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1Z THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1920. Short. XL Music Hath Charms By SAM HELLMAN. Soothing the savage beast is only one of a great variety of stunts that music is capable of. It can harm as well as charm; it can arouse you from your sleep or lull yotf into slumber; it can make you propose or start a divorce action; it can even make youWike this story. Try read ing it while a little needle is scratch ing something sobby out of a round rubber disc. Alice Higgins was m music at the Peerless department store. She was not only in it, butamong it, around it, against it and over it. Alice's piece de resistance was sell ing phonographs in the basement $3 phonographs on which 10-cent records were played, 15 cents when they had "The Holy City" on one side and ''Pretty Baby" on the other. - The big idea in selling a $5 pho nograph is to prove to prospective customers that it can play music, so Alice s main job was demonstrat ing. Alice had once liked music. Before coming to the store she had been known to weep over "The Ro sary" and once was almost tempted to send a mash note to the six-a-day baritone in the movie who sang 1UI trie bands of the Desert Grow Cold." Xhe third day Alice was on the job she played 234 records, ranging from mens rugue in p Minor to It you Knock the L Out of Kellev. Sure He'll Knock the L Out of You." Owing to the strained Ger man-American relations probably. Bath didn't go very good, but the Ivr.c about the not-too-proud-to-tight Kellv sold big. - "Pretty soft," commented her friend Sadie Sheehan.in Candies'; as she went by Music one afternoon. "Nothing to do but listen to swell music all day." ' "Soft; is it," retorted Alice. "I have to listen to all of this stuff all day. How wpr.ld you like to have to cat all the candy you sell?" Just then a customer approached. "J want to buy one of them rec ord," she said. "Yes, ma'am; what one?" I don't know. Play them and I'll pick it out." "Ve have hundreds," said Sadie, "what kind of music do you like?" "I like them classial things those pieces by Clwpimj or that fellow Irving from Berlin." : Alice, after playing several scores of records, finally wrapped up for the customer a dialogue between two Irishmen on the high cost of living. As daya went by Alice's nerves got as jumpy as the phonograph needle' when it reached the end of the thread on the record. She placed. cotton in her ears but even this did not keep out the screech' jind whine of the phonograph. Her distaste for canned music soon spread to the simon pure. She went to the 5-cent movies because they couldn't afford an orchestra. She even walked home from the store. The street car wheels gritted . on the tracks just like the opening bars of "Back Home in Tennessee" on the record. Alice tried to get transferred ) in the store, but there wai no other position vacant 'You'll get used to it." soothed the superintendent, "AH the girls were that way at first." ( One Saturday night Alice sat on the front step of her boarding house with her fingers over her ears. In side in the living room the star V boarder .was pounding the ivories on the 1860 model piano. - "It is bad, isn't it?" said a-laughing voice beside her. It was Jen kins, the new boarder, who had only joined the groaning board a few days betore. "Don't you like music?" asked Alice. "Can't say I do," said Jenkins. "Not that kind, anyhow. Apparently ' vou don't tare much for music your self." , "I tiate it," cried Alice. "I don't want to hear any more the rest if my lite. ' , "Listen," said Jenkins, "I -know a good movie a couple of blocks away where they haven't any of them noisy orchestras. Will you go with me? j . - ' - Alice Was willing. It was lone- somsitting on the steps of a Sat urday night with fingers over her ' ears. : t. . . The movies house was a preten tious looking building and pictures by some of the eminent stars of the deaf-mute school of drama were an nounced for that evening".' "It looks invitinng," remarked Alice. i "It's a good place," said