The Omaha Sunday Bee WOMEN'S SECTION SOCIETY IS VOL 51 NO. 17. PART TWO OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1921. 1 B TEN CENTS x r (i yet The Web That Is Spun to Get You ft! fiPKi? A mmma mn ftnri goes, and nobody knowi thr Hut Mr i. Lurien Stephens, pub licity chairman for the Tuetday Mu ic a i chili, which it bringing the Scotti Grand Opera company here next Thursday evening, loen't re gard her uk at woes. Ihe whole liuiitc of "putting over" a (how she find thrilling, the big essential litmus to he done and the petty, an roving details as well. The casual opera attendant has little conception of the web that was spun to get him there. Mrs. Steph ens began her spinning six weeks : ago. Since then she has provided ' innumerable and varied atories for three daily and two weekly newspa pers. This involves wide reading ot press notices and circulars for ma terial Photographs also must be examined and distributed for local use. Ten thousand circulars were print ed for the Scotti opera. Half ol them went for advertising purposes 'to locat firms selling Scotti records Four thousand will be distributed at the Auditorium Thursday night and the remaining number have been 6ent to Lincoln, Fremont, Norfolk and other cities. Window cards aplenty must adorn downtown shops. These come to Mrs. Stephens already printed, but the date and place must be filled in by a local printer. More detail! And, of course, a polite committee must gain permission from the va rious hotels, drug and storekeepcrt for the courtesy of poster space in their show windows. Are the bill boards neglected? No. Even though this advertising me dium is considered unsightly by some, it is less objectionable than an unfilled auditorium, in the eyes of the Tuesday Musical, so up tbe posters must go, 100 of them. The correspondence and telephone calls involved are no small consum ers of time and energy. They in crease yearly as the work of the Tuesday club gains momentum. ' All these things, circulars, posters and correspondence, are matters of detail, and though they take hours and hours of time, they are not en tirely the secret of good publicity. A good publicity chairman sees that there is news value in the fact that a woman arose at 4:30 in the morning in order to be first in line at the scat sale. Mrs. Robert Mullis of Council Bluffs did this. Mrs. " ia.u Stephens in Council Bluffs, became Mullis placed window cards for Mrs. . t ill interested m the opera, and wanted j rlinir Rpafr. I A good publicity chairman, in fact, sees the news value in the common things. She must have imagination Stephens possesses, though in speak' ing of her work she never fails to Kive credit to her committee, which tl'.is year is composed of Mesdames Ueorge B. rrinz, J. .. Summers, Ralph Peters, . George Redick, Walter Preston, Herbert Davis, Clyde Roeder and E. A. Wickham, Council Bluffs. ; ; f SEEING the news value In ordi nary events is like seeing beauty in common things. Happy is the man who can do it. Willa Cather, author, who will appear in Omaha ihis month before the Fine Arts so ciety, could not have been the won derful writer she is had she not been able to see the beauty in common things. A wind-swept prairie was for her a picturesque stage, where life's greatest romances were enact ed. Of Antonia, in the book of that name, she said: "She was a battered woman now, not a lovely girl, but she still had that something that fires the imagina tion, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. , . . It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races." Life is never dull for one with appreciation of the common things. It was the cock, Chanteclcr, iu Rostand's play of that name who said:, "With power to see, capacity to suffer, one may come to under stand all thin?s. In an insect's death " are hinted all disasters, lhrough a knot hole can be seen the sky and H' "E camel ' ' He lives in Boston. He was attendinz a big function in St Paul, Minn., to which he thought two of our most charming, and reputable (note the reputable) young Omaha society women might come. So he wired, asking them to dine with him on the date of the aforementioned function. ' The notice was too short, and be sides the girls had not planned to go, ro they wired their refusal. It read thus when they handed it over to the telegraph clerk: . "Two new cafes open, nice eats here. Come on down." But typists sometimes err. An "s" was substituted