Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 10, 1916, Page 15

PART THRER SOCIETY PAGES ONE TO FOUR PART THREE SOCIETY PAGES ONE TO FOUR VOL. XLVI-NO. 18. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1916. - SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. ~ Crowning Blessings of Mother’s Devoted Life] CLUBDOM Calendar of Club Doings Tuesday— P. E. O. sisterhood, Chapter B. P., Mrs. Frank C. Patton, hostess. Woman's Relief corps, U. S. Grant branch, Mrs, E. E. Crane, hostess, at Carter Lake club, Business Women's council, luncheon and prayer meeting, court house, 11 to 2 o'clock. Society of American Widows, Crounse block, 1p.m, Sermo club, Mrs. E. H. Barnes, hostess. Thursday— Omaha Woman’s club, luncheon at Happy Hol- low, 1 p. m. G Benson Woman’s club, Benson city hall, 2:30 p.m, Society of American Widows, Crounse block, 7:30 p. m, B'nai Brith, Ladies’ auxiliary, Lyric hall, 8 p. m. Friday— Child Conservation league, North Side circle, Mrs. Rodman Brown, hostess, 2 p, m. PENING Woman's club dates are now be- ing announced: with the advent of cooler weather, gavels are being hauled out ready for action and soon the club season will be in full swing. Preliminary to the open- ing of the Omaha Woman's club a large: luncheon is being arranged for Thursday at 9 o'clock at Happy Hollow club. The purpose is to permit the large number of women who comprise the mem- bership to become better acquainted with one an- other, lack of which is a great detriment in any organization of the proportions of the Woman's club. Mrs. C. A. Sherwood, chairman of the house and home committee, has charge of the luncheon. Announcement .of the literature department’s plans, always awaited with interest, is made by Mrs. A. L. Fernald, the leader, the first meeting to be held Wednesday, October 4. “American Litera- ture of the Twentieth Century” is the big subject fdr discussion. Of special interest will be the program on Percy Mackaye’s masque written in celebration of the Shakespearean tercentenary, “Caliban by the Yellow Sands,” and produced in New York in May when the biennial convention of the General Fed- eration of Women’s Clubs was held. Miss Kate Mc- Hugh, president of the local center of the Drama league, has been exerting exery effort to secure the presentation of the masque in Omaha. Theodore ‘W. McCullough, managing editor of The Bee and a director of the Drama league, has been secured as the speaker for this program, which comes under the head of “American Pageantry.” Rev. Titus Lowe will be the speaker for the opening day program. Included in the study outline are Alice Brown’s drama, “Children of Earth,” which won the Win- throp Ames $10,000 prize; works of William Dean Howells; Dorothy Canfield, C. J. Snaith, Ernest Poole, Winston Churchill, Juliet Wilbor Tompkins, Booth Tarkington, Henry K. Webster, F. Hopkin- son Smith, Helen A. Martin, Irving Bachelor, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Margaret Deland and Mary Rob- erts Rinehart. v Studies of New York life as portrayed by a group of East Side writers, including Fannie Hurst and Montague Glass, will comprise a morning’s fStll:*ldy which is being arranged by Mrs. Millard Lang- eld. Chapter B. P. of the P."E. O. sisterhood is the first of this group of societies to announce its first meeting. This will be held Tuesday afternoon at the home of the president, Mrs. Frank C. Patton, 2413 Bristol street. The North Side Mothers’ club, which was to have held its opening meeting the same day, has postponed its first coming together until one week later. The meeting will be held Tuesday, Sep- tGefiber 19, at the home of the president, Mrs. G. R. ilbert. Romances of American cities will interest the Woman's club of the Railway Mail Service, which opens its season Wednesday, September 20. Salem, St. Augustine, New Orleans, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Nome and Detroit are the citizs selected. The usual program for the Old People’s home will be given and an all-day meeting will be devoted to sewing for the Child Saving institute, The North Side circle of the Child Conservation league will hold its opening meeting Friday at 2 o’clock at-the home of Mrs. Rodman Brown, 2201 Evans street. The time will be devoted to business. On Tuesday the Sermo club will hold the first meeting of the year, with Mrs. E. H. Barnes as hostess. The work of the coming season will be a study of five great Anierican poets, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell and Bryant. At the open- ing meeting Miss Lillian Gwin will give the biog- raphy of Holmes. = ° Miss Lilly M. Strong, for several years general secretary of the local Young Women’s Christian association, makes her farewells at today's vesper service. Miss Strong will give a talk and Miss Mabel Fulton will sing. At the social hour which follows Miss Mabel Hall, the lately appointed mem- bership and social secretary, will be hostess. Miss Etta Pickering, the new general secretary, who comes from the association at San Antonio, Tex., is expected the latter part of the week. The