All Danger to Boys Didn't
Disappear When Roar of
Guns Ceased, Says Mother
In Beautiful Letter to Her Soldier Boy, She Points Out
That Now Is Time He Must Be Careful. It Is a
Letter All Mothers Should Read.
Here is a letter a wonderful let
ter from mother to her soldier boy
in France. And The Bee wants every
mother in Omaha to read it and
when she has the spirit of it write to
her own boy across the ocean. If
ahe hasn't a boy of her own "over
there" then she can write to some
Other mother's boy.
There was never a time when the
boyi were so greatly in need of let
ters from home as now. When the
battle was on the soldier had little
time or opportunity to let his mind
wander to things unwholesome he
as too busy with what was then
rue graveset problem of the hour,
winning the war.
But now it is different and the ' homesick,
resources," said Mr. Fosdick. "It Is
above all a morale problem, and it
must be faced as such, with the full
co-operation of families and friends
here in this country, if it is to be
solved successfully. Every one who
has a son, a brother or a sweet
heart over there must help. .
! 'While the war was on our boys
were fully occupied; they were still
filled with the spirit of adventure,
looking forward rather than back.
Now. however, the fighting is at an
end. They are going to remain, most
of them, many months doing work
which will be neither exciting nor
particularly interesting. They will
get lonesome, bored and terribly
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woman who wrote this beautitu!
letter is not the only one who real
izes that the real danger to our
boys is greater today than when the
the battle was ragitiR. Then there
was only the dancer of being killed.
Now but read this mother's let
ter. She tells it more beautifully
than we can. Then read the appeal
from Raymond li. Fosdick, chair
man of the ("oinnti-sim on train
ing camp activities. wlhi wants the
overseas forces to be bound to home
"The $170,000,000 raised in he re
cent united war work drive is to
be used precisely to bridge over
this period by providing recreation
and amusement. But no amount of
mere money expended in such a way
will be enough. What these boys
really want is not diversion, but
human interest and sympathy.
These things expressed in letters
from home will warm their he. s
and create a home atmosphere
around them, even while they are
with thai strongest tie of all love. absent from the family circle.
Her Soldier Boy.
"Son of Mine:
"They're sending vou home to me
aflast. Through all these months of
wi,tiog and longing I've been wear-
"Such letter may be a verv neces
sary sheet anchor to windward in
the case of some boys. The thought
of some one waiting for them,
counting on them, will, more than
itife a?. star vf or you and holding my ! anything else, make them hold back
headMgh -'and thinking wonderful j and think twice before plunging in
flfoufehts about you. I've watched
you through ocean mists and dream
ed anxious dreams. Yes. and cried a
little, too, but not when people could
see.
"And now you're coming home.
Oh, it seems too good to be true.
I've just read your letters again.
, They 9ay so much more than you
' ever thought when you were writ
ing them. Just happenings that's
all most-.of the things you wrote
about were to you. But to me they
said yftu were facing the biggest
thing In life, facing it bravely, as I
should want my son to face it. You
. were offering your body and your
soul for a thing bigger than you or
me or America.
"Don't think me silly or senti
mental because I say these things.
ust remember that while you were
fdina through that fire and terror
had to sit here and smile. I had
to try to be as brave as you, so that'
you shouldn't be ashamed of me.
when I wrote to you I tried to write
cheerful, encouraging letters, be
cause I did not want you to go into
battle feeling that I was holding you
back from the big sacrifice. It's
jgjnjy now, when the fighting is over,
that 1 can let down a little and be
just your mother, just the woman
HtfhOloves you better than anything
else in the world and is so glad to
4fi$jy you're coming back to her
that" she doesn't care who sees her
cry.-
' Fight Not Over.
"Perhaps for some of the boys
jwho. have stood with you so finely
through these trials the fighting is
got 'yet all over. The fighting. I
Wie'an is that between a man and
himself, and for many of them this
JiU be the hardest battle of all. Dur
ing the long days and evenings of
Aching before they can start for
flbme thoughts will creep into their
nvfids which will be hard to resist,
admire will be times after all these
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Bionins oi acuon wncu mc uniting
;orichange and for the companion
iiiip of women may lead them into
associations which will spoil their
$ftiiecOming and cause them shame
and humiliation and even perhaps
e them unfit to receive the love
at' awaits them here.
. f"You, dearest boy, are just as
AbOnian'as your comrades, and feel
ings like these may come to you
ifip. r don't tsk you to crush them.
