Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 25, 1916, Page 6

T HE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1916. 2 Society Notes : Personal Gossip : Woman's Work :-Household Topics 5= The Great Wall of China SOCIETY FOLKS AT KIDDIES' PET SHOW _Interest Themselves in the Work to Better Oare for Dumb Animals. - SPEAK ON—;U;IANE SIDE By MELLIFICIA—August 24. Society women are interesting themselves in the pet shows which the little folks are having in the city parks these days. Yesterday when Mrs. T. R. Rutledge spoke to the children at Fontenelle park about animals she was accompanied by Mrs. - Myron Learned and the Misses Jessie, Car- rie and Helen Millard, Today Mrs. Luther Kountze was among the in- vited guests at the Hanscom park ex- hibiticn. Miss Lida Wilson will talk to children at another show. The appeal of the affectionate dumb creatures is sure to busy society folks. These are days when dogs can [ enjoy all the luxury of automobiles L and sit "smilin?" in many a.car of luxury. The children, too, have taken cvén more interest than ever in their pets since their beloved dogs, cats, rabbits, chickens and so on have been raised to the dignity of Kosing before the admiring public in the pet shows. At Happy Hollow Club. 3 . Miss Nina Garrett entertained at uncheon today for Miss Nina Betts of Aurora, III, who is visiting Miss Helen Garrett of Council Bluffs, Bas- kets of pink asters tied with pink tulle were used on the table. Miss Betts © was the guest at a dinner given at the | Council Bluffs Rowing association last evening by her hostess. Cavers were laid for ten. Those present at luncheon today were: . ' Minsen— Misnes- Nina Betts of Gorteude Mitler, rora, 111 . Rhea Hendee, Jeanette Harsh. Grace Slabaugh, Helen Garrett of Flora, 8hukert, Counell Bluffs, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Wells will have as their guests at the dinner-dance this evening: Meésarn. an 1./B. Owen. R. A McFarland, Mr. and Mrs. George A. ‘Roberts will have with them Mr. and Mrs. George Lammis and Miss Elizabeth Roberts. . Other parties of two and four who L will en?oy the dinner-dance for. mar- ried folks at Happy Hollow «&lub this evenin W. C. Fraser, ;H. D. Frankfurt, B, E. McCague, W. Hil dreth, C. C. Sadler.J. W, Parrish, R‘cg Crawford, Robert 'Cowell, A, i Friend and H. G. Loomis, . TS, A. Pegau had seven ests at luncheon at the club to- y; Mrs., F. Smith had four guests and Mr H. Garrett entertained | six gues scar L, Williams' ~ " has arrived for a short visit, “Friday Mrs. W, G. Baird and Mrs. J. Miller will each have _nipg cheon guests, ' - | Hillsdale College Reunion. et 3 _png of Hillsdale college alumni and their families held their annual _réunion -last- evening.at_the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. M, Pritchard. After supper they spent the evening talking college experiences. Those pre c-t“_ Wfife.:.‘ Mesdames— : Thomas Landale, £} sister “of St. o8 3 - Hugh Myers. ' Mendames— M. 8. Rogerd, A, Belknap, Hattie Reynulds, Kansas. City. Menars.— James Lot Maxwell, _ Oouncll Bluffs, Georgo , L. Campen, Hprvey Reynolds, - W. H. Campin, ountry Club. e g M. Wilhelm will: entertain.a x at the club this eveniig, M. G. Colpetzer wij!-efitar- . party of 3 g;d Mr. S i arty of four, = ° "'é'n'ufd. yevcnin;;_ Mr.: W: Farnam Smith wil{hav.c a dinner party at the tgb. o, Dance at Hanscom Park. * The Mac club will give a ¢ party at Hanscom park pavilion. this evening. igeluded in the party. Newspaper Folk Entertained. Mr, and Mrs. T, R Rutlcdgle ¢ ttained local newspaper folk eir apartment in the Chula fast evening in honor of Mr. ve for Ringling Bros. circus. utledge visited of the circus at published soon. Party. : surprise party was given in Honor Miss Mayme Keselya at lier home urday. The evenil ying games and LS were presan inal Cooking Club. A small luncheon members of the ¢ b, were the guests of ntze today. dancing Fifty young people will be i rwood, advance press repres M,‘. the winter: quartets p Baraboo, Wis., early the year seeking material for ani- I stories for children, which will ng was spent in dancing. - Forty arty, tomposed riginal Cooking Mrs. Luther | TDefects in System | of Hardening 'Recruits By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D.