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| TITE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY SEPTE) 1DER 1, 1915 o Miss Helen Barnes, one of the most fraceful dancers of the Ziegficld Mid- night Frolic cast, in her article today, written especlally for the Omaha Bee, tells how important a place calisthen- ics takes in the daily life of every woman seeking to make herself mojyc graceful, Miss Barnes illustrates her ideas in specially posed pictures, showing the exercises she for everyday use. By HELEN BARNES. | The world needs more graceful women [¥very day I see thousands of women | with sufficient beauty, but they do not ! know, with all their pretty faces, how to walk well. They sit with a spineless bump In between their shoulders, They think the ingenue attractive. | ‘Women need to wake advocates slouch up. A Fictionless By ANN LISLE. THere was once a man who had been in love with many women—and then he met the girl. He knew her at and in | the light of his knowledge he felt swept | out of his own life course into one that was new and strange. He felt suddenly good, and he desired to be better. “I am not worthy of you,' he told the girl, “but don't give me up—perhaps 1 will be some day.” He tully intended to be worthy—when | he got around to it. But in the mean- | timé there were the books of h old | way of living to close; there was a little more freedom to be enjoyed—a little more ertainty of the wearing quality of his love for the girl to be assured by time Dandruff Soon Ruins The Hair GfFls—if you want plenty of thick, beautiful, glossy, silky hair, do by all means get rid of dandruff, for it will starve your halr and rufn it if you den't It doesn't do much good to try to brush or wash it out. The only sure way to get rid of dandruff is to dissoive it, then you destroy It entirel geL about four ounces of ordinaiy liquid arvon; ap- ply it at night when retiring; use enou, to molsten the scalp and rub it in ge with'the finger tips. By morning. most ‘If not all, of your dandrurf will be gone, and three or four mor'e applications will completely dissolve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of it You will find, too, that all jtching and algging of the scalp will stop, and your hatr will look and feel a hundred times better, You can get liquid arvon at any | drug stere. It is inexpensive and four ounces is all you will need, no matter | how much dandruff you have. This sim- 7 » remedy ' never falls.~Advertisement. | To do this, y REOIOLBY INTERNATIONAL, NURS.SERYICE eow | for | selt a bit, too, X Awkwardness in a woman is little short of criminal. A pretty, awkward woman is a real tragedy. A little will power, a little determina- tion, a half hour earlier rising and the trick Is turned. By that I mean, if she will, & woman can get over the bughear of awkwardness by daily exercises in her own room. 1 know the efficiency of dally calisthenics. They are miracle workers all women with patience enough to test them untll they really get results But there must be no weariness in well doing. Exe rted must be faith- fully performed night and morning. Take these two simple lessone in calis- thenics I have illustrated today. Wonder- ful results can be obtained by any woman ises s who conscientiously follows them. But this must always be remembered: They must be done vigorously. Lackadaisical exercises do more m than good. Put One last word of advice: Take these exercises before an open window, hreatt Ing deeply us you do them Keep your head well up and your shoulders back. A smile on your face will also hely Briefly described the first (wo exer clses 1 have lllustrated today a 1. Raise opposite leg and arm. Alter nate. Let limbs swing ly and freely Turn head and throw out arm. Move head to front from eide, keeping arm in first position. Then move head from front to opposite eing (The rapidity side. chan arms this exercice lies it is done.) 1 will exercises value in the with of which complete the which use. another article with two be taken as a group for dally In serivs more may h vl-Why We Quarreled = No. 7—The Husband's Insistence on Koep- ing Open House the Bane of This Wife's Days (Copyright, 1 Star Company.) [ By Virginia Terhune Van de Water | My husband and | have had many & ' L stality Thi W8 us A0 on us W not | w i or Kuests N our home. This | u Lowm fond of entertaiming and Klad K peupie o [ ¢ wways, that when 1t is | convenfent. but | do insst that 1, as | the housenccper, wm the best judge a8 to when it is con n | on e Wy huseand and 1 disa gree. He loves o keey | hati-reliow-weil with everybouy “ What 18 the fun oy ing | word to mé, he says to th - with | whom he chances o b busia conversation, “Come hot with me, won't youw' He did th duy st r the h Wt th June day It happened 1o be froning-duy, too; for "(Iun was th e whea |owa Wb, [Bet & barkain i berrk e vendor m 1 had ordered them brought my dismay not exm he ntil tomor sald { i, but 1 found 1 could get | 'em for 2 cents | x than | W | tomorrow,” he expiain ! When he had » amined the | fruit, It was am and ha [ 10 ! i ‘ K ‘ul the straw [ ¥ ‘M pw these conditions we he jeft for | the oftice—tor 1 WOrEi caine very | early. “You'll be satisfied with cold supper | won't you, Henry?” 