Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1925, Page 54

THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, Chevy Chase Reports Ho]ida_\' Observance on Elaborate Scale Dances and TCBS Scheduled. Boyes and Girls Home From Co"egc. of the Mr. and Mrs. John Kanawha street are spending Christmas holidays in Buffalo. Miss Mary Helen Wahmann. who has been visiting Mrs. Frank Springs Westhrook on McKinley street and| studving art at the National Fine Arts Inetitute, has gone to her home in Rocky Mount, N. ¢ where she will spend the Christmas holidays with her | mother Miss Ruth Stabler. daughter of and Mrs. Louis H. Stabler. enterta at tea Christmas day in her Stanford street Mr. and Mrs. George B returned to their home on street after spending several in Miami, Fl | Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B. Gilbert will | entertain at a Christmas dance to morrow evening on Hesketh street in honor of thefr son Bonn Mr. and Sidney Rhodes Prince of Grafton street, and their sons, Sid ney and Gregory of Woodberry v, are spending the Chri with relatives in Mobile. . Paul Pitcher of Princeton Uni spending the Christmas holi davs with his parents, Mr. and Mrs E. H. Pitcher Dr. and Mrs. Herhert C. Hopkins will give a dance Tuesday evening in their home on Cedar parkway in honor of their son. John Miss Dorothy Carter. a student of the University of Michigan. has ve. turned to Chevy Chase. where she will spend_the holidays with her mother Mrs. William S. Carter, at her home on McKinley street Mr. Edward Northrop. a student of nodberry Forrest Academy. has re turned to Chevy Chase to spend Chirstmas with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Northrop at their home on | Lenox street Mr. Christian Adleman. a student of | Swarthmore College, is spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Adleman. Dean George N Henning of Me Kinley street and Prof. Henry Grat tan Doyle of Thirty-third street, will reperesent Geo: Washington Uni versity at the annual convention of the Association of Modern Languages which will be held in Chicago, 11l from December 29 to January 1 Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Heflin of Joce lvn street are spending the Christ mas holidays n Lois, Va. Mr. Frederick -Koschwitz of New York is the house guest of his brother indaw and sister. Mr. and Mrs. L. F Kneipp, on Shepherd street, for the Christmas holidays Dr. Charles F. Russell of Herndon Va., is spending Chri with his soninlaw and da Mr. and Mrs. William T. Polla in their home on McKinley street Mr. and Mrs. Andrey entertained at dinner 1 ning. Mr. and Mrs Fischer My ned home on Wetzel have MeKinles weeks orest | tmas | . haurer sday eve Fredrick R. Parks and Mr. and Mrs. Irving P. Hall will en tertain tea New Y. Ay in the home of Mr. and Mrs ks on Hes keth street Mr. and Mrs their daughter Lester Shafer and Marian Le of New York, are house guests of AMrs Shafer's parents, Mr d Mres. Daniel C. Chace. at their home, on West Vir street, for the Christmas holi- | dave. Mr. Frank Robson of Baltimore is also w h Mr. and Mr Chace for | the holidays Miss Alice B. Henni street is spending the Christmas holi days in New York. Her brother, Mr. Dean Henning. who is attending a con. vention in Chicago, will in time for New Year i Mrs. J. W. Crandall of | vn street are spending the week Philadelphia, where theyv are guests of Dr. and Mrs. J. J. McMullin. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Brock of Cleveland are guests of Mr. and Mrs Rea P. Wright for Christmas Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Lust A dance tomorrow evenin home, on Jenifer street. in honor of their daughters, Margaret and Mary Mr. Clark Beach. son of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Beach of Kanawha street. will leave tomorrow for West Baden. Ind where he will represent the Unives of Marvland Chapter of the Nu Fraternity at its annual tion Dean William C. Van Vieck of Har- rison street and Prof. Charles S, (ol lier of Rosemary street will attend the annual convention of the American Bar Association at Chica t week Mr. and Mrs. Pinkney Harmon will give a dance tomorrow evening in their home. on Oliver street. in honor of their children Mr. and Mrs. Havwood Sanford French of Newtonville, Mass., are the house guests for the Christmas holi Aays of their sondn-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Clifton E. Chandler, at their home on Military road AMr. Charles Wilcox, a student of the Renssaler Polvtechnical Institute, has returned to Chevy Chase to =pend the Christmas holidays with hi< parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Penz Wilcox, in their home on Meadow lane. Mrs. L. L. Sharpley entertained at dinner Tuesday evening in the Chevy Chase Apartment Mr. and Mrs. Luther Spear of Joce lyn street left Tuesday for Watertown N Y., where they are spending Christ mas with their son-in-law and daugh- ter. