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The Omaha Sunday Bee : r 1 n sun m r m Ti l a i w uv-, 1 1 a r . OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1918. I 'i, Everybody Has a Hobby! Tell . What's Yours Gorgeous Clothes. C. W. Hull's hobby is nifty neck ties and nobby shirts. My, my, but he certainly does dress gorgeously. He goes in particularly for flannel shirts of exclusive patterns and a soft softness, don't you know, with soft cuffs. He also is affectionately inclined toward soft collars. In fact, he is a "distinctive" dresser, as the clothing ads have it. I cm ASVi AHiG By EDWARD BLACK. Home Life of the Leffingwells. Mrs. Le fling well had as much use for a woman who talked of her neigh bors' at she had for an old broken down rocking chair which was gath ering the dust of time in her base ment. Her policy was to say all of the good .he could and abstain from uttering censorious or critical com ments about ber neighbors. She did not worry because Mrs. What's-her-name. wore many new clothes, while her husband looked like a refugee. She remembered having observed 1 this particular husband, a man of diminutive proportions, with small, black moustache and large, brown derby hat, and whose unheroic ataiure suffered in comparison when grouped with his well-dressed consort. Mrs. Lcffingwell decided in her own mind that it was for Mrs. What's-hcr-name to let her conscience be her guide, so why become a nervous wreck over the habits and hats of others r These" thoughts were flitting through the mind of Mrs. Lcffingwell while she, was enjoying a fewminutes of rest after the evening viands had been visited. , Mrs. What's-her-name had called during the afternoon to distribute a little community conver sation and perhaps glean a few mor sels of current news relating to cer tain neighbors who were not on her exchange list. ' She Admits Charge. "Are you busy?" aisked the neigh bor, as she pushed her puNating per sonality through the kitchen doorway and observed that Mrs. Leffingwell was engrossed in ironing shirts for her husband. Mrs. Lefiingwell re ferred to her husband, when speaking to others, as "Mr. Leffingwell," while Mrs. What's her-name designated her male eoncorifitant is "my man." Be ing detected in the frivolity of iron ing shirts, and bejng a woman of truthfulness, there was nothing for Mrs. Ltffuigwell to do but admit that she was busy. "Have you heard" the news?" in quired Mrs. , Whats-her-name, her face reflecting the radiance of her mind. "The only news I have heard is that Mrs. So-and-so has induced her husband to join the church and I don't consider that is any of my business, but I was glad to hear of it. I heard that he has given up chewing tobacco on week days and wearing flannel shirts on Sundays. I wish I could .ay the same of Mr. Lef fingwell, but I will say for him that he, has given up garlic," Mrs. Leffing well remarked. , 'Then you haven't heard the news"! added the caller, with a feelinar of eiation over the privilege of imnart ing information. "Would you believe that Mrs. bo-and-so had a quarrel with her man? Mrs. Grundv told me all about it and it was just too ncn lor any use. She told me that Mrs. So-and-st called her man , a skinflint because he would not buy her a new hat this spring. She told him she had a new hat every spring before she was married and said she wished she was back at her job in the candy factory, so that she could aoend her own money and go out whenever she wished. JJoesn t your man like you' to doll up? My man I said he wouldn't have me if I didn't look as if somebody was thinking of me." They're Off I Mrs. Leffingwell folded the shirt she had finished and spread another on the board. She had two answers ready for her neighbor, so she chose the one which would cause the, least pain. "It is my opinion," she replied, "that perhaps Mr. So-and-so is in vesting most of his money in Liberty bonds and thrift stamps and his wife may not realize the demands made upon his resources. It may be that none of us know the real circum stances of the case and I don't think that we should judge. In fact, I don't consider that it is any of my business. I am pleased to see my neighbors get new hats if they can pay for them," -While Mrs. Leffingwell was thus visualizing the day's work and play, she turned her eyes toward the family throne room and observed Henry Leffingwell in his chair, as