Evening star., 1915-04-18
Gossip of Society.

Every one is congratulating Miss
Laura Harlan on being out again. after
an accident
Miss Laura Harlan she sustained
Out After Accident. or ten days
ago when a herdic in which she was
driving to a dinner was crashed into
by an automobile. Miss Harlan was
quite seriously hurt in the head and
was taken home and several stitches
were taken in the wound
Miss Harlan has been under a physl-
clans care ever since. Although she is
able to be about she complains that she
has not yet recovered from the nerv-
Gus shock and finds that she is want
ing in strength. Last, but not least
to any woman handsome evening
gown was ruined in the accident.
The Harlans will go. as usual. to
Murray bay for the summer, where they
have a cottage, and where Mr.. and MIS-
William j. Boardman and MISS board-
man will also visit this summer, II the
Cross duties for while. Cen and Mrs.
Robert Shaw oliver, the former nav
ing been assistant secretary >of war
during the Taft regime, who are also
devotees of Murray bay. are expected
to go to that resort this summer, with
Miss Marian Oliver The latter makes
daily visits to the Red Cross building.
to be of assistance there in the teach
ing work Mrs. Joseph Choate, Jr, VINO
was a Miss Oliver. has become known
as a recounter of tales of the old
French Canadians. or the "habltant as
they are called OH the st. Lawrence.
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An interesting visitor to Washington
is Mrs. Lathrop, the founder of the
Visitor Here Lives in the Revolu-
Hawthorne's House. stavinr at
the Grafton Hotel. When at home she
is fortunate enough to be the occupant of
the house formerly occupied by Nathaniel
Hawthorne, in Concord, Mass, the pretty
little town which held more celebrities
in American history and literature than
any other of it's size. Concord was the
home of Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Thoreau. DR.. Alcott, his daughter,
Louisa NJ. Alcott, and others, and. of
course, as we all remember, it was
there that the Minute Men held the
bridge in the revolutionary war.
1t is rather a coincidence that Haw-
thorne's daughter is Mrs. Lothrop,
name so similar to that of Mrs. Lath-
rop, the lady who now occupies his old
home. On the top of the house is
cupola, and the only way to get to it is
by means of a ladder. Hawthorne was
wont to climb the ladder and pull it up
afterward, SO that he might be secure
in privacy when he desired to write.
The place is known as Wayside.
The tea that was given by Miss Gill
lett Thursday afternoon for her niece,
Miss Barnes
Miss Gillett's Tea of Illinois,
an Interesting Event. house @ suest M
was delightful treat to many be-
cause of Miss Barnes singing. She is
very pretty very slender. and she won
the admiration of her audience before
she began to sing by her personality.
She has sweet and sympathetic voice
and sang three groups of songs adapt
ed to her voice-classical French and
English. Among those invited to hear
her were Mrs Matthew T. Scott, Mrs
Boutelle, Col. Charles Page Bryan and
his sister, Mrs. Payne, Mrs. Christian
Hemmick, Mrs. Francis S. Nash, Miss
Flora Wilson and some thirty or forty
others. Mrs. Hemmick is trying to per-
suade Miss Barnes to return soon from
a proposed visit to New York SO that
the latter may take part in Mrs. Hem
mick's coming charity theatricals. Mrs
Hemmck was accompanied by her tiny
dog. who resembles a brown Pomer-
anian but Is smaller, and whose name
in Italian of which country he is
native, means Little Fox.
The Little Fox was one of the most
enthusia site guests present, and when
ever the audience applauded the music
she barked with delight. Between times
she was like a model child, being seen
and not heard.
Miss Cora Gregory and Miss Helen
Stewart presided at the tea table for
Miss Gillett. A feature or MISS Gil
lett's home on street is the big fire.
place in the reception hall on the sec
ond floor 1t is f1anked on either side
by wall seats.
Large fireplaces are a fashion in the
Gillett family. There was one in Miss
Gillett's fathers home in Illinois, where
he maintained large stock farm. one
of the largest in the west. and from
which one of his daughters was mar
fireplace was SO big that one could sit
inside of it. In the summer <it was
filled with maidenhair ferns and was
delight to the eye.
Sutherland. daughter of Senator Suth-
erland, is one of the women who is the
happy possessor of new car. 1t is a
four-seated passenger car. Of a bright
primrose yellow. Sometimes she driyse
and sometimes Mr.. Elmore drives
The dinner list at the dinner given