Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 3, 1915, Page 9

5 ! : " Defective in Some Way l is Every Person | | By DR. CHARLES H. PARKHURST. ‘Those who give speclal attention to the | 1 ja5i0n n ita relation to the Williams- uiy of buman intellect are having much | pure fire, it developed that of 31l or- 10 say these days about defectives. The | aers for fireproofing stairways of fa term 1s limited to those whose minds show | torics in the metropolitan district Ely an unususl degree 246 had been complied with and no yruse- of deficiency. The cutions had been begun. That could not cnly point I want bave happened in Germany. The entire to make is that in genius of that country would negative the general sense of its possibility. There s no spot in the the word we are all empire where law does not touch. and of us defectives. Not where it touchee It grips. one of us has a There s a certain grimness about it mind that s not all that prevents its being altogether niore or less lame | fascinating, but it produces stuff that in somc one or’ | @oes not beng when the strain comes. It more of its fac- 1s what ls bothering the allles and makes ulties, the Germans a possible match for the | There is no hard quadruple entente. Willows are more | ana fast line that graceful than oaks, but they are thrown | can be drawn 8o |into greater confusion when the storm that those on one bursts upon them. side of the line are | Obedience is a lesson the learning of Gefectives and those !which needs to commence early and to oh the .other ide keep pace with the physical hardening of 1ot. Men may be very backward in cer- | cartilage into bone. In the discipline of tain directions of mental activity, but|the home and of the school it s less correspondingly forward in other direc- | ViBOrously enforced than formeriy, and tions. That 1s not what could be calleq | that accounts for the milder forms of rormal, but it 15 about as good as what | SAFChY that we find so much of among e takatly s | adults. Undoubtedly in earlier days the | kappreasion of young people was unduly I once had as a pupil in the high school a young fellow who {llustrated that con- dition in quite a striking degree. He was tiic son of a college president. His mind war so slow in Latin as to show almost elgn of activity. I kept him on one { Aesop's fables the entire term in order that he might make a respectable appear- ence in the presence of his distingulshed parents on examination day. But he was &8 bright In natural history as he was dull in the classics. He could not properly be called a de- fective. fle had brain enough, only its { activities were massedl on a single side ) instead of being\distributed all around. Genfuses are of that order, Genius is another name for immense mental one- sidedness, That is the dlsadvantage that there is in putting all puplls through the same curriculum. They all have to give the same amount of attention to each of the brariches set down for them, withino speclal opportunity allowed for discipline in the, gpecial branch for, which they. may.| show gpécial aptitude, and in which, such epportunity were afforded, they might attain to great distinction. That father ‘undoubtedly did his son great injustice when, upon being asked whether he was going to send his son to college, he replied, ‘“God forbld that I should spend a 31,000 on the education of a 10-cent. bo & It is unfortunate that children have 10 be educated in droves instead of individ- ually. . Agriculture instructs farmers to study the character of the soil before déclding what seed to put in. And be- cause a particular plece of ground will not yleld peaches it is not at once con- cluded tha: it i{s a defective sand lot to e turned over to thistles and hardhack. spect for authority is a moral ele- ment that cannot be omitted from char- acter without leaving it more or less mushy. Whatever may be our sympathies in the present war, it must be conceded 1o the Germans that they learned to obey. Whether among them authority is carried to an extreme, and too narrow a margin of self-determination left to the individual, is a question by itself which I have no purpose of entering into. But they obey. They do as they are told. The obligations of law and government press upon them without any Intermis- sion. Each man has his place and expects to be found in it; has his duty and can be relied upon to discharge it. Whether it is due to fear, to conscience or to training, the fact remains, and it means | stability in the individual and strength to the government. It is the prime secret of Germany's | vear of achievement. Its importance is recignized in Scripture, which teaches that “to obey is better than sacrific Jesus taught His disciples that