Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1921, Page 36

SOCIETY . All Cloth Suits Regardless of how staple the model or standard the style at $39-50 There Are Suits Included That Have Sold From $59.50 to $140.00 The great majority of the lots run from $79.50 to $100 and are mostly Navy, with a few favored Browns and Pewter Gray. Some are plain tailored, others braided, embroidered or beaded and Radium Silk lined. Sizes are mostly 14, 16, 18 and 33. They are Suits well worthy of consideration for fall wear, but which we must, in loyalty to our pelicy, clear out at onca. Hence this enormous sacrifice. Choice of a Group of Silk Dresses -;Including Grades From $45.00 to $75.00— at $29-50 . Impressively effective models in Canton Crepe, Satin, Crepe de Chine, Taffeta, Georgette—designed for’ street and afternoon wear, and touched with artistic taste in their embellishing detail. There are also some Cloth Dresses in the lot. Black and preferred colors. SPECIALISTS IN PLAYER PIANOS ©0.J. De MOLL 0J1DEMOLLéca Washington's AEOLIAN HALL - Twelfth and G Streets Gteunvay Duc-Art Puanolas VUcber Duo-Art Pianolas Aeclian Vocalions Great Values Offered A}l Tradcd-In = All deed-lp Pianos| ANNUAL |Phonographs Summer Player- at Big Pianos at Bargain Price Reductions —If you contemplate buying a Piano, Player-Piano or Phonograph—at- tend this sale and get the instrument you want at a genuine bargain price. All New Instruments Three Months in Stock Will Be-Classed as Shopworn and Placed in the Sale » Specimén Values of Our Traded-In Instruments Player-Pianos Upright Pianos Weber Pianola .. Mathushek . Aeolian Pianola . Stodart Technola . ...... Fischer e e Marshall & Wendell. Auatopiano . ....... Lawson Player-Piano. BoRdS S o s siiiis Bl b e s Desired || 12 Player Roll Cabinets o Rneng i prce rom 830 | 20% Discount B % sesesenne ‘ Monthly Payments Arranged if Phonographs | Song Rolls $25,{(J)g | avout 500'ia tne Lot Some Like New ‘ 25(: Eadl - Four Special August Vocalion Releases Ne X Lay Me Down | Orange Blossoms.| - Ok Me, Oh Myl—iIn- 14207 (" o Sieep—Fox Trot.|~ 14205 (amtadesi-Greea-| 14200 G (R (Horn) Oteyer.) (Helm) fhegan) Crescent| (Hemd) | from Twe Little 10-inch [Littie Giri—WexTret.| fomch | .°°" 10-inch | Giris tn Blue—rex 88 Sens.) Greas| 85¢ ‘Parler—0n an Ola| : 85¢ Tret. (Youmans,) In Canada [ Dance Record. In Camada( Back Street.|Ia Tret. sLo0 Thiew' Detrolt Rits| §1.80 - $1.00 (Traveller » Case.) Orchestra. NG Selvin’s 14210 { Mimi (Mee ln)-ruhn{ PFlayed by the Newport . 8Se ANl By Myself—Fox Trot Soctety Opeestra: Chief Justice and Wife In the return of the Chief Justice and Mrs. Willlam Howard Taft to the Capi- tal city is ‘an Instance, in both’cases, of coming back to scenes familiar both in their youth and through the Inter- vening years. For the head of the supreme tribunal is the son of a former Secretary of War, Alfonso Taft, later minister to St. Petersburg,~and passed many months in Washington in the days when he wore what would now be described as; “knickers.” Mrs. Taft as Miss Hel Herron, daughter of Presi- dent Hayes' law partner, made lengthy visits to the White House during the four years of that administration. Mrs. Taft, who wields a°facile pen and who has written entertainingly of her long acquaintance, was the first opportunity recorded since the days of Mrs. John Quincy Adams of narrating changes she observes in the procedure since she re- signed as mistress in the White House. | Mrs. Adams penned some charming let- ters to Boston kindred after she had at- tended levees in the Jackson and Van Buren terms. Naturally, she found much to cause astonishment in the dif- ference between the calm and well or- dered program of the “republican court’ and the somewhat turbulent existence -under Old Hickory” and his successor, Martin Van Buren. Mrs. Taft, how- ever, will be by custem restrained from expressing any very candid views of Washington and its social ways, for the environment of the wife of the Chlef {Justice is vastly different from that of the wife of a member of the lower house. She is hedged about by etiquette iscarcely less strict than that pertain- {ing to the President’s wife. | ' vening Years in Washington—News of 1 | The minister to Holland ,and Mrs. William _Phillips, who were in Wash- ington for a brief time to pay their courtesy visits to the new chief ex- tive and Mrs. Harding and to the Secretdry