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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1918)
' " ' ": THK BKti: OMAHA. FRIDAY JANUARY 11. 1918. - : . ; . ; - -;' y ! -1 ' - '.'''.' hi " i i 1 1 i i i i AU'kWUU,iirjiij.w.in,-Tt "' ' " i " ' "' ' ' "i " " ' " 1 : : . '" '' "' ' ! ; , i ' ' V i , hi m Ella Fleishman. ASS'T EDITOR. r -1 . ! i ' n ; ; i By MELLIFICIAJon. 10 Canteen Only Red Cross Department Not in Need of Workers. , . Hfeve you a burning desire to work in the canteen at Fort Omaha? That will be impossible. Even so. You are good looking? You are a profi cient worker? That makes no dif ference. The list is overcrowded nd Mrs. Luther Kountze, who is the head canteener, is not looking for more help. ...... Every day urgent appeals come I from all other branches of the Red Cross for more workers. Sureical dressings departments, knitting units ana ciencai aepanmems an cry tor volunteers. As every, one knows makine sur gical dressings is pretty tedious work. Knitting is not particularly exciting either, but when it comes to working in the canteen with numberless good looking young chaps in khaki about, that's different. Feeding the inner man is just as meritorious as any other branch of war work and who can blame the: dear girls for wanting to do their bit . in that cozy little eatery at the tort.' I peeped through the glass one day at the canteen myself and saw a charming young girl (whom you all . know), having a delighttul chat with a stalwart youth while he consumed a bean sandwich. I didn't wait to see how many he ate, but business is always brisk at the canteen! But let me warn all you girls who are anxious to join the waitress union at the fort that it's hopeless. Mellificja ' applied herself and was rejected, kindly, but firmly. O'Neill-English Wedding. St Peter's church was the scene nf a. verv orettv wedding this morn insr when Miss Margaret English, daughter of Mrs. Tames English, be came "the bride of Mr, Richard D. O'Neill. Palms, ferns, white roses a and narcissus combined with the 1 white cathedral candles, formed deco ration for the church. Kev. father McCarthy read the marriage lines. The bride wore her traveling suit of burgundy colored broadcloth with . hat to match. Seal furs were worn and she carried shower bouquet of Mrs. Ward roses. Miss Mary English, sister of the Jride, who was bridesmaid, wore a Tailored suit of clove velour with hat to match. A corsage bouquet of pink roses completed the costume. Mr. Robert Latsch of Lincoln was best man. Following the ceremony a wedding breakfast was served to the relatives and a few friends at the home of the bride' mother. Yellow and white were used on tne ,iaoie ano New President of Scottish Rite Woman's Club. roses through the rooms. , , After an eastern wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. O'Neill will be at home at 1355 South Nineteenth street Wedding Announcement Miss Faye Foster, daughter of Mr. i and Mrs. W. H. Foster of Council . Bluffs, lift Wednesday evening for St ' Louis, where her marriage will take! place luuay ii mi. formerly of this city, ine weaaine will be a simple ceremony witnesses! hv Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tabor of Dallas. Tex., friends of the family. The young people, whose romance started in the Lion Bonding and Surety company's office, where both were employed, will make their home in St.; Louis. Fur Coats Worn in Florida. Mrs. G. W. Meeath. who is now in St Aueustine. Fla.. writes that fur coatare.,in order at the resort The weather is extremely cold and the tourists who came with summer clothes are suffering from the un usual cold weather. Mr. and Mrs. Me- '2t . ceath. Miss Mary Mtgeath, Mrs, " Windsor Megeath and little Betty Meeeath left some time ago for Flon da, expecting to escape winter's blasts ' and are greatly disappointed to find it so cold English Actor-Artist-Soldier Tells Of British Blunders and Why the Kaiser Wants Piece of U. S. Pie His Act is No Camouflage, We Investigated and Found Out It's Real. - By ADELAIDE KENNERLY. Scottish Rite Woman's club will in. stall its new officers Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Scottish Rite ca thedral. Mrs. A. -M. Smith s the new Vincent Mrs. Hector McArtbur and SJ? ,r!d of a camouflage; . I knew 10 months before the wr almost the exact date that Ger many would declare war during the summer of 1914. British noncommissioned officers are terrible. American military officers are wonderful. v Wilson, to the English people, is a wonderful man a, great man. He is performing modern miracles. You are not as frea as England. Your statesmen are too -anxious to have their signatures to statutes. You are law-ridden and your po licemen carry big sticks. The kaiser said before the war: "I have the United States at my command. I have 5.000,000 men awaiting my word. Every presi dential election is controlled by me," ' v You