The Omaha Daily Bee
PART TWO
EDITORIAL
PAGES 13 TO 22.
VOL. XLVII NO. 287.
OMAHA, ' SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1918.
SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS.
HEY, FRIEND WIFE!
LOOK WHAT'S HERE;
PEACEMAKER, EH?
3ed Cross to Auction Old
Fashioned Biscuit Beater
That Won Husbands in
Days of Yore.
At 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon
Colonel James L. Dowd, Omaha's
premier auctioneer, will cry the most
remarkable sale ever held in the city
at Red Cross salvage ' headquarters,
1409 Harney street
Some of the most sacred of the
lares and penates of a multitude of
Omaha homes have, been laid on the
tltar of patriotism that they might
htlp fill the war chest of the Red
Cross with treasure.
Among the offerings are a machine
for making beaten biscuit, the Sunday
morning and 'holiday breakfast and
supper delicacy of southern homes in
ante-bellum days. Many and many
a hostess in the aristocratic circles
south of Dixon's line rested her repu
tation for superlative cooking on the
delicacy of the beaten biscuit pro
duced by the family servants of her
menage.
Some Biscuit Beater.
To get the best biscuits they had
to be thoroughly beaten and Yankee
ingenuity was called upon to devise
a machine to do this work. The relic
. to be sold Saturday is one of these
rare antiques and as a memento of
former family glory has been treas
ured for decades by the person who
nas sacrificed it and all its holy tradi
tions to a patriotism that now knows
no sectional lines.
The identity of the machine was
established by one of those darkies
who believes that the "moon shined
brighter befo' de wah." He was work
ing in assorting salvage at headquar
ters when he spied the machine. It
was like finding an old friend and ho
danced with glee.
"Dat belonged to quality folks,"
said he. "If I had de money I would
bid a million foh if befo' I'd let it go
to some buckra dat didn't know a
Again in Command of Fa-
mom New York Regiment
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Colonel William H. Haskell has
been placed in command of the old
69th regiment of Neyv York, now the
165th infantry, which is giving such a
good account of itself in France.
Colonel Haskell was in command of
the regiment on the Mexican border.
He is a graduate of West Point and
holds a commission in the regular
army.
beaten buscuit mixah f'um a submer
sible aeroplane."
Then there is the furniture from
the 'homes of Mrs. Jay Foster and
Mrs. Arthur Cooley, both of whom
have given up housekeeping and have
donated their splendid furnishings, to
the great cause. Many beautiful
paintings, draperies, silk and lace cur
tains, articles of antique furniture and
historic relics have been contributed
from the home of ex-Governor Boyd,
some of them, priceless in their asso
ciations with Nebraska history.
The Western Electric company has
donated electric kettels, percolators,
steak broilers, soapstone griddles and
batteries, all of them new, or so near
ly so that there is no difference. A
millinery house gave over 100 "crea
tions from their .stock. There are
oriental rugs, grandfather clocks,
feather beds, electric bath cabinets,
saddles and whiffletrees, silk quilts,
law and medical books and works of
fiction in vogue before the civil war,
many of which have been out of print
for half a century.
Hairpins to Spitz Dogs.
In fact, there is everything imag
inable, from hairpins to a Spitz dog
with his pannier basket.
In the junk room there are re
minders of the era before the historic
1st of May, when it was legitimate
to hold high wassail in the home
without fear of a visit from the morals
squad.
Demijohns encased in wicker, that
held rare Amontillado wines imported
from the sunny slopes of the moun
tains of Aragon and Castile; phials
that held precious chartreuse, made
by the Carthusian monks in France
before their ejection two decades ago,
lie side by side with flasks that held
bootleg whisky with government
stamps showing the contents were
bottled as late as the spring of 1918.
All have a value.
The old paper brought into the
headquarters by collectors will yield
from $75 to $100 per week.
Jewelry, a whole sackful, represent
ing a stage king's ransom, will also
be offered for sale.
Public School Teachers to
Co-operate in Big Drive
One thousand teachers of the pub
lic .schools will co-operate in the Red
Cross drive. Cards will be distribu
ted to the children with requests to
take them home. Parents may sign
the cards and return them through
the schools if they wish, but no em
barrassment will attend disinclination
to return the cards. The school offi
cials realize that some narents mav
not be, able to contribute and that
others will contribute through chan
nels other than the school system.
Knrtv srhonl children will serve
next week as Red Cross four-minute
speakers.
Former City Commissioner
Is Back to "Pick'and Shovel"
"T am Karlf tn ihc nirk and shovel."
Parks, former citv
commissioner, who has returned from
a trip, following the recent storm
which struck the city hall.
Mr. Parks has been awarded a $60,-
000 contract to build cattle runs and
hog pens at the Union Stock yards.
While he, was away he visited one
of his sons at a cantonment camp.
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