of State and Mrs. Hughes, have spent the intervening weeks with their various relatives along the North Shore, and sailed for the other side yesterday on the Olympie. Mrs. Phil- 1ips had the pleasure of acting a8 god- mother for the son of Andrew J. Peters in Boston about a week ago. This scion of the mayor of one of the greatest New | England cities is the first born during {Mr. Peters' incumbency in office, and his arrival was a signal event both In the family and in political circles. Mrs. Peters, who is a gracious hostess in the lower house et of Congress, is the eldest sister of Mr. Phillips. Still an- {other sister, Mrs. Anna Phillips Bolling, ! will spend the summer in Holland. She has been widowed for many years. Her husband, William Bolling, was a dis- tant relative of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. {Mrs. William Phillips, who was Miss | Caroline Astor Drayton, will also en- tertain the aunt for whom she is named, Mrs. Caroline Astor Wilson. Mr. and Mrs, land, but will pass the late summer about .The Hague and the isles of the Zuyder Zee. A pleasant echo of the visit of the Belgian royalty to this country comes in the invitation recently extended to Mrs. Richard Beatty Meilon, sister-in- law of the Secretary of the Treasury, to include Brussels in her lItinerary of Europe and to spend two days In_the summer palace near Ostend. Mrs. Mel- lon and her young son Richard and her daughter Sarah sailed a few weeks tlefields and spend part of the season at Ostend. ‘The courtesy of King Al- bert is without doubt promgitéd by the lively gratitude of the crown prince, for whom Miss Sarah Mellon and her chum, Dorothy Babcock, performed a service similar to that rendered in Washington by the former Miss Nancy Lane. now Mrs. Philip Kauffmann, and one or two of her friends. Miss Mellon, noting how bored and neglected was the heir to the throne, and how little he entered into the things which were planned for his elders, persuaded him and his aide to accompany her on a motor ride with Miss” Babcock and a duenna who had only a few weeks of marital experience to make her eli- gible. The party dropped by the Country Club and had one of the jolllest even- ihgs of the Belgian tour. Mrs. Richard Mellon and Miss Sarah Melion are ex- pected in Washington for a visit this coming winter. The. appointment of Signor Gulseppe Brambilla as minister of foreign affairs in the newly constructed cabinet in Rome brings a well-known Washing- tonian to the very peak of social im- portance in the Eternal City. Madam Brambilla was Miss Julia Meyer, daugh- ter of the late George Vom Lengerke Meyer, successively Postmaster General and Secretary of the Navy. She spent all her girlhood here. She was the classmate at the Cathedral School with Aiss Ethel Roosevelt and Miss Helen Taft and a member of the same con- firmation class there. . Her marriage, however, occurred at the family summer home in Hamilton, Mass. Signor Bram- billa was recognized as a brilliant inter- national lawyer and he filled the role of counselor of the Itallan embassy during the trying days of the war. The Brambillas have only recently left Wash- ington for Rome, whither the counselor was summoned to the. foreign office after the new ambassador, Senator Ro- land Ricci, had taken possession here. The new head of the Italian cabinet has been living in a villa beyond Lake Albano, but his present post will re- quire a handsome and extensive urban residence. Mrs. Meyer, who retains many pleasant memories -of Rome when she was for four years wife of the American ambassador, will, according to her friends, make it her wintéer home, tand may purchase one of the splendid jpalaces in the Trastevere district re- cently placed on the market. Since Mr. Richard E. Pendnoyer of iOakland, Cal., was once connected with the State Department and has many friends here, the news that his seven- {year-old stepson has just succeeded to the ancient earldom of Shrewsbury in jBritain and has become hereditary high sherift of Ireland is of considerable in- terest. Mr. Pennoyer, while serving as second secretary of the American em- bassy in London, married Lady Winni- fred Paget, widow of-the Marquis of ! Inglestre, and it is h m who has through the death ofMfs aged grand father, become one of the loftiest nobles in the United Kingdom. Mr. Pennoyer experienced some difficulty through the intricate