DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - NEWSPAPERS - Washington Post, April 4, 1912 ----¤¤¤¤---- This file is part of the DCGenWeb Archives Project: http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm ********************************************* http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************* Contributed to The USGenWeb Archives Project by: Barbara & Dave (barbara-dave@adelphia.net) ------------------------------------------------- Washington Post, April 4, 1912, Society Page 7 & 9 SNAPSHOTS AT SOCIAL LEADERS Interesting Events and Gossip, Both at Home and Abroad, as Chronicled in The Post's Exchanges. MRS. CHARLES H. ANTHONY twinkled a pair of diamond heels in the Peacock alley of the New Willard Hotel the other night and awoke the next morning to find herself famous. But when seen Tuesday at the Waldorf in New York Mrs. Anthony said that she couldn't imagine why she should be be­sieged by reporters who wanted inter­views with her, and her picture, and really it was very annoying; but then she always made it a point to be courteous to everybody and to answer questions frank­ly, and she hoped that nobody would be unkind to her, and that the comely young lady reporter had such a pretty mouth she was sure she could not do such a thing, and the c. y. l. r. blushed, and re­turned the compliment, and again begged Mrs. Anthony please to say what her dia­monds were worth. But Mrs. Anthony gently, though firmly, refused. Mrs. Anthony is from Muncie, Ind., and has original ideas in dress, of which Washington recently got the benefit, and this is now being participated in by those who pass through the Waldorf in the aft­ernoons and evenings. For instance, two elderly gentlemen who have been promi­nent in politics in Ohio for some years were able to be sheltered by her headgear night before last, and the lines upon which said hat is built were the talk of everybody. She is a very young looking woman to have a son at Harvard, which last she tells you without blushing, and she has a wealth of blond hair, which shows up well, no matter what the size of the covering above it. When interviewed Mrs. Anthony was wearing a black velvet hat, medium size, with tall plumes; a dress of a shade which a woman present described as "king's blue," embroidered with Bul­garian embroidery, containing a note of red, and a generous amount of white openwork at the neck; tall Russian boots, with gold tassels at the tops, and fastened by pearl buttons. On her left hand were three rings, one about 2 inches long and the setting big diamonds in the shape of a cross; another of equal length (but eyes unused to such glitter could not quite get the shape), and a third slightly smaller. On the right hand were two with smaller settings. Diamonds, Mrs. Anthony said, are her birthstones; that's why she is so fond of them. About her neck was a collar of eleven big cameos. She has one so large that when she came away from 'Havana CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE. SNAPSHOTS AT SOCIAL LEADERS CONTINUED FROM SEVENTH PAGE. last winter two jewelers of the place came aboard the ship and asked to be al­lowed to look at it. But it is of the dia­monds she is especially fond, and she has a big collection of them. As for the slip­pers, of course, there are more than one pair with real diamonds on them. One pair has diamonds about the heels and another has the brilliants cleverly worked in the lace, and so on. Whether they were insured she would not say, nor would she tell how she guarded her jew­els. The slippers came over from Wash­ington by express. Mrs. Anthony is not a widow. In a dispatch from Muncie, Ind., Mrs. Anthony's husband is quoted as saying of the diamonds she wore on her heels in Washington, "You can buy that kind of gems at about $5 a quart." At the time Mr. Anthony was talking with the town­ship assessor. ----------- Mrs. Lucius Tuckerman and Mrs. James Harriman, who are among the most gen­erous contributors to the national lace exhibit on view in the department of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, made a thorough search for the fine needlework and hand embroidery of the women of the colonial period. The result is that an entire show case about 5 feet wide and about 18 feet long is filled with the sewing of women in the days before the machine was invented. There are frilled nightcaps with embroidered edges and strings which many a girl would envy for shirtwaist insets. Infant robes are particularly attractive, and an interest­ing specimen was lent by the heirs of Mrs. Robert E. Lee. It is an exquisite long robe worn by many generations of Lees and Custises as a baptismal gar­ment. All kinds of underwear as fine and well done as the French and Belgian workers turn out may be seen in the exhibit, which is called "an exhibition of the sewing and embroidery of American gentlewomen from 1610 to 1856." ----------- A historic cushion recently presented to the museum comes from the estate of Mrs. Britannia Kenyon, of Georgetown, D. C., who was the granddaughter of Nelly Custls, and therefore great-grand­daughter of Martha Washington. It is a loosely crocheted square set in varicolor­ed silks, and the interesting part is that the crocheted part was from the silk