The Omaha Sunday Bee
.WOMEN'S SECTION
SOCIETY
VOL. 51 NO. 11.
PART TWO
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1921.
1 B
TEN CENTS
Tea Carts and
Maternal
Instinct
Dundee Club
Enlarges
Scope
By GABBY DETAYLS.
NOW a teacart is really a very
handy bit of furniture thinks
Gabby and makes a room
seem so cozy and intimate in the
late afternoon. So did a certain
group of sorority girls until but
wait.
The girls purchased a teacart
for their house just to lend a homey
touch and soon they were besieged
with pleas for tea-hour invitations.
Even the young men in nearby fra
ternity houses clamored for the
privilege of sipping tea at its side
in order to be cozily tete-a-tete with
a fair coed. Such a thing was, how
ever, too go&d to last.
One afternoon the perpetual bug-a-boo,
a flat-heeled, round-toed,
bobbed-haired, shirtwaisted, bespec
tacled earnest senior student of psy
chology announced to one of the
flappers, "Nothing but the mater
nal instinct after all. Ycu propel
that not because you want to drink
tea. but because you want to push
a baby carriage."
It was enough. The cart is in the
attic.
AMONG the modern definitions
sent in to Gabby in response
to a request are the follow
ing: "Country club: A place where
one meets other men's wives."
"Apartment: A place where
phonographic records are played."
(I know because I live next door,
the contributor concludes dramat
ically.) "Jazz: A form of intoxication
forced upon us by Volstead."
Gabby still invites further up-to-the-minute
definitions. Eventually
we may be able to publish a diction
ary which will exceed Webster's for
popularity and will have no com
petitor for truthfulness.
DEAR, I wish B. wasn't
II coming to dinner tonight,"
said an Omaha matron last
hot Thursday afternoon.
j- (B. was a young-old friend visit
ing in the city from a western Ne
braska town.)
"Well, how does it happen she is
coming," asked the- patient husband
in surprise.- "Who invited her?"
"f did," wailed the O. M.
"Well, what'dyah ask her for if
you didn't want her," said husband
with less patience.
"I meant it when I asked her,"
the dear lady said in defence. "I
just felt so cordial and hospitable
when I met her down town. I al
ways feel that way when 1 invite
people over, sort of grand and ele
gant, you know-rbut I feel so dif
ferent when they- actually come."
"I give it up," muttered the hus
band. ' '
Perhaps it was the weather, says
Gabby, -r
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A N adage We learned in youth,
A "You are judged by the com
pany you keep," has been re
placed by a new rendition which
goes, "You are judged by the dances
you like."
"Won't vou play us a dreamy
waltz," asked a blonde damsel of
some 30-odd years, of the orchestra
leader on the roof.
He was an accommodating man
and the next number was a real old
time dum-dee-dee. dum-dee-dee
smooth flowing melody. .
All the fairly well settled married
folk were on their feet quickly with
faces beaming as they glided grace
fully (?) around, dancing, to tr.e last
sweet dying strain of the piece.
At the end of the dance a flapper
walked indignantly over to the or
chestra leader.
"What old hen asked you to play
that, she flared ,
A tip from Gabby: If you want to
. pass for anything less than 30, never
.hint that vou enjoy a waltz, that you
ever danced a waltz or that you know
x even approximately what a waltz is.
Refer to the time "when I learned
the one-step in college," and your
friends will think that your school
days were in the last decade at least,
and of course will judge your age
accordingly.
Reunion-Picnic
By Relief
Corps
. U. S. Grant, George Crook. Custer
and Bill Kearney Women's Relief
corps will give a picnic Tuesday,
August 30, at Krug park. 4 p. m.. to
which they cordially invite War
Mothers. Daughters of Veterr.ns, G.
A. R. circles and auxiliary of Span
ish War veterans. Arrangements are
in charge of Mrs. G. W. Longnccker
at Douglas 849.
Excellent Program
Of Fine Arts
Society
Willa Cather, author, who, in the
opinion of many critics, has no peer
among fiction writers of today, will
appear' in Omaha before the Fine
Art society late in October.
An Omaha audience will have
oarticular pleasure in hearing Miss
Cather, for she is a Nebraska wom
an. She has lived in New York
many years, but still calls Red Cloud
her Nebraska home.
It was Sinclair Lewis who prodded
Omaha on Miss Cather's books. In
hi lecture last season before the
Fine Arts society he referred in su
perlative terms to "Youth and the
Bright Medusa," "My Anioma ana
other works of this Rifted woman.
