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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1918.
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Hats Off to Omaha Women!
Will you forgive us if we hark
back to the White Elephant sale just
once more? It was really such an un
usual thing for Omaha and such a
success that our enthusiasm has not
yet completely glimmered out. Many
people who were thire just saw the
piles of things for sale and heard the
music and smelled the flowers and
wondered who would get the five-passenger
Ford, but to us there was a
more interesting feature to it than
that.
We knew even before this sale was
held that Omaha women were versa
tile in every sense of the word. They
have conducted tea rooms; they have
staged plays; they have brought won
derful art collections here, to say
nothing of going over the top every
month with more than their quota of
surgical dressings. And now to the
'. list of their accomplishments must be
.. added the art of salesmanship.
One of .the principal reasons why
.the sale was such a successful one
was due to the tact and charm of the
saleswomen. We noticed that their
.hearts ruled many times, for many a.
poor kiddie was given a pair of skates j
for practically nothing at Mrs. Dick!
Stewarts counter, and Mrs. v rank Ba
con even took pity on Mellificia and
Y. presented her with some delicious
! candy. Of course, these things are
not done in a real department store,
far from it, but you can't go into any
real store in Omaha and find the coun
ters stripped at the end of the day as
you did at the Auditorium.
,' We all say three cheers for the
'Omaha vomen; we could never win
.the war without them!
L' Alliance Franchise.
In commemoration of L'AUiance
Francaise day the Omaha organiza
tion will be entertained at the home
'-of Mrs. Jarvis Offut Thursday even
ing. February 6, 1778, is the date on
.wich the treaty between the United
States and France was signed and
this day is now known as L'AUiance
Francaise day from one coast to the
. 'other. A ' special program is being
planned, for the evening. Charades
and games will be. introduced and
Miss Mabel Allen and Mr. Wallace
Lyman will sing French tongs.
D. A. R. Delegates.
Delegates' to the state Daughters
ot the American Kevoiution, wnicn
will be held in Beatrice, were elected
by Major I ssac Sadler chapter Sat
urday as follows: Mrs. E. E. Can
field, regent; Mrs. William Archi
bald Smith, Mrs. X. W. Kynett, Miss
Marjorie Bryant. The alternates, will
be Alrs. E. L. De Lanhey, Mrs. Ed
B. Gibbs, Mrs. F. G. Blomquist, Mrs.
Sam K. Hanford, Mrs. E. C. Eld
ridge, Mrs. R. A. Newell, Mrs. J.
P. Weir, Mrs. A. V. Dresher, Mrs.
G. R. Guilbert and Mrs. George N.
.Jfeacham. The meeting was held at
tthe home of Mrs. S. K Hanford.
Delegates to the Continental con
gress, .Washington, April IS to 20,
Will be Mrs. E. E. Stanfield, regent,
and Mrs. W. A. Smith. The 10 alter
nates are: Misses Frances Gross, Cas-
sic Royce, Ida M. Crowell, Ethel Eld--ridge,
Mautli Royce, Martha Craig,
. Minnie Eldridge, Mildred Foster,
Edna Gibbs and Mapjone Bryant.
White Elephant Echoes.
' The White Elephant sale netted
more than $6,000 to the National
League for Woman's Service, Mrs.
Wliliam Archibald Smith announced.
'The first figures were $5,000. A board
meetinar at which final returns will be
made will be held Tuesday at 2:30
o'clock in the league rooms in the
courthouse.
Oscar Lieben, Harley Conant and
Henry Danbert had a lot of fun this
week-end over their winning three
beautiful millinery creations at the
sale which was. held last week at the
Auditorium. The hats proved no
' "whfte elephants" to the men, how
ever;." Danbert and Lieben are mar
ried "and Mr. Conant had presented
his" ticket to Miss Isabel Milroy, who
claimed the chapeau.
Mrs. Bancroft, living at the Black
stone, whose husband is a flying cadet
at Fort Omaha, won another hat on
the eve of her departure for the south.
A -Mrs. Oliver and a Mrs. McCurdy.
won the other two.
' J. C. Cross of Paxton-Gallagher
company -von the automobile.
New Machine for Red Cross.
" A large number of women attended
the-exhibition.heldin the Baird build
ing Sunday morning, of the new gauze
cutting machine. It was certainly
proved that the strong right arm of
Mr. Gould Dietz will have to continue
to operate the machine, as it is ioo
heavy for a woman to handle.
Valentine Party.
