Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1923, Page 49

Girls ar d Their Affairs. Conduc?ed by Helen H. Fetter. HE reopening of one of the most important organizations| for local girls of high school and grade school age was fea-|| tured last Wednesday when the Girl] Reserves of the Y. W. C. A. held a bigy meeting in the evening and were for- mally organized for the winter. ¢ These Girl Reserves were formerlyj active, but during the past year, owing,| to lack of a director personally re-} sponsible for their activities, the’| Eroups have met only occasionally’ and very informally. At the varlous high schools of the city the Girl Re-| serves are known as the members of} the Friendship clubs and as such en- | Joy many little meetings among them- { s. Washington girls generally, lowever. frequently do not realize the § wide scope of actlvities covered by membership in the Reserves. * %k % % N 1SS HELEN MecNEIL, the new di- rector in charge of the Girl Re- serves of Washington, has announced an interesting list of principal mcet- Ings for the year. At a meeting on December § practical suggestions for Girl Reserve work will be discussed. hel C. Einstein will be the chairman, Miss Bertha Butts will be in charge of initiation, and others In the meetin| various s will include Mrs. Howard Hos- . Miss El Peterson, Miss Ros mary Arnold and Miss Mabel R. Cook. On January 9, girl problems and lopment will'be featured: on Fe health educatica related to es; March the organ- tions doing girls’ work will be dis- assed. These include the Camp Fire Girls, Gir! Scouts, and Girls' Friendly Association. On_April 10, out of doors with the Girl Reserv will include d ions for campin; hikes and proper dress for such pleasures. May 10, the final biz meeting of the year, will be an afiernoon hike and not an evening meeting, ason the other occasions. A i large campfire to gather about in the evening will be a feature. general * * *x * I\I MABEL CRATTY, £ secretary of the national board of the Y. W. C. A., has called the Girl Reserves “a cross-section of the whole fellowship, the fresh stream of which feeds into the main current of the movement 2t its source or along its ourse—the very youth of its youth. They have its future in their keep- ing.” There are 177.000 girls in their teens who are now members of the Girl Reserves. Of this number 157,000 live in cities and towns and belong to rural branches of the association, and 20,000 are registered Girl Re- serves in places where there is no Y. W. C. A. There are 1,000 young zirls in business and Industry in the organization, $8,870 senior high school girls and 73.300 for high school girls. There are 330 Indian girl mem- bers and 1.000 in foreign countries. lnl the last sixteen years the membership has grown from 5716 to 177,000, There are several hundred members in_Washington. Folks who criticize the way that people who are more or less responsi- ble for flappers by their very indiffer- ence to_them and their problems have aroused the spirit of flippancy and recklessness among the young folks of today, may be interested to learn that.there are 7.400 volunteer advisers ‘or the members of the Girl Reserve units: there are 400 organized com- mittees, 369 employed secretaries for work with younger girls: and sixteen summer conferences for the younger ls. This is practical co-operation ind will do more to help keep the | American girl a busy, useful person! 1nd make her a fine citizen to handle onsibilities later than all the Spectacular preaching in the world. Girl Scout Notes Troop 4 met Wednesday, October 21, at Noel House. The girls prac- <lccd pitching for goals until Lieut. Wylie arrived. All then went to the wocds nearby and gathered leaves with which to decorate the gym- nasium. Later supper was served. About 7 o'clock an entertatnment | was held. A dress ballad given by Patrol Leaders Leah Woods and Torothy Claypole was the first on the program. A dance by Helen Streeks and Ethel Botz was followed 1y a Dutch dance by Dorothy Clay- pole 2nd her sister. Halloween games vere played and refreshments served. Troop 7 had its first regular meet ing of the season Saturday, the 27th, at Foundry Church. The following new officers were elected: Mary Ewin and Lols Wilson, patrol leaders; Virginia Wilson and Flizabeth Griffith, corporals; Eliza- beth Griffith, treasurer. Plans were discussed for an inter- patrol meet to be held during the | winter. The awards will be colored