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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1917)
I! Vl March 8 (y Resemblances of Onuhi Women. If you had a double or even a near double, . now should you feelf It might make you sad or it might make you glad. These mysterious resemblances are frequent and unac countable. Every new friend who meeti you sees in you a likeness to some one he has met before. Some times the mention of resemblance may be considered a compliment, but never more so than in the case of two handsome and prominent Omaha women, who are often mis taken for each other. Mrs. Edward M. Syfert; president of the Omaha Woman's club, and Mrs. William Sears Poppleton, are the two. Each is tall and erect, care fully tailored and carefully groomed. Each has a face full of expression, with luminous eyes. Dark hair threaded with strands of gray, which so many younger ' women have in this century, crowns the head of each. Both are intelligent and ener getic women. Mrs. Syfert's regime is marked by more system and con structive work than the Omaha Wo man's club has perhaps ever had. Her meetings are conducted in per fect order and with a business-like manner, which brooks none of the confusion which is usually attributed to women's meetings. Mrs. Poppleton is one of the wit tiest and most charming women in Omaha's social circles. When a dis tinguished visitor to Omaha is enter tained it is Mrs. Poppleton who has the seat next to the guest of honor, for as a conversationalist she is a de light to all who know her. The story of one yonng eastern man who came to Omaha last fall on a mission, met Mrs. Poppleton and- begged off from all engagements in order to bask for a time in her smile has been dupli A mnrm than once. At a recent concert sn old acquaintance of the! two, who had seen neiiner lor some time, hesitated and studied before she decided that Mrs. Syfert was not Mrs. Poppleton. Two other Omaha women whose resemblance has been commented up on are Mrs. George H. Payne and Mrs. K. R. J. Edholm. Luncheon Parties. . Mrs. Thomas Lynch entertained at luncheon at the Blackstone for her husband's sister, Miss Helen Lynch of Hyannis, Neb., who is spending a month in the city. Spring flowers formed the table decorations and cov ers were placed for nine. Other luncheon hostesses at the Blackstone today were Mrs. W. C. Crosby, Mrs. John Mack, Mrs. C. W. Martin, jr., and Mesdames W. I. Walker, C. S. Montgomery, A. J. Sis tek and W. McAdams, who are resi dents of the hotel. The Deborah Franklin club met for luncheou at the Commercial club. Suffrage Bridge Party. . , , The Political Equality league an nounces a large card party to be given at the Blackstone Monday, March 19, at 2 o'clock, to raise funds for the suffrage campaign. Mrs. Mary Dykeman Williams, acting president in the absence of Mrs. F. D. Wead,1 and Mrs. Thomas Brown, will have charge of the affair. Attractive Srizes will be awarded and there will e refreshments served. " ' ' ' Here end The.e in Society. Mr. and Mrs. Louis T. Stemm of Hillsdale, Wyo.,. are visiting their son, Mr. W. R. Stemm. Miss : Ruth Anderson and Miss Dorothy Hippie are additional names to the list of girls' going to Lincoln tomorrow for .the. Kappa Kappa Gamma format. Mr. M. C. Peters and daughter, Miss Daphne Peters, have left New Orleans and gone on to Belleair, Fla., for several weeks. They are not ex pected home until the first of April Mrs. C. E. Bedwell and Miss Char lotte left this morning in their ma chine for a ten days' visit with Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Holland irfLincoln. While there Mio Bedwell will at tend the Kappa Alpha Theta format, which will be held Saturday at the Lincoln hotil .!.,,'. Miss Loa Howard is convalescing from a seven weeks' illness of com plications from a severe attack of the grip. If able, she wilt go to Lincoln tor the Kaooa Alpha fheta formal, where she will be joined by Miss Vir ginia Lewis of Springheld, 111., who is returning from a six weeks' so- tourn in Los Angeles. 