Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 25, 1915, Page 15

barS ol nmmmll!filfi M i By NELL BRINKLEY Copyright, 105, Intern’l News Service A foew nights ago Juptter was in piain slght for at least a thousand peopls whom 1 passed, but 1 belleve I was the only one who even glanced at it. I do not <laim any credit on that acconnt, for it has become an important part of my life to look at the sky. But why Mwould intelligent inhabitants of this All Hail to Great Jupiter The Chief Planet of the Solar System, Named for the Father of the Heathen Gods, Is Now on View—Look at It; Show It to Your Children E—— ¥ GARRETT P. SURVISS, yean catch o fiying spark in your hand sents are not those that a world sur- The mightiest world of Which we have | 8nd it will be extingmshed o quickly rounded by a universal ocean would have, any knowledge I8 now before the cyes | thAt you may not get a burn But it but rather those belonging to a globe of everybody who will take the trouble | YOU PICK up off the floor a larger chink deeply cnveloped in hot, tumultuous to look up and see it Bvery night the | Which has stopped giving forth lizhi It clouds, whoee temperature {s rather that enormous planet Ju | Wil still be hot enough to scorch your of steam than of vajorized metals such piter Hangs th the fingers as form the biazing surface of the sun. evening sky. unde: | Just o the earth, being but a spark These vast. restieas clouds covering the etarey sign of | (1 slze), cooled off millions of vears avo, Jupiter present s wonderful spectacis the “Great Square of and now covered with a solid crust when studied with the telescope. They Pegasun," mounting and inhabjted by Ignorant, confidink he- sweep round the xreat planet in broad, slowly Swsrd \he ings which came upon it, somehow or varlously-colored belts, often of great merddian Wit the other, and found it & passable abode. beauty, and the spesd of the cloudy cur progress of t h o But Juplter. more than 1,000 times larger rents occupying these belts varies with hours, and. at mid than (he earth, {8 ke the still hot, | distance from the equator, so that Jupl- aight, glowing fi-the thougl extinguished chunk of iron. It| ter weems to be surrounded with a serfes senter of heaves Hke has not vet cooled off to (e &tate of wind zones at whose contiguous bor a lamp for the gods reached by the earth. Am far as we can| ders violent eddies are formed. The half of ite udge, with our extremely limited knowl- Bring into your imagination the apoca- gigantic globe (hat ®e of the physieal forms that life can ! iyptic picture, from the Book of Genesis, thiows babk - the nusume, Juplter 1a still unfit for inbabl- | of the earth in its primal state of form sunlight toward us ]vum It I8 u huge world In course of | lessness, “‘when the spirit of God moved like & huge con | preparation upon the face of the waters” and then v mirror is 12000000 square milew in aren Its surface appears to be In a fluid or | turn your telescope to Jupiter, and— (The entire surface of the earth has only | #aseous atate. The appearances it pre- | meditate k| 200,000,000 mquare miles.) | == et e ——— Two Cripples By ADA PATTERSON. | though one foot were hemvier than the A bold little woman who beckons to disaster hands the safe of her heart down to the sneak-thieves and crows. “‘There, knaves, 1 give it to you! You are two babies with a bank that has no lock. You are two birds after a fly in an amber bead. You are two children who puzzle over the Japanese box; ‘first get the key out and then unlock | me!' Ah-ah! My heart is my own—and I The one you have there is wrong know the combination. For you see the combination with 1 which you open any others is not the one you may use for mine. My sides are tender with laughing at you!" Dan's pal studies and frowns and between the two of them they breathe softly and twist and say nothing! wrong combination The mocking lady should never have wooed burglars times Dan sits back on his heels and And maybe it truly's the for some- whispers grimly, “‘Break it open!" NELL BRINKLEY. What Virtues Are Really Yours? By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, temporary pleasure or & possible ad-q vancement of worldly interests. (Copyright, 1915, Int'l. News Service.) 