1 usked, as 1 told | nim goodby 1 have a hot day bef ‘uw.‘ Surely,” he answered, and went his WY There we half a cold chicken in t liee box. This, with a head of lettuce |ana Frenen aressing, followea by iced | teoa, would make our evening meal | Imagine, therefore, my trnation | when, at quarter be ven—as | | was donning an old gown of the vintag “4.( two years ago, deliclously thi |1 heard my husband's volce at the front | door calling | “My dear, wher ou 1 have | brought a friend home to dinner | 1 greeted his friend as polite’y as I leould. 1 hag never seen him before, | My busband accompanied the introduc | tion with the remark that he had always | wanted us to meet each oth 1 will not take the space to tell how I hurrded to help my mald pare and cream some potatoes, nor how 1 had to ask the tired girl to around to o dellcatessen shop ang huy a whole roast chicken. Then I telephoned for a quar of ico cream, and sat down to this unsatisfactory repast | 1 was too weary aid try to bo pleasant. Yet, when our guest had left, my hushand chided me with my evident chagrin at the presence of his business friend “But,” I explained, 1 expecting nobody. And I had ready barely enough food for ourselves. 1 was fearfully mor- tiffed.” | I wouldn’t have cared a bit,”” he main- we to talk much, but I BB e R “ enthusiasm into anything which requires | a physical etrort, and start your blood to circulating better. You will feel ten times better afterward if you do. GARRETT P, CRVISS. eivilization of a nation Is its care fg inhabitants Fable 2§ and a little more maney to make 8o that marriage would not mean a sacrifice of the % cent ¢ rs his bachelorhood per mitted h'm to enjoy. So he settied down to a state of affairs which he perfectly understood, but which puzzied the girl When he went about with other women he told her about it—with an air of righteousness. When she went out with other men he glowered and cross-exam- ined her And yet if she stayed home and seemed to expect things of him, he assurcd her that he was very that she. must not let herself and unhappy. The girl came gradually to understand that he valued her the more because she attracted other men, and tortured him- with the possibility that other men might attract her. But she was & girl of high ideals and wished to loyal to love itself as well as to her lover and bored busy get Her loyalty made the man very sure of her. It also made him even more cer tain that she was indeed the girl and | would make a swet, doclle and under- standing wife—but about marrying her there seemed no hurry. The man thought placidly about hov happy they would be some day. The girl thought less placidly about ‘some day She began to wonder if the mun were not & little more selfish than is the prerogative of his sex. She wondered if a man who failed to make his sweetheart happy even before they were formally betrothed and be had the pl of his love on her finger, would-er-neglect his wife & little, And then an old friend came marching bold'y back into the girl's life, “Nathalie,’ sald he you're Uving too quiet a Iife— you're altogether too young to become & reclus Maybe you're working and maybe you're resting. But you'd better take & vacation from whatever you have been doing and come to a few dinners and theaters and teas with me. I'm an old friend and & good friend and I don't like to wee & Utte girl lke you looking All About a Man Who Took Love Wholly for Granted : that of our own egotism for assum- ing that the earth and its fullness were created sole- ly, or even princi- pally, for our use all drab and grey and like the epllogue land enjoyment of her own life story!" 