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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1911)
THR RKE: OAfAIIA. TUCIiSDAV. N'OVKMHKK hi WIT. The g ee'X SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT p)afe M Once More and He Might Have Been a Giant By Tad ,SAnJ. 1 got the GftercjT- , ' ' BOCW THCT?S CVE VA'AJ 'ouETl HtTe A 771, , ,' t'.' V hC,'-" , -V4 GdfrVHOuNOCOOLONT iTi 3U1T .J FT f C7 C TVS A vJUOOrE'l te&ig IP!--..- I .Gfi. ) ,HVR f ' I I ' t ii wi I mmm. a . t ; M Yred Lfe the Second Year The Exciting Incident of the Icechest and of Delia's Obstinacy. By MABEL. 1IEKBKKT I'UNKK. fTV A Helen opened the Ico client and looped clown to take out a bottle of mlllt, a strong odor of talo butter and vegetables greeted ner. "Delia, didn't I tell you to clean tills Ice chest yes terday?" Delia ironed on In tolid silence. "Dl ln t I tell you to clean this yes terday?" Helen re peated. "Y e s, ma'am," sullenly. "Then why didn't you?" No answer. "Why didn't you clean It. Delia?" "Didn't have time." "But you did have time, you had very little to do yeHtcrday. Now Dulla this Ico chest musi. be cleaned to-day. Take all these things off the Khelves and wash It out thoroughly. Put plenty of ammonia In the water. And what's this?" taking out a small covered dish. "Parsnips! Why I told you to throw those out day be fore yesterday." Delia's only answer was to 'slam' the Iron down on Its rest with unneces ary for4e. wljlle she jerked the shirt waist around on the board to Iron the , sleeve. "And here's tome fish balls! How many times have I told you never to put fish of any kind !n here? Every thing will smell of It. Now you must clean this as soon as you finish that waist. You can do tho reel o? ho iron ins afterward. But I want thW cleaned now. When you're through, loavo 11 open to air out before you put the things back. And Helen went on Into the sitting room, where she was mending a table cloth. For several days Delia had neglected her work and had been unusually sul len. Helen felt It had something to do with her "young man." He had not called for the last two Wednesday even ings as had been his custom. Plainly thero had been a quarrel. Delia was I constantly watching for the postman, but no letter In the painstaking illiterate ! writing had been received. Helen was always sympathetic with 1 jiuy unhappy love affair. She had tried I to be patient and to put up with Delia's ! neglect and unusual bud temper. But now she thought things had gone too far, the dirty Ice chest could not ba over i looked. And yet she felt vaguely uncom ' fortable. Sho had never had a reully i -erioiis clunh with Delia, and was not qulto aure what the outcome would bo. When half an hour later she again vent Into the kltclien, Delia was ironing I one of Winifred's dresses and the ico chei-t was untouched. i "Delia, I told you to clean the ice chest as soon as you finished that shlrt- waist." "I ain't goin' to let these clothes dry out they're all sprinkled and right to i Iron now. And I ain't golu' to sprinkle 1 them over again. There's enough work to do lit this place without do!u' it twice." "Dut. Delia, I said I wanted this Ice client cleaned out now !" "I'm lrotiln' now. I'll clean It when I get through here." "You'll clean It now, Delia, or I'll have to K;t sumo one in your place that will." "That suits me, ma'am." Delia tlammel the Iron back on the range and deliln r ately untied her upron. "I can get plenty of places with more money and les work than I'm gettin' here." And Delia stalked out of the kitchen, down the hall to her room, leaving the unfinished dress on the Ironing 'board and Helen Handing aghaxt. She had not Intended to bring this to an issue not this way. Bhe had no Idea that Delia would calmly walk out. What thould she do? The thought of breaking In another girl filled her with horror. In t-pite of all her faults, Delia was very good, honest and dependable. It was only the last tew days she hud been like this. Then Helen began to wonder If she had been a littla unreasonable in insisting on the ice chest being cleaned Just then. Hut It was not only the Ice chest she had put up with so much neglected work and sullen defiance this week. Yet more and more she shrunk fiom the thought of breaking in a strange g rl. And Warren would be furious! There was nothing he hated more than a change of 'servants! And tomorrow tlm Stevens Were coming for dinner! What could she do? Hhe heartily wished sl.o b4 never tueuUuuwi Ute k chest. Oh, why hHd Bhe persisted in it so? Yet how could