The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 22

SIX THE LIXCOLX SUSDAT MAV 11. lOU What Is a Bird House itkout Birds Sighs Landlord Searching For Feathered Tenants Apartments for I.incoln’s ably no famillea would move in last pluperfert apartment house. It Is situated In one of residence yea hut the nelKhbors even year and none did. You did tell me, however, that Martin moving day was April I and that. I might reasonably expect four families.

I am writing to complain that they have con.l.ler Re ttine an Injunction agaln.t the building. your advice as whether It Is The apartment is really family hotel is built in the midst of lovely shade trees, which protect It from the heat. The lawn is not a mlxtnie of wood and dirt and stones and bits of shingles and sparse shoots of grass, us ire so m.any apartment-. lawns, but it Is green and soft and gy LULU MAE COE. Inviting fur an afternoon or an years ago early next if there is a tnonth a tired woman peered from a uUays 00 wagorT at the sparsely set- breeze, the apartments get 11 1 1 loo late to run this.

And tf not, in what advertising mediums you recommend its Insertion. Yours very truly, (Signed) Walter S. Whitten, Secretary." Pending the decision, the aiwrt- ment house Is still cmp- ty and very still. Mrs. John Chapman Celebrates Ninetieth Birthday; Tells of Early Life On Nebraska Plains store any where but in a church, for they came later than the homes.

went tar ml jde sloshing through late fall rains. the dust of sum- through the spring mud. through the deep drifts of -arly Ne- I ra.ska winb rs. He didn nave a I dav for baptisms and for marriages ai for other church ceremonies, but he might do almost anything when I he arrived to preach. Among the.

guests who came for Mrs ninetieth birthday were: Mrs. Lloyd Suddens, Mrs. F. ways friendly, but great I eggars. Mrs.

Cljapman gave then food the first time they came and forgot it, returning the call many Mrs. Madge Agls. Mrs. One day seventeen 7 I Conner. Mrs.

Fred Hlock. Mrs. begging food and drink, and Modgktns Mrs. John Bowers, was practically nothing left In Catherine FisclK'r. Mrs.

Waltei honse when they departed. Howev. ghamp. A. H.

Weinberger, they did not show the slighte.st hos- eeze. Hie aimrtmenis regions around Nebraska City. Ifs She wa.s only one of hundreds of with air shaft exposure nor a singiei Inside apartment. Olid TV pioneer women who had come west Inside apartment. year.

Her wagon was only one The gocerles must be carried in by train that had wriggled uh. Cl mouth, as there is no hunched and slid itself across and hunched and slid itself across the prlarles for more than a decade. But she had made the journey in one of the hot months of the year. May breezes have a sentimental sound but May suns can be scorching on the unshaded plains, the dust powdered by dozens of horses hoofs dumb waiter, but the apartment is conveniently situated near delicatessens and markets. And the owner wants families with children! 1 Friendly New Marcel.

In this day when babies and apnH uy uoitiuo ment lious owners are as friendly choking In May sunshine and the new marcel and a summer shQWcr. vlrllUty and vigor of the cooler most refreshing to find one is at low ebb In the merry want- children the more the merrier month of May. he care how much they a half dozen or more crow and sing and gurgle. He none of them very old. crowded the mind how much they hop around the narrow w'agon to capacity.

bails or sprawl over the front porch- were fretful and peevish In the nans 01 wagon. The woman and her 1ms- I niH Uii I ri rirtiivinir df come sign for the youngsters. As though the waiting list wouldn be long enough without all these utopian tlie apartments ore free, absolutely, positively, entirely lent free. The occupants pay if they want the one going to urge rent 011 the reluctant owner? Empty a Vacant Lot. of the constant moving, of the searcli for a new home.

West Thinly Populated. They intended to go several hundred miles further than Nebraska The western lands so thickly populated. Larger homesteads could be obtained. There was greater opportunity to acquire wealth. When the woman gazed out upon tility at any time and were 1 rfectiy satisfied to seeming to hirvc no desira to Injure.

Mr. Chapman was a mlni.sler and I preached in many of the snifll I churches in the county. Jamaica. Kmerald.Adanis and Barland where he found a chnrcli. In- I dlans came to the church always appearing quiet and peaceable enough, although there h.ad baen rtP Indian scare the year before the Chapmans came west.

in those early d.iys was less of a profession and more of a i j( 1 than it is now. Mr. I pleached in dugouts, sod hoiist s. log huts, outdoors, in a few frunu- houses S. F.