1 he girls will return to Omaha the first of the week. when Miss Lewis will be the guest of Miss Howard and her sister, Mrs. E. V, Lewis,,, , .. What OccuDied the Day. A board meeting of the Omaha So ciety of Fine Arts was held at the Fontenelle this morning to discuss ilana for next year. More art ex libits and fewer lectures seems to be the prevalent idea. Miss Gladya Peters entertained in formally at luncheon at her home in honor of Mrs. Roger Vaughan of Chi cago, who is visiting her parents, Dc. and Mrs. J. f. Lord. Mrs. F. R. Straight and Mrs. D. E. McCulley entertained at a bridge luncheon for Miss Dove Mitchell, who leaves soon for Emporia, Kan. The table decorations were in pink and white tulips. Mrs. Straight will also entertain next Thursday at a lunch eon. Mrs. Harold Pritchett entertained her bridge club at her home. The members who- are in the city were present and no guests were invited. Miss Eugenie Patterson was host ess of the Junior Bridge club.. Mrs. John Caldwell and Mrs. Austin Gai fey were the guests. Miss Dorothy Bingham, who is hostess this week for a coterie of young women who meet every week for an informal afternoon spent in needlework, entertains today and to morrow at the Bingham apartments at the Rome hotel. Pre-Nuptial Affair. Miss Helen Dunham will entertain this evening at a bridge party at her ' home in honor of Miss Harriet Cop ley and Mr. Earl Burket, when four tables will be placed for the game. Miss Helen Weeth will give a pre nuptial luncheon for Miss Copley March 17. Mr. Herbert Smailes will entertain for Miss Copley and Mr. Earl Burket March 19. Mr. Walter Byrne is also planning a party for 'Jiese popular young people. ' March 20 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cop ley will entertain at a dinner for the bridal party at the Blackstone before the rehearsa. for the wedding. Miss Mabel Allen entertains on iyVJUUiflci, D. A. K. SEG2MT GIVES LUNCHEON SERIES yn mora Wednesday evening for the bridal couple. Miss Helen Smith will entertain Monday evening at a bridge party at her home in honor of Miss Harriet Copley and Mr. Earl Burkett, whose wedding takes place March 21. The Misses Halcyon Cotton and Marjorie Beckett will give a kitchen shower tomorrow afternoon for Miss Copley at the home of the former, when only intimate friends of the guest of honor have been invited. Jottings on the Calendar. Mrs. John McCague, jr., will enter tain informally at bridge Monday afternoon in honor of Miss Margaret Gibson, the guest of Mrs. Charles Lees. Mrs. S. A. Williams will entertain next Wednesday afternoon at bridge in honor of her mother, Mrs. G. E. Koerncr, of St. Louis, Mo., who is making a month's visit with her daughter, Omaha Women Teach the Mississippians Film Lore What Omaha club women are doing for children's movie programs has traveled as far as Jackson, Miss. From a moving picture man there Mrp W. S. Knight has received inquiries as to what sort of pictures the educa tional committee of the Woman's club is showing here. "Robinson Crusoe," a film just re leased, based on Defoe's story, will be shown Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at the Strand. "France's Ca nine Allies," "Grandeur of the West ern States and "Maude Is no Re specter of Time" are the other 'films to be shown. At the Muse Saturday morning at the same hour, and at 1 o'clock at the Besse, on the South Side, Mar guerite Clark in "Such a Little Queen;" a pictograph, "Ice Skating," and "Marking the Mariner's Way," one of the Colonel Heezaliar series, "Childish Delight," and one of the Katienjammer Kids series will be shown, "Uncle" Accepts Precious Spuds as Loan's Collateral A pawn shop at 1312 Douglas street accepted two lUO-pound sacks of pota toes as collateral for a loan of $6. This information appeared in a re port made to the chief of police. Pawn shops are required by law to make daily reports to the chief of all valuables purchased or on which money is advanced. Detectives Van Deusen and Shoop, who have charge of pawn shops, were amused when they noticed the entry of potatoes, the first of the kind made by a pawn shop proprietor. Pneumonia is the Chief Ally of Death in Omaha Health department records indicate an increase of acarlet fever. During the first week of this month thirty two cases were reported, while during the entire month