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leaf of one of Thomas Nelson
Pages stories or one of George w.
Cables novels. Brushing past her.
strutting to a dance. youEg null
alto. whose clothes fit admirably and
are of the newest mode. whose tie
is flamboyant but costly, and the
odor of whose pomade follows him
like waves in the wake of a vessel.
A weary black mother carries an all
ing, whimpering child to one of the
park benches. She may soothe its
fretted nerves to sleep if she can
escape The jarring rumble of the 81"
and trolley.
By the occasional light from one of
the brown houses one may see a
huge. wide shouidered man make his
staggering way down the street.
Awed watchers prod their neignbors'
ribs. When the great man has passed
beyond hearing they say: That's
Big Jack. He was champeen prize
fighter till he got licked He served
in the war He was decorated by King
George. Now he's an elevator man
In hotel''
Younger men. with enormous
shoulders and faces as though
wrought il bronze. look after the
vanishing pugiIist, then down at
their great black knuckles, and brag
"If l had the trainin / could do it,
too; l think I'll go into camp this
summer"
A slim, brown girl in a yellow cot
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negro tenantry while the city was
yet young and rents in the neigh
borhood were low, because the region
was so fab uptown" Inertia Of
property owners is another attrib-
uted cause for the blot upon the
city's beauty.
A Dozing Island of Africa Set in
Turbulent Northern Sea
In that block the black race
dreams, while all about it the white
race achieves. 1t is a somnolent
spot at what is nearly the geographi-
cal center of New York. About it
roars the thousand voiced chorus of
the greatest city in the world It
is doing island surrounded by a
turbulent sea-
Leaving the Plaza after tea and
walking two blocks west along the
green edge of Central Park you
may enter the dusky block with the
hour Of dusk. The scraping sound
of trolley car wheels on tracks is
behind you. The "L" train grinds
past from its eminence, pauses for a
breathing space at the station and
hurries on as one who has just re-
membered an appointment overdue.
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banjo. A squat figured woman with
a bandana handkerchief binding her
forehead and hiding her hair turks
in the shadow of the door. Her eyes,
large and yellow, hold the menace
of a cats.
Good shoe shine, cents" arrests
your steps. But the doorways are
murky in the fading light. You has
ten little. No. there was no one
behind you. Dark figures lounge on
one Of the two steps to the stoop or
on the narrower steps OF the STAIR
way leading to the cellars. They are
silent as ebony statues. Their eyes
CLEAN extraordinarily large and fear
full. like Goals amid the ashes Of
banked fires.
Another sign. homemade too, fills
a window. 1t looks like letters of
faded gilt against a background of
tarnished silver. At MONDAY its
tawdriness would resolve itself into
yellow paint against background of
solid gray. 1t announces that here
is the walker Salon. where hair will
be made beautiful The proprietor
is one of the cult that spreads the
gospel of hirSute salvation TO a wait
ing race. 1t was the message of the
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Chronicle and Comment.
BY Arthur Bartlett Maurice. .......... IL
The World of Letters as Others See Il. -. IL
Robert w. Chambers the Society Novel
An Interview by Chloe Arnold. ........ IA
New Fiction in Varied Form
The Mercy of Allah-The House of Peril
-Da Silva's Wdow-Sareel-The Secret
Toll-Man-Size-The Secret Adversary-
His Grace Gives Notice-Ravensdene
Court .................. I4-15-16
Work of the Early Flemish Painters. ..... 10
A Great College Year.
BY Charles Franklin Thwing, President
Emeritus of Western Reserve University. IL
After CoIlege.What? ........ Is
French Interpretation of Leaves of Grass"
BY Amelia v. Ende. ................. 19
Jose Enrique Rodo-Author and Critic.
By Peter j. Hamilton. ................ 20
Books of the Week. Observation-Disclosures. 81
For Women Readers in Current Magazines. .21
Miukov Contemplates Russia .......... 22
The World of Foreign Books. ............ %
The Book Factory. By Edward Anthony. "a
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TABLE OF TENTS

