Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1929, Page 13

OREY LEGTRE SERES ANNOUNCED Kermit Roosevelt Will Be First Speaker on National Geographic Program. Pursuing the giant panda 1,900 miles | in remotest China, cruising down the turbulent Colorado River, piercing the strange past of beautiful Angkor in | Cambodia, photographing microscopic | processes of marine life, circling the globe in the giant Graf Zeppelin—these are a few of the notable adventures of explorers which will be described and | pictured before the National Geographic | Soclety members of Washington at | their lecture course this season. The soclety's lectures, to again be held at the Washington Auditorium on | successive Pridays, will be illustrated | by] motion pictures and many slides in | color. i Kermit Roosevelt, the speaker at the | first lecture, next Friday evening, will relate the adventures he and his th- er encountered in their long trek through China and Indo-China, from ‘which they brought back the skeleton of the pandas, cat-footed bear of the Himalayas. Brandes to Tell of Cannibals. At another lecture Dr. E. W, Brandes, a Washington scientist, will tell how he alighted from an airplane in the midst of a cannibal camp in New Guinea and his further experiences in this primeval, colorful Papuan island. Sequestered Afghanistan, where rug- ged mountain ridges and a fanatical | Moslem people encompass some of the least-known populated- areas of the world, was penetrated by Jackson Flem- ing, who also will show some of the kaleldoscopic changes in customs and costumes that followed upon recent quick political changes in the coun- try's capital, Kabul. Charles Swingle will relate his Madagascar adventures on a botanical hunt when he collected “eight minia- “ture green houses” of plant specimens; Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey will sum- marize his years of South American travel during which he crossed the Andes five times on foot and mule back and nine times traveled the length of the Amazon; Capt. Tim Healy will bring pictures and strange facts about the island continent, Australia, and Dr. Francis H. Herrick will summarize and picture his years of patient labor in Photographing and observing the life of the American eagle. “The lectures of the National Geo- graphic Soclety,” says the announce- ment to members, “are not on a com- mercial basis. They have been main- tained by the society for many years as part of its work in the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge.” Lecture Program Outlined. ‘The lecture program for the season follows: “Bagging the Bear-like Panda,” by Kermit Roosevelt, Noveniber 15. Fleming, November 22. “Australia: Land of the Southern am," by Capt. Tim Healy, Decem- T 6. “Across the Top of South America,” I‘z Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey, Decem= r 13, “Madagascar — Island of ~Wasted 3'“'; by Charles P. Swingle, Decem- er 20. “Where Dwells the Neolithic Man,” paring and other gifts for distribution among city’s orphanages, hospitals and homes, Mrs. Harry Harmon Blee is in charge of the work being accomplished by the girl reserves. Hundreds of articles to be renovated and given out to the boys and girls at Christmas have been re- ceived by the Y. W. C. A. at its head- quarters at Seventeenth and K :treets. Department stores are co-operating with the Y. W. C. A. oy scnding in their partly damaged stock t: be repaired ard Luciile Douglass, January 10. o “Down the Dangerous Colorado,” by Clyde Eddy, January 17. ‘Announcement to be made later for January 24. “My Own California,” by B. R. Baum~ gardt, February 7. Announcement to be made later for February 14. “Watching Marine Life Grow,” by Arthur C. Pillsbury, February 21. Announcement to be made later for February 28. 4 “Canceing Down the Yukon,” by Amos Burg, jr., March 7. made later for to be March 14. “Around the World on the Graf Zeppelin,” by Lady Grace Drummond Hay, March 21. Anouncement to be made later for March 28. Dr. E. W. Brandes, Janu 3. w“Angkar—A Royal Pn:xm"' by IR EEE R X E X FEF EX K EET] R HARRIS & C R X R E R R KN R R ] Other Diamond Watches— with baguette and marquise cut diamonds— $500 TO EXEEXXXXEEXEEEEE for later EEEEXK] .‘.IJJJAJ.’JJ CEXXE] 8750 “The American Eagle at Home,” by Dr. Prancis H. Herrick, April 4. 0. Gifts, Modern as the Moments ’ They Tell Above is shown a mod- ern step design made exclusively for us. The setting is so fashioned that the diamonds show to the most bril- liant advantage. $225 DIAMOND WATCHES Below is a new rec- tangular design. It contains 18 fine cut diamonds and has 17- jewel Glycine move- ment. An exceptional value at— $150 A Handsome Choice To those who enjoy the pleasure of leisurely select- ing gifts (and surely that is the best way to choose the more important ones),, we suggest an early viewing of our stocks—now complete for the Christ. mas season. Anything selected will be put aside delivery as desired. R.Harris & Co. F Street at 11th Jewelers and Diamond Merchants for Over Half a Century Diamond W atch Bracelets THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, THEIR WORK TO BRING JOY TO POOR Girl Reserves of the Young Women’s Christian Association who are fixing up toys to be distributed io the underpriv- ileged children of the Capital at Christmas. GIRL RESERVES MAKING TOYS FOR UNPRIVILEGED CHILDREN Shop at Y. W. C. A in Full Operation Each Saturday Morning Pre- Gifts. With the swift approach of Christmas and the usual demand for toys for the underprivileged children of the District at that time, the toy shop at the Young Women's Christian Association is in full operation_each Saturday morning with 150 high-school girls, members of the gir C. A., busily engaged in the task of repairing and repainting used toys, dolls reserves of the Y, W. the hundreds of boys and girls of the made ready for Christmas distribution among the city's ooor. Assisting Mrs. Blee in the work nre Miss Mabel Cook, Miss Dorothea Mac- Dywell and Miss Katherine Moritz, who are in charge of the girl reserves of the Y. W. C. A.; Miss Elsa Morits, chairman of the girl reserves depart- ment; Mrs. Clarence Windmuller, Mrs. A. Chalmers Oliphant, Miss Rose C. Stutz, members of Mrs. Blee's committee and Mrs. Thomas E. Brown, president, and Miss Hattle P. Anderson, general secretary of the Y. W. C. A. WATER CRISIS PASSES. 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