THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1919.
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Omaha city parks ' contain more
than 80 varieties of trees that are
native to Nebraska. , " '
What The Bee Stands For:
1. Respect for the law and maintenance of
Order. - ?
2. Speedy and certain punishment of crime
through the regular operation of the
courts. v .
3. Pitiless publicity and condemnation of
' inefficiency, lawlessness and corup-
ion in office. '
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, of Jionest and efficient public service,
5. Inculcation of Americanism as the true
basis of good citizenship.
BRING OUT ALL THE FACTS.
The case taken to, the grand jury by the
local machinists' anion, in which the rights of
a young man are said to have been ignored,
first by a policeman, second by the police judge,1
and finally by an attorney, deserves fullest in
vestigation. On the surface it looks like one
of the most remarkable outrages ever com
mitted. That a boyr a stranger in the city, should be
arrested at the door of a hotel where he was
about to apply for lodging, is remarkable in
itself. That he should v be charged with
vagrancy, in spite ol the fact thai, he was' pos
sessed of $130 in cash, a paid-up working card
in a great international labor union, and other
documents that would easily prove his charac
ter, is a sign of malicious stupidity on part of
the officer whejjnade the arrest.
When arraigned in police courtthe judge
should have given the case at least sufficienflt
tention to determine if the story told by the
victim had any merit. Instead, the perfunctory
process of listening to what the arresting officer
had to say and then inflicting a sentence of
fifteen days in jail was gone through, apd the
lad was hurried without ceremony to the
county jail. '
Finally, the course of the attorney who se-v
cured his release, with the incidental sequestra
tion of $100 in cash, as an earnest that the fee
of the freeholder who qualified on the bail bond
would be paid, also invitesinspection.
All in all, the case is so remarkable in its
outward aspect that for the good of Omaha
the facts should be completely sifted. The
action of the machinists in moving to secure a
full inquiry is commendable. It may bring out
the truth, and possibly suggest that further re
forms are needed in the police system, or lack
of system. '
Vote for the school bonds today.
Ak-Sar-Ben also looks like a winner.
It takes the Red Cross workers, to stage a
Teal drive. (
Where
does the, "muny"
under the fuel control?
coal yard stand
Better schools and more
slogan for growing Omaha.
of them is the
Voters will dispose of slates today very much
as they have in other elections. J
" '
Omaha needs. a new jail, and while we are
cleaning house, we might as well make the job
complete.
Women are going to take a hand in the
bond vote today, which means the schools wilt
get the boost they riced.
The president js reported able to sit up an4
do i little work. Well, some one connected
with the government ought to.
One of those big Farnam street cirs ought
to make considerable runaway down the long
Tenth street, hill, and it apparently did.
f Administration leaders are moving to secure
- a vote on the Versailles treaty this week. Must
be interested in. the vanishing vacation.
Sunday auto speeders made a fine array in
police court Monday, but enough got away to
make life on the road interesting for the sedate.
" Palmer and the Profiteers.
Bristling with fierce, righteous indignation,
the -attorney general of the United States
launches a broadside against the coal mer
chants who propose to be allowed to gain an
excess profit from th strike. If they attempt
any such thing, Mr. Palmer tells them, he will
"hdo something so dreadful as to hold them. ever
after. It is so consoling to think we' have at
.the head of the Department of justice a man
so resolute. Yet, as the first rush of en
thusiasm passes, and a cold, reasoning glance is
taken at .results, the citizen must come to the
conclusion that the cartoonist wasright; Mr.
Palmer went hunting, equipped with a mighty
arsenal of legal and moral weapons, and came
home with a miserable bag. of game from a
woods filled with the biggest and ripest sort.
We realize that he is placed in a peculiar
position. Parading himself just now in a try
out as an aspirant for the TTonor of succeeding
his chief as leader of the democratic party, Mr.
