Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 15, 1915, Page 9

THE BEE: The Better We By Woods Hutchinson, A. M., M. D, The World's Best Known Writer on Medical Subjects. ‘We have a faculty for overlooking plain and obvious facts which amounts almost | %o & genlus. Part of this is due to our| methods of education, both scholastic and religious, which gives us the theory of Nfe first and the facts afterward—if| at all. | Hence our constant endeavor is to make Was that all men are absolutely and responstble for their conduct and, if they are not good, can be made wo by Punishment and cruelty. Upon that pure Alsumption is based our whole unspeak- able aystem of criminal law and so- 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 offender was, if any man broke the law, punish him; it he repeated the offense, | him again and keep on punishing | Ith increasing severity as long as the offenss or the offender lasted, without ®ver for a moment stopping to look at, # to gpeak, its raw material and con- earefully what manner of men it mho were thus being punished and ned. \bout thirty-five years ago, under the f#ad of the noble and gifted, but erratic, | Zombroso, an attempt was made for the frst time in human history to quietly | &hd dlspassionately sit down and study the habitual criminal, the chronic of- fénder, the actual population of our pris- ona and penitentinri / Unfortunately, the first start was made | slong 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 mnot be supported. . But two things quickly stood out un- mistakably and clearly, Firat, that the heavy majority of all our prison popu- on both s of the Atlantle con- of what Is technically known as Urepeaters” or recldivists. That s to say, 6 to 80 per cent of them had been S —— From the enthuslasm that inspires you do to the over-enthusiasm that insists action at once, prepared or no, s just an old proverb that sa. one wishes for seems at the door. you wish hard enough you may often that you hear the knock of your de- But when you open the door § there ia nothing there. The' etory of the boy who cried “Wolf!" when there was no wolf and ; i miserably when the wolf this fairly well The which we watch with actual becomes negligiblo through | and when It comes we have ; ! I i Children ‘WhowNever Grow Up Can Care for Our Little Ones the Fewer of Them Will Turn Into Oriminals, | they were taken. (ihose in the slums and the back alleys, eriminals by life-long habit, since boy- hood and even early childhood. Second, that while no clear-cut erimi- nal physiognomy or criminal bodily type could be made out, the prisoners, as & mass, wherever simply weighed and measured In sufficlent 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 In other words, nearly two-thirds of our criminals “did wrong'' as constantly, as instinctively and as persistently as nine-tentha of thelr fellows outaide of ti prison walls “did right"; and (nese wrongdoers were under-sized, under welght, narrow chested, stupid and aa markedly inferior 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 habjtual criminals and fre- quent offenders were under-sized and narrow-chested ‘and ‘anaemic and fear- fully subject to tuberculosis; but might not much of this be due to thelr viclous and fll-regulated habits of - life, their drunkenness, the gross sexual vices, the the irregular hours they kept and wretched slums and dens in which they harbored omd 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 living 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 If eriminality and stunted growth and narrow-chested and consumptive tendencies go hand in hand, th the better we can feed and house #nd care for all our children. especially the fower of them will turn inte crimi- nal blinding himself to the approach of real trouble. Walting Is one of the most trying ex- periences in all the world. There Is no trial that puts stability of character to & more terrible test. Have you ever waited for a letter that meant life or death, love or indifference 16 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 until 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 sult. Buddénly you see him far down the street. Closer and closer he comes, By GARRETT P. SERVISS, The strangest city in the world is Petra, | eut out of solid rock in a lonesome moun- tain valiey in the Arablan desert. Once 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- turies later it was abandoned by civiliza- tion and for 1,600 years It lay forgotten by the world until the traveler Burck. hardt rediscovered it in 1812, 8o inaccessible is its situation, aiihough 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 Bcotohman, who was there last Jume, and the photograph shows some of the wonderful sights he saw in this unique olty of clvilised troglodytes. romancer ever concelved such a plaos. All around are barren mountains, rooky, wild and trackless. Beyond the mountains stretches the desert. A sav- age glon deepens Into a long, narrow gorge, with perpendicular walls 100 or 200 feet in helght. Following this ravine for two miles, the adventurous traveler sud- denly finds himself at a kind of gateway in the roocks, Roman amphitheater. Here he is confronted by a temple cut in the rock, with the most exquisite Cor- inthlan columns, and entering the door- ‘way he finds himself in the heart of the 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. | your Vt.