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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1918.
Conducted by Ella Fleishman
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Plan War Benefit
On Short Notice
COLLEGE women who claim
Smith college as their Alma
Mater are bringing order out
of chaos in devastatef France. The
work of the Smith college recon
struction unit is indeed wonderful
and for the last year these self-sac-'
rificing women have brought cheer
- and hope to the war-weary people
of shell-swept Europe. In the gusty
month of March this year, these
women left one of the French vil
lages just 10 minutes before the gray
hordes of the German army swept
down upon the defenceless town.
. Their sisters across the sea have
, .worked early and late making gar
ments for the sufferers in France
-Uenefits have been given to raisi
Ijnoney to carry on the work an
.every spare moment of the girl?
ow in school is utilized to help tin
. oune women who carry the bannet
of their college in foreign lands.
- omitn college aiumnae nere nave
T been foremost in their activities
and now are planning to stage a
dance carnival for the benefit of
! their 'unit, September 30, in the
J Brandeis theater at 4 o'clock.
- The committee on arrangements
inet at the home of the president
I of thc-elub, Mrs. George Kiewit, this
afternoon, to outline the working or
f ganization of the affair. Just one
'short week is all the time these
women have to sell tickets and pro-
l inote the affair.
, Miss Portia M. Swctt will direct
..the performance.
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Luncheon for Miss Slattery.
"It looks like being a case of
"''Come early and avoid the rush,"
-said J. M. Parker of the War Camp
Community Service, in referring to
" the address to be given by Miss
? Margaret Slattery of Maiden, Mass..
J to girls of Omaha at the Auditorium
Tuesday night. "A number of large
groups of girls will attend, including
the Patriotic clubs, which will at-
tend in a body, and 1,000 high
I 'school girls, for whom arrange-
ments have been made. We expect
i'to fill the Auditorium."
Miss Slattery will discuss the sub
I'ject of "Hands Across the Sea," out
lining the relation of the women and
girls of America to the winning of
.'the war. Her address will be free.
Luncheon at the University club
will be the only social affair given
C for Miss Margaret Slattery during
her stay. The War Camp Commun
t ity Service board will entertain
about SO guests in Miss Slattery's
iJionor, including representatives of
the Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A.
-'Miss Slattery is one of the few
"twomen who have been permitted to
' speak at the University club. The
I luncheon will be an informal affair,
;no set program having been pre-
pared.'
; Baptist Speaker Saturday.
Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery
I 'of Rochester, N. Y., Baptist wman
J "speaker, who will address two met
".ings at the Young Women'9 Christ
ian association Saturday afternoon
i'and evening, is well informed on the
;missionary topic on which she lec-
Ttures for she, in company with Mrs.
J'Henry W. Peabody of Boston, made
a tour of the mission fields in 1913.
J .Both women wrote foreign mission
J'ary text books on their return.
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" Belgian Day Proceeds.
! ' "Omaha newspaper 'put across'
the Belgian Baby day fund drive,"
" ,said Miss May Mahoney, chairman
of the local committee, which Sat
urday raised $14,500 for destitute ba
rbies. "Two hundred posters, which
were to be set up all over the city
Sifor publicity in advance of the
"drive only reached me Saturday eve
; hing at 6 o'clock."
. Miss Mahoney expects the fund to
Jireach $15,000 when all returns are
::in-
V Sew for Belgians.
U. S. Grant Women's Relief Corps
kensington will meet Tuesday after
5; noon at 2:30 at the home of Mrs.
MR". S. Wilcox, 6235 Florence boule-
-I'.vard. Sewing! for the Belgian refti-
will be the business of the
meeting.
Service League Notes
II --Service league members believe
- tliey have established a record, as
I indicated by the report of funds
I ' from the first of the year until the
' present time, issued by the chair
ITman, Mrs. William Archibald Smith.
! Only $67 of the total disbursements
' of $6,891 went for overhead expense.
T.No salaries are paid. Receipts of
Itfjie league were $7,731. The treas-
ury now has on hand $839.78.
