The Omaha Sunday Bee
PART TWO ,
, SOCIETY '
PAGES ONE TO TEN
PART TWO
MAGAZINE
PAGES ONE TO TEN
VOL. XL VI NO. 87.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 1917.
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Social Calendar '
Monday
New Bridge Luncheon club, Mrs.
Eilet Drake, hostess.
- Original Monday Bridge club,
Mrs. W. R. McKeen, h6stess.
Monday Bridge Luncheon club,
Mrs. Harry Clarke, hostess.
Kensington given by Mrs.
George Tunison for Mrs. H.
E. Cornell of Dietrich, Idaho.
Tuesday '
Tuesday Bridge club, Mrs. Ross
Towle, hostess, i
Clairmont Bridge club, Mrs.
Arthur Cullin. hostess.
Monthly , tea for students, Mrs.
Douglas Welpton, hostess.
Evening party given by the
Catholic Research club at the
Knights of Columbus hall.
Creighton Mixers' banquet and
dance at the Blackstone.
Luncheon and Orpheum party,
Mrs. Mel L'hl, jr., hostess.
Wednesday
Elks' formal dancing party.
Rockford College club meeting.
Thursday
Cinosam club dancing party at
Scottish Rite cathedral.
Friday Junior Bridge club. Miss
Daphne Peters, hostess.
Luncheon at Blackstone, Mrs.
William Simpson, hostess.
Kensington given by Miss Marie
Wentworth for Miss Marie
Hodge.
Friday
Le Mars club dan-c at Keep's
dancing academy.
Kcighorly Kensington club,
Mrs. B. B. .Anderson, hostess.
Amateur Musical club, Mrs. Al-
fred VV. Gordon, hostess.
Beta Theta 1'i alumni party at
University club.
Friday Night Dancing club at
Druid hall.
Tea for members of Sacred
Heart Alumnae association,
Mrs. Louis C. Nash, hostess.
Saturday
Saturday Night Subscription
Dance club at the Blackstone.
L'incheon for Miss Pauline
Mansfield and Miss Marie
Hodge, Miss Marion Carpen
ter, hostess.
IN THE SOCIAL LIMELIGHT ; Women Whose
Names Are Mentioned in Club and Society : :
OSATO
FftOTO
WHEN the solemn, even dreary
days of Lent descend upon
society there will still be one
occupation with which the
busy society woman can occupy her
restless hands and her . active brain.
Bridge clubs will be postponed and
parties will be unplanned, so that the
only amusement left for abstemious
ones will be the plying of the needle.
For the women who have been work
ing faithfullvand long at the war
relief quarters in the Baird building
this will be no hardship. Truth to
tell, most of the women have come
to love the work.
We Americans are not extremely
'good conversationalists, according to
the law-giving John Cowper Powys,
but we do love to "spout." Now the
real situation se.ns to be that we
do like to converse, but that we can
not bear to be idle while talking.
We must have something to busy
ourselves with. If we talk when we
-are working, perhaps we do prolong
our remarks to oratorical length for
we must use all our store of energy.
We are at our best when our hands
are busy and we may talk as we
work. The activity at the Franco
Belgian society's headquarters may
be made pleasant by just such a situ
ation. The talk buzzes loudly when
the circles meet, but there is work
a-plenty, and the women do it with
a will. The amount and perfection
of the sewing that they do is re
markable. Mrs. O. C. Redick, who
with Mrs. Harold Giflord, is in
charge of packing and shipping the
articles made by the society, has re
ceived a letter from the Surgical
Dressing Headquarters,, which re
ceives their output, commending
them upon their work and saying
that the Omaha society is one of the
very most careful and satisfactory
sources of supplies that they have.
At first the women made only one
or two articles, but now they have
become ambitious and make almost
every kind of dressing for which they
have received patterns. This makes
the work more interesting. Every
thing that tbey make must be done
according to pattern and, after it is
made, must be packed and shipped
according to rule. The women who
sew at the war relief room jocularly
call it the "sweat shop," because they
put in so many hard and long hours
sewing there. In the ten weeks that
the various circles have been work
ing they have completed 22,000 pieces.
This is not surprising when you
realize that in about a week and ten
days Mrs. George Jewett made 100
T binders, one of the more intricate
pieces. Everything , is snowy white
and practically everything is of new
material. Large packing boxes are
lined with oiled brown paper, then
covered with sold old linen table
cloths and pieces of soft material be
fore shipment can be made. Not a
single scrap is wasted and all ravel
ings ure carefully saved. These scraps
and ravelings with a little cottop fur
nish the filling for the soft. Huffy
pillows which are sent for the use
of the wounded. These pillows are
bright, pretty things made of gay
colored cretonnes, which will lend a
" bit of color to some dull hospital
ward. Friday Mrs. Redick and Mrs.
