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THE WOBLD HERALD: OMAHA SUNDAY OCTOBER jo TWELVEPAGE3 IN THE SOCIAL SWIM Something About the Social Natatorium and Those Who Disport Themselves There How the Season Progresses and the Events Which Make It Opening Buds How One Gains Admittance and How He Keeps Afloat The Mammas The Debutantes and the Anglers The Cotillion Succeeds the A Terrible Weddings Past and to Come The Social Whirl toffy wUSlO Everybody that wishes to be anybody must get into society nowadays The pro cess of getting into society is more or less complicated according to the locality age and size of the city in which festive plunge They point to the muddy water They say that the tank ot society needs purifying They express great curiosity to see the water drawn otf so that the hidden depths of the social tank may be disclosed to view Shears Richardson Chambers Kustin Messrs Hodge airfield Mollis Wilbur Davis Bridges Mackintosh Barke Mickle Voss and A Smith On Wednesday the occasion of Mr John birthday Mr and Mrs 11 Patrick entertained the Riding club at Happy Hollow their palatial new resi dence The feature of the evening was a gigantic wedding cake buried in La rance roses out of which peeped twenty three lighted candles denoting the years ot Mr life Each guest cut the cane in turn After refreshments were served a tray was brought in laden with tempting parcels which proved to be toys of every description presented by the young la dies The riders present were: Mr and Mrs Hitchcock the Misses Dixon lost Yates Nash Bessie Yates Richardson Wakeley Chambers McClintock Wil liams: Messrs Wilbur Pierre Garneau Patrick Sherwook Koenig Doane oss Mr and Mrs Bennett informally enter tained a few friends on Saturday evening in honor of Mrs Manderson Cards were the amusement of the evening Those present were: Judge and Mrs Savage Mr and Mrs Kilpatrick Mr and Mrs Reed Mr and Mrs Howard Smith Mr and Mrs Coutant Mr and Mrs Carter and Mr and Mrs Wood Mr and MrsC Wincote gave a pleas ant card party riday evening at their home on Park avenue The seductive game of high fiive was indulged in The guests present were: Mr and Mrs A ake field Sir and Mrs Collins Mr and Mrs Robert Pease Mr and Mrs Dana Lander Mr and Mrs Ernest Riail Mr and Mrs John rancis Mr and Mrs Cle ment Chase Mr and Mrs Nichos Mr and Mrs Wheeler jr Mr and Mrs Harry Cary Mr and Mrs Lo max Mr and Mrs rederick Lee Dr and Mrs Moore Captain and Mrs Simpson Airs Alexander the Misses Ijams Nichols Collidav and Allen Messrs Hull Crarv Hall "Wakeley Colonel William Hughes The Sauntee club was entertained last Thursday evening by Miss Julia Clarkson Among those present were: Misses Julia and Clara Clarkson Jennie and Mamie Bedford Laura itch JGrace Hungertord Mary Stevens ritza Barnard Miss Mur ray and Ella Armstrong Messrs John Lothrop Joe and Hugh Joplin Breck jr Dick Gould Harvey Smith Joe Baidrige Arthur Rathburn A Lewis Miss Ella Armstrong gave a pleasant little party Wednesday evening in honor tof Mr John Lathrop who leaves for Bos on in a few days The guests were: Miss Kate Ball Miss Julia Clark son Miss Alice Armstrong Miss Ella Armstrong Miss Bedford John Lotli rop Hugh and Joe Joplin Breck jr Diek Gould Herbert Hicks Charles Ab bott Mr Buchannan A Lewis a the and the Engage tiro lost that the to their sighs of a1 1A i Ill I do is to practice the art of ang Of course they do not use any iisi fishing tabkle and they do not spreau UJUV fishing for rncn or this reason ail and where on inflated hand me down life pre servers that were used in some ancestral trade Railway stocks bank bonds and board of trade certificates are the most bouyant Sometimes however the life preservers are substantial chunks ot early day real estate cakes of wax and bunches of telegraph poles again they are beer kegs flour barrels or rolls of furs from the Indians Ot course no one sees the life preservers because they are an chored way below the surface of tbe social natatorium and no one would ever suspect their existence if it were not for some dis agreeable old people in mories of the they is made but the average woman is willing to do anything to procure a season ticket to the social natatorium and thereby be con sidered "in the There are various methods