Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 31, 1916, Page 9

THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, ealth Hints -:- Fashions -- Woman’s Work -:- Household Topics T‘Zl fter the Ball’ ¥ By Nell Brin/cléé/ 1916, hance for English Women to Win i New World Place By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. The editor of Pearson's Magazine writes [f from London as foliow ‘In these days of national upheaval it seems to me imperative that some lead should be given to the women of BEngland, so that out of the chaos they may be helped to form saner ideals nobler principles, and & larger concep- tion of the place Which awaits them when peace is omce more established ‘I feel confident that women every- where are waiting for this message, and I that they are looking to the known Jeaders bt social life for the inspiration [Suahich will help them to find them en."” Copyright, 1816, Internl News Service ‘he editor of Pearson's iter's suggestions, dly and freely through the Evening Journal qéThere are no more charming and lov- | alle women on earth than the Pnglish | women when one comes to know them There is only one other country which can produce more disagreeable women when met casually, in travel and at re sorte, than England has produced If the English woman wants now find herself let her first see herself as others see her. Let her know that the cold, distant, haughty exterior which she carrles into the world and which | she utterly discarde llke a mask (as it 18) In her own home, s unbecoming, and that it awakens In the hearts of an able and kind people impulses of resent- ment and dislike which are destructive to both the sender and the recelver It does not create a Christian feeling or promulgate that sense of brotherhood and sisterhood which must exist before the New Golden Age can be established on earth A two weeks wants this | and they are given | the medium } stay in an English re- sort a few rs ago aroused in our hearts—the hearts of two very good-na- tured and amiable Americans—a sense of exasperation toward two English peo- | plg, who sat at the table next our won, iy who were often near us in the sic room and elsewhere. | Jur slight overtures toward courteous | atment were met with a cold stare hd utter Indifference marked their de- meanor during the entire fortnight. Sim flar experiences had been passed through on ships and at other resorts in Englang and in English colonie On leaving one place we were, curl ously enough, placed In the same com partment with the haughty couple- when, lo and behold! after a few hours the mask was thrown aside and the de lightful, cultured and genial English na ture shope forth. We were later invited to the home of this couple, and have for a period of several years bheen the best of friend The man is an officer at the front to- day and the wife a Red Cross nurse. It | was discovered that her distant manner really hid a timid and shrinking nature which lacked seif-confidence and po'se in meeting stranger: This is frequently the explanation of | this English fragldity of deportment; a deportment which conce hearts as which beat in | human breasts. But let the Wnglish | women know that their attitude is un- necessarily and disagreeably repelling, and let them realize that if they would be helpers in the world and lifters of the race they must unbend and unmask Then let all right thinking English women start a crusade against the smok- ing habit which cha erizes the na- tion. It was from England, not from Russia or Turkey, or any other land, that the American women adopted this ungraceful and unsanitary habit. The “smart’” women of England took it up—heaven only knows why or how; but we first saw it in the English plays, and we later saw it in English drawing rooms, and still later in hotels and on ps, and in truth everywhere that we saw the English woman of position. So universal has it been for some years, that one who was a visitor in England and did not smoke was obliged to ex- plain her ‘“eccentricity. 1f, as the editor of Pearson's says, the English women are waiting to find their place of usefulness when peace s estab- lished, lot them drop this unlovely habit Then, -perhaps, the American women, whao pattern all their vices after foreign fashions, will throw away their cigar- etles, and come into the march of prog- ress toward a cleaner and saner way of lite. We asked a distinguished and bril- liant Englishman who was at the head of the medical department in Ceylon, “Why is it that English people In general and English women in particular, are the most disagreeable human beings one meets abroad, and the most delightful and lovable of souls when met in thelr own land and homes?" “1 don't know why it is," he replied, but I do know It