Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1929, Page 45

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4 Y. W. C. A. News The regular twilight music hour will he held on the roof of the Y. W. C. A. | Seventeenth and K streets, at 5 o'clock will Miss Ringrose, act as hostess. Visitors are invited. Kamp Kahlert. | ‘The third week at Kamp Kalhlert has been filled with enjoyment for every kJ:nlol’. Um:,er i'?‘eu lem{eulllp of 'l'):: mp kouncil a differen! m arranged for each day. ‘rhe Founch 15 made up of two girls elected by each group. The members of the kouncil for this week were Dorothy Fiske, Anna Pldgeon, Loraine Gerardi, Carolyn Yerkes, Reba Barton, Helen Shepherd, Catherine Terbune, Frances Pope, Mar- guerite Louden, Edith Bruce, Amy Veerhoff, Hazel Storm and Misses Ethel Blake and Marguerite Skinner from the senfor camp. Tuesday was celebrated as Halloween, with ~fortune telling, host stories and a ghost walk as the ¥eatuns of the evening program. Fol- lowing the invitation from the kouncil at the evening meal each girl dressed herelf in appropriate costume. Clowns, gypsies, bathing beauties and movie | stars unt y in the Tecreation hall. A star talk by Miss Meyer was the preliminary to a star hike to Chalk Point on Wednesday evening, where the girls discussed some of the more impor- tant constellations. The evening closed ‘with an informal sing on the pler. Tulip Hill, a country estate near Kahlert, was the host for a nolsy troop :l gypsies mnay.‘ Only unee' a year oes the gypsy spirit appear at camp, but on that occasion many bright cos- tumes proclaim the arrival of the gypsies. Setting out early in the day and observing the gypsy custom of the atrin, the girls arrived at the end of the trail for a picnic supper and a launch ride out into the Chesapeake. ‘The dramatic group, coached by Mrs. Morse, presented two plays on Satur- day night. In “Pantaloon” the part of Harlequin _was portrayed by Doris ‘Tucker, with Loraine Gerardi as an at- tractive Columbine and Florence Car- penter in the title role. The clown was Abigail Veerhoff, with Suzanne Morse as & baby clown. The other play was a revival of the “Beau of Bath.” Amy ‘Veerhofl played the beau, while Peggy Anderson was the lady of the portfait and Reba Barton the servant. Proper- ties for both plays were arranged by Myrtle Stevens. Brownie Middleton and Mary Engle were stage managers. A real camp ceremonial among the trees on Campfire Point closed a suc- cessful week. After the ceremonial the girls sang the lovely songs dedicated to the camp and the campfire. With the usual interest in swimming and other water sports, many girls have improved their swimming and diving. So far this year 10 new junior life savers and 1 senior have joined the Kahlert krew. ‘The new recruits are Betty Brundage, Abigail Veerhoff, Winnie Ann Tharin, Lois Spencer, Mary Lesta ‘Wakeman, Priscilla Barrows, Margaret Hedgecock, Thais Spencer, Jane Hughes and Janet Walthers. Among those who the instruction this week are Florence Carpenter, Peggy Anderson, Maxine Michelson, Catherin Terhune, Helen Shepherd, Edith Bruce, Myrtie Stevens, Helen Briggs, Loraine Gerardl, Pearl Ramey, Edith Gram, Marquerita Louden, Amy Veerhoff, Nell Griffith and Catherine Reeve, and Hazel Storm will try the senior test mext week. Before a girl may be intrusted with ene of the camp boats she must pass | her boating test. Instruction in boat- ing is a part of the regular camp pro- gram, so that every girl may learn how to handle a boat before she leaves Kah- lert. Miss Lois Howard has charge of boating. Some of the girls who have passed the boating test are Mary Jane Muiford, Irma Troxler. Janet Walthers, Sara McElroy, Ruth Nalls, Betty Alex- ander, Amy Veerhoff, Lois Spencer, Alice Schwartz, Ann Tharin, Betty Stephan, Helen Bittinger, Marjorie Ful- ler, Margaret Hedgecock, Dorothy Har- per, Polly Burr, Jean Thompson, Nell Griffith, Betty Goodyear, Frances Per- vis, Bertha Von Bernewitz, Gertrude Katheryn Osborne, Beatrice Spasoff, Abigail Veerhoff, Dorothy Kramer, Margaret Stiwalt, Helen Rog- ers, Frances Fox, Edith Gram, Martha Limbaugh, Helene Permut, Bernice Pit- ®er, Marian Mansfield, Anne Baker, Florence Carpenter, Anne Wallace and Helen Briggs. Each girl is a member of a hobby group, in which she has an oppor- | H. Wil tunity to express herself creatively. ‘The music group took charge of the special musical numbers for m worship and presented & song an dance