Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 18, 1915, Page 9

MR. ELBERT HUBBARD, prior to his departure for Eu- rope on the Lusitania, prepared s series of articles for The Bee to bc used in his absence. These artities will appoar from day to da), added interest no doubt attaching to them owing to Mr. Hubbard's tragic death. Wages for | Mothers 4 By ELBERT HUBBARD. The most beautiful world in our language 1s “home.” Also, the home should always be a Leautitul place. Without the home there would be no civilization, The mother s the center of the home. In the primitive home the mother provided food, shelter and cloth ing for her family. From the lome industries all of cur manufacturing evolved, In a primitive home the mother also performed the function of church, school and govern- ment. She made laws which governed her children. She was their teacher of manual training, of world wimdos, ethics and morals. Among men might was right ¢ But the. mother had a finer sense of | Jjustice, awakened through her love for | her babe, She defended the weak against the ‘strong. When money was made a medium of éxchange and barter ceased, the bunnuu} world had a new dignity. But a great loss occurred which was not noticed. The | miother's wisdom, derived from her ex- perience in her administratiou in busi- ness, government and teaching, was not utilized in “usiness. The mother was at honie, Business was déwntéwn' and operated by men. Men in (he business world receive 1 vioney for their labor {rom the produc- tion of Wealth. Money is the counter of power, Money -gives a degree of freedom. People WAO sérve and receive: compen- | smilon ) for. it are comparatively inde- | pendent. THePWEY come and go, make | Cecisions, piychase. refyse to purchase, buy, sell { We pay the presidenc of the United States $75,00 a year that he may be in-| Gependent, and ' have freedom of action. A clergyman, whose work is (o teach s a finer sinse of fustice than govern- ment caf, would have no clain- upon our ! respect were he & pauper. ! The teacher to whom we send our children for one-half thelr waking hours could not be respectsd by the children were she dependent upon the mood. good will and general kindness of the parents the children whom che teaches. Everybody feels the advantage of hav- ing this medium of exchange called money, which gives a large degree of independence. People who are cheosing occupations usually fayor that which will bring the ) most money. The modern human being wants money: money in his pocket, money. in his hand, | money in the bank, momey to give him indepandence, money that be may have exercise for his will and brain. And all people who labor in the great work of civilization receive money. All—except mothers. ~~ People have been greatly exercised be- cause the birth rate in some localities has not equaled t he death rate. And there Is a reason, although the business world has not yet taken cognizance of it. For the last twenty-five years women have been allowed in the business world and have become a factor there Today women may choose their life work with almost as much freedom as men. And becauss wives and mothers are shut out from economic independ- ence young women are choosing theif lite work carefully. As soclety Is now organized a woman loses her economic independence when she gives her services for twenty-five or thirty years to the bearing and care of citizens for the state. If the father of her children is a good { earner, if he is generously inclined, iIf he is unusually wise and sees how important ! ig his wife's business, it misfortune does not, overtake him, then pis wife may have sufficient means to develop and ‘®ive to the state a family and live hap- pily while doing it. And if fortune still smlles, the ten, twenty or thirty years of (& which are hers, after her children | are grown, may be useful and happy. But these ifs make so tremendous a load of conditions that thinking women pause and think carefully before they say “yes' The obnditions in the homes of the poor should determine for us whether mothers should be as sure of means with which to do their work as teachers, preachers and other state, municipal or soclety employes. If we consider the business of , the world as a unit, it would cost no more to €ive wages to mothers than It costs us now to maintain the “job lot” that the state has to care for. And then we might be able to eliminate the army of the unemployable, now ranged on park benches, In bread lines, penitentiaries, hospitals, insane asylums, houses of correction, houses for the im- beciles, or blind. Would mot & mother have greater tn- centive for mental activity? Would mot even an average mother carry responst- bllity ss did the Roman women who were consclous that they were the great- e8! benefactors of the stats? Would not the home be & more besuti- fu! place if mothers had the power and sUmulys which men bave, helr work™ as in pique. the original model, repeated on the cuffs. carried out in dark blue broadel est little collar is of organdie. This frock is adaptable for navy blue serge, for taffeta and for The vestee {s embroidered in white silk braid and outlined with it, a similar effect being In pique the piping is Afternoon Frocks Republished by Special Arrangement