THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1917.
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Some People Have Dislikes.
Never call Dr. J. E. Summers "Doc"
if you wish to be his friend. Any
horse doctor in the country is "Doc,"
but he is a doctor I Dr. Leroy Crum
mer does not mind if you call him an
"unmarried man," but please refrain
from calling him a "bachelor." That
is taboo.
Mrs. H. C. Sumney likes to be
called a "suffragist," although she de
tests the term "feminist" as applied to
herself. Mrs. H. Y. Cook has a dis
tict aversion to being called a "board
ing house keeper." She prefers to be
called the "proprietress of the Colo
nial." Two delightful matrons of promi
nent families always sign themselves
Madame to distinguish themselves
from the other members of their fami
lies. One is Mrs. T. L. Kimball,
mother of Miss Arabell Kimball and
Mr. T. R. Kimball; the other Madame
Smith, mother of Mrs. William Sears
Poppleton and Mrs. Lucien Stephens.
Mrs, Franklin A. Shotwell's aver
sion is a nickname and Miss Belle
Dewey is said to object seriously to
being called a reporter, although she
feels complimented when referred to
as a newspaper woman.
Episcopal rectors have likes and
dislikes in respect to their titles. Fa
ther Lloyd Holsapple objects to the
title Reverend. On the other hand,
Rev. T. J. Mackay will not be called
Father.
Each of us has some little aversion
to differentiate him from the rest.
Usually these seem mere trifles to our
friends, but they are based on deep
seated dislikes and are highly impor
tant to each of us.
In Clubdom.
The Association of Collegiate
Alumnae's general meeting for March
will be held Saturday at 2:30 o'clock
in the ball room of the Fontenelle.
Prof, Paul Grumman of the state
university will leeture on "The Cor
relation of Artistic Activity," under
the auspices of the music section.
Omaha club women and especially
the visiting women who came for the
Second district convention have been
invited. No admission is being
April 20 or 21 is the time set for
the opening ot tne rranco-oeigian
art exhibit at the Fontenelle by the
riiUi Cnriv of Fine Arts. Be
sides the 300 paintings works of
sculpture will also Be exnioitea.
Social Gossip.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward Burgess have
returned from a sojourn in California
with Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Calvin. Mr.
Ruroess contracted a bad cold, which
has kept him at home since their re
turn.
Mrs. Perry. Allen returns to her
home in New York Sunday evening
after a visit with her mother, Mrs.
William G. Sloan, at the Colonial.
Mrs. Frank Thomas and her daugh
ter, Dorothy, have returned to their
home in Chicago after a five days'
visit with old friends in Omaha.
Mrs. W. A. Willard went to Lin
coln Friday for. a visit with Mrs.
Franklin D. Barker, but she will spend
the week-end with Mrs. R. G. Clapp.
Thi afternoon Mrs. Barker gave an
informal tea- in her honor and to
morrow evening Dr. and Mrs. Urr
will give a St. Patrick's party for her.
Mrs. L. D. Fowler, who is visiting
in Lincoln, was the guest of honor
at a luncheon given yesterday at the
home of Mrs. A. W. Johnson. The
guests included sixteen former Sut
ton residents. Mrs. Fowler was for
merly, of Sutton.
On the Calendar.
Mr. and Mrs. Clement Chase will
entertain at dinner at the Blackstone
Saturday evening for Mrs. Perry Al
len of New York.
Mr. Henry Hart of Council Bluffs
wil entertain Miss .Elizabeth Reed
and her goesV Miss Laura Stone of
Wyanlusing, Pa., at a theater party
this evening.
Miss Reed and her guest will be
entertained at tea at the Fontenelle
Saturday bv Mr. Charles McLaughlin.
On Monday Miss Stone will continue
on her way to California.
One of the Mondayjnidgc luncheon
GIVES DINNER TOR PROF.
FLING, WHO TALKS WAR.
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More than usual interest is being
manifested in the lectures pertaining
to the world war which Prof. F. M.
Fling of the state university is deliv
ering in Omaha this year under the
auspices of the Equal Franchise so
ciety. This lecture this evening will
have for its subject "The Marne,
Verdun and the Danube. No meetings
of the suffrage school are scheduled
for this evening, in order to allow
all the suffragists to attend Dr. Fling's
lecture.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Russell will
entertain at dinner this evening for
Dr. Fling. A basket of red roses will
form the table decorations. Covers
will be placed for Dr. Frederick Mor
row Fling of Lincoln, Mrs. J. M. Met
calf and Messrs. and Mesdames "I. L.
