Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1926, Page 34

NEWS OF THE CLUBS €ONDUCTED BY NANNIE! LANCASTER. Wo City Club—Members of the junior section have arranged for the tea at the clubhouse this after- noon from 5 to 6 o'clock. All mem- bers are invited. Mrs. Robert Freer will be hostess and will be assisted by Miss - Phyllis_ Robinson, chatrman; Miss Thelma Schmitt, vice chairman; . Mrs, Mary Linkins, Miss Ruth Mar- | tin, Miss’ Mitzi Farr, Miss Virginia Diedel and Miss Elsie Meskill. Miss Helen Wilbar will preside at the tea tabie. . In:making its report the law and legislation :ommitm reviewed the bill now pending in Congress provid- ing that a bureau of school hygiene be -estal in the Health Depart- ment. -A study of the situation t out that there is a bureau imilar-to the ane for which the bil but is now funclwnlnfi‘ ::v“llmflimmued by of funds. ith 80,000 children in public, pri- vate and parochl schools, there are 10 nurses assignesd for the work, wil{x an allowance of one car token a day. The members by vote voiced approval P some action being taken to pro- &e for more adequate funds to carry an this most aluable service to the . JIn the report, attention W :fiefl to the investigation and recom mendations made by the public, health committee of the Monday Evening Club. Monday bridge section, due to the a1 ching holiday seasom, Wwill not have substiutes for the remainder of this nonth. More than 50 mem- bers of the section were ent Mon- day. = During the soelal hour Mis George Chace presided at the tea table. The gwards for highest scores Tor November were won by Mrs. . " Brown, Mrs. A, B. Om- . Frederick Y. Yaltes. . Mrs, J. Garfield Riley, pr::;my‘ the club, will be at the Clubhouse, frow 11 a.m. @ntil £ e, to meet memborsfia.n’d ‘hd;-s!;)flem % i WL be eTt the tea table list Tuoesday was Mise ;:.?mmhfl"' isted by Mrs. War S Aol & 'Kennedy ot The EW ning Star staff at the How&e of Rep- the fataily of Mrs. W. B. Bryan, th receptildn will not be held at her resi- dence, 1'330 Eighteenth street, as an- nouncel in the yearbook. The past preside:’s of the club will be in the receiving line with the present presi- dent, Mys. Philip Sidney Smith. At ther monthly meeting of the club the projp'am was in charge of M Eugene .Byrnes, who selected Mis Kathering Riggs to give a history of the harp with musical illustrations. Mrs. Frank Howard sang to the a companin « nt 'of the harp played by Miss Rig@s. ‘Both performers were guests of .the chib at luncheon fol- lowing the program. The pretident, Mrs. Smith, was presented ‘\7ith a Teplica of the Lib- erty Bell by} the leader of the art sec- tion, Mrs. (). L. Veerhoff, when she made her port on the trip taken by the memMers ef the section to the Sesquicenteiwiial it Philadelphia last month. y Mrs. Charlt’s J. Brand was hostess to the memls>rs of the international outlook section Monday at her r dence on Creecent place. The coun- selor of the .Wexican embassy, Senor Dr. Don Antonio Castro-Leal, and Senora CastrowLeal were the guests of honor. Thes counselor gave a talk on conditions 81 Mexico and reasons therefor. Precading his address, Mrs. Arthur Deerin;y_Call spoke on “Ru- i : W. Husband on osvenor Jones on Frederick V. Co- ““C'zechoslov & Ki; Smith on “Belg bum B. Clark, leader wf the section, read a letter from Mrs. Ernest P. Bicknell, former leader vow residing tem- porarily in Pa; About 75 members were in attendan®>. Assisting Mrs. Brand at the tea re Mrs. Nathan Grover, Mrs. L. GMbson White, Miss Zenaida Merriam, Mrs. J. M. P. Met- calf, Miss Cornelia #{ill and Miss Ma- bel Pillsbury. The wext meeting will be held January 3. Mrs. Willlam H. Herron conducted the class in parliamentary law Tues- day at the Women's City Club. The lesson was on “To HRefer to a Com- resentatives gave a ‘members of the curre! tion Tuesday afternoon, ‘Williama Chamberlin is _che This section is p(l:nnl;lgba. New ] at the club. L"’l"hcd*mn“ y evening free and easy auction section met with the average attendance week. Miss oy Swift each week gives a five- nuh talk on the rules for playing and ‘( e of the game. Hostesses for hext Tuesday are Miss Lutu George, Miss Margaret Bicknell Morris. Instructing wil G. Sears, Mrs. C. Lawrence Becker. planning to give evening of January 4. The meeting of the for this month will be evening, 8 p.m., in_the which has r:anuy been ra .n"i'hm section will meet at 10 a.m. the second and fourth sumhzs ©of each month at the club and nnmt e third Thursday of each month. Mrs. H. B. Varnar is chairman. ‘The i ming section imeets for a 40-min ] “dip” every Wednesday evening pool at 7 e'clock. Hideomi Mori, Red Cross life saver, is instruc- tor for this group. The riding section, chairman, will executive board held Tuesddy e boardroom, refurnished Miss Julia Ban- meet_with_this ! group Sunday mornings at 10 o’clock g Riding School ltor Mrs. O. L. Hoftmire, il leave the club at * their mounts. : .at lr:'u. returning at 1 _pam., with entering this form of recreation. 't!!‘}?e.ebowllnx members, with Miss Nell Cavanaugh as chairman, Miss Thelma ' Schmitt, vice chairman, are meeting at the Recreation Bowling Alley Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 o'clock. The gymnasium classes are under the supervision of Miss Eve Dell Myers Epiphany gympasium Monday and Thursday evenings from b to 6 o'clock. The National e ‘of American be the guests of Pen Women will honor of the club the evening of De- . cember 18 and b:|1“ p:,e;ent a program of numbers, Ing of members of that organization. *Mrs. Luther E. Gregory, national chairman of the rousic committee, is in charge of the program. Mrs. Edmund Brennan, -ehairman of the child welfare committee, re- a generous response to the appeal for toys, etc,, to be sent to the Caney Fork Community Cente! Judge Mary O'Toole. of membership commiftee lists the new- st members as Mrs. Frank Bright, Mrs. Tom Moore, Dr. O. Josephine Baird, Mrs. Charles Hawley, Miss Verna Custer, Miss Catherine C. Ahearn, Mrs. Allice Marie Minch, Mrs. Thacker V. Walker and Miss Kath- erine Reinberg. 1 the city libraries. gnembers are Mrs. L. E. Bellenger, Miss Fay Bentley, Mrs. Jennie Ber- liner, Mrs. Laura A. Bradley, Myrtle Bunn, Mrs. James Cu: 8, Mrs. Frederic Farrington, Mrs. Her- man Gasch, Miss Elizabeth Haris, Miss Mary Lackey, Miss M. Pear] Me- Call, Mrs. Harriett Locher, Miss Janet McWilliams, Mrs. Theodore Ng:u. Miss Katherine Pike, Mrs. Giles f- ter, Miss May Belle Raymond, Mrs. Thomas Sidwell, M Frank Hiram Snell, Mrs. Arnold Spanhoofd, Miss Florence E. Stiles and Miss Catherine . Garfield Riley, club presi- dent, is urging members to interest themselves in clvic affairs, giving dates of public hearings which are im- portant to the city's welfare. Miss Mary E. Lazenby will meet with the committee on parks and zon- ing in the coffee room at luncheon Saturday at 1 p.m. Reciprocal relations have recently been established with the Pioneer Club Fity C i a. ‘Women's City Club_ of Minneapolis, and the American Women's Club of Shanghal, China. Twentieth Century Club.