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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1911)
XI ,'ll''"lil",'',,',llllliwll,M,lllll , .... Tin-: nEK: cwaha. Saturday, dkckmhku ni. 1011. 23 If "h e g ecg ftnvp Jaa z i re f)af e M SILK HAT HARRY'S WIFE AND GOAT HAVE DEPARTED tVureifflt. N'tllneil Nm Awrlallo. By Tad 6E VMMl-Z ISnT I T GREAT TO WAKE UPANO p,N0 TVATWOOREH2EE-fA-HA-MESTETmArV wai PIVOPCED NEA BO -NO OJ 1T WASH- NO WiFE. TO BATTLE. NO Mof"-E PHONV EWJjSEi- ALL NW OOUGr-Wi wv 0 WV-.5AV - J CAN MAROW BELENE IT- GuESS ill unT up tme CAM Cr ArNO KAE. JOME FUN M I ...... I I I'LL CrO OVJrP TO ?MlLS rLACfc. AND CfT TUG" IXTO TDGreTTHCR- I LL TOO - HA-HA- HE.'S JriLLMAp-RJEO. ( ycttfi ANV OP l&KHCr in ph pthe) MAO A OATE" amo "eat rr AvUA-f TO A VCMT D0YN D near a joAo on a mnvrArP.- f'HOLMCi jujt LfcFT TO MCT A, NfVEX T . JT I . . I tANfr Op TVIE HOTTL FO- HL-MW Tur rwcv JAto HE WAD LETT JN A BCr -VAU-fiNE " V N-fc-L-L.-' T" HEUO FAnni GOiH W GLAD TO JOIVOU - LETS GO OVET- Ano fRAP 0OP$GLv(fr5 10 CM" I AlUMil llJ (AlAvi 1 fAP-rW ur THE 3V0GG 3T1T" CALLGDUt AND INVlTfc-U JVIb OWI FOR A PISG- TA-TA OM SOLITUDE, WHERfC HAT .SAGCy UAYE liECNiNTT-W PACE.'! , X ,i S' tm' : (in, ,( r T1 Marred Lfc fhe Second Year In Which There is Some Moral ization on the Subject of Christmas. 1 4 tnlllnery, underwear!" shouted the elevator man as he flung epen the Iron door. Helen, who was In the back of the crowded car, tried vainly to wede her elf out. "Oh, wait, wait I want to get off here!" But the door had clanged to, and the elevator shot up to the next floor. Here he managed to struggle out, her hat shoved on one side, and with that generally disar ranged feeling that comes from push ing through a crowd. Hereafter, she told herself, she would walk It was less wearing than get ting In and out of crowded elevators. And now she made her way down the Btair to the shoe de partment. A pair of quilted satin fup- topped bedrpom pllppera. for Edilh, Var n' vouncer sinter., was what she wanted. She had seen them advertised for $1 .25. Warren had said mont emphatically that they could not spend as much on presents this year as last. And Helen was now confronted with the ivery dif ficult problem of getting a great many presents with a very little money," V All the clerks were busy, but when at last he was waited -on, she made her purchase with a BWift precision which mildly astonished the salesman, who ex pected women not to know what they wanted, and to look over the entire etock before they decided. I want that ullpper," (pointing to a sample pair in tho case marked "As advertised, 112), "In black, size S-A." The next on her list was a bureau scarf for Aunt Man'. On the first floor was a sale of bureau scarfs-two large tables In the aisle. "J1.49. reduced from $2.0U," read the placard over the first. "S1.89. re duced from W.S." wes over the second. A crowd of eager bargain hunters, us mtnv as could get around the tables, were pawing over and pulling ouv me piled up scarfs. Kvery one seemed trying to get at thoie on the bottom. Why Is It that tho woman shopper always thinks the best article is underneath? Invari ably, If an odd lot of goods are thrown on the bargain counter, every woman will ignore those on top and Instinctively pick out those beneath. And now for a moment Helen stood watching these women pushing, shoving, rudely elbowing each other to get at the tables and then pulling out the scarfs from the very bottom of the pile. As there was only one clerk at each table, it was hopeless to expect to be waited on soon, so Helen passed on to get hsr bureau scarf at some other stors where they were not having a "sale." She might have to pay a few cents mure, but the saving of time and temper and wear on clothes would be worth It. A little further on was another large table with a sign "Desirable Gifts, choice 08 Cents." Around this, too. was an eager crowd, for there la alwuys a curi ous attraction