Evening star., 1925-04-05

NEW YORK, April 4.-One OF the
biggest projects undertaken by the
Junior League in this city will take
place next Wednesday when the or
ganization will staff a large depart
ment store from basement to the top
floor for the day and turn percent
age of the profits over to hospital
work. Debutantes have been busy
for the last few weeks perfecting
themselves in the persuasive ways of
salesmanship and a keen rivalry has
developed as to who Will show the
best results when the doors close at
night.
Donning the regulation sales
woman's costume the members of the
Junior League who have been select
ed for the work will stand behind
the counters and wear their most
winning smiles to establish a record
in the output of goods among the
f1ocks of customers that are expected.
Mrs. Sherman Post Haight and Mrs.
Lawrence McKeever Miller will cap
tain the forces In the morning, While
Miss Phyllis Thompson, Miss Mary
Burchell and Miss Jane Watson will
be in charge in the afternoon.
The volunteers for services exceeded
the demand and a choice was made by
the heads of the committee in charge.
These included Miss Clara Lee, Miss
Helen Cloan, Miss Mary Hoppin, Miss
Julia Shearer, Miss Dorothy Collins,
Miss Eleanor Powers, Miss Elizabeth
Manning, Mrs. Howland Davis and
Mrs. Sherman Post Haight, who is
chairman of the whole committee.
The hospital work of the Junior
League is one of it's chief objectives.
OF the institutions which benefit are
the Vanderbilt Clinic, the Presby-
.terian, st. Luke's, Bellevue. the Ton
sill, the Babies and the City Hospi-
tails. Money raised in the department.
store venture will be devoted princi-
palIy to occupational therapy in the
City Hospital and the one on Welfare
Island.
Society Suffers Losses.
Eociety met with a great loss in
the recent death of Miss Caroline de
Forest, who was one of the few
remaining members of the old
aristocratic circle, so often referred
to as the 400" For more than so
years Miss de Forest had been a
leader in the dignified social enter
tanning which is so rapidly being dis
placed by the jazz mania of the pres
ent day. At the time of her death
she was IA years old. but retained
her interest in current affairs until
within a short time of the end.
Another loss was sustained by So
ciety in the death of Countess Henri
de Laugier-Nillars. representatives.
Of practically all of the we'll known
families in this city attended the
funeral services in st. Patrick's Ca
thedral She had made her home for
the last two years at the villa of
Mrs. Richard T, Wilson in Narragan-
sett avenue, Newport. Countess de
Laugier-Villars was the daughter of
the late Johnston Livingston. and
active among the conservative set.
Born in the Purple
While the smart set was mourning
over the passing of two leaders there
came news of a visit of the stork
TO Mr.. and Mrs. Barklie MKee Henry
in London. The little one, who was
born in the purple, is a girl. Mrs.
Henry was married June %. She
WAS Miss Barbara Whitney, the
Younger of the two daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, and
granddaughter of Mrs. Vanderbilt ST.
The wedding. (which took place at
Roslyn. Long Island, was one of the
most brilliant events of the early
summer season. The reception held
at the country place of Mr.. and Mrs.
Whitney, one of the show places of
Wheatley Hills, Long Island. was at
tended by almost 1000 guests, and
Included the most prominent members
Of society. Mr.. Henry is a son of
w. Barklie Henry of Philadelphia, and
was captain of last years crew at
Harvard.
Prospective Weddings.
Announcement of the engagement
OF Miss Frances Norton to William
Galley Lord is another event of in
terest to the Whitney family. Miss
Norton is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Sheridan S. Norton of $50 Park
avenue. Mr.. Lord is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Edwin Lord of
Tarrytown- Hudson.
Besides being a member of the
Junior League, Miss Norton is a grad
uate of the fashionable Spence School
Her sister Miss Marion Norton, was
married to Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit
Eey. only son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney, in Paris about two
wears ago. Miss Barbara Whitney,
now Mrs. Henry, was one of the
bridesmaids
The Norton family has country
house on Long Island and Miss Nor
ton, like her sister, Mrs. Whitney, has
been prominent among the younger
set of that section as well as in this
city. She is a devotee of outdoor
sports. Mr.. Lord is d graduate of
Yale, class of 1923. 1t is expected
that the wedding will take place in
the late Spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank LongfeIlow
Crocker, will be married to Mr. Matt
land Lee Griggs, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Maitland F. Griggs, of $50 East Seven