The Omaha Sunday Bee WOMEN'S SECTION SOCIETY EDITORIAL AMUSEMENTS VOL. 51 NO. 1G. PAKT TWO OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 1921, 1 B TEN CENTS Intelligence Tests for Children By GABBY DETAYLS. GAB! we in lABBY and the psychologist were attending a movie. Seated front of them was a child about 5 year old. She could not read and her mother did not explain or interpret the picture; yet the child teemed to understand it all perfectly. "Aha," he exclaimed, when one fellow ilapped another on the back," be fay 'you're a good friend of mine. The clot ieveloDed and the vtl lain was making love to the leading lady. "I wonder why that man doetn't leave her alone, she sneeulatcd aloud. "She doesn't care anything about him. Scenes change quickly at a movie and soon the comedian jumped out of an ire wagon dragging an oil heater after him. "Well, of all things," this 5-year-old chuckled to her mother, "an oil heater in an ice wagon 1" "There's an apt child." said the psychologist to Gabby. "Let s give her the Hinet and Simon intelligence test and have some fun." That's how it happened a few days later the little girl and her mother appeared for the stunt. Another child, a winsome one of 4. was in vited in also. The result was a fascinating afternoon with their nimble wits. In the Binet and Simon tost for a 5-year-old, the demands upon the child are: (1) Compare two weights. ' (2) Copy a square, using pen. (3) Repeat seutence of 10 sylla blcs. ' (4) Count four pennies. (Sj Game of patience with two pieces. (An oblong piece of paper is cut along the diagonal, making two trianeitlar nieces. The task is in rfnlace them to form the original figure, a copy of which may be kept before the child; TV OTH children danced right r through the 5-year-old ques- tions. earrvine on well into the 10 and 11-year-old classes. All of their answers were entertaining. , q What is a mamma? (Six-year question.) . ', A Someone who takes care of children. - Q What is a' hat? A Something to keep your head from 'getting cold. (Being young, she doesn't know all the purposes of millinery.) . QWhat is a shoe? A Oh, it keeps your feet from getting big. (Wonder if hers feels that way.) ( - ' , QW'hat would yoa do if you missed a train to Kansas City? (Nine year question.) A Is my mother on that train? Yes. - ;-."-.-Vfif ' . A Then I'd just light out and run down the track after it 'n catch it. QWhat if it went too fast for you? ' A (earnestly) : Say, " that train couldn't go too fast if my mother was on it. I'd just fly. (Then her imagination begVn to soar.) I'd fly so fast (waving her arms and jump ing up and down) it couldn t 'get away. , , The other little girl, the 4-year-old, having a particularly stable mind, said calmly that if she missed her train she would go home and unpack her suitcase,; then send for her trunk. Q What would you do if you broke something belonging 4o some one else that vase, for instance? (Nine-year-old question.) A Run out in the hall and hide. . QWouldn't you offer to replace it to buy me a new vase? '-'' A Gee, I couldn't. I'm broke. - QWhat would you-do before taking part in an important affair? , A Dress up. (Right there Gabby knew she had grown-up intelligence.) THE little 4-year-old who showed remarkable reasoning ability was . given the following 10-year-old question: ' Q What is foolish in this: An unfortunate bicycle rider fell on his head and was killed instantly; he was taken to a hospital and they fear he will not recover. ' Why, the foolishness in that is that they took him to a hospital. ' If he was killed, if-he-was-killed (slowly) they would take him to an undertak r Ahricrhteninfir no at the solution) To this same question the 5-year- old aaid: , ,, ; "Did you say, he was killed? 'Yes. - "' "Then they must have picked up the wrong fellow." ' DADDY, and , mother were ting on tha porch with 3-year-old sonny bay one night this summer. The big round moon caught the little fellow S eve. Whas-satT he a'ked, pointing. "That's the moon," father ex plained. "Ok," from sonny. ' Cnma ttm. lr.vr ltlr tlfiTTi-l iVinff nva ' " a. trio were, again established in their favorite wicker-chairs outside, son ny in his father's lap. The little fellow looked long and thoughtfully up toward the heavens where a half moon was sailing the skies. J Daddy." he finiJIy ventured, "Is tat de moon?" " es, that's the moon," father re plied A pause, and then, "Father, who bwoke de moon?" ; " mHE 10-cent bonus charged at the! I Country club bothered one of h vonnc-er members of society the other day. He is one of the few youthful golfers and comes from a golfing family. " After a round of golf he treated himself to lunch, and "Mother ," Sammy