rAmefrcan c'dmposers shaff be produced,
is the ideal of an organization o f wom
en led by Mrs. Archibald Freer, Mrs.
Louis Yeager and Mrs. Albert Oehs-
ner o f this city. Associated with the
organization known as “ Opera in Our
Own Language Foundation,” and of
which Mrs. Freer is the chairman, is
the "David Bispham Memorial Fund,”
of which Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick
the natives during the mating season. is the treasurer. In speaking of the
“ Only the full grown male bird has undertaking of the two organizations,
the gorgeous spread of feathers which which has the indorsement of women’s
is coveted by commerce,” explains a clubs of the country as well as the
New York dealer, who is something of musical clubs of the entire country,
an authority on the subject. “ This is Mrs. Freer said:
at its best during the courting season,
“ American music depends upon the
when they hold their annual dancing
American composer. Without our com
exhibits for the benefit o f the “less
poser we must style ourselves a na
gorgeous but highly prized females.
tion of music borrowers, not of mak
Male Bird Gorgeous.
ers. However, our composer does ex
“ It Isn’t necessary to kill the birds
ist, but exists only, he does not live.
in order to get their feathers, but It is To enable him to live and write, to
usually more convenient: Lately, since publish and present his works, and to
they have been growing So scarce, open an American opera house, are the
they are frequently trapped and re things we hope ¿o accomplish.”
leased after the feathers have been
The women who are' furthering the
cut, so that a new spread can be
project are well known in women’s and
grown.
“ Except at their dancing parties, musical club circles throughout the na
the birds of paradise are naturally tion, and they have received so much
cautious and well able to protect them encouragement from all sections of
selves. They have but few natural the country that they are confident of
enemies, but their families are small, the success of their undertaking.
Paradise Plumes
in Last Stand
Lovely Plumage Is Making Its
Last Appearance in Millinery
Shops, Due to Law.
Something to
Think ylbout
SCH O O L DA1JS
Á
By F. A. WALKER
THE WRONG KEY
/ ’■'VF THE hapless earthlings who call
^
themselves men and women, thou
sands are wandering hither and thither
in life, trying with the wrong key to
unlock the door of fame, success and
honor.
I f you will observe closely, you
will see them every hour endeavor
ing to force a key into a lock which
Importation Prohibited Under Law of
stubbornly refuses to respond to the
1913, but Omission of Restrictions
violent twists and turns of nervous
on Sale Left Chance for
fingers.
Smugglers.
The man who carries the key
which
will open the door to minor
New York.—The plumage of the
places, where he is sure of earning
bird of paradise, one o f the loveliest
an independent competence, persists
and cruelest of feminine adornments,
in tampering with locks behind
is making positively its last appear
whose paneled door there reposes the
ance in New York millinery shops this
coveted chair of manager or president,
season. In another year, it is expect
too big for his occupancy.
ed, it will have completely disap
Instead of reshaping his key by
peared, because by that time it is go
hard work and high thinking, filing
ing to be dangerous to sell it. Conse
being limited usually to two offspring
away the roughness to make it smooth,
quently nearly every hat-shop window
a season, so that they Increase but
he continues foolishly to waste his
in the city now contains a gorgeous
-9
slowly. This is all the more reason
time and energy, quite oblivious all
display o f paradise plumes, marked
why they should be protected from
the while to what he is really doing.
Giant
Logger
Consumes
down to bargain prices.
human depredations.”
And so it is frequently with men of
48
Puffs
In
Two
Hours
The new tariff law, however, con
talent, too indifferent or indolent to
The new tariff law will provide this
tAA\D
tains the necessary restrictions in an protection, at least so far. as this
do anything but routine work, when
Hoquiam, Wash.—Orin Welsh,
amendment which puts on the dealer country is concerned. According to
instead they should make use of the
y m iiiiiiiiiim iiiiiiim im iiiim iiiiim iiiu
a giant logger, came to town this
''th e burden of proving his stock of Mr. Pearson, it wijl “ end the 35-year
key given them by an all-wise Provi
week from the woods and ate,
feathers was in this country on or be battle against the slaughter of wild
dence, unlock the right door, and rise
at one sitting, during the course
fore 1913. Hence the present intense birds for millinery.” A few feathers
to greatness.
of
two
hours,
48
normal
sized
anxiety o f dealers to dispose of their will be smuggled in and peddled from
If persuaded by reason to do this,
cream puffs.
