Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 15, 1915, Page 9

ITAWIR o Religious Fossil Unfit to Exist in Modern Day Bound to Do Harm—Nar- row, Bigoted Pastors and Teachers Hurt Not Only Creed, but Whole Cause of Christianity. N By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, Copyright, 1915, by Star Company. ~=for All Prisoners!’ California, holding down a job writing advertising copy and ‘letters’ for bus ness- gotting, but with a wkeenly awakened wense of the need w+along prison reform ‘mlines, and every min- lawfute possible to we snatch from the- {Praforesaid ‘Job' is de- wevoted to working = fellow- fginnty i 2 with my workers and fellow- women over the country, through earnest letters, urg- ing one and all to do thelr part with whatever talent they may have, to lift the medieval yoke of tyranny from our shoulders, and let a little sunshine of common sense into the pr.son cond.t.ons over the country. “This glorious, civilized, wonderful country — America forever! — 'Ts ail right to say, fellow penwoman, but one must say this with his back to the prison conditions of America. If you know, you do not need to be told, If not, I want to urge you to think on these things and Investigate.—Helen Locke Burns.” The receipt of the above letier caused the writer of this article to “think and investigate.” Five hundred thousand persons, It is estimated, pass through American prisons every year. Had they been efficlently educated, effic.ently trained to do something constructively, ithis stream of inefficlent humans would be perceptibly reduced. Whie they 1 are passing through the penal and re- formatory Institutions every avenue of \reater enlightenment should be at their scrvice, every stepping stone to greatness should be given them. The privilege of writing and receiving letters Is greatly restricted in the great majority of American state prisons. A few of the states allow free and unre- stricted mail privileges. No prison rlots occur in the states that grant the In- mates the privilege of Writing ‘as mapy letters as they desire to thelr friends aiid rolatives, The reason is simple, for their i minds are occupied with wholesome and | elevating thoughts. Nothing will make a person more morose and sullen than to be denied the God-given liberty of com- munication with his loved ones and his own dearest friends. no reason why his relatives, friends and family should be punished by not being . allowed to hear from him. That is * where the wrong individual is penalized. ‘Why shouldn't a prisoner be allowed to write to his folks, telling whether he is alive or dead, well or sick, miserable or fairly content? Who suffers? You know it is the folks at home. It is a great privilege to write letters, and it is still a greater privilege to re- celve them. Anyone who has ever felt e e i the abject misery of looking for a letter | that never comes will understand me, There is no reason under the blue sky why a convict should not be allowed to . senq out as many letters of a social na- .ture as he cares to buy postage stamps for. The object of putting a man in prison is two-fold; first, to protect so- clety, and second, to make the convict a better man. And certainly. breaking off' all connections with the outside world does not make for human evolu- tion. Every prisoner in America should be al- Jowed the full, free privilege of the United States mall, exactly under the same conditions that men outside enjoy. There Is nothing in any law in the land \ that says that imprisoned men shall be denled the mail privileges. The late ¥ibert Hubbard says: “The forbidding the prisoners to send out mail is a | foolish, vain, unnecessary rule that has ‘come down to us from the Dark Ag: ““When a prisoner is sentenced it should be for a term’ of sunshine, fresh air, simple and abundant food, and honest work, Al this with the intent that when @ man is given back to soclety he will } be an asset and not a Mability.” And here is what J. J. Sanders, parole' clerk of the Arizona state prison, says: “Out here in Arizona a new system of handling the state offenders has been inauguratell by the present administra- tion. Great strides have been taken in prison reform, and the greatest of these, from the standpoint of the welfare of the | prisoner—which only means, in the end, the welfare of sociéty—has been the re- moving of all restrictions from the pris-| It Ruins Hair To Wash It With Soap Soap should be used very sparin-' If at all, if you want to keep your ha.r 3 looking best. Most soaps and pn : 5 pared shampoos contain too much al- kall. This dries the scalp, makes the ) 8 hair brittle and ruirg it. 3 The best thing for steady use ls Just ordinary mulsified cocoanut of! (which is pure and Rreascless) better than soap or anything e can use. and 18 you One or two teasnoonfuls wi'l cleanse 4 the hair. and scaln thoroughly. Simply moisten the hair with water and rub it MR It mavas creamy lather, which rinses out easi) remnvine every particle of dust, dandruff and excessive ofl y. airg the scaln soft, and the hale flne and silky, bright, lustrous, fluffy and easy to manaee, You can get mulsified cocoanut oll at any phannacy, it's very cheap, and a faw ounces will supply overy member of the gamily for months.