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The Omaha Sunday Bee
.WOMEN'S SECTION
SOCIETY
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VOL. 51 NO. 23.
PART TWO
OMAHA. SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER
TEN CENTS
Men Versus
Women as
Spenders
y ashington
Never So
Festive
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By CABBY DETAYLS.
rpHE woman pays!" .cries
the
I innali; of the pcciej.
i h r woman
groan -M,cr 1Ul,baiid.
spends!"
Are women better spenders than
nun. Do they spend more wisely,
more generously, either, both or
neither?
"A man spends more easily,"
thinks Mrs. A. L. Reed. "He sails
into hotel and order a room with
out asking the price," she adds by
way of proof, concluding, "Women
spend more wisely js 4 rule."
Who sprndj queried Sa.n
Caldwell. "The women think the
men do, and the men think the worn
en do. As a rule the women spend
more carefully than the men be
cause they have less. Exclusive of
clothes, women spend less."
"Exclusive of clothes." he's a wary
gentleman. It's like saying, "exclu
sive of winter it doesn't snow very
mucn, so lar as association of ideas
rocs. Snow winter; clothes worn
en. But far be it from Gabby to ex
pose the clevir tactics by which he
makes out a favorable case for the
women. . Such diplomacy may ac
count tor his popularity with the fair
sc.f. ;
Mr. Beaton Fires His Guns.
Charles Beaton may wish he had
taken lessons from Mr. Caldwell
when the smoke of his guns has
blown away. This is the way they
were fired:
"Women spend more on clothesl
"Men spend more on food!
"Talc'ng friends to lunch and hav
ing a little game of pool is a daily
occurrence with men. .
"But women spend as much 011
candy as men do on tobacco."
('T would pass for free verse were
it not quite so easy to understand.)
Speaking with the caution becom
ing a banker, Walter Head opined
that "Men get more for their mon
ey than women by reason ot their
business training. Women spend
more on clothes, but they have to
(may heaven shower her richest
blessings upon him!) and men cer
tainly have more incidentals. Wom
en are more liberal contributors to
charity."
It was the late Dr. Anna Howard
Shaw who replied when asked if
women would like to serve on juries:
"Yes. most of them would be glad,
to sit that long."
Rather Shaw-esque was Mrs. W.
B. Howard in following up her
statement that women are the more
careful spenders.
"Most of them have to be," she
said with trenchant wit.
"It's fifty-fifty," declared Mrs. C.
J. Baird. "I often buy tempting
things for the children that are not
alwavs Eood for them," she admit
ted leaving Gabby to wonder if the
"tempting things" are cream puffs or
a superabundance of toys.-
Bargains a Delusion and Snare.
Batjtains! A delusion and a snare,
according to Mrs. John L; Kennedy,
who thinks men rarely get things
they don't want while women fre
quently do when they are shopping
around for bargains. .
Stoically spoke M. D. Cameron:
"In order to protect myself and my
family, I will say that men spend
more. They spend more freely, but
not as wisely. Men are more likely
to invest their money than women.
The average woman does not spend
the same amount on herself that a
man does."
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Devereux agree
(note the harmony of thought, rare
as the night blooming cereus), that
men spend more than women.
"A woman goes downtown and
gets a suit for $100," said Mrs. Dev
ereux by way of specific illustration.
"She comes home and shows it to
her husband who wonders why she
didn't gf t' one for $80. The next
time when she takes him along, she
pays $150."
Both Sides Win.
Who -wins? Of course it really
doesn't matter for most of us will
continue to spend all of our available
supply regardless of compliments or
condemnations. ;
On the whole the evidence would
indicate that men spend more easily,
more generously, and more consis
tently than women,, and, conversely,
women are more selfish in their ex
penditures, more thrifty, yet more
erratic, all of which may be direct
ly traceable to their economic status.
The woman in the home does not as
a rule have an independent juris
diction over funds. The modem bus
iness woman, however, as proving
that, "Women versus men as spend
ers" is a matter, of financial experi
ence, rather than .sex, for she is
showing herself in many cases (and
the number is growing) to be a wise
customer, a generous giver and an
astute investor.
GABBY maintains that we are
not always as old as we feci.
The members of the Woman s
'club were making a tour of inspec
tion of Father Flanagan s Home.
