Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 25, 1915, Page 9

y THE BEE: OMAHLN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1915, —And the Poor Hum n Can Only Envy Beauty's Beast— Copyright 1915, Intern'l News Serviec Absentee Wives. .. | Another Right-O Story— The Lesson of Summer- time ' ] a2 By DOROTHY DiXx. “Well," eald the Bookkeeper, “the good old summer time is here at last The summer widower has bloomed out in all his dassling beauty on the gardens, and that's an unfailing sign tha there 18 going to be a hot time in the old town.” Yes,'" assented the Stenographer. I saw a bunch of em 1ast night look- ing like schoolboys playing hookey and frisking about like -year-olds. Funny, jsn't 1t, how the loss of his wite al- ways chirks a man X up? rool ‘The procession of of hump-should- ered, 1istless, grouchy men go- ing down to the Grand Central to see their wives cff for the summer, and ' the same line of dead-game sports, with hats set at a wicked angle, Who fox-trot away from the station after wifey's clr‘ pulls out, always make me think of the | ‘before’ and ‘after’ taking pictures of the! patent medicine advertisements, while a six months' real widower always goes | about looking as if he had got money from home.” “I dom't see where the women have nothing to do but keep house butt into this vacation business, anyway,’ cbjected tho Bookkeeper; ‘“pretty fierce, 1 call it,. for the wife who doesn’t need it, to get a hike around to all the glad #pots, when the poor husband, who needs a rest, has to stay in town and hold e i YR RSCINTY A4 B [ =S who down his job." “Oh, its a double-action blessing!" exclaimed the Stenographer; “the wife is traveiing for her husband's health.’ “How Is that?” inquired tbe Book- keeper. “ghe's glying hubby a rest and a ¢ change,’ responded the Stenographer. . “Any woman who has wrestled with the servant wuestion for e year; who has thought sut 1,08 regular meals, and al few extra oues; who has had to cater 1o a family that demanded Delmonico fare on a quick lunch expenditure, and had to sew, and twist, and turn and spraddle a dollar over & ftive-spot vold, has earned a holiday. ‘450 has the husband, and if he can't get away from his business, the next best thing Is to get away from the clack of his wifes tongue, the noiss of the children, the cverlasting monotony of home cooking, and the bondage of keep- ing rules, It rests you, you know, to sip (LR That's you! Brushing against her skirts, Sometimes having her soft fingers in your hair, Hearing her laughing voice in your ear. Teased by her, loved by her, often knowing the bliss of her fragrant hair bent low over your face, and the joy of her wreathed arms Read It Here—See It at the Movies. Lucky dog! to tag her about wherever she goes! Mary's lamb | was lucky that way. Lucky dog, to be fetching and carrying for her—by her side in eervice from rosy dawn to purple twilight, around your neck. Lucky dog! while I, who need her more, must pass along with a ealm face above my stormy heart and be cohtent' to~be just wounded by her eyes as by the goes! —NELL BRIN"KLEY'. By GARRETT P. SERVISS, before the birth of Christ, you will find the following most interesting reference Devotion to astronomy, the most In-|ig thie twin stars of the Spartan brothers, spiring -of the sclences, often Degin® | which shows that even in the days of through an acquaintance, casually made, | wyripides the constellation Gemini was with some conspicuous and brilllant con- | ot unmeusured antiquity : @idst thou ever raise?—though Castor was still allve, a vigorous youth, and brother also, not yet amid the stars!" Who does net feel the added charm that attaches to those stars from the knowledge that Buripides and his con- stellations, any one of which. will. serve his| to recall the age-lonk assoclation af man's thoughts and féancies with the celestinl blazonry above. 