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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1910
Page
14
A new department of pyrography has opened on the fourth door beside the Picture Department. An expert demonstrator offers free instruction in burning carving jeweling tinseling painting and inlaid mosaic work. Special invitation extended to all.
Woodward and Lothrop clothing for men promises long wear and enduring shape and color. Reputable makers stand for honesty in materials and craftsmanship with a broad stock of fashion. You will present a uniformly good appearance every day in new fabrics and colors dominated by browns grays tans and blues.
New fall hats on display including colonial soft hats with telescope crowns and pencil curl brims in pearl gray tan and brown. Derbies soft hats priced at 3 dollars, special Value hat It Regis in derbies and soft shapes. Wool felt alpines telescopes from Rayman & Co. $1.50. Fall golf caps 50 cents to 1 dollar. Opera and silk hats new blocks at 6 dollars each.
The store announces a broad arrival of men’s underwear and novelties featuring two-piece and one-piece suits in cotton, balbriggans, lisle, merino, wool, silk, silk and wool blends, and linen. Exclusive local agents promote Dermophile all wool garments with shrinkage guarantees and Kneipp’s Linen Mesh Underwear marketed as pure linen. Fall and winter lines include several weights and prices aligned with quality.
Men’s new house gowns and jackets for fall and winter featured in a well crafted collection. Staples and novelties attractively presented with careful material selection, trimming, and tailoring. Jackets range five to twenty five dollars. bath robes three seventy five to ten dollars. dressing gowns nine to forty dollars. Terry bath robes with matching slippers in appealing patterns and colors.
The showing features both foreign and domestic makes of steamer rugs in many plain colors and plaids. An unusually attractive rug priced at 5.00 deserves consideration, with better options including foreign makes up to 24.00 each. Steamer bugs are now widely used, prompting a variety of options.
A local shop highlights a broad selection of new all wool sweaters with numerous colorways including Scotch heather shades. The Sweater Department receives extra attention as customers explore the season’s best looking options.
Custom shirts crafted from madrases, cheviots, and flannels are offered for fall wear with White Dreas Shirts for day and evening use. Night shirts and pajamas made to order. shirt repairing services include mending and replacing bosoms cuffs and collars. Also ready made shirts neckwear gloves and other men’s wear. Maio floor F st.
Leaders Taft depart Beverly for New York and Washington while two autumn weddings unfold. Miss Jessie Mason becomes Mrs Raymond Hart in Mount Vernon Place Church with J Edgar Robinson as music, then Aurelia Dickinson weds Miller Joblin at Church of the Incarnation before sailing to Saigon. The couples plan homecomings around November and January, with Taft and Henry Taft shopping and theater outings noted.
Philadelphia society pages report Miss Gertrude Bayne as bridesmaid at Miss Martha Weightman’s wedding in Holy Trinity Church with a long list of ushers and guests. Other ceremonies include Miss Lois Gibson Dyer’s marriage in New York and Miss Agnes Downey’s wedding to Frederick Rice in St Patrick’s Church Washington with receptions at family homes.
Mrs. John Hay honored at Erskine Park Lenox luncheon hosted by Mrs. George Westinghouse. Guests included Mrs. Joseph H Choate James B Ludlow Clementina Furniss and others. Hay to Pittsfield then New York before Washington winter. Metropolitan Driving Club show draws society names at Boston Charles River speedway. Also details on Goethals marriage and related military ties and plans.
June notes residents returning to Washington from summer homes in Muskoka Blue Ridge and Lenox and opening city houses. Debutante Miss Colp to debut this season. Delegations and dignitaries including Senator Flint and Count Brusselle-Behaubeck travel between Rome Lenox and Washington. Repatriations include Micou family, Heaths, Pilsons and Lennoxs resuming life in Massachusetts Avenue Le Roy Place Wyoming Avenue and the Toronto apartments.
Generals Frank Thorp and Mrs Thorp are listed as staying at the Hotel Jordan. Mrs William Feland entertained a luncheon at her Georgetown home for her daughter in law Mrs Boyd Higgeman of Moreansfield Kentucky with several guests including Miss H man Dawson and others. Mr Gardner W Williams is visiting New York city briefly. Bernard Gates and wife returned to the city and rented an apartment in the Plaza circle. B L Dulaney of Bristol Tennessee is at the New Ebbitt for a few days.
The Kronprinzessin Cecilie voyage from Bremen brought jewelry worth over 1.5 million dollars by passengers including Mrs William K Vanderbilt and her daughters. Duties totaled nearly 11 thousand dollars for Mrs Vanderbilt’s party after five hours of inspection. In Chicago Miss Marguerite Sherlock, 20, is set for a November 19 coming out party at a Michigan Avenue hotel, per her mother, signaling a shift in her social life after strict upbringing.
Mr and Mrs James Sharp of Cleveland Park announce the marriage of their daughter Margaret Lstella to Dr Ralph W Crane of Stamford Conn on Wednesday October 26. Miss Lilly Cordery Hawkins daughter of Mr and Mrs Lewis Holmes will wed Mr Leon Ulman of Salisbury Md at 2236 Q Street on Wednesday October 26 with Rev S Greene of Calvary Baptist Church officiating. Miss Helen Taft travels to Miboury Mass to visit her great aunt Miss Delia Torrey for several days.
The text advocates eating twice daily with a light breakfast and a heavy noon meal, followed by a light early supper. It notes the plan raises noon hunger to overeat and suggests shifting heavy work to the morning and making the principal meal early, especially when work before or after noon is urgent.
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