Tliey '"are natural, and they only
prove tha war has failed to dry up
' Jhe';weltSp'ring of your emotions. I
ask you only to recognize them
when they come and to control them
with the fine ' strength you have
: gained while fighting for the ideals
and principles, of America. Just re
member that many joyous years of
IMeware aTiead of you and that the
risk of spoiling them and the love
that will fill them is too tremendous
to run for a short hour of seeming
pleasure.
"Somebody Cared."
"Many of the boys who will come
home with you have no mothers to
write to them. Some of them may
think that no one cares what they
do. But somebody does care.
America cares. And the girls they
will marry some day care. And, oh,
the difference it make in their lives
if they will just remember that there
Is always somebody, always!
Help them to remember. Help
them to come home clean and fine.
Don't let them spoil everything
now. They have been so splendid.
Tyotl think this letter will help
ftem give it to them. If they have no
mothers let me be their mother un
til the have come back and taken
the high places that await them
herel Tell them to write to me. How
I should treasure their letters!
And, of course, you will write to
me. Just say that you understand
that you know why I have written
this letter. Then I can wait months
you W etaoin shrdl shrdlu u u duu
yes, even years knowing that you
will come home to me as fine and
clean as you were when I sent you
away to camp so long ago.
"MOTHER."
Keep the Boys' Thoughts
Centered Around Home
Washington, Dec. 14. (Special).
, Just before leaving for France to
superintend the. demobilization ac
tivities of those organizations which
recently took part in the united
war work campaign, Raymond B.
Fosdick, chairman of the commis
sion on training camp activities,
was interviewed with regard o the
present situation of our overseas
forces. ' ' :i; i
"The problem presented by the
gradual demobilization of more than
2,000,000 men 3,000 miles front home
i one which will tax all our social
to situations which might mean
harm and unhappiness for them."
Club Linen, Napery
and Silver Bear New
Athletic Monogram
Table appointments in the Omaha
Athletic club were selected with
care and judgment. The linens and
napery of choice damask are mark
ed with the initials "O. A. C." in
white.
The silver is unmistakably the
silver of this new clubhouse and no
other, for besides the monogram
"O. A. C", it bears on the back the
complete name of the club.
One of the distinctly new table
appointments, and one in which
Monsieur Chevalier takes especial
pride are the individual silver cream
bottles, miniatures of the regula
tion cream bottle, which the milk
man puts on the back doorstep.
Simple China Patterns.
Plates of varying sizes, cups and
saucers are in a French blue and
pink design while those for the grill
are of a different pattern than the
main dining room. Here a simple
white with blue band is the design.
Glassware is fragile and dainty
and monogrammed with the letters
"O. A. C."
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TO GIVE GLAD HAND AT
NEW ATHLETIC CLUB.
E. L. PARKER.
E. L. Parker succeeded R. E. Ma
gill as manager of the Omaha Ath
letic club when Magill entered the
service. Parker is the man who will
welcome members to the Omaha
Athletic club and look after details
of the house management.
Splendid Settings
for Most Exclusive
Bouquets at New Club
Setting is adequate for the most
exclusive and imposing social func
tions, banquets or dinners, in the
magnificent old blue and ivory din
ing room on the third floor of the
new Atheltic club, which vies with
the most beautiful dining rooms in
the country in beauty of design and
richness of furnishing.
Stenciling has been eliminated
from the old blue and gold striped
silk walls. Bronze velour hangings
with embroidered lambrequins and
trimmed with heavy silk fringe and
tassels draped over lace window
panels; Henple white tables and
chairs of solid mahogany with old
blue tapestry seats contribute to the
satisfaction of this room.
A balcony or mezzanine floor,
overlooking the dining room, where
tables are placed also for dinner and
which will be open- each afternoon
for tea add to the attractiveness of
the whole. Ferns and other greens
will be placed along the railing of
the mezzanine floor.
Four attractively furnished private
dining rooms complete the front
section of the third floor. The
kitchen occupies the rear.
Jewish Correspondence
Bureau Issues Warning
Amsterdam. The Jewish corre
spondence bureau at The Hague has
issued a warning against the Turkish
grand rabbi, Ihaim Nahun and his
deputy, Nissin Nazliah, who have
arrived at The Hague from Con
stantinople on their way to America
and Paris, with the intention, the
bureau says, of creating a sentiment
favorable to Turkey, particularly in
America, and of playing off the in
terests of the entente powers in the
east, one against another.