— “We have remedies. lwuvog.: nd was a bad he most | he was coming at § has not arrived at § He seems to have a tremendous mall to distribute and tado 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 ““The impatient man belleves that the stars fight against him,” says an old proverb. And the only bad luck in all the world is the bad luck to be weak enough to believ in luck. Luck and chance have vegy little to do with the periods during which one waits, i You walt for a letter because 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, waltng always must be a certain strain, but they can control that straln and not let It spell agony. Because a loved one who sald does not mean he has been murdered by bandits or is never coming at all. It probably Indicates nothing mode trem- endous than that he started late, or was delayed by some trifling circumstance. When you have conquered your own im- Ppatience #o that you can endure impotent welting calmly, you have done much to |assure yourself of a peacerul life. It is chiefly women who indulge In torments of agony when waiting. Most men know enough to 'l In periods of walting with {some activity, so that their minds shall not anxi usly dwell on speculating how socon the looked-for event wi'l ocour. A book or a bit of sewing will often serve to tide over a period of walting. Forco youself to concentrate on some- Compound, without p and actual medicines must be looked both standard and ‘every thinking person. have the slightest doubt B Vegeta~ you,write thing other than the thing toward which ¥ou are looking. If it comes it will find you calmly walting to recelve it, and it hill, surrounded by subterranean architec- ture of the most elaborate beauty of form and workmanship. This is the so-called khasneh, or treasury, supposed to have been bullt by the Roman Emperor Had- rian, who visited Petra In the year 181 A. D. Although called a treasury, it was & temple devoted to Isis. No descrip- tion of this strange bullding has ever ex- celled that given by Stephens, the first American traveler to see it: “The whole temple, its columns, orna- ments, porticoes and porches are out out from and form a part of the solld rock; a dia the agony of walting for what It |and this rock, at the foot of which the | would tell you. temple stands like a mere print, towers several hundred feet above, its face cut smooth up to the very summit and the top remaining wild and misshapen, as By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright, 1916, Star Company. In one of the many stock companies of America in a college town the leading man a few seasons 0 chancel to be a very good looking young bened'ct, with a wife and two children, who re- celved the devotion of his heart. The handsome actor made no secret of this fact, and was always talking of {his family when opportunity pre- |sented. Yet this did not prevent }Ml'n from becoming |a matinee ol and the reciplent of innumerable let- ters from Infatua ed girls and wo- men. The young man at first ignored these letters: he then it fallo to come your conserved energy will train you to go on walting. In-Sl?oots We can forgive :mlhmfi:w sunshine and you will also en- tried returning some of them, requesting the writers to discontinue sending him such missives, but the letters increases in epite of all his efforts. .hen one afternoon he stepped in front of the footlights and addressed a crowded house. He stated that he was s0 annoyed by these letters that he ghould be obliged to publish the names of the writers %nlesa there was a cessation of the romantic folly “I am & married man he sald, “and OMAHA, like the entrance to a |pature made it. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1915. The Famous Tomb of Three Stories and the Sacrificial Altar on the Rore, grand and interesting as it is, nor the ruins 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 three miles in cjrcumference, everywhere sunk deep beneath the enclosing mountains, and the walls of this valley are filled with the remains of other rock-cut temples, tombs and dwelling places. In one place are the remaing of an,open-air theater, Some of the structures, cut in the face of the rock, are sevoral storles 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 thelr 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 Mount of Obelisks. Neither the Collseum at |to study them adds to the impression of lonely majesty which they make upon them. It 1s rare to meet any human belng in the place. Sometimes a few Arabs are seen, but at night the volces of wolves, hyenas, owls and jackals may be heard, and occaslonally one of these animals imay be surprised lurking in the dark in- terior of an open tomb, Large venomous serpents are also sometimes met with. It is not surprising that seme visitors have applied to Petra, which has been supposed to be the Selah of the Bible, the curses uttered by the Hebrew prophi- ots against the land of Idumea, such as these: “And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nottles and brambles in the fort- resses thereof, and it shall he a hab- itation for dragons and a court for owl 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 theo down from thence, saith the Lord," 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 a very high \dea! regarding young girls, and a very generous desire to save them from folly. He says n the course of a