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THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. MARCH V2, 1921.
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JWLtPY-TIMt TAL6J
THE TALL OP
BENNY
BADGER
BY ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY
CHAPTER XVII.
The Pnirie Dog Village.
Having once found his way to the
prairie dojj village, Benny Badger
often yisited it.
And it is said, by those who
know, that while he was there he
always had a much plcasanter time
than the villagers themselves.
So little did the prairie dogs en
joy Renny Badger's .society that
"How do you know this? Bering
Ba4et asked his small iriend
whenever one of them pied Benny
nearing ihe settlement he never
failed to jerk his tail up and down
and call yut the news.
At the sound of the alarm a
high-pitched chatter every prairie
doc; who wasn't at home scurried
for his hole , as fast as he could
scamper.
Benny Badger always had to
smile when he saw t he villagers
tumbling 'through their doorways.
They couldn't have done anything
that would have suited him better.
Had there been a single one among
the prairie dogs that wasn't a dunce
lie would have run away from his
hole, outside the village, to hide
somewhere until Benny Badger left
the place.
But the praii'ie dogs were too
stupid to, think of such a trick.
They knew no better than to rush
into their- houses which was ex
actly what Benny Badger wanted
them to do.
And if anything happened now
and then to make matters specially
unpleasant for the prairie dogs, it
never troubled Benny Badger. He
seemed to grow fatter and happier
than ever a,s time passed.
But at last he heard a bit of news
otic day that made him feel quite
glum.
A young deer mouse claimed to
have overheard a rancher talking
the rancher that lived abomt a mile
from Benny Badger's home. And
the deer mouse reported that the
man was goin to get rid of the
whole prairie dog family. "He
says they eat too much grass, and
dig too many holes," the deer
mouse declared.
Though the news upset Benny,
and quite took away his appetite,
for a few moments, he began to
cast about for a way to prevent
such a sad affair. If you could have
seen him with a worried look on his
face, anxiously asking everybody he
met to give him advice, you would
have thought that he felt very, very
sorry for the prairie dogs.
But such was not the case at all.
t Benny Badger was feeling sorrv for
himself; for he knew that if the
rancher drove the villagers away he
would tnis them terribly.
Benny hatl almost given up hope
of finding a way to put an end to
the rancher's plan when the deer
mouse told him another bit of news.
."He's going to build a new fence
out this way thc rancher is!" the
deer mouse informed Benny. "It's
roming this side of the Prairie Dog
village. And that's why tie rancher
wants to get rid of the Prairie
Dogs."
"How do you know this?" Benny
Badger .asked his ymall friend.
"Have yog been eavesdropping
again?," '
The deer mouse blushed. And
since he made no reply. Benny
Badger had to believe him.
Still, Benny could sec no way
out of !iis difficulty. And he went
home at daybreak feeling quite out
of sorts.
But when he ?Uvokc, right in the
middle of the day, a happy thought
pooped into his head.
He was so excited by it that he
couldn't so to sleep again, though
the sun was shining brightly.
OopyrigbN Orossat Dun!p.
WHY-
Do We Have Eyebrows?
There is a saying that "Nature
never does anything without .a
cause,", and while the functions of
the appendix, the tonsils and certain
other organs of the body may not
be clear, it is certain that they were
originally placed there with some
object in view probably with re
spect to the life to which primitive
man . was accustomed. Eyebrows,
likewise, once had a much more im
portant function than they possess
at the present time.
Centuries ago. man was accus
tomed to manual labor much more
than he is at the present, time. He
had not developed the conveniences,
the comforts, and the labor-saving
devices which he now accepts as a
matter of course, but he was forced
to work hard for everything that he
secured. As a result, the sweat
would accumulate on the upper por
tion of his forehead, and would
trickle down toward his eyes, where,
if it were not for his heavy, over
hanging brows, it would have seri
ously interfered with his sight Sav
ages and others who still approxi
mate the life of primitive man are
still marked by these protruding and
extremely hairy brows, while "civil
ized man" has lost much of this
characteristic, because he has less use
for it, and because nature, following
its usual course of conservation "of
material, gradually lessens the sup
ply of hair where it is no longer
necessary.
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iCapyrtsht, i2i. by The Wheeler SynasJand brighter, without smoke. From
English factories manufasture
Ibout 250,000 needle each week.
More Truth
By JAMES J.
