Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 24, 1916, Page 8

o e —————— | B ! Anna D THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1916. Personal Gossip : Society Notes : Woman's Work : Household Topics October 23, 1916. This evening society will enjoy the first grand opera of the season at the Auditorium when Geraldine Farrar with the Ellis Opera company, sings “Carmen.” Supper parties are the rule for this evening. A few informal din- ner parties will p:. cde the perform-| ance, but the general opinion seems to | be that dinner parties before 8 o'clock would be too rushed for pleasure. Mr. | and Mrs. D. C. Stapleton, Mr. and! Mrs. George Bernhard Prinze, with]| the other members of their box party, Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Redick and Mr. and Mrs, Luther L. Kountze will dine ! at the latter's home. ! Mrs. Arthur Crittenden Smith will have in her box this evening: Mrs. Willlam Sears Poppleton, Misses— Misses— Harriet Smith, Grace Smith. Dr. Paul Lovington, Mr. Isanc Carpenter, jr. Tomorrow evening her guests will b i Mrs, Giibert M. Hitcheock Misses— Misses— Ruth Hitchcock, Harriet Smith, Messrs. — Messrs — Randall Brown, Charles Saunders, Dr. and Mrs. B. B. Davis will have with them this evening Mr. and Mrs. | W. M. Rainboldt and tomorrow even- ing their guests will be Mrs. F. H. Meyers and Miss Gahen. Hallowe'en Birthday Party. Mrs. R, O. Knox is entertaining this afternoon and evening at a Hal- lowe'en party in honor of -the tenth birthday of her little daughter, Doro- thy. The guests of the afternoon were: g Misses— Missca— Bess Paftenrath, Julia Gerber, Lucile Uehling, Dorothy Knox, Margaret Scott, Pauline Mitxloft. Those invited for the evening are: Misses— Missos— Lulubelle Hunt, C. Carlson. Mrs. Fred Paffenrath, Messrs.— Mesars.— W._C. Droge of H. Droge of Councll Bluffs, ‘Council Blufts. Butterfly Club Meets. The members of the Butterfly club met Saturday night with Miss {lenri- ette Degen at the home of her uncle, Dr. James S. Goetz. The guests were dressed as witches and goblins and spent the evenin' playing games suit- le to Hallowe'en. Those present were: Misseo— Lenore Pratt, O'Brien, I Abbott, Jeanette La Douceur, Whyte, Mary Jennings, Budgott, Marjorle Ingalls, Helen Mancuso, Henriotte Degen. o ‘Luncheon and Matinee Party. Mrs. T. J. Dwyet ‘entertained at funcheon at the Fontenelle today, fol- lowed by an Orpheum box party in honor of Dr. Dwyer's sister, Mis [ W{er of Butte, Mont. Ward in a big bow! formed the center of the luncheon table and two kets filled with the roses were used at th _Those present were: - Those present were: Mesdames— Butte, Mont, Celebrate Wctiflnl Anniversary. Mr, and Mrs. Frank Reed cele- _ brated their tenth wedding anniver- sary yesterday at their home b{ dinner, tertaining several friends at Meaars, and M Bowman, W, l';‘-:llu, - ames Pickeral, i m;imu o, Mr. G. Wi Clarke, « 1 Harry Siakind, Clarence Laird, ‘Willlam Ulsipher, Dance The Tuesday ing d h e Tu evening dance at the Metropolitan club house has been Fmponed from Tuesday evening until 'riday evening, Luncheon and Box Party. Mrs. Warren Switzler entertained at luncheon at the University club to- day for her sister, Mrs. J. H. Bran- ham, of Columbia, Mo, who is her guest.’ Following luncheon the ten guests were entertained at a. box party at the Orpheum, Daniels-Davis Wedding. The marriage of Miss Adele Marie Davis and Mr. Robert Daniels of Council Bluffs will occur this even- ing at 7:30 at the home of the bride's parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Davis. Luncheon at the Omaha Club. Mrs. Robert Gilmore entertained at luncheon at the Omaha club today in honor of Mrs. Ada Hertsche of Portland, Ore., who is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. M. Metcalf, and Mrs. E. A, Wurster, of Milwaukee, who is spending some time with her daugh- ter, Mrs, Charles Beaton, and r. Beaton. Covers were laid for fifteen, A mound of chrysanthemums formed a centerpiece for the table. Comus Club. The Comus club met last Thursday with Mrs, Charles Everson. The next meeting will be held a week from ‘Thursday with Mrs. E. B. Ferris. Prize winners at the last meeting were Mesdames J. F. Dimick, George Morris, P. O. Jennings and Mrs. Charles Langstrom. B'nai B'rith Program. Miss Esther Johnson of the juvenile court will be the speaker Thursday evening at a meeting of McKinley La- dies’ auxiliary. of the B'nai_B'rith order. Miss Laura Goetz will sing * the “Song of Provence” and Miss enrietta Rees, musical critic of The wil phfir a group of Chopin se- jector 8. c;rop:efmt'tir&; yfiII‘hbeLheld iss s studio in the i oy t yric ewell. L G. Everson enter- tained at luncheon Saturday in honor %w!l Nettie “Jewell of El“l City, ‘Woman's Rel Corps department p The other guests were Clara Feenan Mesdames . Winship, fiauh Gardner, C . Tennant and ney. After the luncheon the operas and will be Miss Rasch’s guests iat.the Fontenelle Tuesday afternoon. party attended the inspection of George A. Custer Woman's Relief | Corps, of which Mrs. Everson is president, and in the evening Mrs.