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PART TWO
SOCIETY
PAGES ONE TO SIX
PART TWO
SOCIETY
PAGES ONE TO SIX
VOL. XLV XO. 33.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNINO, FEUKUAKY i:t, 1!M5.
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Calendar of Club Doings
Monday
Omaha Woman's club, Y. V. C. A. auditor
ium, 2:30 p. m.
Child Conservation league, Dundee Circle,
Mrs. W. E. Burroughs, hostess.
Chautauqua circle, Tennyson chapter, Mrs.
H: F. Curtis, hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Franco-Belgian Relief soe'ety, lectures by
Miss Florence' Schoffeld and Miss Elinor
Fell, Hotel Rome, 8 p. m.
Tuesday
south Omaha Woman's club, home economics
department, Library hall, 2:30 p. m.
Business Women's club, V. W. C. A., 7 (p. m.
Oamaha Woman's club, oratory department,
Metropolitan hall, 10 a. m.
Business Girls' Council, luncheon and prayer
meeting, court house, 11 a. m. to 2 p. m.
Sermo club, Miss Lillian Owynne, hostess,
1p.m.
U. S. Grant Woman's Relief Corps, Memorial
hall, 2:30 p. m.
George A. Custer Woman's Relief Corps, Mrs.
Kate Remington, hostess. .
Wednesday
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, story
tellers' section, Mrs. Vincent Hascall
hostess, 4 p. m.
Mu Sigma club, Mrs. W. F. Negele, hostess,
9:30 a. m.
Dundee Woman's club, Mrs. Charles Leslie,
hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Omaha Woman's club, literature department,
Y. W. C. A., 10 a. m. " .
Visiting Nurse association, board meeting,
city hall, 10:30 a. m.
Clio club, Mrs. R. McEachron, hostess.
Omaha Suffrage association, Mrs. Thor Jor
genson, hostess. 2:30 p. m.
Railway Mall Service Woman's club, Mrs. C.
E. Presson, hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Miller Park Mother's circle, school auditor
ium, 2 p. m.
Thursday
P. E. O. Sisterhood, Chapter E, Mrs. R. B.
Zachary, hostess. ' '
Omaha Story Tellers' league, public library,
4:15 p. to. '.
. Omaha Woman's club, home econoics depart
ment, Y. W.C.A., lO'i. m. -
. .Benson Baptist Missionary circle,' Miss Jessie
v '. 'Moulthrop, hostess.
Friday ., ..;
Child Conservation league, North Side circle,
Mrs. R. M. Brown, hostess,' 2 p. m.
. W. C. T. U. of Benson, Mrs. J. M. Bailey,
hostess.
Saturday
P. E. O. Sisterhood, Chapter B. N., Mrs. J. G.
Buffington, hostess, 10 a. m.
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, music
section, Central High school auditorium,
2:30 p. m. i
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nKESS" irom all angles and points or
view, has been the subject para-
m mount . for discussion In the Wom
an's club home economics depart
ment. ."Dress" and "Clothes" from the stand
point of the woman, from that of the shopkeeper,
and last, but not least, from the standpoint of the
husband or father who pays the bills the first
of the month all this has been argued back and
fcrth In the department, which, until recently,
knew but the high cost of living and the advan
tage of labor-saving household appliances.
. 'Dress Reforms," however, is the topic for
Thursday morning's meeting, which is to be held
nt the Young Woman's Christian association, with
a little of the "History of Dress"on the side. The
dress reforms attempted by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson,
Annie J en ens Miller, Isadora Duncan and
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other women; to say nothing of the much-vaunted
Tolyniurcl. will be discussed.
"What wo would like to get at is, how did men
ionic to edopt such a convenient and conventional
gsrb," asks Mrs. F. J. Burnett, leader of the de
j.artment, "How did they do it?"
