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PART TWO
SOCIETY
PAGES ONE TO SIX
PART TWO
SOCIETY
PAGES ONE TO SIX
VOL. XI A NO. 38.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MOKXIXO, MAKCll
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Homemaking Put on a Strictly Business Basis
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Calendar of Club Doings
Monday
Omaha Woman's club, social science depart
ment. Y. W. C. A., '2:30 p. rn.
Drama league, city hall, 4 p. m.
Portrait unveiling by Colonial Dames of
America, Hotel Fontenelle, 3 p. ni.
Chautauqua circle, Tennyson chapter, Mrs. O.
E. Bryson, hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Tuesday
Luncheon for Miss Anna A. Gordon by local
temperance unions at First Congregational
church.
Buslnes Women's club, Y. W. C. A.. 8:15 p. m.
South Omaha Woman's club, Library hall,
2:30 p. in.
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, vocational
guidance section, Y. W. C. A., 4 p. nt.
Custer Woman's Relief Corps, Sunshine club,
Mrs. E'. W. Smith, hostess. .
Omaha Woman's club, oratory department,
Metropolitan hall, 10 a, m.
Old People's home, board of trustees, Y. W.
C. A., 10 a. m.
Omaha Woman's club, current topics depart
ment, Y. W. C. A., 2:30 p. in.
U. S. Grant Woman's Relief Corps, Memorial
hall, 2:30 p. nt.
Omaha Woman's club, philosophy and ethics
department, Y. W. C. A., 4 p. m.
White Shrine, Sojourners', club, Mrs. W. II.
Mick, hostess.
Business. Girls' council, luncheon and prayer
meeting courthouse, 11a. m. to 2 p. m.
Wednesday
Benson Woman's Foreign Missionary society,
Mrs. Charles Anderson, hostess.
Wyche Story Tellers' league, public library,
4:15 p. m.
Miller Park Mothers' club, school auditorium,
2 p. in. '
W. C. T. V. of Omaha, Y. W. C. A., 2:30 p. m.
Thursday
U. S. Daughters of 1812, Nebraska chapter,
Mrs. C. H. Mullin, hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Benson Woman's club, Mrs. N. H. Tyson,
hostess, 2:30 p. m.
B'nal Brlth, ladies' auxiliary, Lyric hall,
8 p. m.
Omaha Woman's xlub,. music department, Y-
W. C. A., 2:15 p. m.
Ortor of Eastern Star, Vest chapter, kenslng-
ton, Mrs. C. Vincent, hostess.
W. C. T. U., West Side union, Mrs. Frank
Dunn, hostess, p. in.
Friday
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, drama
section, Miss R:ith McDonald, hostess, at
4 p. m.
West Omaha Mothers' Culture club, Mrs.
James Corr, hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Benson Woman's club, "Baby Health Week"
program. Odd Fellows' hall, 2 to 5 p. m.
Central Park Mothers' club, school auditor
ium, 2 p. m. -
Saturday
Baby health exhibit opens at courthouse un-i
e'er auspices Omaha Woman's club.
Luncheon for Mrs. J. N. Paul, state presi
dent, by Omaha Woman's club, Hotel Fon
tenelle. South Omaha Woman's club, music depart
ment, Mis. Jean Lee, hostess, 2:30 p. m.
OMAHA club women will bo honored by the
prcsrnce of both a stnto and national
executive this week, both of whom will
b rucsiS of honor at large luncheons.
Y.iss Ar.na Adams Gordon of Evanston,
111 , president of the national Woman's Christian
Truiperanco union, will ppcnel a busy day In
Orra!i: Tuotdjy en route to Lincoln for the meet
ing of temperance workers of this district. A
iflM'nitti'c of white ribboncrs will await Miss Gor
don's arrival Tuesday morning and escort her to
tho Fontenelle where the-re will be an open con
lrone of workers at 10 o'clock.
Miss Gordon w;ll address the Btudents of the
Urt'verruiy of Omaha at the chapel hour at 11 ami
will then b3 ruslird back torthe city for the re
ception to be given for her at the First Congrcga
t'cnal church between the hour of noon and 1
"o'clock. The luncheon, for which over 300 rcner
vaiions have been mrde, follows, after which Miss
CcrJon wtil wake fin address. Miss Gordon leaves
cn the 1 o'e'eck irr.ln for Lincoln.
