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Jg3? August 3
Knitting Versus Bridge.
Chicago women have become such
tireless knitters that when they con
gregate to play bridge the cards lie
idle on the table while the erstwhile
players sit about endlessly knitting,
"knitting for the navy."
That Omaha women are just as en
thusiastic the knitting classes at the
national league headquarters each day
this week show. The -many hand
some hand-knitted sweater coats
which the pretty girls and young ma
trons wear further attest the fact.
When they gather at the country clubs
on cool evenings you can see little
groups of them inspecting each
other's coats and speculating about
the amount of yarn required for this
or that stitch and talking very intel
ligently about "purling" and the like.
The pretty knitting bags which flour
ish about the streets on the arms of
attractive knitters give further evi
dence that the knitting craze has
struck Omaha.
When it comes to a question of
bridge or knitting, however, there's
scarcely a madame or a miss who
doesn't prefer bridge. That is why
the bridge parties at the three coun
try clubs for the benefit of yarn
week in the National League for
Woman's Service have been so suc
cessful. At Happy Hollow club
Thursday over twenty tables were
"lied with players, who contributed
a sum in excess of $23.
Mrs. George Edwards won first
prize and chose a tatting yoke. Miss
uth Thompson took the big green
silk knitting bag which Mrs. How
ard Baldrige had donated. Miss Ade
line Jones won a pair of knitting nee
dles and two skeins of yarn. This
card party came on Happy Hollow's
regular bridge day and Mrs. F. J.
Jumper was in charge. The next
bridge day at the club will be Au
gust 16.
That the Fi:1d club could have any
players at all Thursday proves that
bridge ts more popular tnan Knitting,
because this "yarn week bridge" was
the second bridge party given at that
club this week. Tuesday Daughters
of the American Revolution were the
rrrinipnti nf the bridee moncv and
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i next Tuesday. Mrs. Karl F. Adams
won the green silk knitting bag at the
Field club, Mrs. Charles E. Reese,
whd helped to arrange the successful
party at Carter Lake club on Wednes
day, won second prize and took the
second knitting bag. Mrs. A. L.
Ritchie, another member of the ac
tive committee who arranged the
bridge on Wednesday, won the pair
of knitting needles and two skeins of
yarn at the Field club. Proceeds of
this party have not yet been deter
mined. Fisher-Buffington Wedding.
Miss Hattie P. M. Buffington and
Mr. Carl E. Fisher were united in
marriage Thursday night at 9 o'clock
at the home of the bridegroom's par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Fisher, in
Beatrice, Neb. Rev. W. A. Mulligan
of the Episcopal church officiated.
The house was decorated with
ferns, palms and roses. As the wed
ding procession entered Miss Mary
Tucks played the wedding march.
The bride's dress was of white satin
and net with an overskirt of tulle;
Both the overskirt and veil were
caught with' tiny rosebuds.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald . C. Warren,
cousins of the bridegroom, were at
tendants. Daisy and Lillian Halman,
his nieces, were ringbearer and flower
girl. Eighteen guests attended the
wedding supper which followed the
ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher will
make their home in Omaha.
New Club House Opens.
August 11 is the date set for the
opening of Prettiest Mile club, the
all-year-'round country club, which
has been planned and brought almost
to completion by the women of Pret
tiest Mile. Mrs. Fred M. Crane,
president of the club, has worked
hard to make the club house a sat
isfactory building and with her com
mittees is taking great pains to ar
range the program for the opening re
ception. Cards were sent this morning to
the presidents of the other Omaha
country clubs, inviting them and their
members to attend the affair. Mayor
Dahlman will speak. An orchestra
will furnish music for dancing and
the club house will be open to in
spection of visitors.
Personal Mention.
Miss Ethel Solomon has returned
to spend the summer with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Solomon. In
October she will resume her studies
with Madame Niessen Stone, in New
York.
Mrs. John J. Libal and daughter,
Mrs. Lester P. Wescott, left for a
th-ee weeks' rest at Estes Park, Colo.
Miss Henrietta Medlar, who was
graduated from the department of do
mestic science and domestic arts at
Rockford college and who has been
visiting Miss Gertrude Sheerer, a
dassmate, in Hammond, Ind., since
lune, returned to Omaha the mid
dle of the week. She was accom
panied by Miss Sheerer, who will
spend some time visiting here.
The Misses Susan Galvin and Ver
onica Cooney of Chicago are visiting
their aunt, Mrs. John M. Parks, on
the South Side.
