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v ' THE BEE? OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. - NOVEMBER 28, 1917. ' v n ,
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By MELUFICIA-Nov. 27
Handsome Service Flags Wave.
Service flags everywhere meet the
visitor's eye as he journeys about
Xew York these days. They flutter
irom the huge office buildings, they
wave triumphantly from the beautiful
homes along Riverside Drive, and
many of the poorer "homes bear the
insignia which shows to the world
that some loved one is in the service
of his country.
But few of these flags have been
een in Omaha as yet and those
which are exhibited are for the most
part paper ones. In the metropolis,
however, the most gorgeous red satin
ones are seen and with the huge
white stars make a beautiful flag.
The New York women have almost
abandoned society as they have in
Omaha, Miss Nanette Murphy states,
who has recently returned from the
A:M. Everything is war work, but
the girls there are not working any
harder than they are here. In fact,
Miss Murphy says that she feels that
the war spirit is more in evidence
iiere man m me east.
New York is full of tourists as be
fore the war and the theaters and
cafes are crowded. It's just the same
old New York in that respect, while
here, dear me, we carefully hoard our
stamps so that we can greet dear old
Douglas from the tenth row in the
balcony when he comes to town.
Thanksgiving Theater Parties.
Many theater parties are planned
for Thanksgiving' night at the Boyd.
Box parties will be given by Mrs. F.
A. Nash, A. L. Reed, Louis Nash,
Ward Burgess and Lieutenant Evans,
Mr. Edward Zipfel will entertain
line party of 10 guests, G. B. Powell
will entertain nine and Mrs. A. C
Scott eight. J. E. Davidson will
Jive seven guests and those giving
V parties of six will be: J. Bartley, Lee
Kennard, and J. J. Hess, while
those having five guests are: ajohn
Hill, W. Coakley, Mrs. Oscar Hillis
and Waite Squierv Foursomes will
be entertained by W. T. Burns, A.
V. Kinsler, J. H. Cavers, J. C. Ellis,
W. B. Drake, E. C. Cole, A. F. Le-
flang, M. A. Neal, J. A. Cole, R B,
Thomas, W. K. Foote, Ralph Stevens,
C. Rothenberg, G. W. York and
Wood Allen.
, Friday evening. Captain Prince and
lieutenant Christy of fort Umalia
will entertain box parties.
Dinner for Bridal Party.
Mr. Edward Undeland will enter
tain at dinner this evening at the
Blackstone in honor of Miss Agnes
C Undeland and Mr. George R. Keeline
of Gillette, Wyo., whose marriage
' yfiW take place Thursday evening.
The guests will include the wedding
party.
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Dancing Parties.
' The B'Nai Ami club will give the
first of a series of dances Thursday
evening at the Hotel Castle. Guests
from Sioux City, Des Moines, Lin
coln and Camp Funston will be pres
cnt. ' ' ' : ,
Shower for Bride.
Miss Clara Giesen entertained at a
miscellaneous shower Saturday at her
home in honor of Miss Mildred An
derson, who will be a December
bride.
Supper Parties.
Entertaining at supper at the Fon
, tenelle Monday evening were Mr. and
Mrs. E. R. Wilson, who had six
guests, and foursomes were given by
O. S. Goodrich and S. E. Gilinsky.
" Charity Concert.
The artisis who will give the pro
pram at the charity course concert
this evening at the Blackstone will
be Harrison Keller, violin; Stewart
ille, pianist, and Myrtle Thorn
burgh, soprano. '
Mrs. W. N. Chambers and small
daughter, Billy, left Monday evening
tor J-os Angeles, where they will
spend the winter with Mrs. Cham
ber's mother, Mrs. J. W. Joyce.
French Orphans Want Letters.
A great deal is said about the "army
living on mail" and the necessity of
writing often, especially to the boys
overseas, but it seems that there are
others "somewhere in France" who
look anxiously for letters from Amer-
"ica. The little French children look
eagerly for a letter from their god
parents in America. A letter received
by Madame A. M. Borglum says:
Every child that is old enongh to
know of their 'camarades' in America
asks 'do you think my camarade will
answer my letter? I have written
him but he has not answered me.'
