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TheO Sunday Bee If AHA PART TWO WOMEN'S' SECTION PART TWO SOCIETY VOL. L NO. 3. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULYV 4, 1920. .1 B PRICE FIVE CENTS r,T- cents. X 1V1 VU 1 O OUTSIDE OMAHA AND OOUN- Festivals of W ashington Society Moves, Fruit Are Enjoyed Hobbies Will Keep You YQung 4- cv.e&Y detayls. IN the hustle and bustle of this restless age the one great prob lem which all classes seem to take time for is the ever important question "How to Keep Young?" One of the most successful remedies against old age is a hobby. Almost everyone has a hobby some favorite fad which he pur sues zealously without ulterior mo tive and no thoughts of gain. In reality everybody should have two, an indoor hobby and an out-of-door hobby; more would probably do no harm. There's nothing like a hobby tyr keeping one young. Many elder ly "gentlemen attribute their splendid constitutions to a mania for dancing it golf, which they indulge in on 1 ,UJ I'tJazni'ic One of the most interesting hob bies is pursued by a wYdcly known business man, who is many times a millionaire, fie has a vast admira lioh for those who excel in any line, be it prize fighting or checkers or miniature painting, and he makes a practice of collecting such acquain tances in much the same way as an I'lher would accumulate rare edi tions. Another hobby, which at least has (lie merit of being unusual, is the collection of the mummified heads of Aztec Indians, one of which was purchased by ait enthusiast only teccntly from a local curiosity shop. He has an extensive collection of these gruesome mementoes. A famous writer, who died a short time ago. made a practice of collect ing all the rejection slips sent her by magazines. For the encourage ment of young authors it may be noted that they papered a whole room. Another writer, a poet, col lected 92 rejection slips from a single poem. In New Orleans there is a shop devoted exclusively to the sale of hotiles bottles of every conceivable size and form. If. seems that cer tain kinds of bottles are already coming to be regarded as rare an tiques and are enthusiastically sought by avid collectors. Frequently it is the associations of objects which" lend them an especial value. The collection of ship models is getting to be a fad. and the accum ulation of snuff bottles, spinning wheels, cradles, doorknobs, and even j c:I'lvatch keys, are not unusual hob- j hies. j A needlewoman in this citv has i. n i: r " i. bobbins. She has more than 100 of them. 3 t, A PROMINENT club woman was somewhat nonplussed . (should Gabby say?) a few days ago. She is the wife of a well known banker and presides over a beautiful home in the vicinity of Thirty-seventh and Farnam streets. AsWhc is planning to. leave the city for several months she negotiated! Ma the telephone with a young man to take care of the grounds about the house during her absence. Final arrangements were to be made later in the dsy when the psuedo-gardener would call at her residence. That evening just after the dinner hour she and her daughter were resting on the veranda when a large tour ing car stopped before the house .nd a dapper young man mounted the steps. . A business acquaintance of her husband and she looked so untidy! With these thoughts in mind the matron scurried into her mansion as did the tittle girl. v j" , A trim maid admitted the slim chafi to the s'acrcd portals and brought word that "Mrs. will be down in just a moment." About five minutes later into-the room entered a dignified well Kroomed woman, freshly gowned, hair rearranged and accompanied by - . - ...i. r . i .- a youngMci viiosq late giowcu irorruf a hurried cleansing. f " Then without more ado the pa tient young man briefly stated his business he wished to discuss the care of the lawn! f BREAK the news gently. Whis per it down apartment hall ways and uffon the gavelcd roof where the cooling zephyrs from the slow-creeping Missouri, or the authoritative and commercial breezes from a southerly direction make you forget temporarily the profiteering landlord. Yes, whisper it gentlv, for ifwou say it loudly it will scare folks back into their one-room apartments with three-room accommodations, just like a field of prairie dogs darting into their holes at the report of a rifle. The crust of Omaha cliff dwellers has been broken! The people m 315 know their neighbors across the hall! 1'he community spirit has seeped through soundproof walls. Instead of being isolation cells, apartments have become units of one big family. All because