Mrs. A. D. Marriott is expecting a
visit from Mrs. Cutting of Minneapo
lis next week'.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sherraden
leave next Thursday for Minneapolis,
to be gone five or six .weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Blanchard have
with them their daughter and her
two children from Minneapolis. They
arrived two weeks ago and will be
her.? two or three weeks more.
Mrs. Marion Chapman and her
daughter Hazel of New York City,
who have been the guest: of Mrs.
Chapman's sister, Mrs. George E.
Haverstick, are spending two weeks
in Colorado. They will stop in Oma
ha again for a short time upon their
return.
Miss Inez Rubinson is the guest
tor a week of Mr. and Mrs. J Harry
Ktilakofsky.
Mrs. Isidor Ziegler and family are
at the Stanley hotel in Estes Park,
where they will be until September 1.
Mr. and Mrs Peter Elvad have just
returned from the west.
In Clubdom.
The choral society of the Young
Men's and Young Women's Hebrew
associations will hold a special meet
ing Saturday evening at 8 o'clock to
irhcarsc tor the dedicatory exercises
of the Jewish Old People's home
fcunday.
The woman's committee of the food
HEADS CARTER LAKE
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CROSS CIRCLE
MRS. . S. CRANE
conservation movement met with the
men of the committee at luncheon
at the Commercial club Thursday to
plan the campaign for work. Mes
dames H. C. Sumnev, E. E. Stanfield,
J. W. Robbins, J. D. Hiss and Miss
Gladys Shamp make up the commit
tee appointed by Mayor Dahlman.
Mrs. L. J. Healey wit! replace Mrs.
R. Beechcr Howell as head of the
commissariat department of the Na
tional League of Woman Service, it
was decided at a board meeting held
this morning. Mrs. Howell will be
out of the "city part of the time so
the change was made.
Boy Scouts Weather Storm
And Win Honors at Camp
Boy Scouts' Camp, Lake Quinne
baugh, Aug. 2. Boy Scouts in camp
passed safely through storms of wind,
liehtnine and rain for two hours
early Thursday morning. Only minor
ills caused by overeating nave at
tacked the sixty boys.
Second class scouts who are anx
ious for first class honors are taking
their tests in woodcraft, hiking for
fourteen miles and swimming at least
fifty yards. Contests are on in quoits,
checkers, base ball and volley ball,
for the camp championship.
Sunday will be visitors' day. The
boys are looking for picnic lunches
from home, different from the scien
tifically balanced and uniform camp
menu. Visitors from Omaha who
come by auto follow the road from
Tekamah by the red signs, turning
to the left to go to the hotel for a
launch ride over or to the right to go
to the bank opposite the scout camp.
From Tekamah the round trip, auto
and launch, to Camp Welch is $1.60.
Parents who come are'asked by the
scout executive to take their boys
back on Sunday if it is convenient.
The camp breaks up Monday morn
ing and the train, reaches fth'e Web
ster street station at 7:10 p. ni.
Omaha Red Cross Chapter
Will Finance Auxiliaries
Omaha Red Cross auxiliaries will
be financed by the Omaha chapter
in the future, the executive commit
tee of the local chapter decided at a
meeting this morning.
Heretofore the auxiliaries have at
tempted with little success to finance
themselves through ice cream socials,
bazaars, bridge parties aod the like.
The committee decided that much
more could be accomplished if the
parent chapter would finance its
branches, so in the future the auxil
iaries.will be provided with raw materials.-
The-following auxiliaries were of
ficially'' recognized as affiliated with
the Omaha chapter:
Belvidere, Benson auxiliary, Clifton
Hill Presbyterian, Carter Lake club,
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion, Immanucl Baptist, Happy Hol
low, Mesco-Burnasco, St. . Mary's
Guild, St. Mary's- Avenue Congrega
tional, Scottish Rite Woman's club,
Union Pacific Pensioners. Valley's
organization was formally recognized
as a branch chapter. .
To Open New Town in
Project in Wyoming
Secretary Lane announces the
opening of a new townsite on August
29 on the Shoshone project in north
ern Wyoming. It is located in the
Frannie Unit, which will be opened
to entry in September and which
contains 41,000 acres of irrigable land.
The townsite, which will be called
Deaver, is on a branch of the Burling
ton, between Billings, Mont., and
Lovell, Wyo. On the opening day
nearly 300 lots will be offered at pub
lic sale, the terms being all cash,
or one-fifth cash and balance in four
annual installments with 6 per cent
interest. .