ribbons. Troop 15, Mrs. A. W. Bennett, cap- tain: Malvina Bandel, scribe, held its yeeting at Wallach School Tuesday nt 3:30. One of the older girls in- Ftructed the new members in knot- tyving. A prospective new member, Jdna Smith, was present. It has been planned that a hike be taken as soon as some of the new sembers become tenderfoot scouts. A peanut hunt w be given at the next meeting. Three girls passed in a part of the tenderfoot test. Violet Troop, 17, Miss Theresa Titzmorris. captain, met November 2 at the Northeast atholic High fiehool. It wag decided not to take the hike plannéad. and the troop plans to have a party about the middle of November. It will be held at the jiome of one of the girls.. Troop 42, Mrs. Conrad H. Young, captain: Katharine E. Merritt, scribe. met in the Presbyterian Church, with thirty-two present. Plans for the proposed rally were discussed, after which the regular classes were held, | followed by games. Troop 34. Miss Vera Lawrence, cap- 1ain; Esther Rankin, scribe, met Mon- day at 7 p.m. in the Anacostia Meth- odist Church. hall. After opening ceremonies, a busi- ness meeting was held. The rally to De held November 24 was discussed. A hike Is planned for an early date. The members of the Nature Club, sre making collections of leaves and | Dbird pictures. { The rest of the evening was spent | n_playing games. ey i ire Ciub held a special | meeting at the home of the captain Friday, when the girls made blue prints of several kinds of leaves. Margaret Johnson and Vera Inscoe have completed the requirements for their second-class test, and Kath- erinc Peaper and Lou Snyder have only one more point to cover. The regular monthly dinner meet- ing of the Girl Scout Officers’ Club will_be held Wednesday evening at! the Y. W. C. A., 614 E street, at 5:45 pm. The group will form promptly | @t 6:30 for its usual ceremonies. Mrs. Aspinwall of the Audubon Society Wwill, speak at the meeting. One-Armed Golfer in Matches. ' Cecil Gardner, a son of Maj. Gard- ner of the British army, has the distinction of belng an expert golfer, although he has only one arm. He enters the champlonship matches of the Shooters Hill Golf Club, near, Dunbdar, and he plays against the best in the club. He enters the more closely contested matches with a handicap of only sixteen, which is considered remarkable. as some play ers who have the full use of both members have that handicap and|that I might nct enjoy the joke as|noshchokoff higher. [1s noted as i A CELENE DU PUY, | Central ¥High School girl who has re- turned to Washington to continue ker egqucation here after attending for- :7-. weEools while llving with her = Celene Du Puy Tells of Foreign Schools. vI would rather be a student in Central High,” said Celene Du Puy whio recently returned from a year a half abroad, “than a princess in :Europé with six governesses.” This young lady got back to Wash- | ington lagt summer, and was so glad | to be back that nothing could induce | her to leave even during the hottest mogths. She has much to say of fur%-‘lgn schools since returning to a | lockl schodl this fall. the £chools of £urope not much attbntion is given to teaching girls | mathematics. Celene had gone to schvol In “Paris and Geneva, and in | each case had taken her place with ! the! Frencii king ‘pupils and had he; no -word of nglish in the| hjolroom. She had absorbed much lanfuage but had heasd nothing of extracuug the! squpre rost. So, if she waated to taky place in high school with the tgirls she had known before she , she must make up her and literature, mer. : Celene e¢xplains that the schools which one attends abroad are mnot| pubie, but private schools. There are hublic schools, but people abroad | take'no pride in democratically send- ing their children to them. Father, with true American en- thusfasm fer public schools, sald that, in Geneva, Jacqueline, my younger: sister, should go to the public| schocls,” said Celene, “so I went along | to get her established. “In these Swiss primary public schoods thewchildren are mostly quite | poor.. They wear hobnailed shoes and black aprons over whatever is underneath. It is almost a uniform. ‘We American children found our- selves quife conspicuous withcut | these apron: We stood In a hallway | awaliting to be assigned to classrooms. | The Swiss Children gathered around and presently they began to point l\m:er, and io hoot. They cried: ‘La riche!