Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 15, 1916, Page 8

\ November 14,1916, To be a member of the courtesies | committee of the Omaha Fine Arts society means to be always on the alert and ready to perform the little civilities which are the “sauce to meat,” as Lady Macbeth says. Your attitude must be receptive and pleas- ant, that is the secret of the success of the little affairs which the orgarniza- tion gives from time to time, Artists and lecturers have beem entertained in Omaha this fall at pleasant infor- mal luncheons at the Fontenelle through ithe efforts of this well organ- ized committee. o Now a more serious bit of work is falling to the lot of the courtesy com- mittee. For the large art exhibit in the ball room of the Fontenelle there must be hostesses. Each member on whom the lot fell accepted gracefully, even though she knew not the day nor the hour. “We just take it for granted that we'll have to do our lit- tle_share,” said one. Th Monday,-20—Mrs, Dick Stewa: esday, 21—Mrs. W. R. McK Wednesday, 32—Mrs. Herbert Wheeler. Thursday, 28—Mrs. Willlam Sears Popple- t ton, p: Friday, 34, and Baturday, 36—Mrs. A, L. Reed Bunday, 26, and Monday, #7—Mrs, Charles Kountse. 4 / ™ ML Kensington Luncheon, Mrs. S. E. Mathson kensington luncheon at her home to- day. The approach of the Christmas season made needlework a more fl:uut recreation than bridge, Yel- chrysanthemums: formed> the ave a pretty ns, Covers were laid < rs ‘Omaha j , W. Malstorm; ad- }n ! nlqi:m“l:lén 8; ! W ‘ A 3 Rt o . I: culo:x: r‘: instrdctor, Miss A M, b provideot . W. &m:gv&l T, i e d | forty h =1 paid in December, \ s : iss Fannie Gel- , both of Rock Island, 1 [he evening was spent. in music and al Norma Bertram was_hostess @ stag party Thursday evening. The ‘was spent in games and m« which an oyster supper L!N served, Those present were: Y Misses— E ' Helen Kubat, ' Mildred Kubat, Laura Madsen, Norma Bertram, Mathers. Marian Mathers of Greenville, rived this morning for a visit ildred Todd, Miss Kath-|to. * had an informal four- women at the |ard said. “If a woman wants a pack- ‘omorrow Miss |age of matches costing S cents, she me fw the ymi_ Personal Gossip each Thufidny and Saturday evening at dances at Druid hall. A prize masque ball will .be given Thursday evening. Adah Kensington. Adah Kensington, Order of the Eastern Star, will meet Thursda afternoon at 2:30 with Mys. J. M. Henry. Mrs. Ed Kohansky will be assistant hostess, \ Theater Parties. Society is finding a great deal of amugement in the remarkable tricks of Thurston, the magician, who is at Boyd's this week. At the Monday eve- ning performance Mr. and Mrs, Ward Burgess and Mr. and Mrs, Louis Nash occupied_one of the front boxes. Mr. and Mrs\George Meyer had a party of three. Eight boxes were occupied hy the Shriners, to whom the magician paid the compliment of aé;peanng on the stage in red fez. He directed many of his remarks to the lodge men in the left box. One of their number acted as {(he “brave man” in a mysterious trick, Personal Mention. Mrs. Frank S_lovn! and her daugh- ter, Miss Marie, returned -Monday morning from a three weeks' vaca- tion trip on the Pacific coast. Mrs, A. Nabstedt of Chicago, who has been the guest of Mrs, 1. Holliday for two weeks, expects to re- main_two weeks more, | = Mrs, Albert Smith of Sioux City is the guest of Mrs. M. Murray, ~ < 178 Rlasg et \ ¢ On_the Calendar, ' Cerle le Lanzufe will meet with Mrs. Ralph B. Elliott Friday.after- noon to study French. Social Gossip, { Mr. and Mrs. William Garratt have moved from the . Hamilton to the Potter ad);nmenn. Mrs. Gottlieb Storz is exrecled to fe!d.lll‘ll from Excelsior Springs Sat- urday. Mrs. Flagler Buys Million- . Dollar Site for New Home New York, Nov. 14.—Mrs:‘Henry M. Flagler, widow of " the railroad magnate, has taken title to ground on upper Fifth avenue, valued at '$1 M(’,% The site is in the fashion- able residential district and it is un- derstood Mrs. Flagler will build a mansion on nd make this city her tiome, Mrs, Flagler, who is reputed be worth between $60,000,000 and ,000, is to be married tomor- row to. Ju Robert Worth Bingham of ‘Louisville, Ky. On Douglas Beck Buys e, suw, Where He Will Build tractor ‘Contractor . Alex Beck has bought northwest corner of Twenty-sec- Douglas streets from Chaun- ,k” se of Fullerton, The prop- erty has been in the Wiltse family for over forty years. Onl* a cottage oc- cupied the ‘féround. he, price paid was some $36,000, Contractor Beck will improve the ground, it is said, with apartment houses. There are two lots with a south frontage of 278 May Decide This Week To Withdraw Pershing Atlantic City, N. J. Nov, 13— After the\ conference today of the Mexican-American ‘oinl commission, it was intimated that an agreement my | providing for the withdrawal of the American dplmill" expedition 'might be reached before the close of the week. 7 N New Record Price for, Cattle at Kansas City Kansas City, Mo,, Nov. 14.