of February there were eighty-nine cases. Pneumonia has been the chief cause of deaths since January 1. The health commissioner reports a prevalence of bronchial illness during the last few weeks. ' No cases of cerebral spinal menin gitis have been reported this week. T . V V'" 11 1 I V lit Watch for a Wonderful WATCH SALE Including "IngersoU" Watches at prices never matched hereabouts. Details in Friday's Papers ' Brandeis Stores THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH DRIYE ON THE WORD "AIN'rjNS OUT School Kiddie! Now Shun It at Though It Wag a Bad Swear Word. BUT OTHERS JUST AS BAD By A. R. GROH. "It's not my fault if you can't." "Aren't you going home yet?" "They haven't been here." These three sentences I heard the other day on a school playground. They came from the lips of children 10 to 15 years old. Don't they sound sort of queer? Vou having answered in the affirma tive, I ask "why?" And, having asked you "why," I answer, "Because the word 'ain't' does not appear in them." Ten years ago school children would have said, "It ain't my fault," "Ain't you going home?" "They ain't been here." Just about ten years ago teachers and parents began the great drive on the word "ain't." They attacked it, horse, foot and dragoons. Declared An Outlaw. The word "ain't" was declared an outlaw, a thief of good form, a mur derer of the king's English. A price was set upon his head. He was at tacked in the school room and in the home. Wherever he showed his face a teacher or a parent, a cousin or an aunt was there to swat him. "Don't say 'ain't,' Johnny," "You mustn't say 'ain't,' Mary." These were the battle cries. Johnny and Mary soon came to re gard "ain't" as a terrible thing, only a shade better than "bad words." Clay modeling might be taught in the kindergarten and rhetoric and lit'ature in the eighth grade but there was one thing taught alike in all grades. That was don'tsayain't." And so poor little "ain't"has been driven from the vocabulary of the ris ing generation. Listen for it your self among the school children of Omaha. You don't hear it. Among the well-educated grownups it still flourishes. But not among the young sters. Ode to the Dead. Great "ain't" li dead. Ain't that ehetneT lan't that a, sham? w should lay. It ain't, or, rather, lin't proper to eay "ain't," For "ain't" la outlawed, dead, defunct By edict ot the achocla. He waa our boyhood friend. Companion of our early youth And manhood's pleaaant oomrade, Fltttns Into a thouaand ptacea Where other verba are aald to :s More proper. He'a dead. Let ua not weep. Peace to hla four food lattera. Peace also to hla apoetrophe. But look you, good people, loyal friends of "ain't." Even in his defeat he is victorious. .For while teachers have been busy, stamping him out of existence, other weeds have sprung up in the garden of English. Teachers tell me that slang is be coming a serious menace, in compari son with which "ain't" was as harm less as a babe. A teacher told me that one of her pupils related an inci dent which happened at home. The boy remarked at the table, "This is a peach of an apple pie." "Cut out that slang, son," his fa ther ordered. Whereat his mother laughed and said to his father: "Your English is just as bum as William's." Then they all laughed and declared that that was "certainly going some." Former Lead Man Wins Glory and War Bride Lead, S. D March 8. (Specials Major Hercule LeFevre, Lead's con tribution to the allied powers of the European war, who recently returned from the trenches "somewhere in France," was married in Montreal last week and left a "war bride" there upon returning to the front. He left Canada when the first boat) load of Canadian soldiers were sent across the Atlantic and his distinguished services for France and the allies won him an elevation to the rank of major. His flying trip to Montreal cemented a romance that even war could not eclipse. LeFevre was for years a resident of Lead and attended the schools of this city. Graduate of Brownell Hall Dies at Lead, S. D. Lead, S. D March 8. (Special.) Flora Blackstone Williams, 38, who died suddenly of heart failure here last week, was buried Tuesday morn ing from the