Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 26, 1915, Page 9

- Trees That Mark Old Age--Romance Connected With Patriarchs of Forests The Big Cypress Near Mexico City, Under Which Cortez Wept S After His Defeat by Montezuma. GARRETT P. SERVIS® The individuality of trees is a very in- teresting subject. as much as animals are. notion that trees may possess a sort ot 1t is an anclent | self-consclousness comparable with that | o« the lower animals. Perhaps neither is aware of itself on the other hand, perhaps both are, In some dim way. The wi seeing a great tree cut down and falling with a groan,” cannot avoid a certain shrinking sensation. It is this unde current of feeling—superstition, if you will~that lends a high est to every ancient tree known to have witniessed famous historieal scenes and events. Such trees seem like living wit- nesses of long past times. A remarkable® Instance is the cypress of Cortes,. still living, and carcfully p eerved and guarded, at Popotla, near the City of Mexico. A recent photograph of this tree, with its protective railing, is reproduced herewith. The legend, which is probably a true one, avers that Cortez gat and wept undler this cypress, which was then already a large tree, although that was nearly 40 years ago, after his o are persons tertible retreat from Montezuma's capi- | tal, the famous mpoche triste, ght of sorrow,” when most of hls bravest fol- lowers veralThin. Read the account of that awful night in Preseott’s '‘History of the Conguest of Mexlco.”" Tt Is one of the most dra- matic descriptions ever written. The old cypress -in’ its present state seems an image of the fearful tragedy that it wit- nes The+race of the cypresses is a remark- able piie, and has produced many notable individuals. They are celebrated for their longevity. Members of some of the spegles commonly attain a height of from 120.to 160 feet, and a dlameter of trunk but, | , | in the world.’ degree of inter- | | sometimes exceeding ten feet. Splendid pecimens are found on the Pacific coast They are living beings, | They easily attain an age of several, or many, centuries, and the wood of some species s astonishingly durable. The Island of Teneriffe, in the Canar- les, possessed until the year 1865, when a storm destroyed it, what was called and generally believed to be “the oldest tree According to the old sys- tem of Biblical chronology this “Dragon tree of Orotaya” was anclent enough to have been planted by Acam himself, for ! botanical authorities were united In es- timating its age at 6,000 years. It belonged to a species peculfar to the Canary Tslands, the Dracaena Draco. It was sixty feet in height and forty-elght | feet in circumference at the base of the enormous twisted stem. It had been hol- low for centuries. From a period of un- | known antiquity it had served as a place of worshlp for the Druids. In 1493, the | year after Columbus first set out for America, Alonzo del Lugo, conquering Teneriffe, turned the holy place which low stem into a Christian chapel, and mass was the rulns of the tree Insted. gomrething new for travelers to see and {4~ tell, visited the great Dragon treé¢ and | noted 1ts gradually advancing destruc- | tion by tempests and by age. Prof. Piazzi Smyth, one of thé last of its vialtors be- { fore its fall, described it as “no proper | tree, with woody substance; it is merely o vegetable, an asparagus stalk, with a remarkable power of vitality and an equaily eminent slowness of growth, and it is this last, indeed, not its size, which has gained it the credit of being the old- est tree In the world.” = — By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. “A man friend ot raine says that love is & form of jealousy, and he adds that affection and love are the same thing Now I like a great many people, but do not love them, and feel that Jealousy would follow love rather than love Won't you explain the matter writes Edith. is a question that has been asked almost ever since the world wers to it are about as | began. The a numlerous as are the populate the earth. Even the ideals of love differ according to climate, race and creed. A very clever man recently id to me, “Love is a matter of geog- raphy.” Love is a of externals, which it would b defipe. to be and mean and stand very definite things. individuals that tor certain First of all, love ought to be unselfish | Real love ought to con- | —and seldom is! sider the happiness of well as itself. It ought to be and tender and true, and because it these things In itself it ought to belleve in them in its beloved ved, as faithful its b Jealousy is not part of love—it is love's | cruelest enemy, and it slays real If you cannot trust, you do not and make up your mind to that Emotion and love are often mistaken for each other. Emotion may be a wild turbulent thing of fecling und desire. i craves possession and resents the thovgh that its object can find happiness away love. love R &l % B X Rl TO END CATARRHAL DEAFNESS AND HEAD NOISES 1 If you have Catarrhal Deafness % or head noises go to your drug gist and get 1 ounce of Parmint (double strength), and add to it i pint of hot water und 4 ounces of granulated sugar. Take 1 table 4 spoonful four times a day. 1 This will often bring quick relief from the distressing head n 5. T Clogged stri.e should open, breathing become casy and th> mucus stop dropping Into th throat. It fs casy Lo prepare, cos's