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Paul Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Penz Wilcox entertainad Tuesday evening at din ner in their home on Meadow lane honor of Mrs. Wilcox's mother. Mrs, W. S. Davis of Baltimore, Md., who i< their house guest for Christ Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox enteriained their guests at a theater party Mrs. Amelis Almsted gave a dance of McKinley | in join her will give in their conven Announces General Reductions on Winter Apparel Dinner Gowns Evening Gowns Afternoon Day Dresses Fur-Trimmed Coats All Merchandise Take From Our Regular Stock | matter— | been the house guest of Mr |G. R, AROUND THE CITY BY NANNIE LANCASTER. could never have heen a ctty girl and she hasn't im- wed with age——you notice women never do, but— Seeing she has plenty psfy in the way of 1aoks she keeps her philosophy on tap and manages quite cheerfully except _on such famentable occa sions as. say, s Wednesday on that sunshiny orenoon another woman met her just outside a store that jammed to Acors with not- early Christmas hoppers. Her zenerally good- humored face was a map of gloom— not grouch—and she seemed sort of slumped up as she squirmed herself through the store’s revolving door 1o the street. And, of course, the other woman wanted to know what was the something must have hap- pened—-— Oh nothing. And Father ne has just been the third degree. And while | 1 ought to he laughinz over it HE of com- the ) ' everything! ving me know the | thing hurts like a stab in the hack.” And she managed to end up with a smile The other woman insisted upon a vou know how we dear women and the fatal truth came out Well, of course. living without growing T don't hanker for the of youth, still, ence in a while when some old codger of my callow days comes alonz and tells me I don't look a vear older, it sort of hucks me up and sets me gabbling. 1 am afraid 1 shall have my gahbling spells as long as 1 live, hut. anvhaw—vou remember John Y. Blank—asked me to marry him ahout forty-eleven years ago nice old chap. but lacking the in gredients for the making of what vou might call a soulmate: though brain- mate would be better—hut, anvhow T happened on Johnny abhout two hours ago, and after we had told each other how well we were, and he had said how young I was looking I agreed to chaperon him into the doll department to buy his zrandniece teddy bear. While we were huying it each of us harked back to the daye when what a mall girl wanted was a doll that could be dressed and put to hed in ) and wheeled around in a straw riage with an afghan—pink —and as Johnny seemed par interested in the reminiscence, I the lovely little clerk to show us one She asked what style of doll still back in the swaddling ¢l memor answered Wax.’ The lovely voung clerk said she had never heard of a wax doll. hut—just a minute. please, while she asked the clerk in charge The clerk in tails— are vou can’t keep on id. and while ddy pleasures and charge came to the Saturday svening. December 19. in the ballroom of the Chevy (‘hase Theater in honor of her n Hugo. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Leet enter tained the members of their club at bridze and supper Monday evening. Mr. Edwin E. Adams of Springfield, Mass., is the house of Miss Anne Pollard. daughter of Mr. and Mre. William T. Pollard. on McKin ley street Mr. Loy sity of rest s Robertson of the Univer Michigan is spending the Christmas holidays with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Robs Miss Theresa Pittier of Venezuela is vis Miss Wilmoth Doyle, daugh ter of My, and Mrs. Harold E. Doyle, on Huntington street. Miss Pittier will beanattendant at the wedding of Miss Doyle and Mr. Singleton Paulett of Richmond. Va.. January & Mrs. Dorsey Griflith and her daugh ter, Mary Elinor. of Oakland. N. J are the house uests of Mrs. Griffith's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bowen, on West Melrase stree Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. their son and daughter. Margaret Anne. of Oliver ¢pending Christmas in Baltimore where they are the house zuests of Cline’s brother-in-law and sister . and Mrs. Walter Rupp. Mr. and Mrs. say of Kaston. Pa their hrother and and Mrs. Janvier W. Lin in thei home on Broad Branch road. until after the New Year Miss Miriam Likens. a Bethel College in Kentucky ing the Christmas holidays. parvents. Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Likens Mr. Thomas D. Robertson of At lanta. Ga.. is spendinz the Christma holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Rebertson, on Wes: Monroe street. Prof. Henry rattan Doyvle Thirty-third street will speak on “The Future of the Spanish Language’ at the annual convention of the Ameri can Association of Teachers of Span ish tomorrow in Columbus, Ohio Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Buttrick of Dux ry, Mass., are spending the Winter with thelr son-in-law daughter Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. in their home on Military road Miss Minnie Lee Davis of Wilming ton, Del., is the house guest for the Christmas holiday of her brother-in- | law and sister. Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Wilcox. on Meadow Lane | Miss Eva Ford McKendree, who has and Mrs. | Liken. has returned to her home in Hopkinsville. Ky Mr. Jere Crane has returned spending several months in Gables, Miami. Cline and Leland and street, are Lind nests of sister-in-law. Dr student of is spend with her of nd Gile after | Coral | Frocks Evening Wraps Sports Coats Millinery n | buoyant laugh, as Christmassy as the | holly wreath swung over her arm. * ok ok K E have with mas Is as merry as it used to he. . tells front and annihilated me with the in- KROWS bette [ one formation that no wax dolls had heen | o 1lh|.n‘ “In And 1o prove little st that made for vears—'since furnaces my young day: came in’ Johnny look: ade a noble effort d at me and smiled, and and grinned |tent of one's means. And mother's only child and wenlthy, ax money was reckoned ary my hen. when we had bhought the hear and were i way to the “le A dittle girl about 8 years d. who must have liked the it of my face, since she singled me out of all that moh to hold me up to ridicule- hefore Johnny-—said: Grandma, will you please show me where I ean get a drink of water?' Johnny chuckled out like a hoy at 1 cirens, but—well, -1 hope 1 ways | stumbled into a n ohserve the dignity of my position in dawn, and were rop life—T told him to zet in that elevator | paved streets until. passing a and zo about his own affairs, as T white buildinz. 1 called 1 tended to take mv granddaughter attention to a ice cooler.” Which 1 did Wasnt licy pavement, close awful?—and funny? If vou could | It jooked as if some have seen poor old Johnny trying not |might have falien in o laugh at me. was unable to rise. 1 said I And the thought of it zet out, except that I was laughing at her own self feet would crumple under 1 spent too many night | stagger home toward dawn One Christmas fellow stere eve a for Christmas hreakfast, and lived ot the Northeast in- to to the iron poor the sleet her to regular Here is our Christmas gift to you. It might seem a little late, but never- theless you’ll surely appreciate it. Tomorrow starts a great coat clearance; a sale in which we disre- gard actual cost to diminish our stock. Any woman with a little thought of econcmy will find in this sale coats just to her liking, and at prices way below what she ex- pected to pay. Here Are a Few of the Colors You'll ind in this sale all the popular colors such as Lipstick, Gracklehead, New Blues, Sad- dle, Bunny, Black and others. It doesn’t make a particle of difference what color coat you have in mind, you'll surely find it here. $75 COATS $65 COATS Stylish Stout Coats We have gathered many slen- derizing coats for our stout cus- tomers. . Coats that just meet with their type and personality. Plenty of regular and small sizes in the lot. | us one elderly ‘ highly honored citizen who whim | sically opposes the theory that Christ- | | goes about | there was an |unfetiered license to drink to the ex 1 she was ising invited me to g0 home with him as heyond what was then called Swanfpoodle. we ht-liner hack i hing it over hadly friend’s | huddled-up figure on the creature would afraid my me, and D. ¢, DECEMBER my friend was in the same state, we delegated the driver to see what was | wrong. He went over to the huddled [ heap and then came back to report | that it was just an old milk-woman on her knees. It was too early for the church to open for the 5 n'clock mass | and as she had to serve her milk dur ing the service, she had knelt on the Hke | bricks to say a Christmas prayer. It &0t on my nerves—and my nerves used [to rule me In those days—so I stum- {bled out of that hack and reached he old milk-woman ju & she had lifted | herself from her knees by holding on {10 oniron rail. When 1 started in 1o fell her she had done a foolish thing to risk her health kneeling on those bricks at that unearthly hour she and He was then to smiled at me with such happiness that | |1 had to stand there and listen while |she told me about the birth of a Sa {\l:\!. nd of what it meant to her and te 1 the world. T knew the story | of conrse. hut it was the first time it | had ever sounded convineing and | worth looking into. Christmas had {always been a day of fun nd folly {for me, but from that on—well, | | suppose it was getting time for me 1o down. anyhow nged.” He did not detail the amount of zood it had led him to do on the | Christmages that followed. put he did say that he owed his redemption to the example of an old milkweman hee met praving on the bricks one (hrist mas dav in the morning And with he About large rails| and 27. 