residence uf the Home stake superintendent. Mrs. Williams was the daughter of Superintendent and Mrs. Richard Blackstone, and her husband, L. C. Williams, is connected with the big Homestake power plant in Spearfish canyon out of Spearfish. Mrs. Williams was the sister of Mrs. Louise Blackstone Regan and Alex Blackstone of this city. She was a graduate of Brownell Hall, Omaha, and of St. Paul seminary. Her mother, Mrs. Richard Blackstone, in delicate health, is critically ill as a result of her daughter's death. Fashion Hint I 4h III I I e, Lt mfirtM?t3UmmkCfawmmMii m sfl By LA RACONTEUSE. The short-waisted frock for the growing girl is always becoming and picturesque. This charming frock in white China silk is belted quite high with self material and daintily em broidered with fetching finishing note supplied by the tiny pin tucks. Peace Dove Hovers Over Hummel and the Audubons The war is over between the Au dubon society and City Commissioner Joe Hummel, and in place of the booming of verbal broadsides there now exists a harmonious peace pact, under which both sides are co-operating for the improvement of the city parks and the protection and encour agement of the song birds. Dr. Solon R. Towne, president of the Audubons, and other members of that society, express themselves as well pleased with plans outlined by Commissioner Hummel for this season's improvements in Elmwood. Some groves may be thinned out where trees are too close together. Picnic grounds and the big lawns will also be beautified artificially, but the natural protection existing for birds along the stream will not be destroyed. "In all details Mr. Hummel and the Audubons heartily agree," says Dr. Towne. Postal Savings Bank Has Big Gain in Deposits Postal saving bank deposits at the Omaha postoffice were greater during February than during any previous month since the bank was established here. A total of $.57,171 was depos ited here in that short month. Post master C. E. Fanning reoorted. The local bank's total deposits were $389,- W3 on March 1. will find it to their advanUg to eoniult us r-t-rdiog- our ball room and regarding our facilities for handling Dinner-Dancei. Wt ihall bt pttaiad to show our beautifully ar ranged eighth floor to any Dancing Club Committee who mar bt Interested, so aa to permit them to ei tlmate the facilities we have to offer and make an intelligent comparison with those offered elsewhere. Appointments for such inspection may be made by telephoning THE BLACKSTONE Harnoy 94S. Our ball room and party rooms with use of roof garden may be engaged at very reasonable terms. LI Our bell room end Dirty Noma with ilia of roof r-S, SUFFERED 17 YEARS Mrs. Nellie B. Vanandell, of Mackrille, Ky., report an Interest ing case ot how she had suffered from bowel trouble since child hood. She says: "I have had four opinions for my trouble and there was nothii g would do me any good or give me any relief but Thed ford's Black Draught. I suffered 17 years straight until I got to aslng your ... medicine." This long standing trouble was re lieved, after oiker treatments tailed, by the use ot Thedford's Black Draught, a purely vegetable preparation, made ot ground roots and herbs. Tot over 70 yean Black-Draught has helped people who have suffered from constipation. In geatlon, biliousness sick headache, etc. It may be Just the medicine yon need. Try It. Only one cent a dose 15 cents a pack age. Your drugg it sells it. 8-25 9, 1917. One Hundred By GARRETT P. SERVISS. It is not many years ago that the horizon of human history, as seen by all but a few eyes, extended only four or five thousand vears behind us. An cient Egypt and Babylonia seemed to most readers to be dimmed witn tne mists of almost measureless antiquity. "As old as the Pyramids" was a phrase that produced on the mind the same effect as the discovery of a moldcring tombstone in a forgotten graveyard. Die statement that Adam lived 6.000 years ago had about it the ven erableness of incredible age. The orator's tongue hung upon and mo mentously lengthened out, the re sounding syllables: "Six-Thousand Years! until they seemed to echo from the abysm of profoundest time. It was not difficult to