Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1915, Page 7

4 1 + A Mental Differences Between Man and Woman By ELLA WHEELER WILUOX. —— (Copyright, 1915, by Star Co) The mental difference between man and woman has beén set forth in a little pamphlet by Asaph Lewis. She says of woman: “Her mind is higher, more refined. This s where the principle of selection shows f most by endowing the weaker part- r with that physical grace and refine- ent of organization and her mental ulties are correspondingly refined, “Man, as we see gvery day, delights competition, and this leads to ambi- tion, which passes too readily into wsel- fishness. Woman, who has never entered upon the competitive field, has mot de- | veloped this selfish spirit. A woman is more prone to sympathy; she is more buman than man. Man cannot understand woman—the ferent stages of evolution has been hard- ened, and he oarries into his home those f 2:k i H n more humane than women. We only to look in the ballrooms, pub- in theaters and opera dress. Huebands, fathers and brothers of these women suffer mortification of the spirit in seeeing how their dear ones unneces- sarily display their bodies to the public gaze. ‘Woman should be educated and woman | should have the franchise and woman should have a voice in the government in | which she lies. But not because she is superior to man or more refined or more humane, but because she is a thinking, tolling human being like himself, and it 1s her right to be his comrade and co- worker in all things. Mrs. Lewis, in a 'personal letter, writes: ““When I was writing my little booklet T thought of Adeling Patti, Mary Ger- den, Marie Corelll, Mrs. Patrick Comp- bell and many others, and what education has done for women. Before woman was allowed to be educated she had only her physical attractions, and when that was destroyed by the hand of time she was helpless. “But now woman is so advanced that the one who depends upon her physical attraction to carry her through is but the mere shadow woman. What woman, I ask you, today will stick little bits of court plaster on her face as sn ald to her beauty? What kind of a man is he who admires such foolishnesa? Is it pos- sible that we can say such women are educated? Is that the kind of education talities. Today a woman knows that her intellectual attraction is the only attrac- tion worthy the notice of a real man.” Again the writer of this article must disagree with Mrs. Lewis. Much as I approve of education, culture, equal fran- chise and soclal industrial equality of the sexes, the eternal feminine appeals strongly to even when it exhibits itself in the coquetry of a bit of court plaster on the cheek or chin. The woman who ignores all the pretty little arts of beauty-making and who cares only to be clean and neat and nmever alluring has crossed over the line from real femininity to the masculine border line. Tt is necessary always for a woman to remember the importance of belng beauti- ful, not only morally and mentally, but physically, just as it is important for a man to be strong, mentally, morally and physically, to be the complete man, The woman who cultivates beauty in her personality has much greater power in the world than the one who relies wholly upon ber intellect. It is impossible to change the idea of men on these sub- jects. The woman who uindertakes to hold a man's regard by simply being his mental assoclate, ignoring all the arts and frivol- ities of dress and the care of her com- ®ion, her hair and her figure, is more than lMkely to find herself superseded be- fore middle age in the mind of the man of her cholce by some other woman, mentally her Inferior, but possessing physical charms, Mrs, Lewis needs to study both sexes a little more closely before she ex- presses herself too emphatically on this subject In-Shoots The man who does not love his mother will never love a_ wife. If the classic dancers wore more clothes they would not be 80 popular, It is better to yell for & good cause even if your audience is small, We are often astonished to find what nice sisters some mean fellows have. The clam has better judgment than some human beings. He knows when ty shut up occasionally, Zhe man who makes his home the arbage dump of ill-nature s the joy of the divorce lawyer, The woman who has passed a dreary existence with a mean hastand always me anxjous that her daughter should parry. == ’ . | [ - — Dark brown velveteen with brown silk braiding, berdered {and buttoned ' with beaver, | makes a quaint coaf. It should be worn with a plaid skirt trimmed with rows of brown velvet, : . ¥ By ANITA STEWART. One of the most difficult things that | we girls ever have to do is to draw the line between prudery and prudence. We don't want to be little prizgy, prunes- |and-prisms girls, in a constant state of belrig shocked at nothing. Neither do we want to be thes sort of girl whom noth- |Ing shocks. | And it tsn’t easy to strike the golden | mean between these two extremes, where a girl can be friendly with a man with- out his trying to