THE BEE: OMAHA,' FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1919.
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Therefor my age Is a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly. Shakeapeara.
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O nimh friendship, .
Who flatteriag leaves, that shadowed ue fai
Our prosperity, with the leaet guet drop off
In th autumn of dvtraitjr. Maasinger.
CLUBDOM
- nn HERE is cessation of activl
, I ties on the part of the Drama
League. Though the Powys
and . Dunsany victories have
been achieved and the capture of
Maeterlinck assured, there is still no.
armistice on th part oJ CM progret
live and energetic band, It hat been
- arranged that Mis Katsj McHugb
shall address the league on Monday
afternoon once a month, at 3:45,
Blackstone hotel, beginning Decem
ber 1 and continuing until Maeter
linck's coming in March.
Miss McHugh's readings will be
divided into three parts and the door
will be locked until the end of each ;
period, to protect an interested com
pmy and their able general from
the confusion of a counter attraction ,
in the form of a late arrival. , j
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Dawson Lecture. '
Lt. Coningsby Dawson will lec
ture on his war experiences at 3:45,
Hotel Fontenelle Friday afternoon,
under the auspices of the Society
of Fine Arts.
Girls' Community House.
The Beebe club will give a dinner
i at the Community house at 6 p. m.
Friday.
The cooking .class at Central
High school for Girls' Community
Service league, under direction of
Miss Marion Morrissey, 6 p. m. .
Friday is open night for new mem
- bers at the Community House.
t . Community Center Program.
The first program of the Com
?. munity Center will be given Friday
.,' ". evening, November 21.
Woman's Auxiliary.
, " The regular monthly meeting of
the Woman's auxiliary of Omaha,
. South Omaha and Florence
branches of the Episcopal church
: will be held on Friday, ' November
21, at Trinity parish house, 1716
Dodge street The meeting is a week
earlier than usual, owing to tne
Thanksgiving holiday. There will
be an exhibit of gats maae Dy me
juniors for their Christmas boxes.
Missionary Society.
The Women's Home and Foreign
Missionary society of the . Lowe
Avenue Presbyterian church will
meet Friday, at 2:30 p. m., with
Mrs. W. A. Smith, 105 South Forty
first street . .
The young woman's division will
have the program, the topics being
"Siam" and "Southern Highland
ers.". - 5
Woman's Alliance.
The Woman's alliance, Unitarian
church, will meet for supper in the
common room of the church Friday
evening at 7 o'clock. Maj. llarry
O. Palmer; who has just returned
from China, where he was judge ad
vocate general, will tell of his ex
pedition in China and Siberia.
Roosevelt Circle.
Roosevelt Chautauqua circle will
meet Friday evening at 7:30 with
Mrs. F. A. Cressey. 4204 South
Twenty-second street
R. M. S.
B. T. club of R. M. S. will meet
at the home of Mrs. W. E. Berk
man, 3601 Grand avenue, Friday
afternoon, November 21. .
New England Dinner.
The Woman's Aid society of the
First Presbyterian church will enter
tain at a New England dinner at the
Parish house, Thirty-fourth and
Farnam, Friday evening, from 5:30
to 7 o'clock.
. Little Theater Movement.
A meeting of the committee in
charge of the Little Theater Move
ment was held Thursday afternoon
at the home of Miss Kate McHugh.
The object was to adopt a definite
plan of action for the organisation.
hastiness of
Many Novels
v Degrading
By CANON HORSLEY.
' Leading British Cleric.
London, Nov. 20. Imagination is
- as divine a gift as reason, to be re
t ceived and used with thanksgiving,
especially by those whose environ
, ment is unexciting, and their occu
pation more or less mechanical and
;r uninteresting.
! i No list of the causes of low moral
'i ity in the upper and middle classes
,,-, would be complete if it excluded the
, ;'-. influence of very many of our popu
lar hovels.
v Some of the novelists whose writ
Tt ings havfc much art and even beauty
r'tS of diction lay themselves out to be
guides to seduction by. recording in
I:',', detail the varied arguments used by
' . ; a seducer to sap a fortress of honor.
What can. be the effect of the cant
of carnality, camouflaged by clever
J : diction, coming in novel after novel,
upon the mind-of the' young but to
j :'. lower their standard of morality and
v.. to provide excuses for their mocking
;;, at sin? -.' ' i .
