Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1915, Page 13

\ | | 5 PART TWO SOCIETY i PAGES ONE TO EIGHT VOL. XLV-—-NO. 24, OMAHA, SU) MORNIN( DAY e Found in Her a True Friend NOVEMBER 28, THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE 1915, PART TWO AMUSEMENTS PAGES ONE TO EIGHT —— CENTS. SINGLE COPY FIVE ' Things and Make Among Them Friends Whose Fealty Never Wavers, and Now Will Give to Society the Charm that Has Made Her Loved by Her Inarticulate Admirers < AT B YEARS CLUBDOM FEFFP O your Christmas shopping early!" With the advent of December 1 this slogan will be dinned in our ears to- gether with the colorful admonitions of 7 the #‘Spugs,” the ‘‘Society for the Pre- vention of Useless Giving.” 4 Selzing the opportunity of the woment, women's organizai{Bos of the various churches are announe- T CHMennay saler THE Week, patroimge ‘or twhich promises to facilitafe Chrirtmas gift-giving for the deeleionless shopper. First Presbyterian church women have distin- guished themselves by the unique methods they have devised to raise funds for their new church. 1ast week they held a sale of holiday goodies and Friday ‘of this week, they will hold a Christmas sale at the residence of Mrs. N. H. Loomis. All Saints’ Altar Guild has announced its holi- day sale for Thursday at the Wattles Memorial par- ish house and the Parish Aid society of Trinity cathedral will hold its sale Saturday at Jacobs hall. The Christmas gift showing par excellence, how- ever, is in connection with the annual sale con- ducted by a number of church women’s organiza- tions in the rotunda of The Bee building, the space being donated for this purpose. December 6-18 are the dates for this vear's exhibit In connection with Christmas giving, one is re- minded of the familiar little Red Cross Christmas seal, the proceeds for the sale of which go to the Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuber- culosis, the campaign for which is already on Vieing in interest at the Christmas season is the institution of the school lunch system at the Train school by the Omaha Woman's club, headed by Mrs, N. H. Nelson. Mrs, Nelson is assisted by Mrs. F. J. Burnett, head of the home economics department and Mrs. E, M. Syfert, the vice president. The advisory committee includes Mesdames F. H. Cole, Edward Phelan, F. W. Carmichael, H C. Sumney and Miss Eunice Ensor. The marked interest shown in the work augurs well for its success. A luncheon club made up of well known Omaha women has contributed $25 through Mrs. Mary 1. Creigh; Mrs. Edear donated $10 and the State Tuberculosis society $25, through Mrs, K. R. J. Edholm. Armour’s, Swift's and Cudahy’s have each offered to supply the soup meat for one month. Hot soup, bread and crackers will be served for & penny. Calendar of Club Doings; Monday — Omaha Woman's club, Y. W. C 2:30 p. m.; open program committee, 3:30 p. m. Drama league, city hall, 4 p. m Chautauqua circle, Tennyson chapter, A. E. Mack, hostess, 2:30 p. m Tuesday- Omaha Society -of Fine Arts, Hotel Fonten- elle, 4 p. m. South Omaha Woman's club, 2:30 p. m. Business Women's club, Y. W. C. A, 7 p. m. Association of , Collegiate Alumnae, story tellers’ section, Miss Pauline Rosenberg, hostess, 4 p. m. Monmouth Park Mothers’' club, school avdi- torium, 3 p. m. George A. Custer post and Woman's Relief corps, Miss Clara Feenan, hostess All Saints’ Guild of Dundee, Mrs. R. E hostess. A. auditorium, by educational Mrs, Library hall, Wwil- cox, Business Women’s council, 11:30 a. m. to 2 p. m. Omaha Woman's club, Metropolitan hall, Wednesday Omaha Woman's club, literature department Y.W.C. A, 108 m “Yuletide Tea Room" Volunteers’ hall, oratory 10 a. m. department opening, by PFirst Pres- MISS ITARJORIE MCCORD 3 i A8 SHE LS TODAY surrounded ger have been included i Hotel Fontenelle Monda This re- “ EAUTY and Many Beasts!™ vised version leaps to one's mind at the sight of Miss Margery McCord, by her hosts of n the list, y evening, byterfan church women, Orchard-Wilhelm store. Clio club, Mrs. Ralph Russell, hostess, 2:30 p. m. General Henry Lawton auxiliary, Memorial hall, 2 p. m. Thursday P. E. O. Sisterhood, chapter E, Mrs. Andrew Traynor, hostess, Omaha Story Tellers 4:15 p. m. Benson Woman's club, Mrs. J. N hostess. Ouiaha Y. W, JFW Woman's elub, C. A, auditorium, 2:15 p. m. club, Mrs. A. F. league, public library, Horton, music department, Billings, hostess Omaha Woman's Press club, annual meeiing, Hotel Fontenelle, ‘épm pets. Horses, dogs, cats, a wolf and a bad- Miss McCord is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Willlam Hal- leck MecCord, familiarly known as thé “Hal” Me- Cords, and she will be presented to society at a debut tea to be given Wednesday of There will also be a brilllant dancing party at the this week December 27 for this attractive debutante, fourth of the season The MeCord stables, maintained until two years ago, were well known all over the country and won With her father so keen about many leading horse shows, it was only natural that Miss Margery should be brought up in the atmosphere, and she grew to be, not only an expert horsewoman in the saddle, but Up until re the McCords have also maintdined a fine kennel of blue ribbons galore. horses, and entries made in a sure connolgseur of the animels, Airedales. “l love animals and like to train than anything else in the world declared Margery, enthusiastically. W. C. T. U, South Side branch, Mrs, Oswald, hostess» W, 0T 1 West 8ide branch, Mrs Gantz, hostess, 2 p. m Friday them better It's great sport,” Our pretty lit Bert Child Conservation League