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Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
World is Shrinking

There il one thing I object to about
moving pictures" said man who is fond
OF the films. and that is the fact that
they are gradually pinching up the world
until the old ball doesn't look much big
ger than Mrs. Bob Crachits plum pud-
ding When a man can see teakwOod
cut in India, pearl diving off Ceylon, lion
shooting in mid-Africa, herding in Aus
traIia, mining in Nevada and kite flying
in China to say nothing OF close IA
miliarity with all the great cities Of the
globe. he begins to feel considerable con-
tempt for the little Old planet he calls
home.
And then he is afflicted with another
sort OF familiarity, a familiarity that at
tacks the ordinances and hedges that are
built up around the chosen great ones Of
earth. Why. the other morning I saw
King George. and the ear. and En-
psror William and the French president,
all within twnty minutes-met them face
to face. as II were. and saw them smile
and nod and wave their hands 70 me.
Yes. as I sit. in the darkened hall, pry-
ing into the hidden corners OF the earth
and hobnobbing with the great, the ter
rsstrial ball grows smaller and smaller
IT'S pity, isn't it?"-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

Beef and goose constituted the principal
part of the animal food of the ancient
Egyptians, though the kid, goat. gazelle
duck, teal and quail were we'll known to
them Small birds they sailed and ate
raw. Fish obtained from the Nile and
Lake Moeris were served whole. boiled
or fried Bread was made from wheat
or barley, and frequently from the center
of the lotus, dried and powdered. But
their staple food consisted of vegetables
and fruits-cucumbers, gourds, leels.
onions, watermelons, dates, figs and
grapes.
In early days the usual fare OF the Ro-
man masses consisted of Cruel made Of
barley and called pulse People of wealth
had their tables arranged with elegance;
enjoyed preparing surprises and carrying
out DISCUSSES in their dishes. making
artificial figures OF fruit or flesh. They
reveled In such dainties as fieldfaros.
hares, capons. peacocks. pheasants and
livers OF geese. as we'll as a huge boar
surrounded with sucking pigs made in
sweet paste Oil was used extensively in
the preparation Of their food and honey
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Fearful Sailors

Those men who go down to the sea
in ships and who have recently been in
the throes OF an industrial dispute. are
fun OF superstitions You cannot shake
them.
Indeed, you will find It practically inn
possible TO convince sailors that il-mck
does not cling 70 a vessel whose name
has been changed, or that a craft whose
name ends In "a does not rest under an
evil spell. Persist. and you will be asked
about the Victoria, sunk in the Mediter-
ranean' the Stella, lost off the Channel
Islands. the Arequipa. ashore on the
west coats OF America; the Cobra. a de-
stroyer, which broke her back on her
maiden voyage in the North Sea; and the
SARDINIA. burnt in harbor at Malta OF
course there are hundreds OF vessels
atloat which bear the unlucky final let
ter, and in which II is safer 20 travel
than on the railway but the list OF losses
is a formidable one
Then. sometimes, il is a member OF the
crew to whom particular evil influence
Is attached. sometimes it is a passenger.
But II you want 10 see a sailor SILVER
with superstition, let there be some bitch
In the solemn ceremony OF launching
II nearly breaks Jacks heart.-san Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Carried His Fuel

Captain Smith OF the Olympic was ques-
toned in New York about the coal con-
sumption Of the worlds biggest liner on
its first voyage. Bdt Captain Smith
shook his head and said
THAT is a coal story l am not privil-
eyed to speak about. I'll tell you another
coal story. though, il you'd care to
hear II.
I I'D be delighted" said the reporter.
We'll, said Captain smith. its a
story about a poor sailor. He was taken
down with fever on a brigantine and,
though the mate and captain dosed him
we'll, he died. They buried him at sea.
They buried him with the usual i'm
pressive sea rites. He was sewed in a
sail round which a flag was draped, and,
70 make him sink. the sail was weighted
with a number OF big Jumps OF coal.
a landlubber OF a passenger partici-
pated in the services. He watched the
well-weighted corpse slip into the water.
Il disappeared at once, and the land
lubber shook his head and said.
We'll. I've seen many a man go below.
but this Is the first one I've seen taking
his own coal down with him 4"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Intense Heat as Cause of Strikes

