Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1916, Page 9

{ RHealth Hints e, Commou Sense Mothers Ay ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copright, 10, Star Company. a college town lives a beautiful young girl whose mother is gifted with the unusual asset of common sense. When the telephone rings it is the mother who answers, and when a masculine voice asks for her daughter, the mother inquires who wishes to speak with her daughter. mother knows the speaker the daughter is allowed to converse over the telephone in the mother's presence. On, at least, & half dozen occasions, the names have been refused, say simply, “Oh, just tell your daughter it is a friend wishes to speak with her.” But, said tho mother, “‘unless you are willing to ve your mame I do not care to have you speak with my daughter.’” In On these several occasions the name has been refused and the mother very — Sensibly has hung up the receiver, greatly to the daughter's amusement, be it sald. Remember this girl is only 15, and quite possibly, more than probably, the voices of the speakers belong to boys not many years her senior. Nevertheless, the situa- tion is purely American and indicates on what free-and-easy lines girl is educated. This mother has been called a crank, and her rules are considered very strict She is told that among all the girl's ac quaintances no other mother insists upon knowing who is talking to her daughter over the telephone. Then more is the pity. In two high schools, not many miles removed from the little town wherein this girl resides, tragedies and scandals have occurred which have marred the lives of many young girls. Statistics are in the writer's possession regarding these high schools. Statistics so appalling that they make one wonder there not more cases like that of Marian Lambert and Wiliiam Orpet. ‘n” you have daughters or sons attend- i%g high school or public school, dear madam, it would be worth your wuile 1o pay a little more attention to the tele- ne calls which your children are giv- ng and receiving out of school hours. 1t will be worth your while to know were your ghildren go at the noon hour and the recess hour, and if they do not come home directly from school to know where they have been and who have been their associates. Of vast importance is it for you to keep in very close sympathy and touch with your young daughters if you live in a college town. The average youth who is sent away to oollege knows nothing of the sacredness or the dangers which lle in sex attraction. Willlam Orpet, the yopth now awaiting trial for the murder of Marian Lambert, was a freshman sent away by his par- ents without the least instruction on this important subject. It was his pride and boast that he could win the con- fidence and overcome the prudence of any young ®irl Marian Lambert's mother never asked who was calling heér daughter over the telephone. If her daughter had told her it was Willlam Orpet, the father or the mother would have found it necessary to look up the character of Willlam Orpet. The fact that a youth attends some well known college seems to some silly mothers and fathers to be considered a certificate of character. They do not realize how college boys under the In- fluence of drink or in the intoxication of youthful conceit boast of their successes with girls and besmirch their names by frequent utterance in public places. 1t is much better for you to be called a crank and to win the reputation of over-caution as a mother than for you to the risk of ever ocoupying the posi- of Mrs. Lambert before the world. Impress your young daughter, as this sensible mother has done, that it is little ahort of an insult when any boy or man calls for her over the telephone and re- fuses to give his name to you. Such ex- periences cheapen a girl, and she should make it known to all her boy friends that she so understands the situation. Advice to Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfaw Don't End ¥ Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young fel- low 16 years old and am at present a tendin, the Bushwick High ch Hrookryn, 1t _happened a few days ago that I a few girl friends and we got on the e car and started for home. I, as a gentleman, offered to pay their fare, but they so obstinately refused that the whole car was soon looking at us. But finally they e in much against their wishes. Now I think that they treated me meaniy and wish l;(;“gl-com \ fends| 3 m T ? tinue thelr frie D Am LRt 1 am sure these girls meant absolutely no offense, but labored under the foolish misapprehension that they oughtn't to ‘ take advantage of the accident of meet- ing you and permit you to go to any ex- se on thelr account. They showed a ? lack of knowledge of the proper thing to ! f But I think there is no reason why you should drop their acquaintance merely because of a little blunder on their part do wrl Dear Miss Fairfax a friend for a few weeks and mail sent to that address. A came for me and being that I at home it was returned to the mallman as & non-resident. 