Opening Display of the New Spring Millinery
A promotional notice for a spring millinery showcase featuring Parisian designers Camille Rogers Caroline Reboux Maison Lewis Virot Esther Meyer Mangin Maurice and local milliners. Highlights include bright hats small hats real garden flowers feathers ribbons and Neapolitan braids with new Neapolitan Plateaux in graceful shapes. Mourning millinery by Mangin Maurice emphasizes elegant simplicity with drapery light materials and crepe. Also shown are Silk Lace and Feather Neck fixings with an invitation to inspect on the Green and Mahogany Salon on the second floor Tenth St.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camille Rogers
Caroline Reboux
Maison Lewis
Virot
Esther Meyer
Mangin Maurice
Sevres
Delft
Wedgwood
Paris
New Spring
Tenth St
Spring Millinery Trends Burnt Leghorn and Parisian Hats
A parade of fashionable summer hats including burnt Leghorn styles with turned brims and pink velvet cords, lace scarves on shepherdess shapes, lingerie hats with pink embroidery and Liberty ribbon, mulberry English walking shapes, jetted horsehair turbans, and blue ostrich feathered Neapolitan models. Parisian influence appears in favored designs and gilt-green plume accents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
New Spring Corset Fashions Feature Embroidered Silks
New spring corset designs showcase intricate hand embroidery and ring waist silhouettes. The princesse hip and high bust model uses English eyelet with fern motifs and Wallace fans, finished with Liberty ribbon bows, while Lily of France styles add silk batiste with pink rose embroidery and Valk lace trim for a dainty effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
Vogue
Lily of France
New French Petticoats Describe Delicate Underwear
A French fashion note praises new petticoats for elegance and craft. Descriptions include a knee-length flounced style scalloped and hand-embroidered with Val lace, Swiss breading ribbon, and a large bow, plus silk and tacked versions trimmed with Wallace lace and a deep fan-shaped Spanish frounce with fine tucks and lace trim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Val
Jace
Wallace
Spring Coats Hats and Bonnets for the Little Folks
Spring coats hats and bonnets for the little folks described with hand embroidered white sun bonnets peeka boo bonnets and white pique fabrics cool backs of white lawn mud avoid heavy pique flat sun hats with embroidery and ribbons pique coats with embroidered designs deep collars and capes dainty garments to be made with care
Social and Personal Portraits for Souvenirs in New York
Baroness von Sternburg and Vicomtesse de Feramond meet Miss Langham in New York while Mrs. Clark remains recovering after Morro Castle poisoning. A Metropolitan Opera benefit for the Legal Aid Society features Haensel and Gretel with Mrs. Roosevelt attending among numerous patronesses, and a souvenir book highlights the President's family and noted contributors.
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 Washingtons Life on Washington Birthday Service
Chaplain C C Pierce of Fort Myer spoke at the Washington Birthday union service held by the Boys Brigade and the YMCA boys department at 1733 G street NW. He recounted Washingtons life, noted his early courtship with Mary Phillips, a Tory, and drew lessons from Washingtons disciplined character. Music was provided by the Lyric Quartet of Baltimore and boy cornetist Stuart Dewey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Pierce
Fort Myer
Washington
G Street
Mary Phillips
Lyric Quartet
Baltimore
Stuart Dewey
Greek wedding in Concordia Hall ties two families
Stephen Chaconas and Helen Skiados, both Greeks, wed in Concordia Hall with Orthodox Greek rites led by Rev. Jocian Alexopoulos. The ceremony featured rings exchanged by families, a wine toast, rice and candy shower, and a procession that filled the venue, followed by a carriage ride and reception as they began their married life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jociun Alexopoulos
Stephen Chaconas
Helen M. Skiados
Concordia Hall
Sixth Street
Jocian Alexopoulos
Swain
Bargain Basement Matting Sale Brightens Home Upgrades
An introductory sale offers 20 percent savings on mattings by the yard and full rolls with further concessions for 40 yard rolls. New stock includes Seamless China Matting in heavy quality, Lintan Short Straw, Heavy Palmed China, Fine Straw China, and Japanese Cotton Warp Mattings in blue red green and gold, with reversible patterns and durable designs. Rolls and yard prices vary, with quick delivery and order hold options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ice Ito Agi
Gil the Prize-Winning Chihuahua at City Show
Mrs. J A Grace of 1837 H Street enters Gil a full grown Chihuahua in Miscellaneous class. Gil weighs four and a half pounds, is a bright dark lemon color, and has won first prizes at Philadelphia and New York shows this winter. Pedigree traces to Chicho and Luz through five generations from Chihuahua Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gil
J. A. Grace
H Street
Philadelphia
New York
Chihuahua
Mexico
Grace
Senor
Juan Freverno
Chicho
Luz
Women at Work and Society Notes in a Busy Town
A local voice argues for more women operators in the telephone trade, praising bright breeding and willingness to learn over formal business education. The piece surveys women’s commerce from compact medical cases to Southern hospitality, glove etiquette, and a disabled woman’s craft making poodle foot rests for fashionable 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
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
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