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fHE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE : OCTOBER 27, 1918,
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Conducted by Ella Fleishma
Women's Work
in War Time
Omaha Wellesley girls met laat
week at the home of Mrs. J. C. Me
Clure and in one day completed 2,000
handkerchief for use by influenia
patients at the Fort Omaha hospital.
The work was done under the direc
tion of Miss Nona Bridge.
" The college girls have made gar
ments for 4-year-old refugee girls
at each meeting during the last year.
Wellesley college is financing a
reconstruction unit similar to that
of Smith college, in France. Eleven
. towns have already been benefited
through efforts of these, girls.
Mrs. Charles Turner and her sis
ter, Mrs. Clara Schneider, of Fre
mont, both in France, are Wellesley
girls. .
Soup Kitchen for "Flu" Victims.
Remarkable work has been done
by Omaha women in the Red Cross
roup kitchen at All Saint's church.
Mrs. Victor Caldwell, who has the
kitchen in charge, has been assisted
by Mesdames Mark Leving, G. W.
Wattlr. VV. I. Walker. Harold Gil
ford, Misses Carrie Millard, Helen
Millard and Grace Thomas. From
50 to 75 baskets of delicacies a day
have been taken to the suffering
families and families of from three
to 16 members have been served.
Aside from the food, $5 a day
Mias been given to the Visiting
Nurse association to buy any ne
cessities needed for the invalids.
Many donations of custards, jellies
and soups have been sent. Among
the women who delivered the bask
ets in their cars are Mesdames Sam
Burns, R. C O'Brien, M. C. Peters.
Frank Selby, G. W. Dishong and
, Miss Louise DicU.
Praise for Men in Khaki.
r "Americans will have contributed
In writing one of the most beautiful
pages of the history of the world,"
Gen. Arthur Boucher, distinguished
Frenchman, wrote in praise of Amer
ican soldiers in a recent letter to
Madame A. M. Borglam of Omaha.
"The line day has arrived when
my faith in the triumph of our cause
sees its realization. After our suc
cess of July and August, the Ameri
can army, which causes here the ad
miration of all, gives the final blow
to the boche. We are seeing the
dawn .of the time when, thanks to
its powerful help, they will have for
ever been chased away from our
dear France."
" V General Boucher is one of the
lecturers for the Alliance Francaise
and spoke in Omaha last year.
"Pals" Off for France Together ,
My
Caasz'e 63Qie?mcin,
Two very good "pals," Miss Lois
Nesbit and Miss Cassie Biehnan,
have made application and hare been
recommended from Omaha for Red
Cross canteen service overseas. Both
young women are employed by the
M. E. Smith company.
Last summer the girls enjoyed a
unique experience in "roughing it."
They drove a Ford car through
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ARMY AND
NAVY NOTES
Lt B. B. Wood, who has been
stationed at Camp Morrison, Virgin
ia, spent a few days in New
York at the Wolcott with Mrs.
Wood. Lieutenant Wood has re
covered from the Spanish influenza.
Mrs. Wood will remain in the east
untif November 1.
Li Donald McRae is now sta
tioned at an artillery school in California.
Lt George Thummel, who had
a slight attack of influenza, is much
improved now.'
Colorado and Estes Park, all un
accompanied, and camped out a
great portion' of the : trip.
Mrs. H. J. Paul, wife of Col. H. J.
Paul of the 134th Infantry, has re
ceived word of his safe arrival over
seas. Mrs. Paul returned recently from
New York and, with her small son,
James Richard, will be with her sis
ter, Mrs. Rae C. Williams in Dundee
during Colonel Paul's absence.
Lt Arthur H. Scribner passed
Sunday with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. W. Scribner. Lieutenant
Scribner was formely atationed at
Fort, Sill, Oklahoma, but has been
transferred to Camp Jackson, South
Carolina.
Dr. C. H. Newell has left for the
base hospital at Camp Jackson, Co
lumbia, S. C, where he will be sta
tioned. Lt Robert Wilbur, son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. C. Wilbur, who was
severely wounded in action, August
20, has fully recovered and has left
the American Red Cross hospital at
London. He is now on special duty
at Winchester, England.
Capt LeRoy Wilbur of the 127th
field artillery, has arrived safely in
France.
