THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1917.
By MELLIFICIASept. 12
Sufis Versus Antis on Registration.
Did you register today? If you
are reading The Bee before 8 o'clock
tonight, there is still time.
Mellificia was nearly driven dis
tracted trying to get society "copy"
this morning. She couldn't reach
any woman by telephone. Maid and
matron alike gave up the day to reg
istration work, registering them
selves for war service if necessary,
any trying to induce hesitant women
to do likewise. Some served as ward
and precinct chairmen and registrars,
others "manned" automobiles used
to carry women to and from the
polls.
Husbands were requisitioned, too,
in many instances to help with the
work. Mr. N. P. Feil is going to
spend the evening at the public
library headquarters, tabulating the
returns. Election Commissioner
Moorhead has been helping right
along.
The staid old library probably
won't recognize itself tonight when it
makes its debut as a center for "elec
tion returns." Instead of men wait
ing around with bated breath to hear
the poll figures, it will be the women.
"It's an interesting thing, this reg
istration of women," remarked a keen
observer. "Already the conflict of
opinions as to women's response to
the government call for registration
is marked. A very ardent suffragist
told me she wa; through with suf
frage. She saw by women's ignor
ance and indifference to all that
pertained to registration day that
women weren't ready to go to the
polls yet.
"An anti told me she was converted
to suffrage through watching them
help in the registration organization.
'The suffs are the only women who
know how to do thirjrs, and then do
them,' she said."
Another anti, however, said she
would have nothing to do with the
registration. "I know it's only the
suffragists behind it all," quoth she.
Another woman refused to register
because she thought it committed her
to sympathy with the war.
"They don't 'understand and won't
take the trouble to find out," wept
one weary worker.
Calmer onlookers are reserving
judgment on registration matters un
til the final returns come in, showing
what percentage of women respond
ed to the call.
If the census taken in this way,
voluntarily, does not meet the re
quirements of the government, it is
said, the government will call for a
compulsory registration.
Young People Entertain.
Miss Catherine Cartan was hostess
at a very pretty luncheon at the home
of her grandmother, Mrs. E. W. Nash,
when the honor guest was Miss Kath
ryn Smyth, who leaves soon to make
her home in Washington, D. C. This
was followed by a box party at the
Boyd. Pink roses adorned the lunch
eon table.
Miss Katherine McShane enter
tained in honor of Miss Smyth Tues
day and last Saturday Miss Louise
Clarke gave a luncheon in her honor.
Miss Dorothy Judson will entertain
twelve young people at the Country
club dinner-dance this evening com
plimentary to her guest, Miss Esther
Battreall of St. Joseph.
Tomorrow Miss Vernelle Head,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Head, who have come to Omaha re
cently live, will entertain very infor
mally at luncheon for Miss Battreall
at the Blackstone, where they are
now stopping. The girls were friends
in St. Joseph, the former home of
.he Head family.
Miss Katherine Gardner gives a
luncheon Saturday also for the
younger set.
Miss Margaret Gamble gave a
1 cheon at the Blackstone compli
mentary to Miss Adelaide Moore of
Chicago, who is visiting Miss Evelyn
Ledwich.
i Mrs. Waite Squier and Mrs. W. W.
Head chaperoned a party given by
Miss Helen Stenger Tuesday in hon
or of Miss Vernelle Head, a newcom
er in the younger set. The girls
enjoyed the movies at the Strand and
then were entertained at tea at the
Fontenelle.
COLLEGE GIRL IS BRIDE OF
ARMY OFFICER.
Ryan-Kennedy Wedding.
Miss Norrie Kennedy, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Kennedy, was
married to Mr. John T. Ryan of Gilt
ner, Neb., Thursday morning at 9
o'clock at St. John's parish.
Miss Ruby Kennedy, sister of the
bride, was maid of honor and Mr. T.
W. Kennedy, brother of the bride,
served as best man.
The bride wore a gown of white
crepe de meteor trimmed with duch
ess lace and carried a shower bou
quet of bride's roses. Miss Ruby
Kennedy wore pink satin trimmed
ui-Vh pink georgette crepe and rose
;jt.is and a large pink georgette hat.
After the ceremony a wedding
breakfast was served at the home
of the bride's parents to forty guests.
Mrs. Ryan is a graduate of Sacred
Heart academy and the groom is a
graduate of Creighton university.
They will be at home in Giltner,
Neb., after the 1st of October.
The bride's going-away suit was
dark blue and she wore with it a
purple hat.
Military Wedding.
Captain Lewis C. Davidson of the
Fort Omaha signal station and Miss
Helen Kinney of Astoria, Ore., were
married Tuesday afternoon and are
now stopping at the Fontenelle. The
bride came on from the west recently
for the ceremony. Captain Davidson
is a West Point man, whose home was
formerly in Denver.
