Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 29, 1915, Page 23

AUGUST 29, 191 ‘The Busy Bees AVID BELASCO will have to look to his laurels as a theaterical producer. If he don't watch out little Miss Evelyn Pleronnet will elevate herself to his rank in the profession and before he knows it she may be crowding him at the desk of the leading theatrical manager. For be it known that Evelyn did coach, costume and direct a perform- ance of “The Toy Shop,” which was given last Friday evening in the gar- age of the R. A. Swartwout residence, in what used to be Dundee. Thl!‘ was a thoroughly juvenile affair and the proceeds, which were $10, if you| please, will go to the Child Saving institute. The fairy queen, Jack-in-the-box, the Paris doll, the American doll, an old-fashioned doll, two Japanese maidens and other Interesting char- acters, all taken by children in the neighborhood, were included in the| ensemble of ““The Toy Shop." | A capacity house, over seventy persons, greeted the youthful Thmvl plans, swelling the box office receipts to $8. The sale of dainty home-made confections brought $2 more. The costumes were all designed and nmde‘y by the children themselves. | So enthusiastically was the performance received that it is plnnned for them to repeat the performance for the children at the Child \h\lnc institute when they all journey to the home to present the $10 The characters in this “Broadway’ success were: Fairy, Rae Swart- | wout; child, Josephine Hamlin; shabby doll, Nyle Spieler; American doll,| Ruth Beardsley; Jack-in-the-box, Madeline Peironnet. In the second act| the characters were as follows: Paris do]l, Gertrude Pray; American doll, | Josephine Hamlin; Japanese maidens, Martha Atkinson and Pauline John-{ son; queen, Nyle Spieler; a lady out walking, Madeline Pleronnet; and an | old-fashioned doll, Evelyn Peironnet herself. Gordon Pray assisted as stage | manager. Busy Bees are reminded that there are still two days in which votes will be received for the new Busy Bee King and Queen. The King is chosen | from the Red 3ide and the Queen from the Blue Side. Katherine Jensen won honorable mention. All three little girls belong to the Blue Side. | Little Stories by Little Folk (Prize Story.) Two Little Squirrels, By Margaret Brown. Aged 11 Years. 1120 South Twenty-eighth St, Omaha. Blue Side. RULES FOR YOUNG WRITERS 1. Write plainly on one side of the paper only und number There is a family of squirrels in our the pages. back yard and thelr home is in the | 2.7 1 se - hollow of one of the trees. There is a || oy pen aad {nk, nat pes little baby squirrel, which is so tame that it will let you pick it up in your Short and pointed arti- cles will be given preference. hands. Do not use uver 250 words. One morning 1 was down where the 4. Original storles or lot- squirrels avere. The baby squirrel was ters only will be used. down at the foot of the tree. The mother 6. Write your name, age was way up high and she was coaxing the squirrel to come up, but it would and address at the top of the | Margaret Brown won the prize book this week. Henrietta Lentz and | | mean a girl, w [1s Catherine, but my friends call me first page. not pay any attention to its mother at A prize consisting of a book all. T petted it and I guess the mother will be given to the writer of thought I was going to hurt her little the best contribution printed squirrel for she made more noise than || each week. ever. Tinally I put it on the tree and | Address all communications it ran on up to its mother {| to CHILDREN'S DEPART- MENT, Omaha Bee, Omaha, (Honorable Mention.) {| Neb. Two Little Artists. By Henyietta Lentz. Aged 13 Years. ‘R. |and uncle went to Fremont Friday. 1, Gothenburg, Neb. Biue Side. 3 nburg, There was a tractor show and papa Mary sat with her pencil against her |\, 4¢ o piow, It came todsy and papa lipe, looking at what she had drawn on her slate. She nodded her head and sald to Emma: “Here 18 the ink pot, there is the glass of flowers, there s the book. I have drawn them all and they are so good that 1 do not know which is best. What have you been doing?"’ The Wild Rose. Emma was leaning over her slate and | gy pPhyllis Armstead. Aged 11 Years. aid not look up or say anything, but North Lend, Neb. Blue Side. two large tears were rolling down her | In a sun-flecked spot by a running cheeks. brook grew & small, slender stalk. Dur- “What's the matter?’ asked Mary. ing the cold winter months the small “T can't draw them. I have tried and [stalk was covered with a soft, downy tried, but I cannot make them right. So |coverlet of snow, but when the spring T've rubbed them out and there is noth- [time came it was no longer a dry stalk, ing on my slate” sald Emma. for some green sprouts began to shoot “I shall make real plctures when T |out from the stalk. Then slowly the am & woman,” said Mary, “‘and T shall {tiny green leuves began to unfold them- sell them for a great deal of money. |selves. Then one day early in June a So 1 shall be very rich. Would you not [small green pod-like thing came. As the like to Araw pictures for people to buy?