Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

Ross. The High School Cadet officers TAX
ing part as officers in Washington's army
were Capt. &. e. Gordon. Capt. Cause
| Lieut.. WiIker, Lieut.. Dulin, Corp. Bng-
ham and Messrs. Gilchrist and Rathbone
| The guests were received by Nellie Gusts
| in the person of Mrs. F.. G. Page. reel
! tation was given by Mrs. M. G. Walporte,
Music, vocal and instrumental. was rend-
cred by Mrs. Page, Mr.. Leufero. Judge
Ross, Mr.. and Mrs. Frear and the High
| School Cadet Quartet.
At meeting of the Lawrence Washing
| ton Chapter. N. S. d. A. r., held Thurs
| day, the regent Mrs. Gerald in the chair
Miss Maria Selden, Mrs. Fl. H. E.dmon-
stOn, Miss Frances Dodson. Mrs K l..
| Power and Miss J. l.. Brooke were unan-
imously elected alternates to the regent
| to the seventeenth Continental Congress,
/ to be held In April next. A paper was
read by the historian. Miss Frances Dod-
son, on the life of Lawrence Washington.
| for whom the chapter was named. The
| chapter congratulate Miss Dodson, and
voted that the paper be placed among its
archives.
| The Columbia Heights Art Club held its
session at the apartment of Mrs Seip
2622 18th street northwest Mrs VOL
happier gave the art paper entitled
Some Historic Homes" dwelling partic-
ularly on Mount Vernon and the home of
John Hancock. Mrs. Emerson presented
the history paper giving as a link in
the chain of Persian study a brief de-
scription of persian Sculpture" includ-
ing the ruins of Persepolis and Pasar-
gardae, and the mammoth stone carving
in the mountains of Behistan. A discus
sion of the paper followed. Miss Barlow
read Il selection from THE Light of
Asia The usual social hour and lunch
| con closed the meeting.
The committee of patriotic education,
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey. chairman,
took the opportunity on Washington
for boys to study patriotism. under the
subchairmanship of Mrs. Morgan D.
Lewis Mrs. George T. Smallwood was
the directress of one club, which met
at Calvary Baptist Church. Mrs Charles
NJ. Pepper. directress of the other. COM
posed of American-born Italian boys met
at 314 Pennsylvania avenue southeast.
These boys. all under fourteen years of
age, completed a full organization and
pledged themselves to the flag and a
study of the underlying principles of the
government and all that tends to good
citizenship.
These clubs will meet twice a month.
At the Oriental Esoteric Center. 1443 q
street, the subject of the lecture Sun
day evening was Life" Miss Marsland
said we frequently hear 81 could not live
under such conditions: life would not be
worth living, yet life goes on through
youth to old age and so we. imm ortai must
go and on until one day birth, human
life and death, from their constant recur-
renee, will seem little more than passing
incidents of travel. and the dust and
fatigue of the journey will be as othing
the important issue will be. do we ar
rive? And since the great family is not
complete until all have reached the goal,
so our object will come to be. not so much
our own progress as the aiding of the
weak and backward souls in their Strug-
gles Wednesdays lecture was the sec
ond of. two dealing with the will. 1.-The
man of impulse Miss MarsIand stated
has many functions and is essential to
the organism. Involuntary action pre-
sided over by the cerebro-spin system
is in his domain. He does as his ances-
tors did, unless he is ruled by his proper
master. the man of will. He must be
allowed a certain amount of liberty, for
he is an excellent servant and can pre-
serve the organism at a moment of dan
ger or in sudden emergency almost
better than the man of will who is not
yet to be relied upon in the average
man."
A lecture on ''The Science of Yoga" was
delivered Sunday at the headquarters of
the Philosophical Society," Washington
branch. by w. +. C.. Reynolds. The
speaker devoted himself chiefly to Raja
ture designed to reduce the number of
earthly incarnations the individual has to
SO through. and to hasten that union with
the Deity which is the recognized aim of
all religions.
The Jolly Dozen held a semi-monthly
meeting at the residence of Miss Dorothy