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upon the success she has made i'll
the literary world.
Mrs. w. J, Barrett entertained
the South First street chapter Of
St. Pau's guild on Monday after
noon. Plans we're discussed for the
picnic to be held at Manawa on
July 7, at which the families of the
members Will be guests. Mrs. Bar
rett was assisted in serving by her
sister-in-law, Miss Barrett.
Announcements have been re-
ceived of the marriage of Miss Mil
bred Vogeler. formerly of this city,
and Louis A. Mahncke A very
pretty ceremony took place at the
home of the brides parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Otto Nogeler. The bride is a
graduate of the Council Bluffs high
school and of the College of Puget
Sound. She has been teaching for
the last two years.
DIR. and Mrs. Donald Macrae have
been attending the convention Of
the American Medical association.
The picnic OF the Council Bluffs
Woman's club has been postponed
one week and will be held at Fair
mont park instead OF at the home
of Mrs. w. G. Rich, as was planned.
The change was necessary on &c
count of the condition of the roads
Misses Mary and Ruth Wallace
left Tuesday evening for Goldheld.
Ore, where they will spend the
! summer. Enroute they will visit
their brother at Sacramento.
Miss Marie Svantner of Primrose,
/ Neb., and Miss Wilma Garwood OF
Carroll, Neb, are guests at the home
Of Judge and Mrs. Walter |. Smith.
Among the most interesting
events of the week was the reunion
OF the class OF 1873 OF the Council
Bluffs High school, held on Satur-
day evening at the home of Judge
! and Mrs. Walter |. Smith. The
| program of that date was repeated
as nearly as possible. Rev. Crisis
man delivered the opening prayer.
taking the place of his predecessor,
Rev. S. NJ. Walters. Mrs. Hattie
Gardener Sheppard read the sa'u-
tatory for Mrs. Katie Blaxim Pow
ers, who was unable to be present.
Mrs May Baker Restrick, now Of
Honolulu. sent her essay to Mrs.
F w. Houghton to read. The pa
per of Mrs. Laura Cacv Mcbride,
now deceased, was supplied by her
daughter and read by Mrs. Eific
Patton Wead. Mrs. Walter l.
Smith, Mrs. Carrie Thickstun Bal
lenger and Mrs. Alice Mottaz Coop
er read their essays as on the ORG
inal occasion. Those of Mrs. Mary
Reese Mcmillan. Mrs. Ida Noack
Frazier. Ida Harris Beno, Ms.
Fife Patton Wead Miss Betty
Graves and Walter Tostevin could
not be found. Mrs. Smith read the
valedictory for Miss Della Thrall
who could not be present. Out Of
the class OF IA seven were able to
be present, and the ESSAYS of four
others were produced. The chorus
which was sung by the student BODY
II 1873 was rendered by several
members of the class. Mrs. Smith
and Miss Grace Smith Mrs. B. Q.
Burlington played the piano solo
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TRY toLive With Your Child in World
Of Imagination and He Will
Be Easier to Guide

proof may adroitly be given by a
playful appeal to the fancy,
Poor Patsey," murmureG a faith
er, shaking his head as his needless
little son, sturdy boy OF 5, STUN
bled and fell repeatedly during a
short ramble in ameadow. Poor
Patsey! One would think to look
at him that he had nice bright eyes.
but they are just beads
The next day, running impetuous7
y to meet me, this same little fell
low stumbled over stone, fell and
got up, saying good humoredly,
IF daddy was here he'd tell me |
had beads Tor eyes, His needless
ness was soon corrected by this Jest
The flowers are asking why Pat
Sey doesn't take his feet off and
leave them at home when he comes
to see us | suggested one day
when he trampled my snoWdrops
What do the flowers say now"
he whispered as he quickly removed
the offending members from the
bulb bed and looked wistiuly into
my face.
They say, Thank you, patsey,' :"
| replied off you keep your feet
on the paths you may bring them
with you when you come to the
garden And so a rebukc attained
its end without creating antagon-
ism.