¡B y
paradise feathers before the act is put house to house, as aigrettes are at
they would find opportunity waiting
Welsh had been in the logging
into effect.'
with open arms to receive them, glad
W illM . Maupin |
present. But for practical purposes
JOHN BLAKE
camp all winter, but his longing
Under the old law, it was the gov the commerce in forbidden feathers
to round out their lives with happiness
fo
r
some
sweets
enticed
him
to
ernment that had to supply the proof, will be at an end.
n im iiiim m iiim im iiim im iiiim iiiiiiffi
and prosperity.
town. Friends hearing his crav
which was Impractical. About the
Not to all is given supreme wisdom
HIS FATE
ing wagered he could not eat
only way the' federal authorities could
in these matters, but such as is be
three
dozen
cream
puffs
and
the
obtain a conviction was to catch a HOME FOR AMERICAN OPERA
stowed, is generally hidden away in a
T ITTLE Willie Wait-a-Bit
race started.
Welsh demon
smuggler in the act of bringing para
napkin and ignored or forgotten.
Y
LAZINESS,
procrastination,
or
Intended well to m ind,.
strated his wonderful gastronom-
dise. feathers into the country. Once Women Plan Opera House for Chica
Thus, when a young man or woman B 1 by pretending to be stupider than But, somehow, always managed it
ical ability by eating one doz
they were here, they were as safe as
go to Be Endowed by Dollar Sub
In a burst of passion unlocks the door you are; you can get quite a good deal
To be a bit behind:'
en rapidly, the next dozen in 30
if j they had been formally passed by
scriptions From Million Women.
to enmity, instead of friendship, to of your work done for you—for a “ In a minute,” he would say
minutes,
and
in
two
hours
be
the customs officials.
evil, instead of good, it becomes at while.
When time came to cease his play.
tween cups of tea, the fourth
Chicago.—An opera house to be en
once apparent that use has been made
If the man above you is quick and
: No Shortage of Plumes.
dozen disappeared down his
dowed by dollar0 subscriptions from
of the wrong key.
competent, he will frequently get so Little Willie Wait-a-Bit
capacious throat.
Thus the smuggling o f paradise one million American women, and in
Proper judgment and action, all the disgusted with you that he will snatch
.Grew to be a m an;
feathers into this country has been which only opera in English and by
exalted things in life, including faith a job out of your hands, and do it him But he loved to sit and sit
proceeding briskly for the last nine
fulness, honor and virtue, decline to self.
Scheming' out some plan.
years, during which time the millinery
show their shining faces to the carriers
No competent executive will do that, “ In a minute,” he would say,
market has never been annoyed by a
of the improper key.
but you can count all the competent “I will get to 'work straightaway."
shortage. The demand for the plumes, U
What the foolish do with keys en executives of your acquaintance - on
according to one dealer, is “ as steady
trusted to them to open the world of the fingers of one hand.
Mr. William Wait-a-Bit
as that for diamonds,” so that smug
life, makes wise men and women shud
Neared SL Peter’s Gate,
It will save you a good deal of trou
glers have always been able to dis
der.
ble to have the hard job taken away But, alas, he managed it
pose of their goods promptly. Most
And yet, when all has been said, from you. You can devote your time
So that he was late.
o f the smuggling has been carried on
when the story of life has been re to doing the easy jobs at your leisure, “ Wait a minute!” shouted he;
by seamen and officers of merchant
vealed from the morn of the tod and in yout own way.
But St. Peter turned the key.
ships from -the Mediterranean, who
dling infant to the night of tottering
You will probably congratulate
usually conceal the feathers under
who shall say that he or she yourself on having a boss that is so William Wait-a-Bit was sent
Life-time Criminal, Out of Large pardoned and released on “ good time, age,
their clothing.
