Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-16

Plus ton OF experience. 1t all hap
.pened when the school children in
some of the advanced grades de-
cided to have mask party. Plans
were discussed at every convenient
moment, but none of these discus
sions included one teacher who de-
cided to remain unknown at the
party. When the guests assembled
most everyone knew everyone else,
but one queer person dressed in
two gunny sacks for trouser legs,
another sack for lumber and some
queer contraption for hat, who en-
tered into the fun of the evening,
but would not speak. The party de-
cided to make the rounds of the
home of few friends. Once on the
street the boys curiosity got the bet
ter of them. The person in gunny-
saeking was asked to reveal
the name but refused. A fist battle
followed. The boys discovered
1Aon1 they were beating, but they
BOW enter the school room shame
facedly as they must gaze upon the
wreck of their own violence who
suffers through her days as noble
teacher should.
q ONE publicity sent in probably
~ by Lord Dunsany's press
agent, for use prior to his COM
irg to Omaha, November IS, in
cluded the following paragraph:
"Since the days of William Nor
~, there has been no such charm
- that set forth in the works of
Lord Dunsany. 1t is at once the
wonder and despair of his contem-
poraries. His clarity, his briefness
are traceable to his early training,
tor in his youth he was never per
mitted to see newspaper and his
reading was confined to the Bible
, and the tales of Anderson and
|. Grimm. He was not allowed to
aSecome contaminated BY the filth
lS:irculated in the daily press"
I Gabby is wondering if the press
Urgent was trying to stoop to the
Newspaper level, or if he assumes
That the newspaper staff does not
II cad publicity before running it, or
i4f the Americah press has not given
his master sufficient compliment
arv mention, or if he refers only to
the press abroad, which was avail
abk to Lord Dunsany in his child
hood, or--but lust to prove that the
press agent was right after all we
publish his own paragraph, forsooth.
A T a gathering of men and
~ women, recently, the subject of
lectures and lecturers was dis
cussed at some length. Said one
women whose intelligence is recog-
iiized by Omahas leaders: Il have
grown positively skeptical since
hearing SO much propaganda. Every
where you 60 some propaganda or
politician is shouting his views. OF
course, his views may or may not be
all right, but we are surfeited with
war subjects and the country is
flooded with postwar speakers. 1t
keeps me in combative mood try
ing to form my own opinions with
out prejudice
Said another: 81 have quit going
to lectures. No more this year. I'll
tell you why. When | go to lecture
under the auspices of the Drama
league l expect to hear drama, want
to hear-drama and am disappointed
If | do not hear drama. When | go
to lecture under the auspices Of
the Fine Arts society | expect and
want to hear about art, not what
somebody thought of the French or
the Germans or the Belgians. When
I 60 to a lecture sponsored by
some political party or thefAmeucan
Legion, then | am willing to hear
about war and its causes and proven
tives."
Many others expressed their
views on this subject, one woman
laughingly vouched for the Tues
day Musical club, saying that they
Invariably brought musicians of the
highest type to our city.
gGabby understands that the Oma-
ha Woman's Press club has under
consideration some project. But if
this body of women bring lecturer,
he or she will undoubtedly take
THE Press" for a subject, since
several women of the press over
heard the discussion.
THERE is to be a ban put on
lizards for lounge lizards. The
south has decided to take
strategic action to prevent the cap
ture of the chameleon. 1t is a das-
tardly and insidious plot of north
ern plutoerats says one indignant
southerner. Never shall the kindly
little lizard be hunted and captured
relentlessly by the northerners to
be worn as a pet or an ornament by
some belle in cooler cline.
In the south the lizard is per-
niitted to spend his life happily and
naturally in the pursuit of elusive
bugs. The bug eats the flowers and
the chameleon eats the bug. No
lizards, plenty bugs, no flowers;
plenty lizards, no bugs, plenty flow
ers. Ergo, the expectation of the
chameleon must cease.
The north is to be notified that
it must not lay violent hands on the
chameleons or the south will sick
the game laws on it.
E(T UPID ever pursues the fair
young maiden" says one
- old Greek when speaking of
that willy trickster. That the fact is
quite true may be seen in one Oma-
IN family where two sisters are fee
ing from too ardent lovers. Both
girls are blondes and live in the
Field club district They and their
parents have but recentlv returned