Frank Drummy and Wallace
Drummy .have received commis
sions as lieutenants. The former
will be stationed at Rock Island,
Iil., and the latter at Camp Funs
ton. David Caldwell is now awaiting
his call to Berkley Cal., or Cham
pagne, IIL, whert he will take the
ground course.
James W. Raynolds is training
for coast artillery work at Fortress
Monroe.
Dr. W. R. McGrew has been com
missioned captain in the medical
corps and has been assigned to
Camp Funston.
Turkish women are to be counted
among the most industrious on
earth. They do a vast amount of
work. They make carpets, screens
for doors, work-bags, horse cloth
ing, and blankets. A Turkish girl
makes all the kibitka or tent car
pets and other household requisites
before she is married. If she gets
married without completing the
task, it is expected that she will,
by her own labor, refund the
money which her parents have
given her as a dowry.
At the age of 87, and after 54
years of service, during which time
she has never been late, Miss Eliza
R. Hyde has resigned her position
in the Treasury department at
Washington. I
Club Notes
Omaha Woman's Club.
On account of the influenza epi
demic, the political and social
science department hat called off
its first meeting of Monday until
a later date.
"While our boys at the front are
fighting 'to make the world safe for
democracy,' it is expedient that our
American ideals of democracy bo
kept safe," said Mrs. H. J. Bailey,
leader. "Realizing our responsibil
ity, as women of the greatest of
the allied nations engaged in this
war for righteousness, and in order
to better meet our responsibility,
the department will ' study during
the year the following outlined
topics and their relation to the new
world democracy: "The Home,"
by Mrs. W. P. Harford: "The
Church," Mrs. J. W. Gill; "Public
School," Mrs. W. A. Baldwin; "The
Press," Mrs. William Burton; "Wo
man as a Voter," Mrs. H. B. Sum
ney; "Americanization," Mrs.
Draper Smith;" "Social Service,"
Mrs. J. R. Dumont; "Recreation,"
Mrs. C. W. Hayes; "The Drama,"
Mrs. B. S. Baker; "Municipal
Ideals," Mrs. R. B. Towl, and "Leg
islation," with Mrs. D. C. Craig
head as leader.
Chorus rehearsal and program
for the music department of the.
Omaha Woman's club will be held
November 16, instead of October
16, as originally planned.
Collegiate Alumnae.
Drama section of the Association
of Collegiate Alumnae, will present
the play, "The Worsted Man," by
John Kendrick Bangs Saturday, at
12:30 at the Young Women s Chris
tian association.
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jPostpone Food Drive.
Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles, Gen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs
president, writes Mrs. M. D. Camer
on, General Federation Director of
Nebraska, that the food drive,
scheduled by Herbert Hoover, for
the first week in November, has been
postponed until the week beginning
December 2. Mrs. Cowles ( also
urges the co-operation of every' club
member in the United War Funds
. drive to open November 11.
Japanese Women in Red
v ! Cross Work
- Japanese women are not lagging
behind those of other nations in
. work for the comfort of the soldiers.
. The Japanese women in New York
have done a tremendous amount of
, work for the Red Cross, which they
, have supplied with nearly 2,000 com
. presses, pads, and other much need
ed articles.
r To prepare themselves for some
j essential service, a group of Univers
ity of Chicago women is organiz
ing the Women Student Training
corps in order to secure for its mem
bers definite training for some par
ticular work needed by the nation.
Uncle Sam Calls for
Hospital Assistants.
An urgent call for hospital as
sistants is made by the dean of the
Army School of Nursing. This is in
addition to the call for student
nursesA He has asked the
woman's committee, Council of Na
tional Defense, to transmit to the
women of the country, information
in regard to the surgeon general's
call for hospital assistants.
This work is open to single
women between 35. and 45 years of
age, or married women between 21
and 40, whose husbands are in over
seas service. Applications of candi
dates who are eligible for enroll
ment in the United States Student
Nurse Reserve will not be con
sidered. Services of hospital assistants are
to be given in this country only.
They will receive such training as is
necessary to make them useful as
sistants to graduate nurses in mili
tary hospitals to which are sent
wounded and convalescent soldiers.
