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Personal Gossip : Society Notes : Woman's Work : Household Topics
Marvels of the Loom
By MELLIFICIA. Dec. 1, 1916.
Such a very busy time as we are
having this week-end! It all began
Wednesday when Mrs. Nellie L. Mc
Clting came to talk to us, and we have
been bustling from one thing to an
other ever since. , Thanksgiving with
its family dinner parties and its foot
ball games is over. That, perhaps, is
post-Thanksgiving cause for thankful
ness. This evening the first of the
Junior club dances for the season will
be given at the Fontenelle. Dancing
will follow numerous informal dinner
parties at the hotel and in the homes.
Supper will be served in the small
ballroom. ,
This initial party is merely an open-
ing wedge for the big Christmas party,
' I am told, when elaborate decorations
and detailed preparations are made.
Following the Christmas parry there
will be two other parties, either at
me ronieneue or at tne Blackstone.
given by the club.
Tomorrow is another busy day on
the society woman's calendar. In the
morning Mrs. Anthony French Mer
' rill, whq arrived today, will address
an audience in the ballroom of the
Blackstone. The hour of the lecture
was set for 10 o'clock in order to
allow plenty of time for luncheon be
fore the big card party given by the
members of the Franco-Belgian Re
lief society for the benefit of their
fund. Th card party represents the
culmination of an endless ampunt of
work on the part of Mrs. John A.
. Mcshane, president, and her commit
tees and promises to be a remarkable
success.
Children's Party.
Mrs. H. R. Bowen gave the first
large children's party to be held at
the new Blackstone today for her
small son, Harry Raymond Bowen.
The children were entertained from
12:30 to 6. Luncheon was served in
the party dining room, where pink
Killarney roses formed the table dec
orations and place cards were in pink
and white. Unique favors were given
to the little folks; the young misses
received miniature rockers and cra
dles and the boys received tiny wheel
barrows and sleds. Little books were
also used as favors.
During luncheon a musical program
was given and the afternoon was
spent with dancing and games in the
ballroom. Those present were:
Missel
Barbara Burns,
I'JItnor Kountze,
Julia Caldwell,
Bllnor Smith,
Gertrude Kountse.
Catherine C. Coad,
Maroelle Folda
Margaret Wynian,
Maxlne Franklin,
Marlon gturedvant,
Marjorle A. MorehouatDorotny Hlfffftna,
Maxlne Retchenberg, Mary Updike,
Gertrude Jane Marih, Florence L. Ware,
Uleanor u. Wilson, Kuttl Konn,
Misses
Betty Smith,
Henrietta Leavttt.
Emma Nash,
Marlon Cooley,
Josephine Hamlin,
Kuth Sumner,
Mildred Riley,
I.enore Knight,
Ruth Orlmmel,
Alice Foye,
Gertrude Klosler,
Martha Dox,
Helen Melster,
Dorothy Stelner,
Grace Adams,
Helen Kohn,
Elisabeth Clark.
Kathryn Klguttcr.
Maxlne Glller,
Masters
Gilbert Doorly.
George Kennedy,
t Kdward Rosewater,
Charles Dox.
John Kennedy.
Morton Leavttt,
Freeman Morsman,
Bernard Hanifhen,
Kdward Smith,
Helen Albers,
Kathryn Smith
Cornelia Storrs,
Margaret Lee Burgees
Dorothy Reynolds,
Marjorle Adair
Margaret Johnson,
Marlon Foye,
Katherlre Doorly.
Masters
Kdward Kennedy,
Jack Coulter,
Frank Smith.
Morehead Tukey,
Harry Crammer,
Roland Burbank,
James Mcmullen
Franklin Carpenter,
George D. Tunnlctlff.
Theater Party and Supper.
