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The Omaha Simd ay Bee OMAHA SUNDAY FEBRUARY 24, 1918. Everybodtj Has a Hobby! Tell What's Yours , . . I-; ; -iSES jllSI ;PI.I:I'IM' ; By EDWARD BLACK. Home Lift of the Leffincwelle. ' Mrs. Leffingwell had been through another busy day. Her neighbor. Mrs. Whats-IIer-Name, had called during the afternoon to ask what she thought of a more or less well known movie vampire who had been adversely con sidered by an organization of women who had resolved to ostracise this 'vamp from their, .set. Mrs. , Leffing well did not have any' far-flung ideas about vampires. She had heard and read of them and her mind pictured a feminine ; creature with long, - black eyelashes and decolette or diaphanous duds. - : . . ,' i "Do you know, Mrs. Leffingwell, that I believe , we have a vampire in our neighborhood?") began the caller. "I think that the woman who lives in the third house around the corner is a vampire.. Isn't it just too . awful for ny use? Mrs. So-And-So'; said ahe smoked cigarettes. ' J)on't - you think we had better tell the sheriff about h? I (wonder if he knows?'! Mrs. Cut-Some-Ice took up cart of the afternoon by holding Mrs. Lef fingwell on the telephone nearly an hour to relate the life history of a friend whose shattered romance had been' chronicled in the - neighbor's borne town paper. This friend of -the shattered romance In whom Mrs. Leffiingwell had no more interest than he had in a bolshevik reunion,' was an old village chum . of Mrs. . Cuts-Some-Ice. According to the telephone account, . rehashed from the home town paper, this friended been a Th e Weekly W B um ble Bee BB.r BEt Unimportance of Communication on any toplo received, without pontic or lgnatur. None returned. NO ADS AT ANT PRICB. ' . :v MUDDLE., . A - certain ' Omaha concern that secured certain govern- -nent contract received th pacification! tack alx tlmaa from Washington because of trifling, unimportant thing that didn't exactly conform to th red tap Id of some official underling. Th contract waa d layd (or mora) than, a month for thla reaaon alone.' Thu do w continue to muddle when fflcUnt action would get. aucb big reaulta.) ; ,.:..-' ... -j t'oMPUMEXTS. " Wa read In th local evening paper that Mr. Lout .Hill, wlf of th president of fh Great Northern railway, la a "re fined" woman. Also that ah wore a "'plain but ' sipenslv BUlV : . - .,- ;.'. th rest ( that bleak Our ' gcenario department " ta balplng tbouaanda to writ auo ceaaful acenarloa for th movies, Thla week' hint: Have an artlat and hi modal fall , la love. 7 Aa Interesting story can c written around v thla i novel BltlUtlBB. It yen atunded th Lynch trial you may bar been atruck by th unfalrnea of nature In diatrlbnttng hair among attor ney, aa exemplified In the bean of Halieck Roa and Ben Bakr. ' . , BEPABTEE. "t belong to th Wk-End Dancing club," aald on Oma han to another. "Which end la weakT" queried the other. A right waggUh and witty youth, cb, what! ;, - :, COVB3neNCK. ' '. -; Th Omaha Rotary, club re port that It "baa changed lta Friday "gym" claas to Saturday for the convenience of- those ' who take theta' bath on Batur . day. - 'MIKB. , . , ' We had a show called "Love ' o' Mlka" at the Boyd last week and a ahow , called "Hate o' - it Ike" fight acroia the atreet in -he curt houae. , . - 1 TOI ' Old Kalaer BUI Waa taken 111 . , They rushed him from th a pot; For Uncle Sam ' . , . nave him. a .alam That eevered "leh" and Oottl OUB DAVB (poet). lown, th young woman of vaulting social ambi tions, although she lived in a small town. She would keep the home lights burning until 10 o'clock just to im press the other villagers with the thought that she claimed a speaking acquaintance with the big city. She gave the village boys the up-stage glare and invited a city Beau Brum mel down to dinner just to make the other girls acquire a hue generally asenpea to me grass that grows all around. This suburban girl with urban, disposition was what Henry Leffingwell would call a proud and haughty dame. A citv creature wear ing bifuricated garments known as trousers and a wrist watch, came to the village to arrest the attention of those who were In a mood to invest in his proposition. He deported him self with insouciance and fractured the speed laws by obtaining an op tion on the good graces of the young woman in the case. He bestowed upon her a diamond of the size of a base ball and called her hii' turtle "dove. The girl agreed to a proposal to elope with this man of convincing conver. sation. Just as the twain were about to-entrain the noise of a speeding automobile was heard in the distance. The train was 10 minutes