WOMEN'S SECTION
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The Omaha Sunday Bee.
EDITORIAL f
A'MUSEMENTS
VOL Bl NO. 48.
PART TWO
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY
1922.
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Diary of a Junior League
" , Chorus Girl the Week
of the Big Show
Family Loses a Cook, and Chortis Girls Crack Their
Throats, But All Lose Weight and the Day
Nursery Is Safe for a Year.
By GABBY DETAYLS.1 V
Herald of the May, left to right: Charlotte Steventon, Elsie Schwartz,
Helen Mancuso, Dorothy Edwards, ElUabeth Ralston, Janet Brunt, Thelma
Wolfe.
The atmosphere and cusoms of tl e court of Charles II will be revived
when the 10th annual May festival and gala day of the University of Omaha
is celebrated at Kountze park Friday, May 19. Helen Gwin, a university
senior, will be crowned queen oi the May following a court dance festival
and the presentation of an English Maypole dance. .
Miss Gwin, as the 10th May queen, will be attended by Miss Flora
Jones, junior maid of honor; Lillian Wallingford and Constance Perley,
sophomore and freshman maids. Three-year-old Patricia Ferguson as the
flower girl will precede the queen. Daniel Jenkins, S-year-old son of Dr.
D. E. Jenkins, university president, and 4-year-old Gene Grenwalt, will
also attend the queen. .
The herald, Miss Dorothy Edwards, will lead the procession from the
university campus to Kountz park, where the English court dances and the
Monday: We got our . parts
assigned today for the Junior league
show. I'm in the hottentot chorus.
The costumes sound terribie, and
we have to do kind of a war dance
that isn't going to be a bit pretty.
They've picked the queerest people
for the Dimpled Darling chorus.
Some of tliem are all right,' of course,
but I've seen Mable's knees. That
girl hasn't got a thing below the
neck. Just because she has a pretty
fs.ce they put her in. I'm not vain
about my owh looks, goodness
knows, but I can dance. I taught
all the girls in school last year to
shimmy. . ,: - . .
Tuesday: . I'm learning to inhale.
It still makes me rather dizzy, but
I'm getting the hang of it Every
body smokes at rehearsals, and all
iho girls are crazy about Melachrinos.
Mother thinks it's awX we had
quite an argument abuJ.vit, but I
tell her you have to do something
to kill time and keep yourself awake.
I'm going to practice out on the
sleeping porch before I go to bed.
Wednesday: I tried on' my cos
tume today. It was oceans too
smalt. I'm going to have to reduce
somehow. One thing, all this danc
iug ought to help; I never got so tired
in my life. One of the boys has lost
IS pounds already. The cook left
today. - I; had started ,the -Victrola
and was practicing my hottentot
dance, and she came in and saw me
and was shocked to death. She was
a colored Baptist and thinks any
kind of dancing will take you to
perdition.' She said she . wouldn't
stay in the house if I was going to
do that dance, so, of course, I told
her she could go: Mother was rather
put out about it for some reason.
But Eliza never could make a salad
that was fit to eat, so I don't see
why she cares. . .
Thursday: Rehearsed all day and
had two fittings. I'm a total loss.
Nobody knows what work this thing
is. I'm going to be a choir boy in
the mock wedding I just found out,
and gee but I look cute in a cotta
or a cassock or whatever they call
those little white things. "They set
off bobbed hair so well. I almost
think I'll see if I can get into the
choir at church. ' It would be loads
of fun to come down the aisle in
one every Sunday.
Friday: Honestly, the funniest
things do happen in connection with
the revue.. VVe were getting up some
advertising literature and Will Hays
wrote us a letter and - said -how in
teresting our work mould be for "us
grown folks to read." What does
he think the Junior league is, any
way? A lot of school children?
