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TTTE OMAITA' SUNDAY BEE: DECEMTTE1? CD, 1007.
GAY TIMES NOW FOR SOCIETY
Fashionables Set Making Good All
Promises for Holiday Good Time.
COLLEGE SET ESPECIALLY GAY
During rartlra 9mmA Oat Consplea
asly Ahoii Crash of Smart
Affairs aPBrdal4 (or
This Week.
The TroiMt.
"What wu the trouble?"
Said Mary to Jane;
"The lover was handsome,
The husband wu plain!"
"What wu tha trouble?"
Said Mary to Dot;
"The lover wil wealthy,
The husband wu not!"
"What wu tha troublo?"
Paid Mary to Flo;
"The lover wu clever.
The huaband wu Blow!"
"I ll tell you the, trouble,"
Said Maty to Maytne;
"A lover's exciting,
A husband ta tame!"
Tha Bare.
Tha Social Calendar.
rNTXAY Mr. Jack Rharp. suppor for
Howland-Boyer bridal party.
MONDAY Mrs. Harry P. Whltmore, tea
from 4 to to Introduce her daughter.
Miss Eugenia Whltmore; Mr. and Mri.
Harry P. Whltmore, 8 o'clock coffee In
honor of the younger et; Gumma Blgma
fraternity of Omaha High school, danc
ing: party at Rome; Original Bridge
club. Mr. Charles Kountse. Mrs. J. R.
Bcoble. Monday Bridge club- Miss Mary
Alice Carter, kenslngton; Mr. and Mr.
David Baum, bridge supper; Dundee
Inanrtnr club, cotillion at Dundee hall.
XVVKOKS Subscription dance at Cham
ber; Howland-Boyer wedding-; Leap
Tear ball at Metropolitan club; Mr. and
Mrs. W;illam McCann, Owl club; Bnca
Jawea club. New Year's party; Mm.
Robert Cowell, afternoon party for MIsb
Mona Cowell; Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Clarke, dinner preceding subscription
dance; Mrs. Charles Bothwell and Mrs.
H oilier Bhearer, card party In honor of
Mrs. John T. Cooper.
WEDNTSHDAY Mlaa Ruth Marie Tis
chuck "at home" for younger set; Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Baum. dinner for their
daughter, Miss Brownie Bees Baum,
and Mlaa Wrenn of Bridgeport, Conn.,
and Mlaa Forthman of Los Angelas,
Cal.; Mr. IJoyd, Lomax, dance at his
home: Mrs. Ward Burgess, buffet lunch
eon; The Royal club of the Omaha High
school, dance at the Normnndie.
THURSDAY Miss Alice Carter, heart
party for oollega set; Miss Helen Boren
sn, card party.
FRIDAY Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Oudahy,
dinner for Mlaa Jean and Miss Helen
Cudahy: Mlaa Grace Smith, birthday
party; Mrs. Charles Ferguson, Sterling
whist and luncheon club.
SATURDAY Mrs. John Kuhn. P. . E. O.
Blsterhood; Mlaa Frances Narh, informal
dance at her home; Mr. Arthur J. Cooley,
dinner for ushers and beat man.
Society, and especially the younger set,
'la doing all that has been promised for It.
The first three days of the week were
comparatively quiet owing to Christmas
preparation and such home visiting as
might be expected immediately upon the
return of the college set, but since then
every minute has ben full and this pace
promises to continue throughout the holi
days. This love of a good time seems to be con
tagious, as every aet Is participating and
people who seldom take part In social af
fairs will be a little gayer because every
one else la so gay.
Although thero may be interruptions and
excuses which will cause a lull In the so
cial pare, still the marriage bells go on
ringing just the" same and never fall to
awaken the warmest interest. A promi
nent wedding of last week wu that of
Miss Marie Coffman and Mr. E. W. DIxoii
and ' tha announcement of the engagement
of Miss Eugenie Whltmore and Mr. Shirk
of Tipton, Ind., called forth hearty con
gratulations from society. This week the
marriage; of Miss Blanche Howland and
Mr. Ed P. Boyer will be solemnized Now
Years' eve.
The Omaha club will hold Its annual
business meeting Saturday evening, Jan
uary 18, dinner for members to be served
at 6:30 o'clock. Four directors are to be
elected this year, the terms of Mr. C. W.
Hull, Ward M. Burgess and Dr. Fred Lake
expiring, the- fourth vacancy resulting
from the resignation of Mr. A. IL Mer
chant, who left the city several months
ago. This vacancy has never been filled.
The names of Mr. Hull, Mr. Burgess, Mr.
C. E. Bpens and Mr. Joseph' Barker have
already beep posted In nomination for the
four places. Dr. Fred Lake's candidacy
Is still uncertain. - -
rltuim Past.
One of the novel affairs of. Saturday
evening was the party given at Cham
bers of the Wlnfleld club. The members
had been In doubt as to just what a
"Versailles Fete Noveau" would be. It
proved to- be somewhat of an amateur
theatrical performance, with Mr. Robert
Manley In the leading role and Introduc
ing some very clever "stunts." There
was a slave auction, which aforded con
siderable amusement when the young
women present were given wooden moner
and allowed to bid for the young men
present. In a mind-reading sketch the
good or bad qualities of practically every
one present were revealed, to the chagrin
of some and to the amusement of others.
Comic costumes had been obtained to
carry , out some of ' tha more ludicrous
sketches Introduced. Supper was served
In picnic style, when two and two sought
corner nooks to enjoy the contents of
their picnic baskets. About sixty couples
enjoyed this unique but successful party.
