Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 11, 1916, Page 17

f PART TWO SOCTETY PAGES ONE TO STX VOL. XLV—NO. 52, ik Calendar of Club Doings Tuesday— North Side Mothers’ c¢lub, Mrs. David North- rup, hostess, 1:30 p. m. George Custer Woman's Relief corps, Me- morial hall, 2:30 p. m, Business Women’s Council luncheon and prayer meeting, court house, 11 to 2 o'clock. Society of American Widows, Y. W. C. A, OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1916. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. PART TWN SOCIETY PAGES ONE TO SIX ‘Another Notable June Wedding in Omaha dobbobdeb b SOCIETY Social Calendar Monday— Forgan-Congdon wedding. Luncheons at Happy Hollow, given by Mrs. Mary 1. Creigh and Mrs, P. B, Haight. Card party to Custer Trio club, Mrs. John S. Harpster, hostess. 5 Tuesday— e 2p m Dinner-dances at Happy Hollow and Seymour Wedne:day— Lake clubs, Ladies' lunchcon at Field club. Women's clubs march in Flag day parade. State P. E. O. convention opens at Alliance. W. C. T. U, Omaha chapter, Y. M. C. A, 3:30 p. m. . W. C. T. U, Frances Willard chapter, Mrs, Leroy Savell, hostess. Thursday— J. F. W. club, Mrs. Vincent, Hascall, hostess. W. C. T. U, West Side chapter, Mrs. A, K. King, hostess, 2 p. m. W. C. T. U,, Omaha chapter, flower shower for Mrs. Sarah Powells, 11 a. m, Joint celebration, Omaha and Major Isaac, Sadler chapters, Daughters of American Revolution, Happy Hollow club, 1 p. m. Society of. American Widows, Y. W. C. A, Dance for Mjss Elizabeth Mitchell at Country club, given by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Pixley. Elks’ celehration at Field club. Wednesday— Dinner-dances at Field and Country clubs, Larai club dance at Happy Hollow club, Country cldb dinner-dance, Thursday— Ladies’ luncheon at Happy Hollow club. Comus club, Mrs. Ben F, Marti, hostess, Central High school seniors banquet at Happy Hollow club. Ladies’ luncheon at Field club. Friday— 7:45 p. m. ‘ Friday— Dinner-dance at Seymour Lake Country club. { W“ES T. U. of Benson, Mrs. M. D. Veno, hos- Saturdny— % Dinner-dances at Country, Field, Happy Hol- Saturday— low and Carter Lake clubs, Les Amies Whist club, Mrs. C. A, McKenzie, “Sanctuary” at Childs Point by Audubon so- ciety, 4 p. m, TRIKING definitions of the woman's club were uttered at the great biennial vesper service by Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, “The woman'’s club is the instrument and symbol of woman’s new place. The club is the co- operative school of social service in which all topics pertaining to welfare are taught and dis- cussed. In her new place woman has two things to do—she must face the problems of housecleaning and house enlargement; she must clean up America not only of defective and destructive human material but of defective and destructive ideas. Your leader- ship is of the brain and heart united for humane and patriotic purpose. In face of this great organi- zation. I see no place left in American life for the purely ‘society leader’ or the woman of only social influence,” he said. Next in importance to the election returns was the decision of the federation to eliminate alter- nates in future conventions. Every effort is Leing made to reduce the size of the convention body, It is necessary, according to officers and delegates, to reorganize the federation so that it can be made less unwieldy. Of recent years it has been almost im- possibl to find any place big enough to hold the meetings. Some of the women suggested that all social programs he eliminated from the convention and that the delegates and officers adhere strictly to business when attending a convention. The federation voted to join the International Council of Women. It will first become a member of the National Council. The idea back of this move is that the women think they will have a genuine part in the readjustment of Europe when the war is over. That it was decided to enlarge the directorate to include a board member from each state is gratify- ing. This enlarged board, numbering fifty-seven members, will give country-wide representation in the executive body. The forty-eight state presidents formcd an or- ganization in the afternoon which will have for members only the presidents of state federations of women's clubs. This new organization, which they decided to call the Club of State Presidents, will join the general federation. They elected Mrs. George Winslow Perkins of Boston, president; Mrs. J. N. Paul of St. Paul, Neb,, vice president, and Mrs. R. H. Ashbaugh of Michigan, secretary and treas- urer. The club will have both social and philan- thropic aims. It will meet once a year, when the General Federation council meets, and the alternate years when the biennial convention is held. In the meanwhile the members will write round robins to the club telling of the work of the other states and making suggestions for improvements in the work- ings of the state federations. Hot Springs, Ark., delegates invited the federa- tion to hold its council next year there, and Mrs. William R. Chivvis of St. Louis, Mo., invited them to come to her state. “We can promise you a con- vention hall where you can be heard and hotels within comfortable distance from it,” she told them. At this the New York women looked disturbed and . hurt. Thcy‘appeared to feel that they had been openly criticised. Reports from each state were made by the state presidents. The “teacherages,” recommended sev- eral years ago by Mrs, Percy Pennybacker, the re- tiring federation president, was the strong point in Mrs. J. N. Paul's report. Briefly summarizing, it stated that Nebraska has improbed rural conditions until thirty-one consolidated schools and 170 rural high schools and twelve “teacherages” are estcbh- lished. Pupils are transported by motor buses to the consolidated schools, and the portable school- liouse is used where there is shifting population. Ne- oraska’s large body responded in song. Urs. E. M. Syfert, president of the Omaha Wom- an’s club, returned Friday morning. Other dele- .ates and alternates are lingering in the east, but wre expected home within the next few wecks. Club circles, particularly those especially in- terested in suffrage, had much to watch during the week, withi the vote in lowa on the suffrage amendment, the convention in Chicago to form a new woman's party, and the demonstrations there that brought about the platform expressions by the republicans and progressives. ‘The progres- sive platform, as before, flatly endorse woman suffrage, and promised a national enactment on the question. The republican platform endorses the principle, but relegates the main question 1o the states Tor such action\as they may see fit o take. This is the greatest victory the suf- irage workers have so far achieved, as it brings their propaganda into the realm of national politics, and with the endorsement of the lead- mg party the workers are greatly encouraged. The Larai club dance will be at Happy Hollow club Wednesday evening and the Central High school seniors annual banquet ac the same club the following night. Three hundred Elks will attend the. dinner-d at the kicld club Tuesday evening. Additional S!