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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1912
Page
10
New York Washington Paris department store runs an anniversary sale with Men’s wear including coats, shirts, and fancy negligees. hosiery, undergarments, fabrics, and ladies wear such as gowns, dresses, waists, skirts, and parasols. Discounts note regularly higher prices. extensive listings of fabrics, linens, and accessories across floors.
Invitations from the White House announce a Friday March 1 musicale by Mrs Taft at 10 o'clock. This marks the first in a Lent series and continues the White House hospitality pattern set since Mrs Taft’s arrival. The bulletin also notes social events, guests arriving, and preparations at the residences and receptions through Washington society.
Duchess of Marlborough hosted Washingtons birthday anniversary in London London society crowded the Sunderland ballroom as notable hosts and guests gathered. The Duchess wore a fuchsia velvet dress with pearls while others wore velvet gowns and noted figures in fashion and suffrage circles discussed future name changes.
The cabinet ladies form a distinct social group in Washington with duties at White House receptions and dining. The author recounts changes since returning after fifteen years, contrasting lavish hostessing with warmer hospitality and equal attention to guests including distant visitors and staff.
In Lenox avenue East Oranges New Jersey Mrs Corbin and her grandnieces Miss Norma and Miss Gertrude Turner hosted a viewing of The Secret Woman. The play played Thursday by invitation at the Kingsway Theater in London. Lord Sandhurst among two brilliant attendees witnessed the production once banned by Lord Spencer.
Special to The Washington Post Annapolis Md Feb 22 Captain Philip R. Alger USN member of the Naval Board of Ordnance died this afternoon at the naval hospital from intestinal hemorrhages. Survived by wife and four children one a daughter. Alger joined the Naval Academy from Massachusetts in 1876. He graduated with first honors in 1880 and became a mathematics professor in the navy later rising to captain. He served as secretary-treasurer of the Naval Institute and was a veteran of the Spanish American War in the bureau of ordnance and since 1907 on the ordnance board.
The Flonzsey Quartet closed its season with a chamber music concert at the Willard Hotel in Washington. The program included two Glazunov selections, Mozart in D major, and Beethoven in F minor. The audience applauded the Andante of Mozart and the Interludium by Glazunov, with Betti, Pochon, Ara, and D Ardhambeau receiving warm merited praise. Emperor Receives Naval Attache in Tokyo as Lyman Atkinson Cotten visits embassy duties.
A crowd of young women discuss Miriam, star at Blank's publishing house, beloved for charm and generosity. They note her quiet work, tea in the office, and household help, while pondering whether extreme popularity may erode character or lead to selfish choices if hardship or misfortune strikes.
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