for an "f somewhere in the transmission and the message as received by the gentleman from . Boston went: ( "Two new cases f?rt, nice to eat here. Come on down." He came J Whether he will sue the carry his disappointment as a sweet i sorrow to his grave, uaDDy does not at this writing know. ' ' TT THEN Captain William Ritchie, I A ir . reached Fremont for the I . . meeting of the American r gion last week tie touna me one ine seasons dates have been an thing he needed, but didn't have, nounced October 11 and 25, No was his uniiorm. - Cits were not be-jvember 8 and 21; December 13 and inir worn bv the welMlressea man.,,:, January 1U and M, i-ebruary It . J ... ,, . ir.. 1 j to x i n i i t So he sent a iis'ress call to Mrs. PirVi,V hn hastnv scked the de sired garments in a ruitcase and. dance nights. October 11, Decem took them down to the depot ,bcr 27 and February 28 as guest "I don't want to go to Fremont i nights, and the February 14 dance mtftcU," she explained to ona of thejwill be a masquerade. Visitor From India TWtS's: Car lot te. Cotptvtt , Ottch.ll Photo. Miss Carlotta Corpron, who has spent the greater part of her life in India where her father has charge of a hospital, is now in O.naha with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nye. A story on this page, "From Peacock Pie to Ham and Eggs," tells some of the interesting experiences of Miss Corpron in the Orient. station boys, but this suitcase has to go to Mr. Ritchie out there. Here the long arm of coincidence clutched the situation, for the sta tion boy had been in Captain Ritch ;le-s company overseas. w.n t.A u k h viii urn can. ouMhWi)tt,u tuv wj t wh dot take it out yourself - - .J .i.. . . v No sooner said than done Mrg. ; Ritchie boarded the train and , reached the meeting just in time t0 aaaress, ana ine uniiorm was jusi in time to lend that military touch. GVBBV heard more than she was meant to . hear the : other day when she ' was mistaken over the phone for a personal friend. "Is Miss : still here?" she inquired. v "No, doggone it, she left last night," came back in grief-stricken, masculine tones from the other end of the wire. The woeful admission came from a younsr man whose father is a prominent attorney of the city. The young man himself is noted for be ing ambidextrous, so to speak; he manages to engage in business and go to college here in Omaha at the same time, not to mention his social popularity. The dark haired visitor at the bot tom of his trouble has just returned to her western home. She has been a popular guest, among the Field club set. Gabby Is assured that exciting news will soon emanate from this quarter. Hold your breath, every body! - . - AERIAL sanatoriums may be a reality in the near future. Newspapers have recently told about the cure of colds through air plane rides. A young lady from Vir ginia recovered her singing voice, lost some years ago, by sailing aronnd at an altitude of 10,000 feet Influenza and pneumonia patients may be taken sailing in the air before long for their cures, if scientific investi gations bear out the theories now held. Gabby suggests that near the aer ial sanatorium there be erected a large building for nerve experts, This should be convenient to the spot where the air machines land. Then after being cured of pulmonary ail ments and scared to death, the nerves may be treated without loss of time. 0' NE of Omaha's prettiest young matrons,' who, when -she mar ried changed her name, but not the letter, proves herself a good housewife. - i . i Said this matron's mother to Gab- f by: "Daughter always saves the threads which she pulls when hem ming her .table linen, and keeps them for darning cigaret holes 1 A word to the wise. ... Corinthian Club Opens Season Tuesday The opening dance of- the Cor inthion club for the season 1921-22 will be held Tuesday evening, Octo ber 11, at Shrine hail. At a recent meeting ot the Cor 'thian c ub the following officers u " c 7,11 i,:j! Jr E. Fitch, chairman, of the board O. H. Williams, vice chairman, ano D. B. Malkson, secretary-treasurer. Frank Lepinski is chairman of the pct-acouaintrd committer and Wil- Le-jliam Purnell of the dance committee. hum Muvciiiurr iau January Iu have been designated as dinner- 'k' ' : j? D. A. R. Regent Guest of Local - Chapters Omaha chapter of , the Daughters of the -American . Revolution will hold its first regular meeting of the season, jointly with the Major Isaac Sadler