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PART TWO
PART TWO
SOCIETY
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VOL. XLV NO. 37.
OMAHA, SUXDAY MORNTNO, FEBRUARY 27, 1016.
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Calendar of Club Doings
Monday
Omaha Woman's club, Y. W. C. A., 2:30 p.
m.; open program by literary department,
3:30 p. m.
Chautauqua circle, Tennyson chapter, Mrs.
John R. Webster, hostess, 2:30 p. m.
-Tuesday
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.
Business Woman's club, leap year party, T.
W. C. A., 7 p. m.
Omaha chapter of D. A. It. luncheon on
Commercial club for Mrs. George Thacher
Guernsey. ,
Woman's Relief Corps, IT. S. Grant branch,
kensington, Miss Sophia Schneider, host
ess. Woman's Relief Corps. George A. Custer
branch, card party, Mrs. Charles G. Ever
son, hostess.
North Side Mothers club, Mrs. R. II. Fair,
hostess, 1:30 p. m.
Wednesday
Dundee Woman's club, Mrs. John Harte,
hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Omaha Woman's club, literature department.
Y. W. C. A., 10 a. m.
Clio club, Mrs. W. R. McFarlane, hostess,
2:30 p. m.
Miller Park Mothers' circle, Mrs. Harry
Brunner, hostess.
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, story
tellers' section, Miss Helen Sommer, host
ess, 4 p. m.
Major Isaac Sadler chapter of D. A. R.
luncheon and Fontenello tablet unveiling.
SpanlBh War Veterans, Henry Lawton auxil
iary, Memorial hall, 2:30 p. m.
Mu Sigma club, Mrs. C. IL Balliet, hostess,
9:30 a. m.
Thursday
P. E. O. sisterhood. Chapter E, annual meet
ing, Mrs. W. B. Woodward, hostess.
Omaha Society of Fine Arts, Hotel Fontenelle,
4 p. m.
Omaha Woman' 'dub, home economics de
partment, Y. W. C. A., 10 a. m..
Omaha Story Tellers' league, public library
4 p. m.
Friday
W. C. T. V. of Benson, Mrs. N. H. Hawkins,
hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Child Conservation league. North Side circle,
Mrs." N. Fenger, hostess, 2 p.m.
Saturday
P. E. O. sisterhood, Chapter B. N., annual
meeting, Mrs. O. H. Menold, hostess, 10
a. m.
Alpha Chi Omega sorority, annual meeting.
Miss Ethel Fry, hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Y. W. C. A. girls' department banquet.
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Fontenelle. lust celebrating its first
1 birthday, as the center of Interest. Two
patriotic societies, Major Isaac Sadler
chapter of the Daughters of the American Revo
lution, and the Colonial Dames of America, will
make presentations, the first a bronze tablet
inscribed to the memory of the .hotel's namesake,
Chief Ix)gan Fontenelle, and the other a portrait
of the Indian chief. The tblet will be unveiled
in the hotel lobby Wednesday with elaborate
ceremonies and the portrait the following Mon
day at 3 o'clock.
Eugene Fontenelle, a nephew of Logan, will
come from his home in Decatur for the ceremo
nies aid will bring with him the cherished Fon
tenelle flag which was brought to Omaha at the
opening of the hotel. This flag bears forty stars
representing the number of states in the union
when Fontenelle was the chieftain of the Omahas.
Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey, state regent
of Kansas and a sister of Mrs. Charles H. Aull,
Nebraska state regent, will be an honor guest at
the exercises. Mrs. Guernsey was a candidate for
the office of president general of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, opposing the present
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executive. Mrs. William Cumming Story, at the
last election, and she is prominently mentioned
as one of the candidates for the office at the next
election. Mrs. Guernsey is a member of the na
tional board.
In honor of Mrs. Guernsey, Omaha chapter of
the Daughters of the American Revolution will
give the luncheon it had planned for George
Washington's birthday this Tuesday at the Com
mercial club. Members of the state board will
also be honor guests at this affair and at the
luncheon the next day which Major Isaac Sadler
chapter gives at the Hotel Fontenelle preceding
the unveiling of its tablet. This day will also
mark the fifth anniversary of the Sadler chapter,
of which Mrs. Archibald Smith is regent. Mrs.
Harriet MacMurphy and Robert F. Gilder will
give talks at this affair, both of them being well
versed in the history of the Fontenelles.
Preparations for the fourteenth annual con
ference of the Nebraska Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution, to be held In Lincoln, March 15,
16 and 17, as well as for the national assembly
In Washington the middle of April, are In prog
ress. The sessions of the state meeting will be
at the Lincoln hotel and 800 delegates are ex
isted mere, mere win ne a nanquei ror me
ons and Daughters of the American Revolution
snd a reception and Informal muslcale at the gov
ernor's mansion given by Governor and Mrs.
John n. Morehead. Mrs. Guernsey will remain
over to attend the state meeting.
