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The Omaha Sunday Bee FAST TWO SOCIETY PAGES (WE TO EIGHT PART TWO MAGAZINE PAGES ONE TO EIGHT VOL. XLVI NO. 62. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1917. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. News of the Week in Social Circles : Activities in Women's Realm BSsi 1 ' 11 I 1 i " 1 of Hanscom park Saturday as the shades of after- Wr , J WW J V illltiJf noon are falling, birds, flowers, fairies and vege- fev uV -" uetlHSA 1 WK Forxr VAvi I WWW tables called into being by "The Spirit of Walden Wood" ' J ' jM MA Illif . will sing and dance and frolic on the green. Fairies will IS. ' I Y. ( 1 iMl Mil, ' ViWW fifa V flit about in a lovely dance to sunrise when the flowers 2"C3$&i k Mil I llAlLWll flf Lf 1 J M V ' awaken and the Spirit of the Wood appears and holds f f V IyCW MkWWl MM, YrOfeJ l converse with them. Bird calls and trills of unusual J-- " &. VSs'SwA mtiWMWlM. n Cupid's Darts Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Smith of Alli ance, Neb., announce the engagement of their daughter, Dorothy M., to Mr. William Henry Ostenberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Ostenberg. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Clarke announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Katherine Davenport, to Mr. George Loran Howell, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Howell. The wedding will take place at the home of the bride's parents June 20. Only intimate friends of the family will be present, and the bridal pair will be unattended. Both young people were graduated from Central High school and the bride attended the University of Syracuse, at Syracuse, N. Y., where she specialized in the study of pipe organ. She is a member of Gamma Phi Beta 9orority. She was a special maid of Ak-Sar-Ben when Miss Mar ion Howe was queen, in 1915. Mr. Howell is a member of Happy Hol low club and is popular in club cir cles; Miss Davenport is a grand daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Weller. A life-long chum of Miss Daven port's, Miss Clem Dickey, is to be married to M,r. Robert Lincoln Browning of Louisville, Ky., at 4 o'clock the preceding day. Miss Dickey is a Louisville girl who has lived in Omaha during her school years. She graduated from Ornaha High school with Miss Davenport. The two have been inseparable friends. KdiJievine LoiUvv (bluebird) Society Marking Time; Red Cross And War Relief Benefits Set Pace DOES it seem to you that we are marking time? When a com- psny of people, in marching order mark time they are not moving forward, - but they are making all preparations to move forward at .double quick time if necessary. It seems to me that we are just at the marking time stage. Our great scram ble to get in line when war was de clared made our blood rush madly through our veins. Every minute was tense with excitement. We were in the first throes of a new movement. Gradually, however, we fell into our place, ready to march when the order comes in the shape of dire nec essity. For we are doing everything that we can to prepare for any emer gency, but the tension has become a matter of habit, the excitement has died away. This might be the prelude to a pret ty little sermon, n'est ce pas? but they are taboo in society. Instead of intro ducing a sermon, this may explain the social situation at present. When war was declared everyone rushed so frantically to do "her bit" in some wartime work that there was a com plete slump in social activity. Now matters have readjusted themselves until within the laft week we have had really varied and interesting, if not lavish, entertainments. The delightful Equal Franchise Bridge party at the Country club, which Mrs. J. M. Metcalf worked so hard to bring to pass, set the pace for the week, just as the successful per formance of the, American ambu lance" film marked its close. There were several informal affairs for vis itors, numerous pretty June brides, parties at some belated theatrical and operatic performances, dinners and showers for brides-to-be, luncheons at the Blackstone and Fontenelle, dinner-dance parties at. the country clubs, affaira for graduating girls and ken sington teas to introduce new resi dents in the city. What more variety could one ask? This has been a pleas ant week. In prospect we have much that is interesting. The benefit affair for the Red Cross scheduled for this week will be Mrs. Myron Leamed's masque, "The Spirrtof Walden Wood," which wiH be performed on the green at Hanscom park Saturday afternoon. If Nebraska wealker behaves itself that will surely prove attractive. We shall ha--e to go a much shorter dis tance than ire did to the bird masque last year and if it does" rain we shall be much nearer shelter. This is almost the anniversary of "Sanctuary," which drew so many, denizens of the town out into the woods. Brownell Hall commencement is another social event on this week's calendar and that with the return of many school folks is one of the cer tain signs of approaching summer. Just at this season, when June brides are serving their first hard bis cuits to long-suffering bridegrooms, along comes the canning school to teacn tiiein now lu make delicious canned and preserved fruit. The trouble