'Mr, Barritt's monthly sky map will shéw you what to look for at any fime. Just now, for whom he hated, and to listen to what| they had to say to each other and to tho By Gouverneur Morris the collar.” and ! tisherman whom they routed from his | Stellation, or some “Troy has been capturcd; Hecuba, the | temporaries knew them by the wsame | instance, full in the south, resting upon 1 should think too much Maria would | bed, and who finally, for a prodiglous | SuPeriatively bright widowed queen of King Priam, who was | names that they bear today, and that|the meridian, Is Virgo, the celestial figurs get on a fellow's nerves,” suggested the Cll.rles w Ooddnrd 1l||m of money, consented to venture out and beautiful star. | killed, together with his son, Hector, by | through the greatest period of Greek his- | 0f Virgin Justice, still wearing its pure Bookkeeper. M {in the easterly storm that was brewing | ‘13nY men ana the terrible Achilles, bewalls her fate|tory, during the centuries when Greece| White atar gem which' bears its own “Sure thing,” replied the Stenographer, —_— jand carry them and their luggage to Gull Women have been (sho was doomed to be carried off | " a slave by the wily and hated Ulysses), and then, with burning indignation, turms to to denounce the falsehood of Helen, who has just proclaimed that she was an unwilling follower of her paramour, Paris, name, Spica, and who, according te an- with its galaxy of genlus, every Greek | clent Hesold, ruled the world with peace- child read the story of Castor and Pollux, | ful swiy in the mythical ‘Golden Age, written with stars on the spangled zone| And refused to quit it in the less brilllant of the Milky Way. R Silver Age that followed; but when the war-loving Bragen Age succeeded, with flluminated human annals for all time led to the lifelong delight of knowing the stars by having ricn, or the Great Bear, or Sirius, or Island. The name of bis little schooner was the Mary Nye. It was at the end of the long wharf, Lialf unloaded. No, he had given up fishing; there was more money “when peopie get to bor.nng each other they take to throwing the hammer just for diversion and to liven things up. If most couples were married only three days a week, instead of seven, matrimony Cepyright, 1915, Star Cempany. Byuvpes vl Feveous Clhaplers. Jonn Amesuury 18 kliled (L a reuroad BOuluvul, wlu DB WILE, ULS O Auu A % At this season of the year the stars of would be a glad, sweet th.ng, instead of (O Lbvus W8 in consting. They couldn't start at once: ‘.'p;\"" pointed out Hector’s unworthy brother. the “Great Twin Brethren” are low down | I# Spectacles of human siaughter, then, ‘ pafpinec et drisgenig \ae e would have to get his crew together ”';: Q‘L':;'lnll‘onnm “Ha!" exclaims Hecuba, "‘my son car-|in the western evening sky, but overhead, | #t length, “You ha to get away from even the " ;. . OF :5“:"‘:!‘: —~two men and 14 boy. .Iln'd '"m); really by .:m:: ‘lhm~ r.lr‘d thee off by force, thou sayest. What | and all around the visible firmument,| “—Jloathing that race of men, she peopie that you love every now and then | Bifloen years wicr Toutny Burciay, Wuo 0T All:the' way -from New York? They . o/ at Spartan saw this? What cry for help|there are other storied stars and con-| winged her flight to' heave b 2 their virtues, just like | Bas just quarreied wilth s auopwed must Le hard set. Petter come to (hel names, recall to get a focus on 3 |tutaor, wanaes luto the wouas &uG (s~ houge, He'd rout the misses out of bed,| THere is another you have to board for a while to get a line on il the comforts of home. That's | what makls the summer vacation a life saving station for married folks.” “Maybe you're one,” ussented Bookkeeper. “Oh, I'm Solomon all right,” agreed the Stenographer; ‘‘you have to give absence a chance to make the heart grow fonder. When & Woman starts off on a summer vacation, she is sizing her husband up as an ordinary sort of dub, who doesn't shave as often as he ought to, and has & measly little soul that doesn't soar above the stock market, and as she looks at him she wonders what made her marry him “Before she has been away from home a week she gets out his photograph and thinks how handsome and distinguished looking he 8. In two weeks more she has worked up a halo and encircles h.s noble brow with it, and by the time that sum- mer is over he