The Washington herald., 1914-11-15
Society KHits for War Sufferers
While Miss Janet Richards Talks

Unusual interest was manifested n
/ Mss Janet Richards fourth talk o.
I .Publlc omstrous': by the larger audIehc,
Which assembled to hear her in tn.
auditorium at Woodward a Lothrop's OF
! Monday morning last
| Among the gentlemen present were
noticed, Justice Job Baronard, Mr.. Charles
z. Foster. Hon Louis Lombard. DEPUTY
United States Consul 10 Lugano. Switzer'
| land, Rev. James H. Dunham. Mr.. How
Among the well-known society matronl
ting woolen muffiers and abdomina
bandages for the Red Cross, were Mrs
I John w. Foster, Mrs. Charles Wood
/ Mrs. Thomas r. Walsh, Mrs. Christian
d. Hemmick. Mrs. Ellis Logan. Mrs. C.
N. Foulke, Nine. NPezet, wife Of the Peru.
Wan Minister; Mrs. Pierce Crosby. Mrs
Edward X. Goldsborough, Mrs. Charles
z. Foster. Miss Ida Thompson. Mrs. b.
A. Fiske. and Representatives OF every
important woman's organization In Wash
ington.
Miss Richards. who seemed quite undis-
mayed by the click and play Of many
needles. who indeed expressed the hope
that the class would come to be
known as q relief unit" began the talk
by exhibiting a most unusual trophy Of
actual warfare--R- fearsome looking lance
Of the German Deaths Head Hussars.' .
kindly loaned for the occasion by DR..
Monroe Hopkins, who recently had It
presented to him on q Belgian battle
field.
Figured In FierceEt Flights.
As Miss Richards held the lance erect.
II lowered fully seven feet, capped with
the black and white deaths head PEN
nam, and shod with a steel lRnce-point,
about fourteen inches long.
Had this point been stained with
human blood" said Miss Richards, II
should never have shown It here. But
since 1t evidently dropped from the
palsied hand Of some young Hussar, who
now alas lies cold in death on some
European battlefield. have felt that II
would be an exhibit both interesting and
striking as we are told that some of
the fierciest fights in this wicked war
have been hand to hand encounters with
both bayonets and lances such as these"
Miss Richards then began the lecture
proper with the statement that she pro-
posed to divide the allotted hour and one
half between three main themes, giving
the first half-hour to what she termed
''the bloodless battle Of the ballots" at
the previous Tuesday election, followed
by one-haf hours discussion OF "a deli
cate and difficult question involved in the
battle of bullets, and lastly, what time
there is left shall be devoted to the story
OF our thirty-hour journey across France.
in making our exit from the war zone"
Under the first heading Miss Richards
said in part: N
what we shall briefly attempt to do
will be TO extract from the results Of
last Teusday's balloting what We may
call the lessons Of the election As we
all know the Democratic party made
certain campaign promises and platform
pledges when II came into power two
years ago. Formerly such promises and
pledges seemed to be made (regardless
OF party merely to be broken. Let rs
briefly review the so-called Wilson poll
cies remind ourselves as to what they
were and see IL they have been dis
or put into effect.
First, we have the revision Of the tariff
and its help-me-out addition. the income
tax, never a popular form OF legisIa-
lion, but actually enacted into law before