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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1909
Page
15
Beautiful new fall garments showcased with shades of old colors and fresh materials. Models emphasize tone and character with lines priced at 16.50, 25.00, and 35.60. Women suits in serges and broadcloths, varied colors, some plain tailors and others with trims, plus new skirts and coats in updated plaited and flounce designs.
Fashion item list features New Fall Waists in chiffon taffeta with silk bands and tucks priced at 6.00. Cliffon Satin Waists in gray and white with tailored style and knife plaits sell for 8.75. Black silk overbodice net waists with soutache trim offered at 8.75. Mack Dotted Net Blouses over black silk with embroidered filet and jet buttons priced at 20.00.
Fall corset season showcased with new models closely following a figure flattering concept. Descriptions note varying boning lengths, long skirts, and defined waistlines with prices spanning mid to high ranges for coutil and imported Parame models featuring elastics, whalebone, and long hip lines.
A catalog of furniture items with values and descriptions including quartered oak bureaus end chiffoniers maple end birch toilet tables sewing and shaving stands solid mahogany reception and parlor chairs and tables. Items list values from 1250 to 3750 with materials such as oak maple birch and mahogany and finishes like panne cloth seats and silk art boxes.
Miss Shepard and Colonel Cosby to wed today at Southampton Long Island. The groom is US Army officer Col Spencer Me Cosby and the ceremony follows a season at a summer home. Other society notes include visits by Mr John Barrett and the Wu Tingfang party and the engagement of Mr Richard Upstyke Sherman.
A large dinner at Senator and Mrs George Peabody Wetmore’s Newport residence honored German and American naval officers visiting. Other prominent guests included Miss Edith Norton and Miss Mildred Norton, Mrs Cleveland’s daughter, and various diplomats and society figures who spent the summer in Newport and Washington.
The minister from Peru Mr Pardo and Mme Pardo will join him in New York while they search for a winter house. They will stop at the Shoreham in McSidney as they travel with Herbert and Michael Herbert, sons of the late Mr Michael Herbert, who hosted a farewell dinner in Newport with Lady Herbert and Mr RT Wilson. They sailed to England from New York after the visit. Evelyn Chew attended a luncheon at Fassifen Farm Hot Springs hosted by Mrs Griswold Tlase ir. Mr William Nelson Cromwell and a party are motoring back to New York from Lenox after a summer in Europe, with Mr and Mrs W Bourse Cochran among the travellers.
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Society notes announce the marriage fully completed at Tulloch castle with a Rome Catholic ceremony planned at the fifth Roman Catholic church of Dingwall. A wedding breakfast will follow for about six dozen guests including Prince Franz Josef de Braganza, Archduchess Maria Theresa and Miss Stewart’s family, with gifts of diamonds, pearls, lace, and silver.
Prince and Princess Kuni of Japan visitors to Newport Rhode Island with Col Robert M Thompson aboard the Everglades. They toured Fort Adams and Coasters Harbor Island Naval Station with a reception and drill by the naval brigade. A large dinner was given by Gen Pierson and Geo Pierson in their honor with many guests. The prince praised the visit noting he and the princess enjoyed every moment of the trip and a 21 gun salute marked the harbor salute to their party. The yacht Sylph was ordered to Washington to transport them later to Mount Vernon.
In Rockhill Scotland and Saint Petersburg reports, Mrs Anthony J Dresel denies a Berlin-printed claim that her Philadelphia daughter Margana Dexel is engaged to Prince Christopher, youngest son of the Greek king. The piece also notes Rockhill as American ambassador to Russia arriving from Berlin with his wife and daughter, and mentions Mrs Roosevelt and daughter’s social shopping outings and encounters with aviators and celebrities.
The text argues against the idea that cancer is caused by meat or vegetables and questions the superiority of a vegetarian diet. It notes that an extreme diet may be worse than a meat based one and mocks the link between meat eating and disease while calling the Salisbury treatment simplistic. It also suggests Inuit cannibals are immune due to different factors.
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