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The Omaha SundayBee .... .... ...,,,.. w ,. ., j. . , ,. PART TWO WOMEN'S SECTION PART TWO SOCIETY VOL. L NO. 31. ' - OMAHA, . SUNDAY MORNING, : JANUARY 16, 1921. 1 B TEN CENTS Professor In Tilt With Attorney By GABBY DETAYLS. DR. H. B. ALEXANDER, whose scries of lectures before the Omaha School Forum begin tomorrow, might truthfully be called the man of exact language. He is able to say just what he means.' Now mat may not seem like an accom plishmenW but verily, verily, it is notning else. - Ngt only does Dr.Alexandcr ex press himself with clearness and pre cision, but beauty of thought and a ready wit are his as well. Imagine,-if you will, what might nappeu h a; man of ready wit and keenness for language, crossed swords with an attorney. Read most any of the laws on our statute books and you will gain some tdea of the average attorney's literary style. Well, Gabby o.nce had the pleas ure of listening to Dr. Alexander in a court coonuunder fire from an at torney. The attorney had been trying for an hour to get information from the professor on a certain meeting - in University hall. The janguage of the attorney being ambiguous, ; the witness was able to give respectful answers, real answers to the ques tions, yet tinrevealing. Question after question was put. Answer after answer was quietly given. Still the attorney was getting nowhere and he knew it. 'Finally he ran his forefinger around the top pt his collar nervous ly, squirmed noticeably and com man ded with obvious irritation: "Tell us, in a word, professor, just what happened at that meeting. Politelv, ".very politely, quietly, mildly. Dr. Alexander replied with characteristic exactness: i "I can't do it in a word." The large audience, in which were many students, laughed, the1 judge rapped for order, the attorney re . tired, andNnobody ever did find out just what actually happened at "that meeting." THE very latest custom, have you heard - of it? It' evidently slipped in when they ORened the door for jazz and short skirts, and gowns held up on the shoulders by "a string of pearls. and the grace of God." When you have out-of-town guests and would have your friends or acquaintances entertain for them, make your wishes known. - A very pretty Omaha miss is known to have done this in more than one instance. "Hello, D.," she is said to have said. "I have otiie guests you know, and would like to have you give an Orpheum and sup per party for theni tomorrow even ing. Now the list. will, include " and on she went, telling him just whom hi should invite to his party. ' This clever one struck a snag in one case that Gabuy knows of. When she handed out her formula the young man balked: "I am not giving any dinner-parties this season." Curtain! , Quite a similar custom, inaugu rated by a recent bride, relates to wedding presents. "What a pretty gift this ,is," commented a friend on a certain piece of ut glass. "But wilt vou be able to use it?" "Oh, yes," answered the bride. "It's just what I wanted. I asked So-and-So to give me that!" Mrs. Slaker Speaks Before Woman's Club Mrs. John Slaker of Hastings, president of the Nebraska Federa tion of Women's Clubs, will be the principal speaker on the open day program of the Omaha Woman's -club Monday afternoon, -3:30 o'clock, at the Y. W. C. A. auditorium. Mrs. Slaker's subject will be "Allied Art" The program will be under direc tion of the art department, Mrs. Avery Lancaster, leader. . Vocal numbers. "The Robin," by Anna Case and "Down .in the Forest," by I andon Ronald, will be" given by Mrs. Harry-Nicholson, accompanied bv Mrs. D. J. Adams. s 4 During the business meeting, which opens at 2:30 o'clock" the presidents of the federated clubs in the Second district, including Mrs. C. L. HempeL . Omaha Woman's club; Mrs. -W. A. Wilcox, Benson Woman's club; Mrs. W. T. John son, Dundee Woman's club; Mrs. J. G. Hart. Omaha Woman's club: Railway Mail Service. Mrs. Samtretl Shriglev, South Omaha Woman's