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All the attractions that have made
ReisenUeher's at Columbus Circle
such a popular rendezvous are grad
ually again being Instituted and its
Ave floors OF busting activity now
again present n myriad of attrac-
tons that can't be equalled in any
similar establishment
Particularly significant was the
opening of PARADISE" on Thursday
evening with Miss Joan Sawyer as
its chief attractive feature. The en-
tire room has been renovated and
presents an appearance OF unusual
charm. Paradise" opens each eve
ming at . o'clock and Miss Alice King
is its competent hostess. Win Hol-
lander's orchestra furnishes the dance
music on this floor.
cabaret is in progress in the main
restaurant, and new revue pro-
duCcd by Louis Silvers will be pre-
scented here beginning October %.
Here and There" is it's title, with
Ruby Merton as its featured principal
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greatly prefer to leave them where
they were and have her house ready
for her when she returned to Wash
ington-she and her husband had
both found work to do over there
but she had had enough OF renting
her house furnished. She had done
that. and to army people who were
! friends of some OF her friends and
seemed to be likely I'd take reasonable
care Of things.
And" she walled. would you be-
leve It? l actually found blotters
nailed to my beloved Old mahogany
tables!"
And II an army officer and his wife
do that sort OF thing. what can you
expect OF the ordinary run OF people?
Can't you sympathize with the young
ster who when his mother had taken
in horde OF war workers to her sor-
row tilted her small nose skyward and
announced that no one need talk to
her about wars and roomers OF wars"
for she'd had quite enough OF them.
Washington is still upset by the in
influenza visitation. Theatres and
churches were closed week ago.
Then people were asked to abandon
all private gatherings indoors.
One of the few organizations that
are still meeting Is the Ladies OF the
Senate. Mrs. Marshall, who is its
head. explains that there are so few
OF them and they are all OF a class
who would realize the danger II they
were at all under the weather OF ex-
| posing the others that so far they
had not felt 1t necessary to shut up
shop altogether. They completed
their quota OF 1000 influenza masks q
week ago, and have recently been
working on think they call them
healing rings, or something like that,
things that look. as Mrs. Marshall puts
it, like big round cotton doughnuts."
| They are like air cushions to go under
a patient to ease some sore or achy
spot.
| Last Wednesday they had a merry
| little function up there-they have
| quarters in the Senate office building,
you know-which seems to have COM
b.ned some Of the fc 1tures OF n bas-
ket picnic with those of a school COM
mencement, Mrs. Phllander Knox
had laughinsly suggested that they
ought to give prizes to those who had
been most regular in their attendance.
Then she asked them all to bring their
lunches on Wednesday, but none of
them suspected what she was up to
until with considerable flourish she an
nounced that she had decided to award
prize to Mrs. John Nugent, wife OF
the Senator from Idaho, who had not
missed a single day in month. The
prize was a silver bowl. with a red
cross in brilliant enamel.
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The Hotel Hamilton, the new If
teen-story residential hotel located at
Nos. l4l to 1853 West Seventy-third
street. the first TO be erected under the
new zone law, is being rapidly pushed
to completion and will be opened TO
holders of leases and transients about
Oct. Is.
This hotel Is leased for twenty-one
years. under an annual charge which
calls for the payment OF nearly $1,000
600 In the aggregate.
As It is quite likely that the Haml-
ton is the best residential hotel struct-
ure that will be erected In New York
for some time to come because of the
difficulty OF obtaining building ma
terial, the value OF its lease has greatly
increased since 1t was executed sew
eral weeks ago. The present holders
have recently been offered bonus of
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kinsky

