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Life Behind the Lines
Has Its Humor As
Well As Its Pathos
Interesting little stories are com
ing back to us of Omahans who are
serving across the sea. It seems that
war is not all horror and desolation
and even the black war clouds have
Thought Jor the Day
THE DREAMERS.
of na-
of
their little rifts when the sun shines ;
through. '
Dr. Henry C. Aiken, who is now ,
with lit s unit at Tours, France, tells I
many an amusing story in his letters j
of the life behind the lines. Dr. Aik-j
en is at present supervising the re-1
modeling of an ancient chateau into a
modern, 200-bed hospital and from his
descriptions it is not an easy task.
When one cannot speak .French flu-
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War gnawed the bones
tions; Hunger went
Into the hearts and souls
people. Then
The dreamers called their ten
derest dreams and sent
Them out to stay the carnage
of brave men.
Back to the dreamers came the
dreams' Lament,
"Oh, take your swords, that
we. may live again!"
;I.BNN WARD mtESRACH,
from "t'oetry."
My Hat Diary
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Carita Herzog
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ently many difficulties arise and Dr. j
Aiken tells an amusing story of this !
kind. In company with a young lieu-:
tenant he was riding along the coun- f
try road on their motorcycles when
the question afose as to which wayjjj
to go. The young officer suddenly j s
looked up and said: j
Why there s Mrs. Astor, well asK
her?" Of course we might indulge in
a little pun right here, hut we must
finish our storv. Walking over to the
Y. M. C. A. hut where this well
known woman was doing her patri
otic bit, the two Amercans asked her
the way to the next town, and Mrs.
Vincent Astor very graciously di
rected them
Pathetic little stories have their
place in the letters of this army sur
geon, also, and he tells of one young
soldier who died at the chateau of
pneumonia. Dr. Aiken wrote the par
ents of the hoy, who lived far away
in little Pennsylvania town, telling
them of the death of their son but the
couple were unable to reply. A
friend wrote the doctor for them, ex
pressing their gratitude for the care
lie had given the young soldier of de
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For Miss Pierce
Miss Marian Pierce of Chicago, the
guest of Miss Dorothy Weller, is a
very busy guest, for the luncheons, teas
and motor picnics given in her honor
fill the summer days to overflowing.
Miss Evelyn Ledwich entertained at a
delightful luncheon party at her home
Tuesday in Miss Pierces honor and
Thursday Miss Mildred Rhoades will
be hostess at a similar affair.
Children's Canning Club Grows.
Miss Sarah Canheld, federal direc
tor of childien's canning clubs in
Omaha, finds the children so much in
terested in the work that it has been
necessary for her to have an assistant.
Miss Iledvick Provaznik is now help
ing with the canning work Last
week Miss Canfield and Miss Provaz
nik met with 26 canning clubs.
W. W. Club Picnic.
A little coterie of women who call
themselves the W. W. club have been
working together for the last eight
years. It is their custom to give an
annual picnic and Friday has been se
lected for, the day this year. While
the husbands enjoy a game of base
ball the club members will knit under
the shade of the trees, having their
picnic supper on the hank of the
pretty little lake at Miller park.
Whist Club Luncheon.
Mrs. Thomas Orr and Mrs. E. W.
Guenther will be honor guests at a
luncheon, followed by cards given by
the Omaha Whist club at Happy
Hollow club, Wednesday. Mrs. Orr
and Mrs. Guenther won high scores at
the last tournament given by the
club. '
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Comrade Club Dance.
Colonel IIerseyhas requested that
the Comrade club give another of
their dances at the fort and Saturday
evening the affair will take place at
the Knights of Columbus hut at Fort
Omaha. A special car will take the
girls to the fort, the dance to be
I chaperoned by the members of the
.Service league.
For Dr. and Mrs. Rosenau.
Dr. and Mrs. William Rosenau of
Baltimore and Mrs. David Degan will
be the honor guests at a dinner party
given; Tuesday evening at the Black
stone by Mr. and Mrs. Victor Rose
water. Following the dinner Dr.
Rosenau will speak at Fort Omaha.