with Harper's Bazar uent, but here, oth. The mod- velvet bows. That the princess lines are not only immi- lemon-colored cloth and gauze worn by a leader of fashion at Nice. in the deep cuffs of the cloth caught by black The picture hat of crepe faced in black velvet is wreathed in peach-colored roses. is demonstrated by this frock of A curious fancy is shown Read It Here—See It at the Movies (Copyright, 1815, Star Company.) FIFTH EPISODE. Bweetzer and Freddle were in the front parlor. Mrs. Baxter swept in upon them with an important air of mystery “Got the real thing this time, have you?' asked Sweetser. *You just bet I haye,” said Mre. Baxter. *“When you've seen her all I'll have to do will be to name the sum; just step upstairs, Billy, and you, too, Freddfe, if you'd like to have a peep at the real thing."” “Usual place?’ asked Bweetzer “Yep. But go quiet. Fhe's got like a lynx, and she can see through paint énd canvas.” The men followed Mrs. Baxter vu tip- toe. But she made plenty of noise; step- ping heavily and singing as she went, thus disguising whatever sounds might have been inadvertently made Ly the men. Just before they came to the door of Mrs. Baxter's office Sweetser and Freddie- ducked off into what appeared to be a dark closet and pulled the door to after them; while Mrs. Baxter, with & great bustling, nolsy cheerfulness re- joined Celestin “You're looking at my pictures, aren't you, dear?’ she sald. “I love beauty, I love nature. Now that girl with her hands to her hair, ain't she just too cute and graceful for anything?" Mrs. Baxter's taste in pictures ran to Roman ladies (who had never been nearer Rome than a Broadway photographer) with plenty of bare arms and shoulders and somewhat skimpy togas. Some of them were really attractive looking and rad posed gracefully. One had her hands to her hair. Another looked cheertully across her snowy ehoulder. A third bal- anced @ classic jug upon a saucy, bowery head. A fourth had caught her draperies with one hand just in the nick ¢ time fome were in dancing sttitudes. Ome danced madly in & grove of trees, and bad bunches of grapes in her hande and her hair. % In moving from one’ picture to another Celestla unconsciously asswped many lovely attitudes herself. Once she lifted her hands to her hair; several times she smiled back at girls who appeared to be smiling at her. And at last she stood with her hands loosely caught behind her and looked up st the masterpiece of Mrs. Baxter's collection. This was no photograph, but a genuine ofl painting. And when I say that don't mean to Insuit it. As art it wasn't bad at all. Some young fellow with a genufne talent had made it. If he bad succeeded in making = name for himeelf the picture would have been worth & good of money; a8 Mrs. Baxter explained, “poor bad drank and And 1 took this over,” sbe said, “In lieu of money that he owed me. It's oalled “The Peacock Girl'* “The Peacock Girl” was as delicately and prettily made as =n apple blosson:, ears plum of wages for [And she was as sweet and rosy, and not | self-macrifice & bit proud of having ng clathes un like the girls in the other picture, or brozen or ashamed. Bhe strolled straight to- ward vou. And in front of her and at | both sides and behind her all the way to |the rim of the world were peacocks with | their tails spread. The coloring was gor- | geous and the eyes in the peacocks' talls were like thousands of bright jewels. But the eyes of the peacock girl were 5o frank and sweet, that after a glance at the rest of the composition Celestia could look at nothing else. Not so Mrs. Baxter, standing behind Celestia and a Iittle to one side. She looked steadily at two of the eyes in the tail of the leading peacock. In those two eyes she read rapturous approval. S0 she held up one finger, and then with the same finger traced three circles in the air At that the eves in the peacock's tail tried to look obdurate and strong. Mrs, Baxter shrugged her shoulders. Then the eyes winked slowly three times, and Mrs. Baxter, forgetful of everything but fier triumph, laughed aloud. Celestia turned to her wtih inquiring eyes. She did mot know that she had just been sold for $1,00 by some one who did not own her to some one whom she had never seen. “You must be tired standing, dearfe,” sald Mrs. Baxter, “and hungry and thirsty, too. What'll you drink—a glass of winer* “Water, please.” “That's nicer, water with a dash of orange julce. You wait here and 1'll see to it myself.” Omce more Mrs. Baxter hurried down- stirs. . Once more she found Sweetzer and Freddie in the front parior, “I'll send for her in an hou Bweetzer; “see that she's ready.” “You mean asleep?’ *T mean more. Put her into something less audible than that flim-flam white thing she's got on.” “She's going to have a glass of water with a little orange juice in it and a lit- tle dash of something else. I guess she'll be all ready when you send. It's oarly, sald though. How'll you get her out of the house?’ “As usual,” sald Sweetzer, ‘in a big trunk.” ““There’s cme thing more.” | Eye met eve. And after u little Eweat - %er's eyes foll and he drew from his inside pocket an enormous roll of dlrty' bills of larke denominations. Ten bills of a hundred dollars eagh passed very slowly | and with much thumb-licking from him to Mrs. Baxter. Freddie all this while had not spoken Now he spx ke, “What did 1 do #t for?