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PART TWO
SOCIETY
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PART TWO
AMUSEMENTS
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VOL. XL VII NO. 38.
OMAHA, SUNDAY. MORNING, MARCH 3, 1918.
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Mrs. Wilson is Guest of Pen
Women When Mrs. Susie
R. Rhodes is the
Hostess
(Washington Bureau of The Omaha Bee,
1311 u Street.)
WAsmjMuiujN, which now
' bears little resemblance to the
national capital of 10 years
ago, is Having the most active Lenten
season it has ever known. Ambas
sadors households, cabinet families
and women and young girls in every
walk of life are more busy than they
nave ever dreamed of being. War
work all day long and sometimes all
evening, but frequently they allow
themselves a dinner or theater party
or possibly a little bridge, for even
inose wno escnew dancing throughout
Lent will hold to ithe, bridge playing.
The president and Mrs. Wilson find
frequent recreation at the theater and
invariably at the good concerts. Mrs,
Wilson had two boxes at the Dam'
rosch orchestra concert this week,
when Frances Starr, by special court
esy of David Belasco, appeared and
gave, the poem, Carillon, of the Bel
gian poet, Cammaerts, accompanied
by the orchestra in bir Edward El
gar's music. Mrs. Wilson had in her
party Mrs. McCormick and Miss Mc
Cormick, mother and sister of Vance
McCormick, chairman of the. national
democratic committee, who have come
here to spend the remainder of the
winter with him and act as hostesses
for him. He has fitted up a luxurious
nd very beautiful apartment in one
of the most fashionable apartment
nouses.
Honors Nebraska Woman.
Mrs. Wilson paid great compli
ment to a. .Nebraska woman a few
days ago, when she accepted the in
vitation of Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes
formerly of Crete, Neb., to be the
guest of the League of American
Pen Women on the day that Mrs
Rhodes was hostess. They have
weekly "knitting teas" at the club
rooms and while some of the women
entertain the oiher women knit vig
orously for the soldiers and then they
all have tea. Mrs. Wilson was charm
ing that afternoon, as she always is,
in fact. Mrs. Baker, wife of the sec
retary of war, who is an accomplished
musician and singer, gave a program
of songs after Mrs. Wilson's arrival.
She sang some operatic, some sentr
mental and some patriotic songs, such
as she has been singing for the boys
in the training camps, and played all
her own accompaniments. Mrs. Wil
son was very handsome in a gown
of ruby silk, with a short skirt
trimmed with a fancy arrangement of
narrow ruffles and draped with black
georgette crepe. She wore a small
black toque with a silver ornament,
which fitted closely to her head, and
in her belt she had a great American
Beauty rose. She was accompanied
by her secretary, Miss Edith Benham,
and remrined for the whole program
and a cup of tea afterward. Mrs.
Rhodes is soperintendent of play
grounds and a former officer of the
League of Pen Women. Mrs. Isaac
rearson is president.
.S.naMr anA f rc ni1Krt f TTif
cock are spending a fortnight at St.
Augustine, Fla.
Mrs. Rhodes has her daughter,
Mrs. Stratten, wife of Dr. Robert
Stratten, U. S. A., with her this win
ter. They lived in Omaha and have
many friends there.
Miss Olsie Anderson, daughter of
C. B. Anderson of Lincoln and
Crete, is a recent arrival and is at
566 Varnum street in Washington.
She is doing special work in the
Navy department.
Miss Helen Purcell, daughter of
Emerson Purcell, jditor of the Custer
County Chief, is expected here next
week. The Purcells live in Broken
Bow. Neb.
Mrs. Frank W. Bacon of Omaha ar
rived this week to visit her son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Scott Penfield.
Representative and Mrs. Charles H.
Sloan of Geneva, Neb., are located at
the George Washington Inn this year.
Their daughter. Miss Ethel Sloan, is
with them and is her father's clerk.
' Their son is also here, as a freshman
in the law school of George Wash
ington university. I
SI 1 VTA VVKS Jm M v
.. :. : - -i .o s . 'klS.
Mrs. Alvin Johnson is one of the
attractive young matrons in Omaha
Red Cross service. Mrs. Johnson
acted as recruiting officer for hus
bands, and as a result of this little
woman's efforts, 30 of our leading
citizens may be found every Tues
day evening at the state inspection
warehouse taking the "heavy" parts.