according to a dispatch i'm the New
4 ork World no less an authority than
the dignified medical journal the Lon
don Lancet, the recent labor disturbances
we're due to too much sunshine. Tile
British isles have been getting more
than their average share of heat and
sunshine this summer and the overdose
OF labor troubles has been equally as
large.
1T is an interesting coincident." says
the Lancet, that labor troubles of no
mean magnitude have broken out during
an unwonted spell Of sunshine. OF
course. we are not regarding the strikes
as caused by the heat, as the reason for
the prevailing unrest have many of them
been obvious for many months But 1t is
not at all improbable that the heat has
played it's part in the form which the
manifestations have taken. Let US re-
member that the failure of the white
races to colonize certain tropical tracts
has been attributed to the excess OF
light which there prevails, and not to the
heat or humidity. The white man in the
tropics gradually becomes disinclined to
work under the influence Of the actinic
agencies OF the sun; he grows neuras-
thenic and finally breaks down.
The widespread discomfort of the lab
oring classes reached an acute stage
during a period of excessive and intense
light which promises TO break all existing
records Have the forces Of the potent
sun. consequent upon a long period Of
chemically active sunshine, altered the
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Self-Neglect

Shakespeare says. "Self-love is not so
vile a sin as self-neglect.' and those OF
us inclined to think little of self would do
we'll to ponder this a bit
Many a mother should take Il to heart,
says a writer in the san Francisco
Chronicle. She is so absorbed in her
children that she thinks little of self.
Many a wife is so taken up with the
things of the home that she gives no
heed to herself. Some people become so
neglected. All about can be seen those
guilty Of this sin OF self-neglect-
Too great self-love is not 10 be ad-
mired, and some go to the other extreme,
through disgust at exhibitions of self
love they may have seen. Then again.
self-neglect has TO some extent been held
up as something creditable. II is in
line with unselfishness and sel:-sacrifice,
all Of which are by some looked upon as
eommendahle qualities.
But If you look deeply into this matter.
II is easily seen how sslf-nsglect can be-
come a sin. Every one has the godhead
within him. And TO neglect this, to let IL
withsr and die. instead OF developing. Is a
sin. Every one owes certain duties to
himself. He should develop the best that
is in him, rise TO the highest of which
he is capable And when he fails to do
this, surely he is not doing right And
this is what Shakespeare meant when he
said self-neglect was a sin. This master
reader OF the human character saw the
soul in each, and not to develop that soul
to its fullest capacity was 10 bury the
talent as did the unfaithful servant.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
9 The Bee3 H0me Magazine page X
Remarkable Feats of Endurance

What is the limit Of human endurance
Judging BY some recent performances,
particularly in the world Of sport and
athletics. IL would almost seem that there
is no limit. says a writer in the Chicago
Tribune. Take the case. for instance. OF
Vedrines. This plucky aviator confesses
that he only had three hours sleep dur
ing the whole Of that wonderful flight
Of over 1000 miles round Britain. When
one remembers that for an aviator there
are no moments Of repose that he must
ever be on the alert. every faculty Of
mind and body strained to the uttermost,
IL is not surprising that at times both
vedrines and Beaumont were in a state
perilously near 70 nervous exhaustion.
Perhaps however one Of the most
striking teats Of human endurance was
that Of Tom Burrows, the club swinging
champion OF England, who. by whirling
his clubs for forty-six hours without a
moments respite. broke all records. He
reminds one Of Arthur Lancaster, Who
two years ago, achieved athletic fame
by swinging a blacksmith's hammer for
twelve consecutive hours, and afterwards
added to his laurels by beating all Brit
ish records for ball punching. He punched
a twenty -four ounce ball for fifteen
hours continuously at the average rate
OF l45 punches a minute. Occasionally he
would go away on a burst Of 25O and 26O
a minute, and SO powerful was his first
work that three times he broke the rope
Of the ball and had to turn his attention
to one kent in reserve.
II is not 50 long ago since two French
men walked around a billiard table in
Paris for twenty-four consecutive hours,
paying game after game and covering
a distance OF sixty miles.
A band of chime ringers rang the
bells OF st. Martins Birmingham, Eng
land, for eight hours without a second 5
pause.
Then there was the Polish girl who per-
formed the stupendous feat of dancing
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

