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8 osquito Week WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D. One would have thought that the iring poets, chanting from time im lemorial, would have dug up and ymed every possible and imaginable g of spring. But while they rang e changes industriously and ad useam upon the buds and the spuds e lambkin and the ducklet and the glet, they, in the vernacular, “over ked one best bet” Their verses are full of the music the birds from “The time of the ging of bird come” and aucer's quaint “smale fonle mak n melodie But they totally for bt to mention another kind of spring usic equally characteristic and even lore stirring and inspiring, though a differens kind of “frenzy,” and @t is, the high pitched pipe of the psquito as he sings in your ear ith apologies to Tennyson n the spring the star-eved daisies Fleck the sward with gold and white b the spring the wanton skeeter Wakes and flies abroad to bite Of all spring songs the mosquito’s s the greatest and most important essage” for us=—one which we glect at our peril From a health point of view, we e about coming to the conclusion at the proper study of mankind is sects, Up to a decade or so ago e regarded them merely as trjvial 1ces trifles light as air” to very exasperating and trying times, but to be regarded chiefly a means of grace for the develop ent of patience and other Christian rtues and unworthy of more than a ssing moment's thought or atten bi by serious-minded and grown-up rsons. Now we have discovered at they must be counted among the adliest aod most destructive | ] fi;“:m (w In Romance-land — sun swept dayo and star glittering nighta when the whip-poor-will stirs the mysterions woods with i song of unearthly beasuty. Go to Evangeline-land (Nova Scotia) this summer —loaf *round if you will, or enjoy the bundred and one recreations this wonderful country amply provides—fish, golf, play tenmis, Ko boating or swimming. Travel in cool comfort by the Canadian Pacific Railway through beautiful Eastern Canada 10 Atlantic C Resorts, Ho d bourding ho avery price Por full in ation call, phone or wrlte for Tour Na V.25 08, 1, WALL. G, A P. D "m B, Clark Bt., Chicago or communicate with your local agent. Wl e e | S i A o] B— agreeable, condemn the Health Hints -. dealt with accordingly o other single group of agencies working power uffering and sick potted typhus fever and the d the flowers and the showers and | Even the homb-dropping /rmmlnn’ mosquito and the moderate estimate and northwest ha ip and driven out by m at Jamestowr old pioneer physician of ¢ used to declare aid of quinine! years ago malaria common along the coast and rivers of N Massachusetts ven in this day a fair spinkling of case ummer from Long Connecticut and New every spring and Island and the and well deserves busily spreading disease other filth hy acroplane parcels post, and whenever him good 16 our own benefit DIAMONDS ON CREDIT A small suny weekly or month- ly, makes you the owner of & splen. did Diamond or other article of high grade jew- « 1133--La Valliere fine solid gold, ganuine onyx o Ring, Fint | 4 Beleher, helf engraved, | m o n d, complete 14k wolid gold, $4.50 a Month $1.50 a Month, strated catalog s 1444 and our THE NATIONAL CREDIT JEWELERS 409 5.10th 1., Omahs (tear Harvey Stresl) anleeman will call, —_— A L BROS & CO. 1E58 Please Tell Us When Your Telephone Service is Not Satisfactory We endeavor to furnish a perfect telephone service and to have all dealings with our patrons pleasant and If you believe we have made a mistake—have done anything that isn't right it. We want to stop it at once. that isn't fair—we want to know If you think we have done anything that we shouldn’t do, please give us an opportunity to remedy it. Don't tell He cannot correct it your neighbor, We can Errors sometimes creep into our service through de ’ fects in the mechanical or i wrongfully believed to be the result of human inaccuracies apparatus and are When the delicate central office equipment, the line or the telephone instrument “go wrong,” it fsn't fair to Operators muchines"—do their work wonderfully well operators When there seema to be some fault in our service please tell us at once and we will investigate and correet it By co-operation and mutual helpfulness we can be « the best service to euch other, THE_BEE: - Fashions -. ‘oman’s Wor OMAHA WEDNESDAY TTINT ” 1916 The Smartest of _S_j?ort_Suits These Stunning Designs Are Reproduced by Special Arrangement with Harper's Bazar trimmed with linen taken up by women to such an extent that sports suits are now heing worn | for shopping as well as for outdoor pastimes, says Harper's Bazar Shop | ping Service Many shops where | hitherto these garments have been in beluded in the regular suit departm®nts have now opened special departments | |to cater to this demand. These de partments are really well equipped sporting goods shops on a small but complete scale Silk sports suits either of Khaki | Kool, Shantung, La Jerz or crepe de chine, while representing a little more initial expense than the sporgs suit of last year, are really an economical skirts are attractive to wear with saft silk or lingerie shirts. These skirts are usually made of oyster white silk with a narrow stripe in color, The coats