Although .Miss Cather will open
the lecture season, she will be pre
ceded in the Fine Arts year by an
other Nebraska feature. . Early m
October andcontinuing through" the
."onth. an exhibit by Nebraska ar
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m e f. r -a .. s f. -. . maw
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Society's Hours
For Week
To Come
- Sunday, August 25.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Nieman,
buffet supper for Mr. and Mrs. C.
L. Sykes.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sherman, sup
per at Happy Hollow club for Miss
Margretha Grimmel and her fiance,
George Flack
Monday.
Elinor Burkley, luncheon at Coun
try club for-Mrs. Robert Davis,
formerly Olga Metz.
Tuesday.
Ulrich-McGovern wedding.
Louise Clarke,, luncheon at Coun
try club for Phyllis Waterman, fi
ance of William Latta.
Carolyn .Holmquist, luncheon for
Margretha Grimmel .and. Dorothy
Balbach, fiancee of Dr. Edwin Davis.
Wednesday.
Margaret "Williams, afternoon
bridge for Eleanor McGilton, fiancee
of E. J. Connor; Margretha Grim
mel and Dorothy Balbach.
Mildred Weston, dinner at Country
club for Misses Balbach and Grim
mel. Thursday.
Emily Keller, bridge luncheon for
Margretha Grimmel. ,
Marion Weller, evening bridge for
Mrs. Ware Hall, Eleanor McGilton,
Margretha Grimmel and Dorothy
Balbach.
Friday.
Pan.-Hellenic luncheon at Happy
Hollow club.
Gertrude Stout, luncheon for
Louise Clarke, fiancee of Harkncss
Kountze. 1 '
Mrs. John Haarman, luncheon for
Mothers and Daughters Luncheon
club.
Grace Robertson and Mildred
Rhoades, tea at W. E. Rhoades resi
dence for Misses Balbach and Grim
mel. Saturday.
Mrs. George Engler. afternoon
bridge, for Margretha Grimmel.
Ruth McCoy, dinner at Happy
Hollow club for Misses Grimmel and
Balbach.
tists will be shown at the library.
The excellent numbers which will
be offered members of this society
later in the year include lectures by
Amy Lowell, November 8, on "Mod
ern Poetry;" Louis Anspacher, De
cember 8, on "Democracy and Ir
responsibility;" Sir Gilbert Parker in
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Pre-Nuptial Parties
Fill Social
Calendar
Many prenuptial affairs are
planned for Miss 'Margretha Grim
mel and her fiance, George Flack.
Mr. and ' Mrs. Earl W. Sherman
will ' entertain at supper Sunday
evening at Happy Hollow club.
Miss Emily Keller will be hostess
at a bridge luncheon Thursday, Sep
tember 1.
On Saturday, September 3, Mrs.
George Engler will give an after
noon bridge party for this bride-to-be.
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Mrs. Leonard Trestor will enter
tain at luncheon, Tuesday, Septem
ber 6. Mr. and Mrs. Miles McFay
den will give a dinner and dancing
party at the Country club the same
date. 1
' Miss Marion Cqad will be hostess
at a din net-, ' Wednesday evening,
September 7.
The bridal dinner will be given
by Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Grimmel,
Friday evening, September
Miss Grimmel and Miss Dorothy
Balbach, fiancee of Dr. Edward
Davis, will share honors at a number
cf parties.:
Miss Carolyn Holmquist will give
a luncheon for them Tuesday, Au
gust 30. .
A dinner, at the Country club will
be given Wednesday evening,
August 31, by Miss Mildred Weston.
' Miss Margaret Williams will be
hostess at an afternoon bridge the
same day for these brides-to-be.
Miss Eleanor McGilton, an Octo
ber' bride,; will also be an honor
guest at this affair.
An evening bridge will be given
by Miss Marion Weller, Thursday,
September 1, for these three girls.
Mrs. Ware Hall, a bride of last
spring, will be among her honor
guests.
A tea at the W. E. Rhoades home
is planned for September 2, by
Misses Mildred Rhoades and Grace
Robertson, to honor Misses Balbach
and Grimmel.
Saturday. September 3, Miss Ruth
McCoy will' be hostess at a dinner
Six Omaha Beauties
January; Sir Philip Gibbs the follow
ing month; S. K. Ratcliffe, English
sociologist in March, and Royal Cor
tissozo in April on "Art and Common
Sense."