Giflord began the packing of eighty
seven such pillows, each one ac
companied by two white cases. An
other work is the fracture pillow
made of unbleached muslin and filled
with cotton. Round rings like, small
life preservers are made from nar
row pieces of material and are to be
. used as rets for sore elbows and in
jured heels.
Piles of bath mittens and "chaus
sons" (woolen cases for bandaged
feet) pile the tables side byide with
rolled bandages, gauze compresses,
tampons and cup covers. These last
are squares of white muslin weighted
at each corner with bright blue, red,
yellow, pink or green beads on a
little circular string. It is said that
the men cherish the beads on the
covers of their medicine cups care
fully, for they are one of the few
bright spots in their cheerless lives.
One could talk indefinitely about
the need which the women are work
ing to supply and the various simi
lar causes which are crying for our
attention. Society people Omaha
1 people who have wealth, are giving
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llfe '' i r !l W: f !llPrfff Af Mrs- William Gardner Nicholson, one of the younger matrons of the If 1 tl
WkM ' '' ' ' ' 1 I 1411 111 Omaha Woman's club, who heads the new hospitality committee, If (' t U
' -"Hnn ifr-k ' 1 . 'mBm!s made necessary by the large number of new members admitted to l&i34Wte,&4essiMa
Mrs. William Gardner Nicholson, one of the younger matrons of the
Omaha Woman's club, who heads the new hospitality committee,
made necessary by the large number of new members admitted to
the club. 1
Mrs. A. L. Barr, attractive matron who is much in demand as chaperone
for Creighton university dances. Mrs, .Barr is visiting her mother in
Scotts Bluff ai present. ' " ": ' . .
Miss Dorothy Balbach, one of the younger set who has taken to the Ha
waiian ukelele, the vogue of the moment with society.
Mrs. Frank W. Bacon, who left last weekjor Washington, D. C, to visit
her daughter, Mrs. Walter Scott Penfield.
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JZss.V.GNicholson-
before petitioning thfc board'to do TS JSSi."" m "
this. As an advance indication ot wnat ((!) To p,.c. , dir,b p,niinnt th-
the bureau can do the figures for ploynient thoe whoaa home clreumitm.
,ur .,Ar ,r. intprptlnfir: OI the m 11 imposiiDW lor tbsm to continue
inc iiiol jv. ... .. - .. . their education. ,
(f) To maintain a follow-up ayatemv which
400 boys and girls who applied,
and' Raymond Low play the Steel
'guitar and Mrs. A. V, Kinsler, the
ukelele.
Miss Luella Allen is the mentor of
the Hawaiian music enthusiasts, She
has been studying the music between
seasons in New York for the last
three years.
A Hawaiian music concert, the pro
ceeds to be donated to some local
charity, is one of Miss Allen's plans.
counter-balanced by the 418 calls from win enable employer! to report on bora and Press Club Plans Bond Event.
employers and housewives, 1 were , , TIr-r . , ame jacoos uonu, compo:
of their money to the, poor at home enable them to keep up their school-
and the suffering abroad. When" one ing while earning enough to support
realizes how much unselfish effort is themselves.
being put forth for others '-all the "tu. .,,,;., ,.,,. ; , k,;.i.
time, he cannot help but be optimis- the chasm between the scho(?l and the crer,ce to trades and professions to that they may receive help-do itl
composer
of
nlaced in full-time positions and Mi " ?uu, ci"! "C'P y nnanciai sup- A 1'ertect iJay, will give an evening
r . i. t -;ki r..i,i port, ov turmshinsr emnlovment or hv nf nrislml mnn and slnrica in Omi-
part-ume wurK. iiib""" j- ,- , v . . ' ..; . . ' r -:"- -c- - --:
for relief purposes and incidentally K " V" " I L!FS il Vogue for Ukelele.
of the Union Pacific and Dr. E. C.
of us will be the preslntation of S? Zl it.t0 ";M Women promoting the work of the
"The Amazons" by a selected cast of " '1' ", Atll &',Z bureau are tervent in tneir, praise oi
srwiiffi ?kHsHE M-?
(Ambulance, hospital in Paris. S,?",.1". 'l! '"a? Sector of the bureau; , Supenn
1 . i F. self a business woman and the head . . T.. it a r...,r Rnll
This week wi see few out-of-the .j..,i-,i i n lenoeni o, u. ""
routine events. Bridge clubs and in- o the valuable; members of the corn
formal luncheons will be the chief mitte(. from the Association ofCol
forms of entertainment and even wjate Alumnae, who instituted this
these will depend chiefly on the important work,
wither- Mrs. h. E. Newbranch, president
nf th nreronirattnn: Miss Tesaie M.