Their guide was a little chap about
or 8 vears old, who was so intelli
gent concerning all the buildings and
iarm machinery that Mrs. Alfred
Munger remarked to him:
"My, you know a lot about a farm,
don't vou?"
lie looked at her gravely and re
plied with dignity .
"Oh, yes, I spent all my early life
on a farm.
COOK to music. It's the latest
Someone has figured out that
it takes four minutes and fifteen
econds to run off a 12-inch record.
It is also known that it takes.10
minutes to bake a one-crust pie. pro
viding it is put into a hot oven.
After putting the pie into the oven,
walk into jour living room and play
your 12-inch record twice. Allowing
for the time consumed in walking
from the kitchen to the living room
and back, ten minutes will have
elapsed. The pic will be done, and
vour musical education furthered.
" Beautiful ideas may be worked out
.l .u;. i;w if vou are resource
ful. If you are making Hungarian j
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goulash, for instance, put on Liszt's
Hungarian Rhapsody. rl t spa
ghetti is ' the dish in preparation,
some of the old Italian airs such as
"Cara Nome," "La Donna E Mobile,"
and "Celeste Aida" would be most
appropriate.
For dishes requiring rapid cooking,
jazz music should be used. Nothing
but sacred music should accompany
angel food. Irish airs would go well
with potatoes, Indian music with the
products of corn, "Madam Butterfly"
with rice, and well, the possibilities
are in truth "too numerous to men
tion," but will suggest themselves to
the fertile brain. ,
OUR pretty friend, the debutante,
rises somewhat late each morn
, ing so it is not a bit surprising
that she was cosily , established in
the breakfast room when the little
married woman, who lives not far
away, arrived. The young matron
(as young matrons often do) wanted
to borrow well, quite, a number of
things necessary for a bridge; party,
and so had brought her 'puritanical
minded husband Jong to act" as a
general lackey, 'ft
"Here I am. Brought a perfectly
good man with me ti do the work,"
caroled the matron as she made her
entry into the nook where the deb
bie arrayed in a gorgeous silken
breakfast coat toyed with her cereal.
So much for that part of the story.
Once homeward . bound husband
turned wrathfully upon his wife.
"You do do the worst tilings. Why
drag a fellow into a place like that
It certainly was a most embarrassing
circumstance and could have easily
been avoided."
The meek little wife gazed in
wonderment.. "Dear me I don't know
what I've done. I didn't do anything.
I can t understand what you re so
angry about and I don't want to
Let's change the subject. Wasn't that
a love of a breakfast coat B
was wearing?
"Breakfast coat! My heavens! I
thought she was in her pajamas."
Ralston Woman's Club
Sponsors Benefit for
Library Fund ;
' The Ralston Woman's club is
sponsoring a. musical entertainment
for the benefit of the public library
fund Tuesday evening, November 22,
at the Ralston Methodist Episcopal
church. .
- The program will include vocal
solos by Lucy . Hill, soprano, and
Grace Steinberg, contralto; piano se
lections. Hazel True; harp solos,
Irma Clow; violin numbers, John
Ragan, and vocal selections by a
double male quartet from St. Lukes
Lutheran church.
Girls Community
Service League
In recognition of Music Week the
Community club chorus .with Mrs.
Noel Wallace, leader, will sing at the
Grain Exchange on Tuesday. Men
friends of the members will be en
tertained at the club suppers during
the week.
All meetings are held at the club
rooms, 210 Gardner building, 1712
Dodge street. Mrs. Lydia Rowe is
hostess and the managing committee
includes: Harry S. Byrne, chairman;
Mrs. F. R. Hoagland, vice chairman;
Mrs. Noel W'allace, secretary-treasurer;
Mesdames Harold Gifford, F.
S. Hanna. II. T. Clarke, J. W. Rob-
bins, E. W. Axtell and Messrs. C A.
Mallory, Edgar Scott, Paul W. Kuhns
and Ed P. Smith, finance chairman.
The weekly schedule is as follows:
Monday Cluga club supper,' 7 p.
m.; gymnasium, 8 p. ni., leader, Mrs. j
Charles Musselman. (
Tuesday Wamm club supper. 6:oU
p. m.; home-making class. Mrs. D. B.
Kantor. leader, 7; open house. 8:15.
Wednesday Lafayette club sup
per, 6:30 p. m.; dramatic art class.