of joining the social natatorium and being initiated into the exact swimming necessary to have a great many valuable securities to deposit at the desk where the principal managers and leaders of the local natatorium may be able to examine them and thereby judge what sort of a swimmer each applicant is likely to be Having with unpleasant on tank into who sit society never go satisfied the experienced ana naugniy swim mers regarding finan cial matters there are a number of vex atious questions to be settled Is it wiser to make a debut by boidlv plunging from the highest spring board? Or is it bet ter to start in the shallow water and gradually work out wnere ineie is uv bottom to the tank great many people are an edge while swim are content to watch the maneuvers of those who do These disagreeable old peo ple have a way of remembering and more over relating just when each beer keg each bit of wax and each load of traded furs were first launched And that is not all They have a fund of un pleasant anecdotes about the men who were originally connected with the life preservers But to return to the question of getting into the swim It is the proper thing for young girls to patronize the spring boards and the more splash tby make the more effective their debut Unfortunately in the west the regular professional natator ium known as society has not been in operation verv long and tor that reason the lathers aiid mothers of the debutantes are not good swimmers They generally make 'an effort to "go when their daughters do the spring board act but they are very uncomfortable in the costumes prescribed by society natatorium fashions and after making a lew clumsy attempts to wade in they generally allow the daughters to act their part in the fashion able tank drama practically unattended A lew ambitious and courageous mothers hang on the ropes at the edge of the tank but the girls go into the swim to have a good time and they pay little attention to their parents whose early education in the social swimming line was neglected There are a great many young men who paddle around in the middle of the social natatorium The of them have no ancestral life preservers neither have they securities enough to make it worth while for the managers to save them if they should be seized with financial cramps Every little while some of the young men go under but the majority of them are good enough swimmers to anchor on tbe railway shares or beer barrels cof Borne fair society The amusements of the swimmers seem verv childish and trivial to working people who have no time to become members of social natatoriums In the first place every one in the swim tries to do the greatest amount of splashing Then each feminine swimmer wishes to have all tbe masculine swimmers follow her like a school of mackerel All the swimmers seem to enjoy criticising one another and they even float about whispering the stories that the disagreeable people with good memories tell to one another on the edge of the tank The bathing suits of the ladies in the swim are objects of horror to plain prac tical people who will never have acce to society But ladies who go into the social tank take a great deal ot exercise and they cannot be encumbered with too many clothes About the hardest work butant ling 11 any tangible nets simply because are the young men in th3 swim are most ex pert in backing water One peculiarity about the social natato rium is that all the middle aged imp dislike to take part in the swim Thev vote it tiresome and a bore and" while all the women are perfectly willing to every night during the natatorium season the sensible men stay at home whenever they can frame an effective excuse The society swim is very exhausting to those who have season tickets to the nat tatorium The young men who make a practice of swimming are a weak debili tated set and the debutantes soon lose their health and beauty but society is the fashion and therefore every one is pre pared to die in the general swimming match if necessary There are some stranee secrets hidden on the bottom of the social taint went rings and queer love letters bv tbe hundred and it is said swimmers oftentimes look back firttt nntatnritnn pviierfancPS with regret And the disagreeable