SOCIETY
KD1TOKIAL
The Omaha Sunday Bee
AMUSEM ENTS
FEATURES
VOL. SI NO, 41.
PART TWO
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 20, 1922.
1-B
five CENTS
Glimpses of
the Great
Sidelights on Three Fa
mous Women With Us
This Past Week.
By CABBY DETAYLS.
mill fiiuiu omen come
XnJ g.tn'". Morgan, Margin rvi
iOII tile iM BlIllAxlhiLA ;
AH ihrre lid i"ervnbty prllej
with a tapital "i." In fact the mot
interrMiug ih'Hif about l.ty Margot
Atquith n lu r proiility. ?h mm
k tott lr.on to all f u in that re
Mie had nothing e!e, not
lH.k, nor pioiound wUdom nor wa
he any ud orator a Krutui w,
J ut the dor ladv did juccred in grt
tmg her pmon.lity over, and in luv
i'lR one to jr't. She wai good at
repartee but Gabby consider that a
result of lirr Individuality and a part
of her personality.
There are people, and we have
thriu in Omaha, who go about all
their live with an inferiority torn
tec. Tliey repress, dutre and
anbmerite thcmelve. 'J hey think
themsehr unattractive in appear
ance, tdow of wit and unwanted
iverywhrre. Birred Margot! She
has no unch notmnj of herself, and
the world is the happier for it. It
i remarkable what a smile will do
with a face, any face. It is interest
ing to note what a high place the
furces of life will build for the man
t.r woman who confidently advances
to take it. Itargot hasn't hung back
from hers.
This is what Gabby et out of
T,ady Asquith' entertaining talk-
row far personality will carry one
or, the great worth of a little effort
to think for one's self and to express
one's self frankly.
As for her talk, it was a chain of
rnecdotcx, no better than anyone
could string together after a little
thought. They were well related in
an understood voice and they were,
indeed, about people of note. When
one gets to the point of digging the
king in the ribs over a joke, figura
tively speaking yes, naturally it
would be figuratively speaking or
silting on a poet's knee, literally and
'figuratively speaking, her conversation-
is bound to shine somewhat by
reflected glory from the personalities
involved.
So what Margot said to ,the king,
.'ml what the king said to Margot,
t'.;e long walk she took with Glad
stone (she didn't say it was long, but
s-bc said tbjy talked about hundreds
of people),' and even the banter be
tween Mark Twain and herself as
she went in to dinner on his arm, all
that had an interest on its own ac
count quite aside from the speaker's
own prowess.
The smartest thing Margot said,
in Gabby's opinion, was on the sub
ject of observation. Gladstone con
sidered concentration the secret of
bis success, and to that Lady Asquith
added observation as a most impor
tant factor. "
"What have you seen?". I would
ask my children -when 'they returned
home, she said, "until gradually they
began to think there was some im
portance in observation."
And, indeed, there is. The people
whoobserve at all are few; the peo
ple who observe accurately are
fewer.
Asked aiter her lecture about the
?uthor of "Mirrors of Downing
Street," Lady Asquith shrugged her
shoulders. "The book isn't taken
seriously with us," she said. "An
author who won't sign his name to
bis works isn't worth that" (snap
ping her fingers.)
MRS. ASQUITH was chatty
and highly entertaining at the
dinner given for her by Mr.
and Mrs. Ward Burgess, it is said.
She declared she had not said all
the things the newspapers have said
she said. The American interview
is rather an unknown quantity to a
Britisher, so Margot's unfamiliarity
with our ways and her freedom of
speech have made her good prey for
clever writers. , ,
: One of Lady Asquith's dinner
stories was about her recent visit to
St. Louis. She took a drive with
the mayor, formerly a bricklayer, it
seems, and somehow was detained,
and ,
' "I missed a woman's luncheon,
thank God," said she.
THE visit of Miss Anne Morgan
gave great general satisfaction.
Probably not since the war has
the vision of service and the spirit
oi unselfishness come so apparently
to the surface of the troubled sea of
existence. One loved his own city,
Omaha, a little better than ever, be
fore just for the way it responded
to Miss Morgan's appeal for devas
tated France.
At the large affair for Miss Mor
gan, the luncheon at the Fontenelle
hotel Monday noon, oabby over
heard a bit of conversation.
"There is only one man in Omaha
who could have put this over in such
a maenificent way.' said one.
"d'ho?" asked an unknowing in
nocent.
- "Arthur Crittenden Smith," was
the renlv.
