The Omaha Sunday Bee
SOCIETY
TEN CENTS
VOL. 51 NO. 20.
PART TWO
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 30, 1921.
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SOCIETY
Washington
a City of
Clubs
Gabby Glibly
Gossips of
. Girls
.WOMEN'S SECTION
By CABBY DETAYL8.
HTlSS MARY GIFFORD, who
1VI " be" (tudying nurung in
New ork. lis recently
changed from the Rootevelt hoipiul
to an eve and ear hospital. Her new
tlutiea include reading to the patients
who cannot use their eyei, and the
other day the waa detailed to took
after a hometick little boy, who,
they suipectcd, wai going to try to
run away from the hotpitat. Mitt
CirTord decided her moil strategic
move would be to hide hit ctothet,
but when the went to look for them
she could not find them. Then the
had an idea. She atcrnly commanded
the amall boy to get out of bed,
Sure enough hit pajamad figure
waa curiously bulgy and wai fin
ilied off with shoes and stockings.
It took two hours of light fiction to
discourage hint from the bolt he had
been all ready to make.
A DARKIIA1RED princess of
A this years' Ak-Sar-Ben court is
" giving her friends food for
thought. She is the graduate of a
school in the south, and was rather
interested in one of these romantic
southerners" to all intents. Out
another victory goes to the breezy
west, for the favored man at present
hails from a city in the Rockies,
However, he does not sport a som
brero or silver-studded writslets, but
engages in businerj in an eminently
respectable and conventional man
ner. He is even darker than she is.
The story runs that he too has for
gotten a past attachment for the
present one.
GABBY doesn't like to give this
man away, because "the girl"
is supposed to be a secret. But
. she feels it her duty to let her girl
friends know about it, lest they
should lose their hearts unnecessari
ly. Conservation must be our watch
word, girls, with hearts as well as
trees.
The gentleman is a newcomer, a
professional man. Gabby doesn't
say he isn't a clergyman, nor does
she say he is. He is not particular
ly good-looking, but at least he is
distinctive in appearance. He is
highly intellectual and a gifted
speaker, so it is no wonder he spoke
the words that won the promise of
the fair one, whom Gabby happens
to know.
fa"T7"OU'D better make it snappy
Y and get back to town.
You're being cut out." This
was the S. 0. S. call sent out by a
faithful friend to a blighted young
man who has left Omaha tp cure
his aching heart, so Gabby suspects.
The question now is whether he will
heed this advice or whether the cure
has really been effected. The blighted
' one has been called, and that in no
spirit of jes't, "the' blond Apollo."
As for the heart-breaker who could
be chilly even to Apollo, she 's the
graduate of an eastern school, well
known as a musician, and even takes
a flyer in business now and then, in
her father's office. The cause for
uneasiness seems to be that she is not
impervious to, man in general, and
that once in particular, an eastern
chap who has been here in business
since the war, is actually being
smiled upon. And Apollo's rival is
a pretty good-looking blond him
self. . - . :
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(i QEE they put it in jail," the wee
brown-eyed maid of 4 called
in excitedly from the hall of
the hospital. Auntie was ill in bed
and couldn't investigate, so the white-
capped nurse looked out for the
explanation.
"See," the child repeated, pointing
to an electric light globe encased
in a wire protector, "maybe it stole
some chickens and they put it there."
The kittle girl came here recently
from the south, Gabby was told
apropos the chicken episode.
Joint Party to Be
Given for Young
People of City
For the -first time the Y. W. C. A.
and the Y. M. . C. A. ; will combine
the entire forces of both organiza
tions in a joint party to be given No
vember 5 It will be under the di
rection of Miss Veriel Black, the
new recreation director, and there
will be joint committees from the
two organizations to plan it. They
hope to hold other such affairs dur
ing the winter. A general invita
tion is extended to all Omaha young
people, as the entire building will be
turned over to games, music, roller
skating, etc.
Eight hundred girls daily are in
the physical training classes at the
Y. W. C A. this fall, and the classes
last from 10 in the morning to 10
at night. Each of the 8u0 girls
undergoes a careful examination by
Dr. Abby Holmes before enrollment.
A very popular class at the Y. W.
C A. this year is the one for reduc
ing and a large and enthusiastic
number of married -women are in
constant attendance. If especial at
tention and time are desired they
can be found under Miss Lucy Jane
Giddings, director of the physical
training.
