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Sunday PAST TWO ' SOCIETY PAGES ONE TO TWELVE PART TWO MAGAZINE PAGES ONE TO TWELVE Omaha THE Bee I,- - VOL. XLVI NO. 44. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 15, 1917. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. of the Week in Social and Club Circles News v --', , -1 , "V . t, ; 1 ' Spring Brings Wanderexs Home ' i Spring breezes are bringing society folk home, the enticing spell of warmer climes losing its hold, now that home no longer spells cold and snow and frost. A few wayfarers still linger by the road, but all are ex pected to return shortly for the brief season at the country clubs before the summer flitting begins. ' Mrs. Fred Hamilton arrived home Friday from California, where she has been since leaving Phoenix, Ariz., several weeks ago. Mrs. Hamilton has been gone since the latter part of January, when she was accompanied by Mr. Hamilton to visit his sister, Mrs.. Jack Barber, and.Mr. Barber at Phoenix. ; ' . ' :iun Mrs. A. B. McConfiell has returned from California. H -." . Mrs. J. J. Brown arrived , home Thursday from California, "where she has been since Hit-latter part ot Jan uary. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wyman and- daughter. Margaret, who were with her, remained west for another two- or three-weeks. C W. Wattles arrived Saturday from California, accompanied by his three nieces. Mr. Wattles has been at his Holywood home for a month. Mrs. Will Poppleton returned Tues day from a month in New York and a few days in Chicago. Mrs. Arthur- Crittenden Smith is expected home from the east the end of the week. y Mrs. Charles E. Black has returned from a southern trip and a visit in Chicago. .. Walter D. Williams is spending a few days in Peoria, 111., enroute to New York City, where lie has been called on business. ' Mrs. J. C. Young, formerly ' of Omaha, but now of Tonopah, Idaho, sailed last week for the Philippines to join her daughter, Mrs. Walter Harvey, whose husband is stationed at Los Banos, near Manila. Colonel S. S. Curtis and Miss Lynn Curtis, who have been at Palm Beach alt winter and are now in New York, are expected in Omaha this week. "; Judge and Mrs. Charles S. Lobinger of Shanghai, . China, . formerly of Omaha, will probably visit here before -autumn if they take the leave they are planning upon the adjournment of court this summer. .... -Mrs. W- A. Fraser and children, who are at Dallas, 'Tex., will remain there visiting Mrs. Fraser'S mother, Mrs. Quillman, until warm weather begins here.; Mrs. Fraser -is recover ing from an operation and was or dered south- by her physician. Mr. Fraser accompanied his wife, but re turned Friday, Miss Helen Ingwersen left Chicago for St. Louis to visit and will not be home until some time in May. Looming on Social Horizon. Mrs. Charles Everson will entertain the Comus club Thursday at her home. . ' .. Mrs. William Rothschild will be at - home informally to her friends this afternoon in honor of her ninety-sixth birthday. r , . Mrs. Frank Selby will entertain at a luncheon Wednesday in honor of Miss Gertrude Aikin at the home of her mother, Mrs. E. W. Norris. , The Novelty Dancing club will give a spring party at Keep's academy the evening of April 26. Programs and invitations are to be printed in the national colors. The club will furnish its own music for the occasion. Red, white and blue will predomi nate in the decorations for the Le Mars club dance at Keep's academy, Friday evening. Captain and Mrs. James McKinley will entertain at dinner at the Fonte lelle Monday evening, followed by an Orphcum theater party, in honor of their guests, MrSTGrayson Heidt, Miss Helen Heidt and Miss Helen McKinley of Savannah, Ga. . x . V' mm mmmrnt . n si r u ii t mm em mrr-- ---- x ; m a tv l - !M yCKV ; U ffl I I ' ' :iU$ Tass V ., ' , t.Va.i Oii.K.Ar.l 7 v . - ' ? . - PA flew ::: fsass .ts " Social Calendar.- - ' '! :;Vfo ' C 1' j . If 4 .? J CXrY f't M Li Ml W t I Visitors in Our Midst. ' Mfss Gertrude Berry of Kansas City arrived Thursday to visit Mrs. Lewis Loring and Mrs. Charles Hendrick on. , Mrs. Florence E. Hyde of Lincoln J,.v,-i: -.."Mi.'