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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 14. 1920.
-What Qualities Do
Women Have,
Men; 'Ask
Women,, as novelists and philoso
phers, bsve said, have i way with
them, I have often noticed it partic
'ularly id stores.
Women know how to shop. Men
don't. I used to believe the comic
paper jokes about women's going
from place to place, and not buying
anything. I don't any more. I have
wen them at their work, and I know
that eventnally. if not right at the
moment, they do buy something, and
buy what they want. And they
usually get it at the price tliey tn-
lenaea to pay when they set out.
, And my experience is still fresh
, in my mind.
It happened that the household
: was out of lettuce, and, its general
-I- manager being otherwise employed,
, l was sent out to get it.
"Don't get any of that slazv,
faded . lettuce," I was told. "Feel
' the heads yourself. Peel off the
i outer leaves, and see whether they
if are large and firm before you buy
5 - wem.
it I had seen this done when carry'
s? , ing parcels for the general manager,
; and I supposed it could be accom
plished without difficulty.
i, I went into a vegetable market
near by. The proprietor was
busy, for which I was grateful. I
' wanted to feel the lettuce, as iu-
. structed, but I didn't have the jierve
, to do it before his eyes.
' In a bin close at hand were 10 or
ft 15 head.. I punched one of them
j tentatively. It seemed to yield to
mv prodding finger.
Ficking it up after a further
4:: ftlanca at the proprietor, I divested
v; it of one 0 its outer leaves.
But I wasn't quick enough.
r- ' The proprietor left the customer
on whom he was waiting and leaped
iy- to to uiy side.
"You buya?" he inquired, lowcr
f ing at me. 1
v "1 I'm not sure; I wanted to see
if it was good."
"Vou spoila. You buya."
His aspect "was menacing.! I
boughta. I '
t I also bought two others, wholly
t on ocular evidence that they were
.v sound, -v
When I got home I found that
Uk they were not sound. I found fur
ther that far better lettuce could be
bought for 15 cents a head, and that
it was perfectly ridculous to let an
ignorant dealer scare you out of
"" your wits when, if you had the least
bit 'of courage, you could make him
give you the kind of lettuce you
- wanted at a reasonable price.
A few days thereafter I had to go
v to the butchershop to get a porter
n' house iteak of about three pounds,
-r cut thick, with considerable fat and
a large tenderloin.
At the butchershop I found the
steaks, already cut, under a glass
(' counter, where I could not get my
" hands of them. ., i
I had been told not to get one of
o these, but to insist on having one cut
from the large hunk . that hangs
somewhere back in the ice box.
"I want," I said, "a porterhouse
' steak, of1 about three pounds, cut
thick, with considerable fat, and a
large tenderloin.
., The butcher reached under the
case, drew out a thin, rangy steak
, and slapped it before me.
"I should prefer to have one cut,'
I said -
- "This is cut, ain't it?"
- "I mean out of the bigger piece."
. "This wan was cut off the biggest
piece in the cow."
"I mean one of those in the ice
box." , 1
"There ain't no more in the ice
box. Will yez have this wan?"
"I don't think so."
"All right," and back it went into
the case.
"But I want a steak."
- "Well, didn't I show yez a
teak?" -
"But I want a
V " Twas a good steak. . Take it or
leave it.", , ,
I took it. ;
If did not prove satisfactory when
. I arrived home with it.
My explanations were received
eoldly. At last I got mad and sug
, gested that it was the best steak to
be had, and that anybody would have
taken it
The general manager put on her
' hat and coat and departed down
the street She returned with a "por
. . terhouse steak of about three
v . pounds, cut thick, with considerable
" fat and a large tenderloin." . t
4 I don't know how she did it. If
I did I would do the same thing
-j jnyself next time. -
But to hope to do so is idle. Tames
" J. Montague in Chicago Daily News.
" - . Language and Literature.
The genius of a nation is the
n'f'- source of untold riches: it has been
bred by centuries, dandled by favor
v ing circumstances, nurtured and
' tutored bv a thousand influences: it
has taken to itself a multitude of
discordant elements, transformed
them into a homogeneous whole,
and stamped that whole with the na
tional effigy and superscription.