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Miss Harriet Smith One of the Merry Group
of Bathers in Sun Bath on Sands at the Florida
Resort for Those Who Have Money and Time
to Spend in Pursuit of Pleasure
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DABBLING in the sand and basking In the
warmth of the southern sun. Miss Har
riet Huntington Smith, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Crittenden Smith, Is
rcost envied of the girls who are braving the gales
i of local weather conditions the last few days.
Miss Smith Is with a party of New York friends
at Palm Beach, Florida, and Is here shown on the
Btrand of the far-famed winter resort with her host
ess. Miss Alice Delamar, and Miss Gertrude Lath
rop, former school friends at Miss Spence's In New
York.
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Social activities are at their height, for It Is a
Dementia-Four-Rooms-and-a-Bath :-: DorcU,y
By IK) ROTH Y DIX.
A FAMOUS neutrologlst has recently as-,
serted that the reason so many city
women go insane is because of the re
stricted space in which they live, and
that there is a form of mental aberration that may
well be called dementia-four-rooms-and-a-bath.
He says that hundreds of thousands of women
spend their lives cooped up In a few small rooms,
about which they wander like animals In a cage.
Generally the rooms are ugly and unattractive;
often they are dark; nearly always their windows
offer no view except a squalid street, or fire es
capes and clotheslines. In, time her environment
gets on the woman's nerves. She become morbid,
hysterical and often goes raving mad.
Heretofore it has always been an Insoluble
enigma why the average wife and mother Is always
in the doleful dumps and disgruntled with her Job.
Go into store or office, and the women employes
are alert, cheerful, bright-eyed, smiling. Oo Into
a house and the woman who Is running It has
drooping shoulders, a saggecLjdown mouth and Is
a bundle of complaints about husband and children,
and If she has to do her own cooking she regards
herself as martyr.
Yet housework Is not half as exhausting labc
as standing all day behind a counter or bent over
a typewriter. Moreover, to make a real home Is
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merry season at the American Riviera. Natty
beach costumes and the earliest bint of advance
spring and early summer fashlonsare being blown
northward on breezes from the popular sojourning
place, for Palm Beach Is the dictator, without a
doubt
Miss Smith will remain there until the middle
of March, when she goes to Boston to visit her
aunt, Mrs. C. Putnam. Here she will be Joined by
her mother, and together they will return to
Omaha about April 1.
Among the well known devotees of Palm Beach
this season are Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan Spalding of
Chicago, who are there on their wedding trip. Mrs.
Spalding was formerly Miss Florence Cudahy,
the finest career any woman can aspire to, and
brings the greatest reward.
. Why, then, should the domestic woman not be
as happy la her work and bring the same philos
ophy to bear on It that the business woman does
to hers? 81mply because the domestic woman
lives shut up In such a little space that she has
lost her- perspective. She has become unable to
see the true value of life and to Judge things at
their proper worth. She's gone loco, as they say
In the west.
And that this is true Is proven by the fact that
you can cure, temporarily at least, the mottt queru
lous and naggtng wife and mother by sending her
away from home for a while.
It Is the woman who has the four-room-and-a-bath
type of mind who has a mania about trifles.
She cant see beyond the end of her nose.
Her molehills are all mountains. Every disap
pointment is a tragedy. She has hysterics if a new
dress is botched in the making. She calls in her
friends to weep and lament with her If the cook
leaves. She bores you to death ' by recounting
every detail of her family history.
And It's the woman with the four-room-and-a-bath
mind who is the grinding family tyrant who
keeps husband and children under ber thumb.
She's been shut up In a cage herself until the mere
thought of anyone having any individual personal
liberty fills ber with terror. She la confident that
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daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Cudahy, formerly
of Omaha.
Mrs. Henry C. Van Gleson Is now at Palm
Beach, where she went with her brothor, Mr. D. B.
Van Emburgh of New York City, who has been
quite 111, with Mrs. Van Emburgh and their sister,
Mrs. M. E. Ross. Mr. Farnara Smith and Mr. Ben
jamin F. Smith are also at the Florida resort, and
Mr. and Mrs. Hoxle Clarke of Villa Belvldere, New
York, who spent a number of weeks here as the
guest of Mrs. Clarke's mother, Mrs. Ella Squires,'
recently had planned to be at Palm Beach, while
Mrs. Squires was at Jekyll Island with Mrs. Henry
D. Estabrook.
Mrs. W. A. Redlck has gone to Sea Breese, Fla.,
another popular resort of the southland.
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if she permitted her husband to take a single drop
of liquor he would become a drunken sot. She Is
sure that if she didn't keep him tied to her apron
strings he would be a Don Juan, and that only the
knowledge that hr eagle eye is upon him keeps
him from philandering with every good-looking
woman he meets.
It takes the woman who has lived In the big
world, who has bandied big affairs, who has had
to give and take, and been taught to respect other
people's rights, to be broad-minded and broad
visloned, and above the little meannesses and
tyrannies characteristic of her sex.
It Is often observed that the business women
is far more philosophic and placid than the domes
tic woman; that she does not worry over trifles as
the domestic woman uoes; that she does not gossip,
nor is she catty or full of spiteful Jealousy to other
women, but, on the contrary, that she Is a lover of
her sex and invariably the first to help a sister in
trouble and the last to believe evil of her.
