The Washington herald., 1917-09-16

The wars humanitarian side will
engage women and men OF all ages
and conditions, and everything but
social dinner and debut parties and
a few such events will have their
helpful features for the men on the
other side.
The annual National Horse Show
at New York. like the horse shows
all along the line. will open on No
vember -. and be carried through
each day for the benefit Of the
American Red Cross. With a view
TO sons and fathers either being in
Europe or preparing TO go, or en-
gagged in useful pursuit on this
side. committee of women headed
by Mrs. Belmont Tiffany has been
formed TO work in connection with
the regular directors of the Ma
tional Horse Show Association in
taking up the Red Cross end of the
work. The Horse Show will be a
Red Cross beneht of a quite un-
usual sort. The directors of the
exhibition will meet all the usual
expenses and give to the war char
ity the entire profits, which 1t is
thought will exceed 100000.
On the North Shore. where chill
winds sent women into their heav-
lest suits and furs for all except
the midhOurs OF the day, a bril-
liant little horse show for the ben
EFT Of the Red Cross was carried 10
a successful finish yesterday. Ii
was the annual Green Meadow
Horse Show. and was given at the
country place OF Mrs. George s
Burroughs at Hamilton. Mass. II
took the place OF the annual Myo-
pia Hunt Club given on Labor Day
for nearly a quarter Of a century
and abandoned this year because &C
many OF the young men who took
part in IT have gone into the SER
vice Miss Julia Appleton Meyer
and her cousin. Miss Julia Apple
ton. whose engagements. the one
TO Mr.. Brambilla. counselor of the
Italian Embassy. and the other to
Capt Charles S. Bird. jr., were re-
Gently announced, were instrumen.
tai in its success.
There is a rumor that dame fashion
Is going TO receive the cold shoulder
in Washington this winter, and that
one will meet old and familiar sights
in the dinner and evening gowns to
be worn by even the women of the
smart set. Perhaps this will be wholly
true for the coming season as it was
partially true for the last. Diplomatic
women almost altogether escheweL
elaborate imported frocks and women
high up in the official world adopted
the customs obtaining abroad, to a
great extent. and while they added
few new gowns to their wardrobes,
were without the usual new frock for
each important occasion which they
have always shown. The wife of the
governor OF Mime sofa, Mrs. ]. A.
Burnquist. has started a campaign
against fanciful dressing in that part
Of the world. and women of Washing
ton who always rushed of to New
York to Gull the earliest and choicest
importations are not going over to do
T1uch in that line this year. America
IS at war. and the women will adopt
the tactics OF women in other coun-
tries who have the same yoke upon
them.
But over in Baltimore, women well
known in the world of society. but
with limited incomes made more limit
ed by war times, are doing their Bit
In another way. A number of them
are going incognito each day TO some
one OF the large canning factories To-
cated there, and are stringing beans,
peahng tomatoes and preparing fruits
ana vegetables for the Gamers. II is
not untidy work. and through the in
come from 1t they are helping the