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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1919)
ri EXHIBITION OF OIL P AINTINGS HERE NEXT WEEK Collection at Hotel Fontenelle Will Be' Unusually 'Broad, Varied and Compre hensive in Scope. By MRS. LETA MOORE MEYER. The exhibition of oil paintings from.the Vose collection of Boston, one of the finest in existence, which . will be shown November 11-12 in the Hote Fontenelle ball room, under the auspices of the Omaha Society of Fine Arts, will be un usually broad, varied and compre hensive in scope. Both the novice and the connoisseur can . find that which interests him. , It is especially appropriate at present that the pictures are nearly alt American. As America un doubtedly leads the world now in art, especially in landscape, as in music, finance and everything else, Omahans will have a chance to. see soma of the best of contemporary art. . , . . v , ' Of the landscapes there will be the strong, forceful work of Henry W. Ranger; the subtle, true J. Francis Murphys; the simple, sin cere work of Elliott Daingerfield; the typically American F. Ballard Williams, and others. Some Virile Marines. ' Paul Dougherty, whose "Spray and . Sunlight" the Friends of Art bought last year and which hangs in the public library, will have some virjle marines. There will be an interior by Frank W. Benson of Boston, the modernized, Amer icanized genre painter, and some thing by the late J.. Alden Weir, who paints' figures with insight and decorative quality. Thorit it wnrlc of Raloh A. Blake- lock in his peculiar mystic manner and of H. G. Dearth, tne sensation of the past year in the art world. Whistler, John La Farge, Winslow Homer and Albert P. Ryder, Amer ican immortals all, will be- repre There will be a remarkable Black burn. The Barbizon school will be represented by Jules Dupre, al though there will be something by the Frenchman, Harpignies. The Frifr Thaulow. never equalled as a painter of swirling water, will be there ana aiso mc wonderful ueorge Monana. Famous Colonial Pictures. One of the most remarkable parts of the exhibition will De tne colo nial pictures which were a conspic uous features of the summer art season in. Boston. These men, Rembrandt Peale, .J. Snslton Copley, Sir Benjamin West and woctiino-tnn' (me. forced Europe to recoznize the tact tnat we had art as wen as an rmy, . much so that tngiana xnignwu West and made him a president of the Royal academy. In Denver, where about halt of. these pictures have just been shown, they were the most successful ex ..... VU in that section. with an average daily attendance, ot f.nn Thm srriptv of Fine Arts hopes that everyone in Omaha and its vicinity who enjoys pictures will visit the gallery., ' , . Says More Than Million British Children Are Unfit London, Nov. 8. "No fewer than '1,000,000 British children are physi cally unfit to gain the -full results ' from their education," says Dr. Leonard Hill, expert ."The death rate varies with the density of popu , lation. In some parts of Finsbury, London, the death rate of infants is only 41 per thousand, while in , others is is 375." Rah-Rah Boys Fishing for Suckers on Farnam btreet Greek Letter Fraternity Candidates Put Through Ordeals in Midst of Town Crowds Fair Co-Jas Cheer Their Miserable Hours With an Occa sional Sympathetic Smile Omaha Metropolitan. It's ooen season for Rah-Rah boys. With the passing of the football season and the approach of winter social festivities at nniversities, col- for appropriate humiliation, to heap upon the ".Fledges to tneir urecK letter fraternities. And to what limits they will go, these Pledges, for the honor of wearing that coveted fraternity pin. What disgrace it would mean to ih hv fail in the su preme tests just before that fateful night when they ride tne DucKing goat into the deep mysteries of the Ssigma Cheese or tta JBita ries. . Omaha, metropolitan city that it is becoming, is getting its share of the antira this season. Examples of the versatile brain of the true col lege man were evident on down town streets of Omaha last weeR, when neophytes to the mysterious societies oi rcigniun iuuuwsu up Iv rhncrn nrnfessinn. selected for them by designing upperclassmen. Police Aghast One recent Saturday members of ttia OmoVia nnlir (nrrf saw remote nil. -" - - ' visions of a