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PART TWO
SOCIETY SECTION
PART TWO
SOCIETY SECTION
VOL. XLIX NQ. 83.
OMAHA,. SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 1920.
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"A Mother Almost As Great
As a Sculptor Says
' Gutzon Borglum
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One Young Man Explains Why It Is Better to Marry
On $125 a Month Than to Try to Entertain
On Said Amount-Don't Flirt With ,
.. . The Floorwalker.
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Washington
To Witness
Pageant
Beautiful Spectacle Will
' Feature Lincoln
; Celebration.
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By GABBY
AT what age are women most
interesting?
"I have alwaya said if I
court not be an artist I would rather
be a mother tha.i anything elss in
the world," n.id Gutzon Borgtum,
America s foremost sculptor, leply
ivg t. the question, recently.
"The appeal of the mother-woman
is not new to me," said Gutzon
Borglum. "I wiii admit, though, this
attraction has been intensified by
the advent of two fine children in
my home.
It is not necessary for a woman
to have children of her own in order
to possess the mother look.
"t have known any number of
women who have experienced the
miracle of birth and have emwged
without so much as a hint of 'h?
C-taternal overtone to soften the con
tour of thin being.
"On the other hand, there are to:
my cmtair kn' wledge potential
mothers with empty arms and a full
heart who might pv.se for a portrait
of the Madonna with every assur
ance of carrying conviction to the
canvas.
" "Children do not mane the mot'.ier.
The mother instinct ii inborn. I
will express itself as surely as
springtime or an ocean surf or any
of the infinite force of nature."
This is all good sentiment, and
Gabby appreciates it, but she wishes
this artist who has attained such
heights had admitted that mother
hood is even greater than his art.
Gabby fears that some women may
' be inveigled into believing that
sculptoring is greater than mother
ing when really the sort, warm, pink
flesh , of a child is infinitely more
wonderful and inspiring than hard,
cold, marble, however well carved
it may be.
Mfv Borglum has some fine ideas
not surprising considering the fact
that he spent those impressionable
years of childhood in Nebraska. His
brother, - A. M, Borglum, lives in
our city. The famous sculptor ex
- plains the reason for his interest in
the mother-woman by saying:
"On her depends the perpetuity of
the race. In her lies the future. She
is Destiny.
"Everyone, whether pagan or
Christian, longs for immortality.
t like to believe" ourselres a part
of infinity..- We want to think that
- when the curtain closes on this life
the play goes on in some unseen, un
sensed world.
"And the mother-woman?
"She, so far as we know, is the
only tangible link that binds our
present to infinity. She comes near
er immortality than any earth being.
Her son,, her son's son, and so on
down the centuries. She is, in a
way, immortal.
I do not know why we are quick
lo offer a woman our seat in the car
,ot help her across the street or close
the window to protect her from a
draft except as a matter of chivalry.
Heart Beats
By A. K.
'All RKfata Renrvod"
I dropped
A seed of kindness
And it lodged
Tn a human heart
The.re it nestled
And began to grow -
When I warmed it
With a smile.
Soon there eame
To the surface '
A little bouquet
Of sprouts. '
As time passed by ,
On his thin swift wings
The shoot
Grew t -
A giant tree. '
Then (
Youth clasped hands
With Time
la hit passing
Age eame along
To take Youth's place.'
The tropieal sum
That wither and waste
Were searing
All but the heart
Of me. N
My wonderful
Giant tree ef Love
That sprang
From that seed
Of kindness -
Had thousands
Of branches
And billions V
Of leaves
- t waring
And wafting
A soft cool breeze
To tooth "
My fevered '
And aching brow.
The perfumes they wafted
Were heavenly tweet
From the heart
Where the little seed
Lodged long ago
And gladdened the dull
Of declining years.
DETAYLS.
With all primitive peoples you will
find the woman is the strong mem
ber of the family. She tills the soil
and builds the home and bears the
children."
" Now don't think from this that
Mr. Borglum means men should
make of woman a beast of burden.
No. He thinks the primitive treat
ment of woman was a rotten system.
"I am merely trying to bring out my
point the strength of women," hp
says in defense.
"As a matter of history," he con
cludes, "you will find thse primi
tive women were healthier in every
way than their molluse sisters who
dawdle all day in drawing rooms
and consider children a visitation.
