The Omaha Bee Magazine Page Copyright. 1X, by tbo Star 0wpny, Qrwii JlrltMn Rights rteserved. How the Pretty Daughters of the New Haven Prudent Mothers9 Club Hope Like "Naomi, My Restaurant Queen'' to Capture Millionaire Husbands by Serving Hot Sutter Cakes and Coffee with "Special" Cream to Yale Boys The buckwheats now are flat and stale, The coffee's turning gray; The milk Is sour, the soup Is pale Naomi's gone awayl Oh, sweet Naomi Campbell Stearns, You've bustod Cupid's darts; You've stirred a llro that sears and burns, You've broken all our hearts! Butter Cake Chorus of Yale Froshmen. THEIR last faint spark of hope has ex pired. Never again will the ears of susceptible Yale freshmen bo charmed by the dulcot tones of sweet Naomi Campbell at "Old Ell Lunch," war bling: "One dark! Fry two! Rush them there butter cakes!" When Bweet Naomi eloped with George Sullivan Stearns, a freshman in the Shef field Scientific School at Yale, the shock was hard to boar; but they bore up, say ing to each other: "She'll be back on the Job. George's old man's a millionaire. Business of proud family 'spurning blushing bride charge of cradle-snatching marriage annulled. 'Tls ever thus no chorus girl, no candy shop girl, no butter cake-tosser, need apply. Consult the newspaper files. Oh, yes, Naoml'll be back on the job we should worry and get an Indigestion!" Blasted hopes, felasj. . It wa& barely a ' week ago that the news reached the Yale campus and the New Haven Prudent Moth ers' Club that the happy couple had been received into the bosom of the opulent Stearns family. Sweet Naomi, erstwhile lovely hustler of butter cakes at "Old Ell Lunch." is mistress of a handsome man sion in the smart set district of Capitol Hill, In Denver, Colo. Far from feeding butter cakes to Yale freshmen, she Is now serving afternoon tea to the elite of the Rocky Mountain metropolis. And she haB a husband who is now a solid factor in the mattress manufacturing industry which, in Cincinnati, made a millionaire of his father, Edwin R. Stearns, of that city. In the Prudent Mothers' Club, of New Haven, this news, while it scatters woe in the ranks of Yalo freshmen, Is rocelved with exclamations of rapture. It Justifies the purpose of their organization. It prom ises opulent husbands for other daughters of the Prudent Mothers. It demonstrates the principle that, among Yale men as well as among all other men: "A man's affections are reached, re tained and controlled through his stom ach. Don't rely on your beauty," say the members of the New Haven Mothers' Club, "but food the brutes. Venuses of the chorus and Hebes of the candy shops have won theso Yale sons of rich fathers, but they knew nothing about the important art. What happened? Honeymoon bliss succeeded by the plains of dyspepsia. x.rlde could live on marshmallows ; young husband couldn't. He ap peals to father, crying - helpl' Father asks, 'Can she cook?' Learning the fatal truth, he telegraphs: 'Come home but come alone.' Bride goes back to her old job. It's all off." Thanks to the Prudent Moth ers' Club, and to the triumph ant example of sweet Naomi, the tide has turned. The eons of rich men who flock to Yale are saved from entagle ments with marsh mellow brides; they can let nutritious butter cakes and capable vlves at the same shop. ' No longer will the pretty daughters of New Haven, -with an eye on freshmen of the famous "Gold Coast," seek positions in the musical comedy chorus. The Prudent Mothers will see to that! They will find light and congenial employment at "Old Ell Lunch" and other restaurants popular with freshmen, and will see that t&e but ter cakes are well buttered, the "ham and" hot off the griddle, the soup fragrant and nourishing, and the cream in the coffeb Bkimmed only on one side. They are already doing it. ' The romance of sweet Naomi was the prompt reward of her perspicacity. She would have graced any musical comedy chorus that ever turned the heads of Yale freshmen. But she was -wise, and got a job at "Old Ell Lunch," It is true that, four years ago, at the age of fifteen, pretty Naomi Campbell left school and went to work at e Ne" Hvon sodj fountain: aln true that oven then the Yale boyB sung her charms and brought much trade to the shop so graced by her presence- But soda water Is not "filling;" collego boys have ravenous appotltes and cannot livo by soft drinks alone. Accordingly, sweet Naomi took counsel with her moth erthat was before the Prudent Mothers' Club waB organized and took tho step that was to make her mistress of that Capitol Hill, Denver, mansion. i She applied to "SIg" Hartonstoln, pro prietor of "Old Ell Lunch" a favorite Yalo students' eating place established by his father more than sixty years ago and he lost not a moment In engaging her serv ices. Ho had already heard of Naomi's winning -ways, and his wisdom was iden tical with that of tho founders of the -Prudent Mothers' Club. From that day business at "Oid Ell Lunch" boomed as never before. Rich students who- formerly knew butter cakes only In theory now received them eagerly, from tho soft white hands of Naomi, deserting the gilded cafes to be come steady customers. Up to the boglnnWg of the last Fall term at Yale It could not bo seen that Naomi's trra- clousnc8s had specially marked any individual among the scores of her college devotees at "Slg's." She treated them all alike. Evidently some thing was needed to fire their compotltlvo Bplrit. And that "something" arrived In the person of George Sullivan Stearns. This fine-looking, manly and enthusiastic Bon of the rich