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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1919)
The 0 PART TWO SOCIETY SECTION PART TWO SOCIETY SECTION VOL. XLVIII NO. 42. OMAHA, 'SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1919. SINGLE COPY 'FIVE Chi NTS. it Lover of Nature and i N Animals Trains maha Sunday Bee" y . . . ..... . X - mm I 1 - 1 1 - ' mm wo m an s vo?r m tnv wot mum i : im& itife v v -- i y y . ; ; y v v t 1 1 1 1 " 1 i , 1 1 : r : ' i V. i .v Birds and Dog . Mrs. Yager Rode Wild Steeds and Roamed the Rocky Hills Unafraid, But She Will Not, Go Home in the Dark" 1 ' N Without Company. WHEN Mrs. Lee Yager lived in Colorado and rode the fastest steeds of the wild west, she was considered fearless. Little did herrela tives and friends imagine that she ever would be-fraid to "Go home in the daxk." But she fs and right here in Omaha, x It was with great reluctance that this slip of a girlgave a farewell partyto the birds in the woods, communed with wild life and bftle an affectionate adieu to her spirited saddle horse; when she left her beloved great-out-doors to enter Miss Wolcott's finishing school in Denver. Adventure took second place, or It joined hands with love however that may be and she became the bride of Mr. Loe" Yager of Denver. - When the Yagers moved to" Omaha a fevmonth ago the girl who still loves nature and animals and birds and flowers, grew lonesome for the life which was still dear to her. and christened, Dick, Pete and Tony (Dick has been photographed Believing that it was cruel to keep birds cagad, Mrs. Yager turned over the home to her feathered friends 6 that they might choose their own playthings. Rope portiers between the dining room and living room im mediately became their playground. In the loops they swing and sway. From" the cross ropes' they sing and fight and, with their sharp little claws firmly caught in" the long ropes which dangle from' the network above, Dick, Pete and Tony spend many a happy houTj'Swingin' in de sty" Then there is Fatima, the baby dog (Toy Bosion bull) who needs care and attention, but mostly love. All these pets are the result of pure air, outdoor life and wholesome exercise, according to Mrs. Yager's most intimate friends. v ' Mrs. Yager drives a car, piays tennis, wins at golf, swims and rides .. wild horses, but after securely locking her house and remaining away for even a few minutes, she insists upon someone re-entering the house with her. Thieves, unwarranted attacks and rumors of robberies which may happen in the future, have done their worst to frighten her. While Mrs. Yager isn't afraid of the dark forests or the wild animals of the Colorado mountains or anything but "city life," she frankly admits thjt she is silly, but unable to conquer her fear of Centenaries of FarriQUs Women This Year Queen Victoria Started the Ball Rolling to Fame "Eor Her Sex. - - Never before, perhaps, has any one year afforded occasion for the celebration of the centenaries of so many famous women as in the case of this year. The bead roll of the women born a century ago in the . year 1819 who won distinction for themselves in various lines of high endeavor, is an interesting list, and their work is worth recalling. First oWthe list stands the name of Queen Victoria, who occupied the throne of Britain for nearly 65 years, and whose death' in 1901 oc casioned world-wide ' sorrow. All the world of the present has ac ' ccpted the term "Victorian era" as representative of the fullness of the nineteenth century. Thirty-six years of the century had gone when the young queen took the throne, but they were-years that had meant little of the fulfillment of time al lotted to her rule. She outlived every sovereign who sat upon, a throne in the year of her coronation. In November next the , "George Eliot" centenary will be celebrated by the English-speaking world. "George Eliot," of all women, is the greatest writer the world has ever known., She is also one of the very greatest writers the world has ever known, whether of women or men. With Scott, Dickens and Thack eray, she gave to the literature of the nineteenth century its predomi nant character and made it essen tially literature of romance. Julia Ward Howe. -In May, 1819, was' born Juia Ward Howe, author of the immor tal "Battle Hymn of the Republic," and one of the last of the types of America's