of these populdr so-called “sports suits” are made of plain silk the same shade as the stripe in the skirt and are much worn as separate the "human I'hen look A linen skirt RE you fond of playing tenni at this striking new costume and colors are lovely, especially so Do You Know That A set of rules or recommendations | Ping for the protection of Rontgen opera tors from the dangers attending the use of X-rays has recently been for Electric heating has been tried in a luxury, The very short, box-plaited | railways of France as station women act as station agents, and at unimportant depots do all the work. painted designs The fad for sport clothes has been | coats over Summer costumes on the | when one considers how difficult it is beach or porch “Indeed, they may be used for any occasion where a sweater could be| I'hey are either straight belted | ple, rose, blue and gold Is or made on the lines of the |type that is the last word in sports iacket. Both the materials | clothes is shown here. It is & Jenny model of Khaki Kool and may be had . |in any color for $59.50 by the Rontgen society of A delicious, steaming dish of Faust Cut Macaroni and tomatoes can be prepared in 30 minutes. There's no time wasted in the kitchen, because Faust Cut Macaroni is cut into inch lengths and is ready to cook It is strengthening, nourishing and economical Ten cents’ worth of Faust Cut Macaroni gives more nourishment than a dollar’'s worth of meat. Andit'snearly allabsorbed by the body Faust Cut Macaroni can be served in so many tasty and appetizing dishes that there's never a complaint of sameness of diet, It's always good and inviting Insint on getting Faust Cut Macaronid Wreite for Free recipe book MAULL BROS, St Louis, U. S A K - HE woman who cares even a little for fashion will. buy one of the new Khaki Kool sports in your favorite color with white haircord blouse suits. The striped box-plaited skirt and unusual pockets give individualfty to this Jenny model to get materials and dyes this scason There are exquisite shades of pur A suit of this No frock or suit has ever heen cred ited with the beautifying power that { the right hat has. By the hat one may out one's best points and subdue one's defects. It is a good plan to buy your hats and then the frocks to go with them. Indeed, the hat matter of such vital importance it behooves the woman who would be well dressed to give a great deal of time and thought to its choosing many houses in Norway, and| Neyer hefore have we had such dis reports made by a royal commission indicate that a pleasant even tempera ture is possible with an expenditure | original Manila hat of from thirty to thirty-five watts per | cubic meter of space--thirty-five cubic | fectly flat, round plates Panama hats, but this season Ahout 25,000 women are employed | have been made double with one side dyed in colors to match one's sweater carpenters, clerks, platform |These are blocked so that the top of cleaners, carriage cleaners, or engine | the hat is white and the under side On the Orleans system |of color or vice versa. Some of these hats are decorated with unique hand tingifished looking and unusal sports | hats as we have this season is, of course ways white. These come to us in per - Household _fop@ Reality of Maturity Excels Illusions of Youth BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright, 1916, Star Co Every day 1 hear men and women of middle age sighing for the lost illusions of youth As the embroidered work of art is more beautiful than the stamped pat tern, so are the realities of mature life more beautiful than the illusions of youth, if we have used care in the stitching Even if we have married the de sign, we have the added experience which youth lacks, and we are pre pared to do better work on the next pattern given by the Great Artist Too late! There is no such thing as any knowledge, or success, or hap piness coming too late There is no such thing as time, save in our own imagination It is all eternity It is a circle without beginning or end We have always lived, and will al ways live I'here is no need of let ting your hody, your heart or your mind wither away because a few vears have gone by, and the tradi tion of men tells you that youth has passed Keep expectant, keep hopeful, keep sympathetic and ambitious and be occupied I'lie best of life 1s before you whether here or hereafter does not matter, so long as you lose no hour of happiness and usefulness by mis taken ideas gained from mistaken traditions Discard them Right about facet March! You are on the road to happiness now I'here are goals at every step And there are better goals farther on Keep marching! Put only as we have builded by our desires and thoughty and efforts in this graded school nh earth life will we be able to find better surround- ings on the other side Immortality must be earned. Heay ens must be built while on earth, Not by the mumbling of formulas and ad- herence to traditional creeds, not by long prayers for God to do our work | for us, but by our continual applica- tion of the God-given qualities which lie wtih us—love, will, self-cdntrol, helpfulness and hope duce heavens on carth and in the realms beyond They must not depend upon them. | While they last youth lasts, Keep love, sympathy and faith alive in your