To the nether clime,
■
in addition to serving- out his sen has not at some time or another in skillful—so much abler than you—that
“ Lean ¡ seamen,” one official tells
his or her folly,, used the wrong key? he can do all the hard work.
Experience, So Tells Court
Where without his own intent
tences. But he never kept out'
us, have waddled off their ships swol-
(Copyright.)
He arrived on time.
But the congratulation will be short
trouble and no sooner wa&jhe faleasSt ,
at His Trial
i<ten.and puffed like Falstaffs by layers
lived. In about a year’s timé you will Now he mourns his torrid fate.
from a prison tharf" he Jfmmbdiatelp
"upon layers of plumes strapped to
discover that you can’t do anything but For his master will not wait.
went back into crime.
A
their limbs and trunks. On some lines
(Copyright.)
the easy jobs—which are the poorly
“But crookedness don’t pay,” he t4J
H ... ....
customs inspectors first take a glimpse
paid ones, because you never gave your
the court. “I ought to know.”
at the neck and then at the waist of
mind any exercise doing the hard ones.
In
Many
Courts.
the seamen. If they observe a No. 14
How to Read Your
I; know a bank whereon the wild thyme
All the opportunities for growth and
Cole had appeared before so many
blows
neck springing out of a 60-inch torso Man Sent Up for Life Has Only Been
T i Characteristics
for progress were in those jobs that U
Where
ox-lips
and
the
nodding
violet
different
courts
that
he
has
picked
up
they make an arrest and usually re
were taken out of your hands. Maybe A A H I i L / and Tendencies — the
Out of Prison 33 Months in Last
quite a smattering of legal terms and Quite grows
cover a few thousand dollars’ worth
over-canopied with lush woodbine the boss who took ’em away from you
Capabilities or Weak
25 Years— Acts as Own At
methods. When arrested in Omaha and With sweet musk roses and with eglan
of fedthers.”
didn’t need the mental exercise, but
nesses That Make for Success or
tine.
torney in Omaha Court.
charged
with
the
murder
of
Harry
All o f the confiscated plumes, as
—Shakespeare. the point is that he got it, and you
Failure as Shown in Your Palm
Hahn, a pawnbroker, he refused the
specified in the 1913 law, have been
didn’t. By letting him take it away
assistance
of
the
public
defender
apd
GOOD THINGS FOR THE FAMILY you got just as much out of the game
Omaha, Neb.—With only thirty-three
turned over to the National Associa
tion of Audubon societies, which has months -of freedom to his credit ip the asked permission of the court to con
THE HAND OF AN ACTOR
as a, ball player would whose captain
formed them into, exhibits and dis lats twenty-five years, and even those duct his own defense. This wask ■pVERYBODY in the household likes played his position every time there
granted
and
throughout
the
trial
Colei
■A-* cinnamon rolls or cinnamon buns. was a critical stage in the. game.
tributed them among 60 different mu months spent as a fugitive from jus
T N THE first place, to recognize
seums throughout the country. About tice, Otto Cole, burglar, “ con” man, carried on his end of the case like a? The following is a reliable recipe:
■*“ whether a person, male or female,
No
matter
what
kind
of
work
you
Take one cupful each of milk, water have, a time is coming when it is going is or will be successful on the stage In
$20,000 worth of plumes, it is said, are booze runner, and murderer, has just veteran attorney.
Cole posed as a “ Man of Mystery” and sugar, two eggs, three-fourths of
been sent to prison for the balance,
to be found In these collections.
to become suddenly difficult. The im playing dramatic of tragic parts, note
In spite of these gratifying contri of his life by an Omaha court. Cole until the Bertillon experts got on his a cupful of shortening, one yeast cake portance of a certain task will increase whether the fingers are long and
butions to science, the Audubon so is forty-two years old now. He be trail. He was' a man of “ good fam and a teaspoonful of salt. Scald the tremendously owing to unexpected cir crooked; That is a good Sign, Long
cieties, under the leadership of their came a criminal at the age of seven ily” gone temporarily wron and was|milk and while it is still hot pour It cumstances.
fingers denote careful attention to de
shielding his family.