—A .rec- ord ‘price for beef cattle was paid at the local stock ds 'today, when ,(:’ng 1,357 pounds, per 100 pounds. grice was $11.35, 1914, each sol The previous high e e Revival of Market Basket A speedy return to the old-fashioned market basket will effect a sharp re- duction in the high cost of household commodities, according to Charles F. Southard, instructor in salesmanship in the Brooklyn night high school. Mr. Southard was born on 4 farm, went to 'the city in his youth to enter the produce business and later became an advertising man. He has followed the newspaper ar- ticles on market conditions with inter- est, and belleves that solution of the vexing problem\of reducing the cost of table necessitits lies in the rejuve- nation of the market basket, “We need more than anything else eopnlnr.xze the discarded market et or its equivalent,” Mr. South- bas ‘'odd will entertain at bridge oes‘:o the telephone, spends 5 cents Helen Van Dusen will or her F}id-‘. ¥ Other af. 'uesday = Evening Dancing give its rc‘fihr party at the 'ontenelle evening from n is becoming the members of bs which united \ organiza amon, g ¢ Party. b g tertained the S Friday o ¢ cold bo another | of finely give members - will be given b of ‘C:uvrc';toyf everi- all, 1716 or the call and causes the grocer ‘to .|spend more money for a boy to take it to her door. “Another important factor is the endless wrappings which envelop goods today, ormerly a woman stowed her purchases into a roomy basket and walked home, with them, Now each article must be wrapped and bound with twine, and hence thecost to the ultimate consumer goes sky- ward, “I have applied for a stand in the Washington market, and expect to get permission from the superintendent of public markets to deliver a short talk cach afternoon on the value of a re- turn to the market basket. I shall go into the bugter and egf business, get- ting my uuprlles from farmers by way of the parcel post and selling with just | |£nou h ;;‘r.ofi'g to make the mivestment worth while."—New York Herald. 5y Cauliflower Salad. 0il a small head of cauliflo i salted water. When cold“bruw‘?n;: small pieces. Add one-half cnpffi of peas and one-half cupful chopped “celery. Serve on ‘gggl Rm lettuce lsayves with either French Of . mayonnaise, A little itmiesan or American cheese 3 over the salad be- qu‘flifltd. THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, : Society Notes : Woman’s Work : Household Topucs . Every woman should have a rough and ready outfit, one that should she desire’ | to go to town in it, | ‘would serve - appropriately ! for this occasion-as well as fox; harder wear. ~guit of dark gray cloth with short flaring | skirt and three-quarter ]engt\i coat is sparingly trimmed here with beaver fur. The convertible collar and unusual belt | arrangement are .. noteworthy. Button boots and a simple draped turban hat A 1916. Gdited éy Irma . Home Economics Echoes From State Teachers’ Convention. As one of -the home economics teachers of Nebraska, I had the op- portunity last week of hearing Mrs. Mary Schenk Woolman of Boston. The message she brought to us was of such vital interest, not‘only to teachers, but to every woman every- where, that I shall pass it on to all the . readers of this column. Mrs. Woolman talked on “The Relation of Women to the Retail Trade.” She is particularly ' fitted to discuss such matters, as she has an intimate knowl- edge of store and factory conditions gained through personal study and in- vestigation. g ' Every woman buys things—in fact, one of the chief jobs of the modern woman is to buy intelligently,| whereas her grandmother’s task was to make 'the things well. Because women do most of the buying, we have a real influence upon the policies of the stores which supply our wants. Mrs. Woolman pointed out one great abuse of a