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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1915
Page
10
Friday special sale of men s pajamas and night shirts from a top East maker. garments are mostly lightly soiled or slightly damaged seconds, divided into lots with deep discounts well below normal values. Lot details list prices and sizes for pajamas and night shirts in various fabrics and conditions. Meng Store Main floor F street.
Bargain sale in the boys department on the third floor offers cotton and outing flannel pajamas and night shirts. Pajamas in striped and plain colors, sizes 4 to 18, slightly soiled or damaged priced at 58 to 68 cents. night shirts size 10 at 38 cents each, with regular prices listed as 1.00 to 1.25 dollars for pajamas and 0.50 to 0.75 dollars for shirts.
A Friday sale highlights women’s muslin underwear priced at 25 cents. The offer features corset covers, drawers, petticoats, cambric pieces, and silk petticoats in multiple colors, praised for quality and broad patronage. Items include cambric and nainsook undergarments with trimmed details and a deep accordion-plaited silk skirt.
Miss Hester Chanler and Mr Edwin Motley Pickman will marry tomorrow at noon in Crescent Place home of Mr and Mrs Henry White attended only by family and close friends. The couple's families plan a private ceremony with further celebrations to follow in Washington.
Miss NeH Rose Baggett chairs the Southern ball young ladies committee with a long list of assistants including Hagley Burleson Cowan Caulder and many others. Capt A E Saxton and Mrs Saxton arrive from the Philippines and take an apartment at Woodward while assigned to the quartermaster corps. Trinity College dance at Rauscher's Feb 6 with chaperone Mrs Arthur Johnson and party staying at Willard and Shoreham. Mrs W R Lowe hosted a bridge tea. Miss Dean Owen and Mrs George Livingston attended. Miss Mallison of Washington NC visits with Lt Thomas Mallison USN and Commander George Mallison’s sister.
Mrs A S Maddox entertained at bridge on Wednesday afternoon with tea to follow. Her mother Mrs Lewis Baker assisted. Guests included Mrs Batley Mrs Dent Miss Nell Rose Bareett and Mrs Richardson wife of Lieut Richardson. Other visitors listed stayed at the Willard with several named by location and relation.
A display highlights richly designed English tea and serving trays showcasing authentic Sheffield workmanship. The department also features silverware from leading silversmiths for the properly appointed table.
Mrs Heath entertained at a morning bridge yesterday followed by luncheon with a centerpiece of tuklps and mignonette. Eleven tables were in play. Mrs Walter Wells hosted a bridge gathering at the Rochambeau with four tables and a buffet luncheon for Mrs W C Graisted. Mrs Joseph E Johnson gave a tea at the Grafton for Mrs Benedict Cobb as she and Mr Cobb visit the Shoreham. Delano family visit noted as Miss Delano visited in Chicago.
Nona M Adams daughter of the Treasury Secretary and Catherine Britton daughter of Mr and Mrs Alexander Britton will sail for France to join a band of nurses from the French aristocracy. They have trained privately and in hospitals and will work in southern France assisting wounded soldiers and moving them to larger hospitals. Miss Britton has applied for a passport via the District Supreme Court and State Department.
Special to The Washington Post from East Knox Maine recounts Maj. Simon Pratt a Waldo county veteran who fell into a barrel while rescuing a hen. His grandson Lafayette Marden and friend Roscoe D Clewley used a clove hitch to secure Pratt's ankles and lift him to safety, the rescue ending without serious injury.
The Southern Society holds a Saturday evening meeting January 30 at the Willard with a musical and dramatic recital. Afterward all future meetings will be at this hotel. The international cotton reception at the Pan-American building will conclude first, followed by the recital. About 200 prospective members will be voted upon.
W de Lyon Nicholls, distinguished novelist and arbiter elegantarium, arrives in Washington for the Southern Relief Society ball at the Willard. He may name the two most beautiful and two best dressed women, drawing on his wide social sphere across cities and Europe. His fame from The Decadents adds weight to his forthcoming judgments.
Society notes detail Dward Crozer racing a 308 mile trip from Florida to reach his wife in Philadelphia aboard a special train to Charleston for surgery at University Hospital. Also covered are Geraldine Farrar Enrico Caruso Carmen attendance at the Metropolitan Opera and the sale of Robert Louis Stevenson rare book collection with key bidders and legal tangles surrounding autograph letters.
Investigation, though incomplete, has satisfied the State Department that the man imprisoned at Aberdeen Scotland holding an American passport sued here to Adolph Luetzel is not the rightful holder of the credential.
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