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FAREWELL TO MRS. PEATTIE

Large Reception Tendered Her
at the Commercial Club
Last Evening.

Friends in the Sundown and Woman's
Club Present Her With a Very
Elegant Present.

W. H. Alexander makes the Presentation Speech
--Nearly Five Hundred People Present--
Decorations Graceful and Pretty.

The reception given Mrs. Peattie last
evening at the Commercial club rooms
by the old Sundown and the Woman's
clubs fell not short of being an ovation.

The house and home committee of the
Woman's club had in charge the decoration
of the rooms which was graceful
and ostentatious Palms and ferns
arranged to form a background to punch
tables, at which were seated the women
of the committee. The line of receiving
ladies was formed of ex-presidents and
vice presidents of the club. Mrs. Peattie
was received in a simple white gown and
was very pretty, with a red rose in her
hair. With her were Mrs. Towne, Mrs.
A. B. Somers, Mrs. F. F. Ford, and assisting
about the rooms were Mesdames
Draper Smith, Hoobler, E. E. Bryson,
F. F. Porter, B. F. Weaver, C. E. Squires,
Frank Marsh, Wagner, Robson, J. J.
Dickey, Alexander, Tukey, Keyser, Lyle
Dickey, Mary Fairbrother and Summer.

MR. ALEXANDER'S REMARKS.

Before 9 o'clock the rooms were completely
filled and nearly 500 people were
present. At this time there was a lull
in the small talk and Mr. W. H. Alexander
in the following graceful speech presented
Mrs. Peattie with an oak chest,
gold mounted, of sliver for the table.

There are some good bys, from the sadness
of which the heart never recovers.
There are others weighted for the moment
with sorrow, because of the ties they are
breaking, which, spoken at the threshold
of happier scenes, are really God-speeds in
disguise.

When the anxious disciples were met on
the Mount of Ascension, fearful of losing
their Lord, they were cheered by the promise
that his going away would bring them
the comforter. These friends who are
gathered about you tonight, and for whom
I am speaking are prone to believe that
you are standing on your Mount of Ascension,
that your future is budded and waiting
to blossom, and that some time soon
we shall catch the fragrance of the opened
flowers and rejoice in your new exaltation
it does not seem very long since you first
came amongst us and began, without ostentation,
to impress upon this community
a unique and delightful personality.

Gifted beyond most women, with conspicuous
intellectual graces, you have
awakened the interest and challenged the
approval of the brightest minds in the
country. You have done more than this,
forgetful of personal convenience, you
have ever been ready for service in the
church, in the school, in the club room,
wherever your voice and your pen could be
useful to others they have both been employed.
It will give you some pleasure, we
are sure, when you stand on the heights of
the future and turn your thoughts back to
your Omaha home and your Omaha friends
to know that for all of this service they
were grateful. You are going away tomorrow,
but the poet says that absence makes
the heart grow fonder, and the earnest
wish and prayer of your friends here will be
that tie, that hoary old knight of the
glass and the sickle, will deal gently with
you and with yours.

And, now, Mrs. Peattie as an evidence,
but in no sense a measure of esteem, we
have something to give to you.

On behalf of the Woman's club of Omaha,
that splendid institution whose 600 members
in honoring you with its presidency,
equally honored themselves, on behalf of
the Sundown club, which your husband
had the honor of starting, on behalf of the
personal friends who have added their mite
to the occasion, and on behalf of the legion
of others who would wish me to bid you
Godspeed. I am pleased to present for your
acceptance this beautiful token of regard,
and may God add his blessing to ours.

MRS PEATTIE'S REPLY.

At its close Mrs. Peattie said:

"You cannot expect me, Mr. Alexander
and ladies of the club and members
of the Sundown club, to speak I cannot
tell in words how your presence
here tonight ahs affected me more than
this beautiful gift--and it is beautiful.
It is the prettiest thing that I have. I
shall feel when I leave Omaha, like a
barnacle rubbed off a ship."

Among the many who filled the rooms
these prominent people were noticed.

Mr. Z. T. Lindsey and Miss Lindsey,
Judge Wakely, Miss Wakely, Judge
and Mrs. Ferguson, Rev. John Williams
Colonel Chase, Miss Fannie Butterfield,
Miss Julia Knight, Rev. Mary
Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Charlton,
Mrs. M. H Kincaid, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Carter, Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Hitchcock,
Miss Lydia Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. George
Marples, Miss Suzanne Walker, Dr.
Cascaden, Miss Minnie WIlson, Miss
Mary Fairbrother, Mr. and Mrs. William
J. Connell, Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Alexander, Mr. W. H. Wilbur, Mrs.
Joseph R. Clarkson, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
Ringwalt, Mrs. S. D. Harkalow,
Mr. and Mrs. Short, Mr. and Mrs. George
Clubaugh, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Haller,
Miss E. S. Dundy, Mr. and Mrs. C. S.
Potter, Mrs. Henry Jaynes, Miss Herberta
Jaynes, Mr. and Mrs. F. Woodbridge,
Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Dale, Rev.
and Mrs. John Gordon, Miss Littlefield,
Dr and Mrs. Rosewater, Mr. and Mrs.
Neeley, Mr. and Mrs. Boss, Mrs. Hervey,
Mrs. J. F. Wagner, Mr. and Mrs.
Kilpatrick, Mrs. Alee, Mrs. J. Stewart
White, Mrs. W. H. Roberson, Mrs. C.
W. Allen, Mrs. E. T. Baldwin, Miss
Alexander, Miss Livesey, Mrs. Henry
Drexel, Mrs. M. Maul, Mrs. Henry Jordan,
Miss Hawley, Mrs. S. E. Howell,
Mrs. C. R. Howell, Mrs. Frank Emerson,
Miss Misner, Mrs. Misner, Mrs. J. Northrup,
Mrs. Wood, Mrs. George Patterson,
Miss McCauge, Mr. and Mrs. McGilton,
Herbert Mann, Mrs. Garrett, Mr.
and Mrs. J. J. Gibson, Mrs. L. A. Harmon,
Mrs. J. J. Lownes, Mr. and Mrs.
James B. Melkle, Mrs. C. D. Delamare,
Mr. Robert Douglas, Dr. and Mrs. Gifford
Madam Powell, Mr and Mrs. Archibald
Powell, Miss Millard, Miss Anna
Millard, Mr. Gahm, Mr. and Mrs. C.
Clay, Mr. and Mrs. Nott, Mrs. George
Kelley, Mr. and Mrs. Sudborough, Mr.
and Mrs. McKelvey, Miss Hamilton,
Mr. Victor Rosewater, Mayor Broatch,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harmon, Mrs.
and Miss Stone, Mrs. Clinton Powell.