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Mrs. Peattie Will Give Dramatic Readings Here
Mrs. Elia W. Peattie, former Omaha newspaper woman, is to appear in Omaha February 16, at 4 p.m. at the Fontenelle hotel under auspices of the Woman's Press club to give a lecture and read two of her original plays.
Mrs. Peattie is a well known figure in the literary life of the nation, but she is particularly well known and beloved in Omaha where for many years she made her home. For several years she was a member of the editorial staff of the World-Herald as was her husband, Robert B. Peattie, Both left Omaha at the same time for wider fields and moved to Chicago where they both again engaged in newspaper work, Mrs. Peattie to become literary critic for the Chicago Tribune, which position she held for sixteen years.
As critic novelist and short story writer Mrs. Peattie won fame that places her well up in the ranks of literary celebrities in this country but her entry into the field of playwriting is of recent date. It came about because of the fact that she and Mr. Peattie took up their residence in North Carolina a couple of years ago, after retiring from active newspaper work. In North Carolina, Mrs. Peattie found in the long established and bitter feuds most fertile subject matter for drama. She proceeded to write these feuds into dramatic form and to persuade the natives to enact them. The result was that calls came from the outside world demanding that this new playwright go beyond her own home with her plays. She did so and wherever she has appeared to read her plays she has been most enthusiastically received. Chicago welcomed her back so heartily that she was compelled to appear there a number of times.
Mrs. Peattie is an honorary member of the Woman's Press club which is sponsoring her appearance in Omaha. She is also an honorary member of the Woman's club which she helped to found and at which she was president at the time.
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Ella W. Peattie, Author.
Omaha, Feb. 7.--To the Editor of the World-Herald: Omaha is to be congratulated that the Omaha Woman's Press club is bringing to Omaha, at the Fontenelle on February 16, Mrs. Elia W. Peattie, the gifted author of many books, countless high grade short stories, plays of merit, verse, and a recognized critic. Hundreds of men and women of Omaha will recall when Mrs. Peattie and her husband, Robert W. Peattie, were editorial writers on the Omaha World-Herald, and how entertainingly she could write: how active she was in everything that entered into the social and literary life of Omaha, and with what deep regret they bade Mr. and Mrs. Peattie goodby when they returned to Chicago, where they have since lived, leaders in the literary world.
If the spacious room at the Fontenelle, where Mrs. Peattie will appear, is not fully occupied, it should be, and those who stay away will miss much, while those who do attend will gain much--for there is only one Elia W. Peattie.
EUGENE O. MAYFIELD.
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Writer Who Comes Here to Lecture Says Babies Her Greatest Happiness
(IMAGE) Mrs. Elia W. Peattie
Mrs. Elia W. Peattie, novelist, critic and dramatist, and former Omaha newspaper woman, is to appear at the Fontenelle hotel at 4 p.m. Friday, under auspices of the Woman's Press club to read two of her plays, "The Wander Reed," and "The Family Reunion." She will also give a brief talk about her plays and will read some of her poems, there being a continuity between the two.
Older residents of Omaha who knew and loved Mrs. Peattie will be interested to read a bit of biographical data written by Mrs. Peattie, herself. She wrote it at the request of the "New York Review" club of Omaha, an organization no longer in existence. In the article Mrs. Peattie wrote as follows:
"I grew up in a sad little Michigan town without even a pond or a hill. My father built a small frame house and we lived there. Later, he erected a great brick mansion. It was never finished. I used to wander around in the great rooms and dream of splendor; but I never realized my dreams. Something like this happened again and again, wherever we lived. I was always living in grand rooms and not having clothes enough not amusements, nor books, nor company or education.
"At 13 I left school to help my mother and we drudged in the kitchen of the many fine, badly heated, half furnished houses in which we lived. I never had a carpet on the floor nor a stove in my room. My young womanhood was passed in a small place on Lake Michigan in an equally icy mansion without society. Books began to come to me then for I had met Mr. Peattie. After a time, we were married and lived in a culdesac in Chicago where we were poor and warm and well fed and happy.
