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PART TWO
SOCIETY
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PART TWO
AMUSEMENTS
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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 12, 1917.
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News of the Week in Social Circles : Activities in Woman's Realm
VOL. ALV1I NO. 9.
Society Enjoys Cool Days While
Excitement Over
DON'T you suppose that the poor
Omaha people who are swel
tering on the seashore wish that
they had srent The last week
here? They left us in search of cool
hreczes. which, truth to tell, they sad
ly needed a short time ago. Now,
while we shiver at night and morning,
with only a brief thawing-olit time
at noon-dav, they are having the sad
dest warm season of their lives.
When the very warm weather came
week before last you couldn't have
counted the tourists who scurried out
of town, but now travelers are less
outgoing, more incoming town, and
motor trips arc far from' being so
popular as they . ere. Those who are
away show no disposition to return
lor at least another moon. Then it
will be time for young people to re
turn to school and Ak-Sar-Ben to
come again. Society will all be back
in town for the short season before
it is time for winter tours. Fewer
of these than usual will be planned
this year because of war conditions
and the need for war relief work.
In connection with preparations for
war, the conclusion of the training
camps at Fort Snelling and elsewhere
has a highly interesting significance
for some Omaha society people. Many
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Summer Haunts Attract Vacation
!k Seekers of the Declining Season
!.' i UGUST witnesses the exodus of
o'- the last group of summer
Npleasure seeker before cool
er Septemhercstroys the inclination
to seek otherliaimts. Mountain, lake
- and seaside- resorts share in popular
ity with the late vacationists.
Mrs. E. M. Fairfield left Tuescfay
for Sheridan, Wyo., to visit Mr. and
Mrs. Slierinaii Canfield. Mr. Fairfield
has gone to spend the week-end with
his two daughters, Miss Betty"and
Miss Wynne Fairfield, at Old Camp
Meemahga) Fish Creek, Wis.
Mr; and Mrs. George E. Barker,
Mr. and Mrs. George Barker, jr..
and Mr. 'and Mrs. Frank T. B. Mar
tin and children are at Elkhorn
Lodge is Estes Park. Mr. Martin,
Mr. Barker and George Barker, jr.,
motored to the park, leaving here
Wednesday of last week and reach
ing Elkhorn Lodge Friday.
Miss Margaret Bruce leaves next
' Tuesday for Elkhorn Lodge, in Estes
Park, accompanied by Miss Clara and
Miss Margharitc Schneider of Fre
mont. They will remain at the lodge
through August.
Mr. Floyd M. Smith and son, Floyd,
ir leave 'Wednesday for a month's
"hunting and fishing trip in Wyoming.
Mr. Adolplf Storz has gone to
Glenwood Springs to join his family,
which is spending the summer there.
The Misses Margaret and Madeline
Mulvihill leave this evening for an ex
tended visit with their sister. Mrs.
Thomas S. Piper, who has taken a
cottage at Oce-m City, N. J. They
rill visit in Nqv York and Phila
delphia before returning home.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Metz. Miss
Gertrude Metz, Mrs. Anna Peycke
and daughters arc at the Metz ranch
npai- CnAv fis Hplrn Eastman troes
to the Metz ranch Tuesday to spend I
a week with Miss Gertrude Metz.
Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Updike- left Fri
day for Lake Superior. Mrs. Up
dike and Miss Hazel Updike, with
Mrs. W. J. Hayncs and son, William,
jr., returned a week ago from a trip
through the Yellowstone.
Mrs. Newell Jones and little
daughter, Frances, have gone to Cali
fornia for two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Griffith. Mrs.
James "A. Griffith and Miss Vivian
Griffith left Saturday for Mackinac
island, where they expect to remain
two months.
, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Rogers and
children have gone to Teal Lake,
Wis., for a month.
Mrs. W. K. McKecn and Mrs. M.
V. Morse leave today for Boston, the
latter to join her daughters, Mrs.
Palmer and Miss Morse, whp have
been at Dennis, Mass.. all summer.
Mrs. McKeen may g to West Har
wich, Mass., and Mr. McKeen will go
fast to join her later.
