The Omaha Sunday Bee
tWOMEN'S NEWS
SOCIETY
(WOMEN'S FEATURES
AMUSEMENTS
.VOL. 51 NO. 51.
PART THREE
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 4, 1922.
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Best Sellers
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Emancipation
of Woman
Complete
By CABBY DETAYLS.
YES. there are lady boxen now.
Woman emancipated teem to
he proven to her own and
i ci "'' 4til'action that he can
co .giytlm.K man ran if the really
t her mind to it and train her
muclc.
The feminist movement hat lately
invaded a new field the robin
world. I.it week an Otiuja ma
tron who ha been protninefTt in
fuiiraxe work, dropped into her hus
band cirirc in the Omaha National
bank kuildinii, ."'. wlnio ttandir.g
t the window her at'cniioti was at
tracted by a nn.thcr robin who had
built ht r Hi t m the ledge
just outside. It iu raining hard,
and Mn. Robin, kitting patiently on
('r eg.'v was ..d and wet. Like
the famous I.ear's nonsense rhymes,
she ieit:e to be sa)iitK plaintively.
" I hi poor head ha nothing on it,
Ought it not t) have a bonnet?"
The ktitirage worker thought so,
at any rate, litr sympathy was
enlisted ami she called the office
boy and set him to work improvis
ing a roof out of heavy cardboard.
The office force snickered, the bos
smiled indulgently, hut Mrs. Kohin
k.ot her roof. At first it made her
a bit uneasy, but she socvi saw the
advantages to human architecture.
"I'm sure she was a feminist," de
clared her benefactor, "she felt that
she ought to bp down town in an
office along with the other women
wage-earners, so she built her nest
here. Iiut everyone please note that
it was her desire to protect her eggs
which kept her at her uncomfortable
post. She wasn't neglecting , the
home just because she was in the
business world."
RESPKCT for one's self and
consideration for others will
carry even the ignorant through
most exigencies.
Gabby quotes the above from a
recent number of Vogue. She not
only quotes it, but she would like
to repeat it, over and over again.
But space is too valuable.
To digress, Gabby is reminded
of a telegram -sent by a prominent
and penurious business man of this
city, to one of his subordinates. The
message, referring to a matter which
iias no bearing on the point of this
Kory. ran:
"I am shocked and chagrined that
this should have happened. I re
peat it, I am shocked and chag
rined." That this economical and efficient
man should have paid, actually paid
for those words, "I repeat it, I am ;
shocked and chagrined, was cause
rnough for consternation among
ihose concerned .and indicated forci
bly the depths of the man's feeling
on the subject.
Well, Gabby prizes her column as
highly as telegraphic space, but in
this instance, she throws reason and
economy to the winds and reiterates:
"Respect for one's self and con
sideration for others will carry even
the ignorant through most exigen
cies." One might have all rflis and yet
scoop up his soup from the wrong
side of the spoon, you argue.
True. And since there is a right i
side for this dainty task, and a rea
son back of it, 'tis just as well to ob
serve it. But it is only in the little
niceties, and never in the fundamen
tals, that one could fail if he
had truly respect for himself and
consideration for others.
From the same article, above
quoted. Gabby gleans the following
bits which are worthy of preser
vation for posteriy:
"There is one fine trait shared by
the highest and the lowliest alike,
and that is simplicity. The classes
between will have none of it.
"The best behavior is always easy
and natural. Well-bred people do
not have to put oh airs or assume
graces in order to impress one an
other or the outside world.
"Best-bred ' people are not likely
to be half so critical of our manners
as of our characters.
"Self-control and the subordina
tion of one's own feelings to or
dinary social conditions are marks
of ordinary civility and should be
taken as a matter of course."
Gabby thinks all this good doc
trine, especially in a day, when we
excuse the self-respectless and the
inconsiderate on the grounds of "in
dividuality." Sights and Prices Abroad.
