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spent the holidays in town, the guests of
their parents.
Miss Simpson. OF Birmingham. Ala. is
spending a few weeks in town. the guest
OF Miss Dorothy Stiefel.
Mrs. Eliphalet Frazer Andrews and
Miss Andrews will receive on wednes-
days until Lent at their sixteenth street
home.
Mrs. Andrews has cards out for a
tea at the Washington Club on De-
cember 80. from I until O'Clock. to
present her daughter. Miss Mary. Lord
Andrews
Joseph Letter. chairman of the foor
committee OF the charity ball for the
Children's Hospital: William Marrow,
vice chairman. and the members Of the
committee will dine together on the
evening of January 4. preceding the
ball.
Mr. Milton Fischer. Of the University
Of Pennsylvania, is spending a short
time in town before returning to his
school
Mr. Gerald Grosner is spending the
holidays in town. the guest OF his par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. l. Grosner.
Miss Gladys Block of Rochester. y.
Y. is spending the Christmas holidays
in town. the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. NJ.
Felheimer.
Viscount Nakamura and Viscount
Nyeda are at the Shorehsm Hotel for
some time.
Miss Edith Gracic has cards out for
a dance on the evening of January Q.
Mrs. Harry Cole entertained at a de-
lightful luncheon yesterday in honor of
Mrs. Charles Long. who has returned to
Washington to live. after an absence OF
several years in Europe. Invited to meet
Mrs. Long were Mrs George Barnett.
Mrs. Theodore Baldwin, jr.. Mrs William
Mitchell, Mrs. Malcolm McConnihe. Mrs.
Z. II. Madison. Mrs. Sheldon Evans. Mrs
Joseph Hampson. Mrs. Harold Walker,
Mrs. Richard jackson, and Mrs. Vincent
kerens.
The Misses Lowenberg. of Norfolk. Va.
will be the guest of friends during the
coming week.
Invitations are out for an affair to be
SAhGi ~ Aiit ONAeeOh NANO ot AhoNoNAASA
on December &c.
Miss Aline Kronheim entertsins a num-
Der of young girls at tea Sunday, De-
cember =.
Mr. and Mrs. William II. Davis an
nounce the engagement of their daugh-
ter Bessie Wright Davis. and Mr.. Will
lam d. Sullivan. The wedding will take
place on January q.
Mrs. W. D. Connor has left town. and
will not be at home the remaining Thurs
days of this month. She will return
about January 4.
Miss Helen Rosenberg will be the
guest of friends in town, and will stay
here two weeks before her return to her
home in Norfolk.
The marriage Of Miss Sylvia Saks and
Mr.. Leon Meyer, of Birmingham, Ala,
will take place December q at the Pow
hatan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles II. Reiter gave
their daughter. Edna Louise, a surprise
dance last Wednesday evening, the Occa- |
sion being the latter's birthday. The
decorations were of holly. pOinsettias. and
Santa Clauses, the color scheme being !
red and green. Dancing was enjoyed
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is one of the handso homes in wash
irEton. was opened. for a formal occa-
sion. for the first time in several years
and hundreds OF guests thronged the
drawing-rooms during the receiving
hours Great quantities of American
Beauties, with green foliage plants'
formed the decorations
Miss Moore wore an attractive trock
OF paIe blue chiffon and carried an arm
bouquet of roses. Mrs. Moore was hand
some in a gown of black chiffon, cut
simply. but effectively draped.
Mrs. Edward Mitchell and Mrs. Johh
F. wilkins presided at the tea table. and
the girls who assisted were Miss Beatric"
Glover. Miss Francise Williams, Miss
Constance Gardiner. Miss Helena Elliot,
Miss Rebekah Wilmer. Miss Caroline
Ogden Jones, and Miss Katherine Nc
ClintOck.
Although this is Miss Moore's formal
Introduction to Washington society. she
has spent 4 season in London, where she
was much fetcd and was presented al
court
Miss Moore will leave today for Boston
to stay with Mrs. Horatio Nelson Slater
for the ball she is giving Monday even
ing for her daughter. Miss Ray Slater.
On Tuesday Miss Moore will be a guest
at Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury's dance IN
Philadelphia. and on Wednesday evening
will attend the ball which the former
Ambassador TO Germany and Mrs.
Charlemagne Tower are giving in that
city. She will return to Washington for
Christmas.
Miss Amy Cohen has returned to her
home in New York after some time spent
in town with friends.
Mr.. Maurice Rosen has returned to his
home in Baltimore after a short visit TO
relatives in this city.
Mr.. u. J. Kaufman has returned to his
home in Macomb street from a short trip
to New York.
The Excelsior Club has invitations out
for a dance. to be given at the Washing
ton Suburban Club on December %.
One of the most interesting balls of
the season. and one that has been look
ed forward to with keen pleasure by
Washington and New York society.
was the Joseph Letter costume dance
which took place last night at the
Palisades, their country home on the
Virginia side of the Potomac. The ball,
which was given in honor OF Mrs
Letters attractive debutante sister,
Miss Francise T'.lliams, was planned
by them on their trip around the world
and the costumes worn by the host and
hostess as well as Miss Williams were
purchased in the Orient. The Letter
home was lavishly decorated to repre-
sent a residence in the Orient and the
mystical and brilliant atmosphere of
the Far East prevailed. Mrs. Letter
wore a wonderful creation of gold It's
sue picked up in India, Mr. Letter wore
the magnificent jeweled costume of a
Chinese Emperor. and Miss williams
was gowned in a rare Chinese costume
of peacock blue, representing a Geisha
girl. There were sixty dinner guests,
Including the debutantes and younger
set, while a greater number came later
for the dance. The guests, though not
all dressed in Oriental costumes, wore
many that were quaint and interesting.
Miss Janet Nussbaum, of New York. is
spending ten days In town, the guest of
Miss Celeste Goodman.
Mrs. NJ. Luchs will entertain at a dance
on December at the Washington Sub
urban Club r-.r.
The Messrs. Albert and Frank Kauf-
man, Of the Michigan University. will
The Washington herald., 1914-12-20
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For the Junior Republic