Sometimes it happens that chill
dren lose the sense of discrmina-
ton between fact and fancy. Then
we should clarity their ideas with
out implanting sense OF guilt
1t was discovered that a hitherto
truthful child was beginning to make
misstatements. evidently not for the
purpose of deception, but entirely
through confusion of thought. |
had read him an account in news
paper of dog that put his paws
on the steering wheel of an auto
mobile while his master. sitting be-
side him, changed the gears and saw
to the essentials of running the 'ar
He made no comment at the time,
but his imagination seized upon the
idea, A couple of months later he
told me that he had seen dog
running car on Fifth avenue.
His master was with him." | re-
sponded.
No, not that one; this dog was
alone. He changed the gears him
self"
The following incident shows his
manner of applying my careful def
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-22
COUNCIL BLUFFS
SOCIETY NOTES

Miss Emma Peterson and Mr..
Clarence Ingraham were quietly
married OH Wednesday afternoon at
the home OF the brides mother, Mrs.
Anna Peterson Only the immedi-
ate relatives were present at the
ceremony which was performed by
Rev. Field of Atlantic. Miss Pet
erson was formerly private secre-
tary to J. J. Hughes. The groom is
a former resident here. Mr.. and
Mrs. Ingram will visit relatives in
Spokane before going to California
to make their home.
Harmony chapter kensington So
cietv met on Tuesday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. H. ]. Geise, 2O2
Grace street. A few matters OF bust
ness were arranged and short pro-
gram followed in which Miss Neva
McComb. Miss Leona White. Miss
Kathryn Cheyne, Miss Dorothy Fer
guson and Miss Dorothy Hurd took
part. The hostess was assisted in
serving by Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Lau-
strup and Mrs. Gillaspy.
A quiet wedding took place on
Tuesday at 3 o'clock at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. |. w. Slower, 625
Sixth avenue. The contracting part
les were Free n. Tallman. who
works in the circulating department
of the Nonparel and Miss Margaret
Slower. oldest daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Slower. Rev. J. Frederick Cat
lin used the ring service in perform
ing the ceremony Only the two i'm
mediate families were present. After
short honeymoon the couple will
make their home in the western part
of the city.
Dr.. and Mrs. w. F. David, who
have been the guests of their daugh-
ter. Mrs. w. F. Shirley, for several
weeks. returned to Marshalltown on
Wednesday. They were accompan-
led by Mrs. Shirley and Mr.. Shirley
will join them about July |. Mr.. and
Mrs. Shirley will then go on to New
York in time for the summer SEES
sion at Columbia.
The Ideal club held their annua
picnic luncheon at the Boat club
on Tuesday. Thirty guests were
seated at one long table under the
trees. The feature OF the Afternoon
was a talk by Mrs. Anna Steect
Richardson, the we'll known maya
zine writer, who told of her trip tc
France and her meeting witt
Colonel FINLEY and Capt. Van Or
der. Mrs. Hunter and Miss De Vo
then gave some very interesting re
ports of the state federation meet
ing at Ames The program com
mittee then distributed the new yea
books, which outline a study of cur
rent events and Iowa history TO,
the coming year. Mrs. Richardson
was formerly a resident OF this cit,
and society editor of the Nonpar
iel. She has host of friends her,
who are delighted to have this op
porturity to talk over old time!
with her and to congratulate he
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-22
BY Harriet Frances Carpenter.

While visiting school | over
heard this dialogue between an I'M
imaginative teacher and small boy
who was helping TO remove some
cobwebs from a cabinet in the class
room:
"Spiderwebs are very beautiful
aren't they, Miss Andrews?"
Hold the pan higher"
"All spiders aren't bad spiders;
some spiders are good spiders, aren't
they, Miss Andrews"
I Watch what you are doing"
Il know a story about a spider.
Miss Holmes told a story to her
class about Robert Bruce and the
spider"
"When?" severely. The child
hung his head. III you loiter at
her door again, III keep you in. -
\ sullen look appeared on his face
and the work was continued in
silence. After he had left the room
she turned to me and said: That
boy gets sulky spells. Oh, he likes
nature work and stories, but
never could tell story
Upon my suggesting that stories
stimulate the imagination, she held
up her hands and with look of
horror declared: Imagination
You don't have to stimulate chill
dren's imagination. The trouble is
they have too much!'
She was unable to reconcile her
adult mental attitude with child's
outlook.
A little girl. as she ran up and
down the steps OF a broad terrace
surrounding house in the country.
kept saying to herself: It's just like
an old castle! It's just like an old
castle!
