GOOD WEATHER WILL SPEED UP WORK ON MODEL HOME —*—■ ■■ * I Basement Walls Near Completion Spring-Like Days Will See Construction on Boom at Site of Fire-Safe House. Visitors Are Welcome By WILL M. MAUPIN. I sincerely hope Mr. Groundhog Is a good prophet. Unusually cold weather, unusually heavy snows, und now unusually sloppy weather, have •II combined to retard the work on my new homo. I’ve had a hard enough time dealing with financiers, >' architects and contractors and land acape artists and material men, out being called upon to scrap with the weatherman. So If Mr. Groundhog makes good on his reputation I am hopeful of getting right Into the middle of the task of fKtlding that new home. Maybe I bore you with constant repetitions about that home. Hut if you were In my place you'd keep right on. To me It Is the most interesting suhjhct In the world. The restoration of Hheims cathedral doesn't Interest me h"'r much, and I haven't time to think •bout the proposed cathedral to Si. John the Divine in New York. They are very minor building projects com pared with this one of mine. Building Real Home. Why? Because I am building a real home. Not a mere dwelling place; a home. By the way, I'm going to have one room In It where I can throw newspapers on the floor, spill tobacco ashes where I blooming well please, and where I enn hang my hat and coat on the floor without being called down by the female contingent of my family. O, boy! Won't It he a grand • nd glorjous feeling? My frWnds, the building mechanics, are actually at work now. They are pushing the work on the basement walls, and some time during the week they will hnve that part of the build ing well toward completion. Then you can see things without bending over and looking down a hole In the ground. I wish more of you would get the spirit and go out there. The workmen will be delighted to answer all questions. ,’pfore I tell you about the material go'ng into the walls of my horns I must tell you again how to get out tl re. I If you haven’t an automobile—and T hope you have, l'or they are awfully handy—take a Dundee car and get off at the end of the line at Brownell l'nlt. Then walk a block north to "Webster, west on Webster to Flfty f!xth, then half a block north on Fifty-sixth. My new home will face • ast on Fifty-sixth, right where I can I-nk out over the boulevard and the Imnlsnmest residence district in Omaha. All I latest Features. Now this Ideal fire-safe home of mine will embody all the latest fea tures of Are safety, permanence and housekeeping conveniences that have yet been devised by modern builders. Permanence and Are safety will he achieved hy the use of hollow con crete block for both basement and upper walls. The upper walls, when completed, will have a covering of Portland cement stucco In one of Ita most beautiful Anishes. I hunted around until I found just the kind of cement hollow block I wanted. The Diamond Concrete Products company will supply them. It already has supplied a lot, and the workmen are now setting them. I don't know much about that sort of thing, so I’ll let my old friend. Frank Whippermnn, manager of the com pany, tell you about them. Frank talks about them ns follows: “A permanent foundation Is a fun damental requirement of a permanent At Last—a < Blonde Hair Shampoo! Keeps IJglift Hair from Darkening— Lightens Faded Blonde Hair. When light-haired people wash their hair in an ordinary way. a thin film of oil Is left on each hair, which collects dirt and dust, causing the hair to darken. That is why blondes should always use a suet ial shampoo. For. while light hair is always attractive, its beauty is lost Just as Mon as it becomes uncertain in color, dirty looking and streaky. Blondex, the new (Swedish light hair ahampoo, not only keeps blonde hair from darkening, but actually brings back the true golden