remarked, I didnt naiJ paying 40 cents for chops, but I did bate to pay a dune tor tue Done, jrRS. A. I A B. CUR R IE, chairman lyl ciety of Fine Arts, is now minr'g one of the Liggett drive for members in the history of the o.aniation. She is being assisted by Metdames Herbert Gannett, Harry L. Tukey, Herbert H. Fish. Wal ter W. Head, Simeon Jones, Guy Kiddoo, William Coppock of Council Bluffs, Missei Marian Keed and Jessie Stitt, who are members of her committee. Thousands of telephone rails' are being made by these women ask ing others to join the Omaha Society of Fine Arts not only to avail themselves of the splendid lecture course which will be given this win ter but to support and aid along art lines. lS,e OUtna. Matte U Si-atzdish " VM ' " ' 'rVV.- y J VjME. MARIE LYDIA STANDISH, a French woman "of much ' WOW-'r Vv S M IVI culture and travel," will present a program ot medieval ballads SttJtltiS'.jlwv - ''j2 S Jf XfX ,A rtminnn in th. ITn11t.11.il. hntlrnnin. Ttl.tilav-Nfiv.mher O. AWja lt&P X-ZITV A -Tt. 'r I 22? under Drama league auspices. One of her numbers will be given in I trSJi. t CUi?in? mmMk: . "----- French. ' " ' ' ; ' S IfNCMAWT Darlc-EyedSpanish Mother Has One Boon Left There is a dark-eyed Spanish widow, mother of six children, living in our city. She toils for the daily bread of her family. No money can be spared from her meager earnings for the purchasable pleasures of life. Speaking little English,' she is even deprived of neighborly companion ships. Aside from the precious family, one boon is left her, the world of books. Although she is learning to read English it is still work for her; she cannot yet "lose" herself in our literature and must- depend upon stories m her own language for pure recreation. ' . Would you like to help her to this single joy? You are already doing it through the Omaha .Public library where there is a foreign language department, with Miss Florence Tay lor, in charge. Miss Taylor speaks or reads half a dozen languages. She knows what to give i the lonesome little Spanish widow. She . knows equally well what to give such vis itors as the Russian boy who asked recently for a book of -Russian stories in English. Being familiar with the stories, he thought they would help him in learning to read English. . r This department has English text books for foreigners,: such as. are used in night schools. They have a little Italian history of the United States, for example, printed in Italian on the left page and in English on the right. They have the best stand ard works by the old world writers. The department -is ia reality a step ping' stone - to ' . English. Children take .. their parents . there to ishow them where they may find books in their own language. Among the most appreciative peo ple who use the library are the for eigners, according to Miss . Taylor And of course-they are really not foreigners, at , all, but ' American citizens who have not yet 'mastered the language of the land of their adoption, ' '. , Mrs. Haverstick at Wordsworth's Fireplace Mrs. George Haverstick, who has been abroad for nine months, now plans to spend the winter on the continent At present she is in Paris after a trip through Holland, Bel gium and die German occupied ter ritory. . Mrs. Haverstick spent August in England and Scotland, seeing the Cathedral towns, the Doone coun try, Edinborough and London. Of the lake country she writes: "We were much interested in reading up on the famous men who had lived in that region, and almost felt personally acquainted with Wordsworth after "drying "our feet at his kitchen fireplace and hearing the dear old lady, 90 years old, who is in charge of the dove cottaKe. tell J of the family,? of membership for the Omaha So- Made Cup o'Cof fee and Started Something Managing a lunch room for mem bers of the firm with whom she is employed is merely a "side line" for Mrs. Mabel C. Williams, a member of the Omaha - Business Woman's club. Two years ago Mrs.vWilliams and a group of girls employed by a local creamery conceived the idea of mak ing hot coffee over the gas burner in the test room.; Hot baked beans were next added to the menu which heretofore had consisted only of cold foods. ' . " Men employes i enticed by the odor of steaming coffee soon joined the group until it finally became nec essary to purchase a gift range to meet the demands for food. - In July, 1919, the girls decided to operate a lunch room on a paying basis., Groups of four were formed, who in turn prepared the luncheon each day. , For example, roast beef, mashed potatoes, tomatpes, ' pie, cof fee, tea or milk with plenty of bread and butter were served for 35 cents. The company paid for water and