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President Wilson consulted with Ambassador Herrick, home from France ... Assistant Secretary F. D. Roosevelt appeared before a congressional committee to testify on the strength of the navy ... Women suffragists paraded in Chicago ... The supreme court was considering the case of Harry Thaw ... Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle were dancing at the Amsterdam theater in New York ... Thirty-five carloads of food were stowed on ships to be transported from the United States to homeless Belgians ...

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<blockquote>First Real Party</blockquote>

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And in Baltimore, Md, a slender, dark-haired, 18-year-old girl smiled and bowed prettily, attending her first real party.

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It was war-riddled December, 1914, when Wallis Warfield — today Mrs. Ernest Simpson of London — made her debut at the Bachelor's Cotillon, famous in Baltimore traditions. Today Mrs. Simpson's shopping trips, the parties she gives and those to which she goes are of world-wide interest. Mrs. Simpson's name, appearing in the British Court Circular, exclusive journal of the most exclusive society in the world, starts ripples of excitement reaching from London to Shanghai and Sidney.

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How different from that night, Dec. 7, 1914 !

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Baltimore's Lyric theater, banked with palsm and potted plants, had become, according to a newspaper report, "a bower of beauty where light and color mingled to form almost a tropical atmosphere of warmth and fullness of life." Forty-nine debutantes were there to make their bows. Forty-nine young girls, each wearing a new dress and carrying flowers, tried to look serene and calm, aware the event was the most important, to date, of their brief lives.

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<blockquote>Some Sniff at Pledge</blockquote>

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The bank struck up a popular new number, "I want to Be Back in Michigan." Miss Wallis Warfield, resplendant in white satin, chiffon and pearl embroidery, was whirled into the dance on the arm of her uncle, Major General George Barnett of the U.S. Marine Corps.

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It might have been a night to stir girlish hearts — particularly the heart of Wallis Warfield.

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She hadn't had the long list of entertainments in her honor that most of the other debutantes had had. She had gone to some of the affairs — not nearly as many as some of the other girls.

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When Wallis Warfield, along with 33 other debutantes, signed an agreement to "refrain from extravagance in entertaining," due to the war conditions abroad, there had been those to sniff knowingly and hint that Wallis had more than one reason for signing such a pledge. After all, her mother had kept that boarding house on Biddle Street!

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Mrs. Warfield, by this time Mrs. John Freeman Rasin, Jr., was no longer taking "paying guests" in her home. She had, in 1908, married John Freeman Rasin, Jr., who died two years later.

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<blockquote>Given Many Advantages</blockquote.

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 President Wilson consulted with Ambassador Herrick, home from France ... Assistant Secretary F. D. Roosevelt appeared before a congressional committee to testify on the strength of the navy ... Women suffragists paraded in Chicago ... The supreme court was considering the case of Harry Thaw ... Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle were dancing at the Amsterdam theater in New York ... Thirty-five carloads of food were stowed on ships to be transported from the United States to homeless Belgians ...
+<blockquote>First Real Party</blockquote>
+And in Baltimore, Md, a slender, dark-haired, 18-year-old girl smiled and bowed prettily, attending her first real party.
+It was war-riddled December, 1914, when Wallis Warfield &mdash; today Mrs. Ernest Simpson of London &mdash; made her debut at the Bachelor's Cotillon, famous in Baltimore traditions.  Today Mrs. Simpson's shopping trips, the parties she gives and those to which she goes are of world-wide interest.  Mrs. Simpson's name, appearing in the British Court Circular, exclusive journal of the most exclusive society in the world, starts ripples of excitement reaching from London to Shanghai and Sidney.
+How different from that night, Dec. 7, 1914 !
+Baltimore's Lyric theater, banked with palsm and potted plants, had become, according to a newspaper report, "a bower of beauty where light and color mingled to form almost a tropical atmosphere of warmth and fullness of life."  Forty-nine debutantes were there to make their bows.  Forty-nine young girls, each wearing a new dress and carrying flowers, tried to look serene and calm, aware the event was the most important, to date, of their brief lives.
+<blockquote>Some Sniff at Pledge</blockquote>
+The bank struck up a popular new number, "I want to Be Back in Michigan."  Miss Wallis Warfield, resplendant in white satin, chiffon and pearl embroidery, was whirled into the dance on the arm of her uncle, Major General George Barnett of the U.S. Marine Corps.
+It might have been a night to stir girlish hearts &mdash; particularly the heart of Wallis Warfield.
+She hadn't had the long list of entertainments in her honor that most of the other debutantes had had.  She had gone to some of the affairs &mdash; not nearly as many as some of the other girls.
+When Wallis Warfield, along with 33 other debutantes, signed an agreement to "refrain from extravagance in entertaining," due to the war conditions abroad, there had been those to sniff knowingly and hint that Wallis had more than one reason for signing such a pledge.  After all, her mother had kept that boarding house on Biddle Street!
+Mrs. Warfield, by this time Mrs. John Freeman Rasin, Jr., was no longer taking "paying guests" in her home.  She had, in 1908, married John Freeman Rasin, Jr., who died two years later.
+<blockquote>Given Many Advantages</blockquote.