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Show Vi6 Tor Society Leadership k & - Washington Seeks New Pulcr tj mJ Six Women Are in the Contest RIVALS for social leadership. At top, Mrs. Henry D. Dimock; below, at left, Mrs. Edson Bradley, at right, Mrs. John Hays Hammond. New York, Chicago and Boston Bos-ton Are Represented in the Lists. By International News Service. WASHINGTON. Sept. 8. A "Judg-rnent "Judg-rnent of Purls" will bo required this winter to detcrmlno who la tho social leader or the -100 here If the rivals for that honor continue con-tinue to onter the arena. To date thore arts six wealthy exclusive matrons in the nice for tho social mantle worn so long1 and no gracefully by the late Mrs. John R. McLean nnd artcr her lcath worn for n rew short months by Mrs. Levi Z. Lelter, who" recently died. Now York furnishes two of the claimant claim-ant in Mrs. Henry Dimock. sinter of the Into Secrotary "VVhltnoy. talented and brilliant. whose hospltnllty ia world-renowned, and Mrs. Edson Bradley, whose daughter, Mrs. Herbert Shipman, Is one of the acknowledged belles of Newport tills scaj-on. f ' Chicago will enter in tho list Mrs. Mnr-hall Mnr-hall Field, whose social spurs were well earned in the Windy city. .Mrs. Field hns built n magnificent home here nnd will entertain with her wonted lavl.sh-nes. lavl.sh-nes. Boston, not to be outdone by her Muter cIUch. placed two candidates forward for-ward in Mrs. Richard Townsend, whose Washington home hnn been a social center cen-ter for a generation, and Mrs. John Hays Hammond, beloved both CSV her social fConttrniPrt pffq Twq.V WSS1GT1 SEEKS NEW SOCIETY ffllLEfl (Continued from Page One.) charms and her wide philanthropy and interest In civic movements. Ohio. Mrs. John P.. McLean's ' home state, has a representative in the social arena In Mrs. Barney Hemmlck, tho versatile ver-satile playwright and artist. Mrs. Hemmlck Hem-mlck has been called the fairy godmother god-mother of society and she has (jueened It on two continents. Meanwhile a diplomatic social leader is Madame Bakhmetlcff, the clever, viva-clous viva-clous American wife of the Russian embassador, em-bassador, who was a sister of Mrs. McLean. Mc-Lean. She is unhesitatingly voted the most popular woman In Washington so- i clety. |