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

~antta s Every Mother's Duty to Study Her Children By FLLA WHEELER WILOOX. (Copyright, 1915, by Star Company.) When God had formed the Universe He thought Ot all the marvels therein to be wrought, And to his ald then Motherhood was brought. “My lesser self, the feminine of Me, She will go forth throughout all time,” quoth He, “And make my worid what I would have it be, “For I am weary, having labored so, And for a cycle of repose would go Into that silence which but God may know, ““Therefore I leave the rounding of my plan To Motherhood, and that which I began Let woman finish in perfecting man. “She 18 the soll, the human Mother Earth; She is the sun that calls the seed to earth; She is the gardener who knows its worth. “From Me all seed of any kind must spring. Divine the growth such seed and soil will bring. For all is Me, and [ am everything.” Thus having spoken to Himself aloud, His glorious face upon His breast He bowed, And sought repose behind a wall of cloud. Come forth, O God! Though great Thy thought and good In shaping woman for true Motherhood, Lord, speak again; she has not understood. The centuries pass; the cycles roll along— The earth is peopled with a mighty throng; Yet men are fighting and' the world goes wrong. Lord, speak again, ere yet it be too late— Unloved, unwanted souls come through earth's gate; The unborn child is given a dower of hate, Thy world progresses in all ways save one. In Motherhood, for which it was begun, Lord, Lord, behold how little has been done. True Motherhood is not alone to breed The human race; it is to know and heed 1ts holiest purpose and its highest need. Lord, speak again, so woman shall be inspired With the full meaning of that mighty word— True Motherhood. She has not rightly heard. By ELLA WHEELER WILOOX, ‘When anything is the matter with a plant, shrub or tree the horticulturist studies it to find the cause. Then he proceeds to give it such care and atten- tion as will restore it to health and enable it to per- form its natural functions in the plant kingdom. When anything is the matter with a a machine the me-~ chanic applies him- self to study out the cause and to find a remedy. The dressmaker who cannot make a garment fit sac- rifices the time needed for rest and refreshment until she succeeds in her design. Yet everywhere, all over the world, we find parents, fathers and mothers alike, who have undertaken the greatest profession and the most im- portant work in the world, who are blind and indifferent to their obligations, and who make not the slightest effort to succeed in developing worth while men and women out of their boys and girls. They talk loudly of the great responsi- bility of parenthood and of the debt their children owe them. They do mot wtop to consider that they brought these children into the world without asking theilr consent, and that the mere provid- ing of roof, raiment and food does not constitute all of parenthood. 1t is the duty of a parent to study each child with just as great care and patience as the horticulturist studies his plants or the mechanic his machine. And the mother should consider it surely as great an obligation to give careful attention and serious study to a misfit mind in & ¢hild as the dressmaker considers it her duty to a misfit garment. Here is a very interesting Hlustration of the subject -under discussion: A mother asked that her boy be sent to an institution because he was incorrigible. The school teachers gave the boy a good record, both for class work and for be- havior, while the mother insisted he was incorrigible. Harold, the boy, was asked for an explanation. Very slowly and re- luctantly, but with an air of outrage and indignant rebellion, the boy replied, “She bits my dog.” A few more understanding questions soon brought forth the rest of the story. The puppy was the gift of a neighbor. He was now 3 months old, a mongrel fox hound, according to Harold. The boy had teught the dog to beg, to shake hands, and to fetch and carry, had built a kennel for him, and by running er- rands for the corner grocery had earned money for a collar and a leader. But Harold's mother considered the dog a nuisance, and whipped him fre- quently. Occasionally Harold's sisters followed her example, and Harold could not stand having Rover beaten. The mother, when she learned the re- sult of the interview, admitted that since " the arrival of the dgg her son had given 5 be was too busy now the dog walking. son she agreed to ; But for intervention of the right kind this tender-hearted boy might have been made brutal and his life might have been blighted by the short-sighted stupidity of an unthinking mother. It never occurred to ner until the idea was beaten into her brain that the boy's attitude toward the little mongrel dog was evidence of a ten- der quality which needed to be encour- aged and cultivated. It probably has not, even at the present time, occurred.to her that.little Harold's sentiment for the pet was much nobler and sweeter one than her own feeling for her child, There is a vast preponderance of these unthinking, uncomprehending and un- sympathetic mothers in the land. Heaven speed the day when eugenic laws will provide the right training, physical, men- tal and moral, for women before they are permitted to be mothers. Advice to Lovelorn A Divorced Man. Dear Miss Fairfax: I sm in love with a divorced men. My mother consonts, but my best girl friend has threatened to drop me and I have noticed that several friends nave not ti me as they use to. I also heard a friend say that she heard it talked that they were 10‘1:’ to drop me out of the rororitics it I di not give “’lm divorced (riend. 