Page
A Dusky Corridor in Manhattan.
By Eileen O'Connor
Brains Beauty? NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
No Colonial Iders.
BY William McMurtrie Speer
Punch and the Art Eccentrics. .......... 3
The Wilderness Passes. Observation-Disclosures. 4
The House of the Sun.
By Harriet Ceithmann 4
How Managed the Man Who Understands
All About Women.
By Mrs. w. L. George S
Henry Bataille By Barrett Fl. Clark.
The Supreme Court in Our History.
Survey by Judge Willard Bartlett. -. 7
Hearts Measure Guilt.
By August Volimer President of Inter-
national Association of Chiefs of Police 8
Want Guide, Sir? By Alfred nj. Brace. 9
Leon Daudet Wants a King.
By Sterling Heilig 8
Chinese Romance. Part IV......... 10
Western Australia in the Smithsonian.
By Charles M. Hoy, Naturalist. ........ IL
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TWENTY-FOUR PAGES.

ener of kinks is their patron saint.
The Fifty-ninth street black belt
has its open air garage. starting point
for dashes on joy rides. There is such
small country store as Lady Astor
would have seen had she alighted
at Gotham, in Aibemarle county,
Virginia, where she was born. Tins
of tomatoes crowd :olls of calico,
spools of thread are the neighbors
of cans of condensed milk, ink bot
ties keep company with rolling pins,
upon the wide board shelves.
The Scene by Night IL
Fearfully Picturesque
Lights appear at either end of the
block. The colossal figure of Column
bus on its lofty column merges into
the growing blackness of the night
The Roosevelt Hospital melts into the
murk of yanquished day. The figures
that crouched in doorways and ON
the steps of the decsying brownstone
front houses throw off their stiffness.
They rise and stretch their strong
limbs. One thinks of beasts awaken
ing from their slumbers in the jungle.
There goes a Nanny who seems to
have been nislaid by the turning OF
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By EILEEN o'coNNoR.


- HE Hausmannizing Of parts of
old Paris while it removed
- numberless mean streets did
not and could not wholly destroy the
memory of them. for they live in
the Human Comedy of Balzac. where
they serve still as the corridor
through which his vivid people pass
and repass. Whoever recalls the
Introductory chapter of "The Thir-
teen" will realize how this powerful
imagination gave Immortality to a
street and quarter.
There are sections of this great
New York. this skyscraping city,
which when they disappear. as they
are bound to do, will leave mot a
rack behind" unless one of our mod
ern note taking 'chiels" gets busy
and preserves them in literature.
And such a section for its sharp con-
trasts is that which is marked by
the statue of Columbus at the south
west entrance to the Central Park.
Here on immensely valuable prop
erty-the land alone is appraised at
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You are walking in the brown twi-
light of a region Of strange sights
and odors.
The sign. white lcttered against
scarlet background, foot square
sign that shivers insecurely when a
wind blows. bids you enter and learn
how to play the original five string
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ate Mrs. C. ]. Walker. She had been
a washwoman when the dream came
to her of Strengthening and making
more abundant the hair of her race.
She devised an iron. first cousin In
appearance to a Caucasian bellies
electric curler. and invented a
strange mixture OF oils and herbs
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A DUSKY CORRIDOR IN MANHATTAN

