Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 9, 1915, Page 8

_father than disappoint them? Would the Censorship for Parents Needed Too Many Fathers and Moth- ers Allow Girls to Grow Up as They Please, Wit/hnnt Re- straint or Even Advice—Pres- ent Day Conditions Are Not Properly Met : : = —————————— 3} Iy ELLA WHEELER WILOOX, | (Copyright 1916, by the Star Company.) A little group of men and women sat wwound A dinner table In a refined metropolitan home. | wr men and four women, all trav-| rendera and thinkers, and the arts, | »r o fessions, ¢ and social erfence and | ities were all 1 vesented in the | They were dis cuseing the ever- 14 and always- new subject of the 1elations ot the “xes in domestic wndl social life, and the growing fre- y of divorce in America 1t 11 semed to the majority that clv- iized soclety w degenerating, but another recalled the Itoman period, where women frequantly arried ten husbands, and cited the case of one who, according to rellable history, marrled her twenty-third husband, he himself having possessed twenty-one wives. Then the discussion drifted to the J tragods which befall young girls. The | recent sulelde of one girl who had been | jursued by a married man in whose of- | fice she was an employe, brought other sinflar and. sadly true stories to I|lhl,| until the reputation of man, the master, seemed to be torn Into shreds. Whercupon one man said: “You women have not the slightest comprehension of what men encounter from a certain class of young girls. In every American city and in many small towns hundreds of girls in their teens are allowed absolute license by their parents frum the time they are old Nough to play In the streets and atttend public school until their minds are bold #nd their ideas of life mercenary. ““These Lttle girls, with short skirts and hanging hair, fréquent the streets at will, loitering on the way from school and shop and factory, and with deliber- ale Intention pursue men who possess automobiles, or who sit in club windows, “They plant themselves In the auto- moblles, in fact, and when the owner ubpears greet him with a bold laugh and ‘Give us a ride, mister, please.’ I have known this to occur to more than one man, and known men to be assalled by yolleys of invectives when the little girls were almost forcibly put out of the car &nd sent upon thelr way disappointed.” It was a bachelor who spoke; a bachelor whose name so far has been unasasiled Ly scandal, and another bachelor and a Lenedict added thelr testimony to a knowledge of similar events. “What would you think,” asked one of ihe ladies, “of & woman who found her car occupled by two or three attractive young men and who consented to drive them about and treat them to dinner, fact that they pursued her allay a hus- band's wounded pride and confidence?" And then, of course, the discussion wandered into the eternal channel of the diferent code of conduct and morals (ivated by custom, if not by nature, for Hut, meantinie, leaving the little party 1o end their ' discussion, does not the Whole subject hark back to the first source of all things, the parents? It can N0t be denied that scores, It not hun- dreds, of bold and viclous young girls Ar6 1o be found in every’ American city today When not viclous thelr boldness and loud manners and slangy language in- leate the ease with which they may d scend to vice. One meets them every- \here, as frequently coming out of school With taeir books as from shop or fac- tory; and, again, a little older and a liitle more subdued in manner, but searcely more in deportment, in the sum- mer hotels and walking the beaches of reashore resorts. What are the American parents think- ing about, that such utter indifference is It And would it not be well to restrict the Jnuch vaunted lberty of the young Amer- “dcan girl? - An American gentleman, old enough to of a pretty child of 16, was of going to her rescue re- & trolley ocar, where she was openly given cause for annoy- it mot fear, by three young nm-‘. Before the man haq entered into | with the young rowdies he was | 10 see the American school girl | At their familiarities. whole system of the free. | of 30 much | £¥ it ! i ; reaming through the outer door of the observation did nothing of the kind. * for to the b b { R s et S son t n W use, C whl?:g &.“...'.‘me‘l ward that he hoped ment factory, irl compai tlrll'uhc is able to calm a threatoned strike. and the “boss'. overnesriug her la moved to grant the relief the girls wi done one of them. Just at this glolnt the Lactos cate 1 Tefuses 1o pe wit rel esca, and Tommy Barclay rusbes in and tklmnu u:t, wrapped in a big roll of ot Tommy § miners &0es 10 see Kebr. slow and regular, under the bed. But Celestla was not quits asleep ahd the nolse Mrs. Gunsdorf mede waked her, Was beginning to rise from the floor, Celestia slipped from the bed, eluded a hand that clutched at her dress, snatched from the bureau a heavy silver hand- & lttle | mirror, t training of par- | was in sight, tion compartment. thess parents are country born | Celestia was loss like & creature flying ‘and know nothing of the snares |for its life than one who attempts to un- ‘which surround our eity |derstand a situation with a view of mas- dentally hurt. Had the other been the THE BEE: Then the little person of ’leven, pouting and dreaming, Read It Here—=See It at the Movies. By Gouverneur Morris eyes of her assallant, byt could not, w» | bound was Mrs. Gunadort by the knowl- edge that she must look anywhere but at .