THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 21, 1912.
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The Busy Bees :
' mmm UR Busy Bees do not picnic or play house or base ball in all
their leisure hours. Sometimes and these times come pretty
often in summer they lie in the hammock or sprawl under
the trees, reading a jolly good book.
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For the benefit of
vacation time and who want to get the most interesting stories
Miss Schwartzlander, head of the children's department of the Omaha
public library, prepares a list of books each summer. The children who
follow this list in their reading compose the Vacation Reading club, and
for each book they read they receive a gold star. There are over a hundred
children in the club this summer. The one who has read the most books
so' far is Josephine Marple, daughter of Mrs. Charles H. Marple. Josephine
has twenty-six gold stars and expects to have some more before the summer
Is over. Her reading has covered a wide field myths, fairy tales, folk
lore, travel and nature stories. Josephine is 10 years old and loves to read.
On this summer's list for the Vacation club are a number of delightful
stories of the outdoors. Here are the names of some of them the Busy
Bees who have no access to a vacation reading list will find the books
very Interesting: Mountain Land, by Chambers; Friends and Helpers,
Eddy; Fly Away and Other Seed Travelers, Fulti; Lives of the Fur Folk,
Haviland; A Holiday With the Birds, Marks and Moody; Bee People,
Morley; Tales of a Poultry Farm, Pierson; Kindred of the Wild, Neighbors
Unknown and Watchers of the Trails, Roberts; Earth and Sky Every Child
Should Know, Rogers; Biography of a Silver Fox and Trail of the Sandhill
Stg, Beton; A Watcher In the Woods, Sharp.
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I The editor of the children's page wants to thank the Busy Bees who
hive sent him picture postcards. They were much appreciated you may
hi sure.
5 Madeline Cohn, one of our most faithful Busy Bees, wins first prize
tojday with a description of an athletic field which the boys and girls of
he neighborhood enjoy. Alfred Mayer, an ex-king of the Busy Bees, wins
se$ond prize with' one of his interesting series of letters about European
cities he has visited.
Little Stories
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j My Vacation The "Meet."
iBy Madeline Cohn. Aged 11. 1303 Park
. Ave. umana, sto. nea oiae.
3 noticed not long ago that It would
be' bice If the Busy Bee wrote about
their vacation. To write about my va
cation would be difficult, rather It would
I take another letter to tell about it
! But there la one little Incident that 1
wijl write about I think it might Inter
I esi the children and also they might like
i to:do the aame. . '
ft Is about a little "Athletic Meet"
'which was organised and held In our
neighborhood on July 12.
Before I start I will tell you that there
it a row of flats, six flats by number.
1 along the block and there Is one stretch
-of back yard without a fence or parti -
toln, save the trees which border between
them. In back of them. This Is our play
ground In which are garden swings, tents,
. and apple trees to climb, besides lots of
nooks and corners for playing house. Here
the boys put up standards, dug pits for
broad jumping, set marks for racing, etc.
They went to practice whenever they
could and on Saturday, the thirteenth, we
had the meet Seven boys were In It, each
to contest against himself, to do his best
to raise the mark already made by him-
.self; and also to strive for first place.
The boy who had the most point won.
They - started at the - bottom of the
standards, which was about a foot from
, the ground. Each had two turns on one
' nail, and for each nail they jumped they
; received a point. When they had two
j turns and failed they were put out. The
I highest Jump was three feet and five
Inches and the top of the nail place was
four feet from the ground, eleven points
for the winner.
' Then they had the tug-of-war counting
five points if one won both pulls, and five
'.tot each In a tie. Ten point for the
. wjnner.
; The twenty-five-yard dash came next;
.there being five boys In It; five points
for the winner, four for second, and so
on. " ;-'
They tried a relay which resulted a a
,ti " .
! Lastly came the running broad jump.
,One was disqualified so the points stood
four for the winner, three next, and
;o on.
! And that was the end of the "meet."
!whn all was over each was satisfied
with having done his best and everybody
' agreed it was great fun.
, The next time I write I will tell
you
of other good times, such as birthday
picnics, shows, etc., held in this lovely
'back yard.
. . (Second Prlte).
! ' Potsdam.
.By Alfred Mayer. 603 Georgia avenue.
' Omaha, Neb. Red Bide.
I We are how In a beautiful little little
village whose name is Potsdam. In this
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little village Is where the emperor's sum
mer castle Is and' every summer he and
his royal family come to spend a few
week each year.
