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4 D THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1931: V The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, NELSOM B. UPDIKE. Publisher. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The aseertatad Press, of srhlca Toe Bee It a amlw, la ai clualrala mtld to Uie uh for publh'tllM of all new dlipatciiea redltad to II or not otherwise cradltwl la thla paper, and alao the lo-al aaws mibllshed herein. All titbit of publication of our uxcial dispatcfias r also raserred. BEE TELEPHONES Print Branch Btrhana. ' aak for Tvlatv 1 OAf) to Depsruneiii r Peraon Wantsd. JB VW Fc NlgM Calls After 10 P. M.t Editorial Deiertaier,t t Irf ulwlon Department - - au'artlalni Deparuntnt - -- -- -- - OFFICES OF THE BEE Ualn Office: ITtn and Famta Council Bluffs 15 Scott Bt I South. 81 da Out-ef-Tewn Omceei Trier 100(11. Trier 1U03L. Trier mow. Kll N St K,f Turk UilM(o SM Pino Are. Staler Bid. I Waehlneton 1311 0 It. Paris, Franc. 50 Hue St Honor The Bee's Platform 1. New Unioa Passenger Station. 2. Coatiaued Improvement of th Ne braska) Highway, including the para ; mailt af Main Thoroughfares laading into Omaha with a Brick Surface). 3. A ahert, low-rate Waterway from tha Y Corn Belt to tha Atlantic Ocean, 4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. Taking Root in the Community. From time to time the complaint is heard . that cities are but lonesome and unfriendly places ' where one does not even know his next door neighbor. Newcomers write to the papers com plaining that even the churches seem cold and fail to rise to the opportunity of making every stranger a special guest, singling him or her out for attention. - Undoubtedly friendships and acquaintances of value are not to be struck immediately on coming into a city, but no more is this possible in a mall town or in the country. These are a mat ter of slow growth and cultivation. It is just as is the case with trees in a forest those that . grow fastest furnish weak and worthless timber, while those that mount slowly toward the sky are sound and useful. One must send down deep roots to become a real part of the community. This was per haps easier in the old days when life was less complicated and more leisurely. The death-of a pioneer, whether of one .who has amassed a fortune or of his brother who failed to strike a bargain with opportunity, never fails to demon strate the ties that bind even the largest city. The funeral brings out lodge brothers, fellow church members, business associates, the wafh woman, the janitor, perhaps once a bartender or two, politicians and every sort of person with whom he came in contact. Although it is not necessary to base the evidence on what occurs after one is deadt the same wide interest is en- ioyed by the second and third generations of '.such families. ) - Now there is nothing savoring of aristocracy in being a member , of a pioneer family. $o far as they.are distinguishable from men and women more recently come to town, these peopie are j .marked only by their wide interest and activity in the life , and affairs about them. They have felt themselves ay part of the community and seldom failed to bear their share of duties, pub lic or private. - ' . Anv one coming , from afar into Omaha or any other metropolis can soon accomplish simi lar connections. It is only a matter of taking : 'root, of feeling that you have a duty to ,the peo pie about you, and as you bear your part, so wfltyou find recognition and appreciation. Per . Jiaps none of your neighbors will call upon you .'Jwhen you enter the city, but that is not -an in tentlonal slight, for visiting of this sort has gone pretty much out of practice. Something more than mere propinquity is necessary; real points of contact must be developed in common inter- . ' est! . .-. . V Community meetings of various sorts, po litical and social, provide a common ground. The church' around the corner, with its clubs for men and women holds its door wide for all x-who will come. At the sewing societies and en tertainments held in the homes of members the firmest kinds of friendships can be sealed. For ihose who are unmarried the question is perhaps ; Wore difficult But there are today business or- ' ganirationt for both men and women, lodges, labor rganiiations, dramatic societies, the Y. M. C, A: the Y. W. C A., the national guard and centralized interests of all kindsv Participation in these common activities leads Inevitably to personal relation with other members that shortly will knit one firmly into the closely woven fabric that constitutes the real city where one has only to seek in order to find true friends,' ' -' ;, -v,--.:-,. Censorship of Match Boxes. After this, when a customer asks the clerk in a cigar store for a box from the "tandsticks fabriks". he will be sure to get the genuine product. Likewise, a request for "sakerhet tandstickor" will no longer he met with a sub stitute. True, the man behind the counter may "say, tOh, you want some matches? .Here are ,aome from Japan," but he will not dare to TMrnptio pull the wool over your eyes. 