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Jr f I IttLPY-TlMt TAUtt THE TALL OF BENNY BADGER rmJCCTT WILEY CHAPTER XIV. A Queer Discovery. No one would ever have called Benny Badger a great traveler. .He vas altogether too heavy to roam far from home upon his short legs. So it often happened that he did not know all that went on in the neigh borhood. Of course, his watchful eyes took iii'almost everything that was in sight of his den. Cut as for w hat "Vevy well! the cw replied- was taking place just beyond the uext rise, that was an entirely differ ent matter. Unless somebody chanced to stop and gossip with Benny, sometimes several days would pass before he knew what his neighbors were doing. Luckily, Benny Badger kept his ears open, when he was awake. And often he kept them half-open when he lay half-asleep, stretched out in the grass not too far from his den, enjoying a sun bath. One day when he was sunning himself the sound of voices snatched him out of his drowsiness. And he kept quite still, to sec what he could see and hear what he could hear. Soon three coyotes came sneaking through the grass, talking in hushed voices a thing they seldom did. Benny could hardly believe his own rars, because he had supposed that u the coyote family spoke at all they always howled. B,ut if the quietness of the coyotes surprised Benny, what they said as tonished him a great deal more. For Benny Badger learned that the three cronies were headed for a prairie dog village just bevond the next rise: That was "!nost amazing news. Benny Badger hadn't known that there was a prairie dog village so tiear his den. And- for a moment he was tempted to call to the coyotes and ask them if what they said v'as really true or if they were only fool ing. But he didn't think the three prowl ers had seen him. So there seemed to be no reason for their saying what wasn't, so. Well, the moment they disap peared Benriv Badger jumped up and luirridd into "his den. He would have followed the coyotes, but he decided it would be better to wait. The prairie dogs would be too wary, with those coyotes in their village. But later, after the coyotes had left ah. then he would pay a visit to the village himsejf. Towards evening Benny Badger crept out of his den and followed the trail of the three coyotes. And, sure enough! when he reached the top of the rise he saw the mounds of the prairie dog spread out before him. 1 Though he saw no prairie dogs, he noticed an owl sitting upon a heap of earth thai had been tossed out around a 1iQ Benny Badger strolled up to the owl. "It's a fine evening!" saitkBenny. , The owl, ,merely stared at him, round-eyed, and made no reply "It's a fine evening!" Benny re peated in a louder tone. "Yen- well!" the owl replied. "You may say it as "often Vis you wish.. I'm sure I have no objection. . . But you doir't need to come any nearer,' he added. ' - Benny Badger stopped and squat ted in the grass.' He was glad to rest, for he was as has been said no great traveler. "Is anybody at home?" he asked : presently. , "Somtbody is," said the owl. . . "Then I'll disr right', in as soon as I feet my breath," said BennyJBadger, glancing at the hole. .'.- "Do you want to see somebody; the owl asked. "For if you do, there's no need of your doing any digging here;" ... "VVhv nfl?" Benny inquired. 'Tm"sonteWy the owl informed him. "I live here; and I'll be dis gusted if vou go to tearing my house to pieces. (Copyright. Grosset & Dunlap.) Do You Know the Bible? (Cover tip the nwem. read the nuea tlona and tee if )Cou can newer them. Then look a.t the answers to aee It you are right.) X Arranged by J. WILLSON ROY. 1. What was the great ruling pow er at the birth of our Savior? 2. Whv is it of the greatest impor tance to "the reader of the New Testa ment to consider what was the ori gin of the Roman empire as well as its condition at that period? 3. What was the origin of the Ro man power? ,- 4. What 'is the estimated number of subjects of the Roman empire a the time of our Savior's birth? 5. What was the nature of the Ro wan government? Answers. 1. The Roman empire, which was conquered and superseded the Greek nd other preceding empires and which held sway over every por tion of the then known world. 2. Because it bad arisen through the providence of God with a special view to the dissemination of His gospel. .y . , -3. Rome is supposed to have been .founded about 748 B. C. by some Greek immigrants. 