she make any overtures now? bhe went through the hall passing Delia's room. But the door was closed and there was a sound of the trunk being dragged over the floor. Helen went on into the sitting room and gazed out the window. The thought of losing Delia overwhelmed hpr mote and more. Just then the bell rang. Only one letter. "Miss Delia O'pon oghue," read the address painstakingly penciled In the big, awkward hand. Helen went back and rapped on Delia's door. "A letter for you." handing It in. Delia took it without a word and again closed the door. But In that momentary glimpse Into the room Helen had seen the open trunk and the clothes on the floor beside it ready to be packed. Well, she wag going there was no help for It now. Helen took dow-n the telephone book to look up the address of an employment agency. What was that place that Mrs. Lewis had told her about? She had better call her up and find out Then sht remembered Mrs. Lewis was never home Thursday after noons, and besides It was too late to Get dinner herself. And then it occurred to her about Delia's pay she would want her monoy. But this was on the eighth; It would be only about 15. Y'es, she had enough to pay that. There was a sound of Delia's door opening and her steps down the hall to ward the kitchen, bhe had left an apron or something of hers out there, thought Helen. But the steps did not return. Then came the sound of water running In the sink, and a noise of pans and dishes. Had she decided to straighten up before she left? Helen waited a few moments, and then went through the dining room to the open door of the kitchen. ' Delta was on her knees before the ice chest with a big pan of suds beside her. So she was going to clean the ice chest before she went! Delia did not see her, and, not knowing what to say, Helen once more went back into the sitting room to her mending. She finished the tablecloth, sewed some but tons on Warren's underwear and mended the lace on Winifred's little skirt. Still Delia was In the kitchen. Once more Helen went to the door. The ice chest was cleaned and left open to dry, whllo Delia was rapidly finishing the ironing. "Do you want that pineapple for des sert, ma'am or shall 1 make a cup cus tard?" "I think the custard would be very nice," stammered Helen. "All right, ma'am, and 1 11 beat, up a sponge cake to go with it." And that was all. There was no expla nation and no apology. But it was pluin Delia hud decided to stay. And Helen was too content to ask iiestlonti. The letter had been from Delia's "young man." L'nguestionoljly it had been a con ciliatory one. And it had coine just in time to reBtore peace, not only to Delia's troubled heart, but to the domestic ma chinery of the Curtis household. Was He Hurt Bad, Mr. Cop By Tad f Half Rate for Empties J James A. Patton, on his return from the coronation of King George, said to a N.w Y'ork reporter: "1 loH my overcoat in the rush at Tra falgar Square. Fortunately, though, both coming and going, I didn't loxo a meal through scaslckneMJ. I wasn't like a ifoutherner whose stateroom was next to ni'.ne on tho way over. "This poor fellow suffered dreadfully. Duy and night loud groans were to bo heard Issuing from his berth groans and those other sounds, more violent and moro heart-rending than mere groans, which ure the unhappy accompaniments of seasickness. I tell you, when he got off tiie bout at the end of the voyage, that fat southerner hud thinned down to a mere skeleton. "To a steward who commiserated with him, the southerner said; " 'Well, there's oiih consolation. After this crossing I can return at half price.' " 'How s that, sir? I don't quite under stand you,' said the stewurd. " 'Look at your regulations,' explained the southerner. "Don't they say that you take "returned empties" at a Ml per cent reduction?' " Some Aim ApotbrKius Beware the fury of a putien man. A blamelrs record Is too frequently a blank oiih. iSueei discourse makes short days und nUhts. Party is the madness of many fur the gain of a few. - I' HP THETi.6 fc TUiT AS MUCH DlfFSTHiHCe IN iOME THE CBON0 Or iTAT STHECT Jv.O TH m-,N& WAS A 8r AIRJHip. OF COOUSt NO ONE WAi CEVTAtr &ElftU.) IT VVA i iO IN THE Afft. 0L0 LAfJItS Autos, boops, copj an0 othe:m ALL TOOK A JUNT ,t k.?T C0MNr OOWN CMDSX Ae0 CiOSE. "C-imai-CV THery au-NrVTHAT-irvNAi AB$ pl&JE op PAPCR. 