Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1915, Page 9

— A Song for Mothers to Study By ELLA WHEELER WILOOX, Copyright, 1015, The Star Publishing Co. A song is being sung on hundreds of stages all over the the country entitled “Mbther.” The lyric is by Howard Johnson and the melody of Theodore Moise. The song represents & young man who has Dbeen knocked about the world, with little opportunity for education, who says: M—h for the million things she gave to me, (Q —means only that she is grow- ing old, T-Il for the tears were shed to save me, H—is_ftor her heart of purest gold, E —i2 for her eyes with love-light shining, L R—means right and right she'll hy e h 1 2 er they s PR Wora Wat means the world to me Then there is a second verse: M—is _for the mercy she posses- ses, (Q —means that I owe her all I own, —is for her tender, sweet cares- ses, —is for her hands that made a home, —~means everything she's done to help me, R—means read and regular you see. These verses have a sweet, homely meaning and, set to attractive music and sung by a famous young woman, must reach the public heart. They will mean a great deal to many mothers, but, meantime, do not let every woman who is & mother in name too quickly accept the sentiments contained in these verses as applying to her by right. » Every mother who reads the song or hears it sung ought to take it line by line and ask herself just how much of it 18 true in her own particular case. What are the million things that you gave your son, madam? Did you give him lesons in self-con- trol from his cradle up to manhood, both by precept and example? DI you teach him politeness toward older people, and mercy and sympathy and. consideration for the poor and the unfortunate? Did you give him a consciousness that he owed a great duty to "umb animals, 1o the crippled, the deaf, the dumb and the blind, and. other unfortunates en- sountered along life's pathway? Did you give him the knowledge “that it was a vulgarity, and a criminal et as well, to take fruit from his neighbor's ‘rees.or flowers from.his nelghbor's. gar-, len, np matter how much fruit or many tlowers that neighbor might possess? Did-you give him clean, high under- standing, so that he would be able to pro-| tect other men's sisters and to feel sym- pathy and pity for erring women? Did you give him a respect for lan- guage sufficlent to enable him to avold coarse, unclean or profane expressions? Unless you have donk all this, the mil- you may have given your boy are not of much value, Although “‘H" may stand for your hands that made a home, it does not stand for a heart of purest gold, unless you have thought of some or all of these thinga in the edu- cation of your boy. Neither does “R" indicate that right you will always be, even though your boy may think you s0 unless you have brought him up with an ‘understanding of the rights of others in the small as well as the large things of life, and un- ess you have dohe your utmost to elimi- nate jealousy, envy and greed from his nature. These efforts must be begun very early. The child who is allowed to monopolize all the playthings lest he should cry and annoy older people, the one who does not share his toys and gifts with others and who is not taught the beauty of such sharing, cannot be expected to suddenly acquire these moral precepts after he is srown, ‘The child who is allowed to be domi- neering and disagreeable to his compan- fons, who is allowed to trespass upon the rights of his neighbors, who helps him- self to their fruits and flowers, unre- buked, because he is a mere child, is not going to become a man who will respect his neighbors’ rights or property. 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Her eyes were laughing and bright | on a wistful mite ,with cheek The gentle Man who walked the world on a day long ago and spoke wisely in sermons to mankind was far away from the rosy girl’s pump- DECEMBER "N The Bees Home Ma 17, 1915, Copyright, Intern’l away. | illy Woods Hutchinson, A, M., M. D. | One of the most interesting and radi- |cal suggestions made by Prof. Emily Putnam in her Vassar anniversary ad jdress was that deliberate attempt be | made to emancipate woman in girlhood from her age-long physical disabilities. This emancipation of girlhood means | two things, as she clearly points out. First, and not least important, the rele- gution to the ash barrel and the mu- { seums, where it belongs, of the ridiculous | erippling and health-destroying present | feminine costume. | A woman's brain needs emancipation, but her feet need it more. The only “ufln‘ that ever has been sald or could be | becoming and modest; though why un- der heaven it should he considered mod- lest for a man's clothing to rgveal the | modest for a woman's to do the same is |one of those things that, as Lord Dun- | dreary said, “No fellah can ever find | out.” Skirts are as ungraceful and unbeau- | tiful, from not merely the point of view jof the artist, but of the expert cos- | tumer, as they are hampering and un- | healthful. But