Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13
SOCIETY WOMEN KEEP BUSY
They Do Much TO Entertain the Many
Tennis Players Last Week.
TO TREAT GOLFERS LIKEWISE
COMMITTEES Named 20 Provide Enter
tainment for whomen who Ac-
company Their Husbands
TO Tournament,
Social Calendar.

MONlDA1-MlGH hAlneTlne M0nIt n party
10 see Buffalo BINS show; Mrs. w. Far
nam Smith. party 20 see Buffalo BllTs
show for Mrs. A. ID. Ware, guest OF Mrs:
Charles Marsh; matinee dance at Field
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. dance at Happy Hol-
low club; Mrs. II. $, owen, Theta Bridge
club; Mrs j. Il. Blanchard ana hrs. y
L. Young. bridge luncheon for Mrs, N,
F. Reckard; dinner dance at Happy Hol-
low; ladies day at Field club and Happy
Hollow; auto ride for visiting golfers.
"WEDNESDAY - Poppleton Avenue card
club dinner at Field club; Mr.. Raymond
Low, dinner at Country club Tor guests
OF Miss Harding; dinner dance AZ tlelo
club and Country club; Mrs. A D Matt
son, luncheon for Misses webb, Sanborn
and Merrick, at her home
Observation-Disclosures day at Field club
and Happy Hollow club,
Field club, Happy Hollow. Country CLUB
Rod and Gun club.
The tennis players held the attention OF
society last week. The gallery OF the Field
club where the national clay court cham
plonship tournament has been held was
crowded every afternoon and evening with
feminine enthusiasts clad in their most
attractive gowns and displaying an un-
usual amount Of interest In the play.
The visiting cracks from all over the
country were honor guests at many private
dinner parties in addition to the Wednes-
day and Saturday night dances, SMOKER
ping pong party and other stunts given by
the local entertainment committee. This
week the golfers of the Trans-Mississippi
Rolf association tournament at the Couptry
club will be in the lime-light.
II is expected that the wives of many
Of the visiting players will be here through
out the week and committee OF Country
club women are preparing to provide en-
tartainment for the visiting women. This
committee is composed of Mrs. A. V. Rins-
Ter. Miss Daisy Doane, Mrs. w, t. Burns
Mrs Frank Colpetzer, Mrs. Jerome Magee,
Mrs. Edwin T. swobe, Mrs. NJ. c. Peters,
Mrs. Frank Wilhelm, Mrs. T. +. Kennedy,
Mrs. Ben Cotton, Mrs. J. T. Stewart I'd,
Mrs. e. 6. westbrook, Mrs. w. J. Foye'
Mrs. c. A. Hull. Mrs. r II. Gaines, Mrs.
Wilson H. Low and Mrs. e. H, sprague.
The committee will take care OF the
golfers wives while the men are playing
their matches, while they are being enter
tanned by Ak-Sar-Ben Monday evening ana
holding their annual association meeting
and banquet Thursday evening II Is not
decided whether the visiting women will
be- taken on the automobile ride Tuesday
or whether some other form of entertain
ment will be provided. The ride will be
taken to Florence, back on Twenty-fourth
street. to Fort Creek, back on the hill road
TO Riverview park and from there along
Omaha's boulevards TO the club Wednes-
day and Saturday evenings the dinner and
dances will be held at the Country club.
One of Omaha's popular bachelors, who
Ii in constant demand as. a dinner man.
who has ''beaued' society bellies from one
generation after another for the last quar-
ter of a century, and whose tact and con-
formity to the rules of etiquet laid down
by the local 400" have never been known
to fail In all this time. received sudden
jolt the other evening
It happened in the dancing pavilion at
Lake Manawa, where the dances at cents
per ere largely patronized by Omaha 30
cIety sets by way or something new. The
bachelor under discussion was there one
evening with a number of his friends. who
had tired Of the home club dances and were
seeking diversion across the river.
The bachelor was tripping the light
fautIstic' around the hall with his partner,
one of omaha's well known young women.
according to the fashion which has never
been disapprovsd at the country clubs or
winter dances, when suddenly the censor
which the Manawa management employees
TO keep the dancers within certain defined
limits OF propriety rushed out on the floor
and. 10 the curiosity Of all the dancers.
stopped the bachelor and his partner IN
their two-step- with. the curt injunction to
quit bouncing"
II seems that the manner OF dancing
favored at Manawa 10 with hands at the
sides instead of clasped between the part
ners, as is the fashion OF the Omahans
The Omaha bachelor, whose conduct in So
ciety has always been sans reproche," was
greatly piqued at being called" by the
Manawa censor and does not take It kindly
when his friends who were with him the
evening of the incident call him the
''bouncer."
The Omahens who are summering at
Clear lake are the prime movers In the
good times going on there according to
reports. There is large colony Of them
having cottages and staying at the Oaks,
and they have all sorts OF picnics, sail
ing and launch rides as well as DINNERS
and dances at the cottages and hotel
Last Wednesday a number of omahans
arranged a picnic party which included
Iowans and Minnesotans at the lake. The
party went by boat to bayfield,, across the
lake where they had a picnic supper in
the woods and then spent the evening with
a variety OF stunts. There were one
legged and three-legged races, peanut, sack
and potato races. guessing games, target
practice and shot put.
The omahans in the party are; Mrs. Il.
G. Russell and daughters, Anna, Agnes
and Florence; Mrs. T. c. Drummer, Mrs
Rhodes and daughters, Mildred and Helen;
Mrs. 10. c. Drummer, Mrs. f. o. Talmage
and daughter Doris; Mrs. c. F. Crowley
and sons. Creighton, Edward and Charles,
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