Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 3, 1915, Page 7

Nell Brinklsy Says: Spring sits in the deep woodsey places with her dear com- rades, Love and furry rabbits, and the “toad-frog,” newly out of his earthen sleep, and the little fieid-mouse with the little ears like periwinkle shells and the dainty paws! calls! You know she calls! far-place where she wakes and creeps to a faery-stool in the (Copyright, 1915, Star Company.) By ELLA WHEELER WILOOX. “The dangerous age for women does not seem to limit its bounds to middle life. A woman of €0 has recently eloped with & man of her own age. After hav- ing lived with her husband since 1877 and being & mother and & grandmother she discovered her real affinity and eloped with him. It would seem that a man and a woman who had reached the age of 60 might possess the self-control and the reasoning power which would enable them to avold a course of motion that must bring sorrow and humiliation upon their faimilies. But it is impossible to judge of one's fellow beings without knowing their temperament, their temptations and their trials. We have all quoted frequently the adage, “There's no fool Wke an old fool,’ but few of us have stopped to analyse the ceuses which produces old fools. A starved youth frequently produces & vo- raclous maturity, Men and women who Fom her song floats out of the Ang she Lesson for All Women in Grandmother-Wife Who Eloped at Age of Sixty marry young, and are engrossed through all the years of youth and maturity with family cares, find life dull and common- place when those cares drop away and leave tham once more with time to think of other things than material necessities. The romantic side of life again presents itself, and 1f there is a strongly tempera: mental tendency, with a corresponding lack of balance, trouble is certsin to ensue. That is, trouble is certain to ensue if, as‘is usually the case, this late Tndian summer comes to only one of the mated pair. It 1s more frequently the man to whom it comes. A man who, having filled all the duties of father and grandfather for many years, finds himself with lelsure and means to enjoy life, awakens to & comsciousness of heart hunger, and is surprised to discower all the romantic impulses of youth fully alive in his na- ture. . Meanwhile the wife, who is also mother and grandmother, has ‘‘settied down,” satisfied to seek her distractions in her physical allments, and her recital to her friends of experiences wtih surgeons and operating tables, or in the pursuance of duties and pleasures which appertain ‘wholly to the grandmother period of her existence. It is so long ago since she walked in the wonderfulness of romance that ft s all like a forogtten dream, and if her husband should attempt to renew the old dream and to make it seem a reality she would probably call him an “oid fool” and ask him if he were losing his reason. Only a few years ago a situation of this kind developed into a great tragedy. A woman in Brooklyn of 50 odd years dled suddenly and her death revealed the fact that she had been making frequent trips to New York to meet an admirer of her own age. The woman had been for twenty Years the wife of a hopeless invalid, and the role of nurse and mental comforter and companion for this husband falled to satisfy the longings of her heart; hence a revelation which broiught shame and sorrow upon twe families. It is & wise thing for men and women to prepare in youth for middle age, and to prepare in middle age for the more advanced period of life. There are in- numerable opportunities apen in our land for the culttvation of mind and the pur- suance of arts, professions and ocoupa- tions which will lend an Interest to | tull moon, Soprrigh, ‘whispering grass among the tender flowers that nod there, and it rises and comes, strong and sweet into the city through tho writhing emoke and the clatter and banging—and it sifts pene- tratingly sweet and insistent through the office of the chap who's been digging away all winter. And content. to dig! But when he hears the first soft note of Spring’s song—calling ~—calling—calling, “Sneak away, Winter's dead, sneak away, there's delightful things to be doing—salling and camping— where's your white shoes and your moose-hides and your old and heart and the development of her best possibilities through knowledge of spiritual laws. The woman who'devotes an hour or two every day to such occupations and interests will not be liable at 6 to lose her mental balance or to make herself the sorrow of her friends and the laugh- ing stock of her enemies. “The Mares of Diohedes™ By ELBERT HUBBARD The place of honor in the New York Metropolitan museum 1is given to “The Mares of Diomedes."” This s a bronze modelled by Gutzon Borglum. Borglum spent his boyhood days in the far ‘west, and he cannot remember a time when he did not ride horses. Only a horseman, familtar with all kinds of horses, in- cleding wild, run- ning, terrified, fren- sied animals, could ever have worked out this wonderful piece of modelling. Beyond the marvel- Jous technigue les & plece of statuary story, the myth of Diomedes. ‘Diomedes was a fabled character of Greece. Perhaps all fabled characters were once men. But let that pass. Dicmedes was a soldier who rode horse- back, and, not content with one horse, he trained a whole herd of mares so they followed him and did his bidding These mores would rush, headed by their master-on the back of a horse, upon the enemy and with teeth and hoofs would bite, strike, kick and destroy For a time this novel plan of Diomedes was a great success. But, alas and alack! there came & day When the enemy captured Diomedes and corralled his herd of horses. And behold, the horses then did the human existence when it passes out of | bidding of their captors and they fought the highway of the morning, through | the forces of Diomedes with the same into the afterncon shadows. | fury that he had taught them to exercise | Forty is an excellent age for & woman | on his own enemies {to begin the real cultivation of her mind | And then one day the enemy took 1915, Tnternational News Servioe say, “He has the By IRENE WESTON. “I sometimes think,” said the head mistress of a large girls' school to me the other day, hat the children who are brought up in a nervy atmosphere are quite as much handicapped in life as those coming from thoroughly bad homes.