beauty to even the dullest and most faded blende hair. Makes hair fluffy, silky. Highly beneficial tb both hair and scalp, ft Is not V dye. Contains no Injurious cheiplcalf. hioney Instantly refunded if Slot deligMted Get Blondex today at all good de^rs, such as Shorman * Pharmacy. «saton Urug. 8 house. Concrete masonry Is being used because it is strong, waterproof, fire safe rotproof and ratproof. "Concrete block are now in corn man usage for foundation walls and for walls from grade to roof lines. Be cause of the size of these units (8x8x 16 Inches), they can be laid up quickly and eenomlcally, producing a wall that Is even, true and of great strength. The air spaces in each block will provide the ideal home with a dry, well-insulated wall. "Insulation in walls, as provided by th^se air spaces, is much to be de sired. Confined or ‘dead’ air is a splendid insulator. It successfully re sists changes of heat; therefore the Ideal home will be warmer In winter and cooler in summer than houses which are riot bo Insulated. Saving of Fuel. As a result, the fire safe house be ing erected by The Omaha Bee. will require a minimum of fuel. "To begin with, footings of mono lithic concrete have been placed be low the block walls. These footings are approximately 8 Inches high and 20 inches wide and will provide a secure base upon which to lay the tilock. Settlement of a concrete block wall on such concrete footings can not occur, so the ouble which usu ally accompanies s.ttllng In less rigid houses, such as plaster cracks and seepage of moisture will he prevented. "In laying the block upon the footings, a mortar of 1:2 mix will be used to Insure waterproofness and per fect bond between the block. By a 1:2 mixture is meant one that Is com posed of one part Portland cement to two parts of sand. The sand will be well graded so that It Is made up of I fine, Intermediate, and eoarse parti cles which will pass a quarter inch screen. Before actual block laying oc curs, each block will be moistened with water so It will not absorb water from the mortar and thus decrease the mortar’s strength. All joints will be from one-fourth to three-eighths inches thick and carefully pointed; those on the outside of the wall will bo struck flush with the wall surface. Time .Saving on Walls. Much time will be saved in laying the walls of the Ideal home because of the large sizp and comparative light weight of the units used. Block walls are erected much faster than other types of masonry walls and the saving accrued Is considerable. "After (he walls are up to the grade Hue, a further precaution may be taken to Insure absolute dryness of the basement. This precaution. If taken, will be that of coating the ex terior basement walls with a one-half inch cement plaster mixed In the pro portion of one sack of Portland ce ment to two parts of clean, well grad ed sand. Usually a coating of this kind Is necessary only when the house Is built on very wet or excessively damp soil.” To complete the water-proofness, permanence and Are-safety of the model house basement, the floor also will be of concrete. It will be four Inches thick and special care will be taken to make a tight Joint between the floor and walls. A mixture of 1:2:3 concrete will be used; by this is meant one part Portland cement, two parts sand, and three parts crushed stone or pebbles. This mixture is the same that Is used everywhere In build ing troughs, tanks, cisterns and all receptacles Intended to hold or with stand water. The excellent start given the model house by the water-proof, permanent basement concrete, augurs well for the rest of the buildings. The same careful attention to every detail will be given, so that the finished model house will he as nearly perfect mod ern construction as is possible to se cure by use of the best materials ajul . workmanship. Now