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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1912)
.If TT1K BEE: OMAHA, SATlTKPAY, DKCKMBKK II, 1912. 5 -The .ee?g ffne M&fazire fae & SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT Be Sure You're Eight Then Don't Miss Copyright. !. National News An'n, Drawn for The Bee by Tad I GO&SS THAT HAKP-V JICATIW AHETi. WFCCNW HB AOREEO TO CDMfi Of P)MnAU.V OliGUiJstO fwOtb) 0MGP. tOft MTO G-GT 5oLfo VNITH THE rvl SUi 'aa. TO AOCU5E HM OF ANMOVW & THE vJfPG TMTEHIN IN We EVCT AMP vr nuwc - ...-Jhw 1 -jMA-f- ---rrq: .... , r gJ I i II I'n r:ff fci - ii i- f - mimmn i ' .. -- - a, i.i i GEE VMHIT. TTUOGG I WAvfJT 1 Pt0'-O OI7E FOMOOT" iSMoww6 of at -me PAK VOO GOT I N TO TTOOftLG. TOO- VfA softly t wMr thcp.e N v , A Day With Rip Van Winkle By WINIFRED BLACK. "Hero's t yonr good health and your family; may you live Ions and prosper." Do you remember the old toast aa 'ffoe Jefferson used to speak It In "Rip "Van "Winkle." "What a picture lie was in his faded suit off rusty brown, with his old rifle heanmg against the f'4able by him, his Jeathern cup to his Ulna. And the sweet Voice of hlm-I heard It first on a irhankagiving day 'when I was In short 'uklrta and wore my lialr In a pigtail. I The teacher of jour little private jitchool In the vil li ace thought It best to give us some I thins special to remember the holiday by, 'to she took us all to town to the matinee. ( Deer me, -what a day that was. I I thought It would never come, the week that led up to It wan so long-. Monday was a drag, Tuesday was a bore, Wednes day was an Intolerable nuisance but at wast came Thursday. I awoke at dawn. Was It gomg to T"torm7 I hardly dared to look out to oeo. No one was tlrrtng yet, so I slipped down and let In the do? and made him Bhare my tumultuous rejoicings, I danced around hint and pulled his lop ears and .hugged him and sang- to him. and ho looked gravely at me as if he thought Iporriethinr really should be done about the way I was aotinr. Break fast I Not a bite for me, thank you. I wouldn't think of it Nine o'olock, '30 now the hours did hang back 10:30 u ml time to dress. My llttlo frock was laid out-on the bed; (It had been there since' 6 o'clock. It was ;ilnld, I remember, red and blue, with a (faint lino of green that I specially at! mured, and It had little prim rows of wlftck braid all around It. Ana the hat, the beautiful new hat Bought specially for this occasion a shiny jfelaok hat with a steep crown and a little !rtlff bine wing I'd know that hat if I .saw it In Egypt on one of the mummies jfend boots with tassels on them. Solomon an all his glory was not arrayed like that (t thought i aii me rest were dressed up, too Alice Hn red oashmcre and a scarlet hat, Grace 8n blue, Julia In brown, and even the boy were qulto dandified in new suits, What if the train should, be late, what si mere had boen some accident un the oacL We scarcely dared listen to what tho newsboys were crying when we got to the city. What If the theater had burned down in the night or suppose Mr. Jefferson had decided to take a day off and not act that particular afternoon. The theater at last! Swing went the Imlre door and there w were in Dream land; the seats slamming down, ushers ehowlng us the way to our row, the music, the lights in the glorious celling that was Bke a fairy story-and then the curtain. We didn't miss a word, not a word. Wo laughed with Rip, we hated Derrick von Beekman aa it falls to the lot of few fciortals to bo hated. "Here's to your good health and your family; may you live long and prosper." What a day. what a day! And I've Just had another almost exactly like It. Thanksgiving day It was, too. I -wasn't very enthusiastic about it this year, somehow. Tho children were won dering what they would do to mark the holiday, the cook was a little sulky about the dinner, when my eye chanced to see In tho newspaper that "nip Van Winkle" was In town. Hurrah! nip and Schneider and Nick Vedder and Qretchen and little Meenle. Hurrah, we'd go,' every one of us, and we did go every soul in the house-old