21, i'HE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. MAY 28. 1921. Commerce High Holds Outing And Field Dav Girls' Gym Classes Present "Festival of Four Seasons;" Seniors Win in Athletic Contests. ' 'Tlie fourth annual Commerce High school outing and field day wslirld yesterday at Elmwood park. Old Sol, after remaining hid den until 9:30, blazed forth in fierce fury in time to sunburn the partici pants in the "Festival of Four Sea sons." presented by the Commerce girls gym classes, the chief attrac i lion 'Ot the day's program. Students and faculty members numbering 2,50), boarded 20 char tered cars at 8:30 and by 10 the stage was set in a natural amphi theater for the pageant in which more than 100 costumed girls took part. Solo dances by Reigcna Helsing, Martha Funk, Ruth Elliot and Goldie Peterson brought rounds of applause. The girls' glee club, led by Miss Johanna Anderson, rendered the Vocal selections. Games for both boys and girls followed the outdoor luncheon. Every student participated in at least one of the events. The Senior class led with 53 points, while the. Freshmen piled up 45 counters. .."J Henry V. Campbell, Commerce professor, defeated all contestants in the rope, jumping content. The clerk of the course in the . potato race was forced to use oranges for potatoes, but when thec disappeared in the pockets of , some sticky-tingered freshmen, '"wooden potatoes" were substituted. Bght Debaters and Three Orators of 1 n . i n . a i central uets awards Eight Central High school debat ers; and three members f the de clamatory team received certificates of recognition at a mass meeting held before school yesterday at the Cen tral High school auditorium. "The debaters arc Eleanor Hamil ton, captain of the negative team and girl sfar athlete; William Cejrn;; , captain of the affirmative team; Karl K haras, Eloise Maggarctt, Lval Qulnby, Ruth Godfrey, Richard Els ter and Morris Block. They prob ably will receive medals for their work. Coach Chatlainc presented the awards. .-. . , Tlie three member of the de clamatory team are Leon Connell, Annette Fangcr . and Wayne Pope. Miss Kanger won first place in the , state dramatic contest, held at Cozad ' last month. Connell won second place in the state contest in the humorous class. Wayne Pope won second place in the district contest on oratory. He was entitled to rep- resent Central in the state contest, but did not attend, through a mis understanding of the officials. ."Athletic monograms were also p're tented to members of the track an,d base ball teams by Coach Harold R. Mulligan. Commerce School to Give Business Course 1 : For High Graduates Principal Dwight E. Porter of Commerce High has announced that the school is offering a six months' ; intensive (stenographic and secrc 1 tarial course to 'graduates of all Omaha High schools. , The purpose of this- course is' to prepare high school graduates for immediate office work and to give those who intend to attend college a beneficial course in typewriting and shorthand. . This course will open' June 27 at "the High School of Commerce a'ncf will , close December 9. The sub jects offered will include: Business -writing, ' business . correspondence. ' stenography, typewriting, secretarial accounts and office training. ' Principal J. G. Masters of Central (Htgli school Is much .in favor of this course and has urged graduates to ': taket advantage of this work. Ap ' proximately 30 Central graduates ; will take tlie course. . -Two Motorists Are Fined - r When They Face the Judge IXJsandy. Rose, 2811 Douglas street, ws fined $5 for speeding by Police Judge Foster, yesterday. ' , John Vasco, 1013 Hickorv street. was fined $7.50 for driving his motor- j cycle past a street car which 'was un-1 , loading passengers. 