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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1920)
8 A THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 26, 1920. i M Three-Ball Shops Look for 'Livelv ' 1 Winter Business Ira dcs Dull N ow on Account Of Threatened Fall in Prices Old - Fashioned Loan Office Has Passed. T ' The pawnbroker who bought everything from a pair of shoes to a diamond ring is rapidly becoming a . thing of the past in Omaha. Prohibition, high prices for cloth s' ing and other articles and the threat i ened fall in prices of all commodities, together with the general prosperity ( of ,.t he last few years, have resulted ;' in the following changes in the old fashioned "three-ball shops:" There are no more exclusive pawn . brokers. , i There are pawn shops by the doz j ens in existence, but tlicy carry tha ; loan business as a side issue and !' their main "source of revenue is de i rived from selling new goods and I not second-hand goods. ' High-class jewelry, especially dia- tnonds, are accepted for loans by all ; pawnbrokers. , Old Days Cone, j; A few accept high-priced clothing , and silk shirts, musical instruments, i cut glass and revolvers for loans. i: But the days when an old pair of ' shoes "hocked" was good for half a dozen drinks far the beggars who l solicited at the back doors are mem ' ." ories. i j? The Salavation Army and other charitable organizations get the i; discarded clothing these days. '' Suits people are - wearing these M days cost anywhere from $60 to $100 and with clothing prices falling low er day by dayt the pawnbroker ; won't pav the prospective customer j more than $10 or ?lo for a loan on me sun. v . j; Would Pawn Anything. If "If it isn't redeemed, (the law ; forces us to hold it for. six months now and maybe by .that time a new y suit won t be worth, much more than ' we pay for the second-liand suit," an Omaha pawnbroker explained vj Then, too, booze used to make , 4 the pavvnbroking business better be- ' cause a penniless nooze hound it wouldn't consider values. All he wanted vas booze, and If e would ' pawn anything he had for a few 5 dollars to quench his thirst, And still another reason the war if and the high jvages which put every ;.; one on, the road to prosperity and S which also, stimulated a demand for new goods and not second class ' f goods. !' Hence the strange sight in the old ) pawnbrokerage districts of new J goods in the windows and the sec ; ' ond-hand goods, what, lile there is ; : left, way back in a. shoe case in the ; rear end of the stores, f :, "But." said a pawnbroker with a ! ; 'sly smile, "there may be a good time coming. Thousands may be out of 5 . work this winter and you know few ; saved their money when wages were : high and we may get some good 'i prices on goods for loans." Supreme Court Must Say : If Jamaica Ginger Is Jlooch Boston. Dec. 25. Martin Water ; house, who was found guilty in the i- superior criminal court of selling in - toxicating liquor which consisted of , Jamaica ginger for which, according ,;to the evidence, lie was paid $1 per ' bbttle, is to take the case to the full :i bench of the supreme court to deter ,' mine whether that beverage is classed among intoxicants. . if -r- Artistic Dress Will Make ,; !; Homely Woman Attractive Any Rate Eccentric Dancer So Testifies-r She Tells Just Why And How. J A homely woman can be as at- j; tractive as a prettv one, at least .'! that is the opinioii expressed by jlRene Riano, the eccentric dancer in '"Honey Girl," the musical comedy ''version of "Checkers" that comes to the Brandeis tomorrow night for j;a three-day engagement here. And Miss Jtiano knows whereof i 5 she' speaks. Blessed with a body tiand a pair pf legs that are as grace ful as a flying fawn, nature stopped jiher good work right there, and gave jlRene a face which would never j ; perntit her to be classed among the !most beautiful women of the world. , l May Not Suit Her. : "The trouble with most homely ij, women," Miss Riano says "Is tfiat uthey refuse to acknowledge that j, they are homely, and instead oi j i-covering their bad points and. trying IJl'to dress to improve fheir looks, they ? , will invariably choose the most glar ,ing colors, "and try to wear the 5 'same sort of clothes thaf are worn s,by their more fortunate sisters." f "You know, even the prettiest wo k ' man in the world should not buy a iihat or frock, and wear it. just be ii cause it looked well on a 'friend of hers or in a store window and she thought she would like it. It may ! not suit her particular type and what , I looks perfectly splendid on one wo (liman