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Holding a Husband Adele Garrison's New Phae oi Revelations of a Wife rr-1 p.. TM. I- - 4L , Jl Did Upitairi. Lillian's ayes fairly glowed as I railed her attention to the envelope tied around the neck of the bottle stuck in my old clock. "Handle it carefully, Madge." she cautioned. "We want to, save that in its entirety." The envelope was unsealed, and I gingerly drew out the single sheet of cheap, colored notepaper which it contained. The notepaper bore the same caption as the envelope: "To the cheap skates who live in this house," tand then followed a medley of words. "Oht You cheap skates! "You think you're smart. "No money and no sense, ha. ha, i cuts. - "No booze, not even wine or hops. yon stingy, dirty pups. "But we'll fix you good and prop er. Better have a better welcome when we come next time, which will be soon. "Remember r Then followed two or three Rabelaisian sentences, which made us all flush angrily. Lillian , put out her hand. In the Kitchen. "Do you mind if I keep this, Madge? "1 am glad to get it out of my possession," I said, handing it to her, and ., involuntarily wiping my lingers ' vigorously upon a towel which lay carelessly thrown across a chair with other linen from my sideboard drawers, and, which- by some miracle had not been soiled in the orgy that had been staged in the room. - , ' A With aunrlipr . carrTtini crlanri. around the dining room we left it and went through the other rooms, finding in each evidences of the strange marauders. I had not or dered the gaa or electric light turned off when we left, because. I wanted to have everything in readiness when I returned, and in the, kitchen we found the gas stove covered with a trail of burned grease, while a fry- ng pan neia a mass oi tiie same :ongealcd material, surrounding ' .a cold fried egg. Other eggs, broken wantonly into plates, stood on the stove, while- the kitchen table held plates showing) that at least two per ions had eaten there. The pjates held scraps of egg and bread,' and there' were dishes of canned fruit, evidently taken from the half-empty glass jar -which, stood near them. The coffee pot, still half full of cof fee, stood on the stove. "They must have been hungry," Edith Fairfax said. , "Perhaps," Lillian replied thought fully, examining the plates closely. "Did you have these things in the 'house, Madge?" , . "We have some eggs iir the cel lar which we. put down in brine last summer jor winter use in cooicing, i repnea. i suppose these are from those supplies. The canned fruit is ' ours, of course, but they must have brought in the bread. As for the grease, I do not know. We had, some- butter put. down for the winter in a jar in the cellar." , : The Keepsake Trunk. . Lillian took' down a small, clean 'rying-pan, and a knife, struck a . -natch, turned on the gas flame, and et the pari on jt. Then she took up v a knifeful of the . congealed grease and put it in ithe other pan, "Butter." se decided in another minute when the fat was sputtering and smoking. ,"Well, there's no use jtaying here! Let's go upstairs." . We ascended to the second floor, and there found disorder enough to bring despair to the heart of any housekeeper. Every bureau drawer "had been opened and its contents dumped oo the .floor. The locks of tiie trunks had been broken, ,and the trunks'turned upside down let ting their contents fall, where, they might. Every bundle had been un tied," every box opened vand its con tents scattered.. , "Is anything missing, Madge?" Lillian asked, as we stood in my mother-in-law's bedroom, for we had taken the rooms in order down the halt . : : "I cannot tell yet." 1 said. "Oh, poor Mother Graham !" - K The drawer of her Martha Wash ington sewing Jable, the pride of her heart, had been wrenched out y and its hinges broken, while her sewing things were scattered Su the floor, and a collection ' of picture postal cauls-she' kept in the lower drawer and which had been sent her from all over the .world, were nowhere to be seen. -"' "I'm afraid her picture' postal "cards are gone," I said. . f . "That would indicate boys, wouldn't' it?"