The Washington herald., 1907-10-13
READY FOR WRITER'S
WOmen's Pen League to En-
tertain Visitors.
WILL COME HERE SATURDAY
Delegates on Way 10 National Com
veRtiOn In birmingham tO stop
over i'm the Capital City as Guests
of Sister Penwomen-what MEM
bers of the League Are Doing.

ptFs 81 the League are DnthE.
The League Of American Pen Women, at
its regular monthly meeting Monday
evening last considered plans for the en-
tertainmeHt. in unison with the Women 5
National Press Association, Of the ex-
pected Eastern delegates to the Inter
national League of Press Clubs, on the
evening Of Saturday. October 19. The del
egates are expected TO spend a day
and night in Washington, leaving the
next morning for Birmingham. Ala,
where the convention viii be held.
Miss Grace L. McKinstrey, OF Faubault,
Mimi, an honorary member and one o.
the commissioners appointed by the Gov
ernor to further the interests of art
in the State told something about
her work III the West, where the
artistic sentiment is being 4iighly f0s-
tered Miss AlcKmstrey is the author Of
a series of art papers on Spain, and has
come East TO paint the portraits OF sew
eral notable people Miss Bessie f. Dunn,
formerly OF Cleveland. Ohio. was also u
visitor Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, librari-
an, reported a musical motif. Cupid, the
Beggar." the words by Mrs. Rachel Tou-
gate Beck, and a copy OF Army and
Navy Life, containing a poem By the
same author, ''The Crimson Fire Tree,
which was read by Mrs Christine W
Dunlap. Mrs. Juliette ". Babbitt the
league histerian. presented her report, as
follows
Grace MacGowan Cookies name Is one
4E-s ss1..Ia~
story by her, An Assistant Muse, ap-
peared in the Mail and Times. Des
Moines-Stapp is associate editor-for Sep
tember 20 while the Ladies' World for
October has one by her entitled The
Road 70 Paradise the October National
Home Journal has another story, The
Wiving Of Adam, with the authors pOr-
trait. The same Journal has a story hy
Mrs. Virginia King Frye, At the Turn OF
the Road WAh her portrait on the irst
page
work of the Members.
Articles poems. and sketches by hon
orary members-among them. Harriet
Prescott Sponord, Florence Earle Coates.
and Agnes Reppller-frequentiy appear in
the leading magazines. There are good
portraits and sketches in Cynthia West
over Alden and Floretta Vining in an ar
ticle about club women by Helen NJ
Wiuslow. in the National Home Journal
for September.
The league has reason 70 be proud Of
its Chicago contingent. The historian had
the recent pleasure of spending an hour
or two with Mrs. Agaess Greene Foster,
In her pretty apartment overlooking Lin
l.
sonal meeting but deepened the sincere
esteem and admiration long felt for this
gifted woman, whose poems, pure and up
lifting, appeal with unusual force to the
heart as well as 10 the mind A beautiful
little book issued by Paul Elder & Co. is
You and Some Others. a COLLECTION OF
some of those poems. Miss Stapp gives
il a deughtfuly appreciaJive notice in the
Mail and Times for October T.
Mrs Eleanor Everest Freer contends
that our best music can just as Well be
sat 10 the best English. instead OF foreign
languages and this she has shown in the
songs of Browning, Austin Dobson, Alice
MeyneH. William Watson and others.
Especially charming are Songs from the
Greek. Of which To Painter is among
those ISSUED by the Wa-Waa Press. Of
Newton, Mass, and Stockings Constant
Lover
Mrs Maude n Jackson. Of Chicago.
writes. Have recently been doing some
special work Tor one Of the educational
publishing houses Of this city, and hope
10 get out nay little fairy tale, Little
Lady Lonesome" by Christmas. Also
busy. preparing a series OF lectures for
club work.
special Train Is Planned.
Announcement was made that the spe-
ciaI train conveying the delegates and
guests TO the convention Of the Interna-
tional League Of Press Clubs, at Birming-
ham. Ala. viii leave Washington at g
a. m. Sunday morning. October 20. Lewis
G. Early, the league secretary. viii be
at the Riggs House. on the 18th, 10 per-
feet all arrangements for the trip a
reception will be accorded the delegates
upon their arrival in the "Pirtsburg of
the South. and an attractive programme
of entertainment has been arranged for
them.
A special train. leaving Birmingham
early on Saturday. October IS, viii stop
over at Atlanta and Norfolk. October .
is special day for the international
League Of Press Clubs at the jamestown
exposition