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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1924)
Methodists Give Near 5 Million Omaha Area Stands Third in Contributions to Church Fund. Des Moines. In.., Jan. 9.—Iowa and Nebraska, members of the Methodist Episcopal church in the Omaha area gave considerably more than $1,000, 000 a year to the centenary expan sion movement of the church for benevolences in the four years of the five-year period, it is announced by the Methodist yearbook, which made its appearance today. The Omaha area contributed in the four years tlie sum of $4,S37,775 to the fund. The Nebruska conference, the larg est in the area, led in contributions, with $1,246,673 paid on May 1, 1923. The Des Moines conference ranged second with $1,238,163; the Upper Iowa conference was third with $862,695; tlie Northwest Iowa eonfer enotr gave $752,646; the Iowa confer enced gave $520,094: the Northwest Herman conference gave $151,372, and the Northwest Nebraska conference gave $67,130. , Thirty-six per cent of this money goes to foreign missions, the same amount to home missions, 11 per cent to education and the remainder to 17 other church agencies, the American Uible society and the Federal Coun cil of Churches of Christ in America. The membership of the Methodist Episcopal church in Iowa and Ne braska totals 283,493, tlie area hav ing the densest Methodist Episcopal population of any similar territory in the worfd. Burgess Bedtime Stories By THORNTON W. BURGESS. If danger happens to lro noar. Forget fulnesR may coFt you ilpar. —Danny Meadow Mouse. An Exciting Interruption. Whitenose the Fox Squirrel and Danny and Nanny Meadow Mouse were careless. Yes, sir, they were so busy getting acquainted and so interested iti learning about each other that all three forgot to watch out for danger. Yes, sir. they forgot, and that is the most careless thing that any one can do. Danny and Nanny were on the ground, while Whitenose sat on top of the stump under which Danny and Nanny had their home. Whitenose was even more curious about Danny and Nanny than they were about liim. You know, it was a wonderful story that Danny and Nanny had to tell about the way the great man bird had brought them down to the Sunny South. Whitenose had seen that great man-bird, with its broken wing, as it stood on its head not far from where they were and had wondered about it. Just why Whiteness turned his head and looked behind him when he did he probably doesn t know himself. But he did turii his head. "'Run'" he screamed. And made a flying jump from the top of the stump toward the nearest tree. It was all so sudden and unexpect ed that for a minute Danny and Nanny didn’t move. They saw Whitenose jump to the trunk of a tree and go up it so fast, that in a second he had disappeared in the long gray moss that hung from the branches of that tree. Before they could blink their little eyes there was u rush of feet from the back of that stump and they had just a glimpse of a big form bounding straight for that tree. Up there it went, quite as quickly as Whitenose had cone, and also disappeared in the long, gray moss. They heard the scratch ing of sharp claws on the bark high up in that tree, and then they had just a glimpse of Whitenose mak ing a flying leap from the end of a long branch across to the branch of another tree. With their little eyes almost pop ping out of their heads, they watched to see if Whitenose would he followed. He wasn't. Then they heard from up in that tree Such an ugly, spitting! snarl of rage and disappointment that it made the hair all over them stand right on end. They waited to see no more. They scurried into their home They had just the glimpse of a big form bounding for that tree. under the old stump as fast as their short legs could take them. "Who do you suppose that terrible fellow was?” whispered Natinv. "1 haven't the least idea,” Danny whispered back. "But Hie noise he made up In that tree sounded very much like the sounds I have heard Black Pussy the Cat make when she has ljeen disappointed in catching me. Only this was ever and ever so much louder.” "I'm so glad Whltenose got away," Nanny whispered. 'I hope he'll come buck.. Probably he can tell us who that dreadful fellow is. My. hut Whltenose hail a narrow escape!" “So did we." replied Danny soberly. "That fellow might have sneaked around this stump and caught us if it hadn't been that he saw Whltenose first. I guess, Nanny Meadow Mouse, we’ve got something to be thankful for. My, I haven't had such a fright since the great man bird fell with us." (Copyright, lt24 ) The next story: "Vowlcr's Cousin. Who Is Called Yowler, Too.” Girl Anxious to Propose Leap Year Here—Can’t Wait for Man to Speak—Even Thinks Parents Should Ask Man About Intentions. By MARTHA ALLEN. LEAP year is already beginning to have Its effect on the writer of the following letter; Dear Miss Allen: I have known a