®La Riche!' Jacqueline was so fright¢ned that she refused to go) back. & After that we both went to privats schobls “There is a great deal that is helpful | i 1 af having been about | Europer” Ceiene added thoughtfully. | “When® you study Roman history, for| instanc, it is very real to you if you have just seeh the Colosseum and tre | guide has shown you the tunnel through which Nero i nearby fo see the Christians persecuted, | And the movies with those French sel- | tings that are:so popular just now ar 80 much moré interesting to me, re- memberi g bout Paris. “But fyhen vou get to the French | class it does riot heip as much as you i would think. ¥ou are used to clattering | French and the others who have learned | a little of it out of books do not follow very readily. Likewise it It hard to cling to the real French pronunciation | with nothing but this American idea| of it as #n anchor.” But Colene has several things she learned in Eurcpe of which she is quite | proud. She learned to skate, even to! dance on skates, at the Palals de Glace, the Tce Walace. In Paris. She went skilng In Switzerland. She went swim- ming"in jhe biue, blue Meditermnean down at Naples. But best of all, she' took dancng under Jacques-Daleroz in Geneva,! who is said to be the great- est dancing master in the world. Celene lived in the international col- ony in GeReva, ‘where the representa- | tives of moe than ffty nations come to | take part iA the activities of the league of nations. She:numbered among her friends pedple from many countries. Her fathers Wilkam Atherton DuP author and* jourdalist, was an official | there. HeZ " mother, former national president o the’ League of American Pen Women, was much interested in internationat’ club: life, Since returning: to Washington they have a hom~ at 2319 25th street north- west, where they how reside. i NAMES EOR GIRLS And \‘{hat"flley Mean Jemima % an ‘odd, old-fashioned | name that i not used very much in | the United iStates. where the more | dainty and‘frivolous names are in | considerablé favor. Jemima is a plain name, yet & has a lovely meaning ard an unusial origin. The name can | be traced t¢ the Arab word meaning The floweE for Jemima is the China rose and hir sentiment is “beauty 2 igni fO’!i_hfl STl t6 hay gnificant motive here are: several variations for | Jemima, but by far the most unusual is Jonka, which is the form used by | Laplander girls named Jemima. The | name Is very:popular in England, and | J. J, Bell, the well known writer of | Scofch tales in dialect, has made “Jes' | Jemima” the; heroine of one of his most delightful boc] The originil Jemi est ima was the old- | of the hl"ie xdn\l?\'l‘lrrn of Jo'e). : gl’) eing & man who evér lived. .~ oor Patient —_——— WOMAN HELD SACRED BY ALBANIAN NATIVES From the World Fraveler Magasine, Everywherein Albania a woman 1 safe and sacrel. These wild and sav. age looking geople, in the farthest mountains, will protect you with their lives even frorh the slightest discour- esy. < One's only difficulty will be an em- barrassment of:attention, for men will attach themserves to your party In order to travil among their blood enemies in saféty. Yo insultea or killed | of 2 woman. And there was pnce a man with a blithe sense’of humof. whom I engaged as a guide, who took me a day’s journe: out of my way Zmerely to go lhrou(‘ a tribe that wis bound in. honor to kill him on sight. He enjoyed the entertainment, the courtesy, the coffee and cigarettes enemies, and it £ever occurred to him well as he ' troduced Reserve Headquarters. Girl Reserve headquarters of the local Y. W. C. A. have clubrooms and an office at 11th and M streets north- west, where all girls between twelve and .eighteen are welcome. These rooms are fitted up for the use of the members, their friends and other girls as well. There are many Girl Reserv®s in the city. Girls in the grade school in the seventh and elghth years or in junior high achool can get detailed informa- tion by inquiring of Miss Helen Mc- Noil, Girl Reserve director, at 1lth and M streets, She will be glad to sce these girls and help them organ- Lae if they wish it. Girls who are under elghteen, who working at various trade also welcome to membership. The Girl Reserves are open to all. The second story hour for Girl Re- serves will be this afternoon at 4:30. Last Sunday the fire burned beauti f:xll}' and the girls enjoyed a fine time. ARTISTS TOAPPEAR AT CENTRAL A Pianist, Soprano and Violin- ist Scheduled at Free Concert Tonight. EVELYN