golden age of literature. During the course of her long life Mrs. Howcwas at the yery fore front of many novements "which had" to do with American literature, philanthropy and, the emancipation f her sex. She had the deserved ""..ftllnfY rtf accrtfMattniy with 'flip mos distinguished men and women of to continents. She was the champjon " of almost eveny good cause, and- no woman did more for the advancement of her sex on this side of the Atlantic.1 One of the most successful Amer ican novelists of her day was Susan Warner, born in New York CitjMn 1819. At an early age she evinced decided literary talent. Her first novel, "The Wide, Wide World," was published under the pen name of "Elizabeth Wetherell" in 1849, , and attained a phenomenal and con :inued popularity, being translated into French and German. Eunice Powers Cutter, widely known in her day as a reformer, was born at Warren, Mass., in 1819. In her early married life she trav eled throughout New England lec turing to women on the laws qf health. In 1856 she and her hus- , band removed to Kansas in the in terest of the Emigrant Aid society and as friends of the Free State party. She ' furnished to John . Brown the cartridges used in the Osawatomie, fight and" was the cus todian and messenger of the first tccounts of Kansas affairs forward ed to the east. v Fame' at Painter. Eliza Pratt Greatorex, one of the first American Women to attain suc cess and fame ai" a painter, was Three canary birds were purchased entering her home alone. F-eart Beats By A. K. ; Swift years flew . And toole-tlieir' ipll ' Of my beauty ; Grace and( suppleness . Leaving me Jitjed . -And seamed and gray ' With trembling knees I bend beneath The Cycle of Time' My eyes are sightless And I feel that The earth tide of Life is bing. s The wild romantic Spirit of y'outh Has departed And the calm resignation Of golden- maturity , Bids it affectionate . ' Adieu. f T Youth blinded by adventure Spurred on 6y opposition Learned to know How elusive were things ' Material. Sweet memory, rernatns"": Alone with me And in the quiet of , The night I soliloquize ., And thank'the Creator ' For all things t So marvelously planned. Therefore, I bow to tliegreai Omnipotence for ';. These deep lines "These gray hairs This wreck of a Physical body The wreckage which Calms-ihe spirit 7 And brings kindness And generosity And sympathy ' , Intotha-heart. Only God and I Know the blessings Of blindness Blindness to things Physical -For though my eyes Are sightless 1 My spirit sees all things My soul communes with " The greatest and -reast And souls grow Not through a Perfect body ! Nor dancing feet ... Nor bronze curling locks vNor pearly teeth But by abandonment Of earth pursuits. Youth is a season Old age is the Golden' harvest Of youth's labors. 4 SELAH1 born in the year 1819. She was a native- of Ireland, but came to the United States in early womanhood. She first applied herself to land scape painting and subsequently took up pen-and-inkwork and etch iftg. Mrs. Greaterox had the dis tinction of beijig the first woman to be elected associate of the National Academy of Design. In German musical circles proba bly will see an appropriate 'observ ance of the centennial anniversary of the birth of Clara J. Schumann, wife of the world-famous composer and herself a musician and instruc tor of. wide fame. As a pianist Mme. Schumann interpreted her husband's' compositions with match less sympathy and brought out the delicate and singular beauty that easily escapes the ordinary per former ' . d f ; ' - - i&i&r, - A . "- I . ' Mmmei dyU(M x . , . - " ,,1 - V-- V -- 'lX . r ;;- - II r7," x " J- ' pill: ' . v.:..K.:.xw ....w.....v -.r.. 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A. at the request f tUm Rorl frr.ee in th RpH C.fnSS V. HIV A V V. vivut ... ... y nurses "equipment bureau" at ParisA It is the same ktna ot co-operation that the two organizations have maintained for a long time. In con nection with most f the American hospital centers,there is a Y. W. C. A. secretary acting as "hostess" in a Red Cross nurses' club. y Miss Marie Rhodes of Pittsburgh is director of this Red Cross de partment. The Y. W. C. ,A. hostess is Miss Mary Anderson, of Hudson, Wis., but better known in Iowa, where she was student secretary at the University of Iowa for several years be:ore coming to France. Being hostess is iot