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The Washington times., 1919-04-13
IOTS CHRONICLES OF CAPITAL SOCIETY DOINGS

the ride; Countess GiEycka, for in
stance: also Mrs. Mccormick. Lady
Willert and Mrs. Saltonstall, Wh0
seemed to be having quite as good a
time. as the younger members OF the
party.
A great many grown-ups ride from
the Park Riding Academy. which
snuggIes down on the edge of the
raVins just on Massachusetts, ave-
nue., but perhaps the school is most
successful. with the kiddies. Il was
started year or 50 ago by Mr.. and
Mrs. Ambrose ,Preece, who had the
smartest riding academy in London
before the war came along and
knocked their business galley west:
and since the sudden death OF Mr..
Preeee a few weeks ago, his, widow
is making a gallant effort to carry
on" without him.
She has the assistance OF her two
young sons. handsome lads both, and
one just back from service in France
with the Canadian dragons. And
perhaps her most valuable asset in
this rather hazardous venture Is the
very genuine regard which her pa
irons, many OF them women OF posi-
IIoh anu luAlAeuCeS AScl AOE uSfs
Driving will soon rival riding in
popularity. for the powers that be
are now marshalling their cohorts for
the Victory Loan drive and the Saliva
tion Army is about to launch its
campaign to raise funds to carry on
it's great work. Mrs. Wesley Martin
StoneF Is chairman Of the Woman's
Victory Loan committee OF the Dis
triet-which is tantamount to saying
that the committee Will give a good
account or itself The Woman's end
OF the Salvation Army drive is to be
carried on under the direction OF Mrs
Louis BrownIow, one Of the most
capable little drivers in washing
ton, but there, I'll have to tell you
more about this next week.
Yours fondly,
JEAN ELIOT.
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when she wasn't dashing out to the
rescue OF her uniform coat, also most
attractive, of blue silVertone with red
facings, which hung in the rear and
which people persisted in trying "a
buy. She explained that she was in
uniform because she was due at the
canteen at ! o'clock.
There were some wonderful bar
gains in dresses-mostly par y
dresses handsome gown OF blue
seQuinS, in the window and serving
to bring many a passerby in: lovely
white brocsde evening dress, all slen.
der dra peries, with the bFocade in tic
front panel outlined in silver; and az
attractive gown in two shades of
green and silver, which some ONE
think IL was Louise Delano-had put
on a form hind side foremost, and
until some one eise-possibly Mrs. II.
II. Rogers, who was all over the place
attending to everybody and every
thing, discovered what was Wropiy
and turned II around-certainly look
ed rather aueeF-thouSh it was a
lovely material.
1t reminded one OF the story they
told Of Genevieve Clark arriving ut
Anna Portner's wedding in her brides
maids dress. and looking the others
over with the comment, why, I
thought our gowns were all to be
alike. Nine doesn't look at all like
yours" whereupon they looked her
over and shrieked with laughter when
they found that GeneYievs had put
hers on hind side foremost. OF course.
they carried her eff and dressed her
properly-just as Mrs. Rogers did the
form"
One especially pretty party was
given last week, a studio dance
at wallace Bryant's house in v
street. He is a Boston man, q
painter OF portraits, who bought Miss
Frances Benjamin Johpson's studio
house, remodeIed an6 redecorated It
into a thing OF loveIiness; and has
been giving q series of informal
dances there during the winter. On
wednesday evening he had among his
guests Mrs. Jimmy Breese, Katherine
q Princeton girl, who is
here doing war work-her brothers
a professor at Harvard-Julia Brooks,
the two Atherton girls, and a good
many others. Mr.. Bryant IL doing a
portrait OF Lieut.. Andre L'Hullier, the
brilliant young Frenchmsn, who is
lecturing here in behalf OF the fund
to aid the devastated villages OF
France.
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Past Week Marked
BY Freneh BeRefIts.