As to Intoxication.
Comes now a learned Baltimore physician
Who tells us that the kick within the cup
Depends upon one's physical position.
Says he, "Don't take your liquor standing up!"
He adds that if we sit about a table,
What time we hoist the hard-stuff or the brew.
And sip, instead of gulp it, we'll be able
To drink, unscathed, perhaps a case or two.
Although we venerate this doctor's learning
And look upon his views with deep respect,
We think we know a thing or two concerning
Intoxicants, and also their effect.
Though temperate ourselves, our observation
Of liquor, whether it be mild or strong,
Is that it will provoke intoxication,"
And, therefore, we submit, the Doc is wrong.
At banquets we have sat for weary hours 1
And watched both beer and sturdier spirits poured.
And noticed that it still had potent powers
Though diners sat, while loading it aboard.
In fact, when we have missed a drinking brother
Who'd taken seven drinks, or maybe more.
And sought to hunt him out, somehow or other,
We almost always found him on the floor.
And in a barroom when they still existed
We've seen standees who never turned a hair,
And other persons very badly listed
Who took their soups or liquor from a chair.
Kffrontery in us the Doc may think it.
To voice our opposition to his views,
But still we hold, no matter how you drink it.
Erect or sitting down that booze is booze!
NEEDED FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Look out for a spring potato shortage. There was no room for
them in the cellars last winter. '
SEARCH OUT THE BENEFICIARY.
We begin to suspect that Canada must have sent several thou
sand of her sons over here to vote for prohibition.
A SHINING EXAMPLE.
If you are one of those people who think that criminals never reform,
give a thought to Mexico. -
(Copyright. 1021, By Th Bell SyndictU. Inc.) .
Dog Hill Paragrafs
-By George Bingham,'
Raz Barlow has had an awful sore
foot this week and has been out of
humor. To prevent trouble Cricket
Hicks has set a red lantern down in
front of him.
Sidney Hocks' says he has quit do
ing everything now of a sporty na
ture except playing croquet and
trimming his finger nails.
Sidney Hocks has learnt to play
the fiddle right well, but before he
trikes it out with him anywhere he
is going to learn to play all the
pieces he doesn't know, as they are
the very ones the people always ask
; musician to play.
(Copyright, l2t, Georjrs Matthew Adam.)
Jewel, Flower. Color
Symbols for Today
By MILDRED MARSHAL.
The sapphire, today's tailsmanic
stone, promises to those who wear
it, a career ' fraught with adventure
and followed in strange lands, ac
cording to an ancient legend. It
was believed to protect its wearer
from disease and accident, and in
sure his safe return home.
The natal stotje for today is ths
emerald, also potent in bringing
good fortune to travelers. It is
?aid to protect them from harm,
and bring them great wealth.
Today's color is , green, and
promises to those who travel great
material gain.
The lily-of-the-vallcy is today's
flower.
(Copyright. 19-1. by th Wheeler Syn
dicate, Inc.)
Parents' Problems
How can a busy mother keep pace
with the interests of her boy and girl
of high school age?
First, by listening with genuine ii
tcrest to all that they tell her about
school, friends, amusements, etc. Sec
ond, by encouraging them to invite
their schoolmates to come home with
them. Third, by letting them know
that she cares about their interests,
even when too busy to do all that
she would like in connection with
them.
Where It Started
Lamp Chimneys.
The discovery of the lamn chim
ney, which revolutionized lighting,
was entirely accidental.. Argand, a
Swiss lamp manufacturer of the 18th
century, told one of his workmen
to heat a bottle over a flame. The
workman was earless and the bot
tom of the bottle cracked off; the
flame was observed to' burn clearer
this accident, glass lamp chimneys
.. . . ..
f"'
Than Poetry
MONTAGUE.
Romance in Origin
Of Superstitions
By H. I. KING.
Walking Under a Ladder.
That walking under a ladder
brings bad luck is, possibly, the most
common of our popular supersti
tions Here is a survival from the
worship of Saturn, who, with his
wife, Ops, presided over agriculture
and vegetation.
