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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1917. in By MELLIFI CIA-Sept. 24 Former Queens at Coronation Ball But half the" number of former queena of Ak-Sar-Ben will grace the Coronation hall this year. Change of residence and marriages which' took Quivera's queens to other kingdoms to live are the causes. Several of the queens are yet undocided whether they will be able to attend. Of the early queens, Mrs. E. M" "Fairfield, the first to wear the ermine when she was Miss Meliora Wool worth; Mrs. J. T. Stewart, 2d, who as Miss Gertrude Kountze wielded the scepter, and Mrs. Henry T, Clarke, who was Miss Grace Allen, and only moved back to Qmaha from Lincoln recently, are the only ones to attend the ball. Mae Dundy Lee,' now Mrs. E. W. Lee of New York, Miss Ethel Morse, who is also in the east; Miss Mildred Lomax, who lives in San Francisco and Miss Edith Smith Day, wife of Captain Day, who have just returned from Honolulu and are at some army post and Mrs.. Ella Cot ton Magee, now living in New York, wilt be among the absent queens of the realm. Mrs. Thomas Latham Davis, who was Bessie Brady, Mrs. Glenn Whar ton, nee Ada Kirkendall, Mrs. W. D. Hosford, formerly Mary Lee Mc Shane, and Mrs. Barton Millard, who was Miss Nathalie Merriam when she was queen, are living in Omaha. Mrs. W. H. H. Cranmer of Denver, who served as queen when she was Miss Margaret Wood, is unfortunately ill in a Denver hospital, but a letter to her moher, Mrs. B. B. Wood, this morning brought the news that she was very much improved. Her chil dren, Harry and Robert, are with their grandmother while their father, Captain Cranmer, , is serving Uncle Sam. There is a possibility Captain Cranmer may be stationed at Linda Vista, Cal., in which , event, Mrs. Wood and Mrs. Cranmer will spend the winter at La Jolla. f - - Brownie Bess Baum, now Mrs. John Rouse of Baltimore, wilj not at tend the ball, but her parents, Mr, and Mrs. J. E. Baum and her sister, Miss Katherine Baum. who also served as a queen's page, will arrive from Philadelphia in time for the big event. They will be at the Blackstone during their stay. Mrs. Frank Wilhelm of Chicago, formerly Miss Jean Cud ahy, and Miss Frances Nash, who will have a musical engagement in Boston, will . not be present, nor will Mrs. David Forgan, nee Elizabeth Cong don, be here for the ball. Mrs. Fred Daugherty, formerly Frances Hochstetler, is on the Daugherty ranch at Delmare, Neb., and has not yet decided whether she will come, and Miss Marian Howe , may go east with her mother, Mrs. R. C Howe, before the ball, although sne will not remain east to study as she did last year but wjjl spend the winter among her former subjects. Mrs. Knneth 'Paterson, who was Elizabeth Pickens, and Miss Mary Megeath, last year's queen, will grace the Coronation ball. NEW VICE PRESIDENT OF RESEARCH CLUB. Medal for Blue Cross Work. Little Frances Jones, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Newell Jones, this morning received a silver medal for her work for the Blue Cross society, an organization to take care of the dogs used in the ambulance work of the Red Cross society. Recently lit tle Frances sold one of -her Persian kittens for the benefit of the fund and she has another kitten left which she will sell for the same purpose. The Blue Cross society has also sent her thirty beautiful cards bearing animal pictures, the same to be sold for 10 cents or more each for the animals' fund. l The silver'medat which Frances re ceived was sent by Miss Elineen Mo retta of Roselands, Glenn Lake, New York, who won the medal for the best American bred collie, Blue Mary, which won many collje ribbons. Miss Moretta expressed gjeat pleas ure at the interest taken in the Blue Cross work by the little Omaha girl. Research Club Elects. Mrs. Harry V. Burkley was re elected president of the Research club at a meeting held Sunday at St. Berchman's academy. Miss Mary Cotter, Mrs. Catherine Beveridge, Mrsi W..M. Jeffers and Mrs. W. K. Ran are the vice presidents; Misses Sophia McKillip, Ella Brown, Ruth Howard and Mary Hanley, treasurers; and Misses Veronica O'Conner, Mar garet Sweetman and Claire McGov ern, secretaries. .Misses Margaret Minnick, May Leary, Sadie puffy and Jennie Schadell are the librarians. The social work of the club was outlined for the year, work among the suffering poor, A play is to be given for three worthy objects, a number of card par ties at the home of different mem bers. These are to be affairs of invi tation.' Mrs. Whittaker, Mrs. Krantz, Miss Mary; Cotter and 1 Mrs. Tom Quinlan will entertain a number of the Research club members soon at their homes. The proceeds of these parties are to be given to worthy charities. The director of the club, Father Miller of Chicago, will speak through out the year on topics that will di rectly bear on modern topics which appeal to women. Church Women to Serve Lunch. Temple Israel sisterhood will open a lunch room next to the Sun theater during Ak-Sar-Ben week, the