The Omaha Sunday Bee
SOCIETY
EDITORIAL
AMUSEMENTS
FEATURES
VOL 51-NO. 42.
Moving Day
Styles Have
Changed
Ten Commandments Were
Easy for Survivors of
"Moving Day."
By CABBY DETAYL3.
A NOTIJKR evidence tint things
- nave cnangco.
Do you remember how it
Used to b whtn the minister cime
to town?
1 here wrre bone and tUi of f
weight and sizes hauled up in huge
vans irom the freight depot to Hie
front eurb. Men worked heavily
throughout a king day, unloading the
eictUior covered goods and carry
in I ilirm into chilly, hollow room,
depositing at the tame time, gener
out cake of mud and yellow gt tu
tor it always ram on moving day.
Once under cover, what weeks of
labor, with the minuter' wife su
perintending, or indeed herself labor
ing to get the "carpet" down and
the curtains up, to find satisfactory
nail (r jot and pan and the most
advantageous corner for the F.stey
erKin or, mayhap, the handsome
Mno,
Hut that' not the way of todav.
I)r. and Mr. J. G. V. Fast arrived
in Omaha Friday, Dr. Fast being
successor to Dr. Titus Loe at the
First Methodist church.
Tomorrow they wjll tie "at home"
to their friend. Mr. George Wick
ersham of the church hat had charge
of refurnishing and redecorating the
home vacated by the Lowe ome
week ago. With her recognized
artistic ability and a cash outlay for
new furniture, she wa able to pre
sent a most attractive place to Dr.
ami Mrs. Fast when they arrived
Friday morning. No pocking, ship
ping, settling; no tense nerves and
embarrassing situations; no nasty
purchases to cover emergencies; it's
nil as safe and sane as the new style
Fourth of July.
Dr. Lowe, has been no les for
tunate in the ease with which he
made a change of home. He and
Mrs. Lowe, who is now with him
after a visit in Cedar Falls, la., are
occupying the comfortable John R.
Mott home in New York. Mr. Mott.
an international Y. M. C A. worker,
was obliged to leave New York for
an extended absence and he was
more than delighted to turn the front
door key over to his good friend,
Dr. Lowe.
In the old day one was very sure
that the 10 commandments would
l-.ave no terrors for a minister and
bis wife who could come up smiling
nfter the biennial moving and set
tling ordeal. The tests for endurance
and disposition probably still exist
hut moving day does not present
them.
VST where the alley met Fif-"tffS-rr
street, a little boy loi
tered. On the muddy arohalt his
ntubby forefinger had drawn an al
leged circle, and in it reposed two
migs and a glassy. Now, knuckle
to the pavement he frowningly con
templated the lay of the land with
as much earnestness as Chick Evans
might exhibit on the 18th green.
A flock of winter-lean and city
cynical sparrows quarreled a few
feet away, and pale March sunlight
half-brightened the passing faces,
grown-up faces that turned to smile
at the 'intent campaigner, Impulses
are quickly smothered by the aver
age adult. "Freud to the contrary not
withstanding. No one knows how
many suppressed inclinations were
hurried past by saner reason and
dignity. '
But at last the inevitable happened.
A spare, gruff-looking man paused
and then squatted down beside the
n-agic circle. Thirty years fell from
his shoulders as he wheedled:
"Say, kid lend me your shooter a
minute."
EVERY house should have its
pets," said W, L. George
recently in the New York
'Evening Mail, "because they give a
woman things to take care of. Hus
band and children are not enough."
Gabby wonders if Mr. George
knows anything about , the multi
tudinous duties of a mother. Evi
dently not. He makes the mistake
too often made, the assumption that
woman's time isn't worth anything.
Much of the war work done by wo
men was pure waste of time. Those
who arranged for it, in many cases
men, would never have planned such
duties for themselves, but for women,
Miss Cooper Presents Spring Recital
"Sculpture Plastique" is the beau
tiful dance number from which were
taken these poses by Miss Gladys
Mullen, artist-pupil of Miss 1 Mary
Cooper, whose annual spring dance
recital will be given Friday evening,
April 7, at the Brandeis theater. Mr.
Ted Shawn worked out a series of
statue poses for this dance and
caught them together with graceful
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CrgeKob.rtsorx Aft ' For Relief of Disabled
I Miss Robertson to Wed I VJ
Mrs. James II. Robertson announces tl.: engage
ment of her daughter, Miss Grace Robertson, to
Morton Rhoadcs, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Rhoades. The wedding will take place in June.