chapter, on Tuesday, October 11, at a 1 o'clock luncheon at Bret tiest Mile club. The state, regent, Mrs. W. F, Spencer, North Platte, and Lincoln, will be honor guest. , "This affair is given to sponsor the newly organized Children of Ameri can Revolution, whose members will give an afternoon program under the direction of Mrs. Gecjrge Mickel, fol lowing a short business meeting.. The program will include a piano solo by Mary Katherine Devin; read- Prominent Mrs. L. J. Healy has been appointed chairman of the membership committee of the Drama league by the board of directors, replacing Mrs. O. C. Redick who resigned because of ill health. Mrs. Redick leaves a mem bership larger tljjn at any corresponding time, in the history of the Drama league. ' Mrs. Healy was one of Mrs. Redick's assistants during the summer. She is a popular Omaha matron and will long be remembered for her untiring efforts for the Red Cross and the Canteen during the war. As sisting Mrs. Healy on the membership committee are Mrs. W. G. Nicholson, Mrs. E. A. Wickham, Council Bluffs; Mrs. Arthur Mullen, Mrs. J. R. Scobie, Mrs. A. H. Fetters, Miss Gertrude Stout and Mrs. E. B. Ransom. ; Mrs. George E. Mickel is state organizer for the Children of the American Revolution (C A. R.) The object of this society is to instruct children of revolutionary stock in American history, promote celebration of patriotic anniversaries and generally uphold American principles of liberty and patriotism, and promote Ameri can ideals. . j The C A. R. societies are officered by members of the D. A: R. Through appointment from Washing ton Mrs. Mickel has been made president of the Omaha branch, known as the Omalden society. She is a mem ber of the Omaha chapter, D. A. R., and was its first rice regent. Banches of the C A. R. are being established in other parts of the state. A chapter at Crawford, under direction of Mrs. C E. Masters, will be known as the Thirty-seventh Star chapter. Miss Roxy Ammerman of Fairmont is organizing in her city. Lincoln will soon have a chapter with the son of Gen. John J. Pershing as a member. A joint meeting of the Omaha and Major Isaac Sadler chapters, D. A. R., will be held Tuesday with a luncheon at Prettiest Mile dab. .Tbe afternoon program will be given by members of the C, A. R :In Mexican Miss Ruth Thompson, formerly a student at Brownell Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Thompson, is winning musical laurels in Mexico City, 'where she is appearing in grand opera. The Mexican grand opera season is particularly brilliant and Miss Thompson was one of the small number chosen to . sing there this season. At the time of her selection ing, Mary Adelaide McMonies, ac companied at the piano by Mrs. Gail McMonies; Violin solo, Jean Jewell, accompanied by Mrs. Edwin S. Jew ell; reading "Old Glory," Eloise Margaet; violin solo, Dorothy Rose Jones, accompanied by Miss Virginia MorcOtn. AH daughters and those in terested in the C. A. R. and their guests 'are welcome. Luncheon reservations should be made not later than Sunday evening, October 9, with Miss Fannie Adams Harney 1427, or Mrs. A. L. Fernald, Jackson 3139. ' . . . Members of the D. A. R. chapters are sponsoring the sale of flag post ers, explaining the correct use of the flag, compiled by the state chairman of the Nebraska . Daughters, Miss Roxy V. Ammerman of Fairmont Proceeds of the sale of posters will be added to the C. A. R. fund. in Omaha Organizations Grand Opera she knew none of the operas in which she is appearing now. She was chosen for the quality of her voice, Her study of music was carried on under Maestro Sapio of New York. Her parents expect her to stop in Omaha about Thanksgiving time on her way back to New York from the land of the sombrero. She will spend the winter either in New York or Italy. Organist Guild and Clef Club Have Joint Dinner. The Clef club and Nebraska chap ter of the American'Guild of Organ ists will meet for dinner at the par ish house of All Sainti church Mon day evening, October 24, at 7 o'clock. ... Officers of the Clef club include: Miss Corinne Paulson, president; Al bert Beck, secretary; Frank Mach, treasurer; Miss Emily Cleve, Miss Mary Munchhoff, Cecil Berryman and Fred G. Ellis, directors( and Mrs. Cecil Berryman, chairman of entertainment committee. RitiEHAR.r. twt9te.N mwyro Helen Parish a Bride I 1 r 0 f - 1 . o Washington Society Bureau of The Bee, Washington, Oct 8. Mrs. Harding has chosen