Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-08-06
A wedding director.

wedding Director.
wIDF-AwAKE woman in Boston
a has found a new outlet for wo-
= mans activity by taking charge
8HH Of weddings. On the day Of the
N&t4 marriage ceremony the bride and
the brides mother are generally too busy
and too tired TO give much attention to the
MANAGEMENT OF the details. AS helper
in this household emergency the wedding
director fills a Iongfelt want. The name
Of this pioneer is Mrs. Nellie Blifiins, and
she lives with her husband and daughter
on Boston's aristocratic Beacon street
Mrs BliRns's method is to get 70 the
house early and to give her first attention
20 the trousseau. She sees TO II that the
dress gloves and slippers are just rlsht'
She then takes charge Of the packing
The bride eats her luncheon In comfort
knowing that everything she needs VIII
be in her bags and trunks, carefully IN
ventoried in little book as to It's precise
location.
Mrs. BIifins is at the church door be-
fore the marriage ceremony TO give the
last touches TO the brides gown before
the bride enters the church The girls
mother is even saved from having TO see
that the rooms are put in order after the
newly welded wife has gone on her wed
ding tour. Mrs. Blifins attends TO all
that
Tbe value of the work Of the wedding
director is best attested by the popularity
Il has attained. Most OF her business,
Mrs Blifins says, comes indirectly II
has grown on the principle OF the adver-
tisement of a certain merchant some years
agoi "If you don't like It, tell me- II you
do like It, tell others"
At first many people were inclined 10
pooh-pooh the idea of a wedding director
Today, however, they have learned that
even to run a wedding properly takes some
expert knowledge. Mrs. Bliffins is'a stu
dent Of design and decorative art, as well
as Of the changing fashions. Frequent
visits to New York and occasional ones to
Paris enable her to bring back Ideas OF
how they manage these things In other
places But more valuable yet are the
many suggestions her woman's wit and her
woman's taste enable her to add to the
convenience or the beauty of the wedding.
clubs for women i'm Germany.
The Berlin correspondent Of the New
York Sun awards American women the
distinction of organizing the first woman
club in Germany, in 1895. This club was
organized for the purpose of benehting girl
students by opening to them a house where
access to American books, newspapers and
magazines, and above all receive advice
and sympathy to help them along the un'
familiar ways of life in foreign city.
From a very modest beginning the Amer
ican woman's club has grown to be one OF
the most important organizations or lts
kind on the continent.
Although possessed of no great capita
the organization is self-supporting, any
deficit being made up by bazar or enter
tainment. In the winter a reception Il
given once a month, and musicales or lee
lures are frequently held. The club owe
much Of it's literary activity to the effort
OF Mrs. Andrew d. White, wife Of the for
mer ambassador 10 Germany, who durinI
her residence in Berlin was president o
the organization. The present president
Mrs Charlemagne Tower wife Of the am
bassador, and the vice president is Mrs
Frank H. Mason, wife of the United State
consul general
The membership as a whole Is variable
but averages between 400 and 800 a veal
The fees are 10 marks and marks, tn
last for students. Glasses in German an
French, open to members, are 80 pfenniG
a lesson. charge of 80 pfennigs for
guest to the reception is made, this ide
having been borrowed from the practict
German.
Three years after the American Women
club was organized the Deutscher FraueI
klub came into existence, being founded
the wealthiest and most influential wome
In Berlin This is pre-eminently the sma
club Of Germany and counts among 1
members and supporters one royal princes
and two or three excellencies and ladies-il
waiting at the German court. Marie w
I4uydon is the president.
Once a year this club opens its doors
strangers, when a large reception is give
TO which members are permitted to invi
husbands or brothers or friends. This
the only occasion upon which men are q
lowed TO enter the house.
After this club was well established
was decided that its fees were high +
professional and self-supporting wome
and a second club was organized. The
two, the Deutscher Frauenklub and t
Frauenklub Won 1900. which are in no W
rivals, are situated next door to each 9th
The second club has a membership OF IL
The annual fee is 6 marks, and the n
taurant prices are correspondingly me
crate The club offers business opportu
ties TO Its members and organizes sa
for their work, Thee president is Fraul
Dr. Tibertins one OF the best known of I
women physicians in Berlin.
The Hanover woman's club, establish
I'm 1900, is the youngest in Germany.
combines the characteristic features OF
ten Berlin clubs, offering social enterta
ment 10 the woman OF leisure and ASST
Rnce 10 the professional woman.
With these four the list of woma
clubs in Germany is made up. Unless
may include the many working wome
clubs in Dresden and Berlin and the YoI
Womens Christian association, establish
In Berlin n year ago.
The working girls clubs were establish
In Dresden IN 1895 and later in Bel
these were so successful that the Germ
Association for the Protection OF YoI
Women took a hand In the movem,
with the result that such clubs have b
formed in nearly every city through
the en.ire,
.
Noted Women in Business.
"Quite number OF st, Lnuis soc
women have active business Interests"
lady Of that city the other day,
eussing the subject Of the occupations