The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-13

Dig meeting =.
Mrs. Gilbert Hitchcock, who came
out on the train with us, made 2
Zine impression with her intro
ouctory speech of Mr.. Roosevelt"
Salzburg plaids, we hear, are
the Smartest things in sports wear.
Americans are returning from Eu-
rope with their trunks bullying
with Salzburg suits. Likewise
green, red and brown velvet shoes
and feathered hats to complete
the costumes with color accent.
A shop devoted entirely to Salz-
burg importations has recently
opened in New York. Salzburg
materials are gay and fresh look
ing. They haven't that left-out-
1n-the-rain-last-night look of swag-
ger English tweeds.
Sport clothes, no doubt, are
casually chic, but no woman is
ever as feminine as when she
wears a tea gown or hostess gown,
NdA ~ WLldI you Will.
Naturally the tea gown must be
elegant. It must look like it be-
longs to the wearer, not as if it
had been rented from a fancy
dress shop. Mrs. Francis Whit
ten, by the way, has the most love-
ly tea gown we've seen in years.
It is of pale grey taffeta with an
enormously full skirt, cut slightly
above ankle length in the front
and flaring wide to show violet
slippers. The back of the skirt
trails in deep folds. The bodice is
tightly fitted, made with huge puff
sleeves and big corsage of violets
at the waist-line to emphasize the
line of the low V-neck. in short,
it is the sort of a garment that
would make you hate its wearer if
you didn't already like her very
we'll.
Slowly, Washington struggles
through that INSTRUMENTATION
state of suspended animation. En-
pertaining begins to take its nor
NAL place in the Capital calendar.
In the fascinating big studio room
of 2133 r St., Mr.. and Mrs. Risley
Goldsborough Hunt said how-do-
you-do on Sunday to at least
hundred people who make the
town go round.
Mrs. Hunt is tall, dark and
graceful, is an artist of ability. and
plays and sings. Before her mar
riage she was Lemira Gillette Hill
Mcclure.
Mr.. Lowell Mellett has bought
q house on Seminary Hill, in Al
exandria, with a thrilling view Of
the Potomac River. Mr.. Walker
Buel has gone to Cleveland to
bring home the lovely Mrs. Buel
who has been convaleScing in a
Cleveland Hospital after a slight
Illness.
A down town shop is selling au-
tumn leaves in cellophane-Gold
mesh bags have come into style
again-just when we gave ours to
the Salvation Army Old Fash
toned writes to say that she
thinks it is perfectly silly the way
people nowadays neglect gera-
NUNS. What was more cheerful,
she asks, than those hearty plants
that blossomed loudly in summer
and fingered on hopefully in win
ta1. ooY1Snrvat0rieS
A New York publisher says that
one reason there's never been
successful book about Washington
is because nobody wants to read
of the real washington. The
public prefers the Washington OF
their imagination. You know the
formula-beautiful daughter of
dishonest western Senator falls
in love with poor Capitol Hill fill
ing clerk while her anxious par
ent tries to force her into an ad-
vantageous marriage with a
treacherous old diplomat who Of
fers her life of splendor in for
eign capitals Cor he'll put her pa
in jaiD.
Every woman we know is either
in love with Mr.. Roosevelt or with
Rhett Butler, gentleman buc-
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