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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1918)
THE BEE: OIL HA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1918. Wmmmi in Girls, Can You Write in French? Girls who read nd write French re invited by a lonely 3elgian soldier to correspond vith him. A letter received by The Bee tells his pathetic story in quaintly written and phrased English: "Master the Editor; Sir: Please excuse the liberty I am taking to ask you. if possible, to accord the hospitality to your columns to the following request: Belgian soldier at front from August 1914, will be glad to correspond with an American lady, prefer ably in French. He is without news from his family, remained in occupied Belgium. Many French people have answered to 'he same appeal of fighters, and this goodness I am sure to find by your honorable readers Please sir, accept my best thanks and respects. (Signed) Victor Latte, Seventh company, Z39. Belgian Field Army." 6( H4H"H-H WILL Mrs. Howard Baldrige succeed in obtaining permis sion from Washington to take charge of a Red Cross ware house in France? The answer to this question i. awaited with great inter est by Mrs. Baldrige'a friends and associates in the state inspection warehouse, where she serves as cen sor. Mrs. Baldrige is the only woman in the United States appointed to Such an imoortant nnct en m . iai as can be ascertained. It was a cable from Henry P. Davison, national president of the Red Cross soicety and a personal friend of the Baldrige family, which first raised the question. Mr. Davi son asked the Omaha woman to take charge of a warehouse in France. Mrs. Baldrige's ability to speak French would, of course, make her additionally valuable in this ca pacity. But here a stern government in terferred with the regulation that no woman, who had a son or husband in the service couid qualify for overseas vork. Mrs. Baldrige's son, Captain Malcolm Baldrige, is al ready overseas. Mrs. Baldrige's friends believe she will go. On Mr. Davison's re turn to this country, important chancres in reauirement fnr m-rr. seas workers are anticipated. Uniformed Women in Parade. From the perky white garb and flowing veil of the Red Cross nurse, to the oil-besmeared feminalls of railroad shop girls, the uniforms of women in war work will take their places in the grand military parade of Thursday afternoon. Mobilized by the woman's depart ment of the united war work cam paign, every group of women in the city engaged in specific war work. Is expected to participate. Those who have not as yet made definite plans to do so are asked to get into communication before tonight, with the state headquarters office of the Young Women's Christian associa tion. Young Women's Christian asso ciation, Red Cross, state and local, canteen workers, the human flag (Bohemian), elevator girls, are some of the divisions to be looked for, their own banners and their spe cial uniforms .distinguishing them. Where there is no official garb for their branch of service, the women will wear white skirts and shoes, blue or black short suit coat and a sailor hat. Small flags to stick in the hat ribbon will be furnished. The woman's division of the pa rade will form at 1:30 p. m., at Twenty-sixth and Farnam streets. Definite position will be assigned each woman's organization. Mrs. Howard Baldrige of the state inspection warehouse an nounces that war mothers who have been giving two days a week at the warehouse will march with ware- house workers in the parade Thurs day. They meet at Twenty-fifth avenue and Farnam streets. Temple Sisterhood Dances. Temple Isreal Sisterhood is plan ning a series of four dances to be given this winter at the Blackstone, with soldiers from Fort Omaha and Fort Crook, if there be any, as spe cial guests. Mrs. Jay B. Katz and Mrs. isidor Ziegler are in charge of arrangements for the affair, the first of which will be given October IS. The second is planned about Thanks giving time. The sisterhood will hold its Oc tober meeting next Monday. Mend for Soldiers. North Side Mothers' club will meet Tuesday and W ednesuay at 1U a. m. at the tiome fo Mrs. G. it Gil bert, 2611 Bristol street, to do mending for the soldiers. For Wedding Guests. Governor l homas C. Rye of Ten nessee and his staff, who arrived this morning irom .Nashviiie tor the wedding of Miss Tonnette iilotcky and Col. Aaron Bergeaa, which takes place Tuesday evening, were honor guests at a breakiast given at tne i otneneile by Coionel iier geda ay. A dinner will be giv en tins t veiling at tne hotel in Honor of