Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1915, Page 10

Parents and the Child e By Virginia Terhune Van de Water Copyright, 1915, by Star How our children shall speak Is worth consideration. 1 do not mean how they shall learn to form the first baby-words that mean so much to the devoted par- | ents. But shall they spesk like educated | and refined members of society, or shall we allow them to indulge in the slang and rough-and-tumble language peculiar | to some of their assotiates? Children are as imitative as monkeys. | One man who, In_ intense moments, lapses into profanity has a bright little | daughter of two-and-and-a-half years. The parents did not suppose that the tiny creature was old enough to notice any pecullarities In her father's speech One day, when he was giving the child | a ride on his foot, she looked up at him | with an ecastatic amile. { “My God, what a good time we're hav- in'," she lisped. The father set her down and started to his feet. ““Where did the child ever pick up such an expression?’ he exclaimed smpany “I won't have my baby taught -pro- fanity!" “Then you must not use it in her presence,” the mother rejoined quietly. | It is certain that children have an apti- | tude for learning the things we would not have them learn. The vulgar word heard on the street, the rough expletive uttered by a playmate, is repeated with a parrot-like accuracy that makes even the unorthodox almost belleve in natural de- pravity. One nurse bewailed the fact that her charge would not learn the prayer she had tried for weeks to teach him, yet learned at the second hearing a coarse rhyme sung in his presence by a small street urchin. Such being the case, it behooves us par- ents to guard our speech, Not that we are prone to profanity or vulgarity, but we do use slang more than we realize. The man who says to his small son, “Can that racket stead of “Stop that nolse!” need not be surprised if tho lad finds such expressions more neutral than he does English undefiled. Weé cannot keep our children from the use of some of these phrases common among their playmates and school- mates, but we can try to have them hear enough gnod English in their homes to make them famillar with correct speech. This will, to some extent, “dilute” the Jess refined language. Even bables may be taught the right instead of the wrong things. One won- ders, fore, why some parents talk to their children In an idiotic prattie that 18 an insult to an Infant of average in- telligence. ‘And how was ‘oo dis mornin’, my tootale-wootsle?" coose the loving mother ‘ms she kisses her baby. ‘‘She’'s mom- amoo’'s petty sing, ain't she?”’ Does such senscless patols denote a su- quality of affection? It certainly not indioate a high grade of Intei- One might say just as tender in sane and grammatical phrasp- I know one woman who to this perpetuates the phrases of her silly mother to such an extent that she al- ways greets her iIntimate friends with “How. ia ‘oot o We all know that what's funny in the kitten lsn't funny in the oat. But was #uch talk as that ever funny even in the most diminutive kitten? 1 wduld not suggest that the child be corrected in his own sweet baby-prattle. If he is 80 young that he says “Soggle’ One lttle girl never learned to say “fish” until she was 8 Jears old, but always spoke of ““fiss,” and her parents smiled affectionately at the error and let was wise. But why teach say ‘“geegee” lustead of 2 " instead of “car,” have a ride in the 8 B H | i tongue, may 1 be permit- that which 1 have told a mother who, unconscious faults of phraseology, wished to correct his son's frequent iy i R El 3 i i »"" she sald, “it's the limit the off slang. It's up to you it out!” further cominent necessary Do You Know That Salads were first made in Holland and | Belgtum. A Japaness mounia his horse on the right side. Originally & yard meant the clrcum-| ference of the body. * The earth, under a thick covering of snow, is 10 degrees warmer than the alr immediately above the snow. Prisoners in Morocco are compelled to the officers for their trouble in ar- eacorting them to the police i i i i : i East India is re- the fact that its branches the ground and take root drumheads is wheep. stone. that Io" Chinese Fashion Appears in a Mandarin Suit Old Mother Fashion s not to be de- nied. Wars may stifle the ingenuity and enterprise of the Paris modistes, but she Masculine Privileges - Women Do Without By DOROTHY DIX. A young and pretty woman is married to & man who goos out ms soon as he has had his dinner, leaving her to spend the long, dreary evening alone. He di- verts himself by going (o thesters and dances and cafes with