of the profiteer! When rents began going up Mrs. Smith felt drawn to ask Mrs. Jones how much their increase amounted to. Together they condoled, They ap proached other tenants whom they met on elevators and in the lobby ind for the first time began to real re that there were other human be ngj under the same roof.v Gab(by once had as a theme in ihetoric, "Success alienates man from his fellows, but suffering makes kinsmen of us all." This story proves the truth of the statement. "Ain't that ..the limit," Mrs. Jones would ay. "What can we do about it?" some practical so'ii would, ssk. - ?rom th paramount subject )hfv would d.ift to the weather for it is warm then to the price of as- Distinguished Visitor Mrs. Carey, wife of Gov. Robert Carey ofWyoming, hasxbeen the guest of Mrs. Charles T. Kountze for the past 10 days, departing Saturday for her home in Careyhurst.' Governor Carey, who spent several days here early in the week, returned home Wednesday. The visit of Mrs. Carey has been occasion for many delightful social affairs. Mr. and Mrs. Kountze entertained for her, also Mr. and Mrs. George Prinz, Mr. "and Mrs. W. J. -Foye, Mr. and Mrs. Doorly, Mrs. A. L. Reed and Mrs,. Joseph Barker, i paragus and so on until all reserve was gone. So here's ,.to the profiteering land lord. Gabby 'wonders what he can possibly buy with his alleged wealth one-half so precious as the spirit of friendship, which he innocently has sold. ARE you one of those devotees of chewing gum. candy mints, and the like? Gabby has ,re- cently discovered that the'great ma" jority of people seem to carry an ever constant supply. At dancesj movies, anywhere and everywhere, young men pull several varieties of gum and mints from their pockets and offer them to the girls. One has explained the action thus:. "I really feel impolite when smoking and having acquired the haryt, ,1. am nervous when I cannot enjoy a smoke. If I chew gum or eat mint, it relieves my nervousness and I then enjoy myself." A well known violinist here never gives a number unless she -has a neat little "wad" rolled under tongue. She does not chew it but says that she must have it in order to do her best work. IN an ice cream oarlor Gabby sat. It was evening. It was warm. Conversation seemed sticky like the table tops on which Gabby leaned her arms as she fininshed her alibi for a quench thirster. Sauntering out ahead of her escort who lined up to pay the bill, she. overheard a conversation. "I don't care how much my .soda costs me," said the taller of the two, "but I chafe under that war tax. Yes, I know I can afford to pay it, but rfo tax a little kiddie's ice cream cone which he has saved up his pennies to buy to remind one so constantly of war and itS cost I cant quite explain my feel ings, but I know I don't like it." "If you must rave," broke in the talr girl's companioi, "why don't your really look into the subject of war taxes? The thing which has always struck me as so queer is that gloves; no matter' what price, are untaxed, while hose are on the fatal list. Now one can go without gloves, but " Their voices died away as Gab by's escort interrupted, "Give me a penny; I don't want 'to break a bill for the war tax." CARNEGIE in all his glory will not be as one of these; that :s, the fcreat money-maker will be outrivalled in about 20 year;', accord ing to reports now . current in Omaha. Yes, our city stands a chance of being the; home of one of the" greatest financiers of the year A. A). 1940. The names of Rockefeller, Gould and Vanderbilt are doomed to pale into nothingness. -"A little chap about 6 years old, the son of prominent and wealthy parents of Dundee,, attends a church in "West Fsrr.ni district Each Sun day this laddie'is taken to Sunday school and his -father sees that at least a dime is deposited by this chubby cherub on the collection plate. , Returning home last Sunday from church the youngster announced that Le Bon Voyage ! OiUhe steamship La France, Mrs. C. A. Hull will sail for the coun try of that name July 21. She will leave Omaha July 15. Paris is her destination. There she will take a course in French and lyric diction in theYersin school. Sailing with Mrs. Hull from New York and back again on the same shipCm- October will be Madame Yvonne Schonbrod, a friend made on a previous visit to France. During August Mrs. Hull will visit at the villa of another friend in the country near Paris and while in the city pursuing her studies she will be a member of a French -family already known to her. Mrs. Hull is enthusiastic over the fact that she will thus