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( I m,m I I .1 (II v ..-i r., 1 f) 14 THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNUSUA Y, OCTOBER 13, 1920. Lad Freed From Alleged Slavery Of Stepfather Guardian Appointed for Youth Who, Witnesses Testified, Was In humanly Treated. Creston, la., Oct. 12. (Special. Herold Wenkler, 21, today is a free lad, free to spend the money he makes and free to do as he pleases for the hrst time in Ins me. The county court Saturday ordered him released irom the con trol of Richard . Wenkler, a JJnion county farmer, who is the young man's stepfather, after a dozen wit nesses testified to inhuman treat ment accorded young Wenkler by his elder. He was ptaced in the hands of W. G. Elstman, Creston book binder, who immediately took the young man to his home and will keep him there until work is found for him on a farm. Elstman was appointed his guar dian,- Young Wenkler was found to be feeble minded at the hearing Satur day, according h E. L. Carroll, county attorney, and yet testimony , showed that he was a capable farm ' hand. .That led to th appointment, of a cuardianshio by the court with nawer of the sruardian to plac , voung Wenkler in the hands of a iarmer. , . "I can't believe I'm going to get niv own money to Spend and won't have anyone around to scare me to death any more," young Wenkler aid when told that he was released from the control of his stepiather, Riveras Dragged For 1 Body of Man; Killed Self Over Divorce Chicaaro. Oct. 12. Police are drag' ging the Chicago river for the body of frank V. Nustrom, a1 wen known hotel keeper and his wile has directed her attorney to withdraw her suit for divorce. Nustrom had made several inef fectual attempts at a reconciliation with his wife, and finally wrote his attorney that if he could not live with his wife, he did not care to live at all, and would 'plunge from . the bridge into the river and give her all the freedom she desired. Tarts of his letter read: 1 "I cannot Hand it any longer and I must make this note to you short. You will find my body in the river near the Adams street bridge from which I shall plunge. ' "I want to live with my dear, lov ing wife, and "if 1 cannot do that I cannot live any longer. I cannot sleep. I cannot eatv or work be cause I am so worried and I walk . the streets day and night. ' i "Tel ,my wife I hope she does not have any luck with the property I worked so hard to accumulate. I hope she and her sister go to the ' "same place I am headed for. Good byc" ' Four Become Sick After Restaurant Meal; One Dies Chicago Trlbnne-Omahii Bee Iiued Wire. ' jKsbury Park, N.' J., Oct. 12. Four members of an automobile party who ate in . a Wain street restaurant late Saturday night, were immediately taken ill. George jGray .Smith, 45 years old, of Manhattan, died this morning. . The death cer tificate issued by . S. Bennett, coun-1 ty physician, attributed the cause of death to "probable arsenical poison ing." Two othet; members of the party, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh S. Grant, of Whitesville near here narrowly es caped death but arc believed to have been saved by the administration of -an. arsenic antidote. Smair Girl Wins Suit. ., j Against Street Car Co. In a damage suit of $50,000 brought by Attorney John O. Yeser for Gladys E. Moran. S, daughter . of Clarence Morari, ag: 'nst the Oma ha and Council Bluffs Street Car Co., the jury returned a verdict for $8, S0O against the street car company in District Judge Goss' court yes . terday mormng. WHY?