Evening star., 1915-01-10

and among Miss Bissell's most intl-
mate friends.
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The engagement of Miss Constance
Metcalf of San Francisco and Lieut.
Jack G a r d ! II
IT, M,rry whitfield of the
eth Battalion of
After the War the Berkshire
Regiment of the British army, now in
camp outside OF London, was announced
from Newport, f. J., last week. Miss
Metcalf is visiting her brother-in-la
and sister, Surgeon and Mrs. John y.
Kaufman, at the naval training station,
where a number of entertainments have
been given her. She recently returned
from En- gland.
Miss Metcalf is the daughter Of Capt.
John Metcalf of San Francisco. The
marriage of the young couple Will take
place after the war ends.
Formal announcement was made at
Boston last week of the engagement of
Miss Esther Slater, elder daughter of
Mrs. Horatio Nelson
To Re Rrida Slater of 44S Beacon
street to Benjamin
OF Next June. Sumner Welles of
New York Sumner Welles is a gradu-
ate of Harvard With the class of 1914,
as his father was Of the class of 1873.
Miss Slater and Mr.. Welles first met
at a dinner party given at the resi-
dence of his cousin, Winthrop Sargent
of Commonw ealth avenue. The we'd
ding is expected to take place in June,
in Webster, where the Slater family
has a country estate
Miss Slater made her debut in De-
cember. 1912, and has been exceedingly
popular among her intimates, whom
she frequently has entertained at her
mothers residence on Beacon street or
at their country place. Pine Bank, in
Readville. She has travelled extensively
and not long ago made journey
around the world with her mother and
her younger sister, Miss Ray Slater.
She is interested in outdoor diversions.
Miss Slater is the granddaughter of
William Slater, founder of the Slater
cotton mills in Webster, and her mother
has been prominently interested in the
town and the welfare of the mill
people.
The war and hard times have brought
about change In the every day occu-
pations of many of the wealthiest
women in this
The personal coun try. In
Iry,- New York Miss
"oAA =" '1AS M o "a and
her fellow workers. among them Mrs
William X Vanderbilt, in the phrase of
the lunch counter, instead of pouring
tea are now found at the luncheon
hour drawing one" ladling out soup,
dishing fve-cent portions of veGe-
tables, ten-cent portions of baked
beans and ffteen-cent portions of
meats, and working as hard and as fast
as any ten-dollar-a-week handy man
who ever slung hash for hungry
Lublic.
Miss Morgan was discovered carrying
a tray of food from one end of a long
dining room to the other as deftly as a
waitress and without spilling drop of
anything
The idea is not new in the west and
in lower New York. But uptown it was
Il novelty, and it did big busness-so
big, in fact, that, as Miss Elizabeth
Marbury, one of the managers, said, the
serving arrangements broke down. That
was why Mrs. Vanderbilt went behind
the serving counter and worked hard
as any of the employees. Miss Barbara
c. Rutherford. her daughter. also helped
serve the food. However, not many of
the customers knew who was waiting
upon them. No tips were permitted The
scheme combines charity and philan-
thropy.
Mrs. John TimmonS, who is in Cali
fornia with her father, former Vice
President Fair
Jewels Worn at banks. and her
Rose Tournament. Ms Eair,
banks, attended a banquet at Pasadena.
following the tournament of roses,
held there. Wonderful figures were
used in the California papers to de-
scribe the value of gowns and jewels
worn.
Mrs Lewis ii. Turner wife of one
of the directors of the tournament, was
radiant in an imported gown of white
chantilly lace and silver brocade She
wore a diamond necklace which has
been in her family 100 years and which
is priceless. She wore for the first
time, also, a pair of odd-looking dia-
mond earrings. made by the natives of
South America, and which her father
bought her when she was little girl
They are valued at $4,000.
Mrs William D. Cord wore an i'm
ported gown of embroidered white
! chiffon trimmed with white fox. En-