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THE HEK: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 1. 1J20. Indian Scores Dress of Women At Washington (Convert of Harding's Sister Says Scanty Clothes Worn At Capital Outdo the Harems of East. lly I'nlrtrsal Service. ( Washington, Nov. 30. American women, particularly those in Wash, itigton, dress far more immodestly than the half-clad-be-jewelled wom en of the eastern harem, according to the Rev. A. H. Williams, of Rangoon, India, who is visiting at the hqme of Mrs. Carolyn Votaw, sister of President-elect Harding, in an interview here today. Mr. Williams is a native Ea it In dian, and . was converted to Chris tianity 14 years ago when Mrs. Votaw and Wcr .husband were mis sionaries in that country. Denunciation Is Bitter. "If the inmates of a harem -were to appear cm- F street," said Mr. Williams, "it would cause no per ceptible stir, because they are al ready outdone by the Washington women who frequent that thorough fare. "In the far east dccollette is re served for the harem but in Wash ington it is the habit of the streets. Indeed, the scant clothes, fancy high heels; and earrings after the manner of the harem, seems to be the ideal of the American woman in dress. "I can imagine how admiringly a Turkish sheik would gaze on the promenade of fancily dressed women on F street. Women should be more modest. As a missionary from foreign parts I must confess 1 am a little shocked at the prevailing fashions of English and" American women. ' Dress Problem Solved. "The women ' of Burmah have solved the. dress problem, which seems more than their American sis ters have done. In fact, throughout Indian both sexes wear pajama skirts, depending upon what part of the country they are front. Some still wear the Sari costumes, which is a sheet-like garment that is wound around the body. "I. might tell. about the sun danc ing on golden domes and minarets as the boat pulls into Bombay, or about the mysteries of Bagdad and the beautiful veiled women. "But I prefer to emphasize that the most surprising thing about In dia is that it is modern.- It, is cov ered with a network of railroads. There are telephones, street cars, modern houses and magnificent public buildings. ' ' k "I refer, of course, to big cities mm; v.anuim, - The inland people are still crude, but we call, that the backwoods." Dry Candidate for President In Two flections Dead Long Beach, Cal., Nov. 30. Eugene Chalin, prohibition candidate for preside in 1Q(J8 and 1912.. died at his home here todny from burns 1 received November 20. when his clothing caught fire while he was lighting a gas. heater. Mr. Chafin was .born November 1. 1852. at East Troy, Wis. He studied law in"the University of Wisconsin and was admitted to practice in Waukesha in 1875, continuing prac tice there and in Chicago for the greater part of his life. He was a temperance . advocate and lecturer from his youth and was a candidate on several occasions for local "and state offices in both Wis consin and Illinois. Shortly after his presidential campaign of, 1908 he moved to Arizona for his health and came o Long Beach four years ago. He was active in councils of local temperance organizations to the last. .Organize Office Help. ' St". Louis. Mo.. Nov. 30. The American Federation of Labor is preparing to start a nationwide campaign to organize ofhee help, ac cording to E. H. Fitzgerald, grand president of the brotherhood of rail way and steamship clerks, freight handlers, express and station em ployes. Two Men Are Fined In Police Court On Liquor Charges Two men charged with illegal possession were fined $100 and costs in South bide police couri yesteraay. still and two quarts of liquor. Flaryan Salynski also had a still, a small amount ot booze and numerous rempty bottles. Clothing Is Stolen , Theft of $625 worth cf dresses, sil ver and a sealskin cape was reported by Mrs. J. T. Rohr, - 4818 South Twenty-fifth street. Upon return ing from downtown at 10 o'clock Mondav night, Mrs. Rohr found that a burglar had broken in a front win dow and ransacked the house. Pays for Recklessness It costs $5 to run into a safety zone and drag it around the streets, William Zarp. 4329 Parker street, discsvered in South Side police court yesterday. He was arrested for reck less driving at Twenty-fourth and N streets last night. South Side Brevities Illinois coal. $1S.?S. Howland TAr. Col Co. Phono So. 114. Adv. Charging that hts wlf, from whom ho la separated, had- disturbed the peace. Al Larson had Marguerite Larson, J10S Q street, arrested Monday nifbt. , r ThU question will be. jMiweredpec. 