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What is It to be wis?
Tit but to know how little can be known;
To M all others' faults, and feel your own.
Pope.
Wisdom and Goodness are Iwin-horn, one heart
Mutt hold both sisters, never teen apart.
Cowper.
Promises Easily Made Are Easily
Broken Either to Soldiers or
By Soldiers and Maids
The Graduation Frock
Try to Live With Your Child in
World Who Can Guess What the
of -Imagination and He Will
Be Easier to Guide
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Doll's Face Registers
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 22, 1919
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By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
When Johnny went marching off
and the bands played and the flags
fluttered and everyone was keyed
to the highest emotional pitch, it
was very easy to imagine oneself in
love with Johnny and swear
eternal loyalty to him.
But it was another matter to
keep that promise in the dull re
action of the gray days that fol
lowed. It was so easy to whisper
"yes" and vow you'd never go out
to the movies, theaters or dances
with anyone else while the regi
mental band was playing "Tip
perary" and the hooraying was
going on. But it became terribly
hard to keep that promise when
no bands played, flags fluttered and
every girl one knew was going out
and having a beautiful time.
You promised, but what you really
fell in love with was the drama of
the situation and not the actual sol
dier boy.
And what the soldier boy who
has forgotten fell in love with,
was not the actual Mary Robinson,
but the idea of a girl praying for
him at home and keeping a light
burning before his image in the
inner sanctuary of her heart.
You see, perhaps, he did not love,
the actual Mary at all, but just the
figure' of that waiting girl and
when he came across the real girl,
he forgot all about the lay figure
at home. She was just a peg to
hang a few grand-opera emotions
on, anyhow.
Love Versus Fancy.
The real tragedy happens when
one loves and the other only fan
cies he loves. And it is better to
walize this first as wel) as last, and
get the remedy adjusted accord
ingly. This theme, and variations upon
it, are the burden of a good many
letters that come to me these days.
She fell in love with someone "over
here." and shows no jov when
Jcrmny conies inarching home. Or
he fell in love with someone "over
tl trc" and displays a marked lack
of enthusiasm when he meets the
girl he left behind him.
This is a highly unpleasant situa
tion, but it is not necessarily fata!
unless you attempt to make good
your promise and marry someone
you no longer love. This is fatal,
the most fatal of situations, along
side of which everything else may
be lived down, ameliorated,' reclaim
ed, rectified but only this, to marry
someone you no longer love.
Then, indeed, you have a very
genuine tragedy on your hands that
will demand all your stoical quali
ties to get through your daily 24
hours. So before it is too late, con
fess and get your release from a
mistaken promise, give" in good
faith, no doubt, but fatal in its con
sequences to both it kept.
If you find yourself in this kind of
a plight, do not lose a dav in ex
tricating yourself and do it truth
fully and frankly. But please do
not from moral cowardice allow
the situation to drift and imagine
that time will adjust things. This
COUNCIL BLUFFS
SOCIETY NOTES
Miss Emma Peterson and Mr.
Clarence Ingraham were quietly
married on Wednesday afternoon at
the home of the bride's mother, Mrs.
Anna Peterson. Only the immedi
ate relatives were present at the
ceremonv which was performed by
Rev. Field of Atlantic. Miss Pet
erson was formerly private secre
tary to J. J. Hughes. The groom is
a former resident here. Mr. and
Mrs. Ingram will visit relatives Jn
Spokane before going to California
to make their home.
Harmony chapter Kensington so-
cietv met on luesday atternoon at
the "home of Mrs. H. J. Geise, 202
Grace street. A few matters of busi
ness were arranged and a short pro
gram followed, in which Miss Neva
McComb. Miss I.eona White. Miss
Kathryn Cheyne. Miss Dorothy Fer
guson and Miss Dorothy Hurd took
part. The hostess was assisted in
serving by Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Lau
strup and Mrs. Gillaspy.
A quiet wedding took place on
Tuesday at 3 o'clock at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Slover, 623
Sixth avenue. The contracting part
ies were Free N. Tallman. whd
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ot tile Aonpariei ana -uiss .Margaret
Slover. oldest daughter of Mr. and
' Mrs. Slaver. Rev. J. Frederick Cat
lin used the ring service in perform
in? the ceremony. Only the two im
mediate families were present. After
a short honeymoon the couple will
makj their home in the western part
of the citv.
