The National tribune., 1908-10-15

This form OF entertainment has tn
charm Of novelty and Is consequent.
Iemployed by the wealthy for certain
functions, and it has been found tha
many rich mothers are glad to pay any
price to have the pale little face in thu
luxurious nursery brighten and lool
happy. For the right girl, we nigh
almost exclaim with dear, delightful
| old "Col Sellers There's millions il
lit"
| All art lovers will rejoice to hear thai
| the masterpiece of the great Leonardo
Da Vinci, 1.-The Last Supper" which
has been almost completely lost to the
world for the past Few years. has beer
| completely restored by a celebrated
| Italian artist, Prof. Luigi Cavenaghi
Without using brush he treated the
picture by a special process of his owr
SO successfully that this world-famous
painting is almost as fresh as on the
day Da Vinci put the last finishing
touches to it. The picture has been
gradually fading for many years until
recently nearly. every outline in it was
obliterated. Now the whole scene, the
faces and landscape are fresh and clear.
The people of Milan, where the picture
is kept, are wild with delight, for the
great masterpieces of Italy are deareT
than life to her people, and Prof. Cav
enaghi, who has refused to receive any
pay for his work, is the hero Of the
hour.
The American Woman's Club in Ber-
lin, which is the center of social life
for our countrywomen there, and which
makes its principal philanthropic OBJ
ject the looking after all Of American
girl students in the Kaiser's Capital, has
always had for it's President the wife
of the ambassador. However, early in
the present year, but after DR.. Hill had
been named for that high Office. the
club elected to this position Mrs. Thack-
ara, wife of Consul-Genera1 Thackara
and daughter of the late Gen. Tecumseh
Sherman. Mrs. Hill is about to join
her distinguished husband in Berlin
for the first time since he became En-
bassador, and great is the excitement
prevailing in the American colony as to
the course she will pursue when she
finds Mrs. Thackara in the place she
should occupy. Will the latter lady,
known to be an ambitious social strate-
gist, give up the Presidency OF the club,
with its power and prestige, to Mrs
Hill? We shall see.
AS 1t looks as If we were to have an
other season, anyway, OF the huge hat
fashion which descended upon US last
Spring, their wearers will be interested
in knowing that one man is champion
ing their cause, or at least doing what
he can to lessen their discomfort. Percy
G. Williams has q design for millinery
box to be placed underneath theater
seats, and is to try the invention in a
theater to be opened on Long Island.
Such a. device would enable girl to
wear her biggest, most elaborately
flower-decked hat to the theater, and
when she reached her seat remove it
and place it in the box under her seat,
with the comfortable feeling that she
could then proceed to enjoy the play,
instead of being obliged to keep the
huge thing in her lap. jammed against
the seat In front and a general nuis-
ance every way. 1t has really been i'm
possible to hold many of these hats
during a play, and this fact has blight
ed the evening for many girl by keep
ing her from wearing her perfect
sumner when invited to the theater
by her "best fellow" All this will be
changed by the advent Of the theater
hat box, and all will be merry as
marriage bell with the happy possessors
of the big hats.
1t must have been a novel sight, in
deed, to have seen the society women in
their delicate, beautiful costumes pick
UP their silken skirts and rush around
for water to help put out the fire which
broke out In the Theodore Frelinghuy-
sen villa at Tuxedo, Park the other
night. Dainty slippered feet, bewitch-
ing silk stockings and billows Of lace
on fluffy petticoats were common sights,
as these danes of fashion forgot every
thing but their desire to be helpful.
Men in evening clothes helped, too,
and all were kept busy passing pals of
water to the men who were trying to
quench the flames When it was seen
that the beautiful villa was doomed
these same usually idle men and wo-
men rushed into the burning house, and
worked as they had not in many a long
day bringing out the valuable pictures
and bric-a-brac.
1t may not be generally known that
three of the most popular English writ
ers, Rudyard Kipiing, Anthony Hope
and Gilbert Parker, married American
girls. These are all prominent in social
circles in London, but in those circles
where artistic achievement is the open
sesame rather than wealth. 1t is a
charming circle, composed of the peo-
pie who have done things in art, litera-
ture and the various realms of human