Miss Marguerite tseckman, leaaer.
p. m.: French class, 7 p. ni.; busi j
ness English, 8 p. m. j
Thursdav Open house. 3 to 6 p. m. ;
Friday D. T. A. club dinner, 6:30:
Community club chorus, 7, Mrs. Noel
Wallace, leader; gymnasium. 8 p.m. I
Saturday Class in designing. 1:30. j
Mrs. Mary Lydia Rowe, leader;
dance. 8:J0 o. tn. ....... j
Sunday Open house, 3.30 p. m. 4
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Mrs. Harris Makes
The resignation of Mrs. .Martin
Harris as publicity chairman for the
Drama league calls attention to her
signal success in the office since she
assumed it' last spring. ' All through
the summer Mrs. Harris worked to
secure and present advance publicity
on the program for the entire year in
order to attract members to the or
ganization. The result is a member
ship ot 900, the'largest in the history
of the league. ' Already this season
the Brandeis has been filled for two
performances of Sarg's marionettes
and a week later Percy Mackeye
Six Years as Publicity Chairman
' Mrs. Lucien Stephens, publicity
chairnian- of the Tuesday- Musical
club, lis the joy and the despair of
Omaha, women;, a joy to. the club,
members and newspaper women with
whom she has worked so efficiently
for six years, and the despair of other
publicity chairmen, to whom : Mrs.
Stephens is held up as the "perfect
example." r . .
A long list qf stars of the first
magnitude have been presented in
Omaha under what amounts to the
management of Mrs. Stephens. The
roll would include Galli Curci, who
sang here before she won 'fame in
New York; Pavlowa and her dancers;
Heifetz, Rachmaninoff, Harold Bauer,
Anna Case, the Scotti Opera com
pany, Mabel "Garrison) Yvette Guil
bert, Frances .Nash, Louis Grauveure
and many others.
Y. W. C. A. Campaign for Budget
.. Mrs. C. M. Wilhelm is .a member
of the Y. W. C. A.' board which is
heading a personal campaign for $37,
t)00 toward the budget of that institu
tion for the coming year. ' The Y.
W. C. A. is 85 per cent self support
ing, said by national workers to be
Dr.Mary Bissell
New Director
Of Nurses
Dr. Mary T. Bissell has recently
arrived in Omaha, to be medical di
rector of the Walter Scott Training
School for Nurses at the Presby
terian hospital, and director of the
Nurses' home.
Dr. Bissell is a sister of James M.
Taylor, who was for many years the
president of Vassar college, and she
is herself a graduate of Vassar and
of the Woman's Medical college in
New York City.'
, , NOVEMBER.
s, Low-hung suns . :
. That paint the afternoons a matchless gold
And make the sky a fleece-specked opal; '
Seared leaves that dance their last on gnarled limbs.
Then break the loving handclasp of the parent tree,
To frolic off through fields ' : ,
With their new lover, the Autumm Wind,
Who tires soon of play and lets them sink
Into oblivion in some kind nok or' crevice, ' .
While he seeks new playthings!
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Air that invigorates the jaded ' .
And brings new life; cries of the gray goose
On his way south to join his fellows. - -Frost
that paints fantastic shapes and pictures:
Perfumes of new-turned earth and harvest fields!
Then come gray days. ,
.When the smiles of Heaven are turned to tears
;And the face of Earth is sunk and sodden
-As though in sorrow for the death of things.
Against the dead-gray skies that weep and weep,
'.The trees stand like black skeletons
Holding oat their scrawny, crooked arms for mercy!
The spring morning and the summer noon arc gone.
The late afternoon of Indian summer is a memory "
And now has come the twilight of the year
That heralds the coming night of whiter. -
As one who draws the curtains at twilight
To keep the dreariness outside from coming in,
t I. pull the curtains' on the year ' " .
, And turn to the wood-fire on the hearth
To dream through the .night
Of Spring!
. - - - - ' i- Jack Lee.
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Hts LuctQtz Stephen?.
Admirable Record
spoke to a crowded ball room at the
Fontenclle.
A letter from Tony Sarg to Mrs.
Harris shows an appreciation of het.
work outside Omaha. In handwrit
ing dainty and distinct, with an'ac?
companying sketch of a joyful Rip
Van Winkle, Mr. Sarg said:
"I have been impressed with the
admirable manner in which you
handled the publicity. You deserve
great success. My manager reported
how lovely everybody was, and it has
been a ' great satisfaction to me to
know that my little actors behave so
well." '
Erika Morini, the 17-year-old sen
sation on the violin, who will be heard
here December 8, is the attraction in
which she ; is, how- most interested.