late, wHich enabled the motorist to intervene. The man in the auto was the girl's father. He was the sheriff and had received within the hour the description of a man wanted on a charge of embezzle ment The man ..from the city had reached an impasse. The sound of handcuffs had a depressing effect OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1918. HYPOTHETICALQUESTION IS ASKED BY BUMBLE THE BODY WHEN THE SOUL HAS DEPARTED BEE OF ITS READERS A Hard Thought Tor Bom Feo pl to Creep, But Com forting to Thoee i Bereaved. If Bo-and-So la True Would Not Thls-and-That aid Such-aod-Such Be the Cat A Lincoln mother of en of If Johnnl Lrnoh th soldlera toat on th Tuicanta la reported ta have taken atepa to have her aon'i body brought back to Nebraska for. burlaL What a mlstajca that would be! Who that haa given hie Ufa Lin tha county court up m gymnasium, may ..we. not (aa President Wilson would ay) look for a few thing like these In the new Rem soon: "Mayor Pahlman will parti tion off half of his office In th city hall for use as a billiard room." , , "Th third floor of th court house will be closed Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afftr. noons, aa .County Attorney Mag uey will open It aa a publlo roller akatlng rink on thoee day. Admission will be ti centa." "City Commissioner' Butler and Kugel are aettlng aalde half of the city ball rotunda for use as a bowling alley." , "Sheriff Clark. la having the 'east end of the second floor of the court house partitioned off and will open a moving plctur ahow ther." "Assistant, City Attorney Te Poel will remove the marble wainscoting from the first floor of th city hall to us In con structing a new bath room at hie horn." ."District Judg Wakeley will have a large chicken house and yard constructed on the root of th court house and will raise chlckna." "County Commissioner O'Con nor will remove th chair from th criminal Court room and oonvert It Into a dance hall." , ' SHAMEFUL. Tha Asaoclated Pre corre spondence from the American flotilla In British waters brings for his country on th high aeaa or In a foreign land would not prefer to be burled 4here with hi comrade rather than to b laid In the. proaalo churchyard at bom I Th rut leu ocean beat on th rock of Bcottlsh ahore an eternal requiem for the soul of the brave crusader from th land or liberty who died fear lessly when ' th monster aank the Tuseanla. i The vast majority of our sol dlera who go abroad will com horn again. Bear . that In mind. . . . And for those who dl In Prance (aa we all must die some time) - what pleasantar prospect than to be burled In that fair country? Perhaps, It may be, on some quiet hillside, overlooking a village of gray housea and, red-tiled, moaa grown roofs nestling In the aunny valley, by the aide of a mirrored, tree-bordered canal on which quaintly-dressed men are pushing barge. The wind will aough thrtugh th tall pop lars, the wild flowers will nod their bead. Llttfe French chil dren of generation yet unborn will play ther and pretty French girls, walking out on Sunday afternoons, wlU pause In their happy chatter perhapa to give thanks for th brave Americana who avd beautiful France.. As a matter of fact. It doean't matter where . th; , body la burled.' Once the' spirit haa us samples of some "poetry" perpetrated by ai chaplain on board one of our battleships. Great Scott! Isn't thby wsr hard enough without making the Jackles staid for this preacher poetry belde! body ta no more than the coccoon from which th butterfly haa emerged. In a few .year It will have returned to the duat that It waa before the aplrtt came to live. In It There would be no more reason for bringing the body back here than 'for bringing baok a hand or a foot that had been ampu tated. Let the mother and father of our dead remember that their Bona are not "over there." They are here. , The Instant their aplrtta are released 'from the prison house of the" body. . they fly back to the persona and scenes that they love. ' - It' la hard to disassociate the person from his body, to un derstand the relative unimpor tance of tb body and to real ise, when that mystery which we call , death -haa come,- that the living spirit haa merely de parted from the mortal body. DISAPPOINTMENT. Billy- Sunday complains that Waahlngton la too busy making the world aafa for democracy to make aoula aate for salvation. At any rate It ta too busy to make business good for Billy. SECONDART. We Imagine our sold jar oys aren't . much excited over whether they get the right to vot or not GREAT! Th kalner la an onery cusaj II got th world In an awful fuss. , But, by tha beard t Prophet . D,B- -a Vf bet h wisaXa h was out