alter such condi- tion of affairs?" It would. Prof. Laissaille, the gulshed French scientist, declared that it was most important to cultivate, immedi- ately on rising, the mood which would be most useful during the day—and certainly irritability is by no means the most serv- iceable. Start on the right note. Start on the wrong one and things mostly grow worse and worse. If you want to start on the right note in | the morning, it is. necessary you should end on the right note the night before. Nothing, according to the physician who prescribes singing as a way to mental | and bodfly bealth and success, is more im- portant than the mood in which one goes off to sleep. “People who wake up in the morning | unrested and unrefreshed don't* know what is the matter,” he declares. “They don’t remember any dream they have had. They tell themselves they have been sound asleep—“slept Ifke a top”—all night. Yet here they are fagked out. The simple | explanation is their minds have been | running on all through those hours in the you are very anxious, you may sleep and find after some hours that you have rested very little. That is because the |mind has not dlsmissed its cares. It has been oo ed. worried, perplexed. You dream without knowing it. Drop asleep feeling happy and confident, and the mind will still continue on those lines and al- low you to wake up happy and confident,” proverbs. The day we begin in a cheer- | depressed and goured. Breakfast is the | writer on household matters wrote the | distin- | mood in which they dropped asleep. If | THE drawn into a soft bow on top. By GARRETT P, SERVISS. “Please explain the methods of de- termining the age of the earth. From what point in the evolution of the earth, from the vaporous to the solid-encrusted mass, ls this age calovlated 7—J. 3 V., Bcotfa, N. Y. There are two | different’ ways of | calovlating the age of the earth, the seological and the {a stron o mical | Thelr resuits do | ot agree, whence the vast cloud of iuncertainty . that |covers the whole subject. Moreover, the results vary enormously, in each way of calculating, according to the different assumptions adopted as bases for computation. The astronomical results are nearer in accord with one an- other than the geological ones, but this arises from the fact that the astronomi- cal method is simpler and based upon a smaller number of assumptions, | The astronomical calculations begins | with_the assumption that the earth can {not be older than the sun, since, whate {ever precise theory of the origin of the solar system is adopted, the sun h | be regarded as the generator of the s |tem. Treating the sun as a heated body |(at present in a compressed graseous state), which s gradslly cooling off and condensing through radiation, it is pos- sible, on physical principles, to trace ita history backward as well as forward, | This has been done by Helmholts, New- | comb and others, with the result of show- to ing that yrobably not more than 20,000,006 | or 25,000,000 years ago the sun was a vast | mass of rare nebulous matter, expanded {over the entire space now Included within | {the orbit of the most distant of its plan- {ets—Neptune. It that s so, and if the |earth was formed out of & portion of the |same nebulous matter that eventually | condensed into tife sun, then the earth's {total age cannot be greater than 2,000,008 | years. The same method of calculation shows that within from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 years |to come the sun will have grown so dense | |that it can no longer radiate heat as it |has been doing bitherto, and when the { sun s extinguished the earth will be un- | inhabitable. ! 80 much for the astronomical aspect of the problex The geological aspect is quite differont The : {a moment becontent with the exceed {ingly lmited number of million years | which the astronomer allots to him ae | representing the utmost possible duration lof the earth He demands at least four times 25,000,000 ten times 25,000,000 years, as a comfortable and suitable chromological stage for the Plaited bands of black satin insert in the sleeves and in the short, full skirt give the demiure 1856 air to Worth’s blue serge robe tailleur, the characteristic white points flaring over the satin stock. toque is of black faille, the white veil being years, and some geologists demand even | SATURDAY, 0‘ Paris at the Spring Openings :: Paris. organdle The vell the collar. development of the earth. And that does not cover the entire period of the earth's existerce, either. It only begins where geology begins, that is to ssy, with the first recognis- able rocky crust of the globe. Geology, properly speaking, knows nothing of the earth before it began automatically to record its history In its solidifying rocks. All the flery ages which preceded that time belong to astronomy, not to geology. And yet astronomy, adding its quota of earth history to that of geology, makes the sum total a quarter, or a tenth part, of the amount that geology demands for its part alone. And then, paleontological evolution, or the doctrine of the gradual development of living species out of remote ancestral forms, backs