gas. Three long counters in the corner of the stock room served as tables. Dishes and cooking utensils were .also purchased and at the end of 10 months, when Mrs. Williams and her assistants decided to turn the work over to a competent cook $35 remained in the treasury. " ; The price of the luncheon has been reduced to 25 cents. The sum total of this amount pays for the food and wages of ; two women Who prepare the luncheons. Mrs. Williams acts as cashier and manage pi" From 40 to 60 men and women are employed by this firm during the year. "These luncheons help to promote good ' fellowship among the work ers," said. Mrs.r Williams when in terviewed. ; . i " ' . i The Shepherdess She walks the lady of my de light -A shepherdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white -She guards them from the i steep; - She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep. She roams maternal hills . and bright, i Dark valleys safe and deep. Into that tender breast at night The chastest start may peep. -She walks the lady of my delight-. A shepherdess of sheep. She holds her little thoughts ia sight, - Tho gay they run and leap. . She is so circumspect and right; She has her soul to keep. She walks the lady .of my At :. - light A shepherdess of sheep. -ALICE MET NELL. octetv MME. MARIE LYDIA- STANDISH, a French woman "of much culture and travel," will present a program of medieval ballads and story-songs in the Fontenelle ballroom, Tuesday, "November 22, under Drama league auspices. One of her numbers will be given in French. . ' ' ' Many of her ballads and story-songs have been personally secured by her in the ancient libraries of the old world. , Her diction, grace and quaint costumes have been the subject of comment wherever she has appeared. The costume here shown is worn for her "StorySpngs of the Crinoline Period." i Mme. Standish will be accompanied by Miss Emma Menke, composer-pianist, who has prepared a special musical program, using the ancient themes for her lyrics. -- -.-'' Dramatics Head Goes East '' Miss Mary Irene Wallace, head of dramatics at the Commercial High school, goes east the first of Oc tober on a three months' trip. Miss Wallace intends to go to Chicago, Pi'ttshurcrh. New York and Boston to get in touch with eastern ideas of stage production and community drama. She is particularly interested in the Little Theaters, and plans to see their productions and their re hearsals. "I want to browse around and see all I can. I know I shall get a lot out of it for my classes, Miss Wal- The Carnegie Institute iii Pitts Krah i dniniT esoeciallv" fine work in stag setting and lighting. The greatest attraction in New York m this line is the "School of the Thea ter.", of which Yvette UuUberr is the head. Pantomime, dramatic in terpretation and eurythmics can all be studied : there under : the best tpaehers. Mme. Guilbert. best known for " her interpretation of French ballads, has lately been called by Clayton Hamilton "the greatest living artist and teacher on any staee." - ' - Besides the usjial Little Theaters in Omaha Woman's Club Opens Season. : The Omaha Woman's club will open its twenty-eighth . season Monday afternoon, 2:30 , o'clock, in the auditorium of - Burgess-Nash store, Mrs... Charles Johannes,, the new president presiding. Mrs. C L. Hempel, the retiring president, will give a report 'of the council meeting of the General Fed eration of Women's clubs held in Salt Lake City in June. "The World's Greatest Need and Social Power," is the subject of a talk to be given by .Mrs. Lutie Stearns of Milwaukee. Eddie Deeds, aviator who will par ticipate in the International Aero meet to be held in Omaha m No vember, will tell of plans which are being made for this event." - Mr. Deeds in the famous pirship, Texas Tom Cat, will circle above the streets before the "Boost Oma ha" parade Saturday, which is being conducted by the Woman's clubs to promote the sale of Omaha placards for automobiles, proceeds of which will be added to the club building fund. "The Omaha Woman's club is co operating with the Aero club in ar ranging for the International meet. "The club as in the past will stand back of all public enterprises." said Mrs. Johannes. " ' . ; ' The Humane society, which is holding a tag day Saturday, will en ter a float in the "Boost Omaha" pa rade. - Public Speaking Department. The public speaking department . tTwm Ttt Thic Calama Ok.) New York,' the Provincetown and Neighborhood Players, Miss Wal lace is fortunate in catching .the famous Irish Players, now putting on "The White Haired Boy," by Lennox Robinson. Like the Port mauteau Players, this group em phasizes interpretation rather than elaborate stage setting. In