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-: ' .' ' - ' . I I The Omaha Sunday Bee DECEMBER 16, 1917 Comb Honey 7 J I lSArt7I77777J7S ZZTZMCt . i 'P-r I 9 III 111 11 ' tm ,11. L frr7f tint fitIff fflW fl ' ' WAR Sanfa" AT "- 'i " JTF - r jK wwvn i y i p -x v .s ,r SM 7rA-ntr. ' . win. r .a i .' i i in WXWx - lAdr r ' 7 m M P i ruVc : ffil II 111 lVv I- trrrfftX Uliksr. (V4 re b A V ' Everybody Has a Hobby! .. Can :Y ou Tell What's Yours? "When I Iicar of a, man with a hobty I usually try to get to talk to him. They- are usually interesting pcfsdjii to talk to and I enjoy in teresting people," sayi Joseph Hay den, quite unconscious of the fact that h qualifies as one' himself. " man v.fth a 'hobby knows what he is talking about when he is on his fa- .vorite subject and is worth listening to. lie is an enthusiast and all en tTiusiasts are interesting." s , . v "After this pcroratiou Mr. Hayden was somewhat loth to admit that he had a hobby of his owiv "Still every : man might as well admit in the end that he has one," he sruid. . "Mine is tramping, I suppose." W But one' discovers lhat the well THE WEEKLY BVMBLF. BKE. A . STINGER, EDITOR. CommuDlcntloni on nr toplo rclTd, without pontat or iKUtur. Mon returned, ... . Nd AD3 ATJ ANT PRICa ' ANOTHER. ; ' : - , Editor ot The Bumble Bhi Ab yo printed my letter lest t burq&x, a . oeieivv yuu h , velue of tnj vlejri on Important event. Bo will glife the people , more of in)' view.' 'I feel, ft personal triumph vUthougb ft mtjdeet man) jn the paselnf ot the ordnance cloeinc grocerle. . butcher - ehope and bekerlee on tfundayi. . I have fought ,-for this law, for years, Mr. Kdltor, and, In fact, was one ot the first to advocate it. Bo my feeling of pride la-exouelble. These rlien, .need a day of rest and people can buy thftr gro ' eerier meats and baked goods , on Baturday nlichta just as well and not keep these men buisy hH Sunday morning and. making ' them get up early and spelling their dy fuf them. ,1 know whereof I speak, having been , lu tho- grocery store business as V clerk for several years until forced out nd now not engaged . In any bunness,' but only as ' critical student of affair ' Why don't the price regulators -nake some price on lapndry .noap. My wife , does a lot of washing, using about one dosen Tou ought !ars per week. It, used to cm .' for a quarter. New It costs 4 or a quarter. This don't look Sue juitace for the poor people. Look into this, Mr. Wattles. . I am following the Russian eituatton closely. It Is a large and vast subject and 1 will need more time before . giving my i opinion. Some men think x&ey know All about it already, but I heir opinions are not worth anything. I ntudy It from all angles and then know whereof . I npeak. It looks now aa if '.hese Boshevlki are going to " "-eet theirs," as the fellow said, , rhis (ien Kaledines and the isa"ks will glva it to them. 1 he Cossacks are great titers. I law a troop of them once ra yrara age on the stage.1- Kine, yelling oil the time. ," -Vur truly. . VOX POPCLVM. ) ;v A -f'.i -v -W BAP! .- . kfdtral Judge Woodrougli was ' cfcree of the tiering-Kclly at.h In tedeiat court last yoek. At least he foil like a referee in keeping those two peppery attorneys apart. They were on opposite eidrs of a law suit and the ry they talked t each other was stand luus, ' ' .Bn iggs f 1 ftas tow of,ji known Omaha merchant's "tramping" covers a great ground.' "No, not walking," he confesses. "The world is too large to walk around. You can't cover miib ground that way. I mean traveling, 'globe trotting' yoflAWotild call it I suppose.. My hobby, takes a good i deal of ;my time. I think I have ridden it at least once every year for the last forty years." Mr. Hayden a idea of a little jaunt, or "tramp," as he calls it, is uch a trip as he took when he landed in New York from a journey around the world just as war was declared in Eu rope. During the cruise he skirted the Antarctic, circling, down past the islands south of Australia as far as white men have1 pertetrated, up through the Red sea to India, thence down the Mediterranean,, and to ' - OMAHA, SUNDAY MQRNMG, DECEMBER 16, 1917 " WOMEN INDIGENT AT EXPECTORATORS ON CAR PJLATFORMS Gowns Are Endangered by Reck ' less' and Vncvnth Habit af ; Soma Rrar-rlatfaym . ; t Hldere. . C , . A committee of women waited upen the editor of The Bumble Dee and begged htm to pen some raustio lines against certain thoughtless fellows who have a certain , bad and dangerous habit. "They . stand on the back platforms of the street cars and, Just as the car la stopping, they expectorate.' said Miss O , "Today noon. Miss M