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12 THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. 1920. Si -Si f m . & ' I 1 ft s Dorothy Judson Is Prophesied As Aic-Sar-Ben Queen Suzanne Chessay Wins Final Daily Jingle Prize Grand Awards to Be Announced On Saturday. The Bee's Ak-Sar-Ben jingle con tent closed yesterday. Suzanne Chessay, 303 South Fifty sixth street, is the winner of yester day's jingle. She picks Dorothy Judson for queen. Award of the grand prizes of $10 worth of merchandise will be made Saturday. There will be two win ners of grand prizes picked from among the daily winners. If it is found that more than one winner of a daily prize has picked correctly the king or queen, an ad ditional prize of $5 will be awarded. Yesterday's winning jingle by JlifS Chess-ay follows: Who the qurtn Is to be Is a arrest mystery M'o all but the wise ones who kno.v. She's sure to be pretty. Attractive and witty "With plenty of pep. and go. She drive a rar And I'm not off far "When I nay that it la A Huilton. Jler linlr la .lark A nit she loves a lark Iter name Is Dorothy Judson. Young Bride Leaves Hubby of 90 Years Mrs. Anna Hachmeicr Gallagher, .ij. bride of six weeks of Theodore t.allairher. 90. 419 South Twentieth h'.reet, has lei t her aged husband for I'.-trts unknown, according to neigh bors of the couple. The Gallaghers were wed late in jr.ly in .St. Joseph, following a clan destine elopement to avoid comment of acquaintances. At that time Mrs. Gallagher de clared she could be happier with her husband than with a younger man. The bridegroom once owned much land in Benson and promoted sev tral successful fiiHncial ventures. His bride was employed at Clatk son hospital prior to her marriage. Daylight Burglars Make Good Hauls In Homes Here Daylight burglars were active in Omaha Tuesday reports of their work to police show. An oriental rug and bed clothes valued at $150 were stolen from the home of H. J. Nielson. 19.18 South Thirty-seventh street shortly before noon. A black lace dress, valued at $150, was stolen from a clothesline in the rear of the home of H. Goldstein, 3112 Leavenworth street, about noon. George Holm, 2960 Harney street, reported the theft of a woman's watch, three rings and $7 in cash. Harding Still Leads In Straw Vote Ballots Senator Harding continues to be .a jfavefrite over Governor Cox for the presidency With both men and women in the Rexall stores "straw vote campaign" being conducted throughout the state by B. M. Mid dleton. Thursday's totals in Omaha were: Harding. Cox. lrn i Wornern t 18 Total 61 Totals in Omaha to date are: 29 Harding. Cox. Total. Mn 477 117 594 Women .....229 7 S01 Progress of Railroads Is Discussed at Rotary Club History of railroads was traced from the first steam locomotive to the present day by Carl R. Gray, president of the Union Pacific sys tem, in a talk before the Omaha Ro tary club at the hotel Rome yes terday. More than 100 Rotarians were present. The Great Lakes Xaval Training station band of 16 pieces played during the luncheon. What Do You Know? (Here's it chance to maUe jonr wits worth money. Karh day The lit will IHihllah n erlea of questlonx. Thry cover ninirn which you should know. The flrat complete list of correct anawera anil the NWhUW of the winner will he published on tllVjlay Indicated below. He Mire to give oiirriewa and aridrca In full. Address 'Questions Kditor," Omaha Bee.) 1. How wide is Brussels carpet? 2; When is the moon said to "wax?" 3. What is the greatest difference in time that two' places can have? 4. How many divisions in a poi son ivy leaf? 5. How many pounds heavier is a long ton than a short ton? Aoswers Published Monday.) MONDAY'S ANSWERS. 1. What is the capital of Ken tucky? Frankfort. 2 What state is known as the """(lcntennial state? Colorado. 5. What state has the second larg esKpopu'ation of all? Pennsylva nia. 4. In what year was Hawaii ac quired by the United States? 1900. 