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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1917)
THE BEt: OMAHA. SA'loikJA, r.,KKuAKY 17. 1917 13 February 16 Whtn Mellificia, the "honey maker." wrote her little story the other day about the distingue French officers who ar staying at the Blackstone she did so because she knew that these gallant Frenchmen, whether they wish it or no, are re garded with some admiration by de lightful Omaha girls and women. The fact that the soldiers of France are brave men and have even been dec orated with the cross of the Legion of Honor merely adds to their roman tic interest in the eyes of prosaic Americans. Mr. A. R. Oroh. who quoted the above-mentioned story by Mrlliricia. is an ardent admirer of France and French people, for he has spent many a pleasant day in that beautiful land across the water. The visiting gentlemen, however, have misunderstood this, and so poor Mellificia is in receipt of a polite but stern reprimand from them, telling in plain terms that they are here as soi diers, not as social lions. This is the communication: "The French Officers to Mellificia: We have been told that you were a very smart reporter; we beg to state that we believe it, and we at first pay our compliments to you for il. "But as we think none of us ever tried to fascinate you. we most re spectfully beg you not being so smart when you talk about us, unless you want us to resent it. "You see. we came to Omaha with out any intention of fascinating any one, of being cultivated by your ma trons, of making your girls crazy about us, neither supplying fun to your wits. We are no lions, we are French soldiers, and that is quite enough, believe us. "We simply want everyone in Omaha thinking good of France, speaking good of France, wishing good to France. And yourself will understand that you had better talk less of the doings of any one of us; it is not helping France, showing us this way. "Please, Mellificia, don't be a sour honey-maker. Anyway. I tell you we don't want honey; we better see you a member of the Alliance Fran caise or adopting a war orphan. "Very respectfully yours. "The French Officers of the Black-stone." iy VTlellilcia, ll MUCH FETED GUEST RE TURNS TO HER HOME. piiilpi V ! v l nun v a . 7i: . Honor Bride-Elect. Miss Marie Hodge was the honor guest at a luncheon given at the Blackstone by Mrs. W. H. Indoe and Mrs. George Mickel, when covers were laid for twenty-four guests, all of whom are or have been teachers in the primary department of the First Methodist church. They were seated at two oval tables decorated with bas kets filled with pink tulips. The place cards were also pink tulips made ir small booklets, in which the guests wrote sayings for the bride to keep as a souvenir of the occasion. After luncheon the guests went to Mrs. Midcel's home, where a pamtmg by Miss Nora E. Riemer. a friend of Miss Hodge, was presented to the bride-to-be. The afternoon was spent informally. About the Luncheon Tables. Mrs. Milton Barlow entertained at luncheon at her home today for twelve guests. Spring flowers formed a centerpiece for the table. Mrs. John K. Morrison entertained the Friday Bridge Luncheon club, when eight of the members were pres ent The centerpiece was a bowl of yellow jonquils. Miss Minnie Bronson, anto-suffrage speaker who addressed th,e state legis lature Thursday, spent the day in Omaha. Mrs. WiUiam Archibald Smith, Mrs. T. J. Mackay and several others had luncheon with her. Mrs. Paul Gallagher entertained a few friends informally at her home at luncheon for Mrs. John Trinder, who is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Walter T. Page, and for Miss Mildred Butler, who is leaving this week-end after a week's visit in the city. This afternoon Miss Mary Richard son entertained at tea for -Mrs. Trin der at her home. Decorations were in white tulips and thirty guests were asked in.. The hostess was assisted by- Misses Leeta Hbldrege. Katherine Grable and Dorothy Ringwatt. Jfdldred Butler G. Urc ancf Miss Kate McHugh; the chairmen of the lecture committees and their husbands, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Burns and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar H. Scott; the chairmen of the two courtesies committees and their hus bands, Mr. and Mrs. Charles T, Kountze and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Morsman, and Mr. Francis A. Bro gan will make up the party. Box Parties for N'ext Week. The list so far of those who will occupy boxes for the performance of "The Amazons," for the American ambulance benefit Tuesday evening includes: V esp nt. and Headsmen C. T. Kount?.e. A. J,. Rpd. Joeeph Barker, ,1 J. Sullivan. A. C. Smith, MemlmiieH MeBdarrns T. L. Kimball. Victor