Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 9, 1915, Page 9

Why We Quarreled No. 10—The Man's Side— The Husband Who Objected to Hair Dye and Rouge Tells His Story. : : ¢ By VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE WATER. Gopyright, 1915, Star Company. It s saild that men aré vain. Perhaps they.are In a way. but as I told my wite oncé you do not see a man watching his mirror ‘tp discoyer if he is beginning to look old. “No wonder!’ made this refark ence: to a man If he is no longer youns. Gray hairs give him an air of distinc- tlon. 1 he has lived properly the yeard refine and improve his face. But with a woman the case is entirely different. Why, here are you—over $—yet, were you single, any young girl would be proud to have you court her. You would be as eligible for marriage as when you were 2%—in fact more eligivle. But as for me"— 1 interrupted her with a laugh. 1 could not help it. “Great Scott!" I exclaimed. Laura jeered when L ‘It makes no differ- | This would make a charm- ing suit in green velours. Four yards of, velours would cost $14; three yards of satin to line the coat, $3.75; findings, $1.25. Total, $19, without the fur. “Is that what's worrying vou? Are you thinking of getting married again? Well, my dear, I don't mean to give you a chance. I hope not to shuffle off this mortal ool for some time yet." “Oh!" she ejaculated. “How mean you are; to) make. fun of me when you know that is not at all what I mean! I only sald that to fllustrate what 1 was trying to prove—that age does not make a man less attractfve. It makes a hag of a swimming les- sons, physical culture, Turkish baths, | facial massage, ete. 1 acknowledge that all these things keep her in good condi- tion, but they use much valtable time and money. And in spite of them all she still sees the dreaded crows' feet at the corners of her pretty eyes and the gray threads in her abundant hair. At least she saw the gray. threads until a year ago. Then she: went to a halr specialist and consulfed him. She told me-of his verdict. “He_says,” she explained with a rapid- ify of utférance that betrayed her ner- vous fear ‘of my disapproval,’ “that it I go to' him -regularly he can. restore my hair to. the color it was in childhood.” “Itte-very nearly that color now, lsn't 17" 1 asked. "It was always dark brown of vourse." “Qh,- mo, 1t wasn't]" she denied. “It was a kind of reddish chestnut shade. I looked skeptical. “I am surprised to hear' that,” 1 ovserved, “for with such dark .eyes and such a brunette skin as yours one would not expect light hair, even in & child.” She igtiored this, and went on to tell me of what the “specialist” had said. 1 saw that she intended to take his treat- ment and I offered no objection just then. “Phe-#treatments - certainly changed.the color of Laura's hair. Reddish and bronze streaks soon appeared among the brown- locks, -and at -the end-of a few months she had rick auburn hair, “Just exactly what I had in my girl- hood,” ;she told me proudly. “So many people . admire it now that I am glad to have it restored to me again after all these years, Jacquet is surely a wonder."” 1 gazed Often at those Titlan tresses | and always with a lingering doubt In my mind. T aid not tell my wife then that this striking shade of hair was abso- | Iutely unsuited to her skin. It make her complexion 100k, pasty and faded. At last Fideeided to rmscartain the truth of my suspleions. . Jacques . was not the only feshionable: hair-dresser and specialist in tows,"and I went to another whose repu- tation was equally good. “Is it possible,” -1 asked him, {#fore dark brown halr to the its youth—a dark red shade?” “But certainly, monsieur,” the voluble Frenchman declared with a twinkle in | his eyes. “We have wonderful com- pounds now—and peroxide and henna will work marvels.” I aid not smile, “I-mean just what I{ say,” I told him. “Can hair be restored ! by any natural process to a lighter color— without being bleached or dyed, for in- stence?” ‘. He ceased to grin. “Indeed, no, mon- steur. It is absolutely impossible without Jthe use of art. That is why our excel- Jent and unexcelled coloring preparations are s0 valuable.! 