Mr. and Mrs. James Love Paxton
will entertain at a box parry at the
performance of the "Million-Dollar
V. ... . .,. t,- j .l:. : rl
Lion at inc ooya mis evening, iui
lowed by supper at the Fontenelle for
Mr. and Mrs. Asa Shiverick of Cleve
land, who are the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd M. Smith. Mr. Shiverick
plans to return to Cleveland this even
ing, but his wife will remain here
with her sister for about two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Shiverick were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bar
ker at dinner at the Fontenelle Tues
day evening, Wednesday Mr. and
Mrs. Smith gave a large party in
their honor at the Thanksgiving dance
at the Omaha club. Those included
in this evening's party will be:
Messrs, and Mesdames
Floyd M. Smith, Asa Shiverick
Josoph Barker, o Cleveland.
Luncheon for Mrs. Oliver.
Mrs. Charles Eeades entertained at
luncheon at her home Monday in
honor of her mother, Mrs. Kate Oli
ver, of Plattsmouth, who is her guest.
White roses were used as table deco
rations. Covers were laid for: ,
Meedames Mesdamea
G. Warren Davis, Franklin Van Sent,
G. w. Green. ... George w. Beadle,
A. W. Hallem.
Roy DoVol
Council Blufs,
W W. Ward
of Benson,
James W. Mitchell
Council Bluts,
Anna Miller
of Fort Crook.
Mrs. Merrill's Lectures.
Mrs. Anthonv French Merrilar-
rives tomorrow morning lur tier upcu
ing lecture on current events and liter
ary reviews to be given at 10:30 a. m.,
at the Blackstone hotel. At 4 o'clock
in the afternoon Mrs. Merrill gives
the first of three lectures at the home
of Mrs. Leonard Everett in Council
Bluffs. Galsworthy, Bennett -end
Shaw will be the subjects of her re
views across the river. Mrs. Merrill
returns to Chicago Saturday evening.
The remaining talks will be given on
successive Saturdays.
at
Dinner Before Dance.
Many informal dinners will.be giv
en before the Junior club dancing
party at the . Hotel Fontenelle this
evening. Mr. Charles Eugene Metz
and Mr. Harry Koch, president and
secretary of the club, will be the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Windsor Me
geath at dinner, when the party wilj
include:
Messrs. and Meademea
Charles E. Mets, Louis Meyer.
Misses Misses
Martha Dale, Mary Megeath.
Messrs. Messrs.
Alec Loomls. . Harry Koch.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Doorly will
entertain ten guests at dinner before
the Junior club dance this evening.
Miss Olga Storz will have a party of
lour.
or Kansas City Guests.
Mrs. Townlee was guest of honor
at a foursome luncheon at the Univer
sity club today; tomorrow her hostess
is entertaining at the Blackstone in her
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By GARRETT P. SERVISS. l IP CrVil
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Deadly Cost
Of Dirty Milk
By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M: D.
The lack of intelligent discrimina
tion on the part, of the public, the
penny-pinching unwillingness to pay
a higher price for a better article
of milk is as false economy as it is
bad hygienic practice. l eaving out of
account the unquestionable fact that
the diminished risk of infection by
typhoid, by tuberculosis, by diph
theria, by scarlet fever, by septic sore
rhroat, through cheap and dirty milk,
is worth five times the additional cost
of clean milk; it is real economy on
purely commercial grounds.
In "the first place. as has already
been alluded to, scrub cows will not
respond to better feeding and clean
and sanitary handling as promptly or
as protilably as pedigreed or well
bred cattle. So that hand-in-hand with
better feeding and cleaner methods
goes higher grade dairy stock.
This means an accompanying and
often quite unintentional increase in
the percentage of fat and cream, and
as high-class milk usually contains 25
per cent more butterfat and cream
than low-class milk, and often SO and
even 60 per cent more, the consumer
is actually paying less for the butter
fat that he gets at 10 cents a quart
than ,when he buys poor milk at 7
cents. And butterfat is the most ex
pensive element in milk from the
point of view of feeding the dairy cow,
and one of the most important and
valuable for the nutrition of children.
From this point of view alone, 10-cent
milk is actually a Bttter investment
frrr the father of a family than 7-cent
milk.