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PhiU P THE 00 V 5ATATHIS0E.sk rVNcr-TO TH'Nk: up A new Series THAT N0ULD KjwoCIc "ErA PAU. fe pippep Mi jLetNiE 'ntj THS INK AMD JUMPED up VN tTH A HOWL 7VIC 604J GOPPavaj&O TEt-HEEp AHO TITraCTP AND VNHrM HIS Ml H-TH iUBJlOEV GlOOLETJ. F wouiKETC-HSO A THIN KNOMArt S FACE tMOUl-0 MET? CHELXJ BE PltAwx im ' QUI LAX. N-Ulh ypiTrVIR.1, ftNO GT A VANI5HH6- fO I Mf. THEN Ar 4 H A CLEfirJ fifititc THfi Fip-ES tO ACT A.S N16-HT-vMATXvaAM. AT I GO TO BE? rtMO 0Or(T HAve TONtova AiE.fr T(U. JT. HA-HA. GEE? A f4APPV TU 00 TILL By Gus Mager Ccprrtsht. 1H1. Nutausl AWS AMOfiMUQO. Sherlocko the Monk THE CASE OF THE INTERRUPTED MESSAGE LOOK. MATo.ucc rrMrc. a muaI NA& fJ kAl C iQaun u.t CKifUAirrk A.i - vvivtu wr nio .i irUIR smACttp MA r-oOTfDl-HcjwDO IwayO f tou tec ir . rwL.M. . . - . te .has JUkr Been tori off, as I ikauiClC4. A MASKED L US TO I fr jobber juMPtoour 1 scene I -w 'ft! ' I AT MC I TUP- Avce I OF HC f Cs 4bA i TBeeM aJ r vino oioNYcbMero I rVrV tou SAt he jumped S A NOTE ! ah, hcre a ANTTHlNg FHQM youV'W 0fHlN; ATAU. BUT tvte NOTE J WAS CAMtTlNft A '3 OX To THt Man's (Aj i i1 r- - N. Q . guess ! ' ' .SHE TKINK& I'M I ... r tM6 OFFlCe(AN0, DOS TMINKf, "TOU OVM EAtILT IMAGINE yg AISO I TO HU,P, mTtkaTSS? ) TOftl K. .... T " RCM : BUWIAR O.ON'T MiiTArt IJltit' Me NOTE FOH.MONEJ1' I PVAft I HE Had a seacnu ' Tt for vuAMYtMiC rV -ic.: . ' Jc9 2q "A" Matiileo Girls and Actors Ity WIMl-HKI) Mi.UK. irlLlvil '3a II play, Mr. UollowT" Kjtle llollew, the hnndKonie and faM clnutliiif uctor. Is dead nd burled. Some thins ho said to me once still lives in my memory. liellew was playing In a western city, and the play was not u itreat tuc cesH. He wan an exceedingly ood actor, the com pany supportlnn hlin was noid, the play was well staged and tho lines the company spoke were rather belter than the average play. Hut, somehow, t h e r huntt o v e r the wholo affair the subtle, intangible, repressing air of failure. "What Is tho matter with your I asked. Kyrle liellew, tho man who was not used to failure, smiled a trifle ruefully. "Well," ho Bald, "that's not hard to see. "The hero isn't a hero at all he's Just a man. Don't you remember In the second act the ruffians whe come t; ctrry th fair lady from her bower set tho best of him? And In the third act he fnriccts to bring the rope ladder In time to not tha fair lady away? These are pardonable sins in a man in a hero they ure unfor givable crimes. "Heroes must never ifall, they must never forget, they must never stumble, they must never be afraid of anything on earth or In the waters beneath the earth; they must forget that thny are men und be heroes ull the time." And then we fell to talking of heroes and of men In general, and of the matinee grll who can't tell a hero from a man, and who makes a fool of herself over the difference. Now, If any man on earth knew all about that sort of girl Kyrle liellew was that man. I saw Kyrle Hellow try to slip away to England In decent quiet once, und the dock was so covered wllu weeping girls thnt it was all the deck hands could do to got through with Ihelr traps. 1 told this to Mr. liellew that after, noon of fslluro In the dismal city and ho laughed, not Insuffernbly, as somo matinee actors laugh when the very mime of women Is mentioned, but kindly. In a friendly fashion, and n trifle wistfully. "Now." said ln "It's all wrong the way peoplo talk of the matinee girl and her folly. I've, seen lots of good, wholesome,' clever girls dead In love with a hero not with the actor who played htm, but with the hero and the poor fool of a conceited actor misunderstood tho whole affair. "A little slip of a girl, with her head full of fairy tales, goes to tho matinee. Sho lives ut homo with a father who reads the paper all the time he's In tlm house, und her only brother never no tices her at all, except to tweak her hair or make fun of all her timid Ideas. "When the hero appears the Utile girl is electrified. 'Here,' she thinks, 'here's the kind of man I've dreamed of. He fears nothing, he loves with all his heart, ho doesn't laugh at the Idea of a locket and a ring. Why, he'd die for a lock of his lady's hair.' And she sits and dreams and dreams, dear little goose. I "If 1 had a daughter I wouldn't let her get within t-peaking distance of a matinee actor, but I'd let her go to the matinee a.nti fall in iovo un the hero, whenever she wanted to. "Not with tho actor, you know, but with the part he plays; that' tho differ ence, und It's a wholo lot of difference, too. "I never could laugh at the llttlo girl who saw a knight In armor coming down the road, with his silver helmet gleaming In the sun, und who cried when she found that the knight was Just little