Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-28
AMONG THE CLUBS

The District of Columbia Federation of
Womens Clubs held recent meeting at
the home of its president, Mrs. Henry F.
Blount, in Georgetown, to formulate plans
for conference it is purposed to hold in
this city early~1n December, and to which
will be invited the club women in the neigh
boring states of Maryland and Virginia. 1t
is expected that Miss Poppenheim of
Charleston, S. c., formerly corresponding
secretary of the General Federation of
Clubs, will address the conference and that
number of social events will be given in
Connection with the meeting, the prime OBJ
ject of which is to promote friendly inter-
course between the progressive women of
the District and those of the middle Allan
tic states to the end that there may be a
better understanding of their respective
aims and ambitions. Such unity of inter-
ests already exists between the club women
of other sections of the country, and on
the principle. United we stand, divided we
fall" the clubs power for good has been
augmented wherever the union had been
formed.
Mrs. Rlount, who is ex-officio chairman
of the committee to arrange for the confer
ence. will have the assistance of the fol-
lowing ladies: Mrs. w. E. De Reimer,
chairman of reciprocity committee: Mrs.
Ada H. Weiss. chairman of social COM
mittee; Mrs Grace Porter Hopkins, chair
man of editorial committee; Mrs. H. T.
Guss, Mrs. Martha L. Schneider, Mrs Clara
Blount Bleo. Mrs. L. V. Mccullough and
Mrs. Jessie l.. Engle, secretaries of the D.
F. w. c., and others to be called upon
later.
At the conclusion of the business session
refreshments were served, after which Col
Blount was introduced and read a synop-
sis of the address the woman cashier of
the Bank of Joplin Mo, delivered at the
annual meeting of the American Bank AS
ISOLATION recently held in St Louis
no oebp oto hra oh IF h
ical Society held its regular meeting at the
headquarters, 222 H street southeast. on
Sunday.
The president, Mr. A. J. Cory opened the
meeting, after which the study of the
osophy and the new psychology" was re-
sumed The lesson treated of the develop
ment of cairvoyance and clairaudience and
the points brought out were the stages of
development and the means by which they
were secured.
The class Wednesday evening continued
the study of the pedigree of man." The
chief points of the lesson We're the plane
tary chains and diagrams illustrating the
planes of nature and the globes of the So
lar system. Miss Hansen gave a short talk
on Morse Mythology along the lines laid
down by Anderson, and in the discussion
which followed many interesting arguments
were brought out between the Scandinavian
mythology and the teachings of the ancient
wisdom.
Friday night the class in the study of
Thought Power. Its Control and Culture"
continued its work.
The Columbia Heights Art Club met at
the home of Mrs. E. G. Emerson Thursday
afternoon. Mrs. j. n. Doris was chairman
for the day. The summary of Mrs. Jessie
Bowman's paper upon American Archi-
lecture" that while American archi-
tects had not created original style they
were utilitarians, applying the best of every
style to the needs and demands of the peo-
pie, their most original work being the steel
skyscrapers. The discussion following was
a critical comparison of the architecture of
the principal cities. Mrs. Fannie Habert
Nelson read a paper upon Egypt. the
Birthplace of the Sciences bringing to the
attention of the club the fact that many of
the supposed new inventions and discoveries
were old customs in Egypt, incubators and
monopoly in OIL among the rest. The club
then discussed the salient points of the pa
per and in response to roll call added many
interesting details to the papers of the day.