and I were waiting to get on a car and, just as It was stopping, some fellow sent out a stream of tobacco juice. She Jumped one way and I the other or we would have been hit, sure." . This Is not an attractive sub. Ject to handle, expectorators. CUR-RSES! BROTHER CHARLIE IS LOOSE AGAIN; HELP! HELP! "Why Didn't the Bryana Kettle. ' la Horn Other State?" Is Wall ot Tarty rrb't"- Now here's Charlie Bryan, down at Lincoln, wants to run for governor . again. Running for something certainly runs in the family, Seems as It they're nerer sat isfied tKcs Bryant and al ways keeping the party leaders on pins and neodlee. There whs SMI. Poor old Bllll Not sat isfied, mind you, with being a congressman and a delegate to the Presbyterian general assem bly, he wanted to be president. And he rait and ran and "Vim, Now hero's Charlie. Ilia ambi tions not satisfied with being mayor of Lincoln, he wanted to be governor. And ha ran, and now wants to run again. These, Rryaus - won't stay hitched. They glva Clnef Poo hsh llitrhchrk the nervmia ahlv- to know enough nou io vKpenomt irom a moving street car. Tou might ruin some woman's dress. And you. might, soma time, hit,-a large, thick, twe-fisted man. who wouliyruln your ,own person with hi two large fists. . . If you must expectorate, do so daintily, artistically and' In a gentlemanly manner. And al ways "look before you spit." "Tou csn't expect to rate aa a gentleman If you expectorate promiscuously," as Mrs. It (one ot the committee) Slid. 1 L4rs and Assistant len tho shaking fever. And to make a bad matter worse, here's Neville going oft lo war and leaving Kdgar How ard in his chair as governor. If this isn't iclvlng alii and com fort te the enemy'Hltchcdck and Mullen would like to know what is. i -Charlie is starting In early. He'a sewing up the roriHB one oi me common peo ple, a farmer In fact. Ha says so. He admits it cheerfully, "I am a real farmer," he says. "I own a farm south of Lincoln." Brothels, Bill has a farm, too, not south of Lincoln, but south east. He was photographed In numerable times during Ms hopeful days, in the sturdy du nlin of the' agriculturist. It didn't seem to do much good. But Brother Charlie still be lieves there's something In tt. 'S'too bad. Just when things seemed to be running a little smooth Charlie has to break loose again. Life" in the demo cratic) party In Nebraska Is just one durn thing aftrr another. A(iREEl. " .The Russ-Tcut peace negotia tions are progressing famously, The Russians proposed (1) an armistice of six months embrac ing all fronts. (!) no troops, to be transferred from the Russian to other fronts, and ' (3) the evacuation .of Moon sound and Moon island by the Germans. The Germans arreed to all this with the exception of these trifling changes; (1) Armistice to last only one month and to em brace only the Russian front: (SI troops to be transferred from the - Russian to other fronfs; (J Germans not to evacuate Moon .sound and Moon Island. j ' ' ' .MXXG. , Mayor Dahlraatt and other city commissioners its well as the rest of the crowd at the Rtecher Lewis wrestling match were "taken In on a "Santa Claus fund collection." ? They under, stood from the promoter's speech that the collection was for the municipal Christmas tr-e. After a reporter lor an evening paper bad departed- with the funds they learned It was for that paper's "Santa; Claus fund." Our genial mayor called loudly to have the-dollar re turned. So did the nther bene volent gentlemen. But it wae ton late. Moral: ' Invcs'.lg'J1 before you - give " j DRY. A well-known doctor- anl wireless expert in Union Pacific headquarters was "pinched" by a couple ot "boose" detectives at Union station: on his return from Chicago. Two bottles ot contraband were found In his sultcsse. At the sheriff's office he said be thought he had a right, as a physician, to csrry some ticker Into the state. No, doc, the law doesn't make' any exception". V ' httiCKS'TIOX. The latest conservation sug- hgestton iv to close Brhoola and "save not havo everybody all winter? Then we any fuel ot all cafw iju 7 t i i j ti- ii i iv WAV a viwi a m a looks, like Pres. WoojrowWison - ofifu stouter England, and back home; Th'e'ves scl on whiclr-hc returned just raisfscd the tangle attendant upon the dec laration Of war, but finally slipped away and landed in due time in New York, 4haf being its last trip across as a passenger liner. It is now in the government service. - N "There are only three parts oflhe Bumble Bee i 1 i - IN OUR TOWN. A large number ot our boys nllsted last week. Charlie Nherman Is enjoying a well-earned rest after his big fii'o, eajo. Judge Cooley's buttonhole bouquet was In evidence even on those below-aero days. Cleorgo Wilson, the advertis ing man, killed a rabbit In his front yard. Kerne speed to George. Tho stcuui boiler In Julius Or kln'B store frbse up one, day last week. Fortunately It4vas soon thawed out again. "The colder the day the big ger the chunk of lea they put in yer glass o' water at the rcst 'ranta,'' observes Jonas Mealy. Tom" Flynn, our United Statea marshal, made a business trip to Grand Island during the cold spell and the train, was six hours lato. .