soul and you can defeat Time Time has made conquest of w0 many things That onea wers mine. Swift-footed eager y That ran to mest the years; bold brigand health, That broke all laws of reason unafraid, And lsughed at talk of punishment Of blood and friendship, closs tiee and that Soy of Iife Which reads its music in the minor key And will not laten to a minor strain- These things' and many more are spolis of Time, Yot as a conqueror who enly sterms The outposts of & town, and finds the fort Tov strong (o be assalled, so Time re- treats And knows his' fimpotance, He eannot take My thres great jewels from the crown of Love, sympathy, and faith; and year on hem grow in luster and In worth, s by me, plucking at his beard. And dragging as he goes a uscless wcythe Once In the dark he plotted with 'his triend Grim Death, to steal my treasures Death replied They are immortal, and beyond thy reach | T could But set them in another sphere | To shine with greater luster.’ Timne and Death W here ‘the Girl Leads BY THE JESTER. It caught my eye the other da this phrase with which I have headed my article. In these eays | have be | come accustomed to regard it al most as a platifude. 1 didn't know | that we male things led in sufficient | anythings to need emphasizing the | fact that girls lead i one special d rection, | fancied we merely fol lowed nowadays. | believe [ thinl so still Having to fill a column, it is of course no good taking the converse Where girls don't lead” would lea me staring at a blank writing blocl for hours together, No, let the title stand as it is, They often lead me a devil of a dance, | readily aduit, but tis a pleasant one (sometimes), and the “sometimes” makes up for the others The old idea, generally accepted and | believe originally intended, wa that man led because he was the stronger sex He was, furthermore perfectly prepared to substantiate the claim if any of his womankind disputed his right—for which purpose he kept his club handy, and never let his arm weaken from want of practice Followed then the so to say cor scientious objectors, who argued thus “We are indisputably the stronger sex, therefore we will be content having the strength, not to use it merely to talk about it, because we know we possess it.” Seeing men waver, girls naturall leapt at the chance “You mustn't hit us,” said they ‘vou must talk to us and coax u We're weaker than you are So man started to argue instead and he's got the worst of the argu ment ever since Provided she's really pretty, really dainty and really fascinating, you car back any girl in the world to twist the biggest, the strongest, or the cleverest man, round her little fin ger in less time than it takes to write this sentence What is more, she will back her self to do it. When she fails she | usually marries him to get to the bottom of the puzzle that way. Girls fi ! A hich |love novelties. Having solved the ese are the qualities which pro- problem it ceases to inferest her A certain literary drank, whose ideas, possibly, had been warped by ‘hmrr home experiences, once wrote | | in a book dealing with the relations of the sexes: “Woman should be kept in a hutch at the bottom of the garden,” Personally, 1 never hold with mere vulgar abuse, but I think some of us realize that there is a substratum of truth underlyipg the remark, T am beginning to realize myself that girls do lead nowadays in nearly everything. And what is more, they lead in most cases in the cleverest of 'ways, by letting us men belieye that it 18 we who do so, Unfortunately, this new sense of power is turning the heads of some of them, may even turn the heads of all. If they are wise—I mean really wise—they will realize that however far a pendlum swings one way, it must eventually swing back again Adwvice to Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfaz. Talk 1t Over with Her Dear Miss Fairfax: T am in love with a girl three years my junior and I belleve my \love I8 returned. When I ask this girl to go Passed on together, knowing thelr Adefeat;, out she always asks to have another man And 1 am singing by the road of life >I n-Skoon g To the blue a lot of things seem yellow The person who repeats scandal is about as bad as the one who starts it As a rule those who exiét on un cooked foods have an uncooked ap pearance It is difficult to favor any real re form without being accused of chas- ing a fad Wealth at least brings happiness to the fellows who can pull the million- | aire's leg with me to accompany her friend. Now, ns none of my friends cares for this second #irl, It ta hard for me ANXIOUS. Your girl friend seems to have an exag gerated sense of loyalty (o' another girl, I supposs she has a generous nature and likes to share her pleasure with a less popular girl. But she is not quite falr to you in de manding that you always furnish an escort for her companfon. I think you had better tell her frankly that it fust happens that most of the boys you know are Indepsnd ent chaps who Insist on choosing their own ompanfons and that they are not willing to have you arrange parties of four all the tm Ask her fto show you moms of tha generous loyalty she shows her girl friend An honest little talk will probably straight things ou Refreshing Summer Desserts By CONSTA MR VA ¥ NCE CLARKE, parfan gl od