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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
Ideas for April FOOLS
Day

The keynote of entertaining on
April Fools day is the unexpected.
The more you keep people guess
ing, the greater success will your
affair be. Of course the stunts carry
out this plan. One particularly i'd
lotto stunt, which is certain to en-
liven any group, is a FISH talk. The
whole company is gathered
into a circle; then the hostess an
nounces they are to make very
important contribution to the sum
of human knowledge. Scientists
| have long wondered what and how
fish would talk if it could talk. 1t
is up to the company to supply
that knowledge. Thereupon each
guest is given an opportunity to
express himself as fish.
After the guests have arrived, the
hostess might pass dish of good
looking candies. She should do this
with many smiles and hints of
stunt, which proceeding will natur-
ally make the guests suspect the
candy is a joke. The majority will
probably refuse; and the joke is on
them, for the candy should be the
real article and no person allowed
second chance at it.
The refreshments should be dis
guised as far as possible. The table
may be a carcicature of real table,
for instance table cloth and nap
kins of wrapping paper or cheese
cloth. One extreme idea is to serve
the courses backward if the party
happens to be dinner or a lunch
con. That seems bit hard on the
guests unless they are youthful
enough to enjoy anything. A good
center piece for an April FOOLS table
is fruit jar of vegetables. Rather
good looking effects are possible
with parsley and carrots.
The dishes can add a great deal
to the unexpectedness of the refresh
ments. We do not realize what
sticklers we are at form until we
see everything reversed. Here are
a few suggestions: Serve:
Soup in teacups.
Olives in a sugar bowl
Crackers in a vegetable dish.
Meat on cake plate.
Vegetables in glass berry bowl
or poured from a pitcher into glass
eS.
Gravy in sauce dish.
Bread in salad bowl.
Jelly on a meat platter.
Pie or other desserts on dinner
plates.
Sugar in a gravy boat with a
gravy ladle.
Cream in teapot.
Water in after-dinner coffee cups.
Teaspoons for soup and table
spoons for beverage.
Camouflage in Food.
The usual April Fool stunt is to
have cotton batting chocolates or
doughnuts or even cotton layers in
biscuit. A clever variation of that
idea is to have few imitation foods
mixed in with regulation foods.
Then the person who gets cotton
doughnut wonders if there is some
thing wrong with him, or if the rest
of the company have lost their
senses and are eating what never
was intended for human consump-
ton.
Some ways of Disgusting ordinary
food are as follows:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
Girls of Every Race
Meet and Mingle at
Honolulu Y. w.

Housing girl workers is a prob
lem in Honolulu just as it is in New
York, Chicago, Washington "a any
large city in the United States, ac-
cording to Miss Gertrude Gogin,
girls work secretary of the national
board of the Y. w. c. A., who has
just returned from the Hawaiian
islands.
"As a result the waiting list for
the boarding home is a long one.
The house accommodates 40 girls
and it is always filled, mostly with
American girls who go to the is
lands to accept commercial posi-
tons, though a few Hawaiian girls
stay there, too. But the space is
inadequate for the demand put
upon it.
"The city association is just as
crowded. Sitting in the lobby at
any time of the day you can see
girls of practically every country in
the world passing through--Korean,
Chinese, Japanese, Hindu, Filipino,
Portuguese, French-many in native
costumes. There are typewriting
classes in that Y. w. c. A. with not
one English-speaking girl among
the students; English classes with
members from as many as so nation
alities, mostly oriental.
1--WE also have a cottage at Wal
kiki, the well-known Hawaiian
beach, where girls may go for week
ends, for picnics and good times.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02

liquid form 1t will build your body your cold and protect
you disease which urk everywhere One of the active
ingredients this temperance Alternative and wild cherry
bark with nga which good for the lungs and for coughs also
Oregon grape root blood root stone root Queens rooa sku
action the stomach improving digestion and assimilation These
herbal extracts in the Discovery aid bloodmakng and
best for scroa By improving the blood they aid in throwing off
attack of influenza and act oil on machinery.
Catarh should be treated first blood disease with this altera
tive then addition the should be washed daily with DR.
sages Catarrh Remedy which be had drug
Boulder, Coo-Abou seventeen ago by home phys
discouraged but hearing DR.
Discovery thought that would trial oughed night and day. but
after taking the third bottle the Discovery the cough
the first nights
took specially prepared medicines for about three months also kept taking
the Golden Medical Discovery this and continued
safely recommend DR. Ferces Golden Medical Discovery all Mrs
O + Adnms
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
WELL, MEBBE SOL DUNNO.