Miss Laura Matthews, overseas
girl, who has remained abroad, has
written to Council Bluffs friends of
a recent journey to Oberammergau,
"a little village of dreams and tra
ditions and very simple people," and
other points.
The Passion play meant a great
deal to her, the said. Anton Lang
in the role of Christ was on the cross
20 minutes. "Womeabecame hys
terical and men cried like children."
"Things are very cheap in Vienna,"
according to Miss Matthews, who
said: "I bought a winter coat of
beautiful material lined throughout
for $10, a winter suit of dark blue,
long jacket, beautifully lined, -with
fur collar and cuffs, for $25 and a
tan serge dress, a French model,
trimmed with black satin and braid,
lor S20.
"It is so much fun spending your
money in a new country. A dollar
is worth nearly 10,000 kronin. You
eat a meal for 42 cents and tip the
waiter 4 cents. I tipped a taxi man
1,000 kronin today and he nearly
fainted. I felt magnanimous, but it
was only a dime. . , . Prices are
out of sight in Paris, but life is more
interesting there than anywhere I
know. ... I bought a Cook ticket
from Coblenz, Oberammergau, Inns
bruck, Vienna, Munich, Dresden,
Berlin and return to Coblenz for
about $40. hotels included except in
Vienna. Good silk hose are still im
possible to get. They haven't the
materials. The price is prohibitive
and they do pot wear."
h TKi. G. C. u INTERSON is in
I VI precede the beneht bridge to be given June 8 at the Prettiest Mile
club by the Daughters of 1812. Mrs. Frankiin Shotwell is general chair
man and Mrs. Byron Peterson will collect bridge scores and arrange
tables for the game.
A door prize will be given for the lucky number obtained on entrance.
Among other prizes will be a hand made bed' spread, silk hose, angel food
cake, bon bon dishes, sherbert glasses, damask and gold brocaded desk set,
after di nner coftces, flower bowl, French hand embroidered negligee yokes,
hand mirror, cut glass dishes and kensington bags.
Sixteen hands will be played and no doubling will be allowed.
Reservations have been made by Mrs. William Ritchie, 8 tables; Mrs.
Clayton Pratt and Mrs. John Battin, 4 tables; Patriotic Order Does, 8
tables; Benson Woman's club. 4 tables; single tables have been reserved
by Mesdames Clara Spiece, George Abbott, Edward Daugherty, Roland
Jones, Fred Shotwell, Abel Shotwell, Grant Parsons, O. H. Rucker, JL Y.
Cook, Elizabeth Harrison, and George Meacham.
Leather Trimming Abroad
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"Everything in sport clothes
abroad is trimmed in leather," accord
ing to Miss Josephine Latenser, who
returned last week from a threeiMnncn.H tn Kmnrp 7;ti
months trip with her mother, Mrs. I "Styles abroad are much more dis
John Latenser. Miss Latenser's suit, ! tinctive than in America. Modistes
shown in the picture, is of Engiish : phaze md.v.duality in contrast to
. . . , . ,, , , , I the habit in this country of dressing
tw-eed, in the popular velox shade, every one alike."
a lilac hue. The collar and cuffs are i
of leather, in the natural shade. j Near Ezst Relie-
"The modistes insist that you have i A committee including Mesdames
leather hats to go with each suit, and! W. E. Bolin, A, J. Hasson, Philip
even leather gloves and umbrellas to Welsh, W. A. Ivory, John R. Golden,
match," said Miss Latenser. j L. E. Foe. S. Welpton and C. B.
"Flappers would have a hard time ! Coon has been visiting hotels, whole
in Vienna, for all the clothes are so; sale and retail dry goods stores,
long and full that you feel positively i laundries, cleaning establishments,
silly. I protested, but Mme. Farn-lshoe stores and tailor shops collect
hammer wouldn't let me change a ! ing clothing and materials for the
thing." :near east relief.