* ‘The speaker's vast experience, not-only ‘with children of &ll classes, made her Diomedes, the captive, and put him on one of his own horses and turned the herd upon him—this is the Incident so vividly portrayed by sculptor Borglum. Diomedes is represented by a man of magnificent physique. Lean, bony, sin- ewy, stronk, he clings to the back of the mare. One arm circles to her neck, the other arm is free and is warding off the teeth of the oncoming horse that is about to selzo him Diomedes {s just a little in the fead, but behind him troup the herd of horses- mad, frenzied, Mghting horses intent on the destruction of their master. Death in horribly tragic form for him, you are sure, is just ahead The average person, if asked, after| looking at this plece of statury, how many horses there are iIn the group, would say thero are at least twenty-five The fact is there are exactly seven. The movement. the motion, the onrush is terrific. Of course the idea fs poetic. The actual | fact is the horse is a timed animal, and | when he strikes, bites of kicks, It 1s only for his immediate protection, all of which Borglum knowe quite as well as we. Borglum points no moral He leaves that for us, and the conclu sion {s that any man who uses horses, or engines of destruction, or men, for the purpose of dissolution and death und visiting vengeance on other men 1s golng to be eventually destroyed by the very means that he has employed to destroy others. “The villainy you have taught me I will execute, Tt shall go hard, but T will | ey Let It Go at “Ampere.” 8he (with nt'lmr)—fl.re"u; funny mistake in the report of that affair last night. It says that Mrs. Swellman ap in & handsome “ampere” gown, in emoire.” He=Well, “ampere” isn't very far off; | her sown was a bit shocking Transecript. 3, 1915, Spring fever!" opinion of extreme value to me. “That sounds pretty serfous,” I sald, “for T suppose the greater number of homes are nervy, as the result of the worry and overwork on the part of par- ents and elder boys and girls.” “You are quite correct,” was her reply. “And though such homes are never thought of as other than good, their in- fluence upon the children is deplorable in the extreme. There are numbers of duti- ful, capable housewives who, as a result of thelr work and nerve-strain and mon- etary worries, are wrecked in health and temper, and who, whilst filled with in- dignation at the thought of children of the poorest classes being sent out to school unfed, yet allow thelr own little ones to start out for the day's duties depressed by the mental pictures of a harassed, anxious, frowning mother, and Incapable often of experfencing the joy of living which s the birthright of every ohild.’ 1 realized the truth of all that my friend #ald, and though she presently made the somewhat drastic statement that the eclementary 0ol children with rough or drunken parents are no more to be pitied than some of the better class children from nervy homes, T know that she did not err very far. For whilst the slum chid, who does not know a mother's love, is generally able to accept her fate in quite a matter-of- fact way, and thoroughly enjoy the hours spent out of her home, the sensifive little one from a better environment, whoss breakfast is eaten in the compeny, or frritable parents, and quarrelsome broth- ers and sisters, is often quite unable all day to throw off the depressing Influence of the early morning hours. And when at the end of ‘the afternoon sho re-enters the home, it is often to find the comfort of fire, coxy room and tea absolutely marred by the mother's preoccupation with the things and the labors of the household and consequent impatience with the little one's ' chatter, or else her very anergtic annoyance at having found during the day that the playbox had been turned upside down The spirit which animates the home s of supreme importance; it is of far more consequence—though few mothers realtse the fact—that even the good management of the material things which constitute that home. There are houses where every- thing is in the best of order, the rooms always clean and nest, the food excel- lent and the clothes mates are not healthy or happy or at flannel shirts—Ilisten—Ilisten——the sea calls) and the trails call, and I call—and in my soug is the call of all these things and the call of Love—the call of Love!" aches—black hatred of the office-shell comes in a blind cloud over his heart; he swirls his papers into the air (when he can he flies out of his coccoon and follows)-—and after that folks The Winter-wrapped girl who's been at peace in her furs——without green places and lazy days—astretches her arms in dim-awakening when the soft, lasy, His Winter-wound spirit laundered and |through the wires. The wearer of the mended, and put away as resularly as|robe soon finds his body getting warmer, clockwork every week; and yet the in-|until in & iittle while he perspires as | peace with the world and one another. | | Then there are other homes, none too well | spirits behind the desks! The Nervy Home one another's companionship and affec- tion to an almost ideal extent. Of course, this does mot imply for one moment that o order to assure the hap- piness of the home a housewife must err upoun the side of mismanagement. does suggest, however, that if and mother s not strong enough her home spic and span, give her all the attention they may require, at the same time maintain & serene mind, cheery face, well-governed nerves, the abllity to win the confidence of all under her roof, she must will power to shut her eyes determine to “let thingw go.' Comparatively fow women ars sensibl enough to take a timely rest when nerves | are in & bad condition. If they did so they would save themselves and every other inmate of the house a vast amount of irritation, worry, and unhappiness. There is probably no husband or echild tn existence who would prefer a polished hall to an unpolished one at the expense of a fatigued homekeeper, and yet how fow women realize that thetr duty lies | quite as much in keoping well and cheer- | ful as in the good management of the home. A woman is slow to leamn that excellent housckeeping alone canjot pro- duce an atmosphere in which Tamily hap- piness thrives and to which people natur- ally gravitate. Of course, an frritable, badvbempered father In often a factor in the making | of & nervy home, but as n general rule it | is the mother to whom children come for understanding and sympathy, and many of the MNttle joys of home MWfe; and | though too much is inveriably expected | of her in the way of making an effort and keepink her nerves—which usually | have to bear a strain so mueh g ter | than that imposed upon a man's—nder | ®0od ocontrol, it js worth while when it | means the health and happiness of her children For the atmosphere of the home Is something for which the woman is chiefly responsible. her life mate playing the role of either helpmate or hindrance— whichever he may choose. Do You Know That | You oan bathe without water. 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