old people ou the edge of the tank shake their heads Past and uture Weddings Mr Thomas Mussen Norris and Miss Christina Mary Ross oldest daughter of James Ross were married last week at Montreal Canada Rev Dewey of ficiating Mr Norris is connected with the Burlington office in this city Mr Lucien Stevens and Miss oulia Smith were married at high noon Tuesday at the home of the mother 1722 Dodge street Rev Harsha per formed the ceremony in the presence of the relatives and immediate friends of the families After an extended southern trip Mr and Mrs Stevens will be at the Sill lard The marriage of Mr Ernest Hart and Miss Clara Bebbiugton was celebrated Wednesday evening at St cathedral Council Bluffs The church was elabor ately decorated with flowers the bridal party standing under a canopy of flowers Rev Mackay read the marriage service Miss Woolworth of Sioux City acted as maid of honor and there was a bevy of bridesmaids: Misses Nellie Burns and Hoagland of Omaha Miss Emma Morse of Chicago Misses Bessie Stewart and Carolyn Stevens of Council Bluffs Arthur Smith was best man The ushers were: James Paxton Pusey A Woodburv Charles Haas and rank Miller The bride wore a gown of India crepe and carried a bouquet of white roses Three of the bridesmaids were attired in pink and three in white After the cere mony a reception was held at zthe home on Park avenue There was a pretty home wedding at 4 Wednesday afternoon Mr Wil bur Knight of Wyoming and Miss Emma Howell daughter of Mr and Mrs Howell were married at the home of the parents 3607 Center street in the presence ot the relatives and immediate friends of the family After the ceremony an elaborate wedding dinner was served and Mr and Mrs Knight left on the over land train for Cheyenne which city will be their future home Invitations to the marriage of Mr William Baldwin of Butte Mont and Miss Ruth Standish Bowles October 30 at Springfield Mass were received in Omaha this week Mr Baldwin was formerly assistant general freiglft agent of the Union Pacificin this city Miss ried daughter of Mr Carl ried and Mr William Chambers son of Major William Chambers will be married next Wednesday The wedding will very quiet Mr Preston who is connected with the Chicago Milwaukee fc St Paul will be married next Wednesday at Norwich Conn the bride being Miss Annie Turner daughter of Mr Turner superin tendent of the Ossawan mills Air Will Hamilton will be married in Boston next Thursday to Miss Maud Note ware Mrs Hamilton mother of the groom Mr rank Murphy and Mr rank Hamilton leave tomorrow toattend the wedding Gossip About the Veiled Prophets An Omaha man just returned from St Louis describes a peculiar feature of theVeiled ball It seems that ail the young men who society in St Louis belong to the Veiled Prophets but their dames are unknown in that connec tion When the annual ball opens all kinds of masks appear on the floor The masks are gorgeous in variety and repre sent every species of animal and every my thical character These animals and fawns ask the young ladies who go attended by mammas and chaperons to dance with th Of course all the girls accept the invitations and these generally disfigured monsters are whirling the fair belles about in waltz polka or ripple After the first dance the masks disappear as it were into thin for no one sees them and the warm red faced and generally flurried young meh in conventional dress suits con tinue the dances with innocent faces which belie th ir general appearance And each young lady goes Lome without Hie slightest knowledge of the identity of the beast who claimed her first dance Tbe Debutantes There will be a number of fair debutantes this season and the girls who are left over season those who have been xrgbsy in society for an in i definite time will do I well to look to their laurels Among the buds to bloom in the 1 social hot house are: I cl? Miss Maud Reece Miss Mary Sherwood Miss 5 Nettie Sherwood and Miss Alice Chambers In addition to the ebutantes who will 7 Id their beauty and v'jouth to the attrac tions of every nil ainment several young ladies ho are society belles are expected to V'sit in Omaha this winter Miss Coe will visit Mrs Levi Carter and Miss Miller and Miss Chanute will be the guests of Miss