Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 30, 1915, Page 9

\ f Romance By ANN LISLE, J I had a lighted lamp to bear; 1 hedld it high that all might see; None /seemed to look—or looking, care— 1¢ grew a leaden weight to me. { i No npore I tended then the flame, JBut sought instead gay paths of light. [} On t‘hlt gay path no flower was sweet, No wild bird trilled in roundelays, Into! their glare my dim lamp came— ( 1 wondered once I' d thought it bright. ¢ o No -‘Qoolln. shadows laved my feet, o soft nights followed hectic days. 4 ‘ 1My eyes were wet LoY Andl sadness caught my tired heart, with bitter shame: In my hands the lamp still burned— ¢ Still flickered there that lambent flame. i set that lighted lamp on high In joy, tho' men might never see; T¥he radiance reached the starry sky, | And kind eyes smil ] led and backoned me /Breach of Promise Suit w, /is Block to Matrimony Other Thing on Earth that Makes Majority of 1\ to]‘‘Wounded Heart." Y By * DOROTHY DIX. e annodincement that a woman has been o 'warded $115,000 in a breach of so sulft will fill adventuresses with a n\l fresh impetus to the senti- ey k1 rafting Bve, bug” it will pow ¥l judicious men to grieve. ‘or there s no er such effectual /duccurngrr of mat- rimony as the breach of prom'se suit. It blocks all of the approaches to romance, for if a man-must do his courting with the fear of the law be- fore his eves, if he suspicions, that his lady " 16ve is keeping tab on her Kisses, anidyassess:: ing them 'at so; much per Jiss,"and if he has’ to. pause when he starts to write a billet doux to consider how it will sourd. when it is regd aloud fn court by an unsympathetio lawyer, why none but the foothardy will venture on so hazardous an undertaking as paying at- tention to a woman. Thus woman, with her_own hand, will Lave Liled the goose that lays the golden oge, and cut herself off from the chance of catching a husband, because many & man who begins by- playing in lave en by falling in love in earnest. th tar The ¥ of fiirtation runs straight to tha to the contrary, Cupld does ot offen shoot at sight. A man may be cver so strongly attracted to a woman, fout hefore he pundertakes to stand for her bLills for Yife he wants to get well ac- quainted with her, also ‘to analyze his own heart throbs, and to do this he must have freedom to advance or with- draw. If he suspects that the maiden has a bres of promise suit to spring out upon him like a jack-in-the-box, he will be scared off from the attempt. In all good truth, there is no other ing on earth that makes the majority women. so ashamed of their sex as hen they hear that a woman {s suing (Man for breach of promise, for a breach of prontisé suit is either black- mail or vulgarity unspeakable., There is even a kind of grotesque humer in the phraseology im which such suite are cast. It is enough to make a cynic laugh when one reads of a man “trifling with the tender affections and the gulleléss Innocence” of a woman shrewd enough to keep every scrap of a letd to show in court, or to hear of the damages to the “delicate susceptibility of & woman's nature’ when that woman can shamelessly bare to the curious eyes of the Wworld her hurt heart, can drag cvery secret- of her romance out to the pudlic gaze and parade the fact that she has been jilted and forsaken and Is try- ing to force herself upon an unwilling husband.- There is.no doubt that the man who wins the trusting heart of a young girl and then forsakes her—who loves and rides ‘away—richly deserves to be pun- ished for it. But the women who suffer such wrongs are not the ones who bring the suifs for breach of promise. A woman whose heart is really broken doesn’t take it into court. Her one sure instinct is to hide it. Her delicate sus- veptibilities have, Indeed, been trampied under_foot, but she knows that no money cdn buy her back the love she has lost, TAKE THIS -‘dlull‘-im:dn-dm rest-price ng ‘machines, of | @& bundred other uses with every bottle, 10¢, 25¢, 50¢ ~all stores. Wo‘amen So Ashamed of Sex as Demnnd for Da.mages and her ene burning desire is to keep | the world from seeing how she suffers There s one remedy for the preach of | promise suit scandal that would put an effectual quietus on it, and that is to try such cases before women Jjuries. | There would probably never be another | | such case, for no woman would be willing to have twelve other women figure out the damages to her Injured heart. If she | did, she wouldn't get enough money to pay her car fare home. hard on each other, or disposed to favor the man, but because women know each other too well to be taken in by any fairy ture years being beguiled into falling in love with a faithless man. It is perfectly why a man proposed than he could. Also no woman jury would lay muc cured by a poultice of the long green. Such hurts to the heart are not real breaks, they are only superficial cracks. When it deals with women an Amer- ican jury is not justice. It is gallantry gone to seed. A pretty woman—and ugly women have the discretion not to sue the | men who don't want to marry them—has only to shed a few pearly tears in a lace handkerchief, and twelve sympathetic men assess damages on the man in the case. This pity for beauty in distress | does honor to the jury's heart, but not its head. Moreover, it is not justice, for & woman capable of bringing a breach of promise suit is perfectly able to take care of herself in love affairs or any business deal. The breach of promise suit nulsance should be abated: It puts the weapon of the blackmaller in the hands of every unprincipled woman. And it shanies every delicate-minded woman by dragging the holy things of the soul through the mire. — e Science for Workers 1 By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN Q—""What Yeretzlan. A.