The week just past began and end.
ed with French benefitS-the Free
Milk for France dance on Monday
French war orphans at DR.. and Mrs,
Duncan McKim's house yesterday af-
ternoon. And all over town there are
posters suggesting that a quarter will
put . chicken on a French farm, and
q dime will put an egg in q French
incubator most alluring idea at a
time o. year when ones fancy light
ly turns to thoughts OF poultry farm
ing and the joys OF war gardening.
France had things her own way,
too, yesterday afternoon when a pri-
vate view was held OF the exhibition
of war pictures by French artists
now being shown at the Corcoran
Gallery OF Art under the auspices OF
the French High Commission. The
exhibition will continue until April
so, and will be open 10 the public,
but yesterday was, OF course. the
gala day OF the showing. from the
social point OF view, and notable
assemblage turned out TO view the
pictures.
The exhibition is in charge OF Rob
ert Lortac, a brilliant young French
man, who, before the war. was car
toonist for the Paris publication. La
Presse. Several OF his own pictures
are shown with the collection, which
includes some splendid examples OF
Lucien Jonas significant work. pic
lures by Georges Scott, sometime Of
the staff OF ILLUSTRATION, and by 4
score or more other French artists
Of the hrst rank. The collection
runs the gRmut OF rough sketches
executed right in the trenches
through more pretentious cRnVases
painted in billets, hospital bases and
elsewhere back OF the line. NJ. Lor-
tao, by the way, is a close friends OF
young Claude Langlais, Of the French
High Commission staff, who married
Amy Bennett; and the paper with
which he was connected in Paris is
owned by n. Langlais' father.
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Diet Kitchen RummAge
Sale Highly sueeesSfuI.

Z
1t sounded ike bees swarming over
al the Diet Kitchens sale which opeH-
ed yesterday a. 604 Fourteenth street
and will keep open next week. 1t was
wonderful that all the sales for which
people have been rummasing for the
last year or SO that there was any
thing at all left. but really the things
were lovely! And bargains!
Mrs. Hope Slater was presiding
over a case OF curious and attractive
jewelry, Oriental or antique, most OF
it. Mrs. George Marye was there,
buying hats, and making everyone
else buy them. You know hats are
Mrs. Marge's passion. Little Mrs.
Melville wallace was in charge OF
an attractive table Of bric-a-brac,
and was downright grieved when a
curious old Hungarian bridal cup was
sold from her table. You couldn't
blame her for it was most attractive.
Have you seen them?
1t was brass lady, with skirts OF
green Hungarian glass holding over
her head a small bowl OF the same
glass, which revolved and was thus
always right side up. Held so that
the goblets were right side up. the
lady on her head OF course-the two
cups are flled, and the BRIDEGROOM
drinks, and passes it TO his bride,
turning it so that his glass forms the
base and her little cup swings into
position at the top and she drinks.
It's a clever arrangement, and as
Mrs. Walter Denegre, who had the
adjoining "50-cent table" trenchantly
remarked--"of course the man has
the biggest drink"
During the morning Mrs. Horace
Westcott presided over = a5-cent
table in her very attractive and very
becoming Red CTos cantcen uniform,
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the list Of patronesses, and the Dixie
ball at the willard, botn annual
events. frequently some one will try
to take them both in, asking rather
gruniblingly why they have TO have
them so far apart. But cheer up, IT
might be worSe-suppose, for in
stance, the Dixie ball was given at
WsFdRlen Park Inn instead OF at the
willard!
The. Woman's Army and Navy
l,eaEue ball is one OF those that the
PreSidsnt and, Mrs. Wilson, the Sec
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JuMIOF Riders Are
Pretty sight.