Jenkins. ' , "I come here all the time since they cut out the orchestra and put in " "What?," asked Alice, halting suddenly. "A big phonograph," rontinued Jenkins. It certainly majces great music." What Do You Know? Hr'n chaw to make yen wlt ww-th maacy. Sack day Tha Baa will imlillnh a aerlaa af quntlona, prepared hw RnpcrtatmdeBt J. H. Beverldac of tha nubile arhoola. They eaver thing which rtt should hnaw. Tha ft ret eampleta lint af rarrer annrani received will he reward ed by $1. Tha answer and tha name af tha winner will ha published an the day ladleated below. Re rara ta - fire your views and addrew la fnll. Addrese "Qnes Uaa Editor," Oataha Bee.) . By J. H. BEVERIDGE. 1 What auto has an air cooled engine? 2. Vhere is the Pierce-Arrow car irtanvtactured? " 3. What is the mast expensive car invAmerica? " 4. What is the most expensive car in England? S. What two cities are terminals for the Lincoln highway? (Answer Published Saturday.) : . , SATURDAY'S ANSWERS. . 1. What lake in South America is ' nearly solid asphalt? Trinidad. 2. What is the second largest con tinent?' Africa. , . 3. Why is Kimberly, South Africa, famous? Diamond mines. , 4. What precious stone, aside fro mthe diamond, is most valuable.? , Ruby. " . 5. Where is the most wonderful bridge in the world from the stand point ' of construction ? Over the River Forth in Scotland. ' sWinner: Kathleen Quinton, 1925 Avenue 6, Kearney.' Neb, i . Bee Want Ad Will Boot Your Business. Use Them. THE GUMPS- WHAT vo vou Think of THAT HOOK? V5 GOT EVEK.YTSH1H6 FltOtl A SEAWEED TO A UAcE UKWItf HAKES NOD IFPrERENCE ' ' HOW THEYftE BROUGHT 0 , VP TVERE'S fcOMCtWMGj ; ' - ii i mi i i J a mi li x. i rv. n flrWIN STORIEjl V LUCY V w men vecxim r Jj Irish Twins Sail for America. At last the train rattled info " a great station. There was so much nfjise from puffing engines and rum bling trucks and shouting men, that the twins could only take hold of their mother's hands and keep close behind their father as he followed Michael, with Grannie clanging to him, to another train. Then there were more flying fields, and a city and more fields still, until they reached Queenstown. - lhe next thing they knew they were walking across a gangpianK and on to a boat. The twins had never seen anything larger than a rowboat before, and this one looked very big to them, though it was only lighter: The lighter was to carry luggage and passengers from the dock to the great steamer lying out side the harbor in the deep water of the main channel. When ,thev were all safely on hnaH the litrhter. and Michael had counted their Bundles to be sure they had not lost anything, the twins ana their father and mother, with Mich More Truth ' By AMES JMONTAGUE ; NOTHING IS WASTED IN THIS WORLD When dramas failed and failed, and , failed, And so ad infinitum, I used to think that something ailed The chaps that tried to writ 'em. "Don't those guys know that they are thick: I asked, with grim derision, "Why don't they go and swing a pick That needs no brains or vision." But I am not so lofty now, My confidence is shaken, " And I am willing to avow That I $vas quite mistaken, For when, wtih disapproving mien, f made these bitter strictures, I had not viewed upon the screen ' A lot of moving pictures. I now know where the failures go If rude first-nighters guy 'em; They're, written for a movie show, And film-men ffght to buy 'em. The drama that the critics spurn With judgmentibased on reason, Upon the screen pill often earn A fortune in a season. No more I scoff at folks who write The plays whose doom is certain, As soon as they turn down the light And raise the painted curtain. The crafty author steels his heart To hissing and to booing, For though he may not write for art He knows what he is doing. pIMilimii A ; V THE LION'S SHARE ' A few educators are eliminating grammar from the public schools, but most of that work is being carried on by the pupils. .V". TOUGH! , We read with a feeling of relief that the national debt has been lowered by 176,404,453. And then, turning over the page, our normalcy was restored