Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 27, 1916, Page 9

THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, oman’s Work -:- Fashions - JANUARY o 1016. - Health Hints -:- Household Topics Quawnt Frocks for Quaint Little Folks She is nearing the awkward age, but you would never sus- pect it when she wears this dress of dark blue serge with wide collar and cuffs of plaited muslin. Over the Bridge of Dreams By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright, 1916, by Star Compahy. This is the time of year when we turn our thoughts backward and review our lives from childhood to maturity. We remember the early schooldays, the ames of teachers we had almost for- n occur to us, friends long dead rise from their graves and smile upon and from the land-of-forgotten thing: floats strange perfumes and sounds. We go back over the bridge of dreams and find the meadows of the used-to be, and there we live again the old raptures, vanished friendships and ephemeral loves; lost ideals and out- lived pleasures, once beautiful with vivid life. We read, too, on mouldy tombstones, half overgrown, the names of friends long buried, and we wonder sadly how long it will be before our own names re- main only on mouldering tombstones, the day urges us to keep our faces ever set toward the future, and to avold re- irospection and melancholy, both are nev- ertheless good for the soul at times. Just as it is well to go over one's accounts, over one's house, over one’ wardrobe, and readjust and set things in order, just so it is 11 to review one's Iife, to remember one's mistakes, and to realize, whilet so doing, the mental, moral and spiritual benefits which have resulted from those mistakes. It would not be well for us to find a record of only great, good and wise achievements. Such a retrospection would The hem seems as full as mother’s frock, and is plain and embroidered in rings of feather stitching. The body of the dress is of dotted Swiss. A Fictionless Fable By ANN LISLE, There was once a little girl Who was always the very last to get a partner at dancing school and the very last to be invited to school festivities when the were home. By the time she was 18, Bessle was well aware of the fact that ‘obys weren't specially interested in her.” She had a snub nose ‘and generous mouth and twinkling btown eyes and a rather plump figure, and recognized that none of these things made for beauty. Bdna and Kitty and Genevieve were all attractive and the boys liked them and they were sure to have love affairs and While the meta-physical philosophy of | good times and offers of marriage. Bessie accepted that, and having accepted it saw no object in weeping over it, but decided instead to go after the sort of success that depended upon her rather than the sort that must come through masculine preference. Bessle took stock of her abilities. There was nothing in particular she could do except keep her temper on all occasions, and that she decided would just about qualify her to clerk in a shop where women's wear was sold. Bessie managed to get a position. It developed that beside keeping her temper she had other talents. These were an lead to egotism and would destroy sym- pathy in our heafts. God sent us here to make mistakes, To strive, to fail, to rebegin To taste the tempting fruit of sin And find what bitter food it makes. iss the path. to go astray, ;: ':l.nd!r blindly in the night; But searching, praying for the Light, Until at last we find the way. vl er triumph sweet; o e o ncs. walks then, with care. And knowns the place to cry, “Beware! To other unaccustomed feet. Just in the measure that your sorrows, your mistakes, your agonies and your trials have awakened sympathy and un- derstanding of human nature In your heart has been your success in life. Not in the money that you have gained, not in fame, power, glory or opulence les success. You may lack all of these things and the world may call you a faflure: but it life has taught you sympathy, compas- sion, tolerance, patience and love, you are, indeed, a success In-Shoots When wifey leaves town on a visit the usband's merals someiimes take a vaca- tign, too. Most of ve have little use for the cheap actor who colls on “The Star-Spangled Banner” to help him out. While the church cheir sings of para- se, the members often act as though ey were headed for the other place erring eye for color combinations, and abllity to bring out other women's good points, & soothing effect, on high strung creatures who didn't like to be waited on by clerks who far outshone them in beauty and charm, and an untiring in- terest in the problems of other women. At the end of five years Bessie found herself at the head of the dressmaking department of the store. She was earn- ing money enough to pay for her own taxicabs and lunches and theater tickets, and she was much too interested in her work to care whether she interested men or not. In the process of studing line and color Bessie had naturally drifted into a way of doing her hair at an angle that count- eracted the snubbiness of her nose and that glossed over the roundness of her face. She had begun to wear black as a matter of business and wakened grad- ually to an artistic perception that long sweeping black draperies were just as merciful to her figure as they were to that of fat Mrs. de Millions. Nature had not designed Bessie for beauty, but Bessie grew Into a good enough designer to