I- The league will sponsor a popu
J ar priced concert by the Innes band
-' October 13. The ticket sale is now
I being organized.
Z". Mrs. T. G. Travis of the general
service division reports buttons
sewed on 1,500 soldiers' shirts at the
J request of the army reclamation of
1 ' ficer. Volunteers are needed to
complete 3,500 more shirts. Tues
jVdav evening from 7 to 9 the work
will be done in the room at 311
j Souths Seventeenth street.
Women Banned After Nov. 1
t on Cleveland Street Cars
'it Cleveland, O., Sept. 23. Women
I shall not be employed as conductors
" on Cleveland street cars on or after
J i November 1, 1918, is the decision of
J Henry B. Dielmann and Miss Mar
'garet Russanowsk, federal inves'tt
5 gators, acting as special representa-
lives of the Department of Labor, in
a report to President Stanley of the
I I Cleveland Railway company re
4 ceived today
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Upper, Left to Right Frances Wahl and Dorothy Darlow.
Lower Beatrice Montgomery and Jocelyn Stone.
Nine Omaha girls were pledged
to University of Nebraska sororities
during the rushing season which
closed Saturday. Miss Frances
Wahl is an Alpha Tin pledge; Miss
Dorothy Darlow, Delta Gamma;
Miss. Beatrice Montgomery, Alpha
Chi Omega, and Miss Jocelyn Stone.
Delta Delta Delta.
Other pledges are Barbara Roeb
lia, Chi Omega; Margaret Lina. Al
pha Phi; Katherine Wills, Tri-Delt.
and Edith Howe and Mary Thomas,
Delta Gamma.
The evening class in motor me
chanics will meet Tuesday, Wed
nesday and Friday evenings at 7:30
o'clock in the Apperson sales rooms,
2060 Farnam street.
The public workshop in the Kee
line building may move and then it
may not. Arrangements had been
completed to move the workroom
into the Army building, where no
rent would have to be paid and the
change was about to be made when,
through some misunderstanding, the'
exemption board was also promised
the same rooms. The exemption
board took possession. Whether or
not the public shop will remain in
its old quarters is undecided.
Omaha chapter has offered the Y.
W. C. A. Woman's committee for
the war fund drive, the small build
ing at Seventeenth and Farnam for
their use during the drive.
Miss Ann Baileyvho was recent
ly accepted for clerical' work over
seas, has received her sailing orders
and will report in New York by
September 30".
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' PERSONALS
Mrs. Fred McCormick of Los An
gcles is the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Franklin Shotwell.
The New
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By GERTRUDE BERESFORD.
La Verne Everson, Will Roberts
and George Usher, who have en
listed in the student's reserve, left
for Lincoln Sundav afternoon.
Clad w "womanalls" and carrying
ilhtt lunch, Mrs. Westmoreland
. 1 Davis, wife of the governor of Vir-
1 ginia, has been taking a course of
!"' instruction at theUnited States Bag-
Loidiss jlaat at Ssyss .Raw. Va,
A son was born Friday to Mr.
and Mrs. Alan McDonald at Dr.
Pollard's hospital. Mrs. McDonoId
was formerly Miss Helen Scobie.
Mrs. Clara Livingston has closed
her home and will spend some time
with her daughter, Mrs. Julius Weil,
in Lincoln.
Dr. Elmer R. Porter, who was in
the " service at Camp Greenleaf,
Chickamaugua Park, Ga., has re
turned to Omaha to resume his
practice.
Miss Margaret Carnaby spent tlfe
week-end in Lincoln.
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Washington Bureau Omaha Bee.
SOCIETY this fall has a new' oc
cupation, and is giving invalua
ble aid to the government.
This by way of entertaining sick
and wounded soldiers. The most
severe cases of wounded are brought
to the Walter Reed hospital in
I Washington. Many of these soldiers
get as well there as they will ever
be, and it is toward these that the
special efforts of the women of
means and leisure direct their atten
tions. A little group of the soldiers
are entertained at dinner on Sundays
each week by many of Washington's
hostesses. They send for the men,
have dinner in the middle of the day
and take them for an auto ride be
fore returning them to the hospital.