by discovering that there still remains $24,222,911,013 to belaid. - - - - . .' . IF POSSIBLE When France has made Germany deliver that coal, perhaps she will come over here and make our coal barons deliver a little to us- tMERE'S THE UP Foe THOSE OH BUY COJ-OR. BI6 FlH FH AteE JVT LK HUMAN EK6S ael and Grannie, stood by the deck rail and looked back at the dock. It was crowded with people running to and fro. There were groups of other emigrants like themselves, surround' ed y great piles of luggage wait ing ot the next lighter, for one boat could not carry all who wanted to go. There were many-good-bys being said and many tears falling, and in the midst of all the noise and con fusion the sailors wpre loading tons of barrels and bags and boxes and trunks on board the ship. There was no friend to see them off, but when they saw people cry ing all about them tire twins cried a little, too, for sympathy, and even Mr. McQueen's eyes were red along the rims. At last the gangplanks were drawn in and the cables thrown off. The screws began to churn the green water into white foam and the boat moved slowly out of the harbor. The twins and their father and mother, with Grannie and Michael, stood bv the rail for a long time and watched the crowd on the pier until it grew smaller and smaller, and at last disappeared entirely from sight around a bend in the channel. Thev stood there until the lighter reached the great ship that was wait ing to take them across the water to a new world. And when at last they were safely on board and the lighters had gone back empty into the harbor they stpod on the wide deck of the ship, with their faces turned toward Ire land until all they could see of it in the gathering dusk was a strip of dark blue against the eastern sky, with little lights in cottage windows winlctintr from it like tiny stars. Then they turned their faces to ward the bright western sky. (Rights reserved by -Houghton Mifflin Co.) A tri-weekly passenger and freight airplane service mat. uccu nau hshed between London and Amster dam, requires about one-sixth the time of the regular railroad ahd seeamboat schedule, - Than Poetry THE FISH STYLE "BABY JOSTPaiNTEP VAM iSH-N0YHIM6 TMEV FLU FOR. HOLDING A ' Adele Garrison's Revelations Why Did Major Grantland Drive His Car Backward? Whether he was afraid I would be nervous or for some other rea son, Major Qrantland drove his car slowly on the way out of Aberdeen. For the first time I began to won der about the rest of the party. "I didn't see the Dirkees," I said to Dicky. "Where did they go?" "They got away just before we staged that carrying-heroine-off-the-train-stunt," Dicky replied leasingly. "You see, I knew and Edith and Leila confirmed my knowledge that if their elderly southern relative ever realized you were ill she'd fly over here and make you a flaxseed poultice and give you some boneset tea before she left the station, to say nothing of insisting upon taking you, home with her. From what the girls say of her she is terrific- in her insistent hospital ity. So Alfred and the girls fixed up some story about Mrs. Durkee having a headache and needing at tention, and they are flying home ward, accompanied by auntie's smelling salts and camphor. Ed-ith and Lelia say she never stirs from home without a good-sized mediant cabinet ,csncealed in her gown." The Closed Car Passes. I laughed involuntarily at his non sense, but the query which had an noyed me many times before came freshly to my mind. Why did he always make that ridiculous little pause before the name of Edith Fairfax? Was it because he alwavb thought of her first when the two sisters were under discussion, began to speak her name first, and then involuntarily paused because he feared I might notice it and caueht himself and went on for the same reason? No doubt I would have gone, on' tormenting myself in definitely if my attention had not been distracted by the sudden blow ing of an auto horn back of us, the signal that a car" behind us wished to pass. To my surprise for I knew that if this car was like the