-Edith Fairfax asked. "Professional thieves wouldn't want postal cards." - ' . "Perhaps." Lillian aeain " sooke noncommittally. With a sudden thought I darted from the room. "Oh, mjr keepsake trunk!" I ex claimed; as I darted down the hall to my own room. ; "' - When the others entered the room they found me on my knees beside "y. mother's, old trunk, my face against it, sobbing like a heart broken child. , I' heard Lillian exclaim savagely under her breath as she stooped and raised me. , ' (Continued Monday;) jewel, Flower, Color I Symbols for Today, By MILDRED MARSHALL. Today is meant for brides, if the ancient beliefs governing its jewels the lapis lazuli and the onyx are to be observed. - " The lapis lazuli, whicjv is the talis manic gem. is symbolic ofaithful love, and those who wear it need not fear jealousy and will be sure of the constancy of their loved ones. ' The onyx is the natal stone, and is the emblem of a happy marriage. The ancients believed that it assured s newlyv married couple of a. pros perous and succe&ful life together -jit.d gave them -faith and sympathy. Pale pink is today's color, and was believed by the Orientals to make the world look ro3-colored to those vhts wore it. v The caniclia, which is said to en ''ow it wearers with, beauty, is the flwer for today. v Co.jrlkt, 1921. by ihr Whevivr Syndi V cat, Inc.) , THE GUMPS- CVT A6MM Ut KlQHY- TWtt nrr ihs wT vnTH wax. bm o pfew- I know what Tt owta 4nV MOPF I'M 0 niTW OF LOOKING AT A 600 M"c- More Truth ; By, JAMES fcaa Why? The grasshopper sings through the long summer days, No arduous labor does he, : ' i , He foolishly follows frivolity's-ways ' - In reckless and sensuous glee. -"'' He never lays up any chow in his, lair On which to subsist when the meadows are bare, -And all of the moralists loudly1 declare How shortly a corpse he will be. , , ) The ant Jabors hard every day in the week, He stores, in his hole in the ground, Provisions to feed on when breezes blow bleak And the wolf and the Winter coma round. He hever sits round with a girl on his -knee , j Or bucks the roulette-wheel or goes on a spree, . And all of the moralists freely agree s That his methods are proper and sound. r. You'd think that, the'' grasshopper's fondness for fun ' And his silly addiction to mirth Would presently -banish the son of a gun , ? From his; soft little place on the earth; " ' You'd think that the an.t who employs all his hours ; In enhancing "his "native acquisitive powers Would test, in old age, in the fairest of bowers . As the righteous reward of his worth." : ..'.,;.,;.;:.'.-.. ' ;...- :' , Yet grasshoppers swarm from the north every year And feast on the ripening grain; . ' , They eat every blade, every leaf, every spear ; ' Again and ' again and again. While the ants have to work or they, don't get along Which seems to establish that' something is wrong. ,' vYpu may know the, moral of this little song, , . To me it is not very plain!. ; j v : BUT YOU NEVER CAN TELL . k Doubtless Mr. Harding would offer cabinet positions to a lot of gentlemen if he was sure they would refuse to accept. ' . j . , 4' AS USUAL U ' 1 T" ' . " The people who are yelling 'the loudest about hard times are the people who have had to reduce their profits' to about 500 per cent. - ; ;, NOT SO BLUE NOW ' The blue law people seem to be running out of their blue vitriol. v (Copyright.: 1921, By th BU Syndicate, Inc.) I Dog Hill Paragrafs . By George Bingham 1 pad Wednesday,1 and some harsh lords might have been spoken had not ' Miss 'Peachie Sirhs 'arrived on the scene just in the nick of time. The mice and rates that have bean making their home at the residence of Toobe Moseley, have v got dis couraged md,lejt ., . Cricket Hicks 'says it is remark able how some laundries can wash a collar without tearing it up. . - Copyright, l21l Georjs Matthew Adm. The i Prison ' Syiti In ancient times prisons were pri vate affairs, ed to remove rivals or enemies. Tiie first application of the prison .system as a punishment for crime,, came in the establish ment, of workhouses, in -London in ihSQ!' Prisons started as reform in stitutions in 1704, when - Pope Clement, XI , organized the' criminal ward of the hospital of StMichael uri Rome,, as a means ' to iaid the criminal rather than merely' punish him. ' -'.f-- . . -s:rj' . (CopyrtghU la. by the Wheeler i-i Brndleate, Inc: - . . Parents Problenw m Should, a girl of. 12 be allowed to ipllowf her (preference " for com panions, four . or n years older than herself, or should she be encouraged to make friends of girls 'of hcr;own age? .. ; , v. .