The Washington herald., 1918-11-28
SOCIETY RIDES
!. ON WAGONS IN
MILK PARADE
Washington Women Make
Appeal for Underfed
Babies of France.
AIRPLANES GUIDE BAND
Residents Of District Urged
to Help Fund for,
War Orphans.
GUIDE BAND

Preceded by the Marine Band and
guided by airplanes that hoyered
over the line of march the Free
Milk for France Fund parade passed
in review yesterday afternoon in its
FIRST public appeal to Washington to
aid a cause that means milk for un-
derfed babies and wounded Ameri-
can soldiers in France.
| Quite incongruous with the gray
of the government buildings was the
element of rural life that the parade
and brightly colored peasant cos
tunes of the participants brought to
the National Capital Many of the
most prominent society women Of
| the city disguised as milkmaids and
| farmerettes rode on the hay wagons
and scenes from French rural life
that comprised the floats.
| Many Wear sunbonnets.
Promptly at $3.50 o'clock the pa
rade started from Scott Circle. The
procession was lead by the Marine
Band. closely followed by the hay
wagon float over which Miss Alice
Harding presided. She was assisted
by the following, dressed in sun
! bonnet and farmerette costumes:
Misses Anna Martin johnson, Evelyn
wadsworth, Helen Colbert, Helen
Tucker. Peggy Martin. Anna Right,
Mary Winslow. Anna Southard La
nier, Ruth Thurston. Virginia Sell
den. Alice Fletcher. Nancy Hoyt.
Katherine Fenning and Katherine
Sutherland.
The pastoral float. built on a low
motor truck. featured a live COW.
a blossoming apple tree and a bird
house. Miss Jean Potter. Miss Kit
tie Lester. Miss Caroline Story. Miss
Sally McAdoo and Miss Margaret
Harding, in quaint Normandy cos
tunes conducted the float
Miss Edith waIlach. representing
America, was a prominent figure in
the Appeal to America float. She
was assisted by a group of children,
who by the dance they enacted,
made an appeal for the unfortunate
children Of France. -,
ConSaiescent Garden Float. ~
The character parts of the Conva =
lescent Garden float were taken by
Mrs. Frank c. Lander. the widow OF
Corps, and Mrs. J. d. Oliver. jr. his
float represented a convalescent gar
| den in which rest and food was offered
wounded soldier.
The success of the parade, it was
stated yesterday, was due to the gen.
erous cooperation whicn the mer-
chants, the Army and Navy depart
ments and individuals of WASHINGTON
gave. The motor trucks. the horses.
the cows and calves and the float dec
oratlons were donated by Washington
business men. Already the empty milk
bottles that are being placed at the
| department stores and the plea of the
| milk buckets has reached generous
/ hearted Washingtonians. More than
5000 pennies We're thrown into the
buckets of the milkmaids during the
parade. The contributions that were
! given in dollar bills, half dollars. 8
| cent pieces, dimes and nickels yester-
\ terday afternoon amounted TO $50.
Milk bottles that were placed in the
| government departments have been
| hlied several times over Hearty sup
! port has been given the cause by the
! War Risk Insurance. Three milk bot
I ties were filled by that department be-
/ fore noon yesterday.
| Donates Entire Proceeds.
The proceeds of all sales today will
be contributed towards the fund by
Mr.. Linkins, proprietor of the Vic
tory Lunch Room, 1724 Pennsylvania
avenue. 1t is expected that this
| donation alone will increase the
Washington fund several hundred dol
lars.
The parade today is to introduce
our cause" Mrs. Harold Minott,
| chairman of the Washington fund,
said yesterday: This appeal is not
\ confined to any stratum of society.
! We need the help OF the scrub woman
as much as we need the support of
| the club woman, for a cause with
| such a universal appeal is for all q"
Nine. Jusserand, who is enthusias-
| tically indorsing the work of the
4 fund. officially reviewed the parade
yesterday afternoon in the name OF
France and Nine. Foch. wife of Mar
shal Foch, who is president of the
organization.