PART TWO.
EDITORIAL
THE
OMAHA
UNDAY
BEE
PART TWO
AMUSEMENTS
VOL. XLIX NO. 45.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1920.
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By GABBY DETAYLS.
ID your wife vote this
week?"
"Rv cnllv. I don't know."
said Mr. Moshier Colpetzer.
Gabby was amazed, for she used
to attend anti-suffrage meetings
where realistic word pictures were
painted of the family d'scord which
would be stirred up if women were
given the ballot. Evidently there had
been no heated arguments in the
Colpetzer family. Gabby decided to
lipry a little further.
"Did your wife vote?" she asked of
Mr. Edwin T. Swobc.
"I don't know," he replied.
"Is there any disagreement in
your family over politics?" persisted
Gabby.
"No, perfect harmony," was Mr.
Swobe's decided response.
"Oh, then your wife does just' as
you tell her to?"
"No, she doesn't do as I tell her
to, but she always acts on my sug
gestions." ' - '"
, Clever wife!
Now you know, and Gabby knows,
that all women do as they please,
ihe only difference among then
being that some leave no doubt as
to their intentions and make no ef
fort to soften their methods, while
others in having their own way, so
'manage, it 'that there arises in the
husband' consciousness the sweet
and comforting thought that his'are
:hc governing ideas in the home.
One lTorrible thought has preyed
upon Gabby's mind all week in con
nection with the primary election.
What if the direful predictions about
women ncglcctinpr their homes in
favor of polling places should prove
true? What if oh perish the thought
men are suffering pangs of hunger
at this very moment because their
wives have been absorbed in pol
itics to the exclusion of gastron
omy. Gabby has "been or. the lookout
lor signs of malnutrition among the
masculine population of Omaha. So
far she has discovered none. But it
is a little early yet for results to
show. One must remember that
men have built , up vigorous conr
stitutions during the years .when
women, being denied the ballot, have
been enabled to devote tlicir time
:tul thought to ihe health and well
beinsr of their husbands and that
it will probably be some weeks yet
before we shall see aj what sacrifice
to their families women spent their
five or 10 minutes at tne pons on
Tuesday. There is Mr. Ward Bur-
cress, for instance:
"Have vou had enough to eat this
week?" asked Gabby with solicitude.
"No. I'm' starved to death." he
whispered, "and I m glad election
week is over."
"Of course your wife voted as you
told her to?" , , ,
"No, she didn't," he gasped. "That s
iust the trouble. H she had done
that, I would reconcile myself to the
other things I missed.'-
But the twinkle in Mr. Burgess'
eve cost him some of he sympathy
v hich a starving man usually re
ceives. V.
Gabby loves harmony and when
;.hc hears of husband ai.d wife going
'to the polls together well, it's al
no t oo much for her sentimental
-oul. Such a sight she saw early in
the mornincr on Anril 20, when Mr.
a 'd Mrs. Gould Dietz entered the
ci'v hall together.
"Did your wife vote for you?"
Gabby asked later in the day of this
candidate to the national republican
convention from the Second con
gressional district.
"Well she said she was going to,"
he said jauntily. "I couldn't check
her up because she went into a little
booth all by herself where I couldn't
watch her. But I told her to go
head, that I . was willing to take a
chance."
from the hiirh vote Mr.
but other men S wives helped to roll
up that score. In fact one woman s
ballot showed a vote for Mr. Dietz
and then a ditto mark underneath.
The instructions had said "vote for
two." and we presume this woman
figured two votes for one man equal
to one vote for each of two men.
It looks like a simple problem in
arithmetic.
"Mv wife nullified mv vote." de
clared Mr. T. F. Kennedy. "She let
her conscience rather than her hus
band be her guide."
And there you are in this blessed
old world of contradictions. Some
husbands escorted their wives to the
polls while others say "darned if I
know," when asked if their wives
iroted. Some men confess to less at
tention at home than usual during
election week, while others. Mr.
fj'.enn Wharton, for example, say
. tney can't complain. About the only
r,Mt',!usion Gabby draws from it all
i? vwt men are pretty fine-spirited
in welcoming women into electoral
privileges (now that women are en
dowed with them) and that despite
all words written and snoken in the
,ast, women really have brains
enough to vote.