Another OF the lady catsl Only this
one calls herself names instead of max
ing me do it. Hear what she says;
MY Dear Loretta: The paper is which
your valuable comments appear encour-
ages correspondence. They must think
women are a brave lot The way you
hurl your scathing criticisms suggests
that performance in the circus where a
girl stands against a board and an expert
knife thrower launches cleaning steel
knives at her Just missing her, but so
accurately surrounding her with the
sharp weapons that when she steps
away from the board her picture is left
there. silnouetted by the knives.
"One watches with bated breath, fear
full that a blade may pierce the girl
And that's the way II is with your look
ing-glass play. You have stuck your
knives all around the girl. All her faults
have had a lab. At least. I think there
can be no more to invite the accurate
aim Of your knife till get the paper,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

for thirty-four hours. II is not sug
gested. Of course, that she danced all
this time without a rest: the intervals,
however we're only short and she did
not go to bed during that time.
Three years ago an Italian living in
Paris offered 500 to anyone who danced
longer than himself Five competitors en-
tered the lists against him, but one by
one they dropped out. whilst the MIN
BILE Italian fantastically footed it for
fourteen hours at the rate II eighteen
waltzes an hour
Among the amazing pedestrian perform
ances that Of the well known American
veteran athlete. Weston, who last year
completed $500 miles in seventy seven
days, takes a high place. Mr.. weston is
a man Of y years OF age. and walked for
thirteen consecutive weeks at an average
rate OF 20 miles a week, or forty-five
miles each walking day. IL does not
equal, 50 far as the rate OF going is con-
cerned, the screening Of George Allen,
who walked in 1874 from Lands End to
John o Greats, in England, nearly 1000
miles, in seventeen days. Aliens best
day accounted for eighty-two and a half
miles, and his average for the whole
JOuAlley was AALAy nj tAllleH a udga but
Allen was about half the age of Weston.
who was walking before admiring crowds
before Allen was born.
Turning to other remarkable examples
OIL human endurance, it might be men
toned that the duke Of wellington was
! able 10 90 for days with no sleep. He
once remarked that a few minutes doz-
/ ing on the back OF his horse was all he
| required. And then there is Edison, who
in his earlier days, when working at his
great Inventions, has been known to go
five days and five nights without any
proper sleep. Forty winks in a chair in
his workshop was all that he required
to keep his brain alive. and being deaf,
he was able 70 sleep anywhere, even in a
boiler factory.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

own fault that she is minus one weapon
against the other woman. Physical COM
fort and companionship mean more to a
husband than women seem to think The
other woman has to offer an astounding
array OF charms to detach a man from
that satisfaction. And. If she has as
founding charms, she is limited neces-
sarily in their display. II she is the kind
of a woman who can hold a man. she is
the type who cannot sacrifice her dig
nifty in order to fully reveal herself
The wife can be her most agreeable
self-she ought to be. The reason she
is "Fraid Cat is because she has
ceased to be that-and she's a craven
coward to whimper because the other
women happens 10 be around when she
deliberately let's her husbands interest
go a-wandering. I'll tell you, II a few
more wives were as energetic about de-
serving fidelity as they are about de-
handing 1t, there would be a noticeable
decrease in the number OF other women
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

When Colonel william NJ Howard.
now a member OF the tariff board. was
electioneering for congress one autumn
in bygone DAYS, he struck a bac0woods
county in Georgia. and got very busy
talking softly to the voters. He was
much concerned about a man named
John. who was now for him. then against
him. and always changsable.
What's the matter with john the
colonel asked one OF his constituents.
'Aw. you can't tell nothin' about John.
colonel" was the assurance. He Is tho
most tickle man YOU ever see. Why. he
has had religion 30 many times, and lost
II so many times and been haptized in
the creek down here so often that the
buIlfrogs knows him every time he's
'nnersed. Popular Magazine.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Diary of Village Sage

A neighbours chicken in your pot is
worth two in your garden.
sympathy will go a great deal further
II 1t is properly stamped.
Sometimes when you put your shoulder
to the wheel you have TO shove the whole
load.
Don't get acquainted too easily. because
it isn't so easy to get un-acquainted.
n the course Of true love always ran
smoothly people would be more carless
going over the course.
n the noise OF your nsighbor's lawn
mower disturbs YOU the best remedy Is TO
get out your own.
Perhaps the reason lightning doesn I
strike twice in the same place is because
II prefers to strike something worth
while.
The very worst thing about taking
things for granted is that fact that so
many people are apt TO take the things
they want most.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Loretas Looking Glass-She Holds it Up to Frad Cat

