Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 6, 1915, Page 7

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Nell Brinkley Says: The Bees o g ! | PTEMBER 6, 1915, —A Little Trip to **“Would-Be Land"— 7 Y, sour if she grows absent-minded in the dog-days; because it's mighty “slumpsey’” weather, and she's truly got to take little Go"nonly with your little stenographer, and don't get (oo‘) trips into “would-be land” hetween taps, where it's shady and Advice to Lovelorn Ls=——3y BEATRICE FAIRFAX—— His Be Consldered. Dear Miss Fairfax: | am 19 and love a young man of 2L _whom I know loves me very much. 1 have gone out with him many times and he has asked me to| keep company with him, but he is very much worried because his mother objects, for the reason that I am a poor giii and have no money. He told me he doesn't want to go against his mother’s wishes, but he loves me and knows that I am a refined girl from respectable people. As he doesn't have to depend on his par- Mother Should ents to make a llving, he doesn't care | what his mother says. By DOROTHY DIX. Aren't girls the silly geese? i They use so little real intelligence In |judging & man, and measure him bY |inev woulr all be such Idlotic standards, is that many of them have the luck to get g00d husbands. Lately I have had |an amusing and a that the wonder Copyright, 1915, Tntern'l News Service | flowery and whispery with the wind that comes from the hillg and water; where there’'s a hammock slung and the voice of a typewriter is never heard! the race of life I'd always back the little man to win against the blg, handsome animal, who looks as if he had a walk- over. . If women knew what was good for them making eyes and sigh- ing after little men and homely men, instead of matinee heroes, six feet tall, and with biack mustaches. For just an all-around proposition. the handsomest man makes the most undesiraBle hus- band, | By GARRETT P. SERVISS. “What is the meaning of the terms ‘fourth dimension’ and ‘sixth wense’ which one o often sees, especially in fiction?— H. B. 4. They are expres- #lons of the eternal ambition of the mind to rise above its limitations, and | !'ion in the cube in order to endow It | With a fourth dimension, It 1s this inabllity of the mind to pic- ture clearly what a thing having four dimensiony would be like that has led to the suggestion that “ghosts” and other “supernatural” phenomena owe their ex- traordinary properties to their possession of the fourth dimension, Here is the usual way of explaining swch phenomena jon the fourth dimension hypothes It rests a fellow. And I wager you take little wishing-trips yourself between grinds. \ Wealthy T'oo Often Thoughtless of Poor By ELLA WHEELER WILOOX, merchants and tradesmen in the land, and they will corroborate these statements. A young woman musle teacher said recently: My patrons are almost all people of wealth. They employ me fo: Copyright, 1916, Star Co, | The gulf between people of wealth and | the world's tollers can never be bridged | thelr daughters, unti} some method is found to awaken the brains and hearts of the wealthy class wives and sisters, and make no protest ot mv prices. Yet when | present my bill at the end of a term the Ereater number of | Tmagine yourself to live in a world of | to & better under- only iwo dimensions; then you would standing of those have no knowledge of any extension up- | Who work for a liv- . ward or downward, but only of extension | Ing. in length und breadth. Your world, and | The most you, and everything known to your senses, ferent, inconsider- would be absolutely flat and without 'ate, thoughticss thickness. ‘Then suppose something ex-|and careless people isting in the ordinary three-dimensional |On earth when ft world, enclosing yours, should cross the |comes to the pay- plane within which your existence was |ing of bills and the It would seem to you to have If he were a few years older, I would advise him to give love a chance first of all; but he Is only 3I, and is stift answerable to his mother. | Walt a few years. If her objections are based solely on your financlal circum- stances, 1 am quite sure time will over- come them. to penetrate into to walt six, elght regions of knowl- edge apparently closed against it. It 18 not difficult to understand what f8 meant by the fourth dimenston, although we can not grasp all of its significance, or all To begin with he is spofled to death by other women, and is sure to think that he can't be oxpected to waste all {of his charma upon the soclety of u | mere wife. Likewise he is certain to ap- | |prof\ate the major part of the dress {fund of the famlily for his own adorn- {ment. Ie also expects his wife to spend | her time admiring him, instead” of him admiving her, and, worst of all, he re-| mains young and handsome long after | | pathetic ~ inustration of this, in & number of letters 1 have re-| celved from girls who eay that they are in love with men who are evervthing that a man should be ex- | cept tall. They write f my patrons compel me ul"ayavm twelve months for g settiement. | "““ofhii is in order that their money may | continue to draw interest during that period of time. fo keep continually in debt and han | thelr money is recelv goes for | what ono generally terms ‘dead R:!—-.' | “‘The few people of modest means who |employ me are far more thoughtful and considerate.” Thers seoms to b mamothing fn the | possession of t wealth which creates hardeni of the heart and a blindis | 3¢ ‘th spiritual vision toward others less Meantime indif- Nquidating of debts NOT SIT UP Now Does Her Own Work. | Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta- | ble Compound Helped Her. Ironton, Ohio.—*“ I am enjoying bet- ter health now than I have for twelve years. When I be- ‘nntohkcLydhE.