—Advertisement. woe “Wun't you drive a few straight truthe a= home on the question of ‘Mail Privileges The writer is just & determined little woman over here in ‘When a man is sent to prison, there is abvndance of rieh, | | The Bees Ho C—— & l i ! | loner's mail, except. of course, ordinary ilnulh'rllun, |tamilies and relatives, they are encour- jaged to read books that will benefit them |~and if the outside world could under- | stand ‘what all this means to the prisoner, it would be the same in every penal in- | stitution in the United States. “Nowhere will you find a better con- | tented lot of prisoners—nowhere will you find better discipline—nowhere will you find less friction among the inmates—no- where will you find a more studious lot of men in penal servitude—and the unre- stricted mall privilege is largely respon: ble. | “Over the entrance to the building con- {taining our library and amusement hall, {18 & slgn bearing the keynote to the {prison system of Arizona—a quotation | from our much-loved Ralph Waldo Emer- ' 5on—'The greatest enterprise in the world for splendor, for extent, {8 the upbulld- {ing of a man.' Can anyone deny that our newspaper, magazines and perfodicals constitute one of the greatest mediums of education tn this country? Can you build ia man up without educating him?" | ———y Do You Know That [——— There are 175 different pieces in an i average watch. Highland plaids were originally worn by the Gauls The word “villain" at first simple meant a villager, Some comets have talls 20,00 miles in length, Divorces are scarcely known in modern Greece. The Canary islands are the tops of a great submarine mountain range. Sir Joshua Reynolds' picture, “The Five Cherubs,” is said to be really five pic- tures of one little girl, painted from five different points of view. The earliest book which mentions gold is the Bible. In the second chapter of Genesis, eleventh verse, occur the words, | “the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.” i — ! The reason that a ‘“baker's dozen” means thirteen is that many bakers in |days gone by were so afrald of be'ng ! fined for giving short welght that they gave an extra loaf with every dozen. In order to make British gunners the | best in the world, the admiralty has even The hair|890e S0 far as to use one of its battie- dries auteklv and everly, and it leayes | *hiPS as & target. This was the Empress o f India, which originally cost 34,500,000, and was sent to the bottom in 13 In a brigade of artillery a telephone set is supplied to enable the officer com- manding the brigade to communicate with his three battery commanders. “The men are encouraged to write their| THE BEE FOMATTA, WEDNESDAY, S IRk MBI IR e 1, « o For the Feminine Autumn Wardrobe Republished by Special Arrangement with Harper's Bagar The girl wh coming will wa robe the good shown above, o finds tailored things more be- nt to add to her autumn ward- looking shirt of white Ilinen It is just as smart when con- verted into a low-necked model, by detaching the satin stock. . $2.95, To the left is a one-plece frock of navy blue serge, which wm be found invaluable in the young girl's w skirt with deep braid-bound pockets. lar and cuffs are of white pique. This one has a full The col- $19.50, ardrobe. By GARRETT P. SERVISS, In a tour including most of the eastern states and eastern Canada, during the last month, I have met, nearly every- where, the reinvigoraled and reinfore hosts of the mos- |quite. New York, New Jersey and |Long lsland may take whatever comfort is to be found in the fact that they have an abundance of com- pany In their mis- lery. | The aerial lanc- ers seem to have come charging down on the heels of the extraordi- nary rains which began to fall about the last of July. As soon as the soll was thoroughly water- |soaked, the swamps filled, the streamsy \swelled over their banks, and the forest . beds impregnated with molsture, the ideal konditions for the rapid breeding of mosquitoes existed, and the pests hum- ymed forth by millions. Citles and villages {which had been boasting of their sclen- {tific extermination of mosquitoes sud- denly found themselves infested with |stinging swarms, whose numbers and ferocity recalled the old days