ttiK BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1918.
Conducted by Ella Fleishman
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7 MELL1FICIA
Omahans Who Will '
Celebrate the Fourth
Across the Sea
'" The Fourth will be a gala day at
home and abroad. Our allied coun
tries will celebrate thij great liberty
day and the streets of Paris will be
gay with the flags of America and
France intermingled. There will be
people marching and bursts of pa
triotic music, and then "hats off, the
flag is passing by."
The thoughts of many Omahans
will turn to relatives and friends who
are serving Uncle Sam abroad. In
far-away Belgium in a Red Cross
hospital Miss Louise Dinning is
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to alleviate the suffering of the
wounded, and we are wondering if a
stray breeze will not carry some tcho
-or the stirring music and cheering
crowds to this patriotic nurse. Miss
Elizabeth Stewart, another Omahan
- who is now at Aix-Lee-Bains, will
no doubt write a chatty letter home
before many weeks have passed tell
ing of the Fourth of July celebrations
at this famous town.
Omaha men are scattered far and
wide and every day new names are
added to the list of those in overseas
service. Among the young men who
think of our town as "home" now in
England or France are Lieutenants
Drexel Sibbernsen, Jarvis Offutt, Al
len Tukey and Robert Connelf.
;. Charles Hall, who is now at an offi
cers training camp in England, and
Clifford and Dudley Wolfe, who have
been" abroad for many, months in the
nmbulance service.
At the Country Clubs
Country.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Forgan will
have in their party at the club this
. evening:
-Messrs. and Mesdames
t.ouis Clarke, Paul Gallagher.
Walter Robert. Herbert French.
Xiiuetenants Lieutenants
Richard Eaton, Crofoot.
Norton.
Ml Josephine Congdon.
Field.
Small parties will rule at the club
this evening, most of the dinner tables
being gayly decorated with small flags
and dainty flowers. D. L Kemper
will have five guests, and foursomes
will be given by F. L. Tubbs, C. C.
Pickrell, H. Moeller, G. E. Rogers,
VV. H. Downey, W. H. Nicholson and
A. J. Vierling-
Seymour Lake.
W. R. Overmeyer will have 16
guests at the club this evening, J. R.
McPhail will have JO, parties of seven
will be given by Jake Parsons, J. O.
Philips, J. W. Skoglund, while parties
.; of six will be given by Dr. R. F.
Johnston, J. B. Wadkins, Victor Rey
nolds, A- W. Sydney, H. G. Wihd
heim, T. B. Smiley, Dr. R. F. John-
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live will be entertained by C. F. Cox
and J. B. Wadkins.
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By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
Recently a correspondent wrote me
of a wife who was neglecting her hus
band and children and going about
with other men, and of a husband who
took it all patiently and quietly. In
reply I suggested that, while the wo
man' was silly and wayward, perhaps
the husband's gentleness and endur
durance were the best means of bring- j
ing her to her senses. That elicited a
letter signed M. H. P., which I shall
quote in part:
"There is no doubt of the wife's
unfaithfulness, both to her husband
and children. What else could nijht
rampages with young men lead to
than the woman's downfall? Me:i !
who carouse with women of this sort
are of the lowest character. If he
were to interfere with his beloved
darling's good time it would, accord
ing to you, be a terrible thing. What
would you think if your husband
went out with women a few nights
a week? .He would be the biggest
scoundrel and the most shameless
creature on earth. I know if I were
to take a married woman out secretly
I would be tempted. Nature is' na
ture, and no one, however good, can
resist temptation. Maybe this hus
band is really trusting her common
.sense, if she has any, but I am afraid
tha he will come to his senses soon,
and act like a man, only to find it too
late."
A truly remarkable letter, and one
seriously in need of a serious answer.
So "there is no doubt of the wife's
unfaithfulness!" In other words, folly
. has to be evil; the love of trivial pleas
ures must lead to immorality, and the
desire for light and gayety and color,
when it exists in a wife whose .days
are devoted to keeping her home and
children in order, necessarily means
that the woman is bad, through and
through.
Human Nature.
Well, I may be hopelessly optimistic
about human nature, but no one can
ever convince me that when a poor
little $6-a-week shop girl looks long
ingly at a pair of $3.50 silk stockings,
she is absolutely ready to steal them
if she gets the chance, or to sell her
soul to possess them.
