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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1920)
4 B N THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 23, 1920. Poppy Day Will Be Observed In Omaha as French Children Benefit' ''In Flanderi fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row." Omaha's reverence for her soldier dead, the lads who lie in Flanders fields will blossom forth in a tribute on "Poppy Day," May 29. Brightly glowing tinted tissue poppies, each one the outward sign of an inward heart-glow of gratitude to the men who gave their all, will bob in but ton holes, quiver at the belt, make gay the thoroughfares of Omaha in the hours Just preceding memorial day when thoughts inevitably turn towards Flanders fields where pop pies grow. The destitute children of France, those little comrades of the soldiers of the American expeditionary forces, will be the beneficiaries of "Poppy Day" gratitude. The organization of the "Poppy Day" movement in Omaha and Council Bluffs guarantees its success. All existing - organizations have pledged their co-operation and sup port to the Poppy day organization now in motion. Miss Virginia Helene Bixby, chair man, is assisted by the following Vice chairmen, each of whom is in . charge of a definite territory. Mesdames C. A. Hull, Chas. J. Kountze, Fred Hamilton, H. H. Baldridge, J. J. McMullen, J. L. Ken nedy, Flora Voss, T. H. Mc-j Dearmon, O. C. Redick, 0. M-1 Smith. W. A. C. Johnson, L. T Mealy, A. S. Ritchie, Stephen Edgar Lole, Jacob Spiesberger, George Doane. jr Edwin T, Swobe, Wm. Taylor, Wilson Lowe, E. S. West- brook, t. b. iiprague, r. A. iirogan, Jacob Wuest, A- V. Kinsler. Each vice chairman will be assisted by dozens of charming captains and lieutenants to distribute the poppies The honorary committee is as fol lows:- Mesdames S. G. Holcomb, Tames P, Boyd, Henry W. Yates, George Joslyn, Andrew Murphy, Chas. H, Dewey. J. J. Brown, E. W, Nash, George W. Doane, M. T. Patrick, Miss Louise White is secretary; Mrs. F. J, Despecher and Mrs. A. V. Kinsler treasurer; Mrs. T. H. McDearmon, publicity director. Benson, South Omaha and Flor ence will be included in the "Poppy Day" observance, which will have its headquarters in the city hall. The officials for the movement in 'Ne braska are: President, Miss Mae Pershing, Lincoln; vice president, Mrs. John Slacker, Hastings; state chairman, Mrs. George H. Holden, Lincoln; vice chairman, Mrs. T. J. Doyle, Lincoln; secretary, Mrs. Paul Bartlett, . Lincoln: treasurer. Prof. H. B. Alexander, University of Ne braska; delegate, Patsy Anne Ep person, Kansas City, Mo. When Dreams Do Not Come True By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Have you ever wanted something with all your heart and soul? Then, having struggled toward it, having almost attained it have you found that it was not for you? Perhaps the price was higher than you had the coiyage to pay. Perhaps the reckon ing for your desire would have fallen too heavily on others. You found that you couldn't in justice and fair ness have your desire. At any rate, with the goal in view, you had to turn away to the lesser longings of your life. - , . , What ' then? Did you feel de feated? Did you decide in all bit terness that life wasn't playing fair with you and that it wasn't worth your while to struggle up ward or toward any ideal? Let's stop here for a minute and remember the verses, each line of which ends, "I've never been to Carcasonne." It tells of the old peasant of France who dies with his great longing unfulfilled. Life has given him many things, but never has he been able to visit the city of his dreams Carcasonne, which lay only a few mortal miles away, but to which he has never been free to travel. "Carcasonne," the desire of his eyes and his soul's longed-for goal, has never been his to reach. . Wistfully and sadly he repeats over and over, "I've never been to Carcasonne." So for most of us. We have a "Carcasonne" a city of dreams, and it may be that we never reach it. Is this poverty? Is it tragedy or de et? I think not. The tragedy and de feat lies elsewhere, They he in the poverty of sprit which deprives a mortal from having an ideal of beatuy. They lie in the smugness which makes a man I satisfied with the easily obtained, and in the bread and butter nature which does not aspire to the glory of dreams-come-true,. IJven the Blind May Dream. ' Even a blind man may have in his heart a dream of loveliness. He may remember the green grass and the. budding twigs it was once given him to see. Ht may imagine the blue of the sky under which he was born without eyes to behold. But his 6pirit is not blind. Perhaps with the eyes of his soul he actually sees more beauty than the stolid creature who trudges along with his eyes tent on the mud and murk of life. So dreams may be fairer than real ity.1. Which of us doesn't know some "vegetable" of a person who is rooted to the place where he hap pened to fall, and who hasn't one desire, or one aspiration, or one vision beyond his own dull little round? Such a man has not the, fineness of feeling to suffer. Some times he is envied fof his very im pervio'usness to the pain a more imaginative soul