nbed!em‘et was the nourishment that fed and sus- tained His soul. It is what iron Is to the physical constitution. It is what plumb line is to the laying up of a brick wall. It is what spine and verebrae How to Have the Best Cough Remedy an e 92 by Making It at Home Cough medicines, as a rule contain & large quantity of pi_mn syrup. A pint of granulated sugar with I3 pint of warm water, stirred for 2 minutes, gives you s good syrup as money can fm.v. T'hen get from your druggist 2% ounces Pinex (50 cents worth), pour into a pint bottle and fill the bottle with sugar syrup. This filvel you, at a cost of onl 54 cents, a full pint of really better Sough | ployer needs him, it is right and sane | eyrup than you could buy ready made for | that he should choose family ties or busi §2,50-—a clear saving of nearly 2. Full directions with Pinex. and tastes good. Tt takes hold of the usual cough or chest cold at once and conquers it in 24 hours. Bplendid for whooping ecough, bronehitis and winter coughs. It's truly astonishing how quickly it loosens the dry, hoarse or tight cough and beals and soothes the inflamed mem- branes in the case of & painful cough. It also stops the formation of phlegm in the throat and bronehial tubes, thus end- the persistent loose cough. Pinex is & xh;xv concentrated com- pound of genuine Norway pine extract, combined with guaiacol, ind has n uscd for generations to heal inflamed wembranes of the throat and clest. To avoid disappointment, ask your 1t keeps perfectly | Discipline in Daily Life “| are to the body—not decorative but con- solidating, In the investigation of the labor com- stringent. i The story is told of the head master of | one of the great English schools (Eton, if | 1 am not mistaken), that cight of his boys came into his study unannounced. | He took it for granted that they had | been sent to him to be whipped, as that | was one of the important functions of | his office. He went directly to work, had tinished off the fourth and had placed his | hang upon the fifth, when the latter | plucked up courage to say, “Please, sir, |we were sent over here with reference |to joining the confirmation class.” They were all property confirmeq and became good Anglicans. Such discipline is unnecessarily harsh, but, mnevertheless, whipping is more wholesome than mollycoddling, and a touch of parental despotism preferable to unrestrained license. At any rate, out of Eton and other English schools of a stm- {lar character have graduated many of |the men that have been masters of events and given splendid shape to English history. g4e "This 1 not an appeal for th& #é ot the mineq governmental restraint, lash, but only for thie exercise of deter- | THE BEE: 1900 when she became (From the Christmas Number of Har- per's Bazar.) Mrs. Larz Anderson, wife of the former ambassador to Japan, has recently been induced to put in writing her impressions of Japanese women. Little is known In the western world about the intimate family life in the Flowery Kingdom, and | OMAHA, The Empress of Japan in the wedding gown she wore in FRIDAY, The Bee's Home Ma \ the words of Mrs. Anderson throw a llght on this fascinating subject, For instance, all kimonos look much allke from color and texture, yet In Japan they are subject to changes in fashion just the same as the apparel of the modish Parisienne. In the old days, kimonos trailed upon the ground and the wife of the Mikado. Keeping Appointments Too Many Men Regard Them Lightly. By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. “I have been going about with a young i man for the last four months. We have | auarrelled -8everal times and once we ‘went so far as to see nothing of each other for weeks because my friend falled to keep appointments,” writes “He begged me always to give him an-! other chance, and faithfully promised to keep every apponitment in the future, “I gave him another trial and for ln'hlle he kept his promise, but now hs | made a pledge to me. He professes to love me and claims that if I were to know why he does not put in an ap- pearance I would excuse him, but when | he does make explanations the excuses he offers are not satistactory. I am fond {of him, but I doubt him.” ‘The sanctity of engagements is a thing too many people fail to realize. It does not seem to come home to them that when they say they are to be at a given place at a certain time they have pledged their word and that not being there is actually dishonorable. Probably your friend would not le about anything he regarded as vital, and it does not .oceur to him that when he tells you he is going to come to see you or to meet you at a certain hour and then fails, that he is lying to you. No matter whether his excudes be good or