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ThbOm AH A; StlDli MEM PART TWO WOMEN'S SECTION PART TWO SOCIETY VOI,. XLIX NO. 52. OMAHA, SUNDAY ., MORNING, JUNE 13, 1920. - 1 B i t 1 PRICE; FIVE'' CENTS otoioj maha and wx , . : , , . IIL BM KKS. TK.N ILNT. "1i.!i0-3fyU Romance and Votes for - Women rii i it Biennial Week; For Women V Clubs By GABBY DETAYLS. ROMANCE thrives in the spring, so we ar told. At least Gabby knows of one which is flourishing. Almost every Sunday a certain foursome goes a-pienicking at Childs Point. One of the two girls is well known to Ornahans as a resourceful newspaper woman. During the war she was prominent in canteen work. The young man who accompanies her on these de lightful outings was in the aviatio-.t service during the war and for the past year has been practicing law. Some say that it is- a real Snatch" .others ,that there is nothing to the affair. Gabby predicts matrimony, however, as the lawyer has a repu tation of winning his "cases " nil 71 yV local paper recently of a man,, Accent the word nun, , for that is the point of the Story. The man is conceded to be one of the best business men of Omaha. He is so well-known that r.r. effort to conceal his name would fail, so we 'speak it out fearlessly, with the following clipping from an Omaha daily: "R. C. Howe broke down and was obliged to leave the committee room at the state house Friday, while tes tifying. ' " 'For 40 years I was with ' he said, then stopped. His lips quiv ered, tears came to his eyes and he sat down' He sat there for three minutes, then got up and left the committee room. "Howe's statement is said to have made a favorable impression." "... Now Gabby has a poor memory, but even a poor one has not for gotten the coast to coast publicity and ridicule given one, Jeanette Rankin, member of coagress, be cause her voice trembled, with emotion when in that august body, she voted, on the declaration of war. Mayhap she shed a tear, but whether actual droplets coursed down'her cheeks or not, hasy been a much mcoted question. Leading dailies of the country earned banner head lines of adverse comment about Miss Rankin's show of feeling. Editorials were written. Magazines took up the sensation and antis used the matter as argu ment against woman in public life. , Not long after all this upheaval, Gabby sat in the gallery of repre sentative hall at the state house, Lin coln, and heard legislators state their position on the subject of war. Not in many years, had more feeling been shown in a public body in the state. Tongues unloosed and tears did flow; State papers and people in general lauded the prators un qualifiedly for their physical and , otherwise demonstration of Amer icanism. And well enough rfo. Put how now? Are man's tears on the subject of a war guarantee of patriotism and a woman's tremolo an evidence of hysteria? Why is it i man makes good imprtssion on the witness stand when his lio quivers over a mere job, a few paltry dol- lars, while a woman !s verbally crucified for showing - some com prehension of an act involving mil lions of lives and decades of strug gle It seems to Gabby there is incon sistency somewhere. Who was it aid, "Inconsistency," oh no, it was ''Frailty, thy name is woman." Sounds like Shakespeare, doesn't it? Shakespeare was a good poet all right, and he knew blank verse when - h wrote it Looks as though he Just had to use the word "woman" there, because "man" would have apoiled the meter. MR. TOM DENNISON is cred ited in an Omaha paper of last Sunday we jise the word "credited" Carelessly with expatia tion on the subject of women in pclitics. He is said to have made the following shrewd observation: "It'll only double the cost of elec tion expense." Well, well, so it's something cheap our townsman wants, rather than .representative government. In childhood days, when we used to swing in the grapevine swing, we lined up, boys and girls alike, and took "turns." The boys, didn t swing day after day, compellmff the girls to sit on the side lines, peti