THE BEE; OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JULY ' 16, -1919.
The unfortunate are uaattractfva.
Work is man's trua majatty.
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Alas, by what rnda fata
Our livsa, liks ships at saa, an Instant maat,
Then part foravar on thalr coursaa f last I S ted man.
THE
WOMAN IN BLACK
By EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY
" Copyright, Ul. by
"The people!" she said. "Oh,
those people! Can you imagine what
it must be for any one who has
lived in a -world where there was al
ways creative work in the back
ground, work with some dignity
about it, men and women with pro
fessions or arts to follow, with ideals
and things to believe in and quarrel
about, some of them 'wealthy, some
of the,m quite poor,--can you think
what it means to step out of that in
to another world where you have
to be very rich, shamefully rich, to
exist tt all where money is the
only thing that counts and the first
thing in everybody's thoughts
where the men who make the mil
lions are so jaded by the work that
sport is the only thing they can oc
cupy themselves with when they
have any leisure, and the men who
don't have to work are even duller
than tfie men who do, and vicious as
well; and the women live for display
and silly amusements and silly im
moralities do you know how awful
that life is? Of course I
know there are clever people and
people of taste in that set, but
they're swamped and spoiled, and it's
the same thing in the end empty,
empty! Oh! I suppose I'm exag
gerating, and I did make friends and
have some happy times; but that's
how I feel after it all. The seasons
in New York and London! How I
hated them! And our house parties
and cruises in the yacht and the
rest the same people, the same
emptiness!
"And you see, don't you, that
my husband couldn't have an idea of
all this? His life was never empty.
He- did not live it in society and
wben he was in society he had al
ways his business plans and difficul
ty occupy his mind. He hadn't a
suspicion of what I felt, and I never
let him know I couldn't; it wouldn't
have been fair. I felt I must do
something to justify myself as his
wife, sharing his position and for
tune; and the only thing I could do
was to try, and try, to live up to
his idea about my social qualities.
I did try. I acted my best.
And it became harder year by year.
I never was what they call
a popular hostess how could I be?
I was a failure; but I went on try
ing. I used to steal holi
days now and then. I used to feel
as if I was not doing my part on a
bargain it sounds horrid to put it
like that, I know, but it was so
when 1 took one of my old school
friends, who couldn't afford to
travel, away to Italy for a month
or two, and we went about cheaply
happy;, or when I went and make a
long stay in London with some quiet
people who had known me all my
life, and we all lived as in the old
days, when we had to think twice
about seats at the treater, and told
each other about cheap dressmakers.
Those and a few other expeditions
of the same sort were my best times
after I was married, and they helped
me to go through with it the rest of
the time. But I felt my husband
would have hated to know how
much I enjoyed everv hour of those
returns to the old life.
"And in the end, in spite of every
thing I could do, he came to know.
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Big Purchase Rogers'
1881 Silverware On
SUE SATURDAY at
Union Outfitting Go,
The Low Sale Prices Will
Be the Talk of Omaha
for Many Months
to Come.
Sale Includes Individual
Pieces as Well as Com
plete Sets in Cases.
A Mg purchase of William
A. Roger's, 1881 A-l guar
anteed Silverware will be
placed on sale by the Union
Outfitting Company v.exi Sat
urday at hundreds of dollars
less than such high-grade sil
verware should be selling for
today.
The enormous saving is due
to the fact that heavy orders
were placed with the maker
early this year and previous
to the heavy advances in the
price of metals. The. result is
an opportunity to buy silver
ware at prices that may not
be offered again for months
to come.
Included in the purchase
were a great many 26-piece
sets put up in lined cases.
There are also many dozens
of knives, forks, spoons and
teaspoons which can be pur
chased separately or by the
dozen.
The sale is just another con
vincing evidence of the great
buying power of the Union
Outfitting Company and its
ability to lower prices because
of its location out of the high
rent district, where, as always,
you make your own terms.
tha Century company.
He could see through any
thing, I think, once his attention
was turned to it. He had always
been able to see that I was not ful
filling his idea of me as a figure in
the social world, and I suppose he
thought it was my misfortune rather
than my fault. But the moment he
began to see, in spite of my pre
tending, that I wasn't playing my
part with any spirit, he knew the
whole story; he divined how I
loathed and was weary of the luxury
and the brilliancy and the masses
of money just because of the people
who lived among them who were
made so by them, I suppose.
It happaned last year. I
don't know just how or when. It
may have been suggester to him
by some woman for they all under
stood, of course. He said nothing
to me, and I think he tried not to
change in his manner to me at first;
but such things hurt and it was
working in both of us. I knew that
he knew. After a time we were just
being polite and considerate to each
other. Before he found me out we
had been on a footing of how can
I express it to you? of intelligent
companionship, 1 might say. We
talked without restraint of many
things of the kind we could agree or
disagree about without its going
very deep if you under
stand. And then that came to an
end. I felt that the only possible
basis of our living in each other's
company was going under my feet.
