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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1918)
Bee PAET TWO SOCIETY PAGES ONE TO TEN PART TWO AMUSEMENTS1 PAGES ONE TO TEN UK VOL. XLVIII NO. 32. (Salblby Betayls Fraz n t Fw (Gdl .Our Zero Weather Affects Neither the Speech Nor Hearing Hence This Column- By GABBY DETAYL&. v w HILE John McCprmack was be- inir interviewed at the ronte- nelle Friday, his manager, Charles L. Wagner, told a reporter that John Vii not know how to talk about him self, but that his 11-year-old son would tell everything he knew. "Why don't you bring the child long as your press agent?" asked one of the reporters. "Yeah, fine! And when he become 21 and asked me where he was when he should have been getting his edu-. cation I would have to tell him he was in Omaha acting as father's press gent I should feel proud of myself when he turned on me and said: 'Spent my young life bringin' up father.'" - XIEARD en passant at the McCor J"1 mack concert: "Those seats on the stage must be pretty expensive, for there's Mr. and Mrs. DeForrest Richards up there 1" "Sorry, to have kept "you waiting, dear, but I was helping Dorothy ' Black applaud that last encore." T T STARTED at the Red Crosa sut gical dressings class last week, when one young society girl in dis gust saids'The way some pt these amateurs work with 'gauze juft kills me on the vine." A dainty little Monde friend of hers repeated the remark with a slight ad dition: "The way some of the ama teurs work with gauze just kills me on the vine and drops me off." A third of the season's buds passed it along still further to a captain friend of hers: "The way some of these amateurs work, with gauze just kills me on the vine and drops me ff an4 plants me for spring, crops." Now the Red Cross workers are hoping for a new one for next week, as this remark seems to have reached maturity. ' "MOW these two young matrons frostily- nod their goodmornings. $e believes the other brainless. And why not? She admits being in the light-as-ether class. However, the brainless one doubs her friend's pat riotism, loyalty ahd good judgment It all happened one night when two young couples were reading the war and suffrage, news in one of those cozy apartments where the 20-below-rero weather remains outside. , "I think all the women in Washing ton ought to be shot," declared the guest. "They are crazy and un patriotic. During this war time they ought to forget prohibition and suffrage." j What has prohibition and woman s suffrage got to do with the war?" in dignantly queried the hostess. "Haven't you and I a right to say how the boys shall be taken care of? Haven't we a right to help make the laws under which we live?" "Women haven t the brains that men have," chirped the guest "Do you mean to tell me that you haven't as much sense as your hus band 1" from the hostess. "No, I' have not. I never saw a woman who was as smart as a man." "And now the hostess believes that her guest is at least a truthful woman and knows her limitations. Hence the frosty good mornings in the West side apartment from two charming young matrons who have been devot ing their leisure hours to war work. T)IQGENES1 Dipgenesl Where art thou? We have found an honest man and are prepared to prove it Colonel T. W. McCullough openly, honestly admits that he was "trimmed" in a game. TVfc RS. EDWARDPORTER PECK is panicky. She says that the white elephant sale is the only thing on earth that could keep her going under the strain. Everyone she meets has a piece of china or an art treas ure to give her. After their "good morning, Mrs. Peck," the conversa tion shifts to some "white elephant" reposing in their library or a clock Aunt Jane gave. Mrs. Peck thinks that after the sale she will be able to talk "big jobs" to the leading cit izens of Omaha. THE Red Cross Nebraska chapter A almost lost its assistant state di rector. Leonard L. Trcster. last week. He was nearly rro.en to death out in Franklin county. Leonard went out on a 200-mile speaking tour, but he thought he was going to make it by train. When he arrived at the county seat he was Ones "M t , -O-i I If 'vV ' lJ J I o - ', - . jTt V'--. iiViW ' - T ' ' y . , CX. I l dp . I as ; 4 unarming i oung Matron One of Omaha's loveliest ma trons is Mrs. T. Swobe. Mrs. Swobe is of the pronounced blonde tvrc of beautv and never fails to excite admiration wherever she is seen. Many a soldier boy's heart was made T glad at Christmas through the f