A HIGH school cadet residing
with his widowed mother and
maiden aunt, returned home
one evening from a call on his best,
his very best, girl. It was, not to be
too exact well past the "witching
hour." His mother had forgotten
that her son would not return until
late and had securely locked and
bolted all doors and windows. Find
ing entrance impossible through the
customary avenues he decided to
cet into "the house through the cel
lar window and not disturb the
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Club Women
Return From
Convention
Members of the Omaha Business"
Women's club who attended the
state meeting of federated business
women's clubs in Lincoln during the
past week were: Misses Mabel Hall,
local president; Martha Brown,
Belle Bliss, Emma Farm, Louise
Gwin, Dora Hendricks, Anna Ols
son, Grace Rowland and Cynthia
Inez Sutley.
In We absence of the state presi
dent, Mrs. Minnie T. England of
Lincoln, Miss Mable Hall of Oma
ha, vice-president, called the meet
ing to order. Miss Hall was elected
chairman of the meeting and Miss
Grace Rowland, of Omaha was made
secretary. 1 ' v
Six clubs belong to the State Fed
eration of Business Women's clubs:
Beatrice, Grand Island, the Lincoln
Business Women's League, the Lin
coln Y. W. C. A. and the Omaha
Business Women's club, with mem
berships totalling 545. The Omaha
club, with a membership of 125, is
the largest, the Beatrice club next
with 107. The Lincoln league has a
membership of 100; Beatrice, 90;
Grand Island, 63, and Lincoln Y. W.
C, A. -club 60. Dues in the organiza
tion range from $1.20 at Hastings
to $10 in the Lincoln league. Grand
Island and the Lincoln ,"Y." club
have a $6 annual assessment; Oma
ha, $3.
Plans are being made to send rep
resentatives from .Nebraska to the
national federation convention in St.
Paul, Minn., the last week in July.
Nebraska is entitled-, to fivt dele-gates-at-large
and one from each
local group. The president and
vice-prasidenf go by virtue of their
office.
The newly-elected officers are:
Mrs. Lulah T. Andrews, Lincoln,
president; Dr. Mabel C. Newberry,
Hastings, vice-president; Anna Ol
son, Omaha, secretary, and Ada Gar
mine, Grand Island, treasurer.
The Omaha delegation was en
thusiastic over the success of the
convention at Lincoln, commenting
especially on the splendid clnb
rooms of the Lincoln organization.
Black Smoke Vs.
Blue Skies in
Omaha
Can the downtown atmosphere
of Omaha be cleared of the smoke
and soot which ever float and hover
over us? This question drew the
interest of the Omaha Woman's
Press club Wednesday at its regular
monthly luncheon, when Miss An
nette L. Smiley of Nw York City,
formerly of Omaha, addressed the
members.
"Out here where the sun is a lit
tle brighter and the skies a trifle
bluer, out here where the west be
gins," Miss Smiley quoted, "it af
flicts, the spirit to have a heavy pall
of soft coal smoke and coal gas till
ing the business section. It is in this
part of the city where the hotels
and clubs are located, and the
stranger naturally gets shadowy im
pressions. "Probably comparatively few of
the visitors that crowd our hotels
ever catch a glimpse of the beautiful
homes and gardens that adorn our
western hills. Instead they must
carry away the memory of a 'little
Pittsburgh,' as seen in the central
section of the city, between Twenty
fourth street and the river"."
Miss Smiley paid -a "tribute to
Effie Leese Scott, a Nebraskan in
New York, when she said:
"You probably know that had it
not been for the tireless efforts of
one dauntless little Nebraska news
paper woman at the Hall of States
our Nebraska boys when they land
ed in New York would have been
dependent upon other open-hearted
western states such ' as Colorado
and California for all the home
welcome they got.
"It has long been a source of re
grei that we Nebraskans have no
state society of New York, such as
nearly all the other great states
have. It would have been of incal
culable benefit had we had a Ne
braska society including in its
Soft Summer Evenings Will
Lure Omaha Society to
The Country Glubs
The odor of cherry blossoms and
the radiance of a silvery summer
moon will add their charm to the
opening nights of the country clubs
here the last week in May. Satur
day 'evening, May 22, has been
chosen for opening date of the
Country club. The affair will be a
formal dinner dance such as all the
clubs plan to give. This same eve
ning has been selected as "opening
night" by the Field club and a num
ber of groups are planning to spend
a part of the ixaning at each of the
two fashionable rendezvous. Robert
Trimble, Ed. P. Boyer and E. W.
Brandt will give large dinner parties
at the Field club on the opening
night.
