Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-27
THE WOMEN'S CLUBS

The Columbia Heights Art Club has made
application for membership to the District
Womens Federated Clubs. Their admission
will be considered this evening at the reg
ular monthly meeting of the federation,
which will take place at WimodaughsiS
headquarters, hob New York avenue,
through the courtesy of that organization.
This club is literary in character, and was
formed for the study of history, painting,
sculpture and the drama. A portion of
each weeks session is devoted to general
art matters, with the exception of the
monthly business meetings, when parlia-
mentary drill and current topics of interest
to the club compose part of the program.
The club consists of twenty-six members
and is in fourishing condition.
Mrs. Martha l.. Schneider is it's president; ;
Mrs. Martha D: Lincoln, corresponding
secretary; Miss Florence A. Redway, re-
cording secretary, and Mrs E. Stokes
treasurer Mrs. John Hyde, Mrs. Alphonso
Hart, Mrs. George Redway, Mrs. Evelyn
Clark Morgan and Miss Mary L. Hadley
form the executive board.
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, dean of the
Washington Law College, has embodied in
Her knowledge of both conditions, gained
by twenty-SiX years of experience in the
practice of her profession, makes distinctly
interesting reading.
marriage habit she suggests that eff a IL
"cense to marry could not be issued until
three months after the first application
there would be an appreciate decrease in
ill-considered marriages and a resulting de-
crease in causes for divorce"
The Excelsior Literary Club, which meets
weekly at the homes Of its members, has
devoted the season, so far, to the study of
Shakespeare will be taken up in January
and February, and March will be given to
Scott Mrs. Julia R. Webb Is the president
and Mrs. Addie Foster, Mrs. NJ. L. Wells
dents, and Miss Edith D. Emerson is the
recording secretary, and Miss Arabella
Alexander, corresponding secretary.
The w. l.. A. held its usual monthly
meeting Tuesday evening at the home of
its treasurer, Mrs. E. l.. Stout. The usual
program was omitted, and after a brief
business session the members decided to
adjourn until after the holidays, when they
will take up the matters before the club so
as not to interfere with it's routine work.
January was selected as the date. Miss
Evelyn Price. the founder and first presi-
dent of the club, has just returned from a
year of travel abroad. She collected a
number of photographs, which she will use
to illustrate the talk which she will give
to the club next month.
The Give What You Can" club has been
organized by a half dozen women in North
east Washington who have determined to
aid, as far as possible, in alternating the sur-
ferings of the poor. At their initial meeting
last Monday the members contributed cloth
ing, cooked food and groceries, and then
distributed them according to pre-
arranged plan. Meetings will be held week
ly the time between to be used in seeking
out needy cases. Destitute persons are to
be helped whether they have come to want
through their own fault or not. The word
worthy has no standing in the club. No
person who is too busy to devote an hour a
day to the work is eligible to membership.
All secondhand clothing is to be turned in
clean, mended and genteel: the names OF
all persons helped is to be a club secret, and
each member must pledge herself to con-
tribute freely and quietly-or, as the title
bids her, to give what you can" Mrs.
James F. E. Smith is 'suggestor'' and Mrs
John F. Butler cashier. There are no other
officers. The additional members are Mrs
John F. Cooper, jr., Mrs. Nellie E. Hurley
Miss Kate l.. Simmons and Miss Julia
Blair.