and young and cynical and merry, and one that was sad at heart! It was not at a smart theater, the old ' play; it was at a place where you could get the best seat In the house for 60 cents, nd It was packed from the top to the bottom. And such an audience an audience that laughed and cried and clapped. Its hands In wild delight; an audience that was with Rip heart and soul and against Nlok Vedder brain and bones. Grandpa and grandma were there with nil the children; sweethearts holding eaoh others' hands; uncles, aunts, cousins; plainly dressed women In mild little hats and wlih hands that looked as If they tlid a good deal of hard work; sensible looking mery Plain people, that's all; just plain, nveryday people, who'd turn a dozen dif ferent colors If they tried to sit through five minutes of a Broadway Indecency; men who would no more think of asking ft good girl to-see a lot of Indelicate Ideas spt to muelc and called a comedy than thev would Invjte her to a saloon: women Quiet people, with no "snap" to them; people who never "saw the town" in their lives; people who get married to stay married; people who stand all the closer together when trouble comes; people who aren't above sitting up with a sick child or standing by an old friend. Just a lot of nobodies. Not a name there that you ever see in the"among those present" list, and yet they looked happy, too. A great deal happier, I thought, than me ioik i sometimes see In the smart playhouse up the street. Odd, Isn't it? And they don't know a thing about what the rounders call 'life." As if working, and praying, and suffering, and enjoying, and striving, and accomplish ing, and being born nnd dying, were not about all there Is that Is real about life. How they cried over llttlo Mennie; the- nocooies, and how delighted they were when Rip came Into his own again and Nick Vedder got his dosorts. I wonder If some wanderers there didn't feel the call of home and kindred when poor Rip said, "Are we so soon- forgot when we are gone?" Are wo, indeed, poor Rip? Are we. Indeed? What nonsense the "rounder" would think the tears shed over you and your foolish troubles. lite Is a Joko to the rounder, love Ib a dohiston: there's nothing real but money and tho folks who follow after it; money and jewels and suppers and fine feathers, no matter how you came tyy them.. No, no. You'll have to preach that doctrine farther up town, my good Sir Rounder; you'll get get none of those simple nobodies to listen to you. They know better, far bet ter. "Here's to your good healUi and your family; may you live long and prosper." And so home through a sharp frost to a friendly dinner with all the children at the table. Stupid kind of a day. wasn't It. and yot I wonder If you'll believe me when I tell you that I wouldn't tradoMt, or tho memory of it, for a thousand such aa they tell us js the thing In the smart set. NOT EVECY MAN WHp WEAOS LOMQ HAIE IS A POET- SOME WEAE IT FROM CHOICE Bfc?' IT WAS vY COL Df THE LITTLE Alffvv5" WAS EAQCZ TO 8BLL Our HS ' Stock of PAPses And beat it FOZ HOME. 'VlXTeY Ht SHOOT- ED FROM uypfs SOON oEsrium TO MAKE HIS FOPTUNE Of) THE OPERATIC STAE A0 SOON HC HAD BUT ONE PAPER LEFT. A KtHb-HfAKTfD OLO PASCAL, WHO MO BEEN VVATC7V& OUR HEKO BOUGHT THE U5t PAPER FOG 989- 63, and slants at we headlines he cead lf VOU ANGEfcED VENETIAN BOAT-SMAtV. WOOLfJ THE QONDOWtC. AT VOU'f" "TAKE VOOB CMOICC? TAKE tH6 ONE. EEA-Yah1. q-wess I'U. TURN It, AM' HTTHE HAY, fWrWOOVUH PROWL AROUN' lAT THIS TIME OF Miq-HT.r- THE (qOOb SHlP'TOtTUE' WAS MAKWq- H(tC)NOTS AN HOUE IT WAS HE G MAIDEN TfffAND ALL ON BOACD WEE MEOT. THE OFFICER RESPLENDENT Iff aOW'NOUNIFOICMS.WElCE HAUpm i-Y ISSUING ocdegs to -me WH.LIH& CPEW. THE WaW-WASf Or THE SALT Aie ON THE ? ANT HULK, 0WEUER.( COUi-D MOT DeOWN THE CAPTAIN VOfCF. A5j AIS1NY H5 MEGAPHONE TO HI3 LIPS, HE BACKED IF LONESOME LMtRJ ATE PIES AT A SITTMG. JOtH-O vou say that tAeijr Much? a " -i. -I j i ON WITH TME SILENCERS J boyo HE.K.E. cotnes the: YooKEvtd SPEAK, OR, JXIEAmodi'LL PUT ,c THE DOCTOR, WHO MADE HIS " PENSES AT PINOCHLE, OUTSIDE Of OFFICE HOURS, TYAS HOT AT IT, BUT 'BIG-BEN' THE TALL D- TETECTIVE WAS HAVING A STREAK OP LOCK, A NO WAS RAICIN in THE rfllKWr- LHIPij. A HAND. WAS DEALT. 