Omaha Sunday
PART TWO
SOCIETY
PAGES ONE TO SIX
PART TWO
SOCIETY
PAGES ONE TO SIX
VOL. XLVXO. 30.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNINO, KKNHUAKY "JO, I'.Mfi.
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Calendar of Club Doings
Monday
Chautauqua circle, Tennyson chapter, Miss
Eunice Friend, hostess, 2:30 p. in.
Omaha Woman's club, social science depart
ment, Y. W. C. A., 2:30 p. m.
Flag presentation by Omaha chapter, D. A.
It., at High School of Commerce, 2 p. m.
Tuesday
Business Women's club, Y. W. C. A. audi
torium, 7 p. m.
South Omaha Woman's club, literature de
partment, library hall, 2:30 p. m.
Omaha Woman's club, oratory department
Metropolitan hall, 10 a. m.
Omaha Woman's club, current topics depart
ment, Y. W. C. A., 2:30 p. m.
Omaha Woman's club, philosophy and ethics
department. Y. W. C. A., 4 p. m.
Historical pageant, "Girls of Yesterday and
Today," Y. W. C. A., 8 p. m.
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, voca
tional guidance section, Y. W. C. A.,
4 p. m.
Business Women's council, luncheon and
prayer meeting, court house, 11 a. ni. to
2 p. m.
P. E. O. sisterhood, chapter B. P., Mrs. P. J.
Haas, hostess, 2 p. m.
Wednesday
Omaha Woman's club, literature department
kensington, Mrs. J. B. Adams, hostess.
Mothers' Culture club, Mrs. W. W. Fisher,
hostess.
W. C. T. U. of Omaha, Mrs. John Dale,
hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Omaha Woman's Missionary federation, an
nual meeting, Y. W C. A., 2:30 p. in. ,
W. C. T. U., Frances Wlllard society, Mrs.
W. T. Gagnenbein, hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Jewish Ladies' Relief, society, Beth Hamed
rosh synagogue, 2:30 p. nt.
Thursday
Wyche Story Tellers' league, public library,
4 p. m.
Omaha Woman's club, art department) Y. W.
C. A., 10 a. m, '
Benson Woman's club, Mrs. George W. Ire
dale, hostess,
Omaha Woman's club, music department, Y.
W.U.A.,' 2:15 pmiTr?""
W. C. T. V.; West Side society, Mrs. Le Roy
Sa veil, hostess, 2 p. m.
' B. L. S. club of Benson, St. Bernard's hall.
B'nal Brlth Ladles' auxiliary, Lyric building,
8 p. m.
Friday
West Omaha Mothers Culture elub, Mm. R.
T. Barber, hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Scottish Rite ' Woman's club, Scottish Rite
cathedral, J p. m.
Woman's auxiliary to Episcopal churches, All
Saints' church. .
Women's Christian Temperance Unlom, North
Side branch, Mrs. C. J. Schmidt, hostess.
Saturday
Mu Sigma club, twenty-third birthday party,
Mrs. E. W. Gunther, hostess, 8 p. m.
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, dramatic
section, Hotel Rome, 10:45 a. m.
MAHA'S oldest study club, Mu Sigma,
will celebrate Its twenty-third birthday
H Saturday with a presentation of Rob
f trt Browning's "Colombe's Birthday"
by daughters- of the members. The
May, which has been coached by Miss Mary Irene
Wallace, Mrs. Frank J. Norton and Mrs. Will
iam J. Hotz, will be given in the evening at the
borne or Mrs.'E. W. Gunther, with husbands of
the members as guests.'
Of the original members of the club, three
are still on the club roster, Mrs. George Thomp
son, Mrs. A. B. Somers and Mrs. H. D. Neely be
ing the three. Mrs. Isaac Carpenter, the presi
dent, is traveling in the east, but plans to return
iu time for the birthday party. The entertain
ment committee Includes Mrs. K. W. Gunther,
Mrs. A. C. Davenport and Mrs. W. S. Negele.
The cast for the play is as follows: Colombe,
Ne'.le Ityan; Sabyne, Eleanor Potter; Adolph.
