Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-28

South Side Whist club.
WEDNEaDAY-Mrs F.. a. Benson and Mrs.
!. w. Hamlton's luncheon for the Round
Dozen club: Mrs. Charles kountzes
luncheon.
party Mrs. Paul Hoagland's luncheon for
Miss Garten
FRiDAY-Mrs. Ella Nash entertains FRI
day Bridge club.
The visiting girl is still In the lead and
It was in her honor almost exclusively that
society lunched and played bridge. slipped
tea or received last week.
Some cynic observed recently that he had
rarely found the visiting girl up to the
work of her press agent, but he was
cynic. Or perhaps he wasn't man at all.
but rather an unattractive, envious woman.
OF course, 1t does make a difference who
a girl happens to be visiting but in any
event such an observation was nothing
short Of disagreeable and could have no
reference to the local situation. Society
has been enjoying some really charming
girls and women this winter and the pros
poets are that it will be privileged to en-
terrain several more before Lent.
This weeks calendar indicates no rush
Of affairs. but 1t is long way from being
quiet.
Oncihears a great deal now-a- days about
cosmopolitan ways and airs, and while
Omaha is not behind adopting all Of these
there are still the conservative ones who
refuse to depart from their old exclusive
ness. And these have recently asserted
themselves in the matter of guest lists
and invitations. The custom so generally
prevalent abroad and in larger cities of
extending social courtesies to strangers
upon the recommendation of friends or
acquaintenances has been the occasion of
not few embarrassing complications at
different times. Within the year. especially
during the holidays, ambitious ones have
proilted by this license to project their
invitations into circles and sets with which
they were allied only through mutual
friends. In the course of the season. social
reciprocity returned them invitations for
some of the larger things receptions,
dances and like affairs, and they accepted
and so came, for the first time, into per-
sonal touch with the hostesses. Gradually
by this system the circle has widened
until during the holidays the guest lists
for the school set parties and some OF the
other large things, assumed proportions
that surprised some of the conservative
ones into realization that unless some
thing was done quickly. the social bars
that have served so effectually in the past.
would be demolished entirely by the troop
~ iupetuous young feet that. since they
Rad been so carelessly let down. were
dancing straight over them. There was a
hasty revision Of guest lists. but with the
young folks family tradition proved a weak
barrier against the democratic friendships
Of college and university life and in spite
Of parental remonstrance, not few exclu-
sive people found themselves actually in
debted to other people outside their own
set by the time the holiday dances were
half over. A lot of invitations were de-
clncd at the tenth hour and more at the
eleventh, but the mischief had been done
To bring the scale back to it's original bal.
ance one matron has ignored all cards
received from people not In her set, while
others have gone so far as to request
that their names not be included In printed
guest lists.
\ young matron of Kountze Place who
numbers among her accomplishments skill
In making her own hats recently received
what came near being an expensive com.
plment. Having constructed shane" q
her liking, she took it to one of the fas
ionabie millinery shops for few finishins
touches. BY mistake the hat, completed
was taken from the workroom to show n