On our way up to the castle we passed
wide roads and on each. side of the road
are flowers, trees, ferns and they all
make a very pretty background.
As we neared the castle we see a gate
with guards on each side. We pass
through them and the carriage stops.
When ' we are out of th carriage we
notice how many buildings there are on
the grounds.
One is the kitchen-think of having a
huge building for a kitchen. Another
ft where the guards sleep, another Is the
stable and last but by no means least,
is tho emperor's palace.
We walked over -to tne latter and
secured our tickets, then we go in with
secured our tickets, then we go in with
the guide how the emperor gets his meals
and he says they are sent underground
from the building we saw outside. Next
we came Jo the Christmas room. This
room if only used on Christmas. The
ceilings are made up of grand paintings,
by famous German artists. The walls
are made of all kinds of rocks, jewels
and beautiful stones. In the entrance of
the room are two huge vases about four
feet tall. The vanes were sent from
China.
There are several other rooms here
that are less Important.
(Honorable Mention.)
Likes War Pictures.
By Cleary Hanlghen. Aged .12 Tears. 327
South Thirty-seventh Street,
. Omaha. Blue Side. 4
I am very much Interested In the series
of photographic publications which The
Omaha Bee Is selling. ' Each booklet
which s on sale the first of every week,
is entitled 'The Civil War Throrgh the
Camera" has photograph on almost every
page accompanied and explained by a
complete relation of each battle and in
cident and has a colored frotnsplece
ready for framing.
.Most of the. photographs were taken
by the unfortunate and unhonored Brady
and colleagues. As explained In The Bee
Their Own Page
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At the
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Roy and Esther Snyder, who live 'on Fiftieth and Leavenworth streets, have
beautiful Elm wood park for their playground. . v
last Sunday the civil war will be prob
ably the only' war illustrated by the
camera as the camera In modern war
fare is regarded as a spy for it may be
tray the best plans. In those days the
camera was regarded as a toy nothing
thought of the photo. But Brady had a
bright forethought and used it. But in
spite : of his endeavors he received but
a small amount for the great record he
had wrought and he died In the poor
house. x
We see in ; those pages the curse of
slavery that threatened to our lands, at
last conquered with the price of gallons
of blood and thousands of lives sacri
ficed, till with the wound from that
mighty thrust the emancipation It stag
gered and fell, with its hosts fighting
without Its leader. We see the horrors
of warfare, pictures of the . dead and
dying with none to send their Bible and
a lock of hair to the patriot at home
who suffered more than he. .
We see the commander, U. S. Grant,
who, after all in spite of predictions of
the people, did set more than Tennessee
afire; the silent, but praying, Stonewall
Jackscon, whom Mary Johston has lm
morfallzed In her recent novel, "the Long
Roll,"-and last but not least, the sorrow
ful general of all the American forces,
the martyred president Abraham Lin
coln. I have seven and intend to get all six
teen which comprise the series and I
am sure the Bees will start now and
get all of the booklets.
A Tidal Wave.
By Claude McCullough. Aged 11 Years,
South Omana.
Gibbon, Nebraska.
A long time ago In Japan lived a man
whose name was HakoJI. This man had
a grandson who was 8 years old. They
lived together in a village by the sea.
One day the boy wa playing near the
shore. He suddenly looked over the water
and saw a long, low, gray object on the
horison. He ran to bis grandfather and
told him about It
HakoJI went out and looked at It, then
turned and ran to the house. The boy
followed and soon tbey were hurrying up
the hill that was back of the village and
where the rice fields were, with hot pok
er In their hands. . :'
HakoJI ' put his . in the rice and his
grandson' put his in Vo. " The rice was
soon biasing.
In the village the alarm was soon given,
"The rice is afire," and everybody rushed
to th hill. , - :-
The fire was' soon put - out, - but the
people were very, angry. Of. course,
HakoJI and the boy; were blamed. ' But
soon the crowd went away.
As the first group left the field they
ran back exclaiming. The . rest looked
at the village. ; But was.lt the village?
it was all water. They were amazed,
till one cried, "A tidal wave," and then
HakoJI was praised, not blamed, because
he had saved many Uvea j '
His lesson.
By Claude McCullough, South Omaha.
' Once there was a little boy who would
never have his hair cut and It grew so
long and shabby that everybody grew
ashamed of him.
One day his mother told him she would
give him a auarter if he would have his
hair cut He agreed and had it cut
When he first came home he met grandma
and grandpa. When they saw he had
his hair cut they began, "You got your
hair cut." ......
