SOCIETY
EDITORIAL
The Omaha Sunday Bee
AMUSEMENTS
FEATURES
VOL. 51 NO. 40.
PART TWO
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1922.
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FIVE CENTS
Geography as
a Social
Asset
Better for Conversation
Than Jewels or French,
or Books or Looks.
By CABBY DETAYLS.
What it I social asset? Poise, yes.
Knowledge of rtiuyc,, dancing, bridge,
Kolf, riding, motor driving, the late
f.ookn, Inolii yet all are of alue
in appraising one'a social worth. All
these and more, painting, the drama,
1'urriKH laniiuaget and many other
desirable elective could be added.
Kut these social virtues are at noth
inir compared with that one great
tillcr-iti of life good oi:cralloii.
A good conversationalist ie an ar
tist of the highcut rank. He who
builds with words If not aecond to
hint who chivla the chaste marble
or to the swift-fingered violinist or
maler of nongt.
We lend our girls off to boarding
school, we take costly trips, we read
rapidly the reason's output of fic
tion, in an cllort to keep uo with
the conversation of our brilliant
friends, but we gather our knowl
edge so rapidly and assimilate so lit
tle of it that it is not subject to
comment when occasion demands it
in conversation.
If Gabby were to give her readers
one tip on how to build up good
conversation, she would sav "Study
geography. Don't ound rce-z'n'bul
we know, but consider.
You who have studied French in
college for three or four years: How
many times in legitimate conversa
. tion do you draw upon your knowl
edge of French? Seldom. If you
read all the best sellers of last year,
how often are yoa referring to them
in your day-to-day conversation now?
Not often.
But find if you can, ' any dinner
party, any evening of conversation
tnywhere, be it at a dance, card
party or even prayer meeting, where
geography does not come up in one
wayor another as a topic for dis
cussion. "Where is Oberammcrgau?" The
question is .being asked almost daily
now that the Passion Play is to be
given this year.
. "Is the Dead Sea still living?"
some one asked the other night.
"Tonight's paper said something
about the Isle of Martinique. Where
is it?" was another question Gabby
liCird in polite society this week.
"Why did Ratcliffe say 'Him-a-la-ya'
when they are teaching 'Hi-mal-a-ya
in the schools?"
"Do you go througlf Santa Fe on
your way to the Pacific coast?"
"What station is the junction point
for Glacier National park?"
"What is the best road to take
in driving from here to Sioux City?"
These are only a few of the geo
graphic questions, local, national and
international, Gabby has heard in
the past week or two. Stop, look and
listen, and you will begin to appre
ciate how Important a part geog
raphy plays in the ordinary conver
sation. Let it be a '"word to the
vise." Get an accurate, working
knowledge of the subject, either by
ravel or book study and you will
find yourself "t home" in any
group.
This truth was forced upon Gab
by's attention in a striking way one
evening recently, when a small group
was visiting "over the teacups."
There vfas nothing to do but talk.
NoNone was well acquainted with
anyone else; all were sizing- the
others up, and everyone was on his
conversational tip toes. Everyone
except a calm, staid, middle-aged
man. He was making , no effort
whatever. Gabby soon noticed that
in spite of his nonchalance, this man
was brought into the conversation at
almost every turn. Why? All be
cause he had a clear knowledge of
the geography of our land and oth
ers. He was the only member of
the crowd who was making no ef
fort to shine. Yet he was scintillat
ing more brilliantly than any one
else, all because he knew something
definite about distances, altitudes,
rivers, steamship , lines, Biblical
places.
Verily, good enunciation and a
wide knowledge of geography would
establish one as a conversationalist
par excellence . and such person
would be the envy of kings.
THE father of a flourishing young
family of four was recently the
victim of a hoax, originated,
Gabby regrets to say, by none other
than his wife. The man in question
was away on a hunting trip, and
wives are proverbially opposed to
hunting trips, which may have had
something to do with it. At any rate,
he was more than astounded to re
ceive in camp one of the convention
al"stork cards" announcing the arri
val of "a little stranger in our home,"
weight, hair, etc., all neatly filled out.
JJ vs both surprised and pleased,
Tnough slightly more surprised than
pleased.
The mystery was not unraveled
until he returned in much agitation
to his own fireside, when a placid
wife explained to him that she had
taken as a cook a young married
woman with a 2-months-old baby.
There was indeed a little stranger in
the home, and he presently lifted up
his voice and wept, but the relieved
husband didn't even mind that. .
Musical Tea for
Benefit Ralston
Public Library
The Ralston Woman's club' will
give a musical tea Friday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. Ray Borken
hagen for the benefit of the Ralston
public library,, which was sponsored
by the organization.