A wife's place is, of course, in the
home. Her pleasures ought to come
'Jifough her husband; she ought to
ad them with him. But the fact that
woman has a weak and foolish and
illful longing for gayety and recrea
tion after a day confined to the home
and housework is never going to
prove to me that that woman is
morally bad.
A man's work is out in the world.
It brings him in contact with people
ind events. He comes home at night
physically exhausted from the things
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iic naa uunc aim mciuaiiy wuiu uui
from the kaleidescope of things he
has seen. He may find his recreation
' in the quiet of his home and natural
ly, too. for he hasn't been there all
lay I
By reverse process, the wife needs
tor her recreation the very change and
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.uiui, uic very contact wnu people
arid things, the very whirligig and
merry-go-round her husband is avoid
ing. V -
The ideal couple manage the situa
tion by compromiss. Friend husband
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Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Woodard will
leave for a trip to the northern lakes
of Minnesota, returning August 1.
Mr. Harry 0. Palmer leaves the
latter part of the week for American
Lakes, Wash., as he will be sta
tioned at Camp Lewis,
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Mann arid
Miss Onnolee Mann left this morn
ing by auto for northern Wisconsin
to be gone several weeks.
Born To Lieutenant and Mrs. H.
K. Owen, a daughter, on Wednesday,
July 3. 1918.
Soda Fountain Benefit
If anyone means to buy a "choco
late down" or a "maple nut sundae"
at the opening of the soda fountain
at the Sherman-McConnell drug store
on Monday and thereby help the Na
tional League for Woman's Service
buy instruments for a permanent
band to be established at Fort Oma
ha, then buy tickets on Friday from
the booths to be established in office
buildings and stores.
The work will be in charge of Mes
dames Milton Barlow, T. G. Travis,
L. G. Healey, Luther Kountze, E. S.
Westbrook, Victor Rosewater and
William Archibald Smith.
Miss Helene Bixby will be in
charge of the booth at the Fontenelle;
Mrs. Allan Parmer, Paxton; Mrs.
George W. Smith, Rome; Mrs. Vic
tor Rosewater, Castle, and Mrs. H. C.
Miller, Henshaw.
Burgess-Nash store booth will be
conducted by Mrs. D. M. Vinson
haler, Thompson-Belden's by Mes
dames T. J. Mackay and George
Wooley; Thomas Kilpatrick's, Mes
dames Walter Page and A. V. Kins
ler; Hayden Bros., T. P. McGrath;
Brandeis, Mrs. Carl Lininger.
Mrs. Harry Jordbn will be in
charge of the Grain exchange build
ing; Saunders-Kennedy, Mrs. E. L.
Burke; Bee building, Mrs. William
Fraser; United States National bank,
Miss Blanch Deuel; City National
bank, Mrs. D. T. Quigley; First Na
tional banw, Miss Ethel Eldrige.
Mrs. W. E.Rhoades will direct the
sales at the Sun, Strand, Em ess and
Muse theaters.
Texas Policewomen
Texas gave policewomen a trial by
appointing one as an experiment and
the result was so satisfactory that
now six additional have been appoint
ed in San Antonio. One of them is
a colored woman. The women were
chosen from candidates which the
heads of all the women's organiza
tions selected at the request of the
mayor. San Antonio also has matrons
at the jails and at the railway sta
tions. P TV 11
ire rroDiems
takes his wife out two or three nights
a week for a walk, to the movies,
or perhaps to a theater and cabaret,
or even a concert or dance. It is a
matter of pocketbook and inclination.
And the other four or five nights
friend wife spends amiably at home,
reading, talking or playing cards as
the tired wage earner prefers.
Way It Should be.
That's the way it ought to be, and
I hope M. H. P., who, in a letter
quite long enough to constitute this
article, insists that I see only the
woman's side of it, will notice that
isn't even a "fifty-fifty" arrangement.
Friend wife stays at home with her
husband four nights a week and I
ask him to go out with her but twice!
Yes, "nature is nature." But that
doesn't mean that we can't resist
temptation. The way we grow is by
resisting temptation. And resisting
it becomes no easier when we do so
because some one threatens us with
dire penalty if we don't. The way
that resisting it becomes worth while
is through a feeling of loyalty to
everything that is decent in ourselves,
and of super-loyalty to the person
who trusts in and believes in that
decency.