Just then Mr. Smith happened
along and stopped to chat a mo
ment, all smiles.
"Miss Morcan is itreatl he ex
claimed. "She's one of us. She is
at home with us and we are with her.
She speaks our language I"
SHE may speak our language, but
one woman in Omaha didn't
SDcak hers. Miss Morgan made
three appearances here, one, to a pub
lic audience Sunday afternoon, an
other at dinner at the Omaha club
Sunday evening and the third at the
Monday luncheon, open to the pub
lic, at the Fontenelle.
After the free public lecture Sun
day afternoon some woman (Gabby
is glad she does not know her name)
approached Miss Morgan and said.
as though ia apology for the after
coon audience:
"You will meet the cream of
Omaha society at the Omaha club
tonight. Miss Morgan."
- A the woman drew away, Miss
Morgan, whose eyes have seen the
' Cecpi of human anguish and suffcr-
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ing in the last few years, and whose
hands have helped bind bleeding
hearts and torn souls, said slowly,
tragically, to a companion:
"I didn't know anyone was still
living who could make a remark like
that."
THE question Mine, Matzenauer
put to a reporter, "Is there a
nrrtz-wt .-iirir maA frir an 9ntn
Stvv. ...v. .
ride?" shows that a stranger may
point the way. There is a river
road and we have failed to
make -the most of it. There
are many people in Omaha, doubt
less, who do not know we have river
drives north and south and almost
the number who have never seen
them. When we go driving it ' is
usually down . Farnam or Dodge.
We are slow to take advantage of
the dear old Missouri and its pic
turesque bluffs beyond us.
An expert who was here a year or
two ago to advise the city planning
board made two rememberable state
ments. Said he: '
"The future business center of
Omaha will be around Twenty
fourth and Douglas streets.",
"The population will move north
and south along the river. The In
dians, who knew bow to select build
ing sites, lived at Bellevue and Flor
ence, and wherever the Indians were
there the white man has eventually,
gone." ' ' " : "''
Why not start" with a wonderful
river boulevard now? Matzenauer,
you have given us an idea.
, I on the Hpsi of one pretty Oma
ha girl these days. It doesn't
seem right, does it, just at the
threshold of that green and golden
season of the year which is suppos
ed to foster romance. But' spring
days have a healing effect on wound
ed hearts, particularly when com
mon sense sides with spring, and
friends of the couple who have
"ended it all," are clamorous in their
assurances that they have done the
wise thing. . -
On the man's side is the opportun
ity tor toreign travel and study tor
two years or more. On the girl's
side is freedom from the prospect of
that long two years wait with its
loneliness and the changes it might
well bring in two hearts that for
merly beat as one. Waiting with
palms folded and eyebds fallen is all
very well in its way, but not when
one is young and 20. The world is
too full of fun and frolic and inter
esting things to do. : -Gabby
knows of a young Chinese
couple, both educated in this country,
who have remained true to each
other for 11 long years, with an
ocean between them, but such be-,
havior would seem to reflect the
Oriental mind which thinks in cen
turies instead of days. So much
can happen in two vears particularly
with the whole Atlantic ocean for
mail to traverse,
But in this case distance lent clear
Robins have been carolling gayly for the last week or two, and you a
can hear oheobe birds and woodoeckcrs on these siyrine mornings, out
these lucky Omahans have feathered friends to make music for them all
through the winter, when robins and phocbes are far away.
Mrs. Felix Despecher is achieving great success as a canary raiser, for
in the year that she has had Bob-o-link and Jenny she has brought up nine
ittle birds and not lost one. Dick, the eldest of the family, she kept, but
has given the others away to her friends.
Golden Dickey, who has for 12 years been a member of the Arthur
C. Smith family circle, is perhaps the most travelled canary in captivity.
And when he makes his jaunts across the country, lie takes not the air
route but the Pullman, just like a person. Nearly every season of his
loug life Master DJckey has gone 1o Boston , and' back with the family,
and although he is' afraid of locomotives, Miss Helen ': Smith says
he thoroughly enjoys the rest of trip and is nothing daunted by the
rumble of the train. Dickey is a "Hartz mountain warbler, and can drown
out a victrola without half trying. Being a privileged character, he has
grown somewhat fussy with age, and will have nothing to do with any
one in a large hat, but so far he has voiced no objection to unbuckled
galoshes.
How Mrs. J. J. Sullivan saved her two young red birds from an un
timely end, and has made friends with them and their mother is told in
column eight on this page.
