Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1930, Page 30

STORES CONTNUED Travel Tales of Noted Author Carried on by His Daughter. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. BOSTON, November 8 (N.AN.A.)— The “Seven League Boots” of Frank G. i “E Egl it Jjourney. Gh%fll are doubt- . In the ter, world known travel writer, | Frank G. books . for , acting president of the Society of Women Georgraphers of Washington, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, Mrs. Huntington is carrying to further fame and glory the executive writings of the Carpenters, pere et fille. She lives, in between her anderings, on Twenty-third street. in Washington. Here is her workshop, & quiet, sunlit Ybrary bullt above the brick garage. The room has casement windows and an open flrealllce and its paneled walls are lined with books. The mantel was taken from the “Old Brick Capitol,” a building recently torn down to make ;I.! for the new Supreme Court Build- Has Written Text Books. Vital, blue-eyed and attractive, Frank G. Carpenter's daughter has inherited the interest in strange and far-off lands and le and the ability to write of such subjects in a manner to * fascinate the reader which distin- guished her father. Mr. Carpenter's series of Geographical Readers still is used in the elementary schools. Mrs. Huntington has completed a series of geographic books for children, the Journey Club series, which also serve as_text books. Many newspaper readers are familiar with the character and history of the late Prank G. nter. Prior to his and his travel were sought by many newspapers for nearly 40 years. Handicapped throughout life by frail health, Mr. Carpenter’s repeated jour- neys into little-known parts of the world were fraught with unusual dan- ; but, as his daughter explains, vel was the breath of life to him and, even during the last few years, he found hg-uenlldmmnwomtwmm- On one of his numerous trips around the world, Mrs. Huntington accompa- nied her father as his secretary. To do this she left Smith College for a year, her | held Tuesday at 7:30. numbers 150 pieces, are some rare Es- kimo dolls, dressed in walrus bladder f carved ivory; doll the Orient, from Spain and from the Basque country. ‘There are, of course, curios from every corner of the earth. A beautiful collection of brass-bound wooden chests from Korea is ranged in the living rooms. Two miniature chairs for chil- dren, upholstered in blue brocade and resembling exactly the very chairs of their period, are p! either side of an open fifeplat dren’s books fill many of the shelves of Mrs. Huntington's library, and her collection of folk lore pfovides stories without end for Joanna and Edith. (Coyrisht. 1930.) ¥ News The music hour at the Young Wom- en’s Christlan Association will not be held this afternoon because of the joint Y. M.-Y.W. World PFriendship Service at the Mayflower Hotel at 4:30 o'clock. ‘The Membership Committee will be hostess to new members at tea, Wed- nesday from 4 until 6 o'clock. ‘Committee meetings for the week in- clude: Executive mmittee tomorrow at 11 o'clock; Tu y, the E Streef House at 2 o'olock, and the Food Serv. ice No. 1 at 3 o'clock; Wednesday Food Service No. 2 at 2:30 o'clock; the Eliza- beth Somers Committee at 8 o'clock, and the Industrial Committee on Fri- day at 12:30 o'clock. ‘The Junior High School Girl Reserve Council has elected Ruth Thompson of Powell Junior High School as president, and Anita Pieri of Langley Junior High | School as secretary. Try-outs for the Girl Reserve Glee Club will be held Tuesday afternoon &t 4 o'clock. ‘The second lecture‘ 3 ;.he le:defih& course for advisers of club work wi s S L S b hardt, director of the Wi n - tute for l:.ental Hygiene, '“f'&m “Child Guidance.” ‘The Girl Reserve Toy Shop needs more old toys to be mended, pieces of cloth to make dresses for dolls and paint for the kiddy cars and ‘mechanical toys. The Toy Shop is open every Saturday morning and workers are i Industrial De t will have :c’nuu and t, lea tomorrow at midnight, return ing Tuesday night at 11:30. ‘The Blue Triangle Club will meet ‘Thursday at 7:30 o'clock, when the | day evening, is tional Christmas social service project of the business and professional women's, de- partment. there | this club will begin work on folk Christ- will be a travel talk on Russia, followed, . mas carols next Friday. in dancing, dra~ hflwmu_ tap cing, an interna- The Silverelle Club, which meets Fri- the doll show, a feature of The music hobby group of fa Free Parking Space Opposite 8th Street Entrance Your Furniture Purchase!. Simply make a nominal down payment and pay the balance out of income in con- venient monthly sums. Without Penalties Interest Extras Carrying Charges We Do Not Penalize Our Friends BUY FURNITURE NOW! 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Prices are Lowest in MANY YEARS $95 Two-Piece Living Room Suite: Two attractive pieces, consist- ‘ng of comfortable Sofa, stered in figured denim quard velour and Button-back Armchair to match. Spring-filled cushions. uphol- or jac- '$59 $129 Two-Piece Bed-Davenport Suite Famous “Kroehler” quality ) Suite—Davenport opens into a large size bed, with a comfort- able Armchair to match. Jac- quard velour coverings. Two-piece Suite, covered ) s l z 9 frieze. Comfortable Sofa - $199 Kroehler 100% Mohair Suite | vith 100% mohair; re- l versible cushions of linen and Button-back Armchair to match. characters in my hooks, saying: don’t let’s call him that! Let's call him something else. They suggest a bet- tz‘.l.:'nne and I promptly change to Perhaps the Journey Club series owes part of its success to the clever way in which its author has illustrated each tographs. For “Ourseives and Our City,” a book which deals with the elementary facts of civic rernment, Mrs. Huntington “imy " all six children to Wash- ington and had them photographed in- spect various departments described in the text of the book. Pictures of the same children appear in the pages of the travel books, together with innum- erable photographs of the foreign coun- tries visited. A second series, on child life in vari- Huntington’s time at present. “Child Life in the Arctic” and “Child Life in the " will b R of Mrs.| chil series will be for children 7 or 8 years old, or slightly younger than the read- | ers of the Journey Club books. New Book Coming. A book destined for children’s depart- ments this Winter is “Tales of a Basque Grandmother,” which will appear at Christmas. 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