'i'y':- Postoffice to Close. ATI departments of the postoffice except the special delivery and par- celt post branches will be closed on . Memorial day. it was announced to ' "-daym No regular mail deliveries will . DC IlldUt. - Do We Speak of "Pin Jfoney?" ' '.r. During the 16th .and 17th centuries p'ms were so high priced that only the . wealthy could afford to own thetn. In addition, under the rc strictisns of a curious law, the man- : tifacturers of pins were permitted to sell them only on two days of each 1 year January 1 and 2 and, when . these days , came around, women 1 whose husbands could afford the ex penditure, secured "pin money" from - them for their purchases. While savages have; for ages, used thorns and splinters for the purpose of joining bits of hide, or making ,, garments out of leaves, pins a we know them today did not come into use until the early part of the 14th century. They were introduced into '. England in 1540. but it was not nn N tilf 1824 thaj an American named Might invented a machine for man ufacturing pins very rapidly and , more than 1,500 tons of brass and iron are annually 'converted into pins in the United States alone a . condition which renders obsolete the ; original meaning of the phrase "pin money." ' This, however, still per sists as a synonym for an allow- auce given by a. husband to a wife to cover her personal expenses.' 'Copyright, is:u Wheeler Syndicate, Inc. s ... WHY THE GUMPS Vnnv AT "YLIAT 4QOV- i - i ANS LOOK AT tt More Truth Than Poetry By JAMES J. MONTAGUE SUCCESS 4 mmw in i i i un . 1 1 i We are always surprised when some freckle-faced kid Who comes from the raggedest ranks. Walks right up the stairs in financial affairs Till he's boss of a dozen big banks. "Good gracious!" we say, "if a youngster like that Can corner the note-shaving mart, m And mkc the coin in. what a wiz he'd have been Jf he only had had the right start. When a carrot-topped lad who was bred on the farm Gets in the industrial game, . And has got it controlled when he's 30 years old, We greet him with startled acclaim. "My goodness!" we say, "if he got where he is 1 With nothing, but hustling and grit, What success he'd have won, would this son-of-a-gun, Tf some one had helped him a bit!" But in youth, when the wolf is outside looking in When wages and rations are scant, There is no time to shirk you must stick to your work And never lie down for you can't When you've gone without luncheon a half dozen years, By taking a reef in your belts, You'll be certain to save till you go to your grave You cannot do anything else. But the lad who has had all the money he liked To spend on the Janes and the horses. Who has always enough of the yellow backed stuff To indulge in expensive divorces; The lad, who no matter how loosely he blows Will always have plenty of plunder, Put him on his own in the big business zone And if he makes good, he's a wonder! r 1 - ' - i , u i y XO, WE DON'T MEAN "HANDS" The British passenger vessels are now engaged in promoting the 'Cans Across the Sea" movement. BUT HE WASN'T If Brigham Young had been a little shrewder he'd have had all his wed dings in Connecticut IT TOOK A LONG TIME At last the Germans have admitted that they lost, the' war. (Conrriibt, jr The Bell Syndicate. Inc. I SLEEPY-TIME TALES T H CHAPTER XII. Mr. Crow Is Disagreeable. Although Mr. Red-winged Black bird talked about the weather as last as he could, his'chatter did not pre vent Mr. Crow from interrupting him. becnu.ie the old gentlemau was "Yes!" Mr. Crow replied., determined to be disagreeable to Bobby Bobolink, and nothing could stop him. "Your friend, here has been talking about you," he' told Bobby Bobolink with a wise smile. "He says you have a . good manv names." "Yes!" Bobbv told Mr. Crow. "That's quite true." Mr. Crow coughed; and he shot a side look at Mr. Red-winged Black bird. "It must be pleasant .to have so many fine names," Mr. Crow then added with a smirk. "Oh. ery!" Mr.1 Red-winged Blackbird answered for his friend. Mr. Crow turned a snapping eye on him and croaked: "There's at least, one name you left out among the lot you men tioned to me. You said he was known as the Reed Bird, the Rice Bird and the -Butter Bird. But there's one more bird still to be added to the list." -Is there?" "Yes!" Mr. Crow replied. "Maybe I kfiow more about your chum than you do. Perhaps you weren't aware that in spite of all the elegant names you've spoken of, he's nothing but a Skunk Blackbird after all'." And with a loud haw-haw