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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1918)
, PART TWO SOCIETY SECTION The Omaha unday .bee PART TWO '. SOCIETY SECTION VOL. XLVIII NO. 29. OMAHA, .SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1918. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. is no great loss ft M I I a f 1- v flit 4 A lrt&; :i rx K - - , ; i&tr-A t - , " - , V4 V , -" J . V -' , . - - - , - , , - - , . ,',, h i , V s " - ' - , - " ' , , ' ' fi-:iv ' H .5 ii .ffi;s$:fS i" t - - 1 - - I s X'' o , ' ,t A' , ' 1 't A London Society Dancers Insist On Having the United States Flag Entertainment Was Held Up in Ball Room Because the Stars and Stripes Were Not Displayed With Other Allied Colors. Holidays in . Nebraska During iqiq 'There i pvEMEMBER the old truism?- without some small gain." No matter what America has lost in this world war, we have gained recognition for something other than dollars in Europe. The old prejudices are being relegated to the few who remain within their own narrow confines and refuse to mingle with the big world. Word from every section tells us how the royalty follows our plain "Mr. and Mrs." Wilson; how Americans are be ' ing recognized a3 honest-to-goodness folks and not altogether low-brows. They are seeing real America in Europe now and not merely the touring crowds. Lary Mary, a special correspondent for the St. Louis Globe Democrat, sends an interesting story to her paper on this subject. London. We are just recovering from the hysteria of armistice week and are beginning to appreciate to a small extent what "peace" stands for at home and abroad. It is not in my province to speak'of the deeper and more serious side to the present amazing situation, but to chatter in a ra ther irresponsible sort of fashion concerning the lighter matters that,! like the Hun air raids of the past, ! are of "no national importance." ! To us who have lived in London J 1 under the immediate shadow of war it seems as if, with the turning up of the lights and the reactionary in fluence of years of strain, everyone i "perking up" to an astonishing extent. Everybody is dining and lunching and dancing and preparing for further gay doings when ths actual celebrations occur, while the "grand ball of the allies," the com ing of which I hinted to you some weeks ago, has now by the hastened march of events been turned into . the "peace ball, "'and will take place very shortly within the huge and hallowed space of the Albert Hall. America is beginning to assert it self very charmingly in social Lon don, and the United States navy and army is seen and admired every j3-here. I went to a dance the other r iiiErnr ar rnp r.nmrr rnnms n vprv popular ball room attached to a fa mous hotel situated almost in the grpunds of Kensington palace, and there I found any number of young American officers dancing merrily with English partners in whom they obviously took a very lively interest. The big ball room was beautifully decorated wfth flags of the allies , Italian, French, Belgian, Japanese, Portuguese and. the rest of them ' but nowhere was there to be seen the Stars and Stripes. Several En glish women noticed the serious omission and at once formed them selves into an impromptu delegation to thej manager of the hotel. A rooms," said the appointed spokes- J woman, "until you have rectified a " grave error. Where is the Ameri can flag?" I really felt quite sorry for the poor man, who was perhaps s the only hotel manager in London who did not possess an "Old Glory." W" U. 3. Flag Cheered. He asked the ladies, however, to postpone their wrath for a short time, and inithe course of about half an hour, and long before the ' dancing had ceased, he produced form somewhere an American flag qf quite a respectable size, when was conspicuously hung over a bal cony on one side of the room. As soon as it made its appearance the dancing stopped, and cheers and enthusiasm made a sort of pan demonium for several minutes. Then the band struck up "The Star Spangled Banner," while the Amer ican and English officers stood at salute. This was followed by "Over There." to which familiar tune ev erybody "one-stepped" vigorously. " And so it goes there is no great loss without some small gain. Roy alty is crumbling under the weight of more important things. The whole world is growing westward in spirit and cosmopolitan at heart. The barriera which -formerly kept a "cat from looking at a king" have been scattered and, bit by bit. the debris of former pomp is being swept into the background of dis cards. if nobody knew that America was good for anything but, to spend money until the crisis came now the world knows better. ' Miss Robertson Will Be Capt. Maenner's Bride at Pretty Wedding Just after the New Year the beau tiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Millard Mahlon Robertson will be the scene of a military vending, for on the evening of January 8 Miss Gla - dys Maurine Robertson will become the bride of Capt. Theodore H. Maenner. Mrs. G. Zldridge flimlin of Chi cago will be matron of honor and ! t the attractive sister, of the bride-to-be, Miss Elizabeth" Robertson, will be maid, of honor. Capt. E. Paul Phillipswill come from Arcadia, Cal.. with Captain Maenner and will a'.tend him as best man. Lieuten- ants wiuiam voiuns ana josepu Spang of Fort'Omahn will act as '' ushers. Rev. Titus Lowe will offi cate: Following the ceremony a recep tion will be held -at the Robertson ; home Jan. 1-t-New Year's. Feb. 12 Lincoln's Birth day. Feb. 22 Washington's Birthday. . April 22 Arbor Day. May 30 Memorial Day. July 4 Independence Day Sept. 1 Laboi Day. Oct. 12 Columbus Day. N o v. 27 Thanksgiving Day. Dec. 25 Christmas. Have a Heart For Soldiers Convalescing ; ( ' i Send Them All Your Books and Stories With Happy Endings-, Mrs. Clarke Retires from War Work to Give Full Time to Her Home Sacrificing the ease and luxury of their beautiful homes, Omaha women. enlisted "for the duration oHhe war" and donning mannish uniforms hurried forth into