Nellie" commanded her father,
"don't do that! You'll fall"
"She is always falling" he ex-
planned to his hostess.
Does she hurt herself" asked
the lady.
No, but she might, she is SO awk-
ward. She gets worse all the time"
His little daughter manifested a
lively imagination, but he did not
understand how to make it of use in
developing restraint and p0iSe.
Live with children and one lives
in a world of perpetual imagination.
In no way can we more easily con-
troll the child's acts, form his habits.
mould his thoughts, than along this
avenue of approach to his mind. Re-
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From the time the earliest seed
is put into the ground to the har-
vesting of the last crop, every home
vegetable garden may be expectel
to suffer from the attacks of the
army of insect pests which annually
creep from their winter quarters,
hungry from their long fast, to fat
ten on the carefully nurtured seed
lings, riddle the grown plants, and
multiply to countless thousands dur
ing the days of midsummer. The
careful and far-sighted gardener
may most readily demonstrate his
skill through the adoption and cor
rect application of the remedies best
designed to control this horde
Colorado Potato Beetle.
Wherever a small plot of potatoes
is grown, the Colorado potato beetle
is likely to be found. The mature
or "hardshell' beetles, which have
spent the winter safely buried in the
ground, begin to come out about
the time when the plants are few
inches high. First they hungrily
devour a part of the young and
tender foliage, after which they be-
gin to deposit, on the undersides of
the leaves, their clusters of orange
colored eggs, of which 1000 or
more may be laid by single female.
Effective work may be done at this
time by Manipulating the beetles
from the plants into can of water,
| with little kerosene over the sur
face. The eggs may be crushed be-
tween thumb and finger.
Care at this stage will prevent
the appearance of the fat, shiny red
larvae or "slugs." which are much
more destructive than the beetles,
frequently stripping the plant en-
tirely if left without attention. When
first Matched, these feed in groups,
but as they grow larger, they spread
over the plant. When growth is
completed, they descend to the
ground, into which they burrow to
depth of several inches. When
in the course of few days they
again emerge, they have taken the
form OF the parent beetles
The Colorado potato beetle is one
OF the pests most easily controlled.
1t feeds readily on poisoned foliage:
and the we'll known treatments OF
spraying or busting with arsenate
of lead or Paris green should be
familiar to every grower. The spray
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-22
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

When Johnny went marching off
and the bands played and the flags
fluttered and everyone was keyed
to the highest emotional pitch. it
was very easy to imagine oneself in
love with Johnny and swear
eternal loyalty to him.
But it was another matter to
keep that promise in the dull re-
action of the gray days that fol-
lowed. 1t was so easy to whisper
yes and vow you'd never go OUT
to the movies, theaters or dances
with anyone else while the regi-
mental band was playing Tip
perary' and the hooraying was
going on. But it became terribly
hard to keep that promise when
no bands played, flags fluttered and
every girl one knew was going out
and having beautiful time.
You promised, but what you really
fell in love with was the drama Of
the situation and not the actual SOL
der boy.
And what the soldier boy-who
has forgotten-fell in love with,
was not the actual Mary Robinson.
but the idea OF girl praying for
him at home and keeping a light
burning before his image in the
inner sanctuary of her heart
You see, perhaps, he did not love
the actual Mary at all, but just the
figure of that waiting girl and
when he came across the real girl,
he forgot all about the lay figure
at home. She was just a peg to
hang a few grand-opera emotions
on, anyhow
Love Versus Fancy.
The real tragedy happens when
one loves and the other only fan
cies he loves. And it is better to
realize this first as well as last, and
get the remedy adjusted accord
ingly.
This theme, and variations upon
it, are the burden of a good many
letters that come to me these days,
She fell in love with someone over
here" and shows no jov when
Johnny comes marching home. Or
he fell in love with someone "over
Il ere and displays a marked lack
OF enthusiasm when he meets the
girl he left behind him.
This is highly unpleasant situa-
ton, but it is not necessarily fatal
unless you attempt to make good
your promise and marry someone
you no longer love- This is fatal,
the most fatal of situations, along
side of which everything else may
be lived down. ameliorateI, reclaim
eG. rectihed-but only this, to marry
someone you no longer love.