Hoy. Mary A. McCiruiTaham. Mrs Alice Siddens. Mrs.

C. F. Dougherty, Hoy. Mrs. l.cw Haase, Mrs.

William Foster. Mrs, Charles Damrow, Mrs. F. W. Hyd- som.

Bc.ssle Chapman, Jule Haase, Viola Wtlterdink, Mrs. Lena Dldolph, Mrs. Cora Elder, Mrs. Alex Wert. Mrs.

George H. Feler. Margaret Schamp. Mrs. W.

A. Gzcnhough. Mrs. Gertrude McMurray, Mrs. Iddy Mrs.

C. B. Long. Amy Dunbar. Airs.

W. J. McAlurray, Rose Fischer, Dora Block, Mrs. Nellie Mrs. R.

J. Mrs. F. J. Payne, Mrs.

Grace Johnson, Mrs. B. C. ktns, Mrs. S.

W. Goodie, William Chapman, A. O. Fofcter, Mrs. K.

Baker, Mrs. Seth Abott, A. E. Baker. Many Teachers Join Summer School Staff of University But they are empty.

though, she knew occupant to make that the western lands would never leave! nial-ks liy the and funny squaro marks on the. wall where tho family portraits hung. They wore built a year ago apirtnients. homesteaders, ragged and it might been Utopia on tliat June 3, 1868, when she saw It, for it meant see them, nf least as Nebraska City was scraggly and meagre. They built, by clever bands, i almost the journey's end.

The building is neatly painted. Yt they still bear the resounding of a never-lived In houae. Ami the owner wants occupants, to wltne.ss. the follow ing advertisement. To Let llc.sidence Property Birdvllle Addition South East Idncoln New thoroughly modern 13 apait- incnt Exclusivo Family Hotel The woman and her husband and the children came north and west over fifty miles to Centerville precinct, in the wiclnlty of Roc.a And for thirty-five years the woman and her husband and at least some of the children lived on the eighty acne homestead which they took at that time.

A week ago last Thursday, the woman, Mrs. John sat In (he yard of her daughter, Mrs. Charle.s Perkins, ten miles south on Fourteenth street, and gazed at the I 1 fine which she and her husband High than half a century bathing pool. neighborhood. jj, ideated jimt across the cats.

Food in i Perkin's farm, just a I os lioncy bcos, hik select talde crumbs. FAMILIES WITH PREFERRED. No references required. BENT FREE 1621 South Tvvenly-thlrd street P. S.

UPEN DAV AND NIGHT. In the Air. Now' what more could a s'df respecting family ask unle.ss it were a chariot to Inuig them from the old home to the new or a ladtler to the front door for the huildlng Is rather llnv little walk from her front yard. Airs. Chapman was celebrating her ninetieth birthday that Thunsday and she was surronnde.d by relatives and friends.

Bright and active with a remarkable memory In spite of her four score years and ten, they had come to surprise Airs. Chapman, old friends, young friends, and neighbors of pioneer days. Among the guests wi'ere Sunday school scholars wdiom Airs. Chapiiian had taught thirty- fire and forty years ago and two blirli something like a Venice built friends who were In Nebraska when Ishe came. Atrs.

Mollje Hoy and Airs. on Its piles But sibnt empty unhanntert ex- Jnne Shamp, eept by the dim ghosts the Erected Sod House, Hisirlmenl remains, from la.st summer to tills. After coming to Onterville, about the first thing Mrs. Chapman did was And W. S.

Whitten, secretary rip up the cover of the "aFon tho of Commerce owns which had brought Ihe apartment house Is worried. Rent ourney from than half a century ago. Chapman with her husband and family came to Nebraska from the east and she has lived In the state since that time. She is making her home this summer with her daughtei on South Fourteenth street and Jlie can see the homestead. which they took way back in the summer of Mrs.