"In Chicago I got my first glimpse of the world, for I was sent here and there all over the country after I began my newspaper work. When I went to Omaha I was intensely interested. There was something about the place that appealed to me. There was a chance to do many formative things. I tried in my own untrained way and with more disinterestedness than less impulsive people could understand, to do some of that work. I knew afterward that I made as many enemies as friends and I suppose I must have been a perfect nuisance.
"But anyway it was the breath of life, I had splendid visions even if I executed foolishly and poorly. When Mr. Peattie's long illness came, I had to care for my family. I got well in harness and my poor talent, which had once been so expectant, began to droop until it was all but invisible."
Those who are informed will challenge Mrs. Peattie's statement that her talent ever dropped Her subsequent writings placed her well up in the literary ranks of America.
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SUNDAY WORLD-HERALD: OMAHA, FEBRUARY 11, 1923.
Study Clubs
Club Calendar
No telephone calls on routine and regular notices for the Sunday World-Herald Woman’s club department will be accepted. Such notices must reach the club editor by mail Thursday evening.
Sunday.
Services House of Hope, 7915 North Thirteenth street, the Rev. Paul Luce, pastor Parkvale Presbyterian church, and choir, 3 p. m.
Popular free concert at Y. W. C. A., 4 o’clock, in charge of Frank Mach.
Monday.
Omaha chapter D. A. R. dinner, Omaha Athletic club, 7 o’clock.
Clio club with Mrs. E. H. Storie, 1923 Lothrop street, 2 p. m., Mrs. D. W. Merrow leader of the program.
Tennyson Chautauqua circle, 2 p. m., at Y. W. C. A., Mrs. William Burton to lead lesson, chapter No. 1 “Social Ideals in English Letters.”
Political and Social department, Omaha Woman’s club, 2:30 p. m. Y. W. C. A., Mrs. T. R. Jones, leader.
Tuesday.
The North Slide Mothers’ club will have its annual Colonial costume party, with 1 o’clock luncheon, at the home of Mrs. D. H. Fair, 1820 Spencer street. Assisting hostesses will be Mrs. B. B. Anderson and Mrs. B. W. Webster. A book review of “The Breaking Point” will be given by Mrs. H. F. Gerald, Mrs. R. W. Saalfield and Mrs. Newton Clark. Mrs. Fred S. Larkin is chairman of programs.
The Omaha Business Woman’s club will meet 6:15 p. m., for dinner, for dinner, Y. W. C. A. auditorium. Mrs. G. C. Edgerly will give an analysis of the principal characters in Meredith Nicholson’s book, “The Campbells Are Coming.” This will be the first of four book talks by Mrs. Edgerly. Meredith Nicholson is especially interesting to Omahans, since his wife was formerly Miss Eugenia Kountze of Omaha.
Chapter B. P. of P. E. O. sisterhood, with Mrs. M. Goldsmith, 3323 Webster street, 1 o’clock luncheon, Mrs. M. L. Mossman assisting.
South Omaha Woman’s club, home of Mrs. Bruce McCulloch, 4225 South Twenty-second street, Colonial party, and business.
Minne Lusa Chautauqua circle, 2 p. m., with Mrs. W. F. Schollman, 3327 North Twentieth street.
L. O. E. club, 2 p. m. card party at Elks’ club rooms.
Speech Education section, Omaha Woman’s club, 10:15 a. m., Burgess-Nash auditorium, Professor Edwin Puls, instructor, Mrs. H. J. Holmes is leader.
Omaha College club chorus with Mrs. T. B. Protzman, 517 South Forty-first street, 4 o’clock.
Delphian society, 2 p. m., at Burgess-Nash store, Mrs. J. W. Agnew to have charge of lesson on “The Tempest,” by Shakespeare.
Omaha W. C. T. U. meets with Mrs. M. L. Stone, 2812 Woolworth avenue, 2 p. m., the Rev. George Dorn, associate pastor Kountze Memorial Lutheran church, to speak on “Marriage and Divorce.”
St. Peters’ choir club, card party, Burgess-Nash auditorium, 2:30 p. m.
Order of Does, grand lodge, second anniversary dinner and program, 6:30 p. m., Burgess-Nash tea rooms.
Girls’ Community Service league at Prettiest Mile club, dancing and card party.
Friends of Music, home of Mrs. F. A. Nash, 11 a. m.
Wednesday.