makes the next look like the j vintage of 1492. Individuality -is 'and should be the keynote of dress f for every woman, and even more : :apcilwi j IV 1 uic itvuiuijr numau 4 than for the pretty one." ' - i Wasn't Easy. it ;s "It wasn't an easy matter for. me ho reconcile myself to the fact that !iny face was not one that would ri- i val Mary Pickford's in beauty, it ''wasnt easy for me to give up. the (career of a classic dancer for which V I had studied for years just because -jny face was funny. But when I ' realized that it was so, I started out . i to find oufthe right kind of clothes for me to wear the kind that would i ' hide, if it were possible, my terrible t nose, and the other defect with 'J which I had been cursed and make ; my clothes help my skin, and hats ; hide the bad points of my face." , "There are rio set rules for dress ing." Miss Riano will tell you seriously for she takes this matter ot ! clothes very seriously. "Each wo l.ian has her own individual ease and must work it out for herself For 'myself, I have discovered the shape oi bat which is most becomnig, and Nebraska Author Writes While Pie Is Baking Bess Streeter Aldrich, Mother of Four, Is Busied With Many Household Ac- . tivities. 4 You don't have to bob your hair, grow green eyelashes and live in Greenwich. Village to write stories. Yon don't have to live in Ijotels, have a specially designed study and break fast with your husband only on Sun days and holidays to get across in the magazines. That is all a pretty ' fairy tale with a Jack-and-the-bean-stalk flavor, according to Bess Streeter Aldrich, Nebraska's author ' of 60 short stories, which include the Mason family series just finished ,in the American Magazine. "To write human stories about folks a person must live a normal life and love it. I'd rather be known as one of the best cake makers in the Woman's club than to be called an ' author. I'd rather have you admire my baby than my latest story." Lives at Elmwood. Bess Streeter Aldrich began her magazine career several years ago, when her first story, "The Little House Next Door." was accepted by the Ladies' Home Journal. Her per sonal article will be published in the February American, to be followed by more short stories for which that magazine has contracted. ' Mrs. Aldrich lives at Elmwood, Neb., 52 miles southwest of Omaha in Mrs. Aldrich's own words, "a town so small that the nearly for got to take the census. The author of the Mason stories is" known among her own town folks as just plain Mrs. Aldrich, wife of cue of the bankers, and mother of four healthy children. To 11-year-old Mary Eleanor to 8-year-old James, to Charles, jr., and to .Baby Robert Streeter, she is just "mother dear." A Jolly Person. Neighbor and friend to Elmwood folks, Mrs. Aldrich Is a jolly, com fortable s6rt of person, easy to meet and just like the average mother who bakes and (mends socks and knows that her husband likes his steak rare -and his doughnuts crisp. She is an honest-to-eoodness hu man being who has taken the job 6f wife and mother and is proud ot it, '.'The other dav I received a letter from a woman out in "the state who has the wrong idea about this writ iiiR game," Mrs. Aldrich said. "She wrote that she knew she could get across as a writer it fate nanan i robbed her of a proper environment You see she is married and lives in a small town, ut course, my cor respondent thinks that is the reason she can't write successfully. Here's a bit of her letter: 'I'm handicapped by my limited horizon. I long to get out and try my wings in the lit erary world. But there is nothing I can write about m a small place like this, What would you do?' Environment Doesst Count. Mrs. Aldrich's eves twinkled. "Do? Well, I shall write her that if our town ever gets a population of 1,000 we 11 name this street out here Fifth avenue. And I seldom have a chance to get anywhere out club and the Missionary society. Envi ronment doesn't hamper writing. It's either here inside of you or it isn't. If it's in here it will comvout, no matter what your- surroundings. And if 'fit- isn't here yptt couldn't write if vou traveled to the ends of the earth." Asked, when she found time to write, Mrs. Aldrich said: "It is real ly pickup work for me. My type writer desk stands open all the time and you'll notice it is within smelling know that the exact opposite is most unbecoming, therefore when playing a character part like in "Honey Girl" I war the unbecoming hat to accen tuate" the worst points of my count enance." ' How They Dress. According to Miss Riano, the New York woman is even better dressed than the French