is a fact. I see it and hear it expressed wherever I go. One thing, English women are'in truth very retiring and timid by nature, and much afrald of being forced into limelight. They shield themselves consequence behind this distant which is often mistaken for ction and indifference to oth- 1 l@:yrm AT il L1 i fit i B akdies T i L:fimun AT GALEL NN s casiri ot ads <« P\ 5 3 st bt e > ? B 10 I i M 1;7"7:;;.In‘ RS S 13 < L o s id die OUTH we have, or have had—all! And so it is in the things of the heart and mind. What do you think and have thought, The common ex- But we hug our dreams, our conjectures, our desires, our agon- ies, our secret remembrances! sometimes for jealousy. never thought so! smiling man she's growing to know better! Sometimes for shame-—poor we— - Because we fancy the friend beside us He, too! La-—yes. He doesn't feel the sharp bite of the air— his heart's so warm while he smokes and dreams in slippers and gown at the open window in his “diggings.” What did she wear? Silver and black—and had eyes like stars he thinks, Did she like him when she smiled llke that——or was that just the way she al ways did it? And her eyes clung to her rose as though she'd k it it she dared before it went into his keeping. He's glad he's tall--she is so little! Over and over his brain epeaks the ride to the dance-~how she listened to his ambitions with eyes that glistened and never left his face! Was she that inter- ested? Surely she couldn’t listen to another man with that look. She had never given even him so much before. And her hair! What hair! And shutting his eyes, his heart repeats the touch of it against his cheek wben her head drooped coming home, His thoughts, too, venture into the same dim land the Land of What-May-Be——~where hers are reaching, And before “diving in,” he stuffs her white rose into his bill-folder, man-fash- ion, and firmly believes that no other chap ever carried a rose there before! Y so have I—and your neighbor over there! perience of Youth, and the same dreams and ponderings. We stand in a level, lovely sea, all with our feet upon the ooze at the bottom, our breasts laved by the shining surface, our heads in the sweet air above, and our eyes turned to the sky—your neigh- Youth goes home from the dance—in the thin light of the morning. The big, low moon paints silver everywhere and peoples even the city shadows with faery things., With the pins half out of her hair and the silver roses still drooping in its waves—tired sliver roses—she leans in her window and dreams. Her good little heart—half afraid—repeats every word, every sigh, every smile, the sound of the music, the arch of his brows, and the rhythm of his feet beside hers on the glass-smooth floor. The froth of her dress lying across the severe black of his knee—she remembers him lifting it with a cautious hand and saying, ‘I always knew you were faery-relation.”” What happened that her heart does not sing over and over again! The rose he asked for and thrust roughly into his pocket— where would he keep it? Her thoughts venture, like blind things, groping, wandering, grasping at memories, exulting at symbols, ad- vancing into the future-—shy things that tiptoe into unknown coun- try and fly back again to the real things of that night—back and forth—back and forth——Ilike busy shuttles weaving vague cloth of gold and blue., Gold for remote reachings, blue for the honutl!xl adventures just gone, And out of her dreams looks the straight bor as well as you. Why, then, are we surprised to learn, when we come out of stress and changes on the surface of the Sea of Life we stand in, that our friend beside us, and all the hosts that stand with us, have felt and known the same wash and heave of the waves about their hearts that we have? Telling of a marvelous blue and the light that fled over the sky for you, you whisper it and look for amaze on the face of the listener, But he nods and smiles as over a familiar treasure and says, “I was it, to The undercurrent that frightens you, your neighbor fights against also. The foam. that flies, he, too, tastes saltily upon his lips as well as you, And all the cloud-shadows and rainbow hues, | rumors of light and dark, the lovelinesses, the mysteries, that touch | the face of the great Sea that swims around us—these have touched ‘ | Didn't you know, dear Youth, that we all do that? Or did one time? All Maids and Men dream Dreams, and pretty much the same shy things. By NELL BRINKLEY, the hearts and spread before tue eyes of us all—the Truth of Lif. The Two-Fold By ADA PATTERSON. Duty of M dn guarded my teeth with the care that a dainty womap glves to her jewels, But he 4id more for me than that. Henever Three days later they buried him |failed of a cheery and a gay amidst & forest of flowers and