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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1925)
To day One Long Journey. Again Woman Changes. Japan s Law, Fair Enough. A Poet Factory. By ARTHUR BRISBANE. V When from your front yard you look toward the faint cloud of stars that astronomers call NGC 6822, you are looking far into space. That is about the farthest spot in the universe of which the distance has been measured. The light that strikes the eye looking at NGC 6822 through the telescope has been traveling toward us for 1,000,000 “light years.” To learn what a million light years amount to in miles, find out how many seconds there are in a mil lion years. Then multiply the total by 186,000, the number of miles that light travels per second and you have it. Don’t forget the leap years. Scientists of Harvard observa tory say that NGC 6822 is outside of our Milky Way, in which case it is part of “another universe.” The Milky Way in the universe is like a small cluster of frfigs’ eggs float ing in the Pacific ocean, only you would have to multiply the Pacific ocean a few quadrillions of times to get the right proportions, and then it would be big enough, no matter what Einstein says about curved lines. The dirigible Los Angeles, travel * ing at average high speed, could take you to NGC 6822 in a little more than thirty-three thousand million years. This is a big universe, and any human mind convinced that it can define, explain or conceive the power back of it, has considerable confidence in itself. Just as the virtuous complain that women leave nothing to the imagination, they suddenly decide to cover up again. “Dress is to be more subtle" this season than in other seasons. That isn't saying much, for there is nothing subtle about a lady barc harked to her waist in the evening with a skirt above her knees in the day time. But fashion really means to re form for the moment. Arms that have been naked from the top of the shoulder down, looking in some mottled cases like a butcher shop exhibit, are now to be covered with “soft mysterious veiling.” Thanks for that, with or without the mys tery and shawls of brilliant colors worn "to reveal personality,” will cover up almost everything. Thus again we learn that it is al ways darkest before dawn. Women go just so far in one direction, then turn around and go the other way. That's their charm. Japan's house of peers yesterday passed a new land law fni'bidding ownership of Japanese land by citi zens of countries that forbid land owning by Japanese. This means you, and you must give up any idea of owning a lot in Tokio and trying out you scheme for an earthquake proof bungalow. No American will complain of the Japanese law. Asia for Asiatics, America fyir Americans, and per fect good will between the two con tinents is what we favor, and Japan will please notice that we do not think our national honor injured, merely because Japan wants Japan ese land for Japanese people. The University of Washington, which prepares young men of the northwest for their great opportuni ties, decides to develop poets with special lessons in the dramatic art department. First-class poets are needed to describe the beauties of water, land and sky, around Seat tle, but ran you really make poets to order? And is not poetry a semi-extinct form of expression, in vented as an aid to memory when men could not read or write. Poets are born. Consider Keats, a young clerk from a chemist's -hop. He sees in a friend's room for the first time in his life the works of Homer, takes the “Iliad” with him, sits up all night and reads — - —-If the volume through, then writes his poem. “On looking into Chapman’s Homer.” Read that, it could all go in one-half of this column, and ask yourself how anybody could be taught to write that last line: “Silent on a peak in Darien.” You might as well try to teach a china hen to lay real eggs. The1 War department is rubbing its eyes and waking up a little. Or ders 85 flying machines, made in the United States. For 10 machines by the Curtiss company $250,000 will be paid, and for 75 from the Douglas company $88.8,000, about. That’s a start and, multiplied by a hundred, it would give the country a good beginning for an air fleet. > Horizontal 1. To bind together. • 6. Stale. 9. To incinerate. 11. Toward the top. 13. Traffic in goods. 14. Either, else. 15. Very young fish. 17. Utility. 18. Before. 19. A young equine. 21. A raised platform. 22. Exactness. 23. Solitary. 24. Longitude east from the stand ard meridian (abhr.) * 2fi. A companion of Balaam. 27. A grain. 29. To chill. 30. In Grecian mythology, the mother of Cyclops. 31. To com* In. 33 King of Bashan, conquered by th« Israelites. .34. Time between periods 3S. A musical composition. In school they sre called “rounds. ’ 37. I.unal periods of time. Vertical 1. A shuffling gait. 2. Red Cross (ahbr.) 3. Part of “be." 4. I.and of the ancient Incas. 5. Constructed. 6. An Indian tribe. 7. Apart tprefixl. S. A World-War famous Belgian city. 10. To chew. 12. AVhat the man does when he wants the girl to marry him. 14. A large river In South America. 10. Stories difficult to believe. 15. A place near Philadelphia of Revolutionary lwitlle fame. 20. A great Confederate general. 21. To expire. 23. The beverage that once made Milwaukee famous. 23. Another prohibited drink. 27. I'pon. 2S. A fixed period of time. 31. Omega. 