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te a _oitier special, diversions. - + * MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1017. SOCIETY Activities of Women’s Clubs for the Week The P. E. O. Sisterhood was enter- tained this afternoon by Mrs, R. F. Marquis at her home in the Rose apartments. (Mrs. Marquis is a mem- ber of the Spokane sisterhood. Mrs. F. R. Smyth gave a “Constitutional Quiz” and following this part of the program a socia] time was enjoyed. The local P. KE. O, Sisterhood is plan- ning to entertain Dr. 1A. McCullom Jones, who is lecturing throughout the state for suffrage, when she comes to the Capital City to fulfill her speaking: engagement. Dr. Jones is a member of the fraternity. The Current Events club will meet Wednesday. afternoon with Mts, An- drew Miller at her home in Thayer street. “Missions in Latin America” will be studied: and. papers will ve read by Mrs. W. J. ‘Hutcheson, Mrs.! John A, Larson and Mrs. F. E. Pack- ard. The Fortnightly club wil meet Wed nesday afternoon with (Mrs. J. Maur- {have arranged ‘Church Society Meetings. ety of the German Lutheran church will meeting this evening in the church parlors at 8 o'clock. They an interesting pro- gram. eee Royal Neighbor Mceting. The Royal Neighbors will meet in regular session Tuesday evening in the Knights of Pythias hall. The meeting will be called at 8 o'clock and all members are asked to attend oe 8 Easter Baby. Announcement has been made of the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. A. C.. Yates of Third street, Easter morning. Mother and daugh- ter are getting along nicely. + * PERSONAL NOTES| Mr. and Mrs. Gehner and small daughter of Garrison were guests over Easter of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Marsh of Main street. Miss Helen Hoskins, teacher in the ice: Martin ‘at her home in Fourth Medina schools, is spending the Eas- street. ed by Mrs. William Moore, ‘Mrs. George Will and Mrs. A. M. Christian- son. The Thursday Musical club wil!) give a recital Thursday evening in the home of Mrs. J, A. Haney in Av- enue ‘B. This is one of the series of recitals planned for the year, and an interesting ‘program is being arrang: ed. ee ® Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Fisher were hosts during the week end at their home in Avenue B, at a prettily ap- pointed dinner in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Minder of Minneapolis. The table was centered with lilies and tulips in keeping. with the Easter season. Covers were laid beside the The program® will be present: | ter vacation with her sister, Mrs. P. ; J. Meyer. of Fourth street. The Misses Hannah and Mary Mc- | Mahon, who have been the guests of Mrs. O. F. Rustad of Avenue B, have returned to their home in Grand Forks. The Misses Marjorie and Cecelia Clifford, Mabel Breen and Syvia Sell, who have been spending their Easter vacations in the city with relatives, will return the first of the week to Jamestown, to resume their. studies in the St. John’s academy. Miss Glenn Bruce, a student at St. Marys, Faribault, Minn., is exepcted to arrive in the city today to spend her-Easter vacation with her parents, Judge and Mrs. A. A. Bruce of Fifth street. hosts and honor guests, Dr. and Mrs. Martin W. Roan, Dr. and Mrs. Fred- erick B. Strauss and Carl Paulson. + ee Suffrage, Meeting. The Bismarck. Suffrage league will meet Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock with Mrs. Cora Dickerson at her home in Eleventh street. A number of interesting matters will be dis- cussed and Mrs. L. H. Patten will read a paper. The Bismarck suffra- gists are arranging to present Dr. Jones in a lecture the Javier part of the month. eee College Men to Meet, At the supper this evening in the Van Horn grill a permanent organi- zation will. be formed. A number of the university men of the city are in- terested in the movement and have sent out’a general invitation to all the eligible men. of the city to attend the meé ing this ‘evening. It is ex- pected“ that'‘an organization will be formed, ‘aylthi negtly 50 members, ; Gives Birthday Dinner, In hohor of her seventeenth birth- day anniversary Miss Irene McPhee entertained a party of her’ intimate friends Saturday evening at dinner at the liome of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Donald McPhee, in. Third street. Pink! and,white blooms were used to center the table, and covers weré. laid for Following the dinner the eve- as spent in fancy ‘work and * ing Parties of Week, Among.,the post-Lenten dancing parties scheduled for the week are the Ancient Order of United Work- man this evening in Patterson hall; the Capital City -Dance club Tuesday evening in the same hall; the Knights of Columbus Wednesday evening in Patterson hall and. the De- gree of Honor Thursday evening in the Knights of Columbus hall. A number: of invitations have been is- sued and it is expected that the af- fairs will be largely attended. cy STRENGTHENS PUNY CHILBREN The Misses Dorothy Treacy and Esther Talcott, who have been spend- ing the Easter vacation with their parents, Dr. and Mrs.oR. H. Treacy of Broadway