placid as if he were gathering up the shells by the sea shore. Henry observed that his wife was too auiet for comfort, so he proceeded to disturb the serenity by letting the folks know that nave with us this evening a . man whom you all know" The family gathered around the paternal infor mation bureau with open minds and taces. t So Has a' Mule. "I wonder if the Leffingwells have definite purposes in life?" began the man who impresses his thoughts upon the minds of his fireside companions. "Did it ever occur to you that a mule has a purpose and cannot be diverted? Did it ever occur to you that the busy little bee has a purpose and that even the worm when it turns also has a purpose? It is my wish that the Leffingwells shall be known among the neighbors as exemplars of pur pose, definite and fixed purpose." "Say, dad, I heard Mary say that she was on her way, but didn't know where she was going. Do you think she had a purpose?" Willie asked, seeking to derail his father's train of thought. Miry looked up from her book and the family dog crawled away to a place beneath the kitchen table. Yea, Bo I Nit. "We waste time and effort bv not having a purpose in everything we do," Leffingwell continued. "Even in the small and commonplace affairs of the day we should have a purpose if Bumble Bee OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1918. we would be of the greatest service to ourselves and to others. Let. pur pose be the watchword of this home. "Say, dad,, would it be proper to' say, the nude eye. instead of the naked eye'?" inquired Willie, his mis- chievousnes giving his mother an opening with whjch to break into the ceremonies. "Henry Leffingwell. look at mel" began the woman who would not re fer to her husband as my, man. Henry looked. "You. just imagine that you have a purpose in everything you do. I suppose you can see some purpose when you keep putting off buying that electric iron you promised to me. Mrs. What's-her-name was here this afternoon and saw me iron ing with those same old irons I had when you requested me to take you for better or worse. You say that a mulei has a purpose and I might add that even a wife may have a purpose when she asks her husband to wear a necktie on Sunday." Now, All Together. Leffingwell had a purpose in chang ing the subject. He suireested No. 358 in the family song book, which was, "Hark, l Hear a Voice." And with Mary at the piano and four Lef fingwell voices raised in son cr. Mrs. What's-her-name and other neighbors heard another musical amnesty.. "There's purpose and pep in that song," commented Willie after . the first verse, looking out of a window to see whether any of the neighbors were on their roofs. 1 By A. EDWIN LONG. , The trusty convicts, gardening out side the prison walls at J-incom, taught Kobert H. Manley to swim in Salt creek, and Manley was proud of these striped-coated instructors. Then , the inmates of the insane aslyum up on the hill had to pull him out of Salt creek by the hair when he . got tangled up with the current and the: brush ,wKen the creek was high." ' ' "Taueht bv a convict, and saved by a nut' says Manley. "Both 'highly appreciated." . - , If was the lot of Manley. to' be born in Lincoln. His favorite sport .TUB WEEKLY BUMBLE BEE. A. 8TINOBR, EDITOR. Communications on any tople received, without poattg or signature. ; None returned. , NO ADS) AT ANT PRIC& RELAXATION Jerry Howard, remorseless enemy ef all cor-rpor-r-lon, , particularly . ttaa - pacalnc houMi, wa tha tint man to call en Francis J. Heaey whan ' ha arrived to Omaha to Inves tigate the packing Induitry. "He like to laughed ,hlmlf alck,M said Jerry, "whin told hlin the Ivtdencs brought in in the Chicago hearing helpe 1 my candidacy , for city commis sioner." ' POLITICAL Jabes Cross, candidate (or city commtMioDer, has no connection with the well-known Iron Cross. He wants a cress In tront ot his , name on the ballot. H. Forman, also a , for a. o., may be fore nan end he may not. Alfred Sorenion, often a candidate for Vnited Etatea senator, la now e. ft for . c. Pat Duffy, o. for c e.. Is of Irish descent. - cm ' Contemplating laat week's packing house hearing and a hundred other hearings, probes and Investigation!, we ar re minded of little Peterkln: "But what good came it 1 at last T" Quotn little PeWkln: "Oh, that I do not know.'