again! r-OUR DATS (poet). ' upon him. The diamond which he had given to jiis village queen had been bought wfth stolen money. He was an imp"oster. The station agent learned of the incident and he told it to the town arberand the barber told his wife and theXbarber's wife told her sister, and the sister told her brother-in-law and so the gossip spread until the girl's ears burned from the effects of the wagging of tongues.v This was the story which Mrs. Cut-Some-Ice related to Mrs. Leffingwell over the telephone. "I just want to tell you that it doesn t do for girls to get too proud, because the first thing they know they may draw a Wank and then they will wish they had not been so exclusive," was Mrs. LeITingwelJ's telephonic comment after hearing the story 6f the girl hi the shattered romance. , Afteywrecounting, (he day's doings, Mrs. Leffingwell found a few moments' surcease in looking through an old scrap book which had not been opened for many years. In this volume of precious memories her eyes chanced upon a school essay she had written In girlhood's happy days. From this essay she learned again that the words of the famous song, "The Old Oaken . Bucket," were written- by a journeyman printer, who frequented a "drink, shop" kept by one Mallory at the corner of Chatham and Cham bers streets, New York City. The IN OUR TOWN. Here'a hoping that March cornea In like a Hon. How many war saving tamp do you own? Clarke Poefcll 'la getting tip in Auto show for this week In th Auditorium. Several- aober and truthful men have reported seeing the first robin already. Chief of Police Dunn la baok en the Job after a long Illness. Olad to sea you, Hen. ' Sam McHelvle. ex-lleutenant governor, and almost governor, waa In town last week. It Is Interesting and Instruc tive to note that Frank" Man chester' middle nam la Paul. EG(&-ITEMEXT. had a room house fixed Mrs. James Klindt of Sheri dan, Wyo., has written to Mrs. H. A. Raagorshek, Omaha chicken raiser, of "a wonder ful machine for catching grass hoppers by the bushels, which make auch a wonderful winter feed for hens." Her I a real conservation scheme, converting grasshoppers Into chickens and eggs. The question la, will the machine- workT And, If ao, will there be enough grasshoppers tor It to catch? . ) RESULTS. Hooker Isn't patting us on the back for the food we aave. but we have saved a lot The news comes by way of London where Sir William Ooode atatea that Hoover notified him In January that thla oountry haa on hand 175,00a,060 pounda of bacon more than the British teed admin istration figared we would have. When you get 100,000,000 people thinking and many of' them practlolng economy the results ar bound to ahow. NOW. ? ' ' Isn't It about tlm that th authorities take atepa to con script labor for the farms? Farmers declare that millions Af acrea will have to lie Idle thla summer unless th labor ttuatlon can be solved. And still we are only talking about IK We must take a firm hand la this and do It quickly, CURED. ! There waa a man In Omaha, (Ha wasn't very old). 'He went out to a dance on night .. And caught an awful cold. And whan b found h had a cold. With all hta might and mala He went out to another dance And danced It off again. ' BETTER. X Better an ensign In tha navy than a general In the army ao far as the glitter of the uni form goes. KOTICBWs will ,not be reapootlM for bills unless eontrtcted by oureelf. Til shameless person whom we ad vised last week tin a Joking war) to . get in touch with s confectioner did mr . ... A h.rf tl eft Iww a ..nH. charged to us. Ws snapstUat trUtt the ouafecUoaar story was thatihe printer commented on the excellence of Mallory's liba tions, whereupon the host exclaimed that there was a drink which both really knew was better than anything in the" Mallory shop. "What is it?" inquired, the printer. "A draught of pure, fresh spring water we used to drink from an old oaken bucket that hung-in the well, after our return from the field," replied Mallory. A teardrop glistened in the printer's eye. He has tened back to the pnntshop and with in an hour had composed the poem which was set to music and became a classic. As Mrs. Leffingwell was thus mus inar upon' the scenes of childhood. "When fond recollection presents them to view," her reverie was .dis turbed by a noise m the parlor. She quickly recognized the sound waves as the heavv breathinar of tha rhoir. mastef of the household, Henry Lef- nngweu, wno naa been laboring over his income tax schedule. These om inous sounds were ' not reassuring; they had a meaning of their own, and the Leffingwells quickly got into close formation to hear what the garde du corps wished