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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-03
Best Girls in France

tractive, and he learns to his delight
that French girls have a charm very
different from the misbehaving eyes
of an Anna Held, the big hats of
Gaby Deslys, or the siren voice of
Sarah Bernhardt.
French Girl is Artist.
To be the Serld's supreme artist
in the woman's role the French
girl, first of all, never overdresses
the part. She knows the value of
simplicity, and the bad taste of ex-
travagance. Black gowns, one jewel
or a flower are bewitching, but not
distracting.
The French girl doesn't tell you
what "Grace said" and that she
thought "she should die" or that
she "adores movies and chocolates"
She is more interested in hearing
about the young American lieuten-
ants life in the United States than
she is in telling him about France.
What wonderful restraint not to talk
about herself! Beside French girl
you feel much more at ease than you
do with an American. You don't
have the vague fear of being judged,
weighed and found wanting. You
don't feel yourself in the presence of
a keen, piercing mind, which with
one stroke is going to cut you to
pieces. You are not called on to
minister to an imperative magma
ton which demands anecdotes, Hat
terry and amusement, and losses you
over if you have no witty bonbons
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-03
Kindergarten Helps

zone morning a few months ago l
was passing the p1ayroom, my Small
daughters domain, and stopped to
glance in, but finding her absent l
did not linger. What was there about
the charming, sunny room with its
Mother Goose frieze and carefully
chosen toys that vaguely
troubled me? 1t was too orderly.
paused and reflected how little
time Ruth really spent in the play
room; she was always somewhere
else. Where was she, in fact, at that
particular moment. Brief search re-
vealed her vigorously sweeping the
back porch where some drifting
leaves had collected.
"Why Is it," | said to myself as /
poured the boiling water into the,
dish-pan and swashed the soap-shak-
er up and down absent mindedly,
why is it that she perfers sweeping
the back porch to playing with her
dolls house? Why does she hang
about the kitchen watching me cook
instead of using that fascinating
dolls stove Of hers?"
Ut is because she Graves the actu-
al and real experience. | suspect"
Before | knew it | had brought
my small cutting table, low enough
for Ruth to reach, placed it beside
the sink, covered in with a heavy
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-03

we remarked how fine it would be
for an air raid. We went to bed
about IL. About l:30 we were
awakened by the sirens going full
blast, which is the official warning.
No one had told us where to go
in the hotel, so we put on warm
dressing gowns and proceeded to
peer out of our French windows
in the most curious way. Finally
a knock came on Off door, and an
English girl in the room next to
ours asked us to go down with her.
She said the first floor was safer
than the cave. AS she had driven
an ambulance near the front for a
year, we thought she knew, so we
went along.
There we sat, huddled in a dark
corridor, outside someone's door,
listening to stories of her exper-
fences while the bombs dropped.
Then we discussed the war in gen
eral and Americans in particular.
She said the Americans and Aus
tralians had the reputation of TAX
ing the fewesf prisoners and sell
dom gave any quarter. She SEEM
ed rather to deplore this, but | must
admit I'm becoming almost bar
barian enough to think that bayo-
netting is a more decent death than
many OF them deserve.
"When one thinks of the luxur-
ious prison camps in England and
of what our men get in Germany,
one is led to wonder if the Hun has
any proper appreciation of the
splendid English sporting spirit and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-03
WOMEN IN UNITED WAR WORK DRIVE

M SAMUEL REEFS representing the Young Wom Christian association in
with the munion industrial
who essential as the soldiers to victory.
Jewish activities represented by Miss o Rosenock Comfort
soldiers
military work flowers the post hospitals phase Of the work
chosen phase of part the Y
to the assistants.
ie France Mrs Elizabeth King her uniform represents another
wounded
Sending books soldiers the duty enlisted under the
Library librarian packing
while hours and hospital
She the of the National Catholic War Council which has
brought atmosphere homelck soldier boy
Greetings from Miss Mabel Peterson Patriotic league member representing
the Community which which
training located, hospitality to the soldiers
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-03
m HE report is coming daily from
France that whenever the