Mrs. J. X. Paul of St. Paul, president of the
Nebraska Fcrk.r.uion of Woman's clubs, will be
the other guosi oT honor. Mrs. Pnul comes Sat
urday to be present at the opening of the baby
health exhibit at the court house, March 11-18.
This exhibit was planned by the Lincoln and
Omaha Woman's clubs and will circulate through
the principnl towns of the state upon leaving
Omaha. Just now it is being shown in Lincoln.
The Omaha Woman's club gives a large lunch
con at the Hotel Fontenelle Saturday at 12 o'cloc k,
complimentary to Mrs. Paul, this being her first
official visit to Omaha.
For Monday, the presentation of u portrait of
I.ogan Fontenelle to the hotel which bears his
ame, claims attention with the opening of the
becond series of lectures given by the local center
of the Drama league. Mrs. Aruthur Crittenden
Emith is president of the Nebraska chapter of the
Colonial Dames of America, which is presenting
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the portrait, the work of art to be received by
hn L. Kennedy in behalf of the hotel company.
Prof Paul H. Grummann and Prof. Guernsey Jones
both of the University of Nebraska, are the lec-
(ivrers for the Drama league course, the first
speaker taking "The Later Ibsen" as his subject,
and the other speaker, "English Dram., of Today."
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Helen Straight Thinks a House Should Be as Well
Managed as Affairs of a Big Department Store
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TIME was when a pretty young girl was
asked In marriage, she accepted with
out a tremor for the responsibilities
she assumed or her ability to meet
them. Not so the up-to-date 1916 girl.
I reathing the spirit of the age, whose watchword
is efficiency, the modern young g'rl seeks to ap
ily the scientific principles, which are so much
in use, in every other branch of work to the
hitherto backward field of homemaking and
housekeeping. For U is generally conceded that
if Adam were to come back to earth and under
take to resume his occupation of farming ho
would be totally at a Iobs to begin his work be
cause of the strides of science in the agricultural
field. But If Eve had returned la so recent a
day as our grandmother's, it is a very safe vent
ure that she could take up her household duties
and begin the preparation of tho family meal with
very slight delay, because of her ignorance of
household appliances.
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HISS HELEN sSTJZELGHT
Miss Helen Streight, daughter erf Mr. and
Mrs. II. G. Streight, is a pioneer among Omaha
girls to take up the question of home making in
all seriousnefcs and to make as deep a study of
this subject as tho average man or woman makes
of the profession he or the intendn to follow.
Mlsi Streight is attending Columbia univer
sity in New York City, not to speclaliso In art,
music, languages or literature, but she Is taking
a course In household administration, if you
please. Not that this course does not include
the higher forms of art, for she Is also studying
interior decorating and architectural drawing,
but all of these studies only as they apply ' to
relentiflc home making.
The keynote of a modern-day course is to Im
press on the student the constructive force of
household work to do away with tho drudgery
ilea and to minimize labor. The contrast be
tween labor and industry is emphasized as Is the
necessity of calling the mind into work as well as
the hands. Miss Streight is also delving into
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'the mysteries of the economic relations of things,
biipply and demand, to give her the same training
that the bead of any business concern requires
for the success of his business.
H was after two years at the Omaha High
school that Miss Streight attended the Prlnclpla
school in St. Louis. And here developed a pretty
romance.
Eldred Hamlin, son of George Hamlin, the
famous tenor who appeared here in concert with
Miss Frances Nash recently, is an Instructor at
the Prlnclpla school and fell In love with , the
level-headed Omaha girl. They are engaged and
tre to be married soon now the eat Is out of
the bag! So now you know why Miss Streight
is applying herself so diligently to the study of
household arts.
Miss Streight has not beta home since tthe
Christmas vacation, but is expected to return
'early In June. Mr. and Mrs. George Hamlin
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Streight on Mr.
Hamlin's last concert appearance here
SOCIETY
Social Calendar.
Monday
Crolghton university Mixers' club dance at
Chambers' academy.
Dinner for Governor and Mrs. Morehead at
Fontenelle, given by Crelghton university
Mixers' club.
Pre-Lentn dinner, Mrs. Leonard Everett,
host era.
Luncheon and matinee party for Miss Rose
Hunphy, Miss Mercedes Caughlin, hostess.
Tuesday
Madden-Murray wedding.
Dinner-dance at Omaha club.
Evening munlcale In guild rooms of St.
Barnabas' Episcopal church.
All-day meeting of Franco-Belgian Relief so
ciety. Mrs. F. P. Kirkendall, hostess.