=h News on Page Four Elizabeth Congdor Heyn Photo i Mes Waltes Foberts Redick ) 11rs.Geo M W Denise Barkalow Jo.sep]zme ongdon I Heyn Photo hostess. HE week just passed was marked by one of the largest weddings of the ycar, an affair falling on Wednesday, and, consequently leaving the clubs practically deserted that evening, with the exception of one dinner party at the Country club. Further than this, the week's activities were chiefly confined to club affairs, with large parties in popularity, The advent of the eastern advertis- ing men served in bringing out a fair showing of masculine hospitality at which one particularly smart local leader was host at the Country club to some sixty commercial associates. Probably the best sport of the week was the taking of the “society movie,” at which everybody but the over-worked directors seemed to have had the time of their lives. Of course, the best part is still to come when the films will be screened for ! ; : That the federation has become so great numeri- I will be cally is cause for entire satisfaction; that somg other the benefit of the Child” Saving irstitute, and the basis for representation must be found is obvious. A most confirmed of Omaha bachelors, as well as the hall large enough to admit full representation on the most popular, wlll'be seen as a bridegroom, at least present basis would preclude the possibility of satis- in shadow, if not in substance. = factory participation from thehouse. But the birds are for the coming week with Mr. A. W. Jefferis in the role of a Kentucky cardinal, trimmed out with wings and top-knot, and looking quite the part. “Well, if Bob Burns can get mar- ried, 1 reckon I can fly,” the “lead” of the bird masque “sanctuary,” is credited with saying. Mr. Harry Palmer, looking for all the world in dress and wistfulness of expression, like Dante when he first saw Beatrice, will be Alwyn, the poet; and the part of Quercus, the fawn, will be taken by Mr. Hugh Wallace. When Mr. Joseph Lindon Smith. took this role at the initial performance of “Sanctuary” to Miss Fdeanor Wilson's “Ornis,” the castern gentleman wore fleshings—Mr. Wallace, however, will appear in tan colored trunks. The committee which < chose fleshings for the first “Quercus” was composed of matrons of national prominence, among them the first Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Kenyon Cox, Mrs. Percy MacKnye. Mrs. Ernest Harold Baynes, Mrs, Maxfield Parrish and Mrs. Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Just why the Omaha committee voted against fleshings has not been made quite plain, a decision which was made before Mr. Wallace, who is q‘uiu: as shapely as Mr., Joseph Lindon Smith, had beén chosen for the part. In addition to movies and birds, the great patriotic parade of Wednesday stands prominently out in the week's calendar, as much an event for the society page as the uiews, embracing as it does women from every financial and social condition in the city. Mrs. Edmund Minor Fairfield is chairman of the women’s section in the Flag day parade and has enrolled many of the most prominent girls and matrons in the Country club set. The second Ak-Sar-Ben queen of the year will become a bride Monday evening, when Miss Eliza- beth Congdon will be married to Mr. Robert Forgan of Chicago, the dean of the Episcopal cathedral officiating. Miss Congdon will be married at the home of her parents, where two of her sisters before her became brides, A distinguishing featurc of the wedding will be the number o1 matrons of honor with one lone maid of honor, Miss Josephine Cong- don, sister to the bride, and just graduated from Vassar college. Mesdames Arthur S. Rogers, Herbert French of Louisville, sisters to the bride; Barton Millard, Walter Roberts, Denise Barkalow and George Redick are the matron attendants, Ed- ward Rogers, the young nephew of the bride, will act as usher to the bridal party, an office he per= formed at the wedding of his other aunt, Mrs, Her- bert French. There is an old southern superstition that the spot on which one happily married pair have stood during the solemnization of the rite has a virtue to be transmitted to all who follow, and sister after sister choosing to become brides in the same section of the same room, Locally, the Flag day parade of Wednesday is the red letter mark on the calendar. The general committee for the women's section of the parade, headed by Mrs. E. M. Fairfield, has been working all week to reach every woman’s club in the city, to urge its members to march in the parade. . Close to 2,000 club women alonte will march,” it is reported, irrespective of the employed women who will march with their organizations and the members of patriotic organizations like the Wo- man's Relief corps, who will be included in the ElK's delegation of 2,000. ; All white is the costume recommended by the women's committee. All the women who will march have been requested to wear white, but it is by no means necessary or required, If the all- white costumg is not worn, however, a white shirt- waist or as much white as it is convenient will be proper. Mrs. C. T. Kountze, Mrs. Warren Rogers, Mrs, Z. I Lindsey and Miss Jessie Millard and Mrs, H. E. Newbranch are assisting Mrs, Fairfield on the committee, as well as a large number of rep- resentative women, Aside from the Forgan-Congdon wedding, en- tertainments for the week will be restricted largel to the country clubs. Here the school set will predominate, the youngest of the “young set” to be centertained at the Country club Tuesday even- ing by Mr. and Mrs, W. A. Pixley, complimentar: to their daughter Virginia's guest, Miss Elizabet Mitchell of Fort Leavenworth. Additional Society News on Next Page /