advance, not afterwards. Many men regard social engagements lightly and those concerned with business serfously. Quite right as far as it goes. But any obligation and a pledge of one's word, whether it be to meet a friend at the movies or to be present at a meeting of bank directors, the point is that one's word is at stake. When & man invites a girl to the theater and finds that his sick mother wants him to stay home or that his em. ness advancement in preference to pleas ure. No reasonable girl ought to allow her inclination for pleasure to make her interfere with filial duty or the best in- terest of & jgnan she lkes, No woman, be she reasonable or other- wise, Itkes to have her own personality valued so lightly that a man lets her sit around waiting for him and in lordly wise neglects to explain. The man or woman who makes an en- gagement and fails to keep it, failing also to make explanation, stamps him or her- self as one who does not belleve either in the sacredness of a prom'se or the rights of another individual d ist “2 unces of Pinex,” and da-m?m:{ npm?u elu.o :finnm ute ntuluhpt o‘noney prompt- “db.. W this :nwuwl. ) Ft. Wayne, ing patiently to reasonable explanations. selfish habit of falling to keep appoint- ments and calmly expecting the other person to sit and wait, “Worrled. » | réady for that oc- seems to have forgotten that he ever | ill, the point is they should be made in | We should all form the habit of Ih(en-‘ of Pare and By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright, 1915, by Star Company. If you are an unmarried young man you probably have an ideal of marriage |and fatherhood before you, You imagine i yourself at the head of a bappy home {with a lovely wife | and beautiful chil- | dren instalied in |that home. You are, no doubt, try- !ing to lay up a |bank account {casion and you | hope to be the pos- |sessor of great | wealth to bestow ! upon your family. But What age {you laying up In |the way of good morals, good { habits, good health |and pure blood to | bestow upon your | children? | What do you kiow about good father- | hood that will emable you to protect your wife before the birth of your chil- dren so that she will be enavled to | bring Into the world desirable offsprings’ | Do you know anything about prenatal influences? Do you know how important it Is that & child should be guarded and protected before its birth as well as afterward? If you know nothing about these things you are not fitted to become a father. New York City provides a fund for a large aquarium. The Zoological park is another city institution where young animals are protected before birth and | after; and should the male animal indi- cate dangerous tendencles toward his mate before the birth of the young of afterward toward his offspring he is at | once placed where he cannot do damage No stock breeder would permit his brood animal to suffer injury at such a period; she Is protected in every way in order that her offspring may be strong and well, Yet all over the United States expec- tant mothers are left to the careless and | lgnorant treatment of men who know no more about the responsibilities of father- hood or prenatal influence than they know of the soclal conditions of Mars. In the lower waiks of life, where peo- ple are crowded in small rooms and obliged to live in close quarters, ex- pectant mothers are forced to endure the odors of cheap drink and tobacco and to hear taunts and insults trom in- | toxicated husbands, who have never been told that a woman ls sensitive to an | abnormal degree at this period of her life; and in the higher walks thousands of mothers are suffering from neglect |and. indifference or from refined abus from husbands who are coliege grad ates and who occupy important posi tions soclally. It would be an admireble undertaking | for the government to establish in each We should never get into the lordly and large city a free institution where such women could twg or three hou:s ensh day, when convenlently located ]v!m cheerful surroundings, and three or Race Is Heedless nt-to-Be Their Duties four months, at a nominal price, if un- fortunately situated at home. Whatever the original expense of such an undertalling might necessitate, it would be saved in a generation by the lessening of disease and crime and Pov- erty among the masses. Added to this, every college should be obliged to add a department through which every young man must pass be- fore granted a diploma. The -most skilled physiclans should be employed as instructors in this department. It is quite as important to the world that young men know what it means to pro- pagate the species as that they become expert athletes. Many cases might be found, if the an- nals of the