Mttle and is pleasant to take. Any one who has Catarrhal Denfess or head noises should give this prescription & al. — Adyertise ment. What Is Love? from it. It is jealous, exacting, fever- it honors with its dangerous devotion. Love ought to he honest, congenial friendship, plus healthy, normal human emotion. It has been defined as “friend- ship plus flowera and veil."” Emotion is not a thing to be despised or hidden, It is a beautiful, human ex- pression that too many of us pervert by constant usage. John meets a charmingly attractive young girl; she appeals to his senses and he imagines he loves her. He goes ex- citedly whirling through an amorous ad- venture he calls a love affair. He de- matter of all sorts | hard to | But in the ideal state love ought | 18| | cannot command them through faith and trust and well balanced congenial attrac- tion, he is miserably jcalous and suffers, end causes all sorts of doubts. | Neither John nor his charmer knows anything about love. They are having!| a facile, feverish affair in which youth is calling to youth and emotion is ex~ pressing itself without a background of understanding and respect and genlality to make it worth wh True love longs to give happiness. It believes in the kindly intentions of its | beloved; it has faith when all the evi- con- dence points to unfaith, It has sympathy | | for pain; tenderness for weaknese; hope for strength and, above all, the splendid desire to be fine and worthy, and to make i life more worth while because it ne into it Love knows how much more blessed it it to ciye than to receive. graclous and long-suffering. Love on the Interests of its beloved. It casts oyt and doubt and bitterness and all harsh judgment. It does all these things If It s ideal love ~tne sort we all long for and do pathetically little to de- serve. There is one thing we all owe to love— that is & high ideal of it, and ideal that will & uy from accepting cheap imita- tions—an ideal that will make us long to be worthy of the promised land we can vision and may enter i we choose has Love is takes Jealousy Making the Best of It. rhe sunshine had suddnly ziven way to a storm “What a terrible downpiur," rl to her male escort Yes,” replied the man, “and [ am afraid that my umbrel'a is hardly large enough to cover all of your picture hat What & shame,” mourned the gir, “but, anyway, see what you can do for sighed a TP R h (Do Pluk plush rose” | the Druids had established inside the hol- | | A good many old fashioned materials |extravagant. However, one should ob- ishly unhappy in itseif, and all too ltkely | to produce a similar efféct in tne person ' mands loyalty and devotion, and since he | THE BEE: | | | { | r N | A smart wrap of black velvet and ul!n‘ | brocade 1s combined with plain velvet | | and trimmed with fur. A special feature | is the scarf-collar edged with fur. By GERMAINE GAUTIER. | eclebrated there as long as are being used for the development of new-fashioned things. This is particulurly Humboldt and many. other celebrated instanceq in suits and dresses of mate- travelers in the 'days—when: there was |lasse of extremely fino quality and in a !broad vartety of colors. | Heretofore the fabrics of matelasse |weave have been asgoclated with neg!i- |gee garments and usually the quality has been rather heavy, at least in effect, If | 'not In actual finish. The charm of the 'newest materials of this class lies in its |silky appearance and in the modish man- Iner in which it harmonizes with fur. OMAHA, TUESDAY, OCTOT Old-Fashioned Materials in New-Fashioned Suits Matelasse Weaves Harmonize with Modish Furs IER 26, e & Docause black gives a mourning sug- gestion in this particular fabric it Is pre- ferred, just now, in dark plum, battieship gray, jungle brown, midnight biue and burgundy. Thero are also exquisite cos- tumes made of white matelasse trimmed with black fox, skunk, beaver or sealskin. ‘Without question white is the smartest thing the fashionable woman can adopt for her street attire. It goes almost with- out saying that it is likewise the most | serve the rule of “live and let live,” and |by the weuring of white broadcloth, | white velvet or white falle costumes the | business of the dry cleancrs is very ma- | terlaily assisted. .. Unusual in its yoke and sleeve features is & French blouse of cream chiffon and lace. move ey JORL. VRDER. and one may have a close fitting cap of the toque order to match the costume. Those of a practical mind will prefer the outing garb of some one of the modish colors. One may select a sult of dull brown, of Belglan blue, rose or bright green, and likewise models of a purple color, as well as of deep yellow. A very attractive sport sult is made of rose-colored stockingette, the skirt on stralght and moderately wide lines and supplied with trouser-like pockets, whioh fasten over with a small rever and large Some of the fall sport sults are of pearl buttons. The coat s much longer white cloth, but, logically enough, the than the usual suit model, reaching, as cloth Is of some simple weave that fre- quently may be it does, to the knees. It has pockets of ndered like a cotton |the reticule order, hung from the wide |or linen garment. Washable English flan- [gelt belt, the latter being attached with nel, stockingette, Tyrolean cloth, may be |two large buttons and buttonholes directly cited as favorite sport fabrics. Very often there are mufflers