to women In any assort ment of articles marked "Choice" for so much. Jt is a subtle compliment to their Judgment, their knowledge of quality and value, which every woman believes khe hus, to an exceptional degree, fche Is al ways convinced that if there Is one ar ticle in the lot of more value than the others she will at once discern It. , Still another table marked "Appropriate Gifts, Choice . Cents," was In the. next aisle. There were Innumerable ush trays (did you ever know a man that didn't get at least two every Christmas?), hatpin hold ers, vases, pin trays, stamp boxes, paper weights and an endless variety of brlo-a-biao articles. And now Helen hurried by this table with Us alluring sign of "Choice 59 Cents," firmly reiolved that whatever h gave this year would be suinthlng really useful though It was nothing more than a dosen good lead pencils. It was after I o'clock before she at last left the shops, carrying with her num ber fit packages, for she, had conscien tiously heeded the placarded requests to "Fleass take small paokaea with you." Outside It was already quite dark. There was a faint minting snow which veiled Uie brilliancy of- the electric signs and street itgbts. A surging crowd of horns ward bound shoppers with their many packages filled the sidewalks and overflowed Into the straeta The surfaoe cars were packed to the platfornjs. Helem hurried over to the subway, but here, too. the cars were crowded to sufforat.'on. Tiia foico of the crv4 eoxrkd see la suad wz'rvl fr uy Ily MA1JKL HKKHEKT UKNKIl. against a cross seat. It was not until they had whirled past a couple of sta tions that she realised she was not on the downtown side. How could she have made such a mistake? By the time she had gotten off and crossed over to the other side it was twenty minutes of t o'clock. Warren would be home now before she could get there and he hated to find her out. Her arms ached with the bundles she was carrying and half and veil was dis arranged, but she had no free hand to fix them. When she came out at her station there were still three long blocks to walk. It was piercingly cold, and her hands, al ready tired with holding the bundles now, grew stiff In their thin kid gloves. A clock in a drug store window said three minutes of six. Warren would be waiting sho almost ran the rest of the way. As she went up In the elevator the mirror reflected her face, unbecomingly red 'with the cold. Droplng the packages on the seat, she hastily drew out a pocket powder puff to subdue the offending glow of her nose she could not bear for Warren to see her like that. But Warren hardly looked up when she entered. Me was reading the' evening papers, his feet proped on a chair. "Oh, I'm so sorry to be late,. Have you been home long, dear?" stooping" over and kissing him. "Ugh," drawing hack, "your hands are like Ice here, don't touch my neck!" t'Oh,' I know they're almost frozen. And I did the stupidest thing!' That's what makes me so late I took the down town subway!" "Hum, that's not surprising you never look where you're going." But Helen had hurried Into her room to throw off her things and then out to the kitchen to see If Delia had every thing ready for dinner. It was after dinner that shn brought out the packages and opened them. "Theso are what I got for Kdlth," taking out the fur-topped slippers. "Don't you think they will be nice for her?" Warren looked up from his paper and gave them a hasty. Indifferent glunce. "And this Is a wullet for Frank, and here Is a hat brush for why, dear," re proachfully; "you're nut even looking!" "Well, what's the use of my going over all that truck? This whole Christmas business Is an Infernal nuisance. I sup pose from now on I'll hear nothing else. If I .had my way I wouldn't give a Thews Harsh Words, Nell By Tad sbm mi ooorv am ff pone in to- RADCA. HA-PM ftED&AriNO TVteiR A-OAJISOM" JUSH TKymti TOOPiAN TO RALPM THAT AAH VrJElfi THE. BOO0S RAupW DOT-E'O 