1 am 18 e has lndkho is a salary of‘g‘) a week, e says, 4o raany o8, “‘Oh, if you were only a couple of years older,” and such things which in a way show that he likes me. Would you give him up and with vour last friends and admirers before it s o late, or would ou keep as your iest friend? I I cannot like anyone else as 1 do him. But I am wondering all the time what I shall do, which would be the best, ete. I can sew, in fact can make most anything in the line of clothes, and can oookl r ‘!hl‘l‘l ckb:r "'nhm(“l:' cad 2 so. I just don ow what to do, you write me? a&_:’n o Divorce is often a merciful relesse from a marriage that was a great mistake in the beginning or that has becomne a farce on the sacred estate marriage should be. Your mother's consent is far more im- portant than the narrow minded prejud- ices of your friends. The matter is no concern of theirs unless they know some- thing against your admirer-in which case they should go to your parents with the case and not make you socially un- him If a Fly Were as By GARRETT P, SERVISS. | KNl a fly, but study him. He is a wonderful creature, though a menace and a nuisance. His muscles are as strong as steel; his nerve action is as quick as lightning. It you were proportion- ally as strong as a fly you could seize beam over your head with your hands, and, with two tons of iron fastened to | your feet, easily raise yourself, together with the attached welght, from the floor, | This calculation is no mere guess: it is based upon experiments made by the Belgian naturalist, Felix Plateau, who harnessed insects and small animals of many kinds, in very Ingenious ways, to ascertain thelr strength. Likewise, if a fly were as big as a man, and retained his relative strength, he could kill tigers with his hands and #plit asunder the jaws of lions with much more ease than Samson dla. If you were as quick as a fly you could let an oncoming express train traveling a mile a minute, come witnin a foot of your nose and then dodge it! Strike at a fly that is lazily circling with a play- mate before your eyes and observe with { what nonchalant ease he avolds your | blow and instantly returns to his play. In fact, the swiftest motion that you can make is to the motive rapidity of | the fiy as the gait of a strolling walker to the dash of an athlete in a hundred- | vard sprint. It is no more of an effort for the fly to escape than it would be for you to step from in front of a slow- moving steam roller. He would be highly amused if he thought you were trylng to hit him. This quickness of the fly is in itself a proof of the excellence of its muscles. If our muscles were subjected to simil- arly applications of force they would snap like pack-threads. And yet a fly i & tender body, and tested by our greater total strength, its members give |mo indication of extraordinary tenacity. It is, of course, his slight welght which | permits the fly to move so swiftly. If a fly were composed at material so dence that he equalled a man In welght, its motive power would be unable to life {him, or even to enable him to stand on his legs. The same method of comparison shows no less interesting results in the case of other small, or minute, animals. A bee, it has been calculated, Is relatively, thirty times as strong as a horse. When harnessed to a weight, and compelléd to draw it, a bee can exert a pull equal to 150 times its own welght. Ants and beetles exhibit astonishing strength In their daily work. The little ant-lion will put a peeble on its head, welghing possibly as much as itself, and, | with & sudden jerk, project it out of its conieal den to a distance equal to a dozen or twénty times the tiny creature's own length. This is as if & man could seize a 150-pound welght, balance it on his head, and with a flip of his neck muscles, hurl it 100 feet away. But perhaps the prize for strength be- longs to the Mediterranean crab of which I have read, that can support 492 times |its own welght. If a man could do as much he would be able to lift thirty- six and a half tone. Even the indolent oyster is a prodigy of muscular power. According to experiments that have been | made, it takes a force equivalent of nearly ¥* By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Most women are sooner or later driven to the conclusion that men are cruelly seltish creatures, and