THE BEE: OMAHA. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 1917.
By MELLIFICIANov. 5.
H. C. L. Yacht Rental $10,000.
You have heard of the advanced
price of clothes, of foodstuffs, of house
rent, of postage, in fact everything
(except carfare, but, I beg of you,
don't mention that, or they will
charge us a dime), "on account of the
war."
These you hear of every day but
have you noted the fabulous sum they
are asking for the rental of a yacht?
A well-known Omaha man who
wished to take his family for a three
months' pleasure cruise in southern
waters inquired what the rental of a
private yacht for that time would be.
And the answer? Ten thousand dol
lars for three months 1
When you go to a movie the next
time and they charge you 11 cents in
stead of a dime, or if you have a let
ter returned to you because you ne
glected to put 3 cents on it, be con
soled, for verily, it might be worse!
.War Time Weddings.
A typical war time wedding was
that of Miss Alice Cudahy, former
Omaha girl, and Captain Leander J.
;McCormick Saturday afternoon at the
Edward A. Cudahy home in Chicago.
"The bride, a tall beautv with au
burn hair and dark eyes, was in a white
satin gown made with a train falling
from the waist line and a bodice of
rare lace. Over her face and down
the folds of her train fell a veil of
tulle. She carried a boquet of lilies of
the valley and swansonia," wrote a
Chicago society editor.
Mrs. Vaughan Spaulding was her
sister's matron of honor and wore a
gown of orchid satin and a purple
velvet hat. The bridesmaids, Miss
Isabelle Robbins and Miss Gladys
High, were in gray satin gowns and
wore purple velvet hats and carried
lavendar orchids.
Captain McCormick, who came
from Rockford early in the day, was
attended by his brother, Allister Mc
Cormick, as best man, and by Lieu
tenant David R. Forgan, jr., and Cap
tain Edward A. Cudahy, jr., brother
of the bride, as ushers.
The ceremony was performed by
Monsignor Fitzsimmons of the Holy
Name cathedral.
A large reception was held after the
ceremony, which was attended by
many of the young officers now sta
tioned at Rockford, where Captain
McCormick is on duty, and by most
of the members of the Junior league
now in the city. The guests at the re
ception also included many of the
youi:g bridal couples who have al
ready taken up their residences in
the officers' colony at Rockford, in
the midst of which Captain and Mrs.
McCormick have taken a house on
North Main street.
The couple will not have a honey
moon, as Captain McCormick . re
ported tor duty this morning at the
camp.
For Miss Marr.
Mrs. C. G. Robertson will entertain
at a bridge party at her home this
evening in honor of Miss Mildred
Marr of Kansas City. Yellow chrys
anthemums will be used in the rooms.
The guests will be:
Messrs. and Mesdamea
Joseph Barker, 2d; L. B. Pullar,
John K.. Morrison, Charles Hendrikion,
Stirling Freeman,
Lieutenant Paul Beatoa.
lira. Pearl Waa.
Mrs. Robertson will entertain at a
bridge luncheon for Miss Marr Tues
day at her home and Saturday even
ing Miss Marr will be honor guest
at a dinner given by Mr. and Mrs.
Charles W. Martin at the Prettiest
Mile club.
Betrothal Announced.
Mrs. M. J. Cain announces the en
gagement of her daughter, Myrtle, to
Mr. 2arl Irgby of this city. The wed
ding will take place in San Antonio
December 1.
Mr. Irgby, who has enlisted in the
navy, will enter a training camp on
the coast soon after the wedding and
his bride will make her home with
Mr. Igby's parents at Sacramento,
Cal. f
The Judsons Entertain.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Judson will en
tertain at dinner at their home this
evening followed by a box party at
the Orpheum. The guests will be:
Messrs and Mesdames
Charles T. Kountze, Joseph Barker.
A. L. Reed,
Roll of Honor.
A roll of honor on which are in
scribed the names of. all the mem
bers of the University club who are
now in the service has been hung in
the lobby of the club. The tablet was
designed by an Omaha man.
Dinner for Bridal Couple.
Miss Carita O'Brien will entertain
at an informal dinner this evening in
honor of Miss Ruth Slabaugh and Mr.
George Engler, whose marriage will
take place November 26. Yellow
chrysanthemums will be used as a
centerpiece for the table and covers
will be laid for six guests.
OMAHA GIRL TO WED IN
BUFFALO THURSDAY
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HANMA TOPALD
Miss Hanna Kopald, the lovely
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Ko
pald, of this city, will be marrjed in
Buffalo Thursday evening to Mr.
Richard W. Desbecker, at the home of
whose parents Miss Kopald has been
visiting since the summer.
Rabbi Louis J. Kopald of Temple
Beth Zion, her brother, will perform
the wedding ceremony in his temple.
