The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 19

SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1918. THE LINCOLN SUNDAY TITRKB Mi inerva Mail Take YourTroublee to Mmerva U.ur Minerva: The other day a man wrote to you enumerating the faults of thirteen girls with whom he had gone, thereby voicing his fvai of ever finding the ideal girl. His I t- ter set me to thinking, nut of my faults but of the fai.lngs ot the men 1 have known, some of whom 1 have nearly loved. And I thought of the virtues and characteristics which I would like to see in a man, in short, the man of my dreams. So I Jotted down thirteen characteristics which I would hope for in the man of my dreams.

May he be: One who has real respect for girls and women. So many men I know are cynical and horrid regarding girls. One who is ambitious without being egotistical. A man sincere and honest without being priggish and goody-goody. One who is fascinating and sophisticated without being a sower of wild oats.

Possessed of ability to make money easily but honestly, who is thrifty yet not stingy. A good mixer, democratic in the extreme, but who never resorts to hypocrisy or subterfuge iu order to be Jiked by all. One who knows the art of making; his companions feel adorable, charming', scintillating and witty, but who is withnll not a cheap flatterer. One who is good looking but not pretty, well set up but not a giant, a good dresser but nothing of the dan- defied dude. Let him be patriotic and courageous, and at present in the service of his country.

It matters not wheth" he is officer or private, or in na field or air service. These, to me, are the elements of the perfect man. the man for whom I would give up my lucrative business, my home, my little happy established life and into the unknown. One who can dance divinely, but whose brains have not settled in his heels. One who appreciates music, and preferably, is i music.il, but who is not'eccentric or sissy as many men musicans are.

One who is popular i the girls but unaware of it. who has a wonderful a i nncl who knows untl loves good i a and art. who is neither a highbrow or a lluc-stocking. RED, WHITE AND BLUE. A Jealous Crew.

Dear i a I am business wo- rnan 26 years old. Two months ago I was given a very important promotion to take the place of a man who has gone i i i a service. When this position was tendered me, I was the happiest, proudest girl in the world, I think. IVly emplojor told had chosen me for the place over others who were older in service and older in years because of what he believed my i i a i i lo fill tins position. I have worked hard sinie I have been here, and he voiced his appreciation of this, and said my concentrated efforts to master my i had fitted me for i new position more than the stiltory work of otlicrs who had been i longer.

I felt different about my pi emotion i from the first, because to the fact a there were others who oxp eted it and who seemed to i it mire a did. And now, a two I am sick at heart. The others in the office have secme.l lo into a compact to make me a i at my new undertaking. They snub me and even taunt me sometimes. 1 wouldn i that though so much only they put.

obstacles in way the work. I can't tell you how they do this, for il would be scribing the work too But I do not know what to do about it. The work is i since I have IJOLII in new place, and it is all because oL the a way they have been acting. I do ma kndw a to do. Sometimes I i it would be better for all concerned if I would resign and start over again I some place i ot resigning-.

Girls as well as inc-n 7iccd to have sonic fight in them in order to forgo ahead in the business world. cannot afford to be overly sensitive or reserved. Fight it out it' you can without calling on the help of your superior manager. I if this is impossible then do not hesitate to tell him the story. Have tried the method of asking for the co-operation each girl and man work with you? Often a personal, private little chat rebellious co-workers will straighten out a lot of kinks.

If those will not work through, then you will have to fight, and call on your employer to back you up. About Your Garden. Dear Minerva: I don't suppose gardening is in your line, but could i ou find out for me-what is best to put in ground which is clayey and heavy you Xvish to use for garden. I have heard that lime is of any sort tend to make the ground lighter and looser. A sardener recommends fcifted ashes to help the texture of heavy soil.

This man says he sifts his furnace ashes, spreading the fine part on some soil lie is building up. and he finds it improves it greatly. Lime is also a soil lig-htener. but it is not good for some vegetables. It is not good for potatoes, because they grow best in an acid soil.

-There is a government bulletin on liming of soils, which you could secure.by applying to the U. S. "Department of But lime has another benefit, that of destroyer of germs and driving out utworms and grubs. Many gardeners lime their garden beds thoroughly where they plant cabbages, parsnips, radishes, to- mito'es and such vegetables which are so tcn attacked by cutworms and grubs. Tlie tn-color of MICO America so i i i nth on di esses tlie.su Mir davs, but in a i to avoid being This gown of blue seise is in i flrxrk red A ope of reii heads holds A collar of i eh.irmi'iiso.

ending in sailor knot. i youthful neck i i to i most plonslnj frock. The h.it of red lue'nier ribbon is a i new rprins note. about it and he said he would surely depend on me to 8.e. that my wife remained iu doors ior at the very least a week.

