Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-11


ha, whose picture we see
often--O. SO often--bought fine
new car for Christmas present and
ordered it sent 10 certain address
not his home. However, such
things are often swerved from their
course--tbese under cover" gifts
and the Car was driven up to the
home OF the purchaser by mistake.
The man choked and stammered-
the wife did not need another car.
did not want one, and. in fact, had
often expressed her dislike for that
particular model. Now there is an
other bowl of family hash to be di-
gested.
n NE. of Omaha's most beautiful
matrons, and at one time presi-
- dent of the Woman's club, met
several friends at meeting Monday
and each in turn exclaimed: Are
YOU i'll? How bad you look" Tues
day she laughed at the idea and
sauntered out again to some board
meeting and several remarks about
her health led her to believe that
there must be something radically
wrong. This would never. never do.
She could not allow herself to be i'll
"a strong woman, who had always
enjoyed excellent health, etc. So the
matFon went straightway home and
resc-ted to very drastic antidotes for
illness. Two days later madam
entered Gabby's Office, bright as a
spring morning and beautiful as
picture, all except veil which was
woven in squares, or horizontal and
vertical lines. And because madam
had spoken several times and moved
her chin, the lines were looping in
sagging positions which gave the
lady in question a very haggard
look.
why, Gabbyw she exclaimed" do
you mean to tell me that a veil of
this kind gives -one sagging look
around the eyes and chin? That's
what caused those women to worry
over my health-and ] took all that
medicine thinking to ward off spell
of fever. Never again"
And off came the veil, revealing
eyes without lines and chin with
out Saga perfect specimen of
health and beauty. Gabby suspects
she is going after the saleswoman
who sold her the veil, since the
members of the Woman's club have
resolved to buy only the absolute
necessities.
TTAS a certain young, attractive
~ swain been fooling his friends
for months and months?
Many are the times he has been
rumored engaged to a very petite
blonde-just as sweet and popular
as she can be, too. The young man
served overseas. He attended the
officers training camp at Fort
Smelling in the first days of the war.
After spending a short while in
service in France he received a very
high commission. He has been
described as very good looking
with the most wonderful pair of
eyes" (Gabby would like to tell you
whether they are blue or brown, but
really she has forgotten.) Friends
of the two have looked anxiously
for the announcement for some
time, and expected it Immediately
on his return from abroad. But
still Time goes on and nothing de-
velops.
Now friends of both think they
all guessed wrong, for. those
who know the girl say she just
loves to be asked out with other
men. and the girls who have al
ways admired those eyes feel free
q 10 ask them anywhere, now, even
without the petite blonde accom-
panying them.
S(nIGS is Pigs" (Which Fred
Stone would say is express
sive though ungrammati-
caD. and we should call spade
spade. But is housewife house
wife or an Office assistant? Census
takers who are at work in Omaha
tell Gabby that women are more
shy on this point than over that
threadbare jest OH woman's age.
What is there about that good old
Saxon word. housewife, that twen-
tieth century DANES should shy at
it? According to Solomon, many
daughters have done virtuousfy,"
but the housewife outranks them
all.
One woman who lives in a red
brick house west of town, so dis
liked giving her occupation as
housewife that she called herself
'.office assistant" on the strength of
having occasionally received and
replied to messages in her husbands
Office. Maid" was, so universally
rejected by young women in do
mestic service that the term "house-
hold assistant" coined to solve
wounded pride and save the face"
--as the Chinese say-of those for
merly designated as "hired girls"
yTYHEN the French people sur
w rounded the palace of Marie
- Antoinette, the queen asked
what they wished. Bread" was the
answer. "Then why is it not given
them," was the royal reply. MA
dame, there is no bread" Give
5 them cake" replied the ruler, show
ing her slight understanding of
economics.
Such a situation has again re-
Cured in history. The scene is a
fashionable jewelry shop in New
York City. The time was just few
weeks ago. An extravagantly
gowned woman entered asking to
see diamond necklaces, picked out
enc priced $4,000, paid for it with
70 $1,000 bills from her handbag.
and started to walk out with it
around her neck. The salesman