Bertha Farnhammer, a leading Vi-j The dry cleaners and laundry as
ennese modiste, devoted her time be-: sociation will call for donations and
fore the war exclusively to designing j deliver them tc the M. E. Smith
and making clothes for the young warehouse, where the clothing is be
girls of the Austrian court circle. ; ing packed. Even- state in the union
She still has in her possession many -is collecting clothing for the near
exquisite clothes ordered by the no-'east, according to Mrs. J. P. Se
bility which they were never ableibree, chairman of the local tomn:''
to take. j tee. Nebraska's quota is three car-
"There are so more criacessc in,
charge of the luncheon which will
Vienna," said Miss Latenser, "and no
one else could afford to have such
clothes. Farnhammer had a number
of gowns for sale which' had once
loads.
fkn&ss CZcdre JDavgherty
MISS CLAIRE DAUGHERTY, queen of Ak-Sar-Ben, was seen yes
terday at the opening of the races, wearing a gift of the Board of
, Governors, a brilliant shimmering silk scarf of red, yellow and green,
the colors of Ak-Sar-Ben. With Miss Daugherty in her box were Mrs.
James Hunsaker and the Misses Eleanor Burkley, Dorothy Belt, Jeanette
Johnson, Marian Hamilton, Catherine Goss, Elizabeth Barker, Ruth Wal
lace and Catherine Davis, all maids of the 1921 royal court.
On Wednesday, June 7, Miss Daugherty will present the queen's plate
to the owner of the successful horse in a three-quarter mile race which
promises to be one of the best races of the season. Only the finest of the
horses can be entered. The jockey riding the winning animal will be
given a boquet from the hands of Ak-Sar-Ben's queen.
American Art Suffers Little for Lack
of Approval by Superior Group
of Modern British Authors
By T. W. M'CULLOUGH.
As "fools rush in where angels
fear to tread," so did Sinclair Lewis
hurl himself against the walls of
Jericho in London. He emptied
some caustic words over the indu
rated epidermis of the modern Brit
ish authors at a "Bohemian" club
meeting, and the only apparent ef
fect was the expression of some
wonderment as to how the pestilen
tial American bounder ever got ad
mitted into the presence of the glor
ified mutual admiration society that
regards itself only, and lists every
thing prior to 1912 as belonging to
the "Mid-Victorian" age or school,
or whatever they call it.
Mr. Lewis will not get much sym
pathy, because he did in very truth
cast his pearls, if not before swine,
at least before those who have no
regard for them. However, Amer
ican art will suffer very little be
cause it does not have the hearty
approval of that superior group
whose members have alloted to them
hiiujv uimiuvij nav duuii-u iv im.ui-
selves the duty of fixing literary
reputations and appraising artistic
achievement. He might extract some
consolation from the reflection that
in the limbo to which he is consigned
are some English writers of note, for
example, Barne, Shaw, Zangwill,
Quiller, Couch and Gilbert Parker,
just to name a few at random. More
over, he is paying a penalty exacted
from all who undertake to thrust
themselves into circles that are suffi
cient to themselves. Nor is he the
first to undergo the experience. If
it will comfort him any, let him re
flect that at home, at least, "Main
Street" is read far more widely than
"The Forsyte Saga" is or ever will
be. and that we have a number of
native writers whose mystery tales
are far more intriguing and reason
able than any "G. K. C." ever has !
subscribed with the magic of his j
name. Grant immortality and exclu
siveness to eminent Englishmen, who
write and talk twaddle, cross the
Atlantic to gather in American dol
lars; eat and drink with us, and then
go home and sneer at us; let them
illuminate their lofty brows with all
sorts of self-made halos. None of
them can say with certainty which
will survive the dust of another halt-
necade. Lasting repute is not i
founded on blurbs.