club; Mrs. C M. Skinner,. Ralston Woman's club; Mrs. Charles Pike, Papillion Woman's club: Miss Mar garet Robertson, Blair Girls' Mental Culture club; Mrs. H. L. Swan, Her man Woman's club; Mrs. James Davidson, Springfield Woman's club; Mrs. Fred Whitmore, Valley Woman's club; and Mrs. G. E, .Hall, Waterloo Woman's club; and Mrs. L. M. Lord, president of the district, will be on the platform with Mrs. Slaker. An informal reception will be held at the close of the program. In the receiving line with Mrs. Slaker will be Mesdames Lord, Hempel and Lancaster. Mrs. Slaker will be honor guest at a luncheon Monday noon at 12 o'clock at the Rome hotel, given by the clubs of the Second district, Mrs. Lord presiding. . ; v OIt m work to 0, Give m health. Olv vn joy In ilmpl thlnt. Give me a eye for bMUty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves. A mind that reasons. A eympathy that understands. Give me neither malic nor envy But a true kindness And a note common lens. At" the close of each day Give me a book ' And a friend with whom I can be silent. . Scotlle McKensle Frasler. V Frances ' - Nash - In Concert x V sf -Mr . -;4 . ' : " : J tV rV- ss?k 11 k ,Has"tt" uf v M , t'' . 11 v CX it" .! 1"' . umana to near Frances Nash : Watson A musical event of. the. future which is of especial intere'st to Oma ha will be the appearance of Frances Nash, concert pianist, in :a. recital Sunday afternoon! February 27, at the Brandei theater, under the aus pices of the Tuesday Musical-club. 5 This welt-Jcnowhartist becafne the hride of Col.' Edward, Watson .'on September 1, in Paris. ; She Ji'as re turned to the United. States: to-; fill her concert engagements for the win ter and at present is in New York City. She is the daughter of Mrs. E. W. Nash and the sister of Mrs. Ludovic F. Crofoot , and . Louis , C. Nash of this city. .. . During the latter part;of January she will come to Omaha to bp. with her mother, who recently returned from a trip to New York. ; While east Mrs. Nash visited Mrs. Watson and Colonel Watson,- who had !come from Paris to spend , the ' holidays with his celebrated wife. vv Musical Muse-Said To Be Moving v l o America Do, you remember Pavlowa "said when here that the , renaissance of music would come in America. Others high up , in musical circles believe that the Muse isMnoving to America. Some one advises: lis,' be fore mailingj, a letter . to' MissV'Eu terpe at Moan t Olympus, or Par nassus, or Helicon, or wherever you're ' in the habit of addressing her, to write oh the left hartd. upper corner of the 'envelope; "If not found, try care bf Uncle Sam, U. S. A." ;. .. - . -- : , -; -..f Any number of foreign artists are. touring our country . this . season with great success, but few people realize that the-American successes include such names as Albert Spalu , ing, violinist; Mischa Levitski, pi anist; Reinald . Wirrenrath, , bari tone, and May Peterson,. 'soprano, to say nothing of Geraldine Farrai, Florence Easton, Clarence ,v White hill,' Paul Althouse, Thomas iChal mers, Orville Harrold, Alice Gentle, Alma Gluck, Florence Macbeth, Charles and Arthur Hackett, Flor ence Hinkle and othert artists ot whom any country would . have cause to be proud. Omaha is having her share of the "artists of note" this year. 1 Her enthusiastic reception , of Caruso, Pavlowa and Anna Case are prob ably only forerunners of her greek, ing to Madame Hf.mer, R,ichmah inoff. Fritz Krcisler. Schumann Hcink and our own Frances Nash. , r- , - v ; ' ' f t Former Omaha, Girl' Returns as Bride f t ' ' I y " J i- mm . it $H W?