largely as a background for the float
ing, .enveloping and numberless dra-
peries hung over them.
y white satin frock with its over
TUNES, panels and draperies OF white
and gold, suggesting both the simpiic-
ity of a Grecian effect and the loose
long things OF the Empire period, best
illustrates this type of gown. There
are no sleeves except floating tissues.
which may be called such. hung and
caught as only a French dressmaker
knows how. from the shoulders. Bands
OF open work gold threads outline the
neck, which is high at the back and
only slightly decollete in front.
Still another beautiful creation pre-
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Twenty-fourth street-Thomas Beau
mont Hohler. who has been here for
some time as second counsellor to the
British Embassy and was lately pro-
NOTED to the rank OF Minister, making
only Ave Ministers P1en!potentiary
| and one Ambassador in the personnel
OF the British Embassy here. Soon
| after he was accredited to Uruguay.
| He will soon DO starting for Monte
video to take up his new duties. AL
ready the p. p. G. parties for him are
ON. Mrs. Frederick Keep gave a din
ner for him q day or two ago. And
! presumably that house will be vacant
| for as much as five minutes, unless
some one else connected with the en-
| bassy is waiting hungrily for it.
II is said now that the Draper man.
sion Is being taken over by Uncle
Sam for the period of the war. II
is rather surprising that the big house
at Connecticut avenue and X street
has been allowed to stand vacant as
long as II has. About two years ago
Maragret Draper married Prince An
| drea Buoncompagni land then some
he had such string OF names that
one wonders IL he can remember
them all himself! Almost Immediate
ly she sailed for Italy with him. Very
soon afterward her mother, widow OF
Gen. William +. Draper. once
United States Ambassador to Italy,
followed Margaret is her only child
and, naturally, her chief interest In
life. The big house was closed, its
doors and windows boarded up. and
closed and boarded up It has remained
ever since.
/ haven't heard what Uncle Sam
thinks he can do with the great house.
ing Of war workers, and that is what
is most needed. Naturally it is the
use which appeals least TO the owners
of big handsome residences.
Ones sympathies are divided in the
matter. While 1t is rather appalling
to think of war workers leaving
Washington in droves for lack OF ac-
commodation, on the other hand, II
there Is one place in the world where
man or womn ought TO be able to find
sanctuary IL is in his or her own
home. And when one listens to some
Of the tales OF those who have
opened their homes to strangers. even
of those who being away have rented
their homes to people who seemed
their own sort and likely to treat
them respectfully. one can understand
why folks shut their ears to appeals
and their doors to the outsiders who
beg for house room.
remember Mrs George Odelrs tell
ing me when she was packing up the
furnishings OF her charming house
and sending them to storage that shed
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NEWS OF THE SOCIAL WORLD

Griesal and Mrs. Roy Emery Fletcher.
who are vice-presidents: Mrs. A. n.
Busch, Mrs. John Capen Eames, Mrs.
Stanley Lyman Otis. Mrs. Ida Powell
Priest. Miss Minnie !. Wilson. Mrs. Ev-
erett N. Harter, Mrs Jessie l.. Higgins.
Mrs. Marcus VI. Marks, Mrs. ]. w. Need
ham and Mrs. Austin n. Palmer. who
compose the board of directors; Mrs
Meredith Blair Lovelace. recording sec
rotary: Mrs. Henry Allen lie Vey, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. Emile New
man. assistant corresponding secretary
Mrs. Isidor L. Carbonell, treasurer Mrs
Philip F. Hoffman, who is on the COM
mittee of audit and Mrs. John Francis
Yawger, historian.
Activities have been resumed by the
Theatre Club, Mrs. John II. Parker
president. The first study day took
place last Tuesday afternoon Mt the
Hotel Aston. The meeting opened with
an Interpretation OF Sibelius's Romano"
played by the pianist, Miss Anne Woods
McLeary.
The play selected for discussion was
THE Unknown Purple" the chairman OF
the day being Mrs. e. Snowden. The
speakers were Mrs George NJ Clyde,
Mrs. Gahagan. Mrs. NJ. Crystal, Mrs. Lee
Schweiger, Mrs. Helen Wells. Mrs Eva
Phipps. Mrs. Lundy and Mrs Selig.
Delegates and alternates appointed TO
the New York City Federation Con-
vention, to be held at the Aston on
October 25. are as follows: Delegates
Mrs. John II. Parker. Miss II. c. Shirk,
Mrs. George Shaw. Alternates-Miss
Emma Miegel. Mrs. John A. Campbell
and Mrs. William III. Beers. Those APP
pointed to attend the convention OF the
New York State Federation Of Women's
Clubs at the Aston on November II are
Delegates-Mrs. John II. Parker. Mrs.
Helen Wells, Mrs. Joseph Taylor. Mrs.
John ]. Curtis. Alternates-Mrs Lee
schweiger Mrs. William Hart. Mrs. +.
B. Clark and Mrs. Woodward.
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and kolinsky,