A pretty luncheon wu given Saturday
at the Omaha club by Mrs. W. A. Plxley,
In honor of Mrs. Blanche Van Court
Schneider of Chicago. The table wu at
tractively decorated with holly and
Thrlstmas greens. Covers were laid for
Mrs. Schneider, Mrs. Charles E. Van
Court. Mrs. A. A. Alter and the hostess.
The party afterwards attended the
matinee at Boyd's.
' Miss Genevieve Baldwin entertained at
luncheon Saturday, when the table was
attractive with Christmu greens and the
guests present were: Mrs Harry Wll
klns. Mrs. J. N. Baldwin. Mrs. Charles
Kountie, Mrs. Luther Kountse, Mrs.
William Sears Poppleton, Mrs. W. T.
Bums, Mrs. Orenvllle Parker of New
York and Miss Flora Weteter.
Mrs. W. B. Millard gave a dinner Sat.
urday evening at her home In celebra
tion of the birthday of her eon, Mr. Bar
ton Millard. Christmu decorations prevailed-and
those present were: Miss Na
alfe Merrlam. Miss Elisabeth Congdon,
Kiss Hul Connell, Miss Mary Alice
Rogers, Miss Ann Brown, Mr. Barton
Millard, Mr. and Mrs. George Redlck, Mr.
John Redlck. Mr. June Brown, Mr. Ed
ward Crelghton and Mrs. Millard.
In honor of Mr. John Daugherty, Mr. and
Mrs. J.' M. Daugherty gave an informal
lance Saturday evening al their home, at
00 South Thirty-ninth street The guest
list Included: Miss Helen Bcoble, Ml
Bertha Dickey. Miss Katherlne Reeson,
Miss Beatrice Coad. Miss Irene Coad, Miss
Violet Joslyn, Mlas IJlllan Lane, Miss
. Ellen Crelghton. Miss Daphne Peters. Miss
Rose Binyth, Miss ' Marguerite Rosseau.
Miss Margaret Baum. Miss Elisabeth
Bruce, Miss Alice Cudahy. Miss Florence
Cudahy, Miss Ellaabeth Davis, Miss M ti
died Butler. Mlaa Ruth llimmer, Miss
Alice Carter, MUs Lather Byrne, Mlas
Ophelia Haydtn. Mr. Ralph Peters,
Mr. Hal Brady. Mr. Ray Low. Mr. Percy
Hall, Mr. Dudley Banrker. Mr. Sanford
Olfford, Mr. Herbert Williams. Mr. Blaine
Young. Mr. Francis Gaines, Mr. Ted Mil
lard, Mr. Hugh Millard, Mr. Charles Kel
ler, Mr. Robert Wood. Mr. Harold
Prltchett. Mr. E. Lloyd Lomax. Jr.; Mr.
Robert Howe. Mr. Paul Coad. Mr. Jack
Byrne, Mr. James MoCord, Mr. Tom Mo
Shane, Mr. Donald McWhorter and Mr.
Fred Daugherty.
Prospective Pleaswres.
Tha Rosaiba club will give a dancing
party January 6 at Metropolitan club.
The Original Bridge club will be enter
tained Monday by Mrs. Charles T. Kountse.
The Dundee Dancing club will give a
cotillion Monday evening at the Dundee
hall. .
Mrs. J. R. Bcoble will be hostess this
week at the meeting of the Monday Bridge
club.
Mr. and Mrs. David Baum have Issued
Invitations for bridge supper, to be given
Monday evening.
Miss Alice Carter will entertain at cards
Thursday afternoon, when hearts will be
the game played.
The Owl club will bo entertained Tues
day evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
William McCann.
Invitations -have been Issued by Mrs.
Ward Burgess, for a buffet luncheon, to
be given Wednesday.
Miss Ruth Marie Tsschuck wltl keep open
house on New Year's day, when many of
thn younger set and visitors are Invited.
Mrs. Charlea Bothwell and Mrs. Homer
Shearer will give a card party Tuesday
afternoon In honor of Mrs. John T, Cooper.
Mrs. Charles Ferguson of W6 South Twen
ty-ninth street will entertain the Sterling
Whist and Luncheon club Friday evening.
Mrs. Robert Cowell has Issued Invita
tions for an Informal party to "be given
Tuesday afternoon In honor of Miss Mona
Cowell.
Miss Mary Alice Carter will give a ken
slngton Monday afternoon at her home and
In the evening of the same day will enter
tain at a card party.
Miss Jean Cudahy and Miss Helen
Cudahy will be honor guests at a dinner
to be given Friday evening at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cudahy.
The Royal club, of the Omaha High
school will give an -Informal dance Wednes
day evening at the Normandle. About
twenty couples will be present.
Invitations have been Issued by Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur ,C. Smith for a birthday
party to be given for, their small daughter.
miss urace Bmlth, Friday afternoon.-
Complimentary to Miss Blanche Howland
and Mr. Edward P. Boyer, whose wedding
will take pllace Tuesday evening, Mr. Jack
Sharp will give a supper this evening at
his homO.
Mrs. Clinton R. Miller of 2064 North
Eighteenth street will entertain the Mistle
toe club Monday afternoon, December 30,
Instead of Tuesday, which Is the regular
day for the meeting of the club.
Mr. and Mrs. ,J. E. Baum will entertain
at dinner Wednesday evening In honor of
their daughter. Miss Brownie Bess Baum.