manage to add a lot of beauty to nature, She didn't miss masculine attentjon, be- cause she was giving her own attention to various other things. When she was 32 the son of the store owner decided that she was a wonderful asset to the firm end honored her with an Invitation to become & member of it and his wife at one and the ;ame time. Bessie responded with unspolled love to } bis rather indifferent love makirg and{uon The Girl Who Found a Late Partner kindled m him emotion as genuine as his admiration had been. Edna, of the many partners in dancing school, had already taken two of them as matrimonial partners and was now man- aging to exist on $25 a week allmony. Kitty had too many admirers to make a choice and was an aging and unattrac- tive soclety -voman, whose empty life showed clearly on her empty and veo- uous face. Genevieve, who had always been Bes- sle’s envy and despair in her unpopular youth, was trying to bring up six chil- dren on the limited income of the good- looking village n'er-do-well ‘'whom she had married at 13 just when Bessie had dedicated herself to a life of work. “You're the only man who ever asked me to marry him,” said honest Bessie to her flance. And the gallant flance, looking at the “shining brown eyes” and the ‘‘beauti- fully coiffed hair" and the “ daintily ret- rousee nose” and the ‘“pleasingly femi- nine figure” in its delicate black drap- eries, replied honestly enough, “Well, I'm probably not the only man who wanted to—but I suppuse you were much too busy to listen.” . Moral: In life, and in dancing school, & girl can have only one partner at a tim nd late comers may serve you well when early ones merely serve you right. Advice to Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfax Ask for an Explanati Miss Fairfax. I am 19 and dearly lov: young man three years my senior. I have known him for about eight months, that he loves me. Bu! v Would you please tell me how I can keep his friendship, as I love him v.r{ much. Ask the young man for an explanation, and tell him you think that much fis due your old friendship. As a matter of fact, he is young and so probably fickle. 1 suppose he has simply gotten over his interest in you, and you will be wise to accept the situation and simply drop the matter. Call Her Dear Miss Fairfax come a bride soon, “Mother.” : A8 T expect to be- will it be proper for me to address my intended husband's ‘mother as Mrs. , or is it proper for her to tell me to address her as mother. My dear girl the mother of the man yeu are so shortly to marry has loved her boy for long years before you knew him, and is in & way losing him to you. Can't you ses for yourself how sweet and gen- erous it would be for you to call her mother and make her feel that she is & & daughter rather than losing a Don't hesitate any longer about | offering her this sweet honor and affec- Don’t take them seriously, the little pantalettes; they com- | plete a pretty picture, but the| coat is as comfortable without | them.. Wine colored populin and beaver fur are suggested here. Strictly _’in_Style Smocking is an effective trimming for velour evening coats. White satin slippers, embroidered with dull white beads, are worn for evening. The very round, melon shaped muffs are espeolally effective in white tailless ermine. A double cape at the back that hangs to the waist is used on some of the new top coats. The uneven hem still prevalls, Often it is shorted in front than in back, and it is still scalloped. In & pleated skirt a plain front and back panel is often combined with &/ plain, carefully fitted yoke. | The bolero, which may be & big fea- | ture of spring styles, is efectively used now and then on midwinter frocks. The fichu, which is used on many walsts and bodices, is usvally finished with a ruffle, a scallop, or some other rather fancy edge. Buttons are still called on to finish & trimming element to one-plece frocks. | They are much used on some of the new cape collars, Butterflles are still influencing fashion. Bome of the frocks with a fichu drap- ery on the bodice show & sort of but- terfly bow at the front.' Accordian plaits are used in some of the silk and satin frocks. The lower edge of the ekirt !s usually bound or edged with ribbon, to give a flare effect. One-sided difects are many in winter frocks. Evening frocks that have no ! By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D. The much head-lined perils of oscula tion, while kissing, like any other form |of direct contact, is quite capable of spreading the grip, but the actual per centile part played by it in circulating the Infectioh is probably little more than trivial There is so little of {t anyway, except between mothers and children, and mem- bers of the same family have so many other active ways of passing along the infection that the kiss probably plays only about heavy a part in the ‘mortality”” as the bayonet does in mod. ern war. With the sneoxe killing at twenty fest and everybody doing it and the kiss deadly only "hand-to-hand" and only an occasional luxury, it seoms a pity to de- nounce one of the few pleasures of lite count of the Infinitesimal part which it may play in sproading infection The foolish and indiscriminate pecking practiced by some women whenever they meet might well be discouraged, and also the cheerful custom of expecting or al lowing every visitor to kiss the children and slobber over the baby, but the actual number of recorded cases of