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Mrs. Peattie to Be Entertained by Mrs. Doorly and Mrs. Howell

Mrs. Elia W. Peattie, novelist oritio and dramatist who come to Omaha to give readings of her original plays Friday, February 16, at 4 p.m. at the Fontenelle under suspicies of Woman's Press club, will be honnor guest at a dinner which Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Howell will give at the Blacksone hotel that night. She will again be honor guest at tea which Mrs. Henry Doorly will give for the Press club of which she is a member, the afternoon of Saturday, Februrary 17, at her home.

Mrs. Peattie, who was a member of the World-Herald editorial staff a number of years ago and who after leaving here, was for sixteen years literary critic on the Chicago Tribune, is a personal friend of Mrs. Howell. She was also an intimate friend of Mrs. Gilber M. Hitchcock, and her daughter, the late Mrs. Barbara Erskine, was a girlhood friend of Mrs. Henry Doorly.

Literary ability seems to be the natural heritage of the Peattie family. Both Mrs. Peattie and her husband, Robert Burns Peattie, have always been newspaper people. After leaving the Chicago Tribune, they both tried to retire and built themselves a little home at Tryon, N.C., which they called "Dunwaudrin." They immediately, however, began wandering again, Mr. Peattie being called forth by insistent editors as a special correspondent and Mrs. Peattie to lecture and give readings of her original plays, many of which have this North Caroloina country for their local. Mrs. Peattie has always been a contributor to Scribners, Harpers, Centry and other publications. She is the author of "The Shape of Fear," "The Edge of Things." "The Precipice" and other novels.

A son, Donald Peattie, a government expert who has been sent on many expeditions in the study of plants, has his parents' ability and last year won the first prize offered by the New York Poetry society. Mrs. Erskine had also published a book of verse before her death. There are two other sons, both of whom lived here. Edward is a New York business mand and Roderick a member of the faculty of the University of Ohio at Columbus.

Mrs. Peattie has chosen for her readings in Omaha two original plays "The Wander Week and "Family Reunion." She will also give a short talk and will read from her collection of poems entitles "Poems From a Southern Gardern."

Tickets for Mrs. Peattie's lecture will be sold at the door.

Tickets for Mrs. Peattie's lecture will be sold at the door.

Mrs. Peattie to Be Entertained by Mrs. Doorly and Mrs. Howell

Mrs. Elia W. Peattie, novelist oritio and dramatist who come to Omaha to give readings of her original plays Friday, February 16, at 4 p.m. at the Fontenelle under suspicies of Woman's Press club, will be honnor guest at a dinner which Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Howell will give at the Blacksone hotel that night. She will again be honor guest at tea which Mrs. Henry Doorly will give for the Press club of which she is a member, the afternoon of Saturday, Februrary 17, at her home.

Mrs. Peattie, who was a member of the World-Herald editorial staff a number of years ago and who after leaving here, was for sixteen years literary critic on the Chicago Tribune, is a personal friend of Mrs. Howell. She was also an intimate friend of Mrs. Gilber M. Hitchcock, and her daughter, the late Mrs. Barbara Erskine, was a girlhood friend of Mrs. Henry Doorly.

Literary ability seems to be the natural heritage of the Peattie family. Both Mrs. Peattie and her husband, Robert Burns Peattie, have always been newspaper people. After leaving the Chicago Tribune, they both tried to retire and built themselves a little home at Tryon, N.C., which they called "Dunwaudrin." They immediately, however, began wandering again, Mr. Peattie being called forth by insistent editors as a special correspondent and Mrs. Peattie to lecture and give readings of her original plays, many of which have this North Caroloina country for their local. Mrs. Peattie has always been a contributor to Scribners, Harpers, Centry and other publications. She is the author of "The Shape of Fear," "The Edge of Things." "The Precipice" and other novels.

A son, Donald Peattie, a government expert who has been sent on many expeditions in the study of plants, has his parents' ability and last year won the first prize offered by the New York Poetry society. Mrs. Erskine had also published a book of verse before her death. There are two other sons, both of whom lived here. Edward is a New York business mand and Roderick a member of the faculty of the University of Ohio at Columbus.

Mrs. Peattie has chosen for her readings in Omaha two original plays "The Wander Week and "Family Reunion." She will also give a short talk and will read from her collection of poems entitles "Poems From a Southern Gardern."

Tickets for Mrs. Peattie's lecture will be sold at the door.