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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1916)
THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1916. WOMEN LEAD MEN IN STYLE PARADE Daintier Sex Just Dotes On Shopping, While Mere Man Abhors Trading. WHY DO LADIES LIKE IT? PRESIDENT OF STANDARD OIL COMPANY DEAD John Archbold, prominent figure for year in the oil industry, fil to rally from an appendicitis operation. By A. R. GROH. "Gutss I'll have to ouy a new suit this fall," I heard a well known Omaha banker say. "I've worn this one three winters now and it's about ' worn out. There are a number of things I'd rather do than buy . clothes." 1 Nobody could dsny that it was "about worn out." Yet this man could array himself in purple and fine linen if he wanted to, for his wealth is beyond the well-known "dreams of .' avarice. Why is it that nine out of ten men hate to buy clothes? Why is it that nine out ot ten women love to buy clothes? One question is as hard to answer as the other. A woman is in her glory when she is wearing a new dress or hat. (Am I not right, madamr; A man always feels best when he has on his old clothes. Happy, indeed, is woman when she has on some "latest creation" that makes all the other women turn and look at her. And wretched is the man who has on something that makes other men turn and look at him, ' That Inner Man. , And yet, subconsciously, men want fo be "nifty" dressers. This desire is recognized and appealed to by J the nuuuug aua, wnicn snow ine weil groomed" man surrounded by admir ing ladies at the opera, or perhaps, he is addressing a "board of directors who look with aDDroval unon his ner fectly tailored garments, or maybe he is at the "regatta," cheering on his crew. ' ,v ;;. ,v -- - 1 . We see him in the movies, too. Mv my, what swell dressers are the men in the jnovies! Honestly, now, fel lows, every time you see one of those heroes don't you feel like going and nuying a new oottit and becoming I'classy", dresser? .yi v v 4. The "Movie" Idol " ' Their trousers fit tight, you know. So do their coats, and the coats are usually only buttoned with 'One but ton, the lower one. They Wear fancy vests and have a sort of debonnaire, blase, bored air as they aannter lazily auoui in a sort qi nouow-cnestea way, lhey wesr -spats and -carry a stick : and, of course, they always wear gloves. ; They'd as soon go without conars as witnout gloves. ' And in their evening, clothes, my, my, but they do look swell I And then they have. negligee Suits for golf, gray tweeds, probably, -with patch pockets and flaps that button over. These chaps never walk anywhere. There is always a big limousine or touruig car, with a respectful chauf feur, waiting for them. And they all live in the dandiest apartments, where there are oriental rugs and fireplaces and divans and vahzes and beautiful pictures. ..... v ' x ' Men to Dress Urn. ' And they. have valets. (Note: In the best circles we pronounce this , "valet," sounding the "t," and not 'valley.") My, my, yes, they all have valets. They never could get along ;. without valets. In cold weather they ; wear elegant, big, fur-collared over- coats the men do, you understand, not the valets. Yes, we all admire these heroes. We'd love to be like them. But some how we just keep on wearing our shiny suits till they get too awfully bad, and then we dash into a store some day, or to the tailor's, and buy another and keep it pressed up nicely for a few weeks. And then, back to i the old habit. w. It simply isn't in us to look nifty like the fair sex. It comes natural to most of them. , It comes unnatural to most of us. t City to Set Aside Tract : For Use of Steamships City Commissioner Jardine intro- duced an ordinance setting aside for dockage use a strip of land along the river north of Burt street and known as the Winspear tract This tract has 700 feet river frontage and aver age depth of 350 feet A OmS Caulk BMMdr. Dr. Batr Plna-Tar-Hon wtll m joor math, aeaUi tha raw apota and prmat miImi hue allmanta. lie Alt dniajUta. AdvertlMmtnt. I youmnta clear sJah If yoor skin is not fresh, smooth and glowing, or baa suffered from an unwise use qf cosmetics, hen is an easy, inex pensive way to clear h: Sp 4 aa a Inb Kaboi OhamM, bah. k