when mos- {auito nets canopled every bed in well- jordered houses, and door-yard smoke~ piles were the principal means of whole- sale defense against the enemy. In truth, the unexpected recrudescence of the mosquito plague almost seems a mockery of the recent efforts of sclence (to eliminate this particular species of in- sect, It certainly calls out many sar- castic remarks at the expense of the ento- mologists, and it cannot be denied that they were more indebted than anybody supposed them to be to general atmos- pheric and climatic conditions for the easy conquests which their methods of extermination had achieved But it would be unjust and foolish to condemn those methods on the strength of what has occurred this summer. The methods are all right, but the scale on which they were applied was proportioned to a different state of things from that which now exists. It takes a blgger dam to obstruct a river than a creek, The breeding grounds of the mosquitoes have been suddenly extended, in some places to ten times their former area. Wherever a swamp or marsh has taken the place of & dry spot of ground mos- quitoes spring Into being as if by mag'e They are the foster-children of still water, slthough the ultimate manner of | They are one of the most- widely distrib- uted of all flying creatures, not because they can fly, for they do not go very long distances on the wing, but because their kind has been so many ages on the earth, and has developed such power of adaptation that (given molsture enough) they can lve In every zone, They not only swarm In the tropical forests, but are often a plague In higw northern and southern latitudes. They do not ascend to great altitudes, but this may, in part, be due to the absence of standing water. They love warm, “mug- §Y" weather, but can endure the relative coolness of autumn evenings Their fondness for human blood must be an acquired taste, since they came wupon the earth long in advance of man, their origin is still a secret of nature, | and are as abundant today in remote, uninhabited reglons as in human nelgh- borhoods, and even more abundant. When Lewis and Clark made their cele« brated expedition across the Rocky moun- tains and thereby saved the great north- west for the United States, they found the mosquitoes so numerous in some of the river bottoms that the attacks of these insects almost drove them to de- spair. lvery explorer of wild countries has had similar experiences, and often in places where {t would seem that the insects could hardly have had any ex- tensive practice in the art of blood-sucke ing, since the hides of wild animals are too thick and hairy to be readily pene- { trated by thelr flexible lances. It is a singular fact that only the female mosquito “bites,” and it has been sald that “as it is but a very small proportion of them that can ever taste human blood or that of any warm-blooded animal, blood would not appear to be essential to their welfare.”” Perhaps it is like the taste for olives or sweetmeats or tobacco ~—all the more Irresistible because it is the result of cultivation, and involves, for fits gratification a certain risk, or the overcoming of a preliminary disiike. It may be no joke to say that the abundance of mosquitoes Is dependent upon the sunspot cycle. The proof is all the while accumulating that somehow or other the general character of the sea- sons varies with the iIncrease and de- crease in the number of spots on the sun, Wetness, dryness and electric state all vary more or less in accord with the so'ar condition, and these things are the controlling elements in the life of our globe. 8o, in & roundabout way, we might throw the blame for the mosquito inva- slon upon the sunspots! ey (I S— zma Tartan @f1% forming the un- derwaist and sleeves, adds a dashing bit of color to this frock of blue serge. The side fastening is fin- ished with a trimming of brald and but- tons. There Is a becoming lt- tle white collar, and a fold of white in the V- shaped neck, $22.50, Summer Flirtations By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Most young people go off for a summer vacation with the ldea that its success depends entirely on whether their two or four weeks Include a love affalr, A summer vacation ought to spell rest and quiet and preparation for the strenuous winter to follow, instead of which most young people long to plunge into the violent unrest of a summer flirtation. “Never the time and the place, and the loved one all together,” wrote Brown- ing—but that Is not allowed to apply to summer vacations. Girls put up with men at whom they wouldn't actually look in the city. Men imagine them- selves wildly enamorded of girls for no better reason than that having “an af- falr” in summer