0F-F-, STfcHTED OfFAMiM Cr OA CArripAi-$, MONK-eyi and iron Pot & ifODCMLW MeiTJMPEO Up Ar0 VUTU A suiLl VHR.iK HiSST IFTH6 HUNtEEf HAVE HOOFS AND TWC CHinNCY5 HAS -5AHTA CLAUS? HORACE,- TTWICNS iHtfU M l NATE OLD HUNK MA0rT HfeTARO F0 hi Jon rue 5 1 vr Pa i rev. N Owcjj AscAjj Htrne ATCAJT vwav a ctrrrcn. eorA hsa TW. ZPHTLC HB AOJUJTTETO M5 CHCATETKf AhO RETAP Pear town svppoig tttat we vNETCC BROKE VMITH NOT A PRlCNO TO yJ&zr US . HTD A NOVN TET-U G-ASTKiTIS ? VAlOff-OS NELL. OH rA W0tciN6 tn A RAWER SMO GAtffi lOOCTTrOTa MiOltK TUX 4 . (HELLO mk:) sWHIVTS THE 1 Nevj J r- " m 3? tmsn i iw&e? op. put our TW TftWftU, 0ILTK6 (HAiftt. f r THS UKW ftvr -5TMLT 7)4 C CUSLTpl I POLE Purr Off ClJTJMETO 4 ' & rrvASArTfi PASfpoPt mas 5 MeeriNG- Ar i-TCi:AV auw UNim? 5TrTErrvHi7 DEMAND ASrpORTt T-Or rV(03C0W ANP HECrEVMlJCM 0L0 SUDfrt ONIfrKr MEHCT-e TiTMe pUTT-0(4A UNFOLQN6- A L-APfrt VAO OP CWGATEHl rVNO IN A i-OUO (LASfiNt- UO'CE JACO. p A MAN Tr-AVELjLtn INTO THE OP RuSiA, s0OLO VOW iAv THAT" HE VNAS FORElUtM ? aBBBBSBaSHSSBBBSBMSlHiBMkBSBBSBSSSSMSB NEVER DARKCN JuxEET OuTLOOle? MAlt &ETTV TAPK.HJ, AMjvwETL ux.wr op i paint me nwoqo wp. r and r i jV AU0OM BV II SI tr jlj o GST W00P6 &0" NDTHN T0 00TM-,l 73MOfP0yV, blamed thing to anybody and I'd be mighty well pleased not to get anything, either." "Oh, dear, don't say that you wouldn't do away with the Christmas spirit?" "Christmas spirit?" he scoffed. "There's a lot of Christmas spirit In giving some body something they don't want and then begrudging It, too! BY George, how many presents do you suppose would be given If everybody didn't feel It was ex pected and that they would get something In return? The whole darn thing is a mu tual hold-up game, In which nobody gets what he wants!" A llachelor'a Kef lections. A man is always willing to tell hla wife everything he did since morning whep he was In the office all day. If the house caught on fire a woman couldn't stop telephoning her best friend what the baby was trying to say. When a girl tells a man how her mother tells her she used to act when she was a baby she considers it makes them as good as engaged. New Yisk Press. Dinkelspiel's Dictatori als Der road to der city filled mit cripples dot got der t'rowdown. My GKOlUiK V. HOIIAKT. of Success la , Money talks a lot of foolishness to dnm dot listen hard. Der man dot burns der candle at both ends vlM get a gas bill for It, yust der same. Borne young mens start otild to play der prodigal son und come home playing der fat-headed calf. Some vlmmen chump at conclusions dor same vay dey chump off a street car, vicii is backyards. Eferydlng comes to dem dot vaits, mit der eggceptlnn of der particular t'lng dey vas vaitlng for. Eggsperlence Is der school ve go through ven ve play truant mit ourselveB. Some mens ran make a dollar go a long, long vays, but tiefcr can dey buy an at mission tigget to heafen mit It. A "voman dot can vear tight shoes und a loose smile at der same simultaneous moment must haf a sveet dispositions. Una I set to 8ple.gcl: "Dare vas a sllfer lining to cfcry cloud, but you can't proof It by looking at some of der clouds!" Und Spiegel set. "Sure!" V. DINK.KL.8nEI The Cold, Gray Dawn of the Horning After BY NELL BRINKLEY Copyright, 'II, Intern. Newi Aun, Hind Vhich Finds No Zest in Pleas ure Unless it Means Killing of Animals is Diseased. ii I'l'V-) AM be- - The beautiful Indian Hummer weather, of ThankHRlvltig day woke thu spirit it truo thankfulness, humanltarliinlsm, Christianity and love In the hearts of a crowd of Americans blessed with money, leisure and health. They said: "It Is a glorious day; let us go out and frighten and kill me of God's harm less creatures." So they mounted their thoroughbred horses, and away they went after a red fox which was happy In the golden weather, perhaps thinking If Its baby fox somewhere In the 'woods, waiting Its return. ; Thoy sent out the hounds to find the fox; and soon there was a loud hnylnr