And there's another punctured. And the
queer part of it is. l have not yet felt
that you were making up faults iuss
to fight them. can see them all-in my
friends. But you really ought to give
the ones who summon courage to write
you some credit for bravery. I feel like
a regular fraid cat as I finish this. be
cause I know you will find some fault
sticking out that invites the keen blade
of your knife. 'FRAID CAT"
Bravo Miss Fraid Cat! II takes cour-
age to march up to a gun you know is
loaded. And I should not want to dis
appoint you. II you are braced for an
explosion. it would be a pity to put it off
till a time when you might not be pre-
pared. So Maybe you think am
going to concede courage to the girls who
write me. 1 am not. am not going to
concede courage to any girl or woman
till see her stop her backing and side
stepping from the trials she has TO meet
Right here beside me is a letter that
makes my blood boil and my face flush
at the cowardice it confesses and begs
me to sympathize with.
It's a wife who is terrified at the
threat OF her husbands interest in an
other woman, an unmarried. charming
woman. Instead OF summoning the forces
at her command, she is whimpering and
deliberately inviting the catastrophe she
breads. She ought to go over her arma-
ment. taking an inventory OF its strength.
In the first place, she is the wife. It's TO
be assumed that her husband loves her
or she would not have that position. So
she has love as ammunition and the stra-
tegic point Of her position with which
TO fight the other woman. Yes. she has.
A wife can make herself necessary TO
her husband. If she has not. IL is her
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
"FidgetariRna."

The table manners of the Popplebury
children were execrable. The kicked the
legs OF their chairs, tilted them back
wards. drummed their fingers on the
table, hummed snatches of songs over
their soup. and always ran over to the
window II there was anything on.
Children. children" exclaimed Mr..
Popplebury testify, why can't you be-
have yourselves"
It's the new crazeI" mumbled Tommy,
his mouth full OF pium-duff.
The new craze? Blow the new craze!'
cried Mr.. P. It's fidget. fidget, fidget
from the moment you sit down till the
moment you get upi'
That's right pa! That's the new
crazer' ehimed in Albert. We're fidget-
ariansl"-New York World.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

Why does a shrug OF the shoulders with
the hands thrown up in depreciation
mean search me. or why does a down
ward nod OF the head mean ''yess'' and a
horizontal motion "no?' Why do we say
"as dead as a door nall (even Dickens
wondered at thar. when any other nail
II Just as dead; or "as awkward as a
COW" when a pig Is twice as much so? II
reminds one OF the little youngsters in
curing into the why's and wherefores OF
the language: They called a pig a pig
cause he Is SO awful piggish. didn't they.
motherg'
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

In the early days OF the Puritans a
man met one Of them going out into the
woods with a gun, and he said:
Where are you going2''
To the woods
What are you taking your gun with
you for?'
II may meet an Indian
Are you not a Calvinist7'
II am. in deed and IN truth
You can't die until your time comes"
Il know that
Then why carry a gum
II might meet an Indian whose time
had come"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

uf the body and mind of tue
worker, as in the case of the would be
colonizer in the unsuitable tropics? In
an admittedly bad state of affairs, has
an overdose Of sun proved a poison? In
other words, should sunshine, like so
many good things. be doled out on
posological lines. lest it poison the in
dividual? When the dark days of winter
come we shall yearn again for some of
this poison knowing. however, full well
that then the doses, even when contin-
uous, are less potent; but it is quite pos
sible that the instinct is a sound one
which makes many of US. inhabitants Of
what should be temperate zone, almost
resent unbroken heat"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

Husband-I think that Miss Mead is
pretty
wife-YOu do? That snicker-tacsd man
hunter! l admire your idea OF beauty.
She's homely enough to brighten blind
people. But that's the way it goes after
a man tires OF his wife-everything in
skirts appears pretty to him. and then he
don't know enough 20 keep it to him
self-comes home and tells his poor heart
broken wife about it. Boo-hoo-
Husband-Pretty we'll toward IS. I was
about TO obssrve.-San Francisco Chron-
icle.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
September 81, 1911.
Name and Address.