There were fewer neurotics among
them, and fewer slackers. The
primitive medicine man was seldom,
if ever, called upon to treat one of
his women patients for hysteria."
rF COURSE a man should
II marry on $125 a month,"
said a curly-headed, light
complexioned young man who works
on the eighth floor of the highest of
fice building in town. "That is if he
likes girls at all,", he added, "for
he certainly can't beau one around
on that salary, or resort to any of
the little bluffs and extravagances
which 'fellows' indulge injuring the
romantic period of courtship. Yes,
Gabby, he just has to marry his
girl, and do it quickly, so they can
get on a plain, economical basis."
It seems to Gabby that the young
man is right. Have you stopped to
Lthink what courtship costs a young
r j t t :
man, ana now mucn more expensive
it may be than marriage itself. Con
sider, for instance, that little iced
expression of affection dispensed at
soda fountains. As one writer says,
the slender sum of 10 cents used to
be sufficient to purchase the use of
two thick glasses from which the
lovers could imbibe a thicker syfup,
generously studded with fruit, and a I
satisfying portion of ice creara,.The
same concoction now, f se'rired in,
shrunken glasses or sanitary. parafj
fine" containers," costs from "33 to 44
cents, depending on -the neighbor
hood. According to this writer, the
high cost of courting has won in
numerable adherents to the two-can-live-more-cheaply-than-one
doctrine ;
it has curtailed courtships and cut
down' the period of doubt consider,
ably.
Gabby's Omaha office man friend
has estimated that it costs approx
imately $6.25 an hour to court on the
theater or club plan in Omaha, in
this year of grace, 1920. Back in
1909 there was nothing momentous
in a proposal from a young man to
take a young woman out for the
evening, but now the youth who
makes so rash a proposal faces a
flirtation with high finance. Just
a movie, with a modest invitation
Mnto an adjoining drug store, costs
$1.25 and suppose a tellow has
more than one girl to take out each
week. Every cloud, has a silver lin
ing, girls. It will keep our boy
friends more true to us than ever.
We may be sure that if one of
them is stepping out with us for a
very pleasant evening or two a week,
that he is not going with very jnany
other girls at the same time not un
less he is a shipbuilder or a similar
laborer with plutocratic income.
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ONE Omaha student at the Uni
versity of Nebraska caused
more than a few gasps in his
fraternity a week ago. . This blonde
young man, when at home, resides
in the neighborhood of flanscom
park. When in Lincoln, he stays
at his "frat" house, which is quite
close to that , of the D. U. men.
Gabby would not want to tell just
what fraternity it is to which he
belongs; first, because she still de
sires to live a peaceable existence,
and secondly, because the well
just because.
One of the peculiarities of thit
junior of the university is that he
never has aspired toward the ex
ample of Lochinvar in any respect.
In his several years at school
he has never (to the knowledge of
any of his acquaintances) asked a
co-ed to a dance or been seen in
company of me at any social affauv
U. ... 1- 1 J 1
malt in a ttate of blessed singleness.
According to the girls, his heart
is as adamant and his pulse as reg
ular as the ticking of a -clock.
Consternation , reigned one even
ing when into the dining room of
this house came this never-to-be-benedict
with two guests. Lonsr-
drawn-out' Ah-h'h't, : astonished
Oh-h-h t, and sundry 'other excla
mations came irom the diners. On
either tide of him ttood a young
woman thow girls, they were, it
developed while introductions were
being .made. Judging from the com
ments being made, gay Romeo de
termined to make explanations.
"You see, it's this way fellows. I
met them last summer when I was
working for a chautauqua circuit as
an advertiser," he began. . "They
were acting on the circuit."
"Sounds like the truth," remarked
one frat brother to another, "but
it it?" x
DONT flirt with floor-walkers!
Gabby recently heard a story
which explains to her what
she had thought in the past were ad
vances on the part of floor-walkers.
But she is now thanking her lucky
stars that she was not arrested. Thit
it the tale which is passed on as
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"SMt tkM, . wnrfe. tn Mng
' - JmI ul youthful JoUltr,
QoIm. knd eruk ul wanton vlltt,
Kodi, ind bwki, ul wreathed imlln.
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"Gva ml trlt tl M 70a ! "
. On till Ufht futuUa to"
During the summer 1919, upon shining sands and
underneath a brilliant sky, out on the western coast, was
staged a historic pageant, , "Miriam, Sister of Moses."
