The Omaha Sunday Bee
PA3T TWO
' SOCIETY .
t'ASES ONE TO TWELVE
PART TWO
MAGAZINE
PAGES ONE TO. TWELVE
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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1916.
SINGLE COT2T OTfiVE .GENUS.
Second Generation Holds Much of Promise
CLUBDOM
Calendar of Club Doings
Monday ' . '
Omaha Woman's club, business meeting, Met
ropolitan club house, 2:30 p. m., with Ameri
can poHerv exhibit, followed by tea for Mrs.
Anna Riordan Morey.
Child Conservation league, Dundee circle,
sews at Child Saving institute. I
Chautauqua circle, Tennyson chapter pifblic
library, 2:30 p. m. ,,w r- a
Neighborhood Bible class leaders, M. C. A.,
2:30 p. m.
Tuesday ""
- Omaha Woman's club, oratory department,
Metropolitan club house, 10 a. m.; parliamen
tary practice class, 2:30 p. m.
Drama league, public library, 4 p. m.
South Omaha Woman's club, kensmgton, Mrs.
C. W. Sears, hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Business Women's council, luncheon and prayer
meeting, court house, 1 1 to 2 p. m.
Monmouth Park Mothers' club, school auditor
ium, 3 p. m. .
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, vocational
guidance section, executive meeting, city Hall,
Business Women's club, Y. W7C. A., 6:15 p. m.
North Side Mothers' club, Mrs. F. C. Rich,
hostess, 2:30 p. m. '
P. E. O. sisterhood, Chapter B. P., Mrs. E. F.
Griswold, hostess, 1 :30 p. m.
Woman's Relief corps, George A. Custer, Me
morial hall, 2 p. m.
Old People's Home association, annual meet
ing, Y. W. C. A., 10 a. m.
Wednesday
Clio club, Mrs. W. H. Anderson, hostess, 2(30
p. m.
Omaha Woman's club, literature department,
Metropolitan club house, 10 a. m.
W. C. T. U., Frances Willard, First Christian
church, 2 p. m. ' s
W. C. T. U., Omaha, Y. M. C A., 2. m.
Thursday . - '
Association -of Collegiate Alumnae, drama sec
tionMrs. Walter Abbott, hostess, 4 p. m.
Wyche Story Tellers' league, public library,
4:15 p. m. .
Omaha Woman's club, home economics department-Metropolitan
club house.lO a. m.
W. C T. U., West Side, Mrs. G. Getscher, host
ess, 2 p. m. v
Benson Baptist Missionary circle, Mrs. Park
Sheffer, hostess. . ,
i B'nai B'rith, McKinley ladies' auxiliary, Lyric
hall, 8 p. m.
Friday - .
Omaha Woman's club, President Mrs.' E. M.
Syfert at home to club members, 2:30 to 6
p. m.
Society of American Widows, 206 Crounse
. building, 7:30 p. m.
West, Omaha Mothers Culture club, evening
meeting, Mrs. J. E. Dugan; hostess.
Saturday 1 ,
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, general
meeting, South xSidc Social Settlement, 2:30
p. m.
BECAUSE woman is the chief purchaser, it
is up to her to solve the high cost of living
problem, as Mrs. D. G. -Craighead pointed
out at Monday's meeting of the. Omaha
Woman's club social science department.
i Ninety per cent of everything purchased,
except for business purposes, is bought by women
and an equal percentage of all advertisements is
addressed to "women, it is estimated.
What could women do? -
Organization was the first move, in the mind
of Ms. Vernon C. Bennett, and so Omaha boasts
in a scant week and a day the Omaha Consumers'
league with already several hundred members. The
North Omaha Consumers' league was organized
with Mrs. Bennett as president a week ago. At-a
targe meeting at lipr home Thursday evening the
name Was changed to include all local persons who
wished to join.
The price of eggs has broken all records, so it
was towards a restriction of the use of eggs that the
women bent their first efforts. "Boycotting" is dis- .
tasteful, both in theory and practice, to the women,
so it will not be officially resorted to, though every
woman is urged to curtail the use of eggs as muc'i
as possible, as she is, perforce obliged to do by their
prohibitive price. '
In New York an official boycott on eggs has
been called to force food speculators to lower their
prices. In more than 700 moving picture theaters in
Greater New York signs were displayed calling upon
the public to stop buying eggs until prices fall.
Commissioner Hartigan is reported as saying:
"The egg boycott should be maintained for at least
two weeks. That will be the only way to break up
gambling in eggs. Buying should stop, except for
children and invalids. The problem of speculative
food prices can be solved only by the organization
of the consumers, through public officials. Our ulti
mate aim is to educate the people to demand rational
state and national legislation" to prevent speculative
prices for eggs and other food products."
The keen interest shown by women's club shows
that on this point many of them are already edu
cated. Two constructive policies, co-operative buying
and a municipal market, have been widely advocated
as relief measures." Central Park Church Brother
hood has already embarked on a co-operative pur
chasing plan for about fifty families. Its progress
will be noted with interest.