Mrs. Warren Blackwell is chair
man of the lecture committee which
has secured this strong program.
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Miss Helen Overstreet, daughter of W. M. Overstreet of York, Neb.,
will begin her work as director of recreation at the social settlement on
September 1. Miss Overstreet has completed a year at the Recreational
Training school of Chicago, living at Northwestern university settlement
during that time.
Since her graduation from York
and graduate ot at. Marys scnooi, unoxvuie, iu., and nas attended both
the University of Nebraska and the University of Southern California.
While at the latter she did International institute work in connection with
her sociology courses. .
Miss Overstreet is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and
has many friends in Omana.
Mrs. Ula G. Echols returned from New York early this month after
a year at Pratt institute in Brooklyn, and is re-established at the Omaha
Public library, where she is in charge of the children's department.
Among the excellent lectures Mrs. Echols, heard in connection with
her library study in the east was one by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, well
known author, and formerly a Nebraska girl.
"Now this is a good book is a suggestion which children resent, ac
cording to Mrs. Echols, who has many splendid plans for the Omaha
department. Boys and girls are very "suggestible," she declares, but as
much tact is required in dealing with them as with older humans.
Mrs. Echols is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Waterhouse of Fre
mont She was graduated from Central High school and Peru Normal.
Mrs. Ray J. Abbott is the new chairman of music for the Dundee
Woman's club. A story on this page tells in detail how this club, which
has been noted for the excellence of its study in literature, plans to add
music in a correlated way during the coming season.
"Let's move to Hawaii," is the wish of many when Nebraska's ther
mometer begins to act tempermental. Their wish is just about 20 times
as fervent if they have heard Mrs. James Drakeford tell about her stay
there.
Mr. and Mrs. Drakeford came to Omaha last winter following a
residence of two years in Honolulu, where they lived on the famed Wai
kiki beach itself, and where Mrs. Drakeford became a most enthusiastic
swimmer. Swimming is the chiaf diversion of visitors and residents of
this beauty spot, according to this Omaha matron, who says "Bathing
suits and evening gowns are the most important articles, of dress in Hono
lulu." Perhaps this is the reason women wish to move.
While living at Waikiki she met many famous swimmers, among them
Ethelda Bleibtry, world's champion; Charlotte Boyle and Duke Kahan
omuka, the Hawaiian champions, and a number of others.
Mr. and Mrs. Drakeford at one time resided in Alabama and it is
probable that Mrs. Drakeford will make a southern trip during the winter
months.
Flack-Grimmel
Wedding
Plans for the marriage of Miss
Margretha Grimmel and George
Flack on September 10 at the First
plete. Miss Ruth Grimmel, sister of
the bride-to-be, will act as maid of
c'ance at Happy Hollow club for
them.
Sunday tea on September 4 will
be given by Miss Elizabetli Barker
at her home for both of the coming
brides.
Will Sell Cigarettes and Candy at Charity
Six beautiful Omaha girls have
t:cen chosen to sell cigarettes, and
i-andy at the Associated Charties'
dinner dance and revue to be held
i:i the Braudeis Italian Renaissance
tea room September 15. They will
appear in stunning costumes.
Three of the number will be brides
of the fall or early winter. Miss Re
gina Connell and the Misses Gcr-
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RODSTKOn sruoip
High school she has been a student
honor. Miss Grimmel's young
cousin, Marjorie Edinburg of Brook
lyn, N. Y., will be flower girl.
The bridesmaids will he Misses Em
ily Keller, Marion Coad, Dorothy
Balbach and Ruth McCoy.
Dr. Edwin C. Davis, fiance of Miss
Balbach, has been chosen by Mr.
Flack for his best man. The ushers
w.ill be Dr. Allyn Moser, Fritz Koe
m'g, Allan McDonald, Dr. George
Boehler and Harry Coffey of Chad
ron, Neb.
The ceremony will be followed by
a reception at the Grimmel home for
the wedding party and a few mem
bers of the younger set. Mr. Flack
and his bride will take a honey
moon trip abroad.
ajdine. and Grctchcn Hess. Mrs.
Naasson Young, a most attractive
blonde, was Miss Lula Mitchell of
Lincoln before her marriage. Miss
Mildred Rogers, who is' in Estes
park at present, has given promise
of return in ample time for the din
ner dance. Mildred Weston, recent
ly returned from Colorado, is a
charming member of this irresistible
sextet.
znevs. cJ. Ptrabieforcl
Girls Lose Hearts
In Nice and
Venice
Miss Marguerite Schafer, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Schafer,
who has been spending . the
summer abroad, writes to her par
ents of the many interesting sights
she has seen. Her tour has taken
in points in England, France,
Switzerland and Italy.
