Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 15, 1916, Page 8

'the City Dog ' By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D. y dogs and cats. Every dog has is day, the proverb assures us, but | the day of the city dog is long since past. As a special concession to dog rshippers he might be permitted ‘o have February 29, although June 1 would be better. " This is not to question for a mo- “ment that the dog is a delightful ellow and the best of company out of doors; that he is our oldest ani- ‘mal friend, the guardian of our flocks, the sentinel at our gate, our com- _panion in the chase, and that we are as grateful to him for the past as we re friendly to him inethe present. n the contrary, it is just for these ery reasons, because we like him so | much and have such high regard for | his liberty, his rights and his happi- " mess, that we object to his being | condemned to live in a city. ~ The absence of live things to chase, of clean, cool earth to burrow in, of green grass to roll on and race over, of streams and pools to drink L from and swim in, rob him of every- thing which makes life healthy and worth living. He is about as com- fortable -as a frog in the middle of an Arizona desert, City life fits him like the cabin which was assigned ' to Mark Twain on an Italian steam- | ~ ship. It wasn’t big enough to swing a cat in—with any comfort to the| cat! A real dog, a bOfy's dog, a man's dOT!. fits into city li we| ife just about as as a ccoklesburr fits under a saddle. Cribbed, cabined, confined, f?wud on every hand, deprived even of his priceless ancestral privilege from time immemorial, the freedom of the night, he pines and frets and loses his health and his temper. Con- ing taken in ‘worst points—his conceit, which is colossal—almost human; his serfish- ‘ness and his impudence. These are sent in moderate amounts in even e realiest and fullest-sized dog, and ey seem to have got concentrated in the process of boiling him dc‘wn to toy size. All the objectionable features and itary habits of & real dog have en preserved in these little hairy - chrysanthemums which are carried in 5 s and on sleeves like wrist- watches under the name of dogs, fizfih they are more like overgrown els or fur-shelled crabs. The fluy thing canine that is left about is the capacity to carry fleas bactess» and to make the side- and parking unfit for children S S 3 Y m’\,;’. y on. e poor little runts of doglets are to blame; they are simply what ir owne: red them and p them to be. But in the apart- house and downtown districts 'a great city they have become a ry nuisance of the first cla has burst. the_community will ‘not mu “tolerate patiently, but will|anced against the annoyance and dis- ssion boards of health to deal | comfort which they cause to the com- them they now deal with [ munity at large. : s, goats chickens. It would be a very moderate esti- heir one redeeming feature is, of [mate that under metropolitan condi- course; the. pleasure and companion- tions for every person who receives hip which they give to their owners, | pleasure from toy dogs at least this again, like the social graces |twenty are annoyed and inconven- and chickens, must be bal-|ieced by their yapping and yowling, # their doggy smells and hair dropping habits, their snapping and snarling and biting at everything that comes within tlgir rehch, and their abomin- able defilement of pavements, park- ings and open spaces of every sort, the only spots where mothérs and nursemaids can sit and children play in the city. - Tomorrow _.--another chapter! g Last week the third chapter of the million £ dollar picture novel—Gloria’s Romance—was shown ! to thousands. Today. the fourth chapter will be presented for the first time with a full synopsis of preceding chapters. It's the most costly-—the most elaborate picture play ever presented. Again you'll see ? ?fllieq?wfe Presented by George Kleine bmn'nlmwi_df. Ziegfeld, Ir. - ek Ay G“‘é%wfl“‘? | by HENRY YOLKER PickureNovel By Mr.&Mr® ' RUPERT HUGHES " You'll see Billie Burke in new costumes — in i < 4 this beau- ; ‘zm-mmndmanm Dfln‘:mmmm : orrow---MUSE THEATRE Read the Story 'n the Omaha Bee Every Monday A THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, \Health Hints -:- Fashions -- Woman's Work 1916. Copyright, 1916, International News Service. - Household T'opics ; FROM ‘THE FRONT: “Neither side reports an advantage.”’ Fashion experts predict that the situation will : stay unchanged (much to the perplexity of Dan and the maid) until the bubble that skirts have grown to be —NELL BRINKLEY fe . Dainties for Summer Wear Artificial flowers are tied to the sashes and appliqued to the draped girdles of the latest summer dresses. A plain linen frock for a small tot is fittingly trimmed, if edged all around, \including the bottom of the skirt, with large scallops of hand em- broidery. B A veritable boon for short-waisted figures are thp Russian blouse dresses, afi in one from neck to hip and made of soft Georgette crepe, chiffon cloth or crepe de chine. There are collars made of striped cottons to wear with sport blouses. These are usually accompanied by a scarf of the shade of the predominat- ing color note in the collar. Collars of plain tone are also worn with such blouses; pink in a little deeper shade than flesh, yellow and the deeper tan shades are legion, and there are also collars in vatious shades of blue and green. Many sheer and dainty collars are made of chiffon. *A large collar ot white chiffon shown among the cuts is made in flat, sailor effect, and ex- tends over the shoulders. Large re- vers are joined to the flat sailor col- The Hotel Success of Chicago A comfortable, home-like hotel in the businesscen- ter of the city offer- hgdmry convenience and every service, The best food is served in the |, New Kaiserhof * Restaurant at prices. —l 480 Rooms $1.50 up With Bath $2.00 up ‘| elty in stockingdom. lar at the shoulder and fall in folds down the front, reaching almost to the waist line. The edges of the white chiffon collar are trimmed with a two-inch band of pale rose chiffon. Drop-stitch stockings are the new craze. The drop-stitching is arranged in even rows or in groups up the front of the leg from the instep, and is well displayed by a low pump or dancing slipper. These stockings are rather expensive and are the very latest nov- They come in various evening shades and in black, white and navy blue as well. The drop-stitch pattern extended . far enough up the front to show an inch or two above the top of a tall but- toned boot of glazed kid, or of white washable kid and these new drop- Fli;cl} stockings are very muck the ad: Graduation szfts r The memory bracelet is a popular gift for the girl graduate, The mono- gramed memory bracelet is fashioned of links, each link bearing the giver’s narrow black velvet ribbon and tied around the wrist, s Watches with fobs or pins—often emblematic of the sdhool, class or college—are in the front rank as the most desirable gift. There is such a wide variety of styles in these that they would make a chapter in them- selves, : Week-end and toilet sets are on the girls’ list, and ever so many things for outdoor pleasure and use, includ- ing field glasses, on the boys’. ‘The moment that Resinol Oint- ment touches itching skin the itch- ing usually stops andhealing begins. ‘That i§ why doctors haye prescribed it so successfully for over 20 years evenin severe cases of eczema, ring- worm, rashes, and many other tor- menting, disfiguring skin diseases, Aided by warm baths with Resinol Soap, Resinol Qintment makes a sick skin or scalp healthy, quickly, easily and at little cost. At St s A ‘or trial free, o . Sold by all druggists. write to Resinol, Dept. 2.R, Baltimore, Md. | monogram, and these are strung oni The Wife Who “Nags”’ By DOROTHY DIX. There is one passage in the Scrip- tures in which no woman, not even the most devout, believes. It is the declaration that we are not heard for much speaking. ‘. The feminine idea is the exact re- verse of this. Women cherish an abiding faith in the efficacy of words, and nothing ever alters their con- viction 'that the way to work miracles and move mountains is to talk enough about them. Hence the nagger, and the fact that, so_far from regarding nagging as a crime that ought to be punishable by solitary confinement in 3 dungeon cell, women actually accounted unto themselves for righteousness. Never do the angelic creatures feel so sure that they are doing their full duty, especially to their husbands, as when they are harping for the millionth time upon some subject that is as sore as a boil and that is mak- ing their listeners hate them. Every woman knwos the danger of nagging, and that she nags her hus- band at the risk of her marriage hap- piness, and yet the one who didn't do it—who wasn't always Sally on the lecture platform, 'reminding her hus- band ofp his faults—would consider herself a pretty poor, slack sort of a wife. Why women nag no one knows. Probably they do it because the: like the excitement it affords. It gives them some of the fearful joy we, all feel in stirring up the man- eating animals at a circus to hear them roar. / Certainly no wife of expérience