Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1927, Page 46

SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRLU ARY 6, 1927—PART American Pen Women Plan Pearl JubileemmWoman Voters Entertain Distinguished Guest—Joint Congressional Committee Meets—Woman's pa i= busily chat is expected of the eatest s history, the ce jubilee’ in Apr n it rounds uons existence, zed in the Distriet individ American o p) dur tug the pre The T April n held on relude d the annual Mrs. Ernest national president has appointed as ors’ CONgress M. Colman of this city, national president of the will he and will Mrs. £olman details of 1 it way, it is known ng atulat \ of Mrs. Colman for hairmanship. whe have doue important - varidus fields of literary to be invited to come d_contribute their the general sym on phrases it al yTograms will be » congress, one of | of which will be | musical compo- | first prize in this im- which wins the the contest now being conducted by the nation: league for members of | ation, closing March 1 of| Mrs. Gertrude Martin | ent of the Western neh of the League of Women, is chairman ittee. The manuscripts | wdged by professionals se lected from outside the league On the last evening of the jubilee the league membe: the invited guests of the Daughters of the America eception and the showing femori Conti: April 16, At the conclusion of the Authors’ Congress here, the jonal League New York City, as jubilee cele o 8 nd sculpture exhibition, the de- tails of which are being arranged with the co-operation of the New York | branch of the league. The exhibition | scheduled for the latter part of April | will Jast about two weeks, and will be | representative of the best work of a | professional standard of league mem- bers in portrait painting, landscapes, | still life, flowers, in oil, water colors or pagtel, and will also include sculp- | ture. A jury of artists, non-members | of the league, will select, from the pictures submitted, those suitable for hanging in the exhibition. Ethel Heaven, Hamilton of the New York City branch is chairman of the art committee. Organize) in 1897 17 woman writers, artists and illustrators of Washington, D. C., the National League of American Pen Women has crown until it now has 34 branches scattered (hsoughout the. United States, with » membership of thou- <ands of the pyominent woman pro- fessional writers, artists and com- posers of the country. pearl | will be tional Revolu- *xxx | ADAME Suzanne Grinberg, an | eminent woman lawyer, lecturer | and author of Paris, is to be the guest | of honor of the National and District Leagues of Women Voters at a dinner | to be given Thursday, February 24, in the Women ty Club. Madame Grinberg will arrive in this country the second week in February, expected to pass several Washington Woman voters of the District evineing much interest in Mad Grinberg's coming and in her sched- | uled address on “French Women and the Suffrage Cause.” A vice presi- dent of the French Union for Woman | re, Madame Grinberg has taken | leading part in the campaign for | an suffrage in France, and her | story of the work will include many | first-hand experience | and episodes in the struggle for enfranchisement. Madame Grinberg was the first French woman lawyer to plead a case in Alsace-Lorraine and the only | woman lawyer to appear in a military | tribunal in Germany for officers of | the army of occupation. She handles many cases for women, and it Is said | she is one of the most successful law- | vers appearing in the criminal court She has the distinction of being the | only woman member of the board of | the French Bar Association and also the Confederation of Intellectual | Workers. Miss Belle Sherwin, president of | the National League, will preside at | the dinner. Mrs. Albert H. Putney, | president of the District League of Women Voters, will bring greetings from her group. Mrs. Charles L.| McNarz, as chairman of the com mittee on luncheons and dinners for the District League, is in charge of arrangements. lleservations may b made with Mrs. McNary at the M flower Tlotel Plans are | headquarters for the meeting of the, :il of the League in' om April 26 to 30. The | will be held at the | and will bring_te gether th n who are the leader of the organization in its work of | training women for effective citizen- | ship both within and without the ranks of the political parties This is the first vear organization in 1920 that the National League of Women Voters has not held | an annual convention. The change to | the biennlal plan was voted at the | conve Louis last April and s regarded wking the end of the joneer pertod in the nization's since its tor: In this eral € 1 which ta he pl convention, each State le titled to be represented by dent and