Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 236, 12 August 1913 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1913 PALLADIUM'S MAGAZINE AND HOME PAGE THE WELL-BORN LIMIT TO PARENTS' AUTHORITY SCORPIONS Scorpions that devour their young; a lesson to two-legged animals.

By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. SO many people people in the world ; So Jew great souls, love ordered, well begun, In answer to the fertile mother need! So few who seem The image of the Maker's mortal dream; So many born of mere propinquity Of lustful habit, or of accident. Their mothers felt ' No mighty, all-compelling wish to see Their bosoms garden-places Abloom with flower faces; No tidal wave swept o'er them with its flood; No thrill of flesh or heart; no leap of blood; No glowing fire, flaming to white desire For mating and for motherhood, Yet they bore children. God! how mankind misuses Thy command To populate the earth! How low is brought high birth! How low the woman; when, inert as spawn Left on the sands to fertilize, She is the means through which the race goes on! Not so the first intent. Birth, as the Supreme Mind conceived it, meant The clear imperious call of mate to mate And the clear answer. Only thus and then Are fine, well-ordered, and potential lives Brought into being. Not by church or state Can birth be made legitimate. Unless Love in its fullness bless. Creation so ordains its lofty laws That man, while greater in all other thine"-, Is lesser in the generative cause. The father may be merely man, the male; Vet more than female must the mother be. The woman who would fashion Souls, for the use of earth and angels meet, Must entertain a high and holy passion. Not rank, or wealth, or influence of kings Can give a soul its dower, Of majesty and power, Great love to that great hour.

BEAUTY

It Isn't Only Skin Deep, Says Maud Knowlton.

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By GARRETT P. SERVISS. ONE of the straneest legends of antiquity is the old Greek story of Saturn, the father of the gods (also called Kronos, or "Time"), devouring his own children. Some ingenious speculators have endeavored to account for this curious tradition by supposing that some of the ancients had invented the telescope, and discovered, thousands of years before Galileo, the rings of the planet Saturn. But their telescopes being small, they only saw the rings, as Galileo himself did at first, as appendages, on two sides of the planet, which grew gradually larger and then slowly disappeared, as if the planet had first created and then swallowed them. The telescope being afterward forgoten, without having been brought to perfection, the legend arose that Saturn was a cannibal, eating his own offsprings! However this may be, the story about Saturn could well have had a much less ingenious origin. Men had plenty of instances of cannibalism before their eyes on their own planet, and, in fact, their own race had begun with cannibal proclivities in the days

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HOW far does parents authority go? To what extent should a grown-up man or woman sacrifice his or her liberty of action, and possibly his or her success in life in order to gratify the whim or prejudice of an old father and mother? I have a letter from a young worn-

i an who puts this question in a very i pertinent fashion. My correspondent

that made a girl a blue stocking then renders one only moderately well Informed now. Mother will not consent to her gifted daughter going on the stage, where she couM make fame and fortune, because in mother'a narrow prejudice the stage and immorality r synonymous terms, when the xnoder view is that mcrtalltw is a matter of morals and not of environment.' Moth-

! writes that her parents are well-to- er doesn't think her daughter should j do. even rich country people, and that , go into business because when ah j she prepared herself to be a milliner, J was young the working women vu j and is an expert hat trimmer capable j looked down upon, when now it is Just iof earning a good salary. Her father) as much a matter of coufff for a I and mother refuse, however, to let her , woman who needs nicuey- to work aa j go and take a position in a shop it is for a man.

where she could make the money to

gratify her desires for good clothea and innocent pleasures, and they also ! refuse to provide her with the money ! for these luxuries. They give her noth

ing but her board in return for the

Men and Women Have tho Right to Decide For Themselves. Mother thinks that her daughters

. work she does about the farm, and she should marry to please her. instead j has to make the money for the fer of gratifying their individual tastes in I clothes that she has by taking in ill- husbands, and she forgets that It is paid sewing and trimming hats for the the daughters who are going to have

neighboring farmers wives.

j to live with the men. not 6he.

IN THE TOP PICTURE IS SHOWN A SCORPION DEVOURING ONE OF ITS KIND. NOTHING IS SEEN OF THE VICTIM BUT ITS LAST,THREE DIVISIONS AND ITS STING. THE BOTTOM PICTURE SHOWS A MOTHER SCORPION DEVOURING HER YOUNG.

MAUDE KNOWLTON.

