Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 4, 1915, Page 11

azine.-Page; French Models at the Fair Republished by Special Arrangement with Harper's Bazar 0 Silent | Heroes The Elephant in History Our Ancestors Had Strange Ideas About This Now Well Known Animal By GARRETT P. SERVISS, To the citizen of taday an elephant ex oifes little more comment than a horse, yot the popular pachyderm was a conter of fantastic legond among our ancestors They built on a few facts as set forth {in Strabo, Miny and Plutarch, a monster af rare Imagination By ADA PATTERSO} | e { Hard eves moistened as they scanned { the three brief lines that anpounced the death of a little boy in New York. He { lived on the east side. Ho had beem run | aver by the motor Cuvier accepted the existonce in Cochin truck. Dying. he ONina of elephants sixteen feet high, and sald to the wsur- tales of such an antmal were current in geon, wWho was | India to the end of the eighteenth cene about to try to tury, strulghten the / The tusks of the male wore said to be |orushed Httle lege Iarger than those of the female, and “I will try not | turned downward, hers turning upward {to ery, but it 1 do one was kept sharp to avengoe injuries, |don’t let mamma while the other remained blunt to root | hear me." |up plants and trees for food e dled under | Rev. BMdward Topsell, who collected | the operation, died : ‘w‘lcllly all that had been written on | without a sound, |the subject in his “History of Foure one of the world's | Mooted Beastes,” argued that jnasmuch |small army of si- | a8 the horns of the elk grew out of his | lent heroes T sald with Intent “mmall” army. The world has plenty of heroes and hevoines | But they make a fuss about it. They i noise their herolsm about until it censes |to be herote 1 know & woman ‘Who. turned her back upon marriage to be the support of an invalid mother. That was very fine and herofe, but it wonld have been far finer and more herofe 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 erown 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 aid the Iittle hero of the hospital to keep back his crien. T see him often in the routine of our business lives. Always, no matter how pressing his duties, nor how ab- worbed In his task, he had found time to look up and amile. One day last sum- e = mer he looked up, but he din’t smile. And again and again as 1 passed his desk & | 1 motioed that the smile was gone. Gray Bl S e & o oL B [ ¥ P i began to appear in his halr. Finally the gray quite displaced the brown. And the momths and the work went which Is life. Pasesing him on the way to the elevator 1 sald to one who kmew him, | “He is going home barly. Isn't he well?" | Tlephants presented to King Alexander, from a French manuscript of the Fourteenth century. | eyebrows and those of the rhinoceros out of his nose, there was no reason why tho horns of the: elephant should not grow swarmes, by shrinking together egain they inclose the flies, and so kill them: s0 that these crovicos ure unto them in- nakes a sound lke the braving of a hoarse trumpet.”’ A pleture in a thirteenth century manu-| “He no longer has a home said i eut of his mouth. stead of mane, tall and hair.” | seript shows an elephant carrying thirty |the one who knew him. Dida't you { He says, further, “hornes fall ot and | The flustration shown here gives an| fighting men In a wooden tower on his|know that his wife died suddenty ML come again In old beasts, but teeth do not | 0dd conception of this trunk. The artist| pack last summer? He went home and I 50; and, therefore, thoy are hornes.’ The reputed habit of the femalo elephant to | bury her shed ‘“horns" is interpreted thus: Because she knew that she was ! hunted far those horns, she dug a grave and burfed them, sitting upon the earth 1o press it down; this, fest thelr virtues may have read Pliny, who says: found her dead. Heart disease. ““The elephant The chiet of his department was in Europe at f About the year 126 the French king g the time and the force was small, And 37 ; | | ! \ presented to Henry I1I the first elephant ever moen In England or, Mathew Paris belloved, on that side of the Alps. The people, he says, “flocked: to ses the strange sight.” The arrival of that elephant must have through his nostrils e Do You Know Th—at* he had to keep right on with his work. He never spoke of his loas unless he was forced to. You noticed he doesn't look well. Sometimes I think he s dying in being discovered, elophants should enjoy | The wults is a national German dance, | caused sation. H t last, for all|the harness. But he never complaing.’ F) Does the clinging skirt portend a swing of the It is regal, this evening gown of cloth designed l,,,, pence sccurity. Indians and |and ‘,,,,, introduced into Emgland by & :,, .,.'