Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-05-18
Gabby Gossips About
Generosity Of
Society j,
But, Of Course, She Hasn't Forgotten the Wide,
Wide. World in Chatting About Kings
And Things Which Show That
Folks Is Just Folks"

and the never-to- be duplicated short
cake. "All right" she said, we'll
try some"
Very shortly a ticket for 81 was
slipped under her plate. The men
wanted to take the ticket and so did
the ladies at the table, but Miss SUI
raft smiled and walked straight to
the cashier and paid her check--a
check for the meal to which she had
been invited.
Some hostess" said one Of the
men.
"She's some game guest" smiled
another.
And now a certain crowd of Aut-
tering females are, as the boys say,
passing the buck"
n ISCOVEREDl Now all the
| beautiful mystery is gone and
no longer shall we draw from
limited exchequers larage sums with
which to purchase costly birdseye
maple. Why? Well, the secret is out
there is no real birdseye maple.
This is what took all the joy out of
our hallucination-for really some
Authorizations are joyous:~
What makes the birdseye maples
That is a question which you have
asked yourself when you looked at
beautiful piece of furniture made
of this wood" says the American
Forestry association, which is CAM
paigning for the planting of memo
rial trees. There have been NUM-
Der of theories but the real reason is
simple.
The favorite theory has been that
sapsuckers, by pecking holes
through the bark OF young naples
makes scars which produce the
birdseye figure in the wood during
succeeding years. Bird-pecked hick-
DRY is often cited as an analogous
case, yet who1ever saw birdseye fig
ure in hickory, though the bark may
have been perforated like a collan-
der by the bills of energetic sap
suckers? The effect in the case Of
hickory is the opposite of birdseyel
III maple; the wood is discoIpredi
and unsightly. Some attribute il To
the action of frost, but no SUCH cone
nection between cause and effect has
been shown to exist.
The explanation of the phenofn-
enon is simple, and person with
good magnifying glass can work It
out for himself. The birdseye figure
is produced by casual or abnormal
buds which have their origin under
the bark of the trunk. The first buds
of that kind may develop when the
tree is quite small. They are rarely
able to force their way through the
bark and become branches, but they
may live many\years just under the
bark, growing in length as the trunk
increases in size, but seldom appear
ing on the outside Of the bark. If
one such bud dies, another will like
ly rise near it and continue the ir-
ritation which produces the fantastic
growth known as birdseye.
1t is said the Japanese produce
birdseye growth in certain
trees by inserting buds beneath the
bark The Field museum, Chicago,
has a sample of what is claimed to
be artihcia1ly produced birdseye
wood from Japan.
m HE "Stagedoor Johnny" has re-
appeared. New York, just
emerging from the grip of the
"flu" finds itself infected, in certain
quarters, with the return Of this
former pest. the Johnny" Charles
Welton, of New York, has this to.
say, In speaking of this Treturn"
which has increased Since, the sign.
ing of the armistice:
"The stage door Johnnies are mob
LIKING again in the dark alleys at the
witching hour. if that is what mid
night ought to be called.
THE classification of Johnny
adopted by the Stage Managers as
ISOLATION is simp with one-cyl-
inder head and an eigft-cylinder
car, averaging between lo and %
years Of age, who lives part of the
time in luxury and the rest of the
time in the fond hope that some
time he may be able to deliver, an
entire chorus or, at least, a sextet to
its several homes and thereafter
smoke a cigaret and call it a sa-
lubriously perfect day.
Most of the Johnnies are sole
heirs residuary legatees to a pock-
etbook. Here and there one may
be found who is on a payroll, but
usually they worry along on a check
roll, which. is easy going if the check
rein is off.
Uptown florists can pretty near
ly tell how many Johnnies are going
on alley parade any particular night
by keeping track of the orders for
cut roses, orchids and other specials
ly selected blooms that they send in.
A Johnny without a young CON
servatory leaning against his shout.
der is almost as rare as one without
a silk topper and vacant look"
Forewarned is forearmed (wise
old saw. Therefore, Omaha's best
and brightest may experience a
touch Of this epidemic, judging from
the splendid booking already adver-
tised for next season. Then, too,
Omaha is going forward with long
and uneven strides toward metro
politanism and who knows, whose
sons may be stricken with the disease
that draus <bsr, ,ro,S ~.