Burke, John McDonald and Dr. and
Mrs. B. B. Davis.
FAMILY WELFARE
WORK ISEXTENDED
Church and Club Women Vol
unteer to Help the Home
"Make-Up" Bureau.
MASS MEETING ON MONDAY
clubs met this week with Mrs. Vic
tor Reynolds. In two weeks the club
will be entertained by Mrs. George
Greenough.
Dr. and Mrs. Fred Wearne will en
tertain at the dinner-dance at the
Blackstone tomorrow evening, when
covers will be laid for eighteen guests.
The occasion is Dr. Wearne's birth
day. Mrs. E. J. McAdams will entertain
her neighborhood bridge club on
Thursday, March 29.
For Bridal Party. -Miss
Alice Duval wiH entertain the
members ofthe Burket-Copley wed
ding party this evening at a bridge
dinner at her hone. The table will
have for its centerpiece a Tiffany
basket filled with pink sweetpeas and
violets, and pink and lavender tulle
extending from the chandelier above
the table will form large, fluffy bows
at the four corners of the table. The
place cards will be dinnergrams in
Western Union telegram envelopes
and containing clever messages about
each guest. Pink paper crackers will
be the favors at each place.
Miss Mary Taylor entertained at a
kenstngton tea at her home this att
ernoon for Miss Harriet Copley.
Pink and lavendar sweetpeas were
used on the tea table.
Mr. Earl Burket entertained the
men who will be a part of his wed
ding party at a dinner last evening at
the Blackstone, ana at tne tneater
afterward.
Women representing churches of
the city will meet next Monday at 3
p. m. in the city council chamber to
discuss with members of the Board of
Public Welfare and others the prop
osition of establishing "convalescent"
work in connection with the family re
habiliation department of the wel
fare board.
Mesdames Lynn M. Lockwood, F.
H. Cole, G. C. Edgerly, G. C. Bailey,
W. A. DeBord, Albert Miller, T. F.
Sturgess, G. G. Wallace, F. A. Mc
Cormick and Frank Carmichael are
some of those interested.
The Omaha Woman's club, Visiting
Nurse association of Omaha and hos
pitals will be represented.
Superintendent Schreiber of the
welfare board offered the following
statement on this new feature of his
work:
Need is Apparent.
"The need of this work is appar
ent to any thinking person. Many
deserving persons able during the or
dinary demands of life to hold their
own and keep out of debt find them
selves at the end of an illness without
money and without credit. Sometimes,
patients have homes to which they
may return, but have no means nor
friends who can afford to take ade
quate care of them. The friendly vis
itor can help sometimes by supplying
funds; this help may be in the form
of a loan to be returned when the pa
tient's health is normal. During the
patient's convalescence the friendly
visiting would be frequent; gifts of
delicacies to eat and books and maga
zines to read; cheery ways of making
less dreary the ofttimes weary way to
health; then securing employment and
helping regulate income and expenses
until all debt has been cleared away.
This would constitute adequate
friendly visiting of the convalescent
worker. At the time that a patient
is able to resume work' employment
will be secured through the good of
fices of the free employment office
maintained by the welfare board."
Omaha Man Takes Ride
In Airboat at Miami
C. N. Deits of Omaha added i new
thrill to his long list of experiences
Sunday at Miami, Fla., when he
joined Aviator E. K. Jaquith in a
flight in one of the Curtiss type flying
boats.
Mr. Deitz, who has tried out Zep
pelins, says the sensation is much the
same.
Timely Fashion Hint By La Racontems
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Much attention is given to the sets which serve as finishing
touches to the summer outfit, including hat, parasol and bag. Quite
an interesting development is shown in the set illustrated, where the
fashionable beaded bag in Roman stripe serves as all inspiration for
this striped bag, with hat to match. The colors are rose, tan, brown
and white, all beautifully blended together.
Schools Teach "Culture",
But They Neglect Science
By GARRETT P. SERVISC.
"Why is it that at the beginning
of a new month we first see a
fourth of the moon, then, as Jthe
month goes by, one half, and finally
the whole moon? Constant Reader,
Chicago."
