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The Married Life of
Helen and Warren
A Study in PerspectiveThe Vanishing Point pushed by Arrangement with me Jt
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A Trying Ordeal on the Pier Attends
v Theif Night Arrival in New York.
It was after 10 o'clock before the
huge liner finally dockfd. For over
ix hours they had been held up at
quarantine by scarlet fever in the
steerage.
The passengers, tired and irritable
frbm this delay following an excep
tionally roiiK" voyage, were now im
patient to get through the cuMunis.
The long dock swarmed with por
ters and rumbling trucks, as the bag
gage was distributed under the let
ters that bung from the- beams.
Helen; sitting dejectedly on one of
their trunks under "(!," watched for
the rest of their luggage; while War
ren hurried doyiV the pier to the
greftt crowd of friends and relatives
waiting behind the ropes.
Too tired to force the joyous ani
mation always expected after a trip
abroad, Helen was secretly hoping
that no one as there to meet them.
Above all, she hoped it would not
v be . Warren's sister. Tonight,
weighed by the home-coming depres
sion, she felt unequal to Carrie's
critical -mpection and inevitable
Stream of questions. ,
.-Then she saw Warren making his
t way back through the piles of lug
gage and witrr him Carrie and
Lawrence!
Assuming a smile of eager cordial-
xity, she ran., to greet them.
"Weren't we lucky to get
through??" effused Carrie.' "Warren
knew the men at the gate. How was
the trip?. Did yotfc have a wonderful
time in Paris?"
"Oh, yes, vcry-wonderful," mur
, mured Helen, jvIio loathed these
sweening questVns.
"Did you find things cheap. Did
you get a lot of clothes?"
A tew things, conscious of Car
rie's critical sufvey of her Parisian
coat and hat.
Warren and Lawrence now start
ing off to. look up the rest of trre
luggage, site was le-ft alone vvitlr her
innuisitive sister-in-Jaw.
"That's a good lo6king coat. What
did you have to pay for that,?"
'l don't remember exactly." furi
ous at this prying question. Warren
has all the bills for the customs
you can ask him."
''Oh, if you don't wand to tell ine
just say so," arrogantly.
Helen bit her lips. t was always
the same. She could nevcY be with
Carrie .for five minutes without
clashing. - "
"We've Rot everything now ex
rent one trim!-," Warrgn came up
- followed by a steward with their
' hand luggage.
, "1 hear you had a pretty rough
. trip," Lawrence turned to Helen.
"Must've been a high sea for the
waves to hit that bridge. Were -ou
sick?" ,
- "Xo, but I didn't feel very com
fortable." .
"Oh, Helen will never admit she's
seasick," lauglied Carrie. "She's the
champion sailor a.lvays."s
"Well, she felt pretty rocky this
trip," WarrerH grinned. "Wasn't out
of the stateroom for three days."
"Because it was so rough." flared
Helen. "But 1 wasn't sick.".
- "No. of course not. You never
are." Carrie, intone of her most caus
tic moods, was deliberately trying to
be hateful.' v
' "Here's the last piece," announced
Warren, as the steward shuffled up
with the trunk on his shoulder. "Now
I'll try to get an inspector." '
J . "Dear, you know how long it took
last time. "Carrie and Lawrence won't
vlnt to wait." - .
"Oh, we're in no hurry." protested
Carrie, perching on one of the trunks.
Tomorrow's Sunday we can. sleep
late." 1 - ,
Helen had hoped they would leave
s before the -inspection of their bag
gage. . But evidently Carrie was dc-
tcrniined to stay and view their Par
isian pur-liases.
"Wc:i, Helen, I hope you've de
clared1 everything," she shrugged.
Mrs. Ed Barton lad to pay a
$500 fine for smuggling in a
" couple oi gowns. Oh, look, she's
gettirR into trouble 1'
A fhished and excited woman un
der "D" was arguing with the in
spector over a silver-brocade evening
wrap which 'she had not declared.
Ignoring her voluble explanation,
he laid the wrap aside and proceed
s ing to search through every drawer
in the large wardrobe trunk.
"He's found something else."
whispered Carrie,as from beneath
the lining of a. black velvet hat he
drew out an expensive paradise aig
rot. .