2 |The other crea And Nathalle, biissfully forgetting that |tures around us she was the g'rl and remembering only | were placed here | that she was & g'rl—went. | by the same incom- | At first the little gaye once 8o dear | prehensitle power {to her and now mo seldom in her life, that made us, and were merly stimulating and a means to | because we have forgetting the aches and doubts In her 'more intelligence heart. Then she began enjoying her than they possess | good times—and feeling grateful to the |5 no reason for {man who gave them to her—and then gur claiming a right to oppress, slay, eX- | This s someih'ng which is worthy of came a timid fondness for the man who terminate or enslave them. | an advancea civillzation, It is legislat on |understood her instend of demarding | In the eyes of omnisclence our intelll- |inspired by such instincts as those that that she understand him. gence may not be so very wonderful & made the Greeks of antiqvity a lastn | No longer did she wait for home calls |thing as we imagine, and not at all en- | model to mankind. Only a people like | that did not come. No longer did she an- |titled to sweep everything out of its | them could afford to make laws open'y |ticipate engagements that were broken path. On the other hand, it is ennobled 'proclaimed to be intended to prescrye lat the last minute. Ard the man who | when it recognizes not only the rights of | ideats of beauty and excel.en and ‘lo(l‘( her for granted wondered why she |more humble creatures, but also its own having relation to selfish or commer jwas always so placid and cheery now-a- duty, arisng from the mere fact of ite |clal interests {days and then concluded that she was |superiority, to aid and protect them. But while the expression of such an a sensible little thing who saw the futil- | Ap admirable instance of this is found |intention would probably be greeted with ity of nagging at him because he could in the announcement that the United | ridicule by many of our legislators, the |not see her more often and devote his | States statute for the protection of mi- ' object can be, and has been, attained life to giying her good times. gratory birds 1s to be strictly enforced through the game laws now in existen For three months one man devoted |during the pen season for game, and there Is every reason to bel th |himself to making her happy, and the |which is at hand. The provisions of this the benefit derived by farmers and hor- jother looked forwurd to the time when he statute furnish an interesting recognition tieulturlsts from the enforcement of these | icould let her make him happy. And of one of the most mysterfous pecullari- | 18Ws will secure them against the efforts |then one nikht the good friend who was ties in the life habits of the feathered | ©f the “sportir Mavasts” - fon’ thelr making Nathalle happy turned Into & inhabitants of the air. The birds, for A4brokation or relaxation |tover and she found his arm a haven [reasons of their own, have divided the | Already there aro encouraging reports from all the turmofl of Mt territory of the United States into two | (7O 8ome parts of the country that the The next day she sent for the man who |broad zones, one of which is denominated | PUMber of native song birds, and birds had taken her for granted and told him 'as the breeding sone, and the other as | LNt dd attraction to the meadows |of her engagement the wintering wone. [ BEGET NG00 - ShE- Wasdiands SRy by “He loves me and wants to devote his | As defined by the law, the breeding | "Plendor of their plumage. ls perceptibly {1ife to making me happy,” said she. {2one includes the states of Or AR, - time whex without you. You love me” sald he. {Tllinols, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, |, yo & po¥® CORREER TO0 BRUETRE B0 And he swept her into his arms, where | New Jersey, (which form an irregular ';m_“‘,'“_‘,;', S e et 1o Rt & s she found turbulent emotion and wild un- line across the country, from the Pacific notable for its ™ .-“ or from Wwhose rest. to the Atla ), and all states situated = had heard of the werial [ And so they were married—and did not 'north of them. The wintering zone, on :h.r,.,‘n‘, l .t,‘:: '.:A,I 1x, M..)‘ u’\ :\ kr“ y A live happy ever after, although the girl the conirary, comprises all the states | man who would deliberately shoot a tried her best. 1ying mouth of the ten sbove named. In hermit thrush, aftér having heard its MORAL: We get what we want in 'both of these the killing of “game | chant at sundown, or & mockihgbird this world—but most of us don't want birds” s permitted within the months | after its morning song, could not be @ what is good for us. enumerated in the statute, but the ‘be- | reader of Shakespeare One of the great marks of the growing the life and happiness of ite sub-human We have no warrant beyond Protection of Birds Not Wholly Inspired by Man’s Selfishness (KInnIng of the open season is, in general. {about a month later in the breeding than in the wintering zone. ever, I8 the shooting birds permitted. These are birds, cluding nearly all the common species #een about the fields and gardens, which | habitually devour noxious insects, that are injurious to crops, fruits and vegeta- In no case, how- ol ectivorou o f Insectivorous bles. Bo far as the terms