matin lor taa tuuaa. Thm off with KmboI a a kM vatar. ftuk with a Sua at tlau cold MUr to cloaa Ikt para. Da Uite nfuUrlr aata a dir. an aw il il torn aat aalcUr aeolha aai Raai ap aaS Rauoi Olatam ata aoM b all JraniM. Wat aanpla ol ock, tm, wraa la Dajtai.Ualikiiiaw.ladrT' makaa sick skins well NUXATEO IRON 1 -i H.'H HI 1 !. .....I.I- i... .,,.., li ? ' ' - ' " ' i. ' - ' . , l tit'1' S r a li f" , w -mJ: ' , ML '- : ' ,1 r'W - ' " J I 1 1 'l ..:i...r.",?:wf'-- n"j-rr"v - .1 MYSTERIOUS CARD PUZZLES POLICE Italians Deny Words Scrawled There Pertain to Secret Society in Omaha. j ITALIAN STOLE THE CAB? City Dads Trying to Find Out Who Copped the Copper from City Hall Who copped the copper from the I tractor, respectively, enter the solemn root ot the city hall? scene. AUTO DEALERS IN THEIR OWN TRAIN Sixteen Oars "Used to Haul the Western Willys-Overland Agents to Factory; .V OMAHA MUSICIANS - PLAY The Union'1 Pacific special train carrying the California and other western agents o the Willys-Overland Automobile company arrived at 10:30 yesterday morning and stayed here thirty minutes. At the Union station the train was turfed over to the Northwestern to be. hauled in Chicago, 'The Overland nennl had th' rfiai nnction ot having a train that was a trtect counterpart of Union Pacific os. 1 and 2, with the exception that it carried more equipment It was made up of twelve sleepers, a parlor observation car, two diners and a bag- age car. ine train runs solid from n Francisco to Toledo. O.. where the company's annual gathering is held. It carried 220 passengers, all automobile men. . At the Union station the Overland people were met by passenger officials of the "Union Pacific and by North western men, who came on from Chi cago to furnish them safe conduct across. Iowa and Illinois. Prior to running into the Union station, the train was halted oat at the Thirty-second street crossing, where pictures were made of the members of the party, the train and the members of the crew in charge. wonting across neurasica the tram ran Special and on its own rime which was fast, it having speeded up to fifty miles per hour over some long stretches along the Platte river valley, where there, is a water grade and long tangents. Omaha Musicians..! . Adams'' SaxanhonC orchestra of Omaha is in Toledo, furnishing in strumental joy for the grand meet ing of the Overland automobile deal ers from all over the country, who are there celebrating for a few days. Holland Harrold, head page of the Commercial club, manager of this or enestra and incidentally the trap drummer for the orchestra, has writ ten, commissioner Manley, They sure take their 'hats" off to the big little orchestra from Omaha. They arc giving us a rare treat. Juvenile Authorities Seek Fannie Singer Fannie Sinecr. 16-vear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Singer, 1S31 North Twenty-first street, ran away from home November 24. Hoping she would return, the, grief-stricken par ents did nbt report the case to the juvenile court officers, of whom Fan nie is a charge, until today. ' Children living in the neighbor hood of the Singer home report hav ing seen Fannie in front of the post office Monday. The runaway' girl is described as short and plump, with a pretty face I dark hair and eyes. She wore a dark mue coat and sott, black velvet hat Walking with her hands in her coat pocKets is characteristic of the girl Juvenile authorities are bending eV. cry effort to locate the missing girl- Franke Reports On The Auditorium Receipts Manager Franke of the Auditorium reported i,oou.su as November re ceipts. A new' source of revenue is rent of $100 a month collected fmm a down-town garage concern for ue of 64x128 feet of basement space The Central Labor union petitioned the council to use this basement as a municipal market A Splendid Cough Medicine 'I have used Chamberlain's Cough Kemedy a number of times during mo iwu or mree years tor colds coughs and hoarseness, and am pleased to say it has always given me prompt relief. I consider Chamber lain's Cough Remedy a splendid med icine and have recommended it to many of my friends, who have used it and likewise praise it hiirhlv" writes Mrs. W. F. Frantz, Colden N. Y. Advertisement "Bal Cneisic All 'Etna No. 5 Guar- barobe." These words scra,wled on a card found on the river bank near wheVe the seven-passenger auto of A. W. Taggart plunged into the water and theft turned turtle, led the police to believe yesterday that nobody had met his death in the accident. Police say that the words are Ital ian and that the last word is the name of a .secret society here in Omaha. Strengthening this theory is the state ment of a youns: Italian who was overhead telling a compatriot that be stole the Taggart auto, had driven it out toward Florence arid was justpre- paring to strip it when the brakes slipped and the car plunged over the embankment. 