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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1923)
BURGESS' BEDTIME STORIES -.- l!y THORNTON XV. BURGESS. - Where beauty Is there you will rlna The envious to mercy blind. —Old Mother Nature. Danny Listens to a Sad Tale. “X am very glad to meet you, Egret, replied Danny Meadow Mouse politely to the handsome, snowy whit© cousin of Lon^leg^ the Heron whom he had just met. *‘I am sorry to hear1 that there are only a few members of your family left, but I don’t quite under stand what those wonderful plumes you tell almut have to do with it.’ Egret drew his head back down be tween his shoulders, and into his eyes came a look of great sadness. “It is very plain to see that you are a stranger down here,” said he. ' )es, sir, that Is very plain. Everyone who lives down here knows the sad. sad story of my family." "Tell me the story,” begged Dan ny. Egret sighed, "I don't like to tell It." said he. "I don’t like to even think about it. It is too dreadful. Yes. sir. it is too dreadful.” Danny waited quietly a few min utes, and Egret continued to gaze off across* the water with that sad look in his eyes. At length Danny ventured to speak a wee bit timidly. "Did you say it was because of plumes,” asked he. "yes,” replied Egret. "What are plumes?" asked Danny. Egret gave Danny a funny, side long glance as if he suspected Danny of asking a foolish question just fot the sake of talking. But when lie THE NEBBS— a "" hTHI ~~jJTrr?/s7fzmn ‘" DOUBLE-CROSSING SANTA CLAUS. Directed for The Omaha Bee by Sol Hess IUM f I "DON'T VCNOVNA VMHpT TO GET TOR.OUN\OR. FOR. CW8ASTM&S - WE HftS (W.MOST \EVER><TWlNGj ^ ILL CALL WMy UP PROM THE. OFFICE AMO TELL T HIM I'M SANTA ) CLAUS ( WE'LL F\MD out \ {VJMAT HE V/vJAHTS/j 3 !2-z a / OH HELLO — MES V TW\S \S UON\OR NEWS^ HOME - WHO \S THVS ? OH SftNTft CLftUS \ , V/vftlT ft MINUTE - I'LL ) CftLL HIM — j JUNIOR! 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"Hut you have beautiful feathers right now,” said Danny admiringly, “yet you spoke of those plumes as being something you have only in the spring.” "So I did. So 1 did,” replied Egret. "Of course, you know that most birds wear brighter, handsomer coat* in spring than they do later In the year. My coat, being all white, cannot be made any brighter or more beautiful in Itself, so in the spring Old Mother Nature gives me some extra feathers. They are wonderful. They grow out "Tell me the story," begged Danny. from my back and are long and silky and reach beyond my tall. They are wonderful and beautiful and every body admires them. Alas, that Is the trouble!" ' • “What is the trouble?’’ Danny asked, looking a little puzzled. ‘‘They are admired too much," re plied Egret. "They are admired too much by those terrible two-ieged creatures called men. There was a time when there were so many Egrets down here* in the Sunny South that there would lie one or more nests in every tree and hush in certain places, and now there are so few of us left that I am often fearful that the time is close at hand when there will be none at all. And It is ail because of those beautiful plumes. Yes, sir, it is all because of those beautiful plumes. Once 1 was very proud of them, but • now 1 wish they would never grow out again. Yes. sir, I do so. 1 dread the coming of spring and the growing of those new plume*. The happiest day in all the year for me is when the last one of those wonder ful plumes drops. Men are terrible creatures. The next story: “Egret’s Awful Story.” New York — Day by Day— By O. «. MTNTYRK. Mexico City,, Dec. 21.—In a little side street running off the Alameda is Dlnty Moores. It Is a slumming high light for Americans and Is the hang out for the outcast riff raff from the states. Most of the regular patrons are seeking relief for tuber cular troubles. The proprietor is a beady eyed, scowling hombre from the Barbary coast. He has a bent nose and a porcupine pompadour. An Apache like piano player with a red hand kerchief at his throat thumps out popular tunes. The walls are cov ered with caricatures of prominent visitors. Glued to the mirror are five dice in a row—all aces. The high num bers were thrown one night by “Queen Bess"—a faded beauty from San Francisco who drifted here doomed to die. (me night at clos ing time she asked for the dice box. "If I have a chance for heaven the dice w 111 show it." she said. She [threw five aces the first throw and I the next day they found her dead. Two scrawny girl* sat on the liar tell ing of a debauch. The piano player s sweetheart who might have stepped out of the old bowery, slept in a chair at his side. The place had not begun to fill when we