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12 THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1921. Holding a Husband Adelo Garrison's New Phase of Revelations of a Wife The Question Madge Asked Herself. Dicky's quick footsteps sounded in the hall outside before Lillian and I had finished discussing licr plan for aiding me in the tasks of finding . a new abode and moving. "Don't hint a word of it until after dinner," Lillian cautioned, shrewdly. I nodded in comprehending ac quiescence. Experience had taught me the same truth. "Aren't you dressed yet?" Dicky " demanded through the closed door. "You had a good quarter-hour start of me, and here I am clothed and in my right mind, while you " "Keep your ' necktie on!" Lillian dvised crisply, opening the door and advancing into the hall. "Madge was arrayed to the last hairpin be ; fore you came up the stairs." "Then the league of nations ex ecutives had better send for you both," Dicky retorted. "There isn't ! a problem left unsettled in all the , swoi;Id by now." V " Lillian shot him a keen glance before she answered. I w ondered if she had any inkling of Dicky's jiew attitude toward our friendship. 1 1 1 is resentment of the aggressiveness ''with' which we sometimes attacked :ur problems. , "You need your dinner," she an nounced, "but you won't have to jwait much longer. Betty will be ; announcing it in about five minutes now- ten at the latest." , "That's the best news I've heard in a coon's age," Dicky replied, as we entered Lillian's wonderful white and crnnson living room. I en min tites, you say. "That'll just give me ;tiine to call up the Durkees. We fought to find out if the house we've 'just sold is still sfanding, or if it's J been burned down." Dicky Telephones. " ' "You'll be saved all moving ex penses if it has." Lillianjs tone was idry, and I wondered if she harbored the same thought which had come to me that this note of anxiety for his possessions was new tn careless mind the knowledge that Edith Fair fiv wnci nnw a member of the Dur- ft home. ' . t. "Have the honeymooners rc ' turned ?" I asked carelessly, as i Dirky moved toward the hall. . i "I don't think so. They were to get back next Saturday the last 1 heard." , , " 'The last I heard.' ," I repeated the words mentally to myself with an irrepressible, little addition ffrom whom?" Was it possible that he was corresponding with the sound of Dicky's voice at the tele- phone cut short my speculations, and fixed my strained attention upon the hall outside. ' "Hello! That you. Edith? What s the matter with vour voice? ; How well thev must know each other's voices! I couldn't, help the miserable thought coming to me. as X noticed that Dicky had recognized hers at once, and had not deemed it necessary to announ his own. What Madge Feared. "It sounded hoarse, that's all." 1 fancied there was distinct anxiety in his tone. "How s every mue uiuj8. Where's her fluffiness?" t He paused for her reply, and l stole a furtive glance at Lillian. That she was also listening intently to the one-sided conversation I knew by her face, although her eyes were bent upon the fire in the grate. "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that I Dicky's voice expressed only per functory regret, however, and 1 did not vision any calamity to Mrs. Durkee. "Hope she'll feel better m .... :... v rrVp .not comini out tonight. Lil met us at the sta tion when we arrived, and corralled lis We're here for dinner and the right. But we'll be out in the morn ing. I suppose the old shack is still stcUidius?' Another pause, during which Betty appeared at the door of the Mving room and rolled her eyes backward toward Dicky with distinct disapproval. That he caught the JJnt his next words demonstrated. s "Thanks for looking out for it. 1 11 have to fly now, without even calling Madge to say hello. Betty is an :iouncing dinner, and you probably know what will happen to me if I delay the game. So long. See you tomorrow. Hello, Betty! Do you see how the'verv sight of you makes me jump for fear you d dis approve of me?" . . I 'NBettv grinned wide!y , V'Yoh certainly is de beat-m-est man. Mistah Dicky," she said. "But you shoah was wise to ring, off dat telephone. Hain't notime to. monkey te en nonillK wncn une-ui m k on dc table. Dinnah am served, Miss Lillian." Her voice changed abruptly, as u lwavs does when she announces a , t .1.. a.aii fi,ct mnmenrs F Betty s life are when she an- stress avivi v a. , ... T l-M rttiF a n law vvhfn ne i n a hilarious mood. be eal ed over his- shoulder. bi going to see that this lady gets llv back to the kitchen. If she I ild stumble and not be