TIIK BEE: OMAHA. UllDAY. OCTOBER 7, 1910. 11 I Things You Want to Know The Government t Work 1 he War l)epriinent. I I . ' 1 , J 6 - 1 j I ;! r : A Chaniecler Turban i i 1 i yTV begin i f s4 "I'horua i Ji -(OU CAN BUILD ME A NICE TWENTY STORY STRUCTURE IN TWENTY MINUTES, WHY. 60 AHEAD! HART in:, IOQP I i;:' V'.'i are you ? .' .,. p .: R.EADY ? i f , !'. ' . .... , . . ;. ,'.,T CAN DO I r . v . .. ' - - . Cv. :wtVthisi I 1 L- . , .v v . V; .1 machine - 1 ' - . : v.. , v j EXACTLY lit T Z & ' ' v . . J ' ' ? I I I Mi. . . I I r ft iNv;v, ;iy -.' -r.A7i--?lv vj J"' i i j . " 1 njj in have II I '';-,.. f f'm W- , ' V' THIS ONE v -:'-' r 'vr' v . -v-). -- 1 v f J . -V V.. ' v ; :v , ' . ....... -. T fs.; -xV.-V ; -v ' - t:.-:. v t. - : ji 1 CAM BUILD A STORY A MINUTE AND I (KNOW I CAN SATINY YOU A BOMC'SJ OF T WE NTT THOUSAND DOLLARS IF YOU DO HIT! IT I NOW ItN O'CLOCK! TOU MUST RRTJ TT toud9 I HAVE PLENTY far steel AND CEMENT IN THE MACHINE. I'M NOT NOT FINISH IT IN TIME. MOF COURSE I DO KOT Hi wrn in: nT lint NES5 PEH MANDS A NEW MG bFFlCE Wlllf fNG AT ONCE1 k)0 NOT HAVE THIS N JWFNTlrf MINUItS I MUST 6UT0NE hi bj USU I DlfV klC ' I I -r- ri . nil vr.'nr' - ti-i ffiSfijfef.' &fW.KrS P" . c. .t- s--n r i . ri-lwr rfhciA rr c i rarer E!?HraffiL7sr5?n mw'tfiJiA wmw&iNm Iwait? i oon-t y firt n SI tcmti 9 2 8 hMBi C B W that rare bit H 'J IllJfflWJl P KAnT kSSPII B! l ASLEEP AND U. tea tsl 191 2' Hi WAIT rPH S "I r DKEAM ? m: ' Ji K ' 3 ' PN IM . mL. M P04 r- MUST KEEP ATVWS YOU Ll HAVE FASTER THA7W THAT.THEN Items of Interest for the Women Folk Th War denrtment hi control ot all i and harbora. Mora than $.K).W,M a T'r Is affairs relating to tha military irrvlre of xprndrd in rlvrr and harbor lmprovniant pko'ivj Ty " - ' ' . ... . - .. . " AH aorta of chantecler hats no-callod have mmlc thplr apjxuranop of lnte, and nun ar nmrtr or more boconilnii thai tlila chlo little affair planned by Mlns Ger trude Qulnlan playing In the 'Minn 'Patdy' company. The turban has a hlirh crown of dllk heaver and a dashing', turned back brim faced with dark velvet. The ch an terior feather towering high at one aide la In tones of cream, pale brown and orange, with touches of vivid pink and dark brown .-liaJlnKS, which tvecharoter. DauHht ers of Famous Men X 4.. 'A rt ....... V.-- ;.; ;..i7'."' A girl who, on a small Income, manages to keep alwaya In the pink of condition told how she did it. "I have reduced the matter to a sys tem," aha declared. "I alwaya envy women who have maids, because eveyrthlng they wear la In good condition. I could not af ford the maid, but ;I didn't see why ... I shouldn't have the distinction of being well put up,' and now I am. "The whole secret lies In never allowing anything one wears to become worn look ing, and thla is done by constant super vision. When my clothes come from the laundry I look over each garment carefully. 1A button that is looae la tightened at once; hooka and eyes are put into place if they have tha slightest Inclination to hang; col lar bonea a-e renewed at the first trace of limpness. Sometlmea I keep this for evening work, and aa each task takes but a few momenta, It la not a tiresome one. ..Things which do not launder I am most particular to keep smooth while they are put away. All my waista and coata are on hangers, and each skirt has two ribbon hangers, so that It la flat when put on two hooks.. All skirts are pressed fre quently, so they keep an appearance Kf newneas long after they ,(.fe old. Women do not begin to have their. ftVoih garments pressed as often as men h&vtf theirs, and that Is. one reason why "mftjia a rule, are better dressed, look t jirter than wome.n. I learned that from my brother. "The Instant a veil begtkiWjto break, or to look rusty, I put It to one, side. Thla la not an extravagant act, for the life of a veil Is greatly lengthened If It Is put away smoothly and dipped Into an alcohol bath about Once a week. Nothing will more quickly spoil the 'whole effect of a cos tume than a dowdy veil. . "All my waists and skirts have hooks and eyes at the band to bold them tightly in place, and my belts are smooth. White Elovea I use are of the wash variety, and thus I can always keep them clean. "Being well dressed Is a matter of at tention to details, not of money." Have you ever hunted In vain tor the special Bize of hook and eye you needed? If