“d those eyes. Followed a time of stiliness, tenseness mfl” w' OOdd.rd and quick breathing, Then efforts by ——— | Mrs. Gunsdorf to get on the ne side Oworight, 1015, Btar Company. |of the table with Colestia, and calm roasoned thwartings of these efforts by the latter, Mrs. Gunsdorf was at a disadvantage, Not much older than Celestia, she was heavier, less alert, and she dared not make a full use of her eyes. Her face averted, so that with the tails of her eyes . #he only had partial glimpses of Celestia, her rushes were more or less at random. Once she threw herself headlong half across the table and stabbed, as a snake strikes—only to find that she had mis- caleulated the distance entirely. There was another pause. “‘Why do you want to hurt me?" asked Celestia. “Why won't you look at me?" Mrs. Gunsdorf's only answer was an- | other rush. Celestia threw a chair In her way and once more succeeded in keeping the heavy table between them. BSho was getting angry. What right had anyone to chase her with a knife? If the woman would only look at her! Mrs. Gunsdorf thwarted, and murder- ous was nonplussed at the ease with which, so far, Celestia had eluded her. Her cyes, downcast, had for their ‘mo- mentary renge of vislion, a plle of re- views, just in front of Celestia, and a portion of Celestia's dress. Quick as thought, Celestia lald the hand-mirror with which she had armed | herself, face up upon the pile of reviews. and beyond in the depths of the shining refractor the eyes of the two woman had met at last, S0 great was Mrs. Gunsdorf’s dread of those wonderful eyes, so greatly had the memory of what they had once done to her, worked upon and grown In her imagination, that the sudden sight of them gasing commandingly up into her own from the depths of the mirror, numbed and dazed her like a blow on the head, With a great effort to collect her swimming senses, e jerked her head up, and found herself looking into the eves themselves. Catastrophe was upon her; she had no longer the power to look away, First hatred of Celestia was wiped clean from her hédart, she did not know “She' " why she had come, what she was doing in .h?.'l,:,:',::'m,,::g“::; :,:,':.‘::d;: that observation car. Then the knife fell fously ¢o edge herself out sideways from | from her nerveless fingers, and she felt peacefully drowsy and as if many heavy troubles had been lifted from . her shoulders. But Celestia, Synopsis of Pevious Chapters. Altor the tragic deatl s agl ot Jnhl: A‘"l‘ trated e, One ol o B e o boat :ln 3-year-old baby kn Ames u}y girl, as she | 180 other. 'Tomny J' e n Afe pursued { [ has offe: v:&‘;‘n"n largs gar ures * o ': thcn :.ln.:t‘mw girls emplo. ere she shows ve and makes frien nlons. By her t a re- her pe- with pl‘ll tp the also to right & great wrong he ha 0 fire, blazing ork turnace, the other soon lostia irls, car- e wife of the miners’ leader involve - n an ecscapade that leads to lynch him. Celestia saves him rom the mob, but turns from him and THIRTEENTH EPISODE, breathing sounded Predently Celestia’ and just as Mrs. Gunadorf SR T thing of the sterness of a just judge, pieked up the knife and put it back into Mrs. Gunsdorf's hand. “At last,” sald Celestia, “you shall go away thinking that you have what you came to do—Celestia, who has done you no harm in this world, but whom you wish to stab to death with that knife s asleep oh her bed in her state room. She Is very tired and very” sound asleep; still you must move cautiously.* And Mrs. Gunsdorf, her eyes fixed and e only weapon of defense that nd darted Into the observa- it, but who in the meanwhile is Soing to run any risk of belng acel- dead, but the rest of her features wear- R fiaa. ing & wicked, murderous expression, be- &an & horrible, grotesque, fiptoed advance toward the open door of Celestia’s state room. Then, in her hypnotized brain she seemed to see Celestia asleep upon her stand; veady, Itk bed; and then she was driving ker kuife to dodge in :nu\...m.. many times to the hilt in the beautiful %« wildly excited, but|White breast. '0¥8 1o mibet add master the| ™ (Fo Be Continued Tomorrow.) SO s t, out into the night. She OMAHA, costume, and Gran’mother, sunk in reverie, would be of all + would be grown-up and covered with glory of tribute and things in the world—just ’leven! That’s a story most as il old as the oldest one (which is By NELL BRINKLEY Copyright, 1918, Internat| News Servi ELEVEN i, AGAINT 2T PR N ’ \\j of Love), the story of Wishes, and how, while Childhood agonizes for years, Age sorrows for its childhcod back again.