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Omaha PART TWO SOCIETY PAGES ONE TO EIGHT undai T PART TWO SOCIETY PAGES ONE TO EIGHT VOL. XLV NO. 25. OMAHA, SUNDAY MOUNINO, DECEMBEK 5, 1915. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. CLUBDOM SOCIETY rm-rr-rr .Bee E Calendar of Club Doings Monday Omaha Woman's club, political and social de partment, Y. W. C. A., 2:30 p. m. Child Conservation leagues. City Federation, Schmoller & Mueller auditorium, 2 p. tn. Chautauqua circle, Tennyson chapter, Mrs. F. M. Wray, hostess, 2:30 p. m. Dundee Catholic circle, Mrs. O. C. Bedford, hostess. Temple Israel Sisterhood, vestry rooms, 2:30 p. m. Christmas bazar, Bee building, 9 a. m. Drama league, city hall, 4 p. m. Tuesday Omaha Woman s club, current topics depart ment, Y. W. C. A., 2:80 p. m. South Omaha Woman's club, literature de partment, library hall, 2:30 p. m. Business Women's council. Volunteers' hall, 11:30 a. ni. 2 p. m. Omaha Woman's club, oratory department, Metropolitan hall, 10 a. m. Business Women's club, Y. W. C. A., 7 p. m. Christmas sale, Nurses' Central club and reg . istry, at club house. Monthly party, "Horse Show," Y.'W. C. A., 8 p. m. . Omaha Woman's club, philosophy and ethics department, Y. W. C. A., 4 p. m. Dundee All Saints' Guild, Mrs. Joseph Polcar, , hostess ' Woman's Relief corps, U. S. Grant post, Me morial hall. 2 p. m. Old People's Home, board of trustees, Y. W. C. A., 10 a. m. White Shrine, Sojourners' club, Mrs. Charles Molony, hostess, Wednesday Mu Sigma club, Mrs. Frank : Boyd, hostess, 9:30 a. m. J Dundee Woman's club, Mrs. .Royal Miller, hostess, 2:30 p. m. Annual concert, George Crook Woman's Re lief corps, Y. M. C. A., 8 p. m. Woman's Christian Temperance union, Frances Willard society, Mrs. C. B. Wilson, hostess, 2 p.m. Thursday omaha Woman's club, art department, Y; W. O. A., 10 a. m. Omaha Society of Fine Arts, Hotel Fontenelle, 4 P. m. . , . Business Women's council, Y. W. C. A., 7 p. m. Association of Collegiate Alumnae, drama sec tion, Mrs. W. H. Abbott, hostess, 4 p. m. Omaha Woman's club, music department, Y. W. C. A., 2:16 p. m. ; . ' , Chrlstmaa sale, Lawton auxiliary to Spanish ' ' War Veterans. Benson Baptist Missionary circle, Mrs. E. D. Doane, hostess. ' .' Lecture by Dr. Richard Wycbe, Hotel Fonte nelle ball room, 4 p. m. Friday ' . v South Omaha Woman's club, music depart ment, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Wheeler, hosts. Scottish Rite Woman's club, at cathedral, 2 p. m. West Omaha Mothers' Culture club, Mrs. W. N. Baker, hostess. Child Conservation league, North Side circle, Monmouth Park school. Franco-Belgian Relief society, Mrs. Arthur Crittenden Smith, hostess. ! Vassar club, Mrs. Arthur Gulou, hostess. . Saturday P. E. O. Sisterhood, Mrs. V. C. Hascall, hostess, 10 a. m. U. S. Grant post and Woman's Relief corps, entertained by. Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Frazler. T WO Omaha women, Mrs. H. C. Sumney, the retiring county chairman, and Mrs. E. S. Rood, president of the Equal Franchise society, will attend the annual conven tion of the National Woman Suffrage as sociation which will be held In Washington, accom panied by a huge demonstration on the part of the congressional union. The tea given by this society Saturday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. J. M. Metcalf was in the feature of a hearty send-off to the delegates who leave this evening for Washington. Both women will attend the southern suffrage convention In Richmond, Va., held Just before the national meet ing, and plan to visit In the east before their return. The presentation to President Wilson of the mammoth suffrage petition signed by over 600,000 names, which Miss Frances Joliffe and Sarah Bard . Field carried by automobile from San Francisco to fft Washington, will be a feature of the demonstration. 4 Dr. "Anna Howard Shaw's announcement that she will no longer serve as president of the associ ation, but will devote herself to the speaking cam paign, means that another leader will be chosen. The eyes of millions of suffragists are turned to Washington in eagerness to know their next leader. Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, formerly president of the Illinois Equal Suffrage league and the one under whose administration Illinois women were granted the right to vote, Is mentioned as a promising candi date. Mrs. Trout spoke in Omaha during the height of the campaign, her gracious presence, magnetle personality and wonderful executive ability making a decided Impression on local audiences. Mrs. Trout was one of the first women to give a suffrage street speech here, after ' General" Rosalie Jones. Early in the week, a dispatch was received from Washington announcing that Mrs. E. M. Barkley of Lincoln, president of the Nebraska Woman Suf frage association, had sent In her resignaton as a delegate to the annual