Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 15, 1915, Page 8

Children Who Never Grow Up The Better We Can Care for Our Little Ones the Fewer of Them Will Turn Into Criminals, By Woods Hutchinson, A. M., M. D, The World's Best Known Writer on Medical Subjects. ‘We have a faculty for overlooking plain | &nd obvious facts which amounts almost | o & genlus. Part of this is due to our| both scholastic | and religious, which gives us the theory ©of Mfe first and the facts afterward—if all Hence our constant endeavor is to make | facts of our experience of life about | Wig Mt In with the theories that have been | into us, Any facts that don't fit| the theorles are ignored in po-| 1ite society, and so, of course, they don't e e~ . Upon that pure Amumption is based our whole unspeak- | able system of criminal law and mo- oalled justice. ‘Whatever the cause, the painful fact| remains that, up to . a bare third of a eentury ago, the universal rule of the law and the courts In dealing with the him again and keep on punishing increasing severity as long the kn or the offender lasted, without for a moment stopping to look at, 10 gpeak, its raw material and con- carefully what manner of men it Was who were thus being punished and it thirty-five years ago, under the of the noble and gifted, but erratic, ibroso, an attempt was made for the time in human history to quietly | Whd dispassionately sit down and study the habitual criminal, the chronic of- fénder, the actual population of our pris- ons and penitentinries. ‘Unfortunately, the first start was made along mistaken lines; that is to say, upon anatomical differences which distin- gulshed the criminal from the normal man, setting up a so-called criminal type, which could mot be supported. ., But two things quickly stood out un- mistakably and clearly, First, that the | heavy majority of all our prison popu-| on both sides of the Atlantic con of what Is technically known as Srepeaters” or recidivists. That is to #ay, @ to 80 per cent of them had been ! | eriminals by lite-long habit, since boy- hood and even early childhood. Second, that while no clear-cut crimi- nal physiognomy or criminal bodily type | could be made out, the prisoners, as a| mans, wherever simply welghed and | measured _in sufficient numbers, were | from one and a half to three inches| shorter in stature, from fifteen to thirty pounds under weight, and had less than two-thirds of the chest expansion of the average of the community from which they were taken In other words, nearly two-thirds of our criminals “did wrong’ as constantly, as instinctively and as persistently ns| nine-tentha of thelr fellows outalde of tie prison walls “did right”; and tnese wrongdoers were under-sized, under welght, narrow chested, stupid and as markedly inferfor physically and men- tally to the right-doers as they were morally But here the matter hung in the alr for some time. The findings, though in- teresting, had no “bite” to them and car- 1led little definite conviction. Possibly habitual criminals and fre- quent offenders were under-sized and narrow-chested ‘and ‘anaemic and fel fully subject to tuberculosis; but might not much of this be due to thelr vicious and {l-regulated habits of - life, their " | drunkenness, the gross sexual vices, the irregular hours they kept and the wretched slums and dens in which they harbored amd lay hidden from the police? Even If they were under-sized and under-weight, so were some of the great- est men in history; and & moment's glance up and down our home streets would show us ecores of men below the minimum helght and chest-girth for army recruits, yet who were earning a good llving and playing a useful and honorable part in their circle and in the community, Just the mere fact of a man being under-sized and slack-muscled is no explanation of or excuse for his being a criminal, However, we drew one useful, if not wholly logical, conclusion from the facts, and that was: That {f eriminality and stunted growth and narrow-chested and consumptive tendencles go hand in hand, then the better we can feed and house #nd care for all our children. especially ihose in the alums and the back alleys, the fewer of them will turn inte crimi- nals. e e The Weariness of Waiting | By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Nothing st all in the world s more likely to defeat its own object than hurry. the enthusiasm that inspires you to the over-enthuslasm that insists action at once, prepared or no, Is just step. There is an old proverb that says, “What one wishes for seems at the door. wish hard enough you may often you hear the knock of your de- ut when you open the door othing there. story of the boy who crled en there was no wolf and miserably when the wolf this fairly well. The we watch with actual becomes negligible throush and it comes we have protection against it. makes a person such a pessi-, a8 