For Miss Hart's Guests.
The Misses Helen and Emma War
ren of Brooklyn, N. Y., who arc vis-
Mrs. Richard E. Cook, before her
marriage which took place last Tues
day evening, was Miss Eva Rucker of
Minneapolis. The ceremony was per
formed at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Eddy at Howard Lake, Minn.
Miss Rucker is a senior at the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
The wedding was hastened by the
order directing Lieutenant Cook from
Camp Dodge, la, to Mineola, N. Y.,
for service with the Forty-second or
"Rainbow" division which goes soon
to France. He was commissioned in
August at the Fort Snelling, Minn.,
camp, having entered camp from Lin
coln, Neb., where he was a reporter
on a Lincoln paper while attending
the University of Nebraska. His
home is at Council Bluffs, la. Lieu
tenant Cook is now at Mineola.
iting Miss Clara Hart of Council
Bluffs, will be guests of honor at a
bridge party given by Miss Regina
Connell Thursday afternoon. Miss
Hart will give a luncheon at her home
Friday for her guests, when fifteen
guests wilt be present.
The Misses Warren were class
mates of Miss Hart at Dana Hall.
Miss Geraldine Hess entertained at
luncheon at the Country club today
in honor of Miss Hart's house guests,
the Misses Emma and Helen Warren,
of Brooklyn, N. Y. Covers were laid
for twenty-six.
McDonald-Scobie Wedding.
The wedding of Miss Helen Scobie
and Mr. Alan McDonald took place
Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock at the
home of the bride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. R. Scobie, in the West Far
nam apartments. The Rev. Robert
French Leavens of the Unitarian
church read the marriage lines in the
presence of only the families of the
two young people.
Mr. and Mrs. Alan McDonald are
for the present at the home of the
groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
McDonald.
Club Meetings.
St. James Orphanage Sewing cir
cle meets Thursday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. James Connelly 724
North Thirtieth street.
Douglas' County Pioneers' associa
tion meets Thursday at 2:30 o'clock
in the county commissioners' room of
the court house.
Notes of Interest.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay J. Singer and
children left Saturday for Chicago,
where Mrs. Singer and children will
remain for an extended visit, Mr.
Singer returning in about ten days.
Miss Florence Russell left last
evening for Northampton, Mass.,
where she will enter her junior year
at Smith college.
Miss Esther Battreall of St. Jo
speli arrived Tuesday to be the house
guest of Miss Dorothy Judson until
Brownell Hall opens next Wednes
day. Mrs. J. A. Henske and daughter,
Katherine Elizabeth, are in Salt Lake
City, where Mrs. Henske has taken
an apartment to be near her husband,
Dr. Henske, who is with the Forty
third infantry, stationed at Fort Doug
las.
Mrs. K. Sanford of Fort Thomas,
Ky., arrives Thursday morning to be
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
K. Weller until after the wedding of
her granddaughter, Miss Virginia
Weller, and Mr. O. Dean Davisson.
Knights of Columbus
Elect New Officers
The annual election of officers of
Omaha council No. 6S2, Knights of
Columbus, was held in the lodge
rooms Tuesday night. The following
officers were elected: W. C. Fraser,
grand knight; E. P. Matthews, dep
uty grand knight; Dr. E. B. McQuil
len, chancellor; W. A. Leary, finan
cial secretary; A. L. Tamisiea, record
ing secretary; C. F. Connelly, advo
cate; C. F. Mehan, warden; Dr. C.
J. Vlach, treasurer, J. M. Fitzgerald,
trustee; John O'Neill, inside guard;
Frank Preston, outside guard.
McFadden Here for
Hotel Clerks' Meeting
Smokes and Bevos, together with
considerable conversation and some
business, furnished a characteristic
evening's entertainment at the regular
meeting of the Nebraska and Iowa
Hotel Clerks' association Tuesday
evening at the Rome. President R.
D. McFadden of the Pathfinder hotel,
also president of the National Greet
e'rs of America, came down from Fre
mont to superintend the festivities.
Lieutenant H. B. English
Called to Medical Corps
Dr. H. B. English received orders
yesterday to report to Washington
as a first lieutenant in the medical
corps. He will be used as a specialist
on mental hygiene. Dr. English was
formerly a member of the faculty at
Wellesley college and offered his
services to the amy. He was visiting
with his brother. C. H. English, in
this city when ordered to report.
For Gay W intry Days
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FORMER BEE BOY IS
PLEASEDWITH NAVY
Glenn Reeve Writes that Men
Get Plenty to Eat and Have
Fine Time All the
While.