Then he ran out of the room and came
upon his mother and father who said the
same. r
Now Johnny, as this little boy's name
was, ran out to the chicken yard and the
hen began to say, "Cuty, cuty. hair cut
cuty, cuty, hair cut" This made the
little boy so mad that he had his hair
cut every week after that
The Ant and the Worm.
By Elly Jensen, aged 13 years, 303$ South
iMueieemn oireel, umana.
One day as I was sitting In the grass
near a tree I saw the funniest thing
you ever could think of.
There was an ant carrying a worm
and the worm' was three times larger
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than the ant. It was too hard to carry
the worm, so the ant sent for more to
come and help, Ii guess, for In about
two minutes there were more than fifty
ants as far as I . could count. The worm
was very helpless as far as they carried
it: but. in a little while, the worm got
away and crawled on top of the ants.
It seemed as if he was going to eat them
up. But in a little while he had crawled
away and I did not know where he
was.. . '.' ' N ' ' '
Just then I heard a voice call, "Come
up you sleepy head." ' i
There I was. I had crawled out of
bed and was sleeping on the floor in the
dining room.' - '
' Whistling; Well.
A certain man in Washington has in his
back yard a whistling well, which, in
stead of performing the time-honored
duty of wells, that of supplying drink
ing water, predicts changes In the
weather. With the object of water In
view, this man drove a drill 153 feet be
low the surface. When the well was this
depth and no water in sight the project
was abandoned as useless. Some time
later, the owner noticed that the pipe
which capped the bore was giving forth
a peculiar whistle, made by spouting
wind. Sometimes the pipe seems to suck
wrnd. Those watching It have found
that the expulsion of air always precedes
a storm, and the Influx of air a change
for mild weather. Th natural barometer
thus made Is accounted for on the theory
that the bore has penetrated a cavern
of some sort In the earth and that the
air beneath tho earth Is driven out when
the atmospherlo pressure lessens, and
flows back again when the pressure be
comes heavier. .
Game of Seven-Seven.
A game eminently suited to hot weather
is "seven-seven," because all the players
may keep perfectly quiet and be amused
at the same time.
In this the players are counted out
until there is only one left This player
is the leader. All the players seat them
selves in a circle and the leader, then
starts with any one of those In the cir
cle, saying very abruptly. "Name a let
ter." Then he counts seven. The player
must name any letter in that time or
pay a forfeit -
When . a letter has been named the
leader asks a number of questions, count
ing seven after each, n that time the
player addressed must answer a single
word beginning with the letter which
was named. For Instance, say the player
calls out B. The leader the nasks,
"Where were you born?" The player
must answer some city beginning with
B, as "Boston."
The leader then asks, "What was your
father' business?" Answer, "Baker."
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Question, "What did he bake?" Answer,
"Beans," and so on, each question being
answered while the leader counts seven.
If the player misses she must pay a for
feit. At the end the forfeits must be
redeemed.
Rhyming Tree Conundrums.
What tree its old age sadly cries?
Elder.
And from what tall one comes low
sighs? Fine.
Which bears the mark of a smoldering
fire? Ash.
And which to chastise you take your
sire? Birch.
Which one do you carry about In your
hand? Palm. .
And which one tall . and Slim doth
stand? Poplar.
Which one bears fruit so golden and
round? Orange. . '
And which one bears the sea's deep
sound? Beech.
Come, tell now, which is a stale Joke?
Chestnut.
And which .from a stale acorn awoke?
Oak. .
To. which would you liken a firm young
man? Bpruce. '
Which one yields fruit round and rosy?
Apple.
And what would you like to put In a
posy? Tulip. . ,
Which tree is cloth and fuel in one?
Cottonwood. "
And from which does sweet fluid run?
Maple. '
LEADER OF WORKING GIRLS
In the July American Magazine, Ida
M. Tarbell reports the life story of
Carola Woerlshoffer, a rich New York
girl who refused to live the life of lux
ury provided for by her wealth and
devoted her life to the struggle for the
Improvement of the conditions of work
for women and girls who have to earn
a living. At one period she' worked for
four months In a laundry under exactly
the same conditions that were imposed
upon the other workers. Later she threw
herself nto ttte trade union movement
for women, and during the great shirt
waist strike in the fall of 1909 she had
an opportunity to show what her loyalty
to trade unionism really was. Miss Tar
bell goes on to say:
"It wlll .be remembered that at ; the
very start of this strike the police began
to1 arrest the girls generally and in many
cases for practically no, cause. It soon
became evident that unless bail could be
furnished at a moment's notice hundreds
of young girls would be thrown' Into Jail
for indefinite periods. The courts de
manded real estate security and there
was a great hurrying to and fro among
the officers of the league for, helix
Carola at once set out to relieve the situ
ation. Her mother co-operated with her,
and for $1 transferred to her daughter
real estate to the value of 190,000. There
was a sensation In the court room when
she appeared with her $90,000 bond and
made it known that she would remain
in court as long as the strike lasted and
would see that the girls got fair play.
