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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1916. Vood Things for the Table Offerings of the MarketHousehold Hints Home Economics department I Household Efficiency l The wordj "efficiency" and "scien tific management" have become al most catchwords through the num ber of times we have been them in yrint. We accept them without com jnent when applied to the business world, but Household Efficiency in the strict sense of the word is not Jjuiie so familiar. Efficiency may be ! asimply defined as the quickest and I easiest method of accomplishing Jvork. We are all seeking for that adeal, but the business world sought liarder because there the difference between efficient and inefficient meth od may be reckoned in dollars and rents. , In the household we put up with inefficiency because the differ ence there is more intangible. It can only be reckoned in terms of leisure, Contentment, better health for the one who does the work and general liappiness for the whole household, father precious things, aren't they? Still, who can measure them accu rately? In the busines"fworld efficiency .means fairly definite working prin- Z THE HIGHEST QUALITY i SPAGHETTI SKINNER MFG. COL OMAHA. U.1A, lAIOtSriMCMOWMatmilaMtlKA Begin With : the New Year to improve yoursejf in mind and body by eating. TIP TOP r BREAD Because it is made in a clean and sani tary bakery from the best ingredients ancUbaked in the ' World' Largest Electric Oven' ' , which gives a perfect heat distribution 1 and utmost cleanliness. (, We invite your inspection at , any time, of this most wonderful electrical achievement. Largest loaf of quality bread found on the market for 10 cents. ' U. P. STEAM BAKING CO., ram EBB YO U C A N DO IT Cut tha H. C. elf L. by taking advantage of tha hundreds of every slay lowar prieaa at THE BASKET STORES Anyone cn make a low Vrice on a few "leader" or "baits," but by our modern system we v WHILE THEY LAST- CAR OF ORANGES NOW JN Beet Oreagae, etaa 2AS, daaea ...... 13c . (Other alaea la proportion.) On'oaa. No. t YeUaw, par la .... Oftlene, No. S Red, snulL peck . .4Se E.H.orn Milk 84 and 10c Stda, 10c pkg. .......... J. ,0c Sell. 10c S-lb. each , . . J . .Sc PeH White Soap. 7 bare. .... ... rC..2Sa White Borax NapUU, 7 here. ...... .ZSc Riea. beet Jap. 10c grate, S lb. 35c Sugar, beet beet.' 10 lee 70c (Thie la mere than 14 Ike. far $1.00.) Shredded Wheat. 16c pkg. He Netiaaal Cara Flatee, c a lar lae Pike'e Peak Macaroni, Spaghetti ar iua Pg . ..a Beckea Park aad SVaans, can.. JOc Lowar prieaa in qnantltiaa aad easa Iota It pays to nsaka $5.00 Orders Dntivared Free Smaller Onaa for Be. ' Look in aanaaBnaananTnaMMn Read Want ads for Profit Co-Operation. Readers are cordially invited to ask Miss Gross any questions about household economy upon which she may possibly give help ful advice; they are also invited to give suggestions from their expe rience that may bo .helpful to others meeting the same problems. ciples, the essential ones of which will be discussed later. It remained for a woman to -carry over these business principles and apply them to the household. Mrs. Christine Fred erick, if not the first to apply these principles, was certainly the first woman to popularize them in printed form. Her book, "The New House keeping," sets forth the ideas of Household Efficiency in nontechnical, interesting fashion. Mrs. Frederick livfd.her doctrines before she made it known to the public; hence the special value of her statements. Of the twelve principles of effi ciency, 1 think the following may be considered the essential ones: "Ide als," "Standard Motions," and "Stand ard Practice," "Standardized Condi tions," and "Dispatching and Sclied- J.uling." The first is self-explanatory; . i - . :-)--! ,-,.,a.j which she is consciously working. We get lost in a mass of detail, we let little thrrrgs assume unduly large im portance unless we can relate every thing to one big purpose. I suppose the big purpose of any household is the making of happy, worth-while people; I am sure it never is just keeping house." "Standard Motions" CMDIT AMD WORRY ASH AND JOY "j five you low prices on everything. ' Chuaa Sahaea, tall can.,...... Pink Salmon, tall can. Red Alaaka Salnaaa, tall tea. . , Heavier, large tan, e 3 tor. Cara ar Tomatoea, aiaa I can. Prunaa, 80-70 aba, Ik. Armour's Tomato Soup, caa. . . 