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The Christmas season of 1920
promises to be one of unusual gay
ety judging from the calendar
of events at the present time
and numerous other affairs- will,
without doubt, fill the few va
cancies now on the social cal
endar, for the last three weeks
i of December. The school set is re
turning, there will be numerous
guests entertained by the younger
set, and a number of Omaha girls
who have left here as brides during
the last several years will be home
for the Yuletide season. At pres
ent the following events are sched
uled: Saturday, December 11.
Mrs. Norris Brown, dinner for
the Harmony Club in the Black
Stone Oriental roofi.
Phi Chi fraternity of the Univers
ity of Nebraska College of Medi
cine, dancing party at the Black
stone. Tuesday, December 14.
Phi Rho Sigma fraternity of the
Creighton College of Medicine,
dancing party at the Blackstone.
Wednesday, December IS
Mrs. H. H. Baldrige, informal tea
her home honoring Mrs. C. A.
ifitll.
Nu Sicma Nu fraternity of the
University of Nebraska College of
Medicine, dancing party at the
Blackstone.
Thursday, December 16.
Phi Beta Pi fraternity of the Uni
versity of Nebraska College of Medi
cine, dancing party at the Black
stone. Saturday, December 18. .
Omaha Club tea dance.
University Club, Christmas par
ty, formal dinner Hance.
Monday, December 20.
Dorothy Balbach and Elizabeth
Robertson, Orpheum party and sup
per dance at Athletic club for
. Frances Billings, of Venice, Cal.,
' the guest of the former.
Tuesday, December 21.
Phi Rho Sigma fraternity of the
University of Nebraska College of
Medicine, dancing party at the Black
stone. -Wednesday, December 22.
Marcaretha Grimmell and Dor
othy Balbach. tea at Grimmel home
for Frances Billings, a visitor.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Head, formal
dancing party at Fontenelle for de
but of their daughter, Miss Vernelle
Head.
'Mr. anjd Mrs. Arthur Crittenden
Smith, dinner at the Fontenelle in
honor of Miss Marian Hamilton, a
debutante of November.
Marjorie Cavers, dinner party.
Thursday, December 23.
Omaha club, tea dare
Alpha Sigma Lambda of the Uni
tversity of Omaha, dancing party at
the Blackkstone.
Kappa Phi Delt.i sorority of the
University of Omaha, annual Christ
mas party for alumnae and active
members, .
Friday, December 24.
Mr.' and Mrs. Frak W. Judson,
Christmas eve dancing party for their
debutante daughter, Dorothy Jud
son. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Clarke, jr., a
dinner at their home for their daugh
ter. Miss Louise Clarke.
Omaha club, tea dance
Saturday, December 25, Christmas.
Princeton University Triangle
club performance at the Brandeis
to be followed by a ball at the Fon
tenelle given by the Omaha Prince
ton club in honor of the performer's.
Mr. and Mrs. W; A. Pixley and
Mr.-and Mrs. Edgar Morsman, jr.,
theater party at the Brandeis for
their daughters, Virginia and Row
ena Pixley and Mary Morsman. The
guests will attend the Princeton ball
following. j
Mr. and Mrs. Will Hoagland,
dinner at their home followed by
theater party at Brandeis, for their
daughters, Emma and Helen. The
guests will also attend the Prince
ton ball.
' Les Hiboux Club of Central High
School, dance of Blackstone.
Sunday, 'December 26.
Miss Helen Walker, tea from 4
to 6 p. m. at the St. Regis apart
ments. '
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Wilhelm, tea
at their home for their daughter,
Mrs. Samuel Cooper, formerly
Esther Wilhelm, and Mr. Cooper of
Sewickley, Pa. ,
Monday, December 27.
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Gifford, for
mal dancing party at the Fontenelle,
for debut of their daughter, Mary.
Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Hess of Coun
cil Bluffs, dinner of SO covers at the
Blackstone for their daughters, Ger
aldine and Gretchen.
Mr. and -Mrs. J.-H. Conrad and
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Arter, dinner
at the Athletic club for their daugh
ters, De Weenta Conrad and por-
othy Arter. .