that match the suit. Two Boys and a Prophecy Regarding Them By ADA PATTERSON. { | | J ‘ S 1 Let us start with a statement of what everyone knows, that the expréss com- | panies, since the operation of the parcel | post law, have lost a great deal of busi- ne Naturally | they are doing all {they legitimately can to secure new patrons and to keep the old ones. Every officlal in every express com- pany does, or should, counsel levery proper means to induce patron- | And yet—this | happened. T had made a purchase jand hurried into | the nearest express | office five minutes | betore closing time {to forward it to a western town. A { youth of about 1§ stood behind a desk nearest the door. His back was turned toward the door, for he was admiring | | himsel in the mirror that hung behind | his desk. What the mirror reflected was tall thin | I a pale, thin face surmount ng body, the face itself surmounted by an | enormous shock of brown hair. The eyes i that lit up the pale face were blue and | fairly intelligent. He turnea slowly with a bored air when & shadow, falling| | across the mirror, told mim that a cus- tomer had entered. | | | “I'm afraid this packege Isn't well | enough wrappéd to send o long a dis- | tance,” 1 explalned. ‘“Fuppose we put | another wrapper around it,” I suggested. | “Haven't anything to wrap It with,"" he | snapped. | “At least It have more cord, | I'm quite sure this won ¢ nold."” | “We haven't an inch of cord in | place,” replied he, whose Narcissus oe- | | cupation T had interrupted 1y glanced about the big, dreary looking | warehouse. Eix feet from me lay wha | T coveted, a plece of tw'ne cast off by a | hasty hand from a package { T stopped, picked it up, unt knot or two and was beginning to tighten | | the fraglle parcel when a lad who had | been working in the rear of the room | came forward with another castaway, a | plece of wrapping paper. The boy gently took the bundle from my hand and deftly wrapped and tied it. Inn the moment of his work I looked from his strong, | capable, yet sensitive hands, to his face. There wasn't much in that face to make looking into the mirror a pleasure for ' him. The features were strong. but irregular. His smooth, straight hair was thin. His sturdy figure looked as though it would be happler swinging an ax in | & forest than tangoing In & tea room. should But his eyes were ctear as & mountain lake when the morning sun shone on it, and his grave, calm, brave spirit. in front, Of course it is inevitable that the collar ang cuffs ghould be a part of sult, ang in this particular instance the neck and sleeve finiwh Is of raccoon, the collar of the convertible sort to be ralsed high above the neck or permitted to fi ten out In modified sailor shape. For the girl who prefers a smart trot- teur to a fussy demi-costume, there has been provided an attractive model with short swinging skirt and a jaunty jacket fur the half-smile reflected a |[The material Is Burgundy broadeloth and indicates the skirt cut in gores with the Quickly he looked up the list of the | alternate pleces shaped In points that give firm's branch offices to see whether it was represented in that distant city. In a second he had welghed the little pack- an irregular edge to the hem. ‘The jacket is pemi-fitting and fastens way over on the left side. There Ia age, written the receipt and recelved and | no attempt to fit the front with darts ! changed a banknote. All this he had done | or plaits, with the result that a sort of in less time than it had taken the first| ympromptu fold introduces itself across youth to explain that he couldn't do any- thing. And he had done it with a mini- mum of words, just “Will you send it pay or collect A simple in three minutes, yet it meant a great deal. | The mirrof gazing youth was the older. | His position in the fore front of the of- fice denoted that he was older, too, In experience. Yet the time will be short Indced before the younger boy will move from the dark rear of the room to the sunny front, and the older one will be fortunate indeed if his plain nelghbor does not shoulder him out of the office. The plain, quiet junior lad will not pur- posely do this. He will do it because he can't help it. It.is his nature to do things well and it is his habit to do thoroughly whatever he undertakes, He looks about him and sees and acts according to what b e sees, As 1 left the express office 1 heard the older lad grumble, “We're not paid to wrap packages,” and although it lacked one minute of 6 he was slipping into his street coat What he sald was true. He wasn't paid for wrapping packages. No one asked him to stay after §, but had anyone done s0 he would not have been forced to stay But the boy who was willing to do more than he was required to do, who would, 1 will warrant, have stayed an after 6 without grumbling, president of that com- or another, and the other, if not “fired,” which 1s probable, will remain a clegk, or slip back Into the obscurjty of belng a gray-haired messenger. hour or two will become the In-Shoots Politics also produce kicking bedfellows | Auto abuse horses, anyhow speeders never When a fellow feels blue things usually look yellow. ' The silk hat is frequently found above % ¢ cotton brain pride in the bar fixtures tham in As o rule the saloon keeper takes more bis patrons. l \dent, consuming precisely | ouoroor™y oonde the waist line which accentuates the deep