V Cites Two, Examples. ,v
;"iv As I write two 'novels unselected
by me come from a lending library,
.i and I make a precis;. t5-.each. The
V first, introduces us to -an cx-actor art
ist who has been living for three
years with a girl of 21,. brought up
as a Roman .Catholic.
: She , suggests marriage. "Good
J God why?" he sayaj but gets the
j special license, more common in.
novels than in fact, and yet is rhar
y ried in a registry office, where it
s. would not be available.
"", . Brought up in. a theater, isolated
from the Wrld.of mprals and re
. .ligion,'.' she goes, on -the stage and,
meets his wife.
; "Law Somehow Wrong."
He pleads he had "forgotten the
marriage as "a good many women
have gone out of my life." She
leaves from fear 6f bigamy proceed
ings, but thinks "the law is some
what wrong, giving advantage to
anyone who is mean enough to take
advantage of it," and that "when
they were abroad it would not have
matteted how many wives he had in
England." -
She takes refuge with an actress
.friend who1 js married,-but living
with a man with a wife elsewhere.
Made love to by the manager, a
theatrical knight who is married,
she achieves a brilliant success and
marries, with no particular reason,
a Grub street idealist, one of the
only two decent characters in the
book. : -
As to this , union, "neither was
quite sure whether the, absurd mar
riage with C would make this ille
gal, but they decided to risk it"
Whether, this is the society the
novelist frequents or that which he
chooses to invent as attractive and
saleable in a Jook, I am sorry for
him.
The second novel centers round
two men. X is a rationalist scien
tist, whose wife, aged 40, writes that
: she is deserting him after 12 years,
to be with "an affinity" 10 years
younger than herself, . the excuse
being that she has been used only
as an audience, whilst she is a
hedonist and a lover of reakishness
and clothes. " -
He sees a young lady purposing
suicide drags her off the railway
track and henceforth acts in some
respects as a good Samaritan. She
is about to become the mother of
the child of Y, whom she only
knew a month. X tries to find Y
" . for her while proceedings for a di
vorce at his wife's request.
,X finds that Y is his wife's para
x mour and also the seducer of the
girl, and later that he is a married
man with a family.
Suggests Murder.
The baby comes. X. suggests in
oculating it with the fatal germs oi
sleeping sickness. She resents but
brings the babe at night, and re
ceives it back thinking the crime is
committed. '
He refuses his wife's overtures
fo a reconciliation. Meanwhile
Lady X. has spent her capital on
Y and now leaves him. X. will
marry, the girl when five months
brings the confirmation ( of the de
cree nisi.
, He causes her to pose as the
widow of a soldier, and forges a let
ter as to Ms death in action. She,
brought up as a Roman Catholic,
stipulates that she shall retain her
religion. ,
He consents and asserts his love.
She, quoting an earlier utterance of
his, says love is "an irradition of the
texual appetite," and so the book
ends with: "X. actually blushed."
All these events happen in less
than 12 months. 1
"Nastiness Helps Sales."
And these books of today are far
less harmful than many I have late
ly met, such as one in which the wife
has written a Very successful novel
and "doubtless it was the title that
made the sales, for there is nothing
that whets the appetite of a garbage
grubbing public so much as a title
suggestive of Jnastiness."
Later this novelist, who knows his
kind, says: "The modern woman's
book appears to me as the1 thfng she
daren't say, in public, but does say
in print"
Again, "The novel and the play of
today is a low-down affair, because
the sexual sneak thief is ' the main
character. ..Adultery is the text ot
the modern writer, and it is really
the onlv thintr that seems to interest
the modern woman at --least, the
writing woman. ,
Exaggeration
No doubt. . But an exaggeration
of a truth.'-
Heart Beats
By A. K. -
Boasts 70c Proposals
. The cable of my thoughts
1 lav
Back to tragedies
Of yesterday
When fields were waving
Green and soft
When cliff and hill
And mossy rock
Were evidence
That God had planned
The ways of Life
The things of Life ;
And Life itself.
A soft skinned Doe
And her fleet companions
Lived in the rocks
And protected spots.
They jumped the canyons
And gamboled '
And played
In sunny weather '
Together.
One day the hunter
A sportsman came ,
To frighten the Wilds ' ..
Into fleeing game.
The Dpe he spied
Across on the cliff ': '
He aimed to fire
Then paused" a bit.
Two soft brown- eyes
Looked straight and clear
Appealing entreating
Half afraid.
Wonderful eyes.
