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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1919)
ay Bee PART TWO. SOCIETY 'SECTION PART TWO. SOCIETY SECTION VOL. XLVIII NO. 54. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1919. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS IH man or Ml I ! The Omaha CMS1V- WKre SLJ : : v v Washington Society Bus y Everybody Coming In From ,v Resorts to Join the Gay Festivities at Capital. . (Bre Bureau, June 21.) WASHINGTON society is be ginning to actually enjoy the summer season here. Al most every circle of society was represented Wednesday afternoon at the unique al fresco tea housi opened by special permission of th superintendent of public buildines and grounds, on the extreme east ern end of Potomac park, in the loop around which the park drive circles and which overlooks the, Washington barracks, the Boiling flying field and hangars, Arlington, Fort Myer, and in the distance busy Alexandria. The. view' down the river is most beautiful and the view up the river equally so, while across the water toward the barracks everything is most interesting. The tea garden is being run through the summer for the benefit of the Girl Scouts, who need money badly, to continue their splendid work. A party of enthusiastic ladies, headed by Mrs. Frederic Atherton.' sister- m-iaw of Gertrude Atherton, the novelist, obtained the grant from the government, and will manage the soft drinks, sandwiches, cakes, etc., which will be served under the trees in this picturesque spot. Dinner parties for the vice presi dent and Mrs. Marshall the retiring Japanese Ambassador and Vis countess Ishii. and the new Peru vian Ambassador and Mine. Tudela, have kept the dinner hosts and guests, busy throughout the week, and tonight a large element of so ciety went to Baltimore for the great ball given in one of the subur ban homes for the benefit of free ! nuU for trance, under the same management which gave the beau tiful, Mardi Gras ball here in the middle of Lent, and the series of subscription balls through the spring at the smart little Club de Vingt. The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Daniels have returned from Annapolis, where they went for the commencement festivities at the Naval academy, according to their habit... Mrs. Baker Busy. Secretary of War and Mrs. Baker have returned from a wek-end trip to Chambersburg, where iVirs. Baker sang for the commencement exer cises at her alma mater, the colle.se .there. MrBaker left that afternoon for West Point, for the commence ment festivities and took his young daughter, Miss Betty Baker, with . him. Mrs. Baker remained behind because of the initiation ceremony, reception and concert that evening at the Willard, of the Rlfo Beta Chapter of the, Mu Phi Epsilon Sorority! into which she was taken as an honorary member. Mrs. Wat son, who was formerly -Miss Doro thy Snyder, whdse nwriage took place about a year ago in Sunaha during her visit there, is president of the Rho Beta chapter and headed the receiving line at the rectptiivi, and made the presentations to Mrs. Baker, who stood beside her. Mrs. William E. Andrews, -wife of the representative from Hastings, Neb., stood next to Mrs; Baker and Mrs. Izctta Jewel Brown, widow of Repre sentative Wr. G. Brown of West Vr ginia, a brilliant young actress known as Izetta Jewel, before her marriage, stood next toMrs. Andrews. Mrs. Andrews and Mrs. Brown are the patroness of the chapter. After the reception, Mrs. Baker sang some of her characteristic patriotic songs, and the aria from "Madame Butterfly," and as a final encore, she sang a famaus ballad, sitting ' down at the piano and dashing off her own accompaniment with much t skill. S. M. Fabian, a famous pianist of the east, and Mr. Walls, tenor, assisted. Nebraska Organizations. The Nebraska State association combined with the Nebraska Gi'ls' club and gace a delightful reception, dance and' supper on Thursday evening in the Wilson Normal school, iii honor of tile new delega tion in congress, from Nebraska. In the absence of the president of the state association, .Major Neilson, who is in France, Mr. Harvey A. Harding Managed the affair. Miss Viola Wetherill o,f Lincoln, ""prisj dent of ..the Girls' club, was an able assistant. .. Mrs. Norfis, wife of the senator from McCook,. Neb., has made all her plans to remain in Washington . throughout the summe;r." Their house is well situated for the hot weather, in Cleveland park,, one of the prettiest and most picturesque of the suburbs. Miss Gertrude Nur ris graduated a week or so ago at Central High school.' She-will stay here with her parents through the summer and in September will go to Lincoln, to begin her course at the University of Nebraska. Representative A. W. Jefferis of Omaha has taken an apartment at the Wyoming in one of the uptown fashionable districts, and has with him in it, for the ' summer, Judge Robert " E. Evans, another one of .the new representatives from Ne braska, and Representative J. L, Dickinson, a new representative from Iowa. Mrs. Jefferis and their family will hot join her husband here until September. ' Mr. John B. Shanahan of Omaha, private secretary to Representative Jefferis, is established with Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Tracy of Omaha in their horn at No. 5 Qnincy place. Mr Tracy is connected with government ; MStSi" railroad work. Mr. Shanahan came on with Mr. Jefferis a few weeks ago. v Omaha Boy Congratulated. Mrs. Burk, widow of General Burkof Custers army, who has spent the past several winters in Washington with, her daughter, Mrs. Maish, wife of Col. A. W. Maish. U. S. A., is staying rather late in j town this year owing to Colonel Maish's return a week ago from France. Colonel - and Mrs. Maish and Mrs. Burk will close their apart ment in the Dresden within a fort night and go to some one of the eastern seashore resorts for the re mainder of the summer. Colonel Maish will remain with them there as long as it is -possible for him. Dr. Robert L. Straetten, U. S. N., spent a few days early in the week with his family in the home of Mrs. Straetten's mother, Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes. ' bead of the .Washington felrvC-X - ' J$K2 4 4 lift. , .m - 40tt ik feifi -4 w80Nm thw- IwW ' mttv- 4? Playgr6unds ! association. Mrs. J Straetten and their children will join ; Dr. Straetten at Newport next next month, as he will be stationed there throughout the summer. An interesting young visitor this week from Omaha was Josephus A. Briggs, son of Benjamin Briggs of Omaha. He has recently passed successfully his "exams" for entrance to the naval academy at Annapolis, and is being deservedly congratu lated on every side. He "has literally earned it for bimself. He graduated recently from a military school in Missouri and was named an alter nate for Annapolis. The principal failed to pass and he passed well. Miss Helen Murphy, a Philadel phia, girl, worked for the Red Cross four years in the war zong, crossed the ocean thrice during the subma rine campaign of the Germans and witnessed 32 air raids over London, i Around Town With Gabby Detayls By GABBY DETAYLS. VANITY Fair could find lots of data for its "social problem'' here in Omaha. What hazards and culverts arc traveled over by the social climbers. One would think life was had enough for them, but each day adds problems to their stormy existence and such awful faux paus are made. Those who are there, never apol ogize for anything. For the pho tographer, for raking the front yard, for their personal garb, for who they are with; and looking on, in their rightfully superior attitude, they separate the climber from the thoroughbreds as clearly as the would the while from the yolk of the egg. However, we have some interesting folk who have never gone in for "climbers." To those who are there, the ways of those who are still struggling ate amusing. The well-dressed, good-looking hlonde matron, who has been at the foot of the social ladder for so?rc time, comes in for her share of jest ing. Often it is told how she tele phoned a popular member of the younger set and asked her to her dancing party. Now, the invited one knew s'le mjs not acquainted with the soc:al climber, but thought their husband must be, so she accepted. After sn hour the hostess called her and sai i ".Mrs, I invited you to xiy 'nnce an hour ago, but I forgo;, thut I did not know you, I thought yu-,1 were Miss ." 'Ihe popular little matron has a delicious sense of. humor and en ;oyed the situation greatly as did r.il of her friends and the incident is of-.ui joked about. At the same party, two of Oi.iaha's vivacious maids were pres ent. Decided social lines are drawn between the two families, but the hone of The hostess, being one ot 1 lie most expensive in the city, cuuosity led them to accept the invi 'a'ion. So they journeyed forth a";', lud such a good time, not mingling with the guests, but viewing the house, its nooks and corners, guided by one of the servants. "Was it not 'ike visiting stage scenes with a p.ii'de," ventured cne of their wittv friends. s So goes the doings of the socia' climber and so often among their quests are those who anologize 'or I being present and others again who y we accepted most reluctantly. Social climbers will exist, how ever, as long as the world g ji -s round. Recently a well known Omal'.a Miss entertained an out-'if tf.'