Palmer wants to do the right thing, and at the
same time doesn't want to lose a vote. He re
calls how- a few years ago his revered and
respected leader proclaimed that the man who
sought to make money out of the panicky con
ditions created by democratic monkeying with
business conditions would be, hanged 'at least
as high as Haaman and let it go at that. A
resounding declaration at the critical moment
has well served the democratic chieftains in
lieu of action ever since they were in power.
Just as the government was looted on war
contracts, and as private consumers hve been
held up by conscienteless price boosters before,
during and after the war, so it will probably
continue until people may relieve themselves
by turning out the administration under which
profiteering has come to be an almost exact
science. Mr. Palmer might give the country
great service, but he, probably, will not. -.
Terrible Tragedy of Kieff
Something of the terrible conditions in Rus-
sia under the bolshevik control may be gained
from the following account of conditions found
at Kieff after that city was evacuated y the
"reds" before the approach of the anti-bdlshe-vik
army. It is written by a correspondent of
- . . . . r c l if
the London Times, unaer aate 01 oepiciuuci
two days after he had -entered the city with its
deliverers: '
I have reached Kieff by r, - having
flown from Lutsk in one of the two aeroplanes
of the French squadron stationed there, which
established the first contact between the Polish
rforces and the Russian volunteer army, passing
over some Z50 miles ot country occupied paruy
by the bolshevists and partly by the Ukrainian
troops. !
When we started from Lutsk the situation
In Kieff was unknown, and it was rumored that
the anti-bolshevist troops'1 which had occupied
it ha(i again withdrawn. A, preliminary recon
naissance over the city showed that Jife there
was aoDarentlv normal. There was plenty of
L people in the streets, the trains were running.
there was activity in tne railway siauuu, onu
movement among the motor transport vehicles
was also discernible. It was, however, with
somewhat an anxious feeling that we planed
down towards the aerodrome. We were reas
sured by the sight of. mechanics in British uni
forms running out from a hangar to meet us
a sure sign that the volunteer army was in
occupation, since a considerable portion of it
is now clothed in khaki, and even wears the fa
miliar buttons of the British royal arms.
CPS"
The Federal Reserve tteard says commodity
prices show a recession from August, but the
change is scarcely noticeable to the naked eyr
as yet. .. . v 1 . r
If some, of these remedies for the strike
had taken the form of preventives a week or
two ago, the whole trouble might have been
avoided. . ' ' '
It will be hard to attribute the latest turn
down of the superintendent of police to. the in
fluence exerted by the "criminal element"at
the city hall V .
England seems to be waking up to the fact
that something is wrong in the Shantung deal.
, It may turn out after 11 that Japan's unselfish
ness in the matter it not entirely without alloy.
Polieemea of Nashville, who formed the MBte". loWn to their own interests, solely,
N first anion, have returned their eharter to the
American Federation of Labor, having found
- they could not serve two masters. The lesson
' p,a5B y N v -j
The milk of the whale is now commended as
a revivifying elixir. It will have a hard time in
superceding that of the wild cow, and you know
' the formula: "The blinder the pig, the wilder
. the cow." ."
The engineers are asking for another in
dustrial conference atj Washington, forgetting
that one just broke up in a row. Until both
sides reachapoint where they are willing to
give and take in settlement, no amount of dis
cussion in conference or anywhere else will help.
rODAV
The Day We Celebrate. ; j 4
CoL Lloyd C. Griscom, former United States
ambassador to Italy, and American liaison of
ficer at the British war office during the war,
born at Rivehon, N. J., 47 years ago.
Rear Admiral Harold P. M. Morton, U. S.
N., who has reached the age for statutory re
tirement, born in New York 64 years ago.
Rt Rev. Alexander C. Garrett, Episcopal
bishop of Dallas, born in Comity Sligoreland,
87 years ago.
Eden Phillpotts, popular English novelist,
born at Mount Aboo, India, 57 years ago. ;
Thomas S. Butler, representative in congress
of the Seventh Pennsylvania district, born in
' Chester county, Pennsylvania, 64 years ago.
