Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16

be her guests on Flag day at her home AT
Berwyn Heights.
Mrs. Allen Baker will entertain the
| Weekly Literary Club at her home on May
| 40. On June Is Mrs. Baker will sail for
| Europe. to spend the summer with reia-
| tives in the vicinity of London MISS ireMe
Baker, also a member of the clup. VIII
leave next Wednesday for lower mary
| land, to spend the summer with her gran9-
| father, Col. A. A. Baker, near Aeoha~
town.
| The "Old Men and Women Club is some
thing distinctly new in the club Worio. II
| has lust been formed at Boyd's, Nd, with
| Judge Lawrence Darby of that place as the
| host of the occasion. Report says INA
| only people who have attained the scrip-
| tural age of three score years ana ten are
eligible to membership.
y The Minerva Club met Monday night at
7 the home of the president, MISS Euse ,,n q
l.. Pollock. After routine business nao
| been transacted the members gave an III
| formal program of a literary character, IN
terspersed with music. Miss Jane Bereh
| sang an original ballad. Hear1sease, =
| companied by Miss Bertha Halleck on the
piano AS an encore she gave Coming
Through the Rye Miss Mary Bullock
played a piano solo and Mr.. M n. ste
phens read 1.-The Ancient Mariner Inc
club will reorganize on a larger basis In
October.
The May meeting of the Social M c: l..
Club was held at the home of Miss Ella
Murray Tuesday night. The program was
as follows: Roll call, current events, pre-
senting of three new names Tor aoHlissio1
to the club and a half dozen song anu
piano numbers and recitations Ihose
who contributed to the entertainment OF
the evening were Miss Marian Hill, MISS
| Josephine Morgan, Miss Louise henderson
and Messrs. John Moore, Harry peterson
ho oil
June for the last time this season. Ihose
present included Miss Georgia Bennett
Miss Luara Whitman. Miss Julia Folke. MI
William Mankin Wheat, NE Marx f'arlis
and John and William Iucker.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for hold
ing the twelfth annual meeting OF STOCK,
holders of Wimodaughsis next Iuesuay I Tho
principal business of the meeting Will pe
the election of three directors TOT Ihree
wears. to succeed Mrs. Annie NJ EDGAR
Mrs. NJ. C. Lohr and Mrs. Ida M. Soll or J.
o'clock Mrs Ellen Spencer Mussey VIII
give an address, THE Higher Educatlon
of Women" There will be music: Wed
nesday morning at 1880 n i 1,,ir i be
made The polls will be open from IL
o'clock until pm. Reports of the presl-
dent secretaries, committees ana otnerS
will begin at o'clock. Mr.. Charles +.
weller will give an illustrated talk at
W Wnol shortly, his subject to be
problems of Poverty at the National Cap
ital."
Mrs Robert Miller entertained the Query
Club at her fiat in the Armour THURSDAY
evening, when the usual exercises gave way
to music and cards. The club Will hoio It's
first annual election Of officers next Ihurs-
day, which will be the last meeting of the
association for the present season. Among
the invited friends of the members present
were Mrs Alice Wheeler, Mr. and MRS;
George Fordham, Miss Lucy Wheeler anu
Row Hansford of Alexandra.
The Columbia Heights Art Club met
Thursday evening at the home OF MRS; "A
w Seip 919 Wetminster street. Modern
French Painting" was discussed by the
members each of whom is an authority on
art The club held It's last business meet
ing of the season at the residence Oh MIs.
Alnhonso Hart of Yale street, when the
of4ice of social recorder was created ana
Mrs Philippine Munro elected to that po-
sition.
The International Press Union will give
it's annual supper next Tuesday evening.
The invitations are unique, each being at
first glimpse a scrap of newspaper with
the announcement "boXed IN.
Mrs. A. C. Miller of the Mothers Union
has gone to Galveston Tex, to visit her
mother, Mrs. Alfred Huestis Stokes
The Columbia Legislative League has ad-
journed until September Il.
The White Lilac Club will give another
social in June, after Whch the meHlpefs
will adjourn until fall.
The Merry Co FOUNDERS met last night at
the home of Miss Lula NJ. Davis. Miss
Nettfe Springer entertained the members
with an illustrated Renaissance of her one
days outing with a kodak in Alexandria.
and Miss Lucy Morgan sang a number OF
new songs accompanied by Miss Rita Nor
gan and Mr.. Frank Hough on the piano and
violin. The program also included graphic
phone selections and a number of lantern
slide views Among the specially invited
friends present were Misses Ida and Mary
Hallett Miss Jennie Hough, Miss Henri
eta Ball and Messrs. Frank Sutton, John
Baker, Harry Henderson, Frank Putney
and Will Hamersley.
The M. c. NJ Card Club met last night,
when it was decided to adjourn after the
| meeting to be held Monday of next week.
Prizes were won by Miss Martha Wheeler,
| Miss Madge Butler and Mr.. Morrice Ball.
| The Lily Pleasure Club gave an informal
| dance last Monday night at the home of
| its secretary, Miss Anita Barber of Capt.
| toll Hill. The parlors were decorated with
| dogwood blossoms and the refreshment
| table with pink roses. The hostess enter
tanned her guests on the back veranda
| There were nearly fifty guests present.
The Sons and Daughters of Maine have
arrangements made for their meeting this
evening at so 9th street, the headquarters
| of the w. c. T. U. Mrs. Briggs and Mrs
Mclaughlin will have the management of
| the program, which has been carefully ar
| ranged and promises to be in keeping with
| the usual interesting features characters
| tic of the meetings of this association.
The Study and Pleasure Club will close
| its meetings with a social at some near
| date, not yet selected. Monday evening the
| club members will be entertained by Miss
| Grace F. Middleton of Georgetown, who
| has large garden attached to her home. If
| the weather be suitable the refreshments
will be served on the lawn.
The w P. Club met last evening with
Mrs NJ L. Bates, the former president of
the organization, who has just returned
| from a two months visit to her old
home in California. While in the west she
| took a trip to Mexico and in her description
| of her visit showed the members number
| of pieces of curious and beautiful samples
| of drawn work done by the women of that
country.
| Mrs Charles D. Merwin, regent of Po-
| tomac Chapter, D. A. R., will not go to
| New Orleans as she had planned, but has