Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 2, 1916, Page 15

ot fHE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1916. 15 Personal Gossip : Society Notes : Woman's Work : Household Topics By MELLIFICIA.—Dec. 1, 1916, Such a very busy time as we are having this week-end! It all began Wednesday when Mrs, Nellie L. Mc- Clung came to talk to us, and we have been bustling from one thing to an- other ever since. , Thanksgiving with its family dinner parties and its foot ball games is over. That, perhaps, is post-Thanksgiving cause for thankful- ness. This evening the first of the Junior club dances for the season will be given at the Fontenelle. Dancing will follow numerous informal dinner parties at the hotel and in the homes. Supper will be served in the small ballroom. \ . This initial party is merely an open- ing wedge for the big Christmas party, I am told, when elaborate decorations and detailed preparations are made. Following the Christmas party there will be two other parties, either at the Fontenelle or at the Blackstone, given by the club. Tomorrow is another busy day on the society woman'’s calendar. In the morning Mrs. Anthony French Mer- rill, who arrived today, will address an audience in the ballroom of the Blackstone. The hour of the lecture was set for 10 o'clock in order to allow plenty of time for luncheon be- fore the big card party given by the | members of the Franco-Belgian Re- | lief society for the benefit of their fund. Th card party represents the culmination of an endless amount of work on the part of Mrs. John A. McShane, president, and her commit- tees and promises to be a remarkable success. Children’s Party. Mrs. H. R. Bowen gave the first large children’s party to be held at the new Blackstone today for her small son, Harry Raymond Bowen. The children were entertained from 12:30 to 6. Luncheon was served in the party dining room, where pink Killarney roses formed the table dec- orations and place cards were in pink and white. Unique favors were given to the little folks; the young misses received miniature rockers and cra- dles and the boys received tiny wheel- barrows and sleds. Little books were also used as favors. * During luncheon a musical program was given and the afternoon was spent with dancing and games in the ballroom. Those present were: Misses— Misses— Barbara Burns, Betty Smith, Klinor Kountze, Henrietta Leavitt Julia Caldwell, Emma Nash, Elinor Smith, Marion Cooley, Gertrude Kountze, Josephine Hamlin, Catherine C. Coad, Ruth Sumner, Marcelle Folda Mildred Riley, Margaret Wyman, Lenore Knight, Maxine Franklin, Ruth Grimmel, Marion Sturedvant, Alico Foye, 1 Marjorle A. MorehoustDorothy Higgins, Maxine Reichenberg, Mary Updike, Gertrude Jane Marsh, Florence L. Ware, Eleanor G. Wilson, Ruth Kohn, Gertrude Kinsler, Helen Albers, Martha Dox, Kathryn Smith Helen Melster, Cornelia Storrs, Dorothy Stelner, Margaret Lee Burgess Grace Adams, Dorothy Reynolds, Helen Kohn, Marjorie Adair Elizabeth Clark, Margaret Johnson, Kathryn Elgutter, Marlon Foye, Maxine Giller, Katherira Doorly. Masters— Master:— Gilbert Doorly, Rdward Kennedy, George Kennedy, Jack Coulter, Frank Smith, Morehead Tukey, Harry Crammer, Roland Burbank, James McMullen Franklin_Carpenter, George D. TunnicHff, lidward Rosewater, Charles Dox, John Kennedy, Morton Leavitt, Freeman Morsman, Bernard Hanighen, Edward Smith, Theater Party and Supper. Mr. and Mrs. James Love Paxton will entertain at a box party at the performance of the “Million-Dollar Doll’ at the Boyd this evening, fol- lowed by supper at the Fontenelle for Mr. and Mrs. Asa Shiverick of Cleve- land, who are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd M. Smith. Mr. Shiverick plans to return to Cleveland this even- ing, but his wife will remain here with her sister for about two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Shiverick were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bar- ker at dinner at the Fontenelle Tues- day ecvening. Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. Smith gave a large party in their honor at the Thanksgiving dance at thc Omaha club. Those included in this evening's party will be: Meossrs, and Mesdames— Floyd M. Smith, Asa Shiverick Joseph Barker, o Cleveland. Luncheon for Mrs. Oliver. Mrs. Charles Ecades entertained at luncheon at her home Monday in honor of her mother, Mrs. Kate Oli- ver, of Plattsmouth, who is her guest. White roses were used as table deco- rations. Covers were laid for: Mesdames— Mesdames— G. Warren Davis, Franklin Van Sant, G. W. Green, George W. Beadle, A. W. Hallem, James W. Mitcheil Council Blufs Anna Miller of Iort Crook. Roy DeVol \ Council Blufs, W, Ward of Benson, w Mrs. Merrill's Lectures. Mrs. Anthony French Merrill-ar- Tives tomorrow morning for her open- | ing lecture on current events and li!cr-i ary reviews to be given at 10:30 a. m,, | at the Blackstone hotel. At 4 o'clock | in the afternoon Mrs. Merrill gives | the first of three lectures at the home | of Mrs. Leonard Everett in Council | Bluffs. Galsworthy, Bennett -and | Shaw will be the subjects of her re- | views across the river. Mrs. Merrill returns to Chicago Saturday evening. | The remaining talks will be given on successive Saturdays. Dinner Before Dance. Many informal dinners will.be giv- en before the Junior club dancing party at the Hotel Fontenelle this| evening. Mr. Charles Eugene Metz and Mr. Harry Koch, president and secretary of the club, will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Windsor Me- geath at dinner, when the party will include: “ Messrs. and Mesdames— Charles E. Metz, Louls Meyer. Misses— Misses— Martha Dale, Mary Megeath. Messrs.— Messrs.— Alec Loomis, Harry Koch. | Mr. and Mrs. Henry Doorly will| entertain ten guests at dinner before | the Junior club dance this evening. Miss Olga Storz will have a party of four. or Kansas City Guests. Mrs. Townlee was guest of honor at a foursome luncheon at the Univer- sity club today; tomorrow her hostess is entertaining at the Blackstone in her P R LU . Marvels of the Loom a4 B s ey 1 ISR L0 D 55 By GARRETT P. SERVISS. The great antiquity of the art and practice of weaving shows the high quality of applied intelligence in early human history, while the use of the loom by the indigenous people of America indicates the universal de- velopment of this invention all over the earth. Mr. M. D. C. Crawford remarks in the American Museum Journal that the Chilkat loom employed by our northwest coast Indians is essentially honor, and in the evening there will be an Orpheum party for Mr. and Mrs. Townlee. Mr. and Mrs. John Townlee of Kansas City, who came up Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Gordon, will be enter- tained at an informal dinner party be- fore the Junior club dance at the Fontenelle this evening. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. C. Kennedy will also be in- cluded in the party. Date of Dinner Changed. The Omaha Woman's Press club dinner announced for Wednesday evening has been changed to Thurs- day evening of next week at 7 o'clock, when the dinner will be given at the Hotel Loyal. Announcement of prize | Mrs. J. G. Hart | will be ber 16. winners .in the Press club’s play and short story contest will be made then The judges in both competitions will be honor guests. Elks’ Thanksgiving Dance. The Elks' Formal Dancing club gave one of its most successful dances of the season at the club rooms Thanksgiving eve. Over fifty guests were in attendance. At the Metropolitan. So successful was the free story hour for children conducted by Miss Grace Sorenson at the Metropolitan club house last Saturday afternoon, that tomorrow the occasion will be repeated. Fifty children attended the first session and it is expected that even morce will attend tomorrow af- ternoon at 3 o'clock. This evening the regular informal dancing party will be held at the Metropolitan club. Dinner for Guests. Mr. and Mrs. John L. Kennedy will etertain at dinner at their home this evening for their house guests, Miss Virginia Hanscom and Miss Mary France of New York City. Covers will be laid for twelve guests and dec- orations will be in pink. To Honor Mrs,—M:Elung Mrs. Nellie McClung, the Canadian | suffragist, and her daughter, Miss Florence McClung, will be entertained at an Orpheum theater party this eve- ning by Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Rood Phyllis” Neilsen Terry, the Orpheum headliner, is English and an old triend of Mrs. McClung, as well as an ar- dent suffragist. They were Thanks- giving dinner guests of the Roods, who also took them for an auto ride about the city. Mrs. McClung spoke in the court house rotunda at 4 o'clock this aft- ernoon and leaves tomorrow morning for Minneapolis. Thanksgiving Guests. Dr. and Mrs. R. S. Hart and’ three little daughters, Vance Shirley and Billie Marie, who motored tc Omaha Wednesday from their bome in Schuyler, Neb., to sperd Thanksgiv- ing with Dr. Hart's parents, Mr and left this afternoon for their home. Yesterday the fam- ily celebrated with Thanksgivine din- ner. Today Mrs. Hart was enter- tained by a party of her friends at an informal luncht*y at the Fontene'le Miss Stella Abraham is