Luncheon for Mr. Tlt'an J. Coffey, Mrs.
Howard II. BnUlrige, hostess.
llanscom Park Card club entertainment, Mrs.
E. E. Huntley, hostess.
La Salle club dance. Chambers' academy.
Luncheon. Mrs. Leigh Leslie, hostess.
Prettiest Mllo Golf club entertainment, given
by Mr. and Mrs. F. McCleneghan.
Dinner preceding the Omaha club dlnner
dancc, given by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hamil
ton, Mr. Fred Dnlrs and Mr. Elmer Redlck.
Wednesday
St. Cecelia Snnctuary club meeting.
Thursday
Luncheon for Mrs. Titian J. Coffey, Mrs.
Howard H. P.aldrlge, hostess,
Children's party, Mrs, L. M. Lord, hostess.
Friday
Omaha Woniun's Tress club, Y. W. C; A.
Saturday
Comus club, Mrs. Ben Marti, hostess. '
Les Amies Whist club, Miss Rheta Rasmus
sen, hostess.
Luncheon for Mr. Ernest Harold Baynes at
Commercial club, given by tho Nebraska
Audubon society.
Dinner for Mr. Ernest Harold Baynes, given
by Mr. and Mrs. William F. Baxter.
TWO more days and Lent!
Tho calendar for Monday and Tues
day is well crowded, with' Ash Wednes
the book.
day, as it should be, a clean page on
Tho Omaha club celebrates Mardl Gras with a
big dinner-danco, the dancers' last chance for forty
long days. As has been tt;e case ever slnco the
club has taken up these dances again, the Tues
day affair gives every promise of a great success,
nil proving there Is nothing like one's own club
after all no actresses nor out-of-town women
there who may offend propriety by smoking In the
corridors.
There has been a steady leaving of popular
hostesses all the last week and one more matron,
who makes up local smartdom, Is preparing to
leave this week or next.
About the middle of the week the vsrtous Len
ten sewing clubs will begin to make their plans
and arrnngo the good work which is to engage
them during the penitential season.
On Snturday In the visit of the naturalist, ,Mr.
Ernest Harold Baynes, to Omaha, one may look for
an event that is more than quasi social. Mr. Baynes
not only Interests the most humble lover of nature,
who loves birds as a part of the landscape on which
they may gar.e; but his talks and his e'forts are
of particular Interest to the owners of homes with
pretty grounds and the possessors of country seats.
Mr. Baynes will speak in the evening at the First
Lap) 1st church and in the afternoon at the Com
mercial club. His talk on "Wild Birds and How to
Entertain Them" Is one that has found Its most
. earnest listeners among the richest men and women
In the country. Grounds and estates have been
modeled upon schemes in line with what Mr.
Laynes advocates.
Omaha, with Its wealth of tree and shrubbery
growth about its many handsome homes, seems
especially filled with freeholders who hare space
to put into practice Mr. Baynes' well-proved
thtorles.
The naturalist comes from Merlden, N. II., 'the
I I rd village." It was here that Percy MacCaye's
famous bird masque, "Sanctuary," was first played,
with Mr. Baynes playing "Shy" to the "Orals' of
Miss Eleanor WIlRon, daughter of the president,
ind now Mrs. McAdoo, wife of the secretary of tie
treasury.
Many owners of beautiful homes throughout
this state and western Iowa sre planning to be In
Omaha next Saturday to hear Mr. Baynes. Like
the great John Burroughs, he Is one of the very
few of his class of scientists who have never been
called "nature fakirs."
The young men of Crelghton university Mixers'
club are making arrangements very joyously for
their dunce tomorrow evening at Chambers'
academy. They feel their ball is a great event be
cause it shall be graced by "the governor and the
governor's lady." Preceding the ball Governor
Morehead and Mrs. Morehead will be honor guests
fat a dinner at the Fontenelle given for them by
the Mixers' club.
The quarterly meeting of the Nebraska Chapter,
I nlted States Daughters or 1812, Is another item
cf Interest for the week. This meeting will be
held Tuesday at the home of Mrs. C. H. Mullin.
Mrs. Max Hostetler of Shelton will come down to
make a patriotic talk for this occasion. Mrs. Hos
teller is active in many women's organisations
throughout the state. Aside from patriotio so
(ieties and the federated woman's club movement,
rhe Is connected with the Mothers' Day associa
tion and the Ladies' Legislative league, organised
recently at Lincoln among women whose husbandl
were in the legislature.
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