The Omaha Sunday Bee
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SOCIETY
PAGES ONE TO EIGHT
PART TWO
SOCIETY
PAGES ONE TO EIGHT
VOL. XLV NO. 30.
OMAHA, SUNDAY Mor.NlNd, JANUARY !, 1!U.
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Calendar of Club Doings
Monday
omaha Woman's club, social science depart
ment, Mrs. Thomas Brown, hostess, 2:30
P. m.
Child Conservation leagues, city federation,
Schmoller & Mueller auditorium, 2 p. m.
Chautauqua circle. Tennyson chapter, Mrs. E.
O. Hampton, hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Tuesday
Business Women's club, Y. W. C. A., 7 p. m.
South Omaha Woman's club, Library hall,
2:30 p. m.
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, vocational
guidance section, Y. W. C. A., 4 p. ni.
Daughters of American Revolution, Omaha
chapter, Mrs. J. B. Reynolds, hostess.
North Side Mothers' club, Mrs. H. W. Dorst,
hostess.
Omaha Woman's club, oratory department,
Y. W. C. A., 10 a. m.
Omaha Woman's club, parliamentary law class
at 2 p. m., followed by current topics' de
partment at 2:30 p. m.
Omaha Woman's club, philosophy and ethics
department, Y. W. C. A., 4 p. m.
Business Women's council, court house, 11:30
a. m. to 1:30 p. m. "
George A. Custer Woman's Relief Corps,
Memorial hall, 2 p. m. ,
Custer post and corps, Joint installation, Me
morial hall, 8 p. m.
Wednesday
W. C. T. V., Omaha society, Y. M. C. A., at
2:30 p. m.
W. C. T. U., Frances Willard society, Mrs. D.
J. Burden, hostess.
Benson Foreign Missionary society, Mrs. P. A.
Legge, hostess.
Thursday'
Wyche Story Tellers' league, public llbraix
4:15 P. m.
Omaha Woman's club, art department, Y. W.
C. A., 10 a. m.
Benson Woman's club, Mrs. W. F. Vernor,
hostess.
Business Womea's council, ; Y. W. C. A., . 7
p. a.
Omaha Woman's -olubr music, department, ,Y.
W. C. A 2:15 p. m.
Friday
Omaha Society of Fine Arts, Hotel Fontenelle,
4 p. m.
Scottish Rite Woman's club', Scottish Rite
cathedral.
West Omaha Mothers' Culture club, Mrs. W.
W. Cannlchael, hostess.
Central Park Mothers' club, school auditor
ium, 2:30 p. m. ,
Saturday
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, open pro
gram by drama section, High school audi
torium, 2:30 p. m.
South Omaha Woman's club, music depart
ment, Mrs. A. J. Randall, hostess.
FOUR concrete lines of work are outlined
by Mrs. Percy Pennybacker, president of
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs, in recent bulletins urging careful
consideration of these topics upon club
women. First is the school manse or the "teacherage,"
proposed by Mrs. Pennybacker. The school manse
means suitable homes for rural school teachers,
with the advent of which it is believed the highest
type of teacher will be attracted to country dis
tricts and the school manse vlll become a civic
an well as an educational center.
Secondly, is the appeal to youth. This is another
of Mrs. Pennybackers favorite pleas, for she
knows that if the work of the federation is to
be kept up to the present high standard there
must be fresh recruits from those , who wear the
"rose of youth'"' upon them.
The clubwoman's duty to the immigrant is the
third point. This subject is especially timely
now In view of the grave situation that must fol
low the European war, when millions of widows
and orphans as well as weakened, disabled men
will doubtless turn their faces towards our shores.
What Is to bo Hone with these people, is a ques
tion calling for earnest consideiRtion on the patt
of all clubwomen.
Individual responsibility is the last point of
Ihe four. The general federations and state fed
erations are made up of individual women, each
of whom owes something to these organizations.
