THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1917
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Base Ball Games for Red Cross.
Base ball enthusiasts who have been
eivini all their spare time to Ked
Cross work have turned their
thoughts to the great American game
as a source of money for the good
cause. Miss Hclcne Bixby and a
group of licr friends who ate faithful
fans have decided to arrange a bene
fit base ball game if players call he
secured and it' the Red Cross authori
ties will accept the money. At Coro
nado Beach, in California, a benefit
base ball game netted $.IKNJ for the
Red Cross.
Mrs. fdmund Pennington of Min
neapolis, who attended this phenome
nal benefit, went back to her home
lired with enthusiasm to do likewise.
"What can be done in Coronado can
be done in Minneapolis," she said.
Accordingly Minneapolis is slated to
have one or two benefit base ball
games.
-"What can be done in Minneapolis
can be done in Omaha," says Miss
llixby and - the other society fans.
"People arc spending their money for
amusement anyway, so they'd surely
be willing to benefit the Red Cross
at the same time that they are en
joying themselves. Instead of going
to the movies a few times they might
save their dimes for the benefit ball
game. We'd make it something worth
going to."
So far no definite arrangements
have been made with any base ball
teams for the game. The dozens of
young women who arc members of
Red Cross classes and who are work
ing in Red Cross booths this week
would no doubt volunteer their serv
ices for the sale of tickets. The only
other thing to make the game a rous
ing success would be good weather
with the proper amount of heat.
Guilfoyle-Holland Wedding.
The wedding of Miss Catherine
Holland, daughter of James E. Hol
land, and Mr. Michael Guilfoyle, son
of Mrs. Thomas Guilfoyle of Council
Bluffs, took place this morning at 7:30
at St. John's Collegiate church. The
ceremony was performed by Rev.
Simon Ryan and was followed by a
wedding breakfast at the home of the
bride's parents. Purple iris and pink
roses were used in the decorations
and covers were placed for thirty-five
relatives.
The bride wore a blue tailored suit
with a black picture hat and a corsage
bouquet of Sweetheart roses. Miss
Marie Holland, sister of the bride,
and William Guilfoyle, brother of the
groom, were the only attendants.
Miss Holland wore a white tailored
suit and a picture hat of purple crepe,
with a corsage bouquet of purple
sweet peas,
Mr. and Mrs". Guilfoyte have gone
to Chicago for a short wedding trip
and upon their return will be at home
at IIS South Thirty-fifth street.
Socfat Gossip.
Mrs. Samuel Foote has taken an
apartment at the Bransford hotel,
Thirty-third and Farnam.
Mrs. John R. Ringwalt left Satur
day evening for Philadelphia, called
there by the illness of Mr. Joseph
Garneau. ' , '
Mrs. Luther Kountze left Saturday
evening for the east. . '
Mr. Mark A. Pollock left Sunday
rvuiinc for the east, where he will
travel a few weeks before sailing for
his home in Havana. Mrs. Pollock
and the children will remain in
Omaha to visit her mother and her
sister, Mrs. Charles S. Elgutter.
Mrs. Julius Kiper left Sunday even
ing for her home in Chicago after
spending three weeks with her daugh
ter. Mrs: Isidor Ziegler.
I Mrs. William S. Curtis arrived from
Boston this morning, to spend some
time with her cousin. Miss Elizabeth
II Mark. Mrs. Curtit was Miss
Tanet Monroe Wallace, daughter of
the late William Wallace. She was
on the faculty of Central High achool.
Mrs. W. L,. Harris ana ner lamer,
Mr. Elkan Seligsohn, left Sunday for
their new home in St. Joseph, Mo.,
Mr. Harris and son, Herbert, having
preceded them. Julian Harris will
remain in Omaha for the present.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kopald move
to their new home in Kansas City in
a few weeks.
Miss Evelyn Horton is now in New
York and expects to visit Washington
and Pittsburgh before returning to
Omaha. Her uncle, Mr. B. J. Horton,
accomoanied her from his home in
Porto Rico to New York and returned
on the same boat. They had a very
nuiet oassaee.
Mrs. Joseph Cudahy of Chicago will
be unable to come to Omaha this
week to be the guest of Mrs. C. T.
