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WILMINGTON MORNING NEWS. WILMINGTON. DELAWARE. SATURDAY. MAY 11.

1935 Garden Party Arranged By College Women Bridal Party Selected By Miss Haskell Will Be Held June 8 in oecome oriae At Home of Miss Alice P. Smith June 22 in Trinity Church SIX The Delaware Branch of th Miss Elizabeth Denham Haskell, II Si WW Ill 1 1 II I I II II S. II "1 II mmm Er. II v-- SSJ mimmvi-w: I i i 1 il voe I -vJ II I tvVtf I I I 11 I I I f.xfjT I II VV Un II III 11 life II I I I Tower Hill Students Episcopal Women fOt To Convene Tuesday iZ A Guests attending the annual con- if i'4, venuon oi uie women Auxiliary i -f I II I I of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese 1 1 I I II II of Delaware, sessions of which will VWC 1 WWTS 1 1 be concurrent with those of the V4 -V clergy of the diocese, next Tuesday -OSJ Wt and Wednesday in St. John's and St.

I vf Andrew's Church, this city, will be: Ssjf 3V. Mrs. Barclay xnppe, or Baston, tvJ-? El II -dr -K II nrpident nf the Auxiliarv in the III 1 I I I I II Diocese of as ton; Mrs. Samuel II I Shoemaker, of Eccleston, presi- 1 1 A 1 dent in the Diocese of Maryland; II 'j Mrs. John Hill, Philadelphia, presi- II I 1 dent in the Diocese of Pennsylvania: 1 1 a.

4l I Mrs. Robert Barton, of Winchester, I S-tS -TV I oresident in the Diocese of Vir-1 1 1 I I II fZ II ginia; and Mrs. R. Winston Holt, of I I II I i X1'-' fi, Washington, D. president in the I 1 t'l' I I I I i Diocese of Washington.

I I .5 1 111 Mrs. Frederick W. Baker, of Clay- 1 iPL ll I I 1 jr r.r::: i si i i 11 uce 8nnual meeting. A joint banquet of II i the clergy and Auxiliary members I fi wUi be held Tuesday night in the I I 1 Jf I yf Y. W.

C. A. I J-'- 1 Mrs. Horace Scott is president of 1 Jr the Wccnan's Auxiliary of Si. John's, 1 A the host church to the convention.

I "iV. W- i i Mrs. William White is chairman of 1 i 1 fi I I I hospitality from that organization. i I -XI A I -mf The opening meeting of the Wo- I Ifc I a I 1 1 men's Auxiliary wiU be held at 2:30 I W- I Mrs. Horace Scott is president of the Wccnan's Auxiliary of St.

John's, the host church to the convention. Mrs. William White is chairman of hospitality from that organization. The opening meeting of the Women's Auxiliary will be held at 2:30 American Association of University Women will be entertained at a garden party on Saturday, June 8, at the home of Miss Alice P. Smitn, 1212 Gilpin avenue.

Announcemenw of the party was made at the an nual meeting of the Delaware branch, yesterday afternoon, in the Academy of Medicine. Lovenng avenue and Union streets. During the business meeting, tna members accepted the new elective system proposed by a committee to study the project. i.ne committee's proposal will be added as an amendment to the constitution. An important change is the election by ballots, which will be mailed to the membership, instead of the plan previously followed in which omy members attending the annual meeting voted.

Mrs. John J. Morris, was chairman of the committee appointed to study the subject, and was assisted by Miss Barbara Bacn, Mrs. W. Clayton Lytle, Dr.

Quaesita Drake, and Miss Madeline Dixon. Mrs. W. Ralph Gawthrop, president, presided at the monthly session and the annual meeting, immediately following. Reports were given by officers and chairmen of standing committees.

Mrs. Edward P. Bartiett, vice-president, presented a large chart showing the technique of the organization, which she will take to the national biennial convention next month in Los Angeles, Calif-Yesterday's program consisted of pictures made on the campus at the Women's College, University of Delaware, shown through the courtesy of Dean Winifred J. Robinson, and pictures of the New Castle County traveling library. Tea was served by the following hostesses: Mrs.