They tell me these here Fourteen
Points
VIII pacify the war-like Joints,
That there won't be no war no more
An no more gas an guns an gore
An all the pugilistic hicks
VIII put away their knives and
bricks
Well. mebbe 50,
dunno.
They tell me that this here, now
VIII put an end to all intrigue,
That all the birds on land an sea
VIII In their little nests agree.
An stead of treating others rough
Will bill an COO. an all that stuff,
Well, mebbe so,
/ dunno.
The bolshevik, I'm told by some
Is not so altogether rum,
An others say the geek's curse
An some say this, and some say that
Do all these guys know where they're
at?
Well, mebbe So
l dunno.
1T Is the war" they told us guys
When al 1.-The prices hit the skies.
An now when prices still increase,
These eggs retort 1T is the peace"
Some cry "Supply"-some yell De
mand,"
They say we boobs can't understand,
Well mebbe So
l dunno.
J. P. MEvoY.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
Thomas Wood Stevens to
Tell Omahans How to
Produce Pageants

Thomas Wood Stevens, head OF
the department of dramatic arts at
Carnegie Institute of Technology,
will lecture before the Fine Arts
society Friday at $50 in the ball
room of the Fontenelle.
Mr.. Stevens has written and d.
, rected 18 plays and pageants in this
country and in Europe. The largest
and most impressive was the pa
geant Of St. Louis, which the Oma
ha board of governors and directors
OF the Ak-Sar-Ben attended as spe-
cial guests. There were $500 peo-
pie in the cast and 100000 in the
audience.
Joan of Arc" and The Draw
ing Of the Sword" are two masques
that, written since the war, have
made Mr.. Stevens known for pa
triotic dramatic work, both here and
abroad. Joan OF Arc" was first
produced in France on the steps OF
the temple of Domreny.
THE twentieth century has shown
wonderful revival of the pageant
in England" said Mrs. Myron
Learned, (which began there in
the 18th century. America has
caught the fever in the last IS or 20
years.
Some day Omaha will surely have
one using all the local picturesque
Indian stories, characters and leg
ends.
Kansas City will have a pageant
this summer which Mr.. Stevens will
direct
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02

The problem of the islands is not a
racial one, rather one of providing
an all-around days program for
girls of all nationalities, who mingle
together in business and at the cot
tages. AT Waikiki there are tennis
courts and basket ball field, where
| saw Korean girls playing basket
bali, exercise which they had never
before thought of INDUCING i'll.
"The Girl Reserves, a movement
for teen age girls, has been started
in the islands, and through it | hope
that we can teach the younger girls
how to play and how to work. Also,
! hope that we can help to increase
the percentage of native girls who
finish high school,"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
Heart Beats

By A. K.
Beautiful! e..
Glorious!
Idyllic!
Spring!
And we yawn
And smile and
Find ourselves consumed
With that lovely
Feeling Of tolerence
For the whole world
And folks weaknesses
And we breathe the
Fresh air and drink
Drink, drink
The sunshine
Sins lose their grossness
And become only
Half-sins.
But the
Stress of
Spring fever
Wits waxy spines
Perpetual signing
win ' kill the trying
Spirit
And undermine the energy
We find ourselves
Wishing for a vacation
Wishing for money
Wishing for love
Wishing for leisure
Wishing for fishing tackle
And a broad trimmed hat
And the open road.
Wishing for bright new
Clothes as the old ones
Lose their style
Wishing for most anything
From gold or jewels
Rare
To an extra hours sleep
In the morning.
And yet we know
That spring wishing
Is a dangerous
Treacherous
Tricky
Occupation for
Our wishbone
Will outgrow
Our backbone
If we don't watch out.
SELAH!
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
Chicken Wigele.

