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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1922)
Society j Bridge Luncheon. Miss Lucille Hickey entertained at a bridge luncheon at the Burgess-Nash tea rooms Saturday, December 30th, when her guests were the .yisses Ei leen J*ffers. Florence English, Grace O'Brien, Virginia Richmond, Helen Hickey and Mrs K L. Brulngton of Omaha and the Misses Dorothy Hurd, Marjorie Annis, Faith and Constance Mi Manus, Viola Allis, Norman Tyler, Mary Elizabeth Innes, Eleanor Pere gory Doris McDaniels, Helen 1! i ler. « re.: .» Thienhardt. Charlotte Zur muehlen, Gretchen Emphie. Nolle Rnecher of Council Bluffs and Miss Vernie Bisgard of ilarlen, la. Afternoon Bridge. Miss Corinne Jones entertained Sat urday at her home at bridge In honor of Miss Norma Morford and Miss Mary Wettmer, who returned to spend the holidays with their parents. The guests were members of the Gamma Mu club of Central High school. L. O. E. Curd Party. The L. O. E. club will entertain at n curd party Tuesday afternoon, 2:16 o'clock In the Elks club rooms. Aid Society Meets. Ladies Aid society of the I .owe Avenue Presbyterian church will have their monthly meeting Friday, January f>. Lunch will be served at 1 p. in . In the church parlors. Mrs. 8. 1,. Miller and Mrs. W. J. Riffle are to be hostesses. (i Telta Club Tea. The Ci Telta club will entertain at tea on Saturday afternoon at the home of Miss Pauline Parmelee in honor of the Alumnae of the club. Those assisting the hostess were the Misses Alice Everson, May Droste and Jenn Faulkner. .Monday Mu leal Luncheon. The Monday Musical club will meet for luncheon Thursday noon at Eur gess-Nush tea room. Personals Mrs. Clarke Powell is ill at her home. Mr. nnd Mrs. C. V. Starjdlforil of Gregory, S. 1).. aro visiting Mr. anil Mrs. Ralph Towle. I)r. K. Carson Abbott has returned from Iowa City where he spent Christ inas with his mother. Mr. anil Mrs. Fred Thatcher of Kan sas City aro (lie holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Epsten. Dr. and Mrs. George Newhousc have returned from Denver, where they went to spend Christmas. Mr. nnd Mrs. Herbert H. Fish, jr., of Ladysmith. WIs., are visiting Mr. Fish's parents, Mr. and Mrs. II. H. Fish. Miss Margaret Hofmann and Miss Marcella Depont of Edgemont. S. D„ are spending tho holidays in Toronto, Canada. Mrs. A. C. Powell, who has been visiting her sons, Clarke and Charles, will leave Wednesday for California, for the winter. Mrs. Clive R Morey of North J'lntte, who spent the wei k in Omaha with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Roasoner, returned home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hoffman and chil dren, Veronica and Leo, jr., are spending the week-end in Dubuque, la., with Mr. Hoffman's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Van de Veil "j are spending the week end in Ottum wa. la., with Mr. Van de Veil's sister, Mrs. Roy Stevens, and Mr. Stevens. Mr. and Mrs. William M. Boyer an nounce the birth of a son, Howard George, on Thursday, December 28. Mrs. Boyer was formerly Mias Mil dreth Street. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Powell left last night for Chicago where they will visit a few days with Mr. nnd Mrs. Donne Powell before returning to their home in New York City. Miss Hart rice Mlnturn left Omaha Thursday morning to spend the week end with Mrs. c. R. Prouty of Country Club boulevard, Dos Moines, la. She v ill return to Northwestern univer sity. where she Is in school, on Jan , uary T. Richard Payne of Albert I.ea. Minn., 1 who has been spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Payne, will leavo Tuesday for his home. Mrs. Tayne and small daugh ter, Barbara, will remain here two weeks longer Miss Lucile 1-athrop, who left last week for Pueblo, Colo., where she was bridesmaid at the wedding of a school friend, was Joined in Denver by her sister. Miss Winifred Lathrop, who has been spending the holidays with school friends in Denver and Colo rado Springs. Miss Lucile will spend this week at the lvappa Kappa Gam ma house in Boulder with her stster. Miss Winifred, who is a student at the University of Colorado. Fashion Notes. Made in Dunimirry. tdreat Britain, reads a daintv little satin slip with the English Mag' as background for the name famous among makers of