1 had héard enough. It was henna then that gave my wife's hair its beautiful , hues. She knows now that I know this. Yet such is my loyalty to her that I uphold 0 our friends her statement that she has | t'restored her hair by massage, etc. IT} she fibs I must fib, too. | %V Nevertheless, such is also my disap- | proval that, not long ago I broke the sllence that had kept me from open criti- efsm of her complexion, and told her that her renovated tresses made her look | pale and old. She was startled, I saw,| and an expression of determination came | to her lips. I did not understand It then, | but I understood it a few evenings later when she appeared at dinner, at which | we were entertalning some friends, with an exquisite pink flush in her cheeks. | At first 1 attributed this glow to the | tact that she had been walking briskiy | that afternoon in the cold alr. Butj when I remained throtughout the evening | 1 changed my ideas. When our guests | Mad departed I asked her what she had been doing to her face “I had a facial massage this noon,” she replied, turning away hastily “It always brings the color to my| cheeks.” “You allowed the masseure to put on artificlal color, too!” I accused “Well, what if I did!" she exclaimed. “Won't you let me make myself look decent—even if 1 am growing old?" “T'll let you muke yourself look decent —~but not indecent!” I declared. “As 1 do not care to have my wife look like the type of woman who dyes her halr and paints her face, I forbid your doing o any longer.” She pretends to have obeyed me—but at Jimes, when we are in company, I still ‘mot an unpatural pink tinge on her checks, and her hair still retains the v“pestored color of its youth." -— - Time for His Luck to Change. He—Was your father very angry when you told him of our engegement? She—~Not particularly. iHe sald he had been rather fortunate in the stock mar- “to re- color of after- { telligent calculation of the expected must | | the tvo columns and they balance to an | 800d head of steam and prevent deterio- BEE: OMAH LU SN Smart Pin Money Frocks If velours are used for this suit four yards ($14) will suffice; three and one- half yards of satin would be required to line the coat ($4.38); findings, $1 Total, $19. From the November Number of Harper’s Bazar. Our Wonderful Reserve Power How the Human Body Stores Up Surplus Energy for Use in Emergencies. By Woods Hutchinson, A, M., M. D. Nature can be economical to the verge | of penuriousness on occasion? but she likes to conduct her main operations upon | a liberal scale and a wide margin. She believes with George Ellot that any in- include a certain amount of the unex- pected. In most of our transactions a little too much is just enough, because you never can tell what may happen. For instance, in the important and en- Jjoyable matter of food and work che bal- ances accounts like an expert bookkeeper: 80 many pounds of food containing so many heat units (calories) eaten, on the one side; on the other, so much work done with arm and heart, so much heat glven off, so much waste, so much weight gained or growth made. Add up ounce or a per cent of a kilowatt. To keep one's self fit, in good working con- dition, without loss of weight or strength, we must eat just so many pounds, so many calories, or “run into the red” in our body bookkeeping and suffer the con- sequences. But when it comes to the broader and | far deeper question of keeping alive, holding soul and body together, upon scanty or insufficient rations, nature dis- | plays unexpected resources and an as-| tonishing power of reserve. We need, unquestionably, a liberal amount of food every day to keep up a ration of the plant. But if we don't get it and obtain only three-quarters, or half, or even a third of that amount, we do not immediately fall il and die; on the contrary, we pull ourselves together, do rather less work or poorer quality, draw upon our futernal reserves, live on our fat, as the saying is, and make the best we can of the situation. And that ‘best we can" may endure not merely for months, but even for years, other- wise, two-thirds of us would not be here. For, as one of our hest known econo- mists bitterly and tersely puts it, “Up | be engaged to seventy-five yeaTs ago three-fourths of the population of Europe never knew what it was to have all they could eat |at any one time in the course of their lives, and were never comfortably warin from November to May.'" We cannot only continue to live bn |very imsufficlent amounts of food, but we can even live for & very considerable {time without any food at all, providing !that we have plenty of water to drink | and can remain at rest in moderate com- fort and warmth. This wonderful survival power of ours has just been dramatically brought to our attention by the reports which have filled the newspapers of the happy res- cue of a group of Pennsylvania miners who had been burled for nearly a week ket of late figured it was about time for his luck to turn.