Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-25

1000 Cornfowers. Eft of tn e
baby wards of the Washington Diet
Kitchen another event is to be held in
Washington for the benefit of that
charity. And thereby hangs tale.
To be exact. the other event is to be
flower day, and 1t is to take place
May s, the opening day of the horse
show
Nine Christian Hauge. widow of the
Norwegian minister to Nashlneton'
has bought 1000 artificial cornf1owers'
the pretty little blue blossom which
men sometimes year in their button-
holes. and which are sometimes T con,
fused with bachelor buttons Ihey
have been divided into corsage oou,
Quets. boutonnieres. single flowers ana
clusters for automobile vases. Girls IN
society and out OF it are to nave trays
laden with these flowers and are TO ac-
cost all passers on the streets to BUY
their wares. just as the Boy scouts
and other organizations do on their
'tag days. So far. so good.
But the whole project very nearly
came crashing to the ground when one
woman recently started the rumor that
the cornfiowers is the national German
flower
People held up their hands. 1t was
said that the project could never be
success. for. perforce. the friends ana
sympathizers of the allies would not
wear any such thing as the Haliohdi
flower of Germany.
In anxiety the women on the com
mittee appealed to the German ambas-
eador to know whether 1t is true that
the cornf1ower is the national hoWer
of Germany. To their great relief, he
replied that Germany has no national
Flower To make assurance douoiy
sure. they next appealed to the frencn
everything and he told them the
same thing. Lady Spring-Rice. the
wife of the British ambassador, VINO IS
one of the women interested IN the
Diet Kitchen, and who hved IN aer
many for many years. corroboratea
the statement. and as PROOF posltlve
pointed out the fact that she herseii
wears cornf1owers. These. by the way.
bloom with peoples in all the cornflelos
of England, just as they do in France
So, after all, May is to De mower
day''-to be exact. "cornfiower Gay
for the benefit of the Washington Diet
babies will be furnished milk in Wash
ington, Notwithstanding the war IN
Europe and the difficulties that questions
connected with it bring up.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Bell have
closed their house on Connecticut ave-
nue. and have
Mrs. Fortescue Looks taken up their
as Girlish as Ever. tbeir place
Twin Oaks, on Woodley lane. They
have with them Capt. and Mrs. Gran
VILE Fortescue and their children.
Mrs. Fortescue is looking as girlish
and attractive as ever she did as
~Gracie" Bell, as her intimates called
her, and one would never think to look
at her of the direful night she spent
in a jungle in India, upon an occasion
when she got lost from her party ana
her only companion was her horse. II
rained in torrents. the water beating
down so hard that she was forced to
take the saddle of her horse and put
1t over her head to protect her from
being drowned in the deluge. The rain, /
however was a blessing in disguise,
for 1t kept away snakes. which, she
efterward learned. infested that par
ticular jungle. Although Miss Bell. as
she then was, did not know OF the
snakes until she was safe the next day,
she did know that night that wild an
finals were prowlfng around In her
neighborhood, for she could hear their
calls In the morning she was found |
by the servants, who had been dis
patched in every direction to look for
her. and was escorted back to her
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Parmelee, by the
way, who bought the old country home
of Mr.. and Mrs.
A $4,000 Road Bell when the
to the Causeway. session Of tn.
Gardiner Hubbard place at the other
end of the estate, are at home every
Sunday afternoon. and as the spring
season opens their many friends are
taking advantage of the opportunity to
see their beautiful place. They call 1t
the Causeway. Their beautiful Geor-
gian house, completed a year ago, has
lately been surrounded by landscape
gardens. A winding roadway has been
built to the house. which is said to
have cost $4,000. Great box bushes.
eight and ten feet high, have been
transplanted from historic homes in
Virginia. and there has been made a
green alley of cedar trees ten or twelve
feet high which has all the appearance
of having been there since the world
began.
the Bells is the cabinet home of the
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Dan
iels. The latter. by the way. has been
at home informally every Wednesday
since the Easter season began. and pro-
poses to be SO until she goes away for
the summer. Mrs. Daniels proposes to
receive and serve tea on the south
plaza, at the back of the house. over
looking the city. with a setting of
woods in the foreground.
Mrs. William Littauer has contributed
very fine Pekingese puppy. for which
Mr.. Littauer re-
Mr.. Littauer Gives fused $500. which
10 %
Valuable Dog. , rs 10 De sold
of small sums for the beneft of the
Animal Rescue League.
Other gossip of interest to dog own
ers is that the entries for the dog show
to be held at Friendship May I will in
olude a number of animals which were
not placed on exhibition at the Wash
ington Kennel Club dog show Just re-
Gently held
Nine. Riano is to enter her two little
grfNons, Miss Mary Gwynn has prom
1sed TO enter her Pekingese Nala.
Mrs. Gam is to enter her French poodle
and Miss Mamie McComb, Miss Edith
. Oracle and Mrs. Bonaparte are also to
enter their dogs.
Mr. Larz Anderson has set the style
for men this year by being the drat IN