Tweed. Its a gray suit embroidered in gray, green, bine and henna with touches of gold metallic thread, round its rolled collar and gaun'lct culfs, $49.50. Negligees made of several layers of chiffon or georgette, one super imposed on the other, prove subtly facinatiug. One combination is of rose, pink and mauve, bound at the neck with blue. The lower edge of the negligee is finished with a picot, rnd the three layers hang unevenly, here a bit of one. there a bit of an other, hanging lower than the others. Wash Day. Poorly rinsed clothes are more apt to scorch when ironed. A good pure soap is economy, even If it costs a few pennies more. Iron padded embroideries and waists having buttons on a thick Turkish towel and they will Iron as smoothly as a handkerchief. Pongee will iron evenly and with out those white spots so often seen if washed .and then rolled in a Turkish towel fo|| an hour before ironing. Miss Catherine Barton at Lake Placid Left to right: Eliiabeth Oakes of Boston, Agnes Wurhasse of New York. Miss Margie Bartholomew of Pittsburgh, Catherine Barton of Oma — —... - .. .. ■— -■ '• Im. Patricia Schmidt of New York, Harriet Hicks of Lake Placid, Irene Schmidt of New York and Page Lcwh of Toledo, 0. Far away from the dull monotony of the big city, these girls are having the time of their lives at Lake Placid, where the winter sport season has ---- reached its height. All expert skiers, they present n striking array of beauty and hail from many states. i> Exhibitions at the Omaha Society of-Fine Arts The Omaha Society of Fine Arts has held an unusual number of exhi bitions since tlie opening of its year in October. First came a creditable showing of Nebraska artists' work, then tho colorful paintings by Victor Charreton, bronzes by. Katherine Stet son, small sculptures by F. Tollis Chamberlin, paintings by Gerrlt Sin clair and sculpture by Boris Lovett Larskl. Tiie Omaha Art guild exhibit was sponsored by the society early in December Tho present exhibit, which closes Tuesday. January i. should not be missed by the Omaha public. It is free of admission. The galleries will be open on Sunday from 2 to 6, but closed all day Monday. Of the in teresting exhibit now on, Mrs. Z. T. Lindsey has said. Maurice Block, the director, has been unusually fortunate in securing very representative pictures by two eminent artists—Mr. Henry Ossawa Tanner and Mr. Hayley Lever. Negro Painter. Those who recently witnessed the adequate performance by an actor of tho negro race in the play ' Em peror Jones,’- will ho interested to see the very artistic pictures by the poet painter, Mr. Tanner, who also belongs to the negro race. The son of a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church, he was born in Pittsburgh, though reared in Phila delphia. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and later in Paris under Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul Laurens, though his work is very different from that of either master. He makes his home in Paris, where he is held in great esteem by his fel low artists for his high personal char acter as well as for his artistic ability. His pictures arc almost always hung on the line of the salons, and one, "The Raising of Lazarus." was bought by the French government and hangs in tHo Luxembourg. He seldom paints other than hihlical subjects, which are realistic with a high spiritual quality almost, if not quite, equal to Fra Angelico or Dagnan-Buveret, though he imitates neither. He has been called the product of Philadel phia, the Latin quarter and Pales tine, as he hns lived in all these places and absorbed something from each. He has been greatly honored and his works bang in every large gal lery of America. Although he rarely deviates from his chosen themes, he has painted the portraits of Rabbi Stephen Wise, who is well known in Omaha, and of the former khedive of Egypt, neither of which, however, is on exhibition here. Mr. Tanner lias been called the painter of moonlight, though bis "Midday, the Castle, Tangiers,” is full of sunlight, and in his "Holy Wom en” he depicts the early morning. The Celebrates 7th Birthday Herbtrt Kaplan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Kaplan celebrated his sev enth birthday Christmas day with a theater party at the World theater. His guests were Helen Garber. Hazel