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The Omaha Sunday Bee A 77 TT QMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1917. Comb Honey By EDWARD BLACK. Home Life of the Leffingwells. The Leffingwells were about to call : -. Aiir 9 nrrfirt rlav. and were CI1- . k A WJ , j. . . J LKUk : TSt- -V i . I " "V I 1111 III II Watch these sketches by Powell from weekt to week depicting' .phases of life in Omaha. V Everybody Has a Hobby! , Can You Tell What's Yours? Charlotte TownsengY supervisor of public school nurses, points with pride to her hobby, ..which is cooking. 'She makes a hobby of salads and pastries, which she refers to as fancy cookTng. "This is a real hobby, because I never took up cooking to become a professional cook, or with matrimo nial intentions," she explained, - One night, not long ago, a party of young folks were invited to her home. She suggested that one of the young1 women of the party should prepare a , repast. When she said she would do the cooking, her friends looked mis givingly as if they were to be heroes of a poison squad. Miss Townsend prepared the meal and received many words of praise. . One of her specialties is a Waldorf fa lad. It is said she ran mak nip tnat tastes like "more." If you, observant reader, were a manufacturer of women's clothing, it, doesn't necessarily follow that you THE WEEKLY BIMBLH BEE. A STlNQEn, EDITOR. -.: Communication on any toplo received, without postage or signature. Nona returned. NO ADS AT ANT FIIICB. .. V ' ITTTF11 - - . wj To the Editor of tt he Bumble Iee: I am a man of branes and ' aturient of publla affairs, I could glvs you a food many -pointers on public events which I think about a great deal, 80 take my . pea In hand to rive you aom point that ordinary people don't think about. . p ' Thta thrift aUmp Idea la a good thlnf. Tho people ought to aav their money more. Yon have my endorsement, Mr. Bur seea,.t aU Taeae ehlp. 1)IMr tlm( threat. I'm to strike ought to be treated with. a firm hand.' Aa Lord George has eo well aald, we - heed "ihlp. more ahlpa and atlll more ahlpa." ' Lord George la right. 1 have at wiled the ship ping blaneaa and.iHiea traveled from Chicago to Milwaukee on et large ateanuhlp, ao know what X am talking about. The war he a gone on atllifac tory in the laat week. People auk me ' aometlmea what I think about th war. Well. Mr. Edl isr. I think a good deal, but I don't aay much. I am writing a. book about , the war and when that U published, the world will get aom of the tnilde facta, itut I don't have time to dlacuaa thee great pro hems with every Tom. Dick and Harry that cornea along, and moat of them hot knowing anything about it anyway. - Regarding ' President Wilson's message will aay 1 have read It and find It satisfactory. It has " any approval. It'a time' we was declaring war on the Auitrlans. T will write to Lobeck. Indors ing the message od show the governmentvthat I am with It. Now, Mr. Editor, this will be til for this week and hoping to lie my observations in the paper, I remain, . Tours tally. " VOX JOPUIXM.' . exaggerated. : v The gifted faktrs who etrcu H ted. the story of the ex-Grand uchess Tatiana, daughter of ei-Ciar Nlcho!, . coming to the United Btaiee nhould be " more eareful eC names. Fart , vf ihelr story was thst the ex (rand duchess had married a sertaia ex-graad duke. The Uet that this exgrand daks - Jkas heea de4 for five months mats a ah&wtw ef doubt on the story ef the ex-graad ducbew. The Weekly would 'have to go along with your wife to pick . Out . her ' clothes But Harry Pearce, county register of deeds, used to scli meat and now he insists on doing the shopping for the family larder. He has bought ' the household meat for the last year and a half: a common sight it is to see the genial county official ' turdging home with a basket of vegetables in one hand and a roast tightly grip ed in the other. That's his hobbv ie buys the meat and groceries, be cause he says he always gets better value than any woman folks would. Years ago, before he had discovered the pulse of the voters, the register of deeds was a butcher. ,What meat the" Tearce family Tequircd in those days Harry used to carry home' when he closed up shop. Our, itory moves ahead to a year ago last spring. , Harry wanted some stewed mutton for dinner. So he telephoned from 'the court house to a downtown butcher shop and ordered a choice cut off a slaughtered sheep. He got OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, mj. EXAMPLES OF WASTE IN MANAGING OMAHA MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS MR. ROMANOFF SUED; AWE FOR EMPERORS AND KINGS Ability to "Hake Cood" Should lie Test for Publle Office Instead of Oratory.. I'lng four-ton trucks to gather' up street aweeplnga is not an eiample f efficiency. Tet that Is what the city U doing. Stopping and starting such ft truck 2 times In the space of a single block to col lect SO little heaps of dead leaves and dirt makea enor moua wear and tear on the ma chinery and uses tin a lot of gaenllne to aav nothing of the alary of the chauffeur and the two, ahovelmen. Tet this 1s what you can see. on Omaha streets any day. Another example of Ineffici ency are the atreet alma recent ly placed.