The Riding and Hunt Club has
transferred its activities from the
ring to the great outdoors, drill,
gymkhanas and musical rides giving
place to paper chases and hunting;
and the bridal paths OF Rock Creek
Pa:k are gay with riding parties. One
OF the prettiest sights 1 have seen "
late was the group Of small people on
horseback which ran into on Satur-
day-dsar me. It's a week ago now.
They were youngsters who have been
learning the gentle art OF horsems n
ship at the Park Riding Academy and
were of for q cross-country paper
chase. to be followed by hunt break
fast somewhere out near Pierce MI.
"alI same like" the events arranged
for their elders from time to time.
As they were daShing by me 1
caught sight OF the adorable little
Contessina Felicia Gisycka,. q slim,
fair-haired child, in q beautifully tai
lored green riding habit; Senator and
Mrs. MediII McCormick's little girl
Katrina, I think her name is-Persis
Myers, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
George Hewitt Myers: two or three OF
the Franklin Roosevelts kiddies,
Paul Willert. the young son OF si=
Arthur and Lady WiIlert; Lieut.. and
Mrs. John L. Saltonstalrs two young
sters, the little Rousseau boy and
number of others equally prominent.
The Mccormick child, by the way,
rides as we'll as her mother, and when
Mrs. Mccormick was q little girl she
was so keen q horsewoman that her
father, the late Senator Mark Hanna,
used to say he feared she was destined
TO be q jockey or a circus rider.
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Now that spring has come to wash
inston everybody naturally wants to
get out in the open, and interest in
out-of-door activities is increasing by
leaps and bounds. Golf has taken a
new lease on life end the country
clubs are crowded. People have
taken to driving through Potomac
Park in the afternoons to see the
glory OF the cherry blossoms, with
the river peacocking in the sunshine
beyond. The Bowie races are draw
ing we'll and already there is much
talk OF the horse show, although this
year 1t isn't to be held until the lat
ter part OF May.
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and his sOrrowing mother to our
sympathy and financial assistance. She
had worked hard to educate her son
as a doctor and several years before
the war he had been admitted to the
PaSteur Institute as holder Of a
scholarship. when In the winter Of
1915 a terrible typhus epidemic swept
central Europe, he. was one Of a num-
Der Of doctors to volunteer their serv-
ices TO the French government. DR..
Cooke was sent to ValjeVo, close to
the Serbian front, and, with DR..
Cookingham, another young American
physician, was in charge Of a mill
tary hospital where hundreds OF
typhus cases were treated. Both
young doctors caught the fever to
which DR.. Cooke suecumbed. His
mothers health was shattered by the
news OF her sons untimely death.
She is now living in Pasadena, Cal,
and has started a little business by
which she is trying to exc out an ex-
istence.
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At luncheon the little cavalcade was
joined by several OF the women
whose sons and daughters were on
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Something New in the
Mnr ~ GnenI- nrnAn

Something New in the
way Of Greek DFanaa.
Dorothea Spinney, who was bora
near Stratford-on-Avon and has lived
much in literary and musical circles
in England, does something quite
original in the way OF dramatic
work. a great lover Of the Greek
drama, she felt that there was a
discriminating public who would
appreciate these masterpieces OF
strength, Of human passion and feel
ing, IL the opportunity came to hear
them Clearly and simply given. Moro;
over, she felt that the poetry Of the
great tragedies could be more readily
appreciated IL given in the form o.
readings. with no stage distractions,
and above all to- an aroused imagina-
ton.
The result is something amazing
ly artistic and affecting. The plays
it's TO be the Trojan Women" Of
Euripides on the particular occasion
about which am Writins-are given
in costume, before a setting Of cur
tains, two tapers burning, and Miss
Spiney's beautiful voice and real dra-
mite power make her readings some
luluk 70 uEGAm dpOuGs
The Philippine mission went on its
way last Wednesday-to travel around
the country and return TO Washing
ton later on. II came, you know, to
ask the independence Of the Philip
pines OF the President and Congress.
But unfortunately it came at a time
when neither President nor Congress
were at home. And when even Sec
retaTy Baker-who would naturally
be their official host, since the ad-
ministration OF the Philippines has
always been under the direction OF
the War Department-had his trunks
packed and his tickets bought Cif
Government officials bother with
tickets when it comes to travelling
in Government run vesseis)-and was
just about to start for Paris like
wise.
And, by the way, before / forget +"
there's a clever little verse going
the rounds on the Paris situation for
which DR.. Harvey Wiley, the famous
chemist, is said to be responsible. 1t
runs thus:
As read the news from Gay Paree,
The difference would seem to be
'Twixt Clemen-ceau and clemen-cy.
Don't you love that?
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S-ester Monday if it is to be bride.
- not to be bAlI-Iess. There will
I.e Womans Amy and Navy
h.Ss ball down at the marine
eeke, with MFs. Wilson heading
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rotary OF War and Mrs. Baker and
the Secretary OF the Navy and Mrs.
Daniels always make a point Of at
tending; but right now Mrs. Baker is
the only one Of the sextet who is in
America. She il going, and has also
promised to sing to the accompani-
ment Of the Marine Band-but il
must be something OF an undertaking
to represent the whole Administra-
tion.
Lieut.. Col John ". WadIeigh, COM
mandant at the marine barracks, is
co-operating with the officials at the
navy yard TO make this ball the most
brilliant of the spring season. He is
chairman Of the floor committee, and
will have as his aides Capt. Edward
o. BcEart, U. s. M. c.; Commander
Charles Theodore Jewell, L. S. NJ,
and Capt. John c. Herman, U. 8. A.
Leila Gordon Is chairman of the
young ladies' committee, and Ruth
Wilson % manager for the renown-
ed seeress, Nine. Libra, who will tell
fortunes.
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Sontinued- from Page Fourteen.)
HS Zen years ago. and for the last
- or 40 has been down In wash
ESHar working" as head Of the
Eort Bureau OF the War Trade
St-.,es It's aNfully hard to keep them
sNr@lght in ones mind.
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BeneAt for Neither
Of American Doctor