courts were studied, where men who graduated with brilllant honors from famous colleges proved brutal hu hands. to wives who were expectant mothers. ‘The man's brain had been filled with all kinds of knowledge save that which gave him an understanding of | fatherhood and motherhood. However disillusioned or enraged he may become with the woman he has chosen as his wife, there fs not one man in a million who would misuse his own unborn child once he understood the vital intluence of the mother's mind upon it durng those months. Women are beginning to understand these matters, and mothers are awaien- ing to the fact that daughters must be educated along these lines if they ever contemplate marriage. But how is it possible for a mother to give her child wholesome and sane and healthful prenatal conditions if men con- tinue to walk in blind, black ignorance, and If the laws of the land make no pro- vision for the mother's protection and offer no asylum for her retreat from | disastrous environment at this important | time? It is the great work of the future, the vital subject of the present. Not until | the intelligent &nd educated classes realize this and call sclence to aid in the education of men as fathers can we hope | | for & marked improvement in the human | | race. | HOW TO REMOVE DANDRUFF llere, fine solid gold, h nd made, English Piniah, 3 finw | brillint D | & monds, p wsolld A Hair Tonlc Which You Oan Mak: . 50 704 — Solid _Gold Lockst, Rose finieh, or two mios PR ses tires, fine Diamond in Btar » Betting el 1 » Month, At Home' Removes It in a Few | Avplications. Dandruff and scalp eruptions can be removed in from one to five nights by the following simple reeipe, which you | can mix at home or have put up by any druggist at very little cost. It does not| DECEMBER | row forehead, high arching eyebrows, a | small mouth, 1 3, 1915, possession of the Boston Mu were wadded at the bottom. The sleeves were lTong and loose and were used as pockets, Today the kimono ends above the ankles and the sleeves are short. Styles in colors vary from one season to another. When Mrs. Anderson was there blue was the popular shade True beauty In the land of the mikadg, says the writer inithe December number of Harper's Bazar, consists of a nar- red lips and pale cheeks. The Japanese have praise for only the delicate and artificial types. A com- plete costume for the woman consists of a set of three kimonos worn one outside t [ those worn by ladies’ and are more ex- pensive, often being designed by artists. The social position of the women of Japan, is revealed by the way they wear the sash or “obl” and the style in which they do their hair. The Yoshiwara girls tie the “obl’" in front. The gelsha girls knot “thelr sashes behind, but in a style distinctly different from married women. The latter twists he hair in one fashion, girls in another and children in a third. Yoshiwara women and ‘“maiko,” or . little dancing girls, dress their halr with flowers, the former often using lacquered sticks or ornaments arranged artistically as headdress. Women do not take their hair down at night. In order to keep it smooth they rest their heads on little wooden stands instead of plllows, But even with this care, every woman must have a hair dresser at least once a week. Consequently, hair-dressing is the fa- vorite form of employment for the women of the lower classes. Many of them aro very proficlent. To excel in this profes- slon, & woman must know at least twenty ways of arranging the hair, to meet the copper mine: a secluded life. Japanese Women in American Eyes Republished by Special Arrangement with Harper’s Bazar, ““A Lady ol Japan”’ a rare Japanese print—much prized seum of Fine Arts. need of actresses, Yoshiwara grila and ‘maiko.’ The women of Japan are hard workers. Most of those In the lower classes be- come servants, but many earn a4 meager pittance by coaling ships or working in Of late wears some have learned typewriting and the use of Eng- lish for Lusiness purposes. Large department gtores have only re- cently taken to Many nurses. employing women “8o much has been writien about the attend the theater. Some ente wother-in-law, Later in life, control is one of the earliest lessons. N itter how il or unhappy she may be, he must always smile. Marr'ages are Divorce {s common. Chidrei In America, one seldom meets Japanese lady except on rice paper In a museum. and fanciful garb, she is very much a woman, says Mrs. Anderson. Yet, In spite of dainty wi IAMONDS on 650 — Ladies’ Dia ond Rlng 14 solid gold, “Perfection" mounting 5 a Month. 781 — La Val- o un ting color the hair and is perfectly harmiess. | Water ; ...One-half pin, Bay Rum PPPraY One ounce | xola Compound.....One-quarter ounce| Glycerine One-quarter ounce | A balf-pint is all you will need. 