Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1932, Page 40

SOCIETY. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 31, 1932—PART THREE. SOCIETY. e e e ————— COMMON SENSE AND COMMON KINDNESS BY KATHLEEN NORRIS. We have thousands of persons who need help, but they are not “the are r * they are not “the other half.” They tors of a generation or two ago. ns “the lower classes” nor proper objects in exactly their fix some day. cager boys and girls are going to be the | QOMETIMES one wishes that instead | CUrate, but mother may continue to whine about | Friendship does what perfunctory char- social conditions; the children are | ity never can do. studying pelitical economy in the union o ¥ high school. The family meals may | \JOT every woman can easlly enter still be underdone pork and doughnuts, the homes of the poor, The first but the rising generation will begin | two visits are stiff, uncomfortable af- presently to suggest bran bread, baked | fajrs. But chocolate bars all 'round apples, bean soup. work wonders, and at the third or They will somehow manage & radio, | fourth call suddenly everything is they will see most of the movies, they | friendly and adjusted. And this, for will' perhaps spend the rent to have| the visitor, is a real adventure in hap- the children’s pictures—and what pic- | piness. She comes to love “her family,” tures!—taken. What of it? So would | anq their affection rewards her ten you and I, in their places. have | thousand fold for doing only one-tenth to take our bread and circu: ve | of what, as a woman who belleves in find them. 1If they are to be helped to | God. she ought to do anyway. a little higher level, it will not be by It is into the mouth of the Greatest | criticism and scorn. | Teacher of them all that the poet puts | At | these wonderful words—not quite ac- near enough: “Not what you give, but what you share, LEAVING FOR CRUISE Member O. E. S. of District Reception for Grand Matron Members of the Order of the Eastern Star of the District of Columbia at- tended in full force a reception Friday evening at the New Willard Hotel in honor of Miss Edith A. Willlams, the newly elected grand matron of the order in the District, and Paul B. Cromelin, recently elected the grand patron. The grand matron and the grand patron headed the receiving line. ‘The reception was given jointly by Columbia Chapter, No. 15, of which Miss Willlams is a member, and by Lebanon Chapter, No. 25, which is Mr. Cromelin’s home organization. The details of the arrangements were Lebanon Chapter; Mr. Wallace Streater, past grand patron, and Mrs. Streater, past grand matron; Mr. George Plitt, past grand patron; Mr. Edward S Brashears, past grand patron, and Mr Charles O. Greenstreet. Bridge-Tea for Bsz Of Early February Mrs. James Lee Tracy entertained a | the bridge-tea yesterday in her apart- ment at the Kennedy-Warren in honor of Miss Esther Murray, wh | to Mr. Joseph H. McCann w 0se marriage the early part of Februa | guests_were Mrs. George | T. F. Donahue, Mrs. G. of quite so much card cataloguing and district visiting by salaried work- ers we could have a new, individualized e o riending such help for the less | Who breaks his bread with his guest bread-and-butter and rent problems feeds three, If each woman, who could, would Himself, his needy take just one unfortunate family—just | (Copyris one—and lift it off the great sum total | . of the dependent or suffering, how dif- ferent the world would be! To see that | Of Personal Interest | family every week, befriend it, bring ; s | the children into one’s own home oc-| To Washington Residents | casionally; manage blankets this week : S visit to xt weel Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Burgunder of e o the, dentist mext ek . | Baltimore were guests of Mr. and Mrs Herbert Jacobi of Connecticut avenue quite simply, without superiority patronage, win that cne family’s friend- ship, share its problems—and to have | for scveral days last week one million rich women doing it, every- | Mrs. Joseph Lang returned on Sunday where—and the whole national prob- | to her home in the Ponce de Leon from lem would be solved a several weeks' visit in New York, “For suddenly the worst turns the | Where she was the guest of friends Mrs. Sidney Selinger is visiting her | parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Block, in Pennsylvania Mr. and Mrs. have fi[fk ". Nassel of Birmingham, Ala l i ¥ 1 i Mrs. Robert Meyer, with her daughter, in charge of a very efficient committee, | ShiP, Jr.; Mrs of which Mrs. Tillie C. Chauncey, past |- Morrison. grand matron, was the directing head. |; Cline, M Dancing followed the reception MEoay e In the recelving line were Mrs. Paul | JUITaY, Miss T ; 4 oy %} 4 . B. Cromelin, worthy matron of Lebanon | porothY Mannix. neighbor—and Me." | . g