Morini'ls probably tlie greatest woni
an violinist who has ever lived, ac
cording to Mrs, Stephens.
Not alone in music circles"is Mrs!
Stephens well known. She is a vice
president in the Drama league and
has 'been membership . chairman for
that organ izarion. She was vice chair
man of the woman's auxiliary of the
Humane society last year. She did
considerable war work and served as
publicity chairman of the Red Cross
for a year and a half. She is the
daughter of Mrs. H. C. Smith, a
pioneer resident of Omaha, and sister
of Mrs. William Sears Poppleton, a
frequent visitor here from New York.
a remarkable record. Twelve thou
sand dollars of the desired total had
been raised up to Friday night. "The
balance must be secured in the next
five days," said Mrs. Wilhelm, "for
the campaign closes Friday night."
Mrs. Wilhelm is also a member of
the initial gifts committee.
Of recent years Dr. BissCll has
been medical director of an institu
tion for physical training, and had
charge of examining the sargent
students. During the war she lec
tured for the Y. W. C. A; and was
active in hostess house work in New
York City. .
She is the author of several books
and articles on hygiene, and was for
some time executive secretary of the
New York State Consumers' league,
and was their medical inspector of
factories and shops. Dr. Bissell is a
members of the Omaha Vassar club
and is deeply interested,- in their
plans for raising the salary endow
ment fund. ... .
OATCHELU;
. PHOTO
Music' Week ' at
s Christ Child V "
" j ' Center- ' '
Special programs will be given at
the Christ Child center every eve
ning during music week, November
20-27, to which. the community is
invited, i The Italian Men's Choral
club will have charge of the program
on' Monday evening. Tuesday -evening
will be a program of vocal and
piano solos, contributed by. Mrs. F.
J. Moriarty, Mrs. Lee Hoffman,. Jack
Brennen, Jim Rozmajz, Art McCaf
fery and Louis Armstrong, pianist.'
Wednesday evening will - be given
over to piano selection by Miss Ber-,
'nice Dugher and the dramatic club.
The Italian string quaftet will enter
tain 'on ""Thursday evening. "' Friday
evening will be devoted to community-singing,
directed by Miss Sara
Shanley. Community singing will
be held for the little people on Mon
day, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
afternoons. .'":'
The boys of the Christ Child so
ciety, front 12 to 16 years, have been
organized into" a junior athletic club.
Election bf officers will take place
next Tuesday.
.The' Senior. Athletic 'clnb foot ball
team will play the Scribner (Neb.)
team at that place on Sunday, No
vember 20. ,
At the meeting.of the public speak
ing class on Wednesday two special
numbers were given by Alfred
Raiieri, who spoke on "Opportunity,"
and Fannie Cemori, who spoke on
'Success." John Montalbano pie
sided. ,' ' ' ' .
The ... Americanization . class, for
mothers, is now being held on Mon-.
day,, Wednesday ; and Friday after
noons. The first marriage performed at St.
Benedicts, the new colored center,
took place on Thursday morning at
8:30, when ' Miss ..Ruth Johnson be
came the bride of Clyde. Johnson-,'
Rev. Father S. . Cassily of Creighton
university officiated. Special music
was rendered by the choir and the
Center was beautifully .decorated for
the occasion. ' .
JWfsMriej7etz
Mrs. A. B. Allen and " daughter,
1 .Miss Muriel, are newcomers to Uma
ha. with Mr. Allen, the recently ap-
pointed collector 'of internal reve
: nue here. Mrs. Allen has' been a
i resident of Nebraska since before her
Essav and Poster
;Con test on
" Armament '
An essay and poster contest is be
ing -presented to grade and. high
school : pupils of Nebraska by the
State;. League ; of . Women Voters.
Mrs. ' C- G." Ryan of Grand Island
is president of the league, and Miss
May, Guild of 234 South Twenty
seventh' street, Lincoln, is secretary.
Rules may , be obtained from them.
The contest closes February .1.
"How Limitation of Armament
Would Help Our Schools," is the
subject designated for the essay con
test. ' Seven hundred words are the
limit. -The competition is open to
high school pupils of the state. Ten
dollars will be given for the best es
say in each of the six congressional
districts of the state and $30 for the
best of the six, The contest'will be
carried ;qn; through county superin
tendents..' ;,' r, . , . .1- 'V
The poster competition is open to
si:;th, . seventh and eighth grade pu
pils, and will - also be conducted
through" , county superintendents.
