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PART TWO -SOCIETY SECTION PAGES 1 TO 12 The Omaha Sunday Bee PART TWO AMUSEMENTS PAGES 1 TO 12 VOL. XLVIII NO. 24. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1918. SINGLE COPY 'FIVE CENTS. 11 II Vo m a?ti s "Work, tti 1 the lbtld f After the War What ? Minneapolis Club Woman of National Prominence, Now in Omaha, Discusses Post-War Problems Confronting United States" W izations, particularly of the Red Cross) are not coming to an abrupt end. The bereft family, the return ing soldier are going to need minis trations and .we must still be Ren- line. Don't lose the good things that must be salvaged from the horror and desolation of war. Push a little longer and a little harder to crofan the battle with the highest victory. By MRS. T. G. WINTER ITH the thrilling news that comes to us from over the sea of victory coming closer and closer, it is natural that we should heave a sigh of relief, per-, erous 111 our support. haps, feel that our job is finished , And so it goes all down the that we can relax our tense efforts to back up the army by our home de votion. But this would be a fatal Vmistake. Clinching the results of the war after the actual fighting is over is part of the Win-the-War job. It is the part of the job that falls almost entirely on us at home. The boys'over there are bringing their -vpart to a magnificent end, an end that makes us proud and humble be fore the young men of America. Don't let us fail them now. Every great war in history has been followed by social and industrial difficulties, and this, the greatest of ell wars, fought by the greatest of all armies and the greatest of all generals, is going to leave the great est of all results.- Reconstniction means the adjust ing of society and government to . the results of war, and reconstruc- ., tion is going to be a tremendous job. England and France particularly England have been making plans . of the most far-reaching kind. No man is to be discharged from thej 'British army until he goes directly to a definite job. Every possible in dustry that' can be taught to the wounded is to be taught, so that the maimed soldier may keep his self respect and independence and not become an object of charity. Edu cation, industry, social organization are all being made, over with a deter mination that England shall be pre pared for a newer and higher democ racy, finer and stronger than ever. America Cannot Lag Behind Allieg. N'ow, the United States of Amer ica cannot afford to fall below this standard. We must be an America of greater liberty, greater fairness to everyone, greater opportunity in in dustry, and, above all, higher under standing of the meaning of democ racy and the ideal of our country. The plans of the National Council of Defense have been made with these things in mind, and the very things that we have been doing in Minnesota (and all over the United States) are intended to dovetail with future national efficiency. Among the immediate duties will be our insistence on the food cam paigns Whether the war ends or not, nations must eat, and there will be no more food in the world until after the next harvest. But there will be greater demands than ever when the half-starved nations whom we have not been able to reach during the war are again in contact with the rest of the world. The Children's Year is the expres sion of our national determination that the next generation shall not repeat the failure of this one- If one-third of our young men had been shown by the,, draft to be unfit for" military service, they are also unfit fpr full efficient civil life. The stand ards of America's physical life must be raised. The Americanization progress must create a united solidified nation, instead of the- half-welded people we have been. The newcomers from other lands must understand and co operate. " English must be the lan gauge taught and spoken all over the United States. There must be no hyphens and no great body of aliens living under the shelter of our flag. But this real United States can come only through democratic measures and not by forcp. Must Be Crowned with Victory. Patriotic education mustteach ourselves and our children aNruer love and understanding of our own country. The treat problems of industry are going to om ever larger with the end of the war, and the read justments of conditions to the re turned army are going to take wis dom and patience. The ugly features of industrial life have got to be les sened and the standards of life, of wages and of skill must be raised. The duties of the great war organ- Flags With a Star of Gold Hark, through the hush of the jkwning. What shouting is that I hear? Borne on the winds of the morn ing. ' Oh, it is victory's cheer; Hear the glad hurrahs ringing, As victory's story is told; I rejoice with the rest, though clinging To this flag with its star of gold. Let's be