Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 13, 1915, Page 8

'HE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1915. Ideals -:- Fulfill in every sense the At twenty-five she smiled In homage, and no longer A life's devotion into idle dreams, Nor did she view life wholly ae it seems And so she chose a boy with eager eyes, Found on his lips the glory of the skies, Sought in his heart for dreame to match her own, And, loving, knew thet she had lived and known. By Jane McLean She chose a mate when life at eighteen seemed A splendid chance, to leave or take Of him as great and famed afar, and wise. The 1izht of battle gleamig in his eyes A king as he of towered Camelot Is king, no beardless, braggart youth, and not A dreamer, but a hero; one who can she dreamed term: of man. and knelt no more did she pour By GARRETT P. SERVISS. I read that people on the coast of Hol 1and hear the sounds of battles fought so fer off at sea that nothing can be seen— no smoke. no signs of any kind, except the hea vy noise Zlow far can sounds ! of guns be heard? t 1s there any known Umit.2—A. C." Fven if every can- won had a volce of equal power it would not be possible to determine any fixed distance at which the sound would conse to be heard. There is hardly any- thing In nature more variable and uncertain than the transmission of #ound. Chal and frregularities in the depsity of the air, variations in the quan- tity of moisture in the atmosphere, the fresence or gbsence of rain, snow, fog, «to., the force and direction of winds and afr currents, obstructions formed by hills, trees and other objects, and even the na- ture of the surface of the ground passed over, all have an important offect upon the range of sound waves. In 1672 the sound of the guns in a naval 1ight between the Dutch and English fleots was heard across England as far ~ as Shrewsbury and in the Welsh moun- tains 200 miles from the sceme of the ! ‘tattle. On another occasion the guns in were distinctly heard 130 Yet sometimes a ship within _ elght of'a battle going on between other #hipe is beyond the range of the sounds. Some' of the phenomena connected with the transmission of sound through the | atmosphere are extremely curious and § surprising. Prof. John Tyndall demon- | Strated the existence of what have been 2 <alled “acoustic olouds,” by which {8 meant invisible masses of air through ‘which light passes without obstruction, but which are almost impenetrable to the waves of sound. 'Such clouds, which owe their pecullar property to the specisl conditions of atmospherio pressure prevalling within them, would, ! If they chanced to intervene between the battling ships and a nearby shore, render the sound of the guns inaudible to per- #ons who could see the smoke and the F Similar effects occur on land, where are complicated by the interference he surface of the ground. lost through the troops to hear the i is J EF H fig: H 4 1] effect of the wind in stop- erting wound waves s fa- the case of a distant battle winds prevalling somewhere in the - 12 acoustic | y otherwise unnoticed echoes often produce a partial extinction sound through the interference of the ‘waves. Everybody has noticed that sounds mre usually heard farther at night than by dsy. The main cause of this is the absence at night of atmospherio deflec- tions and echoes produced in the daytime. 3 A remarkable example was noted by © Humboldt in South America. He found that the noise made by the falls of the Orinoco was incomparably louder and v . Try thisea clear your skin with esinol Soap If the skin is in bad condition through neglect or an unwise use of cosmetics, apply a little Resinol Oint- | ment* and let it remain on ten min- Mysterious Facts About ~Sound Waves steadler at night, and he discovered the | explanation in the fact that between him | and the falls lay a broad grassy plain, dotted over with protruding rocks. By | day these rocks became hot, while the surrounding grass rematned cool, the con- sequence being that currents of heated air rose from the rocks, producing great irregularitics of density in the atmosphers above the plains, The sound waves from the. falls were doflected and broken up in passing through the agitated a'r, but at night, when the whole plain had sunk to & common temperature, this interruption ceased and the roar of the falling water was conveyed to a great distance very clearly and diatinctly. { The loudness, or intensity, of a sound depends upon the density of the alr in| which it Is produced. For this reason guns discharged from airships at a great elevation must make loss nolse than they would If discharged on the surface of the ground. Prof. Tyndall concluded from his experiments at Mont Blanc that If the same cannon whose report was heard on the summit of the mountain when fired In the valley of Chamouni below, were fired on the mountain top, no sound would be heard at Chamouni. In the first case the sound waves were excited 'In dense alr from which they could easily pass to the lighter air above, but In the second case they would be set #oing in rare air, and would consequently possess less power of penetration on en- countering the heavy air of the valley. A sound wave consists of an alternate compression and ref:.ction of the air. A singular result of this was noted after & great powder explosion at Erith, Eng- land, in 1864, The leaded glass windows of a church seversl miles away were all strongly bent inward on all sides of the church, The explanation was glven in these words: “The sound wave on reach- ing the church separated right and left, and, for a moment, the edifice was clasped by a girdle of intensely com- pressed air which forced all its windows inward,” The subsequent dilation of the alr was insufficient to force the bent panes back into shape. - = ] Advice to Lovelorn BEATRIOUN FAIRFAX Devote Yourself to Work. Dear Miss Fairfax: 1 am 18 and re- cently renewed an acquaintance broken off by & quarrel three years &go. She {8 wealthy and I am not. I cannot afford to keep up