Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1928, Page 74

NEWS OF THE CLUBS (Continued from Eleventh Page.) meetings of the following department: Domestic art and sciences every Tues- day in the armory under the direction of Mrs. George H. Snyder; dramatic de- partment, October 23 at the home of Mrs. James E. Lamb, at 8 pm., and literature department, October 29 with Mrs, B. W. Kumler. The program for the afternoon consisted of a paper yead by Mrs. R. W. Hambrook, chair- | man of the recently appointed com- mittee on international relations. who presented a paper “On a Trip Around the World,” which told of the club work Dbeing done by the women in all lands Wwilliam L. Lewis and Mrs. Jack \er gave resumes of trips taken | Summer and the talk of Mrs. Lewis | ed by a group of negro | Edgar W. Moore. A | given by Mrs accompanied by Mrs concluded the pro- ses for the meetin Mrs. Harry K. Corrick. Mrs. How Robert McMillan, Mrs ‘man and Mrs. Leroy Frederick Kit Rogers. The Cultus Club held its opening mesting of the season at the residence of Mrs. William Knowles Cooper. The president. Mrs. Polkinhorn, gave de- lightful words of greeting, and at roil call each member responded with a short account of the Summer's ex- perience. Voteless League of Women Voters.— The membership committee is planning | a tea in a movement for additional | members, Invitations have been issued | to many women whose interest in the Jeague has been expressed. The tea will be given October 23 at the club home of the American Association of Uni- versity Women, 1634 I street, from 4| to 6 pm. Frederic William Wile will|a vouth who dabbled in the ocoult and | tricate Mrs. Henry | then ended his life by a dramatic dive | their form when used at the beginning. be the principal speaker. Gratton Doyle. president of the league, will make an introductory address, tell- ing of the aims and achievement of the organization, and will present Mr. Wile. Interested readers are invited to secure | membership application blanks from the corresponding secretary, Mrs. H. Parkinson. Phone Potomac 3659-J. Philo_ Classics.—The opening meeting was held in the home of Mrs. C. F.| Brinley. 1304 Delaficld street. October 5. | with the president. Mrs. R. Bruce Bare, in the chair. A devotional hour was| observed in memory of Mrs. O. T.| Thompson, who passed away during the Summer recess. Mrs. Thompson was | a charter member and had been a con- | tinuous member since the club's or-| ganization in 1898. The study of Shakespeare' to be continued. and this year's pro- gram opened with “King Richard IIL" | with Mrs. Augustus Knight as the leader. The paper for the afternoon was read by Mrs. R. M. Roudabush, her | subject being “Connecting Links. | Mrs. Knight assigned characters and the reading of “Richard III” was com- menced. Mrs. Brinley, assisted by her daugh- gr. Miss Katherine Brinley, served re- eshments. P. E. O. Sisterhood.—Mrs. R. A. Pyles received the members of Chapter B in her home, 1739 Q street, October 9 at 8 pm. The president, Mrs. Worthy P. Sterns, presided. The new year books are ready for distribution. First on the program was a musical, ar- ranged by Mrs. J. Harry Cunningham. Numbers were given in two groups by George A. Myers, accompanied by Mrs. J. Harry Cunningham, and Miss Mary Apple, accompanied by Mrs. Chester | Adair, who also accompanied Mrs. | Townsend. Mrs. Pyles. with her as- | sistants, Mrs. E. G. Siggers, Mrs. Frank | B. Curtis and Mrs. E. G. Jeffreys, served | a two-course luncheon. works is | Md., were guests of the chapter. The Capitol Hill History Club held ! most_successful one. | | Miss | Greenberg. Mrs. Marley Griswold, Chapter Al P. E. O, Elko, Nev,, and Mrs. J. Turn- | bull Spicknall, Chapter A, Baltimore, | visitor of the afternoon. will be October 24. The first annual dance of the Vista Club was held at the Colonial Hotel October 2. The dance, which was the first effort of the club socially, was a A contest walts, the feature of the evening was won by Gertrude Rueben and Harry Next meeting Columbia_Floral Circle will meet to- !morrow at 1 p.m. at the home of Mrs, Mary E. Eppelsheimer, 3227 Hiatt place. Mrs. Mary S. Leahy and Mrs. Lula M. Torrey hostesses. Soroptimists' Club — Ethel Pollard. chairman of civies committee. reported a civic program unanimously adopted by the club at its luncheon held at Lafayette Hotel October 10, and at which Mrs. Caroline Stephen. president. presided. The club expressed its regret at receiving the resignation of Mrs Marie Stair Lawyer. who is leaving the city to make her home in York. Pa, and also that of Mrs. Ada M. Klein Peter, who has the Vanity Hat Shop on Connect e. of which she was the proy YOUTH'S SUICIDE LAID T0 STUDY OF 0CCULT Londoner Jumps Into Thames River From Top of Cleo- patra’s Needle. the Associated Press LONDON. October 13.