| Everson was hostess at a reception to forty guests in honor of Miss Jewell. ‘ Special Meeting Called. Instead of the regular meeting for Tuesday evening of this week, a ;Jn-rial meeting has been called for Friday evening at the club rooms, 335 Paxton block. Dancer Eentertained. Miss Albertina Rasch, premier dan- seuse with the Ellis Grand Opera company, was entertained at dinner Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. W. A, Chan- dler, whose daughter, Gladys, ap- peared in “Hansel and Gretel” at the Century at the same time with Miss Rasch, Dr, and Mrs. Gladstone De-by were the other dinner guests. The Chandlers and Derbys will attend both Orpheum Parties. Reservations for small parties at the Orpheum this evening have been made by Robert Trimble, Norris Brown, Judge Baker, L. M. Cohan, Paul Furth, L. Hiller, A. V. Kinsler, H. S. Mahon, Box parties at the matinee will be entertained by W. E. Stain, eight; A. Brodke, eight, and W. Switzler, ten, At the Tuesday matinee W. M. Jef- fers will entertain a party of twelve and on Wednesday a party of twenty { will be the guests of H. F. Elsasser and J. W, Hanley will have six guests. At the Opera, | Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Crofoot will have as their guests at the opera this evening Mr. and Mrs. Walter Page and Mr, C, W. H~Il Mr. T. C. Byrne will have a box party of four this evening. Mr. and Mrs, A. L. Reed and Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Kountze will be in another box, Mr. and Mrs. Gemge A. Hoagland and Dr, and Mrs. ], E. Summers will be together. Other box holders are Mr. and Mrs. ohn Lee Webster, Mrs. T, L. Ki all, Mr, and Mrs, Louis Mr. and Mrs. Ward Burgess. i Personal Mention, J. A. Cavers, J. L, Paxton, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Scribner and Mrs. Leila S. Wernher and child of Omaha are uests of the Elm hotel, Excelsior prings, Mo, Social Gossip. Mrs. Oscar B. Williams is in St Louis, where she went to attend the Robert Forgan of Chi- cago will give a dinner party at the Home circle tearoom at &e ome ex- ])on_tion Friday evening, when the II- inois Improvement Association for Blind People will benefit by the pro- ceeds of ‘the luncheon and dinner which will be served to the patrons of the affair. Mrs. Forgan was formerly Miss Elizabeth Congdon of Omaha. Dr. and Mrs. Fred Peal, former Omahans, returned to their home in Lincoln today after a several days' stay here, Advice to Lovelorn By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Fickleness. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 21 years of a and for the last two years have been keep. ing company with a young ludy one year my junior. “We love each other dearly. A fow days ago I met an old schoolmate of mine and I have become Infatuated with this girl. I am In somewhat of a predicament, inasmuch as I cannot reach any decision as to whether I care for the girl with whom I have been golng steadily more than the girl who has now won my atfections. This matter has preyed upon my mind, ing loss of sleep, and I have not been able to apply myself to business tofore. [ Yc‘:lr indecision is the fickleness of youth. Pay more attention to work and less to girls! You might have the friendship of both if you could! forego the love of either, Ank for Her Friendship. Dear Miss Falrfox: I am employed by a large company having an office In New York and another In Brooklyn. While In the main offico several weeks ago my busl- neas there brought me into contact with young lady whom I would like to become acquainted with outside my business. 