Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 8, 1916, Page 8

T — ———————— e 1 8 Health Hints - . The Girl Who Drinks , “Harmony” Fighting By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. We all remember Benjamin Frank- lin’s little tale which ended “for want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, for want of a horse the rider was lost,” and the philosgphy of that applies all through life to every first little false step, however trifling, So it is with the subject I am con- sidering today—a subject suggested by a very interesting letter given here in part: - “I am an interested third party in 8 discussion on between two very dear friends of mine. 20, and B, who is 18, both went to a house and cocktails, A refused absolutely to touch a drop, while B at first re- fused, but after much persuasion drank one glass of wine and one cocktail “When they met the next day A upbraided B for drinking, while B de fended herself by saying that she only did it for fear of ulylcn:lin her host ess and of making herself conspicu ous as A did, for A was the only one of all present who refused, B fur- ther went on to say that she would never dream of doing it at any public place, but seeing that they were all friends at a friend's home she saw no harm in it. A, however, insisted that B had done an unwise thing and would not be convinced otherwise, “The next day B, who is a charm- ing girl and liked by everybody, came to me and asked my advice. She has been invited to a birthday party by one of the girls present that day and as the party is in two weeks she | She is at a loss to know what to do, s afraid that should she refuse to touch anything they may serve her future hostess ma her refusal in her i;umr, whereas she accepted in the other girl's home She confided to me that that was the first time she had ever tasted i nd that she hated the taste took the sane and dignified stand and I applauded her bravery, The girl who t]url not “yield to per- suasion” is a splendid woman, There is nothing particularly de- grading in drinking one glass of wine and one cocktail in a private home, but it is the first flq: toward a ver dangerous situation. Since “B” dran the home of a friend she is likely seriously to offend another hostess by taking a temperance attitude at a party in *\er home. But she had bet- ter risk that offense—instead of her own future! Suppose she takes step number two; here is a little picture—not at all exaggerated—of the other steps that must follow: In order to avoid hurting the feel ings of other good friends, she must Ilte a drink or two at their house parties, and then one of the gmu{» en- tertains in a restaurant and she is scientists have given to t! Of course, If your heavy and full of neas, you tohave cow's mill a0 changed that it will be safe for him. “Cow's milk 18 the basis of Nest! from healthy cows mod| A, who is| arty where they served wine | feel offended at | Just change him from your own milk to something so like your breast milk change o shock, Your baby will slip easily into the use of NestlesFood (A complete food—not a milk modifier) because Ne#tlé's is the nearest thing to mother's milk that doctors and Star Ham reaches you in the Stock- inet Covering, clean and sweet, As you use it, the Swckine Covering pro- reh-favored Buy Armour's Swr Bacon Natioa! 1osanisas THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, told that she certainliy is not “a good | fellow” unless she joins in and has a little glass there | Then the men who are in the habit | of seeing her drink when she is one | | of a group, insist that it is a personal | | affront if she refuses to trust )hrm[ | enough to take a drink when’ out | | alone with them and pretty soon “B” | finds herself expected to do a “little drinking” whenever she goes out for |a social evening. And each step is | such a tiny one—and follows so in- | | evitably on the one before! The least that can happen is that | | she is judged by people who see her | taking liquor in public places to be a rather rowdy and ordinary young woman, But a far greater danger waits her than unfavorable public opinion-—she is all too certain to learn to like li- quor. And although the word drunk- enness is hideously abhorrent and seems very, very far away from the irl who takes a drink or two in a riend’s home — drunkenness lies | ahead | Medical tests have proven that | drink lowers mental efficiency. Sacial experience has shown ghat drink low- ers moral dignity, The girl who gets the drink habit hurts her brain cells and puts herself into a dangerously | “mellow” frame of mind in which she will do things which would ordinarily be abhorrent to her, Drink is an in | sidions foe, one no sensiple girl should come to terms with, | f a girl has made the blunder of | taking a drink or two in the home of | one friend she can easily rectify it | At the next party to which she goes | she can quietly say: “I made a mis- | | take by taking anything to drink the other night ¥'|r‘41(- don't urge me to drink tonight, for 1 am. determined not to, and an argument won't make any of us happier. 1 just don't like | liguor—that's all” e | No preaching, no “holier than thou” attitude is necessary—just a definite | stand on a subject that it is a matter | | of personal taste, | No hostess insists on your eating | [obster if it is repellent to you, No| | hostess has a right to force her guests to drink if they quietly remark that they don’t like liquor, For any 18 or 20-year-old girl to | form the drink habit is hideously and | eriminally dangerous, Feminine vanity ought to lend it- self to the natural stand of dignity. | The woman who drinks genrul(y | looks frowsy and heavy-eyed, and her | mental state is reflected in Her appear- |ance, | I beg of all girls not to start the drink habit, and if they have started I appeal to them most earnestly to stop now. l Mental inefiiden?r,innul laxity on the ethical side—and oh the social side bad reputation, loud-voiced rowdiness, and coarsened appearance! What girl wants to yield to the plea to “be a good fellow” and take a drink or two when the price she will have to ;ny is so clearly, inevitably indicated? Make Weaning Time Easy ForYou and the Baby You have brought your baby safe and serens to the time when he must be weaned. And as he dabs about with bfs little fists, you think sadly of the hard and weary days before you. But weaning time can be easy for you and easy for the baby. It need not even ruffle the rose leaf color in his cheeks, gradually, one feedin, time, that his tiny body will feel no from years of trying to get down manity ! longest dog. 