etiquet relating to peeresses, and so acute did this problem: become that the State Departrhent, ordered his transfer to the republican capital -of Portugal. Recently, whilé he has been home on an extended leave of absence, he has been ‘named secretary of the American embassy in_Chile. Mr. Penn. oyer, a ‘brother of John Pennoyer of California, who married the eldest daughter of Pierpont Morgan, es a vast fortune, and will n6 doubt be compelled sever his connection with the diplomatic service of his country. Lady Winnifred must now assume the head of the household of her minor son and perform the high dutles connected With it for - the next fourteen years: This ‘would obviously be impossible if ghe continues to lead the nomadic ex- Istence of a junlor Américan; diplomat's e, h 3 One of the most brilliant international lawyers In Paris s Judge Walter Van Renssalaer Berry, ' for -mai years a resident of Washington, and brother.of Mrs. Theodore Boynton, ‘well known in social and intellectual circfes. Judge Berry has recently- been awarded the chevaller of the Legion of Honor by the French government ‘' for' his eminent !el:;";ul on Qheldln%eml!l:nll Elrflmnal whicl s considering - the Egyptian clabms. He is president of the American Chamber of-Commerce, 8 a spa- clous home in_Paris and is one of the leaders of the Franco-Amerjcan Society. He is the sbn of the late Nathaniel Van Berry, who. thirty-five years ago lived more ‘Washington ‘than in New York. Mr. rry and Mrs. Boyn- ton figured conspicuously in _the salon of their kinswoman, Violet Van Renssalaer Cruger, ) 3 novels under thepen’ fame of -Julien Gordon. Mrs, . Boynton, . who nds much time as the guest 'of her brother in Paris, is,” with him, Orme Wilson have bern in Eng- | ago and will motor through all the bat- : who wroté many- Tafts Return to Scenes - . Familiar in Other Days Passed Early and Inter- the Diplomats. New York soclety, invariably filling the role of lawyer or judge. Miss -Ailsa Mellon, daughter of .the Secretary of the Treasury, carries a heavy burden in being the chatelaine of the second in importance of the ten executive departments and one of the largest and most extended of all. She has not been called on yet to dispense | any official hospitality, but when the official season opens she will keep her |days at home and share with her father the honors which come to the head. of the national exchequer.© Washingtonlans recall another young -and inexperi- enced girl who made u charming hostess, Miss Nona McAdoo. now Madam Fer- dinand Moprenshildt, widow of the former secretary of the Russlan em- bassy. who was her father’s hostess until he married Miss Eleanor \Vll-nn.i Miss Mellon and her companion, Miss Sylvester, nccupy a spacious apartment here at 1785 Massachusetts avenue. Miss Melion recently returned to the estate outside of Pittsburgh where her’| young brother Paul is established, _She 18 devoted to outdoor life, and any home which appeals to her must be roomy enough to contain an assortment of ca- nine pets, including & monstrous whml deer hound, several collies and some Prince Charles spaniels. She has sev- eral riding horses that claim a visit every morning. none of which she has yet brought to Washington. She will spend the summer at Hot Springs, Va. In the ‘myriads of souvenirs collected from all countries during the world war, it i8 highly probable that no_one can produce a replica of what are known as camp candlesticks, something which the revered Gen. Robert Ce of Massachusetts had made’ specially for | his use during the r bet the states. These handsome brass candle- sticks have recently come to relatives of the Cowdin family who live in Wash- ington, and so rare and b they that eventually t! place in a museum. Th are inclosed in a flat circular shell of brass and lie side by side, but may be set upright in each halt of the shell when opened. Gen. Cowdin, directly. descended from a patriot of ¢he same name who fought in all the battles of Massachusetts, used these small lights in his tent, first to write a nightly letter to his wife and then to set them before her minia- ture, which he carried with him al- ways. His only surviving daughter, Mrs. Sarah Cowdin Wiggin, recently died in the family home in Fitchl and these letters are among the able historic papers which will go the library of her home city i Mrs. Rosita Forbes, recent | Fonored by the British and continental geographical soclaties. has arrived. in London after a thrilling trip through the Libyan desert, where she visited spots iwhich were so little known that they were regarded as half mythical. Shed g, u- to 0 highly | conferring a real blessing on .