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MELLIFICU-Dec. 5.
Four lions, three thrills and two.
girls! The shaggy beasts at the Or
pheum this week caused much con
sternation in the audience the other
night, I noticed. As they paced back
and forth on the stage, growling and
snarling with only some slender look
ing . bars between them and the
Omaha public there was a feeling of
apprehension in the air that was very
noticeable. -.
Two well known society eirls. who
live in Dundee, although well pro
tected br a man in khaki on either
side, looked rather anxious and began
to get into their coats and find their
furs before the act was half over.
One Omaha matron, who is very
active in Red Cross affairs and is es
pecially interested in art. was sitting
in the third row and while I couldn't
say that she was afraid I noticed that
she didn't sit perfectly still through
the performance.
An ancient joke came to my mind
as I watched the king of beasts on
the stage. It was at the time that
poor old Daniel of. the Bible story
was thrown into the den of lions. One
of his well-meaning friends came to
the edge of he pit, looked over and
"called to the victim below:
'Daniel, Daniel, did the shaggy
beasties eat ya?"
And the answer came:
"Maw, they ain't got no teeth."
And so it was at the theater, I think
probably the fears of the audience
were groundless, for they didn't have
"no teeth."
Military Wedding. r
The marriage of Miss Dorothy
Sue R maker, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John l. Rinaker of Springfield,
111., and Lieutenant Oscar Roman
of the balloon school at Fort Omaha,
took place Wednesday evening at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Durkee.
The Rev. T. Henry Stitt performed
the ceremony. Beside the parents of
the bride, who accompanied her to
Omaha, the guests at the wedding in- j
eluded Lieutenant Walter Roman, '
brother of the bridgroom, who is also
stationed at Fort Omaha; Miss Grace
Slabaugh, Miss Ruth Durkee and
Mn and Mrs. G. M. Durkee.
The young couple are both gradu
ates of the University of Illinois and
Mrs. Roman was an instructor of do
mestic science in the Harrisburg,
111., schools.
The wedding was hastened as Lieu
tenant Roman has received orders to
go to France. Mrs. Roman will re
main in Omaha with friends until
Benefit Affairs.
The Nurses'' Central Club and
Registry will hold its third annual
bazar today and Friday at their club
house, 2420 Harney St. Fancy work,
Christmas puddings and cakes will be
on sale and the proceeds" will be used
for the club.
Women of the First Presbyterian
church will serve a turkey dinner for
60 cents at the church Friday between
the hours of 11:30 and 2 o'clock.:; A
Christmas bazar will be held all day,
with a large display of fancy towels
and aprons.
Surette Lectures on Music.
Thomas Whitney, Surette of Bos
ton,' who' lectures oh ''Music and
Life" before the Omaha Society of
Fine Arts in the Fontenelle Friday
at 3 o'clock, will give a second talk
for all the teachers of music1 in
Omaha Friday- evening at 8 o'clock
at Browned Hall. r
- Mr. Surette has an original theory
of musical instruction, the methods
of which he will explain to the teach
ers. There is no charge. k. . .
A business meeting of the Fine
Arts society will precede the lecture
at .2 o'clock. ' . - .
Press Club Dates. .
The Omaha Woman's Press club
will hold its second annual dinner, at
which winners in. this, year's writing
contest will be announced, Monday,
December 17, in the' Hotel Loyal.
Miss Henrietta Rees will entertain the
members at tea at her home Wednes
day, January 2. '
Election of officers will take place
at a called business meeting Wednes
day, December 19, at 4 o'clock at the
Fontenelle. :
Red Cross Matinees. - '
' Boost for. the. Red Cross benefit
matinees at the Brandeis and Boyd
theaters Friday afternoon and at the
Orpheum in the morning at 10:30
o'clockand buy your tickets early.