And then on top of that when they
called the all-night - rehearsal the
other day one of the girls kicked
about the late hours and said the
League girls had to go to bed at a
decent hour, and some man, an old
crab who's 45 if he's a day, laughed
sarcastically and said, "Poor little
things! I went to school with most
of them." ; Nobody seems to under
stand what the League is.
tonight. I'nTso scared that I can't
eat, and if anybody speaks to me I
simply want to scream. I'm sure
I've strained a ligament I can hard
ly step on my right foot and the
doctor has my ' ankle all strapped
up. My costume isn't finished yetl
It will probably fall off me unless
I literally sew it on. Our last re
hearsal was this -morning and no
tie in our chorus knows the words
to the song it seems to me. All I
can think of is that wedding, chorus,
"I want a veil ' .
-That will trail . v .
'To the altar rail. ....... ?
I want a male - .
..Turning pale...ri." ' ; '
Oh, if it doesn't stop going round
in my head I'll go insane. .
; Sunday evening: I haven't had the
strength to write till now. Oh, it
was so thrilling!!!!!! The show was
a howling success, everybody said,
and we made an awful lot of money.
It was worth all the time we spent
on it and the effort and everything,
in my estimation. People in the au
dience said our costumes were the"
most effective things! And they
didn't see how we ever got the steps
in that dance. We were all so ex
cited that we just had to make good,
and we fairly cracked our throats.
Thank goodness, Ernie-I danced
' with him in the show was cold
sober. I was afraid he wouldn't be.
The older people are all enthusias
tic, too. They're usually so" critical,
the women anyway. I'm on the
verge of a collapse I know but I've
lost 10 pounds. It wsjcertainly worth
while being in the show. I wouldn't
have missed it lor worlds. And w'v.
made enough to run the Day Nursery
an me rest or ine yean
( (-Q ROTHER is leaving town
JD ton'8n?" said a young ma
tron inadvertently in the
society editor's presence the othtr
day.
"A personal;" said the S. E. glee
ful'y. , . ,
"Oh. oh. please don't use it in )h
paper," begged the y. m. "He would
hate it so. But." and, here d,-
paused for a moment, "but yep, I
wish ydu would. Go ahead," she ex
claimed with enthusiasm. "Perhaps
some of his girls will read it and give
us a little rest from answering phone
calls." -
GABBY overheard two men on
the street car. They were evi
dently laboring men. Both
were glancing over the same news
paper. "Now look at that name." said
one, pointing to "Helen" which, in
this instance, was spelled "Hellen."
"Funny way to spell it."
"Can't tell anything about spell
ing people's names any more, spe
cially with these here girls. They're
always getting some new-fangled
way."
"Yes, that's it.' They're all trying
to Americanize their names!"
Business Woman Club
May Breakfast.
The annual May breakfast of the
Omaha Business Woman's club will
be given in the Y. W. C.A. audi
torium Wednesday from 7 until 9.30
a. m. Tickets may be obtained from
members of the club or at the . Y. W.
C. A. office.
Miss Katherine Davis is chairman
of the ticket committee; Miss Flor
ence Hathaway, decorations; Mrs.
Ora Stage, chairman of waiters" com
mittee. Proceeds from the affair will
be used in sending delegates to the
national convention of business and
professional women which meets in
Chattanooga in July.
Press Club to Meet
There will be a meeting for the
Omaha Woman's Press club. Tues
day noon at 12:30 at the Brandeis
tearoom. Mrs. Myron Learned will
speak on her recent experiences m
Washington, where she met
Harding,
With the queen, left to right: , Patricia Ferguson, Constance Perley.?
Helen uwin itne queen;, riora jones, uuan niuunium,
wards. ,
English Maypole dance will be presented before the final coronation of the
queen. An old English garden dance as a solo number will be interpreted
by Bessie George, senior premedic. Miss Helen Burton, director of physical
training, has charge of the dances.
Taking part in the Maypole dance will be: Elizabeth Ralston, Grace
Gallagher, Mary Logan. Evelyn Ward, Charlotte Stephenson, Clara Pease,
Thelma Wolf, Helen Mancuso, Janet Burns, Wiltimina Hibbeler, Dolores
Partch, Irene Carlson, Dorothy Sandberg, Marie Roach, Helen Muxen and
Marian Zickefoose. v v .