Thurs day for state functions at the White House, for dinners and receptions throughout the' season, with the sin gle exception of the New Year's day reception, .which will be held on Mon day, the first day of January com ing on Sunday. This will be the first such reception since the admin istration of President Taft, as Presi dent Wilson abandoned that particu lar affair the first year of his regime. The first function will be the cabinet dinner on December 15 and the next one will be the reception on January 2, and then the diplomatic reception on January 12. Thereafter each Thursday evening will be given up to either a dinner or a .reception un til February 23, when the army and navy reception will close the season of state functions, Ash Wednesday coming the following week, on March 1. Easter Sunday will then come on April 16, ";when festivities, if they have had a lull, will begin again with a rush. Of later years the Lenten season has seemed to be no check to social gayeties, but church people hope each year the people will turn back to the church and the church traditions. . . None of the cabinet dinner dates has been set, the dates for entertain ing the President and Mrs. Harding, which will be arranged shortly, now that the White House dates are fixed. The president and his wife will prob ably dine with the members of the cabinet on Tuesday evenings this year, though even that has not been quite fixed. Nor has the question of the receptions or no receptions on Wednesday afternoons among the cabinet hostesses, which is something quite agitating to many of the women in society. These matters will be fixed at the next meeting of the cabinet Jadies with Mrs. Hughes, which will probably be next week, now that the Secretary and Mrs. Hughes have moved into their city home on Eighteenth street. The first meeting and luncheon of the wives or hostesses of senators, known as the "Senate Ladies club" was held on Tuesday of this week. It was a momentous occasion with Mrs. Coolidge, the president, and Mrs. Marshall, the former president and founder, both present. The day had an additional significance for Mrs. Coolidge for it was the 18th anniversary of her marriage to the vice president. There was 'a -remarkably full attendance . as the great majority of senatorial hos tesses are in town, if not for the winter, for a few weeks to get their quarters in order for the season. Mrs. Coolidge wore on this occa sion a new smart black Canton crepe gown, with the drapery of the skirt in deep points, the bodice having a round neck and elbow sleeves. Her hat was all of black veivet with a broad brim and rather large' round crown and she carried a hand bag of black velvet with broad silver clasps. Mrs. Marshall was in Can ton crepe of midnight blue, so dark as to look almost black. It had facings and a long turn back col lar of a lighter shade of blue satin and she wore a small hat of black velvet with a flowing veil of black lace, one of the newest ideas. 6he wore also the bunch of ' orchids which the ladies had for her when she arrived. After the luncheon, these two ladies drove up to the White House in the vice president's car and left their cards for Mrs. Harding, but they did not see her as they had no appointment They will be received later by appoint ment, Mrs. Marshall will meet with the "Senate Ladies" again next Tuesday, for they have thesa )tect-j m Miss Helen Parish became the bride of Francis M. Russell Saturday night at All Saints church. The church was decorated with palms, Russell roses and autumn leaves. The bride was given away by her god-father, Edward M. Mar tin, and the Rev. Thomas Cas ady read the wedding ceremony. Little Esther. Bliss was ringbearer and the Lohengrin wedding marcr was played by Mrs. iiowarn Kennedy. The bride's gown was of ivory satin trimmed with pearls and rosepoint lace, a long tulle train fell from a coronet of rosepoint. The bodice was cut square. She carried a shower bouquet of brides roses and lilies-of-the-valley. Miss Margaret Parish acted as maid-of-honor for her sister. She wore orchid georgette over silver cloth, trimmed with silver, and carried a flower muff of butterfly roses. Of the four bridesmaids, Miss Winifred Brandt and Miss Lois Rus sell were gowned in green peorgette over chantillv lace, while Miss Dorothy Hippie and Miss Dorothy Cavanaugh wore rose gcorgenc over chantilly lace. All four carried muffs of butterfly roses. Ralph Bottorff