the indulgence in unfounded hopes | prove wrong. Nothing makes a per- son so coriminally careless of danger as ~ watching fearfully for accidents that ~ msed mever have been expected, and so A 1 i £ i ;§l= 5w § ;l it WOMAN IN ™ BAD CONDITION blinding himself to the approach of real trouble. Waiting Is one of the most trying ex- periences in all the world. There is no trial that puts stabllity of character to & more terrible test. Have you ever walted for a letter that meant life or death, love ér indifference to you? You know the postman is due at 9 In the morning. You walt at 7 and ‘wonder how you will get through the two long hours until he comes. Somehow bathing and dressing, eating your break- fast and doing the tasks of the day bridge over the time untll quarter be- fore 9. Then you station yourself at the win- dow and watch for the first glimpse of the longed-for messenger's gray asuit. THE BEE: By GARRETT P. SERVISS, The strangest city in the world is Petra, cut out of solid rock in a lonesome moun- tain valley in the Arabian desert. Once a rich city, it is now an abandoned ruin It 1s o old that its origin is lost t> history, but it was well known in early Bible times when the Edomites inhabited it, and about a century after the be- ginning of the Christian era it was con- quered by the Romans. But a few cen- turfes later It was abandoned by civiliza- tion and for L,600 years it lay forgotten by the world until the traveler Burck. hardt rediscovered it in 1812 80 inaccessible 1s its situation, although it once lay on a trade route, that not more than fifty travelers are kndwn to have visited it since Burckhardt's time. The latest of these is Donald McLeish, the Scotohman, who was there last Jume, and the photograph shows some of the wonderful sights ho saw in this unique elty of civilised troglodytes. No romancer ever concelved such a place. All around are barren mountains, rocky, wild and trackless. Beyond the mountiins stretches the desert. A sav- age glen deepens into a long, narrow gorge, with perpendicufar walls 100 or 200 feet in height. Following this ravine for two miles, the adventurous traveler sud- denly finds himself at a kind of gateway in the rocks, like the entrance to a Roman amphitheater. Here he is confronted by a temple cut in the rock, with the most exquisite Cor- Suddénly you see him far down the street. Closer and closer he comes,; weaving his path in and out of door- ways, With beating heart you walt, agonizingly wondering as he comes closer and closer whether he brings what you long for. He seems to have a tremendous mall to distribute and toido it slowly and with tortolse-like progress. Now he is at the door next to your own. He passes your house and goes to the next. You must wait bravely for the noon mall, and the next, perhaps. The letter you long for may come tomorrow. And no blow it deals can hurt you more than did the agony of walting for what ft would tell you. “The impatient man belleves that the stars fight agalnst . says an old proverb. And the only bad luck in all the world s the bad luck to be weak enough to bellev in luck. Luck and chance have vegy little to do with the periods during which one waits, | You walt for a letter becauso the per- | son who sent it didn't get it off in time. That has nothing to do with luck, but ! depends entirely upon your human rela- tionship with that person and how unsel- fishly and considerately he thinks of you. ‘To highly sensitive souls who are ner- vous and imaginative, walung always must be & certain straln, but they can control that strain and not let it spell agony. Broause a loved one who sald he was coming at § has not arrived at § does mot mean he has been murdered It probably indicates nothing mode trem- endous than that he started late, or was delayed by some trifling eircumstance. When you have conquered your own im- patience so that you can endure impotent waltlog calmly, you have done much to . by bandits or is never coming at all |children, who re- Inthian columns, and entering the door- way he finds himself in the heart of the hill, surrounded by subterranean architec- ture of the most elaborate beauty of form and workmanship. This s the so-called khasneh, or treasury, supposed to have been bullt by the Roman Ewmperor Had- rian, who visited Petra in the year 131 A. D. Although called a treasury, it was a temple devoted to Isls. No deserip- tion of this strange bullding has ever ex- celled that given by Stephe: the first American traveler to see it: “The whole temple, its columus, orna- ments, porticoes and porches are out out from and form a part of the solid rock; and this rock, at the foot of which the temple stands like a mere print, towers several hundred feet above, its face cut #mooth up to the very summit and the top remaining wild and misshapen, a: OMAHA, MONDAY, nature made it Rome, grand and interesting as It is, nor the