The members of the gala day committee, in charge of the affair, are:
Edith Merriman, chairman; Helen Gwin, senior; Flora Jones, junior; Les
lie Van Nostrand, sophomore; Lucille Bliss, freshman; J. L. Fallat, voca
tional, and W. R., preparatory.
Wamen at Oxford
Winning Social ;;
: Recognition 5
j Paul Means, an Omaha boy who
is studying at St. Johns college at
Oxford, writes Of some of the
changes that have come over - this
venerable and aristocratic institution -since
the war. He says the 500 wo
men . undergraduates . have been
granted equal membership In the
university, but that the growing
amount of companionship and social
intercourse between the men and
women are still rather frowned on
by the vice chancellor. The Ameri
can club, which has 150 members,
has been spreading American . ideas
of coeducation, far they invite the
American girls at the university to
attend their club meetings.
Mr. Means described, too, the Ox
ford International assembly, which
is a miniature league of nations', and
in which, in its interest in world
problems and its .democracy, its
strongly typical of the spirit of the
university. There are .young , men
and women over there from all over,
the world 130 from India alone. Of
the assembly the Omaha boy writes;
"A glance at the many national
clubs at Oxford will show how trbe
this is. There is the Colonial club,
the American club, the Indian club,
the French club, the German club,
the Japanese club, the Spanish club
and others too numerous to mention.
"Some' of the' clubs and societies
which have had their origin since the
war perhaps best indicate the charac
ter of new Oxford. Although the
Union Debating society still stands
pre-eminent as the parliament of Ox
ford, and the president of the union
still feels that , some day. he ..may be
prime minister, yet a new assembly
has sprung into existence, which,
though not the peer of the union, can
Your Mother
By IRENE M'DONALD.
(The following wm written by a 17-year-old high school girl t Murdock.
Neb. - The class was given to minutes In which to write an essay on "Mother
and no corrections were allowed. Thia beautiful essay ( was tha result from
Mlas McDonald.) , ... . ,
"Like mother, like son;" --Yes 'tis an old saying and, perhaps, all
W true. This old world does judge largely of mother by you. Her
name should not be tarnished by you when she is the very fiber of your
heart. Show that you remember, care and appreciate that which she
has done. Every day should bring thoughs of her and you will not
ignore them, but in the, springy when everything comes to life, don a
carnation and go to her on Mother's day. She will understand and feel
a tinge of pride in your remembrance.
Your mother is the greatest friend you have. - To her alone you
owe a debt that cannot'be overestimated. She was the first teacher re
ceiving a primer from your eager hands; the first surgeon who mended
the scratched and bruised knee; he first peace maker that changed a
tightly clinched fist to soft caressing fingers;, the first minister who
taught your faltering lips to say, "Now I lay me down to sleep."
After these emotions have surged in your heart for 12 long months,
you should give vent to them on Mother's day.
; ; .The face may no longer be fair as in life's prime.- Her face may be
furrowed by time and care. Silver may streak her once brown hair.
Yet, to you she is more than a sculptor's dream she is your mother 1
claim to be more truly representa
tive of Oxford life. I refer to the
Oxford International assembly,
which is by no means to be despised
hv.-ati nrntntvnp. tho leaciie of na
tions assembly in Geneva.
ml . .-
inirty-SIX nations are repincmcu
by their own nationals in this as
mhlv uihilo thrfp . other nations
have been admitted and are repre
sented by "experts, non-naiionais oi
the country. Its purpose is to pro-
,AA fnrtnitrhtlv an flSM-mhlv for tllC
discussion of international questions.
