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14 THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, 'JULY 1. 1921. MS worn no L PY-TIMC TALCS THE TALE OF D ICK I 0 CHAPTER XVII. A Slight Mistake. Scarcely had Dickie Deer Mouse plunged into the woods when he met Fatty Coon coming in the apposite direction. ''Hullo!" Fatty said, looking up at Dickie, who had scrambled into a tree as soon as he caught sight of Fatty s plump form. What have you been doing in Farmer Green's pasture? I thought you always stayed in the woods unless you hap Dened to ko to the cornfield." "I've been looking for a winter home, Dickie explained. And 1 ve just found the finest one you ever saw." "Where is it?" Fatty asked him. , I might want to pay you a call some night when I had nothing else to do. Dickie Deer Mouse was in such a cheerful mood that almost anything Fatty Coon might have said would have pleased him. v."My new house is just behind the fence," Dickie explained. "But I'm afraid you can't very well visit me there," he added with a smile. "Why not?" Fatty Coon inquired. I m as good a climber as anybody, I can climb the tallest tree you ever sa.v, without feeling dizzy. But of course I'm a bit heavier than you are. And if you've gone and picked out. ft tiest that s a long way above the- ground, .mong the smallest "Where .is it?"Fattg asked him. branches, it might not be safe for jne to go all the way up to it." Dickie Deer Mouse had to smile once more. " "My. new home isn't as high as I am right now," he told Fatty Coon. Fatty grunted. ' "'Their I'll certainly some to see you,", he said, "when time hangs heavily on my hands." - " . "My hew house isn't as high- as you are right now," Dickie remarked. And , at that Fatty Coon looked puzzled! His mouth fell open; and for few moments he stared at his small 4nend without saying a word. kit '"You must be mistaken." he re 1 J-fffiTatiast. "I'm standing on the ground. Ana 1 never saw a last year's bird's nest that was lower than ;that." ' "I shall have to explain,"- said Dickie, "that my new home is much finer, 'than my old one. Nov, you may not believe it, but it has a front hall thaVs a hundred times as long as your tail." Fatty. Coon looked around at his ringed tail, with its black tip; and then he looked up at Dickie Deer Mouse again. "You must be mistaken!" he cried. "I'll have t take my tail to our .$ house and measure your tront nan li If u.f TMf K. tint" I11V5C11 All mat. "You can't measure my hall!" Dickie Deer Mouse exclaimed. "Who's going to stop mt?" Fatty " Coon growled. He was used to hav ,.'ing his own way. -And it always made him angry when anybody tried ' to upset, his plans. "I'm going to your house in the pasture now; and I'll soon show you that you're mis taken about your f,ront hall. . '. . You come with me and lead the way, young fellow!" But Dickie Deer Mouse said he was' so," hungry that he couldn't go back just then. ' "Tm UraAfA fnr the biff beech tree I !ta seeif 1 can fin a few nuts" he wgnnounceu. i.".- v, mpntmn nf food FattV Coon's face took on a different look. J .Tni'hungry myself," hesaid, as if he hd.just .' remembered something. "I wasf-on my way to Farmer Green's corn house when I met you. And I really ought to get there before the moon comes up. So if you'll tell me where your house is I'll stop' there when I come back." . ' ., "My new home" Dickie ' Deer Mouse informed him with an air" of great pride "my new home is in the burrow where Mr. and ' Mrs. Woodchuck used to live. The front door is under the tree that stands on the knoll just beyond the fence. But you can neve get inside it, because you're altogether too fat." ' The stout person on the ground lenew that he spoke the truth. And without saying another word he turned about and disappeared in the direction of the farm buildings. 4 "Don't forget to take your' tail with you!" Dickie Deer Mouse called to? him, just before he was out of sight. 1 ."You might want to measure the corn house." vBuf Fatty Coon did not trouble "himself to answer. : (Copyright, Grot & Bunlap.) THE GUMPS JUST ANDY'S LUCK Drawn for The Bee by Sidney Smith, Copyright. 1921, Chicago Tribunt Company 'xkjeil MlM- I'M ALL PAjCVSm- fVVT WV" I TIME. TNKT X C0KIN6 FOfc RtVT Vrtf 0tf CANT GET MAtf NOMd A UfcTTte THAT CU GEE- SHT T(Kt TOO BM YJH tMtfT SHE 6VS V oMt NO Tlv-c. MVurr: mV i r kr- ht was; To Czjmp .)UST AT THE TtME WHEN1 I PLAUNEt fN YaCATOON- ANO I TAKE SO HW. PrifrlMARO TO WiMK roMlViCj TOO- yjAS ANMOUS To H0W Ht. VlK& THE. ft owc- i nAv w TvONK VOV'O setter. 60- lL LOom ATER MAMA- OW NtT li 'yjeu.