to get out of his sys tem. - I ' "The nation is in danger of a re crudescence of puntanism," began the director ot the domicile. "We are running wild in an orgie of don'ts. It is don't do this and don't do that. until there will be nothine left for on to do within the law except to attend improvement club meetings, a mid week prayer meeting, or stay at home ana engage in such riotous indul gences as checkers or play a game of horse shoes in the spring time. I read danger in the handwriting on the ceiling. What we need is constructive suggestions from . these merry little regulators of our morals and morale Anybody can get uo and shoot a lnt of don'ts at his fellowmen and women. it is my wish that the Leffingwells shall be normal: have a do for everv don't, and don't be everlastingly Say ing, inou snan not. ."Say, pa, did you ever take t Turk ish bath?" asked Willie, who had been reading of the Romans and their fam ous ablutions. "I want the members of this house hold to be constructive rather than destructive in their pilosophy of life; not to be puritanical in. the extreme, but to pursue a sane and safe course, to hold on when going around a curve and to avoid posing as the guardians other folks' habits." 1 "Pa what are Teddv Bear.? was the next-query of Willie, perusing fashion book nreoared nartirularlv for jcimuine interest and eyes. "It is all right for you to expose your wisdom by warning us against fancied dangers of puritanism, Henry Leffingwell," said the wife of the fire side, "but I am a-thinking that a few puritanical ideas would not -be lost upon you. A few more of Tthc sim plicities of the days when you and I went to church together would be good for what ails you. I suppose you would rather go to vamfiire pic ture now than go to an old settlers' picnic. Henry, you are growing care less. The next thing we know you will be shaking dice or playing horse shoes for money. According to your ideas, pu would rather have the min ister wear a red necktie in the pulpit and probably you have a deck of cards right now in this house, for all that I know." ' , Mary edged over to her piano and started to sing "The Sweet Long Ago," a new song she had just learned. "Can't' you bring back the olden love days, the golden love days of long ago?" were some of the words she sang, and Leffingwell moved close to his wife and gave her a kiss. "This is the life! This is the life I" exclaimed Willie, and music once more soothed the ruffled feathers of the Leffingwell home nest Heard En Passant. "Gladys is sure cute." "L was in Chicago last Saturday and I had three highballs." "I'd ditch him if it was me." "I can dance, but my wife wonlt let me." , "She'll get over it when she has been twice married." "Got my missing towel back from the laundry; it pays to kick once in a while." . . "A big fat girl steppe on my feet anrl T it vf1n kl- VV v; ' mJ&fflP By A. EDWIN LONG. If the government had encouraged Fred W. Thorne years ago in his kite making, that government might now have a kite that would transport cannon and munitions across the brine to be dropped on the kaiser's helmet. Thorne was a born kite fan. He had kites of all descriptions. In Ontario, Canada, where he was born; and later in Chicago, where his parentsVnoved with him when a small boy, he kept some 80 varieties of kites in the air all the time. He built some small and somehrge and sought to ascend with them per sonally, but the string would never hold out. If he could have found a string strong enough, and yet light enough, he might have taken many a joy ride, poised 2,000 feet in the zenith over Lake Michigan. N But if he could not make the ascen sion himself, he would see that some of the household pets took the rides. Thus -it was that often his mother found him in the back yard tugging at a string managing a kite far in the clouds, with the family cat swinging at the tail and splitting the atmos phere with her claws. Kiting or ballooning certainly could never have killed him, for he showed himselfr to be tpo tough of sinew for that One day, when his kites were all anchpred out and flying steadily without his piloting, he became nosy about a wagon the hired man was driving. The man had gathered the double box full of turnips and was driving through the yard with this splendid load of more than a ton, when Fred climbed upon the rear .wheel. Of course, it tumbled him over and the wheel passed over his chest. It pressed his short ribs down so that it took some little argument to get the air into his lungs, but he won the argu ment. Loves to Listen to Charlie Fanning, Omaha postmas ter, has a hobby oi .listening to trials in the federal court rooms. When