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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.
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to any render of The Omaha Bee on
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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.)
" ' TTiT '
British Women Eligible
to Serve Before Mast
Ixindon, March 31.—"Yo ho. ami a
powder puff.'*
"Ship ahoy, la our hot on straight?"
Such marine expressions as th«se
may soon be heard on the rolling
ocean waves, replacing the strong I
Unity language that the sen lias
known since time immemorial—and
nil because i f a ruling of the Itrltlsh
board of trade that sex IS no liar to
ihe granting of i ertlficatea ua mas
ters. mates or engineers in the mer
cantile marine.
There w.ll be no “royal road’’ for
Women sailors, however. They must
sail before the mast and serve an ap
prenticeship,
liee Want Ads produce results.
John If. Neppfr Join*
Oakford Mu*ic Company
John H. Negelr, formerly associated
with a local insurance office, has tak
en control of the radio department of
the Oakford Music company. 419
South Sixteenth street.
The Oakford Music company will
carry a complete line of sets, parts
arid equipment nnd will maintain n
free service department where all
questions will be answered grails.
They will carry a complete line of ■
Kennedy equipment.
Mr. Neif“!e has had a wide experl<
enr« in radio work and was born
and raised In Omaha.
Katlio Shop in New Store
on South Eighteenth Street
Frank Kelhy, proprietor of the Radio
Phop, formerly located at 1806 Dodge
street, has moved to 306 South Eight
eenth street.
He will carry a full line of the
Wcstlnirhouse and Radio Corporation
of America nets and parts as well **
a full line of patta and equipment for
th'iee who want to build their own i
nets. There will be a work shop
(jonnectinn for the use of his patrons
and they will advise anyone In the
construction of radio s»tr.
Bee Want. Ads are the Best Business
Boosters.
I I
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Oifr little booklet, “My Twenty Years’ Study of Your
Boss,’’ is “chuck" full of ways for you to become a bet
ter employe. It will show you a hundred methods of
improving yourself no matter what line of work you
are following, or how big a force is now working in
your office. _
W E want every Stenographer, Bookkeeper, Office
* " Manager, Private Secretary and Graduating “Commercial”
student to get one of these little “wonder" books. There are no strings attached to
our offer. Our desire is to help you and in turn help your “boss" and thereby build
our good will.
Don’t ROB Yourself of this opportunity to improve.
It means many hundred dollars to you. It means increased wages;
greater responsibilities and greater opportunities for advancement. Send for your
copy of my booklet today. The supply is nearing the end.
Special Low Prices This Week on All Makes
of Typewriters
Two weeks ago we held a great sale. We sold
machines at the most sensational prices Omaha had
ever known. During the coming week we will hold
a “re-run” low price sale. The same cuts in prices
have been arranged. These prices are for re-built
machines. Every one a guaranteed machine; every
one a bargain that you can’t duplicate anywhere in
the country. Don’t wait . . get a bargain
while they last.
No. 0 Oliver, special at.. $29.75
No. 3 Monarch, special at. 31.75
No. 10 Royal, special at. 49.75
No. 10 Remington, special at.16.75
No. 5 1,. C. Smith, special at.14.75
No. 5 Underwood, special at... 51.75
Special low TERM arrangement* can be made
at the above price*. Mail order* will at»o be
accepted at the above price*.
All MAKES TYPEWRITER CO.'
205 South 18th Street AT Ian tic 2414
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