Professor Adams to
Head Seattle School
Karl F. Adams, principal of the
Commercial High school m this city,
will leave in a short time for Seat
tle, Wash., where he has accepted
a position as principal of Lincoln
High school.
The Seattle school has over 1,500
scholars and a staff of over sixty
teachers. This is quite a promotion
for Mr. Adams, as the position car
ries a salary of $3,500 per year.
Mr. Adams will stay here a short
time and help with the preparations
of opening the Commercial High
school.
Omahans to Go to Nebraska
City for Celebration
The Omaha crowd of former Ne
braska City people will leave Oma
ha Thursday morning, August 16, at
8:30, over the Missouri Pacific for
Nebraska City to celebrate the an
nual home coming. A bigger crowd
than ever before is expected this year
and from local indications Omaha
will send a larger delegation than it
has in the past. Definite plans for
the Omaha contingent will be made
at the office of Robert C. Druesedow
Saturday night of this week.
For best reports of the Fremont'
tractor demonstration read The Bee!
from day to day. 1
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OMAHA CLUBS HOSTS I
TO WOMEN OF STATE,
Mrs. J.
dent,
to
N. Paul, State Presi
Urges Club, Women
Assist in the Red
Cross Work.
'The big annual convention of the
Nebraska Federation of Women's
Clubs will be entertained this year
by the Federated Clubs of Greater
Omaha, according to an announce
ment made by the state president,
Mrs. J. N. Paul of St. Paul. October
23 to 25 are the dates set. Hostess
clubs will include the Omaha, Ben
son, South Side, Dundee and Wom
an's club of the Railway Mail Serv
ice. "Speakers df note will appear on the
convention program and chairmen of
different departments are busy pre
paring for their sessions," said Mrs.
Paul. "All presidents, with full num
ber of delegates and a strong visiting
delegation, will be expected at the
meeting." Four hundred or 500 women
will attend.
Mrs. Paul urges all club women to
help in Red Cross work. "At the
counc!' meeting in New Orleans at
the beginning of the war the general
federation pledged itself to back the
government and aid it in every way
possible. Since then most of our
women have signed individual pledge
cards for service. I hope and believe
that in this dark hour of our distress
there is not, nor will there be, a
slacker in our midst."
"Yarn Day" Tags to Be Sold
By Fair Maidens Saturday
This .morning at 8 o'clock 450
of Omaha's freshest and loveliest
maidens will charge down on the bus
iness men and shoppers of Omaha in
an effort' to raise $5,000 to purchase
yarn to comfort the frozen toes and
wrists of Uncle Sam's boys in the
trenches. ' Small yellow tickets will
be sold for whatever amount the con
tributor desires to give. Each ticket
bears the legend, "I have helped the
boys at sea."
the day is officially designated as
"Yarn Day" in Omaha and it is held
under the auspices of the Navy
League of the United States. work
ing in conjunction with the National
League tor woman acrvicc.
This money will be used to purchase
yarn for knitting coteries and indi
viduals who feel that they cannot af
ford to purchase their own yarn.
Leonard Trester of Lincoln is in
charge of the organization of Yarn
day. .
Friday morning he addressed Miss
Catherine Newbranch's committee of
young women who are in charge of
the work of obtaining canvassers for
the big drive tomorrow, giving full
instructions as to time and method of
Drocedure.
Canvassers will stand on street cor
ners and others will cover all the bus
iness blocks in the city. Every cent
of this nionev goes to the purchase
of yarn, which will lat . be knitted up
into socks, mufflers, sleevelet sweat
ers, knitted helmet:, wristlets and
other knitted naraohernalia so ncces
sary to the men who will be exposed
to the coming bitter weather in the
trenches of Europe.
Red Cross Workroom to
Open in Burgess-Nash Store
Another Red Cross work room will
be opened in the Burgess-Nash store,
third floor, by the Hospital supplies
committee of the Red Cross society,
The purpose is to enable women shop
pers to spend a spare hour helping
in war relief work.
No surgical dressings will be made
here, only sewing such as bed shirts,
sheets, pajama suits, etc.
Different Red Cross auxiliaries will
take charge each day. Mrs. Joseph
Barker is assisting Mrs. O. C. Redick
in preparing the work room.
Other downtown Red Cross work
rooms are now maintained in the
Batrd and Army buildings.