3 cans (or.,., ...,c ...lie ...ttc ...He . ...c ...lie ... .Sc Cotjea. Economy, We grade, Ik.. 1 8c Coffee, Independent, SBc grade, lb. I8 a.i. f Tea. ataykloeeera, Japan, ',-lb. pkg. Kellog'a Driaket, aa It UD colored 20c siaa ae aoa 20c ...... ..4EC Peetunm. 2Se Poetuna, 80c caa. . . Cacoa. T la. aSe caa Cecea, W. H. Baker'., Sc can. ..20c Use Them for Results Bee Want Ads Never Fall. and "Standard Practice" mean the working out of the easiest and quick est method of accomplishing any one piece of work. Take common, ordi nary dusting, for instance. To dust properly, one must gather up the dust. The shape of the cloth is of some importance, also. An oblong one is easier to handle than a square. Then for the motions. There are women who work a dust cloth back and forth as though they were pol ishing. Once going over any surface should take up all ordinary dust. If you will analyze your motion in dust ing an ordinary dining room chair, I am sure you will find that you waste some motions. The objection to mo tion study is that it takes Up so much time to work out an efficient way of accomplishing any task. It does take time during the process, but in the end there is a real saving of time and energy. "Standardized Conditions," includes right surroundings, right grouping of apparatus, and right tools. Since the kitchen is the chief workshop of the house, a study of the kitchen is necessary to secure standarized con ditions. This topic will be, considered in a later article. The last principles, "Dispatching and Scheduling," mean a' timing of the ordinary household tasks, and then planning the day's work in accordance with the time allotted to each task... There again is an expenditure of time and thought in working out such a plan. AIo a household.-which deals with children in most cases, can never be run on an exact business schedule. Granting a, household may not oper ate exactly on schedule, still there is a decided advantage for a house wife to know ahead of time in what order she will go through the day's work, and also to have some idea as to the length of time required for each task. ' I have a very clear picture in my mind of the disdainful expression on the faces of some of my readers as they read these statements. The thought running through your minds is ! Housekeeping was done successfully long before any such foolish not ion 3 were introduced." And so it was I grant you; but just as long as there are women in the world, who com plain that housework Is drudgery, just that long (and longer) will there be room for improvement in housekeeping- methods. There is nothing more .difficult in the world than to change established habits and cus toms, Wc hage done housekeeping so long in a haphazard fashion that it is almost sacrilege to suggest sys tematic methods. There is no pain like the pain of a new idea." There is just one danger, however, in adopting any system for the run ning of l household. No woman is truly efficient who is not bigger than her system, and ready to throw it overboard , if necessary. The house wife who is a slave to her system is not one whit better off than the old fashioned fussy housekeeper who was a slave to ber own exaggerated ideas of household cleanliness. A system properly, handled should give more time and energy to the things of life which ar,e worth while in themselves and not as means to an end more time for club or church or social Work, or more time just for compan ionship with the family, - The New V'ear ts the time for new thoughts Household efficiency is a real friend to the woman who masters it. I.EMOV l-REHKHYK. 1 lifts. lemons 4 pounds sugar 1 rup water . 4 oup chopped rialr. 