—NELL BRINKLEY. On Simpifying Legal Process so According to the Understandingo! Cites Both the Leo M. Frank a By DR. CHARLES H. PARKHURST. It would be gratifying for us laymen and contribute to our quietness of mind it law were so simple that we could understand it, and i judicial processes were so free from complexity that we could form some definite idea as to what it s they are designing to ac- complish. We are not so lacking In discernment, or perhaps I should say in imagination, as not to suppose that in a general way they are in- tended to prove the sullt of the gullty and the innocence of the Innocent, but the way of going about It Is sometimes 80 mys- tifying that we are obliged to walk a good deal more by faith than by sight; and yet we cherish a covert conviction that if we are normally intelligent, as a £90d many of us are, even if we have not studied law, we ought not to be obliged to assume the validity of so much that we are not allowed to comprehend. We cling to the conviction that law is |resolvable into a very few ultimate prin- ciples that it is not beyond the average capacity to understand. It is ecasy to have it retorted upon us that, if we are unable to see, it must be due to some de- fect In our vison. To that it is quite in order to reply that invisibility is just as likely to be due to darkness as to blindness. In a dark closet it is no fault of mine that I cannot distinguish the objects that are contained in it. In reading reports of court proceedings one finds that a good deal of stress Is laid upil rules of evidence and that a good deal of testimony is excluded that is felt by counsel to have a direct and important bearing upon the matter in hand, and he is better prepared than any one else to know whether it has such bearing. Now a mind legally untutored, but pos- sessed of sterling good sense, would like to understand why anything of that sort should be shut out, It s a remark attributed to ex-Gov- ernor Slaton when he was about to take up the Frank case that he was going to take into consideration everything what- soever that bore in any way upon the | question in hand, by which it was un. derstood that he was going to proceed Dr. Pankhurst’s Article that Justice May be Better Served f the Layman with Common Sense nd the Harry K. Thaw Cases of theology sometimes operates in tho ame way, and that the graduate semin- ary student easily allows the great mas- ter truths of religion to be swamped under a morass of petted particulars that |are of only dependent value. It requires |less mind to be busy with small matters |than to be energetically engrossed with | big ones. A fow months ago the press reported the case of a will written by a layman \as follows: “All of the property of which I am possessed I herewith .bequeath to my wite.”” Signed his name; two wite nesses added their atures. The pro- bate court approved the will. Now it |s doubtful if any lawyer, after having experienced the dlffusive effect of & fuil course In the law school would have compressed the testamentary wishes of that testator into anything short of a couple of pages of professional verblage. Presumably it is not because of any idea on his part that prolixity will preduce the impression of profundity. Nor would We be 8o discourteous as to suppose that %0 elaborate a style of phraseology is availed of as means of preventing lay- men from thinking they can write their own wills without help from the legal profession. ‘There appear to be three kinds of sense: Common sense, supersense and profes- sional sense. This three-fold classifica- tion explains & good deal that is other- wise difficult, among the rest the legal eccentriclty just noted. The last trial of Thaw (that is to say, the last up to date) is a matter in which the lay mind finds food for perplexity. The jury was composed of men pre- sumably of such quality as to satisty the demands of the counsel, respectively, of the prosecution and the defense. After deliberating less than an hour, they brought in a unanimous verdict for the defense. Due to our condition of legal unen- lightenment, we supposed that that made him & free man, and that a unanimous verdict means either final acquittal. or final conviction. ‘It seems not. It ap- pears that there are numerous appliances fitted to the judiclal machine that are held In reserve for particular occasions %0 that when a man is acquitted it may mean that he is acquitted or it may mean that he is being held over for an- other grilling After the acquittal it was authorita- tvely announced that the judge might Teverse the jury's verdict. We allowed ourselves to wonder why then the whole matter was not put up to the judge in the first instance instead of having it without any regard to those technical |PUt throush the tedious and expensive limitations that, lke barnacles, bave fastened themselves upon methods of court procedure; and it was Immediately felt that by going about it in that un- hampered way he would reach results that would thoroughly approve themselves to his own mind, and that would admit of being similarly approved by an intelli- gent public; and in those results an in- telligent public has gratefully acqu law doubtless has the effect to strengthen the mind, but it sometimes seems to an outsider to have the effect to obfuscate the mind, and in such man- ner to so submerge the fundamental prin- ciples of law under a sea of technical minutiae a5 to emphasize details to the embarrassment and sacrifice of funda- dentals. Vie have boticed that the study formality of a jury trial Sull later it has been publicly stated that the prosecution is going to take an appeal, To the intellectually unregen- erate that would seem to denote that the Prosecutor is going to keep trying the poor fellow till he succeeds in convicting Thaw has had eight years of it already. The future must look long to him, All of this is & lesson to fnnocent people to try to keep Innocent. It is also a lesson to all concerned that judiclal procedure needs to be absolved from some of its technicality and stmplified from some of its mystery before it will quite comport with the