Omaha club tea dance.
O. T. club of Central High school,
dancing partv at the Blackstone.
Tuesday, December 28.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. T. Belt, din
ner dance at the Hotel Fontenelle
for the-ir debutante daughter, Dor
othy.
Omaha club tea dance.
A. K. club of Central High school,
dance at Strehlow Terrace club.
Wednesday, December 29.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Metz. danc
ing party at their home for their
daughter, Olga, and their son,
Louis.
Omaha, club tea dance. N
Mr3. H. II. Baldrige. luncheon for
two holiday guests, Mrs. Samuel
Coopen of Sewickley. Pa., formerly
Esther Wilhelm, and Mrs. Sherman
Ruxton of Chicago, formerly Helen
Eastman. '
Winter Dancing club, iormad party
at the Blackstone.
Thursday, December 30.
Alpha Tati Omega fraternity, Ne
braska chapter, formal dancing party
Plans Ivlade
For A.T.O.
Party
Elaborate plans are being made
for social , affairs to be given
during the national congress of Al
pha Tau Omega fraternity here De
cember 29, 30, 31 and January 1.
The event in which society is
most interested is the formal danc
ing party to be given at the Hotel
Fontenelle, Thursday evening, De
cember 30. The following women
have been named to act as hostesses
for the dance: Mesdames John W.
Towle, Paul Kuhns, A. C. Kennedy,
E. A. Undeland, William L. Ross, jr.,
Earl W. Porter, S. A. Harris, J.
Kessler. Jones, .William Newton, W.
L. Pierpoint, Howard Kennedy,
George Greib, D. T. Ford, S. B.
McDowell, William Marsh and Ed
son Shaw, all of Omaha; Mesdames
S. R. McKelvie, Guy Reed, Ralph
Weaverling and Chandler L. Trim
ble of Lincoln, and Mesdames
Charles H. Parks, John C. Pyror
and Paul J. Vollmar of Council
Bluffs.
More than 300 invitations are be
ing issued to Omaha girls to act as
partners for the Alpha Tau Omega
bachelors. It is expected that there
will be 500 couples attending. Miss
Addy Fogg is in charge of a pro
gram to, be given between dance
numbers, several of which will be
fraternity songs arranged for danc
ing. Dancing will be in the dining
room and the ballroom.
Wednesday afternoon, December
29, at 2 o'clock, an open meeting
will be held at the Fontenelle toJ
which invitations will he issued to
a large number of local men. Gov
ernor 5. RJ McKelvie of Lincoln
and Mayor Ed P. Smith of Omaha
will each deliver an address of wel
come. Other speakers vill be Claude
T. Reno of Allentown, Pa., and
Professor Harry Harrington of the
University of Illinois.
On Wednesday evening, Decem
ber 29, all the visiting delegates and
alternates and their wives will be
entertained at a theater party to see
"Honey Dew," at the Brandeis.
Fridav evenincr. December 31. a
smoker will be held at the Black-1
ctrtn ;1in 9 nrftorram will h crivpn '
by the chapters from University of
Nebraska, University of Wyoming
ahd Simpson college.
The banquet for the men will be
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held New Year's evening, at the
Fontenelle. In a smaller room a
banquet will be given for the visiting
women.
Nebraska officers of the fraternity
are John W. Towle, president; S. A.
Harris, secretary, and Earl W. Por
ter, chairmaiof the congress com
mittee. Chairmen of the local com
mittees for the congress include
John C Pryor, S. B. McDowell,
William Newton, E. A. Undeland,
Rex. E. Edgecomb, W. A. Sells, S.
A. Harris, Lyman Thomas, John
Cutright and Paul W. Kuhns.
at Hotel Fontenelle for delegates and
alternates to their national conven
tion here.
Omaha club, tea dance.
Friday, December 31.