Red Cross workers may attend the
. matinees without a qualm that they
ought to be over at the Baird build-,
ing rolling bandages, Harry Tukey,
chairman, points put, for this, too, is
a patriotic effort.k '
Here is. why you ought to attend
the matinee, according to the live
wire chairman: The entire proceeds
will be turned over-to the Omaha
chapter, actors, stage hands arid mu
sicians donate their services, and even
the- War tax has been waived. This
is a national movement. V ,
The "Bird of Paradise" plays at the
Brandeis and Busby's Minstrels at
the Boyd. Red Cross officials will all
attend.
Tea for Bride.
Mrs Chester Nieman entertained at
an afternoon tea at her home today
in honor of Miss Alice Duval, who
will be a December bride. Red roses
and Christmas greens were used
throughout the rooms and about 20
guests were present.
Mrs. Merrill to Lecture.
Mrs. Anthony French Merrill will
give the last lecture in the course at
the Blackstone Friday morning, when
her topic will be "Plays of the Hour."
An especially clever little jilay, "The
Leisure Class, wiU be" read by Mrs.
Merrill. .,-,, :- -. . '
Origin of, "Leap Year.
Tne privileges .that, are popularly ;
.supposed to belong to women during '
'lfiao vear originated in-1228 "by an !
-act of the Scottish oarliament. which
, said that during the reign of Queen j
Margaret any woman, of high or low
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j asking any man she wished to be her
I husband. If he refused to marry her
he was fined 100 or less, according
to his means, unless he could prove
that he was betrothed to another woman.
State Chairman Announces
Delay of Conference.
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MRS. W. E. LAGWORTHY
TAYLOR.
Postponement of the state confer
ence of the National League for
Woman's Service, scheduled for next
Tuesday at the Fontenelle, is an
nounced by the state chairman, Mrs.
W. G. Langworthy Taylor of Lincoln,
and the local chairman, Mrs. William
Archibald Smith. The meeting will
be held the latter part of January, at
which time Miss Grace Farkei of
New York, national .ommandant,
will be able to attend.
The Omaha Service league is pre
paring 900-comfort kits and an equal
number of boxVs of candy for Christ
mas gifts to the . port .Crook soldiers.
Mrs. Robert Cowell and Mrs. L. J.
Ilealey have charge of the work. The
kits are being made upon request of
Colonel Douglas Settle.
The women, are exhibiting with
great pride a perfectly made7 sweater
knitted by John Bishop, 3515 North
Fifty-seventh street. " Mrs. Bishop
taught her husband to knit while she
herself was busily working for the
service league. This is the second
sweater Mr. Bishop has made for the
Sammies.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Hern expect
to leave in a few days for Los
Angeles, where they will make their
home.
Mrs. Edward L. Burke expects to
leave in a week or two for Arizona,
to be gone a month or so.
Dr. Simon Levey, graduate of last
year's class at Cre'ghton Medical
college, has been commissioned first
lieutenant in the officers' reserve
corps and is now on active duty in
the Roentgenological department at
Pittsburgh, Pa. A brother, Dr. Phil
Levey, has beef.' in the setvice since
war was declared.
F. H. Burgess was at the Hotel
McAlpin in New York last week.'
Patrons of Cabarets Will
Have to Pay the War Tax
Patrons of cabarets soon will have
the satisfaction of knowing that they
are contributing towards the support
of the boys in the trenches. Rules
covering the collection of the war
revenue tax on cabaret admissions
probably will be issued by the Treas
ury department next week.
: Regarding 20 per cent of the bill
for refreshments' ats the cost of ad
mission, where no. admission fee is
charged, the proposed tax is 1 cent
on each "10 cents or fraction thereof
of such 20 per cent of the total charge.
If, for instance, the check is for $5,
an additional 10 cents for. war revenue
will be charged.
The term cabaret is held to include
"every hotel, restaurant, hall or other
public place it or in which, in con
nection with the service or sale of
food or other refreshment or mer
chandise, there is conducted any vaud
eville, or other performers or diver
sion in the way of acting, singing,
declamation or dancing, either with
or ' without instrumental or other
music". .
