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; i The Omaha Sunday Dee [ jsssks, VOL. 52—NO. 42. PART THREE OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1923. 1—C FIVE CENTS Unofficial Spring Costume Opening This Week Smart Afternoon Gowns Will Be S^n at Brownell Hall Bridge—Newest Evening Creations at Thea ter Benefit—Chic Morning Wear at Symphony. The Lenten season has been busier socially In Omaha this year than is usual. There has not been a marked cessation of gnyeties. With Easter here, however, and spring making its modest Iww, tlieie is incentive for re newed social life. Thursday and Friday of this week will see society's unofficial spring costumo opening for afternoon and E vening gowns, and. morning as well, remembering the Tuesday symphony concert. Time was that directly you laid off your velvet you donned your organdy; but now these is a spring wardrobe, just as distinct and elabor ate as its winter sister. The afternoon gowns will be seen Friday at the Blackstone hotel at the Brownell hall bent fit bridge. The list of reservations already made assures ' a smart event. Ina Claire's opening performance in * The Awful Truth,” Thursday night at the Brandeis. a benefit for the i hrist Child society, will be not only * big event of the week, but of the entire social year. it will be fol lowed by a Rainbow suppo, dance at tile Brandeis restaurants. Fresh and formal spring evening creations will doubtless be numerous. Tuesday morning's symphony con cert at 11 o'clock at the Fontenelle will attract musicians from Omaha end from over the state, many of the latter being here to attend the state music teachers' convention. lifti * .cn tally, some pat fashion notes might l>e taken on the proper thing for morning musical wear. Mrs. Leo Hoffman, president of the Monday Musical club, will be at borne »t tea Tuesday for members of the state convention. Benefit bridge parties do not stop with the Brownell event. The D. A. R. society and the Daughters of 1S12 are combining in a Monday .afternoon party at the Brandeis grill. The Jew .-h Womens 'Welfare organization will give a card party and dance at the Blackstone Tuesday night. The Cntholic Instruction league has an- | liounced 100 tables reserved for their beneflit card party Tuesday afternoon, i Brandeis grill. Other affairs on the social calendar i for the week include an Easter tea : given by Mr. and Mrs. Ward Burgess ! this afternoon for Mr. and Mrs. J. F. ! Dailey, a Pepper Pot club party Eas- ; ter Monday evening by Miss Dorothy Higgins, preceded by a dinner given by Marcella Folda, affairs for Mr. and j Mrs. George Hamilton, and parties for i Mrs. W. S. Woodruff, guest of Mr/T R. Mills Silby. Col. and Mrs. George [ Goodrich have issued invitations for ! a dinner Monday at the Brandeis res taurants. The Bachelors’ dance at I Fort Omaha is scheduled for Wednes day evening. Mrs. Donald Baxter, a visitor, is being honored with affairs, ! and General and Mrs. George R. Dun : can will bo recipients of social atten ' tion during the week. Assist at Benefit. Mrs. George W. Johnstc will have charge of the sale of candy and nuts Friday afternoon at the Brownell Hall bridge benefit at the Blackstone. She will be assisted by Misses Jane Stew art, Jane Powell, Barbara Millard. Barbara Baird, Jean Redick and Dor othy Higgins. Among the benefit prizes will be a 1 gold mirror, hand-painted card.table, ' Dutch candlesticks, silver sandwich • trays, Madeira napkins, a necklace j and lingerie. For tin* George Hamiltons. Fred Hamilton will be among tilt hosts at the Ina Claire benefit theater party and dinner Thursday evening when his honor guests will be the 1 George Hamiltons of Washington. D. i i.'