Great mystery held
Ihe tales of ages
Were hidden .there.
The sportsman gazed
At the velvet throat
A spotless coat.
He saw a helpless
Sinless creature
A thing of Life
A symbol of Love.
But the man raised high
His rifle and fired
He sent forth
A hundred shots. '
The Doe made no fight
She had no chance
With : the hunter
And his gun
She fell from the rock .
In a crumpled heap
The velvet throat torn
And ruined with blood
Life succumbed
In a gasp for breath
To the will of a man.
The Kings of Beasts
In the wildest jungles .
Kill only for their food
Man i .
Civilization's choicest product
Slays helpless creatures,
For fun.
SELAH.
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Bartholomew
. By NORMAN. GALE.
Baking Lore. .- -When
baking beans, if theyre
nYw and mush up, try refilling with
cold water instead of boiling water.
If refilled often,- and a small quan
tity of cold water is used at the
time, the beans will bake in the
same time as if hot water was used.
.When eggs are high make an ev
eryday sugar cake by using a medium-sized
potato instead of an egg.
Mash and beat with sugar and
shortening.- The -potato -keeps the
cake moist' and 'one can't tell the
difference between- a cake made witJi
an egg and one . made with the
potato.
Bartholomew
-" Is yery sweet .
From sandy hair .
To rosy feet. ; :
Bartholomew, v
Is 6 months old, '.
And dearer far
'Than pearls or gold.
. Bartholomew
.-Has deep, blue eyes,
, Round pieces dropped
From, out the skies.
, Bartholomew
Is hugged and kissed I
He loves a flower
In either fist.
Christian Science Monitdr.
'A few flowers perfectly arranged
are more pleasure in a room than
a great many-poorly put together.
Nuts are easily digestible if thor
oughly masticated, but they do not
properly make part of a heavy meat
meal. i
day. Many
ntafnl and
vahiaMa pr.
ntram can b
aacnrad by
favin th
label from th
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If your grocer is one of the few who haven't ,
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aaitvy and nrMucth n
PrKv Miss Nr!li( Kniins. wlnv
witn ner sister sara, was Known
throughout the A. E. F. as the
"Songbird Sisters," returned 1 oine
recently aboard the liner Carmania.
The sisters, , during the war, enter
tained the doughboys at innumer
able concerts behind the lines. Mis
Nellie modestly admits they haa .-e-ccived
more than 700" proposals of
marriage while entertaining our sol
diers abroad.
Fashion Dispatch
(By Fairoliild Fashion Service.)
Paris (Special Cable to The
Bee.) Fruits are extensively used
as a trimming for evening gowns.
The house of Brandt, which held
its opening recently, especially
sponsors this mode and . varies it
by using flowers. ' Fur plays an
important part in trimming their
evening gowns, also,
bandeaux, to be worn on the head
instead of a hat for evening wear,
are shown by practically all of th:
dressmakers, the bandeau carrying
out the idea of the gown. Mil
liners have done a big business m
this class of merchandise, also.
Of Interest to Women
Cooks, maids, nurse girls and
other domestic servants have or
ganized . the Household Workers'
union in Chicago, preparatory to
demanding a shorter work day, in
creased wages, and the privilege of
entertaining their gentlemen friends
elsewhere than in the kitchen.
Lovelorn
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX
One very important point to keep
in mind when making soup is to use
a porcelain-lined kettle with a close
cover. Tissues of meat are always
acid and will act upon metallic
kettles, thereby giving the soup an
itiky bitter taste. ' Even aluminum'
occasionally has this effect.
Disappointed Girls.
Dear Miss Fairfax, Omaha Bee:
We have read your advice to others
and feel a need of coming to you
for ourselves.
We are three girls of about the
same age. We are each very fond
of three boys.
These boys have been very -attentive
to us in the past and have
seemed very good friends until they
went to a loot Dan game at one of
the neighboring towns. While com
ing home they met three girls, with
whom the became very friendly .
For a while after that they
treated us as in the past, but now
they hardly look at us at all. Shall
we still pay any more attention to
these boys? We are very fond of
them and hate to lose their friend
ship. These girls that they met are
no clean ana respectable girls.
Would it be all right for us to cau
tion them about these girls?
Wouldn't it look like we were
hanging around them if we still
tried to be friends with them? We
hope to see the answer soon. Yours
respectfully, i
TALL, MEDIUM AND SHORT. '
Pay no attention to the boys. If
they don't care for yau, your ad
vice would be unwelcome. Evi
dently their affection was not very
deep in the first place, so why wor
ry. Interest yourselves in other
people.
