Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 18, 1915, Page 9

- N THE in All the World By DOROTHY DIX yseven deadly sing, that a man should One of the bits of freak legislation that | was proposed last season was a law to | prohibit flirting, and to make it a felony Flirtation is Greatest Game , | never make a tender speech to a woman unless he is ready to pop t estion and that a woman should never hm\.i for elther man or woman to bestow at- | sentimentally at & man, oven when nl\fl tentions that were without intention upon a member of | the the oppoaite sex. Of course the bill died a-borning, as it de- served to, for the £00-800 eves is not amenable o the statutes. Like the wind, it rolls when and where it will, and no legislative naetments can limit its power, or abridge its joyous freedom As long as men are men and women are women, flirta- tion will be the greatest game in the world, and any attempt to stop gambling In hearts will always meet with | popular execration. 8o far as matters | of the affections are concerned the "lid | will always be off, and people will be ready to take chances. It is better to| have been made love to in sport than| never to have been made love to at all, Is & sentiment which obtains among both men and women. has on a white dress 1s sitting In moonlight, unless she is realy to | hot-foot it to the altar with him, bwt' | this is too strenuous a view to take of the subject A man may admire a charming woman, und enjoy telling her so without want woman may im say it without ing to marry her, and a cqually enjoy hearing having any matrimonial des'sns upon him. It's a poor creature that gift compliment in the mouth, and munds that everybody shall make on their pretty speeche It is enou for us when things are made pleas for us, without inquiring too closely into how it was done Just what class the law against fiirt | Ing was des gned to protect Is ne r Not women, surely, for cojuetry 18 a woman's best friend. It is the weapon with which she protects her own heart |and by which she secures a husband. and keeps him after she gots him. As long as a woman practices the fine art of flirtation, she keeps a man's interest piqued and alert, and he never rows tired of her, and It is hecause { many wives grow tired of the game of | | hearts and throw down their hands that To eliminate flirtation would be to|s0 many husbands drift off o other turn life from poetry into prose, and to do away with most of the visible supply of romance. If every man were required to file a schedule of his intentions with his attentions, if every woman had to give bends that her smiles and her glances meant all they seem to imply, existence would be robbed of half its amusements, Moreover, there would be no more mixed parties, Soclety would be divided inte hen clubs and stag gatherings, for there is, in reality, but one tople of dis ©uesion that men and women have in common, that they understand equally well, and in which their mutual Interest never flags, and that is the eternal sub Jjeet of love, Bar this subject from conversation, and women would prefer to talk to women, and men to men. No man decoys a violet-eyed little debutante into a palm- shaded corner to disouss the finanoial outlook, or the forelgn loan, or presidential possibilities with her. woman could gossip about fashions with | a man from 8 p. m. to 1 a. m. without yawning. It is the eleotric possibility of love, it is the playing with a firebrand that may at any moment leap into a blaze of passion that gives zest and spic to the social intercourse between me and women. f Of course, there are stern moralists women who are experts at playing it So far as men are concerned, to pro- tect them from being flirted with would | be to deprive them of a most l'dlh'nuul\ul.‘ opportunity, In the “Dolly Dialogues,’ that eminent philanthropist, Lady Doro- | thea Mickleham, referring to the work of her heart :@al he! hand, pointed out that a young inan who, when he fell in| {love with her, was a simple country lad | who wore his trousers too short and his | hair too long, and played the fiddle, | | emerged from the flirtation a thorough man of the world, a credit to his tailor, and @ source of pride to his friends. | Lady Dolly was, of course, an artist, 'but all of us have seen lesser miracles bappen, and there is, in rality, no hetter cure for the bumptious, cocksure youth, with a swell head and an inflated sense | of his own importance, than the enlight ening experience of being well jil Naturally, there Is some danger of a heart being occasionally hurt in it is scarcely worth considering. It takea & very stupld person not to recosnise we ‘are justified In ranking. flirtation tragedies, who belleve that flirtation is one of the The Battle of Life By BEATRICE FAIRFAD With ourselves rests the issue of living up to our aims “Did you tackle your way With a resolute heart and cheerful? Or hide your face from the light of day, With & eraven soul and fearful? “¥)h, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or & troable is what yau make it, And it lsn't the fact that youre hurt that ceunts, But only, how did you take it¥ the trouble that came Most peeplq fancy that this worid would be a splendid place if, in the words of the