Mrs. Johnson finds time for social
doings, too, after her Red Cross
duties are done, and she is a charm
ing hostess at little informal din
ners at her home. Mrs. Johnson was
one of Mrs. Tom L. Davis' chief
aides in preparing packets for sol
diers at holiday time.
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Cupid emd War Seem
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Season Engagements
pwAN CUPID and the war god
J seem to be co-operating these
days, for every week comes the
news of a military engagement or
weaaing. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis C.
Clifton today announce the engage
ment of their daughter. Helen Fran
ces, to Lieutenant O. Wendell Shep
ard. No date ha' been set for the
wedding.
Miss Clifton is an Omaha girl and
a graduate of Central high school.
Lieutenant Shepard is an eastern man,
but he received his aerial training at
rort umaha and it was here that the
romance began. The young officer
is a graduate of Purdue university
and a member of the Delta Tau Delta
fraternity. He is now stationed at
Lamp Morrison, Va.
A sorority girl is to be an earlv
spring bride, for her engagement was
announced at a sorority banquet
given in Lincoln Saturday. The
young woman is Miss Florence M.
Sandy of Gretna, Neb., and her mar
riage to Mr. Frank O. Schafer will
take place in a month or two. Both
Miss bandy and her fiance attended
the University of Nebraska. Miss
Sandy is a member of Achoth sor
ority and Mr. Schafei of the B. G.
fraternity.
Mrs. George Lamoureux announces
the engagement of her sister, June B.
rarker, to Mr. George E. McWil-
liams. The wedding will probably
take place this month, but the date
will depend on war conditions.
Miss marker is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Parker of Plattsmouth
and has made her home in this city
for the last five years. Mr. McWil-
tams is a former Omaha man and is
now at Deming, N.. M., in the ord
nance department.
Musical Tea. ,
Mrs. Louise Tansen Wvlie will en
tertain at a musicale-tea at her home
Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Wylie enter
tains in this wav on the first Sundavl
of every month, and from sixty to !
seventy guests attend the affairs.
J . SOCIAL CALEMME
SUNDAY
Musicale-tea given by Mrs. Louise Jansen Wylie.
MONDAY
Prof. Cestre lectures for L. Alliance Francaise,
8 p. m.
Luncheon for Chancel guild of All Saints' church,
Mrs. W. A. Simpson, hostess, 1 p. m.
Dundee Woman's Patriotic league, Mrs. Miles
Greenleaf, hostess. '
TUESDAY
Commissioned Officers' club, dancing pary at
Keep's academy.
Prettiest Mile Ladies' Golf club, Mrs., V. B. Bene
dict, hostess.
Card party given by women of Holy Angels parish.
WEDNESDAY . . , !
Formal dinner-dance at Prettiest Mile club.
Trinity Parish Aid, at parish house, 10 :30 a. m.
THURSDAY
Original Cooking club, Mrs. W. S. Poppleton,
hostess.
FRIDAY
0. C. C. luncheon,, Mrs. W. A. Shropshire, hostess.
Equal Franchise society, Prof. Fling lecture, court
house, 8 p. m.
SATURDAY
Qui Vive club dancing party at Turpin's academy.
Members' night at Prettiest Mile club.
Tea dansant at the Fontenelfe.
Week-End club dance at the Fontenelle.
Society's Interest
by War 'Nurse
.and Mss Pershing
By MELLIFICIA.
HAT should confront us in the
Baltimore American in Polly
Prattle's column but a. chum
my little bit of chatter about Mrs.
Virgil Lewis, who spent the winter in
Omaha, while her husband was in
the Fort Omaha balloon school. Of
course, we all know that Mrs. Lewis
was a Baltimore girl and we are
ierrioiy proud to nave her in our
city even for a little while, confiden
tially, we are jealous of the familiar
way folly speaks of her. We will
quote the paragraph for you.
"When Mrs. Andrew Melville Reid
told me a few days ago about Mina
speaking before the Woman's Press
club in Omaha of her three years'
experiences nursing the French
wounded, I grew envfous and a bit
angry to think that Baltimore had let
one of its own girls, one of whom
it is proud, do for another city what
she had never done at home. It is
provoking that we have never heard
the stories that are moving the west
ern audiences to tears and action."
The week has been quite lively in a
social way.; Miss Nannie Barrett was
married in a bower of Easter lilies
and spring flowers and then away she
went with her husband to sunny Cali
fornia. The flowers are faded and the
candles are out, but, as one of-the
girls said, "It was such . a ' pretty
wedding."