'Jar, be it known, the federal trade commis- - sion has ruled that Japanese manufacturers who put a lot of Scandinavian words on their match boxes are taking an unfair advantage, and has ordered importers to cease handling, all such. This injunction stops short of requiring the Nipponese word for firesticks . to be printed plainly on tie label. , A quite common impression is that Japanese matches are not as good as Swedish, and we have heard of an old gentleman of Scandinavian blood who flew into a rage when his children, . sent to the store for Swedish matches, came tack with a box made in Japan and covered with Swedish words signifying that they were "genuine safety light sticks." ' .If these pauper matches from the Orient had lowered prices, smokers would not care whether the Inscription was in Latin or Yiddish, but it is to ht believed that the high price of matches 'during the war gave the Japanese manufacturers - their opportunity. From 40 cents a gross these - rose to 8S cents. The retailer's profit, according to the best information available, rose at the nm time from $1.04 a gross, to $2.03. The twataner, meanwhile, not only paid a higher yyft, f,at received half the old number of ttehe per box. ' ' The eeiskm f the federal trade commiss.on CoMBeteitefinto the question of prices, but it h lu ierred to evoH jarmed conflict between b tad Stockholm rfghX to be thankful This trickiness of the Japanese must be stopped before they take to brewing imitation Swedish punch and catching imitation luthsk. Showing Up Shakespeare. Let us now for a moment consider what is transpiring with regard to Shakespeare in the minds of some modern producers. This is par ticularly apropos in view of the approach of an actor who rests his case on the traditions that have come down from a long line of capable and honored men of undoubted intellect. From Burbadge to Mantell in unbroken succession stretches the belief that Shakespeare had a definite and clearly defined purpose in mind when he wrote "Macbeth." In that great tragedy he embodies, as in others, the lessons that must be derived from the plain sight of "vaulting ambition that o'erleaps itself." The rise to power through murder begets the necessity of other, murders to hold that power,' a terrible career to attain a reward "that tempts the eye and turns to ashes on the lips.". The philosophy of Macbeth is clear, its moral and its moralizing as well is obvious, and there has hitherto seemed nothing mystic or mysterious about the drama, aside from the very transparent artifice of the witches. ' ' Yet, here we have the spectacle, or maybe it is really an apparition, of a New York man ager who is about to present Lionel Barrymore in the role of the ancient Scots monarch with a background of such psychological mysticism as makes one at this distance suspect that Conan Doyle and the rest ought to found a school in New York. "In our interpretation," says the manager through the New York Times, "of 'Macbeth' we are seeking to release the radium of Shakespeare from the vessel of tradition." A notable urge, to be sure, and by its success to prove that all the rest of the -world is wrong. "To us," he goes on, "it is not a play of Scot land, or of warring kings, or of any time or place or people. It is a play of all times and all peoples." t There is this to be said for his view: Osiris and Typhon have held their combat in every time, in every clime, among -all peoples. The contest be tween good and evil goes on continually, and every human soul is a battleground. To that ex tent the new view of "Macbeth" is justified, per haps, but who is to say that the Immortal Bard himself did not realize this fact? We know the majesty of the lines of his drama lose nothing of their meaning, whether applied to the time of the Tenth century or of the Twentieth. Com mentators have read many things into Shakes peare that, he did not dream of ; psychology was unknown as such in his day, and a very sub-, stantial belief in witches did prevail, as well as the doctrine of total depravity. Here is how the manager referred to looks at it: We believe that the witches arc the evil forces of life, forces that have hovered about for all time. We find Macbeth a man of whom there has been no previous ill account, walking along a road. A hand reaches out and touches him. From that moment he becomes as one in a dream. He is possessed. He is picked up and whirled through a torrent of blood and agony. Never once does he seem account-' . able for what he is doing. He is the slave of something driving him from one horror ' to another and gradually breaking him to piecas. Thus is outlined the basis for a defense as ingenious as the one that depended on recogni tion of "dementia Americana." If such analysis fits the case of Macbeth, why not apply it to any other criminal of sufficient eminence? We will await with considerable interest the unfold ing by Mr. Barrymore of the novel subtleties contained in his conception of the rugged thane of Cawdor, but until disturbed by a more plaus ible presentation of the case will stick to the generally accepted notion of Shakespeare, and will look to see Mr. Mantell play the role some what after the fashion he has made familiar, developing a more easily understood character than is presaged in the prospectus of the Barry more performance. A Line 0' Type or Two Haw l lha Us, let th quip 111 where they may How to Keep Well LARGE American concerns, like .the Har vester company, that, wanting direct or indirect communication, can onlv conjecture what is happening to their'branches in Russia, should l trt.in tmtrh with H fi Wlle. ff Wplls Wrii-WC . all about Russia. He sojourned therein for three . ONE GUARD AGAINST GERMS or four weeks. j There is a world of misinrorma SOUTH AFRICA votes to stay in the British j t:on, unnecessary apprehension, and empire. . isut, then, the liritisn nave always false opinion relative to catarrh This-is true of catarrh or the nose the- stomach, and all the other or By DR. W. A. EVANS Queation concerning hyglane, aanitation and prevention of diaeaaa, aubmitted to Dr. Evan by r radar of The Be, will bo nwared personally, aubject to proper limitation, whara a stamped addreaacd envelope I encloied. Dr Evana will not make diagnosis or praacrib for individual diaeaaa. Addreaa letter . ia care of Tha. Bee. Copyright, 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evan - treated the South Africans well. In a Flower Shop, mother, see the everlasting California Gastronomy and the Federal Tax. All that came out of the war is not reflected in the tax return, nor in the loosening of social bonds, nor even in the wreck, of Russia. While the conflict was raging paragraphers on th; safe side of the firing line, and cartoonists safely ensconced, found much delight in their riSald reference to the . shrinking waistlines of the robustious Teutons, incident, of course, to the food restrictions prevalent throughout the cen tral empires. . "Now, it appears, something of the same sort has taken place in our own fair land, although for a different reason.' "Sweet are the uses of adversity," if you only have time to extract them. Says a writer in the Phila delphia Public Ledger: . Friends today invite you to dinner and give you enough to appeast your hunger and nothing to slake your thirst and that is all. I was told yesterday of a big dinner given at a men's club where the menu consisted of raw oysters Providence watches Over tha brave tomato soup, mutton chops, two vegetables and ice cream. It was enough,, but you will note that by no possible stretch of imagination could it be construed into a luxurious meal such as the same men at' the same club sat cjown to five years ago. ' Indeed, at no dinner or luncheon to which . I have been this winter, even at the houses of . the wealthy, have I seen served more tliaa five courses: Soup, fish, meat and vegetables, salad and dessert. That is the extreme limit. Usually, four courses are thought enough. As for the frittering away of money which was so usual, among us in pre-war times, it has vir tually stopped and women are wearing their old clothes, remodeled or not, according to circumstances. Thus appears one of the unsuspected bene factions following in the wake of war. Abstem ious living, enforced by reason of needing money to pay the tax collector, has its reflection in the general health of the community, and while traffic in fancy viands may languish, and eke the doctor and the drug store lose something in the way of trade, all the world will be gainer because the American people, willy nilly, are getting back to the simple life so far as eating and drinking and wearing clothes is concerned. Just what will happen when the brake is taken off we "o not care to anticipate. For the moment gas tronomy has responded to the invitation of the revenue law, and menu have shrunken to get out of the way of the oncoming cost of running the government. , ' If the league of nations doesn't like Geneva as the capital of the world and wants to get on, really neutral territory, v.1iy not try the north pole? Either Iowa employs its women at remark ably long hours, dr the bill limiting the hours of labor to 54 a week is a useless' piece of bun combe. V ' "Oh. flowers:" "Yes, dear; that's the way I feel about Jt, too." NOT long ago a mule broke a leg by kicking a man in the head, and this week a horse broke a leg the same way; in each case the man was not seriously injured. Is this merely luck, or is evolution modifying the human coco? y HELLO, HARRY! HOW'S THE BOY? (From the Olney Mail.) ' The people and choir sang "O, Harry Day" while a happy crowd