But there is another reason why
clean, high-class milk at its higher
price is a more ecfinomical food than
dirty, low-grade stuff, and that is the
difference in bacterial content. High
grade, high-priced milk has only from
'0,(KXI to 40,000 bacteria to the tea
spoonful, which sounds enough in all
oonscic nee, hut low-priced milk often
has from 2.01)0,001' to 6,01X1,000 bacteria
to the teaspoon ful. Those swarming
millions of bugs have not come down
from the heavens above, nor grown up
on a diet of air. ICvery thousand of
them represents so much of the nour
ishing elements of milk, fat, caselin,
albumen, milk sugar, turned itfto bugs,
and as the bugs themselves are neither
nutritious nor digestible, million-bug
milk has Inst at least a fifth, if not a
third, of ils nutritive value! You can't
have both bugs and nourishment in
milk at the same time; you must take
your choice between them.
So that any citizen who is nygienic
ally enlightened and considers him
self intelligtnt should not rest satis
lied with grade B milk, but insist
upon buying grade A at its 2 cents
higher price, because it is the best
itivecttnent frrtm 9 fnnrl nnint nf View.
'and if he baa vnunff children in his
family, worth ten times the additional
cost. If two-tlflrds or even one-third
of the public would start in buying on
that principle, it wouldn't be very long
before all the milk in the market
would be grade A.
Incidentally, it may be remarked
that it is not only the uninformed in
dividual private citizen who is guilty
of this short-sighted and costly penu
riousness in the matter of milk, but
some of our most distinguished and
supposedly enlihtcned educational,
philanthropic and even medical insti
tutions are among the worst offenders.
Boarding schools, children's homes,
yes,- sanatoriums and hospitals-even,
used oiten habituallv to buy swill
milk at 10 and 12 cents per gallon,
until the health officers and the doc
tors and newspapers took to roasting
them about it.
One of the most whimsically ironic
comments upon the inconsistencies of
human nature that I know of was the
fact brought out by an investigation
by the health department of New
York City shortly after the three
grades, A, B and C, had been legally
established for milk. Just to see how
much of the higher grades of milk
were actually being sold and whether
lower grades were being substituted
under false ratings, the inspectors
made a quick, unannounced collection
of samples of the milk sold in a wide
variety of public places and institu
tions, hotels, restaurants, bars, orphan:
asylums, etc., with the astounding re
sult of finding that almost nothing
but low-grade milk was served in the
orphan asylums, little but grade B
milk in the restaurants and lunch
rooms, and the only places in the city
where nothing but grade A milk was
found were the high-class barrooms,
where it was kept for milk shakes
and punches!
The spotless and shining rtiment
of the bartender, of the hue of inno
cence and emblem of purity, is cot
quite so much of a joke perhaps as
we have usually supposed. The milk
at least in the punches can be relied
upon as harmless.
Don't blame everything upon the
milkman. Remember, a community
can get and get promptly any grade
of purity and richness in milk that it
is willing to pay tor.
The great antiquity of the art and
practice of weaving shows the high
quality of applied intelligence in early
human history, while the use of the
loom by the indigenous people of
America indicates the universal de
velopment of this invention all over
the earth.
Mr. M. D. C. Crawford remarks m
the American Museum Journal that
the Chilkat loom employed by our
northwest coast Indians is essentially
honor, and in the evening there will
be an Orpheum party for Mr. and
Mrs. Townlee. .
Mr.' and Mrs. John Townlee of
Kansas City, who came up Wednesday
to spend Thanksgiving with Mr. and
Mrs. A. W. Gordon, will be enter
tained at an informal dinner party be
fore the Junior club dance at the
Fontenelle this evening. Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. C. Kennedy will also be in
cluded in the party.
Date of Dinner Changed.
Ihe Omaha Woman s fress cluo
dinner announced for Wednesday
evening has been changed to Thurs
day evening of next week at 7 o'clock,
when the dinner will be given at the
Hotel Loyal. Announcement of prize
winners in the Press club's play and
short story contest will be made then.
The judges in both eompetitions will
be honor guests.