tioning tor a little whirl. No. Mother taught us that privileges should be shared. She didn't argue that the cost of upkeep would be too great if the girls were allowed to swing, too. Even in a game of one o'cat, if a girl 'happened to burst into a gaJiie, she was given her stand at the bat, same as other "fel lows." From the standpoint of justice, what is the difference, anyway, be tween batting a ball and electing a governor, so far as sexes are con cerned? But somewhere between the games of childhood and the great game of life, some masculine minds seem to have changed their ideas on the subject of sharing privi- - leges. If it is only a matter of expense, why not take "turns' in politics, let- - ting women vote in the odd-numbered years and men in the even. Or let women have a 10-year inning, and men a similar period for fixing things up. If one does not like the idea of classifying the voters by sex, a scheme based on complexions might be worked out. Give the bal lot to the blondes, for instance, and v. let thetn decide what is good for themsives and the rest of us. This secure more democratic to Gabby than discrimination on the grounds of ,'sex. Either method depends .upon a trick of nature, and the com- plexion idea would give our country the benefit of both the man and woman's mind in affairs of public im urt. and .would still keep the " NP j pense down' to a' figure -that, would satisfy Mr. Dennison.- After all, the ' statement quoted, is most naive and not to be taken' seriously. It is equivalent to saying that since the ballot is expensive it naturally follows that women should be deprived of it. This is a type of logic which has long been, applied to domestic affairs in many, quar ters, and Gabby is.therefore not sur prised to meet it in the. political, arena. ' . Mr. Detnison also remarks in speaking . of women that "They tzn gef by with 'stuff in .campaigning that men wouldn t attempt." . But that, as Kipling would say, is another story. ..?..' , GABBY has never yet attended a banquet where one or more of the speakers did not run over the time allotted for their toasts. Nor has she yet attended a political meeting, a club election, a society board meeting, where there was no excess language. Nothing is so universally disliked, nor yet so pa tiently tolerated. A writer in a cur rent magazine gives us a splendid idea for a new order of things. He says: "Everything is taxed these days except talk; and no tax could be more, popular from the- standpoint of the patient consumer.' The ' tax should he graded, like the income tax. Let speeches of five minutes or under be exempt; from five to 10 minute speeches, 10 per cent; 10 to 15 minutes, IS per cent; over 30 minutes, 60 . per ceht,! with , double taxes on speeches in congress. Only by such rigorous treatment will the spoken word regain a position of re spect, and silence receive the honor that iS its due."sVv i ot the original cost but the l upkeep is that which seems " " to make our purses . grow slimmer each day until they feel very flat and undernourished in our hands. Did you ever stop to think, Mr. Man About Town, what it costs you to be the owner of a hat? Prob ably not, .but it is a big item in your expenses. Supposing you buy a hat for $6. Then according to one math ematical "bach" it will cost you $2 additional for each 'month you own it- He estimates that he dines at least" five nights in the week. In these places there is us ually a boy or girl to block the entrance and he is forced into check ing his chapeau. In order to get itlack he must wait, a long time and then be made to pay for the delav or else never eo into the place agafh. These hat boys, according to . him, are adept at "spotting pikers. . ' And, to think of it, all this is due to a mere custom and so, dear sir, your hat really costs you $18. Junior League Frolic The outstanding social event of the v week will be the Junior League Frolic to be held Tuesday evening at the Coirhtry club. For weeks elaborate preparations have been in progress and everything is finally arranged down to the minutest detail. Mrs. Louis S. Clarke is chairman of the affair. She is being assisted by many of the city's most charming and talented young wornen. Unique entertainment, music, confections, gav costumes, dazzling lights and best of all, youth itself, will tend to make this frolic a long-to-be -remembered event in the social annals of Omilia. Proceeds will be used for charitable purposes.,, M ,c?V-S ' V ill-'i?