There is another matter of dress which the club
omen expect to take up this next meeting, to get
an early start on the June graduations. It is rela
tive to caps and gowns which the 'women think
should be worn by high school girls at the com
mencement exercises. The club women will com
mend the plan to Miss Jessie Towne, dean of girls
at the Central High school, fpr her to place before
the girls for consideration,
' It Is a far stretch from the seemingly frivolous
subject of dress to war and peace but these two sub
jects are also occupying the attention of the Wom
an's club. Prof. Henry Oelrioh's talk on Wilson's
iJan of preparedness given for the social science
department, MoDday of last week, will be followed
tomorrow by a talk on "World Peace and How to
Obtain It," by John L.' Kennedy. This will be
part of the current topics' department open day
program.'
The educational committee of the club, headed
by Mrs. W. S. Knight, has been considering the
ptesentatlon of a ptace pageant. Whether to give
It as a small affair for the club members only, or
to attempt a more pretentious pageant in which a
large number of young women should participate,
has not been decided although the possibilities for
the latter presentation are, few, owing to the
(loom cat over the club by the absence of Its
late president.
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HE demure maid of 1860, walking with
downcast, eyes and gazing neither j to
the left of her nor to the right, will be
contrasted with the brisk stride of ,the
self-reliant 1916 girl In the historical,. ..
pageant, "Girls' of : Yesterday and Today," to be
given id connection with the fiftieth anniversary
ot the Young Women's Christian association.' The .
pageant will be presented on Washington's birth-
day, under the direction of Miss Louise Curtis.
For'; this occasion well known Omaha matrons
have delved into' long-stored-away trunks in' for
gotten attics -for' gowns, hats, shawls, parasols,
fans and brooches to resurrect for the pageant.
Mrs. W. R.. Bowen discovered a' dream of a lav
ender brocaded satin trimmed with rare old lace
which falls In ruffles and a bew'lderlng cascady
effect. 'Mrs. Allan Koch had a charming model
of the early days after the war, which she has
loaned, and Mrs. Lucreta S. Bradley a gown that
i was worn by her great aunt. Miss Curtis had a
gown worn by her grandmother when she was a
young girl and Mrs.'els JenRen a gown which
has additional Interest, since it is not only old,. .
but has been brought to this country from ' Den
mark. Consternation seized the women at the first
rehearaal for the pageant, for even the slenderest
of 1916 girls could not be fitted Into the tlny
bodiced, small-walsted gowns of their grandmoth
er's day. Skillful needlewomen, however, rem
edied the difficulty by altering the gowns so that
girls of the athletic type of the present day could
insluate themselves Into the olden gowns.
Mrs. Mary Harte was the pnly Omaha woman
who discovered some quaint poke bonnets uf (he
period and loaned them for the occasion. What
Is conceded to be the piece de resistance in adding
atmor.vhere to the production, however, is the
genuine Paisley shawl brought to IlRht by Mrs.
Uradley. ,
Not only the costumes of 1 8 66 will be worn
by the 160 girls who participate In the pageant.
There will bo a girl dressed to represent each
decade from then to now the 1876 girl, 1886,
1896 and 1906 girls as well. Indeed, every
period from the crinoline, tight-bodice, volumi
nous sklrU. bustles, Gibson waists and straight
front effecta In women's attire for the last half
century will be reproduced. '
Mrs. Edward Johnson, Mrs. T. C. Brunner,
Mrs. Chester Wells, Mrs. Stewart and Mrs. Lattln
re among the women who have provtdrd cos
tumes for the pageant.
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Social Calendar
Monday
Holland party at Indoor Golf school.
Holland party supper at Kontenelle.
Dinner and theater party for Mrs. Arthur
Krock, Mr. Otto Bauman, host.
Matinee pnrty for Miss Mildred Brown at
Orpheum, Mrs. James Conrad, hostess.
Tuesday
Thimbie club. Mrs. L. 1. Carrier, hostess.
Maple Leaf chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star, card party and dance at Chambers'
academy.
Wednesday
Oriole club lesp year dancing party, Hanscom
. Park pavilion.
Afternoon brldne for Mrs. Edward O'Brien,
Mrs. Beu Wood, hostess.