recurrence of the fate ful riot of September 28, when smaii crowds began to gather at the four corners of the intersection of Six teenth and Farnam streets. With alleged trembling Knees, anA th known nnakinor heart, officers of the lav tiptoed their way through the various congregations, only to gaze aghast at tne sigm which greeted their saucerlike eyes. Right there before Heaven 'neyery- UnA,r cnrouiUH 9 till a hlllk OI hU- manity, built for a Harvard fullback, dressed in the garij ot Lora r-aunue-roy, insanely busy with the weighty problem of constructing Something from his bulk of toy wooden blocks, given him by thoughttui juniors, with the positive orders to occupy his time with them at the busiest hour on Omaha's busiest corner. Mo annrarH fntallv nhlivioui Of his interested spectators, but the deep tlush which tinged nis maniy ibcc and neck gave him away. Farnam Street Fishing. Directly across the street from him was another forlorn freshman in knee trousers, perched on the highest of high stools, with the longest of long fishing rods, non chalantly fishing for suckers, which his friends the upper classmen had told him frolicked in the galvanized iron pail immediately in front of him. Every now and then he re moved a sucker from his hook. He couldn't see them, but they told him he had to catch one every few minutes, so he did. From a third corner, where the southbound car stops to load and unload passengers, darted a human spectacle attired in the latest style of evening claw-hammer, all dolled up, with hardly any place to go. But he, gallant that he was, busied himself with assisting men, women and children up and down the steps of the spasmodic street car. Fascinating Co-ed. Few of the objects of his cour tesies caught the drift, but now and then a good looking co-ed who had been through the rock crusher her self in sorority days gave him one of those bewitching smiles of which Rupert Hughes writes. His was an enjoyable avocation, it would seem, and the victim apparently was get ting as much fun from his work as he crowd which watched him. The fourth. victim, poor lad, was I I X 7i Dr. K. P. Church ut. a. J. Haller jiff 'tfgy Lilt Z-J D. B. Williamson. Accurate agriosis is the most essential factory if you are to have the best dental serv ice. v. 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Vint h rnnfided to a .reporter that he "didn't know now the neu ne a ever get. tne ported for dinner at the fraternity nouse xnav nignt. ... Alas, the way of the neopnyte is which he must pass in barefoot sub mission to Knocic at tne gates 01 learning, , kowtowing to the ever watchful upoerclassmen. 'ere en trance may be gained. " Witn tae appearance or granu dmaha anA ill arivAIlt of 111 ....., college fraternity freaks, the western city now has ample argument to nrnnonnl in its camnaitrn for reCOd- natipn as a true metropolitan city. For reducing persons' weight, a Connecticut man has invented a cab inet like a bath affair in which a user is enclosed and induces perspir ationby pedalling a wheelless bi cycle, at the same time being subject to electric heat For indentification of employes of large industries a camera has been designed that photographs a per son's face, height and index number at the same time. Don'ts Which Keep Married Folk From Scraps and Divorce Chicago, Nov. 8. The Rer. Aus tin Hunter of Jackson Boulevard Christian church, had a unique con gregation here, recently. He preached a sermon on "Happy Homes" to 200 of the 500 couples he had married within the last 10 years. Here are some "don'ts" which he said refer to the greatest enemy to happiness in the home and the greatest aid to divorce courts.: Don't marry to Please your friends, or Spite your relatives, or Better your financial condition, or Acquire social standing. Above all. Don't marry in haste, and don't let frivolity enter into your mar riage plans. Oar. Shortage in Wheat Belt. Hutchinson, Kan., Nov. 8. A car shortage record in the wheat belt is believed to have been hun uo when it was learned recently that in 27 days but one grain car had been de livered on the Lamed branch of the SantaFe, between Lamed and Jet more- One small percentage of , the wheat has been shiDoed from "this district owing to the lack of trans portation. Drs. 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