de- ludes herself with the belief that her continuous performance monologue has any beneficial effect upon her husband. On the contrary, she knows that the direct result of forever: re- minding a Man of his short-comings is to make him get his back up and cling to his weaknesses. Now, nagging is not the innocent pastime that women seem to think it is. It is a crime that is the run- ning mate with drunkenness and in- fidelity, and it\shares equally with thém in the divorce prize. If the majority of men who have become neglectful of their wives were | asked when love's young dream first began to frazzle out around the edges, and when they first commenced to dread to go home instead of yearning to go, they would say that the time coincided to the minute with the hour in which they first realized that their wives could not mention a mistake they had made ahd’ let it go at that, but insisted on rehashing the same fault for breakfast, dinner and supper. A great part of the glamour of love and romance lies in the fact that a man believes himself to be a hero in a woman's eyes, and a wife de- stroys this illusion at her peril. Such is human vanity that none of us, not even husbands, enjoy listening to an account of the things we have done that we. should not have done, and the things we have left undone that we should have done. Still less do we enjoy the society of the individual who points out our blunders to us, and this is the reason why many a wife/-who not only. per- l ceives her husband’sfaults, but tells him of them, finds herself forsaken. He has gone off after some other lady with less clarity of vision and more discretion of tongue. No man was ever made any bet- ter or turned from the errof of his ways by nagging, but millions of men are driven from home into clubs and saloons by the certainty that the min- ute they cross their own thresholds or settle down by their own fire- sides, their wives will begin for the billionth time to thresh over some old grievance. A wise woman never tells her hus- band of his faults at all, but the un- wise woman, who lacks the self-con- trol to maintain complete silence, should, at least, have enough com- mon sense to mention a weakness but once. Let such a woman stand up and have a fight to the finish, and then let the matter rest without for- ever plaguing him by harping upon the same unpleasant theme. So shall her husband rise up and call her blessed, for there is nothing that a man will not do for the wife who can let bygones be bygones and grant him the right to have a few pet faults without forever trying to reform him. . The pathetic thing about nagging is its utter uselessness. A woman jeopardizes her husband’s love, she makes him perfectly miserable, and all for nothing. In proof of this re- gard the experience of the women you see all about you who have fussed for fdrty odd years about their husbands’ smoking or mussing the sofa . cushions or tracking .mud into the house, without ever being able to cut out a single gl_pe or drink or teach a man to wipe his feet on the door- mat. The nagging wife accomplishes nothing. But she leaves a- mighty reconciled widower behind her when she dies. Adwice to Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfaz . How Can He Be Happy With You? Dear Miss Falrfax: T am a stenographes earning $18 a week and really extravagan. I am very fond of a young mar. of my own age—326—~who Is earning $22 a week, and who has two more years to complete his studies at law school. He has asked me to become his wife, and, while I know that I can never honestly love a nan w ‘s not better situated financlally, T have given him my promise to consider muse!f engaged, and he contemplates marriago with me soon. Do you think it wise for e ta» marry thia young man, who, while he Is vary ypoor and has only about 3200 in the bank, has, think, & promising future? Do yau think | 1 could be happy with this man on his small wage?. ROSK Since your idea of “honest love” seems to be exactly the opposite of the accepted standard of fine feeling, I think the man who wins you is going to be decidedly the loser. Don't marry becauss you feel that if you give up thix man you may be sacriffe- ing your last chante. That is what 1 sus- pect as the real reason for your acceptunce of him. As long as money s the maln theme of your calculations and you pride yourself on your extravagance, don't do any marn ihe injustice of becoming his wife. You are not going to prove a wife in the real sense—of beltdg a helpmats—until yonr point of view changes and money ceases being all-important to yow. = T / \:? \