Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 5, 1915, Page 8

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OMAIIA, MONDA One of the Indian Mysteries | By GARRETT F. SERVISS, There is In the center of New York | state a region of pecullar romance, the ancient home of the Troqueis Tndlans, the cslebrated “Five Natlons,” who dwell along the whole { lengih of the Mo hawk valley and westward, around the “Finger lakes," to and beyond the Genesee rivenr, Much of the fasci nation of our col- onial history, be- fore the revolution. ary war, is due to the part that these indlans played In it It may be a sur- % prise for many | readers to learn that there are still living in the state of New York, and upon lands owned by thelr ancestors. several.thou #and Indians belonging to the various ] tribes of the Five Nations, with th: - ception of the Mohawks, the t form- | dable of them all. who emigrated to! Canada after the war of revolution be- | san. ~ | Many of these red men, whose ‘wnl—\ grandfathers carried the tomahawk and | scalplng knife, and filled the bearts of | their white enemies with midnight terror | when their awful whoop rang from the | woods surrounding some lonely clearing, | or little stockade village, are now indus- ' triqus farmers or mechanics, while thelr ‘wives and daughters havg keep house in the white man’ Some of them are Christians, and others ! retain thelr pagan beliefs. Anyone who | Wishes to wee some of the interesting #ights, persons and things of his own country before going abroad for amuse- £ | ¥ stance, to that in the valley of Unonda G e In the American Museum of Natural I Tawe=ci 1 History in New York cify are collections - ; '1'11 ©of tools, weapons and other things be- - longing to them, and also most reallstic Mife size figures of Indian men and women engaged In their ordinary occupations and amid their ordinary surrougdings. ~Indian ecr-:ou Of the great gifts of Ameriea to the world. The New York, ‘Wate! wet, sloek A '3 rls "t gy by e AR oo tching three wet, sloek, glimmering, laughing, graceful gl pumpkina and- squashem, it consti- <« trotting with diamond splashes of striking feet out of the shallow there in the shallow water, just as Cupyright N &4 o . ment and instruction, will. do well to o o S ¥ 3 W & make « trip to one of the so-called In- c/ . e D ezt dian reservations in this state, for in- i ‘m-"' it | ‘ 4 w» o — ‘ T o= B & fow miles south of Syracuse. I : ; " et Al @ , Nell Brinkley Sn_y.:‘ 1 and throat, the flash of trim limbs unweighted by bloomers water- Jogged, suddenly T wondered what she would say if the shade of our gran'mother, in her bathing suit of long ago, could grow into shape Mademoiselle This-Summer, these 3 their principal vegetable food. sea-water, just In from a swim (all this the other day), taking & three of 1915, came racing out of the deep blue sed! Oh, me! Indlans lived In peculiar structure: Read It Here—See It at the Movies e =1 ‘-§§§‘§i‘§§‘ ' Il over /the country and even in | speak, or astonishment at percelving so By Gouverneur Morris England and on the continent. many upturned faces. Nor did she start; and In New York Barclay was not only a | by saying what she was golng (3 talk i financlal, but & soctal leader. Once a year | about when she | really did not get' +| Charles W. Goddard ho gave a'reat ball, to which everybody , started. At the point where Celestia ' who was invited went, unless sickness |\hegan, apother would have been half| or some other major cause had laid them | ynrough. She plunged right into the! by the heels, But it 1a not Here & question | peart of things with a compelling sweet- | of Barclay's great ball. Those who looked | po ™ & ™ 0 ness that were irre- t him or up o him In & social | gt ™ i that he had set the P. of | Gestures as a rule are uot to illumi- |consequently leas caréful survey ot them, thinking what freedom they swam In, almost Would she say; “Luddy!” and run for it, or what, do you think? seaworthy, watching their flying halr, c‘ttchln‘ the glimmer of arms ‘Would she open her black eyes and wag her -ldq curls u/d tip her smmrwes== % By Nell Brinkley | | bonnet over her eyes to shut out the strange sight? 