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The Omaha Sunday Bee PARJ TWO SOCIETY. PAGES ONE TO EIGHT , PART TWO MAGAZINE PAGES ONE TO EIGHT YCfc. XL VI NO. 84. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1917. single copy Vive cents. Fan Has Its Place in Social Life Feather CLUBDOM Calendar'of Club Doings Monday, .,- Omaha Woman's club, political ami social . Science (jepartmcnt, Metropolitan club house, 2:30 p. m. ' . Dundee Catholic Womaii'c circle, firs. Mark l. Walker, hostess. 2 p. m. Daughters of the American Revolution. Major Sadler chapter, John Cowper Powys lecture, Boyd theater. 4 p. m. French war relief, lecture by S. Richard Fuller; -.Mrs. Floyd Smith, hostess, 4 p. m. Neighborhood Bible class leaders. V. W. C. A., 2:30 p. m. . Association of Collegiate Alumnae, music sec tion, Y. W. L. A.,. 4 p. m. Tuesday- day Omaha Wonian's club, oratory department. Metropolitan.club house. 10 a. in.; current topics department. 2:30 p. m.. and philosophy and ethics department. 4 p. ni. Business Women's council, luncheon and prayer meeting, court house. 11 to 2 p. m. Business Women's club. Y. W. C. A., 6:15 p. m. Study of Music club, Mrs. M. F. Hartman, hostess. 2:30 p. m. Fuller lecture. Hotel Blackstone, Mrs. Arthur Crittenden Smith, hostess, 4 p. m. Wednesday ' Dundee Woman's ' club, Mrs. D. L. Johnson, 'hostess. 2:30 p. in. Miller Park Mothers' circle, school auditorium, 2:30 p. m. Railway Mail Service. Woman's club, Mrs. O. M Jones, hostess, 2:30, p. ra. -Fuller evening .lecture, Mrs. K. W. Dixon, hostess. . Omaha Woman's Press club, Hotel Loyal, 12:30 p. m. , Eastern Star, Fontenelle chapter, "Mrs. F. R: Nelson, hostess, 2 p.'m. L'Alliancc Francaise, public library, 2:30 p. m. Thursday Omaha Woman's club, art department, Metro politan club house, 10 a. m,; music 'depart ment. 2:30 p. m. ' . I P. E. O. sisterhood. Chapter E, Mrs F. M. Cox. hostess. 10 a. in. nson Woman's club, Rouse Edison shop. 2:30 p. m. ' ' ' ' ' ' Omaha Story Tellers' league. Mifs Jennie Red 'field. hostess,'4 p., m, v ; ' W. C. T. U. of Douglas couiity.'all day prayer ' meeting, .Y. W. C. A., 10 a. mr : - Friday '',. : ; r;;; : :k... "'y,;:'. ';',?' Omaha Society of Fine Arts, .Hotel Fontenelle,, 3:45 p. m. ,. . . ,. '. . . ... . Society of American Widows, Mrs, B. C, Tur pi!!, hostess, 8 p. m. - . ' A ' ;, . : . Saturday , (, ' .'Alliance Francaise, "public library; A" p. iri.! P. V.. O."sislerhood.. Chapter-M.- Mrs. f,i-A. , Cressey,hostess. 20 p,.ni.: evening musicale J by Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Bcrryman; H Association of Collegiate Alumnae, annual luncheon. Hotel Fontenelle, 1 p.!m.. , , French war relief, lecture by Lieutenant Zmpvi Pcchkoff, Blackstone, 3 p. m. . .J.- LECTURERS will again hold Omaha in their - spell this week, evep as they did last week. Fine arts, the war, suffrage, industrial demo cracy, social unrest, national ideals of each we will hear full much. S. Richard Fuller gives his second lecture. "England in the Great War," this afternoon at the home of Mr. ajid Mrs. Harry Doorly; another on "Selene, Daughter "of Anthony and Cleopatra" tomorrow aft 1 ernoon at the home of Mr: and Mrs. Floyd Smith and his, finaf one,' "France ij the Great War.'' Wednesday e'vening at the E. W. Dixon home. John Cowper Powys, speaking on "America, i' Hope of fhe Future" at the Boyd theater at 4 o'clo-' and Missx Agnes Burns, emphasizing the "Worki; Ayoman's Need of the BallofV' arc two other spca'. ing engagements of Monday. Powys. always a g'- drawing card in Omaha, will be the means of addiir tolhe fund of Major Isaac Sadler chapter. Daucl' tcrs of the American Revolution, for erecting a me morial to the first territorial governor of Nebraska: while" Miss Burns will address both the Oma'ia Woman's club and wives of union men, arrange ments being in charge of Mrs. H. C. Sumney. "Social Unrest and Its Ethical Significance" wiil be discoursed upon by Jay William Hudson, distin guished professor of philosophy at the University of "Missouri, before the Omaha Society of Fine Arts at the Hotel Fontenelle FXday at 4 o'clock. Prof. HudsoiyCs a noted lecturer on international relations as well. He sees America's opportunity and duty to teach the world a new diplomac and international