-' George Bldwell, vho used to manage the Northwestern rail road, visited Omaha last week. He says he never saw a city grow like Omaha. Ho -hardly rocognlsed Iho old town. "Bob" Glider, our well-known archaeologist,' is glad the Brit ish have raptured Jerusalem. He says It will be much easier for students of . ancient affairs to get permission to dig among the ruins, now that the Turks have been driven out. Poobah Mul farmer Vote.J PATRIOTISM. Two young men were arrested at a local theater because they failed to rise when tho "Star Spangled Banner" was (layed. They were released when it was shown both had taken steps to Join the army. Hava those who clamored for their arrest dona as much or do they think they are "doing their bit" when they-J rise for the "Star Splingled Ban ncrf" (iKRMA.V. A game warden is removing all the German carp from a lake out In Pakota county. Looks aa though this 1a carrying pa trlotlsm little too far. He says, however, that he is re moving them because they de stroy the good fish. ' i . ' , EMPTY. . N York. Neb., Dee. U. Rev. tvn U. J. Kelly ot VtllUca, la., who was advertised to lecture Saturday night In this cltyj. did not do so ss there, wasAio crowd present. ... . . I'17.LK. "Serve Juit enough; use, what U left," say the big food con servation lgn eboards. Iu ' ono serves "Just enough." how ij uno to "use what is Icff'T the public fuel." Why etnyln bed won't need : - . k -- " .k,t'. world, I helfcve, in which I have not traveled," , he cftumerated regretfully. "I know practically ' nothing about RussiA I have never been in that country; that is to any extent. I have never seenthose interesting cities of Moscowlnd .Petrograd. "Then th r". is the southern part of Africa and the southern end of South America nich I have yet to explore. There are these plates left to ride my hobby in when-the wSTr is over. j The rest of the world I have seen " he added simply. "It is ather a plcasajit pastime, and I suppose that what a man does as a pastime,'' and what he enjoys doing most sincerely is his 'hobby,' as you rail it, whether he will recognize the fact 'or not." "Johnnie" Nugent's hbby is "not riding. on passenger trains." And this is all the stranger because he has been a railroad man for 27 years. AH that time hejias been a swftchmanjn the Missouri Pacific,' yards he.re. vln all Siat time he has never been out of maha except once when he went to Clear Lake,xIa., when his father died. He has ridden thousands of miles on freight cars around lie switching lairds. -j3ut he hasnT ask(f for nfore than one pass. x t Mrs. Nugent is equally devoted Jo her husband's hobby. She was born in Omaha and has always lived here. She has never been outside qf Omaha: not even to Council Bluffs. This, too, in spite of the fact that she has had an "annual" pass, good over the lines of the Missouri Pacific railroad, for the last IS years. She has never used it and she says she doesn't believe she ever will." ' a" s Who would think that an undertaker could have a hobby? Leo'A. lloffman strives to spend one hour each day doing charitable work. He does not succeed every day, but an hour a da'y is the rule and seldom he misses. He is connected witliva charitable so ciety. , ' "This is my Wbb'y indeed and I have found it interesting, to say noth ing of the goo? which, may be done," said Mr. Hoffman, "I visit many homes reported to us and investigate conditions. I think everybody should have some kind of a hobby, lor it helps to make-life worth living .and serves as leaven in the daily grind of affairs.., Whcrt I want to get away from business cares I take an hour at my hobby arid rind it to be a line tonic, for what ails pne. My hobby helps to relieve the tension, as I sup ppsc all hobbies do." Colonel C. G. Cunningharti "never wears an overcoat. His appearance on the streets every day, clad in a smart business suit and. a smile, with the thermometer registering below zero, causes riianv inquiries from anxious friends. He is in h's ?6th yfar- . - To satisfy many inquirers he. has issued this public announcement: "I never weir an