Carl R. HilL Mrs. Thomas Baker. Mrs. Albert Baker, Mrs.

Walter Blackson, Mrs. E. W. Bousquet, Miss Sarah Crossan. Mrs.

F. C. Evans. Miss Carolyn Golding, Miss Mabel Golding and Mrs. James K.

Hunt. The Junior Group of the branch is sponsoring a dance to be held next Friday night at Breck's Mill for members and friends- Miss Sarah Downs is chairman of the committee on arrangements which promises a variety of entertainment. Proceeds will go toward the scholarship fund. Alumnae Association To Banquet Tonight "The Relation of the Alumnae to the College" will be the subject of an address by Miss Helen Kenyon. chairman of the board of trustees of Vassar College, before the Alumnae Association of the Wom en's College, University of Dela ware, at its annual banquet tonight in Kent Hall.

Miss Anna E. Gal-laher, of Newark, president of the association, will be toastmis tress. The response from the senior class will be given by Miss Frances MoGee, president, and of the May Day exercises tomorrow afternoon preceding the alumnae meeting. Greetings will also be extended by Miss Heidi Laue, of Jena. Germany, a student at the college; Miss Elizabeth Manchester, representative from the class of 1935 on the executive committee of the Almunae Association; Dean Winifred J.

Robinson, of the Women's College, Dr. Walter Hullihen, president of the university; Mrs. A. D. Warner.

member of the board of trustees of the university and honorary member of the Alumnae Association, and Judge Charles M. Curtis, chairman of the Woman's College committees on the board of trustees. Mrs. A. Bailey Thomas, class of 1920, of Wyoming.

Mrs. Albert W. James, "25, and Miss Margaret Mid-dleton, "30, will speak for their class reunions. Vocal numbers will be given by Mrs. Frances EJieridan Haut.

Seniors at the Women's College will be guests at the banquet. Other invited guests include Dr. and Mrs. Walter Hullihen, Dean and Mrs. George E.

Dutton. Dr. Quaesita Drake, Miss Elizabeth G. Kelly, Miss Fmma C. Ehlers, Miss Gertrude Sturgis and Miss Ed win a Long, of the faculty.

Miss Lura Shorb is general chairman of arrangements for the reunion and is also serving as program chairman, assisted by Miss Anne E. Gallaher and Miss Edith McDougle. Decorations are being arranzed by Mrs. R. O.

Bailsman, Mrs. Ruth Herring, Mrs. Frank L. Harris. Miss Camilla Downing.

Miss Olive Murray, Miss Martha Vandever and Miss Verona Chalmers, and the menu is in charge of Miss Lura Shorb and Miss Elizabeth Wilson. Radnor Hunt Races Draw Local Folk Wilmington society is lntervsied in two sports events today near Philadelphia. The Radnor Hunt races, which opened on Wednesday, will continue today at the Chester-brook Farm, Berwyn. Pa, the estate of Mr. and Mrs.

Packard Laird, and the fourth annual Wissahickon Junior Horse Show will be held at Wissahickon Farms. I Mrs. Thomas H. Somervilie and Mrs. William duPont, have en tries in the Radnor meet.

The Wissahickon Show Is exclusively "junior." No one older than 17 may enter, and all day the lime-? light goes to the younger equestrian. D. A. R. to Elect Officers Officers will be elected at the annual meeting of the Delaware Society of Colonial Dames of America Monday afternoon in the little church on the Brandywine.

Mrs. A. D. Warner. president, will preside.

Reports from the ra-cent. convention of Colonial Dames, in Washington, will also be daughter of Mr. Harry O. Haskell. has chosen Miss Genevieve Estcs, or Jacksonville, Florida, to be her maid of honor when she becomes the bride of Mr.

Allison Fleitas, son oi Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Fleitas, I of Chestnut Hill. on Saturday. June 22.