and Mr. and Mrs. F. 8. Talcott of the penitentiary road, re- turned today to Minneapolis to re- sume their studies at Stanley hall. Dr. and Mrs. R. S. Towne of Sixth street have returned from a several weeks’ trip through the east includ- ing Chicago, Niagara Falls, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D. We, EASTER OBSERVED IN CAPITAL CITY CHURCHES The Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the McCabe Methodist Episcopal church will meet Tuesday afternoon, with ‘Mrs. iA. W. Cook, at her home in Fifth street. ing will be called at 3 o'clock and will ‘be in charge of Mrs. Masters. The following program has been arrang- ed: Subject, ““Pan-Americas.” Paper, “The Rising Republic’”—Mrs. Masters. Paper, “The Continent of Opportun- ity”—Mrs,-W.. J. (Hutcheson. Paper, “The Women of South Am- erica’”—Mrs. J. G. Moore. Paper, “The Unmet Need"—Mrs. e, A. Larson. Reading, “Declaring the Dividend” —Mrs..C. W. Nichols. The mystery box will be in charge of Mrs. W. '‘S. Cashman and members not contributing to the thank offering are asked to do so at this time, The Opportunity club of the First Baptist church will meet Tuesday ev- ening in the church parlors with Miss ‘Bertha Haugen and (Mrs. Freed as hostesses. The meeting will be call- ed at 7:30. The general Ladies Aid society of the McCabe church will hold a cafe- teria supper Thursday, beginning at 5:30, in the dining room of the church. Mrs. iH. C.* Postlethwaite will en- tertain the teachers and members of her Bible class of the Presbyterian church at the manse in Avenue B, Thursday evening. See our own Ethel Barrymore at the Orpheum tonight. sTHLE Staff Special. Atlantie City, The Boardwalk is aglow these days with chic young women in the Easter parades, Military models are frequent, and it is noted that femininity steps, too, with a military swing, \ like that of the young person at the right, snapped ‘here in her Palm Sunday finery, a military- | eut princesse. The one-piece frock worn by | the young woman at the left shows the absolutely latest thing in girdles, crossed at the back and looped in front. These were two of the most striking scenes on this resort’s famous parade of fashion. , The Concordia Young People’s , The meet-| and N. J., April 9.— , National hymn of the American republic, words written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key. Francis Scorr Ke» BISMARCK DAILY. TRIBUNE 3 By Be BB Be an) ~~ ' “The Star Spangled Banner’’ Sauvar ARnorD The tune is that of ‘‘Anacreon in Heaven,’’ an old English song. * 3, Ob! 3 Obl ba —}- = = “ | ean k-et's red gla say, can a see, = by the di ar-ly light, What so proudly we roc J Glare, the bombs burst ja als, Gave oof thi 8. On the shore,dim - . ween thro’ the mists of the deep’ Weare the'toa's | Houghty catch-ss the gleam of the cones i bem In fall glo fo = hr the ight thao thus be it ev © ot when free- men shall stand + tween their loved Con - quer we must, when our cause it just, And i be our mot-to,— ns a TSE reer: hailed at the twilight’s last gleam- ing, ‘Whose broad stripes and bright stare thro’ the host in dread ei-lence re - po - sea, What isthat which the breeze, o’er the homes and wild war'sdes-o - la - tion; Blest with vic-t’ry and peace, may the aay, docs ; that " ter -opan mu the sarepen ‘gle ben er 3 Avé the star-epan - -gled ban- a ee $a =r ile ous fight, O'er theram-parts we watch’d, were so gal-lant - |) ing steep, Ae it ft - ful- beav’n-res - cued ta nd PI aise the pow’r that otreaming ? And the ly blows, half conceals, half dis-clos-es? Now it ith made aud pre-served us & ‘ion. Thea — WOMEN PETITION FOR SCHOOL NURSE Women of the city are circulating a petition for the employing of a school nurse for the public schools. The matter will come up at the regu- lar meeting of the school board this evening. The women favoring the movement are members of the women’s clubs of the city and those interested in the welfare of the children. The peti- tions contained a number of signa- tures. This movement has been agi- tated for a long time among the club women and will now be presented for the consideration of the board of edu- cation. WAR WOMEN OF AMERICA (Heroism is. prominent in the make-up-of the American woman some American women have performed deeds in war time for which they deserve places in, his tory alongside: our: greatest idols. With the United States on the verge of another war. it is appropriate that these heroic feats be called to mind.’ s the first of several articles chronicliye the, deeds of the war women of America. ) BY WINONA WILQO) No great. female cond numbered in the world's histor Hannibals, Alexander poleons, The few ¥ committed suicide, the French peasant girl? was burned at the stake. The annals of all the — nations seem to prove that the woman's genius is not fitted to active military operations. If the Amazons are myth Barbara Frietchie is fiction. Yet there is no more popular bit of American lit- erature than Whittier’s story of the woman “bowed” with her four score Years and ten” who “took up the flag the men hauled down.” “Shoot, if you, this old gray head, But spare your country’s