Vocational Guidance Work. Towne. Miss Elizabeth Roonev. Mrs. aims to do
A Jcf "V,iir, n," FranW H Mvers. Mrs. E. H. Scott (a) To atlmulate
posted on the door of a fifth floor and Mrs. Paul I Hoagland are other JJwim tn. increased parmnai power and
room in the city hall, calls forth scant Association of Collegiate Alumnae rnin capacity or the better educated,
attention. Upon entering the room the women active in promoting the work. a) to eupply detailed information aa to
W rhoir. aH .nlitarv d.U ith What the women reallv believe is form, of Declallwd education to , be aecured
of advice and counsel given with re- d'rect" bors nd ?irls to th bureau ha in March, under the auspices of
liic wiiiaua vvuiiiuii s i icas liuu. xuc
newspaper women plan to hold this
event at the First Baptist church.
The vogue for Hawaiian music is Mrs. Bond is a great favorite here,
at its height. Both the ukelele and the -She is an associate member of the
steel guitar are affected by Omaha's Chicago Press club and was enter
socially elect, a pretty feature being tained at luncheon by the local club
the instances where mother and on her last visit. Mrs. Bond will be
daughter or mother and son play the the guest of Mrs. Myron Learned
instrument together. vhen she arrives.
Mrs. frank W. Judson, for instance,
Club Calendar
Monday
Omaha Woman's club, Merro-
fiolitan clubhouse, 2:30 p. m.;
ollowed by moot political con
vention, 3:30 p. m.
Child Conservation league, Dun
dee circle, Mrs. Lee Smith,
hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Temple Isreal Sisterhood, at
temple, 2:30 p. m.
P. E. O. Sisterhood, Chapter B.
K., Miss Edna Pickering, hos
tess, 2:30 p. m.
Chautauhua circle. Tennyson
chapter, public library, 2:30
p. m. v
Tuesday
Omaha Woman's club, oratory
department, Metropolitan club
house. 10 a. in.; parlimentary
practice class, 2:30 p. m.
Drama league, Blackstone hotel,
4 p. m.
Business Woman's club, Y. W.
C. A., 7 p. m.
South Omaha Woman's club,
library hall, 2:30 p. m.
South Omaha Woman's club,
library hall, 2:30 p. m.
Business Woman's council, court
house, 1 1 to 2 p. m.
Lowe Avenue Presbyterian
church women, entertainment,
8 p. m.
Woman's Relief corps, U. S.
Grant, Memorial hall, 2:30
p. m.
Malva White Shrine, Sojourn
ers' club, Mrs. I. L. Van Sant,
hostess.
Wednesday
Omaha Woman's club, literature
department, Metropolitan club
house, 10 a. m.
Mu Sigma, Mrs. George Platner,
hostess, 9:30 a. m.
Olio club, Mrs. Charles Powell,
hostess, 2:30 p. m.
Congressional Union conference
luncheon, Blackstone hotel,
12:30 p. m.
. Association of Collegiate Altrm
nae, story tellers' section, Mrs.
Howard Rushton, hostess, 4
p. m.
Smith College club, Mrs. Lloyd
Holsapple, hostess, 3 p. m.
Miller Parle Mothers' circle,
Mrs. J. G. Quisenberry, hos
tess, 2:30 p. m.
P. E. O. sisterhood, Benson
chapter, Mrs. J. T. Pickard,
hostess, 9:30 a. m.
Thursday
Omaha Woman's club, home
economics and art depart
ments, Metropolitan club
house, 10 a. m.; music depart
ment, 2:30 p. m.
Wyche Story Tellers' league,
public library, 4:15 p. m.
Benson Woman's club, Rouse
Edison shop, 2:30 p. m.
Assocation of Collegiate Alum
nae, drama section, Miss Eliza
beth Kiewit, hostess, 4 p. m.
W. C. T. V., West Side, Child
Saving institute, 1 p. m.
Rite Woman's club, ca
thedral, 2 p. m.
Child Conservation league.
North Side circle, Mrs. Karl
Olden, hostess. 2:30 o. m.
West Omaha Mothers' Culture
club, Mrs. A. F. Tyler, hos
tess. 2:30 b. m.
Dorcas club, Mrs. Ward Smith,
hostess, :iii p. m.
Saturdav
Omaha Woman's club, philo
sophy and ethics department)
luncheon, Mrs. T. R. Ward,
I hostess, 1 p. m.