the black belt in it's efficient hospital,
bearing the honored name of a late
President of the United States.
Why does this black belt survive
the city's northward march? How
long will it remain?
It is offered in explanation that
the block came into possession of
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which, used In conjunction. would
iron away the telltale kinks and
cause the hair to grow waist long"
Mme.. Walkers dream was fulfilled.
The negro maids hair may now be
straight, while her mistress's is a
widening radius of ripples. Twelve
years later Mime. Walker had be-
come a millionaire. She owned a
fives story building in 136th street.
the headquarters of her business, and
a marble palace at Irvington on the
Hudson, two miles from the home Of
Mrs Finley Shepard, who was
Helen Gould.
Many of the Walker
Cult in This Black Belt
She had established music settle
ments in New York and other cities
and had led committees to importune
President Wilson to remedy the
wrongs she believed were inflicted
upon her race. Every negress who
could afford to take the course of
lessons in her kink removing art and
purchase the necessary accessories
called herself Madame" and opened
a black beauty salon. OF these the
black belt border line at Fifty-ninth
street has many. And the straight
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Strangers Amazed
By This Black Belt
To the right start luxurious studios
and apartment houses, emblems or
refinement and affiuence. ending In
the oyster white magnificence of the
Hotel Plaza. The orchid quality or
metropolitan life reaches its apex at
the tea and dinner hours at that
smart hostelry. There. across gilt
terinr tables. Americas greatest
wealth mingles with Americas old
est blood.
Rehold Coluu- ous's neighbor on the
loft For a Z .ock stretches a negro
ouarter. most of which might have
been lifted from a Southern planta-
tion and set down by an erratic air
plane. Fifty-ninth street. stretching
from Eighth avenue TO Columbus
avenue. is a black belt drawn across
the heart of New York 1t is a
quarter of such cheap general stores
as we find in villages; of tenement
houses not without the tenement
odor: of odd signs painted in white
letters on red background, home
nainted signs not beyond reproach
as to spelling: of types as far re-
moved from the Plaza as a sunflower
is from a gardenia- Then, as though
impatient of the contrast. or apollo
getic for it. New York offers an
abrupt termination of the border Of
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Continues on Folroioing Page.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29


Political economy ia NOT xueh an
intricate and difficult science as its
professors would make you believe. It
IS all summed up in one entire phrase:
Whatsoever man soweth that shall
he also reap If the world sows de-
struction, slaughter and terror, 1t will
reap poverty, privation, sorrow and
suffering"
Mr.. Lloyd George expressed delight
that Premier Bonar Law had promised
TO examine the proposals formulated by
the late government to help Industry,
Mr.. Lloyd George defended the Genoa
conference, saying that although it did
not achieve all that was hoped for it
mad produced better atmosphere and
caused Rumania, Poland. Finland and
Latyia to sign peace pact. at was
worth the. SIX weeks labor at Genoa
to accomplish that and that alone" he
declared
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Three's q CrOaud on the Paris:
Husbands Travelling MateHeld

