Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1925, Page 6

PROGRAM PLANNED TOAIDSCHOOL FUND Affair to Be Held at Ham- mand Home in Interest of Negro Institutions. Preparations are being made for a program of “Song and Scenes From Dixie” to be given here at the home John of Mr. and Mrs Hays Hammond in a few days f & benefit of the Hampton-Tuskegee educational cam- palgn now belng waged throughout the country for $5.000.000 in order to redeem a gift of $2.000,000 to the two nstitutions by George Eastman of ochester. from institutions belng spo 0,000 E must nstitutions by n order Zift of Mr. Eastman § be pledged to the two | December 31 1825, The aign has been carried {nto Washin, whose residents are asked to contribute to the 31,400,000 yet to be ral $3,600,- to re 000 alr £ been pledged Reasons for raising the fund, as outline by representatives of the otdn-Tuskegee ha following ars for in provide for glate grade no uthern States. llars for endowment ers' salaries. One milllon dollars for endowment of maintenance of bulldings, repairs 2nd current expenses, One million dollars for needed new buildings and equipment The campalign now in progress is inspired by the bellef that an increase in the facilities of the two schools will be a big step forward in the solution of the negro problem. Lead- ers of the movement are confident that when the s of inter-racial nderstanding created by Ham and Tuskegee men and broadened the national negro prod- lem will have been solv er e-{ SUN SHINES AT LAS | ON “WONDERLAND” SHOP 0ld Buildings Torn Down, Giving Light to Scene of Carroll's Fantasies. » Correspondence of the Associated Press. OXFORD, England, March 3.—The demolitior the row of ancient s adjoin st n St. Aldat treet light into the over way where Alice look “all round, spite of the annoying old sheep with the knitting needles. It is a tiny shop, below streat lavel, set In the end of a long row of tim- bered cottages running back from the narrow arched entry called Lit- tlemora court. The door, the counter, the projecting windows with small, square panes are today exactly as they were In 1871 when Sir John Tenniel looked In “Through the Looking Glass and drew the little dark shop for Lewis Carroll's cla There is no sheep in the corner, and the dolls and toys have moved along down the street, but the jars of un- breakable candy still hold their proper places in proper rows. A little way up the opposite side of the street, in a_projecting wing of Christ Church, Lewls Carroll, Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, founda- tion scholar and lecturer in mathe- matics, lived as = undergraduate, and later as & do: His life was a curlously double one. As Rev. C. L. Dodgson, he is known as the author of works on trigonometry, deter- minants, Euelid and "curfosa mathe- ca” As Lewis Carroll he once te a book on symbolic logic, but he is rather better known as the cre- ator of “Alice” and the “Looking Glass,” and “The Hunting of the Bnark.” Social Motive Not Enough to Hold Members Together. Correspondence of the Assoclated Press. LONDON, March 3—Clubs for women are not & success in London, at least those merely for socfal inter- course, and several have gone Into bankruptcy, while others saved them- selves by the process of amalgama- tion. mething more than social amen- itles are required to keep a club to- gether, and this is exemplified by the flour{shing condition of the Ladies Carlton Club, which has an important political atmosphere and is in close touch with the Unionist central office. Another, the Gardens Club, is thriving because of Its specially interesting lectures by prominent peopls in the gardening world, its regular garden dinners and well equipped garden brary. Miss Phoebe J. Fairgrave of Paul, who already holds the wo, parachute jumping record, wil at- tempt to break her record of 11,500 feet sometime during the Spring. SOLITAIRE DI CUT AND FIERY LADY'S MUST BE SOLD AT ONCE. 95 $525 ABSOL TA DIAM RING. KOLID PLA UNTING. BET WITH DIAMONDS. EXTEAORDI- " | dealer of Atchison, Kanx., and former | .| foot ball star of the * | Mrs. Dora Gage. tImakes h . |in February Roy M. Turner (upper), real extate University of | Kansas, held by the Kansax City po- lice, charged with the murder of iS5-year-old divorcee uccumbed In a poisoning, and t ed Tarner of forcing her to drink the deadly liquid so that he might collect a life insur- ance policy of $5,000 which she had assigned to him. The drowning of Turner’s bride in 1923, following which he ix said to have collected her $10,000 insurance policy, is also belng brought up for inquiry. CHALIAPIN 10 HAVE NOTABLES W CAST “Barber of Seville” to Be Given by Washington Opera Easter Monday Night. Feodor rounded the Washington Easter Monday n the role of “The Bar- to an an- Edouard 1 of the W Opera Company. Jose Mofica, ivantzoff and Paolo Ananlan are stars who will sing other principal roles. Mojica is a Spanish tenor who from Mexico City ng reputation with : Opera Company. He won considerable pralse in the Chicago performance of “Thals” here His engagement to sing in “The Barber” was at Chalia- pin's request, because he was 8o pleased with the tenor's recent per-| formance In Chicago. Mr. Ananian will be remembered for his vivid interpretations of diffi- cut roles in “Tales of Hoffman" here lagt season. He is “premier buffo” of the Metropolitan Opera Company. He will 'sing the Tole of Dr. Bartolo. Ivan Ivantzoff of the Paris opera made his first appearance in Wash- ington in ast” as Valentine, Jacques Samossoud will again con- duct the performance. SPANISH WOMEN STUDY. Female Education Move Gains in Momentum. Correspondence of the As: Press. MADRID, Febru 25.—Spanish women, albeit slowly, are seeking higher education. During the aca- demic year that ended in 1923 there were 363 female students at the in- stitution as against 60 in 1917 D women, medicine, are good is much more brilliant than that of the men, according to the university authori- ttes. MICE SIZE OF BEES. Pair of Pygmies Arrive for Lon- don Zoo. ©of the Associated Press. March 3—The smallest animals ondon Zoo are a fam- ily of pigmy mice, which arrived re- cently from Gambria, in western Africa. 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