HERE is a piquant concoction for Miss "In Her Teens." which
Hickson, the Fifth avenue importer, has just brought from
Paris. It claims the distinction of being an unique winter
set. Paris went to China for its inspiration and came back via
Italy to borrow the appellation "Bambino," for in truth it is quite
youthful enough to be called a "Chinese baby" set. The velvet hat,
with accordion plaited lop, is made fast around the chin with vel
vet ribbon and a little blue slide, and the streamer is finished with
a tiny closed "Chinese parasol" tassel. The lantern shaped velvet
muff repeats the plaiting. Black, lined with Chinese blue, is the
color scheme. The tippet, as all the world can see, is a "Pierrot
ruff" quaint and of ermine.
All in the carnival spirit, it will grace many a skating party,
for who could find a merrier combination for vouth?
Have You Imagination?
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
Dour your imagination bring you
joy or pain? You are free to invent
for yourself ogres and gobline or
good fairies. Which do you choose
to summon?
None of thethings we dread is as
bad as our perfervid imaginations
make them. None of our pet horror
ever torture us as we thought they
would. We use ourselves up and wear
ourselves out, fearing some situation
which lurke behind the black curtain
of the future. Then we go draw the
curtain, and behold! there is light on
the other side and our terror is a
beneficent and kindly ghost 1
Have you dreaded losing your job?
Well, you; lost- it and walked the
streets disconsolately looking for
work for several weeks. At the end
of that time you got a far better po
sition than the one you had so feared
losing.
If you have gone through the ex
perience of learning to ride, you know
that if you was at first afraid of your
mount the horse seemed almost
psychologically aware of it and was
the harder to handle. With courage,
it was fairly easy to keep your seat.
The instructor told you that you were
getting "a good wrist" and a splendid
"knee grip." But you knew that it
was more than that you had mas
tered your mohst, and he knew it
and acknowledged it by responding to
your will.
Your own fears are exactly like
that. Directly you cease dreading
them, they take orders from you!
When terror is permitted to master
you it rides you mercilessly. But di
rectly you conquer it the command
Approach your fear, lok at it from
all sides, force yourself to examine it
calmly it isn't real, is it? What you
have been afraid of is nothing actual,
nothing tangible, but just a figment
of your own imagination. And shall
this conquer you?
But why bother with it at all? Why
not invent for yourself radiant and
happy imaginings? You can, you
know.
"As a man thinketh in his heart,
so is he." Never was anything more
deeply beautiful and true than those
lines. We come in the end to be a
little like our dreams. Beautiful as
pirations and equisite hopes leave
their mark on everyone just as ugly
ones do.
Why should anyone invent terror
Judge Limps to Court
To Hear Important Case
Judge Leslie, who suffered a pain
ful injury to one of his ankles sev
eral weeks ago, appeared at the court
house long enough Wednesday morn
ing to hear arguments on a motion
in an important case and then with
the aid of a cane and a taxicab re
turned to his home again. He prob
ably will be confined to his home at
least another week.
Judge Leslie, sitting in equity court,
listened to arguments by attorneys in
a motion for a new trial in the case
of Daniel Thomas, awarded a verdict
for $25,000 against Otis Elevator com
pany by a jury in district court.
Thomas was injured when he fell
down an elevator shaft during con
struction work on the Castle hotel.
Pinched With a Pint
In Soft Drink Parlor
Richard Kimball, proprietor of a
soft drink parlor at 1210 South Six
teenth street, was arrested Wednes
day morning and charged with sell
ing and keeping intoxicating liquors.
Officers Anderson and Cunningham
raided his place of business and dis
covered a pint of whisky.
Jewish Soldiers Granted
Leave to Observe Holy Days
Philadelphia, Pa, Sept. 12. Fur
loughs have been granted to Jewish
soldiers at the various cantonments
in order that they may he able to
observe the Jewish new, year and
the day of atonement, according to
word received from the War depart
ment today. Similar leave has been
granted by the Navy department.
and horror for himself when lie is
perfectly free to invent beautiful
things?
Not very many of us could think
of the exquisite fancies which Barric
makes real for us in his marvelous
fairy tale plays. But all of us are
perfectly capable of making a start
in the direction of thinking beautiful
thoughts.
We have a way of training our
selves via suspicion and gossip and
ugly innuendo to imagine evil of our
neighbors if they make the tiniest
move in the direction which is not
absolutely conventional and not eas
ily explicable. Fear, scandal, scorn
and hate are all poisonous emotions
which react on the individual who
sets them free. Long ago I heard
a story of a gentle old lady who
spoke kindly of everyone. One of
her friends said to her: "My dear,
I believe you would think of some
thing good to say of Satan himself."
Half deprecatingly and far too
quickly to be the result of a desire
to be clever or to pose, the old lady
replied: "Well, he's really awfully
energetic, you know."
An attitude like that is not a gift
of the fairies or some magic result
of good fortune; it comes from keep
ing your attitude toward things clean
and sweet and wholesome. It is due
to training your heart in kindliness
to cultivate and house pleasant
thoughts.
