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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 14, 1914.
GETTING READY FOR EUROPE
Things a Prospective Tourht Learns
Before Starting.
PRINTED TIPS FROM BOOSTERS
Rriini of Information to W tint An
tlclpatlon and Dnse First Trip
per resting Up on
rince.
It ought not to tsJks mom than thre
months to prepare for your first trip
abroad. Probably you can do It In less
than that. If you aro one of those who
learn rapidly; say, two months and a
half, ten weeks.
There used to bo a species of traveler
who greeted you with, "Yes, It's over the
big pond for me tomorrow." or "Good
by, old man, 1' sailing tomorrow; over
the same old mud hole, you know," with
such an unpremeditated air that you felt
sure ho had made up his mind to go only
a moment before he met you. You envied
him. You fancied him setting forth on his
long journey with about as much fuss
and preparation as the average man de
voted to a ride In the subway. Certainly
no one who could talk so casually ot
crossing the bg pond or the mud hole
wasted much time getting ready for It
He waa eternally prepared. If he packed
more than a nightshirt and a toothbrush
Into his grip before catching the boat,
you would have been deeply disappointed
In him.
"Qood-by," you said. "How lonr will
you be gone?"
"Oh, just a little run oven, I'll be back
before you know It" ho told you, and off
he went
The species Is now extinct At least
that Is the Improralon you get from the
output of Travelers' Guides and Hints
to Tourists and books on how to prepare
for the trip. There Is no place oa land
or sea, for this Flnnigan of traveler,
this member of the Iti-Agaln-Out-Agaln
school of tourists. He has gone, this
time never to come back, judging by th
rules whloh now govern, the going and
coming of all who would visit Kuropo
The trip itself haa become a career and
the preparation for It Is a serious bust
ness.
Well to Know Your Ocean.
It no longer does to talk flippantly of
the big pond and tlio same old mud hole.
Such a remark Is at once a confession
that you have not studied your travelers'
guide, wherein aro set forth the "Big
gest Bodies of Water," beginning with
Paclflo ocean, orca In square miles, 60,000,
000; average depth, feet, 12.7SO, and ending
with Dead sa, area In sqtiAre miles, 303;
average depth, fejt, ZM. Tho big pond
has been converted Into the Atlantlo
ocean, with dimensions of 35,000,000 and
J 2,000, respectively. Obviously those fig
ures are accurate, and without a thor
ough knowledge of them a man is not
qualified so much as to set foot on tho
gang-plank.
But In preparing for your trip thcro
is a great deal to learn before you get
down to these figures. First of all you
hould.know something about the history,
development and theory of the wireless
telegraph, the distances from Now York
of the principal points on the Atlantic
coast, tho addresses of the American
newspaper offices In Europe, tho prohlb
lUd Imports In ISngland, France, dcr
many and Italy, round-the-world rec
ords of the moro famous globe-trotters,
cuRiamc regulations abroad, Federal rail
vly system of the continent, taxlcab
charges In X,ondon, tho feeing system,
tides, velocl y of sound, porpoises, how to
tell time by the ship's bells, how to trans,
late knots into miles, lattltudo and longi
tude, points of the compass, European
currencies, the Gulf Stream, how to com
pute differences In time between New
York and where you are going, bnggago
regulations, how to carry funds, steam
ship lanes, and many other things, In
cluding a smattering of French, German
and Italian for purposes of Inquiring
your way to the nearest cathedral, tho
postage rates, the hours for meals and
auch thing.
The mastering of these facts Is now con
sidered an essential part r,f the prepara
tion for the trip. Some books g a great
deal further and prescribe a rudimentary
knowledge of physics and chemistry In
order that the traveller may have no dif
ficulty translating the temperatures'
registered by Reaumur and centigrade
thermometers into terms of our own1
Fahrenheit
IIott nnil Whrn to Fee.
Closely allied with this Is the necessity
of starting out with a clear understanding
of the English private-house feeing sys
tem. Herein, yotl soon discover, your
friend with a fondness for the big pond
must have encountered no end of embar
rassment
"England." your guide-book authority
telsl you, "Is the land of tips. You cannot
escape them If you try a week-end. Sat
urday to Monday nt a private house of
no great pretension will cost the casual
visitor about $l.t0, whether men servants
or maid servants aro employed."
