Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1926, Page 52

" 16 I Y. W. C A II The New Year reception which Bas been an annual feature at the Elizabeth Somers residence, will not be held this year. A special Elizabeth Somers day will be set aside at a later time to be suitably observed. The Y. W. C. A. will be at home, however, to its friends on New Year day at the headquarters building on Saturday aft- ernoon. 4 The food service committee for the | i building of the Y. W. C. A. has been organized, with Mrs. Wilson Compton as chairman. Amohg the members Ml the committee who met with the chair. man and the secretary, Miss Boze- w0 at the initial meeting last week rere Mrs. Clyde Asher, Mrs. Daniel den, Miss Catherine Herrmann and Tuther Johnson. p 1> Indoor-Outdoor Club celebrated | the holiday season with a Christmas party at the home of Miss Mary J Van Hook on Tuesday of last week. Among the members of the staff | who are out_of town for the holidas Season are Miss Ethele 1. Swenson, | who {s in Brooklyn. iiss Marion L. Meigs, who leftefor Bridgepo Conn,, last week; Miss Myrtle Hen who is spending the week in Berwick, Pa.; Miss Minnie V. Sandberg, who is in Norfolk, Va., and Miss Mabel R. €ook, who is in Roanoke, Va. Young Business and Professional Women's Department. Tuesday morning will mark the opening of a seminar to be held in Washington at the 3 residence by Y. W. C. A. secretaries working with business and profes- sioral women in varlous cities of the } VUnited States east of the Mississippi. ‘The seminar will continue throughout the week, closing on Saturda) after- noon. The mgin subject of the seminar will be *The Science of Program Making,” and for three mornings the delegates will be directed in their thinking by Mr. Ralph Bridgeman, a well known psychologist of Philadel- phia, who, as director for the Parents’ Couneil of that city, is actually work- ing out his theories. Two morning sessions will be devoted to study of the tople, “The Cost of Christian Liv- ing,” under the leadership of Dr. Peter Ainslee of Baltimore. All afterncon sessions will be given over to discus- =fon and application of the morning’s | study to the business and professional | women's department of the Young Women's Christian Association. The discussion Jeaders will be Miss Mar- | garet Hiller of New York and Miss Mildred King of Detroit, Mich. On Thursday evening the delegates will have a dinner at the Grace Dodge Hotel. Miss Clara 8. Reed of Springfleld, Mass., a member of the national board of the Y. W. C. A., is chn.i'rmm\} of the National Business and Profes- slonal Women's Department, under whose auspices this seminar is being given, and Miss Margaret Williamson of New York, is the executive secre- tary of the department. Miss Bertha Miller of Boston, Mass., is chairman of the seminar: Miss Marjorie Sexton of Worcester, Mass., is chairman of the program committee, and Miss Berlhu’ Pabst of thfs city is chairman of the | hostess committee. 1 ‘ The Elizaboth Somers Residence. Miss Alice Drake, for many years leader of the “'Booklovers,” will be the | special speaker at the vesper service | i I i L be furnished by the newly organized glee club of the residence. Although 55 of the Elizabeth Somers family will be out of Washington for the holiday season, those remaining are planning a full program for the week. On Monday night there will be an informal reception for former res- idents, Wednesday evening the an-| nual party for the children from: the Gospel Mission will be held; Thursday | evening there will be a movie party | and on Friday there will be an in- :uvrm-l‘. party to watch the old year The dining room at the residence will-serve a midday dinner on New Year day. Chapters. The Mount Pleasant Chapter will meet at the home of Mrs. E. B. Johns, 1421 Columbia road, for n luncheon meeting December 28 at 12:30, when Mrs. Willlam Adams Slade will be the | speaker. 1 Girl Reserves. { ‘The annual Christmas dance of the | Girl Reserve partment will be held | on Wednesday, December 29, at.the Blue Triangle Hut from 9 to 12 o'clock. The Bon Secour Club from Central High School will ba the hostesses of the evening. The club from Western High School is in charge of decora- tions and -favors, the club from Mc- Kinley High School has charge of the represhments, while the clubs from and Business High Schools have had charge of the printing and distribution of tickets. Miss Marian E. 'y, girl reserve secretary, will be the cnaperon. The Girl Reserve Club from Langley Junior High School is furnishing bas- kets and toys for three needy families Wwhilé the Girl Reserve Club from Business High School, of which Miss Ruby Collins is president, is giving a complete outfit and toys to a little &irl at the Gospel Mission. Industrial Department, d“'l:he Gr:ek Club "llll meet on Thurs- evening as usual at the E t building at 7:30. S The Wednesday luncheon, which is held each week at 614 E street, for the &irls employed in this vicinity, will be omitted for the holidays. . Educational Department. The pool is closed from December 23 to Junuary 2 for painting, clunlng| and renalis. When it reopens the 3rd of January, a few changes in the hours of the swimming pool will be | noticed. There will be dip periods every morning from 11:30 to 1, every afternoon from 4:30 to 6. The evening dip hours vary as follows; Monday and Wednesday from 8 to 9, Tuesday and Thursday from 8 to 9:30, and Friday a short period from 8 to 8:40. There will be classes starting al- most every day in one grade or an- other. Now is the time to learn for the pleasure of it on one’s vacation. The instruction may be had in five m’deu. Registration should be made early. All classes in the music division of the education department have been discontinued for the holiday week. TRAINED FRENCH PIGS ARE LOSING THEIR JOBS Truffles Becoming Rarer in Dor- dogne Department—Price 50 Francs Pound. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 25.—The trained pigs of Dordogne Department, whose daty and privilege it is to dig up the truffles beloved of gourmets . .. over, are being' thrown into the grow- | Ing ranks of the unemployed. For the succulent tuber melanosporum is becoming rarer and rarer in Perigord and Vaucluse, its traditional home. 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