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- ' V, Burgess Bedtime _Stories_ BT THORNTON W. BURGESS. Jumper (lie Hare Is WorrieJ. A sunny t»mpw in an hour Through worry may ha\e turned quite aour. —Peter Rabbit. Sweet Mistress Spring had arrived. ! There was no doubt about it. Peter Rabbit would hate known it by his feelings if there had been no other signs. Rut there were other signs, plenty of them. Gentle Sister South "Wind had swept away every trace of snow on the Green Meadow. She had tried to do, the same thing in the Green Forest, but there were places where she couldn't do It alone, and where the Jolly Little Sunbeams couldn't help her. So here and there in dark sheltered places small patches of snow still remained. Winsome Bluebird had arrived. So had Little Friend the Song Sparrow and Rear Me the Phoebe. Rnughleg the Hawk had gone north. Fanner Brown and his boy were making maple sugar, for the sa^ was running freely In the maple trees. The little brown and green hoods of the Skunk Cabbage, each sheltering many tiny flowers, were all along the Laughing Brook. Up on the hill in the Green Forest llepatieas smiled at all who passed. Yes, indeed, there ^were many, many signs that Sweet Mis press Spring liad arrived. Peter had run over to the Green Forest. His feet fairly itched with desire to roam about. Tt was the season when he just couldn't sit still in one place long at a time. He had that feeling every spring. It kept him wandering here, there, every where. You see lie just had to know all that was going on. “Hello. Cousin Peter." said a voice as Peter -.was hopping lipperty-lip perty-lip down the Lone Little Path. “Hello yourself." replied Peter, stopping short, for lie had recognized Orat voice at once. It was the voice *f his big cousin. Jumper the Hare. At first Feter didn't see Jumper, al though he stared all about. It was rather daik Just there, and this was one of the places where under the hemlock patches of snow still | lingered. “Where are you hiding- Cousin Jumper?” demanded Peter after vainly looking all about*. “I’m not hiding. Why do you think I am hiding?” said Jumper. Then what Peter had taaen for a little patch of snow under the hem lock branch slowly hopped out to ward him. “Oh!” said Peter. “That white coat of yours fooled me. Yes, H.Ca»v - "You mean it ms a handy coal," ■ said Jumper. sir, it certainly fooled me. I have I passed half a dozen little patches of ( snow since 1 started down the Lone | Little Path, and I took you for an other. My, my, my. hut that is a handy coat you have:” “You mean It was a handy coat,” said .lumper. "I mean it is a handy coat,” re- ; plied Peter. Jumper shook his head! “So, it isn't,” said he. "Tt was. hut it isn’t.” i “I'd like to know why not,” re torted Peter. “I took you for a patch of snow, and any one else would have done the same thing.” ‘‘That is because I wasn’t moving.” Jumper said. ”If I had been moving you wouldn't have taken me for a patch of snow. As long as every- j thing was white, I could move about as I pleased. But now that every- ( thing is brown with only a little bit of snow here and there, my heart is in my mouth every time I move. 1 Hooty the Owl almost caught me last night. I need my brown coat now, and 1 won't know a moment’s peace until I get it. It keeps me worried i every minute. Yes. air. it does so.” . (Copyright, 3S23.> • Adele Garrison My Marriage Problems The Garage “Get-Away" Madge's Captor* Contrived. If I had cherished any wild hopes that the unseen watcher-in the coop like office of Tony’s garage would rush to my rescue when I tore the wrapping from my face, they were ruthlessly Crushed. There was no sound, or movement from ths tiny room, and the only person affected was Tony. His Jaw dropped in amaze ment as lie saw the gag in my moutli. and a crafty look spread over his face. "You no tell me does”' he gasped. "Stewed ees all right, mooch.a peoples stewed. But dees—dangerous—I no liks.’’ The big man, mith a muttered oath, had crushed the blanket over my face again. Now ho crammed me through the door of the black limousine, and dumped me into Grace Draper's arms as if I had been a troiiWesome puppy. "Shall I hand out some maple sy rup?" he whispered to her as he did so. "Tony wants sweeteillng a bit. This hell-cat goth the blanket down so far he saw the gag.’