"THE OMAHA BEE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER US. lt-'-
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Community Fund
Success in K. G,
Says C. of C Girl
Secretary of Woman's Divi
sion, Bark From Observa
tion of Drive, Makes
Favorable Report.
MIh Jj, Tlellmnn, secretary of ths
business und professional womsn's
division of ths Omuhs. Chnmber of
Ommcree, return! yesterday from
Kansas City whr she. was Rent tost
u on observer to that city's
community fund rampslun.
8h cams WW to (hnaha enthusl
sstlc over ths manner In tvhlrh Kan
sas City went after the funds with
which all tha charities of the oily will
I supported for the onmlnsr year.
"Their quota win $820,000," aha axld
"and they rnlsed It with little trouble.
"They have continued tha organiza
tion of tha pity which they used In
war tlmea wfln drives for Liberty
loana, war SHvlntts stumps and the
like were Imperative.
Divided Into DNtrMfl.
"The city la divided Into districts.
A committee ia aiKnel to each dls
trlct. A (iiota is set for each district.
Tha committee la told to canvass the
dlHlrlct and got the quota. They nl
waya Ret tha quota,
"The residence districts ore divided
nmona; the women of the city and they
have their quotiia, too.
"Thii 1850.000 Kiinsaa City rslsed
laat week will enre for 46 different
charities. But a chnrlty must be
aomewhnt self Hiippoi tlnn before be
ing admitted to thia community chest
Idea.
No Tub Days.
"Then there are no tag days, no
benefit performances, no eternal can
ra using of mprchnnta for a donation
here and there for a gift for charity.
"The work of the charitable organi
sations la provided for financially a
year In advance.
"In one week, the total for a year'B
charity wna ralaed."
The Chamber of Commerce Is boost
ing for Omaha to adopt this commun
ity fund Idea as Kansas City, Denva
and Council Wuffs have done.
SOULS for SALE
By RUPERT HUGHES.
((onllnard From lnUnUj.)
New Trial Denied Marino.
District JudRe Day yesterday over
ruled the motion for a new trial for
Jim Marino, convicted of the murder
of Sum Nanflto Inst August.
Tha jury fixed the penalty at life
Imprisonment. Attorneys for Marino
alleged that one of the jurors was
not qualified.
Parents' Problems
How can children lie taught hot to
tire grownups who play games with
them and tell tliem stories, etT
Teach the children this when they
are being entertained In thesa ways
by the grownups In tho family circle.
After grandmother or grandfather
has told perhaps two stories and
"Just one more," Hay to the children.
"We must not lot grandfather (or
grandmother) get tired; we have had
three stories now, and another eve
ning we shall have tho pleasure of
: hearing more." Do the same with
games, or any other amusements
The children- will soon learn to be
moderate that is, the older ones will,
they will teach the younger ones.
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Omaha to
Chicago
and Return
December 1st to 5th
Limit December 11th,
1922
Lt. Omaha Arr. Chicago
Chicago Express
7:35 a.m. 9:30. p.m.
Atlantic Express
2:00 p.m. 7:00 a.m.
Chicago Special
6:00 p.m. 7:25 a.m.
Los Angeles
Limited ()
7:32 p.m. 8:50 a.m.
San Francisco Over
land Limited ()
7:35 p.m. 9:00 a.m.
Oren-Washlntfon
Limited
9:00 p,m, 11:00 a.m.
Continental Limited,
2:31a.m. 3:55 p.m.
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TIM,
Thus much Mem learned before the
curtuln rose. After it was up aha
learned to laugh uproarloualy at tha
utmost delicacies of Indecency. It
muds an earthquake In Main's soul to
sit alongflslde Ned Ling and listen
to the scene where the heroine horrl
ties her parents by announcing her
marriage to a handsome young man
norrmrs mem not riecause she wished
to marry a, highwayman, but becuuss
she wished to marry at all, except pos
sibly sum old man for ilnunclal its
sons.
Mem was agflhast when they rldl
culed their daughter's talk of love; at
length the father protested. "Do you
think your mother and I should have
lived comfortably together so long If
we'd been married?'
This was as terrifying ss a scarlet
snake, but Mem shook with laughter,
then collapsed Into dismay. If she
could laugh at that, what decency
had aha left?