A shawl with border of wool from
Peru. The figures represent the
puma; above, a Peruvian loom with
unfinished web; bobbins at right con
tain the weft yarn,
the same as that which Homer's hero
ine, Penelope, is represented using in
a figure on a famous Greek vase, while
the remains discovered on the sites
of the neolithic Swiss lake dwellings
indicate that similar looms were in
use there, in the dawn of European
history.
The Aztecs were skillful spinners,
and so were the old Peruvians. The
Ojibway and Menominee Indians still
use simple looms, of the same type
as those of ancient Greece, Scandi-
Elks' Thanksgiving Dance. . navia and probably Egypt, and for-
lhe tlks rormal Dancing club tnerly the art ot bag-weaving was ex-
gave one of its most successful dances tcnsively practiced by them. The
of the season at the club rooms 1 modern iava,to Indians loom is e;v
Thanksgiving eve. Over fifty guests
were m attendance.
At the Metropolitan.
So successful was the free story
hour for children conducted by Miss
Grace Sorenson at the Metropolitan
club house last Saturday afternoon,
that tomorrow the occasion will be
repeated. Fifty children attended the
first session and it is expected that
even more will attend tomorrow af
ternoon at 3 o'clock.
This evening the regular informal
dancing party will be held at the
Metropolitan club.
Dinner for Guests.
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Kennedy will
entertain at dinner at their home this
evening for their house guests, Miss
Virginia Hanscom and Miss Mary
France of New York City. Covers
will be laid for twelve guests and dec
orations will be in pink.
To Honor Mrs. McClung.
Mrs. Nellie McClung, the Canadian
suffragist, and her daughter, Miss
Florence McClung, will be entertained
at an Orpheum theater party this eve
ning by Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Rood.
Phyllis Neilsen Terry, the Orpheum
headliner, is English and an old triend
of Mrs. McClung, as well as an ar
dent suffragist. They were Thanks
giving dinner guests of the Roods,
who also took them for an auto ride
about the city.
Mrs. McClung spoke in the court
house rotunda at 4 o'clock this aft
ernoon and leaves tomorrow morning
for Minneapolis.
Thanksgiving Guests.
Dr. and Mrs. R. S. Hart and' three
little daughters, Vance Shirley and
Billie Marie, who motored tc Omaha
Wednesday from their home in
Schuyler, Neb., to spend Thanksgiv
ing with Dr. Hart's parents. Mr and
Mrs. J. G. Hart, left this afternoon
for their home. Yesterday the fam
ily celebrated with Thanksgiving din
ner. Today Mrs. Hart was enter
tained by a party of her friends at an
informal luncheon at the Fontene'le
Miss Stella Abraham is horne from
the state university to spend the
Thanksgivmg recess with her oar
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ijenry Abraham
In her honor her sister, Miss Doruihy
Abraham, entertained informally
Wednesday evening
Miss Pauline Goldstone ot San
Francisco is the guest of her sister.
Mrs. Eli Newman. She was enter
tained at an Orpheum matinee party
today.
Week-End Dancing Club.
The Week-End Dancing club will
not give a dancing party tomorrow
evening because of the very successful
Thanksgiving party which it gave
Wednesday evening. The next date
will be Saturday evening. Decem
ber 16.
On the Calendar.
Mrs. C. L. Hempel will entertain
at luncheon at her home next Wed
nesday afternoon at 1 o'clock.
sen tia II v of the same type as that
used by the Peruvians, 2,000 years
ago, and this, in turn, was similar to
the Asiatic loom, and was common
throughout southern North America
and onward to Peru.
When we feel the intoxication of
our vast mechanical triumphs, which
have made art cheap in more than
one sense, wc can find a sobering
dose in Mr. Crawford's statements
that the primitive two-barred loom
"remains in actual commercial use to
this very moment for certain classes
of fabrics, such as rugs and tapes
tries;" that "it contains every prin
ciple incorporated in the latest prod
uct of our grat loom-factories," and
that "there is no fabric made today
which has not been made on this ap
parently simple framework, of sticks
and string, while there are at least
two interesting fabrics, true tapestry
and Oriental pile-knot rugs, which
are still made on it, and which cannot
be made on any' other type of loom."