‘ Pinkham's Vegeta- ble Compound 1 could not situp. I had female troubles and was very ner- vous. I used the remedies a year and 1 can do my work and for the last eight months I have worked for other women, too. I cannot praise Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound enough for 1 know I never would have been as well if 1 had not taken it and I recom- mend it to suffering women."’ Daughter Helped Also. ““I gave it to my daughter when she was years old. She was in school and was a nervous wreck, and could not sleep nights. Now she looks moral, upright, in- dustrious, intelligent, —the very sort of men that make the best husbands — but that: they hesitate to marry men who are shorter than they are for fear their friends will vidicule them. Isn't that enough to make you laugh— or ery? Think of anybody having little {enough sense to judge a man by his | inches, as if he were a bolt of ribbon, | and the more of him there was the bet- ter wargain you got for your money! | Think of choosing a husband by his | helght, as it he were a telephons pole! Let me tell you one thing, girle: 1t | 1sm't the distance a man's head is above the ground that counts. It's what's in {that head. Giants are nearly always | fools, and some of the greatest men the | world has ever produced have been little men. If you were a tall girl you would have feit perfectly foolish tansoing with & sawed-off man like Napoleon. ‘‘Bobs” commanded a million men, great grena- {Giers who could almost have put him in | thelr pockets. Kfpling is an undersized [man, and Barrie isn't much bigger than la boy Jay Gould and Harriman were both little men, but they juggled with | raflroads as children play with toys. | You could go on all day mentioning | |the lttle men Who do big things, for lafter all nature fsn't s unjust as we | think. She is pretty apt to - even up | things, and when she makes a man who is short on stature she is more than | Mkzely to make him long on brains. And conversely this is aleo true, and when | | she constructs a man on grand archi- his wife's good looks have faded, and she has to stand for knowing that every- body is wondering why that godlike creature over married that Ifttle shrimp of a woman, On the contrary, the handsome woman who marries a homely little man has a monopoly of the family beauty. Her husband admires her, and flatters her, and delights in dressing her up, and show- Ing her off, and never gets over wonder- ing how such a splendld creature ever condescended to tie up with him. Whioh is most a salutary and comforting state of mind for a husband to be in. The little man 1s the preferrod matri- the consequences that may follow from its existence—if it does exist. Dimension tn the sonse here used means extension, or “stretching out.” Begin with a mere mathematical point, which may be imagined to have no dimensions at all, since it doesn’t stretch out in any |direction. Now, let the point be stretched into a straight line. It then possesses one dimension, which is measured along the line. Next take hold of the line and stretch It out sideways, Tt thus become a plane, or a flat surface, and it pos- sesses two dimensions, length and breadth. Finally, suppose that you get a kind of suction grasp on the plane and monial risk, girle But there's only one warning I want to whisper in your ear, |Strotch it upward (or downward) #o as to and that 18 watch out and see if he's in- |ive it thickness. It then becomes a clined to be a bit tyrannical. Truth |Eeometrical solid, which, If its length, compels me to state that is the little |breadth and helght are all equal to each man's one drawback. Just because Le |Other. will be a cube. As nas just heen is small he feels that he's got to assert |!ndicated, in speaking of 1ts length, his authority a little too loudly in order |bradth and height (or tnickness), the to show that he is the head of the house. |Cubé thus developed by the process of A big man 't afraid that anybody will | first stretching a point into a line. think that his wife bosses him. The |then the line into & plane, and finally a little man lives under a continual dreed [Plane into a solld, possesses three dimen that people will think he is henpecked | slons. and to show that he isn't, he is frequently unduly autocratic. Barring this fault, the little man makes an ideal husband, and the girl is foos ish who turns the man she loves down Dbecause he fsn't six feet tall and hasn't This Is &s far as our sense experionce can take us. All bodies that we can see or touch or experiment with, have these three dimensions, length, breadth and thickness. of our everyday work and doings, shoulders like & prize fighter. Cupld lan't | engineering, all mechanical contrivances & recruiting sergeant who selects men for |and inventions, are hased upon the three ural lines, oftener tham mot she | #0 healthy that even the doctor speaks |tect of it. You can publish this letter if you | like."’—~Mrs. RENA BowMAN, 161 8. 