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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1920)
Letters From Home-Made Father to Son By ED STREETER. Be a Stationary Engineer. Jy dear Boy: 1 just been over to Milford tryir. to I" id your cousin Adclbert. None d the furnichure movin fellow could tell me where hed gone to though. Everybody in Milford has moved durin the last week. J. he city direcktory is about as useful a an umbrela check at a barbacue. It seems to be a regular disease just like hoof an mouth or meessls. A woman would just as leave admit to wearin of her last years hat as to livin in her last years house, hven the boarders down at Mrs. Tilot son's has all changed rooms. Abo'it the only person in town thats stayed put is Mrs. Daisy an they say shes so stout sJie aim been able to get out cf the house for two years. The funny thing about it is that before they start tnovin everybody seems to be settled comfortable. Just as soon as they begin swappin homes vl.ougli half tlu- town cant seem to lmd a place to (jet in out o the rain. Its something like an old trunk full of odds an ends. When you start .inpackin it it looks like it was ot.ly half full, but when you go to put the stuff back you cant close the lid by jumping on it. Iheres queer tales going round "about the movin. They say Jed Car ¬ son was one of the ones that had to get out the first of the month. He hadiit been able to located no place to go,, but he hired a movin van an kept drivin his stuff around inquirin About noon he still hadnt fo'in.1 nothin an he figgcred it would be cheaper for him to buy the van than to hire it for a whole day. So he bought the gosh hang thing an now after wastin two days lookin for a house hes started cuttin win dows in the van an fix in it up nice an homelike. The only troubel is '.hey got a speed law in Milford ven cant stop no place more than half an hour. That makes it kind of disturbin to Jed, espeically when he tries to go home from work at night. Pays Rent by Cubic Measurement. Pooch tells how Kent Hathaway has put hisself into storage. It seems Kent sold his house a coupcl of years ago an' stored all his fur nichure. Then he took some fur nished rooms over Jake Frieze's ice cream parlor. His lease ran out there the first of the month. After lookin. around without findin any other place to go they say he went up to the storage house with the rest of his things an has been livin there ever since. Pooch says he had his family all measured an pays rent to the storage people accordin to how much room they tke up. You can't always put stock in Pooch, though. Everybody in Milford what owns a roof an four walls is gcttin rich. Hen Attahury turned all his chick ens out of His hen house an fixed it over. He advertised it fcr a modurn bungalo an they tell me it pretty near got wrecked in the rush. Ev Sims has rented his blacksmith shop tp a family of five an is makin more money than he has 'in years. That, ain't savin much though cause about the only shoein Evs done since the vautos come along is flies. I can remember when a house was handed down from one gen eration to another like freckles or protudin teeth. Its gettin to a point now, though, where it hurts a man's reputation to live more than a year in One place. Folks think he ain't got no ambition. I spose you might call it "get up an go." It's a wise child these days that can tell where it was brought up. Like Mrs. Smither was tellin vour mother about her little girl Susy. After they'd moved into their new house Susy looks around an savs: "Ain't we lived here before, mother?' Mrs. Smithcrs seems to think her children are bright if they show human intelligence. Though, as your mother says, it's natrally a sprise to her. The b,ug came pretty near bitin even me last week. A strange fel low drove over from Milford an' offered me twice as much fcr the old place as your granfather paid for it new. It kind of upset me. I didn't do nothin' 'til I got home an' told your mother about it. She gave me kind of a queer look like I'd suggested eatin' the old mare. "'Magine him havin the nerve to offer such a thing," she says, rockin' hard, as she does when her dander's up. "Well." says I, "'magine him havin the money, which is some thin'." Home, Sweet Home. "Amos, ain't you got no senti ment for associations?" says your mother indignant. Then she made me come upstairs with her an' took me into your room. "Look at that," says she. "It's the room where your only son like to died of whoop in' cough, Amos Amesby," she says. "An there's the bed he like to done it on." Then she unlocks the spare room, "There," she says, "is where fellow. An' the blood stain on the carpet where your uncle like to cut his finger off whitelin the wrong wav when he was a young lad. Then we went into the front par lor an your mother opened the binds and pointed to the horse hair sofa, "That," she says, "is the identical 3CT3-SM 1 I?' " wvivuswuv jftj i er m V .-v I "He advertised it as a modurn' bungalo" three of your kith an' kin has died an' passed away one grandmother an' two aunts to say nothin' of minor diseases. An' there," she .ays, pointin' to the back stairs, "is '.he place you tripped over a pail an broke three ribs 10 years ago come Christmas eve." Then we went downstairs an' she showed nic the piece chipped out of the mantel where you bumped your head agin it when you was a little settle they laid Myron Sparks on when he had the honor of being run over by the first automobile that ever passed through this town. But I spose these things don't mean nothin to you." She musta seed how ashamed I was of myself by this time, but your mother is very thorough when she starts anything. She took me out in the yard an pointed out the crack ed flagstones where you fell out the An Estimate of Teeth The polished men and women of the world wLv expect to shine along their chosen way appre ciate fully the value of attractive teeth. They realize that first impressions are not only last ing, but either decisively make or unmake them. The. teeth in smiling or speaking, so conspicu ously are they located, catch and hold attention with pleasure or disgust. It is time that the. average every-day citizen comes to a proper realization of the value of perfect teeth in his race for life's success. Our efficient, up-to-the minute, reasonably ; priced service is your opportunity to have teeth that equal those of the favored few: Consult us. teeth nut tr mriipnnpv Cor. 14th and Farnam. Dentisl 1724 Farnam Street. window when you was eight years old. "An there," she says, with a catch in her voice, "is Hie very celler doors what fell on my fathers head an like to stoVe his skull in. What mem uries those brings back to me," says she. When we got through I was all broke up. We sat in the back par lor most of the evenin without sayin much. An I swore then an there that before I tried to make a profit on that old house an all its tender n-.emuries I'd let it rot over our heads till it wasnt good fer nothin. There was a Jecture in the town hall the other night. I went cause it was on just what I been writin about. The fellow says the troubel with the housin situation was that nobody could build cause labor was so high, an laher was so sigh cause rents was so high, an rents was so high cause nobody could bmld cause labcr was so high. I got coughin right there an didnt hear the rest but I think he was right, an besides folks just nateratly like to shift. Well, sir, I (jot to quit an help Squire Freeman eve a load of fur iiichurc. Hes only goin across the street but he says that next year hes goin to be forehanded an make a real move. If youre thinkin of bein an en gineer, my boy, be a statianary one. yours immovabely. Amos H. Amesby I Fath. (Copyright, 1920, by Kd Stwter.) In Iceland cod fish are dried and ground into a flour for use in bread. Slams Our Morals. Columbus, O.. Oct. 2. "Morals in America are on the bargain counter, declared Rev Daniel F. Kittenhouse in a sermon to his flock. He ap- . . . . i i 1. "!.!.. pcaiefl to mem io go mi; time religion and responsibility. Other pastors of churches here are uniting in condemning laxity of pres ent-day morals. Si Mo ivr 1 1 1 Chiropractic Health, Service Come today and see what Dr. Burhorn's marvel ous system of Chiropractic Spinal Adjustments will do for your Acute and Chronic ailments. You are entitled to an absolutely free consulta tion to determine what Chiropractic will do for your ailment. If we cannot help you we will not accept your case. The sick are not greatly interested in theories, but in anything that will make them well. 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