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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1911
Page
12
Today Friday marks Our Usual Remnant Day with reduced prices across the hundred-odd departments. The store clears broken assortments and odds and ends must meet every need at advantageous prices, inviting customers to browse the varied offerings and savings.
To serve you in clothes, we guarantee the best display with the latest weaves, smartest styles, and handsome colors from fashionably pronounced shades. Copyright Han.
A local retailer highlights a large dress collection from a maker offered at a special price of 17.75 dollars each. The selection features crepe meteor charmeuse satin messaline marquisette chiffon velvet silk serge and plain serge in black and pastel shades with latest trimmings. Regular prices range 29.75 to 37.50. Third floor 6 ft.
Silk hosiery described as luxurious yet affordable with varied styles and finishes. French make items feature hand embroidery lace ankles and silk clocks. Available in Rich Black, colored shades, and multiple sizes with prices spanning 90c to $3.50 per pair.
Harvard Mills offers hand finished undergarments for women and children in regular and extra sizes. Prices range from 50 cents to 1.75 dollars for adults and 60 to 1.25 dollars for older children with union suits and vests, plus silk bloomers and combination suits in white blue and pink.
A large assortment of stamped articles has been released in Cross-stitch Embroidery, Rhodes Embroidery, and Punch Work. The collection includes ready made stamped towels, burlap centers, table pins, pillow covers, linen centers, sewing bags, and infant items. Also featured are colored marquisette pieces and stamped linen handbags with new designs in assorted sizes and prices.
Rubdry Towels are described as highly absorbent friction towels with sponge-like knobs and a 18 month wear guarantee. The display includes wash cloths at 5 and 10 cents, Turkish towels with wash cloths, ready-made towels, and Huck toweling by the yard. Second floor Eleventh street.
Mrs and Miss Helen Taft entertain in New York attend theater. Italian Ambassador and Cusani family to return October 28. Numerous diplomats and relatives plan Washington trips for weddings and football games. Princesses, naval spouses, and debutantes figure in social rounds with trips to Marblehead Osterville Hamilton Beverly and Annapolis.
Plans for winter social season debutantes begin with December teas at navy yard and residential homes. Miss Emily Beatty, daughter of Capt. Frank E. Beatty, will be presented at a navy yard tea on Friday. Miss Dorothy Taylor among those from the yard circle. December 2 features Miss Celestine Page Finley at a tea on FB Street, with Miss Elizabeth Munford also to be presented and a large reception soon after. Mrs. Munford will host lunch prior to formalities, at the Chevy Chase Club, as Cedar Croft hosts relocate to 1726-1 Street. Miss Ellen Douglas Fillebrown, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John Potts Fillebrown, also to debut, linked to Washington’s old circles and granddaughter of Commodore Thomas Scott Fillebrown U.S.N.
Robert Todd Lincoln and Mrs. Lincoln lease the Bates residence at 17th Street Washington return from Vermont for the winter occupancy. The house has hosted notable tenants in recent years including the Bates daughters debuts and multiple prominent figures associated with wartime and politics. Isabella Palien Smith, soon to wed William Warwick Stuart, will be attended by Mrs. Louis A. Yeat with key roles by Deming and several Smith brothers and others.
The fourth informal hop at Fort Myer is hosted by Col. and Mrs. Garrard tonight. Elizabeth Reeside returns to Washington to resume vocal studies with her longtime master in Italy. Brazilian embassy naval attache and Mme de Azevedo leave Stoneleigh Court for a winter at Kenesaw. Mrs. Eldridge Jordan travels to New York with sister for a world tour. Walter B Brooks Jr and wife host dinner for Miss Kathleen Alexander McDonnell and Mr Thomas M Vicery before their October 28 Fort Howard wedding. Portia Hulme Brack to wed Lieut. William Dulty Smith at St Mark's Philadelphia with a Hotel Stenton reception.
Mrs A R Eddy returns to Washington and takes an apartment for the season after wintering in Egypt and touring Europe. Assistant Paymaster D G McRitchie U S N to Charleston for torpedo reserve duty, daughter and mother accompanying. Ethel Bowmen Edwards marriage to Henry Bussey Floyd. couple to reside at the Coronado after December 1. Mrs Sarah Barnes to begin world tour from the Pacific coast. Mrs McNeil of El Paso visiting her mother Mrs Keeling in the Plymouth. Mrs Julian C Dowell leaves Washington for Macon Ga to visit daughter Mrs J M Moore who has been ill but is convalescent.
The 16 year old American girl, soon to be Countess Schonbrun, is showered with wedding tokens by the noble Schonbrun family. Mrs Dandridge Spottswood hosts daily receptions at Avenue Victor Hugo in Paris as preparations and gifts including jeweled pearls and a jeweled prayer book arrive. The wedding breakfast is planned to be held in Paris with Count Carl Schonbrun, the bridegroom’s brother, and the head of the family attending.
Nathan Straus at an international congress argued that about half of infant deaths in America stem from improper feeding. He asserted that proper nutrition strengthens disease resistance similarly in adults and infants, and urged redirecting efforts from scientific cooking to teaching natural feeding for all ages.
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