"Although it is a working model
of the league of nations, it is com
mitted to no articles oi ine cove
nant, and therefore, is working out
its constitution and procedure in the
freest possible way. By means of
standing and special committees,
petty international disputes are
critically examined, so that most of
,mnU nf national hatreds has
cleared away by the time the com
mittee presents its report to ine as
sembly. The atmosphere of the as
sembly is by no means that of a
debating society, for there is all the
fire of national self-consciousness
burning in each delegate. The repre
sentation has been limited to three
delegates fromach country. The
secretaries and . delegates may be
right in thinking that the Oxford In
ternational assembly has done more
to promote the leapue of nations
idea than its model in Geneva.":
National Gamp Fire Girls Observe Mother's Day
I
Washington
Society
Bureau of The Bee.
Washington, May 13.
Washington in Maytime must be
seen to be appreciated. Never has
the city seemed so lovely as this
auspicous year of unprecedented
conventions of women to be followed
now by an unprecendlnted number
of conventions of men. There have
already been important conferences
of surgeons- and physicians, and this
week the motion picture owners and
managers were here In convention.
Next Monday morning the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States
will meet in convention in the great
old convention hall of Washington,
a mammoth, barn-like place over
the K' street - market.
An interesting little party of Ne
braskans met in the picturesque tea
house known as "The White, Pea
cock" (as before it fell heir to that
spectacular title it was the stable
of the late Judge Shallsbarger). Now
it is the most adorable pale green
and gray tea rooms with the quaint
.cst and most adorable little studios
above. An accomplished Japanese
cook presides over the kitchen,
from which emanate the most delec
table dishes. The Nebraskans who
met there were Mrs.. Edgar Spott of
Omaha, who had with her Mrs. John
A. Baldwin of Omaha and .Mrs.
Barkalow, mother of Denise Barka
low, formerly of Omaha. There they
met Mrs. Russell B. Harrison and
her mother, Mrs. Saunders, who had
gone in for luncheon. . .
Mrs. Harrison and her mother, ac
companied by Miss Sally Ann Wil
liams, great granddaughter of Mrs.
Saunders, left on Monday - evening
for Omaha, where they arrived on
Wednesday after a week here at the
Hotel Lafayette. They have : been
east about three months. Little Miss
Williams will spend the summer with
them.
Gen. Pershing had another one of
his Sunday 1 o'clock breakfasts last
Sunday at the Shoreham. His guests
were asked to meet the secretary of
war and Mrs. Weeks.
Representatiye and Mr. M. O.
McLaughlin will reach their home in
York, Neb., next week, Mrs. Mc
Laughlin having left yesterday with
their children, and the former going
through by automobile. Mrs. Mc
Laughlin and the children will prob
ably remain in York the remainder
of the summer, but Mr. McLaughlin
will return here after the graduation
of their daughter, who is a senior in
I the York college.
Representative ana Mrs. . tvans
Left to right Virginia Harte,
Jane Fonda, Betty Black well, Ruth
Sumner, Harriet Fonda, Helen
Weltv, Rogene Anderson and Fran-
Mrs. ' cis Cunningham.
1 In observation of Mptherj'-gay,
Camp Fire Girls throughout the
country will cook and serve at least
one meal in their homes today. For
the past few weeks Omaha Camp
Fire groups have been secretly test
US Put tQQthiojne retioss, and many
a little mother is sure to be pleas
antly suprised today at the culinary
skill of htr daughter.
Perhaps many a mother would
welcome a Mothers Day every Sun
jjLVs o aftt fisgking three eals
a day all through the week, thC day
of rest loses some of its restful
meaning.
The girls pictured above are mem
bers of Hashat-u-aya group of which
Miss Mildred Wjsjton y guardian.
and their daughter Miss Anna Evans, 1 a greTt
had as their guest for this week a ri, . .Y "
classmate of . Miss Evans in the Na
tionat Park seminary, where she
graduated, Miss Margaret Hine, of
Akron, O. The girls dined with
their former teachers last Monday
evening t the seminary, and on
Tuesday were, out there again for
the junior parade. Miss Hine will
make a visit in East Orange, N. J.,
next week, before returning home.'