Name Address
Lincoln 1897
Gretchen l. Hickory Park 1897
.Kelom 1904
1903
H.
Buchels, Thirty-second 1902
Hazel Central Park 1896
Laural Carey, 4214 South Twenyfouh St Vnton 1908
Central 1901
1898
Rosie Danlewcz 1899 North rhirxth Monmouth
Albert Comenius 1902
Roland EdmundsOn 331S Hamilton Franklin 1895
Howard Kennedy 1895
Teie Edwards .Farnam 1900
Kathleen Fearon, Oil South Thirty-xth St High 1888
Sacred Heart ls9S
Gachel, Lake 1898
Josephine Long 1904
1902
1898
Howard Icke, 1910 South Eleventh Pacific 1905
Mercedes Jensen 371S Farnam St Columbian 1901
1905
Elsie Franklin 1901
Hill 1900
Donald 1892
Frank 1904
Francis Thrteh 1895
Claude spalding Druid Hill 1899
Frederick .Lothrop 1903
Gladys PARCEL. 2421 Central 1900
Lincoln 1903
Robinson California Central 1902
1899
Twentyfth Central 1903
1890
1898
ETner simonsen North Twenyfirs ST. Keiom
Wesley Twenythrd
H
Wells Lafayette
Rochard Williams 1924
Wilson,
Frank Woodcock sos Cedar
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

Look herel" the restaurateur said,
The while he paved the air
you printers set line OF pi
Upon my bill OF fare!"
why, surei" the printer answered him
And here's the reason why
No one should run a restaurant
Without a line of pie"
New York Telegram.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

was employed for the same purpose that
we use sugar.
Greeks who invited Xerxes to supper
made their banquets so magnificent that
all came TO the extremity of poverty. ana
wherever he took two successive meals
that city was utterly ruined. Their prin-
cipol article of food was fish prepared i'm
vartousS ways-stuffed with force-meat
and fried, boiled in pickle. baked in fig
leaves soaked in oil or cooked in hot
ashes. They boiled and roasted meat and
had poultry, small birds and game as
well as vegetables.
Although not great eaters OF meat the
Persians always celebrated birthdays
with elaborate teasttng The rich would
sacrifice an OK, a horse, or a camel to be
roasted whole in ovens while the poor
gave smaller animals. as sheep. They
consumed much sweet food and did not
use salt.
Ancient Danes and Germans we're
copious drinkers and paid but little at
tention to their satabIes.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

More than $500 motor vehicles have
been registered by the London County
council. and the letters L E are to be
adopted as a new index mark
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

The Ginnelle Lock on the Seine is so
constructed that one man can open or
shut II BY simply touching an electric
button as he sits in his office.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

Mosaic gold has no connection with
Moses or the precious metal, being an
alloy Of copper and zinc used in ancient
tesselated work
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

The pulgat. a Burmese measurement
is the only foreign measure exactly cor,
responding TO one inch.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

Pompey's Pillar. in Alexandria, was
neither erected by, nor to. Pompey. 1t
was constructed by the Emperor Diocle-
tian, according to it's inscription.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

German silver is not silver. neither was
1t invented by a German. II has been in
use in China from time out of mind.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

Goths did not introduce Gothic archi-
lecture II was the ecclesiastical style
employed in England and France before
the Renaissance.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

william the Silent. the Hollander who
occupied the English throne. was far
from being silent or tactturn.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

The Icslandic commonwealth was
founded by Norsemen in SIS, and was soon
afterward visisted by Irish mariners.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

Foreigners we're banished from England
in 1155 because they were considered too
numerous.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

Rice paper is not made from rice. but
from the pith OF tung-tsan, or hollow
plant.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

cieopatra's Needles were not erected by
nor in honor Of that queen. They were
reared BY Thotmes III.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

Bread and salt were formerly eaten
when an oath was taken.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

Turkeys do not come from Turkey, but
North America through India.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Corrections

Philippe VI. of France called LIE Bien
Fortune" was never fortunate. He was
defeated at Sluys, Cressy and Calais. and
one-fourth of his subjects were carried
off by black death"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

Arabic figures were not invented b
Arabs, but by East Indians.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

Dutch clocks are not of Holland but of
German manufacture.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Common Fare and Luxuries of Anoients

was employed for the same purpose tina
we use sugar.