| | holders about Washington who find actually achieved the oases of Kufara and the sources of the lakes and salt seas which are distributed there. Mrs. Forbes during the coming winter will come to Washington, at the invitation SOCIETY hours. Yet here, summer hfter sum- mer sees many empty basins, and such a miserable display in others that it would seem a meércy to dry them up, too. The Italian ambassador of the Geographic Society, and giye,taking some frierids to see the Con- a series of lectures on hex .experiences. For the time being she occupies the center of the stage in geographical ex- ploration, and besides being honored by the scientific societies, she was invited to Buckingham Palace to spend an evening, telling a epecially {nvited com- pany the details of this memorable trip. She is a young amd very attrac- tive woman, the wife of an army man, who did not, however, accompany her, as she desired to accomplish her feat alone. She has drawn a new map of this ‘highly interesting desert, and with her camera she has depicted every type of nomad _encountered, besides .most valuable piotos of fruined cities and aqueducts, establishing the claim of the desert to' a civilization which is far more ancient than that of Asia and Europe. Incidentully, Mrs. Forbes, giv- ing minute estimates of her expendi- tures, says that bribes to hostile tribes constituted more than four-fifths of all the money she expended. Food, shel- ter and camel hire remain the same as they were In the days of the Phoenician Jjourneys, but the modern desert war- Tior has learnea all about how to chargg for his neutrality. Those artists and decorators who in- sist that wrought, iron for door latches'and knockers is more gainly than the highly polished brass are ouse- that copper and brass in quantity about/ the entrance or within lessens the chances of retaining a servant. Mrs. Knox, wife of the senator from Pennsylvania. who is one of the phenomenally fine homekeepers about Washington, has been frritated re- cently by malds and-men applying for the position of polishing the brass which adorns her vestibule and the ‘various contrivances about the large open fireplace in her library. In the happy days before the war the man who swept the entrance also polished up the knobs and all that sort of thing. Not now, and to have those grand .dull iron latches in use in the middle ages is now the practical solu- tion. A distinct school of art has i sprung up in New York to provide all things, and so exquisitely wrought that centuries of existence seem already to be back of them. These artists, who are getting more orders than they- can fill, provide carved stone fireplaces which look as though they came out of the Capulet palace in Henry Irving’s presentation, and in the hearth hammered iron with fire logs such as may be seen in Venice or Rome, and scuttle and tongs and shovel which might have been made by that master craftsman. John of Ravenna. The Sleeny Hollow Club has recently ordered not only a fireplace but an_entire ceiling of this wonder- ful work. such Some of the recent visitors to Wash- ington find one curious defect in what would otherwise be one of the world's most beautiful cities, that is the scarcity of fountains and the pitiful play of waters from the few that are still ing@ction. Surrounded by such great and growing bodies of water. the European cannot understand it To cut off the play of fountains would briag on a riot in Rome and would cause the offjcials of Paris anxious gressional Library looked quizzically at Neptune and his seahorses and nymphs, drier than the Sahara desert, and told the story of the kaiser when on a visit to Pope Leo X1II. The Ger- man ruler. viewed the grand pihzza from- an. upper gallery of St. Pete: and admired the- great fountains which send: glittering streams nearly one hundred feet in the air, and then murmured, ~ “Wonderful, wonderful. but let them now. be turned off.” An aged monsignor who was attending the imperial visitor in his sightseeing through the Vatican, explained these fountains ‘made by Carlo Maderno h sparkled in ‘the sunlight and glim- mered-in