others owned by Major Grantland there "were few in the world which could pass it it its owner wished to keep it ahead, and he usually did so wish he drew the car to one side of the road, and the closed Car which we had seen at the station flew by us. The officer: reduced his speed at once until we were almost crawling. As the car ahead disappeared around one of the curves of the winding road Major Grantland spoke tersely: "Look out for anything corning behind, Graham, I'm going to back. He threw the big machine into re verse, and with his head turned to ward the road behind, him hegan to run the car back as dexterously and almost as swiftly as . he had beeii guiding it in the other direction. I saw that Dicky was intently watch ing out of the rear window for any gleam of light which would signal the approach of a car back of us, so I felt reasonably assured that no accident would happen frorri this most unusuaf proceeding. 'A Lame Excuse. The wildest surmises ran through my brain. Why was Major Grant land doing this bizarre and danger ous thing? The only solution which came to me was that he wished to avoid the other car, expected it to turn back . to vlook for him, and wished to present his front lights WHY?- Is the Stars and Stripes the American Flag? (Copyright, 1920. by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) Practically all American his tories record the fact that on June 14, 1777, the continental congress passed a resolution to the effect that: "The flag of the thirteen United States (shall) be 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be 13 stars, while in a blue field, representing a, new constellation." So much is known, but the rest of the early hfstory 0f the flag-1-the reason for the selection of the stars and stripes and the identity of the maker of the first flag of this kind h's shrouded in mystery. The majority of author ities declare that the stars and stripes idea was selected by the continental congress., because of the fact that Washington's coat'1 of arms contained both of these insignia, but this is by no means certain. The only definite state merit that we have on the sub ject is the resolution by congress and the fact that the flag was first carried in battle at the Brandywine on September 11, 1777. The rest is almost as vague as the Betsy Ross, legend, found ed on the fact that Elizabeth Ross made flags for the navy previous to the act of congress referred to above. But there is no evidence to prove that she made the first flag with the 13 stars and stripes. (Tomorrow Whv Docs Coal ' Burn?) SHOW OF 1920 There's ah artificial. reoe "YHaY wovld make a real tROC ASrVhEX OF HMSEU- 1 ,JUST SET THIS ONE FOR. THE" SMAR.T FIStf WHEN I THrow HiK SOVDS. AP HIT" A UlY ?OHt ho FOOL. PISH HAS GOT ACHAHCE ONE OF THOSE EPUCATEO COLLEGE FSH VlLV6flAI3 HH HUSBAND New Phase of oj a Wife to it to mislead them in the dis tance until he .could get to anothsr road. But this seemed so far fetched an explanation that I laughed to my self at myself. But I could think ofno other. We had run back perhaps a quar ter of a mile and had rounded three curves when Major Grantland said in staccato fashion to Dicky: , "Road swings in at the left, there, eh?" . "Yes, right by that big tree," Dicky replied. "Good." In another second he had pulled the big car around, switched to normal driving again, and e were speeding down another road at a pace whicji I knew outdistanced anything coming behind us. "Hope you Weren't frightened, Mrs. Graham," Major Grantland threw over his shoulder. "I saw I had missed the road, and I always AMUSEMENTS. Opening of the Season Four Nights Thurs. Aug. 1 9 Beginning NWATINEE SATURDAY The Chicago Company, Intact, From the Blackstone Theater, Presenting MDTTH TArWKjfoftS With tha aama exceptional cast; Gregory Kelly Grace Filkina " Robert Adama Ruth Gordon Byron Beaeley Betty Murray Guy D'Ennery Clara Blandick Junes T. Ford Joe Wallace Direction of George C. Tyler PRICES: Nights First floor, $2.00 and ' $2.50; Balcony, $1.00 and $1.50. Matinee First Floor, $1.50 and $2.00 SEATS