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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1916
Page
12
Large displays showcase spring fabrics for suits coats skirts and gowns. Readily available are 36 to 40 inch all wool batiste and a range of weaves including mohair serges broadcloths and velours with prices from 50 cents to 3 dollars per yard.
Cotton fabrics have risen in cost but prices on these textiles are kept at the old scale. The store does not want customers to think fabrics have not advanced, yet affirms price levels remain unchanged for the public.
Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Lane returned from California on a visit. Mrs. Richard Crane hosts a reception with her guest. Ushers include the Misses Clark and Abercrombie at a Lafayette Hotel musicale for the Southern States suffrage conference. Afternoon events feature Group If at 4 40 p m in Raleigh ballroom with the Wooster Glee Club and readings by Justice Wendell P Stafford. A reception for composers and Justice Stafford follows. Secretary of Commerce and Mrs Redfield accompany their son Humphrey Redfield from Amherst for spring holidays.
Mrs Arthur Copeland of Morrison street Chevy Chase will be at home formally this afternoon with her sister Mrs Leadhey of Rochester as guest. The Monday lecture at the Club of Colonial Dames is omitted this month. An illustrated lecture by Rev Ward Denys on The Vale of Kashimir is set for April 10 at 4 30. Miss Dorothy O Keefe has left for Leavenworth Kans to await her brother from Mexico. Miss Amelia Dunbar Shields and Mr Carl Robertson Kurtz announce their engagement. Mr and Mrs Myron L Keith of Boston have arrived at the Willard. A stereopticon travelogue by Rep Fred A Britten is planned for April 10 at 3 15 with dancing after 10.
Mrs John W Thompson gave a fat luncheon at her residence on Friday in I street. Mr and Mrs Russell Hopkins of New York and Atlanta are spending the week at the Willard. Mr and Mrs Henry Brevoort Kane of New York are stopping there for a few days. Mr and Mrs Arthur Lyman of 57 Marlboro Street Boston celebrated the engagement of their daughter Margaret to Kenneth G B Parson. Parson is the son of the late Rev William E Parson of Washington and is class of Harvard 1916. He played football in 1914 15 and rowed on the University crew for two years. He belongs to the Fly Iroquois and Hasty Pudding clubs.
President Wilson will occupy Shadow Lawn in New Jersey as soon as Congress adjourns and may spend weekends there if the session lasts into summer. He has declined other offered residences despite urging from supporters.
Meriden Conn April 1 Rev H M Hancock pastor of South Meriden Methodist Church releases guidelines on love and marriage. He urges parental guidance in love, discourages hasty marriages, notes second marriages can succeed, and stresses men should provide a home for their wife rather than living with others. He comments on women finding difficulty in attracting men and a decline in marriages.
Boston heiress Miss Phyllis Sears announced engaged to Bayard Tuckerman Jr son of Bayard Tuckerman of New York. Miss Sears is Herbert M Sears's daughter and granddaughter of Francis Bartlett a patron of the arts whose 1903 donation to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts was the era’s largest.
Mrs. George Washington Lopp leads a relief effort sending tobacco and 2.6 million cigarettes to British and French troops in France and Belgium aboard the Rochambeau. Her husband Mr. Lopp accompanies her, assisting with supplies for American ambulance hospitals and shower baths for French soldiers.
Helen hosts Laura at 3 30 as Laura confesses her husband’s infidelity. Laura reveals she suspects an affair with another woman, saying the truth is hardly clandestine and that everyone knows. Helen seeks to understand Laura’s shifting happiness and bitterness.
The marble pulpit crafted in Knoxville pink marble by Henry Vaughan in Boston, a gift from Mrs. Russell Sage to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine New York, will be set up within two months as a memorial to Bishop Henry C. Potter. The work features relief scenes and statues of saints and evangelists. Also noted are the May 17 wedding of Suzanne Warren to Herman Murray at St Thomas NY and a private First Presbyterian wedding of Charlotte Hall to Sanford Stockton Jr. The acacia exhibit at the National Flower Show in Philadelphia was bought for 5000 by Joseph Widener from Thomas Rowland, the Nahant exhibitor, and consisted of 118 plants.
Laura recounts years of misery from a faithless marriage to Warren and a doll-like rival who seduced her husband John. Helen urges restraint as Laura reveals she nearly ended her life and vows action to stop the affair. The confession exposes enduring marital strain and calls for decisive steps.
Capital girl athlete Miss Mil dred Adams, a Smith College junior from Washington DC, starred in gymnastics helping the junior team win the silver cup for best team work. They beat the seniors by a margin of one hundredth of a point, scoring 2908 to 2907, and broke the college record of 33.07 points. Adams is noted for standout college sports, especially basketball, over the past three years.
Mrs. Mary Ivol, widow of a manufacturer, was chloroformed in her home as a colored man robbed the adjoining room early yesterday. She regained consciousness and called the police. the burglar escaped with 55 dollars, leaving silverware untouched. Her son R. A. Ivol was believed asleep nearby.
A cyclone hit Yellow Pine near Mobile at 6 30 this morning destroying nine residences and five business houses. Twenty two cattle were killed and damage totals about 49000 dollars. No serious injuries reported though many narrowly escaped death as homes were demolished including C D Thompsons ten room residence blown 100 feet from its foundation.
Mrs Annie Mills, widow of Brig. Gen Samuel M Mills of the U S Army and daughter of Pierre Maison, a grandson of Napoleon’s marshal, died at her New York home tonight. Born September 24, 1846 in Philadelphia, she will be buried beside her husband at West Point Military Cemetery.
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