The Washington times., 1914-12-20
A Chronicle o.
cSociety

ar Vest. and Maria Dimpfel, who went
abroad with Mrs. williams at the close
of their school DAYS.
The courtship was quite romantic
ABBY, who was In Europe at the time,
TONED his aunt and his pretty cousin,
Francise, at Brussels. met his future
bride. and succumbod at once. The
marriage took place abroad, Mary
Wheeler was maid Of honor for Nell.
Who Is her particular chym, and the
other two girls were bridesmaids. They
have been married something over a
year, and this IS the first time the pair
have been separated.
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The flrst aid to irritation ig without
doubt, the fan. which. Dec gratiaS, seenns
70 have come to its own again. At
dances it is much In evidence, and at
the thester the soft breath of waving
fan Is becoming one of the recognized
scuuds. WREN the house IS dark. AS yet
We use them slowly, lsnzuorou5ly, but
who Knows when some leader Of fashion
NAV use her fan With the yerve and
snap Of a Carmen and set us 10 follow
in her TRAIL
ostrich feather beauties are the most
favored Mrs. Preston Gibson carried
one 70 the PLAY not long ago, z great
sheat Of natural cclored ostrich, with
toTt-.-e shell sticks, and at the opera,
in Nev York, quite recently. Mrs. Mich
olss TcnEworth completed her costume,
OF emerald green velvet. with huge
peacock feather fan. while across the
way Mrs William K. Vanderbilt wore
orlr ralr lei u-1f h>r
diamond collar strung diagorally from
shoulder to waist across her bodice, and
carried a fasne-colored ian.
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A recent letter from Paris comments
most interestingly upon some Of the
workings OF the Red Cross, the French
Red Cross in particular, which wants
for nothing save only wounded; they
have no need OF money, but sigh for
men. This. Of course. in Paris; there
srs wounded enough Heaven knows IN
the provinces and along the battle line.
The expla nation is that with Paris
threatened by a siege il seemed bad
policy 10 fill the hospitals with wounded.
and thus lay in a supply Of perfectly
good prisoners, should the city fall.
Since the funk was over, the wounded
have been coming I'm in relays, but slow
ly; even yet the hospitals are by no
means full. and how many sufferers are
sntrained between the battle-ground. and
the capital can only be guessed Every
thing is carried on in the most sys-
tematic manner according to my in
and the volunteer workers are
kept busy rolling bandages In the linen
rooms of the hospitals. relieving the reg
ulAr nurses during the day. foraSing
among their friends for comforts for
their patients, redressing and bathing
wounds, writing letters home, fetching
and carrying generally.
Hundreds of English men and women
the why of It must ever re-
main one Of the mysteries Of the war
have chosen to enlist their services with
the French society instead of the Eng
ish. perhaps because the English war
office seems to 90 on the supposition
that the Red Cross place is In the
homo.
Perhaps Tire pet hospital In Paris. In
stalled In Claridge's new hotel, in tho
Champs Elysees. Is in the hands Of ths
nilitants. Or. Murray and DR.. Ander- |
son. two interesting and successful |
/, OMEN. who are in charge there. with |
,arefullv chosen staff composed entirely !
n women. save for asfew orderlies. |
ell g. their soft voices how they at |
ended Mrs. Pankhurst during q hunger |
itrike. and how tho funds for tho hos |
,Ital were raised by militant sympa-
hiZers. Picture the gilt and marble /
laIls of asEreat hotel. filled with rows |
IF beds covered with the broad rcd and |
blue stripcs of the guards blankets! |
But the men love II. Few Of them ever |
ven dreamed before of waking up IN |
marble halls. Neither would they choose
men doctors now.
Edwina Bruner will come TO town
lsxt week to stay with her grand
mother. Mrs. Elkins. Edwina's home Is