'TWO HUNWE0"BID DOC 'PlKEJ? iELLED'BIQ BEN', I BID EtqHT HUNDRED AND TWO." HE LA 10 PUT NINE HUnO&D IN HBLD5, AND A3 HE CAKED IN THE CEOS. ONE .CHIP TLL DOWN, AND AS BEN STOOKf) TO qpTTHER. rr n YELLED" IT THE MEVeNlt THAT HE WAS BEIN' 3LANDK&ED Bi S rificNo, wuulu he twrrtKi- EASY WITH THfs StftAvO? HlRfiri IT '3 A MIKED CRltXCT hopeT POM' CHA lor UlfrHT. Jlfcc ueaJ i ii.:. M k tH. Crfin V YKO OVAY IM THE BOOB THAT PUT THE LUMBER 1 ,N (SLUHBE-R. "Curtail Presents, Mail Friends Cards" Maa online FasMongjj Among custom makers the foremost demand In day shirts Is for silks and Russian cords. This means a continued endorsement of soft and plaited effects, with no signs of a liking for stiff bosoms. Bxcluslvo shops aro doing well With Hnllhta .lnMl...i . wiuu uuits ior nay ax well as evening wear, and figured bodl. on striped bosoms, figured bod!e on Plain bosoms and vie versa are aooeallnir to the "llke-to-be-dlfforent" class. In collars the ouUway model hnn immediate hold In popular quarters, Just as It has done in the shoue of th imtw.r strata. It doesn't do, either, to swing out a Bliape directly at the meeting point at the top, yet the curve must not be so pronounced aa to reveal much of the cravat band. In two-for-aquarter goods this style may now bo had In heights up to 214 inches. The summer vogue of the deeD noln collar worn over the high-cut waistcoat holds on, with prospects of the necessity of Troy producing the effect with higher Danas. rancy goods, such as atrined madras and pique do not seem to Impress men as at all effemlnlte, as they did when first brought out Wing collars. especially with small rounded tabs, have taken first place- In the formal scheme for both day and evening usage, ousting from that honored place the poke, long without rival. With the wider spaced collars are com ng as predicted, ampler forma In cravats. The open-end four-in-hand is being made broader at the knot The Ascot haa had a decided revival in some sections, while the old Imperial, with two wide ends. I is distinctly the new note in the costlier grades. It produces a long knot when tied aa a four-ln-hand, with raarknd spread of the ends below the knot and Is also adaptable to the once over adjust ment. Ties have become better property with the growing popularity of the high-cut waistcoat They are specially favored in rather bold bias stripes of contrasting colors. Evening ties of grenadine are being shown with very striking waist coats to match. Among well-dressed men the preferred formal evening tie Is of white pique, with either rounded ends to harmonize with the roctnd tab wing collar or square. The old "shaped" even ing tie in being sponsored by an exclusive Gotham shop. It makes a snug knot and the ends spread more noticeably fanwlse. The informal evening tie Is either black, with self figure or stripes or black with gray undershot, sometimes In panel ef fect. Fringed ties of black satin are i would resent vulgarity on the stage j8een rnueh In the company of the black as they would resent It in their own plain , tln walitcoat, though they are some- hom what ultra. The Haberdasher, By ADA I'ATTEKSON. "A common scni Christmas is one In which we give more freely of ourselves than of holiday presents," said Mla Grace Isabel Colbron. . "A common sense Christmas leavea no disquieting sense of having been extrav agant. "The difference between that and a fool Christmas Is that wo have given thought to Itr-thouglit, not worry. "A common sense Christmas begiiiB a long wny back In the year, say about tho first of August "I don't believe In waiting until Now Year's day to make good resolutions. Wo ought to maku them all through the year and make our Christmas happy by keeping them." Tlease explain,'' I bogged Ihe eppl grammatlc woman, whom a grave old German professor nicknamed "The Amur lean Brilliant.' and who lias maintained the reputation In society and club life, besides literature. "To JIlitMratc. The Gerninns approach more nearly a rational ChriHtinaa than do we, for they make It u day ii'Jt so much of gift giving, but of fellowship. Presents they make to their families nnd to their most Intimate friends, yes; but they don't make h show of giving. When I was a student In Berlin I found stand Ing before my door one day the wlfo of u great German author, a woman whom I but slightly new. " 'I came to ask If you had an engage ment for Christmas night,' alio said. 