= Il u +
Mrs. Marie Leyet, OF San Francisco,
was detained for hearing before a
special board of inquiry at Ellis Island
yesterday when the Paris Of the French
line entered port. Hr detention was
at the request Of Mrs. Antoine vayssie
of San Francisco and was regarded by
other passengers as a sequel to an in
cident which occurred soon after the
liner sailed from Havre.
was returning from a trip TO Paris
with Mrs. Levet, his second cousin,
was ignorant OF the fact that his wife
also was q passenger but nevertheless,
according to the chief steward, had
asked for reservations at table for
himself and .'Mrs. Vayssie.o
Shortly afterward Mrs. Vayssie also
sought q reservation, and the chief
steward, thinking there must be some
mistake, sought to provide for prob
able duplication of reservations by Civ
ing her seat at the table at which
Mir. Vayssie had reserved two.
Tho gong sounded. Passengers be-
gar, to take their seats. In came Mr..
Vaygsie, accompanied by Mrs. Levet,
whom he seated with cousinly courtesy
in one of the two seats he had reserved.
He took the other, but had barely set.
tied himself when he became aware of
an ominous presence.
He looked up. Mrs, yayssie, con-
Quoted by steward to the seat re-
served for her, confronted him and his
second cousin. She was vexed, and it
was not long before all the diners knew
it. She pounded on the table, they
said, and served notice on Mrs. Levet
that she would throw her overheard in
person il she ever saw her with Mr..
Vayssie again.
For the rest Of the voyage she never
saw the couple together again and
neither did any one else. Mrs. Levet
kept to her stateroom and arrived with
out having been thrown overheard.
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and then there will be panic, there
will be row. You cannot adopt an
attitude Of that kind.
"Look at the unemployment in the
country. To announce on attitude
purely negative in character in the
face Of all that breeds despair, and de-
'There Is no magic carpet that will
carry you over the devastated areas Of
the war to the sunny, unburdened lands
beyond. Time, patience, hard work
sagacious and careful administration,
looking ahead---that will gradually
bring us through, but you cannot leap
into prosperity. know perfectly we'll
that no measures which the state can
devise can wipe out unemployment,
bring prosperity to trade and provide
customers in every part Of the world.
There is the war reckoning and it's con-
sequences.
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Mr.. Vayssie said he was profoundly
relatives, ho said, and several months
ago, when about to start for France,
invited his second cousin, who long
had been desirous of returning to that
country to see her young daughter,
to accompany him. The invitation was
extended with the knowledge Of Mrs.
Vayssie, Mr.. Vayasic said, and but for
her inexplicable attack of jealousy
she would corroborate his statements
about the broad kindliness of his ma
ture-
He acknowledged that he knew his
wife had followed him to France and
that he had made certain on obtaining
his passage on the Paris that HIS wife
had made no reservation on that ship.
But he had no idea, he said, that she
would have objected to his travelling
companion, as she had been present at
a farewell party given them In San
Francisco and knew all about the
philanthropic journey.
My wife is a very jealous woman"
he said, "and that is the only reason
that can give for her actions. !
think the immigration authorities viii
permit Mrs, Levet to land after have
fully explained the circumstances.
eve were not travelling as man and
wife and during the trip talked over
the matter with my wife, after which
we were on friendly terms. II Mrs.
Levet Is to be deported / shall pay her
passage and then give her return
ticket, so she can follow In a few
weeks. Such q trip would give her an
other chance to see her daughter,
Moreover, she became i'll after the out
burst Of Mrs. Vayssie on board tho
ship and suffered from seasickness for
the rest of the trip, so another voyage
would brace her up.'
Mrs. Levet's husband, Louis, is an
employee OF Mr. Vayssie in San Fran
cisco, and Is not an American citizen.
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W0r11ern's Corsets
to order

are feature of the Department on
the Second Floor, where expert filters
are I'm attendance.
Every woman appreciates the advan-
tage Of Corset designed especially
for her, and made to conform, in every
detail, 20 individual requirements.
3. Altman & Go. are prepared to render
this specialized service. There is
splendid assortment OF the finest silk
and cotton brooches, batistes and
coutiIs for selection.
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W0nmem's
Imported Lingerie

Eterr1aaly feminine are these lovely
a1nderthings of lir1en, batiste and
voile from France ar1d Belgium,
possessing the special charm OF ex~
quisite fir1eness, and fashioned with
tine particular Thought to every dainty
detail, that has always distinguished
tine work OF the naeedlewomaem across
the sea.
{Secorad Floor)
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/ ca Gowns

Tea Gowns
and BOuqdOir Robes
Lovely creations OF velvet and rich
brocades, trimmed with fur; silver
cloth and other metallic effects, satin
elaborateiy embroidered or with hand
painted decoration, crepe de Chimes,
and georgettes, deHicately adorned will,
silk lace and usually with touch Of
FUR. The dainty pastel shades and
more daringly bright coiors leave the
choice entirely to the mood of Milady.
Imported Tea Gowns and Robes
range In prices from S68.O0 to $4,000
Arnerican-made Tea Gowns
including models Of georgette and chiffon,
many fur-trimmed
arc priced at $500 to z05.OO
(Third Floor)
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WOn11ef1's
Luxurious Furs
The social side of tine season Is richly
expressed i'm the elegance OF fur wraps
THAT complete tine costume for evening
and formal occasions.
The Department ON the Third Floor
is place of regal splendor these dayg.
where the beauty of the best pelts lis
enhanced by the transforming touch Of
skilled workmanship, making the gar
ni1ents on display especially desirable.
Mink Wraps from 80 gf,fs M
Gray Squirrel Wraps from 4 .Ogde M
Co1ored karalSt1l Wraps, from o7s nm
Black karakul Wraps, from a 1.25(D. .0do
Broadtail Wraps from 400 M
Russian Ern1ine Wraps, from .aG,ft mn
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Words Inaudible for Cheers