not, you are an abnormally neat woman, or one given to buttons or pins. During that mad bunt through a badly mixed box of sewing utensils you doubtlesa vowed to have a separate hook-and-eye box forthwith. . Then you promptly forgot. The next time immediately hunt a num ber of card envelopes, and on the flap of eaohone sew a hook and eye tb show the si me and color wltlrln. Put these envelopes neatly in a small box and your miserable fishing days are over. There should be separate holders for cards of hooka and eyes, detached ones that have not been used and for those that have not been ripped from a dress, aa is the habit of some economical women. Small boxes with the hook sewed or pasted to the lid may take the place of an envelope, but take up more room and are less easily handled. The Key to the Situation Bee Want Ada. Th e Dai LYgfBu m bix Bee VOL. X. OMAHA, OCTOBER 7, 1910. NO. 207. TUB Bl'MULE BBB A. STINOER .Editor CommunTcatldna welcomed. and neither signature nor re turn postage required. Ad dress the Editor. NO ADS AT ANY PRICE. The oft-made statement that auccesa on the stag cornea only after years of bard labor sad discouraging endeavor is re futed by the career of. Vera Michellena, the young prima dona of "The Girl In the Train." Miss Mlrhelena went on the stage at tha age of IS, playing the soubrette role of "Prlncens Chic" right from the start. Within three months she was the prima donna of the same company, and since then a btlef spare of nine years she has played only prima doiuia roles In metro politan companies. The fact that Miss Mlchflena did not as ao many others have to. In the of a- BBuMinal production, was due largely t her early training. She Is the daughter of Fernando Mli'helena. the one time famous tenor bf the Emma " Abbott ' triumph, opera company of a generation ag. When he retired he' opened a 'singing ' hool in Ban Francisco?, and he is now one of the best knotrn teachers on the Pacific coast. The daughter was educated n the Con vent of Mount I'rulllne. and at the age of 15, while rliti ting her hoine In Pan Francisco she sanKr 'before the late Klrke La Selle, who at that time was presenting Princess Chic" on a Pacific coast tour. In aplte ot her youth, she made such an Impression on Mr. La Selle that he en gaged her as the soubrette of the com pany. Three months later she waa pro moted to the title role after Marguerite Sylva, the prima donna, bad resigned. Since then Miss Mlchelena has met with remarkable success. She sang "Princess Chic" for two seasons, and afterward toured in a number of the Slocum musical oomedles. She has been identified as prima donna with "The White Hen." "The Snow Man," "The Girl Behind the Coun ter." "The Soul Kiss" and "The Paradise of Mahomet." Although the last named was not a success, site scored a persynal In "The Olrl In the Train" Miss me prima donna role of I 'Junu." the wife who divorces her hus band because of the terrible scandal caused by his trip with a certain fascinating dam- eel on a railroad Journey. The role Is a strong singing one and Miss Mlchelena's admirable voice will be heard to ad van - tKe. Copyright. 1S10, by the N. Y. Herald Co.) AK-SAR-BEN AND UNCLE SAM PUT UP ONE GREAT SHOW Spectacles of Various Sorts Make Ye Editor Dizzy, but Most Marvelous of All Was the Board of Governors. HAtF WAY RIGHT. ' ,'7-rs , Cood morning, Clara I You cee Tm up bright and early thia morrung "Well 1 sec you're up carlvl Thrones. "Uneasy Ilea the head tuat wears the crown," moaned the poor king on his sleepless couch, and thla has been proven in so many ways that It is admitted nowadays without argument. King Manuel of Portugal Is the latest exemplar of tha fact. Poor HtUa devil! He fell heir to a lot of trouble bis father had accumulated for him, and didn't have time enough nor wit enough to set right some ot the defects in his government, and ao his people did it for him. and now he la out of a Job. He may soon be joined by his Spanish cousin, and other crowned beads In that sec tion of the world are not resting well at nights. Thrones are allppery things to sit on these days. But tiiere is one throne that Is In no danger, one monarch whose rule la never ques tioned, and whose away la absolute. Viva ia Central! Uypey Wordless l.aagaasre. i o communicate with one another, Gyp sies now use letters and they uaa the telegraph, too, when