meeting. No further word has been received from Mrs. Barkley, who is now in the east, and local suffrage leaders are at a loss to account for her action, as It was known Mrs. Bark lcy's principal Intention when Bhe went east was to Wa .1 ah f. I - . a mm i 'iM present i nuu. n is leurea Airs. I Jr Barkley's health could not withstand the strain. yf after her work in New York In the final days of JtT the campaign with Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. Additional Club News on Page Seven. The Old and ihe New or ike Kitchen Mpliw Which made such a hit when read by its author Lefare a Woman's Cluh Om all. ly Ilri. Thanh . J.Hoel n tne Twas October and fall-cleaning near, "When good Mrs. Housewife said, "I fear That soon we must gather and glean AH useless rubbish, and polish and clean." . So, one morning, going to the kitchen below, She chanced to hear voices in accents low, l swaging, aauug ucver uceuu utiuic, She paused just outside the door. IA1..III .tV.4 V.MA1 rr-;ra T? foil' W y7N. Oh, were I a spoon, and used to stir all." "He is restless .and tired," said a peaceful ladle; I IfK 1 m.f - . I ...14; mm - 1.1,1. II ... . A box of starch, thickly spoke at close range, v' 'To stir me would be rather a stiff change. X - A sad iron, gazing at both with scorn. Said, "The saddest year since I was born." - MM III III A -Nora, once my friend and advocate, Says, 'Give me the fireless to bile the mate.' A rolling, whirring sound was heard, As the carpet sweeper edged in a word: f V .... . . I "4 "The electric iron has cast me aside, ' The new inventions I can't abide; Soon I will be thrown in the old iron' pile, While you still exist (at least for awhile)". The gas range groaned looked hard and cold At the fireless cooker, so brazen and bold:. "Since you arrived, I am seldom used, How times have changed, alas ( " it mused. "I weep when I sweep, for there's none meaner, Than that hateful, horrid vacuum cleaner; Mistress and maid, from morn 'till night, Looked upon me with great delight "Until that old cleaner stepped into my shoes;' And now they think me too old to use; So behind the door I await my time, To be sold some day, maybe for a dime.!' ' 'Indeed, it is sad to be laid on the shelf,' ' r. r " At this Juncture, a most peculiar roar Was heard from the neat, well polished floor: "It used to be that I was scrubbed white, With brush and sand, a beautiful sight. "Now, Jackson's floor stain, boiled oil and such, Cover my beauty with polishing touch. I don't like it a bit to be stained and oiled, . I like to be scrubbed 4f easier soiled." - Said a blue granite coffee pot, settling itself. . What with Trench-drip and percolator bold, ; The old-fashioned pot is 'passe' I am told. "So, soon in the rubbish pile I will be out Or sold as old tin to some peddler-lout; I am hoping that given I'll be, To good Mrs. Poor-wife, who'll appreciat The tea-kettle made a faint effort to sing "Tra, la, la, tra, la, la, I am still in the ring. Try as they may, they can't do without me; Folly put the kettle en, we'll all take tea." ' 6 mm "Use I, too, will be laid high oil the shelf, For a fuzzy blonde, or a black-eyed elf. Divorces are easy women are plenty, "Tho' 40 I must hasten to make myself 20." The tall, wooly brush, with haughty mien, Said to the broom, "I never have seen Anyone so little used as you seem to be, Except in Kitchen, back-halls and laundry." Chafing dish, casserole, ramekins on shelves, Softly whispered away to themselves, "We are so modern, tho' fall is here, - . We'll not be thrown out, never fear." 'And good Mrs. Housewife outside the door, Exclaimed to herself, . "Forever more! 1 Things have come to a pretty pass, Modern this, modern that, from pewter to glass." She went to her mirror more than half For as yet, she'd not worn one false braid. "False hair I must get, corset French, Even tho' to sit down, will give me a wren 1 . SJ So softly giving her crows' feet a pat Said, "Madame La Creme will remedy that, . ' With my hair made heavy and turban pulled down I will alter myself from feet to. crown." She bravely struggled and worked away. Renovation was completed one weary day. Hubby came in, as she sat upright . In corset French, drawn low and tight. V '11 IU 1 '7 "Everything looks so spotless and clean . And yet I will say, tho it does sound mean, I miss my own dear little wife . The one who so pleasant has made my life. ' "I want her 'au naturelle, all-the day long And, say, my dear, would it be wrong To ask you to make in that old blue pot Some good egg-coffee, piping hot7u Sooiety the Coming Week Monday charity ball at Fontenelle for the Creche. Dinners preceding Charity ball by Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Summers, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Mc Shane, Mins Harriet Smith and Miss Eliza beth Davis. Thursday morning women bowlers. Afternoon bridge for Miss