. Thirty Years, Ago in Omaha.
CC Spotswood transferred lots 14 to 18 in
' Wright Place to E. B.-Bartlett, the considera
tion being $21,000. N
Miss C. J. Schulze has gone to New York.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Holbrook gave a
. very pleasant euchre party at their home, 1404
Madison avenue, in honor of Miss Carrie Sears
of St. Albans, Vt .The players were the Misses
Nellie Corby, Lizzie Corby, Nellie Campion,
Lizzie Canlpion. Lottie Metz, Betty Mount;
Messrs. Searle, Sears, Abbott, Frost, Schockery,
' Corrie and De Hayes. V ,
Mrs. Jewett has returned from Chicago.
At the competitive drill of the Omaha
-Guards Sergeant Fabyin won the medal for the
Ihird time and is now its possessor. .
Making Cotton Crop Pay,
With cotton quoted at New York around,
35 cents , a pound, a Louisiana planter is re
ported vto have sold his season's crop at 75
cents, at which rate 800 bales brought him
$360,000. Good , cotton land, producing' normal
yield, willbing forth around a bate, to the acre.
Assuming for safety's, sake that the crop in
question was the total yield of 1,000 acres, it
stands a gross return yvf $360 an acre, or rather
more than is possible even for sugar beets, the
most remunerative of northrn grown crops. It
is extremely probable that some exceptional
circumstances attended the) sale in question, for
no other similar case is yet reported. The ugly
fact is, however, that the cotton yield for the
current year is only a little over half the normal.
Voluntary restrictions of acreage and an un
favorable season is responsible for this. Cotton
agreed toreduce the Bret seeded to eotton for
1919. Their avowed aim was to reduce the
yield and keep up the price. Through the un
expected assistance of an unfavorable season
the scheme succeeded better than its projectors
pjanned, and the world will be held up on ac
count of the. short 'crop. When some short
sighted middle western farmers proposed to
restrict the area sown to wheat they were
roundly denounced; the 'miners have been called
immoral for going on strike iif face of winter,
creating an artificial scarcity of coal. What
will be said df the cotton planter who delib
erately took such means to keep up the price of
his product, which is so badly needed for the
welfare of the world?
Strikes That Settle Themselves.
The law of compensation still operates,
despite the1 clamor of the reformers who would
do away with it At Itast two annoying and
vexatious strikes have been settled in accord
with the everlasting rule that' requires a bal
ance. For many weeks shipping has been tied
up in New York harbor bythe contumacy of
the longshoremen. These went on an unauthor
ized strike, defying "the officers of their inter
national union and refusing to listen to anyone
who did not coincide with their demands. It
was the beginning of the "revolution" which so
many of the "advanced" are talking about
Slowly the fires that kept the passions of the
men heated to the point of unreason have died
away, and the strike has collapsed for want of
vitality. The same is true of the steel strike.
It was as ill-advised as that of the longshore
men, or the coal miners, and is coming to an
inglorious end for the same reason. "Thrice
armed is he who hath his quarrel just," but any
cause that rests on "a basis of naked power" is
doomed in advance. Strikes to be won must
contain a promise of good to all and not merely
an advantage to a few. 1
, Kieff today is a city of horrors. I do not
know whether in any other town in which they
have ruled the bolshevists have left such
ghastly traces of their fiendish work as they
have here. The Ukrainian government was
driven out in January last, and for roughly 200
days from then the bolshevists were in occu
pation. -Oaevery one of these 200 'days ex
ecutions took place by order of the . "chrez
vechaikas" (commissions for combating the
counter revolution). . v - ...
No one knows how many persons perished.
Popular gossip puts the number at 30,000 to
40,000. This is obviously an exaggeration, but
reckoning by the number of bodies which were
found (buried or unburied) at different points
about the cityi there must 'have been st. least
2,000 victims. -
There were few men of any education among
r!i Vipff rnmmissianVs. This, and a charac
teristic disrespect for any humane feelings, my
i account for the horrible way in which they
left the bodies of their victims partially or en
tirely unburied. The anatomical theater of the
university was used as a mortuary for the' ex
ecuted dead, and the volunteer army when
they , entered the city found about 200 corpses
lying there in a state ofliorrible putrefaction.