* (days flew by a small point of pink came “Yes,” sobbed Emma. Then she said: lout of the green pod, then the green ux- “Let me look at your drawing, Mary.” |folded and displaved a beautiful pink S0 Mary gave her slate to Bmma, who, | blossom. When winter came it turned to her great surprise, left cff crying and |into the small stalk again. burst out laughing, saying Springtime brought another -urprisn. “I don't call that drawing. They are [for though the stalk was the same as quite as funny as mine were." |before the ground around it began to e | bring forth more stalke. When fall Papa takes The Omaha Bee. I read the storles every week. I would like to seo my story in the paper and got a prize some day. hensralis - Soutions icame these stalks had small brown . A |cradles, which one day opened up and Children’s Playhouse. showed some small black babies, They Hy Katherina Tomsen Awed 11 Years |were whispering among themselves. Valley, Neb. Blue Side. Peat’s tin AROR™. oid’ ia This is the second time T have writ- “I'm going to the roadside, ten. This time T am golng to write | oeper. abont i rlavhause Tt 18 In our enrn Then three or four sald: “We are go- erlb. We children play there every fav. ing to the prairie.’” Wao have an upstalrs. There we have | swyeil, they all said and our heds and a big box where we keep away they' to grow up and live as our clothes, Down stalrs Wo have 2 [their mothers. Their children ran away table, high chair, rocking chair. A cuv- a4 they had and became so wild that the boanrd. waghstand and many other things. |other flowers called them “Wild Roses,” Marie. my oldest sister. 1s our mother. |44 this is what they are called today. Lawrence, my oldest bmther, is our | pana Henrv, My youngest brother, 1s | brother. um Alice is our sister and Rides with Father, ¥ By Gail Martin_ Aged 9 Vears, Tecum- symetimes we have dinner there. After seh, Neb, Blue Side. wa w0 fn had unstaire Wa have | My papa is a rural free delivery car- a littie |||mhrr wazon. We take the box |rier. He goes twenty-five miles every off end ecall It our antomobile T will morning. When he takes the car he clote as mv letter 1s etting long. Fope | gots back to town about 10:® in the to seo my letter in print morning. He is 38 years old and he has' — carried mail for ten years. Last sum- “Boots” Gets a Home. | has gone after it. It is not home yet. | STANDING. WOouUT ATKI , MADELINE l’l llu)‘ Dunde(‘ Chlldleen Who P1 eseented - Therr Own Page \ — Here is Freddie Smith watching the ships In New York harbor from the top Fred Iways wanted to be a sea cap i ow that be is dying his great st happiness 18 to watch the ships in the v fron (he roof of the hoapital where under the care of physiclans for tuherculosts of the spine e has spent hours In plcturing the joys of a weafaring life, and loved to wateh the ships from the roof of the bullding. Mut they looked so small from such a distance that Freddie could only make oul those nearest the shore. A Kkind Iady heard of his predicament and | has presented the littlo 1ad with a pair | of fine binoculars, which he now uses to bring the Lig vessels up close | Fredale's mother, Mrs. Smith by name, {18 a scrub voman, and can only see Freddic once a week, but Freddie main taine he s not lonesome. ‘I have so who come to see me,' + added, wistfully, “Oh, the | many kind Ind he sald, Then doctors say ! am going to get well, but 1 know [ am not. They can't fool me. Foct fs, 1 think 1 am going to die pretty | :mm, don't you?' he queried to his visl- | {or, who felt a tightening in her throat die has boen an invalid since Little | birth, but no happier child haa ever been | RAE SWART- . 3 MARTIA |under the doctors’ care In the hospital. | N_ PEIRONNET, AY, NYLE SPEILE ‘thtle IncurabIe Boy in Hospltai Gets Joy from Pair of Binoculars mer I went on the route with him. Tt was very pleasant to ride in the cool breeze. I have not gone with him this summer, as we have had too much rain, Kitty's Adventure. By Catherine Dougherty, 2006 U Strewt, Lincoln, Neb. Blue Side. Doubtless you will think when I say Kitty, that I mean a small eat. Well, in ono sense I do, but In another sense I self. You see my name Kitty. This is the way my adventure came about. It was about midnight, the hour of | ghosts and goblins, when I awoke | | startled. What was that terrible nolse? | Was it a thundorstorm or a buglar?| | Btill came the same discord of sounds, | No, that was no storm. 