Take the chicken that is left from
dinner and cut into dice; add to one
cupful of the chicken half a can Of
peas and mix with chicken gravy
left from dinner that has been thin
ned with milk. Let it come to a boil
and season with red pepper and salt,
If there is no gravy use milk or
cream thickened with -four. but not
too thick. Serve on toast.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
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Purchase empty cream puff she'll

Purchase empty cream puff shells
and use them as cases for salad.
Make sandwiches to initiate layer
cake. Cut the bread the lengthwise
of the loaf instead of crosswise.
Graham bread gives better appear
ance than white. Put three slices
together with a thick cream cheese
filling, then cut to represent layer
cake. To add to the illusion, spread
the top with the cheese and press
nut meats on it.
Serve ice cream as croquettes,
Scoop out the cream, and roll in
toasted cake or macaroon crumbs.
Make home made fondant into
potato shapes and roll in CHINA
mon.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
The Wrong Idea.

The Wrong Idea.
Dear Miss Fairfax, Omaha Bee: !
am a tall, good looking young man
with blue eyes and light hair.
l read your advice to Lovelorn"
and enjoy 1t very much.
Now Miss Fairfax about two weeks
ago a girl friend visited at my
home. have known her from child
hood. We have always been good
friends.
We went about together while she
was here and thought lot Of her
when taking her home. I asked IL
l may call again. She accepted my
call When l came home ] learned
from my sister that she was en-
gagged. / did not call on her again.
Now Miss Fairfax, what is the right
thing to do by her. Was it fair of
her to not tell me of her engage
ment? Hoping to see this in print.
| remain anxious BLUE EYES.
The young lady probably thought
your attentions were those of 4
friend. supposing that your sister
had told you. / see nothing wrong in
the mere fact that she granted your
request to call. Treat the matter
lightly-as friend to friend and not
as sweetheart to prospective sweet
heart.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
Apricot Breakfast Cake.

Divide a baking powder mixture
into tw~ parts, roll out to fit cake
pan and place on the bottom of the
pan, allowing the dough to extend
up on the sides of the pan. Spread
each with fruit mixture and bake
Is minutes in hot oven. This will
make two cakes
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
Young philosonher.

Dear Miss Fairfax, Omaha Bee:
am a daily reader of your Love
lorn column" and have often found
some good advice in it. 1t happens
that l am not in love. l am II and
have had three proposals. Now
Miss Fairfax, my parents are of
moderate means, and although they
have both worked hard and are
still working hard, they think l
ought to marry some one that has
plenty of money, so l will not have
very much to do. They think /
should have taken one of those who
have proposed to me. Now, these
are quite a bit older than 1 am, and
neither Of them want a home, just
board and no children. My great
est ambition in life is to become a
loving wife and mother and greatest
desire is to have home of my own.
! am not looking for a husband who
has all kinds of money and has not
made it honestly. I do not care for
stylish men. having five and six suits
a season, wears silk shirts. ETC., but
some one who has a dirty face,
hands and overalls My ideal is a
home-loving farmer. Do you think
! will find one? / have spent vaca-
tons in many states and have not
met my ideal yet, although | have
met some very fine gentlemen. My
parents think it is terrible I do not
marry, but, Miss Fairfax / cannot
think of anything worse than going
through life with some one you do
not love, do you? After you are
married once you're a long time
married. Must close now, as / am
afraid my letter will exceed over
200 words. Please do not print my
name, but would be glad to hear
from any lonely home-loving
farmer. LITTLE LIZA JANE.
You have philosophy beyond your
II years, indeed. No, I can't think
it would be pleasant to go through
life with some one you did not love,
but please don't make a dirty face
one Of the qualifications. It would
grow tiresome. Lonely home-loving
farmers, here is your chance.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
For Colds, Catarrh or Influenza.

Do you feel weak and
unequal to the work ahead
Of you? Do you still
cough q little, or does
your nose bother you?
Are you pale? Is your
blood thin and watery2
Better put your body into
shape. Build strong!
Nous the time.
An old, reliable blood
maker and herbal tonic
made from wild roots and
banks, is DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discov-
cry. This mature RENE
DIV" comes in. tablet or
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
Old and Young.

