Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-10

weather, BdVclS are DclIB naulcQ out ready
for action and soon the club season will
~ be in full swing Preliminary to the OPEN
ing of the Omaha Woman's club large
luncheon is being arranged for Thursday at o'clock
at Happy Hollow club The purpose is to permit
the large number of women who comprise the men,
bership to become better acquainted with
other, lack of which is great detriment in any
organization of the proportions of the Womans
club. Mrs {. A. Sherwood, chairman of the house
and home committee, has charge of the luncheon
Announcement of the literature departments
plans, always awaited with interest is made by
Mrs. A. L. Fernald, the leader the first meeting
be held Wednesday, October 4. American Litera
ture of the Twentieth Century is the big subject for
discussion. Of special interest will be the program
Percy Mackayes masque written in celebration
OF the Shakespearean tercentenary, Caliban by the
Yellow Sands" and produced in New York in May
when the biennial convention of the General Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs was held Miss Kate Nc
Hugh president of the local center of the Drama
league has been exerting every effort to the
presentation of the masque in Omaha Theodore
W. Mccullough, managing editor of The Bee and
director of the Drama league, has been secured as
the speaker for this program, which under the
head of American Pageantry."
Rev. Titus Lowe will be the speaker for the
opening day program.
Included in the study outline are Alice Browns
drama, Children Of Earth" which won the Win
throp Ames $4,000 prize; works of William Dean
Howells; Dorothy Garfield, c. J. Snaith, Ernest
Poole Winston Churchill, Juliet Wilbor Tompkins
N. +.
son Smith, Helen A. Martin, Irving Bachelor, Mary
Wilkins Freeman Margaret Deand and Mary Rob-
erts Rinehart.
Studies of New York life as portrayed by
group of East Side writers, including Fannie Hurst
and Montague Glass, will comprise mornings
study which is being arranged by Mrs. Willard Lang
field
Chapter B. P. of the P. E. o. sisterhood is the
first of this group of societies its first
meeting This will be held Tuesday afternoon at the
hop, aoft ba Eco,
Bristol street The North Side Mothers club, which
was to have held its opening meeting the same day,
has postponed its first coming together until one
week later. The meeting will be held Tuesday, Sep
TENDER l9, at the home of the president, Mrs. G. R.
Gilbert
Romances of American cities will interest the
Woman's club of the Railway Mail Service, which
opens its season Wednesday, September TO- Salem,
ST. Augustine, New Orleans, Salt Lake City San
Francisco, Nome and Detroit the cities selected.
The usual program for the Old Peoples home will
be given and all-day meeting will be devoted to
sewing for the Child Saving institute.
The North Side circle Of the Child Conservation
league will hold its opening meeting Friday at
o'clock at the home Of Mrs. Rodman Brown, 22O1
Evans street. The time will be devoted to business.
On Tuesday the Sermo club will hold the first
meeting OF the year, with Mrs. E. H. Barnes
hostess. The work of the coming season will be
study of five great American poets, Longfellow,
Whittier, Holmes, Lowell and Bryant. AT the open
ing meeting Miss Lillian Gwn will give the biog-
raphy of Holmes. go
Miss Lilly M. Strong, for several years general
secretary of the local Young Womens Christian
association, makes her farewells at todays vesper
service. Miss Strong will give talk and Miss
Mabel Fulton will sing. At the social hour which
follows Miss Mabel Hail. the lately appointed mem
bershp and social secretary, will be hostess
Miss Eta Pickering, the general secretary,
who comes from the association at San Antonio,
Tex, is expected the latter part of the week.
!. The corrected gymnasium schedule is ready for
distribution and be obtained the general office
or by request will be mailed The educational de-
partment schedule is also arranged and the secre-
taries in the office ready to confer about any
of the classes.
Local suffragists are reawakening to activity,
their hearts being stirred by the glowing reports
from the national woman suffrage convention held
this week in Atlantic City. As their share in help
ing to raise the 100000 recommended by national
suffrage leaders, the Omaha Suffrage association,
headed by Mrs S A. Capen, is planning food sale
to be held at the home of Mrs. A. c. Anderson, 1880
South Twenty-eighth street. Wednesday, Septem-
Der 20, at 2:30 o'clock Cakes, pies candies jeies,
marmalades, baked beans, salads and all manner of
delicaces will be sold to swell the Golfers of the
votes-for-women enthusiasts After the sale the
annual election of officers and delegates to the state
convention at Hastings October will take place.
In the September issue of the Suffrage Messen-
ger, Mrs. w. E. Barkley, the state president urges
every suffrage organization to get busy" Every
club should call meeting and, besides eectng off
GERS if this has not already been done, must elect
delegates to the state convention. All members of
the state board, state chairmen and presidents of
local associations automatically delegates. As
the meeting is to be held just prior to the state con-
vention of the Nebraska Federation of Womens
clubs, many clubs may find it convenient to send
suffrage representatives to both conventions" The
closing session of this convention, we'll as the
big luncheon in honor of Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait and Mrs Josiah Evans Cowles, will be held