1 arose, slipped on my dress and stole | downstairs. Suddenly I heard a crash, | as If glass was being smashed. It kept me guessing whether it was a thunder- | storm splintering the window or a bur- | ! glar smashing the glass on the door. | 1 stood, longing to go upstairs and cover my head under the blankets, but, too late | for that now, so I crept to the parlor door, from whence the sounds came. The gleam of the candle reflected around No sgn of a burglar—but still the | sounds. Advancing, 1 saw the cat walking on the plano for all he was worth. On the floor lay the vase, which before had oc- | oupied the top of the plano, smashed to | pleces. I thereupon put the cat outdoors. and ran upstairs again. “Say, Sis’ T| bogan, “do you know what the sounds were?' 1 stopped upon discovering I was talking to empty alr, for my slster was sweetly sleeping the sleep of the just. o 1 thought I would do the same, and my adventure was soon forgotten in | beautiful dreams. About a Little Pig. By Mary Pinson, Aged 11 Years, Platte| . Neb. Blue Side. Cen Once we had a little white pig. Tts mother would not own fit. It was very | small and I brought it up to the houss | 1 gave it some milk to drink. Then wu-n.l made a pen for it. I got a little straw and put it in the pen I fed it throe| times & day. At noon it used to get oat | | of the pen and come down to the house and squeal for feed. After it ate I took it back. When it got bigger papa took | | 1t down with the others. | papa sold it. We got $14 for it. It sald an- | weighed 200 pounds. An Accident. By Leona Walter. Aged 9 Years, Wahoo, Neb., Blue Side. One Saturday night my lttle niece | land 1 were walking across the street when a teamn of horses ran over Char- lotte, for that was her name. A man picked her up and carried her home for me. She had a broken arm and a couple of severe cuts. She has gone homae now and is getting better, Summer. y Side, By Hazel Bull. Aged 11 Years. Mtllard, Neb, Res Tt is summer Aren't you glad? With all ita joyous fruit, as apples, cherrles land all the rest. T cannot name them Camp Fire Girls Had Great Time at Summer Camp on the Farm Campfire girls this summer enjoyed a outing at Summerhill Bennington, T . (By special permission of the author, members of the | three campfires in the city jolned in the celebration of their pecullar observances. shows Miss Ruth Hat- campfire, | | a8 she appeared at Summerhill organization Indian rites and customs are followed by | the young misses on thelr outings and | they found Summerhill an excellent mf The broad fields, over which many an had wandered when v were just the places for little mysterious conclaves and for ob- | servances that a campfire knows how to perform. is worn represents an v some outdoor fe running or other athletic by doing & thousand and one little of- in the home of & real In fact the campfire organiza- tion is intended to show the girl all the angles of right and healthy lving and 'to bring her to the point where she come: contact with realities of well prepared for them. own ceremonial robes and get long string of honor beads for the labor. They weave out of beads the mysterl- ous figured headbands they wear of adornment only | Bach bead that | secured | whether walking, | or | The girls mak little trinkets The annual compare notes and e great affairs and memorles of the council fires held then live long is a graduate Eighth grade of Windsor school and will this year enter the High school. The birds chirp and sing their joy- bloom and show |do thiuk that summer 18 the best season | Do our other little I have written four | stories and hope to win a prize. ot the year. Bees think Cat Destroys Birds, Aged 11 Years, Neb. Biue Side, What 1s better than to know the nature of the little birdies, orchards and the meadows. These birds bulld their nests in trees and the waving grass st which we watched First one little egs |then two and then three. {sal on the nest day by day, In about two weeks a little wee birdle came to see this big world, and then three little grew and grew and big nest full, In about a year | By Clara Ireland. which sing very slosely. ame Into the nest, A little bird 1 went to the nest und just two little birdies kept But soon an old cat came to visit them before they could fly and the nest was bare where the birdies Falls Off Calf. By Hiswatha Atwood. Aged 10 Years Holdrege, Neb, Biue Side e e, Neb “miue mae | London Street Singer a Survivor of ran along the street looking here and home. About noon he met a little girl about 6 yeara old. She had blue eves and yel- | A, 0. (1o gaved passengers on the low, eurly halr When she saw him she | s B0 00l e pnglish girl, known said In a very sympathizing tone: “Come, |oy Stella Carol, who had sung before little dogkle, come with me home and |o.on Mary