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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1916.
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Calendar of Club Doings
Tuesday
P. E. O. sisterhood, Chapter B. P, Mrs. Frank
C Patton, hostess.
Woman's Relief corps, U. S. Grant branch,
Mrs, . . Crane, hostess, at Carter Lake
club,
, Business Women's council, luncheon and
prayer meeting, court house, 11 to 2 o'clock.
Society of. American Widows, Crounse block,
1 p. m.
Sermo club, Mrs. E. H. Barnes, hostess.
Thursday
Omaha Woman's club, luncheon at Happy Hol
low, 1 p. m.
Benson Woman's club, Benson city hall, 2:30
p. m. .
Society of American Widows, Crounse block,
-. 7:30 p. m.
' B'nai Brith, Ladies' auxiliary, Lyric hall, 8 p. m.
Friday
Child Conservation league, North Side circle,
Mrs. Rodman Brown, hostess, 2 p. m.
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PENING Woman's club dates are now be
ing announced' with the advent of cooler
weather, gavels are being hauled out ready
for action and soon the club season will
be in full swing. Preliminary to the open
ing of the Umaha Woman s club a large,
luncheon is being arranged for Thursday at 9 o'clock
at nappy Hollow club, the purpose is to permit
the large number of women who comprise the mem
bership to become better acquainted with one an
other, lack of which is a great detriment in any
organization of the proportions of the Woman's
club. Mrs. C. A. Sherwood, chairman of the house
and home committee, has charge of the luncheon.
Announcement ,of the literature department's
plans, always awaited with interest, is made by
Mrs. A. L. Fernald, the leader, the first meeting to
be held Wednesday, October 4. "American Litera
ture of the Twentieth Century" is the big subject fdr
discussion. Of special interest will be the program
on Percy Mackaye's masque written in celebration
of the Shakespearean tercentenary, "Caliban by the
Yellow Sands," and produced in New York in May
when the biennial convention of the General Fed
eration of Women's Clubs was held. Miss Kate Mc
Hugh, president of the local center of the Drama
league, has been exerting exery effort to secure the
presentation of the masque in Omaha. Theodore
W. McCullough, managing editor of The Bee and a
director of the Drama league, has been secured as
rh nfa1rr fnr this nrnorram whirh rnmM nnrlr thm
head of "American Pageantry." " , '
Rev. Titus Lowe will be the speaker for the
opening day program.
Included in the study outline are Alice Brown's
drama, "Children of Earth," which won the Win
throp Ames $10,000 prize; works of William Dean
Howells; Dorothy Canfield, C. J. Snaith, Ernest'
Poole, Winston Churchill, Juliet Wilbor Tompkins,
Booth Tarkington, Henry K. Webster, F. HoPkin
son Smith, Helen A. Martin, Irving Bachelor, Mary
Wilkins Freeman, Margaret Deland and Mary Rob- .
erts juncnari. -
Studies of New York life as portrayed by a
group of East Side writers, including Fannie Hurst
and Montague Glass, will ' comprise a morning's
study which is being arranged by Mrs. Millard Lang
feld. ..
Chapter B. P. of the P." E. O. sisterhood is the
first rif ttri frrnnn nf snripriQ tn annnnnr. its first
meeting. This will be held Tuesday afternoon at the
home of the president, Mrs? Frank C. Patton, 2413
Bristol street. The North Side Mothers' club, which
was to have held its opening meeting the same day,
has postponed its first coming together until one
week later. The meeting will be held Tuesday, Sep-'
tember 19, at the home of the president, Mrs. G. R.
Gilbert
Romances of American cities will interest the
Woman's club of the Railway Mail Service, which
opens its Season Wednesday, September 20. Salem,
c. A vt r i r i . t -1. - r . r
Francisco, Nome and Detroit are the cities selected.
The usual program for the Old People's home will
be given and an all-day meeting will be devoted to .
sewing for the Child Saving institute. '
The, North Side circle of the Child Conservation
league will hold its opening meeting Friday at 2
o'clock at-the home of Mrs; Rodman Brown, 2201
Evans street The time will be devoted to business.
rtn Tn.cW h :rmn -i..t .;n t,u k. c-.
meeting of the year, with Mrs. E..H. Barnes as
hostess.' The work of the coming season will be
a study of five great Anterican poets, Longfellow,
. Whittier, Holmes, Lowell and Bryant. At the open
ing meeting Miss Lillian Gwin will give the biog
raphy of Holmes. ".' v .' -v
Miss Lilly M, Strong, for several years general
secretary of the local Young Women's Christian
association, makes her farewells at today's vesper
service. Miss Strong will give a talk and Miss
Mabel Fulton will sing. At the social hour which
follows Miss Mabel Hall, the lately appointed mem
bership and social secretary, will be hostess.
