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Mr. and Mrs. Gurnee Munn had a party consisting of 
Mr. and Mrs. John King, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Eddy 
and Mr. and Mrs. Artero de Heeran. 
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The golf course for women at Aiken, S. C., is be- 
coming a very popular addition to that renowned resort. 
It was probably the first golf course in America for 
women, built through the suggestions of the New York 
Herald. Canadian sojourners at Aiken are congratulat- 
ing the Herald for taking the women’s interests to heart. 
In Toronto the Lambton Golf club provides its women 
members with an excellent and spo.ty nine hole course, 
making the club one of the most popular in the country. 
Other clubs in Canada are falling into line. The Aiken 
course belongs to the Highland Park Golf club; and at 
Palm Beach the women’s course is at the West Palm 
Beach Golf club. An enthusiastic player says that the 
restrictions for women at most of the golf clubs are most 
aggravating and make one feel that the presence of women 
is merely tolerated by a suffering mankind. 
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New Orleans Mardi Gras celebration was the largest 
and most brilliant in the history of the city. Never has 
the masking been more general than at last Tuesday’s car- . 
nival. One of the most novel stag banquets of the even- 
ing was at the Gruenwald when a large pariy of west- 
erners and easterners was entertained by Edward F. 
Kearney. William Forbes Morgan, Jr., nephew of J. P. 
Morgan was a guest, also Robert Goelet, James A. Still- 
man, Otto H. Kahn, A. M. Green and Henry R. Win- 
throp of Boston. The host and guests ate in white silk 
masks on the flaps of which were traced their names and 
the menu in gold letters. Later in the evening they at- 
tended the Comus ball. 
You can’t convince a savage by reading international 
law to him—you must hit him over the head with a club. 
EW YORK will probably soon have its permanent 
Italian Dramatic Theatre. The scheme has the sym- 
pathies of the Italian Ambassador, Conte Vincenzo 
Macchi di Cellere; the Italian Consul in New York and 
other prominent Italians. For the purpose of raising 
funds to found the playhouse a concert soon will be given 
at the Waldorf-Astoria. In general the project provides 
for the leasing of some New York theatre and then 
bringing to this country from Italy a company of actors 
who are to present Italian prose dramas in their native 
tongue. 
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Everybody that remains in New York is still work- 
ing for charity. One would think to look on the first 
tee of a golf course in Palm Beach that New York was 
a deserted village. Five hundred would-be golfers stood 
it! line the other day waiting turns to drive off. Still, 
enough people remained in New York last week to raise 
$8,000 for the Lafayette fund and other French charities 
out of a much talked about cubist and modernish vaude- 
ville-dance, with Mrs. William Astor Chandler in com- 
mand. 
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There is much interest among society in the American 
Red Cross Tea Garden, which will be a part of the fourth 
International Flower Show to be held April 5 to 12. 
Other war relief organizations will each have a special 
day. Miss Anne T. Morgan will be a representative of 
the Vacation War Relief Committee. Others interested 
are Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs. William K. Draper, Mrs. 
Robert Bacon and Mrs. Jares W. Markoe. Members of 
the Junior League will act as waitresses in the tea garden, 
‘March 17, 1916. 
Miss Irene Langhorne Gibson will be in charge of the 
young women selling flowers and Miss Bell B. Gurnee 
and others will enroll new members in the Red Cross. — 
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Graves have joined friends at 
Hot. Springs, Va., for a ae ten days. 
A Venetian masque ball will be given at the Century 
Theatre, March 24, by the Italian War Relief Committee. 
Among the patronesses are Mmes. Lydig Hoyt, James L. 
Putnam, Douglas Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., 
Lawrence Townsend, Joseph Widener’and Henry Payne _ 
Whitney. 
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A cat and an order for an automobile are among the 
prizes donated for the bridge tournament given at the 
Ritz-Carlton by the New York Women’s League ‘for 
Animals on March 28. Mrs. James Speyer is president 
of the league and Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt is first 
vice-president. 
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Mrs. James Speyer and Mrs. Alfred du Pont are 
among the box-holders for the Globe Theatre play next 
Monday in aid of the Blue Cross Fund for the care of 
wounded war horses. 
When a man gossips as much as a woman his friends 
say he is an interesting conversationalist. 
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HICAGO never has had a great big suffrage parade 
such as have been epoch making events in New York, 
Boston and Philadelphia, and now one is being planned 
for June 7. Women in all walks of life will take part in 
this great parade which will march to the doors of the 
Republican convention then convening at the Coliseum 
and ask for a suffrage plank in the party’s platform. 
Suffragists and their leaders are planning to come from 
every state in the union to take part in the parade. So- 
cially prominent women in Chicago who are active in the 
plans are Mmes. Medill McCormick, Tiffany Blake, 
Augustus Peabody, Morris Johnson, Arthur Ryerson, 
George Higginson, and Charles Hamil, the Misses Marie 
Roget, Suzette Ryerson, and Virginia Pope. 
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When Miss Eleonora Sears of Beverly Farms, and 
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Hercksher of New York passed 
through Chicago en route for the east from California, 
they made a short stop and were entertained at the Sad- 
dle and Cycle club by Mek and ie Glidden Osborne. 
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H. N. Higinbotham, father of Mrs. R. T. Crane, Jr., 
has sold his Chicago home, one of the finest mansions in 
Chicago.in its day. It will be converted into a tea room, 
business interests having absorbed that part of the city. 
He has a country home at Joliet, known as the “Forest of 
Arden,” where Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Higinbotham of Ip- 
swich make their winter home in a cottage on the estate. 
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A mass meeting at noon will be held tomorrow in 
the Auditorium theatre to protest against the spoils sys- 
tem and to adopt a woman’s municipal platform. Among 
those actively interested are Mmes. Russell Tyson, Wil- 
liam Hubbard, Medill McCormick, Arthur Ryerson, Em- 
mons Blaine and P. D. Armour, III. Another interesting 
meeting along these lines was held Thursday evening 
when the Women’s City club heard Frederic C. Howe, 
commissioner of the port at New York, talk on “The 
City of Tomorrow.” That the women are intensely: in- 
terested in the questions of municipal reform was shown — 
last Tuesday when Mrs, Kellogg Fairbanks’ house was 