home from the state university to spend the Thanksgiving recess with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Abraham In her honor her sister, Miss Dorothy Abraham, entertained informally Wednesday evening Miss Pauline Goldstone ot San Francisco is the guest of her sister Mrs. Eli Newman. She was enter- | tained at an Orpheum matinee party today. Week-End Dancing Club. The Week-End Dancing club will not give a dancing party tomorrow evening because of the very successful Thanksgiving party which it gave Wednesday evening. The next date Saturday evening, Decem- On the Calendar. Mrs. C. L. Hempel will entertain at Inncheon at her home mext Wed- nesday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Peru. The figures represent the puma; above, a Peruvian loom with unfinished web; bobbins at right con- tain the weft yarn. the same as that which Homer's hero- ine, Penclope, is represented using in a figure on a famous Greek vase, while the remains discovered on the sites of the neolithic Swiss lake dwellings indicate that similar looms were in use there, in the dawn of European history. The Aztecs were skillful spinners, and so were the old Peruvians. The Ojibway and Menominee Indians still use simple looms, of the same type as those of ancient Greece, Scandi- navia and probably Egypt, and for- merly the art of bag-weaving was ex- tensively practiced by them. The imodern Navajo Indians loom is es- | sentially of the same type as that | used by the Peruvians, 2,000 years | ago, and this, in turn, was similar to the Asiatic loom, and was common throughout southern North America and onward to Peru. When we feel the intoxication of iour vast mechanical triumphs, which | have made art cheap in more than one sense, we can find a sobering | dose in Mr. Crawford's statements | that the primitive two-barred loom | Social Gossip. | Mr. Frank M. Bishop of Milwaukee | is the guest for a week of Mrs. WL \F. | Allen Mrs. Ralph W. Breckenridge re- | turns tomorrow from Denver, where | she has spent the last month. | Personal Mention. | Mr. and Mrs. W. Morris McKay | returned Thursday from southern Calitornia. where they have been spending the last few months for the | benefit of Mrs. McKay's health. Mr. and Mrs. Ray C. Wagner have | as their guests Mr. and Mrs. James | Farney of Kansas City. M Eat Right Feel Right Stop Eating Bread for a Few Days, Try “0-EAT-IT,” the New Bran Food and You Will Be Free from Constipation and Indigestion With- out Medicine. At Grocers 10 Conts ’ Eat Right and Health and Happiness “O-EAT-IT" is a new combination fully baked, ready-to-eat, pure, delicious, nourishing bran bread food. Its ecrisp, tasty, toasted slices keep indefinitely- made from rich golden wheat-bran and other cereals. “O-EAT-IT” takes the place of all old-style bread and break- fast foods, morning, noon and night; good for brain, blood, nerves and grow- ing children, and insures freedom from constipation and indigestion without the aid of medicine or any added expense of living. “hysicians heartily recommend it. For sale at all grocers, 10¢c, or sent prepaid on receipt of price. Address O- Eat-It Co), 187 Studebaker Bldg., Chi- cago, Il A shawl with border of wool from‘ “remains in actual commercial use to this very moment for certain classes of fabrics, such as rugs and tapes- tries;” that “it contains every prin ciple incorporated in the latest prod- uct of our gréat loom- factories,” and that “‘there is no fabric made today which has not been made on this ap- parently simple framework. of sticks and string, while there are at least two interesting fabrics, true tapestry and Oriental pile-knot rugs, which are still made on it, and which cannot be made on any other type of loom.” To this, add the further statement that the brocades of India and of sixteenth and seventeenth century European manufacture, made on the | foot-treadle looms (which mark the | dividing line between modern looms and the true hand looms) “cannot compare, in artistic value, with Orien- tal rugs and Flemish tapestries, nor, | indeed, with the infinitely more an- | cient webs from the Peruvian desert.” | There is a wonderful exhibition of | the products of the ancient Peruvian | looms in a hall of the American Mu- | seum of Natural History, | graphs of some of whose masterpieces are herewith reproduced, and a fa- mous silk designer is said to have sufficient for centuries of creation in | that single hall. | out the fact that we must not give the credit of these magnificent tex- | | tile productions to the Inca:, for they were made centuries before the sway | of the Incas