Chapter, No. 25, and grand marshal of | M!S Mary McCann 1932.) : : the Grand Chapter; Miss Edith A. Wil- | liams, worthy grand matron; Mr. Paul B. Cromelin, worthy grand patron; Mr. Reuben A. Bogley, most worshipful grand master of Masons and a past grand patron, and Mrs. Bogley, who is a past grand matro Mr. William H Duvall, right worthy associate grand patron of the General Grand Chapte and Mrs. Duvall; Mrs. Minpie E. Ke: right worthy grand secretary; Mr Flora E. Campbell, right worthy grand | treasurer, and Mrs. Alcena Lamond, right worthy grand treasurer emeritus | all of the General Grand Chapter; Mrs. Elizabeth Plitt, associate grand matron Mr. F. Frank Kimmel, associate grand patron; Mrs. Rose A. Yost, grand sec) tary; Mrs, Lillie McKenzie, grand tre urer; Mrs. Mamie L. Greenstreet, g conductress; Mrs. Helen F. Brask associate grand conductress; Mrs L. Howard, worthy matron of Co! Chapter; Mr. Roscoe E. Magne, patron 'of Columbia Chapte Marie W. Murphy, past m of | | servea ; Lebanon Chapter; Mr. Herbert H : e s . Mitchell, patron of Lebanon Chapter E Mrs. J. Paul Chauncey, past grand ma- tron; Mr. Willlam G. Betz, past grand patron, and Mrs. Betz, pa ron of For the without the giver is bare, | And the holy supper is kept indeed | In what you share with another’s need. | doctors and political leaders of tomorrow. That has been our history for 300 years; it is going to be our history forever. If each woman who could would take just one unfortunate family— d lift it off the great sum total of the dependent or suffer- nt 1d would be! Have 1,000,000 rich women doing McCar and the whole national problem would be solved! everywhere hard times. when one s America are quickly made, and quickly lovely word | dissipated, and that every national an movement toward taxation still further | reduces the injustices. Most of us can that f look back and marvel at our ploneer or ser’ 1 immigrant forefathers — the empty W g d acting as | hands and courageous hearts with | if conditi to be a womer TOLL HOUSE TAVERN Colesville Pike Md. which they began life, the chances that were against them, the successful out- come Many of the families that you, today, consider foreig: wmw\imflf'? Silver Spring, vaguely as “the poor,” or | those down by Factory e Alyin Newmyer of the | their guest Mrs, OPEN ALL YEAR—EVERY DAY rester 0P Sunday Breakfast, 9 to 12 Tavern Afternocn Teas and Dinners Miss Frances Meyer, are the guests of the former's brother-in-law and s Mr Victor Strasburger, ter, in Luncheons and Mrs folk, Va day Bridge Club was en- week by Mrs. Herbert at Wardman Park Hotel heon and cards Rosa who was the guest | of her sister, Mrs. Cecelia Michaelis of the Embassy, returned to her home in Baltimore Thursday. ‘omorow afternoon the Sisterhood of the Eighth Street Temple will hold its annual rally and tea in the vestr Guggen! | for Tunc | mrs A Short Drive. or Four Corners Bus Phone Shepherd 3500 MRS. ROBERT E. MATTINGLY, With her husband, Judge Mattingly, Municipal Court of the District, and her sister, Mrs. Luciele Trescott, she is sailing from New York for a math’s trip to Panama, Cuba, West Indian Islands and a stop at Bermuda(f‘n r(;um Ihmm. —Clinedinst Photo. ancestors of haps Eu- med to aps tem ntage d abor cc AT DEMOLL'S 7 BABY GRAND PIANOS Never before could a Baby Grar be offcred at such a low price— buy more piano value now than ever in the sory of the business interesting pro- Pack has charge Mrs. Reba Cohen of 1 give a group of Howard Uni- e a program ‘mament by Lewis, de and the St | Miss Grace University, home Washington tomerrow for her Va., to v year hol at leaves Wheeling, W over the mi Mrs. G of L the forn George York VALUES N EVER EQUALED BEFORE in owed by a t Abram ¢ president of the sis Mrs. B. Erlebacher her apartment in Woodley Pa from 18 days’ cruise to Sou ica. Miss mont are s parents, Mr. and Mrs Harry Wolf of Beve antic City and Mrs Atners bave been in % es Wash- {ork to be ward Koh ington this morning f st of her sor i 2 2 > her home Melvin m a week end Beatrioe is visit Mil trasburger, Barnard | her ents, Judge trasburger, | ness New York with Mr. i Mrs. Leon Tobriner Hollywood, g ¥ Kohr Mrs. Jack Rose Thursday at a This Grand Piano at in 1877. Fine tone—be terms arranged 0. J. DE MoLL & Co, 12th & G Sts. 8 12th St Liberal cllowance : woman, for Mr the who could, would see that family every week, bef: o and and a visit to the dentist next week—quite nage, win that one family’s friendship, share its | problem woukd be solved! examinations e medical school idents cannot write rt J. Gold > e to Wasl a o h parents, { Wi eimer of | Goucher Mr. r.(a motor several weeks " are just such persons. Their dark-eyed, eager boys and girls g to be the doctors and m | chants and political leaders of tomor- | row. 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