Chapman was ninety years old in April and she Is seen here with the frilly birthday cake topped witb many candles that was given her, lage, but prices, according to Mrs, Chapman, were nearly double here to those asked in Nebraska City. In Lincoln, the freighting charges were added to the cost, as all goods wa.s brought overland from Nebraska City by In Nebraska City, the purchaser did not have the freight charges, which paid, more than paid, for the longer journey. The Chapmans generally took two days for tho fifty-five mile trip. They would go one spend the night In Nebraska City, and return the next day, or they would start out late in the day, camp on the road, and return the next day. Caravans of The road, as it w.ia In tha ('arly day.s, follows the soutn line of Mrs, farm, and from there Into Mfs.

ChapmHn remern- hors when whole caravans of these freighters would go by Lincoln-wavd Some times they would go In groups nf sometimes In groups of nine or more, always for protectlxjn with tin thought of pos.slble attacks. Airs Chapman says that were nrver bothered by Indians, although they saw m.any 'nindreds them. homo was on the route which the Omahas took to visit their more southern brethren and they were going calling. They were or no rent, ho want.s an occupauL La.st summer. Air.

Whitten pur so that none of them would be tempted to any wanderlust. The Twenty-seven lsitlng educators Wicks, other universities and schools school, and members of various boards and department.s of education will join the faculty of the University of Nebraska for tho 1924 summer session, June 9 to August 22. Inrluding the visiting men and women the te.ach- Ing force will have a total membership of 114 deans, professors. Instructors anti assistants. De.an W.

E. Sealook of college, director of tho session, has enlarged the capacity of tho teaching facilities In expectation of a record enrollment fpr the two terms. The first term runs from June 9 to the second, July 17 to August 22. For both terms of the 1923 se.sslon tTiere were 3,436 regi.stratlons; deducting repeated names 2,646 persons attended the summer session last year. Visiting teachers in the various departments follow; In the department of education.

Clara Olive Blg- ford, teacher In the IJncoln city schools; Rose B. Clark, supervisor In training school, Nebraska Wesleyan unlverstly; Rena Clingman, teacher of normal training, Superior high school; Mattie Alice Hanthorn. elementary supervisor, Cleveland schools; Eunice Hilton. teaVher In AlcCook high school; Everett AL Hosman, secretary of Nebraska State association; Winifred Jackson, teacher in IJncoln schools; Mabel E. Etrk, formerly teacher of normal training.

Bozeman. Allllard C. superintendent of IJncoln schools, Gpal Lew'ton, instructor, Cetlar Falls Normal, Cedar Falls, Iowa; Ralph M. Marrs, principal of South high school, Omaha; Edna Alorgenthaler, teacher in Lincoln schools; W. H.

Morton, superintendent of Beatrice schools; Hazel Novacec, teacher in public school nui- sic; Paul E. Pendleton, teacher, Lincoln high school; Belle Ryan, assistant superintendent of Omaha schools; Tammle F. Rymal, teacher in Lincoln schools; George D. Strayer, professor of education. college, Columbia university; John A.

True, superintendent of AlcCook schools; A. H. Waterhpuse, superintendent Fremont schools; Ruth Warner, special lecturer; and C. principal, Fremont high In the department of history: William Norwood Brlgance, professor of history at AVabaah college, Craw- ford.svUle, E. AT.

Carrol, professor of history. Trinity college, Nur- hani, N. and May W. professor of history, Goucher college, Baltimore. In the department of AV.

S. Huxford, professor of Do.ane college, Crete. In the department of sociology: Oscar of ciology, University of Minnesota. One of the most noted In the country, Dr. Strayer of Columbia university, will Introduce a new' course on In School Administration and Supervision." Five lecturers will each conduct this course for a week.

WESLEYAN NOTES. H. Roberts. counceler anti attorney In Yakinm, Washington, writes that he Is still engaged In the practice of law. He has placed an organ In memory of his father, the Rev.

John T. Roberts, formerly of the Nebraska conference, in the new Methodist church which has jus. been completed at Miss Helen AV'atson, has been re-elected prlnclp.al of the high school at Adams for next year. Mis? Leah Carr, also a Wesleyan girl, teaches In the junior high school at Adams. I house of a sod chasetl Ihn martin house they lived for some live in apartment house, never in de dwellings from the pupils of McKinley school.

Blithely ho put it up and dauntlessly ho of tho caroling songs that would waken him in this dawn. His bllthenosa hau failed and his dauntless dreams ar.o In aahea at his feet. For only the milk man that wakens him with his and only his neighbor's motor that tells hi inof anothi'f day. And Mr. Whitten has not ft complaining omplalnt but a baffled, pu'zzled complaint.