Mrs. George Roosevelt will preside at
the tea table at the tea dance and bridge
held next Wednesday for the benefit of
the Junior Republic at the New Willard
from 2:3O until : o'clock. Bridge will be
in order until o'clock. when the floor
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turned into war hospitals. Many promi-
ncnt society women are interested in the
work Of these sisters. including several
Indies Of the Diplomatic Circle, and it
is expected that they will be present at
the sale tomorrow afternoon.
Mrs. W. II. Stoner is to be congratu-
lated In having secured three most inter
csting speakers for the meeting Of the
Kate Gordon Chapter of the woman's
Southern Suffrage Conference tday at tn.
Jardin de Danse. Senator Chamberlain
will speak on the suffrage amendment:
Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, who will
speak on recent social reforms. and DR.
McKelway. who will speak on child labor
a goodly number Of Southern Senators
and Representatives and their wives are
expected to attend. Like all these Sun
day afternoon meetings. this is open to
the public.
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until midnight. when a buffet supper was
served Among those present were the
Misses Elsie and Nettie Reiter, of Ralti-
more: Marguerite Latterner, Anna Man
ion, Claudia Lieutaud. Florence Crook
Estrella Amores, Loretto Liomin. Mary
Shugrue, and Edna Reitcr: Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Mohler. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Latterner. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Rciter.
and Messrs. Edward Fischer. Ralph
Carlo, William Padden. Leonard Pohl-
mann, Charles Kothe. Fritz Sauber, Ed
mund Grove. Arthur Fitzgerald. and
Charles Reiter. ir
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The coming Yuletide season has been
heralded by gay decorations at several
debut teas and luncheons given in Wash
ington last week Distinctive among them
was the tea and dance last Thursday at
which Senator and Mrs. O'Gorman intro
duced their two attractive daughters.
Miss Anna O'Gorman and Miss Agnes
O'Gorrnan. at their handsome Washing
ton residence in X street
The receiving rooms and the drawing
room, which was thrown open for dane
ing. were decorated with the holiday
coIors, quantities of red carnations, red
roses and green foliage plants being used
The dining-roOm was a veritable bower
of holly and Christmas greens, and the
table. which was one of the most law
ishly appointed of the seasons teas, bore
a mound of red carnations. with ferns
and the candles cast a soft glow from
under red shades.
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Mrs. John Joy White is in New York,
where she will remain ill Tuesday.
Miss Clarine Howe celebrated her thir
teenth birthday at the residence of her
aunt, Mrs. w. C. Knight. at 40S-4lO Tenth
street southeast. on Thursday. December
Il. 1t was an enjoyable party with games,
refreshments and a jolly time for all the
young people present. Among those pres
ent were: Miss Dorothy Yost, Miss Ellen
StoppIe. Miss Ruth Davey, Miss Helen
Byers. Miss Eva Maddox Miss Mildred
Miller. Ellsworth Cropley. John Cohill,
Ronald Whip. Fred Ball. Raymond Web
ber. Orton Wackert, and Fred Ferber-
shaw.
Miss Blanche Levy, OF Vernon street,
left Washington on Friday for New
York to be the guest OF Miss Florence
London indefinitely.
The Franciscan Missionaries Of Mary
will give an exhibition and sale of nee
dlework and fine embroidery at the Graf
ton Hotel. at Connecticut avenue and
De Sales street, tomorrow afternoon. The
exhibition was originally planned for yes
terday afternoon but owing to the in
clement weather they have postponed Il
till tomorrow. This work is all done
either by the sisters themselves or by
the young girls in their charge. The
work OF this order is especially interest
ing at this time, as there are zoo Of their
number nursing the wounded In Europe
and several Of their converts have been
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With the Winston ChurchillS setting
in Washington for the season in rur-
nished house in Sixteenth street, society
is eagerly expectant Of the debut of their
beautiful daughter, which may take place
late this winter The Churchills will
enter into the social life of the Capital,
even though Mrs Churchill's health has
not been good for the past few months.
Mr. and Mrs. George Rublee. Of Cor
Disb. n H., will spend the winter in
Washington. They have leased Mrs
Hunt Slater's house. in Sixteenth street,
next to the one occupied by the Winston
Churchills.
Mrs Bowman McCalla, widow of Ad-
miral McCaIla. will have her daughters
Mrs. Bessie McCalla Miller, of Philadel-
pbia. and Miss Stella McCalla, with her
for the winter Mrs. Arthur Macarthur
another daughter, will keep her house
open this winter, and her sister Mrs.
DudIev Knox, and the Lieutenant Com
mander will be with her.
The diplomatic breakfast an annual
gathering of the New Year. will be
omitted January l. and also. on account
of the mourning in the White House, the
cabinet has not taken part in any formal
social life this year The obstacles which
the European war presents will prevent
anv social activities among the dlplo-
matists for some time to come.
Secretary and Mrs. Bryan held the
dfpIomatic breakfast last New Year 8
morning at the Pan-American Building,
and several members of the Cabinet cir
Gle held public receptions during the aft
ernOOn.
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The Messrs. Albert and Frank Kauf-
man, Of the Michigan University, will
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Mrs. John Joy White is in New York
where she will remain ill Tuesday.
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One Of the most brilliant teas Of the
season took place yesterday when Mrs.
Clarence Moore introduced her charming
daughter, Miss Frances Moore. The resi-
dence on Massachusetts, avenue. which
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Miss Janet Nussbaum. of New York, is
spending ten days In town, the guest OF
Miss Celeste Goodman.
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Mrs. Francis A. Ruggles entertained at
a delightful luncheon yesterday in honor
OF Mrs. Laurson, who is the house guest
of her parents, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. AL
bert L. Mills.
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Mrs. NJ Luchs will entertain at a dance
on December at the Washington Sub
urban Club.
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spent the holidays in town, the guests Of
their parents.
Miss Simpson. OF Birmingham. Ala. is
spending a few weeks in town, the guest
Of Miss Dorothy Stiefel
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Miss Helen Bones has returned to the
White House from New York, where she
spent the past week.
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The Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
and Mrs. Carl Vrooman will give a din
ner for the Secretary Of Agriculture and
Mrs. David F. Houston on Tuesday.
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Miss Lucille Tanner. Of Cumberland, is
the house guest OF Miss Johanna Adler,
OF this city. Later she will visit Miss
Hortense Hano, in Columbia road.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Charles II. Reiter gave
their daughter Edna Louise, a surprise
dance last Wednesday evening, the Occa-
sion being the latter's birthday. The
decorations were of holly, pOinsettias. and
Santa Clauses, the color scheme being
red and green. Dancing was enjoyed
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Mrs. Eliphalet Frazer Andrews and
Miss Andrews will receive on wednes-
days until Lent at their Sixteenth street
home
Mrs. Andrews has cards out for
tea at the Washington Club on De-
cember 80. from until O'Clock. to
present her daughter. Miss Mary. Lord
Andrews.
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Mr.. and Mrs. William r. Hit, are with
Mr.. Hits mother, Mrs. r. r. Hit, for
the holidays.
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CONTINUED on PAGE THREE
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spend some time with her son-in-law and
daughter. Secretary and Mrs. Vrooman.
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The marriage of Miss Sylvia Saks and
Mr.. Leon Meyer. of Birmingham. Ala.
will take place December y at the Pow
hatan.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02
THE LATEST MARINE DISASTER.