. lyeap year dance at Prairie Park club, given
by B'nal Brlth ladles' auxiliary.
Afternoon bridge, Mrs. Alvln Johnson, hos
tess. Thursday
Morning Glory Kensington club, Mrs. Harry
Hyte. hostess.
Subscription club dance at Turpin's hall.
Dinner preceding Subscription dance, given
by Mr. and Mrs. Howard H. Baldrlge.
Crelghton Glee club concert at Brandels
theater.
Cinosam club dance, Scottish Rite cathedral.
Box parties at Creighton Glee club concert,
given by Mrs. L. B. Bushman, Mrs.
Charles F. Crowley, Mrs. C. Will Hamil
ton, ' Mrs. Daniel C. . Stapleton, Creighton
university faculty, Mr. John D. Creighton
and Mr. Lester Caldwell.
Friday
Dundee Dancing club dance at Harte's hall.
Afternoon bridge for Miss Ellen We art. Miss
Dorothy Weller, hostess.
Saturday
Dinner-dance at Fontenelle.
' Week-end Dancing club dance at Chambers'
academy.
HE Creighton Glee club concert of
Thursday evening at the Auditorium
will be the sixth annual concert to be
given by the Glee club of Creighton
' university, and fn4 .--ooncert
whose "performers are composed entirely of stu
dents of the college. '
. ..The Glee club concert of Thursday evening
wilt be" the sixth annual concert to be given by the
Glee club of Creighton university, and the second
cpacert whose performer are composed -entirely
of students of the college.
The, young men of the club represent nearly
every state in the union and two Hawaiian,
Messrs.. Fred Lamm and King Che Chock, repre
sent the possessions.
8venty girls and matrons, representing the
most prominent families In Omaha are the pa
tronesses of the Glee club concert and have done
much to make the affair one of the notable events
of the season.
Aside from Columbia university,. New York
City, there Is not a seat of learning In the United
States that does not affect the social and Intel
lectual life of the city where it la situated more
than any other Influence. Even Boson, for all Its
slee and history, cannot get bigger than the fame
of Harvard at Cambridge adjoining. Of course,
there la Chicago university In Chicago; but the
tbllege is so much newer than the great commer
cial center of its site and consequently ' the two
seemed doomed to remain distinct from each
other.
Is Creighton university to become an active In
fluence In Omaha life, socially and Intellectually?
Will the two, the city and the university, have
the same connection that is implied between
Providence and Brown, between New Haven and
Yale, Nashville and Vanderbtlt, and a score ot
ether towna and their colleges?
When Harvard mieeta another team on lta
stadium, it la the biggest event In Boston and
thereabout and Mr. Somebody and his wife and
family are out with their steamer rugs to see tho
game; when the glee club gives a concert, it
is really more of an affair than if every star In
the operatic firmament should appear together
that evening.
These are the things which go to make a col
ltg an Institutional part of a city, one a very
part of the fiber of the other.
.. And Omaha and Creighton seem fortunate In
having atarted out In the right, way.
The social disappointment of the week will be
the postponement of the Frits Krelsler concert
of Tuesday evening. The great violinist will not
appear in Omaha until March 28.
An unexpected addition to the calendar ar-
the . talks fjy Miss Florence Schofleld and Miss
Eleanor Fell at the Rome hotel Monday evening.
These young women speak under the auspices of
the Franco-Belgian Relief of Opaha, and come
here after speaking before tb( Colony club of
New York, peraps the niOBt exclusive club In the
country, aa well as one of the most influential.
While la New York City Miss Scbofield and Miss
iell had the patronage of Mrs. Vincent Astor,
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, jr.; Mrs. Hoard man
liar rim an, Mrs. August Belmont and Mrs. Wil
liam K. Vanderbtlt. Whllo In Washington the
young women were entertained by Madame Paul
Vlgnal, wife of Colonel Vlgnal, military attache
at the French embassy. Colonel Vlgnal la brother
to Madame August M. Borglum ot Omaha.
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