Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 28, 1915, Page 8

A Man’s Grouch and the | Reason for, It By ADA PATTERSON. “And why ™' T asked Tt & my habit to ask why and 1 con- tend that it is a ®ood habit. For when We . know everything is so life will be very livable. The wordd will become a iore: endvrable affiding place. 1n the dim beginnings of the world Fu- tipldes praved, and praving dled: O, gods of ‘mortals, ‘wive humanity light that %t mav learn whenes evils come and how to cure thém.” But the man who called forth the “And whit" He s & professional man who leads a busy, grinding Ufe, does some good. rome whole an average citizen my wife a lesson.”t sald he, “And why?' I had asked, This was his story: “I went home at 6 last evening. My wife wasn't In. That wouldn't have mattered in itaelf, but it was the third time it had bappened in a week. That was 00 often. My mother-in- law met me in the hall. ‘Where's Jane?' 1 mskad. ‘She isn‘'t home yet.' she sald. “All right’ I sald. ‘Tell her when she gots home that 1 have gone out, too. 1 went into the front room, taking my overcoat with me. In a few minutes T heard her talking excitedly. ‘Why didn’t you_tell him 1'd been detained? The very idea’ When her mother saw how dis- turbed she was she told her it was a trick and that 1 was in the front room But she had gotten her lesson just the same as though I had been out.” Then it was that I pressed home & “Why?') Why do men make a fusy if their- wives are not that home when they arrive?. Your dinner was ready for you, waknt 1t? “¥ex,. my mother-in-law and the maid had seén to that. But it wasn't the mere matter of material comfort,”” he main- (Ained. “T'll tell you why. It Is beca: thé wife is an integral part of the home, she isn't there it fsn't home. A ian pught to be glad her husband harm and is on the ‘T've taught wants to be at home to greet him. 1t he 't care about her he wouldn't cire W she was at home or not.” There you have it, one of man's im- memorial grouches. It is as old as the Wofld itself. Doubtiess the first cave man roared lion-like when he came home ffom hik hunting and found the cave empty and heard his wife chattering with the nearest cavewoman neighbor about the spring styles in leaf drapery. Nor i& there any doubt that }ove had her troubles with Adam. All the records prove that he was & faultfinder. B 1“1 can’t join your club,” a woman said, “because my husband is peculler. He al- ““That isn't pecullar,”* commented an- othér woman. “It is & sex-wide character- istle,” What is sianificant i that it fan't a mere exercise of man's right to find fault with his spouse. There s a reason for it. And a man has spoken it. It is because woman is an integral part of the home, And because If a man didn't care for his wife he wouldn't care whether she were there. At last you have & reason, and a compensation, O ye wives, for. hastening home before 6. [;‘E‘E;Ea | | | | | P Areat | fnoug! el L (Copyright, 1915, by the Star Co. All For- elgn Rights Reserved.) Synopsis of Pevious Chapters. Ar(!hr the Vi beauts ..mllw. an &irl und ln'rh-n :h lor “Mistion age of 15 she s suddenly thrust into the world where agents of the interests are dy to tend Lo find hel he anow:o no man, t by angels who he tains, nfifi“::.summu.nmm- o t apend the it M‘{Ell ht, Stiliiter, ,{:flo"“ his In- &ul Celestia and m, In the morning Tom: m. Durin, tempts to o Tommy for taking not with Celsatia fust in time to catch an ox) for Com:h in sanity is ‘Tommy reaches Bellevue just before Stil- mmy s first &im was to from Stilliter, Afi:lr to_keep her. Whe vaxi he her he hands of moved to and also done one of them. Just at this room is soon & bhln‘l furnace. Celestia her out, wrapped in a SEVENTH EPISODE. Tommy bad not gone mad. From the rel! h broad strips to -u' 10 the side- |seemed as If death could mot be put off, I 'HE BEE - “Don’t dub a girl cowardly-custard,” says the cynic—because she has a little pet fear. Girls are strange, queer things. Girls are not afraid of rgll.lmorl. big dangers, and hard fighting Girls are afrald of black bugs! But the same girl who shrieks at an angle- worm in the walk after a summer rain, stands on one tiny foot a bit and then circles round him with shut eyes and a shudder—this same girl will face the big things of life, go into the dark with a smile to bring out with her a tiny life, and with sacrifice and tears and dreams help him to grow-—and then when he i# a tall chap just ONDAY, JUNE 28 