GLASGOW, Scotland, Oct. 2s fBy the
Associated Pressl. - Former Prime
Minister Liode George. invading the
Glasgow constituency of Premier
Bonar Law to-day, brought to the fore
me danger that he saw existing in
division among men OF like minds who
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the plea that under the coalition
government nobody could keep
up with EN-" She gave some in
teresting sidelights on personalities
known on this side Of the water,
talked a little about herself and
q little about her husband. She fill
in the chinks with anecdote. and
managed to hold her audience for
two solid hours sheer force Of
personality.
The audience was as much inter
ested in itself as in the speaker.
Who was there? And who wasn't?
Was the British embassy repre-
sented7 Apparently not. but every
body else in Washington seemed
to be present.
The Russian ambassador, Boris
Bakhmeteff, was In box with
Mrs. Breckenridge Long and Mrs.
Harold Walker. A particularly
interesting party included Sonora
de Riano, wife Of the Spanish am
bassador; Mr.. Constantin Brun,
minister of Denmark; Mrs. Rich
ard H. Townsend and her daughter.
Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry; Mr.. and
Mrs. Lawrence Townsend and
Nine. Hauge.
Mrs. Frederic A. Keep had in her
box her sister, Miss Mabel T
Boardman, Mrs. Frederick II. GIL
lett and her daughter, Miss Louisa
Hoar. Mrs. Warren Delano Rob
bins and Mrs. b. Amar Sanderson.
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PATRIOTS BALL BRINGS
TOGETHER BRILLIANT FOLK

A brilliant assembly OF descendants
81 men and women who mace Ameri-
can history win be present at
RauscLer's bathrooms this evening for
the ball of the Patriots OF 1776.1s1S,
given by the Maj. william overton
Calls Chapter. ID. A. r.. and many
members of the social circles Of
Washington.
Az she is In deep mourning, the
chapter regent, Mrs. M. Monteirs
Berry. will not be present. her place
IN the receiving line being taken by
Mrs. Claude Bennett, vice regent. ana
Mrs. Walter Everett Hutton, chapter
historian rs we'll as ball chairman.
The District of Columbia ID. A. r.
viii be represented by the State re-
gent, Mrs. Francis st. Clair; the
Colonial Danes by Mrs. Charles G..
Matthews, president of the Colonial
Danes Club; the Society of Scions os
Colonial Cavaliers by Mrs. Francois
Berger Moran: the United STATES
Daughters Of 1912 by Mrs. Redwood
vandergrift; the women of the army
of the United States by Mrs. Amos
Fries, and the women of the army
Of France by Nine. Jean Labat.
These ladies will form the receiv-
ing line, the presentations being
made by Col. T. @. Donaldson.
MAI. d. 8. Gordon represents the
Knights Of the Golden Horseshoe, an
ancient colonial order, and Mrs. Cor
don the Ladies' Of the Golden Horse
shoe. Mrs Charles Taylor also rep
resents the out-of.town Daughters Of
1872.
A large number of Sons of the
Revolution will be present, Including
Commander Jay H. Sypher. MIR.
Henry Byrd and Mr.. John IA. Con-
verse.
Mr.. Samuel Herrick represents the
Society Of Colonial Wars, and the
Sons Of the American Revolution will
have Claude N. Bennett and Capt.
o. C. Luxford as representatives.
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drew w. Mellon, is entertaining at
dinner this evening.
Mrs. Charles Cromwell Is enter.
tanning at dinner In compliment TO
Princess Bertha Cantacuzene and
Miss Louise Todd.
Mr., and Mrs. Arthur Lee will be
hosts at dinner in honor OF Mr.. and
Mrs. John Shermna McCallum.
Others who are entertaining are
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Logan Feland,
Mrs. T. Dewitt Talmage, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Stewart Reyburn, Rev.
DR.. and Mrs. Douglas Putnam BRINE
and DIR. and Mrs. Cary Langhorne.
The British Ambassador and Lady
Geddes will be hosts at dinner at
the embassy tonight.
Lady Geddes will not be at home
on Friday afternoons. February II
or "a. but will receive on Friday,
March ..
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Mrs. Taft Hostess,

