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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 26, 1920.
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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.
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' 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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In a Gigantic five-Day Sale
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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
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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
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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.
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