"Her Buccess In escaping newspaper
notoriety at this time was amazing.
'There she was,' says Helen Marot, 'by
all precedent the hero of the hour, a
romantic personage, her bond a vertable
fairy wand, releasing the girls from the
dreaded confinement of prison walls and
evil associations. But Carola' integrity
was greater than her romanticism. Be
fore the first day was over, by sheer
force of character she had turned the
attention from herself to the strikers.
She disarmed the girls in their expres
sion of gratitude. She even performed
a superhuman feat with the press. With
out exception every reporter sacrificed
an opportunity to turn in "copy," and a
copy which he knew would have first
place and several days' run. They took
from her instead stories about the strike.
and during that thirteen weeks she
promised and gave them material, telling
them that if they published her name
they would never have another story
from her.'
"Her position as bondsman did not
end with the shirtwaist strike. From
that time to the time of her death she
was appealed to by striking unions box-
makers, cloakmakers, cordage workers,
tailors, white goods workers to go their
bond. She let It be known where she
could be found day and night and never
refused to call at any hour. Her expres
sion in the shirtwaist strike made her
realize the need of a fund for emergen
cies in time of strike. 'Don't you think
it would be a good thing to have a strike
fund started,' she said casually one day
to Miss Marot T have received an ufr
expected dividend, and will make the
first contribution.' From her tone. Miss
Marot thought that her contribution
would be possibly $500. She handed her
a check for $10,000. It was with that
check that the strike council was or
ganlzed.", '
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Magic Secrets of Beauty
By VALESKA SURATT, the World's Famous Self-Made Beauty-Actress
SOME folks probably Imagine that
I must spend much of my time in
Drlmnlna. But such is not the case.
To anyone who has followed me in my
beauty wanderings In these columns it
must be evident that J have but a very
few requisites for my dressing table.
And I have no old-fashioned beautv
books either, that tell you manv lmros-
sible and absurd things, and still more
difficult way to do them.
I hold that with the few reauisites I
have for treating the face, neck, chest,
arms, hands and hair the most exquisite'
oeauty can oe ana is accomplished.,
I have always taken delight in : mixing:
my own beauty requisites . because they
are so simple, so remarkably effective
and besides,.! know I am getting exactly
wnatl pay zor and what 1 need and
want.
The majority of letters T receive ask
mainly about wrinkles, the beautifying
of the complexion, the growing of the
nair, the removal of superfluous hair.
the development of tho bust, and the re
moval of. pimples and eruptions. I will .
consider them here in regular order.
MISS FLABBY asks: "I am only 42 and
my cheeks are beginning to sag, and
wrinkles are showing themselves around
my mouth and eyes. - I Would give any
thing to get rid of them." Miss Flabby,
as well as every woman who has few
or many wrinkles, whether she is elderly
or young, can be assured of getting rid
of most, if not all, . of those tell-tale
signs of age, wrinkle and crow's feet.
Those who are elderly can be made to
look years younger and the ybung still
younger. It can be done promptly, speed
ily, glorlouslly, by the following formula:
In one-half pint of boiling water, pour
two tablespoonfuls of glycerine. In a
few minutes add two ounces of eptol and
continue stirring until, all is dissolved.
At first it will look like Jelly, then it will
start to cream, wnen it does this, re
move from the fire and stir constantly
until cold. Keep in air-tight Jar. You
should be able to get eptol at any good
drug store and it should not cost you
more than fifty cents.
Apply this cream every morning with
the tips of the fingers, after washing
your face with very warm water and
soap. Rub well Into the skin until the
cream has disappeared. This cream will
not grow hair. .
DELILAH and many others are desper
ate over a stubborn case of freckles, and
a spotty, muddy complexion. The. fol
lowing win absolutely render the skin or
a beautiful pearly texture, pure and
white as a Daoy s.