Miss Etta Pickering, the new general secretary,
who comes from the association at San Antonio,
, Tex., is expected the latter part of the week.
The corrected gymnasium schedule is ready for
distribution and can be obtained at the general office
or by request will be mailed. The educational de
partment schedule is also arranged and the secre
taries in the office are ready to confer about any
of the classes.
Local suffragists are reawakening to activity,
their heaita being stirred by the glowing reports
from the national woman suffrage convention held
this week in Atlantic City. As their share in help- .
ing to raise the $1,000,000 recommended by national
suffrage leaders, the Omaha Suffrage association,
headed by Mrs. S. A. Capen, is planning a food sale
to be held at the home of Mrs. A. C Anderson, 1730
South Twenty-eighth street, Wednesday, Septem
ber 20, at 2:30 o'clock. Cakes, pies, candies, jellies,
marmalades, baked beans, salads and all manner of
delicacies will be sold to swell the coffers of the
rotes-for-women enthusiasts. After the sale the
annual election of officers and delegates to the state
convention at Hastings October 2 will take place.
In the September issue of the Suffrage Messen
ger, Mrs. W. E. Barkley, the state president, urges
every suffrage organization to' "get busy." "Every
club should call a meeting and, besides electing offi
cers, if this has not already been done, must elect
delegates to the state convention. All members of
the state board, state chairmen and presidents of
local associations are automatically delegates. As
the meeting is. to be held just Prior to the state con
vention of the . Nebraska Federation of Women's
clubs, -many clubs may find it convenient to send
suffrage representatives to both conventions." The
closing session of this convention, as well as the
big luncheon in honor of Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Catt and Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles, .will be held
jointly with the stata club federation.
This Bevy- of Beautiful Girls Has Four Sturdy
Brothers Who Combine to Make Mater Happy
Feminine Fakes
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By THE JESTER
I read of a story the other day of a certain ac
tress it's always an actress, of course who, after
being complimented on her dimples, confided to a
girl friend that they had been put on for the occa
sion. '
Apart from the improbability of any girl giving
away the secrets of her toilet to anyone (let alone
a member of her own sex), the idea by no means
appeals to me.
To please whom does the present-day craze of
the young girl for "make-up" exist? Not man,
surely, for I've never yet met either a lover or a
husband who will admire it, let alone encourage it,
for a single moment.
One is left to assume, then, that it is done either
to gratify her own personal vanity, or because she
has an erroneous idea that no one will see through
it, I should prefer to believe the former, as I have
too high an opinion of feminine cleverness and per
spicacity to imagine that the latter can exist.
Let me impress upon you girls that nine-tenths of
the men you meet loathe and detest the use of all
artificial aids to beauty, with the exception of a
little powder all excessive traces of which should,
of course, be removed.
It is always possible, will allow, that rosy lips
(even hand-colored) may look delightful from a dis
tance, but take it from me that it is vastly improb
able that any man who has been permitted to linger
on them and obtained a mouthful of cosmetique in
the process, will ever want to repeat the experiment.
Provided that it is skillfully done, the blush rose
complexion that novelists delight in can be applied
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Social Calendar
Monday- " ;
Bridge party for Miss Alice Woodworth, given
by the Misses Hazel and Carol Howard,
Prairie Park Whist club opening party.
Tuesday
Dundee Catholic Women's circle.
Rockford college luncheon at Hotel Fontenelle.
Kjmmel-Shearer wedding.
Luncheon at Happy Hollow club for Miss
Alice Woodworth, Mrs. Carl Woodworth,
hostess. -'
Bridge-luncheon at Field club given by Miss
Alice McKenzie. s
White Shrine Whist club luncheon at Carter
Lake club.
Bridge tournament at Field club. ,
Dinner-dances at Happy Hollow, Carter Lake
and Seymour Lake clubs,
Luncheon at Country club for Mrs. W. W.
Morsman, given by Mrs. Nathan Merriam,
Prairie Park Needlecraft club, opening meet
ing. .Wednesday
Dinner-dances at Country and Field clubs.
Thursday
Luncheon at Field club, Mrs. A. L, Meyer,
hostess. -Woodworth-Kiewlt
wedding.
Dinner-dances at Happy Hollow and Seymour
Lake clubs.
Detta Tau Delta fraternity luncheon at Uni
versity club, 12:15 p. m.
Cooler-Steinberg wedding at Rome hotel, 7
p. m. . , . :
Friday ;
Dinner-dance at Seymour Lake club. " -
Saturday ,
Opening dance at Prairie Park club house.