come out and see how I sm getting along with my home-building stunt. SALES BY TUKEYS TOTAL $231,000 As an indication of the opening of the spring business, A. P. Tukey A Son announce sales totaling $231,000, which their office has closed within the last 30 days. These sales include three business properties, one apart ment building, and a number of small houses. The largest sale was that of the Undine court at Twenty-sixth street and Dewey avenue; owned by Traver Brothers, who built it in 1918. In con sists of 24 apartments and a small store. This property was sold to Vic tor Johnson of the T. G. Northwall company. Mr. Johnson turned In r, 160-acre farm near Gretna, Neb., as part of the consideration. A business property at 1211 Howard which Mr. Tukey bought at a judicial sale last year from Higgins Packing company for Walter V. Hoaglend of North Platte, Neb., was sold to Simon brothers. The firm also bought for Bert Bo guet the Alfalfa Butter building on the corner of Eleventh street and Capitol avenue. Another Douglas street property was also bought through Judicial sale. The purchaser’s name has not yet been announced. W. 07W. AUDITORS ARE BUSY HERE Auditors of the Woodmen of the World Life Insurance association are In Omaha .auditing the books of the organization. This is a semi-annual duty of the sovereign auditors of the Woodmen of the World and occurs prior to the convening of the execu tive council in the latter part of Feb ruary. The auditors are: J. E. Fitzgerald, chairman, Kansas City, Mo.; Elisha B. Lewis, Kinston, N. C.; T. E. Pat terson, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Ed D. Campbell, Port Huron, Mich.; William Ruess, Cleveland. O.; Rainey T. Wells, Murray, Ky.; W. M. Crawford, Bir mingham, Ala. Herzberg Buyers Baek From Trip to New York ‘ Herzberg buyers have arrived home from New York where they have spent the past 10 days select ing spring merchandise. Sophia Fay man of the dress department, Sally Mahoney of the coat and suit depart ment, Madam Dahl of the corset and infant department and Helga Peter son of the children's department were among those on the trig ^ 29 Transfers of $4,000 or More Made Last Week Biggest Deal Involves $60,000 —Many Homes Are Bought in All Parts of the City. There were filed in the office of the county register of deeds la^t week 29 real estate transfers of $4,000 or more each. The total amount of these W'as $259,882.37. Following are the proportier rans* ferred and the districts In which they are located: x Field Club. A. F. Johnson to Rose E. Lite, 1310 South Thirty-fifth avenue. $8,500. South Omaha. Sophia Klin* to William Beebe, 2101 2107 MadHun »tr**t, $5,000. Central. Central Holding company to Sam Turner, 101-11 South Thirteenth atreet, $60,000. The Tootle Estate to D. H. Ledwich, 2006 Izard street. $4,100. Nathan Somberg to Madallne Lehn, 1101-3-5 North Eighteenth street, $30,000. Hiintlieaat. Josephina Marcuzzo to Carmelo Ros slto. 719-21 Hickory atreet. $ 1.400. Henson. Blanche Brown to Western Mortgage and Finance company, 3307 North Six teenth street, $1.9.1 Min ne Lnaa. * Jeppe Jeppeeen. to L. A. Rowe, on Mary atrert between Twentieth avenue and Thirtieth street. $8,800. Jul Peter mkhel to Myrtle Johnson, northeast corner of Thirtieth and New port si reels. $8,000. t*. W. Thornton to ^R. H. Thurston,] 2733 Bauman avenue, $7,500. C. W Martin to H. M. Norris, on; Twenty-seventh street between Whitmore I and Vane streets, $9,000. North Side. Louis Berman to Margaret L. Corkin, 2802 North Twenty-fifth street. $4,200. J. B. Tripp to Edna 8. Coy, 2221 Spencer atreet. $4,950. Tlllie Treadwe! Ito Leta B. Stultz, 4112 North Twenty -thlt d street. $4,500. I Travel- Bros, to Martha E. DuBois, 6703 North Twenty-fourth street. $6p»00. Nellie K. Noar to Rasp Bros, 2< —6 Bln ney street, $4,400 Dundee. F. J. Norman to Leroy Quinlan, 809 Nrfrth Forty-ninth street. $5,7.32.3i. K N Blazer to H. O. Cox. northeast | corner Forty-eighth and Farnam streets, $22,000. .