The Omaha Sunday Bee
SOCIETY
NEWS FOR WOMEN
AMUSEMENTS
WOMEN'S FEATURES
VOL. 52 NO. 4.
PART THREE
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1922
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Gabby Slaps
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Critics
Faith Can Move Bunkers,
But Can It Overcome a
Deadly Rival?
By GABBY DETAYLS.
"1 think your Gbby are th bunk,"
So pok tha candid friend;
'The stuff you use is pretty punk.
To foesip why descend? '
Desr friends, our aim is to amuse.
(We do not car to spite 'era.)
As to the Gabble you abuse.
While we are pn the subject now.
Why. w can tell you anyhow
We'd rather read than writ 'em.
The new women's state golf cham
pion, Mrs. Mark Levings, is modest
about her victory. In fact she doesn't
know whether all the credit for it
ought to go to her own careful eye
and steady shots or not. For she
had two loyal supporters in her bat
tle. One was a Jittle girl who knew
nothing about the game except that
it was, the number of strokes which
mattered. So she faithfully followed
her beloved player around with ' a
pencil and a piece of paper keeping
score, to be sure' that no mistakes
were made on the wrong side, .
The other was an elderly woman
and a close friend who was most anx
kraa for Mrs. Levings to win. After
the match was over she confided to
her that she had been playing night
ly for her victory. Far be it from
Gabby -to be flippant, bnt after alL if
. faith can move mountains why
couldn't it move bunkers?
IT isn't often that one angle of
the eternal trian.ele is altruistic
enough to make things easy and
even pleasant for the other angle.
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However one of Omaha's most at
tractive bachelors has taken his life
in his hands at least once that we
know of, and has entertained in the
most royal fashion for the visiting
team as it were. Perhaps he figured
his unselfishness would add more to
his credit than the other'! efficient
courting; perhaps he is so sure of
himself that he doesn't have to
worry if one has a countenance strik
ingly on the Barthelmess type, and
a pleasing personality, one may be
pardoned for being serene. We might
add that the first motive is the more
probable for the pleasing personality
is not marred by conceit.
GH all ye Omaha maidens that
skip about to the clashing cym
bal and the hollow xylophone
and think you are the hot stuff, Gab
by has a blow for you.
Oh all you little sirens that smoke
seductive cigarets, and go in ,for the
close work at the corners of the
dance floor, prepare the vck cloth !
and ashes.
Oh all you Omaha country clubs
whose members sit atod sip ginger
ale in the lime light and gin rickies
in the . moon light, shame be upon
you forever and ever.
The. school boy has coine home.
From the metropolises ' of the east
he has taken his wty to the parental
roof, tree and his judgment has gone
forth from the house tops. , Doubt
less the housetops are ready to curl
up in anguish at the dictum.-
. "Gee, that was a dead party at the
club last night," the collective school
boy scoffed to his family.
"Do vou know what time they
stopped? Twelve' O'clock! .Only
twelve o'clock, and everybody packs
up and goes home. Why,- in De
troit they are just starting at 12.
In Chicago nobody goes home until
four! And what's the matter with
the girls in this town?" (Purely
rhetorical question, readers.) "They
can't dance any more than so many
blocks of wood. All thev want to
do is walk around, shuffling their
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;i yr RS. EDWARD C. EPSTEN and sons, Robert and Tom, acCom
jyl panied by Mrs, Epsten's sister, Mrs. Fred Thatcher of Kansas City,
J-'J- Mo., leave Tuesday evening for Lake Minnetonka, Minn., where
they have taken a cottage for the remainder of the summer.
Mr. Epsten and son, Edward, jr., will join them in August making
the trip by automobile. (
Mrs. Epsten, Robert, Tom jBnd Mrs. (Thatcher will visit Rochester,
N. Y., before returning to Omaha in September.
Mrs. Morton Engleman it an attractive young matron whom Omaha
is soon to lose, as she is leaving for Chicago the end of this week. She has
been an honor guest at many farewell affairs. Mr. Engelman is already in
Chicago and Mrs. Engelman is now with her brother, Frank Engler.
When Miss Mary Brown of Portland, Ore., and Miss Louise Brown of
St. Louis, Mo., arrived last week to visit Mrs. Carroll Belden three sisters
were united. The Misses Brown will spend the summer in Omaha.