- r-h wVl'w.Hi-yjV-' V. ''-" .V' '"'' js.ft Vr'- vupiawnqs u pjpusy summer jor ' - Hymen in and Around Omaha Monday i v; ' Tea for Miss Amy Burgess of Wi nona, 111, Miss Gertrude Aikin, ' hostess. ' ' Original Monday Bridge club, Mrs. - Will Redick, hostess. - Judge-Thompson wedding at St. John's church, 6:3 a. m. Dinner at Fontenelle and .theater party given by Captain and Mrs. James McKinley. . . Tuesday'" Thimble club, Mrs. A. L.; Patrick, hostess. , Larson-McGuire wedding at St. Bernard's church. Afternoon for Miss Gertrude Aikin, given by Misses Ruth and Grace Slabaugfi. - Winter Dancing club, formal party, at Harte hall. -Wednesday . Tea for Mrs.- Warrett vHoward, Mrs. ChesterNieman. hostess. Sheehan-Leydeckcr wdding at St. John's church. Green-Sterett wedding . at St Mary's church, South Side. Tea for Christ Child society, Mrs. E. W. Nash, hostess. Afterndon for Mrs. J. A; Cullen and Mrs. Frank J. Cullen, given by Mrs. T. F. Hanley and Miss Margaret Cullen. Luncheon for Miss Gertrude Akin, Mrs. Frank Selby, hostess. "' Thursday - .f . Pagalco club dance at Keep's acad emy. Luncheon for Miss Gertrude Aikin, Miss Gladys Goodman, hostess. Comus club, Mr9! Charles Ever son, hostess. , ; Saturday club, bridge dinner for husbands. ' Friday . - Le Mars club dance at Keep's academy. Benefit dancing recital by Miss . Cooper'a classes. Saturday , i Kismet club play by University' of Nebraska students. .- Luncheon at Blackstone for Miss Gertrude Aikin, , Mrs. A. ..W N. Bowman,. hostess. is visiting her on. Dr. J. F. Hyde, and his wife, for hree weeks. Mrs. W. H. Bagnell of Lincoln is visiting her sister, Mrs. Henry Rice. Mrs. F. C. Cook of Lincoln is the guest of Mrs. R. E. Deemer. Miss Ruth White will be the guest of Mrs. Ernest Stenger this week and she will be with Miss Lois Howell next week. Mrs. Grayson Heidt of Savannah, Ga, and - Miss Helen McKinley of COUTH SIDE Social Leaders ( are. piore " closely associated with the doings of Omaha's social ilect, now that tfieir identity has been meiged with ours. . Among those whose homes are centers' of hospitality and whose names head the roster of all locial clubs and organizations in our recent civic' adjunct .'are Mesdames . Hugh McCulloch, W. B. Tagg, R- E. Schinjell, C. J. Bulla, J. Dean Ringer, J. E. Bednar and J.-W. Koutsky, whose pictures we show MZI3e?erVraf Woman! s Service League Work is Well Organized in Omaha Already Cleveland, sister and aunt of Captain James McKinley, will arrive Monday to visit him and Mrs. McKinley for ten days. Miss Helen Heidt, the young daughters of Mrs. Heidt, will accompany them. ' Miss Phyllis Luman of Salt Lake City arrived Thursday to visit her sis ter, Mrs. C, Louis Meyer. Mr. Donald F. Mattson, instructor in the agricultural department of the University of Wisconsin, arrived Sat urday morning to spend a week with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Alfred F. Mattson. Miss Bernice Kinney of Denison,1 la, was ond of the out-of-town guests at the high school military hop Fri day evening. : . Social Gossip. . ... Mr. Howard Baldrige left Friday for New York, accompanied by his son, Malcolm, who has been home from Yale for the Easter vacation. Mrs. Edwin T. Swobe is making a ten days' visit in Chicago, Mrs. H, I. Adams left Friday for the east to be gone three weeks. ' Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Connell have taken a cottage at Atlantic City for the summer and will go on in June to take possession of rt. Their daughter, Cwtbural M Vf tm, Calms On.) MRS. R. BEECHER HOWELL, head of the commissary de- ' partment of the National - League for Woman Service, has chosen for her staff, or advisory com mittee, Mrs. E. M. Syfert, Mrs. Ed gar H. Scott, Mrs. C. J. Anderson, Mrs. Joseph Polcar and Mrs. Robert R. Hollister. Mrs. C. W. Axtell is one of the. first to organize a detach ment under this department. No ac tual work has been done by the di vision, but this will prove one of the most useful as well as most instructive branches of .the. service. When the social service and wel fare department mustprovide sand wiches and chocolates for trainloads of soldiers passing through the ter minals of our city, the commissary department