Their training will not lead to a de
gree of graduate nurse. Candidates
must be women of good health and
character, and they must be gradu
ates of a high school or present a
certificiate of equivalent education.
Mrs. A. L. Fernald, Douglas
county Defense Council chairman,
and Mrs. C. S. Elgutter. chairman
of the nursing bureau, will conduct
the drive when it is put on in this
district.
Heads Division of Women
Examiners
Miss Marie Obenauer, of Wash
ington, who has had wide experience
in labor affairs, has been appointed
head of the division of women ex
aminers by the National War Labor
board, the object of which is to
guard the rights and provide for the
needs of employed women.
Where differences arise between
employers and employes, impartial
investigations will be conducted in
the effort to bring about a settle
ment. Miss Obenauer was formerly with
the bureau of statistics of the De
partment of Labor, and later with
the woman's branch of the industrial
service section of the Aviation De
partment, U. S. army.
Of the 2,141,000 persons employed
in the metal trades in the United
States, nearly 100,000 are women
over 16 years of age.
Misery From Catarrah, Sore
Throat and Asthma Ends
Breathe HYOMEI.
Kill catarrh germs.
Get rid of catarrh.
Looks easy!
It's just as easy as It looks.
Then why not start today to get rid of
soreness and crusts in the nose; to ban
ish forever that hawking, snuffing, spit
ting and offensive breath that loses yon
friends t
Get a HYOMEI outfit today, ft only
eosts $1.16. Open the box, take out the lit
tle hard rubber pocket inhaler, unscrew
both ends.
Inside the inhaler you will find some
antiseptic gauze. Then take the bottle of
HYOMEI from the box and pour a few
drops into the' inhaler, saturating the
gauie.
Now yon art ready to breathe HY
OMEI, the most penetrating, pleasant
and antiseptic germ destroyer for all dis
eases of the breathing organs.
Breathe it five minutes and stuffed up
head will vanish. Breathe it four er five
times a day for a few days, and soreness,
crusts in the nose and that offensive dis
charge of mucous will disappear. Breath
it regularly for two weeks, kill the germs
and restore the inflamed membrane to
its natural condition.
Remember that the inhaler you get
with an outfit will last a lifetime, and
if you need a bottle of HYOMEI after the
one that comes with the outfit is gone, you
can get it for 60 cents. '
For catarrh, coughs, colds, asthma,
eroup and catarrhal deafness, HYOMEI
is sold on money back plan by Sherman &
McConnell Drug Co. and druggists every-,
where. Adv.
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Will be in effect on All Lines in Omaha on and after SUNDAY.
OCTOBER 27TH.
All stops will be designated by a sign painted on the street
poles reading
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in black letters on yellow ground.
Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Co.
ALL
ALTERATIONS
FREE
Good Sold Out
of Town on
Easy Term.
Greater Values in
Big
$9775
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Monday Specials
Wopien's and Misses9
Suits,
Values to $49.50,
There are just 100 suits in the entire lot and every one
is fashioned in the very latest style of the best of materials
and are silk lined throughout Be sure and inspect these
wonderful suit values, which go on sale Monday morning.
Women's and Misses9
Coats, 1
Valves tn $37.50. Jl
These coats represent a special lot, secured by our buy
er on his recent eastern trip and have just arrived. There
isn't one in the lot worth less than $25.00, and the ma
jority of them are worth from $30 to $87.60.
Women's Silk
Petticoats
Women's Envelope
Chemise
All colors. G) QC Values, $3.00. tf 17 p
$4.00 values. . . P'J Our price 4 1 O
Women's Onyx Fibre
silk hose, aq
75c values.. . TCC
Our
Clothing Dept.
$1
Buy on Payments
or so a week will dress
you arid your family well
Men! Our Greater Values
in Suits and Overcoats
Should be most interesting to you. You will be surprised at
the extent of our showing and at the wonderful values offered,
and at prices greatly lessened by our inexpensive location and ex
tremely low operating expense. Come Monday and see the big
values we offer at
n7.50t22.5027.50$34.50
Boys9 Clothes .
We Specialize in This Department
A visit to this Department will quickly convince you that our
prices on Boys' Clothing cannot be duplicated in this city.
