Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1937, Page 13

SOUTHWEST WAITS SPRING FESTIVAL Neighborkiood House Event " Will Be Held This Week. Down Southwest, where Neighbor- hood House is the pivotal point of most social activity, all the good neighbors are getting ready for the thirty-fifth annual Spring festival. ‘Thursday, Friday and Saturday are the days. ‘Then all Southwest Washington in- tends to turn out with a real old- fashioned celebration, such as they held in merry England long, long years ago. Now that it has become an annual event, and, rounding out its thirty- fifth year, the Neighborhood House Spring Festival, to give it the for- mal name, is planned this season to be bigger and better than all pre- vious attempts. May Queen to Be Chosen. There will be, first of all, & Queen of the May—and this little lady will be chosen from the loveliest lsssies of Southwest Washington. After that a formal pageant of the May Queen and her attendants, with outdoor dancing on N street in the 400 block, where Neighborhood House is Jocated. Games, dances and folk tales—a reflection of the olden, golden days when peoples of all races rejoiced in the birth of Spring, the reawakening of the beauty of earth—all these are planned to make Southwest Wash- ington the center of the city's in- terest. Cherry blossoms may attract their thousands from out of town, but the Neighborhood House party is aimed directly at Washingtonians and all hands are invited to come on down near the wharf and have the time of their lives. ‘Today and tomorrow and every day and night from now until Thursday the boys and the girls of Southwest Washington, assisted by their elders, will be busy putting the Neighbor- hood House in order. House Built in 1793, That old house at 470 N, inciden- tally, is the pride and joy of South- ‘west Washington—{for it was erected &s far back as 1795, is one of the oldest houses in all Washington, and saw the belles and beaux of many generations dance around Maypoles. They danced the fantastic fairly well in the old days, but the boys and girls of today hope to go their for- bears one better when the real article is staged on the three nights set aside for a recrudescence of the old meas- ures—the waltz, the polka and the minuet. Miss Margaret Bell Merrill, head resident of the Neighborhood House, beams when she tells what the old neighborhood hopes to produce in the way of a May celebration this year— the annual Spring festival. “I firmly believe.” Miss Merrill said Yesterday, “that this year Neighbor- hood House, its staff and various clubs, will surpass all previous efforts. That this Spring festival will really be a work of art. And no wonder! If you go to Neigh- ‘borhood Hoyse at any time of the day or night, from early morning to around midnight, you'll find the nine mem- bers of the staff, assisted by 23 vol- unteer workers, dolling the place up, painting, papering, scrubbing, polish- ing, doing everything to put life and ®est in what they call the finest so- clal center in all Washington.” Neighborhood House has grown im- measurably. It began in & small way back in November, 1901, when the late Mrs. Alice Pike Barney, well-known local artist, philanthropist and social work- er, presented this edifice to the com- ::unuy—!or the purpose it serves to- ay. At last reckoning, 3,700 persons in Southwest Washington used Neighbor- hood House as a meeting place. That ‘Wwas in the month of March just past. It represented a huge increase over the attendance of March last year. Nowadays, some 800 men, women and children are members of Neigh- borhood House and its affiliated ac- tivities—and these are away up in numbers, well over the 30 mark. Clubs Meeting at House. To give an idea what they do down there in Neighborhood House, located in the.oldest part of Washington, the ‘Washington that was known for Yyears &8 “The Island,” and now as *“The Lower End,” there are mothers’ clubs and neighbors’ clubs and a woman's club that is exactly 31 years old. That woman’s club, organized in 1906, is the pride of Southwest ‘Washington, for while most of the women who belong to it were residents long ago of Southwest Washington, many of them later moved to other parts of the city. No matter where they live, each Tues- day night sees them come trooping back to Southwest to attend the meet- ings of the Woman’s Club in Neigh- borhood House. Of course, the Woman's Club is only one activity so far as Neighborhood House is concerned, but it is a very important one, since its members al- ‘Ways turn out to give helping hands whenever needed. This year, for in- stance, they are prepared to serve the suppers and dinners to the guests who come to the Spring festival. And when the guests arrive they are poing to see more than a Spring fes- tival. They will see just what can be BURN? ACHE? New Rub conteining Aspirin gives glorious roliet in @ fow minvtes Step_out on eool, eom- fortable feet a few min- mtes after you've wmsed Aspirub — the one and ONLY rub contalning Aspirin. Just ub om stain- Jess, antiseptic - pene- trating Aspirub. Al- mostinstantly burn- ing, aching moreness disappcars — painful smarting stops—your feet feel soreness get right out. Glorious Tel anteed. most of themselves. Not only boys and girls, but their mothers and fathers. Southwest Washingtonians will tell you about the arts and craft courses, where boys learn to work in metal and in wood, girls to sew and weave and knit and cook, and all hands to paint. And finger-painting. That is the last word in novelty recreation. Finger Painting. The boys and girls are per- mitted to smear their fingers with paint, of any color they choose, and then begin daubing on paper. Finger painting has got to be sort of a neighborhood craze. And you should see some of the work these JULIUS LANSBURGH FURNITURE CO. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, MAY ‘9, 1937—PART ONE. youngsters do, using only their fingers as paint brushes. ‘Then, they have a music school at Neighborhood House—where appreci- ation of music, as well as playing the Piano, is an attraction. All those things are for the boys and girls. For the grownups there is a day nuisery, where tired mothers may park their babies while mothers go to work, or to the movies, or do what they wish, the babies being well cared for. And this is a blessing to the com- munity. The mothers pay a slight fee for the privilege and they like it. Fifteen children a day are taken care of in the nursery. The ages of these range from 15 months to 6 years, and there also is a kindergarten for pre- school children. These are only some of the things that will be shown to visitors when they go down to see the thirty-ninth annual Spring festival of Neighborhood House. An elaborate program has been worked out, the children are now re- hearsing for it, and everytning will end in a blaze of glory on Saturday night, May 15, when the United States Ma- rine Band will play the music for the festivities. That is the night when the queen and her court will hold forth for the glory of Southwest Washington and the Neighborhood House. 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