Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-29

decorator ana mouse furnfsher. Her
enterprise is but another instance of
woman's Impotence with the subsid-
larry role once assigned to her 1t is
that Twelve Pound Look of Barrie's.
In CHANGING over the social calendar
for the future. says the Philadelphia
Record, il is found
A War Dance in that war is material
ly changing the char
1A4iaoeIPnla. acter of all enter
tanning and. with few exceptions. every
form Of amusement is in some way con-
nected with a charitable cause. The
Red Cross looms up as beacon light
to the hostess who is reluctant to put
aside her social entertaining and offers
a splendid opportunity to combine
charity and pleasure.
A dance is now being arranged to
take place on May at the Philadel-
phia Cricket Club for the benefit of the
Red Cross The young girls who are
In charge are members of the Wissa-
hickon Red Cross unit. and meet at
the home Of Miss Theodore Ross in
Germantown. where number of the
younger set are vitality interested
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Miss Adele Blow could say lot on
the text that it is the women who get
the worst of 1t in
Joins Yale Officers war Scarcely
Contingent. men, - Wasn.
Chatfeld- Taylor of Lake Forest an
nounced than war was declared by our
government, and she was the first to
urge him to join the Yale officers re-
serve corps. At the time that Mr..
Characterization left last week for his
war duties in the east his ffancee said
she would enact the waiting part of
woman by devoting herself to Red
Cross preparedness work. Plans for
the wedding have been indefinitely
postponed. Miss Blow was debutante
of the past winter, and is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. George Preston
Blow of La Sale. Ill. The family spent
the winter in Chicago.
Members of society have been the
buyers again at the auction sale of
Karl Freunds COL
New York lection Of antique
I. furniture and mod
Buys Antiques. ern decorative de-
signs at New York.
The most important item. the eight
zenith century English lacquer cabinet
and stand which once belonged to the
late Duke of Cambridge. was purchased
for 1,5o0 by Mrs. James L. Breese. who
also acquired pair of eighteenth CEN
fury overdoors designed by Robert
Adam, for 81 1900.
Mrs James A. Burden took an early
eighteenth century six-fold painted
I'll, ~ IIar
ton paid s1.0s0 for four Cromwellian
high-back oak chairs. pair of Chi
nese Lowestoft bowls from the Cheshire
Cheese Tavern, patronized by Samuel
for $1,000. Among the purchases of
Mr.. Robert Goelet were two William
and Mary needlework panels mounted
rs pole screens. for $500 and $685..
Among other buyers were Mrs. Her
mann oelrichs. Messrs. Rudolph Spreck-
els. Stewart Walker, Hermann P.
Tape and Miss Elsie de Wolfe.
Harvard has, for the first time since
civil war days. given up all its usual
spring and summer
Harvard Man festivities. its Hasty
Pudding Club. dramat-
JOINS navy. les. it's intercollegiate
boat races and base ball.
Among Harvard men enlisted Is J.
Lawrence Laughlin. jr., son of Prof
Iaughlin, formerly of the Chicago Uni
versity.
Like SO many of our young men. Lar
W. Jaughltn has gone into the navy.
besause, as they all say. it means
quicker business" 1t is the branch Of
our service which will be soonest In
action.
He is a wit and a clever draughtsman.
as well as a would-be sailor. He is
frequent contributor to the Harvard
Iampoon. recent skit of his depict
ed a pretty French maiden and a GAL
liant poilu. When she complained that
oome Of the boches cannon fire had