THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1917.
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French Soldier in Our Midst
The new French society, L'AHi
ance Francaise, is bringing together
French men and people interested in
French from all parts of Omaha. In
teresting men whom we scarcely
knew were among us are rallying to
the standards of France, as unfurled
by the society, and are coming into
closer touch with each other in
friendly fashion. Among the most
enthusiastic members of the audience
at the address of Louis Delamarre in
Central High school Wednesday
evening were two French, officers,
who are stopping at the Blackstone.
These two gentlemen, Monsieur Le
Francois and Monsieur Huret, are
typical French gentlemen, particular
in habits and charming in manners.
They found distinct pleasure in hear
ing an address delivered entirely in
their native tongue and showed their
pleasure by vigorous applause.
The strains of the stirring French
hymn, "The Marseillaise," brought
sad memories to them. While serv
ing at the front 'one of the officers
had his horse shot from under him.
At the same time the young man be
side him, only 19 years old, wounded
and dying, sang "The Marseillaise"
with his last breath. In this engage
ment the officer's back was broken,, so
that he was unfit for .further service
even after he had recovered his
health. Instead of accepting the gov
ernment s permission to retire to his
home he offered himself for any sort
of service which his health would al
low him to undertake. He was sent
to America, as many other officers
have been, to engage in the buying
of horses for military service, and is
at present located in Omaha.
'
Entertain iFor Visitors.
Mrs. B. F. Marshall entertained
fifteen of her friends this afternoon
at a kensington tea in honor of her
house guest, Mrs. I. t. Marshall.
The parlors were decorated in pink
roses.
Much social attention is being paid
Mrs. C E. Goodis of Salt Lake
City, who has been the guest of her
sister, Mrs. Lee Huff, and Mr. Huff
since before the Holidays and will be
here until next Wednesday. Mrs.
Huff entertained at luncheon and
bridge at her home Tuesday in honor
of her sister; Mrs. Madeline Krug
gave a luncheon and bridge party
for her Ihursday and she was the
dinner truest of Mr. and Mrs. L. M
Pegau last night. Mrs. Segelke will
entertain at a bridge luncheon Satur
day in honor of Mrs. Goodis and Dr.
ana Mrs. . u. tienry are giving a
bridge for her Saturday evening.
Mrs. Fred Pearce will give a lunch
eon at the Blackstone Monday com
plimentary to Mrs. T. F. Marshall
In the Opera Boxes.
Boxes at the opening performance
of the San Carlo Grand Opera com
pany were well filled. Although the
new arrangement of the9 seats was
rather inconvenient for those who
wished to- see all the performance.
music lovers found the production of
Aida very enjoyable.
fn additionjto the partv entertained
by Mr. and Mrs. Clement Chase, Mrs.
',. W. Nash had as her guests in her
box
Mefftrn. and Mesdames-
Joseph Barker.
Old Flames
My
Wife
By Nell Brinkley
Copyright, 11 T, International Newa Hervtre
K. P. Peck.
IJenl.te Barkalow.
Mtssen Mlaaea
Frances Nash. Marie Woodard,
M. I'rouir.' Claire H. Woodard.
Mrs. R. a H. Bell. Denver.
In another party were:
Messrs. and Mesdames
Joseph Baldrlge, C. C. George,
Messrs. Messrs.
Benjamin F. Smith, ' Farnam Smith. t
Social Gossip.
Judge and Mrs. J. W. Woodrough
have closed their summer home at
Seymour lake and have taken an
apartment at the New Hamilton for
the rest of the winter.
Mrs. Ralph Tennel of Sabetha,
Kan., arrived last evening for a week
end visit with Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Platte and to attend the opera. j
Mr. and Mrs E. P. Ellis are en-
tertaining Miss Marian Bingham of
Minneapolis, who will make a three
weeks' visit. Saturday, Mrs. Eliis and
Miss Bingham will go to Sioux City
for a few days visit with' relatives.
Mr. ,Walter- D. Williams has re
turned from an eastern business trip.
Mr. and Mrs. John Dorrington of
Sparta, Wis., are the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Martin and Mr. and
Mrs. P. C. Hyson. Mrs. Dorrington
is just out of the Methodist hospital,
where a minor operation was per
formed, t
Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Hyson leave the
vfirst of the week for an eastern trip.
On their return trip they plan to
visit Congressman and Mrs. C. F.
Reavis in Washington and Mr. Hy
son's family at Stewarttown, Pa.
Mrs. Chester Nieman and son, Mas
ter Robert, leave tomorrow for a
week's visit with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Sanford. Mrs. Nieman
goes to attend the wedding of Miss
Breta Bills. ,
Mrs. Lloyd B. Wilson is spending
- from Thursday until Sunday with her
parents in Lincoln.
Notes of Future Events.
Over sixty reservations have been
made for the suffrage luncheon to be
given at the Blackstone February 7,
in connection with the Congressional
union conference.