other women and men, and his wire wanta to know If she ha not the right to fol- low his example, and amuse herself also. Of course she’ ot the right, but she hasn't got the liberty, and if she tries following. in her husband s foot- steps she will find that they lead her, ' by & short out, to the doors of the diverce court. What is sauce for the matrimonial goose isn't. sauce for the matrimonial gander, and there are very few men who will stand for the line ,of conduct in thelr wives that they expect thelr wives to put up with from them. A man, for instance, resents it as un- warraited nagging for his wife to ask him where he has been when he comes {home at 3 G, M, but any woman who stayed out until that hour and refused to furnish a perfect credible alibi would have a chance to tell her troubles to a policeman. She'd find the door locked and barred against her, ®o that she |would never get in to maké her ex- ,Planations at all. There are thousands of men who rarely spend an evening at thelr own fireside and who are perfectly happy and satis- | ried playing poker at their club, or drink- ing In a saloon, as long as they know that their wives are sitting up bored and forlorn alone at home: but let the woman either invite company in to relieve the donkeys, | monotony of her lfe or pit on her hat and go forth in search of pleasure, and {the mischief's to pay. Of course, this is bitterly unjust. man won't stay at home and try to en- Its tortain his wife, he should not object to THE BEE: OMAMA, TUESDAY, The Bees Home Ma By DR. CHARLES H. PARKHURST There prevalls rather widely the ophy, indeed, is not ! phitosophy at all, but sheer foolish- ness, augmented by laziness. The cher- ishing of so Indol- ent an opinion marks one as a failure almost from the start | In ordinary times | thero are very few people, if only they | possess the normal degres of health |ana intelligence, | but what can make |a fairly successtul thing of life if they {are willing to pay the price for it, and It is considerable of a price. | The Bible's injunction, “Work out your |own malvation,” applies outside of reli- |lon just as well as inside. It means | that whatever helpful Influence may over- itake a person from outside, what one | really gets ho has got to get by earhing |1t, and builq his success out of his own wits and efforts. | The habit of leaning upon some one else iy fatal and that is a lesson that {needs to be learned early and practiced {all the time. When one has depended upon a cruteh for a while it becomes im- possible to go without one, and that kind of people the world has no interest in or respect for. Succass is something that one has to prepare himself for, and that preparation consists in making himself competent, not competent for everything, but com- petent for something. People who apply for a job and when askeéd what they can do may they can do almost anything are unconsclous llars, for forty chances to one they can't do anything as it ought |to be done, and it is only those who will find a way still to surprise and thrill | can do things as they ought to be done the jaded pining for “something new.” |that are successful candidates for a posi- So here we have from far off mysteri-|tion. ous China & novelty to delight the heart| Even in these times of unemployment of feminine fashion sextremists. A Man- darin morning suit, it you please, in which to lounge and be comfortable. These suits are for those with a well- tilled purse, for fhere ls hardly a limit to the extent of elaborateness and rith- ness of design In which milady may in- dulge to please her fancy. Brocaded satin, worked with golden dragons, or silvery decorations, forms the basls for the outside material, with the linings of gorgeously colored silks. This photograph is just recelved from England and foreshadows a novelty that will soon arrive on our shores. That it will be accorded an hysterically enthusi- astic welcome is the prediction of the Look Ever Ahead —Not Back By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX., (Copyright, 1915, Star Compeny.) Let me look always forward. Never back, i Was ll not formed for progress? V8, Other- With onward pointing feet and searching o8 3 wn:‘rl: God have set me squarely on the o Up which we all must labor with life's Dpack? Yonder the goal of all this travel lies, What matters it, if rennrflly the sl With light were golden, or with clou were black? |T would not lose tomorrow's glow of h dawn | By peering backward after sun's long set. New hope is fairer than an old i Let me pursue my journey and press on— Nor tearful eved, stand ever in one spot, A briny statue like the wife of Lot. Mr. Jones do