.. who are visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. j W. Hamilton. Wednesday evening Mr«. Hamilton, sr.. will give' a dinnei j at her home for the visitors-..,, . ,. Omahans Scattered From Islands of Pacific to Centers of Europe Easier Sunday is spring in this part i of the world and Omaha is lifting her , head from the recent weight of w in ter. Not all of Omaha s own are here, however, to rejoice in the day. They are scattered over the entire earth, from tile to lands of the Pacifr to the fashion centers of Paris. In Paris are Mr=. H. H. Baldrigi Mr*. diaries A. Hull. Mrs. Roberta Eddy Kitchen, Miss Irene Cole and Mrs. Leonora Dietz Nelson. Mi *. Kitchen's son, Dick, in school a’ B. logne. will join his mother for Easter. Ann Axtell. daughter of Mr. and Me. C. W. Axtell, is in Sicily. Arthur Ringwalt. son of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Ringwalt. Is also in Pari*. John F. Stout and his daughter. Miss Gertrude, wrote their last mes sage to Omaha from the Madeira is land*. Miss Stout was then enjoying the companionship of Miss Henrietta Fort of Boston, formerly of Omaha. Miss Martha Powell and Mrs. Kirk Ames, formerly Miss Grace Drake, are enjoying a tour of Europe, as are also the Misses Patricia Naughtin and Eva O'Sullivan, who, following a Mediterranean cruise, are vis.-in. ' kray ar.d Dijon in France, win-; were iti overseas service during the war. Miss Eileen McCaffre; . to j. i a visitor in Europe. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crawford, for mer Omahar.s, are occupying their beautiful villa outside of Paris Mr. and Mrs. C*. B. Fuller a:e at the Savoy hotel in London and will doubtless enjoy Easter services in th* world metropolis Mrs. Stanton Kalk. sister of Mrs T. F. Kennedy, is in Turks a-,d Dr. Olga Htatsny is in Greer e Miss Min nie Mills, a missionary, is in Smyrna. Mrs. William Koenig is in Vienna ■visiting her daughter Mrs. Richard Guttmann, formerly Miss Gertrude Koenig. A resident of Germany now is Mrs. Herman LommeU w.fe ■ <f a Oeimkn professor, and a sister of Mrs. A. F Tvler of Omaha Professor Lomnv 1 is at the Fniversity of Frankfort. Dr. and Mrs. Nekton Mercer, t- r nor Oniahaiis ,ue i w living in !«*:;• don. Russell Peters, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Peters, is a Rhodes scholar at Oxfoi'd. England. Mi . and Mrs Karl Lewis are c-njo. - ing a brief trip abroad. On Pacific Shores. On the Pacific; side is Sirs. Henry S. McDonald, who is visiting her daugli i>' Mrs. C. W. Eossum, in the Phil ippine islands. Mrs. Wilber Watkins s at HamakuatoUa. Many, Hawaiian islands. She was formerly Miss Kath erine Woodworth. sister of Mrs (',■ irgc Kiewltt. M:-s Esther Thom 'as. Miss Elizabeth Stewart and her mother as prolonging their stay ii Hawaii. Mrs. E. T Fain;er, mother of M s Frank Norton, is a resident of Hono lulu. She formerly lived here. Her daughter. Mrs. Samuel De Freest, and son. Edwin T. Farmer, are there also. Mr. and Mis. Shaji Osato and their liny dmigliters arc- tossing on the Pa cific en i iuto to Jaiian, having left | IP waii, 1». p'ttieison . touring the wo. nd Mr. and Mrs. Arthur English «:s in Japan on the beginning of the t\ orld tour. Miss Jean Botliwdl L« in Methodist n -sion service in Cal' ilia. India. Mr. and M -. Hugh Millard and llawlston Scobie are Otnahans in south America, all being in Brazil Eugenie Whitmore Dinkins is on a tofli of tlie West Indies. bait Breezes and a Board Walk. Vtlantic City in cur own c untr;- is always a popular place with Omaiians t the spring of the p-a.. Mr. ard M > Jc*; ■ Mt Fer;. n will enjoy the salt breezes arid s boardwali; stroll there today. Mrs. Anna O rnish Me'c alfs and Mrs. Fra: Fidpetzer have met at Atlar. tic City. Mrs. Cc.lpetzer being on her eturn from South America. Mrs. Nellie Marked lias gone to this pepu lar resort from Nnt York city. to -l*end Easter week. Miss Emma ' • a - •:« t at M -s Somer s Ini# to Page I'io, Column Three.) MU# CZaiVZ HZLZUZ WQDAIZP ► CPtl^tRuDi AWD tLtttaZ PHOT<i<i&%Pfif er &OSTWICK