Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 9, 1916, Page 13

I PART TWO SOCIETY PAGES ONE TO EIGHT VOL. XLV SUNDAY MOINING, J ANUARY O, 1916, PART TWO SOCIETY PAGES ONE TO EIGHT == = ] FIVE CENTS [ Had to Look Twice to Be Really Sure SRR CLUBDOM Calendar of Club Doings Monday— Omaha Woman's club, social science depart- ment, Mrs. Thomas Brown, hostess, 2:30 p. m. Child Conservation leagues, city federation, Schmoller & Mueller auditorium, 2 p. m. Chautauqua circle, Tennyson chapter, Mres. E. G. Hampton, hostess, 2:30 p. m. Tuesday— Business Women's club, Y. W. C. A, 7Tp. m South Omaha Woman's club, Library hall, 2:30 p. m. Association of Collegiate Alumnae, vocational guidance section, Y. W. C. A,, 4 p. m. Daughters of American Revolution, Omaha chapter, Mrs. J. B, Reynolds, hostess. North Side Mothers' club, Mrs, H. W. Dorst, hostess. Omaha Woman's club, Y. W.C. A, 10 a. m. Omaha Woman's club, parliamentary law class at 2 p. m,, followed by current topics’ de- partment at 2:30 p, m. Omaha Woman’s club, philosophy and ethics depurtmént, Y. W.C. A, 4 p. m. Business Women's council, court house, 11:30 a. m, to 1:30 p. m. George A. Custer Woman's Memorial hall, 2 p. m. Custer post and corps, joint installation, Me- morial hall, 8§ p, m. Wednesday — W. C. T. U, 2:30 p. m. W. C. T. U., Frances Willard society, Mrs, D, J. Burden, hostess. Benson Foreign Missionary society, Mrs. P, A. Legge, hostess. Thursday— - Wyche Story Tellers’ league, public library, 4:15 p. m, Omaha Woman’s club, art department, Y. W, C. A, 10 a, m. Benson Woman's club, Mrs, W. F, Vernor, hostess. Business Women's council, Y. W, C. A, 7 p. my Omaha Womaen's -club, music. department, Y. W. C. A, 2:15 p. m. Friday— Omaha Society of Fine Arts, Hotel Fontenelle, 4 p m. Scottish Rite Woman's cathedral. West Omaha Mothers’ Culture club, Mrs, W. W. Carmichael, hostess. Central Park Mothers' club, school auditor- ium, 2:30 p. m. Saturday— Association of Collegiate Alumnae, open pro- gram by drama section, High school audi- torium, 2:30 p. m. South Omaha Woman's club, music depart- ment, Mrs, A. J. Randall, hostess, oratory department, Relief Corps, Omaha society, Y. M. C. A,, at club, Scottish Rite OUR concrete lines of work are outlined by Mrs. Percy Pennybacker, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, in recent bulleting urging careful cemsideration of these topics upon club- women., First is the school manse or the ‘‘teacherage,” proposed by Mrs, Penaybacker. The school manse means suitable homes for rural school teachers, with the advent of which it is believed the highest type of teacher will be attracted to country dis- tricts and the school manse will become a civic as well as an educational center, Secondly, is the appeal to youth. This {s another of Mrs, Pennybacker's favorite pleas, for she knows that if the work of the federation is to be kept up to the present high standard there must be fresh recruits from those who wear the “rose of youth’ upon them The clubwoman's duty to the immigrant is the third point This especially timely now in view of the grave situation that must fol- low the European war, when millions of widows and orphans as well as disabled men will doubtless turn their faces towards our shores What is to bo done with these people, is a ques- tion calling for earnest consideration on the part of all clubwomen subject is weakened, Individual is the last point of the four. The general federations and state fed- erations are made up of individual women, each of whom owes something to these organizations. By doing ever the duty nearest in her home and responsibility in her club, she unconseciously builds character, and character is the finest possible foundation for the superstructure of federation But she should take a particular interest in some line of federation activity, and be prepared to render service along that line It may be home econo- wics. public health, music or whatever most strongly appeals to her. in toueh with the work of the organizations by reading the General Federation Magazine and state organs where they are printed; the pro- ceedings of each biennial convention and couneil: and in every way possible, familiarize herself with the beneficent activities of the organization of which her club is a part. Suggestions for the development of the above four topics may by addressing Mrs. Mary 1. Wood, Information, Ports- mouth, N. H She should also keep be secured Bureau of Additional Club News on Page Three, o 2 V394 /i’fi@// RS. H. P. WHITMORE, Mrs. R. W, Con- Mrs, F. W, stitute another trio of charming so- nell and Carmichael con- ciety women who are constantly be- ing taken for one another, so strong is the resem- blance they bear to each other Al women of the darker three are tall, well busdt, good with looking type, particularly at tractive, large dark eyes. Each of the three is constantly belng taken for the other two—at luncheons, teas, theaters, as well as on the street, which causes a great deal of amusement to their many friends, Dean Beecher, formerly of Omaha, frequently made the mistake of addressing Mrs. Connell as Mrs. Whitmore, on one occaslon in particular when he met Mrs. Connell in the Whitmore store. At the Woman's club one day, two women who Lad been trying enegretically to reach Mrs. Con- nell all day, heaved a sigh of relief when they entered the room and saw Mrs. Carmichael there. At first glance, both women had taken Mrs. Car- michael for Mrs Both Mrs, Connell and Mrs. Carmichael are active in philanthropic work, Mrs. Connell having long served the Visiting Nurse assoclation as treasurer and on the board of directors. While cngaged in this work she was frequently taken