and appeared in concert I'll give you something to eat.” with Sir Beerbohm Tree, Sir George Al- The little shaggy dog went home with |, ., qer, Clara Butt and Orville Harold. her and got somo nice sweet milk And |grc was to make & toir of the United A Pl of bread. They named him |gi,iaq this winter under contract with . ts." That Is the wav “Boots” 8ot & |p1,00 Goerikz, the impressario, who home, and most of all a little playmate. |y, ent Paderewski, Kubellk and Rich- T wish to join the Blue Side lard Strauss to this country | The girl 1s 17 New Busv Bee, name ls Lillle Le Blond. On Christmas By Dorothv Hall. Azed 9 Years. Nor |€Ve: 1910, Mme. Amy Sherwin heard her folk Neb. Blue Side singing Christmas carols in Hampstead This 1s the first time T have ever writ- street, London, to obtain money for a ten. T am 9 years old and in the fifth present for her mother. Mme. Sherwin srade I want to join the Blue Side. ndopted the girl, with the parents’ con- I home my letter will escape the Waste sent, to train her to be a singer and Backet, hristened her prodigy Stella Carol —_— | After & year's training, the girl made Lives on hm her debut in Queen's Hall, London. In April, 1912, when she had made a sue- ful appearance in the London Opera By Doloris Yetter, Years, Pul- Terton. Nev ite Sae: I live on & farm two and a half miles | hOuse, there came a command for her to from town. I have a brother and sister. |5ing before the queen. My brother is elght years old and in the | “T am delighted with your volce and Fourth grade. My sister, Marle, is 13 am very much pleased to think you ears ¢ld and I am in the Seventh grade. have progressed so well"” Queen Mary We take musio lessons every Saturday. [told her after the concert. “T think you 1 lke it very well. We have only one |have a great future before you and you pet thing on the farm and that is a pig. |have best wishes for a prosperc He is getting quite large now. My papa |caree: years old and her real | there trying to find somebody to follow Arabic’ Sunk by German Submarine STELLA LARI x By Mamie Eerck. Aged 11 Years It is always my work to herd the cows | e after s hard as T suppose you know, do not | One day 1 thought I would take a ride, %0 1 jumped on one calf ran so of our calv . " oalves | sand a year.” remarked another. “Maybe turned around that I fell off, in such & hur | GERMAN ARTS ACADEMY | RETAINS FOREIGN 'MEMBERS (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) » Royal Academy of Arts tors have not still contains the numes all foreign memb whether citizens of hostile n tions or not and Auguste Rodin; Jules i the n«mm. Arts in Varis, : thllun- | miman English artist and Walter Willlam Oules Italy is represented by um\whu enlisted in @ body in order to be to- Painter Francesco Paulo Michett! and the | gether. Enrice Bossi and Puccini ler Stanford of Lon- jdon and Charies Marin Widor of Pahis BY A B, The Reo will publish chapters from the | History of Nebraska, by A. E. Sheldon, | trom week to we The Mormon Cow | | In the early days the Bloux Indians of {the plains were firm friends of the white |people. The first traders among them wore welcomed as brothers. They left |their goods piled in the open air in Sloux {villages and found them safe on their ireturn. The white men who made the Itirst tralls across Nebraska often tound |food and shelter with the Btoux. The early emigrant trail wound for 400 mil through the heart of the Bloux country. Over It went white men, singly and in companics, with ox-wagons, on foot, and | pushing wheelbarrows, and no harm | eame to them from the Sloux. All this wia changed in a single day, |The Stoux became the flerce and bloody |foes of the white men. War with the | Sloux nation lasted thirty years. It cost thousands of lives and millions of dol- lars, The cause of this bloody war was aflame Mormon cow. On the 17th of August, 1854, a party of Mormon emigrants on thelr way to Great Salt lake were tolling along the Oregon trall in the valley of the North Flatte, They were fn what was then Nebraska territory, but is now about forty milew beyond the Nebraska state line and elght miles east of Fort Laramie, Wyo. A great camp of thousands of Indians stretched for miles along the overland trail. They | bands—the whole Sioux nation on the Jlains=and were gathered to recelve the | g00ds which the United States had prom- | ised to pay them for the road through | heir land. lugged A lame cow driven by a man. [When near the Brule Soux camp some- [thing scared the cow. Bhe loft the road |and ran directly into the Bloux camp. Ruth Hatteroth /n*Camp, |The man ran after her, but stopped s after & fow steps, fearing to follow her Fire" Ceremonial Robe alone into & camp of so many Indians. He turned back to the overland trall and followed after the wagons, leaving the 1afae cow to visit the Sloux ' Wealthy Privates |- ohmitis s o s | trom the Minneconjou, or Shooters-in-the- In ThlS Reglment Mist, band. Thess were wilder than the other Stoux. . The young Minneconjou (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) [Killed the lame cow and his friends BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN helped to eat her FRANC Aug, 24.