The account of the club meeting at
which Mr. Lewis stirred up such a
hornet's nest contains this:
The British dramatists were
loud in their disclaimers of any
ban against tfie work of American
dramatists. They pointed out
that at the present moment the
best London theaters are playing
American plays, and 'cited Avery
Hop wood's "The Bat," Gilda Va
resi'i "Enter Madame," Changing
Pollock's "The Sign on the
Door," Richard Walton Tuliy's
"'Bird of Paradise," Tom Cushing's
dramatization of "Blood and
Sand." and several other lesser
productions.
The last clause of the foregoing is
what catches my thought. What is
to be listed as a "lesser oroduction"
jwbea "The Bat" it established at
the head of the procession? If
American taste and productive ca
pacity are measured by "The Bat,"
is it any wonder that "ifa;n Street"
has not had a hearing in London?
If "The Bird of Paradise" is ac
cepted as a gauge of our mentaiity,
what would London say to "Miss
Lulu Ben?" Far be it from me to
prescribe to them what they may or
may not like; and for myself any
attempt on their part to lay down a
rule to guide my selection in mat
ters of drama, literature, poetry or
painting will be resented as a.n un-.
warranted assumption of superiority.
While this rebellious mood still
is hot, let me express the wonder
felt at the judgment of the Columbia
Lniversity board, whose decision
gave to "Annie Christie" the palm
for excellence above all other late
American dramas, praising it es
pecially because of its contribution
to moral advancement. Uncommon
obtuseness may be the cause, vet
loiuession is torcea tnat the mora
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ben.fht j Ann:e Christie" is not
easily understood. Maybe in Gotham
it is helpful, but Gopher Prairie
surely would resent being led by a
group from a waterside dive. The I caught into a cap and fell in a long
sordid chronicles of the inmate of a train, which was trimmed with chif
Minneapolis brothel, detailed to a fon flowers and satin bow knots. She
coarse male as justification for a carried lilies of the valley and wore
bespattered past (and what right the groom's gift, an oval pin of dia
had he to expect an immaculate monds and sapphires,
trorn to Tate Two, Column Five.)
Brownell Hall Graduates
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Sweef girl graduates from Brown
ell hall this year include Charlotte
Forseman Denny, daughter of Mr.
and.Mrs. William S. Denny; Hartrice I
Prebble Minturn, daughter of Mrs.
Harry L. Minturn, and Vera Selway,
.daughter of Mr, R. A, Selway of Al.j
THfc marriage of Miss Margaret Mary Falk, daughter of Mrs. n llliam
J. Falk of Salt Lake City, formerly of Omaha and Lambert B. Kenne
beck of Salt Lake City, ion of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Kennebeck
of this city will be solemnized Wednesday morning, June 7, at 9 o'clock
in the Cathedral of the Madelaine, Salt Lake City. Bishop Glass officiating.
Miss Fajk will be attended by her sister,' Miss Mary Falk, maid of
honor, Mrs. H. P. O'Brien and Miss Gladys Kislingbury, bridesmaids
and little Mary Jane Dowd, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Dowd, who
will be the flower girl. John E. Kennebeck of Omaha, brother of the
groom, will serve as best man and the ushers will be W. J. Falk, Joseph
C. Dowd and John Reeves.
Following the ceremony a wedding breakfast will be served at the
home of the bride's mother. Mr. Kennebeck and his bride will spend their
honeymoon in Omaha. They will be at home in Salt Lake City at the
Princeton apartments after July first.
Miss Falk attended school in Omaha at St. Mary academy. Mr.
Kennebeck is a graduate of Creighton university.
Miss Congdon and
Carl Paulson
Married
The wedding of Miss Josephine
Congdon and Carl Paulson took
place last evening at the home o: the
bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. E.
Congdon, on the exact spot where
the bride's two older sisters, Mrs.
Herbert French and Mrs. Arthur S.
Rogers, were married. The house
was filled with pink peonies and
banked with palms and ferns. Dean
Stephen McGinley of Trinity ca
thedral read the marriage ceremony.
The bride was attended by her sis
ters, Mrs. Rogers and Mrs. French,
whose gowns were of pink chiffon,
draped on the side, with girdles of
silver ribbon and pink flowers. They
wore silver slippers and stockings.