1 don’t know.' But I'm afraid the shade of our gran-mother wou)d Just vanish in thin air! Remember, you who shake your heads along with the horrified shade-—Gran'mother only paddled in warm, shallow water then— while our girl now swims! And she never could if she got Gran’- mother’s voluminous skirt once over her head! By DORGTHY DIX, A man writer In a recent periodical ex- Ppresses the opinion that the reason there is_ & decline and falling off in matri- mony is because the modern woman is charming ' to man than her grapd- mother was, and destrable. He says that women have climbed down of their own way approval on the girl from heaven and nate what is belng said, but either to| NEEINA t8 know het, draw attention from the awkwardness Celeatia wan showered with Invitations, | y")o0k o7 polse of the speaker, or as most of which she lined. But she did for not daciine them ull. It waa hér duty |7 °UUSt to & superfluous energy for man who had been born with a golden #poon in his mouth and’ the man who had ter hands lightly clasped behind her been raised with a revolver in'his hip back. She rarely made a gesture of any poc] / res s0rt, and never a gesture which for one m" o moct Imos ! indeed h: ty. ?‘r“, .‘."E Sapones |tevel ‘ot democracy. loving almost all.[her voice or er beauty. m‘ ! -w b J:t. the girl from heaven. 'IP nor Senecas were t! while the | finds it &l easy matier (o puane Ut ey {135, b5 BOGE, Sad rescue of thie poor, If the rioh were worthiess | the secrets concerning Celestia. She ‘=1 &8 a'class, she had to admit their clever: | knew that her own father would not spend the L "Fhat ht, ter, lollnw‘i. his 1n- | with pighteousness. They fetod her and | was to his interest to do #0. And, when and Mn‘\.y' &:‘3 not 4@7‘ made much of her not only her father professed bellef, but 51‘ mo! Tomumy She was asked to speak in the ballroom | the man to whom she was engaged and 1 he, e b ek, St |of a great house overlooking Central | guch collossi of the business world st B el by Btiliiter, | PAYE. The invitation to do so was Insti- | Barciay and Sturtevant, Mary, in the pro- | guted by Mary Biackstbne, but Celestla | Amorican phrase, “began to smell a rat.'! VADIAgS O atal) [d14 not know this and the name slgned | It #t was to their advantage to belle E ches Four Carners | 10 the note of invitation was one Which |it wue also hers. Nevertholoss, Celestia's with Celestis fust_in time (o catch an {tempted her to accept, It was a name |arguments and magneilsm oply served T N e oaniial” wiera Jio# | which above all others staed, in the |to stiffe Xinrs's nndovelanding into op- a0 |Sanity I8 proven by the ' & ges. opinion ‘of the man in the strest for all | position. For it is «imost an axiom that Y reaches Bellevue Just before Stil- | that s richest and most foolish |to those whom we hate we are never of !"'“" 4 To this function, Tommy Barclay was |easy persuasion. laway hvg stilliter, tr:: mp H" among those invited (all part of Mary | But the other hearts in that audisnce ellow 1 Bl e ls, unable o Eel §uY | Blackstone's plam), but though he yearned |went out to Celestia. She gathered hearts o lh-fd‘_l: %“‘- Ry Tig | 10 Do wherever Celostia was, in spits of | o Ellen Terry used to, as Madame Duse. were un- | I to Ir: . When u:. out | thelr latest quarrel, he was too busy ! sng to the Iroquois tribes. | Hisa " the "banas of wht vers falls | trampios the streeta of New York in |for there actually were minds, and sound g thpas and aobs 1o live " . [Search of & Job to accept. Mary had |ones, these felt the privilege of having - o~ m-mormm\fi% hoped that among those to the manner |been among the first to realise that a :: born, Celestla, In spite of her genuine |pew day might very well be about to for the minds in that audience #ood looks and magnotic voice would ap- | dawn upou o dark world. Men and | pear insigniffcant It not Immpossible. | women there were present who highty re- eRere n groat gy Siis|She was doomed (o disappointment. solved that mever, never would they do Here she shows her pe- Celestla, abandoning for the oocasion (so and so aguwin. Some Kept thelr reso- and makes friends with her work-girl dress, and assuming once |lutions for several da others for long ey gy e | more that graceful flowing white gar-|periods of time. Merely the intention of the “boss" mrn‘un.