12th. Watch for the answer. South Side Short! A PAIR OF STOCKINGS By SAM HELLMAN. "He who steals what isnit lisn must give it up or go to prison," said old. Ben Franklin, who should have known more about the law than that unless he meant the giving up was for eminent counsel. Yef the fact re mains that he who steals what isn't his'n probably will go to prison if ne nasn t got a good lawyer or an alibi and pleads guilty and isn't par doned bctore the sentence is pro nounced. There are some men in jail, aren't there? Well, then. Sadie Hall had sold stockings so long at the Peerless department store that she knew more about ho siery than the man who wrote the book. Sadie loved pretty hosiery. She fingered the $5 and $10 silken sheens with all the tenderness of a SUlUUUUHg Ulll I1CI 111 31 WHl" oing gown. Sadie, however, didn't wear ex pensive stockings for 89 different rea sons, the first being that she didn't have the money, and the other 88 being immatcrials. But Sadie was content. Her skirts came to her shoe tops. Then someone-in Paris decided over night to establish closer rela tions between the waist line and the hem of the skirt, lea'ingSadie's cot ton or hear silk stockings exposed to the public gaze, er, that is, a con siderable cross section of them. Then Sadie stroked the real silk stockings with' a greater tenderness and the light of a desire flamed into her dull eyes. .She would buy a pair of the $10 kind for herself. How wonderful they would feel! How fine they would look! She was going to a dance the next night with Hanson, the furniture buyer, and she would use the occasion to give her fast stockings a run for the money. At her home that evening Sadie counted out $10. It was all that she had or would have until her . next pay day, which was several days away. In the morning she placedjjthe money in limbo. When she reached the store Sadie knew she needed stockings badly. There was a hole in one of those she had on and the $19 was gone. Napoleon after Waterloo, Corn wallis at Yorktown and the Chris tians thrown to the lions couldn't have felt any worse than Sadie did that morning. Shortly before the store closed Hang-on passed by the counter. . "Don't forget the dance tonight, Sadie, I've just bought me a new suit." , '. Sadie decided upon (that moment she would have the stockings. Be fore her was a small stack of the handsome slim boxes containing the $10 pedigree brand. The store wouldn't find out for several days and then she would blame .shoplift ers. She took one of the boxes, placed it in the inside pocket of her long coat, which she had put on. "Miss Hall," came the sharp voice of the superintendent, Simmons, "you'd better see Mr. Campbell, to morrow." I "Tomorrow," faltered Sadie. "Yes, he's gone for the day. Huh? No. I don't know what about. Don't you know?" and the superintendent passed on. As' Sadie kft the store she won- Vlered why she hadn't been arrested. She cast a look over her shoulder. A man was walking behind her. She was being followed. . Sadie read the Then It's Genuine Aspirin is trade mark Bayer Manufac ture Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. AOVERTISEMKNT Sharpens Vision Soothes and heals the eyes and strength ens eyesight quickly, relieves inflam mation in eyes and lids; sharpens vision and makes glasses unnecessary in many instances, says Doctor. Drug gists refund your money if it fails. ADVERTISEMENT Rheumatism A Remarkable Home Treatment Given by One Who Had It In the Spring of 1893 I was attacked by Muscula and Sub-Acute Rheu matism. I suffered us only those who have it know, for ver three ! years. 