SIHIKTV finds this Caster and I i-lcr week more truly Spring'sdebut than e\er before, following the Idi/iard shroud that has rohbed folks of their outdoor pleasuring during the |>.i-t tyro weeks. Nature lias that "I've just washed-nty face-look” and the air. the tang that insidiously suggests leisurely rambles, a canter along sun-drenched paths, or if one is truly . < ambitious, a bit of gardening. The photographer caught Gertrude hount/o and her cousin Klinor just bcfofr they left Minor's home to giro tlicir ranine |m-I* an airing Although he is distinctly not of the ilk from which fresh air fiends are bred. Pedro, the Mexican Chihuahua, -itting pertly on Gertrude's arm. has hi' pride. Before the camera was trained on him he shivered dramatically and ■lopped doyyil Ills ear*, (almost the blggt st things about him) hut at Mr. Host I trick’s "See ltie Itirdie." he stopped his trembling, perked up the aural orna ments, and did his best to carry affairs off as yvell as lli I.cc, flic membet if Pekine-e royalty below him on the step. Tomorrow evening Minor will be one of the hostesses for the Pepper Put lance given at Dorothy lliggln's home, and Tuesday site will ieiyye for l inn ington. Conn., where she is a student. 1-ater she will join her father. C.-T. Knunl/e, in Memphis, to lie bridesmaid in the wedding of Miss Mary Mai lory Harris and her brother Henman Spring vacation is over for Gertrude yvho tonight entrains for Miss Wr.iv er's school, at Tarrytown on the Hudson. lie Weenta Conrad Is one of Omaha’s most energetic daughters. >lie is seen here about to start a major operation on one of last year's petuuia beds. When questioned, she replied that perchance a row of phlox and fonm clocks would appear as a result,’thereby calling to niii.-d the girl of yesterday at work yyith tin- same seeds, her brad protected with a sunbonnet, and hci demurely frilled and quite conventional frock by a hit of paper on which sin knell. * Hoys different is the modern girl, knirker clad! .lust as charming am', twice as efficient. I It is unfair to snap Mias Claire Helene Woodward at such an inform inoilirtil, slnre ill all probability this is the only time this yyeek she lias no. been devoting herself to the plans that will make the rainbow dinner at til lirandeis and the Inn Claire performance Thursday such big events. She has been untiring, and the unusual features of the celebration will justify Isei real when Omaha frolics and the Christ Child society completes a successful 'benefit.'* ■ " “ ' ' ~ -- tilts 2Z\K%ZX?A. CctCSAM Romance Has Earmarks of Maturity By GABIIY 1>KTA\ l>\ r N thin ng© of charming and iascin* I ating subdabs. will you !** sur ** prised tu hear that on© of the Pepper Potters in playing the star '•‘it in a romance that ha* all the •irmark of maturity? An orchid “Hut every morning to gladden the 'uncheon hour, and brighten her mart contunt#, I* on© exotic* cxpres -ion of affection that the enamored •n**ain employ*. Since she in still mrter that mysterious ogc u mutinous ly declared to "sweet 16,'’ and he < hovering around 30, the affair bus !»i added piquancy, AT );ift dubby lias found H hala tion far Beatrice F’airfax to give the artless confessors who “Just ‘••n't make the !*»y* behave." Mo Jabby calls it "immunity from kiss* and would you believe It, within w ,_h© reach of every purse—only 35 •*nts. After a particularly trying ©sslon that "brown eyes. ‘ or "in ait ©ken" Iihs had with her "feller." * “ ate convinced she will greet this 11ini»ir* solution with Joy, fot th*> come In pink nnd blue, and arc thus 1 becoming to every type. C<t couise they aip called teething rings, and sold as such for baby, but the adult note is struck in the handsome let tering on them, which says, "Don't kiss me. ’ -'f SOCIAL whisperings tell us that soon Omaha Is to he visited by a European gentleman of roynl blood. However, this stranger who is to he within our gates, unlike his lec turing continental brethren, has come with a sentimental l>ent. In fact the latest, most authentic word gleaned fays he intends carrying off one of our daughters. The new* is most timely, because last week a recently wedded army pair who are related to the object of our hero's amour arrived flout Germany to visit the local branch of their family, bringing to (lie fiancee tender mesanges nnd assm ■ .