pro ceeds to go into the temple fund. Mrs. Samuel Katz has it in charge. Women of St. Mary's Avenue Con gregational church will conduct a tea room during Ak-Sar-Ben, the pro ceeds of which will go toward the new church fund. The committee in charge met at the Young Woman's .Christian association this morning to fill' Willi ' Mrs. W. M. Jeffers, who came from North Platte to make her home, was named one of the vice presidents of the Research club at a meeting held Sunday at St. Berchman's academy. complete arrangements. The com mittee includes: Meedamea 0. T. Eastmail, J. O. Kahn. O. W. Meteath. Meidamea C. 3. Inrwerson, 3. B. Porter, O. M. Nattlnger. Social Gossip. Mrs. A. E. Nicholson is at the Ward apartments, Long Beach, Cal., where she will spend the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph ' Barker left Saturday ,afetrnoon for the Barker ranch out in the state. They are ex pected home Thursday. Miss Helen Garvin has returned from Fish Creek, Wis., where she has been for the last two months attending the encampment for the Campfire Girls. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Smyth and daughter, Miss Catherine Smyth, leave Wednesday evenings for Washington, D. C, where they will make their future home. Miss Virginia Crofoot, Miss Thede Reed and Miss Winfred Smith leave tomorrow evening for Washington, D. C, where they will enter Miss Maderia'i school. They will be joined in Chicago by several other girl friends. Mrs. George N. Laurence of Salt Lake arrived this morning to be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Calvin. She will remain until after the "Ak-Sar-Ben festivities Miss Helen Lange of Worcester, Mass., who has been visiting Miss Gladys Robertson, left for her home Friday evening. Ticket Offices ' To Be Moved Into The Ramge Block Fourteenth and Farnam streets have commenced to wane as a center for the city offices of the railroads and Fifteenth and Harney streets has caught the exodus. This week the Milwaukee and Great Western will move to the first floor of the Ramge block, Fifteenth and Harney, and the Rock Island tem porarily will move into the alley corner, just south, in the Carleton Hotel block. , The moving of the city offices of the railroad companies comes after the holding of a number of confer ences of railroad officials, held both here and in Chicago. Omaha Women Injured in . Auto Wreck at Chappel Mrs. Eva Hinman and Miss Marie Smith, 701 South Sixteenth street, were seriously injured in an automo bile accident at Chappel, Neb., Sun day afternoon. One Of the women sustained a fractured shoulder and the other a fracture of the leg. Thev Were broucrht tn Omaha nvrr the Union Pacific at 6 o'clock Sun day evening and taken to St. Joseph's hospital. Permit for Movie House On Old Continental Site The Blank Realty company has taken out a btiilding permit for the cretf!0A?t Roving Picture theater at 1414-24 Douglas street. The permit calls for a structure 132x132, two stories high, and at a cost of $125,000. Construction is to start as soon as buildings now occupying the site are razed. . Few Children Now in The Riverview Home There are only seventeen children in Riverview detention home, the smallest number in nine years, accord ing to a report made to the county board by the superintendent of the home. FRUIT CROP BEING PICKEDBY WOMEN Largest Yield in History of Pa cific Coast Gathered by Fair Sez When Men Are Called to Colors. Women of the Pacific coast coun try have put on feminalls and are do ing their bit to help out during the continuance of the war. District Su perintendent Van Ransselaer of the Pacific Fruit Express has been there and has seen them. Speaking of the west country, Mr. Van Ransselaer says: "The entire Pacific slope country from Mexico to the British posses sions is gathering the greatest fruit and vegetable crop in its history. Male labor is scarce and women are com ing nobly to the rescue. They have put on feminalls and have gone into the fields, where they are doing the work of men and are getting the same pay. "In the orchard districts where heretofore men have done the work most of the persons now employed are women. They are being paid $3.50 a day and are doing the work in an entirely satisfactory manner. There is ah enromous crop of peaches, pears, plums and apples, and growers are getting better prices than ever before and the demand is good. This year the growers are going to make money. "Farther south in the citrus fruit districts the crop will be 75 to 80 per cent of last year, but the increased prices that are likely to obtain will bring more net profit to the growers than they got out of their crop last year. "The entire Pacific coast country is prosperous and business everywhere seems to be on the boom. Nowhere do you hear talk' of hard times." The Girl He'd Marry Rev. Spence Preaches First Sermon at Hanscom Park Rev. W. H. Spence, the new pastor of Hanscom Park Methodist church, preached his first sermon last night to a large and enthusiastic audience. From the opening