The program will include a piano
solo by Mrs. Ray J.. Abbott;
whistling solo, Mrs. Florence Steun
eibcrg; soprano solo, Mrs. J. H.
Copenhaven; piano selections. Mrs.
H. J. Pierce; song group, Mrs. I.
V. Jones, accompanied by Mrs.
Pierce; violin solo, Mrs. Grace Leidy
IJerger. accompanied by Mrs. Hazel
True Chaloupka, .
, ' ' Walter JJeaJ. 1 9 - ;J . jffiss ternelie fazd ' V
' iJ h i - . GIFTS I
Trvo lovers of horses and of hotseback riding, mho are
most regular in their devotion to the sport, are Walter Head and
his daughter. Miss Vernelle Head. Since Miss Head's return
from the West Indies she and her father have ridden nearly every
afternoon, and their tanlcrs take them over no mere park cinder
path', lul over seven or eight miles of good open country.
Ward Burgess often accompanies them, and the horse which
Miss Head best rides, in the picture above, was the gift of Mr. Bur
gess. His name is Marvin, and he is of thoroughbred slock, an
has already been a prize winner. He is a 4-year-old, dark bay
and is a favorite not only with Miss Head but her father as Well.
Marvin s mistress expects to take him with her later in the spring
when the family leave for their country home near St. Joseph, Mo.
; Miss Head is an excellent horsewoman and has ridden since
she was a small girl. At Rosemary Hall she had her own horse,
and used to ride' every year for the Vanderbilt cup, which was
ofred annually to the Rosemary girls by Mr. Vanderbilt, who
had a home near the school.
jWrs Charles C. Allison
Doodles II is the impressive name of the handsome blue gray
angora cat, which Mrs. Charles Allison is holding in her lap.
Doodles is only a year old, but his color and markings, and es
pecially his beautiful tail, make him a k'mg in catdom. He was
born on the Allison country place near Calhoun and was a present
from Mr. Allison to Mrs. Allison before their marriage.
Social Settlement
to Hear Program
of Music ; .
The following program will be
given for the children at the Social
Settlement house this afternoon at 3
o'clock: Piano solos, Mary Alice
Kirtley, Cora Laverty artd Jean Lav-erty;-cornet
solos, Paul Swoboda, ac
companied by Mrs. A. F. Leermak
ers; violin selections, Bernard Hanig
hen, accompanied by Mrs. J. E. Brill;
story telling, Mrs. John W. Towle.
The W." I. L. L. club meets for
dramatic art on Monday evening at
the Social Settlement house. Tues
day evening, the H. E. L.: P: club
meets for supper and dramatic art
and the Royal Q. B. C. club has sup
per Thursday evening.
Psychology Course Opens.
Prof. Walter N. Hatsey of the Uni
versity of Omaha will give the first
of a series of 10 lectures on
"Psychology and the Day's Work,"
by Edgar James , Swift, Monday
afternoon, 2 o'clock, at the Y..W. C.
A. auditorium, under the auspices of
the day chautauqua circles. The sub
ject of the first talk will be "Organ
ization for Mental Efficiency." . ..
The lectures are open to the public.
All clergy are invited to attend as
guests of the committee. For further
information calLMrs. W. B. Howard
or Mrs. E. R. Redding.
Parties for Returned
Bride and Groom.
Friends of .Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Shirley, who were married about six,
weeks ago very quietly, are taking
this opportunity to entertain for the
young couple since, they had no
hance to do so at the time of the
wedding. Friday evening Mrs.
Sophie McDermott gave a buffet sup
per and bridge party at her-home
for them and for 24 of their friends.
Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. Al
bert Sibbernson entertained infor
mally at bridge for Mr. and Mrs.'
Shirley, and next Friday Miss Dor
othy Judson is to be hostess at three
tables of bridge in the afternoon for
Mrs. Shirley. Saturday evening Mr.
and Mrs. Charles C. Allison will en
tertain three . tables' of bridge at
their home for .'the Shirleys. v
Lyman Bryson to Return.
Lyman Bryson, a former resident
of Omaha, who has for the past two
years been head of the .Junior Red
Cross in Europe, is expected to sail
shortly for New York, and will ar
rive in Omaha sometime next month.
Mr. Bryson was engaged in news-
Ipaper work here, prior. to the war,
and was later an associate protessor
of . English at the University of
Michigan'. During the war he was
in Europe engaged in Red Cross
work, fhiefly , in the Balkans and
Russia and ij at present in Paris
attending a conference of all the di
visions, of the Red Cross.