The ceremony will take place at 5 p. m. is Trinity P. E. Church with the Rt.

Kev. Philip cook. Bishop of the Diocese of Delaware, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Charles F. Pen-niman, rector of the church.

The bridesmaids will be Miss Ruthanna Saulsbury and Miss Alexandrine duPont, of this city; Miss Lucretia Fleitas, sister of the bridegroom, of Chestnut Hill; Miss Care Una Denham. of New York; i Miss Nancy Moller, of Milton, Miss Frances Holmes, of Wayland, and Miss Anne Davis, of Portland, Maine. Mr. J. Albury Fleitas will serve as best man for his brother and the ushers will be Mr.

Edward Roberts, Mr. Paul Roberts, Mr. Clarence L. Roberts, Mr. Ross J.

Harris. Mr. Edgar Owen, Mr. J. Shipley Dixon, Jr, and Mr.

Henry S. Grove, 2nd, of Philadelphia; Mr. Harry G. Haskell, of this city, brother of bride; Mr. Jay B.

L. Reeves, of New York Mr. John Astearen. of New York; Mr. Joel T.

Turn-bun and Mr. William D. Barfield, of Jacksonville. Florida. A reception will follow at "Hill Girt Farm," the country home of the bride's father, near Cossart, Pa.

Miss Haskell, who made her bow to Wilmington society in Septem ber of 1933, recently returned after spending the Winter at Boca Grande, Florida. She studied at Mme de Boucher's School in France. Miss Helen Page Tatnall Mr. William Stephen Bachman The date of the wedding of Miss TTolan Ponra Tatnall JLlrf Mr. Wil liam Stephen Bachman has been advanced from June zz to Saturday.

June 15. The ceremony will be performed In Trinity P. E. Church, followed by a reception at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and ll Uann, T.

Tat.nftll. -7r. Mr. Bachman, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Willard Salmon Bacnman. oi this city, now resides in Fairfield, Conn. 175 at Banquet At St. Stephen's About 175 mothers and daughters attended the ninth annual mother and daughter banquet last night In the social rooms of St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Music and entertainment followed the banquet for which husbands of the members of the committee served as waiters. Mrs. Richard Weir acted as toast-mistress and greetings were extended by Mrs. Lester Wingate, chairman of the committee arranging the affair. Miss Eleanor Davis offered the toast to mothers and the-toast to the daughters was made by Mrs.

Kate Raudman, president of the Ladies Aid Society which sponsored the party. Mrs. J. H. Perrine gave vocal solos, followed by the one-act play, "Beauty Secrets." Violin numbers were played by Mrs.

Bruce Glenn, a mystery act was' given by Mr. Blake Wilson, readings by Mrs. Bruce Glenn and vocal duets by Mrs. Perrine and Mrs. Glenn, a mystery act was given by Mr.

Blake Wilson, readings by Mrs. Bruce Glenn and vocal duets by Mrs. Perrine and Mrs. Glenn. Assisting Mrs.

Wingate on the committee were: Mrs. Charles Schell, in charge of tickets; Mrs. J. Coates, Mrs. Thomas Herlihy, and Mrs.

Park W. Huntington, entertainment; Mrs. George F. Huber and Mrs. E.

Morrow, decorations; Mrs. Conrad Rechsteiner, hostesses; Mrs. Samuel England, dinner arrangements; Mrs. W. G.

Ladd, publicity. Bishop E. H. Hughes, I Banquet Speaker i Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, of the Washington Area of the Methodist Episcopal church, will give the principal address at the annual mother and son banquet tonight at the Y. M.

C. A. Mrs. Arthur P. Tanbers: will preside over the program which will consist of chorus singing and stunts by members of the ranger and younger Junior classes, and tb three-act play, "Spook Island," to presented by members of the middle class.