overcoat, because I see no reason for wearing one. To say nothing of the expense, which is a secondary consideration, -an over-1 coat fs a superfluous imrden of weight and makes one more susceptible to soldsv I feci "better "Since I discarded my overcoat years -ago." Wearing an overcoat is only a habit." r 7 ' - ' . By A. EDWIN LONG. dine Patti an8 the Haymarkct riots of;Chicago helped I..B.Zimman to Omaha. Ptitti did not bring him to Omaha in her special car; nor did the rioters bat him into Omaha with cudgels. But the two combined in Chicago 'furnished this 'enterprising lad . a means : of making enough money' to come here. - " ' Born in 1876, Zinjman lived in Chi cago 13 years. ' He drove his father's meat wagon all over Chicago and thus learned the town pretty well. That was all right until og crossing the tracks on? day the horse" pulled the shafts ,Qut of. the old buckboard, dumped it ovcry anil tossed the la ear lirst upoiv'a railway tie. That put the cart out of business, and the boy began to carry papers. " He got as, far s the third reader in the Chicago schools. TJiat was far enough to teach him to n;fy. "Ex tra," and he began to sell papes on that cry. t'alt of thej time hJiad a re"al paper route of his own. He got up at the clatter of the alarm lock at 2 o'clock every morning h order to walk from his home on the. west side the entire; distance to the south side to-get his papers. He yawned a great deal over the lossjf sleep, and yet he. was sufficiently wideawake to the opportunity' oL a lifetime for a newsboy :t'sbov - ' . His father had already gone to Omaha in the ho.pe of bringing the family latcX Thiiigs didn't move fast for the father in Omaha in a financial wjy at first, and, he Could not' send ZJJB for the inothfr ami scytfri children as soon as he expected to. , But the tiaymarket riots came and the Chicago papers issued extras everv- half hour. Zimnian was right "on the job passing them 'out to the crowds and collecting the coin, .reo ple didn't ask many questions about small change when they were buying the news of-those riots. Little Ike carried pocketfuls of nickels, dimes ahd. quarters home to his mother. Then came Patti to open and dedi cate the great auditorium jn Chicago. People1 were massed in front of the box office like Gentians, on the west ern front.- The newsboys were the few wlMj had the privilege of dodginc ' .1 t. f .- 1 .1. in, unspr. mrougii, ana uruunu uiu crfjwtb Ike would crawl thr6ugh the loop . Iiolc between the lines of massed people, worm his way to the ! twi office, buy a handfnl of tickets a . f.i e u luiuc .u and sell hem for a profit. He sold Haymarket extras, : and; Patti tickets, and then Patti tickets. : ana mymarxe- extras, until his pockets were full 'of -money; and wheef the excitement was over his i mother counted the change and found there was enough to bring the whole family to Omaha. ,v They came -when I." B. was 13 j-year9 ld. In the Omaha schools the lad got as far . as the iourth reader, and then had to go to work. He worked in grocery and dry goods stores. At Hayden Brothers he carried" cash and chased change, relieved the elevator '.boys, and did the general uility job. Frdm there By EDWARD BLACK. , Home Life of the Leffiijgwells. The shades of the Leffingwell chateau had been drawn at the close of another day. The mazdas wer shedding a soft gloof light over a . homey scene. Mrs. Leffingwell was conjuring in her mind some form food variant she would offer for meat less day on the morrow.. Willie was reading of the Italians" throwing rocks at the Huns, and Marjrwas testing the etasticity of her Christ mas money, preparatory to uuws u gift-shopping. Henry Lefhngwell, the hetman of the raiicho, was hasking in the ra diance of his own iridescence. The quiescence of the' scene suggested calm before a storm. .Mr. L. moved in lys chair and surveyed the outlook imperiously, w hich portended that he was about to give a demonstration of the Nevsky Prospect during the rush hours. The seat of orofundity of the Leffingwell home was showing signs of life. Mrs. Leffingwell and the children sensed the oncoming raid of verbiage and they braced themselves for the imoendine sound waves. The oppressive silence at last was broken: when Prexy Leffingwell opened his r facial iiatchway and uttered words or; wisdom. " "frocrastination, you know, has been said to be the thie of time, and that part'of the record will be ad mitted without argument. We are trfvrrf in. tflinitn'lfA tll ' wnrrl fim- crastination from the Leffingwell vo cabulary," began this Napoleon of household phjiosophy. "The sun, moon, stars and earth all