Mr. Crow rose upon the breeze and flapped into the woods. That was a favorite trick of -E. LootfS FEED A CHOPPCP HONM" THM(j IT e'tAL E OF BOBBY; II fsfffv i OBOLIISIK BYARTHURtSCOTTRMLEY. his. After making some specially rude remark he would hurry away before anybody had time to think of a retort. ' "The ' idea!" Mr. Red-winged Blackbird exclaimed to Bobby Bob-t olink, gazing after Mr. Crow with an injured air. He insulted you! To his great surprise Bobby laughed heartily. ' "Mr. Crow is a wise old bird," he said. "He generally knows what he's talking about." "You don't mean to say that he was telling the truth, do you?" .Mr. Red-winged Blackbird demanded. "I do!" Bobby Bobolink admitted. Mr. Red-winged .Blackbird edged away slightly. Skunks, he knew, would rather ..eat .. a bird than nor. And he couldn't help wondering whether a' Skunk Blackbird migh; be as dangerous. "Then some people do call you that!" he faltered. "Yes! But I don't care," Bobby Bobolink ans.wcred carelessly. "It's only because" of these clothes I'm wearing . at present black, you know, with stripes of white down each side and meeting on my back." Mr. Red-winged Blackbird stared at him. "Then," he asked, "that's the only way- you're like a Skunk?" t "Certainly!" said Bobby. And he laughed so merrily that Mr. Red winged Blackbird had to believe him. "I was scared, for a moment," he confessed. , "I was afraid you might take it into your hand to eat me." Bobby Bobolink seemed to think that a huge joke. And he sang sev eral humorous songs before he turned to Mrs. Red-winged Black bird and said: ' "I can tell you one thing. I'd rather be called a Skunk Blackbird than a Skunk Crow, any day I" ' (Copyright, rQroHet A Dunlap.) Where It Started Vaudeville. The origin of this form of enter tainment is traced to Oliver Basselin, a Norman peasant-poet, who flour ished in the 15th century. He com posed and sang many ballads of his native country; in old French, these songs were called "vau-de-vire," which was later changed to vaude ville." The name of the songs camt to be applied to any form of light entertainment. Copyright, Wbecior Syndicate, Inc. SEND , AROUND A LOAD OF CORDWOOD LIKE A COCnVATTOB. And LE&vecj rite cosm- ou couix PO$ YATfl :Ym xou OFF VO)V ACfc WV IN Will. PRfVVJ riQK-c. OVUOP THAN TVE NOftU NW- T wiUU IJ HOLDING A Adele Garrison's Revelations The Decision Madge Made. '"Well! Is the promised view up to specifications?" Lillian asked slyly, when, after climbing the slope leading from the barn to the wood land upon the property next to the Ticer farm, we turned upon the highest point, and faced the way we had come. But her question had not been uttered until a long minute after . we had turned, for beauty lover that she is she had been stilled, even as I was, into apprecia tive tjjrillcd silence at the view which lay before us. From the acclivity upon which we stood the ground dipped downward in a lovely undulating slope of wood land and meadow to the ocean, fully three miles away. We could clearly see the dancing silvery gleam of the water in the sunlight, and make out the sails and masts of the fishing boats and other craft plying their way through. the waves. To one side the church spires and picturesque houses of an old village nestled in the trees, just bursting into leaf, while from an isolated farmhouse here and there spirals of smoke curled lazily. And all around us, extending as far as our eyes could see, the ground was carpeted with violets and cow slips. Marion, the beauty of the dis tant view dwarfed by the loveliness near at hand, was already on her knees busily gathering the spring blossoms. Mrs. Ticer knelt to assist the child, but Lillian and I stood side by side in silent admiration until a remark by Mrs. Ticer recalled us to earth, and Lillian seized the op portunity to remind me of my prom ise. What the House Disclosed. "Don't be sacrilegious," I re torted, then smiled to soften my asperity. "It's ,like the things I've dreamed about, "not the things I've seen," I acknowledged a few seconds later, "and I don't 'mind admitting that it will go far toward palliating what we may find in the