corrected gymnasium schedule is ready for distribution and can be obtained at the general office or by request will be mailed. The educational de- partment schedule is also arranged ‘and the secre- taries in the office are ready to confer about any of the classes, Local suffragists are reawakening to activity, their heaits being stirred by the glowing reports from the national woman suffrage convention held this week in Atlantic City. As their share in help- ing to raise the $1,000,000 recommended by national suffrage leaders, the Omaha Suffrage association, headed by Mrs. S. A. Capen, is planning a food sale to be held at the home of Mrs. A. C. Anderson, 1730 South Twentg-eighth street, Wednesday, Septem- ber 20, at 2:30 o'clock. Cakes, pies, candies, jellies, marmalades, baked beans, salads and all manifer of delicacies will be sold to swell the coffers of the votes-for-women enthuffasts. After the sale the annual election of officers and delegates to the state convention at Hastings October 2 will take place. In the September issue of the Suffrage Messen- ger, Mrs. W. E. Barkley, the state president, urges every suffrage organization to' “get busy.” “Every club should call a meeting and, besides electing offi- cers, if this has not already been done, must elect delegates to the state convention. All members of the state board, state chairmen and presidents of local associations are automatically delegates. As the meeting is, to be held just prior to the state con- vention of the Nebraska Federation of Women’s clubs, many clubs may find it convenient to send suffrage representatives to both conventions.” The closing session of this convention, as well as the big luncheon in honor of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt and Mrs, Josiah Evans Cowles, will be held jointly with the state club federation. This Bevy of Beautiful Girls Has Four Sturdy Brothers Who Combine to Make Mater Happy Feminine Fakes By THE JESTER. I read of a story the other day of a certain ac- tress—it's always an actress, of course—who, after being complimented on her dimples, confided to a girl friend that they had been put on for the occa- sion. Apart from the improbability of any girl giving away the secrets of her toilet to anyone (let alone a member of her own sex), the idea by no means appeals to me. To please whom does the present-day craze of the young girl for “make-up” exist? Not man, surely, for I've never yet met either a lover or a husband who will admire it, let alone encourage it, for a single moment. One is left to assume, then, that it is done either to gratify her own personal vanity, or because she has an erroneous idea that no one will see through it, I should prefer to believe the former, as I have too high an opinion of feminine cleverness and per- spicacity to'imagine that the latter can exist, Let me impress upon you girls that nine-tenths of the men you meet loathe and detest the use of all artificial aids to beauty, with the exception of a little powder—all excessive traces of which should, of course, be removed. It is always possible, I will allow, that rosy lips (even hand-colored) may look delightful from a dis- tance, but take it from me that it is vastly improb- able that any man who has been permine({to linger on them and obtained a mouthful of cosmetique in the process, will ever want to repeat the experiment. Provided that it is skillfully done, the blush rose complexion that novelists delight in can be applied successfully with a small amount of practise, and can decieve the very elect, But, there may come a time when she who has done it gets a fainting attack—and nature is ruthless then, The eyes, too, can be artfully touched up and improved if you know how to do-it, but the slightest accident, and-—another illustion is dispelled. I have argued so far merely from a man’'s point of view namely his own Iikes and dislikes. I have neglected the chief argument against the use of ar- tificial aids because the aforesaid argument should be sufficiently obvious. Does it need any article of mine to point out that all paints and stuffs must be injurious to the skin? Surely not! As I said before, I loathe artificiality. Nature is good enough for me and surely should be so for you girls. And yet, despite all we men can say, fakes are growing every day. Half the girls one meets carry a beauty spe- cialist’s entire outfit in their handbags, and the first question a girl asks, if she hears anyone admiring someone else’s hair is, “I wonder if it is her own?” SOCIETY Social Calendar Monday— Bridge party for Miss Alice Woodworth‘. dgiven by the Misses Hazel and Carol Howard, Prairie Park Whist club opening party. Tuesday— Dundee Catholic Women's circle. Rockford college luncheon at Hotel Fontenelle. Kimmel-Shearer wedding, £ Luncheon at Happy Hollow club for Miss Alice Woodworth, Mrs. Carl Woodworth, hostess. | Bridge-luncheon at Field club given by Miss Alice McKenzie, / White Shrine Whist club luncheon at Carter Lake club, Bridge tournament at Field club. Dinner-dances at Happy Hollow, Carter Lake