a rain |farewell. Ie kept tenor ot | good humor. | of tears I asked him one day how he main. | He did not ‘belong | tained his unbreakable composure, to all | Man and {His Manners By very the in de- A good man died week in New York last BEATRICE FAIRFAX, How many of us think about our man And i greeting {4 But since this demeanor has caused the the #“English woman to be disliked so uni- versally when she is met outside of her home, it would be well for her now to even ners? yot fsn't it a true saying | that manners make the man and lack of He was a dentist them the fellow? consider the adviability of changing her manner to one of gracious affabllity and sindliness; let her not be afraid to show the transient acquaintance or the stran ger encountered in travel a littie of the lovely nature and tender heart which characterizse her in her native heath Trusting the editor of pass on these suggestions from one Amer- ican weman to all English women, I am his and theirs for reform In-Shoots Do not get too chesty compliments you on chances are he auto Undeserved praise is but a momentary stimulant. The man with a billyzoat face is fust as liable to be pursuea by a jealous wife as a tango Apollo. There is a large quantity i, the disposition. of the & #This work of is as difficult Lroken egE It is difficult to indulge fancy est habit without attracting the atter 1on of the alienists. The smaller the nelghborhood the #reater the excitement when some fel "W gets attentive to another man's wife one The an when some your success wants to sell you castic girl tellows together a reforming as patching n the Pearson's will | | 8. atter it to one of what are so-called ‘‘the learned professions;” although 1 snould like to know which of the “learned professions contribuates more to ease, comfort and health of mankind than does skillfu] den. tstry They have taken with his name and in the modest sign the initials, "D, D. The shades are drawn and there i & “To let’ sign on the door His patients have scaltered as members of & suffering tribe to other dental of- fices and told their troubles to other men wearing snow white coats and a patient expression and holding shining metal in struments in their hands. And as they e visited these offices they have all rd the same speech: “‘He took gouod care of your teeth did his work well The patients have gone back to their homes or offices, or stores, or work benches with thoughts other than of their He of vinega }.mm and loss. They were Inspired by the words He did A renewed ambition flamed in t breasts. They resolved it should truthfully said of him: “ie has done his work well.” What more can the is leaving this world of shadows and mystery ask One thing more. It him: “He fu 1 his work wel ir man who that than may be sald of nade more cheer had known this 1 n for e men and women, in all weather, mental | and otherwlse. He polished carefully | the last filling while he answered Sometimes when people come In at that door they get me 3 ruffie But I never let them know it. The surly the Irritable, the suffering, the meek, all | received from him the same greeting the same careful professional treatment, the same godspeed Latterly his strength had been abating He confessed that his last vacation had been prolonged and that he hadn’t un dortaken te new season's work with as much vim as before He told me of his plans for his work There should be less of quantity of that work but less of quality. He wo tablish a home apart from hi was wearing upon but there was no workmanship On the at the table waiting his dinner There lessening not ild es. office. Tt little. Yes, | In fine Mm w change his None In his ovening of a hard for the was manner. ha sat serving of an inarticulate & dripping on his head upon his | and, hg was gone. But the last had left his chair, just as vas growing too dim for work, | of all 1 Aay breast patient who the ligh said what bad sald wor W hand He did his v He ther years was most careful in his shook | stance Think it you will how often you intro- duce gracefully one friend to another We are all supposed (o know gentleman s introduced to the lady, matter what his the lady to the you would suy, s my friend, Mr Bwift, this 15 my no never For in Miss James, this Swift,” but not M friend rank may be gentleman Miss James. yound people to persons to mar- Remember to present elders and single Many persons wonder whether to shake | hands on being Introduced or simply to bow. If the Introduction fs formal a bow sufficient But if the stranger is to become a friend give a hearty &rip. Ladles have the handshaking privilege A gentleman doesn't offer his hand at first It is assumed always that a man is honored by an introduction to & woman. 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