—The story of By into the Thames from the top of Cleo- patra’s Needle was told in a cotoner inquest here yvesterday. David Onslow Smith. 17, began his abbling” after his mother’s death in 1 according to the testimony of his father, a promi- nent banker. The father said that the new line of study unsettled the lad’s mind. He sought death by leaping from the his- toric monument with his hands in his pockets. “This is not the first time that I have known of people with not too well bal- anced minds committing suicide after taking up spiritualism,” said Coroner Inglesby. He ordered the jury to return a find- ing that young Smith committed suicide while of unsound mind. Commenting on the remarks of Coro- ner Inglesby. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, president of the London Spiritual Alli- ance. said: “1 have traveled all over the world and have never met a more healthy- bodied and healthy-minded lot of people than spiritualist: Family of 51 at Wedding. ‘While the British talk about banish ing surplus population by forced immi- gration, they are as much interested as ever in large families and like to read about them. At Bournemouth a Mr. and Mrs. Stephens recently attended the wedding of their sixteenth and only remaining unmarried child. As the result of the marriage of the other 15 children, Mr. and Mrs. Stephens have 53 grandchildren. Fifty-one mem- bers of the family were at the wedding. Exclusive Agents for KENTSDALE Realty Corporation Acreage and Bradley Hills Syndicate Knight | THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, TURKS LEARNING NEW ALPAHABET 0ld Complicated Arab Char- acters Scrapped for Latin Letters. CONSTANTINOPLE (#).—Mustapha Kemal has turned schoolmaster under whose tutelage a nation of 14 million Turks must learn their A B C's all over again | The first course in the newly adopted | | Latin alphabet which scraps the old complicated Arab characters has been inaugurated at Dolma Bagtche Palace | for Deputies. cabinet. ministers and the President’s staff, who sit for hours on hard chalrs like model schoolboys, while i demonstrates the new alpha- blackboard before them Taking the cue from the leader, | Kemal. many Turkish organizations | and business houses have aiso opened free cou s of instruction in the new | alphabet and the People's party (Kemal's par le political organiza- | tion in republican Turkey) has mapped out a program for demonstrating the new letters in movies, theaters and even in coffee houses and cabarets. Within_two years the use of Arab letters will be taboo in the new Turkey and the national museums already are | beginning to collect examples of the old calligraphy to preserve for the generations to come ‘The optimistic Kemalists believe that illiteracy will be conquered in Turkey, thanks to the simplified alphabet. 1t | is Kemal's firm conviction that the in- Arabic letters, which change | the middle and the end of & word, are responsible for the fact that 90 per cent of the Turks today are illiterate. 1t also is argued that the change will | help make Turkey a nation of readers. | . in order to learn the new alphabet |one will have to read. At present, be- cause of the difficulty of reading the | Arabic letters, only a small percentage of the million and a half literate Turks | are readers. Re; War in Practice. The Soviet government is maiing real | war on some of its cities in iis efforts to find out how effective gas attacks can be. In the recent “gas attack” at | |Odessa, gas masks weee distributed | {among the inhabitanis: then Soviet | fiyers ~ dropped bombs containing the | deadly diphenyl vyanroarsine in selected | | areas. No one was injured but the les | derived was that a city would be po | less against this gas if a hostile force e through the defensive barrier of -aircraft guns and flying defender: e an Kilkenny Dog Wins Prize for Best Wag At Show in Dublin DUBLIN (#).