he has made the rounds of his own department and seen to it that the twine around bundles of letters is being untied instead of cut, in ac cordance with Postmaster General Burleson's order, and when he has seen that the postage a tamp supply is all right, and all the other little things are hunky dory, he hies himself to the elevator and George takes him Hp to the third floor. He goes into the district attorney's office and listens to the trial of some captured "booze" holind or boxcar robber if there is nothing going on in the "big tent" or main federal court room. Of course, he prefers the big show when there is a big trial going on. He "was a faithful attendant at the trial of the famous "wild horse" case, and graced the Matters trial with his presence frequently. . H i rrA',tA mitt, tirti-VIn When he found a wagon load of tur nips could run over him without ex tinguishing him, he decided to tackle the show business. He was business manager and bass drummer in a the ater and held this combination post tion for three months before it trick' led into his skull; that he was not really a theatrical man. He entered the Pullman service for a few years then, and became ticket agent for the Pullman people in Oma ha. J. his was all an accident, tor. he was on his way to Oregon when he stopped at Omaha for a few days and was offered the JPullman job. From this job he engaged in mer chandising at Sixteenth and Farnam streets, where he stuck IS years as a partner in a thriving business. Never had he forcotten hil arnhi- vtfon to go to Oregon, however, and at last he migrated to that land. He still has great apple and pear or chards there, which he maintains at a great cost, and from which he gets fully a box and a half of fruit per year at a cost of $100 a box. "They say there are no white ele phants in Africa," says Thorne; "I agree, for they must all have migrated to Oregpn years ago." In two years he was back in Omaha and had established himself at 1812 Farnam street, where he is today president and proprietor of the Fred W. Thorne company, making a spe cialty of the choicest of ladies' "ready-to-wear apparel. Thorne believes he has found his place at last. He is ready to devote trie rest or his lite to the business in Omaha, and he is slow to talk about past experiences, though there is al ways the ghost of a smile careering over his face when Oregon and the orchard .business are mentioned., Next In This Series How Omaha dot C. H. English. the 1 ' Lawyers Spill Language fond belief that he would have made a howling success if he had gone in tor the law instead ot selling news papers and then acquiring a big con tracting, business, and finally rising to the honor ot the postmastership. OUR CHARLIE THOMAS. " By David Jblowits, OmahSBee. Poor Thomas 1 sick, yes, alcji In bed. Been laid op 'bout a week and a day; ' They aay ha got numb from his toe to his - head. ' Ooeh, that Is the deuce to pay. He never complains, aa far aa we know, ' Just hammers away at hia Usk, He'd be on the job if It's 30 below. Like a bahner that's hailed to Its mast. We miss that kid, and he misses u, top, It'a a cinch we're not far off on guess; He's got plenty of friends, and enemies, few, But we can't help him out ot his mesa. He's a poor aick man at home In bta bed. And he'll stay there until he is well; With a hot water bag atrapped to hla head, How long, w really can't tali- One little word with four letters, will almost spell Lieutenant Charles J. Glidden's name either forward or backward. It is "work." , Lieutenant GHdden has been on duty here for several months as presi dent of the aviation examining board He is well over 50 years old, but if splendid health. While the lieutenant was actively engaged in obtaining upwards of 6, 000 applicants for commissioners in the signal corps, as aviators, balloon pilots and gas engine experts,, he ex cited the admirati&n on every army officer in Omaha, by the tireless ef forts he put fbrth to give every candi date his personal attention. Lieuten ant Glidden began the day at 7 a. m. at Fort Omaha where he worked until about 4:30. and then camedown to his office in the Hotel Fontenelle where he held forth utnil midnight or after. Between time and during spare sec onds, the lieutenant always finds time to tell some club or organization of his wonderful tours of the world, describing particular points of inter est. He holds several pleasant memories of things accomplished, such as sending the first cablegram around the world, much to the chagrin of the English royalty, who had hoped to attain that record. Lieutenant Glidden, who has always been accompanied by Mrs. Glidden on his trips, holds