And at last it was gone.
"It had been like that," she ended
simply, "for months before he died."
She sank into the corner of a sofa
by the window, as though relaxing
her body after an effort. For a few
minutes both were silent. Trent was
hastily sorting out a tangle of im
pressions. He was amazed at the
frankness of Mrs. Manderson's story.
He was amazed at the vigorous ex
pressiveness in her telling of it. In
this vivid being, carried away by an
impulse to speak, talking with her
whole personality, he had seen the
real woman in a temper of activity,
as he had already seen the real
woman by chance in a temper of
reverie and unguarded emotion. In
both she was very unlike the pale,
self-disciplined creature of majesty
that she had been to the world.
With that amazement of his went
something like terror of her dark
beauty, with excitement kindled into
an appearance scarcely mortal in
his eyes. Incongruously there rush
ed into his mind, occupied as it was
with the affair of the moment, a lit
tle knot of ideas she was
unique not because of her beauty
but because of its being united with
intensity of nature; in England all
the verv beautiful women were
placid, all the fiery women seemed
to have 'burnt up the best of their
beauty; that was why no beautiful
woman had ever cast this sort 01
spell on himbefore; when it was a
question of wit in .women he had
preferred the brighter flame to the
duller, without much regarding the
lamp.. "All this is very disputable,"
said his reason; and instinct an
swered, "Yes except that I am un
der a spell"; and a deeper instinct
cried out, "Away with it!" He
forced his mind back to her story,
and found growing swiftly in him
an irrepressible conviction. It was all
very fine; but it would not do.
"I feel as if I had led you into
saying more than you meant to say,
or than I wanted to learn," he said
slowly. "But there is one brutal
question which is the whole point
of my inquiry." He braced his
frame like on preparing for a plunge
into cold waters. "Mrs. Manderson,
will you assure me that your hus
band's change toward you had noth
ing to do with John Marlowe?"
And what he had dreaded came.
"Oh!" she cried with a sound of
anguish, her face thrown up and
open hands stretched out as if for
pity; and then the hands covered the
burning face, and she flung herself
aside among the cushions at her
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In What State Is Louisiana ?
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Have you noticed that state names are being used by parents for the
Christian names of their offspring? Virginia, of course, is a well known
example, though it seems to us that -the state was originally named after
some fair lady or other. The telephone directory discloses the fact that
there is a Mary Land, too. Washington is the exclusive property of the
male sex. And now comes Vivian Martin, who plays the title role in
"Louisiana." Louisiana lives, incidentally, in South Carolina. Geographies
please copy. The name of the colored mammy is not stated.
elbow, so that he saw nothing but
her heavy crown of black hair and
her body moving with sobs that
stabbed his heart, and a foot turned
inward gracefully in an abandon
ment of misery. Like a tall tower
suddenly breaking apart she had
fallen in ruins, helplessly weeping.
Trent stood up, his face white and
calm. With a senseless particularity
he placed his envelop exactly in the
center of the little polished table.
He walked to the door, closed it
noiselessly as he went out, and in a
few minutes was tramping through
the rain out of sight of White
Gables, going nowhere, seeing noth
ing, his soul shaken in the fierce
effort to kill and trample the raving
impulse that had seized him in the
presence of her shame, that clamored
to him to drag himself before her
feet, to pray for pardon, to pour
out words he knew not what words,
but he knew that they had qeen
straining at his lips to wreck his
self-respect forever, and hopelessly
defeat even the crazy purpose that
had almost possessed him, by drown
ing her wretchedness in disgust, by
babbling with a tongue of infatua
tion to a woman with a husband
not yet buried, to a woman who
loved another man.
Such was the magic of her tears,
quickening in a moment the thing
which, as his heart had known, he
must not let come to life. For
Philip Trent was a young man,
younger in nature even than his
years, and a way of life that kept
his edere keen and his spirit volcanic
had prepared him very ill for the
meeting that comes once in the
early manhood of most of us, usually
as in his case, he told himself
harshly to no purpose but the
testing of virtue and the power of
the will.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
Old Fashioned Stuff.
"He's old fashioned."
"So? "
"Yes. Refuses to ask for a raise
in pay on the theory that if his work
warrants an increase in salary his
emoloyers will recognize the fact
and hand it out to him." Detroit
Free Press.
Mary Pickford's Little
Niece Wants to Be Like
Aunt Mary. ,
.r.y.v,-.W()?v..v.'wy.i
Up Against it.
"I can't raise $50 that's all there
is to that! I got a notice from my
bank this morning that I had over
drawn!" "Well try some other bank. They
can't all be overdrawn." Vanity
Fair.
J sir.