Miss May Pershing, sister of the
famous general, dropped in on us this
week. She was honor guest at the
officers' hop given at Fort Crook the
other night. It was really a lovely
party and a number of our Omaha
girls went out and hopped until very
late. Miss Laura Fairfax Plummer
gave a little supper that evening for
the Omaha girls and a few officers.
Red and white tulips were used on
the supper table and it was a delight
ful little affair.
Already our thoughts are turning
to Easter and the end of the long
winter season. It has been & verv
busy season, in a Red Cross way, but j
By GABBY DETAYLS.
YOU have to be mighty careful now
adays .vhat you write or tele-
graph. A certain young Omahan
got the mumps and went to his
home in Atlantic, la. One day last
week his employer telegraphed him
thusly: "When will you escape in
ternment?"
The dispatch was facetious, but the
patriotic telegraph operator did not
take it so. tie caned up the federal
bureau of investigation. Within an
hour Special Agent E. J. Geehan was
at the office of the employer, putting
him through a stern examination and
fixing him with a suspicious eye. At
the same time a government agent at
Atlantic had the other man under sur
veillance.
Evidently all was explained and the
government was satisfied that no at
tempt was being made to escape from
an internment camp or anything like
that.
"I'm not going to get facetious with
war terms in the future, said the em
ployer. a
nUNDEE friends of a charming lit
- tie school miss are awaiting the
formal announcement of her betroth
al to a successful young business man.
The bride-to-be until recently attend
ed the Ward Belmont school in Nash
ville.
It is rumored that the parents of
the young bride wished to postpone
the wedding on account of the youth
of both principals and desired their
daughter to finish her. schooling, but
daughter decided otherwise.
The wedding will probably take
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piace in me momir 01 rusco, so '
nouncement ' of the betrothal may
come any day.
EXTRACT from a letter from a
" southern training camp: .
"The medical. officers here are a
queer lot and spend much of the time
in discussing rank and who : ranks
who. Yesterday a signal officer broke
into the discussion, telling them they
were all rank enough. It ended the
argument for the time, and pdrhaps
for good." '
IIAS a certain Omaha theater man
AA ever seen a whole show , in his
own. theater? We hear that he has
not. The other day he dropped into
Gabby's sanctum to ask her a ques
tion about a movie that was being
shown in his own theater I
"What in the world was that fight
about?" asked the manager. "Every
time I passed through the back of the
house two men were mussing each
other up on the screen, but I can't
find out what it was all about."
We threw up our hands.
nirtnrc ilinw one nt'erht re-
' runtUr tVir wr nAverat children
in a group chaperoned by two women
r1-tiv Tlii nirtnre did not seem
to hold the attention of these kiddies
and at intervals they were heerd to
,vnrf(t thpir Arn'irn in see the "fun
ny ' which usually follows. The "fun
ny" did not follow this night and two
of the little spectators were peeved.
"Now Ann't hf fussv ." scolded a 10-
year-old. "We haven't been to a pic
ture lor a long tune ..iid i Know wny,
too. Mother said it was terrible for
10-year-old kids to be so blase."
MISS Flora Stemm ' suddenly can
celled all her invitations and dates
for Thursday night of last week.
There was a reason I
Miss Stefflm's mother was visiting
in Norfolk for. the past three weeks,
leaving Miss Stemm to combine
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socially, "Oh, just so informal, my
dear, that I don't want a thing said
about it." That's what the society
editor has heard all winter and she
turns back to the days when her cal
endar was crowded with luncheons
and dinners and dances with a sigh of
regret. It is so hard, not a debutante,
not a thrill, for even the brides slip
away or just pin a few posies on their
suit and run down the stairs to the
living room and the deed is Jone be
fore you can wink I
Omahans in Hot Springs.
Mrs. Benjamin Baker, who returns
today after spending some time at
Hot Springs, Ark., gives glowing ac
counts of the balmy days at the
health resort. The women have been
wearing their summer clothes, and
the golf links are dotted with players
every sunny day.
Quite a colony of Omaha people
are at the Springs enjoying the warm
days and the healing waters. Mr. and
Mrs. E. M. F. Leflang, Dr. and Mrs.
H. L. Arnold are among the number,
and Mr. Will Hoare, who was at the
Country club here, has charge of the
golf links at the Springs.
This coming week the horse races
begin and last for a month. The
horses and trainers then go to Louis
ville, Ky., for the races there. Mrs.
Baker regretted being forced to miss
the races, as this is always a great
event.
Parish Card Party.