began. Yearling Church Showé " Growth in All Branches _ Trinity Lutheran church observed its first anniversary last week. Dur- the first year the little mission has grown to a congregation of 150 mer- bers. A very active Sunday school, consisting of 135 members, is doing good work. The Ladies’ Aid society (has purchased a chanel organ and still has on hand $100. B Want Ads Produce Results You Save From of men’s or women’s sh what competitors charge, than in any other brand made. /i The enormous buying power o Over Company enabled them tc $3,000,000 worth of leather just war started, and main reasons why we can sell y shoes now at less than can a firm in town. mg by buying Walk-Overs—t shoes that have stood supreme footweardom for over 40 years Just received a new line of 9-button Spats, in white, grey and champagne colors. Spe- cially priced at $2.50 per pair. hundreds have been to me and are an operation. confidential. Cash fees, but smal photo- | remarked that there was inspiration | Mr. Mead points! 'Deadly Cost Of Dirty Milk By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M: D. The lack of intelhgent discrimina- tion on the part of the public, the | penny-pinching unwillingness to pay ]a higher price for a better article ‘nf milk is as false economy as it is bad hygienic practice. Leaving out of account the unquestionable fact that the diminished risk of infection by typhoid, by tuberculosis, by diph- theria, by scarlet fever, by septic sore throat, through cheap and dirty milk, is worth five times the additional cost of clean milk; it i1s real economy on purely commercial grounds. In the first place, as has already been aMuded to, scrub cows will not i respond to better feeding and clean and sanitary handling as promptly or |as profitably as pedigreed or well- | bred cattle. So that hand-in-hand with ‘hcncr feeding and cleaner methods goes higher grade dairy stock. | This means an accompanying and often quite unintentional increase in the percentage of fat and cream, and | as high-class milk usually contains 25 per cent more butterfat and cream than low-class milk, and often 50 and even 60 per cent more, the consumer | is actually paying less for the butter- ‘f:n that he gets at 10 cents a quart than when he buys poor milk at 7 cents. And butterfat 1s the most ex- pensive element in milk from the point of view of feeding the dairy cow, and one of the most important and | valuable for the nutrition of children | From this point of view alone, 10-cent | milk is actually a better investment for the father of a family than 7-cent milk. But there is another reason why | clean, high-class milk at its higher | price 1s a more economical food than dirty, low-grade stuff, and that is the difference in bacterial content. High- i grade, high-priced milk has only from 20,000 to 40,000 bacteria to the tea- | spoonful, which sounds enough in all | conscience, but low-priced milk often | has from 2,000,000 to 6,000,000 bacteria |to the teaspoonful. Those swarming millions of bugs have not come down from the heavens above, nor grown up | lon a diet of air. Every thousand of { them represents so much of the nour- | ishing elements of milk, fat, caselin, | albumen, milk sugar, turned into bugs, and as the bugs themselves are neither nutritious nor digestible, million-bug { milk has lost at least a fifth, if not a third, of its nutritive value! You can't | have both bugs and nourishment in milk at the same time; you must take | your choice between them. So that any citizen wno 1s hygienic- ally enlightened and considers him- self intelligent should not rest satis- |fied with grade B milk, but insist upon buying grade A at its 2 cents | hgher price, because it is the best !ihvestment from a food point of view, "and, if he has young children in his family, worth ten times the additional cost. If two-tifirds or even one-third of the public would start in buying on that principle, it wouldn't be very long the market before all the milk in would be grade A. Incidentally, it may be remarked | that it is not only the uninformed in- dividual private citizen who is guilty | of this short-sighted and costly penu- riousness in the matter of milk, but some of our most distinguished and { supposedly enlightened educational, 15TH AND DOUGLAS philanthropic and éven medical instis tutions are among the worst offenders, Boarding schools, children’s homes, yes, sanatoriums and hospitals- even, used often habituallv to buy swill milk at 10 and 12 cents per gallon, until the health officers and the doe- tors and newspapers took to roasting them about it * One of