To the primitive mind a ladder af
forded the same facilities for the de
scent of a god, or the essence of a
god, as it did for the descent of a
man from a haymow. Today some
of the eastern heathens place a lad
der against their sacred fig trees for
the- accommodation of the god of
vegetation and fruitfulness their
Saturn when at the beginning of
the rainy season he comes down to
bring fertility to the earth. At the
ancient feasts of the Latins Saturn,
a human representative of the god,
was annually sacrificed; and though
this custom went out of existence in
Rome itself before the classic era, it
survived in other parts of the em
pire, even in Italy itself, down to the
fourth century of the Christian era
when it disappeared, though for a
long time some material representa
tion of the god was annually de
stroyed at the feast which took the
place of the Saturnalia from . the
force of custom, though the custom
had lost its meaning to celebrants of
the feast.
In our own era, at a feast held hi
the south of Italy,. it was customary
to place the effigy of an old woman
at the top of a ladder, where it was
sawed in two, when, from its hollow
it.terior. a flood of fruits and vegeta
bles tumbled down the ladder to the
earth. This figure had evidently
taken the place of a representation
of Saturn as being less heathen, or
was intended to represent Ops. At
this festival mischievous boys used
to run about in the crowd affixing
paper ladders to the shoulders of ob
jectionable persons in signification
that they ought to suffer the fate of
the effigy naturally a bad omen.
When we walk under a ladder we
very nearly have the ladder on one
shoulder or the other. These sur
vivals would make it appear proba
ble that the original human sacrifice
of the Saturnalia took place at the
top of a ladder in some sections at
least, and that the victim was select
ed tv affixing a miniature ladder to
his shoulder.
(Copyright, 1921. by th McClurs News
paper Syndicate.)
Hibernians To Give
Program Proceeds to
Irish Relief Fund
i Proceeds from the St. Patricks
I day entertainment of the Ancient
Urder ot muernians, jvivimuh j,
in the Creighton auditorium next
Thursday night at 8, will be gren
to the Irish relief fund.
District Judge L. B. Daly will
make introductory remarks, alter
which Mrs. I.eo Hoffman will sing
a soprano solo.
Matthew Gering will deliver the
address of the evening. .
Mrs. Florence Long Arnold will
present "Killarnev," and John V.
Sullivan, "Mother o Mine," with
Miss Ruth Flynn as accompanist.
The first state convention of the
Nebraska division of the American
Association for the Recognition of
the Irish Republic will be held hi
the state headquarters, 210 South
Eighteenth street, two days later,
March 19. State President Col.
John G. Maher will preside.
EATTY'S
Co-Operatire
Cafeterias
Par DlricjtntU to Than
We Do tho Work
.ommon oense
By J. J. MUNDY.
A Boy and His Mother.
There are times in the lives of all
mothers when they feel that it is
going to be impossible to continue
the struggle which is necessary in
order to keep their children studying
industriously.
Concentration, so far as the boy or
girl ps concerned, is impossible.
The more worthwhile the child,
the harder it is to manage him some
times. The world has need of positive
natures, and Buddy has gotten where
he is positively against anything
which takes exertion on his part..
Then mother collapses, and the
boy wins out against mother, and
eventually grows up to turn the
tables and say, "Why didn't Vou
make me?"
If you are one of those big boys
blaming mother for what you think
she ought to have insisted upon in
Our early education, remember that
PHOTOPLAYS.
SQDG9
Last Time Today
ALICE i LARRY
LAKE SEMOU
in in
"Body andj The
Soul" Sportsman
Coming Sunday
GEORGE
ARLISS
t
"The Devil"
Lt Time Today
the Law"
Start Tomorrow
TOM MIX
"The Road
Demon"
iteep Your
lys on
: Tonight
Jack Atkinson of the Atkinson Aviation
company and "THE DEVIL" will fly over
the down town district after dark and bom
bard the SUN theater with fireworks from
an altitude of 2,000 feet
Sunday at 1 o'clock "THE DEVIL" will
make an areoplane jump from an altitude
of 5,000 feet at the Ak-Sar-Ben field.
Parachute constructed by Scott Tent &
Awning Co.
Immediately following the jump Jack At
kinson will take up passengers.
Grand Symphony Concert
Harry Brader, Conductor; Julius K. Johnston, Organist.
One Performance Only,' Starting Promptly at 1 O'clock, in
Conjunction With Our Regular Program.
Sunday, March 13th .
Offering:
'Tinlandia" Sibelius
(Tone Poem on Finnish
National Air)
"Minuetto" from E flat Sym
phony Mozart
"Mandoline" Debussy
Organ Selected
By Julius K. Johnson
your mother wanted to keep her
boy's friendship so she gave in, she
was sweet and wanted to keep you
sweet.