Mrs. James McKinley and children
, leave today for Black Mountain, N.
C for the remainder of the summer.
Major McKinley, whose fecent pro
motions takes him te the Eleventh
, cavalry, which is at Fort Oglcthrope,
ria., is awaiting order- to go. Major
ilcKinley have been here
Army Plans Reign
of the newly commissioned officers
will be at home on furloughs before,
as it is now supposed, they go to
southern camps for a month or two
of experience ptior to being sent
abroad. Since women in other cities
are planning to tcte these furloughed
officers, it is only reasonable to sup
pose that Omaha mothers and friends
will do likewise.
At least one of these young officers
comes home on his furlough with a
deliberate intention to take unto him
self a wife. The young woman has
made some changes in her summer
plans in order to make the meeting
possible. It may be that they are
planning to spring a surprise on their
friends, but all reports of an early
wedding are denied.
Considerable stir U manifested at
l ome'at the thought of our own little
army being transferred from the Audi
torium and Fort Crook to New Mex
ico in a few days. Everyone who has
any claim of friendship on a member
of the regiments stationed here thinks
to herself, I must give my friend some
token of my esteem to wish him well
before he leaves. Such pies and such
eatables as have been prepared for the
soldiers ! Surely they will realize that
the feeling of Omaha people for them
takes a substantial form.
about eight months and in that time
have made a host of friends.
Miss Mary Munchhoff,. who has
been visiting Miss Frances Nash at
Heath, Mass., is now with Mrs. Arthur-
C. Smith at Cohasset.
Mrs. Robert C. Druesedow and
children are in Chicago for a little
vacation on the lake. They have
taken an apartment on the north
side along the lake front.
Casper Offutt was in town several
days last week from Christmas Lake,
but-returned there Wednesday eve
ning. . Miss. Helen Loftman left Wednes
day for Chicago where she will visit
for two weeks before going to Lake
Geneva, Wis., as a delegate from the
Young Women's Christian association
of the state university to the national
conference, August 21. She will return
to Omaha after September 1.
Godard-Morey Wedding.
The marriage of Miss Helen Morey.
to Mr. V alentinc Godard was pert
formed Saturday at high noon by the
Rev. Titus Lowe at the home of the
bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T.'
Morey. Only the immediate family
were present at the service and at
the wedding breakfast which follow
ed. The bride wore a simple white
dress and her going-away suit was
green. With it she wore a white
satin hat.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Godard of To
peka. the bridegroom's parents, were
present at the ceremony. Mr. God
ard and his bride left immediately
after the wedding breakfast for To
peka. From there they' will go to
Galveston. Tex., and take boat there
for Florida. They will make their
home in Miami, Fla.
Oberlin College Romance.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Lincoln Patrick
announce the engagement of their
daughter, Eleanor, and Mr. Edwin
Ells of Tecoma, Wash., the wedding
to take place early in September.
Both young people are Oberlin
graduates of the class of 1915 and
both arc members of Phi Beta Kappa.
At the Country Club.
Mr. and. Mrs. George B. Prinz en
tertained at dinner at the Country
club' Saturday ni?ht for Mrs. Fred
erick Grant and Miss Grant, who are
staying at the Blackstone. Two Fort
Omaha- men, Mr. Allan McFarland
and Mr. Reed were also. members of
the party which included Mr. and
Mrs. L. F. Crnfoot, Mrs. Luther
Kountze and Mr. C. W. Hull.
Late reservations at the Country
club were made by Mr. J. E. Rich
ardson, Mr. W. A. Gilbert, Miss Grace
Allison, Judge W. A. Redick, Mr. E.
A. Bryan and Mr. E. W. Hart.
At Seymour Lake Country Club.
A number of private parties were
entertained at the card party Saturday
evening, both men and women partici
pating. Auction and whist were
played and a number of handsome
prizes won.