house. Let's go down and find out the worst," "The worst," was bad enough, in deed, as I found 'when he had re traced our steps and entered the house which Mrs. Ticer had thought might do for us, if we could find nothing else. Dirt grimed into walls and floors and ceilings, wall paper hanging in tattered strips, window panes broken and stuffed with old rags, heaps of unsightly rubbish in every corner this was the-picture that met our eyes in every room. "Seven maids with seven mops," I murmured to Lillian. "It would take 70 times seven of the modern ones," she rejoined smiling. But, my dear, will you look at that hand-carving on those doors I" t Madge's Announcement. . I followed her glance willingly, I had already seen what her education was evidently meant to point out to me, that underneath the grime, this house which we were exploring was a wonderful old structure. It pos sessed sound walls and foundationi woodwork, hand-carved, which once had worn the ivory-tinted paint 'so beloved of our ancestors, and lofty ceilings and ' staircases which would lend themselves to restoration as if they had been waiting through the years for an understanding and to give back to them their heritage o cleanliness and beauty. We explored the house thoroughly Not a foot of it escaped us from the attic over the kitchen, par titipned off into three tiny bedrooms which I mentally changed into a billard room incidently raising jts roof to the basement in which a few rotting vegetables made their pres ence emphatically known. But it was not the odor from them which final ly drove us into the freshair again tut anothet, sickly sweetish aroma., which seemed to pervade everything and was especially strong in the kit chen. "What on earth is that?" Lillian asked, as we emerged from the kit chen door. "Hootch." Mrs. Ticer responded briefly. "Everybody's suspected that they've been making it. but they couldn't get nothing on' 'cm. But that's what they've been doing all right. The smell of the stuff is grained right in the walls." "I'll tell the.wori. it's all of that," Lillian rejoined, filling her lungs with deep breaths of the fragrant spring air outside. "But I don't think it's anything that paint and pap?r won't banish, do you Madge?" "Let me announce , right here," I said; smiling at the anxiety for me. which I knew lay beneath her ques tion, "that the housing question of Anything You Get From "MacK' is Good MAPLE LAND! THE ONLY FIRST CLASS SODA FOUNTAIN SERVICE OUT "AK-SAR-BEN" WAY Maple Land Store J. T. M cMannis, Proprietor Center Street at 52nd ' ONS Or THOSE. tvlKCE xm- BUY ONIX ?EOPlS HUSBAND New Phase of of a Wife one family is settled. This is my house. I've adopted it, and I'm go ing to own it, if possible. Mrs. Ticer, if you'll tell me the address of the owner, I'll go to see him at once, and close the deal? Then I can wire Dicky to send the furniture out, and in the meantime interview car penters and masons, and painters and paper-hangers. Isn't it a mercy Mother Graham and Junior and father are still in the south? What ever would 1 do with them if they were added to this mess?" A shout from the road'put a period to my self-congratulations. Jerry Ticer, who had gone to Sag Harbor early, came up the, path waiying a yellow enevlope. "Telegram for you, Mis' Graham," he said. (Continued Monday.) Romance in Origin Of Superstitions By H. L. KING. Washing Together. If two persons wash their hands at the same time it is a sign that they will be friends forever. Or, as they say in Pennsylvania, "Wash and wipe together; life in peace for ever." When Henry Vlil wished to show to his courtiers tr.s friendly terms upon which he and Cardinal Wolsey stood he cau---' ca'-dinal to wash his hands with him in the golden basin which was presented his majesty for purposes of ablution after dinner. Seeing the king and his great chancellor washing tr.eir i hands at the same time in the ff.me basin convinced the courtiers that the rumor of their falling out was all "bosh" and that king ar.d cardi nal would be friends forever. The charm did not vcrk in the case of Henry and Wolsey but tr.e ceremony spoken of was :i very