Mrs. George W. Flatuer, luncheon
Girls of Younger Set
Now in Foreground
It is quite the customary and usual thing to picture the life of the
debutante as one succession of teas, luncheons, dinners and dancing par
tits, with a few odd moments' devoted to charity work, but one of this
season's debutantes is making very different plans for herself. She is
Miss Mary Gifford, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Harold Gifford. On Mon
day evening, December 27, Dr. and Mrs. Gifford will entertain at a large
dancing party at the Hotel Fontenelle to introduce their daughter. Like
her sister, Mrs. Newman Benson, formerly Ann Gifford, this debutante
has determined to' follow the profession of nursing and will leave early
in January to enter the Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, where
she will remain two years in order to complete the prescribed course.
Miss Gifford spent four years at Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass., and during
the past year she was a student at the University of Wisconsin, where
she was a member of Gamma Phi. Beta. She was an Ak-Sar-Ben princess
of this year at the coronation of Miss Gladys Peters.
With the month of December conies the exodus from eastern schools
and colleges of Omaha's school set and the holiday season is ever one
of unusual gayety for those freed for a few short weeks from the routine
and discipline of their alma maters.
Amoig those who are planning to return home for the , Yuletide
season is Miss Gertrude Kountze, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther L.
Kountze. She arrives in Omaha the morning of December 19 from
Washington, D. C, where she is enrolled in Miss Maderia's Schoolfor
Girls. This is Miss Kountze's second year at school in the nation's capital.
Miss Helen Rogers, the attractive daughter of Mr.jend Mrs. Herbert
M. Rogers, arrives home the third week in December from the Bradford
Academy near-Boston, Mass., where she is taking a preparatory course
for Vassar college. Miss Rogefs was graduated last June from the
Downer Seminary in Milwaukee, Wis.
Christmas at
the
University
' Hospital
At a meeting of the Hospital
Christmas committee of the Wom
an's Faculty club of the University
of Nebraska, College of Medicine,
Wednesday at the Blackstone hotel,
the following committee chairmen
were appointed: Mrs. B. W. Christie,
refreshments; Mrs. C. A. Roeder,
decorations and Mrs. Alfred
Schalek, gifts. '
Members of the Hospital Christ
mas committee are: Mrs. Frank
Judson, chairman; Mesdames B. W.
Christie, B. R. Owen, W. P. Wherry,
C. A. Roeder, S. R. Gifford, Irving
Cutter, Alfred Schalek, II. M.1 Mc
Clanahan, E. L. Bridges, Amos
1 nomas and W. A. Baxter.
Junior league members will have
full charge of the entertainment for
the children's iward and finance the
project as well. Music will be fur
nished by the Junior League enter
tainment committee. Mrs. W. A.
Baxter will have charge of the ma
ternity ward.
at the Athletic club for her daugh
ter, Josephine.
Omaha club, tea dance.
Mildreth Street, "watch party" at
her home for members of Kappa
Psi Delta sorority of the University
of Omaha.
Saturday, January 1, New Year's
Day.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Barker, tea
dance at their home for their daugh
ter, Elizabeth, a debutante.
Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Casady,
"at home."
Theta Phi Delta fraternity of the
University of Omaha, dancing party
at Blackstone.
Alpha Tan Omega, banquet at
Fontenelle.
New Organization
For Business
Girls
The Candle club, symbolic of
light and guidance, was recently or
ganized by a group of business girls
for the purpose of helping out-of-town
girls in the city to make the
right kind of friends and to provide
entertainment for them.
Officers of the organization are
Miss Olive Frazer, president; Miss
Ruby Haskett, vice) president and
membership secretary; Miss Elvira
Johnson, recording secretary; Miss
Esther Janssen, treasurer; Miss Mil-,
dred Wolfe, social secretary; Mrs.
Grace' WeWs, moral secretary;' Miss
Irene Mason, spiritual secretary,
and Miss Ruth Parker, educational
secretary.
A Christmas party will be given
Christmas night at 6:30 o'clock, at
the home of Mrs. Wells, 2874 Vane
Street, for members who will- be un
able to go home over, the holidays.
The club has a membership of 30
and is open to all girls between the
ages of, IS and 35. Further infor
mation may be obtained from the
membership secretary. Miss Ruby
Haskett, Walnut 1726 or Douglas
S8p0.