Music department, Omaha Woman’s club, Valentine luncheon and program, Y. W. C. A. Mrs. Willis J. Redfield is leader.
West Omaha Mothers’ club, 2 p. m., with Mrs. W. W. Carmichael, 3645 California street, Mrs. R. H. Baldwin, secretary of the club.
Dundee Woman’s club, 2 p. m., with Mrs. C. B. McDonald, 118 South Fifty-first avenue. Miss Jessie A. Towne will speak on “Some Aims of Our Modern Poets.” Book study will be on Joseph Hergesheimer’s “Wild Oranges.” Mrs. Irving H. Arey is leader.
Domestic Education section, Omaha College club, with Mrs. S. M. Croak, 3205 Poppleton avenue, 1:30 o’clock. Mrs. H. C. Rivett is in charge of the program.
Drama section, Omaha College club, home of Mrs. A. B. Cullison, 4911 Davenport street, 4 o’clock, the play to be “The Swan Song,”by Tcheckoff; Mrs. Louis Kavannaugh, the leader.
Mu Sigma club with Mrs. Frank Boyd, 3703 Cass street, at 9:30 a. m., Mrs. I. W. Carpenter, sr., to have charge of program on “Poems of Faith.”
Annual dinner and church meeting, charge of Women’s society, First Unitarian church, 6:30 o’clock.
Frances Willard W. C. T. U. Valentine party, home of Mrs. T. G. Kerschner, 2805 Dodge street, 2:30 p. m., each member to take a valentine.
Thursday.
Chapter D. of the P. E. O. sisterhood, 1 o’clock luncheon, home of Mrs. J. B. McGrow, 1148 Park avenue, Miss Fannie Chandler assisting.
L. O. E. club, Valentine party and dancing, Elks’ club rooms, Mrs. Pratt Harwood, chairman, 8 p. m. Members and friends to attend.
Alice R. Howard Chautauqua circle, 7: 30 p. m., Y. W. C. A. Miss Abigail Manning is leader.
J.F. W. club dinner at Brandeis restaurants, 6:30 o’clock, to be followed by an Orpheum theater party; husbands of members to be honor guests.
Friday.
Women’s division, Chamber of Commerce, presents Barbara Maurel, mezzo-soprano, Auditorium, in song recital.
Omaha Woman’s Press club presents Mrs. Ella W. Peattie, novelist and dramatist, in a lecture, 4 o’clock, Fontenelle ball room.
Omaha Dorcas club, 1 o’clock luncheon, home of Mrs. Joseph Kelly, 2452 Fontenelle boulevard. Mrs. W. S. Nickerson, president of Second district Woman’s clubs, will be honor guest and speaker.
Omaha College club, executive board meeting, Fontenelle hotel, 4 p. m.
Dundee Chautauqua circle, 1 p. m., with Mrs. Katherine Smith, 652 North Fiftieth street.
Omaha Federation of Women’s Missionary Societies, First Presbyterian church, 10 a. m.
General meeting Omaha College club, 11 a. m., at Fontenelle, luncheon 12 o’clock.
League of Women Voters, 12:30 luncheon, Y. W. C. A.
Omaha Alpha League of Round Table, with Mrs. W. A. Bickel, 2440 Redick avenue, 1 o’clock.