an cient one indicating a lasting friend ship between kings and those whom they honored, or with whom Ihcy were binding a troi-" -The inti macy of the act and the ostentatious manner in which it was frequentl performed doubtless had - Teat deal tt do with impressing upon ths populace its signification of lasting friendship and in maknig it the im mediate ancestor of the popular su perstition of today. But back of that lies the mysti qualities attributed to water b primitive man as an ultimate source of the generation of life, and the veneration in which t'.ie hand was held as a distinctive mark of man's superiority over the brute snd as thr agent of his intellectual processes. Two men washing their hands to gether in the same water generated, a similarity of life in thought and action which produced a lastitng friendship. (Copyright, 1921. by The McClure New. paper Syndicate.) Sense sOinmon By J. J. MUNDY. When you arc in the company of i a man who is well posted on a cer- j tain subject do not try to impress j him with the fact that you also are j quite well informed on the same subject It should be much more profitable to you to ask -him questions which will bring additional knowledge to you. You have nothing to gain by a display of knowledge, trying to make a man think you know con siderable, because you cannot fool a man who really knows. Your form of expressing yourself is bound to give you away. Then the man who knows does not volunteer information to a. man who tries to work a bluff that he knows, but most men will give out some good pointers to the per son, who, by asking questions ad mits that Jie is interested and de sires ,to learn. Thousands and thousands of men ha-. failed to make a success of: their lives because they were unwil- ling to admit their ignorance along! lines that they figure they should I know a great deal. Undoubtedly ; you can recall in stances where you might have ob tained something of great benefit to you something you could have used to advantage later if you had accepted a chance to learn. A veneer of knowledge amounts to little. (Copyright, 121. ' International Feature Service, Inc.) Drawn for (Copyright, ORCUrlSTANTiAU TrttfcS ASC M TM Jewel, Flower. Color Symbols for Today By MILDRED MARSHALL. Today's talismanlc stone, the ame thyst, is said to have great influence over the emotions of men and wom en on this date. The ancients be lieved that it impelled them to com mit rash acts and lrjakc unwise prom ises. However, it is said also to qucken the intelligence .of its wear er and bring keen judgment in busi ness affairs. Today's natal stone is the beryl,' which also is believed to endow its wearer with great mental ability. It is said that all legal matters, except divorce, will be satisfactorily adjus ted for those who wear this stone. The ' mystics- of olden times be lieved that orange colored silk should be worn at this time. It is said to bring mental strength and physical skill to its wearer. The white rose is today's flower. Copyright. 1911, Wheeler Syndicate, Inc. Do You Know the Bible? (Cover up the answers, read the ques tions and see if you can answer them. Then look at the answers to see If you are right.) . , , Follow These Questions and Ans wers As Arranged by J. WILLSON ROY. 1. What was the birthplace of King Saul? 2. Who was Benaiah? 3. Who wes Nebat? 4. What da we learn of Zebbim? 5. What was the name of th shepherd of Carmel who refused food to David? 6. Who was Mishael? Answers. 1. Gibeah. 2. The qommander of David's bodyguard. ' 3. The father of Jeroboam. 4. This was one of the cities of the plain destroyed with Sodom. 5. Nabal. See 1 Samuel xxv. 6. A companion of Daniel, and a Hebrew captive in Babylon. (Copyright, 1921, Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) Aged Gage County Farmer Held on Assault Charge Beatrice, Neb., May 27. (Special.) Thomas Churchill, 60, Hooker township farmer, was given his pre liminary hearing in Judge Ellis' court on the charge of assaulting Iris Grund. 