Another particularly interesting
event of Easter Week will be
the performance to be given by
Miss Dorothea Spinney, interpreter
Of classic drama, on Tuesday evening,
April %, at the home Of the Third
Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs.
Breckinridge Long. Nine. SlaVko
GFouitch, wife of the Serbian min
tsteF, is chairman OF the committee,
with Nine. Branko LaZarevitch as the
vice chairman, and the entertain
ment has been arranged as a me-
mortal to an American physician, DR..
Cooke, who died OF typhus in Serbia
during the first year OF the war.
The proceeds will go to his mother,
Mrs. Cooke Griswold, left quite deSti-
tute by the death OF her son under
conditions of service which entitled
him TO our respect and admiration
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Lieutenant Martin. commanding the
United States ship Sylph, will, as
usual, have charge OF the decorations,
and under his magic hands the con-
cert hall will be transformed into the
most attractive or bathrooms. He
will use the flags Of all nations and
quantities of feathery palms to effect
this metamorphosis. The boxes have
bean in such great demand that few
are left.
League Is One of
Oldest Organizations.
In case you don't know just what
the woman's Army and Navy League
is and are not familiar with its ira
ditionE, want to tell you something
about it's work.
To begin with. ,it is the oldest Of
service organization and made up en-
tirely of women. After the civil
war a few devoted women, who had
followed their husbands to isolated
forts on the plains, realized that the
enlisted personnel of the army had
little in the way OF wholesome recre-
ation-the satler's store in those days
was the only place where they could
20 to for relief from their tedious
camp duties, and resolved TO form
Society DN GOuiu dSSASL
chaplains and others in their work OF
caring for the welfare and happiness
OF the soldiers.
In time the work spread to ships
and navy yards and soon books and
mpsical instruments found their way
into forts and navy yards and ships,
afloat and ashore. At present the
organizations chief interest is CEN
tered in its Soldiers, Sailors, and
Marines Club, at 81 c street north
vest, where a comfortable room and
bath at a nominal sum may be had.
There our boys in blue and khaki
find a happy surcease OF loneliness
and home sickness and luxurlate in
the neatness and comfort OF ii all.
One grateful lad, dying in far off
China, bequeathed his last pay check
to the club in grateful recognition
OF the happiness he had enjoyed
within its hospitable walls-and
that's just one example OF the way
the men feel toward the home. Mrs.
Aulick Palmer has been manager Of
the club for many years, and she II
ably assisted by Mrs. Kaufman, who
is housemother rather than mere
housekeeper.
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association for the coming member
ship drive under the auspices of the
Federation of Citizens Associations.
\ large committee has been appointed
with G. L. Shorey as chairman. and
the plan includes a house-to-
canvass of the territory represented
by the association. and the distribu-
ton of membership buttons.
Complaint has been made by mem
bers that various persons in the vi
cinity have been renting out parts Of
their garages. The matter was taken
up with the building inspector of the
District by the law and order COM
mittee of the association. The report
of the committee states that any per-
son doing this is running a public ga
rage.
Four new members were elected
last night They are: ]. B. Dreyfuss.
A. c. Bobys. A. L. Brown and H. T.
Rodier.
In connection with the street rail-
way situation the association adopt
ed a resolution opposing the proposed
zone fare system and favoring mer-
ger of the two companies.
In some parts of the neighborhood
there have been no lights for the last
few nights. according to members, and
a committee was instructed to take
up the matter with the power COM
pany President E. B. Henderson pre-
sided.
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measure, now that it has passed the
House
He said that he would seek to have
a meeting of the full committee i'm
mediately SO that the bill might be
considered and reported to the Senate
without delay.
With regard to the provision of the
House prohi hibiting the policemen from
belonging to any union that is af1l-
lated with any organization that calls
strikes. Senator Calder said the Sem
ate committee probably would amend
the language, if it needed amend
ment, so there would be no possible
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P|NEY BRAa'CH REQUIRES
GREATER SCHOOL ROOM
Citizens Association Also Plans
Intensive 0,mpaign to In
crease j Iembership.