able to e that dinner!" ' ', 1'ith a mischievous laugh Dickv his hand upon Bettys arm ana Lrrl the nrotestine but chuckling Icolored woman down the hall. v fcd I following, wondered miser- I if something Edith 1-airtax stud f n:.i..., .:!! responsioic lor a nnjii f ts. ' (Continued Tomorrow.) , ty-Year Club Plan of Fillm&re County JFioneera ... t t c :-i eneva. JNeo., jan. 1.1. v-1-1'- he Fifty-Year club being organ- hv C. S. Allen and reter ingers is designed to include as nbers all who have lived in this nty for a period of 50 years. The additions o tne ciud are mi. Mrs. William Bosserman of fton and the promoters are ex- ng to enroll many others eligible embership. . , Ige County Defendants In Criminal Cases Uted Jeatricc, Neb., Jan. 13. (Special.) Jistrict Judge L. W. coioy.ciiea AffmAant in criminal cases to fipear before him Saturday for the uroose of ascertaining whether hey are properly respresented by -mnsel and wnetner iney wm dc tadv for 'trial at the February itm of the district court, THE GUMPS V "TO More Truth -By JAMES J. J F t7 fe.VS What Literature Might Have Lost Keats never did well as a chemist, He had little taste for such tasks v- As rolling up pills for all popular ills ' And boiling prescriptions in flasks. But if there had been prohibition, - , - And customers daily came in So dreadfully sick that they needed the kick . Of brandy or whisky or gin, The youth might have stuck to the business Observing how well it would pay, And the odes that brought fame to his glorious name Would still be unwritten today. Though young William Shakespeare was handy At bringing down noblemen's deer, The profits he got from the brutes that he shot Didn't promise a brilliant reer. But if Shakespeare, instead of at Stratford, Were living in your land and mine, His talents he'd use smuggling cases of booze Across the Canadian line. And so well he would do in the traffic, : That the dramas which hold us in thrall, -And have been on the stage for full many an age, Would have never been written at all. Doc Doyle was a high class physician, But often his practice grey slack ' And he wrote little tales whose incredible sales Brought in heaping cartloads of Jack. , And so he abandoned his business, . . Disposed of his medical tomes, t. And devoted his time to the stories of crime v Which featured the lank Mr. Holmes, But if his "pint whisky" prescriptions , Had earned him unlimited kale, As all doctors do now, we imagine, somehow He would never have written a tale!; DESERVING OF Obregon has established peace in Mexico so effectively that New York City ought to send for him to do the same thing there. HARD TIMES Prices are going to the deuce. The lawyers who settled the New Haven row for $2,500,000 only got $833,000 for all their trouble. NO BUSINESS HEAD If Santa Claus had been wise he would have deferred his Christmas purchases till the January sales. (Copyright. 1921, By the Bell Syndicate,' Ine.) Dog Hill Paragrafs By George Bingham Washington Hocks believes he has invented a patent fly trap and has been looking all this week for a fly to practice ort. Yam Sims, who has been writing with an unknown correspondent away off yonder, sent her r.is pic ture about a month ago and he hasn't heard from her since. A petition is being circulated ask ing that the salary of the Dog lljll preacher be raised. Sile Kildew is not a Christian, but he. subscribed a middling of meat.- Jewel, Flower, Color Symbols for Today By MILDRED MARSHALL. The garnet,, today's talismanic gem, and also the natal stone of those born on an anniversary of this day, was believed by the ancients to be strangely potent in aiding in the solution of a mystery or in aiding its wearer to decide the best course to take when in a doubtful situation. Doubts aroused by friendship were alstf solved by it, and it was looked upon as a help in helping lov ers to straighten out their difficulties. Today's lucky color is crimson. It was a custom in Oriental countries for the high priests to wear crimson robes ou this day, since they be lieve that this color gave them mys tic powers. The camelia, believed to be potent in bestowing great beauty on women who wear it, is today's flower. (Copyright. 