is ence more the romantic hero of her youthful dreams. “Same way with the man. If he is de- cent he runs a bluff about how sorry he is to see the wife go, and how lonely he will be without her; but in his heart he is thinking how, he is going to whoop thi up while she is gone, and how uyous it is going to be to come home any old hour at night without having to make sneak-in. For the first week he tears things up with both hands. He makes a night of it with the boys and makes up with a head- iche and & dark brown taste of remorse in his mouth. He sits in a little game and gets sleepy and then he begins to find_out that domesticity doesn't fit you 1o be & rounder, and that if you are used to going to bed at 10 you don't want to be kept up until 3 a. m, “He goon tires of having to think what he wants to eat at restaurants and when be finds out that he can't locate his clean clothes without a search warrant he begins to appreciate the love, fussy but reliable, that takes care of him, and by the time his Mary comes home in the fa'l she is once more the angel that he wooed end won, and he wouidn't trade her off fo whole pony ballet.” 've noticed that the summer widower W a quittér,” said the Bookkeeper, “Right-0," said the Stenographer, “and the |covers the girl, now known as Celestia, in company with Prof. Sullliter. ‘lommy | takes the girl to New York, where ene | |1alis into the clutches ot a noted pro- | curess, bul 1s able to win over tue woman by her pecular hypnolic power. Here she atiracis Freduie tue rerret, Wwho becomes aitucnea o her. At a b iclowbing tactory, wheis she Sose o Word, | ishe exercises her power over the giris, | 1ana is saved from being burned to death by Tommy. About tnis tme Stiuter, Barciay and others who are wurking to- gether, decide it 18 time to make use of Celestia, who has been trained to tidnk (of herself as divine and come from | iheaven. The first place they send her is ! ito Bitumen, & mining town, where the ! coal miuers are on a strike. Tomuny Bas gone there, Lov, and Mrs. Gunsdorf, wife | the miners’ leader, falls in love with hum | and denounces him to the men when he spurns her. Celestia saves Tommy from | being lynched, and also setties the strike | by winning over Kehr, the agent of the bosscs, and Barclay, er. Mary Black- stone, who is aiso in love with Tommy, | itells him the story of Celestia, which she | thas discovered through her )ealousy. | Kekbr is named as candidate for president | on a ticket that has Stilliter's support, | and Tommy Barclay is named on the miners ‘ticket. Bulliter professes him- self in love with Celestia and wants to get her for himeelf. Tommy urges her to marry him. Mary Blackstone bribes | Mme. Gunsdorf to try to murder Celestia, while the latter is on her campuign tour, traveling on a snow white trein. Mrs. | Gunsdort is again hypnotized by Celestia | and the murder averted. Sulliter hyrotizes Celestia and lures her | into a deserted woods, where he forces her to undergo a mock marriuge, per- formed by himself. He notifies the ti- umvirate that Celestia is hot coming back. Frecdy the Ferret has followed him closely, and Tommy is not far away, | havirg Dbeen exploring "the cave, hoping to_find Celestia there. ! Stilliter fires at Tommy in the caveY and thinks he has killed him. He then | tries to force Ce estia into & mock mar- riage, but Freddie interferes and in the fight that follows Freddie gets Stilliter's iglull(-n and leaves him blind. Freddie fukes Celestia to find Tommy, and Stil- liter bullds a fire Lo attract as The fire spreads and he flees bef falls into & lake and drowns. Tom C les*in return to New York, wh nd Sturdevant te lin, Celestia has returned they a big meeting that to heaven | FIFTEENTH EPISODE. Why didn’t he shoot down the financiers as they alighted from the car? His hands were 80 cramped from gripping the tires he could not have held or pointed a gun; there were shaking like leaves of poplar trees in a wind. He was in acute physical pain, But, lying on the ground, writhing with exhaustion, he began to recover little by and she'd give them coffee. {®de of astronomy ; Barclay