The Washington times., 1915-07-11
A Chronicle o.
cCociet% e

resorts within easy reach Of Ensign
Haines ship. In the meantime. Mrs.
Grey and her pretty niece are at the
Shoreham.
sylvanus Stokes. sr., who purchased
Mrs. John E. Reyburn's yacht, the
Gretchen, about year ago, Is con-
sidering selling It. In the meantime.
Mr.. Stokes Is having the Gretchen.
which is at the Baltimore Yacht Club,
overhauled and remodeled with the idea
OF taking a cruise in Northern waters,
In case he does not find a purchaser
After three months spent in Califor-
MIA and travelling throughout the West.
Mrs. g. L. Rutherford is back In Wash
ington and has opened her handsome
nome 2OO1 street where she Is contem-
plating remaining all summer to over
look extensive improvements which she
Is having made.
The summer social register, which has
just reached its Subscribers. reflects
TO surprising degree the peculiar shift
In the social center Of population, caused
by the European war. While last year
SIS families were to be found at foreign
residences or to be reached through
Morgan Marges. Monroe & CO., or Kin
dred foreign banking houses, this year
there are but POS. n reduction Of Is per
cent, and while S52 families went abroad
after April last year. but a departures
are recorded this year and foreign ar
rivals have dwindled from 2S to only r.
Nowhere Is this more exemplified than
IN Washington which boasts number
or prominent residents whose trir
abroad Is a part Of their regular sum.
mer program Mrs. Draper and Marga-
ret have always spent a few weeks a.
| tho European spas and this is their
, first summer at Newport. where. how.
ever, they have already come to be
rockoned among the notable hostesses
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mitchell have been
forced to give up their usual summer
abroad In favor of few weeks al
! White Sulphur Springs; and this Is In.
, deed a hardship to Mrs. Mitchell as
/ news of her daughter, the Niscountess
de Beughen. in Brussels. is scant and
; anything but reassuring.
-.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. T. Mann will be al
'Bramwell. their place IN West Vir.
ginia. most OF the summer and will sub
stitute a month or two at Bass Rocks
Mass. for their usual trip abroad. Mrs
Mann always spends several weeks ir
Paris selecting her winter wardrobe and
Is only a forced convert TO tho made
In America" platform. which 30 many
women are advocating.
This time last year the Joe Letter;
| were aboard the Niagara on their trtl
round the world and Francise William
was with them. Now they are in tn,
| MIDST Of preparations for the transfe
! OF their family to "Edgewater." thei
lovely place at Beverly Farms. whici
they have scarcely occupied since Mrs
l.. z. Letters death. And Francise ha
gone up to the cottage Colonel ant
! Mrs. Williams have taken at Falmouth
to join Dorothy McCombs. who 4
already installed. Colonel ard Mrs. WI
| liams will go North about the end o
, July. The Ewings were also abroa,
last summer and this year are at Ba
Harbor for the season.
| Then. OF course. there are number
! Of diplomats. whose summer trip hom
was q regular event. Nine. Cole jewskl
wife of the Russian military attache
who Is at Greenwich Conn. with Soni
and Kyra. her two attractive littl
daughters, has almost always spen
| her summers with her mother, Lad
Grove. at her English home; the swls
Minister and Nine. Ritter have bee
obliged to depart from their establishe
custom and remain on this side Of III
water; while the German Ambassador
! hns. of course, been forced to forego tn
weeks In the Bavar!an Alps. where h
hns usually spent his vacation.
Mrs. Henry F. Dimmock Is one per
son. who has not allowed the closin
OF tho European pleasure grounds t
interfere with her summer voyage, bu