and say to Mrs. Jones for exhibiting himself as a fool before com- pany? We pause for a reply. Yet all of ue know dosens of men whose main funny story is some mistake that their wives | "elves from rest- have made, and which they never fall to | In§ under the tell, though the telling brings tears of |olouds of gloom mortification to thelr wives' eyes. “I'l" by "‘llxw- When things have gone wrong at the |PA/IIng war. In a store, Mr. Smith bangs into the house ‘:‘“.'":h"_‘;’hl'“!:;t and slams the door behind him, and | appears with & face so glum that the [Mazagine the fol- children hush their prattie and the cat|lowing directions gots under. the couch, and the wife|for —mental up- souttles to the kitchen to hurry up din-|!ifts are given for ner, He storms and rages and grouches|®ach day in the wheneyer he foels like it, and Mrs. Smith | week. They are spends her time trying to svothe him | worth considering down and cheer him up and win him out {and following. of his black humor. Sunday - Read But suppose, Mrs, Smith tore up the|Paul's Love Song. earth every time anything went amiss| I Cor, 13th chap- in the kitchen, suppose when her hus-|ter. band came home from work he found her| ‘“Love never fail- glooming around, and she only grumbled |eth.” Unkindness, impatience, irritabil- when he -p‘oln !ol h‘:n‘:‘::‘d ‘ho\ubnnd lblv fall In accomplishing good results, offer himself as & light carry | but apply the words of love spoken from off her bad temper? Not much! He'd|the love-consclousness, and you can have put on his hat and go out and find some . place with a serener atmosphere. And—whisper it ~ low, sisters—why shouldn't & man take as much trouble to keep himself young and siim and straight- fronted and well-dressed and attractive to retain his wife's love, as & woman does to keep her husband interested in her? Hvery woman is deathly afraid of getting fat and tripled-chinned lest she be less al- luring to her husband at 45 than she was | lips from speaking guile. AL 2. But do you ever hear of a middle-| (a) Do not talk about war horrors; (b) aged man Who is getting bald-headed and |qo 1,0t discuss inharmonious eonditions; bay-windowed, worrylug for fear that|(c) do not worry, fear nor doubt; () see his wife will find him less sttractive at!tne good in everyone and in everything. W than he was at ‘%6? Wednesday—"Love worketh no ill to It doesn’t even occur to & man that his his nelghbor; therefore Love is the ful- wife could quit loving him or get tired ¢ fllling of the law."—Romans 13:10, him, but he expects her to keep hustiing| If our words are words of Love, they to keep him perpetually fascinated. | will work no i1l to our nelghbor. Suppose also & woman should treat her| “Let your speech be always with husband when he 1s sick as he treats her. ce, seasoned with salt, that ye may When Mr, Brown comes home and finds | ",_3;; ) + ought to answer every Mrs. Brown sick, he is anxious for her ™an.” 5 to oave a doctor, and & nurse, and Thureday—Let us no longer oriticise quarts of medicine it she needs it. Having SAYthing or anybody, but, with faith in duly provided these, he tiptoes over to the the Creator, look for the good in all, bed and says how sorry he is that his|#nd more and more will the good be seen. dear Maria is suffering, but he's no good | Friday—The quickest way to make our- in & sick room, and so ho tarey forth to %eiVes stop talking about sickness is to the theater or some other place of diver- | 0P belleving in sickness. sion. where his mind will be taken off of | Fiealth la real sickness ls unreal. It the thought of how uncomfortable things o the part of Wisdom to believe in the are at home with iliness in the house, | Reality. No matter what appearance of sickness you may see today, try to real- But when Mr. Brown s sick, 4f dear' .0 ono" reqlity of Health, and to know Maria isn't on the job every minute of (ot the appearance is but a false bellef the time, if she isu't holding his hand (nat can be removed by knowing the and looking scared, and shedding Tyryuth. sympathetic tears, why, he considers him-| gq¢ selt the most (ll-used man on earth, and | yneak should she go forth to spend thé even- ! ing while he was sick in bed he would ' sway without being put into words. But never forgive her for it. | speak that word of appreciation, of All of which goes to show that there | thanks, of praise. You will have the s one code of matrimonial procedure tor | opportunity today. the man and another for the woman. and| After you have read your dally lesson, These are the days which try men's souls, and the happlest of us environed by the most desirable conditions feel the need of mental bracers to prevent our- “A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up { anger."