‘ One of the logical results of the {lack of adequate training in camp | |hygiene and physical cormdition | among. the men, and the insufficient | power given to the sanitary and the| medical corps in the selection and: the equipment of camp sites, is the group of accidents and fatilities which | invariably = occur when new troops are being “broken in” to camp life. Already the papers aré ‘busy with teports of deaths from pneumonia, from . heat prostration, fI;om heart failure-on ambitions hikes and of at- tacks of intestinal disturbance from | unsuitable or tainted food, or from | scanty or polluted water. | Of course; a certain _amount o friction is incvitable in assembling and transporting such large bodies of .men, and _the total fatalities and | sicknesses do not bulk very large in| proportion to the mass. Indeed,| the army officers, who, spurred by the popular’ outery, have been in-| specting . and publicly reporting |hei results of their own efficiency, quite | plume themselves upon the fact that only 2 per cent of the men are sick| or in the hospital.. But the point| and the pity of it is that these dis-! tressing. fatalities were practically all| preventable if proper care and intel- ligence had been used, and, more-| over, 2 per cent represents just about the average morbidity for the | entire “working population, men, | women .and children, and is nearly double what it should be for a care- | fully picked and’ selected body of strong and vigorous men in the prime | of life. The id¢a of the War department appears to be that if the men were mustered in_in ?notl physical con- dition, as they claim to have been, they have o husiness to be sick, and | that when it has provided the dry{ staples of a ration, and a canvas roof to sleep under, it has done all that| can be reasonably. required. Already ! philanthropic organizations in the botder - states . are sending out re- quests for funds to supply facilities for the soldiers, and to supplement their rations, while the New York troops are reported to have raised 15,000 among themselves by private subscription to provide their camp | with a respectable hospital, their present hospital accommodations (?) | consisting of a couple of unscreened | tents about a hundred and fifty yards from the camp stables, which is| simply an invitation to the plague| of flies. | These heat prostrations and phy ical breakdowns of various sorts ap pear to be chiefly, due fo two causes. | One is the ihadeguate and injudicious: character of the training which is| given to the militia in times of peace. | Though battles’ are usually fought ontdoors’ “and campaigns . conducted chiefly - in the open country, nine- tenths of the training of our citizen soldiers ‘is given indobrs, Four-fifths of the idenf military training, which would also be-ideal for -health-and efficieney in' times of peace, should consist of short hikes in small squads, which could be carried out on .week ends and holidays at intervals all through the spring, -summer « and attumn months, These could be made sometimes cartying shelter and cooking kit, sometimes to perma- nent cainps and route stations, some- times by train, someétimes by motor, sontetimes by, boat. In “this‘ way the: men would not only greatly improve their health, but become familiar with the' tountry, learn how to tike advantage of jous * formy’ of transportation er military cohditions, how 'to feed, shelter and take care of them- selves in the open, and how to pick tent. sites and protect their beds from flood water. Most important n{ all, they would be kept perpetualfy in reatonably fit and ready physical condition, their feet hard, their wind | good, ‘their muscles springy. So that wheh they went into the annual camp or were suddenly called out for. active service, they would be able to stand a reasonable amount of forced marching, or trench dig- ging, or roughing it in bad weather, | imagination rather than The great wall of China at the Nankow pass. The great wall is fifteen hundred| miles long, on the boundary between China and Mongolia. By GARRETT P. SERVISS. Perhaps the most impressive work of human hands in all the world .is the Great Wall of China, It is a thing | to dream about. It is a kind of dream in itself, for until one has seen it one has only a half belief in its reality. It seems like an invention of the an actual achievement of man. It belongs to Aladdin’s world, in which impossible things were done by supernatural persons coming to the aid-of the favored human beings. The pyramids of Egypt are only piles of stone a few hundred feet square at the base, but the great Chinese wall is a fortification of masonry 1,500 miles long, averaging twenty-two feet in height and twenty- feet in' width, along whose summit, as on an elevated