glad with the world in its gladness; - Join the triumphatft throng; Murmur not, hearts, in thy sad ness. To weaken victory's song; We gave our loved with the rest, ,And, like Spartan mbthers of -old, v In triumph we hug to our breasts The flags with a star of gold. Our called and we country heeded, Though our hearts stopped beating that day, But "we; knew our boys were needed, I And we would not bid them stay. t Hurrah! for theboys returning; Hurah! for the peace of old. God comfort all brave hearts yearning Over flags with a star of gold. MRS. K. W. HANSON, Money Creek, la-. . . Teach Girls to Cook I Best Saving Method It has been said that even if noth ing else were gained by the war the great lesson in thrift given to the American people would be enough alone to compensate for the costs of the whole struggle. While this statement is perhaps rather exag gerated, it is nevertheless true that we have learned the valuable les son of economy that we were sadly in need of, and that we probably could have learned in no other way. But this lesson will be of little value to the nation unless :.-is passed to the next generation. Are you teaching your children the lessons - that you are learning now and have learned? Doubtless, they save sugar, wheat, etc., but do they know exactly why they a-, saving them? Dothey under stand why you serve substitutes, why you warm up leftovers, why you are practicing economies that you doubtless are practicing? Teach them the simple procedure of cooking ordinary food potatoes, meats and simple dishes.fcet them, wi.'.i your direction (from another room), prepare simple meals alon1, a. let them work with you in econ omy experiments. Wc must realize that the idea of saving is something rather new to us we are not accustomed to being careful. But what is more 'natural than to be careful. If one has been accustomed to nothing else from childhood? If the word cooking goes, naturally, hand in hand with conservation, then there is not so much' likelihood of falling again into extravagance. This phase of the conservation, program is perhaps the most im portant of all. It insures the perma nence of conservation in the Ameri can home. , Are you carrying out your part in this work? Charter Members of Order of the Gold Star ' CPlrs.Catl Wall in FT! HIS sextet of Omaha women I make up the feminine portion of the charter membership list of the Ordler of the Gold Star, instituted in Omaha last Sunday up on the proposal of Rev. T. J. Mackay, rector of All Saints church. Membership in this order in cludes relatives of men in the Unit ed States service who gave their lives on the battlefield, or who died while in service. - Mrs. Charles Offutt, Mrs.T. J. Mackay and Mrs. Marshall Eber stein gave their sons; Mrs. Robert Weigel mourns the loss of her young husband, formerly a member of The Bee staff; and Mrs. Carl Wallinand Mrs. William II. Dox lost their brothers. The first memorial service of the Order of the Gold Star will be held in All Saints' church, Twenty-sixth and Dewey avenue, Sunday morn ing at 11 o'clock. The chaplain, Rev. Mr. Mackay, will preach a sermon on the object and aim of the organization. An opportunity will be given those who desire an opportunity to'join. CAarles Offutt- .7?. Z9ox L$t Nature Strike Color Note V 1 Flower Will Do It in Your Living Room; a Change of Color Scheme Every Day it Desired. I T is not, perhaps, a new idea, but who shall say it is not a sensi ble one, where its adoption is within the range ofone's purse re liance upon flowersto furnish the color tone for a ljving room. x A woman was once heard to re mark, "No gaudy or figured wall paper can find a place. in my house. I will have nothing but plain papers, of neutral tints; then I can obtain a color note for a room through the use of vases of flowers, and this color note may be changed as often as I please, by changing the flow ers." Such a remark is apt to set one thinking. It is not hard to imagine, say, a room with walls in plain grey, border or friese of inoffensive pat tern stronger in color, furnishings in harmony, with two vases of pink roses on the mantel, and another on a center table. Restfully simple, one can believe. After passing, the pink roses could be replaced with yellow chrysanthemums, and another pleas ing color effect would be obtained. In spring or early summer blue iris might be used for a change, or one of the yellow and mahogany varie ties. Later there are the glorious new delphiniums, in a variety of blue shades, the florists set closely to- j gether. The peonies in shades of j pink would be splendid; and later, a wealth of color would be forthcom- ing from the gladioli. Should stron- j ger color notes be favored, vivid red and crimson flowers would be quite in good taste. When two colors are used at the same time, care should, of course, be exercised in the selection, so as to avoid violent' contrasts. For in stance, pak