The following are extracts from
her recent letters.
"From Avignon, that little French
village, we went to Nice and lost
our hearts. All the girls fell in love
vitb the place. ; It is on the Medi
terranean sea and all we had to do
was to w alk through a - beautiful
garden and '.we-were at the water's
edge." '
"On one of our tours we-visited
Monte Carlo, the famous gambling
place. When Miss Fitzgerald went
to buy tickets for us to enter the
guard asked our ages but 3he lied
and said we were all over 21. He
looked doubtful but let us into the
Casino. Five of us bought a red
chip and placed it and wou five
francs. We tried again and lost I
"We arrived in Rome on July 22
from Genoa. On our sightseeing
trip we saw all the old Roman build
ings and famous places I have been
leading about in my Latin classes the
last three years. Just imagine, I saw
an Egyptian obelisk here which dated
from 2000 B. C.
"We have visited numerous
churches. In one we saw the stairs
on which Christ walked just before
He was crucified. There is a place
on one of the steps where His blood
was spilled. Another church has a
part of the original cross which
Christ carried and also part of the
gown o fthorns. Oh, those things
were all wonderful.
"We also visited the Vatican it
has only about 1,100 rooms.
"We all thought we were -to have
an audience with the pope but it
couldn't be arranged.
"Pompeii was one of the cities in
" " Turn i " , . LnJ&LX&J&sJ.
State Convention Speaker.
Mrs. Rose S. Berry of Berkeley,
Cal., general federation chairman of
fine arts, will come to Nebraska the
last week in October to speak at
the state convention of the Nebraska
Federation of Women's clubs at Sew
ard. Mrs. Berry has a wonderful
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CINHAHT- AAR5DeN:
cluded in our trip. It was destroyed
in 63 A. D. by Mount Vesuvius, that
treacherous volcano. It was smOK
inar just a little when we were there.
We saw the ruins of houses there
and the bones of those who were
buried in the lava and ashes at the
time of the eruption.
When we were stoownE at the
Victoria hotel in Sorrento, Caruso
was staying at the Tremantano ho
tel there.
From ' Sorrento we went to the
Island of Caori to visit the Blue
Grotto the most famous thing there.
We had to lie perfectly flat on the
ground to enter it.
"Venice is a land of dreams come
true. It is heavenly to ride in the
gondolas about the streets which are
canals. One night we went out on
a gondola to the music boat where
a group ot singers gave a concert,
Everyone in our party laughed be
cause one of their ' numbers was
'Margarita.' It isn't everybody who
can be serenaded in -Venice!
"Aueust 6.' we went to Lido, the
most famous "of Italian bathing re
sorts and while there took a swim
in the Adriatic sea. Just think
have been swimming in the Adriatic
and Mediterranean seas.
Miss Schafer sailed last week for
home. She will enter Wellesley col
lege this fall. -
Omahans Abroad
According to letters received by
Omaha friends, Mrs. Walter Head
and Miss Vernelle will arrive in
Omaha OctDer 10 from a summer
trip abroad. On August 7, Mrs.
Head's birthday, the mother and
daughter spent the day at Lucerne,
Switzerland, in the company of
Drexel Sibbernsen and Jabin Cald
well, who went to Europe this sunv
mer. Thev' spent August 6 at Lake
Geneva with Mrs. Frank Boyd and
her niece from this city.
From Switzerland they planned to
go to Pans to make a motor trip
with Mrs. I. E. Summers of Omaha,
Mrs. Head and Miss Head have
recently been visiting the French
watering places and motored
through the Pyrennes mountains
into Spain for a short stay.
Benefit
conception of the work of her de
partment. It is thought her presence
will add greatly to the success of
the state meeting.
Mrs. Berry will be in Colorado
late in September, in North Dakota,
October 5; Minnesota, October 7-13;
Indiana, October 21.
j. ne uunciee woman s ciuo win -
enlarge the scope of its work in a
very beautiful way this year. This
club has been known in the past for
the high standards maintained in its
intensive study of literature. This
year it will correlate music with
literature with the same excellent
discrimination applied in the past to
literature.
Mrs. Ray J. Abbott of the pro-
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gram committee is cnairman oi
music. Other members of the pro
gram committee are Mrs. John
Yeiser and Mrs. George C. Edgerly.
