The Washington times., 1915-03-28

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decorations will be particularly attrac.
tive. The great ball room Is TO be gay
with bunting and hung with quantities
Of flags, while rows of light in red.
white, and blue will cast u rosy glow
over the festive scene. The corners will
be banked with palms and rugs. com
Portable chairs and vases OF cut flow
ers will mark the spot reserved for tn .
receiving party. The boxes are selling
rapidly and tickets arc in great de-
mand.
After winter in Washin gton. her
old home, Jessie Krogstadt Burton
expects to leave town within q fort
night for New York. And with her,
OF course. will go her nice English
husband and her two rosy English
babies. They have taken an apart
ment for the next two months and
after that. depending on Mr.. Burton's
business ARRANGEMENTS they will re-
turn to England or else lease a place
on Long Island. at one of the Hamp-
tons, for the summer During their
stay in Washingtcn they have been
occupying the Lawrence Heap house
In * street, an attractive home like
place and possessing the added at
traction of being almost within hail
ing distance OF the home of Jessie s
father and mother. DR.. and Mrs krog-
stadt.
The week Of landoffice business which
has been done by the Donation ShHr at
the joyce building. 1901 J. street Will
finish with a flourish on Wednesday 3.
wnrn there will be IN auction sale,
beginning in the afternoon, and all do
nntinnQ hp of h1yt tI,n
piece. and some by the table full. The
proceeds will go to the relief of Belgian
refugees.
The lovely great room over the new
chancellory of the Russian embassy was
doubtless built for a ball room, but the
present Ambassador and Madame Bakh-
meteff do not intend to use 1t for that
purpose. They do not care for dancing,
and. moreover. II does not look now as
If there would be balls at the Russian
embassy for some time.
The Bakhmeteffs intend to make the
apartment A great living room, hand
some. dignfied. yet inviting and home
like withal, Il place where men and
women together may foregather after
dinner with coffee and cigarettes to talk
of shoes and ships and sealing waX.'
The most striking thing in the room is
a great portrait of the Gar. the per
sonal property of the Ambassador and
Madame Bakhmeteff. notable as Il por-
trait and yet striking a strongly deco
rative note. There is a splendid Collec-
ton of weapons, some silver mounted,
many of strange Cossack and Turkish
design, which are destined for the walls
of the apartment. but which for the
moment are spread out upon the tables.
For though quite in order. there is a
Gubtle charm which only time, in ccn-
nection with a woman's touch, can give
TO room.
The living room opens from the dining
room. which will hold two tables. seat
ing fifty each. and which in common
with the rest OF the house is rather for
NAL in character. Below stairs. the en-
trance halls are columned in white. with
only the crimson stair carpets to give a
dash Of color.
The windows of the new wing overlook
a grassy plot, or what will in time Dc a
grassy plot and in the middle is to be
set a shallow sandstone bowl, a bath for
the birds Madame Bakhmeteff. II seems,
is very fond Of birds and does every
thing to bring them about her.
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Rehearsals for The Opium Pipe" are
progressing swimmingly, though they
arc still being held at Mrs. Hemmick' s
house. and as soon as arrangements
can be completed for a thcater. tho
date will be announced and prcpara-
tions rushed to a triumphant close.
Stanley Omstead. who is a talented
musician. "A writer of parts on musical
subjects and who achieved some dis
tinction as an actor in Mrs. Ifemmick $
pro-suffrage play. Woman" which she
presented here two years ago, is the
latest addition to the cast, and, Mrs