Richardson at the Paxton Miss Emma Adams who is at Mrs Wes is the first of tbe fair visitors to ar rive in the city rntertalnmentBOftheWeek The bachelor club ou Twenty second street gave a delightful curd party last evening Mrs James Savage received the guests The house was prettily orna mented with bunches of roses At mid night the guests were ushered into the din ing room where an elegant supper awaited them The invitations were unique and the envelopes and papers were engraved Those present were: Judge and Mrs Savage Mr and Mrs Burnham Mr and Mrs Reed Mrs Josenh Garneau Mr and Mrs Alfred Mil lard'the Misses Millard Mary Millard Balcombe Mabie Balcombe Bishop Dinnersand Luncheons' Mrs Bennett gave a charming luncheon on riday for Mrs Manderson and Mrs Watson The table was brilliant with unique silver and cut glass The cloth and doylies were artistically decorated with ex quisite embroidery the work of the hostess Upon an elaborate center piece of the em broidered linen was placed a cut glass bowl filled with Marechai Niel roses After the luncheon at which many dainty courses were served the guests returned to Mrs pret tily arranged drawing rooms where cards werenlayed The guests were: Mesdaines Watson Caldwell Brown Manderson Lacey Patrick Yates Beal Barton and McKenna Dr Miller gave a dinner at the Omaha club on Thursday at 2 in honor of of Mr and Mrs Smalley Mr Smalley is the secretary of the national democratic convention Tbe guests were: Mrs Lvman Richardson Mr and Mrs Joseph "Garneau jr Mr Charles Ogden Miss Ogden and Miss Richardson Miss Rustin gave a pleasant little din ner on Thursday The table was prettily decorated and an elegant menu was served The guests were: Miss Shears Miss Bal combe Mrs Hitchcock Mr Mackintosh and Mr Voss She Knew Him The terrible infant has again come to the front and this time the victim is a lovely Webster street belle who is very fond of children The other day when the name of a certain young man possessed of a good share of this goods and a good catch all round was mentioned one of the little admirers said: I know him He goes to see Miss every day and he sends her flow ers and takes her driving and everything And when she reads his notes she just smiles and smijes and The Cotillion 6The which will succeed has been organized and five or more entertainments will be given this season The patronesses of the club are: Mesdames Herman Kountze John Brooke Henry Yates A ost 1 IL Patrick Guy Barton Joseph Barker and Ramsey The first partv will be given November 14 at Washington hall The management of the club is in charge of Messrs John Patrick Netherton Hall and Jfaber Personal Dr Amelia Burroughs is in San ran cisco Mr and Mrs Deuel are in their new home Mrs Russell Harrison is at present in Helena Mont Mrs Ashbel Paterson is visiting Mrs Stewart Hayden Mr and Mrs William Connell left for New York this week Mr Paul Horbach is going abroad He leaves Omaha this week Mr and Mrs Joseph Lehmer have re turned from their western trip Miss McKenna left Thursday evening for a visit to St Paul Minn Mr and Mrs Atchison returned from their wedding journey this week Mr Joseph Garneau nas a hue new blooded mare named Rose Coghlan Mrs Hoagland returned from St Joe on Monday bringing her sister with her Mr Nat Brigham will leave for his new home in Salt Lake City about Novem ber 10 Mrs Watson has been the guest of Mrs Horbach She leaves soon for her home in Vinton la Miss Nellie Burns left yesterda for a visit at the home of Judge Newman in Burlington Mr Mathewson Bosworth left Tuesday for Pierre Bak where he intends to invest in rearestate Mr and Mrs Robert Ringwait moved into their beautiful cottage on South Tenth street this weeK Mr William Hamilton has gone east to be married The wedding takes pliice the 24tb of this month Miss Hattie Gilmore is now living in Texas and teaching in an Episcopal school in Dr diocese Mr Charles Ogden and Miss Ogden have left the Paxton and are boarding at Miss 1808 Chicago street Mrs Ashbel Patterson of Mason City is visiting Mrs Peabod at residence Nineteenth and Capitol avenue Mrs Rumsey and Mrs Loring have re turned to Omah4 and are at their home on California and Twenty first streets Withnell and wife have returned from a two trip in the