Her soul groveled In Itself remorse
fully until the next epigram Jarred
It out of Its oppossumism, and she
luiighed again.
tihe had so lost her orientation hy
the finish of the seductive villainies,
thut she did not faint when .Ned
Ling said:
"I've laughed myself hunirrv. I
haven't ordinarily any fippttlte. Let's
go to my house and have a bite."
"To your house?"
"Ves. It's all right. I'm quite
alone there. Jdst a Jap. Very
secluded."
She wanted to say: "You tell me
not why I should go, but wliy I should
not. And I won't."
Hut It seemed a silly llttlegirllsh,
otd-maldlsh, prunes and prismlsh thing
to say.
Wasn't she an Independent woman
now, a voter, a free and equal self
supporting citlsen of tha Unlfed
S ates? In her imagination she could
hear tha wild crew of tho "Heggar's
Opera" laughing at her for a ahy lit
tle hypocrite. Lacking the courage
to obey her Instinct and her training,
she said, "All right," and got into
Ling's car.
When he said, "Home," to the driver
she almost swooned, but not quite.
The Jnp showed no surprise at the
late arrival of his master with a lady.
Kvidently it was the ordinary thing.
Men longed for a mask or a fire escape
or a gun. She glanced about for
weapons of defense. .
But Ned Ling said: "Some scram
bled eggs and bacon some wine.
Would you rather have red or white?
or a little champngne? Let's have
some champagne yes? Yes, we'll
have some champagne native Cali
fornia hut good."
Hhs felt us Jack of the Beanstalk
felt when he found himself among
ogres.
Hut Ling turned out to be an Infan
tile ogre, if ogre at all. Ho was more
like en art-gallery guids at first. lie
showed her his treasures.- He knew
something of art, or so she judged
him from his talk, for she knew noth
ing oY lt herself; but his manner was
Impressive. He was especially proud
of a portrait Just painted of him hy
one of the California artists. Ling
spoke of him aa of tho "California
school."
Ling had brought home some jades
from a voyage to China. Ho was
addicted to Jades, of a certain deep,
dark, emerald hue. He hated the
sickly pullor of the usual Jade. Mem
decided to take up jade hunting as
a sport when she got rich.
At the table Ling resumed his play
with her fingers. Hhe felt only curi
osity. She could .feel neither alarm
nor anger. She was hungry, but he
kept one of her hands prisoner and
preferred to talk.
Afterward they went Into the beau
tiful living room, a strange room for
a clown; more like what she Imagined
a millionaire's room to be. Judging
from what millionaires' rooms she
had seen in the movies.
Ha put a Caruso record on the vie
trola, the old wall from "Pagllaccl,"
the heartbreak of tho clown who Is
human In spite of the powHer, and
feels red blood beneath the grease
paint. Caruso was Just recently dead
and honored with the funeral of a
church dignitary, wild minstrel that
he was, singing his way round, the
world on rubber wheels the way the
fllmcrs traveled In celluloid spools.
"A few years ago," said Ling, "and
a singer's voice died with him. And
now Caruso is singing here every
where. He'll sing as long as Homer
poor old blind Homer, who never
saw a picture, never knew that his
own songs would live after him In the
invention of the alphabet, never
dreamed that they would be printed
and used as schoolbooks thousands of
years after he quit poking about the
world singing about the fighters of
his day.
A few years ago and we actors were
condemned as soon as we left the
boards. But we can go on forever
now. They're laughing around' tha
world at me this minute. Listen!" He
kept an eerie quiet and she could
almost hear what he perked his ears
to catch. "That's a gang of sweaty
coolies In China. They're helped to
forget the opium, laughing at me.
Hear that! That starving people in
HusFia forgetting their hunger be
cause the eat of my breeches caught
fire. Hid you hear that yelp? That
waj one of the eniied kings guffawing
when I got shot in the pants by an
angry husband. The king has for
gotten his own grief."
This cosmic boustfulness did not
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keep him long In pride. "Hut I hate
my pictures. I'm Jculous of them. IVo-
pie ilon t like me they Just Ilk thut
thing with the chalky mug. They lovu
him becausn he's sm h a fool. I want
to be loved because 1 am Ma and not
a fool.
' Look at this iiaintlng of nie. The
artist caught tha real me, Pee nil
tin sorrow in the evi-s and behind
the mouth. Kee the longing and un
happiness? That painter got under
my skin, lie got to me. I love thut
been ime It's me."
