Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 29, 1915, Page 7

—r——— THE BEE : OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29 1915 > RS AVENYS [ By GARRETT P. SERVISS, The planet Mars is preparing to show himself again during the winter in one "of the “oppositions” for which he has be- come famous, His red disk will gleam like a battle lantern over the fields of strife, and many an eye will be lifted from the trenches and the trampled snow to that lurid portent in the midnight sky. There scems to have been no reason other than its suggestive color for,the selection of this planet as the celestial symbol of the war god. Vet it was uni- versally so regerded in ancient times. if we could tell why Mars is red we might hit upen the whole secret of that strange planei. Its color is probably due to some peculiar quality of its sofl. It may be principally composcd of material resembling our red sandstone, or it may be stained red by an abundance of iron in its rocks. ,// ” > " "MERSURNC e The approach of Mars toward the earth lwlll not, on this occasion, be very close, | observational the two planets will be some sixty mil- lon miles apart, but, on the other hand, Mars will be well ‘situated in the sky for purposes. Its northern hemisphere, which is the least known, will be the one presented most comspicu- ously to view. The idea of trying to communicate with the inhabitants of Mars is sure to be put forward again, especlally in view of the recent achievements of wireless tele- Phony. It 1s now perfectly certain that we can send electric waves, bearing signals and capable of reproducing the sounds of the human volce, completely around the world, We shall, soon after the war Is ended, begin to talk with people on all the con- tinents, wherever the proper apparatus can be set up. But these marvelous By ADA PATTERSON, Is yours a limited life—self-limited? I refere not to the length of life, al- though that, too, is largely in our own hands. What {s in my mind is whether you have bullt a high fence about your- self and live within it refusing to look out at the wide world that lies beyond that fence? There is danger, very great danger, of building that fence-around ourselves and our Interests. The fence bullding is called selfishness, and the process goes on and on. Its punishment is that the fence closes in upon us. Bveryday it closes further and further until we can hardly turn about, can scarcely breathe within it. The conditions of life tend to drive us nward. We should counteract them by a supreme effort of will. It will repay ve to make thig effort, It will pay dividends of actual worldly profit. Consider the housekeeper. If she builds that fence so high about herself and home and family that she never learns how the woman two doors down turned her cur- tains or that they were good for two more seasons; and if she does not meet and chat now and then with Mrs. Brown about how she gave the children of the neighborhood a picnic in her back yard at small expense; and If she doesn’t hear about that new dressmaker who has come to town und who Is 80 adept at remodel- ing old gowns into new that she laughingly named ker establishment a “hospital for sick dresses,” that woman the u Save Ready- 3. This home-made cough !vrufl is now used in more homes than any other cough remedy, Its promptness, ease and cer- tainty in tunqurnnr{ distressing coughs, chest and throat colds, is really remark- able. You can actually feel it take hold. A dav's use will usually overcome the ordinary cough—relieves even whooping cough quickly. Splendid, too, for bron- chitis, spasmodic croup, bronchial asthma and w lis, | T coug Get from any druggist 2% ounces of Pinex (50 cents worth ), pour it in a pint bottle and fill the bottle with plain granu- lated sugar syrup, This gives you—at a cost of only 54 cents—a full pint of better cough syrup than you could buy for $2.50, Takes but a few minutes to prepare. Full directions with Pinex, Tastes good and never spoils. You will be pleasantly surprised how quickly it loosens dry, hoarse or tight coughs, and heals the inflamed mem- branes in & painful cough, It also stops the formation of phlegm’ in the throat and bronchial tubes, thus ending the per- | sistent loose cough. inex is & most valuable concentrated compound of genuine Norway pine ex- tract, rich in guaiacol, which js 8o heal- ing to the memhranes, 0 avoid disappointment, be sure and ask your druggist for “2%4 ounces Pinex,” and ‘don’t accept anything else. A guarantee of absolute satisfaction, or money promptly refunded, goes '?t.h prer:i"ian. The Pinex Co., ¥4, this Wavne, —~— |he i3 80 WHEN AWAY FROM HOME The Bee is The Paper you ssk for; if you plan to b absent more thaz & few days, Rave The Bas malled to you. [ ‘will go on keeping house and entertain- ing and planning her wardrobe, in the me way she did ten years ago. That is golng backward. Communion of ideas is soing forward, The business man that has bullt a fence about himself and conducts his business as he did before, and thinks that way good enough, presently notices a falling off in his business. He may attribute the falling off to “conditions.” That is a big elastic word that we often use to cover our own shortcomings. 