.Dinner-dances at Country, Field, Happy Hol
low, Carter Lake and Seymour Lake Country
clubs. ,
successfully with a small amount of practise, and
can decieve the very elect.
But, there may come a time when she who has
done it gets a fainting attack and nature is ruthless
then. The eyes, too, can be artfully touched up and
Improved if you know how to do it, but the slightest
accident, and another illustion is dispelled.
I have argued so far merely from a man's point
of view namely his own likes and dislikes. I have
neglected the chief argument against the use of ar
tificial aids because the aforesaid argument should
be sufficiently obvious. Does it need any article of .
mine to point out that all paints and stuffs must be
injurious to the' skin? Surely not!
As I said before, I loathe artificiality. Nature it
good enough for me and surely should be so for you
girls. And yet, despite all we men can say, fakea
are growing every day. ',
Half the girls one meets carry a beauty spe
cialist's entire outfit in their handbags, and the first
question a girl asks, if she hears anyone admiring
someone else's hair is, "I wonder if it is her own?"
THIS last week Omaha ha been specially
virtuous. We have given from our bulg
ing pockets until the pocket of the Visit
ing Nurse association bulged as never be
fore on Visiting Nurse tag day. Of course,
, if you were out of the city and didn't know
about it, any day can be tag day for a generous and
charitable person. As I was saying, however, we
have been virtuous, what will we do next?
We are gradually passing the in-between season
and launching out onto the sea of social deeds. If
you are a club woman of any kind, literary, art,
musical or social, you are beginning to plan for your
winter season and arranging for your opening meet
ing. The announcement of the Tuesday Morning
Musical club's program for the year was one of the
most interesting notices of the week. The commit
tee has secured a remarkably good program of local
artists as well as foreign talent. ' '
The Society of Fine Arts is planning to hold our ,
attention with its'programs of famous persons. The
treats which are in store for us because of their ef
forts make one's dreams happy, after so much
mediocre art. .
But I seem to be usurping the field of the club
editor, a crime which I must never commit. Let me
state for the purpose of exonerating myself that so
ciety is responsible for these activities, they are
some of its most vital interests. This is one of the
things which follows after sweet charity..
The school set is beginning to leave us. The
state university young people are going first because
they need have no fear of infantile paralysis or rail
road strikes or any other alarms. Perhaps the fact
that their school opens earlier than some eastern
schools is partly responsible for their early depar
ture.) One prominent mother said to me the other
day, "Most people that I know are either getting the
children ready to go away to school or beginning to
plan their gowns for the ball." The ball, of course,
is the Ak-Sar-Ben ball, which draws near by leaps
and bounds. Do you realize that it is less than four
weeks away? Truth, because I just counted.
Wouldn't it be heavenly if every maid and matron
who is to appear on that momentous occasion
would have her gown all in mind a week before the
event. Then no one need worry her head about any
thing in the world.
The marriage of Miss Alice Woodworth to Mr.
George A. Kiewit will take place Friday of this week.
Several pre-nuptial affairs have been given and will
be given in her honor. Miss Louise Bedwetl has
added the latest October wedding to our calendars,
for she will be united in marriage with Mr. Eugene
Holland of Lincoln on October 21.
Early in the month, to be exact, on October 3,
will occur the marriage of a charming young woman
of our city to a young Chicago doctor. The notice
has just reached us that Mr. and Mrs. John L. Mc
Cague announce the engagement of their daughter,
Mary, to Dr. Charles Anderson Aldrich of Win
netka, 111. The young physician is a graduate of
the medical school of Northwestern university and
is now located at Winnetka, nVfar from Chicago.
The marriage will be the culiTnation of another
romantic college friendship, for the young people
met while attending- Northwestern university. Dr.
Aldrich is a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity
and Miss Mcague is a welt known Alpha Phi.,
The wedding will be a small home event, with
only relatives and a few intimate friends present.
A sure sign of the changing season is the in
creased gayety at the country clubs. The first of
the season it was a novelty to get out to your
favorite club, but during the warm weather every
one except the young people attended dinners and
dances rather perfunctorily.' Now, as if to make
amends for past neglect and in order to achieve a
grand finale, hosts and hostesses are inviting large
parties to make merry with them. Several large
parties were to be seen at the Country club last
evening and an unusually large number of members
attended, 125 or ISO in all. ;yt
Changes have been necessitated in the wedding
party of Miss Lucile Bacon by death in the Elliott
family of Des Moines. Three members of that fam
ily will be unable to fill their places in the nuptial
arrangements. ,
Miss Alice Jacquith is still keeping the identity
of her party secret, fearing to weary her friends
with oft-repeated details. For both of these young
women parties wilt soon be given and the farewell
festivities will abound.
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