--s-t I Convention Information League Women Voters And Suffrage What Final meeting, Nebraska Woman Suffrage assocaition; first Congress League of Women Voters and Anna Howard Shaw memorial. When. June 13-15. Place of Meeting. Sunday evening, 8 p. m., First Presbyterian church, Thirty-fourth and Farnam streets. Banquet Monday evening 6:30 o'clock, Happy Hollow club. All other sessions and social func tions at Blackstone hotel, Thirty sixth aad Farnam streets. Who May Attend. Anyone' interested may attend. All sessions are free and open to the public. Local Arrangements Committee. Chairman, Mrs. John M. Baldwin; first vice-chairman, Mrs. Charles T. Kountze; second vice-chairman, Miss Doris M. Goethe; secretary, Mrs. E. O. Twamley; . treasurer, Mrs. Edgar A. Scott; auditor, Mrs. Phillip Potter. Local Chairmen. Publicity, Miss Doris Goethe, place of meeting. Dr. "Jennie Call- fas; music, Mrs. W. v. Baxter; cre dentials, Mrs. E. S. Rood; courte sies, Mrs. J. W. Welch; automo biles, Mrs. W. J. Hynes; banquet ind luncheons, Mrs. C. T. Kountze; home entertainment, Mrs. James C. Dahlman; hotels, Mrs. Cuthbert Vincent; pages, Mrs. H. J. Bailey. Monday Morning Session. ' ' Session will be called at 9:30 o'clock with Mrs. Charles Dietrich presiding. Mrs. Maud Wood Park of Bos ton will give the chief lecture of the . morning ; cm "The ; League . of Women Voters." Mrs. Dietrich will make her presidents report. Monday Pioneer Luncheon 12:15 O'clock. Dr. Inez C. Philbrick, Lincoln, presiding. . Miss Rosemary Antin, song leader. Mrs. Henry Cox, at the piano. Reminiscences, Mrs. Mary Smith Hayward, Chadron; Mrs. Draper Smith, Omaha; Mrs. Charles Johannnes, Omaha. , ' Social side of the Chicago con vention, introduction of Pioneer women office holders, Mrs. Effa' Tillotson, mayor of Bassett; Mrs. David Stannard, member of city council, . O'Neill; Miss Edith Mc Keighan, clerk of the district court, Red Cloud. 1 Introduction of candidates for the state legislature, .Mrs. P. T. McGeer, Falls City, for the senate; Miss Emma Meservey, Fremont, for the house. .. Mrs. Maude Wood park of Wash ington, D. C., chairman of the Na tional League of Women Voters, will be honor guest at a table reserved by the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Miss May Sommers. pres ident of the local A. C. A., will be the presiding hostess. ' Another . hostess will be - Mrs. Palmer Findley, in compliment to Mrs. George Gellhorn.of St. Louis. Mrs. Findley and Mrs. Gellhorn are old friends. . v 'Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker of Austin, Tex., -. national suffrage chairman forchild welfare, .will be honor guest at a table, in charge of Mrs. E. M. Syfert. Dr. Valeria Parker of Hartford, Conn., director of League Public Health, will be seated at Dr. Jennie Callfas' table. Miss lone Duffy, Veprcsenting the Big . Sisters'- association, - and Mrs. ? . -I Carrie A. Campbell of the Y. W. C. A. will be hostesses' for' Miss Mary McDowell, settlement worker from Chicago. ' Mrs. Solon Jacobs, Birmingham, Ala., speaker for 'American citizen ship, will be the guest of. the Omaha Women's club,1 with Miss-Katherine L: Worley, representative, and Mrs. George Roberts of the social settle ment. - -' . Miss Delia Dortch fit Tennessee, , chairman of food supply and de mand, will be entertained by Mrs. R. L. Frantz and . other home economic workers. - Monday Afternoon. ' Meeting, called "at " 2 o'clock. Speakers: Mrs. George Gellhorn, national vice president and director for the sixth region, League of Women, Voters, which includes Ne braska; Mrs! Richard