France that whenever the
doughboy is having a rest
from pushing the Hun off the map,
he is becoming more and more de-
voted to the young women of
France; in short, that there is daily
and imminent danger of the best
girl at home being permanently dis
placed by a best girl over there.
Every American girl who has sent a
sweetheart to France feels uneasy.
Every American mother wonders il
her boy is going to come home with
a French wife. Both American
mothers and daughters are asking
each other one-half the riddle of the
ages, what does he see in her? They
think they know the other half Of
the riddle, what she sees in him.
OF course they can't guess the rid
die, for the French jeune file is a
new discovery, or rather new reve-
lation to Americans. She has al
ways been kept at home, browsing
in the maternal shadow, and all eli
gible young men were kept at dis
tance until one was selected and a
marriage contract drawn up. But all
this is changed with war conditions.
French homes as we'll as French
cafes are open to American young
men. Red freight looks good to a
solitary man, and soldiers life is a
lonely ore at best. So when an
American boy is invited to a French
home, the home life. is doubly at
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-03
Air Raid on Paris

A N AIR raid on Paris, one MOON
n light night in late September,
is described in graphic style
in Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Cowell's
most recent letter from their daugh-
ter, Mona, who is Red Cross work
er in France.
One beautiful moonlight night,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-03

whether. after all, such kindness is
net wasted.
Finally we we're told we could
return TO our rooms. and when we
reached upstairs we heard the
bugles blow the AN Clear signal.
1--WE had hardly gotten well to
sleep when the siren blew again
and we scrambled for robes, flash
lights, ETC., and went down stairs
once more. This time no bombs fell
and we heard only the sound of the
guns OF Paris. Bombs are usually
dropped in groups of FIVE per plane.
There comes crash and then often
Continued on Page Two, Column 0ne.)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-03

towel and put the drain basket there
upon. Then calling her l pointed to
the dlsh-towels hanging in a crisply
folded row and said; would you
like to wipe the dishes for me after
this9 -Margaret S. Hard.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-03
PART TWO

SOCIETY SECTION
PAGES l TO 16
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-03

TELLING yarns and knitting
L socks will take the place Of
regular programs with the c. O.
Story Tellers' league this year.
Meetings will be held at homes of
members the second Friday evening
in each month, beginning as soon
as the quarantine is off.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-03
w AR work is enticing from their

M| AK Work is eHtlClllR ilolii tiSiI
w homes women who never
gadded about before. Mrs. R. E.
Winkelman, for instance, has been
known as a shining example of the
homekeepers among Omaha women.
but since Miss Nellie Farnsworth,
federal conservation agent, left, and
before Miss Elizabeth Chamberlin
came, Mrs. Winkehnan' attended to
MANY fthe duties of this position.
Gabby has heard that Mrs. Win.
kelman's young daughter, narooned
at home by the dismissal of the
schools, has missed her mother
sadly and found the house lonely
place. 20 dear, fatherp she ex-
claimed one evening, 81 do wish you
had married a more domestic wo-
manr
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-03
81 What People
Say--- and Do
By GABBY DETAILS

q UPBRINTENDENT BEVER-
~ IDGE of the public schools
would take drastic action if he knew
how often his name is spelled "Bev-
erage" in communications to The
Bee. Mr.. Beveridge is a dry" man.
-
DEPUTATIONSof several Omaha
~ war work speakers received q
jolt in a letter written by "Serk,"
erstwhile Bee news hound, from the
Great Lakes naval training station.
Leo Rosenthal, Henry Monsky and
Harry Lapidus were in Chicago last
week attending the United War
Workers conference when they ran
into Ben. THE latter three were
in Chicago looking for an oppor-
tunity to orate,' wrote Ben. II
understand that they're out of
luck in Omaha that way because
there amt no young fellows 10 listen
and the old ones are too smart!'
The Irish standard., 1918-09-07
A SOLDIERS WILL.
His Declaration On the Eve of Goino
to the Front

A French soldier, Georges Ruel, of
Fresnay-sur-Sarthe, made his last will
and testament in the following edify-
ing form:
In the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Ghost, |,
Georges Ruel, of the 115th Regiment
of Infantry, on the eve Of going to the
front, declare that belong to the
Catholic Church, of which wish to be
faithful son till my death. If God
should so demand it of me, now
make the full and entire sacrifice of
my life, and offer it for the triumph
of the Church, my mother, the safety
OF my country and that of all those
who are dear to me. What | have to
bequeath l leave as follows, &C. Such
is my formal will and my resolutions
freely taken on this 9th day of April,
1917, on the morrow of the feast of
my patron st. George, under whose
guardianship | place them, praying
him to bless them and help me to be
faithful to them.
The Irish standard., 1918-09-07