■tiers that lie would soon visit Omnha. The romance lagan last summer when the girl traveled In Europe with her mother and aunt. Tea for Mrs, Baxter. Mr*. George Engler entertained 1} guests at tea at her home Haturduy uftemoon for her sister, Mrs, Donald lluxtei* of Dayton, O Mrs \V. W. Hlubaugh poured. In an upstairs loom*tin> Ml** Katherine Ann Huxlti { irvelvtd Ik i mother* fi lends Every hospital in the city wnl he visited by the Eninui Hoagland flower mission during Easter week. Th" birthday of Emma Hoagland, In whose memory the mission *«« founded l>y her mother, Ihe late 'Mrs. <»«or£e A. Hoagland, was horn April 1. wjiluli was Easter Monday GG yenrs ago. Mrs. lieorge Hoagland 'l>repaied bouquets for the hospitals ascii week In her home which stood where the Thompson Helden store now is. Since her death, Mrs. \V. tV. Hoagland, her daughter-in-law has -carried on. More flown s are required now for one hospital than formerly were used •n tlie entire city, according to Mr*. Hoagland. Instead of visiting nil hos pitals every w'cek, the mission takes th»m in groups ttlrls who assist In this kindly ml«- 1 sion are: Misses Mildred Weston, j Agnes IHishmnn, Flora Muckert, Elolse e-arln, Eleanor Slslaiugh. Helen Hunderlnnd. Marguerite Met leneghan. Eeotn and Mildred Alderman and Mrs Burton Howard. Florists sre very geneious, Mrs. Hoagland declares, and the city park ! commissioner, too, who supplies the, mission with blossom* through the1 winter, from plants which si* kept over for summer planting out of doors There Is also a fund set Raids by lleoige A Hoag kind which * drawn upon foi flown 4 French Author to Speak Here Saturday _ * \ Montour Klunln Ho*. official !>■ tuicr of tile Federation of the VI 1 lance Finmaiee In the I'nltc.l SLutr" nml Canada, will lecture before the Omaha A Ilia nop Krancalee on Satin day evening. April 7. at the home of Mr. nml Mr* C. N. Itletr.. The aubjei l of the lacturo will le* "The French Opinion and 11 • tircat International Problem* of Tiwlay.*' Monaleur Ho* la ronaldered one of the great light* of the literary world In France. |(,i ha* been laureate of the Freni It neademy three tint* a One of hta tnoat ltnpoi taut work* I* "The American llnergy," irowned by the Freneh Academy. Monalenr Ho* eon tribute* leguliuly to the foremowl Ptfiodlcala of France nml la otic of tin moat active member* of the "Comih Fiance Amerlque” for the furtherance of friendly relation* between France and America. Mr. Ho* I* edltol ln ohlef of the "Itevue Fr»nce lltnta t'nla." lie I* algo the recipient of ttie high**! honma that hi* country cat, heatovv A luncheon m which VI Ho/ will apeak In linghalt. 011 llie iiueailotl' that* ate of vital Inlrraat todav 1* la Ing *> .ru’ d for Htturvlns. Aptll ’ll* (tiger to b* RllllUUIKl’d later, * > ’ * Missouri Agriculture N o u r i s li cd by Nebraska Stock. John Ik N<al. son of Mr*. Climb* T \>ol of Omaha, .9 achieving fame in Missouri. There is no intimation 'It'd he couldn't achieve it elsewhere, hut he happen* to live in Kansas Pity, "lot a poet. It seem*, unlike a prophet, may achieve honor* In Ids own country. Tin* Kansas City Star has , ulth rated a Holiday feature, "Along the Pumpkin Vine." The vine has home pumpkin* prohflcally a pumpkin lie lug any one who contributes. Even "niaha has knights and ladles in this gulden order, the name of Mis. I,. I: Maxwell appearing only a few weeks ago. The weakly stunt Is