8She places herself in embarrassing situs- Are you very certain you possess|tions and ignores snubs (hat she may some shining virtue—some distinctive| kain a point or reach a zoal; and always| trait—which makes you a little bet-| she talks of pride as her dominating | ter than your associates? | quality Be careful that Another claims to be ‘sincere and you illustrate it in vour dally life be fore you talk about it simple and to abhor diplomacy or policy She says she is 50 honest that she fears she lacks tact Yet no general preparing for the bat-| I call to mind tleficld ever laid out his campaign with | three woman. One more skill and diplomacy than this tells her friends woman employs to regulate her conduct. | that if she fails in all other respects she knows she has pride—the sort eof pride which maln- Her conversation, her actions, her| her thoughts are all those of a skilled | tactician. BShe makes friends of those whom she believes capable of being of some benefit to her life, and avolds wast- | tains self-respect ing her time on those who would In ne and keeps dignity Way serve her best Interests. She s & unessailable §00d woman, charitable and kind at| Yet this woman is always seeking 1o benefit herself, and will submit to any humfilation rether heart, but all her friends realize that she is essentially diplomatic, while she talks loudly of her stmple, honest, unpolitic Qualities. The third saye ber life bas been one than forege a long sacrifice for others, one unselfish renunclation of personal interests. But she has done everything she ever wanted to do, bought everything she ever | wished for, and been calmly oblivious of the best interests of her husband and children, who wait upon and serve her like the retainers and malds-of-honor of @ queen. She lives in hotels, or truvels abroad, or tekes a house ag the mood selzes her—not as the family may desire She conslders her two sons-in-law monu- ments of unfeeling selfishness because they wish her daughters to bestow time and attention upon them occasienally, and not use ell their strength and vital- ity in the service of a mother whe has every possible luxury in life, Still another woman boasts of her will- ingness 1o live clothes rather than go into debt Yet she wears imported bonnets and cats strawberries In winter and owes everybody who has not learned better than to trust her Surely, “Know Thyself, for all of our whin, 5 & good motto 18 who are prone to hoast of & virtue Advice to Lovelorn ' S BY BEATRIOCE FPAIRY Yes and No. Dear Misy Fairfax: 1 am a young girl of 15 About & month ago I met & yours man two and a half years my senior, who 18 considered good-laoking, the kind that every girl likes. The third tine I met him "he asked me to keep steady com- pany with him. and the sene he | asked me for & kiss, which I thought wae veiy improper, s I had kpown him such a short time, anu refused him, which made him slightly angry. Do you | think | ‘was right in refusing his clon 1 Bhould I keep steady company 'mg him? | You are right in refusmes to kies him, | and perhape & refussl to keep steady | company with him il you know him | better would be for the best. His good | lovks have made him too self-assured. Depends On the Man. Lear Miss Feirfax: Which is better: on & crust and wear eld | To murr r dootor or a common labor- Hi It boa .a‘ wl with somme~ L e A Look to the man for assurence of heppiness; don't look to the occupation. S0 long s that is honorable it ocuts very lite figure in & wife's happinees #r sor- row, can see nothing else. chilfiren the ons™" ntmeelt? that 1s habitoally weography ening knowledge about mountains, rivers, Takes and seas, and makes us truly ac- quainted with our planet. earth lose the most inspiring sights that God has placed before them? Those people of whom | speak were very eurious This morning I saw him in the surf that washes up from the Atlantic ocean about the inslgnificant things close at [He was wading out walst desp in the | when she lovked at anyone it was with hand. Some of them ran, and crowded [tumbling, froth-topped waves. And he [ half Uft of the eyes as though she one another, to watch two miserable )it~ |sang. High and clear grudged that much attention. An air there was Jupiter |with a note of boy Iike melody his volee tle dogs fight—and looking down upon them, and not one even saw him! A poor dog that “bayw |echoed acroes the states that of the man was far the wore. the moon" shows more comprehension |roped off spaces of Yet (he maun sang, while the woman of the universe! the beach. Hearing sulked Our educational system (and 1 mean |him the few of the In one of (hose cripples we see—if wo home education quite s much as the |summer colony who weo clearly ourselves. For we are all school varlety) is largely to blame for |had remained into cripples in some degree. We are crippled this. We teach ourwelves to keep our [the golden wutumn n mind or character or body. By so much smiled It was a volee to bring smiles, smile of #h ee r content noses to the ground. We bury our- solves in the dust of the earth unitl we Who teaches his “goography .of the heav Who learns anything about it |With life, or zest in Even when only the earth is in [It. That voice. Do Nommercial geography [you think it eame aught, and not the |[from a vigorous boy wives us real, enlight- |[g1ad of this pre- fous gift of living? 