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R P S—— o e ————_ 14 Women at War! We do not mean the Amazons, the dynamiters, nor the militants, But those good women so dear to our hearts who make our homes for us. These wholesome folks have a treaty with cleanliness that keeps them ever at war against dirt and | uncleanliness in all its forms. { Soap, if you work hard enough with it, will make things clean, but it wont' kill germs! Borax mixed In proportion with soap will make the soap work bhet- ter and your work easler. Also borax kills germs, So that by using borax soap chips | you get things clean with less work than by the old methods and you wlso get them antiseptic, | 26¢ worth of “20 Mule Team Borax Soap Chips" will glve you more | cleanliness with less work than 50c worth. of bar soap or washing pow- ders,~—Advertisement, DON'T CASH CHECKS ml&r of checks endorsed B it Greninied for payment. ~ CAREY CLEANING CoO. | ‘Webster 392, | IT PAYS TO Our BRASS BED Section Is in new dress and shows many new styles and values, The bed here {Hustrated is 2-inch con- tinuous post construction, ten (% -ipch fliling rods, pteel angle ‘irons; only 87.95. It also shows how neatly one of our $10,50 box springs and §6.75 roll edge felt mattresses cause a bed to appear. (Think These Prices Over,) Duofeld aud Full hos 1t ut 89.80, an woll . very strongly buflt We are prepated to take care of yo Baturday and Mondav from new, fresh at those sume low prices, Kver: ered in select art tickings, ohalr that n quartered ol Combination elt, Holl Fdge Mattresse All Cotton Mattresses, {5 Ib Thick Layer Felt M ‘We build all the higher | Will Save You Money —— Thert$ A Reasen The Davenport shown i coversd in 8 (Know what your mattresses coutain.) L, art ticking ennes, 45 Iba., art tickin rades e in “felt and hali* TO YOUR ORDER. Household Helps If you rub a bit of dry soap acro the new spool of silk, you will not hl) bothered by having the silk unwind too | quickly when threaded into the machine Salt water will clean bamboo furniture and Chinese and Japanese matting and will prevent it from turning yellow It a spoonful of lime is kept in the pantry where the jellles and preserves are stored, it will prevent them from | molding To prevent table linen from becoming yollow, fold it in an old sheet that has been well biued before putting it away, To save time and work, we should fol- low the example of the Japanese and | eliminate all uscless things in the house. | A profusion of things in the room de- tracts from the fecling of apace and makes endiess care and dusting necea- anry. Acld frults should never be prepared | with a steel knife. The best preparing | tools are nickel or silver knives, When making hot starch always use woapy water, an it gives the necessary shine to linens, and the Irons will not stick Shoulder of pork s delicious when stuffed. Buy a nice fresh shoulder; have the butcher bone it, then stuff it. Bew it up tight, roil it fn a cloth and boll it two hours, Then remove the cloth from | 1t, put it In a fron baking pan and bake it two hours. When serving hot’bread or pastry of any kind, use hot plates, The most dell elous pastry can become soggy when seryed on cold plates. This bed is made up with & box spring snd roll we mattress, | 1 mdllN/lll/ 0 Length, §10.76. nln“lh morooco leather. See the big the rocker at $10.80. All of these In and well upholstered over steal springs. ur mattress orders and veries mattresses made up for the day's busi- mittress true to description and cove , 45 1bw, art ticking & MAIL ORDERS PRO! THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, APRIL 20 1916. As We Had to and as We Will By Nell Brinkley Copyright, 1916, Internl News Service. -0~ ONG ago--oh, a few weeks or so | L zone where the snow flies were wading ‘ walst deep In the glisteny feathery stuff, | whipping around nose pink and our finger tips numb. we of the honnet, corners In a gale, with our | And we | wore comfortd of fuy and worried about the apple-blossoms In our too precocious Spring No wading now of any kind—we walk abroad and {widdle our thumbs and are bewll- dered—but heavy green ses-water— we dream of wading to come— with the foam like the Philanthropy’s Dangerous Point RSON, ,might have resulted In permanent happi- But this Haven't we bad enough of it? Haven't [Mmatch was in one respect extraordinary ness. Many such matches do, #irl lived a boarding house for paroled — Wh I Never Married No 5--The Woman Who Sacrificed Her Happiness to Her Family Tells Her Story sleet to beat the blood into our cheeks—no sleeves, no fur, no Spring bonnet to worry about, but a free body and a warm skin in the sun, We are just at the uncomfortable, awk- ward space that lles hetween