experience the real home life of France and will hear and speak nothing but the language of that country during her absence. Shi alrcady speaks the language well, but perfection is her goal, and to this end her friends are wishing her success and "le bon voyage." he would no longer attend services. After much questioning the follow ing was given as his reasom "Well, it's too -high priced. I could buy a lot of candy or marbles with my MARY LEARNED In this country we do not make such a 'festival of our fruit as do the foreigners. Before the war one might go to Carlton terrace, in Lon don, between the hours of 3 and 4 o'clock, in the height of the social season, and eat strawberries served upon the vine in a silver pot, at $2.50 the dozen berries. One enjoyed vastly, more than the fruit, however, sitting upon the glass enclosed ter race overlooking the Thames with its busy tugs and barges,. and it is something to gaze upon beauty and fashion in its glory. .In Berlin, also in pre-war days there was a certain restaurant on a famous street which in the season served nothing but strawberries. They (were in luscious piles on a long counter, arranged in trays and graded in s,ize. ready for selection. I t was odd to look about among the dozens of table and see everybody eating strawberries in some guise or other, and not another thing in the whole place. 'The most highly esthetic way to eat a strawberry is to hold it by its little green cap, and dip it into powdered sugar. No real strawberry lover allows his berries to be washed or eats them with cream. The washing destroys the delicate perfume, and mats down the little envkping fuzz. All fine berries are grown upon straw, and should show no sign of dust or con- -Ltact with the earth. Who docs not remember the "pctitcs fraises," the tiny; honey sweet w-ild strawberries of France; whole heaps of them for sale in the kmarkcts and' offered on every hand. Our American pinnacle of the strawberry season is the shortcake, and who can say that it is not a miracle of delight? With this de lectable invention must be served "clotted cream" and plenty of it. If there is a chance one furtively changes one's fork for a spoon! No where are there sweeter berries than are grown in the fields about Omaha, but we Americans da not seem to have the gift for stage set ting. It would take a wild stretch of the imagination to see the palm room of the Fontenelle full of gaily dressed people eating strawberries, yet it would be a pretty feature of our year and add one nj,pre festival to the sum of pleasantness. money or I could put it in my tank. If you want me to go, daddy, why don't you have the minister let me pass" the collection box, then I'd be making some money," S ft! 1 Miss Metz a Fiancee Among the members of the younger set who have recently an nounced engagements is Miss Olga Metz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Metz. Her parents announced her betrothal to Dr. Herbert II. Davis, son of Dr. and Mrs. B. B. Davis, on June 26. Miss Metz was graduated a year ago from Mis Spence's school in New York. Dr. Davis, who graduated this June from Johns Hopkins college of medi cine, is now an interne at the University hospital in this city. Classics Preferred by Omaha Readers What! Jumping Tmicydides! Omaha readers prefer the classics? Tush! Fiddlesticks! But here is proof. Our public library has been con ducting a little game for many weeks, called "My FavoriteNovel." From the many answers received a compilation has been made and you can see with your own eyes that the old novels occupy a conspicuous place in the list of favorites: "David Copperf ield." Dickens. "Oliver Twist," Dickens. "Tals of Tw Cities." Pieken. "Little Shepherd of Kpigdom Come," Fox. "Vlear'Of Wakefield." rSoldsrmith. "Htders of the-Turplo Sage," Grey. "Wildfire," Grey. . , "Les Miserables." Hugo. "Ramona." Jackson. "Call of the Wild," London. "Martin Eden." London. "Pollyanna." Porter. "Red Pepper Burns,'' Richmond. '-"Amazing Interlude," Rinehart. "Ivanhoe," Scott. , "Treasure Island, " Stevenson. "Vanity Fair," Thackery. "Ben Hur,"Wallace. "David Harum," Westcntt. "Certain Rich Man." White. "When a Man's a Man," Wright. "Winning of Barbara Worth," Wrigbt. "Princess of Thule,'' Black. "Strange Adventures of a Phaeton," Biaelc. "Lorna Doone," Blackmors. Mane Eyre," Bronte. "Tarzan of the Apes," Burroughs. "Richard Carvel," Churchill. "Huckleberry B'lnn," Clemens. "Tom Sawyer." Clemens. "'Woman'ln White," Collins. "John Halifax," Cralk. "Adam Bede," Eliot. "Lamplighter." Cummins "Somehow Good," De Morgan. Leader