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Belf- nerally arranged by the parents, with aid of a friend or a go- between. that behave oadly are disinberited and others adopted In thelr places. :,l‘l. — Scarf n, solid gold, nine Diamonds |, set Platinum 2 gazine Page An Editorial for Women ‘‘Certified Cooks’’ A Good Seheme By DOROTHY DIX The Woman's club and the Housewlves' league of Montclair ia grappling with the before which into mighty servant problem, all other 'problems fade desuetude, and they propose to settle It by having certified cooka along with cert- fled milk and certi- fied eggs and the other certified commodities that are brought into the kitchen This is & step in the right direction The trouble with domestic mervice has always been that it has been a sort of Jack-leg- ged trade that it was popularly sup- posed anybody could turn their hands to without previous knowledge or preparation, whereas, in truth, it is one of the finest of fine arts, requiring both intelligence and trained skill. Undoubtedly it is because cooking and bed-making have been regarded as menlal trades, suitable only for no-wits, instead of o learned profession in which genius can have its full scope, that they have been held in such low esteem that irls have preferred to itarve behind counters rather than fatten before gas ranges. Therefore, If the Montclair ladies can convince young women that the kitchen offers a fine and almost unexplored field for their activities, and that a master's innocuous / |qqm in sauces and soups will draw down a better pay envelope than & master's degree in philosophy, they will | have bestowed an inestimable boon upon their dyspeptic day and a; The first way to elevate any calling is to differentiate between good work and bad work in It, and to reward the good by good vay, and one of the prin- clpal reasons why there are so many in- competent servants is becaube mistresses are not willing to pay for skill A hired girl to them is a hired girl. 1t 1s good luck If you get one who ia falthful and honest, and knows how to It is bad luck If you get one who is drunken and unreliable, and burns the potatoes and roasts the meat to & cinder, but the mistress expects to pay the same amount of wages to the house- hold treasure that she does to lhf house- hold Jinx. Yot ’(hn very woman pays, without a protest, ten times as much for a hat that in a creation as she does for one made ook up this wor™, but now those of igher rank are golng into it. gelshas, the professional women enter- ‘.ul.:,‘;y:m.x.& (he feet are covered with |tainers af Japun," says Mrs, Anderson, |ty the blundering fingers :;d‘::r‘l‘:-:: ‘abl” of white cotton. Outdoors; the| ‘that I will simply say that they are | milliner around the corner, ek teet are slipped Into wooden ‘geta’ or well educated, especially i~ the art.of | band pays his -mplnv'-dn iy o Clogs Ladics s & ruls wear orepe|Pleasing, and good conversationalists and | cording to their skill and W "y.h“_ Kimonos with thelr crests’ woven upon |Musicians. They are hired, as a rule, to | dcesn't expect to get an expel o el them. help make dinner parties a success, either | jeeper or a crackerjack salesman fo Black {s Used on oerémonial oconsions, | B DrIVAte BONASS: ob/in TesEAIMAI, The | game price that he pays to less compe- Whi o et mourning, A |Pay Of the weisha varies from 0 to 8 | (nt men. il e ot an Mbyr, When domestic service is standardized gelsha's clothes are much gaver than| oo 'anq mothers of the Japanese 1ive | oy pald according to ita merit, as is done in every other occupation, much will have been done toward lifting it to © higher level, It will inspire ambition und stimulate effort, for every cook will hnow that every new dish she adds to Fer fopertoire means her ability to com- mand that much more salary, and that the more she improves her technique the quicker sl duates from being a cook into a chef. And it will be equally advantageous for the housekeeper to get a cook whose wages are proportioned to her abllity, for it is a simgle matter of mathematics to demonstrate that the servant who never smashes things, nor wastes good food in the preraring. is worth many doliars more A month than the journeyman kitchen mechanic who leaves ruin in her wake and fills, the garbage can with her un- eatable handiwork. The suggestion may be made that it servants are to be certified, mistresses should be certified, too; but this is un- necessary. In those households fortunate e¢nough to have a jewel of a cook she is not only treated as & member of the fam- fly—she s the boss of it T o n 767 — Men's Diamond nK. Roman or od finish §7.5¢ & Month. in 85 & W T Special ThinModel Watch