passed down the line shaking hands. - , THAT the influence of the' politeness cam paign is not entirely dispersed is evidenced by a sijrn in the Bartlett gym, reported by L. H. S.: "Will the gentleman who stole my vest from my locker please return it?" , Putting Tcrril on the Map. (From the Terril, la., Tribune.) For several days past The Tribune editor has received clippings taken from the big dailies over the United States concerning a wedding notice which we published a few weeks ago in which "a linotype was mis- placed." From what source It was being cir- culated we were unable to learn until the fol lowing letter was received from the state editor of the Salt Lake City Tribune:: "Fellow Editor: Wonder If you Would be good enough to advise me if the clipping at the top of this sheet (appearing In matter syndicated by B. I T. In Chicago Trlbune we take the service) actually appeared In your paper as indicated? Also where did the stray line come from?" We are publishing the above just to show you what sport big dailies make of "blun ders" which appear In the small papers. OUR young friend who is about to become a colvumist should certainly include in his first string the restaurant wheeze, "Don't laugh at our coffee. You may be old and weak yourself some day." . WE HAVE AT LEAST SUSPECTED IT. Sir: I have often heard that It takes all kinds of people to make a world but I didn't know, until I became an habitual reader of the Voice of the People, that it took so many differ ent kinds of d. f. Did you? INQUIRER. "THE building will be four stories high, 268 by 356 feet and forming a perfect cubs." Ark Temple Bulletin. Yet most people cannot understand Einstein. , SOCIAL NOTES. (From the. Omaha Bee.) Mrs. Norman Filbert entertained the mem bers of the New Bridge club at her home Friday. A dinner of ten covers, complimentary to Colonel Nutt of Los Angeles, Cal.. was given by Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Everett last Tuesday evening. THE duty of the senior partner of the new firm of stock brokers, Howell & Wales,' will be, we conjecture, to suggest to customers the need of more margin. THE THOUSAND, AND ONE AFTERNOONS. It is related (but heaven alone Is all-knowing) that at the time this tale begins, the houae of Houssaln, importers and merchant princes, fetched hither and dispatched thither the mer chandise of three continents, and to the trans acting of this enterprise many clerks wore required,. and these had grown old in the service of Houssaln. and their sons had followed them; and this had been the rule save In respect) of one post, which was the employ of First Stenograph er and Private Secretary. During three years this post, for a reason that shall be set forth, had been occupied as many times as the sun had dispersed the mists of the morning. On a certain memorable day Houssaln had sum moned the chief of his executive staff, one Wezeer, and had said. 'I can stand it no longer, Wezeer. You have chosen for me, to be First Stenographer and Private Secretary, a motley crew of maids; maids that chewed their gum as the cow grinds her cud, and rearranged their hair and the while I paced the floor, dictating ca blegrams and the disposing of cargoes of spices. Once, worthy Wezeer, you gave to me a stately blonde, beautiful as the full moon, whose amor ous babblings over the telephone I dared not venture to interrupt, and these Interchanges of son speecnea continued ror hours. You have given me maidens that reported for duty at half past ten, maidens in evening dress and maidens in galoshes, frivolous maidens and churlish maidens. There was one, Wezeer, that sought to make love to me, and there were many so austere and guarded that I scarcely ventured upon a good-morning. I have tolerated careless work, incompetent work, interrupted work, and no work -whatsoever; I have been patient with me inaoient, tne suit necked, ana the nervous. Speak, Wezeer, is it not so?' And Wezeer made answer, 'I hear and understand. But, commander or tne raitnrui, or whom l am one, have I not chosen for you maidens that were competent?' In twenty years,' said Houssaln, 'you have found me five or six, but these soon left me to enter wedlock. Better do I remember your many failures. Hearken, excellent Wezeer! I have observed that all stenographrs are like unto new brooms, therefore will I have no brooms hereafter save new ones. From this dav forth I shall require a new maiden each morning. The day being done, pay to her the wage that is her due, and send her forth. , Wezeer bowed low and said, 'Commander of the faithful, I hear and understand.' THERE were many applications for the job of boiler inspector in Hennepin county, Minne sota. Naturally, Mr. Stiehm had a walk-over. HELP! MURDER1 (From the Blue Hill. Neb., Leader.) Yet he harps on loyalty and patriotism at the very hour he would stab the vitals of American government to the heart. "ONE sinister eye-t-the