ora ot':ir ueiegate. women 14 States pectes o cha meeting natiol gue is en its presi About from are ex \ges in the league program as adopte the 1926 convention, can be made Ly the council, except modi fications required by tered con- | ditions,” The meeting of the most | jle leaders of the league in | certerenca it expected to | ®ive opportimity for firmer working out of organization policies and pre cedure and the projection of long range vlans looking forward to th otivitles of a presidential election Harrison region was in Was tais last week conferring with Sherwin, national president. ttarrison promotes league seven Middle Western State: ing Iilinois, Miss Miss | work in includ- | at the end of two | make fair conces |al Woman’s Party on Tuesday, Fel {are having some form of observance | Home : outlined at national | 11 o'clock | Mrs. Indiana, Kentucky, Michte! M |PRINCESS MARY YIELDS Will Spend Season in London. But| Much Prefers Yorkshire { Country Life ebruary 5. Princess | b of the to the | King George, who Mary's decision to spend mu rty and Democratic Women Entertain. i cion'n wish of her father nd the wants pal” near him Prison s 3 Earucity t thle same time Qu Ma Women, inxious for her to unde the official functions of the Duchess York during her absence in Aus-| with It took very strong urges like nuec- | th \g Princess Mary to the | yndon is due January 20, to att the Woman's acts in an_advisory Industrial Home fov derson, W. Va Mrs, William F. Blackmaa of lando, Fla., was in conference Mrs. Sherman last week in c many of Or- | of Gown Made to Comply With Pope's Edict Against “Unseemly” Attire at Rites. tion with the work of “2ie Department e has become endeared to S largly interested in society functions, " e much rs the pleasures of PARIS DESIGNS “CHURCH | with i band, Viscount Lascelles. | Those who forecast frequent trips after her marriage have proved ve | wide of the mark, for Princess Mary travel than her brother, Prince Henry, | or Queen Mary, who intensely dislikes bof Education of which she is chair- | hire home and is not particu- hunting country ace meetings DRESS” OF NEW STYLE |t continmntur Socity Vetori soon ‘m« no more ambition for foreign Borast ity February 5. A “church the smiling, profitable an- of the fashion shop to the Pope’ inst gowns too short at both You will read this book with true joy! 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S., Mexico and Nicaragua. mailed fill out Tite to A free copy will be you on request. ~Merely ihe counon below or Dent. 307, Acousticon Institute for the Hard of Hearing. 12th & Chestnut streets, Philadelphia Penna of the V order that women in “‘unseeml s shall be barred | | communion caused uneasiness in the | MRS. ERNEST THOMPSON SETON, style world at first. The gown de- American Pen Women, who will pre-| problem because it will have tyie side over the Pearl Jubilee, to be held | of its own, not necessarily fluctuating anniversary of her organization. | Low-cut necks caused the trouble - > lin the old days, but that was easily | | ernism, however. complicited things | when it took to shortening gowns at | Sheppard- i’ Towner committee on the pas sage of the 2vear extension to n..-lPORTO RICO EDUCATORS t chief business brought before the | Women's Joint Congressional Com- meeting held last noon | University at headquarters of eder Mrs. Edward gan, chairman of the committee, in making the re- have preferred the passage of the bill| SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, February without the proviso, which states that | 5.—The facully and _trustees of the Iederal appropriation will be made, | petitioned Felix Cordova Davila, but. her committee members and | Porto Rican resident commissioner at in order to gain the extension a com- | Congress for a peaceful understand- promise was nec It is thought |ing between the United States, Mex- | the situation themselves at the ex-|based on the ground “that Porto Rico | piration of the two-year extension. spires to be an interpreter between committee, as well as clubwomen |cludes: | Sy throughout the country who are| “We are all loyal citizens of the e o Joms, are coming to realize more and |that the Americas are destined to he- more fhat in order to gain the great- |come the center of world activities— o operatan thamsclves ready to|on Pan-American friendship or dis- jons in the measures | €ord. tion the various viewpoints of those | with whota they are working. | this “open-minded” pol to one legeslataive ent national women's -organizations to advocate principales of bills rather * % X ¥ LUNCHEON - will be given at The increasingly strict enforcement from the church and not be given President of the National League of |signed for Sunday services tolves the here in April, celebrating