Caldwell. Boxes for the performance of the Portmanteau theater will be occupied by: Mwtsrs. and Meedames Samuel BurnH, J T. Stewart, 2nd. W. D. Husford. W. J. Koye, (', T. Koimtw, .lotteph M. BaWirige, Howard H. Baldriffe, A. U Hood, Paul Uallae"hiT. John MehJlmp. jr., ol E, A. Wickham of Council Bluffs. Council Bluffs, Personal Mention. Rev. and Mrs. Hull are entertain ing Dr. and Mrs. T. V. Jeffrey, who arrived this morning from Lincoln. Mrs. C. F. Cooper arrived home yesterday from a visit in Lincoln, where she attended the receptior given by Governor and Mrs. Neville. Registered at the Hotel McAlpin from Omaha during the last week were Messrs. VV. D. Williams, J. B. Jones and L. A. Abercrombie. Masquerade Dance Postponed. The masquerade dance, which was to have been held at the Omaha club Monday evening, has been canceled because it was found that it conflicted too vitaHy with the last number of the Retailers' Concert course. A great many people will be extremely disappointed in this announcement because some costumes are now ready for wear. It was stated at the club today, however, that after Lent the affair may be held. Unitarian Church Banquet. The, Unitarian church members will hold a dinner, followed by the annual business meeting at the Hotel Paxton this evening. Covers will be laid for about seventy guests in the private dining room upstairs. At the business meeting three trustees will be elected to replace the three retiring members of the board. Seasonable Fashion Hints Future Events. The "Sixty-Six" Dancing club will hold its fortnightly affair Saturday evening at the tontenelle in the large ball room. Invitations have been is sued to about fifty couples. A group of young women of Trinity cathedral had planned a benefit card party at the Fontenclle for Saturday afternoon, but the affair has had to be abandoned, .Monday evening the St. Helena's Guild of Trinity cathedral will 'give its informal monthly dance at Jacobs' Memorial hall. 1 A party of Browne! Hall girls will attend' the performance of "Alice In Wonderland" Saturday afternoon. Luncheon for Dramatist. Granville Barker will be the guest at luncheon on Monday of officers of the Fine Arts society and the Drama league, under whose auspices he comes to Omaha. He will be enter tained at the Opiaha club. The presi dents of botli organizations, Mrs. VV. M for and Get Skinners THE HIGHEST QUALITY EGG NOODLES Beautiful Recipe Book Free SKIKNER MFG. CO.. OMAHA, USA LARGEST MACARONI FKTOSY IN AMERICA Early Arrivals Ready with Spring Shoes whose graceful lines will lend an effective trimness to the ankle and give that desirable "smartness" which all women are glad to have shoes that meet the latest vogue for cleverness, in novelty styles and( footwear form. New two-tone effecti and Holid color of (tray, brown and black. Especially attractive values, priced from $6.00 Up i. in I o I 3 1 hMM P :j 16X24. DOUGLVLa Many French nats are in brilliant colors this season, such as cherry, rose and cardinal. Leather embroidered in gold and silver is a fashionable trimming fea ture for millinery. Hand embroidery and application of beading make pleasing trimming on materials of sheer quality. Green in brilliant and refreshing sialic is sure to be a popular color in dress fabric as well as accessories. Re'ls and girdles of gold and silver tissue have carried over from winter models, and are now shown on spring dresses. Heads of all varieties and all colors are used with distinctive and real ar tistic value as trimming combined with hand embroidery'. Figures and forms cul otil of leather and kid are applied to hats with loose and irregular embroidery stitches done in colorful flosses. Blouses of sheer material, such as georgette crepe, chiffon, organdie and voile, are being shown in a wide range of colors, in white and in flesh t in I . Huge silk tassels trim many sepa rate skirts and one-piece dresses. On separate blouses and jackets the tas sel idea is used, but here the quaint ornaments are smaller. Delicate flesh-colored lingerie in silk is in good demand, and this na turally brings forth a decided call for corsets in matching color, with the result that many exquisite models are to be had. Stout ladies and those who are only a little plump will be given as youthful lines in suits, coats and dresses as the willowy-formed dam sel, and when these clothes are made correctly they will not be lacking in the necessary quality of dignity. Paisley silk evening coats promise to be much the vogue for warm even ings. The silk is shirred at the neck, a long loop hanging in burnoose fashion at the back. This loop is edged with black velvet, which brings out the rich colors of the Paisley pat tern, and is weighted with a large black tassel. I'arasols are