-; --.., ; ; This girl should be encouraged' to niake'iriends ' and c'orhp'aiiibns fof arirls of her own azc. .The occupa tions oi girls of 16" or J7 arc nft: suitable 'for ' girl of 12": y. . Where It Stared v am. . - - A O0m Aeovrr TWO don't ?MCAVe OUT- OUST CfcVP ,AWt LATfcR VOO CAN cVe "I f Than Poetry J..MONTAGUE - Common Sense ByrJ. J. MUNDY. ' , The Boss and You. Perhaps the man you work for, in your, estimation, knows less about his own' business than you do, but the fact that he, is' an employer instead of an employe Ss evidence, that his way of -doing fhings has proven suc cessful for him. , Also the man who employs you has a right to say how his work shall be done. ; ' - , r , That his way and yours differ sim ply shpws. if your positions were re--ersed youn. methods would be re versed and you would insist upon your . way being carried out you know you would, wouldn't you? . You or iiiy other, man hires a man to do what the. man who pays him wants done, not to do as he pleases, Of course, some employers won't listen to a suggestion, no matter how good, which is a mistake, but the biggest mistake 1s for a man to think that he should be paid for bossing the boss. .... -To believe your own way is bet ter than the boss' is to assume the j wrong attitude and to perform your labors . like a machine without thought or take directions .like a par rot without thought is another ex treme. . ' ' , Employers" should encourage their men to have ideas and advance. (Copyright. 1!1, International Feature i , Service, Inc.) i I'M THE GUY I'M THE GUY who thinks he's a fancy skater." . I don't think , sp : , I . know it. I can do all sorts of figures and stunts; and naturally I like to perform for everyone on the-: ice. And I'll say that all look me over. They give me a hand .even when I slip- and cut -a .star on the ice. V,How can I help it 'if I bump you and 'knock you dow"n when you "fall asleep' and block my path? Yon ought to give me a wide berth I How can T do any nifty turns if you Keep geuing continually in my wayr For goddness sake, - watch where you're going. . Don't bawl me out and tell me I'm trying to monopolize the whole field. Don'ttry to put the blame on me,, because you get jolted off your feet or,' because you haven'tj room enough to skate, r Your feet are not mates that's why you fall so often. People like y&u ought to keep off tl(e ice, anyway. You can't skate. You're as graceful as an elephant. All you do is get in other people's way. Sfay off the ice, an d give good skaters like me a chance for some fnn. btay at home and keep vour feef ,varm rCcp right, Th ThoniiMon fi-ature Service. 'jwxmr, . i - rApTERvIX , i - THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1921. BREAKFAST IN THE MAIN DINING ROOM, z r now urnm Jkwcrt- t vnhtt OF "BOUT EC6- MINUTCfc AN iw V I I 6C0TP- 'AC AFfCTfc THAT YAHT CM FAHAKeC ANfr' COOHTRV SAxOSAGE VANT: THC CWS? "NOT PRIED SULE PY-T I H E . While Jimmy Rabbit was looking for wise old Mr. Crow, Peter" Mink stuck close behind hirn. "You needn't think you can, run away with my rabbit's lucky left fHr. CroW. loolf'aistonidied: v , hindfoot,'. ' I Peter ; kept saying! "That's my foot! You promised-to give itjto.me for helping you out-of the mud. And I intend to have it. I'm going, to follow you- wherever you go. I wish you'd try to be a little-more- careful -where your step with my foot." . . But Jimmy Rabbit didn't seem the least bit worried. "You stand by your bargain,' anM I'll stand -by mine," he told Peter. And that was all he w6uld say. ; . At . last Jimmy ' found . Mr. Crow. And as soon as Peter Mink spied him he hurried up and began to complain to Mr. Crow that Jimmy , Rabbit wouldn't stand by his bargain. "What was it?" Mrv Crow asked. "He promised to give me his left hind-foot, 'if I'd pull him out of the creek," said Peter