Josephine Plainer; Guibert, Mabel Conklin; Gau
ccline, Jean Landale; Maufroy, Helen Leach;
(lugnet, Anna Porter; a courtier, Dorothy Nor
ton; Valent. Mildred Foster; Priije Berthold,
Ann Axtell, and Melchror, Louise Damon.
Mrs. K. R. J. Edholm, Mrs. F. J. Birss and
Mrs. F. J. Burnett, the local committee in charge
of the Baby Health exhibit to be held in the Agri
cultural society rooms in the court house, March
11 to 18, announce the following arrangements:
The exhibit will be open every day from 10 a. m.
to 10 p. ni., with a program each day except Sun
day. Hostesses will be in attendance from all
women's organizations, with members of the
Omaha Woman's club on duty at all times, morning
and afternoon. Members of the Association of
Collegiate Alumnae and the Young Women's Chris
tian association will act as hostesses evenings.
On the afternoon of the opening day Prof.
Alice Loom is, Mrs. Reed Davisson and Prof.
Frandsen of the state university will talk and Dr.
A. E. Johann of Lincoln as well as Mrs. E. M.
Syfert, president of the Woman's club, will pre
side. The program will embrace the three funda
mental points in baby health civic environment,
food and clothing. Saturday night's program will
be on mouth hygiene. Dr. Horace Warren of Mis
souri Valley and Dr. William Shearer being the
i.peakers. Like programs will be given every aft
ernoon from Monday to Friday and several eve
nings. Additional Club News on Page Four.
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Leisure Time Teaching Omaha Youngsters Modern
Languages, that They May Hold - Their Own in a
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EAGER, earnest and enthusiastic, the dom
lnent spirit of Miss Helen 8cobie has
been caught In the accompanying char
acter portrait dono by J. Laurie Wal
lace, Omaha artist. The portrait of this
well beloved young girl, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James R. Scobie, was painted just be
fore the holidays, and by reason of the success
ful representation of these distinguishing char
acteristics in the animated figure, has arousel
the admiration cf all art critics and friends who
have viewed the painting.
Miss Scobie is an accomplished young woman,
having gone abroad to specialize in the languages,
after her early training at Brownell Hall and the
Ely school in Connecticut. As young girls, Miss
Scobie and her cousin. Miss Bertha Dickey, were
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Inseparable. The two girls were about the same
age, attended the same schools and went abroad
together, and, as a relative laughing remarked
"They were even Inseparable in our minds. We
never thought of one without the other." Miss
Dickey is now Mrs. Harold Bromfleld of Honolulu,
snd Miss Scobie will probably visit her cousin
there in the near future.
I'pon her return from abroad, this earnest
young woman found time hanging heavily on her
lands and cast about her for something to do.
She typifies the modern young woman of educa
tion and refinement and social standing who is
rot content with a never-ending round of teas,
dinners and dances, but must find something
worth while to occupy her attention.
What could she do?
There was her French and German, to which
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she bad diligently applied herself while abroad.
Yen, she would make use of that!
For this decision, many future debutantes
and prominent citizens r.re deeply thankful, for
Miiis Scobie Is the most popular teacher of lan
guages with her young pupils. Little Gertrude,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Kountze,
pends much time with her teacher and the kid
dles at the Holyoke-Dox school, where Miss Scobie
ipends the mornings, are al;io extremely fond of
' teacher." '
In the work of the Franco-Belgian Relief so
ciety, Miss Scobie Is also deeply Interested and
is at present serving the society as treasurer.
Miss Scoble's parents are spending the w'nter
In Florida, so Miss Scobie has been dividing her
time with the Arthur Crittenden Smiths and her
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. II. G. Jordan.
SOCIETY
Social Calendar.
Monday
Dinner-dance at Rome hotel, given by Tem
ple Israel sisterhood.
Original Monday Bridge club.
Matinee party for Miss Ellen Weart at Or
pheum theater, given by Mrs. James Con
rad and Miss Katharine Conrad.
Franco-Belgian Relief committee, Mrs. Au
gust M. Borglum, hostess.
White Shrine Whist club, Masonic temple.
liO Mars club dance, Turpin's hall.
Comus club, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Larmon, host
and hostess.