.vn visitor. She took her guest during her short stay in the city, to rail on several popular members. ,.f the set she longed -to burst into. Those receiving the calls cou;d not quite understand the -eason, as Ihey were not acquainted with tlif cut-of-town visitor and barely -. .nil the hostess. Much mernmi lias been had "at the expense of 'le hostess, and out-of-town visitor. So goesthe ways of the soc;a! .climber. NOON time can no longer be a time of pure recreation. Brains and figures can't be entirely discarded as the clock strikes 12 and picked up again it the 1 o'clock hour. No. indeed! Eating is a niathe- Settlement Kiddies Find New Friend A Party With Ice Cream, Cake and Paper , Hen Caps Make Many Lit tle Ones Happy. WHAT a magical, mystical, fas cinating land we conjure in our mind's eye when someo:e speaks of "the south." Pillared por ticos, goateed colonels, crinolined belles and mint juleps, they are all synonomous with the land of cotton and it is only when we meet the modern southern woman that we realize that the south of our imagi nation has been gleaned from civil war novels and "plantatloned" mov ies. Quite surprising and quite d"- ghtful it was to find a true daugh ter of the south, Mrs. Oliver Bon ny, transplanted to vigorous Ne braska. for tittle of the languo which we associate with the womt-r of the southland is to be noticed about this attractive matron. Mrs. Bonny is deeply interested in the South Side settlement house and here you may find her several days in the week, a group of earnest chil dren around her, intently listening to a story or perhaps bending over their sewing lesson. Mrs. Bonny, with delightful frankness, says this is really a selfish pleasure which she takes, not a charitable act as some might suppose. Children are to 1ier like flowers.' "They must be allowed to expand and unfold." she says, "without the blighting frosts of adult criticism nipping the delicate buds." A peep into the large room-t the Settlement House Tuesday after noon would have disclosed a unique and joyous party. Mrs. Bonny was hostess for the "Blue Birds," a class of little girls who have named them selves for the harbingers of happi ness. The affair had all the usual at tractions dear to childish hearts There were loads and loads of ice cream, heaps of cake and a score of happy little folks. Their favors were compressed caps and as each child pulled the string to opeithe cap, it turned into a paper hen. "There is much work to be done out there," said . Mrs. fionny, ."an too few earnest workers to do it There should be ever so many more v devote their time to fie settle ment and I, for one, shall place my self at Mrs. Marie Keff-Caldwell'i . (head resident) disposal during any , . every drive, as well as for the regular work." The heated days of July will find Mrs. Bonny journeying to her home in Tennessee for the summer. Bu' ,tl i crisp days of fall will find Mrs Bonny in Omaha, for she has learn ed to love Nebraska with its vigo. and vim. Her work with the Settle" ment children will be continued evei on a larger scale during the fall anc winter months and she has roanj, plans for this most important hob by' of hers. A bit of the old soutl lingers in Mrs. Bonny's smile bu' her eagerness for a niche in thi busy world is truly the spirit of th great west. matical problem now-a-days anc those of us who didn't pass in "fig ures" and hated percentage are find ing the various phases of the "war tax" a greater bugbear than ever the "missing X" in algebra dared be. It's exactly like geometry too, in some ways. Given a menu, an ap petite and an order blank in two dif ferent places and the inevitable i.ues tiou will be, "What is the war tas here?" Recently four of that noon-tim "eat here and eat there" type visited a new promising little shop neat them. Enthusiasm was keen. Eyes wer open for everything and after due studying of the menu card, anc proper changing of the order they realized that they were in an "a-la-hotel" type of parlour. There wa! one convenient dainty little slip on which to write all the orders of tht four! Here was ordering simplified; nc misunderstanding of orders; quick service everything that could r wished and nothing seemingly wrong. Well, they ordered and ate and then it was time to "pay the bill." Being "Dutch," each took his turn at the once popular bill; each fig ured and added and twisted and turned; collected the coffees and sandwiches and ice teas and salads together until each had htr "lunch money." Well at the close of the slip was 2 cents war tax! But nobody knw exactly why. They hadn't had ire creams or drinks 1 Then . they learned! t Because they had all ordered to gether and the whole slip added to more than $1, there was a tax of 2 cents. At last they thought they saw tlu meaning of the one-pieced bill. Ard then they again figured! Every one was going to pay that 2 cents. You simply couldn't divide 2 cents be tween four people. The clock moved towards 1 o'clock, and the four , at last went cut wondering, we suppose. Who ever would have believed that math ematics and noon-time lunches were akin! To afford a stronger grip on wires red pli-rs have handles that are shaped like a pistol stock. An Englishman has invented apparatus to electrolyte sea water on shipboard to form a disinfectant.