rulns of the Acropolis at Athens, nor the Pyramids, nor the mighty templca of the Nile, are so often present to my memory." But this is only an introduction to the marvels behind. The gorge opens out into’' & narrow valley somo threes miles in cjrcumference, everywhere sunk deep benaath the enclosing mountains, and the walls of this valley are filled with the remains of other rock-cut temples, tombs and dwelling place In one place are the remaing of an.open-air theater. Some of the structures, cut In the face of the rock, are sevoral stories in helght, while thelr architectural detalls excite the wondering admiration of the beholder, Of course they gain immensely in the eyes of the surprised visitor by their sit- uation and by the alr of total abandon- ment which surrounds them. They are at various heights above the floor of the valloy and the uphifting of the eyes turned NOVEMBER The Famous Tomb of Three Stories and the Altar on the Mount of Obelisks. Nelther the Coliseum at |to study them adds to the impression of 15, 1915, Sacrificial lonely majesty which they make upon them. It is rare to meet any human being in the place. Sometimes a few Arabs are seen, but at night the voices of wolves, hyenas, owls and jackals may be heard, and occasionally one of these animals may bo surprised lurking in the dark in- terlor of an open tomb. Large venomous serpents are also sometimes met with. It is not surprising that some visitors have applied to Petra, which has been supposed to be the Selah of the Bible, the curses uttered by the Hebrew proph- ets against the land of Idumea, such as these: “And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fort- resses thereof, and it shall be a hab- itation for dragons and a court for owls,” or “Oh, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, that holdest the helght. of the hill, though thou shouldst make thy nest as high as the eagles, I.will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord,” By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright, 1915, Star Company. In one of the many stock companies of America In a oolle town the leading man & few seasons ago chancel to be a very good looking young bened'ct, with wite and two celved the devotion of his heart. The handsome actor made no secret of this fact, and was always talking of assure yourself of a peacerul life. It is chiefly women who indulge In torments of agony when waiting. Most men know enough to )Nl In periods of waiting with It must be not| egeta~ will help you,write edicineCo, s g ads ‘will be opened, & woman, not anxi usly dwell on speculating how soon the looked-for event wi'l occur. A book or a bit of sewing will often serve to tide over a period of walting. Force youself to concentrate on some- thing othor than the thing toward which If it comes It will find you calmly walting to recelve it, and it it falls to come your conserved energy will traln you to go on walting. In-Shoots We can forgive and still be suspicious. Soatter sunshine and you will also en- Remember that a vigorous howl will Iways attrac his family when {opportunity pre- |sented. Yét this did not prevent Dependable Medicing | some activity, so that thelr minds shall | him from becoming & matinee idol and the recipient of innumerable 1e t- ters from infatuat- ’-l girls and wo- men. The young man at first ignored these letters: he then tried returning some of them, requesting the writers to discoutinue sending him such missives, but the letters increases in epite of all his efforts. -hen one afterncon he stepped in front of the footlights and addressed a crowded house. He stated that he was so annoyed by these letters that he ghould be obliged to publish the names of the writers %nless there was a cessation of the romantic folly. - “I am & married man" he sald, “and my wife and children are foremost in my more attention than & |heart I have no desire for any romantic discontinued the names of the writers will be given to the public.” A letter has just been received from an actor, who seems to have & very high idea! regarding young girls, and a very generous desire to save them from folly. He says; “In the course of a season's en- gagement I come in contact with many young girls of a most tender age and beyond reprosch; others wild, but not wicked, and some just standing on the brink and ready for that terrible plunge which means the beginning of the end of youth and attractiveness, and hap- piness. “There is no need Lo say that often- times the actor s burdened with accusa- tions which might more fitly be borne by the young sons of fine families and their mature fathers, who play truant from the monotony of home life. Often I have seen young girls teken aside back of the stage and warned by members of the company to beware of respected business men, who were waiting in their cars to convey them to late suppers My blood bas boiled when I have