Miss Wrenn of Bridgeport, Conn., and Miss
Forthman of Los Angeles, Cal.
The members of the Sacajawea club will
give a New Year's party Tuesday evening.
ine members have Invited their husbands
to Join them at a theater party and after
wards they will have supper at the Rome.
Mr. Arthur J. Cooley will give a dinner
Saturday, January 4. for 'his best man,
Mr. Paul Cooley, and ushers, Mr. Law
rence Brlnker, Mr. Harry Tukey and Mr.
Ross Towle of Omaha and Mr. Max Green
of Burlington, la.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Clarke will give a
dinner Tuesday evening at their home pre
ceding the. subscription dance at Chambers'.
Their honor guests will be Miss Wrenn of
Bridgeport, Conn., and Miss Forthman of
Los Angeles, Cal., who are the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Cudahy.
Mrs. Harry P. Whltmore will elve a
debut tea Monday afternoon, from 4 to
6 o'clock, to formally introduce her daugh
ter, miss Eugenie Whltmore. In the even
ing Mr. and Mrs. Whltmore and Miss
Whltmore will give a 9 o'clock coffee In
honor of the visiting college set.
. The Leap Year ball to be given by Metro
politan club at the club rooms Tuesday
evening promises to be a very elaborate
affair. For decorating Christmas greens will
be used In profusion, combined with holly
and a variety of red flowers. Supper will
be served In the banquet room, and a
most delightful time Is anticipated.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Cooper and Miss Louisa
Northup will receive Informally New' Year's
afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Cooper, 1037 South Twenty-ninth street No
cards have been Issued, but a general in
vitation Is tended to all of their friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper will also receive In
formally In the evening.
Mrs. Frank Beaton will give a house
party for her small daughtef, Miss Eunice
Beaton, when twelve guests are Invited, to
arrive Tuesday and .- remain until New
Year's evening. Tuesday morning the party
will enjoy skating at Hanacom park and
In the evening will watch the old year
out and the new year In. New Year's day
no entertainment has been specially planned
for them, but an Informal good time la
promised.
Four large dancing parties stand out con
spicuously among the crush of other prom
ising affairs scheduled this week for the
young people home from school. First
among these, and one of the most antici
pated, will bs tke party given by Gamma
Sigma -fraternity of the high school, Mon
day evening at, the Rome hotel. About
fifty couples have been Included In the In
vitation list.' Mr. and Mrs. C. F. McGrew,
Mr. and Mrs. George Thummel, Dr. and
Mrs. J. P. Lord. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kel
ler and Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Howe will chap-
erone the party. The subscription dance to
be given New Year's eve Is the next big
party and promises fb be largely attended
as well as altogether, enjoyable. Wednes
day evening Mr. Lloyd Lomax will give a
dancing party for some of the young people
home from school, and Saturday evening
Miss Frances Nash will give a dancing
party complimentary to her guests who re
turned with her from school for the holi
days. ,
Coma mm A Uo flouli,
Mr. Russell Lemlst of Denver Is spending
the holidays In Omaha.
Mr. Warren Hints of Denver spent
Christmas with his mother and sisters.
Miss T. E. Blotcky left Saturday evening
for a month's visit In Chicago and other
eastern points.
Miss Agnes Burkley, who Is a student at
Lake Forest, hu arrived home to spend
the holidays with her father.
Mr. Oeorge Krug and son, Mr. Edmund
Krug, spent Christmas In Wuhlngton with
his daughter, Mrs. Morton Brown.
Mrs. Blanche Van Court Schneider, who
hu been visiting friends In Omaha, will
return to her home In Chicago Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Oeerge Mlxter of Mollne,
III., spent Christmu day with Mrs. Mil
ter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kll
patrlck. Mrs. L. C. Henaberg. who hu been vis
iting her sister. Mrs. E. E. Muffltt. at 201S
Blnney street, left Thursday for her home
In Los Angeles, Cat -
Mrs. Powers of Milwaukee has been vis
iting her mother, Mrs. George Powell. She
wu called here by the Illness of Mrs. Pow
ell and remained for Christmu.
Mr. and Mrs. JohiV 8. Brlggs will attend
the eighteenth New "Year celebration Tues
day evening, December SI, at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sawyer In Lincoln.
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Brogan left Friday
for a brief visit In Chicago, after which
Mrs. Bmgan will go to Emporia, Kan., for
a month's visit with her mother and sister.
Miss Nellie Evans arrived Sunday morn
ing from Columbus, Neb., to be present
at the Meyer-Balle wedding.
Dr. and Mrs. M. D. Baker and son, Fred
erick, returned to their home In Madison,
Neb., after spending three weeks with Mra.
Baker's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Urlau.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Nye Macalllster, who
spent Christmu with Mra. Macalllster's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hervey,
returned to their home In Chicago Thurs
day. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hunter of Portland,
Ore., have been visiting Mrs. Hunter's pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Urlau. They
will leave the early part of the week for
their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoxle Clarke, who have
spent the lut six months In Europe, ar
rived the early part of the week to spend
the holidays with Mrs. Clarke's mother,
Mrs. 8,qulres.
Miss Edith and Mine Ethel Wilson of
Arapahoe. Neb., who have been visiting
their aunt, Mra. Ada Mustaln, and cous
ins, for the lut week, left Saturday for
Lincoln to spend a few day's before return
ing to their home.
Miss Myrta Bchnelder and Mr. Clarenoe
Schneider are spending the Christmas holi
days In the south visiting Chattanooga,
Nashville and Florida. They will visit
Havana and other points In Cuba before
they return.