4. About 220,000,000 souls. "5. "It was at first monarchical. After 240 vears it took a republican or consular form;, finally, tinder Oc tavius Caesar, B. C 29, it became an empire. , 1 Copmg!rt, ltSl,. by . tb Wheeled Syndl , - ' cate. Inc.) BAB ' 1 1 i i More Truth By JAMES J. Cruel and Unusual In Russia all plays are propaganda for the government, and play ; going is compulsory. The dramatists of Petrograd Work not for pelf or fame, Nor do they write with keen delight y ' Because they love the game. They do not ply their flaming pens With rare and noble rage, When they have caught a mighty thought To elevate the stage. They write to boost the government, And well the wretches know ; That if they. fail, they'll go to jail For thirty" days or so. - The critic clan in Petrograd 1 Do not employ their wit Whene'er they go to see a show " In poking fun at it; ' Though often they're disposed, no doubt, To treat the drama roiigh, And with a punch express their. hunch That it is rotten stuff. - ' ' V ' For if they say just what they think i , t About the latest play, . . y Full well they wot that they'll be shot . a ' When breaks the dawn of day. On Monday nights in Petrograd The folks that don't turn out The play to see, are sure to be Admonished with the knout And if they are so indiscreet ( As not to join the claque. And don't applaud each tense ".My Gawd!',' They put 'em on the rack. . ; Life's pretty tough in Russia now, .. But that, of course, must be, '.'' You understand, in any land ' ( s , ' " v 1 That's absolutely free I ' O s BELATED DISCOVERY It is evident that if Germany had known that she was going to be licked she never would have started the war.' , ' WHY NOT ? The income tax wouldn't be such a burden if Uncle Sam would adopt the policy of the installment houses and take $1 down and SI a week. FOR A 1924 SLOGAN 1 Now Mr. Harding has got to look around for something to keep us out of. . (Copyright, 1921. By Tlio Bell Syndicate, Inc.) WOMEN WHO EARN BIG WAGES A jj Where It Started Algebra Algebra started with the .Egyp tians. The oldest known manu script in which it is mentioned was written by Ahmcs. who had a copy of a treatise on the subject dating 2500 B. C. The Arabian scientist Al Khuwarizar, in 831 A. D., wrote a book ff the subject, one word of whose title, al-jabr, gave the name to the study. ADVERTISEMENT SWEAR OFF "Xa-To-Bac"' has helped thou sands to break the costly, nerve shattering tobacco habit. When ever vou have a 'cnginer for a cigarct. cigar, pipe, or for a chejy just place a harmless No-To-Bac tablet in your mouth instead, to help relieve that awful desire. Shortly the habit may be completely broken, and you arc better off mentally, physically, finan cially. It's so easy, so simple.' Get a box of No-To-Bac and if it doesn't rtlease you from all craving for to bacco in any form, your druggist will refund your money without question. 3&CfrtJ-ElGHT On Exhibit at the AUTOMOBILE SHOW Next Week TRAYNOR AUTOMOBILE Cw. Retail Distributors -2210 Farnam St. Phone Douglas 528S Ccu Motop put wm Jmwkpous. USA. TOBACCO Than Poetry MQNTAGUE." MARY ROBERTS RINEHART ' - Novelist cfhd Playwright Who Earns . Over $25,000 a Year. The fascinating storrcj written by Mary Roberts Xiineheart have en deared her to booklovers. She is also one of the three writers of the "coun try who are getting top figures for short stories. Mary RobertsRinc liart has also taken a leading posi tion in the play-brokerage business. Such splendid, successes as""Seven Days," "Cheer Up," "The Bat" and "Spanish Love" are well, known to theater-goers. Her home i in Se wickly, Pa. Parents' Problems How can a little gild of 8, who has to wear glasses, be helped to forget that she has them on? Time wilt do ' this nothing else. Even a grown-up ..wearing glasses for the first time 'is conscious of them until "used" to them. Read Bee Want Ads. A Strictly Up - to - .Capable of playing any standard 88-note music with the .most perfect expression. Has a five-point noiseless motor, and all the necessary appliances for rendering per fect touch and expression. $535 is a very low price for this excellent player. 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During the cold weather they stand on one foot in the warm sunshine on the south side of te stable with their bills tucked under their wings, dreaming ol the good old days of last summer when they chased the sad-voiced grasshopper and frolicked in the frog pond. To fool the robbers during the crime wave the assets of the bank of Tickvillc on its front window have been changed from $10,000 to $10. . . . ;. - , I 1 The members -of the .'Hog Ford church were late last Sunday as they kept waiting for the bell to ring. Sim Flinders, whose joh it is to ring the bell, says fie done his full duty and rung it, ;but, as somebody lad stole the clapper .out of the bell, nobodv could hear It. ' Copyright, 1921, George Matthew Adams. ,ommon sense By J. J. MUNDY. Doii't tear the Boss. When you ask a man for a job, look him squarely in the eye. Why should you flinch before the man to whom