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.WOMEN'S SECTION The Omaha Sunday Bee SOCIETY VOL. 51 NO. 35. PART TWO OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12, 10: FIVE CENTS Wsie Staff .rare 'if Wl iWx.n I I IP ji J .- r j Omaha university is making a de finite expansion. It is adding a school of music to its curriculum, giving regular college credit there for. Registrations are being made now in the departments provided, oice, piano, violin, harmony, ap preciation and public school teaching. Director of the school are Mrs. Howard Kennedy, chairman; Mrs. C. W. Axtell and Dr. Fred Kruger. x Louise Jansen Wylie, Corinne Faulson and Robert Cuscadcn are the department heads. All are well known Omaha musicians of the highest standing; they have had ex tensive training and instructional experience, both in this country and abroad. , Mrs. Wylie has a soprano oice of great beauty. She began her training in this, country when very young, going later to Milan, Italy for a year of study under Lovato Gazzulaui, then to 'Dresden where she became the pupil of Lamperti, teacher of Mine. Sembrich. A sea son of instruction with Signor 1?0BT. CUJCADEX Moratti of Berlin was followed by studies with Frau Milsnach under the supervision of Mme. Lilli Leh mann. Many concert engagements have followed her debut made in 1914 and innumerable words of praise have been hers from critics over the country. She isdirector of music t the First Presbyterian church and actively interested in the Fortnightly, the Tuesday Musical and Clef clubs. Miss Corinne I'aulson, an ac complished pianist, studied abroad for four years. She played concert engagements with the Philharmonic orchestra of Berlin and has appeared in Omaha with the New York Symphony orchestra. Miss Paulson is president of the local Clef club, an exclusively music organization, and she is also vice president of the Nebraska State Music Teach ers' association. Robert Cuscaden will have charge of the violin and orchestra depart ment at the new school of. music. During his 11 years abroad he played first violin with the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra and was con cert master of the Opera Comique in Berlin. He has conducted a symphony orchestra here and was director of the Cuscaden School of Stringed Instruments. Like Mr. Wylie and Miss Paulson, he brings a wide range and colorful back ground of experience together with recognized talent and knowledge to his new duties at Omaha university. Where Wine Is Ten Cents a Quart Min liv Dow ho it viitin(t tier brother, lvdard A.' Vow tnd hit family at the American consulate in Algiers, Africa, hat writirit he mother, Mrs, C. N. Dow, of her firl imprrttioiu of that city and hrr viit it tlii Madeira llmf. lulloiin are extracts from hrr letter: "Wc arrived at the beauti ful UUiid of Madeira on the'Hth. As soon as we were anchored Mr. I"ells, the American consul, came aboard to meet me. I was greatly impressed by the tloen of queer Itx.kintr hedges hauled hv oxen and guiilrd liv two men walking along, one on either side Wc pnt into one of thre and road over the hills to the consulate, a beautiful old pink sturro home, delightfully situated on a high hill. The lovely courtyard and quaint old firrpUee in the draw in room interested me particularly. Later in the evening 1 visited the Casino and watched the dancing and the professional gamblers. The fol lowing morning we went by train to the top of a mountain which com manded a magnificent view Seattle isn't in it. We could see a whole rainbow in the clouds below us. We descended the mountain in a tobog gan. It wasn't a bit dangerous as the toboggan was guided by two men and it didn't go as fast as one might imagine. It wa all very thrilling and loads of fun. 'In the afternoon I visited the shops and feasted my eyes on the gorgeous Madeira embroidery, also made a few purchases. We then visited a pic turesque old Catholic cathedral hundreds of years old, and it was time to board the boat again. "Mrs. John Ringwalt'a sister, Mrs. Joseph Garneau of New York, is aboard and I have enjoyed meeting her. "A college professor from Boston has been giving lectures on the Madeira islands. Gibraltar and Al giers, which makes it so much more interesting when we visit these places. "Algiers at last . . . .Ed's home is beautiful and the view of the pic turesque old citv and the bay is be- yona woras. iuiss uow reicrs iu her brother's home. a lovely old Moorish palace, situated on a hill top overlooking the Mediterranean). The rooms are very large, with high ceilings and the staircase is of mar ble. There are gorgeous old ori ental rugs, beautiful paintings and statuary. "I met a number of English and a few Americans at a tea yesterday. Today we are going to a tea at the Hotel St. George given by an Eng lish lady who is wintering here. "Wine is, only 10 cents a quart here. The French drink it instead of tea or coffee." O. E. S. Notes. Reservations for the luncheon to be given by Liberty Star Kensing ton club Friday, 12 o'clock