As long as human nature remains
human nature, people will like to out
wit suspicious and tyrannical guar
dians. Who hasn't cheated in school
with a certain joy in outwitting
watchful monitors and teachers?
Who ever yet cheated in a room
where the honor system was used?
I remember a very important English
examination in college. Said the
professor: "It is now 3. Your pa
pers are, due here at S. If you want
to work in' this room, do so. If you
feel that you would like the quiet of
your own room, or prefer to be down
in the back campus working out of
doors, I am quite willing you should
go to the place where you can work
best. If you go away, please have
your papers in by 5:15."
Laid in Faith.
Most of us went to the campus or
our rooms, and do you think one of
us would have stooped to look up a
date or verify a quotation or ask for
help? To fail the complete faith
which that professor showed in us
would have been unthinkable. No
one could have done it.
Well, M. H. P. and your brother
doubtmar lhomases. 1 tell you tnis
from the depths of a very real faith.
Temptation may be stupendous, but
it doesn't conquer any one who fights
it with a soark of decency in his own
soul, and with the knowledge that
some one really loves him and trusts
him to do the right thine.
In both men and women there is
likely to be a mixture of good and
bad. And I firmly believe that the
way to help the Rood grow is to be
lieve in it, to pin your absolute faith
in it, to give it a chance to prove it
self, and never to sneer at the good
because . a flicker of something else
has shown itself.
The way to hold love and loyalty
is' to believe in them, and that will
always be true no matter how great
an army of cynics and scoffers and
doubting Thomases may . question it.
As long as human nature remains
human nature, so long will many a
weak sister or brother say to him-
When the Weather
is Warm
By GERTRUDE BERESFORD
THIS frock of checked gingham
srimvit an unusual vent and col
lar of white pique. The dis
tinctive idea lies in the jumper bodice
of gingham, which fastens to the col
lar with white pearl buttons. The
jumper is bound with pique and ends
in a tie sash, tipped with pique, which
elso finished the cults and skirt hem,
held by pearl butons. Such a frock
is easy to make at home, and will be
a "joy forever" on warm summer
days when the mercury gets ambi
tious. Advice to
Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
Proper Name.
Dear Mlsi Fairfax, Omaha Bee: Will yon
kindly tell me how to spell the boy's riven
name, Allen. Allen la a last name ta it
not? T. Q-
The boy's given name is usually spelled
Allan. Allen may be. a last name or a
given name, either one, but It Is usually
a last name.
Service Flag.
Dear Miss Falrfat, Omaha Bee: I have
read your advice to others and I wish
that you would please answer these ques
tions (or me. i
I have a friend, who Is in the army and
Is expected to be called to France soon,
would It be all right for me to have a
service flag In my, window. It It all right
to kiss him goodby.
I will thank you in advance, wishing to
see the answer In Tuesday evenlng'a paper.
Youn truly, ANOTHER READER.
It la customary to use a service flag
only for near relatives and If you are
merely a friend of the young man, I hardly
think It would be In good taste.
Affectionate farewells are usually reserved
for engaged couples anl as this soldier Is
merely a friend, I hardly think I would
Indulge In any goodby kisses, even though
he Is going to far away.
Unfaithful Man.
Dear Miss Fairfax, Omaha Bee: I am
engaged to a young man two years my
senior.. I am 20 years of age. I have been
engaged to him for two months. He Is now
working for the government. Has been In
service, but received a disability discharge
several months ago. Hit work It teveral
hundred miles from here, so I do not get
to see him often.
When we- became engaged It was under
stood that we were to have our opposite
sex friends, but that we must keep our
place while In another's company. Now he
writes me about being out with a girl who
Is some "loving little chick," at he ex
presses It and I am greatly troubled. If
he kept his place, how does he know the
is "loving?" He goes out with this girl
several times a week. Then until the last
two letters he started my . letters with
"Dear Little Sweetheart," and now It it
"Dear Peg" and they are so dry, they
read as If he did not care. Should I write
him and ask him what his intentions are
toward this girl and also toward me? It
would break my heart to give him up to
anther, but I would rather do It now than
let things continue like this. Should I tend
the ring back?
Awaiting your prompt reply through The
Advice column of The Omaha Dally Bee.
I remain a very blue little girl. PEG.
Write to the young man and remind him
of hit promise to you, and ask for an ex
planation. If he no longer caret for you it
would be far better to have him tell you
now than to allow the affair to go further.