Miss Elizabeth Meigs will sing "Danny Boy" and "Mother Machre" During the evening, the boys' division club rooms and the craft shop will be open for inspection. Junior League Folk To Plan Flower Show Mrs. James M. Winfleld will pre side at he meeting of the Wilmington Tunior League to be held Monday with a luncheon at the Wilmington Country Club. Mrs.

Winfleld, as vice-president, will preside in the absence of the president. Mrs. Joseph Y. Jeanes, who will leave tomorrow to attend the con vention of the Association of Junior Leagues of America, a San Francisco, California. Plans will be discussed at the meeting for a flower show to be held May 28 at the home of Mrs.

George P. Edmonds at Westov-r Hills. Mission Workers To Meet The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of McCabe Memorial M. E. Church will hold its May meeting.

Monday at 8 p. at the home of Mrs. Clarence Fraim, 2401 Baynard boulevard. The program will be presented by Mrs. A.

O. Bradley, chairman, and her committee. The play entitled The Challenge of the Cross," will be presented. The In-dia-AIgers fund will be collected. Mr.

I. W. Humphrey, president will have charge of the business session. Y'" Anmiimg Lall Fllk well Manning, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Robert C. Manning, of Law- Left to right, above: Mrs, Coleman duPont, Mrs. Charles Lee Reese and Mrs. A. D.

Warner. Below: Mrs. N. C. Wyeth, Chadd's Ford, Mrs.

Henry B. Thompson, Greenville. In Unique Operetta All at Sea," a Gilbert and Sul livan dream, will be given by the students of Tower Hill School next Friday night at 8 o'clock In the school auditorium. All at Sea" is an operetta in two acts. The libretto was writ ten by David Stevens, and the music from H.

M. S. Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, Patience Iolanhte, and Mikado arranged and adapted lor the operetta by Harvey Wortrungtoa Loomis. The action takes place on the deck of the "Pinafore." The characters include: "Captain Corcoran," Edgar Ross; "Sir Joseph Porter," Arthur MoGeorge; "Ralph Rackstraw," David Bryan; "Dick Deadeye," George Huber; "Midshipmate." Jack McHugh; Frank Grgaon; po- sergeant, Edward Howard: "Grosvenor," James Warren; "Strephon," Trice Culver; "Lord Chancellor, James Funk; "Mikado of Japan," Leslie Mahony; "Pooh-Bah." Frank McHugh; Josephine." Dorothy Taylor; "Little Buttercup Barbara Cooke; "Patience." Elizabeth Zeisberg; "Mabel." Elizabeth Schoonover; "Phyllis," Marian Warner; "Fairy Queen," Elizabeth von Oettingen; "Yum-Yum," Emily Seaman; "Peep-Bo." Dorothy Carpenter; "Pitti-Sing," Jane Rile Members of the choruses include: Crew, Robert Ackart, Charles Reese, Eric Tanberg and Eugene Crawford; pirates, Arthur Ketcham. William Rankin.

Robert Cooke, Robert Hickman. Millard Zeisberg, and Colby Dill: police, Glenn Brown, Andre Malecot, Duncan Bolton. William Hart. Henry Davis, Lindsav Curtis, William MclCoy and Ben Beyea: fairies, Eugenia Wright, Julia Ann Patterson, Elizabeth Elley, Frances May Lloyd. Edith Drapar, Virginia Davis and Mary Irene Wiswall: sisters, cousins, aunts.

Margaret Porch, Georgina Miller. Ann Tatnall. Elizabeth Norman. Carolyn Ackart. Virginia Bell, Lau-rita Blatz, Betty Regestein, Isabel Speakman.

Margaret Garrigues, Nancy Lackey. Jean Lytle, Eleanor McCormick, Margaret Scott, Jeanne Bradshaw. Panel to Discuss Ideals of Churches The third panel discussion on the "Peace and the Social Ideals of the Churches" will be held next Thurs day night at the Y. W. C.

A. at 8 o'clock. Dr. Ezra B. Crooks, professor of philosophy and sociology at the University of Delaware will lead the discussion.