Each Monday during the winter
at 8:15 there will be a sports class
for practice. The first six or eight
weeks of the season will be devoted
to volley ball followed by 12 weeks
of basket ball and . later spring
games of base ball, soccer and ten
nis. a At the end of each season of
practice there will, be tournament
and the club having the greatest
number of points to their credit will
receive a silver cup.
Miss Black also has a class in
gymnastics for colored girls meet
ing at the Colored Y. W. C A ev
ery Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock,
and for aesthetic culture at 8 o'clock
the same evening.
Each Wednesday night at the gym
nasium of the South Side High
school ihe directs a class of girls
from the Morris racking company.
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Percy MacKaye to
Speak Here
Thursday
Percy MacKaye, who comes to
Omaha Thursday, November 3 to
lecture before the Drama league at
o'clock at the Hotel Fontenelle,
is an author and playwright of note,
whose works are well known to
Omaha readers of the drama.
Mr. MacKaye has long been known
as the poet of American life, emo
tion and expression the keenly per
ceptive dramatist of the New World
Spirit.
In Tune, 1914, President Nichols
of Dartmouth college conferred upon
Percy MacKaye the honorary degree
of'M. A. with these words "Master
of Arts to Percy ' MacKaye, 1 poet,
dramatist,, critic, whos large vision
of the theater includes the pageantry
and idealism of all men."
One of the New York critics says,
"It cannot be too plainly or too posi
tively said that in his own field Mr.
MacKaye deserves a place beside the
leaders in his art in England and
trance. v
Mr. MacKaye's "own field" is the
poetic drama, the pageant and the
masque. His patriotic pageant at bt.
Louis in 1919 was a notable event.
It was witnessed by over half a mil
lion people and more than 7,000 citi
zens Of that community took part in
the drama symbolizing the history of
St. Louis during its 150 years of ex
istence.
"Sanctuary," Mr. MacKaye's bird
masque was first presented under
very impressive circumstances. En
acted by a distinguished company,
including Miss Eleanor Wilson and
Miss Margaret Wilson, Witter Byn-
ner, Joseph Lindon Smith and others,
the masque was first presented before
President and Mrs. Wilson on the
Drama League Chairman
Mrs. Osgood Eastman is chair
man of the distributing committee
for the Drama League this season.
With her committee, she mailed
more than one thousand envelopes
Litt weelc. rnfitaimnir thp anmiil an.
Muncemcnt folders, largely Mrs.
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Svfcs 'Clinton Wamiltori' and son. Billy Clayton
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out-door stage of the bird sanctuary
at Meriden, N. H. It was produced
in Omaha several years ago at the
dedication of the beautiful natural
amphitheater of the Fontenelle bird
reserve, under the direction of Mrs.
Effie Steen Kittelsoir, for the Audu
bon society. Another of Mr. Mac
Kaye's masques, "A Thousand Years
Ago," was presented by the Dun
dee Woman's club at the Y; W.: C.
A. uncjer the direction of Mrs. W. L.
Selby. '
Few poet dramatists have had so
great success on 'the stage as has
Mr. MacKaye. His plays have been
produced by such famous stars as
Southern and Marlowe, Henry Miller,
Edith.-Wynn Mathewson and others.
Mr. MacKaye's latest book is a
tale of old New England, called
"Dogtown Common," a romance of
witch days on Cape Ann, set in the
bygone Puritan community of a de
serted village. This book has been
very highly praised in the reviews.
Mrs. Warren Rogers and daugh
ter, Miss Mildred, leave Sunday eve
ning for Bryn Mawr, Pa., where
they will attend the wedding of Miss
Mary E. Longmaid and Caspar
Offut Mrs. Rogers and daughter
will spend the month of November
in New York City.
Eastman's own work, and circulars
for the Tony Sarg, marionettes who
appeared at the Brandeis theater Oc
tober 28. Mrs. Eastman has served
the Drama League in former sea
sons as corresponding secretary and
chairman of the . courtesies com-inittec
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- Announcement is made of tfie
don, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Ji. Longdon, to Carl .Paulson, son ot
Mr. and Mrs. N. Paulson, No date has been set for the wedding. ,
Miss Congdon is a graduate of Central High and Vassar college, 1916.