If this Is the case do not grieve over him,
for, truly, he It not worth your sorrow.
Tou are so young, all your life It yet before
you ,and I predict that In a few years yon
will wonder Just why this particular man
attracted you.
self: . "I may as well have the name
as the game." And while we hu
mans remain human and not angelic
super-humans, so long will suspicion
give us an impish joy in outwitting
a would-be jailer', and faith bind us to
good even while it leaves us free to
choose the bad.
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Compete the litters of Simon's sign they will spell the name
of a state.' Answer to previous puzzle DENVEI?
f I By Daddy "Foes
CHAPTER UI.
The Giant on Strike.
(Peggy, bidden by camouflage perfume,
goes to see how the war crops of the Olant
of the Woods are getting on. She finds they
art being attacked by hordes of Insect Hunt.
She appeals to the Birds for help, but finds
them unwilling because of enmity shown by
Farmer Dalton.)
FARMER DALTON was work
ing desperately among his cab
bage and tomato plants when Peggy
ran up to him. He was digging
around the roots, and every once in
a while he would pull out a round fat
worm, which he would crush vicious
ly under his heel.
"I don't know what I'll do with
these cutworms," Peggy heard him
say. "They are destroying all my gar
den truck."
"If you make peace with the birds
and show them that you are not their
enemy, maybe the. will help you,"
suggested Peggy, forgetting she was
hidden by camouflage perfume.
Farmer Dalton looked up quickly
to see the speaker. His face went
blank when he found only seemingly
empty air.
"Is my conscience accusing me?"
he murmured. Peggy wanted to
laugh, but he seemed worried and un
well, so she grew quickly sympathetic
instead.
"No, but maybe your conscience
ought to accuse you if you are treat
ing the birds badly," Peggy continu
ed, "Why don't you make friends
with them?" '
A wild look came into Farmer Dal
ton's eyes. He stood perfectly still
a moment, then staggered toward the
house.
"My worries are upsetting my
mind," he muttered. "I've been afraid
of this afraid of it."
The Giant of the Woods met him.
"What's the matter?" called out the
Giant, seeing how ill he looked.
"Something is going wrong with
my brain. I'm hearing a strange
voice," declared Farmer Dalton.
"Tell him not to be scared. It's me,"
cried Peggy to the Giant. The Giant
broke into a laugh.
"Don't be afraid, Mr. Dalton," he
said. "That's my invisible good luck
fairy. I've told you about her. She
has come to help us get rid of the
pests."
You actually. hear her voice, toor
Mr. Dalton asked anxiously.
"Yes. and I feel her hand," replied
theGiant as Peggy slipped her fingers
into his fist. Peggy stretched out the
other and placed it in that of Mr. Dal
ton. He was astonished at first, then
a look of great relief came over his
face.
"She's real! She's real!" he said.
"And I need a good luck fairy so
much," he added, squeezing Peggy's
fingers.
At this moment Billy Belgium came
runnine ud to them. His eyes open
ed big and to Peggy's surprise, he
seemed to be looking right at her in
spite of the camouflage perfume. . . ,
"Why, it s the invisible tairy grown
up, he shouted.
"You can see her?" asked the Giant.
"Sure I can see her right between
you and Mr. Dalton, holding your
hands.
"You have eyes like the birds. They
can also see me!" exclaimed Peggy,
holding out both hands to Billy Bel
gium, who seized them eagerly.
And 1 have ears like them too,
said Billy Belgium. "I can understand
what they say, although I can't speak
their language yet. I love the birds.
"So do I, responded feggy en
thusiastically. "And I wish Mr. Dal
ton did, for then he wouldn't be their
enemy and they would help him get
rid of the crop Huns."
"I do like some birds, admitted
Mr. Dalton a bit uncertainly. "But I
have to protect my orchards and my
fields against feathered thieves. There
are some birds that are robbers and
pirates. They would ruin me if I
didn't fight them."
"Then you really was righting
them!" said Peggy accusingly. "That's
why they have deserted your farm
and why the pests have become so
thick!"
"That's just what I told him," Billy
Belgium broke in eagerly. "The birds
are the friends of the farmer."
"I've thought that, too, since I got
reformed," agreed the Giant. "I don't
approve of those newfangled scare
crows you've put ou.
"What are those things, anyway?"
asked Peggy. "One gave he an
awful fright. No wonder the birds
keep away from them."