When our Mary Pickford of to
day has cast aside her ging
ham dress and little strands of gray
come peeping through her yellow
curis if such can be imagined she
is going to be able to go down to
the "movie" house, pay her quarter
and see "Mary the Second" taking
up her work where she heself left
off. That is all of this will come
true if the dreams of her little
niece, Mary, daughter of Miss Pick
ford's sister, Lottie, are anything
like what regular dreams ought to
be. The younger Mary seen at her
famous aunt's home at Fremont
Place, Los Angeles, says she is just
waiting to be, as great an actress
as .".untie xuarv.
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Basket Stores Picnic and Dance
THURSDAY, JULY 17TH
LAKE VIEW PARK
In recognition of the very generous patronage accorded the BASKET
STORES by the people of Omaha, South Omaha, Xorth Omaha, Dundee, Florence
and Council Bluffs, an old-time BASKET PICNIC will be held at above named
Park on the date named, "rain or shine." Games and Contests of all kinds.
Many Valuable Prizes.
THIS PICNIC IS FOR BASKET STORES' EMPLOYES AND PATRONS,
and you are very cordially invited to come out and spend the day and evening,
with us. The day is yours help us celebrate.
t Get Free Tickets at the Basket Store Near You
Everyone Must Have Tickets
All BASKET STORES in Omaha, South Omaha, North Omaha, Dundee, Ben
son and Florence CLOSED ALL DAY. ANTICIPATE YOUR REQUIRE
MENTS, GET YOUR GROCERIES AND MEATS ON WEDNESDAY, AT BAS
KET STORES, AND ASK FOR FREE ADMISSION AND DANCE TICKETS
AT SAME TIME.
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Live Better
for Less
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HOUSEHOLD ARTS VSPT CEJtTFAL HIGH SCHOOL
Household Thrift
The government is not losing its
interest in our methods of living,
now that the war is over. A recent
bulletin published jointly by the
Treasury department and the De
partment of Agriculture analyzed
household thrift, and gives many
reasons why the nation desires such
thrift. .
"Household thrift helped win the
war. It wilf fortify the peace, mak
ing America powerful, its people
prosperous, and its homes happy.
"What one home wastes is taken
away from the nation's wealth, and
makes all homes that much poorer.
"The war taught us to practice
thrift together in food, clothing and
in all goods, in order to serve Amer
ica and save the world. Our coun
try asks continued thrift in the
home as a guarantee that we shall
remain a prosperous, progressive,
independent, and dependable nation.
"Thrift is a permanent service
which the household can render to
the nation."
Some Things That Household Thrift
Demands.
As Regards Food.
Foods that please the purse as
well as the palate. Meals planned
to provide necessary nourishment
for children and adults at moderate
costs.
Food waste checked in storage,
in preparation, at table, and by use
of left-overs.
Food producd at home in gardens,
by poultry, etc., where possible.
As Regards Clothing.
Selection for length of service as
well as appearance; in a moderate
mode rather than extreme fashion.
Purchase in terms of a planned
wardrobe rather than a bargain im
pulse; in terms of a clothing allow
ance, kept proportionate to other
needs.
Care as regards laundering, re
moving spots, pressing, storage
while in use and between seasons.
Altering, remaking, and repairing to
prolong service.
As Regards the House and Its Fur
nishings. House and furnishings suitable for
the family's needs rather than for
display.
Immediate care and repair when
needed.
Conditions of air, light, interior
space, and outside grounds that will
promote health.
As Regards Fuel, Light, Refrigera
tion. Intelligent management of fires
for heating and cooking to reduce
fuel consumption. Fireless cookers
and other fuel-saving devices used
when practicable.
Lights economized by burning
only, when in use, and by consider
ing number and size of lights
needed.
Ice consumption reduced by effi
cient refrigerators and ice boxes;
by window food coolers; and iceless
refrigerators.
As Regards Time.
A daily and weekly plan for house
work, reducing the hours of work
ing day where feasible as has been
done in industry; saving time by
simple living, by convenient work
rooms, by efficient utensils and
working equipment, by sharing
work between members of the
family.
As Regards Money Spending.
Definite plans for future spending
for a week, a month, a year.
Amounts proportioned to differ
ent needs, to different persons, to
different times, both present and
future.
Records of spending for trial at
least.
Review of spending to learn wise
future spending.
The consideration of spending as
a practical expression of ideals.
As Regards the Personal Life of
Family.
Planning to meet the family's
legitimate needs for education, re
ligion, and recreation and for friend
liness and helpfulness between
themselves and others.
As Regards Saving and Investment.
Recognition of the need to save
for education and well-rounded de
velopment of self and family; for
opportunities in business; for emer
gencies of sickness, unemployment,
death in the family; for the decrease
of earnings in old age.
With few exceptions, actresses
receive less pay than actors.
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This is a season of white in
Milady's footwear. White Ox
fords or Pumps are particularly
the favorites. Pretty white Co
lonials vie with clever
new Oxfords in a wealth
of stripes and sizes.
Be sure you wear white
now be doubly sure you
secure them at Fry's
where quality and moder
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