roadway, protected by battlements, armies could march, hurrying this way or that, to reach the point of danger. Thousands of squarc towers, placed a hundred yards apart, strengthened the wall and gave access | nearby hills, then plunging out of The New Girl BY ADA PATTERSON. A woman who visits colleges and lectures to-girls told me about her— the new type of girl. “She was 2 western girl, of course,” said the lecturer. “Everything big |and new and fine seems to come from {that quarger. She strode into my i officc. « Strode is the word. She | was one of the biggest, newest, finest "things I gver saw. She seemed all h and glowing eyes and shining hair and long, straight limbs. It was advice hour after the lecture and she had come to me for advice. | ‘I came to ask you how I can be | of use in the world,’ she said. “Just let the world look at you and admire your youn ength and draw | inspiration from it,” the lecturer was stirred to answer,, but didn’t. dle aged and prudent, she moved with caution. “And when my talk with the girl I found that she had done about the lig work of one woman, and was ready to under- take another,” she said. The girl had heiped her widowed | mother to bring up the younger chil- dren. She had taken a claim and put | out the crops and built the house with her own hands. She had helped | put her brother through college. | Things were going well at home. The | chance had come, or she had made it, to go to college. The first year that question had risen in her heart and i mind and reached her lips: “How can | [ be of use to the world?” Not, “How can [ advance myself?” Not, “What to.it from the inner side. It runs in|sight into a valley, then reappearing | can I turn to make the most money?” serpentine curves over hills and moun- | tains and across valleys and ravines, bridging streams, skirting precipices, and keeping on ridges where possible. It was a literal war wall between two nations, or peoples. It divided China from Mongolia, the land of | eastern Asiatic civilization -from_that of central Asiatic barbarism. China | protected itself with this astonishing | wall upon the same principle by which | Babylon and other ancient cities con- structed their defenses, only an entire country was walled in instead of a single town. Photographs of the great wail, made by Mr. R. C. Andrews, of the American Museum of Natural His- tory, show in what a surprising state of preservation the work remains, at least over large sections of its long | course. In some places, where 1t was made of brick, it is now only a range of mounds. Passing through a moun- | tainous district, you see it running, | like the coils of a huge serpent, over | New Fruzts from Abroad Of all the remarkable plants in- troduced in this country from foreign climes within the last few years, the melon tree is the most astonishing. The government plant bureau says the output of this melon tree is destined to be one of the most im- portant of our agricultural crops. The melons, sometimes weighing twenty pounds, are egg-shaped, of a beauti- ful“yellow color, and borne in an odd way, in one huge bunch close to the single brarichless stem or trunk. Growing-like a cornstalk, as one might say, the tree-trunk (though a' foot thick) may be cut clear through with a single blow of a machete—the sugar cane knife of the tropics. It is customarily disposed of in this simple way after two or three years of growth, in order to make room for newly planted melon tree slips. 1t s large palm-like leaves are used in the tropics to wrap about tough meat to make it tender. They have a milky juice, which contains a sub- stance called ‘“papain”—a natural digestive agent employed nowadays to_a considerable extent in medicine, ! The fruit is described as delicious. To make it available for cultivation in the United States, north of the frost line, it is being crossed with a hardy related species that yields fruit of no particular value. Incidentally, the plant-breeders are developing a race of melon trees that will bear male and female flowers on the same tree. This in itself is a very curious mat- ter. For it appears that, .as or- dinarily grown in the tropics, the melon trees are mostly males, or “drones” (as they are called), bearing without' falling by the wayside. Y no fruit. But now and then one is found that combines the sexes. No, great difficulty is expected in de-| lveloping a race of such trees, ev 1Y) DAINTIEST DiSH 1f BECONE A NOBLE SENG iss Vivian Tizard entertained at arty this afternoon at 3 ‘the occasion