121. by th Wheeler Syndl tite, Ino.) EVEKV MlOHt 1 HAVE. NORK fAT CNOVGH TOK;. vNHtK Nrey..'s,et , W LAV) NC'R.'Y TV - ' F INK Vln A. HEA! Than Poetry MONTAGUE" PROMOTION Common Sense By J. J. MUNDY. , That Bank Account. Last year you probably made a resolution that by the same time an other year you would not be in as bad a financial condition as you found yourself and here' you arc again! - For a few weeks you carried on your savings systematically. Then came a week when you failed to deposit the planned savings ac count,, and instead of trying to make it up the next week you fell con siderably shorter the next week, and so on the next and the next week after. Before long you realized how far short, you had dropped and you gave up entirely having missed a few weeks, it might as well be more. You said to yourself that you. would spend the small s'urplus just to see how it seemed to buy a few things you really wanted, and later you would get right down to brass tacks and put the money away whether or no. Did you make up the deficiency? Indeed you did not, for here you are again in your samo old condition. You might have avoided the first slip if you had been determined enough, but your will was weak. Going to follow the same old course this year? Don't do it. Save. Copyright, 1921. International Feature Service,-' Inc. Parents Problems How can sauciness best be hand led in a .little girl of 6? First, the mother or father should make sure that the child means to be saucy. In which case she should be told very seriously how unpleas ant a fault sauciness is, and,' if necessary, punished. If she does not mean to be saucy, no notice should be taken of what looks like sauciness Farm Bureau Supporter Heads Hall County Board Grand Island, Neb., Jan. 13. (Special.) Conrad Lassen was elected chairman of the county board of supervisors at the initial meeting of the new board. Lassen is the one member who voted "no" against the action of the Hall county board about two years ago in taking up the. county agent law to the su preme court after the board's at torney had advised it that the law was constitutional and that it was mandatory on .the part of the board to meet the farm bureau', expenses. i v WHEN ANDY BUILDS tWO MORE NIGMTTS OF T)Fr i i uvicy.. bks hover rc A THtAvfct NtH NOW IN 6 BTT BAK.BLR. CHAD'S VJVTtN VOU-P tONWK THE TO 'SLEfc.P Of? -SEe-tWE HOW? fOVLOW OV) tOWN THc AISVJE. ANVTH OlSH YiAMt? FULV. OV T-U)1N ANP tt. OTVlE R SLtEPY-TIME T A L E.S BYWHU' CHAPTER XII. Peter Learns a New Word. While Peter Mink marched on, be lieving that the circus parade was following him (when Jimmy Rabbit had actually led it away in the op- Still no one canto, posite direction), Peter kept trying to think of some trick he could play on the parade. He decided, at last, that he would hunt around until he found the smal lest hole he could possibly squeeze through,, and he would squirm through it. and then have fun watch ing the others try to follow hiin.' Finally he found a log which lay upon a rocky ledge. Between the log and the rock there was a narrow opening. And when he saw that, Peter knew it was the very place he had been looking for. Without once glancing around, he thrust his head through the crack. Then something happened. Peter Mink always claimed, afterwards, that the log settled a bit lower, or the rock rose a bit higher. Anyhow, to his astonishment, he found him self stuck fast under the log: Such a thing had never happened to him before. ' "Well !"'he said to himself, "there are plenty of people here to help me, anyhow. You see, he hadn't dis covered that the whole parade ex cept him had turned about and fol lowed Jimmy Rabbit. Peter Mink thought it was strange at nobody came and offered to hr lp hint. And soon he( began to shout. Still.no one came. And Peter be cjac, to wish that he hadn't tried to nfa a trick on the paraders. For he saw -that' he Was in something vVy like a trap. In; fact, it was a trapY which Johnnie Green, had set. Cut- Peter didn't know that. If he h?d. he would have been ever more vyorried than he , was. It was bad enough, just to imagine what would happen if old dog Spot should come along and find him'. - Jimmy Rabbit had a fine time lead ing the parade. You may be sure he looked around at the procession fol lowing him. And he shouted a good miny orders, too, telling different ones just what they should or shouldn't do. The parade had marched through the woods for a long time; 'and Jimmy was about to stop and' tell everybody that the fun was over; when he saw all at once that it was really just going to begin. For right in front of him he saw his friend, Peter Mink, pinned fast beneath the log,, "You've been long enough coming to i fiejp me!" Peter Mink growled. Do We Speak of "Dunning a Person ',' for Money? During the early part of the last century there was, in England, a con stable named John Dun, who was a past-master of his profession, an ex tremely successful collector of debts of all kinds? No job was too hard for ' him to tackle, no debtor too ' callous "for Dim to prick his conscience or shame him into pay ment in one way or another. 