—Richmond Lispatch. by a cave-in. After they had narrowly escaped drowning by the flood of water which causq? the cave-in, they remained huddled together for warmth in the wetwho will turn to the records of living en- clothing for six days, during which time , tombment of human being or animals in their only ‘food was a portion of & roast |mine accidents, earthquake, avalanches chicken and some pleces of bread left |or snowslides, will find that instead of over in their dinner buckets, and & |being an exception it is, on the contrary, tew ‘*cooklies” of a composition of fish |well within and Selow the average of ofl and wax used in tghir miners' lamps. |survival endurance under these circum- This strikes us as a remarkable feat of stances. endurance, but, as a matter of fact, it| In the frightful earthquake at Messina, was probably only a third or fourth otltur instance, a few years ago, there were the endurance of which those aturdy|a score of instances In which not only miners would have been capable if the men and women, but ponies and dogs, rescuers had been longer delayed in:Who haa been buried alive, uninjured, reaching them, and was well within the |but with good air and mcderate, in some limits of what any one of us, even city | CA8es very small amounts of water, just dwellers, in a state of roasonably vigor- |the leakage along the molst upper sur- ous health, would have been able to en- | face of a ledge in one instance, survived dure and survive without permanent in- |tWO. three and oven four weeks and were jury. The only reason why it strikes us | Wtimately rescued without permanent 0 remarkable and strange is on ac-|MJUFY. In fact, surprising as it may count of the very fortunate rarity of in.|®¢M: there are comparatively few cases stances of any sort of complete depriva. | °% F€cOrd of death simply by deprivation ® (OPTIVA | of food In such circumstances under three tion of food In this present day of ¢Vl | .y And life in human beings, horses |and dog be - i and dogs has been known to be pre. ‘‘Blessed is the natlon | o served for, in some rare instances, as long that has.no history,” as the shrewd old |,y yix weeks without s partiole of food French cynic remarked. But any one| mqpis extraordinary reserve power of e ours is mlso shown by the feats of the " | professional fasters, of whom Dr. Tan- ner, the Italian Succi and others are famillar recent examples. These men at- tained a tremendous amount of notoriety by undertaking, usually for a bet or wager, to live a certain number of weeks | without food Many of us remember the excitement Advice to Lovelorn .Y BEATRICE FAIRFAX Tell Him, Dear Miss Fairfax: | was in love with a young man and had & row with him | omme Dr. Tann about & year ago. 'Ho then hecamo nt|and eager comment when Dr. Tanner gaged to & youns woman and gave her | 8Ucceeded in reaching his fortieth day of a nice rlnl,kwhlch she said was too nmull,‘(ulnl abstinence from food, winning his 80 he broke the engagement After a or ‘ “ while he asked me if I would go back to |y *°F "”'l - J“‘"v"“‘ Jevousy: N‘l"; him again. 1 said 1 would, because I|for a &ood old watermelon.” Disbelle know T loved him. We are soon going to|and scepticlsm were freely expressed on nEase lrwlnmne r(‘; is Kl‘)"em‘ !'I'Ifll\"-".u sides. The water of which the doc- me ng he gave the other girl like him too much to hurt his feelings. 1[|tor drank copiously during his fast’ was or [ alleged to have n heavily “stitfened" don't care if the stone was very small that he gave me none at all. What makes | with alcohol, to contain large amounts meat , or not to be me feel bad 18 to think thaf the ring was | oo | & (0 not got for me; she got it before me. joF v D.'w, {water at all, but marvelous and Don't make yourself miserable over|secret tropical elixir of life, a cup. of such a trifle as this. There is no reason | Which had the nutritive power of a loaf why you should not be perfectly con- ©0f bredd. tented with the engagement ring that was| These suspicions, however, were improb- bought for someone else. Nor, on the |8ble on the face of them, for the sim- other hand, is there any reason why )ouh’" reason that repeated experiments should not suggest your flance that for)have shown that animals deprived sentimental reasons you would be hap-) {004 lose strength much more rapidly and pler with a ring he had bought specially | Starve quicker if given moderate amounts | pohol o hee! y o for you, and that 1f it wont cause him | °f aloohol or beef tea or any of the s any inconvenience or extra expense you |Aled Vegetable stimulants and endur- would be much happler if he would ex.