still they cling, to para- | phrase Gallleo’s immortal pur se muove—and cripple. | 'The other thing is the total abolition |of that senseless term ‘“unladylike,” as | applied to anything and anybody under { the age of 1. We wouldn't lose by it in | point of ultimate conduct and character, and we would gain enormously in vigor, In happlness and in courage. To Insist upon & girl, a mere child, belng ladylike years and even decades before she has attained the mature dignity of ladyhood, is of & plece with its kindred asininity of trying to chaln down and drill a boy | into being a grown man, a “‘perfect little | gentleman,” years before the appointed | time, | The same fallacy underlies both tend- | encles, that because both of these | achievements are supposed to be so high and difficult, therefore, we must make our unfortunate youngsters begin re- hearsing years and years in advance, for fear when the time comes they will not| be fitted for them. The best way to train a boy or giri for life 1s to let him or her live, right here and now. To be just as thorough, barum- | scarum and adventurous a boy, and romping, fearless, happy & girl as pos- sible is the very best imaginable prep- aration for the serious business and re- sponsiblilities of later life A very large percentage, If not a ma- jority of girls would like to roam the fiels and romp and scramble and play just ltke the boys do, not perhaps at pre- cisely the same games, but something equivalent, if they were only permitted by Dame Fashion and Mrs. Grundy Ah, but, says some one at once, think of the awful dangers that die in wait, the terrible risk of femininity, the ever pres- ent terror of personal assault! There 's little question that this one vital cons d Why Not Train Girls in Self-Defence? | 8aid in its favor is that it is customary, | | damning fact that he is a biped and im-' eration plays a tremendous part in mak ing and keeping the majority of women physical cowards. But the very fact of the !existence of this special risk is an over- whelming reason why girls should, in he first place, be frankly told of the ature of it, and then trained to protest themselves, it need be, with firearms, 1 stand by one anotter for defense as boys | @0; to develop their speed and endurance {and powers to escape, and in every way try to mimimize this dread and bufld up | |this susceptible point in their courage | |and tndependence. Nothing could be more idiotlc than our | present attitude and method: first of all, | & rigid conspiracy of silence, to keep the young girl in absolute ignorance of the nature of this danger, and then to fill her with a black, overwhelming, mysterious dread of something terrible that may happen is she ventures to walk down the village street after dark, or walk a few hundred yards out fnto the innocent coun- |try, or cross a fleld out of sight of her appointed guardians in the daylight. At the same time we swathe her in a straightjacket called a skirt; forbid her to run, to climb, to jump, to learn to wrestle or box if she wishes, and train her to shriek and put her hands over her eyes the moment that a gun Is brought near her. The natural physical disparity between the sexes is not more than about 10 per cent, but by our mummifying dress and swaddling band methods of mental train- ing we nearly treble this Inferfority, do our best to deprive woman of any means either of defense or escape, and then wonder that she is a physical coward! | In-Shoots | A clear consclence is the best kind o {a bracer. In this age a man can display the cour- age af his convictions by sporting chin whiskers. | The more worthiess the cuss the more | faithtul the haif-starved dog that fol lows him It 18 better to kick yourself occasion ally than have some,one else perform the service, The man continually on the run is liable to dash past a good thing now and then. If you have been played for a sucker it s better to laugh than cry over the matter, When It comes to criticlsm, the boiled | cabbage intellect rushes where angels | tear to 100k Place n ¢h confidence in th ‘wllver threud A gray fox s a fox ust the siine Two Views { By ADA PATTERSON. This is a story about a man and woman for both men and women. She Is a litte woman with big. britht eyes, a warm heart and tl eless enerzy. He is a big bluff fellow ready, as all the neighbors say, “to work until he drops.” When they were married all their friends at the wedding sa'd: ““There is a pair that will get on."" And so they have, but by what different ways this story is con- cerned, He worked at his mechanic's trade, She kent their two rooms in a crowded pa-f of New York so clean and shinin: tiat all the other women In the block were a little envious and inclined to say spiteful things instead of setting to work with scrubbing brush to improve thelr family habitations Children came and the man worked harder at his trade and the woman worke 1 barder In the liftle home that had grown | to three, then to four rooms. e was | what the neighborhood called a “steady" man. He