The Omaha Sunday Bee
PART TWO
WOMEN'S SECTION
PART TWO
SOCIETY
VOL. L NO. 51.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 5, 1921.
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TEN CENTS
Modesty a State of Mind
Toddle Is Waning and
fc kMain Street1 ' Yellow
By GABBY DETAYLS.
MODESTY seems to be a state
of mind or clothes.
A ' charming young society
matron appeared in a smart musical
benefit recently in costumes, sub
ordinated to her personality, to
say the least. The popular young
husband clapped and smiled 'when
ever his wife appeared. Why
shouldn't he? She was pretty of face
;md trim of figure. She was moulded
very much in fact in the way God
is supposed to make folks. Her pic
ture, which was a picture of Her,
appeared numerous times in two of
the leading dailies.
If that were all, that would be all
indeed as Shakespeare might have
said. There would then be nothing
for Gabby to tell, for the mere fact
that girls don abbreviated costumes
and thusly dance is not so extraor
dinary nor appalling as to be a
case for comment. But
Now come the riding races. When
the society editor telephoned this
pretty girl, asking for a nice respect
able picture of her in her stunning
togs, clothed from head to foot, nund
you. well
Husband stepped in with a pro
prietary and stern air and swore
there was:
Nothing doing . . ; Don't ap
prove . . . Immodest."
Shades of Pegasus 1 Since when
have leather boots and flannel shirts
become less modest than pink flesh
and crepe de chine teddies.
Sh! Gabby has it. The bride is
young and husband just has to im
press her early in their career with
his masculine and authoritative in
terest in her welfare. Gabby hopes it
worked. There are wives, you know,
who just love to say, "My husband
simply put his foot down. He will
not let me."
"10ING, going, gone," will
I -r soon be the sad tale told of
the shimmy, the toddle and
other fancy wiggle variations of the
terpsichorean art as practiced by the
college 3'outh of America, according
to a recent issue of the Kansas City
Star. From all over the country
comes the news that the naughty
steps must be forgotten, and more
than that, some schools are protest
ing vigorously against the short,
knee-length skirt, the thin silk stock
ings and even the "vile weed" in
cigarets.
At Vassar the girls have gone on
a strike against present fashions.
They are wearing long skirts, and
are again exposing to view the ears
hidden so many years from the curi
ous glances of mere man. They also
wear their hair slicked back in tight
knots.
From the University of Oregon
emerges the clarion cry "On with
the dance, but let H be exceedingly
proper."
Drury college students have ruled
that the shoulder of the man when
dancing shall be six inches distant
from his partner's and that ortho
dox Vernon Castle dancing pro
cedure be followed. To see that the
regulations are carried out, faculty
chaperons are appointed to censor
all dances.
At California extravagances o? the
formal dance are under fire. The
Daily Californian complains that the
expenses of Junior day, celebrated
recently.
Student dances at the University
of Michigan have been called off en
tirely by the undergraduate senate.
Charges of cigaret smoking, whisky
drinking and "general cadishness"
at "hops" were advanced to justify
this ruling.
Toddling has been forbidden at
the University of Wisconsin. A
student plan to reform the entire
campus social life has been concoct
ed with the women students espe
cially lined tip strongly behind it.
Cheek to cheek dancing at Man
hattan has been prohibited. No long
er will the agricultural college gal
lants be permitted to whisper fond
words in the ears of their partners
as they glide across the floor.
Chicago university gives the mod
em fad a more scientific indictment.
At the University of Missouri the
reform has been extended from im
proper manners of dancing to the
short skirt, while the Brown uni
versity Daily Herald comes out with
the statement that "it's time for the
men to act, since the girls and their
mothers won't We don't prophesy
any reform, but we do intend to re
mind the women and the men what
decent people think of their dress
and dancing."
And at K. U. there are the official
nroclamations by the men's and wo
men's governing bodies against the J
shimmy, toddle, close dancing ana
smoking at entrances to -buildings on
the campus.