sentence the pastor had his hearers with him and those who had come to hear the new minis ter, who had gained such a reputation for eloquence and personality in Fort Dodge, la., where he remained nine years, felt the praise that had pre ceded him hail hardly done justice to his gifts. Beyond doubt he will be a force in religious and civic life of Omaha. The subject of Rev. Mr. Spence's first sermon was "The Malady of the World," which is sin. "In eradication of this evil not even the most active philanthropy or the most ideal philos ophy will serve," said yhe. "Only the illumination that comes from the gos pel of Christ will light a sin-darkened world; there must be a spiritual as well as mental incentive for re forms." Each member of the congregation wore a white ribbon with the words, "Welcome to Pastor Spence," on it as a tribute to the new leader. Urge Government Hosptal in Omaha for Convalescents Omaha's advantages as a location for one of the government recon struction hospitals for wounded con valescents were set forth to Major King in Washington by Randall K. Brown, president of the Commercial club of Omaha, while in Washington a few days ago. A number of such hospitals are to be olaced at various places throughout the United States. They are to have 1,000 beds apiece. To Major Kin, it was represented that Omaha has a favorable climate for convalescents; that it has two medical colleges here: that there is a splendid corps of well-known sur geons available in the city, and that as an industrial center ample oppor tunity will be afforded for the con valescents to find work as soon as they are able to leave the hospital and before they are sent to their homes. Vinton Street Will Get Its Ornamental Lights A committee of Vinton street mer chants appeared before the city coun cil to ask the commissioners to pro vide Vinton street from Thirteenth to Twentv-fourth streets with orna mental lights and order the street re paved. The committee was informed Vin ton street, between v Sixteenth and Twenty-fourth, would be supplied with thirty-five of the new ornamental lights, but that the council could not order the street repaved because the law only permits such action when the street in question is a main thor oughfare leading out of the city. The legal department advised the council that Vinton street would not be re garded as a main thoroughfare and that it could be repaved only by peti tion. ' Small Docket of Cases Before Federal Judge The September term of federal court in the Omaha division was opened Monday morning by Federal Judge Woodrough with the smallest docket of cases for trial in twenty years. Only seventeen cases were on the docket Lawyers expressed such unanimous unreadiness to go to trial this week that Judge Wpodrough may notify the petit jurors not to report until next week. They were sum moned to be here Wednesday of this week. By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. "It's a shame. Rodney Brown seemed like' such a splendid young fellow and now he's married a little waitress in the restaurant where he got his meals in Cambridge. Mrs. Brown's perfectly wild. She feels that Rodney's spoiled his whole future. Think of itl Throwing away his college education and his familv connections on a waitress. His poor mother I" A group of us were sitting out on the country club veranda, knitting for the Belgians, and from the par ticular moment the Brown situation began to be discussed, the gray sweaters met with more drop stitches than I should have cared to countl Everybody had a beautiful time being sorry for Mrs. Brown and thinking up nasty things to sav about the designing minx Rodney's wife must have been, and of, how tragically the boy had spoiled his fu ture. I met Rodney a week later and with him was a sweet, refined-looking little girl, whose adoration for her big, young husband was splendid to behold. She was frightened when Rodney introduced us looking for slights, for. snubs, for sneering pat ronage. And so, of course, I took two hands instead of one and gave her the warm cordiality and tender ness any human being ought to feel for a little, frightened, hurt, quiver ing thing. - Rodney and Bess had dinner with me that night and the girl's dainty manners, refined voice and sweetness made me wonder about her storv. Just exactly why had she undertaken the heavy, exacting physical work of waiting in a restaurant? She seemed a mental creature the , sort of girl who would earn her living by teach ing or secretarial wbrk rather than by carrying heavy trays of food to a lot of roystering college boys. In the weeks since our first din ner together Rodney and Bess and I have grown to be firm friends and it is at their request that I tell their story. Rodney is 28 he graduated within recent years from the law school at Cambridge. (His name isn t Rodney Brown and Cambridge isn't his college town you can see that we have to use a few fictitious names to make up for the real live human facts of his story.) He set up a practice in the college town where