suffers. But think of all the glowing moments he misses t No "Carcasonne" for the "vegeta ble" soul in his smugness. He has no idea of anything better than what he sees about him and within his reach. What are sunsets and apple blossoms and delicate feelings of love to him? He has no pain but he has no thrill. Would you change with the smug, complacent creature who drives by you in her limousine hugging her pet poodle and gazing with vacant eves on a world which can't eive her anything more than food and drink and clothes and physical comfort? ( If in your moment of greatest de pression, a fairy godmother came to you and said: "I'll give you cars and pearls, and in return for the riches I shower upon you, I'll take your feelings, your emotion's, your dreams, your longings" would you make the trade? Would you give up your dream of a "Carcasonne" you may never reach, but toward which you may al ways strive, in return for a dull cer- ftf which vnti mav tivr li-mlf? - Don't you like the funx of striv ing? Don't you like the excitement of working v toward fulfillment? Isn't there a thrill in the possibili ties of each day? Isn't it fun to forge around corners play-pretending and half believing that around the' bend lies precisely what you want? Always Worth While. No matter how today defeats and disappoints you, isn't it worth while to pick yourself up all bruised and bleeding, or perhaps merely jolted a bit and - say to yourself: "Never mind, old' dear I We have tomor row we can try again. Better luck pext timtand the time aftei that." We all know that if every day for two weeks is sunshiny, one day of gray, misty rain seems a blessing and a godsend. Yet we sometimes imagine that a dull, unimaginative round of smug comfortable living might not pall. Pall it would, how ever. Dreams are good. They flavor life. They give it zest They are a goal for ambition a road for longing to travel. And if to reach the heart's dream-city Carcasonne, were triumph at least to. travel toward it is to reach out for beauty and to believe in it. "'Tisbetter to travel than to ar rive," said a wise man of long ago. Dreams, perhaps, are better than fulfillment. Failure itself is not half so arid and dull and bitter as the smugness that cannot dream. Never mind if you "never get to Caracasonne," Mind onlyif you aren't capable of wanting to go. Biennial Convention to , Convene Wednesday, June 16 Iowa's capitol will be the scene of the formal, opening of the fifteenth biennial convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs when it meets in Des Moines the third week in June. The open ing night, Wednesday, June 16, will be characterized by a program in which Mrs. Gardner Cowles, Des Moines, chairman of the local bien nial board; Mrs. Henry W. Spauld ing, Grinnell, .president of the Iowa Federation' of Women's Clubs, and Hon. W. L. Harding, Sioux City, governor of the state, will deliver the addresses of welcome. The re sponse will be delivered by Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles, Los Angeles, Cal., president of the General Fed- Summer Flannels. Camp Fire Girls By CORINNE LOWE. New York (Special Correspond ence.) Somebody says tht the dif ference between the last generation and this is simply a question of flannels. In former days they took off their winter Qnes. These times we put on our summer ones. Cer tainly flannel is, constantly gaining in favor as a smart material. The French particularly are fond of it and make it up for sports wear in many different ways. They also combine it with fabrics which would have sounded ludicrous to the past generation. French in its inspira tion is today's model, a sports frock composed of a cream colored ac cordeon pleated crepe de chine skirt and a jaunty little bolero blouse of hyacinth blue flannel embroidered in violet and silver- and policed by self-covered buttons. The first meeting of the new Guardians training class will be held at Omahequa, Monday at 6:45 p. m. This will be the last course be fore summer camp. The Tomoke camp fire group held a meeting Tuesday afternoon at the home of Miss Henrietta Medlar, guardian. Part of the afternoon was spent working on the group's record book and making ' and discussing plans for a hike Saturday. The Ayita group met Monday at. the home of Anna Ackerman, when plans were made for a hike Satur day out past Florence. The Canwaste group (Road of the Loving Heart) met at the home of their guardian, Mrs. C. R. Hamilton, Thursday and took the first aid test. Later plans were made for camp. The Shuinala group, Miss Ruth Miller, guardian, went on a short hike Tuesday afternoon to Elmwood park. The girls picked flowers along the way and 'enjoyed a fiie lunch. The Minnehaha group, Miss Rosa lie Platner guardian, met at the home of Mildred Cullen Friday. Plans were made for camo and a council fire next week. The Ocowasin Camp Fire Girls held a shprt business meeting at tb.e home of Bertha Lewis, The Wobigoon group had a meet ing at the home of their guardian, Mrs. Sam Henderson, Tuesday afternoon. Election of officers took place with the folowing girls elected: Martha Ballantine, president; Helen Housman, secretary; Pauline John son, treasurer; Ethel