noon, at the Blackstone hotel should be made with Mrs. L. F, Easterly or Mrs. H. E. Cotton. Luncheon will be followed by a business meeting and program. Have You a Flapper in Your Home ? By GABBY DETAYLS. "Sin song of flapper. Watch them flapping by, In their big galoshes, Hat aslant on eye." Have you a little flapper in your home? If not, you are both to be pitied and censured. Consider Sixteenth street without these sweet concoctions tripping along. There would be sober-coated men marching with even tread into their office buildings and out; se verely attired business women in lencrth and collars up to their chins, yellow-skinned housewives out on meir morning rounds. The pavement would still be running somberly along, the street cars clanging by on their unchanging way, and the skyscrapers yet scrap ing the blue, but, pray tell, what thing of beauty or diversion would there be? Suppose there were no unlatched galoshes to make us exclaim, "Ridic ulous!" Suppose there were no bobbed hair beauties to make us think, "Sillj thingsl"' Suppose all skirts were as long as they ought to bel Face the facts. Suppose all these V.:. roillir wprel What would tilings v.j ,,x.r. , - - - serious-minded people nave to talk . . , . .... il 1 A about? jsotmng dui me ouuook iui world peace or the riots in India. Doubtless the street cleaning de partment would have to spend more money, thereby increasing taxes, for if there were no gray or flesh-colored silk legs to shiver at and scold about, our eyes would wander to more sub stantial things and we would demand more attributes to a city beautiful. Gradually the tone of shop win dows would change. Florists would carry a different variety of blooms, for who would care to send orchids to a girl who carried a Boston bag instead of a vanity case. A geran ium plant, recommended for its last ing qualities, would certainly be pre ferred by the flapless miss. - Jewelry shops" would take on a different front. Imagine a thorough ly sensible young woman, made in the mould that her elders preach, wearing a tiny platinum, bejeweled Swiss watch. "Neverl The wrist is too precarious a place for my timepiece." the perfect 18-year-old would exclaim. Thus would we re vert to the large, heavy gold chatel aines such as we used to wear pompously, and safely, on our heaving breasts. Department store windows would have to conform to the trend. In stead of advance spring styles in bonfire red, and canary yellow, we would see, perchance, a window of mackintoshes advising us to prepare for April showers, or great displays of yard goods exploiting the virture of cheaper material now that "so much more is required." Think it over. Then rejoice for the flapper as she is, her marsh mallow face, and wrappy coat, her mincing steps, her ruby lips, her tri-colored pumps and all the rest. She is the orchid amidst the geran ium and if you could do a little ex cavating you would find that the heart beneath the flimsy gown beats true. Human nature doesn't change in a decade. She is very much like her mother and her mother's moth er when all is said and done. Still Gabby wonders what she has omitted that the next generation can do to make her exclaim, as we do, "Ridiculous and "How absurd I" SOME reforms are yet needed in Omaha. Gabby will not enum erate them, save one, which is the burden of this song. "I have been dining at ," sa!d Mrs. Margaret Josephine Blair, who has been lecturing in the city the past week, "because I think they have good food. But I have to rr.ake a change." "Why," asked astonished Gabby, knowing the excellent reputation of the place mentioned. "It's the toothpicks," she said in a tone of despair. . "Everyone goes out sucking a toothpick, and I can't stand ill" Gabby has been working for a long time on this reform and she fervently hopes Mrs. Blair will effect it before she leaves town. A It 1SS Ida Mulle, who- played IV I the roIe of ,he miserable" Chinese wife in "Mecca" at the Brandeis a week ago, expressed an opinion in. Omaha. Miss Mulle's opinions are worth something, es pecially on the subject of public speaking. Good enunciation is a hobby with her; she has heard many speakers and she knows poise when she sees it. , Following a press club luncheon at which Miss Mulle was an honor guest, she attended the lecture by Sir Fhilip Gibbs to the Omaha So ciety of F"ine Arts. Mrs. Ward Burgess, president, presented the distinguished British speaker. "I never heard a better introduc tion," Miss Mulle exclaimed after ward. "For enunciation, poise and brevity, it was a modell" - - Women Golfers Luncheon Omaha women golfers will give the second of a series of luncheons in the Burgess-Nash tea room Mon day, 12:30 p. m. Luncheon will be followed by a putting contest on the Burgess-Nash indoor course. These meetings are being spon sored by local officers of the Wo man's State Golf association, includ ing Mesdamcs Karl Lininger. Blaine Young. John Redick and Mark Lcv ings. Visiting golfers are welcome. Art and Citizenship Applied at Home P I f J I1 If - T t..1 uitmrnmsatmrnssii' " cur admh, East for Winter Sports WW pfk . J W . o I h 4 fl i v ik . J Miss Dorothy Hall, who is a devotee of white sports, has gone east for a few weeks and will take advantage of the frozen lakes and snow covered slopes about Poland Springs, Me., for skating and snowshoeing and skiing. The big summer hotel at Poland Springs is opened for a few weeks every winter to accommodate the out-door enthusiasts. This week Miss Hall is at Stamford, Conn., where she is visiting friends. Halleck, jr., Homer and Hudson are the three fine sons of Mr. and Mrs. Halleck Rose. Halleck, jr., is attending school at Sewickley, Pa., this year in preparation for the Hill school, which he plans to enter next fall. Homer and Hudson arc pupils at Saunders school here. i Deeply interested in the fine arts and good citizenship, Mrs. Rose has done that very excellent thing ap plied them, first of all, in her own home. Knowing that sincere inter est does not stop there, however, she has given much constructive service in these lines outside. As far back as 1909 she was working for a child labor law. The bill which passed ai in that session of the legislature is still in force and Mrs. Rose is credited with having done more toward its passage than any other one person. Governor George Sheldon ap pointed her the first child labor in spector under this act; home duties prevented her acceptance. The works of such artists as Central High to Have Promenade - Next Friday The high school set is looking for. ward to next Friday evening, Feb. rary 17, when the annual senior prom of Central High school will be given at Kelpine's academy. The commit tee incharge includes Allan Holmes, Herbert Woodland and Paul Leuss ler. With plans for good music and interesting entertainment, this dance promises to be the largest and best of the school year. The chaperones will be Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Woodland and Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Leussler. Get Acquainted Club Vocal solos by Miss Harriett Metz, accompanied by Miss Adelyn Wood, and a chalk talk by John Gerlach will be features of the Get Acquaint ed club program this evening, 7:30 o'clock, at the First Unitarian church, Harney street and Turner boulevard. There will also be games and community singing. The Misses Alma Peters and Florence Taylor will be the hostesses. All strangers' and lonesome folk welcome. The club is nonsectarian. Inncss, Zorn, Hoearth and Cazan were brought here when she was chairman of the exhibition commit tee of the Omaha Society of Fine Arts during the administration of Mrs. L. 1. Kountie She has also served as secretary, and as treasurer of this organization, and for two years was state chairman of art for the Nebraska Federation of Women's clubs. She was federal art chair man for the middle western states under the war savings bureau dur ing the war when she had charge of a liberty loan poster contest. Other war work by Mrs. Rose included the sale of liberty bonds and a cam paign for Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. funds. Representing the Equal Fran chise society, Mrs. Rose was prime mover in the citizenship school con ducted in Omaha last spring by Mrs. H. H. Wheeler of Lincoln. She is now arranging with Mrs. Wheeler for the final lecture of the series, a resume of the work of the last legis lature, which will probably be giv en here this month. The Children's Code bill, defeated by the last legis lature is of particular interest to Mrs. Rose who believes that much of it will come up again before the ses sion of 1923. Drama League Lecture Miss Mary Irene Wallace, who will speak before the Drama league in the Fontenelle ball room on Fri day, .February 17, at 4 p. m., has just completed a trip which offered her . an exceptional opportunity for research work along modern dra matic lines. During the three months she was gone she visited the school of drama in the Carnegie institute of Pitts burgh. In Boston she went to the Boston Stage society of the Eliza beth Peabody house and also saw the Copley players. In New York she familiarized herself with the activi ties of the New York Drama league, which offers a wide field of interest for a student of the theater. In this program of lectures, luncheons and exhibits of various forms of stage craft she also saw the Pageant of America and the work in New York of the Young People's theater and the Neighborhood playhouse. In all of the large eastern cities she made a study of dramatics in high schools, dramatic schools, social settlements, community centers, ama teur clubs and little theater groups. Miss Wallace also saw a large number of the current plays, among them, "Mr. Pirn Passes By," which will come to the Brandeis this month. Business Women's League Miss Mary Marsden, chairman of the advertising group in charge of fthe Omaha Business and Profes sional Woman's League dinner Wed nesday, 6:15 p. m., at the Fontenelle hotel promises a big surprise for the evening program. An interesting