Miss Mary Cooper will, give a val
entine dancing party for her pupils
at the Blackstone Saturday afternoon.
The . children will wear fancy cos
tumes and a number of special. fea
tures have been planned.
Birthday Luncheon.
Mrs. C B. Rustin was honor guest
at a luncheon given by Mrs. Brandon
Howell at the Blackstone. ihe oc
casion was Mrs. Rustin's birthday and
eight of her friends made up the
party.
PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Seacrest of Lin
coln are spending the week-end with
Mrs. Seacrest's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. H. Rushton.
Oscar B. Hugg, Company B, Fifth
N'ebraska, U. S. engineers, who is
; stationed at Corpus Christi, Tex.,
is spending a week's furlough with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Hugg.
i Mr David Burton of Minneapolis is
, visiting his daughter. Mrs. Frank W.
Judson. nd Mr. Judson.
A son was born Thursday to Mr.
and Mr?. N. J. Myers of Detroit,
Mich. - Mrs. Myers was formerly Miss
Jenny Abrahamson of this city.
The fiftieth anniversary o: Dr. Anna
, K. rBroomall's connection with the
' woman's hospital of Philadelphia, first
as resident physician and . in later
years-as consulting physician, is to
t be n arle the occasion for an appro
priate celebration at an early date.
English Peeress Enjoying
Season at Palm Beach
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Lady Wellesley of England is
shown, about to take her morning dip
yi the surf of Palm Beach. Lord and
Lady Wellesley are among the many
prominent folks who are enjoying the
season which opened recently at the
famous winter resort. ,
Red Cross Notes
Yost Red Cross Auxiliary.
Casper Yost Red Cross auxiliary,
including close to 200 telephone com
pany office employes, though one of
the newest of the large auxiliaries, U
rapidly coming to the front. More
than 30 men friends of the girl work
ers accompany them to the workshop
in the Scottish Rite cathedral Mon
day evenings and are put to work
The men make gauze compresses,
triangulars and other dressings, just
like the girls do. Some of them are
very deft workers, Mrs. Frank W.
Judson,. instructor, says:
Last Monday night Mr. Yost sent
refreshments for the workers. Aux
iliary members plan . a social hour
each week, , following the work
period.
Red Cross Public Work Shop.
Mrs. F..W. Carmichael, chairman of
the Red Cross public workshop in the
Keeline building.taanounceathat the
shop will he open Tuesday from 10 in
the morning to 5 in the afternoon and
again from 7 to 9.
A new room has been fitted up for
additional workers and Mrs. Carmi
chael announces that 100 workers are
needed every Tuesday. V
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The public shop is sending out an
urgent call for more workers, as an
extra room is now open and more
women are greatly needed to help
with this important work.
Thirty-two boxes of surgical sup
plies will be sent from the Baird
building" Tuesday morning, as this is
the January quota for Omaha.
Just Out
Miss Margaret Curtis, associate
chief of the bureau for refugees and
relief of the Department of Civil Af
fairs, Red Cross,, has written an eight
page pamphlet,-"Hints for American
Relief Workers," which has just made
its appearance in Paris. It contains
answers to question whichs have puz
zled every American with regard to
the French army and the humanita
rian work being done by the French
people for their army. ' ,
Miss Curtis has been engaged in re
lief work in Paris for the last two
years and before that had experience
in social work in Boston.
"What is to become of all the war
workers who are flocking to Wash
ington, chiefly stenographers and typ
ists, after the war is over?" is a ques
tion frequently asked the federal civil
service commission, by thousands of
women throughout the United States.
Washington Girl Scouts
Receive-Military Drill
Washington Girl Scouts are being
trained in military drill. This inter
polation of the military idea into the
scout movement at first sight appears
to be at variance with previous con
ceptions of the scout plan, which since
its inception has been opposed to mili
tarism in any of its phases. It is not.
however, with the idea of preparing
its corps tor military service that drill
has been undertaken, but simply as
a measure of producing greater effi
ciency...... Military drill makes for instantane
ous obedience and response and ulti
mate efficiency and these are essen
tials to the best team work demanded
of the Girl Scouts of today. All play,
as play, has ceased in Girl Scout or
ganizations of the country and efforts
are all being directed toward serious
war work. "Woman's work cut down
to girl size" is the way it has been
expressed. Out of the records which
the girls are making today will be
built the homes of the future.