-we.il- Nave a utue PR1WK.0V1 ANDY GOMPTtft DIPLOMAT W0 A.PDR.tS5 0 AN IWEFVNITV PEfc0D- DURlNGf THE TAV OF MoTHtR Wll BET "SMAt RFY y0 OLDTVMtR I'LL BE FlIfcTtrXj VVITVA NATURE VJWLE. fLRTN VJVTH 0R CZ BOX KOVJ THAT OlI GIRL UktS So?T HtLt CRABS- SCf NE.R AUK5Stt Trtt "StA HORE TOR. A NsltCVC AD THtKE. VtOULDNT BE AN( CRAS - TWC CR(KQ FAhAhV VJrtUt n Re- cv-nwi K 'Q(. frHfH- TW- Tilt TiA-hw f w0f ,flwt 111 Ure Among Aspirants for Job of Omaha Postmaster Among candidates for the office of; postmaster to succeed Herbert S. Daniel, democrat, looming on the political horizon with the announce ment that July 12 is the day set for civil service examinations for aspir. nuts,' arc W. 0. Urc. Benjamin F, Thomas, Charles Saunders, Charlei E. Black and the present incumbent rilOTOPLAVM. .: I More Truth Than Poetry -By JAMES J. MONTAGUE- i Parents' Problems :V Should parents read letters receiv ed and written by their children? -Children, if confidence in their par- 'ents is, unimpaired, are apt to wish their parents to read the letters, they ; write. - jor receive. Some children, however, are very reserved; should they not . offer to show their cor- " respondence to' their , parents, it - would seem better not to ask to see it letters, after nil, are personal and private, matters, even tlje letters of children! Of course, should the parents have reason to think that the letters either written or received are in any way undesirable, they should ask to See-them and if necessary stop the correspondence, explaining, care fully why. This naturally should be done with great delicacy and "uiet kindness. NO USE The worthy legislators Who rule the sunny state Of palms and alligators Have, after much debate, Where words in wild profusion, Re-echoed to the sky Arrived at the conclusion . That lawyers come too high. They do not mean to ban 'em, , But they would fix, by law, Three thousand every annum, As all they ought to draw. The lawyer who exceeds if Although he would not fail To set up that he needs it. Will have to go to jail. We hope the legislature - Will take its action soon; . A measure of this nature Would prove a public boon. Vast throngs would make the journey From all the other states, To pick up an attorney At reasonable rates. Yet any legislation That hampers or restrains 1 Or sets a limitation On any legal brains. , Will not for long be needed For every advocate Whose income is impeded Will shortly emigrate! BETTER THAN CITATIONS. Many a hero has a framed copy of the slacker list hung on his wall to prove his war service. ' TOO BAD. All these foreign, affairs must be cutting heavily into Mr. Harding's golf. ' : IT COULD DO KO HARM. Mr. Daugherty says he is after only the big profiteers. But while he is aiting to get them he might land a few little ones, just for practice. Copyright, 1921. The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Dog Hill Paragrafs By George Bingham Gab' Hancock don't believe -any more that music is soothing to the savage, as he sang to his baby the other night for two "hours ahd it got madder and madder, Frisby Hancock is thinking about installing a corn-sheller in his home to furnish nsise while 'his children go barefooted. . . . . Washington Hocks says he hopes it will never be considered out of date, when a friend is leaving the earth, to accompany him as far as the graveyard. Copyright, George Matthew Adams. Romance in Origin Of Superstitions By H. I. KING. A Child Falling Out of Bed. That if a child does not fall out of bed before it is six months old it will never be a bright and suc cessful person for, as some but it "will be a fool" is a common and wide-spread superseition. Apparent ly the superstition is a survival from the curious custom of simulated rebirth practiced by the ancients and found today among some savage tribes. Also it lingers today in some remote parts of Europe. Among the Greeks the ceremony was practiced as a means of adoption and any Greek who was supposed to be dead and who turned up alive had to un dergo it before he could again be reckoned as among living men. As a ceremony of adoption it prevailed among the barbarians as well as among the Greeks and such is the use made of it today. In certain European regions. But there are indications that the ceremony was also in the nature of an initiatory rite and as such ie survives today among certain Afri can tribes where until a young child has undergone this simulated rebirth he or she is not consider ed as being really capable of taking part as a member of the tribe, or of being initiated into certain tribal mysteries. A study of the ritual of these various ceremonies of simulat or rebirth shows parts which may be considered analogus to a child fall ing out of bed. With regard to the supposed dead Greek and with re gard to adoption the reason for