dignified simplicity of law or perfectly hold the confidence of the un- professional seuse of the public. Let Women Beware of the Pirate By BEATRICE FAIRFAX, | ‘‘Hee who mine heart would kecpe for ony Shall %«\ & gentill man and strong," Quotes the herolne of a well known novel. How wisely she chooses her motto! { However love wanders for a time, how- over the heart of woman goes a-gypsying at the call of fascinating freebooters, in the end love comes home. And the “home' of a woman's love can be only |In the harbor of a loyal man's heart. “The man who understands women" Is all too often nothing more than a thief of love, 'a bandjt and pirate. He studies | woman after woman—to their cost. Each |orie he’ leaves, having “learned about women from her'-—and then on to the next he'goes. to give her a little brief fevered happiness and then to leave her | sadder and wiser and either miserable in | her distllusionment or clinging to a mem- ory that is not worthy of a thought. “The man who understands women" understands their emotions because he I3 ings he examines and classifies. His game s scientifically conducted—but since It is a game it ought never be dangerous to the woman who will stop and think. ‘Women ought never to cease to remem- ber that in marriage thelr\fllpphuu is made for them by the love they accept. Any woman who lets a weak, selfish, un- stable man gain power over her through his pirate gift to steal hearts, is prepar- ing for herself an aftermath of misery to follow a harvest of weeds instead of grain. The weeds may be bright-colored and alluring to the eye—but they” can bring nothing of permanent value into her life, Too often a woman's love transforms a man until she does not see him as he js— but as she longs to have him be. To her self-deceived eyes, dross becomes clear gold. The pirate of love cleverly helps | her keep up her illusions at first while the game is new and stimulating enough to make him feel the urge to play well But after a time laziness or wearinass makes him too selfish and indifferent to struggle to preserve a woman's happiness. The woman goes on belleving and believ- ing—Dbelieving In the face of the evidenze of her burning eyes, and the testimony of her aching heart. But at last one day her heart comes into the heritage she prepared for herself when she ac- cepted the unworthy love of a moral weakling—and her “‘bread is sorrow,” and her “drink is tears.” Think of the women you see about you all too often—women with dull, cried-out looking eves and an air of dejected hopa- lessness—women who are old before their time—women whose health is gone be- cause they do not feel the urge of spirit and the uplift of faith that keep youth and health. A wickedly large proportion of them are suffering from the cynicism, the loneliness. the corroding longing that follow on giving a heart when with it cannot go respect and admiration and faith . In the love of a true man a woman finds & haven and a home. It holds stimulation to be her best relf and do her best work. It gives her kindness and understanding and faith-tho' perhaps no fevered love-making snd no wild stimu- lation and no promise of ecstatic ro- mance. But the love of a true man holds simple joy and contentment and trust d tenderness. It may not key her so high a8 does the love-making of a practiced Lothario—but it will not drop her so low in despair and unrequited longings when once she has, with simple good faith, given faith to requisite its imitation. Women might save themselves heart- | "burning and sorrow and misery and __——t—_—'—_ The Man Who Makes Love upon them. The most sacred feel- | Who Masquerades at a Gentleman shame if only they would force their intellects to join hands with their emo- tions. The romance need not go out of lite— | but one may judge what is true romance and what play-acting. If a woman hauls herself up short in time and listens to reason—listens to the voice of her in- stinots, of her sentinel soul—beholds the evidence and welghs it sanely, she may | mave herself heartache and agony. | Selfishness, disloyalty, lax moral | standards, dishonestly, crielty, egotism— all give signs of themselves to any but wilfully blinded eyes. And though they be blended with a power to stir emotion and to stimulate wild affection, they are signs of shoals and reefs that must wreck the frail craft of love. The Prince Charming who rides up a- | Woolng In a sixty horsepower car may |be a splendidly eligible party from the worldly point of view; the Adonis who thrills you at sight, may be rich in emotions—but is either a man—a real man worthy of your best? On your | honest answer to that—on your honest abiding by standards of worth and fine- ness depends ycur happiness. | “Hee who mine heart would kcepe for ong | Must bee a gentill man and strong.” THIS WOMAN'S SICKNESS i Yielded To Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. y Bridgeton, N.J.—“I want to thank you 8 _thousand times for the wonderful (Compound has done b ifor me. 1 suffered : A =) 2 NS =1 \ & ==junsble to do my or attend to my baby I was soweak. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound did me a world of good, and now I am strong and healthy, can do my work and tend my baby. I advise all sufféring women to take it and get well as 1 did.”’—Mrs. FANNIE COOFER, R.F.D., Bridgeton, N.J. ; Lydia E. 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