Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 24, 1915, Page 7

PO R ST The Swiss GARRETT P. SERVISS. Enoireled by struggling armies, and looking down upon new battlefields, the Alps this summer have been virtumlly forbidden giourd for the thromgs of vis itors who ordinarily crowd the hetels of Switserland, wnd swarm, alpenstock in hand, through its rugged velleys and over the lower slopes of its snowy peaks The land of William Tell, with its lakes and mountains, has been left to its native inhabitants, and deserted by foreigners to a degree never known since the Alps became “the playground of Europe In these eircumstances, the few have visited Switserland this vear, like | the man who made the accompanying & photograph of the Alpine horn and its blower at Grindelwald, enjoy a strange experience. The stage of the great sum- mer theater of naturd®s spectacles les open before them. but the audience is lacking, except for a handful of loiter- ors scattered among the deserted stalls, whe seem to have stumbled in after the last play of the ssason was finished to cateh sight only of the bare scenery, with here and there a belated actor looking '® Ns belongings. The blower of the great Alpine cow- hotn misses the thousands of American tourists who used to crowd around him to wonder at the aerial music which he awakened among the precipices and peaks above. The walters and waltresses of the innumerable hotels, with thelr cus- tomary ready palms and picturesque cos- . many of them, attending the carrying the milk, sweeping chalets, bearing loads of Alpine who cows now, the meadew hay on their backs and on carts at last, women as well and making cheese; while the guides have| jvy10ny and the French followed. and the Few Now Hear the Herder Misses Alpine American Tourists Waking the Echoes with the Quaint Swiss Cow-Horn Under the as men. The.graph was made is one of the most re-| thrown aside their safety ropes and ice axes and found more prosalc employ-| ment than leading excitement-seeking men and women over the crevasses and up the steep rocks, The horn of war has echoed among the mighty monarchs of the realm of ‘eternal | markavle in the Alps. It is in the heart| of that great uplifting of the earth's erust known as the Bernese Overland.| But for the war échoing around its hori- | zon this place would ba overflowing with | humanity, gathered from every part of | Europe and America. { It is surrounded by many of the great-| est visions of the material world. In| the back of the picture stands the huge | Wetterhorn. Its frame includea the Jung- | frau, the Monch, the BEiger, the Schreck- | Germans were not far behind them. The great, threatening, impossible seeming peaks, like the Matterhorn, the Dent Blanche, The Weisshorn, the Fins- n, the Schreckhorn, the Alg- edles) of Mont Blanc, all were Horn By ANN LISLE. | There was once a girl whose pet maxim {was, “It's so different in the summer {time." She was quite sure that you could |40 things in the simmer that vou would never contemplate in the winter. She belloved in shedding your normal person- {Ality and becoming whatever the faney of the moment puggested “It's #o restful,’” said she, “to be just an unconscious Mttle animal living up te | the whim of the moment | And she liveq up to her theery One summer she met & very charming youth who was not at all eligible and not {at all matrimontally inclined. Mis meager salary mufficed to buy bons bons for the |new love who came into his life every | fow months, but it would not have pur- | ehased roast beof and apple pie for such | & permanent fixture as a wife. The sirl found him partioularly fasei- ating. With him she lolied on the beach |in her vividest bathing suit. In his com- pany she danced gaily in all the flashiost | eaberets. | His vacation lasted three weeks, and {during 1t the girl haq what she called “the time of her lfe.” And the rocking | ohatir brigade of gossip on the hotel porch {had also the time of fte Iife. There | weren't many men in the place, and the | Shadow of the Alps It i doudbtful If anywhere else in the | world man has been so imaginative and poetical in naming the great scenes and majestic objects that mature has spread | around. Sir Martin Conway. the famous | climber, has said of this wondertul region: | ‘““What beautiful names the meuntaine and glaclers have hete! The Maiden, the