Dr. and Mrs. W. F. David, who
have been the guests of their daugh
ter. Mrs. W. F. Shirley, for several
weeks, returned to Marshalltown on
Wednesday. They were accompan
ied bv Mrs. Shirley and Mr. Shirley
will join them about July 1. Mr. and
Mrs. Shirley will then go on to New
York in time for the summer ses
sion at Columbia.
The Ideal club held their annual
picnic luncheon at the Boat club
on Tuesday. Thirty guests were
seated at one long table under the
trees. The feature of the afternoon
was a talk by Mrs. Anna Steece
Richardson, the well known maga
zine writer, who told of her trip to
France and her meeting with
Colonel Tinley and Capt. Van Or
der. Mrs. Hunter and Miss De Vol
then gave some very interesting re
ports of the state federation meet
ing at Ames. The program com
mittee then distributed the new year
books, which outline a study of cur
rent events and Iowa history for
the coming year. Mrs. Richardson
was formerly a resident of this city
and society editor of the Xonpar
iel. She has a host of friends here
who are delighted to have this op
portunity to talk over old times
with her and to congratulate her
is as untrue a it is cowardly and
cun only he productive of the great
j est unhappiness to everyone con
j ctrned.
A young soldier has written me
i a pretty bitter letter regarding treat
jiiKnt of this ort at the hands of
I a girl to whom he ius engaged. She
continued to write him deeply at
j fectionate letters, even after she had
j married someone cKe. and she neg
i It cted wholly to tell him of her mar
' r'age. The boy returned home ex
! pecting to marry her almost imme
diately and he went to her home,
only to discover her a married wom
an. She wrote him an abject letter
after a pretty stormy scene, saying
lie had been too terrified to write
to him Ijefore. The young man en
closed her letter to me with the re
mark: "I am done with women."
Perhaps he is, or perhaps he is
not. Sometimes a woman hater is
i made in this fashion, and again in
six months' time the young man
i lives to thank his lucky stars for a
j most fortunate escape. There is
j only one solvent and one remedy,
and that is time,
j Over-Conscientious Girls,
j Sometimes girls have made' nrom
. iscs to young soldiers and, though
the boys have not written nor kept
their word in regard to fideliiy
' some of them even marrying their
! over-conscientious sweethearts re-
gard themselves as bound by these
I past promises. Such a letter came
in my mail a day or two ago: and
i why any girl should fail to renlizi
; that such an arrangement tormi-
nates automatically with the break
ing of the word of one or the other
of the parties I don't see.
And still another letter that game
to me revealed a highly amusing
social comedy in which both parties
"Johnny who went marching otT"
and "the girl he left behind him"
had both been faithless, yet
neither were good enough sports to
realize the humor of the situation.
These are the facts of the case.
Johnny fell in love with a French
girl, and she came to this country
as his war bride. The girl he left
behind him had an almost similar
experience she married a young
soldier who did not manage to get
across. Neither of these young peo
ple knew of the marriage of the
other until about three weeks ago,
when all parties concerned met face
to face at a war camp community
dance.
There was Johnny and his French
bride and the girl and her soldier
husband. Johnny and The Girl,
though each had treated the other
with the same measure of infidelity,
were furiously angry. Each berated
the other and talked witheringly.
and it was only when the French
wife and the American husband of
the parties of the first and second
part, introduced themselves and de
cided to dance, while their respec
tive spouses fought it out that any
thing like peace was restored.
In, the meantime the latest var
romance became known to the as
sembled company, and the entire
room shouted with laughter, while
Johnny and The Girl continued to
accuse each other of a want of
faith.
Oh, it is a merry, merry woild!
upon the success she has made in
the literary world.
Mrs. W. J. Barrett entertained
the South First street chapter of
St. Paul's guild on Monday after
noon. Plans were discussed for the
picnic to be held at Manawa on
July 7, at which the families of the
members wrll be guests. Mrs. Bar
rett was assisted in serving by her
sister-in-law, Miss Barrett.
Announcements have been re
ceived of the marriage of Miss Mil
dred Vogeler. formerly of this city,
and Louis A. Mahncke. A very
pretty ceremony took place at the
home of the bride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Otto Vogeler. The bride is a
graduate of the Council Bluffs high
school and of the College of Puget
Sound. She has been teaching for
the last two years.