is that very "few brides and brides-soon-to-be have registered for the canning schools. Mrs. E. M. Sv- fert, head of the commissariat depart ment ot tne .National .League for Woman's Service, who is boosting the registration for the benefit of her or ganization, deplores the fact each dav. Are all brides this month such splen- am cooks mat tney need never rely on a bit of choice preserves to sweet en the bitter anger of the new hus band?. Anyone might know that Mrs. Howard Baldrige is an expert at pre serving or that Mrs. Byron Clark's canned fruit fairly make one's mouth water, but these are the very mem bers of society who are taking an ac tive interest in the canning school. They will take the preliminary course along with at least twenty other prominent women in order that they may later disseminate their knowledge among the less fortunate. Society will fill the boxes at the Benson track Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week for the harness and running races of the Omaha Driving club. One feels an anticipatory thrill even at this far cry from the celehrated Kentucky derbies, but who knows to what fame Omaha may not reach as a city for races does society do its part? The benefit the Red Cross society will re ceive from the proceeds has helped fill the boxes, some of which were taken by M. C. Peters. T. C. Byrne, J. A. Cavers, E. P. Peck, Otis M. Smith, Everett Buckingham, George Roberts, A. V. Shotwell, Dr. L. A. Dermody, C. E. Reese and Miss Edna Peterson. I IN THE heart of a sylvan fastness, by the blue lakeside of Hanscom park Saturday as the shades of after noon are falling, birds, flowers, fairies and vege tables called into being by "The Spirit of Walden Wood" . will sing and dance and frolic on the green. Fairies will flit about in a lovely dance to sunrise when the flowers awaken and the Spirit of the Wood appears and holds converse with them. Bird calls and trills of unusual beauty will draw one closer to nature, as. indeed the masque intends. ' Mrs. Myron L. Learned, or Mary Poppleton as her friends continue to call her, mistress of "Walden Wood," near Florence, is the author of the nature masque. Mrs. Leamed's nature stories, always printed in The Bee, have in the past deeply impressed her readers by the love and reverence for nature's manifestations as Mrs. Learned visualized them. She wrote these, as she did her delight ful little songs, for the sheer joy of expression. "The Spirit of Walden Wood" Mrs. Learned conceived and with the assistance of friends is presenting for the bene fit of the Red Cross and the Woman's Service League. The story relates how a very modern youth from the city comes to spend his vacation in the wood. , He is un acquainted with the ways of the birds and flowers and spirits which abound there, but holds converse with them. Almost, he succumbs to the charm of sylvan life, but not quite. He decides to go back to the city and invites the little ones of the woods to come with him. Only the tiny vegetables accept and go dancing off to the city. Omahans look forward with interest to this thor oughly Qmaha production for so patriotic a cause. Principals in the cast are here pictured in their respective roles. Harry 0. Palmer is the natty city youth; Harte Jenks, his antithesis, He of the Forest; Joy Higgins, the Spirit of the Wood ; Pleasant Holyoke, queen of the fairies; A. W. Jefferis, the dignified cardinal bird, and Katherine Lowry and Thompson Berry, the Bluebird and the Robin. 'Vegetables, flowers, more fairies and more birds will be represented by groups of little dancers. Henry Cox and his symphony orchestra have arranged special mu sical accompaniments. Scott, the photographer, posed the graceful little dancers included in the vegetables at the head of the page. fa. Jtyrott L. learned nmtMimt-sjfrfeia vw Summer Calls to Lake, Mountain and Shore Mrs. John A. Kulin and Miss Marion Kuhn expect to go to Estes Park in July. Mrs. Arthur Keeline left Thursday to join Mr. Keeline on his ranch at Gillette, Wyo. Miss Eunice Pritchard of the Brownell Hall faculty will spend the surrtmer in California. Miss Frances Wessells leaves Mon day for St. Louis to visit her brother and his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Charles How, and from there will go to Great Barrington, Mass., to visit Mrs. Charles H. Brown, who has a house there for the summer. Miss Wessells may also go to Litchfield, Conn., to visit relatives beforereturning home. Mrs. Arthur C. Smith and daugh ters, Grace and Esther, left Wednes day for Cohassct, Mass., whe"re they have a cottage for the summer, and where they will be joined by Miss Harriet and Miss Helen Smith ,who have been in Boston. Mr. Smith and his sons will be on a ranch at i'arkman, Wyo., most of the summer. Mrs. Harold Pritchett goes to Lake Minnetonka Thursday to open the cottage she has taken there for the summer 'and will be joined later by Miss Davis. Miss Meliora Davis, Miss Betty Bruce and Miss Daphne Peters. Miss Davis and her sister leave Friday for Minneapolis to visit Miss Dwinnell until after the latter's marriage June 23 to Oscar Weston, and then they will be with Mrs. Pritchett. Some members of the Okoboji col ony will go back this summer. The D. C. Pattersons plan to leave about the first of