Americans are the big pie he is after. , LOUIS HART. Mrs. Frank Stein are the vice nresi- qents; airs. i. Mine, secretary; Mrs. Morris Garrison, treasurer; Mrs. F. C. Patton, auditor and Mrs. J. S. Lyons, press reporter. Mr. Oliver Eldridge leaves this eve ning to meet his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Eldridge. at Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge. who have been traveling in the orient, wi l arrive home bunday. . Mrs. G. Louis Raymer of Chicaeo. formerly of Omaha, will leave next week for Florida to remain for the balance of the winter. Mrs. Tames Willard 5nell of Madi son, Wis., is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hancock. Mrs. Tames H. VanDusen and Miss Helen VanDusen have taken an apart-r ment at the Colonial. jJellificia as we sat .watching For Visiting Men. Mr.' and Mrs. Ben H. Elliott will entertain at a bridge Party this even ing at their home in honor of Dr. Earle Sage and Mr. Charles Ldhn of St. Louis, who are the guests of Dr. Sage's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Sage. , - ; : White Ribbon Recruits. On account' of the cold but four 1 little children were recruited into the temperance society- at the annual ceremony of Frances Williard Wo man's Christian Temperance union Wednesday at Hanscom Park church. They were little Dorothy Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Clark; Eunice ' and Seba, Webster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Web ster, and James Craddock, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Craddock. Matinee Parties. Mrs. Luther Leisenring of Placer ville, Cal., who is visiting her parents, ff and Mrs. Geofee Wilcox, will be honor guest at a matinee party at the Orpheum Friday, given by Mrs. C. E. Brink. Mrs! Reeder Hostess. ' Mrs. J. C Reeder was hostess Wed nesday afternoon for the meeting of the Sans Souci club. Lowe Avenue Church Boasts Three Red Cross Auxiliaries Working f Lowe Avenue Presbyterian church boasts three' Red Cross auxiliaries. Mrs. G.- W. Hervey leads the first unit to organize, which meets Mon days to make hospital supplies in the Baird building. .Auxiliary two makes hospital garments Wednesdays at the home of Mrs. C. O. Dooley; and the third auxiliary, just formed today, .$ to meet at the' home of Mrs. W. A. Smith, 105 South Forty-first street regularly to make surgical dressings. No less than 25 women are included in each unit. Another new auxiliary is the Z. Z. club of the First Methodist church, which will meet Tuesday evenings at the Young Women's Christian as sociation." Mrs. Minnie Zaring will lead the class in hospital supplies. Stale crackers can be used in the same way as stale bread and stale bread crumbs. They may be combined with other foods and used in place of flour in making many dishes. Miss Pauline Settle and her guest. Miss Grace Lay field, who have been spending the . holidays with Colonel and Mrs. Settle at Fort Crook, will return this evening to the Beechwood school near Philadelphia. : V Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Sweelev have just .returned from ,'ferre Haute, Ind., wnere they spent' the holidavs with their daughter, Mrs. W. W. 1'alley, ' Miss Cora Schwartz; formerly of umana, who is now soloist at the South Congregational church in Chi cago, is in the city, called here by the serious illness of her sister, ; Miss Alice Schwartz. Miss Pearl May and Miss Vera Camp, teachers in v the Tekamah schools, will come to Omaha for the McCormack recital and will be the guests of Miss Orpha Mckitrick. L Church Society Meets. . The Church Extension society will meet at the home of Mrs. Michael McVeigh, 1142 South Twenty-ninth street, Friday, afternoon at 2:30 n clock. " Original Cooking Club. Mrs. Herbert Wheeler was hostess at luncheon of the Original Cooking club at the Omaha club. Covers were laid for the nine members of the club Club Meeting. Mrs. Peter Mehrens will entertain the San Susie club at her home Jan uary 18. , - Worth While Tips The proportion of appetizing dishes one can prepare is otten a test ot the housewife's skill. I -,- ; . ( The best practical way to protect bread from mold is to keep it in a dry, air-tight box.' " ' Low-priced . foods can be made to taste just as good as the higher-priced ones when cooked long, and savory vegetables and other flavoring mate rials added. Many of the cheaper cuts of, meat are nourishing and very appetizing when carefully prepared and cooked for a long time. A fireless cooker is particularly suitable for their prepara tion. Poultry is the only class of domes tic animal which is suitable for con verting the kitchen waste, right where it is produced in the city, into whole some and nutritious food in the form of eggs and poultry meat dumb act society night at the Or pheum. "His changes are too rapid to be real. He is clothed in flesh colored tights with all kinds of little balloons