Mick, reporter. A Sermon In Stone-Cutting Some men were cutting stones for the building of a cathedral. In answer to the question, "What are you doing?" one of them said, "I am working for six dqllars a- day." Another said, I am cutting stones, I work eight hours a day." The third said, "I am building a cathedral.' There's a sermon in this little story. Have you sensed it? Some people are thinking only of the pay envelope at the end of the week The hours and the days drag, and Monday seems a long way from Sat urday. Some are thinking of the work, of how hard it is, of how Jong it is from nine until five the work, the drudgery of it, is the thing they noia in tneir consciousness. put it ss the builders who are really happy and successful. "I am building a cathedral! And one can imagine a smile on the face of the laborer, a light in his happy eyes. Now all of us should be builders builders of something. We should look upon our jobs as opportunities to share in creating something, W should be able to visualize the ob ject of our work, to realize the goal mat nas Deen set. unless we can do After the election three of the girls, Pauline Johnson, Helen Housman and Martha Ballantine, prepared a very tasty supper for the girls of the group. eration. Music will be furnished by the students' band of the state uni versity. Rev. Mary A. Safford, Sioux City pioneer club woman and suffrage leader, will offer the invo cation. Following the formal open ing of the convention, a reception will be given on the first floor of the capitol by the local bienriial board. English college girls are abandon ing school teaching to enter the trade and industries, department stores and business offices, salaries and opportunities being greater than in school teaching. 25 to 50 REDUCTION ON FURS v. Cold Storage Remodeling Absolute safety of your furs in our vaults n fains t loss or damage. Repairs and remodeling at low summer rates. NatioKal Many garments made up in advance for the fall trade will be added to our great price re duction sale of furs. It will be a day of unusual values and genuine money saving oppor tunities for those who come to morrow. t Furs bought during this sale will ba stored free In our cold storage vaults until wanted in the fall. aiuung Factory, 1921-29 So. 13th St. Salesroom, 1710 Douglas St. ! Tyler 120. We Wash for You With Feathery Soap Flakes When you wash out dainty georgettes and crepe de chines at home you select soap flakes as superior to bar soap. . , Flake soap, in which delicate bits of feminine finery and precious silk shirts can be gently soused up and down, is regarded as a real washday luxury. Yet, soap flakes of purest stock are used when we wash your clothes our laundry way. We use them, 1 not once in a while, but every day, to make the billowy suds in which your garments are laundered. . Our method of gently sousing up and down in the rich, creamy suds, washes the dirt free without strain on the finest pieces. We launder all your clothes this way," from baby's tiny dresses to your best table linen. Not "laundry soap" but the very purest materials obtainable, are used for doing your washing in our laundry. ' , Send it 'ofgundru Omaha Laundry Owners Ass'n this, unless we can really feel that we are creating, something, unless we believe in the thing we are doing, we are wasting our time. But we are doing something more destruc tive than wasting time. We are al lowing the very springs of our beings to dry up. We arc making no use of the creative powers with which every woman was born. We are retrograding. We are stultifying our best talents. Build something if it is only a castle in Spain. Then don't be satisfied with dreaming about it. Give a week-end party in it. Get the habit of looking upon your work as a building proposition, of seeing things grow. It is fine practice for dream building, and before you know it you'll be living in your castle in Spain 1 The Independent Woman. Summer Coats Spring 'and summer coats are many of them on wrap' lines, and some wraps practically capes. Ap proved by smart women are draped wraps of changeable taffeta, flower trimmed, .and capes of brilliant Scotch plaids gathered into pique collars and finished with a scalloped lower edge. II TTN O P Effective Now and Until Further Notice We Offer- ids 2W a On Our Entire Stock of Loose and Mounted 0 4 aim . Discount: E Elgin, Waltham, Hampden, i Reliable American Watches Mahogany Mantle Clocks, Seth Thomas, Session. New Haven. All good American makes. All Platinum, Diamond and Solid Gold Jewelry. Every latest creation. Most complete line of inde structible Pearl Necklaces All Sheffield Silverware. , , , And our entire stock of Fountain Pens, Silver and Gold Pencils. 50 2 ESCOMEt On $10,000 Worth of Cut Glass A $10,000 stock of cut glass to be thrown on the market with prices cut in half. The stock is complete with sets or single pieces. Take this opportunity to buy. Gifts for the June Wedding No gift is more appropriate for the wed ding m-esent than cut dass. Cut class is use ful and will be treasured for a lifetime. Buy that gift now the wedding comes In June. Brodegaard Eros. Co, 16th and Douglas Sts. At the S gn of the Crown t 1