The Girl Scout organization in
Washington is already co-operating
with the government in several of its
departments. It is linking up with
the states relations service of the De
partment of Agriculture in the boys'
and girls' dub work of the latter: with
the food administration in the prepa
ration of and giving instructions in
war emergency foods; in the bureau
of education in the matter of Ameri
canization of aliens and with the De
partment of Labor in assisting to
bring the jobless men and women to
the bureau of that department, which
seeks to fit each man and each woman
to his or her riht place in the na-
i tional service of today.
Lw md. Hat
, By JAXE M'LEAX.
There, are two well known countries Love and Hate,
v With bat a very slender line between.
; The road to Love leads through an open pate;
f -. The other entrance may be felt, not seen.
" Love has its valleys and its mountain peaks,
' Its wocded hillocks and its plenteous plains
Hate has the torment of a soul that seeks
On rocity soil for knowledge that it gains.
And but a stumbling on the border line,
A look i.rheeded, and Love is no more.
And there remains the memory that will shine
Into Hate's portals through the open door.
There are two well known countries Love and Hate
With but a very slender line between.
The road to Love lies through an open gate;
The other entrance may be felt, not seen.
Naming the Hospital Baby
Big Job for Neiv York Women
Permanent success has finally
crowned the efforts to find a name
for the mobile hospital unit which is
going to France, backed by the Na
tional American Woman Suffrage as
sociation. Everybody concerned has
been vitally interested in getting the
exactly right name, a short name, a
name that did not conflict with any
other hospital service, a name that
told the whole story without being
too big a mouthful.
Two or three days ago the best
name that had been suggested was
"Women's Foreign Service Hospitals.
U. S. A." It was too long, but the
National American Woman Suffrage
association duly took it over, length
and all. Then along came Mrs. How
ard W. Beal with a name that was in
stantly acclaimed as the exactly right
name. It was "U. S. A. Worr.en,-s
Overseas Hospitals." So upon the
"Trusting to Luck1'
vs. "Taking Pains"
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
We were ! discussing the fabulous
income of one of our cleverest novel
ists. "I haven't actually counted his
money," said the editor, "but I know
I'd be ready to pay him $2,500 right
down flat any minute he came in and
told me he had a good idea for a
short story."
"By jove!" said the Critic, "I can
remember the day about IS years ago
when he landed his first story. He
had rewritten it 17 times and it took
him five years to . sell it.
And $2,500 for one story now! He
got $50 then and took me out to cele
brate." "That shows he isn't an artist," said
the Society Woman. "A genius
wouldn't ever have had to rewrite
his story 17 times he'd know instinc
tively how to do it." .". "
I remembered a quotation: "Genius
is an infinite capacity tor taking
pains." Rewriting one short story
17 times "peddling" it about for five
years are not these fairly good ex
amples of taking pains infinitely?
The Editor looked at the Society
Woman a bit impatiently. "How do
you think a man writes his story,
madam? I remember art old college
professor who once told me that no
poem ever got written merely through
desire or by the grace of God or by
saying: 'Go tot I will write a poem.'
Story writing may be an art,,
but it is a craft too, and the artist
who won't take "he trouble to learn
the technique of his job, to try to
find out how writing should be done,
to study the art of writing in gen
eral and the art of writing each par
ticular story he is working out in
particular hasn't much chance ever to
amount to much.
And that is completely and abso-J
liueiy true.
I suppose a great many people
imagine that our best known writ
ers are gifted beings jto whom luck
nas Deen kina. fortune may nave
given them the art of imagination, a
feeling for words, the power to con
vey impressions but of what use
would these gifts ever, have been had.
their possessors been happy-go-Iuck-ies
who were unwilling to work
to take infinite pains?
It is very easy to ascribe the good
fortune of others to luck. It is
equally easy to imagine that your
own ill fortune was wished on you
by a malicious fate.
Do you know what is exactly the
worst luck in the world? The an
swer, is, plain and true: Trusting
to luck; that is the most maliciously
unfortunate thing that can happen
toyou.
Chance may waft what you, want
your way. Chance may , also carry
the things you desire directly away
from you. If you go after your heart's
desire and chance is already carrying
it toward you, of course you get it
and about twice as quickly as if
you had trusted to luck to bring it
all the way. If your desire is being
blown away from you by the winds
of opportunity and you hasten after
it, you may cajch up with it. So by
effort you can defeat what might
seem to you to be your, own ill luck.
Waiting to se what's going to turn
up fills a great many park benches.