woman, although the French woman is usually a little more daring in attire; the Boston woman years the latest fashions without consulting her figure or complexion and lacks style; the Philadelphia woman is always im maculately frocked but conservative ly, and the Chicago woman, although the shops in her city display more beautiful gowns than any other city, never looks quite right. Can Pronounce His Nam, But Nobody ElsM uenver, uec. . -"Zigmund MilC Police Magistrate Bray hesitated. "Zigmund Mik" but the Judge couldn't make it, so announced that anyone in the courtroom who spelled his name " Mikoclcjozeioski" might step forward. Mikoclcjozeioski arose and pro nounced the name, but no one could repeat it after him. He was placed undei; bonds for appearance in the criminal court on a charge of grand larceny. Probably about 20 per cent gas coal and 80 per cent steam coal are used in the various industdial plants and railways f Norway. f ' ' i i i ' " ""'''''riTi.rn.. I 1 1 mi .,. I. , ...i mini mii : inp 7 X distance of the kitchen. I writs a little while the baby naps or while a pie is baking. When I sit down to-the desk J. write very fast, for the reason tha while I have made the beds and pared the potatoes I have been outlining my story in my mind. j Cuddles Baby. "What is my code? Oh ""Have four children and love them all. , "Cook to please your husband. "Keep your eyes and your . heart open. "Really live and love life. "Make yourself feel sympa- ' thetic for everyone around you." Mrs Aldrich, as she sat there in a big leather rocking chair, with her 6-month-old baby in her arms, looked the part of the good old-fashioned mother. She cuddled little Robert as she told of her girlhood days in Cedar Falls, la., and how she had taught in Boone and Marshall- ptown, where she met Captain Al drich. , . . , . "I receive countless letters from people who think they want to write," she continued. "After read ing $e-eral hundred of these I seem to have a keen sense of knowing which' of the writers really want, to do magazine ' work and which ones only think they want to. That is one of the pleasures and one of the dis agreeable things connected with the writing game, to encourage the worthy and, to discourage the hope less from wasting time. In my com ing article in the American I have dwelt on what I consider the essen tial requisites for a writer: Imagina tion, a good English foundation and a desire to write so keen that there are no obstacles which you will not surmount to accamplish that de- ire. : .''.''' Incidents Are True. Upon being asked :f her charac ters were real people, Mrs. Aldrich replied: "iNo they are not. I take certain human characteristics and work them into story form. Many of the incidents are true." Mrs. Aldrich opened various Flyer Says Liquid Air Spray Will Make Clouds Rain Canadian Aviator Plana Solve Irrigation Proh- lems of Canadian Fanners. Calearv. Alta.. Dec. 25. A. to Cole, formerly of the Royal Flying corps, has organized the Aerial Irrr gation company here to produce rain by spraying clouds with liquid air, Clouds that trail uselessly across the sky, says the new rain maker, are ram dairies gone to waste for lack of a milkmaid. He hopes to become the milkmaid of the clouds. What these Holsteins of blue sk pastures need, he declares, to make them let down their moisture is a silage of liquid airi He proposes to teed them trom an airplane. ,i Condense Moisture. ' Cole declares the plan perfectly practicable. . Clouds are rain in the form of imponderable vapor. ' Let a big cunyilus cloud trail itself across a snow-clad mountain peak and the cold condenses its moisture. Liquid air. in Cole's scheme, will substitute for the mountain peak. -.Liquid air in its frigidity is an approach toward absolute zero. When his company is in operation and a rain is needed Cole declares he will fly up among the clouds in an airplane equipped with a pumpgun that shoots liquid air instead of bul lets. i Like Turning Faucet. . Skimming lightly about some neb ulous monster, "he will spray .its snowy sides with frozen air, which will cause its moisture to congeal and fall upon the thirsty earth in a refreshing shower. If Cole's unique idea works out, farmers will be able to get rain by a process as simple as turning on a faucet, and millions of dollars will be added to the productive value of the rapidly settling farm lands of western Canada. Man Loses Wife at Poker ; Now He's Jailed for Bigamy Geneva (Via Paris), Dec. 25. De claring that he had lost everything he owned, including his wife, to a "friend" at poker, Andrea Calloni, arrested here for bigamy, told the