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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1916)
' 4 B lHii UIiiAHa oUNliAi" biJk: iMCfr Miter. 10, 1916, What , Women Are Doing in the World Dundee circle. Child Conservation league, will spend all day Monday sewing at the Child saving institute. : Mending piles up at the institute so heavily that the women with characteristic energy decided to. di mmish the pile, as a little bit of work ' with the Christinas spirit. The South Omaha's Woman's club mrptinff THpcflav will taw th frtrm of a kensington at the home of Mrs. C' W. Sears instead of the regular i business meeting. . Benson P. E. O. sisterhood will omit its regular meeting Monday. A children's party will be given just be fore Christmas. Miss Abigail Manning will lead (he firogram for the Wyche Story Tellers' eague Thursday at 4:15 o'clock at the public library. Christmas stories 1 and one Bible itory will be told. Mrs. W. . H. Anderson will enter tain Clio club members at her home Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. W. R. McFarland will lead the program of study, which is one of the Bay View courses. A social evening will be held December 27 with Mrs. Bryce Crawford. The literature department of the Business Women's club will offer the nroeram Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock following the supper at the Young Women's Christian association at 6:15 o'clock.. Miss Cecile Lyon will lead the program, which is on Joel 'Chand ler Harris: A biography and sketch' of characters and readings of "Brc'r Rabbit as a Rainmaker" and "The Tar Baby". -will ...he given. Stella Wilcox will report on current events. Chapter-' B of the P. E. CV sister hood will meet luesday at i:ju tor luncheon with Mrs. E. F. Griswold. . At that time all members will bring their Christmas cheer packages to the , philanthropic committee tor dtstnou tion. ' . France Willard Woman" Chris. tlan Temperance union has arranged a lame reception for Wednesday at 2 o clock m the parlors ot the f irst Christian church. Twenty-sixth nd Harney streets, in honor of Mrs. J M. Taliaferro and Mrs. M. D. Vieno, who 'represented Douglas .and Sarpy counties at the recent national Worn an's Christian Temperance union con vention at Indianapolis. Members of all unions in the two counties have been invited to attend. Mrs. Talia ferro and Mrs. Vieno wilUgive re ports of the convention. ; , ' Omaha Woman's Christian Tem perance onion will have an important meeting Wednesday afternoon at 2 o clock at the young Men s Christian association. Business in connection with the1 national prohibition amend- mentwm be discussed. i, . ., ! West Side Woman's Christian Tern perance J union will meet Thursday at 2 o'clock with Mrs. G. Getscher, SMJ JJupont street Members of this union Will also attend the Frances Willard union' reception at th First Christian church Wednesday. t Miss Kate AMIcHugh, president ot the Drama league, will give the last of a series of informal lectures on drama at the public, library, Tuesday at 4 o'clock.' Lady Gregory ;and the Irish theater and "Riders to. the Sea" by Syhge. will.be her subject The Drama league is . considering bring ing the Portmanteau .theater here in February, ot arranging for a lectnre by Rabindranath Tagore, ' the Indian writer who won the Nobel prize a few yeara ago. There will be an executive meet ing of the vocational guidance section, Association of Collegiate Alumnae, Tuesday at 4 o'clock in the Vocational Bureau rooms, city hall. ' The drama section meets Thurs day at 4 o clock with Mrs. Walter Abbott as hostess. Miss Ruth Thompson and Mrs. Gunner Nat burg will assita her. "A Christmas Tale," by Boucher, will be given un der the direction 1 of Miss Theresa Hoye. Mist Elizabeth Mitchell, Miss Mav Somers, Miss Bess Shackel and Miss Hoye make up the cast of char- . acters. , : - ,,- . 