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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1920
Page
3
A letter from a young girl aged 20 seeking advice on a secret marriage to a 22 year old fiancé spurs Miss Grey to discuss youths eloping and defying parental and legal norms. The exchange reflects concerns over dances public spaces and safeguarding laws while questioning modern social routines and privacy.
Cynthis Grey writes to The Seattle Star defending independent dancing and choice. She argues girls should attend dances with or without escorts, rejects money-for-attendance arrangements, and praises courage in choosing partners under personal standards.
A reader asks whether to intervene in a couple's relationship. The adviser says outsiders cannot judge their motives and that the man in love should not be swayed by friends' failed marriages. The girl may consider her own feelings and the couple should resolve their decision without outside help.
A homemaking note advises spring reupholstery on a shabby chair. It suggests saving labor costs by making an all cotton slip cover from a ready pattern, using inexpensive material to avoid wasting good fabric. Any woman with the will can do it.
Photo features Miss M Weiss and Daisy Henry with a gray tricotine spring suit and matching hat. The page lists numerous local society meetings at the Rainbow Temple, YWCA, and schools, including Mothers Club, Delta Upsilon, Nineteenth Century groups, and PTA events. It notes Vera Kelney taking six months in China as secretary to a general Edison Co head.
The Seattle Chapter of a social club meets at Mrs. Nellie Walla’s home in Ballard on Thursday at 2 p m. The Sorority Club art department holds its annual officers election on Thursday May 6 at the Federated club house with a program on Venetian school landscape painting by Mrs. M M Grout and talks on current topics by Mrs. S W Burdick and Mrs. W C Lippincott.
Dorothy Fay Gould reports Wayne Albee of Seattle donated five works to the Pittsburg Salon of Photographers at Carnegie Institute. Twelve hundred entries were hung and The Girl With Fruit, featuring Miss Margaret Pettit of Seattle, drew notable applause as the exquistite figure. Pettit, a Cornish dancer trained by Mary Ann Well, entered the Metropolitan last June and now leads a Broadway ballet.
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