magistrate that he considered that when his opponent drew the "case ace" he was legally divorced. The game was played in MHan. First Calloni lost his cash, then his jewels, then his home and finally in desperation he staked his wife, a beautiful youmr girl he had recently married. drawers in her filing case and snowed her several hundred letter from strangers on file, These were from every state in the union telling the writer how much some simple little story had been appreciated. A wom an in Alaska wrote that a certain story had made peace in a discordant household, a young sergeant with the army of occupation on the Rhine explained how the entire com pany had worn out a copy of the magazine reading a story "that sounded just like home," the princi pal of a school wrote that one story had aided him in disciplining a 12-year-old boy, a Canadian mother told how she had pinned a certain story on her dresser for comfort. "These are the things that repay one and make you feel that even the simplest theme will find response from someone," Mrs. Aldrich said. Starting MondayThe Glance at that price column to the right, compare those of ferings with the best you have - m pvpr pnrniinfp-rpfJ. F.vrvrkrir reduction ie Gremiin Tt'etrionnarlnminont s1kfkin eolAsvF1Q9fl !-': ht Jug V J Reversible Leather COATS HALF PRICE Here's the super-sale offer of this year-end event. Fine quality leather reversible coats in several styles, choose without reserve at exactly one-half price. Tqwn May Have To Pay Prodigy's iWay In College 13-Year-Old Prodigy Attend ing. Harvard Raises Ques tion Which Has All the .'' Lawyers Puzzled. Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 25. Fre derick Santee, Harvard's 13-vear-old intellectual "prodigy," has raised a question which has set the best law yers ' of his home town of Wap- waliopen, t'a., by the ears. It is: "Docs, the same law which requires a parent to send a child to school until he is V6 require the community to pay for that child's education until he is that old?" If it does Santee and his father, a prominent physician, intend to insist that the town of Wapwallopen pay his tuition at Harvard until he is legally beyond school age. This is "the first time the question has been raised, and the best consti tutional lawyers of Pennsylvania are frankly puzzled. ' "School laws are framed for ordi nary boys, who get through high school about the time they are of legal wonking age." said one legal light plaintively. "Tbey are not framed tor prodigies. It was not contemplated that our youth would be seeking degrees in great universi ties before they were out of short trousers. . ! "Why, this young Santee may ab sorb all the' knowledge in Harvard and want to go to Oxford or the University of Paris before he is six teen. What could we do then." Young Santee, according to his classmates at Harvard, has a small boy's delight in the trouble he is causing the disciples of Blackstone back home. Ex-President of France Is Recovering His Health Paris. Dec. 25. Paul 'Deschanel, who was forced to resign the presi dency 1 of France because of ill health, has so far recovered that some ot the electors in his old dis trict are thinking of nominating him to the senate. Deschanel remains in the same private hospital where Stephen Pichon, former foreign minister, has spent several months. and In a Gigantic five-Day Sale J tr Buy trousers now, match up that odd coat and vest while these extreme low prices prevail. Blue serges included in this sale. Every wanted size. ' C1VOTMINO COMrATT CORjiyDOUeiASy Plow Invented by York Men Keeps Snow Off State Roads m "' " fr"' ''I" 1 I I I lllllJ York, Neb., Dec. 24.-(Special.) State aid roads in York county, all of which meet in this city, are kept cleared of snow banks bv a snow plow designed and constructed by u k. x nomas, county bridge fore man, Lee Gillan and H. C. Seng, city patrolmen. During the recent heavy snow, when drifts were between two and three and a half feet deep, this plow, pushed by two automobile trucks tandem, opened the state roads. Ploughs Through. J The trucks plowed through drifts three feet deep at second speed, cutting a swath eight feet wide and within two inches of the ground. After first through, the plow was used again at half swath to move the snow four feet farther toward the ditch. ; ' The secretof the success of this plow, according to County "Engineer 1-red .V Voyles, is the fact that it raises the snow above the drifts which prevents wedging. Really Works. "This plow really works." savs A. W. Ballenger, secretary of the York county commercial club. I have had the opportunity of