'The McCabe Methodist church women a bazar, which has been priv ately viewed by women of the West farnam district at 4215 Farnam, will be moved to The Bee building?. where the articles will be placed on sale, Monday and Tuesday. A but terfly bedspread and cretonne lunch eon sets are featured In this sale. The committee in charge Includes Mes- BRINGS POTTERY EXHIBIT TO WOMAN'S CLUB. HEAD RESIDENT OF SOCIAL SETTLEMENT. Vi I T VH ' W ! f ' r , ajr iw - f;V? tf;SA J J " VV ' " nvV JRS ELIZABETH LEWIS department Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. Mrs. D. M. McGahey, leader of the program, will tell the story; Mrs. F. H. VVray will review the book and Mrs. Grant Williams will read selections from it. Miss Loa Howard will give a les son on ribbon flower-making to the home economics department Thurs day morning at 10 o'clock. This is a uselut -Christmas-tide art. A box luncheon furnished by the members will follow the lesson. A bttttcr-making demonstration by Mrs. W. A. Smith will be the feature of Monmouth Park Mothers' club Tuesday at .1 o'clock in the school auditorium. A program on "Child Study" will he given also. - Save him to b a awful American H ha wen your boy, thai is no extreme to which you would not bo to snatch him from the dutches of the Whits Plague. UofemaMtab' fc hm noebl protector. His Him ope&U vpoa what yon en j other patriotic Americans give et this Uuutmsstida to Kelp bira fight for hia exia tmce. RED CROSS ' XMAS SEALS give toq tHlt opfKntttnitya, .Malta the most of at. fitaumalr. OlAlt UlSIKfHUTOI. , , RED CROSS SEALS MRS. K. R. J. ED HOLM, :. V' . . 483 Brandeis Theater Omehe 'it Tel. Doug. 8230. . ORDER EARLY C; 5 - " SI A. . 2&s.Amawr3a2i2&zey dames C. C. Shimer, B. W. Barnes, George Pctrie, Paul Thctnanson, Ol son Styles, Sam Faulkner, George Hull, George Tyler and C. C. Cole. Tennyson chapter of the Chautau qua circle will meet Monday after noon at 2:30 at the public library. The lesson for the day will be the third and fourth chapters of "France Under the Renublic. led bv Mrs. W A. George, and ''Foundations of Mod ern Europe," led by Mrs. E. Bene- uiti. ror roil can items OI interest about Greece will be given. , Women of Walnut Hill Methndint church will conduct a Christinas bazar in the Bee building Wednesday and Thursday. Aprons, underwear, quilts and doll ccats, hats and dresses will be on sale. , i Mrs. Addie Hough wa"s elected pres ident of the George Crook Woman's Relief corps at a meeting held Fri day at Memorial hall. Mrs. Fannie Farrell is the new senior vice presi dent; Mrs. Mary Green, junior vice president; Mrs. Lucile Stevens, chap lain; Mrs. Eilene Hall, conductor; Mrs. Lula Crawford, treasurer, and Mrs. Mary Miller, sruard. Mrs. Emilv Beatty will represent the corns at tha district meeting at Columbus next May. Mrs. Nancy Kingsbury is the alternate. ( A regular meeting of the George A. Custer Woman's Relief corns will be held at Memorial hall Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The annual election of officers will take place. North Side Mothers' club will mt Tuesday with Mrs. F. C Rich, 2579 aaauuenon street, itou call response will be on famous composers and the question box will deal with "Revolu tions for 1917." Miss Stella. Holm. qnist will play the piano, Mrs, J, RJ Benson Woman's club held its last meeting before the holidays Thurs day at the Rouse Edison room. The program was "Drama." with a paper on the "Philosopjiy of Ibsen" and a review of the story, "A Doll's House," by Mrs. W. A. Wilcox. Mrs. H. Kivett gave an interpretive read ing "bf Rostrand's "Chanticleer." Mrs. Armstrong was leader. i chapter and chapters from the South Side and Council Bluffs. A program of music and readings, which includ ed numbers by the Will Hethering ton string quartet, followed. Suppfr was served in the dining room after the program. The pillars were twined with maple leaves and other em blems of the chapters and Christmas decorations were used on the tables. Fontenelle chapter of the Eastern Star will meet Thursday at 12:30 o'clock with Mrs. D. C Eldridge for luncheon and a kensington. Assisting the hostess will be Mesdames E. M. Reynolds, F. M. Pond and C. E. Wal-rath. The Society of American Widows wtlt mntiniw. th;v ki --. - nnA .,1 Af candy until Christmas, at their head quarters, 206 Crounse building, oppo site the OOStoffice. The nroeepds are intended to start a building fund. Benson baptist Missionary circle will meet Thursday at the home of Mrs. Park Shelter. Cam, jr., will sing; Miss Gertrude Thiem, violin numbers, and Miss Maud Roys, a reading. Following the musical program the