necessary especially In this country. But the modern Romany aiso loiiows the "patteran,' tracing the footsteps, or wagon tracks, of his friends on the road by the same method employed by his ancient prototype, reading direc tions where no words are written aa clearly aa the negro does a roadside signboard. says the Century. . But tha patteran can Be read by the Gypey only It is bidden and secret, although it may be in plain sight. as a signboard is open and public. The patteran may be formed of sticks or stones or grass, placed cross fashion at the part ing of the roads. In such manner that only a Uypsy would Instantly notice and under aiand. To him it means much; first of all. the direction aken by Romany predecee- eonu Censas. Just aa a matter of com parison, look at Lincoln's growth. which waa very alight, because the town has apparently dried out. And then look at St. Jo, which must have shrunk be cause it has been ao dread fully wet. Which end do you prefer? We Ksew. Ye Editor will not tell his readers who la to be crowned King and Queen at the ball tonight, for we don't know. But we know Jolly well who won't be, and we won't tell that, either. The khealder. I rhaer the speaker loud and long. The reason, frankly stated. Is: Though suuie may think my Judgment wrong. I'd lallior hear my voice than his. T. . U. Mayh. Perhaps th reason that Omaha's Vensua figures have not yet been returned is be cause Charley Saunders was waiting for Wednesday night to complet his count. Ak-8ar-Ben ia surely one grand, glorious old scout, and there's no getting away from that fact. , And when Uncle Sam and Ak-Sar-Ben double up for a brother act In the way of en tertaining there B soma, thing doing, believe muh. That's what Ye . Editor thought when he tried to take In the whole ahow, and had to give it up, because tin re was too much of it. He made a trip to the Midway, or the Highway it ought to be called the Byway and when he had escaped with his lite he went out to Fort Omaha, and waa scared out of aix. weeks' Bleep because a hard-working cannoneer shot his gun off when Ye Editor wasn't expecting It. That's no place for a nervous man. But. say, those boys of Uncle Sam certainly can put up a drill. The Oerman troopers, with their cQlrasaes ot burnished gold and-silver, and their flowing plumes of horse hair, and all the folderol that haa come down from the days ot Frederick th Great or old Barbarossa himself may be fine for show purposes, but lour Uncle Samuel's army is a business organisation. It has its traditions, but they are mainly those of the Hlelan'mon described by Rob ert Burns. Esq., who had "No thought -ave how to kill - twa at a blow." If you doubt this, slip out to Fort Omaha before the soldiers get away and watch on of th regiments In ac tion. Then you'll understand why th admirers of the service speak of It as a "trade." And the boys in olive drab are certainly ex pert workmen at It. Then the great electrical parade dasxled tne eyes and mad tb head swim; but, on. It was a Joy forever. We may never see another, but some of those sights ' will serve to brighten the, fading days of our life, and don t you forget it All honor and glory to the man who proposed to caparison the Board of Governors in th panoply of the Crusaders. Here ia where the paucity ot the language is felt most keenly. What would not.Y Editor give, oould he but ade quately portray that sight! But it Is beyond poor words to convey to one who did not see it any notion of th splendor of th pageant. Sir Brian de Bols Gilbert Robert of Paris, th Knight of the Leopard, WMfrid of Ivanho, Richard Coeur de Leon, the Cld Campeador, Ro land and Oliver, Sir Tris tram, Percival the Pure, Launoelot, and all that goodly company of gallant warriors, who fought for the right, who Jousted for a lady's favoK and battled with Taynlm hosta to rescue the.' Sepulcher, must have envied these Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, so bravely did they bear themselves, withal, and so doughty was their ap pearance that Saladln and his boldest warriors had fled their approach as mists are swept before the morning wind. Only one writer ever ap proached the topic with Such thought aa might do it Justice, and that waa our old friend Gilbert, who wrote: In days of old a warrior bold, Encased from head to heel In armor of wrought Iron Was the