Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 18, 1915, Page 10

ON 10 THE BEE: Tricks of Brain and Wonders of Mind Anita Stewart’s Talks to Girls No. 4—Every Girl Should Learn a Trade, By GARRETT P. SERVISS. War gives strange glimpses into things not neceasarly oconnected with it It often places in the hands of a surgeon means of knowledge which he could not otherwise have acquired, A French ser- geant received a wound !n the head which affected the brain in such a way that at times he exhibited FllPl'!n'\l’Y”!" powers of perception, as If his senses | had become more than human in their reach Among the experiments tried with him was thie: Placed at a dosk, with a screen bofore him which hid his hand, he was asked to write a lotter, and, A 5 wrote, the sheets, ten in number, were rapidly | removed g0 that ecach line was written on a different sheet, the last sheet con- taining only the signature. Then he wa asked to read and correct the letter, with only the last sheet lying on the table and ptill sereened from his eyes. He read It wrectly, and ‘nserted the emenda tiong, and the punctuation marks, in thelr proper places on the blank sheet, Just as If it had contained the entire | writing i A similar power of mental vislon seems | to have been posscosed by Paul Morphy, the phenomontal chegs player, who could play elght games at once, blindfolded Morphy was born with the gift; the French scrgeant had it accldentally | knocked !nto his head It would be a hasty conclusion that | | & sufficlent number of properly directed knocks on the skull might turn a dolt into a geniue, and vet the mind does, in most tmen, seem to be enclosed in an |obacure shell which reveals bright gleams | through its crack ¢ | Hometimes the mind appears to take !advantage of the hours of sleep in order to free ltsell from Its accustomed ehnckles. The lghtning quickness of its action At such times is startiing. It throws off time, and yet retains its image wo perfectly that the dreamer is abso- | {lutely deceived, | One of the most Interesting examples of the instantaneousncss of dreams 18| recorded of himself by L. F. A. Maury, | A distinguished French antiquarian and | historieal writer. As he lay sleeping in |his bed a curtain rod fell and struck 'him violently on the back on the nwk,‘ | awakening him with a astart. During | that moment of waking, which could not have occupled more than two ssconds | betore consclousness was complete, Maury had a dream in which he thought he lived through the reign of terror in ! Paris, was arrestod and tried before the | revolutionary tribunal, was condemned to death and sent to the gulllotine. He | telt, the quiver of the descending knife {and the ehock ms it struck his neck- Y land then the dream vanished and he | awolke! | 1t a similar accident had suggested a lke train thought, consisting of ) ngled memory and imagination to a | person wide awake, he would have had no sense of the lapse of any time except that actually involved in the develop- ment of his riflections, but for the dreamer, to whom the detalls flocked « The Bees Home Magazine PDage AHA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1915 Simple Elegance, the New Paris Republished by Special Arrangement with Harper’'s Baszar In this suit dress of green velours de laine, Doeullit has trimmed the full skirt with skunk fur. The jacket ends are edged with fur, as well as the cuffs and collar. Paris fashion designers will put women #kirt is draped on the hips and bordered By ANITA STEWART. Copyright, 1015, International Service. "My mother—my wike, far-seeing mother ~bean when I was a little girl to pre- pare me to be self-supporting. I had a very sweet, strong, high sobrano voice, and it was intended In those days that 4 should be a singer, but chance opened | the door of a moving ploture studio to ¢ me. I made good, and my fate was News how 1 make my living is a mere The main point is that my mother mot trust my future to luck, as Is common way with parents with their aithough they are careful enough to safeguard their boys. L B g My mbther didn’t say, “Anita s pretty, she'll be sure to marry and live happily ¢ H “Perhaps Anita may marry. may not marry. Perhaps, marry, her busband may be & DPoor business man, facuity for making money, become an invalid, or die, and ith children, and she may how to make money a re desperately than any ever does. all of these calamities hap- and over again, and I don't davghter to be one of those women who have never & dollar, and couldn’t If they were on their own resources.” That's the way my mother looked at and if every other mother same line it would save a lot and suffering, fer It's unpreparedness of girls for lite that makes so many of them make such a | g ’3!§EE§555£ was taught some trade ession by which she could support it would do away with nearly all unhappy marriages. a could wait untll the man husband came along, to take the first man i L 4 ! 3 4 : E ¥ i | reformation the world has ever known in the conduct of husbands. And it gives a girl such a sense of | independence and dignity to know that! she can stand on her own two little feet, | and dosen't have to be like a flopping | vine hanging onto the nearest support. It makes her feel that she's a human | belng and some account In the world, that is about as soul satlsfying an tion a¥ we ever gel. So I say, girls, by all means learn how to do some one thing well enough to make & living by it. It doesn't mat- ter whether you are rich or poor, for no one knows what sort of luck is walt- ing for us down the voad, A good trade s a strong crutch to lean on If you need it, and if you never need it, it is a comfortable thought to know that yow've got it in reserve, It's just like having moiey in the bank. (The next article by Anita Stewart will | who play a part in It seem | thing as time, that it Is a mere notion of | Immensely faster than they could have been concelved by a waking - thinker, there was @ sense of slow passage of the