Kountze. Red Cross workers hope
that she will be able to come later.
Whist Club Reunion.
Mrs. F. E. Pearce and Mrs. L. C.
Gibson entertained the Omaha
Woman's club at luncheon at the
Blackstone in honor of Mrs. Fred
erick V. Krug, who leaves Fort Crook
soon to spend the summer in Wyo
ming before" going to Washington to
make her home, and tor Mrs. C N,
Coutant of Chicago. Twenty guests
were present.
At the Country Club.
Directors at the Country club are
wondering what will be their fate if
the interest in Red Cross and war
relief work keeps up unabated. If
society gives up all its pleasures and
lives on all work and no play they
. will be among the first to sutler. Sat
urday evening a small number gath
ered for the dinner-dance and last
.. evening a number of family parties
took supper at the club. Mrs. S. S.
Caldwell had a group of seven. In
another party were Mr. and Mrs.
Fred W. Clarke, Miss Helen Clarke,
Miss Stella Thummet and Mr, Fred
Clarke, jr. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ham
ilton had a party of five.
With the Social Clubs.
Miss Eugenie Patterson entertained
the Junior Bridge dub at her home.
The Monday Bridge-Luncheon club
will meet next Monday with Mrs. H.
S. Clarke.
Members of the Original Monday
Bridge' club have not given their
. meeting a thought because of the
press of Red Cross work and the
work of the art exhibit. They may
. later arrange for a few meetings be
More the vacation season begins.
The Monday Bridge club met with
Mrs. Harold Sobotker.
Honor Recent Bride.
Miss Mercedes Caushlan enter
tained at bridge at her home in honor
of Mrs. P. K. Walsh, who was a bride
of Easter Monday. Mrs. Raymond
Farrell of Portland, Ore., guest of
Mr. and Mrs.Jte"C. P. Farrell for sev
SCHOOL GIRL BRIDE HOME
FROM HONEYMOON.
S7JTS. tfOBEBTJ. OOEl,!.
eral weeks, was an out-of-town guest.
Saturday Miss Ovilla hquires will
give a tea at the Fontcncllc for Mrs.
Walsh.
Full House for Press Plays.
Hie demand for scats for the
Omaha Woman's Press club Tuesday
evening at the Blackstone has been
so great that the plays will be given
in the ballroom instead of the lounge,
as at first planned. This will make
available a few more scats, tickets for
which may be purchased at the door.
the upper Crust, by Mrs. Martin
Harris, and "A Record Romance," by
Miss Henrietta Rees, musical editor
of The Bee, arc-the two playlets which
are being staged tor mends ot the
Press club.
In Clubdom
Mrs. 0. C. Redick will explain the
Red Cross work at a kensington the
ladies' auxiliary to the Letter Car
riers' association will hold Wednes
day at 2:30 o'clock at the horfle of
Mrs. G. t. Musgrove. the assisting
hostesses will be Mesdames R. U.
Powers. J. Innis. A. Groetchel. T.
Tilley and E. G. Scott.
Mr. Marv Cormack leaves Tues
day morning for Columbus to repre
sent George A. Custer Woman's Re
lief corps at the department conven
tion. From Columbus Mrs. Cormack
goes west for an extended trip.
Attendance at Madame Bella Pevs
ners lecture on the Russian revolu
tion Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock at
the Swedish auditorium is not lim
ited to Jews. NonJjcws as well ire
invited, the speaker announces.
Madame Pevsner SDeaks with
knowledge on Russian topics. She is
Russian Jewess, personally ac
quainted with leaders of the revolu
tion, in which she has participated.
Her talk is given under the ausoices
of several Jewish organizations.
1-ifteen lamphre girls of the South
Side Social Settlement will be the
first to plant beans, a pound of beans
for every Nebraska soldier, according
to the plan presented by the National
Campfire organization. Miss Nell
Kyan, local leader, has received in
structions to tak,e up the work. The
settlement girls will carry on their
work in connection with the garden
ing competition going on there.
Vassar club members instead of
meeting at the home of Mrs. G. E.
Haverstick this afternoon met in the
morning at Kilpatrick's to do their
bit in the Red Cross membership
campaign.