14 oup almonds Peel and cut the lemons' in slices Start the New Year Right by Trading at the WASHINGTON MARKET -All Kind of, Fresh Dressed Poultry at Our Usual . Low Prices. ' , MEATS ISIS Lamb Hlndouarters, lb. ,, . ,IS, IStS Lamb Porequsrters. lk,.....12Ho Small Pig Pork Loins, any quantity, per lb-., ' i Ui Freeh Spare Kibe, lb ,ll',e Fresk Skinned Pork shoulders, lb., 1334a Freeh Hide Pork, lb lV,o Choice Steer Rib Roast, lb ...itSe l.hoiee Steer Shoulder Roast, U...l2,e Choice Steer BollingBeet, l S,o Choice Steer Round Steak, lk,.,,,..18 Choice Hleer Sirloin Steak, lb ITVte Choice Steer Shoulder Steak, lh,..12V,o Young Veal Roait, lb ISa Young Veal Breast, lb. .......... Il',e Frash Solid Paektd OysUrs, per Quart. ........ ft. .... ,45c Morrell's or .Swift's Pramium Braakfait Baaos, par lb. . . , . , . .27 - AUTO DELIVERIES TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY. ; Writ, far our ataaeit-aarkif trie list, -; ' Mail araers pramptly attendee) to. THE WASHINGTON MARKET The eaaal eaaitary and iar-e-eate grocery and ateet awrket la the middle wear. Phane Tyler 470 Conaecte All Deals. 1407 Douglas St, Omaha. V MEAT DEPARTMENT Theae priaaa aa btga glade, tha Man yaa like to eat. Veal Staw. Ik lac Veal Steak, lb 21 e Veal Reaat. Ik 18c Veal Rib Bail, ft 10a, He Bacon Strtaa. bv atria, lb lac Bacon Baeka. by atrip, Ik (Baaan Sa la. Kara If aUaaa.) Na. 1 Storage Egga, doaaa. ...... .IBC leiiaw braaan i niece ia. , Cri.ce. ' .sac. aac. si.a ARMOUR'S BUTTER1NE A good aakatlrut far the beet knttar Tip, white, beet grade, Ik BSC Tip, Hated, beet grade, Ik.. . . . .14e Cash Haktt, high grade, lk......lc Magnolia, rood, 2-lk. rail ...... .2 up food sisaa orders. . Phono Book for Star Naarast Yarn. and soak for a day in cold water. Boil the sugar and water for twen ty minutes, stirring constantly to keep from burning. Add the lemons, chopped almonds and raisins and let thicken slowly. This is a very good sandwich filling. v WINTKB MASMAL.4DE " "" 1 pound dried epiicotaBcant quart sugar i quart apple sauce .,. or 1 oraaga Wash apricots thoroughly, .cover with hot water and soak overnight. Make a quart of smooth apple sauce. Rub the softened apricots through a sieve to remove fibres, and stir the pulp, the sauce, sugar and orange juice thoroughly together. Cook very slowly, with asbestos mat under the kettle to prevent scorching. About forty-rive minutes will be required. Put in jelly glasses, and when cold, cover with paraffin. ' YORKHIRK PABKIX. - t pound medium oatmeal S ounces dripping te around ginger molaasse '.a, teaapeonlul aalt A lb. browe sugar' Mix the salt with the oatmeal, and rub in the fat. Add the sugar and ground ginger. Mix to a stiff dough with molasses. Roll out half an inch thick, cut into squares, and bake on a greased tin for twenty minutes. The oven should be hot. , s Miscellaneous Recipes. Baked Chops and Potatoes. Get shoulder chops for this if they are cheaper, but loin chops are better. Mutton, veal, lamb or pork may be used. Butter the baking pan, and in it arrange id layers potatoes sufficient for the family, allowing two medium sized ones to a person. Peel and slice thin, and sprinkle between each layer salt and pepper. Turn in enough cold water to prevent burning and put in a hot oven until the top layer is browned, then place on top of the potatoes the chops, salting and pep pering them and If the potatoes seem dry add a little more boiling water. Bake until the chops are brown' on one side, then turn them and brown the other. The chops must be served in the dish in which they are baked. . ' ' Prune Podding. Soak the prunes over night, simmer until well swelled the next day, but do not sweeten. Trim the crusts from stale bread, reserving them to be pulverized after drying for bread crumbing, cut in slices, butter. Put in buttered pudding dish a layer of the bread, then a. layer of the seeded prunes and sprinkle with sugar and a little grated lemon peel. Repeat until dish is filled, finishing with the but tered bread. Turn in a little 6f the prune juice, cover and bake for an hour, then remove cover and bake until bread is brown. Serve with hard sauce or with cream and sugar. Evaporated Apricot Preserves. .' Either peaches., or apricots can be cooked to a delicious preserve