Such a question ought not to be
thrown into the waste basket simply
because it exhibits ignorance of the
most primary facts of science. It is In
teresting and important as a commen
tary on the utter failure of schools to
produce enlightenment outside of cer
tain conventional lines.
A pupil comes out of school know
ing no more of nature than his un
trained senses teach him. He is
taught to write and to read, which are
admirable and indispensable human
inventions, but he is not taught to
understand many of the simplest nat
ural phenomena, by which he is to be
surrounded and puzzled all his life
through.
The shadow of the old classic idea
still hangs over our educational svs
tern. In place of Greek and Latin we
have modern literature, in substi
tution for Homer and Virgil we have
the up-to-date spinners of words and
yarns.
The young mind is taught to look
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up to some clever story writer as a
"great genius," and his "craftsman
ship" and crude ventures in "inter
preting life and character" are set
up as models of intellectual achieve
ment. The pupil is made to feel
ashamed if he Joes not know about
the methods and performances of
these "masters," but nobody points
the finger of scorn at him if he can
not tell why the moon changes its
figure as it travels through the sky.
In truth I have reason to suspect that
some of the teachers themselves
would have difficulty in explaining
that!
The world is held back by such a
system of education as this. Litera
ture should be the dessert on litc'.i
table; but it is made the main dish.
I find that my little girl knows all
about Carlyle, Kipling et al., but if
she knows anything about the sun
and the moon her knowledge is not
derived from her school teacher.
She reads Burke "On Conciliation,"
and "Kim" and the "Essay on Burns,"
as prescribed studies, but somebody
outside the school has to teach her
to read nature, a greater orator,
preacher and romancer than all of the
word weavers put together. We ought
to count the age as long past when
"learning" was regarded as identical
with the ability to write ard to scan
Latin verse, a la Dr. Jonson, but the
spirit of that age is with our educa
tors still.
Of course, I do not mean to decry
literary education, kept within reas
onable bounds, but It is not literature
that has pushed mankind to the point
of mastery over the forces of nature
which, with much labor, and the ex
penditure of much time, it has, at last,
reached. '.Let us be just to ourselves
and to our descendants.
A very few story tellers will amply
suffice for the word's needs, and it is
robbed of its need of real laborers
in its teeming and waiting harvest
fields when thousands of young
minds, in every educational center,
are imbued with the notion that they
may be inchoati. literary geniuses.
To return to the question about the
moon, and this is perhaps the hun
dredth time that I have heard it asked
by "educated" persons. The visible
form of the moon changes because,
first, it shines by reflecting the light
of the sun and not by giving forth
light of its own, and, second, because
it travels around the earth in such a
way that it is sometimes between the
earth and the sun and sometimes un
the opposite side of the carlh from
the sun.
At the beginning of the month
(lunar) the moon is between the earth
and the sun, and being an opaque
body, the sunlight cannot pass
through it, so that it is invisible to us
because the side of it that receives
light from the sun is turned away
from the earth. As it swings out from
the lint between the sun and the earth
a part of that half of the moon which
is illuminated begini to come into
view from the earth, and this part has
the form of a crescent, because it is
the edge of a globe or sphere.
You can graphically illustrate thi
effect by taking a globe and passing
it between you and .a lighted lamu
The farther it gets out of line with
the lamp the more of its illuminated
side will become visible in the shape
of a "new moon." When the moon hat
reached a point at right angles to the
direction of the sun wc see its illu
minated half sideways, or, in other
words, it appears as a half-moon.
As it begins to swing round toward
the side of the earth opposite to the
sun, the visible portion of its illu
minated hemisphere increases to i
"gibbous," or oblong shape, and final
ly when it is exactly opposite Ic
the sun, as seen from the earth, the
whole of its illuminated face is turner
toward us, and it appears as a "full
moon."
Elementary as all this seems, 1 have
reason to know that it is a mystery
to thousands, although it should be
a mystery to nobody, and would not
be if astronomy, "the mother of the
sciences," were taught in the schools
as it ought to be taught.
TONIGHT'S THE BIG
TODDLE DANCE
SWEDISH AUDITORIUM
MARCH 16TH
Raman's Union Music.
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Sunday Dessert
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have Harding's Special Dessert and thra
we get our feast."
It'i combination of Strawberry Ice
Cream nd Plum Pudding Fruit this
Sunday, called ,
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