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Mr. Ji'-Vvn 1 rt-sponstHp AM". gfatmnt true Aspirin BON-OPTC newspapers. She knew now why she hadn't been , arrested. They were expecting t track her to the place where the loot wv stored and then seize her and her accomplice. The man behind followed for sevt erl blocks and then turned off at a side street, first looking sharply at Sadie. She took a car. There were 50 advertisements strung along the in side and they were all about stock ings. Sadie read: "Use Lavarine Soap,. Good for Stolen Stockings." "Rubberine Rubber?. Keep "Stolen Stockings Dry," "Tara Tobacco, Smoother than Stolen Silk Stock ings." ' ; , Sadie gripped the slim box. Every body on the car was looking through her coat at it and smiling meaning ly. "Steal stockings, stolen stock ings, steal, stock'' hummed the trolley. ' She got off two blocks before her destination. At the corner near her boarding house stood a policeman. She had never seen one there before. She passed him rapidly. On the porch was a man. A detective! Sadie looked back. The policeman had followed her. What was the use? She half staggered up the stairs. ."Are you looking for me?" mur-j mated Sadie. "Lou? No," said the stranger. "I'm waiting for the landlady. ( I want to rent a room." Sadie looked toward the street. The policeman had continuecUcyond the house. As she entered vat tele phone rang. Sadie's heaflt missed a beat and the stared blankly toward the vyall. The landlady 1 answered the tephone. "It's for you," she said. ' "Hello," said a voice "this is Ida. Congratulations." "Congratulations." echoed Sadie, mechanically. "What about?" "Didn", Simmons tell you you were to be the new buyer in hosiery? I heard the boss tell him about it." Ida was -Campbell's stenographer. "Are you fooling me," asked Sadie JEWELRY Th in a grating voice. "Simmons didn't say any thing t me." "Honor bright. You know what a stickler Simmons is." ' ' Sadie in her room nearly col lapsed. For a bauble, a .iir of stock ings, she had thrown away the big chance, the chance she had waited for for years. In a sudden rage she took the stocking box from her coat and hurled it oji the bed. It burst open. . . i Sadie hadstolen an empty box. Red Cross Donates $400,000 for Relief Of Russian Refugees Washington, Nov. 30. Appropria tion $400,000 for the relief of the 139,000 south Russian refugees in Constantinople was announced by the American' Red tross, in response to a cable from Rear Admiral Bris tol, describing the situation as "catastrophic." "This sum with the $300,000 ap propriated by the Russian embassy in Washington which, tq be. ad ministered by the American Red Cross." the statement said, "makes a total of $700,000 available .for the relief of these stricken thousands in whose ranks are many women and children." Admiral Bristol's message ap pealed for immediate aid and said relief resources were being rapidly exhausted. "Every hospital in Con stantinople is filled and hundreds of sick have no place to stay. Danger of an epidemic is very great," it said. Labor Board to Get Reprisal Views in Dublin London, Nov. 30. The labor com mission of inquiry into the reprisals in Ireland left Dublin this morning. The party comprises representatives of the labor parliamentary party and the labor executive body. LD SCKOOGE of Dickers "Christinas Carol" were heaving today, would need no bidding to do his Christmas shopping early, for Scrooge', had learned the full meaning of Christmas, and with the arriTal of those most wonderful of all shopping days, Scrooge would be first" to drink of the happiness which comes from finding just ' the right gift for each and every one near and dear to him. -5 "Scrooge, too, would have spent most of his time in the Jewelry Shpps, for Scrooge appreciated Gifts of real worth usefulness things that last and that serve best the true spirit of Christmas. ' , Jewelry is the substantial Gift the gift of real sentiment the Love gift. Jewelry is the Gift that Lasts. Nothing can take the place of Jewelry at Christmas Time. Today Omaha's Jewelry- Stores are full of wonderful gifts-' those for the great as well as the humble. Start your shop ping tour NOW. See to it that with each new day you get the full measure df Happiness front the things you buy. Do this, and when Christmas finally arrives you'll rejoice in knowing that this has been your greatest of all Christmases. GREATER OMAHA JEWELERS ASSOCIATION Government Asks ' Trustee Be. Named To Dispose of Yards Washington. Nov. 30.