By doing ever the duty nearest in her home and
in her club, she unconsciously builds character,
and character Is the finest possible foundation
for the superstructure of federation. But she
should take a particular interest In some line of
federation activity, and be prepared to render
service along that line. may be home econo
mics, public health, music or whatever most
strongly appeals to her. She should also keep
in touch with the work of the organizations by
reading the General Federation Magazine and
state organs where they are printed; the pro
ceedings of each biennial convention and council:
and In every way possible, familiarise herself with
tbe beneficent activities of the organization of
which her club Is a part.
Suggestions for the development of the above
four topics may be secured by addressing Mrs.
Mary I. Wood, Bureau of Information, Ports
mouth. N. II.
Additional Club News on Page Three.
Another Very Striking Example of Three Omaha
Matrons Whose Personal Resemblance is So Re
markable that Their Friends Frequently Find
Themselves at a Loss to Distinguish Between
Them and to Avoid Addressing One for the Other
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I'oppleton, and I was ever so complimented, for all
are fine looking women. But. I don't think I re
semble any of them at all, at least 1 can see no
resemblance."
In the extended travels of the u'hltmore family
all over the world, Mrs. Whltmore has often been
told that she resembles Mrs. Diaz, the wife of the
late Mexican president, Porfirio Diaz.
Since The Bee begin to trace likenesses among
well known Omaha women, great Interest has been
manifested in this elusive study.
Among those frequently mistaken for each
ether or In whom the likeness has aroused com
ment are Mrs. Richard Carrier and Mrs. Charles
McDonald; Mrs. Charles T. Kountze and Mrs.
Thomas J. Kelly; Miss Daisy Doane and Miss Lil
lian Fitch; Miss Lurlle Bacon and Miss Harriet
Metz; Mrs. Lowrle Chllds and Mrs. A. W. Jefferls.
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MRS. II. P. WH1TMORE, Mrs. R. W. Con
nell and Mrs. F. W. Carmichael con
stitute another trio of charming so
ciety women who are constantly be
ing taken for one another, so strong is the resem
blance they bear to each other.
All three are tall, well buiit, good looking
women of the darker type, with particularly at
tractive, large dark eyes.
Each of the three is constantly being taken
for the other two at luncheons, teas, theaters,
as well as on the street, which causes a great deal
of amusement to their many friends.
Dean Beecher, formerly of Omaha, frequently
n.ade the mistake of addressing Mrs. Connell as
Mrs. Whltmore, on one occasion in particular when
he met Mrs. Connell in tbe Whltmore store.
At the Woman's club one day, two women who
l ad been trying enegretically to reach Mrs. Con
nell all day, heaved a sigh of relief when they
entered the room and saw Mrs. Carmichael there.
At first glance, both women had taken Mrs. Car
michael for Mrs. Connell.
Both Mrs. Connell and Mrs. Carmichael are
active in philanthropic work, Mrs. Connell having
long served the Visiting Nurse association as
treasurer and on the board of directors. While
engaged in this work she was frequently taken
for Mrs. Carmichael, as well as Mrs. Whltmore.
Mrs. Carmichael laughingly admits that she Is
taken for so many women Instead of her own sweet
relf that she is beginning to doubt her own Iden
tity! "Not only have I been taken for Mrs. Whlt
more and Mrs. Connell, but I am so often mis
taken by my neighbors here for Mrs. E. E. Msgea
end Mrs. N. H. Nelson, and for Mrs. A. B. Currie.
Once, too, I was addressed as Mrs. William Sears
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SOCIETY
Social Calendar
Monday-
Dinner and box party at the Boyd theatre,
given by Dr. and Mrs. J. K. Summers.
Woman's day at the Indoor Golf school.
Drexel-Colwell wedding.
Drama class, Miss Kate McIIugh, hostess and
leader.
Tuesday
Afternoon bridge, Mrs. Coe Buchanan, hostess.
Tuesday Bridge club, Miss Marlon Kuhn,
hostess.