Monk, the Ogre, the Dark Bagle Peak,| the Brignt Eagle, the Peak of Storms, the Peak of Terror, the Field of Kver- lasting Snow—how much better than ice, and they are left in their lomely| cenguered in succession, and, in ome way srandeur. All the climbers have fled at| or other rendered easier of ascent, unmtil| the call and failed to return. Literally| every year the assemblage of would-be | thougands who were accustomed every| climbers collected earlier around their| summer to brave the perils of the high feet and walted impatiently for the spring | Alps have gone to face more fearful dan-| gvalanches to leave them in climbable| gers on the battiefield and in the| gopdition, but this summer all is changed. trenches. Now dangers may be run and herolo deeds performed for a greater puPposo than the mere testing of nerves and whip- ping up of stagnating blood. l The mountain nest in which this photo- ] with him, but what she doesn't like In him are the faulta of his sex. It shocks and disgusts her that he wants teo go to In a recent divorce case a letter was| prize fights, and likes to shoot things, and the idy which the | that he occasionally stays out too lat2 mtm::&:‘h:he; :m::‘“o'fm "wmmm_ and drinks more than is good for him. The English were the first to make| mountain climbing in the Alps a re-| nowned summer amusement, confined at| first to a few bold experts, but taken up gradually by great numbers, ineluding, Eternal Conflict Between Sexes By DOROTHY DIX. | In a word, he isn't ladylike and con- “You once told me that the reason |genial to her. that you hated me | And there gre many men who object was just because {to their wives on exactly the same 1 was your hus- | ground. They find fault with the ladies { because they have the qualities of women, {and not men, | ¥or example, when a man derides his band. I now think that the only rea- son that I hated you was just be- | wife for her igmorance and aceuses her cause you were a |of being a hare-brained idiot, it fs al- woman, and that |ways because she doesn't know the | same line of things that he does. She may be a model housekeeper, & manager that can get five times more out of & doliar {than he can, and able to comstruct her | gowns and hats with a skill that decelve: even her best friends into thinking they are imported. But he considers her lack- tng in intelligence because she looks blank when he talks about a holding pool, or about underwriting a new bond issue. Yet heaven help the Morgans ani Rockefellers if they were put to it to work out a cut paper pattern that any little girl can do with ome hand tled be- hind her! Probably every man secretly regards himself as & martyr and thinks he mus be marrled to the most extravagant woman on earth when he is called upon to pay her millinery bills. To him that seems money wasted—absélutely thrown | away—yet very few women spend as much on their elothes as thelr husbands do on drinks and smokes. Tt is Mterally true that what the aver- man dislikes in his wife are the faults of her sex. He disiikes her fiereo possession of him that makes her tyran- | nize oyer him for fear somebody will get ! him away from her, He dislikes her lack of promptness and decision of character. | He dislikes her lgnorance of the things that he kmows and her lack of sympathy with the amusements he enjoys, and, above all—though he never acknowledges this to bimself—he dislikes having ‘o oceny himself pleasures he craves and | things he wants because he has to pay {her bllls and support a family. the thxgs that I objected to in you were merely the faults of your se: 1 wonder if this man hasn't diag- nosed not only iis own case, but that of most of the un- happily married, and if the source of the discord be- tween practically all warring husbands and wives is not| due to the eternal conflict between the nexea? In this case the woman's Erievance against the man was not so much what he had done, or left undome, but that he was her husband, She chafed at her| bendage to him. She rebelled at being dependent upon him, and subject to his whims and caprices. FHis soclety got upon her nerves because she had it in over- doses. If he hadn't been her husband, it he had been & nelghbor or a guest she would have ltked him well enough. “Wife" and “husband” are either the sweetest words or the bitterest that we ever take upom our