- Are people Bald? The human scalp is a tissue ( composed of three layers--a horny outer layer, made . up of longitudinal elastic fibres; tne1 "maJphighian" or secondary i layer, composed of circular; fibers, and the third or "papil-1 lary" layer composed of a very delicate membraneous substance. Through these three layers of scalp tissue run the hairs, and at the base of them are the blubs whicn supply the nutriment for the hair itself. Each of these bulbs resembles a microscopic onion, and, like the plant blubs, each of them has to receive nutri-a ment in order that the hair the plant which springs from the blub may grow. The microbe which causes baldness lodges at the root of the hair and lives upon the min ute fat cells which nourish the hair-bulb, gradually consuming these and causing the papilla or bulb to lose its productive energy. The formation of new hair ceases, the connection between the hair and the hair-bulb is broken, and a slight pull causes it to fall out. It is for this reason that oilv shampoos are recommended for persons whose hair is becoming sparse. The oil supplies the miss ing nutriment for the papillas and, unless the bulb has entirely lost its facility for producing hair, the growth is stimulated. In the case of men, baldns? is frequently k due to another cause. The wearing of hat? which are too tight cuts off a certain amount lof the blood-supply of the hair-bulbs, and thesa literally starve to death, just as any other part of the body would starve if the circulation were im peded. .--' (Copyright, 1IJ, by Tha Whaaltr Syndicate, Ine.) , I I. : : ' r- ; ; ! THE GUMPS IN IN TWO , , Prawn for The Bee by Sidney Smith. f KOi9 " LOOK AT ,THA,T BASV 6o (s PVt f0V EE T fcOLL?N 4 . , ' v " , ! KEEP VOR EYE OU W- , 6Et LOOK AT IT J HAX THE R16HT WRCCTION V . ' . A () N i VAtCH W.j- Atfll.L .T EVER STOP fy AIL RIGHT HE"- WAS HEAJE ' . , ! v r. l& M m i A Iwtfs) MlWM I yrr v rSvAW 1 wonder, ip THAT'MYfeAtL ( 7vTv : 111 ITr" i , . f .i i i i i I T I I ' II I II II HI null III III 111! ! Ill II ll I ! II , El I ' ' - - i ' 1 ' ' . 1 More Truth -By JAMES J. WHAT WERE THEY TALKING ABOUT? I sat on a bench in the shadowy park 1 As the twilight was slowly dissolving in dark, And listened a while with an envious sigh , ' To the low murmured talk of a couple near by. From the trees overhead came the chirp of the birds That drowned, for the moment, their half-whispered words," And then of a sudden the twittering ceased And I found they -were talking of raisins and yeast. ' ; ' Raisins and yeast was the' whole of their song, 1 . And the wretches discussed 'em the whole evening long. I sat in a club, where a judge of the sort ' That wears a bald head and presides at a court Was earnestly talking to some one I saw Was also a person who gave out the law. The confab grew warm, the speeches grew 4oud, One judge was indignant; the other was cowed. I fancied him caught in some serious fault . Till I foundthey were talking of sugar and malt. Sugar and malt was the whole -of their chat,. . , ' And 'twas plain that they both had the subject down pat; 1 '' I sat on the porch of a summer hotel J While the sea lapped the beach with a low moaning swell,' And two dear old ladies upon a divan Were talking as elderly dowagers can. . ' Each over her knitting bowed down her white head And it wasn't my fault that heard what they said 'As they knitted and nibbled at peppermint drops, For the theme of discussion was syrup of hops. -Syrup of hops was the whole of their talk, So I rose from my rocker and went for a walk.1 ERSATZ Two years aero the' youth who shouldered hi Tifla nromisad in hr'mtr his sweetheart a German soldier. Maine guide. ,! , - , , MERCIFUL Before taking the teeth out of the leacrue 'of nations. th thoughtful enough to give it gas. JUST THE SAME AS EVER EvAfV Wflliun Tina tVlO vnfo Kllf nrn'll Kantr fliA Tn1rA." , - .vvv, the political influence. . (Copyright, 1920. By HOLDING A Adele Garrison's ! Revelations The Contingencies That Madge Feared. ' My imagination was forced curi ously and unwillingly to the picture of a rat in a trap as I watched Rita Brown's face change from exultant, venomous triumph to despairing de