Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-25

Reed. South Side commission man
made a splendid Charlie Chaplin.
Janet Reeves was Baby Osborne.
Nata Prescott was Clara Kimbai
Young" Bert Reeves posed a.
George Walsh" Mrs. Frank Ken.
nard "vampired" as "Theda Bara."
Under the tuition OF Director
Fickes some wonderful acting wa,
done. When Baby Osborne" wa.
plucking flowers in the dell, beholc
the Mexican" sneaked in on her ane
kidnapped the cheeild., But, aha
Charlie Chaplin" happened to be
skid-walking through that same dell
He sees the base deed. He hears
the cries of the cheeild. To the res.
cucl Bafnl Charlie gets the wicked
Mexican righ. on the bean. not with
a custard pie either, but with a
stout hickory club. And, then he
takes the child to her parents.
1t was great success.
Frank Ekdahl, the well-known ar
chitect, has hobby of automobiling.
He and his gentleman friend, Art En-
holm, used to have Ford touring
car in which they toured to Papiliion,
Council Bluffs and other pleasure re-
sorts. They finally sold this car and
bought another.
Their new car is 2. runabout. II
looks more like a roustabout. 1t is
of the vintage Of about 1908, one of
the early pioneers of the Ford make
and has evidently seen much hard
luck in its day. In some places traces
Of paint can still be found. But this
doesn't detractfrom its general "cam-
outage" of brown rustiness.
The light have no lenses. The mud
guards are battered to a shape that
would delight the cubists. The wind
shield is cracked but still serviceable.
Frank, however, proudly calls at
tention to the fact that the machine
has four wheels. Every one of them
equipped with tire" he says. BE
Sides" he says, there is no. need of
a horn. The machine makes so much
noise that there is no danger OF per-
sons getting run over"
1t is understood that the police have
prohibited him from driving it any.
where within three blocks of a hos
pital. 1t disturbs the patients. When
he first got it neighbors rushed for
the cellar when they heard him drive
up in front of his home. They thought
another tornado was coming. They
have become used to it now and even
the children are no longer frightened
when Frank drives past in his hivver.
Some cars may be speedier, some
more powerful than mine, bit none
can make more noise" says Frank
with pardonable pride.
Charley Compton of the traffic de-
partment of theA Omaha Grain ex-
change, and Peter Paul Murray,
chief OF the traffic bureau Of the Conn
mercial club, had a beautiful little
hobby which they enjoyed together
for long time. Now they may have
to forego that pleasure, perhaps until
the war is over. or at least until the
state goes wet again. No. no, do not
misunderstood, please, do not mis-
understand, Vt was not drinking at all.
1t was making a>lunch on a certain
German sausage, which greatly de-
lighted the palates of these traffic
wizards. This German sausage COM
bined all the fayors of all the best
sausages in the world, the epitoine
OF all that delights the dreams of
sausage-lovers, surprising marvel
in castings. paragon OF wurstdom.
Then came the war and the election
two death blows to this German
wurst. Either the war or the elecv
tion might have been enough TO put
the sausage out OF business in Ne
braska. but the two coming at once,
simply annihilated il. When Comp
ton and Murray could no longer get