10. He was bound over to the district court. AMUSEMENTS. Last Two Performances of the Season Matinee Today 2:15 EARLY CURTAIN TONIGHT at 8 ALICE LLOYD; BOBBY O'NEILL; HOLMES A LA VERE; CLARK & VERDI; Thomas F. Jackson; Everest's Novelty Circus; Otto & Sheridan; Mar guerite & Alvarez; Topics of the Day; Pathe News. Matinees, 15c to 50c; some 75c and $1.00. Sat. and Sun. Nights, 15c to $1.25. "A Place of Cool Delight" Last Times Today Matinee and Night "PARLOR, BEDROOM D ATU" the hilariously - ana DA I It successful farce Presented by the PRINCESS PLAYERS Starting Sunday Matinee 1Q V A CT" First Time 0 E.V3 1 j Omaha Mat. Sunday, Decoration Day, Wed. and Sat. 25c, SOc. Eve. 50c, 75c, $1 EMPRESS LAST TIMES TODAY McLAIN'S HAWAIIANS, Presenting "Dreamy Paradise;" JOE JENNY TRIO, Songs and Comedy That Made Them Famous; BESSIE CLIFTON. "The Vil lage Cutup " CHAS. tc HELEN POLLY, Genuinely Versatile. Photoplay Attrac tion, "ROAD OF AMBITION," Featur ing Conway Tearle. PHOTOPLAYS. mTTir JJb, Jj(ffr.EHOME OrPICNICSjl j FREE MOVIES TONIGHT AIRDROME . Famous Screen Star- AL. ST. JOHN in the "Big Secret'' Also a News Feature Dancing until 1 :45 dance floor Swimming Pool Opens The Bee by Sidney Smith. 1921. by Chicago Tribune Co.) Dog Hill Paragrafs By George Bingham Columbus Allsop reports that he at an insurance lircd two shots I agent Friday afternoon, but he got away. , A lively debate took place Mon day evening at the Wild Onion school house. The subject was Re solved, What Good Does an Argu ment Do Anyhow? The negative side won. Washington, Hocks says after careful inquiry he finds that all of the ideas of a lot of persons an second-handed. Copyright, 1921, George Matthew Adama. Farmers Union Requests New North Platte Stock Yards Lincoln, May 27. (Special.) The state railway commission was requested to order the Union Pacific to build a new stock yards at North Platte in a letter received from C. H. Withcy, manager of the Farmers' Union Live Stock commission com pany at Omaha. PHOTOPLAYS. Final Day Douglas McLean in "The Home Stretch" Next Week Our Third Anniversary FATTY ARBUCKLE in "Brewster's Millions" FINAL DAY "The Qilcled Liha" with'. Mae Murrai Last Times Fatty Arbuckle in-- "The nound-Up" Tomorrow Only "The County Fair" p. m. on the finest in the west. Sunday at 8 A. M. r V Si SiSi 8 .1 5xSgt: Parents' Problems Mow can a fondness for being out doors best be cultivated in city chil dren. Nature study is the best mean of interesting: city as well as coun try children in bcin r outdoors. The use of parks, playgrounds and back yards should be encouraged. Most children like to play in a park or a playground. As for the backyard., the bit of outdoors open to most citv children, a fondness for being in that can, perhaps, best be brought .-bout bv the present of a package ot vegetable or flower seed, and one or two inexpensive garden tools. Whether for children or grownups in the city, gardening, if even in a sninll wooden bos, nourishes a love for outdoors. rilOTOPLAVS. Last Times BERT LYTEL BUSTER KEATON in "The Haunted House" in "A Message From Mars" Starts Tomorrow "The County Fair" with " WESLEY BARRY Last Times Today 3:20, 7:40, 9:20 DORALDINA IN PERSON Tomorrow TOM MIX PEONY PARKT Opens the moat beautiful and up-to-date dancing pavilion TONIGHT GROHAN'S 10-PIECE ORCHESTRA General Admission, 50c DANCE ALL EVENING REFRESHMENTS Bui service from 14th and Far nam after 8 p. m. every 30 min utes. From 49th and Dodge every 15 minutes. Located on the West Dodge Road, opposite Peony Farm. BASEBALL! TODAY! Omaha vs. Des Moines Games Called at 3:30 May 27, 28, 29 Box seats for sale at Barkalow Bros. ; American Legion I Carnival Center J. George Loose Show, under u ' pices of American Legion, Douglas j County Post No. 1. s ! Commencing Monday, May 30, 7:30 P. M., to June 4 I ONE SOLID WEEK OF FUN 300 People . 25 Cars MILITARY BRASS BAND Decency and Quality First Show Grounds, 16th and Jones Sts. DANCE Emp ress Rustic Garden will close tonight at 12:30 a. m. for the summer after a very successful season. Mr. Ledoux wishes to thank the thousanda of patrons for their liberal support, and promises big ger efforts next season. Reopening date, Sept. 10th. EATTYS' Co-Operativo Cafeterias We Appreciate Your Patronage, TO) ID) V 4 V Y