These soldiers are also being taught
by the constructionists in some
line of work by which they may be
self-supporting. Large classes of
students, chiefly of the former leis
ure classes, are learning the work,
to be teachers, both in his country
and. in France, for there is greater
need of these teachers each day the
war goes on.
Colonel Robert M. Thompson's
commodious and luxurious house
boat, the "Everglades," known in all
the navigable waters of this coun
try, has been placed at the disposal
of Mrs. James Carroll Fraser, chair
man of the comforts' committee of
the navy league, for the use of the
sick and convalescing soldiers. Mrs.
Newton D. Baker is a member of the
committee and will be one of the
chaperones for the parties. Ten or
12 young grls who have been work
ing hard throughout the summer in
the lunch room, known as "The Sign
of the Ship," run by the comforts'
committee for the soldiers and sail
ors, will look after the soldiers on
each trip.
Women war-workers in Washing
ton will probably be put into uni
forms by the first of October. It is
now under advisement in the War
department, the kind of uniform and
regulations pertaining to it. It is
important that these war workers
be recognized "as they pass by," and
the intention is to order for them,
sensible, good looking, moderate
priced outfits, with initials or other
insignia on their sleeves or collars
or hats, that they may be placed at
once by those with whom they do
business, either for the government
or for themselves. This will simpli
fy the winter's wardrobe much,
both as to cost and comfort. Es
pecially will it do away with the al
most invisible and sometimes decol
late chiffon and georgette crepe
waists which have been a cause of
embarrassment to many employers
who would prefer that their clerks
would appear in sensible clothes. It
is not yet recorded just how kindly
or otherwise the said war workers
have taken to this regulation in
dress, but the sensible ones will
welcome it. An effort is also going
to be made to have all female war
workers enlist for the war period,
as there has been much trouble in
holding the young women.
Mrs. S. H. Avery is spending a
month in Lincoln, Neb., and visiting
in Crete. 1 Major Avery, who was
formerly chancellor of the Univer
sity of Nebraska, did not get home
this fall for a vacation. He has re
cently been made major in the
chemical warfare service.
Unitarians Hold Their First
Services in New Church
Omaha Unitarians were greatly
surprised Sunday when services
were held in the new church. De
lays in the interior decorating and
furnishings prevented a fefinite date
of completion being announced.
While the church was being com
pleted services were held in the
auditorium. A formal dedication of
the church will be held next Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock.
The decorations and finishing of
the church are beautiful. The sermon
was omitted by the pastor, who
reviewed the work of securing the
new edifice. Five years have elapsed
since the old church building was
sold until the completion of the
new edifice.
The services were furtlier attract
ive by the new pipe organ, donated
by Mrs. Florence R. Mixtcr of
Washington, D. C, as a memorial
to her father, the late Thomas Kil
patrick. Miss Lloise West presideed
at the organ and accompanied Mrs.
Hazel Smith Eldrige, who sang sev
eral selections. The fine acoustic
qualities of the building were espe
cially noticeable.
Mrs. Albert Cohen of Tulsa, OkJ.,
has arrived to be with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Harris. while Mr.
Cohen is in training at Catiip Custer, j ct
Michigan.
Hjorth-Hke Nuptials.
A quiet wedding took place Sun
day morning at AH Saints' church
following the morning service, when
Miss Mabel Bernice Hake, daughter
of Mr. James A. Hake, became the
bride of Mr. William Hjorth of
Jamestown, N. Y. Rev. Mr. Mc
KnigTIt performed the ceremony in
the absence of Rev. T. J. Mackav,
and only relatives were present at
the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Hjorth
left Sunday evening for the east, as
they will make their home in James
town. The bride is a former Omahan
and has many friends here. She has
spent much time in -California in
late years.
