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Dee. 10, 1915. 
The Beagle Hunt—the Chestnutwold Beagles of 
which Clarence H. Clark, 3d, of Devon, is the master 
with R. Penn Smith, Jr., as his assistant, meets once a 
- week and travels across country on foot after a hare. 
though they have not attracted considerable attention, 
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still there is a growing group of enthusiastic sportsmen 
-and sportswomen on the Main Line who are getting a lot 
of fun out of the organization. The followers have to 
keep up a brisk pace and have to climb fences in a jiffy 
in order to stay in the “field.” Among the enthusiasts 
are Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Munn, Jr. Mr. Clark and 
Mr. Smith wear a uniform of green and white, and their 
followers wear “any old thing” suitable for a bracing 
tramp across country. oe. 
Mrs, Frank T. Griswold of Radnor, who spends the 
summers at Beverly Farms with her mother, Mrs. Wm. 
E. Littleton 6f Philadelphia, was a patroness of the Rus- 
sian Prazdnik of Monday night. A Russian quartet, re- 
cently arrived in this country, made its first appearance 
as part of the program in the ballroom of the Belleyue- 
Stratford. The charity was in aid of the American Hos- 
pital at Petrograd. 
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Fashionable interest in the Charity Ball was greater 
than ever before. The opening feature of the ball which 
took place last night in the Academy of Music, was a 
beautiful pageant of the seasons participated in by 240 
members of society. Novel decorations and scenery rep- 
resenting the four seasons were used throughout the 
rooms. The affair had over 300 patronesses and among 
the many boxholders were Mrs. C. Howard Clark, Jr., 
Mrs. Charles Potter and others with North Shore affilia- 
tions. : 
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The best Christmas a man gets is the Christmas he 
gives. 
(CHICAGO society women, as well as the women of near- 
ly all cities, may be described nowadays, someone has 
said, as turning the hand-organ with one hand and run- 
ning the sewing machine with the order. The pursuit of 
pleasure and enthusiastic toil for the benefit of the un- 
fortunate at home and abroad are uppermost now as the 
social season advances. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Russell Tyson are among the active 
members of the French relief work in Chicago. Mrs. 
Tyson is vice chairman of the committee, which, at a 
‘recent meeting in which Harold E. Goad of England was 
the speaker, raised $1200 in a short time. 
Last Thursday 
afternoon the committee secured Mr. Goad for the speak- 
er at a largely attended meeting at the Blackstone hotel. 
Mr. Goad spoke in a thrilling and interesting manner of 
the present condition of France. Solos were given by 
Mme. Marguerite Beritsa of the Chicago Grand Opera 
company, the sweet young singer who has a husband in 
the French trenches whom she has not seen for 15 
nionths. Mrs. James B, Waller was among those present. 
Plans were made for a “war shop” to be opened in the 
city for the purpose of raising funds. Mrs. Tyson has 
already over $1000 towards the shop the rent of which 
has been donated. The French wounded emergency com- 
mittee is calling for 2000 Christmas boxes each to contain 
a suitable and useful gift and a letter written in French 
to be sent Dec. 15 to the soldiers in the small hospitals in 
France. Mrs, Tyson and Mrs. Swift-Fernald are actively 
interested in the call for boxes. The committee is also 
planning to broaden the scope of its undertaking and 
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hopes to form branch committees in all the towns and 
villages of Illinois. At the meeting this Thursday, or- 
ganized by Mrs. Tyson, Mrs. Bryan Lathrop and others, 
at Mrs. Potter Palmer’s to hear the talk on the work of 
the American ambulance corps in France by Miss Marie 
van Vorst, an added attraction was the singing of Cleo- 
fonte Campanini and other operatic celebrities now in 
Chicago. 
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Maestro Cleofonte Campanini and Signora Campa- 
nini were given a reception Tuesday afternoon in the 
Astor street residence of Miss Ethel Wrenn. Other 
members of the Chicago Grand Opera company were pres- 
ent and the pleasant affair was preceded by a lecture on 
modern Italian music and drama entitled, “The Love 
of Three Kings” by Count Stephen Spagiari. Cleofonte 
Campanini is director of the Philadelphia-Chicago Grand 
Opera Company. 
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Chicago’s first assembly ball of the season takes place 
tonight at the Blackstone hotel. The two assemblies— 
one in December and one in January are the most formal 
social functions of the season. The assemblies are the direct 
descendants of the South Side dancing class organized 
over twenty years ago by Mrs. Wirt Dexter, now of 
Hhoston, and Mrs. George M, Pullman. Among the vari- 
cus ‘dinner parties tonight at the Casino will be one by 
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Meeker. Mrs. Meeker will also be 
in the receiving line at the assembly. 
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Mr, and Mrs. Richard T. Crane, Jr., of the Ipswich 
colony arrived in their Chicago home last week in time 
for the opera “La Tosca.” Mr. Crane has entirely re- 
covered from the injuries he received in a motoring catas- 
trophe in September. The Cranes have been spending a 
month at Atlantic City recently, and their Chicago home 
has been closed since April when they were among the 
early arrivals on the Shore. 
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Mrs. Benjamin Currier of -Wenham, who has been 
spending several weeks in Chicago, was the guest of hon- 
or at a luncheon last week at the home of Mrs. George’ 
M. Pullman. 
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Mrs. Cyrus Hall McCormick will open her beautiful 
home tomorrow for a lecture on “World Peace” by Hon. 
William H. Taft. The lecture is under the auspices of 
the Chicago Equal Suffrage Association, The lectures 
under the auspices of this fashionable suffrage society are 
always given in some of the noted North Side houses, and 
never fail to draw throngs of socially prominent women. 
My own hope 1s, a sun will pierce 
The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; 
That, after Last, returns the First, 
Though a wide compass round be fetched; 
That what began best, can’t end worst, 
Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst. 
—Rosert BROWNING. 
NDIANAPOLIS was the scene of a charming debut 
party last Saturday night when Mrs. John T. Brush of 
the Magnolia colony introduced her daughter, Miss 
Natalie L. Brush. Miss Brush wore a flesh colored tulle 
hoopskirt gown, trimmed with white satin ruffles. Guests 
from New York, where Mrs. Brush usually spends part 
of the winter, were Mrs. Harry N. Hempstead and Miss 
Gertrude Lathrop, 
