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““Clear and cold, peering at the thermometer grumbled Danny, the small with a cold eye. SN disgruntled god, “Clear and cold; re my strawberry-hued leeks and iab my baby skin at every N ¢ THE BE om_an"s Work -:- Fashions - OMAHA WEDNESDAY, JANL my body turns slowly a delicate orchid hue; my ears tigle as with a thousand colored stars. The stars crackle with the bursting cold, and the lake of the sky freezes fast around them. For my lovers have quarreled! B-l-l1-1-1! Oo Gee! They don’t drink their hot coffee and eat the grateful roll, but I do mine, and while I feast 1 hope for milder weather.— NELL BRINKLEY. { markably frosty, in fact, and growing more bitter at every beat of the heart in my breast Icicyles gather on l nose; they overhang my cold. ¢ numb bite. My eye grows fishy: my lashes gather a crag:ing rime; ! ustl H /] " Readjusting the Home \ r It is the first baby that causes the greatest amount of anxiety Every mother of a partly grown family will ' admit that she expended more time and worry and effort over baby number one than over any of the others, and she } will confess to more houschold con- fusion, unsatisfactory meals and com- , plicated family situations during her first baby's infancy than have marked her management either before or after There were a good many things that | might have beén told me when I was expecting my first little one, but some how nobody ever thought .of them. Nobody suggested that the first thing I would have to do after the de- grture of my nurse would he to sys- lematize my household activities from ‘ marketing down to bedmaking My appeal to the young Leafn to save yourself.” Her strengt® is needed, mot only for baby's proper nourishment. but for the adjustment of home to the new conditions, for giving some time and attention to the baby's father who perhaps has pushed inte the background Conse- auently after advising the porch or bal- cony or some form of partlal outing that does not Involve tramping the streets, 1 would suggest that the mother begin carly to train her baby to sleep by her- mother s the been self out-of-doors, both winter and sum mer, and to play contentédly when he is | awake. She will find this the first b step toward her own emancipation Jaby's requirements come at regular intervals all day and apparently upset Al system in the housework. But just fry sitting down with pencil and paper to write out a workig schedule for the waking hours, and you will be aston- ished to find how easily can ar- range the daily tasks, provided you are reasonably willing to shift work to unac- customed hours of the day. From time to time baby's schedule changes, and you must change with it. Feedings are further apart, and he takes one nap in the afternoon instead of two duiring the lay. Possibly you have always done the sweeping and dirty work in the of course one would much prefer it but if you can rest while baby sle«ps and then get up refreshed, to put thé living room in order after luncheon isn't that better than whirling through task aftef task till every muscle is morn- | ing After the Baby Comes weary and every nerve There is a wide aquiver? difference between altering one's system and having no sys { tem at all a more or less unconsidered distinction between extrava- There is a gant spending and the necessary invest-| ments a mother can make. 1 used to| find that sewing, or the effort to do it,| when I was taking care of my first baby, | was about the last straw. It made nervous- and gave It would have me the been much better | to have bought a few more practical, | ready-made gurments, for myself and baby, and conserved my energy. | 1r every mother would | vote a certain proportion of her dr ing time excessively baby colic expectant to studying a good cookl [ she would reap untold advantage for her- | self. I do not mean that she study it { In order to learn newer or fancler cook ing, but to compile a list of dishes and menus that represent variety, but a mini mum .of .work in their preparation. Let | her practice on caserole cooking and the | tireless cooker When baby's bottles are| | being sterilized she can get most of her dinner out of the way if she has these household helpers, and when 6 o'clock comes she need not be struggling over | the kitchen fire. ,Many meats and pud- dings can be prepared early in the dish ' which finally goes to table and simply | reheated at dinner time We used doilles to gvoid large lahl-—! ‘*!th.-‘ and often paper napkins, and the | ehildren wore both aprons and bibs at th table Our of doors they wore barefoot sandals, their rompers and play-aprons were made of seersucker, their overalls of khaki. I had some crep: and seersucker dresses, riplette under. wear and wash-silk waists for myself. We ised small, rough Turkish towels which required no ironing.—Elna H. Wharton in | February Mother's Magazine rubber | HIS PART IN THE QUARREL was examining a wit- | to whom he remarked | “You admit you overheard the quar- | rel hetween the defendarit and his wife? ‘ The magistrate Yis sor, T do.” stoutly maintained the witness Tell the court, if you can, what he seemed to be doing.” | | “He seemed to be doin' the lstenin | Harper's Magazine | Advice to Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfax Lack of Consideration. Dear Miss Fairfax: I have been going about with a girl in my home town for a couple of ra. I love her more than anyone in the world and I know she loves me. Last summer another chap took a few walks with her and when he went home she corresponded with him. When T arrived home she sghowed me the letters she had received from this YOung man requesting him not to write again Then 1 wrote to the young man and told him what became -of his pictures. Instead of getting angry my sweetheart told me that aithough she still loved me she had lost all confidence in me. I am heart broken. Can you tell me how to regain her confidence” \DICK. Qf course you know your action For Emergencies When you have a bilious at- tack, or when you feel illness coming on—promptly move the bowels, start the liver working and put your entire digestive system in good shape with a dose or two of the time-tested PILL You will welcome the quick that 1 objected and she tore his | letters and pictures up and wrote again, relief and often ward off a severe illness. Beecham’s Pills are carefully compounded from vegetable products—mild, harmless, and not habit-form- ing. Buy a box now. You don't know when you may need Beecham’s Pills. A reliable family remedy that always Should Be at Hand Sale of Aoy Medicine in the Werld, | Loy { vl sverywhere. ls