Do They Dance in Wooden Shoes in
Kansas, or Gan Girls Dance at
All on a $90 Budget ?
"Cotton stockings at 23 cents a
pair," decreed an Emporia, Kan.,
gentleman in the budget he recently
compiled for women. And one pair
a year!
Ninety dollars was the sum he
deemed sufficient for woman's an
nual expenditure for clothes.
Ninety dollars wouldn't buy my
shoes and hats," said Miss Eloise
West, well known musician of
Omaha. ."I wore out $60 worth of
shoes last year, peddling the organ
and walking." Miss West makes
many of her own clothes and con
fesses she doesn't turn a cold shoul
der on a bargain, but she spends
about $1,000 a year for clothes.
The penurious. Emporian includes
as some of his items one wool dress
at $13.90 (why the .90, we wonder?)
and a cotton dress at $3.98 (sounds
like a basement bargain sale, all
right.) Her coat, to cost $22.50,
must be worn three years and her
suit coat at $14.75 the same. A pair
of shoes and a pair of oxfords (such
extravagance) would total $6 in his
calculation
"Do thev dance in wooden shoes
out in Kansas," asked a New York
girl, Marion Blust upon seeing the
itemized budget, "or don't , they
dance or go any place at all?
. The man is a fanatic, you may sug
gest, but hist. I he merchants ot
imporia are said to have testified
before the Kansas court of industrial
relations that $90 a year will keep a
girl neatly dressed.
Dr. Emelia Brandt says a girl can
not iiress," and consider her health.
on less than S15O a year. She should
have health shoes, three pair of them.
at a cost of not less than $10.00 each.
Garments of different weight are
desirable for the different seasons.
"She can't sew her clothes on," said
Dr. .Brandt. "She ' must have
changes." .
But there. you are. Perhaps they
don't make changes in Emporia. At
any rate the good men there - think
one flannel and one muslin gown
should suffice as robes de nuit. "Do
they think a girl can switch from
one to the other in the dead of win
ter or the heat of summer," some
one asked. "Do they think that a
working girl can hop up in the
morning and put her daily washing
out on the radiator?"
Rather backwoodsr, these Em
poria men, we conclude, until we
note that they have allowed nothing
tor petticoats. Up-to-date, after alii
An Omaha girl we know has care-
vision rather than enchantment To
sec things in their true light there
is nothing like perspective, so they
say.
fully kept a clothing budget for
years. In her opinion a business
woman can dress well on $400 a year,
this amount including repair and
cleaning bills. One year she buys a
coat and the next year a suit.
Miss Grace Rowland, a prominent
member of the Business Women's
league, thinks that $90 would be use
ful only for purchasing a dress and
coat on sale. "To be neatly and
properly dressed a girl should have
from $400 to $500 a. year, for that
purpose," she said. It might be done
for a little less if one had time to
"look around," but business women
have no time for bargain hunting.
"Ninety dollars would buy a hat, a
suit and a blouse," according to Miss
Mabel Hall, who thinks $250 the
very minimum on which a girl in
business can dress. "This would not
include decollete gowns," said Miss
Hall, "but dinner frocks suited to
a variety of occasions." The average
business woman spends considerably
more than $250, in her opinion:
Mrs. William. Latta of Tekamah,
formerly Miss Phyllis WTaterman,
considers $200 the lowest figure at
which a girl's clothing budget could
be placed. What is more, she thinks
she could make the amount do for
herself which is rather a different
thing from naming the amount some
one else should have. But Mrs. Latta
is very clever with the needle, is a
skillful designer and an astute shop
per. Also, she is petite.
Which is something! For a stout
person pays more for her, clothes
than her fortunately slender sister.
Miss Florence Dunlap, Y. W. C. A.
secretary for industrial and exten
sion clubs, would, according to her
own words, "hate to see the girl who
dressed on $90 a year unless she
wore bloomers all the time." Miss
Dunlap has made some study of
budgets and she estimates that on
a salary of $1,200 a year, 50 per cent
should be devoted to living expenses
and 18 per cent ($216) to clothes.
No Y. V. C. A. budget omits an
item for advancement, health, proper
changes of clothing and iecreation,
she said. . Her own carefully kept
budget for last year shows $250 for
clothing.' "I am not ' extravagant,"
she declared, "and no party dresses
wrear out in her home shoes and gar
ments no longer new, she has time
for buying and for sewing which
would constitute a poor investment
for a woman to whom time is money.