„OA E. a. Maxwell to M. P. Brogan, 4.20 Wakely street, $6,500. Northwest. Bryce Campbell to Mabel O. Johnson, on Forty-fourth avenue between Spauld ing and Pratt streets. $4,800. Ella Berg to Anton Kubiflns, 4-35 Corby street, $4,600. Ifanscom Park. Nannie F. Dowling to F. A. McFar land. 828 South Twenty-ninth street. $4,800. West. Farnam. E. R. Carae to It. M. Brownlee. 4411 Harney street. $4,100. Martha E. DuBois to Traver Bros., northwest corner Thirty-seventh and Dodge streets, vacant, $6,300. Fannie Morgan to Ben Schlenger, 4425 Dodge atreet, $5,000. Bemls Park. E. E. Swanson to Frida Kdwardson, 3206 Hamilton street. $5,760. South. Rosa Olblllsco to Paul Oibillaco, 1903 South Thirteenth street. $4,000. Nunzlata Pirrucello to P. F. Buerk, 1803 Ontario street, $6,000. Cathedral. Julia E. Farndell to O. J. Dickey, 810 North Forty-fifth avenue. $5,500. SOMBERG SELLS PART OF BUILDING Nathan Somber* last week sold to G. N. Lehn a portion of the building at Eighteenth and Nicholas streets which he purchased about IS months ago. The sale was for $30,000. The property Is known as 1101-3 5 North Eighteenth street. The portion of the building which Mr. Lehn bought Includes three stores on the ground floor, with, six six-room flats on the second and third floors. The property was purchased as an investment. Mr. Lehn owns other Omaha property. ^oujust 1 KNOW she’s well 1 j you. too, can have this j \ beautiful, joyous, I healthful, look j li ‘Nou just knov she’s NOTweU I There Is no reason for you I I 1 "look or feel this way I I " I 1 CONSTIPATION means j | misery j I Rouge and powder will not E1” ^he^dache, bilious ll ! cover up the effects of con®51' 1heart bu^n.acid ! I pation The bowels are A 8tomach. belching, depres- |l worst abused and most va nervous exhaustion, I I £&£%£*£& eaM,cutkucvri***. , Dr. Caldwell’s - I syrup- PEPSIN I s The Family Laxative I Ij —will produce proper bowel Pj^^JbyDr. Caldwell for I | action and insure a healthy ^ patient8 of his extensive II condition so Nature can exer and used nationally | i cise her proper function. A ,0 year, by all I! delightfulUquidcombinano members of the family. I . | °f Egyptiansenna^psmand ^ ^ „ature Actsl I I WHEN No Inconveniences! | | -- „ dot. not act as a purge, forcing the I 1 bol^l. to artificial action but gently i i and easily, without pam or discomfort. I | *00^,0wbottlesusedannually prove | iU effectivencM. Old people, young | ! Sonic ch.ldrenandbabie.canbe kept I perfect health throvgh it. u.e. I I u i» »oid I ! return your | i^^*odo“proml“d I J, pepsin SYRl'P company I | % PEP Montlcello. nunnl- | J /V y Girls Can Wait for Trams; Omaha Motorists Are Afraid of ’Em Omaha business men who live in Fatrarres and the West Fa mam street district, are declining to pick up the girls they find waiting for street cars. Nine-tenths of the tltpe, they say, their offer of a ride is accepted, but at the same time they are afraid to pick ’em up. One business man said that several prominent Omohans have recently been threatened "blackmail” by girls whom they picked up as a matter of courtesy. This, they say, is a cure for polite ness. "It is bad enough to have to square yourself with your wife when she sees you with a girl in the car, but to stand for a ‘shakednw’ is too much for me," a prominent business man said. • SLATTERY SALES IN JANUARY GOOD 0 The Edward T. Slattery Co. reports satisfactory conditions In the sale of Omaha residence property. In Jan uary this company made the follow ing sales: The Andrew Hllsop property 4008 North Thirty-sixth street, to La Verne Deers. $1,760; the property at $018 North Sixty-seventh avenue, to W. J. Culkln. $ 1,600: the Frank Pavelec property at 3328 North Forty-fourth