Mrs. Anan Raymond finds time to play golf at Happy Hollow this sum
mer, although Margaret Marinda makes many demands on her fond parents.
Martraret is named for her two grandmothers. She is a granddaughter of
Judge and Mrs. D. O. Hostetler of Kearney, and she and her mother plan
to visit in Kearney this month while Mr. Raymond attends the two weeks'
session of the reserve officers' training camp at Fort Dodge, la. Mrs. Ray
mond is an active member of the College dub and is especially interested in
the drama section. She took a part
by Arnold Bennett, which the club
feet. You can't get them to do more
than amble. Are they afraid they'll
get thin if they get a little real ex
ercise?" The vials of his scorn could over
flow at the same rate for some time.
Gabby feels that the question could
well be given the air. Is Omaha
a dead town? The Chamber of
Commerce need not answer, but
any other replies will be seriously
considered and Gabby will award
a suitable prize for the answer
which displays the most careful pen
manship. Her own private theory
is that most worthy Omahans are
too busy working all day to sit up
all night. We may not lead a fast
and dissipated life but we manage
to get along. "Dead but not deca
dent" is our motto.
ALL winter a trio of eligible
young doctors around town
have been puzzlfng us, one by
hi$ persistent pursuit of a young
teacher, another by his way of flit
ting from flower to flower in a
1 cautious and baffling manner, and the
third with his romance of lavender
and old lace. Perhaps you'd like to
have the last one solved, for in the
past two weeks, it has been solved
definitely and finally. Brought up to
gether in a town in which they were
the only congenial souls, parted for
a time by a change of residence on
her part and the war on his, they
were reunited this winter in Omaha,
and for the whole season they have
given each othfr a lot of interest
provoking attention. Just lately,
however, they have to trre discom
fiture of the romanticists decided
that there really is nothing so dead
as a dead love and they are each
going their ways with somebody
else.
Omaha Spanish Club.
The Omaha Spanish club will meet
Tuesday. 8 p. m.. with Miss Hed-
vicka Reznichek. 2154 Martha street. I
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No Fiction This Summer,
Says Head of Library;
"Can't Afford It"
"No more fiction this summer!"
That i the edict given forth by Mini
Edith Tobiit, head oi the public li
brary. At the season when ordi
narily there i the greatest demand
for frothy reading matter, the library
tm d itself too short of fundi tor
book buying to allow them to in
dulge in literature of the lighter vein.
"it i not that we are centering the
recent fiction, but there it too much
demand for book of permanent
value," explained Miss Tobitt, "If
we buy fiction instead we can only
buy one copy of such books as
'Mind in the Making,' by James
Harvey Robinson, and Hendrik Van
Loon's 'Story of Mankind,' and so
many people want to read these
books that the rive copies we have
are in constant use. The public has
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put on last April. .
Meeting of Nurses
Inspiring, Says
Miss Holdrege
That more than a thousand of the
Red Cross nurses of the" war are now
doing rural nursing throughout the
United 'States is the report Miss
Leeta Holdrege, who is assistant su
perintendent of the Omaha Visiting
Nurse association, brings back from
the conference held June 26 to July
1. in Seattle, iWash. At this meeting
the Ameriican Nurses' association,
the National Organization of Public
Health, and the National League of
Nursing Education were represented,
and Miss Holdrege'was sent by the
Alumnae of the Boston Children's
hospital, where she was graduated.
Miss Holdrege says that the
growth of the work it most inspir
ing. Widening the .scope of the Vis
iting Nurse field to take in the coun
try sections is one of the greatest
strides made in public welfare. In
itiated by the Red Cross with the
funds left over from the war, grad
ually the movement has been taken
over by county after county in
which the experiment has been tried..
Up to this time, says Miss Hold
rege, -city health work has seemed
stupendous, , and rural work almost
impossible on any large scale, but
now it is a recognized success.
Along the same line is the task
the field workers are assuming under
the National League of Education,
in going to schools and colleges
speaking 'to the students to attract
the best type of girls to the profes
sion. In the matter of training the
nurses, standardization is being
striven for. The Natioanl league is
trying to raise standards of nurs
ing by making the same entrance re
quirements hold good througout the j
country, la Minnesota as a step in j
had all the fiction it wanted for some
years and now we art going to
change our tactics.