flag,” she said.” Barbara Frietchie. survives in the popular imagination as a kind of war heroine because she actually is a bol of the highest type of woman pa- triot. She is the true war-woman of the land. She embodies the spirit of sacrifice and loyalt ywhich animates | fortune of war. As aun inspiration in the} tle of Monmouth in June hour of supreme trial the American | Was the only battle in which all woman has never failed the American | thirteen ‘iginal states w soldier. sented at one time. In every sens But the history of the country is{ Mollie Pitcher is a national figure. brief it has to deal with genuine sol-{ it was on a Sunday, the hottest day dier-women. i ‘The most notable the nation, of the year, that the American and ! os le story of this kind | English troops eame together. Through | is that of Mollie Pitcher, By a strange |the dust ,heat and smoke of the battle chance of fate, the name of the most famous war woman of the States has a Teutonic tang Fri and Mollie Pitcher, soldie Wwomaty was horn of German | she wea: story. parents. Coming back to her husband's gun, In the time of the revolution, Rollie Mollie faced a fierce charge of the Pitcher was the wife of John H. enemy, saw her I nd fall mortally barber, of whom it ix recorded that his wounded, and heard an off 's order, changed “the peaceful oc fon of |“Wheel back the gun, there is no time cutting off hair with shears to the |to serve it!” more exciting one of cutting off heads But for Mollie there was time to with cannon balls.” Hays wa ryavenge her husband and serve her is: ed gunner in the Penn: country, She ed the rammer of in the war of the Revolution |the cannon and took her head husband's and his wife followed her husbund’s | place for the rest of the day. On the Mollie Hays carried water to the front United franks of the fighting men as well as Barbara {to the fallen. She carried the water the first lina piteh earned the name Her notable service to| morrow before 10,000 weary but vic- the mothers, wives and daughters of {the Continental army was at the bat-|torious soldiers, Gen. Washington pre- 1778, one sented her with a commission of ser- he | geant in the Continental army, the war was over she was given a pen- sion of $80 a year, thelegislature of her native state. nounced for May 7 and 10 in the Presbyterian church promises to be very well attended and very instruc- tive. Four expert s charge of the meetings which wil lin- clude morning, afternoon and evening sessions. thorne, Mrs. Guy Davis and Mrs. liam Wallace are the national speak- ers to come here. A large delegation is expected, as announcements have been made generally throughout the Bismarck presbytery. The object of the campaign is to a special act of | educate and stimulate along all mis- sionary lines, taking in the depart- ments of church work. ee ee: “MOTHER DOESN'T HAVE TO CALL US TWICE SINCE 4 WE STARTED TO HAVE POST TOASTIES When TO BE CONDUCTED HERE The Educational campaign = an- eakers will be in Mrs. D. B. Wells, Mrs. Silver- Wil- “HOME CRAFT WEEK.” suggest the best ways for utilizing them. event. Cities from the largest to the smallest Home Craft Week this Spring. Our drapery department has made extensive preparations. IN CO-OPERATION with the stores throughout the coun- try we are devoting our store and window space to the promotion of It is a week devoted to the consideration of this country’s greatest institution, “The American Home.” Our part is to display dainty draperies at attractive priecs and to New merchandise, the finest in the market, is ready for your in- It is a nation-wide] spection; ideas as to how to decorate a window most attractive- will recognize} ly have been planned for your convenience. In our store windows, as well as our Drapery Department, you will find striking displays. Here are just a few of the items of merchandise which will in- terest you. QUAKER LACE CURTAINS and laces Craft lace is made in America, and in this line America leads the world.’ One big feature of our Home Craft Week is in practical sug- gestions for the. use of Lace at the windows—the modern style demand. Our Spring showing covers a wide range of qualities and in: beautiful designs. We cordial y Craft Week. y invite you to attend this opening of Home LACE CURTAINS The widest price range is given to these beautiful fabrics. They are made in white, Ecow and Arabian and we have them $1.25 to $6 CRAFT LACE is the same in quality and pattern as the finished curtains, many patterns duplicating the curtains to aid the housewife in designing and finishing the home decorations more harmon- 45c to $3 CRETONNES, CHINTZ, MARQUISETTES, ETC. iously. Prices range from the:yatd 6. ccicciisstente caxtine ease We show a complete line of Cretonnes and Chintz in 36 ineh cloths at prices from: ‘the yard: ..c..ioxese uc iesce reese 35¢ to $1.25 Marq aisettes in Arab, Ecow and white, priced from 30¢ Ail'shades, "Priced from -----s----s+--..20€ t0 40¢ $2.25 Sunfaset Kapock cloths, 45 inches wide in many beautiful shades. A yard ........... Colored Jacquards, in practical shades, 30 inches wide Priced from, 59c to 75 a yard