Mrs. Jefferis, wife of Representa
tive A. W. Jefferis of Omaha, was a
hostess at the Congressional club for
the Wednesday luncheon. She had
among her guests Mrs. Edgar Scott
and her sister. Miss Dodge; Mrs.
Barkalow, Mrs. John A. Baldwin,
Mrs. Morrill, wife of Col. Morrill,
and Miss Janet Scott Mrs.. Robert
E. Evans, wife of the representative
from Dakota City, was the luncheon
guest that day of Mrs. Hadley, wife
of the representative from Belling
ham. Wash.
Mrs. Jefferis had an interesting
luncheon last Saturday for the wives
of the Nebraska delegation in con
gress, but because of illness in so
many cases there were only three of
them present. They were Mrs.
Reavis. wife of the representative
from Falls City; Mrs. Evans of Da
kota City, and Mrs. McLaughlin of
York. Among other guests were
Mrs. Cleveland A. Newton of St.
Louis, Mo.; Mrs. George Young of
IXwa to fan Iw. Caluu JTtarJ -
Homemaking
Biggest Job
for Woman
The making of a home is the
greatest job in the world for a
woman, in the opinion of Mrs. Lena
Lake Forrest of Detroit, president
of the National Federation of Bust- '
ness and Professional Women, tht
largest organization of its kind in
the world, and Mrs. Maude Adair,
president of the Omaha Business
Woman's club, who declares that
homemaking' is - woman's biggest
"The young woman who marries
should expect to give herself to tht
home as she has given herself to
business," says Mrs. Forrest, who
is a successful life insurance execu
tive. "The home should be run on
business princples. It is very un
fortunate for a young girl to marry
unless she is willing to assume the
full responsibility of homemaking,"
says Mrs. Forrest.
"Women who have special gifts
or special training which enable
them to make valuable contributions
to different fields of effort should not
withhold those contributions because
they are married," she said. "I be
lieve it is perfectly possible for a
urnman tn Viavm a hnm. anil tn rnn
duo,t it properly even though she is
a figure in the professional or busi
ness world. I know of many such
women. . One . whom I recall has
possibly contributed more to educa
tion in this country than any other
one woman. Yet she has a charm
ing home and three beautiful children.-
' ...
"Women who refuse to have chil
dren after they have married just
because they want to keep on draw
ing a salary that they could do with
out are not of the type to make
good mothers in . any event, are
they? The woman who will make
a good mother does not hesitate to
put business aside, if it is possible,
for this end. . ' f , -
"When the crisis comes and it is a
case of failing .the home or letting
outside work take second place I
think I know women well enough
to say confidently that the home
will always triumph.". -: ..."
"Many women farmers are'adtive
in the business women's organiza
tion," says Mrs. Forrest,, "especially
in the west." Miss Carrie Cam
merud, a state officer of the North
Dakota organization, operates a big
tract in Canada; Miss Louise Boeh
ringer, president of the Arizona or-
rancn ana also soeciahzes in nut
groves; Miss Lila White, president
of the Florida - organization, is : a
promoter and agriculturist who has
the honor of having introduced tht
white potato into Florida. 'o
Miss Charl Williams; president of
the National Education association;
Judge . Florence Allen of Cleveland,
and Judge Jean Norris, president of
the New York State league, are ac
tive members of the workers in the
federation. .
Bank presidents, leading lawyers
and physicians, successful dressmak
ers, bakers and manufacturers are in
cluded among the pioneerrof the fed
eration, which has only been in exist
ence four years. .
One of the great objects of the fed
eration is to promote better stand
ards of education for girls entering
the world of business. The clubs
which constitute the federation hive
various special purposes in 'addition
to that common to all, the promotion
of women's usefulness in the world
of business and the professions. The
clubs are, many of them, social, while,
others devote much of their time to
work helpful to community life.-
Mrs. Forrest is a remarkable
woman, according to Mrs. Adair,
who met the national officer of the
convention last year. The confer
ence this year will be held at Chatta- -floosa.
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