underneath. He presses a button which causes them to jump around. It couldn't be real." We saw a small blond man clothed in Prince Albert coat, silk hat and monocle, smoking, a cigaret, strutting around the stage. We expected a rounder act or some kind of Broad way sport, but in. a flash the lights were dimmed and, presto, before us stood a modern Sandow whose mus cles jumped and danced and puffed and pranced in a hundred different shapes and sizes. Hence the excla mation, "Camouflage." Our small, thin, blond Englishman, with neck and heels resting on stools, allowed seven large men to stand upon his body; ne nitea ine uu pounders into the air above his head as easily as a lady lifts her best Sun day hat.' .When business is good 10 men walk -upon his anatomy they all get salaries. No camouflages go. We deter mined to investigate and we did. Trouble Ahead. 'T was playing in Salt Lake" City 10 months before the war.. My as sistant was a German, an elegant fel low, Heinrich Nebor. One day he re ceived a letter stating that he had left Germany without permission and that he must return to secure such permission. We thought this strange, because Nebor's pension front the German government came regularly. When we reached Washington we learned that other German subjects wern receiving like summons. Mv rxoerience in Germany hadn' been for naught. After putting bits of information together, iNCDor saia to me: 4'War That's what it s. In answered: "Yes, that's what it is. They are giving you time to get home and see your toiKs. . juiywm be the becinninff. Sure enough I And Nebor was killed after one month in service. "But tell me how you became vaudevillian, doing this marvelous dumb act of yours,'' I insisted, trying to come back to our camouflage lm nression. , "I do that for money. My expense are heavy now that J, have taken on so many war obligations. I am on sick leave until February 10th, at which time I must be" back at my oost." And so saying he flippity-flopped the conversation over to militarism and naval battles. , English Blunders. "We made a lot of blunders in the beginning. I hope your country will not make so many. Our military sys tem is the most unbearable' part of England. The whole army, with some exceptions, , is ruled by! omcers in sympathy with the clod class. -Thev are. 'for . the most part, uneducated gross in their make-up and brutal.. A private is a machine an automaton and nothing pleases British officers more .than to grind and humiliate men of higher rank,-social ' and mental standing than they . are .themselves. "It isn't 'man to man,' but 'officer to dog,'- over there. Tour military men are quite different and the Sam mies have a much softer time than the Tommies. "You ask about the highly sensitive class ot soldiers.-, J. here is no senti ment no sympathy in - the British army, When your are absolutely down and out; when you are ready tor the mad house or have three ribs broken as I had, then they give you hospital or sick leave. To be sure the highly refined or sensitive men go mad more easily because they fee! conditions more keenly." Globe Trotter. . Mr. Hart admits that he is a globe trotter, wandeting about from place to place, dissolving within him the Bobby' s Bubbles Soapy bubbles blowing, Till - his cheeks are glowing, But no bubble seems to come; . , Guess you'd better draw. him one. petty prejudices and narrow opinions he held for people of other countries. Travel, he says, fills, or helps to fill, the great voids in life. "Atlantic . City will be bombarded this summer, mark what I say. .You may think I am crazy, but remember, when next summer comes, and the- Germans have crept up under your in nocent, unprotected, fashionable coast resort waters you will believe me quite sane." 1 couldn't keep him xff the war. I sidetracked and suggested; switched and turned, often abruptly but back to the war he would come each time "Do you believe in the censor? I do. Why in Washington recently I picked up a paper with a headline telling of 200,000 coffins accompany ing troops on their way across. Stim ulating, I must say, to your young men who are enlisting." Reluctantly he told about his father and grandfather. They were artists. His father was a close friend and collaborator of John Ruskin: he was also one of the art critics in English, during his lifetime. An Artist. "I am a portrait and miniature painter and have more work than I can do commissions, of course. I paint and read during all my spare time. We lunatics must make goo J use of our time while on furloughs. For me it will be back-to-my-trans-port-or-the-29th-Midd!esex regiment next month. You see by. my 'ticket to Berlin' that 1 am physically fit.'" ' A "ticket to' Berlin" literally means 100 per cent perfect physically and no- one who sees Mr. Hart's dumb act could doubt his right to this ticket-to-Berlin. Mr. Hart's brother,' Arnold Hart of Atlanta and