arrived. There were side rooms with crude imitations of popular comic strip* on the walls. The proprietor roughly objected to an American girl asking a member of our party for a oigaret. "Thi* ain’t no dump.” he snarled. The girl laughed—and then broke into a fit of coughing. There was sawdust on the floor—the fume* of stale beer and dead cigaret stumps. The gayety as the crowds began to seep In was restrained. One felt that here was a port of missing men and women. A young Ameilcan hoy with his Ain’t It a Grand and Glorious Feeling ^ri£Ss WHEN force of circomstances Compels Yoo To BuV a MM* **T _Wg^ Af>ip when You cook im TmS- 'MlRU.O'l at home You imagine You» -suit To COOK C«Ke Tl-*iS AnD OtJ The STREET TOD iM/SGlr-te YoD look L'KG Th(S - AMO - |M FACTVfoU HAVB So MUCH IMVA*3imat\om That vajhem you meet a CCRTAIM LADY FR'tND You ARE SURE SHE IS JM'LINC AT YouR ridiculous aPpearamcg. IF A FASTIDIOUS FRlBND GREETS You oto The street /^ND asks You FOR The NAME OP YOUR Tailor as he -EoEJ» admire Th<5 Cut AMU •srvue. of Your, clothe 5 OH* H - M* BOV: Aim T •> A GR-H.-'FMXANO /smd GUHX IX H Hiou.s FV e i.i M ‘ IkM” ' eJ />. TaTa C*pr»tfci- »**J. * v T.iUk* ABIE THE AGENT_Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Hershfield A RpaJ Good Kripnd. ' i vosmuev. qoT to qer \ SOME SV-C^V TOiiiqHV: IF AMVONt CAULS, SUDDENLY, TIL ESH Them to stay all mqhv: that UJAV,THEW^TcoOLt) / V RETIRE UJHFK3E0EH 1 UKS.': Jr qoob 0JEK3IMQ V ABE U A GOOfc EUEKJIWG, G'QMUWO* v i'm G'-Ed>ou V^CAUJTOjj. i'na QEfSrMMvy1 HW?PY To SCE V'You.mse USTEW. SIQMuNtt,UiHAT^\i 'THE USE OF Noun qoinx, home “WHY i T>OM"r Nou STAY \ HERE ALL KitqHY.y t too, NO, ABE, I CANT!’.: V \LL STAY TILL THREE im THE MORNING, BUY7! OAM'Y / \£TAY AU- NH^HT!'.! coat collar turned up and hi* raP pulled down came In shaking from alcoholic excesses. Jt was long after midnight but he was Just up for the day. He drank four or five quick shots of whisky and left a silver watch for payment. Then he de parted. “The kid ain't got far to go'" said one of the pasty faced girls. “He'll soon be out of this XT ten world.” The police here carry lanterns at night. The lantern Is the law. You see the lanterns at every mid town street corner and mostly the police man is asleep In some doorway. You may talk back to the officer but touch his lantern and you go to Jail. There are no patrol wagons. Prison ers are walked to prison. They told me of an American who came down here once on a spree and In a prankish moment gathered up 32 police lanters and took them to his hotel. One of the most delightful break fasts was had at the Cafe Cologne on the Pasel dc la Reforma. It wss a sunshiny morning. The cafe Is glass enclosed. In the light atmos phere peculiar to Mexico was the perfume of fragrant flowers. More than 50 mocking birds in cages about the veranda trilled their dulcet notes. Yet, outside, newsboys were crying their extras. Someone had been kid naped and assassinated. A new political upheaval was brewing. At the noor hour Just before all th« stores and shops close for the siesta the streets are filled with venders of luncheon food. Clerks patronise them generously. They may buy an appetizer from one, a sandwich from another and a soft drink from the third. The venders are filthy in ap pearance but it is noticable the con tainers for their food are spotlessly clean. The amusing little carryalls with perhaps a big horse and a tiny mule offer the poor wife an opportunity to go to market with some show of splendor. The carryalls are wheelers with a half canopy top an, one may ride all over town for 1€ cents. The drivers are hard looking brigands who sleep all the time they are not carrying a fare. Copyright. 1»2S. St. Louis Bank $500,000 Short St. Louis, Mo.. Dec. 21—The Chip pewa bank in the southern part of the city closed today and a report reached prosecuting officials that the shortage may reach $500,000. Grtt Beb Wyermann. president, issued s statement that the cashier. John S. Carr, confessed that he was short in his accounts and returned $34,000. but that the exact shortage has not been ascertained. The capital of the bank Is given $200,000 and the surplus as $100,000. Greek Regent Sworn in. By Associated Press. Athens. Dec. 21— Admiral Court douriotis has assumed the regency of Greece. Colonel Plastiras of the mili tary directorate administered the oath this evening in the presence of the Holy Synod |nd members of the cab inet. It is possible that a republic may be proclaimed soon if the movement begun by General Tangalos. military governor of Athens and the Extremist leader of the republican party, con tinues to gain headway. 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