Prizes are the same amounts as for
the essays. :
. Mrs.iH.;J. Bailey of Omaha is
director for -the League of Women
Voters in this, the Second, district.
Mrs. Charles J. Hubbard is local
chairman., , . '
The West Carries
"Go west," was the old cry;, "come
east," is the new.
Time Was when culture traveled
from the' east into the west. Now
it is no uncommon thing to find a
westerner making his offerings to
the east. In the art' of the theater,
Omaha is remarkably well repre
sented in the east. On the executive
side,' no one stands out more con
spicuously than Frederick McCon
nell, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Mc
Connell, who is now in charge of the
little theater in Cleveland, O. "Cleve
land .Topics" of October 29, tells
something ; of Mr. McConnell and
his plans. It says:
Mr. McConnell is' not representa
tive of the long-haired, sandal-footed
type of little theater artists . . He is
young and keejily alert, but appears
very modest and unassuming. He is
business-like for one with such a gift
Newcomers From- Tecumseh
marriage, when
he was Miss Nel
lie Ingersoll ' ot Tecumseh. For
many years Mr. Allen was editor of
the Tecumseh "Chieftain, leaving to
take uo a residence in Lincoln, wt.cre
llicy remained until a few years ago.
Drama League
Will Present
- Artist
Mine. Marie-Lydia Standish, who
nonprofessional is Mrs. Harold
Selfridge Standish of Chicago, will
give a program of mediaeval legends
and story songs, Tuesday, Novem
ber 22, 4 p. in.! at the Brandeis thea
ter, under Drama league auspices.
She will appear in costume and will
be accompanied by Emma Menke at
the piano.
Mme. Standish is said to be a hand
some woman with a beautiful speak
ing voice, well suited to the alluring
ballads and folk-songs she introduces
in her repertoire. - She is a pupil of
Mme. Yvette Guilbert, who has ap
peared previously in Omaha.
' Of a well-known New Orleans
family is she, one identified with the
ancient resrime and the interesting
French tradition of that city of past
splendors. . ..
.- Costumes ' whicl Mme. Standish
wears have been carefully designed
by artists who have kept them strict
ly in the period they represent. That
of the. "Town Crier" is said to be an
especially effective costume appro
priate and "jdistractingly becoming,"
Miss Kate McMugh, ' the new
president, will present Mme. Stand
ish. : ' ;
Culture to the East
of imagination . ., He possesses
no Greenwich village temperament."
Mr. McConnell believes that the
play house should radiate to a larger,
farther-reaching circle. He has in
creased the number of performances
at his theater from three to eight a
week with a popular price matinee for
teachers and students. "We must
stop humoring audiences," he said,
"and we must stop experimenting on
them. We must give them good
drama Shaw, Galsworthy, Barrie,
Ibsen, Wilde, Eugene O'Neill and
Schnitzler."
The University of Nebraska is Mr.
McConnell's alma mater. He is also
a graduate of the School of the Thea
ter, Carnegie Institute of Technology
at Pittsburgh. For several years he
was asistant director of the Arts
and Crafts theater, ' Detroit, and
served in the same capacity' at the
Greek theater, California.
Mi.-s Muriel Allen is in her third
year at the University of Nebraska.
She is a member of Delta Gamma
sorority. A. son. Frank Arthur
Allen, wlio i-s a?siMant potmater at
Tccumscii, completes the family.
Bureau of The Bee,
Washington, Nov. 19.
There may have been more inter
esting days in Wa!hiiii;tn and
more brilliant entertainments, but
the oldest inhabitant does not re
member them. Certain it is that
there was never a time when so
many of the world's dignitaries and
men of affairs have been gathered
together here for a time, o that Uie
people in Washington get an inti
mate knowledge of them, if not a
personal one. Future generations
will read, no doubt with thrills, of
their grandparents having diNed
with the premier of France and tat
beside the greatest military leader
of his day, Marshal Foch, at H"
theater, orv perchance, in the public
trolley car,r at mass.
It is of interest to drop into n
movie show and find oneself in the
next seat to M. Uriaud, premier cf
France, and M. Viviaui, former pre
mier, and Mme. Viviani, accom
panied by an interpreter and a sec
retary.' This has happened several
times, for they have grown fond of
our movies and they arc real diver
sion from the strenuous hours of the
history-making conference.