new work to Miss Anderson. For,, many months hea war job in France has been at the nurses' club itKAngeYs in connection with the Pittsburgh unit. No. 27. . Practically every nurse in t;he The -t- -By DORIS : He sought it in life's frlsh and dewy morn; , In mysty woodlands where the shadows lay; In summer fields amid the ripening cbrn; In meadows .sweet with hay. - v , Nor Khamsin winds nor winter's vulpine tooth Could daunt him, nor a thousand anxious feara, For still he sought the fount of endless youth i Through long and bitter years. Nor did he find it on the hoary liills, Among those splintered crags he toiled in vain, i Where the long thunder ' lis tuiu aiiu uancil lam. He sought it by ocean's tawny sands; ' Amid forgotten cities, gray and old; ' Love could notVoo him with her beckoning hands, Nor friendship, fame nor gold. " . - Then to the desert turned his weary feet, The unattained still luring all nis soul, Till his strained eyes, athwart the dazzling heat, Beheld at length his goal. And there he digged, with heart grown old and seared, Until he found the spring; when lot he stood Ringed round with mountains he himself had reared, ,And perished in the solitude. ' service gbes through these equip ment rooms during the course of her work in France. Often there are unavoidable and longxwaits in con nection with her visit to the bureau. Seeker KENYON- rolls and torn cloud spills It is at these times thit she used the "tea room," which is to her a trans planted miniature of the nurses club she has just left at her base hospital Pantomime-Teaches Girls Campfire Cooking, and y Beauty Secrets ' An out-of-door cooking class taught by the domestic science ex pert in a backyard to prepare girls for summer eamp life, or S" panto mime illustrating lectures on "How to be Beautiful" by means of prop er manicuring, hairdressing, sham pooing, care of the skin and dress ing may be included on the educa tional program of any Y. W. C. A. in the United States. The latter course vas begun at Walla -Walla, Wash., when a secre tary '"saw two little Russian girls stand fascinated in front of a mir ror watching an older girl "make up," ,The next day she enlisted the services of a reliable masseuse who promised to lecture on the care of the skin, to demonstrati simple and effective hair dressing and shampoo ing. The secretaries prepared a pan tonine to illustrate what she - was to say and issued tickets. The course proved exceedingly popular with girls and. women, most of whom have discarded rouce in Tfavor of out-of-door exercise. . During the war the number of women bank employes in Great Britain increased from 1,500. to 37,-600 Mrs. Sessue Hayakawa Tells How a Japanese ' Debutante Arrives . "The language of flcJwers ij one of the most fascinating, and, too, the most intricate studies that every Japanese debutante must learn," says Tsuru Aoki, the dainty and charming wife of Sessue Hayakawa. "The kind of flowers, and the way they are arranged, have special meanings. When a reception is given, the guests can tell, by look ing at the floral decorations, the rank of the guest of honor whether he is an American, Frenchman r Englishman, what office he holds in the army, navy or diplomatic corps, and hdw long-lie xpects to remain in the country, "Tea drinkmg is another cere mony which is performed with a set ritual. Each guest, according to his position at the tea party, is ex pected to make a certain reference to the quality of the tea, the artistic worth of the ancestral porcelain in which the tea is served, f etc., while upon the hostess devolves the task of making responses, always poetic and 'flowery' in character. "The thousand and one little cerer monies which mean so much to my people make the debut of a Japanese girl an awful and nerve-racking trial." Love Always . Finds the Way Even Maeterlinck v Thinks He Has Found His s . Bluebird. By GABBY DETAYLS. NOW then! Let's flit across the Atlantic to Nice, France, where the 'famous -Belgian poet, Maurice Maeterlinck, has just taken unto himself a brand new wife and this right upon the heels of a divorce secured by the poet from Georgette Leblanc, the French op era singer. News dispatches say: "4ireat secrecy was thrown around the wedding, which took place at Chateau-Neuf de Contes,. a small village 12' miles from - here. Only four villagers were invited, and they acted as the' "witnesses the law demands. Maeterlinck, who has lived here' ten years, is 57 years old. His bride. is 26. Their marriage crowns a romance whicjjfeegan , eight years ago, it is said here. Maeterlinck s - marriage to Mile, Dahon did not. surprise Henry Russell, a close friend of the poet-dramatist and American representative of the Interallied ,. "Art association, under whose di rection the Maeterlinck plays are produced." 