the most whimsically ironie comments upon the inconsistencies of human nature that I know of was the fact brought out by an investigation by the health department of New York City shortly after the three grades, A, B and C, had been legally established for milk. Just to see how much of the higher grades of milk were actually being sold and whether lower grades were being substituted under false ratings, the inspectors made a quick, unannounced collection | of samples of the milk sold in a wide variety of public places and instito- tions, hotels, restaurants, bars, orpham asylums, etc., with the astounding re- sult of finding that almost nothing but low-grade milk was served in the orphan asylums, little but grade B milk in the restaurants and lunch~ rooms, and the only places in the city ;nhere nothin% but ghracile Abmilk was ound were the high-class barrooms, where it was kept for milk shakes and punches! The spotless and shining raiment of the bartender, of the hue of inno- cence and emblem of purity, is not quite so much of a joke perhaps as we have usually supposed. The milk at least in the punches can be relied upon as harmless. Don't blame everything upon the milkman. Remember, a community can get and get promptly any grade of purity and richness in milk that it is willing to pay for. | | Women’s Suits, Coats, Dresses Greatly Reduced FOR TOMORROW—THE FIRST SATURDAY IN DECEMBER i In Fact, All Lines of Women's Wearables Offer Special Price Concessions | ANOTHER CHANCE TO BUY| TAKE YOUR CHOICE OF ANY | TAKE YOUR CHOICE OF OUR WOMEN'S STYLISH SUITS | At Half and Less women's fashionable ed. $20 Suits go $25 Suits go | $35 Suits go [ $50 Suits go $75 Suits go at. at. at.. at.. ON I8 WAISTS ! Again, we offer you unrestrict- ed choice of our entire stock of winter suits at half price, and even less, Broadcloths, velvets, velveteen, poplin and gabardine—fur trim- med, and in the season’s most desirable models and colors— every suit in the house is includ- .....$9.75 ....$11.96 ...$16.95 ... $24.60 at......$3495 1 WONDERFUL REDUCTIONS For Crepe De Chine $1.75 $2.9 For Silk Wa and Tub Silk Waists ) worth as high as WHEN YOU BUY WALK-OVER SHOES $3 On Every Pair get better quality in Walk-Overs is one of th Cut down the high cost of liv- WOMEN! | INVITE YOU TO CALL And know of the help for diseases and disorders of your sex. Many DR. J. C. WOODWARD, 301 Rose Bldg. $4.50. N $3.95 Crepe De For any Waist stock priced up $8.75, Remember |—A Waist, always a very desirable XMAS GIFT 1| $4.9 | | $1to _ oes over and you _ of shoes . f the Walk- o buy over before the he ou ny he in : %{{’r Cricn ¢ ADE bR .3 s pleased. I have saved many from | | SPECIAL and PRIVATE diseases treated strictly || 1. Medicine free. ] Tel. Tylerg260, OMAHA. Use Bee Want-Ads a}nd Be Busy For Georgette and Lhine H Waists worth $5,50. | WOMAN’S COAT IN OUR ENTIRE STOCK AT 14 OFF This {s the biggest coat redue- tion we have offered this season, and when you think of how rea- sonable our coat prices always are, and then consider that we are giving an additional % off besides, you will want to be one of the early ones at our store Saturday morning. All Velvet Coats...... 14 off All Plush Coats. ...... Vs off All Broadeloth Coats. .Y} off All Wool Velour Coats. off Every Coat in stock. .1/ off $15 Coats will go at..$11.25 ..$14.95 ..$18.75 ..$26.26 ..$37.50 $20 Coats will go at $25 Coats will go at $35 Coats will go at $50 Coats will go at CHILDREN'S FUR SETS Ages 6 to 14, Just Received in Stock, $3.95 to $15.00 a Set WoT /A ne & oou%Jqs‘ 15TH AND DOUGLAS in to is ---in Rug attractions fresh from the world’s biggest millsand looms marked free from pr.ce Coco Mats 85¢, $1.10, $1.60 LINOLEUMS 39c¢, 45¢, 55¢ Sq. Yard INLAID TILE PATTERNS In Harmonious Colorings 85¢, $1.00, $1.35 ENTIRE STOCK OF SMART LOOKING DRESSES Y3 OFF In view of the fact that this is the biggest dress season in many years, this constitutes a remarkable offer. There are no undesirable dresses in the lot, and the offer includes all serge, all silk and all party dresses in our stock. $16 Dresses go at... $20 Dresses go at. $25 $30 Dresses go at. Dresses’ gowt.... Dresses go at. SEPARATE, SKIRTS Serge, Poplin, Satin. Solid colors, plaids, stripes. | ONE.THIRD OFF Any $6.00 Skirt for. ...$3.95 Any $7.50 Skirt for. .. .M.95 Any $9.50 Skirt for....$6.26 Any $12.50 Skirt for. ..$8.26 Heatherbloom Petticoats, adjust- able waistbands, fancy or plain colors. Each .... LARGE CASH FURNJTURE STORE quantities and qualities advances Wool Fibers Suitable for Bed- room—room sizes. $4.95, $6.95 and $7.75 Bigelow Wiltons 36x63 $4.95