Mrs. Elisabeth Page of Minneapolis,
formerly of this city. Is spending the win
ter with Mrs. Carr Ax ford at 2418 North
Twenty-flret. street. The old settlers of
Omaha will remember Mr. Page as pro
prietor of the Douglas house and later of
Planters.
Social Chlt-Chat.
Mr. T. J. O'Brien has ben suffering with
an attack of pneumonia.
Mr. J, T. Foyer end family are now liv
ing at 4813 Capitol avenue.
Mrs. A. Wernher of 1126 South Thirty
second street Is Suffering from a severe
attack of la grippe.
Miss Elizabeth Pickens, who has been
very 111 at her home with diphtheria, Is
still In a critical condition.
Mrs. George Powell hu been very ill
at her home for the last two weeks, but
she Is reported much Improved.
Mrs. Russell B. Harrison, Miss Marthena
Harrison and Master William Henry Har
rison are occupying an apartment at the
Burlington In Wuhlngton during the holi
days. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cudahy returned
Thursday from Chicago, where they spent
Christmas. They moved Into their new
home at 100 South Thirty-eighth avenue
Friday.
Mrs. George W. Holdrege underwent a
serious operation a few days ago in one
of the Boston hospitals. She Is slowly
convalescing and Is practically out of
danger. Mr. Holdrege, who Is with his
wife, hopes to bring her home within a few
days.
Weddings and Engagements.
Mr. Charlton will be rememherml kv mnv
Omaha friends, this having been his home
for many years.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Springer announce tha
engagement of their daughter. Miss Irma
Wllhelmlne, to Mr. George Rumuesen.
ur. and Mrs. Alfred Wanatall of rih.
more, Md., have Issued Invitations for the
wedding of their daughter, Helen, to Mr.
Paul Charlton. Which Will take nla.o at n
o'clock Wednesday, January 8, at
jummanuei church. Baltimore. Mr. and
Mrs. Charlton will be at home after Janu
ary 16 at 1712 H street, Washington, D. C.
ihe wedding of Miss Minnie Louise Oren
daughter of Mr. ' and Mrs. Richard Max
well Green of , Burlinirton. Ia. ni u,
Arthur Jesse Cooley will take place Janu
ary o at s o'clock at the First Presbyterian
church In Burlington. A reception will
ronow the ceremony at the hnmn-nf the
bride's parents, at 400 High street. Miss
Hester McConnell of Burlington will be the
maid of honor and Miss Hele n YnilnSr (ha
Misses O'Connor of Burlington and Miss
uarner oi ottumwa. Ia.. will rv, am
bridesmaids. Mr. Paul Cooley, brother of the
groom, will be the best man, and Mr.
Lawrence Brlnker, Mr. Harry Tukey and
Mr. Ross Towle of Omaha and Mr. M
Green, brother of the bride, will h th
ushers. Mr. Cooley and his bride will make
tnelr home In Omaha after Mav 1. A num
ber of Omaha people besides those In the
weaaing party will attend the wed.tlna-
among them being: . Mr. and Mrs. George
fanner, Mr. and Mrs. Forest Richardson,
Mrs. Carrier. Miss Ethel Morse. Mr. RnhAt't
Morse, Mrs. Cooley. Miss Ethel Tukey,
Mrs. LydlW Morrison. Mr. and Mrs. Jnaenh
Lehmer, Miss Agnes Cooley and Miss
Edith Cooley.
One of the pretty wed dinars solemnised
during the holiday season wu that of
MJiss Helen Meyer and Mr. J. ft. Ra.li
Saturday evening at the home of the bride.
ine nouse was trimmed with palms and
Christmu greens. The aisle where the
wedding party passed was of smllax
studded with red powers. The marriage
unes were read by Rev. J. E. Hummrm
under a bower of green In the bav window
of the parlor. To the first strains of the
Lohengrin wedding march the groom atal
his best' man, Mr. Charles Leech of Wln
terset, la., entered the parlor. They were
followed by Miss Marguerite Mevar ttr
of the bride, who served as maid of honor
and was daintily aosvned in nlnk iik
trimmed with cream lace and gold cloth.
She carried a bouquet of pink roses. Next
came the bride, walking with her brother,
and wore a beautiful lace gown made
seml-emptre. She wore a, long tulle veil
held in place with white rosebuds and
carried a shower bouauet of farlile's
An Informal reception followed the cere
mony. Mr. and Mrs. Balle will spend their
honeymoon In the eut and will make their
future home In Denlaon, Ia. Mrs. Balle
hu many friends In Omaha, having at
tended the Omaha High school and later
unlBhed In the eut. Her denartura from
Omaha Is regretted by her friends.
TRY A SMILE FOR HARD LUCK
Opt In 1st to dab of America Pats Oat
Si Spec I He for All Brands
of Troable.
In the hope of clearing, away the gloom,
which haa apparently permeated all parts
of the I'ntted States owing to the com
bined efforts of the money stringency and
tha grip, a novel organisation has been
founded at Salt Lake City, ft ah. for the
purpose of dispensing cheerful philos
ophy. It is called "The Optimistic Club
of America." k President Roosevelt, cab
inet ministers, and the governors of every
state In the union have been Invited to
become honorably members.
Charles A. Qulgley, vice president of
the Btudebaker Brothers, has been elected
president, and It Is the desire of the
organization to found a chapter In every
hamlet, village, town, or city In the
United Btates.