Howard Douglas entertained at a
dancing party Friday, having with him
Misses Marjoric Guild and Grace
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Photographic Art Exhibit
Local interest is being aroused in behalf of an art exhibit such as Omaha
has yet to see first an exhibit of photographic art. Paintings and works of
sculpture, from the brush or chiseled by world-famed artists or those in our
own midst, have been shown with increased frequency in the last few years,
but a display of really artistic camera art not cinematograph there has not
been.
There is a quiet movement on the part of those interested to include an
exhibit of beautiful photographs at the next showing of the Omaha Art Gild,
if it can be arranged.
Should these plans mature, one of the first photographs to be hung would
undoubtedly be the remarkably beautiful photograph of Mrs. 0. S. Goodrich,
a most attractive matron of the younger set, which The Bee shows on this
page. This likeness of Mrs. Goodrich, enlarged and done in water color, is
the work of, Shaji Osato, Omaha's Japanese photographer.
' Another handsome photograph, by the same artist is one of Mrs. Luther
L. Kountze in Japanese costume, taken in her Japanese garden This pho
tograph, too, would be a beautiful addition to the proposed photographic art
collection.
Social Calendar
Monday
Society night at
the Blackstone
roof gardens.
Tea for Mrs. James Reed of Cleve
land, Mrs. Doane Powell, host
ess. Tuesday
Luncheon for guests of Mrs. Karl
F. Adams; Mrs. R. M. Jones,
hostess.
Weekly bridge tournament at
Field club.
Dinner and matinee dances at
Happy Hollow club.
Women's luncheon and dinner
dance at Carter Lake club.
Luncheon for Miss Lillian Dick
man, Mrs. Gottlieb Storz,
hostess, at Field club.
Dinner for Mrs. James Reed of
Cleveland, Mrs. Thilip Horan,
hostess.
Wednesday
Dinner-dances at Country and
Field clubs.
Cottagers' dinner at Carter Iike
club.
luncheons at Field, Hap
py Hollow and Seymour Lake
Country clubs.
Bridge tournament at Happy Hol
low club.
Friday
Matinee dance at Field club.
Dinner-dances at Seymour Lake
Coujitry club and Council Bluffs
Rowing association.
Cottagers' Bowling club at Carter
Lake club.
Evening affair for Miss
Hopkins, Miss Florence
hostess.
Saturday
Dinner-dances at Country,
Betty
Long.
Field
Happy Hollow and Carter Lake
Country clubs.
Yardley, of Chicago, and R. R. Bene
dict. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Moore, of Kan
sas City, were dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. E. E. Litz Friday evening.
Another party was composed of
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Roth, Mr. and Mrs.
Brance Curtis, and L. A. Mctzel. of
Butte, Mont.
Dr. M. L. Kh.g entertained at a
dancing party Friday evening, when
his guests included the Misses L.
Hunter, V. Williams, M. King,- and
the Messrs. Ralph King, Leo Lowry
and Harry Roberts.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles I. Yollmer
had Mrs. Lehmcr as their house guest
last week.
At Happy Hollow Club.
Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Tyson enter-
! tained at cinncr at Happy Hollow
(Continued on Fe Two, Column One.)
Scan Roll of the Charming Debutante
Season for Possible Queen of Ak -
w
AR, with its deprivations, has
not yet robbed us of one htkge
pleasure the annual Ak-Sar-
JBen festival. A military parade and
a patriotic electrical pageant, with
prehaps special exhibitions at the bal
loon school, make the prospect of this
year's carnival and week of celebra
tion unsually attractive.
The masquerade ball, which proved
such a source of mirth last year, is to
be repeated this year on Saturday,
October 6. On the evening preced
ing it will be the great coronation
ball for the knights and ladies of
Ak-Sar-Ben. Speculation is rife in re
gard to the nature of the queen's cos
tume and the garb of her attendants.
Will she carry out the war-time
scheme of conservation and patriot
ism by foregoing an elaborate gown
and appearing in patriotic robe?
Who that queen is to be is the an
nual riddle which perplexes society.