the record of having taken his automobile to the most northerly point ever totfehed by such a vehicle. He has rounded the world completely on two occasions in his car. ' Lieutenant Glidden still retains souvenirs of what he terms "my three follies." One is a part of a balloon basket, representing the active days with his balloons in which he has made over 50 flights, another is the coach horn, which brings back the days when he maintained the finest strirfg of thoroughbred horses ia Massachusetts, and took great pride in his six-in-hand, and an automobile driving wheel, saved from his first automobile. Lieutenant Glidden was also th first man to ever ride on the railroad tracks in his machine, making trips which totalled thousands of miles. He proudly declares ' that he was neret! late over five minutes on his runs frooi city to hamlets, and collected over jvu train uispaicncr 3' oruer wmca safely carried him along. On one trip he carried a letter of greeting from President Roosevelt to President Diaz of Mexico. Hisfamous "Glidden tours," which' were the one event in the automobile world years ago, has made his name familiar in almost every household. Moved only by his great heart and unswerving patriotism in assisting America in its present crisis, Lieuten ant Glidden laid aside everything to take hold of the great work he has been so successful hu His terrific executive ability, his kindness, his almost ferocious desire to be always doing something,. and it must begone perfect to suit the lieutenant, has won him' a place in the heart of every candidate who has had the oppor tunity to appear before him. Mrs. Glidden, who has been con stantly at the side of her famous hus band, since he was ordered to Omaha, promptly identified herself with Red Cross work and other activities of women in the war. She is also an untiring worker for the good of the United .States. E. Herjmanson, a chief water tender in Uncle Sam's navy, now stationed in Omaha on recruiting duty, has a hobby of collecting stamps. All of his extra money is devoted to adding to his collection. The collection is rapidly becoming one of the most valuable in existence and at the present time is said to be worth more than $600. No stamp in the collection is worth less than 25 cents. Many are worth $4.13. All stamps in the collection are thrift stamps. Not content -with his collection of stamps, Mr. Hermanson is planning on subscribing for a $1,000 Liberty bond when the new issue "Is placed 6n the market. He is one of the high est paid enlisted men on duty in Omaha, drawing about $300 each' month for his services with the navy. He has been in active service in the navy for the last 24 years and has been promoted from a fireman to his1' present rating. Good conduct and continuous service extra pay consti tutes a large part of his monthly wage. The water tender is a bachelor and eligible to retire on a comfortable pension for the rest of his life when a suitable reason appears. Yourtger sailors on duty here report that he is now planning on signing up for a life cruise and that a well-Wn girl will be in command. The dignified personage of the president of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce is one of the mos enthusi astic skating fans in Omaha. He is U L. George, who plays neither bil liards nor pool," plays no cards and neve smokes. Oh, but ho at he does love to skate! And his skating is the envy of those wdn t,:. He ma be seen early in the morning at Happy Hollow club; 'or at somt . l"e ptner parks, doing the back circle the "side dip," the Dutch roll and the backward double Dutch; and all these feats he performs with that sweeping grace that marks the skater ith the perfect control. He walks down town about every morning of jtoi, iw, aunougn he lives in Dundee, and many a blustery morn ing when the swirls of snow writhe and twist through the streets he may be seen walking down towu with only -his Coat collar to parry the blast. But I Kilng.FTis feal hobb'' ad te hobby that makes existence worth while for Mr. George. Archie Carpenter plays solos on . the guitar with all the dash of a bpanish cavalier. Of course, he does not go on serenading parties, gallop ing his horse over cabbage 1 patches to gain a vantage pointr under the balcony window, but just quietly at his home he picks the strings in a way that gs often iharmed his friends. This is Mr. Carpenter's hob by, if he has one, for he is at it per sistently and enthusiastically. He used to pick the guitar in the Univer sity of Nebraska Glee club, but when he left school and the old glee club fell to pieces, Carpenter did not llow bis guitar .to sink into deca.V- : I . fir