THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 1, 1920.
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MUNY FORESTS AT
Flood of Breach
Of Promise Cases
Among Kansas Girls
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 31.
There's a regular "epidemic" of
breach of promise suits, just filed
here, by women who want to be
paid for heart throbs. One of the
"men" is but 16 years old, too. ,-
Jack Orledge, 16, manager of the
Orledge cafe, at Twelfth and
Baltimore, promised to marry
pretty Mildred Florence Shutz, 22,
word she asks the small sum of
$25,000.;
Miss Nancy Lee, a 20-year-old
c'aV clerk, met Frank Palmer, in
1917. .They went to the "movies"
every Sunday night. Not long ago
he told her over the telephone it
was all off" and gave no excuse.
Nancy can't fee why he can't pay
her $25,000, without excuse.
Marriage Records Broken
In Lilie During 1919
Lille, Jan. 31. Cupid apparently
has taken up his camp in the city of
Lille since its liberation frpm the
Germans, and is bent on making it
the greatest marrying city of its
size in the world.
Before the war the average num
ber of marriages annually in Lille
was only slightly in excess of 2,000.
During the three years of Gerntan
occupation the number fell to less
than 900 annualy. But in the year
1919 more than 4,000 couples were
married, the record being establish
ed during the two days tet4 in hon
or of Saint Eloi, when exactly 200
couples joined hands.
Her Ape No Barrier
, To Long-Distance Travel
.Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 31. Age, it
would seem, now is no barrier, to
long distance travel.
Application was made here by
Mrs. Bertha D. Vanorden, 70, for a
passport to Brazil and, she is plan
ning to make the trip alone.
"Walking Dairy"1Wilked
At Customers' Doorsteps
Waynesboro, Fa., Jan. 31. A
"walking dairy" is the innovation ol
Sherd Cressrr, a farmer and stock
dealer. He not only serves milk at
the door iresh from, the cow, but
brings the cow along and draws the
milk while his customers wait.
and because ne ainan i Ktepnis
VIENNA OPEN TO
PUBLIC FOR FUEL
Profiteers Destroy 150-Acre
Forest Park by Cutting
- Wood and Selling at
High Prices"
Vienna, Jan. 31. The authorities
: recently authorized the population
to cut and take from the municipal
"forests that surround Vienna as
much wood as could be borne on the
back three times weekly. ' The plan
was meant to meet the pressing need
of people who could not buy or ob
tain from the public ration enough
. fuel to cook with.
A fortnight's experiment showed
that, with the complete destruction
of one superb forest park of 150
acrts, only a fraction of the wood
went as intended, while organized
hands of profiteers cut and sold 20,
000.000 crowns' worth. .
,.y The incident is typical of profiteer
ing conditions in this capital. The
papers daily report the frustrated or
successful smuggling out of th,e
. country of contraband articles and
, commodities. A band of Spanish
smugglers recently were caught on
the southern frontier with Jarge
quantities of gold, silver and plati
num which they were trying to take
out in automobiles. The low ex
change value of the Austrian crown
.makes smuggling a tempting game
and men take, desperate chances.
. T,he-frontiers are guarded closely
and everyone searched, but the left
hand trade is unchecked.
Month's Salary for Meal.
Money can still buy any necessity
or any luxury here, while the mass
.-of the people are hungry and cold
and ill-clad, the splendid hotels and
restaurants continue so Crowded that
it is Impossible to be served unless a
reservation is made for a table. In
.crowns the prices are fabulous. A
; simple meat costs the month's salary
of an office man, yet profiteers and
alien speculators throng them as well
as the cabarets and night amusement
places of all knids. '
On the one hand is-luxury and
reckless spending and hi the other
starvation. The swarms of street beg-
gars increase, men; women and chil
dren with their jnsistent appeals.
The cheaper coffee houses are filled
from opening to closing with those
drawing their IS crowns daily of out
, of work subsidy. Strikes and threat-
ened strikes bring enormous in
creases of pay and, prostrate under
it all, is the middle class, the pro-
. fessional and clerical ranks who have
neither organization nor ressource.
They are not entitled o out of work
pay nor enabled in any way to in
crease their incomes.
Vienna presents curious contrasts.
Nearby is a shop once fam6us for its
tielicacies. Its windows are dressed
' with tinned salmon, a few sardines,
, both to be had on a fat ration card,
. some , imitation liquors and scaly
. looking bon bons.
Luxuries Are Plentiful.
In the great shopping streets of
the inner city the windows are filled
with magnificent furs, works of art
tailored costumes, dainty silks and
other . women's wear, jewels and
other articles de luxe. But for sturdy
clothing, for shoes and woollens, for
those things that a populace needs in
a hard winter clime, for fats and
flour and sugar, one v can search
Vienna in vain, A diamond or rare
' painting, tapestry or sable coat,
dainty glassware or exquisite leather
and porcelain things can be found
on the Karnestrassa or the Graben
or the smart shop streets that radi
ate from them, but the owner of any
one of them will sell you more read
ily for bacon, flour or sugar than for
crowns. Recently many shops have
'refused to sell except for established
foreign monies, although such a pro
cedure is in direct violation of the
law, , !
The government daily quotes tire
official rate of exchange at which
foreign money will be cashed in its
own bureau, but this means nothing
as affecting private transactions in
banks and with money changers.
Some days these will give from ten
to twenty points more or less than
the official rate according to their
own judgment of conditions. There
are daily raids on illicit . money
changers in cafes, hotel corridors
and in the side streets of the Bourse,
often netting millions of crowns, bur
the game goes on. -
February Will Be
Very Peculiar Month
1 February, 1920, will be a peculiar
month.
February 1 falls on a Sunday,
at docs February 29, the last day
of the month.
There will be seven holidays in
February that is, for bankers and
others, but for the common work
man but five.
There are five Sundays in, Febru
i arv and the customary two legal
' holidays Abraham Lincoln' birth
day and the anniversary of George
Washington's birth.
Such a February has not been ex
perienced since 1880, and tfiere will
. not be a similar one until 1948, sta
tistical fiends declare.
Leap year is the reason.
Aged Woman Recluse
. Found Burned to Death
1 'East Orange, N.'J., Jan. 31. Miss
Elizabeth O. Hoyt, 70 years old, who
lived alone at 72 Steuben street was
found burned to death in her home.
Neighbors had not seen her for sev
x eral days. Mrs. Edward Hunkele,
who lived next door, broke into the
Hoyt house and found the woman's
body in a sitting posture in a chair
in the dinning room burned almost
beyond recognition. It is believed
the woman's bed caught fire from a
gas stove. Miss Hoyt had -lived
alone in the house for 30 years.
Leg Broken, Pinned Under
) - Auto for Eleven Hours
Wichita, Kan., Jan. 31. To lie
pinned under an overturned motor
car for U hours with a broken leg
c and hi face blistered by water from
the radiator was the. experience of
W. J. Sprout, 45, a. travelling sales
man, near here the other day.
Sprout wat found by children ,on
their way to chooL He will re
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