Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-13

Sorrow Is no respecter Of persons. It
breaks into the homes Of affluence occasi-
onally. getting a change OF air and scenery
somewhat different from what poverty af-
| fects a melancholy variation from a
steady job in the latter quarter was
recent hurry cali to a mansion on Fifth
avenue. Brooklyn. where tear-compelling
tragedy broke In on jocund mirth. Daisy
kicked the bucket Daisy was SpitH
purp whose weakness was ragtime music
A few days ago an extra dose OF plano
ragtime kept her on the dance beyond
I her strength. Then sorrow jumped in and
dog funeral followed Madame ordered
costly white oasket for her pet, placed
/ 1t in the parlor surrounded by dolls. Teddy
bears and toys galore After wake" OF
I twenty-four hours an elaborate funeral
followed the body OF Daisy to the oeme-
! terry Of suburban town.
NJ Lattard. maitre d'hotel Of the Plasa,
man OF many inventions In the way Of
foods and beverages, has just come up
smiling with what he calls a "chantecler
cooler"
There are no feathers on the chaantecler
i cooler. although the white OF an egg is an
essential. II goes down without scratch,
though Il does tickle the palate nightly
on the way. 1t is brown and foamy. and
you imbibe 1t through a straw. NJ. Lat
tard said he concoeted Il only the day be-
fore yesterday and that 1t had already
caught on.
at Is a light cocoa frappe," said NJ.
Lattard by way OF explanation in the New
York Sun Chocolate is not bad hot
weather drink. and its possibilities as a
L. -
was trying to think up something I could
offer when cocoa came into my mind. You
first make the cocoa with water-no milk.
The you add one-flfth of its bulk of fresh
orange Juice, and Just a little honey to
sweeten.
Next you add the white of an egg and
then about one-third OF a pony of kirsch.
I Shake well with Ice and leave the latter
in the goblet in which you serve 1t, with
straws"
The ocean got q surprise at Midland
beach Saturday. It has seen good many
varieties OF courage. but seldom has 1t seer
a lot OF blind women go I'm swimming with
out the least fear. but, on the contrary
with shrieks Of delight.
1t was one of the outings Of the Blind
} Women's club, which is an offshoot OF tho
association. More than thirty blind women
many Of them elderly, went, and with theiI
volunteer guides and Miss Daisy Rogers
Miss Ellen Harrison and other officers Of
the association, who went along just to sex
that their venturesome spirits did not lead
them into danger, they filled the specla
J car that took them from the ferry landing
to the beach.
And how they enjoyed themselves II tel
you. this is different from East Eighty.
sixth street. where sit In my room all daS
long" said one gray-haired blind woman
turning In her seat on the sand to let tbs
! ocean breeze play over her face. Yes.
was in an accident, and I've been blind
these twenty years. but I'm not complain
ing"
Just then the blind bathers, with theii
guides came dripping up the beach. TN
30 hungry could eat a cow" said one, whC
is known as the life of the club because
nothing ever casts her down. and 1t takes &
fast guide to keep up with her when sh'
, starts to go anywhere. Blind in both eye.
and nearly deaf she lives alone in her tiny
flat and does her own work, because she
has nobody belonging to her and objects 4
"bothering people"
marine coincidence that occasionet
comment Monday was the simultaneous
arrival in port OF the steamers Georg'
washington, Martha Washington and thu
United States. They are all foreign yes
sells and displayed a quantity Of bunting
IN honor of Independence day when thel
sailed in.
The George Washington of the Nortl
German Lloyd line was from Bremen
the Martha Washington OF the Austrian
! line from Trieste and the United State
| OF the candinavian-American line from
} Copenhagen. All had aboard a number o
} prospective American citizens, who joinet
in the general celebration as soon as the!
I landed.
Mayor Gaynor of New York has beer
knocking off another immortal parasite
, which had become fastened on the cit!
treasury. This is the change Of grad
damage commission" which was create,
way back In 1893 and whose work, tn
mayor declares. could have been done b!
any court within a year. The device em
, ployed to get rid OF this everlasting para
site is the same as that used by the mayo
{ in getting rid OF the similar aqueduct com
5 misslon-the appointment Of new commits
) sioners pledged to wind up the job speedil!
, and get out. 1t is within his power to d,
E this, and the plan is so simple that every
+ body seems to be wondering why nobod!
5 every thought Of 1t before.