Florence Clarke, Mrs. Rufus Harris, hostess. White Shrine Whist club, Masonic temple. morning muslcale at Fontenelle. Entertainment to Trettlest Mile women gol fers, Mrs. C. C. Morrison, hostess. Thimble club meets with Mrs. W. C. Ramsey. Bridge party by Mrs. J. E. Bernstein. Tea at Yuletide Tra Room, Mrs. It. R. Bowen, hostess? Dance of the Vesta chapter, Eastern Star, at Chambers'. Bridge party for Mrs. Harold Fell and Miss Helene Rubel, Mrs. Charles Elgutter, hos tess. Et-a-Virp stage party at Metropolian hall. Luncheon' for Miss Margery McCord, given by Mrs, John S. Brady. Luncheons at Yuletide tea room, given by , Mr. Clement Chaae'and Mrs. D. B. Rey nolds. , Stag smoker, given by Et-A-Vlrp, at Metro politan hall. . Talk after noonday luncheon by Prof. Paul H. Orummann, at University club. Wednesday Ladles' Social club of the United Commercial Travelers, Mrs. J. F. HarXlerode, hostess. Luncheon at Yuletide tea room, Mrs. Wlllard D. Hosford, hostess. Thursday CInosam club dance at Scottish Rites cathedral. Subscription dance at Turpln's academy. Dinners preceding Subscription dance by Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Davis and .. Mr. and Mrs. Osgood T. Eastman. Bridge tea at Fontenelle, Mesdamcs Sol Degen, ' Sam Werthelmer and Henry Rosenthal, ' hostesses. Luncheon for Miss Alice Judge at Fontenelle ,by Miss Olga Stors and Miss Louise Stors. Friday " Franco-Belgian Relief society, Mrs. Arthur . Crittenden Smith, hostess. Original Cooking club, Mrs. Moshier Colpetzer, hostess " Surprise party to Friday ' Dancing club by . entertainment committee. Saturday university club dinner dance. Dance at Fontenelle, given by Mr. and Mrs. . . A. V. Klnsler. . Bridge party, Miss Hedwig Rosenstock and Miss. Erna Hadra, Hostesses. Dance at Fontenelle for. Mr. and Mrs. F. S. - Cowgill, given by Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Klns ler. Dinner-dance at University club. 'Shower for Miss Alice Maude Gates, given by Mrs. Ward and Miss Edith Ward. THIS Is the week of the Creche Charity ball, which will bo an. event overshadowing even the festivities of Christmas. . Like the great and time established - American event In New York ot the same uame, the Omaha Charity ball Is given for the benefit of children. The officers of the Creche are the patronesses, Mesdames T. L. Kimball, Arthur Crittenden Smith James C. - Dahlman, Bernard C'apen, Louis Clarke and Warren Rogers. This year, Mrs. Kimball will be missed from her accustomed place among the actlvo promoters of the ball. Mrs. Smith Is acting as president of the Crerhe board during Mrs. Kimball's sojourn in California. Unless It be the "asnembly ball," there Is Dot a boclal event that carries with It the glamor and the n.Uts of romance and dreams and suggestion of tha past than Is conjured up by the two words, charity ball. The very term brings a pleasing recurrenco like a bar from an old, sweet song. . In an old southern manor house with a high pillored portico I think of a venerable woman of stately air and gracious presence, a social veteran of our own land and of foreign capitals. She was one of the first American girls to marry a title. The old baroness loves to back to the past; but the reminiscence that never fails to take strongest l.old upon her young hearers is when she talks of the charity balls that were given, decades ago, in the old Academy of Music In New York City. Tha buds ot today want to hear ot Mrs. Morris In cilnolines and festooned flounces, of the ladles ot the Livingstons, the Scherwerhorns, the Rhine landers, and later the Astors, the Goelets, tha Pagets. and the Vanderbllts. The baroness can tell of other events In palaces snd of queens that danced with princes, but tho charity ball and Its high bred company seems tha best of all. The charity ball has been the only semi-public; event In which society will take part. Sociologists claim that it has served a great and broadening pur pose In this phase alone. Many a woman, who has erected a steel barrier ' around herself and her circle, got her first glimpse Into the great vistas that stretch out beyond her ramparts, learning of the vastness and the great Import of Ood's creation while helping the charity ball. Out of a board of patronesses and its mingling for a common good, women have been moved to become great social and uplift worker,. This year's ball has a special significance and a history to attach to It because it is the first to ba gven in the Hotel Fontenelle. And it will be tha first ball, too, to suggest tfce affairs ot the glorious past in the dress of the dancers, the wide, spreading skirts, the low cut bodices and trim waists. Only the steps to be danced tbla year will be quite new. Put, as for many a belle and her gown, she might have stepped out of an old Godey's Lady Book to whirl her crinolines up waed floors of 1m log hall. Additional Society ew ou Nei l'a'c. 1 i