drank nothing more stimulat- ing than coffee and spent ! is evenl gs at home, All were content un‘il the we k before Christmas. The little woman said to the man: “The c“ildren ha e leen looking ‘n the shop windows and they've Fot them just orazy about C)r'stmas. Give me some moncy to buy a tr ad some gifts for them.” The man fr m his place beaide the fire, where he was warm ing his rheumatism, answered: T se are hard times. Let them do with ut C ristmas.” The woman protested. Th man held firm “And with all that money in the bank, too!" she erled, One wmust look ahead at the ial y day,” he responded, “It's for you and the children that I am saving it." The woman sald no more. No m rs words wasted she. But she threw A shawl over her head and two coats over her arm and paid a vist to a seco d hand clothes dealer. With what sh - ex- tracted from the button-eyed, hook-n s 4 man behind the counter for these ments, she 'bought her children’s Chr -t mas."” When her husband saw the little ere tree and the pay paper, the transparent bags of peanuts and eandy and the sn nickel whistles, he enfoyed the sight his children's glee and said nothine al nd Live his wife, he co sumed neither tim- nor breath in uselcss talk, but the next day ! that he made ready for chureh and -h joined bimi with the old faded sh w! across her ¢lim thoulders he found speeh X “Where ds that velvet jaeket I bought ou ™ | "I sold it to the second-hant clo' hes | dealer.” “And that long blue cloak from last inter. You looked good in that.” | w | “T sold that ‘o the ond-hand dealer.’ The red lights came into his cy's That they meant danger, she knew ‘Why 4% vou sel them? | “Feeause I wanted ihe cilldren to lave Half-way up the hill fi the snow she came s like Nova Scotia apples—patched trous- Her heart sang in her throat because of | ers; he was warm, but "'skimp” looking; and the eyes in his little face th singing wind, and the snow that whitened her snug mackinaw, the [longed out loud to be in the fun. blue sky above and the erackle of the snow underfoot, the company of | weapons of sport_ is an alien. her youthful kind that laughed over the fire of pine-wood, whizzed | swam over her bright eyes. down the hill in a flurry, and circled about on the ice with a pleasant The rosy girl stoppe She knelt in the snow and gave her sled She put the rope in his fingers —smiled Into his dazed gloritied eyes—and said gayly: “Christmas gift!" And kneeling so-—she lifted her eyes through the soft-falling snow above the cold and happy little face of the child, and lo! against the own | But a fellow without any of th{ A mist of tears News Service ~———— unto Me pines and the wl_x'lrllng sky and soft light ll;:‘o?l,"boldinl in its glim« mer a gentle Shape she knew——crowned Cuxd strangely robed. hrist. The Great Good Man—the gentle and the lips moved in gratitude. And soft words spoke in her ear 8o when you glve to the swmalles | thelr Christmas. Where d'd you suppose 1 got the money?" ““Oh, women have a way of managing." He vaguely paid this tribute of the man to the woman, for woman's art ip home management, her ability of turn- ing nothing into something. “We'll go tomorrow to | clothes back." They went together to the second-hand dealer's, but the button eyed man would not sell them back, “The lady sold them of her own free will. I pald for them, That closes the transaction.” And he looked at the door. buy those That evening the woman sa'd to the husband: “I'm not blaming you for what has happened, John. We're of two natures, Yours runs to saving and mine to spend- | By Nell Brinkley gazine Page | e And the eyes smiled unto the least of these t and humblest with all your heart, when you smile In their eyes and say: “Christmas gift" —see— fiou l:ava glven to the Son of God and made rejoice His great and eart, ’uuo ~-NELL BRINKLEY, B e —— ing. 1 stood your tight ways without a word for myself, but you pinch the chil- Idren for that futurc you're always talking about and which we may never have. So now you can save your money and I'm going to ecarn some. Miilie Jones down the hall helps herself and her mother by what she earns going to indies’ houses to wash their halr and massage their faces and trim their nalls, I'm going to buy my children the things they want in the same way, and you're golnk 1o the bank to get out $50 so that i can pay for learning.” T must adm't argument followed. When it bade fair to be endless, the man yielded his will and the $50, That was ten years ago. The little woman has been working at her preger- vation and her beautifying art ever since. The man fell {ll from exposure and privation in his occupation and most of the money he had saved went into the purses of doctors and the coffers of con.fortable. The cildren have had som of the little graces as woll as the neces- sitles of life. But when the man home tired from work, his wife is there. She has usvally been detained the boudoir of some woman whose uhe Is brushing or whose gray spots she is removing. 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