sents a new neck effect made in a
shawl or monks collar of net. The
dress itself is OF black georsette over a
pettico at OF satin. The front OF the
dress is outlined with n checked effect
made of silver beads and is outlined
at both sides with narrow panels of
grosgrain ribbon OF a brilliant Belgian
blue color. These panels are Cascaded
in loops, quite unusual and very pleas
Ing. The bodice of this extremely dig
rified and beautiful, dinner gown is of
black net and the gcorgette. The sill
yer beads appear again and the sleeves
float away in the pleasing way many
OF these new things have.
1t is quite modish to select a froCli
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Friday night. And the complications
particularly involved Miss Mercedes
Lorcnz, the prima donna of "Attaboy."
And il AL came about through the
efforts OF Judge Louis ]. Hixon OF At
lanta, Ga, a guest OF the Martinique,
endeavor.ng to corner the osculatory
market. Since Monday night Judge
Hixon has been a steady attendant at
the "Attaboy' performances, and
every time Miss Lorenz began her
bond selling campaign he has pledged
himself to the extent OF $4,000. Now
Miss Lorenz and the other fair men,
bers of the company have nightly car
ried out their pledges anent the oscu-
latory prizes promised. but the South
ern Judge and his friends have re-
fused to exact their toll but insisted
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Washington Society

Continued from Sixth Page.
versity Park near by, and he has them
already installed.
There is some speculation as to
whether Uncle Sam will grab up the
Ingalls, mansion which has been the
Brazilian Embassy for the last two or
three years. now that the da Gamas
are vacating. Nine. da Cana is here
arranging for her removal to New
York. where she has taken house for
the winter. During the past week she
has been entertaining the Henry
Seligmans Of New York en- route to
White Sulphur Springs. Mr.. da CANA
expects to sail probably within the
next week. but Nine da Cana will
stay IN this country TIL spring.
Then thsrs b Nr. Hohlss's house on
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OF one color in heavy fabric, such as
velvet or satin. introduce floating,
oraped sleeves in net or chiffon of the
exact shade, and not to add bit OF
contrasting color. Such frock should
present harmonious whole as to color
and be beautiful in line and effect.
Undoubtedly velvet and satin will
lead other materials as first choice for
The more elaborate frocks. AS the sash
Is with us again in huge butterfly eff
feet, borrowed from the Japanese XII
mono, many velvet or satin dresses
will DE ornamonted with beautiful rib
hons in large bows. so that our backs
at least will look like the schoolgirls
Of long ago.
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The Rector Girl" will enter upon
its final week at Rector's tomorrow
night. This elaborate glrl-and-
show has enjoyed the longest run of
any production that has yet occupied
the miniature stage in the main din
ing room. Despite the popularity of
the piece its run will be brought to an
end in order to make way for the
Rector Fall Revue, which Will open
the following Monday. The new piece
will be interpreted by an all-star cast
of principals and the usual Rector
chorus de looks"
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-
York Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church, Dean street, Brooklyn. The cere-
mony was performed by the Rev. John s.
Langdale.
Miss Olga Elleda Hoff, daughter Of
MIR, and Mrs. Olaf Hon. was married on
October to Charles Barker Fernald.
son Of DR.. and Mrs. James C. Fernald.
The wedding took place at the home OF
the brides parents, 337 Park street,
Montclair. and the ceremony was per-
formed by the Rev. Howard A. Adair
m the Presbyterian Church at Upper
Montclair.
The matron of honor was the brides
sister, Mrs ]. Donald Lyman, and Miss
Margaret Conway OF Milwaukee was the
maid of honor. Three young nieces OF
the bridegroom, Frances. Betty and Har-
riet Fernald. were the flower girls. His
brother, Lieut. James Fernaid, who Is
In the Aviation Service, was his best
man.
The convention OF the National United
Daughters of the Confederacy will be
held on November IS. In Louisville. Ky.
The New York chapter. Mrs. James
Henry Parker. president. elected its
delegates on Tuesday at its meeting at
GERS for the coming year.
The Daughters OF Pennsylvania re-
sumed their meetings on Tuesday at the
Hotel Belleciaire. Their president is
Mrs. Walter s. Comfy.
With a salutation to the flag, the
National Opera Club OF America opened
Ats meeting on Thursday afternoon at
the Waldorf-Astoria. DR.. Carl Figue,
one OF the conductors OF the club. made
an address on American opera. and two
selections from Jeanne dare" were
given by Nine. Gertrude Hall. George
Sala, the 'celliet played, and a number
OF young women beioning to the clubs
chorus. under the direction Of Ro-
mualdo Sapio, sang the barcarolle from
Reginald de Koven's Fencing Master"
The clubs president Is Nine. Katherine
Evans Won Klenner.
The woman's Forum. Miss Helen
Varick Boswell. president. had It's frst
meeting OF the season on Friday MORN
Ing at the Hotel Biltmore. A Parker
Nevin, who recently returned from
france. where he went in the interest OF
the Fund for French Wounded. spoke
Capt Herbert c. Matthias of the, Cana
dian forces. who has been invalided
home. and Lieut.. 8. L. Rothapfel were
also guests and speakers.
The Forums headquarters this winter
Tor Red Cross worh will be at ~ East
Thirty-fourth street. The vice-presi-
dent. Mrs Roy Emery Fletcher. is now
serving as Y. NJ. c. A. secretary In
France. Some Of the officers OF the
Forum are Mrs william rod Helmuth
hiss Florence GuernAsN 1LuA John II.
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showing Of gowns. suits and robes
for all occasions.
For instance, that very comfort
able garment which We call a MILDLY
blouse is transformed into a formal
blouse Of the most Partisan effect.
find It developed in a soft gray
Georgette over a black satin skirt.
Now, the difference between this sort
Of blouse and the more familiar mod
els lies in the fact that the looseness
at the bottom Of the skirt of the
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blouse has been gathered into. a mar
row string sash with long ends. In
stead Of turning the bottom OF the
blouse on the outside 1t has been tied
underneath the outer blouse around
the waist, so that a very loose eff
feet like a shawl is produced by
thus draping the whole thing.
or course this arrangement, while
of the simplest, necessitates an open
ing of the two front sides. and these
have been caught together with a
vestee of finest batiste encrusted with
tiny shirrings OF real Valenciennes
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Most Decided Changes Are Seen in Collars but Fringe
Is Not as deliberately Displayed as in Earlier
Models-Panel Appears in Thousand Effects