ism based on justice. During tlic season of 1914-15 Mr. Hudson delivered addresses before an aggregate of over 60,000 people, including mass meetings in Fannuel liall and preniont temple, Boston, and in Washington. . Mr. Hudson delivers his brilliant address in a lorceful and convincing manner; he does not deal in any great flights of oratory nor does he worry his audience with a superfluity of words, but, having a magnificent voice, he goes right to the heart of his subject and in simple, plain language tells his story. One week later John Neihardt of Bancroft, Neb., will give a reading of his poems. Saturday at 2:30 o'clock the second organization meeting of the Circle de l'Alliance Francaise will be held at the public library. Madame A. M. Borglum, Mrs. Charles A. Hull, Mrs. Howard H. Baldrige, ' Miss May Mahoney and Charles W. Martin are per fecting details of the organization. L'Alliance Fran caise is not to be a limited organization in its scope. Indeed the committee urges that any one interested in the study of the' French language, literature, his tory and art, join the circle. . A fifth lecture by Mr. Fuller has been arranged - by Mrs. Arthur Crittenden Smith to be given in ; the Blackstone ballroom, Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. "Julius Caesar and theIdes of March'" ) is the subject. Mrs. Smith has extended an invita t tion to all Fine Arts society, Tuesday Morning .Musical club and Drama league members, as well' ,as others who are interested, to attend the lecture. Mrs. Floyd Smith, too, is opening her home to all interested in the war-bereft French women and children for the Fuller lecture, although she hat sent out a few invitations. Miss Harriet Huntington Smith and Miss Meliora Davis will receive the sub scriptions at her home and Miss Elizabeth Reed and Miss Josephine Congdon at Mrs. Doorfy's today. Society Girls Revive Custom of Carrying Fans Made of Magnificent Ostrich Plumes at Functions . -JLJI Yff ViYi 1 'U1- On, ' ' ' III 1 V -TTN 1- fcwi-:ife,.. "' 1 - lllll III II m K'W-:;::Kitfw ,vr': M Knight iPUA r 'M I ; - ':- ivf f-': 1 "i Pick Out Your Husband's Faults Before Marriage a 1 ' By DOROTHY DIX. One of the chief causes of domestic infelicity is that ivomeu -enter into matrimony as they do into a bargain rush. They snatch up the first thing they see, simply becauscomc other woman is trying to get it, without examining its quality, or style, or whether it will suit them or not. Then, when they get it home, (hey spend the balance of their lives in brooding over its defects, and wondering what on earth made them foolish enough to burden themselves with such a misfit article. After marriage it is fatally, too late for a woman to discover that the husband she has sworn to love and honor until death shall them part is possessed of faults that horrify her, of qualities of which she does not approve, of tastes that jar her, of habits that get upon her nerves. The time to ascertain the little peculiarities that will make a man an agreeable or an aggravating life companion is in the days of courtship, when a woman can get rid of him without the aid of private detectives and the divorcecourt. ' When a girl finds out that she is beginning .to have a sort of lonesome feeling when some particu lar man doesn't show up about six times a week, and that she experiences a sensation of faintness and a sirfking of the heart when she sees him out with another girl, she ought to start a microscopic inves tigation of his past, present and future before symp toms of her case get any worse. A hundred eyes would not be too many for her to turn upon what he has done and what he is likely to do. She ought to examine every inch, of his Zl'l I JlfELIORA J) AVIS character as carefully as she would-a piece of clolTf" that she expected to serve for her best dress for . two years, lor it takes a man who is all-wool and a yard wide and who won't, shrink in the washing, nor fade in the sun. to stand the wear and tear of married life, and leave a woman as glad to celebrate her silver wedding as she yas the original one. The eternal whine of women who make unfor tunate marriages is that they were deceived, that they didn't know the kind of man they were marry ing, and so on. They have no