Dr. and Mrs. Donald Macrae have
been attending the convention of
the American Medical association.
The picnic of the Council Bluffs
Woman's club has been postponed
one week and will be held at Fair
mont park instead of at the home
of Mrs. W. G. Rich, as was planned.
The change was necessary on ac
count of the condition of the roads.
Misses Mary and Ruth Wallace
left Tuesday evening for Goldfie'd.
Ore., where they will spend the
summer. Enroute they will visit
their brother at Sacremento.
Miss Marie Svantner of Primrose.
Neb., and Miss Wilma Garwood of
Carroll, Neb. are guests at the home
of Judge and Mrs. Walter I. Smith.
Among the most interesting
events of the week was the reunion
of the class of 1878 of the Council
Bluffs High school, held on Satur
dav evening at the home of Judge
-md Mrs. Walter I. Smith. The
program of that date was repeated
as nearly as possible. Rev. Criss
man delivered the opening prayer,
taking the place of his predecessor.
Rev. S. M. Walters. Mrs. Hattie
Gardener Shephard read the salu
tatory for Mrs. Katie Blaxim Pow
ers, who was unable to he present.
Mrs. May Baker Restrick, now of
Honolulu, sent her essay to Mrs.
F. W. Houghton to read. The pa
per of Mrs. Laufa Cacv McBridc,
now deceased, was supplied by her
daughter and read by Mrs. Effie
Patton Wead. Mrs." Walter I.
Smith, Mrs. Carrie Thickstun Bai
lenger and Mrs. Alice Mottaz Coop
er read their essays as on the orig
inal occasion. Those of Mrs. Mary
Reese McMillan. Mrs. Ida Noack
Frazier. Ida Harris Beno, Mrs.
Effie Patton Wead. Miss Betty
Graves and Walter Tostevin could
not be found. Mrs. Smith read the
valedictory for Miss Delia Thrall,
who could not be present. Out of
the class of 14 seven were able to
be present, and the essavs of four
others were produced. The chorus
which was sung by the student body
in 1878 was rendered by several
members of the class. Mrs. Smith
affd M iss Grace Smith. Mrs. B. O.
Bruington played the oiano solo
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Either of these white organaie frocks from Good House
keeping would be charming for graduation or for summer i
wear. Fine tucking and fluted ruffles make the one at the I
left particularly smart. Embroidery and lace trim the other. !
Summer
From the time the earliest seed
is put into the ground to the har
vesting of the last crop, every home
vegetable garden may be expected
to suffer from the attacks of the
army of insect pests which annually
creep from their winter quarters,
hungry from their long fast, to fat
ten on the carefully nurtured seed
lings, riddle the grown plants, and
multiply to countless thousands dur
ing the days of midsummer. The
careful and far-sighted gardener
may most readily demonstrate his
skill through the adoption and cor
rect application of the remedies best
designed to control this horde.
Colorado Potato Beetle.
Wherever a small plot of potatoes
is grown, the Colorado potato beetle
is likely to be found. The mature
or "hardshell" beetles, which have
spent the winter safely buried in the
ground, begin to come out about
the time when tfie plants are a few
inches high. First they hungrily
devour a part of the young and
tender foliage, after which they be
gin to deposit, on the undersides of
the leaves, their clusters of orange
colored eggs, of which 1,000 or
more may be laid by a single female.
Effective work may be done at this
time by hand-picking the beetles
from the plants into a can of water,
with a little kerosene over the sur
face. The eggs may be crushed be
tween thumb and finger.
Care at this stage will prevent
the appearance of the fat, shiny red
larvae or "slugs," which are much
more destructive than the beetles,
frequently stripping the plant en
tirely if left without attention. When
first hatched, these feed in groups,
but as they grow larger, they spread
over the plant. When growth is
completed, they descend to the
ground, into which they burrow to
a depth of several inches. When
in the course of a few days they
again emerge, they have taken the
form of the parent beetles.
The Colorado potato beetle is one
of the pests most easily controlled.
It feeds readily on poisoned foliage,
and the well known treatments of
spraying or dusting with arsenate
of lead or Paris green should be
familiar to every grower. The spray
given by Mrs. Carrie Atkins Phil
lips. Refreshments were served at
the close of the program. Mr. and
Mrs. F. D. Wead and Mr. Edgar
II. Scott of Omaha were the only
out-of-town guests. About 35
guests were present, among them
many friends of the class, who were
in the high school at the same time.