after soaking over night, then adding an equal amount of sugar and cooking until thick. Serve with, cream. , Breaded Chicken. , '. Get a tender chicken and have it cut up as for fricassee. Wash and wipe dry,' sprinkle with pepper and salt, dip each piece first in beaten egg, then in bread crumbs, and repeat until each piece is well covered. Arrange them iu ,a buttered pan, turn in a half cup of boiling water, put a piece bf butter on top of each piece of chicken, put a cover over the pan and bake for twenty minutes covered, then for twenty minutes uncovered, or until nicely browned. Put in hot dish, and turn into the pan gravy a cup of rich milk and half a cup of bread crumbs. Stir until smooth, then turn over the chicken. . v - .. . Pepperpot Cut up. a pound and a half of lean nutton in inch pieces. Fry a chopped anion in a tablespoon of drippings until it begins to color, then put m the mutton, season rather hot with pepper, add salt and sprinkle with flour, Stir until browned a little on " GROCERIES Beat Orannlated Sugar. 14 lha. for. $1.0(1 Waehhtirn-Orosbr's uoid Medal Flour, per eack, at. , S2.K0 No. 1 High Patent Flour, Back . . . ,3.1 All Brande Creamery Butter, lb....3A Freeh Country Butter, lb ,....3f Kxtra Large Potatoee, peek. ,45c Early June Peaa, per ea Oe SPECIAL Mecha ft Java Caffae, regu lar 30 seller, per lb ,.30e Genuine German Dill Pieklea, doten. tic Bweet or Soor Piekles, Cbow Chow or Horae RadtBh, bettlp...- ,....Sc Tomato Cateup, regular 12 ;te seller, par bottle .....r 10c CHOICE CUTS OS, BUFFALO Cora, aerly .far New Year'e dinner. TURKEYS! TURKEYS!! 15,000 LBS. GEESE Jf-llSprlnf Cnhskaaa, lb......lT'4 Fancy Dneke. lb 18Ve Pig Pork Lolne. Ik ..Il.latie Yonnn Veal Roait, lb HV4c Younn Veal Chan. Ik . iil?. Steer Sirloin Steak, lb. I"! .lv,e nirloln steak, lb. I'vc Porterhouse Steak, lb 17ic' Round Steak. Ik lr'l.c oiaer Steer rig Pork Roast. Ik 1SV4 Pig Pork Butta, lb lgti. MaS Order, Fuled at A have Prleea. EMPRESS MARKET Cmm lm mm4 pkk tut fmvr cheic of rfc TMbT't TURKEYS! TURKEYS!! MILK-FED SPRING CHICKENS tS.MO lha. Oeeae, lb., .iry,a rancy uueKa, ID.....,',..,. Pig Pork Loins, lb... Steer Pot Roast, lb........ Pig Pork Roast, lb Pig Park Butte. Ik Yonng Veal Rout, lb...... Young Veal Chop., Ik Steer Shoulder Steak, lb.,,, Sirlota Steak, lk. ....18V4c . ...IJV.e ....lov.c .....lsVtc ,...154o . ...llV.c . ...UV.c .....iav,e ....19",C Porterhouse flteok, Ik. . ..17!a Mail Orders Filled at Tkeea Prleea. PUBLIC MARKET Vegetables and' Fruits Plentiful on Market V There's another big dinner coming next Monday, when we celebrate the advent of a new year, the turning over of a new leaf. In spite of the vigorous onslaught upon the vegetable and fruit mar kets of Omaha by the hungry hosts last week, reinforcements have been received and the vegetable trenches are well manned. You- can get strawberries' 20 per cent cheaper thin you could a week ago. They're down to 60 cents a box. English hothouse grapes are on hand. ... , ' s Oranges are plentiful at 20 to 50 cents a doaen and they are ot splen did quality. Grapefruit is finer than ever, if that were possible. Cranberries, that most necessary concomitant of the roast bird for the Maiv Vor'e rttnnpr. still abound at the good old price of a dime a quart, both' sides, -then turn in a' cup of water and simmer for an hour from the time it comes to a boil; Add a cup of peeled white potatoes sliced and cook until these 1 begin to soften, add either a tablespoon of minced parsely- or green peppers and cook five minutes longer. I Celery and Nut Salad. To a cup of celery cut is half-inch pieces, add a cup of English walnut meats blanched. Put on lettuce leaves or shredded cabbage and turn over a dressing as for Waldorf salad. Ported Beef. . Put the remains of any kind of cold meat; rejecting skin, bone and sinews, in a saucepan with two or three thin slices of bacon, and a little water ant cook slowly until very tender, season with salt and pepper, a little summer savory and horseradish or Worcester shire sauce. The water should cook away, leaving the meat a tender mass, which cut and shred