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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. 1917.
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New Red Cross Veils Are Being s
' Worn by the Omaha Hostesses
?OMAEA GIRL FINDS SALT
By MELLIF1C ASept. 26
Cool Days Close Country Homes.
Cool, autumn lays are bringin
some of the suburban and lakq-sid
dwellers back to town and alrearf
has resulted in the closing of severe
country homes, but a hardy westcrt
spirit is evinced by those Omahans
H'ho have decided to remain -yet a
while perhaps all winter, at "flicir
country home.
"Nashwood," .tlie !' summer home 'of
Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Nash, near
Calhoun, is already closed for the.
winter, as the mistress, MrsNash, is
ill at St. Catherine's hospital with
appendicitis. Dr. and Mrs. C. C.v Al
lison have closed "Rosemere Lodge,"
also near Calhoun, and Mrs. A. J.
Poppleton and Mrs. W. C Shannon
have already come in from Elkhorn,
where they live in the summer, and
are at the Winona. ' y '
The A. L. Reeds, who are at "Alo
ha," out of Benson, are thinking of
remaining there all winter, although
they will make no definite decision
until next month. Mr. and Mrs. E. H.
Sprague will probably remain in
their Benson home for several
months yet and then will tale an
apartment in the Blackstonc. Mr.
and Mrs. Bert C, Fowler plan to re
main at Hillsidiy Florence, until
after Christmas, when they, too, will
be at the Blackstone, .
Mr. and Mrs. A. . Love plan to
live at Loveland Farms on the West
Leavenworth road until November 1,
after which they will come into tovn.
k They have taken no town house as
fct .' .
Mr. and Mrs. Myron LearneJ make
frequent trips to , "Walden," their
summer place near Florence, but Mr
and Mrs. L. W. ScheiBel are among
those who will remain all winter at
their place on Florence Heights.,' '
Carter lake clubbites are seeking J
warmer .firesides and are moving back
into the city. The Clark Cheneys have
closed their cottage and Jaken a home
at 3017 Meredith avenue. .
FOR STORIES
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ftiiahdh O'Brien
''Fur Mittens," a short Mory by
Miss Elizabeth OBrien, I'mh Wool
worth avenue, and three articles on
sociological itudy from her pen, have
been accepted by the Curtis ublish
ing company and will appear in some
of its early publications. i .
Miss O'Brien came to Omaha from
Wayne, Neb., where she worked on
the Wayne Herald, and before that
oft the 1'ekamah Journal. She is a
University of Nebraska girl and took
special, work tat the University xf
Chicago.
Miss O'Brien's parents died when
she -was quite young, since which
time she has educated herself and
taken care of a young sister.
NO GIES TO RECRUIT
' OK CARNIVAL LOT
Miss Eixby Denies She is Spon-
sor fcr Any Such. Plans
fa - as Have Been Given
' Out. -(r
Old Acquaintance Social.
- Women of the Lowe Avenue' Pres
byterian church will give an old ac-
tuaintance social Thursday evening,
eptember 27, in the church parlors.
A play. "The Old Peabody Pew,"
will be given. ,
Social Gossip - j .';:
Mrs. A. V.' Kiuslcr is spending
a few days at the Elms hotel, Excel
sior Springs, Mo.
Dr. and Mrs. J. V. Slater have as
their guests Mr, fend Mrs, J,' A. Ncill
of Pekin. 111. . . .
Mrs. Charles Highsmith of Hous-1
ton, Tex., is spending a few days
with Mrs. E. M.'F. Leflang. , ;
-, Mr. and Mrs. Harry W., Acton are
spending a few days with Mrs. Lu
cretia S. Bradley, enroute home to
New York from the Pacific coast,
where they spent the summer.
Miss Mary Megeath will leave on
, Saturday for an , extended trip
through the east
Mrs. Winfield O. Shrum leaves
Saturday for Des Moines, where slie
will join her husband, Licutclant
Minim, who js stationed at Camp
Dodge. ' i
Miss Irene Leslie daughter "of
Frank 'teslie, went to Rigby, Idaho,
tbe first of the month and is teach
ing school there. She spent two years
it the University of Iowa and was a
senior at Bellevue college last year.