1 expected a letter from a gentleman and 1 think that letter Was stopping with that was returned came from him. Wonld you advise me to write to him and laake fiim understand why it was returned and give him by present address, or bim D waiting? ANXIOUS. 1£ the young man does not know your present whereabouts he has no way of communicating with. you, 8o 1f you value his friendship more than & chance to act as a coquette write and explain the matter to him He 18 Not Trustwo v, Dear Miss Fairfax: 1 am dearly in love with my employer, who in return his affection for me. Recently heard that he is engaged to an- other young woman. I have questioned him to this effect and he told me he would break the engagement 8o kindly advise me if I should keep up frien T. B. E ship with him s man had no right to show his affection for you while he was engaged to another girl and since he is so fickle and heartless as to be really to cast aside this girl for you, how can you ever feel secure in his affection and safe from being given up for the next girl who happens to appeal to- his errant fancy. - It the name is miven and the | the average | my | ter |Hope fOf }the Leper | By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D. l‘ PART U 1 When Uncle Sam, as the result of the | | war with Spain over Cuba, found him- self most unexpectedly and unwillingly with his shere of the ‘“‘white burden,” the wardship of back-| ward and child races, one of the first prize paciages which he fished out of | the bundle was leprosy—10,000 cases of it! | | This, of course, offended the sanitary | | conscience and model housekeeper senso of our public health service doctors voryl much, for by one of the curfous contra- dictions of human nature we give eur | colonfes and savage or halt-civilized | | dueky wards, whether in Luzon or Pmo! Rico, o much better, more efficlent and up-to-date sanitary service than we have | ourselves in most of our home countios | loaded man's and not a few of our states. | S0 Dr. Heiser and his colleagues pro- ceeded to do something about it a la| Panama, after making a complete census of all lepers and a thorough study of the | | disease in all the islands, and finding | that it was certainly holding its own, If | not They picked out an island well wooded, well watered, fertile and attractive, rounded by a wide enough belt of sea to | be safely isolated and not easy to escape } from in a canoce, and yet central enough to be readily accessible from all parts | of the archipelago. | Here they laid out and bullt two beai- | titul model villages, eacu with its pretty | harbor and landing stage, palm-shaded streets and public flower gardens and | the perfection of water supply, sewer- | age and drainage | Gardens and small farms were lald out, herds of milk buffalo and beet cat- tle provided for the occupation of such | | 1epers as were physically able to do light | work, and a weekly steamer line estab- | lished Then the lepers were invited to come | over and be made comfortable, and en- | couraged to bring her healthy relatives | with them to see what the place was| Iike. Such flattering reports were spread by these reiatives on their return, aided | by steropticon views with which they were supplied, that it wasn't long before | a steady stream of lepers was flowing into the lsland, faster even at times than we were really prepared to accommodate them. ., With the gratifying final result that in about four years' time: practically all the lepers in the Philippines, except a few scattered cases In the remoter districts, and a few of the wealthier class, who ‘were properly cared for by their families in isolated houses or private asylums, were gathered together upon Oulion Island. And this without any use of force or the strong arm of the law, save in a few homeless and irresponsible cases, but simply by kind treatment, persuasion and sanitary education, It was a wondesful. compliment, not merely to our medical officers and dip- lomats of science, but also to their na- tive wards. Who dare say that the child races of the world are not amenable to reason? and that even the backward peo- ples have thelr full share of sound sense and right feeling, when given a white man's chance? As Sir Henry Johnson, one of England's ablest colonial administrators, said: “The only thing needed to make a savage be- have like a gentleman is to treat him like one,” increasing The Man Who Wanted to Be Sincere “I will be sincere,” I said to myself. “No matter what it costs me, 1 will say | exactly what I think at all times and all places. I will have nothing to do with shams and pretenses and conventions.” 