of Ames acted as best man, and Ted Pussell, E. H. Levsen, Leonard Sny der and Charles Peterson were the ushers. Following the ceremony the wed ding party was entertained at an in formal recption at the homo of Mrs. Parish. Mr. and Mrs. Rusyell left for the east on an evening train. They will be at home after Novem ber 1 at 516 North (Sixteenth street, Lincoln, Neb. ings with luncheon each week and until the lunch is served. The work goes to the needy of the District of Columbia and is the continuation of ehe work they did during the. war. for the Red Cross. Women's club work has had vigorous beginning this fall, and are growing to be more ana more a iao trtr in all features of life. The Association of University Women are still in their excellent quarters at 1607 H street and are likely to be there for some time yet, although the house has been sold to the National Chamber of Commerce, The womens national foundation goes cheerfully on dining, lunching and teaing, reaching out tor new members and sending its officers out on "sneaking" tours in drives tor riew members. This organization is now housed in the most beautiful and pretentious quarters of any woman's club. They have in the grounds of their place the famous old treaty oak known to be at least 600 years old. The Club of Col onial Dames, the Washington club which is the most exclusive of the women's clubs of Washington, and the art clubs are all open and mak ing ready for the busy season ahead. The College Woman's club was opened this week with a large tea when Dr. Valera Parker gave a talk op protective social measures. Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton of Ohio will sDeak later in the month to them uoon the "Pitfalls of Polities' and Dr. Sawyer, the president's physician will give them a talk up on "Public Welfare from the xn dividual Viewooint." Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Scott of Omaha who have been at The High lands for several weeks while they were house hunting have taken the house at 2815 Connecticut avenue and are already established there for the" season. Their two daughters have entered Miss Maderia's school and their son also is established in school. A round of entertainments are being planned foe Mr. and Mrs. Scott who have many friends in Washineton. ' Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Frederick Devereux and their children arrived here recently from ,Omaha to visit Mrs. Devereaux' parents Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Clark. They left the children with their grandparents this week and went over to New York where they are spending some days at The Commodore. Mrs. Devereux will make a visit of a week or more with friends in Bronxville, N. Y. and then return here for a further visit with, her parents. Colonel Devereux will probably re turn to Omaha and come back later for his family. Mrs. E. J. McVann and her daughter Miss Esther McVann have returned to their apartment at 2400 Sixteenth street after a two-months' visit in the Adirondacks. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander H. Speer, jr., of McCook, Neb., are risking the former's parents in their beau tiful country place "BOuldercrest" at Bluemont, Va., who are having a house party of their children and grandchildren. ' Others in the party are Rev. David James Burrall and Mr. and Mrs. Archibald N. Hazard of Buffalo. Bouldercrest was built just before the war by Mr. and Mrs. Speer on one of the most beautiful sites in that section of Virginia. It stands on a high ridge overlooking the Loudon valley on one side and the Susquehanna valley and river on the other, with the Blue Ridge mountains all about them. From Peacock Pie to Ham and Eggs Ua We pat bunder It mou hsi," remarked the little girl from India to her Canadian father, whirh is, br ing Interpreted. That man has a face like a monkey." The little gid wai Carlotta Corp. on and she ua in Liverpool for the first time in her life. It never occurred to Iter tlut ny of the conventionally drenned passengers on the omnibus where they were riding had ever been in India. So when the monkey-faced gentleman left the bus it was a chagrined little girl who received a respectful salaam from him and the words, "Hiinder ke mou ke salaam. Miss Sahib. (Comnlimenti from the man with a face like a monkey.) Hut that was long ago. Miss Cor pron, a tall, slim girl of 19, is living in umaha now with her aunt, Mrs. Charles