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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1912
Page
10
Reduced rug sale lists numerous items with prices and savings, including Cashmere and Afghan pieces. Specific rugs named like Amettzar India Gorevan Hammadan Afghan and others show marked-down prices from original amounts, with a final line noting $20.00 each.
An advertisement highlights new spring cretonnes, puffs, and fabrics with exclusive patterns and color effects. It touts refined textures like cretonnes, paffetas, and grandee cloths, claiming never before seen patterns and a wide range of French colorings to meet demand for originality.
January sale features discounts on tapestries and damasks from $2.00 to $4.00 yard, velours and portieres at reduced pair prices, and wide savings on French borcade and damask fabrics. Window shades awnings screens and slip covers offered to order with delivery held. Furniture repair, upholstery, and floor finishing services also available.
Mrs Taft entertained at the White House with a guest list including Mrs Murray Crane Mrs Lawrence Mrs Joseph Lester and many diplomats and officials. The gathering followed a Boston visit and featured attendees from the British and Danish embassies as well as numerous Washington social figures. Col Fred Bennett and Commodore K W Miller were guests in Washington for several days.
Mrs Richard Townsend hosted a dinner in Washington with guests including the American Ambassador and Mrs Whitelaw Rel and British Ambassador and Mrs Bryce among ministers and senators. Later, Mrs Sir Brooke and Miss Margaretta Brooke entertained at Rauschers for Miss Cudahy of Chicago, with about 40 guests in attendance.
Miss Blaise Hughes daughter of a West Virginia representative was introduced to society at a tea in the red room of the New Willa. The event featured yellow chiffon and white satin gowns, a colonial bouquet, and attendees including Mrs Le Bos of Lexington, Mrs Joan W Tavis, Mrs Whitney of Staunton, Miss Jean Bowers of Martinsburg, and Miss Janie Sleup of Blue Stone Gap.
On a rocky island off Boston a voyage home begins for fourteen acres of sea air. Miss Louise W Davis runs a large house where 50 disabled children receive baths, clean beds, and simple, steady care. Nurses and young volunteers live summers apart from their homes to restore health and teach home hygiene. Regular winter visits extend the care into families, helping both child and household rise from hardship.
The report notes lavish expenditure and travel on the Menales estate with sightings of shooting parties at Strathord Dunkeld and Edradgur. A German park corner bears Prince Egon Iverstenberg’s fox-hunting monument. Jean Richepin, famed for verse and ads, boosts auction sales in Paris where the Abdul Hamid jewels auction exceeds a million dollars.
Society items from Brussels and New York highlight Princess Clementine of Belgium enduring daily duties in Brussels while nursing hopes of a notable heir. In Massachusetts, Charles Corbin claims $7500 from his late father’s estate amid rumored nuptials, while Col and Mrs John Jacob Astor plan a Nile journey and Europe trip. A report in Scotland notes Castle Menaes sale amid lease talks, with fragmented notes on Amelia and George Ivinulit’s Highland home.
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