he had spent so many happy years and waited for clients. And clients do not come a-running to young lawyers, you know. The first two years after Rodney Brown's graduation from college he had rather a bad time of it. He had not gone home because there was a girl there oi whom he was so fond that it hurt. But his mother had lashed herself into a fury and then wept herself into a decline over Rod ney's infatuation for Rachel Morris. ''It will kill me if you marry out of your religion. Rachel's traditions aren't like yours, her training isn't the same, her people are impossible. She won't be happy with us, you'll be miserable with her. Oh, Rodney, Rodney, you're all I have you'll get over this infatuation, but I'll never get Over it if you marry Rachel," was the refrain of Mrs. Brown's every word. , She almost said it in her sleep. Rod ney saw his duty and gave Rachel up. All that happened during his last year at law School but he couldn t go hnmp tn all the memories of Rachel Morris. There wasn't a path in his nome town mere wsn i even street car line without its memories of Rachel. , Rodney had two lean, lonely, poor years in Cambridge. He had given up his heart's desire for his mother, but he couldn't let her pay him an allowance, he couldn't take her money. On one of her visits to Cam bridge, Mrs. Brown told Rodney of Rachel's marriage. And it was then that his lonely heart began looking for sympathy. In the restaurant where he ate, be cause he liked keeping in touch with the college spirit and the college boys, there was a little waitress who was very sweet and quiet. Some how Rodney felt a sympathy in the very gentleness with which she un failingly set down before him the hot milk he liked in his coffee and the wafer-like slices of lemon he wanted for his tea. You never had to tell Bess anything twice she remem bered. She served things daintily with a certain pride in her work. Sympathy is often a growth from suffering. Rodney needed some one to help him over his bad places and he didn't know anybody to do it, so he turned right around and helped some one over her bad places. In trying to cheer Bess, making ' life a little more livable for her, he made it infinitely more livable for himself. Bess had managed to' put herself through high school with a little help from an aunt and a good deal of work, taking care of babies, running errands and doing odd jobs. Now she was taking two courses at colleee in the intervals of waiting on table, and she thought that she could man age to .put herself through a four year course in six. Rodney admired her grit. . Her tenderness appealed to him. A contemplation of her troubles made him forget his own. An so he fell in love with her, and they were married, and I hope they will live happy ever If this were a story, I should lay a great deal of stress on the gradual growth of love, on the romance of it all. But it isjust a little study of human nature, and I hope all moth ers of boys will read it and let it stimulate them to a bit of thinking.. If your son wants to marry a gin whose faith is not his, whose tradi tions and training and ancestry and environment and family and circum stances in life are all other than you would have them, don't immediately insist on breaking up the match. Not every poor girl is a destgn- FORTY STORES PEinS--PElCIIES--Pfl(JE8 OMAHA and LINCOLN PUT EM UP NOW I We are very fortunate in being able to gire you these prices. This fruit is very fine and the end of the season is close at hand. Fine Colo. Elberta Peaches, unwrapped, freestone, per box.- g5 Fancy Wrapped Elberta, 108 size box, at ... T . 954 Large Fancy Elberta, box $1.05 Fancy Bartlett Pears, a snap, per box, .at S1.80 Fine Kiefer Pears, per hamper. .$1.32 Italian Prunes, in boxes, per box. . .85 In 4-baket crates, per crate. .$1.32 Per basket.. 34 FLOUR ECONOMY, splendid h.Ith flour, 48-pound sack, per sack $2.85 COLD MEDAL, 48-ponnd tack.... $3.21 TIP BRAND, nothing better milled, 48-pound ck, per seek.. S3.09 IT PAYS TO CARRY IT HOME BASKET STORES COMPANY GET THE SAVING HABIT ing adventuress; not every socially unknown girl is bound to be a han dicap; not every girl of ordinary fam ily is a "common little thing." Nor, on the other hand, is just any rich girl sure to be a splendid wife, nor is every girl of good family bound to be a beautiful character, nor is every cultured, well-educated girl the ma terial from which a loving help-mate may be made. Give the girl your boy wants to marry a fair chance. Meet her and refrain' from snubbing her even if she is shabby Let that you are being square, that you have his best interest at heart and won't snobbishly drive him away from whatihe longs to possess nor yet selfishly deprive him of his hap piness. Rodney Brown has sworn that he will never again speak to his mother. "I was almost giateful to her for spoiling my love for Rachel because that saved me for Bess," he laughed boyishly, "but she has said things about my wife that I am never go ing to forgive" Perhaps some day Rodney and his mother