get familiar with her. Of course every girl likes to have lots of beaux, and to be popular with men. She wants to be one of the lucky ones asked out to the theater, and to dinner, and supper, and who always has plenty {of partners at a dance. Ana only too often the girl who has | these good things is one of the free-and- easy-sort who drinks and smokes with | men, and laughs when they tell question- able stories, and whose lips are free to any man who wants to kisa ber, This makes young girls think that if they want to be admired they must be A bit giddy and sporty, and, above all, that they mustn't “keep a man at arm's length,” as my grandmother used to say. Why, I have even heard girls say that unless you let a man kiss you when he | brought you home from a party it was truly ‘“good night” for him, for he'd never see you any more. Poor little dears! They can't see an inch beyond their noses, or else they’d notice that while | men flock around this mort of girl iike is young and pretty and amusing, they don't marry her. One by one they drop away, and when you ask whom thoy have picked out for wives you'll find out that every man- jack of them bas married s me prim little Puritan of a girl who made him mind his manners when he was with her. Men are terribly unjust in this respect. A man will use every argument and per- suasion to induce a young girl to drink cocktails until she gets silly, and have d contempt for her for doing it. He will spend das pleading with her to kiss him, and be suspicious of her if she does, No girl can tell by what & man says to her what he's really thinking, ana many a man who tempts a girl s praying in his heart that she wi'l have the strength and principle to resist him. The Bible says that one of the mys- |tertes of life that nobody can solve is “the way of & man with a maid.” But one thing is certain, gi-ls, and that is that deep down in his soul every man honors and respects the girl who respects herself, and who wraps her maidenly Mgnity and fnnocence about her so that |1t becomes an armor that protects her like & coat of mail The girl who shrinks away at & fa- | miliar touch, whose cheeks flame red at | vulgar wit, and whose livs are kept sa- |ered for the one great kiss—that is the kind of & girl that every man hopes to marry. | When you g0 to the flor'st, girla, it's | the half open Hly, it's the bud with the | dew still upon it, that you have to pay the highest for. The b'g roce that is shop worn and that everybody has been handling you can buy for a son. Nobody wants it, and what's true of |flowers 1s true of girls. The supreme [e'arm of girhood is ite reserve, its | treshness, its unsullled whit-ness, and | when you trample these in the dust you make the mistake of your life And as for the men who won't pay any attention to girls with wham they eannot |te “fresh,” you are luc'y to escabe them THE | The Bees Home Ma BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1915, Picturesque and Practical Designs for Children Republished by Special Arrangement with Harper's Bazar The turn of the wheel has brought chil- dren's fashions back to the quaint frocks worn many years ago. The up-to-date chiid now looks like a living picture from an 0ld daguerreotype. Ruffles, plaids and flounces are covering bare knees; scal- lops and fur trimmed little juckets are glving a touch of quaintness to the cos- tume for the youngster. A few designs taken from the Christ- mas number of Harper's Bazar give an idea of the daintiness and distinction which have come into vogue. There s first & dark brown velveteen jacket with brown silk bralding, bordered and byt- toned with beaver. It ia reminiscent of It should be worn with & plaid skirt trimmed with velvet A conchman's hat of black and a coat of tan are the pride of the little girl who walks in the park to give the great bulle dog an airing. Like a lttle doll is the courtesying figure in ruffles of Victorian plald and white taffeta, scalloped on the edge and bound with black velvet. The tiny plan tight walst is edged with a taffeta ruffle which emcircles the neck. The little lady with the wide-brimmed hat looka like the very p'cture of dignified fashfon, Navy velvet is suggested for this frock, the vottom of the skirt, the sleeves and the neck to be edged with white fur. Gay trimming of red, white and gold hangs from each shoulder like n stole, the ends creeping under a wide black belt. Pockets of the same ma- terial are topped with white fur. For the baby, white velours is gathered full around the meck to form a raglan coat trimmed with a broad band of white fur at the bottom, Collar and cuffs are of the same fur. His sister wears a gray broadcloth coat with collar and ouffs of white book musiin edged with seal. It is worn with a fetching: pllgrim's hat of black beaver with a silver buckle in front and A gray band to take away some of the severity, bees around a honey pot, as long as she | By GARRETT P. SERVISS. As a beginning of fulfilment of pro- phecy nothing could be more startling than the wireless conversations