believe that man might have lived in a Garden of Eden and talked with angels so long ago as that. But within a few years past the dis coveries of archaeology have thrown human history so much farther back that tgypt, Chaldea, Adam, Noah and all that was formerly looked upon as representing the extreme of an tiqu.ty seem to be persons and things of- -yesterday. Twenty-five thousand years is a very moderate estimate of the length of the backward leap that has been taken from the remot est verge of the stage of hitherto recorded history into the darkness of the prehistoric ages. The adventurous leapers into the abyss have found solid ground un der their feet gleaming with dusty riches. At one stroke, almost, they have more than doubled, and perhaps tripled or quadrupled the range of human records on this planet. The footsteps of man not man monkey, but man-thinker can now be seen extending backward until they disappear under the glittering front of the Great Ice Age. The sting of the glaciers' breath was still in the air when men began to adorn the caverns of' the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian mountains with rock paintings and frescoes, some of which are as fresh today as in their prime. The makers of these pictures were familiar with bisons, reindeer, mam moths, cave-bears and other animals long since extinct or unseen by man in that part of the earth since history began to be written or inscribed. Every year, now, sees some advance in this uncovering of the ancientest of all history, and each new discov ery increases the wonder. Remem ber tha this is the man of the old Stone Age, Palaeolithic man who has done and left these things. The world that he looked out upon was in many ways different from the world that we see today. The climate was diff erent, the scenery was different, the animals and plants around him were, in many cases, amerent. Yet he was essentially, potentially, the equal of historic man. His kind has already developed several dis tinct races, and one of these, whose bones and skulls have been found, was in aipeaiance so like some of the strongest and most intellectual races of today that it is startling to look upon their reconstructed figures and faces, as archaeologists have been able to present them to us. This was the Cro-Magnon race. Go and look in the Museum of Na tural History, at the models of these wonderful countenances which have come peering out of the past to show us that tens of thousands of years ago man. was already clutching at the edges of the high plateau of pro gress on which we now stand, and from which we are going to climb still higher as the ages roll on. Sir Arthur Evans, the discoverer of the palace of King Minos and the Cretan Labyrinth, speaking be fore the British Association for the Advancement of Science on the n- cent advances of archaeological P DANCING CLUBS J IT a B Centuries Ago science, said: "One after another, features that had been reckoned as tha exclusive property of Neolithic or later ages, are seen to have been shared by Palaeolithic man in the final stage of his evolution. "For the first time moreover, we find the productions of his art rich in human subjects. At Cogul (one of the painted caverns in northeast ern Spain), the sacral dance is per formed by woman clad from the waist downward in well-cut gowns, while in a rock shelter of Alpera, where we meet with the same skirted ladies, their dress is supplemented by flying sashes. On the rock painting of the Cueva de la Vieja, near the same place, women are seen with still longer gowns rising to their bosoms. We are already a long way (. c.,.i And these gowned and sashed ladies lived at least ten thousand years ago, which is farther back of the tradi tional date of Noah's flood than Noah's flood is from us. It is even 4,000 years back of the traditional date of Eve herself! Evidently the dressmakers' art was one of the first. I have space to refer to but one other mystery ot the old atone Age, and I can do it most succinctly by quoting these words of Sir Arthur Evans: But the greatest marvel of all is that such polychrome master pieces as the bisons of the Altamira cave were executed on the