Mrs. Kopal, the bride's mother, who
has also been visiting in Buffalo for
several months, and a sister, Mrs.
Walter Lowenthal, formerly Miss
Gertrude Kopald, will witness the
marriage. , ' .
The young people will make their
home in Buffalo.
Wemam's Chubs
Mrs. A. I. Root was hostess for
the Monday Bridge club at her home
today. A number of the members
spent the time at the meeting with
their knitting instead of playing.
The Mothers' club of Train school
will hold its first social meeting at
the home of an honorary member,
Mrs. C. V. Warfield, 4320 Miami
street, Friday afternoon. Members
will meet at Train school at 1 o'clock
and go to Mrs. Warfield's house together.
Chapter B X of P. E. O. Sister
hood, the Dundee chapter, will meet
Tuesday at 3 o'clock at the home of
Mrs. Opal Rohrbaugh, 820 North
Fiftieth avenue. Completion of or
ganization detail is the business of the
meeting.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Jewish Ladies' Relief society will
be held Tuesday at 2:30 o'clock in the
Lyric building.
The Young Men and Young Wom
en's Hebrew associations' dancing
class has its initial meeting tonight at
8 o'clock. Miss Marie Morledge, as
sistant to Prof. Chambers, will be the
instructor. The dancing class will
meet each week in the clubrooms in
the Paxton building.
The Columbian club of the Sacred
Heart Parish will give a card party
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
at Lyceum hall. The hostesses will
be Mrs. W. D. Riley and Mrs. J. B.
Thompson.
The Ave Maria club of the Holy
Family parish will give a card party
and dance on Wednesday evening at
their hall, Eighteenth and Izard
streets.
Mrs. Charles S. Elgutter was host
ess for the afternoon bridge given at
her home by Temple Israel Sister
hood this afternoon. About 50 guests
were present.
PERSONALS
Mrs. A. J. Flannigan has just re
turned from Camp Funston where she
spent several days with her son, Ser
geant Cyril Flannigan."
Miss Mildred Marr of Kansas City
will bejhe guest of Mrs. Charles
Hendrickson, her sister, for the re
mainder of her stay.
Mrs. H. C. Booker of Gothenburg,
Neb., is spending a few days in
Omaha.
Miss Marjorie Howland returned
Saturday morning from an extended
trip in the east. Miss Howland was
bridesmaid at .the wedding of Miss
Mildred Bowser of Fort Wayne, Ind.,
then went to Hartford Conn., where
she was the guest of Mrs. Sydney
Smith, formerly Miss Dorothy Dale of
this city. Miss Howland was joined
in New York by her mother, Mrs. E.
U Hmvland. and they spent three
weeks at Atlantic City.
Mr. M. E. Griffin of Spencer, la., is
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin
Tohnson
Mrs. J. W. Robbins. local Campfirc
sponsor, had the i-llowing Campfire
girls assisting in the food pledge cam
paign work in Omaha stores Satur
day: at Kilpatrick's, Gertrude Koenig,
Alice Kleffner, Madeline McElligott;
Thompson, Belden & Co., PaulT.e
Richey, Margaret Eastman, Dorothy
Haas; Burgess-Nash company, Edith
Willowbrands, Virginia White, Wini
fred Lathrop, Jean Kennedy; Bran
dies & Sons, Herberta Barker, Florice
Shaw, Ruth Hatteroth, Betty Fair
field; Hayden Bros, company, Lillian
Head, Eleanor Potter, Elva Krogh,
Inez Moots; Drexel Shoe company,
Ilda Langdoit. Tors. Hockenburger,
Ruth Miller, Mildred White; Mc
Crory's, Ruth Waterman, Katherine
Goss, Evelyn Stallard; Edith Wier;
Woolworth's, Beatrice White'aw,
Doris Brown, Dorothy Davis, Vir
ginia Davis: Benson Thome com
pany, Erbyl Eddy, Helen Brown,
Xerfa Smith, Bernice Etmeycr;
Courtney & Co., Dorotha Pond,
Charlotte Michelson, Dofothy Arter,
Eleanor Kurtz; Fry, Ruth Armstrong,
Eva Granger, Jean Field, Marthena
Peacock; Y. W. C. A., Dorothy Guck
ert, Ruth Carpenter; South Side
Cressey's Shoe store, Susan Walsh,
Helen Benson, Evelyn Grim; Vocak
Department, Alois Burka, Marie OU
son; John Flynn Department, Rctta
Korbmaker, Marguerita Price; Phil
lip's Department, Fanny Dubnoff,
Gretchen Moore, Rose McKenney,
Rose Kushack.
When Milady Goes Shopping
She bought a bathing suit in July returned it
in September took it home again and
helped the law of average prove itself :
By ADKLAIHK KENNKKLY.