She was a princess of Ak-Sar-Ben in 1916 when Miss Mary Megeath was
queen. Miss Congdon has been active in Junior league work and is pub
licity chairman for the Nebraska district of the Vassar College association
alumnae. Mr. Paulson is a graduate of Michigan university and spent sev
eral years in civil engineering in Alabama. Last year he took one of the
leading song parts in the Junior League Revue.
...
Numbered among Omaha's attractive young matrons is Mrs. Clinton
R. Hamilton, formerly Mildred Barber, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. P. T.
Barber. Mrs. Hamilton is active in church work and the West Omaha
Mothers' Culture club. Her. chief interest is centered in her small son,
Billy Clayton. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton ae popular members of the Happy
Hollow club set and are soon to reside in that part of the city in their new
home at South Fifty-first avenue and Howard street
A charming addition to the young married set of the city is Mrs.
Ralph Renwick, who has come here this fall with Mr. Renwick from Chi
cago. She is a Vassar graduate of 1913 and is chairman of the Omaha
Vassar club committee for the salary endowment fund. Plans are under
way for raising the Omaha quota of the $3,000,000 lund. Mr. and Mrs.
Renwick have two sons, and Mrs. Renwick is interested in settlement and
church work.
Prominent Club
Women Guests
at Luncheon
Mrs. Rose V. S. Berry of Berke
ley, Cal., General Federation director
of fine arts, who speaks before .the
Omaha Woman's club Monday after
noon in the Burgess-Nash auditor
ium, and Mrs. Benjamin B. Clark of
Red Oak, la., General Federation
treasurer, will be honor guests, at a
luncheon given by the club in the
Burgess-Nash tea room , Monday
noon at 12:30 o'clock.
At the speakers' table with Mrs.
Berry and Mrs. Clark will be Mrs.
Charles Johannes, president of the
Woman's club; Mrs. E. M. Syfert,
president of the Omaha Drama
league and a past president of the
Omaha Woman's club; Mrs. Ward
Burgess,' president of the Omaha So
ciety of Fine Arts; Mrs. L. M. Lord,
president of the Second district, Ne
braska.. Federation of Women's
Clubs; Mrs. John W. Welch, treas
urer of the State Federation; Mrs.
John R. Hughes, state chairman in
dustrial and social conditions; Mrs.
Cyrus P.- Mason, General Federation
first vice chairman, press and public-r
ity; Miss Alice Loomis, Lincoln,
state ' chairman, home economics;
Mrs. F. ,H.. Cole,' state chairman of
civil service reform and a past pres
ident of ' the club ; Mrs. M. , D.
'Cameron, state chairman- of conven
tion program committee and a past
president of the' club; Mrs. C. G.
Ryan or Grand-Island, state presi
dent. League ,. of Women Voters;
Mrs?; Avery Lancaster, le'ader. of art
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, .At the past presidents' table will
be.Mesdames Draper Smith; Edward
The Birch Grove
Like" silver candlestick's you stand.
Aflame with glorious autumn leaves
. Upon earth's altar cloth of green and brown.
Aloft a choir of songbirds reign;' V
Sunbeams that have strayed into this sanctuary
Between wind-tossed leaves
An happy prisoners in the white-robed bars
. That rise majestically like an organ's pipes
As if to sound an accompaniment
To the melody of the birds!
And I who know few holy things
Am filled with reverence
And offer thanks, to Him
Who places your beauty in His scheme of things,
And treading lightly through the fallen leaves,
I go my way
As from some temple shrine 1
Tnrk Lee.
engagement of Miss Josephine Cong-
Needlework Guild
Prepares for
Exhibit -
' An unique feature of the Needle
work guild is that it holds only two
meetings a year, one hi October,
when preliminary arrangements for
the collection of garments are made,
and the other in November, when
the garments are exhibited and dis
tributed among local charities. At
the latter meeting the election of
officers takes place. . The work this
year is under direction of the vice
president, Mrs. W. W. Carmichael,
owing to the resignation of the
president, Mrs. Milton B. Newman.
' Among the most interesting do
nations received this season are five
pretty little dresses made by these
little girls: Rita Mantel, Florence
Wolf, Marie Klein and Louise and
Grace Rosenthal.
. In addition to sending garments
to about ;30 charitable institutions,
the guild supplies clothing for the
outgoing patients of the University
hospital. Complete layettes are giv
en to all the babies needing them.;.