feat, absolute and bitter, while yet distilling the venom of her hatred. White-lipped, her face drained of color, she met my eyes steadily, with such smoldering fury as to make me shudder involuntarily. "You win," . she " gasped. "But, mark me! If I go to Leila and make her believe black is white it was easy enough to make her believe the opposite, the little fool! it will enly be on the condition that she'tells no one, else anything, and that yor. keep your mouth shut to everybody else, including that precious Dicky-bird of yours. I wish you joy of your per fect belief in him, it is so touching and so amusing under the circum stances." i But a minute before I had boasted to myself that I would never believe anything Rita Brown might say against my husband, and yet I would have been something else than a woman if for a moment a wave of hot withering doubt had not swept over me her tone was so confident, so knowing. The next minute. I had put it away from me as I would have swept from my doorstep a collection of unsightly rubbish. - Rita Tries to Make Conditions. "Leila is not likely to tell 4 Alfred that she believed him guilty of un speakable things upon your word," I said, not trying to modify the con temptuous inflection which my voice had involuntarily taken. "Nor is she likely to confide her folly or your reparation to anyone else, unless It be to Edith, and I doubt if she tells the whole story even to her. As fpr myself, my lips will be sealed con cerning you- as long as you do not make mischief for me or for people I care for. You may "make what ex cuse you please for going-to New York." "Aren't you the kind, sweet thing, thought" she gibed. "But I want your especial promise on one thing you're just fool enough to keep a promise and that is, that Hugh Grantland gets no inkling of the rea son L'm going back. I don't mind telling you now that I intend to be Mrs. Hugh some .day and I want to be sure that you don't get jt into your head that he needs warning against me." She was her old nocking self Than. Poetry MONTAGUE .This year he Dromises to brine her a . ' v ' vvn Avvnc&o ,v VV1CIU Th Bell Syndicate, Inc.) HUSBAND New Phase of of a Wife again, once she had made up her mind to defeat and had received my assurance that I would not betray her secret. But this latest assertion was so absurd that I gave an invol untary little contemptuous laugh which L sorely regretted the next second, it seemed so like rubbing in my triumph. : "I certainly shall, not say anything to Major Grantland against you as long as you behave yourseli," I said hurriedly. -"And now, if you please, we" will go to Leila." ' Over Rita's white cheeks a red flush spread. Her eyes glittered an grily. "Sort of jars you, doesn't it, old dear," she mocked, "to hear pf Hughie forsaking his old allegiance? But men tire of saints after awhile, my dear, and turn their fancies to women -with a spice of the. devil in 'era. But, never mind, if you behave youfself I'll let him ask yoU to the wedding, dear heart." i " I did not know my own voice, so measured and stately itwas as I an swered, her. ' 'T'li you utter another syllable cou pling my name and Major Grant land's in any manner whatsoever our agreement is off and I follow the course I outlined to you." She laughed again, but this 'time uneasily. ' " ... "Have it your own way, old dear," she said carelessly, but I knew that' the victory was mine. - So with what calmness I . could manage I forced myself to go on in a matter-of-fact way with my plan for bringing Rita face to Jace with thessuffering girl to whom she had told such base falsehoods.. ' "I will telephone for a taxi, now," I. said casually, "and we will go di rtctfy to Leila. But I must ask you to remain in the taxi until I have prepared her for your coming. And I shall remain in the room while you are talking to her." "This is your party," she returned flippantly, but sttllenly. "Fix it to suit yourself." I knew that I should have no fur ther trouble with her, but a task of far greater magnitude lay before rne that of changing Leila's belief in Rita's falsehoods to a realization of the treachery of the girl she had known so long. had seen how stubborn my usu ally yielding little friend could be. Suppose as was wholly probable she should refuse to believe Rita's retraction, what should I do? .