Then, indeed. you have a very
genuine tragedy on your hands that
will demand all your stolcal quail
ties to get through your daily "a
hours SO before it is too late, con-
fess and get your release from a
mistaken promise, given i'll good
faith, no doubt, but fatal in its con-
sequences to both it kept
II you find yourself in this kind OF
a plight, do not lose a dav in ex-
Treating yourself and do it truth
fully and frankly. But please do
not-from moral cowardice-allow
the situation to drift and imagine
that time will adjust things. This
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milton. He told his aunt that he
had seen two squirrels running
toward each other on a branch o. a
tree. They had their mouths iiiied
with nuts, and they ran so fast that
they bumped heads" and knocked
the nuts out After all effective
pause he added: That's a joke. |
made it up Now this is real
and he repeated a simple incident
of a squirrel carrying away the
walnuts that he had laid on The
grounL to dry.
Some children naturally make The
distinction between fact and fancy
without assistance. One of my cA!ld
companions usually explained his
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representations where they might
not be obvious, so that we lived in
a world OF pretend" without any
feeling of deception--"l can't come
to see you. shall be too busy TAX
ing care Of my horse (you know, my
toy horsc), and my automobile (you
know. my b1tycle)."
Ride over on your horse"
ooh. he is too wild"
Then come in your car"
1T costs too much for gas and
water
Natal is expected to break its
sugar producing record this year
with an output exceeding l4O,-
600 tons
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given by Mrs. Carrie Atkins Phil
lips. Refreshments were served at
the close of the program. Mr.. and
Mrs. F. D. Wead and Mr.. Edgar
II. Scott of Omaha were the only
outof-town guests About IS
guests were present, among them
many friends of the class, who were
in the high school at the same time.
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lowed by a couple OF dozen royal
huntsmen magnificently mounted like
himself, he rode at the head of the
procession Of royal personages up the
race course at Ascot on the Cup Day
which is the day par excellence of the
Ascot Week.
His sense of Humor Keen.
What is so dlsconcert.ng and at the
same time entertaining about Lord
Ribblesdale is that he is a sort of liv-
ing paradox. Thus, with all his dignity
and courtliness. one can never be quite
sure whether he Is joking or serious.
On one occasion when Parliament and
indeed the entire nation were absorbed
by a political crisis OF exceptional
magnitude. Ribblesdale was one ot the
most interested onlookers In the Peers
gallery Of the House OF Commons. He
appeared profoundly absorbed, and
many wondered what thoughts were
concealed behind that inscrutable face.
But It afterward developed at the Turf
Club that he was busy in counting, for
the sake of deciding a bet, the number
of bald heads among the elected rep
resentatives OF the United Kingdom.
Then, again it is difficult TO reconcile
his stateliness with the remembrance
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that he was until ten or fifteen years
ago one OF the crack boxers OF the
House Of Lords, having tied for the
championship with Lord Lonsdale.
Although he adorns the Gided
Chamber. he does not take it seriously.
For he contends that when il dlssents
from the decisions OF the lower house
il is mischievous. and that when it
agrees with the Commons il is mani
testify superfluous. Fifty per cent
then OF our time we wriggle on one
horn and so per cent. OF it on the
other" And again, speaking OF the
lords spiritual. that is to say, the
prelates who occupy seats in the
House of Lords, he declares that 1.-The
rustic Of lawn sleeves on their bench
there soon after 1915 in the evening
always constitutes a warning to the
lay Peers that the time has arrived
TO think OF other things-namely din
ner"-and IS accepted as vote Of ad-
journment. Eminent church digni-
taries," adds Ribblesdale, seem to me
TO have striking faces; whether cause
or effect, these faces go with prefer
ment."
Ribblesdale is fond OF flowers and he
declares that 1t was the wisteria in fun
bloom covering the stables OF the
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Royal Hunt at Cumberland Lodge, in
Windsor Park, that led him TO accept
the office of Master of the Royal Buck
hounds, Also he has been known to
quote Wordsworth with the lines:
And then my heart with pleasure Nils
And dances with the daffodlls.
in order to express his satisfaction
over a particularly good run with the
hounds.