-Vs ' ' " :- : 4h?i ' ' "An" attractive bride who will soon be a member of Omaha's younger married set is Mrs. Charles Ward . Burgess,, who, before her marriage Wednesday evening, was Miss Catherine Smyth, daughter of : Chief Justice and Mrs. Constantine J. Smyth of Washington, D. C. The wedding was one of the larger social events of the winter in bejh residential and official society in the Capital city. .. v -This . youngjnatron at one time resided here and has visited in Omaha a "number of summer's ' with !her sistett"i!rs. Clarence Sibbernscn, and is well known in social circles here. A number of af . fairs are being planned to honor Mr. and Mrs. Burgess upon their return from the Bermudas, where they are! honeymooning. .They have taken an apartment at the St. Regis. One of Ten Best Plays to Be -f Interpreted - . professor Paul H.Grummann will interpret "Jane Clegg" by St. John Ervlne, the Irish dramatist, in the fourth . of a series of lectures under the auspices of the Drama League, at the Fontenelle on Tuesday, Jan uary 18, 4 o'clock. , .' St. John Ervine was introduced tothe American stage through his plays "John Ferguson" and "Jane Clegg" by the : New York Theater Guild, an organization which aims to produce better drama for its own sake. "Jane Clegg", according to Burns Mantel, dramatic critic, is one of the vten best plays produced In America in . 1919-1920. , Professor Grummann's next lecture will be gryen on Tuesday, February l.-when litf wilhspeak on Brieux's "The Letter1 of the Law." ,! The date of the lecture to be (riven rby Dr.' Gregory ' Zilboorg has been cnangea irom March it to Friday, January . 28. The subject of Dr. Zilboorg's' lecture will be "The Mos cow Art Theater." ', Fine Arts' Society Book Plate C' Exhibit" tThc Qmaha Fine Arts society wilt havvan exhibit of Book Plates from January 19 to 30, inclusive. All Omaha people who are -possessors ofBook Plates ar kindly invited to loan-them to the Omaha Society of Fine Ars during the exhibit. If the donors .will mail Book Plates to Mr. Maurice" Block, art director, at the Public library, , third floor, he will J personally take charge of them. The Book Plates loaned need not be mounted;' as the Fine Arts will as sume all responsibility for mounting and return of plates to the owners after the exhibit. ' t The number 'of Book Plates on ex hibition amounts to 10 and are leaned by the Americaii Book Plate; jocietyTo.f Kansas City. Among owners of Book Flatcs in Oipaha are Mrs. C. T. Kountze, Mrs. M. G. Colpetzer, Mrs. Leonard Ev eretts (Council Bluffs). Dr. F. N. Cdtmdr, Richard 's.waft, II, Sam corns, c; JN. jjictz, ijeorge rrmz and Dr. Alfred J. Brown. Dr. Brown lias 300 Book Plates done by Edwin Davis French. v ' . This exhibit will be open to the public frpm 9 a. m. to 5:30 p. m., on week days and on Sundays from 2 to 6 p. m. Travelers to Tropics An Omaha matron who. is leaving for a journey, to the tropics, is Mrs. JoluvW. Gamble. She and Mr. GamT ble leave here Sunday for New.. York City, whenCe, they sail on January League of Women Voters. In Omaha The League of Wtrnien Voters in Omaha is Stirred up. ; The members wan to . read., the new city charter before - it is ' too late to discuss it effectively. They want the school board, to provide a new High vSchool of Com merce. . , . " '.. '' ' 'l - - . They want the children's code to pass in toto with all its 53. bills'. . They want civil service, even in the Douglas county hospital. . . They want to get together with both men and women from all forward-looking bodies in' the city, and unite upon candidates for the city council to be elected this .spring. All these matters were discussed Friday morningi at the Fontenelle hotel at a meeting called by Mrs. Charles J.Hubbard, local president of the league. The chief . purpose of the meeting was to set a time and place of meeting forMhe annual meeting of the Douglas county branch, League of Women Voters, but the women attending were so full of civic emotion that it was 'dif ficult to settle so prosaic a thing as a date of meeting. The business was cared for, how ever' And Friday, January 28, was decided upon as the date, and the City Council phamber as the place for this annual gathering. ; Mrs. Hubbard appointed a nominating committee composed of Mrs. Hal leck , Rose, chairman; Mrs. -H. J. Bailey and Mrs. Edgar Scottf also a program committee with Mrs.