with her former as- sociates and have told ‘her 1 would not like her to sacrifice herself for me. h hall 1 a-n\:“-fi Ilm u{d -'lhcltlo: to now, or & strive to fo) or? As?l'om, You owe it to your parents and to yourself to work hard and try to get on in the world, rather than to spend your energles in giving a wealthy young girl who does not need your attention & good time. Marriage of Cousine, | Dur'rlu Falrfax: I am keeping com- pany with a cousin of m'ne, who I8 quite & few years older than myself. We love | other vorx' much and would ke to get married. My parents object :» this for two reasons—one because we are mflu}(n‘ the other because he is much 2050 osition with. o laree, setary. " 1" have answered letters Iltke yours agaln and again and wish this simple fact: would alnk into the minds of all my rveaders: Cousins should not marry. No people who are blood relations have a right to become husband and wife—this is for the good of the race and can be explained by any student of eugenics." way to | Old Flames The Most Contemptible Man By BREATRICE FAIRFAX. There ig probably no more contemptible masculine oreature than the man who forces his attention on unwilling, indiffer- |the hard luck to ride in public conveys ances Street oar flirtations in which a foolish givl coyly encourages an admiring {man are bad enough and all too sadly requent. But one of the most disgusting Phases of life in any city is the fact that it develops conceited beasta who consider all women fair—and fairly willing game. Recently & girl friend of mine was fac- The man blew a ring into the shadows and, pmiling at it, swept it into nothing with a flirt of his hand. ““My next love I met, without an introduction, in the middle of the street! !She came down a gravel-walk, carrying a great, black- faced cat in & bundle against her little chest. He had run away—i could see that. Her yellow hair swung like two little banners— | pennants—from under her round fur hat, Her eyes were gray, like two bright lakes. Her mouth was a patriclan little affair, deeply curved, glossy and tricksy. - Her little cloth coat stretched tight across her round little body, so that the buttons in front clung gal- lantly onto the buttonholes with all their might. “ ‘Have you a little girl?" she asked, when her little tan shoes lagged close to my great ones, A pair of gray eyes searched mine, and below the gray ones the golden ones from a black face gazed, too. “And I, out of college, in the swim of the world current, at the serious business of ‘digging’ myself into a niche in the world, shook my head. “+If you haven't I will be your little girl. And if you haven't a boy 1 will be your boy, too, My name is Phyllis John. After my mother and my father. So I can be Johnay, too!’ “1 mecepted my new flame on the spot. How can I tell you the dreams, the play-times, the walks, the confidences, that went to make up my love affair with Phyllis Johnny? Can I show you the stuft that & young man's love for a tiny Httle maid is made of? All PHYLLIS-JONES The Bees Home Magazine Page By Nell Brinkley Copyright, 1915, Intern’| News Service. the best I had I gave her. There was never anything like it—noth- ing so delicate, so tender, so gigantic, so merry in life—until my own tiny girl came to me yea! fter, and Phyllis Johnny was a story that I told to her! “Phyllis John held my young man's heart in her two snowy little hands, knew my dreams and breathed the smoke of battle along with me. Phyllis John tided me over a rip-tiae, where I whirled in the current, fighting and poor, lonesome, where I hun- gered for feminine sympathy, and yet needed all the strength of my heart and the entirety of my brain to succeed! I could afford to go about with a girl like Phyllis John! Pop- corn and the circus thrilled her—and we saw all these wonders to- gether while this, my child-flame, lasted. “Phyllis John’s black-satin ‘cat with the golden eyes has gone long since to join his shadowy Egyptian fathers—and Phyllis John is a slim, pretty woman, with the same bands of bannery halr. Phyllis John's husband is somewhere at the front, and she is not far behind the firing line, driving a motor ambulance, I think! “Over Phyllis John’s gallant breast is buttoned the earth- eolored uniform of her husband’s country—and, thinking of that, 1 see her small, soft arms holding tight across her childish shape. v wonder if He knows how sweet a little maid she was! “But that was long ago that was—and see how the snow's fallen on my hair since then! ~—NELL BRINKLEY. ! 1 matte) of grave importance, and she went | That problem happened to have to do even frightened women who have | porarily eliminated from her generally | alert consciousness. to take & long ride In u crowded car. Throughout the ride she was wu\mlyt consclous of the fact that some one ! oo her; But she was never interested | enough ' to lift her eyes and examie her | it her |her it was no one she knew. | b er, about thinking deeply of her problem | persecutor. seized her arm and she found herself with & man for whom she cared intensely, | gripped by an emotional stranger Who | capable of it. And yet T've and 80 all men other than he were tem- | began protesting at her indifference. | through the ‘station she was both sur- | —but, instead, she shook the detaning ! prised ang annoyed to hear some one at | hand on her arm and managed, by con- her side inquiring, “Down for a day's [tinued and elaborate shopping?’ It hardly séemed that the | force her annoyer to a recognition of the address was directed to ber, 8o she con- | { tinued to think about what was absord- | ay nopeless. In the end the man slunk exactly lke the beaten cur ho\ fact that he might away On went the volce, “T wish you'd take | y,q lunch with me Sull she ignored her| g yutterly unworthy of manhood s fingers | yuch an affair as this that I hate to be- lieve any decent, normal man would be Suddenly (insistent affairs being enacted all too venture. indifference, to well give her up often. There were a number of courses the | There are men who absolutely without &irl might have pursued. She might have | the excuse of any feminine encourage- | One morning the girl was compelled |found a policeman to whom to complaim. | ment attempt to foree their own stupid, and then have taken with what grace | ypwelcome and contemptible attentions she could the probable mecessity of aD-|on some women who would never stoop | acros sing ton | POATINE 18 court to make a complaint | (o scraping acquaintance with them. s the alsle was focusing attention |, yingt the unplessent annoyance that| There is nothing clever or amusing or | had befalien her; she might have stopped | jn any way admirable in such an ad- | observer after the first glance had toid |04 delivered a lecture to the impudent reature on his unwarranted presump- She reached her destination still intent | Uon. It simply marks a man who | sttempts to pursue it as utterly contemp- tible and not at all worthy of any of the Liberality is Too Limited, Both in Money and Love By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, Copyright, 1915, Star Company. Charge them tnat are rich in this | world, that they be not high-minded, nor | trust in uncertain riches, but in the liv- ing God, who giveth us richly all things to énjoy; that they do good; that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willng to communicate; laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.—I. Timothy, vi: 17, 18, 19 That Is a good text for some of the pastors on our wealthy churches to, talk from these days. But, in truth, nowhere in the world can be found greater lber- ality 'in the way of giving money to charity than right in our own land. Even those millionaires who are classed | among the “stingy” and close-fisted give | enormous sums to people and Institutions ! through some liberal member of their | households each year. And, indeed, why should they not give | even tenfold what they do—these muiti- | millionatres? For once a man has a comfortable homs and fs assured independence in his old age for himself and his dear omes, why should he leave accumulating miliions for idle, selfish descendants to wrangle over? There must be great joy in the heart | of even haif-awakened men and women who realize that almost unlimited power 5 lies in their hands at this time of year v toward mitigating temporarily the suf- fering which falls under their notice. 1 dare say these enormously wealthy people are no less tender-hearted than the rest of us; and each one of us knows what peculiar pleasure is derived from | helping some less fortunate fellow | ereature over a hard place in the journey of life—a pleasure wholly unlike that of any purely personal enjoyment. At No. 318 East Fifteenth street, New York, there is a house where the work of God is going on every hour of the twenty- four and every day of the year. It 15 the headquarters for that lo- cality of the Salvation Army; and any one who questions the sincerity and pur- pose of that wonderful organization needs only to vieit this house to be convinced of the philanthropic, sane, wholesome and helpful work which is being done for unfortunate humanity by these good people. It {s the cheapest house in the , | metropolis (surely there cannot be two houses so spick and span and shining with freshly washed and dusted white enamel!), and it is a large house; indeed, it is two houses, and there is an outlook on a park; and it is here, where at the door smiling faces of good women greet the seekers after peace, that the doors are ever open, and the night or day the sin-sick, the poverty-pursued, the unfor- tunate, . the wayfarers along life's road are welcomed and given help and strength \ and courage to start anew. } There are little children in that house, lttle children of frail mothers deserted by their fathers, and these children are recelving Christian love and care from the angelic women who by tremendous industry, unfaltering faith and steady purpose have established this great way station between earth and heaven for lost and wandering souls, It requires much money to maintain this home; do not begrudge a contribu- tion to the Salvation Army people When they ask it of you. If you want to con- vince yourself of the good use made of money by this organization ask to be shown through the house. But it we cannot all buy coal and pay rent and give food to needy thousands, there are lesser acts of benevolence and | brotherly love within our power. Mony is not the best gift to humanity; indeed it is the worst possible gift, save in cases of absolute suffering and times of dire need; but to give a weak soul | strength, & cowardly soul courage, a lonely soul love and an erring soul hope | —that is the real benevolence, because it g the gift which lasts and helps both the giver and the receiver. Perhaps while you are wishing you had millions to bestow upon worthy chari- ties you have neglected to see the down- icast look and troubled face of some | member of your own household; a hus- band, a wife, a child, a parent, = brother or sister, who may be experi- | encing trials and worries unknown to you. It 1s @ sad fact that many & soul passes through the garden of Géthse- mane and those under the same roof and united by the nearest blood that never suspect its sorrow. The eyes of sym- pathy are oft-times too far-sighted and overlook the duty which lies nearest. Perhaps your neighbor or your friend has made & mistake, committed an error or wronged you in some small matter, A word of forgiveness and a look of for- | gettuiness would be the best gift you | could bestow today. Were you to pay all the rents for a whole parish of poor people, it might not serve as good a purpose in the ultimate plan. { " “Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded.” That means you as much as it means | your millionaire neighbor, for it you { have health and work and faith in God and your own soul, then indeed you are rich, and you have much to bestow upon humanity. THE VinpersiT HOTEL THIRTY FOURTH STREET AT PARK AVENUE NEWYORK