Ho ha.s wrttten to Miss E. Ruth Pyrtle, principal of McKinley school, telling his troubles. She aold him the but drhere are the tenanta told him it waa the proper building for should she furnish martins'-she told him when to expect the occupants should she have played favoritism and dlrec'ted a few out Whltten-way? The courts have decided. Here, however. Is the gratefully rccaive.d: Miss E.

Ruth McKinley School. IJncoln, My dear Alias Pyrtle; year when I placed my order with yoTi. na director general of the McKinley School Center, for one of their famous bird you insisted that It should be a Martin apartment houae, and, while there Is nothing In the contract. It seems to me there is an implied obligation on your part to funilsh tennanta You told me that on account of the lateness In opening the house that prob- hou.sc. In which they lived for some time until the fields could be plowed anil a crop for fall harvesting.

The Chapman homestead comprised only eighty acres Instead of tho u.sual one hundred sixty because that wiia the only ground not taken In this part of the country. They had come here, after the change In plans, bccauso an uncle of Mrs. and his two sons had al- re.ady been here. The land W'as rich and gave excellent crops, but the homestead wa-s smaller than the onllnary ones. Liter that year.

Air. Chapman hauled grain to Nebraska City, whlck he traded for lumber for a new hou.se. Nebraska City was the center of trading in tho.sc days and many, many Journeys has Chapman made there to buy Lincoln was closer, although It was not BO promising as the Otoe county vll- Panamas and Straw Hats 75c Made Like New MODEL Good Cleaners and Dyers 235 No. 11th B1262 SPECIALS- Just A Few of Them But they are representative our regular offerings in quality merchandise. Fancy bracelet watch, white gold, regular $13.50 stock, guaranteed Special at Pearl beads, 24 inch, with white gold clasp UJC A A in fancy box regular $10.00 now VfJgvVr See our regular stock.

It is complete and is being offered at enticing prices. When you buy a Gift, Buy a Gift that the costs no more. THE JEWEL SHOP Fenton B. Fleming The Operation I Avoided MRS. IDA M.

COFFMAN IDCLW. ILW. 1143 0 St. 12th and 0 Sts. I there is one thing more than another a woman dreads, if is a surgical operation, and to be told that one is necessary is very disheartening.

Hospitals are grand institutions, and undoubtedly many operations are necessary. However, wc have received hundreds of letters from women who have been restored to health by Lydia E. Vegetable Compound after an operation had been deemed advisable. Every woman Who suffers as Mrs. Coffman did naturally wishes to avoid an operation, if possible, and the remarkable statements which she makes in her letter will be read with interest by women everj'where.

Mrs. Letter Follows: BIDELL, was a nervous wreck. I was suffering ft In my left side which was noticeable at all tlnie but sometimes It was almost unbearable and 1 could not even let the bed-clothing rest on my body at night. had been sick for seven years but not so badly until the last 18 months, and had become so rundown that I cared for nobody and would rather have died than live. I do my work without help and the doctor told mo that an operation waa all there was left for I would not consent so my husband brought me a bottle of Lydia Flnkham Vegetable Compound and begged me to take It.

I have taken fourteen bottles of it and I feel ten years younger. Life Is full of hope. 1 do all this year. I never will be without the house when my two little girls reach womanhood I shall advise to take it. MRS.

IDA M. COFFMAN, R. R. Ko- 2. Sldell.

Illinois. Another Operation Avoided DAYTON OHIO "I was sick for eight weeks and had three doctors. They told me 1 would have to be operated before I would be any better. My sister told me about the Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound tn one time I began to feel better.

I took seven botUes o' it anti also some of tha Liver Pills and used your Sanative Wash and 1 my health. I recommend your medicines to all women leei Dadly and have troubles of this kind and I answer all letters sent to me by GRACE B. GILLEM, 270 Valley Street. Dayton. Ohio.

Before Subsiitting to an operation Women should try Lydia £. Compound K7PINKHAH CO. I.VNN, Tnrougn the Snops wrrH patricia Party Favors And Table Decorations At Ward-Warner Shop. parties should always be Just a bit nicer than ordinary parties, for It would seem that brides were always just a bit nicer than ordlnao' people, and that Is why the favors and decorations for the table. Just a word, also, about thg favors for the golf luncheon or will be found at Ward-Warner's too.