Other members of the panel are: Mr. Burton P. Fowler, the Rev. Al-vin C. Goddard.

Mr. J. Paul Heinel, Mr. S. Roger Tyler, Mr.

William Pool and Mr. Richard R- Wood. The section in the social ideals of the churches around which the dis-oussion will center is as follows: "The churches should stand for repudiation of war; drastic reduction of armaments; participation in international agencies for the peaceable settlement of all controversies; the building of a cooperative world order." Mothers, Daughters Tc Meet at Banquet The 8 th annual mothers' and daughters' banquet of the Business and Professional Women's Club of the Y. W. C.

A. will be held on Monday night in the Y. W. C. A.

Mrs. Frederick Bringhurst will speak on the topic, "Mothers and Comradeship," and Mrs. Florence Lewis, formerly of Wilmington, now of Westfield, N. will be soloist. the! Gardens On View Today Gardens of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles B. Holladay, at "Wyndham," near Chadds Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Moore Bates.

"Selbourne Farms, Centreville; Mr. and Mrs. Irenee duPont, Granogue; Mr. and 'FURNITURE BLUE BOOK' CITES WILMINGTON FOLK p. m.

on Tuesday in St. Andrew's Church. Mrs. Horace Scott will make the opening address and Mrs. John H.

Moore will also speak. Re ports for the year will be read. The Wednesday meeting will be held in St. Andrew's at 10:30 a. tn.

All who wish to attend the banquet in the Y. W. C. A. on Tuesday night will notify Mr.

T. R. Souder. Dover Folk to Show Colonial Treasures Exhibitions of old silver, glass, china, costumes and furniture are arranged in the numerous Dover nomes will be opened today foi the second annual observance of "A Day With the Storied Houses and Gardens of Old Dover." under the auspices of the Dover Garden Club. Homes will be opened from 12:30 to 6 o'clock, advanced time.

Collections are grouped at the several hemes as follows: Mrs. Ca-hali Sipple. old-fashioned bouquets in old containers on antique tables; Miss Jessie Harrington, antique silver; Mrs. A. B.

Richardson, miniatures; Mrs. L. Lee Layton, old glass: Mr. W. W.

Harrington, old china; Mrs. H. I. Beers, a century of costume; Mrs. James H.

Hughes, old jewelry and trinkets. Also at the home of Mrs. Sipple will be a field bed of 1740 and an eight-leg Sheri-tan dining table. Colonial homes to be opened to the ptib'ic are "Woodbum." the home of Dr. and Mrs.

Frank Hall, and the "Ridgely House." home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ridgely on The Green. Dr. H.

G. Ryden win be host at the Archives, old State House and Mrs. I. Paul Jones, will be hostess at the Presbyterian Sunday school rooms. Christ P.

E. church, of Dover, was built in 1734 and the Presbyterian church in 1790. Mrs. Henry Ridgely is president of the Dover Garden Club. Shower Tendered For Bride-to-Be The Protheon Class of Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church gave a variety shower in honor of Miss Margaret White, a member of the class, who is soon to bee cm a bride.

The affair was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Miles Bort ner. of North Bancroft Parkway. Decorations were carried out in yellow and bronze tones and the centerpiece of yellow tulips and bronze snapdragons, was presented to the bride-to-be.

Those who attended were: Mrs. Melvin T. Farmer. Mrs. Vernon Lar son.

Miss Martha Larson, Mrs. How ard Schaeffer, Mrs. Roscoe Deal, Mrs. Preston P. Haynes.

Mrs. Andrew Brown, Mrs. William Gilbert Mrs. William McCleary, Mr. and Mrs.

Leslie Waters, Mr. and Mrs Mile Bortner, Anna Melchoir. Miss Arta Bortner. Miss Margaret White. Mr.

J. G. Weaver and the Rev. James F. Kelly.

MRS. H. FLETCHER BROWN will entertain at a tea at her home on Friday, May 24, in compliment to three debutantes of the next season. The honor guests will be Miss Jean Heyward, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Shubrick Heyward, and Misses Anne and Virginia Layton, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Caleb S. Layton. Mrs.