tongues, and their | flavor depends not upon what the woman | or man that we are united to may be, or not, but upon our state of mind. Many a woman hates a perfectly goed man for no reason on earth except that he is her husband. Many a man hates a woman who i little short.of angelio just because she is his wife, and that is the| It 18 the ineradicable differences be- reason that so many married couples go |Ween the sexes that make them repel, as wbout with chips upon their shoulders| Well 8 attract, each other, and that is and pick quarrels with each other on the | WhY matrimony is always bound to ho iahtiar sietenss. | the most hazardous enterprise in which In seility thess Poegie’s gredge tu net | SUeS helnts &he. evay spsuge. againet the individual to whom they are | | horn, horn, the Aletschhorn, the Flasteraar- the Breitung, the Hwig BSohnee Feld. ple ‘where, nevertheless, the Kdelweiss and & multitade of bright Alpine flowers find room and courege to grow and ‘bloom. { Mother-in-Law Terrible Not Extinet |8 By ADA PATTERSON. She is nmot yet extinct. She has not followed the “ald maid,” the butfaloed and the practice of applying the leech for medical purposes inte the land of mem- ories. 1 saw one of her yesterday. She came aboard a little steamer that crulsed for a few hours along the -coast, while fifty passen- gers sald good-bye to summer. Lovers were there sitting close to the rail, armas Intertwined, heads close together, alone in their Mttle love world, indiffer- ent to any curious persons who might be peering over its rim. Middle - aged couples sat at more dignified angle gas- ing placidly out at the joyous waves and the green shores and stretches of shining white beaches. Some men with the marks of late vacation about them came aboard with book or golf stick or fishing line, according to inclination and destination. Bome brown-cheeked women, looking as though they had spent the summer hap- pily In the open, climbed to the upper deck and bestowed themselves on deck chairs for what one of them called a “last fresh air spree before golng to town." She followed. She was sallow and sombre-eved and stralght-lipped. She moved with . slow, cold precision. Her gray eyes were cold and hard as stones. She pushed her chair cloge to mine and spolled my return trip by this monclogue “Looks like it's going to rain, doesn’t it? Yes, I think it will rain before we land. It's sure to. Things like that al- ways happen to me. ““What pleasure can anyone have like to know, in such weather? Yes, I'm dressed for it, 1 know, but it isn't pleasant, ull the same, to be rained on. “I ecould have motored up te the lake, but why should I go? My daughter went She was up early this morning and started at & She won't be back before 11 tonight. And she calls that getting ra united in the holy bonds of wedlock. It| is against matrimony as an institution. It is the gense of bondage that they cannot | endure with patience, not the faults of | a partieular individual. Alse what many men and women object | It ‘is adorned with glittering wla- | clers and edged with heart-quaking preci- | | Mount Jones or Mount Mackensle!" | 'To these, which are transiations of the | German names, he might have added: The Weather Peak, the Flowery Alp, the | | Angel Peaks, the Rilver Peak, the Snow | Horn, the Ngon Peak, the Red Spike, and the Wave. Not one of these but ia a glant from 10,000 to 14,000 feet high. health, just because she's outdoors. All nonsense, 1 tell her. Young women used to stay at home and do fancy work. Now they're out chasing a little ball across the grass or driving In automobiles like idiots. They don't look as well, either. | Not so refined. Their faces are brown and their hands are awful. My daughter won't wear gloves in summer in spite of all T oan say. Yes, she's married. Her husband hu- mors her in being out of doors all the time, But what does that matter? That's another reason why I wouldn't approve | of it ““When he came courting her I knew he was from Boston, and I gave my consent. 