No note of reform comes from the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln,
perhaps for the reason that the wig
gle variations are not greatly the
vogue. Some of the students tod
dle, and there is mild sentiment
against it, but most of the dances
and dancers ar just naturally and
voluntarily circumspect, Gabby is
told. -
EVERYBODY else has ha,d his
say about "Main Street" so why
not Gabby, who feels that she
must speak quickly or forever hold
her peace. This literary season is
over and with the books which
1921 will bring forth "Main Street
will probably be among "topiques"
passe.
The book in Gabbys opinion, is
not so much an indictment of Main
Street as of a superficial woman.
Carol Kennicott wanted her parties
to be noisy. Her idea of getting the
small towners out of their rut was
to shock them. As Meredith Nichol
son so well puts it:
"The trouble with Mr. Lewis's
Carol Kennicott was that she really
had nothing to offer Gopher Prairie
that sensible self-respecting people
anywhere would have welcomed. She
was without true vision in any di
rection, rlenty or men and women
blessed with a far finer sensitiveness
to the things of the spirit have in
countless cases faced rude conditions
squalor even, cheerfully and hope'
fully, and in time they have suc
ceeded in doing something to make
the world a better place to live in.
"This is not to say that Carol is
not true to type; there is the type,
but I am not persuaded that its ex
istence proves anything except that
there are always fools and foolish
people m the world.
"Carol would have been a failure
anywhere, she deserved to tail in
Gopher Prairie, which does not strike
me, after all, as so hateful a place as
she found it to be. Mie nowhere mi
pinges Upon my sympathy. I have
known her by various names in
larger and lovelier communities than
Gopher Prairie and wherever she
exists she is a bore and at times an
unmitigated nuisance. My heart
warms, not to her, but to the peo-
pie in jviain street sne aespisea.
They didn t need her uplifting hand,
They were far more valuable mem
bers of society than she proved her
self to be, for they worked honestly
at their jobs and had, 1 am confident,
a pretty tair idea of their rights and
duties, their privileges and immuni
ties, as children of democracy."
AIN STREET" is yellow
all through! Gabby can
prove it In the first 75
pages of the book, Sinclair Lewis
used the color in one form or an
other, 53 times, and that proportion
of usage seems to hold through the
novel On page 68 alone he uses the
color seven times. Even the cover
has a band of orange across the top.
The different ways in which he says
"yellow" are an interesting study.
The following citations at random,
with page on which found, will illus
trate and prove Gabby's point: .
"Candlelight revealed her in
straight golden frock," (3); "wide
land of yellow waters," (6); "faded
gold stubble," (20); "yellow like
moldy linen," (21); "clapboards
painted bilious yellow," (23);
"magazine of saffron detective
stories," (24); "creamy-skinned fat
women," (25) ; "sickly yellow
leaves," (29); "wall of a sour liver
color," (32); "maples were orange,"
(33) ; "curdled yellow mosaic shade,"
(34) ; "patent medicines in yellow
packages," (34) ; "gilt on black sand,"
(35); mauve daisies on a saffron
ground." (35): "green and gold
wheels," (36) ; "vases running off into
blobs of Kilt." (36).
One page 37 he says '.'varnished
yellow door, yellow brick school
building, grocery of glaring yellow
brick.
The "yellows" found on page 68
are "golden oak table," "brass
knobs," "yellow and deep blue,"
"gold thread," "maize wall," "gold
bands," "yellow candles."
Later on he uses "canary yellow,"
"lemon yellow," "dragging yellow,"
"yellow glare," streaky yellow,"
"corn colored women," "yellow sea
of chatter," and numerous other va
rieties of hue.
Lewis makes generous use of col
ors though his book, but yellow
predominates. In the language of
color, yellow, the color of the sun,
stands "for happiness, joy and sue-
Griswold -Parsons
Wedding on
June 8
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Parsons
announce the marriage of their
daughter, Eethel, to Phelps E. Gris
wold of this city, which will take
place Wednesday evening, June 8, at
the home of the bride's parents.
Miss Agnes Sorensen will be maid
of honor and Paul Griswold, brother
of the groom, will bo best man.
Lillian Field and Florence Mc-
Cough will stretch ribbons and little
Alice Rupe will be flower girl and
Rev. E. M. Rupe and Rev. A. A.