the soutnern visitors wnen Mr. Lou BloicKy will be host. i lfersojriais t tx4m--hw . jolC) PASHA Airs. n. Koscnsiut. aim uaugu ters, Jessie and jLorrame, moved to ' day to the Hamilton apartments. Mrs. G. W. Megeath is confined to her home with a severe cold. Tty DADDY THE HARVEST CARNIVAL omplrta, Rtw adnntura Bach Wack. Bcflnntiii Idocdiy ud Bndlni Sunday First Omaha Canteen Worker's Letter from French Post of Duty The crying need for relief work ers in France and confirmation of reports of Hun atrocities are points emphasized in a letter friends re- ceived last week trom M;ss wane Matthews, Omaha school teacher who with her friend. Miss Edith Dahlstrom. were anions: the first group of Red Cross canteen work ers sent from Nebraska. "I was crazy to come over but I thought I was a little selhsh in wanting to come for I realized that the work at home and in the schools was important and must be done, and that perhaps one was doing just as much to stick to their lobs but all that is changed in my mind. With the number of teachers that are re signing, school may become disor ganized but they still have a founda tion and they will muster new forces and go on but this proposition is another thine. Workers must come to do these things. I had no concep tion of the need. Everything I ever heard that was awful. I ve heard confirmed at ai most, if not quite first hand. Our boys have seen service like veterans, American women must be here. We except in the next few days to do service locally, ana to be ass:gned for regular duty .next week. We've asked to be sent together but have not been answered, though we expect a favorable decision. Ie rests with Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt. She signs herself Anne Vanderbilt and they say it's Mrs. Willie K. She works steadily as any other clerk and she's not young. If they need you at Portland and you want to go, you go. If they get to bringing the wounded in there, there'll be lots of things you can do. Now here's a thing not to forget we will be on a line of communication (L. O. C.) but we will not be close up at all. Oh I never in the world knew so v.ell how to be proud of America. It you know any woman with a son in the marines congratulate her. They're wonderful, wonderfull" Military Training Planned for Members of New Athletic Club Military training probably will be included in the athletic curriculum of the new Omaha Athletic club. Already eyes are being cast around for a suitable instructor. An ef fort will be made to secure from the War department the services of a regular army or naval officer. This courtesy has been extended to similar organizations throughout the country in the interest of uni versal training. The movement probably owes its impetus to the efforts of Theodore Roosevelt, a staunch supporter of military train ing. With the arrival of rowing ma chines, punching bags, pulleys and weights and other paraphernalia, calculated to creat numerous sec ond Samsons, the new club's gym begins to assume a businesslike ap pearance.7 When completed the new Athletic club's facilities for physical training will be second to none in the country. The law school of Fordham uni versity is now open to women students. REEK - c I . came the of a c WA& PUZZLES A son was born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Fridstein of Chi cago. Mrs. r-ndstein was formeriy Miss Evelyn Bergman of Omaha. Mrs. P. T. Buckley, accompanied by ner daughter, Mrs. Joseph E. Withrow, and iliss Joe Aren, ot Portland, Ore., ate spending a wet. at the Fontenelk Mrs. Withrow was formerly titulah Buckley, a graduate of the Omaha High schooi and Wellesley cohtge. Mrs. E. A. Higgins returned from Chicago last week. Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb Storz, Miss Elsie Storz and Miss Dorothy Hig gins left Sunday evening for Ex celsior Springs. s Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Arter, who have spent the summer at theii home" at Cape Cod, are expecteu home in a few days. Miss Dorothy Arter will enter her freshman year at W'ellesiey college this fall. Mr. and Mrs.