Opening Display of the New Spring Millinery in Paris Style
The Green and Mahogany Salon on the second floor at Tenth Street hosts an opening display of spring millinery featuring Parisian designers Camille Rogers, Caroline Reboux, Maison Lewis, Virot, Esther Meyer, Mangin Maurice, and strong local millinery. Hats highlight real flowers, feathers, and Neapolitan braids with colors including Old Rose, Watermelon, Sevres, Delft, Wedgwood, mulberry, and pink. Mourning pieces by Mangin Maurice emphasize simple elegance and light drapery. Silk, lace, and feather neck fixings complete the display. showcases focus on growth for young girls and a shift toward simplicity.
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Camille Rogers
Caroline Reboux
Maison Lewis
Virot
Esther Meyer
Mangin Maurice
Sevres
Delft
Wedgwood
Paris
New Spring
Tenth St
Spring Millinery Styles Highlight Burnt Leghorn Hats
Burnt Leghorn will be a leading straw style this season with hats turned up on both sides and forward, featuring ruffles of German Wallace with pink velvet cords and a shirred Liberty ribbon arrangement. Other pieces include a Shepherdess lace hat, a lingerie hat with pink embroidery, mulberry English walking shapes, a black jet hat with velvet trim, and Parisian favored confections with blue ostrich feathers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
New Spring Corset Fashions Highlight Princesse Hip Designs
New spring corset styles showcase intricate hand embroidery and silk batiste fabrics. The princesse hip and high bust corset features English eyelet work, fern motifs, Wallace fans, and Liberty ribbon bows, with a desirable ring waist and Valk lace trim. A Lily of France model uses pink rose embroidery and pink white plaited trims for a dainty finish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
Vogue
Lily of France
New French Petticoats Described with Delicate Detail
French underwear is praised for its elaborate and dainty design in new petticoats. The article highlights a knee-length flounced style with scalloped hand-embroidered edging, Val. Jace inserts, and a Swiss ribbon bow, plus softer options in silk and tape with graceful trimming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Val
Jace
Spring Coats Hats and Bonnets for the Little Folks
The article promotes spring coats hats and bonnets for children featuring hand embroidered sun bonnets in white pique and lawn backs, Peek-a-boo bonnets in white pique with cool backs, flat sun hats with eyelet embroidery, ribbon trimmings, and pique coats with matching embroidery and deep collars, all described as dainty and lovingly made.
Social and Personal Portraits for Souvenirs in New York
Social notes from New York cover Baroness von Sternburg and Vicomtesse de Feramond meeting Miss Langham, Mrs Clark’s Morro Castle incident, and a March 11 Haensel and Gretel benefit for the Legal Aid Society. Prominent hosts, patrons, and guests include Mrs Roosevelt, Mrs Astor, Mr Morgan, and many society figures attending teas, dinners, and receptions at the Willard, Hotel Chamberlin, and Georgetown events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baroness von Sternburg
Vicomtesse de Feramond
Miss Laugham
New York
Mrs. Clark
Castle Morro
Hotel Chamberlin
Haensel
Gretel
Edward J. Berwind
Joseph H. Choate
Ogden Codman
Cleveland H. Dodge
Jesup
V. Everitt Macy
George B. McClellan
Elihu Root
J. P. Morgan
Henry Parish, Jr
James Speyer
Isaac N. Seligman
William J .Schieffe
Vicomtesse de Faramond
Miss Langham
Touraine
Washington
Netherlands
van Swinderen
Cambridge
Sumner
Santiago Battlefield Commission
Army
Navy
Fort Monroe
Charles B. Clark
Clark
Morro Castle
Chamberlin
Elizabeth Dodge
Hugh Mdl. Walker
St John's Church
Lessons in Washington's Life by Chaplain Pierce
Chaplain C C Pierce of Fort Myer spoke at the Washington Birthday union service of the Boys Brigade and the YMCA boys department at 1733 G Street NW. He recounted Washington life, noted a different history if his early courtship with Mary Phillips, a Tory, and cited Washingtons firm discipline as a timeless lesson. Music by the Lyric Quartet of Baltimore and boy cornetist Stuart Dewey accompanied the program.