"What are the fiction hungry
members of the population going to
do? Well, they can form book clubs
and buy the fiction they want to
read. There ought to be lots more
book clubs. Every church and
school and boarding house could
have one and then when they fin
ished with their books they could
give them to the library," and Mist
Tobitt chuckled over her own bright
idea.
At Library Conference.
Word has come bark from Miss
Florence Osborne and Miss Edna
Wolf, who attended the meeting: of
the Library association in Detroit the
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advance, they are trying the experi
ment of taking regular university
courses as the theoretical ?nd of the
work, and for the practical side, the
students go to a number of hospi
tals in rotation for training. This is
all done in' pursuance of the idea
that nurses are teachers in public
health, and they must have the high
est type of education as other teach
ers do.
Among the interesting speakers
was Dr. Richard Beard of the Uni
versity of Minnesota, who talked on
the "Necessity of Gaining Public
Co-Operation if the Needs of the
Health Feld are to be Met."
Dr. Raymond Lucas, well known
in war reconstruction work, touched
on another phase when he talked
on the "Normal Development of the
Child." He stressed the ideal. that
preventatives rather than curatives
are to be sought for. Knowing when
a child is well and keeping him that
way, is better than waiting to cure
him when he gets sick.
Miss Florence McCabe, superin
tendent of the Visiting Nurses in
Omaha, also attended the confer
ence and is making an extended
tour along the Pacific coast and
through the Canadian Rockies. She
will return about July 26.
Card Party.
The Columbian club of Sacred
Heart parish will have a card party
Wednesday, 2:30 p. m., at Lyceum
hall, Twenty-second and Locust
streets. Mrs. P. J. O'Malley and
Mrs. W. M. Craney will be the
hostesses.
first of t his month. Over 2,500 del'
gates attended the convention and
(he tame report came from all over
the country, that psychological and
reigiout bookt were most m de
m.nd. The president of the itso
onion, Atariah S. Root, inveighed
against the library acting as censors
"the people themselves are the best
judges of whether they want to read
a book or not," he said, "if a li
brary hat a certain book and the
public wants to read it, wc are taking
an arbitrary power if we thake our
heads and say it isn t good lor tnem.
Miss Tobitt agrees heartily with
Mr. Root.
The John Newberry medal for
the best children's book of the year
was awarded to Or. Hendrik Van
Loon of Baltimore, author of "The
Story of Mankind."
Mist Osborne and Mist Wolf,
after the close of the conference
went to Frankfort, Mich., where
they will spend the month of July.
Miss Bertha Baumer, who also at
tended the conference it in Grand
Rapids, Mich., at present, and will
visit Milwaukee before her return
to Omaha.
Miss May Ingles, librarian of the
Technical High school, who went to
the conference, was delighted to
find that the Detroit schools were
still open and she had an oppor
tunity to study their library methods.
She returned to Omaha the first of
this week. "Each school in Detroit
has its own library," she said, "and
two hours a week of library work
are required of each pupil after the-l
second grade. They learn how to
use a library and they must do a
certain amount of reading. When
their geography lesson is about
cotton, they are taught how to look
up the subject. The aim is to get
them started in the library ( habit
and to make readers of them."
Miss Ingles visited the Cass
Technical High school in Detroit,
one of the oldest and largest in the
country. "They are about to move
into a new building, even larger than
Omaha's new Technical High," she
said. "It is seven stories high, and
has a finely-equipped library."
Staff On Vacations.
Members of the Omaha library
staff are planning summer vacations
in both the east and west. Miss
Lucile" Ralston who attended the
convention is now in Pocahontas,
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Quilt Block Contest Will
Be Feature of D. A. R.
Bridge-Kensington.
A feature of the bridge kensington
to be given Wednesday afternoon at
Happy Hollow club by Omaha chap
ter, Daughters of the American Rev
olution, will be a quilt block con
test. A prize will be awarded for the
most original and attractive quilt
block constructed from material
which will be furnished by the ken
sington committee.
An exhibit of needlework of Colo
nial times will also be held. Any one
having samples of fine needlework
is requested to enter it in the ex
hibit. Mrs. E. F. Magaret is chair
man of the kensington committee.
Among the prizes for the card
game are a dozen iridescent water
glasses, a card table, Sheffield silver
sandwich trays, pottery vases, ma
hogany trays, silk hose, silk lingerie,
hand embroidered handkerchiefs.
novelties in ivory, old English plates,
candles and candlesticks, door stops,
stationery and dancing pumps.