—"We ure in sight ot The next day the Mormon emigrants the trenches ut last,” sald a private in [#t0PPed at Fort Laramie and complained what 18 known as the Stock Exchange |0 the commander there that they had battalion of one of the regiments of the |10t thelr cow. On the morning of Au- new British army. “It's been a long pull | were the Brule, Oglala and Minneconjou | Stories of Nebraska History SHELDON gust 19, Lieutenant Grattan and twenty- nine men with two cannon were sent from the fort to the Brule camp after the young Indlan who had killed the cow. Lieutenant Grattan was & young man from Vermont, barely 21 years old, who had no experience with Indlans, Tho great chief among the Sloux at that time was named The Bear. He had a talk with the lleutenant and said he would try to get the young Minneconjou | to glve hin grace for a free Indian of the plains to be taken to prison and the friends of the cow killer would not let him go. The Bear then tried to have Lieutenant Grattan go back to the fort and let him el up. It wa $ Ereat dis- bring the young Minneconjou later. The ficutenant ordered his soldiers to run the two cannon to the top of a little mound to point them on the Brule camp, and told The Bear that he would open firc If the cow killer was not given up at once. Pointing to the thousands of In- diane, men, women and children, who were spread over the valley as far ae the eve could see, The Bear sald, “These are all my people. Young man you must be orazy,” and walked toward his lodge, while his warriors began to get their suns and bows. A moment later the two cannon and a volley of muskets were fired at the Sloux camp. The Bear was killed. A storm of Sloux bullets and ar- rows cut down Iieutenant Grattan and his men before they had time to reload |thetr guns. The Sioux camp went wild. The death of The Bear, the taste of white man's blood set them crasy., Warriors mounted their ponies and rode about the field The squaws tore down the tepees and packed them for flight, Some one called |out to the Indians to take thelr goods Behind the train of Mormon wagons | which were In a storehouse near a trad- er's post waiting for the United States officer who was coming to distribute them. The Sloux burst Into the store- house, tumbled the goods from the shelves, piled them on their ponies. There were two traders near by who were mar- ried to Indian women. Their friends hur- rled them out of sight to keep them from being killed by the furious war- riors. Before sundown the Indians were riding over the northern ridges by thou- sands, carrying away their plunder. They burfed The Bear wrapped in richest buf- falo robes in a high pine tree near the Niohrara river. From this burial the |bands scattered over Nebraska, Wyom-| ing and Dakota, urging Indians every- where to kill the white men and to drive| them from the country. Thus the Sloux war began. in & hard market. But we never missed | etting our shilling a day and our wives have got their separation allowances reg- ularly.’ There are privates in the Stock Ex- change battalion who have names well known in the world of finance. Bome of them have subscribed fortunes to the latest war loan “At home I have three bathrooms in my | house and sixteen bedrooms,” sald one. | “Out here 1 am glad to stand up in line { with & towel over my shoulder and take | my turn with the wash basin, As for sleeping on straw in a barn, it is para-| march. I suppose we | will get these other things, too, nkq) everybody else does in the trenches.” “Bound to, though you have ten thou- you have one in your shirt now “What Interests us,” sald a divisional | staff officer, “is not that they are stock | exchange men, but are they good »ol»i diers? | | Many speak German as a result of in- ternational financial relations | | “It would be odd,” sald one, “if I| should be shooting at Kauffman, who is | on the Berlin exchange We went to| school together in Germany." | ot all in the Stock Exchange battalion | are affluent or members of the exchange, | but all were recruited from the Stock exchange district. As they march slong a road in France, laden with dust, the $2 a week clerk and the big b are elbow | to elbow and the observer cannot tel one from the other There is another battalion composed of | artists, architects, musiclans and men of kindred callings. 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