Kohn, Hose and Mary Kirschbraun, Alice Wintroub, Dorothy Sherman. Kuth Cohn, Eddie Rosen, Harold Garber and Warren Ackerman. Miss Faith Flaskell to Wed 'Invitations havo been received in Omaha from Mr. and Mrs. John De Forest Haskell of Wakefield. Neb., announcing the approaching marriage of their daughter, Faith Trumbull Haskell, to Severn Allnutt Miller of Montclair, N. J. The wedding will take place at the Haskell home on Wednesday, January 17. The Jirkle will wear her mother’s wedding dress trimmed with lace which hus been in the family for three generations. She will he at tended liy Miss Frances D. Kemp of Chicago. Her flower girl will be her j niece, Faith McClellan Haskell of Huron, S. D. Another niece, Marie] Haskell, will serve as flower girl, with Joanna Norris, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 11. F. Norris of Sioux City. Miss Haskell has traveled exten tively and served with the Red Cross in France during the war. Descended In three lines from Mayflower stock, she has many distinguished colonial and revolutionary ancestors. She is a grand niece of Commodore Vander bilt. Miss Haskell was graduated from Kent Plaee, Summit, N. J., and Mount Vernon seminary, Washington, D. C. Mr. Miller served with the A. E. F. in France for a year and a half with the 361st infantry, Blue Ridge divi sion. He received a commission in the first officers’ training camp at Fort Meyer. Miss Haskell was a guest in Omaha a week ago, when she was honored with an informal tea given by Mrs. llallock Rose at her home, and a luncheon at which Miss Mona Cowell was hostess. "Flight Into Kgypt” is realistic with no over-elaboration of detail and in free from tlio photographic accuracy of Tissol or Verestohagin. Though n mystic, he is not a sym bolist and his work is untouched by the decorative tendency of today. Color and Sunshine. Mr. Hayley Lever, the other artist whose works are on exhibition, a different type altogether, lie glories in strong color and sunshine. lie was born in 1876 in Adelaide, Aus tralia, and now lives at St. Ives, Corn wall. For many years he has en joyed an international reputation for his particular and special portrayal of harbor scenes. He exhibits regularly at the Royal Academy, London, the old and new salons, Paris: in New York, Koston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Chicago. He was awarded a gold medal at Fan Francisco in 1915: received the Carnegie prize In New York the same year; gold medal. National Arts club, I 1916. and sold medal at Philadelphia in 1918. Mr. Lever 1ms 27 canvases upon ex hibition and 10 etchings. Ilis work shows great virility, good draught manship and bold technique, with a special sense of color and rhythm which is rare. "St Ives' Fishing Boats" was ex hibited at the Panama-Pacific expo sition. The Glouster scenes are par ticularly satisfying and "Lower New York” is well-balanced and atmos l heric. "Drying Sails” will well re pay careful study. in January wo will have a repre sentative exhibition of the work of 50 or more accredited American artists; in February, a comprehensive architectu ral exhibition, in April the foreign sec tion of the Carnegie International ex hibition, Omaha being one of six cities to view this exhibition. During each month there will be two Sunday after noon entertainments, either talks on the exhibitions or musical programs. We Can Make Prompt Delivery PHONE US YOUR ORDER Semi-Anthracite Greenwood Lump ••■$14,50 Modified Lump .$13.50 Commercial Lump ..$12.50 Mine Run .$10.50 Bituminous Lump I Franklin County ....$12.50 k Charter Oak . .$11.50 R Central .$11.00 8 Liberty .$10.50 2 Climax .$ 9.50 I Smokeless Lump Wyoming .SI 2.50 Colorado .$10.00 KE nwood 2261 JA ckton 0840 ' KE nwood 2262 Household TUGGgnONS Junket. If the milk that is healing for junket should accidentally boil, let it cool to the lukewarm temperature of the junket, add the tablet, and it will be just as good as usual. Envelopes as Holders. Excellent holders for tapes and but tons are the envelopes with transpar ent name spaces. A neat sewing table drawer in the result. Watch \our Jewelry. Valuable jewelry should be exam ined every few months and articles that need attention should he sent at once to the jeweler. This may save no end of anxiety and expense. Oranges. The white lining will come off clean with tho skin if the oranges are allowed to remain in boiling water for five minutes before peeling. Then they can be sliced and put back in the refrigerator to cool. For the Bride-to-Be. Dip an old sheet in strong bluing and lay over the linens in your hope chest. Then they will not be y ’.lowed when you want to use them. These Cold Nights. The old army canteen can be pressed into service as an extra hot water bottle. It may be filled with boiling water and will stay hot for hours. Avoid a number's Bill. everN pour hot grease down a drain pipe. As soon ns it strikes the cold pipe it will congeal and stop it up. .