Tilted with remarkable power to the
case of the Irish in Ireland. The Irish
question was kept alive and promi-
nent when the threatened disaster to
the Allies seemed as if it might bury
Irish matters for some time.
Now that American achievements,
American dash, American gameness
and courage, added to the invulnerable
patriotism of the French, have turned
the tide, now that autocracy's minions
are hastily retreating in panic, and
new miles upon miles of territory are
recovered from German occupation;
now that the Irish party has returned
to Parliament, and the splendid ad-
dress of the people of Ireland to Presi-
dent Wilson is going the rounds of
the American press, here is the Irish
question" revived, vigorous, more
prominent than in many months, and
the situation growing in interest
every day
AS writer's attempt to spread their
views about the Irish situation, and
blunder in ignorance, and corrections
are sent in by interested lovers of
justice, more and more information
about Irish matters keeps crowding
before the American readers. Ire
lands case is not settled, but Ire
lands case must be settled, and set
tied at or before the general Peace
Conference.
That is the view of every enlight-
ened public man in America. The
British Cabinet cannot have its rep
resentatives in any Peace Conference
discussing the rights of self-govern-
ment for various subjugated or ap-
pressed peoples, with their own Ire
land matter still unsettled.
The activity in Irish matters of so
many kinds keeps the Irish question
alive. The more frequently it comes
before the minds of American readers
the more and more they learn about
it. And the more they learn about
Ireland, the more determined will the
American sense of Justice become in
it's demand that Irish Home Rule be
given to the great majority of the
Irish people who have demanded 1t
and have had it placed on the statutes
Of the United Kingdom.
The Irish standard., 1918-09-07
THE IRISH CONTRIBUTION
TO THE GREAT war

I'VE were at Rammilies. We left
our bones at Fontenoy and upon
the Pyrennes.
Before Dunkirk, on Landen's plain,
Cremona, Lisl, and Client,
We fought for England, from Water
loo to Egypt, and Darghai,
And still there's enough for a corps
or a crew, Kelly and Burke and
Shea"
Irishmen are now willing to forget
the past, but let England keep her
word, and let not there be one law
for the Orangemen of Ulster and an
other for the Catholics of the rest
of Ireland. Too long have we been
made the victims of intrigue, and
backstairs diplomacy. We give no.
tice to the world that as we are
bearing the brunt of this fight, as
well, if not better than any other
race in proportion of our depleted
population, We shall expect to be re-
membered when the fate of the
small nations of the world will be
settled around the council table, after
the house of Hohenzollern shall
have passed into history, and the
memory of their Kulture shall only
be like some hideous dream.
No, true to our old-time valor,
where blow is to be struck for
freedom, you will find us there. We
are giving a good account of our
selves, and we do not need any ad.
vice, counsel, or direction about the
brand of nationality we shall demand
for our own native land. That be.
ing so, it would be we'll for these
misinformed scribes to remember that
the days of bigotry and ignornace
are over in Massachusetts, and to
give credit where credit is due
The Irish standard., 1918-09-07
RECORD TO BE PROUD OF.
Made Possible by Democratic Sen
ate and House.

every six minutes" observes the
Washington Post, "a merchant vessel
arrives and another departs from
American ports. From North Atlantic
seaports, there is departure every
eleven minutes; and one from Europe
every forty minutes. This rate of op-
Grafton does not include vessels in
the service of the army and navy.
The merchant fleet of 1900 ships I'M
der the control of the shipping board
are run as railroads on time sched-
ule."
The above-a record to be proud
of-speaks volumes for the construc-
tive ability and the vision of Presi-
dent Wilson and his party supporters.
1t was made possible by Democratic
Congress, not with the help but in
despite of the opposition of Republi-
can members of the Senate and
House. During the session of 1914-15
President Wilson urged Congress to
provide the means by which the Gov
eminent could go into the shipbuild-
ing business. He foresaw then the
necessity for ships. The House passed
the bill, but the Senate Republicans
killed it by filibuster in the closing
days of the 1915 session. The next
session the bill was reintroduced and
ultimately was forced to passage by
Democrats over the vigorous protests
of Republicans. The vote in the
House was 209 to ISL. Of the 161
negative votes, 100 were cast by Re-
publicans. It passed the Senate, 80
to 81. OF the 81 votes in opposition,
20 were cast by Republicans. The
leaders of the minority party in both
the House and Senate were among
those who fought the shipbuilding bill
And now they seek to convince the
country that they should be given con-
troll of the next Congress to "help the
President win the war" Judging by
past performance on this most impor-
tant of all war-winning measures, the
help" a Republican controlled Con-
gress would give the President would
be destructive rather than construc-
tive.
The Irish standard., 1918-09-07