held the other day between Arlington, near Wash- ington, and Mare Islafid, near San Fran- cisco, when thc “winged words” flew clear across the continent, through the crisp autumn atr, over rivers, lakes, prairies and mountains, & tremendous leap of 2,600 miles, & good tenth of the circumference of the earth. The prophet who predicted this seventeen years ago was Prof. Ayrton, an Englishman, and his words are remarkable. “We are coming,” sald he, “within thinking distance of a time when if a person wants to call a freind he knows not where, he will call in a loud electro- magnetic voice, heard by him who has the electro-magnetic ear, silent to him who has it mot. ‘Where are yqu? he | will ask. A small reply will come, ‘I am |at the bottom of a coal mine' or ‘tros- sing the Andes,’ or ‘in the middle of the Pacific,’ or, perhaps, in apite of all the calling, no reply will come, and the man will know that his friend is dead.” The recent experiments were a strict fulfliment of the first part of this pro- pheoy. The man with the ectro-mag- netic volce™ was on the Atlanfic shore of America, the man With the “electro- magnetic ear” was on the Pacific shore. The former spoke and the lattor heard him, but not possessing, yet, the elec- tro-magnetic voice, would only repond by telegraph. When the system is per- | | | [fected, and both volce and esr are in possession of each person, Prof. Ayrton's prophetic dream will be completely realized. If thers had been someone with the magic ear on the pighest summit of the Rocky mountains he might have heard the words transmitted across the con- tinent. If he had been in the midst of & prairie, or at the bottom of a canyon, or deep in a mine he might have heard them. They would have passed over the sea as easlly as over the land, so that & ship's captain, or & passenger in the middle of the Atlantic, sailing through sunshine or storm, might also have heard them. The prophecy speaks of a man ecalling to & friend of whose location on the globe he s ignorant. That emphasizes the pecullar differences between ordinary and wireless telephony (the same dif- {ference existing between ordinary and wireless telegraphy). When you use a common telephone your voice is trans- mitted by means of a fixed electric wire to & definite place, But when you speak with the free; “electro-magnetic voloe™ it 18 heard on all sides, wherever cors responding “electro-magnetic ears” exist. It spreads round the earth, as the sound of & dinner horn reaches the laborers in the fields over the entire area of a farm. But just as the housewife in blowing the horn turns east and west and north and south, so that the sound waves may be sent clearly in each direction, so the electro-magnetic waves are capable of a certain amount of guldance, and hollyhocks and old lavender. Immediate Triumph in Wireless Telephony A coachman’s hat of black and coat of tan are the pride of this maid. Skirt of tan and black plaid, and tan leggings with black may be concentrated, more or less, in a chosen direction. And, as special conditions of the at- mosphere, and intervening obstacles on the ground, Interfere with the convey- ance of sound waves, so the electro- magnetic waves are affected by special conditions of the medium through whiéh they pass. A very interesting illustration of the difference between the directed messages of the ordinary telephone and the free messages of wireless telephony, together with the transmissibility of the one into the other, was furnished during the ‘Washington experiments, when the valces of persons in New York sent to the Arlington station by ordinary long dis- tance telephone were automatically passed over to the free waves which sped them across the continent! The man of sclence is no Mother Ship- ton. He makes no random prophesies, but undertakes to foretell only things which appear to him to be inevitable consequences of already established facts. Yet, in view of whbat has now been ac- complished, it would seem not at all a rash prediction to aver that, before many years have passed, it will be virtually impossible for anybody to be lost, any- Where on earth, in the manner in which explorers have been lost in past times A man caught by stress of weather at the north pole, or drifting off on an arctic fce-floe, if only he has the electro- magnetic voice, may call for help, and his call will be heard and answered. But in truth, that is mo more than Prof. \yrton's remarkable scientific prophesy has already pointed out. Train the Girls in Self-Defense - By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D. PART IL The continuous, lifelong psyehologic effeot of being sedulously taught and trained to be physically afrald and kept In perpetual dread of all sorts of unim aginable terrors is a profound and far reaching one. And just to bring up one generation of girls, vigorous and fearless and happy, accustomed to take carw of themselves under all efrcumstances and to fight to- gether, knowing that all the old buga- boos of kidnapers and armed bands of marauders are