The directors of the Happy Hol
low club had hoped to open on
May 22 but owing to the fact that
both the Field and Country clubs
chose that day Tuesday, May 25,
was finally decided upon for their
opening dinner dance. A large af
fair .planned at the club is the re
ception and banquet to be given on
the evening of June 14 for the
League of Women Voters, which
will be in convention here June 14
and 15. Mrs. Draper Smith has
made the reservation for the affair
and every effort is being put forth
by local workers to make it the out
standing social feature of the con
vention. According to all avail
able reports concerning it, the ban
quet will be a most unusual event
in the annals of society and will
rival in its brilliance a number of
the large affairs planned for the
many brides of the month of roses.
Many visitors from out in the state
will attend the festivity at this beau
tiful summer-time club.
On May 29, Saturday, the formal
dinner-dance of the Carter Lake
club will be given and a number of
dinners are being arranged for the
Sunday following, which wilt"" be
Decoration day. '
James Allen announces that a
meeting of the members of the
board of directors of the Seymour
Lake club will be held at the Ath
letic club Monday evening to deter
minetheir formal opening date.
Junior League
Members of the Junior league
have changed their plans and will
not hold the Gymkhana as was
planned. They intend, however, to
give an entertainment at the Coun
try club the middle of June. Mrs.
membership all the large number of
Omaha and Nebraska men and
women sojourning in New York
through which to function during
the war in caring for our departing
and returning soliders."
Louis Clark will be the manager
bf the affair. . Miss Louise Dinning
is chairman and Miss Meliora Da
vis, vice chairman of the ticket com
mittee. Mrs. Tom Davis, chairman,
and Mrs. W. D. Hosford, vice chair
man of the amusement committee;
Mrs. Albert Sibbemsen, chairman,
and Miss Mildred Todd, vice chair
man of the vaudeville committee;
Miss Elizabeth Davis, chairman, and
Miss Katherine Thummel, vice
chairman, of the committee on dec
orations, and Mrs. W. B. Roberts,
chairman of the refreshment com
mittee. Mrs. Paul Gallagher and
Miss Dorothy Hall are in charge of
the publicity.
Local Actors Show
Discrimination
In Plays
When a play does not suit the
Folk theater, it is revised to suit.
That is what happened in the case
of "The Wonder Hat," which will
be presented at the Brandeis theater
on the evening of Friday. May 14.1
1 he 1'olk theater players objected to
the abrupt ending of "The Wonder
Hat" and after some discussion re
wrote it. The majority vote was
that the play had been made more
artistic and satisfying.
Of the players themselves, Mrs.
Myron Learned says:
"Miss Pleasant Holyoke will play
Columbine, a part for which she is
ideally fitted. Hugh Wallace will
appear as Harlequin, and we under
stand that Columbine is teaching
him some unique and graceful dancQ
steps. Miss Arabella Kimball has
the role of Margot, which offers fine
comedy points. Mr,. Charles Doch
erty plays Punchinello, a role af
fording'OppoKtunities for fine voice
qualities. Mr. Mark Levings as
Pierrot completes the cast and his
interpretation of the part will con
firm the saying that it takes a wise
man to play the part of a fool."
A Recent Bride ,
A bride of the past "week is Mrs. Joseph Cohen, formerly
Miss Lillian Meyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Moritz Meyer. Her
marriage to Mr. Cohen took place Wednesday. Miss Verna Kirsch
braum of this city and Mr. Herman Okum of Chicago were the only
attendants. Mr. and Mrs. Cohen xhave gone to Atlantic City and
will stop in New York and at Niagara Falls. They will reside at
the Cooper Carlton hotel, Chicago, after May 15.
slumbers of fond mama. But with
the usual luck of all such house
breakers he overturned a chair with
loud and reverberating results. Nat
urally the parent and maiden aunt
awoke. Their first thought Bur
glars! 'The second "shoot off a'te
volverVand scare them away!" No
weapon being within '"gun shot," so
to speak, that idea failed. The
sound of an automobile being start
ed some few doors, away' convinced
them that the marauders" had de
parted. The faint .echoes of a per
son's footsteps on the lower floor,
however, changed that decision and
the two panic-stricken women grew
more terrified each .moment.. When,
after an interminable .interval,, it
seemed, a footfall was heard on the
stairs, the mother, in voice meant
to be very masculine, but which was
really a piping treble, shouted,
"What do you want?" Explanations
were immediately forthcoming and
now the young lad carries a key of
his own. . '
THERE is one Omaha beau who
is always on time to the exact
minute and there is a story be
hind this punctuality. At one time
he had what might be Jcrmed a
"case" on ,tm attractive blonde. But
alas, he was ever late whether tak
intr the srirl to dine, dance, or attend
i the theater. But this blonde not
being the tolerant type and possess
ing a bit ' more than the average
amount of "spunk" decided that such
a habit should not be permitted to
fasten itself on so charming a young
man. Now mind, it was purely an
impersonal interest she was taking
in him as she was at that time "just
the same as engaged" to an out-of-tow-n
man.
