Dee, 3, 1915; 
Lieut. C, Raymond P. Rodgers and Mrs. Rodgers 
(Alys Meyers), who spent the summer in Newport, have 
taken a house on Jefferson place, Washington, for the 
winter. Mrs. Rodgers has been a recent guest at the home 
of her parents, Hon. and Mrs. George von L. Meyer in 
Hamilton. 
The pessimist was suffering from rheumatism. 
“Every bone in my body aches,” he complained. 
“You ought to be glad you are not a herring,” said 
the optimist. 
PHILADELPHIA society will be entertained next Mon- 
day night at the Bellevue-Stratford by Mrs. W. E. 
Scull, who will give a Russian Prazdnik in aid of .he 
war sufferers in Russia and also to aid the Russian Ortho- 
dox church in Philadelphia. The Russian ambassador 
and Mme. Bakhmeteff will honor the occasion with their 
presence, and there will be a brilliant audience of fashion- 
able society in the ballroom, both in the chairs on the ball- 
room floor and in the boxes. Among the prominent 
society girls who will be attired in Russian costumes and 
assist are Miss Aimee Hutchinson, Miss S. Valentine 
Mitchell and Miss Mary FE. Bohlen. 
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Miss Beatrice L. Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles W. Smith of Magnolia and Germantown, and her 
friend Miss Grace Scattergood, who visited in Magnolia 
last summer, will be among the guests at a card party to- 
morrow night at the home of Miss Esther Cherry in 
Germantown. 2 
A bazaar for the Lincoln Day Nursery of Philadel- 
phia was held at the Ritz-Carlton, Monday, Nov. 20. 
The board of managers provided tea, dancing and movies 
as special features. Mrs. C. Howard Clark, Jr., of the 
West Manchester colony is president of the board; Mrs. 
Benjamin Bullock, Jr., vice-president; Mrs. George 5. 
Munson, secretary; Miss Helen R. Biddle, treasurer. 
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Radnor Hunt Club gave its annual Thanksgiving 
farmer’s breakfast and race meet, when one thousand 
farmers were entertained and society folk were out as 
usual at this famous organization. Several thousand 
spectators usually view the jumping contests and races. 
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Elaborate preparations were made for the opening 
of the opera season in Philadelphia, Tuesday of last week. 
That night also saw many parties at the Ritz-Carlton and 
Lellevue-Stratford, where after-opera suppers have be- 
come the rule. George D. Widener, Edward T. Stotes- 
bury and Henry Pratt McKean are among the box-hold- 
ers in the grand tier. 
Miss Alberta Merrill of Hamilton was the honor 
guest at a luncheon last Saturday at the country home vf 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Matthews at Langhorne, Pa. 
The Matthews closed their home that day and will spend 
the winter at the Ritz-Carlton in Philadelphia. Miss 
Alyse Matthews is a frequent visitor at the Hamilton 
home of the Merrills. 
Mrs. Timothee Adamowski (Gertrude Pancoast) has 
been visiting her sister, Mrs. W, Barklie Henry, in Phila- 
delphia. The Barklie Henrys were new-comers in the 
cottage colony at Beverly Farms last summer. On Thanks- 
giving night a dinner was given for Mrs. Adamowski by 
Mr. and Mrs. Archibald J. Barklie of Inner House, Wayne, 
Miss Gertrude L. Pancoast was presented to society at a 
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tea during the week by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. 
Howard Pancoast of De Lancey place. Miss Pancoast 
also was a member of the bridal party of debutantes of 
the wedding last week of Miss Eleanor Adams, a debu- 
tante, and Frederick Pearson of New York. 
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A group of matrons, many of whom are known ou 
the North Shore, will act as patronesses for the Russian 
Prazdnik at the Bellevue-Stratford, Dec. 6. Among thera 
are Mrs. Charles A. Munn, Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, 
Mrs. J. Kearsley Mitchell, Mrs. Sydney E. Hutchinson, 
Mrs. Philip M. Rhinelander and Miss Caroline Sinkler. 
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Mrs. Conover Fitch of Manchester and Chestnut Hill 
has been the guest of Mrs. Galloway C. Morris in Phila- 
delphia after visiting in Baltimore at the home of Mr. 
and Mrs. Philip Livingston Poe. 
Don’t think humane education means simply the bet- 
ter treatment of animals. Its field is the human heart. - 
Our Dumb Animals. 
HICAGO society is always interested in the annual 
bridge party held by the Junior Auxiliary committee 
of the Children’s Memorial hospital. This year it will 
beheld in the home of Mrs. Gustavus Swift, Jr. The 
Swift home adjoins the R. T. Crane, Jr., place and is one 
of the museum houses of Chicago. Each house repre- 
sents the Tudor period and is equally impressive in style 
although quite different, and each has wonderful in- 
teriors. The Swift house has more original carvings from 
old English castles, some rooms being exact reproduc- 
tions. Mr. Swift had collectors of antiques and con- 
noisseurs collecting for him for years. 
Miss Grace Meeker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Arthur Meeker of Marblehead Neck and Chicago had 
one of the most charming and elaborate of the coming- 
out teas of the season, Saturday. The many beautiful 
flowers sent to Miss Meeker were a pleasant feature of 
the affair. Mrs. Joseph Leiter was among the Washing- 
ton people present. Many of the young guests attended 
the concert of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the 
evening and added to the box parties of young people 
carrying large old-fashioned bouquets of roses or violets, 
which were exceedingly quaint and effective looking. 
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Mrs. Edward S. Moore, Mrs. Charles B, Pike, Mrs. 
H. C. Chatfield-Taylor, Mrs. Watson Armour, Mrs. P. 
D. Armour, Jr., and Mrs. John Borden (Ellen W. Wal- 
ler) are among the Chicago women who meet each Tues- 
day morning to make hospital supplies for the French 
wounded emergency fund. Nearly a hundred women are 
enrolled in this North Side class. The same group last 
year devoted part of the time in sewing for and helping 
the unemployed, but the industrial situation in ' Chicago 
is so much better this year than it was last that all of 
the time can be spent in the hospital work. The debu- 
tantes and the near-debutantes also have a North Side 
sewing class on the Lake Shore Drive, Their work is 
sent to the English Hospital Aid society. Miss Grace 
Meeker and Miss Edith Ogden Harrison are among the 
young sewers. 
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Mrs. Russell Tyson and Mrs. John Borden are among 
the Chicago women interested in arranging a meeting for 
Dec, 16, at Mrs. Potter Palmer’s when Miss Marie Van 
Vorst, the well known writer, will talk on the wonderful 
work of the American ambulance corps, 