of the law alone show the purpose is simply the selfish one of preventing the destruction of birds which are useful to farmers and gardeners, though not always recognized as such even by those who en y th benefits of ther work, in ke ping d)wn the insect pests. But, In reality, there is a higher purpose behind (.ne that i fully recognized by the Aud and other organizations w bon societies ose 1ns stenc has produced the law and oitaned Its enforcement), and that is to pie.er e these birds for the sake of thelr song | ana their beauty, [ OF HIS FRIENDS FOR DI ER | HB BROUGHT IN O UNANNOUNCED Wi 1 WAS WHOLLY UNPREPARED, tained stoutly ‘It would have been | They were not members of my family, nlcer to set out what we had, laugh- |and I reminded Henry of this fact after ingly explain the situation, and show the | they had gone home. Whilo they were man that he was welcome. What is good with us, I kept silence on the subject. enough for you and me is good enough |But Monday-night, when we were once [ for anybody.* more by oursclves and I had gone to bed Thut is his theory and he lives up to with a nervous headache, I spoke my it always., We had a small summer oot- [ mind. tage, and he often brings & man and his | “It is not fair," 1 remarked, “to make wife at the last minute and cannot un- (me keep @ free boarding house for your derstand why I am worried at not hav- [family and friends. 1 do not force my ing our one guest-room ready for them. |relatives and Intimates on you .at all What's the use of a mald If she can't |times and seasons without asking your get the room ready in a JIfty?" he asks. permission. 1 am not well, and you Perhaps the most trying experience I should consider me In such matters.” ever had along these lines was last win Hoehry was mad, of course, and callea {ter when I was just convalescing from a |me Inhospitable, | week's illness. My husband’s cousin [ “You go to too much trouble,” he (and cousin’s daughter came to the city, |chided, You care too mu for appear- and Henry met them on the street. He [ances. Let our guests take us as they immediately asked them to come and |[find us. They come to see us, not our stay with us over the week-end—after [house. If you could only understand |which he telephoned me what he had [that what is good enough for us is good done. 1 fairly gasped at the news. enough for anybody." | “But, my dear husband!" T exclaimed. | “Oh, I'm tired of that theory!" I ex | “We have no room for them!" claimed. Then, because I was half sick “Oh,' he suld, ‘have the girl In with | I began to cry softly. you in our room, and give her father | As my husband walked out of the the guest room. 1 can sleep on the [room, I khew he was thinging me a couch for those two nights. And they | monster of inhospitality. won't mind the lack of formality, They are, after all, only members of the fam- ily, vou know." Yet if he had to do the extra work and pacify the rebellious mald, would he be as hospitable as he is now? Being Worth While One Thing to Pear in Mind | By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, fill a higher position or recelve better pay. The world wants better men and women {more than it wants better government. All chunges which can be brought about, In any way of reform, will never maks the world a particle better until you and |1, and every living man and woman, set to work to improve ourselves, Copright, 1915, by Star Company Whatever your position in life, how- ever dissatisfled with your work and you want to remember one fact—you can be “‘worth while." | recompense, You can make P s yourself worthy of p rea "_‘"\“" are on the W:v. Great better things, and nbuses are about to pass. Unexpectel whik Ven Bave ek events are near. But no one of these come fully warthy | changes, nor all of them, can materially of a change for the | benefit humanity unless individuals fit better, when you themselves to be better men and women. |have absolutely What have you done today to improve | yoursel joutgrown your ’ oid ¥ nt environ- ment, a change will come. You may have nuo tme for self-im provement, you may working from ecarly morn til late at night at some distasteful lobor, and may tell that it is impossible to grow or make progress un der such conditions. But watch your opportunities. You are in hourly contact with your fellow work ors. Watch yourself to see that you do not show selfishness in your treatment of them. In the place where you live or board, in the street cars, in the shops where you g0 for your supplies, how are you treat as be you me For Women ing your fellows? Are you as unselfish, . or polite, or conslderate, ns you want 'Wh ‘l‘h k! others to be to you? 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