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The week's most notable event was
the dancing party given by Mr. and
Mrs. D. E. Thompson last evening. It
was a large party, and one of the most
thoroughly enjoyable of the season.
There was very little else in society of
27 general interest; the week has been on
the whole, very quiet The Thompson party and the large parties
announced for next week and the week following have rescued the
spring season from what might have been an oppressive dullness.
After these there will be very little doing until the time for out-of-door
amusements. The definite announcement in last week's
Cockier of the engagement of Miss Ruby Jones to Professor Mars
land corroborated a report that has been in circulation some months.
Miss Jones is a very attractive girl, whose many accomplishments
are well known. In her comparatively short residence in Lincoln
she has enjoyed much popularity. Professor Mareland having re
sided in Lincoln up to about a year ago, when he severed his con
nection with the high school to rccept the professorship of chemistry
at the Belmont school in California, is widely known here. He is
regarded as a particularly promising young man, as he has in the
few years since his graduation from the University of Nebraska
achieved marked distinction in his chosen work. It is understood
that the wedding will be celebrated within the next few months.
Mrs. O. B. Howell has been in Omaha thiB week attending the
grand opera at Boyd's.
Mrs. D. B. Cropsey and Mrs. C. M. Eeefer returned Monday from
California.
Mr. W. F. Kelley left Monday for Cincinnati.
Mrs. Wells and daughters, of Cincinnati, who have been visiting
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Lippincott this winter, expect to return home in
a few days.
The engagement of Mr. Henry Mayer and Miss Gertrude
Schweitzer, of San Francisco, is announced.
Miss Katherine Wadsworth, of Council Bluffs, formerly of this
city, made her debut in grand opera in Omaha last evening, appear
in "Ernani."
Tuesday afternoon the members of the ladies' clubs of this city
were invited to the residence of Mrs. J. H. Canfield. The occasion
being a discussion of W. T. Stead's book "If Christ Came to Chi
cago," by Miss Phoebe Elliott. There was a more or less general
expression of opinion. Mrs. Will Green read .uowell's poem which
Stead declares was his inspiration for "It Christ Came to Chicago."
The World-Herald says "a Lincoln lady" has engaged a box for
the Omaha Elks minBtrel show at the Boyd's next Tuesday evening.
Miss Pearl Ross, of Hannibal, Mo., is the guest of Mrs. D. E.
Thompson.
The dancing party given last evening by Mr. and Mrs. D. E.
Thompson for Miss Ross, of Hannibal. Mo., was a large and brilliant
affair. It was one of the prettiest dances given this winter.
Mrs. A. Bruce Coffroth has returned from a pleasant visit in
Omaha.
Next vzek the most important event will be the dancing party to
be driven by the Misses Clark at the Lincoln hotel, Friday evening.
There was a very pleasant dancing party at the Lansing Wednes
day evening given by an informal dancing club that has met at
private residences during the winter. Those present were: Mr. and
H-a. a H. Imhoff, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Dawes, Mr. and Mrs. I. M.
Raymond, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Burnhani, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Perry,
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Yates, Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs.
C. H. Gere, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Nance, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Moore,
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Will Green, Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Wright. Mrs. C. H. Morrill, Mrs. White, Mrs. Robinson', Mrs.
A. B. Clark, Miss Lulu Clark, Miss Bertie Clark, Mr. E. Phimmer,
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Mr. Fred Plummer, Mr. Frank M. Cook, Mr. D. G. Wing, Mr. C. A.
, Hnna, lieutenant J, J. Pershing, Mr. Will Raymond, Miss Sarah
Harris, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Harley, Miss Dora parley, Miss Nance,
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Buckstaff, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Ogden, Mr. ard
Mrs. Carl Funke, Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Nisaley.
Tnesday evening Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Buckstaff gave a very delight
ful dancing party. The latter part of the evening fourteen couple
danced the cotillion, which was led by Lieutenant Townley with his
usual precision and elegance. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs.
C. H. Imhoff, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Lippincott, Mr. and Mrs. F. A.
Brown, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Wright, Mrs. Robinaon and Mrs. White,
of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ewing, Mr.
and Mrs. Will Green, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. P. Holmes, Lieutenant and
Mrs. R. H. Townley, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Yates, Mr. and Mrs. Sutton,
Miss Wells, Miss Harris, Mr. Hanna, Mr. Cook.
Mr. Ward McAllister has written a screed entitled "Society as it
Used to Be,'' and which is largely made up of his more or less inter
esting personal reminiscences of New York society in earlier days
with comments on the social laws of nature, racing for social honors,
learning how to live, and a close discussion of the question of
whether we are a plutocracy, with an allusion to the different social
sets in New York. The article, says a new York contemporary, is
one of the least turgid and disjointed and one of the best written
and most interesting that Mr. McAllister has yet produced. It will
be read with awe by the "climbers," and with despair by the men
and women of comparatively limited means but unbounded social
ambition; particularly the summing-up sentence: "It would require
an extraordinarily clever person who should make his way to the top
round of the modern social ladder without means."
This melancholy truth is everywhere confessed:
Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
SOCIETY I!T OMAHA.
On Saturday and Sunday of last week the officers at Ft. Omaha
were not allowed to leave the reservation for fear of an emergency
arising from the proximity to Omaha of General Kelley's army.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wheeler, Jr., chaperoned a small party to Cal
houn on Arbor day. '
Today one batallkm of the Second infantry will march from Ft.
Omaha to the Bellevue rifle range, where they will be in camp for
about a month.
Captain F. E. Nye, who is to relieve Major Samuel Cushing as
chief commissary officer of this department, arrived in Omaha
Wednesday, and is at the Paxton. Miss Nye accompanied her father.
It has just leaked out here that Miss Mabel Eaton, who is now
starring in "La Belle Russe" has been married for some time to her
property man, Mr. Robinson.
The Cocbieb begs to say to the World-Herald that the play of
"Dr.JekyllandMr.Hyde"was dramatized by Mr. T. Russell Sulli
van of Boston, and not by Mr. A. C. Gunter, as was stated in its col
umns a day or two ago.
Mrs. Charles A. Booth will leave Monday for Jefferson barracks,
Mo where she will be the guest of her brother, Lieutenant John
Lockwood, Fourth cavalry.
Miss Dundy has had as her guest during the past ween Mrs.
Crapsey, of Chicago.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Herbert (nee Lemist) at New York,
a son.
Mrs. Moore, of Sioux City, who has been the guest of Judge and
Mrs. Woolworth, left for her home Thursday.
In the next issue of Harper's Weekly will appear "My Bunkey"
the third story of Lieutenant Thomas H. Wilson of Ft. Omaha, ac
cepted by that paper.
Miss Pumpbrey, of Memphis, Tenn.. is the guest of Mrs. William
Tupper Wyican.
Mrs. Lyman Richardsop left for Maryland on Wednesday to' be
absent a month.
Miss Dewey is expected from Denver today.
Mrs. Lininger entertained at luncheon on Tuesday.
Mr. William Butterworth, of Mbline, 111., son of the Hon. Ben
Butterworth, was the guest of Mr. Charles Clapp over Sunday.
Mrs. Watson, who has been royally feted during her visit in Omaha,
was the guest of honor at the following delightful functions: Mon-
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