‘ her is | ment in which she was first seen (outside | living more wisely and more righteously Teltef the wirls Wished iq Heaven) not only set a new standard |is not perhaps enough, hut God knows it o, Sreat, wrong he m of beauty, but started a new fashion in|ls something. and the work | 47ess, and a Kettleful of jealousy among She finlshed speaking, her hends drop- | ia | the women, {ped to hor sides, and ber eyes, well one ehd of the tong ballroom-—a |thoush they had been open all along, of mirvors, and silk, bro-|they seemed to open, and she looked al- ‘gurlands, flowers overflow- |M0St frightened and pussied. A roar of s applause rose, and In ithe back of the uddenly-—-and there was slience. g vk o The love'y low-browed face crowned 2 e [t tbe_siron dark halr, the Mtandy. | Svougen shane 1o St her thal they, Do | Kind, ‘unfathomable eyes were ke 2 i).veq her, that use command that had to be obeyed. . M""'““"“"“"‘:flr e v~ Flis never stavied bt axs e (Tp Be Contivued Tomoriow.) \ PR which there is no room in the channels ‘men have no.longer of speech. | any fllustons concern- it ouafisiens. of. wikn -and women, W86 | To ol inny part- Cotestin’ stidd with |ing women beins o the | -Now, although Celestia moved on a calm | Moment drew attention from her words, 'of finer (clay” than voliton from the podestal - that they ve vecupied for elght centuries, that an angelic creature who is more moral, {more spiritual, and Iher brothers, and ey now what attractions, men allke, she found in the ways and | In that crowd of listeners only one heart | he' wunts to m houses of the rich more opportunities to [ &nd understanding were unmoved. ibued on reality, she can offer in place recomnizes sach otber. be amused ahd joyous than in the houses | Mary Blackstone bad an inkling of |of these lost illusions to charm the.mnale into matrimony. This misoxyuist thinks that under ihe Bl fess to belleve a volce that had sud-|new conditions of. the hiwber education ot ! T fhiand ‘where | ness in concealing it. And many of them | prof [ ne eovie s | ey speni 'tha ‘gl ' she could not but belleve were in love | denly risen among the people unless it there s to be a period of sex indiffes ence, in the spiritua) sense, with iner Woman lfletum Charm, Only lllusion Lost Modern Girl, with Skill and Intelligence, Fully as Attrac- A geographical name cannot be regls- tive to Man as Her Grandmother in Youthfulet Days tered as a trade-mark. ‘Do You Know That As a rule, one mile of rallway takes 210 tons of rails. The English Order of the Bath is so called because bathing used to be one of stance, great fragility and delicacy in a | the ceremonies performed at the admis- woman were considered. highly admir- |8lon to knightly dignity. able, Tn the novels of that time, which fairly | “Carmen Sylvia,” the dowager queen of represent the ideals of. that age, the | Roumania, who is an accomplishe? poet, herolne spent much of her time as an | makes a hobby of typewriting most of intesésting invalid lying on the sofa; she | her manuscripts herself. lainted at the sight of a drop of blood, nd when she tottered abroad for a little | To find out whether a lobster is fresh stroll always leaned heavily on the | Put a silver spoon in the water in v'hich hero's arm. it 1s bofled.' If the spoon remains un- Can you picture any young man of to- | turnished it is safe to eat the lobster. day, being charmed by that type of young e | person? You can't. Nobody can. He'd | In the United States census of 1870 a {eall .her sickiy, and leave her to her |record was obtained of the father of a ‘ tralned nurse and & sanatarium. The | family who had named his five chfldren ) and economic independence of woren, type of girl that the modern young man | Imprimis, Finis, Appendix, Addendum and falls for ia the husky young woman who | Erratum. ‘ can play goif all day and dance all night, | and drive a motor car,.and give first ald pocirde o to the injured if anybody gets hurt, and who 1s in no more danger of swooming than he ls. ' Beauty has ever been supposed to be . ‘woman's one best bet, and the one thing that she could count on with. which to lure men Into matrimony. It is still, 1f it in comhined with intelligence and heart, | but the day of the doll-baby woman has’| . {gone forever. Nothing is more common | w . . {now than to hear a man say of some [lay Find_Help in This {woman who is merely pretty, “Oh, she's |g0od enough to look at. I like to dance !with her and to take her into dinner now ard then, but heaven defend me from | go o enoek Mich.