'Advice to Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfazx. e Amiable, Falrfax: A young lady mests ks him to call, He promises | from him within a weak, but falls to do so. Wil you kindly tell ms what attitude & young Indy should assume Should she be Just as cordial or should sho pass him by with- wledging his acquaintance Don't make the sadly popular femi nine mistake of mistaking pettiness for dignity. Be perfectly pleasant to this young man when you meet him Even if he is not particularly inter- ested in you he wilt have to admire your poise and common sense. He has made a little social blunder, but | don't take it seriously. Continue to be | perfectly pleasant | 8, proteids and car s your baby needs to bulld a und, sturdy body. omplete food, so you add " boil boe minute and | oaly slear maier, & 1t Wil Not Do, » " Dear Miss Fairfax: [ am pe od. 1 love & young lady and she says e loves Send the Tor a sample can (enough for 12 feadings) and see how Neatle's makos him happy I asked her to travel with me and help me sell silverware from town to tewn She refused. Shall I take it for granted that she cares more for what people say than she does for me? Take it for granted that the girl you love has the proper respect for con vention and her own reputation and dignity. She cannot afford to travel with you as you suggest, and if you really love her you ought not want her to put herself in a position where the world is sure to criticise her most nunfavorably NESTLE'S FOOD COMPANY, 204 Woolworth Blds., New York Pleass send me FREE your book and trial package The ham {8 smoked in the Stockinet Covering. This heeps in all the rh Jakoes and all the fine flavor ARMOoun Ut.'n!' o the few Padh Mudaie tage. LIt and — Paeha B 168 Vmane b Wi [ L) LR A " . N the Park I saw them, these two, who would have joyed the soul of “Hermione” and her “little circle of serious thinkers” because of pm their ideas of harmony! Not with the stars that stud the sky and shake there in the wind, if you please, but,with the cloth of their 4 ?owm and the cut of them, and the dogs at their heels. n Quaker-gray, was planned on long, high lines. Long feet, long face, long hands, long neck, and the long dear dropped at the shoulders Slimsey Sue, in chumship with the rest of hu- Beside her walked in gray longness a hound-—the highest, And the two strode in lengthy dignity down a path to meet there JUNE 8, _0_ Copyright, 1014, International News Service 1916, -0- By Nell Brinkley another picture all in lines harmonious—not this time a panel, but a circular affair! A wee wide girl with stubby burro-like feet, a short hat that sat atop of her short little face, a short jacket that flew out recklessly to the east and west and cared nothing for the schemes of “up-and-down,” a short skirt, that shade from her short limbs. Beside looked like a toy Alaskan bear telescoped stood out like a Maharajah's sun- her nipped a chow-dog, who He, too, cared nothing He gloried in chunkiness and knew that he har- monized with the lady who trotted behind him “My word!" breathed an aghast Englishman when he came in sight of the foursome, “that's really amazin | | ‘ for the cult of length | | | you know!” “NELL BRINKLEY. Girl Workers Who Win Out By JANE M'LEAN. “Hello! Hello! Yes — number, please? 1170? Just a minute. The |||'|‘(- is busy. Yes, I'll call you madam And so it ran from morning until night. Grace liked the work, al though it was confining. She liked the rush and bustle of it. She liked to sit and dream and imagine what the people who called up were like, and i their looks matched their voices. Grace was a dreamer, anyway. She wanted to be able to write some day There were 'days when the work was slack and she could sit and dream about the places she spoke of so fa- miliarly in connection with her switchboard. Just the idea of some day actually visiting them in person g4ve her food for meditation for days and days But then there were the off days The days when everything went wrong from morning until night, When people were impatient and shouted if the connection happened to be poor, when a wrong number was a misde- meanor deserving unheard-of abuse, and when not one voice was kind or thoughtful or held a smile of any kind Ihese were the days when Grace was almest in despair, when her head ached violently, when matters went from bad to worse, and when she went home at night with a dim reso lution never to go back. And then er mother would be kind and lov ing, and bathe her daughter's aching forehead, and tell the boys to study uietly because sister had had a hard ay. 1t meant something to have a whole | went wrong 2 ¢ Ame A \ )other. A spring day when Grace had | made two mistakes because her head was heavy and the tight metal on her | brow made matters worse. April was outside, beckoning, calling, and Grace could not keep her eyes away from the window and hér thoughts away from the woods that were somewhere spreading green pathways for the more fortunate. The superintendent had her for careless mistakes, had made several more in | reproved and she conse quence. Grace did not stop to think that small errors were of almost small importance in the affairs of the day. She liked to think of her work as free and untrammeled, a real job with a real purpose, not a monot onous grind filled with mistakes that might have been avoided. When she finally reached home she was dead tired. The cozy little room with its suggestion of supper cheered her, and Ray met her at the door “Gee, there's a peach of a picture in the Evening Journal tonight, sis,” he remarked, holding the sheet out to her as she sank into a chair “Mother says it looks like you' Grace took the sheet and looked at the picture languidly. 