efforts of this young matron as X f she labored arduously Ming - T Christmas packets for our fight- V j ing men. X raet by the reception- committee and an open Ford. The temperature was only 22 be low. One of the committee took pity on the shivering cityite, took him into a "general store" and rigged him out in a, big bearskin coat for the "pe riod of the trip. Other than sundry nipped ears, toes and fingers, the assistant state director is intact. TITTLE Edward Rose water has met his first potential tragedy since his father left for Washington. Day after day he worried while his mother wrote her morning letter to his father. He was not permitted to interrupt Each evening the mail carrier brought . a letter from his father and Edward was banished to silence while the letter was read and digested. One week of this was about all the youngster could endure. "Mother," he frowned, in despera tion, "when I marry will I have to write to my wife EVERY day?" 1IORRORS! Howthe habits of Xew York do descend upon us. "All right, I'll send them over," said a pretty girl who answered the telephone in one of the up-to-date THE QMAHA v nth m frr. - tvMtwtfi "-mill in, mm n " ' " - - - , to TUESDAY Winter Dancing club party at Harte hall. E. Z. Kensington club at Prettiest Mile club, Mrs. C. H. Ballard, hostess., Bridge luncheon at Prettiest Mile club, Mrs. Bert Reavis, hostess. WEDNESDAY La Zalle club dancing party at Keep's academy. . . Trinity Parish Aid, Mrs. Charles Keller, hostess. Dinner-dance at Prettiest Mile club. THURSDAY Parties for Yvette Guilbert concert at Boyd's theater under auspices of v candy shops in the vicinity of Twenty-fourth and Farnam streets. A tray was prepared and passed in nocently by, not knowing that Gabby was in the neighborhood. It con tained chicken sandwiches and each sandwich was accompanied hy at least one package of Milo cigarcts. "Where is that tray going?" I asked the pretty girl. ' Over to the Hamilton,", she replied with a shrug of the shoulders. "Every afternoon we send k huge tray filled with chicken sandwiches and Milos for the dear ladies who reside in that apartment building. These smokes sooth their nerves, so they say, and SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 20, 1918. UKW U1MI Vfl UIMItKia vw a quiet them, strain of there.'" relieving the terrible battle going on 'over MRS. J. E. DAVIDSON, who has 11 just returned from New York, is telling her friends' how lucky Ofna hans are compared to the New York ers. Cafes, theaters, department stores, in fact all public buildings are so cold that they are very un comfortable. There is really no, place to go but home and probably many easterners who hve only spent enough time at home to change their clothes and snatch a hasty meal bere- II Utt V Tuesday Morning Musical club. ' Card party given by Fidelis club. FRIDAY Junior Prom at Keep's academy.' . Friday Night Dancing club at Metropol itan hall. SATURDAY Qui Vive club dancing party at Turpin's X academy. X Dinner-dance at the Blackstone. f War Relief Benefit performance at Bran- X ' deis theater; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. X Davidson, ' box party for Saturday f Night club and line party given by f Omaha Woman's Press club. X tofore will become really acquainted with their own domicile if the coal shortage lasts. "M EWSPAPER persons are pro A" verbially bored, but Gabby had never thought about the second gen eration of them being so. The wife of one of The face family suffered from an abscess of the car, so that she had difficulty in opening her mouth or in yawning. "My, but you'd have a hard time, mother if you went to a party and couldn't yawn," exclaimed the blase 6-year-old daughter of the house. SINGLE Back to dty '8 By MELLIFICIA. T1 HERE is no use, Society, "as A was" is simply non est, and there is no use in pretending any longer. There just naturally are no dances, the alluring, sleeveless, chiffon frocks in the shop windows to the contrary, notwithstanding. Dinners are given only when absolutely necessary and then the feminine guests just dash home from the Red Cross head quarters long enough to powder their noses and hurry to the dinner. Theater sarties? They are pasee also and the theatrical managers are shak ing their fast praying heads over the box office receipts. In other words, that vast institu tion formerly known as society has donned blue serge and low heels and settled down to business. What should a society editor think when she