'If you have not we would be honored I happened to havo an Invitation, but that gracious act has remained a green spot In my memory. The Germans set im a beau tlful examplo In this respect They have not the Idea we so often hear expressed In this country. 'Christmas Is for home folks," or, rather, they think It Is, but they add to their circle Borne one who Irn t living In a home. It may be some one who Is almost a stranger, but they add him or her to the home circle for that day. This is a part of the Christmas spirit which we neglect 'We could Improve our American Christmases by curtailing our presents and giving ourselves. Bven If we are living alone we can gather persons like ourselves Into our furnished room and have a chafing dish feast. "We need not spend much money on gifts, certainly we shouldn't spend a cent more than we can afford, but we can give of our time by sending cards and prove our remembrance or In writing tender letters to those we have not seen for a long time and who fancy them selves forgotten. I left behind me in Germany three friends from whom I do not hear all the year but who never for get me at Christmas. They do not send me gifts, but. what Is much more, long letters showing how Intimately they have been thinking of me. For Instance while I was in Berlin I used to talk to them of an Interesting little nephew of mine, and they ask in thene Christmas letters about hi in and repeat his clever remarks, The Christmas letter or the Christmas card means a great deal to the person who fancies he has been forgotten. MISS GRACE I8AI3EI.. COLBRON. "We Hhould not give them presents which we ourselves would like, but which they would not. And we should not be ashamed to make a gift because It Is cheap If it Is good. A cause of great thanksgiving Is that books are cheap and so are pictures. Good prints and photo graphs havo taken the place of tbe hor rors of chromos we used to see and aro bh cheap. A good rule for buying Is that we should make no gift that has not a use or seems to have a use. A vase 'on the mantle may seem useless, but it Is not, for it holds or is waiting for a flower. That, teapot," she looked at the yellow oval beside hor plate at a tearoom near Fifth avenue, "is a lesson in Christmas buying. It Is cheaper than some horror that has been glided In awful design, and et Its simple lines and soft color make It beautiful. I wish, that someone would start the fashion of a Christmas request box." Welnachtszttcl (a Christmas list) which Is a list that Is passed around the family and on which each, writes what ho would like Krlss Krlnglo to bring )ilm. That could bo Introduced in this country, Let's be brave enough to legin It. There are, say, twelve persons with whom we are exchanging gifts. We can place a slip In the letter and the friend can decide which of the articles ho or she will send according to circumstances. If the friend can't afford It she needn't send the neck lace. The book will very well serve. Or If we revolt against anything so obvious we ran ask the friend to tell un what she would llko and persuade her to return It The custom would prevent causeless buy ing and mountains of misfit Christmas gifts. Our Christmas would be far more common senee If we could satisfy our awakened social conscience by the knowl edge that we havo not bought any gift VI ELL- VOORC NOW Sim fir- Pnnrn ""r- i i i ar rr Greece and the War By GAKBKTT V. SKBVIB3. should mako her eyes of mankind. There Is one aspect of the ltnlkan war, which Is as thrilling as anything the world hns known In many ages. Tito most glorious of nil the nations of thn antiquity, she who lit the torch ot knowledgo and