DeLarme will officiate.
Mrs. Louise Jansen Wylie will
sing preceding the ceremony and
Mrs. Irma Podolak Klopp will play
the wedding march.
' Miss Parsons has made her home
in Omaha since coming here from
Burlington, la., several years ago,
She is well known in musical
circles.
Mr. Griswold was a student at
the Nebraska State university at
Lincoln in the class of 1911.
A number of affairs have been
given in honor of the bride. Mrs.
C. E. Parsons and Miss Lilly Ring
entertained at a shower Monday
afternoon at the home of Miss Ring;
another shower was given Thursday
afternoon by Mrs. F. C. Patton.
' Mrs. L. M. Lord and Mrs. F. C
Parsonsv also entertained with a
bridge party and shower Friday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. Lord.
. Thursday evening the bridal party
was entertained at dinner at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank D.
Field. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Parsons
will entertain the bridal party at
dinner Tuesday evening, June 7.
After September 1 the couple will
be at home at 2401 Hanscom boule
vard, Omaha.
Art Gild Presents
Work of Local
Artists
'The High Tide of the Year
An exhibit by Omaha artists is
presented by, the Omaha Art gild
on the third floor of the Orchard
& Wilhelm store. The public is in
vited to attend.
The exhibitors are: J. Laurie
Wallace. Robert F. Gilder, Doane
Powell. William Gay, Eva M. Peter
son, H. A. Raapke, Delia M. Robin
son. Mrs.-Pamela H. bylvester, Jta
win Trumn, Olive Barker, George
Barker, jr.. Henri W. Domshydte,
Ruth Felt. Rosa Harris, Augusta
Kriieht. Frederick Knight, Cordelia
Johnson and Jennie Lichnovsky.
. consideraDie attention nas peen ar
traded to these 122 pieces of local
art. The pictures will remain hung
until June 15.
cess: sometimes tor religious lervor,
It is also the color of decay.
Lewis seems to have taken ad-
vantaee of all its significances. The
old yellow, brick houses at Gopher
Prairie have about them the air of
decay; and his "sickly yellow,'
curdled vellow and dragging yel
low" further carry out the more dis
agreeable meaning of the color.
What Gabbv would like to know
Was Lewis himself conscious of his
yellow streak??
Heads Amateur Musical
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Mrs. Harry C. Nicholson was
chosen president of the Amateur
Musical club, one of the oldest mu
sical organizations in the city, Wed
nesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. George Barker, jr.
The club, which was organized by
the late Mrs. H. P. Whitmore, elect
ed officers Wednesday for the first
time in its history. During Mrs.
Whitmorc's lifetime she was its only
vastly he superior in cultivation and i executive aud after her death her
daughter, -Miss Eugenie, now Mrs.
William Dinkins of Chicago, took
the leadership at the request of the
members of the club. The member
ship of the organization is limited
to 15.
Mrs. Nicholson and daughter,
Mary Elizabeth, will spend the
month of July at the Minnesota
lakes, following which Mr. and Mrs
"Now is the high-tide of the year," says James Russell Lowell of the month of
June. This happy season is smiling on us again and with the poet we are saying,
"June, dear June, now God be praised for June." "
A soft green coverlet is over the earth, the trees wave their fragrant leafy boughs,
birds chirp, a haze floats over the river,
"Ever clod feels a stir of might
"An instinct within it that reaches and towers -"And
groping blindly about it for light
."Climbs to a soul in 'grass and flowers."
'"Tis as easy now for the heart to be true
"As for grass to be green or skies to be blue,
'"Tis the natural way of living."
Trinity Guild To
Give a Benefit
Bridge Party
Happiness is in store for the
crippled children's ward at Clarkson
hospital. All year there has been no
entertainment for these little ones.
The children at the University hos
pital have had unbounded joy
through the kindness of the Omaha
Junior league, and now the Altar
fuld of Trinity cathedral plans to
undertake that work for Clarkson.
As soon as funds can be assured
and plans completed, girls will go
daily to the hospital td give instruc
tive entertainment to the shut-ins.