Out-of-town relatives who were
guests at the wedding included Mr.
and Mrs. John M. Guild of Kansas
City, formerly of Omaha, and Mrs.
R. G. Hake and Miss Helen Hake
of Des Moines
Three $100 bonds will provide 500
position light or 200 canteens and
covers. .-.
'in fashion j there is always
something new under the sun."
Whether the fur czars arrive at re
sults by geometry or algebra they
present the "unknown quantity"
somehow. This year they have
managed to angle the fur collar and
neckpieces in a manner entirely new.
Seal brown wool velour, which pri
marily is a variation of the Rus
sian "blouse, is given a different
look by means of a raccoon collar
n interesting points. Possi
bly your old neckpiece may be in
geniously devised into one of the
new shapes with little trouble and
expense. This hat of brown velour
shows a delightful example of
chenille embroidery. The oak leaves
running from the crown are green,
while the acorns are tan. The calyx
is brown. These hats sell for $25 "or
so. There is no reason why a girl
with clever fingers could not em
broider' an inexpensive velour in this
or similar pattern.
Informal weddings.
.A quiet home wedding took place
Sunday afternoon, when Rev. Titus
Lowe united in marriage, Miss Fern
L. Van Leuben, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Van Leuben, to Mr
Charles Novak. Only immediate
relatives were present at the cere
mony. The marraige of Miss Gertrude
Balchvin, daughter, of Mr. Charles
Baldwin of Thurman, la., to Mr.
Malcom D. Thornton of Council
Bluffs, was solemnized Saturday
evening at the home of Rev. Titus
Lowe, Rev-Mr. Lowe officiating.
WAR. PUZZLES
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GERMANS MEET DEFEAT AT
LUTSK
Which Is recaptured by the Russians,
thres yeara ago today. September 24,
1915.
Find a Russian.
YESTERDATB ANSWER
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Conduct at Dances.
Dear Miss Fairfax, Omaha bee:
Is it proper to dance with a stranger
where 1 have never been introduced,
and if a girl dances with a stranger
how should she ask his name? Also,
what should a girl do when a strang
er winks at her while dancing near
her? Please tell me what does a
wink mean?
1 have been attending dances and
some boy asked to tuke me home,
and my folks don't want me to go
horn every time with a different
boy. If I don't go they don't talk
or dance with me any more, und
that way I lose many boy friends.
What would you advise me to tell
them?
I havo attended a danee and
having noticed one of my boy friends,
and he couldn't recognize me, is it
proper for me to go and speak to
him? BKOWX EYES.
It is not proper to dance with a
stranger at a public dance. If a
man is not courteous enough to se
cure an introduction before asking
you to dance he Is so ill-bred that he
is not worth knowing. A wink is
unpardonable. I am afraid you are
attending dances at which very un
desirable people are found, and the
best advice I could give you would
bo to remain away from them. The
young men have no reason to be
offended if you refuse to accompany
them, providing you do so in a
courteous manner. If a friend does
not recognize you it is either be
cause he does not see you or beease
he does not care longer to be your
friend. A pleasant word in passing
would be proper, but I should not
try to force myself on his attention.
Be more careful of the society you
keep and you will not have so many
problems to solve.
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By DADDY THE BIRD SOLDIERS
A Complete. New Achentur Ech Week. Beginning Mundaj nd Ending Sund.j
ij Library Course.
Dear Miss Fairfax, Omaha Bee:
I am finishing high school this next
year and do not know what to do
then. I wish to become a librarian
in a large Carnegie library. What
I want to know is whether or not I
have to finish the State university
first or whether I can just take a
librarian's course. I wish to be a
very good one. If I just have to
take a short course where would J
go to get such an education? Are
there many openings for librarians?
I mean is it very hard to get such a
position? About how much a month
does one get?
Miss Fairfax, Is It right and proper
fnr a eirl nf 14 tn trot jl soldier's ad
dress and writo to him? The cirl Seated beneath the bell were rows
CHAPTER II.
The Stranger from Overseas.