(Contjnjifi4 Tomorrow.) SLEEP Y-TIME TALES CHAPTER IX. :, Don't Eat the Spoons! ) Uncle Sammy Codn was terribly upset because he thought that Pad dy Muskrat and his wife had each eaten six knives and six forks. , He Suddenly1 Uncle SammaJSoDni gave a cry of rage he shook him hard, for he was an didn't know that Paddy had hidden them all in his pocket. , "This is terrible!" LTncle Sammy groaned. "Since I've been running an eating house no one has done such a thing. I haven t a knife nor a lorl- lett in the house. And I don't know" what to do." 'Well I'll tell you what to do," said Paddy Muskrat. "You can bring us some more clams." So Uncle Sammy bore their plates away again. And pretty soon he came back with them. This time he had put 12 spoons on each plate, so, of course, there was very little room left for clams. "There 1" he said. "Don't eat the spoons, whatever you do!" "Certainly not I" said Paddy Musk rat. And as soon as Uncle Sam my's back was turned he put' the whole 24 spoons into his pocket. The moment Uncle Sammy looked around he saw that the spoons were gone. He almost fainted, he was so upset. And he sank into one of his chairs and fanned himself with his cap. ! ' "This 'is terrible!" he said. "Here I've lost all my knives and forks and spoons! I'm, afraid I'm ruined. I shall have to stop running an eat ing house." . . ' A little later he sprang up. . And, seizing Paddy Muskrat's coat collar, gry. As he shook Paddy, the knives and forks and spoons made a great rattling in Paddy's pocket. But Uncle Sammy Coon thought the rattling was in Paddy's stomach. And he was so frightened by the sound that he let go of Paddy's col lar and sat right down on one of the toadstool tables. Now Uncle Sammy was quite fat. And he sat doAn so heavily that the toadstool table broke and sent him sprawling upon the floor. When he rose he was angrier .than ever. v "If I wasn't afraid of hurting my knives and forks and spoons, I'd shake you all to pieces!", he cried. "Bring us two more platefuls of clams 1" That was all Paddy Musk rat said. Uncle Sammy; Coon went away muttering to himself. And that time he came back with plates full of fine fresh water clams. "This is not my way of running an , eating house," Uncle Sammy grumbled. "But there's nothing else I can do." ! At last Paddy Muskrat and his wife had all they wanted to eat. And when Uncle Sammy started to take away the empty clam shells they stood up and, made ready to. go home. . - . ' "Wait a moment!" said Uncle Sammy Coon. "You haven't paid me yet. . You owe mc fr four dozen clams, one dozen-knives, one dozen forks and two dozen spoons. That makes eight dozen in all." "All" - right!" Paddy answered. "Give me all my clam shells and I will pay you." "What clam shells?" asked Uncle Sammy.;, - "Why the clam shells I bought!" Paddy Muskrat exclaimed. "Yotl took them away. And I supposed, of course, that you've been saving them for inc." , "I threw them into the creek," Uncle Sammy explained, with a wor ried look. , "The creek is right back of my kitchen. And I make it a rule to throw all my clam shells out of the window into the Avater." I Faddy Mujkrat pretended to be very much surprised. "I don't care' what you do with your clam shells," he said. "But you have no business to throw mine away like that. I shall not pay a penny unless you give them to me." He edged toward the dofr, -pushing his wife ahead of