Mrs. N. K. Sype is president of the
club. i
An example of Mrs. Abbotts idea'
for presenting music at the club pro
grams is found in the first meeting,
September 28, which will he held at
the home of Mrs. Ralph Russell.
The play for the day, under the di
rection of Mrs. W. O. Perry, will
be "Two Faces," an allegory of life.
A garden forms the settuig. The
play is light and fantastic. Music
for the occasion, suiting the spirit
of the play, will be a presentation of
"Dancing as a Synthetic Art," with
a gypsy dance solo by Miss Pauline
Lapps. Mrs. Abbott will accompany
throughout the season.
On November 23 at the home of
Mrs. W. R. McFarland, when a play
by John Drinkwater, Englishman,
will be given, the music will include
poems by Rudyard Kipling set to
music with interpretations. Rev. A.
H. Marsden, baritone, will present
hem. Mrs. Jack Yeiser will direct
the play of this date.
"Back to Methusaleh," by Bernard
Shaw, will be the play for December
7 at the home of Mrs. E. A. Beards
ley, directed by Mrs. George C, Ed
gerly Rachmaninoff as a Composer,
illustrated by a group of songs, by
Mrs. Gilbert Brown, soprano, wiil
accompany a presentation of the
book, "Father and Son," by Turge
nev, on January 4 at the home of
Mrs. Henry McDonald; Mrs. Millard
Langfelt and Mrs. Ida Hanchett,
leaders.
"A Musical Aanalysis of Bee
thoven," Sonata Op. 13, illustrated by
adagio movement. Mrs. Abbott,
pianist, will accompany a 16th cen
tury play, "Beauty and Jacobin." Mrs.
J M. Lord will be director and
hostess for the occasion.
"Merry Cuckoo" is the chosen play
for March 29 when Mrs. W. T. John
son will be hostess and Mrs. Roger
Holman, director. "Music in Bird-
(land." by Florence Stennenberg, will
be the appropriate music theme tor
that date.
Twelve Hours in a
Lifetime to Be
Good Dancer
"ft takes 12 hours of a man's life
to make him a good dancer, if his
thought is properly directed," said
W. J. Ryan, in the city to direct an
entertainment projc- for the Ameri
can .Legion. He is stopping at the
Blackstone. Mr. Ryan was formerly
ball room director of the New Eng
land Normal School of Dancing and
Physical Culture at Boston.
"I am surprised that your local
educators . prohibit dancing in the
public schools," he continued.
"If they will teach the public
school child the proper routine for
its natural movement... real mental
and physical co-ordination of thought
and action, if they will define for the
child the things that are accepted by
society as beir.g proper for this form
of social recreation, the present ob
jectionable types of dancing will
soon be eliminated.
"At one of the largest American
colleges, the dean of student affairs
said to me recently, 'We don't owe it
to the student to teach him dancing,'
yet the dancing in that school was
abominable. My view is that the
educator does owe it to society to
keep the student's morals on a par
with his intellect as far as possible,
If they let misguided youth think
that dancing is merely hugging to
music they have failed in their op
portunities. "Omaha dancing, thoush clean. U
poor and stiff and awkward. They
just do the one tiling here, they
walk to everything." Mr. Ryan rec-
ment offer municipal training in the
dance.
"It is much easier to dance well
than poorly, if the thought is direct
ed in the right channel of instruc
tion. There is no difference in danc
ing from Maine to California, save
for combinations that may differ lo
cally. The principle of dancing is
always the same.
"Much has been said about mod
ern dancing and many claim it
the cause for deplorable conditions.
It makes no difference what the
dance, modern or olden, it's what
they make it."
Mr. Ryan claims that in dancing
man finds a universal source of
pleasure. Motion is universal, he
says, and man is endowed with a
capacity to appreciate its beauty and
rhythm. Dancing is the art of ex
pressing sentiments of music in mo?
tion.
Miss Darlow's Return
Miss Dorothy Darlow, who has
been visiting in the east since early
in the year will return September ID.
She has been at the country place of
her uncle, Gutzon Borglum, this
summer, near Stamford. Conn., and
has had the unusual pleasure of see
ing Micho Itow and his 12 famous
dancers, who have been extended
the courtesy of Mr. Borglum's green
for thcr rehearsals.
Miss Darlow attended the spring
week festivities at Dartmouth col
lege and the inaugural ceremonies at
Washington last March,
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