avenue, to Dr. M. J. Healy. $5,200: the C. C. Flack property at 4134 North Thirty-seventh street, to Chari** Wagner at $4,600; the Michael Halllsey property at 6631 Bur dette street, to Andrew Hllsop. $4,150; I th* property of J. E. Kundtson at 2926 1 Vinton street, to Frank McCandeless at $1,750; the Rule Young property at 2729 North Fortv-elghth street, to Anna West ergard at $6,100. Slattery states that Omahans are buying with confidence that they are making a sound investment, and satisfying a desire which everyone has to own a home. CURTIS CHURCH APPROVES PLANS' Curtis, Neb., Feb. 8.—Members of the First Congregational church here have approved plan/* for a new church building to accommodats the Sunday school, and other growing de partments of the organization. Work on the new structure is awaiting th© sale of the old buildings and suitable weather for laying the foundation. Schmoller & Mueller Buys Oakford Music Stock The purchase of the entire Oakford Music company’s stock by the Schmoller & Mueller Piano company was completed this week. W. H. Schmoller, president of the Schmoller & Mueller Piano company, announced that the Oakford stock would be combined with the Burgess Nash piano stock recently purchased from the Brandels store, and the two stocks would be placed oil sale Mon day. Mr. Oakford, founder of the Oak ford Music company, and his em ployes have Joined the Schmoller & Mueller organization. But all girls aren't like that, he admitted. Many of them, he said, are glad to be given a lift down town. Others he has asked snubbed him. In the third class the girls smile when they get In a car and then start to "shake dowrn." "Talk about young fellows who pick up girls for a Joy ride," he said. "They have nothing on the girls who pick up some poor unsuspecting male motorist, find out If he is married, and then proceed to do a little ama teur blackmailing. "Most of the time, the businessman can’t say a word," he went on. “Girls used to confplaln that they had to bring along roller skates when they went out riding with strange men. It’s All Changed Now. "This has been all changed. Now a man has to have a hank roll with him if he offers some strange little miss a lift uptown/’ This business man said he knew of several cases where prbminent Omahans had given up "hard cash" to keep some girl from screaming that he had been too fresh with her. The rebellion has started. Will it continue? Omaha business men say It will. Capt. Ed Weir to Be Hi-Y Speaker Other Prominent Men Will Be Guests at Banquet for 400 Boys. Next Thursday evening 400 mem bers of the six HI-Y clubs will gath er at the Y. M. C. A. for their an nual joint meeting. On account of lack nt room only, 400 of the 500 boys members have been able to purchase tickets for this meeting. The mem bers are all high school boys from Central, South, North, Technical and Benson High schools. The feature of the evening Is an address by Capt. Edwin Weir of the Nebraska university football team and all-American tackle last fall, on "Athletics and Life." At the close of the meeting a reception will he held. Oberlies Ton. With Weir on the speaker's list will be Hon. L, C. Oberlies of Lin coln, member of the stale board of control, who will speak on "Common Clay and Blue Mud," in keeping with Lincoln's birthday. Seated at the speaker's table with Messrs. Oberlies and Weir will be Howard K. Gray of Omaha, pro nounced several years ago as Prince ton's most popular allround student, also an all-American football player and a leader in the Central Hi-Y club. Noted Guests. Charles Haas, senior at Central High and oant.