can send this, her own blood and dreams, away perhaps to war with € l safe out of babyhood, with his feet firm on the highway of fife‘, she a smile as long as there is anyone to see! My dear little frivolous grandmother, with her whimsies and her dozen of frocks and her fans and her patches and powder, with a heart and a head that then seemed the mere sparklie on the top of a shallow brook—Ilater went into the wilderness with a ploneer lover-husband; she lived in a tiny log house, fought the wilderness with him, cooked and wove, had ten children, wove and cut and made the black homsepun suit that one son wore when he became Read It Here—See It at the Movie double bowline (which is almost as easy to sit In as a,chair), made Celestia sit in tt, swung her Jut of the window and lowered her to safety. His own escape was not as easy, for every moment the fire galhed' upon him, and he was un- conscionably scorched while making the upper end of his line fast, A moment after he reached the sidewalk the line burned thropgh and fell. Tommy was %o dazed that when a reporter asked him what his’ name was o told him, and all his friends had the pleasure of reading about the rescue in the afternoon papers. Barclay and Stilliter were very much dlsturbed and Mary Blackstone was so furious with jealousy that she succeeded in making Fitch,'who was with her when | ¢he read the paper, furious and jealous 00, But he kept this to himself Mary was not only angry with Tommy Celestia; she was angry with herself. | “It was in my power,” she thought, “to | pull that minx's cla Tommy brought | her here, and 1 refused to take her in. I was a.fool. It's natural enough that in a | surrounding of common laboring girls she should shine out like a superior being. She is good looking; there is no doubt about that. And she's probably got a magnetic voice, and knows how to roll her eyes and make men feel sorry for Fer. And so she's made & fool of Tommy. But put her among the kind of people he's used to and see how she'll bear that comparison! When he sees her trying to eat oysters with a spoon, for instance, and mistaking father's butler for the president of the United States—if I'd only taken her In for a few days and asked poople to meet her!-I wonder if it's too late now?" The more she thought along these llnes the less she thought that it was too late to do anything. Celestia's address, owing to the notoriety of the Octagon fire, was now common knowledge, and without any exact plan, Mary determined to visit her—as a preliminary to daisfllusioning Tommy. She confided this idea to no ene Six months of persistent love making could not have advanced Tommy's cause as far as had one lighted cigarette butt thrown into a plle of greasy rags. She, t messenger from Feaven, hi been relay rushes ‘:.“,“”;!5 l:'\md from & hideous death, not.:y any - direct intervention of Heaven, but by Yno ready Wit and strong hande of a ic deathr of John Ames- wife, one of Amer- dies. At her death it_of the interests the - beaut 3-year-old’ baby brings her up In & dise sees t thinks she itruct her for to reform the world, At the leel 3 the loss of the little she had rescue Cele: and theéy hide later they are pursued | le, reaches island, found ‘Tommy, but did not disturb joes for a teal C w) aelp, followed by Stilliter. t onr: n.l;u :l‘nmm;'l“vr:- takes advantage of ly C ia's, but T A Stilliter het New York, there he places Bellevue hospital. where her proven by the authorities. rture. ot Celest!: hey un owing to he D'l:uld‘l ’ © goes o ne. She. tails white slavers, but fam- their right finds ! ‘hearing her is nt the relief the girls wished, 0 right & great wrong he had int the catches on work fire, and ¢ to . At Barciay roung man who did not believe in her, or her cause, but mercly loved her During those snts of shirting material he tore when it had | terrors. a professor in a great college; she sen the civil war and one to the Mexican t four sons to sacrifice, two to ! And when she wus 80 she was lovely, loved a throat ribbon, ‘'was afraid of a caterpillar and had the light of battle and courage behind her faded eyes! Eve {s a mystery. Eve is made the sea and the lJand and the sky and of many things brought from heaven! Eve {s afraid of an angleworm, but she will turn and face the hardest things in life for a tender spot in her heart, and bécause she loves will smile under stress.and heartbreak and give her life for her beauty in a pinch! —NELL BRINKLEY. saving the