Suddenly he bent over and kissed
his own Image on the mouth. It wus
the mad act of a Yankee Narcissus
overcome not by his own loveliness,
but by his own loneliness.
Mem was dased. She had a normal
woman's normal Interest In her mir
ror because a mirror Is the shMv win
dow of the goods she has for sale. She
had become of necessity self conscious,
self-critical. She had ndmlrcd extrava
gantly the reflection of herself in the
looking glass the night she went forth
to meet this Ned Ling In her first
msgnlficeiit gown. Hut she had never
divided herself livi such a' pair of
twins, such a Mutual Consolation So
ciety, Ltd., as Ned Ling had organ
ized.
And, as often happens, Seeing that
he wns so sorry for himself, she felt
no draught upon her own sympathy.
She simply stared and wondered.
He made her sit down on a long
couch and snuggled close to her, She
was still rather curious thun alarmod.
Ho took up her hand again and stud
led it, talking In the rather Ilternry
manner he. sometimes assumed: "Each
separate finger hns Its own soul, don't
you think? Hands are families. Your
hand anybody's hands are a group
of people. Hands are different, and
fingers theyre wicked capable of
such terrible things holding daggers,
gifts caressing throttling playing
music exploring loving hating.
ueer things, fingers. Your right hand
and your loft hand aren't the least
alike nnd your face is still a third
person."
Before Mem quite realized how sol
emnly ludicrous a couplo of come
lans could be If anybody had been
looking except (lod and perhaps the
Jap valet Ned Ling's head was on
her breast and his eyes wcro turned
tip Into hem like a bay s. He was
in a newborn prattling humor. That
wns a secret of his success. He was a
baby with all a baby's privileges of
impropriety, selfishness, hatefulncss,
adurableness.
Ho could revert to infancy and take
his audience with him, make old
and women laugh at tho Hlmpls things
that had tickled their childish hearts.
And withal there was an amazing so
phistication. He was a baby that cal
culated and measured, triumphed and
yet we(t and wanted always the next
toy. He Vss thinking of Mem as his
next toy and she was thinking of him
as her next child.
His warm heud and his brown eyes
like maple sugar Just as It IS liques
cent to syrup, and with ths same gold
flukas glinting they were quaintly
babyish to her In spile of his old talk.
"I want to love and be loved, but
not to love ton much. I'm afraid of
love. It has hurt me too bitterly.
Some of them haven't been true to
nie and that hurt me horribly. And I
haven t been true to some of them
and that hurt me still worset. I don't
know which Is ghastlier to see a
woman laugh at you or cry at you.
Marriage is no solution. I don't see
how lt can help bring tha end of love.
Love ought to be free like art and
speech, of course art Isn't free.
There's the censorship, Well, mar
riage Is like censorship. Everything
you do and say and feel must be sub
mitted to the censor. They call this a
tree country and have censorships and
marriage!"
She smiled. He was more like a
prattling baby the more' cynical he
grew. His heavy head mode . her
breast ache and yearn for a baby.
Hut he wanted only tho froth of life
without the body and the dregs.
"Could you lovs me Just enou&h
and not too much?" he pleaded.
If he had said, "Marry me tomor
row!" he might have hud her then.
Hut she hud not his opinion of mar
riage. She hud played-the gumo with
out tho mime endured the ecstasy
und the penalty without the ceremony.
She had escaped public shame ny a
miracle of lucky lies und accidents.
Tho hunger remained for the rewards
of marriage, the honesty of a home,
the grnnite foundations of respectable
loyalty.
So when he pleaded with her for
love that cheated and played for fun
und not for all, for a kiss, for caresses,
she shook her head mystically as he
thought, but very sanely and calmly,
In truth.
She was far away mothering a
shadowy child, swnlng in a rocking
chair throne.
Ned Ling's pruyers gained rervor
from her aloofness. He called upon
a goddess who would not hear. She
he d his hands and slapped tnem wun
a matronly condoscenslon that drove
him frantic.
He could not get past ths cloudy ma
sonry he had built round her by de
riding marriage. It was a good sub
ject for Jokes, but contempt for It wss'
more ridiculous than tho thing ridiculed.
Finally she yawned in the face of
his passion and said, "I'll "be going
home now, please."
He was so thwarted and rejected
that ho sent her home alone. She
was grateful for that.
(To He Continued Tomorrow.)
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