Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 4, 1915, Page 10

The Elephant in History Our Ancestors Had Strange Ideas About This Now Well Known Animal French Models at the Fair Republished by Special Arrangement with Harper's Bazar | Heroes By GARRETT P. SERVISS, To the citizen of today an e | | 3 — | { By ADA PATTERSO) oifes little more comment than a horse, c—— yet the popular pachyderm was n conter Hard moistened as they scanned of fantastic legend among our ancestors | the three brief lines that announced the They bullt on & few facts as set forth { death of a little boy in New York. He { in Btrabo, Miny and Plutarch, a monster | Hived on the east side. He had beem run of rare imagination aver by the motor Cuvier accepted the existonce in Cochin truck. Dying. he ONina of elephants sixteen feot high, and sald to the sur- tales of such an antmal were ourrent in yeon, who was { India to the end of the eighteenth cen- about to trv to tury, stralghten the / The tusks of the male wore said to be | orushed MNttle lege “'. Targer than those of tho femalo, and “I will try not turned downward, hers turning upward; |to ery, but if 1 do one was kept sharp to avenge injuries, |don't let mamma while the othor remained blunt to root | hear me." |up plants and trecs for food | e dfed under i L i | | \ Doeg the clinging skirt portend a swing of the pendulum away from the very tainly Premet has selected a narrow model for this tete 'de negre satin, with tunjc of cobwebby lace and corsage of embroidered beige-colored Aicurtain of brown lace falls from mousseline: the straw hat. full skirt? Cer ! mine. | tulle. It is regal, this evening gown of cloth desiguned by Prethet. Over the fourreau of gold cloth, and a surprisingly clinging one, is dropped a tunic of { gold tulle embroidered in blue and outlined in er- The corsage of gold tulle is émbroidered in vari-colored stones and the sleeves are of blus | By DOROTHY DIX. Shall 2 man who loves a woman, and who has reason to belleve that the woman returns his affectioh, but whom he cannot marry, <tell "her of his love or mot? Is speech or so- lence best and kind- est under such conditions? This fs the ques- tion that a man asks me i a letter written so simply, so sincerely and with such feeling that 1 reproduce it here just as it reached me. He writes “With & sweet mother home, and a poor crippled brother, too, I, as the only one to provide for them, decided long #go mever to marry dear, at little While home had always oeen kept in a fairl the comfortable way, still I felt sure that to bring another into it would only a 1d hardships to all concerned. Before | could drag a woman down and make her companion to the heavy burdens of my | position, 1 would remain alone and apart, it meed be. I mever thought that some day I might be the victtm between two tires. “But about twé years ago I became acquainted with a delightful, pretty little girl. Having been denied the pleas ure of & woman's companionship (other than my mother's), I thought and felt that I needed this giw’'s friendship. As we. became further =acquainted, and after I had explained my position, and made it plain that 1 could never marry anyone, 1 asked her for that friendship. We often discuss the word . ‘friendship in relation to man and woman, and both fully understood that we were io be merely friends, and nothing more. Un sible, conspicuously 1 tried to do the imipo without reallzing the dangers ahead “On nymerous occasions I was invited o the gir’s home. 1 looked forward to these meetings with great pleasuse, I liked the long walks and talks we often | bad together. 1 found pleasure in our discussions. 1 enjoyed advising her about the little things she always wanted to her know. 1 liked to help smooth out tales of woe In fact there Was e pleasure and charm n just belag near her. She met with an accident one day and was slightly injured. I went to the To Tefl of Love or Not : Shall & Man Who Loves and is Loved ~=but Who Cannot Marry, Make His Love Known? Rev. Bdward Topsell, who collected practically all that had been written on the subject In his “History of Foure Footed Beastes,” argued that Inasmuch a8 the horns of the elk grew out of his Tlephants presented to King Alexander, from a French manuscript of the Fonrteenth century. eyebrows and those of the rhinoceros out of his nose, there was no reason why tho horns of the elephant should not grow ent of his mouth. He says, further, “hornes fall oit and | come again In old beasts, but teeth do not 0, and, therefore, they are hornes.' The reputed habit of the female elephant to bury her shed ‘'horns” Is interpreted thus: Because she knew that she was ! hunted for those horns, she dug a grave and burfed them, sitting upon the earth to press it down; this, fest thelr virtues being discovered, elephants should enjoy less peacé angd security. Indlans and Africans desiring those horns (to use as posts for hoyse building among other purposes) were said to find them in this wisd-they set pots and bottles of water In suspeoted places and sat dewn to walt; ‘when by “‘an unspeakable and secret at- traction they “(the tusks) draw all the ‘water out of the bottle near them, which the watchmhp takes for a