(Billy Belgium and Carrtn and Homer
rigeon start to recruit a bird messenger
corns for the American army tn France,
and ask FcgKy to help them.)
AR above the roofs of the
neighboring buildings rose the
spire of the church. I'p and
up flew Carrie atuL Homer Pigeon
carrying l'eggy and Billy Belgium.
Larger and larger grew the steeple
as they ncared it much larger than
it had ever looked to l'eggy from
below.
She peered ahead anxiously to
discover the entrance to the home
of the Steeple Pigeons, but it wasn't
until Carrie and Homer Pigeon
landed on a hat ledge away up in
the air that she saw it. Then' she
found that there were four big lat
ticed windows in the steeple, one on
each side. The lattices were made
of slats, arranged slanting, one above
the other, so that they would keep
cut the rain and snow. Between the
ledge and the lower row of slats
was room for the pigeons to creep
through.
Within the steeple a noisy dis
cussion was going on.
"Coo! Coo! And she said we ought
to work for our living," came the an
gry voice of Airy Pouter.
"How shamefully ignorant!" cried
another voice.
"Oh, I 'don't know. It strikes me
as a good idea!" drawled a pleasant
third voice.
of Pigeons wljo, instead' of being
calm and dignified as Pigeons usu
ally are, appeared to be much
worked up over something. They
seemed astonished at the appearance
of Peggy and Billy Belgium.
"Who are you?" cooed the drawly
voiced Pigeon, who Airy Pouter had
called Bronze Beauty. And he
surely was a beauty in his coppery-
lookihg coat of feathers.
"I am Billy Belgium and this is
Princess Peggy " Billy Belgium
began.
"That's her. That's the stingy
one who insulted us by saying we
ought to go to work,' cried Airy
Pouter.
"And you should go to work," in
sisted Peggy, not a bit daunted by
the hostile glances now bent upon
her. "'o one deserves to eat in
wartime unless thev earn their
food."
A chorus of haughty protests
greeted her.
"What impudence! It's prepos
terous! How common! I'd never
work!"
Only Bronze Beauty seemed the
least bit sympathetic.
"I've thought that myself. We're
an idle, useless lot. I'm not very
fond of work, but I'd like to do
something to earn my keep."
"You can do something." spoke
up Billy Belgium. "If you don't like
work von can fight. That's what
Pouter looked around fearfully. i
he said this. I
"Safe, hut for how long unless -
patriotic fighting Americans protect
you " ' ' 1
"Help! Help!" A voice from ouN
side broke in on Peggy's outburst. $
All were startled and the place in- a
stantlv became quiet. ' f
"Help! Help!" came the voice
again. Carrie and Homer Pigeon 3j
darted out. In a moment they were '
back again, supporting between
them an exhausted Pigeon."
"Gracious, a tramp 1". exclaimed .,
Airy Pouter in disgust. v t
"1 came from Belgium," replied .
the stranger, drawing himself up .
proudly in spite of his weariness.
"I am of the fighting Birds of Eu
rope. I bring to the Pigeons of :
America a call for help."
(Tomorrow will be told th thrllllnf
story of the UclKlnn Pigeon.) '
"You always did have peculiar we are here for to recruit fighting
notions, Bronze Beauty," petulantly Pigeons to act as messengers for
exclaimed Airy Pouter. ! the American army in Kurope.
"I think we'd better knock!" whis
pered Billy Belgium, and lie rapped
three times on one of the slats.
"Come in," drawled the voice of
Bronze Beauty.
Teggy and Billy Belgium scram
bled through the slats, with Carrie
and Homer Pigeon following.
Horrors!" cried all the Steeple
Pigeons, except Bronze Beauty. "We
are pacifists."
"I think it would he splendid to
be a war messenger," drawled
Bronze Beauty. "I'll join your light
ing Pigeons."