8o I went out and tried it. To the first man I met I stated my posi- tion and my intention of speaking my mind. The man grasped me by the hand s though I was his long-lost brother. “‘You are the man for me!” he declared. | “I'm sick of the conventional humbug of | the world. We will be triends, you and I, | and we will always say exactly what we | mean to each other and tell each other ! our real opinions.” | “We will,” sald I, “and as a start I | should like to say that the color of that | tle you have on does not suit you at all. | A man with your complexion should never | wear a red tle.” But my ~new-found | friend was a soclallst, and he feit as though he was saying his creed every time he caught sight of his red tie in & shop window, so, after a slight argument, he remembered a previous engagement and vanished. T was somewhat pussled, but went on my way, and presently met a nice, pretty | #irl, and to her I unfolded my philosophy. “I'm awfully glad you've told me," she sald. “I get so tired of all the silly things | people say to one, and I have so often longed for a friend who would tell ma what he really thought of me. You wil, won't you?"' “I will, T promised. “I'l begin now. You say you get tired of people who say silly things to you, but really you like | them."" i But it happened that she was a girl who prided herself on being sincere, who ex- | plained tor herselt many times daily that she only did conventional things becauss | “‘one had to,” and so she was not at all | | Pleased. She told'me in tones of perfect | politeness that T was quite mistaken, and went ‘off to talk to another man who told her what a relief it was to meet someone | who was not afraid of calling a spade a spade But, at last, I beautiful old lady, who was mot in the | least ashamed of being old and looking | old. To her I made, as in duty bound, | my declaration of absolute and uncom- | promising truthfulness, but instead of composing odes in my honor she asat up | and shook her finger at me. “Now, now,” she ead. ““That won't do] with me, young man. All the men who want to pay the most outrageous compli- ments begin like that, and I've heard too many of them.” And the more I pro- tested my complete sincerity, the less she | would believe me. | 8o what was I to do? To try to be sin- 1 cere with myself was about the only thing left. After a few more experiences of the same sort, which invariably brought the same results, I decided that | real sincerity didn't occupy a very perma nent place in this world's affairs found an old lady, a | Fashions - | lita are those which project TI(IE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH | 7‘\ RS i '\ ‘ i f Hqfil This was where June’s sway reaching out from a far place and for years lifted me out of a slough and set me on the high places in the sun again. 1 was there where ambition was working me hard, but I rested on my oars sometimes and cruised in strange water, around strange isles. And the isles were lovely and strange; and their strangeness, the languishing alr, the brooding odors, the Circe- music that rose from them drew my eyes and ears wide to be filled with the intense, the unusual. And 'round and about in the labyrinths of this still sea I floated ~—when I had time away from the busy, commonplace little harbors where I traded and labored and laughed. There were bound to be Loreleis in the purple sea rocks. And one sang—and my ears heard every soft and conjuring cadence, We'll call her Lorelel—eh? A slim, regal woman with hair like melted-down gold—sombre gold, with glints of fire catching in the light, Her eyes were gems—intent gems with a flash now and then as though In the quiet current beneath a thought-creature had flirted and flickered and caught the light of a subterranean sup, She was tragic, and wound about with a thousand superstitions, as they who do not live in the wholesome sun must be. She never hurried, could do nothing, watched a game with a curious calm. She was eternally young—seemed to me caught in the net of something fascinating and new-—but young with the uncanny youth of a story of a mummied queen—the story never grows old and the queen seéms always lovely. She never shouted and romped. She moved like a soft dream— she played deep and gloomy roles (did T tell you she was an emo- tional actress?). By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. | We live at a very high rate of speed and tension today. Things flash by us a8 scenery seems to whirl past & rapidly | moving express train. And we have 80| little pérspective on events that we com placently feel that we are fairly stable and stationary and that it is the world | that is flashing by As o matter of fact, most of us have hurried our lives