seen these men, who stood high socially, and who are trusted at home, leading these young girls astray. Girls are good listeners, and sweetness and sentiment lead easily into folly and sin. ““There must be some way to bring influence to bear upon such girls and cause them to realize the danger of their situation.” The writer of the above letter suggested the publication of verse and prose which would Interest such girls, and, at the same time, warn them. His own letter ought to serve as & warniug. It breathes the attitude of a large majority of the intrigues, and unless these letters are best theatrical men, actors and man- ¥ Stage Star Warns Frivolous Girlé agers, in the country. So much do these men see of the frivolity, the silliness, the weakness and the wickedness in human nature that they do all they can to save girls from folly, and their love for purity and virtue in woman amounts to rever- ence. A theatrical man, who has risen from the ranks, and who has achieved great financial success in his chosen fleld, spoke on this subject recently to the writer with intense feeling. He is the father of & little girl only & few years old, but be says it is his Intention to give that &irl, by the time she is & dozen years old, & tull knowledge of the dangess which awalt her in life, and to make her under- stand the high estimate which all good mien place ‘on modesty and virtue, He means that she shall learn very early the seamy side of immodesty and boldness, and that she shall never be tempted to lose her self-respect through ignorance. If there were more fathers and mothers ot this order there would be fewer girls king themselves ridiculous by pursuing actors, married or single. Do You Khow That | The old-time “minuet”” derives its name from the Latin “minutus’—referring to the short steps peculiar to this dance. More than a hundred eggs have been found in one alligator. They are eaten in the West India lslands and on the west coast of Africa. They resembie | shape & hen's egg, and have much the same Lase, but are larger, |1t Woman and ngfiMoney : Folly of Marrying a Man Who Considers that What's His Wife's is His and What'’s His is His Own. By DOROTHY DIX A young man writes me that he is go- Ing to be married to a gi.l who has a few thousand dollars, and that he has demanded that the young woman turn over her little for- tune to him on their wedding day. He says he doesn't care for the money itself, because he has plenty, but that he doesn't want his wife to have any money of her own, be- cause, if she does, she can buy things without asking his permission, and that would never do. Doesn't «t hat sentiment sound like Hark from the Tomb? Isn't it an echo from the far, dim past? 1 didn't suppose there was a man left in the world that held to this antiquated notion concerning a woman's® inability to handle a dollar— even her own dollar—without giving an account of it to her husband. And am more than amazed that a woman of this day and generation can be found who is willing to marry a man who frankly avows such pre-Adamite views. Any man who wants to rob his wife of her little inheritance and who thinks it dreadful for her to have a cent of her own to spend, or to buy her a choco- late soda without asking his kind per- misslon, will make one of the tightwad, tyrannical husbands who send a woman to the grave, or Reno, according to the amount of spirit and backbone she has. 1 wonder, in a case like this, how the {man would like it if the situation were reversed, and the woman should demand that he turn over to her all of his prop- erty, so that he would have to come to her every time he wanted a dollar, and explain what he wanted to do with How would he enjoy having to hem and haw and double and shuffle every morning trying to screw his courage up to the point of asking his wife for car tare? How would he like it if every time he wanted a new suit or hat, he had to have either a stand-up fight to get the money from his wife, or else cajole and Jolly it out of her by a lot of lying flat- teries that degraded him In his own sight? Suppose he had some relatives—a poor siek old mother, for instance—that he yearned to help, whom ne was willing even to deny himself to help, but he could never send her even so much as & five-dollar bill because his wife held the purse strings, and he had not a penny of his own? He would find such a situation intoler- able . He would say that no man can maintain his self-respect and be finan- clally ‘dependent on anybody else. He would feel that he would rather die than go to even the most generous father every time he needed money, and as for taking it from one who gave 't | grudgingly, and berated him for his ex- | travagance as he doled out every nickel, why exery drop of blood fn him wou!l | rise In furious protest. Yet that is what this man calmly | proposing to inflict on the woman hs | thinks he loves, and