- said he. -. "Put 'twrs a. famous Tloteree." . ' BIGHTOI : "Singing songs won't win the war." ssld Major Maker Ton said a mouthful, major, spe daily these songs that th "pa trlotlo song writers" are pitting out. v ' FOKEHKiHT. Edward Black, who announced , three weeks ago that spring would begin March I J, now tolls us that Chriatnua la Juat nlns months and ons day away. "'.- ' WHEAT. ' John ' Rlne drove up to Fre mont last Sunday and uye be saw several farmer plowlrg. BEET. : Hoover wires (hat he ean't : Mtae to ' Omaha at present Hoover la Hooverlilng on travel and conversation. Trained seals do some won derful things and now a Fish has been elected . president and . m. of tha Western Neva pa per - union. it . . ., . ...... Otl Into our gsvat contest, udlfe, bee ad on this page. ' SUBCONSCIOUS MIND SUPS ONE OVER ON AN OMAHA COMMISSION MAN WHO WILL RELY ON ALARM CLOCK HEREAFTER There . Are Mora Wonders la Heave a aad JCarth, William, Tha Dreamed of la Year Philosophy. -William Frasler, president ot the Frasler-Johnaon company, live stock commission mer chants, had to take a train several weeks ago at S o'clock in the morning. He est his alarm clock for 6:80 and retired to bed early. . When he awoke he looked at the clock. The hands were stretched at the angle which registers of the clock. Reflecting upon the wonders of ths subconscious mind, which awakens a person, at a time fixed In the. conscious mind, he arose and dressed leisurely and quietly. Then, valiee in hand, he slipped out ot the house and caught a street car tor the Union ststlon. He had to transfer at Six teenth and Farnam streets. There he was surprised at the number of vnunv fnib u . , " ..WW wurv . . ""r nwur. ne also thought it odd that several taxlcabs were standing on the corner so early in the morning. However, he took the Farnam street car and proceeded to the atatlon. Ho bought his ticket and then strolled out to the train shed. Stepping up to the gate man, be inquired whether bis train waa on time. "1 suppose she is," ssld the SELF-DENTAL, Last Sunday was "earless Sun dsy," so designated by the fed eral government to conserve gas oline. - There seemed to be more Pleasure cars out than ever be fore. On the Florence boulevard they were lined in a solid pro cession, going both ways. Of course, the weather was lovely, but k , , . , KINO., This week's helpful hint to scenario writers: Why not write a comedy in which men fail Into tubs of water and troughs of dough and get hit In the face with custard plesT . DRY. . ' Omaha may have to get along with less water, because a big pump for the Mlnne Luaa sts tlon has not been delivered. And no beer to drink, either. '; -:V:,; CITE. ' Congress refuse toYeduco the pay of aviators. In other words the nsv (or mnir Mn i. . ing down.4X 8. A. " PAPA. - ; V Twin a wit r tVifr ia uj ..t ------ ----- w ft, WMl Mrs. John Popp, S601 feuth Forty-fourth street. i Mon day. Mr, f'opo Is surely a dob bow man, "but you can tell better by asking in ths morning." ' "In the morning t" said Mr. Frailer. "Tes," replied the man. "If six hour yet before that train Is due." Mr. Frasler then, for the first time, looked up at the sta tion clock. It registered 1:10. He had simply mistaken the little hand for the big hand on his alarm clock. What he thought was t o'clock was 11:S0 o'clock. "Bless me!" he whispered, or omethlng like or unlike that Then he went to a hotel and left a call with the clerk for T o'clock. - STATESMANSHIP, A little dialogue heard at last Tuesday' meeting ot the city commissioners! Joe Tour report don't recom mend nothing. - Al Whaddya mean, don't recommend nothlngT Joe Why, it dont recom mend nothing. Al It recommends to get sev 'ral archltecka. Ain't that noth lngT t . Joe No, that ain't nothing. CONTKIBCTIONS. Editor Bumble Bee: t sent you an article laat week that you did not publish. I know plenty of funny things, but don't want to aend them In If you won't publish them. C, 8. A. (We are glad nay, delighted to get contributions. Send in some more, C. 8. A. Send In eome more; other people, too. Welcome.) PROPRIETORS, The city hall elevators ire re served exclusively for the p'-lltl-cal cards- of the present com missioners. All seven of em are In each elevator but no Mhera, IOVELT. "Mary' Ankle" at the Boyd comparee favorably with Oma ha ankles, than which there are no finer In the world. CONTEST : t Will Give a Beautiful Prise to the Lady Whe Writes Me the Best "LOVE LETTER . CONTEST CLOSES SATURDAY. . MARCH