1 know such a man, He owned a restaur- ant in the center of a colony of business bulldings. It was so crowded that men used to stand behind chairs at the tables, ready to slip Into the first chair vacated, Just as you see women customers stand with an air of forbearance behind filled chairs at the luncheon tables in the big department atores in the city. His place was popular then, but the trouble with “Hank"—s0 ail the men patrons called him-—-was that he was satisfied with that success! He erected a high fence about himaelf. His patrons came to know his menu by heart. They used to recite it backward, in a deep toned .litany. ‘“Hank' thought it & joke and laughed mere loudly than any of them. Some of the men spoke riously to him about their desire for new dishes. But “Hank" would not change his menul ‘They used to be good enough,” he said stubbornly, “and If they were good enough then they are good enough now." Do You Lead a Limited Life? The New Nationalism e o S waves are not formed In the atmosphere; they travel in the ether, which fills all space and extends from planet to planet and from star to star. It Is questionable whether they are not more or less impeded by the atmosphere. It not, the deserted lunar world may be conceived to have become, with a few years past, the haunt of strange electro- magnetic echoes from the feverish life of ite blg animated neighbor, Unfortunately the needed evidence of ife upon the moon I8 not forthcoming. Our nearest neighbor in the sky appears to be a dead, or totally abandoned, world With Mars the case 18 different. Mars has air, which the moon has not; Mars has water, which the moon ‘has not; Mars has days and nights and seasons | resembling the earth's, which the moon has not; and, finally, Mars has signifi- cant markings upon its surface, which at least suggest the work of hands guided | by a high intelligence. | Stomachs rebel against the same fare continuously served, The old patrons be- gan to disappear. Men stood no more behind the chairs of other masticating men. The rush became a memory. Vacant seats began to show even at the rush hours. “Hank" grew sullen. But he wouldn't change his bill of fare, wouldn't introduce new dishes! The place around the corner won his former | patrons. Even his friends fell away. They | had been fenced out. Yesterday when I slipped into “Hank’ for a cup of chocolate there were new faces and a new air in the place. “Hank" had sold out, for the benefit of his creditors. Better have contact with our fellows. Better turn inquiring eyes on what the | rest of the world is doing. Best take an | uncarping interest in what, and those, that are going on about us, Else one day we will find that they have passed by. It ls well to rub brains with brains! Don't scorn what the world of today is doing. Its tastes may seem a bit cheap, but Carlyle told us that the instincts of the masgses are what govern the world. | Better understand thelr way of seeing | even though you domn't see that way. And who are we if, not of the masses, For our own sakes, for the sake of the world's progress, let us not narrow our | tinues | Dayton. Courage More Important than aBank Account By JOHN H. T. MAIN, : President nnell College, Grinnell, Ta Many a boy that ought te go t ollege and that w to college does not do 20 beoau 8 the handicap of | slender resources, His fears overcome his desire Instend of going to college ho takes a Job and loses a great opportin H aure his lack of cour has gone to prove that he was not the genuine e type suggests that he would not have won out os & college man A college man needs courage in the face of difficulties. Courage is more imporiant than a bank account Any lad with a econvicti bared on good common sense and a falr record | the preparatory school is entitled to a coliege education it he wants It, and It is certain to be his if he determines that it shall be. | Bome weeks ago I sat near four lads {In a rallroad car en route fr 1 North | ampton, Mass., to Springfield. Their con | versation indicatea that they were In | the last year of a high school course | They were dischssing the prospects of next year in college. Three of the lads {had chosen the same college. One had | chosen Harvard college. They were eager. quick-witted lads, alive to the problems | of college and the future Thelr speech Indicated that their re |sources were slender. Three were urging | the fourth to ‘“come nalong,” but the fourth had his ming mude up and finally declared warmly, “T am going to Har- vard. T am going to Harvard If it takes all the rest of my life to pay the debt.” The emphasis of his words marked him out as a fit subject for a college educa- tion, He had planned his educational fu- ture, He was determineq to have what he had planned to have. He had made his choice and lllustrated the fact that in comparison with cour: and the will | to achieve the questions of money, of expense, of location are quite ucidental This lad already had success well in command. Success was already his sery- ant. In the ordinary and normal courae of things he will go to the college of his | chotos. | He will leave it at sraduation in debt.