Walter S. Carpenter, entertained at a luncheon and bridge, Thursday, at her home on Rising Sun Lane. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Rumford, Mrs.

George S. Capelle, and Miss Edith Danforth will leave today for a week's motor trip to the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. Miso Ethel duPont, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene duPont, and Miss Ruth Anne Saulsbury, daughter of Mr.

James Saulsoury. are among the young women from Delaware attending the annual Spring house parties at Princeton University this week-end. Miss duPont is a guest at the Colonial Club and Miss Saulsbury is at the Ivy Club. Miss Murton duPont, daughter of Mr. Eugene E.

duPont, will be a guest at the dinner and dance given tonight by Dr. and Mrs. Charles Behney, of Wynnewood. at the Philadelphia Country Club in honor of Miss Mary Tefft Schwarz, a Philadelphia debutante. Miss duPont will be presented to society in Wilmington next season.

Miss Jean Peeples. of Washington, D. and Mr. Robert Fleming, of Middleburg, are week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles A. Owens. The visitors will attend the Radnor Hunt races today. Mr. and Mrs.

John Boyt, of this city, Mrs. James T. Eliason, and Miss Sarah Hubbard Eliason. of New Castle, are guests this week-end of Miss Priscilla Boyt at Mt. Holyoke College.

Miss Boyt wil take part In the May Day celebration today at the college. Miss Eliason. a student at Friends' School, is a prospective student of Mt. Holyoke College Mrs. Eliason is an alumnae of that college.

Mrs. Barclay Trlppe, of Easton, who will be in Wilmington next renceville, N. and Mr. John Ed ward Kerney, son of Mrs. James Kerney and the late Judge Kerney, of Trenton.

The ceremony took place at Gremont, the home of the bride's parents, and was followed by a reception. Mr. and Mrs. Kerney will make their home in Trenton after a wedding trip to Hawaii. Mr.

and Mrs. Marshall Barton win have as their guest next week, Mrs. Robert Barton, of Winchester, Va. Mrs. R.

Winston Holt, of Wash ington, D. will be the guest for several days next week of Mr. and Mrs. David Lindsay, Jr. Mrs.

Horace G. Chickerlng will leave this morning by airplane from the Camden airport for a trip to Kansas City, Missouri, where she will visit her sister. Mrs. E. P.

Weatherly. She will also spend some time with her mother, Mrs. Edward Dresher, at Hannibal, before returning to Wilminston. Mr. Wililam duPont, Is a member of the committee arranging the dinner to be given tonight at the Radnor Hunt Club in honor of visiting owners and gentlemen riders at the Radnor Hunt races.

Mrs. Henry H. Horrocks, and Miss Sydney W. Ffoulkes will be among the guests attending the tea which Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, of "Belgraeme," Wyncote, will give next Wednesday afternoon in honor of the models at the Philadelphia June Fete Fashion Show.

Mr. F. Lammot Belin, of Washington. D. a nephew of Mrs.

Pierre S. duPont, was elected to the Cloister Club at Yale University. Miss Mary Louise Porch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.

Douglas Porch, a student at Vassar College, has been selected as one of the students for an eight weeks' course of study this Summer at the University of Heidelberg, in Germany. The University has offered the department of German at Vasear College is oi tnese scholarships. Mr. and Mrs. W.

T. Penniman, of this city, are leaving New York today on the Grace Liner Santa Elena for a cruise to San Francisco. They will visir en rom finlnmhia Pana- Collectors of antique furniture in this community are represented in a handsome new volume of Philadelphia furniture of colonial days, just published. William Macpher-son Hornor, adviser to the Pennsylvania Museum of Art in American furniture, has compiled the book which is attracting much in terest since its publication last week!" It is called, appropriately enough, the "Blue Book of Philadelphia Furniture." Mr. Harry G.