Beth are Omaha young people, but Mr. Rhoades is
at present in business in Worland, Wyo., and the
young couple will live there for the present.
Miss Robertson attended Tudor Hall in Indian
apolis, and during the war she held a government
position. Mr. Rhoades, who is a Dartmouth grad
uate and a Chi Phi, served overseas in the motor
corps during the war.
Tomorrow marks the beginning of a drive for
dollar memberships for the Visiting Nurse associa
' tion. A house-to-house canvass will be made by a
small army of workers in the residence sections of
the city and the downtown districts will be covered
by other workers. '
. Mrs. Frank Norton is chairman of supplies for
the drive. She has been assisted by eight helpers,
it didn't matter because their time
had no value!
Pets in the home are desirable, es
pecially where there are children, but
there ought to be a better reason
than the one advanced by Mr.
George. .
T
HIS is a story about the' milk
of human kindness, and if you
are inclined to feel that the
world is a crabby, callous place
Gabby recommends it to your at
tention. If she were A. Carnegie
she would give the hero a life-saver's
medal, but as' it is .all she can
do is to write a testimonial like a
grateful patient of Lydia Pinkham.
Gabby's escape from sudden and
painful death was a narrow one. She
ordered lobster one evening, and
after stowing that away, she care
lessly announced to the waiter that
she wojld have chocolate ice cream
for dessert. He departed, but after
a moment returned with a worried
expression on his genial black coun
tenance. -
" 'Scuse me, madame, but are you
suah you wants to order ice cream,
right after dat lobster?", he inquired
solicitously. And then, lest he seem
officious, he hastened to add:
"Of co'se dey is folks dat can do
it, but dey is othahs which dat com
bination affects."-
Those who "can do it" are warmly
urged to step up and receive the silver-coated
soda mint. Gabby is
quite certain that ."affects" is a mild
word for the results which would
have followed her rash action if she
had not been so politely deterred.
movement One of Miss Cooper's
business girls' classe will present
the number. -
Miss Mullen, a member of this
'Stiaa ??JysVu?len
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PART TWO
Modernizes Old-
Fashioned
Furniture
Mrs. H. H. McCluer of Kansas
City, Mo., who is visiting her sister,
Mrs. S. E. Schweitzer, Knicker
bocker apartments, along ,with all
her other achievements, modernizes
old-fashioned furniture. Mrs. Mc
Cluer -was the first woman in. the
United States to deliver the electoral
vote ai vvasnington; she is vice
president of the National War Moth
crs, president of her local War
Mother chapter, member of the Gen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs
and belongs to the Jackson County
League of Women Voters. But she
still has time to consider beauty in
her home.
"When you want to add another
touch of beauty to your home, do
you visit the shclps and buy things
in 'cote 5'
"Why not, instead
"Seek your attic or if you haven't
one perhaps your mother or grand
mother has and get the relegated
pieces.
In the first place," says Mrs. Mc
Cluer, "the home beautiful does not
mean extravagance.
My old-fashioned washstand I
robbed of its drawers, leaving only
legs, and where the towel rack was
class, has what seems a rosy future
ahead of her. She is planning to go
to New York this summer to study
with Miss Ruth St Denis and Ted
Shawn, after which she may engage
professionally in the dance. Miss
Cooper and many others who have
seen her here considered her very
talented. She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Johrf Mullen, her mother
OMAHA. SUNDAY
Visiting Nurse Drive to Be Launched Tomorrow
who have worked for three days preparing supplies Mrs. Charles Metz is chairman of the supply com-
for, the strenuous days of this week. mittee. She purchases all supplies used, supervises
Mrs. W. D. Hosford is chairman of the infant their sterilization and arranges for their delivery to
welfare committee and has charge of the volunteer the various substations of the association.' -
helpers who assist doctors and nurses in weighing Appealing for the support of the public in the
and measuring babies at the stations. . membership drive, Mrs. W. E. Rhoades, president,
Singer Appears,
Rcinald Werrenrath, who ap
peared in Omaha early this year in
a recital concert for the Tuesday
Musical club, showed some rather
commendable qualities in California
recently according to an account of
his appearance at Stockton.
"In front of an audience in Stock
ton, Cal.," the story goes, "Reinald
Werrenrath and his accompanist,
Harry Spier, walked down the cen
ter aisle of the auditorium in their
hats and coats ' with baggage in
hand, and going upon the stage, be
gan the recital.
