Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-25
ANCIENT HOMES TELL
OF THE OLDEN DAY.
Old Mansion Of the Early Days
Given Over to be Boarding
House.
House..
BUSINESS CROWDS IT OUT
MELLIFICIA, July "a.

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other day I saw beautiful old brick
houses, the kind that instinctively
make one think OF old-established
families, completely surrounded by
cheap modern houses running over
with tternly women and unkempt
chill
town has its quota of just
81 lses. l like to imagine them
nust have been in their prime.
~ must have bubbled over
and gayety. What stately
til snowy hair and bobbing
t have presided at the pol
ID in the paneled dining hall!
great ball would be given
, polished floors would be
the dancers. The stately
the snowy hair would array
N her cracking robes of silk,
the ung daughters would be
brushed and powdered and dressed
demurely. Then the great heavily
carved front door would swing back
and hacks and big old-fashioned car
riages would drive up to the porte
cochere with grand flourish, there to
give up a stream of busting berib-
obned and frock-coated freight. -,
Oh, the stories that these old hous-
es could tell OF people and plans.
What events they have seen or what
skeletons Turk in their dim, dusty
closets. But here they are stranded
high and dry by the onrushing food
of the busy city's life and society.
All over Omaha and any fairly old
city you can see these sad old
wrecks, suggesting volumes, of past
history, but moldering, milkweed and
vacant, too Anticipated and misplaced
for the rich, too expensive and un-'
wholesome for the poor ~
At the Country Club. :
The E. A. Wickhan's of Council
Bluffs had party Of twelve at the.
Country club last evening. Parties
of six dining together were with J.
T. Stewart, Henry Doorly and NJ. G.
Colpetzer. The D. A. Baum's' had
seven guests. Other parties were the.
guests of Barton Willard, Dr.. Leroy
drummer, H. J. Connell, c" r. East
man, J. T. Brady and A. A. McCord
Joe Baker, and Mrs. w. H. Wheeler
have dinner reservations for six and
seven respectively at the club this
evening. "..
Mrs. George Prinz. will entertain
fourteen at the club on Wednesday.
At Happy Hollow Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Wilcox and
the Misses Bernice and Virginia Viii
cox had as their guests at supper yes
terday evening, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Gilmore and Mr. and Mrs. T w. AL
len. /
Mr.. George Michel had a party of
seven and A: R. Wells and NJ. M.
Robertson each had six. ~
Those entertaining small parties at
Happy Hollow club Sunday evening
were: H. D. Brown and Lee Leslie
with FIVE guests each; F. H. Garvin,
c. c. Sadler, R. w. Haywood, w. L.
Selby, each with four; and J. F. Flack,
J. T. Brownlee, w. R. Watson, Joseph
Porter, w. R. Adair, w. H. CARAT,
H. G. Streight, E. Willard, G. W. Up
dixie, w. c. Lyle, L. L. Hamlin, H.
N. Wood, c. S. Stebbins, E. L. Hol-
land, George Carter and R. Collar
with smaller numbers of guests.
w. C. Ramsey has dinner reserva-
tons for six at the club this evening.
Luncheon reservations for tomor-
row have been made by w. S. Peter
son and P. M. Garrett each for twelve
guests, and by B. R. Hastings for ten.
Miss Florence Dow has matinee
reservation for seventeen tomorrow,
and Mrs. Don Lee for fourteen.
For the Tuesday evening dinner
dance F. J. Jumper has reserved places
for twelve guests, R. R. Evans for
eight, w. R. Mcfarland for ten, and
R. E. Sunderland for sixteen.
Mrs. G. NJ. Durkee entertained ten
at luncheon at Happy Hollow club
today.