10th | Street, Ironton, Ohio. Why will women continue to suffer m‘h and day out and drag out a sickly, -hearted existence, missing three- fourths of the joy of living, when they can find health in Lydia E: Pinkham's Vegetable Com, 1 ; L have the slightest doubt gfi. E. Plnkhtgn‘l Vegeta~ ble pound will help you,write toLydia E.Pinkham MedicineCo. (confidential) Lynn, Mass..for ad~ vice. Your letter will be opened, read fi red by a woman answe: wnd in strict confidence. | | are handsome and tall and brilliant, just | skimps on the skull. Of course, there are & few men Who inside furnishings of M.i as there are & few women who are beau- | tiful and intelligent and unseifish, but | these darlings of the gods are excqptions | to the rule As & general thing, yowr | godlike Adonls is as dull as a meat axe, and your llving picture lady has nothing but her looks to recommend her. Also the small and insignificant look- ing man is far more lkely to be ambi- tious and energetic than the big, hand- some man, because he knows that he has §ot to get up and hustle in order to at- tract any attention in the world. Nobody | the holy estate according to their size. Do You Know That Fireworks are said to have been first invented in Burope at Florence in 1860. Every Swedish girl not born to wealth is taught a trade of some sort Criciet, foot ball and lawn ternis are making great headway among the Hin- doos The skin of an elephant when tanned is very expensive, about six months recognized dimensions of matter and take __|account of no other. | Put the ever curlous mind of man has asked itself: “May there not be a fourth dimension, of which ordinarily we have | no experience or knowledge”’' And certain deep-thinking minds have replied: “Yes |we believe there is a fourth dimension |because there are thematlcal grounds |for thinking so.” Yet they can hardly make it plain, even to themselves. | Perhaps the best way to form sn idea | of what a fourth dfizension would be like i= to go back to our original plan of | stretehing & point into & M a line fato Il plane and a plane into a cube. Now, | how could we, in a similar manner, stretch & cube into another dimension? It would not do to timply draw it out the tanning taking!'nto an oblong shape, for that would not | be making a new dimension, hut simply | prolonging one of thoss that the cube ai- ¥ xoing to sit around admiring his mok-.; There i6 4 luw in Nebraska requiring | ready possessed. It would be necessery s | confined. |come out of nothingness, and when it passed on it would seem to vanish into | nothingness, and no knowledge given you | | by your senses, and no setence based upo: (such knowledge would enable you to make a raticnal explanation of what you {had seen and you would be driven to the conclusion that something super- natural had happened. In a similar way, it Is argved, a visitant from space of four | dimensions would necessarily appear to be a supernatural interloper in our world | of three dimensions, | You ask about the term “a sixth sense.”” | That refers to something which has not {the mathematical backing of the fourth | dimenston 1dea; and yet it may have | quite as much truth behind it. It is founded upon the belief that there is in {the human nervous organism some prop- |erty or force which serves as o means |of commvunicating and recognizing Im- | pressions that have no effect upon our ! ordinary senses of sight, nearing, touch and so on. Of course this idea readily | lends itseif te unsclentific and purely im- | ainative uses. In-Shoots All ordinary matnematics, all | all | A bold front is almost | strong arm. as good as & The dentist always looks happy be- cause 1t does not hurt him. When we got & square deal the other fellow often thinks that he has been skinned, To call it “fox trot,” cruelty to animals. Long range charity is not as apt to get |cold feet as that which bumps against {the subjects. | always seems to be greater than commendable article. It is possible for the stern man to be- he gets in a tight place. When a fellow has not the look of wis- d in order to get the glad hand he'w [hotel proprictors to furnish bed sheets |10 produce sume entirely unexpected, and |dom. a pair of those auto lamp lense eye. to lurn oWt & star performance. In pine feet In longth [perhaps to us twinmginable transforma glasses will help some | fortunately situated. A French teacher, ra-fashlionable of {which are justly due are the peo- ple who Possoss fortunes and large incomes. The poor and the modestly rope t mmer him money. He had relied upon it to pay |his rent in advance. Innumerable cases | could be cited. Tt 18 not the exce comfortable classes | Wituation: the exceptional case is that of afe faF more the wenlthy man or woman who promptly | pays n debt keenly alive to their ohligations in these | "fiia"conditions excites animosity in the matters, and they pay their debts witn much greater promptness than do peopl. of wealth, Ask any of the music teachers, teach- {ers of languages, dressmakers, tailors, ‘ ::jih]‘:fluum".” e il 1\" o Wit el e | | g Try l\is | minds of the world's toflers -.za does much to increase unrest. It woul an excellent idea if all teachers, merchants and tradesmen could combine in & union and respectfully demand better treatment and more prompt payments in their deal- | | ings with the rich, easy way to clear your skin with is insult It not | The supply of false pride in the world | the come as pliable as a plece of putty when Resinol Soa Bathe your face for seyeral minutes with Resinol Soap ‘and warm water, working the creamy lather into the skin gently with the finger-tips. Then® wash off with more Resinol Soap and warm water, finishing with a dash of clear cold water to close the pores, If the skin is in bad condition through neglect ar an unwise use of cosmetics, apply a little Resinol Oint- ment* and let it remain on ten min- utes before the final washing with Resinol Soap. Resinol Soap is not artificially colored, ite rich brown being entirely due 10 the Resinol balsams it contaire. ~ Sold by all druggisis and dealers in tailct gooda. For free sample sake and trial of Resinol Olntment, write P, Iesinel, Baltimore, Md., " Do this once ot twice a day, and you will be astonished how quickly the healing, antiseptic R esinol medication soothes and cleanses the pores, re- moves pimples and blackheads, and leaves the complexion clear, fresh Ointiment for over bwenty years in the and velvety, ireaiment of skin and scalp affec tions. * Phvsicians have prescribed Resinel .

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