up the demands of geology for time, and yet more time, umtll, in some instances, the requisitions call for not less than a thousand million years Through all that {llimitable expanse of ages, they say, the earth must have been “‘growing up in might;" it eould wot have got along so far with less. Occasionally there is a concession thade, lor a screw relaxed, insthe caloulation on one side or the other. Thus the as- tronomers have sometimes been willing to stretch their calculated lmit out to fitty million, or even & hundred million, years, and, on the other hgnd, the geolo~ gists have, on oocasion, cut down thelr estimates Wwithin the hundred million {limit. Thus J. J. Joly, basing his calcu- atlon om the quantity of salt contained in ‘the ocean, and the time that would be required for it to get there, leached out of the rocks, has estimated the, geolo- &ical age of the earth at ,000,00 years, and Prof. G. ¥. Becker, using & similar caloulation, has reduced the age to M- There was a great brightening up of countenances among the calculators of the earth’s age a few years ago when the amazing propertics of radium were discovered. The dlsputing astronomers and geaologists approached each other smiling, with outstretched congratulations were exchanged, because the former thought that & way had now been found to give the latter all the time and the geologists were rejolced because all the while they had been keeping half ‘of their claims up their sleeves. The ll‘ll reconcillator was thought to be the ,mnt radium, unsuspectedly existing {the sun from the beginning of time and | unostentatiously but most effeotively | supplying radiant energy from no visible or calculable source, thus secretly filling the solar pockets and enabling the profii- gute god of day to stretch the perfod of | his squanderfugs over hundreds of mil- Ilions of years, during which he would |otherwise have lain chained in the dun- | | geon of absolute physical Fankruptey. | But the madium hypothesis .of solar radiation has been sleeping of late. It may have & good basis, but before it can be accepted a larger proportion of fact to theory will have to be offered MAY The military suits are seen everywhere in Paquin designed this model expressly for Harper's Basar. Of blue check cloth, the four pockets are bound in black brald. A siiver tassel welghts the belt of black satin and a smaller one hangs lrom either side of hands, and | |they could possibly think of asking for, | Reproduced by Special Arrangement with Harper's Basar @ Little Bobbie’s Pa By WILLIAM F. KIRK. Wite, sod Pa to Ma last nite, do you remember that yung man all of your club wimmen was raving about last year, that yung poet naimed Sylvester Sylvania or sumthing tke that? Yes, sod Ma, he rote sum divine poetry, We used to read it at our wimmen's meetings. Ho was up here at a reesital one nite if you reemember, Ma sed. Yoa, sod Pa, T reemember. Just beefoar he went he nicked me for a ten spot. You toald me that he was not the kind of a poet that wud think of getting pay for his entertaining, but I notis, sed Pa, wen I asked him out in the hall if I dident owe him a littel sumthing for his re- sitashuns, he was quick enuff to say Ten Dollars. ‘What about him now? sed Ma Well, sed Pa, he has gone crasy. I have jest been reeding a peece about him n the Sunday paper. He is In Mid dietown In a booby hatch, sed Pa, & he i ritenng moar poetrey than he used to rite wen all you club ladies thought that ho was the divinest thing evver. Suin of the peeces he rites now are the limit, sed Pa. The moar I think of it. the moar I reckon that he was bugs when ho calm here. I dident think his poetry sounded aane in them days, sed Pa Oh, how can you say that? sed Ma Dident ho rite the moat butiful stanza about vilets, the one that went Vilets! 1 kiss yure purpel bloom Here in this ghost encircléd room +And fare me forth into the gloom How cud anything be moar divine than that? sed Ma A Well, anyhow, sed Pa, he is a plain loon now. This is sum of the postrey he i riteing In the aslium. Here is one to his keeper: Oh, keeper of mine, With yure bald spot Why shud 1 whine At my sud lot? T see 0 shad Dee-vour u floa I am not ma Bt soon shat he! The poor boy, sed Ma; isent it sad to think of ® much geenyus golng rong? I daro say sum woman broak his hart & that isrwhy he had to go & git crgey. | feel sad enuff to weep, sed Ma/ = Jost notis, she sed, how he hasent forgot his wunderful gift of meter, veven If his words seem a littel inco-herent. Yes, sed Pa. Hore is another of his latest masterpeoces: 'l'huy -‘ that T am mad, keeper! am not mad: I n the rain he-t on my brain The Zouave jacket shown by Worth is of dark, dull, brick-red army cloth, with a oot Nire nside of a few weeks. [+ The poor boy, sed Ma. He Iy reely off, fsent he? Lots of poets met that way doant thay? No, sed Pa, not if thay doant ree-sit. poems at wimmen's clubs. waistooat of cream cloth extending below the jacket. To the close-fitting yoke is gathered the full skirt, the bottom of which is turned up and attached to a knee-length lining, giv- ing the effect of Zouave trousers. 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