Each year it seems that the riddle is
harder to solve, but surely no season
has it been harder than this. The
sfnall group of dclnitantes for the last
winter has left such a list of eligible
debutante queens as you could hardly
believe possible. Girls in the cast have
been introduced from time to time
this summer at large summer dancing
parties and receptions, but in Omaha
not a single summer debufantc has
come out. This leaves the field open
tor an tne attractive young misses
who have finished school and are
ready to begin their social careers.
Miss Elizabeth Reed, Miss Emilv
Keller, Miss Margarctha Grimmtl,
Miss Grace Allison and Miss Ruth
Kinsler did not choose to make thei.
formal debuts this year, although
home from school. They head the list
of possible debutantes and queens.
Miss Helen Eastman and Miss
Naomi Towle are girls whose am
bitions to do worth-while things con
tinually deprive us of two popular
buds. The former has spent the last
Jtwo winters in Chicago at the Art
institute and the latter elected to re
turn to Mrs. Hartman's school after
the holidays last year, for further
work in languages. Both of these
girls will be in the prospective queen
list if they decide to play in society
for a while this winter.
Among the girjs who, having fin
ished school, will be home this sea
son and are entitled to make their
debuts are Miss Virginia Offutt and
Miss Esther Wilhelin, graduates of
Miss Spencc's school in New York.
Both are only daughters, but Miss
Offutt has two brothers, both of whom
have been accepted by Uncle Sam for
)
service, one in the aviation and the
other in the diplomatic corps. Mijs
Florence Neville comes home today
from a delightful summer in the east
after finishing at the Coats-Weaver
school in New York and will be at
home this winter. She has also had
two years at Agontz, near Philadel
phia. Miss Hazel Updike, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Updike, re
lumed in June from the Bennett
school at Millbrook, N. Y., and Miss
Elsie Storz from Miss Finch's in New
York, both through with school.
Miss Gertrude Stout and Miss
Mildred . Todd 'went to school in
Mid-Summer Guests Inspiration
For Many Social Festivities
Mrs. Walter KIopp and little daugh
ter, who have been visiting the for
mer's parents, Mr. add Mrs. Charles
Burke, have returned th Kansas City,
accompanied by Mrs. Burke.
Mrs. Donlan of New Haven, Conn.,
is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John
Buckley enroute to Redlands to meet
her son, Harold. They expect to re
turn for Ak-Sar-Ben festivities and to
renew acquaintances with old friends.
Mrs. Leonard Spalding and daugh
ter. Miss Nan Spalding, and two sons
arrived Wednesday from Louisville,
Ky., where they have been visiting,
and are at the Colonial for several
weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Spalding and
their family left Omaha several
months ago to make Baltimore their
home.
Mrs. Jeremiah Van Rensselaer is
spending a few- weeks in Washington,
D. C, visiting her son, Captain F. R.
Van Rensselaer and his wife's par
ents, Colonel and Herbert M. Lord,
at Chevy Chase.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald McFcrren of
Hoopeston, 111., are visiting her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Stew
art, in Council Bluffs.
Miss Ruth Hays of Elgin, Nebi, is
the guest of Miss Ethel Bynura. Many
social functions have been planned in
her honor.
Miss Elizabeth Shilley, for many
years a public school teacher of this
city, but" now of Los Angeles, is visit
ing Mrs. J. K. Hazzard, 150.1 Ohio
street. Miss Shilley will receive old
friends at the Hazzard residence.
Mrs. Robert Foreran relumed to
Chicago Saturday after several weeks'
visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
1. E. Coiigdon.
Mrs. G. H. Bicknell and daughter,
iiclcn, are the guests of Mrs, G. V.
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Set of Winter
Sar - Ben This Year
Washington, the former at Mrs. Som
ers' and the latter at the Bristol
school, after graduating from Brown
ell Hall. They plan to remain at
home this year.
Miss Gertrude Porter completed
her course at The Castle, Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson,
in June and will
spend her first winter at home. A
Council Bluffs girl. Miss Clara Hart,
may be considered as an Omaha debu
tant since she has as many friends
on 'this side of the river as on the
other and is a Country club member.
She graduated from Dana Hall in
June.
Noble, enroute from Boulder to Kan
kakee. Mrs. Arthur Remington leaves to
day to visit her cousin, Mrs. Perkins,
in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Social Gossip.
