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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1921)
11 TH15 T.EE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, KEHRUARY 2, 1921. THE GUMPS.- uncle BIM Drawn for The Bee by Sidney Smith. Copyright. 1921, Chicago Tribune Company ri!OTOri.AYS. riiorori.ws. SHE OUST HOOEP ALU HE" POUGH CVIASEP. TME POU6H KtNc R.I6NT OUT OF THE HOUSE- Q)K YKZWX ANt CHESTER: "FUTURE- "5WcT COUUPHT HAVE t?OHE. MORE "FO "TKV ' her a&-e:ht; To visu The -SMjkRT vonftvt I -weil she oh vhg up the V f I v? TAKING THE ESY CORE. THV5 YVM?TCOBE HOW PUT ttrrH J I r.V? lJHr L BALLS IH EVEW TOCKET- THE. C HAVE. BEEN. TVttNG IMHEOPERA- II l HAHPCP THAT YMfrOW ClHPtf5E.lJlA,,S III I V ' T-T Id VA60H, TMRT (Sop-rlOTHER- -J ril JV akp s rn AA : M"" II m rl III V kXBHB- roy 11 an iron iumi t a ) as sle)epy-time tales 9 4T,aa. sfltM4 the talk or GRANOFAM MOLE 4 CHAPTER IX. Good News From Below, Wlieu Rusty Wren decided that Grand.talh.fr Mote had lost his bear ings and that that was the reason why he was running about the gar- , den in a most peculiar iasmon, tit ; test of the birds began tr wonder j Grandfather Mole didn't Wait for ; anything mora v Avltetner they oughtn't to help Grandfather Mole find them, since he was blind. The Worm-eating Warbler, how ever, who was none too friendly to wards Grandfather Mole, said that he had his doubts as to Grandfather Mole's blindness. t "il he can find angleworms in the dark he certainly ought to be able to find his bearings iu broad daylight," he sneered. 1 But Rusty Wren pointed out that nobody could see bearings, anyhow a remark that puzzled the Worm eating Warbler more than a little. To tell the truth, he had no idea what bearings were. And at last he admitted that he didn't know. "What are bearings, anyhow?" he asked Rusty Wren. "I don't under stand what you mean." ' "Oh. I mean that Grandfather .'Mole has lost his way," Rusty When explained. "He doesn't know how to get home." , The Worm-eating Warbler asked why Grandfather Mole didn't dig a new hole for -himself, if he had lost the one he used when lie came up iii the garden. And when he saw that Rusty Wren couldn't answer his question the Worm-eating Warbler s-id he had his doubts as 10 Rusty Whcn's ideas about , Grandfather Mole. 'V.--:. "It's my opinion," he went on, "that Grandfather Mole has eaten all the worms that lived in the ground; and now he's hoping to find some in the air." Although everybody laughed at such a notion, the . Worm-eating Warbler declared that jie had a right to his own belief. And when he added that he hadn't seen aiv angle worm, for two days there were a few .of his bird companions "that began to think perhaps there was -some reason in his remarks, aftct all. ' . . But Rusty Wren declined to change his opinion. 3 "There's only one way to be sure, and that's to ask Grandfather Mole!" little, Mr. Chippy cried. "It wouldn't do any good, Rusty told him. "Grandfather Mole won't nswer any questions. But he's in some sort of trouble. There's no ' doubt of that." , They looked down at Grandfather Mole, who was still scurrying fran tically about the garden. If he heard their talk he did nothing to let them know it. And .they had be 5W to think that they Would never know his secret when a person who looked somewhat like Grandfather Mole thrust her head and shoulders jut of a hole-in the ground. ''That" Rusty Wren whispered "that is Grandfather Mole's daugh ter. I know for I've seen her before-." Arid 'listening sharply, the bird people heard her say, "Don t vvorry. Father! I've found them." Grandfather Mole didn't wait for isivthing more., He didn't even wait until he had fpund the opening in ,vhich his daughter had .appeared. He began to dig right where he stood. And he was out of sight in short order. x" . Although 'the. bird people didn t know it, he was a'uxious to reach his " grandchildren.' He had them . out tor a stroll through his underground galleries; and, walking behind him, ' they had taken a wrong turn when "Grandfather Mole didn't know it. After looking for them in. vain down belciw he had feared that they might nave found their way into the open ., lir. And that was why he was run ning about in such a distracted fashion. Parents Problems f "JIow early nia a cn'' with' love for musi? be given