(TN July she bought a bathing
I suit. In September she re
turned it. The season was
over and, although she had not worn
the garment, it was worthless to us.
as we hadn't a single bathing suit on
display."
This from an Omaha merchant
whose 35 years of experience has ac
quainted him with human nature and
he says woman nature-and has taught
him diplomatic methods.
"I hardly knew how to approach
this woman," he continued, "but 1 felt
that she should not expect us to stand
such a loss. Her smile was a
frank one and her expression honest.
Besides, I knew the woman to be con
sidered fair, but I couldn't under
stand why she had kept the bathing
suit all that time when she did not
intend to buy it.
"And I suppose," I chimed in, "that
she would have been highly offended
had you suggested that she take the
suit right back home with her. We
all know the typf that unreasonable
creature who thinks she is cock-of-the-walk
and should be permitted to
do as she pleased, regardless of right
and wrong."
"You don't know her," came his
reply. And there was a saucy little
twinkle in his keen eyes eyes sur
rounded by criss-crossed lines of
smiles and cares.
"When I told her that she had
kept the suit too long she frankly
acknowledged that she had, but said
she had forgot it was in the house.
"Do you really want us to stand
the loss then? I asked of her," he said.
And her reply was so spontaneous
that it gave me fresh courage to go
on fighting the battles that we have
staged for us in the ready-to-wear
business every day. It was this:
"You are entirely right. The blame
is on me. Carelessness just care
lessness, and it is a huge joke for me
to ask you to credit my account."
While she was euphoneously pour
ing out these words, which were balm
to my soul, the bathing suit was be
ing wrapped up. It rode home in her
car and she wasn't mad or anything
like that, because she has sense and
an element of fairness.
The tale of the "fair woman" came
immediately after the tale of a slm-w
who, because a coat did not happen
to suit her after reaching home with
it, threw it in his face in the presence
of two customers.
"If it were not for people like the
"fair woman" we couldn't tolerate the
shrews, but the contrast is so great
that we draw an average."
Who wins out in the end?
Why, the "fair woman," of course,
because she has the good will and
interest of everybody.
She is the woman who knows how
to make her dollars work and learns
her lessons by her own experiences.
Idle Hands Find Little Company
These Knitting, Working Days
A woman tells her personal experi
ence in joining the Red Cross, and
her impressions of it as an organiza
tion in the November issue of Good
Housekeeping as follows:
I presented myself at local head
quarters and joined the Red Cross.
"And now what can I to?" I asked.
"Sit right down here and make four-by-four
compresses," said some one
in a nurse's cap. "This woman will
show you how."
I was hurried into a white apron
and cap the Women's Bureau at
Washington requires them as a detail
of their standardization of workrooms.
There is nothing spectacular, about
making compresses. It is fussy,
rather nervous work and even the de
light of seeing them pile up in a
mound of neat little squares palls after
two hours. But the large room was
filled with women who were doing
this work.
As soon as I had made five, a white
capped girl came to get them. "We
are packing and shipping them as
fast as they are made," she exclaimed.
"We have had a hurry call for them
by cable from France."
"How are they used?" I asked.
"They are the first dressing on a
wound.
I looked down at my small pile of
five, and my eyes suddenly blurred.
Those little white squares brought all
the agony and, heartbreak of this war
very near. I am not a nurse and can
not go to France. But they will go
for me, small symbols, made with my
own hands, of pity for those who lie
with wounded bodies perhaps very far
from home.
The Red Cross is nothing more nor
less than a colossal experiment in
human kindness. Paradoxically
enough, at the same time that we are
plunged into the business of fighting,
there sweep over every one of us
great waves of pity and sympathy for
all suffering and a tremendous desire
to lessen it. But the test of the Red
Cross is whether it works. It docs.
Go to the nearest chapter headquar
ters and say, "I want to do something
to help those who are suffering in t iis
war." You will find yourself at work
in tKi'ce minutes.
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt was recently
approached by a German amusement
company. "What will be your price
for a tour of the principal cities of
Germany," they a keel. "Alsace-Lorraine,"
she returned without hesita
tion. Washington Herald.
Sunday Closing of Grocery
Stores and Markets Urged
Attorney T. W. Blackburn pre
sented to the city commissioners two
ordinances proposing to require clos
ing of groceries and meat markets on
Sunday. A petition bearing 350 sig
natures accompanied the ordinances,
which were referred to the council
committee of the whole meeting next
Monday morning for consideration.
It is proposed to allow those who
conscientiously observe Saturday in
their religion to remain open on Sun
day. Secretary J. J. Cameron of the
grocers and butchers stated that more
than 90 per cent of the grocers and
butchers signed the petition asking for J
parage of a Sunday-closing ordi-1
nar.ee.
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