seems so obVliously the thing to do, A few years ago I was at a summer resort at which there were a very aris- tocratie, ambitious, snobbish woman and her daughter. The girl was pretty and seemed to have a desperate feeling that the summer was wasted because there were no young men in the hotel. Buddenly a youth arrived. He was Gutts from Men. Dear Miss Fairfax: 1 am 2, with great many men friends. One of the boys | asked me if 1 would go yachting with | him. I refused, statng that I dld not| have a top coat suitable for the occa- | #slon. e sald If that was the only reason he would buy me a coat. Now, Miss Fair- fax. would it e proper for me to accept same? Y. 2 A modest girl never accept gifts of wearing apparel from men who are not bound to her by ties of kinship or mar- riage. Surely you have a heavy sweater | or old winter coat you can slip on over your sult. You need not have s yachting costume for one boat ride! | Marrying & Widow. Dear Miss ¥airfax: I have known a young widow (% years old, same aye as |mine), for one year, and as she has many |ko0d qualities—in & good worker. intelli- |7ent, affoct'onate and serious—I have. Uttle by littls. fallen in love with her. Bhe hns 1. | My fol Ithev atyle H “such & inonstrous mateh,'” as thev ‘wish me to marry a younx girl | | My exnerience with voune vl | taueht me that most of them today are frivolons presumntuonsg and treat o man's love very llehtly, therafore [ am {not tnclined to follow my folks' wish ALBERT A | You are really old enough to choose !a wife for yourself, and while you are |not fair in your judment of the girl of |today, neither are your people fair fio | fecling that it would be wrong for you to marry & widow. There is no reason why & young woman should mourn h¥r By Beatrice Fairfax life away for a dead husband and never know happiness again. Try to persuade your people to be more broad-minded in the matter and not expect you to sacri- fice love to & really antiquated prejudice. Let it Be J. Dear Miss Falrfux: I am a girl of M and have two gentleman friends. D is very wealthy and willing to marry me. He 1s willing 10 support my mother and three younger slst J the man love and he has also proposed to me, but Le is too poor to support my mother and three younger sisters. WORKING GIRL. A marriage to D would prove unhappy for you, though he supported all your relatives. Follow your heart, The prob- lem of your mother and threo sisters will find some other solution. I am sure they would not ask you to sacrifice your- selt for thelr sake. Snentc fn on Friendly W “lmr mu; Fi :fl dlhur:uln- y'?:.nna' Kirl | friends iIf only you made haste a littls a o- marks Passed ehett my el i | more slowly. Rushing Into & summer discontinued my fri ng | flirtation and that I-am-looking-for man whom bave met bim recently and he has shown #lgns of wanting to renew our mequain- | tance. Kindly advise me what to do in order to speak to him WAITING. If you show your friendliness, he will take the next step if he wants to be re- conclled with you. But I hope you are not renewing a friendship with one whe has slandered one of your giil frie That would be the worst kind of dis loyalty £ood looking, had pleasant manners and seemed o have plenty of money to spend. The girl fairly flung herself at him, and sympathizing friends in the hotel aided and abetted the affais. The mother had sense enough to per- mit of no engagement, but the girl made me Magazine PDa ST SNSE—— ge How to Misunderstand Women By ANN LISLE, Thare was once a man who called him ®elf a student of life. And the most in tereating topic he could find was the in- vestigntion and class fication of women. This man knew women of all sorts—oid, young: good, bad; beautiful, ugly; clevcr and stupld. He wus #0 busy knowling (1 ®ox that he had very littlo time to kno either love or himkolf. But he meant make his invest gations count In term: A& series of great novels In which the m! undorstood teminine sex should for onc be clearly explained, champloned an luss fled. And then the man met a girl wh Was KULEoely good and eerenely unat talnable ) sented Ided that she nood in woman, yepr th i w i all manknd vainly I « ) b mond to some ¢ he ocould win her, thi woman must be hig wife, In the me time, he had work to do-~he must lear to know the sex of which this woma #0 shining an example, And now across his path thera cam. a flower of evil, a more exotic creature than he had ever kmown--a greater and & worie than Carmen. And the man made up his mind that when he had studied her mental processes and had catalogued them, he would turn to the winning of his angel. But the wicked Carmen person was very, very beautiful, and the man did not find investigating her at all unpleas- an He lingered and did