- A perpendicular streak of white paint was put on a telephone or other pole at street intersections and on this wnre stenciled In black lctt- tho names of the streets. The nsmes of both streets were put on tho same side of the pole. Tou can't tell "which street is which." . These are hut two examples of Inefficiency In tho olty hall. The p-wile's money - Is wanted bv Inefficlont, Impractical 1 po litical pensioners whose only recommendation la "pull." which Is no recommendation at all. The movement of an eastern city which Is advertising for a 'city manager" will not be unique a few years hence. The neonle will soon demand that 'their emoloyes. -both elected and aotminted. - shall 'show some quslltlcstlnn for msnsglng the city's business besides a fluent and promiseful tongue. .V'" BRYAN. . W. J. liryin Is now announced as a candidate to make the race tor the United 8tato ssnste from Nebraska. Mr. Bryan will bo remembered by many . as a Nebraska boy who ran for pres ident eever tlmea and haa made considerable success as a Chautauqua lecturer. As a m'lltsry genius bs haa no equals, having raised an army of a million men "over night" on one occasion In the course of a speech. Thla achievement has never been equalled even by the kaiser. It la reported that Mr. Bryan will run for senator, "provided all other candidates step- aside." Na doubt Messrs. Howard, Peed. Morehead et el. will be delighted to accede to Mr. Bryan's . modest request. 4 NAME. When Royal Trappings Are Re moved Veople ReeHie- That . Rulers Are Only Men. Nicholas Romanoff, formerly oar of Ruesla, Is defendant In a auit filed' In Hew Tork for t3,S00,0W, funds to Nicholas1 account In New Tork banka. When the crown and ermine robes are stripped off, when the Imperial guard 1 removed, we are almost astonished ' to find that kings and emperors are nothing but men. There : usedi to be a story of a king of Bavaria who waa a violinist lie 'used-' to go out 111 the woods and play. One day a party of country .folke met him. They 'urged -him to come to the neighboring inn and play for them. . The king actually consented (!) and accepted the small coin hlch they , con tributed., ' When they learned later who he wasj they were overcome with awe1 and fear. They ran after him, and on tkrir knees begged' their master to pardon them. - And the king actually wan gracious enough not to order thoin all shot! ' . . People don't thrlll'. any more over a story like that. They realise that the king of Bavaria- had no excuse to be of fended at 1 the "country people who had him play for them. It he could fiddle, all right, let him fiddle. No apologies were necessary. , He was nothing but' a man, a man lucky fnough to be supported In tho easy Job of kingship. - . Perhaps we shall soon become accustomed to such ltema as thee: , "William Hohensollem. for merly ' emperor of Germany, filed a petition In bankruptcy.' Since being deposed In Itll. he haa been engaged In th'e de licatessen business, but without much success." t "Charlie Hapsburg waa ar rested for selling milk without a ltoense. He waa discharged after he had taken out a license. Charlie was emperor of Austria Hungary 'up to 11S when ho emigrated to ' America. , Ue Is a nephew ef. tho late 'Joe' Hapsburg." ;. - 5 " " BREAD. Standardised loaves of , bread to retail at S or T cents a pound are promised soon. This - will make ' bread here almost as cheap as It is In England where, at the present time, a four pound loaf sells for a shilling. POSTAGE. , ' Among the things that have not Increased In price may be mentioned , postaga rates . to Guatemala, Chill and - the Christmas Islands. Now la the time to write to your friends la those countries. . ; A lecal war work chib'of young women, first christened the "Battalion of Dtb." haa renamed Itself the "D. T A." The letters do pot stand for anything more terrible ' than "Democracy to AIL" (fa do Cfo WeU home that evening just as the eve ning meal was being prepared. "How's the mutton?" asked the county official. V "All right, I guess," answered Mrs. Pearce. "It's just being put on the stove." ' "Let's take a look at it," said Harry, "Wonder" what kind of meat they're selling nowadays." ' , He looked and registered surprise and indignation. . "Here,7' yelled Harry, "this stuff is not mutton; it's goat meat. Send it back to the hutcher." From that day on Mr. Pearce de cided to buy all meat himself. So now he makes regular trips to a butcher shop and stands over the meat cutter while the Pearce steaks, roasts and stews are being cut. Scientific photography is the hobby of Dt. T. Tennyson Harris, one of the'few X-ray specialists in Nebraska. X-ray work is the highest develop ment of the photographic art When "Doc" Harris Jn hjs grammer school days, constructed, crude cameras out of pasteboard boxes and "lenses" im provised from 'purloined panes of grandfather" spectacles, little did he realize he was attaching himself to a hobby that would lead him to the Bumble Bee IS PAST IN OUR TOWN. A large gss bag got Joose out at Fort Omaha the other day wd drifted down to Kansas. With a minstrel show at the opera house and grand opsra In the Auditorium the first half of last week waa quite musical. Jonas Mealy says most every body waa out driving last week for the Toung Woman'a Chris tian association. Methodist ministers.