time corresponding In length with that which would have been required by the events themselves. Just as the dream makes the persons absolutely reproduces the effect of flow of time without the actual, so It the ordinary slightest apparent curtallment, Here is something worth thinking about—an tmage of time can be made to appear exactly like real time; an hour, a day, & week, a year, can be condensed into | a second, and the mind will perceive no | difference! Might not the process be re- | versed and a second be expanded to an | age In the consciousness of a different | order of belng than ours? In these things we see the origin of the speculations of certain philosophers, | who maintain that there is mno such | the mind and that in reality everything s simultaneous. What the mind does in sleep is not always merely telling itself stories, for often very important work is performed in dreams, having a bearing upon every- appear here soon.) % Brother.,” 11 am a girl of 18 and for the last five years have known a young man two years my senlor. Thi founk. man is a frequent visitor at our ouse, as he Is also my brother's chum, and we grew up to regard him as one of the family, He in return calis me his little afster. ~'Now. after being with him 80 long, I find that 1 am not indifferent to him, but love him very much, of which he is not aware, 1 would not for all the world Jet him know that 1 love him. Whenever I hear that he is com- ing up to the house 1 purposely go away to try to forget him, but find that it is impoasible, He has been up several times, and after findin, mother where hi me out inqui of my sister was. Now, Miss Fairfux, please advise me what {o do. No oné knows of my love for him. Bvery one in the house regards him as one us‘us. HEARTBROKEN R. 8. R. Just go on In your friendship for your “big brother.” Love frequently grows from a loyal and congenial friendship. Do not fear to show him the tender af- who preposes to her, because her family a pr o m"‘:h, think that they have | f¢tion your assumed relationship im- 5 Jone enough, and that sne | PUes. 1f sweotness and womanliness do 85 g eno of the way of her it i 55 own occupation for & home, but only too often. trade or pro- l H ) s 4 H 33 i not win his loye, neither cold self-con- | sciousness nor & forward declaration on your part would succeed. She is to Blame. | Dear Miss Fairfax: I have been paying s e il 3 her husbana, many wives il : 2 & good profession stmply fes ne- that it he doesn't #0 back to her s 4 R i R ST i attention 10 & young girl for six months. Of late 1 L\Av: heard that, while on her vacation she was with a ‘married man most of the thme. also has another married man her and escort her bome fro) r of b Do you it the man that meets Roves zn‘lnc"’h ‘When he has & ::'r and and 1t's | ehildren e home waiting for him. F, B. Mc The person most to blame In the case you state ls the girl herself. A young woman who knowingly accepis the atten. tion of men harms her own character “and selfishly endangers the bappiness of the wife who has never done anything to Injure her. Try to per- spade this girl that her course is cruelly scifish and very dangerous. day affalrs. Coleridge composed the most imaginative of all his poems In a dream, Codorcet, the great French mathematiclan, more than once had the conclugion of some profound calculation, on which he had vainly labored before retiring to bed, presented to him in & dream, Dr, Olynthus Gregory often employed in lecturés to his college classes ideas | and even words and scntences which he had worked out while asleep. There is at least one instance on recond of the invention of & new word by a dreamer, It is recorded by Dr. John Abercromble, who says that & gentleman dreamed that he was enclosed with a crowd of peo- ple in a penthouse, where they were threatened with suffocation for lack of fresh air. In his dlstress he cried out: “Il faut detoiter” (‘‘Force oft the roof!") As he uttered this cry he awoke. Now there is & French word meaning “roof, but mo verb “detoiter,’ which would mean to take the roof off. The stories of warnings of death and danger con- veyed by dreams are lnnumerable, but probably fllusory. in trouserettes before they are through. They are continually hinting at that rort of thing, and while they do not yet feel the tirhe is ripe, they never miss the opportunity to strike the note. At a recent fashlion review In French capital, the scene of the play was lald a hundred yoars hence, andge Paul Poiret had the chance to bring out the trouser skirt for which he has long had a predilection, Poiret has often been heard to remark that the trouserette is the “fashion of tomorrow." The fashlon note in Paris today is ex. treme simplicity, and & return to refined elegance, Doeulllet has designed some charming costumes since the opening, says Emille de Joncaire, writing in the Christmas number of Harper's Bazar Doeulllet is always conservative, and has a large French clientele. He shows at | his best now when the simplicity he has always advocated has become popular. the Doeuillet has fashioned here a gown of old rose taffeta with the skirt draped high in the back and trimmed on the bottom with skunk fur. The tight fitting waist is of heavy silver lace, and bands of passe- menterie form shoulder straps. and he calls attention to the fact that in order to give a youthful a full skirt mustbe quite short. The circilar, bell- shaped skirt has not, however made. its appearance. Recently he created a gown of soft velvet in coral tone for one ot Of blue gabardine is this service- able little frock, which has a loose hanging bolero and white silk vest. The full skirt has two wide tucks at the bottom, and wide pockets on the sides are heavily embroidered in deep tones. on the bottom with skunk. The corsage 1s of silver lace. He is also making somo charming frocks of black lace for his Parislan clentele, These are trimmed with velvet and fur. 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