It so happened one evening that
the man wished to take her to a play,
one fortunately which she did not
particularly desire to sec. The
pretty maid waited half an hour,
three-quarters, then an hour and still
the gay gallant did not appear. Then
.'Mistress Mary Quite Contrary"
went to bed and left word to that
effect for young "A-dillar, a dollar,
a 10 o'clock scholar." And since that
time the young girls say, "What
makes you come so soon?"
JUDGING from the manners of a
number of well known and so
cially prominent Omaha men,
they have adopted several Arabian
customs. An Arab on entering a
house removes his shoes, but not
his hat. His rons eat with him. hut
the women of his. house wait till his
lordship is done. He rides a donkey
(.here we should substitute automo
bile) when traveling, his wife walk
ing behind. (So many men . drive
the car down to the office and let
v-itcy go on foot all day). He
laughs at the idea of walking in the
street with his wife, or of even va
cating the seat for a woman. He
knows no use, for chairs, tables,
knives, forks, or even spoons, un
less they are wooden ones. Bed
steads, bureaus, and fireplaces may
be placed in the same category.
TRAGIC, indeed, are the inci
dents brought about by these
sudden April showers. Last
Wednesday about 5:30 o'clock one of
those unexpected little clouds de
cided to give Omaha a sprinkling. A
lone man, possessing an umbrella,
stood on a downtown corner waiting
for a street car when he espied
three fair damsels of his acquaint
ance walking toward that particular
corner. The trio were "all dressed
up and no place to go," according to
the popular phrase, and not on had
an umbrella. What was worse, the
cloud had commenced its mis
chievous work. , What would the
unfortunate man do? Go forward
"A wind from the West!
How it blows into the heart
of me,
A wind from the West!
Why, the W'est is a part of me.
There I ,was born,
There, where the prairies are
broad,
When the wild things were
growing."
Stacia Crowley.
gallantly and offer his protection, a
cherished umbrella to the three? No,
far be it from him to do such a
thing. Anyhow of what value is one
umbrella for three persons? He
suddenly remembered a bit of for
gotten business detail at his office
and hastened away before being
recognized by the young women, but
not too soon to escape the eyes of
Gabby.
A FORMER Omaha girl, now
married to an army office
and residing in the south
wrote an interesting' letter to friends
a few days ago. Her little son is
enjoying life in that sunny part of
our country. And of him the mother
wrote, "He has been having a won
derful time in his own fashion, play
ing all day long. But I am experi
encing every difficulty as he insists
upon eating dirt. I do not remem
ber ever having done such a thing
but perhaps it is common to all
small youngsters. I have only one
consolation. It may be possible that
this very rich soil will so fertilize
his brain that he will one day be a
man of national prominence. Let
us hope so at least."
ONE springtime romance which
will be disclosed very soon is
that -of a prominent Omaha
girl, beloved by her friends because
of her knowledge of everyday hap
penings here. Some one has termed
her "a miniature newspaper" be
cause she is so well informed on all
subjects. The man. a lawyer, is
Iri.sh in both nationality and tem
perament "and his hair is a color
much envied by the young women
of today. He was popular in uni
versity circles and was an officer
during the war. No, no, never think
it; he was not a "shavetail." To
quote one miss, "Oh, he simply
datices divinely." It is expected
that an announcement of their en
gagement will be made in the near
future
A May Day Queen
Miss Helen Murphy, reigning queen of Ak-Sar-Ben. will sell flowers on the. streets of Omaha
all day Saturday, May 1, for the benefit of the Christ Child society of Omaha. Miss Murphy has
long been a teacher at the Christ Child Center house, devoting each Saturday morning to the. work.
Just which will be her corner has not yet been decided, but her section will bring in large returns,
according to predictions of her friends, who believe everyone will wish to buy a posy from the Queen
of the Realm of Quivcra.
Washington
Runs Social
Gamut
Reception, Weddings of
Note and Big Convention.
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Washington, April 24.
Bee Bureau,
Washington society has been put
to a severe endurance test this week.