~To answer this question as it should be would occupy one page of The Bee, since it is onme of the most intricate problems in the entire range of science. I have often experinmented with the gorgeous displays of polarized light colors before classes; but explanation fis, in- deed, difficult and complex. The short- est definition is vibration of waves of \light on one plane. Dull red waves are of such length that 33,000 are included in a train one inch long and dim violet 63,000 to the inch. Tie a rope to a wall at one end and hold the other in the hand; stand from five to ten feet away and shake the rope violently. Then crude es Wil ‘appear to travel In the rope from hand to wall. Move the hand rapldly in every possible direction be- tween horisontal and perpendicular, and the waves will imitate the motions of the hand, But suddenly move the hand en- tirely in one plane, the waves will all be in one plane. They are sald to be polarized | Polarized light presents strange prop- {erties in comparison with natural white Hght in from the sun. Iceland spar and tourmaline have marked polarization | powers. Spar doubly refracts incident light and produces two images. The atoms or molecules within produce this remarkable effect. A number of other rystals have this property. Mineral salts appear in gorgeous colors in polar- ized light, especially If in the field of { view of a microscope. Chlorate of potas- slum i an example, giving colors of | sreat beauty, and more if rotated in the | polerized radiation. Light can be polar- ized by reflection from polished surface nearly as well as by refraction in pass- ing through transparent crystals. Thus, T have a double reflection polariscope up here to attach-to the telescope in view ing the sun. It makes the light less bril- liant than the original and not injurious to the eyes. Nicol primms of Iceland spar is polarized light?'~ Arsen ation of light. Polariscopes are in THE BE The G This would not be because women are | story about a credulous creature of ma- | true that every man thinks he {s the pur- | suer and woman the pursued, but most | women could tell a great deal more about | h stress on the heart injuries that can be | (COPYright, 1915, by active commercial use by the government | N€ calamity the Star Co. All For- elgn Rights Reserved.) Synopsis of Pevious Chapters. Aner the tragic death of John Ames his prostrated wife, one of Amer- 1u- greatest beauties, dies. At her death Prof. BStilliter, an agent of the interests kidnaps the beautiful 3-year-old ) girl und brings her up In Where she sees no man, but thini is taught by angels who instruct I her mission to reform the world. At the age of 1§ she is suddeniy thrust into the world where akents of the interests are ready to pretend to find her. The one to feel the loss of the little Amesbury girl most, arter she had been spirited away by tue Interests, was Tommy Barclay. Fifteen years later Tommy goes to the Adirondacks. The interests are responsi ble for the trip. By accident he is the first to meet the little Amesbury girl, as she comes forth from her paradise as Celestia the girl from heaven. Neither Tommy nor Celestia recoknizes each other. Tommy finds it an easy matter to rescue Celestia from Prof. Stilliter and they hide in the mountains; later they are pursued by Stilliter and escape to an island where they spend the night. Phat night, Stliter, following his In- dian guide, reaches the island, found Celestia and Tommy, but did not disturb them, In the morning To oes for a swim, During his absence Stilliter at- tempts to steal Celestla, who runs to Tommy for help, followed by Stilliter. The latter at once realizes Tommy's pre dicament. He takes advantage of it by taking clothol Stilliter reaches Four 'lllh Celestia fust_in time to catoch an ress for New York, there he places ellll in Bellevue hospital, where her unll)’ is proven by the authorities, Tommy reaches mllevne just before Stil- \iter's departure. Tommy's first aim was to get Celestia away from Stilliter. After they leave Bellevue Tommy s unable to get any hotel to take Celestia In owing to her costume. But later he persuades his father to keep her. When he goes out to the taxi he finds her gone. She falls into the hands of white slavers, but escapes and goes to live with r fam- fly by the name of Douglas. When their son dle returns home he finds right in his own house, Celestia, the girl which the underworld has offered a re- ward that he hoped to get. Celestia secures work in a large gar- ment factory, Where a great many girls are employed. Hero she shows her pe- cullar power, and males friends with all her girl companions. By her talks to the girls she is able to calm a threatened strike, and the ‘‘boss” overhearing her in moved to grant