Many were the skilled daneers who participated in the
portrayal of thit Biblical tale. From all the regiont of
en need warning when it comet to
flirtations:
"I was new to the city and also
green as to many things, but I had
all of a girl's love of adventure and
had read a lot abouty vamps and
such things.
"It happened downtown in a de
partment store. I was looking at
the fine and pretty things thatvwere
new to me. I noticed a handsome
man watching me intently. All
kinds of thought! of vamps and
Romeos and lote at1 sight filled my
mind instantly.
"I kept my eye on. the gent and
he kept his eye on me; I had read
about magnetic glances flying from
one eye to another if. one held the
eye long enough, and in my excite
ment I began twisting, up to wads
host iataai rifefega- jhat-lat Misl!au ul Pjb&1 iMsl m aisA fii
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Pretty Dancer to Appear at Benefit
will ttttt.
the counter in front of me, when my
intended vamp victim walked up to
me and coolly placing his hand on
my arm turned back his coat laDel
nd showed me a detective's star.
'Horrors! The man thought I
was a thief. - - -
"He took me to the office on sus
picionand only that they found
nothing on me in the way of goods
and I wasjust from the country and
could give good reference here, they
were convinced It was greenness as
to city ways that made me appear to
the detective) as a thief.
"that ended first and last, my
vamping ventures." '
ALTHOUGH the bone-dry
amendment hat been duly
rsmm.mA k. ... " ..Ml
our broad land came these naiads, the handmaidens of the
goddess; Terpsichore. One of them was Frances Wilson,
daughter of Mr., and Mrs. R. B. Wilson of Omaha. She
was then attending the Denishawn school at Eagle Rock,
near Los Angeles, under the direction of which the elab
orate tableau was staged.
Returning home in the following fall, she made 1ier
initial appearance in this city at the opening meeting of
the Omaha Woman's club: Since then, Omaha has wit
nessed her performances on many occasions, one of them
being the benefit for the City Mission on New Year's eve.
overflowing. Out on the north side
of Omaha, in a pretty and new ad
dition there lives a young couple
very poular in the younger married
set. They have been dined, not to
say wined, extensively since taking
up their abode in this city and the
wife secretly related to Gabby a
very unusual thing which occurred
to her a short time ago.
She had just returned from a din
ner party and was reading peace
fully by the fireplace. Suddenly she
heard the soft chirp-chirp of a
cricket. Surely this was not the sea
son for crickets, thought she. Again
and once again she heard it. Yes,
there on the floor, just near her feet,
was that offending little insect,
which . continued ' to make . itself
heard. The pretty blonde reached
to i maam m&h. smiito
She will also dance at
February at a oenent tor tne Westminster Presbyterian
church.
Miss Wilson plans to return to the "Land of Eternal
Sunshine" next June in order that she may continue her
studies. f (
, "A foot mor llfht. itaBioi tru.
Ne'or from th bMth Somr duhid th dw."
"But ohl ni duoM nek way!
No tun upon ta But-dir
, b hiit h m t light.
cricket bounced high into the air
only to fall back to its former rest
ing place. SwatI The first per
formance" was again repeated The
matron determined to investigate
and found a black collar button.
"But," protests this little woman,
"I did hear a cricket Do you
think she did?
THE progress of science 1 What
marvelous strides it has made
during the last few years. And
in our amazement at some of the
latest inventions we have rather for-'
gotten the wonders of that small in
strument the telephone. Ohe young
man, who, resides out-of-town, was
quite forcibly reminded of its pow
ers several days ago. He had asked
"Long Distance" o connect him
the Blackstone' the latter part of
phone rang at his home, his mother
answered and tiyntng from the
mouthpiece called him from upstairs.
He hastily rushed down. Miss
Omaha listening, suddenly heard an
awful crash, followed by various ex
clamations: "What is that dreadful
noise," she asked. "J fell down
stairs," answered the mother who
was still at the phone. And now a
sorry your.g man wishes that he had
always trained himself to hold both
his tongue and his temper in check.
' Miss Julie R. Jeuney was recently
appointed svpervisor of the 16th fed
eral census district of New Jersey.
She is the first woman to be given
an important administrative census
post by either party during the
whole history-of census taking jn
ifflsrififc
Bee Bureau,
Washington, Jan. 31.
The White House is out of the so- ,
cial running and there is good rea
son to believe that Mrs. Wilson at
well as the president, are glad of it.