Never has it- been busier. What
with the congress of the D. A. R.,
the several balls, the innumerable
teas, luncheons and dinner parties,
the visit of the governor of Illinois
and Mrs. Lowden, the wedding of
Nancy Lane and Philip Kauffmamt
on Wednesday and that of Elizabeth
Grinnell and Lt. Com. Henry Liver
more Abbott today, there has been
literally no time for any other fes
tivities. Miss Margaret Wilson went to
New York on Sunday afternoon, to
spend a fortnight. Mrs. Wilson
had a busy day in weddings on
Wednesday, going from that of her
secretary, Miss Edith Benham, and
Admiral Helm, U. S. N., at 3
o'clock in the afternoon, to that of
Nancy Lane and Mr. Kauffmann at
4. Miss Benham quite stole a march
on society by keeping her' wedding
a real secret up to the very day.
The engagement has long been
taken for granted, although the ad
miral, who is some years older than
his bride, was as much a friend of
her motner, ana it was never quite
certain which ,of the two he had ,
Serious intentions towards, "Inas
much as no confirmation of the ru
mor could be had. Miss. Benham
was a personal friend of Mrs.' Wil
son before she became Mrs. Wilson
and it wis a natural appointment
that Miss Benham should be matie
her social secretary. She accom
panied President and Mrs. Wilson
to Europe and on several of the
trips they have made over the
country. She is the daughter of
the late Admiral A. E. K. Benham
and knows thoroughly the ethics
of polite society. She is about the
age of Mrs, Wilson and a culti
vated, agreeable companion, ror
the past month she has been con
fined to her apartment with ill
ness, so that the arrangements
for the wedding were all curtailed
and the ceremony was performed
there' by Canon DeVries of the
cathedral, in the presence of only
the . two families and Mrs. Wilson.
Admiral and Mrs. Helm will make
their home in Washington as he
is head of the commission on
navy yards.
The great function of the week
was the wedding of Miss Lane and
Mr. Kauffman. No more youthful,
beautiful bride, wholesome looking
bridegroom, nor any more pictur
esque wedding scene was ever
known in old St. Johns church. The
most distinguished men and women
in this country were in the company
which filled it and the decorations
of apple blossoms, Dorothy Perkins
ramblers and Australian ferns made
the chancel look like a fairy dell.
Apple blossom boughs were placed
so as to form an arch overtopped
with the ramblers in many shades of
pink and were a fitting setting for a
pretty little bride in the rich brocad
ed satin of four generations of
brides in her family and three deep
flounces of point lace which adorned
the bridegroom's mother's wedding
gown, all topped with the old
Limerick lace veil which has done
duty for the same several genera
tions of brides in 'Mrs. Lane's
family. The matron of honor, maid
of honor and four bridesmaids-were
gowned in the softest, simplest girl
ish frocks of plain chiffon, all made
alike, with no trimmings save a
little cascade of georgette roses the
same tint as the gown, and all with
simple little hats of chiffon rolled
up in front, the gqwns representing
the tints of a rainbow. All carried
huge bouquets of pink roses and pale
blue delphinium, with good sized
heart shaped rings hanging from
them made of the blossoms of the
delphinium. The bride carried a
similar bouquet of lilies of the valley
with little hearts of lily cups sus
pended from it. The bride and
bridegroom, whose ages respectively
are but 17 and 24, have gone for a
prolonged wedding trip which will
take them as far as the Pacific coast.
Their future home will be in Wash
ington. Mr. Kauffmanu is a son of
Victor Kauffmann and a grandson
of the late Samuel H. Kauffmann,
one of the founders of the Evening
Star of Washington. He graduated
from Princeton in 1918 and has been
recently relieved of service as a
lieutenant in the United States navy
during the war.
The week opened with much
gaiety in the reception and ball
given by the Woman's Congression
al ilub, in honor of Gen. John J.
Pershing when he was )ioniied as
usual by an admiring throng. The
reception was made more brilliant
by the presence of Mrs. Frank O.
Lowden, wife of the governor of
Illinois, who arrived early with h
hostess, Mrs. Medill McCormicK.
who headed the receiving line and
introduced General Pershing. Mrs.'
Lowden held a little court of, her
own, meeting many of her old
friends made in the days of her own
congressional regime, and making
many new ones by her graciousness
and winning personality and dig
nity. She wore a stunning costume
of turquoise satin brocaded delicate
ly in gold, with cloth cf gold and
gold lace, forming a part of thr
bodice, her onlv ornaments being
a dog collar of diamonds and pearls.
j and a short string of uperb pearls.
' She is extremely handsome, with a
tall, commanding though slender
, figure. Her hair is without a
thread of silver, and is always
dressed in the simplest fashfo'n.
Mrs. McCormick was a striking
I (IvnUnrd as tarn Xwu, Tbl gectioa.