they encouraged indifference to APP
2earance even in the most critical pc
RODS Of the war.
We note with interest that there
are no startling innovations, no freak
or absurd creations to catch and shock
the attention, but rather a deter
mined effort to express dignity and
simplicity both in line and color. Also
II Is to be noted, clever adaptation
Of some old ideas is seen in the new
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Sio,uOU lot IL. lney nave refused 70
entertain this proposition.
The Revue Intime,' Moulin Rouge.
The current edition OF THE Revue
1ntime' has been voted the most
unique and entertaining OF the
Moulin Rouge revues. The piece is
presented continuously in the beau
tiful new Domino room of the Moulin
Rouge. In providing this attractive
rendezvous for summer stay-at-homes
Manager Gaillard T. Baog has given
Broadway a replica OF the cafe chan
tant which was the life OF Paris in
the antebellum days.
The Re, ne Intime" boasts of nov
city both in talent and arrangement.
Instead OF the usual routine show the
entertainment Is provided by group
OF strolling players who crop up from
tables all around you and add to the
surprise by entertaining in a most
finished fashion. Among the popular
artists who have established them
selves in the piece are Martin Gull
hane, Maybelle Jones' Mile. Nadia and
Lillian Leonora.
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that the final accounting be made on
the completion of the drive.
Golden Ola des.

The new revue at Healy's Golden
Glades is attracting crowds which
makes II possible for one to drop in
at any time during the dinner period
and see a complete performance. Each
Of these numbers Is complete in itself,
beautifully costumed and presented by
the principals OF the talented organi-
cation that has assembled for the en-
tertainment. 1t was a stroke of
scnius that led Mr.. HeaIy to engage
so many principals and such a large
Chorus that the programme can move
along smoothly without tiresome repe-
tit!ons. A clever conceit is the num-
Der programmed as What lady does
from morn till night" Led by Helen
Hardick. this Offering presents the
girls Of the company in costumes that
~ange from boudoir matinee TO a din
ner gown, opera wrap and then
miladi's "n!ghtie."
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BY MARTHA cooDE ANDERSON

n TOW that We have seen the
M Paris offerings from the great
= designers and dressmakers
we realize more than ever what an
important part women's clothes play
in the affairs Of the world. The French
have been quick to recognize the ne
cessity for beauty and charm Of APP
parel, and never for a moment have
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News of Hotels and Restaurants


Bond, IN Kiss, From Pretty Mise
Lorenz.
The promise Of the female members
Of the Gus Edwards Revue "Attaboy,"
at the Martinique at the start OF the
Liberty Loan drive last week to be-
stow kiss upon every cash buyer of n
$50 bond in the Omar Khayyam Room
started to result in complications last
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$4,000 for il. They have refused to
entertain this proposition.
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Evening FrOcks.