She didn't know what your atti
tude would be in later life, so slu
gave up. l.
It is a question every mother has
to settle in the light of what she
knows of her boy, but you can talk
this over with the boys you know
and maybe you can make some boy
realize that a man makes himself,
and some mother will thank you for
holding tip her hands in the daily
struggle.
(Copyright, l;i. lntTiiftl.onal Feature
Srvlr J nr.)
rilOTOPLAYS.
TODAY
Mat. &
Evening
Last 4 Time
D. W. Griffith'!
Thrillincly
Exquisite Screen
Sensation
and
Two Reel Comedy
"The Blizrard
SPECIAL MUSIC PROGRAM
Lower Floor, 60c Balcoay, 25c
Reserved Seat at 75c
I, Alex Valentine
the , dissolute "rounder" in
"OPEN YOUR EYES." My
career is closely interwoven with
the lives of Frances Forrester
and Kitty Walton. I brought
shame and suffering upon one
girl, and was about to wed the
other when Naturally, 1 a man
of my stamp believes "Silence
IS Golden!" But will YOUt
Starting Sun.
March 13
, Last Timet Today
"THE HOPE"
Tomorrow (One Day Only)
GEORGE
ARLISS
in
"THE DEVIL"
Don't Mis It
Hippodrome'll",
OWEN MOORE in
"CRIMSON GARDINIA"
Spanish Rhapsody "Espana"..
Chabricr
Fantasia "La Bouenie". .Puccini
"Invitation to the Dance"
Weber
"Prelude in G Minor"
Rachmaninoff
".March of the Bojaren"
IlalTorsea
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0JO
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PURPOSELY
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AUTO SHOW WEEK
Burlesk is Everything Except What Those Who Don't Attend Think it is.
Twice Daily ( AL SSS. ) At 2:15 and 8:30
SUNDAY HITIIEE AT PRE-W PiCES
JOE I.URTIG'5 TREMENDOUS ENTERPRISE
VIVIAN
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PIIRPdSELV Rnnkurt Fnr Allto Show Week
huVtIs-s big WONDER SHOW gjfjJS
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Babetta tnd the N. Y. Cast. INTACT. 4 Aerial
Morok Slttori. "Tho Douoli Dlsoere." travesty on
David Belaeco'a "Tho Gold Dlogera. Sun-KUt
Beauty , Ghorut. Only Muilcal Show In Town.
LADIES' DIME MATINEE WEEK DAYS
PHOTOPLAYS.
IT IS ABOUT TIME
For Something Different
in Motion Pictures
and We Have It
in
"Something
Different"
it the
A Bee Want Ad Will Work
4 Wonders
TO En
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fi "TV iSTi iVW
W7
BOOKED for AUTO SHOW WEEK
GEQL R MURPHY
ANDA 14 KARAT CHAIN OF
mmmms, including-
FL0 PERRY BERTHA ST0LLER,
PERRY-BABE BURNETT
EVANS - FRANK MARTIN'
f CHICK HUNTER- BURT HUNTER
andsvoer of otfietr.
lud the European Jsrkl&nsationj
FOUR mm SISTERS
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AND THEN OH YSf
THAT OiORUr !
NOT A SPANGLE MlttlNG"
flheGteatss'tof Surprises'
Hfifank Dupreeir Lau&hable Spoof-
unctuous travest?OR .
THE GOLD DIGGERS
EMPRESS
LAST
TIMES
TODAY
HALL ERMINE A BRUCE, "A Night
on Broadway." THREE BLIGHTY
GIRLS, "Rare Biti of Scotch Vaude
ville." BARBER & JACKSON, "The
Lorn, and Short of It." MURRY
VOELK, "Who Is He." Photoplay At
traction, "That Girl Montana," featur
ing Blanche Sweet. Century Comedy.
riiorori-Aisi.
Last Time Today
a it on Everyone' Lips.
With a tremendou sweep the
dramatic force of this story is
startling all Omaha.
Adapted from the novel by
WINSTON CHURCHILL
that mad the whole world sit up
and GASP.
All this week at the
"THE INSIDE
OF THE COP"
, Ml KM I.NTS.
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Nights. 15c to $1.ZS Next Week
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