move along their appointed courses on schedule time, and the least deviation would result in universal chaos. The'scheme of the universe is system, punctu ality, precision." , . "Say, pa, didn't the s&u stand still when Toshua commanded?" asked r Willie, looking toward his mother for approbation. Henry Lefhngwell was not conduct ing a round-table discussion, so ne continued without needing the in terruptions of the heir to the family chest and crest. - s. Now is the accepted time. There is no imc like the present. Delays arc dangerous. Be sure you are right and then- go ahead,',' he quoted, ad ding: there is to be no watchful waiting in the Leffingwell cottage. We arc going to be minute men and women." . . "Why Jon't -you be a four-minute, speaker, dad? Robert's father is a four-minute speaker" intervented N Willie, feigning a sudden resumption oi interest in a dook. "There are rWo classes of people m this world, the positive and the negative," continued Fra Leffingwell. "The positive class believes in doing' what is to be done, here and now: the negative class believes in putting off for tomorrow what should and could be done today. The Leffrngwells are all gbingto be in the positive' di vision. We are going to be suphides, x rather than bromides. From reveille, tp taps, henceforth in this house there-will bn6 more deferred duties. "Why don't you say from soup to nuts, dadinstead of reveille to taps?" cjiirped the- juvenile interlocutor, y ' might also add that time and tide wait for none." auoted LefTine- wetl ,as ah afterthought. neither do the Crosstown. cars, interpolated Willie. ' Mrs. Leffingwell had been sitting with wife-like devotion, taking iu ithe enforced mental pabulum w hi,cm her helpmate had been showering upon her with reckless prodigality. She had learned from experience hat the best plan to pursue was to let Henry Leff ingwell get it out of his system De fere she countered with feminine -in cisiveness. She rocked in her chair with avidity, which meant that ehe was thinking. "I suppose.-Henry Lcfrtngwel!,,that von intrnH in in eta 11 tii,.nl, this home; that your; purpose is to' have every member of this family, 'ex cept yourself, tkeep time sheets and report to you;every hour. There is madness in your method. What you need is .a diagnostician, an ice pack and a fever thermometer. You prob ably have forgotten that man's work is from sun to sun and that woman's work is never done. I pever think about the time, unless it be to get tlje meals for the family or to get you started to work in the morning. When the whistle hlows at S, o'clock p. m., you say, 'Well, boys, guess we'll call it a day;' then you run for home and you are through, but I just keep at.it until bedtime and after I am in bed you think that you have a button to be sewed on, or a rip that needs to be mended. You are the last lo arise in the morning and the first one 4a retire at night. You won't clear the snow irom i tie waiKs until tne-policeman on the beat notifies you and you won't get your hair cut until the boys-down at the shop remind you that the bar ber's baby needs shoes and offer to take up a collection to pay for the re moval of your long hair." "Gee, crickets, ma would make a dandy four-minute speaker," com mented Willie when his .mother had talked cold turkey to dad. "Don't hurt pa's feelings, mother," intercepted Mary, who fueeested that the family communiques be re-estab lished by joining hi a musical armis tice, s . , .And the soul of music once more soothed the ruffled feathers of the Lef fingwell home nest. v 1 he jrent to the N. B. Falconer com oanypla.ee, which was later succeeded by the Thomas Kilpatrick company. As time, went on he found himseif assisting W. F. Baxter in the man aeementvof the gents' furnishing de partment He stayed with the Kil Patrick company half a decade, and in 1902 became the Aladdin of the. Elec tric Light company. That is, he got a job washing and polishing lamps to make them presentable to customers. , He te Jomed the construction crew and learnfd f undamentais 0f ;u:;h. mrm. ,.,k ,cf:t,.t- the uecessarv on ine necessary tixtures to equip an up-to-date house. For a time he solicited new business, and there ex hibited the old salesmanship qualities which had distinguished him iV the sale of the riot extras. Soon he was given chargr'of the new business de partment, and when the reorganiza tion came" under the Nebraska. Power " company, I. B. Zimman. the Chicago newsboy, was given charge of trfc sales and service department, .where he now has nearly 91) employes uudcr him. , ' (U in this series, How Omaha Cot W, H. Xajlor.' 7. r . , .