revue. The campcraft group cleared a trail to the craft house and spent one night out of doors, following this by an outdoor breakfast (cooked ::er vr;etg:moor fireplace). The mem- rs of journalism group published the third issue of the Kahlert Krier. Vacation Lodge. ‘Twenty-five young business women are registered at the present time for an indefinite stay at Vacation Lodge | and six others are staying for the week. Miss Manilva Zug and Miss Josephine Green will spend the week end at Panorama, in Skyland, Va. Miss Una V. Templin has been called to her home in Johnson City, Tenn., on ac- eount of the serious illness of her mother. Misses Carla Davis, Stella Morris and Helen Spraker enjoyed a week-end trip to Endless Caverns and Monticello. The party was personally conducted by Sophie Huth of Washing- ton, D. C. Miss Hedy Kortman of Co- lumbia Hospital has been enjoying a brief stay at the lodge, while Snyder and Esther Johnson were week- end visitors. Miss Cynthia Reed has gone down to Falls Church, Va., for an indefinite stay with friends located | violators will be there for the season. Miss Maude G. Steel has left for a six-week trip, dur- ing which time she will visit in Chi- cago, Los Angeles and San Prancisco. lulu and exp:et: t«‘om - 'od o mtl’l:lm- Y Waikiki Beach. SR Reserve Depariment. Interest groups have been formed at the Y. W. C. streets, for girls who are remaining the Summer. The pro- grams are held on Tuesday and Thurs- ! day morning at 10 o'clock and are open to all girls who are interested. At present there are three interest groups: Arts and handcrafts, with Miss Anna- bel Linthicum in charge; dramatics, with Miss Helen Middleton directing, and first aid, with Miss Sarah McElroy in charge. . ‘The Tuesday morning program is de- voted entirely to these interest groups, ‘while the Thursday morning program is an outdoor project. Pienie lunches, swims, hikes and sight-seeing trips lanned. The - dramatic gup is working on the y “The mancers,” by Edmond Rostand, and the arts and crafts group has started making leather purses. A sight-seeing trip has been planned for next Thurs- day. The girs will visit the Smith- sonian Institution and take a trip up the Washington Monument. Priday in July. mat work from 11 to 11: of the pool from 11:30 to 1: ‘The new schedule ursday and Saturday afternoons. dip for little boys and little girls continue on_ those same al oons 2 to 2:30. i meeting Monday, Wednesday and Fri- day .h’l‘g"'m at 2, 2:30 and 3, accord- classes at both the next 10 life-sa in- from 11 to A, Seventeenth and K | bre in | the 2 at WED RECENTLY Peggy soprano soloist. : Miss Mary Jane Wright of the staff wfl.li 5 MRS. THEODORE OPACK, i ‘Who was before her Sadye Furr. e ndetwood Photd from 7 to 8 o'clock at the Seventeenth and K streets pool, under Miss Marion Hunt, will continue through the Sum- mer months. Girls may sign up for the course of six hours or for single lessons. The three tennis courts of the Y. W. C. A are directly in the rear of the Y. W. C. A. hut, at the corner of Twentieth and B streets. They are in- closed on three sides by vine-covered fences, so they cannot be seen from the | street. To enter the courts, one should | follow the narrow concrete walk which follows closely the sides of the two screened pergola-like wings to the im- mediate rear of the hut. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesday and Thursdays Miss Anna Van Buskirk, the instructor in charge of the courts, can be found there between 6:45 and 8:45 am., 9:45 and 11:45 am. and 4 and 6:45 pm. At all other times arrangements for the use of the courts, with or without in- struction, may be made in person or by phone with the health education office, on the fifth floor of the Seventeenth and K streets building. Communijty Center _ Department, Franklin Administration Buflding, Na- tional 1300. Summer rearestional activities are scheduled for this week in several com- munity centers. Central Center is open for swimming for children and for parents who ac- company the children Tuesdays, Wed- nesdays, Thursday and Fridays, from 1 to 4 o'clock. The afternoons are di- vided into three swimming periods of 50 minutes. Tuesday and Thursday evenings there are three one-hour pe- riods for adults, beginning at 7 and closing at 10 p.m. The participants provide their own bathing suits and towels. Instruction in swimming will be arranged for both children .and adults when sufficient members