Cold Storage at IJncoln Hide and Fur Company Cold storage sounds a bit rldU'uloiis to talk about this kind of weather, but nevertheless It Is a necessity when It comes to caring for wTnter furs And coats. Btore your furs with the IJncoln Hide and kkir company, and while you are there, at the wonderful line of chokers they have In stock. They are worth noticing and also worth buying If one needs a choker and the most of us do. Vegetable Plants at Grand Grocery. Spring Is supposed to be here In spite of tha bad and reAlly, now Is the time to put out the vegetable plants, all kinds of them that you can buy at the Grand Grocery at grocery store prices.

Famous Collection of Jewels On Display- The Mauboussln collection of jewels valued at is now on view at the Grand Central Palace, where it Is one of the features of the French exposition. These gems, brought In under bond by one of the oldest Parisian jewelry firms. Include the second largest pearl the world, one of the largest emeralds and what is said to be the finest set of blue sapphires In existence. The collection Is guarded day and night by private detectives and also watched by representatives of the United States Service specially detailed for this purpose. The exhibit also contains Interesting examples of the latest Parisian jewelry- The most striking of these is a hip brooch designed for use as Its name Indicates.

It i.s about four Inches across and composed of diamonds and sapphires, weighing altogether 107 c.arat8. Other hip brooches show circles of black onyx and crystals flanked with diamonds. Another novelty Is the bell tiny cone of black and red enamel set with diamonds with the watch dial le.ss than half an Inch in diameter. The latest thing in bracelets is a solid strip of diamonds and rubies attached to a flexible background. The design copies the famous frieze st the Athens Parthenon.

It Is of particular Interest to jewelry craftsmen because It Is the first attempt to work out the human figure motif In relief, each Individual muscle being brought out by the skilful work of the gem setter. Something new in earrings Is a barbaric loop of pearls and diamonds, tha Inspiration of which Is said to be tha nose loops favored by the dusky beauties of Central Africa. The mannish tuckln-hlouse In English broadcloth satin or pin ptrlpes is In for wear with the tailored suit and for summer wear with sweaters. frocks and afternoon dresses favor such graceful fabrics as georgette and printed chiffon and voile. For younger girls straight, unbelted frocks of georgette are frequently trlrnmeti w-ith attractive motifs of silk embroidery arranged to give an nllover effect.

A more elaborate style is shown In powiler blue, designed wth narrow ruffles and bands. Ponjfee Used For Another Group. develops a nuttjber of dresses, either alone or combined with checked pongee. Appli'Pied designs or bright colored silk and wool embroidery arw also employed In this group. Tha design is frequently in the form of a large alngle flower spray and extends from the skirt to the middle of thv bodliic.

Bright red silk forms apTilblued bands as well as (he small collar and ruffs on a pongee, model checked in re designed for (he older girl. A group of white de Chine frocks designed for confirmations or graduation Is also featured here These dresses are elaborately trimmed with ruffles and white sutln ribbon. Rows of narrow form a design on the skirts and wide bertha collars add to tho youthful effect. Bummer silks, including silk broadcloth and taffeta, arc featured In a mimber of straightline sports dresses which show a definite Influence of the tailored uuMle. In general, the frocks shown in this group are trimmed with crepe de Chine or tub silk In white, although bindings and pipings of silk in the same shade as the check or of the material are also noted.

Tucked and embroidered vestees of white are sponsored. and one model Is designed with a narrow vest of self material, extending to well below the and trimmed with novel colored buttons. Suede Finish Fabrics for More Elaborate Coats. Suede-finished material is used extensively for more elaborately trlmed mcoats, chiefly In shades of green and blue. fabric Is shown with an Invisible plald dcsgn as well as In plain colors.

Black soutache braid and stitching are favored methods of decoration on the back and sides In panel effects and, on several models, the trimming on the sides is further emphasized by buckled bands of the material placed over the panel sections. Collars of American opossum are noted In this group, and a youthful touch Is seen In the linings of printed crepe de Chine. More elaborate models are featured I In a group of coats developed In pile fabrics of the Bollva type In tans, brown and black. Fur collars appear on the majority of these models and Include Manchurian wolf, squirrel, beaver and fox. The fur Is frequently repeated In a narrow band sevoral Inches above the closely fitting cuffs.