certain young man for a year. He has taken me out a great deal to theaters, dinners, and to other places and when he is out on the road he writes to me. I am past 34 and he Is almost 30 years. Ko he is old enough and I know that he is in a position to marry, lie makes a good salary anil ban no one to support. I have learned to love him and feel that if he doesn't speak of mar riago to me soon that I will have to tell him the truth. Would you advise my folks to speak tc him? Kindly advise me what to do? ALICE. It you are quite suie that this young man is ready to marry, why not put a little competition In the field? That might wake him up. If ho thinks that there is danger of lor mg you he will speak right up. Hut the man might be paying off a slack nf old debts or investing his money so heavily that he can't think of mar Huge just at presen*. In any case, he will gladly explain the reason for nil the delay In proponing if you'll go about it carefully. 11c may come lo an understanding if you distribute some of your attention among other men. He bony sometimes when he a-ks you to go to I lie theater, A year Is long enough for any young man With a good position to go with a young woman without any serlou intentions. I wouldn't advise lrlting your par ents speak to him. miy mail with pride resents such treatment. Start a campaign that will make It neces sary for him to speak now or never. Martha I..— When a young man calls he should be I lie one to make the first move about the time of depar ture. A man's partner at dinner sits to Ills right at the table. When call ing for a woman In nn automobile the man most certainly calls for her at the door and doesn't wait for her In ■ the car- At the theater the man allows the woman with him to pass (list- down tile aisle offer the ii iher. Anxious Invitations nonl not he sent for nn Informal ten. .Inst itsk your friends by phono or when you meet them. Sandwiches, ha and raked are usually served. There need tie no entertainment for the afternoon. At a tea the guests spend the time visiting. J. 8.—Formal calls In the city anil during the season of winter gayety are paid between 4 and ti o'clock in the afternoon. _ 7. lYv KKTIM.M liNT. No Need to Be Dyspeptic If Stomach Sour*, Get* Gassy and Heavy, Sweeten and Lighten With Stuart’s Dyspep sia Tablet*. One never loo o|«| to forget the delight* of foiling And yvl old people will sometime* play on tha*e nicnimn and bring on dyspeptic attack* even though the fllei he simple. I \rry family Hlumld bw *upplied with Stuart' !)y*pe;» tn Tablet*. From childhood to old age they daily overcome or prevent the ill reni. due to imligeHtiou. They wweeten the Ntomach hy giving it the alkaline effort h> in health, they nbnorh the ga*o . tiny lift <»ff the feeling of heavim- . they .tup sour rining* or heart burn tin;, ni-tonlly H«Kint in tho digeatlon «»f fond, and from till point* of view are one of the um-t invaluable aid* to health to be found. So, no matter what you eaf. If your tomaeh rebel*, alway* remember that a UO-e* nt b< x of 8*uart’a Dv*pep*i« Tablet will keep your ntomach --weet and thu >1 to i > ven* much of the distress that conic* late in life. » EDDIE’S FRIENDS cart* KrtliHtoUnKif'hM. Be om little S\E -MOW X’fA LWT- -TvAJ O L-E -TWOS - J?: ■DO \"T Voft . vA QOARTfetf, AA.vU) UTTUE \ 'JOH, Tv\B <a^EAT£SY ! VORE-STUtR (Ni XiE: ) VMORl-P -KloSOPW y V^CAM fU<ROvA) Uu^y> (\S mm DiNV&) [COVJBRBD^/ St! N OP 3mb y / 1 "TvAoSb., ■BCH9, AM' SIMG/ ,^400*2. Ql-O&Sy ////i- w • w '/, ■* C 1924 BY Int L FeATUW« Scwvict. INC | STELLA DALLAS By Olive Higgins Prouly. ftYNt •?£!(*. j \ft«*r *ev**n ynirw neparation Stella Dalian is re«iue»t«*«l by her Im-buml « at torney to ffefc a dll one on the grmiml «,f desertion. When *lie refuse** *l»r is told the alterrnmtl\e will be an notion In which -lie will be charged with iuniornl eondiict with \lfr«d Mima, hii old admirer, from whom *he reeelved attention while her daughter, laurel. i:t. was Hsiting tier father. Stephen Dalln*. hi New York. Slie imligrumtly denies wrongdoing and de el a res »he will fight. Stephen it* desirous of freedom so that lie may marry Helen Morrison, a willow. (Continued from Yesterday.) Wlu ii Cornelius Morrison met Ste phen Dallas, lie took a fancy to the Ruling man. They had s-.