Mrs. William Archibald Smith and
Mrs. Earl E. Stanfield, regent and
vice regent of Major Isaac Sadler
chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, will entertain chapter
members at tea at the Fontenelle,
following the regular meeting Satur
day, February 3. '
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Martin will
entertain at a family dinner Sunday
in honor of Mr. and Mrs. John Dor
ringlon of Sparta, Wis., who leave
v for their home next week after an
extended visit. Mr. and Mrs. Coff
man of Lincoln will be other out-of-town
guests. Covers will be laid
for ten.
, Boxes for the concert of the Tues
day Morning Musical club at the
Brandeis next Tuesday evening have
been taken by Mesdames S. S. Cald
well, C. M. Wilhelm, J. E. Summers
and E. W. Nash. The Flonzaley
quartet and Miss Corinne "Paulson.
Omaha pianist, is the musical event
The Sermo club will entertain at
a matinee party at fhe-Orpheum next
Tuesday afternoon.
For Departing Couples.
Miss Vivian Griffith will entertain
at dinner this evening at the Black
stone in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Wal-
Pure White Light
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
"Will you kindly explain the blend
ing of colors? At a vaudeville show I
saw a man wilh a green cnat under a
white spotlight. The light was
changed to red and the coat turned
to purple. Then when a purple light
was turned on the coat became black.
"M. N. D."
Few ever reflect what a dull, mo
notonous, ugly world ours would bt if
we bad only monochromatic, or one
color, light. There are in the heavens
rod stars and blue stars, and I have
heard some persons say: "Oh, how
delightful it would be to live In the
light of a ruby or a sapphire sun!"
But it would be anything but de
lightful to an inhabitant of this
earth who happened to be translated
to such a place. He would miss all
the splendor of the contrasted colors,
and the shifting and changing hues to
which he is accustomed here.
He would never see a rainbow. He
would never catch the prismatic
gleam of a dewdrop in the sunshine.
The autumn trees would never put
on their robes of russet, scarlet,
crimson and gold for him. A tree
clothed by a winter sleetstorm in a
suit of crystal would not look, as
Mary Twain described it, 'like the
Shah of Persia's diamond plume."
The flowers in his garden would
be all of one color or else all black.
They would have no chance to se
lect among the waves of light the
colors' that best suited them, re
flecting those while absorbing and
thus concealing the others.
It is probable that there are- only
Firemen Carry Women
From Burning Building
Members of Fire Company No. 6,
known as "The Gallant Six, Twenty-fourth
and Cuming streets, gath
ered additional laurels -early Friday
morning at a fire at the home of Mrs.
Ida Bearman, 710 North ' Twenty
third street, when they carried Mrs.
Bearman tnd her daughter from the
burning building to places of safety
in the homes of neighbors.
The blaie started in the basement
of the house, presumably from hot
ashes, and had gained considerable
headway when the firemen arrived.
Mrs. Bearman and her daughter were
in their rooms on the second floor,
partly overcome by smoke. They
were carried to the open air, where
they were revived and found shelter
next door.
Several hundred dollars damage
was caused by the fire. '
three really independent .colors id ' .
sunlight, but it has not been finally
decided just what they are For-
merly it was supposed that they were .
red, yellow and blue; then that they
were red, green and violet, but an-,;,
other opinion is that they are red,
green and blue. - j
A glass prism separates white sun-1'
light into a band of seven distinguish-
able colors, called the spectrum,
These seven are, in order, red, orange
yellow, green, blue, indigo and violetj "
and they always stand in that ordepfj
of succession, the red being produced -by
the longest light waves and the
violet by the shortest. ' H
Waves longer than those making ,j
the sensation of red, and shorter than
those making the sensation of violet, w
are indistinguishable to the sense of ,
sight, although they produce other
recognisable effects. But several of
the seven spectrum colors are evi- m
dent compounds, only three, as al-(
ready said, being independent . or":
fundamental. ' : "f
Then we have in the arts and ;
among natural objects a large num-
ber of colors which are not found
in the spectrum, but are formed of "
various combinations of spectrum -
colors, in varying degrees of strength
and of tint. Thus a certain quality of
red combined with a certain quality ,
of green makes yellow, and a certain ,
quality of blue combined with a cer
tain quality of red makes purple, the
laltae nn heinW anftrtim rnlfir &f
all, although some persons confound
it with violet.
The light waves have, in themselves,
no color, just as the sound waves
have, in themselves, no notes. A
great painting is a color symphony.
On the other hand, some oersons as
sociate sounds with colors, and an
CAVJUIBHC JJICIU Ul muoiv 14 w tut.,,.
almost a visible melody.
, When we mix pigments, i. e. col
ored substances, we do not get ex-
actly the same effects from combina- '
tion that we get from mingling the '
spectrum colors, because pigments do
not exhibit pure colors. Opaque sub stances,
such as dyed stuffs, flowers, '
leaves, wood or stone, obtain their
characteristic colors by a process of ;
selection among the light waves that 1
impinge upon them.
