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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1916)
THE BKE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1916. Perso al Gossip : Society Notes : Woman's Work : Household Topics . .T. T. 77 Worship of -Idols November 22, 1916. By MELLIFICIA November 23. Dr. James Pirton Haney's ludi crous arraignment of the rage for black and white stripes the vogue of the moment before members of the Fine Arts society Wednesday, was not the first protest I heard against the fad in Omaha. 4 "A room papered in this Austrian style, the black and white, makes it look like nothing so much as an awn ing factory or a mourning shop," he declared. This summer I accompanied the musical critic of this great home and fireside daily when she went to choose wall paper for her home. An unctuous salesman presented black and white wall paper for her ap proval, I'lmpossiblel" quoth she. '"Do you mean to say that anybody in Oma ha would use such paper in their homes?" "We papered thirty homes with this very paper this very week, madam, replied he. "Then I shall record every murder and suicide I read in The Bee hence forth and see if I cannot trace these wild deeds to the homes of your black-and-white wall paper patrons," said our lady of musical mentions. Crayon portraits and bridge whist prizes also fell under Dr. Haney's ban. "Give them to Rademanthus, the ash man, to convey them 'to the bourne from which there is no re turning,'" said he. Farewell Reception. ' Mrs.' W. H. Loechner gave a fare well reception and luncheon last Mon day afternoon in honor of Miss Cora Totman, who left Tuesday morning for Seattle, Wash., where she will join her sister and make her future home. The guests present were: Maaflamp ; . Miwdamwi M. Anmlnnf, O. H. Brook. W. A. Wilcox, U. W. Iredelt, N. H. Tyson, R. R. Parker, R. C. Vermau, Y. Sullivan. C. Mariana, O H. Tutu, . : NIm Com Totman. , For Mist Boblits. In honor of Miss Harriet Boblits of Broken Bow, who is spending a short time in Omaha as the guest of Miss Margaret McShane and Mr. and Mrs. Chester C. Wells, Mr. Charles Ham ilton, jr., entertained informally at dinner at the Fontenelle Tuesday eve ning and afterward at a box party at the Orphean. Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. Wells- are giving a little dinner at their home in her honor and Mrs. i Wells is planning an afternoon affair later. ; . Dinner to the Hitchcock's. Senator and Mrs. Gilbert M. Hitch cock were the guests of honor at a dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Stapleton at the Blackstone last eve ning. Covers were laid for: . Stan aod Maadanea Frank Haastltea, Arthur Crittenden O. C. MkL smith, C Will H.mlHoo. , r. Poek, , Latar Koaatae. (malar and Mrs. OIIMrt St. Hltehcockv Dr. aa4 Mm A. B. Somere. Minn Mlaaea Harriet ftnrftlw Rath Hltohoook. Meears. Moaaro. '''' i father Drake, Dr. K L. Brldsea-' C. Kill Hamlltaa, Jr., Mra. B. W. Dtioe, Sisterhood Dinner. Chapter B. K. of the P. E. O. Sisterhood will be entertained at din ner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde L, Babcock.this evening. The affair is one of the eight social meet ings of the year to which husbands are invited. A basket of Killarney roses will be used as a centerpiece. Covers will be laid for twenty-four ' guests. At this time the regular Thanksgiving offering for the benefit of the Old People's home will be taken. ,, Pleasures Past. Mrs.' Louis Moon entertained the Loyal Daughters' club of Benson at her home last Tuesday evening. The evening was spent in kensington ;'. work. The guests present were: week has been indennitely post poned. The meeting of the Win or Miss It Card club announced for this after noon has been postponed for two weeks on account of the illness of the hostess, Mrs. W. B. Elster. Aid Society Tea. Chapter B of the Trinity Parish Aid eAcierv wu pntertained at tea this afternoon at the home of 'Miss Eliza beth Reed. Mrs. James A. lancock and Mrs. Philip Potter poured tea. Thirty-six guests were present. Personal Mention. Mrs. William J. Morgan of Atlantic City, N. J., is visiting her brother, Mr. George F. Wooley of this city. . Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Warner 'and Mrs. L. A. Canfield of Sheridan, VVyol, formerly of Omaha, are stop ping at the Hotel Castle for a few days, ilrs. W. M. Jeffers returned this morning from Salt Lake City, where he went to attend a reunion of the alumnae of St. Mary's academy of which she is a graduate, Mrs. Ben Isaacson of Beatrice ar rives to spend Thanksgiving with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Bern stein. Social Gossip. Mrs. Andrew Rosewatcr returned Tuesday evening from a two weeks' visit with her brother in Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. William Archibald Smith returned Wednesday evening from a short trip to Sioux City. Mr. and Mrs. D. C Stapleton and little daughter Stellita, will leave to morrow for their new home in Wash ington, D. C "Pete" Dives Into , Matrimonial Sea Gilroy Wendell, more familiarly known in swimming circles as "Pete, ' is going to try out his staying pow ers at matrimony. Pete has taken out a license to wed Miss Bertha M. Briggs and the knot will be tied this evening. , The marriage is the culmination of a romance which started when Pete taught Miss Briggs how to swim at Carter lake this summer, Wendell is one of the most expert swimmers in Omaha. He was for merly swimming instructor at the Central Young Men's Christian as sociation in Chicago and at the Car ter Lake club. , imffr vh- ill ul wfeii Mm Children and -Their Sleep By IRENE WESTON. It is very important that all chil dren should be in bed at an early hour, and that their hours should not be upset, except under some very special circumstances. For the first three years bedtime should not be later than 6:30 p. m. Children of from 3 to S should be in bed by 7 o'clock, and then the time for sitting up should be increased very slowly until between the ages of 13 and 14 the child is going to bed be- tween 8:30 and 9 o'clock. An infant may be allowed to sleep a great deal out of doors in its bas sinette. Be careful that this is placed out of draught and sheltered" from the sun. The baby must always be in lying-down position - when sleeping; when older and able to sit up, it must on no account be allowed to sleep in this position or injury may be caused to the spine and neck. . The baby must be very comfortably wrapped and placed on its side. It is a good plan also to change the. side on which it sleeps and not to lay it repeatedly in the same position. A child should not be hushed or rocked to sleep, and an empty india- rubber comforter should never be em ployed to keep it quiet. Neither should it require some one to sit with it until it goes to sleep, or be taken up and brought into a lighted room because it happens to waken up and cry. These are all bad habits which are quite unnecessary, and if once com menced are very difficult to break off. It should not be necessary either to insist upon silence in the house after the baby has gone to bed; the child who has learned to sleep while talking and even music is going on in any adjoining room will soon sleep through any sound, and not be easily startled. As the child grows older the ques tion of accustoming him to sleep in the dark will also have to be con sidered. There will be no difficulty on this score with healthy, normal children who have been trained from infancy to go to sleep almost as soon as they are laid in their little cots, but as the child grows older his powers of imagination become an important fac tor to be reckoned with. i Some children are highly nervous and subject to night terrors, although patience and firmness on the part of the mother will help a great deal towards curing this condition, yet it would be absolute cruelty to force a chitd subject to nervous fears to sleep in the dark. An Oriental Fanrier Invoking the Blessing of Ziro. Edltb. Hermaaa, Blalo Hermana.. Lola Byara, Oertro.de Catvart, Jeeele Belli. Moadamea H. Reed. M. Krorer. , Vera Merehall, Eraa Pliant, Bdlth Oalvert, Irene Moultarop, Mildred TltaeU Meedamen . Bd Janke, William Hclexel, J. Calvert, Miss Deasa Witke entertained at a slumber Dirty i uesday evening in honor of Miss Evcntte Rice, who is returning to her home in Des Moines, . Ia. A centerpiece of roses was used on the supper table. The evening was snent in music and frames. Mrs. W. A. Smith entertained the Dak Auction Bridge club Thursday afternoon. Turkeys Flocking i To White Hoflse Washington, Nov.' 23. President Wilson plans to spend Thanksgiving day at the White House with mem bers of his family. 1 lie annual nock of turkeys "raised specially for the president" has already begun to ar rive. One will be selected for the White House table and the others,' according to custom, probably will be sent to hospitals or for distribution among the poor. On the crate of one turkey which came from Oklahoma, railroad men had written messages such as "How about the high cost of livingr" and "Remember the eight- nour aay. House of Hope Fund Is Up in Thousands At the close of the first half day of the .House of Hope building fund campaign, the committee reported a total of $7,665.50, which includes $7,000 contributed by Mrs. Edgar Allen for the erection of a cottage unit. The first complete report will be made at luncheon at the Fontenelle Friday noon, when many additional subscriptions to the $50,000 fund will be announced. Here is an image of Chinese super stition. The photograph shows a "farmers' idol," set up in the midst of a rice field to shed its beneficent influence over the crop. A Japanese scholar says that it is in reality a rep