-V— - Nutritious and Tasteless. If the invalid dislikes the flavor of beef extract, add a teaspoonful or more to a cup of boiling milk. The extract will be disguised by the milk. To Wash Overalls. Overalls are formidable objects when it comes to their laundering. Dip the soiled portions into kerosene oil, roll and let stand for about two hours. Soak in warm suds and rub well and the dirt will come out read ily, the kerosene liavinB loosened it. A Good Investment. Where there is a baby in the house a thermometer is a necessity. Baby's head always seems hot to tlie anxious watcher, but when h!s temperature can bo taken, either under the arm or by rectum, and (lie result is nor mal, home remedies can be applied and many an unnecessary call for tlie doctor avoided. In three months nearly 10,000 people have climbed tlio stairs, attracted by the exhibitions, the lectures and the music h11 planned for the enjoyment of the public. *---— Listen, World! I believe in Parenthood. It's Hu manity's noblest job and. properly ■ .inducted, deserves our highest honor. But T don't believe in honoring ail parents or in insisting that children should honor them. I do not think that the mere act of producing prog eny and caring for its needs, more or loss, establishes a parent's claim on respect and love. If this were so, every Belgian hare would l>e en titled to wear a halo. There is no service more rare and beautiful, or more deserving of the ueop-st gratitude, than that given by a parent to a child—provided it is a rare and beautiful service. But all parents are not rare and beautiful servers. They may be. and all too often are, hypocrites, fibbers, spies, bullies, slackers, agitators, cowards, dummies, parasites, naggers, and all other sorts of disagreeable creatures that no intelligent adult would re spect for a second if ho knew thel true inwardness and their home man ners. Th*-n why insist that a child, because lie is inexperienced and gul lible, respect such characters merely because they are his parents, when wo would warn him against them were they strangers? As a matter of fact, children are not .half as gullible as we like to think. They find us out uncannily soon—but they are not in a position to retaliate. When Mrs. Mahoney whips her 15-year-old daughter in a squall of rage, and then blubbers that she “did it for the girl's good,” do you think Bessie is deceived? No, indeed. She knows as well as we do that she has been the victim of an angry woman's reversion to squaw viciousness. She knows that whip pings for 15-year-old girls arc mon strous and indecent, and that minds which cannot devise more just nnd effective discipline are stupid minds. And she rates her mother accordingly. Who's to blame? Also, why this violent insistence upon gratitude simply because parents support their children? They'll be jailed if they don’t. No, let’s strip away all this unworthy pretence and pose from the Biggest of our Jobs. Let's give and demand love and re spect only as they are deserved. Let's make parents feel that it is as much up to them as it is up to the children to make good. Then, and then only, will we have real homes, willing fami lies, and a saner, happier world. (Copyright, 1922.) Salt to the Kescue. if the holes in the percolator seem a bit clogged, pour coarse salt into the coffee holder and scrub the perfora tions both inside and out. l’our boil ing water through to wash away salt and c iffea deposit. Betrothed Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Searle, jr., an nounce the engagement of their daughter, Eloise Dorothy, to Eldcn Holmquiat, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. \V. Jtolmquist. The announcement was made at a dinner Friday