-vernl inter eats In common. Cornelius anil Ste phen went on a fall fishing trip to i gather six months after Stephen met I Helen In Central park. Stephen was often at Helen's house after the fish ing trip. Cornelius would bring him home to dinner unannounced. After dinner the two men \gouhl play long games of chess in the library, while Helen read to her boys In a room above. Of course Stephen saw Helen alone sometimes, but never for long er than a passing moment or two Helen always had something to call her away. And during those i*iss ing moments or two she was always clothed in her armor. Stephen made no attempt to pierce rtint armor. Convinced that it was not only her wish, but her determined resolve to treat him merely as a friend of her husband's, to whom she extended the courtesies of her po sltion, btit nothing more, he ac quiesced. lie even tried to help her. Finally Stephen avoided all chance for intimate conversation with Helen as delicately and adroitly as herself. Through Helen's skillful management Cornelius Morrison never experienced 1 a moment of the cruel suspicion that he was unwelcome in the company of these two creatures so many years younger than himself. For over half a dozen years Ste phen came and went to and from the Morrison home. lie was constantly moving before Helen's eyes—vivid and alive, blit, as far as she was concerned, apparently divested of all reality. When Cornelius Morrison died, and suddenly Helen was released from all fear of hurting him, she did not immediately alter her attitude to wards Stephen Dallas. Habit was so strong—or was It respect for Cor nelius that was so strong?—she con trived to maintain with Stephen for months the same remote relations which she had established when her husband was alive. Stephen had a great deal to do in settling Cornelius Morrison's affairs. Cornelius Morrison had concluded that, of all 1)1h friends who were members of the bar, Stephen Dallas, who had known Helen as a child, could work with her to the best ad vantage. Me named Stephen as one of his trustees. Therefore Stephen and Helen were necessarily alone to gether frequently. At first Stephen treated Helen as she had indicated she wished to be treated. _I___.__ Me whs aimed Ruinal with her un less the children were present as a safeguard. It was difficult to strike it happy medium after Stephen had been alone in Helen's presence for longer than half an hour. For he loved her! He believed he had loved her ever since that day he had met her in Central park, and his own eagerness and joy at sight of her had so startled and surprised him. No. He believed he had loved her longer. Occasionally a look would pass be tween Helen and himself—a vague, Indefinite look that recalled to Ste phen the picture of a girl sitting by a rose-shaded lamp, and a boy oppo site her toying with a little bronze which he iiad picked up from trie ta ble near by. Stephen believed he had loved Helen ever since that first night In .Judge Dane's drawing room! When for the first time Stephen pursued one of those vague illusive looks, gazed straight at Helen in the gray depths of her eyes, and by Cieer mind-energy captured that will-o’-the wisp impulse that had drifted like vapor between them, she had drawn in her breath quickly and her eye lids had flickered and closed for a moment; and color, ever so faint, ever so Indefinite, had tinged her cheeks. It was no picture of a girl that Stephen saw then! It was the girl herself! She was not the wife of Cor nelius Morrison. She was his, to love and to win. And again Stephen had the queer sensation of waking up from a bad dream. Again his fath or’s suicide, the black days that had followed. Mllhampton, the hoarding house, the little red cottage an’d Stella, were all parts of a nightmare. Helen alone was real. She was made for him. She was meant for him. All that had happened to prevent na ture's plan was a mistake, an abor tion. At the time of Helen's betrayal of her real feelings for Stephen, he made no comment. He seemed not to notice the sharp Intaking of her breath, the faint color, the dosed lids. He began talking quickly gliout a cer tain exchange of property they had been discussing. And he left her very soon. Stephan made up his mind not to speak a word of iove to this beautiful womat^ until he was free to do so, with no fear of cast ing reflections upon her reputation. Divorce, public acknowledgement ol failure in the most sacred depart ment in a man's or a woman's life, had always seemed hideous to Ste phen. But wasn't it the failure, after all, that was hideous, rather than the acknowledgement? His and Std la s failure had already been demon strated. They had already made the slow embittering descent from confi dence and hope to doubt and despair. For years their marriage had been absolved. To place the law’s decree -- ■ ' - upon dead hopes is not the saddest part of the experience. It Is not the required death notice In the i ity's records that remain graven forever in the memory of the watcher by the bedside. Thus Stephea reasoned. 