—Everybody has heard of Kilkenny cats. Ireland is now talking of the Kilkenny dogs. The daughter of the Earl of Desart conceived the idea of having a dog show in which the animals should win prizes, not for their good points but for their eccentricities. It was a great success. The best class was for the worst mongrel in the show. Another attractive entry was for the best tail wagger, another for the most _sympathetic eyes and another for the dog with most spots. The | show was a complete exhibition of | canine misfits. | Power From Earth Sought. | During his research work in the in- | vention of a new compass. Herr Karl Kolditz of Berlin, made discoveries | which may make 1t possible to use earth | magnetism as a source of power. This | was announced by Kolditz when intro- | ducing the compass, for which remark- | able claims are made. The instrument | shows immediately and exactly any de- i viation from a vessel's course, and at |any moment displays mechanically the | exact position without the need of other instruments. | % { Lipton Visits First Store. : Sir Thomas Lipton, the world-mer- chant-millionaire and yachtman, re- cently visited the little store in Glas- gow, Scotland, where he made his start The place is still known as Lipton's Market. Lipton, now 78. viewed the counter under which he slept and over which he sold chocolates and crackers to the poor children of the humble neighborhood. He also saw his first office, which was just around the corner from the store. Greenway Inn Opposite Cathedral Mansions Special Tuesday and Thursday Chicken Wednesdax and Friday Sea Food 85¢ 5to 7:30 P.M. on Sunday Dinner Roast Turkes Long Istand Duek Rroiled Tenderloin Steak $1.00 1:30 to 7:30 P.M. Onr Own_ Dedicions Brend and Pastries Deilu Col. 10118 ANN TABER m<» —HCcOo=~~Omzz2 1143 Conn. Ave. New arrivals in Fashionable Millinery Imports and origi- nal Creations in modern smartness D. €., OCTOBER Tf. 1928~PART 3. BELIEF IN DEMONS PREVAILS THROUGH SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS Faith in Black Art Hangs on as Inhabi- tants Resort to Many Weird Practices. GLASGOW, Scotland (#).—In the |dragged by a horse was set on fire, northeast of Scotland belief in black art still hangs on. Witches walk the moors and flit over the fens or moun- tains. Spirits and demons remain chained to stone pillars and rocks. Pain and sorrow may be transferred from Im? person to another by magical heal- ng. Until recently hallow fires blazed on the hilltops and Aberdeenshire High- lands. Down to the middle of the nine- teenth century the Braemer Highland- ers made a circuit of the fields with lighted torches to ward off evil spirits and to insure a good harvest. Such is the significance Halloween has to the Scottish Highlanders. At Balmoral. where King George and Queen Mary have a castle, the witch assumes the form of an effigy of an old woman or witch called Shandy Dann. At Kirkwall people used to leap through he fiames to cleanse themselves from evil influence Dingwall called its witch-burning ceremonial the burning of the crate. On the iasl night of the year a large crate filled with combustibles and e "o ol | e £t et | i Pegapy Hecht while people danced and shouted about it. Stonehaven celebrates the last night of the year with a ceremonial called “fireballs.” The balls are made of com- bustibles, well dipped in tar. To each ball a piece of wire is attached, with which the celebrants swing it. As the procession moves up and down the High street of the old town the swingers make gleaming circles in the night with their blazing fireballs. Many Scottish people today believe | there igrsomething sacred about pillars of stone. In Aberdeenshire such pillars | were believed to be the abode of spirits and sometimes of demons. Some farm-" |ers place upright stones about their | |fields in the belief that the are pro- | | pitiating the gods. | = . | Freight Tax Opposed. | HAVANA () —Tax charges on | freight in Cuba, not included in the | | profits tax against corporations doing | | business here. received united opposition | ! of shippers at a recent meeting. Month in Reproductions of Tweed Weave in Supple Silks “Photo Tweed" St Frocks A large head-sized Hat can l)e youthful! 250 The slashed brim which is just a bit longer at one side gives madame’s hat that irregular new line which is youth itself! 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