there is a certain |amoount of truth in the accusation, al- though the crueity is premeditated only by men who are also brutes. The stronger creature “ought always protect the weaker—a man is stronger than woman both physically and in the in- trenchment of power the world has given him. That he abuses this power very often is due to heedlessness and lack of | knowledge, rather than to any conscious desire to be cruel. Selfishness on the part of men gener- ally means following the line of their {own desires without consulting the wishes |of the woren whose Joy comes from thelr hands. I know & kindly-souled man who re- #ponds with the utmost tenderness and sympathy to the cry of pain or sorrow. He hates to see the woman he loves suf- fer. It fairly tortures him to know that she has a headache. At all times he feels as if all the world should admire and cater to her, But be expects her to find her jov in his joy, He takes her to see all the comic operas of which the city boasts, and he comfortable and unhappy. I see no reason actually does not know that the ome why you should not marry the man you|thing she really enjoys is a good melo- love and try to make up to him for his|drama. Probably the melodrama would previous sad experience. Dangerous and Wicked. Dear Miss Fairfax: A dear girl friend of mine, employed in a last vear, has ' become one of the heads of the concern, & mar- ried man. h him, going out with him to gt‘ amusement, and also tells me s him to e love to her. 1 have ti every possible her mistake, but she so much it would break h think of parting with him. o heart to not bore him—he might even enjoy it— but he simply doesn't know or care to find out whether the woman he loves office for the |has individual tastes quite outside the fatuated with | realm of the things he likes to do. She receives attention from | This masculine quality of taking it for of |granted that what pleases you pleases those you love exaggerates itself into a argument to make her ses | heedlessness of individuality that goes says she loves him |far to wreck marriage. When & man says "I love you, I want He tells her he loves -her, and it does [you,” be thinks all is said, and he ex- not make any difference because mar: as he never neglects his or family, and sees that they en. comfort. Now, I know this girl and would feel very this foollsh affalr. everything he tells her, and wh has mentioned anything abou ma; ., ete., he tells her the reach about this h nevey love. and do not und and. Wil you kindly write something about this? WORRIED, home 0y evs bac pects the woman who loves him to fall promptly and grecefully into his arms. It seldom occurs to bim to wonder if he W any hams thdly M |can make ber happy, once he is fairly I know she believes | sure that a given woman can make him L % she | happy. With calm lordliness he expects Doopie thaf [ belonging to him to reflsot benignant in | sunshine back on hie beloved. He may be unfailingly kind and gentle and tender, but it is according to his There seems to be an unceasing stream |own ideals of kindness and gentieness of sad little fools who persist in flirtation [ and tenderness that he proceeds. with married men. In each case the When & woman wants a dandelion all People concerned insist that they are ex-|the American Beauties in the world will ceptional and everything is all right, and [ mean nothing to her. And a diamond in each case the husband iw contemptible, | neckiace is cold comfort to the woman and the girl is playing a dangerous game | Whose one desire is for a caress or for & in which her own godd name and the|sympathetic word. happiness and peace of mind of the wife| Too many men divide the world sharply are at stake. Your friend is courting|into masculine and feminine. After all, disaster. Tell her that as she values her |the world 1s made up of individuals—not reputation and the respect of the world|of lords of creation and their dependents, she must give up this dangerous friend-|but of tbinking human beings, who, in | of a third party. But no one ever at. #pite of sex differences, are equally capa- | tends its funeral at the finih ship. Big as a Man # 2 if man had the relative strength of a fly he could raise himself by his hands with a weight of two tons on his feet. a forty pounds to force open the shell of a large oyster. A man endowed with pro- portional strength would be able to hold, with his hands, an iron door, against a pull of five or six tons, The endunrance of insects and other small animals against fatigue is equally surprising. Some migrating birds remain on the wing during flights of 1,000 or even 2,000 miles. Nearly all birds possess immense “wind power.” Many can race express trains without getting out of breath. This kind of power is not con- fined to animals smaller and less weighty than man. Horses cannot only outrun human athletes but they outlast them in wind, although they have several times more welght to carry. Btill as a general rule, large animals are proportionately less strong than