must previously have pro vided the materials needed. Sand wiches will be made from chopped meat mixed with a cooked salad dress ing in lieu of butter,' Mrs. Lowrie Cililds explained to one of the de tachments volunteering for work under her in the social service and welfare department. One of the big needs of the soldiers, in case a gen eral camp is established at Fort Crook, will be recreation. This the social service and welfare department will undertake to provide. Young women, who .enlist, in this division Jocularly consider the advisability of having some of their number do song and dance stuntstfor the benefit of the soldiers in the camp. , Mrs. Clement Chase made an ex tended announcement of the work of the National League for Woman's Service before the large gathering of women at the Blackstone under the auspices of the Equal Franchise so ciety Thursday. Sha, said in' connec tion with the work of the motor-driving volunteers, which is under the care of Mrs. Louis S. Clarke, that this ir. one of thenost important branches of the ' service. Every woman who joins must be able to take her car apart and put it together again. "If a young woman should be carrying a message with her car in war time and that car should break dbwn, it would not be feasible for the young woman to sit beside the road until some gallant came along who could mend it for her. She must be able to put it together for herself." , The motor driving section of the league has Mrs.. Louis S. Clarke-at the head and she has appointed five commandants, Mrs. E. S. Westbrook, Mrsv Clarke Powell, Mrs. F. J. Mc-' Shane, jr.; Miss Irene McKnight and Miss Daphne Peters, each of whom will organize a class of twenty-five women to take lessons from mechan icians in car driving and repairing. Those who have enrolled for this service so far are Mrs. Harold Pritchett, Mrs. W. L. Prentiss, Mrs. Mary Walt, Mrs. E. D. Erickson, Mrs. Lydia Walker, Mrs. George S. Johnston, Mrs. Earl Stanfield, Mrs. George Redick, Miss Marjorie Smith, Miss Gladys. Peters, Miss Marion Kuhn, Miss Eugenie Patterson, Miss Mona Cowell, Miss Katherine Gould, Mrs.'R. B. Howell, Mrs. 0. S. Good rich.jMrs. Clifford Weller, Mrs. C. M. Taylor, Mrs. Mabel Ellick-and Miss Eunice Pritchard. -' Mrs. Harvey Newbranch ia in charge of one of the most important divisions of the .work of the general service. 'Since she has been only re cently appointed, her staff has not yet been chosen and made public. rpHE flowers that bloom in the I spring, tra la," may have something to do . with the case, or the fact that "Johnny's going for a soldier" may be a motive, but, however it is is, we cannot but notice that a delightful superfluity of mar riages exist these tense days. " The fnarriage of Miss Mary Burk ley, daughter of Mr. Frank Burkley, to Lawrence Brinker on Thursday, May 3, will be one of the Interesting events of the spring season. It will be a small home wedding followed by a large reception and the bride's only attendant will be' her .sister, Mrs. J. MacMillan Harding with Mr. J. T. Stewart, 2d, actipg as best man tor Mr. Brinker. Miss Gertrude Mc Carthy of Chicago and Miss Eliza- beth Fleming of Burlington, Ia. are coming for the wedding and will le guests of Miss Daphne -Peters. From Murfreesboro, Tenn., comes i he announcement by Mr. and- Mrs. George Morris Darrow of- the en gagement of their daughter, Miss Temple Darrow Swoope, to Mr. Wil liam Dennis - Kyser of Memphis;! Tenn, the wedding to take -place on June 9. This announcement is of interest in Omaha because Mr. and Mrs.' Darrow i are former residents cf this city and have many friends here. Mr. Keyser is a prominent, young lawyer of Memphis and has recently Been appointed , Dy rresi dent Wilson district attorney for vest Tennessee; An army wedding in which Omaha people feel an interest is that of Miss Jean Murphy and Lieutenant Mc- Ouire, third cavalry, which takes' place Wednesday. Miss Murphy "is the daughter of Captain and -Mrs. George B. Sharron , the latter for-' merlv Miss Pauline Lowe of Omaha and then widow of Lieutenant Mur-- ihy. The wedding will take place at Brownsville, Tex, -where Captain Sharron is stationed with the Fourth