meets former society buds, Miss Emily Keller, Miss Virginia Offutt, Miss Margaret Greer Baum, Miss Blanche Deuell and numberless oth ers, going to their day's work at the same time she doesl And then we haven't mentioned the young matrons who used to brighten the social cal endar with their large bridges and beautifully appointed luncheons. Bless your heart, they are winding miles of bandages, providing soldiers' fam ilies with three meals a day, planning and executing drives of all kinds and what time is there left for society? We all brightened up at the pros pect of John McCorniack. Surely the boxes would be filled with the who's who in their best frocks and if they didn't dash our hopes by taking the . (Continued on Pass Twa, Column Three.) COPY FIVET CENTS. Washington Balk Laugh At Big fiehate Pink Teas Take the Back . Row for the Senate's . -Entertainment By JOHN p. BARRY. ' . ; IT WAS a great day for Miss Ran kin. In the house of representa tives she was the center of interest for the crowds in the galleries.. She looked very 'handsome and distin guished and she was. most becomingly dressed and her intelligent-youthful face wore aearly all .the time a most attractive smile,. , 'the . prettiest ;srtiile in Washington, after, the president's," someone said. On her desk lay a bou quet of yellow roses. "At her side her colleagues kept appearing for a con sultation or a handshake. When she made her little speech it was with a carefully prepared and graceful ad dress, read in a sweet voice that was hardly strong enough to carry through the great chamber. ,. i ; ,: . Y "She has had a hard part to play," said a woman near me. "She hasn't been guided in h.er policy by her in dividual preferences merely. She ba9 felt herself to be the representative of all the women in the country and she has tried to act accordingly. We were very lucky tp have a woman like her to. be the; first woman, to; enter congress." 1 One Magnanimous Man. Mjss Rankin could not' keep from smiling at some ' of the. jarguments that were made against suffrage. The women in the galleries couldn't either, though they were evidently on their good behavior. At moments they might have been excused if they had laughed out loud and jeered. But they were evidently so used to the old-fashioned platitudes that their use here was like the repeating of a joke. One noble gentleman who opposed political equality spoke highly of onian m spite oK the attribute for wnicn woman is not responsmie. tie wanted his hearers to , understand that he did not blame a woman for being a woman; but as she was a wqnian she could not in reason ex pect to be allowed to vote.- Another speaker emphasized what he de clared to be a- fact, that women could not bear arms and ne spoke with scorn of the men "sitting idly in the gallery," a remark aimed directly at. several hundred,' including . a good many in uniform. . Still another declared that' as a great many women didn't want the vote no women should be allowed to vote, a kl.id of reasoning that he ap parently believed to be logic. He said, nothing about the men that had the vote and didn't want to use it and never used it or used it only when they were driven to the polls or led there by some unworthy reason. A southern gentleman spoke, very indignantly of "those women who rush down here to Washington." A masculine voice was heard to whisper: "They oughtn't to rush." and another masculine voice replied: "They oughtn't to, while the, trains are so SlOW." : ' "Oh, What a Spectacle." ; One representative was like a char acter in a play As he went on I had a feeling of unreality. . He declared that political equality would tend to "disrupt the family and the'home" and would, lead to the "production of ill-temper between'bushand and wife", and to quarreling. "Oh, what a spec tacle!" He brought his speech to. a climax by declaring in a loud voice: "The four sweetest words, in-the lan guage are home, - mother . wife and children." - - . ,-. . It seemed as if no one could go be yond this platitudinous champion. But. his heroics paled in comparison with the study of woman made by a gentle: man with a scholarly, face and a pro fessional manner who, with profound gravity,! announced that if the amend ment was carried the day ; would "mark the decay of the great Ameri can republic." Even among the most self-contained of - the women" in the galleries there was visible agitation. But' it -quickly subsided. . r . ;.. . : (: - -v . . .-.. .. ..,;, ;