of Department Announces Plans for Next Season. Mrs. O. Y. Kring, leader of the public speaking department of the Omaha Woman's club, ann'ounccs that Prof. Edwin Puis has been re engaged as instructor for next sea son. The course will include: The study of speech in its' rclatiorl to personality building. An analysis of oral interpretation as a field of exercise for profitable mental and emotional states. The source of personal energy' strengthened "Through the ''recreation" of master pieces trom modem thought, the development of voice and Uody to serve their part in carrying thought through language to tlie-listening mind. My Flag Tour Flag and my Flag And how it flies today, In your land and my land Ana half a world away. Rose. rod and blood-red , Th stripes forever gleam, Snow-white and soul-white, The good forefathers' dream. Sky-bliie and true blue, With stars 10 gieam aright. The gloried guidon of the day, A shelter through the nlghL Tour Flag and my Flag! And, oh how much It holds Tour land and my land Secure within Its folas! Tour heart and my heart Beat quicker at the sight: Sun-klssed and wind-tossed. Red and blue and white -Red blue and white. The on Flag the real Flag The Flag for me nnd ou, niorlflei all else beside I The red and white and blue. , .TV. NESBIT. Phi Beta Pi Has ,New Chapter In Omaha A fourth fraternity, Phi Reta Pi, was installed May 28 at tli6 Univer sity of Nebraska college Vf medi cine by Dr. E. W. T. Eoquist of Minneapolis. This will be the Alpha Psi chapter of the national organi zation. Crcighton .has had Alpha Alpha chapter for a number of years. , A house has been purchased by the chapter at 414 North Thirty ninth street and will be occupied after the opening of tlc school year. The active members c Phi Beta Phi are Wilmer O. Lewis of Clay Center, Neb.; Ico D. Rose of Lin coln, Donald H. Aforgan of Alliance, Ralph Fouch of Parma, Idaho; Charles Laugham of Ccrinp. Perry R. Allcnton of ' Omaha, Guy II. Moates of Norfolk, George Metzin ger of Fremont, Earl E. Miller of Verdun, HermatrC Bodemer of Co zad, B. Sedlecak of Omaha, Ernest R. Rcinsch of Omaha, Dominic Kan tor of Almo, Harry Krctzlcr of Lin coln, Lyle L. Woods of Haigler, Harry Sthar of Sioux City, la.; Ray Thomson of Plainview, and Guy Goodrich of Omaha. The officers of , the chapter are Guy Moates, archon-B. Sedlecak, vice archon; Ernest R. Reinsh, secretary-treasurer, and Dominic Kan tor, editor and historian. The national convention of the fraternity will be heldyjn Boston Oc tober 15, 16 and 17. WiTmcr O. Lewis will be delegate and Ralph Fouch, alternate, for tha Alpha Psi chapter. Among the alumnae of Phi Beta FJ'who are members of the faculty at the Nebraska College of Medi cine are Dr. H. E. Egers and Dr. Joseph Weinberg. A smoker will be given at the chapter house September 17 and will be the first social affair of the year. Alumnaeof Omaha Chautauqua Active Members of the Longfellow and Dundee Chautauqua circles and their familiess will have a picnic supper in Elmwood park Saturday evening. Mrs. W. B. Howard, president of thc Omaha Chautauqua Alumnae as sociation, announces that H. H. Powers, author of "America Among the Nations," will probably lecture here in November under the auspices of the chautauqua circles. This should be especially interesting to chautauqua members, as several of Powers' books have been reviewed by the circles. The Omaha Chautauqua Alumnae association, which was recently or ganized, is a branch of the national association, "Hall in the Grove." The officers are as follows: Mrs. W. B. Howard, president; Mrs. Walter Loomis, vice president; Mrs. E. R. Redding, secretary and Mrs. H. I Curtiss, treasurer. The other mem bers are: Mesdames E. Benedict, William Haltcrman, B. C. Jaugh, F. W. Wray, E. G. Hampton, George Davis, H. S. Shriver, Ella Griswold, C. R. Harper, W. Iloyd Smith. C. H. Walrath. 11. T. Day, Bureau of The Bee, Washington, D. C., July 3. Washington's summer lethargy is i'bout to fall upon it, hut-It prom ises to be a sprightlitr lethargy tnan hascver been known except in the war days. The annual exo dus to Europe is again in evidence, and many a little parly -has already gone over for from two to three months' travel. The much revered French ambassador and Mine. Jus serand sailed today from New York for what is called a much needed rest and long deferred visit to their home, but what gossips say is a permanent return home. Senator and Mrs. Harding re turned here on Monday evening af ter spending the week end "as guests of Senator and Mrs. Joseph S. Fre linghuysen , in