It is perfectly possible to make
up a dream world for yourself in
which everything shall be pleasant
and joyous. Vision is the quality
which makes men achieve great
things. Without vision America
would never have been discovered.
The telegraph and the telephone and
the steam engine are all dreams come
true.
If you have not the magnificent
gift of imagination which will fire
you to invent a cotton gin or spur
you to travel in search of the mouth
of an Amazon river, at least you
have imagination enough to look out
at the black clouds of a storm-tossed
day and feel back of them the blue
of a kindly sky and the golden sun
light. You know that the tiniest bud holds
the possibility of an apple blossom
and that apple blossoms promise
luscious fruit. It is easy enough to
imagine what you have seen. The
trick lies in imagining the unknown.
And whether you imagine it grim
and dour and threatening or beauti
ful and gentle and kind, is for your
self to decide.
Your imagination lies absolutely
under your control unless you wil
fully choose to let it run away with
you. Even when you are dreaming
golden dreams you must remember
that you need force and action to
make them come true.
SJflJfflBOHl
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(ilcnn I.. Reeve, former carrier hoy
for The Bee, who joined the navy four
months ago, writes the following let
ter to Dwight Williams, manager of
circulation for The Bee. He is now
at Mare island, Vallego, Cal., and
thinks the navy 4s the real stuff.
"Of the four months that 1 have
seen service I have had no cause to
kick about anything. If more boys
could realize what they are missing by
not joining the navy there would be
less cause for slackers. Everything
that is here is the real stuff, without
any exaggeration whatever.
Have New Barracks.
"New barracks have been built here
that are well lighted and aired. We
have fine food and plenty of il. We
have amusements such as pool rooms
and moving picture shows. Above
everything eKe stands quality. What
we get is of the very best. The best
woolens go to make up our clothing,
the best quality of foodstuffs is given
us and we are cared for in a very
businesslike, thorough way. Cleanli
ness is most essential and all equip
ment is inspected twice a day. Speak
ing of food, most persons think that
we have poor food. Here is the Sun
day menu: Chicken and ice cream,
mashed potatoes, bread and real but
ter. We get some kind of fruit every
morning, pie and cake four or five
times a week.
A new recreation building has
been built, which has just been fin
ished. The auditorium has a seating
capacity of about 1.400 people and in
a short time will be equipped with
suitable chairs. It is so designed that
it will be used as a gymnasium and
we understand that the gymnasium
equipment has been ordered and will
he supplied by the government. Li
brary and reading room adjoins the
auditorium.
Papers and Magazines.
"At present the library consists of
some 3,000 volumes. In a short time
the reading room feature of the li
brary will be equipped with daily pa
pers from the principal cities of the
country, with all the principal Ameri
can magazines and some illustrated
foreign magazines. The pool hall oc
cupies the remaining wing of the
building. In it we have one billiard
and nine pool tables. The auditorium
is also equipped for moving pictures,
which are free to all the men of the
cam)). Shrws are being given on
Tuesday and Saturday nights at pres
ent, each program consisting of a
Triangle feature and a Keystone com
edy. "We drill once a week, but some
boys think that too much and try to
ditch drill, as we call it. The other
day a boy ditched drill, but he was
found out afterwards. Fifteen or
twenty boys got some rope ami roped
him and carried him in the shower
bath room and gave him a good
shower, clothes and all. He hasn't
missed drill since. Some system,
what? I may have liked civilian life,
but I can say with a clear conscience
that the navy is the only lite for a
real American bov."
Ilrond Curili for ltnl.
Rome Scit. 1 ll Oiiis. pin- t'liiii'pii, tl
Italian food ronlrolir. toilny rlr,-l tic
Intrmluitlon of l.r.-ml unit flmir cards
throughout Italy after cirtobor 11
! Sixth Regiment to
j Give Military Ball
As a fitting farewell to Omaha and
the countless friends they have made
; during the encampment here, the sol
diers of the Sixth regiment will en
' tertaiu this evening with a big mili
tary hop in the Auditorium,
j "All Omaha in invited," said the
i committee on arrangement at the Au
; ditoi mm. "We want everybody w ho
can to attend our party." All who
would like to attend can learn de
tails bv calling the battalion number,
Douglas 2210.
Emperor is Back From
Visit to Riga Troops
Amsterdam, Sept. 11. Emperor
William has returned to Potsdam, it
is announced in an official statement
from Berlin today.
Saving On The Rent Bills
Another "rent" in Sonny's clothes! And every tear
means a bill for a new suit. If you attempt to tame
the boy, you make a "mollycoddle" of the man.
STEEL FIBER NIKS SUITS
will solve the difficulty for you. They are immune
from ordinary wear and tear, and cost no more to
start with.
Let Us Demonstrate
INTER-WOVEN
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Omaha.
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