Language is the most perfect ex
pession of a nation's genius; it
serves the nation's greatest needs; it
has had the. greatest labor bestowed
upon it. Generation after genera-
tion has struggled to express in
language its tenderest love, its pro-
foundest passion, its deepest grief,
its most subtle thought. One man
added a word here, another a, phrase
- there; this man, as with a hammet,
, - heat rotiffh SDeech into smoothness
and delicacy, a second rendered it
; . pliable, a tmra nttea it tor specula
tion. Mothers wrought it into a
means of comforting their babies;
lovers fashioned it into rhetoric of
compliment; thinkers molded it into
'. a substance so light that it is hardly
heavier than thought.
Finally, after a people has labored
for centuries to create a national in
strument, literature picks up that in
strument and puts it to her uses.
.. What literature shall do is deter
4 mined bv that instrument; she has
no choice, she is the creature of her
tool; she is the handiwork of
language. Henry Dwight Sedgwick,
m Literature ana j-osmopoman-
League of Woolen Voters Head
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lsm.
After an interrupted service of
-more than 27 years as cleaner in
Philadelphia police station, Mrs.
. rimlina Mover. red 82 vearS. .has
' resigned to become beneficiary oi
the police pension tuna.
. The Universities of Oxford, Glas
mw famhriHore. t anchester. Duh
fin and Aberdeen admit women to
: Mrs. Maude Wood Park is chair
man of the League of Women
Voters, having been elected to that
office at the national meeting held
in Chicago last February in connec
tion with the National American
Woman Suffrage association. It is
hoped she will come to Nebraska
for the state meeting of the league
this spring.
On January 4,,19J7, Mrs. Park
was appointed congressional chair
man of the suffrage association and
proved herself a guiding force in
the battle for the suffrage.
Before Mrs. Park took her Wash
ington position she was a well
known lecturer on questions con
cerning the far east. After- the
death of her husband, Charles Park,
she traveled for two years in the
orient with an expert -photographer,
and returned with , pictures of
oriental interiors not usually seen
by foreigners.
Jrs. Park has been in a large
measure responsible for the growth
of suffrage among college women.
She is herself a magna cum laude
graduate of RadclifTe '98 and a na
tive Bostonian.' While in college
she specialized in English; was a
member of the Philosophy club and
of the English club (of which she
was the president in her senior
year). She was also interested in
public speaking, and represented
Radcliffe in a debate which' a joint
Harvard and Radcliffe team won
from Boston university.
Mrs. Park has for a long time
been interested in settlement. work,
living one year at Denison house,
Boston, where she was interested in
a Civic club for women. ',
She was a member of the execu
tive board of the Massachusetts
Woman Suffrage association, ex
ecutive secretary of the Boston
Equal Suffrage association and vice
president of the College Equal Suf
frage league before she came to her
present post. - r
Policewomen' have acquitted them
selves so ' .creditably as police offi
cers in America and Europe that
they are now to have a chance to
demonstrate their ability in this line
of work in- Japan.
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! A Living Wage.
The New York state factory inves'
tigating commission tells of a girl of
22 who was sick for a week. The doe
tors called her illness "general anae
mia." "Worn out" and "exhausted"
were the words they used. Her story,
learned later in detail, was a suf
ficient explanation of this break
down. She never ate any. breakfast,
having found out by experience that
this is the easiest meal to do with
out. "I pay $2 a week for my room,"
she explained. "That bill has to be
met. Then once a month, 25 cents
is taken out of my pay envelope for
the Store Benefit fund. That also is
regular and can't be cut. I've got to
dress decent to keep my job. So you
see the only thing left is to econo
mize on food." Twenty cents was
the most she ever spent on a meal.
Clothing has been called the "cor
rolary of food." Good clothes act as
an insulator consenting bodily heat.
A person warmly dressed does not
need so much food as one poorly
clothed. A working girl has no time
for bargain hunting or remodeling,
and yet in many cases, the nature of
her work demands that she be well
dressed. The Woman Citizen.
As one means of promoting the
community service work of the
General Federation of Women's
Clubs program in community serv
ice, county federations are being or
ganized in every state in the union
where they have not been created
previously. Small clubs which as yet
have not entered into district and
state organizations are being welded
together to meet county needs in
the liope that they will catch the
spirit of the times and learn the
value of organized effort.
In one of the government schools
for women in China .hexing is
taught to the girl students.