Their mothers tell me that these small
tots watch the mail eagerly for an
answer, which in most cases never
comes. They have so little to look for
ward to in their daily lives that their
mothers have been weaving stories
. about their fairy godmothers in
America, and also, as one mother
told me, to help keep from grieving
about their fathers they try to keep
their little minda interested in their
unknown benefactor. A letter to one
of these little children gives them as
great a thrill as a letter from Santa
Claus would give to our children. One
little girl aged 10 has even been try
ing to learn English from a man who
ijives inthe same apartment house
with hero that she can read the let
ter when it comes. It is quite easy
for all the adopted children to get a
friend who speaks English to read it
to them. They ask me to write that
to America, too."
Somewhere in France.
Some soldiers on leave from the
front were discussing the different
things they had seen when in France,
and among them were the number
and size of the rats they had been
troubled with. Said one boy; "Talk
about ras! Why, I've seen some as
big as sucking pigs."
"That's now't," spoke up another.
"One night in my billet I woke up
and there was one of them trying my
coat on." London Answers.
To clean kid gloves, take IS drops
of solution of ammonia and half a
pint of spirits of turpentine; put the
gloves on the hands and apply the
mixture with a brush, then rub the
jves with pumic powder. Apply the
mixture again with a flannel. Repeat
until clean and then hang up in the
air to dry.
Miss Grace Pool Weds
Julius Steinberg of
U. S. Marines.
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Announcement is made of the mar
riage of Miss Grace Pool, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Pool of this
city, to Mr. Julius Steinberg of the
United States marines, formerly of
Umaha, which took place November
23 in .Washington, D.C., at the home
of the bride's aunt. Mrs. Steinberg
will remain in Washington, as her
husband is stationed at Kuantico. Va.
Mrs. Steinberg is the possessor of
a lovely contralto voice and was so'
loist at the Kountze Memorial
church for ome time. She has spent
the last year in Chicago studying
voice.
PERSONAL
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Lieutenant Frank Meade of the
Thirty-sixth United States infantry
arrived this morning to spend
Thankseivinsr with his oarents. Mr.
ana Mrs. Oeorge H. Meade.
Miss Helen Morseman. accom
pained by Miss Jane Beach,ler, a
sorority sister, arrived this morning
from Lincoln to spend Thanksgiving
witn Air. and Mrs. Larl Lostman.
Mr. James L. Harrington, who has
been in New York on business, re
turned Monday.
Mrs. T. Li Harrington, accom
panied by her daughter, Miss Jose
phine, will leave Wednesday evening
for Los Ansreles. :
Omahans who were eruesU at the
Hotel Clark in Los Angeles during
he last week are F, L, Jarboe, W.
H. Smith, E. B. Young and B. L.
Brown. ,
Mrs. M. TV Sigler has returned from
an extended visit with Tier daughter,
Mrs. CP. Schluter, and Mr. Schluter
in western Nebraska.
Light on the Silk
Stocking and Its
Many Predecessors
The Rev. William Lee lived in the
time of Queen Elizabeth, but he had
one very modern grievance. He was
deeply interested in a nice young
lady, but he Svent nearly mad with
her eternal knitting.
It seemed to come between them
every time the conversation became
at all personal. When he made a good
start he would hear her muttering,
"Knit two, purl two. bind off ten."
and his style was entirely .cramped
and he would go. home.
While at home, cherishing his exas
peration at having such, a silly rival,
he hit upon a scheme for a machine
that would make hosiery and thus
save this foolish occupation of woni
en. And that was the beginning of
knitting mills.
Poor Mr. Lee did not have much
luck with the invention himself, for
the queen refused to give him a pa
tent, saying: "I have too much love
for my poor people, who obtain their
bread by the employment of knitting,
to give my money to forward any in
vention that will lead to their ruin by
depriving them of employment and
thus make them beggars. Had Mr.
Lee made a machine that Would make
silk stockings I think I should have
been justified in granting him a pat
ent for that monopoly, which would
have affected only a small number of
my subjects, but to enjoy the ex
clusive privilege of making stockings
for the whole of my subjects is too
important to be granted to any in
dividual." It was William Lee's brother who
at last succeeded in setting up the
machine in London's first ' hosiery
company. For years England held
the secret of knitting by machines.