. Owing to some peculiarity of their
molecular make-up, they absorb
some of the colors and reflect others. .
The absorbed colors disappear, and ,
the object assumes a hue due to the
reflected ones. This hne seldom, if :
ever, accords with any pure spectrum ,
color. 1
THE man drew to the end of his
love-tale as the brown snub of
his good cigar burned short and
shorter. ; He had lighted and blown
out many flames as you have seen.
"I haven't told nearly all," quoth
he, "but there've been enough to
light my way around the world, my
friend; as it is with most menwhat
with all the elderly white women,
the young ones sprinkled through,
the babies that deliberately search
for a heart to steal it, that roam
the world to make themselves each
a shelf in the little secret closet of
his heart! But I muddled through,
with the blind instinct of the male,
to port at the last found, the face
that has, kept my heart young
grasped my dream almost the
mingled silver and gold shine that
she was.
"Next to my last flame was my
wife. Somehow it's hard to make
this a fussy, extravagant story. It's
naturally a plain one. She was just
a girl; the first time I saw her she
was patting the hand of an old, old
man and I was introduced. The next
time I saw her she was, feeding the
birds in the white winter time. And
the next time I saw her she was
talking the tears away from the heart
of an anguished child, with her white
arms 'round about him.
"I didn't see much how she looked
except that her eyes and! her mouth
smiled often and her hair was shiny;
and there was a sweet woman some
thing about her figure that made me
think of summer, coming, holding
love by the tiny hand. And I wanted
her to pat my head to feed me, too
to talk away my anguish with white
arms 'round about.
"And that was all I asked her, and
she smiled and said 'Perhaps I' But
she put her hand in mine and I
married me a wife!
"And straightway out of my heart
flew all the flames that had danced
there and cried as they flew. 1
"And they flickered low and frv
away; save now wlicu l ve putted
out my cheeks and blown, hard to
rouse them up for you.
"Twin flames burn now each side
of my old heart no room for any
other. No matches either. Love
my love, at last, has grown old and
gray with me and he's scratched
the last little glow-worm in his box
and now he shakes it.
NELL BRINKLEY.
ter L. Griffith, who leave' Monday
for their new home in Wilmington,
N. C. Seven guests will be present,
the table to be decorated in red carna
tions, with place cards to harmonize
with the color scheme.
B. F. chapter of the P. E. O. sister
hood will entertain at dinner Tuesday
evening at 7 o'clock at the Rome
for Mr. and Mrs. E. A. McLaughlin,
who leave soon to make their home
in Detroit Cbvers will be laid for
eighteen guests.
Luncheon for Hr. Neihardt.
John G. Neihardt of Bancroft, a
Nebraska poet of growing renown,
who gave reading from his poems
for the Omaha Society of Fine Arts
today, was entertained at luncheon
at the Omaha club by the courtesies
committee of the Fine Arts society,
headed by Mrs. Charles T. Kountze.
Meredith Nicholson of Indianapolis,
well known writer, who is a guest
at the Kountze home, introduced Mr.
Neihardt at both the luncheon and
afternoon affair. Aside from board
and courtesies committee members,
covers were placed for the poet's
mother, Mrs. Alice Neihardt, Mr. and
Mrs. Keene Abbott, Mr. and Mrs. Au
gust Mothe Borglum and Mr. Edgar
H. Scott.
War Relief Benefit.
For the benefit of widows and or
phans of the Allies, Queen Mary and
Shakespeare lodges of the Order of
St. George will give a dance and
carnival Wednesday evening in the
Lyric building. The officers in charge
of the affair are: President, Mrs.
Rose Morris; vice president, Mrs.
Jessie Isitt; financial secretary, Mrs.
E. A. Hoylf; recording secretary,
Mrs. E. A. Nelson, and treasurer,
Mrs. Gertrude Morris. A gypsy for-
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Superstitious Chauffeur
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When G. H. King of 2127 Dougls
street, onerator of a motor truck.
called at the office of the superinten
dent of police for a 1917 permit he
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Junior Musical Event.
The Junior Musical club will give
its next musical program Saturday
afternoon, February 3, at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Clarke, jr., at 3
o'clock. Gilbert Doorly, who was
to be one of the guests to take part
in the program, lost his violin in the
fire of Monday, and so will not be
able to take part. The other visitors
on the program will be Richard
Munchhoff and Miss Agnes Knofli
cek, a 17-year-old violinist, who has
studied in France. The literary pro-
?;ram preceding the concert will have
or its subject, "Tschaikowsky."
Sunday Dessert
Fig pieces and Seedless Raisins, plenti
fully sprinkled in Rich Ice Cream.
Sounds inviting, doesn't it? It's our
Special dessert for tomorrow called
SULTANA. You couldn't imagine
anything healthier for children. They
all know
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