Suits at $4.95, $6.95 to $12.50
Overcoats and Mackinaws, $10.50,
$14.50 and $17.50.
- THE PEOPLE'S STORE.
OPPOSITE HOTEL ROME.
ADVANCING IN PRICE
Fur-bearing animals live in the wilderness of the
world. As civilization moves its outposts these animals
are exterminated. Natural conditions govern the fur
market and every season sees an advance in price. No
fur dealer can approximate the future price of furs.
Every dealer knows that the price tendency Is upward.
NATIONAL FUR & TANNING COMPANY furs
for the season of 1918 and 1919 are now ready, The
prices are as low as is consistent with the prices at
which the skins were bought months ago.
By the time the actual fur wearing season has
come around skins will have advanced materially in
price and the manufactured article will advance in
price accordingly.
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IF YOU WANT THE BEST,-
fur or fnr-linod coats, muff or nockwoar that moaoy a bsrj aajo
wharo, buy National furs now. Tboy will bo kept lubjoet to rosaf
order or delivered immediately and yon will have tho advaatag
of making your selection from a more eomplete stock at a
savin f.
One Profit From Trapper to Wearay
National Rtr GTannino
Company
Omaha . Nebraska
1921-29 South 13th St
Phone Tyler ItO.
TELLS OTHERS
OF VALUE OF
MENTHO-LAXENE
COLD AND COUGH SYRUP
Mra. M. Luding, 136 Beacon ave
nue, Jersey City, N. J., writes:
"I find the Mentho-Laxene Just
fine and would not be without it It
has been in our home for three
years, and I hope your Free Health
Book is as good as the Mentho-Laxene,
etc."
With very little advertising, hun
dreds of thousands of bottles of
Mentho-Laxene are sold every year
by druggists, and each year the
sales grow larger. Get a 2 -ounce
bottle, concentrated, and mix with
simple syrup to make a full pint.
Directions and guarantee of satis
faction are with each bottle. A pint
lasts a long time for the whole fam
ily. It is cheaper and better than
ready prepared medicines, but easy
to mix. Adv.'
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Get Dr. Edwards' Olive TaMeS
That Is theoyful cry of thousand
since Dr. Edwards produced Olive
Tablets, the substitute for calomel. I
Dr. Edwards, a practicing physician
for 17 years and calomels old-time
enemy, discovered the formula for Olive
Tablets while treating patients for
chronic constipation and torpid liven.
Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets do not
contain calomel, but a healing; soothing
vegetable laxative.
No griping is the "keynote" of these
little sugar-coated, olive-colored tab , ,
lets. They cause the bowels and liver to
act normally. They never force them
to unnatural action.
If you have a "dark brown mouth" e
bad breath a dull, tired feeling Ick
headache torpid liver and are constfc
pated, youll find quick, sure and only
pleasant results from one or two little
Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets at bedtime.
Thousands take one or two every
night just to keep right Try them,
10c and 25c per box, All druggists. . ,.
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LIKEf LUMPS OF LEAD"
When yon wake up with backache
and doll mlaery In the kidney region
tt generally means you hare been
eating too much meat, says a well
known authority. Meat forms' arte
acid which overworks the kidneys in
their effort to filter It from the blood
and they become sort of paralysed
and loggy. When your -kidneys get
sluggish and clog you must relieve
them, like you-relieve your bowels;
removing all the body's urinous
waste, else you have baekache, sick
headache, dlziy spells; your stom
ach sours, .tongue Is coated, and
when the weather Is bad yon hare
rheumatie twinges. The urine Is
elondy, fall of sediment, channels of
ten get sore, water scalds and yon
a J&U8SiJft.eek relief two. or
three times daring the night.
Either consult a good, rerlabr
physician at once or get from your
pharmacist about four ounces of Jad
Salts; take a tablespoonfnl in a glass
of water before breakfast for a few
days and your kidneys frill then act
fine. This famous salts Is made
from the acid of grapes and lemon
juice, combined with lithia, and has
been used for generations to cleaa
and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also
to neutralize acids in the urine so if
no longer Irritates, thus ending Mae
der weakness.
Jad Salts Is a life saver far
regular meat eaters. It Is tnexpeo
give, cannot Injurs . and makes
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