Stockings knitted, even by hand,
were new in Elizabeth's days. Before
that they had been cut from linen,
wool or silk and sewed- together. In
early days the common people did not
wear stockings at all.
How the cloth ones fitted and how
they stayed up as a matter of wonder
to modern women, but they were all
any one had till Queen Bess's silk
woman knitted her a pair of stockings
of s'k yarn.. Her majesty was de
lighted, and from then on she would
wear no other Icind. She said: "I
like silk stockines so writ hrs.,..
they are so pleasant, fine and delicate. 1
in!. iiciiLciurin i win wear no more
cloth stockings."
The making of stockings, as well as
many another home industry, has
been taken from the homes by the
invention of machinery. Today, as
at no time since the early days of
hosiery, is this old home industry be
ing taken up by women. The machine-made
stockings do not stand
the wear of the hand-knitted ones
and so azain there is wirlelv hnrA ul
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For Particular Address.
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Soliloquy of
"So very like a flower, the weed
So very like a flower, indeed,
I wonder what the Lord would ay
If I should throw that weed away?"
By ADELAIDE KENNERLY.
To win the secret of a weed's plain heart is almost success!
How can the day be, lost when it takes so little to make it worth
while?
How can the sun rise in the morning and set in the evening, in all
its glory, on empty hands and selfish heart, when there ar so many
golden opportunities for great things between the rising and the setting?
There s always the heart of a child to soothe an opportunity to plant
a little seed in his (or her) mind that may grow to a splendid tree.
Climbing to wealth is not happiness 1
x Catering to the rich is mockeryl
Striving for fame is a sham!
To acquiesce in others' convictions is slavery.
Greatest of all achievements is to be honest and fair to love and
live with the simple things of earth, which, after all, are God's most
wonderful creations.
A Weed's Plain Heart
Profoundly deep are some of the retiring persons who never proclaim
their own virtues nor give their confidences to the unworthy.
Today is the day to begin reaping the harvest of honesty and sin
cerity, for that which is noble brings balm to a weary soul.
First make another glad and you will be glad in return.
Be kind to a child if you would have your spirit fly on the swift,
light feet of Mercury.
Win the confidence of a plain person and your day has been crowned
with glory. ' '
So very like a flower, the weed,
So very like a flower. Indeed,
I wonder what the Lord would say
If I should throw the weed away:"
And so to win the secret of a. weed's plain heart is succeeding to keep
that secret with respect and reverence is success. '
Mrs. Pankhurst ,
Sees Great Power
In Russian People
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
London, Nov. 27. Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst,' the Suffragette leader, who
recently returned from Russia, found
much that is hopeful in the situation
existing when she was there. In an
interview in London she said:
"The great -mass of the Russian
people are ' simple, honest and gen
tle; with a' genuine hatred of Prus
sian militarism. They ' only need
leading. If. some way can be found
of throwing, off the influences that
are preventing the proper organiza
tion of the .ountry and the patriotic
element gets the upper, hand ";Russia
will cease to play the ' passive rolf
and become a real power in the war.
Everywhere in the turmoil one dis-
cerns the!hand of the German agent
you cannot lose taith in a coun
try that can produce such people'
said Mrs. Pankhurst. "The first lot
of women soldiers who went "to the
front and fought so well -had only
six weeks' training. There were 2.000
recruits for the women's battalions in
Moscow then and 1,500 in Petrourad
apart from those at the front.
The leader, Madame Butchkareff.
is a peasant woman with a fine ideal
of patriotic duty. There are women
of all classes in the ranks. Thev
were at first quartered in an old bar
racks, where they had to sleep on
planus, out they endured all the dis
comforts with cheerfulness. I spoke
to some of their wounded in the hos
pitals. They were very young. One
woman- had by her bedside the hel
met of a German soldier whom she
had killed. After Madame Butchka
reff came out of the hospital she told
me fhat she intended to organize her
force to restore order, but she was
sent with 200 of her soldiers to the
Riga front just before the Korniloff
trouble.
How to Be Happy,
Though You Are Married
Five generations in the familv of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Bodine will
join in honoring their 64th wedding
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anniversary in ifliiaaeipma.