It is not at all likely therefore thai
any of the regular social functional
of the usual White House season
will be held this season, although,
the president is up" and about every
day now. His immediate household
has ceased to worry about him and
they no longer ask in the first
breath, "How is the president this
morning?" His fast returning
strength will not, however, be drawn
upon for any reception or other so
cial function, wearying to a degree.
It is expected that shortlv he will
be taken for a month's cruise on
the Mayflower and return, cured.
This has brought the Vice Presi
dent and Mrs. Marshall into the
limelight as never before, for they
have been called upon to receive all
the foreign visitors that social
etiquette and diplomatic usage de- ,
mand should have official recogni
tion. The Marshalls are handi
capped by having no Washington
establishment. ,That requires a pri
vate fortune, which the Marshalls '
have not So they are but hotel
dwellers. The situation emphasizes
the need of a government home for"
the xz presidential family and
some day a congress may find
courage to vote tne money neces
sary for a vice executive home.
.The Congressional club scored its
most brilliant success in the recep
tion it gave on Tuesday evening to
the diplomatic corps in the hand
some new clubhouse. The president
of the club, Mrs. Charles .B. Ward
of New York, was assisted in re
ceiving by the dean of the diplo
matic corps, M. Jusserand, the am
bassador from France and Mrs.
Jusserand. The decorations ftp the
club house were of palms, fertilHt
flowers and the table from whiefra
buffet supper v was served had a
miniature fountain in the center
surrounded by many clusters of
flowers. " .
A great feature ball is planned
for Lincoln's birthday anniversary
on the 12th of next month, under
the auspices of the United States'
Navy League. It will be an affair,
worth going miles to see. The
pageant, which will be the feature
of the ball will conclude the two
day annual meeting of the organiza
tion. More than 600 people will
participate. It is being given un
der the supervision of Mrs. James
Carroll Frazer, vice president of
the Navy league. Mrs. Frazier aims
to present a pageant of American
history, to be portrayed as nearly as
possible by the lineal descendants of
the original characters. The first
scene to be perfected in this way
is the one jvhiclrwill show the sign
ing of the Declaration of Independ
ence. Real Indians will take part,
including Mrs. Gertrude Bennin,.
granddaughter of Chief Sitting Bull.
In their order will come the Vir
ginia settlers, the Pilgrims of 1620,
the Dutch, the Quakers and the
Huguenets.
Every state will be represented,
led by the state flag, the 13 original
states appearing first, followed by
the others in their chronelogical
order. Each state- will form a
tableau depiciting a certain inci
dent in that state's history.
People from all over the Union
will take part, besides the ladies of
the cabinet, the senate and house
and the supreme court. As planned,
the pageant undoubtedly will be the
most colorful and brilliant spectacle
in the social history of Washington.
Miss Kutli Hitchcock, daughter
of Senator Hitchcock, went to New
York last Tuesday for a weks
visit with friends.
Mrs.iHitchcock, who has been ob- '
serving Thursdays at , home , this ,
month, was at home last Thursday
for the last time this season.
' Mrs. George W, Norrjs, wife of
Senator Norris, has been, confined
to her home with a severe cold and
was unable to attend the meeting
of the Nebraska association or the ,
reception at the Congressional club
given to the diplomatic corps.
Mrs. C. Frank Reavis, wife of
Representative Reavis of Falls City
was amone the guests at the lunch
eon on Wednesday which Mrs.
Medill McCormick. wife of Senator .
McCormick of Illinois, gave in
honor of Mrs. Charles Ward, wife
of Representative Ward of New
York and president of the Con
gressional club. There were 18 .
guests.
Mrs. Alvin Saunders, widow of .
former Senator Saunders of Omaha,
and her daughter, Mrs. Russell B.
Harrison, will give upMheir Wakv
ington apartment next week and" re
turn to Omaha, They have been ";
spending their winters in the na
tional capital for the past 10 year,
sroing to Omaha for the svmrnere.
Prior to leaving for the west Mrty'
Harrison will go to Norfolk, Va.,
for a short visit with her daughter,
Mrs. Harrv Williams, jr. In Oma
ha, Mrs. Saunders and Mrs. Nar?-
son will joiri the latter s son, Wil
liam Henry Harrison, who h
taken charge of the Saunders farm,
to put into practice the theorectical
course on farm work that hi Mi
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