sports, ~NELL BRINKLEY. e ——— \Leap Year Delusion By LOVISE HEILGEN, Health Hints -:- Fashions -:- Woman's Work -:- Household Topics ek s et e _ i | » Aee Bad (06 WuakY The man was a convict. He was on T suppose they call it leap year because parole. A tender-hearted philanthropist Why do so many women who are at- lows they showed marked talent, but | nobody leaps—at least, I can't call (o It was announced In a few easily-over e tractive, intelligent, full of human affec- % ) i SRS wepaners that o |1Ad established in the town in which the | tion and tendernéss—the sort of utec | to develop their gifta they had to have | mind a single feminine thing who has ] 00] nes In the pewspaper L who were designed by nature to make | @ducation and special training, so I | ever owned to leaping at a man lterally /s young girl of northern New York had et a St m;wI“\«!I o8 und rl;uflu'w nw\’l-) 'mnrn " | worked harder than ever and denied my- | as well as metaphorically dfed after one year of marriage—died he tender-hearted philanthro- | & It 2o Mhecaune men were (oo | #€lf more tham ever and put them | | have known a tew to set their caps 1t waa thousht of a broken heart; Bhe |D\" chose:the girl's mother to manage stupid to know a good thing when, they through college. at men: T have known others who have » the o™ | saw 1t and so passed the over? ) " o o wan 18, this little American bride. A year | DoArdiig house. The guest, s he |is"¢ the' fault of wocial conditions that| ‘L WS 22 whin my futher died. I was | thrown their bonnets over love's mill in or : ? | | SXpressed it fell in love" with the | never xave them thelr matrimonia! | 40 when the last child was firmly planted | der not to miss anything that's going, but ago, her face aglow with happiness anc Aniik b al\'»:n\‘r"“ R s R on his feel and able to stand alone with- | the most forward girl seems to hesitate one > | RSN with tst sha marrind, ILowas | o0 L 0 tHe boarding an attempt to soive it Dorothy Dix has|OUt 8RY assistance from me. For the |at taking the verbal fence to matrimony / then sald, according to the respected | o 10 hoarding house was full | iuked @ number of charming old maids |first time I was free to take my own / But why stick at speech, when you | phrase, “The man of her choloe.” o ”*'l-lum ni, the sentiment of the phil- | why they never marrfed happiness, and marry. : don't stick at anything elsa? Tt must be ' 3 anthropist, who called his paroled con- | | 5 " But the opportunity came to me too | much easiér and cheaper to say outright 4 viets his “hoys o sel ot o By DOROTHY DIX, ) | The truth was 1t waa the man who =" 0 ey w\m. |<f,'.‘.. """';:'l‘v""m fl!h- i 2 14 maid” said | \*t% Those years had changed mé from | to a mas, “Will you marry me?’' than 1 | had chosen her and who had overborne | o ST Ao T ked: | 6 reason [ am an old mald,” 3ald |, plooming #nd beautiful girl into a | to waste powder and frocks ad b, on slon to “ralse fallen men;" | (he fitth woman, ‘s because 1 sacritiosd | avery man on the ehance of his popping her maidenly reluctance to marriage. the vibrations of this sentiment struek the girl this. 1t Not an unusual situation, young permeated her being. Ol et She succumbed to It and married the Jailbird. That in one year of marriage he |Inflicted upon her the gift of a broken heart and broken life, was treated soant- Ily by the newspapers. There is so much big news now, so much of wholesale slaughter, of the next national conven- tion, so many natlonal and personal fu- tures in the balance, that an 1S-year-old bride's broken heart weighed but little in The entire pur my happiness to my famlily. ‘All of my brothers and sistera are married. | with good wives and husbands and beau- tiful children and charming homes and they are living full, satisfying lives. ““When I go to ses them, they are very sweet and patronising to me and they poor laugh at me in my face when my views disagroe with theirs, and tell me it s & pity I didn’t marry when I was young. They are prosperous people Jane' me behind my back and many worn and haggard woman, much older than her years. Women kesp young | the guestion one day in a moment of through happine: fety, through pretty clothes, through the abllity to take care of themselves. “My life had been one long, desperate battle for the bare necessities of life. I had had no of myself. and Whatever money thers had been to spend had gone for the ohildren, | whose needs and desires had been so s | plain little working clothes, with even aberration and general undoneness. , through lack of anx- limited as his quality, re fn which to think | spoilt ehfla he s, insistent, and #0 in my | every male of marriageable age doesn find 1t necessary to go east of Fues If T knew & man nice enough