Believing that the school facilities
In the neighborli ood are not sufficient
TO care for the large enrolment this
year. the Piney Branch Citizens AS
sociation, at a meeting last night in
the Iowa Aven ne Methodist Church.
adopted a resolution favoring an adj
dition to the Joseph Rodman West
School. on Farragut street The
number of pupils enrolled and the
number the school is capable of ac-
commodating we're procured by the
committee of the association which
Investigated the, matter; Even with
the addition of ahe portable buildings,
the committee reported. the facilities
are still Inadequate
Extensive plans were made by the
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A Wonderful Sale of
Silk Shirts

T~hey are really SIS va1"es-and we
want YOU to examine them III that light
They are white, in all-silk Jersey-the finest
of ttb shirting silks.
S ICES IA to l6H-linited in quantity
but = while thew last
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PROMPT SENATE ACT ON
e ON POLICE PAY so ljGHT

Senator Calder of New York chair .
ate District committee to VII ich was
referred the police pay incri use bill.
said today that he had no d n1bt the
committee and the Senate won aid take
early and favorable action on the
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Mems Shoes
AT An Advantageous Price

We are going to offer tomorrow another
lot of English, Semi-English, Medium and
Broad-toe Lace Shoes, in Brown, Tan, Ma
hogany, Tony Red and Gun-metal Calf
some with leather, others with rubber heels.
Sizes to IA to E widths. They are So
values for
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Water Supply, Board Topic.

The water supply situation will be
the principal subject of discussion at
the meeting of the entire board at
the Willard Hotel october 81. The
question of permanent Fairgrounds
for the city will also be discussed by
Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes. supervisor
of Fairgrounds.
The District Commissioners and the
.chairmen of the congressional COM
mittees on the District will be the
guests.
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Awarded Absolute Divorce.

VIOLA McKim Matthews today was
awarded a decree of absolute divorce
from Hannibal A. Matthews. Justice
Bailey in the decree permitted the
wife to resume her maiden name,
Vola McKim CLANCY.
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Calvert street. to replace the present
unsightly structure now in use there,
which also was declared to be a men
ace to safety.
The committee reported that the
worst part of the preliminary work
on the Key bridge in Georgetown was
completed, and that about 40 per cent
of the work remains unfinished be-
| cause of lack of funds. Reports on
other bridges also were made.
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means.
The contention was advanced by
some of the House members that the
language would permit affliation
with the American Federation of
Labor, since the federation itself does
not call strikes. There is strong op-
position among the members Of the
Senate committee to permitting the
police here to organize and affiliate
with the American Federation of
Labor.
II you want work read the want COL
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URGES NEW STRUCTURE
ON CHAIN BRIDGE SITE
Board of Trade Committee Dis
cusses Other Matters Relating
to Traffic.

Urging that the present Chain
bridge over the Potomac river. near
Glen Echo. is unsafe for heavy traffic.
A. r. Serven, chairman Of the bridge
committee of the Board of Trade, at
day, presented a recommendation that
a modern bridge capable of carrying
any kind of vehicular traffic be con-
structed at the site of the old bridge.
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Other Matters Taken Up.

Congress was also requested, in the
committees report. to provide funds
fora new bridge over Rock creek at
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-02-14
AS OTHERS SEE US
(From Valdez Nliner)

Seward has broken through the coo coon of lethargy and started out to do things. A new organization of the Chamber of Commerce has been eff fected and the city is advertising Sew ard literally in the Gateway. That such a step will pay big dividends is an undeniable fact. If Valdez would get past the one-man-town stage tt must also wake up and bid for the trade it is entitled to. Cordova Is gradually taking away the small boat trade from Tatitlek and Landlock and the tide of immigration will pass us by unless We make an effort Co Se- cure a share of it. Anchorage mas live commercial organization which is reaching after everything in sight from the road appropriation to the legislature. Let us follow the example of our neighbors. They have not reach ed the prominence they now attain by indifference and belief that business is forced to come their way. They went after the business and it came to them. The time has come to make a noise like city. Let's get in and do something.