- The gov ernment petitioned the dictrict su preme court to appoint a trustee to take possession of and sell the stock yard properties of the big five pack ers. The petition which accompanied the government's objection to the various plans of the packers for disposing of those properties declared that the packers had failed to present a suit Quality Tailoring at Cut Prices AH Wool Blue, Black Worsted Suitings Made to Order Now $60 . . Former price was low at $75.00. - A real suit at a low price MADE IN OMAHA. All other suits reduced, too none over $75.00 NOW; some as low as $50.00. TAILOR 1512 Dodge Street Gift That able plan to the court, although nine months had elapsed since they un dertook, to formulate such jx plan. Appointment of a trustee or trust ees with power to take possession of all stocks, bonds and other securi ties owned by the defendant pack ers representing their interests in stockyards properties, was asked, nnd the gpvernment aiso asked that the trustee be directed to sell these properties in such manner as the court may direct after due notice to the defendants. The petition is made returnable on December 14. An easily attached wire guard has been patented for protecting infants' milk bottles against breakage. or Oxford Unfinished ? -ilk fame, Lasts 99 BECK Federal Prisoner Held After Pardon by Viloii LcavemvCmb, Kan., Niv. M). Ed ward Therek, ulfo began serving a ten-year sentence in the federal prison here in April, 1917, for violat ONE GENT SALE Sample Bargains The seventh big "One-Cent Sale" of the Sherman & MeConncll Drug Co. is now in' full swing, and the sales thus far beat all for mer records. Only those who have attended one of these sales and made actual purchases can realize the "Bona Fidu" bargains given. There have been many imitations of the "Jc Sale" as originated by the United Drug Co. of Boston for the Rexall yV gents nearly 10,000 in number yet no other sale has approached this in the important essential of really and truly giving the bargain! described. A full carload of goods was purchased by the Sherman & McConnell Drug Co., as the "first gun" in holding this sale, and to this merchandise buy was added such items as would be par ticularly seasonable just now. The sample items named below best tell the story. There are nearly 1.000 different articles in all. This sale lasts through Wednesday and Thursday of this week. 18c Colgate's, La France and Dactylis Talc. ... .2 for Sd 35c Symond's Inn Cocoa 2 for 36 75c Blackberry Grape Jam, ...... .2 1 -lb. can for 76 50c Violet DulceFace Pow der. , 2 for 51 35c Shermac's Witch Hazel and Arnica Salve. .2 for 36tf 35c Rexall Cherry Bark Cough Syrup 2 for 3G COc Armour's Cold Cream, ...2 for 616 I Hundreds of other items, Tooth, Nail and Hair Brushes, Rubber Goods, Toilet Soaps, Candies, Stationery and various Perfumes and Medicinal Articles. Sherman & McConnell Drug Co. THIS SALE AT THREE STORES ONLY Corner 16th and Dodge Downstairs at This Store Corner 16th and Harney Downstairs at This Store Corner 19th and Farnam (TABLETS or GRANULES) For INDIGESTION . With or without water; pleasant to take. QUICK RELIEF!' Price, 25-S0-75 MADE BY SCOTT BOWNK MAKERS OF SCOTT'S EMULSION . Mf ADVERTISEMENT IF SKIN BREAKS OUT AND ITCHES APPLY SULPHUR Just the moment you apply Mentho-Sulphur to an itching, burn ing or broken out skin, the itching stops and healing begins, says a noted skin specialist. This sulphur preparation, made into a pleasant cold cream, gives such a quick relief, even to fiery-eczema, that nothing has ever been found to take its place. ' . Because of its, trenn destroying properties, it