1 his clue also conforms to the find ing ol Officer I-Jans Nielsen. He says mat tne orake ot the car was not on and that the clutch was disen gaged, the shifting gear lever being in neucrai position. All attempts to have Italians trans- late the mysterious words on the card were without avail.. One man' denied that the words were Italian, but later admitted that two of them, the first and third, were Italian. He said he knew no secret society here by the name of Guarbarobe, but suggested that the Italian consul here micht Know. -i vinzcns oi umana ann hinrenr dragged the river until dark Monday. ..:u, : .a . . . . ,. ' mgui ui vain cuun 10 nna ooaies. American Widows' Bazar PlansXampaign for Funds The Society of American Widows' Christmas baiar opens Fridav at 206 Crounse block. Red trick candy boxes, representing bricks in the pro posed Widows' building, will be sold. A general campaign for funds for the new building will he launched Decem ber 11 to continue until January 1. Mrs. Bessie C. Turoin is the presi dent. The city commissioners discussed that question with such heat that the remainder of the copper on the top of me municipal Duuaing melted and fell in brilliant streams to the walks below as tears shed by the gods for the distressed, city dads. Reduced to terms of the movies, the story would run as follows: 'Twas a dark and stormv nicht in the alley at the rear of the city hall. A man driving a horse-drawn vehicle was observed loading eight rolls of sheet copper into the wagon. He covered the, copper with tiling. Evi dently he was surreptitious. Close-up view of horse turning head around to learn whether its master was ready to proceed. i my i lm, frty nan tinner, is se creted on the lire escape. He wit nesses the copping of the copper. Tim informs Dick Grotte, city purchasing agenc. urorte teiepnones Walt Jar dine about the copper. Scene; City council meeting. Tar- dine demands an investigation, ex plaining he can bring in the evidence. Mayor Dahlman calls Jardine. who rushes out and returns with Grotte and two workmen. W, E. Stockham and R. J. Butke, architect and con- Loses $500 Diamond Ring to Holdup Men Thieves violated the Adamson eight-hoar law again Mondav nieht. Mrs. B. Berry, 2923 Leavenworth street, was busy on . her rear porch, when an intruder gained entrance through the front door and stole $10 she was saving toward her Christmas shopping. Charles Kopald of 514 South Thirty-first street was walking at Twenty fifth and Jones streets when his pro gress was impeaea Dy a stranger who took a two-karat diamond valued at $500, and $20 in cash.. . The stranger was. so insistent that Mr. Kopald could not resist him. - Anthony Anderson, Thirteenth and Ohio streetsi stepped into a refresh ment bazar, where $10 was taken from his pocket without his knowledge un til he tried to'find the bill. The no nce are looxing lor tne "Now we shall see who conned the tuppen announced tne mayor. Grotte testified that to the best of his knowledge and belief the copper was on the city hall roof two weeks ago yesterday. "Do you think the high cost of liv ing naa anytning to do with the dis appearance of the copper?" asked Commissioner Withnell. "Maybe the war in Europe is the cause," suggested Jardine. "It may be we are inadvertently contributing to the continuance of the war," said Commissioner Kugel. "We are here to find who took the copper, testily interposed the mayor. so we are. reo ied lardine After much parleying, the commis sioners learned that there had been a misunderstanding between the gen eral contractor and a subcontractor. Nebraska Farmers Are Holding Thirty fer uent oi wneat