Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 18

18 Sunday, January" 24, 1 91 5. THE DECATUR HERALD form schools and rescue institutions HE latest dances were among DETAINED WITH MOTHER 1S EVR0PE. the numbers on the programs CLUB MEETINGS have become necessary, but in tne last few years the attitude of the public ho. yr ohnnirina- toward recreation. Friday evening for the chil dren's dance in the Decatur The right development of boys and ir.

ir. r-r I'd club. The music was fur- nished by the Apollo tra and the party was one of the happiest affairs the children have had this winter. The guests were chll Jren of the members of the club, ranging from 3 to 16 years, who are too young to attend the regular dances. The V.

B. N. club was enteri.i Thursday evening, January 21 yiola Costello and Miss Elta at the home of Miss Costello North Edward street. Twenty' it were present Music added i pleasure of the evening. One member was admitted to memberihj SUNFLOWER CLUB NEW jjabp Mrs.

Charles Brunson. 235 East avenue, entertained members the club formerly named for in her home Friday afternoo honor of her mothAr xr The grand march was led by Azelia Cook, Philip Cruikshank, Annetta and Stuart Wood. Refreshments were served and the tables in the dining room were decorated with, red carnations. The hours were from 7 to 10 o'clock. girls come only by serious thought and by an effort to form rather than reform.

Jane Addams has said: "It is not likely that a boy will spend his time In summer in a hot stuffy alley, 'shooting when there Is a good swimming pool in the playground or park Just around the Instruction la Play. Children should be Instructed In wholesome ways of using their play time. Supervised or organized play during the summer vacation will mold character and form habits that will influence the children through life. It is the wish and hope of aU members of the Playgrounds association that these grounds will be used by the children, not only during school hours, but in the evenings and during vacation, and prove an attraction that will keep the boys from places of evil in About 100 older people were present Social Calendar of the Week Seveke, of Parsons, Kan. Mrs.

was asked to tatisittia k'CTe will now be known as "The Sunn filllh." In mrirAHno- name Seveke gave a delightful talk tir of what the, wnrlr anI i 1, should be. Mrs. Seveke was then Vi? ed "Mother" of the club. ow were: "lce! to watch the dancing. Mrs.

C. W. Deitc, Woodlawn avenue, will entertain the Three Table Bridge club in her home, Monday afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Clark A.

McMIllen, 1440 West Decatur street, entertained with an informal dinner and bridge Wednesday evening. The guests, so far as was possible, were members of their bridal party. 5 Miss Madge Cushiog, Oak Crest, was hostess to a few girl friends Wednesday afternoon at a bridge party. Herman White and Herbert Chance of Salem, were guests of Mr. and Mrs.

V. N. Hinkle, 322 South. Union President Mrs. Frank Wilson.

Secretary Mrs. E. Rigg. Corresponding secretary mv. fluence.

i Grant Monday. Luneheon In home of Mrs. "William Barnes 1 o'clock. Three Table Bridge club with. Mrs.

Charles W. Diets, Woollawn afternoon. Whist club, with Frank L. Evans, 421 West William street afternoon. Sorosis division of the Woman's club afternoon.

To esday. Shakespeare division of the Woman's club afternoon. Wednesday. Art and Literature division of the Woman's club afternoon. Bridge whist luncheon in Country club afternoon.

Bridge in home of Mrs. Robert P. Vail, 858 West North street 1 Thursday. Civic and Home Economic division, of the Woman's club afternoon. Treasurer Mrs.

Daniel McCormlck. Refreshments werp. corr. n.L Social and Personal. i vors were white narcissus, tied wifi vellow and urppn rihhoyn, tu.

mv. w.nrv Wifwl 9HH TCnrth Church 4 raMv.rlny from aw opera tion performed recently In the German early last week. hospital in Chicago, sne- expects to re turn home in about two weens. The Playground Question. Miss Veda Wood of Chicago, died Saturday afternoon of a complication r.

event io wnich an ever- of diseases. She was a niece of Mrs. John Smith, 361 East Center street APPREHENSION FOR was beautifully decorated with rera and red carnations. ENTERTAIN SALESMEN Fort Dodge Men Are Gnests of Mueller Mfg. Co.

at Dinner In Conntry ChA, Eight salesmen from the Lelghton Supply company, a wholesale jobblni firm of Fort Dodge, were enter tained at a stag dinner in the Country club Thursday evening by members or the Mueller firm and heads of soma of the departments. A five-course dinner was served. Robert Mueller, Adolph Mueller, Phillip Mueller and Fraik Cruikshank were present The Fort Dodge salesmen aT w.v. (By Dr. Harriet Day Chandler.) IlV I I widenlnK circle of Decatur 1 women eagerly look forward Mrs.