to proposs to, I'd take on the job. But the quality of the average man {s almost as much Tt's our fault, Y supposs. We've turned him Into the For fear of losing him altogether we've Induilged him till it's no wonder almost comparison e . But doesh’t It b ‘Onco 1 overheard at little l6-year-old | my hair combed in the most economical | have a harem and quite tmnecessary to R 3 chase will be placed h welgh enough to e . ytog clal cash purchase pon our hearts, to stir our minds to | M8Ce 8AY to her mother that ahe thought | and time-saving way, no man had looked | to church with the favorite e on sale tn six big activity Aren't you a it tired of the ' Aunt Jane was a perfeot old dear and At me for years except as he would at A [ Leap year should come as a godsend of beautitul silk and tots. Thousands of [ hiianthropists who want to “give the|then she asked her mother why I waa |hishly efficlent place of machinery that | powaver, to the girl who fm't too par blouses, fo- 088, boys & ¢hance” at whatever cost? 1 am. |An 0ld maid. To this my sister replled | was & anteed to run without creaking | tloular to look at the man before sha : beautiful garments, 'h o e o ang of prison | CAMUAlly that she was Sure she didn't |or olling, or breaking down leaps at him. The chances are, with a with all the distine vehind them are no snowy-robed | Know, for J had been an extromely One man there had been in the early | jjitla tact, she might be able to snaffis saints. Ninety-nine of ¢ tred pretty and aotive gir Perhaps it days of my sacrifies who wanted 10 | nim all plght. T put the “tact” in becauss tive air of smartness ey s0ati6h bordars on thelr robes | WA Decause had never cared for | mArry me, but although I cared for him | i the sxperianced peopls Who have heen seano e T t wouldn't be thare Thes are mot |Men. Sha was horn a spinster very much T refused him. I could not | ynder Cupid's fire will tell you that 't est models, and at n to sup And chat wit . Ak I smiled & little cynically at this, for |saddle upon him the burden of my fam- | tukes tect to deal with & man - n garments sold for # iy P g 3 Al & d have told my sister (hat ahe waa | y's suppert. Neither could T 19a¥e | Byaotly what tast has to de with | grices scarcely half Sabie snd treblo vl @ &L Sathed basaage fnto | 616 of the reasons why I had nevar mar- | them to starve. 1 knaw when I sent him | 1 juve naver heen able to find out. Wot the relall worth P at as been sliminated from | Mied and why 1 was & lor old mald, | away T sealed my doom. but I could 1Ot | i\ eums 1o be one of the ssse : - the sale prices s s Thelte ¢ ¢ s derelict drifting atmiessly about an the | buy happiness at the price of sending my atiale & vel o refle " married people take with them on thei,™ ¥ . m helrs ¥ aon ife inatead of being snugly an- | lttls ore d brothars to the bleak ' wooovmaon 17 1 e ol . oy lose rouble 4 " \ . mfe harbor of my own ohv": of an aaylum or the alavery o sues, and tha hride goes hack to her » wreat & £ talse we e & Metery. sontained flat wnd 1fe, whils the bride N ala, & great ded A% WAS NAYEF ANY WOmAN That's why | am an old mald T aaes | ool nelt . gyl g ! " more ale | riflosd myself to my ¢ WL e -« - """ y | ontally aelohrates hia fresdom a 95 . - N N & tha . ™ W All my life 1| have never realined it Bven my math gy Blouses at $3* | | Blouses at $2% | | Blouses at §1 | 0 el _ e e Y N ad & ) adcra ohiidren, Hven o this [other ohlidren are married, wonders . "h e ¢ 4 ¥ ve mod T J an aush & pd-he ham't me " N Seores of charming and dis Mty distinetive models, in Come in tub silks, pussy w - g 4 - an s e s and pans and [vaguely why 1| dn't marey. loa, and | - '1”. N ot thme . Gnetive desians auitable for all Woautitul geoeanite . erepes lows, crepes, organdies, nov to . wht . w w7t | had ne dreams of o [sare ha etieally, (hat June was | S0 W8 11 e, y five da sccasions, The very choleest of repe do chines, lacea, nets, lin silks. lnens and dainty iin . . e A sxcept the oaresr of wife and | the best loaking of all of her girls w gt , ‘..‘” . sany for any & the season's new fabries and gories, sle, Ingluding & wen tes. All sises ARA ealers. Beores . .o ™ ;.u. was young | R st W had ANes " Mayhe \ s fow monthes after | w radu colort o dertul line of apo d M r * ha ———— A — e Se——— oalost obe Whe rings. and the most remark derful line of aport and tallleur 0 harming ROV 2 I o s : iy do ol g e e wreales taole. W Able ot ever shown in Omaha Blauses nals ATe waua \ ¢ saels anoapt & hovas full of help l ) f K 'I'} - . " | " v Worth 97,00 and $8.00 Weeth 0500 and 0588 Worth #4050 and S v T i v mare e | D0 Y o Know That| e e s e < s e— \ar———— R———————————— Arecier. having thoug ' . 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