Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-07
SOCIETY FAIRLY WaIzZINC
Early Days Of June Sees Brisker Movement
Of Smart Set
WEDDINGS AND PRELIMlNARlEs TIE CAUSE
Some Remarks Made by Parties who
Are ColIRteraIly Interested and
What One Prospective Groom
Had TO Say.

II the initial week is Indicative OF the
month. then society has a gay time ahead,
for the last seven days have been full in
deed. This was particularly true of the
early days that, afternoon and evening,
were occupied with affairs preliminary to
the Burns-McShsne wedding and a score Of
other things for other brides and other
people. And this week society will go all
over 1t again, and the next week, and the
next, too, for June is dedicated to brides
and Wednesdays to weddings, and every
Wednesday on the calendar has a ring
around IT. This week the Fonda-Jaynes
wedding will be the notable event, and so
much has been planned for the prospective
bride that two Of the hostesses have in
geniously selected the morning hours for
affairs that ordinarily occur in the after
noon, which fact but adds to the POSSIBLE
tiles of the occasions.
e On Monday Mrs. William Bradbury and
Mrs. Charles Rich entertain at euchre;
Miss Edith Dumont gives a morning ken
sington for Miss Herberta Jaynes Miss
Helen Cady entertalns at l o'clock lunch
con for Miss Jaynes; the Cassidy-Warcott
wedding.
On Tuesday Miss Lomax will be hostess
OF the meeting Of the Euchre club; Mrs.
William Bradbury and Mrs. Charles Rich
give the second Of their series of card par
ties Miss Mona Martin gives a luncheon
for Miss Jaynes and Miss Slossen; the
meeting Of the Fortnightly Euchre club at
the home Of Mrs. George Moore: meeting
of the N. l. T. Whist club at the home Of
Miss Elma Rothschild; sailing party at
Manawa for the Fonda-Jaynes wedding
party and the Delta Gamma girls.
On Wednesday the Fonda-Jaynes we'd
ding at Good Shepherds church at s
O'Clock; Diesing-McMillen wedding at Good
Shepherds church at 7 o'clock; Mrs. Frank
Fahs' card party in honor of Miss Edith
Smell.
On Thursday Mrs. Andrew Traynor will
entertain at euchre; the Debutante's
luncheon at the home Of Miss Susan Hol-
drege.
On Friday Mrs. Charles Helmer gives a
luncheon for Miss Edith Smell and Mrs.
Frank FANS.
On Saturday Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Nichols
celebrate their seventeenth wedding ami
versary at their summer place at Florence.
A lot of driftwood stories are ahoat in
Omaha Just now, thrown up by the June
1oodtide Of the matrimonial sea, about
parental objections entered with more or
loss vigor to the persistent s~tubbornness
OF sons and daughters who think II their
privilege to contract alliances for them
selves rather than to let papa and mamma
do the business for them. The father OF
one of the principal partners in a forth
coming Lohengrin wedding march was ac-
costed by a friend of the family the other
day with this greeting:
well, 1 see you're to have a wedding in
your household soon. 1 suppose you are
open to congratulations"
I'm not so sure about that" came the
cautious reply. These things don't always
go the way we want them and 1t may not
turn out to be a cause for congratula-
tons"
Now of course everyone will agree that
this was decidedly bad taste, and even
IL the parents had doubts or misgivings,
having allowed the AFFAIR to go to the pub
fishing OF the bans. they should keep their
anxious solicitude to themselves and do
the best they could to give the young
people a good start and keep them in the
middle Of the stream that carries them
to success and domestic happiness. Spread
ing broadcast the information that their
own parents have no confidence in the
stability of the alliance certainly doesn't
help things, but only puts additional OBJ
stacles in the path.
Along with the parents complaints against
children making matches not entirely by
their liking, an occasional protest is raised
by the children against the afiiction Of
a new father or a new mother not of their
choosing There has been a great deal.
comparatively speaking. OF this in Omaha
Of l~ate-widows and widowers taking on
consolation by a second nuptial knot. In
one impending case where property in
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the relatives might disapprove met the re-
sponse:
What II they do? I'm marrying to suit
myself. My daughter got married without
30 much as asking me by your leave, al
though l would probably have said yes
without hesitation. I'm old enough to know
what / want to do and l guess no one has
any right to interfere"
That is the kind OF a spirit of indepen-
dence that commands Arbitration.
Linen showers for the budding bride have
long been staples in the line OF wedding
party entertainments. Everyone knows
what a linen shower is. The girl friends
Of the star performer utilize a farewell
party TO present her each with a piece Of
linen for the new household, usually OF
the donors own handiwork. Later inpo-
F@N~~" A1fN Ao1N $40 bAluEE the VIC
tins OF v~ariegated showers-one had a pic-
ture shower the other day which resulted
In an accumulation Of pretty things to en-
bellish the walls OF the new home and
another had n stocking shower that Is sure
10 make her an attractive object when she
does her rainy day shopping later. And
now the shower has enclrcled the groom as
well as the bride, the man of the weeks
wedding having been made the victim Of
a neckue party a week ago. When We
speak OF a necktie party we are usually
reminded Of 81 entirely different function,
but this particular man would Just as soon
wear the hemp as some OF the apparel
loaded onto him.
The bargain counters at the department
stores must have been denuded OF their
ehoicest treasures in the line of gents
furnishings"
"How's this for a loud oneT' asked one
OF the men unwrapping a silken checker
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