Fine Arts
Special interest is being shown in
James Weber Linn of Chicago' who
will lecture on "The Americaniza
tion of Literature" before the Oma
ha Society of Fine Arts, Friday, De
cember 10, in the ball room of the
Fontenelle hotel.
Reports of Mr. Linn's geniality
and splendid delivery have been
heard by a number of Omaha peo
ple, according to Mrs. Anna B. Dar
low. chairman of publicity. The
author is a tieohew of Jane Adams
at Hull House fatal
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Thanksgiving
Merry at
Capital
Washington, Dec. 4.
Bureau of The Bee.
Washington society which was
widely scattered last week-end is
gathering together again and by
Monday will almost be settled in the
capital for the winter. The Thanks
giving season was a merry one, with
scores of college boys and girls here
for the two large charity balls
Thanksgiving eve and Thanksgiving
night, and who went in parties, large
and small, to the Army and Navy
game in New York which was the
culmination of almost a week's fes
tivities. The secretary of war and
the secretary of the navy and their
families had large parties of guests;
mostly young people. They returned
to Washington Sunday night, while
the college boys and girls returned
to their studies for Monday morn
ing. Miss Lucy Maury of Roanoke,
who spent the holidays wjth her
aunt, Mrs. Wilson, at. the White
House, returned to her school the
middle of this week after a lovely
visit here. She attended the con
certs with Mrs. Wilson and went to
drive each afternoon with the Presi
dent and Mrs. Wilson, when the
weather was at all mild.
Lieutenant Commander and Mrs.
Emory D. Stanley, formerly of Ne
braska, are settled in their pretty
home on Otis Place for the season.
On Tuesday evening Mrs. Stanley
had a surprise supper party for her
husband to celebrate his birthday.
The guests were eight of his former
classmen stationed now in Wash
ington, and their wives. Command
er and Mrs. Stanley were among the
guests at dinner last evening of Com
mander Collins, who entertained a
company at the Army and Navy club
preceding the subscription dance of
naval and marine corps officers at
the Willard.
Commander and Mrs. Stanley
went over for the Army and Navy
foot ball game on Thanksgiving day
and were guests of Commander
Berthca.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Penfield
were among the guests of Mrs.
Thomas F. Walsh in her box at the
navy relief ball on Thanksgiving
night.
Mrs. Frederick F. Rogers, wife of
Commander Rogers, U. S. N., also
a former Nebraskan, is entertaining
at, bridge on Monday afternoon in
her home at 2711 Conecticut avenue.
She also has cards out for "at
homes'' on the second Tuesdays in
December, January and February.
Norman S. Nyce. a sophomore at
Princeton, spent Thanksgiving with
his cousin, Miss Katharine Brooks,
in Washington and attended the
balls and a few of the small affairs
during the holidays. He is a son of
Rev. Benjamin M. Nyce of Muncic,
hid., who has been called to and
has accepted the pastorate of a large
Presbyterian church in Lincoln, lie
and his family will go there the first
week in January. His family con
sists of his wife and their one son,
and Mrs. Nyce's mother, Mrs. N. 11.
Strong of Shclbvville. In&, who
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Are You One
Shoppers?
Wool
By GABBY
DO your Christmas shopping
early," is a good slogan, a very
creditable one, and its admoni
tion should be heeded, but don't do
as one of Gabby's friends did last
season.
This matron always has a lengthy
list of friends to whom she sends
gifts and a more extensive one of ac
quaintances to whom she sends
cards. Early in the fall of 1919 she
decided to avoid any rush at Christ
mas time and siie made her pur
chases, wrapped, addressed, and
stamped them and prepared her
greeting cards. Ah, that was done;
for once she need not worry until
the very last minute about the mat
ter of Christmas.
She is 'one of those women who
still cling to the idea of a semi-annual
general hurricaneous house
cleaning. One bright day last spring,
in the ardous task of unsettling and
settling hei household, she came
upon a large box. What had she
ever put in that? She investigated
the Christmas presents! 'Shame,
dismay, rage, modification and, and
a dozen other emotions shook her
until economy, one of her strongest
traits, came to the rescue.