Venise and Valenciennes favored or white blou.ses In georgette and crepe. Details In lace vie with frills, varying In styles and fabrics. Jabots of folds and pleating. designs In several bright shades arc shown on both the plain atid novelty fabrtcs. One unusual model of blue In white is bound with the same material In bright red and trimmed with a large spray of embroidered flowers In red and yellow wool.

Wool embroidery Is also the chief (rimming note on linen frocks in bright shades for younger girls. Aja- piqued motifs in colors are frequently combined with the embroidery designs. Bright Colored Voile Combined With White. Bright colored voile, espeelally blue, Is frequently combined with white, and provides a rather striking effect by being nppHqucd In large designs In geometric or zigzag patterns. These unusual appliqued motifs arc also shown on three-piece costumes of voile and ihien composed of a straightline dress and short, sleeveless jarket.

Three-piece costumes of wool-filled crepe arc also In on Instance, jade Is combined with pray In a striking hloeked effect on the skirt. The linen frorks are more simply styled, displaying many details of the tailored mode, such as embroidered monograms and bright colored handkerchiefs pecpirrg from the pockets. Wedding Veils and Wreaths at Mayer Bros. 'Tlie time of brides is fast approaching, the mrrry month of May 1s on (he road, and before long June will with us. the smart wedding a veil is essential, and nil of your veil (roubles can bo solved the millinery of Mayer Bros.

There you will find lovely wedding veils and wreaths, anti there are also confirmation veils ior the sweet young girl who Is to be confirmed this silting. Irregular Diagonal (i rounds. iK'Iiarting fmni the plnlded patterns are those of (wo Irreg ulnr diagonal grounds on whbdi In dlstlnit figures of considerable si are arranged ide Intervals. B.is ket weave effect.s are distinguished by the colored nub.s In.their cfin siruction. Half-and half border are made tip.

In cuntni.sting mix ture.s, the line of division marked by a stripe of an Intense shade of color predominating In (he nilxtiira. ysm.s register again In suitings in hich four tones ly go to niiikc up the general combinations w'bti'b are 11 thought of In loth of this herringbone effect are black and white woven with blue and gold, light tan and hlnck, and others in which black nad Jixht brown.s play a large part. Broken checks and allover are noted. Braided Kffecis Relieve Dark Materials. Braided effeids composed of sliver and two or three hrlght colors re Ueve the darker materials.

One In ferestlng model In a soft pile fabric In black features godets trimrnerl with knots of beige Un usual effects are achieved by combln Ing brown with panel se.otlons and borders light tati. throw scarf of the material of (he eoat is attaehed the fur (ollnr on model of brown and (an another Individual note Is struck In a coat of taupe designed with a. loose panel across the back, extends to within a few Inches above the hem. An overblouse, of net. serviceable ns well as cool, sponsors the lace trimmed collar and Jabot, the Flceves also displaying Irish lace.

An other sheer fabric, voile In blue, gray or lavender, made entirely by band, employs lacc and embroidery for Its embellishment. Lngltsh hroadr.loth in tailored and sports modes, either with tho long oi short sleeves, or snug little collar, introducing touches of color by means of pipings, Is equally attractive. Bright Colors Used In Combination. q'Jie three-ple mode appears In flannel, crepe do Chine and wo.J filled Bright red and yellow are combined in a flannel model composed of a yellow skirt with per ffiratlons on the side i.leats wh ch show the read a mannish vellow vest, piped In and a red with perforated yellow revers. Equally colorful is the crepe do Chine version of this mode which is composed of a sleeveh'HS dress and a black jacket bordered with bands nf yellow and red crepe de Chine.

To give fullness to the skirts several models Inverted pleats are used, and In case of a three-piece costume of wool gode.ts are so arranged at the sides that (he skirt takes on the appearance of well creased trousers. In another group the most Important fabric is linen In bright colors. Drawn w'ork and tucking are promt- Inent trlmmlns the three-piece mode Is often so simulated as to leave the back perfectly plain. Imported novelty eponges are also In evidence and cotton broadcloth Is noted in several modes. Let Patricia Ann Shop For You Her In Care of The Lincoln Star.