How will the scissors, books,
paints, crayons and such necessary
materials be purchased? . ,
The guild, of which Mrs. William
Ritchie , is president, is planning a
benefit card party at the Country
club, which has been donated for the
afternoon of June 14. The success of
the occasion is already assured.
Prlzei have been given and table re
served by Mesdames E. A. Pegau, Henry
8. Clark. H. H. Baldrtffe. Frank Judson.
Fred -Davis, E. S. Westbrook, Oeorge Bran-
aeis. frizes or casn contributions lor tne
affair have been given by Mesdames Edgar
Mornman, T. A, Davis, waiter Roberta,
A. C Loomis, T. J. McDearmon. Henry
Doorly, Lee Huff, and tables have been
reserved by Mesdames F. P. Klrkendall,
Luther Kountze, M. O. Hay ward,' W. A.
C. Johnson, Sam Caldwell, Walter Preston,
H. F. Evarta, Frederick W. Clarke, E. F.
Folda, Edgar Scott, Will Coad, Harry
Tukey.
Unity Players Present
One-Act Play.
The Unity Players will present a
one-act play, "Poetry," by Charles
Levings, at the meeting of the Get-
Acquainted club Sunday evening, 7
o clock, at the first Unitarian
church, Turner boulevard and Har
ney street. The cast will include
the Misses D. Louise Henderson.
Bonnie Dean. Bertie Hoag. Geral-
dine Olson, Dorothy Parsons and
Messrs. M. M. Levings and Stanley
Weiser.
The program will be followed by
games, community singing and refreshments.
Mr. and Mrs. John Fitz Roberts
will be the host and hostess..
The club, which is nonsectarian
Washington Society
Bureau of The Bee,
Washington, June 4.
The Congressional club braved
criticism for closing its club house
early and ended its season s activities
last week with a; wonderfully suc
cessful picnic. It was a strictly mod
ern, picnic with an automobile kitchen
where hot viands were prepared, the
lady cooks enjoying the party with
their friends while the fireless cook
ers did the' work." Mrs. Harding
made the ; greatest success of the
party by appearing there late in the
afternoon and remaining for an hour,
although she did not stay for sup
per. The members of the club went out
in the middle of the afternoon and
were joined by husbands, fathers and
brothers as, soon as congress ad
journed for the day. They found
the tables all laid and a real smok
ing hot dinner prepared, not the cold,
cheerless picnic supper of our grand
parents' , day. Mrs. Harding had a
pleasant reunion with her old friends
and associates of "other days" when
she was the wife of a senator and fu
ture president: '
The costume of Mrs Harding at
the garden, party of. last, week was
one of the prettiest she has yet worn.
It was of pale gray georgette crepe,
handsomely embroidered in pale
gray, rather coarse silk. It was made
in the modish straight line- effect
oyer a slip of mauve chiffon. ' The
girdle, broad and soft, was of gray
with a mixture of the mauve and
was finished with long corded loops
ending with a very long silk and
beaded tassel which hung on the left
Nicholson will take a trip through ! invites all strarieers antf lonelv folk
Yellowstonc National park. j in the city to its meetings.
THE THINGS I PRIZE.
"These are the things I prize
And hold of deepest worth:
Light of the sapphire skies,
Peace of the silent hills,
Shelter of the forests,
Comfort of the grass,
Shadows of the clouds
That swiftly pass,
Music of birds, :
Murmur of little rills,
And after showers
The smell of flowers,
And of the good brown earth
And best of all along the way
Friendship and mirth."
Henry Van Dyke.
side. Her hat was of gray horse
hair, moderately large, with ostrich
plumes of mauve shaded into pale
gray, making a soft and becoming
effect. She had a sable scarf about
her shoulders, which she threw over
her arm a part of the time. .
The costumes of the men at the
garden parties are worthy of special
notice. . The cabinet officers were all
present and all wore either jaunty
cutaway coats of black, with black
or gray trousers, or more dignified
frock coats of black, with gray trous
ers, and nearly all wore silk hats.