1 The garments will be on exhibi
tion Thursday afternoon from 2 un
til 4 o'clock at the First Central
Congregational church, Thirty-sixth
dnd Harney streets.
Johnson, C. W Hayes, A. L. Fernald
and Charles L. Hempel.
1 Preceding the general meeting,
which opens at 2:30 o'clock, an in
forrrfal reception will be held in the
auritorium of the store for the honor
guests. -Mrs. Berry, speaks under
the auspices of the art department,
Mrs. Avery Lancaster, leader,
j The directory meets Monday at 10
a. m. in the Burgess-Nash auditor-
Miss Davis Weds
Henry Bohling
of St. Louis
The wedding of Miss Menic Da
vis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. H.
Davis, and Mr. Henry Bohling of
St. Louis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hen
ry C. Bohling of Chicago, was cel
ebrated Saturday evening at 8:30
o'clock at Trinity cathedral.
Bishop' E. V. Shayler read the
marriage lines in the presence of a
large gathering of friends. The
church was beautifully decorated.
The bride, who was given away
by; her father, looked lovely in a
gown of white net made over white
satin. The net was elaborately
trimmed with crystals and pearls.
The bodice was cut high and fin
ished without sleeves. A court
train hung from the shoulders and
the long tulle veil was held in place
with a band of pearls. She carried
a shower bouquet of lilies of the val
ley and sweet peas.
Miss Elizabeth Davis, sister of the
bride, was the maid of honor. She
were a gown of the new fuschia
shade of chiffon, heavily beaded in
blue.
The bridesmaids were Mrs. Jack
Webster, Mrs. Donald M. McFer
ron of Hpopston, 111., and Miss
Daphne Peters.
Miss Peters wore a gown of
fuschia-colored chiffon and . Mrs.
Webster . and Mrs. McFerron were
gowned in green chiffon made over
self-tone satin. They all carried
shower bouquets of pink roses and
lavender sweet peas.
A reception followed the cere
mony in the ball room of the Black
stone hotel.
The out-of-town guests were Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Bohling of Chicago,
Bride of
y
''Mrs. Edward M. Bailey, who was
Miss Mildred McFarland, daughter
ol Mr. W. R. McFarland, became
the bride Saturday evening of Mr.
Edward M, Bailey. Mtf. Bailey
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Plans Completed
for Aviators' Ball
on Saturday
Now that the Air Congress is as
sured plans have gone on apace for
the Aviator's Ball to be held Nov.
ember 5 at the Auditorium under
the auspices of the Aviators' Club
and the Junior League. Enlisted
men from the Post will be sent in to
do guard duty and lend a military
touch. All aviators and army otn.
cers will appear in uniform.
An airplane that the Curtiss com
oanv is donatinsr for some civic
use in Omaha will be suspended
from the ceiling, and hundreds of
small airplanes in battle formation
will be put up on the girders under
tire halconv. Balloons of all colors
will be given to the dancing couples
and used m tne decorations gen
erally. Many distinguished .guests will be
present, and the ' President of the
Junior League, Miss Gertrude Stout,
will open the Grand March with the
most honored, guest. ,
Many inquiries have been received
as to tickets, but there will be none
on sale except those inclosed with
the invitations which are being tent
out to Omaha's socially prominent
citizens and to all air men. Any
person receiving an invitation can,
however, obtain more tickets for a
guest or a member of his family by
applying to the chairman of the
Ball committee, Jack Peacock.
Mrs. Charles Bohling, Mrs. Louise
Steiner, Mr. W. ,H. Hafner and Miss
Louise Hardee, all of Chicago. The
young couple left the, same evening
for an eastern wedding trip. They
will be at home after December 1 in
St. Louis.
Saturday
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was married in her mother's wed
ding gown and the coronet and
wreath which held her tulle veil were
also worn by her mother. Mr.
and Mrs. . Bailey are honeymooning
iu the west.
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By FRANCES DEVEREUX.
Wellington, Oct. 29.-Club life in
Washington it one ' of the main
hraen in the ttructure of compan
ionship. This i apparent even to
the caual visitor in Yahiiifton,
who, although a brief sojourner, hat
me little opportunity to peep into
the room where social coiiuilioni
ore stored.