< "Give him enough to shut him up,” Grace Draper returned, "and hurry.” i She took me in her arms again, crushing me In a vice-tike grip which would have been torture at any other moment, and which I knew she meant as such. But I was too dumb for suffering. Without the faintest scrap of reason T had" {elt that rescue for me lay behind the crack of the coop door. When there had been no sign, hope and feeling fled, temporarily, at least. As might a person in a nightmare, t heard the rustle of bills, a gratified chuckle from Tony, a muttered word or two from the big man, and then— with George at the wheel—tha big black limousine swept out of the ga rage and headed westward. •'Tony'll take care of the car?" Grace Draper asked, and her voice seemed to come from a great dis tance. "Georgy himself, won’t know it in a few hours.” the big man returned. '“Trust Tony. He's about the best in the business, and the cream of the joke is that he's strictly houeat as far as his legitimate repair business goes, j He's a top noteher at repair work, and his prices are always strictly fair, and he's a most obliging cuss. We wouldn’t have dared go in there with this stunt .in the summer time—too many chance customers there. He can managp stolen cars because of a big barn In the rear Into which he shoves them the minute they come in, and which can't be seen from the front, so ordinary customers suspect nothing—but we couldn’t have pulled this.” Have you anything on him, he-1 side being a fence for stolen cars?” | Grace Draper asked thoughtfully. j "And for bootleggers," the big man amended. "I mean a killing job.” "No.” "He isn't absolutely safe then,” she said. "It needs the fear of the chair to keep a fellow like him in line,, If it came to a'question of his own skin, he’d turn us up In j a second. I’d advise planting some- , thing on him if you expect to con-! tinue making use of him.” Her tone waa as cool as if she were discussing the propert treatment for rose bugs, and an Involuntary shiver shook me at this new evidence of her utter callousness. She gave a de lighted little chuckle as slie felt the movement of my body. ‘’Shocked, sweetheart!" she drawled. “Well, you’d better get used to it! You’ll have plenty to occupy your nervous system pretty—What’s that?” She broke off sharply, clutching at the big man’s arm. "What’s what?” he demanded. In evident amazement. "Listen. Don’t j’ou heat any- 1 ; thing?" The big man’s face darkened. "I—but it may not be.” "And again It may.” Grace! Draper snapped. “As George says, | they're always in couples.” Because of the blanket swathing me. I had not before heard the sound which so evidently alarmed them but now It came to me distinctly, the putt-putt of a motorcycle. The big man was peering out Of tho win dow. hack of us, and he spoke ex I citedly. "Coming fast—well. I’ll bp cussed.” 1 "Can the trimmings and speak i your piece,” Grace Draper admon-) isbed irritabily. "What's he do ing?" I Faint Heart! Dear Miss Fairfax: I am coming, (o you again for advice. There are no parties in our neighborhood. I do not dance. There is a party every two weeks at our church, in town, composed of married folks, mostly, a few young fellows and a few young ladles, hardly more than school girls. A few years back 1 attended parties and dances at the church autto often, but I never felt more self-conscious and out of place than I did there. I never had a gdud time and finally 1 found It easier to stay away. I only go to a movie occasionally. There are a number of boys (there are no girls) in the neighborhood, but each one is a “stay-at-home” or has his own form of amusement. We could perhaps, associate more than we do, but I prefer a good book to their vul gar jokes and idle talk. For over a year I haven't taken a*girl out. I am getting lonesome. What do j ou think about it'.’ My next problem Is this: East win ter at a party I met a young woman of fine character, reserved, kind and modest. Hefore the party broke up 1 realized I was In love with her. 1 did not meet her again for three months, after which 1 saw her nearly every day while at work. A friendship grew up between us, but i did not ask her out or to a dance or anywhere. I wanted to do so, but I fear I lacked courage. Every time I made up my mind to ask her my courage would fail entirely at the last moment. I am sure she caia-d a little for tne, at least she showed a friendly interest in me. Finally I gave up in despair. I was becoming ashamed of myself and I knew I had Buffered in her esti matipn. At the end of tlio summer she went home, which is in a distant i part of the state. I tried to forget iter, but even now I cannot. Could this have been merely an infatuation? Can it be possible that I have been idealizing her? Sinre last summer I have regained t health and courage and now I would [like to show her that I am a man. What should 1 do? Wiite her or sec | her? Kile is about 22. 1 am aiiout 24. I After all. I do not eare much, although it has caused nte much unhappiness, except when 1 think tin.1 whole affair over I long for "what might have been.’’ If you can help nte T am grateful j to you. I I’lease print an answer only, soon. In The Omaha Dally Dee, as I may | leave this country for a short time. A QUEER ONE. If you can sec her do so. If not, j write. But do not, above all things, : say that you don't rare. You get out of life just what you put into it, and , if you “don’t care" life doesn’t care for you. There is no need for a self conscious person to torture himself \ without cause, but since you find so few in whom you are genuinely inter ested, you had best improve each chance of human.contact that is with in your reach. Love or Business. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am in busi- i ness for myself. I make a very decent living and save some money. But the business requires my attention seven days in the week and bet wen 16 and It hours a day. I therefore find it' very hard to run it. About a month ago I met a young lady who pleased me very much and , it seemed that I attracted her. I have seen her about a dozen times since then, have met her parents and have been pleased with her very much in general. But I cannot honestly say that I love her. I also know that if I proposed to j the girl I w’ould be accepted. Should I propose to her and marry her and keep my very promising busi ness. or shall I sell the business (for I cannot keep it if I don't marry)? G. E. ! tVby not hire an assistant? It ap pears that what you want is some one ' to help you run an exacting business. But you don’t have to marry to secure the aid you require. A wife would cost you more than will a clerk. I am not iaughing at you—but I am trying to make you see that your problem Is not whether to sell your business—nor marry a girl for whom you have no real feeling of love. The thing that is at stake is how to run your busi ness efficiently and have a little leis ure to study yourself and to be with your friends. Uncle Sam Says . .Standard Height* and Weights of Children. Is your child up to standard in height and weight** !->•» you know That your child should weigh and uain each month? The United States Bureau of Education has issued two posters giving the correct height and weight cf children from 3 to 8 years of age. Readers of Th* Omaha Bee may ob* BARNEY GOOGLE_ Barneys So Tender-Hearted He Can’t Give Up Bad Luck. Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Billy De Beck BLA — AM , I SHOULD WASTE HY MINUTES OH A BELLE. LIKE YOU - EVER StMCE. iHE FIRST DAY X . WET YOU X VE iHK HAD bad LUCK ! '-Z « 1 SM«f i nntXTr' T"v T/'"' T ttx c A TI4CD SEE J,<1CS AND Fi^ Drawn for The Omaha Bee by McManus BRINGING UP r A 1 rUbR--— U. S. r.t«n. OWie. EAGE or COLORS IN IKE SUNDAY BEE Copyright 1»3, N / __ HOW-XOO C.O R'<»ht ahead AND EAT-IWOVT SuCICW-b make ^jOME oeuciooo < WI^>H *>HE*— VUZ THROUGH EATIN IT! 1^* . '11 - 1 ■ - ' OH- t VOU« PARDON • — MY ERROR - \ OHrYHKT SAU C «'CiHT-» W(JZ f l t-VPtCTlNCi IT* j /-\ ' CM! OtO vitXJ CEV ( don't KNOW• ?°°p- 1 SSv T *S° .'Slt^ -1-2Z-S 3-26 \NOTHtR OlCKClV THI'J OM" 1*0 r--' -( ‘^>Q' ° ' J ©IMS if IHTL n*Tumt Ssnvics. I»e. | if! tain a copy of either of these posters by addressing the Hureau of Educa tion, Department of the Interior, Washington. D. C., asking for "Health Education Poster No. 2," for heights and weights of girls, and "Health Education Poster No. 3," for boys' lieigths and weights. Parents’ Problems Can children be taught to under stand anything of the difference be tween the government in a democracy and In a country which has a king? The system of government is not the same in all monarchies; In some the reigning sovereign has far more and in others far less power than the abvkrtiskmknt CHARLES PETERS Declares It Completely Over came Stomach Trouble and Weakness Left by Pneumonia. -— "The other day the K.ales showed me a gain of twenty-five pound?, and t it sure made me feel thankful for Tanlac,’* was the characteristic state I ment of Charles L. l’eters. 2219 Me ! Gee St., Kansas City, Mo., valued member of the shipping department of Crane & Co. “Pneumonia left me ail run down, with my stomach so out of order I couldn't get my strength, and was way under weight. I suffered so badly with indig", tion my food did me little good, bloated me w ith gas till ray heart palpitated like a trip ham ' mer and I lost all appetite. Billous i ness, constipation, headaches, sleep lessness ami unstrung nerves put the I finishing touches < n my miseries and I could find no 1 elief “Since taking the Tanlac treatment , f eat like a larm hand, sleep like a top and feel a? husky as I did when I was a brawny lad of 21. Tanlac is | in a class by itself.” Tanlac is for sale by all good drug gists. Over SVmilUtm bottles sold. —Advertisement. AD\ KRTI'I.Mf NT y v Eveiy body admires a good complexion ‘ The daily use ol Rcsinol Soap for •he toilet and bath keeps the skin sc ciear it cannot help being beautiful. It is unusually cleansing ar,d at the same time so pure and mild it wiJ not irritate the most sensitive skins. U hen aided hr Retinol Ointment, rt teldom (•da to clear a* ay blotcbot, raahea. roufbnerr and other (octal blemiehet. Your dealer tel* Retinol Soap and Ointment. <1 )l /re *4/**.