Cincinnati mattress manu facturer looked upon Naomi when his first order of butter cakes was fresh from her bands and lost his heart completely. From that moment ho haunted the place. A Yalo poet has Immortalized that first meeting in verse: "George Stearns, a 'Dauntless Durham bloke, One day meandered In, And sat among the other folk Amid the crash and din; And as Naomi wandered by ' I saw him start and staro With admiration In his eye For Bhe 'was passing fair I noticed, too, that when she cams Tb ask him what he'd eat, Her dimpled cheek burst into flame Oh, my, but she looked sweet! I saw her fair hands tromblo, too; "tier voice tootc on tnn Bhnknn of feeding them. "Evenings the fellows all gather around to see Naomi smile. That's what they're about while she hands the victuals out dressed latest style." And when you gaze in her oyes divine. Like them all you'll say: "(Spoken.) follows?' 'Well, what WILL you say. "Oh, gee, Naomi, my lunch counter. girl, P'raps It's your slzo, dear. P'raps It's your eyes, dear, Sots my heart awhlrl. Kiss me, Naomi I Oh, hon', don't bo moan! Oh, you beautiful big blond baby, Naomi, my restaurant queen." In tho meantime young Stearns was con centrating all his faculties on segregating tho lovely waitress at "SIg'B," If not as a waitress, at least as a swootheart, with the purpose of making her his very own for life. Too late his fellow freshmen woro HPT. ; V In calling forth: 'One dark! Fry twol Rush them there butter cakes!'" George never put the soft pedal on his enthusiasm for Naomi. Ho let it be known from the start that he waB "In to win." Like an electrical wave his enthusiasm set the whole freshman contingent aflame. Verily, George had his work cut out for him! "Sweet Naomi," with a hundred verbal variations, was on every freshman Hp. Songs were written about her. At least one was published In regular sheet form, entitled "Naomi, My Restaurant Queen." Hero are tho Inspiring words; "Down In a restaurant not far away. Where peaches bloom so weet, There's a little queen that has It on thorn all, Pretty and trim and petite. Sandwiches, "special" cream, "ham and" on toast, 8hn hands out all dasj; to learn that this could happen to the popu lar Idol. ' Now, alas! they remember how she would lean over his shoulder a bit lower than necessary as she served him, while her Hps moved inaudibly lnaudlbly except to George. Now they realize that she was remarking, tenderly: "You like 'extra' cream for your coffee, don't you?" "Are the butter cakes hot enough? hush! the boys are rubbering!" "Cook? Of course I can cook. What does a girl amount to It she can't cook?" Suddenly one day in February George Sullivan Stearns was absent from .class. He failed to show up on the campus. Agi tation among the "freshles." Dark suspi cion. Grand rush to "Old Ell Lunch." Worst fears realized Naomi mysterlo"sly missing- . "They've eloped." ii i. nt yj. Gnasblnjs of teetli. but not on butter cakos. Then nows from Stratford, Conn., that on February 27 tho Rev. N. Ellsworth Cornwall, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, had applied tho bonds of matrimony to Miss Naomi Camp bell, of New Havon, and George Sullivan Stearns, Yalo freshman. General stupefaction, succeeded by a flicker of hope as mentioned near tljo be ginning of this story. "She'll bo-back. Rich papa won't stand for it." They took comfort In recalling the "Lofty" Flynn-Irene Leary case; the case of Howard Sykos, football centre, who also eloped, and also had his allowance cut off. They resurrected quite a number of such Incidents, Was it not an unbroken tradi tion that sons of rich men at Yale couldn't marry "beneath their Btatlon" and "get away with U?" Besides, wasn't It an open secret that Stearns' parents expected him to marry an arlstocratio young heiress In the Cincinnati "400?" "Pish, tush!" Naomi would bo back again on tho job at "Slg's." , Nil desperandum. In tho meantime they tried to ''save their faces" with published congratulations. The Spring vacation started at Yale on March 19- On the day beforo there ap peared on the campus a bright Uttlo anony mous sheet called "The Eavesdropper." It contalnod this comment on the culmina tion of the flteans-Campboll affair: "Naomi. It would be bard to over-eatl-mate tho terrible loss that our Yale com munity has recently suffered. The sudden departure of Naomi from our very midst has created an aching void that cannot be filled In a hurry. ''Suffice It to say that Cupid has once again succeeded in spanning one of tho gulfs of society. The Eavesdropper wishes the young couple godspeed, and begs leave to quote for the benefit pf tho readers Mr. Hartensteln's touching tribute . George Sullivan Stearns, tho Yalo Freshman Who Wat Won by th Prettiest Waitress at "Old Oi Lunch.'! to his former employe: . "She was a girl, take her for all In all I shall not look upon her like again." Now you will understand the sh6cl . verily, the paralyzing shock of the new Just received on the Yalo campus from Denver, that Naomi basks- In the approval of her husband's rich and powerful family; that she 1b an established factor In tho social llfo of fashionable Capitol Hill; that Yale's musty tradition Is shattered; and that, to wit: if you want a Yale husband win "him by waiting. To which tho minutes of the Now Haven Prudent Mothers' Club add: "A good waitress cannot fall to become a capable cook. No father of a Yale man Is too rich to understand the advantages of having a capable cook In the family. Ergo " etc. Nuf Bald. The Prudent Mothers' Club is attending to the. reBt,