In a rooTh in a private house 140 more were
found, locked up and left to rot. -
Even today, a fortnight after the delivery, a
terrible odor, which chloride only partially
stifles invades one's nostrils continually in cer
tain parts' of the town. Among the "sights" of
Kieff are the houses where the two chrez
vechaikas, the one for Kieff the other for the
Ukraine, held theirsittings and tortured their
victims, cither to wring information from them,
or, as it appears in many cases; simply from a
fiendish pleasure in human, sufferings.
The Kieff chezvechaika, which was ac
counted the most cruel, sat in a house in the
street of Sadowa, a gloomy by-road, darkened
by the thick foliage of chestnut trees. Behind
it is a small garden, in which is a shallow pit
not 'five feet deep. From this were taken the
bodies of 124 persons who were murdered a
few days before Kieff was captured one'tiight's'
work. Many of the bodies were mutilated by
having pieces of skin in the shape of epaulettes
cut from their shoulders and strips from the
thighs in imitation of the 'stripes on an .officer's
trousers. ,
At one side of the garden is a garage or
coach-house. This was used as the place of
execution. The walls are pitted with revolver
bullets and splashed with reel stains; the floor
is still glutinous; the , smell makes one turn
away sickened after a Very short ispection. An
English governess, Miss Billingsley, who lives
in this street, has told, me of the awful shrieks
which could be heard coining from this house
night after, night. The. house, itself is littered
with an almost comic collection of objects, ap
parently looted by muibers of the. committee
from private houses. There is furniture of all
kinds, cbcks, toys, a bird-cage, photographs,
gramophones, books, heaped together anyhow.'
The first volume picked at hazard from a big
pile proved to be a Tauchaitz copy of Mark
Twain's "The Innocents Abroad."'.
The house of the Ukraine committee has a
similar slaughter house, also a garage. This is,x
if anything, worse than the other. There is an
inspection pit, wjiich was used as a drain; from
it there comes up" the horrible reek of blooa. ;A
common chorping block beside it is soaked in
it. An old bayonet lies on the floor near by.
Twetve bodies ere found in the garden here,
stuffed anyhow into a pit and barely covered
with earth.
France is fighting the high cost of lining
with American army .supplies bought by the
government. Pity something like that;.' could
not have been brought about at home ' A
Kieff somehow manages to bear all this hor
ror lightly; the people seem to have thrown it
from their minds like a nightmare. The streets
are full; pretty girls walk about bareheaded in
summer white; the picturesque figures of the
Cossack officers catch the eye at every turn. As
one walks in the gardens aboye the Dnieper
and looks on he beauty of the moonlit stream,
and listens to laughter and the tinkle of pianos
from houses hidden by the trees, it ishard to
believe that the whole story is not a dream.
Prof. Florinski.. professor of Slav philology
at Kieff university, was shot by a woman called j,
C I .1.-1 l. '1 K
Kosa jsenwanz, wnne tne- crrezvecnaiKa was
still sitting, as he was in the middle of a philip
pic against bolshevist rule. This woman, Rosa
Schwartz, is commonly spoken of as a member
of the committee, and is credited with having
executed people regularly herself. Whether
this was so seerrts doubtful. She, was tried,
condemned to death, and shot a few days after
the capture of,-the city. At her trial evidence
was produced"to show that she was a prostitute,
a favorite of severalmembers of the committee,
who was used by them as a, decoy to entrap and
denounce " persons who professed views un
favorable to the government. This much, and
the fact of her murder of Prof. Florniski, seems
to be established. I say this because the figure
of a Jewess as a prominent member of chrez
vechaika committee is becoming legendary.