of dogs, and the fox was flying for Its life. It ran for a nilla or more with that terror In fts heart which only the hunted ran feci, and these cultured, Christian men and women, who give large sums of money to convert the heathen, were having the best time ot the year. It was such joy, such elevating, ex hilarating ennobling pleasure to see, hat fox trying to escape the hounds, anil to to know It was sura to be set upon by them and killed. To be first In at the death, that was the high, holy and aeet aim of every wo man's heart In that cultivated crowd. Suddenly the frightened fox came to a housu with open windows, where the In- mutes were pucklng preparatory to a move. The fox leaped the poich bannister and dived through a lower window into the bouse. With a quick turn he bolted Into the hall, ran up the stairs, scampered across other rooms to the front hall, down the stairs and out a front window. Then came the pack. The leader bounded through the window Just as the fox .hud done and followed hla trail through the house and out the front win dow. The other dogs dashed through an open door and took up the scent In the house, racing through It and then out the front window. The hunters now were all about the house. Kor a few seconds they seemed to luso their bearings, but tho bay of the dogs In tho front agulu brought them galloping after the pack. Tho fox was fast losing ground. Kor a mllo further on he led tho dogs. Then the leader overtook him. The exhausted, terrified animal was killed by the dogs, and then one beauti ful woman (an ideal for tender mother hood and lovely compassionate woman hood) achieved the greut honor of being first In at the death, and to her was given that trophy of trophies, the brush; other wise the tall of the lox. It was a wonderful moment; a wonder ful hour, and American womunhood re ceived a great uplift. There were, perhaps, twenty other women till trying to do tills lofty deed and to carry away tills murk of honor, and all of them envy the winner of tho brush; but all of tliein liavo ut kiut tin? pride of being participators In such u glorious pautime, und they have the hope that some day before long, they, ton, may be fuvl to see Die diulli agony nf some huriuless, luiiiieU. f rlulitenud little animal, and to receive us tall us a prize. Hut II. e fuel remains written In nature's enduring hand buok tliul no woman Is fit to be a mother, or fit to (all herself a Christian, or even to be thought of as a good womun, who cuu find pleasure In witnessing tho death of u harmless ani mal set upon by dogs and men for the sport of lillo minds. Whatever may be her birth, her breed ing, her culture and her charitable, deeds. Micro Is a blemish on her soul that puts her outside the pale of reul culture, real refinement, real goodness, real woith. There Is no greuter pleasure on earth In the way of physical enjoyment than u race across country fields and roads on the back of a good horse. The woman who has never known this recreation lias missed much out of life. Hut the mind which finds' no sest In this pleasure save as the race means dis tress and terror und deuth to some anl mul, that mind Is diseased and degener ate. In the early years of our land women wero obliged to kill wild animals to pro tect their homes and children and to provide food for the family while the men folk were away from home. To kill for self-protect ion or preserva- tlon la quits apart from killing for the aoton pleasure of an idla mind, t KliKIt AVILCOX. Imwn In Georgia a party of huntem (growii men, mind you), Kliied 6.0W doves. In a few hours. Mr. W. O. Htlllman. president of the i American Humane association, wrote the following letter to the Atlanta Constltu- ; tlon In regard to this matter: "I see by reports that Georgia Is mak Ing Itself Infamous by an alleged slaugh ter of B.OUO harmless doves by 1D0 hogs, railed hunters. It really seems too bad that so greut and humane a state as Georgia