right one gleamed at him over the pistol." Baltimore Sun. No wonder foreigners have a hard time with the American language. Here Is a Question That We Have Asked a Hundred Times, t (William McFce to Christopher Morley. ' Why do not these editors forget for a while what their readers like or whafr they think their readers like? Why do they not print something they really like themselves? It is a momentous suggestion. For the editor who does this will awake one of these cold mornings to find himself j famous and his magazine sold out. He wlllbe asked how he does It. Publishers will offer him kina6' ransoms to join their staff. But I am dream ing of some other world. y A VARIANT of the "shoes shined on the inside" wheeze Was lamped by J. H. M.on a shop window in Paris: "Poisson trtis a 1'in terieur." . HOW DOTH THE B. L. B. (From the Shlnnston, W. Va., News.) The stork has visited our town again and left a big girl baby at the home of Mr. Bee. "WILL Aid Movement to Attack Tourists." Milwaukee Sentinel. See Blue Book for roads avoiding Milwaukee. A JOLIET social item mentions the engage ment of Miss Lucille Muff de Line. We don't recall her contribution. ' A DUO ON OLYMPUS. ' (From a Marquette program.) Dialogue, Taking the Census Mrs. Touch wood and Mr. Flippergin. MORE building is the solution of the unem ployment problem. The unemployed are never so occupied and contented as when watching the construction of a sky-scraper. B. L. T. gans which aro said to be subject to catarrh. It is as natural for the mucou membrane to secrete mucous as it is for the skin to secrete sweat and grease. There Is nothing poisonous about this secretion. A man can swallow a lot of it every day for a lifetime and not be poisoned or In any way harmed thereby. Its pres ence on the mucous membrane, so far from doing "harm. Is necessary for the welfare of that membrane, as well as for the work it has to do, i . Dr. Benlans called attention to the protective action of this mucous against infection. So long as there Is a proper supply of mucous on the membranes the bacteria floating In the air and falling on the mem branes of the nose cannot get be yond that point. If the supply of mucous is scanty they get on the membrane Itself and stand a' fair chance of getting through and set tine ur an Infection. It has been suggested that when the feet are chilled there is a low ering of the temperature and Mood supply of the mucous membrane of the noso and throat. This lessens the amount of mucous secreted, ' There belns less mucous on the membrane than is needed to protect it the bacteria of colds gets through and set up coryza, sore throats and bronchitis attacks. At the time when infantile paralysis was a subject of great interest and much study it was eenerallv accepted that the mucous on the membranes of the pose and throat was the first line Of defense and that one was safer against the disease if he left the lubricant alone and did not try to wash -it out with various kinds of antiseptic nose and throat washes. Craokshank, advocating the pro tective qualities of mucous, calls at tention to the fact that so long as a tapeworm has Its head Imbedded in mucous tapeworm medicine cannot reach it well. According to tne same principle, bacteria embedded in mu cous cannot get at the membrane. A recognized auxiliary in the treat ment of pinworms is doses of rhu barb preparations to get rid of tho mucous In which the worms are em bedded, after which it is not difficult for salt or quassia to bring them away. About 2 per cent of the people have the cocci of cerebrospinal meningitis In their noses all the time, but they do not get through the membrane to cause meningitis until the weather disturbs the cir culation to and the supply of mucous on the membrane. Crookshank ad vises that such applications to the noso and throat as are made for cleansing or other purposes be com posed of oil preparations. He ad vises against washing the nose with Rlyoerin, borax and watery or alco holic solutions. Symptoms of Appendicitis. Appendix writes: "Just where does one get a pain during an attack of appendicitis? I have consulted a doctor who thinks I have a slight at tack. I am anxious to know. On my right side about even with my waist line just to the right of my navel I of ten. get a real sore feeling, and today for the first time I got little shooting pains which do not last more than a second." REPLY. The pain in the appendix is at first located on the lower right sliln. There may be nausea with the pain. If the attack is to amount to any thing, fever develops. Presently the pain changes in character. No longer colicky, it becomes a sharp pain with tenderness located around a noint midway Between me. umuu icus, or navel, and the point of the hip bone on the right side. About Baby' Diet. F. A. T. writes: "I wrote to you about two months ago relativo to my baby. The diet which you rec ommended was very satisfactory