The Washington times., 1915-02-28

Wilder and Mrs. Archibald Hopkins.
About thirty ladies' heard and en-
joysd Mrs Benet's talk. she spoke IN
q charming and convincing manner. Tor
she knows what she was talking about
having worked daily in the hospital
tor several months. Mr. Benet left
Washington for New York last Wednes-
day. and Mrs Benet will Join him there
the frst Of the week.
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Capt. Andrew Parker was host at din.
ner last evening at the Cosmos Club,
when he entertained some twenty or
thirty members Of the old Columbia
Bicycle Club. John JOY Edison, jr.. came
on from Pittsburgh for the occasion. a
number of others came from long disI
tances. and the party was true re-
union. many Of the members not having
seen each other for twenty years or
more.
The club was disbanded a year or two
aso after languishins for some time
since the bicycle fell into disfavor, at
the time when the Government bought
the property on which the clubhouse
stood on Fifteenth street. Just south Of
Keith's
s.
George Easterday. who has been sta
toned in Tampa. Fla, for long time.
will leave there on April 10 for Old Point
| Comfort to take his examination for
promotion. His parents are delighted at
! the prospect Of having him near them.
| particularly now that Margaret. Mrs.
John Higgens. has gone to the Philip
pines. She has sent home some charm
ing pictures of their quarters there.
! The, porches on the house are enormous,
some fifty feet by seventy-five.
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Inspector General Major r. q. Donald
son is the guest of Capt. Joseph ii. Earle
al Washing on Barracks. While Mrs Don
| sldson. who has recently under gone a
| blight operation. is in Garfield Hos
| Ditsl.
! In snite Of the decree OF most official
folk against Sunday entertaining, tho
day is coming to be more and moro the
| occasion OF festivities that are all the
| more delightful in that they are inlor-
| NAL.
Mrs. John g. Henderson is giving =
! luncheon today at Boundary Castle.
and this evening Mrs. Carl Vrooman is
asking in q number Of guests to hear
Nicholas Vachel Lindsey give a read
ins from his poems. Mr.. Lindsey 9
/ visit was delayed by the veritabe ova-
ton which greeted HIM when he ad
dressed the STUDENTS Of the University
Of Pennsylvania and spoke al Harvard
College and the round OF entertaining
, mat followed: but he has finally man
aged to reach Washinstun.
! The week finished yesterday with =
table among them the reception q, the
| Willaid, which Dr. Juan Carlos Blanco,
! special minister rIom Uruguay. gavc u,
! conpiimcut to the eCrctary OF state.
aud which ATTRACTED = distnguis he'd
at,cn1auce
Mls Lin.ou Valentine wuo has sent
rut Daids rur blItnant bal uaaQIe or
March Il" ~ the Willard, has taken the
Timothy T Ansberrys housc. 1sS5 l.
street. tcr The rest of the eeaacn The
-Ansberrys are nov in Ohio
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\ reading Of Woman and War.
Capt " +. = Frencha stirrin
poem. and by no less person thai
Elsie Ferguson, was one OF the tea.
tres 1T The program OF the dramati'
tea aud fet. held at The Biltmors
Hotel in New York on February .
under INC auspices of the New Yorl
State Womans Suffrage Association
The entertainment was d. huge sue.
cess, being given under the patronage
of some Ct the most prominent people
in New York. while half the well
known stage favorites in the city n,
well as liberal sprinklinE Of dis
tirguiahcd literary folk. took part ir
the entertainment or did the honor
! ~ the tea tables.
TO Captain French this d,st,nctlor
came az complete surprise. and h
knew nothing ~ II until the program
vas sent h.rl ~ a trterd. who az
sn6ed the tete AID noted with pleas
uye the erthus,ast,c applause which
greeted bic Ners. The poem has a.
'rac.ed no little attention and Il,
each OF the series Of lectures whicl
Captain Treach gave recenrlv in New
! York state on the srrnv as a construc
tINc factor IN tire of reace. thor.
| wsS IN lrsisten: ,all from his aUdi
snce f"r i resdirC Of his poem Cay
ain French naa tnu> much charrlrnc