civilization on the continent of Huropo, Is striving to rise again front her knoca. and to stand in honor among her children. Whatever may be the motives, ot the other allies who, In the most astonishing war of modern times, have cowed nnd humbled the Infamous Turk, Greece, at uny rate, Is fighting for an ldivn, and that fact ran so sacred In tho When nations go to war for trade, and commerce, and material advantage, their deeds, and the consequences of them, are on their own heads. They cannot awaken enthusiasm for their cause In other lands. Hut when, llko Greece, they fight for unity, and Independence, and spiritual life, the sympathies of our common hu manity are on tholr side. And yet In the approaching settlement of the results of this surprising war, there In danger that, unless somo strong nnd resolute friend Intervene In her behalf, gallant little Greece will fall to ohtaln her Just rights, and will bo crowded buck Into her diminutive peninsula, with her dream of expanrlon into a now and bronder national life destroyed, perhaps forever. If the great nations ot lSuropn should now permit this outrage and suffer tho asHratlons of Greece to bo stifled In tho conflict of rival Interests, their conduct would bo ns revolting n would he that of n family of strong, vigorous children who allow their poor, weak overburdened mother to he trodden under foot 'with out lifting n hand to save her! For Greece is truly the mother of Kurnixv Its nations have nil been her wins, of whom Rome was tho eldcflt. The life-blood ot a nation Is its civilization, and first among the Aryan pooptex In Kuropo the Greeks turned to tho things of the mind, producing philosophy, science social order, and a political constitution, which together constitute civilization. The "grandeur which was Rome" wa founded upon tho "glory which was Greece" Itomo" adorned her cities with the masterpieces of Greek art, nnd purl fled and strengthened her Intellect by following tho footsteps of Greek thinkers, When Cicero visited Athens ho marched as un ncolyto In the sacred procession to KlmixlH, nnd regarded It ns the proud est day In his life, When Uurope was plunged Into the Cloom of tlie Dark Ages tho first gleam of returning light came from the re-dls- covory of what Greoce Iwd thought and done. The life-blood ot the mother tSen flowed strong In the veins of her awaken ing sons. They felt and accepted Its stimulus, but tor all that, they left her to purlsh, .mid even trample hor undci tluilr own feet in selfish Indifference, i Sho inspired the Saracens with he I spirit ot Intellectual freedom, apd thus nfinhlftA DlAtn it rrtin llin 1lf.tt rf IihaivL edge burning In Spain when It had been extinguished over all the rest of the con tinent "Among the Greeks," wrote Hegel, "w feel oursolves Immediately at home, for thoro wo aro in tho region of spirit." America heroelf owes the very though! and nanio of democracy to Greece. Thai name comes from the Greek words demos, "the people," and kraleo, "I am oover elgn." Greoco taught tho world that th people aro their own governors. Wo cannot oxcuso ourselves by saying that tho Greeks today aro degenerate and nro not the true descendants of the men of Marathon, mid ot the contemporaries ot Pcriclqs, Hocraten, Pluto nnd Aristotle. It Ih true that thero has been an lntor mlxture of other blood In Greece, mainly Slavlo and Albanian (the anclcnU IJly rlnn), but the old blood, the old names, the old spirit aro not extinguished. They strlko you with strango feelings when you visit that glorious land. I myself have read, with tho feeling ot one- awak ing from a dream, over the door of a shop In modern Corlth: "Solon & Co., I-Ino Wines." The scholar who has studied Greek In his college text books can go to Greoce nnd hco everywhere, In tho newspapers, on the walls of railway stations, tho classlo letters that seemed to lilm to be long only to Homer. Ho finds tho peoplo In the streets nnd the market conversing In tho old tongue that Socrates em ployed. Ho sees the children In tho rcltools rending Iliad and tho speeches of Demosthenes aa ho, when a schoolboy, read "Paradise Lost" and the orations of Daniel Webster, The best proofs that the spirit of Greece W not dead are tho pride of her poople l(i her past, the sacrifices which they are now making to carry out their Ideal ot national unity, and tho gratitude which every Greek In nny part of the world to which ho may havo wondered or been driven. Instantly expresses for the least word of sympathetic Interest In tho as pirations of his country. Let Greoee havo Crete. let her have an cient Maccdontu. Lot the blight of Turk-J IhIi oppression bo removed from nU who speak her tonguo, and fool a pride In hnr achievement, and then, perhaps, that mysterious wind of the Hplrtt, which makes nations great when it touches them, will once more blow over tho old land, nnd prepare It to teach the world new lessons in the true glory of manhood. Little Bobbie's Pa By WJUjLIAM F. KIRK. anai is an excellent Idea. It takes me I that has been produced in a sweatshon back again to Germany. They tiave a .by child labor." Pa calm hoaiu Inst nltn & toald Ma that he had joined a Hunt club. He sed that thare was eleven other men In it & that thuy was going to call themselfs The Daring Dozen. Dear me, sed Ma, Tho Daring Dozen' Why doant you get another member ft call yourselfs The Timid Thirteen? I hoap It Isn't another one of them clubs like Winch always sed he beelonged to. You doant need to get funny, sed Pa. This Is a resin r club, all rite, & all of us Is regular hunters. We have found a spot In the Adlrondacks & every fall we are going to go up thare & hunt deer for a month. We cud spend a lot of week ends thare In the Hummoi to, nod Pa. What would Hobble & me 1m doing all that time? sed Ma. It wud be loansnm here In the city mj much of the time. Wall, sed Pa, you will jest have to be loausom, I suppoaa. That's the way to talk, sed n gcntelman nalmed White. He had calm up to the house with Pa & he was one of the Daring Dozen, That Is Jest what I toald my wife. All the members ot this Hunt club are going to be vary firm with thare wives about this club. Wen wo men malk up our minds thnt wo are going on a trip, we are going to go. You doant say so, sed Ma. Well, I doant know how your wife feels about It, but any time my husband tells me that ho Is going away to leavo me & stay out hunting too long, your Daring Dozen bet ter change Its nalm to the Gager Dozed, bcekaus I know one gentelman that will not be a member of the club any longer. That isn't the way for a man to live. sed Mister White. I have all the rever- ' ence & reepeclc in the world for you, my 1 dear madam, but at my house I am the master I put my foot down. My iwife wanted me to go to the theeter with her tonlte. but I told her T wm riim. mlng oaver here first with yure husband. I think now I shall stay & spend the evening. That is not right, sed Ma. .We want you to say, but why do you disappoint yure wlfo. io mane ner understand that I am master, sed Mister White. Just then the fone rang & I went to the fone beekaus Ma always lets me miner It Thare was a Indy's voice A it sed, "la Mister White there?" & I sed. "Yes, ma'am." When I looked around to call Mister Wlilto to tho tellcfone, his face was white. "Tell her I have Jest left for home," he sed. "He seys to tell you he has Jest left for home," I sed on the fone to Missus White. "Tell him for me my little man, that if he isent here by 8 o'clock to go to the theeter I will cum oaver thare & lead him hoam by tho ear." But when I turned around to tell Mister White, he liad took his coat & hat & he had went away. Ha, ha. sed Ma, so that Is one of yure daring dozen. Why. Ma sed. the NIm-rod was shaking like a leaf. Daring dozen nothing, sed Ma. I Iluatlly Gueairrd. So you are in favor of sending a man ta..wl?1.,,lnKt0,? fr only one ten?' 0 Well, replied Farmer Corntosisel. "I . 4ti oicm ior our I representative. When you give a man strict ordera to revise the tariff, fix up the currency and do whatever he kin to Ipromote the Initiative-an' referendum an" woman suffrage, he ain't liable to have xl tvnniA lot n' t mn ut Kaa-i jan" git re-elected." Washington Star. r