There follow simple directions! Two
shillings and six for housemaid and
butler. In the absence of butler, his foe
goes to the parlor maid, with two shill
ings to the housemaid, and a like sum to
ine ooy. iou snouia allow anout la a
week for such ltoms, for, the book says,
Bngllsh servants carry your luggago and
things, and, consequently, expect It Fee
them even If the hostess puts a notice In
your room asking you not to do ltj "you
will usually be successful," says the rule
book.
By the time you have got this far, you
wonder whatever your untutored friend
did when he had crossed the big pond and
found himself smack up against the door
of on English private house with tnold
eervanta and manservants and butters
and 'boys and parlor-maids Itching tj oeo
how well proparcd ho was, As a week
ender ho must have cut a sorry figure.
Doubtless, he could not even tctl what
the temperature was In Fahrenheit dur
ing his wholo stay, and when the hostess
asked him what the average depth of the
Dead Sea was his senso of unprepared-
ness must liavo been complete.
The last two of tho ton or tweii ecks
now required for preparation msy b
pent In reading books of history about
tho countries you plan to visit, and in
having your shoes ropnlred and one or
two extra pair of eyeglasses made. iNote:
If you do not bappon to wear glosses,
extra palro msiv be dispensed with, al
though you will need a new oalr of rub
bers, anyway.) Tho extra glasses ate
recommended, not because sorv.uitj In
ISngland or the continent expect you to
havo them, but because you might break
pair A, say, and then, If you had no othen
you'd havo to go to some German or
French or Italian oculist for a now Pair
And that would bo a difficult thing to do,
since the only conversations that tlio
guide books permit you to carry on In a
foreign tongue have to do with postno
stamps, railroad trains, museums, cathe
drals, days of tho wock, hoop, wash ir
women, buttons, 'sausage, wlno lists, art
galleries, sealing wax, and bootmnker.
To repeat,' therefore, extra glasses should
bo taken by alt save thoso who do not
wear glasses nt all.
The now pair of rubbers Is advised bo-
cause ofMhe possibility of ra.n, and the
danger of damp foet. Old rubbens or
slightly worn rubbers will do-provlded
they last out tho trip-but In any oaso
you should take rubbers because over
thoijo they are sometimes hard to. buy
and usually expensive.
it Is muchktho seine with sho..-Hnvp,
thorn In first-class condition before you
smri. jounats' shoes do not command
the respect of nil European bootmakers,
and you run tho risk of getting them,
back with paper soles If you take them
to bo repaired.
"Soles mado of paper in place of leather
ore not unknown," says one authority.
Now York Post
Few
Siipwstinns for Your Np.w Home
Well Arranged Residence
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This design shows a well arranged six
room residence with a large living room
tho e-ntlre width of the house. The liv
ing room contains a fireplace with book
cases on each sldo with a colonnade
opening betweon it and tho dining room.
The dining room contains a built-in
buffet. Tho dining room and living
room both havo oak floors, and trimmed
with yellow pine and birch doorw
throughout the rest of tho rooms,
stufnod a light golden oak.
The kltchon fixtuics are well arranged,
with a large work table two fert wide
and ten feet bIx Inches long, with china
closets built high enough above so as not
to Interfere with tho proper use of it
It may bo noticed that thcro 1b plonty
of space for all tho kitchen fixtures
without crowding them, and plenty of '
working space. A small kitchen, well
arrnngcil, with all tho necessary fix
tures, gas range, Icebox, etc., within
cosy reuch, Is more desirable thun a
large room with a lot' of wnsto space
that Is of no practical use.
Thoro la a full cement basement seven
feet six Inches high, with laundry, fruit
cellar, coalbln and with a grade door
under tho Btnlrn.
The treatment of the exterior Is sim
ple, without any undo elaboration, and
presents a very good appearance.
Tho cost of this building complete, as
shown, with first class construction
and with a good furnace, Is about $2,700.
Any othor Information regarding this
design or for any other style and ar
rangement that you may have In mind
may be obtained by consulting this
architect,
C. N. nOBINSON, Architect,
"06 Omaha National Bank Building.