of America, North Side circle, Monmouth Park school, 2 p. m Fuller, 0y U hostess, Benson, Mrs Christmas sale by IPirst Presbyterian Church Ald society, Mrs, N, H am Saturday Loomis. hostess, 10 Daughters of the American Revolution, Major Isazc Sadler chapter, Miss lda hostess, 2:30 p. m Equal Franchise soclety, tea, Mrs J calf, hostess, 4 to 6 p. m, Additional Club News on Page Five. Crowell, M Met- ntly tle debutante has a pet dog that she has tralned to dc tricks for her at a distance of fifty feet, Kisses, caresses, pretty secrets whispered In their ears and ready lumps of sugar In her pocket have been in- valuable in training the animals. “Recklow Harry” or “Rex,” for short, is an Afredale, and “Shankline Chine” {s an English rough haired terrier that are great favorites with her. She has two cats, one & half Angora and a mischievous thing who scratched his mistress’ arms and hands in a fearful state for a coming debutante to expose ih a dancing frock, but Mar- gery doesn’t mind such a thing. The other is an inky black, just alley cat, called “Spider,” with whom she converses as she does with her favorite mount, in a most intimate fashion The strong friendship existing between the slim little slip of a girl furnishes a pretty picture as she cuddles up close to the big black beast, and as the dogs and follow her about tne spaclous grounds of the McCord home, Once Miss MeCord had a badger for a pet, and then she had a wolr, but the latter “‘pet” was stolen from her, Mies McCord her first horse, or rather pony, when she When she was 8 she wore her first when she 10 she had already won heasts rode was 4 years old and prize two sue- her father would not permit her more events. It was unfair to the other entries, he insisted Margery ls the best playfellow, but it must be confessed, not 8o much with other girls as with hery brother and his friends and comrades. She plays golf and tennis like an expert, and she can swim and dive, & la Annette Kellerman From all this imagine that pretty little debutante is #n athletic girl entirely. Oh, daneing equally and graces every social fune- tion she attends like a little queen. She is looking forward with the greatust anticipation to the danc- jug party her parents will give for her upon the return of the school set during the holidays Miss McCord usual to girls of soclety the mandolin as well as the piano, and has a beau- tiful in singing. After her gradugtion from Brownell Hell, Miss MeCord pursued her studies at Miss Spence's school in New Vork City Miss Me- Cord attended the reigning queen at the Ak-Sar- Fien ball as a special maid riding habit was first cessive years at the horse show, so tha to ride in any you might our no! Much as she loves her horses, she loves well has other accomplishments un- She plays the banjo and voice IO AT 10 VEARS R et i N OLD French romance popular with qur grandmothers, and a classie still, opens with the argument why the noble heroine must marry a certain nobleman, what volitieal conditions it would bring about and the good which would thereby Accrue to the peagants of a distant province, . It sounds a little twisted, but the unseating of Dina had a very marked bearing upon Omaha so- clally and matrimonially. With the desertion of the posts, has passed away that most brilllant of all social events, the mllitary, wedding. The military influence marked Omeha society" s at its very inception. While other western towns had to ‘‘smarten” themselves and established a newly learned usage to form an exclusive set out of the promiscuous neighboring of a frontier com- munity, society here started its activities under the guidance of women to the manner born, officers’ wives who had been a part of the cultured life of the east and south, There {8 a whisper that mothers with daughters have a preference for driving their social stakes in a-place where the most eligible officers are to be fourd, for example, there is the popularity of Old Foint Comfort, of Washington in winter, of any post town for that matter. Omaha had two posts. Every year had its list of military weddings where the falrest girls ot the town were brides, But it is sadly changed the last few years— Fort Crook and Fort Omaha are deéserted—and the sprightly beauties of the fowns of the border states are becoming the brides of the most prized of all bridegrooms. Society the Coming Week Monday— David Bispham concert parties at Auditorium, Tea for Miss Alice Judge, Mrs. Charles E. Metz, hostess Ladies’ Bowling club, Farnam alleys. Tuesday— Tuesday Bridge club, Miss Lucile Bacon + hostess. Tuesday Kensington -Luncheon club, Miss Edith Lease, hostess, Luncheon for Mr., Raymond Wye= at Univer- sity club, Mrs. Halleck Rose, hostess. Kt-A-Virp dance at Rome Hotel, Wednesday— St. Mary's Alumni Debut tea for Miss Mary McCord, given by her mother, Mrs. William Hallack MeCord, 3 to 5 p. m Luncheon parties at Yuletide Tea Room, Mes- dames C. E. Yoet, C. M. Wilhelm and M. E. Peters, hostesses Thursday— Subscription club dance at Turpin's academy. Tea for Miss Rosalie Schmuckler, Mrs, Morris Levy, hostess Friday— Entertainment for editorial staff of Commer- High school, Miss Iren Fay hostess. Dundee Friday Bridge-Luncheon club, Mrs, Darwin C. Chesney, hostess. Drama class, Mrs. Harry L. Cummings, hostess. Friday Bridge-Luncheon Butler, hostess. club, Miss Mildred Saturday— Morgan-Dunn wedding, Kountbe Memorial church Les Amies Whist club, Mrs, Frank J. Murphy, hostess. faturday Dinner-Dance club at Hotel Fonte-* ne'le. Week-End club dance at Chambers’ academy. Additional Soclety News on Next Page.