Halleck F. Rose will talk on
Property Rights of Women" Tues
day afternoon at 4 oclock at the
home of Mrs. E. L. Burke. 403 North
fortieth street, the talk is given un
der the ausoices of the Enual Fran
chise society, -
Wheel Mangles Small Boy
Caught Between Its Spokes
Ralph Fisher, aged 6 years, suffered
a compound tracture ot his leg at
Forty-second and Leavenworth
streets when he was caught between
the spokes of the wheel of an ice
wagon driven by Charles Burke, Sixty-eighth
and Cuming streets.
The boy's hair was torn out by the
revolution of the wheel. He was so
entangled between the spokes that
police had to work ten minutes to ex
tricate him. He was taken to the
Nebraska Medical college and then
moved to the Methodist hospital.
Hird Stryker is Ordered tp
Report at Fort Snelling
Hird Strvkcr. son of A. F. Strvlter
of the Omaha Live Stock exchange,
has received belated orders, sending
him to the officers' reserve training
camp at Fort Snelling.
Mr. Strvker is a Graduate of the
University of Chicago and has been
associated with the law firm of Cro
foot, Scott & Frazier here for some
time. He was always active in school
auueiics.
Thirty Thousand Home
Gardens in Greater Omaha
The cttv Grarden director estimates
that .10,000 homes of Greater Omaha
have gardens and 5,000 have failed to
take advantage of their opportunities.
Mayor Dahlman hones that the Bar-
den "slackers" will yet redeem them
selves by joining the city gardeners.
l nese figures were based on a census
taken by various organizations.
Peoria Police Recover
' Stolen Auto at Schuyler
Chief of Police W. W. Rhoades and
Detective Mike Clifford of Peoria. 111.,
arirved in Omaha enroute to Schuy
ler, Neb., where two automobile
thieves are under arrest for taking
car from Peoria. The machine has
also been recovtred.
The thieves drove the auto over 600
miles in less than three days.
Goes to Cleveland to
Study Schools There
Charlotte Townsend, supervisor of
public school nurses, will leave
Wednesday for Cleveland, where 'she
will study the school medical inspec
jm ,.,i-
tion system ot that city.
Clothes for the Summer Days
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Lichens
By GARRET P. SERVISS.
In view of a possible food shortage
all over 1 the world, it is interesting
to know that attention has recently
been directed to lichens as food. In
Germany it has been proposed to util
ize reindeer moss for animal fodder
and Iceland -moss for bread-making.
Both of these forms of lichen
have long been known as edible va
rieties. Reindeer' moss is, indeed, a
principal source of food for the rein
deer, caribou and other animals in
northern regions of both the new and
the old world. Even in the winter
time they feed upon this "moss,"
brushing away the snow to obtain it.
Laplanders feed their domesticated
reindeer upon it.
Iceland moss, on the other hand,
often constitutes practically the only
food of the poor in Iceland, where it
is made into a kind of flour and baked
into cakes, or boiled like dumplings
and eaten with milk. Even reindeer
moss has been used for' human food
in times of scarcity. In Sweden it
was formerly ground into flour and
used for bread, and also for the pro
duction of sugar.
The food value of reindeer moss
has been estimated by Dr. Jacobi as
three times greater than that of the
potato. Nevertheless, he recommends
Iceland moss for bread making and'
reindeer moss for fodder. Iceland
moss was, before the introduction of
gelatine, imported in considerable
quantities into temperate climes, and
employed in making jellies. In Ice
land it covers wide tracts of land and
grows to a height of from one to
three or even four inches.
But it must not be suDDOsed that
these lichens are confined to Arctic or
sub-Arctic regions. Prof. A. A. Han
sen of Pennsylvania State college
says that he has seen great masses of
rcinuccr muss growing aiung uic
shores of Lake Superior, and that in
Minnesota patches covering an acre
or more are not intrequent. It prob
ably exists or could be cultivated in
other parts of the United States.
Waste lands, Prof. Harsen suggests,
might be utilized for this purpose. As
to other species of lichen, they are to
be found literally all over the world,
in the warmest as well as the coldest
climates, in valleys, on the seashore,
and at the greatest mountain eleva
tions, even hieh above the snow line.