The April Brides
Choose Church
Visit Former Home
)
Weddings
74iss lenore Norton
7133 Theresa Flanagan)
Miss Lenore Norton and brother, Matthew, accompanied by Miss
Theresa Flanagan, sailed yesterday on the Baltic for a three months' visit
with their patents, Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Norton of Ballygar, Ireland. . Miss
Flanagan, who is a sister of Mrs. Norton, will also spend some time with
another sister. Mrs. Owen Stanton. ...
Rev. P. A. Flanagan, who is at present in Rome, will join his sisters
some time in April. The party will visit the Lakes of Killarny and will
also spend some time in Roscommon, the former home of the Flanagans.
They will return to Omaha in June.
April brides and church weddings
are synonymous this spring. April,
most capricious of all months, is
easily the favorite with the season's
engaged couples, who, with optim
ism as dauntless as the croquses and
pussy willows are counting on
April's smiles and not her showers.
And the church weddings will rival
in beauty the lovely ceremonies of
last fall, for brides will have all the
spring blossoms from which to
choose and a dozen shimmery new
hues sponsored by fashion for their
bridesmaids' gowns.
All Saints Episcopal church will
be-the scene of two weddings. Miss
Helen Smith, daughter of Mr.' "and
Mrs. Arthur Crittenden Smith, will
be married there on April 18, the
week after Easter, to Philip Gray
Lovell of Cambridge, Mass. Her
bridal party will include several east
ern friends. The wedding will be an
afternoon one, and the 'reception will
be in the parish house following the
ceremony.
Miss Winifred Brandt and James
Hunsaker have also decided on a
church wedding, and will be married
in All Saints next month. It is a
matter of sentiment with Miss
Brandt, her desire "to be married at
All Saints, for her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Brandt, were, the first
couple to be married there after the
church was built. -
Miss Lois Howell, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Emerson Howell,
has chosen April 22 for the date of
her wedding to John Dwight Evans.
They will be'' married at the First
Presbyterian church.
Miss' Geraldine Hess, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hess of Council
Bluffs, will become the bride of
Douglas Peters of. Omaha on April
20, and their wedding will take place
tn St. fauls Episcopal church in
Council Bluffs. It will be in the
evening. 1 .
Aloha Camp Head
Will Spend Next
Week -End Here
: Mrs. , E. " L. -Gulick of Brookline,
Mass., will arrive March 24 to spend
the w:eek-end with . Miss Helen
Smails. Mrs. Gulick is making a
tour of the larger cities in the in
terests of Camp Aloha, the famous
girls' camp' at Vermont, which is
managed by Mr. and Mrs. Gulick.
This is the-- 18th season that the
camp for, girls has been open, and
this next summer the Gulicks plan
to open a camp for boys as well.
The camp lies in the Green moun
tains.' Miss Smails has been a coun
sellor at Aloha for several summers
and a number of Omaha girls have
gone there. On Saturday at 1
o'clock there will be an Aloha lunch
eon at the Burgess-Nash tea room
for all those who are interested in
the cam?
Society Slow
in Healing
Breaches
0
Reception by German
Charge d' Affaires
Event of Week.
Bureau of The Bee,
Washington, March 13.
An interesting event of last week
was the first "at home" of Mrs. Karl
Lang, wife of the' charge d'affaires
of Germany, who had a reception in
the repaired and redecorated German
embassy which has . not been open
for social affairs since the ignomini
ous departure of the. former ambassa
dor and Countess Von Bernstorff.
The familiar old drawing rooms were
not crowded with visitors. Mrs. Lang
and Baroness Von Thurmann, wife
of the counselor of the embassy,
have made a ' pleasant impression
wherever, they have gone but they
have not had an easy time making
friends. Society is distinctly slower
in healing the breach than govern
ments, j',
The announcement of the engage
ment of Secretary Hughes' daughter
Catherine to Chauncey L. Waddell
of New York came as something of a
surprise to society. Miss Hughes as
the leading . cabinet girl did not
plunge into society and is really not
generally known. , She is anything
but the butterfly type. She is a
graduate of Wellesley, her mother's
alma mater, class of 1920, and previ
ous to that she graduated from the
National Cathedral school in Wash
ington when her father was on the
supreme court bench. Her sister
Helen, who died during the war, also
was a student at the Cathedral
school. Mr., Waddell is a Harvard
man, class of 1918. He has had war
service in the air department and is
now a business man of the metropo
lis. His parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin J. Waddell of Greenfield, O.
He is not known in Washington so
ciety. The wedding will take place
in the -Washington home of the
Hughes' this spring, possibly next
month, though no definite date has
been ret.