With the Decemberissue the new General Fed
eration of Woman's Clubs magazine makes its first
appearance. The magazine has changed hands as
far as the editorshipls concerned, and in the makeup
and general contents there will be a notable change.
MrS. Haryot Holt Day, president of-the New York
Woman's Press club, is this new editor. The Gen
eral Federation of Woman's Clubs has forty-nine
individual state federations, with a roster of 9,000
clubs and a membership of 2,000,000.
Matters of wide interest to club women" arc nat
urally featured in this magazine. Mrs-Emma A.
Fox, official parliamentarian of the general federa
tion, conducts a question and answer column con
cerning procedures for the benefit of irlubs. There
is an interesting article by Mrs. Winifred SaSckvillc
btoncr on Reaching by play or "Natural Education."
Mrs. Stoner trained her little daughter so she could
speak several languages and write for periodicals at
thcage of 5 years. Mrs. Philip North Moore, a for
mer president of the federation, now president of
the National Council of Women, is represented in
an article on the council, so that all women in the
federation may learn of its work. Motion pictures
are also much discussed. Miss Jane Stannard John
son has an article on "How Better Films May Be
Obtained in Cities." The motion picture problem
and its solution received a notable impetus at the
biennial -rfteting in New York last May, when f he
general federation formed 'a motion picture commit
tee, of which Mrs. C. W. Cartwright of Minneapolis
is a member. Omaha club wunicrt also embarked
a:i the movement '
Omaha Mothers and Daughters Show on What
Future Homes of the Great City May Depend
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i w rfUEE charming mammas present their
1 first-born daughters in Tile Sunday lice
this week. They arc debutantes true
M enough, even if they arc just wee little
things and haven't had a birthday cake
with one candle on it yet. See their
dainty little white frocks, and just you wait twenty
years from now you will be reading of their debut
, parties and given-in-honor affairs!
Louise Field Magee II. named for her daddy's
sister, Miss Louise Field Magce of Chicago, is the'
most experienced traveler of the three young misses.
This fall she motored to Chicago with her father
and nfothcr, Mr. and Mrs. Wayland Magee, never
uttering a whimper all the way. Her mother admits
she was considerably bored by the scenery, for she
slept most of the way. Louise is the Omaha Wom
an's club members' pride, for her mother, who was
Mellificia on The Bee when she was Miss Edith
Thomas, is one of the charter members of the club.
Little Joan Larrabec is a strong rival, in beauty
of her cousin, little Jean Rcilly of New York, we
opie. Jean Rcilly, whose mother is a sister of
Joan's mother, Mrs. H, M. Larrabec, was declared
by a New York artist to be the most beautiful child
in the metropolis. Jean and her mother, Mrs. Frank
Rcilly, spent the summer in Omaha on account of
the infantile paralysis epidemic and the little cousins
s cooed and played together. But we fail to see
where Jean has much on Joan I
And Naomi Ann Carpenter I Isn't she the little
dear and wouldn't you just love to cuddle her close
to you just like her pretty mamma is doing? And
here is where you can help, if you will. Don't tell
Naomi Ann's grandparents you saw her picture in
The Bee today. The picture is to be a surprise
Christmas gift to the gramtparents and Mrs. Car
penter is going to spirit their Sunday Bee away so
they won't see the picture until Christmas morning.
And when the loving lady friends of the cooing
youngsters come to cast their horoscopes, they sec
them in fond admiration grappling with the mighty
. problems of political and social economy, the future
holds for the women of the world. Votes for women
will not vex them, nor the high cost of living, for
these will all be settled, but other days will hear
other woes to vex mortal minds, and these h&hies
will then be asperplcxcd as their mothers have been
in the present day.
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SOCIETY
Social Calendar
Monday ' V -
Dinner at Blackstonc, Mrs. W. K. Fcfote,
hostess. t
Metropolitan club dancing party. . f'
Original Monday Bridge , club, Mrs. Joseph
Barker, hostess.
Luncheon for Mrs. George Thrall of Detroit,
given by Mrs. C. B. Keller.
Tuesday N r
Tea for Mrs. Edgar Eugene Calvin and Miss
Nellie Calvin, Mrs. G. W. Megeath, hostess.
Reception for Rev. and Mrs. Robert French
Leavens given by the members of the Uni
tarian church at the Metropolitan. -Thimble
club, Mrs. A. W. Carpenter, hostess.
trinity Parish Aid sale at Jacobs nail.
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Wednesday
Elks formal dance at the club rooms.
Turpin's assembly.
Dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. J. DeForest
Richards.
Friday ( J
University dub smoker.
Le Man club dance at Blackstonc
Swastika club, Mrs. Teter Mehrens, hostess. .
Friday Night Dancing club at Druid hall. ,
Metropolitan club dancing party.