Country Clubs Plan
Season on Links
and Courts
Winter golf rules are still in
force and you can enjoy the sensa
tion of picking your ball nonchalant
ly out of a sand pit, but with the
coming of April such joys will
vanish. They maybe more than
supplanted by smooth greens, and
by well rolled tennis courts, for
early in April, if the frost is out of
the ground work is begun on these
latter. The country clubs do not
formally open until well into May,
but the Country club will "take
care" of hungry golfers after
April 15. . The Country club will
be the scene of the TransmississippI
golf tournament this season, the
golf classic of the middle west.
The Happy Hollow club will re
main 011 its old site this summer,
although construction will probably
begin on the Browncll Hall buildings
before fall. The club house, how
ever, will remain untouched, and
the new building will be along
Underwood avenue.
The tennis season at the Field
club, will begin late in April, and
promises to be a lively one. Guy
Williams, who heads the committee,
has completed arrangements for trie
Missouri Valley championship to be
played on the Field club courts in
July. Players will be here from Des
Moines, St. Louis and Kansas City.
There may be a mixed doubles
tournament arranged for the same
time.
The state tennis tournament will
be played at Lincoln, but the
ladies' state tournament may be held
here. It was played here last sum
mer, when Miss Claire Daugherty
won the singles.
Carter Lake club plans to have Its
formal opening, as usual on Decora
tion day. There will be a club tennis
tournament every month and the city
tournament will be held there this
summer,
Mother tute icuuinlur, That U
4t true "ia it It bird ail hfa i it
with luuiuii being, ami the lUry of
a lowl family f ;irdnMl. or red
birds, a thry are ufini called, ought
to go ditun in bird history ai an rpie,
if bird mintre! repeat audi talei.
Last fall Judce and Mrs. J. f.
Sullivan noticed that the pair of
cardinal, which iic!rd in tluir yard
had acquirril a rcoml tanul;'. It
wti, late in the nav.n, und, rritluinc
the tired of luntf. tbr parent bird
had built carelessly, o that the iirt
bad Mm in, (i.i-uriinu when the baby
bird were only ten days old, demol
ished the not. 1 he little buds were
rescued and given a case on an open
sleeping porch, where they iniht li
safe front bad weather. Their par
ent seemed tn apprrciate their home
and continued to do their iluty tn
providing the proper viand for th
greedy young pair. 'The father, vitk
hi stunning red coat, wa a favoriu
with the young!ter. Kot.rne an
Elizabeth, as they were chriniencd
and on one occasion when both olt
birds were absent for a (ew dayi
father' return was the signal ioi
wild rxcitemcnt.
When the time ior the southern
migration came, the old birds linger
ed, but there was no chance that tlie
little fellow could make the long
trip, so the old pair reluctantly de
parted late in December. The pair
of young ones hung in the comfort
able sun parlor, have grown and
thrived during the winter, and al
though Roscoc has not yet gained
the flaming suit that will be his
when full grown, he has evolved the
whistle and the song that are hi
heritage. Great has been the specu
lation in the Sullivan household a
to whether or not the old bird
would remember their la-t season's
brood and return this spring.
To the delight of every one on s
sunshiny day of last week Mrs. Sul
livan heard a great to-do in the sun
room, and goiner to the window she
found the mother cardinal on the
ledge outside. The family reunion
was touching to behold and ap
parently the thought of her babies
lad been an anxiety to her all
through the season at some fashion
able southern resort.
For father there is not much
to be said. He ha been seen in the
neighborhood, but so far has evinced
no interest in his offspring. But the
mother pays a regular morning call
every day, and if it happens to be
just at breakfast time, well, even
so. who would say her motives are
all mercenarj'.
School Set Plans
For Spring
i
Officers Prepare for Membership Drive
f
Vacation
Jlrs (John W.Toivle
Mrs. W. E. Rhoades as president,
and Mr. John W. Towle, treasurer,
of the Visiting Nurse association, are
making plans with other officers and
committees for the annual member
ship drive for the organization the
week of April 3. -
The association had 4,000 members
last year and will strive for a larger
number this season. The revenue
from this source is only a small part
able to shop very advantageously fori of the m totaI required, since
certam things or the amount would
have been larger,
Three potent factors operate in the
business woman's clothing budget:
her ability to sew, her prowess as a
purchaser and the time at her dis
posal for "shopping around" or for
repairing and planning her wardrobe.
A woman in the home has many
advantages. He: ciothes are less
subject to wear and tear, the can
memberships are granted for a $1
fee. ' Other income is derived from
private subscriptions, the annual tag
day and service money received in
some cases.
