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March 31, 1916. 
freak storm which swept over Chicago. In order to do 
this she had to interview the weather bureau. 
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Mrs. Horace Gray (Katherine Meeker) of Boston is 
spending three weeks in Chicago with her parents, Mr. 
and Mrs. Arthur Meeker. It is her first visit since her 
wedding in October. She will be matron of honor at 
the wedding of her sister, Miss Grace Meeker and Am- 
_brose Cramer, on April 12. This was to have been a 
May wedding, but an earlier date is set and the wedding 
will be very simple with only relatives and a few friends 
in attendance. 
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Mrs. Russell Tyson has received a letter from a 
French corporal thanking her for the nice presents sent 
to his men by the Chicago women. The letter, published 
in part in the Chicago Herald, shows how grateful the 
men are to the American women. 
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Herbert Ward of England will give a talk for the 
benefit of the American War Clearing House in Paris at 
fewmome Or: Mrs. Richard T. Crane, April 13. Mrs. 
Crane’s sister, Mrs. Joseph M. Patterson, and Mr. and 
Mrs. Bryon Lathrop are among those interested. Mr. 
and Mrs. Ward have been spending sometime in Wash- 
ington at the home of their son-in-law, the Hon. Colville 
Barclay of the British Embassy. Mr. Ward has been an 
ambulance driver lately and only returned on losing a 
leg in the service. He has been in the British civil ser- 
vice since a boy; was with the Stanley expedition ia 
Africa; and is the sole survivor of the expedition for the 
relief of Envir Pasha. The Wards have a beautful home 
in Paris and a country place on the Seine. One son has 
been killed in the war and another one, only 17, is a 
prisoner of war in Belgium. ‘The Colville Barclays have 
spent the last two summers at the S. Parker Bremer 
house, Smith’s Point, ee ' 
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A new Arts Club, “organized to bring together men 
and women of varied artistic tastes’ has been launched 
in Chicago. Mrs. Robert G. McGann, aunt of Mrs. Hen- 
dricks H. Whitman, is president, and Mrs. Charles B. 
Pike is second vice president. It will be like the National 
Arts Club in New York. 
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Mrs. William H. Hubbard will not occupy her Lake 
Forest house the coming summer, but will be with her 
daughter, Mrs. Robert Means, at Beverly Farms. 
It is easier to convince a woman than it is to keep her 
convinced. 
WASHINGTON’S Lenten season means musicales, small 
dinner parties, card parties, and simple affairs of 
morning, afternoon and night. The Congressional Club, 
composed of the wives, sisters, daughters, and other rela- 
tives of congressmen conducted an important sale and 
benefit for the American Red Cross this Wednesday at 
Rauscher’s. Miss Mabel T. Boardman was chairman of 
the committee in charge. Assisting her were Mmes. Wm. 
Crozier, F. A. Keep, Robert Patterson, Marshall Field, 
Joseph Leiter, FE. H. G. Slater and Richard Townsend. 
At the head of the booths of various kinds of bags were 
Mmes. Marshall, Champ Clark, White, McKenna, Holmes, 
Hughes, VanDevanter, Pitney, Lansing, Burleson, Lane, 
Daniels, Franklin Roosevelt, Houston and Hugh Scott. 
A mi-careme ball was given at the close of the sale in the 
evening. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was a patroness. An 
admirer of Mrs. Wilson says: “She wins favor with the 
people more and more with every public appearance, 
-her home in England the first week in April. 
‘Harrington, formerly in the diplomatic service, is now 
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She carried to the White House, from her busy business 
life, an unassuming manner and no hauteur. She ap- 
pears as unspoiled today as the day after the news was 
flashed over the world of the president’s intentions to 
marry. Her clothes are no more pretentious and she 
does not scorn to wear a gown a second time.” 
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Mrs. William F. Draper and Miss Margaret Draper 
are on a visit to New York and Boston. Before going 
they entertained at luncheon, having as their guests Mrs. 
Faulkner of Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. Charles J. Bell, Mrs. 
Henry F. Dimock, Mrs. Frederick Thompson of New 
York; Mrs. Arthur Sherbourne Hardy of Boston; Mrs. 
Stephen O. Richey, Mrs. Glasgow and Miss Breckenridge. 
The decorations were green and white. Mrs. Draper and 
her daughter will spend the summer at Newport, having 
rented the Fearing villa on Narragansett avenue and 
known as “T’he Orchard.” They have taken it for eight 
weeks during July and August, the rent being $8,000, 
which is not an unusual price for Newport, and shows to 
what extent cottages will be in demand at that resort and 
other places this summer. 
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Former Ambassador to Japan and Mrs. Thomas J. 
O’Brien of Grand Rapids, Mich., who were guests of the 
John Blodgetts last summer, have come to Washington 
for the spring season. 
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Mrs. William Slater is one of the Washington women 
who loaned her house for one of a series of lectures by 
S. Richard Fuller of Boston in aid of the homeless wo- 
men in France, who have fled from the war zone. 
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Lady Harrington (Amy McMillan) will return to 
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with the British army in France. 
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A military camp for women, the first in the history 
of the country, similar to the “rookies” camp at Platts- 
burg, will be opened at Washington in May by the wo- 
men’s section of the Navy League. Philadelphia women, 
many of whom are prominent in society, are interested in 
the novelty of the project whereby they will be able to 
live in tents in a strictly conducted military camp, in which 
the day’s work will open with the reveille at half past six. 
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer of Philadel- 
phia are prominent in the advancement of preparedness 
in that city and approve the scheme. 
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The announcement of the engagement of Miss Har- 
riet Southerland, daughter of Rear Admiral and Mrs. 
Wm. H. Southerland of Washington, to J. Butler Wright, 
of Washington and Tuxedo, is of interest to the North 
Shore. Miss Southerland spent last summer at Nahant, 
the home of her sister, Mrs. Louis Bacon (Mary R. 
Southerland). The wedding will take place the latter 
part of May. Mr. Wright is connected with the State 
Department. The two Southerland girls were the belles 
of the Oceanside, Magnolia, colony, back in 1904-5-6. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hay (Alice Appleton) were 
guests at a dinner given last Thursday by Senator and 
Mrs. Wadsworth. Mrs. Wadsworth is a sister of Mr. 
Hay and has entertained extensively in Washington this 
winter. 
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Mrs. Larz Anderson, whose latest book, “The Spell 
of Belgium,” was published last fall, has been devoting 
part of her time to writing this winter. 