yellow and pale blue harmonize, while deep yellow and purple are strongly antagonistic, as is evidenced when we put the gold en calendula with the purple aster, their very brilliancy making the as sociation aggressive. The American Beauty .rose is properly a dilute crimson, consequently is better by itself. Crimsons, magentas, purples, and oranges are rather hard of as sociation with other colors, but are rich in combination with white, which is natural. The use of foliage plants is al ways appropriate in a room such as described, the restful green having a mediating influence calculated to reduce the chance of discord when III I fnmiriiifoiit rn inmiiii jjnt,fi mun him iiiit I Joy et Gloom-France Motor Picnic and Troubles Described by Red Cross Worker, Mona Cowell, Who is in Reconstruc tion Work With French Repatries. A MOTOR picnic in France, on I the end of October I must be able 1 which occasion she saw the i to take charge. first white bread since her ar- Did I explain that we sell the re . ooezrr rival in France, is described by Miss Mona Cowell in a redent letter from Le Puy to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cowell. Bacon, coffee, mel on and cheese made up the rest of the picnic lunch. "We motored past the Chateau Polignac, where delightful people live." The place is ideally located on a promontory, surrounded on three sides by the Loire. This was my first view of one of France's loveliest rivers. It is very clear, filled with glistening rounded stones, which have been banked here and there by the peasants, so that they may catch the trout that abound in it. The road we followed is so new and wonderfully well built. It clings to the hillsides and is one hairpin turn after the other. These hills and mountains, as they are called hereabouts, are covered with ver dure of all sorts. ,. There are oaks, pines and a vivid light green shrub whose llajne I dojiot know. Now and then we passed a cluster of houses. The people who farm here live in groups, as in Russia, and from their little villages go daily to their fields. It seems a good plan and even with this scheme they live a lonely, isolated existence. The tiny stucco houses seem always to have been a very real part of the landscape. I noticed the date on one which seemed the most mod ern. It was 1772. In these hamlets, in the environs of chateau or villa, there is usually a church. This part of France is in tensely religious, Roman Catholic. Finally, our road took us far up the hills, the top of the world, airtMherei with an outlook tor miles over the most exquisite bit of country hill bound, we had our picnic. ' We even built our fire American fashion, and how it did remind me of the old days at college. It seemed strange that here were we Americans far from the home land, trying in a feeble way to do our part so that this wonderland might be freed from the greatest curse that the world has yet seen the ruthless Hun. It seemed almost a sacrilege to be so content and peaceful while the great offensive was going on, and yet when we thought that very soon a large convoy of repatrie would come with all the intense work incident to their coming it seemed fair to store up strength while we might. It was a joy to me, I can assure you, for all I was very tired. There is an infinite amount of walking. We use the French car of the Faure's very little because of the cost of essence (gasoline). I study French when possible. rfor at Golden Star of Glory Written for The Bee by Lettie F. j Bartlett. Little golden star of glory, Shining in fne morning sun, Telling us the sad, sweet story Of a death for freedom won! Little- golden star of glory, Shining in the fading light, Still it breathes to us a story Of a son who died for right. Little golden star of glory, Shining all the long night "through, Tell us all the glorious story How he died for victory true! OVER HERE AND THERE Over there, a fighting American battalion, cut off from the rest of the Yanks, held out for four days in Kindergarten 'Helps For Parents x A Child's EverydayEducation Make or Mars Hit Future. All That He Sees, Hears and Does Will Count. By KATHERINE BEEBE. one of her interesting and llumina.ting articles published by the Outlook, Elizabeth Childs quotes at length from a book the Argonne forest, short of ammu-! by Gayley called "Idols of Educa nition and without supplies. All ; tion," in which the trials of the col tJlVL tlffJ)Z with uneducated high school there is tendency to encroachment in the use of a combination of colors. DOING "HER BIT" Attired in the matter-of-fact uni form of an American ambulance sur geon, Dr. Pang I Yuen-Tseo, a Chi nese girl medical graduate, is serv ing as an interne on the staff of Bellevue Medical hospital in New York. days, haggard, exhausted, but un daunted, they were relieved. They had subsisted partly on leaves, and they were so hard pressed that even the wounded had to