Among those who have reserved
tables are Mesdames A. L. Reed. C
T. Kountze, F. P. Kirkendall. J M.
Metcalt, J. J. Sullivan. A. C. Troup.
J. H. Morton, R. C Hoyt, F. L.
Adams, M. C Cole. E. B. Gaddis, O.
H. Rucker, R. M. Jones, F. S. Larkin,
T. H. Tracy, J. R. Golden and Miss
Lornelia bcandrett.
la., visiting her family. She will re
turn August 1.
Mrs. L'la Echolt it visiting her
parents. Mr. and Mr. VV. H. Water,
house of Fremont, and will bt gone
until September. Mist Gertrude
Fattavoy left for California last
Saturday and will spend July and
August in San Diego with her
family.
Mist Rena Walker and Mitt Lulu
Myert art both planning vacation
in Colorado in August. Mist Walker
and her mother, Mrs. C. Pettengill,
will go to Manitou, while Mist
Myert and her mother, Mrs. D. B.
Myert will be In Denver with Mitt
Myert' titter, Mrs. Kenneth Bailey.
CatholicWomen
Sponsor Benefit
Card Party
Among those who have donated
prizes for the benefit card party to
be given by the educational depart
ment of the Omaha Council of Cath
olic Women Friday afternoon at 2 at
Happy Hollow club are Mesdamet
Louis Nash, George Brandeis, E. W.
Nash, L. F. Crofoot, A. F. Mullen,
F. P. Aldous. T. J. Dwyer. W. J.
Holz, A. M. Sommar. Charles Dug-
date, Thomas Quiulan, Thomas
rlynn. Miss Lora Power and Miss
Margaret McHugh. '
The committee in charge includes
Mcsdamcs A. M. Sommar. W. I.
Hotz, Thomas Lynch, 'T. F. Quintan,
Charles Dugdalc. J. C. Rosse, P.
Cavanaugh, J. B. Whittaker, A. T.
Tusa, J. M. Nachtigal. M. D. O'Brien,
.V ii. Doyle, James J. Fitzgerald,
Thomas Flvnn, John Mullen, C. R.
Caughlin. K. W. Nash, L. C. Nash.
A. F. Mullen, John Schall, Stephen
Smith, Misses Marie Kennedy, Sarah
Shanley, Lora Power, Marie L.
Proulx, Rosanne Rossbach, Margaret
McHugh and Mary Louise English.
Bridge and high five will be played.
Rules- for bridge will be as follows:
Play 20 hands otly; pivot after
every four hands; no doubling or re
doubling; count 50 for little slam;
100 for grand slam; count honors as
per auction; no revokes allowed.
The affair is open to the public.
Reservations may be made at the
council headquarters Atlantic 3804.
Tickets may be obtained at the club
on Friday.
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Community Service
League Reopens
Club Rooms
The Community Service club
rooms at 1712 Dodge street, which
were recently badly damaged by
fire, have been refinished most at
tractively and are now ready for oc
cupancy. Beginning next week the
various clubs will have their regu
lar meetings at the club house. The
four clubs are known as Waram,
Cluga, Lafayette and D.-T. A.
The fact that the members have
been without a meeting place has
not interfered with their activities.
There have been many enjoyable
picnics and hikes, as well as a dance
at CarterLake club, and there are
many more equally as interesting
things planned for the remainder of
the summer.
With the opening of the fall
season it is anticipated that the
membership will be greatly enlarged,
for many of the young people of
the city have come to enjoy the
goodfellowship of the club, and it
is the earnest effort of Community
Service to serve all the young peo
ple of Omaha who arc desirious of
enlarging their circle of friends, by
extending them the privileges of
their club rooms, classes and social
entertainments.
Women Will
Run for
Office
Candidates Tell What
They Hope to Ac
complish. With the primariet only 10 day
off, a number of women candidates
loom up, particularly for educational
offices. Of the six entries for Halt
superintendent of public instruction
two are women, Mist K. Ruth t'yrtle
of Lincoln and Miss Martha Powell
of Omaha, both for many years
teachers in the Nebraska schools,
and both with many supporters.
Miss Ida Lorenzea it a candidate
for Douglas county superintendent
and the present incumbent, Mabel C
Johnson, it also running for re-election.