privilege we insist upon, namely, the abuse of the approval system. She pointed out the rumber of hands a package goes through in being sent out and returned in any large retail store—as many as nine- teen hands in some of the large east- ern department stores. If one takes out goods on approval and no sale results for the store, all the time of the many pegple involved is sheer loss to the store. In Boston, as much as $100,000 worth of goods is some- times sent out on approval (by all | the stores) in a single day. Of that $100,000 worth, 20 per cent, or $20.000 warth, is not¥old. Think of it, $20,- comblete the costume. The Age of Tolerance By CLARA REESE. Never mind; as he grows glder he will become more folerant toward the opinions and beliefs of his fellow men, He will learn to know that there really is a “faith of the fathers,” and that it is relied upon by most ex- cellent people. And he will find out, too, that theré really is an ‘‘estab- lished church,” and “that there is a category of chapels, and meeting places, and houses of prayer, and of publi¢ worship, and upper rooms and sanctuaries; he will begin to note the worshipper instead of the details of creed and the manner of devotional observance, and it wijll largely ‘de- pend upon what he figrds i the de- votee that will hasten or delay®the tolerant spirit. i These are the days when an in- dividual may be gauged for what he really is, and not measured, by the standard of creed or tenets, unless, in- deed, he is-putting his own particular sect to shae, and then it usually hap- pens that some one of contrary belief calls attention to this fact. So, there is an incidental point to consider, the making or marring of the particular faith by the conduct dr misconduct of the individual. But just noW it is the uestion of intolerance which is up or consideration, § Youth and the prime of life are not only vanity, but they are very often the season of a most bigoted -outlook, of illiberal views, and an obstinate, unreasonable protest against any opinion or doctrine ot line of rulin which is not in their code or law, An sometimes this yofith speaks loudly on the street corners or is boisterous in the pulpit, or attempts to override long-estab ished " and long proved meritorious custams and usage. And sometimes this youth comes to grief. But it more frequently happens that youth advances by degrees to older age and with increased years a cer- tain wisdom is developed, a wisdom which' loans toward tolerance. For instance, as an illustration, take young parents. Sometimes their policy with children \is' the enforcement of the strictest of domestic blue laws, or vice vel and uprestrained indulgence. But when the next generation ap- peats, woe betide the daughter-in-law Ot RSt A Home-Made Remedy that Saves You §3-—Does the Work Thoroughly. branes of the throat, chest or bron- tubes and l.é:.unu.llnnd«ithcg be ulgd in m:('; othe! o Under. 1ta "heatlng, soothing. influcnce, chest < soreness goes, rhham loosens, T C I A restful ll:o. T? f g e usual throat an chest colds are red by it in 24 hours or N oth Ing better for bron: chitis hounfiu. cough, bronchial R oolighl. o make this splendid ¢bugh syrup, r 215 ounces of Pinex (50 cen worth), into & pint bottle and fill the ‘bfitdtle.h wi:h gll‘lin "Rl'}“"?‘ sugar .{m' ake loroughly. ou 'n have o full pint—a family hmbplv—of 'n much The prompt and positive action of this p i T S chi ready-made for and children love Pinex is a specia trated compound To _avoid “:‘f':,'m‘" X m ek 1o 1 o e et el S R0 15 known ‘the. warld" over for (ts g“r“ ist for “#&?’x Guaran ve ab: i B T S 3l l{mtlom. and satiaction of motey rountl:dl:efun e Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne,.I =$-====dd_—-——-—='-‘: Advertising is ‘the pen- dulum that keeps buy- ing and selling in motion and the sons-in-law if the olicy they seek to enforce is not\q ely differ- egt. In other words, grandparents have learned tolerance or wisdom with their growth in years. Now, tolerance does mnot mean inertia, as so many think, nor does it mean that “silence gives consent,” not does ‘it imply “carrying water on both shoulders.” “To be sure, it spmetimes means 'to make a Tertain allowance for practices, not wholly approved by the individual conseience; it some- times mean a capacity’ for enduring or for even suffering the distasteful to exist without prevention, and it sometimes aids in keeping quiet wher the inner spirit is loudly clamoring for demonstration in'the line of a pro- hibition opposite. But the higher interpretation of tolerapce is the right of each one to himself within_the limits. of what brings the greatest good to the great- est number of felow creatures. = It i more Christlike to err on the side of tolerance than to meanly deny, oppose or abrogate! / ‘Ask for and Get THE HIGHEST QUALITY SPAGHETTI 36 Page Rece Book Free * - SKINNER MFG.CO. OMAHA, U.SA ing up tight | 3t 000 worth of goods handled without S e S L . Home Economics Department Gross —Domestic Jéience Department < Central High Jr.