1 have very few feminine friends and feel that T care very much for this girl. Could you advise me as to what would be the proper thing to do? When I see her we always greet one another, but that is as far as our acquaintance goes. JAMES 8. T think it would be quite in keeping with g00d taste for you to tell thia fellow em. ploye that you would be very glad to know her outside of business If she feols inclined {to grant you her friendship. Perhaps she will then invite you to call at her home— or pessibly she will think up some arrange- ment she rs. 1 do not belleve In bishness am fellow employes. Perhaps there is some member of your firm who will more or less vouch for you and In any event your business contact has given her a cer- taln knowledge of you. Hy all means speak to her frankly and simply and I think any sensible girl would feel that you were hon- oring her—not oftering her any offense. Do You Know That The constitution of the United States doesn’t mention health? as_ here- . H. planned by the Woman's auxiliary of | the Young Men’s Hebrew association | shades of maroon velvet. Timely Fashion Hint By Raconteuse tion, fastened by a crepe de chine loop. : hatter’s plush, the crown heightened by lowering loops of two Charming shoulder scatfs made of flat pelts bid fair to continue popular throughout the season. In this instance the upper por- The hat worn is of The motto of the new schools of today is, “Everything that helps the child to grow.” They don’t stop to age. up, they al— S SR S e Home Work Retards Child By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D. their poor little noses down to the grindstone at the earliest possible So to make them like work and learning when they are grown roceed to make them hate both while they are young. In some cases it is a survival of BY DOROTHY DIX. The ultimaate insult to a man is to call him an “old woman.” He would rather you applied every other vituper- ative epithet in the whole category of abuse to him. Even among little boys the fighting word is “Sissy” or “Lizzie."” Women share in the feeling of antipathy to anything that even smacks of the woman in man. It is what makes the big, coarse-fibered type of brute so fascinating to many women, and it is what makes her raise her sons up to be hoodlums. “I don’t want my boys to grow up into being Miss Nancies,” say the mothers, and so the lads are indulged in all of their natural savagery. As soon as a girl is old enough to under- stand anything, she is taught that she must try to make herself charming to other people, that she must be dainty about her person and clothes, and that she must study the things that will refiné and cultivate her tastes. No such lesson is impressed on the boy. He is permitted a brusqueness in ~ conversation, a slovenliness in dress, and a lack of manners that would not be tolerated an instant in the girl, and his mother excuses it on the ground of his sex and as a proof of how manly he is. And, in truth, good manners and cleanliness are so solely the monopoly of little girls that we have all come to think that a well- mannered little boy is effeminate. Other mothers seem to think it will make their boys effeminate to perform household duties. We all know poor, tired, overworked women who slave over the cookstove and washtub while their sons, ten times as able to work as they -are, develop their manliness and muscle playing base ball. Mother ! will work until she drops in her tracks before she will demean her boys by making them sweep and wash dishes and make beds and do women’s work about a house. Yet, can anyone in their senses esteem a boy less manly for helping his mother? On the contrary, if it is to lighten the burden of her who has borne so much for him, does not the humble dishrag in his hands become as knightly a symbol as the colors the warriors of old pinned on their hel- mets when they went out to do battle for their ladies? P T R R R T e A A Man’s Fear of Seeming “Effeminate” is Very Silly Certainly it is no more effeminate for a boy to get up and get breakfast to save his mother than it is for him to cook dinner on a camping expedi- tion, and if more boys were brought should have fewer lazy loafers beiug supported by their poor old mothers, There are plenty of men too pioud to work at what they consider wom- en’s work, but not too proud to let a woman work to feed and clothe them. As a matter of fact, in our fear of effeminacy we are like children fright- ened of the bugaboo thc’ ‘magina- tion has conjured up. Why should it be thought any degradation to the au- gust masculine character to have fem- inine traits? Why is it such a dis- grace for a man to be thought to be like a woman in any particular? Every great preacher, every great writer, every great artist, every great actor, every great philosopher and teacher has been more than half fem- inine in his mental makeup. It is when God gives a man a woman’s in- tuition and fineness of perceptions and delicate imagination in addition to his masculinity that He turns out a genius. Also we women know many things that men would be the better for being taught. We bring up our boys in utter ignorance of everything domestic be- cause we are so afraid of making them effeminate, yet that makes them the victims of every female with whom they have to deal. l\{o man can even intelligently argue a