The family of this remarkable pair
includes two children, four grandchil
dren, nine great-grandchildren and
four great-great-grandchildren. Mr
Bodine is 86 years old and his wife is
84. Neither has had a serious illness,
nor has there been a death in the
family down to the fifth generation.
Wheri you ask the secret of their
long married life Mr. Bodine will re
ply, with a kindly twinkle:
"Because Mrs. Bodine is such a
good cook.
To this Mrs. Bodine will add:
"It's because Mr. Bodine appreci
ates everything I do and doesn't for
get to tell me so." .
And there you have the kevnote of
the happiness which makes them seem,
on the eve ot the 64th anniversary
of their marriage, like bride and bride
groom. One appreciates the other,
and doesn't forget to tell the other so.
At the age of 84, Mrs. Bodine em-
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lamps
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Tomorrow
Wednesday'
LAST DAY
Silk Shade Desk
Lamps, $1.45.
Boudoir, $1.95.
Library Lamps,
$2.95, $3.95.
W. H. Eldridge
IMPORTING CO.,
1318 Farnam St.
Opp. W. O. W. Bid. .
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Modern Eve
J broidered dresses for her great-great-
granddaughters. ,:' '
At 86 Mr. Bodine has been helping
his . son-in-law . build a cottage at.
Townsends Inlet,,N. J. Between jobs
of carpentering and painting he. finds
enjoyment in fishing, trips; Philadel
phia North American
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Fijian Dancers Are
Said To Be Best In
The World-Artistic
The Fijians are perhaps the best
dancers in the world. One of the
most curious dances that they prac
tice is one representing a tide rising
on a reef. The idea to be conveyed is
that of a tide gradually rising on a
reef till at length there remains only
a little coral isle, around which the
angry breakers rage, flinging their
white foam on every side. At first
the dancers form in long lines and
approach silently, to represent the
quiet advance of the waves.
After a while the lines break up
into smaller companies, which ad
vance with outspread hands and bod
ies bent forward to represent rippling
wavelets, the tiniest waves being rep
resented by children. (
Quicker and quicker they come on.
now advancing, now retreating, yet.
like true waves, steadily progressing
and gradually closing on every side
of the imaginary isle around which
they play or battle after the manner
of breakers, springing high in midair
and flinging their arms far above
their heads to represent the action
of spray.
As they leap and toss their heads
the soft white masi or native cloth
which, for greater effect, they wear
as a turban with long streamers and
also wear round the waist, whence it
floats in long scarflike ends trembles
and flutters in the breeze.
The whole effect is most artistic,
and the orchestra does its part by
imitating the roar of tlie surf on the
reef a sound which to them has
been a never-ceasing lullaby from the
hour of their birth. . ;
"i It is a fact not generally known
that Queen Mary of England posses
ses considerable talent as an' artist.
Many of her paintings have been pri
vately exhibited and praised.'
aking
of Sugar
S we have sent men abroad to figKt for
J America as we have sent moneyas we have
drafted steel, with other commodities, into fighting-service
or enlisted wheat and other fighting-foods
so we must make a soldier of sugar.
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Nutriment for the nations at, war is as vital
to the outcome as the - powder that feeds the guns.
A great nutrient in time of peace in war a veritable
sinew sugar is now calkd upon to play a heroic part, to
supply the peoples of our Allies whose strength is ours.
To wrap up sugar in the American flag, so
to speak, and put it into the fight becomes a duty of
loyalty. It will be borne' cheerfully by every industry,
every dealer, and every individual it falls upon. Upon
certain industries ?t falls heavily and especially on the
workers who derive their living frcm them. Yet the
American civilian is in this war with the soldier. Amer
ican business great and small, American capital from Wall
Street to the remotest country bank, is with the Gov
ernment every step of the way. The U. S. means Us.
We, all of us, are in the fight with everything we have,
for the sake of everything we cherish.
This company regards it a privilege to com
ply with the Government's request, made similarly to
all manufacturers employing sugar in quantity, to re
duce our output fifty per cent. '
To the end of conservation we ple3ge our
further efforts in every direction that opportunity may
disclose, in manufacture as well as beyond the scope of
our immediate interests; and in this eflort generally we
bespeak the co-operation, of dealers and consumers
everywhere.
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