take their turns standing guard; but they cheered. as they drove back the attackers and they held out. ( Over here, out in Fargo, N. D., hundreds of women1 volunteered for fall harvest work. They were most ly indoor workers and they found the strenuous labor a severe strain. But they remembered what the work meant to their boys overseas. They composed 70 per cent of 'the Fargo "shock troops" and they held out. PATRIOTIC LEAGUE GIRLS' BAND ' SL V r igs, fx St ' Seated, left to right: Tillie Vitoush. Aileen Nourse, Ann Anheuser. Mrs. A. C. Stokes, Elva Hillis, Sabina Schomers. Standing: Lola Darland, Gladys McCann, Mrs. E. D. Erickson, Marie Weidemann, Marie Phelri, Albettine Canino. MUSICALLY inclined girls of the Patriotic League clubs have formed a band and will play for patriotic affairs, as soon as they are adjudged competent by their instructor. Signor Tolomeo is giving his serv ices to lead the girls' band. In addition to the girls in the picture, others have registered for band work and ordered their instruments. They are Miss Mildred Banker, Miss Maud Cloud, Miss Mary Cook, Miss Forest Sumner, Miss June Giles. Miss Bess M. Johnson Miss Mary Nalt y, Miss Mayme Reardon, Mjs. Otis Spickler and Mrs. Boyd SteMer. Reff isiratioas may be made to the War Camp" Community Service, v - V students, of the high school with un educated grammar school pupils and the grammar schoo) with uneducated children from the homes are convinc ingly set forth; the conclusion being that many a child arrives in the kin dergarten "a badly damaged article." Kindergartners know this, to be true. When the new group comes in m September its members can at once be roughly classified into two divisions the trained and the un trained. The former are the teach er's delight, the latter her problem. Unhappy Difference. Now what has happened at home to two such little creatures equally endowed at birth? What is the rea son for this unhappy difference? The answer is in the fact that the .nother of the one child from the firsj inti mation of his existence has con sciously or subconsciously reasoned with herself in some such way as this: "This little new life will come to me possessed of a growing body, an expanding mind, a developing soul. "Everything he sees, everything he hears, everything he does will count. If I want him strong, alert, wise and good, I must begin at the beginning and 'carry on;' I must learn from the best authorities how to care for his prec ious body; I must take council with experts in child training for the sake of his opening mind; I must talk to him, walk with him, .play with him, read to him; I must provide for him a place in which to play as well as to eat and sleep; I must see that he has playmates; I must teach him to play alone, to entertain himself; he must learn to, love work, first by heJping me and later by having set tasks; I must know where he is and what he is doing all the time and wc two must be loving, sympathetic, in timate friends." "A mother knows best what to do ing to do just as I want with him. Being my child he will come outall right in the end." Home Influence. Now sometimes he does, but in pite of home influence instead of because of them. Thanks fo his teachers, his companions ard the sharp lessons of experience he often manages to grow up a fairly decent man. But oh, what he has missed! And alas for the powers of mind and - soul which never unfolded, for the for her own child. Of course I will take good care of his body for I want him to be well, but for the first few years I am going to let him b? a happy little animal. I don't like to play with children anyway and read ing to them is a bore. Besides I am too bTTsy. He can just play around as other children do and when the time comes, go to kindergarten and school and be taught there. While he is at home and my baby I am go spiritual development unpossessed whichViight have been his. From this class are recruited those children whom every teacher knows, who have perverted ideas of the facts of life and physical habits, those youths and maidens whose lives are blighted on the threshold; those cases of adolescents which furnish newspaper articles some times with large headlines. In the light of the fact that these things are all about us how does any mother dare -to neglect that all important thing;, her child's everyday educa tion. Issued by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Education and the National Kindergarten association. patnes simple turniture, proviacu by the Red Cross or made to order locally and paid for by the Red. Cross. This is sold at a very nojifi nal price to the ptctple, who .come , without even a chair, bed or bed ding. My department is food and clothing and we are arranging an other storehouse for that. As this is all subject to military approval, it i takes time and makes the work quite arduous. Motor Troubles. Speaking of the military, we