There was a Jewess at Vinnitza who shot per
sons witlrher .wn revolver; there was another
at Minsk who signed death warrants. Did they
all exist? So much that is terrible is true that
much more that is simply hearsay is readily
believed. '
All chezvechaikas seem to have equaled
the tribunals of the French revolution in
ferocious cruelty. The methods used at Kieff
seem to have surpassed the rest. Of many of
the tortures used it is impossible to speak.
Latsis, a Lett who was latterly president of the
Ukraine committee, wrote an article in the Red
Knife, the official organ of the bolshevist gov
ernment, published at Moscow, in which he
discussed the question of torture, reasoning, for
instance, as to whether nails driven under the
finger nails were as effective as the slow ex
traction of teeth. ' ' .
It is difficult to believe that there are per
sons in the world who are opposed to the sup
pression by every.means available of a regime
which gives full play to the bestial passions of
the fiends in human form who do'these things.
On a Peace Basis. v
"I presume you're mighty giad the war is
over?"
"Well, I don' jes' know about dat," answer
ed Mandy. "Co'se I'se glad to have my Sam
"back home an' all dat, but I jes' know I "ain't
never gwine t' get money from him so regular
as I did while he wuz in de army an' de gov
ernment wuz handlin his financial affairs."
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
- , What Is a Politician?
Omaha, Nov. 2. To the Editor'
of The Bee: In your . column,
"Who Is Who?" among the candi
dates, you mention me as a "poli
tician." Tlfenks for the application.
The meaning of the word, according
to the dictionary, is "one versed In
the science of government.';
I believe, however, that the proper
definition for politician is one who
knows what he Is doing on election
day. JERRY HOWARD.
Where Was the Chief?
Omaha, "Nov. 8. To the Editor
of The Bee: Much has been said
In the Omaha and other papers re
garding the, burning of our million
dollar court house September 28. I
will ask if it is not a fact that the
chief of the Omaha police at 11 a.'
m. on day of Are was advised that
a mob was forming for the purpose
of lynching the negro?' This being
so, he had ample time to have called
on 100 or more men to assist him
and hia forces that could have pro
tected the building and negro
against any outside mob of 5,000
men or more. During ,the? civil war
irf 1862 myself and a nartvof other
kunion soldiers were detailed to
guard a passage through the moun
tains, with orders from our caDtain
to hold same at all hazard acainat
500 southern cavalry soldiers, Which'
we aid. Jtiaa we not done so we
would have been called cowards and
would have disgraced the union
army. We had much less protec
tion than the Omaha police force
would have had. It does, seem to
me and others so silly to think that
an unorganized and unarmed lot of
boys should have been allowed to
have taken and burned the court
house as against the old organized
armed force of police if they had a
leader. Where, oh where was our
chief of police all this time that he
did not have his force fully organ
ized? If he was in the United
States arrny in charge of a company
of men and allowed his post or fort
to be taken when he had 100 or
more men under his command, he
would have been court-martialed,
convicted and drummed out of
camp.
Will also ask whv crlrls
from 11 to 18 years old are allowed
uu auwiiiuuura wnue aione in
the car or. with other children
through our streets at a high rate of
speed, often after dark, without
lights on either end of the car, and
without number? They are seen
by the poliee department and know
the ordinance is, being violated. Per
haps they are not yet fully organ
ized to handle this class of duty.
Same as on night of September 28
A, TRAYNOR,
3915 California Street.
- FROM HERE AND THERE.
Much of the family washing in
Japan is done by gettinpr into a
moving boat and letting the sheets
shirts, etc., trail astern on a lone
rope. ,
Children in India have to learn
the multiplication table up, to 40
times 40, and this Is further compli
cated by the introductilon of frac
tional parts.
TheMetters In the alphabets of the
world vary from 12 to 202 in num
ber. The Hawaiian alphabet has
the smallest number, the Tartarian
the largest.