east They will leave for Los Angeles in a month Mr James Barlow of Colorado Springs a brother of Mr Milton Barlow of this city is the guest of Mr and Mrs Reming ton Mr and Mrs Clark Woodman maintain their residence in this city although they have moved to Chicagoand they will make frequent visits to Omaha Mrs Jones of Chicago and Mrs Walter Chambers of Davenport arrived in Omaha Wednesday and are the guests of Major and Mrs Chambers Mrs Gannett has left the house at 2116 Cass which has been her home tor a num ber of years and is at present stopping with Mrs William Wallace Mr and Mrs Ringwait and Mr Robert Carr left Sunday evening for Lake Washington Minn Thw intend to re main away about two weeks Miss Rena Ross leaves on Thursday for quite an extendedrip She visits Toronto hrr old home Lrom there she goes to Island to be the guest of Mrs Guy Howard and on her return she will stop at Chicago to pay a visit to Mrs Jay Morton intending to be gone about one month: A Mr WS Thomson of Sidmouth lodge the Boltons South Kensington London Eii" land is visiting Mr and Mrs Evans 2008 St avenue Miss Pocpleton and Miss Mary Popplff ton left Tuesday tor Stamford Conn where Miss Marv will complete her educa tion this year afMiss school Mrs Adams a sister of Mrs rancis Xv Weasels and her daughter Miss Emma Adams arrived in Omaha riday morning and are the guests of Mrs Wessels fora few weeks Colonel and Mrs I will be the guests of Dr Horace Ludington while making a brief stay in Omaha on their way to the new station ban rancisco Miss Shultz one of the leading artists in Omaha and weir known in the social and art circles of the city will leave shortlv for New York where she will spend the winter studying5 in the principal studios Miss Elliott and Miss McCormick who have been the guests of Mrs Arthur Remington for some left on Tuesday MBs Barlow and Miss Jessie Barlow of Colorado Springs arrived early this week and will be the guests of Mrs Remington this winter Mr Carter present owner of Boyd opera house accompanied by Mrs Carter Miss Carter Mrs Barkalow and Mr Newton Barkalow of Denver occupied a box Wednesday evening during performance of and 1 A DEMAND QR INDIAN SCALPS Ghastly Curiosities 1 hat Some People Seem to Prize Very Highly Chicago Tribune: "A Monroe street hair dealer says you know where I can get any Indian scalps I shall be obliged to you for that information Indian scalps like buffalo heads are becoming mighty scarce You never can account for tastes Now about the last thing in the world that some people want is an Indian scalp and yet there are peo ple who want just that sort of a curiosity I had an Indian belt not long ago which had nine scalps hung to it and I sold it to a man on 'the North side for $35 I have a bunch of shair here it a scalp as there is ho skin attached to it just a handful as it were It is worth $5 Indians are not scalping as much as thev used to that is why scalps are high In fact everything which Indians used to make are bepopiing scarcer and more valuable the common Indian basket that used to sell for $3 a dozen now you get one for that money There are two reasons for this One is that travelers buy them first hands as curiosities and pay the Indians just what they ask Another reason is since the government has got to taking such interest in Indians taking care of them the Indians are lazier than ever and make less then NOTICE As we have had many inquiries we beg to advise our friends that Mr Hilliard of II Iiebes Co the San rancisco seal manufacturers will be at our place on Thursday with a magnificent assortment of seal garments ALCONER I confess to a lore for a s' ottnng cigar! But st ill far Below Are its pleasures com pared with one joy singular That concealed shines like hope in Miss cur Or a star Ab Ah Ah Cbew Carp Smith The strains of tiiesoar mg cup song I re sign Nor wish I the fruit of the lig tree or vine When 1 dine THE PLEASURE A SNEEZE Dream on of your dinners of oysters and wine me bet you ive to two That you'd not demur when you felt US first When your eemed to je sunlight on dew When a feeling expect ant your being surged through Then wager you would not give up till a view Of a mouth was pre sented that wide wider grew Until I I or a good hearty sneeze