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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1921)
Strange Tales About Those You Love By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. There seems lo be an epidemic of Inters coming in these days from girls who are struggling with a ter rible doubt of the men to whom they are betrothed. Here's a speci men which tells the story: "For two years I've been engaged to a man who came here from a dis tant town about five years ago. Now .-omeone tells my brother that my lack is married and has been mar ried all the while. I won't let my brother insult J.ick by asking Jiim anything about it, but it worries me mure than I can tell you. Won't vou inform me how to proceed 1 1 tore must be someone in the town Jack conies from who could give ine i lie facts in the case. I love my boy, but I'm sure you would be the last to reproach me for being on my Kuard. "MABELLE." Indeed, I am the last to reproach any human being for a little sane common sense. I fairly ache when 1 see girls throwing away their chances of happiness with the lavish carelessness and spendthrift extrav agances of our times. Sometimes when I see the rat faced youths with unhealthy com plexions who roam down our streets with the air of lords of creation and observe the infatuated young crea tures who cling to the reedy arm of the undesirable males, I want to go to law about it! Dancing partners, escorts to the movies, men to beau her around, seem sometimes so nec essary to the heart of a girl she'll go without food and drink to get the raiment which will lure man of a certain type to her side. If only girls would stand off and take a good look at the men they meet and strive to attract! If only they wouldn't let nature and youth throw Stardust in their eyes! Heighot I suppose I'm saying, "If only youth would act like sober, se rious middle age!" Of course, it won't but can't youth take a glance before it leaps if a "look" is too much to ask of it? How can any girl go about with a man for two years, come to the stage of love and understanding where she has promised to be his wife and then not have the slightest idea whether he's an honest man or a liar? I once knew a girl who told me with perfect candor that whenever a man treated her badly she blamed no' one but herself. Said she: "Often I meet a chap who attracts me, but I know he isn't a good sort. T say to myself, "Gertrude, eyes in the boat! Watch where you are steering, my dear.' Of course. I don't always heed my own advice. Sometimes I get so fascinated that it just seems as if I can't. But I know who is to blame when it all comes out badly." The Girl Knows. Xow that is true of most of us. ' We have a sober realization of the J real natures of the folks who fasci nate us. We doubt some charming rogue and ive are "sure" of some old sober-sidesMve can't like in spite of knowing he has an admirable char acter. So when a girl engages herself to a man she knows whether it is to a man she trusts and believes in or merely to one she wants. There's another side to it it goes .deeper than, the fact that most wom en don't get "roped in" when they are tied to scoundrels. It's this. If a woman hears ru mors of a man (or a man of a wom an) and there's one jot of honesty in their relationship', what is more natural than to go straight to the person of whom the story is told and speak after his fashion: "Dear, I've heard a rumor about you. I think it maligns you but even if it's true I want you. to be absolutely honest with me. Your honesty will give us a chance to start fair again. You owe it to me, because I expect it'of you. Not for worlds would I go behind your back and try to find out anything you don't choose to tell me. But I hope you will choose to set me straight in this matter which is worrying me so." After that if there's one jot of hon esty in the man or woman who is so squarely given his chance, what can he do but be honest in turn? Announce Engagement Walking Club to Have Summer Camp The Omaha Walking club is to have a summer camp. E. M. Ken nedy and James Baldwin have ac cepted for the club an old house, the gift of Dr. Harold Clifford. This house is now being repaired and will be in condition for use by the club next summer. The final location will be chosen this winter and the Wise, moved there. It will be somewhere cast of the Boy Scout camp. , Leo Bozell will lead the first walk of the winter season Sunday after noon, January 9. Members will start at 3: JO p. m. from Sixteenth street station on the Bellevue and Fort Crook intcrurban. This walk will be north from Bellevue, follow ing a ridge path to Mormon hollow. Then it will swing back southeast, coming out at Avery crossing. "The club is endeavoring con stantly to acquaint the public with the natural beauties surrounding Omaha, and to impress upon all the people the necessity of preserving these rare benefits. "Urbin progress has become so formal and so addicted to angles and straight lines, that nature's mar velous gift of woods ami landscape is in danger, cither of neglect o- ex termination." Walking Club Win ter Bulletin. Bright Colors Bright colors, and again bright colors, such seems to be the popu lar demand at the present time, whether such large matters as car pets, curtains and furniture arc in question or merely the minor acces sories which, small as they are, often spell cither success or failure to a scheme of decoration. A few years ago the gayer hues were used with caution and only allowed to appear in small quantities, one at a time, as it were, cr at niost two at a time. Nowadays, however, the most bril liant greens, yellows, reds, blues and purples flourish side by side, all oti ihe very best terms with one an ether, and undoubtedly our dwell ings are the gainers by the fact. In the past, textiles apart, the chief me dium, if one may use the term, by which bright colors have been intro duced into our houses has been pot tery and china; painted wooden arti cles were a comparative rarity, but now furniture appears decked out in all the colors of the rainbow. Variout accessories, too, such as dressing table sets, which formerly were always made of china or metal, arc now fashioned of wood and are as gay, if not gayer, than any of their predecessors. Such things are thor oughly practical as well as ornamen tal, and when, as in the case of the "Walherswick" products, the colors are of such a nature as allows the whole thing to be polished afterward without damage to the paint, dura bility is insured. Patterns painted in bright hues on a "self-colored eround, or upon the wood itself, may be made use of for the adornment of all manner of different things, and the brighter and more daring the coloring the better the ctl'ecv provided, of course, that there is discrimination and artis tic sense at the back of it all. Table sets have been mentioned in this con nection, and to the list may be added writing sets, trays, boxes of many kinds, and even the little mats which have replaced the cloths upon our dinner inbles. Peasant work, such as that found in Russia and Hun gary, may tin ui-.li ideas for the adornment of things, and so may the pottery of other countries, but there is really no end to the sources from which the enterprising may draw their ideas. In Japan women now take a prom inent part in several organizations and recent meetings of labor unions have seen women not only among the members, but also taking a prominent position on the platform. Mildreth Street. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Street an nounce the engagement of their daughter, Mildreth, to William Boyer of this city. Both were graduated from Central High school. Miss Street attended the University of Omaha and is a member of Kappa Psi Delta sorority. Mr. Boyer at tended Creighton university. The marriage will take-place in February. Get-Acquainted Club Invites YOU i The Get - Acquainted club, or ganized by Mrs. Paul Harlan for the purpose of helping lonesome men and women meet the right kind of friends, and to provide entertain ment for them, will give its first pro gram Sunday evening, 7:30 o'clock, at the First Unitarian church, Thirty-first and Harney streets. Mrs Harlan, assisted by a group of Oma ha women, plans to keep open house every Sunday evening, pro viding short programs, followed by a social hour and refreshments. The club is non-sectarian and no religious' service will be held in connection with the meetings. The program Sunday evening will include musical numbers by Mrs. Frances Currier, pianist, assisted by Miss Bernice Connolly, violinist; vocal solos, Mrs. R. B. Tedrow; readings, Miss Marjcne Parsons. A social hour and refreshments will follow the program. Mrs. Janet Monroe Curtis, hostess, will be assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leavens and Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Cramer. A cordial invitation is extended to all strangers and those in our city who wish to make acquaintances. ADVERTISES! EXT. There arc more than 50,000 women students enrolled in 68 colleges and universities in the United States. "Thpy WORK while you sleep1 Don't stay bilious or constipated, with your head dull, your stomach sour, gassy, upset. Take one or two Cascarets tonight sure for yur liver and bowels and wake up clear and fit. Children love Cas carets too. 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