Charged Thirty and Costs
For Borrowing Ukulele
James Hopkins has a taste for mu
sic. He loes the soft Hawaiian airs
that arc thrummed from the strings
of a ukulele. Lonely summer even
ings, big round moons and an insa
tiable longing for his romantic south
strengthened his desire so greatly that
he was moved to steal a ukulele from
J. T. Thompson, 212 South Twenty
second street.
James was haled before Police
Judge Fitzgerald and charged $30 and
costs for his temporary use of the
instrument.
Toilet Needs for
Young People
Parents know the
necessity of train
ing the children
early in the cart
of their teeth.
The first gtep is
to get one of our
good tooth
brushes, made es
pecially for child
ren's use.
Tooth Paste
No trouble to get
children to clean
their teeth regu
larly with our,
tooth paste. It is
pleasant to the
taste, cleanses the
teeth thoroughly
and does not
harm the gums ;
10c and 26c tub.
Hair Brushes
A good way to
avoid danger from
hair or scalp
trouble is to give
the children their
own hair brushes.
You can buy a
good suitable
brush here for
75c, $1.00, $1.50
J. HARVEY GREEN, Prop.
ONE GOOD DRUG STORE
16th and Howard. Douglas 846.
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
Do you win your prizes? Or is a
special one awarded to you now and
then because you are the superinten
dent's nephew or the principal's son?
Do you work for what you get, or
i are you too lazy to go after what you
really want when something just as
good" might be given you without
any effort o.i your part?
jerry Robinson is a good looking
chap to whom liking flows in a
smooth and untroubled stream. His
smile fairly invites the world to
make friends with him, and that part
of the world which is not too busy
to do it proceeds to cultivate
Jerry.
The type of man who runs down to
Palm Beach to escape the winter or
out to the Canadia.. Rockies to avoid
the summer calls Jerry a fine fellow.
Girls whose idea of a perfect day is
"luncheon, tea, dinner, dance," like
Jerry tremendously they find him
"so dependable.
Now it happens that Jerry has
more in his favor than a pleasant
smile and a way of wearing his
clothes. He has a good mind, an
active mind, a mind that would eas
ily be brilliant if it were spurred by
any inner goad. But Jerry is under
no particular necessity for using that
good mind of his. rrom a loving
grandmother he inherited enough
thousands a year to enable him to live
well, without putting up any fight
for the where-with-all to buy him
what either need or fancy dictates.
Jerry like to enjoy life. He doesn't
have to work, but he does have to
keep himself amused, or the active
mind which has nothing to "bite on"
would turn ravenously and tear its
owner to pieces.
Jerry paints a bit but once when
he was in the middle of a very charm
ing portrait, Mrs. Norton phoned to
say that she was taking some
people down to Pinehurst for golf
and would he go? Jerry dried his
paint brushes and went; and he kept
on drifting south until he found him
self in Rio. By the time he got back
his model was married and he had
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Fighting to Win Prizes
decided that painting wasn't his forte
anyway.
then Jerry thought of reorganizing
(he factory from which most of his
income accrues. He and the superin
tendent had a plan for betterment of
condition's almost worked out when
Jimmy Vinton phoned to say they
were short a man for a trip out to the
coast in his father's private car and
wouldn't Jerry come. So Jerry
went.
When he got back from that trip,
he met a rather charming young
woman at a dinner. Marjoric drier
was sweet and tine and pretty, and
besides all that, she was an earnest
young person whose keen mentality
and ardent sympathy made her just
Advice to Lovelorn
By Beatrice Fairfax
rtnln Talk.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I have bffn going
nlout wuh r ninn about a year. during
which tiinp ho treatril mo vory cavalierly,
timer ki'pplnn hla appolntnif nta, taming
lnt Ho., but always gavfl me imul xi'up.
Poms time ago ho mailo an appointment
wtlh mo and didn't come, and alnrn then 1
ha hoard nothing from him till about
two weeks ago, when he wrote ma a very
formal letter about aomethlng very insig
nificant, at the aame time Baying he was
rather lonesome for me, with never another
word about the. appointment, which he broke
or why 1 didn't hear from him all this time,
to which 1 answered In a letter In accord
with hla. but nothing about hla calling or
even a hint of encouragement.
Vo you think 1 ought to have culled up
or written to find out the reason for hla not
keeping the engagement, or otherwise: had
t best drop the matter entirely? 1 thought
I had forgotten him. but It seems I III
care. Our engagement was not yet an
nounced. JAN'K.