Their geographical range, says the"
encyclopedia urttannica. is more ex
tended than that of any other class of
plants. In addition to Iceland moss
and reindeer moss several other spe
cies are edible, such as the "tripe de
roche of northern Canada, and the
manna lichen found from Algiers
through northern Africa and western
Asia as far as Tartary. This some
times appears as "mannr. rain." Being
easily detached from high rocks by a
rtrong wind when it is in a dry state,
it is blown to considerable distances,
falling in the form of rough grains,
which arc gathered, cooked and
taten.
This is believed to be the historical
basis of the - story of the Bible, of
the manna miraculously furnished to
children of Israel in the wilderness of
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ble lichen growing in the mountains
and utilized for tood.
Several species of lichens furnish
medicinal extracts, and necessity
might develop other edible varieties.
It would seem as if we have hitherto
been remiss in utilizing all the possi
ble sources of food that the earth of
fers us. Wha't mieht not be accom
plished by nr. intensive traininr; of the
digestive powers? W hy should a man
with his superior brain, perish of star
vation in the midst of a ricn meadow
where a n jrse, a cow or a sheep
would grow fat?
If I . were privileged to travel
THE shirtwaist dress is going to be very smart, and this one above
is of the best washable crepe shirting in white, flelsh-color, navy
blue or black, rose, blue, or heliotrope striped, or solid white,
blue or pink handkerchief linen. To the right is one-piece dress. The
skirt portion is of blue, rose or green linen., The top is of white linen,
with stitching.
as Food
through th world of space I should
expect to find somewhere creatures as
intelligent .is we are living upon me
grass of the fields, and. through troub
ling themselves less about their food
supply, ha.e more time to cultivate
their nundi and morals.
If we ever do come to a diet of
lichens wc shall make intimate ac
quaintance with one of the strangest
forms of vegetable life that this planet
contains. They are plants of a dual
nature, or they are a combination of
two kinds of plants. They consist of
an alga combined with a fungus. It
might be called a marriage in whicn
the two narties are blended into one
individual. The result is an organism
which can survive under conditions
that would destroy either of the part
ners, or components if living al&ie.
It follows tfiat lichens are very
long-lived, as well as able to live in
all kinds of conditions. They grow
on bare earth, on the bark of trees,
on stones and rocks, in cold and heat,
in moisture and dryness. It is be
lieved that some species outlive the
longest-lived trees.
They appear in the form of gray,
yellow or brown crusts or masses al
most everywhere upon trees, rocks
and soil. But thev keep away from
cities. On a bare rocky surface aJ
fungus would die from want of or
ganic substance, and an alga from
drought and want of mineral sub
stances, but the lichen (a combination
of the two) is able to grow, as the
alga supplies organic food material
and the fungus has developed a bat
tery of acids which enable it actually
to dissolve the most resistant rocks,
so that it supplies the needed mineral
substances, and thus the double crea
ture, which looks single except to the
eye of science, outwits death.
To go any farther we should have
to enter a very wonderful cabinet of
science, over whose door is written
the word "symbiosis," and whose
shelves are laden- with the story of
partnerships in low life which ex
ceeds any human - partnerships in
closeness and completeness of unity.
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Fashion Tips
Cotton voiles occupy an important
place on the list of summer materials,
and a favorite arrangement is an open
checking line of white upon a colored
ground, and with a slightly corded ef
fect, this device almost imperceptible
at a little distance, being brought
more definitely to the notice by an
occasional broad bar of the white or
an intersecting line in a contrasting
hue.
This season the smartest and most
attractive use of black-and-white com
binations is in' the combining of fab
ricssatin with georgette crepe or
two crepes and only this week i saw
in an exclusive manufacturer's show
r .oms lovely midsummer dresses of
georgette crepe in white combined
with a foulard having a white ground
and black motif.
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Cheerfully
Answered
SOME FOLKS LACK
SENSE OF HUMOR
Gloomy Correspondent Asks
1 Groh Where He Gets All
His Egotism and Gets
Answer,
By A. R. GROH.