'Otk of the constable's pet schemes was to call, upon the debtor twice, and on 'each of these first two visits he would wear his ' ordinary clothes. ' Then if the debt was still unpaid and there was no doubt that the obligation should be met, Dun would adopt the strategem of dress ing inj some outlandish costume a scarlet cloak , or a pair of green tights so as to make himself as conspicuous as possible. .Thus at tired, and ringing a bell in order to further proclaim, the reason for his visit, he would return a third time, and it was seldom that the debtor withstood more than one of these public announcements of his de linquency. ' Because' Constable Dun was so successful in the collection of money due, it became common' in such cases to say "You'll have to send Dun for your money" or "YouH have to Dun him to get it," and the expression persisted long after the constable himself was dead and forgotten. Copyright, mo, By the Wheeler Syndicate, WHY- A SNOWHOUSE IF HQSSX AV WNC-) ABoW THE MOVING mV WANT SLEP V plClU- ITS PAR.VCAMONOD CA IW ( HPD ift t ' )l "WW6H AVWHOV.E REL- NTHE. I . i? S?k1 THW& HATE ARE. TKSE 3 AND 4 ACT I W SoJ , .Atft? THE VJIC STiCTS- VOU HAVE. 0 7 m 1 V" HNCe.UP'etXNBEM Ac-re- O-lM IT XL fZ7 V VIAV. VAtKT' ACT J m jrsm. mi : i v k . & f i i r .... Vvfir rrtZrT -".' THE TALE. OF pgrlR'HINK k "Get this log off me you people in J be quick about it!" Brownie Beaver left his place in the parade and hurried forward, be cause he knew more about handling logs than anybody else there. But before he could get his coat off, Jimmy Rabbit called him to one side and whispered to him. And then Jimmy whispered to everybody else. And the parade disbanded. Then everybody crowded around Peter Mink: "Vant?' Peter Mink screamed. "Are you blind? Gan't you see this great log on top of me? Can't you get it off? What are you waiting for?" "Ah!" said Jimmy Rabbit. "We are waiting for just one thing. And we haven't heard it yet." "Heard it?" Peter Mink snarled. "Aren't your ears big enough to hear everything?" "We're going to teach you some thing," caid Jimmy. "And until you've learned the lesson, we're go ing to leave you right where you are." You should have heard Peter Mink then or rather, you're lucky you didn't hear him. For the way he went on was something dreadful. But until Jimmy Rabbit heard what he was waiting for, he wouldn't let anyone roll the log off Peter. Finally it grew so late that some of the paraders said they would have to be going home pretty soon. And then Billy Woodchuck remarked that he didn't believe Peter Mink had the least idea what they were waiting for. "I think we ought to tell him." Billy said. So Jimmy Rabbit told Peter what it was. "I don't know what it means," said Peter. "Well say it, anyhowV' Jimmy Rabbit ordered. "And after this,' whenever you want anybody to do anything for you, don't forget to say it! It wouldn't do you a bit of harm to practice saying it every day, for a while, until you get used to it." Peter Mink looked as if he would have liked to do something to Jimmy Rabbit. And for a long time he re fused to obey. But when Brownie Beaver said that he simply must go home, because it was so late, Peter Mink) said what Jimmy had been waiting for. It was "Please!" And no doubt you guessed it long ago. Copyright, Grosset & Dunlap. I'M THE GUY I'M THE GUV who wears lav ender shirts and collars. Well, what of it? Who's wearing them, anyhow? The way some people get so worked up and ex cited about my choice of colors is really killing. If I had my way I'd tweak their noses or ears, or do something rough like that. . I know whatI'm doing when I pick out lavender shirts and collars. I want to attract aitention," and also to- keep people from remarking my extra large nose, and weak mouth. If you don't like it I should worry. I don't go around telling you what I think of your linen. Why then take it on yourself to criticize my taste? You're not artistic, anyway, and you don't know anything about color scheme. You don't appreciate the fact that lavender shirts and collars go extremely well with a black striped suit, a tweed top coat, gray top shoes, and a pearl gray soft ' hat. Of course you don't. So why should I pay any attention to your remarks. Copyright, 1921, Thompson Feature Service DANCING AND EVERY NOON EVENING BURGESS-NASH DANCE TONIGHT Usual Public Dancing Admission 55c Jack Connors, Mgr. BEATTY'S Co-Operative Cafeterias Pay Dividends to Those) Who Do th Work ip.lin i i ii MHWI1 I EDAHCIHG jjj " i b in 1 n. mn m " IM J ? . CAFE I Romance in Origin Of Superstitions By H. IRVING