right to dc the baby act. and the only ground on which they can make a just bid for our sympathy is for being a fit candidate for the .asylum of insurable imbeciles, for there is mighty little about anybody that a woman can't find out if she wants to know it. We have all heard women "who are married to drunkards weeping and wailing over their fate and declaring that they never, never would have married a man who drank if they had known it. We have also been called upon to mingle our tears with those of the deceived lady who married a perfect stranger, and later on ascertained that he had seven wives in other cities. . Likewise we are daily forced to listen to the querulous complaints of the myriads of wives who have discovered along about the tin wedding period that the men they married are not their affinities and that they are all soul, while their husbands are merely common clay. There is no earthly excuse for making these mis takes. There is no difficulty in a woman finding out about a man's moral character before she marries him. - An inquiry, a letter or a postal card will do the - ' J A Heyn Photo trick and bring her the information she needs, for just on general business principles any one who cannot give satisfactory references is not a person to tic up with. As for the other matters, the little whimsicalities and peculiarities and cussicalities of temper and dis position that make a man just as disagreeable to live with and as hard to stand as if he had every vice in the catalog it is surelv a woman's fault if she does not discover them before marriage instead of afterward. . Except in melodramas men seldom lay deep, dark plots to deceive a woman and win her youthful affections. Indeed, the majority of tltem are incap able of pulling the wool over a woman's eyes if they wajitcd to, for men are almost childishly trans parent and artless in the way they exhibit their little weaknesses. t ' ' v When a woman is married, however, the time has come for her to call the investigation of her husband's faults off. It is then up to her to hope all things, ttust all things and believe all things. The wife who seeks to verify her husband's story about having been to the lodge meeting or sitting up with a sick friend when he comes home late, or who ransacks his genealogy to find out where the blonde peach he had out to lunch grew on the family tree, is worse than foolish. It is too late to doubt a man when you are married to him. Do it before the wedding, if at all. The suspicious wife who scrutinizes her husband's every act gets nothing, but heartaches for lier pains and the same thing may be said of fault-finding, for the critical wife who observes her husband's every foible soon magnifies trivial weaknesses into intoler able vices. SOCIETY Social Calendar Monday Citizens' banquet for Archbishop J. J. Harty at the Fontenelle. i Tuesday Tea for her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Heyward, given by Mrs. R. B. Busch, Luncheon at University club followed by matinee party, Mrs.- Howard Rushton, hostess. - Thimble club, Mrs. J. F. Carpenter, hostess. Wednesday- Banquet at Blackstone for Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Dayton of Lincoln given by oculists and aurists. ... Luncheon for Mrs. Thomas Heyward, Mrs. J. A, Epeneter, hostess. ' Afternoon bridge for Mrs. Charles Duffy. Mrs. Clarke G. Powell, hostess. Thursday Luncheon at Blackstone, Mrs. Harry Carpenter, hostess. - Friday Lieutenant Pechkoff speaks at University club luncheon. Flriday Night Dancing club at Druid hall. Saturday . '''' Annual- meeting of Omaha club. Lieutenant Pechkoff, speaker of, the Evening. Midwinter dinner dance at University club. Les1 Amies Whist club, Mrs. F. J. Murphy, hostess. Aplia Omicron Pi, ' Mrs. Lester Bratton, hostess. Rite club dance at Scottish Rite cathedral. V Regular dinner-dance at Blackstone. ' A LBEIT the lectures are excellent, inspiring,, 1 artistic and really worth while, the mono tony of sitting still for hours each day, listening to something far removed from present interests, will surely prove too great a tax on society's brain before long. Not that society people are not intelligent, but Lent, is becoming a prospect of the near future and if we are not careful the