Education is the real end sought
in the membership drive. "Where
yhe treasure is there the heart is
also, is the theory. here the dol
lar membership is taken, there an in
terest is inspired in the noble work
of the association. . ,
A few less than 50,000 calls were
made last year in infant welfare,
prenatal, tuberculosis and orthopedic
services. ' , ,
The infant welfare service includes
weekly, and in one case semi-weekly'
conferences at the baby stations in
the city located atTTwenty-fifth arid
Decatur, Twentieth and Grace,
Twentieth and Leavenworth, Christ
Child center and Twenty-fourth and
O, South Side. The object of the
infant welfare work is to keep well
babies well. Specialists examine the
children brought by their mothers to
the center and prescribe, proper food
and routine care. Nurses also go in
to the homes demonstrating there to
the mothers how these instructions
should be carried out.
An orthopedic nurse, trained es
pecially in Boston for such work,
1 works with crippled children, aiding
some and completely restoring others
to normal health.
Two nurses work in the tuberculo
sis department. Not only are pa
tients cared for, but prevention meth
ods are also taught. If one member
of a family dies of tuberculosis, all
surviving members are examined for
a. long period after, as a protection
to themselves and to the public.
The maternity service is largely in
structive. Expectant mothers are
taught to take proper care of them
selves and advised a to proper gar
ments for the infant.
Ten of the 23 nurses are engaged
in. district, nursing which represents
50 per cent of all the visiting nurse
work. They care for the sick, both
young and old, in the home, instruct
ing as well as nursing. Thus is the
efficiency of the staff multiplied
many times as the continuous process
of education goes on, along with the
immediate care given.
Brief vacation days have rolled
around again and they find Omaha
school boys and girls widely scat
tered over the east, with New York
City leading as a popular headquarters-.
Miss Maurine Richardson, who
is in school in Washington, is divid
ing her time between New York and
Baltimore. Miss Mary Morsman
and her brother Edgar are in New
York with their mother, Mrs. Edgar
Morsman, jr. Miss Peggy Reed,
who is a junior at Vassar college,
will be there, and Miss Helen
Rogers from Vassar will be in New
York for part of her vacation and
will also visit in Stamford, Conn.,
and New Haven. Miss Katherine
Davis, who is studying at the French
school in New York, has been spend
ing part of her holiday at Vassar
with Miss Rogers.
Miss Dorothy Norton will visit a
schoolmate at Greenwich, Conn., and
they will motor down to New Haven
to meet Miss Norton's ' brother,
Rudyard who is at Yale. He will re
turn tQ Greenwich with them for a
few days.
Miss Josephine Platner is in De
troit with a college friend for a part
of her vacation, and will meet her
mother, Mrs. G. W. Platner in Chi
cago next week for a few days.
Miss Katharine Denny who has
been confined to the Wellesley in
firmary with a light attack of grip
for a few days, will go with a num
ber of friends to Northfield, Mass.,
where the girls spend the spring day
out of doors on long tramps.
Miss Mary Findley, who is a stu
dent' at Bradford academy, will
spend 10 days with her aunt, Mrs.
J. T. Gillespie, in Pittsburgh, while
Miss Elizabeth McDonald, a school
mate at Bradford is now voyaging
along to Bermuda in the gray wat
ers of the gulf stream. Her cruise
will have to be of short duration to
fit this short holiday.
Washington, D. C, is quite a gath
ering place for ",the Omaha school .
set this vacation. It seems to have
usurped the place held by Atlantic
City in young hearts. With Mr.
and Mrs. Edgar Scott, formerly of
Omaha, are Miss Nancy Hulst from
the Peabody institute in Baltimore
and Miss Margaret Eastman from
Sweetbriar. Miss Betty Paxton and
Miss Dorothy Davidson are both
staying in Washington and' are be
ing given a good time by Miss Pan
ton's father, James L. Pixton, who
went on to be with his daughter.
But Atlantic City, too, has its re
cruits in the Clarke family. Mrs.
Henry Clarke, jr., is there with her "
two sons, John and Cornelius, from
the Hilt school.
George Smith is expected home
from Dartmouth the first of April,
and his roommate, Stewart Edgerly, '
will be in Boston with relatives.
Keith Adams, who is at Amherst,
will be with the Amherst Glee club
on a southern tour, which will in
clude Washington and Baltimore.
Milton Barlow arrived in Omaha
from Hotchkiss the last of this week
and will spend the holiday .with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Bar.
low.