George Uhler, supervising inspector Of tie
United States Steamboat Inspection Service.
commenting on the sinking of the Empress ot
Ireland. declared that there is but one safe way
To navigate d fog and that is to stop and WAIT
for the fog to lift. The veriest landlubber would
know that much and to such it IS astonishing that
this rule is SO much violated by the men who 20
down to the sea in ships
Yet Mr.. Uhler says that he doubts If the world
is ready for a rule of the sea whereby vessels
would be compelled to lie to in a fog and wait
for it to lift. Rather than submit to such lie.
laws" he saws, people would rather take the nsk
passion for haste and speed. People cannot wait.
Rather than lose an hour or a day III the quest
of whatever it is they are pursuing they viii run
the nsk Of denying to themselves any more time
on earth whatever
Nevertheless we think there is a chance for
legislation that would save these people from
themselves. The generality of people when they
start anywhere are in a terrible hurry to get
there, but laws can be passed by men who are
not going anywhere in particular and who can
take a calm view of the problem.
In connection with what might have been done
to avert the awful catastrophe, Senator James
Hamilton Lewis, who attended the international
Congress for Safety at Sea held in London some
time ago, said Friday on hearing of the accident
that had the London convention been IN effect
there would have been 800 lives saved. Even
then the loss would have been terrific, but the
additional saving of life would have been worth
all it could in reason have cost.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION THE NEED.