boxes, 10c., 28¢. | Showed a sad lack of faith-and trust in your sweetheart. You have made her bit ter by your underhanded action in going over her. However, if she still loves you and you are patient, you are likely to win her. DIAMONDS WATCHES ON CREDIT OUR CREDIT IS GOOD WITH USY MAKE USE OF IT IN 1916 Come into our store snd get ome of the extraordinary bar| We Are Row offeri in our Annual January Loftis Perfection Diamond Ring 680 Finest quality Dia- mond, perfect in cut and full ‘of fiery brilliancy. Skilifully mounted in our famous Loftis “Perfection™ §-prong ring. 14k solid gold Bpecially priced at LADIES' AND MEN'S WATOHES Iihest quality solid 4 and gold filled Watches, gua ed accurate time-keepers, and wonderful values at the prices of $12 and up. Terms 1o suit your convenience, Opea Daily Till 8 P. M. Saturdays Till 9:30 Call or for 1lustratsd The National Oredit Jewelers, BROS&CO 163 § 1o =t AKY 19, 1916 By EMILIE FAGUET, 1 now want to say somothing about the Yart of triendshin ow to practice friend against the loss of it; for there is an art in friendship which one must learn. A person must cultivate his feelings and his ability to understand and learn Nietz sayse One must learn to love, must learn to be good from early youth. If our education and fate do not glve us opportunities to exer these feelings, our soul dries up and even grows blind to all the tender inventions of lov ing people The tirat art I8 to know how to choose all they must re one's friends. First of semble us somewhat, but, among all those who resemble s we must, as Nietzsche says, select only those who work The jdle man 1s a friend only of your idléncas and is jealous of your work: he can ney be true friend One must be on guard not only against but the apparent friends he false friend, also against the superficial friends arainst those who are good oan of thelr ignorance. Many people show ua a certain kind of sympathy, and speak of us r the in kind terms only be do not know us, and to make ourselves known to them would mean not to gain their affection. but to lose their sym pathy We often meet with a sympathy we do not understand,” Nietzache says, “but when we learn to understand it, it of fends us because it shows wa have not been taken serlously You must seek the one who resembles | vou, who knows you, and who loves you n little, even If he knows, then if he comes to know you better it is possible that he may love voun more Although friendship is, in principle, & fight from solitude, you must be on your guard against him who seeks yonu only to encape salitude. Nietzache expresses it in a parodoxieal manner, whieh, however, | i= not without justice “My friend is always the third person 1 am always two, I always converse with myself, and my friend is the third person who always interrupts, not our solitude but our conversstion He in the cork float wolch prevents the lead of our con versation with ourselves from losing itself in the depths, from rolling into the abyas. The third must always be hostile when he comes. Come at least as my enemy, says the tired hermit the third must not come simply But - Heqlth H?Znts - ' |,How and Keepr Friends: Royal Scent for Everyone’s Uses ibecause he desires to escape solitude. [One goes to his neighbor because he | seeka himself, which may be good. the |« ther bLecause he wants to forget hiw welf learn to know one from the othe? t When the choice of a friend has made, as far as such a cholee is possi approach him. Bias i reported to have sald. “Love as you expect to hate some v - H ousehéld Topics that it is often said, though the same I8 not true, that they are contrasts. They arec ontrasts only in some of their anifestations [ Love needs o be created anew con- If in its origin it is the most | spontaneous of sentiments, it lives on the | ae during Its whole existenoe. It demands that you will and you per- | sist. 1f the sive to lov loving man or woman does not endeavor to revive in the heart of ay This is rather harsh, and it |{hy heloved, thes mall, greedy and fiick- aroused the anker of Cleero, but 1t 18 |ering flame does not die, but it st and proper, at least during the be- | govelops a tendeney to go back to ite “"“' NE of A friendship. Flaubert never | ey guys and live on its memories, and nderstood the sages of Fort Royal, who [in g5 doing it exhausts itself, as memor- el to one another unthl {jog are not fnexhaustible, but always the end of their Hves Rena ipproved | st them very heartily and cited his friendship with Herthelot, which was nearly whally intallectual, and never grow familiar, as the model friendship. Deference fs a form, nay ven a part ¢ re a8 oven Cloero ddmits when he ny They feel towards each other deference and friendship emfwy o deference and tenderness; hut . (verebuntur), and he who glves P the respect (vere dfam) deprives fendshin of his chief ornament Eliminate from Hias' sentence its sa mnd it means only thi One mus? et towards one's friend, at least for long time, as If one expectoed me him some day as a legal but firm adve sAry. You must respect in him the in dependence which may some time turn | against vou | Nietzsche is You { the same opinion when {he saya hould have nothing to do with peonle who do not respect your | individuality When the friendship has grown as strong as it ean possibly be bLetween two persons, one must let it take ita natural course, and follow its own in- clinations. On this point the difference | between friendship and love is so great In-Shoots pugilists l‘ur; stand the knockeut blows given by the gentle sporting edi- ! tors | | Few | | Where the household is ruled by love | and kindness it is difficult to tell who ia boss | Some people good if they were not persuaded that religion is |a fire-escape. Tt is all right for a man to resign from A $10,000 job. But if he is getting $2 a would never he / he had better stick | prehension. | Bldg., Atianta, Ga. grow fainter, and at last love languishes from the lack of nourishment | Although friendship, as long as it is [ feeble, needs the same support, it grows after it has become strong, of its own for it has far more than lovd the character of a habit Love Is a rap- ture of the heart, while, friendship is the | habit of the and mind, of feeling {and under ding Hooray! Hooray! Nothing else can so completely endear | us to the present and the future as the ipation In a series mdld letters | Trom all over the country tell of the ‘,;rffl help “Mother's Friend"” was to | Even grandmothers tell the wonderful | o their own daughters about to enter the | state of motherhood. 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