The president, who always stands
beside his wife on these occasions,
and greets the guests, although the
invitations invariably are in the name
of Mrs. Harding only, usually wears
a smart cutaway coat, buttoned
tightly and snugly, with gray trous
ers and no hat. He is a most at
tractive host, his genial, kindly smile
always ready and he has a charming
way of looking directly into the eyes
of the person he is greeting and say
ing something more than how do you
do. The president and Mrs. Hard
ing are each making a splendid so
cial success. It is not exactly a sur
prise, but it is interesting to those
who have known them always, and
known how averse they were to en
tering into the formal social whirl.
There is not anv uniformity in
men's dress . at the White House
garden parties, or .any other garden
parties in Washington, for men will
dress as they like. One man was
seen there in an Alpaca coat with
white duck trousers, a soft collar and
a Panama hat. Another man stalked
comfortably about the grounds with
a cigar in his mouth throughout the
afternoon.' He wore a dark sack
coat and a soft dark hat. At lastj
week's party Postmaster General 1
Hays. Attorney General Daughertv j
and Senator Medill McCormick met
in the middle of the lawn and had a 1
good time trying on each other's
hats, Mr. Hays having a ' shining,
proper tall beaver, Mr. Daughertv
wearing a derby and the senator with
a .Panama. The funniest oart of it
was when the postmaster general Dut
the senator's hat on his head, for the
Hays . head is much broader from
front to back than the senator's and
the effect was funny enough for a
comic scene.
The marriage is announced of
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School Girls Return to Make
the Summer Season
Gay in Omaha
Chiming with wedding bells this
month are school bells, ringing for
the last time for many Omaha girls.
For some they mean the close of
happy school days, for others, a
short vacation and then the return
to the delights of study next fall.
Anna .Porter arrived Wednesday
from Randolf Mason college, in Vir
ginia to spend the summer in
Omaha.
Miss Willow O'Brien, a student at
Manhattanville college in New
York City, will not come home until
the first of July, as she will stop in
Detroit to attend a house party
given by friends.
Helen Reed has chosen to spend a
short time in recreation in the east
before her departure the last of
June for our middle western city.
She is a student at Wells college,
Aurora, N. Y. Miss Reed will spend
two weeks at Silver Day camp on
Lake George following the close of
her college.
Next Friday witnesses the home
coming from Bradford academy in
Massachusetts of Mary Findley.
Helen Rogers, who is another Oma
ha girl there, will be home the last
week of the month to spend the
summer.
Helen Stoltenbersr. who has com
pleted her junior year at National
Park seminary in Washington, D. C,
arrived last Saturday from her
school. Her plans for the summer
include an extended stay at
Okoboji.
The Vassar girls are due to arrive
home about the 19th. Miss Emily
Burke, who will be graduated from
that college, is to be accompanied
home by her mother, Mrs. E. Burke,
who will attend the commencement
exercises. Peggy Reed is also ex
pected at that time. Gertrude Koenig
plans a short stay in Boston previous
to her homeward journey.
Marie Neville was graduated on
May 31 from Ogontz school in Phila
delphia and has been home for sev
eral days.
Dana Hall will soon release from
school routine a number of the
younger school set. Rowena Pix
ley will arrive here June 17. De
Weenta Conrad and Elizabeth Elliott
will.be graduated from this institu
tion this year. Mrs. H. J. H. Con
rad will go east to be present at the
presentation of diplomas on the 14th.
She then goes to Cape Cod for a
short stay and Miss De Weenta will
go to Princeton to attend com
mencement exercises there. De
Weenta will arrive in Omaha June
22, Mrs. Conrad coming several
days later.
JUeanor bcott, also at Dana Hall,
will not return home, but will meet
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
Scott, in the east and spend the sum
mer in Maipe.
Elizabeth Austin, now attending
Simmons college at Boston, will
stop in New York City to visit her
sister, Mrs. Thomas Niles. Miss
Austin is expected to return June 18.
Camilla Edholm. another Simmons
girl, will be home on June 20 or 24.
Monday Miss Jessie Craig will re
turn from Jackson. Miss.., where she
was graduated from Jackson High
school. She expects to attend a col
lege near New Orleans next season.