Edwards of Indiana, treasurer of the National league; Mrs. Solon Jacobs .of Ala bama, Dr. Rude of the children's bureau, . Miss Edna Bullock and Mav Gund of Lincoln, Miss Mary McDowell of Chicago, Mrs. Draper Smith and Mrs. James Richardson of Omaha. Monday Evening. ' Banquet, 6:30 p. m., Happy Hol low club. Song leader, Mr. Hugh Wallace, Miss Corinne . Paulson at the piano. Introduction of National Directors' League of Women Vot ers and other distinguished guests. Speakers: Mayor Ed P. Smith, Omaha; Mrs. Maud Wood Park, Boston, Mass.; Mrs. Percy V. Penny backer, Austin, Tex.; Mrs. Solon Jacobs. Birmingham, Ala.; Mrs. Richard Edwards, Peru, Ind., and Mrs. Francis Brogan, Omaha. Dr. Anna E. Rude, Washington, p.G, of the federal children's bu reau, will be honor guest at a spe cial table placed for the Omaha members of the Nebraska children's code commission at banquet to be given; Monday - evening '. at ' Happy : League . of Women-Voters ' yf RS. CHARLES H. DIETRICH of Hastings is president of the Ne rbraska 'Woman Suffrage association, which convenes in Omaha for its final convention, beginning this, evening at 8 o'clock and lasting until the final meeting of the executive board Tuesday eveniiig. Combined with this suffrage convention is the first congress of the League of Women Voters, over which Mrs. Dietrich will preside by virtue of her office in the suffrage body. The Sunday evening session, to be held at the First Pres byterian church, will be a memorial for Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. Mrs. James Paige of Minnesota, director of , the fifth region, League of Women Voters, will speak on "The, Church and the. League of Women Voters," Hon.. John -L: Kennedy of Omaha will give "An Appreciation of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw." The Presbyterian church choir, George Johnston, di rector, will sing special music, assisted by Mrs.' Louise Shadduck Zabriskie, organist, who will render solo numbers. Rev. Edwin Hart Jenks will pro nounce the invocation. rRS. C. T. KOUNTZE of Omaha is vice-chairman of local arrange l ments and has been receiving A v 1 evening at Happy Hollow club, day at Hotel Blackstone. Secial and league conventions promise to MRS. W. E. BARKLEY of Lincoln is at present in Switzerland, one of eight delegates from this country to the. International Woman Suf- frage Alliance. Mrs. barkley is an ardent believer m the League of Women Voters. She was present in Chicago last February, when the movement was formally launched, andwould be attending the sessions in Omaha this week, were it notfor her call to go abroad for the women suffragists of America. MRS. JOHN N. BALDWIN committee, which has plans ering. 1 he gathering will be unusual because of the fact that women of national prominence in the League of WoVnen Voters will stop in Omaha during convention days-on their way from the Chicago republican conven tion to the San Francisco democratic convention. This brings a group of women to Omaha whom it would be almost impossible to secure at one time under almost any other circumstances. Club delegates en route to the biennial session at De Moines will also stop in Omaha for the convention here. MRS. Z. T. LINDSEY of Omaha' has had the responsibly, as chair jrnan of the constitution committee. She has been carefully working Social Settlement Notes "The Oxford Affair," a play in three acts, will be presented by the H.-E. L.-P. club -of the Social Settlement, under direction of Miss Gertrude Thompson, at the South Side High school, Wednesday eve ning at 8:15 o'clock. The cast will include the Misses Sophie Bazar, Victoria Bazar, Mary Butsky, Ann Bluivas, Clara Hurst.. Ann Swoboda, Ann Metzger and "Clara Chapuran.. Mothers of the, Social Settlement district will be taken--for an .auto mobile ride Tuesday" .afternoon. They will start from the 'Social Set For Visitors Conventions seem to predominate this month throughout. the country. Political and club meetings are most prominent. . Chicago has been the center during the past week