1 told my wife we would not -go. but she became very angry and declared go she would without me. 1 was not cross, Lut 1 simply told her not to waste her strength in i ing to go as 1 surely would seo that she did not go She. of course, put me to the test. She did not go.

Since then she has refused to talk to mo only she did say she "hated and despised" masterful men and never dreamed she was married to one of them. For several days at the table her looks have almost turned my mufnis cold belore I got them buttered. I noticed last night how pale and frail she looked and when she passed my chair I pulled her down on my lap. She was at first very resentful. but soon broke down and cried herself weak.

She is deeply hurt because I stood before the door that night and refused to allow her to go out in zero weather and she hardly able to walk. She thinks I was mean to her and says she will never love me the same. Now I honestly don't see what else I could have done when asking and pleading failed. I never before used the least firmness toward her and I am sorry I had to. My wife thinks a man does not love his wife that he is us she says I was "masterful." I call it using; common sense.

Now Minerva, do you thing I should be despised for what I did Dick. A. Doctor's orders are not to be taken lightly, and I presume cvc-a the drastic method you took of keeping your wife home when she was ill was better than allowing her to expose herself as she unwisely wished to do. I can't help but believing you could have persuaded her to stay otherwise, however. If you had calmly left it to her intelligence, or seemed to do so, after telling her of the doctor's advice.

it seems hard to believe that she would hive gone out as she threatened. But I do not i yon should be despised for taking the only means j.jg],t on by. leaving hi you saw possible of i your Aiiy evening a ch wife from i i herself. Greek Prince Weds Eat Banana Bread American Woman PKJNC CHRJST.OPHER OF Primv Christopher Urecce, youngest brother of the deposed King Con- reported to luive wed Mrs. William B.

Leeds, wealthy Amoiiean widow. The couple were a i i in Switzerland, where Mrs. Leeds has been staying with a son, who is in delicate health. Mrs. Leeds is the widow of William R.

Leeds, one of the loaders in the i a 1 i in America from whom she inherited about JU.UOO.OOO. to Conserve Surplus Harvest. Writes Former Star Reporter i i short ago has led to the i of a banana bread in the a a i i islands, to eonscrvo (lie crop that cannot he exported for luck of shipping facilities, according to a letter from Floyd K. Alutson, a a of the Lincoln high school and former reporter for The Star, i is now advertising manager fur the Star- i His letter was to his brother, Attorney 0. 10.

Matson, of Lincoln. War is a l.u'Ke concern in ait. i several banana a in our but Near-Side Stopping. Dear i a Has adopted the near-side stop Or are tho vars stopping a a a a i my wife was down on street at a i i for a car on Whe risked a policeman which slu should wait on for a car, and he told her the near side, so she waited on the (southwest corner of and stieets for an a car. OIK- hove in sight she went to the track and waited and car sailed or behind.

Sung a i we were a i i for a car at tin- l.mdell hotel to go south, and again Mr. a rounded the corner, so we had to walk across to the corner. looks a rotten to me lor a system. tho near-side is good to observe on all corners or it is all wrong. I wv are going to near-side stops, lot's have them on all corners or go back to the old a Fair Peal.

An pianos i i to soar over HonoliT.il, and a officials started i a on vice conditions. This is his "An airplane appeared over Hono- yesterday and tod.iy. if said to be u. hydroplane uiul driven by a young graduate of one of the mainland a i a i schools. It Is said also Hurt a number ol otlicis will be flying here soon.

Tried to Enlist. "1 tried to enlist some time ago ami was turned down because of my feet. 1 wish I were back now at the close of my high school days. 1 would have a try at tho a i a i and If 1 lost out in a at something iu tho army. of the shipping tho exporters of bananas can't get the i to tho coast.

They induced the local branch of the national detonso council to a up tho a i the result that a banana campaign is in progress hero now, to sell ns much of the i as possible to homo consumers and to get thorn to tictuallv oat it. Tho bakeries have evolved banana bread, in which 30 to f0 per cent of tho loaf is banana. Receipts for use of bananas in nil sorts of ways have been published and women are urged to try them. Hunches of bananas hang in of most of stores, in the bnnta and other public a and as tho i ripens, tho public 's Invited to sump'e It, The boy scouts i out in a selling a a i and I guess have succeeded in a i a bunch in almost every homo in town. Fruit is Cheap.