"B

EAUTY i net just skin

deep it gees as deep as muscles and blood and brains," said Maude Knowl

ton, with the combination of buoyancy and conviction that makes a background of emphasis for her every word. "That is not saying that I think beauty is health, for features and figtire and expression all have their part in making beauty; and I never forget .that it goes right through the outer shell to the bone!" In a cosy little flat, out in the eighties I visited .the clever girl, who under Henry B. Harris's management has scored several distinct hits, one of the best remembered of which is her marvelous portrayal of Simpson, the real chorus lady in "The Chorus Lady." "A girl can't very well choose her birthplace," went th the girl whose clever gift of mental twist and verbal kink throws added glamour of interest over big brown eyes, wavy black hair and a complexion that when it is not covered with healthy summer-sun-and-ocean burn is first cousin to the cream

of Miss Knowlton's own Irish meadowlands. "No, a girl can't choose her own native healthy but if she could, a good starting place would be California. My! the air out there is made of component parts of vim, vigor and vitality and with a little heredity to back up the H20 combination a start like that gives a girl a tendency to a sane healthy viewpoint, and that kindly attitude toward life that irradiates even a homely face. NOT POSING. "Of course, I am not posing as s beauty expert," said modest Miss Maude, "but surely we agree that an actually homely face may have a charm of spirit and intelligence, a magnetic giving out of self to the world (that plays give and take all the time, you know) that a mere beauty shell which thrills you for fifteen minutes could not exert after he first quarter was past. Vim, vigor, vitality, a tolerant spirit toward the world and its inhabitants, and buoyancy to carry you over the jolting rough places, will surely bring out all your good points

of the cave men. The old myth-makers never had any hesitation in ascribing to the gods human qualities and weaknesses, and that tendency has not disappeared yet, as witness the almost universal habit of thinking of the? Supreme Power of the universe as a kind of omnipotent man! But while we civilized beings have rid ourselves of the terrible habit of devouring our own kind at least in a gastronomic way many of the lower animals still practise that kirnl of struggle for existence and no doubt will always continue to do so. An instance of cannibalism of the zest a whole flock of her own most remarkable kind is shown in the accompanying photographs, where we see in one case a scorpion, which he has overcome in battle, and in tho other a female scorpion devouring with awful progeny! A GREAT TEACHER. Nature is a great teacher, but she as frequently teaches us what to avoid as what to imitate. And there is a deeper side to her lessons which we do not always perceive.

We shudder when we look at the photographs of the mother animal eagerly devouring her children, holding two of them in her merciless nippers and crushing another in her jaws while a double score 'of others! innocent in their trusthfulness, crowd before her, ignorant of the late that maternal greediness holds in store for them. We thank heaven that men and women no longer indulge in such satanic feasts! But are we justified in our selfgratulatvon? The poor scorpion has no moral sentiments to teach her the horror of her deed'. She has no highly

j organized brain to enable her to reaI son on the nature of that murderoK act. She simply obeys brute instinct.

But we have both moral sentiment and reason, and yet we devour our kind! We do not eat children, but we live upon their life-blooiS whenever we send them to wear out their tender bodies and wither their hearts and their brairt3 in roaring factories and stifling tenements wherte the modern Moloch, the Money Gddevours his sacrifices.

Commercial and industrial civilization has a cannibalistic strain in its nature which can be worked out If we will that it shall go out, but which is capable of ruining nations and races today as effectually as it did In the time of Tyre and Carthage. It is well to think a little on the nature of cannibalism. The brute animal knows it in only one of its forms, and does not understand it then; but we know, though we may try to shut our ryes to the fact, that there is a moral cannibalism also, which is more destructive than the other, and yet it is practiced by the only animal on this earth that is capable of comprehending the nature and consequences of its acts and of defying, if it will, the terrible law of the struggle for existence. For what were our brains and our moral sentiments given to us if we cannot with their aid and guidance keep the most brutal of mere animal instincts from reappearing in another and more dreadful form upon the higher level to which intelligence has raised us? .

JVIUady's JMtrror

This young woman wants to know All of this makea it utterly impose!J if she would not be justified in assert-, ble for parents to judge for their chilI ing her own independence and going dren and it is not right that the ohl away from home and accepting one ' should lay restrictions upon the

of the many offers she has had to young. Therefore, it seems to me that make her living in the way that is after a girl or boy comes to man's most congenial to h?r and best paid, j and woman's estate, they have a right -p, . i . to decide things for themselves. 1 here IS a Limit tO the AU- Whatever mistake are made, they . thoritV of Parents must pay for them, and they should 1 at least have the privilege of trying Inasmuch as she says that she fs i to j0 the things they want to do. twenty-seven years old and has arrived J Age does not always bring wisdom, at years of discretion, if she is ever j t jU8t as often augment and congoing -to get there. I should say that firms stupidity and pigheadednes. she has a perfect right to follow her i own judgment and inclination, and as ' ...

long as she doe only those things

that are true and honorable and of good report to live her own life in her own way. There is a limit to the authority of parents, and while the sacred obligation to honor your father and your mother never cease, there is no reason why the prospects of the young Bhould be blighted by a blind yielding to the tyranny of the old just because they happen to stand in a certain relationship. When their children are very young parents assume the attitude of oracles to them. They are wiser than the babe, more capable of deciding its little problem than it is, and the trouble is that this engender in most fathers and mothers a conceit that makes them believe to the end of time that they still are wiser than their children and perfectly capable still of settling every question that comes up in their offsprings' lives. Nothing in the world i farther from the truth than this. Nature plays