When a Russian family removes
from one house to another it is cus
tomary to rake all the fire from the
hearth of the old domicile and carrv
it in a closed pot to the new resi-J
nonce.
The'"holy stone" used in olpaninn-
(lie decks''of shios was so callpii
it oni being originally used for Sun
day cleaning and the fact that the
seamen have to go on their knees
to use it.
Orphan, asylums are unknown in
Australia. Every destitute orphan
child is sent to a private family,
vhich takes care of it until it is
1 4 years of age, and is remunerated
by the government.
At the sides of the famous pitch
lake of Trinidad the pitch is hard
and cold, but at the eentertit is al
most constantly boiling. All efforts
to ascertain the depth of the lake
have been unsuccessful.
' A large number of Japanese ob
tain a livelihood by catching fir
flies. These insects are used as oi
naments at social festivities. Some
limes they are, kept caged, some
times released in swarms in' the
presence of the guests.
In the 16th century there was a
curious law in England - whereby
street peddlers 'were forbidden to
Hell plums and apples, for the rea
son that servants and apprentices
were unable to resist the sight of
them, and were constantly tempted
to steal their employers' money In
order to enjoy the costly delicacies.
Others Havo Depreciated.
Ex-crown prince, who believes that
he will be recalled,, may learn that
some things have depreciated even
more than the mark. Wall Street
Journal.
DAILY CARTOONETTE.
For Boys to Make
Rigging a Telegraph Line.
By GRANT M. HVDB.
To rig up a telegraph line and
learn to talk over it by Morse code
is not beyond an average boy's abil
ity and is a fascinating pastime.
Here are some shortcuts:
1. Instruments.
jThe necessary sending key and
sounder for each statioi may be
home-made, but now that they can
be bought cheaply at almost any
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STATION 1
q05HANTlT-MY COLLAR
BUTTONS R0LLEJJ UrVJJER
THE B06K CASE! Ill HfllF
To Moufrrfr
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ANDHEDIL); l .
electric Shop, it is better to buy
them ready-made. Thex. a"re usu
ally fastened to a board and will
work best if left op the board:,
2.' Line.
Only one wire is needed, since the
ground may always be used to com
plete the circuit. . Use fasulated
magnet wire; the eleectric shop will
advise you as to the size demanded
by the length and by the use indoors
or-out. Don't try to run top far out
doors, because yofj will have con
tinual line trouble, and don't stretch
your line near any other vtre. To
grpund an -outdoor line fasten the
ground wire to a heavy spike and
stick-it into the ground. To ground
indoors fasten the ground wires to
water or gas pipes; if there are
none, use a two-wire circuit with
out a grounded wire.
3. Battery. '
In commercial wires, to enable
one operator to call another, the cir
cuit is always complete or "closed"'
with a battery in it. This requires
a special kind of battery. You,will
use dry cells,, and a "closed" circuit
would Sqpn exhaust them. There
fore, rig the wires according to this
diagram with twodry cells at each
station and switches to "cut them
in." When the line is pot, in use
both switches should be set at A and
keys closed so that there is no cur
rent, or battery, in the circuit. To
call from one station the. operator
first moves his switch to B, so as to
put his battery into the circuit, then
opens his key and begins to call.
Station 2. in answering, atso switch-'
es to B to -put in his batteries and
strengthen tfie current. After talk
ing, both stations close their sending
keys and put the switches back to A,
so that 4he batteries are again idle.
The switches may be- made of tin
and screws.
(Next week, . "Indoor Flower
Box.")
Bovs' and Girls' Newspaper Service.
Copyright. 1919, by J. II. Millar.
Subject for a Clinic.
It seems to be established that a
broker.ythinking he was dealing by
telephone with 3 speculator, offered
Food Coihmissioner Williams 10,
000,000 pounds of sugar at a high
price, but, strange as it may appear,
as Roon as the commissioner re
vealed 'his identity the man who
made the proposition -and all his
banker and broker associates for
got the name "and address of the
owner of the hoard. Possibly loss
of memory so unusual might be
treated successfully at a clinic pre
sided over by the United States
grand jury. New York World. s
The Veto Tower.