.w-.: ,.:_‘ ¢."" e,..m,: #a| Y remembered his wite. A strong, ruddys pendulum away from the very full skirt? Cer by Pnfiat. Over the fourreau of gold cloth, and a IAMMI destring those horns (to use as Gerfiian baron 100 years ago. {posts for hoyse building among other nearly human that (hccording to Bar- tholomaeus) when sick s gathered good woman with a contralto volce, and rich, tainly Premet has selected a narrow model for deep lnughter. I know w i surprisingly clinging one, is dropped a tunic of | 4 A | purposes) were sald to find them in this | It I estimated that the number of pos- | herbs, and ere eating 'heaved up the| She was more an average helpmeet and b | this tete 'de negre satin, with tunic of cobwebby gold tulle embroidered in blue and outlined in er Wisd-they wet pots and bettles of water | tal Bebkets daiiversd-in: the Unites KInsh|Mesh. and. Mowed ¢ m"nn B B ot bty s .- | | lace and corsage of embroidered beigeolored | mine. 'The corsage of gold tulle is émbroidered in ||y suispeoted places and sat dewn to wait; | dom during the year reached the colossal | prayed for help in a certain religion”;)and mother and comrade and friend. I | mousseline; A/ curtain of brown lace falls from vari-colored stones and the sleeves are of blua when by “‘an unspeakable and secret at- | total of §5,916,400,000, which saluted the sun at his rising; which [ knew that the axe had been laid at the b the straw hat. tulle. ‘tnm.hn they “(the tusks) draw all the y RN visited a certain river to purify himself|root ot his happiness that day she dled, | g ‘water out of the bottle near them, which | An interesting point in connection with | by bespringling his body with water ere|and that ft would never grow again. But { ¢ the vnuhm\e takes for a sure sjgn and | the Garter that was recently conferred |he saluted the new moon. the man &t the next desk had sald: “‘He ___‘__m diggeth about his bottle till he finde tha [ upon King Albert of the Belgians is the| Pliny sald the elephant possessed in a|never complafned.” Splendid, doubly tooth.” fact that it was held for his uncle, tho Pliny thought the elephant's skin so late King Leopold, for forty years, and degree, rare even among men, of honesty, prudence and equity; that his notjons brave army, that never complains. M"‘ ranks of sllent heroes! You who bear ’ A hard that a sharp sword would not plerce | previously by his grandfather for half u | intellectual powers equalled 'his moral | the pain of life with tightened lips, who Shall a Man Who Loves and is Loved 1t, the hide “alway hath crevices which [\century. In the whole history of We order | principles. endure its agony without a ofy. You who ' o e o ove or ot . ~=but Who Cannot Marry, Make by thefr savour do invite the little flies|there s mo Instance of two occupants | Matanius, three times consul, and|sorrow are silent because patient, silent; . b4 His Love Known? to a ocontinual feaste; but when by |holding the dignity successively for so|therefore a person of probity, declared | because unselfish heroes who, though strétching forth they have recelved the |long a perfod. he knew an elephant who wrote. By DOROTHY DIX. Shall & man who loves a woman, and who has reason to believe that the woman returns his affectiof, but whom he cannot marry, tell ‘her of his love or mot? Is speech or so- it here just as it ')mu.e that night to see her, and looking down on the pele, atill face, suddenly realized that the_ feeling of friendship had fadded, and a new feeling had been born. KHad T only had the stremgth then to g0 away, perbaps T alone would have been the ame to suffer. But instead of being a man, and going away like a Notlcing that she was not looking well her eyes I saw—I understood, I knew— the whispered words she didn't need to speak. 1 had to strugsie hard with mos self to push her gently away (I don't| know even now how I ever suocceeded). | I went over to the window to look out | into the night. As I stood there she came over to me, and pufting her arms around | lied to her that hurts, She, eoft little wounded, march on! 1 salute. and long life. Neither the high cost of living nor the cost [ [ ] [ man, I remained, thinking she would | my neck, kissed me and thep flea into \ lence best and Kind- pever know. an inner room e os o est under such AAfter that I made my visits to her| “'Without waiting for her' to returm I conditions? !tar between. 1 honestly meant that by |sneaked away from the house lke & "" This fs the ques- no act of mine should she ever know |thief, fecling like a coward and a cad, tion that a man {he new fecling in which 1 beld , her. |knowing what I had dome. I met her a i i ok ma'i & et BAE Ot hade hee 1 iekon 80 snvh| oy Siebie’ Siterwni et tid e T | is not in dollars and cents alone, but in the breaking down written so simply, her & woman's ability to see. telling her that I didn't love hen, and | i i 1 o ol g0 DrAL TS BULEY. o) Sut ) LN LA by AE LA ot e | of those vital functions of the body that bring happiness with such fr:;lmk lengthy absence, T went to see her again, | Washington, but it is the thought that I that 1 repl luce I commented upon the fact. She any{womanly woman, would never have : : 3 2 ) reached me. He e st B i s e Do v g et TR a4 N of high lwmg need disturb the man or woman who knows writes wanting to know why I had been stay- |mine first, X “With & dear, |ing away so much lately. I tried to turn | “As a mechanic in the bulMing trades, | sweet mother at the conversation away from the personal |my position s mot Sood. T dom't think | home, and a poor | back to the common. She looked at me. |it would be fair to her for us to be- | / crippled brother, And in the one brief second that I held too, 1, as the only one to provide for them, decided long ego mever to marry little While home had always oeen kept in a fairl comfortable way, still I felt sure that to the only add Advice to Lovelorn 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 so well, and who are fl.Dlnd.ni‘ upon me, I would rather Qié than do | that. hredded Whea Two of these crisp, brown loaves of Shredded Whole Wheat, mgpex bring another ioto it would 7 ERATRION yAmRPAX “What do you thisk 1 chould do tn| served with hot milk, make a warm, nourishing, satisfyin hardshipe to all concerned. Before [ A Mother's Welcome, the matter? Should I ‘tell this girl the ¥ y R g could drag & woman down and make her | 1., Miss Falrfax: A young man be- companion to the heavy burdens of my |comes engaged after two years dourt- truth about my leve, depending upon her clear mind to reason and forgive me for meal and the total cost is not over five cents. It supplies o alone and apart, | ship, during which time the youns lady posttion, I would remain alone and apart, | PP, TR A o man s mother | making her love me when I cannot all the human body needs to work on or play on. Keeps the it need be. I mever thought that st;mu o hoRae o 3 0 marry her? God kyows I want to aet | . ps day I might be the victtm between Two | Now the ‘young man feels it [t 6 3ot & & Bea” ¥ | . time that she should and has extended ! sto! S day " T et RS g ol | 0 2L 08 MR e e “ren | mach sweet and clean and the bowels healthy and active, “But about two yfll"y “I““{ - " ”"l;(, his hume‘ ..I)dhl.lm ):Il Iwm.rlh$‘ tell her. In a case like this, the man \ with delightful, pre refuses, saying t " mo s s i . o ;::‘,‘:u"}:r’"m,m peen denled the pleas- |blace o call on her firs. Now which |ghe® It 10 the HIFl to at least ive o) Two Shredded Wheat Biscuits, heated in the oven to restore crispness, served hd o6 ' wermel peuenionsilp (ccoer [o%e 1o qeraett 1 L0 O IR TES CRORIEE (00, Kovuine Chat e with hot milk or cream, make a complete, satisfying meal at a total han iy mothers), 1 thousit a‘.‘..n h‘\l: T e o | Five . hov' affeian Wmboabe T8 Wt Alke cost of five or six cents. Also delicious with fruits. TRISC! is the Shredded that 1 needed tnis gin's friendsii. As| 2 £00 P AL mn’.."’.m %o marry a |b® balm to her soul to know ‘that she | Wheat Wafer, eaten as a toast with butter or soft cheese, or as a substitute for wa. became mln:ml .-.)-.m:‘u:‘lzl«la?;‘ 408 | lother's welcome into the family. ivxm not love unworthily, and that the | white flour bread or crackers. after I had explained my pe an, man to whom she gave ix h ' made it plain that 1 could “";". ""‘.Ty Write to Him. Jclplhlf of & plece \: :I:b\ll‘l:l l:l‘l: anyone, 1 asked her for that friendship. | Dear Miss Fairfax: [ am 19 and in love | sacrifics in giving her np, instead of be- i o otien icusn the. word . Criedship’ | with a YOUNK TieD Sk Jears CIder than ine thas moss contomplibie ot uh orsoted Made only by The Shredded Wheat Company, Niagara Falls, N. Y. in relation to man apd woman, and both | i, St " 0y q proved & very godd friend | belngs, a male flirt | fully understood that we wers (0 Lelupq o month ago he went away. I did| Certainly no man is ever put in a| % %, merely friends, and mothing more. U'n-|not hear anytbiug from him untll today, |crueler position than the one who i | 9 4o the lmpossible, | When he seut & letter asking me to for- e : | conspicuously 1 tried to sible. | Cei " him, ‘4 ho had met another youns |{orced to choose between love abd wite without realizing the dangers Jh';d‘ o lu’fl)’r‘ He ll‘flnfldflbfdo mml'woh)ur‘y by |and home and children of his own, and ‘On mymerous occasions I Was invited | offering me money for any Ineonvenience (niy duty to his family. More men than - e might h used me, Pl I o the girl's home. I looked forward u;::‘nx ol W €680 1Ot | o realise are martyred on that cross, these meetings with great pleasufe, Chicago. SORROWFUL. |since economic conditions are such that Iiked" the long walks and talks we often | bad together. 1 found in our discussions. 1 enjoyed advising her about the little things she always wanted to her pleasure You are well nid of this man Write \lnd tell him that you consider yourseif |a fortunate wirl in that you have found {out just how conmteraptible he 1s. Tell few are able to earn with thelr hands lenough to support two families. That i | why we shall have to adopt the wise syptemn of the French bourgeoise in knmow. 1 liked to help smooth out him that you would mever lower your- |which the wife is the business partner tales of woe. In fact there Was Vol |y o¢ ¢, sccept anything from him, and |as well as the life partner of her hus- v pleasure and charm in just belng Bear |ina¢ no one would need any recompense band. - / Bet, to make up for losing the friendship of | That is the only, way in which such e met with an accident one daY, |5 ynan who could so insult a girl for |tragedies as the ome that this man's and was slightly injured. I went (o the | whom he had once carel |letter reveals can be avoided P Ty