is gong to marry. | His idea 1s, of course, that women n“» mere chattels with no normal instinots of self-respect or dignity that a husband Is bound to take into consideration. - He thinks that a woman would fust as soon “ho a beggar as anything else, and that | #he rather enjoys abasing herselt befors her lord and master, and taking with | Brat'tudé such alms as he is gracious | enough to bestow upon her as a token [ Of his generosity, and not at all n con- | sideration of her performing the multi- | tudinous duttes of wife, and mother, and | housekeeper, and soclal secretary. | Well if he or any other man takes {that view of the matter, he 1s making the mistake of his life. Women long for financial independence just as much ns men do. They abhor mendicancy fut | a8 much as men do. They resent. wit1 | their whole souls, the fact that ths joh | of the housewife, which is the hardest work and the longest hours of any labor |in the world, is not even listed amont | BaInful occupations, and carries with it | no pay envelope. The one complaint that you hear mors than any other among married women i+ that they have never a dollar of their |oWn that they can spend as their fancy diotates. The one thing that makes every working girl hesitate about getting mar- ried is giving up her own pocketbook The thing that does most to promote peace and happiness in a household is for the man to rise to the supernal huights of justice and liberality and give his wife a definite allowanre for herself and the housekeeping, instead of having to have it corkscrewed out of him by the penny. It's bad enough, goodress knows, for the man to arrogate to himself the right to handle every cent of the family in come when it's his own money, but it's glgantio nerve for him to assume the right to his wife's property. Of one thing every woman may be certain, and that is that the right sort of a husband will not want to rob her of her money, and from the wrong eort she would best protect herself by hold- ing onto her own, for a pocketbook is an ever present help in every time of trouble, domestio or otherwise. Also even a hus- band treats a wife who is financially in- dependent of him with the respect th: we all show to ihose who have money. A wise old banker once sald, eynically, that he was perfectly certain that his daughters would all be tenderly cherlshed by their husbands, and when asked his grounds for this faith in matrimony, he replied: “I have settled $250,000 on each one of my girls, so their husbands can't touch it, and the income on that wi'l make any man polite to‘any woman who has it."” Advice to the Lovelorn BY BEATRICE Are You Mercenary? Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a girl of 20 and engaged to a man of 23. Have met through business, as we are both em- loyed In the same place. We are very 'ond of each other, and he claims I am dearer to him than his sisters and brothers. Now, Miss Fairfax, the ques- tion 1is this: My friend took out a life policy, making his brothers and sisters, Who are all married, his beneficlaries, as parents are dead. Don't you think e ought to make me his beneficlary? 8 J. Your letter sounds as If you were very mercenary in your attitude toward the man you love. Aren't you a little bit ashamed to be sitting and figuring on what would become of his estate if the man you love were to dle? The widow is legally entitled to one-third of her husband's estate. In the matter of a flancee it would pe natural for a man to make some provision for the girl he loves, but I think it would disgust him If she insisted on this as a right. Consider This Serfously. Dear Miss Fairfax: T am a girl of 18 and Jove a man & Now, my famly thinks he is too old for me to marry. but T love this man dearly. So, in s-ite of parental objection, should T marry him? PRISCILLA The difference in your ages is so great that the difference in your tastes and interests must also be very great. You are really only a child and the man you love is middle-aged—probably at least old as your father, Under the circum- | stances you must consider the mattor | very sertously and weigh your own feel ings, thelr likelthood to be permanent the feelings of the man who eares fn you and the opinion of your paren s On general principles 1 d sapprove such a match—but how can a stranger play Providence and settle a like this with no personal knowledige o the people concerned? ques.io Constder This Dear Miss Fairfax: at home with my Carefully. I am 2 and livi e father and urothers and keeping house. My fiance thinks wa should five alone, and I insist that my folks and T take a house toge‘her, a3 1 do not like to leave my father. What would you advise us to do? MARGARET R | It would be far wiser for you to have a home of your own after marriage. | Marriage means setting up a hame ani establishing a family. 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