and I have followed It as closely as con venient. Baby is nearly 15 months old, and I wish to know if there should be any material change- in his food and care. How about egus, bacon, rice, apple sauce, canned fruits and canned fruit juices? Tho rash which tho child had qisap peared completely in Just two weeks after starting the new met. I can not express my appreciation for your help. If the diet changes materially from 15 months to 18 months please instruct me further." REPLY. It Is well to change the diet of a child In the second year about every two months. The diet continues to be built around milk and butter, but more and more leeway is given as to other foods. The average child can take every article asked about. Some do not thrive on eggs. Soups and finely chopped or mashed leafy and root vegetables can. te given. Eating and Exercise. R. II. D. writes: "1. How soon after eating is it advisable to exer cise? When-is it best to exercise in relation to meal,time? 2, Are pim ples due-to blood impurities or skin unhealthfulness?" . REI'I". 1. Depends on the size of the meal and the violence of, the exer cise. A person can eat a. very lignt lunch such as many city people en joy and then do a little catching or skate slowly for a wnne witnoui losing his wind. If he intends to Dlav hard he had better put off eating until the last part of his re cess period. A man's wind is best when he waits at least four hours after eating.. Thirty minutes is am ple quieting down time before eating even alter severe, wma-irying exei cises. 2. Skin unhealthfulness. tees Wooster ou Liberty. Silver Creek, Neb., Feb. 8. To tho Editor of Tho Bee: It Is now two years and five months since the close of tho great world war, and yet all over the country there are to be found misguided citizens of the wretched councll-of-defenso stripe, who are still fighting Germans not Germans In arms, but their own fel low citizens here at home, who did their full part in the late war, and In all wars in which we have been engaged, and in building up our great and glorious country. Don't you think it is about time this work was stopped? Such people, presumably mean well, but they are really the most un-American of all Americans and more dangerous to our " country than aro the red mouthed anarchists that come over hre from the slums of continental Europe. And why more dangerous? Be cause all the millions of our Ger man fellow citizens are made to feel that their name, is anathema, and thus they are made to herd to gether like wild beasts for their own protection. Other peoples not now under the ban may naturally reflect that some time their turn may come and so we have division, distrust and ill-will, whereas there ought to be peace and harmony among all our people from every nation and every clime. But the most un-American of all this despicable work is the frequent interference with the freedom of worship. I am no churchman and no Christian, but I will fight for any church anywhere that is denied tho right to worship God In any lan cuaEe they see fit. That Is a thinp for God to look after and is none of my business, CHARLES WOOSTER. He Gave Vp the Scorch. A letter mailed In 1900 has just been returned to the writer, because the address cannot be located. Burleson is to blame for only eight years of this, but his was the only administration that gave VP the search. Kansas City Star. SHORT AND SNAPPY. For all wo know, the closed shop might be all right, but a closed fac tory isn't. St. Joseph News-Press. Indian chiefs take up study nf law. If the Indians had done thin annnnr thla mlt-'ht Still be till' country. -Dayton News. Wouldn't it be flue it for si months tho men wno are uunuing nrirahlna mil 1(1 all 110 turned ill building houses? Boston Globe. Now that they have barred silk shirts at Sing Sing, no self-respecting crook will want to go there. Bur lington News. Twenty-five plumbers were brought before a New York court. Possibly that was a wrench they had forgot ten, Wheeling Intelligencer. VALENTINE MEMORIES. Oh. do you remember aweet Valentine's day . Wlin you wrra a little boy? Was n't' It fun To frurxs whom thry wre from? And wasn't each mfssage a Joy? And so this small laddie, now grown big daddy. Has long- brrn my Valentine, true; May Ood send Ills love Straight from above. Tbls, dear, ia my wish for you. iSURTKfDK MIU.En. Increasing tho Moisture. Mr. M. .T. R. writes: "If Mrs. S. M -r will nlace a stick the size of a ruler under each hot air register and hang a two-rtuart bucket of water thprn sha will counteract the dry ness in the atmosphere, will need to Mi them once or twice a day, but can do it without lifting the register." Eat 3Ieat and Cereals. M.. M. writes: "What is best to take In order to acquire more blood?" REFIil. Eat good meat, whole wheat bread and green vegetables. The Country Doctor The stnate is beginning to take ho'1 f it had heard from the folks at homef, t , Unique Filter. " It is said that the Chinese wash fine silk in very pure water, and, as ordinary well water is unsuitable, it is purified by putting a quantity of fresh-water snails into it for a day. These prey on the organic matter it contains, rWefore act as filters. Indianapolis News jf ' From New York TImea. The border town of West Stock- bridge, Mass. manufactures of lime ami iron. noDUlatlon l.zuu nas put into its town warrant this item for consideration: "To see what money will be appropriated to induce a doctor to settle in the town." West Stockbridge lies high, two miles from the New York line and seven north west of aristocratic and opulent Stockbridge, which is a summer in fact, an all-the-year-round resort, well provided with physicians. Less than hair an nour away ay auto mobile in summer, West Stock bridge may sometimes, when snows are deep, be almost inaccessible If medical aid is needed. On the other side of the border, a rather rough country, doctors are not too abun dant. Evidently West Stockbridge is ordinarily salubrious, or it would have a' resident medico; but what a life he would lead in rude weather and after nightfall to call from dis tant farm in New York and Mass achsuetts. turning out when the hens were frozen on their roosts and the watchdog's bark smoothered in his coat where his muzzle wai buried. Is there any life harder than that of the country doctor who treats all diseases; who is expected to be omnipresent, but has leagues to go In all weathers and at all hours; who is specialist as. well as general practitioner; who -brings Everybody Into the world, and must be surgeon and dentist as well as diagnostician; who has scant, time to study his books, such as he Owns, because he is on the road so much; whose patients are poor; who must be philosopher and friend as well as physician, and whose best friend Is the Recording Angel! Subsidies to doctors are not un common in. New England. Remote districts would often get no medical attention if the town fathers did not voto a stipend to attract a specula tive lover of country life to dwell among them as healer. In places that turn into vocation resorts the transients pay city fees the sub sidized doctor often does well, as In coastal Maine. West Stockbridge, having advertised its great need, will doubtless obtain relief, although it seems to have a reputation for dis couraging healthfulness. .' Still Provincial. Mrs. Harding is going to New York to do her shopping for the White House, Wash:'ngton mer chants know how their 'Marlon brethren felt when they saw "trade go out of town." Worcester Tele gram. . - Has Surplus. If France has any more cabinet trouble, President-elect Harding might place at her disposal a part of the surplus cabinet material ho has been accumulating since -last November. New Orleans Times-Picayune. May Kcduco The Vote. If sweet women stays as long in the voting booth as she does in the telephone booth, mere man Is going to have a long and weary time waiting to get his ballot in the box. New Orleans States. Big Demand for Scrnpboolts. Those who can't get cnblnet portfolios may find prcat satiRfac tlon in keeping a scrapbook on the reat of 'em. Atlanta Constitution. IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. ".Tim married a masseuse, didn't h?" "Yes. and she certainly rubs it into him." Boston Transcript. 4 "Pon't you somelimts wi3h for the old fla"Nope,' replied T'ncle Will Bottletop. "When prohibition struck I owed the bar tender so much thit I'm perfectly willing to forget It, if he Is." Washington Star. "Do you think mm ougltf to be pro hibited from standing on the corner snd giving the short skirls the once over? 'Certainly not: I don't believe In any thing that Interferes witn the freedom of the sees." Florida Times-Union. THE BONUS. "Nothing too good for the boys," and nothing that is bad!. 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For the service and loss when he res cued the child! Such a crash! For the Girl at she checked up the bill. And I her precious romance tumbltd down on her head! For the "time" that lie lost, and the "trousers' and "work"! And her fairest ideals were shattered and dead! But her Dad pajd th bill with soma ECO buks. (One Wears if he must, ' but at last he relents), tie berated himself es a thanklesa old chump, ' And he rated the Hero nt Just 30 cents! Charles Irvln Ju.iltln in the New York Times. mark yff';,, ' 1 j LV. Nicholas Oil Company sj Adapting principles oTtke violin, to the pianoforte, Kas been successfully -accomplished only in. the A yf7 ' result; y Jason. &7amin ioru and resonance improve 1 v 'kh age just atsc 1 I - -radivarius mellows J M ji with thenars. meJJ p iiiij r i 9 n You xvhxr. u Vk? TT, I J i J efce. e-, i-wiu. ssjzst as zo Slwar Some of the Twelve different mal(es of Pianos regularly in stock have been sold by us for 46 years. 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