These officert are on the non-political
ballot. '
Two women will fight for a place
in the state legislature, both on the
democratic ticket. They are Freeda
M. Clarke in the Twentieth district
and Blanche L, McKelvy of the Sev
enteenth. Absence of women on the repub
lican ticket is noticeable, but there
are two on the progressive slate
Miss Elsa Mae Munnell for director
of metropolitan utilities and Emma
Hanlon Paul for secretary of state.
Mis Powell has taught for 37
years in the schools of Omaha, hat
been principal of Central Park and
Walnut Hill schools and is at pres
ent principal of Long school She
is a graduate of the Illinois State
Normal university and is a past
president of the Nebraska State
Teachers' association. She has been
a teacher in the institute and ihe
School Forum says of her: "She is
pre-eminently a trainer of teachers.
Her professional spirit has kept her
in close touch with all the advanced
movements in education, and througf.
her participation in state and nation! '
associations she has formed close i
quaintances among leaders of educi
tional thought."
Miss Pyrtle, principal of the M
Kinkel school of Lincoln, has hi i
20 years of teaching experience .i
the rural as well as town schools of
Nebraska. She holdt A. B. and A.
M. degrees from the University of
Nebraska. Her activities have been
in many fields beside teaching she
proved up on a homestead farm in
South Dakota, has been active in the
League of Women Voters, the VV.
C. T. U., the Y. W. C. A. and the
Women's clubs. During the war she
was for 14 months a welfare worker
at Camp Dodge and Des Moines.
Both women acknowledge the
rural school to be the vital question
in state education. Both deplore the
scarcity ri teachers. ''The solution
lies in educating the rural districts
up to the point where they will re
fuse to take poor teachers and will
pay a good teacher a decent salary,"
said Miss Pyrtle. "The advantages
of an out-of-doors life with all its
opportunities to study nature and to
teach it to the children would coun
terbalance city attractions, if the pay
were equal!"
Miss Pyrtle believes that many so
called "educational frills" are really
fundamentals Americanization for
instance, domestic science or home
making, manual training and health
work. "I do not believe in over
equipment," she stated. "A good
teacher with relatively simple equip
ment is better than ,a handsome
building full of electric ranges and
supervised by a weak teacher. Coun
try girls are going to cook on coal
ranges, not electric ones, and they
ought to learn on coal."
Miss Pyrtle thinks that the way
to attract the best teachers to the
country is to make the living condi
tions as pleasant as possible for them.
She advanced the "teacherage" plan,
tried out very successfully in Colo
rado, Washington and New Mexico,
under which a number of teachers
live together in a cottage with a
common dining room. "Good roads ;
are an important factor," she main
tained, "because consolidation of
county schools is desirable and good
roads alone can make it .possible.
Any teacher will find more inspira
tion in teaching 30 children than six
or eight in some tiny country school.
Pennsylvania has recently passed a
law that only teachers who have had
three years of normal school work
may teach in the state. I would like
to see that true in Nebraska, but the
day is far in the future because
trained teachers are scarce."
Mrs. Elsa Mae Munnell, who is a
candidate for the legislature, was
tan utilities has been identified with
patriotic circles in Omaha during the
last five years, and served as regis
trar in the draft during the war. "A
woman who understands home eco
nomics in the usage of gas and water
is quite capable of serving on a pub
lic utilities board," she maintains.
Mrs. Munnell was born in Fairfield,
Clay county, Nebraska, and is the
daughter of James Warren Small, a
pioneer in the state, a member of the
state legislature, and, at the time of
his death, chairman of the republics
state central committee. Mrs. Mun
nell is running on the progressive
ticket.
Mrs. R. E. McKelvie, democratic
candidate for the legislature, was
born and brought up in Pittsburgh,
but for 35 years has been a resident
of Omaha. She has worked on sev
eral local newspapers and is a mem
her of the Woman's Press club, tha.
D. A. R. and the Woman's club.
"During the Wilson campaign she
headed the Nebraska Women s Dem
ocratic league, but this is her first
political venture.
Although Mrs. McKelvie was once
president of the Omaha Woman's
Suffrage association and was an ar
dent worker for suffrage, she prides
herself on being a citizen first and
woman afterward. The legislation
which she is especially interested in
la that which would shorten the
hours and raise the wages of the
working girl and protect the child
in industry.
Basket Picnic.
The Daiighters of Israel Aid so
ciety will hold a basket picnic at
Elmwood park Tuesday afternoc
All' members and their frieaP Qf
invited to attend,