To this, add the further statement
that the brocades of India and of
sixteenth and seventeenth century
European manufacture, made on the
foot-treadle looms (which mark the
dividing line between modern looms
and the true hand looms) "cannot
compare, in artistic value, with Orien
tal rugs and Flemish tapestries, nor,
indeed, with, the infinitely more an
cient webs from the Peruvian desert."
There is a wonderful exhibition of
the products of the ancient Peruvian
looms in a hall of the American Mu
seum of Natural History, photo
graphs of some of whose masterpieces
are herewith reproduced, and a fa
mous silk designer is said to have
remarked that there was inspiration
sufficient for centuries of creation in
that single hall. Mr. Mead points
out the fact that we must not give
the credit of these magnificent tex
tile productions to the Inca, for they
were made centuries before the sway
of the lncas began.
Social Gossip.
Mr. Frank M. Bishop of Milwaukee
is the guest for a week of Mrs. W. F.
Allen.
Mrs. Ralph W. Breckenridge re
turns tomorrow from Denver, where
she has spent the last month.
Personal Mention.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Morris McKay
returned Thursday from southern
Calitornia. where they have been
spending the last few months for the
benefit of Mrs. McKay s health.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray C. Wagner have
as their guests Mr. and Mrs. James
Farney of Kansas City. Mo.
Yearling Church Shows
v Growth in All Branches
Trinity Lutheran church observed
its first anniversary last week. Dur
the first year the little mission has
grown to a congregation of 150 mem
bers. A very active Sunday school,
consisting of 135 members, is doing
good work. The- Ladies' Aid society
has purchased a chaoel organ and
still has on hand $100.
Bee Want Ads Produce Results.
Bean
15TH AND DOUGLAS
Women's Suits. Coats, Dresses Greatly Reduced
FOE TOMORROW THE FIRST SATURDAY IS DECEMBER
In Fact, All Lines of Women's Wearables Offer Special Price Concessions
ANOTHER CHANCE TO BUY
WOMEN'S STYLISH SUITS
At Half and Less
Again, we offer you unrestrict
ed choice of our entire stock of
women's fashionable winter
suits at half price, and even less.
Broadcloths, velvets, velveteen,
poplin and gabardine fur trim
med, and In the season's moat
desirable models and colors
every suit In the house Is Includ
ed. $20 Suite go at $9.75
$25 Suits go at $11.95
$35 Suits go at $16.95
$50 Suits go at $24.50
$75 Suits go at $34.95
WONDERFUL REDUCTIONS
ON
WAISTS
t 1 "Tf" For Crepe De Chine
D 1 O and Tub Silk Waists
to Qf" For Silk Waists,
tPw73 worth as high as
S4.50. -v
Jo Q'C For Georgette and
PJtt0 Crepe Do Shine
Waists worth $5.50.
&A Qf" For ny Waist In
p4a70 stock priced up to
$8.75.
Remember I A Waist is
always a very desirable
XMAS GIFT
TAKE YOUR CHOICE OF ANY
WOMAN'S COAT
IN OUR ENTIRE STOCK AT
OFF
This Is the biggest coat reduc
tion we have offered this season,
and when you think of how rea
sonable our coat prices always
are, and then consider that we
are giving an additional M off
besides, yon will want to be one
of the early ones at our store
Saturday morning.
All Velvet Coats yAott
All Plush Coats. ...... V4 off
All Broadcloth Coats.. V4 off
All Wool Velour Coats. Vi off
Every Coat in stock. off
$15 Coats will go at. '.$11.25
$20 Coats will go at.. $14.95
$25 Coats will go at.. $18.75
$35 Coats will go at.. $26.25
$50 Coats will go at.. $37.50
Eat Right
Feel Righf
Stop Eating Bread for a Few Says,
Try "0-EAT-IT," the Uew Bran
Food and You Will Be
Free from Constipation
and Indigestion With
out Medicine.