"I nut it there so it wouldn t get
rokeu," shrilled the woman. "And
I T forgot it!"
"Madam, that makes four expen
sive at ticks you've forgotten to d
"clare. I'm afraid jcur bad memory
is Retting you into 'serious trouble.
- The woman stood 'wretchedly -Jy
vtiite , he ransacked another tray.
Ruthlessly he dumped out a pile of
silk lingerie on the grimy cement
llOJf.
Warren now returned with another
inspector a thin dyspeptic looking
pan. his grim-niouth emphasized by
. a bristling gray mustache
He was not going to be "easy'."
Nervously Helen thought of die few
small things she had not declared.
, It was Warren's trunk that he
opened first. He merely glanced at
the closely-packed shirts, looked at
a gray tweed suit, opened a box of
.cigars, asked if he had anything al-
coho'io then closed and marked the
. trunk, . .v.
- Helen was elated. He was going to
be "easy" after ajl! But when he
opened her trunk, his attitude
changed. Evidently suspicious of
all women, he took out the wardrobe
tray and inspected tvery garment.
Fortunately sie had followed War
ren's advice and declared her pur
chase at their full value.
"I don't see this on your declara
tion," examining the label in the
waistband of the one evening gown
she had taken over with her.
v "No, that's a French model . I
bought here in New York.
-'"Where's this eight-huntired-franc
coat you have down here?"
"It's the one I'm wearing," flush
ing at Carrie's chuckle as its value
-was revealed.
"Very reasonable for that," the in
spector eyed it suspiciously.
"Yes, it was reduced.- Mr. Curtis
has the bill.'"-as Warren produced it.
"What's in this?"He was feeling
paper-wrapped package.
It was the present they were bring
ing Carrie the fitted sewing box I
Now she would know what it cost!
"It's this iteirn" Helen indicated
the line on the declaration.
"Leather sewing box 30 francs,"
he read aloud with hateful distinct
ness. "Will you undo it, please?"
Helen was forced to comply while
Carrie stood there eagerly watching,
"Oh, it's not real leather," ' he
examined the cover. "Just imita
tion. That's all right. ,M'hat's in
this?" feeling another package.
Boiling inwardly, Helen tied up the
discredited work box. Now Carrie
knew it was imitation leather and
that it cost only 30 francs!
Plainly distrustful of all feminin
ity, the inspector's examination of
Helen's trunk was thorough. But
apparently looking fo more valu
able articles, he failed to notice the
few' small' things she had not de
clared. '
When he figured up the duty on
an upstanding trunk, Helen could not
see the amount, but she saw the roll
of bills Warren drew from his pock
et. "Dear, how much?" tensely, when
the inspector had finally departed.
"Not bad only $37.50." .
' "That's too much," indignantly,
"We bought so little. And you said
they'd make an allowance 'for wear
and I'd worti everything."
"He did take off something on that
coat. He was pretty decent. They've
got to be strict lot of smugglers
try to get-stuff in on these hig boats."
"Hardly looked at your trunk' but
he seemed suspicious of Helen,"
hughed Carie.
"It's always the women who try to
speak JJiings through," observed,
Lawrence.
"Come on. guess we can get out of
here now. Here " -Warren stopped a
porter with an empty triltk. "Take
this stuff down and put it on a taxi."
"Well, we'll leave you," announced
Carrie. "Our Car's here but we
couldn't go together, anyway. Hope
vou find everything all right at
home." '
"Mighty good of you to meet us.
Come in and have dinner with us
some evening next week," invited
Warren, cordially.
"Yes. do, echoed Helen weakly.
Twenty minutes later they were
driving homeward in an ordoriferious
taxi, their trunks piled on top, and
the hand luggage cramping their
knees.
"Carrie looked well, didn't( she?
Sppmc crmd to se 'em attain." War
ren settled back and lit a cigar. "Well,
Kitten, we're getting home.
"You needn't have asked them to
dinner next week," resented Helen.
"We'll hardly be settled. I don t
know when we can get a maid." ,
, "Oh, that's all right" carelessly.