Dear Miss Fairfax, Omaha Bee: ]
suppose you are aware that the old
as well as the young are interested In
your page in The Bee. Well, am
not one of the lovelorn, l Travelled
that road 25 years ago when I was
Is, and it may seem strange, but it
is true that the boy l loved then as
a sweetheart I love just as dearly
today as husband. so you see, Miss
Fairfax, sometimes boys and girls
know what true love is at Is. but it
is not love / want to talk about now,
l have plenty of love from my hus-
band and children. Will you please
tell me where l can get the electric
needle? Can 1t be used with safety
in removing moles? My little girl
has two moles on her face. / would
like to have them removed. Thank
ing you in advance. M. E. A. f.
This is proof indeed that some
times boys and girls at Is do know
true love. Electric needles are
very satisfactory for moles accord
ing to the experience Of many who
have tried it. Any beauty parlor
will give you information.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
Dreamed Mushrooms,

With a chahng dish there are so
many nice things that one may pre-
pare for the Sunday night supper.
Place a piece of butter the size of a
walnut in the chatting dish, add the
mushrooms, let cook a few minutes.
and then add cup of cream or milk.
Push the mushrooms aside or re-
move them from the dish, thicken
with spoonful of -four, and when
the sauce is smooth, spread over
the mushrooms.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
Egg Salad.

Boil the eggs about 20 minutes
and if this is for the Sunday night
supper they may be boiled in the
Cut the eggs in halves and
remove the yolks, which are mashed
fine and seasoned with salt, pepper,
a little bit of mustard, a taste of
chopped pickle and then mixed with
olive oil or mayonnaise. When the
whites are rehlled serve on lettuce
leaves
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
Baked Apples Stuffed With Nuts.

Scrub six large apples. Take out
cores with apple corer, and set ap-
plies right side up in baking pan.
Fill core holes with nut meats--any
kind of nuts. Sprinkle one salt spoon
of cinnamon on top of each hole.
Pour one half cupful of water in
the pan. Sprinkle three-quarters of
cupful of sugar drown sugar is
better over the tops. Bake 50 min
utes, ..".
Serve hot with spoonful of whip
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
Timely Recipes.
For Sunday Night Supper.

Fried tomatoes on toast make a
very nice relish for a Sunday night
supper and it takes such little time
to FRY" them that the absence of
the cook will not be greatly de-
plored. Make batter of the yolk of
an egg and -four and water, or use
rolled cracker crumbs. Fry several
slices of bacon, remove the grease
except just enough to fry the tona-
to, which has been sliced thin and
dipped in the batter. Or, if you
choose, there need not be a batter,
but simply rolled cracker in which to
dip the slices of tomato. Serve on
slices of toast with a bit of bacon
on top.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
Apricot and Rice Pudding.

Cook one cup rice in one quart
boiling sailed water for IS or 20
minutes; drain, reserve the water
in which the rice was cooked Git will
make excellent starch for delicate
waists or dresses). To the drained
rice add two cups of the fruit which
has been cooked and sweetened.
Serve with a sauce made of apricot
mice
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02

ped cream on the top of each apple.
These baked apples. which because
of the nuts are more than usually
nourishing are fine to serve with
eggless bran mullins for luncheon
or tea. A leftover apple can be
wrapped in oiled paper and put in a
school lunch.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02

Perplexed-Of course it would be
proper to cultivate a friendship If
you wish to think that the woman
you spoke of is willing. At least
you could write her.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02

tionable. Do SO In way that will
not hurt her feelings and perhaps
she will discontinue the practice.
An Implanted Doll-It is mat
ter Of personal opinion whether a
hospital or a library is of the most
good. Your other subject is too
vague, I cannot answer.
AveriI F.-Buy pretty foulard
in soft blue shade, have it made
simply, and you will have a practical
dress that you can wear on all &C.
casions.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02

Any man can get raccoon coat
for his wife by mortgaging the dear
old bungalow.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
To Our Bachelor Farmer,

Dear Miss Fairfax, Omaha Bee: I,
too, wonder whether loveless mar
riage can bring real happiness. In
the last eight years l have been in
many homes. l find where there is
no love in the home there is very lit
tie else but friction. l have also
seen where the little God of love"
reigns supreme, such is truly Won
derful home.
We can not truly say that we have
lived until we learn to love with
mind, heart soul and body; where
these four are appreciated home
will be heaven indeed.
A few years ago I kept company
with g. wealthy doctor, very good
man. and about 20 years my senior
AS the time drew near for the we'd
ding I could not bear to think of
becoming the mother of this mans
children, because did not love him.
/ do love children. The very thought
that possibly sometime might have
a home and become a little mother
has been very refining influence in
my life. No, I shall never marry
for aught but love.
AS l am few years your Junior,
Bachelor Farmer 1 will continue
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02