T Mother received a letter from
X Aunt Clair, telling us that she
would come for a visit. Of
t course we were tickled to death,
because Aunt Clair is such a
T dear and she always makes it so
lively wherever she visits. We
f all went to the station to meet
V Vir Th train will lat fin we
2. sat out in the car and waited, .j.
t Daddy bought us all some pea-
t nuts so we could do something
f to pass away the time. At last -j
J the train came in and I caught
, sight of Aunt Clair. Well, real- J.
y ly, she did look lovely. Her hat v
T was deep purple straw, a very
odd shape, rather flaring at both .j.
T top and bottom, tied in the cen- j
X ter with a black satin band. Two
? smart soft quills were placed in
f opposite directions falling over 1
the front and back. She did look
charming and the type of hat
T she wore would be becoming to
1 almost any face.
PEKSWJALS
Mrs. Daniel Ke.iney underwent a
serious operation Monday at St. Cath
erine's hospital. Her sister, Mrs.
Will Cobry, of Lincoln, is in Omaha.
Miss Gertrude Cobry is convalesc
ing in a favorable manner at the Wise
Memorial hospital, where she under
went an operation for appendicitis
last Saturday.
Mr. Alan McDonald has returned
from Washington, D. C, where he has
been engaged in governmental work.
Mr. and Mrs. McDonald are now with
Mr. McDonald's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John McDonald.
Mrs. Tom Lamphier and two chil
dren will leave today for San Francisco.
Miss Ada Tobitt, sister of Miss
Edith Tobitt, and formerly a teacher
in the Omaha public schools, has
sailed for France as a member of the
American Women's Hospitals estab
lished for civilians in the devastated
parts of France.
Mrs. J. W. Seacrest will leave
Thursday to join her husband, who is
stationed at the Vancouver canton
ment in Washington.
Mrs. T. M. Wright of Fairmont,
Neb., returned Monday to her home
after a week's visit with her sister,
Mrs. J. H. Rushton, and her brother,
Mr. W. O. Putt.
Miss Jessie Seacrest of Lincoln is
spending a few days visiting Mrs. J.
W. Seacrest at the J. H. Rushton
home.
Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Robinson of
Leon, la., are the' guests of Mrs.
Stell E. Robinson.
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The opportunity for fishing, camping,
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In an endeavor to incite higher stand
ards of achievement during this crit
ical period of the nation's history, the
Alabama Federation of Women's
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gift scholarships open to Alabama
students in all prominent universi
ties, colleges, private schools, con
servatories of music and business col
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Mrs. Myra R. Richards, an Indian
apolis sculptor, has 4een awarded the
contract for a life-size statue of the
poet, James Whitcomb Riley, to be
erected in his native town of Green
field, Ind.
A Novelty Sport Coat
By GERTRUDE BERESFORD
If the word "sweater
could only be eliminated
from fashion's vocabulary,
what a boon it would be!
Sport coat is scarcely a syno
nym, yet the sports coat is
rapidly replacing the "sweat
er" in diction as well as fash
ion. This sports model is de
veloped of rose charmeuse,
with embroidery of tarnished
silves thread and tarnished
silver buttons. It utters a far
cry from the heavy knitted
sweaters of yesterday. Sil
ver tassels weight the sash
end3, while the neck is com
pleted with folds of silver-gray
charmeuse, which
repeats the fabric of the silver-gray
skirt. Very very
stunning is this costume,
which may be developed in
rose and white or blue and
silver.
Victor Dietz, one of the civilian
members of the Base hospital unit No.
49, has received orders to report at
once to the port of embarkation to
join the unit. The women members,
including several nurses and clerical
workers, have not as yet received or
ders.
Applicants for the motor section of
the Red Cross have been received by
Gould Deitz, head of the Omaha
chapter, who is planning to organize
the department. A one-ton truck has
been purchased by the chapter to be
used by the salvage committee work
ers. Those who have offered the serv
ices of themselves and their cars are:
Mesdames Meadames
John Halpino, William F. Schnorr.
K. A. Htgglns, Edward F. Leary,
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Sybil Nelson,
Florence Neville,
Irene McKnlght,
Blanche Deuel,
Eleanor McGilton,
Mary Megeath,
Misses
Oorrlne Elliott,
Daphne Peters,
Emily Keller,
Gertrude Metz,
Gertrude Stout,
Hazel Peterson,
In the hill country at Simla where
"all things begin and many things
come to an evil end" and again at
Bombay on the coast, series made
familiar by Kipling is the setting foi
Norma Talmadge's next picture "Tin
Safety Curtain."