to name a pic lure and nUui* with the title* suh milled are much rhyme and prosr related thereto. Names of 10 wlnneis In the contest appear ihe following Hum lay and if the name John Ik Neal does not, like that of Abott. lead all Ihe rest. It does nt least appear fre* nneii 1 i\ In the top in And,- hut this l» a secret, If the committee should lie enrale-s mid omit Id* name the family reputation I* sill) sustained hi one. Miss Ituth Gordon, who 1 winning mm li dial, mil ton along tin pumpkin rlne as hri husband Then rod have it. Miss Gordon Is no other than ill's. Neal. A i Trent picture showed a tramp laughing mid unshaven, shirt open ■at the tieek. hands In i>oekets, walk ing gaily past a ;ggn. The sign, point ing to an open door, read: "Fay In onto Tax Here" ] Tile prize titles won-: "Independent e \\euue. "Glad Fags tn Annual I’ass." "Hum Business " i.\|i Neal'st. "No Ante foi I'ncle. v Gapital Joke,*’ "The nine smd the Gay." '"Where Ir.digtrce Is Hllss." "A Tlflmp , in the Owe /.one,'' "Signs of the Times " Miss Gordon won s<. ond place the following week with her title. "The Way of All Flesh," applied to a heavy | damsel on skates skidding laick at all angle of 4,\ degrees into the arms I of n slight masculine figure, other titles ware "The Feminine Slant" lunl "If Winter Gomes Gan Fall Be Far Behind." Easter Dance The WushifiKton tilrl* Hub !•» Rpomoring it dancing party Monday «'\onibR At the* lUack Atone hotel Pro i - ^in will W uihkI to purHiAAe linens and ImmUHiui for the Salvation Army ' !'<**< ua \lom* Mrs, ltyron P ivinoi‘rut ♦ hair nun *»f the com mil If** in iltiife of 1 I ho dime* Mien I.UxnbvIh (iiinh livAok'nt if ihe Huh Do You Know an Oboe When You See One ? Or a French 1 iorn or a Bis Bassoon!* Arnold BnMti la ’ How to Uvt on SI Hours a I*aV n,lv,viu. < htdihirs. t*nr of them .. Inch he Miggssi.-; for a single winter is n study of the instru ments used in symphony m-i hexlin II does not mean « study from thV musical side, hut lnejelv of their sir poors nee so i list one < an recogniyo at sight This is noi a* simple as .» v. uud«. liven the opportunity to Uns i. the unuminl Instrument* doe* not often present it*elf in Omaha, for not often do we *♦<*. or hear, a syml^iony. Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock at Hotel K» ntenelle the friend* of Mu *ic will present n symphony orc hestra The only oboe player and the only ha«*oo«t player in town xx ill !»e there lk» you know what an oW look* Ilk*-' Pick out Hugo Noniln and »■’' aerve the clarinet like instrument hr will play The oUe la a double reed instrument and ia uaed only in Urp ©roheatnm It require* good wind and holding back In order t« k i tl»o correct tone Mr Nordm play * t»:«t '*iolin at the Wiihl thoat* Kvttpi that the tmiAn for both h \ .alii •tul the oboe are in the u..»M . there t« no nimiliritt h> two* t in. *11 Mi \, idtrv ha» leal n« «t to \ 'o ‘ l»> uikll $ UsivHi# of a pi«>v* e« • nstii r cum* to town tn o largo or a sji. phor,v heati'M v ,.1 ;tj , -ua thank hint for his ambition and h, kl.til \\r Will have some one to glv i s the beautiful tones of the obo> in the Tuesday symphony. Walla e \\ he, :,r. who plays the has S'M'n In the symphony, plats the pi*' on regular occasions. The Keen horn, played I , John Tad. is not s, unusual, hut is not often heard lecall' la-cause the Oi chest ras are not lari enough to demand them Honoring Mrs. \\ ootlmff. Mr. and Mrs Horry l'SH'i; ’> . n 11 lain,cl at dinner last . evening (O, Mrs W >• Wisalruff of t'heyenne " >v . who s \ .siting Mis 1: M ills .''lll>\ Monday Mrs. S li Doyle „ Biv, a luncheon at the Athletic elnl> A for the t isllol t I til • llejt.ci tinent 1 lection I'ite >11 that a,hI social Science de th a \V s , h "ill h,4d *s annual , ... tlo - of efP »>’* Mel .In af'. " e. Vtui! 3, a the ^ W ' v rtie nominalu . >.11,01.1 In ,un> - Mtadtunee I" II . . . U A Ak4