; New Postmaster Arrives.
The new postmaster general and
Mrs. Hubert Work are estab
lished in the same apartment occu
pied by former Postmaster General
Hays, at Wardman Park Inn. Mrs.
Work was formally presented to the
cabinet hostesses in her new role last
Saturday by Mrs. Wallace, wife of
the secretary of agriculture, who had
the other cabinet hostesses to meet
her at luncheon. Secretary and Mrs.
Wallace live at Wardman Park Inn,
and Secretary and Mrs. Fall and Sec
retary and Mrs. James J. Davis also,
making quite a colony of cabinet
people there. Mrs. Work is not
strong and will not enter into social
affairs with much activity this spring.
While she looks the picture of health
and as the wife of the head of a fa-
ITorn U Pag Three, Columa Three.)
'. (Sonnt ttad b Constance Rummon, mthmatlc Instructor and (radu
ate student, I'niverslty of Nebranka. Lincoln, at the annuij tiannquet of Chi KelU
Pht llierary sorority. In Lincoln, Thursday evening, March it.)
- I would have given thee jewels exquisite
Bright .sapphires, ropes of pearl coiled serpentine
And shimmering silks, diaphanous and fine,
And furs rich sables for an empress fit. .
I would have brought thee hyacinths, passion-sweet,
With fragile, shy, blue mountain columbine,
: And amorous violets in thy hair to twine,
And orchids proud to strew beneath thy feet.
I would have given thee all that is in me
Thine utterly, my body and heart and brain
My strength to fend, my wit to pleasure thee,'
My heart with love's glow to irradiate . t
. Thy life-see, then,' how bitter was my fate, .
, Who could not give thee anything but pain !
Beloved Nebraska Mother
To look back over 76 years spent
largely in a pioneer country, mother
of four children, 13 grandchildren
and three' great-grandchildren, and
be able to say, "Life has been good,"
is eloquent, evidence that the, life it
self has been one of service and love."
Tlfese were the words a few days
ago ; of Mrs. Annie M Reavis of
Falls City, widow of. the late Judge
Isham Reavis, who is spending the
winter here with her son, Burt I.
Reavis, and family. Mrs. T. J. Gist
of Falls City, a past president of the
Nebraska Federation of Women's
Clubs, is a daughter, Congressman.
C. Frank Reavis of the First Ne
braska district and David Reavis of
Falls City t are ,other sons. The
larger family of, Mrs. Reavis is all of
Falls City, where she is beloved by
everyone. , , .
The grandchildren include Mary,
Isham and Burt, jr., children of Mr.
and Mrs. Burt . Reavis; Frank, jr.,
and John Wallace, sons of Mr. and
Mrs.' C. Frank -Reavis; . David, jr.,
Grace Anna, Nellie and -Joe. chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. David Reavis;
Frank, Anna Margaret, and Eliza
beth .AV, children of Mr. and Mrs.
T..J. Gist, whose son, Isham Reavis
Gist, died in service during the world
waf.s Mrs. John Martin and iirs.
Pleasant Hyson of Omaha are uieces
of Mrs. Reavis, and John W. Towle,
a nephew.
' "I am going home when the tulips
show their, leaves," said Mrs. Reavis
of her return to Falls City, where
she has lived for SO years on the
same piece of ground. It was there
where, as a young bride., she made
her first home; it was there her chil
dren were born and from there were
rnarned. ' Most of the 13 grand
children were born there;' Hallowed
is that vicinity to her. ' Next to her
family, . her greatest joyi is in her
home and flower garden. "I love
every ; tree in the yard and every
corner in the house," she said. Per
haps it is her love of nature and the
wholesome life it inspires that have
kept' a warm glow of color in her
cheeks and a light in her eye.
Just at the entrance 'of her home
in Falls City there stands an old tree
which she planted, a mere twig, the
Sabbath before she was married; it
has gTown and spread itself until it
has become one of the .beauty spots
thereabout. Many of the fondest
memories of her children and her
children's children, like birds, have
built their inests in the boughs of
that old tree.
At the age of 17, Mrs. Reavis. then
Miss Annie M. Dorrington, came
to Nebraska, fresh from college,
World Noted
Women
Come
Of Historic ftote Four
Distinguished Women
Here in One Week.
Four of the world's ditiii;uihcd
women will be in Omaha this week,
Mi Anne M'k.iii in the interest
of devastated Fume, l ady M argot
At(uitlt, lecturing m the political
field, Margaret Matiffnauer. vho
peer at a contralto iintrr cannot be
named, and Evangeline Booth on her
Christian round.
