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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1923)
The Omaha Bee Information Bureau Through our Washington Information Bureau Tlu> Omaha Bee will answer direct to the reader any question of fart, with the exception of medical, legal, love and marriage subjects, or any subject requiring ex tended research. Simply write your question as plainly and briefly ns^possible and mall to The Omaha Bee Information Bureau, 4035 New Hampshire avenue, Waahington, D. C„ enclosing a 2-rent stamped, addressed envelope for reply. Be sure to write your name and address plainly on (lie return en velope. Honey Candies In response to numerous requests for candy recipes using honey, The Omaha Bee Information bureau has obtained from government labora tories several delicious and practical recipes for honey candies. These in clude honey nougat, honey fudge, honey caramels, taffy and honey pop corn balls. Nearly everybody enjoys honey and candy which has a honey flavor is particularly delicious and easily di gested since honey is a natural sweet containing predigested sugar. A copy of these recipes will be sent to any render of The Omaha Bee on receipt of the following coupon, an addressed envelope and two loose I eent stamps. The Omaha Bee Information Bu reau, 4035 New Hampshire Avenue, Washington, D. C. Gentlemen: Kindly send me a copy of the recipes for HONEY CANDIES which you have obtained from the government. An addressed en velope and two 16ose 1-cent stamps are enclosed. Name . Address ..... City and State ... (When you send this coupon, tell us how you like this service.) Battle Casualties. Q—What arm of the service re ceived the heaviest battle casualties during the world war? -y A—The infantry arid machine pun battalions. For each 1,000 men in these divisions who reached France, their deaths numbered 55 officers and 48 men. Composition of Oatmeal. Q—Is oatmeal particularly nu tritious? A—Ye*. It contain^ 7.3 per cent water. 16.1 protein, 7.2 per cent fat. G7A per cent carbohydrates, 1.9 per cent ash and yields 1.S60 calories per pound. • Obtaining a Patent. Q—Is it possible to obtain a patent without a patent attorney? A—It is possible, hut unless the in ventor lives in Washington it is hardly practical to do so because the frequent visits to the patent office which will he necessary will likely amount to as great an expense as the services of a patent attorney. Civil Service Lxnniinulioiis. Q—Could you tell me how many persons take civil service examina tions in a year: the number who pass and the number who are appointed, i A—According to the civil service commission, 303.309 persons were ex jamined during the year ended June 30, 1921, which is a typical year. Of the number examined, 203.209 passed and 1 pi,711 of those who passed were appointed. Soldiers’ Home. Q—Is there a soldiers’ home in Massachusetts? A—Yes. It is located at Chelsea, Mass. High Library Values. Q—What Is the highest price any private library has brought recently? A—The library of Robert Hoe was sold at New Ytirk in 1912 and brought $1,932,000. National Orange Head. Q—Who Is the head of the National Grange? A—S. J. Lowell. Ficdonin, N* Y., is the master of the National Grange | Patrons of Husbandry. Masons in the United Stales. Q—How many members have the Free and Accepted Masons in the United States? A—According to the last figures available, 2.692,977 members in the I United States. Steel Bails Used. Q—About how much steel does it take annually to make the rails which are used each year? A—Duripg 1921, it required 2,178, j S18 long tons of steel to make the re 'quired number of rails. My Lost Opportunities The Anguish of Discovering Too Late the Chances Which Were Let Go. --By STEPHEN LEACOCK_ in* other day I took a walk with a real estate man. Out in the suburbs he leaned over the wooden fence of an empty lot and waved bis hand at n. "There's a lot," he said, “that we •old last week for half a million dol lars." "Did you really!" I exclaimed. "Yes," he said, "and do you know that 25 Years ago you could have picked that up for fifty thousand?" "What,” I said, "do you mean to . "ay that I could have had all that beautiful grass and those mullin stalks for fifty thousand dollars?" "I do.” "You mean that when I was a stu dent at college feeding on four dol lars a week, this opportunity was knocking at the d'»or, and 1 missed it?" I turned my head away In bitter ness as I thought of my own folly. Why had I never happened to-walk out this way with fifty thousand dol lars In my pocket and buy all this beautiful mud? The Beckoning Acre. The real estate man smiled com placently at my grief. "I can show you more than that." he said. “Do you gee that big stretch of empty ground out there past that last fence?” I Would Have Gone Out to Til at I.and and Sung to It All Night “Yes, yes,” I said excitedly, "the land with the Itcautiful tar-paper shack and the withered cedar tree— the one withered cedar tree—stand ing In its lonely isolation and seem ing to beckon-" "Say." he said, “was you ever In the real estate business yourself?" "No,” I answered, "hut I have a poetic mini], and I begin to see the poetry, the majesty of real estate." "Oh, Is that It?” he answered. "Well, that land out there—It's an acre and a half—was sold yesterday for three million dollars." "For what!" "For three million dollars cold." "Not cold!” I said. "Don’t tell me It was cold.” "Yes,” went on the real estate man, “and only three years ago you could have come out here and had It for a song.” , ‘‘For a song!” T repeated. A Fortune That Was Missed. Just think of it! And I had missed | it! With a voice tike mine! If I had known what I know now. I would have come out to that land and sung to it all night. I never knew in the days when I was content with $15 a week what a hidden gift my voice was. I should have taken up land singing and made a fortutie out of it. Tlie thought of it saddened me ail the way home; and the talk of the real estate man os he went made me feel still worse. | He showed me « church that 1 could have bought for a hundred thou sand and sold now at half a million | for a motor garage. If I had started | buying churches Instead of working j on a newspaper, I'd have been rich i today. i There was a skating rink I mold have bought, and a theater, and a fruit store, t beautiful little one story wooden fruit store right os a corner, with th<j darllngest Italian in it that you ever saw. There was the cutest little pet of a cow stable that I could have turned into a depart ment store at a profit of a million— at the time when I was studying Greek and forgetting it. Oh, the wast ed opportunities of life! What f llad Passed I p. And that evening when I got back to the Huh and talked about it at dinner to my business friends. 1 found that 1 had only heard a small pail of it. "Real estate! That's nothing. Why. they told me that 13 years ago 1 could have had all sorts of things trunk line railways, sugar refineries, silver mines—any of them for a song When I heard it I was half glad 1 hadn't sung for the land. They told me that, tliri-e was a time when 1 Could have bought out the Federal Steel company for $20,000,000! And I let it go! The whole Canadian Pacific rail way, they said, was thrown op the market for fifty millions I (eft It there writhing, and didn't pick It up. Sheer lack of confidence! I see now why these men get rich. It's their fine, glorious confidence that enables them to write out a check for $50,000,000 and think nothing of it. If t wrote a check like th*t I'd he gfniid of going to Sing Sing. Hot they aren’t, and so they get what they deserve. Forty-five years ago-a men nl the LOOK! LOOK! This Good New BABY GRAND $450 Payments If You Wish $50 CASH | Bal. $18 Monthly (HAKFORD MO^ricr Co. 419 So. 16th St., Omaha (lull told mo this with almost a sob In his voice—either Jioekefeller or tfchwab could have been bought clean out for a thousand dollar*! Think of It! Why didn't my father buy them for me for my birthday? If I had my life over again, no sehool or education for me! Not with all this beautiful mud and these tar paper shacks and corner lot fruit stores lying around! I'd buy nut the whole I'nlted Slates and take a chance, a •porting chance, on the rinc in valu«s. ((*opyrl|hl, Iff!. Mutropolitan -N>w»pnp«i Htrvlct and l*odd. Hud A? Co.) 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