world, and making it happler. Like any other young girl in the same situation, she had thought principally of saving her own skin. And remembering that this had been se, she could not but be a little shaken as to her own powers and worthiness. She believed herself a human being for the time she should re- main on earth, but not a.human being born of humap varents. In Heaven she had been all Celestial, and would be Celestial once more when she returned to Heaven. She had merely been changed temporarily into a human being by the Divine Wil for Divine purposes. That was what she belleved, with the com- plete faith of a little child. ‘The Octagon fire did not really rhake | Celestia’s faith in herself, her origin or her destiny, but it set her to asking questions. What line must she draw be- tween herself as a human being ani her- self as & Celestial? Already certain pains of this-earth and certain pleasures had Leen trust upon her. She had not been able to prevent the fire, or to escape its No more could she keep her beart from beating a little quicker when ever she thought of Tommy. Howv long was she to be a human being? Until her work was done—a few years at best. She weuld have to eat and to drink and to sleep. What other indulgences could she grant herself? Omly such as would not interfere with her work. 1Is the best work done on a minimum of pain or pleasure or & maximum? If she bad to love all men, was there one whonv she must not love more than all the uthers rut together? Had Douglass, before he broke his arm, worked better or “vorse because he had a loving and faithful wife? Why far better, of course! He had irdeed at one time been in the drinking way, but a pair of eyes, you wouldn't have thought them especially bright or blue, but he did—had saved him. - Already Tommy had helped her with ber work, If only by the fact of maving her life so that she could work, If he could be always near her, wouldn't he be always helping? And she couldn't answer any of these questions satisfac- torlly. There were (wo voices in her mind. Ono kept saying “Let yourself go ~—love him—it's all right,” while the other kept saying “Of course you are human for the moment, but you have no right to lbt as other humans are. You musn't let one man displace from your heart that love -of the whole world \which it con- tains ] Epicurean Episodes : By DOROTHY DIX. Among the most popular hors d'oceuvres is Deviled Mother-in-Law Indeed, al- though this dish is highly indigestible and certain to digagree with every one walk, knotted them together, ‘made a |Celestia had thought very little about | Who partakes of it, * it practically forms the staple diet of most families, where it is not only served at the beginning of a meal, but also at the end, and fre- quently through the midale. There are fifty- seven different va- rleties of Deviled Mother - in - Law, each household having its own cherished recipe, and each a little more acid and vinegary and full of pep than the other. Not only Is this the case, but men and women vie with each other in con- cocting this savory relish until it is hard to say whether the husband or the wife is the greater artist in its manufacture. Hence it is not at all uncommon to see two Deviled Mothers-in-Law served up at the same table at the same time. Strictly speaking, Deviled Mother-in- Law is a family dish, especially when it is particularly high seasoned, but oocca- sionally it ls passed around to guests and acquaintances. This, however, is good form. Deviled Mother-in-Law, like ripe watermelon, shquld only be partaken of in the privacy of the home circle. Good taste demands this. , 1t 18 to be obmerved that one of the peculiarities of this plate is that while we all have an insatiable appetite for the Deviled Mother-in-Law of our own make, we do not !n the least care for that prepared by our friends, and a very Mttle of It satiates us and palls upon our palate. To obtain a Mother-in-Law for deviling it 18 mever necessary to either buy it or to go out and hunt for one yourself. It is always wished upon you, and what- ever king you get you are sure to think that it is the very worst that ever hap- pened, and you would have preferred any other knawn verlety. Occasionally a man make a confection of his MotHer-in-Law by » ng it down In a p of sweet words and loving attemtions and sugary compliments.' This is never done unless the Mother-in-Law belongs to the apecies known as the Rich Widow, which is simply bulging