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.
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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.
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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"
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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