Smith has been with her niece for To secure adequate playgrounds for WOMEN IN EUROPE is the annual mid-winter the last six weeks. frolic of the University club. B. F. Tarden of 115S East Eldorado school children should be the chief topic of interest to parents.

Many children are not definitely diseased, but are not strong. They are under weight catch cold easily, tire quickly, are over-excitable, and they are not eager to play J. F. Given and Daughter street who has been suffering from blood poisoning caused by a kick from a improving. are Unable to Send Letters From Near Berlin.

S. T. scarlet Frederick, the little son of Sheibley, is very sick with fever. out of doors unless special attractions and inducements are offered. These children easily become tubercular.

About one or two per cent of the children in our public schools are seriously enough affected by tuberculo lng trips to the factories whose roodi they handle to get better acquainted with the products. They passed the Are Mrs. J. F. Given and daughter, For one night the dignity and decorum which is supposed to be attached to the affairs of this organization Is laid aside, and the affair Thursday night attended by 103 persons.

Including club members, -wives and invited guests, was pronounced by all the most mirth-provoking ever held. The feature was an hour with the editorial staff of the "Daily Hear rV'iew," Dr. T. W. Galloway acting as city editor assisted by men of local prominence in the capacities of reporters, telegraph and society editors, and stenographers.

The hits were con-lined mainly to club members, although sonre of the wives came In for gentle thrusts. The newspaper itself, "when it made Its appearance, was de Miss Thelma Given, starving in Losch- eiiLite Kia-y iJjurBuajr lOOKlng 0Vr the witz, a resort suburb of Berlin? sis, that the six (hours a day spent iuueuer plant. This question has been worrying the Prior Wager of Vally Center, Is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. C.

C. Brake. 1188 West Macon street Mr. Wager was born in Maroa and lived In and near Decatur until about SO years ago, when he went to Kansas. husband and father, J.

F. Given, of Co AVERAGE MORE THAN lumbus, Ohio, and Decatur friends and relatives for several weeks. No let TWO NEW CASES DAILY MISS THELMA GIVEN. Miss Given, who when last heard from was with her mother 'in Loschwitz, suburb of Berlin. They have not been heard from by Decatur relatives or by F.

Given in Columbus, for several weeks, and much alarm is felt as to ters have been received from Mrs. Giy en or her daughter for more than month. in crowded rooms, proves too, great a hardship to be overcome. They should have attractive playgrounds, with frequent 10 minute recesses and every help possible given, to keep them out Open Air School Desirable. An open air school for weaklings is one of our ambitions for Decatur, but ample playground space shall and must be provided if we are to have the highest degree of efficiency In our Forty-Nine Scarlet Fever Reports An A short time ago Mr.

Given was in xtecervea first 23 Days In January. their safety. i Chicago on business and told an ac lightfully libelous. A turkey dinner Miss Beatrice McCue of Cornland, who has been passing two weeks with her aunt Mrs. S.

A. Edwards, 1346 W. Macon street, left the last of the week for Macon, wnere she will visit another aunt, Mrs. S. F.

Lanham. She was accompanied to. Macon by Miss Alice Harrison, who has also been a guest of Mrs. Edwards. quaintance of his worries.

This friend 'X total of 49 cases of scarlet fever also has a wife and daughter in En nave been rp.nnrrArt In To tt0y Miss Antoinette Curtis, of Reading, next generation. It is only recently rope. He told Mr. Given of a letter he had. received recently, which said his was served at c.

A. Wait in behalf of the club presented Dr. H. C. Jones, former president, with a "headlight" stick pin for having written up the local club for the publication of the University club of New York City.

rour cases oi oipntherla have been is a guest of Miss Helen Moeller, 890 West William street. Miss Moeller Searlp.fc fftvpr in flip fsmtiw family was starving to death. Message Under Stamp. passed the evening playing bridge. Miss Curtis probably will be in the city several weeks.