-dn In the cadet „regl iv»«> • '" .t Senior Hl-Y club, the oldest of the Omaha c u. , . . .. Beeves. | senior at South Utah, and president of the South Hl-Y club and fottr ictter man In athletics, will In ti ixtuce Captain Weir. Karl Peter son, senior at Technical High and president of the Hl-Y club will In troduce Mr. Oberlies, Technical Hl-Y orchestra of eight pieces will play during the dinner and the Imperial quartet of Central Hl-Y boys will sing several numbers. Among the honor guests of the Hl-Y clubs will be J. H. Beveridge, .1. fl. Masters, Dwight K. Porter, H. K. McMillan, It. M. Mans, W. Dale Clark. B, A. Wilcox and leaders of the Bible study group of the six Hl-Y clubs. 1. 1 ~ TURNER GETS DEED - FOR DODGE HOTEL The Centre! Holding company* which alamt four yea re'ago mad# a contract of sale to Sam Turner for the Dodge hotel, at Thirteenth and Dodge *1 teats, last week gave Turned a deed to the property. Thla aale Wad for $60,000. The Central Holding company If ■ Kulakofsky teal estate conoertlj owned by the same Interest* that eon* trol ami operate the Centra! market* | Hee Want Ads produc* result*. 1 - . . -.-_f CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENTS WILL RESTORE HEALTH TO YOU! 1 Chiropractic has benefited thousands right her® in Omaha. The results are permanent and sure. Chiropractic is founded on scientific facts prov en to be the Ideal Health System, by actual ex perience. Investigation costs you nothing and may mean Health to you. MEMBERS OF OMAHA ATLAS CLUB Dr. R. W. Allen, 6104 Military Ave. Phone WA 2263. Dr. Felix Bevers, 302 Arthur Bldg. Phone AT 5024. Dr. C. N. Burgess. 1720 Mill j tary Ave. Phone VVA 6936. Dr. Frank F. Burhorn, 418 Se curities Bldg. Phone JA 6347. Dr. A. N. Carlson, Boyles Col lege Bldg. Phone AT 9747.. | Dr. Lee W. Edwards, 306 So. |^24thSt^^PhonejL^5445^^^ Dr. W. II. M'•Nichols, 309 Kar bach block. Phone AT 3385. Dr. Kthel T. Maltby, 201-S Bankers Savins: Bids:. JA 3072. Dr. .1. A. Markwell, 205 Paxton block. Phone AT 9244. I Hr. Mort Mortensen, 2412 Ames Ave. Phone KE 3800. Dr. R. L. Sheelcr. 2421 Broad way, Co. Bluffs, la. Tel. 4670. Drs. Thomas, 1712 Dodge St. Phone AT 1293. Silk and Wool 36-lnch Crepe Wash Radium $1.69 $1.00 Our Greatest February Silk Sale Offering new Spring Silks in a special selling at astonishingly low price# —Each fabric is indicative of the new mode in texture and pattern. A Lavish Collection Cl! 17 C of the Newest Spring VALUES ! ! ! EXTRAORDINARY ! ! ! ^ 40 INCH BLACK SATIN CHARMEUSE O* | L7 ■ \ An exceptional opportunity sinc-e black satin is I V ■ a fashion leader. This quality is substantial with a handsome lustre. Yard. « ! SILKS ALPACA DE SOIE Tremendous price concessions shown in ten beautiful Col permit us to offer thousands of ors, also black, nothing yards of fresh new silks at this smarter for the Spring low price, $1.00 Frock or En- $1.79 yard. semble. Yard. Such Silk Values Are Almost Irresistible \ All Silk Brocaded Crepe. Crepe Ensemble. Flat and Satin Faced Printed Silk A ,——*1.89-, |-*2.25- ^-S-, -*1.49 A special purchase from a A heavy silk and wool * ^p to ?4.50 large silk mill, who took a crepe, similar to roshanara, Shown in a gorgeous Fashion decrees printed tremendous loss on those y ’ . ° . silks, vogue m ensemble ' goods, enables us to give in ten beautiful colors; also array of spring colors, suits, daytime frocks, tea or j! you these beautiful silks in black, 40 inches wide. Spe- including the Parisian dance frocks. You wi’j a large range of colors. Spo- . , r?i„„ v,l marvel at our wonderful cjal pgr yard..... .$1.89 Mttl» Pcr -vartI.$225 Blue~ » (I.collection. _ Pay Cash for Furniture—SAVE MONEY p -1 3-Piece Jacquard Velour Suite s149.5l > Luxurious 3-piece suites, davenport, wing chair and straight chair, built upon nebb bottom. loos< spring filled cushions, a wonderful suite at a wonderfully low cash price .$149.50 1 A any item at special February -— LEV AWaV Prices- Take advantage of EXTRA SPECIAL 3 3 their great offer to eave. WjJm, Finished Dresser Gate Leg Davenport | Oak $25.00 , _ ' I PI nlp