the rellef the girls wished, and also to right a great wrong he had done one of them. Just at this point the factory catches on fire, and the work room s soon a blazing furnace. Celestin refuses to eacape with the other girls, and Tommy Barclay rushes in and car- ries her out, wrapped in a big roll of cloth SEVENTH EPISODE. “But you don't, and you don't believe | in her crusade. What is her ldea—the usual thing? To destroy all existing conditions, lump the meney, divide up, ano begin all over again?" “No,” said Tommy, laughing. “That's what you think my idea is. Celestia lsn't for destroying large fortunes deed some of them might become even more swollen if her doctrines became law). Bhe belleves thut there is cnough weath in the country to make all the in- habitants clean and comfortable if we could do away with the waste of money; if in other words the United States were run to make money instead of to spend it. Pausible, {sn't 1t? And absurd.” “Why absurd? T have no quarrel with her theory.” Ot course not. You'd be one who would Lave to profit by it willy nilly."” “The absurd part is to think that the | great American people can be made to | You see, Tommy—thinkers in custom houses in testing syrups “r\\nn only work as long as they can think, solutions of sugar. Tourmaline and quartz possess marked polarization prop- [time. But there is more to this youne | erties. 1 have experimented for hours 4t & tUme with the wonders of polarized light. always fascinated with the splen dor of the colors, @orgeous and beantiful | bevond any description by use of words !but polfticians can and do work all the woman than | had imagined. You say #he has a following? That giows by leaps and bounds Barcluy appearcd (o be somewhal i fe ¢ not spesk lor me m studied the chandeds: and not only Celestia’s, but Tommy's | Corners | + | potentates, (in- | OMAHA, THURSDAY, oddes tapped his knee with an ivory letter |opener. Then he tumed once more to Tommy and ssked him a question. “Where do you come in?’ “I'm very fond of her'' sald Tommy, | simply. “Hum!" “Perhaps 1 strongly.” “Do you mean that you are paying her serious attention?” “In so far as lhs will recelve ‘m very sorry,” sald Barclay “I'm sorry that you are sorry."” “I¢ at your age,” sald Barclay, "I had found myself seriously In love with a &irl in her station of life I should have had pity on her.” should put - it more them." “You haven't understood. I wish o marry her.” “I understood perfeotly. But your |triends are not golng to recognize her as their equal. You can mever feel upon |terms of real equality with her associ- utes.” We should have each other.' Barclay laughed harshiy to itself? Hate, jealousy, jare enduring passions, but love has al- most as much constitution as an orchid.” “There are exceptions.'’ “You have no right to try to prove that at the expense of someone you think you love, or at the expense of someone who for many years has been enduringly fond ot you." He smiled very kindly. “Yourself, sir!’ “Myself. Better go away, Tommy. It will hurt, but not for long. Why not take a few friends for a cruise. I'll send you round the world, ican hobnob with maharajas and Malay catch mahseer, shoot tigers, race elephants—"' “Don't you. think I'm old enough know my own mind?" “How about her career? Sle seems to be dolng good in the world. Few are. You don't want to spoll her life to | "Oh, It's no use arguing,” sald Tommy, |rising, I must marry her—if she will have me. Even if I thought it wrong and unfair, I am no longer a free agent Barclay shook his head. ‘“How will you support her?” “Why--" Barclay was still smiling “You've had a great deal of money to {spend. What have you saved?" | “I'm not a mouse,” sald Tommy. “and you are not & cat. You are cutting me off, because you homestly think it will be for my good. Well, God knows I don’t know how to make a living, but I can try." “Whenever you about Celestla, |promise that you will not try to marry her, I shall be more than glad to you once more upon your old footing." “Well,” sald Tommy, “we've had a §00d many differences of opinion, but | we've never quarreled, have we? | He held out his hana “My hat off, said Barclay, best sportsman I have ever know: But in his heart he thought that Tommy would very soon tire of earning a living, {and his word went forth to the effect {that he would not look with approval {on any institution which should offer {salarled employment to Thomas Steele. And from one institution to another this change your mind the are used as analysers to detect polar-|#Xeclte so drastic a change in their lJaws word spread like rumor. | |—with the politiclans of all parties cry- | But Tommy did not at once look for |employment. Of course that, considering |how difficult it 1 to find employment, | would have been the sensible thing to do, Meanwhile no less important a person {But he did what a lover would do. He went at once to look for Celestia that Mary Blcekstone had looked for Colestia and found her. Descending from e ar of fa 1 make #he had rugg JULY The Most Imposin S Story Ever Create Barclay tries to persuade T ‘Have you any idea how long the love | of the average young couple is sufficient greed—those | If you like. You | or give me & definite | put | 1915 Read It Hcr:—See It at the Movie ommy to