Senior Tuesday Bridge clubj Miss Elisabeth
Congdon, hostess.
Kensington-Luncheon club, Mrs. Robert
Fisher, hostess.
Box party for Miss Ellen Wylle, Mrs. 8. B.
Doyle, hostess.
Dance at Fontenelle by the Crelghton Mixers
club.
Franco-Belgian Relief society, Mrs. O. C. Red-
lck, hostess.
Tuesday evening Auction Bridge club, Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Ralph, host and hostess.
Wednesday
Luncheon for Miss Olive Raftree and Miss
Helen Mary Hulnie, Mrs. J. H. Beaton, hos
tess. Luncheon for Mrs. Stanley Hartman and Mrs.
George Laler, Mrs. Frank H. Myers, hos
tess. Mid-week Drama circle, Mrs. M. T. Barlow,
hostess.
New Wednesday Drama class, Miss Zora
Shields, hostess.'
Luncheon for Mrs. Thomas Heyward, Mrs. R.'
B. Busch, hostess,
Thursday
Louise Homer concert parties at Boyd theater.
Original Cooking club, Mrs. Charles Kountze
hostess.
Vesta chapter dance at Chambers' aeademy.
Comus club, Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Jennings, host
and hostess.
Omaha Woman's Press club, luncheon at
Hotel Loyal.
Box party at Boyd's, Mr., and Mrs. Hoxle
Clarke, host and hostess.
Kensington club of Vesta chapter, O. E, S.
entertainment,' Mrs. " John ..E.;':"Simpson!
hostess. ' . , .. .
Subscription club dance at Turpln's hall.
J. F. W. club, Mrs. E. B. Lqmbeck; hostess;
Friday
Friday Bridge club, Miss Mary Burkley.
hostess.
Drama class, Mrs. H. H. Baldrlge, hostess.
Saturday
University club dinner-dance.
LEAP Year entertainment and merriment
were the motif of many of the entertain
ments of the last week and there are no
signs that there may be any abatement for
the ensuing weeks.
The empty, old Joke that comes around every
four years Is here again, women are giving lunch
eons and suppers to men, choosing their partners
and doing the asking for the dances. Some of the
popular clubs are planning many affairs In this
spirit and the men apparently are liking: It Im
mensely. . -
The question asks Itself Just what Is there
lr It?
Just why do men went to sit back and be sought
out as partners?
Do they grow effeminate once every four years?
Is r man's assumption to leadership but a pose
he assumes is he reslly at heart a vine that longs
to ding?
"Sheer nonsense, mere tomniyrot,' says the
&ray-halred matron of many rounded out years, "the
men don't like it, they are merely amused at the '
novelty. It Is. mere curiosity with them they are
having a chance to see what women's taste may be
hke?
"Zoologists say that parrots are the most cur
ious of animals and we all know what killed the
Illustrious cat; but the male genus homo discounts
them all.
A man welcomes leap year solely for one reason
he fancies it gives him a line on woman's taste
snd sn estimate on his own powers of fascination.
For this reason only he is willing to sit back smil
ing, wafting to be chosen. . '
But under It all he is the caveman still and the
I: ue born son of his famed ancestor who went court
ing with a club.
If a betrothal ever did result from a leap-year
proposal,' It is diamonds to doughnuts that the mas
cullne subject was a mollycoddle that might hare
been as easily trapped any year in the centurr. "
And there is snother thing about It all does a
woman follow her taste or her inclination when she
(hooses a partner at a leap year affair?
"But there are more engagements during leap
year." some one Is already protesting.
Of course, there are, no one Is denying that.
There is nothing that brings a man right about
face like Jealousy. Love, to be sure. Is the motive
of marrying and all the fine things that the poets
have said about the tender sentiment are perfectly
true.
But how many men amongst us are delicately
enough attuned to know they are In love until they
are made Jealous?
Of course, there will be many an engagement the
outcome of the social events of this leap yearj but
they shan't come of the partners who r chosen
but the ones who are not. '
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