Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-07
TAG DAY BRINGS
In A GOODLY sum
Forty One Hundred Dollars
Realized by the Visiting
Nurses. Et


Nurses.
WOMEN ARE BUSY ALL DAY
Tag day brought returns to the
Visiting Nurse association. When the
work was concluded last night and
the cash counted, it was found that
the sale of the little red tags that
adorned the coats and gowns of .prac-
titally all of the Omaha men and
women, as we'll as visitors in the city,
had brought $4.l4O.S2. This was fully
up to expectations and all of the
workers were well satisfied were well
pleased with the results.
The members of the Visiting Nurse
association and the scores of women
who had been assisting them were
pretty tired when night came, as the
day had been strenuous. They went
on duty at 8 o'clock Wednesday
morning and remained continuously
at their respective posts of duty until
| s o'clock in the evening, each taking
few moments off for the noon
lunch. During all the hours of their
labors they worked as industriously
as if it had been for wages and no
man, or woman, was too high or too
low nthe social scale to be rejected.
To these workers, all people looked
alike and none was allowed to escape
without being solicited to buy tag.
Two Heavy Contributors.
The two largest contributions
were $l00 from the Nebraska AS
sociation for the Study and Pre-
vention of tuberculosis, received by
Mrs. Victor Rosewater, and $50 which
Joseph Hayden gave to Mrs. G. L..
Bradley. The $1,000 mark had been
reached by noon. Ideal weather fav-
ored the fair taggers and helped the
cause along good deal.
The first tag was sold by Mrs. Al
bert Noe. Mrs. Ettinger an old lady of
81 years, was the purchaser
DR.. c. w. Pollard refused to buy a
tag from any one else but sought out
Mrs. w. R. Adams, the mother" of
the Visiting Nurse association, of
whom he bought tag for $40.
Mrs. Barton Millard, the president,
was quite ill this morning, but in
sisted on coming down town to help,
in the work.
. Men Best BUYERS,
That women, proverbially tender
hearted, are the poorest givers, is the
consensus of opinion with most of the
taggers. "It's either that or they don't
have the money" said Mrs. A. L..
Blair. Less prosperous looking in
dividuals are more generous than the
well-dressed, well-groomed men on
the streets, they reported.
An old German, attired in overalls
and blue shirt, sleeves rolled up,
called out to Miss Gertrude Stout. be-
fore he got off the street car, that he
wanted to buy tag.
Several colored men had their
money ready in their hands before
they had been approached to buy
tag and others walked up to the tag
gers and asked to buy them.
Drinks and Lunch.
/ c. R. Sherman had cool drinks
served to- all the taggers stationed in
front of his drug store. United States
bank officials arranged to have lunch
con for the women who were counting
the money in the bank.
Gay badinage and repartee between
tagger and tagee kept the workers in
good humor all day.
Geraldine Johnson, one of the pret-
tiest taggers on the street, sold tag
to man in an auto as he waited at
Sixteenth and Farnam for the traffic
officers signal to go ahead.
won't you write your name on the
back of the tag? pleaded the man
of the obdurate Miss Johnson. "Oh,
please he begged and waited, this
time, disregarding the officers signal
to go on.
A long line of machines was stalled
on Farnam while the evidently hard
hit young man waited for his answer,
until finally Officer Henderson walk
ed over.
Ordered to Move On.
You'll have to move on. You are
blocking the traffic. said the big Of
ficer in his most officious manner, to
the attractive little tagger and her
equally fair companion. Miss Grace
Robertson. Then he turned to hide his
smile, for he had sensed the whole
situation. ,
But the girls stayed and sold their
tags. They couldn't help it if they
were so good looking that they block
ed the traffic!
Another traffic officer who bought
tag from Mrs. Will H. Thomas ex-
changed similar red card with her,
only it was an autoist's warning card.
will you vote dry2' asked a man
who exchanged dry propaganda
card with Miss Louise Bailey.
"lve got 200 nickels in my pocket.
I'm going to buy tag from every
good looking tagger who asks me to
buy one" said a man to Mrs. Jay
Katz. The same man regaled her with
the story of man who uas en- n, I'd