Tuesday
WashlnKton's birthday dinner at Omaha club.
Shriners' dance at Scottish Rite cathedral.
Luncheon for Mrs. Meredith Nicholson at
Omaha club, Mrs. C. B. Keller, hostess.
La Salle club dance at Chambers' academy.
Luncheon and matinee party for Miss Ellen
Wesrt, Miss Helen Garvin, hostess.
Tuesday Bridge club, Mrs. John Madden,
hostess.
Tuesday Evening Dancing club, masquerade
ball, Harte hall.
Franco-Belgian Relief society, Mrs. Warren
. Rogers, hostess.
Afternoon dancing party, Mrs. Edgar H.
Scott, hostess.
Wednesday
Rotary club, annual dinner-dance, Fonts-
nelle. '
Tea for Mrs. Harry Learned, Mrs. Francis A.
Brogan, hostess.
Wednesday Morning Drama class, Mrs. John
T. Stewart, 2d., hostess.
Wednesday Afternoon Drama circle, Mrs.
Frank ColpeUer, hostess.
Thursday
Original Cooking club, Mrs. Joseph Barker,
hostess.
Subscription cluh dance, Turpin's hall.
Dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. Howard H.
Baldrlge.
Comus club, Mrs. Charles Everson, hostess.
Bridge-luncheon at Fontenelle, Mesdames
Bertha ' Cohn, Carl Furth and Sol Gold
stein, hostesses.
Luncheon for Mrs! Meredith Nicholson, Mrs.
Arthur Crittenden 8mttfe?.lMgtdss. -
Dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. W, A, C.
Johnson. , .
Society night at Automobile show.'
Dinner preceding Subscription club dance,
given by Mr. and Mrs. O. C. RedlcK.
Pagalco club dance, Metropolitan hall.
Omaha Woman's Press club luncheon, Y, W.
. - C. A., 1 p. m.
Friday
First anniversary dinner-dance of Hotel
Fontenelle.
Amateur Musical club, Mrs. George Barker,
jr., hostess.
Sliver wedding anniversary reception for Dr.
" and Mrs. William Berry.
Phi Beta PI dance, Chambers' academy.
Zoellner string quartet at Fontenelle.
Afternoon bridge for Mesdames, Daniel Korn
and Louise Strauss, Mrs,. Alexander Pol
. lack, hostess. ;
Saturday
Haimony club, Mr. and Mrs. John Robblns,
host and hostess. '
United Commercial Travelers' entertainment..
Swedish auditorium.
THE next few weeks already show the ef
fect of approaching Lent things seem
pausing to dash in and take an extra
whirl and entrancing spin before the
penitential season begins the 8th of
next month.
Many of the larger affairs in planning are be
ing spoken of with an air of finality as "the last
tne before Lent."
Lent, as a period of social Inactivity and devo
tion to sterner things of life, Justly demands Its
own preparations. One nisy take up sackcloth
rnd ashes, figuratively speaking, all the easier and
with more pious resignation If the time imme-d-ately
preceding has been marked by v' special
tayety.
There Is no reason that the west should not
have its Mardl Gras It Is a country In the mazing
and all good things should go into construction.
It Is different on the Atlantic seaboard
things there were started by Puritans and Quakers
and very stern and exacting men; and the ways of
the old cities they founded have become Institu
tional. Things are very different on the gulf coast
and much more pleasant, any one will admit who
knows Mobile or New Orleans and the wholesome
delight of their carnival.
The western people are from everywhere, and
there is no reason, psychological or otherwise, that
they must live after the Puritan pattern. Because
a ring of old Roundheads in England some hun
dred years sgo said 't was wicked to have the
carnival Is small reason this part of this country
should obey even unto this day.
Some twenty odd years ago Nebraska broke
into open rebellion and Inaugurated its Ak-Sar-Ben
festival. Of course, there are some old Cotton
Mather souls among us still who think It is merely
a commercial scheme, a cabal of merchants to get
people Into Omaha to buy their goods. But all
the merchants in the world and all the sellers and
buyers of goods In the world couldn't make a festi
val If the people didn't put the spirit of festivity
into it.
Additional Roclety News on Neat -Pace
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