5. From what country did the United States purchase Alaska? Russia. Winner: No correct answers re ceived. ,' I'M THE GUY I'M THE GUY who drives one of " those big motor trucks as fast is I can sjiove. it, whether it's down -riy avenuei or coming out of a ct oss street or t wherever it is I'm rolling. I know that whatever I hit will get the worst of it, so I should worry. " And I know that anyone who heat's or sees me coming will try to get out of my way, so I should wor ry! You guys who walk think you own the street until a tourinpr car comes along and then you know you guessed wrong and jump for the sidewalk. v And you guys who drive touring cars and limousines think you own . the street until I come along, and then you change your minds. There's only one guy can tell me where I get off and that's the traf fic cop. So if you don't like the way I drive, tell him. But don't shak your fist at me. It won't do you no pood. " Qswuot xiao. Thonipioa rjig f yyk. J THE GUMPS- " 1 . r " CHAPTER XVI. The Accident. Chippy, jr., proved to be a great success. Even Mrs. Rusty Wren had to admit, before he had finished his first day's work, that he was an agreeable person to have about the house. "Of course, he isn't much of a singer," she remarked to Rusty, "but he seems to have a quick eye for an insect, and he is kind to the chil dren. He is very neat, besides. I have watched him sharply," she add ed, "and I haven't caught him track- "This Stuck Our Door!" ing any dirt into the house nor brushing any off his clothes onto my clean floor either." Rusty, too, declared himself well satisfied with his helper. "He's a spry worker," he said. "And he can get through our door as easily as I can. He went in and out of the house 257 times today, and not once did he get stuck in the doorway." For several days everything went so smoothly in Rusty Wren's house hold that his wife began to feel more like herself again. Jasper Jay did not come near their house to annoy them, and there was plenty of food for all thanks to the untiring ef HOLDING A Adele Garrison's Revelations The Way Mrs. Lukens Met Madge's Request. For a long minute after I had hung up the telephone received after Leila's appeal to mc I stood non plussed and anxious. I wondered what could have happened to have made the sunny-natured .Virginia girl so "miserable" that she felt the urgent need of my immediate com panionship Then I remembered! Of course! The bachelor dinner! I laughed as I made my way to the door through which Mrs. Lukens had gone, and gently knocked. I laid a little wager with myself that the anguish which sounded in Leila's voice was in some way connected with the men's dinner which both Dicky and Alfred had attended tho night before. Dicky had sent word that it would be so late an affair that he and Alfred would spend 'the night at a Cedar Croft hotel. What a difference between the viewpoints of fiancees and wives, I reflected whimsically. The news of my husband's pres ence at the bachelor dinner had brought joy and relief to my heart, obsessed with the dread of Grace Draper's reappearance in his life, while it evidently had occasioned only misery to Leila. I was sure that Alfred's betrothed wife cher ished the theory that .any voluntary absence from her side meant that his love had begun to wane. Are there, I questioned myself, few girls so sanely balanced that thev do not se- jcretly or openly belive this? Does it take months, sometimes years of marriage, to open their eyes? When Mrs. Lukens responded to my knock she had so impressed me with her common sense and her anxiety to please her lodgers I did not hesitate to ask a boon of her which would be a necessity if I car ried out my promise to Leila. The Private Room. "Mrs. Lukens" I. went to the point at once "may I borrow a room for a few minutes this morn ing? My little friend, the bride-to-be, has just 'phoned me, wishing to see me alone I suppose something in her trousseau has gone vong. But whatever the cause, she is quite nervous and upset, and it will be im possible to see her undisturbed by others in our cottage." Mrs. Lukens considered a mo ment, and for a fleeting, doubting in stant I wondered whether or not she was debating the -granting of the permission. Then I realized that with her mind's eye she was look ing over the rooms she had at her disposal Boy's Stuck Fast In CHESTER r f !?V ?BY ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY forts of Chippy, jr. Though she tried her hardest, Mrs. Rusty could not think of anything to worry about. And her husband frequently remarked that it was a lucky day for all of them when he decided to hire a boy. Both Rusty and his wife had quite iorgotten the strange feeling of that good little lady's that some sort of trouble was coming to them on ac count of taking an outsider into their house. So the days passed happily for them. And all the while their six children were fast growing bigger. The proud parents often remarked ;hat they had never before known youngsters to change so rapidly. So interested were Rusty and his wife in their children that they failed to see that Chippy, jr., was growing likewise. Indeed, he now over topped Rusty by half a head. But the Wrens both husband and wife entirely overlooked that fact. . Neither did they hapnen to notice that Chippy, jr., was beginning to have a good deal of trouble squeez ing through the door. For some rea son due, perhaps, to the way the opening was made for some reason he could get into the house more easily than he could get out of it. He said nothing about this new difficulty, not wishing to disturb the happiness of the Wren family, nor find himself out of work either. Since he continued to grow from day to day there could be but one outcome. And at last when Rusty came home late one afternoon with a plump insect in his bill he found Chippy, jr., blocking the doorway. His head peered through the round opening. And his face wore a wor ried expression. "Hurry up!" said Rusty Wren. "I want to come in." And at that Chippy, jr.. began to struggle to get out. But he couldn't move either forward or back. "Be spry!" Rusty said impatient ly. "Don't keep me waiting, boy!" Chippy, jr., looked actually fright ened. ' "I'm stuck fast!" he cried. "I can't move either way!" (Copyright, Grosset & Dunlap.) HUSBAND New Phase of of a Wife "This room won't do," she said, finally, and I saw how characteristic of her it was that she had not given me either a negative or an affirmative answer to my query, but had simply taken it for granted that I knew her acquiescence would be prompt. "I have the very thing! Come with me." She led the way to a door diag onal from the one opening into the kitchen. She opened it, and we tra versed a small hall, ascended three steps to a small landing, threw open a door, revealing a charming octagon-shaped room which irresistibly reminded me of some of the quaint, unexpected rooms of which Dickens was the chronicler par excellence. A Strategic Position. It was a daintily furnished sitting room with an alcove like a minia ture sun parlor in which I caught a glimpse of a snowy bed. "This is my own sanctum," Mrs. Lukens said, smiling whimsically. "From it I can command any part of the house. This door, you see, opens on the back hall and the stairs, so that I can reach the second story, the kitchen or the dining room with equal facility, while that other one," she indicated one set in the same wall. "leads into the living room at the front of the house. A third door at the back leads into a little pass age, across which is Mandy's room." She paused with such evident pride in the arrangement that I felt impelled to give her the comment she apparently expected. "You certainly are in a most stra tegic position," I said, smiling. "I have to be, in this business," she retorted dryly, and I guessed that years of dealing with tourists had left her a bit cynical. "I de signed this myself," she added, and I gave her the surprised approval which she evidently hoped to hear. "Now, I am the only one in the house at present," she went on, "so just bring your friend around to this screened veranda door at the back, and through the hall into this room. Don't knock come right through. I can promise that you will be abso lutely undisturbed." "You are very kind," I stammered, wondering at the contrast between the absolute confidence she seemed to be placing in me. and her distrust of her lodgers in general, as evi denced by the arrangement of her rooms. "I know people when I see 'em," was her rather cryptic reply, and the rather involved compliment chred me absurdly. . (Continued .Tomorrow.? SURELY IS UP TO More Truth NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT The Devil will get the jazzors The Reverend John Flench Straton. George Washington, we've often read, a lively measure used to tread With zip and pep in every step, And sinuous gyration; He did the minuet, it's true, for that's the only dance they knew, For only one was ever done, In George's generation. If George were in our midst today, we doubt not that he'd swing and sway And take a chance on every dance He found was in the fashion. The General was never slow, and from our history we know It's gospel truth that in his youth The jig step was his passion. Yet Washington did fairly well he woed and won a stately belle, And though he danced as years advanced And honors rained around him His countrymen revered his name, they gave him opulence and fame And if he'd stood for it they would Have actually crowned him. And when today we're "Sternly told the Devil has a strangle hold On every girl and boy who whirls Around the jazzing palace, The fact that George was never much entangled in said Devil's clutch We don't forget, and so the threat We take cum grano salis. GOING AND Between the income tax and the sad days for the idle rich. DON'T TEAR Even if prohibition empties the lot of speeding chauffeurs that ought to be sent there. WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE A whole month has passed without a demand from the railroads for another rate advance. (Copyright, 1920, By WHY?- Does a Lamp Burn Better With a Chimney? (Copyright, 1920. by tho Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) Without a chimney, a lamp will usually burn with a thick,' oily smoke, which will leave a heavy black deposit upon any thing on which it settles. The reason for this is that the oil, supplied through the medium rf the wick, is only being partially burned. The carbon, which fotnis nearly half of the oil, is not being consumed, and floats off into the air in the form of tiny black specks, because an insufficient amount of oxygen is present. Completely to burn the carbon in the oil, it is necessary to mix it with a sufficient amount of oxygen at a certain temperature, and the easiest way of accom plishing this is by using a chim ney which creates a draft of air. This draft, entering at the bot tom under the chimney, brings a continual stream of air upward to the flame causing the carbon to be entirely burned, and the lamp then gives out a steady yel low flame, marked by an almost complete absence of smoke. The heat generated by this flame rises in the chimney, and more air comes in to take its place, thus maintaining a steady draft. The chimney also protects the lamp flame from outside drafts and helps to make a brighter light, because a light which is steady is brighter than one which flickers. rv Announcement King Fong Cafe NOW OPEN Most Beautiful Cafe in Omaha , Merchant Lunch From 11 A. M. to 2 P. M. 315 South 16 th St 4 -H-fr ! ! 't1 ft 't .Bet. want ad brins .itiults DATE ON MANNERS Than Poetry COMING campaign fund collector these are 'EM DOWN jails it will only make room for a The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Parents Problems Should children be taken to visit children's ' hospitals, where crippled or otherwise afflicted children are cared for? If the visiting children are gentle in manner, and the little patients in the hospital are not too delicate, there is every reason why inter course between the two would be a very excellent thing. Needless to say well children should never be taken where there are children who are suffering even with the very mildest possible case of any form of infectious disease. Two Bandits Hold Up Man Two unmasked highwaymen, both armed with revolvers, held up and robbed Gerald La Violette, 2870 California street, of i and a note book about midnight Tuesday, but two blocks from his home. HOTEL F0NTENELLE INVITATION From the Coronation Ball, Friday evening, you are invited to a Special Supper, particularly suit ed to the occasion, served in the Main Restuarant. Music and Dancing. To'be sure of being ac commodated, please make reservation. Phone Douglas 3207. beatty;s