4. It was in September, shortly before Laurel’s first visit at Mrs. Morrison's, that Stephen called on ibis friend. Morley Smith, and started proceed ings for a divorce. It was In Jan uary when Stephen came to the defi nite conclusion that there was only one way that he could obtain a dl voice; and that one way would de feat the object for It. Stella was as firm as adamant. Every form of argument that Morley Smith could think of, every variety of persuasion that he could devise, had been brought to bear upon her, but to no avail. Stella would not comply. “If Stephen wants a divorce he will have to tight for It,” wag her invariable answer. Stephen's hands were tied. It was unthinkable to expose In court the tawdry and unbeautlful details of his life with Stella before he went to New York, to unbtiry for the delight of a greedy public her compromising relations with Alfred Munn. He might be granted a divorce (Morley Smith assured him thut he would), but of what use would It be to him? Helen's position as Mrs. Cornelius Morrison must be considered. She had always looked upon It as a sort of trust. Besides, there were her hoys. They should not be made vic tims of such a scandal. And there was Laurel. No. A divorce obtained in such a manner wan out of the question. As a last resort Stephen had gone to see Stella himself. It was after that ordeal that he felt convinced thut he could never marry Helen Dane. He went to her as soon as possible after he had left the Boston train to tell her of his defeat. He stopped only long enough at his rooms (o change, and then hastened directly to her house. it was nearly 12 o'clock at night before he arrived. As he sat down in the long room two floor* above the entrance, he felt a little faint. Helen was not In the- room, but It was so peculiarly hers that he could hardly breathe its air lately without feeling her sweet presence. Tonight there were fresh logs flaming in the open fireplace. There w as a flame-col ored porcelain howl, placed on each of the chests on either side of the hearth When Hcb-n came into the room f-'tephen was aware that she was in pure white, but there was something as brilliant about her. a* flame-col ored. as the two bowls, as the bro Clide, as the fire. He gaged at her speechless a mo ' ’ ' 1 me'nt. then wont to meet her. He put Ills arms around her end I Is? <1 her. Afterwards he said ouietly. “They're numbered, Helen. " And "be knew Hint what she had read in hi* eves when first she entered the room was true. She slipped a flint, steadying arm through hia. and guided him to the sofa. They sat down side by side on the name-colored brocade. He kissed her again. In spile of his resolve to hold himself in lestruint. uptll the law had pronounced him free, he had not done so. As long as there had been hope that he might go to Helen un cntiinglf-d, some day, he remained si lent. Hut when that hope had grown faint, had all hut disappeared, brok enly, despairingly, one day, he had confessed bis love to her. That was a month ago. His confession had acted like a lighted match on paper. Once Ktephen revealed himself to He! en, -her love for him, long concealed, but long realized, flashed Into flame, like the combustion of a long-stifled fire once it is given air. As she sat beside him on the sofa, tonight, her arm thrust through his. she observed with fiery pity his drooping shoulders, his hand lying limp and inert upon his knee Sh? placed tier own on top of it and grasped it hard. “Never mind. Stephen.'' “There's no hope.” "I know. \Ve scarcely expected it so soon." "Oh, It s final. Helen." “Do you care to tell me about it?" Stephen shook his head. It seemed to him sacrilege to bring even the imagfc he had of Stella in his mind Into tins rootn. go long as he r? malned in Helen's presence, he wished he might eras-’ from his brain the memory of the interview he had just had with the woman who had one day been his wife. (Was it pos sible that she had one Cuy been his wife?) Stephen closed his eyes an Instant. Stella, powdered, painted, lierfurned, coarsened in speech and manner us he ibdn t suppose it pos sible, her fattened figure covered with cheap trappings from head to toe, flashed into his field of vision, lie looked down at Helen’s lovely hand Stella and Helen were as unltke as a wax figure, with highly colored cheeks, glass eyes and blond hair, is unlike a statuetof a beautiful Diana carved in white marble. "You saw her?" "Yes. 1 saw her." There was another pause Gently Helen withdrew her arm and got up. Of course, as long as ■he sat no close to Stephen he cwli not talk •. her. She shoved up he< little armchair opposite him and sa. down In it. "Now, Stephen, tell me about it.‘ Tell her aliout It? Repent to he the threat Stella had hurled at him’ No! Helen must never surmiae tha her fulr name had been mentioned even by an unscrupulous lawyer ar a corespondent In a divorce case For such had been the nature o Stella's threat. It had been torture to Stephen ti sit in Stella's presence and listen t< her ttaing Helens name familiarly daring to refer to her In the sanu hreath that she referred to Alfret Munn. Stephen closed his eyes agait an Instant. He could hear 8teU» still Her speech had grown terribly crude with the years. {Continued hi The Morning Bee. A nVKKTISEM ENT BEWARE THE GOUGH OR GOLD ' THATJAH6S 01 Chronic coughs and persistent coMS lead to serious lung trouble. 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