THE BKE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1916.
Perso al Gossip : Society Notes : Woman's Work : Household Topics
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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. ,
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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. - . .
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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.
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French Ivory Manicure Sets
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SUFFERED IT YEARS
Mrs. Nellie B. Vsnarsdell, of Mackvllle, Ky., reports sit interest
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hood. She says: "I have had four nnininna far mv irn,M
there was nothing would do me any good or give me any relief but fTf
Thedford's Black-Draught. I suffered 17 years straight until I got to
using your . . '. medicine." This long standing trouble was re
liered, after other treatments failed, by the us of Thedford's Blsck
Draught, a purely vegetable preparation, made of ground roots and herbs.
For over 70 years Black-Draught has helped people who have suffered from .
constipation, Indigestion, biliousness, sick headache, etc. It may be Just
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