give up Celestia. the front door bell of the Douglass house |and beeh admitted by Freddie the Fer- ret, become to be ever as near Celestia as | possible, to do chores for her and to run | errands. “You want to see her?" asked Freddie ‘elostia? Yes." “'Step right in." He ushered her into a front room where Celestia war busy at a table covered with papers. “High-Flyer to see you,” answered Freddie, and withdrew Celestia rore and came shyly forward. She 4id not know her visitor by name. She had never seen her befof: But something told her that the slim beautl- Motlon Picture whose chie€, pleasure in life it had | Serial and : : : : : ful girl in the tailor-made suit was not Altcgether a stranger Should 1 have made an appointment askeq Miss Blackstone ‘furely not. This s much simpler von't you sit down? Mary wuas careful to choose a chalr which stood with its bagk to the light I came,” she sald, “upon a most | delicate.errand 1 Yes We have a mutual friend Mr. Steele H How did you guess” None of my other friends would be at all likely to be a friend of yours, too.| Al my friends In this world, so far, are | either poor people or laborers. | Al but Mr. Stesle?" Celestia nodded | I've come to spéak to you about him. | Ho has as you fore him. know a great future be He is the 1dol of his father's | heart, and one of the best-loved young men in New York. His friends very naturally—please don't misunderstand me—it's nothing against you-but we've all heard of the melodramatic Octagon fire rescue, and we all know how suséep- | tible he is to romance and beauty and— | you are beautiful. Do you mind if 1 say | that. You are perfectly beautiful—" { “‘But I belong to a different station in life than this mutual friends of ours who is 80 susceptible to romunce and beauty, and you have come to beg off for him with argumonts about blasted prospects and ruined cureers and soclal ostra- | clsm? (To Be Continued Tomerrow.) Two Pictures of | Copyright, 1915, Star Company. By ELLA WHEELER WILULOX, | There has been a beautiful picture {shown to the eye at one of the New |York theaters. 1t is a charity benefit {for little homeless children. |went up and re- |vealed three = ex- quisite young girls in' the morning of life, dressed in classic flowing |robes of white, {seated at three |golden harps. The stage setting back |of them repre- |sented & fair road, winding up a ma- The curtain {jestic mountain { side. While the leve was dazzled {and delighted with {the radiant picture |the ear was next |enchanted with the |heavenly strains of the “Angel's Seren- * played by the thres young girls on Ithe three harps, accompanied by one of them, who sang the alr in a volce of rare sweetness | The memeory of this beautiful picture |nw cupled the mind of the writer of this {article when a friend sald, “Come with {me to the hospital I want you to see [some of the people in whom I am in- |terested there.” The first people to be |scen were those in the nervous ward, {men and women who from various |causes, were on the polnt of nervous | prostration or more serious malady, and who had been sent by their friends or relatives to be studled by the physiolans in charge. After thelr cases were de- |elded upon they would be sent away to other institutions for further treatment. A brief time in these wards under the |direction of the leading physiclan 1s con vincing proof of the vast need in the |land of further development along eugen- foal lines. A large percentage of the |patients who come into these werds for lexamination can trace theilr troubles {back to bad inheritance. The sins of the fathers and the mothers' have developed paresis, insanity and epflepsy in the chil- dren.” Aloohollsm and sexual immoral- ity, nicotine and drugs, all thess have {helpod produce the wretched crop of |human beings who are found in the neurotic wards of our institutions. Atter visiting these wards the physiclan sald: “Now do you want to see the dope’ victima? They may interest you 80 we proceeded to the drug ward. And ywhat a sight we beheld' More than half a hundred young men, ull under the age of heroin M morphine There were {of %, sufering from one cause—the Youth Contrasted many cots in the ward and each cot con- tained a victim suffering from the first | stages of this affliction, unable to ait up | and in the greater part of the cuses in a stupor. Others, attired in dressing §owns, were wandering about the room, | | him. patiently passing away the time until they were pronounced cured. One young ' man dressed In a trim busine uit, quite | normal in appearance, was about to take | | his departure that afternocon. The doc- | tor questioned him for the benefit of the | visitors regarding his case. “How Inn. |did you use the drug?' he asked, lnfl f | “What caused you to begin the h.