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Show Wm'- Saunterings H Did you see that audience the first night of Hj 'The Easiest Way?" Just a repetition of the H i Henry JMIller audience of the week preceding, H only more :so. And that with the Colonial and H Orpheum equally packed with smartly dressed H people. H Is it not just -possible that there are a great H many people who are .taking advantage of the H general wail ahout the 'tightness of money to pull H long faces and assure the shop keepers that the H world is c'oming to anond? H The indications are that general conditions H were really never much hetter, but that the ton- H Iflency of the times has taken a ilrin hold on those H Ki , - 0c' B Phmgrafh Undtrwttd fif Undtrwttd, N, T. H MRS. W. D. LEEDS, $30,000,000 HEIRESS B Mrs. Leeds Is the widow of the late "tin plate" H king who left her a fortune of over thirty million H i dollars. Mrs. Leeds on September 20 caused her step- H i mother, Mrs. Estulle Ecker Stewart, and the latter s H daughter to be forcibly evicted from the mansion M which Mrs. Leeds had purchased for her father, M W. O. Stewart, in Montclair, New Jersey. H Mrs. Stewart declares that it was she who iirst H brought Mrs. Leeds and her millionaire husband M together and arranged their marriage, and says H there are some particularly interesting things that 1 ' she can tell about Monnfe Stewart Worthington 9 Leeds, and that she Is going to tell them. Mrs. H . Stewart says she has some important papers that H Mrs. Leeds and her father would like very much to H secure and that her sudden eviction from the man- M sion in Montclair was arranged by Mrs. Leeds in H the hope that they could surprise her unawares H and secure these documents. "Before the men M broke into my room, however, I had lined my inner clothing with the papers they wre so anxious to et and these are now in a place .here I can pro- uce them at the psycological moment." H I who need not ever worry about monetary condi- H ' ' There are some women who make it a business H year in and year out o assume a poverty-stricken H air, though the term poverty might as well be Bj obsolete as far as they are concerned. Possibly HH the supposition that they are not suffering greatly H ,1s -wrong, though if they are, a first night au- H !dience at any of the first-class theatres is uo H 'Criterion. B H In compliment to Mr, and Mrs. J. 03. Cosgriff, H Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cunningham entertained at H a delightful dinner Tuesday evening at their I I home on U street, the guests being Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fife, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Franken and "Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Terry. . The charm of Utah's fall has brought back to town among others, Colonel and Mrs. Edwin F. Holmes, who return after a summer at Venice, California, and their beautiful home at Pasadena. Amelia Palace has been opened and Colonel and Mrs. Holmes will spend the autumn here. At one of the largest receptions of the early season, Mrs. Fred Stauffer and Mrs. Leslie W. Snow entertained at the Stauffer home Monday in honor of the wives of the visiting physicians of the city and county who held their annual meeting here during the week. Assisting the hostesses were Mrs. John S. Bransford, Mrs. Elsie Ada Faust, Mrs. Robert C. Gemmell, Mrs. A. F. Kern, Mrs. A. J. Hosraer and Mrs. P. S. Keogh. One of the prettiest and most interesting weddings wed-dings of the early fall was that of Miss Edna Bailey, daughter of Mrs. T. C. Bailey, and Dr. Otto Sussman, which took place at noon Wednesday Wed-nesday at the home of the bride's mother. Four of her girl friends attended the bride, Mrs. Russell Schulder, Miss Daisy Raybould, Miss Elsie Dickert and Miss Maude Thorne. Dr. Sussman was attended by his brother, Carl Sussman of London, Lon-don, who came over especially for the wedding. The Bailey home was beautifully and picturesquely pictur-esquely decorated in blue and white and about fifty of the cIosp friends of the family witnessed the ceremony, which was performed by Rev. Elmer I. Goshen. At the wedding breakfast which was served Immediately after the ceremony, Mrs. 3. F. Bascom and Mrs. Charles Post, a cousin of the bride, assisted the hostess. Dr. and Mrs. Sussman Suss-man left in the afternoon for New York where they will sail October 15th for a tour of the continent, conti-nent, returning early in January to make their home in New York. A charming party of Monday afternoon was the informal reception given by Mrs. A. H. Pea-body Pea-body for her guest, Mrs. Graham F. Putnam, who is here for a short time. The Country club was the scene f a dozen pretty parties Wednesday aside from the regular table d'hote luncheon and the afternoon card party, at which Mrs. D. C. Roberts, Mrs. R. G. Gemmell and Miss McGrath were hostesses. Tuesday afternoon Miss Frances McChrystal entertained at a theatre party at the Orpheum for Miss Merle Lunch, Miss Edith Godbe and Miss Elsie Parsons. Monday evening of next week Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cosgriff will be the complimented guests at a dinner given in their honor by Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Howard. On Tuesday afternoon the Misses Bancroft entertained en-tertained at a handsome luncheon for Miss Palmer Pal-mer of Philadelphia, who has been here some time as the guest of Mrs. U. V. Worthington. The ladies' tennis tournament at the Country club began Monday with Mrs. T. W. Boyer, Mrs. Jack Taylor, Mrs. David Taylor, Mrs. Jack Keith, Mrs. Frank Judge, Miss McCornick, Mrs. Ernest Bamberger, Mrs. Salisbury, Mrs. D. C. Roberts and Miss Virginia Beatly entered, and during the week the qualifying games have brought the series se-ries down to the finals. One of the interesting wedding announcements of the month is that of the approaching nuptials of Miss Ruth Chapman and Harold Fabian, who will be married Wednesday, October 19th, at St. Paul's church in Evanston, Wyoming. Friday afternoon Mrs. C. C. Parsons, Jr., entertained en-tertained to meet Mrs. Flora Parsons, Stephenson of Chicago. o |