the job thor- oughly and with gusto, Of course, what concerned him was her mental processes, but In studying them he found it not at all unpleasant to investizate too the sweetnoss of her llips. His soul was quite untouched by the affair, but his eyes wore gladdened and his mind, he felt sure, was enriched. In due time he returned to his angel with the idea of courting her and making her his wife, But the angel slammed the door of her heart in his face after giving him quite clearly to understand that she wouldn't have the rejected sultor, cast-off would-be lover of the Carmen person. “But I wasn't In love with Carmen all,”” he exclaimed. “I found her a re- markably Interesting type to Investigate, We'll use her in the great book about women we are golng to write together, That will be a wonderful book. With you to help me I shall do marvelous things for yaur sox. y The angel sneered. My dear man, I know something about the world, No man could take a purely intellectual in- terest in such a lovely creature as Car-. men. Don't tell me. I wouldn't be solled by having a man In my life who bad once loved her. Your admiration lowors me In my own eves.' And she drew her immaculate angel draperies away from the contact with such as he. ‘The man gazed at her in mounting horror. Her unjust accusation staggered him. He had never supposed that his angel could think so basely or judge so cruelly. He hesitated between suigide and marrying Carmen. But he comprom- fsed by—using the angel as the lady vil- lainess in one of his books. Moral: Even for her who evil thinketh, It is sometimes impossible te do anything but good. Househo_ld Hints To wash discolored embroidery, place in a vessel with cold water, blued, but not too deep, and with the julce of a lemon. Boll for half an hour, and -afterwards rinse in cold water and dry in fresh air. Bread should never be covered with a her infatuation so evident that the whole |cloth when taken from the oven, but lald hotel looked for announcements in the on the side and allowed to become per- fall, feotly cold, then kept in a closely covered Early in September I was in a party of | tin bix, without wrappings. which the girl was one. We rolled up to the theater in her mother's limousine and were ushered to a box by a blue- uniformed youth who turned out to be her summer admirer, Of course, he was obviously out of the #irl's world, although his two weeks' va- 1on had brought him in touch with it. The youns woman was far too design- ing and calculating to permit herself any further Interest in him. But surely she must have suffered a little, and her proud mother have resented the critical comments of her friends. As for the vouth, he must have suffered at least from thwarted ambition. This is fairly typical of summer fiirta- tion. In the ideal world, social barriers would not count, and true worth would make the man, but few people are happy when transplanted from thelr natural en- vironment, and still fewer are brave | enough to go calmly from one social rank to another. There lies the first danger of summer flirtation, which is based on “insufficient evidence.” But a grave difficulty rests In the undignified, unwarranted love-making which & summer sea and summer moon seom to call up from youthful hearts. A #irl permits herself freedom of action she would never take in a city. A man is far more daring than he would ever be when meeting her in her home town “Spooning’’ seems fairly to be taken for granted, Every one excuses his own foolish in- discretion on the ground that it s the order of the day, or takes it for granted without any effort to excuse it. Girls put themselves fairly into the mouth of Kossip. Men signify intentions they do not intend to carry out. Unhappiness and unfavorable comment follow. Most sum- mer flirtations end with a crash or dwindle away into nothingness and re- Eret. The people you meet at summer resorts | | might easily turn into pleasant winter | some-one-who-will-know-how-to - love-me ]mun. Is very unlikely to lead to any- thing worth having. Permanent liking and respect are not {based on widly unrestrained emotion: |they are based on interests and opinions | cougenially shared and the slow d'scovery | of things to admire and respond to in an- | other nature. Summer friendships might |be splendid lfettme things if summer flirtationus were not in existence. REMARKABLE CASE of Mrs.HAM ’E‘:“.;.“.’Lfi.';'_ Vegetable Compound Saved Her Life and Sanity. Shamrock, Mo.— “I feel it my duty to tell the public the eondition of health before S egetable Compound and Blood Purifier, tainly would have been in oy O8IE Shamrock, If you want special icc write ydia E, Pinkham l.gd‘kfn > Cong (confidentiul) Lyuu, Mass. | Ham, R. F. D, 1, Box Missouri.