petrators who would enter the home
for the purpose of destroying domes-
tic happiness and martial relations
and robbing the family of that faith
Il has given them true independence
and pledges to them life eternal.
No civilization rises higher than
the morality of it's womanhood. Cath
olic womanhood must lead and set
the example. Our past has been
glorious. In the woman of tomorrow
rests the duty of building verile,
patriotic and spiritual nation.
The Irish standard., 1918-09-07
S, and out of wages for that period

days, and out of wages for that period
is able to buy his own home, automo-
biles, and expensive clothes.
The workingman does these things,
of course, with money that he has
earned, and though he may think that
his employer begrudges him these lux
uries, such is not the case. His en-
ployer may think that he is foolish
to spend his money in this manner,
but the employer is willing that he
spend it in any way that he sees fit,
just so long as the workman is at the
same time fulfilling his obligations to
his employer and his country.
The man who can have all these
things for himself by only working
every other day is not entitled to
them, unless he is willing to work
every day, and to do his share in
helping to defeat the common enemy.
1t would be we'll for the man who is
spending his money on these things,
which are not really vital, to stop
and look ahead a few years and con-
slider what conditions are going to be
after the war is over.
No one doubts that wages will come
down and that their reduction will
be even more rapid than the reduc-
ton of the cost of living. Also jobs
will not be so plentiful and easy to
secure when that time comes. There
will be many of us who will regret
the expensive clothes and other
things we have spent our money on
and will wish that we had the money
for our living expenses.
There is no question but what this
time will come and the wise man is
the one who is saving his money, in
vesting it in war securities and look
ing forward to the time when the in.
dustrial situation will be so different
that perhaps he will want to get into
some other line of business.
It is easy enough to save a few
Thousand dollars with wages as high
as they are at present, and these few
thousands will enable a man to rise
from the ranks of the paid workman
and establish business of his own,
when the time comes when working
for wages is no longer satisfactory
The man, who saves, will be the
man who is working full time, and
not the one who is drawing a big pay
and spending it in a saloon before
| doing any more work.
There is another side to all this,
OF course, and that is, that no Amer.
lean who is a real patriot will throw
his money away on useless luxuries
when the Government needs it 50
badly. He will not take off weeks
! at a time when the army needs the
product of his labor and he should re-
member that the time is coming
| when all men are going to be Judged
| by the degree of help they had ex
tended to our Government in this
| war.
The Irish standard., 1918-09-07
WILL NOT DOWN.
In the Turmoil and Changes the Mrish
Question" Continues to the Fore,

Every week brings something of
the Irish question" to the fore, writes
John G. Coyle, M. d.
At one time it is CONSUMPTION; at
another, it is the Selling of arms from
some farmers by Sim Feiners; again
it is the Selling of arms from the
Sim Feiners by constables. Now it
is the re-establishment of practical
coersion in this or that county; again
1t is the forbidance of public meetings,
speeches in Irish, and similar moves.
Then, from time to time, we have
the reiterated determination" of the
Carsonites, repeated by one or an.
other, when not uttered by Carson
himself, that they will never con-
sent" to home rule for all Ireland.
Out of the turmoil, the repetitions,
the new phases, the changes, what is
there from which we, who are inter
ested in the securing of home rule
for Ireland, may derive comfort?
This-and note it WELL All of these
things keep the issue of Irish home
rule alive.
When, in the great CONSERVATION in
Britain that came with the success of
the German offensive, beginning last
March, and General Cough of Cur
ragh's fame had been retired, defeat
ed, and disgraced; when panic seized
the Coalition Cabinet, and everv nook
and corner of the United Kingdom
was searched for new "man-power,"
Irish CONSUMPTION was urged as a nee
essary thing to save the British EN-
pire and the Allies
Then we'll planned British propa-
ganda was spread throughout this
country, to make it appear that Ire
land had not done her part in furnish
ing soldiers for the Allies All the
past events of the rebellion of 1916
were carefully reissued, in such form
as to make it seem that there was a
rebellious Ireland of such magnitude
that CONSUMPTION was justifiable, even
If force had to be applied to secure
it.
The coalition of Sim Feiners and
Nationalists and the determination of
the Catholic clergy of Ireland settled
conscription in short order. The
sense of the American people pene-
trated the excuses put forth by the
British Cabinet for the proposed ap-
plication of force to Ireland. Every
word said about Czecho-S lovaks,
about the Poles, the Italians in Aus
tria, the Slavs in Austria Hungary, the
Belgians and other oppressed peoples,
The Irish standard., 1918-09-07
A Mighty
Power Rests

