Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1914 — TO AID UNEMPLOYED WOMEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO AID UNEMPLOYED WOMEN

New York Society Devotees Arrange Elaborate Pageant to Assist the Unfortunates. New York. —The recent failure of two of the large department stores of this city resulting in throwing over a thousand women and girls out of employment, is the cause of this charming tableau pose by Mrs. Allan Campbell (left), and Mlle, de Gonzales (right), to eay nothing about "Tiger,” the young lion cub loaned to the society women for this particular purpose, by the management of the Barnum & Bailey circus. Mrs. Peter Cooper HewP» and other women of society arrangeu what was probably one of the most, if not the most elaborate of social events, and the ladies who organised the Conference on Unemployed Among Women.

was successful from a financial viewpoint in the pageant which was seen at the Waldorf-Astoria and which eclipsed the spectacular elaborateness of all previous pageants. One of the featured of the pageant called "Venitas Venetae”—meaning a masque of magnificence, was the appearance of the trio pictured here, in “The Temple of Love" tableau. Mrs. Hewitt engaged the interest and co-operation of Messrs. F, H. Markle, playwright and Albert Herter, the arcMtect for the production and staging of this mldLenten -pageant, and practically everybody registered in the "Blue book" and "Who’s Who," was present to help swell the funds, which were applied to such a worthy cause—helping the unemployed women.

Society Girls in Benefit Show.