piano les sons? ' y - .: , Piano lessons may? be given as yoinig'as 6 years." Of course, they should not be too long and the child should not be made to practice until fatigued or restless., More Truth Than Poetry -By JAMES J. MONTAGUE" Paraphrasing: the Psalmist "When I was a child," as the psalmist saith, I thought as a child, no doubt; I know at least I was scared to death Whenever my school let out, And I gazed about with affrighted eyes Fearful that I might see The neighbor's boy who was twice' my size ' And who wanted a fight with me. . -. When I was a child, I was worried sick, As I wrought with a trembling hand, At a thing that they called arithmetic Which I never could understand. And what it meant it mattered not; But I feared what the folks would say ,"- If the usual kind of a mark I got i' On examination day. ' When I was a child, I was troubled sore Wrhen I heard the preacher tell Of a dreadful place on the other shore That wis known by the name of hell. And I often woke in the dead of night , And shuddered in sheer despair, ' Whenever I'd strayed from the path of right, Lest my sins should send me there. When I was a child, there were bears and things That lurked by.my little bed, And ghosts with white and shadowy wings That filled me with nameless dread. I do not know what I'd ever have done With my troubles and griefs and foes, , If I hadn't had such a lot of fun To mix with my childish woes. ' . . ABUNDANT ADVICE , All gentlemen with incomes will be able to. tell congress exactly the class of incomes that ought to be exempted from taxation. ' CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE Those sugar profiteers are evidently disposing of their hoarded stocks to candy manufacturers at Jhe old prices. , ' WHAT'S THE USE ? It's too late for the ex-kaiser to stage a come back. Germany will never be able to support him in the style to which he is accustomed. tCopyrisrht, 1921. By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) WHY- Is February 2 Known as "Ground . hog Day?" February 2; Candlemas day, has long been associated with a number of legends and -superstitions, some of theni connected with Christmas and some with various prognostications concerning the weather. On. Can- J olemas eve, for example, it was for merly believed that all Christmas greens must be taken down, under penalty of visits from goblin's, which would materialize from each branch or green, while the Yuletide candle had to be lighted on this day and al lowed to burn until sunset. The connection between Candle mas and the groundhog, however, is to be found in the Teutonic folk lore, where there is the proverb: "The badger peeps out of his hole on Candlemas day, and when he finds snow Walks abroad, but if he sees sun shining he draws back into his hole." The Germans brought with them to America the superstition about the badger, but, as this animal is little known east of the Missis sippi, the responsibility for the weather prediction"" has been trans ferred from its shoulders to that of the woodchuck or groundhog. Farmers maintain that the reason for this is. that the woodchuck comes to look out for his shadow and if he sees it, scuttles back into his hole, knowing that it is only a tem porary meteorolog'cal change which will be. speedily followed by a re- Matinee Daily, 2:15; every night, 8:15 WILLIAM GAXTON & CO.; CAMERON SISTERS; OLSEN 4 JOHNSON; HARRIET AND MARIE M'CONNELL; L Vier; - Petty Reat A Bro.; Page A Green; Topics el the Day; Kfnograma. Mats. 15c to 50c; few 75c and $1 Sat. and Sun. Nights 15c to $1.25. newal of winter. But if the day be cloudy and overcast, then the groundhog is exultant, for his win ter's nap is at an end and he feels that Spring is near. t (Copyright, 1?20, Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) AMUSEMENTS. TODAY M,t tWVHI i Evening LAST 2 TIMES THE TALK OF OMAHA The Smart Musical Comedy Nights $1 to $3; Mat. 50c to $2 "hiehe" TOMORROW, FEB. 38:18 P. M. ' The Tuesday Musical Club Presents RACHMANINOFF PIANIST Seats on stage at $3.00 and second balcony -at $1.00 still available. FR1. AND SAT., FEB. 4 AND S MATINEE SATURDAY The Seivyns Merry Musical Romance ' SEATS ON SALE Nights 50c, $2.00; Mat. 50, $1, $1.50 "CUDDIES" LAST TIMES TODAY EMPRESS TIT BITS OF 1920. Miniature Musical Revue; STRATFORD COMEDY