JO. . Address A. Stinger, Editor, Tho Bumble Bee. - "Are Ton Decelvlnc Met" Liberty Bank on Courthouse Lawn MYSTERY. We found the following mys terious letter on our typewriter and don't know whether ItIs a German code message or just a "story" by the cub reporter: "used lately. This to the ground and afforded an ecellent plaoe for the work by the dig gers, a It is so view of the guards toward or the guard situated Inside. ' Colonel George L. Byram prison commandant found that the had drug struck down the floor ot the building to a depth of six feet and then turned their tunnel straight for the fence which is closer to this building than to the other building from which the pre vious tunnels were started, bad In driving the -tunnel well out towards the fence." VAILLBE. The Germans sunk 1,000,000 ton of ships in a year. But the allies and neutrals have (1,000,-000- tons left and are building enough to keep this many, in spite of the worst the kaiser lings can do. How about that boast to "bring England to her knees In six months, Tirpt" You don't know freedom' breed. ADDRESS. Among the letters received at the postofflce for businesses that don't exist In Omaha are the following: Will Piper Auto company; Santa Fe ticket of fice; Madame Boyd System; Drama league; M. O. B. Motor company; White Cloud Booster: Gale Sawyer Co.; Magnet Steel Knife Sharpener company; Big 4 Realty company; Buffalo Gas Saving company. BEATRICE. Ws hope that the salut ing, hungry heart of Manager D. T. B, L M. Thomaa of the' Strand Is satisfied now hst he has ' had so many love letters written to him In response to his call. SPRING. Spring la here. Have you heard the wild gooseberry call ing to - it mats as they build a nest In the woodland, where soon they will hatch out a brood ' of . young wild goose berries ? , S1NECIRE. We have always -thought that school teachers have an easy time of it Juet a few hturs' teaching, five days a week, with liberal vacations. Some of them, however, declare '.bat a school teacher's life, lika the versified policeman's, . "ti not aa sasy one." How about .tl 8 pea Ing of coniervatlon, w suggest that shoe manufactur ers quit putting boot straps on shoe and that shirt makers quit putting that little necktie-re-strainer4 at the back of the col lar band. If -you are ever, brought up for breaking aome federal law it will be comforting to remem ber tt)at Vnited States Commis sioner Robert Neely'l middle name la for.ald. mm, mm teiimmmmmmp ft 'miHr.r- ."li,.'---!.":: r I , I rt -' Lu - l-L-1 VK .-11 -.: :::;,":,:-;.-:.;.;: -:-;::-"::! ::f-: - - ' ' M 1 ... i nil inasi'af An instruction class in selling Lib erty loan bonds for 50 membjrs of the woman's committee will open at 10 a. m. Monday in the court house. Lectures will be given by expert bank er ' ' ' '' ,.. v' ." At the noon day luncheons num bers of the men's committee wil ad dress the women. Several othe" tea tures will be arranged. ' " The Liberty Loan bank to'be Luilt on the court house lawn will be a replica of the subtreasury ot New York. It is to be built in section to be able to store for future use. Women of the National Service league will have complete charpe of the minature bank, which will cater to busy business men as well as to women. All receipts will be ckaed through the woman's committee, lhe joint chairmen in charge of the hank are Mesdasnes William - Arch.bcld Smith and Milton Barlow. Posters , to advertise-the Liberty loan drive were -assigned by IiJrs. Allyn Marsh of New York, fomtrly Miss Lucille Patterson of this city, and are being-nationally used." aften the-rainy day was to stand be hind a coal shed and plunk mud balls at; the young gallants who strutted past with their Sunday girls. Frank Zehrung, now past mayor of Lincoln, had many a cleaner's -bill to pay 30 years ago on his "palm beach" suit, all because Rob Manley, barelegged, and naughty, was sneaking around in the alley rolling mud balls and flicking them mysteriously out of "somewhere" as Zehrung passed. There was an inventor in Lincoln who maintained huge quicklime vats in which he cooked up sedition, sabo tage, and several such similar sinful soups. Manley and the other kids flopped a thin board across the vat, and used to run back and forth over this swaying, sagging bridge, just to see how many could get across before one finally fell in and got cooked. In the high school he gradually got better