"You may not!" firmly says Dr.
Oravson. Boston Globe.
Box Craft, for Your Room.
By CAROLYN HERWIN BAILEY.
Don't throw away one of the
strong cardboard boxes that the
shops send to you. Each one will
give you a great deal of fun in using
your hands, and will make some
thing useful and attractive for your
room. ,
Home-Made Week-End Bag.
This is made from the strong
box in which your new suit came.
Lay the Box and the cover on large
pieces of brown linen or denim and
trim to fit cutting out the corners.
Stretch "the cloth tightly over the
edges, gluing it in place so that both
box and cover are neatly covered. If
you like, you may make scented
pads of cretonne to fit the inside
and tack them in place. This will
hold pour week-end things beauti
fully if you fasten it with a shawl
trap, and it will serve for a longer
trip too. '
Dainty Clothes-Press Boxes.
Cover strong shoe boxeai just as
you did the week-end bag, using
chintz in a samll flowered -pattern.
Pieces of wall paper in a pretty pat
tern may be used also. These will
hold your tics and slippers and
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keep your clothes-press looking neat
as well. It will be a good plan to
stand these on the shelves. They
will keep fresh longer.
Wall paper makesa most attrac
tive covering for a hat box too. A
pattern of roses, violets, or bunches
of wild flowers, is the best to use.
Lay the cover on the wall paper,
cutting it to fit, and then paste it
neatly in place. Cut a broad and a
narrow strip to paste around the
box and the edge of "fhe cover.
For Your Bureau.
A small, round candy box makes
a charming pin cushion. It may be
already covered, , and it is usually
strong so that you have a founda
tion to sew to. Use only the box
itself and stuff it with wood. Cover
the wool with pink or blue silk.
Then cover the outside with silk to
match, tacking it to the edge of the
box.
A few of the" tiny silk" flowers
that you now buy by the yard iti
the shops may be glued to the edge
of the box, or a ruffle of lace will
cover your stiches.
(Next week: "Gardening in
Frosty Weather.") - : "
Bora' and Girls' Newspaper Service
C'opright. 1919. by J. H. Millar.
IN THE BEST OF HUMOR.
"You slwaysv have that same waltreaa
In the restaurant, don't you?" said the
business man.
"Always," replied his friend. "She'i very
careful to bring me clean food."
"How do you know?"
"Why, toda I saw her brushing' the dust
off my piece of custard pie with hor
apron." Yonkera Statesman.
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When you come to sixty-four,
Add two more for Eleanor.
Draw from one to two and ao on to tht end
aahes on her rue. ao he bought bar a ear
pet eweeper. Houston Foat.
"What did you plant la your vagatabl
garden last summerT"
"Oh, about half my; Ineomt." Boston
Transcript.
Tsn't a widow ootltlad to her third?;
asked the female acquaintance who wai
seeking; free Information. J
"Yes." replied the arouehy old attorney
'But she ahould get rid ot hex ateom
first.'
Cincinnati Enquirer,
The Colonel Tm playing Mr. imltl
tomorrow. .
Caddie Ho eanna play at all.
The Colonel Then I'll beat him. '
Caddie No, ya wunna! John O'Lon
don's Weekly. V '
"Jn Mrs. Gadder a brilliant conversa
tionalist?" "Not brilliant, but tlreleas. She's one l
those 'flrat-and-thlrd person' talks."
"How Is that?" '
"I said and aha aald.' "Birmingham
Age-Herald. -
"My uncle Is very fond of the works of
Artomas Wnrd." '
"Likes that form of humor, eh?"
"He doesn't know It's humor. Takes a
K'erlous interest. Thinks It's fine exam
ple of slmprtTtorl' spelling." Pittsburgh
Post. ,
"I claim that man- Blump Is a born
diplomat.
"His wife objected to his spilling cigar
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