the simulated rebirth is easy to see. But just why the African child should be incapable of full development a a member of the tribe until he has un dergone the rebirth ccremonT, or the New England 'child should not be expected to amount to much un less he falls out of bed early in the game assuming that we are right in regarding the lactcr superstition as a rebirth survival it is more difficult to say. Possibly the rebirth cere mony or accident is supposed through sympathetic magic, to add by a second birth to the physical and mental powers given the child at its first birth, (Copyright, 1921. by the McClure N'ewg paper Syndicate.) Do You Know the Bible? (Cover up the answer!, 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 An swers As Arranged by J. WILSON ROY. 1. When did 42,000 men lose their lives because they could not pro nounce a word? 2. Give two instances when rain was sent in answer to prayer. 3. Give two instances where rain was prevented in answer to prayer. 4. Who was it that said, "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?" 5. Where is it recorded that golden mice were used as an offer ing to the Lord? 6. What three Marys were at the cross? Answers. . 1. See Judges xii. 6. 2. .1 Samuel xii. 16: James v. 17. 3. ' 1 Kings xvii. 1; James v. 18. 4. Nathanael. See John 1. 48. 5. 1 Samuel vi. 4. 18. 6. Virgin Mary. Mary Magdalene and Mary, the wife of Cleophas. (Copyright. 1921. Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.) Miss Marguerite Sherar of Tope- college, 16 years in all, without an absent or tardy mark in her rccpra, Jewel, Flower, Color Symbols for Today By MILDRER MARSHALL. Today's talismanic gem is the ruby which the ancients believed could dispel sorrow and endowed the wearer with mental and bodily strength. The diamond is today's natal stone. An ancient legend credits it with the power to litt its wearer from poverty to wealth, and from obscurity to fame. It is dedicated to thijsc who have social ambitions. Ligt blue, today's color, was dedi cated by the ancient ' Greeks to Venus; the goddess of love, and so brings god fortune to . lovers. The gardenia, . which is today's flower, brings fortune to brunettes, but should not be worn by blonds. (Copyright, 1921, Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) ,ommon oense By J. J. MUNDY. Understand Your Partner. Too many ironclad rules between husband and wife are bound to cause unhappiness and perhaps marital dis aster. There should be elasticity between them. They are adults and cannot be dictated to as if they were children. Neither should expect his or her way all the time. Both have a right to their ideas and should carry equal power with the privilege. Most husbands and wives grow to be interested or school themselves to be interested in the same things to a great extent, but they cannot be expected to agree in all things nor to enjoy all things to the degree of the other. There are some couples who un dergo great change in their principles as they grow older; their ideas change radically. .This is unfortunate, and every ef fort should be made to ' keep the change of opinion from becoming too apparent or so marked as to cause unhappiness. Some allowance must be made for growth and development in later life, but couples should try to keep together in spirit of progress, men tality and follow the same course as far as possible. Mental consideration and under standing are necessary all the way through life, but essentially so in later life. (Copyright, 1921, International Feature Service, Inc.) WHY Do We Speak of "Tipping" a Waiter? While words which have been formed by the abbreviation of other words are far from uncommon, those which are nothing more than the in itials of the words of a phrase are unusual enough to place them in a class by. themselves. Of these, "fad" reputed to be nothing more than the first letters of -"for a day" and "tip" are excellent examples. To trace the history of the latter we have to, go back to the days when chop houses flourished in England, the days of Ben Jonson and his asso ciates. The practise of tipping wait ers, as we refer to today, was then unknown, but boxes began to be placed in the chop-houses and other restaurants with signs on them which read ''to insure promptness." The guests were expected to drop some donation into these boxes and the proceeds were divided among the waiters at the end of the week. In time, the legened on the cards was shortened to "T. I. P." and the word "tip" thus found its way into the language. Copyright, 1921, Wheeler Syndicate Inc. PHOTOPI.AY9. NOW SHOWING MAY McAVOY "in "A Private Scandal" Where It Started the conventional sign. The name of the inventor of the symbol is lost to history. Copyright, 1921. Wheeler Syndicate, Inc. Styles iii American-made automo. biles change as persistently as mi lady's gown. The Percent Mark () The figures "00" mean one hun dred, or centum, in the Latin; when the accountant wished to designate the term "percent," or hundrcth, he simply applied the meaning of "per" in its literal sense, which is "through" and drew a line through the hundred, thus: ; establishing PHOTOPLAYS. 