I strange pranks in families, and many

j a dull, commonplace man and woman

beget children that are brilliant, mercurial, restless, full of strange talent, and no more like their progenitors than champagne is like dishwater. How are such parents able to decide anything for such children? How are such parents to know what is best for such children? What folly for such children to be bound down by the narrowness and prejudice of such parents, their ambitions thwarted, their careers ruined because a stupid father and mother will not consent to a gifted son or daughter doing something which they never wanted to do! Yet we all know men whose lives have been ruined because when they desired to be doctors or lawyers their fathers forced them behind grocery counters. We have known girls that God himself made actors, or' singers, or artists, whose genius was lost to the world because their provincial parents thought that a woman's "sphere was in the kitchen.

better than a diet-list and a course of facial massage. "Take buoyancy it will keep you from getting the wrinkles and lines and spiritless eyes that are foes to beauty; it will put spring into your step. And now I have reached a siding, for I just have to stop and talk about walking and carriage. Miss Beauty Seeker, harken! You must walk along on the balls of your feet with buoyant spring instead of laggard slouch if you want to be truly attractive. Walk as of you could conquer worlds and you will conquer hearts. SWIMMING GOOD. "Swimming helps a lot in the pursuit of proper land movement, for it brings a graceful fluidity of motionno, I don't mean a fish-walk, but just a flowing, graceful movement in- walking that is sure to please everyone who sees, and that is sure to make you look fashionably tall and svelte. "Oh, if you just hold yourself firmly erect on the balls of your feet and carry head and chest high instead of

sloppy caved in you will look twice as attractive, Miss Beauty Seeker trust me for that! "Vim to keep you up above the dead level of mediocrity; vigor to carry you on to ambition and achievement vitality that will maks you ready to meet every occasion; buoyancy of which I have sung at length and now a tolerant spirit, of which I can not sing at enough length. You know the woman who is always pecking and perking and digging at life, who criticizes all the things that fall outside her own interests and inclinations. Her expression and attitude can ruin even a collection of perfect features and color-

Itog." .

"The i woman who never would do the things New York does, yet who likes to see New York doing them if it enjoys them," I mused. "Ex-actly. I'll use that when I interview you," laughed merry Mis3 Maude. '"Live and let live' is a good

i motto for living and having the im

press of living mark your face In lines of sweetness. "Now for a background to the vim, vigor and vitality lady the simplest clothes she dares wear, so she shall not be a mere clothes-horse, but a young-as-possible-attractive girl, whose own sweet nature and expression and well-carried figure are more important than the mere garments in which she is swathed. And there's my Ideal of beauty," concluded Miss Knowlton. And a very Ideal Ideal I call It don't you? GILLIAN LAUFERTY.

Why Try to Keep Young? Some people and they must be deep dyed fatalists or else they must hare a great fondness for sweets and goodiesdeclare that tbey were born to be fat and that no amount of dieting will make them thin. This has not much to do with youth, excepting thai; it is quite true that some persons are bora to look their age and some are born to look always younger than they are. So it seems as if making an effort to look young would be fruitless of re suits in many cases, and so It ia. The woman who goes through life trying to look young, taking a cheerful, smiling outlook on everything about her, a healthy, enthusiastic Interest in the world In general, can do much to retain youth. In fact, ah never grows old In the sense of the word which signifies ont of date and faded. The woman, too, who takes care of her health, who looks to her diet when It I convenient to do so and who takes due precautions regarding her skin and hair runs a good chance of keeping a healthful and youthful appearance throughout life. But the woman who trie everlastingly and unceasingly to keep young generally ends up by looking old and fagged before her day. And certainly her frame of mind Is far from normal, far from youthful. She avoids tiring herself, she rests a prescribed number of hour or minutes each day, she Iends hours fussing over her hair and her palls and her eyebrows and her skin, she eat only sncb things a she knows she ought to eat, no matter how much she wants tn eat other things, and what I the relult? Perhaps she does look young, perhaps hr cheek has a more delicate

We have all known miserable men J" bloom than the weathered, comfortable

Parents of Today Are Unfitted to Direct Children

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they loved and married them to some-! ot ,l- nd Perhaps she will stay youn Uody they didn't love because the fath-! ,onS s she can spend hours a day

er and mother were so certain that , Ting to do o. But her youth is real-

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wife that Mary and John needed better than Mary and John knew themselves. The truth is that there have been so many changes in the conditions of life and the point of view in the last twenty years that the parent of today is absolutely unfitted to decide the problems of life for the young man and woman of today. This is particu

larly the case with women, because the whose economic and social position of woman has been revolutionized : since mother was girl. Things that j were considered bad form then are 'good form now. Sentiments that were

to live in different circumstance for a time, where she cannot devote cwt of her time to preserving ber complexIon, she fades quickly, and nil tbe hours spent in ensnaring youth are gone for nothing. Prince Krapotkln. the great Russian anarchist, said in an article about his experiences in prison that be thoajrbt. he. a dry bred man. used to the damp stone houses of Rt. Petersburg, stood tbe confinement of tbe cold, dark, damp Russian prison better than did strons. country bred men perhaj much stronger and more robust than be, Tb change from tbe fresh country air and

well aired houses to tbe ill ventilated

daring then are commonplace conven- j and din(rr prison cells was so great

lions now. An amount or education j jt broke down their health

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