\m:‘ | “It was something over a year ago,’ the | | man replied. “I was a professional in | the world of sports. A man told me I | would have very much more speed and akill it 1 took heroin, so 1 took it and for | & little time what the man said seemed |to be true. Then I began to go down, untfl 1 landed here. Now, thank God, I um cured of the habit und shail never 80 back to it The otber men In the room were the color of clay, devold of all animation and | virility of expression. One by ore the | doctor questioned them, and one by they all responded, “We began the of the drug because we were told it would make us feel better, brace us up ind glve us more ‘g0, " At least & dozen declared they had acquired the habit in the pool room. Not one claimed toat he lLad taken the drug (o relleve any phys ical ache or ailment When we roalize that this is but one institution of hundreds in Greater New | York, where similar congregations of in- fortunate drug WVictims can be seen, we must awaken to the coneciousness of the | great menace for the race which lies in | the drug habit. It is well to have lawe, stringent and severe, for the pnnlshment of all the monsters who sell drugs to | thelr feilow beings, or who induce thum to begin the habit; but that is only decl- Ing with the habit after it is acquired | More tmportant than this is the awaken ing of the minds of parents, teachers and friends to the danger w threatens the | vouth of the land. Youths and girls are | frequently in the grasp of this octopus, | while the parents are wholly unvouscious of the situstion—in fact, unconscious that suchia drug as herein exists in the world one use | Pafents must awaken and learn the danger which lurks at their threshold They must talk to their young children on these subjects and give them the tection of knowledge War we know is a great evil aud threateéns the destruction of hundreds of thousands while it reges In any land But war Is only periodical. The drug babit is ever with us and its nenace to the country is today greuter than that of war. Let us awaken and protect our young from a habit which renders existence far worse than death pro | read and answered by a and beld in strict mfllx.. A Fictionless Fable Being About the Ideal Marriage e By ANN LISLE, There were once two brothers who had | reached manhood's estate and feit it was time to take unto themseives wives. One had theories about marriage and the other was in love with a woman. Sald the theorist: “Opposites attract. 1 being a tall, slender blond, shall marry & short, plump brunette. That will be well from the eugenic point of view, and be- ! sides, we will afford a pleasing contrast to the eye of the beholder. I am fond of art. music and home life, so 1 shall wed a woman who likes outdoor sports, books and travel. That will give us a wide fleld of interests. 1 am phlegmatic and Indifferent, so I shall marry a woman who I8 excitable and high strung. Then we will stimulate each other.” Sald the lover: “I love my sweetheart partly becausc she s dear to me and partly because the same things are dear to each of us. We enjoy each other's pet enjoyments, We are outwardly a bit alike, too—I nave heard people say we look almost as If we might be brother and sister—but we are more than a ‘bit’ allke in tho mental traits, We like the samo people. I like a great many of the characteristics in her I have always ad- mired in myself, She is just enough shorter than 1 to reach my heart, and she is just enough plumper to be femi- ninely alluring. We don't clash on opinions and we don't offer enough phys- feal contrast to attract the attention of others=but we do attract each other. 8o the theorist married his opposite and the lover married bis counterpart. And this i what happened: The op- osites attracted each other—but mot for long! The little brunette came to realize that her tall, thin blonde husband made her look dark and chunky by con- trast, and she hated to be seen out with He, on the other hand, found that a volume of poetry could not offer him solace for the concerts to which his wife would not accompany him. And a wife on the golf links is not worth two on the hearth rig. Nor does abllity to row a boat presuppose a talent for steering the matrimonial craft, And a tall, thin hus- band does not feel the same urge to take | €ross-country walks with his “‘tub of a wife'’ that a flance knows about romantic strolling with his dear little “pleasingly plump” sweetheart. S0 the theorist and his wite went their various ways—he with long, lackadaisical | strides roamed after a popular singer who could manage a chafing dish very well. And she, with perky nervousness, betook herself to a divorce court. For. in the | end, opposites attract—their likes! And the lover and his wife went plod- ding along. She loved his sleek dark hair, and he adored the waves in her dusky tresses. And she thought his ruddy complexion the perfection of brunette splendor—while he loved the clear ollve of her cheeks. She could just reach his heart, 50 he stooped down often to make it easier for her. They were #0 alike that they understood each other admirably, And yet—being two separate humans, they knew the impenetrable solitude that every one has to suffer. Only It wi easy to bridge differences with under- standing. If he grew tired of Schopen- haver and wanted to read Oulda, she could understand that, for dld not she often weary of grand opera scores and long to hear oniy fox-trots. And every one sald, “Isn’t that a nic couple! How like each other they grow And the moral of that is that if you are a little swallow breasting the air, there {8 no reason ‘why you should imagine it your destiny to go plunging into a brook to consort with speckled trout! 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