The most urgent educational need in the State
just now is a body of earnest men and women
trained to teach modern agriculture. North
Carolina is an agricultural State. More than
eighty of every hundred of her people live on
farms, yet only a very small percentage of these
know how to get from the soil the thousands of
dollars that lie locked therein.
The United States and the State Departments
of Agriculture are doing much to relieve this dis
tressing condition; but to go to the root of the
difficulty nothing other than the education of the
young people will suffice, and for this purpose
trained teachers are essential. But men and
women trained to teach agriculture are not to be
had at any price. In the numbers demanded bv
this and other States they do not exist: the de-
mand is too new. Yet the demand is urgent. and
it is increasing
The A. and Nj. College IS STRIVING to meet the
need by organizing a summer school in aericul-
ture specifically to train men and women to teach
this subject according to modern ideas. The sal
aries paid teachers in agriculture are usually
higher than those paid for teaching other sub
jects; for to teach the subject requires special
training which few have been able to get. The
opportunities to serve the people of the State are
obviously greatest in the rural districts. The
Vanous forms of cooperation for rural betterment
have Just begun in North Carolina. Both the
school farm and the farm school ideas are now
we'll understood. Only enlightened intelligence
and we'll directed zeal are needed to work a vas+
change in the State.
The school at the A. and NJ. this Summer u;n
continue only four weeks, from the fourth 80
June to the first Of July. Here the amh+;o,,s
young man or young woman may learn how to
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02
SHOULDERS TOGETHER"