the busy world to 'do their great part in bringing peace and victory to a war-weary universe. Oneof the most beautiful of the younger matrons who has given her entire time to the great cause is Mrs. Louis S. Clarke. Always ready to assist, Mrs. Clarke has been enrolled for active service in every war drive, aside from her work at the Service League. Perhaps because of a dear little son, Bobby, this charming young woman is deeply interested in charities for children. She has always been one of the most zealous workers for the Creche, and the success of the large affairs given for the support of this institution has been due to the untiring interest of Mrs. Clarke With the well contented feeling of a task well done, the women who have given their time and talent for so many months may turn again to social activities. Mrs. Clarke is one of the most charming of hostesses, and as she entertained extensively before the war, will no doubt resume the dinner parties and dances, now that her war duties will be lightened. - , - ; . - - Master Bobby Clarke is a very musical little chap. To his mother's accompaniment he sings very sweetly all the new popular airs "and many of the ballads of long ago. In his "little boy" voice he recites numerous little sketches, which are especially .well done for such a youthful elocutionist. With his pretty mother, whom he resembles so closelv mey raaKe one oi me mosi cnarmmg oi iamuy groups. . , A HAVE you any of Ibsen's, books or plays? Well, keep Iheml. Have you any of the popu lar fiction with happy endings? Give them to the soldier boys and help save their reason. Popular fiction is not usually treasured as a part of the borne Ji brary, and after these books are read they are good for out one thing to be passed cn to another who had not read ther.i. , Have a heart! Take the first few" minutes you have and gather up all the bright, cheery stories there are about your house and send them on, their merry way. . , Fiction and the lighter forms oi reading play a large part in the daily lives of the men in hospitals, every librarian of the A. L. A. Wat, service reports. Stories of adven ture cannot be supplied in sufficient number. The men cannot gel enough of Zane Grey, Rex Beach, Jack London, E. Phillips Oppen heim and Kipling. The best novel is a western story with a dash of romance. "Every man will read a love story, but he honestly prefers the wholesome sort," says the librarian at one of the largest hospitals. I've quite revised my idea of the.atti-, tude of man toward sentimental reading." ' , ' On a visit of the librarian to the wards, one man had tentatively $e-" lectel Stevenson's "Treasure , Is land" from an armful of books pre sented for his inspection. "I,s it a love story?" he asked, and handed it back when given the negative an swer. "Sure, I want a love story," H affirmed. "I've got a girl." -Not a Happy Ending. He liked the looks of Mary John son's "Audrey," but was warneWf - a 1 1 u t. i : it.. - i i uiai, uiuugii ciupiidiiiiiiiy a ivvc story, the novel had not a. "happy ending." That gave hirnpause,Jjut,,. he finally chose "Audrey." "I can stand the endtfig,"- he said. Unhappy ending have beet; . known to cause lasting, depression ; in military hospitals. . . ) :. In the assortment of fiction and : stories'of personal war experiences, carried by the librarian on the satlie ward visit, were a dictionary, a higher algebra and trignometry, a plain and solid v geometry, and a book on mechanics, each of: them going in response to a special re quest to the occupant of some bed. An Italian in one of the wards eyed the collection and drew out the1 trigonometry. "Bill, you don't want that book," ; volunteered his bed neighbor to the left. "That's higher mathematics,': you can't read that. Better give him a novel." ' : ; Bill looked inside the trigonom etry and quite apparently found it, no more intelligible than Chinese. Still, he was reluctant to surrender . it for a novel in- an easy style. Probably the title had appealed to the Latin in him, but obviously .he wanted to hang on to it because it had real substance. He brightened with delight when the librarian told him she now was equipped to sup ply him with Italian books. . Detective Stories. All the men like detective stories. A casual evening visit to the ex treme psychopathic ward brought requests for detective fiction from three white and two negro patient. There are hundreds of thousands of books, unused, on the shelves of American homes, that are just the books the tens N oi thousands of wounded men in the army hospitals need now. Every public library is a receiving station for library war service. Books taken or sent io the library will get into the soldiers' hands promptly. Give Them Happy Endings. Why the unhappy ending is the stock weakness of the beginner at story writing is easy f to explain. Stories with unhappy endings are easier to write! The human mind s naturally subjective ana saa: vocabularies in every language have many more adjectives verbs and adverbs to express sorrow and gloom than to express happiness and lightheadedness. This subject lends itself nicely to a debate, but' as far as the men in the war hospitals are concerned the argument has only one side: Give us happy endings 1 A Red Cross nurse tells of a serial story that had beed read by two of her patients, one of whom was de pressed for a whole tlay because the heroine died. e "I wish I'd never read it," he complained. "I fell in love with that girl. If I ever found one exact ly like her I'd certainly ask her to marry me" One very sick man in a Canadian hospital had started an adventure serial on the ship that brought him to America. The story was such a lurid affair that it actually increased his fever. He died the morning the next instalment was received. Cooks with happy endings, books that will entertain and help past away the weary weeks of con valescence, are needed at once for our wounded men in hospitals. Send your gifts to your public library. They will get to the soldiers without delay. , 6