Phone Douglas 3750.
realized that a telephone, tho property of
his company, wns fastened to tho wall
some plnce In tho fast-burning home. Ho
dashed through the opened door and af
ter lorullng tho telephone, tore It from
tho wall and walked Into tho open air
nguln with tho tolephono In his posseo
skn. !! states that had ho not boon out
riding ho probably would not havo
reached the flro in time to savo the tele
phone,' which he did, thereby proventlng
a loss of J10.CO to his company. Charles
ton (111.) Courier.
BEFORE AND 'AFTER TAKING
Pnss the Hero Alr.ilnl,
iyj' 1? PIo.ftBUro riding in an an
tomoblle Is often termed, did not provo
to bo an ordinary luxury but a good-Investment
on Sunday afternoon for Hill
Moss, local manager for the Coles County
Telephone company. Mr. Moss and his
family wore out riding In a car when
they woro attracted to tho sceno of tho
flro nt tho John Loving residence Upon
reaching tho burning building Mr, Mow
s.
Building Operations for May and-Five Months
Building operations for May ran along The more notable instances of Improve
at an almost perfect pace with those of ment In building activities are as follows:
May last year. The difference In volumo Omha, "0 Per cent gain; South Bend, 100
was only a small fraction of 1 rcr cent. 7? t r CAT 0rnn,,
Official reports of the building permits
Issued In seventy cities, received by Tho For tho first five months of tho ycor
American Contractor, Chicago, aggregate the building permits Issued by these cities
a total of TT2,0T7,113 for jthe month, as total J297,S7S,CC8, as compared with $313,175,-
compared with 72.U5l.W5 for May, 1913. Of 470 for tho corresponding five months of
the" seventy gains wcro shown by thirty- 1913, a docrcaso of 5 per cent. The detailed
coven and losses by thirty-three. stalomcnt Is aa follows:
City
Akron .
Albany
Atlanta
(Baltimore
.j,o
732.293
1,032,200
May,
1913.
Boston 671.1kS
Buffalo 1.121,000
Cedar Ilapids.. 3?Mv
Chattanooga ... 78,404
Chicago C.919.160
Cincinnati 1.1SU15
Cleveland
Columbur
Dallas
Dayton
Denver
Detroit
Duluth.
Evansvtllo
Fort Wayne ...
Grand Ilapids..
Harrisburg ....
Hartord
(Indianapolis . .
Kansas City....
I.lncoln
Little Rock....
Ilxis Angeles....
Louisville
Manchester ....
Memphis
Milwaukee .....
Minneapolis ....
Newark
New Haven....
New Orleans....
New York:
Manhattan . .
Bronx
Brooklyn ....
Queens
Richmond ....
.201.R20
841.000
M0.W0
43S.671
218.(30
3,033.925
240.SIU
1(3.181
362,175
304.7S9
1'JU.ITB
430.110
1.547.7S7
1.177,915
&.m
117.336
1.47S.703
4Z9.m
119.S05
301.69.-1
1.6S4.8S3
3,l0,fi8S
S03.2SS
307.200
20I.5S7
,K6.9G9
1.619.25$
S.SS2.53
2.30O.879
8S0.1C3
Totals 15.C79.7S2
Oakland SftO.725
gklahoma 28.162
maha 1.1W.SS3
Peterson 173,471
Peoria 272,015
Philadelphia ... 6,2tH.ow
Pittsburgh 1.692,209
Portland 643,880
Richmond 370.031
Rochester 1,313,781
Bait Lake City 200,914
Ban FrancUoo.. 1,781,148
Bt Joseph 8,487
Bt Touls 1.017.000
Bt Paul 1.S03.214
Hcranton ...... 104,1(1
Heattle 803.405
Bhroveport 10600
Bloux City 196.5S3
Bouth Bend.... 4C6.9S0
Bpokac 10WS
Springfield,. III. 108.17C
Syracuse ,. Sl'.OOC
raeoma .'. 187.391
Toledo 792.U9
fTopeka 33.291
Washington ... 1,054.404
Wllkes-Bane .. 63.978
kVorcesler 645.491
W4.3SO
899,CG5
771,607
S35.147
2,614,400
1,503,000
293,000
C0.S90
8,910,000
790.573
1.058,025
613,333
1.107.405
S4.S25
221,430
3,900,645
282.750
183.593
317.250
320.9u7
124,0V)
674.630
l,0fi8,4Tt
1.1S9.GO)
121,095
lt,413
2.73K.110
307.460
208,917
417.412
1.300.V.6
l.JCO.AU
l.3.705
41S.0S6
4,926,544
3.247.M4
3.100.6TO
S.008.0C4
442.406
13?55,620
1.2S2,lt5
18.445
477.O0O
101.600
(OT.4SB
4,170.003
511.716
818,530
302.651
1,078.957
210,776
1.738.244
9G.52C
600.000
1,074.168
140,537
653,350
158.870
150,135
233.030
1,3(4.990
120.040
276.375
231,902
479.930
121.204
910.332
63.256
881.017
Per Cent.