small ones and capable of less continuous exer- tion. Nature long ago found her upper ble’ of feelings, preferences. The “little things” that mean so much to women generally quite escape mascu- line attention. If men knew or noticed they would probably not refuse to make the small concessions that mean so much to women. But they have an Iimpatient way of sweeping aside trifles and telling women to be broadminded. They simply do not percelve many of the delicate little chances for kindliness—and if they hap- pen to glimpse them they sweep them aside as petty and trivial, Real unselfishness consists very largely in putting yourself in someope else's place and in imagining what you would emotions, desires and desire if you could exchange individual- | ities. Men seldom do this. What they want strikes them as a paramount issue. I think thewy lose much of the delicate and exquisite joy to be found in perfect glving by this very Iinability to offer what s wanted instead of what they feel should be wanted. But how royally they give the things that ocour to them to offer! How will- ingly men slave for the luxuries which mean nothing to them. but which are tmportant to the women who depend on them. How often men go about in shabby old suits of bygone talloring while wives and daughters are smart in Fifth avenue clothes. Unselfishness 1s a matter of the indi- vidual, rather than of the sex. There are plenty of cold, caloulating women and there are stubborn and brutal mem in over-abundant numbers. Hut a general- ization that calls men selfish is not fair. A certain blindness—-a ocertain heedless unconsciousness of the desires of others— & certain lordly taking for granted that what pleases Darby will, as a result, please Joan, are all masouline character- istics. None of these things means actual selfishness—only indicates a certain lack of fineness of perception. 1f, instead of growing indignant at the men they call salfish brutes, women would bring a little common sense to bear on the situation, they might pity e —————— ] In-Sts. At the proper time the meek-looking little woman can be as stubborn as a mule ft I8 not proper to compliment the men in a2 hurry until you know where he is &oing. A ‘blast of trumpets heralds the birth He Could Kill Tigers Wit His Bare Hands : : : : : If a fly were as big as & man he could kill tigers with his hands and split apart the Timit in this respect and showed that she allowed the gigantic ceratures of former keologlc uges to go into extinction. They were too big for the conditions of life on a planet where the acceleration of gravity is thirty-two feet and a fraction per second. On Mars, where the acceleration Is only twelve feet the lmit fs probably higher, and on the moun, with an acceleration of about five and a third feet, higher still. Those are the worlds for fat men who would be spry! On the other hand we have not yet found the lower limit of magnitude for living forms on the earth, though nature doubtless knows where It lles, The miscoscope still reveals smalles and smaller microbes. And what might not our astonishment be if we could har- ness a microbe and calculate his relative strength! As to his power of endurance, we know that only too well already! The Selfishness of Man them for the masculine blindness that prevents the highest type of sympathy and generous understanding. And since sympathy and generous un- derstanding are in the equipment of fine | women—they are the seifish ones of they fail to realize their heritage in dealing with the boys-grown-up who are men. By Gouverneur Morris and | Charles W. Goddard Oepyright. 1915, Star Cempany. Synopsis of Pevious Chapters. After the tragic death of John Anes: bury, his prostrated wife, one of Amer« i greatest beauties, dies. At her death Frof. Stilliter, an ent of the interests kiduaps the beautiful J-year-old baby 8ul und brings her up in & Where she secs no inan, but thinks she is taught by angeis who instruct her for ber mission to reforin the worid, At the ake of 1§ she is suddenly thrust into the world where akents of the interosts are r. tend to find hel later Tomumy goes he interests are responsi ble for the trip. By wccident he is the fir to meet the ittle Amesbury girl. as she comes fortn trom her paradise as Celestia 1 from heaven. Neither Tommy nor recoknises each other. Tomn n, an oasy matter (o rescue Celestis from Prof, Stllitet and they hiie In the mounfains; later they are pursued by Stilliter and escape to an island where they spend the night. 