-Red Cross or dental In stitute, Our city attorney, John Rlna, took bla usual noonday nana on the settee In the reading rom of the Commercial, club every day last week. Tom" Allen, United States attorney tor the Omaha division, was up from Lincoln for sev eral days last week. "Tom" oomea up and tends to business on hla (4,000 Job every few ' weeks. ; ... Joe Stecher and CharlM Peters gave a wrestling match In the Auditorium Friday sight They are coming boys. . ' John C. Wharton, cx-postmss- ter, ssya he can't for the life of him see why Omaha poatofflce receipts go on Increasing In spite of the fact 1 that Charlie Fan ning la postmaster now. 1IOCII!' Who can fall to psuse In ad- miration of Crown. Prince Rup- precht s fearlessness In the bat tle of CambralT The. crown prince hurled division after di vision of reserves against the British lines. The slaughter of tens of thousands of bis troops failed to bring 'the pall of tear to hla cheek as he sat' In his almost-great headquarflrs, to miles behind; the lines. The number of slaughtered Germane to Ilia credit can only be equaled by the record 'of the German kronprlnta at Verdun. The kais er and hla six sorts re altvs and uninjured.' Prince Rupprecht all -the other princes and dukea and archdukes, etc. are alive and uninjured. Safety first. 1. ri.v "Thrift stamps are selling like- hot- oekea. - Cigar coupons and trading stamps have al ready proved that there la some thing fascinating to people In thla sort ot saving. And when they can paste stamps and get real money for them iri IH per oent Interest - besides the popularity ot the thing la aura. '' SANTA. - Mr. S. CUus. the well known and popular cltlsen ot the North Pole, must have tt or 40 broth ers and the whole Clsus family must - have come to Omaha. Well, - there's plenty ef work for all of them, taking ear of the good little glrla and soya. ? - mrmrn i ? - , . . . - .1 HOW OMAHA itt tue stage where he could take pictures showing the bones in the human body. The present Omaha physician and surgeon and X-ray specialist had a mania for "picture taking" when he was scarcely, able to walk, lie wor ried his mother and father by con verting all sorts of things into cam eras and "snapping" everyone and every things That was in the1 old tin type days. Young Harris ambition in life was to travel about the country in a covered . wagon and take tin types of brides and bridegrooms, lean mg on each other s shouWers. Once his mother took him to a vil lage photographer to be "snapped" for the family album. "Doc" saw the bag of tricks of the photograph er trw little bird, the painted can vas background, depicting a ( rustic scene; and complicated camera of the early days, with its '.conglomeration ot bulbs,, plates and: bright trappings. The lad was hypnotized. He wanted to be a village photographer. . But his "folks wanted him to be a doctor. They sent him to school and colleseranf! "Doc" learned how to cut people to pieces and talk , in high- bition to be a photographer, how ever, still burned in his quasi-profes sional breast In their leisure time the other "medics" played poTcer and strummed guitars. "Doc' Harris fooled with photographic apparatus and roamed the campus taking pic tures. " , So when he hiing out his shingle as a physician "Doc" saved his fees and dreamed of the time when he could in vest in an X-ray outfit He finally "arrived" and now he spends most of -his time developing plates for a wkle clientele. VV. E. Bock, city passenger agent for the Milwaukee Railroad company has a hobby that belongs to the "Win the War" class. ItSs a hobby to make every acre of land prpduce to its limit and Bock fs going to do this very thing with his land. By having been prudent during his long years of-service with the Mil waukee road, t some time ago Bock accumulated considerable cash. Hav ing, been ' raised on a farm, conse quently he had confidence in the fu ture of farm land as a money maker. When he got enough money ahead to make a payment, he invested in eU acres of fertile Iowa land, not far from Council Bluffs. Onto this land he put a tenant and ever since. Bock's share of the crop, when sold, has taken care of interest and payments. : Last year on his Iowa farm, the greater portion of which was