evening at the Searlc home. No dute has been set for the wedding. Miss Searlc, v. ho is a student at the National Kindergarten school leaves next Sunday evening for Chi cago to resume her studies. This Exquisite Piano a So small as lo take up but little more room than an upright, but with the sonority and richness of tone previously associated only with the larger grands— a marvel of the pianomaker’s art in the triumph of its diminutive size and its surpassing beauty of tone. Obtainable also with The AMPICO—endowing it with piano music itself, played by the greatest pianists in the world. May we suggest the exchange of your little used or silent piano for this wonderful instrument? Impossible to describe—it must be heard. We invite you to hear it in our soundproof rooms. Piano Department—Fifth Floor Burgess-Nash Comm y •EVERYGODYS STORE* I ---A Signs of National Happiness I Meredith Nicholson in December Har per’s Magazine. Are we a happy people? The question wears an odd look. Idly scribbling it on tlie back of an envelope as a truin bore me westward, I found myself uncomfortably dis turbed by it. To inquire whether we of great, proud, free America «re happy seemed an impudence: almost i a profanation. I hastily scratched the . question out with a guilty sense that [ had committed an indefensible trea son against tho ponce and dignity of the United States. Long Journeys , compel intensive thinking, and I found myself pondering very soberly the question that had so insolently intruded itself. My reflections upon history, ancient and modern, brought me up sharply against the Declaration of Indepen dence. "Life, liberty and tho pursuit of happiness" gave me momentary consolation, but I choked in that qualifying "pursuit." Why pursue a thing you are supposed to be born with and enjoy to the end of your days? I was sorry I had thought of the Declaration of Independence, par ticularly when it suggested the con stitution and the amendments there to, which ought to be, If they are not, a guarantee of happiness. 1 do not find these evidences of hap piness so insistently present as they should be if we are to be exhibited to the rest of the world as a sample of what democracy offers to mankind. Even on days when the skies are high and I take an optimistic view of the future of the race I am distressed by a certain grtmness in the faces of the people I encounter. Evidences of gaiety are hard to find. In those places In our large cities where danc ing is permitted and alcoholic refresh ment is tolerated It Is ustonlshing that so few of the patrons manifest any joy in the proceedings. *The men and women huddled about the tables look as if they had heard evil tidings, and when they address themselves to dancing it Is with an air of determina tion, as though they had resigned themselves to a hard fate and meant to go through with It. If It killed them. In a retrospective mood I wonder whether there are ns many incentives to laughter these days as there were 25 years ago. Of cyie thing 1 am sure, and that is that in the typical Ameri can community where I have spent my life humor is less evident than it used to he. There are fewer wits and story tellers in my time than formerly. I fear mine own Hoosier people do not laugh quite as readily as they once did. Perhaps the quicker pace of life and fear of a reprimand from the temperamental trrafic cop kill mirth in the soul of the citizen who in other days halted you in the middle of the street to tell you a story. Happiness connotes contentment, so that my troublesome question might be altered to read: Are we then really a contented people? . . if pressed for an answer to the question whether we must not solve pressing social and economic problems befoie the Ameri cans countenance registers, proclaims and indicates, I shall reply firmly in the negative. If It is not in us to he happy under present conditions, the redistribution of wealth and tho com plete revision of existing laws would not assist a particle. There are no signs apparent of an abatement of tho general restlessness. The great war is now rapidly reced ing: we have reached a stage where it already begins to grow dim in the hazy distance, a monstrous filing, vast in its pathos, which many of us at times fear proved and established nothing, so unstable seem the hard won gains. IVe were told at the be ginning of the conflict that one of the compensations for its friglitfulness was bound to be a great spiritual awakening. This did not, however, prove to be the case; at least, I am unaware of any Impressive and out standing evidence of it in America (,r anywhere else in the world. Neitlut do I believe that the war may Justly !