1t proceeded from a shock halred man near sixty and with something singular In the |about his galt. Approaching hm you needed not his words, “One side of me i paralyzed, for it was evident that but half of him was alive, “It happened twenty-five years ago,'" he will tell you, and when you expre sympathy at that slavery of a quarter of & century to an infirmity, he will say question 1t is that Only as representing a stage creation of worlds the great planet Jupiter is of immense intereat. In size, in mass, in physical condition, he stands about mid-way between the sun and the earth, In round numbers it {8 about 1,000 times (really 1,300 times) larger than the earth and 1,000 times smaller than the sun. The sun represents the great orviginal [cheerily: “But how lucky I am to be |is that some of us aing, and some of us mass, now strongly condensed, out of |alive sk Some of um are eritios of life. Bet- whioh the solar systam was formed.| KEvery morning the live half of him [ter that we were its comrades. Jupiter ts a big chip from the block: the earth is a grain of quartz. So much for | tonic of air and brine, and brousht cheer relative size. Now for condition. It fs|with it, all & question of comparative tempers-| *It ture. They were all hot, molten, gaseous | weather making to men,” he said one at one time. A large mass of the same|morning when there had been echoes material takes longer to coll than & small | from the shore hotels of ““bad business.’ one. . “For man would have turned this silvery ‘Watch the sparks that fly off from a|morning into a blistering day mo that he mass of whitehot fron. They flash and [might ‘make money’ from it." cool and disappear in & moment, but the| On another morning such & day as hotel hig mass retains itsa heat and continuea|folk pray for to the gods of hotels, a long to glow before its surface becomes | petulant beauty compiained of the erowds cold and dark. Bo the planets thrown |thut hed poured down from the hot city. off from the sun have cooled and ceased| O, I'm a New York bay, and I love to #hine, while the sun itself remains|crowds," he had laughed back. Whether brilllantly incandescent. it rained or the sun shone, whether few drags the dead half to the beach for the ®ood that God doesu't leave the But a big ohip stays hot and shining|of many dotted the beach, he was always longer than a small one. Kven whon it|eager, Interested, Joyous. has ceased to glow It Is still at m high| To the same place came a woman. She temperature for a considerable time. You|walked with a queer, irregular mait, =S C5E 35252555 RS 2RSS S SesesTE 2 A5 2E 252525252 PN AsAS IS P55 252y o 2 g ers. Respectfully, PSS RS SRS RER5 25252 25258 eseae5a52525¢T ! E o Street Car Patrons Commencing Sunday Sep- | tember 26th, the near side stop will be discontinued, and | cars will again stop at the far side of street intersections to take on and discharge passen- OMAHA & COUNCIL BLUFFS STREET RAILWAY COMPANY. other. Bhe sat always in a far comer of the beach as though she hated contact with her kind. She humg her head and of sullenness enwrapped hew. A physician told me that of thelr two ag wo fall below the standard of perfec- tidn are we cripples. It may be that we are crippled In our finances, Wke (he envious wife of the lawyer who couldn't bear the stght of the prosperity of the doctor's family next door. Or it may be that though we have trimmed the wick of our lttle flame of talent as earefully, and kept it assid- uously ofled, It has never hurned as bril- liantly as has that of our neighbor, be- cause It lan't a wick of the same propor- tions. Or we may be crippled by reason of a bad heredity and have to limp through life. To clear vision it is apparent that all of us have a imp. Tt may be a slight limp, but it lindera us, more or lexs, all along life's path. The ditference between um, eripples all, We may not cure the limp, perhaps, but we can frain ourselves to a cheer- ful adjustment to it. Which kind of eripple shall we be? In-Shoots Care that is driven away by drink s bound to retura with reinforcements. It would be eastor to endure these human phonographs if they would change their records more frequently. The man who is irritable about home can exercise a lot of patience when hold- ing the end of u fishing rod. EELL L 2=~k