At Grocers 10 Cents
Jti j Mi.
Eat Richt and Health and Happtoaw b Youn
to a Rip Old As.
"O-EAT-IT" is a new combination
fully baked, ready-to-eat, pure, delicious,
nourishing bran bread food. Its crisp,
tasty, toasted slices keep indefinitely
made from rich Rolden wheat-bran and
other cereals. "O-EAT-IT" takes the
place of all otd-style bread and break
fast foods, morninir, noon and night ;
' good for braln(j blood, nerves and grow
ing children, and insures freedom from
constipation and indigestion without the
aid of medicine or any added expense of
living. Physicians heartily recommend
It. For sale at all grocers, 10c, or sent
prepaid on receipt of price. Addres O-,
Eat-It Co., 187 Studebaker Bids.. Chi
cago, I1L ''.
WHEN YOU BUY
WALK-OVER SHOES
You Save From $1 to
$3 On Every Pair
of men's or women's shoes over
what competitors charge, and youv
get better quality in Walk-Overs
than in any other brand of shoes .
made.
The enormous buyinf? power o the Walk
Over Company enabled them to buy over
$3,000,000 worth of leather just before the
war started, and is one ot the
main reasons why we can sell you
shoes now at less than can any
firm in town.
Cut down the high cost of liv
ing by buying Walk-Overs the
shoes that have stood supreme in
footweardom for over 40 years.
Just received new
line of 9-button Spats,
in white, grey and
champagne colors. Spe
cially priced at $2.50
per pair.
17
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WALK-OVER BOOT SHOP
317 South 16th Street
WOMEN! I INVITE YOU TO CALL
And know of the help for diseases and disorders of your sex. Many
hundreds have been to me and are pleased. I have saved many from
an operation. SPECIAL and PRIVATE diseases treated strictly
confidential. Cash fees, but small. Medicine free.
DR. J. C. WOODWARD, 301 Ros. Bldg., Tel. Tyler260, OMAHA.
Use Bee Want-Ads
and Be Busy
CHILDREN'S FCS SETS
' .Ages 6 to 14,
Just Received In Stock, 1
$3.95 to' $15.00. a Set
I9JB ti OUUGLA
15TH AND DOUGLAS BerffiS
WE SWE YOU MOIEIIHEBES A REASON
TAKE YOUR CHOICE OF OUR
ENTIRE STOCK OF 8MART
LOOKING
DRESSES
O FF
In view of the fact that this
is the biggest dress season In
many years, this constitutes a
remarkable offer. There are no
undesirable dresses In the lot,
and the offer Includes ill serge,
all silk and all party dresses in
our stock.
$15 Dresses go at..... $9.95
$20 Dresses go at.... $1355
$25 Dresses go at.... $16.75
$30 Dresses' go t. . . .$19.95
$35 Dresses go at.... $23.35
SEPARATE, SKIETS
Serge, Poplin, Satin. Solid
colors, plaids, stripes, j
ONE-THIED OFF 'v
Any $6.00 Skirt for. . . .$3.95
Any $7.50 Skirt for. . . .$4.95
Any $9.50 Skirt for. . . .$6.25
Any $12.50 Skirt for. . .$8.25
Heatherbloom Petticoats, adjust
able waistbands, fancy or
plain colors. Cfl
Each tPlsOU
i'f rW (Likt-SBf
I5I3-I5I5 Howard St
Rug attractions fresh from the
world's biggest mills and looms
-in quantities and qualities
marked free
from pr.ee
advances
f.)mmm$k from pr.ee 7T I
Wool Fibers
Suitable for Bed
room room sizes.
$4.95, $6.95 and $7.75
Bigelow Wiltons
36x63
$4.95
Coco Mats
85c $1.10, $1.60
LINOLEUMS ,
39c, 45c, 55c Sq. Yard
INLAID TILE PATTERNS
In Harmonious Colorings
85c, $1.00, $1.35