Chapter M. of P. E. O. sisterhood, meets with Mrs. Byron G. Clow, 2501 E street, business session. ---------------------
CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY
An entertainment was given at the Christ Child Center. 1254 South Seventh Street, Thursday evening, with card games, dancing and cabaret features, coffee and other refreshments. The center is a popular gathering place for many [?]milies in its district, says Miss Sarah Shanley, head resident. -------- The Lightning Athletic basketball [?] am will play at Rod Oak, Ia., February 16, at Missouri Valley on the 17th, and the Bellevue vocational school, at that place, on the 19th. -------- Wednesday afternoon will be given over to a story hour, which will be conducted by Miss Grace Sorenson, for the entertainment of the children. -------- Lessons on the piano have become so numerous that another instrument or practicing had to be provided for the children. Mrs. C. Will Hamilton presented an upright Plano to the center to meet the emergency. ------------------------------- Miss I. Tuholski of San Francisco is a manufacturer of pickles and relishes, whose products are known throughout a wide section of the country. She was the first to prepare salmon caviar on the Pacific coast. ------------------------------- Sample Fur Shop ------------------------------- Now offers the entire stock of
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Clubs ------------------------------- The Omaha Federation of Women’s Missionary societies will hold the annual meeting Friday at the First, Presbyterian church, Thirty-fourth and Farnam streets, this being the “Day of Prayer.” The meeting will open at 10 a.m. with devotions, and business reports. The Rev. Paul Calhoun, pastor of Central United Presbyterian church, will give the principal address, following luncheon in the church parlors. --------------- W. A. Fraser Grove No. 1, Alpha Grove No. 2, Emma B. Manchester Grove No. 156 and the Jolly Junior Circle Grove No. 1 held joint installation of officers in Seymour hall, Thursday evening, with Supreme Guardian Mary E. La Rocca and Supreme Clerk Dora Alexander Talley as installing officers, Katherine Remington, supreme banker, and Chairman of Supreme Managers Mary E. Taylor and Supreme Delegates Blanche L. McKelvy and Grace Hamar were present, as well as Grand Chaplain Eleanor Nichols and Grand Banker McNickols. Following the installation ceremonies a program was given and refreshments served. --------------- Miss Bess Bozell and Miss Helen Clark, teachers at Central high school, who spent several months abroad and attended the International Federation of University Women conference in Paris last fall, will be the speakers Saturday at a general meeting of the Omaha College Woman’s club at the Fontenelle hotel. The executive board will meet at 11 a. m., luncheon will be served at 12 o’clock, and the program will follow.
Speaking of the great gathering of university women in Paris, Miss Bozell says: “The main object was to establish an international ideal of public school education.
Miss Marguerite Carnal will give a plano solo, “Liederstraume,” by Liszt. --------------- The current topic department, Omaha Woman’s club, will have a special program Tuesday, 2 p. m., at the Y. W. C. A. Mrs. Mary I. Creigh, leader. Mrs. Geil White McMonies at the piano. Mrs. O. A. Nickum will report news of interest to women from the state legislature. Mrs. J. G. Masters will review Hugh Walpole’s “The Catherdral.” Mrs. Creigh will conduct the bible lesson from first Corinthians on “Truths of the Resurrection.” --------------- The parliamentary law department, Omaha Woman’s club, will give a tea and program Thursday, 2:30 p. m., at the home of Mrs. Henry E. Maxwell, 2115 South Thirty-fourth street. Mrs. A. L. Fernald is leader of the department. Assisting hostesses will be Dr. Idelle Stodard, Mrs. John E. Haarmann and Mrs. Henry Dunham.
The program will include a reading, “The Desert of Waiting,” written by Annie Fellows Johnston, and read by Mrs. P. M. Pritchard. Mrs. Sylvia Whistler Stark will sing “Where My Caravan Has Rested,” by Lohr: “Lift Thine Eyes,” by Logan, and “Summer Glow,” by Lane. The parliamentary law subject will be a drill, illustrating election of officers.
--------------- The women’s division of the Chamber of Commerce was entertained by the “telegraph and telephone” group last Wednesday evening at dinner. Miniature telegraph poles decorated the tables. A telegram from Charles R. Gardner, at Oakland, Cal., in greeting to the division, was read by Miss Lennie M. Montgomery, of the Western Union. Guy H. Pratt spoke on the subject, “Communication”. Guy P. Swanson and Miss Dorothy Steinbaugh sang, and Miss Mary Higgins gave humorous readings.
--------------- The Omaha W. C. T. U. meets Tuesday, 2 p. m., with Mrs. M. L. Stone, 2812 Woolworth avenue. The Rev. George Dorn, associate pastor of Kountze Memorial church, will speak on “Marriage and Divorce,” Mrs. F. H. Wray will read, Mrs. Clifton Clark will sing, Mrs. George Covell will speak on the Shepard-Towner bill, Mrs. M. D. Veno will speak on national problems of the W. C. T. U. ---------------
Y. W. C. A. NOTES
Sunday.
The main building will be open from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. No meals served.
Monday.
Central Freshmen Girl Reserves party for freshman in the gymnasium at 3:30 p. m.