—Prov, 15:1, Lot us see to it that we give the “soft anawer.” It does not denote weakness, but God-strength. -~ Tuesday—“A wholesome tongue is a tree of life.""—Prov. 144, Keep your thought from evil and your well before you 1 you have a thought that is not worthy of you, just let that thought slip SEPTEMBER tdea that life is a good deal of a raffle and that whether one Is going to be a suc- cess depends principally upon the stars and upon luck, whatever that may be; all of which s very cheap philos 1915, 14, .| there afe hosts of people that are at) work and that are getting fair wages, | but that is because they understand how | to do well what they are set to do. All| the Inefficients are screened out at such | \ time and go to the poorhouse or the bread line. Yet, parenthetically, it ~should be frankly acknowledged that in seasons | when the pressure ls as severe as it 1| now even men and women able to do| good work have sometimes to depend uvon; outside ald, yet some even of them, ff| they had husbanded their resources while work wus good would have been able to ftide over this season of distress without | | depending upon charity. | When all necessary exceptiona have | been made it still remains true, as a gen-| cral principle, that valuable people are| not crowded behind the door when the opportnitities are passed around. So that to make one's self valuable is| the first step toward success, and it is a big step. When we ask how much a man is worth we generally mean how much property has he. It is a more serious question when we mean by it how much worth {s there in the man himself; that | 18 to ay, ow much s there in him that | 18 of value and that therefore can be con- verted into product. A man's worth 1s to be measured by what he is capable of doing. A dollar is| worth up to the amount that a dollar will | buy; no more, no less. ‘Whether it be| dollars or men, the same question applies | ~what will it fetch? How much can any | given person be converted into In the shape of work? The answer to that ques- | tion settles his value. When it s a matter of pick and shovel the question asked of a man who wants | a job is, how much work is there in you? | The test of his value is his muscle. How much work can his brawn be converted into? That is a low-grade application of our principle, but it is a fair application and is the one that was applied in old times when slaves were auctioned off at the block. Worth was measured in terms of labor, It was then and is now. When we come up into higher lines of service calculation of a man's worth is conducted on the same principle, He is worth just as much as he is good for. Reckoning by the standard, some are worth $1,000, some $10,00 or even $50,000. A good many are not worth anything. That is all that anyone is worth who can ative Power, I have every quality of God. I am Peace, Power and Plenty. I am going forth to give strength, light, Joy and prosperity to all with whom I come in contact today. I am the center of Divine activity, and all I do must prosper, The Great Universe is in the hands of the Great Creator. I am the center of a universe of my own and it Is my work to see to it that all goes well in my environments. I will be what I will be. No matter with what depression and discouragement you awaken in the morning, if you follow these directions absolutely, before you desgend from your room you will find your day changing from gloom to sunlight. You will learn | how to generate sunshine, hope, cour- | age and power within yourself. You will learns how to change your environ- ment to bring health out of sickness, success out of fallure, youth out of age and joy out of gloom. If you are willing to work for it pecsistently, all these | things shall be yours. Household Hints Do, you want to fireproof your muslin or casement curtains? Then put an ounce of alum in the rinsing water. This ap- plies also to children’s clothes. To clean rusty curtaln hoops place them , In a bowl and cover with cloudy am- monia. Leave for a half an hour and then Just stir them round with a stick. The hooks will look like new. Stains on the hands can be easlly re- moved by using salt and legan fulce. Put & little heap of salt on a saucer and squeeze sufficient lemon juice into it to molsten it. Rub this on the stain until it disappears, then rinse the hands in clean warm water. A Scouring Mixture—Take one part of e, two parts of soft soap, and three of | sand, and mix well together. In scrub- bing boards, tables, etc., put a little of the mixture on the brush, afterwards | If white