being her 9th |- Those present were: i b Mixss— s Ragnn Holfing, | + Karah: Dayis, Mildrad Whalen Tizard. W N, : juster Richard J. tes of Interest. g 4 vs. Porter M. Garrett and Miss ett returned Saturday from a of three weeks at Lake Okoboji. | R The rage cook does not g enough thought and care to serving fish temptingly. We have all njet witl that most unappetizing dish, the o cooked, fish, carledsly put it ‘a dish, a and then covered, with badly made efore, their return, 4 month| sauce. - The same dish might have a ; A qud both dainty and. appetizin 16 | had it been carefully. cooked, place - neatly .in compact: shape on the =1 dish, served with a , well sea- soned sauce and garnished with- hard boiled' eggs, some’ shrimps, chopped Miss F:ey‘ M:srfl: K!pper. “This all , and adds but a I ¢ Ta :o 'lbhee, cost, o fi::-ciqc ""i’:.m 4P eHare wo! T | ré. E. S. Rood leit thik ng for a motor lrir through the ills. They will - vigit - Hot Sylvan lake and Spearfish e, Md, i at Estes Par one several days. inside of a maekerel cover it, - Do not let it quite boil, as ' . . Appetizing Fish Course - By CONSTANCE CLARKE. £ £ ea of it Iy, and lay it in the fish kef- ina] Omfw‘ *mx‘\'m l‘opltod, water f\a Y | the! skin is very liable to split, and that spoils its appearance. By the side of the fite it will be done when | the fin, bone is loose. Dish it on a hot dish, heads and tails alternately, and garnish with French fried pota- toks, lemon ¢lices and parsley. Plain melted butter used to be the usual ac- companiment to boiled mackerel; but | caper, tomato sauce or anchovy sauce is now more often served with it. Caper Sauce--For one cup of melted butter take one tablespconful of French capers, one dessértspoonful of the vinegar from the capers, a pinch- of salt, and a dust of paprika pepper; mix well together and use. A Tomorrow—Temptation in Cakes —Qrange Cream Layer Cake). . one of which will be productive, as is the case with the apple and the pear. Another valuable fruit newly intro- duced by the plant bureau is. the| “chayote”—a relative df the cucum-| ber. It grows on a climbing vine, but| is much more prolific than the cu-| cumber. The vine is suifable for cul-| tivation on. arbors and fences as far north as-the Carolinas, and furnishes a delicate and ‘most desirable winter vegetable. The fruit has a more deli- cate flavor and texture than the sum- mer squash, and makes an admirable salad for use with mayonnaise dress-| ing. An acre of land will yield many thousands of the fruits, averaging a poungd apiece. The plant bureau has brought from northern China the much-prized “ju. jube"—a plump, shiny-brown fruit, which may pe eaten fresh, dried or rresuved in’ sugar. Several varieties havé been secured, among them the “bottle jujube,” oblong in shape,| which is made ready for table use by soaking it for a couple of months in weak spirits. Another varfety, small in size, very sweet and delicious when boiled with rice, is called “seedless,” its kernel being so soft that, dissolving in the mouth, it is practically unnoticeable, A consignment of this kind of jujube is sent every year to the court at Peking. 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Open Daily Till 8 p. m. - Satardeys Till 9:39 Call or write for illustrated Catalog No. 903, Phone Douglas 1444 and our sales- < man will eall. i READ BEE WANT ADS.| - | time o again and again, with its tower crowning commanding heights, unti! the last distant glimpse shows it winding away over the far-off, dim horizon. This great wall was begun three centuries before the Christian era, but | the broadening souls and quickening | the parts which remain in fairly good condition were erected in the four- teenth century A. D. In its time it seems to have been a satisfactory means of defense against the inva- sions of the savage Tartars, and if its builders had been a people fond ofi celebrating their deeds of arms in ballads and epic poems we might find in ancient Chinese literature thrilling stories of the defense of the great wall, when hordes of wild-riders as- sailed it in vain But Chinese literature is mostly de- voted to the discussion and illustra- tion of moral virtues, the celebration of peaceful triumphs, and the lyrics of unambitious life. The wall was begun two or three centuries after the i Confucius, but this great na- tional *work did not change the cur- rent of literary tradition from the .channels in which he and other mor- alists had set it flowing. Sometimes the emperors of China erected hunting lodges outside the wall, and, protected by strong military escorts, spent weeks heyond the fron- tiers. Readers of De Quincey’s ro- mantic history of the flight of the| Torgote Tartars from the borders of Russian back to their old mother, China, will recall the exciting experi- ence of the Emperor Kien Leng when he had ventured several hundred miles beyond the wall, and by his lucky presence was the means of presetving his “returning children” avenging pursuit of their fierce ene- mies, who had followed them thou- sands of miles with unabated fury.