I A clumsily disguised anonymous
letter has reached me. Attendez:
"Mister Groh, you ar so wise an
I knowing pies tct us wher egotism
grohs an hoh to get sum ot ut.
W. B. Somebody."
My dear Mr. Somebody (or are
you a "Miss?"), you .probably have an
ample supply of egotism. What you
lack is a sense of humor.
And that is a most serious lack,
for it cannot be supplied. A sense
of humor must be born in yOti or
cultivated early. Scarcely can it be
acquired after you grow up.
"It is not in the power of everyone
to taste humor, however much he
may wish it; it is the gift of God,"
says Sterne.
People who lack a sense of humor,
my dear Somebody, take everything
seriously.
You took my sometimes-humorous
articles seriously, didn't yon? And
yon accuse me of having overmuch
egotism.
The real fact is that I am peculiarly
free from it. I fully appreciate my
own smallncss. I feel fairly sure
that, two or three thousand years
hence. Shakespeare, Mark Twain and
myself will not be read very much.
(I guess I shouldn't have written
that last sentence, when I am writ
ing to a nonhumorous person. You
surely didn't "get" it, did you? You
took it seriously, didn't you? You
said to yourself, "Why, of all the
puffed-up egotism! Does he actually
put himself in a class with Shake
speare and Mark Twain?" And you
worked yourself up into a perfect
tempest of mustardy condemnation.
Too bad, Somebody, too bad.
Perhaps you think, you have a
sense of humor because you ran ap
preciate a two-line "joke" between
"Rinks" anH "Jinks." But that doesn't
require a sense of humor at all, at all."
Let's quote a little more from
"Well-Knovtn Quotations." CarUlc
says:
"True humor springs not more from
the head than from the heart. It's
essence is love. It issues not in
laughter, but in sjjll smiles, which lie
far deeper. Humor implies a sure con
What Every Woman
Should Know
Dr. Ferdinand King, Aew York
jihvsician and medical author, tells phy
'' sicians that they should prescribe more
organic iron Nuxated Iron for their
patientsSays anaemiairon deficiency
is the greatest curse to the health,
strength, vitality and beauty of the mod
ern American Woman. Sounds warn
ing against use of metallic iron which
may injure the teeth, corrode the stomach
and do far more harm than good; advises
use of only nuxated iron.
Watch for large article by Dr. Fer
dinand King, soon to appear in this
paper, entitled "The Crying Need of
the Women of Today is More Iron in
Her Blood." In this article Dr. King
explains why the modern American
woman requires more iron than she
did 20 or 30 years ago and shows how
by taking Nuxated Iron, weak, nerv
ous,! rundown . women may increase
their strength, vitality and endurance
100 per cent in two weeks' lime in
many instances.
Niixntfd Iron, recommended above by nr.
Klnjr, in for ftale by Sherman & McConnell
lrnir Store and all good druggUtH on an ab
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or your money refunded.
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that tell where to go, what to see,
what it costs, and now to enjoy a
vacation in cool, sunny Colorado.
ception of the beautiful, tfie maiestic
and the true. It softens with mirth
the ragg.l inequalities of existence;
prompting tolerant views of life.'
Ah, yes, Somebody, that is one of
the most valuable uses ot a sense ot
humor. It enables one to bear better
lhe vicissitudes of this troubled life.
Oh. 1 feel sorry fur you, Some
bodv. I :ruly do. "Don Quixote,"
ihc ""Pickwick Papers," "Im-ocents
hrn.Kt" ,1 a host of other treasur-
j ies of quie', gurgling, ecstatic mirth
are sealed K. yuu. lou iook out upim
a matter-of-fact world where all is
grimly serious and nothing make-believe.
If the Humorous Mrs. Jones says
she couldn't attend the meeting last
Thursday because the family
limousine v,as in the repair shop, and
James, the chauffeur, was sick, and
George had the roads!-:-r out at the
chib, you fiown and say, "Why, they
haven't got a car. Does she think
she can make me believe all that? lhe
rlrrpitfitl tlimc-l"
Fortunati-lv there arc not many hu
morless persons in the world, my dear
Somebody. And if this little tplk
helps you to get even a glimpse into
Humorland, 1 shall be glad.
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