shoes have become too dark and dirty-looking to be cleaned they can | be twrned into smart-looking brown shoes by rubbing them over with a mixture of | twenty drops of saffron and two table- spoonfuls of olive oll. Two applications | will be required to make the color dark enough. A FINE TREATMENT FOR CATARRH | Catarrh is such an insidious disease | and has become so prevalent during the past few years that its treatment should be understood by all. Seclence has fully proved that Catarrh is a constitutional disease and therefore requires a constitutional treatment. Sprays, inhalers, salves and nose douches seldom If ever give lasting benefit and often drive the disease further down the alr passages and into the lungs. 1 If you have Catarrh or Catarrhal deaf-| ness or head-noises, go to your drug- that to treat her|then make their little assertion quietly her had as|ang silently in your room alone: I:..I-h-dhnhlb 8ist and get one ounce of Parmint (Dou-| ble strength). Take this home and add/ to it % pint of hot water and 4 ounces of granulated sugar; stir until dissolved, take one tablespoonful 4 times a day,| This will often bring quick relief from the distressing head-nolsee, clogged nos- trils should open, breathing become easy and mucous stop dropping into the throat, This treatment has a slight tonle ac- tion which makes it especially effective| | in casos where the blood has becoms| thin and weak. It Is ‘easy to make, tastes pleasant and costs little Bver; person who wishes to be free from this gazin do nothing well, Those are the ones that #well the ranks of the unemployed. A street cleaning inspector told me a great many are so physically degenerate that they cannot even be given a job shoveling snow. We are not qualified to estimate the value of such men's souls, but vieweq in relation to this work-a- day world, such are sunk to the lowest ebb of worthlessness. That may be a strong statement of the case, but it is only another way of saying that a man who can do nothing is of no use and if he is of no use he Is of no value. It our young men will give some atten- tion to this plain statement of the case now it will be worth.ten times as much as the same amount of attention to it a dozen years hence. In the midst of a scason of hard times, some years since, I remarked to a large employer of labor from New England: “It is difficult to know what to say to these hosts of un employed that are pleading for a job He replied in effect: '“They have 1 harder work trying to find something | do than 1 have in finding men that wil do it, and do it as I want it done.” There are certain prineiples that gov- ern in the industrial world that it is rank foolishness for a young man to at- tempt to ignore. I hope the young read- ers of The Bee will take this article and make serious with it. The question lies between being good for something and belng good for nothing, and it devolves upon each to settle that question for himself, e Page — Advice to Lovelorn | E=—=—my BEATRION PATRFAX=—— 1 You Must Decide. Dear Miss Fairfax: 1 have three ad mirers; all are very nice and I llke thern. One I met at a party; another I met accidentally, and the other 1 kmow from the place where I work. All thres have asked me to h)slepl co”r‘nplny with Which one & choose ? e BLESS'NG The decision lies with you. I can only suggest that you let your head assiet your heart in making the decisfon. Be sure the one you choose is of good char acter. Tell Her the News. | Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young man |of 21 and have been keeping company | with & girl two months. At first she | was much in love with me, but my folks were not satisfied. Some time ago I noti- fied her about the news and since then she does not meem as interested in me as ehe was at first. Now 1 have consulted with them, and they seem to be pleased What can I do to regain her love as be fore. A. A. D Naturally she resented their attitude Now that you have won your parents to ir side, tell the girl so and tell her peedily, before you lose her She Is Unfair, Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 22 and Lave | been keeping company with a_girl of 1f for the last year and a half. Lately she has taken a disltke to me over something | told her by a friend, which of course was | not true. Y loved her dearly and expeoted nad | Now she passes me whenever we meet as | if she had never known me. CRJ. All you can @ is to send her proofs that the charges against you are false It that fails to win her, try to forget her. She will have proved she no longer cares for you, even to your satisfaction. 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