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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 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 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. Delamre, Mr. Robert Douglas, Dr. and Mrs. Gifford Madam Powell, Mr and Mrs. Archibald 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 Brontch, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harmon, Mrs. and Miss Stone, Mrs. Clinton Powell.

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 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 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