Evening star., 1917-04-08
Picked Up Here and There.

Picked Up Here and There.
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money to keep up his position; he ran
through what he had after way that
has never commended itself. When the
war was begun he took commission
I'm the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserves.
but to a man of his years and his way
of living. the restrictions were difficult
for him to fulfill. and he quit active
service
heard him say once that it was "a
tough Job being a duke without having
much money or a ducal disposition"
Newport, center of fashion, has closed
the most remarkable of campaigns.
They have succeeded
Newport Leads in enrolling $500
members in the Red
In hed Gross. Cross. This places
the home of fashion in the lead for
membership over every other city in
the country. Arthur B. Comerford
promised that he would get 1000 men,
bers in one week. and the smart set
rallied around him to help make good
his promise.
The fashionable young women there
window at the headquarters as dem.
onstrators of the work OF the Red
Cross. 1t has been one of the most
unique exhibitions of history MRS.
French Vanderbilt and Mrs. Livings,on
Beeckman have worked hard in pulling
the membership up to this high figure
Valuable articles, including a splen-
did fur coat and a rare carved reli-
gious o r a
American Indians men' ave
Impress on Fashions. dona ed to
the Museum of Natural History. New
York. by we'll known women. The new
accessions are displayed on the main
floor at the left.
One of the most interesting OF the
collection Is a fur coat given by Mrs. T..
II. Hartman. The coat was purchased
by Mr. Hartman, says the New I ork
Herald, when he went to Alaska Win
the Hartman expedition. II IS mace
of beautiful marten skins In farha
fasbion the stvle generally worn by
the Indians and Eskimos or that re-
sion. The garment is one or coliec-
tion Of 400 owned by the museum out
kept in vaults on account OF lack oi
space. W.,
Another rare gift is that of Mrs VIII
liam Tod Helmuth, which comes from
the far east 1t is sacred apron anu
headdress Of Tibet, and the large me-
daIlions are made of carved bones OF
BUDDHIST priests and are supposed TO
possess great virtue The ornaments
are held together with strings OF IVORY
colored beads of somewhat irregular
ished finger and toe joints of human
beings. Another apron OF similar DE-
sign is displayed in the same case. This
is smaller and less elaborate In design:
1t was obtained by the Younghusband
expedition.
Mrs Paul Morton has presented
Navajo blanket, eight North American
Indian baskets and bronze statuette
done by Herman A. MacNeil, an Ameri-
can sculptor.
Francis Burton Harrison, Governor of
the Philippines. has given skin of the
timarau, the native buffalo. Judge Ma
than Blur of the supreme court mas
contributed a war shirt or moosehide
from the Kake tribe of Kupreanof
Island.
The traditions and customs of the In
dian forefathers of this country are
strikingly recalled by a remarkable
wampum belt. which has just been pur-
chased by the museum and is in the
exhibit 1t is considered by the ex-
perts as probably the finest example OF
its kind in existence and is in practi-
cally perfect condition. Its beauty is
due to the peculiar luster and delicate
gradations in the color of the purple
beads of shell of which ii is composed.
This is the last week of the exhibit
of textiles designed from ancient In
dian patterns and articles in use from
1000 to 1000 years ago. The collection
includes many handsome silk materials
by the yard suitable for sport wear and
u-go md dpaS x.yol
some of the handsomest ribbons ever
shown. They were copied from ancient
Chinese, Peruvian and Guatemalan In
dian designs. The colors are vivid and
wonderfully effective.
On account of the European war very
few designs have come to America
from the fashion center abroad, SO de-
Signers here were thrown upon their
to ancient American Indians for in
spiration.
Instances of personal service among
young men of wealth fill the news. Mr.
William Earl Dodge
Reaux Flock has rented a house
o-, at Newport, r. l.,
to the Colors. for the summer and
will establish a hydroaeroplane camp
on the beach of the inner harbor. His
aeroplane parties and moonlight flights
of last summer thus were unwilling
forerunners of preparedness in a direc-
ton most helpful to the government
The regiments that have been sum
nloned to the colors or are ready for
mobilization are filed with young men
who are factors in fashionable life
Weddings arranged for the Easter sea-
son, such as those of Miss Ina A. Kissel
to Mr.. Henry Taft Eaton yesterday and
of Miss NJ. Eunice Clapp to Mr.. Bradish
johnson Carroll of the 7th Regiment
and of Miss Felicity Campbell Clark to
Mr.. Richard Bache Duane of Squadron
A. last Wednesday. were hastened by
the international complications.
A letter from Cannes from a pro-
spective bride throws interesting light