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C. C. Pierce
Fort Myer
Washington
G Street
Mary Phillips
Lyric Quartet
Baltimore
Stuart Dewey
Greek couple wed in Concordia Hall amid Eastern rites
Stephen Chaconas and Helen Skiados, both Greeks, were married in Concordia Hall on Sixth Street in a ceremony led by Rev. Jocian Alexopoulos. The affair featured Orthodox Greek ritual, rice and candy shower, and a parade of celebrants including Gus Dracos as best man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jociun Alexopoulos
Stephen Chaconas
Helen M. Skiados
Concordia Hall
Sixth Street
Jocian Alexopoulos
Mattings on Introductory Sale With Deep Discounts
Advertises a limited time sale on various mattings including seamless china and Japanese cotton warp mats. Claims 20 percent savings by yard with further roll discounts and 40 yard rolls at reduced prices. Highlights fresh stock, new designs, and delivery holds for customers.
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Ice Ito Agi
Gil the prize Chihuahua in local dog show
Gil a prize winning Chihuahua entered by Mrs J A Grace of 1837 H street will compete in the Miscellaneous class. The full grown four and a half pound dog weighed under two pounds at ten months and has won first prizes at Philadelphia and New York shows. Gil is dark lemon colored and touted as a fine specimen. his sire was Chicho and dam Luz with five generation pedigree.
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Gil
J. A. Grace
H Street
Philadelphia
New York
Chihuahua
Mexico
Grace
Senor
Juan Freverno
Chicho
Luz
Women Seek Jobs and Small Fashion Aids
A telephone company speaker argues young women are essential in operations as business education isn’t required. The piece notes women creating compact first aid kits, decorative gifts, and miniature leather travel hangers. It also covers glove etiquette, Southern women honoring Mrs. Davis, and an elderly craftsman who makes poodle foot rests for fashionably inclined boudoirs.
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Woodward & Lothrop
London
Freidie
Usseline de Soie
Bolienne
Merveilleux
Prin Mai
Belfast
Dimities, &c
David and
John Anderson
G St
Luavporace Marqly
George Washington University
Needham
Moore
Badger
Whitmore
John Paul Earnest
Ama Harper Turner
McTlhenny
Shanley
W. H. Herron
W. Clephane
J. McWilliams
Edgar Frisby
H. L Hodgkins
FF. Wolff
Holbrook
Freebey
Siebert
Hil
Raber
Vance
Senator Kean
Larz Anderson
George Draper
Boston
William FY. Draper
Georgetown Assembly
W.A. Capron
United Btates
Naval Academy
Charles Elwood Foster
Whiliam Wheatley
Mite
PeDaselr Hodges
Richmond
William FE. Durenderfer
Columba Road
J. C. Wheeler
Peelle
Stanton Canfield
Concord
John Elbert Wilkie
Sixteenth Street
Thomas H. Anderson
Herman R. Howenstein
Hrard Street
W. H. Sholes
Appleton Clarke, Jr
E. S. York
Major
BE. W. Spalding
Letta Fisher
W. J. Hutchinson
Maryland Avenue
Misses Boyd
Maurice “Humphreys Joyce
R. F. Luckett
Seward Square
Robert L. Russell
J. Bright Handy
Fenton W. Booth
Bancroft Place
Mrs. Howry
Asher Ryerson
M. C. Weller
Charles A. McCarthy
Brown
Justice Brown
Meachum R. Blumenberg
First Street
Gandy
Gus Dracos
Swain
Sr & Pa Ave
Sto
China
Japan
Shann, Sons & Co
Collies
du Pont
A. EK. C
Jeane Lewis
Leek Sirdar
Leek
England
Brenda
Wellesbourne
James 8. Lay
THE
Jefferson Davis
Hampshire Pottery
Barris
Shafer Company
Pennsylvania Avenue
Alory
Berry & Whitmore Co
V. D. Rosen
Directa
F St
Wantington
Brentano
Thirteenth Streets
Pmaars
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