"Ihaim," the bureau says, "is an
opponent of Jewish national and
Zionist aspirations.. The Jewish
people views its liberation from the
Turkish yoke and a British pro
tectorate as the only way to attain
an independent Jewish state."
America Entered War
to Make Future Wars
Actual Impossibility
Christiana. Norwegian leaders in
science, politics and business have
formed a society for the purpose of
enrolling Norway in a league of
nations built upon a democratic
basis. Professor F. Nansen, the
famous Artie explorer and scientist,
has been elected president of the
society. In his introductory ad
dress, Professor Nansen said:
"The dream of a fraternity of na
tions has suddenly come within
sight. It is the goal of which one
of the world's greatest statesmen,
President Woodrow Wilson, is aim
ing. The reason why America
is. now able to make this Utopian
dream a reality is because the na
tion is young and healthy. America
went into the war only to make
future wars impossible. It will
achieve that end."
British Grand Flet
Celebrates When News
of Peace Is Received
London (Correspondence of the
Associated Press.) A vast chorus of
siren whistles from a thousand fight
ing ships split the air when the Brit
ish grand fleet received the news of
I the signing of the armistice. First
the 30-mile line of vessels sprang
into light. Then, suddenly, the great
fleet of battleships, cruisers, torpedo
destroyers, mine-layers and patrols
united in one huge, synchronized
diapson that startled the hearers for
a radius of 100 miles. The tre
mendous sound re-echoed amongst
the hills on both shores, awesome in
its intensity.
A hundred searchlights, which, for
four years, had resolutely watched
the skies, or peered steadfastly along
dark waters for enemy craft, mer
rily criss-crossed about the sky.
Flares were lit, star shells fired and
here and there some of the greater
ships were fortunate in a fireworks
display.
For 60 minutes the fleet threw off
all reserve and let itself go. At 9
o'clock the sirens suddenly silenced,
the lights snapped out and the grand
fleet was again waiting and watch
ing and ready, and scarcely had the
last sounds died away than from the
admirals' ships there were, winking
at the mastheads, the orders for fur
ther duty.
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the Corner
from the Cluh
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Phone Douglas 3722
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BRAND ICECREAM
is sold by most druggists and confectioners in Omaha.
It is served at the leading clubs, cafes and restaurants.
Wherever quality is the first consideration there you
will find
BRAND ICE CREAM
Demand This Brand There's a Difference
MANUFACTURED BY
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Spacious Quarters
Make Athletic Club
Guests Comfortable
Sleeping quarters in the new club
house, from the fifth floor up, are
spacious, the furnishings well chosen
and with an eye to man's comfort,
which make them particularly
home-like. The furniture is of ma
hogany and maple, built on simple
lines, the special feature being the
old fashioned chest of drawers with
a separate mirror, instead of the
conventional dresser or chiffonier.
Each room is furnished with ma
hogany desk and waste paper basket
to match; clothes closets, tapestry
chairs and cretonne hangings carry
ing out a gray and rose color
scheme, and grip stands. The
choice rooms have the complete
bathroom with built-in tubs and fine
sanitary fixtures, the others lack the
tub. Separate baths are installed in
each corridor.
Well-chosen pictures are being
hung in each room, all of which are
furnished alike, with the variation
of different color schemes on sepa
rate floors.
There are sixty sleeping rooms.
Three Check Stands.
There are three check-stands in
the new clubhouse, one for ladies,
one for men, and one in connection
with the grill, also for. men.
THE BEST REFRIGERATION
was none too good for the
New Athletic Club
That's why a
YORKl,,plInt;erating
was selected after carefully comparing its merits
with those of other makes.
"YORK" machines embody every modern im
provement tending to safe and economical operation
and have the unqualified endorsement of thousands
of satisfied custo
mers. The product of the
largest manufactur
ing concern of the
kind in the country
and the top seller of
all makes. Sizes and
styles to meet every
need.
"Buy 'em in Omaha"
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ICE MACHINE COMPANY
1213-15-17 Jackson St.,
OMAHA NEB.
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Nearly twenty
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During that time we
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Glass for most of
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vicinity.
We Give Service
Whether the Job
is Large or Small
phone us
DOUGLAS 791
for prices on
Glass, Paints, etc.
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(Formerly Midland Glass & Paint Co.)
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11th and Howard