resentation of the Buddhist diety, Ziro, whose chief function is guar dianship over children, but the Chi nese rice growers have adopted it as being a friend to them and their agri cultural affairs. This shows one of the curious fea tures of the worship of idols and fetishes. In the course of time, and as they spread from country to coun try and from race to race, new, or additional powers are. ascribed to them, until in some cases they are no longer recognizable except through their characteristic shapes. They may even come to have diametrically op posite qualities in different places. Superstition cannot be suppressed: it can only be guided, and led into forms more idealistic, where it pos sesses some of the qualities of poetry. It springs from the irrepressible exer cise of the imagination. Tle advance of knowledge does not banish it, but to some degree tames it. Always it lurks in the back of the mind of the most civilized and educated person. The highest intelligence does not al together shut it out. Man needs some means of gratifying a dim sense of inscrutable power acting upon him and his surroundings, in undefined ways, and he finds that means in sym bols and images, which consciously or unconsciously he regards as "posses sing indwelling spirits. . To take an illustration in the line of this Chinese god of the rice field, I know an ancient statue dug up in a field near Dijon, France, which has been set up in the midst of the field, and is regarded by the highly intelli eent owner although he does not proclaim his belief as a kind of mag net of good influence for his husban dry. If he lost that statue he would be as forlorn as some other man whose favorite horse chestnut had escaped through a hole in his pocket. Openly he speaks of its archaeological inter est; secretly he cherishes the recollec tion that -many centuries ago it was shaoed for a soddess of beneficence, and he doesn't laugh at that when he is aione wun in? statue. The idea that there, are super human beings which foster the culti vation of the earth is a very old one. The intellectual Greeks and the prac tical Romans both had gods and god desses who were the special patrons and protectors of the farmers and the guardians of the fruits of. the earth, such as Demeter or Cerus, Dionysius, Bacchus, etc. But there were older "earth dieties" than these. , . It lis not improbable that some of the carved human figures of prehis toric times represented gods and god desses believed to preside over the chase and the first feeble attempts of men to make the earth feed him with greater regularity and abundance. N Keep Good Things in Oirculation By ADA PATTERSON. Vocational Guidance Talk. Miss Jessie Towne, dean of girls at Central High school, will talk on vocational guidance tonight at 8:30 o clock at a meeting of the McKinley I Ladies' auxiliary of the B'nai B'rith, ! in Miss Cooper s studio, Lyric build ing. Miss Mollie Oland will sing. , Stork Special A son was born Wednesday to Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Taylor. Original Cooking Club. The members of the Original Cooking club were the guests of Mrs. Samuel Burns, jr., at luncheon at the Commercial club today,, where they heard the talk by Lincoln Steffens. After luncheon the club adjourned to Mrs. Burns' home to spend the afternoon making children's gar menu for the Associated Charities. All members of the club were present with the exception of Mrs. Charles T. Kountze and Mrs. Moshier Col- . petzer. - . . --v- " Successful Candidate Here. Miss Anna Beck' of York. Neb., who was elected to her second term as county clerk on the republican ticket November 7, arrived Wednes day afternoon to spend a few days ... with Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Beck. Miss Beck will go to Lincoln Friday aft ernoon to represent the class of 1886 ; at a class reunion. ;" Affairs Postponed. Because of the illness of Mrs. D. M. Meyer the affair which she had planned at the Blackstone for this Sailor Solves the H. C. L. Problem for Twelve Cents Walter Frederick Jordan of Hart ington, Neb.; is an example -of the low cost of living. He joined Uncle,' sam s navy trom tne Umaha recruit ing station and asserts .he has gained twenty-eight pounds in one month and a half. The navy allowance for seamen is approximately 12 cents per meai. - Phillip Edward De Vaney and J. E, Powers, both of Dell Rapids, S. D. enlisted as apprentice seamen and were sent to the Great Lakes training station. Schreiber Will Talk at Kellom on Welfare Work Superintendent Schreiber of the Welfare board will talk on "Public Welfare Saturday night at 8 o'clock at Kellom school. The boys' 'dub of the school will take part in a debate; Miss Keva licv, readings, and Miss Elsie Paustian will give vocal num bers, accompanied by Miss Freda Paustian. The program is arranged by Prof. Isidor Rees, director of