There ares men's clubt and there
are women's clubs, and there are
clubt which ire men and women'i
clubt. The country clubs, of course,
have a large woman membership and
curiously enough the rules and regu
lations of tome of these organiza
tions have undergone a tlianne re
cently to be in keeping with the
changed status of women iu political
life. On the links of tome of the
country clubs women member? now
may play whenever they wish. Or
iginally man restricted woman to the
use of the links at certain hours on
certain days. His golf stick wa
his scepter of rule, and he used it
to keep subject woman off the course
when his imperial will so directed.
A new club in Washington, a real
prt'fisf ional organization, is known
as the "Overseas Writers." It is com
posed entirely of active Washington
newspaper and magazine writer! who
saw overseas service as war corre
spondents or at atudentt of European
or Asiatic life generally. There are
35 members of theis new organiza
tion and nearly all of them are con
nected directly with the daily' press
of the United States as Washington
correspondents. Every week tome
prominent government official is the
luncheon guest of the "Overseas
Writers." President Harding the
other day broke a precedent by
lunching with the club members and
talking to them on intimate govern
mental subjects. No member of the
club reports anything that is said at
the meetings, but, of course, he is
guided more or less in his corre
sfondence by the information which
he receives.
The chief men'i social clubs in
Washington are the Army and
Navy, the Cosmos, the Metropolitan
and the University clubs. The Army
and Navy club is the most thriving
organization financially, at any rate
in the Capital city. It has an enor
mous nonresident membership and
as each nonresident pays a certain
small sum each year the club re
ceives about $20,000 income from '
this source alone without any ex
pense in. connection with its distant
members. There are a thousand. '
resident members and with their
dues and those of their comrades '
stationed in the Philippines, Hawaii
or at outlying posts in the United
States, the club is flourishing finan
cially. : It has been said that this i f
man's club, but really the amy
women have a share in its privileges.
There are luncheon and .(lining '
rooms for the wives, mothers, sis
ters and daughters of the soldiers,
but not one member of the fair sex
must intrude into any other part ti
the club house except on special oc
casions. ,
The Cosmos club is composed al
most entirely of scientists. There
are some women scientists, but they "
are not admitted to membership. .,
The Metropolitan club has been
called the exclusive club of the city
of Washington. It has men of
wealth and leisure fn its member- ;
ship. Money and leisure, however, '
are not all that is necessary to keep
a club going. It is whispered that
the Metropolitan club is not as thriv- .
ing as it was in other days, but no
member presumably feels alarmed
at this, for it is easy enough to as
sess a man of wealth and leisure
with a pretty fair assurance that he
will respond quickly, if not entirely
willingly.
: The Congressional club is com-
oosed entirely of women, It is, to
many minds, the most interesting of
all the social organizations in the "
city of Washington. It has a club
house of its own with all the things
necessary to make what - may be
called home club life successful.
Membership of the Congressional
club is made up of the wives, moth-
er,s, sisters or daughters of present
or former members congress. It
knows no politics. In fact, when
there are more democratic women
in the club than there are republican V
women it is as likely that a repub- ,
lican president will be elected, and
the reverse of the proposition holds
true. The women in the Congres
sional club understand parliamentary
law, or at least some, of them do, and
their business meetings are modeled ,
after the daily sessions of congress.
It is a sharp person who can con- ;
fuse, parliamentarily speaking, the j
presiding officer of the Congressional .
club. 1
Probably the most famous news
paper man's club in the world is the
Gridiron Chib of Washington. It is
solely a dining club. - Its dinners are
noted, not only for method and man-
ner of the entertainment supplied,
but for the presence at them of the
highest officials of the American gov
ernment, including the president of ;
the United States and almost always
the ambassadors of the great foreign
countries. Mr. Edgar C. Snyder of
The Omaha Bee comparatively re
cently rounded out a term as presi
dent of the Gridiron, club.
Washington-club life would be
much like the club life elsewhere
were it not for the fact that com- .
parativcly few of the members of
each club are real Washingtonians.
Here the club membership is com-
posed of people from all parts of the
world. Every club in Washington
might be. called by the name "cos
mopolitan." University Club.
The second annual banquet of the
Washington Girls' club will be given
Saturday evening, November 5, at
7 o'clock. All Nebraska girls who
worked in Washington during the
war are eligible for membership. A
musical program will follow the din
ner. The honor guests will be Mei
dames Samuel 'Avery of Lincoln,
Norris Brown; Messrs Charles Lo
berk, R. C. Young. Jamet Henlejr
and Miss Margaret Lobeck