The Washington times., 1928-04-03
FASHION TALK
FOR Y.W.C.A.
GROUP


Of the business and professional
women's department of the Young
Women's Christian Association.
Seventeenth and k Streets, win
preside at the second dinner-meet-
ing OF the department tomorrow
evening, to be given In Barker
Hall, when the speakers will be
Miss Eleanor Eckhardt. Miss Eliza.
beth Hart and Frank StutZ. Mrs.
Compton will be assisted by the
members OF the advisory commit.
tee, including Mrs. Mabel Walker
WiIlebrandt, DR.. Elizabeth Kit.
redge, Mrs. Theodore =. Pickett,
Miss Mary J. Winfree and Miss
Jessie LaSalle; and also by a
committee Of table.hostesses, num-
bering Is well-known business and
professional women OF washing
ton.
Your Spring Wardrobe" Is the
alluring subject of the meeting,
and the speakers, all Of whom
are technical experts in their line.
will take for discussion. respec-
lively: 1929 Fashions for Bust
ness Women" Paris. Where
Styles Are Born and Made" and
Getting Your Moneys Worth In
Clothes"
Miss Bertha Pabst, executive
secretary of the department, as
sisted by Miss Edith Dawson,
is attending to reservations for
Wednesday night. which are COM
! ing in SO rapidly that It is ex-
pected the dinner list viii be
closed today.
Robert Ernest Vinson, OF Cleve-
land. president OF Western Re-
serve University. Is at the Will
lard to remain until Thursday.
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Mrs. William Wolff Smith Is en-
PERTAINING from to z o'clock this
afternoon at a. glass and yellow
china shower in her home at 34O9
Mount Pleasant Street in compli-
ment to Miss Celene DuPuy, daugh.
ter of~Mr. and Mrs. William Ather-
ton DuPuy, whose marriage to Ed
ward Nelson Dingley, jr., win take
place tomorrow,
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Mrs. Clarence M. Busch, prest-
dent of the Miami branch of the
National League of American Pen
Women, and Mrs. William Wat
son McKibben, of Coral Gables,
Florida, vice president of the
Miami League, have arrived in
Washington and are staying at
the Willard Hotel. Mrs. Busch,
who is a candidate for the office
of national president of the League
of American Pen Women. and
Mrs. McKibben will attend the BIZ
ennial convention of the league.
which will take place from April
IL to Is at the Willard Hotel.
At the Authors Breakfast, which
win be held April IL. at IL o'clock
in the large ballroom of the Will.
lard. Mrs. Busch will be hostess
at the Florida table. where there
will be seated Mrs. McKibben,
Mrs. Clay ShoHrill. Mrs. Vivian
Yeiser Laramore. treasurer OF the
Miami branch: Mrs. Lily McMas-
ter, Mrs. Galen G. Hartman.
Judge Atkinson. Mrs. Kate A. APP
lington. Mrs. Marie Tello Phillips
and Mrs. Elmer WetzeI, of Miami
Beach. corresponding secretary of
the branch.
Mrs. J. H. Crawford, accom-
panied by party of friends, has
gone to Norfolk to spend the
week preceding Easter at the
Princess Anne Country Club.
With Mrs. Crawford are Mrs.
David H. Blair. wife of the Com
missioner OF Internal Revenue:
Mrs. Royal Johnson. wife of
Representative johnson: Mrs.
Joseph A. Atkins, wife Of Major
Atkins; Mrs. Lester A. Barr and
Mrs. Nelson A. Lard. Mrs.
Crawford and Mrs. Blair. both of
whom make their home at the
Wardman Park Hotel. expect to
return the latter part of the week.
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Mr.. and Mrs. r.. It. Whitaker.
OF Southport, Lancashire, Eng
land, have recently arrived in
Washington, and are guests at
the Mayflower. They have just
come here from San Diego, Cal,
where they have been visiting Mrs,
Whitaker's relatives. Mr.. Whit
aker is a retired Government Of
fetal, having been surveyor of
one OF the IL postoffice districts
in England. Mrs. Whitaker is in
terested in philanthropic work.
and is a magistrate with the title
OF justice of the peace. which has
considerably more significance in
England than here. They have
been travelling in the United
States and Canada for the past
two months, concluding their ex-
tended tour Of two years during
which period they have visited
the Mediterranean countries, and
Ceylon, as we'll as Finland and
Norway. They will sail for home
next Wednesday on the BeIen'
garia.