\'lcool . e Co-operation Readers are cordially invited to ask Miss Gross any questions about household economy upon which she may possibly give help- ful advice; they are also invited to give suggestions from their expe- rience that may be helpful to others meeting the same problems. proval goods must always be re- the value of th€ approval system is to allow one to choose carerully and quietly among several articles. Hence returning is absolytely necessary, but such methods of returning as are dis- cussed below are absolutely unneces- sary. A woman has no right to be out so continually that a boy must call four or five times before finding her. there is no maid, she can set a defi- nite time for the call. A woman has no right to allow weeks to elapse before returning an article. Mrs. Woolman told of an actual case where a woman tried out rug after rug on her floor until a whole winter had elapsed and still no sale was made. A woman has no right to have deli- cate materials, such as evening gowns, sent out and then return them carelessly packed, tulle crushed, finger marks showing, etc. One Bos- ton firm reported a loss of $30,000 in a single year qn deteriorated goods. A woman has absolutely no right to wear a garment and then send it back. Mrs, Woblman told of dresses and coats being returned with hand- kerchiefs in the: pockets. 1 person- Tally was told of a cdse where a woman had a mourning veil sent out on approval and returned it witlf hat pin holes through it. The store was phelpless, because the woman was a good customer and the manager felt it unwise to lose her patronage. profit to the stores! an}v{ t owever, a certain amount of ap- 1 think a conscientious woman will turned unsold, because, as I see it, i { feel nearly bound to make a purchase | when goods are sent out on approval. | Perhaps in the case of an invalid, | where all th¥ choice must be made L“ home, many articles must be sent 1 out and occasionally all returned. For the ordinary woman only the two or three or four articles, of which she intends to choose one, should be sent out. Along with the unselfish motive of fairness to the store which is serv- ing us is a very practical and selfish reason why we should not abuse the approval system. It does not pay us to do so. A certain part of the cost of the clerk’s time, the delivery boy's time, the wear on the goods, etc., is borne by the store; but the large part of it, in the long run—re- ally all of it—is borne by you and me and everyone who patronizes the store. If the careless woman paid more we should not abject, but the great expense of the approval system is one element in the general cost of articles. If prices are high that is one reason, even though you may con- sider it a small reason. In this da; of the high cost of everything wx cannot afford to disregard any ele- ment of cost which 1s within our power to_regulate. . 1 should be very glad to have any | reader tell me how she makes use of the approval system, how far she thinks 1t is fair to indulge in it, and where she thinks its’ use becomes abuse. Nut and Apple Salad. Wip€ and pare apples and cut in small pieces. 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Wilkinson, 29th & Q., Se. 1740. ours 9 The Scarlet A motion picture dramatization of and A. M. Williamson—Each episode full of tense:moments and dramatic situations, Each episode features Earle Williams, the popular screen idol, but each has a different heroine. In the mysterious motor car you can see BETTY HOWE with » EARLE WILLIAMS Read the fascinating story of this episode in - OMAHA Then see the motion picturs dramatization of this new chapter of the Scarlet Runner at your favorite theatre. : ! Produced by The Greater Vitagraph Runner the great serial by C. N. BEE