Lord Ribblesdale always has looked
upon politics rather as a joke. He
processes Liberalism and even Radical
ism; he lent Gisburne Park for So
cialist meeting on the ground that II
was wise to allow Socialists to blow
of their steam. and that anyhow they
had some useful ideas. Prior 20 the
war he undertook the defence In the
House of Lords of the budget OF Lloyd
George. then Chancellor of the
Exchequer. He afterward spoiled the
whole effect Of that defence by allud-
ing to the Chancellor-now the Prime
Minister'S half pantaloon and half
highwayman." He processes to have
been converted to home rule by Charles
Stewart Parnell. In 1887 the two men,
perfect strangers TO one another. hap
pened to travel in the same railroad
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In Yorkshire. the mansion being built
OF gray stone from the Yorkshire
FClls near by. In the eighteenth
century party of French plasterers
were brought over from Paris to
Gisburne Hall by the Lister of his
Gay, and they worked for more than
year at the plastering and decora-
ton OF the house. They were so we'll
treated by the lord OF the manor that
before they left and in recognition OF
his kindness they adorned the entire
wall OF the principal staircase with
life size figures in half relief repre-
senting the members of the family
reading, writing, sleeping, playing the
lutte, playing bowls, training flowers
engaged in archery contests and in
hunting. G!sburne has been relatively
deserted since the death of the first
Lady Rbblesdale and the marriage OF
her daughters. Under the reign OF the
new and American Lady Ribblesdale
il is destined to revive it's former
glories as one OF the most delightful
and hospitable country houses in
Yorkshire.
1t is a source OF satisfaction to the
friends and relatives of the former
Ava Willing of Philadelphia that she
should have married Lord Ribblesdale.
He Is rich enough through inheritance
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fashion nineteenth century moderniLS
with all that was most courtly and
gracious in the eighteenth century.
II was by reason of this rather I'M
usual combination that King Edward
had long nicknamed his friend "the
ancestor" and the sobriquet must APP
peal to whomever gazes upon Lord
Rbblesdale's portrait. For Sargent,
while representing him arrayed in
hunting toys, manages to convey a
sort OF impression that he had just
stepped out of one OF those ancestral
portraits in the picture gallery at Gis-
burne Park, near Cltheroe. which has
been the home Of his family for more
than 700 years.
Tommy" to his intimate friends and
former fellow officers of the Rifle Bril-
gade, irreverently dubbed "dribble-
squash" by his old time chum and fell
low practical Joker, Admiral Lord
Beresford. Lord Ribblesdale was one
OF the most gifted and yet least seri-
Gus minded OF that notable coterie.
The Souls" which forty years ago
played so conspicuous a role in the
English great world-a coterie In
which Arthur Balfour, Lord Rosebery
and the Lytteltons were shining lights
and TO which Mrs. Asquith. then Miss
Margot Tenant, and Henry White,
now one of the United States delegates
to the Peace Conference in Paris, be-
longed. II was the association OF the
Souls that brought Lord Ribblesdale
INTO the company Of Charlotte Ten
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poer campaign and in the great war
now closed Lord Lovat is the shyest
man in Parliament, and on attempting
to deliver his maiden speech in the
House OF Lords, felt so tongueted
when he rose to address his fellow
peers for the first time that he had to
resume his seat without having ut
tered a single word. Lord Ribbles-
dale's two other daughters are Lady
Wilson, wife Of Sir Matthew Wilson,
and Diana, who lost her first husband,
Capt. Percy Lyulph Wyndham Of the
Coldstream Guards. in the early stages
Of the Great War, and has since then
married again.
Lord Ribblesdale and his American
bride are a very handsome couple
She, one OF the most famous beauties
of that city Of beautiful women--Phila-
delphia-tall and divinely fair-has re-
tanned at the age OF fifty In an alto
gether marvellous degree her good
looks and her elegance and grace, the
silvery hue OF her hair merely serving
to soften the classic loneliness of her
face. Ribblesdale. her senior by fifteen
years. is also very tall. standing some
six feet three in his stocking feet, his
clean cut. clean shaven features. with
their aquiline nose, being surmounted
by wavy white hair. He is somewhat
long in the shanks, and while suggest
ing the horseman nevertheless has a
particularly graceful walk, which is all
his own and extremely characteristic.
Queen Victoria used to say OF him