will be friends again. But in the meantime" there stretch be tween them long, arid, bitter years of misunderstanding years that they can never get back. No woman has a right to let her ambitions for her son and her ideals for that son blind her to the fact that he is an individual who must be left free to live his own life as a man rather than a son. Advice to Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfax Dr Mlu Fairfax: Two wek o young nn Mkd a tin friend of min to Introduce ui. U now w!hi. me to so with him and thrta other sir! friend to a camp gome Sunday, leaving In the morning at :J0 and being at homo at t o'clock at evening. Do you think I am doing wrong It I go? Y. A. Q. How much do you know about thle young man and of the camp to which he ii going to take you? Probably If you go In a party you wtll not need a chaprrone, but unleea you are very aura of all the olrcumatanoee It would be a food plan to take along aome older woman. Why Not Go On? Dear Mlae Fairfax: I am a atenographer and am making a fair aalary. I am engaged to a nice young man who la alno making a moderate aalary. He tneliti that I leave my place after we are married, which I think I ought not do, aa It would keep ua more tub atantlally, but he aeemi to differ with me. , ' HELEN. I think 'It would be a very good Idea for you to go on working for a while after you are married. Of courae, I can underatand your flance'i attitude. He haa a boylth and manly pride In the matter and want to feel that he la taking care of the girl be love. But it would be wlie to lay tip a nice little fund for the future and 10 I auggeit that he atufy hlmielt with thl ar rangement: you keep your position and put all that you earn Into the aavinga bank. Then he will be taking care of you and atlll you will, both be getting ahead In the world. Caring for Jewelry "If women would take more and better care of their jewelry it would look much more attractive," re marked a jeweler one day, critically regarding a locket that had been brought to him to repair and clean. "I think that I will give you a les son in looking after your rings and brooches and such things; you will be surprised to know how easy it is to keep them clean yourself," he continued. "Plain gold brooches, rings, brace let anH chain mav he cleaned fas- lm,rr hAv'Ji 1 iv bv waging them in a lather made uare, that you-si' - then rub them gently with a piece of chamois skin. That will polish them. "By the way, the woman who owns much or even a little good jewelry ought to be careful to have on hand several nieces of good, soft, chamois skin and keep different pieces for dif ferent things. For instance, it is an excellent plan to keep one just to give a polishing rub or two to any piece of jewelry that you get out to wear be fore putting it on; it keeps it in better condition. "There are things which must al ways be remembered about certain stones. Never put pearls in water, as it is quite likely to darken them. And the same applies fto turquoises; wa ter is not at all good for them. One young women whom I know bought a pretty turquoise matrix ring, or rather had it given to her. .She never thought about water not being sym pathetic to it, as they say, and fre quently kept it on when she plunged her hands in water. One day she dis covered that her stone, which was or had been a handsome one, had turned perfectly green. "If you own any opals you must take good care of them. Never wear , them or place them where they will C be exposed td great heat; they may crack if you do. As for cleaning them, .! we jewelers have a fine powder which ! we sell for the purpose and it is quite i satisfactory. 1 "If you get your diamond ring very ; dirty you may wash it carefully in good white soap suds, but be sure to dry it carefully and polish it gently with chamois. V "Brooches and lockets and such things set with small pearls may be cleaned by uubing them gently with a powder to be had from a ieweler, using a small soft brush if much i soiled. "One thing that it is wise for every woman to keep in her room is a box of this very fine jeweler's sawdust, which is excellent for cleaning and ' brightening up jewelery, but be sure , to use your cnamois stem as wcu. There is really no more excuse for dirty jewelry than for soiled collars:: and cuffs." i . Fashion Notes In separate coats the empire de-; sign figures conspicuously in school ' girl modes. On some of the newest coats of heavy wool material the scarf collar serves also as a muffler, the ends be ing finished with a silk fringe. Black frocks are in demand for din ner and informal evening functions.' Sometimes white is combined with the black, again there will be t note of brilliant hue. Jet and tulle impart ; the decorative touch. More useful, perhaps, is a three piece suit of dark blue serge. One well liked model consists of a plain i skirt, with high belt and straps over' the shoulder and loose, three-quarter coat. The blouse may be of fine flan nel or tub silk. 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