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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1924)
Gloom, Glare Are Enemies of Eyesight President of Electrical League Supports Better Home Lighting Ac tivity. "Elimination of gloom ami glare in the home >-y teaching the proper use of light la the object of the Home Lighting essay contest which is being held among school children In the United States and Canada," A. L. Ilarber, president of the Omaha Electrfcnl league, which is sponsor ing the activity in Omaha, said Sat urday. It has long been known that light ing in the home is an important mat ter, ns It affords not only personal convenience and happiness but eye sight and health. The rules that govern good light are simple and def Inite yet every few persons know the fundamentals of this problem. This is shown by the fact that L’.’i tier cent of school children of the country have defective vision, due partially to im proper lighting in the hojue." In many homes that are considered well lighted today these two evils known as gloom and glare are pres ent, according to Mr. Barber. The model electrical home, which Is now being built at 661 North Fifty sixth street, will he a perfect speci men of proper home lighting. i_— Return Articles Privilege Abused Retailers Take Measure to Protect Themselves of Loss. . Following a thorough Investigation of the "return merchandise privilege" recently conducted by the Associated Retailers of Omaha, the fact was dis closed that this privilege was being grossly abused. This discovery led the members of the association to Adopt a resolution whereby merchan dise should not be received for credit or exchange unless returned within three days after date of purchase and Accompanid by the original sale check. According to Allen T. Hupp, associ ation secretary, this newly adopted rule will have little effect on the Vast majority of people, but it will serve to check the habitual abusers qf the "return merchandise privilege ” .Mr. Hupp said: "Merchandise sold that has been out of the store longer than the allot*! time for return is considered by the store as satisfac tory, but if returned, the same pro cedure as before the sale has to be gone through with again. Consequent ly, this causes higher overhead to the ftore owner and one who studies the situation carefully can readily deter mine In his own mind that if the practice of returning goods were Stopped, merchandise of the same quality could be had at a lesser price.’’ NEW WINTER HATS RIOT OF COLOR Hat styles and colorings are more beautiful and stunning than ever, Ac cording to Miss Stell Shanahan, who has Just returned from an eastern buying trip. Miss Shanahan, in lirr millinery department of the Julius Orfcln store, 1512 Douglas street, has been a close student of hat styles for a number of years and she predicts unanimous approval for the new winter hat styles. A statistician tells us 90 per cent of runaway husbands have blue eyes, and experience tells us that if they hadn't run away 90 per cent of those' would have had black.—Columbus Ditpatch. __ John A. Downs Joins George H. Lee Company fl rfofin J. 7)owns% .1-I1.K0J..I. J>1. John A. Downs of Omaha, widely known as sale* manager and aales Instructor for the Diamond Product* copipany ot Chicago, ha* resigned to become sap^smanager of the Oeorge H. Lee company, Omaha, manufactur er of poultry anti stock remedies, lie took up his new work October 1. Mr. Downs came weat in 1911, and for many yeara visited the drug trade In . nearly every town In Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Mis souri ami Kansas. For two years he was sub ^manager of his company's Sioux City house, and more teeently was Instructor of salesmen In the middle west territory. "While 'on the road' I learned that tha Oeorge II. Lee company U one of the most widely-known Omaha manufacturers, whose products are •old In every elute and in several foreign countries," sold Mr. Down*. "Its selling plans are unique and In advance of the ordinary methods, and I expect a big future for this 26 year-old Omnha concern.'' Mr. Downs is married, hag two daughters, 19 mid 17, and la a mem bar of several Omaha dubs -_-----1 Chairs Are Only Chairs to This Bachelor Reporter, \ but He Enjoys “Homiy” Furniture Exhibit, at Hartmans A city editor who ia married, with rare lack of judgment, selected a re porter who is single to go to the opening of the remodeled Hartman furniture and carpet store, 413-417 South Sixteenth street, to write an* account of the atmosphere of charm ing homes to he found on exhibition there. The reporter lacked the preliminary training necessary to carry out his mission. He had never been engaged. His peculiar type of beauty, his lack of hair, his big feet and hands ami his lanky figure had never attracted sufficient attention from any potential homemaker to cause him to look at furniture. Life had passed him bv carelessly. Indeed, he Is one of life's little jests. The writer found himself about as much at home among the tasteful decorations of Hartman’s as Victor Berger would be at a luncheon of bankers. In his colorless past, an arm chair to him was only an arm chair, a necessary article which should lie comfortable to sit on. A stove also appeared to he a quite necessary evil, for the reporter had a vague idea that edibles were pre pared on them. Stoves had never attracted his attention so much tyt a sweet brier pipe, a chow dog or a brigadier general. Tables,* dining room chairs, bedroom suites, lamps, carpets and similar things did not lure him on as did a good herse race, a James Stephens book or a sirloin i steak smothered in onions. It was all a plot, the humble scribe thought, to interest him in the