*« attributed to lowering of moral standards, so generally complained «' just imw, or the lessening hold of t< liglon upon the popular imagination Just what it. then, with which " now chiefly concern ourselves? Idttb beyond the strengthening of our posi tb u as a nation in material things l'reoceupatlt u with the material, the glorification of efficiency, the worship of magnitude are not sufficient *" make us u happy people. The aus mentation of size and numbers only Increases the burden we are laying upon our successors of establishing America in the world's eyes as a land of serenity and contentment, attentive to the cultivation of that spiritual uroce which does, lit 11 *» hs wfl may like to believe it. nuikt for national great tit se. Crept1* Still Favored Companion* of Southland By CQKINNK LOWE. New York.—(Special Correspond ence.)—It's not a case of "ring out. wild bells,” but of check out, wild belles. Just about the 1st of January the exodus to Florida begins and the process of “checking out” from the haunts of snow and !ce goes on mer rily for two or three months. Last year the tendency in all gar ments designed for southern wear was to make them snowy as the landscape their wearers were leaving. This sea son, on the contrary, is m table for quite an outburst of eonr. Wedgwood hlue. tomato shades, yellow and greet. —all these tints, as well as many of their brethren, appear in both sports and formal wear. As usual, crepes are the favorlti traveling companions if ino south bound passenger. Today we show a delightful crepe costume for sports wear, combining a slipover blouse of white crepe with rose and black stripe and a sleeveless white crepe slip. The skirt of this latter is plaited, and its snowy white is repeated in the girdle. A hat of white crepe is faced with the figured fabric of the tunic. The new crocheted dresses, latest version of the overwhelming vogue for knitted outer garments—a lash--' ion outcome, in itself, of the war are being taken up with enthusiasm by indefatigable clickers of ncedli everywhere. To the woman whoy hands simply must he kept occupied, the fashioning of these bright vest ments—designed for sports wear, it goes without saying—furnishes fas cinating occupation capped by pic turesque results. Beads of the same color as the yarn used arc often hooked firmly into the rows of cro cheting a- the worker goes ahead with the pattern and the effect, when this is done, is a happy one. The great joy of the work, we are as sured by one who has tried it, is the swiftness with which it moves to the completed garment. Announcing Prizewinners. '■=="=■:=-' ifl -== Christmas Candle Guessing Contest For the information of those who evinced interest in our Christmas candle guessing contest registering guesses as to the time the candle would lal(e to burn out we announce that it loof( the giant candle 42 hours and 2 minutes to burn out. The winners of the three prizes are as follows: First Prize—J. E. Biebinger, 1003 South 30th Ave. Edith Jasperson, Ortman’s Bakery, 216 North* 16th Both of these people guessed 42 hours as the time it would take to consume ^he candle. The actual time was 42 hours and 2 minutes. The tie on time made it necessary to award two first prises, each winner receiving a necklace of Mermaid indestructiblo pearls. Second Prize—Josephine Ellick, 105 South 53d St. The guess which won second prize, a pair of solid gold cuff links, was 42 hours and 13 minutes. Third Prize—Pauline Overton, 2431 Kansas Ave. Very good time judgment, too, 43 hours and IS minutes, which won for this judge the gold pencil offered as third prize. JOHN HENRICKSON Jeweler Established 1882 Sixteenth at Capitol Sick People should be concerned with results, not with theories or opinions. If you want results, spend a few minutes investigating our methods. Regardless of your ailment, you run no risk, for no qualified practitioner will accept a case that he cannot help. 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