sure sjan and diggeth about his bottle {ill he finds tha tooth.” Pliny thought the elephant's skin so hard that & sharp sword would not pierce 1t, the hide “alway hath crevices which by their sawvour do invite the lttle flies to a ocontinual feaste; but when by stretching forth they have recelved the swarmes, by shrinking together egain they inclose the flies, and so kill them; 80 that these crevices are unto them in- stead of mane, tall and hair."”" The flustration shown here gives an odd conception of this trunk. The artist may have read Pliny, who says: ““The elephant through his nostrils it Eflfiu Kixt;w Thatfl The wults ls a national German dance, and was introduced into Enmgland by & Gerfiian barom 100 years ago. 1t is estimated that the number of pos- tal packets delivered in the United King- dom during the year reached the colossal total of 5,916,460,000, An interesting point in connection with the Garter that was recently conferred upon King Albert of the Belgians ia the fact that it was held for his unclo, tho late King Leopold, for forty yesrs, and previously by his grandfather for hulf contury. in the whole history of e order there is no Instance of two occupants holding the dlgnity successtvely for so long a period. niakes a sound like the braying'of a hoarse trumpet.’ A plcture in a thirtesnth contury manu- script shows an elephant carrying thirty fighting men in a wooden tower on his back About the year 1286 the French king presented to Henry 111 the first elephant ever seen In England or, Mathew Paris belleved, on that side of the Alps. The people, he says, “flocked: to see the strange sight.’ The arrival of that elephant must have caused a mensation. Here at last, for all to see, was that strange creature @0 nearly human that (hcoording to Bar- tholomaeus) when sfck is gathered good herbe, and ere cating ‘heaved up the fhead and looked t heaven and prayed for help in a certain religion; which saluted the sun at his rising; which visited a certain river to purify himself by bespringling his body with water ere ho saluted the new moon. Pliny sald the elephant pomsessed in & degree, rare even among men, notions of honesty, prudence and equity; that his intellectual powers equalled 'his moral principles. Matanius, three times consul, and therefore a person of probity, declared he knew an elephant who wrote. ! the operation, died | without a sound, one of the world's small army of si- lent heroes T sald with Intent “small” army. The world has plenty of heroes and heroines | But they make a fuss about ft. Th {nolse their herolsm about until it cemses [to be herote 1 know & woman who.turned her back upon marriage to be the support of an invalid mother. “Thut was very fine and herole, but it would have been far finer and more herole had she kept quiet about it. But no day passed without a com- plaint about her fate, a reminder to any- one who would listen, of what she had foregone and how hard was her lot. 1 know a man who works as hard and continuously as a galley slave. That would be fine and his patience would de- serve ita érown of recognition on our part, but that man whines ceaselossly about his large family and corresponding expenses. It is good to turn from these to & man who tightens his lips as did the little hero of the hospital to keep' back his cries. 1 see him often in the routine of our business lves. Always, no matter how pressing his duties, nor how ab- sorbed in his task, he had found time to look up and smile. One day last sum- mer he looked up, but he didn’t smile. | And again and again as T passed his desk | 1 notioed that the smile was gone. Gray began to appear in his hair. Finally the gray quite displaced the brown. And the momths and the work went which s life. Passing him on the way to the elevator T said to one who knew him, “'He is going home barly. Isn't he well?” said “He mo longer has =& home, the one who knew hi Know that his wife | last summer? He went found her dead. Heart disease. The chiet of his department was in Europe at the time and the force was small, And he had fo keep right on with his work. He never gpoke of his loss unless he was forced to. You noticed he doesn't’ Iot well. Sometimes I think he s dying ' the harness. But he never complains.’ T remembered his wite. A strong, ruddye woman with a contralto |voloe, and rich, deep laughter. I know that. y She was more an average helpmeet and | help eat. She was hig wife and sister and mother and comrade and friend. I knew that the axe had been lald at the | root of+his happiness that day she dled, and that it would never grow again. But the man at the next desk had sald: ‘‘He never complafned.” Splendid, doubly brave army, that never complains. Thin | ranks of allent heroes! You who bear the pain of life with tightened: lips, who endure jts agony without a ory. You who sorrow are silent because patient, silent because unselfish heroes who, though wounded, march on! 1 salute. house that night to see her, and looking {her oves I saw—I understood, I knew— down on ‘the pale, atill face, suddenly [the whispered words she didn't need to realized that the_ feeling of friendship |speak. 