Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-09
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One Of the most elaborate as well
as most attractive parties ever given
at the Detroit
Echo From Frazer- Ath letic Club
,, took place June
B. Cary was the host at bachelor din
ner In honor OF John P. Frazer. whose
marriage to Miss Frances Marion Shaw
will be one of the fashionable events
in Washington this week. The en-
bellishments of the handsomely ap-
pointed table were unusual minta-
ture automobile track encircled the
table with speeding miniature motor
cars on their way to Washington"
while telegraph poles gave a realistic
touch to the scene. At II o'clock a
long-distance telephone message was
received from Miss Shaw and a tele-
gram was sent her by each of the
guests. The favors. says the Detroit
Free Press. were exquisite flower hold
ers In the form Of a bride arrayed In
bridal tulle, and q miniature bridal
party graced the center Of the table.
isn't It fortunate that this war with
Mexico. on which we seem to verge,
didn't happen two
War Mora Cor. years ago?' asked
the graduate ofChevy
venient Now. ch.s. who had taken
special fonors In wireless telegraphy
and received honorable mention in field
cookery. to say nothing of having a
framed Red Cross diploma to testify to
her ability in first aid and being one of
the first ten of the Baltimore bandage-
rolling brigade. says a writer in the
Baltimore Sun.
why is 1t any moro convenient
now? asked the member of the Ma
tional Guard. gloomily gazing at his
shoes.
ITS not moro convenient exactly"
explained the soldierette. painstaking-
ly, but we are so much better up on
matters of wartime etiquette than we
were then. Two years ago we would
have been fearfully gauche in this sit
uation, but now we know exactly what
to do, thanks to the European war.
The member Of the National Guard
crossed one brown shoe over the other
and began to speculate.
You mean that two years ago II
man had gone to war we would have
filled his place with another man, but
now his sister-in-law steps forward.
gets her picture In tho paper ana saves
the country by holding his job for
himT'
lust exactly" agreed the soldier
cite. Our women are trying to do all
the things that European women have
figured in doing, whether there Is any
sense in doing them or not. We are
running around collecting lists of other
women who can do anything useful
from raising cattle to keeping books. in
spite of the fact that there is and prom
ises to be no dearth Of men in either of
these fields. We are noting down
houses for hospitals, in spite of the
fact that the few wounded we would
have in case of a war with Mexico
would certainly be cared for near the
boundary. We are sending thousands
Of sheets and bandages and what not to
places where they will probably never
be used"
But there is no reason why the
pleasant custom of shipping boxes to
the front should not be adhered to-"
suggested the member of the National
Guard judicially.
"Tinned meats candy-and hea pow
der" agreed the practical soldierette
Then there are the war brides" he
continued. warming to his subject
Two years ago II girl was engaged
to a soldier she would probably just
have stayed engaged. Today nothing
so old timsy 10 possible. The war bride