Omaha Sunday Bee
PART TWO
SOCIETY
PAGES ONE TO EIGHT
PART TWO
AMUSEMENTS
PAGES ONE TO EIGHT
VOL.' XI A NO. 24.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MOKXIXO, .XOVKMHF.lt 1W, 1015.
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Animals Have Found in Her a True Friend
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Margery McGord, True Daughter of the Family, Finds Time to Pet All Sorts of Dumb
Things and Make Among Them Friends Whose Fealty Never Wavers, and Now Will
Give to Society the Charm that Has Made Her Loved by Her Inarticulate Admirers
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O your Christmas Bhopplng early!" .
With the advent of December 1 this
slogan win be dinned In our ears to
gether with the colorful admonitions of
, t&c apugs, tne -aociety ror toe rre
vention of Useless Giving."
, Seizing the opportunity of the ir.oment. women's
organ izaUbos of the various churches are announe-
(which promises to facllitafe ChrlPtmas gift-giving
for the declsionless shopper.
First Presbyterian church women have distin
guished themselves by the unique methods they
have devised to raise funds for their new church.
1 ast week they held a sale of holiday goodies and
Friday of this week, they will hold a Christmas
sale t the residence of Mrs. N. H. Loomls.
All Saints' Altar'Guild has announced its noli
( day sale for Thursday at the Wattles Memorial par
ish house and the Parish Aid society of Trinity
cathedral will hold Its sale Saturday at Jacobs hall.
The Christmas gift showing par excellence, how
ever, is in connection with the annual sale con
ducted by a number of church women's organiza
tions in the rotunda of The Bee building, the space
being donated for this purpose. December 6-18 are
the dates for this year's exhibit.
. In connection with Christmas giving, one is re
minded of the familiar little Red Cross Christmas
spal, the proceeds for the sale of which go to the
Society for the Study and Prevention- of Tuber
culosis, the" campaign for which is already on.
, Vieing in interest at the Christmas season Is the
institution of the school lunch system at the Train
school by the Omaha Woman's club, headed by Mrs.
N. H,' Nelson. Mrs. Nelson Is assisted by Mrs. F.
J. Burnett, head of the home economics department
and Mrs. E. M. Syfert, the .vice president. The
advisory committee Includes Mesdames F. H. Cole,
Edward Phelan, F. W. Carmichael, H C. Sumney
and Miss Eunice Ensor. ' .
The marked interest shown in the work augurs
well for its success. A luncheon club made up of
well known Omaha women has contributed $23
through Mrs. Mary I. Creigh; Mrs. Edfrar donated
$10 and the State Tuberculosis society $25, through
Mrs. K. R. J. Edholm. Armour's, Swift's and
riiHahv'a TifivA Afirh nffAr1 to minnlv the amin mast
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for one month. Hot soup, bread and crackers will
be served for a penny.
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Calendar of Club Doings,
Monday
Omaha Woman's club, Y. W. C. A. auditorium,
2:30 p. m.; open program by educational
committee, 3:30 p. m.
Drama league, city hail, 4 p. m.
Chautauqua circle, Tennyson chapter, Mrs.
A. E. Mack, hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Tuesday
Omaha Society of Fine Arts, Hotel Fonten-
elle, 4 p. m.
South Omaha Woman's club, Library hall,
2:30 p. m.
Business Women's club, Y. W. C. A., 7 p. m.
Association of . Collegiate Alumnae, story
tellers' section. Miss Pauline Rosenberg,
hostess, 4 p. m.
Monmouth Park Mothers' club, school audi
torium, 3 p. m.
George A. Custer post and Woman's Relief
corps, Miss Clara Feenan, hostess.
All Saints' Guild of Dundee, Mrs. R. E. Wil
cox, hostess.
Business Women's council. Volunteers' hall,
11:30 a. m. to 2 p.m. i
Omaha Woman's club, oratory department,
Metropolitan hall, 10 a. m.