NOW SELLING PHOTO-PIAIS. j"o Vir Right M Now W A GENTLEMAN WHO CAN FIGHT! , GEORGES (E.ARrjNTIE "The Wonder Man" C.J tZ.e- to .i Drawn for j f AND l f f l uzm aw drive backward whenever I can, I might need it sometimes, and it's good practice." It was the lamest of excuses, but I. of course, had no other course than to pretend to accept it. "I was not frightened in the least," I said a bit untruthfully, "and I envy you the skill you have just ex hibited." "If you could only make that fliv ver or yours stand on its hind legs like hat, eh. old dear?" Dicky in terposed teasingly, but his mother, who I knew had been literally hold ing her breath during the backward flight; interrupted him: "If I ever hear of either one of you drivfiig a car like that," she said scathingly, "I'll I'll take Junior awajr from both of you." x (Continued tomorrow.) Lighting Fixtures Burgess-Gran-den Co. Adv. AMUSEMENTS. .FOUR NIGHTS. COMMENCING THURS., AUG. 26 Matlnae Saturday Seati Teaierraw THE REVUE INIMITABLE Evening!. 50c te $2.50; Mat.. SOe te 12.00 LASTTIMES TODAY TYPHOON COOLING SYSTEM "A TELEPHONE TANGLE" With Joe Bennett, tha Original Aba Kablbble ' CLIFFORD & BOTHWELL Songs, Plana and Painting BENDER & MEEHAN Gymnastic Cyrationa REDMAN & WELLS In Songs, Dancea and Funny Sayinga Photoplay Attraction Wm. Fox Presents Gladys Brockwell in "Rose of Nome" Billy Armstrong Comedy Pathe Weekly PHOTO-PLAYS. APOLLO The Coolest Theater in the City I CORINNE GRIFFITH in "BAB'S CANDIDATE" Also a Special Comedy Attend the Matinee P Hallroom Boys Comedy: "Breaking Into Society'! i k y j rv i it The Bee by Sidney Smith. WHEN SEE THIS BABY UKE A PRIMA THAT'LL GET THOse -DOOR JOHNNIES " THEY'LL MAKE A OOMPFOfc THS ONE THEY LL AY THERE GOES A flV TO ! A HAQUEAPE ALL Parents? Problems 2. What course should be fol lowed with a girl of 14 who wishes to go on the stage? Explain to her that' a good all- around education is the best prepara tion. Tell her that it is wise to think about several vocations before decid ing finally upon any one and that AMUSEMENTS. ANNOUNCING tha ra-opening of the famous HOTEL LOYAL CAFE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18TH Merchant Luncheon, 65 Cents 11:30 to 2 P. M. Extensive improvements anct-alterations are now completed. The same high class service that char acterized this place in the past. Phone Douglaa 2008 for reservation. 5 I a Hamer a Kriel Ca. PHOTO-PLAYS. m FarnarA at 24th Today and Thursday Sweet, Dainty, Winsome MARY MILES MINTER as the adorable little Cinderella of the sea in "Peggy Rebels" l aV4. .af aVWA.t)1 f ft fc A T ."aafT . 4 V M T rW J a 1 1 - NOW - "ONE HOUR BEFORE DAWN" it Grips, Holds, Mystifies Also 33 CHARLIE CHAPLIN in "THE IMMIGRANT" H.amRNER Oive Hour Before she has plenty of time still. Read Shakespeare with her. U. THE GUY I'M THE GUY who forgets to post the letters his wife gives him to mail. I stick 'em in my pocket and that's the uid of it. They're not ray let ters, so whv should I try to remem ber them ? And they're not addressed to me, so why shouU 1 care whether they reaob.Mheir destination or not? Anyway, she'll fiid 'em soraetim when she goes through my pockets before sending my suit to the tailor to be pressed. So what's the differ nee? She can mail 'em herself then. Half the time they aren't stamped. and if I didn't forget them I'd have. to bother to hunt up a drug store to buy stamps, and then stick 'em on. It's a nuisance. Forgetting 'em makes it a whole lot easier for me. And then, too, after awhile, may be, she won't ask me to post any , more of 'em for her. ' So I should worry! (Copyright, 1910. Thompson Feature Service.) Water fowls and other migratory birds are to be trapped, marked with K-g bands, released and traced by PHOTO-PLAYS. Modern, UalF-Rorse Matt-nan, SHsOwoW 7CO Aetcf&m you. Kobai VQiamberfc Greaiaet Hovt 7eRGllTir.G CUitfJCE" A hijjk lift romance of McvYorli vorld of pleasure, eel in. fo V o of luxury. DOROTHY DALTON ;n Guilty of Love' A Sunshine Comedy. "Through the , Keyhole" dawn fT" UalF-Borao W It-ia? aU r a 4 ; 7 of 5 1 - ) .. J X -ak- ,a