sense. In , the University of Nebraska he became really civilized. General Pershing, then a young lieu tenant, had something to do with it, for he was commandant of the bat talion of cadets there, and was Man ley's drillmaster. Yes, in the university he put on stiff collars, forgot all about the days of mud balls and quicklime, and became a member of the first Uni versity Glee club, member of the first dramatic club, played with the base ball team, and even played foot ball until his folks found it out and stopped bim. To help pay university expenses he became a reporter on the Nebraska State Journal, where he was some times dramatic critic and. at other times critic of the alley dog fights. . Becomes City fcditor. Next he was citv editor of the Fremont Tribune, under Ross Ham mond. He saved $1,00 to go to Chi caeo for a iob. but bn the Fourth of July let a livery team get away from him while ne was snooting irogs ana so spent his $100 repairing damages. When he did' get to Chicago later he had to get the whole Armour in stitute crowd in.to jail to get a story before the Record would employ him. After three years there, he came to Omaha as advertising manager for the Brandeis Stores. And when, the Chamber of Com merce needed a new commissioner it was Manley they pulled in. He has served on more salaryless committees and done more thankless jobs xthan anyone else in North America, except possibly Randall Brown. Next In This Series How Omaha Cot William 8. Stryker. ' ! &fKwff;Mnte of Their Lives Carl E. v Herring1 has ; not always been' a lawyer with an automobile and old-mounted fountain pen. . Years ago-before cedar block pavements were laid , in Omaha he lived in Evansville, Ind., and was a postofhee inspector. ; - - He has had many thrilling moments during his lifer His first $100 - fee gave him a . thrill, but the . greatest thrill of his life, as he tells it, was an occasion, when, he made his first ar rest as government inspector. It oc curred in Evansville. He had worked up a case against a railway mail clerk who was suspected, and when the time arrived to make the arrest, Herring was almost unnerved. . "I walked up to the man and said: 'I am. a postoffice inspector, you are under arrest,' he related. The thought of placing a man under arrest seemed to be a thrilling affair to my then im mature mind. The man was not dis concerted,' for I presume he expected what had happened. Nothing that has occurred since that time has seemed quite so thrilling." - - Present Needs. -One afternoon Mike was caught In a rail way , wreck, which, fortunately, wasn't a very serious one, and when his friends found him. he ws sitting beside the track holding his head in o-.e hand and a leg in the other.- said members, ot course, not being detached. "How are yoa feeling, Mike?" asked one of -the- party, stooping to help the bruised man. ."Are you badly hurt?" "Thot Oi am," answered Mike. "01 fsle as It Ot hs&ttroid to stop a folght betwane a road roller, an' a mule." "Never mind, 'old feUow," sympathetic ally returned ths other. 'It Is not as bad as it might have been, and yon will get damages, yoa know." "Damage I" excalraed Mike. "Shore, an' Ol've had enough av thlm. It' repairs thot Oi'tn aadla' now." Philadelphia Telegraph. Just His Children. ' J. A. C. Kennedy's sole hobby is his three young children. He's a hard worker, is J. A. C, down at his office sometimes at 6:30 in the morn ing. But when the strenuous legal work of the day is done his time is given ove to the three Kennedy youngsters, who are the only bosses a he acknowledges. The other day while arguing a case in court he drew a handkerchief from his pocket and mopped his brow. It was a tiny square of kerchief and he put it back in some confusion. It was, in fact, a handkerchief which had been hemmed by his small daughter. ; A rather amusing bit of childish sew ing it .was but rather was carrying it to please his little daughter. Some Dancer. Robert Trimble, better known as "Bob." makes a hobby of lea mg all the latest steps in dancing. Neer did a new step alight in Omah? hat Trimble was not one of the first to attempt it. Then, too, when ht tets the new step, he is a tireless dancer. So long as the muic continues Trim ble will go on with the dance no matter if all others have donr.ea their wraps to leave. In fact, the I janitor, beginning to sweep jp the ball room, has frequently been kuown to