Rubalyat, they might “shatter it to bite end then vemould It nearer to the heart's desire.” But that cannot be done, and recognizing the impossibility of moulding life to sult themselves they face this cholee: Either to remould thelr awn natures into the ability to conform with life, to let chance shape them for good or evil, or weakly and ppevishly to with- draw from eonflict and become useless “quitters.” There is nothing In the world to stop any human being from guiding the b of hia'life, To fall to do this means luz nesss, Incompetence aind despicable weak- ness, If you make no effort to guide your life you are nething in all the werld but a coward, A step below the rank of coward s t! weakling who quits, Blood brother to coward is he, since he daes mot make any struggle in the conflict of life, but he 1s worge than coward because he with- draws from life, acknowledging defeat, defaulting witheut ever entering the Hermits and suloldes who struggle weakly te escape the life they are un awilling to face came from the ranks of ‘quitters." Lift is & burden to some, a problem to others and prohably to almost no on is it pure joy. But the fight to make i warth while Is in itself & splendid thing Any trouble that is vravely faced b comes & thing observed through the wrong end of a pair of field gias Cowaadice, through, or hopelessness will be as & magnifying glass to difficuitie The man or woman who looks at Vife sanely and calmly has in that very point of view found beginnings of abedient ®ood soldiership, Once you determine to march with life, to be mneither one of those who stand still, nor yet of those who fall fainting by the wayside, vou have in that very determaination made the beginning that promises your life shall be sucoessful Every obstacle you overcome makes next obstacle in your path & litth sler to overec Every fisht you make Wwith external mischance or your own weaknees gives you addeq power to nake the mext fight. Every tlme you conquer yourself and force yourself to face the difficulty bravely and compe tently you become better able so to face ditficulty Almost every one of us is a soldier In the army of life Ne are Just privates and some are officers, but aver all there is & “Supreme C mander About the first fact in life that it is important for you to face is that you will always be under orders. There is never going to be & time when you will be justified in regulating life to suit your owp pleagure and convenience, nor will theze ever be a time when it iy possible to do this Sa firet of gl! you must teach your- | betore the minda of so many millions of befare' the minda L/ have wone but a fow hundred miles, and | sometimes hardly more d, | ot gt netimes hardly more than a hundred, | P you hear a changed tongue, and sea & poople, with Americans who have never been acre { the Rocky | mite of aithyramb to the praise of | California, the Pae cific coast and the | way thitner, | great comtinent 1a perience than' ¢o A gross an ocafl of § > lost in a monot= onous and vacant singerity when he or she sees it, or to immensity you grey be fooled by pretense, and as long as'vontin ua¥ae ) an imitation fire starts no conflagration, | among the swafm./ ng homes of men among the comedies of life and not its|or amid the most varled scenes of living . pature Y You see a"thousands places and thinga glsco that you have read about since your school days, and, as an American, have been proud of and the wonderful citlea that have grown up along their shores, PThe entir flirtation, but the risk is so little that | Instead ; BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1858, This suggestion would settle many a petty question. - g “lf'—lsets, Why Not Useful Ones 4 By PERCY SHAW, T wonder how ’twould be if cows And hens and ducks were household pets, And bhanished far were growls and meows, As witness in these silhouettes? Romantic By GARRETT | Ing At this moment, when the subject is| ples To crose and thias far richer gy~ only | this lof m | presented of Ameriea. In golng from New York to San Fran- by actual | Qitferont | prinetpals and | or half-day's riety have many other the All journe of man is before you, spring from various historio roots, differentiated touch, before it makes | its due impresston upon the understand 1 you travel across Europe, when you other masters, , and another moral atmosphere changes, this, ral you of course, educating to the traveler, half his Kuropean and pletur manners, Another day's van These peo- themselves generations and many As you go from one to an- is interesting and but he learns | lesson and falls to | the true inspiration of the modern age {1t he does not look upon the epposite of of disunion and intelleotual diversity aa by the continent-broad cateh unity and that On the 100,000,000 where there fs abundant room and prod- | uctivity to mainta'n at least mental patriotio duty for every American wha | shores af children, this magnificent spectacle of the union of hearts and union of minds whic Pacific you will be follawing the fo steps and reliving the romance of the | mighty Mississinpi, marvel- [ some of ita the Coronados, the | will find where the “deserts” were before mission-founders, the gold-hunters, the |science had begun to transform them and | Joyous eye, not one merry volce. Think- “Argonauts’ of slittering memory, the pathfinders, the ploneers, the hunters, the De Soto Mere man would look aghast no doubt And voice a thousand vain regrets; e ladies ne’er come out, They look well in these silhoudttes. But though the History of California and West for Visit:rs to the Fair IRVISS, |, were, people, Inhabiting a X0 00,600, | the one overmastering Impression land | the clvilizers, the Colanel Starbotties and “Poverty the Mormons [ tempt to find happiness by eulling the Juck Hamlins, Flat” and “Roaring Camp,’ By FLLA WHEELER WILOOX. Copyright, 1915, Star Company. Have you ever seen the polsen Ivy? 1t | 18 & beautiful vine angd tha leaves are | artletic and glossy Yet If you pluok one of them you suf- for misery and dis- comfort for wenks, and sometimes Inating effects re- | main. Temptation ia a polson plant on which grow flow s of flaunting oauty, but if we |sather _ane N | virug may ecar our lives for years to come. housands o f young men and women wha read these words may he gazing fascine ted on some flower of temptation. Before you touch It, step and ‘conelder Just what it means, Pers haps it is & money temptation, Put once this temptation s yielded t» the flower will begin ta burn your f®- gers and polson your blood. Years and yeara and years you may toll In honeaty and patlence and prayer, vet the sear will make itself visible when you least think it and sh .me and torture You anew. Perhapa It ia the temptation of unbri- dled pieasurea. You think you are youns, ainos youth is brief; but once you at- you get Is that of complete, funda-| " the black-frocked pricats who set the | flower of liconse, and wearing It inte concord. It s to see for himself, and show to his | ccean h his Immense country presents your way to California an explorers, the make Indian emigranta, the wayfarers of the | Yellowstone and the pass through the home of#Santa Fe and Oregon trails, the gamblers, You ep the great lakes world | nomenon as that ohain of lakes, with /| | their conneettng rivers: and the asso- | |8elf to recoguize the fact that life means discipline, 1t ns orders to take and arry out. It means & certain routine of living to go through. It means conc |ing your desires to indivigual and recog- | | niging the fact that you are one in an | army of individuals ) him. RIS e P e Schmolier & Muelier clated array of mval capitals of industry, comme ward in population leaps of hundreds of thousands. tinent means with Its one language, one In the end a good soldier conquers him- | government, one lawiand one ideal from | {imes self and {indg that in this victory he has [ ocean to ogean! 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Councii Bluffs, la. mightiest king of river behold | Ing over my whole life, it v snow- | depressing and joyless ovening 1 ever Rockles and the | Passed, fighters, the | tho ineffable Plkes, the Kit Carsons, the Fremonts, | gauntiot the Lewlses and Clarks, the miners, the | Sjerra modern Aladdins, the men who ploked nuggets out of the golden sands of mawio streams and struck packed lodes in the mountains of fortune; the home-seekers, | this planet. peaks of the lakes and seas, things wonderful k Oregon |1 Tead my paper." states | We cannot reconstruct the laws of the that frant the Pacifie, will greet you with | Universe or change the motion of the pure and beau- | solar system, Indescribable un- | lasting satisfaction, changeably and maginificantly American. ‘nlfl source of misery, veritably a | SWeet bells of the Angelus ringing on the | halls of dissipation, you are inviting sor- row, deapalr and premature old age to dwell with you. One night a few years ago with a party You will see where the buffalo ranged [of friends | sat for an hour in one of the by millions, perhaps the strangest chap- | * ter in animal history, e L unvanishing wonder plaing and praivies, ‘gayest’' and moet brilllant rendesvoud You will feal the [of the New York Tenderioin district, All Mmitioss |its habitues were men and women Who You will cross the |had broken free from soclal lawe and and [moral obligations in search of a “good You | time." There was not one happy face, not one the most All those men and women had pieked You will stand amazed at the matchleas | the flower of temptation, and ita pelaon spectacles of the great canyons and the | W enchanted mesas, things unparalicled on Tho wonderlands of the [#eemed the gayest of all. How came you whose | hero?" T asked. “What lad you to chooss names are magnets to old world trav- |this l.fe elers, lle beslde your pathway, In the biood . I talked with one handsowe girl, who “l was so tired of work— You may, [ weary, dirty, hard work, and ne pleas- upon sites of anclent | ures, and no pretty clothes,” she said, beds of -\:: “So I came here. No, I am not sorry, o most astonishing Dinosaurs. metas I am always gay, as you see, “And what do you look forward to as yeara go b 1 anked, “Oh, well, every morning you open your paper and read of a girl suleid she answered, still smiling. '"Some mom- ing it will be me. T often think of it na And we can pever alter and scenes so frosh, inspiring, and the law which makes honesty, morality, swell | self-control and decency the source of and their opposites