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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1916)
Our Women and Children Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards. BRIGHTEN YOUR CORNER. Are you doing all you can to bright en, to beautify “the corner where you are?” If “he is a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, what a vista of possibilities opens up in our front and back yards Any one may grow a flower. It is not a privilege granted to the rich only, but to those who will. We may not have immense masses of flowers or large parks of green sod, but we can sow grass on the parking in front of our door or plant flowers in a box on a tenement roof. If you possess good taste, make kind suggestions to those in need of them, and thus bring light and beauty into the lives of others. Every woman may contribute some thing to the beauty of her world. However limited may seem her sphere, however narrowed and confined her activities, she has a realm as signifi cant as any that ever existed, replete with opportunities for service and awaiting the touches of beauty which she may give to it. While the practical things of life are more imperative, we may well pause now and then for a considera tion of the aesthetical. Each life re flects the things for which it strug gles. As we “brighten the corner where we are,” more and more in our surroundings, in the lives of our as sociates will be reflected this bright ness, this beauty radiating from the deep recesses of our souls. L. S. E. THE GUILTY PARTY. We mortals have to swat and shoo The flies from dawn till dark, ’Cause Noah didn’t swat the two That roosted in the Ark. Save $5.00 Use this merchandise check as the first payment on a Combin ation Round Oak Range during this Special Round Oak Combination Range Week April 29th to May 6th, Inclusive DURING the past year we have sold several carloads of Round Oak combination ranges. Every individual sale has meant another enthusiastic booster for the Round Oak combination range. To make this range still better known we have effected a special arrangement with the Round Oak folks whereby during this i Combination Range Week we can accept this Merchandise Check for $5.00 as first payment on the regular purchase price. Saving of $5.00 on the 30 Days Free Trial regular price „ Kvery claim made for a Round ° r Oak Combination Range is backed This means that a Round Oak by the most convincing proof, viz.: combination range burning gas, we will put one in your home, con coal or wood and using only one nect it and let you use it for 30 oven will be put into your home days. If it does not prove satis without your paying a cent down factory, you may notify us and and at a saving of $5.00 on the we will remove it free of all ex regular price if this offer is taken pense to you—otherwise you pay advantage of during the week of the balance in small monthly pay April 29th and May 6th, inclusive. ments. Burns Gas, Coal or Wood Without Change of Parts. This range makes the kitchen comfortable the year around. You ask why? This proved range keeps it cool and delightful in summer, because it bums gas. It will also keep it cozy and warm in winter without added expense be cause it also bums without change of parts coal, coke or wood. I Bring in this merchandise check—at once. Only a limited number ; will be sold on this plan. Orchard & Wilhelm Co. 414-416-418 South Sixteenth Street S This is the Round EE EE Oak Merchandise p p Check = p Worth $5.00 to You == — If used between the dates — EE April 29th and May 6th— S3 under conditions stated below 5S= — In accord with agreement — T~, existing with Orchard & Wil- S3 = helm Co., 414-416-418 South = ~ 16th St., Omaha, this = S3 Merchandise Check j~E 3r entitles you to a credit of 3: EE $5.00 to be applied as the EE zzz original payment required to [= — have delivered to your home, =E — one Round Oak 3-Fuel Com- EE = bination Range. =E — The Round Oak Folks 3S EE Dowagiac, Michigan ^E — When handed in for credit, sss S3 the customer is required to S3 — endorse as indicated. — 3r Address . =E — Salesman . — IT ISN’T YOUR TOWN, IT’S YOU. If you want to live in the kind of a town Like the kind of a town you like, fou nedn’t slip your clothes in a grip And start on a long, long hike. You’ll only find what you’ve left be hind, For there’s nothing that’s really new. It’s a knock at yourself when you knock your town, It isn’t the town, it’s you. Real towns are not made by men afraid Lest somebody else gets ahead. When every one works and nobody shirks, You can raise a town from the dead. And if while you make your personal stake Your neighbors can make one, too; Your town wil be what you want to see. It isn’t the town, it’s you. — ON THE OTHER HAND. The Lord also loveth a cheerful loser. All things wait for those who go after them. Where there’s a will, there’s a w'ay at of it. None are so blind as those who see ur faults. Marriage generally proves that one an live quite as cheaply as two. There is plenty of room at the top vithout pushing anyone else off. Some men are born great, some shrink and others never realize how small they really are. Those who never try are at least spared the mortification of surely nowing what they can’t do. The acceptance of a story, in spite >f some of the cheap magazines, does t necessarily imply a lack of merit. Why should a man permit a woman o make a fool of him when he can o it almost hs successfully himself? SAM S. STINSON. MOTHER NATURE’S RISING BELL By Nellie Robertson Cannon. When old Mother Nature rings the rising bell, And all the little flowTers, No matter where they dwell, Raise their pretty heads. And blink their sleepy eyes. When the sun comes apeeping From out the blue skies. Under downy covers she tucked their little toes, Patted them and petted them \s everybody knows. Mocking bird is singing in the tree top high lush-a-bye my flowerkins Hush-a-bye! When old Mother Nature rings the rising bell All the world will know it. When the buds begin to swell; The little brooks will laugh and gurgle, Dnward to the sea— The brown earth will awaken With the old sweet melody. Aurora from her chariot, Will fling kisses to the sun; She will shake her glistening tresses, For the spring days have begun. She will wake the frisky squirrel, In his oak tree citadel; They will know that spring has come When they hear the rising bell. THRIFT. — Neglect of small matters frequently makes a big matter that cannot be ; neglected. The thrifty woman is a j wonderful blessing to the average man, whose income is not by any means too large to be easily expend ed. The extravagant, spendthrifty woman keeps a wage-earning husband n constant hot water financially. The savings bank habit is a good habit for any woman to get. If it’s only half a dollar a week, or not more than a dime, it is worth saving. Sav ings have a remarkable fashion of growing. The habit of saving also 'rows. You may think that you would have difficulty saving twenty-five cents a w'eek. But if you begin with wenty-five cents a week, you will presently find that you can save fifty cents, and then a dollar each wek. When you begin to watch the pennies, you will be surprised how many trifl ng expenses can be done away with, and what a big total you have been spending in small sums, to little pui pose. Make thrift a part of your daily life. Begin now.—Mother’s Maga zine. STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT. Statement of the ownership, man agement, circulation, etc., required by the Act of August 24, 1912, of The Monitor, published weekly at Omaha, Neb., for April 1st, 1916: Name of editor, Rev. John Albert Williams, 1119 North Twenty-first street, Omaha, Neb.; managing editor, Rev. John Albert Williams; business manager, Joseph La Cour, Jr.; pub lisher, Rev. John Albert Williams. Known bondholders, mortgages and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: None. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of April, 1916. (Seal) SILAS ROBBINS, Notary Public. (My commission expires February 2, 1921.) 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