West Omaha Mothers' Culture
club, evening party, Mrs.
Charles Keys, hostess.
. ..... , ; hrt Mrs. rranK w. juason, ior instance,
H;nr? a"L n,r the suooort of Pla" 1 8teel ?ultar which her hu- Patronesses for Recital,
who have taken r i ITohe? blad P""te3 to her before their Among the patronesses for the lec
the bureau as a sort of big brother" marriage, Her daughter, Dorothy, ture cita which Mrs. Edward Mac
movement. , nlavs the mandolin with her mother. ,.,,u ;,. , h. Vm,.
Specifically, this is what the bureau and they enjoy it very much. Women's Christian association Sat-
. , , , n' ".E-awar";8 lo- vay ne rda evenjng un,ier the tiuspices, of
ZSC$ uke!ele .t0 dBT I ,CCm" Mrs Edith L. Wagoner will be Mes-
Lr and P""! of her son, Robert. dames S. S. 'Caldwell. C. M. Wilhelm.
Miss Marion Kuhn and Miss Gertrude " s, ' r!.i'. r-i
Metz and a Council Bluffs group of
ell, John Haarmann, Douglas Welp-
Hcrhert Kogers, Samuel Katz,
. . - , ...hutia in the home city aim eieewno.
wnir.n inr mum is lumihiicii uu mllic uui unuwiiai -.uiun.. . - - . . .......i.. j I I lull.
more to impress the Visitor; yet here the public school system and ought JJV and profe-ion.. together t " ' J mu, Ruth Sandler are" F- H- Cole and MissesKate McHugh,
400 eirls and bovs registered last to be taken over by the Board of wUn information concerning local oppor- ' : Ji...,. L Marv Munchhoff and Mary McShane
Women Who Are Making Vocation Bureair Success
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HtVnl 1 I PHOT 1 - r. ! ! MfVH I. i JPHHTfl I 'rifff
MmimMmmm
ElizaUihffoone?; Myrtle Fobeph
Jessie TT.Towne
Nij.FcankRNyers
hue C.DuF&y
SUFFRAGE" is once more
the chief topic'of interest
with club women, at least
locally. What the Con
gressional union has done
and what it -Is likely to do in Ne
braska after the conference of Wed
nesday is the prime subject for specu
lation. Who will it draw into its
ranks? (
Mrs. F. D. Wead, president of the
Political Equality league, seems to
have discovered the reason women are
flocking to the standard of the Con
gressional union. "Suffragists are be
ginning to feel that good-natured
methods don't get them very far. "
That's why they swing oyer to the
more militant Congressional onion,"
she said. .
"I believe sentiment for suffrage is
really an accomplished fact in this
country. All that is needed is a little
violent stirring up and the vote will
be granted women" is the way Mrs.
W. H. Hatteroth looks upon it.
"To consider plans of work to se- -cure
the passage of the Susan B. An
thony amendment granting nation
wide suffrage to women and to form
a state branch of the Congressional
union" is given in the call to confer
ence as reason for appearing on the
scenery, so to speak.
. Miss Marget Whittemore, from the
national headquarters at Washington,
D. C, will be the principal speaker.
The committee of luncheon patron
esses includes: Mrs. O. A. Abbot, jr.,
Grand Island; Mrs. A. C. Anderson;
Mrs. Fannie Balding, Fremont; Mrs.
Francis Brogan; Mrs. E. M. Fairfield;
Mrs. Charles Johannes; Mrs. Charles
T. Kountze; Mrs. T. L. Matthews,
Fremont; Mrs. D. R. Mills; Mrs.
Joseph Polcar; Mrs. Louise Pound,
Lincoln; Mrs. Halleck Rose and Miss
Clara Schneider, Fremont.
A group of young girls, headed by
Misses Anne Giflord, Eugenie Pat
terson and Helen Sorenson, will act
as ushers at the luncheon. .
Plans for the suffrage scl.bol to be1 '
held in Nebraska the latter part of
. March were discussed at a soecial
meeting of local suffragists held at
the Young Women's Christian asso
ciation Saturday, with the state presi
dent, Mrs. W. E. Barkley of Lin- ,
coin, present.
To teach suffrage workers the best
methods of campaigning is the object
of maintaining the schools through- x
out the country. The national asso-
ciation sends the teachers, four of
them, and the course includes historv .
of suffrage, argument, legislative
work. -organization, publicity and pub
lic speaking. The local suffragists
have to provide for the school and '
secure enough women to take the
course to make it worth while. A
small charge is made. V ' ,,
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, poll-
(Contlnoe4 an Pace Saves, Colvju bam) :