1t has come to be recognized fact
that in the womanhood of nation
rests a mighty power and a country's
hopes. While women preserve and
jealousy guard the grand Inheritance
that the Church has purchased for
them, the welfare of society will be
safeguarded.
mothers love for the home is the
nations surety of high morality and
consequent peace and prosperity.
Christian womanhood knows no per-
version Of it's responsibilities. All the
fads and systems Of our day are re-
pulsive to womens innate sense of
propriety and modesty.
Those who would introduce mon
strous doctrines that thwart the ends
of matrimony and harass the exist
ence of the home, find a formidable
foe in true Christian womanhood, OBJ
serves the Brooklyn Tablet. They
are aware of the obstacle that lies
before them and seek through hideous
schemes and evident contradictions to
force upon the notice of the woman
hood Of the land the seeming benefits
that would accrue should they adopt
their nefarious methods.
The Church has consistently op-
who seek to foist upon the home IRE
forms" and Systems" that spell do
nestle infelicity and national ruin.
Through her children she places a
wall of adamant before the onrush of
hostile schemers. Her women may
we'll glory in their steadfast faith and
whole-souled courage born of living
faith, in staying the hand that would
crush the family and do away with
the laws of God
Our women realize that it was not
wars that brought to destruction the
great Roman Empire. Conquest did
not spread the areas of that mighty
nation so far that the Mistress of
Nations was incapable of protecting
her vast possessions. History clearly
tells us that the womanhood of an
cient Rome had fallen. Woman was
regarded as chattel. Native mod
esty was absent. Ruin, desolatiOn
and destruction wept over the ashes
of glorious empire when it's morals
became corrupted, and it's womanhood
had become degraded.
The Church entered to reclaim
womanhood. She raised her to the
dignity of queen of the home. She
gave into her keeping the standards
of morality, and placed her upon an
equal standing with man as a child
of God and an heir to eternal happi-
ness. ...
Conscious of their dignity today,
womanhood and motherhood are an
honor to the civilized world. They
frown upon those who would rob
them of their inheritance. They see
through the heavily yelled machina-
tions of the present day "uplifter" and
pierce the armor of the intinerant Wis
ionary. They have torn off the mask
of hypocrisy that shields contracep-
tionalism and exposed to public ridi-
cule and everlasting shame those per-
The Irish standard., 1918-09-07
IT'S A TIME. TO SAVE.
The Workman, His Wages and Lux
uries Considered.

Never, says "The Labor World" has
it been brought home to US in a man.
ner more clear, that the American
workman cannot stand prosperity,
than by his actions and the way he
spends his money during the present
crisis.
The man who, four years ago, had
to work six and some times seven
days a week in order to properly sup.
port his family, now works but three
The Irish standard., 1918-09-07
GERMAN CROP REPORT.
Yield Said to Be From 10 to Is Per
Cent Better Than Last
Year.

Copenhagen, Sept. 2.-An official
German crop report estimates the
yield this year at from 10 to Is per
cent. above that of 1917. The area
planted to early potatoes was a fifth
greater than in 1917, and that to late
potatoes also showed an increase.
The Irish standard., 1918-09-07
WILL HELP RAISE FUNDS.

The war has brought Mary Ander-
son, the great American Catholic &C
tress, back to the stage. TIE help raise
funds for relief work, she has played
in England.