fine, adding the juice and rind of a lemon. Pack in custard cups, turning melted butter over the top when cold. This will keep a week or ten days in a cold place and makes a savory sandwich spread. ' Chocolate Pie. Have the pie crust ready baked. Fpr the filling mix half a cup of cocoa, half a cup of sugar, a pinch of salt and a pint of milk in the double boiler and bring to the scald, when stir in two tablespoons of corn starch -wet with a little cold milk and cook until it begins tohieken. Have three egg yolks beaten smooth, remove the chocolate mixture from the fire and stir in the yolks, return to fire for a minute- to took egg, then turn into the prepared crust. Make a meringue with the egg whites, beating them stiff, then adding two tablespoons of sugar, pile on the pie and put in a quick oven for a minute or twoMo. slightly brown the me ringue. . . Deviled Crabs. Canned crab meat of a reliable brand should be used for '-these. Sometimes the shells can be obtained with the meat, or ramekins or scal lop shells can be used.; Melt a quar ter of a cup of butter and stir into it an equal amount of flour, a tea spoon of dry mustard and salt and pepper to taste, stir until well blend ed, then add three-fourths of a cup of rich milk and cook for five minutes. Pick over a cup 6i crab meat to re move any bits of shell, mix with it two beaten egg yolks and add to the sauce, stirring well. If liked adrhj a teaspoon of chopped onion. Put jit shells, sprinkle with buttered cracker crumbs and bake brown... ' Scrapple, . , ' Xny bits of good sweet fresh pork, fat or lean, cait-be, used for scrapple. To two pounds of such pieces allow four quarts of water aud cook until very tender, take out, chop fine, strain the liquor and return the meat to it. Season with salt, pepper and sage or summer savory, bring to the boil and stir in a heaping cupful of cornmeal which has been wet with cold water to prevent its lumping. Stir well, cook tor twenty minutes, being careful it does not burn, then thicken until hardly stirable with flour. Turn into a well greased square pan and let stand until very firm. -When wanted for use slice about half an inch thick, dip in cornmeal and fry brown. Scrap ple will keep a week in cold weather. . Banana Tapioca. Slice the bananas and sprinkle with the juice of a lemon. Cook tapioca in a double boiler, allowing a . cup to three of water until it looks trans parent. , The quick cooking kind needs no overnight soaking. Add to it a pinch of salt, the grated rind ot the lemon and half a cup of sugar. Stir the bananas into the tapioca, about three will be the right amount, turn into a buttered pudding dish, put bits of butter on top and bake in a hot oven until the top is browned. Serve cold or hot with sugar and sream. Woman's World. ..d eelact a On aale kera line cut at kullele TURKEYSMU . '. :. .24,c .172c Mutton Chonn. In Choice Foreoaartera Lamb, lb llc Kxtra Lean Breekfast Bacon, Ik. . .SO'.c Sugar Cured Bacon, lk ..18c V'xtra Lean Rrguiar Hani, H....17c Suffer Cured Hum, lb 13a.c Freeh Rabbita. each lie Fresh Or stars, quart '. . . , ., ,484 SPECIALS Front 8 te 8 p. ai. Cinnitis Sausage. per ib at ac From te 10 p. ss. Laath Chape, IkL 13c uainariaa to All Porta el Use City. US South lath Street Phana Doug, 2307 buffalo i t. It 1 now rm&f lor firm 24,c dtoMr, TURKEYS!!!.. Steer Roand 8 teak, lb 17 Vie Mutton Roast, lb 8Vic Mutton Chops, lb ,...14V,c Extra Lean Breakfast Bacon, 18...20e Sngar Cared Bacon, Ik ,..18e Katra Lean Regular Rama, Ib....l7c Sugar Cured bams, lb ..UV,c Fresh Rabbits, each 10c SPECIALS Front 8 re p. ss Laaak Ckaaa, Ik, Be From 8 ta 10 p. sa, Lamb Cbopa, 13c Proeopt Deliveries. Phong Deuzla 271 Ida HARNEY STr Celery in'all grades and sizes, some of it raised right here in our own hothouses and some coming from Colorado, is plentiful. Cucumbers, without which some people think no holiday dinner complete, are fine and solid. Dates and figs of many kinds and nuts, also, are required for the holidays and you will be pleased with the great variety and reasonable prices of these. Fancy apples maintain about the same strong prices