Mink. . "Did he pull you out?" Mr. Crow asked Jimmy Rabbit. . , . And Jimmy admitted - that Peter had helped him out. . . ' "He-helped me in too,"; ! added Jimmy. "But I didnVhaye' to pay him for doing that" ' ' - ,( - "You're out of order!" Air.' Crow told Jimmy sharply; , ' "And looking dowp , at ' his.Tmud stained clothes, Jirtimy Rabbit, said that he supposed he was.' . r "Can you repeat the exact words of the bargain?" Mr. Crow1 asked Peter Mink. "Yes," Peter began. ;."He said " " "That will do!" Mr. Crow cau tioned him. "I said, 'Can you repeat them?' I didn't tell you to repeat them, did I?" ' - ? ' "No," Peter Mink admitted. 1 T advise you to be very careful" Mr. Crow warned him. : Then Mr. Crow turned-to Jimmy. Rabbit i ."Can you repeat the exact words of the bargain?" he asked. ' "Yes. sir 1", said Jimmy ' Rabbit promptly. !" - ' . : , "Goodl'VMr. Crow exclaimed. "I'll settle this dispute in no time Now,. 1 want you' Jimmy Rabbit, to whisper the exact 'words in my- right - ear, while Peter Mink whispers the wact words in jny left one. .In that way. I shall know at once if therefs any body that isn't telling the truth."-. ' . Mr. Crow was very particular. Ht made Peter and Jimmy begin at the same time. And he said that if they both "told the truth it seemed to him V V r 1 1 rtttCft Look n-j - L J The Business D . AHl REhlEMGEC 1 WANT 10HE MOT FULL OF GREASE- AH VATM "WE AVSAO V YANY SOME TDATET ?Yt BV?EAX- NNtLL TOATet BVJt MoT B)(?Ht AHt WAKT TMO TCTTS OF COFFEE- "THE FIRT ?0T 1 A Hp "TVJSHTY MlNVTreS opyrif 111 : 1921 : By The M E T A b & S TAb6 GP rHURSCOTUBAILEY that they ought to finish at the same time, too. - And that's jiiit the way, it hap pened 1 - ! "I don't see what the dispute is, said Mr. Crow. "You both agree. And how can two people have a dis pute, when they agree perfectly? The only difference I '''notfeed in your stores was thak Peter whispered much louder, than Jimmy" ' ;'The trouble," Peter Mink cried, "the trouble is, he won't let me cut off his left hind-footl" Mr. Crow looked astonished. "And why should, he?" he ex claimed. "You agreed to take, along with the foot, all the luck and every thing else that goes with it. And if the rest of Jimmy Rabbit doesn't go with his left hind-foot, why I should like to know what does!" ' Peter'Mink looked very sour. But pretty soon he brightened up. "All right!" he said. "I get the whole of him, then don't IT' "You certainly do," said Mr. Crow. ''And what's more, you have to carry (mm in your pocket, tor mat was part of the bargain." Now, when you stop to remember that Jimmy Rabbit was four times bigger than Peter Mink. you can understand 'how angry Peter must have been. He saw right away that such a thing was impossible. "I can't do that!" he cried. 'Then I declare the agreement to be broken," said Mr. Crow. "And I advise Jimmy Rabbit to run home at once, for I happen to know that his mother is looking for him," Afterward, Peter. Mink, always, claimed that there was no use try ing to get the better of anybody that had the left hind-foot of a rab bit. He said that they certainly were luckyr and. that he , leV1 what he was talking about.1 -" . , THE END. (Copyright, Qrosset & Dunlap.) WHY- Are Gargoyles Placed on Churches? Undoubtedly a wealth of imag ination and skill must have been expended on many of the gargoyles which adorn the walls of old churches and other ancient build ings. All sorts of quaint and hjde ous figures of man, beasts and birds are-chiselled out of the solid stone, but the most common is that of a dragon the emblem of Satan cast out of the holy precincts of the church and condemned to perform the manual service of acting as a spout to carry off the rain water from the roof, for this "is the real function of even such elaborate gar goyles . as those which are on the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. In this connection it is interesting to recall that Gargouille was the name of the. great dragon reputed to have lived in the Seine until he was slain, by' Romanus, bishop "of RoUen, in the seventh century. Possibly there is some allusion to this dragon in. the name "gargoyle," but the most commonly accepted explanation of the origin