"We'll take !em out somewhere. '
"She knew I didn't want her to
stay while he examined the trunks
but she stood right there just to see
what I'd bought. And rtiat sewing
boxnow she knows it's not real
leather and was only 30 francs. We'll
have to give her something else. Oh,
I was furious when she found out
what I paid for this,., coat-r-she'd
asked me and I wouldn't tell er."
"Now. see here, don't begin to pick
on Carrie the minute we get home."
"Dear, I don't mean' to, but it did
get on my nerves the way she
stood there over my trunk. And I'm
so tired and depressed' anyway"
tremulously.
"Depressed? After this trip? You
ought to 'feel like a fighting cock.
Most people would be darn thank
fmY to be taken on a' jaunt like that."
"Dear, you know I enjoyd every
minute! That's why I dread getting
back to lust housekeeping. Your
work is so varied you've so many
irterests and meet so many ,pe6ple.
But. I'm coming back to to count
the laundry apd decide what we'll
have for dinner I" v -
"Well, you don't expecrto be gal
livanting around all the time, do
you? Traveling's all right but I'm
glad to get back. Home's going to
look mighty good." t
"Oh, yes. dear, of course it will!"
forcing a cheerful enthusiasm. Vlt's
the most wonderful place in the
world."
But in her heart she knew that
just nojy any place seemed prefer
able to home. With sick dejection
she shrank from taking up the color
less everyday grind. After the
glamor and gaiety of Paris, the nar
row routine of her prosaic household
tasks seemed unbearably drab and
monotonous.
(Copyright. 1921. Mabel Herbert Harper.)
Even Babies Are Taken to
Beauty Parlors in London
London, March 19. The mostn
tertaining place in this city is a hair
dresser's shop.
There you learn how high-born
babies are made good-looking; iow
women alter their features and re
new their youth. '
A hairdresser showed how the face
could be altered by changing the
position of the eyebrows.
"If the eyes are deep-set," he said,
"and the forehead high it is not be:
coming to a woman.
"She can improve herself by hav
ing the eyebrows shaved off and
others pencilled a little above.
Wealthy, people call in a beauty
specialist at once if their baby is
not goo'd-looking and have" nature's
errors rectified.
"I like to see the mother make
herself look as young as the daugh
ter," continued the hairdresser.
"I don't care what woman it is
when she gets to a certain age she
must make up.
.
U. S. Extravagance Extends
Even to Cafkets, Sayg Pastor
Columbus, O., ' March 19. The
taxes of this country might be re
duced 50 per cent if we would re
duce our economic wastes," said the
Rev. Dr. Daniel F. Rittenhous,, pas
tor of the First Baptist church, er
moaizing on "America's Character
istic Sin." This sin, he said, is ex
travagance. "Extravagance in our social life is
perilous to human feeling," he said.
"We are wild about the spectacular.
The sweet, simple ways of life are
being swallov.ed up. in an attempt to
shine.
"In America there is a tendency to
display, even of deatji itself.. Expen
sive caskets, flowers, dresses made
especially for a few hours' wear r.nd,
finally, an elaborate tombstone are
all part of the show.
"There is an extravagance in some
of our weddings which is an obso-.
Rite violation of the sacredness and
sanctity of the ceremony."
Bee Want Ads little, but mighty.
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Heart Secrets ,of a
Fortune Teller
By RACHEL MACK.,
Is He Stingy?
My door opens like a hurricane
and a good-looking little tailor-made
dame hurries in, black eyes snap
pin' and a determined chin set at the
trouble angle. '
"You are upset!" iNays, after in
viting her to be seated. "Somebody
has disturbed your peace of mind."
"Vou are right, somebody has,"
she snaps, "atod I'm plotting re
venge!" ' -
"Ah!" I says, "I'll wager you're
plannin' to return the little soli
tire! Am I right,"
She looks surprised. "Yes," she ad
mits,, that seems to be the best way
tolN
ua&iuic iu gci even aiiu ijuiiiaii ja.n
for his behavior last night" "
"Suppose you reel off the story of
the battle," I suggests.
"Well," she opens, "there's noth
ing I hate like a tightwad"
"There's nothin' any woman hates
like a tightwad I" I informs her. "We
are all alike in that little detail."