"It was 10 o'clock at night. Mr.
Werrenrath, Mr. Spier and Selby
Oppenheimer, the singer's Cali
fornia manager, had left San Fran
cisco at 4 o'clock. They were due
at Stockton at 6:55. They were- due
east of San Francisco, the train was
stalled by a 'slide' and 'washout' at
Cristy, near the Santa, Fe tunnel.
An avalanche had covered the road
track for some distance. . The bari
tone could get little information as
to the possible length of the delay,
but wired ahead on a chance, to
hold the audience, and he would do
his best to appear. After a two and
Ijut a mirror which I had picked
up for a trifle. After removing the
varnish I finished it with old ivory
enamel and then had a very attrac
tive dressing table. (
" "My dresser, . which had two tall
rows of drawers on either side of a
long mirror, I made into pieces of
furniture by removing the drawers
and making of them a separate little
stand. The mirror I swung horizon
tally above the dresser and enam
eled the whole in the same old
ivory."
R. B. Howell to Speak.
R. B. Howell will speak on "Di
rect Primaries," at a meeting of the
political and social science depart
ment ot the Umaha Woman s club
Monday afternoon, 2:30 o'clock, in
the Y. W. C. A.
The meeting is open to the public
Mrs. Thomas Jones, leader.
being prominent in the Omaha
Woman's club, where she had
charge of the Shakespearian pro
gram given by the public speaking
department this past week. Mrs.
Mullens brother, George Hughes,
took the part of Brutus in the act
presented from Julius Caesar, sug
gesting dramatic ability in the
family.
Miss Mullen will also aooear in
"The Thunder Bird," one of the
numbers Mr. Shawn gave in Omaha
early this season.
A feature of Miss Cooper's pro
gram will be the "Ballet of SDrine."
The babr Duoils will aooear as rain-
J drops and sunbeams. A blast from
the north wind and a flurry of snow
will cause the bright spring flowers
to droop their heads until spring
comes to drive the flakes away, and
the sun smiles, giving renewed life to
the blossoms.
MORNING, A PHIL 2, 1922.
Mrs S.S Caldwell)
Baggage in Hand
a half-hour delay, the train started
again, but held up along the way,
so that the singer did not reach
Stockton until 10 o'clock. He rushed
to the hall and announced himself
by walking down the .center aisle
with Mr. Spier, made a short in
troductory remark, dropped his over
coat and baggage on the plattorm,
and took his place' in front of the
piano, while the waiting audience
rent the air with a tremendous greet
ing of applause for his successful
struggle to make an appearance.
"After the first group Mr. Wer
renrath asked Mr. Spier to play two
piano solos and during this time
went to the dressing room, and re
appeared for the rext group, in his
usual immaculate evening attire. "
A number ot the Stockton peo
ple who planned to hear Mr. Wer
renrath received word of his delay
by wireless at 7:30 o clock. They,
therefore, spent the early evening
at home, and about 9:30 started out
for the concert. Mr. Werrenrath
was weary, but the voice was cheery
and the spirits high. In the modern
paraphrase, 'A good time was had
by all'." , , -
Latest Slogan Is
"Own Your Own
Apartment"
All aboard! If you can't get
aboard get a shingle. That's what
the happy youths used to cry out
when playing train and merry-go-round
and other games back in the
good old days.
Now they are grown up, but they
are still shouting. What they say
now is, "Own your own home. . If
you can't own a home, jown an
apartment." .
In various parts of the country
apartment houses are being erected
on the community plan that is,
each dweller owns his portion of
the building. California has worked
this out more extensively," perhaps,
than any other state.
Omaha is soon to have a commu
nity apartment and a woman is the
enterprising one back of it
Miss Mary Cooper, well-known
dancing instructor, . will erect an
apartment this summer in the vicin
ity of Farnam and Fortieth streets.
The 60 apartments in the building
will be designed for business people,
being compact and conveniently ar
ranged. The rooms will include a
living room, kitchenette, bath and
dressing room, - with built-in furni
ture. The expense of each apartment
Miss Cooper has figured with the
help of a local building and loan as
sociation, will be $3,000. An initial
payment of half the amount will be
required and the balance will be
paid out at the rate of $15 a month.
This experiment in Omaha will
be very interesting and is probably
a forerunner of other similar ven
tures.