the Kellom school center. Three New CaDtains in the : Brownell Hall Campaign To the list of men which will cap tain teams in the organized move ment to' obtain $50,000 for the new Brownell Hall, the names of Osgood T. Eastman, Arthur R. Wells and Barton Millard were added yesterday, bringing to a total of twelve the num ber of team workers now enlisted. Have you a circulating library in your town? . ' " A good thing for the town and for everyone in it, isn't it? I have heard many grouches discourse, . I have heard faulty finding about the men-, women, children, the weather, -the crops, the president, the war censor, and the Maker of the Universe. But I never heard anyone complain about the public library. , That it broadens the vision of all. adds to the fund of information of all, gives an impetus toward better and higher things no one can deny. Lite is made more useful, as well as more livable, by a new library in town. A circulating library sends into the com munity good ideas, new ideas, help ful ideas. Very well, being convinced that a library is a good thing, why not be a circulating library yourself? A joke? Not at all. I am most thoroughly in earnest. Good things should be put into circulation. I have known a whole neighbor hood to be heartened by a new idea, a strong, constructive idea, So have you. ' i - A lamented philosopher) said that ideas are like hay. They become musty if not shaken up. Discussing an idea is shaking it up. I am not inclined to counsel a gale of talk. I believe in doing. My creed includes a great deal more than talking about it. But, it doesn't require much talk ing to start the golden coin of a help ful idea on its rounds. Place it on the counter and it will be on its way. One of America's greatest stars of the stage told me that when players ; asked her for engagements she judged ', them, not by their faces they couldn't !" help them. Nor by their figures i tailors or dressmakers could improve them. Not by their speech, that her example and tuition could correct. She judged them by the gestures they made. Were those gestures, large, broad, free, all inclusive? She knew that such persons had open minds and ' generous thoughts. Their serv ices were available to her. If their gestures were small, if they held a package hugged closely under their ajms, and grippedi a bag with both hands and inward toward tne noay, she knew they were close-minded, were, what she termed "shut outs" they had to seek other theaters for employment. ' " She showed herself a keen observ er of character. The tight little "shut out" never get very far, never do much for themselves nor for anyone else. They never circulate the good things they have or know. That kind of woman never repeats a compliment to its object. She says she is afraid she might be considered a flatterer. M's flattery is an insincere compliment. How does she know that John uray s remark tnat: "Molly Haynes has a prettier com plexion than any other girl in town, isn't sincere? He may be mistaken. But since he said it to Mrs. Tight's little shut out and not Molly Haynes, herself, he probably meant it. Why deprive Molly of the pleasure of knowing that one person thinks it. It may make for the permanent im provement of her complexion. She may take better care of it. A woman visiting In a town told a druggist that he had a fine salesman in embryo in his new clerk. Why not put that opinion in circulation? It would give courage and confidence to the boy, who lived in constant terror of mistakes, a bad working condition. And it would make the employer more tolerant of the rookie's blunders. Don't be afraid to repeat compli ments. Be afraid of concealing them. They may be the stimulus a life needs. They may be the turning point of a life. , , Lend your books, even though some of them are not returned. That faded dress upstairs? You can't dye it since just now dyes are nearly worthless you have outgrown it. Give it to that smaller woman you know, the sides of whose purse gen erally crowd each other because there is nothing between, but who likes pretty things and has a rare knack with the needle. She will freshenit up and wearing it will freshen her. Lend your own presence, now and then, if it will help, or cheer, or strengthen some one. Maybe your own home is a pleasanter spot. Per haps you would enjoy a book or an hour alone. You may have formed the habit of staying at home and prefer it at all times to any other place. No doubt. But lend yourself. Put good things into circulation. It is one of humanity's great duties. 05 ICQ THE HIGHE5T QUALITY EGG NOODLES 36 Aff toft Book fht SKIKMER MFG. CO. OMAHA, USA IAAGUT MACAS0MI IACICSV IN aKiAKA NATURAL MINERAL WATER BATHS Hundreds of Omaha men t and woman ara saving tima and money by taking advantage of our treatment. Way don't you? 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