Believing in luck is a vagrant atti
tude. '-
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Send the wheat to our lighters
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I ' Get it at your grocers
Minneapolis Cereal Co.,
That hide Is worth more to too s
ton wiii oeacsroe nn rear, tailors
for eoat for arery ssanher of the
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recommendation of Mrs. Charles L.
Tiffany, the chairman of the advisory
committee, the national suffjafcre asso
ciation has pliantly met the situation
and he name of the unit becomes the
U. S. A. Women's Overseas-Hospitals.
Kindly note the plural. That is be
cause it is expected that this unit will
be but the first of a chain of such
units. The suffragists of Great Brit
ain are responsible for such a chain
of hospitals, which have been making
a great deal ot war relief history un
der the title of the "Scottish Women s
Hospitals."
The unit, it will be recalled, is
vouched for also by the New York In
firmary for Women and Children. The
women doctors directing the unit's
fortune are. Dr. Finley, Br. Edward,
Dr. Van Sholly, Dr. Gregory, women
whose professional reputations are
identified with the. infirmary's repu
tation. '
Advice to Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
Give Him a Chance.
IVar Miss Fairfax. Omaha Bee: My
mother and I are very unhappy because
my lather Is a brute! Rather than be
forced to brand him thus I have kept pa
tience until at last I can bear it no longer,
and I feel that we must have someone lo
confide In and someone to comfort and ad
vise us. My father li a very selfish man.
who Uvea purely for his own "good." He
hardly gives any money In the house and
yet, when he sees little on the table, he
storms at poor mother. When i see this
my temper is aroused and 1 Often talk
back to him, telling him that he ought to
be ashamed of himself. When 1 do talk to
him like this he often beats me. 1 don't
cam about myself, but I wish mother would
be let to live in peace. Ho often picks a
quarrel for the least little thing, though he
is always in the wrong. At last I have
decided that mother, another sister younger
than me and myself ought to move out of
the house. I don't make much of a sal
ary only $8 but I expect a raise very soon.
Do you think that mother, 'sister and I could
live on that much? B.
Have you ever thought of your father's
side of It? A bad temper hurts no one more
than its possessor. Of course. It Is very evi
dent that you hate your father and hatred
does not ea!m down the brutality of a man
such as the one you describe. Isn't it pos
sible that yon nag at and Irritate a man
who has a quick and ugly temper and In
this way caimo htm to act far more cruelly
and disgracefully than he would dream of
doing were he not bitterly conscious of the
fact that he isn't getting, what he calls a
square deal? Often when people are In the
wrong they go on and get deeper and deeper
in the wrong for the simple reason that they
actually don't know how to get out again
Next time your father loses his temper or
sulks or acts brutally run over and throw
your arms, about him and say, "Please. I
daddy, dear, don't do that!" He will prob
ably be so surprised he won't know what to
make of It, but It can't do any harm to try
the effect of kindness on him, can it? When
a man feels that the women of his own fam
ily are banded against htm, and hat him he
Is likely to look on .himself as a martyr to
nurii a prudffe arnlnat (hum anil tn m from
bad to worse. Try love and kindness for
three months. , Try to make yourself really
fond of your father. Try, ray dear, to win
your father. Ill wager that In alx months'
time or even three you can bring- about a
great change. If you can't there will still
be plenty of time to take the sad and seri
ous step of breaking up a family. :
. . Marry Him.
Dear Miss Fairfax; I am a young girl of
IS. I have gone with, a young- man for
three years: tie has gone to war.
I love him dearly, be has asked me to
marry him. I have no mother or any home
only where my hat's off. Before he went
we were to be married. He has asked for
a furlough, but hasn't had any answer from
it ye So do you think It Is best for me
to get married and have him go back 1 I'm
with his folks now. A friend. ANXIOUS.
Yes, Anxious, If he Is a good boy marry
him. Ton may make his life a little bright
er. When he la gone, go to work and do
not sit Idly waiting for his return
'Insanity. l
Dear Mine Fairfax." I am a-Toung man 25
and In love: with a very Intelligent' girl of
21, with whom I have kept company for the
last two years and whom I have known since
childhood. Directly after the birth ot this
girl her mother was proclaimed Insane and
Is yet confined In a sanitarium. My oldest
sister advises me not to marry this girl, be
cause It Is a very dangerous thing to marry
Into a family where a case of Insanity exists.
Her argument Is on heredity. What do you
advise me tr do ? N. W.