1925—PART 2. T =l the statement meditative as | =ertion | They don't like her today went a seem 10 make women the milk | both milk and wox ox K to show the bread UST of sed in rns, zed into a small office the other and told this bit of incident she ust heard from a woman who | in the South You may have noticed that this i= + period in which vi nary temples to women are heing foretold and work ed for throughout the country, with. vet. small signs of solid founda- | tions. but the woman who breezed in hasx discovered that to one sister anvhow heen awarded the fame she was entitled 1 # real recognition | expressed in a statue which stands in | Statement. A great Southern ity —in a park. 1 Make women 1% the figure of an ancient woman | Perause: in # poor dress. with a tny. old-fash | There foned shawl across her shoulders. And | Hiuman the lettering on the hase of the statue 'ih reads Old Margaret This heroine also <ol milk—in the days when milk, in a tin can, was carried on the head. No matter how hungry Margaret might be at the end of her milk rounds she always re served a gup of milk for some one than herself. Beinz a thrifty hard-working body and carrying magnetic power two of a kind,” even as ex- | prosperity increased. kept step. Then | for commercialism ca open, ‘and old A large establishmen ones, until she was noticeable number o Then, after she died woman, with big money A successful woman | bre: | aay | had | tiv selfishness and erected honor of “Old Margaret.’ And these two that “they like that are nature no more has at the door * o ok 4 tree-chaded streets automobiles with monument sana splendid. At everywhere a that goes And the that ‘ithin her a hidden talent which for uccess smiled down on her, her the hidden me garet donations went nd still larger ahle the city’s poor to leave the needy, the great City of New Or leans took to itself the lesson of un statue heroines prove the truth of the elderly citizen = don't seem milkwomen. e out iness, and vou zet vour hot OU can enter Milan hy most of them opening 11 gates into wide filled with people street building and electric hotel however =h" o be home—even if it be weet” as the song savs Yea death and distance not m Door nd as | or merely rome,”" hut Yuletide lives forever had vour merry € wishing a Happy New body. NEW MUSICAL PRODIGY. Raja the and istmas Year for every pirit talent in the into feed a ancient for Garbusova. 16, Great Cellist. Decemher lovers are Hailed " BERLIN, lin ailing the 7 vent of a new musical prodizy in 1 person of 16-year-old Raja Garbusov: A Russian girl cellist’ from Tif ) o music seem more’ whome some critics have placed in the same category of cellists. Raja was discovered hy & viteh, an American enzinee sia. who made possihle ance before GGerman d F ences. Since she w blond, curly-haired has been plaving an i car< | Iy considered 1o req J or | strength for a woman to achieve more a thou | than mediocrity on it 3 sova . plave with Pahlo (‘asale of the ench a are 4 hotel critics though she had been horn v STARTING TOMORROW—AT 9:15 A.M.—A STUPENDOUS Coats galore will be found in this sale. Most of them were bought at less than actual cost of making. In other words, the fabrics, the furs and linings alocne are worth more than what we’re marking them. SOME EVEN MORE. If, in your opinion, these Coats are nct the greatest coat values you’ve seen in a long time, we’ll refund the purchase price—within 5 days. RANCE Here Are the Fur Trimmings Many of these coats have ccllars, cuffs, borders of such furs as Mink, Marmot, Hudson Beaver, Opcssum, Gray and Natural Squirrel, Fox, Vicuna and Fitch. But everyone is lavishly adorned with fur. $60 COATS; $55 COATS, $36 Choose From One of These Three Price Groups—A Small Deposit Will Hold Your Another Group of Coats Regular $50, $40 and Remarkable values are offered in this group of new Fur-Trimmed Coats. Finely tailored garments in practically every color and ma- terial. Each coat is heavily trimmed - with fine furs. Sale price, $30 Values 19 Remarkable Coat fur effects and colors. little money. When you see these coats, examine their materials and workmanship, note the You will wonder how we can possibly offer them for so More of Those Wonderful New Coats Values Here $60, $50 and $40 In this group we offer coats in the season’s smartest materials and colorings. Evéry coat of this season’s models. All sizes, in- cluding specially selected stouts. Sale price, °26 is only a strange place, and this he had never suspected—the time came |ing Christmas week, everyhody ought when she could set up a bit of a stand where she could sell bread along with And each day she set aside the change a real home into an apartment having here 5 ~Ber- king appear