Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-22
Conservative Old Washingt ton is
Shocked at the Giddy, Gay, New
Washington Escapades
Washington Bureau-Omaha Bee.

T1 HE spirit Of Christmas is max
ing merry in Washington. 1t
L has affected all classes, in
spring dances, dinner parties and
luncheons, far ahead of anything
which Washington has had since
the ruin began in Europe. The de-
butantes, who are being presented
every day, are dancing in the after
moons and dancing in the evenings,
almost continuously. There are
small dances and large ones, with
big charity balls and small and ex-
elusive charity balls, and dancing
in the restaurants and in the no.
tells, until one would hardly be Sur
prised to see the girls and the boys
and the men and women, too, for
that matter. dancing down the
streets every day. A really new
and novel amusement is the ice
skating on the root of the new
Washington hotel, in the glass en-
closed dancing hall, where the floor
has been flooded and the atmos-
phere is cool enough for the fetch
ing skating costumes with furs, ETC.,
and is warm enough to preclude the
danger of frosted noses and feet.
This is very popular place and a
rather novel sport to the society
'speople.
n Washington society turns out
quite handsomely on Sunday after
noon in support of the newly
launched Sunday afternoon concerts
which have hitherto invariably been
failure. Old Washington was too
conservative to go into the theaters
on Sunday, except for w. c. 7. u
or Y. w. c. A. propaganda. But
new Washington is quite different.
and is really educating old Wash
ington to Sunday theaters, movies
and concerts. 1t was packed
house which greeted the lsodora
Duncan dancers and a charming
pianist, George Copeland, at the
Belasco last Sunday in the first of
a series of such entertainments to
be given by the Washington Fine
Arts Enterprises. This is all in
the nature of progression. Sunday
dances will probably be thing of
the near future. They have actually
! been given in the past, but very
quietly and only in few homes.
Two members of former German
embassy stafs gave Sunday small
dances. They quite scandalzed all
of conservative Washington except
the little companies who were pres
ent. and in them taste for just
such was created.
Folks We Know.
Senator and Mrs. George w.
Norris are hoping to have their
son-in-law, Lieutenant Nelson, with
them for Christmas. They hope
he, is on the way back from France,
where he has been serving since
shortly after he married into the
family. y
Prof. and Mrs. S. H. Avery will
not return to Washington again.
They are in their home in Lincoln
after spending year here in war
work. They made the trip home to-
Lincoln in their automobile. stop
ping in Omaha for Thanksgiving.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. c. Stapleton have
a little party of relatives as their
holiday guests, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
Hamilton and their daughter, Miss
Marion Hamilton, of Omaha, broth
er, -in-law and niece of Mrs.
Stapleton. They arrived here on
Thursday. Miss Hamilton is still
a school girl, but will probably be
/ debutante next season. She will
30 here in time to take part in all
of the many festivities arranged for
what Washington calls its sub-de-
butantes. There will be several
dances, many luncheons and some
dinner parties, to say nothing of the
matinee parties.
One of the most interesting of
the many dances will be one on
! Christmas eve, for these sub-de-
butantes, to be given by Mrs.
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte in the
old Bonaparte home on K street,
which Mrs. Bonaparte is giving for
her two young schoolgirl daugh-
tiers, the Misses Streiby. Mrs. Bona
parte was New York widow when
She married Mr.. Bonaparte, who
was a prominent beau in Washing
ton for some years. He is a great
grandson of the Col. Jerome Bona
partc who came to America and
married the beautiful Elizabeth
: Patterson of Baltimore and thus es
tablished the American branch of
the Bonaparte house. Col, Jerome
Bcnaparte, father of the present