- Arthur English who have been in the east for somt time,. will arrive home the first of next week. '' One of England's most success fu! business women is Miss Evelyn Barlow, the gifted daughter of the late Dean of Peterborough and a sister of Sir Montague Barlow' M. P. After having demonstratedher . abilities as a business womai-f in several lines, Miss Barlow has Aow become junior partner and auction eer in the famous Loudon firm 'of THAT BOLO PASHA RECEIVED DIRECT AID From prominent men in U. S. wai charged by Paris newspapers, oni year ago today, October 1, 1917. Find another traitor. YE8TERDAT8 AX8WER Upvei left corner down behind toV dier. lEFm FOR CONGRESS Be Sure That You Are Registered So You Can Vote November 5. (In previous itorlei Pefjjy has been crowned Princess of Blrdlami, and has en joyed many Interesting adventures with her Bird subjects.) CHAPTER I. The Call of the Crickets. REEK - creek - creek- creek 1" e monotonous chirp cricket outside of Peggy's window. It was lulling her sweetly to sleep, when all at once she roused up wide-awake. The "Creek-creek-creek-c reek" was bringing a message to her much like the tick-tick-tick of a telegraph in strument brings a message over the wires. Only in this case she could make out the words clearly and didn't have to change them from dots and dashes into letters and sentences. "Come, Princess Peggy, to the birds' carnival. There's going to be frolicking in the moonlight tonight on the green at the fifth hole of the golf course." "Of coursei I'll come, just as quickly as I can get dressed," cried Peggy. "Princess Peggy sends her com pliments to Birdland and says she will come as soon as she can get dressed," sounded the cricket tele graph. A cricket farther away caught up the message and passed it along. A third got it still farther away, and so it went far out of hearing. "That's a regular wireless tele graph," thought Peggy. "I never knew before that a cricket's chirp was the slightest use." As she was dressing she heard a message coming back, sounding in distinctly far away, and then loudly and clearly as it came near. Princess Feggy, dress up runny As a chicken or a bunny; Every on will gaily rollick At our yearly harvest frolic. "And I haven't a single fancy dress to wear," said Peggy in dis may. "If I could only get into my doll's clothes I'd be fixed fine." "We're here at your service, Prin cess Peggy," called a voice from outside, and there was her aerial chariot borne by the Whip-Poor-wills and Night-Hawks, which had served as her flying horses when she flew to battle with old King Crow. "Goody!' cried Peggy. "And I'm sure you have fairy ring grass to make me small." She looked beneath the seat of the chariot and true enough, there was a blade of fairy ring grass. It took her only a moment to nibble it and quick as a wink she was the size of her dolls. Now Peggy had a wide assortment of frocks from which to choose. The one that caught her eye, however, was a gay parrot costume she had made out of colored paper. What a joke it will be to go as a strange bird. Then I'll fool them all," she giggled to herself. The parrot dress fit her perfect ly. As she looked into the mirror to see the effect she nearly fell back ward in amazement. She looked ex actly like a real Parrot. If I could only squawk and screech like a Parrot I'd be all fixed," she tittered. "This is better than going as a chicken or a bunny, and it certainly will give those Birds a scare." Among her toys was a tiny auto horn. "There's my squawker," she thought, as she quickly tucked it beneath her wing. "Now, I'm ready." Outside the window sill was her aerial chariot. As Peggy stepped in to view she squawked a greeting with the horn. The effect was not what she expected. Instead of laughing back at her, the Whip-Poor-Wills and Night-Hawks gave one look at this strange and awful looking Bird and dashed away with loud screeches of fear. Peggy had to call to them again and again be fore they would believe that it was really she and not a fierce, wild Parrot When the aerial chariot drew cau tiously near again, Peggy seated her self on the throne and away they went for the carnival. As they passed over a black clump of trees, a dark cloud suddenly whirred up toward them. "The Bats! The Bats!" shrieked the Night-Hawks. "And we can't fight because we are harnessed to this chariot." "Squeak I Squeak! Now we've got these Night Birds where we want them," shrieked the Bats, rush ing to the attack. Things looked pretty bad for Peggy, for she knew that the Birds couldn't fight unless they dropped her, and if they did drop her she would be smashed on the gound far below. Then she thought of her horn. "Squawk! Squawk! Squawk!" it sounded with such alarming suddenness that the Night Birds jerked the chariot as RcSS ViA ir2vjri Italic my own Tt phyti- actiTity m lart.l due tm i Mnonal dm off Nox.t.d Iron", say Former Health Com missioner Wm. R. Kerr, of I 'the City of Chicago. "Froni my own experience wun mut ated Iron I feel it is such a valuable blood and body build ing preparation that it ought to be used in every hospital and nrecrihed bv every fihv slcian in the country." Nuxated Iron brio to make healthier women and ttronger, itur titer men. Satisfaction guaranteed or mopejj refunded. At all good druggists. 