Oaln.Loss
3
11
49
13
37
0
48
25
Jan. 1 to
Junol.'H.
City-
32 Akron ,v t 1.6S3.520 $
,. .wimny ,, , a.u;j,770
6 Atlanta S.nso.m
.. Baltimore .... 4,799.87.
74 Boston
28 Buffalo' 3,91)5,000
.. Cednr Rapids., l.too.ooo
.. Chattanooga .. 5?s.tffi
22 Chicago 31.578,300
., Clnolnnatl .... 3,907.376
.. Cleveland .... 11.662.820
.. Columbus .... 2,5S5,20r
61 Dallas V.204,603
.. Dayton 1.355,611
3 Denver 1.190.506
22 Detroit 14.O03.4S0
.. Duluth 1,356,797
8 Bvansvltla .... 6S5.010
.. Fort "Wnyno., 1,054.150
S Grand Rapids. 2,099, 4SI
,. Harnsburg ... C0S.47O
30 Hartford 1,714,699
.. Indianapolis .. 4.143,001
.. Kansas City.. 6,300,170
33 Lincoln 4(4,607
31 Little Rook.... 4(0.93t
60 Imb Angeles., 8,194.739
.. Louisville 2,029.935
28 Manchester .. 411.511
Jan. 1 to Per Cent
Juno 113. tlaln.Loss
21
150
7
34
13
27 Memphis 1.731.S35
.. Milwaukee .... 4,731.931
.. Minneapolis .. 8,169,400
os iroewarK 3,ivi.u)
IB New Haven... 1.64S.030
61 Nev Orleans., 1,002,391
mew xorx:
Manhattan . 23,lD5.f0
63 Bronx 7,985.731
.. Brooklyn .... 18.813,628
Queens 9,399,106
21 Richmond .. SS8,997
53
140
71
60
9
26
as
3
is
10
is
a
100
15
65
Totals 66,233,222
71 Oakland 2.CSC.155
Oklahoma .... 24!j.6S3
Omaha ,. 2,402,66$
Patemon fta.!U
56 Peoria 1,224,150
Philadelphia .. 17,etS,S
Plttaburirh STT0 941
24 Portland 3.3(.4T5
Richmond .... 1,971.114
....Rochester 4,002.197
..I Salt Lake City 1,163,71!