planted to corn, Bock received something like 1,500 bushels of corn. This he sold at around $1.25 a bushel and for this year's crop he is going to realize more, as his corn is of an excellent quality and the yield1s in excess o a year ago. . ' ' To his tenant, Bock has issued in structions that next year every avail able acre of the 80-acre tract is to be planted to corn and that the best methods known to man are to be em ployed in making the land yield to its maximum. - , Now Bock is not content with be ing the owner of an 80-acre farm, but is figuring on buying another tract adjoining this when land in the neighborhood is selling at $e$0 an acre - Gn Item J - - , S By "A. EDWIN LONG. - Wilbur L, Burgess still regrets that he did not become a , lawyer. He thought at one time that he was pad dling right down the big road toward a legal career. - He pictured himself paralyzing a jury with oratorical can nonade. He worshipped at the shrine of one Abe Lincoln, and how he did long for rails to split 1 Ihere were no rails to split in Ne braska, but lo, there were coal scut tles to lug. And W. L. Burgess lug ged them yes, morning, noon and night he lugged them up three endless flights of stairs at Bellevue college. - Pshaw 1 Everybody could not find rails to split, and anyway carrying coal for 'one's board and room might sound just as good in the future his tory of a great statesman. So, for two years, the present head of Burgess-Granden company, nd presi dent of the Omaha Manufacturers' as sociation, was the janitor of Bellevue college. He was no bigger than a drink of cider, he admits that himself, though he was 16 years old and tall. He weighed less than 100 pounds. Two scuttles of coal when real full some times weighed more than he did. so dragging them up stairs -day after day and hustling the ashes down toughened his fiber. He was as hard as a broom handle, and .about the same shape. ' , w He felt his - career was surely mapped out now. Why not? Had he not gone through the preliminaries of trying to be a farmer? Was he not born on a farm near Elk City? Did .he not work as a hired man two years at Waterloo? lie certainly had done all of that, and had even. selected a team of mules he planned to buy to start farming for his own young self, when this same farmer talked him out of it It was then he put -on a clean col lar and a red tie and stepped irtto college as the janitor-student A professor took a liking to him and boarded him. He sat beside the professor at the table, and learned more at breakfast and supper sortie days than he did in the class room. Welshans & McEwan ran a plumb ing, heating and lighting fixture house in Omaha. J. L. Welshans wis a friend of the professor and visited at the pedagogue's house. It was near vacation time, and he got Burgess to come to Omaha and juggle plumbing and fixtures during the summer. The""janitor-student plugged at this for several summers, and then went to Parson's college, Fairfield, la. The legal career seemed drawing nearer. Then the Omaha firm split up. Welsharu took the plumbing business, and a man named Russell tobk the lighting , fixture end of the business. When Burgess bounced into Omaha for the summer, he went to work with Russell instead of with Welshans. That led him into the lighting fix ture business. When the summer waj over Russell cornered him and talked him out of the law profession. He prevailed upon him to stay with the company, and for six years he worked there and became office manager. f he Ga Company now plucked him off and sent him to Kansas City, where he had an office of his own with a real desk, telepnonc and all. The longer he stayed there, the more he longed to handle lighting fix tures again. At the end of six years he came back to Omaha, bought an interest in the fixture business which is today the Burgess-Granden com pany. . - ; And thus did the vicissitudes of fate save the court rooms of America a lot of oratorical reverberation, spare a span of Waterloo mules a lot of black- snaking, and bring Omaha a president lor its Manufacturers association. Nevt In This Serlee How Omsha Got B. Zlmman. . . IV. 1 .1' & wvi, . the mundane cycle commonly known as night Sarah Ltffingwell, elder sis ter of the temple and wife of Henry Leffingwell, had carefully arranged the china and aluminum food reccpta- cles in their usual places and was con templating the quiet hour which her labors had earned. - Mary was ad dressing her mind to filth-century his tory and Willie was wandering m the fields of higher mathematics. Henry Leffingwell, whose mind unto himself was as a pillar of cloud by day and a torchlight parade by night, invaded the sanctity of that quiet hour by be ginning one of his candle-light ex cursions into the realm of philosophy. "I've been thinking," Began this colossus of information, "that this is the time in the history of the world when we are going to have a clearer material and mental