Lillian Kavan has returned from
Southern college in Virginia.
The third week of the month of
brides and graduates marks the
home-coming of , two girls from
Mount Holyoke, Misses Jean Ken
nedy and Helen Bradley.
Dorothy Norton arrives in Omaha
next Saturday from Highland Hall,
Holidaysburg. Pa. ,
Margaret Eastman graduates on
Tuesday, June 7, at Highland Hall.
Miss Eastman wilt visit school
friends in New York until June 20,
when she will be joined by her;
father, O. T. Eastman, who goes east
to his class reunion at Amherst. Mr
Eastman and his daughter will re
turn about July 4.
Most of the Wcllesley girls ar
expected June 17. Miss Josephine
Platner and Catherine Denny plan
stops in Chicago. Irene Simpson
will come about June 22. She will
visit in Buffalo, N. Y., enroute home.
Other girls at Wcllesley are Doro
thy Arter, Frances Patton and Vir
ginia Leussler.
Flora Marsh returns the latter part
of June from Kent Place school in
New Jersey.
Mary . Morsman, a Bryn Mawr
student, was an arrival of Saturday.
Alice Porterfield, a Wisconsin uni
versity coed, will visit in Kansas City
before, returning home July 1.
Cornelia Baum, a student at Marl
borough in Los Angeles, will be ac
companied home the latter part of
June by her mother, Mrs, Daniel
Baum, who is now in that city.
" - Virginia Barker comes June 11
from St. Timothys school in Mary
land. She leaves July 1 to summer
at the Barker ranch in Wyoming.
Lucile Lathrop is the only Omaha
girl graduating from Rockford col
lege in Illinois. Others enrolled
there from Omaha include Vesta
weavers, Louise unman, urace
Sturgess, Grace Bailey and Roberta
Barker. . All are expected , shortly
after the commencement ' exercises,
which are to be held June IS.
Josephine Schurman, daughter of
Mrs. E. A. Pegau, has now returned
from Wright school in Pennsyl
vania. Jean Burns, enrolled at Northwest
ern university, is dispensing with a
summer vacation and plans to at
tend summer classes at the school.
She will come to Omaha in August
to spend several weeks before the
opening of the fall sessions at
Northwestern.
Florence Dow, also at Northwest
ern, arrives home Tuesday.
Louise Weise, Anna Jenkins, Caro
lyn Miller and Helen O'Brien re
turn the middle of the month from
Iowa State college at Ames.
Omaha has five graduates at Smith
college: Ruth McCoy, Marion Booth,
Freda Haas, Edith Howe and Vir
ginia Market.. Others from Omaha
at Smith are Ann Axtell, Ilda Lang-
don, Onnolee Mann, Emily Hold-
rege, Marion Howe and Ruth Red
field. Miss Ann Axtell will not re
turn home, but will visit in Virginia
until joined in July by her mother,
Mrs. C. W. Axtell, and her brother,
Lane, for a trip to Nova Scotia. t
Other Smith girls will be home
the middle of the month.
Louise Riley returns June 14 from
St. Marys college, Notre Dame, Ind.
Jean Field, who is enrolled at La
sell seminary, Auburndale, Mass..
will visit in Connecticut and New
Hampshire before returning to
Omaha, June 17.
Janet Dickey and Eleanor Tip
pery return June 21 from Miss Ma
son's school at Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson.
Miss Tippery will be grad
uated there Tuesday.
The majority of the University of
Nebraska girls are home.
Ruth Rylander A Bride
One of the brides of the past week
who will reside in Omaha is Mrs,
Elmer V. Delablane. She was for
merly Miss Ruth Rvlandcr, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Rylander.
Tht ceremony took place Wednes
day evening at the Rylander home!
Mr. Dclaplane and his bride wilt
take an extended honeymoon trip
through the east.. They will include
stops at Niagara Falls, New York
City, Washington, D. C, and Atlantic
Citv.
After September 1 the couple will
and was followed bv a reception forj be at home at 1112 North Thirty
i si.Nin street in mis city,
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