Slje writes that the is delighted with
Idaho and her work. , .
On the Calendar.
Vesta chapter. Order of the East
ern Star, will give a card party Sat
urday at Masonic temple. Mrs. Ben
F. Marti will be hostess. 'Alis's Mar
garet Latey is the new worthy ma
tron of Vesta chapter. ,
Is Clubdom.
The Mothers club of Train school
will meet Friday at 2 p. m. for elec
tion of officers for the coming year.
Great Western Plans '
To Move Next Saturday
The Grea't Western is likely to be
the first of the Omaha-Chicago roads
to move its passenger department
into the Ramge building, that is to
become the passenger headquarters
for a number of lines. Packing is tin
ier way and moving to the new lo
cation will-probably take place Sat
. arday. '-:,',,- .V " '
The Farnam street rooms now oc
:upied by the Great Western are be-
1 fog converted into a location for a
;' confectionery store and Asoft drink
! arlor. ' " " m
Miss Helene Bixby, credited with
being the sponsor of the movement
to have Omaha society girls ou the
carnival grounds' recruiting" (or tbe
army, said this morning she was op
posed to such a plan. .
"Major ..Frith conferred, with me
yesterday on the matter" and I said
thn 1 was'opposed to the-idea of the
girls working on the streets in this
way. It would cheapen them and
perhaps subject them to insults and
dangers. In no case should they do
such a thing unless well chaperoned.
I said If the plan ere finally worked
up thus I would not be a quitter or
a slacker and would do my share,
but would not start or manage the
movement and did not approve of it.
But Not on Carnival Grounds.
"If the girls wish to stay in the
recruiting offices or in the tent on the
court house grounds, when properly
chaperoned, and aid in recruiting that
lies with them. " '
"Major Friih and Lieutenant Bruett
conferred with Mr. Judson and Mrs.
Kountze yesterday and then, at their
suggestion, with me. I said I thought
it would-be nicer if the headquarters
wouia sena out letters to all girls
not to society girls alone, but to all
Omaha girja telling them how they
could help and saying now was the
time to do their share". Each girl
could be asked1 to try to bring in one
young man from among' her own
friends, working-, quietly, but with
greater effect than among strangers.
"I am willing to do my part heart
ily, but as the plan now looks to me
I think it would not be wise to have
the girls on the streets to help in
recruiting. t ,
rusbancf Deserts Wife
And Four Small Children
With four small children to feed,
the youngest befog a baby in arms,
which prevents her from going out
to mke a living for them, , Mrs.
Laura Ardito, 1410 "South Eleventh
street, savs she has been deserted hv
fher husband.
One year ago Leo Ardito first quit
providing for the support of his fam
ily, when he deserted them for two
months after which he returned for
a short stay. He, again left and noth
ing has been heard of him since.
The wife ie nnlv 77 v,,,
the children range in age from 10
months to 7 years. Municipal au
thorities have taken charge of the
family and an attempt win be made
to locate the husband.
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MRS. LUCIEN STEPHENS AND
The above picture shows Mrs. Will
iam Sears Poppleton and Mrs. Lucien
Stephens, hostesses athe Red Cross
work shop in the' Baird building,
wearing the new navy blue veils and
arm bands which recently arrived
from national headquarters. ,
Although women in New York and
Washington who are w6rking for the
Red Cross have been wearing the dif
ferent colored 'veils and costumes
since spring, the custom has just be
gun in Omaha.
Women making surgical dressings
wear all white, members of the re
freshment committee a blue and white
striped dress, white apron, small hat
and light blue veil, the motor section
a navy blue uniform and the hostesses
and chairman of circles the navy blue
veils and arm bands - with a white
MRS. WILLI AM S. POPPLETON
apron, as is illustrated in the picture.