Boston the methods followed by Professor Baker of Harvard in his "47 Workshop" are valuable to any student of dramatics. Miss Wallace also expects to watcli the Hull House players in action in Chicago. This organization, a branch of the Settlement, has achieved such fame as community dramatists that they went to Eng landvm tour not long ago and were entertained in her home by Lady Gregory. My Dear 3KiS& Virginia. Ztesr&uw My dears 1 Ears are coming oat These charming Omaha girls, with their modified coiffures, are proof sufficient . Now that we are accus tomed to the submerged lobes, this new and startling expose seems to add years to one's appearance. These are all school girls, how ever. Miss Josephine Frenzer, daugh ter f 3Ir. and Mrs. J. P. Frenzer, h w -Mil y MRS. JAMES E. DAVIDSOM is chairman of the Woman', auxill arv of the Nebraska Humane society. ATA The society will hold its annual tag day Saturday, October 8. Four hundred women workers will take part in this campaign. Many Campfire girli have pledged themselves to give the day ever to the success t this csuie . The proceeds will go to the relief of needy children and the protec tion of animals throughout the city. Mrs. W. A. C Johnson is treasurer and Mrs. Frank J. Norton chairman of supplies. Eight -Year- Old in Opera Here With Antonio Scotti One of the most interesting mem bers of the Scotti Grand Opera com pany,' which will appear -at the Audi torium October 13 under Tuesday MusicaT club auspices, is little Ada Quintina.' Ada is 8 years old, and takes the child part in "L'Oracolo." She made her first appearance in the premiere of "Zaza," with the great Farrar, who shared her curtain calls with the child. She is the adopted granddaughter of Paola Quintina, a gray-haired singer at the Metropoli tan, who hopes she will be a second Patti. .; ' ' The child's mother, no longer liv ing. was a young Turkish girl who joined the company'10 years ago in the Crimea. ' After an unfortunate matrimonial venture with a trombone player the girl was adopted by Quin tina and his -wife as one of their family. Ada has traveled with vari- ! Ears Are Coming Out ri piwerrMwH. , haa gone to Chicago where she will attend the Academy of Fine Arts early this season, going later to Ward Belmont school. - . Miss Helen Gallagher,' daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Gallagher, is attending Duchesne college, Omaha, and Miss Virginia Dessauer,. daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. EYH. pessauer, is-a musical student - " ' Although the reappearance of ears is constantly threatened the ear puff J f ... , Reception at Old People s Home Thursday The board of trustees of the Old People's Home, 3325 Fontenelle boulevard, will hold an informal re ception at the home, to which the public is invited, Thursday afternoon and evening. , Mesdames E. R. Hume, Isaac Car pente'r, C. C, Beldcn, James Ham mond and S. K. Spaulding will be the hostesses. Rev. A. S. Buell, pastor of Trin ity Methodist church, will conduct services at the home Sunday after noon at 3:30 o clock. ous opera companies in her short lite, and could have gone into the movies with Farrar if her foster parents had allowed it. . Leon Rothier, one of the handful of truly great bassos ' of our genera tion, shares the Honors' with Scotti himself. remains conspicuous. Is it possible a fad has come to stay? "Short skirts and ear puffs are fixtures," say many of our young society set. Hats look better worn over the puffs, they de clare; without them there is a va cancy beneath the brim. Ears in days gone by have been noticed and marked for their beauty and now again they are coming "in,", which is to say, they a."e com ing "out" f I I Washington Officials Return Bureau of The Bee. Washington, Oct I. The reconvening ot rongreis has brought hundreds of official families back to the capital several months earlier than has been their wont. Mrs. FrelinRhuysen. Mrs Harry S. New and Mrs. James WaNi.n, wives of senators, who are members of the "inner circle," being Mrs. Harding'! most frequent companions and clos est friends, have returned to their olTicial homes after visits to their more private homos. Thftse, and Mrs. Fletcher, wife of the undersec retary of state are among those for whom Mrs. Harding has broken the unwritten law of "no callinn for the wife of the president," for she rather surreptitiounly visit all of thrm and has lunched with them all since she became the First Lady of the Land. While there are many young chil dren in the cabinet circle, there are only a few young people who are old enough to be known in society this year. Chief among them are Miss Katherine Hughes, daughter of the secretary of