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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1911
Page
12
A June sale offers stylish cool summer wear for women and misses with carefully chosen Ty les and high quality fabrics. Prices are presented as genuine savings for brides vacationists travelers and any woman updating her wardrobe. Inspecting the styles will reveal value and versatility for various occasions.
Women's and Misses' Silk Dresses feature foulard designs in black white brown white green white and navy blue white with lace yoke Dutch neck and 34 sleeves. Foulard and Natural Pongee styles come in dotted striped and pin stripe effects with Dutch or high necks and sailor collars.
Women's and Misses' outfits feature one piece lingerie dresses with all over embroidery and white batiste in colors marquisette nets and voiles. Prices range from 18 75 to 24 75 with values up to 40 00. Suits include tailored and demi tailored styles in serges checks home spuns and mannish stripes in navy blue and black.
Linen dresses offered at 6.75 dollars in natural and colors including light blue white gray lavender and cadet with soutache braid embroidery Dutch neck style located on third floor six street.
Tomorrow features three notable weddings in Washington and nearby areas. Edith Lovell Coyle weds Francola Emile Matthes at noon in Georgetown. Katharine Reed marries William B. Chisolm at noon in Connecticut Avenue. Annie Bruce Carr weds Douglas Bovard Sterret at 830 PM at a street home. Count von Bernstorf to return from New York with embassy moving to summer quarters in Marblehead.
Mr. Franklin Pierce former Assistant Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Pierce left Washington yesterday for California to vacation for several months. Dr. Paul Fitzsimmons and Mrs. Fitzsimmons depart Wednesday June 7 for the West Virginia mountains to spend the summer, with autumn visits to Tennessee and Georgia before returning. Maugras has arrived in Washington as third secretary of the French embassy, and the Panamanian minister hosted a luncheon at the New Willard to meet Mr. Charles Campbell a former official.
The Sidelights on the Smart Set reports the Ladies' Ken del Association of America hosting its ninth annual dog show at Mineola fairgrounds with 1,000 dogs, a premier event second only to Westminster. Officers Miss Anna Flands president Mrs Hamilton Fish Webster vice president and May Bird Lucille Alger on the beach show committee drive the success.
The article advises young women entering business to adopt a serious yet pleasant demeanor. It argues that consistent, quiet reliability outperforms flippant self-promotion, as employers value steadiness, careful work, and respect in the long term. Seriousness paired with warmth leads to better impressions and results.
New Haven June 6 Judgment in the divorce of Mrs Eva Swarthout Wheeler and Prof Helar Wheeler was satisfied. Alimony of 100000 had been awarded but sources say a compromise settlement around 75000 was reached.
Gen R B Brinkerhoff, noted statesman and prison reformer, died at his Mansfield home last night. He led the prison congress, attended several international conferences in Europe, and served as a Civil War brevet brigadier general. He was 84 years old.
Tokyo June 5 The Russian steamer Ryazan bound for Vladivostok ran ashore on four feet near Nagasaki AW. Passengers including the Crown Prince of Siam were saved. Japanese warship Iwate has been sent to assist the Ryazan.
Baltimore June 5 Special to The Washington Poet announces a civic demonstration tomorrow at the Fifth Regiment Armory honoring Cardinal Gibbone. The event marks his ordination fiftieth anniversary and cardinalate twenty-fifth. Expected attendance includes 15 000 to 20 000 people, with Taft cabinet members, foreign ministers, 20 US senators, governors, and high officials. Gov Crothers will preside. speakers include Taft Roosevelt Sherman White Champ Clark Cannon Root and Cardinal Gibbone.
Marquis Emilio de Ojeda, Spanish ambassador to the Vatican during the Madrid Holy See rupture, former minister at Washington, died here today. He led Spain’s legation in Washington from 1902 to late 1906 and was a noted diplomat, serving at Tangier and as secretary to the Paris peace conference with the United States.
In Philadelphia on June 5 at Jefferson Medical College's eighty sixth commencement Surgeon General Charles F. Stokes SN received the honorary Doctor of Science. Stokes served as the orator praising the medical department work. Absentis for Dr Victor George Heiser, director of health for the Philippine Islands, who is a graduate of 13 A. A class of 117 students was graduated today.
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