Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

Old and New. 70 call his own?
Well, he's still with US. although the
valentines are different. and the post
master of Chicago is authority for the
statement that at least 100000 of
these sentimental missives passed
through the mails Wednesday. the 18th.
says the Chicago Herald.
Perbaps interest in the pretty GUS
tom, which has been allowed to lapse
somewhat Of late years. was stimulated
IN the attractive display of oid-tlme
valentines gathered together by mrs.
Emma Il. Hodge and now on exhibition
at the Art Institute. Chicago. The very
ftrst valentine that was ever made IN the
United states is there, and very
tsIuty-look ing memento 1t is, with
large basket Of fruit and flowers made
of woven paper in the center of an OBJ
long piece of lacy paper. Also Is shown
tra English valentine that inspired Is
thcr Rowland the Mount Holyoke girl,
To- make the first valentine, with its
elaborate border of fine lace paper and
decorations of Colored flowers.
There also is set of seven yalen-
tines issued at the time of the marriage
Of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert.
February 10. 1870. The picture was
made from sheets of cork stamped in
has relief. the foliage being represented
pulverized cork, the whole then
painted in colors, giving them very
odd and quaint effect. Then there are
any number of quaint little manuscript
valentines. written in the finest Spen-
cerian hand and decorated in little
verses full of sentiment and Wreathed
in borders of flowers. mostly bluebells
and roses and forget-me-nots and
fairies.
The present day swain is equally SEN
tfmental, perhaps. but he sends his VAL
entiues in vers hore, or else in prose that
rhymes. Among some love tokens which
recently met my eye and were sent to
some modern girls by some modern men
were these.
You shall not wash dishes nor yet
feed the swine. if only you'll be my
valentine, but live in a mansion i'll
North Shore place. and dress up in vel
vet and valenciennes lace.
Just like a man, said the girl who
got it. For whoever heard of velvet
and vaiencienneS?"
What think you of this from a re-
generated bachelor:
With love to you, my dearest Polly.
from one who once thought love was
folly. Alas. alack, how men do change
when once they come within loves
range. Who would have thought that,
of all men. I'd ever sit me down and
pen a line like this to any girl, no mat
ter if she is a pearl?'
In the event of our being drawn into
the war all suffrage work will stop. as
was the case in Eng
Suffragists land where the non
militant suffragists,
III war 4lue. under Mrs. Edgar
Fawcett, were the only completely or
Eanized numerically and financially pow
erful body of women able to take instant
hold of the relief work, says the Chicago
Tribune.
They organized hospitals, ambulance
corps--social service workers, women
for work in munitions factories ana
many other branches of war relief. ON |
the other hand. curiouSly enough, the |
militant suffragists' organizations went |
all to pieces. Mrs. PankhurSt and her |
daughter Chrystabel, in the employ of
the British government, are now using |!
their-Cratorlcal powers to promote re-
cruiting.
Already the influence of the Paris |
edict, which forbids French women at |
tending tn e
Paris Edict Affects theaters in
American Fashions. has asen felt
in America This is merely another |
way of saying that formal afternoon
frocks are receiving unusual attention
on DOtff SlQ6S OF the Atlantic. IL may 1
be that it will become something of a |
fad to wear a frock minus collar and |
with abbreviated sleeves in lieu of the |
deeelIete dress which has been con- |
sidered de rigueuer for many years.
The draperies are really the new I
est things in the afternoon frock. And. |
oddly enough. they bear little relation |
TO the style of gown which Clothilde. |
(1upen of Ibagoherf the long |
ago when ladies of high degree were
chatelaineS as well of person of quail |
ity. And it is Clothilde's dress which |
We afe initiating these days. says the |
New York American.
Mr. nd Mrs James King Clarke of |
friends at tea on the lawn |
Palm Reach of their villa on Lake |
Worth Palm Beach, in
oio"s. the most exclusive sec
ton. last Sunday There was the alb
solute quiet and serenity. Suddenly a
voice, measuring every word, beloved
out through the shrubbery:
THE home of Commodore Clarke one
of the original members of the New
York Yacht Club. They make the thread
with 81 y. r on it,
A "rubberneck' wagon had drifted
up noiselessly on float. humanity from
e out of the west come to Palm
Beach, hanging to every inch of it. like
fies, and megaphone man was shout
ing out his INSTRUMENTATION.
The crowds are SO great that John r.
Bradley, hunter of big game, who has
= been going there twenty-one years, de-
cided TO gauge the flow past the beach
club Sunday afternoon with an auto
matte counter. In the hour from to 4,
says the Philadelphia Record. he reg
istered 1896 people, whereas only a few
seasons ago there would not have been
over goo
Under the auspices of a small coterie
:. of society people. about half of them
+. Philadelphians, an automobile race was
= held a few days ago on the Gulf Stream
: bolleyard. The racing was done exclu-
:. sively in a sort of automobile toy
j, that has made its appearance at Palm
b, Beach this season. 1t only weighs l25
J. pounds and can be pulled into the house
;. in case Of rain: it is twenty inches
p: high, but snappy looking, and will do
: close to twenty-five miles an hour with
+. two people. The starters included
: George ID. Widener and Coleman Dray-
= ton of Philadelphia. The race for girls
= uas won by Mrs. John Rutherford who
received handsome jeweled pin do
mated by Clarence Jones Ecter Mum
and G,urnap Mum of Toll r,,nd