to be very small, with short handles and somewhat flat trimmings. There are many models made Japanese style, with sixteen panels. One model on these lines was covered with toile de jooy. The straight handles are occasionally beaded in the samt tone as the tips. Others show wooden beads used for decoration on taffeta. Pequin has put out a sport suit for early spring that is made in plain green-end-red check, material; the skirt and collar, cuffs and belt of the jacket are of the check, the body of the jacket of the plain material. s fmimmtsm By LA RECONTEUSE. Smart walking suits are built en tirely of pontine in stunning color combinations. Hunting and sport suits, too, are stunningly gotten up, the reverse side of this dual fabric serving as trimming. Here a combi nation of navy and gold is used, the latter forming the collar lapels and binding the belt pockets and cuffs. How Did She Look When She Was a School Kid? Childhood photographs of well known young women of the First Presbyterian church will be an inter esting feature of a valentine social to be given at the church parish house this evening by the Christian En deavor society. The guests will get prizes for correctly guessing whose pictures arc displayed. Each young woman of the Society will bring a basket lunch for two, which will be auctioned off to the highest bidders to raise money for Siamese missions. Give your Want 'Ad a chance to make good, Run it in The Bee. Why a Cold Bottle Breaks if Taken Into aW arm Room By GARRETT P. SERVISS. Milk bottles are made of cheap im perfectly annealed glass, whose mole cules are frequently in a staie 01 ten sion which makes them liable to lose their hold upon one another and fly apart whenever a little extra force is applied. Such a force is supplied if the thick walls of the bottle are smugly and suddenly heated on one side, while Ihey are al a low temperature on the other side. In our case the bottle having been thoroughly refrigerated, was, when removed from the icebox, very cold both within and without. Its mean temperature was probably near the freezing point of water, so that on being removed into a room where ihe temperature wis 75 degrees, the glass was suddenly brought into con tact with air forty or more degrees warmer than itself. The cover probably being on, the warm air did not enter the bottle, so that the heating was applied to the exterior alone. The consequence was a rapid expansion of the outer layer of the glass while the interior re mained in the relatively contracted state induced by the cold, and the strain thus produced in the texture of the glass resulted in a crack. Even if the cover of the bottle was removed, so that the warm air could enter, the thickness of the glass would be likely to cause cracking, since cold glass is a poor conductor of heat as well as of electricity, and the ex terior layers would warm up so much taster than the deeper ones that a se vere strain would be produced be tween them. If we were content to leave the ex planation here we ihould not have made much philosophical advance in our little study of milk bottles. We ought to go on and ace how beat is able to produce a strain in the interior of a piece of glass sufficient to crack it asunder. Why does heat expand a solid to which it is applied? Because what we call heat is simply a vibra tory motion of th molecules, or ulti mate particles, of which every body consists. Molecules are not atoms, but are made up of atoms, and it is by its molecules, not by its atoms, that every substance is discriminated from other substances. A molecule has been denned as the smallest quan tity of a substance which can exhibit the properties by which that sub-, stance is identified. In a solid the molecules are held together by a force called molecular attraction, which is exerted over extremely short dis tances, and if the molecules are re moved beyond such distances they cease to attract one another and the solid falls apart. At the same time, all the molecules, even in a solid body, are in a state of continual vibration, and this vibration may manifest itself to our senses as heat. The greater the vibratory agi tation of the molecules the inienser the heat. Only when a substance has sunk to the absolute zero of tempera ture is there no molecular vibration. Now the molecular vibrations of heat may be communicated to a solid through the air. and even without air, through the ether (as from the sun), as well as directly from solid to solid, through contact. Thus it happens that in the warm air ot a room a cold solid may become healed. Hut the result of such heatinK. however it 4rises. is to set the molecules of the solid into greater agitation, driving them farther apart and thus expand ing the substance. If