threefold pleasanco cau brew ti "JI Jp Loudon Tailors SUITS TO ORDER $20 PANTS 5 OVERCOATS 15 No Trouble to Show oods Examine Goods and Prices Work irst Class London Tata 313 15th SI 4 Blue igures Our Blue igure Sale has thus far been a great success and at the pres ent rapid rate ol sales every piece set apart for this sale will be sold before the specified time These goods which are marked in Blue igures are actually less than value We make this statement that customers may come and not be dis appointed No Goods marked in Blue igures exchanged or sent on ap proval and all such goods must be delivered immediately There will be no exception to this rule CHIS Slllfflllffi CO 1206 1208 1210 arnam st JZfT DOJiBy 'V THE ACORN Art Square Base Burner THE SUCCESS 1888 THE LEADER OR 1889 Constructed on the Latest Scientific and Hygienic Principles Greatest improvement in Stove construction tha the genius of the inventor has ever designed RA DIATION CIRCULATION AND VENTILATION practically combined Thp Acorn has been ex tensively but never successfully imitated Examine it Ask for names of those who are using it in Omaha It costs no more than is asked for inferior Stoves JOHN HUSSIE Sole Agent 2407 GUMING STREET rank Barrett Co TAILORS Our stock of all and Winter Suitings and Overcoatings is now complete aud we invite your inspection SUITINGS In Suitings we have all the new and nobby things iu both foreign and doq mestic goods OVERCOATS I or Overcoats we have Beavers 5 tons Kerseys Moutagnacs Vincuuas Elysians etc in all the standard and new shades PRICES Our prices are 20 per cent lower than any tailor in Nebraska doing equally fine work Don be humbugged by your high priced tailor who talks about do mestic goods and poor trimmings but come and examine our goods select your own trimmings and see the style in which our garments are made up and if I your own judgment tell you that it 1 is to your advantage to give us your ojder we will not urge you to do so Call day or evening IIS JSTovtEi itteentln St i JOHN CLARK Lincoln Neb CHARLES A HANNA Treas Lincoln Neb RANCIS RABLE Omaha Neb la Platte Land Co PRINCIPAL POINTS EAST WEST NORTH and SOUTH TilWl OR SALE TOALL 1302 arnam Street1 HARRY DEUEL City Pass rarrotte II Vice President Sample Cashier Douglas County Bank (INCORPORATED) Capital $10000000 Corner Sixteenth and Dod je sts Drafts sold on all points in Europe 5 per cent Interest Paid on Savings Deposits Capital $300000 Lands bought and sold in Ne braska Kansas Colorado and Wyoming CHAMBER COMMERCE BUILDING OMAHA BID RESTAURANT 1214 arnam street Exclusive sale of Tony aust Beer of Anheuser Busch Brewing Co 8t Louis Mo CUT THIS OUT OR IT IS GOOD OR 50 CENTS Thia card and 60 cents in cash or postage lumps will pay in lull lor ten choice pxces ot Vocal or Instrumental SHEET MUSIC Of your own selection from our 1888 9 Cata logue containing names of 5u0 different pieces Catalogue mailed tree send for it at once These ten pieces Of music usually re tail for to 10 This oiler is good only until January 1 DIV PIANOS AND ORGANS Do not purchase an instrument until you have written lor our prices lor we will save you money huYTTB St Joseph Mo a 6 A i Io poltTMjTfct mswti ttrniar MStiiMS AC pufiTO ENCfWM I AU TONE BLOCK OH': OM AH NEB it Ell Sil RO EDER DEAN SHROEDER DEAN COMMISSION Grain Provisions and Stocks 205 South Uhirteentb Street irst National Bank OMAHA NEBRASKA ORDERS TAKEN i One Thousand IJushels or More Qraltfci Ten shares or More Stocks Edmundson Shuoart Pi es Vice Pres Cims Hannan Cashier STATE BANK COUNCIL BLUS Paid up Capital Surplus lability to Depositors J3oOlK Direetors A Miller GleasonE Slnigart Hat Edmundson Cbas 11 Hannan general banking busl ne Largest capital and surplus ot any bank in Northwestern Iowa Interest on tunc de posits THE LADIES Of Council Bluffs and Omaha and surrounding country will iind ii to their advantage to deal with me wlicu they want any kind of HAIR GOODS AND ORNAMENTS Two months ago I determined to close out rav stoc and quit business but the stock was too large to be disposed of and I will cjutinue the business with more goods than ever Everything is first class and made up in latest style Mud orders receive prompt attention MRS GILLETTE No 29 Main Stieet Council Bluffs II.