"I suppose we are," she answers,
"but I have always- felt especially
strong on the subject. In my eyes,
stinginess is one of the worst faults
a man can have it shows a shriveled
up soul." -
"Well," I says, risln' in defense
of the absent brethren," "some men
hove got to be etightwads. It's often
the only way to make two widely
divergin' ends meet."
"I'm not -speaking-of that class of
men," she informs me. "Of course,
I don't admire a man for spending
the green-backs when he hasn't hon
estly got them to spend. The man
I'm speaking of is the sort who will
embarrass a . girl with petty econo
mies. The sort who wants to make
a show and is not willing tov pay the
price for it!" -
"Well, dearie," I remarks, "there's
a cheap sport parkin on every corner,
and there's no end oHewelry given'
; at Christmas that turns green in tho
spring, right along with the foliage!
But proceed with the story."
"Well," she says, "getting down
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first place, for I didn't see any use in
spending a lot of money on the food.
But Jack was set on a real party,
so I let him have hie way,, and we
landed ;.t "The I'eiidenni"
"We had a four course dinner. JackKwas' amused
oracrea line a millionaire. it was
regular food! When, we were through
the waiter brought the check. Jack
looked it over and handed him a bill.
But when the change came back the
trouble started!"
"For instance?" I savs, all inter
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changing him a quarter! There was
an awful argument. Then he sent for
the head waiter. He had the head
waiter go over the tKeck ajjd count
the change, and sure enough there
was, a quarter short! The first waiter
claimed the change was all there
when he brought it. The head waiter
naturally made avlot of apologies
but sided against Jack, just the same.
It was awfull"
"And you had some audience en
joyin' the little scene?" I suggests.
"A perfct mob," she says in, dis
gust. "Everybody in the restaurant
1 was furious with
Jack for creating such a disturbance
and I insisted on leaving and letting
the matter drop. But Jack said no,
it was a mater of principle with
him' and he intended to stay here
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7 Home
9 Guy L. Smith. '
10 Easy Furniture Co.
1 1 Guy L. Smith.
12 Farr Builder Supply Co.
13 Scott-Omaha Tent 4 Awning
Co.
IS Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
-.17 Pioneer Glass A Paint Co.
TV 8 Foster-Barker Co.
" 19 Milton Rogers A Sons Co. .
20 Foster-Barker Co.
21 Adams A Kelly-Co, N
22 Northwestern Terra Cotta Co.
23 Flaxlinum Co. -
24 Common Brick Manufacturers.
23 Wolff Co. t
26 Common Brick Manufacturers.
, 27 Nebraska Stone Co. - '
' 28 Reliance Brick Co. (Hollow
. Tile).
. 29 Compound 4 Pyrono Door Co.
' (St. Joseph, Mich.)
33 Farr Builders Supply Co.
34 Lew Wentworth, Inc.
35 Paxton 4 Gallagher Co. .
38 U. S. Supply Co.
37 Electrical Industrial Ass'n. ,
38 Larco Wrench 4 Mfg.'. Cor
noratirn (Chlcaro. III.) r
X
' .an M.I
40 Haberstroh Furnace Co.
The Co
Douglas 1338
Douglas 79
till he got justice. He said waiters
got away with this short-change-business
because prople were too
cowed to stand up for their rights,
and he intended to do his part to
put a stop to itl"
"And how did it all end?" I asks.
"It ended by the head waiter giv
ing Jack a quarter" apd offering an
apology on, the part of the -management.
And then, "she announces in
disgust, "Jack turned around as if
nothing had happened and tipped the
table waiter a dollar forseryicel"
Well, I laughs . until I'm' weak.
"Girlie," I finally manages to say be
tween gasps, there's never any use
in arguin' with a mad woman, so I
refuse to advise in this case. But'
accordin' to the mental picture I've
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tfL The following have contracted for space and.
j1 are preparing exhibits which will assure v a
show surpassing in beauty anJ magnitude any
thing ever attempted in Omaha:.
Space No. (
- 1 Beard Wall Paper Co.
2 Electrical Industrial Asa'n.
3 Holland Furnace Co.
4 Electrical InduatriaJ Asa'n.
Space No.
41 Electrical Industrial Ass'n.
42 Ideal Cement Stone Co. i
48 Reliance Brick Co. (Hollow
Tile.)
