Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-04
PEN WOMEN MEET.
Reports Read From Absent Members
Additions to Library.

The first meeting of the League of Ameri-
can Pen Women was held Monday evening
at the residence of its president, Mrs. S. r.
Rhodes 1904 Whitney avenue. 1t was the
first meeting after the long summer fvaca-
ton and an interesting report was made
by the delegates who represented the asso-
citation at the convention of the National
Editorial Association al Guthrie. Okla. Mrs.
Carl Smith was admitted to membership.
Mrs. Christine Walton Dunlap, librarian.
reported accessions to the league library
as follows: 'Pipetown Sandy John
Philip Sousa; "a Box of Matches Hamb-
lin Sears; Miss Gray's Girls Jeanette
A. Grant; Canoe Mates" Kirk Munroe;
a typewriter copy of a play, Louis
XVI" Adair Welcker.
In a report made by Mrs La Sale Corbell
Pickett, referring to the ex-presidents Of
the association it was stated that early in
the summer Mrs. Morgan was at a banquet
given by Mrs. Mclean at Atlantic City and
spoke in the interest of the league A
card from Mrs. Morgan announced that she
would leave on the 4th of this month for
Japan.
The report also STATED that Helen H. Card
ner, one of our representatives abroad for
the past two years. is now making an auto
mobile trip through France, and will con-
ttnue the journey through Italy Mrs.
Stella Marie Stutenroth sends from Water
town, S. D., a copy of Public Opinion, which
contains department edited by her and
called Eve Up to Date" Mrs. ]. D. Alex
ander of Cisco. Texas, treasurer of the
Texas Woman's Press Association. sends
journal of proceedings of the Rebekah
State Assembly of Texas, she being secre-
tary of that assembly
Mrs. Pickett's report concludes as fol-
lows:
1--WE have received the report of the elev-
enth annual convention of the Texas Wom-
ans Press Association, held at ST Louis
in May. 1t gives bright and interesting
account of the convention and among it's
many pictured faces are three that are of
special interest to us-that of Mrs. Aurelia
Hadley Mohl, founder of the association,
well known to many Washingtonians who
mourned her death a few years past; of
Mrs. Kate Alma Organ, whose papers we
have had the pleasure of hearing in our
league meetings and of Mrs. Moore Muir
doch, whom we pleasantly remember from
her brief visit to US of two years ago.
Words That Burn sends the Sunf1ower,
published at Lily Dale, N. Y, containing
| an article by her on the question, DO Wom-
en- Influence Men More Than Men Influence
Women AS we are exclusively woman's
league, we can safely take the Affirmative
Mrs. Brown also sends her picture with a
personal sketch taken from the Occidental
Mystic of San Francisco.
Miss L. Adele Harris, a new member, is
society editor of the Times, Missouri VAL
ley, Iowa, a paper founded by her grand
father, an old-time democrat, and now ed
tied by her father.
Miss E. Marguerite Lindley sends a cir
cular of course of study in first aid to in
jured, designed to give practical instruction
as to prompt action in grave crises before
the arrival of the surgeon or physician
A form of application for membership was
| drawn up by Mrs. Virginia King Frye.
after which the league adjourned till the
next regular meeting.