his uncle, John Nugent Chambers of Birmingham, Ala., are American citizens. Mr. Chambers is one of the south's millionaires and Mr. Arnold Hart Is a cotton broker and writer. However, Louis Hart, let it be understood, is typically. Eng lish, monocle and all (he may object to a "type" but we Americans under stand each other), even to his "beast ly" and "stupid. Beastly Stupid? But he isn't beastly or stupid. He is as live and human as an Irish comedian. His views on the present conflict are his own conclusions after traveling in every foreign country known to man. "Don't forget,' he says, "that the United States is the big pie the kaiser is after. You have all that he de sires in the way of resources, ports and wealth. Right now he expects you to pay for this war. He still be lieves in 'Me and Got' and don-'t you forget it for a minute. "I like you Americans immensely. Many a quarrel have I had with Eng lishmen who said you were gross, low-brow peopl. Not any place in the world is there more refinement and wholeheartedness than among your soft-spoken business and pro fessional men of middle age. They woqld be a credit ' to any country they are the backbone of America. Cawn't You Keep Away from It "My act? Aowh, aowhl Why cawn'tv you keep away from it. If you call me the strong man I shall dispise you' forever. I was forced to take exercise when I learned that I had consumption from overwork in my studio and after my co-worker died from painter's colic. All right, Mr. Hart, we shan't say a word about you being a strong man, although everybody knows you are. But permit us to thanlf you for your forecast of the war, your good opinion of our soft-spoken American men and your assurance that America will win the war. 1 Camouflage? Never! They are his very own muscles that do the original dances against an exquisite curtain of dark velvet. ' "Remember Avhat I say -about At lantic City and - the Germans," he warned as the revolving doors of the Fonter;"e whirled, us out into' the cold, cold world. Advice to Lovelorn By BEATRICE FAIRFAX; . A Soldier's Problem. Dear Miss Fairfax: Six months ago I met a young lady, and we became attached to one another. I am In the army and ex pect to go away la a ahort time. I crave an engagement ring, with the understanding we are to marry If I return. The ' trl la not aallefled, and beg-e me to marry her now. Bhe la a dear girl, ana i leei u i marry ber now; I may come back ao crip- Died I wouldn't be able to aupport her. lova her enough not to want to ruin her lite In this way'; beeauee ahe will always have the chance to mane a good maicn, ana I feel If I marry her now I would b cheat Ing her of a happlar future than I may Be able to give her. We afe both 24. I want to know whether you think I am right or wrong. . . v.. v. . 8ome will think' your principles right, the reet think' them wrong that sum up the situation and the attitude people are going to take- toward your problem. Some will admire your unselfishness, your pef -control, your wish to do nothing that might possibly hamper and handicap the. future of the girl you love. Other will feel that most of life la taking chances and that, since your sweetheart wants to marry now and desires U feel that you belong to each other, you would be doing her the greater kindness In yielding. After all, most of. life Is taking chances, and we never have any written guarantees of happiness or good fortune. Do what 'you think right not Juat wht wtll let you swell out your cheat and feeli proud of yourself, but what will really bring the greatest happiness' to both it you. while yoa r Inclined t fancy yourself In love with another. Marriage without love is likely to be debasing and unhappy for everybody concerned. ' Don't try It. On the other . hand, don't romantically and senti mentally fancy yourself eirtmoured of a boy whom you probably hardly know. Don't Be Mercenary. Dear Mis Fairfax: I am a stenographer and my employer, who Is 11 year my sen ior, seems to be In love with me. He has taken me several times to theaters, etc., and finally last evening he declared his love for me and asked m to marry him. 1 The trouble Is this: He is rich ana love me: I am poor ana love anoioer young mmi two years older than I am very dearly. who Is also poor, ana never naa snoxen 10 me about his Intentions. Please advise one who la anxtousjy waiting- for your views on the matter. S. M. Surely you cannot expect me to advise any girl, to make a cold-blooded mercenary mar riage. Apart from the fact that you and your employer come from different walk of life and probably hate very different views and Ideals, there I the fact that you do not care very much for him. , Would It be fair to marry him under those circum stances T Have you any chance of happi ness If yu -marry one man, when ay the IJlMj WIDEST 1 m The Monitor Stove and Range Co. 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