Miss Clara Bull, maid-of-honor,
wore lavender chiffon. AH three car
ried arm bouquets of daisies. Mar
tha Anne Rogers and Joan French
were flower girls. They wore pink
organdy frocks and carried hat bas
kets full of garden flowers.
The brLdc was gowned in white
chiffon over satin. Her gown was
made with a jenny neck and short
sleeves, and the duchesse lace which
trimmed it was worn by the bride's1
mother at her wedding and by Mrs. ;
Rogers and Mrs. French on their
wedding days. The veil of tulle was
Paul Paulson acted as best man forlning at 6:30 o'clock.
S?k'. v
zada, Montana. Miss Denny plans
to enter Wellesley in the fall and
Miss Minturn will go to Xorthwest-
em.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
delivered today bv Bishop E V.
Shayler at Trinity 'cathedral, dol
Omaha Boy Wins
Honors at
Cornell
Jordan Peters, son of Mr. and Mn.
A. D. Peters, who recently left
Omaha to make their home in Ashe
ville, X. C, has been elected to
Sphinx Head, an honorary -senior so
ciety at Cornell university. This is
one of the greatest honors which
Cornell confers upon its undergradu
ates, and only 15 men are elected
each year. Mr. Peters was also made
a member of Majara, a social club,
at the last election. He will be gradu
ated in 1922.
His brother, Russell Peters, who is
studying at Oxford on a Rhodes
scholarship, will spend the summer
in Scotland. He and another mem
ber of the Chi Psi fraternity who is
studying at Oxford have taken a cot
tage together for the long vacation.
Mr. Peters has recently returned to
Oxford after a six weeks' stay in
Weisbaden, Germany.
his brother and the ushers were John
McCaguc, Herbert French, Arthur
Rogers and Henry Luberger.
A reception followed the cere
mony. Mr. and Mrs. Paulson left
last evening for a month's wedding
trip. On their return thev will oc
cupy the Charles Allison house dur
ing the summer.
Musical at House of Hope.
Prof. Frank Henry and his saxo
phone orchestra will give a musical
program at the House of Hope, 7915
North Thirtieth street. Sundav eve-
of Tuesday
UtotrtcHe Denny ; ,
ing exercises of the lower school will
be held at 4 o'clock Monday after
noon and tne Krownell seniors will
oc graauatea luesaay morning, 11
unm.K i Minis tnurcn. An as-
emDiy reception and bail at
Blackstone Tuesday evening
close the year.
the j
will .
I
W't h.irdlv think i'f the l!ib!c 4 a
"brt krlbr ' and yet it i", IhluUrfll
thr war, it r i.iiiiiii i ) enjoy a
ttrady and ur denuud (mih the
public.
What book are "brt rl!rr?"
What bik are 4'tu,i!!y l,aiiild
over the ivuntrr m ru h.ne for
money? Arc they the biMy adtri
tled bovk of the h' tir-'
Some of them a-e. An inquiry
reveal-, the mterr.tii! i.nt tl.at
books on word binbliiu' are popular.
There ate book oi i;,iii n.. the
sauri, U' and dn't t r i'-iker
and writers, won! tri'iurntly mis
spelled, ami other w,tk oi the
c!u.
Children' book h.ne a ready
market, aec.rdin!t't tin- In i k deal
er., The Little Colonel sfnii. "The
Little Pr:iue," by l'ra:.ie Hodg
son Btfrnett, am! "Orph.mt Annie."
bv Johnnie Breull, arc outstanding
for popularity at preeut; a!o "Tt.c
stoiy of Mankind, by an Loon,
which is sometime described as the
children's outline of hiitory. It hai
had a u'wl sale jut as has the
"Wells Outline of History" among
the Iiiurit folk.