question of household economy with his wife because he doesn’t know any- thing about it. She says it costs so and so to live, and that the children must have this and that. He may see that the net result is bankruptcy and ruin, but he doesn’t know where the leaks are so that he can stop them. He can only offer the futile protest of ignorance to her waste and extrava- gance. Men would also be benefited if their education included some elementary knowledge of color and material. We hear a great deal of the color blind- ness of men. In most, cases it is noth- ing but ignorance. A man would cer- tainly be no less manly ‘and he would be a far more satisfactory husband or son if he was cultivated along this line. The majority of women will bear me out when I say that among the most agonizing moments of our lives have been those awful occasions when our husbands have brought us home a new dress or hat as a present, or had the house papered in our absence as a surprise. A drawing room papered in gilt like a barroom, a bonnet of last year’s vintage that the milliner had -|in his quibble over whether the growth is mental or physical ,or moral—all growth looks good to them, and they proceed to get behind it and boost it. Because they have discovered that there is only one kind of growth aft- er all, and that what looks like, main- 1y, physical development today, helps mental growth tomorrow, and moral all the time. In one sense, you can't teach morals at all to a child; just set him a decent example and let him row his own. In another sense, you just can’t help teaching them all the time, because they're inherent in everything. There 1s nothing foreign or imported or come-down-from-the- skies about them; they simply go with the job, belong to the game, are the only way to play it—squarely, fear- lessly, kindly. A child’s mind and a child’s character grow just as natural- ly and as irrepressibly and to as sure and definite a goal as its body does and unfnhing that really helps one helps all three. But the new nineteenth century ed- ucation is setting itself to protect and improve the child’s health in another most effective fashion. One of the many problems of child welfare which the schools have had to face, but have hitherto blandly ignored, was that of work done by the children outside of school. A very considerable percent- age of children in both town and city schools have tasks or chores or jobs of various sorts to do, at home or for the family, either permanently from poverty or in the emergency of sick- ness in the family or failure of health in the bread-winner, Within reasonable limits, both as to time and strain upon their strength, this sort of homework is no drawback —in fact, may be a very valuable part of a child’s training. But when such tasks begin to take too much of his time or to tax his strength, they be- come a real and serious handicap, and prevent his devoting the full strength and energy that he should to the al- ready heavy and most confining school program. Delivering newspa- gers or milk, for instance, or doing arn chores or tending furnaces for neighbors, which involve getting up at 6, or even 5 o'clock in the morning, often bring the child to school all tired out, fatigued by three or four hours of active occupation, to face three hours of imprisonment at the desk, instead of fresh from bed and breakfast, as he ought to come. . Many a child has laid the founda- tion of a lifelong dyspepsia or neuras- thenia or chronic anaemia by this sort of double duty and overstrain school days. Parents and teachers both mean well, but they seem despegately afraid that the poor youngsters will never learn to work, develop habits of industry when they grow up unless they begin crowding s the old hard-fisted idea that chil- dren ought to begin to do something toward earning their keep as soon as practicable, or even to pay back and return a profit on the expense of their rearing and maintenance be- fore they can reach legal age and escape from the parental control. As an old farmer of my boyhood days used to sagely remark, “Boys is the most unprofitable stock a farmer kin keep. Jest ez soon ez they begins to be wurth the'r salt, they up and leaves yer.” Among certain of our recently ar- rived foreign-born peoples this par- ental thriftiness runs to some sur- prising extremes, which would be al- most humorous if they were not so athetic. For instance, in one of the lower East Side schools, in an Italian neighborhood, two black-eyed little curly heads, about nine and ten, while they would start in briskly enough at 9 o'clock, by 10 or 10:30 every morn- ing would become so desperately drowsy and sleepy that they