him. Suddenly Uncle Sammy Coon gave a cry of rage. He leaped at fyddy. But he was too slow. Paddy f. ' 1 ,-HEgaf CTvtdtmarii Kf (!! TA LE, OP URTHURilSCOTT BAILEY t., us.! Muskrat and his wife ran toward the creek and jumped in. N But just be fore he jumped Paddy pulled the knives and forks and spoons out of his pocket and dropped them on the bank. They were so heavy" that he was afraid they would, drag him to the bottom of the creek. Uncle Sammy Coon stood on the bank of the creek and roared as he watched Paddy and his wife swim ming away. , Then he happened to look down. And there were his knives and forks and spoons right at his feet! He gathered them up joyfully. j "I shan't have to stop running an eating house after all!" Uncle Sam my exclaimed. "And the next time Mr. and Mrs. Paddy Muskrat come to my place for a meal I shall lock the Moor after, they are in side 1 4 Tlrtn maybe, they won't be able to run away like this." But Paddy and his wife never vis ited Uncle Sammy's eating house again. Mrs. Paddy said she pc ferred ti eat in her own home. And Paddy said that he thought a good home dinner was far, better than anything they could get at Uncle Sammy Coon's. (Copyright, 1920, by Gossett & Dunlap.) Attempt Made Against Life of Serbian Prince Brussels, Oct. 12. An attempt was made to assassinate Prince Regent Alexander of Serbia during the re cent tour in Bosnia, according to the Montenegrin press bureau. The bu reau adds: ' "A bomb wa.-i thrown under the train in which the prmce regent ot, Serbia was returning from Sarajevo. Two cbaches were wrecked, but thei prince was unhurt.-' An inquiry into the incident gave no results. The mayor and municipal council of Sarajevo have resigne ; ADVERTISEMENT TO DARKEN HAIR APPLY SAGE TEA Look Young! Bring: Back Its Natural Color, Gloss and Attractiveness. Common garden sage brewed into f. heavy tea, with sulphur added, will turn - gray, streaked and faded hair beautifully dark and luxuriant. Just a few applications will prove a revc- htioh if your hair is lading, streaked or gray. Mixing the Sage Tea and Sulphur recipe at home, though, is troublesome. ' An easier way is to get a bottle of Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur, Compound at any drug store, all ready for use. This is the old-time recipe improved by the ad dition of other ingredients. While wispy, gray, faded hair is not sinful, we all desire to retain our youthful appearance and attractive ness. By darkening your hair with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com pound, no. one can tell because it does it so naturally,- so evenly. You just dampen a sponge or soft bruih with it and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time; by morning all gray haifs have disappeared, and after another apph ction or two your hair becomes beautifully dark, . glossy, soft and luxuriant. PHOTOPLAYS. ADDED FEATURES A SUNSHINE COMEDY 1 "FARMYARD FOLLIES" BABY MARTHA LAUGHLIN Appear ia Person I'M THE GUY .' I'M THk GUY who brazenly stares at every woman whether she be escorted or not. You'll find me in restaurants, hotel lobbies and public conveyances. I mention! these places, for in them I make myself most conspicuous. When a woman enters or leaves I'm so busy watching her I haven't time for anything else. I'm sort of a head waiter. I've got to see that every" woman who comes in is properly, attended to, and everyone leaving gets safely out.' Of course my special interest centers in the' young and pretty woman,- al though the others come in for, their' share of attention. . I like to i look 'em all over. , ' ', Why shouldn't I? I love the la dies,. God bless .'em. v If my staring lannoys you, and makes you wish to 'put "ine in i my place, I should worry; It's no good to get excited or to threaten me. The crowd around would save me from a thrashing. ' If you don't like my innocent pas