This is not a Contest The Omaha Sunday Bek 14 B QMAHA, 00! ,1 Maurice Mcieterfncr were Omtd met? t?rc?Med X 'Weir idea o trisTiA t Here's, hope for the. elderly birils vith youthful ideas who have been .previously handicapped by the faith ful devotion of their too mature spouses. A Maetarlinck club for the w. k. tired business men of Omaha, who have formerly sought relaxation and relief from commercial strains anB domtfstic worries in the front row at the burslesque show. "How'd you like a little angel, 'round the house to make you jetad?" ran the text of a last year's, popular song. Emancipation for the Omaha t. b. m. is in sight, and realization of the delightful promise of the song through the agency of the new club. . Gave Way, Smiling. Maurice Maeterlinck furnished the Inspiration for such an organization , w hen he put aside his wife and got spliced up with a newer, fresher edition of the deadlier of the species. Wifie No. 1 merely smiled as she made the sacrifice which permitted her 57-year-old husband to annex a charming 19-year-old beauty. She admitted it was her duty to give her poet-hubby opportunity for fresh inspiration in his communion with the Muses and s. new interest in worldly matters. Members of the shriller sex are divided upon the subject according to their age. Omaha club women who invited the Belgian poet to this city and may , be called upon to emulate the example of his unselfish iv'" .;." & The idea and policy 0 this Ciub tAat every married man yVi Je jhrr? ct dime ron As irst trie and ' marry a younger and fresfter mmen, not over nineteen. cu& dues are a dotr. and cirrie. dent send your wife send toe dSitar. (men in Me nickel Sedtj pitas tceep MNCiVJA LOVING WIFE'S DUTY TO SEE HiR HUSBAND, . CDtt TA rtA A e . . AND 0 HELP HIM FIND J HAPPINESS tAM WILLING Td SACRIFICE ALL MY HAPPINESS. mm, first .wife, following ' the organiza tion of the local Maeterlinck club, think that the idea is "horrid." '. Some Oriental Fatalism." "A chicken in every home," is the slogan of the new club. Prospec tive members need only a wife and a dollar. Policies of the club advise the retention of, thex original, wife for cooking,! washing, houseclean ing and other essential labor. Hereafter the t. b. m. who has taken advantage of- the' club idea will toddle home at 2 a. m. and re- ceive. not a rolling pin and a couple of tlatirons, but only a whispered" admonition 'from the wife to keep quiet, as she has just put the "chicken" to bed. The idea itself is not strictly new. It has been advocated for years by the Turks and Mormons. The same principles have applied for centuries in the haremliks of the far east. With. Oriental fatalism the favorite wives of sultans, pashas and other dignitaries expect to step aside whenever a pretty. Vw houri catches the fancv of her lord and master and is subsequently imported into the harem. Tag a Chicken. The doctrine is as old as the hills, but it was left to the Belgian poet to apply it to the modern civiliza tion of America and demonstrate its 1 1 of I OF Co urse "youde t toreep yoirr 'rs t ivie (? round to do tJie MVdsAng and nousy. cecinrnQ.we J l . v.. ' jay mere yroua oe a m nUUOC C LtnnlN' TA T ft OHM J) OLD I CLUB OCA ClAAAi! voreD Tt BRING CT I XI XA SI I I I SUNDAY i ml MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1920. "Buck" Tips Old "Loot" One "Jit" for Ride Home in Taxi "Revenge Is Sweet," Chortles "Sack" Hunter, as He Bemoans Magnitude of Gift to Driver, Who Was His Lieutenant in the Army. Harold "Hunter, "one -of 'the boys oCcuincil Bluffs," is telling the "world's fair" and everybody con nected with it, that the old saying, "revenge is sweet," is th,e truest thing he ever heard uttered from the human mouth. "Sack," as he is called by those who are real "family" with him, is attending school in the east and this week returned for (he holidays. As he alighted from the "observation" car burdened with grips, "books" and other things too numerous to mentiftn, a common every-day taxi triver stepped up and offered to relieve- him of his many paVcels and drive him to his mansion.. After a long two day's journey "Sack" was tired . enough to consent .to afmost anything and as he walked to the cab he gave the taxi driver a casual glance and almost dropped dead from the shock. The driver was none other than the man who was the first