Here Is some of tha philosophy sent out
by the club:
A smile Is potential, magnetic, and dispels
trouble.
Hard-luck stories are like overdue notes.
Bhake hands as though you meant It.
and smile.
When in doubt, take optimism.
In the realm of the birds, the lark la the
optimist, the crow Is the pessimist. Why
be a crow ?
You are under a real obligation to every
man on eartht
There are more people dying each day
for the lack of a kind word, a pat on the
bark, and a little encouragement, than
there are from disease.
WORK OF THE WOMEN'S CLUBS
William Jennings Bryan to Address
Omaha Woman's Club.
TEACHERS WILL BE GUESTS
Christmas Past, Clan Women Will
Sooa Retora to Work Again-
Yoamar Woman's Chrtstlaa
Association Notes.
The next opn meeting of the Omaha
Woman's club will be held January I,
when William J. Bryan will be the
speaker of the afternoon, his subject to
be "The Old World and Its Ways." The
school teachers will be. guests of thte
afternoon, but members bringing other
guests will be required to have their
tickets punched. The club will assem
ble In the club rooms at 2:20 and later
will adjourn In a body to the First Meth
odist church, where Mr. Bryan will speak
about 4 o'clock. Further announcement
will be made later.
Ready for Club Work Aaraln.
With Christmas and all Its Incidental
demands upon the women past, some
thought Is again being given to the club
and announcements of meetings resumed
have commenced to come in. Few, If any,
of these organizations, however, will hold
regular meetings until after New Year's
day and the great majority will not re
sume until the first of the following
week.
In the main Omaha club womenTlved
up to their pledge to do their Chrfctmas
shopping early and their agitation did
much to Influence others to do the same,
averting much of the rush the lut few
days. Several merchants of the city have
alr.eady expressed their appreciation of
this co-operation 'In doing away with the
Christmas rush.
i Y. W. C. A. Notes.
The board of directors of the local
Young Women's Christian association haa
decided to Issue a booklet some time in
February showing a floor plan of the
new association building and telling what
will be required to furnish the various
floors, together with an estimate of the
cost. The furnishing and equipment of
the building will ost about $26,000, and
the women feel that something must be
done, soon toward raising tho necessary
money.
About 160 tickets have been Issued for
thve Christmas "get one" party to be
held In the association rooms Monday
evening, and It Is expected this party
will prove one of the most enjoyable of
the year. A program hu been planned
and refreshments will be s.erved.
As hu been announced several times,
there will be no New Year's reception at
the association rooms this year, but a
reception Wjeek Is being planned later on.
. Mrs. Emmi"F. Byers, general secre
tary of the association, has gone to Chi
cago for a rest with her parents. The
extra work In connection with the new
building hu fallen heavily upon Mrs.
Byers, and the board of directors has
Insisted upon her going for a rest-during
the holidays, when much of the class
work Is suspended and the work light
Women Teachers Retaliate.
At the last annual meeting of the New
England Teachers' association In Boston
all the speakers were men and ail the
officers elected for the association, with
the exception of three or 'four assistant
secretaries, were also men.' This was done
In spite of the fact that more than three
fourths of the members of the association
were women. ..
Over n Stark county, Ohio,' they do
thinks rather differently. There the women
teachers, being excluded from the banquet
of the association, became Indignant and
when time came for the election of officers
only women were elected to serve on the
board for the coming year. The women
teachers declare that they believed that
a mixed board was best, but they were
determined that the men teachers should
feel what It meant to be weaker vessels.
They formed a majority of the association
and they wanted the men to see what they
could do. ,
Women Accepted In Davarla.
The Young Liberal party pf Bavaria at
Its recent national conven ljn voted unani
mously to Invite women to Join all branches
of 1 Its society u soon as they could do
so legally. There is now a movement to
have the old law prohibiting women from
becoming members of political associations
repealed. When this Is accomplished It Is
expected that the women of Bavaria will
avail themselves of the Invitation from
the Young Liberals and also that other
political parties will open their doors to
them.
HEAVY CLOTHING AND HEALTH
Hyalenlc Considerations that Should
Govern Selection of Wlater
Garments.
The season of overcoats Is approaching
and probably In no other department sar
torial Is there exhibited so much Indif
ference to tvyglenlc considerations. The
greatest fallacy of all, perhaps, In regard
to the choice of an overcoat Is that the
terms "weight" and "warmth" are synony
mous. As a matter of fact they are nearly
always diametrically opposed.
Heavy materials are often rood conduc
tors of heat and are calculated therefore
to allow the heat of the body to escape,
while the light materials are bad con
ductors and so preserve the heat and en
ergies of the body. Moreover, the heavy
overcoat is a tax on the resources of the
organism and destroys the economy which
a good Insulating cloth Is Intended to se
cure. Further, heavy material encourages
an uncleanly and unhealthy state of the
body chiefly by Imprisoning the exhala
tion of the skin. -
That cloth Is best, therefore, which
gives the minimum of weight and the
maximum of warmth, while being porous
enough to admit of ventilation.
It Is not generally realized that In pro
tecting the body from the dissipation of
Its own heat I. e., from cold clothlntf
really serves as an economizer of fuel
that Is, food. Could we iccustom our
selves to wearing no clothing at all under
cold climate conditions, we aiiould have
to consume much more food than we do
In ordor to compensate for the rapid
loss of heat which would happen if the
body were not wrapped in non-conducting
materials. This point needs to be
borne In mind by. those who advocate
the banishment of the overcoat.