This Is not because the business woman is natu
rally a better woman than the domestic woman,
but merely that she is saner. She lives In the
boundless outer world instead of being confined
within the narrow limits of a family circle, and so
has escaped the dreadful malady of dementla-four-rooms-and-a-bath.
It Is significant that almost all of the most ob-
SOCIETY
Social Calendar.
Monday '
Rajah club dance, Turpln's academy.
Comus club entertainment, Mr. and Mrs.
P. J. tarmon, host and hostess.
Dinner and theater party for Mrs. Meredith
Nicholson, given by Mr. and Mrs. J. De
Forest Richards.
Leap Year party of Phllathea class, Mrs. O.
M. Barnes, hostess.
Tuesday
I .cap year dance, Omaha Junior club at Fon
tenelle. Flano recital and reception to Madame
Llstnlewska at Brownell hall.
Theater party given by Diet club.
Leap year party for Genevieve Welsh, Mrs.
S. J. Welsh, hostess.
Banquet to husbands of members, Hotel
Loyal, by the Thimble club.
Leap year dancing party, Pratrte Park club
house, by Prettiest Mile Golf club.
Kensington and leap year party at Trairie
Park club house, Mrs. Charles C. Haynes,
hostess.
Luncheon for Mrs. Clement Chase, Fonte
nelle, Mrs. E. W. Nash, hostess.
Wednesday
Luncheon for Mrs. James II. Learned, Mrs.
. W. J. Connell, hostess.
Dinner at the Fontenelle, Knights of Co
lumbus, hosts.
Muslcale for St. Paul's church, Mrs. C. E.
Baldwin, hostess.
Knights Templars' dance, Turpln's academy.
Thursday '
Subscription club dance at Turpln's hall.
Dinner preceding Subscription dance, given
. by Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Judson.
Dlnner proceeding Subscription dance. Miss
Ida Sharp, hostess.
Ctnosam club dance, Scottish Rite cathedral.
Dinner parttes given by Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
George and Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Redlck.
Friday
' Student and Alumni Prom, Rome hotel.
Crols club dance, Harte's hall,
Saturday-Week-end
Dancing club, Chambers' acad
emy. '
Ir would seem that everybody born February
29 is going to have a birthday celebration
next Tuesday and is quite proud of the acci
dent of birth which gave so marked an anni
versary. Speaking of February 29 birth
days, I never ' could quite take Robert Louis
Stevenson's sympathy with tne little daughter
of the American consul at Samoa as wholly sin
cere. The little girl was born on the last day of
leap year and her birthday only came once every
four years. Stevenson agreed with her that this
was hard luck; every little girl was entitled to
have a birthday and a nice party with 'many gifts
once every year. And the little girl agreed with
Stevenson. So the author changed birthdays;
he took the little girl's birthday and in exchange
gave her his, the sixteenth of October, as I re
member. The exchange was boni fide and ac
companied by a legally worded bill of exchange.
This little girl is now Mrs. William Bourke
Cochran, prominent in New York's smartest cir
cles. She counts ber years from the birthday she
got in exchange and gives a party that la quite an
event in her exclusive set.
One of the big events of the coming week will
be the recital at Brownell Hall and the reception
following. The affair Is in honor of the cele
brated musician', Madame Marguerite Melville
Ltsznlewska, who will be the guest of her friend.
Miss Sophie Nostltz-Nalmska, of the musical de
partment at Brownell Hall. The recital will be
given at the Hall Tuesday evening, and fifteen
prominent matrons will assist the faculty In re
ceiving. On Tuesday evening the Thimble club gives
its annual entertainment and banquet. Tho af
fair will be given at the Hotel Loyal and fifty
guests are expected. The club, which la composed
of mothers and daughters, is Issuing Invitations
to the husbands, sons and brothers of member,
A committee Is arranging the' entertainment,
which will not be divulged until It is given.
One of the largest dinners of this winter pre
ceding the Subscription club dance will be given
Thursday evening by the Frank Judsons at their
home. Forty guests have accepted.
An Important social event of the last week
has been the organization of the Amateur Musi
cal club and Us election of new members. While
this club has been In existence for some time, ita
meetings have been discontinued this season.
With reorganization, the musical society m!ust
be expected to come Into artistic and social promi
nence. The Tuesday Morning Musical club, now
numbering 700 members. Is almost too large to
be reckoned any more as a social institution, but
rather as an educational factor In the Interests
of good music. The new dub seems to fit into
the want that was left when the old club ex
panded beyond all limits of a social organization.
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Jectlonable feminine faults are the direct results of
the old policy of keeping women shut up in the
home. This has produced certain abnormalities of
character that we have spoken of politely as the
"feminine temperament," or "feminine peculiari
ties," or a "woman's whims,'" but which, in reality,
are Just plain bughouse.
They are denienUa-four-rooms-and-a-bath, and
the sure cure for it is for women to get out of tne
home and do their share ot tne wwld'Je'WorJk,