time, that's your affair. If it bothers you, , don't look at, me,- or pretend you .dph't see. That's how I, fe.el about it. ' t Copyright, 1920, Thompson Feature Service Army Officer's Daughter . . . Jviiis nersen in rnsco San Francisco, Oct. 12. The body of Miss Elizabeth Lewis, 21, daugh ter of- Colonel and Mrs. E. " A. Lewis, was found in her home Here today with a gas jet nearby, turned oh. She had . been prominent ., in army social circles.. Colonel Lewis is stationed at' Camp Funston, Kan. Passenger automobiles of Amer ican, rrench and Italian makes are marketed jn England; 1 -L PHOTOPLAYS. i,ftiIW I Py Dmdend. to The. Who I M.id. r- Ch.ru. II I Do the Work I LADIES' DIME MATINEE WEEK DAYS it 1 S.TODAY AND THURSDAY mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm'imfA Bat. Mat, Wk: AL K. Hall "Sporting Widows" VJ jaaajsjLmiaamj.jaisiu, w, Lauja-jaea , : . .' PHOTOPI.4Y8. , I'ilQTO-l'LAYS.. ' , , . j Jffl(iTSaYffl? I H WILLIAM S. I .flgffltr1 : HART , - . ' SS&C ' W The Ctadle of Courage i " ' om.k. jM8?VH ill'" V 'A' New. Tartan Prfarc I L you'll I Kiddie. ..... V- ifC P Mij. M African 1 MM THOMAS I ly. XMbw l Kt$g MEIGHAN I r' ..J ' 22mmam2m!mii& aaai aaMaaaa. aa aaaa bsbi aaaa saaaa saaaa saai aaaaaaaai saaai bbbbbi an aaBaBaaaaaaaaaanaBi aaa aaaaai aaata aaaaaeaai ' i '' ' ' ' ' ' , , ' . . . v Parents Problems How can a girl of 16 be helped to improve hi -spelling in wnicn sue has always been very poor? Give her' a dictionary of her own and neiehbornood "spelling bees' Play the game of "Letters" with her. She will improve through these incan&. - - ' , ADVERTISEMENT. "CORNS" Lift Right Off Without Pain Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little Freezone on an -aching corn, in stantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with fin gers. Triilyl v Your druggist sells a. tiny bottle of Freezone for a few cents, suffi cient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the calluses, without soreness or irritation. , BEATTY'S Co-Operative Cafeterias Government loans $8,861,720 To Missouri Pacific Railroad ! Washington, Oct. 12. Approval of n loan of $8,861,720 to the Missouri., foad in meeting its maturing in lebU c dness and providing new . tquip incut .was announced by the .Inter state -Commerce commission, j The romniissiou anuoincsd a loan to William .T. Kemper, receiver of the Kansas City, Mexico and Oiient Railway company of $2,500,000 to aid in meeting indebtedness to December 1, 1920. - AMlhEMENT. TODAY Mat. Ev'n Last Two Times Churlal Dllllnhm PrMtntl . "APPLE BLOSSOMS" with JOHN CHARLES THOMAS, Wllda Bannatl, Pirclvnl Knljht. Fred aid Adtlt Attalrt, a filobo Theatw Cut and Chorui and a Special Synmhimy Oreheitra. NlghU: $1 to S3; Matinee, SO to It-M DAYS COM. NEXT PNDAY Ladies Only Souvenir, Matlna Friday. Any Seat $1.00 Regular Matinee Saturday Seats Tomorrow v ALEXANDER THE MAN WHO KNOWS ?SD SHOW of Wonders NAE Eve's and Sat. Mat., 25c to $2.00 TieeiT.iiLJfW,w Matinee Daily, 2:15 Every Night, 8:15 PERCY BRONSON & WINNIE BALD WIN; JACK WYATT and his SCOTCH LADS AND LASSIES; DAINTY. MARIE; THE HARRY HAYDEN COM. PANY; Jimmy Duffy and Mr. Sweeney; Dunham Williams; Dave Harris; "Topics of the Day;" Kinograms. Mats., 15c, 25c and 50c; few 75c to $1 Saturday and Sunday. Night, 15c 25c, 50c, 75c, $1, $1.25 EMPRESS LAST TIMES TODAY BELMONT'S CANARY OPERA; PAULA ARMSTRONG A CO.; BILLY ROCERS; ROSE & THORNE. Photoplay Attractions: "The Husband Hunter," featuring Eileen Percy. Christie Com edy. Pathe News Weekly. "OMAHA'S FUN CENTER" tOtrm t tr TJ Daily Mat ,15c to 75c Jp6y& Nites; 25c to $1.25 joe cnniAi ui me musical Hurtig's "VWIHL IflHIWa BURLESK With those dancing wonders, NIBLO Jk SPENCER. Incomparable Cast. Social Maids Jazzor Rag 5, and Beauty Chorus of rascinatmg reminiruty. LADIES' DIME MATINEE WEEK DAYS Sat. Mat. Uk: AL K. Hall at "Sportini Widows" V 'J