|®0°® IVers, such as cocos, mate or tes, change this ring for another one which | P48 If they are glven nothing but water to drink. Besides, the tests in Dr. Tan- .':“ ":"" feel was purchased With you| .,y second fast were so carefully super- | vised and controlled by competent phys: | clans and scientists as to leave little rea- | sonable doubt that his abstinence from food was genuine and complete, Indeed, what really happened was that |a seore of local imitators of the great \ faster spr up in different parts of Of course you are tco young to go out |the country gnd many of them, in the with boys, and the fact that your molhfrl anguage of the day, “beat him to it," objects ought to settle the matter for |equalling and & few exceeding his feat you. Don’'t dream of making appoint- | 8o that the edge and the distinction were ments without your mother's consent. | quickly taken off his reputation; aad be essenc some Listen to Your Mother, Dear Mise Fafrfax: I am 16 1 met & man three years my senior. e askei me to make an Appointment w th him. | Kindly let me know whether | am old cmough to make appolnments, as my mother objects to my going out. H B of | NOV % Republished by Special Arrangement with Harper’s Bagar Velveteen is well suited to this simple suit; four yards forty inches wide are required ($14); three and one-half yards of satin to line the coat ($4.38); findings, $1. Total, $19. when Bucel actually succeeding in accom- plishing the astounding boa-constrictor like feat of going sixty days without & particle of food all mere thirty or forty- day fasters were out of the running en- tirely ‘and" could hardly draw a crowd at a eounty fair sideshow. | how Making a Fuss Over Nothing By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Most women are potential heroines emergency, In danger, worth the name s self-sacrificing and brave. Many a woman who shrieks at sight of a mouse or a beetle will elimb three flights of stairs In a fire to carry out a sick child, But, after all, life isn't made up of emergencles, Few of us ever have the chance to prove ourselves heroines. And the judgment of the world fs based on we face the mice of life rather than on what we do when we meet its llons In keeping with the tendency to face great dangers and shrink at little ones, woman bears great sorrows and fright- ful tragedies nobly and well and agitates herself to the point of a nervous break- down over negligible pains and trifling slights, My grandmother actually went out as A nurse during an epldemie of cholera in a little western city. And she fairly made my youth a nightmare by her hysteriea over the thunderstorms that so frequently visit the middle west. Woman haa a certaln pioneer quality that makes her face bravely all tremen- dous emergencies and fuss and fume over things unworthy to take any of her en- ergy. How many women make their hus- band's lives miserable by their insistence that all sorts of trifling dates be remem- bered. I have a friend who has gone to bed with a nervous headache for no more overwhelming cause than the fact that her husband forgot the anniversary of the first day he ever saw her. She expected a man who had a business to swing and large affairs to manage so that he might give her luxury and ele- gance, to do all that with one lobe of his brain and with another to remember to call her up every day at noon to tell her what his whole life was proving— that he loved her. Because he couldn't remember such things, she nagged him to the point where everyone expected separation or divorce to put a period to their love story. And then came a crash, Mr. Smith lost practically his entire fortune and with it most of his credit. And neuras- thenie, nervous Mary Smith rose from her bed, put on a gingham apron, went into the kitchen she had not visited in ten years and set to making jam. The Smiths are on the high tide to fortune ain because Mary, who could not bear to have her lightest wish neg- lected and her lightest whim forgotten, could bear the loss of everything that had previously made the whole of her selfish life. ' Women are like that. And men will never fully . understand It. Without a whimper Eve bears things that would almost justify her in shrieking to high heaven. She either endures them with a tragic passiveness that commands re- spect, or she gets up and, with Ama- zonian force, conquery them. But no woman who ever lived falled to suffer when the man she loved prom- fsed to telephone her at noon and had not summoned her by 1 o'clock. 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