1 B
has issued the following statement:
The Vlaltlnc Nura association bcllevna that In the put
ft 'baa built up and entabllahed a beneftcent organization
which haa become a vital factor In the health or the city,
and juatifiea public support.
May we not count on your dollar membership? Tour
dollar will help ue rive a child a (air atart. Every child
haa a right to be well born. Save a mother from a Ions
continued Ulneas or death. Carry cheer and comfort to the
chronic or shut-In patient.
By your membership, you are dally giving; this aervlce
to others leas fortunate than you.
Omaha Girls Will
Join Summer
Music Colony
. "Summer is coming," sang the
poet, and summer plans for many of
us are well under way. Summer 'in
Chicago will bring with it an array
of well-known artists, as well as an
influx of music students. Omaha
will be represented by the Misses
Corinne Paulson, Eloise West, Win
ifred Traynor and Mrs. Alice Par
sons Tedrow.
At the Chicago Musical college
this year there will be engaged a
notable company of artists, includ
ing' Leopold Auer, Herbert Wither
spoon, Oscar Saenger, Percy Grain'
ger, Percy Rector Stevens, Clarence
Eddy, Ivan Tarasoff and Florence
Hinkle. A number of free scholar
ships will be awarded.
In all its history the Chicago Mu
sical college has never been quite so
overrun with pupils and the advan
tages offered are said to be many and
varied. In addition to the visiting
faculty there are eight teachers, In
cluding Edward Collins; 11 vocal
teachers, some of whom are well
known to the public as singers, nota
bly Mrs. Gannon, Mrs. Herdien and
John B. Miller. Heading the six
violinists is Leon Sametini, who has
a master class of his own all the
year round. Of the important sub
ject, . orchestration, Felix Borowski,
"Dance of the Sabers' v Recital Feature
"Dance of the Sabers" will be a
feature of the spring dance recital to
be - given by pupils of Pleasant
Holyoke EJwood, Saturday evening,
April 8, at' the Brandeis theater. It
will be presented by Grace Vodicka,
Virginia Langfelner, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Langfelner, and
Frances Cunningham, daughter of
Mr. Arthur F. Smith and Mrs. S. S. Caldwell
are devoting considerable time during these days of
Lent to the Society for the Relief of the Disabled.
Mrs. Smith, who was recently made chairman of
memberships, is using the chain idea for building
up the roll. She has appointed 10 women to assist
her, who will secure 10 members each, these 10 to
enroll 10 more and so on and on, Mrs. Smith hopes.
Mrs. Caldwell is a new member of the board,
having been elected at the last meeting. Mrs. Frank
Judson is president; Mrs. John Redick, secretary, and
Mrs. A. L. Reed, treasurer for the society. During
1921, 200 cripples were cared for. Prominent or
thopedic surgeons donate their services, and money
derived from memberships goes entirely for supplies
such as crutches and braces. Vocational training
under the chairmanship of Mrs. Clarke Coit is
taught crippled children so they can be entirely, or
at least partially, self-supporting. A motor corps,
headed by Mrs. Fred Metz, conveys the patients to
and from the clinics.
president of the college, takes full
charge, as he does of the history of
music.
The summer term opens June 28
and lasts for six weeks. The sum
mer school is said to be one of the
best things ever invented, for it
keeps the student in good trim and
affords out-of-town teachers oppor
tunity for progressing in their own
work.
Woman's Club Card Party. -
Tickets for the Omaha Woman's
club card party Friday afternoon,
April 21, 2.30 o'clock, in the Bran
deis grill room may be obtained
from members of the house and
home committee, Mrs. John R.
Golden, chairman.
A few prizes have already been
donated, including a pair of poly
chrome candlesticks and candles,
valued at $15, five-pound box of
candy, a box of apples and two
chickens.
Reservations for tables may be
made with Mrs. Golden or members
of her committee. Proceeds will
be added to the club building fund.
Omaha Girl to Live in Washington.
Mrs. F, M. Russell of Lincoln,
formerly Miss Helen Parish of
Omaha, wU spend the month of April
here withnier mother, Mrs. J. W.
Parish. Mr. and Mrs. Russell are to
mve to Washington, D. C, and Mr.
Russell has already gone east to
take up his work in the press section
of the Department of Agriculture.
Mrs. Russell will leave for Washing
ton about May 1, but will stop on the
way to visit in Chicago, Toledo and
Cleveland.
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Cunningham.