HURCUM, Concert pianist of Londom, England, to feature free concert tomight at Central High SChool. Pib .c concert, Central High Lunity Center, tonight, 8:15 o'clock. Admission fre Doors open at 7 o'clock. Pro- gram: March, selected — Washington Cemmunity Orchestra, Charles V. Banner, director. (a) “America” . (b) “Salute to the Flag” (c) “Oath of Alleglance” (d) "Doxol Everybody. (a) “Annie Laurie™ (b) the Ground” (e) “Our V! (d) “Acquaintance Song” Evervbody. (a) “Murmuring Woods* (b) “Second Arabesque.” Debussy Eveline Hurcum, planist (a) ‘Marching to-Glory” (L) “Tramp, Tramp, Tram; (c) “God Bless Our Natlve Lana” Everybody. (a) “Romance”.. . Svendsen (b) “Minuet” Paderewski . Helen Belt, violinist, Helen Nash at the Cold Liszt Home Flres (b) “Tipperary" 2 () “Rose of No Man's Lard” (d) “Goodbye, Maw E: Dell’Acqua sio . . Arditi Mme. Henrlette Coquelet, col- oratura soprano; Margaret Grant at the piano. (a) “Taps” (b) “The Star Spangled Banner” Everybody. Three prominent artists will be in- tonight at Central High School auditorium when the Com- munity Music Assoclation gives its enty-sixth free beginning at 8:15 o'clock. These artists are Eveline Hurcum, pianist, from the Royal Academy of Music, London, England; Mme. Hen- riette Coquelet, coloratura soprano, one of Washington's most popular vocalists, and Helen Belt, violinist, artist pupil of the renowned virtuoso, Leopold Auer. Miss Hurcum's contributions wiil be Liszt's “Murmuring Woods” and Debussy’s “Sccond Arabesque.”” Mme. Coquelet, assisted at the plano by Margaret Bowie Grant, will be heard in “Villanelle” by Dell'’ Acqua and Arditi’s “Il Baclo.” The selections by fiss Belt will include “Romance” b ndsen and Paderewski's “Minuet he will be assisted at the piano by Helen Nash. The Washington Community Or- chestra, Charles V. Banner, leader, will be heard in selections and ac- company the community singing, un- der the direction of Robert Lawrence. Mrs. H. Clyde Grimes has prepared a twenty-minute organ recital to be given prior to the main program. The songs for community sinsing arranged by Director Lawrence are appropriate for Armistice day. The children will participate In an im- promptu tableau entitled “The C! dren’s Tribute.” There will be 1,662 seats free to the public and 312 seats reserved for members of the association and thuse desiring to pay 23 cents for reservsd seat privileges. Children under four years will not be admitted and all other children must come with adults and sit with them throughout the concert. Has Real Rise to Fame. One painter and decorator who, fifteen years tramped the streets of Chicago in search of work, is to- day chief of the commercial air service in soviet Russia. He is Alex- ander Krasnoshchokoff. and he or- ganized the commercial air fleet so that it Is closely interwoven into the military air service, though still a iwhich my presénce forced from his|thing apart. His planes carry mall, merchandise and passengers. Kras- is a communist and president of a bank in Moscow. | The Major Willlam Overtom Callis Chapter met Monday evening at the Parkwood apartments. Mrs. Alice Colston Salter, the corresponding secre- tary, and Mrs, L. 8. Cochran were the hosteases. Officers elected at the June meet- Ing were installed. Mrs. M. de Clare ! Berry, the regent, presided, and waa igiven & welcome after her three- 'month visit in England, where she visited the castles and manors of her Norman ancestors. After routine business, the regent gave some of her experiences in {England and read a humorous sketch the embarrassment of an Amer- ican guest when he encountered the formalities of an English castle and his awe of the pompous servants. Mrs. Janet Murray Gray was in- vited to become a member of the hapter. The chapter accepted the invitation of Mrs. Albert McDowell to hold the November meeting at her home. The Chapter House Com: have charge of the concert, “Musical | Memories of Adelina Patti,”” by Ger- trude Lyons, lyric soprano, assisted !by Anna Lawrence, harpist of New | York: Helen Gerrer, violinist, and Mabel Linton, planist, to be given November 30 in Memorial Continental Hall. The preaident general of the na- tional society, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, will head the list of patronesses. The District D. A. R., State Officers’ ee will Clud signalized its annual meeting Tuesday evening with A dinner to forty-five guests and members at the Hotel Roosevelt. Mrs. George T. Smallwood, president, was