Evening star., 1918-02-17
Picked Up Here and There.

Picked Up Here and There.
One of the most brilliant audiences OF
the Baltimore season attended the Vaca :
tion Lodge bene-
Z Lovely Woman vs.. fit at the Aead-
Sugarless Candy. Gently. says the
Baltimore American. Wartime candies
and patriotic bouquets were sold by girls
in charming costumes of fluffy tulle. So
butterfylike and attractive were they that
one overlooked the fact that the candy
was made without sugar and gladly for
got about change. In charge OF the sale
of flowers was Mrs. Russell Thayer. jr.
Never had she Looked more beautiful
than with her fower-ladened tray. giving
a touch of color to the bridelike costume
The skirt was formed of fiounces of pleat-
ed satin, the fullness caught into pieats
that looked like big pockets. 1t opened
over petticoat of hounces of gold lace
and the low bodice was of satin and lace
and about her shoulders was thrown
scarf of ermine fringed with ermine tails
The attractive Gordon debutantes were
also flower girls for the evening Anne
is decidedly of the prettiest debu-
tantes and looks very much like her lovely
mother, being tall and slender, with the
blond colorng. She wore beautiful
frock of white satin with hounces OF gold
lace. Elizabeth, who is a brunette. has
most charming manners and makes friends
wherever she goes She wore a girlish
frock of rose pink and silver lace. the
pointed bodice opening over the lace and
caught into the silver girdie with bunch
Of pink forget-me-nots.
In the death of Baroness Wentworth
Qady Anne Blunt. who succeeded to
the peerage only a
The Late Baroness few months ago).
- says the Montreal
"eAt"oAtA Star, the world
loses a distinguished personality. The
only granddaughter of Byron, she had
many rare gifts
A fine Arabic scholar. some of her
translations of Arabic classics have been
Wiifrid Blunt of Newbuildings, Sussex
The most learned Moslem students ac-
cepted her as an authority On disputed
passages. OF nomadic temperament.
she had travelled in many wild lands
and was a brillint horse and camel rider.
Her stud of Arabian horses, collected
in her desert travels. is famous; her
book on the breed was finished only a
rev weeks before hef OedIA, winch &C.
Cured at Sheykh Obeyd, Egypt on the
edge Of the desert.
She designed the house at Crabbet
Park. Crawley. where she lived for some
years when in England, and which is
the residence of her daughter. the Hon.
Mrs. Neville Lytton, who succeeds to
the Wentworth title, and is. Byron's
only sreat-grandchild- She has inherited
the poetic gift, and is also well known
as a champion tennis player. beating
some of the stars in America Her
husband. Mai. n. Lytton, winner of the
international tennis championship, was
wounded in 1916 and has been twice
mentioned in dispatches. The worlds
champion. G. F. Coyey. who is now
serving his country, also belongs to
Crabbet Park.
The great charm Of Lady Anne" as
she was best known, was felt by all
who knew her.
New Orleans came again into its own
with the baimy. bright days of last week,
though the city
Tropical Shrubbery is ANYTHING but
Killed by Cold. the brown raj
ment of the defunct winter still Haunting
itself in parks and byways- And there
will be fewer shrubs and bushes. too, to
proclaim the advent Of tho new season
that will soon be upon US The cold waves
played havoc with most of the grounds
about the residential sectionA and the
plants that have given such q tropical
most The stately palms that waved their
heads so high in the grounds of the old
Walmsley home in 1st street, and that
were so picturesque in the moonlight. were
among the many killed Pasersby halted
last week to see the tall trunks feIled.
Miss Lolita Armour of Chicago is going
to join the caravan that is moving toward
the golden west
Miss Armour's shortly.
Air Castle. Cary and Mis-, sill.r.
Miss Armour will go to Santa Barbara
to spend the rest of the winter. The
plans for her own bungalow, the castle
Of her dreams. which Arthur Heun In
going to design for her after the war,
are stin in allegiance. Miss Armour is
taking her car and means to spend
much Of the time motoring through
California
As the annual charity ball, which for
moro than sixty years has been a
feature of. the
New York's Charity social life Of
Ball Omitted. oA, nAs
this winter. the managers of the New
York Nursery and Child's Hospital. for
whose benefit the ball has been given
have sent out circular letter to their
patrons requesting contributions Of
money for the institution. In All prob
ability those who have, bought tickets
to the ball year after year viii. send