*. Resinol The Day. of Real Sport By Briggs * i ___-— ^fjEVJ^NElGHBORf' ABIE THE AGENT— Appriraam Arr Again*! Him. ^ iN B\JSiWtSS.Nou <ioT to ^ Ml* AROUVrt) AU. OV^R'^N^Mr F 1M QOIKi€i AROUKIR uXW A UJT OP %IQ BoilERWAKERS AT TX5\R / A^viOAL apt air; XT'® S \AJweo via fccu.'K, ~V mct <^\rr,Tvev v>*r WOY>Ct 1VV B S.WAUJSH TEUfiB. KiOfcOOy PtCtt OM WE\'.jj the V UP'.!! y _ president of the United State*. I In difference between the king and ■ ■ president most easily understood by children i* that a king inherits his office and holds it for life, while the president is elected and for a brief period only. The best method 'if deal ing with the other differences is !■: the reading or telling of historical stories or episodes. |^'§| Quick action wither J Dr.KINGS NEW DISCOVERY - thtJwnUy u*gx synf_ i... xmi»■ i ■■ mm... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • : : • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • : : • • • • : : : Nature sends a warn- : i ing of Pyorrhea— i % bleeding gums. Only : : one person out of five : past forty escapes. t Thousands younger ! i are subject to it as : i well. Be on your i | guard. : • Brush your teeth with ; 1 fbrhan’s I : FOR THE GU^fe | ■ More than a tooth paste • l —it checks Pyorrhea • 35c and 60c m tubes « %DV ERT I SEMEN T. KEEP LOOKING YOUNG It's East-—If You Know Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets. — _ — a The *ccret cf keeping young i» to fee! young—to do thi* you mu“. watch you - liver i’vi bowel* — tb^re’i no need of hiv ing A • allow coropiexicn—-dark ring* urd'* your eye*—pimple*—a Wliou* look in your face—dull eye* with ro *oarkJe. Voir iocter will tell you ninety per cent of a firknesa come* from inict e bowel* and Li1 er. Dr. Edward*, a well-known phy*ie:a to Ohio, perfected a vegetable cempourd mixed with o!i»e oil to »ct on the live. <nd bowels, which he gave to hi* nat for ye*r« Dr. Edward*’ 0..»e Tablets, the *u ■ - • titote for calomel, are ger.tJe in th" *rt»<o yet always effective They bring tbout that natural buoyancy which a bould enjoy by toning up the L er and rloarir«g the ayater.*. of impurities Dr. Edwards’ Olive Table's **w kno""^ 3y their oHr# eolo-. 15c and S^<*. AOrBBTlJilSIEhT. Don’t Let That Cold Turn Into “Flu” Rub on Good Old M u-terole That cold may turn ir*o "Flu * Grippe or, even worse. Pneumonia, unless you take care of it at or.v». Rub go*-1 old Vusterole on the cor cested parts and see how quickly it brings telief. Colds are merely congestion. Mu? trrolc. made front the pure oil cf reus nrd. camphor, menthol and other simple ingredients, is a counter-ir ritant which stimulates circulation and help* break up the cold. As effective us the messy old nus tard plaster, it does the work Sritli out the blister. Just rub it on with your fingertips Tou will feel a warm tingle as t enters the pores, then a cooling ser.sa tion that brings welcome relief. 35c and 65c jars and tubes. Reiter than a mustard plaster.. Al>\ KHTblMIAT MRS. HINCKLEY NERVOUS WRECK Teftt How She Wat Rettored to Perfect Health by Lydia E.Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound Memphis. Tenn.-- Two year* ago I was completely run-down and my nerve? were a wreck. I could not sweep a room without resting I could not do my work except a lit tle at a time, and the doctor's medi cine did not help me. One day soma on*'threw your lit tle hook on to me porch, and in it l read several tes* i moria's of women who had been like niwaelf. 1 went right out and pot me a bottle of Lydia L. Ptnkham * \ epe_ table Compound, and before I had taken the whole of that bottle I knew it waa helping me. 1 took sir bottle*, and then in about three month* I took two more. Now I am in perfect health. 1 do all of my own work and could do more. I can truly aay that I know Lydia F. FmkhamV Vegetable Compound gave me my bealtb. — Mrs. O. J. Haokiey. 316 Irion Ave.. Memphis. Tenn. Lydia F. nnkham’a Private Tex: Book upon " Ailment* Peculiar to Women ’’ will be aent vv<u free upon rev^ueat. Write to The t.ydia F. Pink ham Medicine Co., Lynn. Maaa Thia i—oW contain) valuable u>fortnat»oo