KING. " Christening Ships. A ship is not considered to be properly launched unless it is "chris tened" as it glides down the ways by the breaking of a bottle of cham-pagne-or grape juice-across its bows and the pronouncing of its name by the spiller of wine. But there is nothing' Christian about the "christening" of a ship. It is, on the contrary, , a survival of an old heathen custom persisting from the dawn of civilized maritime power and sea-born commerce. The break ing of the bottle of wine is the liba tion poured to the good to whose especial care the trireme or what ever sort of a ship it was was dedi cated by the pagan priest who per formed the rite. The Grecian and Roman galleys frequently carried on their bows an image of the particular god or goddess to whom they were dedicated and this custom survived until recent days in the figurehead now seldom seen of modern ships. The " figurehead has seemingly passed, but the libation to the gods when a new ship takes the water is poured as universally today as it was when the ships of balarflia were launched, a curious example of how a superstitious custom will live long after its meaning has been lost. (Copyright, 1921. by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) Where It Started The Carpet Sweeper. Although brooms are of great antiquity, the use of the revolving brush to tkan floors is compara tively recent. Oiir modern carpet sweeper is a development of a re volving brush' that was invented in 1835 to clean the streets of London. Some housewives complained at it, because, they said, they could not see the dust rise in the air, as iliey could with the old broom, so that they did not think it cleaned the floor at all I Copyright, 1921 by Wheeler Syndicate. Inc. AMUSEMENTS. warn a Tonight rt U Sat. Matinee The Bohemians, Inc., Present A Revuilcal Comedy of New York's Latin Quartier ORIGINAL GREENWICH VILLAGE THEATER CO. James Watts, Ted Lewis, "Jaia King;" Al Herman, Sylvia Jaspn, Verna Gor don, Hickey Bros... and the 20 FAMOUS ARTISTS' MODELS Nights: $1 to $3 Sat. Mat. $1 to $20 NEXT WEEK. MATS. WED., SAT. SEATS NOW ON SALE GEO.MXOIIM5 COMEDMMS uvu f Isn't it a Grand Old Name Prices: Wed. Mat., $2 to 50c; Eves. $3 to $1; Sat. Mat.. $2.50 to 91. CUB! Matinee Daily, 2:15; Every Night, 8:15 THE FORD DANCERS: RAE ELEA NOR BALL AND BROTHER; CLAUDE., A MARION; Homer Miles Co.; Dot son; Royal Gascoignes; Oscar Mirano Trio; Topics of the Day; Kinograms. Matinee lSe to 50c; some at 75c; $t Sat. and Sun. Nights 15c to $1.25. EMPRESS TWO SHOWS IN ONE CASSON KIRKE CO., "Songs el Mirth and Melody"; ANGEL FUL LER, "Music and Chatter"; MASON A BAILEY. "The Boys from Dixie"; BURNS BROTHERS, "Society Gym nasts." Photoplay attraction, "The Woman and the Puppet," featuring Geraldine Farrar. Century Comedy-Fox News. "OMAHA'S FUN CENTER" Daily Mats. 15, 25, 50c LA5T TIMES TOD AY i:35o LEW KELLY - OWN CO SiES Tomorrow (Saturday) Matinre and Week DON BARCLAY Twe.? LADIES' DIME MATINEE WEEK DAYS rilOTOI'LAYS. SUNDAY, JANUARY JTH. m UMMMa. Drawn for TWBee by Sidney Smith. CopyriRht, 1021, ChirKgo Tribune Company PHOTOPLAYS. TODAY AND SATURDAY "THE SEEDS, OF VENGEANCE" The stirring drama of a bit ter feud in the Cumberland Mountains. . Full pf big sit uations, heart appeal and humor. SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION A One-Act Play "GROUNDS" Presented by the Misner School of Expression. Cast of three ' Omaha people. Not a moving picture. Thanks We Accepted the Congratulations Here Is One of the Many; Testimonials Receivedon "Madame X" Non Playing at the "SUN" "A wonderful production. You are to be congratulat ed on your class of plays." C.T.PLATT, 411 City Natl. Bank. A HIT! On Broadway as a play. A HIT!! in the Saturday Evening Post as a story. A HIT!!! On the Screen. See it now. When a snappy young automobile salesman inherits a fashionable girls' boarding school and decides to run it himself, according to his own ideas, then you can expect a lot of jolly comedy and excitement especially . when the young ' salesman is Wallie Reid. For sheer fun, it excels anything Reid has done yet. And he never had a part in which he had such opportunities to en wail n flftP:-BFiB mm n u In positively his best picture-play "The Charm School" Now S5BSk-sL-SSsL J sP PIIOTOPLAYH. Tomorrow at 3 and 8 O'Clock FATHER FLANAGAN'S Boy Orator PAUL FOX Will Speak on "The Boy of Today" NOW PLAYING . Ralph Ince in OUT OF THE SNOWS i A Thrilling: Drama of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police and the "Law" of the Silent North SUNSHINE COMEDY A Doggone Wedding "EarihbouncT Will Hold You SPELLBOUND at the mm playing mm s 'I