register for classes. ‘Track and fleld activities for men and boys are scheduled on the stadium each week day from 1 to 7 p.m., under the direction of Thomas Sullivan. ‘The Citizens’ Band of Was| , 2 newly formed organization under the leadership of L. Z. Phillips, will meet ‘Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the armory. Tennis_courts are ayailable at both the East Washington and Central Com- munity Centers from 5 p.m. to dark on | Monday to Friday, inclusive, and from 1 pm. to dark on Saturday. Ernest C. Rick, in charge of courts at the East ‘Washington Center, may be reached by phone for Teservations at Lincoln 4781-W, and Paul Blocher, in charge of the courts at Central Center, at Co- lumbia 7744 or Main 1925. Model aircraft instruction is given at Chevy Chase Center on Tuesday and at the Central Center on Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m., under the direction of John 3 iams. Boys desiring to qualify for the model aircraft tournament in September should report to the meet at Macfariand Center at 9:30 a.m., July 20. Under the Playground and Recreation Association of America, sessions of the Recreation Summer School will be held at the Armstrong High School daily from 9:30 to 12:30 a.m,, and each after- noon, except Wednesday and Saturday, | from 1:30 to 4:30 o'clock. | ‘The Dunbar Community Center will feature swimming from 1 to 6 p.m., the early afternoon periods for women and girls and the late afternoon for men and boys. The playground of Dunbar , will be used from 4 to 7 by groups, in- | cluding the Government League teams. g FISH TRAPS ARE SEIZED. Carolina Wardens Waging Cam- paign on Lake Hickory. HICKORY, N. C., July 12 ().—Game ‘wardens are waxing busy on Lake Hick- ory and at Lookout Dam and recently, within a week's time, seized 40 fish bas- kets and traps. Th termined to break up seining, ing and fish trapping wi done about the dams, they say, and all prosecuted. Cavalier Gloves New Vogue. Parisians have adopted in frivolity only to thnie'h Cavaliers. The hand cove Berberichd; TWELFTH=~F STS. Monday Only ‘Millinery Clearance All Summer Straws Felts—Stitched Crepes Formerly Sold to $16.50 Three Price Groups $1.00.$).00 $3.9 All Sales Final ‘0, JULY 14, 1929—PART 3. Absolute Clearance of Entire Stock of Dresses—Over 1600 Beautiful Frocks to Be Sacrificed in This Sale Tomorrow morning at 9:15 we begin what we consider a most remarkable merchandising event...a wonderful op- portunity for the THRIFTY WOMAN SHOPPER. . .a particularly welcome sale if one is making plans for a vacation. Our purpose is to keep our stock new, fresh and right up to the minute in style at all times. In order to accomplish this task we must not carry over one bit of merchandise from one season to another. This sale is a grand effort toward dis- posing of our entire dress stock. Shop A Dress for Every Occasion—A Dress for Eve}'y Woman! Materials Fabrics that have captured the gayety of the Sum- mer season . . . Georgette . . . Plain or Printed Chif- fon . . . 'Flat Crepe Washable Crepe . . . Silk Pique Lace and Taffeta. A host of materials! early—save in an amazing fashion! Styles Fashion-right frocks in the newest of Summery styles . . . Cape Backs . . . Suntan Backs . . . New Necklines . . . New Hemlines . . . Pleated Skirts . . . Jabots . . . Godets . . . Ensemble Dresses . . . After- noon . . .<Dinner . . . Evening and Traveling Dresses. Colors Pastel shades-. . . Blue . Blue . .. Yellow . . and Black. Beige . and Blue-and-White. . All-white . . . . Sun Red . . . Deep smart prints . . « . Orchid . . . Maize . . . many in dark colors of Tan, Navy .. Green . . . Black-and-White Plenty of Sizes for Misses or Matrons—Bit Not All Sizes in Every Style Yalues to $59.50—Savings! Compare! We consider this sale the most important dress event in our history. There is a dress for every woman here — sizes for miss or matron and plenty of styles in all shades. All Sales Final Exchanges Extra Special! 175 Cool Washable Dresses H s| f flowered cotton voiles, silks, silk crepe, ete. Sizes up to:38.- Value $5.95. : Main Floor Not a dress in the lot pur- right out of regular stock, made by our best dressmakers for a discriminating clientele. Extra Sales People to Serve You No chased for sale purposes, but %’ Our Entire Stock of Spring and Summer COATS Sacrificed at a Fraction of Their Regular Worth ) . N T e ¥ T S Yo e Yy =y —

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