Haskell, Mr. Edward Bringhurst, Mrs. L. Scott Townsend, Mrs. Charles G.

Rupert, Mr. Pierre S. duPont, Mr. Cecil F. Backus, Mrs.

Hoilyday S. Meeds, Mrs. John B. Bird, Colonel George A. Elliott, Mr.

and Mrs. John B. Townsend, Mrs. William Winder Laird, and the late Mrs. Elizabeth Canby Rumford are among those whose treasured colonial furniture is pictured.

A William and Mary spice chest, now owned by Mrs. Hollydoy S. Meeds, is shown as one of the interesting old pieces of an early period. Several pieces owned by Mr. Harry G.

Haskell, reproduced i.i half-tone plates, are an eighteenth century day bed; a handsome Hepplewhite shield-back arm chair with Prince of Wales feathers worked into an effective design; and a roll arm sofa with Marlborough block feet. Mrs. L. Scott Townsend may be proud to see her fine museum pieces givea an honored place. A beveled glass in walnut frame such as was used with Queen Anne dressing tables; a pedimented corner cupboard with swelled bracket feet; a double chair -back walnut settee; a roll arm eight-legged sofa with Marlboroug-h supports are shown from her collection.

An uncommon writing table of the Federal era, owned by Edward Bringhurst is reproduced, also from the same collection a serpentine front bureau with canted feet Gothic fret work corners and gracefully shaped top. I One of the mast interesting plates is a label used by Willium Savery 1 when he was in business in Phila delphia until his death in 1787. This is now in the possession of Mrs. Charles G. Rupert, of Sedge-ley Farms.

A Gothic splat chair, owned by Mrs. Rupert, is also shown. A beautifully carved low-boy owned by Mrs. Will Sam Winder Laird is praised highly by the author, also an unusual Queen Anne chair owned by Colonel and Mrs. G.

A. Elliott. Another chair, long in the possession of the Belin family, now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Pierre S.

duPont, is selected for reproduction in the book. The book is handsomely assembled and is interesting reading, for not only the antiquarian, but also for the amateur who is curious about life in days past. Reception Tendered Clergyman's Kin Mrs. Frederick Bringhurst entertained members of the Women's Auxiliary, the Women's League and the Women's Bitle Class of St. John's P.

E. Church, recently at her home to meet Mrs. Hiram Bennett, wife of the new dean at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John's and her mother, Mrs. Johns, who have come from Harrisburg, to take up their residence in this city.

Mr. and Mrs. Bringhurst alsj entertain teachers and officers of St. John's Cburch school to meet Dr. Bennett.

Vrsuline Students Plan Pageant Pupils and alumnae of the Ursu-line Academy are preparing a pageant to be presented Friday night. May 31, in obsercanve off the 400ih anniversary of the founding of the Ursulijne Order. The annual May provession will be held at the school Thursday night. May 23. John W.

Brown Honored John W. Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Thompson Brown, of Mont-chanin, was elected corresponding i secretary of Green Key, Dartmouth i College junior honorary society, at a meeting at Hanover, 5f.

H. last 1 night. ma, San Salvador, Guatamala and "Ira- R- R- M- Carpenter, "Dilwyne." Mexico. i and Mr. and Mrs.

H. Rodney Sharp. "Gibraltar." Ken-Mr. and Mrs. N.

C. Wveth, of new Pike, will be opened today, the Chadd's Ford. hav as their euest. second of the series of five "Garden week to attend the convention of the Woman's Auxiliary of the P. E.

Diocese of Delaware, will be the guest of Judge and Mrs. Richard S. Rodney at their home In New Castlo Miss Helen C. Townsend, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

S. D. Townsend, was a bridesmaid at the wedding 1 Thursday of Miss Barbara Cald Mrs. Wyeth mother, Mrs. A B.iDays" sponsored by the Pennsyl-I Bockius, who has been spending vani School of Horticulture for 1 Continued on Page Seven Women, of Ambler, Pa..

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