cutfs. A feature of the Intter is the pro- Jected cuff of cloth falling beneath the fur band and showing a facing of There are no between sizes in hats. One must wear a large hat or a small one, for Parls has provided no medium shapes, although she has taken great care to ofter a wonderful variety in the ex- tremes of headgear one encounters at all hours of the day and evening where women congregate. The store that sells rmour’s Quality Oval Products is the place where you o Besides Glendale, oval also identifies &tar Steckinet Ham Star Bacon ““Simon Pure"* Leaf Lard Armour's Grape Juice Cloverbloom Butier Devenshire Farm Sausage And over 100 Midkest Canned Foods Striking Embroidery Voh A0, PR A e 8 4 By PRISCILLA PAKE, Striking effects have been produced in the making of one of the costumes that is to be worn in New York shortly after the first of the year by Karsavina, the famous Russian dancer, who s com- Ing to take the leading place in the mam- moth Russian ballet that the Metropoll- tan Opera house ls bringing over at the cost of half a millien. The dancer's costumers have provided & combination of chiffon and satin that teaches a new lesson in the anclent art of using embrodery for the decoration of fine fabrics for evening wear. The blouse is transparent, beaded in rows and very clingy. The satin skirt is heavily and richly embroidered. Not only Costume Worn by Russian Dancer Effects in i'nru.\ B Karasvina, who takes a leading place in the famous ballet which comes to the Opora Hous e this season, Russian Metropolitan in one of her costly embrolidery costumes, (IR SN are threads of gold and silver lavishly | used in conjunction with color, but Jewels are worked Into the scheme at every pos- sible place. The skirt is short, revealiny trouserettes or harem design. A rich sash ' carrylng flowered figures in embroldery falls from the waist line. 3 The trouserettes are given the full at- vantage of the finest needlework and show flowered effects of rare design. On the skirt the ohief figures are *‘cut-out designs.” They glve an appearance of richness that is remarkable. The use of'" pearls In the emuroldery work is carried™ from the cro to the bottoms of the trou- | serettes. Many of the evening costumes of the season will follow the suggestion:( that is offered In the stage combination. r = - Talk it Over—or Forget It Dear Miss Falrfax: I am in love with a gontleman two years my senlor, who reclprocates my love in every respect. 1 am in a rather pecullar predicament and seek your valuable vie My friond's brother | doctor and 1 was up to have my throat taken care of Out of my own knowledge 1 find that the doctor cannot take care of my throat wo 1 went to our family physi- ) in_capable of attending to me. y time_that 1 come In cont: end 1 feel a bit embarrassed What do you advise me to B. B B don't Tell want him or his brother to feel hurt be- cause you have gone to your family doc- tor to whose ministrations you are ac- this young man that you customed. That ls—tell him if it will make you feel more at ease to discuss the subject, I, however, would simply dismiss the matter from my mind and continue my friendship without any further consideration of the Incident Your Country's Call, Dear Miss Fairfax I am 22 apd deeply in love with a widow of 20, and 1 love hor more than myself. Recently 1 re- colved a call to arms from my native country to report at once, leaving on th. next steamer possible o girl, upon reading the news, d me viol ently, and sald that I was fickle-minded, ke men, and not sticking to prom- ises, and that as soon 1 was out of has won its fame with cacy for flavor, ROBERT BUDATE, Phone Douglas 1 ‘ Advice to Lovelorn : By Beatrice ||* I would have her out of my mind. 1 love ner too much to ba offended . 1 never went out with other girl before 1 mef her in this coun- ) try, bo you think the girl has a right , to treat her sweetheart in such a man- ner instead of cheering me? I promised her and gave her my written statement ome over again as soon But is it not my duty to my country's call? 8— sight, ' Now, and fol obey It Is your duty to obey your country call, 1t you truly love this woman I° am sure you will return to her and I' cannot feel that the signed pledge will affect your loyalty It would have been ! better merely to give your word. A Good Som. Dear Miss Fairfax: I have been going gm lwmaN- y‘nllnl man 'mmtlml love early. Now I am engaged to this you man, and the only fault I have to fl iy he seems to give his mother too mi of her own way In regard to where he should go, and when he should come home. As he Is nearly 30, I think he should be master of hls own mind. A man, who at 30, respects his mother's opinions and wishes will probably not be tyrannical and overbeartng in his attls' tude toward his wife. Don't try to cure your flance of his habit of kindness, gen- Gléndale OLEOMARGARIN delicious taste is simply the evidence of highest purity materials handled with Armour’s scientific skill Armour’s Oleomargarine wears the regal mark of foods—the Armour Oval Label— solely because it has won it by super~ lative quality. The great institution of Armour recommends this deli- ment, and extra value. Always U.S. Inspected. ARMOUR 5 COMPANY tleness and chivalry. His wite will reap the benefit of his consideration for his mother, and must ever be grateful to that mother for training so good a son, its flavor., The nutri-