A stray case of insanity need not be he
reditary. Particularly I believe is this true
when a mother becomes Insane Just, after
her child is born. What I advise yon both (o
do la to consult a reputable physician. Tou
need trained and specialized medical advice,
not a mere friendly opinion. .
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Palm Beach Will Like This
By GERTRUDE BERESFORD.
rpHIS gown is altogether lovely
and elastically capable of repro
duction in dark colors. Made of
heavy white crepe meteor, k is de
signed to make its debut at Palm j
Beach. In taupe, seal brown or navy
it would make a charming spring
frock for northern wear. The tablier
front carries the straight neck line
and is held by two large triangular
pearl buttons, sewed through with
black velvet ribbon. That touch in
itself, would make us "take notice."
These buttons are repeated on the
cuff., A straight, gathered tunic falls
over a narrow skirt. The tunic falls
over a narrow skirt. The tunic is
bordered with black embroidery, a
conventional design developed in
heavy rope silk. Black chenille would
make an effective substitue. The ac
cessories of this costume should be
a hat of white georgette, black
pumps, vAite stockngs, clocked in
black, and, last but not least, a bril
liant cerise parasol, Voila, madamc!
Of Interest to Women
Wages of women workers in Ohio
have increased 50 per cent in three
years.
Forty thousand English women are
now employed at the military bases
in France.
Philadelphia is to have a special
detective bureau composed entirely of
women.
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Label repast everything on the table uni
form in quality and up to the Armour
standard and yet
Not an ounce of meatl
You can go farther you can use KStSf
or Glendale Oleomargarine as a butter
equivalent. And you can eliminate lard by
using Vegetole, our pure vegetable product
for cooking and shortening.
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Women8 Part in the
New Internationalism
'The great lesson of the war is the
new internationalism," said Mrs. Nel-
lie L. McClung of Edmonton, Al
berta, a prominent Canadian war
worker.
"We are not citizens of Canada, of
the United States, or of Britain onjy;
we are atl citizens of the world, and
no part of the world can live unto it
self alone," said Mrs. McClung. "We
are bound together either by the
cords of love or by the chains of
death. We are not free while anv
part of the world is bound. The world I
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Tommy's
Eyes
Where are Tommy
Tucker's eyes?
Draw him two and he'll
look wise
For a fellow of his size.
Spring Dresses
are here in the loveliest styles imaginable. They're so new and
different you'll enjoy trying them on. Now going on sale at fig
ures full of meaning to careful buyers, "honest."
Attention especially directed to
126.00 Satin Dresses,
tSS.OO Satin Dresses,
$22 60 Chiffon Taffeta
ISO 00 Chiffon Taffeta
126.00 Crepe de Chine
$30.00 Crep de Chine
NEW SILK SKIRTS Ar. Ready
Winsome Models Remarkably Prised, "Truly"
Special attention is called to
$10.00 Ch'ffon Taffeta Skirts, at $ T.78
$12.60 Taffeta and Foulard Skirt", at $ 9.78
$16.00 Novelty i'laid Skirts, at $11.78
$10.60 Satin Draped Skirts, at ..$13.78
Winter Coats, Suit and Furs In Final Sale.
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:1812 FARNAM ST.
To the Personal Tax Payers of Douglas County:
I shall very much regret to issue distress warrants
to the sheriff for collection of the 1917 countyand 1917
city delinquent personal taxes on February 1st, as pro
vided by Section 6483, Statute of Nebraska. It would
only add additional cost and expenses to said taxes. '
For the benefit of the tax payers, I will extend the
time for paying these taxes to February 15th. Please
pay them now, if you believe in conservation.
M. L. ENDRES, Treasurer.
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foods not in meats alone but in hundreds
of other foods the choice selection for the
nation's best in fruits, fish, grains and vege
tables, all delivered to you under the top
grade quality guarantee of the Oval Label.
Serve the nation by serving on your table
the great variety of Armour's meatless
products. Write to our Domestic Science
Department for meatless menus.
Jones Sts., Omaha. Douf. 10SS.
and Q Sts, South 1740.
is not safe for any of us until it is
safe for everyone.
"This makes living a very serious
business. When a woman sees her
boy go out to kill, or to be killed, she
loses from her life some of the spirit
of youth; she can no longer be de
ceived into believing that all is well
with the world. Women are the last
reserves of the nation, and they have
never yet exerted their full influence.
They have lagged behind the men in
their development. But the women
arc being awakened, and a mighty in
fluence for good, for kindness, for hu
man safety is being felt in human af
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