3 Tommy's first aim was to get Celestia away from Stilliter. After they leave o e Ry otel to o persu his urns home he finds H,ll R 'hia own Selastia, the 1 for Which the rworld has offe: a re- ward that he to got. Colestia secures work in a large gar- ber girl companions. By her talks to the d:‘l she s able to calm a threatoned strike, and the “boss’” overhearing her ls 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 ti my |All my fine scheiles high and dry. two word “Oelostia,” sald Tommy, “you look wo Ilittle and helpless and unprotected, curied among those curtains, that I'm tempted to piok you up, put you in my pocket and take you somewhers where you can't get into any more mischief.” “I dare you to try!" exclaimed Celestia. Then they both laughed and Tommy advanced Into the tent. 8o much articulate speech Prof. Stilll- ter overheard, but no more. After that there came to him only the murmurs of volces—and couldn’t read another #o |one voice or the other, sounds which to & jealous man were more provooative f impotent rage than actual words would have been. He stared at the book in which he was no Jonger able to read a word and ‘“eat his heart out,” as the saying ia ‘ ‘One of theso days,” he thought, “she'll say ‘yes' to thet meddiing fool and leave L3 really thought that, and sometimes I really do think it, I'd-I'd-" Now the professor took off his eye- glasses and thought very hard indeed and looked very horrid and biind and evil Hvery now and then he murmured to himeelf: “My God, why not?" “'S8o you dare me to try, do you?™ said Tommy. Her eyes sparkied now; she was feeling very much rested. “Yeou, T do.” As quick as any cat the young man leaned over and ploked her up from the midst of the curtains as easily as It she had been a kitten, and 5o held her almost at the level of his chin. And now Celes- tia felt completely rested. It was as If | she had receivad refreshing strength from { Tammy's strong arma. | "Oh' he sald, “if a deluded nation could behold you now!" fao! catches on fire, and the room is soon a blasing furnace. Celestia refuses to escape with the other girls, and Tommy Barclay rusbes in and oar- ries her out, wrapped In a big roll of cloth, After resouing Celestia from the fire, Tommy is sought by Haiker Baruviay, who_undert to le him to gl up the 1. refuses, and Celes: wants him to her directly, He can not do t! he has no fnnda Stilltter %Ml" troduce Celestia to & co- of wealthy ing men, who agree to_send Celestia to the colllaries. The wife of the miners’ Involves Tomi that leads the my In an miners to lynch him. lestin saves him from the mob, but turns from him and &0es to see Kehr ELEVENTH EPISODE Late one afternoon she came home to her little city of tente, very tired, and lay down in & hammock under a shady tree to rest. In spite ~f her eelestial origin, Celestia, was very human, and just as at- tractive to a sticky house fly as any other human belng. Buch & house fly made a dead wet for her, and she found it impossible to rest. She went iInto the headquarters tent, which was the biggest and coolest and, the the day’'s work being over and the secretaries gone, tried to rest there, and couldn't. . She was tired and discouraged. Bhe was tired because she had been doing too much, and she was discouraged because she was tired. Tommy had an uncanny faculty for drop- ping in upon her when she was in these moods. Possibly Freddie, the Ferret, had something to do with this facuity, for he worshiped Tommy. Be that as it may, Freddie was about the tents when Celes- tin came in, tired. He vanished pres- ently, and a little later Tommy appeared, looking very brown and manly and re- freshing. Celestia heard his voice and called out to him,. a little petulantly perhaps. Tommy poked his head in through the door of the . tent and greeted her loudly and joyously. The moment she saw him she felt a little rested. Meanwhile Prof. Stilliter, in his tent, reading a deep and thick book on “The (Psychology of Government,” heard the HERE are no “Put me down," she exclaimed, “‘some- body might see us.' “'Ot course they might,” 'comforted Tommy. ““The tent flaps are wide open. But I don't care if I never gut you down." “Tommy!"” she exclaimed. “T should worry!” sald Tommy, but when she began to struggle he put her down. “And what did you mean,” she asked, her great eyes flashing, but not with an- ger, and her cheeks flaming, “by & de- Tuded nation?" “You don't look as it you could,” said he, “but you've deluded several million people out & hundred million, and it looks as If you were going to delude the rest. But you'll be sorry enough for yourself ‘when they find out they" H you'll see—you'll see chance of happiness is gone forever and your theories have brought more evil on mankind than it endures now." “Tommy,"” sald Celestia, with a shudder and great seriousness, “how can you love and think me evil? ““You evil! You precious lamb!™ She waved aside the arms that had gone impulsively out to her. “If In your judgment I am going to bring more misery into the world then I am evil in your judgment. How can you reconcile that with loving me?" real substitutes for Tone’s Old Golden Coffee any more zl)mvm t}:ere areany real substitutes for coffee. er forty years” experience in aging, roast- ing and blending has given it a di.%inctive taste. Its quality is uniform and its aroma so tempting that you kee; i tog hot. yYc.u A itis tasting it while will find TONE’S Old Golden COFFEE a happy solution to the ever-present coffee problem. 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