Mrs. William Howard Taft was
hostess at a delightful little luncheon
today. Her guests included Mrs.
Marshall Field. Miss Mabel Board
man, Mrs. Frederick c. Hicks, Mrs.
Truman Newberry. Nine. Christian
Hauge, Mrs. Kimball, Mrs. Marshall
Bullitt, Mrs. Frederick Bugher. Mrs
Charles c. Glover, Miss Patten, Mrs
Henry {. Corbin, Mrs. J. Mayhem
Wainwright, Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock
Mrs. Charles MacVeagh. Mrs. Henry
r. Dimock. Mrs. Adolph Caspar Mil
Ter, Mrs. George Sutherland and Mrs
Thomas F. Walsh.
Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Garfield
Of Detroit. who have come to Wash
ington to attend the Secretary OF
the Navy and Mrs. Denby's dinner
for the President and Mrs. Hard
ing tomorrow, are staying at the
Shoreham. Mrs. Garfield is Mrs
Denby's aunt.
Mr.. and Mrs. William p. Hamil
ton, Of Detroit, are also here and are
staying with Secretary and Mrs
DENLY.
| Mrs. Herbert Hoover went up tc
New York last evening to be gone
several days.
| Mrs. Walter Wilcox entertained G
company Of twenty at luncheon to
day.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Wilcox entertained A.
dinner last evening. Their guests in
cluded the Belgian Ambassador and
Baroness de Cartier, the Chilean Am
bassador and Nine. Matthew, Mr.. ant
Mrs. Larz Anderson, Mr.. and Mrs
Gist Blair, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Littauer, Miss Josephine Patten. Col
and Mrs. Stephen l.. H. Slocum
Count d'Adhemer, Mrs. Breckin
bridge Long, A. Maurice Lowe, Mr.
and Mrs. Horace Westcott, Mrs
Charles Cromwell. Mr.. and Mrs. A
Garrison McClintock, Mr.. and Mrs
| Wilbur Carr, Mrs. Borden Hartman
Percy Blair. Mrs. Sarah Lee Phillips
Colonel Gilmore and Miss Gilmore.
| -
Nine. Stephan Panaretoff, wife o.
the Minister of Bulgaria, enter
tanned a company OF ten at lunch
con at the legation today. Nine
Panaretoff Is giving a series o
small luncheons, the next to be Civ
en- on Tuesday, February 81.
| 3
Mrs. Harry woodward, wife o
Congressman woodward, Of Yves
Virginia, gave a luncheon today IL
compliment to Nine. Koo, wife of tn
Chinese Minister. The guests asked
to meet her included Mrs. Charlie
G.. Dawes, Mrs. Samuel Winslov
and her guest, Mrs. Osborn, of Bos
ton; Mrs. William Wilson, Mrs
James Carroll Frazer, Mrs. Stephel
b. Elkins, Mrs. William Eric Fow
Ter, Mrs. Frank A. Mondell, Mrs
James Parker, Mrs. Wallace White
Miss Alice Page and Mrs. Well
Goodykoontz.
Mrs. woodward gave a beautiful
ly appointed luncheon last week 70
Mrs. Carrie Jacobs-Bond.
-.
Mrs. John Temple Graves enter
tanned at a small luncheon toda,
in compliment to Mrs. Edward Il
Magll Of st. Louis.
| q
Mrs. Sinclair Bowen entertained
at a small luncheon today in com
pllment to Captain and Mrs Ed
ward Fellowes, OF England, who ar,
visiting Mrs. T, Mann. This even
ing Captain and Mrs. Fellowes will
be the guests Of honor at dinner o.
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Dinners ToniRht.

The social calendar this evening Is
crowded with a good round dozen OF
interesting dinners, varying from
several more or less formal functions
to small informal parties OF not more
than ten or twelve covers.
The Secretary Of the Treasury, An.