A Diamond Ring.
Dear Friend: Am a young woman
of 20 and am going with a gentle
man of my age. We have been
friends for about 18 months and he
has come to see me every Sunday.
We are now as much as engaged, but
don't expect to get married for at
least a year. I have promised to
marry him and he is going' to get me
a diamond. Which is right for him
to ao, asK my rolks before he gets
me the ring or is it enough saM
with my consent.
Thanking you in advance."
GRAY EYES.
Let him ask your parents' con
sent before he gets you the ring. It
is a consideration they will appre
ciate though it probably will not be
a surprise to them.
Quarrels. '
Dear Miss Fairfax, Omaha Bee:I
am a girl of 19 and a blonde. Am
considered good looking and every
body likes me. I am going witty a
boy of 22, who Is also very nice, but
what I want your advice on is this:
We think quite a lot of each other,
but it just seems like we quarrel all
the time just over nothing. I hate
to give him up and I surely will
have to if things don't change. Can
you advise anything that will make
us get along better. He Is jealous
of me, but he never once thinks it
matters if he takes other girls out.
Please answer soon in The Bee's
"Lovelorn."
JUST A LONESOME BLONDE.
If there is just one quarrel follow
ing another and the young man Is
not fair in his attitude toward you
and other girls, then -why not give
him up and seek a more agreeable
companion. Too often a nagging
man who continues to call and, at
the same tlme.'act indifferent, keeps
the right man away.
Hazel B. From what you say, I
judge the soldier friend does not
care to alldw your regard for each
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OMAHA FlO JRMIUSC
Omaha, nebr. a.
fo. ui. pat, err 'N
Kiddies will eat "piece-meal" between meals.
They have always done so and no doubt always
will. So give them cookies, or cakes or a piece
of pie, or a slice of real bread baked with
Omar flour.
lemeirtber when you were a kid how yoirr eyes would
snap when "Mumsey" was putting the finishing touches ,
oh a good old slice of home-made bread, smeared
with plenty of molasses and enough dabs of real
butter to put a snap into every second bite.
Butinour "kid" days, we grown folks couldn't
get anything Uke the taste that Omar flour gives.
So the kiddies of today have a lot for which to
be thankful.
When you buy a sack of Omar flour, this guar
antee goes with it.
"If Omar doesn't bake the best bread you
ever baked, simply take the empty sack
to your grocer, and get your money."
OMAHA FLOUR MILLS COMPANY
Omaha, Nebraska
2500 Bamlt Daily Capacity
other to deepen. He may like you
well enough, but probably has no
serious intentions. Nine years is
quite a difference in your ages. A
girl of your age should not enter
tain company alone in the house,
nor should she accept or give jew
elry to boy friends. A boy who es
corts you home should take you to
the door and see that you gain ad
mission before he leaves. He
should . also give any assistance
actually reeded any time and any
where. You can tell whether he
takes your arm to assist you or
merely to take a liberty.' '
E. S. You are very young to go
out to work and your parents should
arrange to send you to school in
stead, If that is possible. A business
college course wbuld be helpful. In
vestigate telephone operating.
RenlJy If you despise these boys
you need not have anything to do
with them. It isn't necessary for
you to give your friend a' birthday
present
J. P. McD. S. W. A. K. means
"Sealed with a kiss," so if you re
ceived a letter with these letters on
the envelope, some one loves you, or
is trying to flirt with you. Take
your choice.
Miss Hopeful A girl of your re
sourcefulness and powers of expres
sion need have no fear for the fu
ture. Try - to keep a balance an(
use good judgment I would Ilk'
to know more about you to advis
you how to become a writer.
"KILLJOYS"
Constipation, Headache,
Colds, Biliousness ended
with "Cascarets" X '
Nothing takes the joy out of life
quicker than a disordered liver or
waste-clogged bowels. Don't stay
sick, bilious, headhchy, constipated.
Remove the liver and bowel poison,
which is keeping your head dirzy,
your tongue coated, your breath
bad and stomach sour.-Why not
spend a few cents for a box of Cas
carets and errjoy the nicest, gentlest
laxative-cathartic you ever experi
enced? Cascarets never gripe, sick
en or inconvenience one like Salts,
Oil, Calomel or harsh pills! They
work while you sleep.
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