The federation of clubs will meet for supper at 6 o’clock. Miss Florence McCabe of the Visiting Nurses’ association will speak at 6:40. Regular club meetings at 7 p. m. At 5:35 Miss Mary Anderson will hold her bible class in the board room: 6:30 the millinery class will meet as usual.
Tuesday.
The Lake Street Junior Girl Reserves meeting.
The K. I. P. club will hold their meeting at 7 p. m. The educational classes will be purpose class, cookery, commercial art, English.
Wednesday.
The Technical High School Girl Reserves entertain the faculty at a tea in the Y. W. C. A. club rooms at 3:30. Cookery, drawing, interior decorating classes.
Thursday.
The Grace Dodge Junior Girl Reserves meeting.
The Central Student club health meeting at 3:15.
The T. M. T. M. club Lincoln program at 4 p. m., with supper at 6 p. m.
The Busy Circle club musical at 7:30, directed by Mrs. Clifford Beardsley.
Professor Vartanian bible class, sewing and cooking classes as usual.
Friday.
The leaders will meet at 1 p. m. for conference.
The Junior Girl Reserves meeting on Friday are: Benson, Castellar, Edward Rosewater, Castellar and Vinton.
The alumnae will have a service meeting at 6:15.
The educational department offers bible, first aid and millinery classes on Friday.
Saturday.
At 1 p. m. the round table of the officers of the Girl Reserve Triangles will meet in the club rooms of the Y. W. C. A.
At 2:30 the Alumane club is cooperating with the federated clubs to put on the movie, “Little Minister” in the auditorium of the Y. W. C. A. This movie will be repeated at 7:30, sponsored by the federated clubs. --------------- Japanese housewives are fast adopting American kitchen utensils.
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The Omaha Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will entertain at a dinner Monday evening at the Athletic club in honor of Mrs. George Thatcher Guernsey, former president-general. Mrs. Guernsey will speak on the work of the organization, after which there will be dancing and cards. Mrs. F. P. Larmon is regent of the Omaha chapter. Mrs. Edgar H. Allen and Mrs. J. J. Sullivan have charge of the arrangements. ---------------
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GIRLS’ SERVICE LEAGUE
The following clubs and classes will be held at the Girls’ Community Service League club rooms, 1712 Dodge street, during the coming week.
Sunday.
The Community Sports club will skate at Miller park during the afternoon. The club rooms will be open at 6 p. m.
Monday.
The Cluga club will meet for supper at 6:15. Miss Charlotte Townsend will talk to the club on “A Girl’s Standard of Health.” The gymnasium class will meet with Mrs. Peterson at 7:30. The volley ball tournament between the Cluga Cubs and the Cluga White Sox will be continued at 8:30.
Tuesday.
Classes at the club rooms will not be held because of the Community Service dance, which is to be held at the Prettiest Mile club-house.
Wednesday.
The Wamm club will have supper at 6:15. A committee from the Wamms is planning novel programs for an open house during the coming weeks. Table games will be played early in the evening while people are gathering. About 9 o’clock the committee on active games will help us to find a new joy in games which will relieve the tension of the working hours.
Thursday.
The D. T. A. club will meet for supper at 6:15. A farewell party will be given for Miss Helen Rolfson, a former club president, who is leaving Omaha. The committee who have been appointed to arrange a program will include the Misses Minnie Pritchard, Cecile Mergin, Marie Buche, Ann Fluor and Vivian Reilly.
The gymnasium class will meet as usual with Mrs. Peterson. The basketball team will practice at 8:30.
Friday.
The supper class (cooking class) will meet at 5:15 with Mrs. W. L. Riner to prepare their supper.
Saturday.
The luncheon class will meet with Mrs. Ralph Saunders at 1:15 to prepare their lunch.
The Wamm club members will be the special hostesses for the evening. Miss Elizabeth Miller will be chairman of the door committees. The hostess committee will be under the direction of Miss. Katherine Patterson. Miss Helen Vanzint and Miss Helen Sthuldrier are to take charge of preparing and serving the refreshments. --------------- Mr. Warren Harding, whose husband is said to be a distant relative of President Harding, has obtained bounty on a coyote pelt taken from an animal she brought down with a shotgun in her back yard at Four Lakes, Wash.