"I bought a 70 cent bunch, a i ing about to 10 dov.cii.. They arc consideiably better in a i a the i is not KI'OWII yet. We arc a i a cold wentliei the mcicury dropped to C7 dcKroos above the night, a low record lor tho month of a a Hut we can be deeply a we arc not i the real cold and shortage combined, a ot the states are undergoing. "Th-'ie is a row on here now between the head of the a a i i a department, i States army, and the Honolulu mayor, over ice conditions, i Wlsser has a to tor- bid soldiers to come i i the a forts on I'ahn unless a moral a i out. a it l.i- Miron's Courtship Or HoSv He Won the Beautiful Lias Miron.

a i sculptor, w.is i i i a and the l.ulv he so coin ted th a i l.ia's--was no i i a today's modern woman: lor is it not recorded a she refused tho sculptor, and did In a of atred not i i ITIICSS that his i locks were the cause ol her Hut old as ho was, had the pep of self respect and was not to be fur i i i icason, in d.iys, his a i darkened to a color, pressed Ins i to i i the a i a i i i "Now a you a a 1 refused i a ships a even i Seattle. Looks like some di arc due." A SLAP AT FRITZ. IsnSTON. Mntvli eran HOIIM! (if Missions ami Church Kx- tenslnn. i bnmrhcs In New Kiigliuirt, I I to illaown the kulser as a niemlier of i communion In the United Suites! of Aim-rlcn.

This action a taken i a Ions debute, but eunled i good majority. those usually seen home market, i and age. is i i i i AYish we could send some to you, s.imls of I know how Owen and I are going to get a i them. I'an't give them a a because nil our noigh- 1 ors who don't grow i own bananas have just as we did, and are loaded up i them. We Juivc i i a a i Liases a a a a i a i I lms i so well a even fi lends can i i-Tel." It's one i i i prep i i i ion to a a i a can now bn had in pi'iTumed U'del form ci i Horse Sense in Lamp Buying A good horse does two or three times the work of a poor horse for the same Amount of feed; and -W i increasing your monthly bills you can get three times the light of the old- style carbon lamps by using EDISON MAZDA LAMPS Mtiilt! ill T.

f.A. It is plain "horse sense" to use them in every socket in tho house. So you do your spring house cleaning, why not make a clean sweep of dim and dismal light Illumination economy with EDISON A A permits you to maks many labor-so vinff uses of current now wasted to operate electric cooking appliances, rlaurons and We'll gladly demonstrate when you ore selecting EDISON MAZDAS roper size. The Lincoln Traction Co. head in his own home inaKcs rue absolutely sicU.

i homes broken up by i more than i i than a i else. A woman la a mere child it comes to the real problems of i and should be treated is lir.st Out of the Past. Dear Minerva: I would like write to your valued department commenting' the fine article by Banker. Thank fortune we have some nun left in the country, not a lot of milk sops. voman promises to "obey" and she should without any back talk.

This i of a man being a mere Spring Cleaning on anything in your home wardrobe will be done correctlv if do it. and shall remain bo. If a a doo.s not w.uit to obey her a should not a She remain a and be K.u mcr. A. It seems i to me a there should i a nun in i enlightened ago ho believes as you say you do, a the hiibb.ind is a Superior belnp, who should have complete control ovir his wife.

Such sentiments hearken back to tho dnvs when men in court convened haggled in all sobriety as to whether women have souls or not. The' word obey is rightfully omitted from many wedding ceremonies. It has no place there, and when left In the ceremony is only a relic of the past i has no significance to cither the man or woman. Happily it is the exception for a man now days to care to have a wife obey him. The modern man wants for a wife a helpmeet, a partner, a staunch supporter In all his trials and i umphs.

He does not a a docile slave who meekly buries her own personality and acts obedient shadow to him. Pernaps there are a few weak-willed women left in the world who want to be obedient to masterful husbands, these women to balance. those mc-n who remain true to the archaic iden that they are lord and master in their own household. I hope not. to Force.

Denr Minerva: am in trouble and please toll me if was at fault. I have been mnrricd nine years and my wife and I had our first serious quarrel last week. KTie had been very ill with soro throat and high fever. She was only pa couple of days when she decided ahe was going to Good Furniture Is an Investment "We read so much about investments now-a-days! So much about SAVING and THRIFT. Did you ever stop to think what a splendid investment GOOD furniture really is? "What liberal returns it brings in happiness i Every Dollar Spent on substantial furniture--the kind we offer at this store, means a liberal interest in happijiess and comfort for many, years to come.

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