Enid Bennet is mourning the loss o!
Hermie, her pet Airedale. Hermie
was purchased at the Grand Canyon
by Miss Bennett when the latter was
honeymooning with Fred Niblo sev
eral weeks ago. On returning to Los
Angeles, the beautiful star was filmed
in "A Desert Wooing" and "Coals of
Fire," both of which necessitated us
ing the dog. Hermie was "cast" in the
parts and gave evidence of being one ,
of the best canine actors on the
screen. But he got, into a fight with
a bulldog ending his promising car
eer in a few minutes.
Edward Earle is easy to please when
it comes to "the ideal girl." As far
as he is concerned, it is only neces
sary That her eyes misbehave only in the
direction of her escort; that her hair
be her own; that she adjust her com
plexion so that it does not come off on
a fellow's coat; that she be neither
overdone nor underdone mentally, and
that her only decoration be that of the
Red Cross.
Cross-country riding is one of the
features of "A Successful Adven
ture," in which May Allison is
starred. In this sport Miss Allison
is thoroughly at home, as she was
practically brought up in the saddle
in her home in Georgia.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't our old
pal, Roy Stewart We always go out
of our way to see Roy in a western.
He sort o' throws a thrill into prosaic
existence with them quick gun plays
and golden smiles o' his'n that makes
the day's work lighter. lie's some
gun-fighter!"
Ethel Barrymore has completed a
successful season on the stage and
returns now to the screens to be
filmed in "Our Mrs. McChesney."
"The BraVest Way" is the forth
coming photoplay in which Scssuc
Hayakawa stars opposite Florence
Vidor.
Hamad Life Mffiralfcte?
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
"The main trouble in our married
life was that my husband made no
effort to progress after our marriage
and was content to remain in a rut.
"I was filled with ambition to bet
ter myself in every way, had my
voice cultivated and studied to im
prove my mind. I tried to persuade
my husband to do the same thing,
but he always refused."
A woman made this secondary
plea for divorce to Justice McAvoy,
in the supreme court in Brooklyn the
other day the main issue of the case
rested on statutory grounds.
I wonder how many marriages
have gone" wrong from such differ
ences? One of the pair progresses, takes
advantage of every jutting stone to
climb the wall that separates the
successful from the unsuccessful.
The other hangs back, a dead weight
on the hands of his more ambitious
partner.
The hindering helpmeet is still go
ing around on the same short chain
forged by individual incompetence.
Mental slackers of this type take the
same immature :nv of things they
took in early youth.
They dread a new idea as the aged
dread a draught in the back. They
have the same thoughts and heaven
help us the same old stories.
They never add to nor revise their
point of view. They are a species of
fixed star, but, alas, there is no glitter
to them.
Alternatives of Partners
The ambitious partner is confronted
by one of two alternatives. Either
the mental sluggard must be left in
his own tracks and the ambitious
one must soar alone, thus giving up
all idea of the companionship he
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hoped for in marriage. Or the aspir
ing helpmeet must give up his cher
ished dream of improvement and let
opportunity pass him by by in '.he
rut. I
It is the old parable of the mill
stone, and no one may swim
against the current burdened by a
millstone.
There is no more exacting prob
lem than this among all the vexed
problems of married life.
Shall the runner give up the race
or lag behind to keep pace with a
flaccid partner?
There have been instances in
w:hich the mentally stagnant one has
been so deeply in love with the "live
wire" of the combination that untold
feats of industry have followed. And
the tortoise has caught up with the
hare, as in the old classic fable.
But, alas, this is not often true;
the matrimonial tortoise is content to
sit under its shell and watch the hare
dash off and hear all about what
happened when it returns. If the
hare does return.
But frequently the hare remains
with its own kind. It enjoys the
stimulus of the race, of matching
its wits and muscles with other hares,
and the dull little tortoise waiting at
home becomes less and less necessary
to the happiness of the other.
If the tortoise loves the hare
there is hard, gruelling work to he
done and much burning of the mid
night oil, for one loves work for
work's sake, and the other loves the
worker.