hac an amusing experience day before yesterday. We were just closing the bureau when a Polish officer . (there is a Polish officers' and a Polish soldiers' concentration bar-, racks here), and an American major came in. The major said they had. motored from German to star a .' Polish foyer (a canteen and tCrea tion hut). On the way their Ford ; had broken down and their French chauffeur could not fix it, as he didn't understand a Ford. They asked us to help them, so we got the Faures' car (a lawyer here whose daughter is on the commit tee), and a mechanician from the garage and went off. j We didn't take the officers, as thej car is only 14-horsepower,vand we knew that if we could not fix the," Ford on the road, we could never tow it back if we took anything but the slim major along. It was nearing 6 o'clock when we left, soj . I took chocolate and my electric flash. Knowing something of mo-' tor troubles, I believed in being pre pared. It was well we did so, for1 we had gone about five miles, our- . car would go on high and we had to run on second. Finally it stopped dead on a hill. We thought we were out of gasolyre, but no, the man fussed with -"the carburetor," which is always silly, and usually makesfnatters worse. After a while we got enough power to turn, and then we coasted down hill until we came to Broconde, aNmiall town , about six miles from Le Puy. There the man fussed some more, and much to the interest of the inhab itants, who all gathered round. Children Gather. - The small children brought out their bowls of bread and soup and stood watching. I made some sug gestions in mongrel French to the man, which he scorned. I had seen Mile. Faures fussing with the car buretor and thought that might have caused the trouble, and sure enough that was the cause. At last . we got enough power to go chug ging back to Le Puy, and then my " flashlight came into play, for it fur- -nished our only light. You may -think no one is on the roads here at night but, as all the ox carts are Coming back from market, and . there were, it seemed, dozens of loads of hay, filling the whole some what tortuous road, we were very glad to get back safely. The people seemed so careless and the animals so stupid, that the providence of God was the only thing that pre vented our runnfng over something. The next morning the Ford was towed in with all the brake linings burned out because someone had neglected to oil them. - That afternoon vt all went over to the Faures for coffee, while the officers discussed the Foyer.. The Red Cross, which is "us;" are to be part of the committee. You see, only the army hold us to be a ;. trouble bureau. I am all unpacked; Feel really liveable, well rested and ready for the week's work. I think of you both so often, you must, I am sure, sense it." THE RED CROSS SEARCHER. There is nothing mechanical in the work of a Red Cross searcher the gamut of human emotions is experienced; it is exhausting. If the searcher has no heart, he is not in the first rank; if he has too much, perhaps, he also fails for subtler reasons, .... Many of the men in bed hear imperfectly. "What , . is your regiment?'-i has been known to elicit the strange reply: "Laryn gitis and pleurisy and trench fever, sir." Algernor Blackwood. 1 I The Thanksgiving Dinner Table THE immeasurable satisfaction which warms the heart of an enthusi-' astic hostess as she takes that last glance a! a perfectly appointed dinner table before announcing the Thanksgiving dinner more, than ' compensates for the extra effort in arrangement of flowers, linens, sliver and decorations. It is particularly fitting this year that we strike the cheery note essential to a happy holiday meal. Served 'mid a shimmering loveliness of linen, silver and dainty china, -the plainest of "Hoover" foods becomes enticing.i To add a note of jollity, the shops are showing Thanksgiving tur- . keys in rich-toned greens and blues, mounted on boxes to hold the goodie r accompaniment to the dinner (nuts, raisins and candies). These old gob blers (at 25c) have wisely woggling head's and tails and wiiiffs of real turkey feathers and they'll follow trails of golden candy corn in a most amusing manner. Favor bags of white crepe paper have a hand-tinted turkey on the side. These are 15c. Favors in fringed orange crepe paper, with gold turkey on the side, snap open to disclose caps of oddly curious shapes. Anyone looks funny in caps like these. They're lots of fun for 15c. Dainty standup place cards, six in a package for 10c, have both brown and white turkeys, as well as. a goodly supoly of rich gold corn. I .For church bazars, school and club parties, there are beautifully dec orated luncheon sets, including paper table cloth, twelve napkins, twelve doilies and twelve plates for 75c. This might be a suggestion to the host ess who'd welcome the avoidance of the endless amount of dishwashu5 which the big dinner entails.