Another feature ' of the program
will be a one-act ballet called "Car
nival" to be presented by Jane Ellis,
FIVE CENTS
Seed Catalog
Lures the
.Unwary
Gardeners Rally to the
Call of, Sprint When
Early Illossoms Wow.
Congressmen may te too buy
nowadays to send packages of teedi
to their constituents, but to the ama
teur gardener there l one unfailing
source of inspiration the seed cata
log. So surely a March snows
melt, the postman brings around that
resptendcritty covered nugaiine in
whose paxe lurk ltiiitculv !uhm.
Forythia, (ialtardia (itamtiilora ami
all the name that conjure up the
nuei of color and fragrance which
one always hopefully expects the
side yard to be net June.
lpon. the cover i a magiiificrut
strawberry cnlarurd to i tinus its
natural size. "Why mil have straw
berry shortcake all the year round?"
inquires the datintlro nurseryman.
Behind the strawberry lurks abunth
of ruby radishes artistically bal
anced by a string bran of a size and
brilliancy that never wa on land
or sea. And the householder, weary
of Ihe humble turnip and the canned
peas of winter, smacks his lipi and
seizes his fountain pen.
Or the poetry of language rnay
carry him utterly away. Swinburne
himcli could take lrson from the
seed catalog. "Oh Min" calls her
husband, "listen to this one. 'Tea
lose, large, rich, scarlet, shading to
velvety crimson, flowers continuous
ly throughout the season, in fra
grance incomparable, in form per
feet. How does that sound?"
For some aspiring souls the seed
catalog satisfies the craving. Long
before the spading and the weeding
and the watering their minds have
flitted to less mundane matters. But
there are others, many of them in
Omaha to whom work in their gar
den is a perpetual joy, and great
is their reward. Particularly dear
to the hearts of the gardeners are
the early spring gardens, with all
the delicate, sweet smelling blossoms
that first brave the cold winds.
Snowdrops come first in Mrs.
Arthur Crittenden Smith's lovely
garden, then the crocuses and hya
cinths and jonquils, and later her
iris beds are a mass of color., She
has 30 varieties of iris, and her gar
den used to be famous for its huge
golden trumpet narcissus.
Although Mr. and Mrs. Myron
Learned do not open their summer
home, Walden Wood, until the first
of May, Mrs. Learned has already
paid a trip or two to her garden,
and has found her tulips out of the
ground. Mrs. Learned makes a spe
cialty of the Darwin tulips, a par
ticularly large and handsome va
riety. They grow in borders about
the house. Mrs. Learned also has
fine peonies and iris, some of the
latter" coming from the Lowrie
Childs garden which is remembered
as the most beautiful anywhere in
the vicinity, and which boasted 60
varieties of iris. Mrs. Smith, Mrs.
Childs and Mrs. Learned were all
members of the small but delightful
Garden club which flourished a
number of years ago. Mrs. Theo
dore Ringwalt and Mrs. Luther
Kountze were also members, and
Mrs. Kountze has experimented un
til she has now achieved the best
results in this climate, and her gar
den is a sight to look upon from
early spring until fall. It seems al
ways to be in full bloom. v
Marty Omaha women have their
own ideas about the laying out of
their gardens and the more original
the arrangements of the perennials
the better. Mrs. W. J. Hynes has'
splendid variety in her perennials
and shrubs and laid them out herself.
Mrs. Milton Barlow, too, superin
tends the planting in her well laid
out garden.
"Grayrocks," the home of Mr. and
Mrs. George A. Roberts in Fair
acres, is one of the most beautiful
places in the city, and Mrs. Roberts
is most enthusiastic over her garden.
There are 30 varieties of trees on
the place, and all sorts of shrubs
and flowers. Behind the house it
self is a sunken garden and there is
a large pergola which is completely
covered by one 'enormous wild
grapevine. The Roberts are plan
ning to set out 7,000 plants this
season, which is gardening on a large
scale. They raise their spring flow
ers in a greenhouse, safe from any
nipping frosts, and that is now in
full .bloom with calendula, jonquils,
narcissus, hyacinths and Easter
lilies.
Miss Nannie Richardson is an
ardent worker in her garden, and ia
(Torn to Pag Three, Column On.)
Ila Saltzgiver, Virginia Langfelner '
and Frances Cunningham. Other ao--loists
are Frances Ellick, Janet Nolan
and Martha Dox.
Mrs. Walter Schroeder has de
signed the costumes for the dances,
using batik, stencil and tie-dye
processes. Brilliant colorings will be
seen in both the costuming and
stage sets.