AS TO gowns for such evening oc-
casions OF festivity as may come later
I observe no low cut necks and
endless, billowlng draperies. Indeed.
the foundations. very tight and of the
princess lines OF long ago, appear
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-04-17
THE ODD HOME TOWN.


y fellow gets to thinking that the
town is "on the Fritz,
And probably makes up bis mind TO
roam;
Then, after years Of rambling, he
jrst realized it's
About time that he pulled up stakes
for home.
Well, after he has struck the "burg''
and settled down for fair,
just ask him what he thinks Life $
greatest bliss.
And, ten to one, he'll tell you. If he's
strictly on the square.
The greatest Joy you'll ever know is
this:
When you're back in the old town
once more, boy,
And your friends gather round by the
score:
Each Happy to meet you,'-
'Deliglted to greet you,''-
Brings back all the glad days of yore,
Y Our heart-acheS are banished, fot-
gotten:
Your trials are ended and DER,
For each clasp of a hand
Shows you just where you stand.
When you're back in the old town
once more.
Things do not seem to vary much
wherever you may go,
And all towns seem to run about
alike:
or course, when first you '1lit"
place, you're dazzled with the
"show":
But soon the glamor's gone and off
YOU "hike.''
Yet, soon or late, the Wanderlust for
sakes you, and again
Old Memory, the pI ompter gives his
cue,
Home, james, Alas. how slow arc
trains to set you where you
To hook-up with the JOY that waits
for you.
When you're back in the old town
once more, boy,
And you tread the old paths as Of
yore:
Zach highway and by-way
For you is a joy-way
With greetings Of welcome galore.
The long dreal'y days of your exile
Recede, upon Memorys shore,
From the smile and the nod
On vour own native sod.
When you're back in the old town
once more.
p. H. SHEA.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-04-17
METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CONFERENCE.

Beginning tomorrow, New Britain
will entertain three bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal church and some
$50 delegates to the New York East
Conference which convenes here
April is, 10, 20, Fl and %. Unusual
importance is attached to the as
semby, tnasmuch as one OF the first
problems it must deal with will be
the arrangement of substitutes for
the hundreds of Methodist ministers
and churchmen who have enlisted in
war service. aud tho assignment OF
pastors, which win be made on Mon
day night, April %.
1t is no easy task to take care of
SO many visitors in New Britain,
ewing to the lack of suitable hotel
accommOda tons, but the energetic
pastor of Trinity church, the Rever-
end Warren F. Cook, has succeeded
in arranging for his guests who will
stay at the homes Of the members
of his congregation.
sonages at the Conference are of
course Bishop Luther b. Wilson, of
New York, Bishop James w. Bash
ford, of China, and Bishop William
III Oldham, of South America We
extend to these noted prelates and to
the delegates a cordial welcome to
cur city. We trust that their visit
will be most pleasant and that the
conference will be productive of sat
isfactory results. And we take the
liberty Of informing them that we
felix's here in New Britain are mighty
proud of the reverend pastor of Trim
ity church, whose sterling qualities,
including charming personality,
have won him an enviable place in
the esteem of his fellow citizens.
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THE FIRST BILLION.

Is Third Liberty Loan has reached
Ihrst billion mark. kilograms are
ling hourly into the Treasury de-
8nent, indicative of the enthusiasm
zhlent throughout the country over
progress of the loan. This is the
#try's reply to the German drive.
[r own state. Hartford, the capital
has set a splendid example for
Eother communities by oversub-
ling it's quota, and here in New
hin there is every reason to be-
that we will o likewise before
At the meeting last night in
II. M. C. A. of the captains of the
@us teams assigned among the
ksnen to solicit subscriptions, the
of cooperation and determine
10 put New Britain over the top"
soon was most inspiring. And
reports of the captains show that
kiocal liquor dealers team leads
he others by a large margin. We
from the figures that on the
day the liquor men rolled up a.
of $4,000 and that they now
ehow more than $4,000. or twice
buch as their nearest rival. We
Eatu1ate these men on the results
have accomplished, They have
|en by their patriotic endeavors
they are always among the first
|5sist the Government when 1t
L help, and their work In this re-
may we'll be as a model taken
HERS. who are inclined to critic1se
4t times.
fhat the first billion has been