gift-box will be opened. The high cost of living problem will be tackled by the Omaha Woman's club Monday, when Mrs. F. J. Burnett, leader of the home economics department will report her investigations along this line. The matter will be open for discussion afterward. For the art department's open pro gram following the business meeting Mrs. C. J. Roberts, the leader, has arranged for Mrs. Anna Riordan Morey oi Hastings to bring her American pottery exhibit to Metro politan club house that Omaha women may view it.1 Mrs. Morey is chairman of this spVcial section on the art committee of the General federation of Women s clubs and collected this exhibit for the New York biennial. She will give an art talk-. A reception and tea for Mrs. Morey will be given after the club adjourns. Mrs. Morey arrived today and is the guest ot Mrs. W. Vy- Gri gor. Mrs. Hugh Wallace will sing. Smiley s poem. "Say. Hullo will be given for practice work in unison by the oratory department of the Umaha Woman s club Tuesday morning at, 10 o'clock. Breathinir ex ercises and fundamental work will precede the concert work. Motions, with Mrs. Mary I. Creigh as chairman, will be the les ion for the parliamentary practice class Tuesday at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. C L. Hempel, Joseph Duffy, F. A. Howard, Mrs. Charles A. Lotz and Miss Minnie Jensen will particulate. E. P. McDonald directs the class. Parts will be assigned for the de partments open program, which will take the form of a mock political convention. This promises to be an interesting diversion. B. iL S. club of Benson will (rive a large, card party and social at Moose hall Thursday, evening. Robert Herrick's "The Gammon Lot" will be studied by the literature Leaders of .neighborhood Bible classes will meet Monday at 2:30 o clock at the Young Men s christian association to study under the lead ership of Mrs. v. A. roote. ihe topics will be "Abraham's Separa tion and Victory," and "The Cove nant," chapters 13-15 of Genesis, The Association of Collegiate Alumnae will hold its December gen eral meeting Saturdayat 2:30 o'clock at the South Side social settlement. The afternoon will be spent making Christmas bags -to fill with dainties for children of the settlement, an annual custom. There will be two talks, one by Mrs. J. W. Robbins, president of the settlement board, who will tell about the reorganiza tion; and one by Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, new head resident, who will tell her plans for local work. In the absence of the collegiate alumna president Mri. H. E. Newbranch, Mrs. Roby Maxwell, the vice presi dent, will preside. Mrs. Cnthbert Vincent was Friday elected president of the Scottish Rite Woman's club, succeeding Mrs. Z. D. Clark. Mrs. A. M. Smith is the new first vice president; Mrs. E. L. Dod der, second vice president; Mrs. H. B. Crouch, recording secretary; Miss Adelia Stine, corresponding secre tary; Mrs. Charles Granden, treasur er, and Mrs. , F. C. Patton, auditor. The new officers will be installed the first meeting in January. The Old People's Home association will hold its annual meeting Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at the Young Women's Christian association. As sociate members have been requested to attend as well,, since new trustees are to be elected and reports of chairmen of the building committees win De given. The new, building is under construction in Fontenelle park. Omaha chapter. Daughters of the American Revolution, will meet Tues day afternoon at 2:30 with Mrs. James B. Adams, 3429 Hawthorne avenue. The program will consist of an ad dress by E. O. Mayticld, a piano solo by Miss Marguerite Carnal and a vocal number by Miss Myrtle Wyatt. dee Presbyterian church met Friday with Mrs. D. B. Chesney. Mrs. D. L. Johnston was in St. Ed ward, N'eb., part of the week attend ing a missionary conference. Mrs. D. B Van Emburgh and Miss M. E. Ross of New York City, who have visited Mrs- Van Emburgh's sis ter, Mrs. Mary E. Van Gieson, and other friends, the last week, left Wednesday for southern California. Dr. and Mrs. I. S. McMartin of Madison, Wis., formerly of Omaha, were guests of Dundee friends the last week en route to Los Angeles, Cal. The Bible class led by Mrs. D. L. Johnston, which met Thursday morn ing with Mrs. Royal D. Miller, will meet this week with Mrs. R. C. Peters. Mrs. Robert R. Hollister gave a re ception at her home Thursday after noon in honor of her sister, Mrs. Ed ward A. Holyoke, jr., and Mrs. Robert F. Leavens. Ralston Social Gossip Miss Sophia Miller, formerly bf this village, is in St Joseph's hospital for an operation for appendicitis. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Malstein re turned from a trip to Kansas visiting relatives. Miss Mayola Propst and little sister, Roberta of Plattsmouth, spent Wednesday evening with relatives. Mrs. Miller of Valley, Neb., is spending a few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Davis while her daugh ter is in t,he hospital. Mrs. Dave Ham returned from'a visit with her husband in the western part of the state. Dundee Society Notes Bellevue Social Notes members of the Young Women's) Christian association cabinet. The guests included the Misses Ruth and Susan Jillson, Chapman Rumsey, Mat tie Cassel, Bernice,Schlotfeldt, Melis sa Davidson, Marguerite Diddocle and Frances Keller. The Young Women's Christian as sociation girls of last year who are in college this year are planning a tea for the freshmen girls, to be held sometime before Christmas. The Misses Marguerite Diddocle, Chapman Rumsey and Melissa David son are planning a candy pull for to morrow morning in the home eco nomics rooms in Lowrie Hall. . vV'ith the completion of the work of enlarging the central fieating plant, which makes it possible to heat the water in the s -imming pool at all times. Miss Miller, instructor in swimming, is beginning several classes in swimming. Miss Helen Andrews, former Belle vue student, is the guest over the week end of Miss Mattie Cassel, Miss Marguerite. Diddock, Miss Chapman Rumsey, Miss Bernice Schlotfeldt and Miss Melissa Davidson. Miss Luella Carter, professor of German, and Miss Viviane Miller, professor of French and Spanish, en tertained Wednesday evening for the France Will Stop All Importations Of Print Paper Paris, Dec 9. The government has decided to prohibit the importation of printing paper, according to a semi-official announcement. The ob ject of the step is two-fold, to help faise the exchange rate and to en courage the French paper industry;,"- which, it is considered, in viev of thet local resources in lumber, should ba independent of foreign supplies. ran Mrs. George H. Payne, who has been visiting her son, Philip Payne and Mrs. t'ayne at Amherst, Mass., is expected home this week. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Holyoke, jr., pf Madrid, Neb., are the guests of Mrs. Holyoke's sister, Mrs. Robert Hollister, and Dr. Hollister. The Dundee Woman's club met Wednesday wth Mrs. A. C Cross man. Mrs. W. H. Hancock, leader. The Ladies' Aid society of the Dnn- Fnday evening at the Masonic temple the Made Leaf rhantrr. Order pf the Eastern Star,, at, the invitation ot tne fontenelle chapter, - gave a demonstration of their initiatory work before an audience eomnosed of members of those two chapters, Vesta : : -HI ' I SB Thevnewlv ODened Blackstone iii I It : II n n U D! 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The Blackstone has been designed, built and fur nished in a most unique manner to meet the requirements and tastes of people who want elegance, comfort and every con venience; and this service is not only for those who wish to make their homes here, but for any who wish to entertain or to be entertained. , . , ,. For the benefit of many who have made inquiry eon- eerning apartments, or concerning our dining room and ; ball room, we will state that apartments, beautifully fur ' . S? In V18 m08t complete manner, range in price from 142.60 and upward. 1 Our private dining rooms and onr ball room and party rimAmay be enfa?ed at reasonable terma, which vary with the number of people who are to be entertained there. Select dancing clubs will find It to their advantage to consult with us regarding our ball room, and regard ing our facilitiea to handle dinner dancing parties. Arrancantanta for dinner dancing and privats dinner nartlas shauM k. na as tar In advancs as posslnla. 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