1 didn’t think he'd up and move to New York. Yes, they Mve in Brooklyn, but it's just the same. I told him two or | three years ago when we had a flareup that If I hadn't thought he had Boston tastes I wouldn't have let him marry her. No, I'm not from Boston; I'm from Phila- delphia. | ““The first thing they did was to mave' to a family hotel. He sald she wasn't strong enough to keep house, and be wanted to spare her its cares, for a while anyhow. That's all nonsense. Sha's strong enough If she’d just stay at home and, never go out? Many & time I haven't! set foot outside the house for three| months at & time. “Yes, my husbend died while 1 was! still a young woman. I that | #irl up to be & stay-at-home and what | does she do? Alwsys on the goif links or the car. Yes, she looks better, but | what of that? Looks are deceiving. 1 told a lady in the hotel yesterday that I | would give my daughter just five years to live at this rate. I know Deople be- | Yleve more in exercise than they used to, | but there's nothlng to it. I never had any. Look at me “Yes, I talk of tamily affairs to people | in the house? I don’t suppose my dsugh- | ter would like it, but I dom't care. Look at her today. Gone off for the whole day and left me behind. They offered to take me along, but I wouldn't go “Such & way to liva The other day 1 went from morning until 6 o'clock with nothing to eat but a roll and & cup of | coffee. Yes, I wouldn't go down to the| | Gtning room alone. My daughter was ! motoring again. I told them I Just| wouldn't go. Yes, I could have prepared something n my room, but I didn't pro- | Pose to. It was my daughter's place to stay at home and seo that I was waited ! en properly. | “Yeu, 'm well, Sut I'm lonesoms. 1) won't live their way and they won't Hve mine. “'Get an apartment of my own and keep | houme? Yes, I could do that, but I would stop will be 10 in thelr wives and husbends s not | some personally dissgreeable quality, but | Let Him Do the Woong. { Ian't It Your Own Faubt? | elaxation and Morals girl and her attondant cavalier were tar- | kets at which no caustic mind could help |aiming & lttle vitriol At the end of three weeks the youth who made love like the hero of a melo- drama returned to the city and its inter- ests of work and play. The fiest week the girl recelveq two pounds of candy and three letters. The second week two picture postals were the souvenirs of her |love affair. Arter that—silence. The rocking chalr brigade watched her | becoming more and more pensve. It ac- tually expected her to o into a decline. Since there were me men about to m- pross, the girl wore her quietest and most demure elothes and A absolutely no | posing. She even began embreldering & waist for the winter's wear At that stage of the game a Real Man arrived. The girl looked so wweetly do- | mestic with a pensive expression on her face and sewing in her hands that the Real Man was impressed. Through his mind there flitted & vagus idea that here wis the very wife for hm For & week the girl was quiet and sub- dued and, since she was net trying | make an impression, succeeded In making |one. And then the tonle of masculine at- tention made her perk up. One ill-considersd morning she came 'down In a dlaphanonus waist and awning- striped sweater of vivid red and white and a cordurey skirt which stopped in plénty of time to show & good deal of thin white silk stocking and sport shoes foxeq In red The rocking char brigade gasped and then recovered its breath with sufficlent force and vehemence to expiain to the man that this was exactly what might have been expected. The man didn't exactly belleve, but the vivid young person in ertmson and white bore no resemblance to the domestie god- dess he had been setting on & pedestal. She lookeq altogether relaxed and-to mateh her change of atmosphere the man's high ideals relaxed, too. ! That morning on the sands he held her hand. That evening in the dark corner of the plasza he kissed her. And fer two weeks that followed the Real Man and the girl mcted similarly in accordance with the ‘“easy-golng conventions of sumnfer time The first week after the Real Mam Ioft the girl got a domen American Beauties and no mail | Moral: “Easy come, easy @o” applier to love affairs as weil as to meney, and the girl who “relaxes” in summer would do well to remember that the avesags man insists on dignity tn bis slster and his wife Eternal vigilance is the price of satisfying you with a cup of TONE’S Old Golden COFFEE The utmost care is needed in the oo g oo iy ) 9 in ting Sha cofies” from the stage o every step. ducea fine coffee flavor, plantation to . {gmnbh.im - at s hard but thoustnds of satisfied coffee drinkers prove that