with money. The results in such cases are sald to be so highly sutisfying that the men whe cook up Mother-in-Law in this way a undertakes to not | hard: 'Fulhln for me to stay in evenings | ~ | enabled to knock off all other work, and to ride in automobiles, and drink vin- tage wine, and live on lobster Newburg and planged steaks, and only use Mother in-Law as a sweetener. So far .as {s known, women have no knack at preparing any variety of weetened Mother-in-Law, and never try thelr hands at anything but deviling it. As a matter of fact, men seldom attempt it either, for it scems to be the consensus of opinion that to do anythipg but pickle & Mother-in-Law {s as unnatural as it is to make soup out of buttermilk, or to put sugar on fish, or pepper on straw- ‘berries. Some people commit these gas- tronomic erimes, but they show a queer and exotic raste. To devil a Mother-in-Law man style, take the Mother-in-Law that you have unconsciously acquired by marriage, and give It the once over to mee where the tender :pots are. It is sure to have a few sensitive places that you can dis- cover by a little careful study. Then get out your hammer and knock these ! — | Advice to Lovelorn By BEATRION FAIRFAX Stay at Home. Deax Miss Fairfax 1 am about to| graduate from public grammar school | and am considered exceedinlls' pretty. 1| have heen recelving attention from youns men, some of whom are 20 and 21 years old. 1 delight in going to theaters, so have pted some of their offers. ! It 15 [to stu There is a young man, one | ear my senior, whom, ol all that 1 know, s the only one that comes up to my house. He fs & refined, ctable and educated younk man, well fiked by my parents you think it right for me to k0 out with so many young men or Ao you advise he. staying home and study- ing? FANNIE Stay at home and study. Surely you| can be no more than 15 years old at the | most If you are just being graduated from grammar school. Then you are far too ¥oung to be golng about with young men. It you are older, you are backward for your and ought to try very hard to advance yourself by earnest study and application to vour work. Better Not. {show her courtesy, gave several theater | parties in"her honor. Since the lady re- turned home she hus written me several lotters of a friendly nature and I in turn | replied. Recently I have had several urg- | ent invitations to visit her and a request | for my photograph. I fear she is con struing wy lettets to mean more than || intend thev should. Now, I am not in| love with this young lady at all only as | a distant friend. and as | am & man of 50 years and she is ung lady of only 25, dlease advise m vou think it best for ‘me to continue my corresnonden: ith her. WORRIED. —_— Deviled Mother-in-Law—An Intimate Recipe for Consumption in the Home until they are beaten into a jellw Of course, you can do this much more thorouglily if vour Mother-in-Taw is al- ways handy about the house, but with persistence you can turn out a neat job even when Mother -in-Law is far away. Then you can give it absent treatment, which serves every purpose. Having carefully prepared Motherin- Law, make a sguce as follows: Take a ton of criticlsm,” the more acid the better; a barrel of ridicule, a bushel of asserted prejudices, and an unlimited amount of determination not to be bossed by the wife's motner. Dissolve all of these in plenty of temper, and steep the Mother- in-Law in it until it becomes sour enough to set your teeth on edge. Serve this dish with a garnish of sneers and jeers and cold lorks and frozen faces. Deviled Mother-in-Law & Bonne Famme Is prepared much in the same way. Women. however, always begin making this dish by separating the Mother-in-Law from the son it adores. This breaks its heart and makes it easy to pickle. Having thus prepared the Mother-in-Law for the pickling process, the housewife submerges it in & sauce the basis of which is jealousy, but to which have been added equal parts of temper, nerves, stinginess and malice. Add no salt to this mixture, as the tears of the Mother-in-Law make it sufficlently briny. Lot the Mether-in-Law soak in this mixture untit it acquires the desired peppery flavor. Deviled Mother-in-Law is highly pecom- mended as a hot weather dish, as it is guaranteed to send the temperalure of any table about which it is freely passed down to zero. N For A Hot 2% ever gums, overhs @sthers dust or dries out. Far petter than any mineral lin- 42 N. Brosdway, New York