their place at Rari- t:m r 1 wlilrli rrftlK' aillmintc tr . an estate. They spent the week in their Washington home and closed it- today to return to Marion to spend the remainder of the summer in their home (here. Mrs. Harding lias had a trying week closing this house and directing the opening of the other ojic by telephone and tele graph. She nad expected to get out to-Marion last week for a few Hays to superintend the opening of the house there, which has not been open and occupied for several years, but she could not get away. Her correspondence has jumped to such proportions that she has selected a secretary in Miss" Margaret Wade, who was social secretary to the late Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks. Senator and Mrs. Gilbert M. Hitchcock are still in their Wash ington home and have made no plans so far for getting away for the rest of the summer. Mrs. Hitchcock' has not been so well this spring, and they decided to re main here until she was better. Miss Hitchcock is also at home here. She i ides frequently and is usually on the smart picnirs and finds life not 1 All UUU 111 UdailHlLUU lit oumi- mer. Representative M. O. McLaugh lin, accompanied by his daughter. Miss Esther McLaughlin, and by Crawford Kennedy of Lincoln, who has a position at the canitol, left, by motor at the end of last week for his home in York, ! Neb. Mrv McLaughlin will return here jifter a month or so, as Mrs. McLaughlin and the other members of the fam ily remained in their Washington home, but Miss Esther will remain in Vnrt- at tti summer school (here. Mr. Kennedy will go on to his home in Lincoln and will re turn here ivith Mr. McLaughlin. Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin enter tained earlier last week Walter V. McCartney and, Joe Alden, the lat ter the editor of the York Repub lican. He had them for dinner and showed them about the city. Mrs. Stapleton, widow of the late D. C. Stapleton, accompanied by her young daughter and by her sis ter, Mrs. Barbour, has gone to At lantic Citv for an indefinite stay. The Stapleton home here is closed for the slimmer. Mr. and Mrs. Walter renfield : nd their young daughter - left at the end of last week for Swamp scott, Mass., where they will spend the remainder of the summer, Mr PpnfieM rotnrniiior herp mm tinie- lo time to look after his business. Judge and Mrs. Coustantine J.1 Smyth are expecting a visit from their son-in-law and daughter, M.r and Mrs, I. Sibberson of Omaha, who left Omaha Wednesday for At lantic City. After a few weeks' visit there they will come here for a time. Judge and Mrs. Smvth and Miss Katherine Smyth will-leave the first of August for a month or more in the White mountains. Mrs. Smyth has greatly improved in health, and after her trip north is expected to be entirely well. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Smyth, son and. daughter-in-law of Judge and Mrs. Smvth, removed this week from Philadelphia- to South Orange, N. J., to make their future home. As scon as they are settled in their new home thev will go up to Sara nac Lake. N. Y., for a three weeks' visit. Mrs. Bernard Smyth spent a little time early last month In New York with her parent. Com mander Ellsworth Bertholf and Mrs. Bertholf, previous to theif sailing for England to spend scv-. eral months traveling on the other side. Washington is much interested in the engagement announced Wednes day of Miss' Clara Schneider to Harry Stephenson Byrne of Omaha. It was announced by Miss Schnei der's mother, Mrs, R. B. Schneider of Fremont. Neb., earlier in the week. Miss Schneider is well-known in Omaha and was one of the firSt Nebraska girls , to be accepted for the Red Cross canteen service overseas. She was abroad for eight months with her sister, Miss Mar guerite Schneider, serving in the canteens at Tours near Paris. Sie is a crraduatc of Wcllesley college. Mr. Byrne is a graduate of Johns Hopkins and of the University ct Maryland. He is a district grand master of the Kappa Sigiryi frater nity. He formerly lived m Balti more. He served it) the amv re cently and was stationed at Camp Johnson. James Ewing, Fred Elliot and the Misses Emma Sasstront,' Mabel Sasstrom, Vera DuBois, Ella Peter son, Gertrude Bailey, Grace Grant, Abagail Manning, Ellen Wallace and Elizabeth Ryan. Lecture commit tee: Mrs. E. Benedict, chairman; Mrs. Walter Loomis, Mis Gertrude Bailey and Miss Emma Sas.tron. Luncheon committee: Mr. If. f. Curtiss, chairman; Mrs. Ceot-jw, Condon. Mrs. H. E. Cotton Mid Mrs. Fred Elliot. A luncheon for all chautauqua members will be given early Seo