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NEW YORK’S Junior Committee of the American 
Ambulance Hospital in Paris Fund conducted a sale 
last week of gowns, hats and wraps donated by society 
women. New or almost new articles were sold to wo- 
men of moderate means. Miss Helen Frick was among 
those giving gowns. Members of the Junior Committee 
were the “saleswomen.” 
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Mrs. William F. Draper of Washington gave a din- 
ner at the Ritz-Carlton, having among her guests the 
Duke and Duchess de Torlonia, of Rome, Italy. 
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Mrs. John Hays Hammond was among the guests 
at the red, white and blue luncheon given by Mrs. Charles 
Oakes in New York in honor of Mrs. J. J. Hickey of 
Richmond, Va. 
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Mrs. Hugh J. McGowan of Indianapolis and Mag- 
nolia is spending a few weeks in New York. 
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Mrs. Henry C. Frick was among those having a 
table at the bridge tournament held at the Ritz-Carlton 
Tuesday by the Women’s League for Animals. Among 
the prizes were a Ford automobile, a pedigreed red chow, 
a box at the Metropolitan Opera House, several theatre 
' boxes, a Victrola, and a prize winning short haired cat. 
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Arthur Row gave Maeterlinck’s “Aglavaine and 
Seylsette” at the Bandbox Theatre last Sunday night, 
under the patronage of prominent people including Miss 
Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Miss Cecilia Beaux and Mrs. 
Philip M. Lydig. Mr. Row made his first appearance on 
the North Shore two years ago when he gave Maeter- 
linck’s plays to Kast Gloucester and Annisquam audiences. 
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Mrs. Jeanne Durant Rice, the mother of Mrs. John 
L,. Saltonstall of Beverly Cove, spoke on “Form and Color 
in Pottery” before the Woman’s Press Club at the Wal- 
dorf-Astoria last Saturday. She has a studio and work- 
shop in New York. Miss Cecilia Beaux spoke on “Schools 
of Paintings.” Miss Beaux has her studio in New York 
and at her summer home on Eastern Point. 
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Miss Anne T. Morgan has spent the past two weeks 
at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., with a party of friends. 
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The great library of the late J. P. Morgan has been 
estimated by the experts at. work on it for the past nine 
months as worth about $7,500,000. It is housed in the 
marble building built for it at 33 East Thirty-sixth street. 
It is rich in the collection of Bibles, which extend back 
through the era of printing to the manuscript Bibles that 
preceded it. Valuable manuscripts are those of Dickens’, 
“A-Christmas Carol;” Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair;’? Mil- 
ton’s “Paradise Lost,” in the handwriting of the blind 
poet’s daughters; and of the important poems by Burns, 
all of which have greatly increased in value since pur- 
chased. 
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Durant Rice is one of the many young men of New 
York, who is driving his automobile to and from the 
trenches in Europe. He has been honored by the French 
government with the Croix de Guerre. Mr. Rice is a son 
of Dr. Clarence C. Rice and Mrs. Durant Rice and a 
brother of Mrs. John L. Saltonstall of Beverly Cove.  In- 
teresting letters of his life in the trenches written to his 
mother have been published in the New York Herald. 
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Henry C. Frick gave $5,000 to the new society or- 
ganized last week in New York with headquarters at the 
March 31, 1916, 
Plaza Hotel for the purpose of starting free trade schools 
in France for the maimed soldiers to learn a suitable 
trade. A man may learn a trade for $100 in these schools 
which will be under the patronage of the President of 
France. The committee with Mrs. Edmund L. Baylies 
as chairman raised $40,000 at the opening. Branches 
have been arranged in Washington, Philadelphia, Buffalo, 
Chicago and Denver. 
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The American Fund for French Wounded celebrated 
its first birthday last week by packing kits for the hospi- 
tals in France. A telegram was received that day from 
Benjamin Lathrop, chairman of the committee in Paris, 
stating that the fund had been recognized officially by the 
French government. Miss Anne Morgan is treasurer. 
Mrs. Ethelbert Nevin, chairman, says:—“We have re- 
ceived direct advices from high sources in France indicat- 
ing that great as the need has been for aid for the small 
military hospitals, the tremendously increased activities at 
present and forecasted for the future will make the need 
even greater. 
republic’s history, and her soldiers are ready to the last 
man to protect the homes and integrity of the nation. 
These are descendants of the men who stood shoulder to 
shoulder with our forefathers more than a century ago 
when we faced the gravest crisis in our history. We 
feel that grateful recollection, if nothing else, suggests 
our doing everything in our power for these helpless men. 
We are appealing to Americans to help that we may 
help them, and we feel that as they have been generous 
in the past so will they stand by us in meeting this terrible 
emergency that exists and which each day will become 
more terrible.” 
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Miss Cecilia Beaux and Howard G. Cushing were 
among the artists making prizes for the best ccstumed 
dancers at the Mi-Careme Venetian masque ball at the 
Century Theatre last Friday night for the benefit of the 
Italian destitute and soldiers in the hospitals. The com- 
mittee of the ball consisted of many prominent society 
men and women. 
There is an old French saying that “misfortunes are 
in mortals what bitters are in medicine. Each is at first 
disagreeable, but as the bitters act as corroborant to the 
stomach, so adversity chastens the disposition.” 
HICAGO society women have tried nearly every im- 
aginable scheme to raise money this winter for war 
relief. The past week they invaded the newspaper of- 
fices in behalf of the cause of the Orphelinat des Armees. 
The Misses Schofield and Fell, who have made addresses 
all over the country from Boston to San Francisco were 
again to present the case of the fatherless children of 
France at a great mass meeting at Orchestra hall. To 
advertise this meeting successfully and enlist the sym- 
pathies of as many as possible who would adopt an orphan 
at $36.50 a year, were the objects of the society “cub re- 
porters,’ who, under the direction of their chief, Mrs. 
George S. Isham, were assigned to the various papers and 
given their share of the relief stories to write and im- 
portant personages in the business world to interview on 
the subject. After receiving their assignments the “cubs” 
had to brave the city editors and do a day’s work on reg- 
ular work, submit to being photographed at work, for 
which the editors generously gave their space for the 
stories of French orphans. 
interesting little story among the many pathetic ones 
related, Her work consisted in helping to “cover” a 
France is facing the gravest crisis in the: 
Mrs. Arthur Meeker had an~ 
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