lieutenant of "Sack's" air service company at Kelly Field, Tex., and he was any thing but good to the boys. "It's too good to be true," said "Sack" slightly recovered from his shock. "I don't wish him any hard luck but I hope he breaks his leg or the motor falls out of this car. When he arrived at his palatial home, "Sack" reeled down into his jeans and peeled forth the required fare and as the driver stared away he called him back and presented a "tip." His enormous "tip" was a nickel and "Sack" says he would have given anything if he had had a penny. , "Oh, boy, but that did my old heart good," said "Sack." He surely made life 'pleasant' for m for sev eral months." Starting away "Sack" poured forth with "a merry Christ mas, lieutenant" When you come Aowe at . X AM injtectd of dodjirib a toscrge offiffdefij c??d wM pins, yourfMnifcsm ph c?djfses yoa to tecufet rs stenas just put your chrcAen rneifMas yot tte ster sex up. on tfor i?-ees for fair ' co oea. practicability, with the co-operation of his first wife. v The free-love bureaus established by the bolsheviks in Russia will have nothing on the Omaha Maeterlinck club. . Over there you just tagged a desirable chicken and she didn't j hitching up'with a fresh specimen of dare slip you the razzberries. She I a later vintage, married you or went to jail. But Pleasing variety and b'mitless pos no proyisions were made for rehabil-j sibilities for avoiding monotony and itatinz one's interest in life bv out-1 boredom is afforded by the new ting aside a last "year s wife and scheme. Daily Orange, Eaten Between 2-5 A. M., Good Health Secret W. J. Burgess, manager of the Boyd theater, declares that the secret of his fine health is an orange every morning between 2 and 5. "Every night," says he, "my wife peels and prepares the orange and puts it on a saucer by the side of my bed. " ' "And every morning I wake up some, time between 2 and S, cat my orange and then go back to sleep immediately. "It makes me feel great. I wouldn't miss it for anything. You see, the human system is all clear then and the juices of the orange do up their work in great shape. Try it." , Black Eye for Xmas as He jells Little Girl ' Santa Claus Is Myth "A manthat will attempt to de- j stroy the ideals of his' children in regard to the existence vof Santa Claus, is not human," said a husky cattleman on a crosstown street car Christmas morning to another man, as he landed a blow on his jaw. .. The cattleman was enroute to the stock yards when another man and a little girl got on the car at J street. Passengers say the man told the little girl it was all "bunk" about Santa Claus and that there was no such, individual. "That is all nonsense about Santa Claus and a pack of lies given out by the rich to their children," the father, said. "But, papa," said, the little girl, "mamma said Santa Claus came to see me last night." "That is right," said the cattle man, "there is a Santa Claus and he visits all children." An argument followed in which the man with the little girl was given a black eye as a reminder of Christmas, 1919. A score of pas scntrers on the car applauded the cattleman for his actions as he gotj off at the Exchange building. He Didn't Care About TheHuman Race-He Was Very Comfortable He was ambling down Farnam street about p. m Sunday, inspect ing the contents of every shop win dow, but apparently unconscious of the general attention he was attract-' ing. Citizens waiting patiently for street cars on the corner of Six teentlvstrect were amused by the di version. They stared boldly and grinned brcadly. Chickens and flappers, tripping along in their weekly afternoon, rtroll. looked back at him over their shoulders and tittered audibly. Youtlvs ""supporting the door frames of sundry drug stores and cigar stands guffawed loudly. Lounge lizards in the Henshaw hotel lobby even got out of their chairs to catch a longer view of the ' spectacle. The attraction was a huge pair of fur mitts which h; was wearing. Each contained the hidr of at feaSt! one full-grown dog. The fur waf three inches lone; and a . loveM golden brown. The mitts extended, lo his elbows and the finger tips touched his knees. .When he raised: his hand to adjust his hat, both hat and head were concealed. Some mitts! ' : ! - ' J , ; L ; - ' :J, Bouquet of People Phone Wires Hum With Jazz And Opera In