Nye, and next year when her (amily come to this country on a furlough she intends to go to the University of Michigan. Dr. Coro- ron's hospital, one of the largest in India, is in Nadiad, In the Kaira dis trict, 10 hours from Bombay. Nadiad contains some 30,000 natives and 30 whites, so if Miss .Corpron had not gone tor iu years to an hnglish boarding school in the "hills," better, known to us as the Himalayas, the would have had a rather lonely childhood. The school was a strict one and it is one of Miss Corpron's dreams to go back some day and open a girls' camp like Camp Brew ster, where they can be as informal and hilarious as they like. "Yes, I do miss it all." confessed Miss Corpron, "I miss the big, cool dark rooms full of carved furniture, and I could hardly get used to the hurry over here in the States. Do yoq know tbe Cole Creamery Lunch seems to me the most typically American affair, every dne standing up and gulping down a sandwich and some milk. At home, tifhn, our lunch, was served at 2:30 and lasted an hour and a half." It is quite a iumn from peacocks to ham and eggs, but that is the change Miss Corpron has had to make in her breakfast menu. "We always had "chota hazri," or the lit tle breakfast, in bed, just tea and toast, but the big breakfast was at 11:30, and we used to have all the game we wanted pheasants and venison, and especially peacocks. In vacation time when O was at home we used to play tennis and ride a great deal. I drove a car, too, but you had to keep the top up why, one day a monkey jumped down out of a tree right on top of the car. In India ''tying the marriage knot" is a literal proceeding. Miss Corpron described a wedding wh 'i she went to, and though she and her family were sent for in a large blue touring car, the ceremony was that of orthodox Hindooism. The bride and groom, mere children, sat on gold-embroidered velvet cushions 10 feet apart, and after the priests had gone through various ritual they tied a golden cord around the beads of the young couple and tightened the knot until they were sitting quite close to one another, symbolic, of course, of the union. The bride's unfortunate father had to set up a wedding feast for 1,000 guests, and, moreover, he had to support and ed ucate his newly acquired son-in-law. Dr. Corpron began doing his op erating under the trees. Since then he has built up a hospital containing several wards and 50 private rooms. Of course, he is short-handed and has solved the nursing problem in a unique.wav. When a patient it. given a private room he. is told to get some relative to come and take care cS him. His diet is prescribed and he is told if he touches his ster lized bandages he will probably die. The doctor on his subsequent rounds frequently finds some 17 re lations, a goat and chickens in the room, but the patient usually thrives, being much happier in his own en vironment than if a trained nurse were hovering .about Lecture Series at Duchesne College The University of Nebraska It opening its extension course, for which university credit is given, at Duchesne college, Thirty-sixth and Burt streets, on Tuesday, October 11, at 4 p. m. The course given this semester is "Americanization nd Civics." The lectures take place each Tuesday at 4 p. m. and are open to the public at a small charge. Sub jects of the lectures will be: "The Disarmament Conference and the Issues Involved." "The Problems- of the League of Nations." .- ' "The Conduct of Foreign Policy." . "The National and State Execu- ' tive." "The Process of Law Making." "Popular Control of Government." "Place of Party in Government." "The Efficiency Movement in City Government." "Social Control of the City's Growth; Planning and Zoning." "Public Expenditure s Their Growth and Control." "The Revenues of the Federal , Government." "State and Local Revenues." Creighton university also offers an extension course in "Medieval His tory" on Wednesdays at 4 p. m. The first meeting occurred last week. Omaha WoWn Leave for National Convention of Catholic Women. Miss Mary Holbrook leases Mon day evening for Washington, D. C, where she will be a delegate to the convention of the National Council of Catholic Women, to be held at the Willard hotel. October 13. 14 nd 15. Among others who will attend from Omaha are Mrs. Louis Nash, Mrs. Arthur Mullen. Mrs. V. J. Hynes, W. M. Jeffers, Miss M. L. Proulx and Miss Sarah Shanley. head resident at the Christ ChilJ ' Center, .