Evening star., 1916-03-05
escorted her aunt, Mrs. William N. Taft,
who was Miss Stella Carusi

escorted her aunt, Mrs. William N. Taft,
who was Miss Stella Carusi.
At the luncheon given Mrs Lindley Al
Garrison, wife of the former Secretary
Of War, by her intimate friend; Mrs.
George Leary ofNew York, who is with
her here. the company of ladies' enter
tained had the pleasure of sitting around
a table the cloth on which was valued at
S6, 900. At least that is as near an esti-
mate can be given Mrs. Leary, for
the exquisite bit of linen and filet lace
is such rare antique that it is one of
those things known as priceless. 1t
dates back to the fourteenth century
and is a perfect piece of needlework
and lacemaking 1t is about twelve
was placed over satin piece of a
delicate shade of yellow. which showed
through the open meshes of the lace and
! made a charming background for the
elongated oval centerpece Of yellow jon
quits, narcissi, memosa and other spring
blossoms with contrasting note in their
coloring formed by big purple pansies
here and there. Bohemian gold etched
glasses further carried out the golden
color scheme. and at either end of the
table were big old fashioned open -meshed
straw hats turned upsde down and con-
verted into baskets being filed with
spring posies, a charming idea which
any hostess could adopt though not
the proud possessor of q five thousand
dollar tablecloth.
| The sword of Damocles which hangs
over every fashionable woman'S head in
the shape of the possibility OF finding her
self in the same gown as some other
woman at some function fell the other
day on the heads of two well known
Washington women at the Congressional
, Club.
There never has been season when
such a thing did not happen to two or
| more women since the fashion of wearing
model gowns came in.
Mrs. Longworth, when she was Miss
Alice Roosevelt found herself confronted
with her double in the shape Of clothes
when she ran into her most intimate
friend. Miss Josephine Roardman. now
Mrs. Murray Crane, in the identical gown
as to make. color and fabric.
Early in the winter, in fact, at the first
White House function, Mrs. Pitney. wife
| of Justice Pitney. found that her hostess,
Mrs. Wilson, the Presidents BRIDE was
| wearing model French gown, identical
in fashioning with one she owned, though
she did not happen to have 1t on on that
occasion. Moreover. there was a saving
grace in the situation, because Mrs. Will
/ sons gown is white satin brocaded in
silver and Mrs. Pitney's a black velvet
| Modistes in New York are even going
so far as writing fashionable women here
and asking them ii they would like to
| have this and that model which has al
ready been sold to the Presidents wife.
The ladies who ran into each other the
other afternoon and discovered each had
on a similar black tulle gown were Mrs
Carl Vrooman and Mrs. Francois Berger
Moran.
| Each gown being black. however, and
| the two ladies' being so exactly the op-
| pbste of one another. the sad truth
| brought home to each thatfsl has not an
exclusive model is not the tragedy it
might have been considered. for really
only a critical eye would discover the
fact.
Cumming storey. president general Of the
I u. A. r., by Miss Hilda Fletcher, a
unique feature of the decorations was
| a large plaque of flowers in the center.
from it to the places of the guests.
When the luncheon was over each lady
pulled her own particular ribbon and
| the plaque of flowers vanished, falling
apart into corsage bouquets.