riding it for six miles in heavy, wet, packy snow on a road that was slippery with mud in the tracks where the trucks were moving,, and yet it plowed through in fine1 style" Another plow of the same style is Greatest Valuer of the Passing Year OVERCOATS 7-e ....M.wVUwMVVuuWVU.8ouym , Big assortment of models for men and young men smart, snappy, de signed for young fellows and conservative models for their elders. Fancy mixtures in a big variety of new colors and patterns. All wool through and through See our window display. if : . The reductions and com parative prices advertised by this Great Clothing Store are not exaggerated. The Palace clothes we now of fer at ; these sensationally reduced prices are the most remarkable values on the market tpday-you actually make immense savings on every purchase. The clothes are always substantial val ues at their original prices when you pay less you make the difference. Year End Clearance of TROUSERS Prices Smashed Beyond Recognition. All Palac $6.50 Trousers, to go at....J S3.9S All Palaco $8.00 Trousers, to go at S4.98 AH Palaco. $10.00 Trousers, to go at S5.98 All Paface $12.50 Trousers, to go at S6.98 being.made. There are 50 miles of state road in York county. . The' picture shows the plow with its designers, reading left to right, Bridge Foreman Thomas, Patrol men Gillan and Seng and County Engineer Voyles. Relics of Old West Sold When Store Closes' Out t Helena, Mont., Dec. 25. Round ing out a quarter of a century of business activity in this city, Arthur P. Curtain closed one of the largest furniture stores in the northwest on its twenty-fifth anniversary. Much of the furniture displayed in Curtain's store in the early days was brought in by ox teams from Fort Benton, where it was taken from Missouri river steamboats. Before, the doors were closed Cur tain staged a saleithat was unique. Prices weie slashed on every article, and among the articles olfired and which eventually found a purchaser were a few beautifully made ivory and pearl inlaid roulette wheels. A big allotment of iron shoes used for oxen were sold to a south American buyer. Curtain will retire to priviate life. For softening box toes of shoes a device has been inventfll that sub jects them to steam from electrically heated water running through cot ton waste. $30-$35 Suits and Overcoats Choice in Sale Only $45-$50 Suits and Overcoats Choice in Sale v Only $55-$60 Suits and Overcoats Choice in Sale Only Year End Offerings in Boys' Suits, Overcoats and Mackinaws If you want to dress your boy in styles of the hour at a cost that is unbelievably low, then make it a point to bring the youngster down Monday early. Sturdy Suits, Overcoats and Mackinaws in all sizes from 6 to 18 years. Values to $12.00 $98 Values to $18.00 Values to $25.00 $14H 4-Year,-01d Boy Amazes Teachers With Brain Tests Los Angeles Lad Speataj.-f: Languages, Peruses Treaties He Is Normal Youngster, But Dislikes Girls. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 25. Era Rachlin, 8,4-year-old boy of this city, is attracting much attention among 'California educators because of his remarkable . mental attain ments. Ezra is devoting himself particu larly to mathematics, but in, his lighter moments he plays a great piano in the drawing room of the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rachlin. Speaks Yiddish, He speaks Yiddisli, Russian and English with remarkable fluency. Sometimes he peruses poetic and ra tionalistic treatises. As a sample of his library favorities can be men tioned "The Sunken Bell" of Hatipt mann, "Fairy Tales oi Eastern Eu rope" and "The Wonderful Adven ture of Nils." According to his mother Erra has never been pushed in his mental de velopment in any way. Like Other Children. "His life is very simple and quite' like other. children," said Mrs. Rach lin. "I expect to have him trained oy a special tutor and not send him to school until he is practically ready for college work. "He learned to read phoenetically and we began training him so early only because he demanded informa tion along all lines." Ezra has just one aversion, so tar as is known. And that is little U U a ' London Girls Wear Bracelet on Ankle London. Dec. 25. Like all the so-called "fashions" and fads of the feminine world, the wearing of the wrist .watch round the ankle has pas sed. Now they are wearing a small silver chain. A smartly-dressed woman was seen walking along regent 6Treei wearing a small cnam ot stiver lasi- ened round her ankle. To a mere un informed man it looked useless, but it looks quite dainty upon an elegant silk stocking. m ii ft ' if i1 - & t I, J 31 .A W I I