Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-12

Women's Clubs Miss Frances Graham
French, president has arranged TO hold its
annual meeting November IL at the Hebrew
| Temple. There will be sessions at 10 am
and . pm. The program will Include: Ike
ports of the general officers, chairmen OF
committees and presidents OF animated
climbs A paper will be read on The Fed
Grafton and Its Work by Mrs. Mary ;.
| Lockwood followed by the election OF OIL
| GERS.
Advance sheets of the presidents report
| indicate that the year has been a busy one
| The yestihuling of the electric cars was car
| ried through; impetus was given to the
| playground movement; an art prize We Wa
| given: the president answered over 40
| letters, many relating TO speclnc INQUIRIES
| along educational and philanthroplc INES
| delegates were appointed to five congresses
| over 200 conferences were held with c4up
| members outside Of the monthly cluD meet
| ings held at the presidents home; cards Oh
| regret were sent in acknowledgment OF
| forty Invitations to state federation meet
| fngs; visits to club members, 10; year DOORS
sent out, 275; documents received ana hieu'
| %.
Statements from the secretaries will add
! to these numbers, aggregatIng an amount
of work which shows that the federauoh
| has a good account to make OF ltse4I III
| the club year just about to close.
The next regular meeting will be held
| the last Saturday of this month.
A special business meeting Of the Wom-
ans National Press Association was held
on Friday evening in the parlors or the
Briggs Home, with Mrs. Ellen cromwell
| president in the chair. Three delegates,
| with their alternates, were elected TO rep
| resent the association at the annuel meet
| ing of the District Federation OF Woman s
| Clubs. Delegates are Mrs. Grace Porter
| Hopkins. DR. Adeline Portman and Mrs:
| Mary Craig Prescott. The alternates are
Mrs Brinton. Miss Hickey and Mrs. Flor
| ence A. Chase. 1t was decided that the as
| sociate membership list should be abolished
and that hereafter only the credentials of
| women engaged in journalistic work can
| be considered. An application from Mrs.
| Priscilla r. Edes was placed before the eX-
| ecutiVe board.
Col Du Chaille Long has consented to
| lecture for the w. N. p A at an early
| date. A letter from Mrs. Gilchrist OF Ohio
| was read, containing a report of her years
work. She has written a book. 'Fibbte,
and has two serial stories running in
Massachusetts, paper.
The Study and Pleasure Club was enter
| tanned Wednesday evening by Miss Jessie
| Embers Hall, a member and former officer
| of the club. The parlors and halls We're
| decorated with russell leaves, and the din
| ing room was gay with red carnations and
| red-shaded lights. Messrs. Burril jack
son and Waugh composed an orchestra of
| piano, violin and cornet, and Miss Belle
! H Freeman arranged program of recita-
| lions and songs. Among the outside guests
| present were Miss Nell Rodgers, Miss Jen-
| ME Bruce, Miss Pauline Hartwel, Miss
| Jeffries and Messrs. H. NJ. Bostwick, John
| Miller, Arthur Peters, Joseph Hall and Ma
| son Gardner.
The Wild Rose Club gave its opening
| dance OF the season last Monday. The COM
mittee in charge of the evenings pleasure
| were Miss Berthe Packet chairman, and
| the Misses Maud Thompson, Margaret Bur-
| CESS, Della Trip. Rosie Elliott, Naomi
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| garet Murphy.
The Excelsior Literary Club met with
Miss Bennett on Tuesday last at her home
| on A street southeast. Twenty members
| responded to roll call. Mrs. Frear and Mrs.
! Bulla rendered some fine music. Mrs EN-
| merson. Mrs Bulla and Mrs. Bradley gave
short sketches the Roman forum and
the Castle of st. Angelo Miss Bennett
| gave one of her very interesting and in
| structive talks on early Roman architect
] ure ideas of which, she said, they bor-
roWed from the Greeks and other nations,
| combining them with their own thus form
| ing the Roman. Even the Tower OF Pisa
was not theirs but erected In the town Of
Pisa across the Ttber. before Rome was
| built. Closing time came all too soon. and
! the club adjourned to meet next Tuesday
| with Mrs. Barnard
| The Columbia Heights Art Club held a
| weekly meeting Thursday November g. in
| Mrs. WhitalPs apartment at the Windsor
with Mrs. McNabb as chairman of the day.
The origin and use of Candles and Ian
| terms formed the subject of well-pre-
| pared paper by Mrs. Wolhaupter, as art
notes. History study was continued by
paper on Wales, in Song and Story" by
| Mrs Engle. who illustrated this interesting
| essay by photographs and original sketches.
Mrs. Bowman continued the subject by a
| short reading on a summer she spent in
| Wales at the Eisterpod of 1903 Much in
| teresting matter was developed in the re-
| SpOnSeS to roll call The program was
closed by Mrs. Stokes reading THE Tales
the Titles Told"
| The Washington Branch of the Theosoph-
! ical Society held its regular Sunday meet
| ing ar the headquarters, ODD A street south
| east, the lesson for the evening being, THE
| Mystic Christ"
| At the public meeting Mr. A. ]. Cory, the
president, delivered lecture on The
Unity of Religious Thought" which was
/ illustrated by numerous charts. showing
the universally of religious symbolism.
Wednesday evening the class in Ancient