The Holv Ancel Parish plnh will
give a card party at its hall Tuesday
afternoon. A valuable door prize will
be gives
housekeeping duties with those in the
woman's department at the First Na
tional bank. MissStemm confided t
Gabby that she didn't expect her
mother home until tomorrow so sh
expected to spend Saturday afternoon
straightening the house and making it
spick and span in time for her moth
er's arrival. Wednesday Miss Stemm
received word that mother was com
ing home Friday I
Nuffsedl .'
QNE night last week at the Boyd,
v when the audience was peacefully
dozing over "I, Mary MacLane" and
her uninteresting love affairs, the si
lence was broken by a yourrgster ol
perhaps 10 or 11 summers. Mary was
sitting before a dressing table making
up, in fact rouging her lips, when a
penetrating boy's voice cut the air:
"Huh I That's right, all right!"
AN ATTRACTTvF"young teacher
in Cass school was explaining to
the Fourth grade the distinction be
tween "regular" and "irregular." To
illustrate she- drew on the black
board the outlines of the continents,
North and South America and Eu
rope and .Asia.
"These are irregular shapes," she
told them. "NowVrite me a sentence
using the phrase 'regular shape.' ".
"Teacher has a 'regular hape' was
the sentence which greeted her on
half a dozen slates.
Q OULD DIETZ would have been a
mighty embarrassed man if C. M
Wilhelm happened into his office last
Monday morning. He would have
had some explanations to make. He
said so himself.
Mr. , Dietz was toying with Mrs.
Wilhclm's diamond bracelet which he
found on his desk. Mrs. Wilhelm had
been working at his desk Saturday
evening on some important i work
frior to her departure for Chicago;
ad removed her bracelet and forgot
ten it there.
"What would Mr. Wilhelm. say?"
was the question.
In the meantime.Mrs. Wilhelm was
probably wondering just where it was
that she left or lost the valuable trin
ket. . ; ' ;
THE formality of referring to your
lie goes rather hard with Mrs. Ray
mond Hayward, who has known her
husband "all her life," she says. They
went to school together all the way
from the kindergarten up.
Not long ago the Haywards at
tended a dinner party where the
established custom prevailed. Mrs.
Hayward was eager to take part in
the dinner table talk, but, alas every
time she got started on "Mr. Hay
ward said or speaking of her hus
band as if he were a stranger, her
sense of the ridiculous got the best
of her and she had to give up.
CROWD of soldier boys gath
ered about the windows of the
Red Cross public workshop one Tues
day evening to watch the white-
garbed, white-coiffed women making
surgical supplies. ,
bee what we are doing for your
Mrs. Frank Ellick said to them, as
she walked to the door. "Do you
want to help?"
And despite the fact that Mrs. El
lick is such an attractive little blond,
the crowd scampered away like a
pack of mischievous boys. ' v ,
FRANKLIN XHOTWELL has
been in Cheyenne, Wyo., for
more than a week. , , ' .
"Your husband has been away sev
eral tinies this winter, has he not?"
asked a friend of Mrs. ShotwelL
"Yes." she said, "he has. In fact,
he is the most wonderful barometer
I have ever known. He senses every
cold spell and hies himself away to
some glorious climate . while 1 re
main at home to wrestle with the fur
nace. We shall have just one more
cold spell my husband has one more
trip planned." .,
"HAD" WEAVER and "Billy"
Byrne breezed into Gabby's
den. the other day. Mr. Byrne whis
pered a secret in ' Gabby's ear that
she will pass along. . It seems . that
Mr. Bryne spied "Dad" frcm across
the street gazing intently into a store
window. Hurrying over he discovered
it was a Red Cross workroom full
of nice-looking women.
"And, now he'll come up here and
tell you, you're the prettiest girl in
town," said Mr. Byrne.
Oh, these fickle men! .
Dinner Parties.
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Canfield of
Sheridan entertained Mr. and Mrs.
Fairfield, Mr. and Mrs. William E.
Martin and Mrs. E. V. Lewis at din
ner Monday at the Blackstone, fol
lowed by a box party at the Or
pheum. "
Stockton' Heth and Lieutenant Bird
Cole of. Fort Omaha gave a dinner
Wednesday at the Omaha club for
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Swobe. Mr. and
Mrs. G. A. Meyer. Mrs. A. V. Kinsler
and Miss Emily Keller.
Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. Sher
man Canfield were the honor guests
of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Brogan at din
ner at their home, when Mr. and
Mrs. O. C Redick and. Mr. and Mrs
Fairfield were the other guests,