1 A. ii .Blank I WHERE ICED BREEZES BLOW AMUSEMENTS. TWO SHOWS IN ONE EMPRESS 80UTHERLAND SAXOPHONE 8EXTETTE, Navtlty Muilcal Olferlni; KETCH a WILMA. Pruantlna "Vocal Variety:" GOLD V STEVENS, Harmony and Comoay; MACK 4 SALLE In "Tht Gown Moddl." Photoplay Attraction "THE CHAMBER MYSTERY," leaturlng a all-itar ct. The greateat ring-fight you've ever aeen on the acreen. A comedy-drama with a aplendid thrill. COMEDY EXTRA!! Clyde Cook . Carpentier- in Dempsey Train- "The Guide" ing Activities The Only Big CIRCUS to visit Omaha this year. Monday, July 11th inv3n i vjfal I Vn TAI TEKTED E-WTEJM7UKHNt , DE. iXyjot lOOO.OOO.OO rWDE. STREET 'XXADE. DAILY, AT IO.30A .ri doorJs orwi-Tm Reserve seat ticket on sale day of circus at Merritt's Drug Store, 16th and Farnam Sti., at same price a charged on show ground. Positively the Iargett circuc in the world giving a daily street parade. PJEOIIY PARK Dancing Tuea., Thurs. Sat. Special Dance July 4th. Bus service from 49th and Dodge after 8 p. m. EATTYS' Co-Operative Cafeterias We Appreciate Your Patronage. .3 2 DAYS MORE ft.; 1"So "Big ft U I nner fir) b i Letty" I Revue" K 1 SUNDAY I J TOM MIX I iZ DAYS MORE Jf WANDA HAWLEY f in "The Outside Woman" V jU SUNDAY V J "Boys Lyric M Will Quartette i Be . Kings of J 3 Boys" Harmony . . yceea. as a cave" : '. tj TODAY TOMORROW V; id Douglas McLean p, X In "CHICKENS" jf ! SATURDAY, 1 to 5 p. m. P: vi Free to Girl Crying- K ft Talking Dolls. . I W Free to Boys Base Balls Mf ys . el and Chicken Badges. 9j The Sale of 1,200 Men's Suits Continues Until Closing Time Saturday HART SCHAFFKER & MARX SUITS C AA Worth up to 75.00 PeWJlV BASEMENT GROCERY SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY Extra Quality Lemons 45c Dozen Crate of 270 at $9.50 50c Peaches Extra QiSiity Cass Quart Jars Queen Olives for Corn Syrup A carload shipment of extra quality Corn Syrup. H Gal. 29c Gallon 45c Pure Cane Sugar 16 lbs. for $1.00 100 lb. Bags, $6.43 23 c Plum3 . Largs Size Case $2.50 No. 2 Canned Straw berries, per can a I $7.50 to $10.00 Dresses at $3.98 Bought at 50c on the Dollar Sensational Sals of Fancy Voile Dresses in the Annex Friday. Over 500 new Summer Dresses In 15 different styles In light and dark patterns, all the latest up-to-the-minute styles and trimmings; or . gandy trimmed in bands, pleatings, round and square collars, sash and belt models; all the dresses worth -..;.$3.98! Children's $1.98 Dresses at $1.39 Beautiful Amoskea Gineham Dresses in new sash styles, pretty colorings, large plaids; ages 6 to 14 years; regular $1.98 values. Friday $1.39 $3.00 Plaid Gingham Dresses $1.98 Pretty Plaid Gingham Dresses, suit able for street and picnic wear; uuaguo jl iciij 11 J lira, all UU1U1 S and sizes; regular $3.00 values. Friday $1.98 i mm D $1.50 and $1.69 Bunga low Aprons 89c Fancy Tlaid Gingham and best quality Tercales in sash styles, square and V necks; side and front openings; all sines and colors; reg ular $1.50 to $1.69 values. Fri. day 894 Beach Satin White Petticoats $1.00 An elegant quality satin finished cloth, sectional ruffles, elastic lop, double panel fronts; regular $1.75 quality. Friday $1.00 $7.50 Fancy Georgette Blouse $3.39 A wonderful purchase of fancy Georgette . Blouses in all the latest colors in tie back and overblouse styles, all the newest trimmings In fringe, braid and Venise laces; values to $7.50. Friday $3.39 White Gaberdine Wash Skirts $1.00 . 400 New Gaberdine Wash Skirts, snowy white, heavy thread cloth fancy pockets, button trimmed; kl regular $1.69 values. Friday Sl.OO dXo ft Right in this city is a beautiful lake, with a large, safe, sandy beach, reached by a delightful ride in swift launches. Hundreds of the finest people in the world bathe here often. Do you? ft Bathing is not the only attraction. . There is no better dance hall or dance orchestra in the city. Free movies every evening, giant roller coaster, immense shady picnic grounds. ft You are cordially invited to come at once tp (ADMISSION FREE) North Omaha Activities Association STREET FAIR i! CARNIVAL ' S.W.Brundace Snow OV'FERS A WATER CARNIVAL i SUPREME t ; t. mmmmmsm OUATIC SPORTS AND PASSTIME BYf A .f IjOCK OF' P'VjNG JVTIPHi 24th and Ames All Next Week Listen For the Steam Calliope