pf the republican national convention. San Francisco will be the meeting place of the democrats 'late in June and Des Moines will entertain the biennial meeting of the General Federation of Woman's clubs this week. The League of Women Voters will' hold their first Nebraska meet ing in Omaha beginning Sunday. Another convention which brings many visitors here is that of the state bankers which is to be held Monday; Tuesday and Wednesday. The wives ot these men will Ac company them to Omaha and nu merous social affairs are planned for thenV, Many of them also intend to be present at meetings of the League Hollow club. Judge Howard Ken nedy will preside. ! - Another special table will be taken by the Frances Willard W. C. T. U., with Mrs. Lela Dyer, Boone, Neb., state president, of W. C..T. IT.. and Mrs. Emma Sterrett, Central City, chairman of finance, as honor guests; Mrs. H. - N. Craig, local president, will preside". More than 200 reservations have been made for the banquet, includ ing a number by Douglas county candidates; . - reservations for the banquet Monday and the luncheons Monday and Tues arlairs in connection with the suffrage be brilliant successes. is chairman of the local arrangements entirely perfected for this unusual gath- tlement house at 1:30 o'clock. The children or the sewing. class will meet at the settlement house at 10:30 Thursday morning for an all, day outing at Elmwood park. Those 'in charge of the picnic are: Mesdames R. S. Trimble. E. M. Wellmaii, E. A. Doran, I. C. Wrath, N. A. Riggs, W. F. Burdick, O. C. (Willis, P. W; Miksell. T. J. Needham arid Anna C. Longwell. Mrs. F. R.-Hoagland was elected president of the board of dircctois, Social . Settlement association on Wednesday, to succeed Mrs. J. J. McMullciirwho resigned. of Women Voters. The Omaha women who ate in charge of the parties for these guests vill include Mesdames J. R. Cain, )r., chairman, and Mrs. Harry Nicholson, Mrs. J. F. Coad, jr.; Mrs. C. F. Brinkman and Mrs. W. E. Rhodes. A'reception will be given Monday evening at the Hotel Fontenelle. Tuesday afternoon a luncheon, fol lowed by cards, will be given at the Palm room in Fontenelle. A box party at the Orphcum is planned for Tuesday evening. Another event of interest is a sight-seeing tour of Omaha on Wednesday at 11 o'clock. Through the courtesy of Col. Jacob Wu'est of Fort Omaha they will also witness a balloon demonstration at the post. Mrs. John L. Kennedy will be hostess at a ttca from 4 to 6 o'clock at her home in Fair Acres, Wednes day afternoon, and a dancing party will be given in the , Fontenelle Palm room Wednesday evening. r Courtesy to Biennial Delegates Directory members of the Omaha Woman's club will meet all dele gates, and visitors going through Omaha -en route to the biennial convention of-the General Federa tion of Women's clubs, which meets jn - Des Moines, June 16-22. The visitors- will be 'presented with souvenirs of Omaha. Among the delegations will be a large one from California... . y ) By MYRTLE' MASON. . ' "Are you going to the b:tnnial?" js a question heard on every hand in Nebraska this week. , The word, "bietinial," has just one significance for club women. It means the gfeat biennial convention of the General Federation pf Women' Clubs. . All over the country have these gatherings been held, from Chicago in 1892, Denver, Loj Angeles and San Francisco in the west; to Boston, New York Cily, Cincinnati and Philadelphia, in the east; Louisville, Ky., St. Louis anil Hot Springs, Ark., in , the south.; Milwaukee in the north, and now, in the year 1920, from June 16 to 21 this notable meeting of .women will be held in one of our own middle western cities, Des Moines, la, "T!ie Golden Prairie Biennial" is the at tractive sobriquet applied. It is the ambition of every clu1,) woman to attend a biennial, anil once she has done so. she never re mains away voluntarily thereafter. Two million women are member's of federated clubs in the United States. Eleven thousand is the Ne braska membership. Because of th