Over the shortening and add the sugar
president, T. Gilbert Pearson, have teen years.
That is the time riiat Is going to take tails, and if the i hand is wide and
He
was
just
seventeen
years
of
age
J
and
hot
w
ater;
when
cool
add
the
“ But crookedness don’t pay. It don’t
never ceased to agitate for a more ef
your measure. . If .you tackle that, open, with the fingers widely sepa
fective law. Their only fear has been pay,” Cole told the Omaha court when when he broke into the criminal lime! yeast cake which has been softened in harder job and go through with it, the rated, freedom of -thought and inde
light in Columbus, O., where, under one-half cupful of water, add the salt
that it would come too late— after the he was sent up for life.
chances are -that you will • do it well. pendent .. action are indicated.
Cole has seen, the inside of many the name of Richard Proctor, he was! and enough flour to make a batter It is presumed that you have the train
last of the “ Manukdewata” (birds of
The mount of Venus (ball of the
sent
to
prison
for
three
years
for
bur!
which
drops
from
the
spoon.
Beat
He has
the gods), as they are called in East jails and penitentiaries.
thumb) should be well criss-crossed
ing.
Indian islands, had fallen victim to served time in Minnesota, Maryland, glary. He served his time and was it thoroughly and ¡let stand in a warm
If you stand aside and let the man • or grilled, to' denote ' inspiration’ and
place over night. In the morning add
Ohio, Illinois and elsewhere. He es released June 28, 1898.
feminine fashions.
above
you step in, you might as well assumed passion. Next, note whether
It took Cole just eight days to ge the well beaten eggs and flour to
The birds are. found In Papua, New caped from the Baltimore City jail,
make up your mind that you are going the second phalanx o f the: thumb Is
make
a
dough
which
can
be
kneeded;
in
trouble
again.
On
July
6,
1898,
he
long, to show intellectual- power;' The
Guinea and certain parts of Africa; from the Joliet penitentiary and from
arrested
in Baltimore—was; knead lightly and well, put back into to work for the same or less wages for mount o f Luna should be-unusually
Where they .are easily slaughtered by other prisons. He has been paroled, was
the
rest
of
your
days.
caught, red-handed, while committin a well buttered bowl and let rise until
For you have repudiated the chance long, reaching well up on the outside
a burglary. A month later, before he double its bulk. Sepárate into two
o f -the palm toward the line o f the
parts, and roll out into a sheet. Spread to grow. You have proved yourself a heart, to show great imagination and,
could be tried, he escaped.
coward.
this
with
soft
butter,
brown
sugar,
This time Cole stayed out of troubl«
eloquence, so essential to the actor of
Some day we may write about the
for two months. At least, he was no cinnamon and well washed and dried
dramatic or tragic parts. Courage
arrested again until October 8, 1898) currants. Roll in a long roll and cut boss who deprives himself o f compe also is shown by a strong mount of
On that date, in Chicago, he was sen] the buns in inch slices. Place them tent help by Insisting on doing every Luna.’
in a pan and set in a warm place to body’s work for them. But today we
fenced to Joliet prison for burglary.
(Copyright.)
In ten days he was ip trouble again! [become light. Bake in a moderate oven are writing about you.
It you are in the habit of standing
this time at Red Wing, Minn., for with a grate under them if there Is
back and asking for assistance every
burglary. He was known as “E. E [danger of burning.
If the family likes sticky buns put time an unusually hard Job comes
English” in that trial. He served out
his time in the Minnesota state pris [one tablespoonful of butter, one-half along, get out of it. You will become
on, and at the expiration of his term Icupful of brown sugar, one-half cup- an assistance-asker all your life. As-
was taken back to Joliet, to serve the Sful of sirup,- and one-half cupful of sistance-askers sometimes get assist DO WE FEEL HUNGRY
remainder of his sentence; in the Uli Iwater in a sauce pan and boil until ance, but they never get responsibility,
nois prison. From Joliet he was pa ■thick. Add currants to it. When the or good pay, or respect, or anything r p H B feeling of “hunger” is a pe-
Jbuns are baked turn them upside down else that makes life worth the while.