the thirtieth | with or following dressmakers’ whims. and Wis. | remedied with a piece of lace. Mod REPORT the iothients maternit nd infancy ac was the WANT AMITY IN AMERICA; mittee at its monthly luncheon and E=TR 1 n of Women's Club port said that the committee would | By the Associated Press ears no further | U sity of Porto Rico jointly have | ¢riends of the measure realized that | Washington, urging him to work in | that the States will be able to handle | ico and Nicaragua. Their plea is | The women of the joint congessional | the Americas.” The petition con- KA il o Pk gy 8 Diaipisnd making a study of legislative prob. | United States, and trust and believe | est co-operation from the legislators | Whether for good « ad depending | they advocate, taking into considera It is the realization of the value of which has led several of the promi than the bills themselves. the headquarters of the Natior ruary 15, the anniversary of birthday of Susan B. Anthony. State branches of the Woman Party in every part of the countr of Miss Anthony's birthday. The National Council will meet in Wash ington on the afternoon of this day. On Sunda: afternoon, ‘ebruary 13, at 4 o'clock. a tea will be given national headquarters, at which the subject of discussion will be suf- age for the women of the Philip sines. The bill amending the organic | act of the Philippines to give Uf—} Paint Your Porch Furniture Now! This is the best time to paint your porch furni- ture—giving it plenty of time to dry. Next Spring chairs, ete., will be all ready—you will not have it on your mind. “Murco” Paint Products may be had in a variety of colors and are excellent for this outdoor furniture, as the 1007 Purity formula is proof against any weather, E. ]. MURPHY CO., Inc. 710 12th St. N. W. Main 5280 frage to the Filipino women was re- introduced in the House & sentative Charles Underhill of ssuchusetts. Resident Commi sioner and Mrs. Pedro Guevara will speak concerning the activities of | the women of the Phillppines. All the members of the committee of the House on insular affairs and their wives been invited by the Na tional Woman's Party to attend.! Margaret Lambie, a member of the, bars of the District of Columhia and | New York and a member of the Na- tional Council of the Woman's Par ty, who drafted the bill which Repre- sentative Underhill introduced, will | preside. | Senator Hiram Bingham of Con- | necticut introduced this week a bill | amending the organic act granting | suffrage to the women of Porto Rico. | He did_this at thef request of Mrs, | Gladys Reynolds Dwyer of the Wom- | Party who served as an Army nurse under Col. Bingham in France. | This bill was drafted by the Nation- | Woman's_Party at the réquest of | Dr. Marta Robert, secretary of the Suffrage Association of Porto Rico, an_organization of 10,000 members which is affiliated with the National Woman's Party of the United States. WITTE of Berlin, * %k ¥ * MISS IRENE Germany, an engineer trained in scientific management and sent to | America by the German Engineering Saciety, Berlin, was o Washington | this week conferring with Miss Alice | Edwards, executive secretary of the | Economics Association, and Miss Helen Atwater, editc of the | Journal of Home Bcon in con nection with a “study of household gement in America, which Miss Witte i making on behalf of the o ciety. An international exhibit of home | and_teehnical equipment is to be held | in Munich in September, 1928, and | Miss Witte hopes to interest Ameri- cans in this. She reports that keen interest already has been expressed | among the organized clubwomen of | Germany, especially among the | members of the Agricultural Society | and the so-called housekeepers’ so- | cieties. Senator Robert Owen of | Okluhoma spoke at the forum supper of the Natlonal Women's Democratic held at headquarters. 820 Con at @ ue, last night His ibject wa at Is a Liberal Norton, Democratic b IS CSAY “BAYER ASPIRIN— Gonuine 1 Democratic Club on “Presi- tial Standards,” tomorrow afte noon at the week ogram luncl to be held at the clubhouse, 820 Cor necticut avenue. The luncheon com mittee has announced that the lunch- eon hour is set at 12:38 ins of the original hour set la Former When you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets, you are getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by mil- lions and prescribed by physicians over 25 years for Colds Fall. Headache Neuralgia -Neuritis Toothache Lumbago Rheumatism Mrs. Maggie W. Barry of Texas chairman of the American Homes Department of the General Federa- tion, paid a short visit to Washing- ton the past week to confer with John D. Sherman, president of organization, on the general work of her department. 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