season's en- gagement I come in contact with many young girls of a most tender age and beyond reproach; 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 youiti and attractiveness, and hap- pineas. “There is no peed to say that often- times the actor is burdened with uccusas 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 taken aside back of the stage and warned by members of the company to beware of respected business men, who were waiting in thelr cars to convey them to late suppers. “My blood bas boilled 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 thelr situation.” The writer of the above lett: uggested 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 a warning. It breathes the attitude of a large majority of the best theatrical men, actors and man- ’ 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 a few years old, but be says It is his intentlon to give that #rl, by the tine she is & dozen years old, & 0" knowied of the dangems which alt her in life, and to make her under- stand the high estimate which all good men 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 Know That The old-time "ml;m' 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 Islands and on the west coast of Africa. They resemble | shape & hen's egg, and have much the same Lase, but are larger, By DOROTHY DIX A young man writes me that he ls 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 p 1 didn't suppose there & 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 I 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- mission, 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 jman 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 |it. 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 fare? 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 1could never send her even so much as a 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 els He would feel that he would rather dle than go to even the most generous Womaq qnd Herw Money : £ (4 Folly of Marrying a Man Who Considers that What's His Wife's is His and What’s His is His Own, father every time he needed money, and as for taking it from one who gave 't | erudgingly, and berated him for his ex- travagance as he doled out every nickel, why exery drop of blood in him wou!l rise In furious protest. Yet that is what this man is calmly proposing to inflict on the woman hs thinks he loves, and is gong to marry. His idea is, of course, that women n“» mere chattels with no normal instinets | Of self-respect or dignity that a husband Is bound 15 take into consideration. - He thinks that a woman would fust as soon be a beggar as anything else, and that she rather enjoys abasing herselt bofors | her lord and master, and taking with |Brat'tudé such alms as he is graclous | enough to bestow upon her as a token {Of hia generosity, and not at all fn econ- | sideration of her performing the multi- | tudinous duties 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 fust | a8 much as men do. They resent with | their whola souls, the fact that ths job | of the housewife, which is the hardeat 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 taat you hear more than any other among married women 13 |that they have never a dollar of thelr |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 s for the man to rise to the supernal h hte 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 glgantlo 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 sort 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 that we all show to ihose who have money. A wise old banker once said, 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 wil make any man polite to‘any woman who has 1t 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 e place. We are very 'ond of each other, and he claims I am earer to him than his sisters and brothers. Now, Miss Fairfax, the ques- tion s this: Mfi' friend took out a life policy, making his brothers and sisters, Who are all married, his beneficlaries, as “ll parents are dead. Don't you think e ought to make me his hone'lé‘lnr)".‘ 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 he natural for a man to make some provision for the girl he loves, but I think it would dlsgust him If she insisted on this as a right Consider This Serfously. Déar Miss Falrfax: T am a girl of 18 and love a man & Now, my famly thinks he s too old for me to marry but T love this man dearly. So, in 5-ito of parental objection, should 1 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 fathier. Under the circum- Advice to the Lovelorn BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX | stances you must consider the mattr ' | very serlously and weigh your own fecl g ings, their likellhood to be permanent the feelings of the man who ecares f you and the opinlon of your paren - On general principles 1 dsapprove such a match—but how can a stranger play Providence and settle a ques.io: like this with no personal knowledge of the people concerned? er This Carefully. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 2 and livi at home with my nd ) Rers father and Grothers 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 o 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. If your father | &nd brothers can afford to have a house- | keeper, I think it would be far wiser {for you to have a separate home. 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