Wednesday
Omaha Woman's club, literature department,
Y. W. C. A., 10 a. ni.
"Yuletide Tea Room" opening, by First Pres-
BEAUTY
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EAUTY and Many Beasts!" This re
version leaps to one's mind at
Bight of Miss Margery McCord.
lrsounded by her hosts of pets.
Horses, dogs, cats, a wolf and a bad
ger have been included in the list. Miss McCord
is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Hal
lack McCord, familiarly known as the "Hal" Mc
Cords, and she will be presented to society at a
debut tea to be given Wednesday of this week.
There will also be a brilliant dancing party at the
Hotel Fontenelle Monday evening, December 27,
for this attractive debutante, fourth of the season.
. The McCord stables, maintained until two years
ago, were well known all over the country and won
blue ribbons galore. With ber father so keen about
horses, and entries made in many leading horse
shows, It was only natural that Miss Margery should
be brought up in the atmosphere, and she grew to
be, not only an expert horsewoman In the saddle, but
a sure connoisseur of the animals. Up until recently
the McCords have also maintained a fine kennel of
Airedales.
"I love animals and like to train ibeni better
than anything else in the world. It's great sport,"
declared Margery, enthusiastically. Our pretty lit-
byterian church women, Orchard-Wllhelm
- store.
Clio club, Mrs. Ralph Russell, hostess, 2:30
p. m.
General Henry Lawton auxiliary, Memorial
hall, 2 p. m.
Thursday
P. E. O. Sisterhood, chapter E, Mrs. Andrew
Traynor, hostess.
Omaha Story Tellers' league, public library,
4:15 p. m.
Benson Woman's club, Mrs. J. N. Morton,
hostess.
Omaha Woman'a club, music department,
Y. W. C. A. auditorium, 2:15 P- m.
J. F. W. club, Mrs. A. F. Billings, hostess.
Omaha Woman'a Press club, annual meeting.
Hotel Fontenelle, 4 p. m.
W. C. T. IT, South Side branch, Mrs. H. J.
Oswald, hostess.
W. C. T. IT., West Side branch, Mrs. Bert
Gantz, hostess, 2 p. m.
Friday
Child Conservation League of America, North
Side circle, Monmouth Park school, 2 p. m.
W. C. T. U. of Benson. Mrs. E. C. Fuller,
hostess.
Christmas sale by First Presbyterian Church
Aid society, Mrs. N. H. Loomls. hostess, 10
a. m.
Saturday
Daughters of the American Revolution, Major
Isaac Sadler chapter, Miss Ida Crowell,
hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Equal Franchise society, tea, Mrs J. M. Met
calf, hostess, 4 to 8 p. m.
tie debutante has a pet dog that she has trained to
dc tricks for her at a distance of fifty feet. Kisses,
caresses, pretty secrets whispered In their ears and
ready lumps of sugar In her pocket have been In
valuable In training the animals.
"Recklow Harry" or "Rex," for short, Is an
Airedale, and "Shsnkllne Chine" is an English
rough haired terrier that are great favorites wlt
her. She baa two cats, one t. half Angora and a
mischievous thing who scratched his mistress
arma and hands in a fearful state for a coming
debutante to expose in a dancing frock, hut Mar
aery doesn't mind such a thing. The other is an
Inky black, Just alley cat, called "Spider," with
whom she converses as she does with ber favortte
mount, In a most Intimate fashion.
, The strong friendship existing between the Rllm
Tttle slip of a girl furnishes a pretty picture as she
cuddles up close to the big black beast, and as the
dogs and beasts follow her about tne spacious
grounds of the McCord borne. Once Miss McCord
had a badfrer for a pet, and then she had a wolr,
but the latter "pet" was Btolen from her.
Miss McCord rode her first horse, or rather
pony, when she was 4 years old. When she was
g she wore her first riding habit, and when she
was 10 she had already won first prize two buc
icsslve years at the horse show, so that her father
would not permit her to ride in any moro events.