Saturday w ;
Week End Daircing club party. '
Third lecture by Mrs. Anthony Merrill at the
Blackstonc.
Dinner dance given by Mr. and Mrs. Lee. Huff.
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NOW is the time for the society hostess to
recall all those old time-worn saws such
as "The early bird gets the worm,", for
only those who were very fore-handed in
their plans for the Christmas seeason.
have succeeded in seturing dates for their
holiday affairs. The very first to choose a date were'
Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb Storz, who had an open field. ,
i ney announced mat on vveanesaay evening, ue
cember 27, they would give a dancing party for their
daughter, Elsie, and Oieir son, Robert. -
Even after this g'ootl example of promptness was
set, few followed, until -within the last three weeks
the plans have come flooding in and those, who
wanted to entertain will be forced into passive en
tertainment. Not an evening from December 23 to
.the New Year but has at least one important dan
cing party in store, and many have two at once.
Hostesses have conferred about lists as much as
possible in order to make renunciation of possible .
' Tomorrow the store signs will say only ten
more shopping days until Christmas. Only six
more days until "Clarissa' and "Paul" return from
school, fond mamas and papas will say, for a great
influx of young people front trastern schools seems
to be assured for Saturday, December 23. All the
affairs are being saved over for them, the only party
to be given before mat time being tne fnovelty
, Dancing club party at the! Blackstone, December '
20, which is a Chrastmas event . for the high
school set. . , . .' i
Even if you are obliged to be "economical in re
gard to holiday pleasures, you may be sure that
..what you choose will be worth your while, for there
is not a single unworthy article in the festival store,
and if yoef can he prodigal of your nerves, you may
frolic all the hours away. y
The school and college set wijlper the festivi
lies with a dinner party at (he home of Mr. and Mcs.
E. M. Fairfield, Saturday evening before Christmas,
when the guests will be invited in honor of Miss
Bettv Fairfield. This party will' adjourn to the
. Blackstone to attend the trancing party given by
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Barker for Miss Elizabeth;
Barker. For the young girls and bachelor! and the
younger married set the Junior club provides '
dance at the Fontenelle. . . j
Monday Christmas day will come with its gift-,
giving, its home gatherings and its great Yuletido,
feast. That evening Mr. and Mrs. Arthur -Crittenden
Smith will entertain the school set in honor of
their daughters, Helen and Grace, at the Blackstone.
With everyone home for Christmas this affair plans
to be a general gay frolic of the boys and girls. The
married folks will be taken care of at the subscrip
tion dinner-dance, now bettlg arranged under the
direction of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Wharton and their
set, which will include members of the Old Saturday
Dinner-Dance club. , ,
Miss Margarctha Grirumel's luncheon, given by
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Grimmel, for which
invitations were issued Wednesday of this week,
promises diversion for Tuesday. For Miss Emily
Keller's party, announced some time ago. invitations
were also out this week. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Keller
will open their home for a dancing party that even
ing Both young hostesses of the day were special
maids to the Ak-Sar-Ben queen and are members
of the debutante set. but will not make -their format
appearance in society this season. . ...
Another luncheon for Wednesday helps to mak
that a crowded day. It is the first of the affairs
now planned for Miss Helena Chase and Mrs. Waito '
Squier will be hostess. .
A Christmas wedding will be the most unusual
event of this twenty-four hours. Friends in Coun
cil Bluffs, Omaha and the east are looking, forward
to the marriage of Miss Eleanor Mackay, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. T. J. Mackay. In All Saints' church,
which has been the scene of so many important wed
dings performed by this beloved clergyman, at 8:30
o'clock Dr. Mackay will read the marriage lines
uniting his own daughter with Mr. Austin Gailey
of New York. So many friends in this city and
across the river will wish to attend the service that
invitations were not sent to restrict, the number.
Only out-of-town guests were notified by formal
card. Miss Mackay has not yet completed the ar
rangements for her bridal party, for she still is
awaiting replies from some eastern young people.
The same day will sec the University, club Christ
mas dinner and a formal dancing party given by the
Elks' Dancing club. Les Hiboux, too, will give a
dancing party at Keep's, and Miss Margaretha Grim
met and Miss Ruth McCoy will give a dinner at the
Grimmel home.
Three dancing parties will be held the next eve
ninggiven by Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Clarke,' jr., at
their home; by Mr. and Mrs. A- V. Kinsler at the
Fontenelle and by the Maltese club of Central High
chool at the Blackstone. The big event of Satur
day will be the Yale Glee club concert at the Bran
deis theater, followed by the dance given by Yale
alumni at the Fontennele. Dinners in the homes
beforehand with various entertainments for the visi
tors will keep society busy. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. T. '
Belt will give a dinner and concert party for their
daughter, Dorothy, that evening. All of this enter
taining brings us to New Year's eve, which win
be celebrated at the Omaha club by supper and
concert until midnight and by dancing in the new
hours following. v
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