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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1924
Page
18
Friday offers from Palais Royale on the second and third floors feature Bleached Damask table sets in widths of 64 and 72 inches, heavy seamless sheets, longcloth, chambray finish, and hemmed napkins. Prices include 59 cents per yard for damask and $1.29 for sheets, with 1.75 a bolt longcloth, all praised for durable, high quality and laundering ease.
A Friday sale features 25 Handsome Negligees at 7.98 and regular 16.38 values, plus embroidered pillowcases, towels, scarves, and bed linens. Midsummer dresses, silk gloves, chamois suede gloves, and jewelry items like earrings and bead necklaces are offered with extensive fabric and accessory discounts across the Palais Royal Main Floor and Third Floor.
The society page lists diplomats and their guests in New York, Washington, and Bar Harbor. Highlights include Miss Elizabeth Howry visiting the Weeks in New Hampshire after September 11, Greek and Ecuadorian envoys hosting at the legation, and Polish minister Wroblewski summering in the White Mountains. Also mentioned are arrivals and departures of Cecil and family, Peruvian and Mexican attaches, Bar Harbor departure notices, and engagements such as Miss Emily Gordon McLean to Charles Downer.
England on the Olympic Tuesday evening after attending the American Bar Association meeting in London. Former Representative Philip P. Campbell and Mrs Campbell with daughters Helen and Dorothy Campbell and Mrs Barrette S Wright head home to Kansas for a fortnight. Various guests and travelers are noted including Mr and Mrs Don Young of Norwalk Ohio and Endless Caverns Farm Virginia, Esther Prager, Catherine Weller, Captain J P McCrink, Juan Leguia y Swayne, J T Olyphant, H Reave Kelsey and Florence Kelsey, Maxine Girls, and several members of the Women’s Relief Corps, with stays in Washington, Meridian Mansions, and Lake Placid.
New York Society notes Mrs William K Vanderbilt IT and her daughters Mariet Consuelo among the most active travelers between Saratoga and Newport. The family shuttles between paddocks at Saratoga and the Casino Baileys Beach at Newport as Gen J A Woodward of Washington stays at the Hotel Pennsylvania.
Army bands conducted by W. J. Brannard and under M Cier Innocenty perform tonight. Programs include marches from The Prophet and The Fire Firm, selections from Hi Guarany and The Starl Spangled Banner, plus operatic and dance numbers at Reed General Hospital Washington barracks and Community Centers Band at Twelfth and Shapherd northeast.
Reports of committees and the installation of two new members marked the Cosmopolitan club meeting at the Franklin Square hotel. New members are W L King in mortgages and loans and Dr John W Laird in research engineering. Preliminary plans were set for September 9 deferral of the next meeting and a special committee chairmen session at the hotel to plan winter work. Booster prizes went to Robert Simpson and Dr J Rozier Biggs. donors for next week are Eugene Paravano and John Payette. Ralph Weschler is the speaker. a ladies night is planned for early September.
The Bureau of Fisheries night at Central High School stadium features three motion pictures on propagating food fishes. The Boys Independent band of Washington opens at 1 30 with a concert. Admission is 10 cents to cover expenses. if weather is bad the event moves to the school auditorium.
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines directs an inspection of Perryville rehabilitation center by American Legion delegates in Havre de Grace. A nurse was removed from a ward amid mistreatment charges. an orderly removal also possible. Dr. Charles A. Barlow’s report to Dr. Croasman was pending.
A beauty contest is planned for the annual Hommeys excursion to Marshal Hall. Orphan children will be guests, with proceeds aiding welfare work by La Societe Nationale des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux. Francia F Miller leads the beauty contest coordination and committees include Pierce Byrne Connolly and Abbe.
The Baptist Young People's union plans its first annual excursion tomorrow at Chesapeake Beach with an estimated 1900 attendees. It will start a tradition of a large summer outing, led by committee chairs John Ruthven and Hugh Wingard, with Thomas R. Wilson as vice president and Wilbert W. St. Clair as treasurer.
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