we're succeeding; You can find Old Golden at all good gtoc;r;;;‘li:d nir-tikght and moisture- — ‘F-—-h" cut, with thop::ch removed, or im the bean for those who prefer to grind it at home. TONE BROS., Des Moines Established 1873 proo — o Street Car Patrons Commencing Sunday Sep- tember 26th, the near discontinued, and cars will again stop at the far side side of street intersections to be lonesame, Have somieone live with me? That's easier sald than done. Who would the peculiarities of the opposite sex. | Dear Miss Fairfax: 1 am a girl of 18 want to Uve with me? I mean, with For instance, there are women whose |and in love with & young man three years ideal of a perfect husband is a man who o nd R o ket S 1 V00 ; my senior. He time at me and to come to my parents’ house twice & week to take me whom would 1 want te lve? “Yeu, I have relatives beside my daugh- take on and discharge passen- m! g 1 neither drinks nor amokes DOT UsSes &ny |out, but s acting very cool lately, doesn't W he when | explettve stronger than "Oh, fudge!” and | take me out unicss 1 sk him to 4nd then ?‘mun-fi.m 1 Just the same. He | o7 PUt It seems that all they waat of who comes straight home from the of- Ihe always excuses himself by saying he all the and it is & shame. ™6 I8 what they can get out of me I . {is tired. Fe changed his board houwe I 1 ’: away or not? Answer me |shut down on them. fice at 6 o'clock and spends the balance .hout a month axo and where he 1s now | What to do. L ““Take up an occupation? I thought of of the evening in wiping the dishes and |there are several young Do you n Junction, Wye. 1 ol mending the wall paper and straightening | think that he cares for ¢ girls more | Are you sume you dom't irritate your | DSt wanted to open & high class than he does for me? Please advise me the pletures. what to do. 1 Such & woman would be perfectly happy | Would you give it if united to & man who would fill in his| lelsure time by crocheting pink baby | Never ask a man to take you out. Men socks, and whose fidea of enjoyment |prefer to escort girls who do not seem would be to go to a Browning society or so unpopular that they have to beg for 3 mothers' meeting with her, |invitations. You should not accept pres- But when & woman of this type marries |ents of jewelry from any but the man 2 rough, rude, male person, with strictly |to whom you are engaged. Ask him if he masouline tastes, who comes home smell- | would like you to return the ring—saying ing of tobacco and beer, and who can't |that if it mesns nothing to him to have e brought to see how much more pleas- | you wearing the ring, it certainl; mesns ure he would really get out of spending |nothing to you. Unless he Is very much his meney for lace curtains for the par- |interested i & new girl th may re- Jor than for cigars, why, trouble begins. (awaken his interest. Be sure that you Pergonally the man may be good and (de mot show jealousy, which weuld only hind and generous and tender and troe. !make him want to be free of w girl who As an ingividual she can find no faurt |nage ) %ot a ring from him back ? DOWNHEARTED. stepfather? If you love your mother as you should, you will surely want to live at home and be near her. By being sweet and amiable you can probably shame the man out of his disagreeable ways. ‘“‘More flies are caught with sugar than with s Ne Bar. Dear fax: s 1t proper for e R e for hian 1o ses her 1o the cag on | owd M A man should be a gentleman at times, and particularly observant an of al | the littlg courtesies when he is on trial a8 & lover He should take permits; otherwis r home If the distance only to the car boarding house, but my daughter was so ' st against it I gave it up. Bhe sald I| |din’'t need the money. Well, I don't. I overheard my daughters husband say | that nobody would stay in the house the second week and I baven't apoke to him | since. “Charitable work? I could do that if T wasn't living at home.” The boat landed amid & buret of sun. | shine, but I didn't remind her of it. She did not delgn to notice the fallure of her prophecy of the rain that “siwaye | happened 1o her” She walked stiffly away and following her at s discreet | distance I heard her quarreling with a street car conductor. And I sympathized | with the sons-in-laws who are rebellicus with ca gers. Respectfully, OMAHA & COUNCIL BLUFFS STREET RAILWAY COMPANY.