There are twelve hostesses whose
duty it is to be on hand one day out
of each week to give information and
act as the proverbial Jack of All
Trades. The insignia on the arm bad
is a horn of plenty and the letters
stand for American Red Cross, and
Woman's Volunteer Aid.
Not only do the various costumes
and veils serve as a convenience in
distinguishing the line of work in
which the women are engaged, but
they add dignity to the appearance of
the work shop. -
Other women who act as hostesses
are as follows: Mesdames George
Redick, George B. Print, Morris
Smith, E. S. VVestbrook, Herbert
Wheeler, R. L. Huntley, Fred Nash,
A. I Reed, G. E. George and Hund
ley. .
Young People and Thinking
Grocer Fails to Provide,
Says Wife Asking Divorce
k Nonsunport is .alleged by Lillian
Agnes Woods, suing Harvey- E.
Woods, grocer, for divorce in district
court. They were married at Council
mutts, December 27, 1911.
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. (
Dear Mlu Fairfax ! I m It, mni I find
mraelf eynleal tnd morbid. Until s few
monthi aso 1 wu what people call a "book,
worm." ,
The other evening1 I went to an affair
where there were aom very nice young
people:) During the evening a certain party
bappoptd to bring up a book, and given the
opportunity to dlacuti the philosophy of the
author and the reasoni for his creation of
different characters In that book. I took
up the dlacuulon. I found that it did not
liitjrYftt them. In fact, aomeone aald: "Drop
tht foollah argument" I felt flat and
within half an hour I left the bouse rather
down-hearted.
I have begun to wonder if I have dis
agreeable qunltitles and am narrow-minded
and a bore. Won't you help met
VERNON B. I.
Of course your case seems, fairly
easy to diagnose, even on insufficient
evidence. I think you talk at people
rather than to and with them. I fear
you try to lead discussions rather than
to join conversations.
A great many foreigners who have
visited this country within recent
years .have- commented on our lack of
the art of conversation. At dinner
parties in England and at soirees in
France, I have noticed the difference.
Perhaps it was politics, perhaps a new
philosophy, perhaps a novelist's view
point, but some brilliant person would
introduce a topic and those who could
contribute helped bring out the var
ious angles from which it might be
considered, while those" who knew
nothing about it studied the ideas of
those who were better posted than
they. .
Everybody was ready to learn. No
one felt that because they were learn
ing they were being deprived of real
amusement. There was an atmos
phere of culture and respect for cul-
Mure.
, Our Topics of Conversation.,
We talk about the latest play, the
newest dance step, somebody's bat
ting average, the - fashions, Mr.
(ones' latest affinity or Mrs. Smith's
asta husband. Tie personal and the
trivial do interest us too much. Since
the war, we are interesting ourselves
in deeper things, but again I fear they
are personal things. Except for our
philosophers, we Americans are gen-
j erally thinking in terms of ourselves,
our families and our own communi
ties, ' ;V
Now our horizons are widening.
What Mrs. Jones cooks for dinner
on Sunday isn't half as important
as the - fact that she has bravely
given to her country, three splendid
young sons.
It has been said that there are three
grades of mentality. People of the
lowest mental grade talk about peo
ple, .those of the next talk about
things and.those of the highest talk
about ideas.
In "Order to converse about ideas
and ideats you have to think about
them. Youth is very naturally con
cerned with its own emotions and, de
sires. So when in a group of young
people you start an academic discus
sion of the poetry in Shakespeare you
are likelv to bore and annoy. Ameri
can youth has a way of feeling that
such discussions belong to school
periods, not to the hours of relaxa
tion. r
I know a brilliant young foreigner
who came to this country and made
a very great success. But he was
hideously lonely until he discovered
a woman with whom he could discuss
the things about whjch he was think
ing in hisi own soul. Down in the
world of men in business he had
plenty of companions with whom he
could discuss diamond cutting and the
conditions in South Africa and Am
sterdam.
But apart from his shrewdness as
a business msn' he was a dreamef
andean idealist He married a very
homely woman and everybody said.
"Now, what could he see in her?"