Never in the social history of the.
White House has such a brilliant
scene been enacted there as that oi
last Saturday night. The president
and Mrs. Harding entertained a com
pany of 90 guests at dinner at
o'clock, and at 10 o'clock a company
of 1,000 others were asked for a re
ception. The dinner guests were the
important guests to the conference, a
few diplomats and the most impor
tant officials of our own government,
with their wives, if they were here.
The reception guests included the
official, diplomatic and smart social
circles more generally. The table
was laid in the form of a shallow U
with the points turned toward the
side of the state dining room, op
posite the doors into the corridor.
The president sat in the center of the
outside of the curve and Mrs. Har
ding was opposite, in the center 01"
the inside of the curve. The vice
president sat at Mrs. Harding's ri&ht
and M. Briand at her left. Mrs.
Coolidge was on the president's
right and Lady Lee, wife of the first
lord of the British admiralty, Rt.
Hon. the Lord Lee of Fareham, was
on his left. ,
Jewels Worth King's Ransom.
The gowns and the jewels of the
ladies were easily worth a king's ran
som," according to present-day pricey.
The first lady of the land never was
more attractive than on that evening
in a modish gown of rich white satin
with draperies ' of black tulle and
trimmings of rhinestones. The back
of the bodice appeared to have a sort
of yoke of the. rhinestones, -JihicH-formed
a high neck line in the back
and ran into a square neck in front.
She wore diamonds on a baud of
black velvet about her throat and an
aigrette in her'hair and 'carried and
gracefully brandished a large fan of
black ostrich feathers.
The historic old mansion was
stately and beautiful in its charac
teristic simplicity and was in strange
contrast to the gorgtous appearance
f the ladies at table. In the red
parlor there were fragrant Rich
mond roses' banked on the mantel
and' in the vases. They were inter-'
mingled with oak leaves. The
other rooms were all decked with
mammoth chrysanthemums, grown
in White House conservatories, with
many white opes, also in the red
parlor; yellow ones in the blue par
lor, paler yellow in the green room
and a mixture of these colors in the
east room. The state dining room
was rich in oak leaves and pink
chrysanthemums and roses, and on 1
the table were many low mounds of
these blossoms, with bunches of
farlense ferns between the mounds.
An especially beautiful piece was
directly in the center of the narrow
rottnded table, placed on the gold
mounted, oblong mirror, which was
designated when new, as Madison's
folly. It was brought over from
France by Madison and was consid
ered an almost ' criminal extrava
gance. Sturdy marines were sta
tioned at intervals in the red cor
ridor each one holding a huge silk
flag of a country represented in the
conference, a United States flag be
ing at either end. The guests as
sembled in tlje east room and at
8 o'clock the president and Mrs.
Harding entered and passed all
around the room in stately fashion,
greeting the guests, not by hand
shaking, but by word of mouth arid
smiles, then leading the way to the
state dining room. It was a proces
sion to make one catch one's breath
Court Costumes a Display,
The court costumes of the French
ambassador, Lord Lee, Admiral
Beatty, Sir. Robert Bordon, M. Bri
and and the minister from Portugal
vied with ladies for display of gold
and lace. Mme. Jusserand was in
yellow satin with floating draperies
of paler yellow tulle and a tiara of
diamonds and emeralds, a necklace
of 'the same stones and gorgeous
corsage pins. .
Countess Beattv wore the nYhr.it
of white satin brocaded with silver
and a band of diamond medallions
about her brow and head, and a
chain of diamonds and a string of
pearls. Mrs. Taft. wife of the chirf
justice, was one of the most stunning
suns, in iicsn uniea cnuion and
tulle veiled and draped with gnu
metal tulle and lace, with which she
wore a beautiful diadem of diamonds
on her head and a superb necklace
of diamonds: She IrwiLrrt urml.
ingly well, thouch thinner than
Washington knew her, as is the case
with the chief justice, whose ample
figure was such a familiar one licrc
for many years. He has lost avoir
dupois and hair. Otherwise lie is
not changed. Mrs. Hushes, v.iir
of the secretary of state, was in
Mack and gold brocaded satin, with
no jewels to speak of. Mrs. Dcnbv.
wife of the secretary of the navy. w?s ,
in turquoise blue satm with a bodicr
and draperies of silvrr lace and r
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