-. L, B. Webster, chairman. Mrs. H. C. Sumney and Mrs. W. A. Wilcox. Mrs. H. C. Sumney reported a little less than $1,000 as having gone from this state to-national headquar ters for the Anna Howard Shaw me morial, -Nebraska's quota is $5,000. The memoriahwill take the form of a chair inpolitical and social science at Bryn Mawr and a department in preventive medicine at the Woman's Medical college of Pennsylvania. A letter to Mrs. Hubbard from Mrs. Charles Dietrich of Hastings, state president of the league, was, read in part. Mrs. Dietrich said: "Did you notice . that the farmers' organization is asking for " tIurn i Tvu B.' ( Wit. i ! 22' for Cuba, South America and Pan ama. - They will stop in-, Washington, D. -.Cj enroute to their embarkation point.. "Mr.! and Mrs.- Gamble will not retutn.'home'ujitil the month of March. . Echoes " From Isle fOf'Mari t : Miss Co well : ; . --. . -. - i . - ifrs." Halleck Rose, has J recently received . a tinted card from 'Miss Mona Cowell, .'who with her parents, is . visiting the Islft of Man. "Peel Castle from Pier" l is . the scene, which leads Mrs. Rose to observe: "The ' striking' similarity between Edward .' AV, Charlton's 'Home From The Trawling Grounds,' an etching1 'from a-' collection being shown in this country ' from Ring wood, Hampshire, England, and a postcard ' 'Peel Castle from ,Per,' I. O, -Mi; reminds,. us again' what en vironment can vdo ' for those whose powers ...of expression have been de veloped. ' The arrangement of the boats, the clouded sky and the fre quently depicted castle in the dis tance, are " truly English scenes. Again, if one's' natural environment is in a -way responsible' for one's character, .. the; , character of. the Manxmen should be rugged indeed." Mri. Rose , tlyhks " Miss Cowell, with, her advanced .idea's of women, woflld find the Isle of Man a con genial place. - The Weekly Times, I. O. M., November' 27, 1920, in an article on the married women's prop erty bill under, consideration there referred to a tradition that "because the Manx women of the noth helped their men in a battle with the south, they shoillj, in the future, have half of whatever " the men possessed. The, House of, Keys, about 40 years ago the first of all the, British Do minions -recognized . the right of -women to vote. The Manx legisla tion was very far in advance of Eng land or the colonies." . Mr', and Mrs. Robert Cowell and daughter, Miss. Mona, left Omaha last July, going directly to the Isle of Man where they,will remain until spring. According to their present plan,, they will spend some time on the continent, returniug to this coun try by way of India and Japan prob-i ably Jtilyl. , ! No Regret for Inaugural Ball Bureau of The Bee, Washington, Jan. 15. While the abandonment of the in augural festivities is a bitter dis appointment in many places and to many classes, the average Washing tonian gives it scarcely a second thought, except to breath a sigh of relief. For these four years apart celebrations arc more of a bore to the old residents than a thing of joy. Andas tor the pain a proper ly self-respecting old resident of Washington would consider he or sh wr-r not unholdinc the dienitV of an array of ancestors were- he to condescend to attend such a pro- . miscuous gathering as an inaugural ball. It js quite strictly official, both for out-going and in-coming, unless, perhaps, when a completo change of party is taking v place, when the out-going are not such numerous guests. It has been 12 years since an inaugural ball was held in this country and interest was just beginning to wax keen throughout the city, even among the oldest inhabitants, when the astonishing announcement of "no ball" came. The further news of "no parade" was almost unbelieve- . . . rr 4 . , t1, - At. able. 1 ne last sucn nan was me , memorable one of the Taft inaugu ral when Washington weatner, wnicn had done its worst throughout tht day, let up as though in apology for the evening,' c '.hat the ball en- thusiasts could at least get to the ball, though no street cars were