and Seymour Lake clubs, Luncheon at Country club for Mrs. W. W, Morsman, given by Mrs. Nathan Merriam, Prairie Park Needlecraft club, opening meet- ing. Wednesday— Dinner-dances at Country and Field clubs. Thursday— Luncheon at Field club, Mrs. A. L, Meyer, hostess. Woodworth-Kiewit wedding. Dinner-dances at Happy Hollow and Seymour Lake clubs, Delta Tau Delta fraternity luncheon at Uni- versity club, '12:15 g m, Cooler-Steinberg wedding at Rome hotel, 7 Dinner-dance at Seymour Lake club. Saturday— Opening dance at Prairie Park club house. D':mer-dlncu at Country, Field, an%y Hol- low, Carter Lake and Seymour Lake Country clubs. HIS last week Omaha has been specially | virtuous. We have given from omlbulc- ing pockets until the, pocket of the Visit- ing Nurse association bulged as never be- fore on Visiting Nurse tag day. Of course, if you were out of the city and didn’t know. about it, any day can be tag day for a generous and charitable person. As I was saying, however, we have been virtuous, what will we do next? ! We are gradually passing the in-between season and launching out onto the sea of social deeds. If you are a club woman of any kind, literary, art, musical or social, you are beginning to_nlnn for your . winter season and arranging for your opening meet- ing. The announcement of the Tuesday Morning Musical club's program for the year was one of the ¢ most interesting notices of the week. The commit- | tee has secured a remarkably good program of local - artists as well as foreign talent. 2 : The Society of Fine Arts is planning to hold our . attention with its programs of famous persons. The | treats ‘which are in store for us because of their ef- forts make one’s dreams happy, after so much | mediocre art. . But I seem to be usurping the field of the club editor, a crime which I must never commit. Let me state for the purpose of exonerating myself that s ciety is responsible for these activities, they are some of its most vital interests. This is one of the things which follows after sweet charity. 2 The school set is beginning to leave us. The state university young people are going first because they need have no fear of infantile paralysis or rail- road strikes or any other alarms. Perhaps the faet that their school opens earlier than some eastern schools is partly responsible for their early depar- ture.,, One prominent mother said to me the other day, “Most people that I know are either getting the children ready to go away to school or beginning to lan their gowns for the ball.” The ball, of course, is the Ak-Sar-Ben ball, which draws near by leaps and bounds. Do you realize that it is less than four weeks away? Truth, because I just counted. Wouldn't it be heavenly if every maid and matron who is to appear on that momentous occasion would have her gown all in mind a week before the | event. Then no one need worry her head about any- . thing in the world. The marriage of Miss Alice Woodworth to Mr, | George A, Kiewit will take place Friday of this week. Several pre-nuptial affairs have been given and will be given in her honor. Miss Louise Bedwell has added the latest October wedding to our calendars, for she will be united in marriage with Mr. Eugene | Holland of Lincoln on October 21. Early in the month, to be exact, on October 3, will occur the marriage of a charming young woman of our city to a young Chicago doctor. The notice has just reached us that Mr, and Mrs, John L. Me- Cague announce the engagement of their dnushtfr, Mary, to Dr. Charles' Anderson Aldrich of Win- netka, I1l. The young physician is a graduate of | the medical school of Northwestern university and is now located at Winnetka, n\, far from Chicago. The marriage will be the culi¥.nation of another romantic college friendship, for the young people met while attending' Northwestern university. Dr. Aldrich is a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and Miss McCague is a well known Alpha Phi. The wedding will be a small home event, with only relatives and a few intimate friends present. A sure sign of the changing season is the in- creased gayety at the country clubs. The first of the season it was a novelty to get out to your . favorite club, but during the warm weather every- one except the young people attended dinners and dances rather perfunctorily. Now, as if to make amends Yor past neglect and in order to achieve a grand finale, hosts and hostesses are inviting large parties to make merry with them. Several large parties were to be seen at the Country club last evening and an unusually large number of members attended, 125 or 150 in all. Changes have been necessitated in the weddin, arty of Miss Lucile Bacon by death in the Elliot{ amily of Des Moines. Three members of that fam- ily will be unable to fill their places in the nuptial | arrangements, Miss Alice Jacquith is still keeping the identi of her party secret, fearing to weary her friends with oft-repeated details. For both of these you: women parties will soon be given and the fare: festivities will abound. (Additional Society News on Next Page.)