hero ot Castile. So ye Editor will forever cherish In wondering memory the sectacre, and will wait for another season to see what new exhibition of royal munificence and magnificence the great king will afford Ills subjects. PERSONAL. Frank Hailer says It's not so; he didn't fly, and doesn't think so much of Germany, either, for that matter. Tom Benton was amongst us during the week. Tom ts surely the gay and debonnalr boy yet. , Jamea C. Dahlman, a former resident of Omaha, waa no ticed among the other visitors to th city during the carnival period. Elmer Burkett -stopped oft between speeches to see th big parade. He Bays he Is en Joying th autumn weather Jmmensely. I Will Owen Jones ot Lincoln waa not among th merry throng; he waa sadly missed, as he is always th Ufa' of the party when In our midst. Johnny Maher spent som time with Ak-Sar-Ben this week. Johnny could buy Gen eral Grant a typewriter now, and save some time In th guard house. the nation, with the exception of those falling In the particular province ot the naval establishment. It also has charge of the engineering work of the government and thus Is concemd with many things which have little or no direct connection Ith the army or with war. The secretary of war occupies one of th most respon sible positions In the cabinet, alnce he Is responsible not only for the conduct of the army, the estimates for appropriations for military expenditures, and for other things directly connected with the depart ment, but he also must be a diplomat and governor, for he Is the higheet officer having especial charge of the Philippine Islands and th other Insular possessions of the United States, and now he Is the chief captain of the greatest engineering enterprise ever undertaken by mortal man the Panama canaK Most Interesting of the ordinary duties of the War department are those which re late to Its primary function of defending the country from potential foreign foes. Under the direction ot the ordnance bu reau all the munitions of war are pro vided, from the big fourteen-lnch coast de fense guns down to cartridges for an army rifle. Th heaviest guns weigh as much aa a railroad engine and shoot a projectile aa heavy as ten ordinary men. It supplies the army with automatic guns which can fire eight rifle bullets In a single second. No battleship con resist the concentrated fir of modern coast defense guns. It has become only a question of marksmanship, atnd the coast defenders have solved that problem by becoming the best marksmen in th world. They are now provided with sixty-foot moving targets and the troops at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, some months ago scored four shots in lees than one min ute with a battery of two guna. All four shots struck in a rectangle twenty-four by fifty-three feet. The target waa four miles away, traveling five and a half miles an hour. With such filing as this It would be Im possible for an enemy's fleet to run by th Narrows below Governor's Island, New York. In addition to the big coast defense guna there Is a liberal supply of mortars shooting sixteen-lnch projectiles. These have scored as high as seventy hits out of a hundred. These mortars' are at all times out of sight of th enemy and are fired after th most careful calculations, involv ing the force of the winds, temperature and many other conditions. Their projec tiles carry charges of as much as sixty pounds of high explosives and do great damage. The manufacture of ordnance for the army requires a large force of skilled mechanics. A number of gun faotorlea are operated, the largest for the army being at Watervllet, N. Y. The most pow erful and the most delicate machinery is required In the making of a big gun. There must be giant machines which will make shavings fly from huge blocks of steel aa If they were wood ribbons from a car penter's plane; chronographs so delicate that they will register the smallest part of a second, and gauges so aoourat that they will measure the thousandth part of an Inch. Th War department resorts to soms re markable methods In providing a complete coast defense system. At Honolulu It has mad us of the crater ot an extinct volcano, burrowing ut secret ohambera and underground channels tn the mountain In a way that makes it almost as impreg nable as Gibraltar. In the roadway be tween Cap Charles