would fall asleep, not merely at their desks, but even on their feet, during recita- tions. Scolding and persuasion alike had no effect. Beppo and Tito were ashamed and penitent to the verge of tears, they would do better next time, but when 10:30 came next morning they couldn’t prop their eyelids open, even with their fingers. So the puzzled teacher very sensi- bly concluding that there must be something wrong with their nervous systems, let them drop their heads on their desks and have their sleep out and at first chance went to call on their parents. There the mystery was quickly explained. Their father, who was a junkman, was working des- perately hard to pay for a new horse that he had just bought, so he used to get his poor little assistants out of bed at 4 o'clock every morning and send them out to pick up scrap iron and bottles and salable odds and ends of every description from ash cans and back doors and back yards of shops and stores. So that each small would-be student had had near- ly five hours of hard labor before he reported at the schools gates to begin his day's work. The only text book that they were fit to study was a com- fortable cot with a pillow and bankets. Ask for and t';et R’S THE HIGHEST QUALITY EGG NOODLES 36 Aoge Recpe Book Free SKINNER MFG.CO. OMAHA,USA LARGEST MACARONI FACTORY IN AMERICA Procrastination in sanitary re- form is the thief of health? A book on “Exercise = and Health” may be had free for the asking from the United States Pub- lic Health service? Not everybody can achieve greatness, but everybody can be clean? If you sow a hygienic habit you reap health—reap health and you attain longevity? . ., Railway cars would be sanitary if it weren't for the people in them? America’s typhoid fever bill is more than :_27{?0\!),%0 a year? The full dinner pail is the enemy of tuberculosis? . ADMISSION FREE. l'llllIllllllIlllllllllllllllllllIIIIlIIIlIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII—IIIIIIII CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURES FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD CHURCHES Announce Lectures on CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BICKNELL YOUNG, C. S. B. of Chicago. TUESDAY EVENING—Oct. 24th—Church Edifice 24th and St. Mary’s Ave., at 8 o’clock. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25TH AT NOON, 12:15 TO 1245 At Boyd’s Theater, 17th and Harney Sts. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY EVENINGS—Oct. 26th and 27th > At Druid Hall, 2414 Ames Ave., at 8 o'clock. |4 e are delightful tidbits of surpassing goodness. You'll like every piece. The De Luxe package is truly “de luxe,” but there are other Vassar Chocolates for 65¢ a pound and up. Ttied them yet? JOSSE-WILES @mpaNy OMAHA BAD HEADACHES Mrs. N, Alexander, of Niangua, Mo., writing in regard to her experience with Thedford’s Black-Draught says: “I feel it my duty to write and tell you how I have been benefited by the use of Black-Draught. I have had sick headaches all my life and Black- Draught is all I ever could get to stop it . I always keep it in the house . . . it does all you claim and more.” Why don’t you try Black-Draught for your trouble? It is a purely vegetable liver medicine, that, during the past 70 years, has helped many people to better health. Try it. Costs only one cent a dose. Your druggist sells it. 831 unloaded upon him, a green gown when we have a complexion like a saleratus biscuit, - up in the admonition of this truth, v Such were the results. Dear fellow, |and he meant so well. So we choke | down our disappointment and breathe |a prayer, “Lord, forgive him, for he knows not what he does,” when he goes shopping. Another thing — just think how much it would gild matrimon{ and do away with its monotony if hus- bands possessed the feminine talent of small conversation and also if they had the gift of telling news. Did you ever think what a dull and silent world this would be if we depended on men to do the talking? It's the women who make the pleasant litle tinteresting chit-chat about the house. Of course, men say this is because they don't gossip, but I have yet to meet the man who didn’t like to hear the news just as well as any woman, and who didn't feel personally ag- grieved if his wife knew any she kept from him. We women are not too conceited to learn from men or try to imitate their good qualities. We read the things that they are interested in, and try to reach up to their broader point of view. Turn about is fair play, and men would be equally benefited by learning some of the things that we could teach them, and which they sadly need to know. 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