It Is. cf course, possible to dispense
with an overcoat provided that the clothes
worn are particularly warm. The over
coat, however, offers the decided advan
tage that It 'ran be superimposed over
a comparatively light suit of clothes and
thus while preventing the escape of heat
provides also an air space between the orJ
dlnary clothes and Itself in air space
which is open to ventilation.
There seems to be little doubt that a
well-chosen overcoat surrounding a warm
but light suit of clothes Is for the reasons
just given much more comfortable than
a heavy suit of ordinary clothe.
There Is another Important point about
the qualities of an overcoat and that Is
In regard to the color of the material.
The choice of a sombre hue black, dark
gray, dark brown, or dark blue la to
tally opposed to scientific Indications. The
Polar boar Is not provided with black
fur; If be were be would not be able to
defy the cold with that Impunity which
he does.
Light-colored material, as a matter of
fact, does not so easily give up Its heat
u does dark material, and this would ap
pear to teach that our notions as to the
suitability of color of garments for win
ter wear are Illogical. 'Fashion and cus
tom bind us hard and are seldom on all
fours with reuonable Ideas.
If he would follow the dictates of sci
ence and common sense, the purchaser of
winter clothes would choose. If he were
able to do so, garments of a light rather
than a dark hue. And why should every
one be clothed In a funereal type of ma
terial Just when winter sets In, when
every effort Is necessary to compensate
for the dreariness anJ darkness of Its
dayt London Lancet.
ON THE CUSTER BATTLEFIELD
Late lavestlarator Thinks the General
Throve Away the Lives of
Mia Men.
"When the true story of the Custer fight
Is told It is probable that the telling will
add no luster to the Custer name, unless
a willingness to gamble with the lives of
others to accomplish a-personal end moy
be considered laudable."
Such Is the conclusion reached by Ed
ward S. Curtis after months spent In
tracing every foot of the route taken by
General Custer Just before and during the
historic battle of the Little Big Horn In
1876, the battle In which Custer and his
Immediate command were butchered-by the
Sloux. ,
In his field work for "The North Ameri
can Indian," the most pretentious histori
cal, ethnological and pictorial compilation
on the Indian tribes of America, of which
J. Pierpont Morgan Is chief patron, Mr.
Curtis spent the summer In Montana and
has Just returned to New York. Most of
the summer's work was devoted to study
of the battle of the Little Big Horn. Mr.
Curtis was assisted , by White-Man-That-Runs-IIlm
and Halry-Moccaain, Crow
scouts who were with Custer; Two-Moons
and Red Hawk, Bloux scouts who served
In the engagement, and nearly a hundred
other Indians.
"The time has not arrived," said Mr.
Curtis recently, "to write the real story
of Custer's last fight, and It Is a question
whether this story properly may be In
corporated In the work being compiled.
There are too many persons still living who
could not gain any glory by the narration
of the facts In the last Custer engagement.
"My Investigation of the battle of the
Little Big Horn has been more minute and
complete than any previously made. I
started In the Rosebud country and fol
lowed tke route taken by Custer's command
Into the Wolf mountains, then to the point
where Custer "ahd Reno separated. From
this point I took up Custer's trail and fol
lowed every foot of It. I was fortunate in
finding several of Custer's old Indian
scouts, all of them now more than CO
years old. ' ' .
"The clearness of the? memory of Whlte-Man-That-Runs-Htm
I found to be phe
nomenal. I took htm over the battlefield
f font every side and did veverythlng I could
to disprove what ho said were facts. Not
once did he vary from his story. With the
Crow scouts I went over the ground to
the point where Custer, telling them they
had kept their promise to him, to show
him where the enemy, was camped, sent
them back out of the fight to. save their
lives. Then I took up the Inquiry with the
Sloux scouts, who knew every detail of It.
The Btorles of these old scouts I verified
later.
"Such an Investigation as I made can
bring the inquirer to only one conclusion
that General Custer unnecessarily sacrificed
the lives of his soldiers to further his per
sonal ends. I know It Is unpopular even to
criticise a military commanjjer whols dead
nd who died as did Custer, but so ine day
the truth of this fight must be written.
There Is absolutely no question that Cus
ter could have won this fight with little
loss of life. When the wise old Indian
warriors that were in this fight are asked
what they think of Custer's course in the
battle they point to their heads and say:
'He must have been wrong here This Is
the moBt charitable view that can be taken
even by the Indians. They oai explain his
acts In no other way.
"I can refute positively the charge that'j
Custen and his men were drunk." New
York Herald.
A WONDERFUL HALF MILE
Hose Values Piled Up In a Short
Stretch of Broadway
Now York.
"For Sale About eighteen acres of land
In a desirable portion of Manhattan, with
the buildings thereon situated, for the ex
tremely low sum of $136,786,100."
In an advertisement like the foregoing
should appear In the real estate columns
of the New York papers tomorrow ex
perts would probably know at once that
the most costly half mile of real estate
In the world, the strip of Broadway be
tween Battery Place and Vesey street on
the westerly side and between Beaver
street and Ann street on the easterly side,
was being offered, for sals at the valuation
recorded upon the books of the department
of assessment. But real estate men who
know say New Yorkers could never by any
possibility see the section named offered
for sale at anything like the value assigned
it by the assessors. Though there are few
men who care to assume the responsibility
of attempting to name an actual value for
this wonderful half mile of real estate,.
there are those who aver that If ever such
an advertisement found Its way Into print
the chances are 100 to 1 that it would read
"for the extremely low sum of $600,000,0(0,"
If Indeed a larger figure were not named.