that they have held all fall. And potatoes show no sign of weakening in their prices. Tomatoes for the salad are on hand and very good ones, even though they have made the long trip from sunny California. i Fresh pineapples, tangerine or anges, pears of several kinds and several kinds of California grapes add to the holiday array ot truits on tne "local markets, WOMEN MOBILIZED HOW IN ENGLAND ,; Omaha Woman Gets Most In teresting Letter from Sela , tive on British Isle. MILLION MEN TO FRANCE War conditions in England are graphically pictured in a letter Mrs. D. R. Mills, 128 South Thirty-eighth street, has received from her sister, Mrs. Albert W. Swalm, wife of the American consul at Southampton.J The .Swalms formerly lived in, Des Moines, where Colonel Swalm owned the Register and Leader. Mrs. Swalm is a writer and well-known suffrage lecturer. No hope for peace seemed apparent there when the letter was written, December 9. The military authorities recently took over the Anchorage,' the beauti ful home of the Swalms, for billeting soldiers. Over 275 men and officers are now being housed in the sixteen- room home. Women are being mobi lized as well as the men, she writes, for work in the munitions factories. Heavy Food Restrictions. ooi restrictions are very great. Only two pounds of sugar may be bought at one time and white flour cannot be- sold at all. Food prices are mounting from day to day. There is no such thing as Christ mas celebration here, this year, with 1.000.000 more men crossing to France this month, with hundreds of wounded German onsoners ot war arriving al most daily, with loss and suffering and cruel anxiety on every hand, mere is no joy, though there is unbounded confidence and hope. .- "A most poignant scene yesterday was the arrivarhere of a squad of in sane prisoners, the result of gun shock and gas'. They'' were creatures abso lutely stunned. Albert questioned some of them, Where did you come from?' 'Where have you been?' 'Where are you now?' 'What have you been doing?' 'What has happened to. you?' " 'I don't know,' was the answer to all.. "Albert pushed some of their heads from one side to the other and they simply held them in that position as if tbey had been machinery. It is terrible to see the suffering we have seen amongst the British Tommies, as well as the prisoners of war. , , Lectures on Civil War. Colonel Swalm gave a lecture on the civil war at the Young Men's Christian association nut in the big common camp, illustrated by lantern slides. The scenes of our battlefields strewn with dead and dying would have been painful at any time, but in the midst of the shocking scenes and experience of this war, in which everything is in so colossal a scale, they were positively tame. When you think of millions of dead, mere thousands are not worth talking about, . . "A great many of the men just starting for the front talked to me after the lecture". Not one but showed the deep impression of the seriousness of his adventure, though all were full of courage and resolu tion. The spirit of the men has been fine all the way through. This ap plies to all alike, I think, on both sides, and one cannot but wonder at it sometimes when it means to so many of them disaster. - "Everyone has unbounded hope in the new government because every one looks upon Lloyd George as the embodiment of the war . spirit of Britain, and we shall see probably a far more vigorous prosecution of the war in the -near future, but nothing but a miracle will make the war end soon. Even the beginning of the end is not yet apparent,' she writes. Two Steamers Sonic London. Dec. 9. BrlUsb . steamship Copsewood, Got tons eross, has teen sunk. The Norweilan eteamshlp Ida. 1.300 tone, ia reported to hara been aunk. ' ASE FOB and GET HORLICK'S THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK Cheap SubttftntM cost YOU urn) pricv GREASING DP THE ' ' OLD WATER" WAGON The Bee Secures Exclusive In terview with Cynical Driver of Historic Vehicle. IT IS NOT HARD TO RIDE By A. R. GROH. Sol M. Lee Res.lve is the : ame of . a man who is very busy these days. He is the driver of the water wagon, the no-smoking wagon and other vehicles that carry heavy loads the first few days pfevery year. I found him greasing up his ag ons, getting ready for the New Year's rush. A sour-faced, cynical fellow he is. . . "Well, I see you're getting the old boats ready f...