Book dealers declare they feel al
most instantly the eifect oi an inspir
ing lecturer. Ida Kni'-e Mc FarlanH
and Mrs. Anthony French Merrill
stimulate the book market here with
their lectures on current fiction, and
the appearance of an author, like
Sinclair Lewis, or Gilbert K. Chester
ton, runs up the demand for the
writings of that particular person and
others whom he recommends.
"We sell a good deal of poetry and
drama," said one book department
head. "Such books especially are in
demand during the graduation sea
son. Travel books go well as wed
ding gifts.
Diet and health works enjoy a
certain popularity, and, to some ex
tent books on psychology. "Outwit
ting Our Nerves," "The Mind in the
Making," "Diet and Health," have
scored high of their kind.
In the fiction class, the books which
are actually selling include "If Winter
Comes," Hawthorne Daniel's "In
the Favor of the King." (Mr. Daniel
a former Omahan), "Marie Chate
delaine," by Lewis Hernon; "Mr.
Prohack," by Arnold Bennett; Iban
ez's books; "Simon Called Peter," by
Keable; "Ordeal of Honor." by An
thony Pryde; "Painted Windows,"
by the author of "Mirrors of Down
ing Street."
Wilkinson's "New Voices." "Mem
oirs of a Midget," by Walter de la
Mare, and "The Americanization of
Edward Bok," have taken their place
among successful writings, judging
from their sales here. Chauncey De
pew's "My Memories of Eighty
Years," and E. H. Harriman's biog
raphy have numerous friends among
the local reading public.
As for books in foreign languages
somebody said that Italian was a
language for angels, French a lan
guage for women and Spanish a lan
guage for men; and perhaps it is be
cause women dominate American life
that the booksellers report a greater
sale of French study books than of
study books in any other language.
Spanish comes second in popular
ity, then Italian and German. In
point of trie sale of books Yiddish
ranks next In a general way it may
be laid down that our girls like to
study French for cultural and ro
mantic reasons, while our boys take
a flyer in Spanish because of its im
portance in commerce.
Europe Will Claim
Young Scholars
for Summer
When one had finished school in
the old days, "a grand tour" was
eminently the thing to do next, and
the custom still holds good, accord
ing to the number of Omaha young
people who still spend the summer
in Europe following their graduation
next month.
Miss Frances Robison. daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Robison, a
student at Kent Place school, will
sail July 1 from Montreal for a two
months' tour of Europe. She is one
of a party of eight girls from Kent
chaperoned by their Latin teacher.
They will tour Scotland, England,
France, Switzerland and Belgium and
return September 6.
Miss Evelyn Cole will finish at the
Lady Jane, Gray school at Bingham
ton, N. Y:,' June 6, and sails the next
day with two classmates and a French
i teacher as chaperon for three
j months in Europe, Mrs. Raymond
Cole, her mother, plans to go east in
I September to meet her daughter
! upon her return.
iliss Anne Axtell. who will be
graduated from Smith in June, will
spend the summer in France with a
geological expedition and will study
next winter at the Sorbonne.
John Clarke will be abroad all sum
mer with a party from the Hill
school.
Miss Frances Patton. who is at
Wellesley, will not be in Omaha at
all this summer. She will join her
mother in San -Francisco on June
12, and they will spend the summer
with Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Smith and
son, Clifton, stopping in Yellow
stone park on their way home in
September.
Miss Barbara Bums will remain at
Dobbs Ferry, where she is at school
for commencement and will then
join her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Sam
4 Burns, for the summer at Sa'ters
roint, Mass., where they have spent
the last three summers. Mr. and
Mrs. Bur.ns and Margerv will motor
east.
Miss . Katharine Denny and Miss
Dorothy Arter will both finish at
Wellesley and Mrs. William Denny
and Mrs. A. A. Arter will go east
soon to be with them for commence
ment Miss Virginia Leussler of Welles
ley will visit friends in St. Louis and
:11 not reach Omaha until the end
o4 June
Miss Josephine Fiatner, also of
Wellesley is expected home about
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