An. oyster supper was served to about 20 guests Friday evening in the Country club. entertained with a delightful tea party In her guest's honor Friday afternoon. that serious thought has been given to public recreation. Play has been classed as trivial and of small moment and children have been allowed to work out their own salvation in this respect In consequence, juvenile courts, re- letter had been written careful Faught 1147 West Main street and in the family of C.

H. Pierce, 1486 West Macon street, was reported to tne Mrs. N. J. Keas and children, 650 East Orchard street, have Teturned from Champaign, where they had been visiting Mrs.

C. A. Dickey. Several friends were also invited in for an informal buffet supper and ly and censored just as carefully, but board of health Saturday. the last paragraph read something like Miss Marie Schuck, of Arkansas, is a guest of Miss Virginia Foster, In the Alpha Chi Omega sorority house, 1158 West North street.

Miss Schuck was formerlv a. music. sfiirioTit- in this: "Knowing what an ardent col lector of foreign postage stamps you are, I suggest that you might soak the one from this envelope and add it to your collection." The man had never had any interest in foreign stamps and the sentence puzzled him for a long time. At -last, however, he decided to Illllllllllllltllli Millikin Conservatory and is now on her way to Ohio, where she will enter the State university to complete her musical education. Miss VeTa Belsey and Miss Ruth Miss Vera Belsey and Miss Ruth Shepherd of the Weslcyan university, Bloom-ington are week end guests of Miss Edna Shuman, in the.

Delta. Delta Delta steam off the stamp and there he found the message that never could have been put in the letter, "We are literally starving to death." "When I think of that, I can't help sorority house, 945 West William street. They came to attend the basketball game Friday between Millikin and Wesleyan. Paul North of El Paso, is a week end guest of his sister. Miss Florence North 1 11 1 I In toe Trl-Delta sorority house.

Vi! FIRST it In honor ef thpir p-mkk. tuv Mrs. John Goltra Reynolds, of Jacksonville, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard G.

Gray, 632 West Prairie avenue, entertained with a dinner bridge Thursday evening. There were 40 guests. The house was prettily decorated with Dink ron.s uvjiiMuna. narcissus ana sweer npnn a feeling a bit apprehensive about my own people," writes Mr. Given.

"However, I have received one letter from them that came in the diplomatic pouch with the American consul's mail, and 1 this leads me to believe that Mrs. Given and my daughter are on sufficiently close terms with the consular officials to insure the best of treatment. Even this letter, however, had been opened, and evidently subjected to censor. My people always have reported that they are well treated and are in no danger. All letters I have received have been opened, and one from my daughter, originally of eight pages, was shy two of them as indicated by the number on the pages.

Some of tire letters I sent them have never reached them, but of late I have been sending mall to them through the International Harvester company, which has a German branch. None Reach Decatur. Mrs. Given and daughter, are' both well known in Decatur, having resided here at one time. Letters from thera have also 'stopped coming here, and it has been a number of weeks since direct word has been had of the family in Decatur.

Miss Thelma Given has been studying UCH of the satisfaction fj hi) HI XViL you are to receive from your footwear depends upon WHERE you buy it. color scheme of pink and yellow was carried out in the dinner. Mrs. Reyr nolds and Mrs. Gray are sisters.

w. Mrs. Frank Evans. 421 West William street, will be hostess of the Whist club Monday afternoon. The bridge whist luncheons will be resumed this week in the Country club.

The first will be given Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Ditto.

723 "West Main street, entertained a few guests at dinner last Wednesday evening, in honor of Mr. Ditto's birthday. The Woman's club rooms in the new Powers building will bo 'ready for the club March 1. The women hope to have the rooms furnished completely at that time. The 'date for the open house has not been set but probably will be settled in the regular director's meeting.

February 5. The Sorosis division of the Woman's club will meet Monday afternoon at violin under the Russian teacher Leopold Auer in Petrograd. Ever they have been there it has been Mr. Civen's custom late each summer, to go to Europe and pass a long vacation with the family, either in Germany or YOU want to, be assured that the shoes you buy are not only appropriate in style but that they will be perfectly fitted according to your requirements. France.