Women Work in Shops
To Learn Machines
Madison, Wis., Dec. 6. To fit
themselves for factory insnection and
for factory welfare work three women
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arc studying macmnery in a specinc
class arranged by the college of en
gineering of the University of Wis
consin. They study the theory of technique
of various machines,, applying their
knowledee bv actual oneration of ma
chines in the engineering college's,
snops ana are learning the advantages
and disadvantages of certain machines
in factories. They are virtually fit
ting themselves to be machinists, and
in addition they are studying various
phases of economics dealing partic
ularly with labor problems.
McAdoo Names Two
Prominent Women on
Liberty Loan Committee
Washington, Dec. 6. Secretary Mc
McAdoo has named as members of
the national woman's Liberty loan
committee Mrs. Ella Flagg Young of
Chicago and Mrs. A. S. Baldwin of
San Francisco. They are expected to
attend the women's Liberty loan con
ferences which will begin here De
cember 10.
Price, $1.00
A Real Xmes Bargain,
PERSONALS I
uowi may
W. H. ELDRIDHE
1318 FARNAM STREET OPPOSITE W. O. W. BLDG.
Also Temporary Sample Room at 16th and Farnam Streets.
f"t National Bank Building.
Soliloquy of Modern Eve
People, like looks, make up the Library of
Life The showy, trashy, periodicals, class
ics and the rare. ::::::
By ADELAIDE KENNERLY.
You and I, each of us, all of us, are a part of the Human Library the
World's Library.
Some books we like for their bindings some persons we like for their
beauty, vivid or delicate. Beautiful always to look upon, they furnish the
setting the scenery; they relieve the unattractiveness of the plain.
The Periodicals of Life.
There are persons akin to periodicals. We know them in passing; we
have unimpressive conversations and they pass on out of our life as the
periodical passes from the mind.
Then we have the frivolous the fickle the foolish without wit the
sarcastic without sense the repulsive without redeeming traits. Such per
sons and such books come into our lives, one at a time, and pass out. Noth
ing could induce us to resurrect them.
Dull, drab and uninteresting, heavy as history by an English author,
well-meaning souls and similar books plod along leaving no stamp of their
individuality their worthwhileness on the multitudes.
The Classics.
Some persons, and some kooks, are classics.
Their outward appearance may be plain and unpretentious, but within
there is, much superiority that all who touch in passing must recognize
a potential greatness. - -
Rare souls and rare books occupy a crevice in Life's Library which
is indispensable to evolution. Their covers (bindings or physical bodies)
may not be showy they may not make a splash on first impression, but
they creep into the remotest corners of the soul; they satisfy a spiritual
or intellectual longing; they malce deep" impressions on memory's index
of the Library of Life. . V "
Greatness is not show it is not sham. Beneath plainness and simplic
ity, in rarities, there is forever coming to light something new a thought
to stir the imagination, whet the wits, stabilize philosophy and stimulate
the brain. From the -depths of these rare old books (and persons) we
find consolation. By them all things are put to rights; problems are
solved and, during tranquilized moments, we are encouraged and lulled
by their weird wisdom.
It is from such as these that we are forever drawing something new
and profound. So we commune with them again and again. It takes
them all, from the pretty cover to the rare old volumes, to fill the world's
book shelves, but it is the classics and the profound that leave with us
a mark which eradicates the stain. They are the meat of the Human Li
brary of Life.
High School Girls to
Make "Housewife" Kits
For Sammies at Ft. Crook
Three ' thousand "housewife" kits
are to be made by the girls of Cen
tral High school for soldiers at Fort
Crook. The kits will be made during
the week-end and will be filled at the
srlmnl Mondav with materials fur
nished from the service fund.
Advice to Lovelorn
By. BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
' Over-Critical.' - '
Dear Mis Fairfax; .