What he saw in her was a commu
nity of Ideals V sharing of mental
habits,
W'e are too much given to think
ing, in terms of the ordinary. We
keep ourselves on a low level by do
ing it.. "As a. man thinketh in his
heart, so is he," and the men who
never think about anything but their
business become money grubbers and
lose all opportunity for rest and re
laxation. Those of us who think only
of dancing, and clothes and good
times shut ourselves off from all de
velopmentwe deprive ourselvesot
a chance to appreciate fine spiritual
pleasures.;. " , f.vV y' V "J
This little preachment is " two.
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sided. One must teach oneself to
take people as one finds them. Don't
try to force your friends to think
about or talk about thing3 merely be
cause you want to think about them
and talk about them. Don't i.isist
upon leading the conversation all 'the
time. Don't expect everybody to ad
mire your superior wisdom and to be
interested in what you ave to con
tribute to the conversation. Take it
for granted that other people besides
you have ideas and ideals.
Learn to listen. Find out what ap
peals to the people with whom you
are thrown". If you show a sympa
thetic interest in their interests your
friends will probably reply in kind
and try to give a sympathetic hearing
to the things you care about.
Being a' good listener often means
putting yourself in" sympathetic
touch with the thought of the work
and there is a great deal to be learned
that way. People who think trivially
are just as' interesting . a study as
characters in a book. Take stock of j
silly little Susie Drake, who only
thinks about clothes; notice how hrr,
fondness for pretty things is really a;i
expression of an artistic impulse.
Let the writer of the letter above !
quoted observe his own thoughts an'",
see how training and evironnu ni .
abroad gave him one set of mental
tendencies and how circumstances ;
here are reacting and changing them. !
And then gradually he can have a '
very amusing time directing the at-
tention of his friends to the things
about which he sees them thinking.
rfN.. f M J J
Vuecn 01 oweacn a uooa iook. i
Probably the best cook among the
women of European royalty is Queen i
Victoria of Sweden. She was edu-1
cated at the Princess school, Carls
ruhe, and was taught not only the or
dinary branches of learning, but the
culinary art, and she now at times
dons a cook's attire and makes some
of the dishes of which King Gustav is .
especially fond,
Women's, Activities
The women of Porto Rico are agi
tating for the right to vote.
Queen Helena of Italy speaks four
languages, including Russian.
A regiment of 1,500 women in
Texas and Oklahoma formed for serv
ice in France has been offered the
War department.
The Atchinson. Topeka and Santa
Fe railroad is-ttaining young women
to take the place ol-aien as civil en
gineers on their lines.
Tk.l..- l' A I-mltnan. wife of the
premier of New South Wales, is a
i i i i ti wrvtnan S
prominent icauci v.i
movement in Austialia.
At the Elysee Madame Poincare.
wife of the French president, occupies
the suite of the Empress Josephine,
the same in which Marie Louise lived
for a brief period. It was from these
very rooms that Eugenie de Montijo
went to Notre Dame to be married to
Napoleon III.
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Local Dealer
MAN or firm wishing to secure the right
to represent the very finest grade of
) phonographs would do well to communicate
with us immediately.
Owing to tremendous demand and limited
output, the largest part of Sonora sales has
hitherto been in the) East. ) Now with in
creased manufacturing facilities we are
opening new territory. ,
The Sonora is the highest class talking machine in the
world It won highest score for tone quality at the Panama-Pacific
Exposition. It is made in ; '
twelve models which sell at from $50
to $1,000. The Sonora operates and
is licensed under the Basic Patents J?
of the phonograph industry.
-Nearly 2,000 .dealers and 25 dis
tributors now sell Sonoras, of which
about a quarter of a million are
in use
fsWe wish to secure a state dis
tributor or local dealer for the So
nora here, where, at the present time,
we are not represented. "
If you have the financial means and the
commercial and sales ability to handle a lar'ge
proposition of this kind write us at once.
Sonora Phonograph Sales Company, Inc.
GEORGE E. BRIQHTSON, President
279 Broadway, New York
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