Co-Operative Cafeterias Pay Dividends to Those Who Do 'the Work Bring Your Old Hat to Us We Will Make It Good As New LAMBROS BROS. 1521 Farnam St. Phono Tyler 4120 By JAMES J. MONTAGUE ! Drawn .ommon oense CONCENTRATE AND RELAX. By J. J. Mundy. You hear a great deal about con centration, and when you try to con centrate you think so much about the effort you arc making that you do not concentrate, after all, on the subject you arc supposed to focus your mind upon. You become so tense that yuu arc wholly incapable of doing the best there is in you. Relaxed concentration is what you want. Sounds conflicting, docs it not? But it isn't. You have been engaged in cer tain sports or certain kinds of work where it was necessary to go at them in an easy, relaxed way to accomplish anything, and when you put forth the easy swinging effort you did well. Why? Because your mind and body were relaxed and thus easily entered upon what you wanted to do and was not occupied with the effort you must put forth. the long, easy stroke or pull of the oar tell the expert oarsman, and the same is true of the golfer with his stick. The mediocre player become tense AMISKMKNTS. "OMAHA'S . FUN CENTER" Curtain Rises After Parade Passes PURPOSELY BOOKED FOR AK.SAR.RFN WEEK THE STATE-WIDE KNOWN NEBRASKA BOY ED LEE W ROTH Best Show MUSICAL BURLESQUE With Owen Martin and Dolly Swtct Beauty Chorus of 20 Chlckeni All Sprlnger GRAND MATINEE DAILY Sat. Mat. L Wk.: Wation & Cohan. "Girls d3 Looki." Matins Dally, 2;l5-Every Night, 8:19. LA SPIRIT DE MARDI ORAS: TRESISTA7 KANE & HERMAN: McCormack & Irving: Laurel Lee; 'Mre. Wellington's Surprise": Burn Bros.; Topics of the Day: Klnoorami. Mats., I5e to 50c; tome 75c to SI. 00 Satur. and Sunday. Night. 150 to 11.00; some $1.25 Saturday and Sunday. Curtain rlsei after parades past. NEW SHOW TODAY EMMETT'S CANINES, CLEVELAND & DOWRY, SARGENT BROS., THREE FALCONS; Photoplay Attraction, "The Light Woman," featuring an All-Star Cast: Sunshine Comedv. Paths News Tonight, Friday and Saturday Saturday Matinee JOHN GOLDEN Presents GRACE and HALE LA RUE HAMILTON With Songs In a New Comedy "DEAR ME" Nights 5Qc to $2.50; Mat. SOc to $2 EIGHT NIGHTS COM. NEXT SUNDAY FISKE O'HARA In An Irish Melody Drama " Springtime In Mayo " Nights SOc to $2. Mats., Wed. and Sat. Best Seats $1.50 Seats Now. iiatmm News and Comedy a m m mm tm si m11 Ifil till Sqt 1 : MOLtYCODDLE' ( ' n llllr Thousands of Omaha n iPa Jlllj ' Hi movie fans saw this ( t w liP ' tWl SslJ j 11 1 picture here last sum- rlliP Nil-. . II I! rner and it is only fB& If '! through popular re- "Ips lllll II quest that we offer lUll ' return lowing. for The Bee by Sidney Smith. I in every muscle in his effort to ccn ter on tht ball aud the club he is using, and very likely hits the top of tlie ball, back of it or too near the end of the club, tudy relaxed concentration. Copyright 1920, International Feature Service, Inc. Nepro Janitor On Shooting Spree Is Nabbed by Police After terrorizing tenants at the Dresden apartments last night by firing a revolver several times, Ben Haskins, negro janitor, was arrested charged with shooting with intent to kill. He is believed to be the man who fired at Charles Otto, 220 North Seventeenth street, while walking with H. L. Doty and Aldcm Nelson, 1713 Chicago street, near Twenty second and Leavenworth streets. Baek From Vacation. John Coyle, battalion chief of the fire department, returned Tuesday night from California, where he and Mrs. Coyle spent one month's vaca tion, y I'HOTO-rtWS. WAIT l or tbe Daylight PARADE today in good, comfortable seals ' Inside the Announcement will be made in the theater Tfhen parade neere Donglas Street, ' 1 THE MEA5TDLE YOU CAN ENJOY Also a Hank Mann C'oruedj, "DR. JESKYL & MB. HYDE" ZsvPOLLO Leavenworth A NITA STEWART in "Mind th Paint Girl;" I I i-iioTO-n.wH. NOW PLAYING WALLACE REID in "What's Your Hurry SESSUE HAYAKAWA in "LI TING LANG" Wait (or the Daylight Parade this afternoon at the Mute. Patrons will be informed when parade nears 24th and Farnam Streets. Double Program CONSTANCE BINNEY in "39 EAST CHARLIE CHAPLIN in "The Adventurer" Will Ihe f LAST TIMES TODAY N AT THE it x M' -j mm i itthmm mm I Hassan