Nevertheless this miracle has been
wrought by reason of love, and it
will continue to be wrought till the
end of time.
Wives of Public Men.
We come across this type frequent
ly in the wives of public men.' The
bright young lawyer of the small
town marries the school teacher and
the bright young lawyer goes ahead;
he continues to improve, or as Shakes
peare has put it: "There is a time in
the affairs of men which taken at the
flood leads on to fortune."
If the school teacher is wise she fol
lows. She puts less embroidery on
her children's clothes, fewer lace
doilies of h?r own manufacture on
the table, and she keeps pace with
her husband in his reading, in his
progress, in his work.
The wise woman, these days, does
Did you ever try to light a cigarc
in a blinding rainstorm? Fatty Ar
buckle accomplishes this1 feat, alter
many ludicrous attempts, in his latest
comedy. "Good Night, Nurse." This
laughable stunt is one of the 30 gag?
which cause a "laugh a minute" in
Fatty's new travesty of fun in a sanitarium.
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You can keep your skin free from
hair or fuzz by the occasional use of
plain delatone iand in using it you
need have no fear of warring or injur
ing the skin. A thick paste is made
by mixing some of the powdered
delatone with water. Then spread
on the haif? and after 2 or 3 min
utes rub off, wash the skin and all
traces of hair have vanished. Be
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not let her husband do all the think
ing for the family. She was safe in
doing that a generation or two ago,
when clever women singled them
selves out by unbecoming clothes and
hairdressing that suggested a mon
keywrench. rather than a comb.
But today cleverness is applied to
looking one's best as well as and
let the dull little wife remember this
"inspiring" clever men.
Away from Home.
And the wife who is content to let
her husband get his mental stimulus
from another woman is playing a '
highly dangerous game with her own
hearthstone.
No, she keeps pace, if she does not
expect to be left behind a once-loved
tortoise now sitting under her shell
and perhaps pensioned, but occupy
ing no very vital position in the life
of the forward rushing hare.
The tragic situation of one married
partner visibly progressing while the.
other remains fixed is especially true
these days of men who have entered
the army and are now in France.
Tremendous things are happening
to the soldier he is helping to make
history in a land rich in song and
story. He is attending a great school,
awe-inspiring sights greet him, a-d
terY-ifcle experiences are his.
When he returns, he cannot open
the book of life at the same page he
will have gone too far.
In the meantime what is the little
woman, waiting at home, doing to
keep pace with him?
Does Not Read News.
Perhaps she does not even read a
paper; she depends on father, brother
or neighbor to tell her news. She has
the habit of having facts doled out to
her independent thought is beyond
her. She is the tortoise, content to
sit beneath its shell.
But it is time for the tortoise to
rouse herself, learn something of this
wonderful country in which her hus
band is fighting; let her learn some
thing of its history, something of its
language, if only a few words to greet
him, when he returns
Love is the great miracle worker;
if she cares enough she will not
grudge the hours spent in self im
provement. Let her take a lesson
from the woman in the Brooklyn court
who said: "T,he main trouble in our
married life was that my husband
made no effort to progress he was
content to remain in a rut."
If you care enough about your life
partner don't stay in a run, progress!
Ben Boyse Reported in
The List of Injured
Ben Boyce has made good!
With this as the theme, a Chicago
newspaper Monday published a
lengthy article following the appear
ance of "Benny's" name on the
casualty list from "over there." The
article detailed the venturesome life
t?f Ben Boyce, son of W. D. Boyce,
millionaire publisher, and the hero of
many a "good fellow" story that leak
ed into the papers of the country
through his adventures in the world
oi "bright lights."
Ben Boyce is well known in Omaha.
Some time ago he married Miriam
Patterson, daughter of D. C. Patter
son, dne of the most prominent fami
lies rrere. Marital ties became sever
ed, however, and Ben drifted away.
Chicago papers say Young Boyce did
not wait to see if he could get a com
mission. He enlisted as a private in
the signal corps and was sent across
the seas.
"The fact that he wore a corporal'
chevrons at the lime he was wound
ed," the article states, "is proof that
he has made good, if there wafi evff
any doubt of it beforeV
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