49 Common Brick Manufacturers.
50 A. Y. McDonald Manufactur
ing Cow :
51 Reliance Brick Co.
52 Truscon Laboratories.
53 Reliance Brick Co. .
56 Johnson Hardware Co. ..
57 Mineralite Stucco Co.
58 Scott-Omaha Tent 4 Awn
ing Co. , "
59 Omaha Concrete Stone Co.
60 Dodds Lumber Co.
61 M. A. Diabrow Co.
62 Kennard Glass 4 Paint Co. '
63 James Morton 4 Sons.
64 Gordon Fireproof Warehouse
and Van Co. - " .
65 Plymouth Gypsum. Co.
66 Gross Lumber Co.'
67 Omaha Steel Works. '
68 Holland Furnace Co.
69 Temple McFayden.-
70 Western Contractor (Kansas
City).
71 Higgins Manufacturing Co.
72 Munroe Sheet Metal Works.
' 79 Frank J. Merwald.
82 Fuchs 4 Sons.
83 Reliance BrickCo.
84 Refinite Co. '
85 Refinite Co.
86 Dundee Plumbing Co.
87 The Harry A. Koch Co.
88 Elastics Stucco Co. -
6 Electrical Industrial An n.
Builders, Inc.
8 Electrical Industrial Ass'n. "
3CT Electrical Industrial Ass'n.
In order to insure a perfect show we have decided to dis
pose of all space by. April 1st. Positively no reservations,
will be made later. v
mplete
picked up of friend Jack, he won't
need any champion.
"Any man, dearic who's got the
courage to meet a head waiter on
his own battle ground and fight
for his rights tijl he gets 'em, well,
he's a real man. Jor the w.orld
knows, dearie: that the withenin'
scorn of .taxilrivers and head wait
ers is harder to face than a nest of
German machine guns workin' over
time. . .
"No, dearie," I 'says in conclusion,
''you haven't got a chance in the
world of, makin' him take back that
solitaire. Something tells me, that
Jack's not going to lose his girl be
cause she happens to be sufferin'
irom a fit of temper. I'm betting on
him makin you keep the ring, dearie,
and furthermore, I've got him picked
Space Now
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18-23
Space No.
89 Omaha Reed 4 Rattan
90 Omaha Gas Co.
- 91 OmahavGas Co.
92 Nebraska Chapter of
3 Nebraska Chapter of
14 Nebraska Chanter of
95 Nebraska Chanter of
96 Nebraska Chapter of
B7 Nebraska Chapter of
102 Lumber Dealers.
103 Lumber Dealers.
104 Lumber Dealers.
'105 Cumber Dealers.
106 Lumber Dealers.
107 Lumber Dealtrs.
108 Lumber Dealers.
109 Lumber Dealers.
110 Lumber Dealers.
' 111 Lumber Dealers.
112 Lumber Dealers.
113 Lumber Dealers.
114 Lumber Dealers.
115 Lumber Dealers.
116 Lumber Dealers.
117 Lumber Dealers.
118 Burgeas-Nath Co.
119 Burgess-Nash Co.
124 Burgess-Nash Co.
125 Burgess-Nash Co.
126 Nebraska Chapter of
127 Nebraska Chapter of
12S Nebraska Chapter of
129 Nebraska Chapter of
130 Nebraska Chapter of
.131 Nebraska Chapter of
132 Nebraska Chapter of
133 Nebraska Chapter of
Build ins
Chas. A. Franke.
Rbbt. C. Mitchell
for a future head of the War de
partment, lie certainly has got the
makin's."
Next Week: The GirJ With the
High-Brow Tastes.
(Copyright, .1921, Thompson Feature
v Service.)
Purse Manl Lost in Ocean
S Is Returned by Finder
Provincctown, Mas., March 19.
A pocketbook lost overboard by Bra
gelia Souza while on a motorboat
trip between Highland Light and
Boston Light, washed ashore, at
Ocean Bluff, near Marshfield, . and
was returned to its owner. A Jieach
comher picked it up and discovered
Kjuua a immc a jjiuiui uunt li
cense, afterwards notifying the chief
of police here.
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