One of the worlds heroic names is that Of
Flora Macdonald, that heroine Of the Scots, who
cheered the clans as they marched in Cuuaber-
land. As is carved IN Gaelic on the marble statue
of the heroine on Castle Hill. in Inverness, While
the flower blooms in the meadow the name OF
the fair maiden shall endure" And of her IT IS
deserving that here in America, IN North Caro-
lima, there shall arise not alone a replica OF that
striking statue, but that there be a great nst-
tuition for the education of women, The Flora
Macdonald College"
That is the suggestion of that great Scotcnnlan,
DR.. !. A. Masdonald, Of Canada, president OF the
Scottish Society Of America, made IN his address
last week at Fayetteville, where he paid the loyal
tribute Of the Scots to Flora Macdonald, OF whom
DR.. Johnson wrote: Flora Macdonald. a name
that will be mentioned in history, and, If cour-
age and self-sacrifce be virtue, mentioned with
honor" The Scots of America can well remem-
Der her with honor, for she typiies the herois1n
and the loyalty Of the Scots.
The Scots of North Carolina, the Scots OF Amer
lea, should seize upon this suggestion Of DR.. Mac
donald. There should be erected near Fayette-
vile a replica of her statue in Scotland. and 1t
should be at that spot where beneath a great oak
tree, beside her little white pony, stood the I'M
mortal Scottish heroine and cheered the march
ing Scots with the clogan of all the clans, Sons
of the Gael, shoulders together" Those inspiring
words should charge their souls again today and
it should be shoulders together to do honor to
the memory of Flora Macdonald.
But there should be no pause at it. DR.. Mac
donald's further suggestion is that there be The
Flora Macdonald College" And he makes the
practical suggestion that this be what IS now the
Southern Presbyterian College at Red Springs, an
institution which is considering a change OF name.
1t is an institution of size, importance and worth.
1t can be made greater; and We believe that as
The Flora Macdonald College it would become
an institution to the glory and honor of the Scots
in America, a worthy memorial of Flora Mac
donald.
Declares DR.. Macdonald: The mont worthy
memorial of Flora Macdonald would be an edu-
~cational institution that would give to the girls
and young women of these Scottish communities
the opportunities and privileges which Sir Mac
for two years to college in Edinburgh" That
college training helped, and the Scots of America
can help many a girl to a college life by adopting
the suggestion of DR.. Macdonald. Let The Flora
Macdonald College" arise. Let there be a great
endowment for it. The Scots of America can
thus do honor to themselves, to the memory Of
Flora Macdonald and to young women of South
ern Scottish communities. The slogan is agar
today, Sons of the Gael, shoulders together"
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION THE NEED
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02

begin and carry on this important work OF agrt
cultural education and rural betternent. Tie
cost OF the four weeks, after reaching Raleigh,
need not exceed twenty dollars. Five thousand
teachers in North Carolina could increase Their
usefulness and their force by e~quipping them
selves to teach agriculture. the industry upon
which the material welfare Of the State depends
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02
NncG Nall maocm

N UR flags are flying at half mast, and crepe
~ is on the doors; our nobIest relics gone at
last to distant, alien shores. The wrestler's crown
is ours no more, the garland or the wreath our
hearts are sad, our hears are sore, and we have
aching teeth. From Poland's shore there came a
gent whose name is
CHAMPION ZYBSCKO. but a joke, and our
Americus he bent
across his knev and broke. We cannot hail i'm
ported beef with vim, like sporting men, till we've
recovered from our grief, and got our nerve
again. And now to Gotch's sylvan farm, we
turn, in our despair; is there no talisman or
charm, to lure him from his lair? Is there no
way, we ask, to drag, the Gotch from his retreat?
Will he defend the starry flag, or has he got cold
feet? You know how at Jim JefIries' door we
pounded, on a day, when all our hearts were sick
and sore, our laurels wrenched away. And JEFF
Ties came to bring them back, a figure grand,
sublime; what happened then-alas! alack! we'll
tell some other time. And now all patriots de-
mand that Gotch, the great and strong, should
keep the laurels in this land, where surely they
belong.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02

Postmaster General Burleson will not sue the
blockade preacher" Archibald Johnson, for call
ing him the ugliest man in the Wilson Cabinet.
The preacher" was canny enough to couple up
his abuse of the physiognomy of the Postmaster
General with praise for the gray matter.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02

The Fourth ST. Mary's Conference and Sunday
School Institute, which commences tonight at St.
Mary's School, brings to Raleigh some prominent
and able churchmen from other States and prom
Uses to be an event that will be helpful and in
spring. 1t should be largely attended.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02

We second the suggestion, made by an ex-
change, that those Republicans who think SO
well of Huerta bring him to the United States
and make him their candidate for President in
1916. If he will do for the Mexicans why
wouldn't his Republican admirers in this country
be willing to vouch for him as suitable to pre-
side over the destinies of this countTyl
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02

1t would seem that there would be no diff
Guilty in fixing the blame for the sinking of the
Empress of Ireland by the Danish collier. Stor-
stad. The fog was so dense that the Empress
had cast anchor and decided that it was unsafe
to proceed. The collier which sank the larger
vessel was plunging ahead recklessly.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02

Progressives are said to be planning war on
both old parties in New York State. AS New
York SO the nation. Our advice to the Progress
sives is that they go for both old parties all over
this nation hammer and tongs. That is what a
Progressive party is for.