It waa unfair to the other entries, he insisted,
Margery Is the best playfellow, but It must be
confessed, not bo much with other girls as with her
brother and his friends and comrades. She plays
golf and tennis like an expert, and she can swim
and dive, a la Annette Kellertnan.
From all this you might Imagine that our
pretty little debutante Is en athletic girl entirely.
Oh. no! Much as she loves her horses, she loves
dancing equally well, and graces every social func
tion she attends like a little queen. She is lookln
forward with the greaUr.t anticipation to the danc
ing party her parents will give for her upon the
return of the school set during the holidays.
Miss McCord has other accomplishments un
ii:,ual to girls of society. She plays the banjo and
the mandolin as well ss the piano, and has a beau
tiful voice in singing. After her graduation from
Brownell Hell, Vlss McCord pursued her studies at
Miss SpenT's school In Nw vork City Mlns Mc
t ( ord attended the relpntng queen at the Ak-8ar-f.en
ball as a special maid
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SOCIETY
N OLD French romance popular with our
grandmothers, and a classics still, opens
with the argument why the noble heroine
must many a certain nobleman, what
political conditions It would bring about
and the good which would thereby accrue jo the
l.eaaantfi of a distant province.
It sounds a little twisted, but the unseating of
Diss had a very marked beating upon Omaha so
cially and matrimonially. With the desertion of
the posts, has passed away that most brilliant of
11 social events, the military, wedding.
The military Influence marked Omaha society-'
at Its very Inception. While other western towns
had to "smarten" themselves and established a
niwly lnarned usage to form an exclusive set out
of the promiscuous neighboring of a frontier com
munity, society here started Its activities under the
guidance of women to the manner born, officers'
wives who had been a part of the cultured life of
the east and south.
There Is a whisper that mothers with daughter
have a preference for driving their aoclal stakes in
a place where the most eligible officers are to be
fourd, for example, there is the popularity of Old
lolnt Comfort, of Washington In winter, of any
post town for that matter. Omaha had two posts.
Every yoar had Its list of military weddings where
the fairest girls of the town were brides.
But It is aadly changed the last few years
Fort Crook and Fort Omaha are deserted and the
sprightly beauties of the Jowns of the border states
are becoming the brides of the most prized of all
bridegrooms.
Society the Coming Week
Monday
David Blspham concert Parties at Auditorium.
Tea for Miss Alice Judge, Mrs. Charles E.
Metz,' hostesp.
Ladies' Bowling club, Farnam alleys.
Tuesday
Tuesday Bridge .club, Miss Luclle Bacon
hostess.
Tuesday Kensington -Luncheon club, Miss
Edith Lease, hostess.
Luncheon for Mr. Raymond Wye- at Univer
sity club, Mrs. Halleck Rose, hostess.
Et-A-Vlrp dance at Rome Hotel.
Wednesday
St. Mary's Alumni.
Debut tea for Miss Mary McCord, given by her
mother, Mrs. William Hallack McCord, 3 to
3 p. m. ,
Luncheon parties at Yuletide Tea Room, Mes
dames C. E. Yost, C. M. Wllhelm and M. E.
Peters, hostesses.
Thursday
subscription club dance at Turpin's academy.
Tea for Miss Rosalie Schmuckler, Mrs. Morris
Levy, hostess.
Friday
Entertainment for editorial staff of Commer
cial HUh school, Miss Iren Fay hostess.
Dundee Friday Brldge-Lunoheon club, Mrs.
Darwin C. Chesney, hostess.
Drama class, Mrs. Harry L. Cummings,
hostess.
Friday Brldge-I.uncheon club. Miss Mildred
Butler, hostess.
Saturday
Morgan-Dunn wedding, Kountbe Memorial
chi'rch.
l.es Amies Whist club, Mrs. Frank J. Murphy,
hostess.
Pati'rday Dinner-Dance club at Hotel Font-'
ncMe.
Week-End club dance at Chambers' academy.
Additional CI n' News on l'K Five.
Additional Hocietjr News on Xet I'uge.