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Large Audience Welcomes Mrs. Peattie "Back Home"
Former Omaha Newspaper Woman, Now Famous Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, Reads Two of Her Plays at Fontenelle - Will Be Guest at Numerous Social Functions.
When Mrs. Elia W. Peattie, former Omaha newspaper woman, and novelist, dramatist, and literary critic of national fame read two of her original one-act plays, "Family Reunion" and "Wander Weed," Friday afternoon at the Fontenelle, under auspices of the Omaha Woman's Press club, the occasion was vastly more than just a literary reading. It was a homecoming, and in that audience of 500 women and a few men were many old neighbors, whose children had played with her little sons, Edward, Roderick and Donald, and the only daughter, Barbara, in the long-gone days of a quarter-century ago, when Mr. and Mrs. Peattie were residents of Omaha.
Robert Peattie was, in the earlier days, managing editor of the old "Herald," and later was employed on the World-Herald. Mrs. Peattie insists that during the eight years she worked on the World-Herald, she filled every kind of assignment that a designing city editor could think of, and she traveled Nebraska from end to end on all kinds of news adventures.
Miss Eva Mahoney, president of the Omaha Woman's Press club, introduced Mrs. Peattie to the audience, which stood in recognition of the old neighbor, and now successful dramatist.
"I have not," said Mrs. Peattie, "had time to look about the town, but my short drive from the station a few minutes ago convinces me that Omaha has grown amazingly. It is twenty-five years since I was your neighbor. I see faces, and old friends. In the eight years I worked in Omaha I am certain the tang of sagebrush perfumed the air. The Omahas and the Pawnee Indians often conferred with Dr. George L. Miller, prominent in newspaper circles.
Tells of Her Work.
"The little play I shall read first is "Family Reunion," It's a sardonic play, but what's the use of living in the world, if one cannot have a little fun with it? It's not my own kind of family life," and then in witticisms and philosophy, she portrayed the affairs of a widowed mother, shelved by her thoughtless children, but far outstripping them all in the end.
In contrast to her life, it was stirring and convincing. Mrs. Peattie has even run on before her children in fame and recognition. Her son Edward is a business man in New York: Roderick is a professor at Ohio State university, and Donald is an economic botanist for the government.
The second little play was built on the lore and superstition of the south. The "Wander Weed," according to tradition, if stepped on, would send one wandering away, an irresponsible creature. The little tale unwound in language of the poor whites, and became a symbolic of faith in good deeds.
"As for the writing game," said Mrs. Peattie after the readings, "the play is the best with which to hold the story. The play gives little chance for description. The characters stand out as individuals purely through their conversation.
Asked how she finds material for her dramas, if she seeks out subject matter, Mrs. Peattie explained that every thing comes to her. She makes no conscious effort to gather notes. The actual life, the quaint colloquialisms of the mountain folk, and the old traditions give ample inspiration to picture family affairs among an interesting people, the real Americans, backward only because of isolation from their neighbors in the hill country of the Old South.
"I write from impulse, when I feel I have something to tell," she said. Mrs. Peattie believes herself to have been the first newspaper woman in Omaha. For twenty years, in the quarter-century since leaving Omaha, Mrs. Peattie was book review editor of the Chicago Tribune. With her husband she has spent some time in New York. The Peatties have occupied "Dunwandrin" for the last three years, a place described by its mistress as "a little house and a big garden."
Will Be Entertained.
During her stay in Omaha Mrs. Peattie is receiving many social courtesies. On Friday night she was the dinner guest of Senator-elect and Mrs. R. Beecher Howell at the Blackstone. This afternoon she will be honored with a tea at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Doorly, when the Omaha Woman's Press club will attend. Mrs. C. E. Johannes, president of the Omaha Woman's club, will be hostess to Mrs. Peattie Monday, and Monday afternoon she will speak before the Omaha Woman's club, of which she was a charter member almost thirty years ago. Following the Friday program, old friends flocked to greet the distinguished visitor. When Mrs. G. W. Covell appeared, Mrs. Peattie exclaimed, "Oh yes, I used to use your telephone, when there were not a half-dozen in the town"
As for the Omaha Woman's Press club, the proceeds of the program will be used for the annual literary contest prizes next winter, helping to set other ambitious women on the high road to literary fame.