1 had to struggle hard with mys had fadded, and & new feeling had been | self to push her gently away (I don't| born. Had T only had the strength then [know even now how I ever succeeded). | to go away, perhaps I alone would have |1 went over to the window to look out | been the ome to suffer. But instead of |into the night. As I stood there she came | being a man, and going away like a man, I remained, thinking she would never know. “After that I made my viaits to her far between. 1 honestly meant that by no act of mine should she ever know the new feeling in which I heid her. But God made her a woman and gave her a woman's ability to see. “Not very long ago, after quite a lengthy absence, T went to see her again, I commented upon the fact, swered my question with a Qquestion, wanting to know why I had been stay- ling away so much lately. I tried to turn the conversation away from the personal | hack to the common. She looked at me. And in the one brief second that I held Advice to Lovelorn Sy ERATRIUN PAIRFAX A Motaers Welcome. || Dear Miss Falrfax: A young man be- comes engaged after two years' court- ship, during which time the youns lady has never visited the young man's mother or_home. Now the young man feels it is high time that she should and has oxtended an invitation to his bride-to-be to come to his bome and meet his mother. She refuses, ing that it is the mother's place to call on her first. Now which one is correct? R G B 1t is customary for the fiance's mother to call on the bride-to-be and offer the il whom her son is going to marry a mwother's welcome into the family. Write to Him. Dear Miss Fairfax with & young man six years older than I whom I met & year ago. He sald he loved me and proved a very good friend untll a rhonth ago he went away. I did not hear anything from him until today, when he seut & letter asking me to for- get him, as he had met another young lady e also added inswit w injury by offering me money for any inconvenience he might have caused me. Please lot | me know what to do? Chicago. SORROWFUL, You are well nid of this man Write |and tell him that you consider yourseif a fortunste girl in that you have fousd | {out just how contemptible he 1s. Tell him that you would mever lower your self to mccept anything frem him, and | that no one would need any recompense to make a man who could so insult a girl for | whom he bad once carel Noticing that she wes not looking well She an;- I am 19 and in Jove | up for losing the friendship of | over to me, and pufting her arms around my neck, kissed me and thep flea into ap inner room. ““Without waiting for her to veturm I sneaked away from the house lke o thief, fecling like a coward and a cad, knowing what 1 tad dome. I met her a few nights afterward and led to her, telling her that I didn’t love hen, and | that she should forger me. I'm not o | Washington, but it 1s the thought that T lied to her that hurts. She, eoft little womanly woman, would never have told me of her love had she wot read mine tirst, “As & mechanic in the bullding trades, | my position 1s mot good. I dom’t think | it would be fair to her for us tc be-| come engaged and for me to monopolise her time, mgking her wait for a chance {to marry that may never come, and as | for deserting the ones at home, whom I love 80 well, and who are dependent upon me, I would rather dié than do | that. | “What do you think T chould do in the matter? Should I ‘tell this girl the truth about my love, denending upon her clear mind to reason and forgive me for making her love me when I cannot marry her? God kyows I want to aet | the part of & man.” . | I say “ves” a thousand times “yos,” | tell her. In a case liko this, the man | owes it to the girl to at least give her | the consolation of knowing that her love is returned, and that she did not give her affection unsought. It will also be balm to her soul to know that she | {did not love unworthily, and that the | |man to whom she gave her heart was |capable of & plece cf sublime self- sacrifice in giving her np, instead of be- ing that most contemptible of all created | beings, a male flirt Certainly mo man is ever put in a crueler position than the one who fis | |forced to chooss between love and wite | end home and children of his own, and | his duty to his family. More men than we realise are martyre@ on that cross, since ecomomic conditions are such that few are able to earn With thelr hands enough to support two . That s | why we shall have to adopt the wise | eyptem of the French bourgeolse in | which the wife is the husivess partner s well a8 the life partner of ber Bus.| |band - That s the only, way in which such |tragedies as the ome that this man's letter reveals can be avolded | | The Cost of High Living | is not in dollars and cents alone, but in the breaking down of those vital functions of the body that bring happiness and long life. Neither the high cost of living nor the cost of high living need disturb the man or woman who knows hredded Whea Two of these crisp, brown loaves of Shredded Whole Wheat, served with hot milk, make a warm, nourishing, satisfying meal and the total cost is not over five cents. It supplies all the human body needs to work on or play on. 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