quickly subdues the itchiug, cools the irritation and heals the eczjftna right up, leaving a clear, smooth skin in place of ugly erup tions, rash, pimples or roughness. You do not have to wait for im provement. It quickly shows. You can get a little jar ot Mcntho-Sul-phur at any drug store. , "Only One Think Breaks My Cold f'That's Dr. King's New Dis covery, for Fifty Years a Cold-Breaker", TIME-TRIED for fifty years and never more popular than today. Nothing but the relief It gives from stubborn old colds, and on-rushing new ones, grippe and throat-torturing coughs cotnd have made Dr. King's New Discovery the standard remedy it is today. No harmful drugs. Always reliable, and good for the whole family. Has a convincing, heal ing taste with all its good medicinal qualities. At all druggists, 60 cents, M.20 a bottle. For colds andcoughd The Results of Constipation are sick headaches, biliousness, 6allow skin, waste matter in the intestinal system. Correct this health-undermining condition by taking Dr. King's Pills. Feel good every day. Keep the system clean and virile. Same old price, 25 cents. All druggists. . ssevr Lnscavexy rompri won turipe KinO's Pills HfTDiCIIE,IIEURAl6l.tnFLUEN2A AND All ing national bank laws in Boston, Was released on commutation of sen tence by President "Wilson. On his release Therek was arrested by local authorities and lodped in jail here at the request of California authori ties, who say a criminal charge i pending against hint in San Fian-cisrn. 25c Rexall's Tooth Taste, j 2 for 260 25c Ttyal Laxacold. . ,2 for 260 50c Abonita or Amorita Almond Benzion and Cucumber Cream Lotion.'. 2 for 51 60c Harmony Cocoa Butter Cold Cream and Skin Food, 2 for 610 G5c bottle of 100 Aspirin Tablets 2 for 660 40c Imported Tooth Brushes in all approved shapes, 2for4l0 20c and 25c Wool or Velour Powder Puffs, 2 for the price of one plus lc. including Talcs, Face Powders, ADVERTISEMENT That Sore Throat Heeds Begy's Marine 1 TVhen your throat Is sore, It's a sor sign yon need Bevy's Mustarine. That Is, if run waut to gel rid ot it in the quickest possible lime. -- . It's tlly marvelous how this rent reliow mnstard improvement on the old fashioned mustard planter will end sore throat, tonailitiB, chest colda, pleurisy and bronchitis. It's no exasperation to saf that it often conquers them over night, and It's just as speedy a remedy for neuralgia, lumbago, stiff neck, aching; feet, sore muscles and swollen joints. Rub It on freely. It cannot Mister, but. it surely will ease the pains or rheumatism and, gout, and you won't have to wait till to-morrow for relief. Ton'll Eft ft to-daj- often in an hour. 30 or 60 rents buys a yellow btx full of Begy's MuSnirine and one small box will do the work ot SO. blistering mus tard plasters. For sale by 5 Sherman & McConnell drug stores. ADVERTISEMENT Mrs. Iversea Tells How Cuticura Healed Water Blisters .. "I was troubled with little water blisters on my bands and face. Tbey formed a scaly surface causing the skin to be red. Th4 blisters then took the form of sore eruptions and I could hardly stand the itching and burning. I could scarcely sleep, end could not put my hands in water unless I wore rubber gloves. "I tried remedies but they did not help. A friend asked me to try Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I sent for a free sample and was relieved. I bought more, and when I had used three cakes of Cuticura Soap and two boxes of Cuticura Ointment I was healed." (Signed) Mrs. Kay Iversen, Lakeview, Mich., January 22, 1920. Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Tal cum are all you need for all toilet uses . Bathe with Soap, soothe with Ointment, dust with Talcum. BuapteEukFrMlrvtCiU. Aidr:0otleilV. ortteriM, Dept. B. Hildas 4 S, Kui." Sold ever?. whjrjSoap 2Sc. Ointment CS n! is. Talcum 2&e. BMsF Cuticura Soap shavea without mug. 'ADVERTISEMENT SAVING LIVES Father John's MM Has, had mora than 65 years of suc cess for colds, coughs and as a strenf th-givint; food medicine. It contains only pure, wholesome nourishment. No alcohol or danger ous drugs. 4$H T "v