| He will not stay in debt, but he wiil go| to work and pay his debt and be a suc-| cessful man and citizen. His debt will | be a perpetual inspiration and a perpetual | investment, bringing back not only dol-| lars, but innumerable satisfactions, both | material and spiritual { Many business men would advise this! lad not to go to college. They would y to him, “You can't afford it." Such | men have no capacity to sce a debt as | an investment, They 4o not realize that the greatest| investments that have ever been made | have originally been debts, They see only the difficulty and do not realize that @ wise lad reduces a difficulty to its sim- ple elements or pays no attention to it whatever. A story is told of the Wright brothers. I do ‘not know whether it s true or not. It it is not true, It ought to be true. When Wilbur and Orville Wright wers lads they worked in their father's back yard in Dayton, O., on various mechani--| cal devices, spurred on by the ambition | that they might some days make & fly-| ing machine. An old neighbor noticed the boys working. He would occasionally come and watch them. One day the old neighbor sald to Wilbur: “Wilbur, don’t you know that nobody ever did make a flying machine?” | Wilbur reflected and made no reply. After a moment the old gentleman con- “Wilbur, don't you know that nobody ever will make a flylng machine?” | St no reply from Wilbur. And then finally, as if to settle the whole matter: “Wilbur, if anybody ever did make a flylng machine, it wouldn't be nobody in, That remark finished the neighbor, htll‘ the flying machine was bullt, and a new mechanical world was created. It isn't every lad that can achieve the “4mpossible,” as the Wright brothers did, interests. Let us read the newspapers, see plays, talk with our friends, our neighbors, with strangers. Let us not fence ourselves about, narrow our in- terests, limit our lves. By CHARLES H. PARKHURST. There is. & considerable number of people who fear that they will not be credited with possessing superior intel- ligence unless the idems they put forth are essentially different from those previously given to the public, or perhaps, even directly contrary ta what has been commonly accepted With them originality—no matter what sort of a thing it is that they originate— s a symptom of genius. ilence it comes about that the world of ideas is flooded with all sorts and descriptions of nov- elties. We have, therefore, what is known as the new though, and the new theology, the new art and the new morality. To believe substantially as people bave been for a long time accustomed to be- lieve is to place one's self in the class of the unthinking or even of defectives. And now Dr, Krehblel of Leland Stan- ford university has been regalling the conference of Clark university people at Worcester, Mass., with another brand new doctrine which he calls the new na- tionalism. He says of it: “The time will come when It will be so patent and will have so influenced public thought that nationalism will be recognzed as an oldg wine bottie mot fit to hold the mew wine, when some form of international organization and co-operation in har- mony with life will be demanded.” His idea appears to be that a man is const'tutionally international, and that universal in his interests and nuiversal In his interests and tions, and sprawls out so exten- in every direction beyond all geo- frontiers that such frontiers will entually to have any substantial | ‘snificance. | To make a specitic application of bis be is [ Rl »vel s0 doctrine the professor would the time is coming, not say how soon, when Americanism, in the present sense of the term, will no longer signify, and that the univers- ality of our loyaliy will erase our pa- triotism, the incoming tide gathers up into one geep continuous sea all the Pools left behind when the last tide re- ceded. 8o far as his theory carries with It the hope snd expectation that with the prog- | ress ot Christian development our frater- nal interest in mankind will become more and more widely extended, we should none of us be disposed to take exception to his statement. But it i& & phyehologi cal fact that a different sentiment, to be of any practical significance or force, is conditional upon a confined concentra- tion of sentiment | We can cite domestic life as an illue- tration of our principle. Were we to follew out the professor's idea to its ulti- mate, we should have to expect that the universalizing of our interests and affec- tions would issue in gradually relaxing and eventually obliterating home ties, till at last our homes as such would cease to exist, or, at any rate, would serve no sther purpose than that of & convenient habitat for purposes of eating and sleep- ing. Now the contrary of that is the fact. The true home, in the fullness of its concentrated and confined affection, s the very place most to be counted upon #s the point of divergence, out from which radiate those ever-lengthening lines of devotion by which the world at large is made better, brighter and sweeter, - Loving our own America more will give us more -heart for all menkind instead | of an increased interest in mankind re- | ducing and contratetns our devetien to | America. say that although he does but every lad with common sense and an adequate amount of that indefinable qual- ity known as “gumption’ can find a way to go to