and Cape Henry, where ths Chesapeake 1 bay finds Its outlet Into the Atlantic ocean an artificial Island Is to be constructed and one of th strongest fortresses In th world will be erected there. It will largely supersede Fortress Monroe In Its command of Chesapeake bay, and will at one be the guardian of Nor folk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Balti more, Washington and Richmond. The engineer corps of the army is made up of a remarkable set ot men. All ap pointees to this corps have been honor men at West Point. In this way the very best material turned out by that Institution is In charge of the construclon work of the army. Through Its work ths United States now has what Is believed to be the most complete system of coast defenses In the world. From Portland, Me., to Puget Sound very harbor has been so protected by for tifications that th danger of Invasion by hostile forces Is almost nil. In addition to th coast defenses the corps of engineers has oharge of all other fortifications In the United States and ot all river and harbor work don under the authority of congress. It makes all surveys and examinations nec essary to Intelligent action by congress and under Its supervision private contractors do th work required In Improving tha livers Tim. A road officer boarded a northbound car at Douglas street. "See here," he said sharply to the motorman, "you've got three minutes to xeach Dodge street." "Well," said th motorman, as he suavely spat out of th front window, ."I guess I can make it." And trafflo went steadily on. Csn) Oa. Edgar ' Howard threatens to tell all he knows about Bert Hltohoock. And Bert Hitchcock threat ens In return to tell all h knows about Ed Howard. , Between the two, local his tory may suddenly be en riched. . . Xs. Mayor Jim has told his right name. Who's next? ad. Of all th sad sights in polities One of the worst ts our good friend "Blx;" But another on that is sadier yet Is the latest view of dear old Met." and maintenance. If th program of the river and harbor congress Is carried out the engineer corps will be the busiest set of men in the government service. Th work of the quartermaster's depart ment, carrying with It the task of quarter ing and equipping the regular army at all times and the National Guard during en campment seasons requires th expenditure Of from $36,000,000 to ttO.'WO.OOu per year. It has eighteen ocean-going steamers Of transports, a number of mine planters and enough other vessels of various descrip tions to equip a small navy. It spends about ts.ooo m year for newspapers and niagaslne for the troops In th army. It haa supervision of the eighty-four national cemeteries in th United States, where 859.000 soldiers lie burled. The commissary department Issues 000.000 rations a year, costing approximately 21 cents each. It has a full equipment ot tireless cookers, and has established a school for bakers and cooks. Here the men who are to prepare th food of th army are Initiated Into the mysteries of the arts of baking and cooking. For an army of 100.000 men there Is required for each day's rations fifty tons ot meat, fifty tons of bread, fifty tons of potatoes and forty tons of other food, so that the task of the cons mlssary general is not a small one. Ls prrlence haa taught that th feeding of an army is one of the first essentials to Its efficiency In the field, and th War de partment Is striving to be prepared to furnish the beet ot commissary service In case of war. The office of the adjutant general Is on of th busiest in the department. Although recent legislation has shorn the adjutant general ot the military duties formerly per taining to his office, it haa left htm much to do. He haa charge of the recruiting service. Last year ther wer 136 recruit ing stations open for business, and 134,000 applications for enlistment In the army wer received. Of thee about 30.000 war accepted. Of the 134.000 applicants, 126.000 wer attracted by advertising In on form or another. The adjutant general also keeps a card Index system In which Is recorded full data about the army service and th man who constitute It. That thla data is complete I shown by th fact that there are 49,000,000 military cards and 1,000,000 medical cards. These are being add3 to at the rate of more than 600,000 a year. Th signal corps of the army makes us of