Wee Sma' Hours Night Operators Adjust Headpieces, Open Switches, Close Eyes. Settle , Back .and Blooey! Enjoy . Rear Concert from 1 to 5 A. M. If by ome chance -you should .have occasion to use the telephone between 1 a. m. and 5 a. m. and, -"you get paralyzed waiting for the Operator to take your number,' don't swear at the sweet. young thing . no, GeoYge, don't swear at her ask her to let you in on the concert. You may be just in time to hear Harry Lauder singing "Wee Hoose Mang the Heather" or hear Soul's o "Stars and Stripes" by some 100 pjece band. At least you wouldn't expect the dear," operator to turn from John McCormack singing "Calling Me Home" just to hear. you ' calling her names. That's just what she's up against. ; If she answers your call she'll miss out on the concert. "Special Announcement" . . r . i into Douglas street,. Night Manager Carl Zich has a victrola. He also has a few handred popular records. His selections range from "Ja-Da" to ,"0 Sole Mio." - About 1 a. m. every morning Carl hauls his Vivtrola out, stands it up on an oil drum and plants a tele phone directly in front of it. He calls the operator over the 'phone, innounces the opening number of the evening's entertainment, puts the receiver aside and throws his little old Vjctrola into high gear. Each telephone operator in each exchange puts on her "head-piece", tilts back in her chair, closes her eyes and sails away on a dream of ' sweet melodies. Just at Press Time. A poor struggling nigjit police re porter discovered the secret of the operators' refusal to answer at that time of the morning. He was out on west Ames avenue about 3 o'clock one morning , week or bo ago. Three a. m. means about three minutes before press time. He had a little yarn he was anxious to "crack" in the morning edition. He stepped into a garage nearby and picked up the telephone receiver. A voice" he recognized as that of jCarl Zich bawled over the wire, "Ears ready! This is a 'new one, girls, 'Who -Shot the Holes in Fa ther's Derby,' by Baron DeOrglar." ' On Through the " Night. A few hundred feminine voices Uttered and Victrolft strains began to-hum over the. wire. , "The next selection will be. ,'JLove, Here is My Heart,' by John McNap kin." A N And thus did Professor Carl play through the night that night and every night. . X m i l fi BY A STIWQBRy j fj KZ Inspiring Story off General Stinger's Rise in Omaha Further Details in Life of Leading - Candidate for Presidency 'Of United States. 7. 17 Jl- T I. Mi I Tom Catt did his best. At 4 a. m. ea, VeniV-LAJVe IS nUl Art interrupted the serenade with a Only Blind, Bllt Deaf j The greatest of Tom's great quali ; . f, ' T r ! ties was his consistency., So the .Sn .SaVS I nm lattf next. night he, came again. He a started early the second' night Ten ' verses of Tom's best love sone failed The eves of love are blind. That'sN to bestir Miss Cat in Art's basement. act. But that doesn t embrace all She slept soundly through it all he defects of love. '.Love's ears are ilso deaf. No, not always, but in the Case of Art Berlinger's cat and her suitor,', love's ears have ceased :o function. - Art Berliner, live stock man. has pet cat She is a beauty. Not only hat but she's refined. Her nights re not spent wandering about, like -ther felines of the neighborhood, he retires earlv in the basement of Art's home, tfOl South Twenty linth street. . ' . Two weeks ago. Tom Catt, ro mantic young' thing, caught a ?liir'ipse of Art's cat as she glided gracefully into the Berliner base nebt She was dazzling. That night ic Vouldn't resist taking a little val around where the beauty had Itsalpeared. -He scouted around al- moslall the night, without catching one. glimpse oT the apple of his appy thought! Ah, he'd sere- her! Oft had he heard his ed father. sing a crcony mel- sotne iair jnai(ien. Ax Berliner adopts that veni nao I "1 tfuyi i That was more than Art could do. At the opening of the eleventh verse, Art interrupted' again. . The next night Tom came again, only to be interrupted before his song reached the ears of his lady love. ' If she would but consent to come out, if only for a few minutes, Tom would deem it a gift from the God-' dess of Love herself, Fourteen successive nights and no successl Last night, however, Art didn't interrupt He's waiting to hear from Cynthia Gray or some other, noted