"It Is safe enough to multiply the asses
sors' figures by three," said one real es
tate man the other day, and when he saw
the result, $410,3X8,300, he was more firmly
convinced than before that the estimate
of $TiOO,000,006 Is conservative.
But the figures on the books of the as
sessors which are matters of actual record
are of themselves perhaps sufficiently In
A BEAUTI7UL CALENDAR FREE
On Monday, December 30th, we shall be pleased to present to eacb
lady calling for It a beautiful "Kexall Calendar" for 1908. We be
lieve you will agree with ns in thinking; tbla as pretty a calendar as
you have ever seen It la about 24 Inches In length. Oet calendar at
16th and Dodge or 16th and Harney. ,
HOMK (SPECIAL
76c Janice Perfume, os 60c
86c Roger & Gallet perfumes, os 60c
86c Plnaud's . perfumes, ox 60c
PRICii AND STOCK are always
is seldom Indeed that we do not have
low enough to be entirely Hatlsroctory.
HOMK HPECIAL MONDAY CTT8
1-lb. Mule Team Borax 8c
26c Easy Timers 23c
Good Chest Protectors, 60o, 85c. $1.15
60c l,inen Paper, 14 sheets paper,
24 envelopes, for 26o
Newbro'a Herplcldn, 46c and....8Do
Glycothymollne, 46o and 8o
Lambert's l.lBle,rlne, 23c, 45o and 190
Hurllcks Malted Milk, 46u and c
100 BRANDS CIOARS
SHERMAN & McC0NNELL DRUG COMPANY,
CORNER 16TH AND DODGE.
OWL DRUG COMPANY,
CORNER 16TH AND HARNEY.
teresting as a buls of Instructive compari
son to convey some adequate Idea of the
enormous value of this little bit of Man
hattan real estate without venturing far
Into the field of debatable actual values.
Still, even the assessors' figures, u they
stand on the books today, are an under
estimate of property In the quarter named,
for the value of several of the buildings
Is given as estimated when they were In
process of erection.
Still, incomplete and unsatisfactory
though the assessors' figures are, even they
afford some comparisons which, to the tay
mind, are startling. For Instance, the 463.
466 square feet, or a trifle over ten acres
of land, comprising sites fronting the west
erly side of Broadway between Battery
Place and Vesey street, Ttas an assessed
valuation of $.'i9.eo2.000. Sane persons -place
Its actual value at $17S,806,000.-New York
Tribune.
REAL COST OF ARMAMENTS
Contrasts Which Silhouette
Imposing: disc of War
Making Bills.
the
The Increased cost of living that Is driv
ing housekeepers to distraction is nowhere
more obtrusive than in the price of Imple
ments of warfare. Battleships used to cost
$6,000,000 or $6,000,000 each. In the new
Dreadnaught era they are expected to
average about $10,000,000. What does that
represent In terms of the peaceful possi
bilities of natlopal welfare? "
Yale university hu just published for the
first time a complete report of Its produc
tive resources. On June 30 of this year Its
total funds amounted to $8,746,690. Every
$10,000,000 battleship, therefore represents
more than the entire endowment of a uni
versity like Yale. According to the statis
tics of the bureau of education, the total
Income of all the universities and colleges
In the ITnlted tSates In the fiscal, year 1906
was $30,750,623, or about the otist of three
now battleships. Of this amount the na
tional, state and local governments con
tributed $8,522,600 a little less than we are
to pay for one battleship.
The Rhodes bequest for scholarships at
Oxford, by which a man of Imperial Imag
ination expected to bind together the scat
tered members of the English ' speaking
race throughout the world, amounted to
$10,000,000 the price of one battleship. The
Nobel fund, for the encouragement of work
for the good of humanity In Science, lit
erature and the promotion of International
good will, Is $9,0j)0,000. The cost of one
Dreadnaught eotials the endowment of the
Carnegie Institute at Washington. Half that
sum provided for the construction of the
sixty-five Carnegie libraries In Greater New
York. The fund by which George Peabody
helped to set the educational systems of
the southern states on their feet after the
civil war amounted to $3.&'X,000 enough
to build a fairly respectable second-class
cruiser. The John F. Slater fund for the
education of the negroes, for which the
donor received the thanks of congress and
a medal, was $1,000,000 a little more than
the coet of one of the two new torpedo
boat destroyers authorized last winter. The
cost of one battleship would pay fof all
the newspapers and periodicals Issued In
the eight states of Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida In a
year.
Congress was asked lut winter to ap
propriate $3,000,000 for the establishment of
the Appalachian and White Mountain for
est reserve, which would save thousands of
square miles of land throughout the eastern
states from desolation. .It refused because
Speaker Cannon thought the object was
not worth the money. The amount uked
for was about the cost of a second class
cruiser and less than one-third the cost of
one of the new Dreadnaughts. The total
expense of the army and navy In 1906
amounted to nearly $2,000,000. ' That was
more than the entire assessed value of the
real estate In any one of fifteen states,
and nearly four times the value of tho na
tional fisheries. Three battleships and an
armored cruiser would provide the proposed
Atlantlo deep waterway, from Boston to
Key West.
For saving life and property on all our
coasts, the government . spent. In 1906,
$1,832,466.93, or less than 1 per cent of the
amount It spent In the same year In pre
paring to destroy them.