He and Mrs. Given's father. jones or jacKson, Ohio, were planning to go last summer when the European war put an end to their plans It has now been a year and a half since Mr. Given and his wife and daughter nave been together. A son, Eben Giv en Is an art student in Paris, and only a few letters have been received from him since the war.

"I had hoped to have them all with me here during the war," said Mr. Given, "but they had been of the dangers of leaving the country at the 2:30. Current Items will be. given for" the half hour work. Mrs.

Joseph S. Talt will give a paper on "The Message from Other Cities on the Sewage Problem." The Shakespeare division of the Woman's club will meet Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Scene I of Act II of "The Winter's Tale." will, be read by Miss Blanche Uhler. The Bible lesson will be" "The" Family" Light 'aha Religion of Abraham," with Mrs. peorge R.

Bacon, leader. The Psalmas division of the Woman's THAT'S why we say "where you buy your footwear" and why we wish to emphasize the importance of making your footwear selections at a store like this, where you have the double assurance of distinctiveness of style, an unlimited variety from which to choose, and the services of salespeople who will fit your feet outbreak of the war, so I don't know how soon I will 6ee RS. M. A. DE FOREST, 1324 West Eldorado street, has Issued about 200 invitations for the wedding of her daughter.

club will meet Tuesday evening. The Art and Literature division of. Miss Adele de Forest, which Tne woman ciun will meet Wednesdav will take place in the family home Feb. 4. She will be married to afternoon at 2:30.

"English Cathed jr. VfXxvjV A. I vf" I patent kid fijSllfc I circular vamp. i 1 cloth quarter 1 liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiliil rals will be discussed. Mrs.

A. W. Knapp and Mrs. George A. Wright will Charles Green Smith, brother of Prof.

W. W. Smith of Millikin University. The wiiddlng will be one of the most elaborate of the winter, friends and give papers on this subject. In the meeting Thursday afternoon of the Civic and Home Economic divi relatives coming from New Tork, Washington.

D. C. and St. Louis. sion of the Woman's club the study of QUR showing of the new styles will be a delight and inspiration to any woman and each' style is an eloquent expression of the superlative excellence that is possible to attain in footwear construction.

The ceremony will be performed at 8 Conklin's orchestra will fur vivii uovernment of Illinois will be continued. Mrs. Haworth will be the leader. nish music throughout the evening. A reception will follow the wedding.

Miss Eleanor Barnes left Saturday The couple will take an extensive wedding trip and will live in New York, where apartments are already furnished. Numerous parties have been given in honor of the bride, who is one of the most popular of Decatur's society women. Thursday Mrs. Charles G. Powers was hostess of a luncheon for 12 guestu in honor of Miss de Forest.

Prices range from $2.50 to $6.00 Ferns and palm attractively arranged. morning lor Ottawa, where she will attend the wedding of Miss Josephine Trumbo. Miss Trumbo has visited Miss Barnes here a number of times and has many friends here. Miss Trumbo will be married to William Btanton, Wednesday morning. Miss Barnes will sing during the ceremony, Mr.

and Mrs. Clyde R. Lyon, 445 West William street, entertained the Dinner club Wednesdav evening Miss Edna Childs, 953 West William treet, entertained members of the university faculty Saturday evening, with a buffet dinner. Professor Edson Morphy of Champaign Was one of the aruests. Mr.

Morphy was formerly pro-iessor of violin in the MUlikia conservatory. IT Miss Margaret. Cr.unelle of Chicago, was honor guest Thursday afternoon at the sewins and bridge party given the home of. Miss Alice Byrne, Stewart avenue. Sweet peas and narcissus were used for decorations.

guests made up the party. Miss iCjunelle passed the week-end with Pana nd wU1 return to her in baskets were used effectively for the decorations. In the dining room variegated roses were used and the favors were French bouuuets of violets. The luncheon was served in five courses and a delightful afternoon was passed playing bridge. Mrs.

W. W. Smith, Park Place, entertained with a luncheon Wednesday in honor of Miss de Forest The guests 1 "cie a. itw limmate mends. The bride was given a ahower of kitchen utensils.

i Mrs. George R. Stanton and Mrs. William Barnes will entertain with a luncheon Monday, in the home of Mrs. Barnes, 500 West Main street.

Mrs. Robert P. Vail. 858 West North "entertain a few guests with bridge WedneHrinv firn. 139 N.

Water Street lot the brldtv.