authority 'to whom he .has. written to learn how to say in cat talk that his little pet is stone deaf ' and couldn't hear a hundred cats' if they serenaded her in the same room. Poor Tom Catt! Poor Art . Ber And Sometimes an Aunty dote! It sometimes happe'ns ' that the , the possibilities of this property and Ananias Stinger," having made his name known throughout the world as inventor of the hole in .the doughnut, soon went on to other heights of endeavor. He rapidly out-' grew the town of Jurnip Hill, iveh and one fine winter morning he left that place for Omaha. He was only a poor boy -still and there was much grieving when he had gone. Scurrilous stories 'have been circulated to the effect that he owed money at the cigar store, the pool room and other places. These are without foundation in fact. He left no unpaid bills whatever, and, the young genius. The4 sum he pos sessed was $2 short of that demand ed tor the property. Mr. Stinger did not hesitate He pawned his watch, an Ingersoll, and paid out the entire suin and became editor and publisher of The Bumble Bee, Taking His College Course. if he did, those to whom they were owed could better afford to lose the money than he. Arriving in Omaha, he pursued his studies. His brain was ever, restless and he was spurred on by ambition, He soon entered a college and aftep pursuing his instruction for three months was graduated. In Professional Life. For a number of years he pursued the profession for which this col lege course had fitted him. Those were struggling years for the mart marked for future greatness. Many a close shave marked those days but he cut his way ahead. But he saved his money. .He was thrifty and soon came to be a man of prominence and of means. Then came the opportunity to buy The Bumble Bee. Mr. Stinger knew man w ho dotes on a girl finds mar-1 he -knew he had ideas to give to the riaie an anti-dot. Cartoons Maga- world. . - Stinger Was Thrifty. It is. thrilling to uctc the faith of States. that great paper which has had such a marked placeMn fashioning j.rblic opin-on. Here we have the history of Gen era! Stinger. What an Inspiration to the youth of today to see how he forged ahead. Many would have said they had no chance. General Stinger MADE chances. He seized them when they came and made the most of them. Fame at Last. Today his wo)-d ' is law in The Bumble Bee. His articles ar? looked' forward to by the elite, the cognos centi, the intellectuals of this coun try, and only the fact that many people in other lands do-not under stand the English language prevents them from enjoying and being up lifted by these articles. It is a privation which they must suffer as best they can. because they do not understand English. Genera! Stinger's heart is big. Perhaps the fact that he h.is never married may account for this. There is room left in his heart tor love of the whole world. Why has this distinguished man never. taken a helpmate? Ah, that is a question that has puzzled many. It J-.as been discussed in some of the most fashionable saloons of so ciety, v . In fact there is a romance con nected with his life. He ntver men tions it The romance-is sealed up within his breast. But the story of the general's ro mance shall be told in these columns next Sunday. It may have some ef fect on the coming election when General Stinger will be a candidate or the presidency of the tinted TT ROTTEN. Here is the lustful advertisement of a picture at u new Douglas street movie theater: t Her husband has gone to catch the midnight train. She rushed to the telephone and called tip another man, making an appointment for hi in to call upon her. The lights were low. A man entered,.'she ran to him, threw her arms about him, kissed him passionately. Then 7"' she suddenly discovered it was not the man she thought but . her husband. v Wonder1 what has become of the old-fashioned moving picture censor. Sr- THE MEXICAN WAR? '. "Help your country to win th war by avoiding waste," says a printed line on the little sacks of sugar served to diners at the pon- Icnellc. . Yfc Editors Exchange Compliments, - , ( (Ord Quiz.) Ches Chinn moved his house hold cffacs to this city last Thurs day. It has been some years since he. was a resident of the city an4 we sure welcome him back .again. He is, Ho doubt satisfied with his little sojourn in the village of Ord, and he will enjoy himself all the more after getting back into a real city, where we have paved streets, sewer, all the modern conveniences and on top of that blessed with a court house that is a joy and com fort 'forever.