joys of matrimony so he might success fully woo one i f the pretty girls in the business office anil settle down. He attached himself to the genial person of C. V. Kennu, assistant manager of the store, and listened to his pnot describe the charm of furni ture much as a ‘Chinese teakwond carver would listen to Kal I.ung while away the golden hours. F< r Kenna's heart is In his draperies, his soul Is surfeited with Mark walnut bedroom Bets and overstaffed chairs for a gen tleman's den. flood furniture is his art, and he expresses that art nobly. A young couple, obviously still un married. for they were holding hands and addressing each other tendeily. also looked over the rooms of the five-room model apartment on the fifth floor. They did not 'see as the narrator did. an array of mere furni ture: they saw a home. Furnliup to them had taken on gigantic propor tions'. They planned and conspired against their bank account with all the eagerness and pleasure of a re tired sei captain fitting up a sloop. The reporter then began to see the light. Furniture was not, after all. just furniture, it became a part of i no's being, outlived one's children, and each individual piece i >uld have, unless one were lacking entirely in imagination, a personality quite apart fioni the personality of ,m automobile or n cherry tree. With skill and patience, Kenna guided Ihe reporter through the maze "f house furnishings on the six floor;', of the Hartman building. On the top story was a mirror and lamp room, the house of a thou."-,.! ! rips, sure ly. Such a great < h •• hid come Store Holds Get-Together Meeting To celebrate fittingly the opening of ita Progressive sale which com memorates 43 years of husiness in Omaha, an assembly, composed large ly of the sales organization of the Rrandels store, wns held Friday morning. Music by Randall's Royal orcheg Ira. singing and addresses by various offic ials of the store made up the pro gram during which arrangements that had been completed for eon ilurtlnfr the Progress site were fully explainer! and discussed. . One of tin feature* of the »«!» will he a Jockey rare between the different division* In the Braudel* *tore Num erous prizes wltl Ire nvrnrtbd (he de partments which maintain lender ship dtirinK the Kit!e w hich o|»*n - Monday. Hundred* of additional snlespeople ate Point; added tor the event. Mary Miinclihoff Sponsors Program on Tone (Quality. The educational mu:v tl j . ogrmtn* being given by the S hmwller A Muel ler Piano company nr it** auditorium on Saturday afternoon* are meeting with approval and the hearty eo-opei ation of the musicians of the Hty. Miss Mary Munchhoff is sponsoring the program for October in. which will bo a demonstration of the tone quality of various voices and instru ments. Mrs. Hrnest Rpeae is in charge of the Instrumental section of the program. - i r. ^j r vj | Lnildren Cry for '*■ MO rilER ? Fletcher’s Castoria is a pleasant, harmless sub stitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Teething Drops and Soothing Syrups, prepared for Infants in arms and Children all ages. It lias been in use for more than 30 years to safely relieve Constipation Wind Colic To Sweeten Stomach Flatulence Diarrhea Regulate Bowels Aids in the assimilation of Food, promoting Cheerfulness, Rest and Natural Sleep without Opiates » _ To avoid imitation* always look for the signature of Proven direction* on each package. Physician* everywhere recommend it. %JM mukhtiskmK.NT. \l»\ f ki i^*rr> r. How Signs Of Old Age Creep IntpYour System When The Iron In Your Blood Runs Low For Want of Iron, You May Be Old At Thirty—Nervous, Irritable and All Run-Down—While at Fifty or Sixty, With Plenty of Iron in Your Blood, You May Be Young in Feeling and Brimming Over with Vim and Energy. IRON IS THE RED BLOOD FOOD i ■ That Helps Strengthen the Nerves, Restores Wasted Tissue and Aid* in Giving Renewed Force end Power to the Body. Physicians Explain Why Administration of Simple Nuxated Iron Often Increases the Strength and Endurance of Delicate, Rundown People in Two Week*' Tim*. Old age has already sunk its talons into thousands of men and women who ought still to be enjoying the springtime and summer of life simply because they have allowed worry, overwork, nervous strain, dissipation and occupational poisons to sap the iron from their blood and tliereby destroys power to change food into living tissue, muscle and brain. You will lino plen ty of people at 40 who are broken in health and steadily going downward to physical and mental decay while others at 50 are strong, active, alert and seemingly grow ing younger every year. Une clasts with ers and dies like leaves in autumn while the other by keeping up a strong power of resistance against disease may pass the three score and ten mark with surprising health, strength and vigor. But you cannot ex pect to look and feel young and vigorous unless you have plenty of iron in your Mood.and phys icians explain below why they prescribe organic iron — Nux YOU ARE AGEING if you have loat the ipnng of your atep and your movcmenla are cumhrmli YOU ARE AGEING if the enthuniatm for tackling your daily problem* hat waned I YOU A RE'ACEING if your skin it shrinking •ad your faco look* wrio kUd, aaraworn and old [ have pains across the back end vnur hoe look* pale drawn, da not wait until you RD all to pieces and collapse take is organic Nux a ted Iron ami not metallic iron or mineral iron which people usually take. (>rgan ic Nuxatcd lion i* like the iron in vour Hood ami like the iron in spinach, len tils and apple*, while metallic iron i* it on just n* it comes from the action of strong arid* on small piece* of iron' Nuxnted Iron represents organic iron in such a highly