every possible ad vane tn science and invention In its efforts to render efficient service in cas of war. It employs wire less telegraphy, wireless telephony and aeronautics. It Is a great believer In th adaptiblllty of airships In th soluUon ot th problems of war. They can be used to gain Information about harbors and fortifications of other countries, to patrol and guard the. frontiers, tor purposes of reconnaissance, for carrying dispatches, sig nalling to wireless stations, directing th fire of friendly artillery and drawing that ot hostile guns, attacking enemy's baa line, destroying stores, railways and other commupIcatloAs, making night attacks with bombs, destroying submarines and locating mines. Experiments are now being mad looking to tha mounting of light artillery In automobiles for the purpose of repelling attacks of aerial fleets. The medical department of th army is one of the most useful of th War depart ment's activities in time of peso. Many of the most valuable lessons learned by medical science In the last twenty years have come from It. Major Walter Heed, to whom the world owes an inestimable debt for his demonstration of the mos quito theory of yellow fever, made that dis covery while connected with the service. The rise of vaccination for the prevention of typhoid fever ts to be credited to the army surgeon. So thoroughly have tha theories of sanitation been mastered that there are now less than one-thirteenth as many admissions to the army and navy hospitals on account of malaria as ther were thirteen years ago. The division of militia affairs has charge of the organisation of the national guard of the United States. It is th present plan of th government to dlvld th coun try into eight militia districts, with a cen tral army post in each district and smaller posts In each state. These districts will have both the regular and militia forces In them so organised as to toe ready to an swer the call for troops at th shortest possible notice, and will furnish ths nu cleus around which will bs built up eight full strength corps In th event of war. Through a system of annual maneuvers It is ths Intention ot ths department to con vert the nalltla into a thoroughly organ ised fighting fore. . T nUIKIO. SASKXsT. Tomorrow Th OoTernment at Woik. T DeparUaeat ef Jnatlc. Cutaway Coat is Regular, at wedding Before Six O clock Cutaway coats, soft neglige shirts, whit or colored; waistooats which match th eoat and trousers of light grayish mixture ar th correct garments for bridegrooms to wear at morning or afternoon weddlnga. I have written thla before, but a perfect avalanche of letters on the subject from prospective brides and bridegrooms 4 autumn demonstrates that the fact will bear repeating. High waJsted cutaway coats, having two or three buttons, have entirely taken the place of frock coats for any but elderly men. The new cutaways ar technically known In England as morning or lounge coats, being more dressy than sacks. They are much trimmed with braid, an Inch or more wide, edges, pocket flaps and so forth, being anlshed In this fashion. Th waist coat which matches Is also braided. They may be black or dark grayish mixture. Soft shirts, with pleated or plain bosoms, are the only kind worn before o'clock In th evening, ho matter what th occasion. Ther Is a pronounced fad for th soft French cuffs, which turn back, but single stiff ones are correct. Either plain solid colors, white or stripes ar good form, th tie matching any color which ts Introduced Into ths shirt. Th tie preferably Is a small string, ths collar being high turn over. A narrow four-ln-band may ba worn If preferred to th string. O loves, which should appear la th breast pocket, may b whit or gray castor.. Pat ent leather shoes and black stllrktocklngs make th footwear, although It a man chooses socks to match th U may b4 worn. Th ushers' dreaw for a day wedding dif fers In no way from that of the bride groom sav that they chooa a dim-rent colored shirt, so that their ties and socks may not bs Ilk his. Th bride's father, being, presumably, elderly, wears a frock coat. ROSANNA SCHUYLER. Plain colored silks ar much used for sim ple tailored blouses. Hair-lined striped fabrics will be popular for tailored suite this fall. AND THBY WANT TO VTJIT2 Mr tiwh Jotsn, I doot belteT you Look me la tb ty aad tell me tb truth!-