1 The bride, Mr. Russell added is popular in Paris as an actress,' having become famous several years ago as Tyltyl in Maeter linck's '"The Blue Bird." ' In an interview in New York she said she fell in love with Maeterlinck after reading some -of his books. It is said she is a student of psychology' and an adept in crystal gazing. She wrote ten commandments for wives of which the fifth is: "Don't fondle your husband before mealtime kisses to a . ' hungry-mSn are as soap bubbles ' to a parched throat." Io you suppose, kind and honor able enemies, that Maeterlinck has, at last, been able to sprinkle salt on "the tail of the Blue Bird?..Fifty- seven and 20r We wonder I And ' too, we remember that he said to his former wife, some-years ago; "Why do you screech like that when you could be a good actress," which leads us to the conclusion that the poet does not, and never has, ce4 for opera. So we hope that the bride will confine her efforts to act ing and writing commandments for wives while we watch with interest , for the year 1939 when he is 77 and decrepit and she is just lovely 46. " CONCERTS are funny things . some gd 'cause they have to, ' about; others 'cause it's prop er, as if were; some to say they've heard or seen someone; now and then one because there isn't any thing in the world they want so much and that is just what three little -girls wanted unless . appear- , ances are deceiving. ' . Before the violin began they were three giggling, funhy little young sters and you couldn't help noticing them just becausp they looked like they were exactly where they want ed to be and such is not always the case, sad to say, at concerts rare. They couldn't have been more than 12 and theirhair wasn't combed well and their linger nails would have been glad just for the sight of a file to say nothing of a complete manicure andtheir dresses were- , n't neat nor their faces terribly "well groomed." But you didn't notice that long the music sounded and one of the ' three little heads leaned over on the chair in front and nodded in perfect ; time to the music. The- other in the center clutched with every bit of strength in her un-' immaculate hands a rather old-fash- r ioned silver-rimmed opera glass that ' looked more like a stereoscope than : an opera glass which she was eai- . tirely unconscious of for every time the "player made the slightest move the little "come nearer ma chine" movetoo. - "Jest loijk at him," she'd sigh. , The third one sat well, no, not. ; gracefully, but you could call it- nothing if not blissfully with her, head way too far forward for Mad ame Etiquet, and twisting her fuzzy' braid that hung down her back until it was all over and they all looked at each other and laughed and their eyes sparkleLnd shone and they'd remark about his hands and his ex pression and his grace, and whether pr no Jascha himself knew how much he was pleasing, someone or would have guessed who it was--he did indeed and who knows who these mysteriousthree may be LISTEN girls! Ere long we can' breakfast in Omaha and have supper, in New York at a mini mum cost of only $800 or ' $900. which is a mere bag-o-shells com pared to what we nist pay fot . cosmetics, hosiery and the non-es-sentials these days. And it isn't I dream but ' an honest-to-goodness plan of some folks in. New York who have formed a company, and are making plans for a 450 fool dir igible, fitted out with every cora-fort.-including air cushions", dining service, library and all the acces sories. At a cost of 65 cents a mile some oi us may nave a inp to f - j Council Bluffs for oUrSacation and V wines, iiu uuuui, win rcucn 1NCW .i 1 York. There is one encouraging prospect however. The men who ; are forming the company's plans vi sav that by and by the price may be ? reduced unless there is post-war 1 tax or income tax or some other kind 1 of a tax imposed. This is just a tip, 1 of course, alonir with ntliri tnf S I thrills and summer vacation ' 1 j1 13 .