disoa; definitely known to have been trans- mitted by a kise ia distinctly small When it comes to local measures for either the prevention or cure of the grip, it must be sald at once that any attempt at antiseptic treatment, in the sense of and necessities of & happy home on ac- | sleeves are usually made with a strap of one fabric over one shoulder and an- other sort of strap over the other. Beads and chiffon are used In this way, flowers and ribbons or tulle and fur. In spite of the fact that good dyes are aifficult to obtain, and that some author- ities on the situation are urging women to wear white stockings, colored stock- ings of variou rts are in fashion. Often the upper part of the stocking is in brillian stripes, the lower part plain black, navy blue, plum or some other dark color. The Prolgt_i_tion Idea ““This probation idea is all very well but it should be played up witk. mode: tion."” “Huh ™ “It is not an ideal condition of affairs to have everybody in jall or out on pre- bation.”" —Loulsville Courler-Journal. Try This If You Have Dandruff There & one sure way that never fails to remove dandruff completely and that | is to dlssolve it. This destroys it en- tirely, To do this, just get about four ounces of plain, ordinary liquid arvon; epply it at night when retiring; use enough to molsten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips. By moming, most if not all, of your dandrutf will be gone, and three or four more applications will completely dis- solve and entirely destroy every single | gn and trace of it, mo matter how much dandruff you may have. | You will find, too, that all itehing an digging of the scalp will stop instantly, and your hair will be fluffy, lustrous, ! #lossy, silky and soft, and look and feel! & hundred times better. | You ean get liquid arvon st any drug store. It is inexpensive, and four ounces all.you will need. This simple remedy has never been known to fail.—Adver- tisement alming to destroy or neutralize #he in- | vading germs In the nose or throat, will defeat itself, because any remedy strong enough to be really effective as a germi- cide would do more harm to our nose or throat than it would to the On the other hand, there is & consid- erable amount of value In measures di- rected to keeping the nose and throat clean and well flushed out and health- fully cleansing and weakly antiseptic washes and sprays. The main requirement of these is that they sufficlent neutral salt or salts to bring erms. stimulated by means of mila should be alkaline and contain them up to about the specific gravity of | the blood serum | Mild aromatics, such as the eamphor, menthol or turpentine series add to their | otficlency, partly becauss of their mild antiseptio effect and also by thelr pun- | kent and convineing odor. Any Intelligent physician or hospital clinic can give you a formula whioh will be suited to your particular throat and prove useful in a | | vartety ot ways. Just plain baking sodw or salt, half a |teaspoonful to & glass of lukewarm water, will sarve very well, but the balanced mixtures are more agreeable | and etfective. It s & good thing to keep a box of | soda on your dressing tablo or wash- | stand, both to wash out the mouth and | gargle the throat with froely whenever {1t feels uncomfortable, or when you have |been exposed to foul air and possible intection, Some mild ofly spray such as laquid | vaseline, with menthol, Is also useful for cleaning out the nose and throat under | | the same clroumstances. It has fre- | |Quently been noted by observant nose |and throat spectalists that rather a h'gh | percentage of thelr regular patients, who | wore under routine treatment for catar.® |and other nasal and throat conditions, seem to escape attack Aduring epidemics of the grip. Not that there is any special magic in | |the treatment, which of course, varies | widely in different patients, but that all | of them as a part of the routine were using mildly alkaline and antiseptic washes In the nose and throat regularly night and morning. You can't kill the grip gorm by such means, but you oan dis- tinotly discourage him and increase your chances of paralysing him and washing him down Into the body sewers. Finally, if the grip gets you in spite of everything, don't take it to heart. If you are in reasonably good health and take intelllgent, self-indulgent care of from it. Bven its temporary agonies and miser- les can be very greatly alleviated by the judicious use of mild pain relievers in skilled hands. They won't do anything A0) Y CEERLEITIIE i AT il I AR UL WA b The spicy richness yourself, you have little serfous to fear ||, K issing and the Grip to cure you or even shorten the attack, but they will make you far less uncom- fortable while it lasts and 1eave no sting behind them. As for the complioations and after effects that may occur, the vast majority of them are oither aggra- vations of troubles which existed pre- viously or can be avoided by proper rest and care. And while, as a famous au- thority has truly sald, “Anything may happen to you after the grip” eo It might also after a good dinner. No Woman you find her out! Ever falled to find at least a Iittle trouble when she went to look for a great romantio adventure, Is clever If she lef Declares that ‘“charity covers & mul- titude of sins”’ without hoping that she will never need to borrow & corper of the mantle. 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