"No, no," cried the others. Don t
The sight that greeted them was dissrrace vour band."
astonishing. They found themselves "He will honor it." declared Billy
in a large chamber, in the center of j Belgium. 4 "Aren't there any others
which hung a huge bell. Away up of you who love America enough to
above was an immense dome-like fight for it?"
metal ceiling. Supporting the belli "Why should we fight? We're con
was a heavy framework, beside I tented and at neace."
which was a monster wheel over
which ran the rope that rang the
hell. The chamber and the bell
were really big. but 'to the eyes of
Peggy and Billy both of whom
were now of doll size they looked
even more immense than they would
under ordinarv circumstances
"You should fight because Amer
ica has given you a peaceful and
happy home and a good living which
von have not deserved," broke in
Perjgv. "You can't stay contented
and at peace if the Germans come
over here."
"We're safe in our steeple safe
evcent lor the cruel Rats.'.' Airy
nas never seen or neara or him be-1
fore, but just saw his address in a
paper. She wishes to adopt some
lonely soldier as her brother.
BROWN EYES.
There are more positions for
librarians open than there are
trained library workers to take them.
If you make of youself a really good
librarian, as you are ambitious to do,
you will find good positions open to
you. Most of the library schools
prefer a college-trained student, and
some of them insist on that qualifi
cation. You have plenty of time to
finish the university and then take
the regular course, which I should
advise you to do. Take at least two
or three years at the university. The
biggest librarians are not usually
Carnegie libraries, but the work in
all is the same. The nearest library
school is the St. Louis Public Library
school, St. Louis, Mo., and it is a
very good one. There are also
schools at Iowa State college, Iowa
City, la., and State university, Mad
ison, Wis., and others farther east.
You would probably have to start
at $800 a year, but would be better
paid after the first year.
Yes, it is perfectly proper for you
to "adopt" a soldier brother. Write
him nice, homey, sisterly letters and
he will appreciate them.
Service Pins.
Dear Miss Fairfax, Omaha Bee:
Can I wear a service pin for my hus
band's brother, and can I hang a
service flag in the window for him?
He did not live with us at any time.
Thank you.
For husband, son or brother you
many wear the pin and display the
flag. For others you have no right
to do so, unless they are members
of your household.
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Gray Hairs Vanish
When Ttnud
IVith
"Brownatone'i
f T is so easy to retain i
I your youthtul nppear
ancelontr after the gray
'streaks iu your hair have
made you look old. Just a
touch with "Brownatone"
and no one would ever
suspect that you bad
gray bait.
Absolutely
Harmless
Simple and ear to apply. Ko
previous experience neM
rary. It ii far miperlortoold
fauilonad "hair )" and
contains none of the Harm
ful ineredientu almost al
ways found in so-oalled'
"restorers." Mont beautiful
results ma; bo obtained in
any shade from light golden,
brown to the deepest brown"
or macs.
Sample and booklet sent
(from manufact'irersonly)
upon receipt of ltte. Men
tion shade desired when
writing or purchasing.
All lefcliDK drul stores
nil "Brnwnslons " Twa
ins 3fie sod $1.15.
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rti Kinton Pturmicst Ct.
IHI COSSM Bids.
csvusiss. nssness
Keep Clean
Keep clean inside, as
well as outside. Do not
allow food poisons to ac
cumulate in your bowels.
Headache, a sign of self
poisoning, will point to
numerous other troubles
which are sure to follow.
Keep yourself well, as
thousands of others do,
by taking, when needed,
a dose or two of the old,
reliable, vegetable, fami
ly liver medicine,
Word's
.M-Brauglit
Mrs. Maggie Bledsoe,
Osawatomie, Kan., says:
"Black -Draught cured
me, of constipation of 15
years standing, which
nothing had been able to
help. I was also a slave
to stomach trouble . . .
Everything I ate would
sour on my stomach. I
used two packages of
Black-Draught, and Oht,
the blessed relief it has
given me." Black
Draught should be on
your shelf. Get a pack
age today,, price 25c.
One cent a dose.
All Droggists
EBM
will win this war
Nothing else really matters until we do!
The Flavor Lasts
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