you are offering your services? It is nothing of which to be ashamed to have' to ask for work. Don't be imid-jand ' dou't go to the other extreme, either. The modern employer does not want an apologetic man, he does not want a man who seems to be fright ened when he appears before him. No employer wants a dull-eyed man around. I He wants the man whose eyes are bright, who stands up straight, who looks steadily at him he wants .the man whose smile proves he is not discouraged, and that his spirit has not been broken, that he has an in terest and an object in life. When vou aDDlv for a iob. and Vou are asked to take a chair, don't slouch down into it and allow your bands to hang limply over the arms, of it. Get some real snap into yourself, ' show that you have plenty of iron in your blood, that your services will be a food TJargain to the man who buys them. i --Then when you get the job. keep up your pep. get interested in the .business, and try to make, rood on the points which procured the,place for you. Copyright, 19?t. International Feature Service, Tnc. Jewel, Flower. Color Symbols for Today By MILDRED MARSHALL. Today's talismanic stone ' is . the pink tourmaline, which protects its wearers against accidents and all misfortune, and also brings them prosperity in all material pursuits. . Crystal is today's natal stone; sym bolic of purity and charm, it was be lieved by the ancients to increase a woman's charm and to attract to her much admiration. Silver grey, symbolic of wealth, should be worn on this day. Today's flower is the narcissus, emblematic of gaiety and pleasure. (Copyright, by tho Wheeler Syndi cate, Inc.) Buys This BeautifuT Artemis Player Piano Date Instrument FREE Bench and Selec tions of Player Rolls. Kimball Upright, only. L. $250 Scrtmoller A. Mueller Upr..$245 A. B. Case Upright, only.. $326 Lindeman A Sons Upright. $375 Schmotter A Mueller PI... $440 & Mueller Omaha, Neb. XWHY Is a Fire Hot? .Like light and sound, heat is. a vibration a wave motion of the air, or, more properly speaking, of the ether which permeates space. Ourj sense ot heat, theretorc, is merely a reaction to these heat waves given off by some burning substaneer But heat waves, it should be remembered, are not of themselves fit her hot or cold, any more than any other vibra tion may be said 'to posses varying degrees ot temperature. It is our bodily reaction which produces, tlyf effect of warmth, and this, reaction ;arjes materially in different person's, particular in those who are accus tomed to living in the extremes of temperature. Thus, an Eskimo would swelter when the thermometer hit 90 degrees, while a Hottentot would consider that it wai barely comfortable. t ' t ..Radiant heat, or that Which is transmitted through wave-motion to other'bodics at a distance, comes to us in great quantities from the sun, and, in a similar manner -but lesser degree," from a fire, the process of burning causing, a rapid sensation of these heat rays to be thrown' out on all sides. . Our feeling of warmth is awense akin to that of sight or hear ing a 'reaction to the wave motion of the air and the fire therefore makes, us feel hot, just as light af fects our sight or; a noise makes art impression upon our sense of sound. But, as the nerves of touch are dis tributed over all parts of the body, there is no such thing as a person being "blind" or "deaf" to heat. Labor Unions Opposed to I 20 Per Cent Cut in Wages Business agents for carpenters and plasterer unions which met Monday night, asserted yesterday members of these unions were against submitting to a 20 per cent decrease in their wage sctale. ' ' , Such a decrease- was demanded y contractors, meeting with represen tatives of the 15 building trades un ions ae the Builders' Exchangee Mon day afternoon. The contractors as serted a 20 per cent decrease is es sential to stimulate building. I Intensely interesting -Bee Want Ads ADVERTISEMENT BE PRETTY! 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OMAHA'S FUN S CENTER ) ily Mat., IS to 73c Da Nltes, 2Sc to $123 OE MARKS That. Cauriu I IMla Cnsrfu With. , SUV iiviuj a, it iv r uiivim tt U THE LONDON BELLES uilcal urleik Afsed Phtnomaatl Feature: The HOM AS TROUPE. ,SHk Stocking. Bexuty Choral LADIES' DIME MATINEE WEEK DAYS Hat. Met V Wk.,: Wonder 8how Ic Geo. P. Murphy Dully' Mat., 2:15 Every Night, SMS iJEANETTE HACKETT A HARRY DELMAR; GEORGE MacFARLANE; WHITFIELD IRELAND; 'KIRK SMITH SISTERS: Mons. Grant Gard ner; Johnson, Baker 4 Johnson; Breakaway Barlows; Topics of the Day; Kinograms. Matinees, 15c to 50c; some 75c and $1.00 Sat. and Sun. Nights, 15c to $1.25. EMPRESS LAST' TIMES TODAY Nellie Deonsonne and her JAZZ BAND; FERGUSON A SUNDERLAND; WM. SISTO, the Italian Statesman in bia first speech; "Pinched," presenting