- the annual trip," I said. "Yeah," he drawled, without stop ping his work. "Expecting a big loai this year?" I continued? "Oh, I . cckon th' first day er two we'll have th' usual crowd," he grunted with a cynical laugh. "You don think it'll last, then?" I inquired. "Huh I 'Course it won't last," he rasped. Never does." i "Most of 'em fall off, eh?" I said. . . xMo8t Jump Off. "Fall off I" he exclaimed, "Don't let 'em tell that. They git off. Some of 'em try to let on it's too rough ridin'; but there ain't no truth in that Them wagons rides smooth as a parlor car. Some of 'ei claims they git down to piv up th' whip. ; Some says they git off -to gi; their seat to a lady. All lies I They just git off 'cause they don't want to stick on. That's all. I can't chain 'em on. It's agin' th' rules o' the -company." "Hardly pays to ' . 1 the wagons out at all," I sympathized. "Oh, it pays me, all right," he mum bled. "I gits my wages th' year . round whether anybody rides er not Makes it easier on th' horses, too. Don't worry me none if- they don't want t' ride." "Tod bad I" I said, and then de parted, leaving the old fellow mum bling to himself as he greased up the wagons. And it will be even so. You know how it is, fellows. These last few days of the old year are the best of all. The resolution has beerl taken and one can indulge in smoking (for example) to his heart's content and still have the glow of knowing that this will all soon be a thing of the past! Ah, how one will look back on the days when one used to poison oneself with nicotine I So one thinks, does one not? Their comes New Year's eve. As the whistles blow and the bells ring, our hero takes the half-smoked cigar from his lips and, with an expression of high and lofty resolve, solemnly throws it away, white friends applaud his mighty will-power. - ; ' P Misses His Smokes. . The next day or two, though, he misses his usual cigars; he is upheld by the joy of telling everybody that he has "cut it all out," He looks with considerable pityon his weaker willed friends who are still indulging. January 3 he is dining out. The post-prandial cigars are passed. He hesitates. He' is lost. "Well, I'll make an exception to the rule1 just when I'm dining out," he tells his conscience. "-i'No use being foolish abouf it. Don't want to be a kill joy." Certainly n&t! Who wants to be a kill-joy?. January 4 he decides he'll make it one a day. No more, mind you I He smokes his one for that day in "the morning. In the afternoon he intro duces another amendment to his res olution, making it two a day. The , amendment is passed, conscience Casting the only opposing vote. January 5 he's completely down off the wagon. , Alas I Alas! Such is the state of man. - Hose is Going Up; ' This News Doesn't Pertain to Ladies City Commissioner Withnell told the city council that hose is going up. The council opened bids for 8,000 feet of fire hose and made awards at prices in advance of last year's figures. ! The Omaha Auto Supply company was awarded a contract to furnish 3,000 feet of White King hose at 90 cents a foot, an increase of 10 cents over a contract made a year ago. The Anderson company will supply 3,000 feet at 85 cents and McGraw & Co. will supply 2,000 feet at 78 cents. Recommendations ' were made by Chief Salter of the fire department, to Commissioner Withnell, - Takes Hot Brick to Bed -With Him, Bed Catches Fire David Moore, aged 85, a recluse, liv ing at 1002 North Forty-ninth street, went to bed Thursday with a hot brick for warmth. About 3 o'clock in the morning he awoke to find the bed on fire. His cries attracted the attention of Hiram Greenfield, 1005 North Forty-ninth street, who came to the aged man's rescue and carried him from the burning room- His burns were minor. 'Frank McAllister and wife occupied the other part of the house.