.. Bun Francisco. 19,S0.7S1
7 Bt Joseph 3S8.2Si
.. Bt. Louis 6,411,384
.. St Paul 6,9.4I1
26 Bcranton 477.006
.. Beattle 4,720.600
S3 Bhroveport ... 049,473
.. Sioux City 904.9&5
.. Bouth Bend... 762.S06
92 Spokane 462,661
10 Spri'gfleld, llL 423,790
.. Syrnouse l,12g,2S6
19 Taooma 707,487
.. Toledo 2,601
72 Topeka X4.2SO
.. Washington .. 4.7SS.S87
1 AVlkes-Barre.. 3H.5B
27 Worcester .... 2.UCW7
2,335.215
1,701,150
2.455.6S8
4G34,7
6,1M"o
861,
49S.l
40.654,8Ji
3,568,881
8,007,035
2,123.012
4,223,640
4,118,625
1.1S4.S30
12,$64,060
2.612,475
824,173
806,047
1.085,608
6f7.0S0
1,812,805
4.15S.SS2
4,361.070
970,805
6U.3C9
15,589,00(1
1,930.730
725.6(
1.796,381
4,789.417
4.122.035
7,131.319
1.751.686
1,818.869
35,585,456
13.56!f.0C6
15.3S.S.307
8.4S7.354
972,483
74.002.325
4,089.430
85.835
1,703.373
6D6.S95
1.041.94S
1K.987,&
CS90.&7
6,437,5
2,310.106
3,941.266
SW.K0
9,840,682
439,232
7,170.182
3,605,076
e,916
4,322.160
&S6.916
N04.S1S
4n.7
1.776,066
3M.010
1,908,310
79215
2.6S8.6S6
34H.4T7
i.sss.m
417,785
2.187.612
28
The Joyonn .lolly Prreillnn:
Catch nnil tin Scrram Some
WrrUi Imter.
tllR
Bcforo Marriage: Ho carried floWers
and diamond rings to please that dawllni;
belle, and caramels and othor things that
damsels love so well. Ho'd sit for hours,
upon a chair and hold her on hla knees;
ho blow his money hero and there, as
though It grow on trees. "If I had halt
what you are worth," ho used to say.
"my sweet. I'd put a shawlstrap round
tho earth and lay It at your feet."
Ho hnd no other thought, It seemed,
than Just to cheer her heart; and every
thing of which sho dreamed, he pur
chased In the mart
"When wp are spliced," he used to say,
"you'll havo nil you deslro a gold mlnj
or a load of hay, a dachshund or a lyre.
My one great aim will bo to make your
life a thing of Joy, bo haste and to tho
altar take your little Clarenco boy."
And no she thought she drew a peach
when thoy were wed In June, Alas! how
oft for plums wo reach, and only get a
prunel
After Marriage: "And so you want
another hat7" he thundered to his frau.
"Just tell me what Is wrong with that
the one you'ro owarlng nowl No wonder
that I havo the blues, tho way tho money
goes; last week you blew yourself for
shoes, next week you'll want new
clothes!
'I wish you wero like other wives and
would llko them behave; It is tho object
of their lives to help their husbands save.
All day I'm in the business fight and
strain my heart and soul, and when I
Journey home at night, you touch mo
for my roll. You want a twenty-dollar
hat, to hold your topknot down, or else
a new Angora cat,, a lapdog or a gown.
You lie awake at night and think' of
things you'd llko to buy, and when I
draw a little chink, you surely ijiake It
fly.
"With such a wife as you, I say, a
husband has no chance; you pull his
starboard limb by day, by night you rob
his pants,
"My sainted mother, when ehe dwelt
in this sad vale of tears, had one old lid,
of cloth or felt, she wore for thirty years.
She helped my father all the time, she
pickled every bone, and If she had to blow
a dime, It made her weep and moan.
"Tho hat you wear Is good as new.
'twill do another year. So don't stand
round, tho rag to chow I'm busy now,
my dear," Walt Mason In Judge.
HASTNGS & HEYDEN,
REPORT MANY SALES
During the month of May Hastings &
Hoyden made thirty-nine sales, an aver-
ago of more than one a day, and nn
aggregate sum of $124,545, which shows
that people are realizing tho substan
tlabtllty and eafeness of Omaha property
Tho following sales have been made for
tho week:
William P. Krepps purchased a lot In
Vlnelond for $350.
H, P, McMillan purchased a tract In
Benson Acres for $600.
Bert B. Stoops purchased a lot In Vine
land for $350.
Levi C. Qasklll purchased a lot In Vine
land for $350,
Anna U Hade purchased a lot In Vine
land for' J360. 1
J. IC Jonea purchased a lot In Kountze
place for $900.
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Phone Douglas 3641
"Live Wire Business
Men of Omaha"
As a business-bringing, customer-procuring
agent, an advertisement in the
"Live Wire Business Men of Omaha" 'is
unequaled, The men who buy the
service you render can be reached very
inexpensively in this manner.
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