state, ard Miss Ailia Mellon, daughter of the secretary of the treasury. Miss Mellon is already well known as she has made many friends here in the short time she has been in Washington and has been very considerably entertained. She has done her part in tne matter of entertaining during the summer at Barton Lodge, Hot Springs, where many -of those who have en tertained her, have been her house a very young cabinet hostess and will go down in the social history of . Washington along with other daugh ters of prominent omcials who have Miss Hughes has recently joined her parents in their lovely summer home. Grey stone, after a summer' spent abroad, her graduation at Wellesley having preceded the trip. She will have no formal coming out, but will take her place in society, assisting her mother at all her formal affairs this season. Her debutante days were spent in college, and the frivolity of a debutante's season never appealed to Miss Hughes any way, so she will just be out from the beginning of festivities which will be early in November. Miss Mary Wallace, another cab inet girl, daughter of the secretary of agriculture, also will assist Jjcr mother at formal functions, and will not even "slip out," as many of the girls do who dislike the "presenta tion" affairs. These girls, with Mrs. John W. Davidge, daughter of the secretary of war, and the married daughters of Secretary Fall and of Secretary Wallace will all be in evi dence in the blue room' at the state receptions ui the White House. me tirst autumn oays are Dnng- ing forth some charmimar costumes in the diplomatic and official world and women who attended the unem ployment conference on Monday morning in the Department of the In terior were particularly interested in Mrs. Harding and her always appro priate and distinctive clothes. She wore some sort ot a dark gown which was envelooed in a loner black satin cape in the new straight,-but rather full lines, with a scarf collar''' the ends of which were finished with " ucivy suit jringc. xi was uiicu whii soft, gray chiffon, but was otherwise untrimmed. Her hat was a black I -M. f Ta i: I :u one with an upturned brim, the front of which had a slit of a few inches a little to the right, and cut slight ly lower on the one side than the other. The rather high crown was wreated with loose waving plumage of black. Her eloves were white kid. as they invariably are, and unlike the gloves of so many women, Mrs. Hardings are always snowy white. The broad band of black velvet with the broad ornament : of . diamonds which she usually wears, was par ticularly effective with this black costume. Mr. and Mrs. Edprar Scott of Omaha have arrived in Washington for the winter, and are at the Hieh- lands while completing the arrange ments for a -house , for the season... They have settled upon several, but there has been a hitch at the last minute m all and while their two daughters entered the Madeira school , yesterday for the winter, along with Miss Janet Jettens, they' are still unsettled. ' Representative and Mrs Robert E. Evans of Dakota City, Neb., had as fhiir rncta fr-tr'a four rfav. tUio u..lr the hitter's nephew and "niece-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ameck of Al- toona. who were married recently. They motored down and did a little sightseeing, returning home also by motor. Mrs. Evans and her daucrh- . tcr, Miss Anna Evans, returned the middle of the month from a visit to the old home of Judge and Mrs. Evans in Pennsylvania, near Coal- mont where they spent several weeks among relatives. if-- T.rrr . jrars. jenens ana ner aaughter, Miss Janet Jefferis, made a short visit in Philadelphia and. accom panied by Representative Jefferii,. made the trip to New ork by water for a complete change and rest be fore Miss Janet Jefferis returns to her school work. Mrs. Frank Kennedv of Omaha has returned to her home there after a visit in the east She came here in the summer to spend a time with her sister, Mrs. Florence Stanton Kalk, who sailed afterwards for Armenia to take part in the reconstruction work and to relieve the sufterina- of some of the war victims. Mrs. Kalk's young son was sacrificed early in the war in the sinking pf the Jacob Jones and she has keot uo interest only in relief work since that tragedy. " , Mr. and Mrs. A. P. OvtrmarA nt Omaha made a recent visit in Wash-. in rrtnn n , .U . ll.l D 1 . Mrs. Staoleton. wirtnur nf th trt Daniel C Staoleton. has rrtiirnrd to her handsome home on Massachu setts avenue from Spring Lake, N. Jv where she spent the summer with her young daughter. Mrs. Jack Barber was with her throuch the mmmrr and returned with her to Washington where she is now Mrs. Stapleton'a guest, 1