| But at last “the ancient children of | the wilderness rested from their la- bors and from great afflictions under the shadow of the Chinese Wall.” from the | ot, “How can I have a good time the rest of my life?” Not, "How can I Hook a husband?” But, “How can | T be of use in the world?” The girl, and the girls like her, are | | heralds of a new age. The age of brains and deepening hearts of | women. The era of the old-fashioned | mother is departing. To the sweet- | faced, self-sacrificing, a little lower- than-the-angels mother, |ings and reverence and adieus. She |is going. There will follow her a more spirited type, one of broader Pand wider vision ang larger sympa- thies. The woman whose life is bounded by her own doorstep on the north and her own backyard on the south and on the east and west by the pal- ing fence is vanishing. And it is 1 well, Many an epitaph might be truth- full graven: “She was a good wife, and a good mother; and a stranger rand ‘enemy to the rest of mankind.” She meant well, no doubt, Everyone does, more or less. But she peeped | over the rim of her little world with | eyes of distrust at all the rest of the {world. She harrowed life for herself jand her ‘family. She would have ness is only a little less blame worthy | than personal selfishness. It was never a beautiful thing. Tt made life small and mean. It sent | the children of such a mother into | the ‘world mentally cross-eyed from looking ‘so’ sharply after their own | interests. They acquired near-sighted minds, For-the devotion of such as she to the family/ collectively and individ- ually, tHanks and regpect. But to the new mother, who gives thought also to the welfare of the town, the State, the nation—greeting, for she shall mother the world. Mid- | I had finished | our greet-| been greatly surprised had anyone: told" her she was selfish, but she was | selfish for her family. Family selfish-| Tips on Fashion’s Fancies The high Spanish coiffure is coming into fashion. Green and silver is a favorite color scheme for evening. Children are wearing little round hats of black velvet. Linen bags are embroidered with ! bright-colored beads. A belt of jet gives snap to some of the new coats for fall. Stripes and spots are everywhere | used as dress trimmings. | Wide frills are still good . on the blouse of crepe de chine. > f Picot-edged collars are too pretty to be banisied altogether. Black velvet skirts are accompanied | by blue velvet jackets. | “Trotter” suits are often trimmed with nothing but “stitchery. | A great deal of fur trimming will | be used on motor garments. New autumn hats have crowns of | velvet and transparent brims. Silver trimmings are in excellent | taste for this season's black and white hats. A fashion which has originated in England—instead of in Paris, where most fashions hail from—is that of i tasseled handkerchiefs. The pancake veil suggests its own name very cleverly. It is a big, square veil of rather coarse, open silk mesh, the corners rounded rather than shurply right-angled, and a graceful leaf pattern runs all around the edge. In the exact center of the big square is the “pancake,” a circle of finer mesh, with the border design in miniature, forming a wreath around the circle. The “pancake” rests upon the crown of a sailor-shaped sport | hat, and the veil drapes itself grace- | fully in all directions, dropping to the | shoulders. | Don’t Hide Them With a Veil; Remove Them With the Othine Prescription. | This prescription for the removal of | freckles was written by a prominent physi- | clan and is usually so successful in removing freckles and giving a clear beautiful com- | plexion that it is sold by any druggist un- der guarantee to refund the money If it | falls. | Don't hide your freckles under a vell; | Bet an ounce of othine and remove them. | Even the first few applications should show a wonderful improvement, some of the light- | er freckles vanishing entirely. 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