Boll half a pint of water. Add two
tablespoonfuls of glycerine. Keep stir
ring, while adding one ounce of sintone,
until it is all dissolved. Then let cool.
If the cream is too thick to pour easily
from a bottle, thin It down a little with.
more hot, water. The cream will be white
and satiny. After bathing in the morn
ing, hold a wet. hot towel to the face
several times, for several minutes. Rub
this cream on the entire face liberally.
Let the cream dry on the lace. Repeat
this again at night. Any good druggist
will sell you an ounce of sintone for not
more than fifty cents.
INNOCENCE: You are not the only
one who complains of loss of hair and
of eyebrows, dandruff, and thin, poor
hair. You will be happy in a wealth or
luxurious hair, such as you perhaps never
expected to get, if you will make up this
hair secret and use it faithfully, exclud
ing everything else you may be using
for your hair.
With a halt-pint of water mix nail a
pint of alcohol. To this add one ounce
of beta-quinol. Shake thoroughly, and
it will then be ready to use. If you
prefer you can use Imported bay rum
instead of the water and alcohol.
The The beta-aulnol you can get at al
most any drug store for not more than
fifty cents. .The ordinary prepared hair
tonics which you buy in the stores usually
cost you one dollar. But this formula
mattes one xuii pint . oi tne . Desi nair
grower and tonic one' can ever hope to
obtain. ' . ,
This formula 'should be applied very
freely on the scalp after brushing tho
scalp generously for a few minutes all
over. Rub the tonic thoroughly into the
scalp, with the finger tips.
Just say to yourself :
"I'll SEE what this
Segerstrom Piano Co.
Close Out Really MEANS"
Say to yourself: "I am going to RESPOND to this adver
tisement; I am going to SEE how cheap these fellows WILL
sell a good Piano or Player Piano!"
That's all that Orkln Bros. Co. ask; they want you to meet
them half way; they want you to SEE and price the Instru
ments offered In the Closing Out Sale of the former Segerstrom
Piano Co. stock at Cor. 19th and Farnam Sta.
Orkln Bros. Co. dislike long winded mercantile events; when
they purchased the Segerstrom stock they purchased it at AWAY
below Its value and can AFFORD to offer you something more
advantageous than you HAVE been getting. If you can choose
QUICKLY. ,
Ddn't mind the size of your down payment if you DO want
a piano; ANY amount down will do and you may arrange balance
in the way that's EASIEST for you to meet The opportunity is
yours graded pianos will go at ridiculously low prices If they
go NOW.
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Fortune or success have often
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Have you read the want ads
yettoday?
BERNICE. I do not know your age,'
but that does not matter. The bust may
be made to regain its former develop
ment In every way, whether you are a
young girl or well along In years and are
the mother of a family. A remarkable
Miss Vfdeaka ouratt
result will be ichied by using the fol
lowing safe formula:
In a half -pint of hot water, dissolve
two ounces of ruetoi.e and half a cup of
sugar, all well mixed together. Of this,
take two teaspoonfuls three or four times
a day In a wine glass of water, after
your meals. Avoid instruments or ap
pliances of any-kind. Also, you will very
materially help along the development by
massaging the bust with the eptol cream'
mentioned above. The ruetone will cost
you one dollar at any drug store.
ANXIETY will get rid of her pimples
and eruptions in short ordqr if she will,
make up and use this: . , '
Dissolve twelve ounces of granulated
sugar in one-half pint water, and add one
ounce of sarsene, and mix the whole to
gether thoroughly, then add more water
to make a pint You will have one of
the most splendid and effective pimple
removers it is possible to obtain. Sarsene
is a liquid which you can get at the drug
store for seventy-five cents. Take one
or two. teaspoonfuls of this mixture three
or four times a. day, with a little water
if desired.
MISS AWFUL is very anxious to know
how to remove superfluous hair without
burnBlB or irritating the skin. The fol
lowing I use myself. It will not mark
or burn the skin, but leave it as though
you had used the splendid zintone treat
ment I spoke of above. Besides, it had
not the very disagreeable odor which so
many hair removers have.
Get at any good drug store one ounce
of what is called sulfo solution. It will
cost you one dollar, but it will last you
quite a while. Apply this solution freely
with the finger tips on the hair you want
removed. Keep the hair moist with It
until it has shriveled up. This will take
but two or three minutes. Then wipe off
with a warm, damp cloth and wash the
skin with warm water, and apply a face
cream. The action of this solution is al
most magic.