contest with worth-while prizes will be a feature of the affair. See Funeral of Hawaiian Prince Omaha travelers In Honolulu luvt written many letters home describing the magnificent funeral servicei held for Trine Kuliio Kalanianaole. For eight yean the dclrgate to tin American congreu, lie was popular both with the Hawaiian! and the Americans, and he was the favorite nephew of the late Queen Lil linkalanL He is the last of the old Hawaiian royal line, and it may be the last time that anyone will wit ness the pomp and ritual of aucii a procession, for it is only for royalty that the bright feathered kahili are carried, kukui torches burn and the famous cloaks made of thousands of tiny red and yellow featheri are worn. Mr. and Mrs. Doane Keller, who have just landed in this country from Honolulu witnessed tlie funeral pro cession, as did George Kiewit. Mrs. Kiewit was out of the city at the time. Mr. Keller wrote: "The funeral procession today was one of the most wonderful and weird sights one will ever see thous ands of soldiers and sailors, Hawaiian! dressed in their feather costumes, the draped casket of pol ished koa wood, and the weird chant ing and wailing of the old Hawaiian men and women." Mrs. W. II. Thomai received let ters from her daughter, Mist Esther; Thomas, who is teaching in the Me Kinley high school in Honolulu, de scribing the parade. She spoke also of the watches that were kept over the bier of the prince while he lav in state. So many mourners wished to see him that the watches had to b cut down from an hour to IS minutes, and the sound of chanting and wail ing was continuous. Mr. Kiewit says it was more like a pageant or a parade than a funeral procession. The marching line was two miles long. The men wore hel mets shaped like the great warrior helmets of by-gone days, and the women wore leis wreaths of bright flowers about their necks and in their dark hair. Airplanes flew over head and there was the constant rumble of the minute guna firing a parting salute. Mr. Keller wrote at the same time: "It is no wonder to me that the Hawaiians were such superstititious people when they saw such wonders of nature all about them, the rain bows which can be seen almost any time and anywhere, the clouds hanging low over the mountain tops, the flowers and plants that glow without being planted, in a soil that but a short time ago was thrown up by volcanic eruptions; and the ac tive volcano itself. No wonder tint their songs are all about rainbows, flowers and nature, and no wonder that all they had to do was sing. There is a Hawaiian legend that King Kamehameha alloted land to his subjects according to their mu sical ability and that he told them that if they played beautiful music they would always be at peace with one another. . . "The American jazz, however, is fast taking the romance out of thdr music, as the saxophone and other instruments not native to them, are now being played by them. It was a rare treat to hear the real old Hawaiian music and songs that were sung by the natives for a whole week after the death of the prince." Twain Objects to Fur Cap If the weather is cold enough while Ossip Gabrilowitsch, famous pianist, is here for his Sunday after noon concert at the Brandeis under Tuesday musical auspices, we may expect to see his favorite winter cap, a sealskin, said to be the bete noir of Mme. Gabrilowitsch. Mme. Gabrilowitsch is Clare Clemens, daughter of Mark Twain. Naturally she is proud of her dis tinguished husband. At the same time, he is said to be a great trial to her, for he simply won't pay any attention to his clothes. The older a suit grows, the stronger grows his affection for it. Were it not for his wife, it is said he wrould never go to the tailor. As it is, at stated intervals, he submits meekly and is as clay in the potter's hands, or rather the tail or's hands. It is entirely different, however, when it comes to the favorite winter cap. When it adorns the head of Mr. Gabrilowitsch, in his walks, he goes alone. His wife re joices in the fact that the winter season does not last more than a few months each year. And were it not for the knowledge Mr. Gabrilo witsch has of his wife's felonious intentions toward his treasured head gear, and his own guard over it, this one example of 'Russian head architecture would doubtless go the way of its long departed mates. Loyalty is a wonderful virtue, but it can be carried too far, when it comes to retaining a sealskin cap which has "outlived its generation." TO A MOTHER OF FIVE SONS KILLED IN BATTLE. Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864. To Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Mass. ' Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War depart ment a statement of the adjutant general of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine should I attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss ao overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost,nd the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, A. LINCOLN.