visage. We are going to have a better point of view, learn the true value of things, have a more serious regard for the verities; and I contend thatthere.is no better time or place thansright now in this home to begin to put into practice these profound manifestations of the world's greatest hour." "Say, dad, are you going to tut out the cabaret?" asked W'illte, .with an audacity which sent a quiver through his mother. "Let us hear what father has to say. I don't believe he is feeling well this evening, and it may help his digestion if he can get this awful burden off his mind," suggested Mrs. Leffing well, whereupon Willie straightened up in his chair and gave solemn heed to the paternal shrine. "The Leffingwells are going to turn their eyes to the hilltops and scale the peaks where their thoughts will be broad, rjep and long. From the pin nacles of serious thought they are pel ing to look out over a broadened men tal horizon, turn their backs on frills and frivolities and learn of the stern realities. . They are going to revise their ideas, ideals and idols," con tinued the savant of the Leffingwell bungalow. "You'll have to work more than eight hours a dayi dad, if you get by with all that heavy stuff," facetiously interpolated Willie. Mrs. Leffingwell, although mindful of theN hymeneal pledge card she signed to love, cherish and obey one Henry Leffingwell, broke away from the leash with which site- was holding herself in restraint Instead of throw ing a chair nr a hiist of Henrv W. j Longfellow, she threw a few grew- some grenades of verbal reprisal. "Henry, the troubk; is, you are see ing things again. It may be the mince piewe had for supper has goncjj your head. If your spectacles were on straight, ypu would observe that every member of this household, ex cept possibly yourself, is bending every effort along the line of which you speak. Aren't we economizing and don't we observe wheatless and meatless days? Don't you -think we are serious eaough? I don't think I havef laughed since the time you told the joke about youself sitting on a woman's lap in a street car. It is yourself that is myopic and astigma tic You can go mountain climbing if you wish, but I think you would bet ter conserve the name of Leffingwell it you would notice that 1 haven t had a new house dress since the time my sister came' from California," Mrs. Leffingwell said. ' "Why don't you get dad aperiscopt for Christmas, so he can see what is going on?" queried Willie. "Say, pa, what do you think of the recrudescence of bustles? merrilv chirped Mary. ' "I think we need a'recrudescence ok respect for elders in this home," re torted Leffingwell, his cholcf arising menacingly. ., Mary struck up "Over There" on her piano ad the wh6le family joined in, to be happy ever afterward, until the next time. It Is an 111 Wind. One of the compensating features about the runiway balloon is that it advertised Omaha on a nation-wide basis while the big bag was sailing rampant through the cloud-lanes. Adelaide and Ella. Ella I believe I have jicasc of nerves. Do you know of a quiet plactt whefe I could enjoy perfect rest for or a re& tew weeksr Adelaide Yes dear; I would ommena retrograd. Still Talking About George. "Lloyd George rewinds the clock," reads the heading of a current maga zine article." This makes George "the man of the hour." t( Pat John on the Back" a Good Rub Right relations between employer and employe aTe very necessary to the success of any business, and the lack of these relations is just as often tU. f..U -C tU, ii.. liii. i n ii i i ail i in a 1 1 1 t l aw r a 1 1 i ur- , ernn.i'.vgv A good many, merchants feel that once a definite wage is fixed and paid regularly every Saturday night they are entitled to all the enthusiasm, all the loyalty and all the energy con centrated in the employe's make-up. Prharw tflev ar ntif1r! in alt' these, but they do not get them. It it absolutely impossible to get supeff I..:... .1 i. ti.. j . . m live ciiLiiusidsiu, iu vaiiy . auu cucigy by the mere payment of wages. The only way to get your employes to open up their hearts is for you to open up yours. v Open up your heart, pour forth ex pressions of appreciation, and you'll find that your employes will open- op their hearts and work with more en thrsiasm, more loyalty and more en ergy. ' . ':.- .-; . ' This is simply a"n inexorable law of human nature. Pat JoluVon the back and John will hump his back for you. When criticism is an employer's constant weapon his employes lose enthusiasm. To the employer this means wasted time, delayed deliveries, costly errors, loss of business. The pat on the back is productive of dividends. National Grocer. t Origin of Rotten Bow. In olden days none but the king was allowed to r:'te..akng Jjiten Row, and for a time the privilege was jealousy guarded. Therefore it was known as "Route De Roi," otherwise the King's way: and it became in time c6rrupled into "Rotten Row.' 0