Cracker cwtardi puddings may be
made like simple bread puddings,
but they require a lemon or vanilla
sauce. ... ,
Camp Fire Head
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.Campfire Girls
Sturday afternoon at the home of Oer
trude Col, a new Camp Firs via or
ganiiad under tha ruardianalilp ot Misi
Marie Nleamann wltn tne rouowins sirn;
Luia Spencer. Lola Walmer. WUmft Mo
Farland, Kuth Jar.e O'Nell, Frances Wlck
trum, Mary Alice Klrtley, Lewellyn
Ewall and Gertrude Cole.
The Oececa group met at Omahequa
Mondav evening under the supervision of
Miss Mary 'Louise Guy. Hulila Shaffer
and Edith Kadner were visitors.
The Assandawl group, with Mlsg Gladys
Shamp, guardian, met Wednesday after
noon at tho home of Helen Williams and
worked on their ceremonial gowns.
The Minnehaha group, Miss Rosalie
Plainer, guardian, held a meeting- Tuea
day at the home of Mildred Cullen and
planned a Council Fire next meeting, to be
held at the home Of Vrgtnia Powell.
The Ocowaaln group met Thursday at
the home of Audra Truehart when time
was spent working on bead bands and
trimming bata, for which they receive
honors.
The Tatapochon group held two birth
day surprise parties on Friday and Satur
day on Anna Jensen and Helen Henderson,
respectively.
Misa Miirie Gossett's City Mission grouo
enjoyed a taffy pull Saturday, after which
they spent tneir time on meir neaa oanus.
Mrs Tnhn T.. Reniiett.- formerly
of the republican national commit
tee headquarters in Washington, will
liave rhartre of the western head
quarters for the presidential cam
paign of Governor Coolidge of
Massachusetts.
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The Omaha CamDhre organization
will celebrate its .eighth birthday,
Wednesday, March 17. Miss Mary
Louise Guy, executive secretary, ex
pects the coming week to be an
eventtui one in me nisiory oi mc
local groups. The work of the vari
ous groups will be on exhibition
during the week at the Campfire
headquarters in the Patterson block.
The big event of the week will be
the council fire and pageant which
will be held Saturday evening at
the Brandeis theater.
COLDS
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The sheer beauty of Phoe-
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LADIES! DARKEN
YOUR GRAY HAIR
Use Grandma's Sage Tea and
Sulphur Recipe and Nobody
will Know.
AFTER EFFECTS OF
INFLUENZA TO BE
FEARED AS MUCH AS
THE DISEASE ITSELF
Iowa Man Tells How He Won Back
His Health and Strength
The use of Sage and Sulphur for
restoring faded, gray hair to its
natural color dates back to grand
mother's time. She used it to keep
her hair beautifully dark, glossy
and attractive. Whenever her hair
took on that dull, faded or streaked
aooearance, this simple mixture was
applied with wonderful effect.
But brewing at home is mussy and
out of date. Nowadays, by asking
at any drug store for a bottle ot
"Wyeths bage and bulpliur Lom
nound." vou will tret this famous
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can be depended upon to restore
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A well known downtow druggist
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taking one strand at a time. By
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The toll of human life taken by
Spanish Influenza is enormous, but
not near as appalling as the trail of
suffering: it leaves. In the wake of
the disease are strewn a mass of
human wreckage numbering thou
sands, men, women and children,
who will never know a well day
after.
Influenza is a catarrhal disease.
Due to the putrid poisons and the
foetid, slimy waste matter with
which it leaves the system clogged,
Influenza is responsible for broken
constitutions and bodies racked and
ravished by almost every chronic
and fatal disease known to doctors.
Influenza is bad. but the results
may be infinitely worse, and it be
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Mr. C. A. Allen, R. R. No. 2. Bon-
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others and placed his dependence on
a remedy fifty years old, which he
knew was the most successful treat
ment for catarrhal diseases in the
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"Influenza left me weak and for
two months I could gain no
streneth. I bought six bottles of
PE-RU-NA and after taking a short
time my weight went up .to 175
pounds, which is the most I ever
weighed. My usual cold . weather
weight in the past has been about
155.' .You are perfectly welcome
to use this letter."
Mr. Allen's trouble was catarrh
of the nose, , throat and bronchial
tubes punctuated by t attacks of
asthma.
It is good practice to keep PE-RU-NA
in the house. For coughs,
colds, nasal catarrh, catarrh of the
stomach and bowels, it is wonder
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tive in effect.
You can buy PE-RU-NA any
where in either tablet or liquid form.
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