ceilings of inner vaults and galleries where the light of day has never penetrated. Nowhere is there any trace of smoke, and it is clear that great progress in the art of artificial illumination had already been made." Solendid for Mud Cough$, Colds, Bronchttis km f aexpeaelTe Home-Made lWm- e Wvre Surret, tyrickeat Heuef. Anyone who tries this pleasant test ing ffomorpade couch syrup, will qmeltit iwtaaetaad wfiy it is used in more homes in the United States and Canada vum any other couflti remedy. The war it take's hold of an obstinate cough, (Svinif immediate relief, wfH make rou regret that you never tried it be fore. It is a trulv deniiiia.hlp enuoh remedy that should be kept handy in ever home, to use at the first siim of a couaa dutiaff the night or day tune. Any druggist can supply you with 2 ounces of Pinex (SO cents worth). Pour fiiia into a nint hnttln mi IV U bottle vftli plain granulated sugar syrup. Ine total cost is about 54 cents atd jpi have a full pint of the most effective remedy you ever used. ftfie qurNc, tasting relief you get from this Knlii'ttt cough syrup will really suenriaK vnu. It nrnmntl haa.la the. inflamed membranes that line, the throat and air passages, stops the annoying throat tickle, loosens the .phlegm, and sow your couch etops entirely. Splen did for bronchitis, croup, w hoof) lag cough and bronchial asthma. Pinex is a hiirhlv concentrated earn. pound of Norway pfne extract, combined with giuMaeol and is famous the world ores, for its healing effect on the membranes.- s- io avoid disappointment ask for 2 Mi ounces of Pinex" with full directions and doa't accept anything else. A guar antee 01 aosomte saustaction or money DTOfiSntkr Bounded iroea with this nreb. lara'Mbn. The Pinex Co. Ft. Wayne, Ind. You can get Sunkiat Oranges wherever , uniformly good fruit is sold. Tissue wrappers stamped "Sunkiat'' iden tify the genuine. Order Sunkist Uniformly Good Oranges CeWoraU Frait Growen Eicaeate Get Your HOT BUNS For the Lenten Season At Kuenne 9 s 16th and Howard Sts. 2916 Leavenworth St. Brown Park Mineral Springs 25th and O Ste., South Side Phone South 879. Positively give relief to all sufferers of rheumatism. These baths have no weaken ing effect, but strengthen and exhilarate in every case. DR. JOHN A. NIEMANN Oateopauiic Pbyakiu la .Char.e j New York Brings Carloads of Smelts From Pacific Coast New York, March 8. Four car loads of smelts, 80,000 pounds, ar. rived from the Pacific coast today and were placed on sale by the may or's food supply committee in stores throughout the city. The first car load of smelts brought here a week ago was q uictly disposed of and the committee said that enough orders had been received from grocers to indicate that the second shipment would be exhausted within two days. A review of food conditions, pub lished today by Commissioner Harti gan of the bureau of weights and measures, says that potatoes caa now be sold at retail for 5 cents a pound, yellow onions at 9 cents, and carrots, beets and parsnips at front 4 to 5 cents. A week ago potatoes were selling for 12 cents t. pound. Just before the war began the retail price here was 1 to 3 cents a pound, The present price, Commissioner Har tigan says, is normal, considering conditions. Happy Children Well Fed Children Cases. Prufcs, Satada. Paatrfat. uirfji. lam Creaiiu. Hot Choorv lafie. jttto, uewAes ana canajr. Tnr spread! af it on bread ororacfc eabarslJr-nSa. butter. Jam, jelly dr molasses the children will go info resource over Ibis new dliht- HALLO is mad of rtoh nourish ih iMwrtatt jKfoeiiSMttaafld rittSagt hWseeDsl eaVseBBS!! le s KA1XO la note's: Men it nana neaar let ttMQpeea. feiniwkwulene. njtiireav Jgeee datntiee end baadreee ef etaer due tne quart. A keutitin .recipe book wftfa eMh en aeeeei end wen le 3tr-FTWi Seeei14rrO,e,twt,,. SSUO.Ii ,nd. eel, , th. While. WMteatokM Co Inc. Goodies!" eoodies that iust m--l-t in vour mouth light, fluffy, tender cakes, biscuits and douchnuts that lust keep you hanging 'round the pantry an made with Calumet .1. .if.l mireet. mott economical Baking Pow der. Try it drive away bake-day failures." Received Hisbeat Amide Jfto Cm Mt fta tn(! lafteai Cm. r POrVlf1 n b!J