should allow practices of this -kind to go on. "There are two Important facts to which I would respectfully call tho attention of the cltlsens of Georgia. The first of these. Is that - the relentless and merciless. slaughter of wild pigeons has nearly an lilhllated that beautiful species of birds . commonly called "the passenger dove.' It used to exist In enormous flocks, but now is so Hourly exterminated that In most parts of the United Htales It Is never seen. "The second point to which I would' like to call your attention Is that a niim ber of states, Including, I am proud to say, my own state of New York, have -passed laws forbidding the employment of 1 pigeons as live targets for gunners. "Tho opposition to this practice, which" , has long existed, of slaughtering vast quantities of pigeons In tho name of 'sport' is not a piece of maudlin sent I- ; ment on the part of a few scatter-brained, humanitarians. Thero are aspects of cru elty connected with It which would causa . an Apacho Indian to blush with shame. It Is nut the practice of either Indians or wild beasts to merely slaughter for the ' fun of killing wild animals or birds. They kill In order to sustain life. In the case , of pigeon shooting, vast numbers are shot down lurgely for the suke of demonstrat ing dexterity In shooting and also In order , to satisfy that savage Instinct for killing something which still finds lodgment In half-civilized members of the human race. "Large numbers of theso birds are slaughtered from puro wantonness. They . are allowed to rot and quantities are not used for food. The worst aspect of the whole thing Is that a great many of thum are wounded in field shooting and escape to die a, lingering death or eke out a miserable existence of suffering for days . or weeks. 1 feel sure that the majority ' of the chivalrous people of Georgia will not call this bloody pastime 'manly sport.' It Is quite on a par with the practice of heedless und brutal children of pulling oft the wings und legs of file). One is OS much a 'manly sport as the other. ' "I appeal to the humarltarlans of Guor git to have a law passed by your IcgWIu turu which shall place It upon the Men standard adopted by several stutes ot stopping this bloodthirsty, cruel and In excusable practice, which Is followed at ' tho expense of onu of the most harmless and beautiful creatures which God ha creuled. ltelylng on the sense of honor and humanity of your splend.d southern people, I am sure that this will be done buore very long." To the minds that are not dwarfed ami . Impoverished by wrong thought?, anit ' luck ot ideals, life Is ablazo with wonder- : ful opportunities for enjoyment. There aro Innumerable avenue for poo- pie of (leisure to find xest and exhilaration In virile sports and healthful pleasures which do not mean death or destruction, to any creature. The same force formed the ppurrow That fashioned man the kins. The God of the whole ave a sp-rk cC soul To furred and to feathered tiling. t And I am my brother's keeper, And 1 will fight his fhjlit. i And speak the word for beast and bird Till ttie world shall set things r'sa- I'niurltf Klrttun. "Mr. Icksteln, a friend ot mine wur.ts to know bow much he can get o.l thia watch." "SVe. the representatives of the party, In convention assembled." "I'm tell you this, Johnson, tor your own good." "We have no seats left, rir, forward of fifteenth row." "Glad to accommodate you. oia cnap. how much do you want?" picked this turkey out for you, my self, Mr. fpplngold." "Auntie, we want you to make tit a good long visit this time." "Full Jeweled." Cldcugu Tribune. - i ' Pointed I'araursuhs. ' Better put one foot In the crave thaji J two. , Ask a young mother how old the tab j is, und she will answer !i detail giving tho exact number of month, weeks enl days. it a man thinks he knows it all, we cun t help feeling sorry for the inb guided Individual who undertake to cony him that lie doesn't Chicago Nw '