Because of a falling off in the ex port demand and continued talk of an embargo on foodstuffs, wheat prices slumped off a couple of cents, getting down to $1.611.69 per bushel on the local market. Receipts were fifty seven carloads. An estimate made by Omaha grain dealers, after getting in correspond ence with their country agents, brings out the facrt that in the hands of the Nebraska farmers at this time there is about 30 per cent of the wheat grown last season, as against 48 per cent, tha ten-year average. Corn sold up a half cent per btrstrH, due princinallv to a Eood demand from the feed lots. Prices ranged be tween B39iMH cents per bushel. with seventy-four carloads on the market Oats were uo a half cent seflhw around 5151& cents per bushel. Re ceipts were ten carloads. Will Never Be Without This Simple Laxative Dr. Caldwell' s Syrup Pepsin Relieved Her Baby When Nothing Else Would Little Max Pendergast is now 4 years old, and a fine healthy boy. When but a tiny baby, in fact almost from birth, he suffered a great deal from constipation. 'His mother, Mrs. Carl W. Pendereast. Red Kev InH.. hrarA -I T- .-I i ... J '. oi liv. taiaweu s syrup jJepsin, ob tained a bottle of it from the drug store, and with it was able to quickly correct this condition. Mrs. Pendergast says Dr. Cald well's Syrup Pepsin has saved them from calling the doctor many times, and that she will never be without a bottle of it in the house to use when needed. She found it equally effective as a laxative for herself and other members of the family. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is a combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin, pleasant to the taste, mild in action and positive in effect. It does not gripe or strain, and contains no opiate or narcotic drue. It is the ideal family laxative, mild and pleasant tor DaDy, yet acting quickly. To avoid imitations and ineffective substitutes be sure to ask for Dr. Caldwell's Svnio PeDsin. Se that a facsimile of Dr. Caldwell's signature and his portrait appear on the yellow carton in which the bottle is packed. A trial bottle, free of charge, can be obtained by writing to Dr. W. B. Cald well, 453 Washington St, Monticello, Illinois. SW TOO MOBEt'TBERfi A REMOU IU3-l54SH(X7ardSt To Santa Claus: It will pay you to get our prices on Christmas presents before you buy. , r3 Coaster Wagons, $1.75 and Up. Red Metal Wagons,' 75c and Up. Tricycles with leather sad. dies, spring saddles $1.25, $3.78, $135. . Automobiles $315 $4 itn $170, $6.55. tnrEM ttrenrtli of aeiicaw, ntrvoui, run down popit zoo pr i cent in ton- Um in many iitiuncet. 1109 I forfeit if It fail m n full tipUnatian tn Urr I niew toon 19 nppatr u mi paper. 1 Aak four doetor q! I -run mt -bout it. Sherman ft Mc3onnJnr gt-i jlwft I Wheelbarrows 35o to 60c. Doll Oo-Carti .with reclin in? backs, like this cut, and rattan ones in green, blue and . ivory finishes. .Price $155. - . U .ltclb itira'!iMmifpjiiiii!Miiiii:raBmaiiii Strong & Garfield Sk&lM I Strong & Garfield , i Slater & Morrell . lm. I Slater & MorreU Dr. Reed's Cushion Soles. '""f . Dr. Reed's Cushion Soles i ; " For Gentlemen Vy mmmmmmmmmmmmi For Gentlemen , PIERCE SHOE CO. I ' il l Broadway and Main Street COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA VA, Wright & Peters, E. P. Reed & Company and LaFrance Ladies' Boots rl Widths AAA to E-Sizes 2 to 10 Prices Range From $5.00 to $7.5Q $2.00 to $3.00 a Pair Less Than Any Store on Earth 1917 Styles Open for Your Inspection. H t Harry F. Pierce. Council Bluffs Oldest Shoe Merchant mimn b $oubUeer - "f- Cmm By HmlT Brewed and Bottled by Jetter Brewing Co, Ltd. OMAHA, NEB. If you want good help put your Wanted" column of The Omaha Bee. ad in the "Help Phone Tyler 1000 If you want health you can have it, by heeding Nature's laws. Keep the stomach Strong, the liver active, the blood pure, and the bowels regular, and you will seldom be UL Take good care pf these organs, and at the first sign of anything wrong promptly take Beecham's Pills. you certainly need the nelp and relief of this world-famed remedy, to keep the body in health. They quickly establish nor mal conditions, so the organs perform their functions as Nature intended. 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