The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-13
Poles HOnOrP President Coolidge
MORE SOCIETY
GIRLS JOIN
WORKERS
Miss Virginia Selden a
Model for Sketches in
Smart Magazine

A survey Of Washington girls
debutantes of the not so long ago
discloses three more who have de.
Elected from the routine of society
to find interest and satisfaction in
the ways OF work-each In her
separate sphere"
Miss Virginia Selden, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Selden, IT,,
is in New York, where she Is serv.
ing as a model for sketches for an
ultra fashionable, magazine. Vir-
ginia ought to be good at that, for
she has the face and figure to make
frumpy fashion look smart and a
smart one still smarter.
The report is that Virginia IL 80
absorbed In her venture that her
possible wedding to William Cush.
man, which was to have taken place
in the summer. but which was post
poned because Of the illness of her
sister, Mary, is being put farther
and farther into the future.
incidentally. Mary, who 10 g
sweet little darling, has recovered
from what appeared to be a fatal
illness, but 1t will probably be sew.
herself again. She made her debut
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around" some this season, but will
have to do SO. with reservations.
New York has also won Miss
Eleanor Guthrie, daughter of Mrs.
David L, Brainard. wife Of General
Brainard, u. S. A., retired. Miss
Guthrie is cousin Of Juliette
Crosby, the actress, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Oscar T. Crosby, OF Wash.
ington and Warrenton, Va. She
has hopes for a stage career, but
list now has a position with Lord
and Taylor-in the buying depart
ment. IL she doesn't desert this
work for the stage her plan Is to
learn the business from "the ground
up"
Miss Katherine Sutherland, dauaah
ter Of the Alien Property Custodian
and Mrs. Howard Sutherland, is
going in for interior decorating as
a business, or profession, which
ever it Is. She. however, Is con-
sidering connections here in Wash
ington.
Last year "Cassie" tried out her
luck in Notwithstanding as repre-
sentative for a fashion magazine
for which she wrote up" the
styles and displayed at the Florida
winter resorts and also as a mem
Der Of the staff OF q real estate
firm boosting Florida.
The other Sutherland sister, Mar.
garet, will decide later what she
is to do this winter-she has de-
cided she will not be merely a $50
ciety girl" Her interests are along
journalistic lines. She was a re-
porter on the Cleveland Plain
Dealer for a year IN connection
with her work at Antioch College,
an up-to-date scholastic institution
in Ohio, and will probably get on
the editorial staff OF a local paper
before the winter Is tar advanced.
Margaret did o. good piece of
work in her essay for The Nation
year ago, which won first prize
in a competition with students OF
Harvard, Yale, Vassar. Bryn MawT
and other famous universities. Dur
ing the summer she had worked
In several factories to get the in
formation necessary for entering
the contest and her essay detailing
what she found out was extremely
interesting and we'll done.
Col. and Mrs. Louis r. Hess,
U. 8. A., has arrived in Washing
ton for a short stay. While here
they will make their home at the
Hamilton Hotel. Colonel Hess is
stationed att Columbus. Ohio, as
corps area surgeon of the Fifth
Corps Area.
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