of the term is that it is taken from the French word gargouille, meaning wind-pipe or throat, and applied to these bizarre figures because' they were made to convey the water through their throats. Tomorrow: Why do rogs shake hands with the left paw? ! Copyright, H20, hy. the Wheeler Syndi cate,' Inc. Nebraska business men read the principal business reviews of The Chicago Tribune and of . The New York Times and at the same time as their eastern friends. N The best of the local, Chicago and New York market news and gossip appears in The Omaha Bee every morning. . -77r : x ' - ' ; V " Charles Michaels Chicago Grain Letter, The New York Times' .financial review and many other articles of importance to the business man every morning, ,e: IT WtU. LATtR. Tribune Company, Cliiogo, HI.) Woman Asks $10,000 ' For Broken Finger Chlcaie Tribune-Omaha HV jMtrA Wire. Chicago, Jan. 21. Because she can not do gob4 stenographic work with the third finger, on her right-hand broken, Miss Catherine Springer has brought suit for. $10,000 against James Murphy, a' trader with a La Salle street brokerage firm., At about 1 1 o'clock on the night of October 28, Miss Springer says, she returned home. The light in the vestibule was out and she switched it on in order to unlock the inner door. As she did so, she alleges, an in furiated man, who later proved to be Murphy, spring at her from a corner of the vestibule. In another corner was the other girl roomer. Miss Springer says Murphy used the vilest language, attacked and beat her. In trying to save her face from his blows, she put up her hand and he broke her finger. AMUSEMENTS. LASTTWO TIMES MATINEE TODAY 2j15 EARLY CURTAIN TONIGHT AT 8 FRANKLYN ARDELL & CO. in "King Solomon, Jr. MOSS FYRE, "The Magic Glasees" Murphr A White; Charles Wilson; The Weber Girls; Aramanth Sisters; Topics of the Day; Kinograms. Matinees, ISc to 50c; few, 7Sc and tl.00 Sat. and Sun.; - Nights, 15e to 91M. EMPRESS LAST TIMES TODAY RIVAL ARTISTS. Comedy Girl Act; JACK McCLOSKEY PALS, Comedy and Harmony Singing; THOMAS POT TER DUNN, Singing Comedian; HENRY B. TOOMER St CO., Comedy Skit. Photoplay Attraction: "ROGUES AND ROMANCE." Mack Sennett Comedy. c Fox News. "OMAHA'S FUN CENTER Daily Mats. 15, 25, 50e Nites, 23c to S1.25 H. Herk and Arthur Pearson Present Sliding Billy Watson '.ni "Hits and Bits" -- 'L With CHARLIE AHEARN and a Star ' Cast. Lots of rretty Uirls. LADIES' DIME MATINEE WEEK. DAYS beatty;s Co-Operative Cafeterias Pay Dividends to Those Who Do the Work Man's , THE EiPRESSj Rustic Garden I " - i I Private Dancing Lessons By Appointment m '6 Lessons, $5 I I Teachers Directly I I ? From New York j DANCINGMATINEE 1 I TODAY I m f j AdmisionN ;f iss: I I JACK CONNERS, Mgr. I Drawn for The Bee by Sidney Smith. Copyright. 19,51, Chlraito Tribunf Company im III tMnryri D'Annunzio in Venice , London, Jan. 21. Babrielc D'An nunzio arrived in Venice Tuesday, says a dispatch to the Central News from Rome. He retired to the Bar barigo palace and refused to talk, the dispatch adds. - j PHOTOPMY8. Help Europe's Starving Children LAST TIMES TODAY Heliotrope Throbbing with thrills and mystery. Starting the tears and ending in happy smiles. . Chester Comedy with humananzee, in . v 'Snooky," the "BEAT IT" Rialto Symphony Players,' offering as an Overture, Beethoven's Egmont Harry " Brader, Director. Julias K: Johnson, Organist. N COMING TOMORROW , WILLIAM S. HART IN "The Testing Block" Help. Europe's Starving Children LAST TIMES TODAY catherine Mcdonald - The screen's most beautiful woman, in "My Lady's latchkey" Sat. matinee, all seats, 25c. including tax LAST TIMES TODAY WALLACE REID in His Very Best Picture "What's Tour Hurry" Page 3 OMAHA SEE id I'llOTOrl.WS. LAST TIMES TODAY Aaamn e 7el it -Mlm: HOIHCAtl wmm? A Story That " Will Live Forever I James Fenimor Cooper's Eternal American Clastic . Indian Moon Prologue CHIEF OSIO-KION in "The Dance of the Sense" In Two Beautiful Scenes Most Striking Prologue Ever ' Shown in Omaha Vanity Fair Comedy "SLEEPY HEAD"' TVirts! has luck once in a while luch conies starts tomorrow at the s Funnier than "Fair and Warmer" LAST TIMES TODAY " TOMORROW "TIIE SAPIIEAD" f 4T Chi mo l r- f gQQR)) 7