The Knickerbocker Trust company of
New York closed Its dors, precipitating a
panic which threatened the whole financial
structure of the United States, and shooS
the exchanges of the entire world, because
Its available resources were exhausted
when It had paid out to depositors about
three-fourths the cost of one battleship,
The Department of Agriculture has
charge of the work; of the forest servloe,
which administers a region as large as the
German empire and protects the future
habltabtltty of a third of our natlonat
domain; It guards the purity of our food
supplies, fights Insect pests more destruc
tive than Invading armies, develops lm
proved methods of farming that add hun
dreds of millions to our annual income
checks diseases of plans and animals,
studies soils and climates, searches the
world for profitable varieties of plant and
animal life, takes the lead In highway Im
provements, and furnishes the weather
predictions upon which farmers and navi
gators bue their plans. For all this there
was appropriated lut year a trifle less
than the cost of one battleship. The De
partment of Commerce and Iibor charts
the coasts, maintains the lighthouses, pub
lishes statistics of commerce. Inspects
steamers, develops our fisheries, regulates
Immigration, supervises the interests of
labor, promotes manufacturing Industry,
and Investigates the management of cor
porations. All these sen-Ices cost us about
the price of an armored cruiser.
With the liberal appropriation of $1,000,-
000 a little more than the cost of
keeping one of the new battleships In com
mission for a single year the health au
thorities of Pennsylvania have undertaken
a vigorous campaign against tuberculosis
In ali the sixty-seven counties of that
state. The state of Missouri hu built a
tuberculosis sanatarlum at a oost of $186,-
ono, representing approximately two of the
PMCKH MONDAV.
Colgate's Pansy Blossom, os.
Colgate's other extracts, ox. ,.
lr. Graves' Tooth 1'owder....
10c German Bird Heed, 1-lb. pkg
.!6o
. XSo
.14c
. 4c
Paramount Issues with us ai
nd It
the exact article desired and a
price
Borden's Malted Milk, 40c and ..76o
60c Pozsonl a Powder (S shades) 280
Ptnkliain's Compound, for tVe
Pierces Oolden Med. Dls. for Mo
Wine Cardul for sao
Baker's Barley Malt, for 75c
Burden's Condensed Milk, can ...,16c
6uo OoHsom's Kidney Pills 2lo
11.00 Plnaud's Lilac Vegetale ....Its
AT CUTS PRICES.
twelve-Inch guns of the Delaware, with,
their mountings. Two such guns would
almost pay the net cost, above receipts,
f raring for all our national forests for
year.
Every new battleship Is the equivalent ol
1 miles of railroad, or of $.000 mllea ol
first-class highway, or of some forty model
tenements, or of 2.000 village srhoolhouses.
or of all the school buildings of Baltimore
and Cleveland put together, or of the publlo
water works of the twin cities of St. Paul
and Minneapolis, or of all the park system
of ninety-three Important American cities,
or of all the fire-fighting equipment In
forty-three still larger cities, or of all the
twnty -three municipal electric light plants
In the United 8tates, or of all the munic
ipal asylums, almshouses, and hospitals In
all the 148 cities of from 26,000 to Sno.OnO
thousand people, or of all the publlo It
brarleo belonging to twelve of the fourteen
rltles of over SoO.OOO, or of suburban homes
for 26.OJ0 persons. Samuel E. Moffett. In
Collier's Weekly.
Here's your opportunity again to buy our
high class wearing apparel. Discount sale
commences Thursday morning. Benson A
Thorns Co.
Two Wrecks Are Daplleatea.
LENOX. Mich., Deo. 28. The collision
last night between a Grand Trunk pas
senger train and a freight train wu an
almost exact duplicate of a wreck which
occurred four and a half years ago at th
same hour and place. At that time, also,
the freight had left the main line In or
der to allow the passenger train to pus.
The switch was left open and In the re
sultant crash two engineers were killed.
DaBtNiiF Bailey.
Sanatorium
This Institution g the) only one
in the central west with separate
building situated in their own
ample grounds yet entirely dis
tinct and rendering It possible to
rlasslfy rases. The one building
being fitted for and devoted to the
treatment of non-contagious and
non-mental diseases, no others be
lug adniitted. The other, Rest
Cottage, being designed for and
devoted to the exclusive treatment
of select 1 mental cases, requiring
for a time watchful care and spe
cial nursing.
BaldufTs
Table D'flofe
Dinner Today
Special Price
We have prepared an excellent
menu, this, with out superior serv
ice, and the pleasant surround
lngs, makes our restaurant an
Ideal place to take your Sunday
dinner.
Table D'hote served from 11:80
A. M. to 8:00 P. M. Price SOc.
TtH5rcitEroiiPriiCAcirt.
1818-20 Far nam Street.
'Phone Doug. 711.
COOPER
REMEDIES
AT BEATONS
60c Cooper's Quick Relief 45
$1.00 Cooper's Discovery 89tt
Beaton Drug Co.
15th and Farnam
P. S. We are Nebraska
agents for Bucklln's prepara
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The Mid-Winter Term begins Satur
day, January 4. Children I P. M.
High School Assemblies, t P. M,
Terms, three months, beginners, $1.08.
Advance, f 6.00. Telephone Doug. 194L
YOU CAN'T AFFORD
to carry your lunch from home so
long as
The Boston Lunch
serves home-cooked food at such
extremely low prices. Everything
Is served right off the stove, steam
ing hot, and everything Is of the
highest quality. You ran get a
splendid lunch at a very low price,
and quick service, for
"They have the proper system
at the Boston."
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TABLE D'HOTE DINNER
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