■A culiar craving which we are ac
roled in January, 1910.
land spread this mixture evenly over
(Copyright.)
customed to say comes from the stom
Couldn’t Keep Straight.
-------- O—-----
ach and which we, know by experience
But he couldn’t keep straight. In ■the sides and bottom o f the buns.
comes when we have not had as much
a month or so he was back in t h e i ’
food as we are in the habit of eating.
Joliet prison, where he was sent fro m l
Pimento Cheese Rolls.
But, although the stomach appears to
■ ■ M aW B M M M B aM H aaB M M W H n N W i ■
Chicago on a robbery charge. He w a s l Boll out a raised dough like the
be the seat of this craving, it really
discharged in September, 1916. This ¡above cinnamon bun mixture, spread
when I K jzji yourvj I
orginates in other parts of the body.
time he was using the name of “ Edwin k it h a layer of softened butter, then
used -to think
The stomach is merely the organ
English.” But in October, 1917, as “Ed ptth pimento cheese. Roll up and
which prepares the food for blood-
Grown up folks did ju st
English” he was sent back to Joliet p t ln slices one Inch thIck* Place Ml;
making by mixing it with the “ gastric
as a “ confidence .man” from Chicago. Bides up in a greased pan, let rise until
vjhtjt they should
juices” and other secretions which the
He escaped from’ Joliet in 1920.
light and bake in a moderate oven.
But now th tt l ’rr\
stomach supplies.^ This system works
Under the name o f “ Otta Cole” he I A good finish for a plain raisin cake
automatically—thè stomach digesting
^roL/n up myself*
came to Omaha two months ago and, is to spread it while hot very gener-
the food and making it ready for the
according to numerous identifications; pnsly with butter, then sprinkle with a
I see they surely
blood, the blood absorbing as much as
at the police station, he committed a pixtu re o f cinnamon and powdered
fooled m e.
is necessary and then calling upon the
series of hold-ups and robberies of feugar, using a teaspoonful of cinnamon
<5ood
stomach for, more. But the stomach
I various kinds. Then, three weeks ago, llo one-half cupful of sugar—more if
acts principally as a storehouse. The
(VTCftW1
it is charged, he eptered Harry Hahn’s peslred.
sensation of being hungry disappears
pawnshop, and while attempting to
if we take previously prepared food—
rob the place, shot and killed the
food which has been made ready for
proprietor. He was caught red-handed
the blood and upon which it is not
after attempting to shoot officers who Copyright, 1922. W estern Newspaper Union.
necessary for the stomach to act—in
captured him.
— o—
—
.oth er ways .than through the stomach,
Following his sentence to life im
-o-
| The landlords of Rome have formed
either hypodermically or through
One of the greatest achievements in modern science is the wonderful wire prisonment, Cole announced he in
Minnesota’s mines produced more other means of injection. This foo'd
(a league for their mutual protection,
less receiving station made in the space of three inches by a Mr. Sanders of tended devoting himself while in
Iron
ore
than
all
the
rest
o
f
the
states
find have pledged themselves to pay
does not pass through the stomach’
England. With this instrument Sanders claims to have received messages from prison to the study of mechanical en
bo more taxes until certain govern put together last year, furnishing but it reaches the blood and the feel
a radius o f 100 miles. With the aid of powerful glasses he was able to con gineering, in which he claims to al
mental restrictions, which are regard-1 more than 60 per cent, of the total ing of hunger vanishes
ready be pretty well educated.
struct the internals with 400 turns of wire spider coils.
production of the United States.
t ConvHor ht. 1
ed as unjust, have been removed.
PROHIBITED BY NEW TARIFF
IDDIES SIX |
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