gave some orders to his driver, | "Pich s only for those endowea with | and much money; also he gave much SClentific tastes and abilities, but the | money tu the other man on the hox, and | '5°08Tavhy of the heavens” is for every- | he shook hande with them both and |P°d¥ and, frequently, it serves as intro. | thanked them for thelr devotion to him, | 99CtOn to the entire subject, n all fts | and told them that their future would °SPects. Xven if astronomy consisted | Do -his care. only of a knowledge of the starry heav- Then the car went one wuy and the ! NS a8 thoy show themselves to the naked financiers and the fishermen went an- ' ¥® &nd of the tapestried history of the other, and presently Gunsdorf, doubled ‘NOUEhts, drcams and herole ideals of | half over, like a man crippled with °r1Y natlons which mythology has rheamatism, rose from his hiding and hobhed off in & third. The Mary Nye lay in the lee of the lons wharf near the end, It was a dirty little ship. Amidship was a hold, formerly tsed as a container for cod- fish; it still stank of them. The hatchway iving access 1o this hold was open, and into it Gunsdorf descended, It seen to him, after exploring the schooner from 1'% stern to stem, o offer the best means "TiSht today as when they were create of concealment. The little cabin aft was| The Blittering figures of the great cleaner, It would be {he choice of the |T°¢# and heroines of the demigods, the | triumvirate for their »wn quarters. dragons and monsters of Grecian and Me- | Gunsdorf was half crazy with fatigue. | *°POtAmian mythology whirl nightly over- In a far corner of the hold he found '©8d @s carth spins around, just as they a plle of sacking and flung himself down | "4V® been doing for countless on them. among thera that hurt him. He for this, and found that it was a ful, two-handed augur, fixed with an inch place WOVENn among the stars, it would furnish | one of the noblest occup o | ‘j.m{"m‘“c". pations for human | Look up at the sky tonlght, and see | how it 1s studded with pictures marked | out there by man's Imaginathn long be- | fore Homer sang the “IlMed.” Man's| marks on the face of the earth become | obliterated Ly the passage of time, but | not 5o in the sky. There they remain as enturios But there was sometting hacd | Th¢ constellations are the most lasting groped of all mun's works. They are the only truly enduring monuments ‘that he has | ever made in memory of his fdeals Boolts and & holf bit. h‘."" pyramids perish, but the constella- He pushed it to one side and in a moment | 4O07 remain, and some all-embracing | world remembrance mysteriousyy pre- was sovnd asleep. wu'»rr\n« thelr origimal signification through Barclay was restiess; the cabin pealf- | stuffy and verminous; he preferred the 'P® flood of change continually sweoping deck and the open air. So it happeneq °YCF the earth | that in passing the main hatch, in a full | 't 18 marvellous how the image of the of the wind, he heard & ssupd as of & antique world continues to be reflected man enoring. He had left Semmes and P Into the starry heavens from behina the horizon of ages so remote that when they were on the meridian of time ro corded history had yet not begun. Tuke for instarce the stars known as Castor stowaway aboard. Some poor ;'l""' FoRcE. $he Maders of the conetal gun of & wart rat, J suppose,” ! ation Gemini, ths “Twins.” The Castor 998 WaR P {and Poilux of mythologteal history were “There's someone asleep in the main |t brathers of Helen, the faithicss queen | of Sparta, whose flight from her husband, Stutevant complaining of the discomforts of the eabin. Captain Nye was at the wheel, the two men and the boy forward Here,"” thought Barclay, “we've got a son-of-a. hold,” he sald, o gt YD | Menelaus, and elopement with Paris to “You can hear him snoring If you listen | T70Y: Were the cause of the Trojan war, |a war to which no historian can assign A date. While the long war continued Castor and Pollux died, and & constelld- tion was formed In their honor, and their names were attached to its two bright- est stars. 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