THE BEE: OjIaHA, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1916,
IT
BIRDS POSE FOR
THEIR PICTURES
Bk a simaam M if. -Aitnnn?n
Some .Have Knob On Their
Legs.
NEED RUGS FOB SOFT FAIL
The birds ill went out to the home
of Mrs. W. F. Baxter to get their pic
, tures taken.
These were the human "birds" who
will take part in the Nebraska Audu
bon society's presentation of "Sanctu
ary" at Child's Point
Upon the lawn of Mrs. Baxter's
home they gathered in their various
costumes, while an audience of small
boys, washerwomen's husbands and
other persons of the leisure class-assembled.
Three efficient newspaper photog
raphers were there with their mys
terious paraphernalia. '
Hugh Wallace, banker, is the man
whose limbs have answered the exact
ing requirements of the part of the
faun. He ,was there in his tights and
short tunic. But, alas, his shapeliness
was marred by certain bunchy lumps
upon his person. The truth could not
be concealed. This unpoetical faun
was wearing his er his woolens, un
derneath the tights I Oh, alasl 'Tis
true, 'tis pity and pity 'tis 'tis true.
Harry Palmer, lawyer, is to be the
poet. His long purple robe was ready,
but the cowl was not. At a tempor
ary cowl Mrs. Baxter brought out a
dustless mop which was draped over
the Palmer brow.- But the only way
it could be .draped showed the adver
tising slogan of this mop. Thus,. alas,
does commerce intrude even to high
Parnassus.
Miss Joy Higgins, bird-lover, is Or
nis. Ornis, poor child, ' is wounded
in the course of the play. Being
wounded, Ornis, naturally tails. Miss
Higgins laid down on . the lawn in as
"wounded" a position as she could.
And being thus posed, she so smote
the tender heart of Mrs. Baxter that
that lady hastened into the. house and
brought out a large rug. 'Upon this
the wounded Ornis was allowed to lie
while her picture was taken. Nature
provides no warm rugs for her
wounded to lie upon. Thus does hu
manity improve upon her.
A. W. Jefferis, lawyer, made a strik
ing: figure in his long, flowing, bright
red robe, the handiwork of his wife.
Mr. Jefferis is the cardinal bird.
The proceedings were a deep mys
tery to the audience. The washer
women's husbands smoked their pipes
in dense incomprehension. One small
boy . (a very rude boy who evidenly
had had no right training at all. No,
indeed 1), declared to his companions
that "it's a bunch o' rlut actors gittin'
up a bum show."
But the presentation of "Sanctuary"
June 17. is going tc be one of fhe finest
things seen here in a long time. That's
assured.
Burlington Finds ,J
Much Interest' In -Western
Farm Lands
During the first six months of this:
.year officials of the Burlington's im
migration department estimate that
10,000 persons will, have written letters-making'
inquiry relative to farm
lands west of the Missouri river.
Estimating that the information
given reaches the inquirers and four
other persons, members of families
and friends, it is figured that the
fame of the central west has been
spread among not less than 50,000 per
sons.
Generally the letters received have
come from city and town people,
renters and investors who desire to
come west, indicating that the back-to-the-farm
idea is increasing, rather
than diminishing. Probably more
than one-half of the letters received
asking about lands make reference to
Nebraska. The result is that land
agents through central and western
Nebraska report an unprecedented
movement of' real estate.
Patriotic Parade
Committee Gives
Out Information
!
In regard to the Flag day parade, j
to be held next Wednesday afternoon,
the committee has issued the follow- i
ing official statement:
Inasmuch u tho provident of the United
Stat mi has Issued a proclamation calling
upon the cltl-nnshlp of the country to cele
brate Flag day, and the governor of Ne
braska has made a similar call with respect
to th citizens of Nebraska, and the mayor
of Omaha Is about to Issue a similar procla
mation, Omaha will respond to these Invi
tations with a mammoth non -sectarian, non
partisan, purely patriotic parade.
Participation In this parade which will
move at 3:80 Wednesday next-la open to
every flat" loving man and woman In the
community, and to such there la extended a
cordial Invitation.
All business institutions wilt elose at noon
and you can take part In the parade without
Ions of time. No untforms will be worn,
and no emblems will be carried, except the
American, flag. A flat will be furnished
free of cost to everyone who marches In the
parade.
Information of details may be secured
from headquarters of the parade commit
tee, Commercial club, telephone Tyler 1214.
CREIGH MARSHAL OF THE .
REALTY MEN IN PARADE
Fred Creigh, secretary of the
Omaha Real Estate exchange, is to
be marshal of the real estate division
or section of the patriotic parade
June 14. He was elected marshal at
the last meeting of the Real Estate
exchange.
The exchange voted to get out a
targe representation and to invite all
realestate men in the city to march
in the division whether members of
the exchange or not.
WANT PUBLIC SCHOOL
NAMED AFTER JOHN DALE
'The John Dale Public School" is
what the residents in the neighbor
hood of the Parle school want to call
the new school house to' be built there.
Th sough an error it was reported that
it was to be Called "John Dale Me
morial School." This, the petitioners
say, is a mistake, as they do not de
. sire the word memorial to be con
tained in the name. Mr. Dale lived
within ?00 feet of the school house
there for thirtv-nne vrt
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