which Martha Washington carefully rav­eled from the silk hose of her husband and kept for fancy work. Many balls of this silk came down to Martha's descendants, and this cushion was one of the last things fashioned by Nelly Custis and left to her elder son's wife. The silk, though almost a century and a half old, holds its color, as did all those home-dyed stuffs of the middle eighteenth cen­tury. ----------- The yashmak is the latest costume ac­cessory worn by women at Hot Springs, Va. It is an adaptation in shorter length of the long veil worn by Egyptian women, which covers the mouth and chin, and allows only the eyes to be seen. Mrs. Tracy Dows, of New York, wore the finest one seen there, and other women have taken up the fad. It leaves the vision unobscured and pro­tects the face and neck from the spring winds during the long walks along the mountain trails. Many women regularly walk 5 miles a day, and there is a con­stant demand at the small shops for walking sticks, without which no one goes out for a serious climb. Several women, including Mrs. Charles Steele, of New York, carried folding Alpine stocks, which can be opened and made into camp stools. The scales are tried dally after a tramp, for everybody either wants to gain or lose. ----------- The marriage of Miss Marjorie Ide, daughter of Mr. Henry C. Ide, Minister to Spain, to Mr. Shane Leslie, eldest son of Col. and Mrs. John Leslie, which was to have been one of the most im­portant events of early June, has been postponed until the fall, owing to the ill­ness of Mr. Leslie, who broke down un­der the strain of his long lecturing tour, and is suffering from a mild attack of nervous prostration. While Mr. Leslie's condition is not seri­ous, his recovery will be slow. Col. Leslie said that the illness of his son had stopped further arrangements for the wedding, and he added that it might be autumn before a date for the ceremony could be considered. Announcement of the engagement of Miss Ide. who is the sister of Mrs. W. Bourke Cockran, to Mr. Leslie, was made two weeks ago, and coincident with the announcement came the information that Minister Ide and his daughter would leave Spain late this month. It was expected that the wedding would take place June 1 at the Cedars, the house of Mr. and Mrs. Cockran, at Port Washington, Long Island. Mr. Leslie came to the United States in October, in behalf of the Gaelic League, to lecture here and in Canada. Capt. and Mrs. Leslie went to New York in February, and recently returned there from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, at Ottawa. Mrs. Leslie is a daughter of the late Leonard Jerome, her sisters being Mrs. George Cornwallis West, formerly Lady Randolph Churchill, and Mrs. Moreton Frewen, of London. ----------- Mrs. Almeric Paget, formerly Pauline Whitney, of New York, gave an interest­ing dinner last week at her town resi­dence, 39 Berkeley square, London. She has been in better health since she re­turned to the city, and has weekly din­ners, at which the same set of smart Anglo-Americans and their friends are always to be met. The Duchess of Marlborough was pres­ent at the latest of these dinners, wearing the lovely gown she wore at Mrs. Cecil Bingham's party - blue with diamante em­broideries. The Countess of Granard (Beatrice Mills) looked remarkably well in white brocade. Mrs. George West (Jennie Jerome), who goes everywhere this year, was a guest. So was Mrs. Hwfa' (that's the way to spell it) Williams, who is considered more of an American than the Americans them­selves. She wore a gown of sea green, veiled in blue, with gold fringes. Mrs. Frank J. Mackey was there in white and silver, with a magnificent rope of diamonds. ----------- A romance has arisen out of the cele­brated Dreyfus case, which rent France in twain for several years. A son and daughter of two of the prin­cipal Dreyfus supporters in Paris, having attained their majority, are engaged to be married. They are Adolphe Reinach, son of Joseph Reinach, and Marguerite Dreyfus, daughter of Matthew Dreyfus. Joseph Reinach is the historian of the Dreyfus case and founded the Siecle, the newspaper which advocated the cause of the Jewish officer. Matthew Dreyfus is the brother of the condemned captain, who gave up a lucrative business and spent his fortune to fight for his brother's freedom. The Reinach and Dreyfus children be­came acquainted during the fight. Com­mon sympathy for the officer chained on Devils Island ripened into mutual es­teem and love. The marriage will be solemnized next month in the Jewish synagogue in Paris by Chief Rabbi Kahn. ----------- Newport will offer a new and beauti­ful greeting this summer to travelers coming in from sea or sound. It will be the greeting of flowers. Along the ocean at the outer harbor entrance, will be five acres of rhododendrons, nodding their welcome and adorning richly the first view of the land. The idea was conceived and will be executed by Mr. and Mrs. Marsden J. Perry, of Providence, who own the large estate of Bleak House. The flower plants will be brought from the South in a special train and will be planted on the sea brink of the estate. Landscape art has been a study of the Perrys, and their new plan will give Newport one of its most wonder­ful attractions.