infantry,' and will be a military 'af fair, all the attendants being officers and daughters of officer. A twin engagement of special inter est to people of Florence is being an nounced today by Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Maloy, whose daughter, Madge, nas become affianced to Mr. James Earl Haney, son of Mr. and Mrs, J. W Ilaney, and whose daughter, Mayme, P. E. 0. Sisterhood Lays Elaborate ; Plans for Its Omaha Convention WHOLLY apart from all thought of war are the elaborate plans being made by the members of the, Omaha P.. E. O. Sisterhoods for the entertainment of the officers of theis supreme council in this city in October. The P. E. O. is said to be the largest secret society of women in the United States and with 'this standard to live - up to the Omaha women are determined to make their entertainment equal to the honor which will be theirs in entertaining the supreme officers, The honorary chairman of the committee is Mrs. Samuel K. Foote, formerly of Chicago,-who has been auah an excellent addition to the organization ,of the city.' . .... - To finance the entertainment' in K roper style each sisterhood in Oma a will give a social affair, to which npt only members, but all friends, will -be invited. First of these will be the gift bazar, which will be given by B P. Chapter in May at the home of Mrs. L. G. Taylor. Other members cf the committee are Mrs. P. J. Haas, Mrs, A. M. Smith and Mrs. Shouse . is betrothed to Mr. Irving Allison, jr., son of Mr. and Mrs, Irving Allison of Florence. '.The two sisters, have been teaching in the Florence schools for the last three years. They are both graduates ft the home economics de partment of the University of Ne nraska. An early summer-wedding . is being planned for the pair. Mr, and Mrs.LN. Smith announce the engagement of their daughter, Marie, to Mr. A. R. Rhine of Lincoln. The Vedding will take place early thif fall at the home of the bride's parents. Miss Smith is an accomplished musi cian. ; Mr., Rhine was graduated from the university at Lamar, Mo , after which he engaged in educational wark for six years at Scranton, Pa. . ' A wedding trip abroad, including ' Honolulu, is planned as soon as travel with safety at sea is assured, after which they will return to Omaha to make their home. -. The engagement of -Miss Lenore Louise Roeder" of Grand Island, Neb, , daughter of Dr.. George Roeder, to Mr. Sam Lee Bussard of Fort Wayne, Ind, has been announced. Miss Roe der has a large circle of acquaintances in this city, where she was born and lived for a number of years. She is a granddaughter of Mrs. Clara Roetier, one of the pioneers of the city and a sister of Dr. C. A. JRoeder, who is a well-known physician here. Mr., and Mrs. W. .Sigal announce Ihe engagement of their daughter,, Esther, to Mr. A. B. Leibovitz. No i date has been set for the wedding. ' The marriage , of Miss Margaret Berenice Whitney to Mr. Cyril Glynn Langan will be solemnized Monday at St. Cecelia's church by the Rev. P. J. Harrington in the presence of the immediate relatives of the young people. -Miss Miriam Langan and Mr. Frank T. Walker -will be the only attendants and Mrs. Hugh Lan gan will sing. .A wedding breakfast at the home of the bride's parents follows the ceremony. The young " people are keeping the time of their -departure, a secret, but admit that they will leave some time during the . day for an eastern wedding trip. They " will be at home after . May 1 in Omaha. - . - -.! . In the School Set ' ; Miss Clara Hart, daughter of Mi's. Ernest Eldred Hart , of Counci Bluffs, has returned to Dana Hah after spending t the Easter vacation with her mother. ' . i - George Voss spent his Easter vaca tion from Lawrenceville in Philadel- . phia with his aunt, Mrs. Charles C. Allen, and in New York with a school friend. Miss Margaretha Grimmel was a guest at the Pi Beta Phi house in Lincoln Friday, where she went to " attend the Pi Beta Phi formal dancing party. ' ' Mis Reta Carpenter is spending the week-end at the Alpha Chi Omega ' house in Lincoln. Miss Gwen McCoy Is spending the week-end with her nisrer Mis M.ir. garet McCoy, at the Alpha Phi for mal dancing party last evening.