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Gardens
mixture may be prepared in small
quantities by mixing two-thirds of
an ounce, or 10 level teaspoonfuls
of powdered arsenate of lead with a
gallon of water. (This should he ap
plied with a sprayer capable of
throwing a fine, misty spray. A
good atomizer will do effective work
on a small scale, at a cost of $1 or
less. The upper surfaces of the
leaves should be well covered by
the spray. A simple method of
dusting is to mix thoroughly the
same quantity of powdered arsenate
of lead or a heaping tablespoonful
of Paris green with a quart of air
slaked lime or lime plaster. Dust
this over the plants by shaking
through a cheesecloth bag.
Garden beets are attacked by a
leaf spot which materially injures
their growth, but it so easy to make
a new planting of beets that it hard
ly pays to spray, especially in the
very small garden. This is practic
ally true of a large number of dis
eases. By keeping stock solutions of
copper sulphate and lime on hand, a
little Bordeaux mixture can easily
be made up and applied with a
cheap spray outfit that can be pur
chased in any seed store. Where
these sprayers are not made of brass
or copper, the Bordeaux mixture
should not be allowed to stand in
them, and they should be thorough
ly cleansed with clean water after
using.
The secret of combating any of
the diseases is to keep the plants in
a healthy condition, and where !t
is feared that the various leaf spot
diseases may appear, it is a good
plan to spray the plants early in
their period of growth and thus pro
tect them against the invasion of
diseases.
Eelworms Work in Dark.
Nematodes or eelworms belong to
the class of pests that work junder
ground and do their, mischief be
fore the gardener is aware of their
presence. They workupon a large
number of crops, causing large cork
like masses to form upon the roots.
These pests are distributed widely,
especially on the light, sandy loam
soils of the southern states. No
practical remedy can be applied "to
the growing crop, and great care
should be taken that plants pur
chased from seedsmen and plant
growers are free from any small
knots or other growth upon their
roots that would indicate the pres
ence of nematodes. This, of course,
does not apply to peas and beans
and other plants of the legume fam
ily, on which the nitrogen bacteria
nodules are usually present.
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While visiting a school I over
eard this dialogue between an un
imaginative teacher and a small boy
wlto was helping to remove some
cobwebs from a cabinet in the class
room: "Spiderwebs are very beautiful,
aren't they, 'Miss Andrews?"
"Hold the pan higher."
"All spiders aren't bad spiders;
some spiders are good spiders, aren't
they, Miss Andrews?"
"Watch what you are doing"
"I know a story about a spider.
Miss Holmes told a story to her
class about Robert Bruce and the
spider"
"When?" severely. The child
hung his head. "It you loiter at
her door again. I'll keep you in."
A sullen look appeared on his face
and the work was continued in
silence. After he had left the room
she turned to me and said: "That
boy gets sulky spells. "Oh, he likes
nature work and stories, but I
never could tell a story."
Upon my suggesting that stories
stimulate the imagination, she held
up her hands and with a look of
horror declared: "Imagination!
You don't have to stimulate chil
dren's imagination. The trouble is
they have too much!"
She was unable to reconcile her
adult mental attitude with a child's
outlook.
A little girl, as she ran up and
down the steps of a broad terrace
surrounding a house in the country,
kept saying to herself: "It's just like
an old castle! It's just like an old
castle!" 1
"Nellie," commanded her father,
"don't do that! You'll fall."
"She is always falling," he ex
plained to his hostess.
"Does she hurt herself?" asked
the lady.
"No, but she might, she is so awk
ward. She gets worse all the time."
His little daughter manifested a
lively imagination, but he did not
understand how to make it of use in
developing restraint and poise.
Live with children and one lives
in a world of perpetual imagination.
In no way can we more easily con
trol the child's acts, form his habits,
mould his thoughts, than along this
avenue of approach to his mind. Re
Monday we enter the final stages of the June White Sale. Perhaps the most inter
esting feature is our sale of the Belated Shipment of Muslin Underwear, which be
gan Saturday.
A big lot of most desirable merchandise, which was secured before the recent
market rise, offered now because of delayed shipment, at prices much under pres
ent value. Grouped for convenience of inspection.