into the express train| | class and we are flashing by the world without taking time to examine it care-| fully and judiciously | The only things we really notice in themselves | from the mass. The qualities in human nature that make for peace and comfort and home-loving happiness do not stand | out as high peaks gilded by the sunlight —at least, they do not so project them- selves upon our feverish and hurried | consclousness. A What we notice is the tinselled glare of shams and posses. Brilllancy and ability to pun, a tendency toward clever witticism, a flashy tendency to turn moral questions upside seathing critic- tsm, sarcastic undervaluation of true fine- ness—all these things have a tinsel at- traction for us and make us inclined to down, pass by real worth and stable, unpyro- teshnic mental qualities without noticing | them { We think in headlines and do not stop | to read the articles back of the head tThé }Tio'fdelyfi/i}tdes She wore queer garments fastened with queer lines, whether they be on a printed page or serve as human documents If a physician forward and flaunts a miraculous cure for anything or everything before us we are likely to comes honor him and pass by the good old family practitioner who saves more lives | each month that the quack remedy wilt ever conserve through the ages. Goodness and humility do not. impress us at all They weary us, They have no showy virtue, no brilliant charm. Loyalty we sneer at. Truth and honor we thrust aside ness dealings And these very homely virtues—good- ness, humility, loyalty, truth and hon- esty—are the only stabie underlying prin- ciples to make human intercourse happy or even tolerable. Goodness is not showy; humility surely cannot flaunt Itself; loyalty saust of ne- cessity by silent, and truth and honesty have to be accepted without self-adver tisement. So we pass them by and note instead the semi-virtues which act as their own press agents. For goodness we substitute brilllancy; for humility, proud success at any price for loyalty, self-interest, and for truth and honesty, cleverness and shrewdn And we all have rather an uncomfertable as impractical for busi- scramble in trying “to do the other fel- low or he'll do you first Haan't the time come for a comfortable nd comforting loned revival of the old-fash- irtues? = = e oman’s Work NS A o) M) [} “: stones. By Nell Brinkley Copyright, Q% 1916, Intern’l News Service. 2 il el ? it The mental sea she swam in was a dark, intense waste 80 thick that on a healthy day I came to long for the thin, winey water of joy and sanity, Just here I grew two lines 'longside my mouth, and my temples were rising painfully from the receding waves of my hair, the daily worship at the altar of lure of the unaccustomed. I almost deserted my busy harbor for the purple isles—for a traglc muse—a Circe with the And I worshipped well! And now I know that I was just one laughing one of many sailors who sailed past. And then one day, sitting in the amber light of her jeweled lamps, listening to her too- sweet voice singing a French chanson (Juns French was poor and happy), I remembered June, wholesome, laughing June and the open canoe and the wide, fresh sky, the air, the sun and the things we found joy in; and before her, all the child-women—my mother— sweet, sane women with clear, wide eyes, who had helped me build my ideals and ideas! And straightway if smotherd. tiful—too shadowed—too enchanting—closed in on me. the flowers that leaned close to my The rooms—t00 rich—too beau- I hated face—gardenias from a hothouse; I hated suddenly the wild honey flattery of the woman who sang, with a white wolfhound Jeaning against her as though he, too, longed for the wide sky and the sun and to unlimber his racing legs on the plains where he was born to be—and I rose and sald good-bye for good! And I cruise no more in the haunted isles, homely little harbor where I trade I am busy in the and laugh and labor. And since then I have found two later flames that burn for me steadly ana clear. Guess who?— NELL BRINKLEY, Facts Abmlt Theodore Roosevelt is noted for his forcetul expressions “Coffee, biscuits and a pipe’ s the breakfast menu of Sir Uougles halg Prince Henry of Prussia is one of the most skiliful fencers In Germany. The queen of Sweden has visited the German empress threo times since the outbreak of the war lLord Derby's signature is just now more in demand among autograph hunt- ers than that of any other wan in Eng land who recently married minister's daughter Bonham Carter, the British prime |18 one of the best judges of old English furniture in the coun ry The king of Spain has lately fnter ested himself in the condition of Spanish prisoners, and has been visiting the chief penal establishments in his realms. 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