this expansion is produced irregularly, as happened with the glass bottle in your case, a ! mechanical strain is set up between j different parts of the body concerned, i and if the strain becomes great i enough to overcome the attraction j holding the molecules of the body to gether, then their grasp upon one 'another will suddenly give way and the solid will crack into pieces, . This shows what little giants the heat vibrations are. You can imag ine, in the strained glass, two par ties of molecular demons pulling against each other, like the opposing teams in a tug-of-war, until the rope can no longer endure the strain and is torn asunder at a weak point. , In well-annealed glass i. e glass ! which in the process of manufacture has been cooled slowly, so that its ; molecules have had time to arrange themselves with an even tension throughout the mass the tendency to crack is greatly diminished, because there are no relatively weak points in it where the strain upon the molecules produced by heating is disastrously effective. WORSEN! Here V the Greatest News ; in Today's Papers 300 Pairs of Women's High Grade Shoes in Tan, Black and Other Colors, $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00 Values. While Sizes, ones to nine Widths,' AAA to E. 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The combining of these two organ izations is a long stride taken toward the approach of the ideals of both, and lays the foundation upon which will grow into realiza tion the highest aims, ambitions and purposes of the owners (whose interests are practically identical in both stores), to crystallize into one concrete organization all that goes to create one of the very largest and best equipped Ilousefurnishings establishments in the Middle West, to be so planned and de partmentized that every requirement of pro gressive merchandising, every demand of the buying public is covered to the last detail ' necessary to the thoroughly modern 20th century business establishment. To this end, the combined forces of the two stores will be "headquartered" at the Ray mond location, 1513 and 1515 Howard St., under the name of the "CENTRAL," where the offices will be installed and the various departments arranged and directed. Resume of Departments The Furniture Department: Due to the consolidation of the stocks, will occupy the major part of all the floor Space of both locations and embrace every character of llousofurninhing consistent with quality and dependability, from the plain, simple and inexpensive to the highest types of the cabinet maker's art, of such a wide range that will afford our customers the means of comparison on our floors in determining values for themselves, as well as the case in making suitable selections in any grade. The Carpet, Rug and General Floor Covering Departments: Will occupy one entire floor, together with the' Newly Instilled Drapery Section. Also the Shade Department. Here will be found a stock second to none in the entire country. Every detail of this important department to the home fwv ni8her is looked after in the most efficient manner' under trained management and sales force. The Grafonola Department: Will occupy a strong position in the store, conveni ently arranged for the entertainment of the "inusie lover," and a complete line of the best in these instru ment is now in stock. Also records from the world's greatest artist always on hand, as well as all the pop t ular music of the day. Sewing Machines: Amnnfr thn mnitt r1.stKlA malrsM. will MMmv rlMtrna. tive section of the store for your inspection and for demonstration. The Stove Department: Will be conspicuously large and complete ; thoroughly equipped and stocked with the most dependable prod ucts of America's best Stove Foundries. ' tfir Repair and Upholstery: This department will be in the hands of skilled work men who know the cabinet and upholstery trade in every detail. Your worn Furniture can here be made as good as new. . The Moving, Van and Storage Department: la to be maintained under the most careful manage ment, and "up-to-the-minute" equipment and every facility commensurate with its vast importance and usefulness will at once be added. tar A Department of Exchange: For the enlargement of our usefulness to our cus tomers, is organized to relieve you of any piece of Furniture or Furnishings that may be your desire to' dispose of, for the purpose of replacing new furnish ings. This department becomes an important feature of our LAROEK SERVICE. Watch Sunday's issue of this paper for announcement of The Consolidation Sale to begin Monday, February 19,1917. (Six Experienced Furniture Salesmen Wanted.) Make Tour Purchases at Either Location. Cetltrah mh and Howard StsJ Raymond's, 1513-15 Howard T