goné and that the one re- maining danger is not one-tenth as great s the ailr of mystery thrown about it has led them to suppose, would be & won- derful gain. Just to know and feel that the chances are ten to one if well-trained and vigor- ous, they' will be quite able to protect themselves against the wretched vagrants and degenerates and semi-imbeciles who are the main sources of danger, could scarcely help baving & remarkable and frock to neck to most improving and—to coin & word— happifying effect upon the coming gen- eration of women. Even if their training in the use of weapons went no farther than to show them how to hold the business end of a gun away from themselves and have the courage to pull the trigger and hear it go off without shutting thelr eyes and shrieking, It would be quite sufficient for all ordinary purposes of protection against burglars or tramps. An interesting illustration was fur- nished just 4 few weeks ago in the re- sult of an attack by a burglar upon & house containing three well-to-do maiden ladies and one servant. One of the ladies had been trained in the manual of arms, and hearing a sus- picfoug nolse In the night caught up her trusty shotgun (which is far the best weapon for a woman, because you hardly can possibly point it toward yourself) nerves or the must suffer. nourishment weakens not only the weakened This explains why witality, le folks. cases. And it gives you the you give it an op) S A RiIsFREE. Tear this Navy velvet is suggested for the left, the bottom, sleeves and " edged with white fur, How Sanatogen Relieves Poor Digestion and Nerve Strain . JGESTION and the nervous system are interdependent. For+ while the products of digestion nourish the nerve cells, the nerves in turn control digestion, Thus if aught wrongly effects either—the digestive organs—the other also ‘When, for instance, worry, overwork or shock interferes with digestion, the resultant lack of causing nerve-strain. This then reacts and still farther disturbs the faulty digestion. At such times Sanatogen is specifically help- becaude it is 80 easily assimilated even an enfesbled digestion, and, because Sanatogen’s chemical union of purest protein and organic phosphorus furnishes pre- cisely the two elements most needed to digestion the be and went dowmstairs to investigate. To her horror, she almost collided with & burglar at the foot of the stalrs. With- out stopping to take aim, and almost as an instinctive reflex from the shock, she pulled the trigger and banged the whole charge of buckshot just over the man's head and through the glass door of the hall. Half stunned by the powder blast he fell upon his knees with yells for merey. Realizing that she controlled the sit- uation, she pointed the muzzle of the gun toward him, threatening to blow his brains out if he didn't keep still, and be- gan to scream for help. In the meantime the two sisters up- stairs had begun to scream? and the nelghbors, aroused by the shot, were bat- tering on the door and begging to be let in. But as neither one of the four parties ~the burglar, the lady with the gun, the the nervous system, rve weakness restore but the im- poverished nerve cells as well. Col. Watterson, the famous American editor, was able to write: “ do not think | gould have recover 1 have done, without ting equally the digestive Soaans v narve samterst And why Hon. Wm. E. Chandler, formes Secretary of the Navy, wrote: “Sanstogen io & o ired od Thie Sanato- for strengthens vitality in the medical profession as expressed in signed letters from over 21,000 physicians who have watched the work of Sanatogen in countless reason why we are so confident that Sanatogen can help you—when gazihe Dage velvet, form the skirt of this little frock. To the left a girl in a gray broadeloth coat with cuffs of white buok muslin edged with seal, worn with a Pilgrim’s hat of black beaver with silver buckle. The baby Wears white velours, sisters upstalr and the rescue party— could hear the others for the noise they were making themselves, the situation was complex and prolonged. When the rescuers broke their way in through a window (at imminent risk of getting a load of buckshot in their heads) the burglar fairly fell upon their necks in welcome and rellef. He sald that to lle there and wateh the muzsle of that there shotgun wabbling round all over him and never knowing when the lady was golng to cut loose without mieaning to, was the most awful experience of his career of crime, If one lone woman in every house had a gun and was not afraid to fire it off, and every burglar knew that there was such a deadly combination on the prem- ises, the burglar Insurance companies would soon have to go out of business, as well as half our police force. Whu»wmmmn-mm fi-"‘!l.”- rand Prise, loternational Congress of Medicine, London AT O hilosophy, together with e as 8 reminder Lo address BNDORSEy‘BY OVER 2LOOO§PIY§:IA§ for Elbert Hubbard’s new Bitat mdth Sie ubuars Ith in the Making.® Written in his sttractive menner and BAUER EISERTEET, Yirving Flace New Yoru <