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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1924)
What l Know About Polo! -—___j By O. O. M’INTYRE. Polo to most people Is shout ss Important as sorting dental floss or eating water cress. I tried to ride a polo pony the other day and am just four falls behind the prince of Wales. * I can Imagine how silly the game would bo to the boys in What Cheer, Iowa, or Bull, Montana. Polo play ers wear wrist watches. Giggle that away. Still there Is nothing in New York that creates such an air of class an playing horseback croquet. If you go shopping for polo mallets on Fifth avenue you find clerks eyeing you as though you might have money in the bank. My country place—rented for one week—Is Sparselawn, J,. I. It Is near a polo field and I got acquainted with a few of the manicurists for the polo ponies. Before the regular players arrive 1 have been going over and dashing about the field. It Is certainly a great thing to refer to. My friends who do not know the truth are look ing upon me with a very new i id wholes, le respect. Don’t get the idea that polo is any lizzie-hoy game. It is hot stuff and - if you keep from breaking your neck you are lucky and get to sip tea on verandas. Almost any minute you are liable to get socked in the head with the business end of a mallet. Men who ride polo ponies are just as ex pert horsemen as the rodeo drivers from the wild and not very woolly west. The most interesting thing about polo is the crowd that follows the game. Half of the men are monocled and wear white linen spats. They carry canes that have an unfolding seat arrangement upon whhh tuc, y rest. The women are the smartest and the most self-consciously aloof to be found anywhere. They appear to have a sullen hatred for their lowly neighbors. Every polo player Is rich. It takes a small fortune to maintain a string nf ponies. They must be carted across the country and kept in the pink of condition. The most adept polo player I ever saw has the ugliest face In the world, lie resembles a gargoyle and Is as awkward appearing as a bunch of pigsnuckles at breakfast. But when he Jumps on the pony he has the grace of a wild gazelle. Out side of the circus pontes, the polo pony, Is the best trained of all. A r.ere touch of the bridle and they obey. They can stop short and there m the catch. Unless you know your -.addle you keep on going and more than likely go home to thq chirping of birdies In an ambulance* In one game X saw four Inin ber ried off the field with broken bones, i’olo is gaining In popularity aa the leading sport of the rich. There are about 300 In New York >rhg have i a ken up the game this year* It is a game for youth. Old boys ■vith liver spots on their hands would ' last about two hours. It Is no game for men who spend their time behind trusted glass doors guiding big enter prises. A polo player must keep him self as fit as a pugilist. Players go into training and they do not drink. Kven smoking is given up before an Important match. It is a game that will perhaps never be played by the poor man. But just the same it is he-man stuff. I have always thought tennis was an inane game, yet nearly all of the polo players are rather expert at ten nis. They say that nothing so fits a man for polo as lawn tennis. "Kismet the Poet” is doing a series of personally conducted tours from the Park Avenue hotel to America's man is to come over here soon. He is A. S. M. Hutchinson, the novelist, and Barrie is bold beside him. Hutch inson rarely appears among stran gers. Recently his mother died. She was almost his sole companion. He led a sheltered life with her, but now that she is gone his friends are urg ing that he get away for a wYtile and see something of the country that has bought thousands of hs books. The shyest American of letter I ever met is a man who writes blood and thunder stories with swashbuck ling heroes. He blushes like a timid school girl. It is said that at one of the literary dubs he was suddenly called upon to speak. He jumped up from the table and ran like a frigh tened rabbit to an anteroom, where 1--J Polo ponies ran slop short. And you are liable to get socked with a mallet. Eatin quarter—Greenwich village. He takes his tourists into the haunts and artistic retreats. And indeed there are many high spots to be seen in the cillage. Among them No. 1 Sheridan Square, where Edgar Allen Poe is reported to have written “The Raven,” The Blue Horse, Washing ton News, The Pirates’ Den, Romany Marie's, McDougal Alley, the French Hotel, the Brevoort, Gaulois Modern istic Art gallery. Bamboo inn, run by Chinese students from Columbia; Tub o' Blood, Patchen PJpce, the Provincetown playhouse, where O'Neill launches his daring plays, and the Black Cat. And by the way. Tiny Tim, who sold *‘joul candy” to village tourists, has returned. He tried to llvs on a farm but the old lure was there. Tim wears a black velveteen coat and sham and his candy is no different from other candy, but he has a song and dance spiel he gives to prospec tive customers that usually makes them buy. It is reported