—The mu- slc section will meet Tuesday at 11 am..in the music room of the ‘Women'’s City Club, when the second rogram of the series on ‘“History, F{mni\ncn and Development of Mus- ical Instruments” will be given. Mrs. Duff-Lewis will speak on the history of the violin. She will be assisted in the musical illustrations by Mrs. Dickey and Miss Stella Lipman. Mrs. Eugene Byrnes, chairman of the sec- tion, will preside The nature section will hold its usual Wednesday walk under the leadership of Mrs. Leo D. Miner. , The December afternoon meeting of the French section, Miss Elizabeth Merle Carhart chairman, will be held Wednesday, 3:30 p.m., at 22 Jackson place. A short com entitled “Les Etrennes” (Christmas Gifts), to be in- terpreted by Mrs. Joseph Edwin Falk and Mrs. George B, Tavlor, will open the program. Mme. Irene de Pop- lawska Leineweber of Poland will on “Polish Life As Expressed in Literature, Music and the Fine Arts.” At the tea which will follow the hostesses will be Mrs, Willlam Crawford Gorgas, Mrs. Bertram Grosbeck, Mrs. Albert Mann, Mrs. Aastin Clark and Mrs. Leonhard Stejneger. There will be no meeting of the gection of education this month. " On December 29 the second recep- mittee.” Mrs, Herrom gave the in- struction_and then tuyned the class over to Mrs. Ellwood P. Morey and Mrs. W. W. Husband while the drill in various motions and amendments was in progress. League of American Pen Women, Wistrict of Columbia Branch—The Mivenile story group will meet at tbe clubhouse tomorrow, & p.m., Miss NDAY. 8TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. 'DECEMBER 12, 1926—PART 1. SREDRRRPRRERERERVERER LR CRBRERERERERED Lansburgh & Bro. BARGAIN BASEMENT—S8th & E e e 2 2 Tt topic for discussion. Mrs. Victoria | Faber Stevenson is chairman and | Mrs. Alice Killam, secretary of the group, Mrs. Dorothy Tucker has accepted the chairmanship of the group for the study of commercial writirg, which will meet Friday night. | The second book review luncheon will take place at the clubhouse Tuesday at 1 p.m. with Mrs. Theo- dore Tiller in charge. Mrs. Nina Reed will discuss the three English Lord Raingo,” “The World liam Clissold” and “Farmer next Saturday night at o'clock a card party will be held at the clubhouse. Reservations may be made through Mrs. E. Richard Gasch, chairman. The lecture-recital following the chafing-dish supper last Sunday night was furnished by . Smidt- Gregor, planist, who played tions from old Ttalian music, gi them a harpischord inter Miss_Julla Schelling gave a lecture on “Dante and Early Ttalian Music,” in_which she described the Dante celebration in Ravenna, Italy, sev- eral years ago. The short story group, under the direction of Mrs. Willlam Wolff Smith, met Monday evening and wrote the second chapter of the mys- tery story begun last month. At the meeting of the music group Tuesday evening, in addition to the regular program outlined, piano numbers were given by Mrs, Page Stelle, Mrs, Irene Chainey Miss Clara M. Breed lections by M Morris and M Sadle Catherine Col made ihe following anu y meeting (continued), b Voice Culture,” b Miss Willard Howe is i The league is planning to inaug- | urate the old English coffee shop | idea by having literary symposiums Friday afternoons during the months | of January, February and March. On | these occasions members and friends | will be given an opportunity to hear | discussions of literary topics by men | and women prominent in the liter- | ary world, who are residing in| Washington or vicinity. i Home Economics Association— | Heredity will be discussed by Dr.| Sewell Wright at a meeting of the| child study section tomorrow, at 8/ pm., at the Bureau of Home Eco- | nomics. ! The Writerscraft Club met Monday in the basement of the Mount Pleas- ant Library. Miss Story’s resignation as secretary was accepted, but action on electing a new secretary was held over until next week. The program included the reading of a story en- wsie White McGowan, chairman. The newest markets for children’s V.| stovies will be discussed. At the meeting of the feature writing group on Tuesday evening Christmas feature stories will be the titled “Excess Baggage,” by Miss Green and a_travel article by Miss Story. Mr. Bun a guest of the ntitled “Knocking —— Lansburgh & Bro. The 1927 Edition! 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