"That's what they are intended for','
said Farmer Dalton. "They work by
clockwork, by electricity, and by wind
power. The agent who put them up
guaranteed that they would free the
farm of all thieving birds. They've
done exactly as he said they would.
He put them in on trial, but I think
1 11 buv them.
"Are the birds worse than the crop
Huns?" asked Peggy.
"No." admitted Farmer Dalton,
"The pests are ruining my whole
farm."
"The birds eat the pests," argued
Peggy. ' ...
"Ihe agent says they don t eat
enough to make up for the damage
they do themselves," persisted Farm
er Dalton.
"Some one is wrong and some one
is right," declared Peggy. "I told the
mi
of the Farmer" oVg?XVnVa,
birds we'd arbitrate this thing. Are
you willing?"
"I'll not stand for any thieving
birds destroying my property" said
Farmer Dalton obstinately.
Then the Giant spoke up.
"The invisible fairy has brought me
good fortune. I'm willing to listen to
her. I've worked hard for you, Farm
er Dalton, and oyou know that. Now,
I'm seeing all my hard work go for
nothing just because of these pests.
And what bothers me most of all is
they are doing just what Germany
wants them to do and we can't stop
them. I tell you it is a patriotic duty
to do anything we can to beat them
and save the crops. If arbitration is
the way, we'll arbitrate. And I'll not
do another stroke of work until we
do."
"Well, if you feel that way about it,
all right," reluctantly consented
Farmer Dalton. "But let's do it in a
hurry. "We can't let the pests get any
more of a start on us."
"Come on, then, to the woods,"
cried Peggy hopefully. "I know we'ell
find the right way out of this trou
ble." "For right is right, and right will
win the day," quoted Billy Belgium,
following them.
CHAPTER IV.
Blue Jay Proves a Rascal.
(Peggy goes to Mr. Dalton's farm to find
how the war crops of the Olnnt of the
Woods are coming along. She tlndt them In
danger of being ruined by Insect pests. She
discovers that Mr. Dalton has driven away
the Birds, the natural enemies of these
pests.)
THE Birds were gathered in the
council hall vhich Peggy first
visited on the day she was crowned
princess of Birdland. There Peggy
guided Mr. Dalton, the Giant of the
Woods and Billy Belgium.
Mr. Dalton was puzzled and uneasy
as he looked over the great crowd of
Birds assembled there some sitting
on the sloping grassy floor, some
perched on the surrounding bushes,
some high above in the trees. The
Giant knew the Birds better than the
farmer, but even he was nervous, as
he remembered how he had waged
war upon them before Peggy tamed
him. Billy Belgium's eyes were glis
tening. He was fairly bubbling over
with delight at being so close to the
feathered creatures he had so long
loved at a distance.
Peggy's throne was waiting for her
a much larger throne than she had
occupied upon former visits when she
had been reduced to the size of an elf.
As she mounted it and turned to face
the Birds the scene suddenly struck
her as being like a theatre. She and
the other humans, with Mr. Swallow.
Judge Owl and the leading birds were
the actors, while the remaining birds
were the audience. And it was a very
important drama which they were act
ing, a drama in which food for the
American soldier boys was at stake.
She had to play her part well if vic
tory were to be gained. Peace must
be patched up between the, farmer
ahd the Birds or the cause of the
United States would suffer.
She held out her arms to the Birds.
"My dear subjects," she pleaded,
"please get that cross look off your
faces. You're sour and I want you
sweet."
The Birds who had been frowning
at Farmer Dalton with high disfavor,
looked shamefacedly at each other and
then broke into a tittering giggle.
Judge Owl, whose frown had been the
most severe of all, chuckled and gur
gled as he began to hoot a poem:
"When Peggy smiles, who can re
sist?" It hath a charm. I must insist:
Before it grouches can't persist
While rancors fade away like mist,
When Peggy smiles.
"Oh. thank you," cried Peggy,
"Now, if you'll only stay good-natured
we ll easily set this matter right.
Father says it is always better to
argue with a cheerful grin than with
a chip on- the shoulder. Mr. Dalton,
will you tell the Birds why you
haven t made them welcome to your
farm?"
"This seems foolishness, declared
the farmer. "They can't understand
me any more than I can understand
them."
"Why, don't you know, what they
are saying?" asked Peggy in surprise.
Blow in his ear. t'nncess reggy.