that England's shyest he fell in a faint. En passant, I rather admire the man who blushes. After one lives In a hard-boiled town for a number of years there is something pristine and virginal about the blush. I only know of two or three whose faces suffuse with red and become confused. One is a teller in a bank and another is a stage director. A society woman who is not to my notion pretty, but craves admiration has sued her husband for divorce. She prefers to be a professional beau ty rather than endure the humdrum monotony of wifehood. Hers is the most blatant type of vanity New York has perhaps ever seen. Her husband is a quiet, home-loving man. Her trouble is that she wants to be seen everywhere and she wants those who see her to keep telling her she is Just simply lovely. Some brave man some day is gotng to look at her snd shout: "What a map you have!'' and it will probably do more good than anything else in the world. (Copyright. 1*24) Grocers, Butchers’ Outing Thursday Richard Jepsen, grocer (left), 250J Cuming street, and Henry Reznlchek (right), 2711 I^eavenworth street, are shown Inspecting one of the many prizes that will make happy hearts on picnic day at the annual grocers' butchers’ outing. All Omaha grocery stores and meat markets will be dosed all day Thurs day for the annual grocers' and butchers' picnic at Krug park, Fred Hannegan, general chairman of the plrnic committee, has announced. This season's outing Is the 26th given by the Omaha grocers and butchers. The picnic, however, will be the first behind which all retail grocers and butchers are aligned. The picnic is being sponsored by the Omaha Retail Grocers’ associa tion, the Omaha Master Butchers’ association and the Progressive Re tail Grocers’ association, the Buy-Rite stores and the Handy Service stores. Several thousand dollars’ worth of prizes will be given away, including 10 bicycles. A motor car also will be given away In addition to the usual merchandise prizes, such as coffee, breakfast foods and canned goods. Evangelistic Services. Evangelistic services will be held Sunday at 11, 3 and 7:30 In the gospel tent, Twenty-first and Grace streets and at the same place every evening during the week at 7:30. The ser mon at 3 will be to men only. The evangelists are John T. Brown of Ohio and .1. W. llarty of New York City. “Not Churchianlty, But Chris tianity" and the old-time godliness is the standard of the preachers. There is special gospel singing and congregational singing. T'ne public, both colored and white, Is invited. Log Rolling Picnic. Modern Woodmen of America and Royal Neighbors will hold their an nual log rolling picnic at Bennington next Saturday. Baseball, races and all kinds of games, besides drills of the various forrester teams, will be held. Elgin Priest Die*. Special Dispatch to Ttio Omaha Bee. Elgin, Neb., July 19.—Father C. Renner, 79, of St. Boniface Catholic church died at the priest's residence here. He had been pastor of the local church for 20 years and had built It from a small parish. '—;-;-\ G ran d fat It or Fields Entertained by Ponca Grandmothers' Club \-j Ponca, Neb., July 19.—A feature of the annual entertainment of the Grandmothers' club of this city was the observance of the 80th birthday of If. C. Fields, who was guest of honor. Mr. Fields has been a resident of Dixon county continuously for 55 years, having settled on a farm two and one half miles west of Newcastle, Neb., in 1869. In 1885 he moved with his family to Ponca, where he has since resided. He still enjoys excel lent health, performing many daily tasks. He mows his own lawn, drives his own car with hands that once guided ox teams and works in his garden. _ Harmony Review Election. Harmony review No. 40, Women's Benefit association of the Maccabees, elected officers at a r^ent meeting as follows: Miss Dorothy Hastede, commander: Mrs. Minnie Giseke, lieutenant com mander; Mrs. Fred Meyers, picket. The association will hold a card party at the lodge hall, 1517 Capitol avenue, Friday night. 9[i» Demountable Rim* ^p^ A 111 H of S rvice I I |C Tudor Sedan • - 590 I I II Fordor Sedan - 6«5 In the 21 years since its founding, Ji| III Aupricett.•.b.Oetrou on June 16th, 1903, the Ford ill r^2S£2£Z2TL&ZXZ - Motor Company has contributed ing easy terms for the balance. Or . . . f - fZSSMx: ThS&ddZ!& largely to the motorizing of mod tn your neighborhood will gladly ,.f fp *11* P j explain baX plane in detail. era hie. 1 en million rord cars have quickened the pace of busi ness, have brought convenience to day-by*day travel and health ful enjoyment to the American family. Economical manufacture on a large scale makes personal transportation available to all* 9^c0/p^tor^jom/ulny^ Detroit, Michigan I I I ~ m [ABE MARTIN On Using Your Nut)' "Nine-tenths o’ lh' people go thro’ this life without usin’ ther nut,’’ de clared Tell Binkley t’day, "an’ It’s astoundin’ how fer some o’ them git without e\er drawin’ -on ther brain. Bots o’ folk die at seventy-five with bran’ new, unscufTed brains, brains that have jest been cuddled up an' forgotten fer years, brains in ther original wrappers. In other words, most people tackle all th’ great transactions o’ life without stoppln’ me.’ ’I never ones thought,’ 'I never dreamed o’ eueh a thing,’ are all familiar expressions that come from people with dormant thlnkln’ appar atuses. Hesults have showed that th’ average voter don’t use his nut any more than th’ widows who invest ther money. ’I wish I’d thought.’ says the feller or widow, who’s lost ever’ thing. ‘It never occurred t’ me,’ Is another common stock exrresslon \c-ry popular with fellers who have bis handshakers do ther thinl.in’. Fer It’s a fact that hardly anybuddy thinks. Pick up anybuddy an’ try t* git his nut t' workln’ an' see how you come out. He may eay ‘I never thought o' that before,' but that’s th' best you'll get. We don’t believe a feller even think* he'l play golf. We believe he jest automatically neglects his work an' play*. Lots o' times if he'd us'-d his nut he wouldn't plav. He don't think t’ go home fer sup A I!lue Sky Salesman Trimmin’ a Widow. t' think, or if they do atop it's be cause o’ cold feet, an’ not thro' any exercise o’ th’ nut. Th’ feller that drives a car should have his nut at Ills toes' tips at all times, an’ th’ feller that’s importuned t’ go int’ somethin’ where he kin double his $<00 should consult his nut at once, retire t' a room, or water plug, an' think. Some folks talk fer hours without thinkin', or they’d stop in five minutes. ’It never dawned on missed rare opportunities or lost out cn th’ chance of a lifetime. AVe all go too fast an’ bust int’ things too freely. The sober second thought al ius comes mopin’ along after th’ car's ditched, or we've made a mess o' marriage, or th' savin’s of a pfetime have gone glimmerin'. Then fer th” first time most of us discover that we've got a nut. This \\ould he some country if ever’ one used his r.ut instead o’ lettln’ a few glib, affa per. Occasionally some feller really uses his nut an’ still shows poor judgment, but that’s due t' a faulty nut. However, he should be cred ited with thlnkin’ before he leaped. Life is filler! with tight places an' at no time In Eli history wuz ther ever an ace like t day’s, an age when we depend almost entirely on quick r.ut work lest we git skinned, or shot, or maimed—or poisoned." Copyright, 1ST4. IOWA MAN, 84, GETS BIRTHDAY DINNER Audubon, la.. July 19.—When grandpa celebrates hi* birthday you think of him seated in a comfortable ea«y chair, surrounded by children and grandchildren, reminiscing on the "good old days," while grandma and the girls are out in the kitchen pre paring the festive meal. That is not the way Grandpa I. M. Darland of this city celebrated his 84th birthday recently with 40 chil dren. grandchildren and great-grand children present. Grandpa Darland personally prepared and served his own birthday dinner and from all re ports it was a bounteous affair. Those who attended the dinner and family reunion included Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Darland and children of Farragut. Mr. and Mrs. I.co Darland and son of Hastings. Mr. and Mrs. Clare Par l^nd and daughters of Strahan, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Darland and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Morrow and daughter of Des Moines, Mrs Kmma Sales and daughters of Weston, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Sales of Crescent, Jess Nickel of Weston, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Nickel and children of Guthrie Center, G. C. Northrup and son, Parker, and Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Chandler of this city. One son, John, who resides in Omaha, was unable to be present. NEW BARGE LINE TO LOWER FREIGHT Special Itlapatch to The Omaha Bee. Aten, Neb. July IS.—Through plans now under way. the farmers in the northern part of the state will get cheaper transportation for their crops this fall by means of a barge line on the Mlssorl river, Aten having been designated as one of the land ing place. The barges will be inOaUf-jct feet. ! and each will carry 150 tons of freight. They will be towed by a powerful boat capable of drawing 1,200 tons up stream, and operating with a 36-inch draft. This revival of river transportation will be the means of giving a new lease of life to many of the old river towns, CHANDLER Owner* Should Know where they will find the shop with just the men they need who under* stand the Chandler car thoroufhly, who have had year* of experience. Pecmpt. efficient service and prices. Tel J A 4042 Walter “Walt" Sharmr Lamesh & Woodruff AUTOMOTIVE SHOP 2417 Douglas St Now With FULL SIZE BALLOON TIRES The World's Largest Selling 6-Cylinder Closed Car "CO AC HUDSON Super-Six *1500 ESSEX Six *1000 freight and tax extra The issue with motor car buyers this year is “Closed Car Comfort at Open Car Cost". The Coach exclusively provides such advantages. And now full size balloon tires—Essex 31 x 5.25 and Hudson 33 x 6.20 — are standard equipment on the world's largest selling 6-cyl inder closed car. Why Buy An Open Car? OMAHA HUDSON-ESSEX CO. Harney at 26th Street Tel. AT lantic 5065 Associate Dealer: Killy Motor Co., Farnam St.