toast- mistress, and among those speaking were Mra. Ellen Spencer Mussey, Mrs. Howard 1. Hodgkins, Mrs. Willlam B. Hardy, Miss Emma T. Strider, Mrs. G. Wallace W. Hanger and Mrs. An- thony Wayne Cook, president general of the D. A. R. At the annual meeting which fol- lowed the following officers were se- lected: Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt, president; Mrs. Francis A, St Clalr, first vice president; Mrs. Harry B. Gauss, second vice president; Mrs. Louis D. Carman, recording secre- tary; Mrs. Richard D. Claughton, cor- responding secretary; Mrs. Joseph Stewart, treasurer, and Mrs. Rose E. Mulcare, chaplain. Manor House Chapter has issued invitations to national officers, re- siding in the city, state officers, and regents and vice regents of all chap- ters in the city to attend the cele- bration of the twenty-fifth anniver- sary of the founding of the chapter. The celebration will be in the na- ture of a reception, to be held at the Hotel Burlington, and Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, president general, N, S. D. A. R, will be the honor guest. The Col. Johm Doneinon Chapter held its November meeting at the home of the regent, Miss Eunice W. Wright, 2027 P street. On~ new member was added to the chapter. A .ontribution was made for the preservation of Kenmore House, the (]oin ARTHUR JORDANS SPECIAL CLUB PLAYER Every home can afford one of these dandy Player- Pianos—and every member of the family can play it! Think of the joy modern playerpiano! 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Miss Van Ness was elected historian, to succeed Mrs. Elbert Wood, resigned. Mrs. Simonds was elected . corresponding secretary, to succeed Mrs. W. W. Sloan, who ‘was appointed & promoter. Mrs. Ells- worth will succeed Mrs. Frank Pa as chairman of magazine subscr tion, and Mrs. Earl Fuller succeeds Mrs. Elbert Wood as chairman of the press, both former chairmen baving resigned. Origin of “The Woolsack.” “The Woolsack,” the seat for the lord chancellor, 80 often referrcd to in literature and history, is In real- Ity a seat for this high dignitary It is a square bag, covered with red cloth, formerly a sort of chair with- out arms or back, on which the chan- celior took his ease, In his capacity as speaker of the house of lords. It was orlginated when wool was the chief article of export In England. Goes to School at Seventy-Three. Mrs. M. Howarth {s London's oldest schoolgirl. At - seventy-three she is a pupil at the odd Jjob class at Brixton's Woman's Institute and is deeply Interested in all her studles. She is credited with being one of the most apt of the students, and Intends ' new channel. to complete her course. 17 Has Post in China MARGARET E. BRENNECKE, Washington Y. W. C. A. representa- tive who recently salled to do werk among Chinese women and girfs. Y. W. C. A. Ambassador Leaves fOl‘ China. China is changing its centuries-d1d course. Its youth is providing the The Young Women's Christian Association is a great factor | in this process, having at present fif- |teen " centers, with _seventy-four | American secretaries. The Washing- ton association is proud to have its own ambassador, Miss Margaret Brennecke, who, together with two other secretarie: sailed recently to take up work in Chengtu, the capital ofhe most western province [n China and a city considerably larger than Washington, having a popula- tion of over 500,000 people. Chengtu is one of the most inter- esting of international experiments in a medieval city with three twentieth century westerners and a handful of girls and women who have canght the vision of new life and have broken away from the tradi- tions of centuries. The International work and in- terests of the Y. W. C. A. will be featured today at the associataion's first Sunday afternoon “at home,” which will be held at headguarters, 614 E street, at 6 o'clock. Gathered jaround the dpen fire, the guest |listen to Mrs. William Adams | former general sccretary a man of the worl fellowship com mittes, tell of the work abroad, par- ticularly that which will be under taken by Miss Brennecke and | associates. ~ Following this a | supper will be served. This week {s world fellowship weelk | and the world week of prayer and | during that period the associations |in thirty-four countries of the world | will concentrate their thought upon work being carrled on in these cou tries. 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