™ he sald. b done 1t for & dellar.” “Give him the dallar” said Mrs, Bax- ter, sweetly. “Give it to him yourselt,” salq Bweetzer curtly. Mre. Haxted Jaughed, turned her back on them both, faced them omce more e e e e 3 s talnted Y and shoved it into hs pocket. . Had Mra. Baxter no compunection what- ever? Yes But she was only doing as she had once been done by. She had to| live, or she felt that she had to; and| {be bad hardened her beart to mercy and | SWL. he bands. sheok us | {she carred Ui orangeade and the sand- | wiches up to Celestia, shook as she sald: “There, dearie, merry."” Celestia ate hungrily and drank thirst- ily. Ana presently she sald that she folt and her voice eat, drink and be sleepy and ocould hardly keep her eyes open. ‘It ain't anywhere near bedtime,” said Mra. Baxter. sofa and take forty winks." (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) “You just curl up on my H A By GARRETT P. SERVISS. | Seldom has the ancient world risen | trom its graves to astonish remote pos- | terity as it is doing today, and especially |in Egypt, which has been so long the favorite ground for archaeological ex- plorers that one might have thought it had no secrets left to be uncovered. Tho latest-find of the British School of Archaeology in Egypt s, in some respects, one of the most intereating and important |ever made. The work was done at the brick pyramid of Senusert 11, about sixty miles south of Cairo. The royal tombs in this pyramid were all ransacked for | burled treasure long ngo, but the direc- tor «of ,the excavations, Prof. Flinders | Petrie, persevered in the search until he was rewarded by extraordinary discov- eries, some of the most interesting of | whioh are shown in the photographs here | reproduced. In the course of the excavations five plundered tombs, cut in the rock, were examined, from two of which even the coffins had been removed. Not an article of any value had been left in any of the sarcophagl. But from one of the tombs a set of granite steps was found .de- sending to a depth of twenty-eight feet. At the bottom of this pit there was an- other sarcophagus, whoss massive gran- ite 1id had been laborfously broken open at one end, leaving a passage through which a boy could crawl, and thus all the contents had been removed, Including the mummy and any valuables that had been buried with it. The robbers, In Prof. Petrie’s opinion, must have apent days in their work of plundering, and yet they had missed the hiding place of the real treasures. This Prof. Petrie was fortunate enough to discover. It was a recess in the rock, close be side the sarcophagus. The tearing away of the netghboring walls, together with the efforts of the weather after the pit was opened, had leq to the breaking open of the recess, but although its jewels had been washed out and buried in mud and other debris, no one had noticed them |cowrie shells and gold Mon' Jewels of a Princess of 5,000 Years Ago The Wonderfal Finds Made in a Hidden Part of the Brick Pyramid of Senusert II. in the Midst of Royal Tombs That Were Ransacked Lomg Ago for Just Such Treasures. A Tead of Hathor Inlaid with Gold with Mirror Above until Prof. Petrie's workmen came upon them. “How such a treasure,” exclaims Prof. Petrie, ‘‘could possibly have escaped tha notice of men who were zealously search- ing for it is one of the mysteries of the inexplicable past.” The treasures evidently belonged to & woman, and are belleved to have been tho property of a princess in the family |of Sonusert II, probably his wife. They are belleved to have been placed in hid- | Ing about 5,000 years ago! | 'The most remarkable object is a golden | crown, of peculiar pattern, consisting of & broad circular band, ornamented with | romettes, and the jewelled head of u |cobra, and furnished with a double | plume and three double stremmers of | gold, stiff enough to stand upright snd | support the welght of the crown. The latter is very large in circumference, be- |ing made to wear over the wings which were then in fashion J Then there are large collars of gold heads, and A Great NeckMace of Long Drop-Beads, with the finest Scarab Known, Cut Out of Lapis Lazuli | necklaces and pectorals, or breast erna- ments, equally costly in material, and of nxquisite workmanship. Armiets of gold, beaded with turquoise and carmelian; ragors with gold handles; jars of obsilian with gold mountings around the brim, the lids and the bases, and the most splendid scarab ever discovered, ocut out of the richest lapls lazuli—such are some of the principal treasures of this princess of anclent Egypt. There were also found other articls of unique interest; for instance the first stone Iamps containing wicks, which prove that they really were lamps. They are ecut out of limestone, with plerced disks of pottery in the ocentral ecup, through which'the wicks pass. The cups are surrounded with troughs' to hold water, which kept the oil from leaking out. These were found in the pyramid, together with rollers of wood for trans- portiag blocks of stone. Under the law of Egypt half, in value. of such discovered treasures must be re- tained in Fgypt. 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