I am 20 and enftaged to a man 32. Now,
Miss Fairfax, what I want to know Is, this
man un he lovea me very much but do
nn think- a man ran love a Blrl very much
when he Is all the time making- a fool of
her before his people. He doesn't like the
way I talk nor the way I fix my hair, and,
of course, he hurts my feeMngs and we
fipht a , lot. He never says he la sorry,' and
I always have to liialto friends with him
rst NORA
A nagging woman Is bad enough, good
nes Knows but a nagging man is unen
durable. If the girl he loves cannot man
age to do anything so as to meet with a
man's approval, I wonder how she Is go
ing to satiety his whims when she is his
wife? If a man ia selfish and tyrannical
and continually criticizing and correcting he
is likely to make her self-conscious and
unhappy. Are you sure you have told the
story correctly T Perhaps you are neat and
tidy, perhaps you don't make any effort to
make yourself agreeable or to improve your
manners. An ambitious man sometimes
does love a girl of whom he Is not very
proud, and then unless .ehe is clever enough
to Improve herself-'-wlth himself for caring
for a girl who seems-and with the girl for
not trying to live up to -his beat ideals of
her. Look to yourself, my dear. Perhaps
a little improvement of your manners1 would
be to your advantage.
The Lame Ctrl.
Dear Miss Fairfax: .
I am 1 and have been going about With
a young man seven yeajs my senior for the
last two years. I love him dearly and know
my "love is returned, but I don't believe in
long engagements and don't Uhow what to
do, as he never talks of murriltgei . His peo
ple arc against me because I am slightly
lame. He bfllevcs that in time he will win
them over. I have also tried to glvo him up
during the last year, but It is impossible,
and my people will not allow me to go .with
him. . II. P. F.
It Is very cruel. for people to wish to re
fuse lova and marriage to the lame. Lame
ness is not .a matter of heredity "but of act,
cldent, and' so when a man wants to marry
a girl who Is so afflicted his people are un
justifiably cruel in trying to Interfere with
the marriage. There Is almost nothing for
you to do except one or the other of these
things. Either wait patiently for time to
solve your problem or tell your aweetheart
frankly that tour people refuse to let yon
go on as you are. If you are engaged, there
Is no reason why you need hesitate to' talk
it over with him. If you are not, Is It pos
sible for your father to explain his feelings
in the matter?
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Electric Cleaner
HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES A
AN XMAS HINT
Japanese hand carved wood nut set, con
sisting of bowl, seven and one half inch
t et in diameter, with removable solid
wood anvil on which to crack the nut,
and mallet. Artistically finished in mis
sion brown with hand carved floral de
sign. By simply taking the anvil out, the
De usea lor general purposes.
IMPrtRTiNr. rrt
; Thank Thee
I thank thee, Lord, that I am straight
and strong,
With wit to work and hope to keep
1 me brave;
That two . score years, unfathonied,
; still belong " "
To the allotted life Thy bounty gave.
I thank Thee that the sight of sunlit
lands
And dipping hills, the breath of eve
ning grass
That wet, dark rocks and flowers in
my hands
Can give me daily gladness as I pass.
I thank Thee that I love the things of
earth
Ripe fruits and laughter, lying down
' to sleep,
The shine of lighted towns, the
graver worth . v
Of beating human hearts that laugh
and weep?
I thank Thee .that the joy of life is
mine;
As yet I need not fear the mystery
of end;
But more than all, tho' all of these
should go
Dear Lord, this on my knees 1 1 thank
Thee for my Friend.
1 ; ' Juliet Wilbcf Tompkins.
Mrs. Frank O. Lowden, wife of the
governor of Illinois, has won a prize
as a maker of war bread.
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The New "Whirligig"
Collar.
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By GERTRUDE BERESFORD.
NO woinan could fee I downcast in
' this frock of glowing brick-red
. .duvetyn.e, ' with vest : of self
colored '; georgette ' crepe and a
"whirligig'' coljar faced with cream
white broadcloth." Exaggerated cuffs
of the same ivory hue add another
style note to. this costume. The sa$h
is- edged with heavy silk fringe in
the sauie" yellow red tone and the
row of huttons on vest and cuffs again
repeats this delightful winter color.. y
Omaha Bnai B'rith V
Honors the Soldiers
Mr. Edward Laschman of Chicago,
social service director of the national
order of B'nai B'rith, was the prin
cipal speaker at the dinner-dance
given for Jewish soldiers at the Rome
hotel last evening by the local order.
