EW YORK society women turned ‘salesgirls’” last 
week at Gimbel Bros.’ store. A percent of their sales 
went for the Social Service department of Bellevue Hos- 
pital. Mrs. Richard Derby, Col. Roosevelt’s daughter, 
was in charge of waists, and many were the curious buy- 
ers she greeted, who came to see “the Colonel’s daughter.” 
Mrs. Philip Lydig, Miss Ruth Morgan, Mrs. Gerald Hoyt, 
Mrs. C. C. Auchincloss and Mrs. Austin Grey were among 
the “new help” for the week. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Elliot C. Bacon (Hope Norman) are 
receiving congratulations on the birth of a son at their 
home at Westbury, Long Island. Mrs. Bacoh is the 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Norman of Beverly Cove 
and Newport. 
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The wedding of Miss Irene Langhorne Gibson, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, of New 
York, and George B. Post, Jr., of New York, is of wide 
interest. It will take place April 27 in St. Bartholomew’s 
church and will be followed by a reception at the Gibson 
home. Miss Gibson will have her cousin, Miss Nancy 
Perkins, for her maid of honor. The other attendants 
will be the Misses Harriet A. Post, Nathalie Wood, Helen 
Crocker, Evelyn Preston, Ruth Hapgood and Margot 
Scull. Miss Gibson is a debutante of the winter and is 
about the first one whose engagement has been announced. 
Chalmers Wood, Jr., will act as best man. The ushers 
will be Bayard Tuckerman, Jr., a cousin of Mr. Post, Q. 
A. Shaw McKean of Boston and the North Shore; 
Thomas H. Frothingham, C. Suydam Cutting, Grafton H. 
Pyne, Schuyler L. Parsons, Jr., Richard Van Nest Gam- 
brill, Oliver W. Bird, Jr., Langhorne Gibson, all of New 
York; and G. Dawson Coleman of Philadelphia. Mr. 
Post will give his bachelor dinner at the Harvard club, 
April 14. J 
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Mr. and Mrs. Lydig Hoyt accompanied Miss Eleanora 
Sears and Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Hecksher on their trip 
to California. They were entertained during a brief stop 
in Chicago by the Albert de Wolf Erskines and Mr. and 
Mrs. Glidden Osborne. 
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Preston Gibson gave a dinner last Saturday night, 
his guests including Mr. and Mrs. James Lowell Putnam, 
Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Dallas 
Bache Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pierrepont Perry, Mr. 
and Mrs. J. Stewart Barney, Philip O. Mills and Robert 
McKee. 
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One of the brilliant incidents of the Easter period 
will be a costume ball for the debutantes and the young 
men of their coterie on April 25. Mmes. R. Fulton Cut- 
ting, Charles Dana Gibson and William Pierson Hamilton 
are among those on the committee in charge. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Douglas Robinson (Dorothy 
Jordan) have returned from their honeymoon in Nassau, 
and are at 11 East 45th street, New York, where they 
are to live until they go to Orange, N. J., for the summer. 
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Mr. and Mrs. James Lowell Putnam and Miss Lota 
Robinson were in box No. 14 at last Friday’s opera. Dr. 
and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice were guests of Mr. 
and Mrs. Henry Clews. 
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee and their daugh- 
ter, Miss Mabel Satterlee, are passing the week at 
Raquette Lake, in the Adirondacks, 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
March 24, 1916, 
Society was taken completely by surprise by the news 
that Miss Helen Morgan Hamilton, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. William Pierson Hamilton and granddaughter of the 
late J. Pierpont Morgan, is to become the bride of Police 
Commissioner Arthur Woods. She was a favorite of 
the financier and was at his bedside when he died in 
Rome on March 31, 1913. Miss Hamilton made her debut 
over a year ago and took a prominent place in the young 
set, being a member of the Colony club and of the Junior 
League. Through her father and mother she is descended 
from well known American families that have been iden- 
tified with public life for many generations. Her mother, — 
who was Miss Juliet P. Morgan, is one of the four chil- 
dren of the late financier and philanthropist, the others 
being Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee 
and Miss Anne T. Morgan. She is a great-great-grand- 
daughter of Alexander Hamilton. Commissioner Woods is 
forty-three years old. He graduated from Harvard in 
1892 and lives at the Harvard club. He is a member of 
the Racquet and Tennis club. It is expected to be a May 
or June wedding. North Shore connections of the family 
are Mrs. Henry 5. Grew, Mr. and Mrs. S. V. R. Crosby 
and Mr. and Mrs. Boylston A. Beal. 7 
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Mrs. Harrison Tweed, Mrs. Wm. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., 9 | 
and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson were among the society 
women who “clerked” the last of the week in the effort 
to raise $10,000 for the social service work of Bellevue 
Hospital. The women felt that the work had taught them 
at least one thing, and that is just how to shop and how 
not to shop. One said she thought it would be wise for 
all shoppers to take a week each year and serve as sales- __ 
women. Then they would know how it feels to be on the 
other side of the counter and they wouldn’t waste the time _ 
of the saleswomen as some people do. 
Lent—A convenient excuse for avoiding unwelcome 
social obligations. 
HICAGO society is interested in forming a society > 
whose object will be the spreading of the propaganda 
on the prevention of blindness at the birth of a child. — 
Mrs. Watson Blair opened her home for a talk on the | 
subject, last Wednesday, by Miss Van Blarcom. Bryan ~ 
Lathrop was appointed chairman and Russell Tyson is one Fa 
of the members. An educational campaign will be started 
with a central office to dispense information on this vitally 
important topic. It is claimed that nine-tenths of the 
world’s blindness is due to some neglect at birth. 
Russell Tyson, Arthur Meeker, J. Ogden Armour 
and Mrs. Arthur Ryerson are among the boxholders for 
the benefit address by Miss Schofield and Miss Fell Sun- 
day afternoon in behalf of the Orphelinat des Armees. 
Miss Amy Lowell of Boston and Dublin, N. H., is 
one of the noted visitors in Chicago this week. She gave 
a talk at the Little Theatre last Sunday night on the mod- 
ern French poets whose works she has translated into — 
English. Mrs. Alfred T. Martin gave a tea in her honor 
at the Cordon on Monday. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Hobart Chatfield-Taylor are so en- 
chanted with their winter in Santa Barbara, Cal., that 
they have bought sixteen acres near the polo field and are 
going to build a fine house there. 
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Mrs. R. T. Crane is among those interested in a big 
rummage sale in the loop district of Chicago for the bene- 
fit of the Children’s Memorial hospital. 