concentrated fotm that, one dose is estimated to he approximately equivalent (in organic, iron content) to eating hall a quart of spinach, or one quart of giren vegetables. It is like taking extract of beef instead of eating pounds of meat. Your money will be refunded bv the manufacturers if you do not obtain perfectly satisfactory result* At all druggists. •'ted Iron—to supply the iron deficiency in the weak, nervous, and rundown so ns to build them up into stronger, healthier men and women. When, as a result of iron starvation V»u get up feeling tired in the morn ing, when you find yourself nervous, irritable and easily upset; when you can no longer do your day’s work with out being all fagged out at night; when your digestion all goes wrong, or you in a atate of nervous prostration, 01 until in your weakened condition you contract some serious disease, but add plenty of spinach, carrots, baked apples or other Iron containing fruits and vegetables to your daily food and take organic iron—Nuxated Iron with them for a while and see how much your condition improves. Thousands of people have surpris ingly increased liieir strength, energy YOU ARE ACFINC. if you are wrtntd by the activities of your daily life. and endurance in two weeks time by this sim ple experiment. But in making this test be sure that the iron you ivor his bachelor nature that the visitor could visualize each lamp, burning brightly beside i Morris chair, in a cheerful place that jvas not an apartment or a house, but a borne. It was a very dangerous thought, no the reporter hurried away from the room. The bedroom furniture on the fourth floor, and dining room suites on the floor helow, seemed to smile at the j non-benedict like tpe sirens of old. Happy couples wardered in and out. They could not have found more treasures in Aladdin's cave, «5r the grotto of the gaunt and hungry lid round Dantes, count of Monte f'risto. '1 he world series was being fought at that very moment, and statesmen were charging up and down the land spreading the gospel of this party or that one. l.ut th<- couples, like mat ing cloves, could not is* bothered. on the second floor the reporter found carpets and rugs tit for the gentle feet of princesses of some royal realm, before sovereignty came into the grasp of the citizenry. In the basement he discovered new beauty on chlnaware ami even In shiny stoves. liven the store windows, r - he was parsing out to avoid envying these who had come on business of more j profit to the establishment, had their charm. These were different than i ther store w indows he had observed -.11 each was a remarkably carved doer, a replica of an aj-chway of the Italian renalrnance. What more could one ask? -- 1 Crowd Awaits Admission to Orkin’s Sale Begin to Assemble at Door Hour Before Anniver sary Sale Sat urday. There appeared in the Omaha Bee, tecciusively Friday, the announcement j of th kin Brothers' 18th anniversary j sale. It was'a message to Bet read-1 era of an Important event in tlie stores merchandising calendar. As early as 8 Saturday morning tlie ■ crowds began to assemble in the en trance way to the store. When the doors opened at 9. more than 599 people were awaiting admission. The use of elevators was abandoned and the crowd rushed up the stair , way to the second floor, for both tho j ready-to-wear and millinery sections. Although mine than 50 additional salespeople were an hand to serve the crowds, they proved inadequate. Frank Belinsky, manager of tlie Orkin Brothers' store, who has spent tlie past two weeks In New York mak ing purchases for this event, declared: "I naturally looked for very inten sive buying, but I am frank to admit that today's response is threefold greater than my fondest expectations. It is a vivid demonstration of the re sult-getting qualifications of The Bee. I made purchases which bring our present stock to a size that exceeds anything in the history of this store. In fact we were obliged to buy more than a thousand extra garment hang ers to rare for the excess stock." The anniversary -ale continues for 10 days. Helene Chadwick will appear for the first time as a daughter of the west in the picturization of Zone Grey's, “The Border Legion." BLANKETSB Large Assortment |g REAL BARGAINS ® Priced From t| 95c to $6.951 Scott Omaha Tent ||§ and Awning Co. f' sj 15th and Howard | Opposite Auditorium FAIR MUSICIANS AT FONTENELLE The Merry Musical Maids, an or ganization of five comely novelty en tertalnerA, opens the fall season Sun Jay noon, October 12, In Motel Eon tenelle main dining room. Programs will be given dally thereafter at luncheon and dinner, a mezzanine concert following. There will Is- ape einl Sunday morning concerts on the mezzanine floor. Miss Mabel Moran, drums and mezzo soprano, is leader. Miss Doro thy Ttut'Zlee, cornet and soprano; Miss Maja Heerman, ’cello and contralto: Miss Mary Jones, violin, piano and soprano, and Miss Marjorie Scholiel. pianiste and soprano, complete vf>e organization. Miss Heerman is a new member of the orchestra, a sis ter of Emil Heerman, concert master of the Cincinnati Symphony orches tra. Luncheon programs will be given from 12 to 2 p. m.. dinner pro*i » from 6 to 8, and mezzanine conceit, from 8 to 9, dally. Sunday mornini mezzanine concerts from 10 39 '• 11:80. Arrangements are being rnadi to broadcast some of the numb* specially favored by Foment!!* diners. CIGARF.T SALES MAKE NEW MAkK A new record in sale* has bet-n made by Liggett & Myers, manufac turers of Chesterfield clgarefs. Ches terfield sales this year have increased Cl per cent. Liggett & Myers esti mate new smokers are being acquired at the rate of more than 1.000 a day. 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