Mrs. G. A. Whiting, formerly Miss
Elizabeth Sweet of this 'city, is at
Fort Snelling, where her husband,
Captain Whiting, is one of the in
structors at Ihe camp of regulars
which is in training there beside the
reserve officers camp.
Mr. ana Airs. v.. i. I alvin Have
taken one of the apartments at the
new St. Regis on Thirty-seventh
street, which will be completed this
autumn.
John L. Kennedy has gone to Min
neapolis to join his wife and children,
who have been at the Hotel Radis
son. Mr. Thomas Wakcley returned Sun
day from Chicago, where he has been
employed this summer, lie had his
tonsils removed Monday and is recov
ering rapidly at the l.larkstbne.
E. H. Callanan left Thursday for
Toledo, to be gone two weeks.
Will Burns has returned from a
western business trip.
Mr. W. E. Chambers leaves
Wednesday for New York, where he
is on the-program for instruction at
the meetings of two dancing Associa
tions, "The Inner Circle," which will
be held at the Hotel McAlpin and the
"American National," at the Hotel
As tot". He will remain in the east
until September 10.
Stork Special.
A son and a daughter were born
to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kocher, Tues
day, at the Stewart hospital.
Trail Leads Home
For the Travelers
Mr, and Mrs. Dan W. Gaines havfl
returned from a month's trip through
the east, going via the Great Lakes
to Detroit, spending considerable
time in New York and returning via
Virginia and Kentucky. Miss Euthe- ,
mia Tallman of Brooklyn, cousin of
Mrs. Gaines, has returned with them
and probably will spend the winter
as their guest. , ' '
Mr. Arthur C. Smith is enrtA
back this week from Wyoming, where,
he has been on a ranch with his sous,
Huntington and Arthur, jr.
Miss Elizabeth Davis and Miss
Betty Bruce are expected home from
Miiinetonka Monday morning. Mrs.
Harold Pritchctt, whom they have
been visiting, will give up her cottage
at the lake next iweek probably, de
pending upon Mr. Pritchctt's ordent
at the close of the Snelling camp.
Miss Florence Neville; who ha
been visiting school friends in Pitts
burgh and for past three weeks at the
Muskota lakes, Canada, will be home
today. Her brother, Mr. Eugene Ne
ville, leaves Wednesday for New
Haven, where he will be a freshman
in Yale this year.
Mr. and Mrs. Miles Grecnleaf havt
returned from a two weeks' trip tc
the Pacific coast.
Miss Mary Louise La tenser re
turned Friday from New York, where
she has been studying at Columbia
university for the last year. She was
accompanied from New York by Mrs.
Alfred J. Morgan, who will be a guest
of Mr. and Mrs. John Latenser for
several weeks.
Mr. Joseph Barker 2d has returned
from Montreal, Canada, where his
wife and child arc vsiting until Sep
tember. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Kelly and
Mr. and Mrs. Jay D. Foster returned
this week from a month in the east,
where they motored from Boston to
New York and Atlantic City. '
"C. C. George returned last week
from his fishing trip in Minnesota.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kennedy are
occupying the old Kennedy home
at 2224 Dodpe street, having taken it
tor a year. Mrs. W. W. Grigor, for
merly Miss Winifred Kennedy, has
been the occupant for two or three
years past, but is now at Minnetonka
and expects to spend her winters
south.
Rev. Lloyd Holsapple and Mrs.
Holsapple are expected home this
week.
L. F. Crofoot and his daughter, Vir
ginia, and sons, Lodovic and David,
returned Wednesday from a week in,
Dubuque with Mr. and Mrs.' George
Myers.
Miss Adele Cullen has returned
from a three months' visit in Chicago
and Detroit. ,
Motoring Trips. - '
Harkness Kountze, acconipanied by
Donald Hall, motored to Prior Lake
last week in his car and expects to
return about Wednesday.
Robert Connell returned Sunday
from a motor trip to Portland, Ore.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Stewart. 2d. and
children motored to Prior Lake last
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