proximity of the contention this year a record number will probably attend from Nebraska. State dele gates were elected last October at Fairbury and individual clubs have been .choosing their representatives during the past several months. Visitors are welcome at the Des Moines sessions; their number will swell the Nebraska, total of attend ants to more than-100. Railroads have made special rates to Des Moines of -a fare and o'ne thitd to those having identificatidn certificates, which may be obtained from Mrs. A. E. Sheldon, 1319 South Twenty-rhird street, Lincoln. The official train will leave Lin coln June 15 at 1 p. m. and Omaha at 3:05 p. m., viaRock Island rail road, reaching Des Moines at 8:25 p. m.t Omaha women who are going in clude: .j ' Mrs. M. D. Cameron, general fed eration director from Nebraska; Mrs. E. M. Syiert, past president of the Omaha Woman's club and a member this year- on the platform committee for the biennial session from the Omaha Woman's club; Mrs. Charles L. Hempel. president; Mrs, W. E. Shafer and Miss Kath crine Worley; South Omaha Wpm an's club, Mrs. Samuel Shrigley. president, and Mrs. Julia PulliaftJ; Omaha Woman's club, railway rmnl service, Mrs. J. G. Hart, preside!, and Mrs. F. H. Cole, who is adviser to the general federation depart ment of civil service reform f nft dee Woman's club, Mrs. iV?T. Johnson, president, and Mrs. R. Sype; Benson Woman's club? Wrs. W. A. Wilcox, president, and Mrs. C. A. Tracy. Mrs. J. W. Campbell, Mrs..W. Haves, nast nresident of theffifftrfln Woman's club; Mrs. Edwar.'ftPfle" and daughter, Miss Helen Tt Mrs. W. S. Knight, Miss JB Sorensen and Mrs. John iPa will attend as visitors fr.ixna'l Omaha Woman's club. IStt K V- Healey, acting director in tHir slate for community service; JJrs. K. R. i. nanoim, chairman ot aiui-tuowcu- losis for the public heaT ment of the general fedefj riauucK ivose, pasi cnair ii.ii i n . i y-i't representing tue uniauaLUauv xvtws Mrs. Hester Bronsonf65ppcr of the World-Herald, Mrs. -fMvrt sVflsou of the Omaha Bcc anfahfaf ifiBtH Allen, complete the lis,ttitifeift )t known. Mrs.. AllcnH t3H9.ron three college women, v3rtBlEU6b.tl uevin, mes college fofciltar riMnts Marion Devin, Iowa -State .normal and Miss Eleanor ShlAe1oArthaEc College, Illinois. nsmow sriT , Nebraskans outside f VMSaw2o will go to the bienniatfaifTjOP?wT Alliance, Mrs. Ada" S!ritf"Wr- cadia, Mrs. M. L. FHwjtand Mrs. Nellie Taylor; Beatrice. Jliss.Jiilia Fuller; Broken Bow. Melville and Mrs. Ec Chadron. Mrs. B. F.. Mrs. E. F. White: Cla Cloyd L. Stewart; Davj r. J. Ayres, Mrs. F. Mrs. J. L. Reddv; Falls T; J. Gist and Mrs. Fremont, Mrs. J. W. W1 Ierton. Mrs. Dudley Mrs. h. B. Fenney; Gerint M. Thornton; Gothenbu Arthur Gentzlrr: Greeiiwi1 Florence Parks: Grand 1st! R. D. Kingsbury, Mrs. Prince, Mrs. C. D. Ross. M( Ryan; Hastings, Mrs. Alice Miss Mabel Cramer, Mrs. Jitkson, Mrs. Anna R. Morey. J. J. Scxson, Mrs. John Slafi Kearney, Mrs. B. O. Hostettt Lincoln, Mrs. E. C. Babcock, M George Chatburn, Mrs. J. T. Lees, Mrs. D. G. Maher, Mrs. L. W. Mc Lennan, Mrs. M. E. Ohlheiser, Miss Ruth Pyrtle. Mrs. A. W. Richard son, Mrs. Fred W. Schaupp, Mrs. Addison E. Sheldon. Mrs. J. Stein berg, Mi's. H. H. Wheeler: Madi son, Mrs. J. J. Mattison; Mitchell. Mrs. M. B. Quivey; Morrill., Mrs. A. A. Kearney; Nebraska Citv Mr. S. P. Cresdp; Neligh, Mrs. O. A. Williams; Norfolk, Mrs. Geoiye Reels and Mrs. F. A. Vv'eicn'. North Platte, Mrs. R. F. Cotterell and Mrs. George Frater; Oakland, Mrs. C. E. Menier; Ord. Mrs. Paul C. Perryman; Randolph, Mrs. W. R. Cain and Mrs. W. T. Fisher: Shel ton, Mrs. Max Hostettler; Stanton, Mrs. Charles McLeod;. Syracuse, Mrs. H. A. Coddington; L'niversitv Place, Mrs. E. S. Lute; Walthili, Mrs.. W. L. Harris an,d Mrs. H. L. Keefe; Wisner, Mrs. Eliza Free man an Mrs. O. R.. Thompson; York. Mrs. E. S. Clarke. Mrs. Henry Croker, Mrs. Lena Mead and Mrs. F. P. Van Wickle, HI JU1 1 partmcnt, Nebraska fcderaVottLMcs. L. M. Lord. predcnfjIr'Kgllu Second district: Miss Belle! iDtwav. yitfnan . a tan AGT-3i AHMQtl jV.Ji.