monotony of all work and no play for such a long time will make us very dull . boys. '''. - 1 -J " V' ; That is a horrid utterance, however, for the three lectures which have occurred this week have been . r&ally delightful tc the society audiences which have listened to them. First was Rabindranath Tagort, who impressed with his message from India and his delightfully quainj child poems." He seems now ...something ethereal and far off, a thin-voiced creatur of the imagination. ' J ' ' . Stoughton-Holborn was dramatic, slightly su- ' pcrior to the majority of us mortals and with a cer tain precision and exactness of utterance. His roll ing K's, .his flowing academic gown, ,tiis loose bow tie, all carried out the impression of a scholar and a gentleman.. .V, ''A' Mrs. Anthony French Merrill delivered the next , to the last number in her popular series of lectures at the Blackstone yesterday. Today S. Richard Fuller will speak from the pro-ally standpoint on "England in the ' Great War" at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Doorly at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. This subject will be entirely different from the poetic story of Cleopatra the Great with which he delighted his audience at the home of Mrs. Louis C. Nash Fri day afternoon. These informal afternoon lectures are most delightful. On fhe lawn of the home rosy! cheeked children were romping in the care of their governess. Inside, in the shaded drawing room, about forty of the matrons and younger women had gathered by invitation to hear the lecture. Mr. Fuller tpld some experiences of personal friends of himself and his wife among the nobility who are now homeless and penniless, thus explaining his primary interest in giving this gratuitous series of lecture. His poetic description of the life and death of Cleopatra the Great called forth the admiration of all. ; ' . ; Dancing Friday and Saturday evenings furnished some' necessary diversion to lecture-wearied minds. The Brownell Halljienefit dance at the Fontenelle Friday evening was a simple, pretty affair. The ball room was almost crowded with dancers, many of whom had been members of dinner parties at the hotel before. Some of our society women must be saving their prettiest, gswns for the last of the sea son, if our eyes deceive us not. A New YorkSociety writer said twt long ago, "You can tell the progress of the season by the state of dilapidation of the gowns." But certainly that was New York, not Omaha, for most beautiful, ones were; in "evidence Friday evening. Early in the evening, say at 9:30, the dancers included principally the members of the committee in charge and a sprinkling of the. younger folk. At about 10 the late dinner parties began to arrive. Madame society leader and her husband glided away to the strains of the orchestra and dur ing intermissions were kept busy bowing to, new coiners at the doors. From that time on the "mirth and fun grew fast and furious." !s Once a visiting gentleman went to claim his wife for the next dance, but after a consultation of three programs he waved the first claimant to pro ceed. Few bouquets of any kind were to be seen, the majority of women evidently preferring to save such troublesome formalities for other occasions. Those that were carried were pretty, stiff round ones that invited dainty noses to bury in their depths. Not many gowns were made en traine; the most charm ing one of the few was on a young future debutante It was of a deep, almost coral pink taffeta, made with square neck and finished with -a little pointed train which was caught on the left wrist with a little band of the silk. , . Of course, no definite figures have yet been com piled in regard to the proceeds of the dancing party Friday night, but Mrs. Frank W. Judson stated late Saturday afternoon that over $300 would be cleared, after' expenses are paid. This proves that the affair was a rousing success, for the sum required was only $300 and everyone had a delightful time.. - i ; People are already beginning to talk of YvetU Guilbert, who appears at the Auditorium Thursday evening. Some few remember her, others have friends who have recently met her, and all are anticipating a great pleasure in seeing and hearing her. , ; ,-