1t showed a girl with all the threads of the world held fast in her little white hands. She wore a steel band around her head and wa alled “The grea have b like that t it?™ said Ra hyly edging up to her and looking « | & that's what it is haw ! k ) y NI R R T R s e 621 Residents of Nebraska \ TIMES SOUARR 1000 Rooms, S gl Wovans, oaly'basis v .- At Beoadway, a4th 0 gyih Steen and business activinine, I close prosmity o all dilway oo, ), LU LRI LT UL AT DU L TR LR A ) registered at Hotel Astor dunng the past year, [ ] y . 700 with Bath, made cuisine which has the Astor New Youk's le whng Banqueting place. Sengle Rooms, withent hash, f.00 W Fy .00 [able - bon . Packs, Moo st hash, Booom w0 $1g o0 the comier of New Yirk's social Do You Know Tha It has been noticed that a bat can- not rise from a perfectly level sur- face The sirocco, or sand storm, of the Arabian. desert is exceedingly treach- erous. It often digs pits 200- feet Ideep, scattering the sand for miles | around A curious custom prevails on the Gold Coast. Every Tuesday is de- voted to the sea god. No fishing takes place, but the fishermen utilize the time in mending their nets Dwellers near the sea coast do not require a better weather sign than the gulls, which in the various 'winds that will bring the rain collectyin big flocks and gather in the fields or circle high over the land, wheeling | and screaming uneasily. They will not come in on a false alarm, and none Ineed fear they will make a mistake m— - Fashions -:- Woman’s Work -:- Household Topics the Mosquito at OQur Door By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D. Surely in a great metropolitan city like New York, where all swamps and ponds and sluggish rivulets and pools are cither drained or filled up and built or paved over the mosquito can no longer be a menace! That he not only can be, but is, the bitter experi- | ence of last summer and fall is abun- dant and convincing proof. But why is | he, and what can we do about it? First of all, while most mosquitoes, and all fresh water ones, fly only a few hundred yards from the poofyln | which they are hatched, certain salt- water breeds show an appalling tend- ency to migrate and allow themselves |to_be carried ten, fifteen and even | thirty miles by the southerly winds T'his means that the whole scope of the marshes of Jamaica and Great South Bay, Staten Island and the Kill von Kull and the adjacent sweep of the Bayonne and Raritan bay marshes ™™= may, at times, particularly in the late summer, when the wind is right, fur- nish swarms to pour into New York City, This has been recognized for years by our wide-awake city Board of Health, and extensive measures of drainage of the marshes by ditches | have been set on foot, and the active co-operation of the New Jersey health officers secured, as well as of expert tadvisers from the United States Pub lic Health service, who have had ex | perience in Panama, A very great improvement in the mosquito pest in all these regions has already heen won, everything is now lined up and ready for a grand campaign of abate ment and extermination this coming summer, The only thing needed to make it successful is a vigorous and out spoken public opinion behind it, and in support of it to overcome the stin giness and laziness of certain owners of marsh property, who are quite willing that the city and state shall drain and improve their property and add enormously to its value, but in dignantly reffise to bear any part of the expense or even keep the ditches cleaned out after they have been dug The other cause of rural mosqui toes in city flats is that we fail to realize how tiny and trivial and tem porary puddles and poots and collec tions of water will serve for mos- quitoes to breed in. Any puddle or | wet spot which lasts three weeks or | more furnishes a firyr class incubator in which the mother mosquito may | deposit her eggs, see them develop into wigglers, hatch out, spread their wings and fly away, In fact, incredible as it may seem, the chief source and breeding ground of the buzzing and biting swarms which, made life a burden in parts of New York City last summer and fall were hundreds of little puddles and pools and damp spots left and sup- plied by the frequent rains of a wet summer in vacant lots, in old cellars by the side of embankments, in un improved parks and open spaces | Even such tiny and temporary | “lakes” as the water in a tomato can or the bottont of a broken bottle, or |an old boot or rubber, or a chipped | cup or saucer, if they happen to he | sheltered from the rays of the sun, | will prove a sufficient haven to hatch | the mosquito “water baby"” and’ send him stinging and singing upon his way Here, of course Children everybody can | help. not only not least |but most of all. Make a point of | kicking over and emptying any" can bottle or piece of crockery capable of holding water which may happen to catch your eye. If you come {across any puddfes, fill them up or | scratch a shallow ditch on the down | hill side, to drain them dry, or if [they are too big or the soil or rocks about them too hard, go to the house and get the kerosene can and pom enough oil on them to coat them all over T'o Remove the Odor of Onions The disagresabls smell of whi clings to pots and pans so » quickly be removed by washing and dr the pans, scouring with comwwn salt, an placing on the stove until the salt is br Shake often, and then psh the pan 1sual A New Spring Salad By CONSTANCE CLARKE W / ! l - Y ' 4