32. River (Sp.) 34. Enclosed. 33. Suffix indicating the number of folded, as In a book. The solution will appear tomorrow. Solution of yesterday's puzzle. s-m mm fOnpyrlghf. 122R). Rentrire.—K. (>. Emery of Ealrbury pleaded guilty before County Judge Messntore to passing a no-fund check on A. Stine of this city and was fined $10 and costs, the latter amounting to $33.50. He settled and was die missed. N The Brandeis Store This *7= Self-Draining Tub and Angle Iron Bench GIVEN Without Extra Charge to You During Our Spring Sale tws $7.00 Self-Draining Tub [ J ’ ] and Sanitary Angle-Iron Bench With Each ^ I ! ^ Voss Electric Washer ish^' Wlfh th,s *uh 5,0,1 ean enii>' V*1* iy the wash water as easily _ . V0> as you can empty the bath This Model ^ I. Eif*4'1 ,ub- Ju»t pull the rubber 1,115 ^ .plug In the bottom and the _ 1 water drains. No lifting of 79 flfl Take advantage of this unusual of- eater — no washday back fer to get the laundry equipment you ache' hava wanted so long. ’ Model Join the more than 1,000,000 Voss qq wagher owners during this special Ot/.UU demonstration period. GET YOURS NOW! On Terms as Low as $1.50 wS„ No interest charge if bought on terms. ____________________________ Fifth Floor. 6 Bars of OfV . ' I Ivory Soap 29 Tup KD A M1TFIC STHDP TttefnT16" III J J B B A cutting chart hi Fifth Floor. * 1 1 —■■ — ■■■■ ■-— ■ 11 ■ ■ ■■ ■■"■■■ ■ - ■■■ ■■ - ..... . Main Floor Scores of Beautiful Patterns and Colors Are Awaiting Your Selection in Headquarters for Cold Seal Kirsch Rods A Recent Purchase Brings V\7 11 T) Special Prices on VV*dll 1 dl)Cl A recent purchase of beautiful wall paper patterns has just arrived, and to induce having your decorating done early, we are placing them Wednesday in two specially priced groups. All are the very newest patterns, rich and colorful. New Spring Draperies INCREASINGLY beautiful and decorative are our new drapery fab rics for spring. Here you will find materials for curtainings, drapes or upholstery—of striking or subdued designs, and most of them of sun and tubfast colors. I ■^TEVER has our drapery section been more beautiful. Practical f ^ things, too, for the greater share of them are tubable. We buy intelligently, we sell reasonably, and our customers are assured of purchasing economically. Voile and Marquisette Curtains Beautifully made curtains for the bedroom, voile and marquisette, either ruffled or plain with dainty lace edges. In white, ecru, and ivory—some white with colored ruffles. Pair 1 J 36-Inch Colored Drapery Silk Drapery silks in pink, blue, rose, gold, and brown— colors to harmonize with every color scheme. A splendid value that sells regularlv for 98c. Yard Fast Color Voile Reautiful quality tub and sunfast, jfuaran teed voile. In the loveliest shades of blue, rose, yellow, Paris (pale yellow), ecru, and iridescent rainbow stripes. J = yard Glazed Chintz All the quaint old English flower and chintz designs, soft enough to hang as draperies. Also suitable for lamp shades and pillows. 36-inch width. yard Novelty Nets 36 to 50-inch net* in white, two-tone and Egyptian colors. A varied assort ment of new patterns, also including filet patterns. 75c md New Cretonne Gayly colored cretonnes, especially popular as drapes for the sunroom. In lovely new prints, 35 inches wide. 49c yard “Escala” Net 6-foot Window Flat Curtain Orinoka Filet and Panels Shades Rods Materials Lace Panels J Heavy novelty weave net pan- Dark green or ecru color fg" *2 “Gloaforth," the new light Panel curtains of shadow els in Egyptian colors, with shades mounted on good to fit window Com novelty weave in lace and filet nets with 32-inch fringe. Several pat- spring rollers. 32 inches plwtw with brackets'. absolutely fast colors, plain fringe. A splendid show terns from which to O 4Q *"«? « gQC Single 9* «nd .tripes, 50 A 7C ing 0f patterns, f QQ choose, each, long. Each. UUC Double, 19<* inches wide, 4./0 Mchl 1.90 «■■■■■■■■■■ - Th* Brandi.. Star. Drapary Department—Sixth Floor cloths, and brocaded ef- _—patterns and tapestry pa 0 fects. Bedroom papers q decorating service is comhlctr Ppr* for dining room and on engraved and em- according service is complete ha„. N(,w d,sl(rtl„ for bossed stock. Also a ’ We furnish expert paper hangers, if kitchen and bath room. SdSfr.lSrS n* p"r»«5*5?.» the kitchen and bath, in- Estimates given Without obligation. eluded in this group. -—-—-_J Fifth Floor—We.t Beautiful Polychrome Buffet Mirrors An excellent assortment of 48-inch buffet mirrors—a lovely addition to any dining room, with their beautifully tinted polychrome frames and ornamental tops. In the three-di vision style. Every mirror in this group would sell regularly for 9.15 Silk Picture Cordt—ltlue, mulberry, rose, brown and gold, the style that hang straight from the molding. a Pair, 1 e / <3 The Rrandeit Store Picture Department—Sixth Floor. V - ■ ■ .. / Sale of Phonographs That Have Been Used as Demonstrators An opportunity not to be missed if you are looking for a real value in a phonograph. __ ' ___ !!i There are Consoles, uprights and radio combinations i n cluded in this group—every ma chine in A-t condi _ . ..... . , tion. and with the (inly * limited number of ma chine* are included in this special Usual guarantee, priced sale and these only because they have been used for demon atratlon* and cannot ba acid a* 1 . i The Brandeis Store Phonograph Department Main 1'loor West j