July for their cottage. Mr. and Mrs. C H. Walrath will leave in about three weeks if the weather is good. The Harlcy Moorhcads do not expect to iro.this summer Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Henske are not yet certain that they will occupy their cottage at Okoboji this sum mer. Their plans are dependent upon whether or not the doctor is ordered into active service. Mile. Marie Louise Andre leaves Monday for Japan for the summer. She will not return to Omaha next winter, as she. plans to remain in Cali fornia upon her return from Japan. Miss Frances Nash, accompanied by her niece. Miss Fredericlfa Nal, daughter of Mrs. Ella yagee, ar rived Wednesday from the east to spend a few weeks with Mrs. E. W. Nash. Miss Nash expects to go back to her summer home at Heath, Mass., and Miss Fredericka Nash will re turn east with her cousins, Miss Vir ginia and Benny Cotton, who are going to spend the summer with their grandmother, Mrs. Herman Kountzc, at spring Lake, ,. J. Mrs. Magec leaves Monday for New York after three weeks' visit here. Residence Changes. Mrs. Henry Meyer has given tip her house and is at the Colonial unlil she leaves shortly to visit her daugh ter, Mrs. Flockhart, in Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Henry K. Wynian have not opened their home since their return from California six weeks ago, but are at the Blackstone tem porarily. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd M. Smith have taken a house on Sixty-second ave nue, just on the edge of Benson, for the summer and expect to go 9Ut about July 1. j Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Richardson have moved to their new home in Dundee at 5215 Webster street. Their former home on Fifty-first street will soon be occupied by Mr. John R. Ringwalt and family. Miss Kate McHugh has sold lier home on Dodge street to A. K. Stone, but will continue to occupy it proba bly through the summer. Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Moorhcad and Miss Katherine Moorhcad, who have ben in San Diego, Cal., since the first oflastOctoler, rerxpectcrl back (Continued oil rage Two, Column One.) , School Set Flits Home for Respite Miss Hazel Updike will return from Miss Bennett's school at Millbrook, N. Y., Wednesday. Miss Ema Kced arrived home Wednesday from Vassar, where she has completed her third year. Mips Naomi Towle left Saturday for the east to attend a class re union at Bradford academy and to visit friends for about three weeks. Mrs. George H. Palmer and daugh ter, Jean, who went east two weeks ago, are now at JafTrey, N. H., at the Shaltuck Inn. Jaffrey is not far from Concord, where Mrs. Palmer's son, Morse, is at school at St. Paul's. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Walters and daughter, Harriet, left. Friday for Hanover, N. H., to attend the com mencement exercises at Dartmouth, from which medical school Waltman Walters will graduate June 20. Miss Dorothy Dahlman and Miss Florence Rahm will return the last of the week from, school, at Monti cello seminary. Mrs. James C. Dahl man and Mrs. J. B. Rahm attended their graduating exercises and have returned to Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jordan and son, Jack, are going to Faribault, Minn., for the graduation of their son, Channing, from the Shattuck Military academy Tuesday and Wednesday. If the weather permits Mrs. Jordan, with Mrs. Westbrook and Edwin Swobe and Jack Jordan, will motor to Fari bault, starting this morning, and they may return by way of the Fort Snell ing camp. Social Calendar Monday Reception for Brownell Hall seniors. Ileuck-Parker wedding. Martin-Killy wedding. Dancing party at Hanscom park fiavilion for Miss Margaret 'arks, Mrs. John Cunningham, hostess. Luncheon for Miss Annette Davis and Miss Marguerite Motter of St. Joseph, Miss Helen Stenger, hostess, ' Tuesday Dinner-dances at Happy Hollow and Seymour Lake Country clubs. Bridge for Miss Betty Holman, Mrs. Roger P. Holman, hostess. Luncheon for Miss Margaret Parks, Mrs. Roy B. Condon, hostess. Evening reception at Blackstone for Mr. and Mrs. Morris Wolo witz, given by , Mr. and , Mrs. Boris Pred. at Country club, given by Captain and Mrs. James McKin ley. Dinner at Country club, given by Mr. and Mrs. C. C. George. Wightman-Cahill wedding. Luncheon for W. W. club, Mrs. J. J. Hess, hostess. Luncheon at Happy Hollow club, Mrs. W. M. Jeffers, hostess. Dinner-dances at Field and Coun try clubs. Tea for Mrs. Sidney Smith of Hartford, Conn., and Miss Bertha Dale. Miss Marjorie Howland, hostess. Dinner at Country club for Mrs. F. S. Cowgill of Chicago, given by Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Meyer. Thursday Harrower-O'Brien wedding. Prettiest Mile women golfers' play. Lowcnthal-Kopald wedding, fol lowed by dinner at Blackstone. Pre-nuptial showers for Miss Mar. garet Parks, Mrs. S. I. Parks, hostess. for Miss Margaret Parks, Mrs. Edward Anderson, hostess. Dinner-dance at Seymour Lake Country club. Luncheon for, Miss Martha Dale, Mrs. Windsor Mcgeath, hosteis. club picnic, Mrs. J. A. Sunderland, hostess. Red Cross benefit, nature masque, in Hanscom park, 4 p. m. Dinner dances at Country, Field, Happy Hollow and Carter Lake clubs. Dinner for Mrs. F. S. Cowgill, given by Mr. and Mis. Herbert Wheeler. .-.