She will just send them out this
year if she does not forget.
TRAINING a hoy in the ways ol
etiquette, when he is at that age
synonmous with flapperism in
girls, is a difficult task, as many , a
mother has found. A matinee au
dience was much amused one after
noon during the week at the ac
tions of a freckle-faced lad who ap
peared to have just entered long
trousers. His mother is one of those
rarely wise persons who knows that
her criticisms avail naught with him
but that ridicub from strangers is
indeed bitter.
They had made their way to the
proper aisle and row when our young
hero (?) discovered hat he should
have removed his overcoat. Being
very heavily burdened with a small
package and a enp, he pushed these
articles without so much , as "by
your leave" into the hands of the
mother. She stood silently holding
them until the son had divested him
self of wraps while those nearby
laughed and enjoyed the little scene.
Suddenly he came to life, blushed
furiously, took the cap and packages,
and stood aside for his mother to
enter.
PILK hose for working girls,
preposterous I Silk hose are not
among the necessities of life,"
roared a well-known local king of
finance. It was noon and the man
was hungry, and that surely account
ed in a measure for his anger. Once
out on the street, the 1, k. sudden
ly noticed that a number of girls
were wearing woolen hose, several
passed him who were friends of his
young daughter. Adventure called
the man.
First he stationed himself neir a
huge office building to which scores
of girls were, returning to begin, the
of the Early
Silk vs.
Hose
DETAYLS.
afternoon's work. He carefully
tabulated silk a-.id wool.
Next he placed himself in an in
conspicuous spot near a club wherfl
the younger matrons, and the older
matrons, and the "debbies" and their
sisters are wont to take their midday
meal. Here also he tabulated silk
and wool.
There this point was proven the
daughters of the rich were far more
sensible than their sisters of the
workaday world.
Suddenly his daughter came minc
ing down the street aud spied her
father. "Oh, Dad, I'm so glad I met
you. I need some money to buy .
some woolen hose. They're quite
the fad, I want two pairs of plain ,
they are only $3.50 and I want
one pair of fancy ones. I've found
some that are quite cheap, only $6.
Of course, I know they are more ex
pensive than silk, but every one has
them now. Why, dad, what in the
world i3jhe matter with you ,Yoa
look so Ipicer." , '
,But dad said nothing. With a sigh
he pulled three V's from his bill
roll and as daughter went merrily
on her way he muttered something. .
Maybe he said, 'What's the World
Coming To?"
PAGE Sir Walter Raleigh, cries
the modern Elizabeth. Just a
moment. Wc hear too many
answers. There are only three
of him in Omaha, Gabby is cer
tain. A number of university fresh
men boarded a street car. With
their entrance the car was filled to
capacity, not to "bursting," as is
often the case. At the next stop a
plump matron, perhaps 30 or 35
years old, entered.
"She was pretty and had very
slim ankles even though she was
fat," confided one of the "freshies."
As one, the three boyi rose. Oht
horrors, they had not meant to
imply what their action did. How
embarassed they were! But not
so the little matron, she dimpled
good-naturedly and laughed, "I
than you one aud all."
AN ENGLISH youth who re
ceived his degree from Oxford
only 'a few months ago has
been furnishing much amusement
for his fellow workers at a local
business house. Not long ago the
bos asked several of the force to
work overtime. Before leaving the
oiTice he remarked, "Have any of
you fellows anything to put in the
safe before I lock it up?" Being as
sured that there was nothing to put
away he turned the dial and de
parted. Some hours later the Englishman
rushed madly' toward the vault,
tried the door and exclaimed, "Of all
the beastly luck this safe is locked
and my "a't's in there." "Why didn't
vcu say so when Mr. X told you
he was about to lock the vault?
You heard Jiini, didn't you?" asked
a fellow worker. VYes, I heard
him," replied the youth. "Ha
'avskcd' if 1 had anything to put itl
the vault, but 'e didn't 'awsV ii X
, hai anything coming ovV.., ,
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