for Mrs. Carmichael, as well as Mrs. Whitmore. Mrs. Carmichsel laughingly admits that she is taken for so many women instead of her own sweet relf that she is beginning to doubt her own iden- tity! “Not only have I been taken for Mrs, more and Mrs, Connell, but I am so often taken by my neighbors here for Mrs. E. E. Magee end Mra. N. H. Nelson, and for Mrs. A. B. Currie Once, too, 1 was addressed as Mrs. William Sears Connell Whit- mis- ., 2) I | |8 I S — o Another Very Striking Example of Three Omaha Matrons Whose Personal Resemblance is So Re- markable that Their Friends Frequently Find Themselves at a Loss to Distinguish Between Them and to Avoid Addressing One for the Other Poppleton, and T was ever so complimented, for ail are fine looking women. But I don’t think I re- somble any of them at all, at least 1 can see no resemblance.” In the extended travels of the whitmore family all over the world, Mrs. Whitmore has often been told that she resembles Mrs. Diaz, the wife of the late Mexican pregident, Porfirio Diaz. Since The Bee began to trace likenesses among well known Omaha women, great interest has been manifested in this elusive study. Among those frequently mistaken for each other or in whom the likeness has aroused com- ment are Mrs, Richard Carrier and Mrs. Charles McDonald; Mre. Charles T. Kountze and Mrs, Thomas J. Kelly; Miss Dalsy Doane and Miss Lil- llan Fitch; Miss Luecile Bacon and Miss Harrlet Metz; Mrs, Lowrie Childs and Mrs. A, W, Jefferis MrsFW Carmichael 9 Mes HP : Whitemore FEFEE. SOCIETY Social Calendar Monday— Dinner and box party at the Boyd theatre, given by Dr. and Mrs, J. K Woman's day at the Indoor Golf school, Drexel-Colwell wedding. Drama class, Miss Kate McHugh, hostess and leader. Tuesday— Afternoon bridge, Mrs. Coe Buchanan, hostess, Tuesday Bridge club, Miss Marion Kuhn, hostess, Senlor Tuesday Bridge club, Congdon, hostess. Kensington-Luncheon Fisher, hostess. Box party for Miss Ellen Wylie, Mrs. 8, B. Doyle, hostess. Dance at Fontenelle by the Creighton Mixers club. Franco-Belgian Relief society, Mrs, O. C, Red- ick, hostess. Tuesday evening Auction Bridge club, Mr, and Mrs, Roy Ralph, host and hostess. Wednesday— Luncheon for Miss Olive Raftree and Miss Helen Mary Hulme, Mrs, J. H, Beaton, hos- tess. Luncheon for Mrs, Stanley Hartman and Mrs, George Laler, Mrs, Frank H., Myers, hos- tess. Mid-week Drama circle, Mrs. M. T. Barlow, hostess. New Wednesday Shiclds, hostess. Luncheon for Mrs. Thomas Heyward, Mrs, R, B. Busch, hostees, Thursday— Louise Homer concert parties at Boyd theater, Original Cooking club, Mrs, Charles Kountze, hostess. Vesta chapter dance at Chambers’ academy. Comus club, Mr, and Mrs, P. O, Jennings, host and hostess. Omaha Woman's Hotel Loyal. Box party at Boyd's, Mr, Clarke, host and hostess. Kensington club of Vesta Chapter, 0. E, 8 entertainment, hostess, p Subscription club dance at Turpln'l( hall. J. F. W, club, Mrs, E. B, Lumbeck, hostess, Friday— Miss Elizabeth club, Mrs. Robert Drama class, Miss Zora Press club, luncheon at and Mrs, Hoxle Mrs, John E.. Bimpson, e ) Friday Bridge club, Miss Mary Burkley, hostess, . Drama class, Mrs. H. H. Baldrige, hostess. Saturday— University club dinner-dance. EAP Year entertainment and merriment were the motif of many of the entertain- ments of the last week and there are no slgns that there may be any abatement for the ensuing weeks, The empty, old joke that comes around every four years is here again, women are giving lunch- eons and suppers to men, choosing their partners and doing the asking for the dances. Some of the popular clubs are planning many affairs in this spirit—and the men apparently are liking it im- mensely, The question asks itself-—just what is there in it? Just why do men want to sit back and be sought out as partners? Do they grow effeminate once every four years? Is » man's assumption to leadership but a pose Le assumes—Is he really at heart a vine that longs to cling? “Sheer mere tommyrot,’ says the gray-haired matron of many rounded out years, “the men don’t like it, they are merely amused at the rovelty. It {s. mere curiosity with them—they are having a chance to see what women's taste may be like? ' nonsense, “'Zoologists say that parrots are the most cur- icus of animals and we all know what killed the illustrious cat; but the male genus homo discounts them all. A man welcomes leap year solely for one reason he fancies it gives him a line on woman'’s taste and an estimate on his own powers of fascination, For this reason only he s willing to sit back smfls ing, waiting to be chosen. But under it all he is the caveman still and the t:ue born son of his famed ancestor who went court- ing with a club, If a betrothal ever did result from a leap-year proposal, it is diamonds to doughnuts that the mas- culine subject was a mollycoddle that might have been as easily trapped any year in the century, And there is another thing about it all—does a woman follow her taste or her inclination when she chooses a partner at a leap year affair? “But there are more engagements during leap year,” some one is already protesting. Of course, there are, no one is denying that. There 1s nothing that brings a man right sbout face like jealousy. Love, to be sure, is the motive of marrying and all the fine things that the poets have said about the tender sentiment are perfectly true. But how many men amongst us are dellcately enough attuned to know they are in love until they are made jealous? Of course, there will be many an engagement the cutcome of the social events of this leap yoar; but they shan't come of the partners Who are chosen, but the ones who are not. » p Additional Society News- on-NextePage, -~