--St Paul Phono graph. . Well, that is a good joke. An Ord man drove through St. Paid recently and someone tried to di rect him to a livery barn aiid he fodnvl the school house, thinking that Vas the barn and anyone who has ever seen the St. Paul high school would not blame him for his mistake. St. Paul got the horse before the cart as usual when it built a new court house before it installed sewerage or a good school build ing. ' Ord has had a sewer system for several years that cared for the ' mam part of town aid now, realizing that the rapid growth is going to need increased sewerage Facilities, has arranged to spend $100,000 in that kind of improve ments. . , St Paul i has a fair court house but the new one that Ord will buihd the coming year and for which the contract -will be let .within 30 days, will make the St. Paul court house look, like the lcanto to the main building. - COME-ON. SAMl' ,Wish Governor McKelvie would get "mad" at The Bumble Bee and write us a letter. His letters when he's "mad," such as he wrote to that editor last week, are the fun niest things we've read. Leffingwell Fills Breach Stops Lingual, Lethargy Entrance Into the New Year by the Leffingwell Fam ily Marked by Henry's Obedience to Friend Wife's Command Once More He Practices His Preachings. v ' - By EDWARD BLACK. Mrs. What's-Hcr-Name, aglow with conversational ccstacy, gal loped over to the Leffingwell can teen to impart a bit of confidential information which had been weigh ing on tier mind. Mrs. Leffingwell was busy, preparing a meal de luxe for the home-coming of her knight, yclept Henry Leffingwell. She ad justed her mind for the revelations which were to be unfolded by the neighbor, . whose knowledge of neighborhood information ranged from wrfiat the cat brought in, to a conversation she overheard when central "'-lggel her line in with two other na .ies when she called for the number of her grocer to order garlic to satisfy an exotic craving which had been developed by . her Henry. s "I have come over to tell you something, because. I know you are my friend. I don't know just how to tell it, but I must have a confi dante and I know that you will sym pathize with me, I want you to tell me whethfr I should tell my hus band of this matter," the neighbor began. -"At first I though I would not tell anyone abqut it, but the more I thought, the more I was con vinced that I should tell you. Some women keep everything to them selves, but you know I am not that kind of a woman, f believe I would die if I couldn't tell someone. Do you keep anything from your -husband nr Ho von iust fet him find it out for himself? Sometimes, when I' tell my man a lot of little home affairs, he tells me 'to think more" and talk less, and then, again, he aWs wliv I don't tell him what has been going on at home while he was away at work all day. Grieved at Frivolity. Mrs. Leffingwell was growing nervous on account of the circum locution of her friend. She wished her visitor would come to the point and out with it. "What is vour latest Brief: she asked, commiseratingly. "Well, Mrs. Leffingwell, I ,may as well tell you first as last I have found my first gj-ay hair and I pulled it out and Mrs. So-and-So told me that when I pulled out one gray hair two more will grow in its place. I came over 'to ask your opinion. Mrs. Lerhngwell almost dropped ncr pan or oiscuits. rne naa propped her mind to hear something of real interest. She thought, per haps, that her neighbor was going to say that her husband had started chewing tobacco; that the girl across the street at last had discovered a ntatrinionial prospect, this being leap year; that Mrs. Two-step had a new recipe with which to combat the high cost of prohibition, or that the minister had been seen playing Kelly pool. - The Touch of Dignity. "The acquiring of gray hairs js the touch of dignity that time be stows upon every woman, and this benediction of the years should be received with graciousness," Mrs. Leffingwell - asserted. "There is beauty in gray hairs if the mind be neath them keeps sweet and fresh." "Yes, but I heard my man say one day that