brush Trimble's toes with his broom while Trimble was seeking ' to get the final thrills out of a cer- f tain new glide after midnight Studies Boys. Boys constitute the hobby of John L. McCague. Mr. McCague takes a keener interest in boys than m tny thirtg else in the world, even a dnper interest than he takes in his own real estate business. He loves boys He forgives most of their faults because they are boys. One of the attributes of boys is to have faults. He .Ikes to talk to boys and to watch them develop from year to year. He l:kes to help them shape their philojofhy of life, yet he avoids preaching to them He knows boys well en argil to know that boys do not like to be preached to. But he gets the close oersonal contact with them, and makes it a point to know the inner workings of their minds whili the lads are unfolding into adolescence. He does this all auietlv. an4, few people except the boys themselves knows how he loves them anl tow he watches and advises them faring their high school and college years. Do the Thundering Guns Make Rain? , There is no getting away from the j fact that experience in the great war has lent seeming confirmation to the theory (long held by our weather bureau to be pure nonsense) that bat tles make rain. The tremendous artillery prepara tion for the British and French ad vance in Flanders the other day was followetl by such floods from the skies that the movement was greatly impeded. That incident in itself might be without significance, but it has happened the same way in so many instances that incredulity is staggered. What, under ordinary conditions, makes rain? The weather bureau con fesses that it does not know. A cloud is a mass . of minute particles of water suspended in the atmosphere. Something causes the particles to coalesce and form drops, which, be ing heavier than the air, fall to the earth. But what brings this about? Nobody can say. A raindrop or other drop of water , is contained in a sort of skin a mere t molecular arrangement, put serving to preserve its 'form. Thus it may roll across a piece of clean glass, or other dry surface, without wetting the lat ter. It is the same sort of skin cov ering a pond that enables the "skat ing bugs to promenade over it with out getting their feet wet That storms have commonly fol lowed heavy cannonading in warfare has long been popularly accepted as fact. Faith in jthi3 idea caused a United States senator from the state of Washington seven years ago to request the War department to in itiate a wholesale bombardment of the skies by 141 big guns in the forts at Puget Sound, in the hope of miti gating a drouth that was then afflict ing the region. The War department refused, bas- t ing its declination upon the total fail- " ure of certain experiments in the same line authorized by congress in 1892, and which cost $12,000. Though wholly incredulous on the subject, the weather bureau gave the thing the fairest possible trial. Three score balloons, each ten feet in diameter,' were used to carry explosives aloft; likewise about 100 big kites. A freight car full of wooden mortars, to discharge- bombs skyward, was forward ed to the scene of operations, which was a Kansas prairie. The resulting bombardment of the heavens was on a tremendous scale. Tons of dynamite and rackarock were set off. The racket continued for three whole days. But not a drop of rain fell. Unfavorable conditions? Climate too dry? Perhaps; but similar ex periments on a corresponding scale were made in the humid east and with no better result The question was apparently set tled forever. But now the war in Eu rope seems to have unsettled it again. Finding Things. k "How," he a-as asked, "do you find every thing?" "Wen." elucMated McFee, "in a variety of ways. For example, the weather chilly but to my liking; the street cars always slow when I am waiting for one or am anxious to get somewhere in a hurry: my cheese by shoving my pie face downward; my wife sometimes pleasant; my children many and dirty: my work troublesome: the cost of living the same as everyone else's; the war monotonous: the future brtgnt; hu manity of two classes, the doers and the have-been-dones Juat to cits a few things. "And I thank you for the compliment. 1 didn't know you knew I knew about every thing; still, from the frequency of the quests tion applied to me, I think all men UkiaaT I think about everything." Judge,