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NIGHT GOWNS
Crepes, Nainsook, Longcloths, White,
lacy styles and plainer tailored vari
ety, also in flesh tints and printed fig
ures $1.35, $1.98 and $2.98
ENVELOPES
In the exquisite modeling of Paris
style. A wide variety from the wide,
soft lace trim to the buttonhole em
broidery. Prices $1.59, $1.95 and $2.49
PETTICOATS
The cut that is most unobtrusive, short,
figure-fitting, nowr shadow, splendid
materials $1.49 and $1.95
WHITE DRESS MATERIALS
Sale prices while they last:
$1.00 Fancy White Skirting 79c
$1.25 Fancy White Skirting 98c
75c Plain Voile
75c Poplin 59c
65c 42-inch Longcloth -..;,;
75c 42-inch Longcloth 59c
proof may adroitly be given by a
playful appeal to the fancy.
"Poor Tatsey," murmured a fath
er, shaking his head as his heedless
little soil, a sturdy boy of 5, stum
bled and fell repeatedly during a
short ramble in ameadow. "Poor
Patsey! One would think to look
at him that he had nice bright eyes,
but they arc just beads."
The next day, running impetuous
ly to meet me, this same little fel
low stumbled over a stone, fell and
got up, saying good-humoredly
"If daddy was here he'd tell me I
had beads for eyes." His heedless
ness was soon corrected by this jest.
"The flowers are asking why Pat
sey doesn't take his feet oil and
leave them at home when lit comes
to sec us," I suggested one' day
when he trampled my snowdrops.
"What do the flowers say now?"
h; whispered as he quickly removed
the offending members from the
bulb bed and looked wistfully into
my face.
"They say. 'Thank you, Patsey.' "
I replied. '"If you keep your feet
on the paths you may bring them
with you when you come to the
garden.' " And so a rebuke attained
its end without creating antagon
ism. Sometimes it happens that chil
dren lose the sense of discrimina
tion between fact and fancy. Then
we should clarify their ideas with
out implanting a sense of guilt.
It was discovered that a hitherto
truthful child was beginning to make
misstatements, evidently not for the
purpose of deception, but entirely
through confusion of thought. I
had read him an account in a news
paper of a dog that put his paws
on the steering wheel of an auto
mobile while his master, sitting-beside
him, changed the gears and saw
to the .essentials of running the :-ar
He made no comment at the time,
but his imagination seized upon the
idea. A couple of months later he
told me that he had seen a dog
running a car on Fifth avenue.
"His master was with him," I re
sponded. "No, not that one: this dog was
alone. He changed the gears him
self." The following incident shows his
manner of applying my careful defi-
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many kindly expressions that have come to our institu
tion since the announcement of Mr. CoweWs retirement.
Joined with this is a deep sense of appreciation and
delight in the many glowing tributes to Mr. Cowell per
sonally. To preserve the high standard which he has done so
much to give to this business and to deserve your contin
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Hatred? Fear Amazement? It's all in the way you look at it. for.
Vivian Martin's doll, in her expressions, follows this new school of acting,
where everything is left to the imagination of her audience. Our office
boy claims she is trying to look like a base ball, while the janitor insists
she is trying to look like the office hoy: a sentimental stenog sees love
clearly portrayed on the doll's face. There is no mistaking the expression of
Vivian, however, in her pose of old-fashioned innocence.
nition. He told his aunt that he '
had seen two squirrels running
toward each other on a branch of a
tree. They had their mouths filled
with nuts, and they ran so fast that
they "bumped heads" and knocked
the nuts out. After an effective
pause he added: "That's a joke. I
made it up! Now this is real"
and he repeated a simple incident !
of a squirrel carrying away the j
walnuts that he had laid on the
grounc to dry. i
Some children naturallv make the.
distinction between fact and fancy
without assistance. One of my -.1:ld
companions usually explained his
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representations where . they might
not be obvous, so that we lived in
a world of "pretend" without any
feeling of deception "1 can't come
to see you. 1 shall be too busy tak
ing care of my horse (you know, my
toy horse), and my automobile (you
know, my bftycle)."
"Ride over on your horse."
"Oh, he is' too wild."
"Then come in your car."
"It costs too much for gas and
water."
Natal is expected ' to break its
sugar producing record this year
with an output exceeding 140,
000 tons.
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