Mary Ann-We have no way Of
knowing whether the men in this
company are white or colored.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
She Wants Ruf LITTLE

Dear Miss Fairfax, Omaha Bee: /
know you will answer a few ques-
tons on a club lesson and help me
out with it if you can answer crazy
bachelors. would-be movie play
wrights and what-nots. Can you
give me the biography of the fol-
lowing humorous poets: Bixby, Caro-
Ign Wells, Paul Laurence, Dunbar
and Guitermann, a writer in Life :?
| am wanting some quotations by
them, a popular song by Dunbar and
a poem or two by Guitermann. Any
thing you can give me in the thu
morous poet line" will be gratefully
accepted. Oh, yes, "how is my hand
writing?" SNOOPY.
p. ST have about made up my
mind a poet has to die to become
known.
Yes, I could give you the bio
graphies of Bixby, Carolyn Wells
Dunbar, Guitermann, and even Lea
cock and Irwin Cobb, but don't you
think you are asking quite a lot of
one who has a few other duties to
discharge during the day? Glad to
know they are humorists. CO I
respectfully refer you to the library
or to the encyclopedia or the Books
Of Knowledge" There Is a book en-
titled, '"Ten Thousand Quotations,
which might help you.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
Advice to the Lovelorn
Love Comes Unbdden and "To Love Not We Are
No More Free Than the Ripple to Rise and Leave
thn Saa"
3v BEATRICE FAIRFAX

to hope that love is waiting just
around the corner.
Please let me hear from those who
know, who speak with authority, be-
cause of experience.
"JAQUELINE."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02

Two sure-ire systems for getting
rid of money are: % throw it down
sewer, and (2) get into a game of
stud poker.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02

Two Brown-Eyed Girls-Perhaps
some Of you could suggest to this
girl in a nice way that her use of
profane language was very objec-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
French Poodle.

French Poodle
Dear Miss Fairfax, Omaha Bee:
Could you put me on track Of some
one who has thoroughbred white
French poodles for sale? Thanking
your in advance,
ELIZABETH IRENE.
No address given. Therefore l
cannot help you.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
In Most
Instances

the first impression is a
lasting one. Our statesmen
are awake to the simple fact
that courtesy makes for
friendship-they extend the
same treatment to guests of
the store who are but view
ing our display as to those
actually buying, leaving an
impression of the Bowen
store never to be forgotten.
OUR GUARANTEED
QUALITY and VALUE
FURNITURE
when placed in your home
will impress you more fav-
orably the longer it's in use.
this being "Dress-Up"
week, you will find the
Bowen store of material as
sistance in refurnishing the
home.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-02
Hia TrOuhIe

His Trouble.
Dear Miss Fairfax, Omaha Bee: /
wish you would let me know how !
can get a girls father to let me
come up to see them. l am 10 years
old and have black hair. brown eyes
and am five feet six inches tall and
am pretty enough for any girl. If
you can't answer this, then give me
some girls address SO I can get
acquainted. Hoping to hear from
you in next weeks paper,
What is the fathers objection to
you? If you are all right speak to
the father--tell him that you enjoy
his daughters company and that you
wish to call like a gentleman. No
reasonable man will object unless he
has some specific charge against you.
You may be pretty enough for any
girl, but have you any sense? Some
fathers require this seemingly small
asset before giving their consent.
Widower Wants Wife.
Dear Miss Fairfax. Omaha Bee:
fAS lCdu yum duN1CS W cO IIldi1y
through letters in The Bee, / am
coming to you not for advice, but for
help. I am widower, a farmer, 40
years old, and have four children. 1
want housekeeper about my age.
Now, Miss Fairfax. If you're not in
this business, maybe you could at
least help find a good woman that
wants a good home. I have no OBJ
jections to one or two children. If
| get a good, honest woman. / will
guarantee her a good home and fair
treatment. | am sure / can satisfy
a good woman. My wife died six
years ago and l feel as If ] need an
other woman. Now, Miss Fairfax, I
know that this isn't your line of
work, but you want to help people.
If you can help me in this line /
will be thankful for it and will never
forget you. Hoping you will put
my letter in print in The Bee or
hand it to some good old maid or
some good widow. s. K.
No. this isn't in my line, but I'll
gladly take the burden upon me-"
Variety in these burdens is the spice
of life. Hope that some one will see
this or else I'll have to begin the
search for the old maid or widow.