college, and if he goes to college | he will ultimately achleve success. Bet- ter still, he will be achleving success all the time. Success is a process. He will capitalize and recapitalize his debts and his capacities and bring back to himself many satisfactions and give them in turn back to the world. Once William James, in beginning his course in Harvard universit id to the students who filled his lecture room something like this: “Possibly there are no geniuses in this room. 1 hope there's mome, but every- one who is here, if he works hard, if | he gets a job, it he persists—when he is 40 years of age will be a useful and re- spected man in his community.” The lads who are fit to go to college are not primarily the ones who have re sources, not the ones who have genfus, but the ones, regardless of resource: genius, who have the wili-to-achieve. and In-Shoots Tainted money first usually sprouts wings When the house divided against falls the bricks always hit the dog. itself under It does not always reform & man to get married, but it usually makes him more cautious. The girl who wents to make literature count will first memorise the contents of the cook book We are often saddened by thought that the handsome movie screen hero may have a sissy voice. The fact that a few of us are still living seems to take the snap out of a lot of these deadly germ theories, Every man should be patriotic enough to listen while the other fellow singe | “Star Spangied Banner” now and them. | Anita Stewart’s Talks to Girls No. 6—A G@Girl and Her Money cvvey YAV ATYATAPAPAY,! worse off than the south before the war. Are out of a position, and then the dif- ference betw peace and despalr will be your baiance in the bank I you have lald money aside, you can take time to recover from an (liness. If you are treated unjustly, you can afford to give up & bad situation while you hunt for n good one; but If you have lived Up to every cent of your earninga you are nothing but an industrial slave, blacks were In the Of course it'n For ome thing, because hard for a girl to save. her family al- ways thinks that a daughter's pocket- book belongs to them instead of being her ‘ndividual property; and for anothe because #o many of her friends think of har as someone from whom they can al- ways borrow moncy. Tt's hard for a girl to say “No" to A Recent Photograph of Anita Stewart in an Attractive Pose. By ANITA STEWART Copyright, 1015, Inter'l. News Service. The first money I ever earned 1 made posing as & regged, barefooted little country girl in a moving picture film, T | received only a few dollars for it, but 1 felt richer than many a millionalre. They talk about the music of the spheres! Do you know what I think it is? 1 think it's that ertsp, important rustle of the first money we ever make with our own hands and brains and en- ergy. Not without reason do they stamp the eagle the emblem of liberty on & dol- lar, for there's mo freedom without fi- nancial independence, and that's what you achleve when you begin to make money | tor yourself, But it's one thing to make money and another thing to save it, and the sav- ing is what I want to-talk to girls about for lots of girls can make a good salary, but it takes a real heroine to accumulate a savings bank account, Of course, there are far more tempta- tions for a woman to spend money than there are for a man. A man can be well dressed with a few suits of clothes that look just like every other mat and there's nothing In a tailor's window to make him want to spend his last cént on it But clothes make a woman pretty or ugly, and every shop window is a stand- ing temptation to her, It's so hard to see a hat that would make you look per- fectly ravishing, or a pair of shoes that exactly match a new frock, and to turn your head away and selse your pocke book and run by instead of going in and buying. But be Spartans, girls, and forego un- necessary finery. Don't be like those foolish ones who, after ten years of hard work, have nothing to show for thelr labor but a few yards of bedrag- #led chiffon. Remember that the rainy day will come for you as it does for everybody else. There will be times of sickness and times of business depression, times when you those she loves, but unless she uses some enlightened seifishness and looke out for her own inte: she will find that no- body else will. I would particularly warn girls agalnst the follow of Joaning money promiscu- . There's an old proverb that says that when you loan money to a friend you lost your money and your friend both, and this is worth remembering. I have known girls to deny themselves everything on earth and work like slavea to hep men they were in love with through college, or to go Into some busi- ness, and in every single case as soon as the man got on his feet he jilted the girl and married somebody else. The only way you can save by adopting a system and making it rule to put aside a certain amount every week. I adopted that plan when I first began to earn money. 1 denied myself many pretty clothes and luxuries that 1 saw other girls having who made no more than T did, but I have the reward of my thrift now In a lovely little home of my own that I am buflding. 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