3 ASTHMA INSTANTLY RELIEVED WITH ajJjjJM! oa mii inmit ass aky druggist 1 i M t 18 K 9 a fi re,- jm . tin ea rs y though they would tear it to pieces. But the squawk scared the Bats even more than it did the Birds. They were coming to the attack full tilt, but now they veered off with wild squawks. "The Witch of the Night," they squealed. "Fly, or she'll get us." And away they flew as fast as their wings could carry them. (Tomorrow Peggy reaches ths carnival and receives a strange warning.) CHAPTER II. The Witch of the Night. (Peguy la Invited to the Birds' Harvest Carnival and goes disguised as a Parrot. having been mads tiny by fairy ring grass.) AFTER the Bats has flown away, badly scared by Peg gy's Parrot disguise, the Night Birds bore the aerial chariot swiftly to the golf links, where the Harvest carnival was to be held. The birds chuckled and giggled among themselves at the way in which Peggy had frightened them. "The Witch of the Night. That's a fine joke!" cried a Whip-Poor-Will. "Let's keep it a joke," answered Peggy. "I'll be the Witch of the Night at the carnival. Please don't tell any one who I really am. "We'll keep your secret," promised the birds. The chariot sailed over the broad, beautiful green where the crowd was gathering for the carnival, and came gently to earth behind a patch of shrubbery. Peggy dismounted and the Night Birds flew away to put on their costumes for the fun. Peggy was delighted when she peeked around the shrubbery. The board green carpet was covered with gaily decked birds who made a fantastic picture in the bright moonlight. The green itself was set on the side of a- partly wooded hill. Below it was a tiny lake, which sparkled brilliantly as the waves played under the gentle urging of the evening breeze. Peggy didn't see a familiar bird in the gathering. All were in car nival disguise. Wouldn't it be fun to mingle among them without knowing who they were and with out their knowing herl "Squawk! Squawk!" went her automobile horn. "Oh! eh! oh!" shrieked the startled birds, huddling to one side of the green. Peggy stalked grandly forward. Blue Heron, whose legs were so lrong that he couldn't possibly dis guise himself, even though he did trj to make himself appear like an owl on stilts, was acting as master of ceremonies. "Who, who are you?" he stam mered in his croaky voice. "Squawkl Squawk!" replied the ai tomobile horn. "I am the Witch o.' the Night, come to make merry at your revels," added Peggy in a hollow voice. "The Witch of the Night," whis pered the birds in awed tone. "Fear not," Peggy hastened to say. "I come in good will. This night is for fun; let no evil mar our joy." "Hurrah for the Witch of the LIFT OFFCORNS! Doesn't hurt at all and costs only few cents. Magic! Just drop a little Freezone on that touchy corn, instantly it stops aching, then you lift the corn off with the fingers. Truly! No humbug! A I Try Freezone ! Your druggist sells a tiny bottle for a few cents, suf ficient to rid your feet of every hard corn, soft corn, or corn be tween the toss, and callouses, with out one particle of pain, soreness or irritation. Freezone is the dis covery of a noted Cincinnati genius. Advertisement. Tint the Gray Hairs Away Give the Natural Beauty of Your Face a Chance. 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My heart la beating a lively tattoo; If you'll but have me I'll wed on the spot For a batch like mo thnt's snylng a lot." ' Peggy giggled. Judge Owi might disguise his looks but he could never disguise his awful poetry. "That's very pretty, Judge Owl," she whispered, "but this is not my wedding day. I'll have to think it over." Judge Owl was much fussed to find that she had guessed who he was. "Surely you are a witch to learn my secrets," he answered. "The best way to keep a secret is to put a lock on your lips," she whispered teasingly, as she lost her self in the crowd. "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" came a harsh cry from the shrubbery. "Oh, it's a rooster come to our carnival," rejoiced the birds. "We'll give him such a good time that he will forget to call the sun in the morning." The Rooster, a dashing looking young fellow, stalked out on the green and in an instant was sur rounded by the excited group of girl birds. Every one wanted to meet the handsome stranger. 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