Mr. Arthur1 Rosenblum was toast
master and the other speakers will
be Miss Blanche Bessel, president of
the Woman's auxiliary; Henry H.
Lap.idus and five lieutenants, Vhilip
Lehman, Charles Burger, Greenburg,
George Sugarman and Max Rosen
blum. Following a toast to the pres
ident a service flag' bearing 14 stars
will be unveiled. .'
Cabaret . features , from. Afie j Or
pheum, thc.Gayety and the', Empress
k. : ' it. - j!
Dancing .plowed.- : '. : j
sairs
A Most Remarkable Announcement
Of a
WILL APPEAR
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FRIDAY NIGHT'S PAPERS
This is one of the most fortunate purchases
ever made by this Fur Department, and
gives you the chance to buy Furs now, right
at the season's beginning at wonderful low
prices.
Buy for Christmas Gifts
wis Stores
Fasto to Ounilht to Kmw
A certain variety of centipede found
in the Canary islands possesses 3J6
18.
Elementary education in Italy is
compulsory between the ages of 6
and 9, jut the law is not rigorously
enforced.
George du Maurier, the greatest so
ciety satirist in fine line drawing, wal
54 years old when he wrote his first
novel.
The French language contains
about 40.0(H) words, but a person with
a knowledge of a thousand words and
how to use them properly can get
along quite well.
The Colorado Equal Suffrage asso
ciation is working to place women
in half the seats in the next legisla
ture. Many states report a remarkable
increase in the number of women
pharmacists since the beginning of
the war. - - -
One hundred students of the Penn-
syivania u.wcge tor women have or-
Kiiuiicu 4 icu v-ioss au,mary at me
college.
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"Carnival" is the name which was
originally . applied to feasting times
and "festivals just before Lent, when
Ladies of Omaha
We Will Soon Leave Our Tem
porary Location, ' but OUR
REMOVAL SALE
Is Still Going On.
There are many beautiful stylish shoos from, which you can
make your selection. . . .
SHOE MARKET
(Temporary Location 1807 Farnam St)
THE NEW PUBLIC MARKET
v.- -"y
Fresh Fish Fresh Fish For Friday Fresh Fish
v Fresh Carp or Buffalo, per pound ....,,....,.,,.... ,1(X
Kreah Whits Fish, per pound ..........'.....'.,., ,20c .
Fresh 1'lks, psr pound .' .20c
Fresh Halibut, per pound......, .'....,. 24e
Fresh Salmon, psr pound ,22'
Fresh Herring, ptr pound ; ...laVie
Frtsh Flounders, per pound , ....,..'...... 18c
Fresh Catfish, Fresh Croppies, Fresh Bass. Fresh Eel, Fresh Smelts. Fresh Red
Snapper. Lake Trout, Boiled Lobsters. Hard Shelled Crabs, and th most complete
stock of fancy salt and smoked fish.
L - ; - THE NEW PUBLIC MARKET
FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING DOUGLAS 2793.
Thest prices also prevail at our branch store THE EMPRESS MARKET
113 South ISlh Street Douglas 2307. , ,
Sale Of
IN DETAIL IN
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everyone ate his fill of meat, which
was, of course, forbidden during the
Lenten season. The word comes
from the Italian words "came," mean
ing "flesh," and "vale," "farewell."
Girls to man the roller chairs on
Atlantic City's famous boardwalk are
considered a probability of the near
future.
Young women students of the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh are required to
devote several hours each week to
military drill.
Women of Goldsboro, N. C have
agreed to discontinue the exchange of
Christmas presents during the period
of the war.
You remember the clicking sound
made by castanets? This sound is
so much like the sound of a chestnut
when it bursts, during roasting,- that
castanets took the name from the
Spanish "castana," meaning "chest
nut" . -." -
Carmine dye is made from the dried
Domes ot European insects which are
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similar to the Mexican cochineal in
sect.
Women are to be admitted as as
sociates and fellows of the Royal In
stitution of British architects.
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