FOUR, Laughs, Comedy, Songs and Talk; LA ROSE 4 ADAMS, "Bits of Sun shine;" LOCKWOOD RUSH, "Two Old Bats." Photoplay Attraction "THE SKYWAY MAN," featuring Lt. Omer Locklear. Christie Comedy. , Foa News. "OMAHA'S FUN CENTER" Daily Mat, 15c to 75c Nites, 25c .to $1.25 JAMES E. COOPER Frmitts The BEST SHOW IN TOWN S With FRANK HUNTER, A Ctpibl. Caat sue a Ril Beauty Chortu. It's a Rlisla'. Plaila, Re. Ilckla' Rnus. Msaetoaevs with latwhttr. LADIES' DIME MATINEE WEEK DAYS it. Jilt, sua Wsk: illt. Up, Hoewl" Madame Louise Homer and Louise Homer, Jr. at AUDITORIUM Friday, Feb. 18 Prices, $3.00, $2.00, $1.00 Seats on Sale At Auditorium Box Office Friday, Feb. Concert Given Under Auspices First Con gregational . Church. Romance in.aigin Of Superstitions ' BIRDS. By H. Irving King. "Yes. we failed," said a - man to the writer the other day. "1 knew we would. The first day wc opened the shop -a bird flew in at'the win dow. T told my partner then we would never make a go of it." Let anyone investigate and he will be surprised how many people ot his acquaintance believe that a bird flying in at a window brings bad luck. Here we have a survival from the dim shadowy days of old. Your re spected ancestor, Stonehatihet,, prob ably, felt as perturbed when a bird flew into histcave as -you 'do when one flies into your drawing room. Primitive man considered everything with relation to himself and what he could not understand he was suspi cious of. Birds could fly he could not. Therefore there was something supernatural about birds he him self representing the natural. When a bird, for no apparent reason, vio lated the, rules and came flying into his cave Something was wrong. It was unusual and unusual puzzled and scared, the primitive man. ' .Here we get the origin of a bird supers'.'tion which survives in its original form unto this day, modified in some cases, though, bv other su perstitions which gradually gathered about birds. Thus in some sections a bird 'flying into a room is consid ered to be or- to symbolize a soul come for another soiil and 'thus to portend death. This comes from the idea which grew up among some tribes of the transmigration of souls into birds. Also primitivi man be came obsessed with the idea that " PHOTOPLAYS. XOW SHOVTIAG ASD ALL WEKli OTIS SKINNER IN KISMET SI'KCIAL ritOLOGLK by MR. GUS 8WAXSOX PEBFECT MUSICAL SETTING. VIOLIX SOLOS ly MR.' HARRY ItR ADKR "T A M B O VR I K , "CAPRICE YIFXiyoiS" JULIUS K. JOH.XSOV, OrgnnUt. IE I PR ESS! Iffn - fa J ' t lei! High Class Dancing I CAFE OMAHA PRINTING CO. DANCING PARTY TONIGHT Big Indoor Circus Thursday, Friday and Saturday Nights Jack Connors, Mgr. EATTY'S Co-Operative , . Cafeterias Pay Dividends to Those Who Do the Work birds somehow indicated the future. Tlic early ntfine for the chief of the Roman augurs was Auspcx, "The Observer of Birds." The word augur itself which means not only one who predicts, but also the act of predict ing though of uncertain origin has been thought by many philologists to come from a combination of two words meaning "bird talk." (Copyright, 1921, by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) Jewel, Flower, Color Symbols for Today Where It Started Thc opal is today's talismatic stone, bringing its wearer good luck and brilliancy of mind. The super stition that it is unlucky should not be held against it rn this day. Today's najal stone is jade, be lieved by the Chinese to endow those born on an anniversary of today with' long life, and the power to en joy old age. Green is today's color; though symbolic of joy and hope, it was be lieved by the ancients to be destruc tive to friendship. The Japanese iris is today's flower; it protects from evil the home which it adorns. (Copyr'"ht. 1921. Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.) Public Libraries. The public library is an outgrowth of the ancient custom of preserving sacred books in temples. One of ths earliest has been found in Baby lon, at Nippur, which flourished in 1800 B. C. The earliest library in America was presented to Henrico college, in Virginia in 1621. It was unfortunately destroyed the follow ing year. (Copyright. 1921. Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) Early Removal of Cancerous Growths Urged by Lecturer The importance of,, early surgical removal of any growth suspected of being cancerous was emphasized by Dr.. Palmer Findley in an illus trated . lecture before the Lions club at its luncheon in the Rome hotel today. He showed the rapid increase of this scourge throughout the world and declared that "practically all cancers are curable if they are at tended to in early stages." A movement is on foot to estab lish societies in every community to teach the people to have cancers removed without delay in their early stages. rilOTOPLAVS. PIIOTOPLAVS. A SCRAP of PAPER Alone Meant Wealth or Poverty to the Man end Honor or Disgrace to the Woman! WHAT DID IT CONTAIN? Find Out tr Seeing "THE FATAL HOUR" First EhoAving in Omaha, with an All-Star Cast TODAY AND THURSDAY ALL THIS WEEK At U-l-3-5.7 and 9 THOMAS .E3EMBAD in A Charles Maigne Production, "The Frontier of the Stars" . The heart-stirring story of a crook who had never known good and a girl who had never known evil. A romance of the roof tops of New York, where the noises of life are silenced in the harmony of the stars. A knockout role for the Good Luck Star. BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE O. W. T II C (tDIIV Dl fVCDC Mar.aret aik I II b . V II ft I It I1H I k II W Nelson In a Dramatic arjA'0.yr 15-minute act IWliegS PATHE NEWS -Silverman's Orchestra : comedy D. W. GRIFFITH'S "PAY BOfflJ EAST" is the greatest MORAL LESSON in the world "jfty UNEXAMPLED WONDERS of the 20th century" Over three hundred clergymen ahead have recom mended this great story. ' Scores of sermons have been preached on it, and more than one minister has said, "IT IS THE CREA TEST OF ALL, SERMONS." And noB ihe exclusive Boston Herald, in a leading edi torial, finds reason on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25th, to say: "No thoughtful person can sit through the play to its very end without concluding that he has been in contact with ONE OF THE UNEXAMPLED WONDERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY." Rev. Lincoln H. Caswell irnivS! Memo- scopul "City "IT IS THE GREATEST MORAL LESSON IN THE WORLD! Yom have surpassed all words! Your picture has out Heroded Herod OUT-SPOKEN ALL SPOKEN LANGUAGE and put a climax to all superlatives. v Our ordained divines thunder away at empty pews, but 'Way Down East' is divinely ordained to speak its silent message to the myriads that throng the theater. It is an eloquent sermon." Seventh I'resbylerinn if Jeuus Christ, I'M roome Street. New York City... Rev. J ohn T. Wilds, "A perfect play, perfectly played and perfectly presented. I am truly grateful to the dear Lord that HE has so called you in your work that you are doing great good." " Rev. Howard Preston McHenry, , Ph. D. Mariners' Prebyterian Church, Philadelphia. , "As a religious teacher I want to say I was profoundly impressed. It is a real preaching of the Gospel. It must suc ceed because it is true." utheran Church of the Holy Communion, Philadelphia. Rev. J. Henry Harms "It carries a great message of warning to the unwary, and ' of "retribution for the guilty. If all motion pictures could be as , wholesome as this one is, I can't see why the most scrupulous I could object." NOTE Rev. Henry R. Rose, pastor of the Church of the Redeemer, Newark, N. J., is preaching a seriea of sermons on "Way Down East," showing colored scenes from the big D. W. Griffith production. Rev. Lincoln H. Caswell, of the Crawford Memorial Methodist Church, New York City, has preached two ser mons on "Way Down East," and shown to his congregation more than seventy scenes from the play.. BEGINNING SUN. NIGHT MATINEES DAILY BEGINNING MONDAY Matinees 2:30 (PROMPT) Nigtfts, 8:15 nniApa Nights and Saturday Matinee: 50c, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 inlvCO All Daily Matinees 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00 SEATS NOW SELLING MAIL ORDERS FILLED Now Playing "THE UP. TRAEC Mightiest Melodrama the World Has Ever1 Known. Comedy, 'The Morning After Eoland's Metropolitan Quartette. Now Until Saturday WO LA DANA in "BLACKMAIL 5J Also Showing Joe Martin Martha ii a Doty 'Wild Might'! 3 .no BOTE For Omaha's Popular Business Woman STARTING NEXT SUNDAY pf ; fir . C$an(L& makes life worth living for one kid ... and for everyone else as well, in the big comedy he took an entire year to make THE WW 6 reels that pack enough laughs for 60. ,