That will let our talk in." This was
the advice of Mr. Swallow. It seemed
silly, but Peggy did as he said ana
blew vigorously. Mr. Dalton jerked
his head away and shook it angrily.
Then a look of astonishment came
over his face.
"Why, I can understand what they
say," he exclaimed.
".Now will you present your case?
and smile, please," Peggy urged.
Mr. Dalton hesitated, then he did
smile, and it made a wonderful differ
ence in the conference. Every one
seemed suddenly willing to be rea
sonable. "Well, I like Birds," he said, "but
the government is urging us to grow
every bit of food we can this year,
and I'm trying to do it. The Birds
eat so much fruit and berries and
grain and green stuffs that I though
it would be unpatriotic to let them
waste it. That's why I had the agent
put up those new-fangled Scarecrows,
and that's why I shot at the Birds
that wouldn't stay away. It was to
protect food so our soldiers could
have it."
"That's Mr. Dalton's side of it,"
said Peggy to the Birds. "Now what
have you to say?" At once a whole
crowd of Birds fluttered to the front,
each trying to tell his story. Peggy
had to bring them to order.
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"One at a time," she cried. Mr.
Swallow, you're first."
"You bet I am," shrilled Mr. Swal
low pugnaciously. "I used to live in
Mr. Dalton's barn and I paid my rent
many times over by catching thou
sands and thousands of beetles that
were trying to eat up his garden.
Now that he has bounced the Birds
out the Beetles are growing fat and
Mr. Dalton is growing poor. So
am I."
Mr. Goldfinch came forward shyly.
"I had a home in the hedge," he
sang sweetly, "and I paid for it by
ridding the fields of myriads of in
sects and, besides that, I cleared away
the thistles, burdocks and other
weeds."
"And I kept the ants from spread
ing everywhere," said Mr. Thrush.
"I've killed just millions of bugs
and caterpillars that were attacking
his fruit trees," twittered Bob Olink.
"I've eaten spiders, worms and in
sects," declared Blue Bird.
"I've paid for the cherries I've
eaten a hundred times over by dig
ging up cutworms," boasted Robin
Redbreast.
"Last year I saved him from the
White Grubs. I eat grasshoppers and
everything," cried Killdeer.
"The Night Birds work at night,"
hooted Judge Owl. "Field mice,
grasshoppers and other destroyers
are among our prey."
"I'm Bob White, Bob White!" whis
tled a Quail. "I kill beetles, bugs,
weevils, moths, locusts and worms,
besides eating the seeds of weeds."
"Maybe I've been hasty!" cried
Farmer Dalton. "I didn't realize you
Birds did so much for me. If I wel
come you back to my farm will you
promise not to touch the crops?" .
"We will be too busy eating the
food Huns to touch the crops,"
shouted the Birds.
"Then we will make a treaty," said
Farmer Dalton. "I'll throw open mv
farm to you and "
Suddenly he waj Interrupted by a
rough clamor. Blue Jay and a flock
of boisterous young Jays, all rudely
clattering, burst into the council
hall.
"Whe-e-e-e I We've been having a
rip-roaring time in Farmer .Dalton's
orchard and garden," screamed Blue
Jay, not noticing the presence of
Peggy and the other humans. "W
ate all we could and ripped to pieces
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what we couldn't eat I Whe-e-e-e. H.
was fun!"
Peggy jumped to her feet in dis
may. Farmer Dalton had gone white
with anger. .y
"There, you see!" he shouted. "They
rob me and boast of itl They ruin
the food of America's soldiers and
laugh over it! Hunsl Huns! Hunst"
(Tomorrow it will be told how the Jays
are punished.) .
COLD PACK METHOD
IN 12 SHORT STEPS
. No. 7
After partially sealing- jara place
them in hot water bath, sayi the
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Watch for step No, .
Of Interest to Women
A leading hotel of Memphis has in
stalled negro women porters.
Bee raising to increase the stock of
honey is one of the latest forms of
war work for women.
Many large mercantile establish
nents in the east are employing wo
men to fill positions M "credit men."
Wome.i now operate the electric
tractors used in freight handling en
City.
Mrs. Hazen Drew McGreal of All
ston, Mass., has the distinction of be
ing the first woman since the estab
lishment of the British and Canadian
recruiting mission in the United
States to pass the physical examina
tion for service in the woman's roy
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