running. The first inaugural ball on record was the one in celebration of the in auguration of President Madison, when both the retiring -President Jefferson and .he in-coming Presi dent Madison were present. Then follpws the chronicling of three in augural balls to celebrate the be ginning of President' Van Buren's regime. The new president and vice president and some of ' the higher officials attended but one of these, although William Hen ry Harrison, whose incoming was celebrated also with three balls, attended each one of them for at least a short time, and it is recorded that at the ball on Louis iana aveliue, between Fifth and Sixth streets. the new president danced with Mrs. Gales, wife of the editor of the National Intelligencer. Three inaugural balls were held on the evening of President Taylor's in auguration and both the president ana, vice rresioeni numorc aiiciiu--ed all of-them. President Lincoln's first inaugural ball was a brilliant success, but it was minus its lead ing figure, for neither the presi dent nor Mrs. Lincoln were present. They did, however, attend the ball on his second inauguration. Senator and Mrs. George W. Nor ris had a holiday visit from their youngest daughter, Gertrude, who is a student at the State University at Lincoln. She had a quiet little rest, with a couple of small lunch parties among her school friends here, and returned last week to Lincolni Sen ator and Mrs. Norris will nave a house overflowing with guests for gets discouraged and thinks there will be nothing to see worth while coming for. Mrs. Reavis, wife of Representa tive C Frank Reavis, of Falls City, Neb., has as her guest this week her sister, Mrs. J. J. Faulkner of East St. Louis, 111., who is returning home atter a visit to her son, Worthe Faulkner, tenor, ip Boston. Mrs. Faulkner spent a month in Boston. Mrs. Reavis is exDectinsr a vi4it from her niece, Miss Anna JJ argaret Gist, of Falls City, who will be here through the inauguraL She will be in Ithaca, N. Y., next week tor the Junior Week at Cornell, where "Jack" Reavis is a student. Jack Reavis will come down lor the 4tn of March ceremonies. uenerai rersning, wno rciurucu io Washington last week, was a joint puest of honor with Secretary and y . T . t . . I . J . Mrs. Baker at dinner ot uenerai and Mrs. Marshall on Thursday eve ning preceding the army dance given in the ball room at 2400 Sixteenth street. Generaf Pershing also as- . . i . t. - ri ." . . : .u sisieu inc oasns in receiving lira guests and later, -with them, went . down to Columbia hospital ball at i the Willard. . ' Mrs. Clarence Day. j formerly Miss Ethel Smith of Oma- ha, was a guest in Mrs. Victor ' Kauffmann's box that night and wore one of the handsomest costumes in the ball room. It was of jade green taffeta, the skirt bouffant edned with. silver ribbon in scallops and the drapery held here and there with pink roses. Mrs. Day assisted Airs. Kaufr- mann last Thursday afternoon at her first afternoon reception and on Monday afternoon Mrs. Day was hostess at a small tea in her pretty Koine, lSS twentieth street, ishe was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Samuel E. Winslow, Mrs. Victor Kauffmann and Mrs. Ernest D. Peek, also formerly of Omaha. The dec orations were all in yellow, and white, a silver bowl filled with yellow daisies formed . the center piece for the table, and tall silver candlesticks with yellow candles and candlcshader., stood at each corner of the table. Several silver vases with yellow daisies were placed at intervals on the table. Mrs. Day. who is a handsome brunette wore dark blue tricotine braided in Per sian colors, with a vest of Persian embroidery, the sash and girdle , faced with henna. Major-General and ' Mrs. Omar Bundy came east from Fort Crook, Neb., where they are stationed and after a visit here and in New York, left for a six weeks trip to Jamaica, Columbia and Panama. Mr. ajul Mrs. I. E. Schwckengast of Lincoln, Neb., spent a part t this week at the Shorchani, i; Y ft