What you need la a plain talk. Tosslhly
this man la a little ashamed of himself and
too proud to say ao; possibly he feels that he
would like to drift away from you without
any ugly arene or recriminations or un
happlnesa on anybody's part. You had bet
ter writs him a friendly little note, suggest
ing that you would Ilka to sea him, and
then when you are faca to face live him
clearly to understand that you don't want
to hold him, If he desires to go, and that
you do Insist on mora courteous and con
siderate treatment If he means to stay. De
mand the respect that la due you, but don't
ling about little things.
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MEN and
Walk-Over Shoes are always authentic for style and first
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All Summer Low Cuts Now Being
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WILL BE DELIGHTED with the beautiful col
ored Mother Goose toys given free with
every package of Washington Crisps, New Pro
cess Corn Flakes.
There's Humpty-Dumpty, Cinderella, Old Mother
Hubbard, Little Boy Blue and dozens of others
dear to the hearts of youngsters.
The Corn Flakes are delicious and you will find,
that after Father tries
the children and demand
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as successful a settlement worker
as her family and beauty and charm
made her in the role of society girl.
By the middle of the dinner Jerry
knew he wanted to see Marjorie
again. By the end of of the dinner, he
hail told her so. And Marjorie gave
him her telephone number and her
address and her assurance that she
would be glad to bear from him.
And Jerry promised to help in some
of her settlement class and felt
almost as deeply stirred by her fine
earnestness and the things lie felt
it demanding of him. as he did by
her beauty and loveliness, and the
share of them both he felt vaguely
he might some day demand.
And the next morning someone
invited Jerry for a trip through the
Panama canal and he went. By the
time he got back Marjorie had mar
ried a fellow settlement worker,
Jerry told himself that he was too
darned popular for his own good.
He told iiis particular pal that he was
too good-hearted; people were always
coming along w ith plans he hadn t
the heart to refuse and that prevented
him from ever doing the things he
really wanted to do.
I know a good many Jerrys are
you one of them? Do you drift along
at the heck and cal' of people wlio
have nothing better to do than to
beckon and call? Do you fail to know
all the people who arc worth your
while because you never have lime
to call them or call on them? Have
you a collection of good impulses
which never amounts to anything be
cause yon are always being invited
to do something else before you have
time to learn the full beauty of your
own plans?
It seldom occurs to the Jerry
Robeson's of this world that they arc
weak, lacking in initiative or even
lazy. It is so easy to say "yes," to
people who come along with sugges
tions which sidetrack you, which
carry you away from the fountain
and source of honest endeavor. To
rush from pursuit to pursuit, with
pleasure flitting on just ahead, isn't
even fun. It steals life from you be
fore you have made any preparations
to live!
WOMEN
BOOT SHOP
16th STREET
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them, he will back
Washington Crisps.
Women's Activities
An old woman of 71 acts as barber
to soldiers of the allies at a village in
northern France.
Several women are among the ex
pert "birdmen" in the German mili
tary aviation corps.
King George has instituted two new
orders of chivalry open to women, in
recognition of their manifold services
during the war.
Several women are now employed
in running bolt cutting machines in
the Northern Pacific railroad shops
at Missoula, Mont.
Darnard college next year will have
a course in the elements of law open
to a limited number of specially quali
fied women students.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hatter, an 83-year-old
resident of Shippensburg, Pa.,
has completed a half-century of un
broken Sunday school attendance.
Further progress in the direction of
woman's emancipation in Russia is
shown by the recent admission of
four women J the bar in Moscow.
A daughter of President Van Hisc
of the University of Wisconsin is do
ing her bit by working in a pea can
nery at Leroy, i. i.. tor $10 a week. .
During the past thirty years nearly
10.1XX) patents have been granted to
women in the United States, their in
ventions including almost everything
from a baby jumper to a deep-sea tele
scope. "I would rather have for my hus
band a crippled hero than a 100 per
cent slacker." said Mrs. Cecil V. K.
Hall of Dallas, Tex., when informed
her husband had enlisted in the en
gineering corps,
The new military medal, originally
instituted for British non-coinmis-simied
officers and men as a reward
for distinguished bravery in battle, is
now conferred upon nurses and other
women who have shown conspicuous
courage and coolness under fire.
Miss Claudia Ellis, a pretty young
woman of St. Louis, unable to accom
pany her brother when he enlisted
in the navy, decided to take the broth
er's place as a motor truck driver so
that he might respond to the call for
men.
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