Fred Hubbard. Photoplay attraction. Buck Jones in "The Big Punch." Carter De Haven Comedy. Fox News. AllrJitrkrinm Frday Eveninc, Auaiiorium March u ,t 8:1S The Tuesday Musical Club Presents 'FRITZ KREISLER Violinist , PrlcesT-IKOO to $2.50. No War Tax. Seats Now on Sale. " Why the Mvon NEWS FIRST ASJD ALWAYS IN OMAHA ' ' ' ' Direct from ashington'to you. An example of the service the Moon offers to the peoplo of Omaha FIRST SHOWING IN OMAHA Pres. Harding's Inauguration Showing .close up views of ex-President Wilson. First taken sine hi illness. This Added Attraction Showing NOW AND ALL WlEK Romance in Origin Of Superstitions By H. I. KING. Shallows. j That swallows are birds of eocid lurk is a ininninn siioerstitinn. It is lucky to have a swallow hover about you, and lucky is the house tinder whose eves a swallow builds its hest. This superstition' can clearly be traced hack as a heritage from Greek mythology, silted by the centn' from Greek civilization through tue Latin into the Anglo-Saxon., Deme ter was the goddess who presided over the fruitfulness of the earth, the latroness of marriage and social order. ' , When her daughter, Prospcrpine, was carried off to the lower world by Pluto, Demeter wandered about looking for her, and in the guise of an bid voman 'found a temporary home in the house of Celes, king of Elcusis. While there she was accus tomed to take air in the guise of a swallow, darting and skimming I'UOTOrLAYB. vV ,1 ''fX KWW CONTIGUOUS1 VX HIE LOVE FLOWER' Richard Barlhelmess' PESEW0 SEATS Ar 73$ I, Kitty Walton the ; wealthy heiress in "OPEN YOUR EYES." My mother did not"' hesitate to, satisfy the nat ural' curiosity of childhood in the mystery of life. Consequently, I avoided) the pitfalls that lie in the path of youth. On my wedding eve, frankness saved me from a horrible fate. That's why Irbe lievpwith all my heart "Silence is not golden, it is CRIMINAL!" BEGINNING MARCH 13 NOW PLAY1N6 LICE LAKE " BODY AND SOUL AND feySEMON OfJUridMLUl irnvr mirl "THE DEVIL' is Comiiv? Beams for You J toy. kxxx in l.rJk -" I aT m about t lie house and twittering from the evrs. Finally Dcnietrr revralcd her itlen tily to Celfs and it was pt Elcusis that the gr,at shrine of hri cult was fct up. Long after Demeter had left the house of Cclcs the family, natur ally, thought when a swallow skimmed about the roof that the goddess was paying them a visit ,'n the form which she had been accus tomed to take for outdoor exercise, And so, as the cult of Demeter spread a certain sanctity attached to the swallow, whose appearance was a possible visit from the goddess, an idea gradually subsiding into an omen of good luck. And that su- I'llOTOI'LAYS. All This Week The picture that is causing more comment than any other shown in Omaha. Winston Churchill's novel that, made the whole world set up and gasp. .Was it true his exposef smug hypocrisy? ' Was it just, his denunciation of the "best people?" , Neither pripaganda y" wreachment, but dramatic in the extreme Pathe News,presenting the first pictures of HARDING'S INAUGURATION. , NOW UNTIL SATURDAY N1TE stturrttuf the heroine of 4 First Showing in Omaha Today, Tomorrow at the ROVER LONDON An All-Star Cast Uslces One of the Greatest Stories of All Time Live Again on the Screen Also Second episode of Omaha's own serial "THE ROSE OF SANTEZ" Note Central High School students take part in this episode. - I r driver -tho w mm perstition of good luck has persisted even unto the present day. (Copyright, 1 "21. hy the M.-Cluro Newspa per Syndicate.) Girl Ushers Useless in Panic ' Declares Fire Chief Salter , Fire Chief Charles cr Salic. 'r' launched an attack yesterday on tha svstcm of using girl ushers in thea- . ters. "Girl ushers would be altogether useless in a theater panic," said the chief. ''They haven't the presence of mind, the strength of voice or the physical strength to prevent a panic. "However, they are far more cour teotis." added the chief. IIOTPI-VS. Shows at H,'l,3, 5, 7 and 9 NOW UNTIL SAT. NITE VERA GORDON The Mother of Humoresque -in- "The Greatest Love" A Vital, Glowing Drama , and ' BOBBY VERNON -m- His Latest Christie Comedy "HEY RUBE" Rialto Symphony Players Harry Brader, Conductor. Offering a Medley Overture : i Fair One Avalon Japanese Sandman Dearest One I Want a Daddy Chile Beans, Featuring Mr. John Taft, Saxophone. Julius K. Johnson, . Premier Organist, Playing "There's A Vacant Chair at'Home Sweet Home." Thursday, Friday & Saturday ! 6th Showing Jhe Son of Tarzan MATINEES ONLY V. ; J Hippodromec5ul;;d Oorr Walsh in "THE PLUNGER" Comady.t "The Mornin( Altr.w " - ancrng NOONDAY DANCING LUNCHEON Admission 25 Cents I Tickets Redeemable for Refresh- I tents, 12 to 2 P. 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