all cats are gray in the dark. Wrhat do you suppose he meant?" the neighbor asked. "There is no accounting for' what men may say. My Henry asked me several times to make some barley soup, and when I placed-it before him one evening, he asked, 'What kind qf stuff do you call this?' Men are fearfully and wonderfully made," Mrs. Leffingwell replied. "I think I hear my telephone bell ringing." the neighbor said, as she galloped back to her home, almost suffering a head-on collision with Henry Lcflingwcll, who was return ing from his day's work. The home coming of Lefhngwell removed any danger of the Leffingwell domicile lapsing into lingual lethargy, be- . cause Henry was a big-leaguer in the art of discursive diction. Henry Has a Thought. 'T had a thought on my way home. It came to me out of the blue sky, out, of the , cosmos of knowledge," Henry began, as he placed his overshoes in a corner and scanned the edibles on the-table. "So you . have had another thought" his wife replied. "It is not long since you bad a thought'! and J, hope that this new thought will be something to start the year with. I just knew that you would bring- something home, - or that something was going to happen, be-, cause I spilled the salt today." "Yes, I have a new thought; not Hew to me, but perhaps new to some of the Leffingwells, who arc going to. put their best foot forward this year," Henry continued. "My thought is that the Leffingwells are going to be equal to emergencies, to great' moments, to crises, Thex are going to have mental poise, equanimity, aplomb, and they are not going to allow themselves to be disturbed over the irritations of the day, nor arc they going to be per turbed on slight provocation." Indomitable Sense of Humor. "How do you get that way?" Willie interposed, mischievously. Mrs. Leffingwell was beginning to wonder whether Henry had run afoul of some of that wood alcohol j concoction that has been increasing Hotel Management Removes Lake From ; Second Floor to Lobby With the discovery' of two crooks Hn the Hotel Fontenelle early one morning last week, a general alarm was sounded and the case was im mediately investigated by the man agement. The discovery was made through . a telegram which came addressed to C R. Crooks, Hotel Fontenelle. which had been sent from Chicago presumably by someone interested in tire movements of Mr. Crooks. - To add to the confusion, A. Lake arrived sometime during the night, and a flood was reported on the fourth floor. After a hasty meeting of the hotel -management it was decided to remove Mr. Lake to the lobby for the remainder of his stay, in order to give the forest there the benefit of the water. Much confusion lias been caused since Christmas by the large am niount of trees and underbrush that has sprung up in the lobby and bchiud the desk, and efforts are being made to keep the trees trim med and the grass cut, to enable the guests to distinguish each other and avoid confusion while pass ing in the lobby. ' , t Jury Files Out One By One While Lawyer Argues Heavy Case Eugene O'Sullivan, attorney, had a dream 6ne night last week which,. didn t come true. "I dreamed that I was addressing ( the jury on an important case," said. Gene. "The jurors weren't especial ly friendly, I noticed, and finally one of them near the door got up, muttered, 'Shucks, you make me sick, and walked out. "I didn't stop him, hut went on with my argument as well as I could. Pretty soon another juror grumbled, 'Some argument!' and he stalked out of the room. ' "I kept right on until 11 of the jurors had walked out, one after , the other. I argued with the last juror and finally he got up and walked out. I kept on arguing with him as he walked down the cor--ridor of the court house and I was, still arguing with him when I woke up." But Mr. O'Sullivan won the case he was trying the day after the dream. , the death rate in the fastnesses of the east. , "Henry Leffingwell," his wife ex claimed in a commanding tone. "You are about to meet a great moment and I hope you will have equanimity. poise, aplomb and anything else you need. After you ha- had your supper, you may get t. work, grat ing that horse-radish root that has been on the shelf for two weeks, waiting for you to have a great mo ment." And while Henry was grating the horse-radish Willie hummed, "Every Little Movement" 1