the moonlight for more than three hundred years. In Berlin, as in ‘Washington, the play of the weaters is only on occasions. On the Atlantic cide of the conti- nent a very epidemic of colonial houses is raging, and all the varia- tions are being rung in—the Georgian, the early Tudor, the Dutch colonial and what Is known as a distinct southern type, like the Mount Vernon | and the Arlington mansions. Of the scores’ of new houses which will b erected in Washington during the summer some variety of the colonial will take in a good two-thirds of the total. Ousron the Pacific coast every effort is in progress to rebuild a bit of Seville or some of the picturesque suburbs of Madrid or the more an- clent parts of Toledo. Mr. Henry Dater has recently built at Montecito, Calif., a domocile which. reproduces one of the old Bourbon palaces of Seville, and he has circumnavigated the globe finding the proper kind of furnishings. He found the very best 1110 F St. N.W. (Adjoining Loew’s Columbia) N Announces Special Sale Negliges and Breakfast Coats For Women and Misses 25%to 50% Discount Comprising our entire assortment of exquisite Effectively colored, daintily: fashioned models in a diversity of smart styles. creations. specimens_ . .t _Spanish household equipment, ‘carved rosewood and ebony, brass-bound chests and set- tees, not in Spain proper, but in the older cities of South America where viceroys formerly resided. Quito is reported to be a veritable treasury of splendid old furniture and brass, while Lima and the smaller cities of Peru have stocks of which the col- lectors are just beginning to hear. Mr. and Mrs. George Marye have a marveloudly furnished home at Bur- lingame, and nearly all of their finest possessions were gathered as the re. sult. of fortunate discoveries in Rio and along the Chilean coast during a winter cruise. The thousands of Americans .who are passing the' summer in Europe are much rufied that so few yachts or fine boats from this side of the world are to he seen. Though this nation is pre- sumably the most prosperous of all and that the unfailing way of judging na- tional wealth is by number of yachts cqmmissioned by its private citi- Zens, the absence of pleasare craft in foreign waters is' conspicuous. Those who own splendid boats like the Corsair are not inclined either to_travel or tn enter ‘sporting events. Mr. Pierpont Morgan, 2d, uses the famo cht on ch ‘the great financier. Wied but and his family is not partial to the water. quence have been bullt in American yards at all and very few in the Brit- ish. But,the German yards hum with industry and all the big junker families seem 10 be indulging in new vachts Washington is presumed to number many multi-millionaires among its resi- dents, but though own and operate houseboats, there is not one who main- tains a regular ‘seagoing vacht com- rable to hundreds used every summer y German and Scandinavian nobles Dozens float in the channel ports on the French side, owned by Frenchmen and used even for trips to Egypt and India. o e o $1.98 Satine Petticoats —with double panel back and front. $1.25 & . Your unrestricted choice of any hat in our millinery department regardless of its former price. Every conceivable style, shape and material is jncluded.. Values are up to $25.00. NPARALLELED VALUES FOR AST WEEK OF JULY CLEARANCE All Spring and Summer Merchandise to be - Sacrificed to Insure a Quick Clearaway . new This sale for Monday only. _ Taffetas { Canton Crepes Satins Foulards ner wear. ucedto........... Handmade Waists of fine quality batiste with shand- drawn work. Voile and Organdy Waists with lace and embroidery trimming. ° - Georgette Waists, beaded and embroidered; wh:it‘e. colors and combinations.’ ' $7:98 Fiber Silk - Fiber : Silk - Fringed Promptly at 9:15 Tomorrow Morning We Will Place on Sale 575 Silk Dresses A Wonderful Assortment of the Newest Models for Both Women and Misses All Sizes 16 to 42 MATERIALS INCLUDE Plenty of Blacks, Blues, Browns, Grays -and other popula_r colbrs for Street; Afternoon and Din- A Final Clearaway of 1,000 WAISTS $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00 Values. Red “ $3.98 and $4:98 Wool Sweaters, $2.98 -$10 and $12.50 Fiber Silk Sweaters, $8.95 $15.00 Baronet Satin Sports Skirts, $7.95 ' Crepe de Chines Tricolettes Crepe Meteors Lace, Combinations Sweaters, $5.98 Sweaters; :$15.00 No new boats of any conse- ,