These women will be the center
ol attention while they are in the
city. It i doubtful if it any time
In the history of Omaha many
noted women have appeared here be
fore public audiences,
Mi Morgan, daughter of the late
J. Pierpont Morgan,' will Meak this
afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Fon
tenelle ballroom in the innrres.1 pf
the American committee, for devas
tated France. The lecture is otcn
find free to the public. She will be
an honor guest at a luncheon at the
Fontenelle hotel Monday at 12:1?.
Prominent groups of men amf
womeri in the city have already
made large reservations for the af
fair France Not Militaristic.
As chairman of the executive com
mittee of the American committee
for devastated France, Miss Morgan
has recently returned from Franc
with an appeal for $750,000 with
which to round out the committee"!
work. She does not believe that
France is militaristic. '
Miss Morgan remarked that it
seemed, strange that, while Germany
was complaining about reparations
and voluntarilly making herself
bankrupt on paper, the German peo
ple were paying practically no taxes
and had rebuilt their merchant ma
rine to two-thirds of its prewar
strength, while France had been un
able to finish two ships she had
begun before the war. She thought
that France had been called upon to
give up entirtly too much in the
various conferences.
Frank, Fearless, Informed.
.Lady Asquith, wife of the former
prime minister of England, is one
of the most conspicuous speakers of
the day. She is frank, fearless, active-minded
and informed. Mrs. As
quith has been a leading figure
among the women of the world since
she took the leading part in the or
ganization known as "The Souls" in
England. Leaders of London so
ciety are members of this organiza
tion. According to word received
here, Mrs. Asquith spoke ta a ca
pacity house in Buffalo Wednesday
right. Her engagement here Is
Thursday afternoon, 4 p. m.. Bran
deis theater on the subjct,."PeopIe.
Pofltics and Events." Her topic" will
deal with the numerous celebrities
she numbers among her intimate
friends in the realms of sjciety, lit
erature, science and art. .
Consummate Artist.
Mme. Matzenauer will be greeted
by an alidience of thousands, the ad
vance sale would indicate, when she
steps on the platform at the Audi
torium Friday evening. Called by
many the world's greatest contralto,
She has just been re-engaged for sev
eral years to sing leading roles with
the Metropolitan opera company.
She is not only an .opera star, but
also the most eminent recital artist
on the concert stage today. Of her
appearance in Cleveland very recent
ly, James H. Rogers said in part:
"She sang . . . with consummate
art in modulated tone and rounded
phrase, and moreover with a reti
cence in respect of volume that be
spoke surpassing control of her
amazingly opulent vocal resources.
As we have already indicated, Mme.
Matzenauer won a triumphant suc
cess." Commander Booth of the Salva
tion Army will deliver her lecture,
"The World's Greatest Romance,"
in the Brandeis theater at 3 Sunday
afternoon, March 26. At- 2 hc fol
lowing day, she will dedicate the
new rescue home at Seventeenth and
Grace streets. There will be other
meetings in connection with her
visit. A party of more than a dozen
will accompany her here.
a female seminary at Elmira,
N. Y. Perhaps it was the atmos
phere of that section of New York
that made Mr?. Reavis a believer in
"equal rights." She never fails tor cast
her ballot on election day and has .
even had the pleasure of voting to
send her own son to congress.
As visitor to Omaha, Mrs. Reavis
is not cast in a new role. She came
here with her husband many times
in an earlier day to attend federal
court. She remembers this city when
it had no pavement and no churches.
She remembers it when the territorial
capitol stood where Central High
school is now located,- and later,
when the Millard and the Paxtou
were hotels of fashion and the Boyd
theater a place of splendor. She
recalls, too, the annual excursions for
salt to the present site of Lincoln.
Her father and mother were born
and married in England, coming to
this country in 1842 and to the west
in 1857. The story of her mother's
life in Nebraska is the thrilling
drama of the stirring pioneer and
war days. Many a night, carrying
food and drink, she groped through
the darkness from the house to "the
Squire's barn," which was an under
ground station for escaping slav.
Of her, Morton's "History of Ne
braska" says: '"Though the cabins
were few and far between no night
was too dark for her to go across
the prairie to administer to the sick,
carrying her own stock of medicine
and an old fashioned walking stick for
her protection." She was a delicate,
refined woman, fitted only in spirit
for the rugged life of the day. It
was she who organized the first
Sunday school in Falls City.
Mrs. Reavis herself taught a Sun
day school class in the Methodist
church of Falls City for many years.
She is still active in the church, be
ing a member of the official board,
(Tura to ra Three, Oluma fix.) .
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