—*1 cannot 3 ey that a|ever marrying something that's nothing . :::“a"m.:;m’l::t ol'rundm:: Bu::d.“ imen :but & living pleture. I'd get so' bored | 100 highly of ’W't.h’r'\l)::dll?n: At :: and women, that will not lead to the *ting up safing at & woman who hed A overwgork ;l ] laltar, will take th: place of love and Nothing but a complexion and nothing | |8 4 ki o L3 . ion her mind but her false hair. that I'a | [ wn fl!:-l"’l"‘ | “One migat say, in unswer to thie con- |throw things at her at the end of the fitite is poor I | tenton, that the marriags whish ;.;nm slx months.” i il have that weak, lan- | based on delurion, and which eRher party | enters into under a misapprehension to what the party of the othes part and the quelities that party possess: is & marriage founded on fraud, that is| Woman's lvoks—barring actual hideosity— bound o end disastrously. Certainly the man who marries & woman under n.e;h'lnuy-mm rer cent of the brjdes would fmpression that she 18 & superior being, ‘ and not Just a human belng, subject to |#how, and even the preity ones had sume axactly the same weaknesses and temp- |Other virtue tham their looks to recom- tatiofis, und filled with the same faults Y"""‘ them. aw he ia, 1» ue to have a bitter awnsen-3 As for education, men are no longer The fierce, white light that beats cultivated man demands as a life com- about the breakfast table puts every Padlon & wife with sufficient intelligence chimera to flight, and we see and luow{h know what he's talking about, and to peaple as they really are. Wa see thoir be able to understand his aims and as- souls in negligee bafore they put on their Pirations. The girt who ldoks up into a g their paint, und their rtays. :’-m:a.r:-nl\r: up to make a bluft 8sks what he thinks she thinks, no | before the werld. 13 cut down the number of divoreus. 214 TH L Therefore, the marriage ' ‘hat _was | tounded on ilusion was bound to come flés grandpapa used to wear. |to grief, and if it is true, that men have Nor is the economic independence of | quit permitting themaslvieg ‘o be decelved | Woman such a bdlighting curse upon a | into thinking they were marry'ng angels wWoman's chance of matrimony. as some they ‘were just getting overyday feactionaries anticipated it would be. of women, so much the batter. It It may possitiy destroy the llusion that real mistake, however, that this &ble to hustle out and get a god job, makes. who thinks tMit women end bold it down, but that men find her their charm for men, is that|less charming i amply proved by the to recognize that mew's tastes|fact that the ratio of marriage is larger have changed. and that tho|wmong working girls than it Is amengst today, no more sdmires the same |Society girls. Also as a rule they make woman thai bis great-grgnd- ¢ did than he admires the came cut our great-grandfather's thme, for l.i {fllur manners and other attractions. And this attitude of men towards | ¢ fnld, always tired eel beauty in women is universal. Recall all ! , 1 get a bot- |the weadings you've been to in the last tle of E. Pink- ifive years, and you will see that |heJ Hham’s Vegetable {had Mttle effect on the man's choice imever have had & look In a at a beauty afrald of the blue stocking. In fact, = | {man’t eyes In an artless manner, and longer charnis, for the fool woman s as |ittle attractive to & man as the iace rut- |woman is a clnging vine for her to be No, woman has not lost her chorm for {better marriages, lm-. It s merely ‘& case of other times,

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