Willie Smith running home from tho grocer's wtlh a tin pall on his head. "As for the actor who can't get the real inclining of the matinee worship through his stupid, vain head, gome one ought to take him out somewhere and" Mr. liellew looked very expressively at the too of his exceedingly neat boot and said no more. I've always liked him since then." And I haven't thought so hardly of the mati nee girl since 1 hud that talk with Kyrle liellew autor and gentleman. f Electricity Hy EIMf.tll LUCIKN LAItKl.N. Klectrlclty at rest on the surfaces of bodies was the original state In which It became known to the Greeks In tha time of Thales, WK H, C They rubbed amber over In ttie l'cluponnesus, ilplrus and Argolls, und observed very strange phe nomena. Chronic smokers having genu ine amber plpestems may now rub with wool cloth und obtulu electricity. (iilbeit. In England, after uu interval of twenty-two centuries, likewise rubbed umber, secured tho mysterious entity and called it electricity, from elcktron, tho rume given by the Hellenes to amber. livers body waited from A. D. UWo to the year 1733 for pu 1'uy to rub a gla rod with silk. He wus too poor to buy umber, so ho rubbed a stick of common pine renin with fur or whjUii cloth und also developed electricity. Then hu made a ball of pith and suspended It by a silk thread und held tho rubbed lu.-iln mur It. The bull wus attracted und begun the chief thing in .natter motion. The ball d'ew nearer und nearer to the resin, t lu lled It und Instantly flew uwuy us far us the silk thread would allow-that is, the ball became, charged Willi elec tricity. Hie reader may study theso three words during ten years, ten hours dally, and not comprehend them motion, charge, electricity, Hut Du Kuy, utter tho lapse of 1311 yeurs from lillbert, mut inously expanded the horizon of mentul man by rubbing u stick of glass with silk and hodling It near the disdainful pith bull; it wus ut oncu attracted and flow to tho gluxs rod. Two great facts of na ture, appeared electricity Is cither of two kinds or exists In two states or condi tions. l-'iunkiln, sixteen years later, In 1T1H, ap plied the Impressive words punitive and negative to theew two states. You may think that this wus a llttlo event, but it was one of the great things of sclcnco, namely, positive und negative are the two standard words at the base, tho rock hewn base, of foundation of muthemutics, from low algebra to hl'ii calculus. I have often thought whether J'ranklin I looked Into the future to thai eventful day, August 111, 1S!C, when malhemailc.il units would be argued by the ablest of the human species in a new- und unknown illy, Chicago. 1 believe that the mighty bruin sent forth thought-i uu this vast subject. Vet at that tiiuo 1--0 could uut have, possibly Invented a unit tu measuro tho force on the amber or glows. Nothing is able to escupe the clutch of statlo force electricity apparently acting through space at a dlstujjoe and, BiHtlnt; up motion. ' Twenty jedrs after Du 1'ay, Canton, in ITTiH, discovered Ihut the body used In rubbing wus of us much Importance, us the body rubbed. Thus, rub glass with flannel or wool instead of silk und It will huvo the same kind of electricity as that on resin rubbed with wool, and repel tho pith bull that was attracted whc.i silk wus used. Hundreds of tests were mude, and finally science agreed to cull the chungo established on glass positive und on resin negative. These distinctions, having the weight of l-'runkllu's decision, are now in use-und doubtless will bo for hundred.! of thousands of coining years. f The Terrible Tackle J H Wil l 14 M K. KIIIK. fopyrlgh, Hill. National Newa Association. They called him the terrible tackle; Ho wus six ftet six inches or so; He could inuku an opponent's bones crackle With tricks that he hupiiened to know. With knee and with elbow he hustled. And whether ubove or beneath The tumbled-up pile he munuged to smile Whllo kicking out troublesome tetch. They called him the terrible tackle. And when the great gamo hud been won His f i lends hud to crow und to cackle: "Let's beat up a cop, Just for fun.." The terrible tackle got buy A halo appeared o'er his dome; One look at the cop and without any stop The terrible tackle sneaked In, me. Tv Old Superstitious. Yawns confess tl.u puma and penalties of idleness. Andaman islundeis, lowest of savages, think Ihut tanhquukes uru caused by the spirits of the dead, who, impatient at the delay of the resurrection, shake the pulin trees uu which, they bcli IU sailU lu res I