Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-22

land Literary Club Thursday night at
| the home Of Mr. and Mrs John A. Gross,
1889 Kearney street. an interesting paper
treating Of an early slavery incident In
Washington was read by Mr.. William B.
Bryan of Washington. Other features OF
the program included vocal solos by MIR.
Arthur E. Middleton, Miss Anna F. Mat
tern and Miss Grace L. Rails: piano Sc
lection by Mrs. Oliver Chamberlain, and
Rotations by Mrs. Molster and Miss
bers of the club and its friends attended
the meeting.
The Crimochre Pleasure Club was en-
tertained ST. Patricks day at the home
of Miss Irene Umhau in Northwest Wash
ington. A game of animals afforded
much amusement. the prizes being award
ed to Miss Sophie Nieneyer and Mr.. Will
lam Toole. Mr.. ]. Edwin Burch receiving
the BOBBY. Vocal and instrumental music
was also a feature Of the evening. Re-
freshments We're served from table
appropriately decorated In the club colors
and green. Among those present were
Misses Bertha Toole. Emily Rittershofer,
Josephine Heirling. Gertrude Herring.
Irene Umhau and Sophie Niemeyer. and
Messrs. Cassard Schroth. William Toole.
J. Edwin Burch, Everett Parsley and
Bernard Robey.
The Emerson Study Club met Thursday
The subject was THE Poet" Each men,
Der answered the roll call by naming her
favorite poet with quotations. Mrs. Hast
!ngs gave a review of Ernerson's essay.
The Poet;" Mrs. Baker talked Of some
poets who have been reformers, giving quo
tations from each: Mrs. Runyon named
some of the minor poets, whose fame
rested upon one or two poems; Mrs Cole
gave a brief sketch of the New England
poets, and Emerson was discussed as a
poet; Mrs. Pratt read short poems from
southern poets; Mrs. Love gave brief
sketches OF the earliest known poets,
| with quotations.
The club had as its guest Miss johnson
of New England, who stated that she had
met Emerson and heard him lecture at
Concord. Miss Johnson gave a vivid por-
trayal Of a. recent visit to Emerson 8
home and the surroundings at Concord
also a talk about Whittier. Refreshments
were served after the adjournment
Gen. George B. Davis. judge advocate
general U.SA., delivered an address on
the Peace Conference at The Hague"
before the Mems Club of the metropolitan
Memorial M. E. Church Monday evening.
Capt Thomas II. Mckee is president OF
Of Mr. r. F. Sullivan. In his address
Gen. Davis. who was one of the delegates
from this country to The Hague confer
ence, told of the purposes for which the
culties experienced in the attempt to Sc
cure concerted action on many of the
important questions involved and of the
actual results obtained. He related many
interesting Incidents that occurred dur
ing the conference. and his description
of the old Dutch city In which the con-
ference was held, its buildings and peo-
Pile, and of the reception rendered the
delegates by the Queen Of the Neither
| lands was particularly pleasing.
No nf En n1I "a
club listened to- a tenor solo by Mr..
Charlton Howarth entitled Through
Eternity" followed by the Irish ballad,
Come Back to Erin" Mr.. H. r. Stat
composition entitled "Heave Ho." and as
an encore "Musica Pro!bita'' Both sing
ers were accompanied on the plano by
Mrs. Mollie Greenstreet. Mr.. William D.
Slaughter recited "Spartacus," and Mr.
r. E Barbour gave humorous recita-
ton entitled THE Insurance Agent" and
in response to an encore, 1.-The Halloween
Party
A social meeting of the League OF
American Pen Women was held Wednes-
day evening at headquarters 1347 L
street. Miss White presiding. The meet
ing was opened with instrumental music
by Miss Lisa Varenius Of Stockholm,
Sweden niece Of Mr.. Herman de Lagen-
crartz the Swedish minister. A paper on
| Prof. Hyland c. Kirk. editor Of 'Longev-
ity," was greatly enjoyed for it's humor
and scholarship Briefly summed up
1.-The mission Of the short story affords
concise and impressive medium by
which the writer may convey his thought
to the public. and in which the reader
may find refreshment without WEAKNESS
and delight without reproach."
Mrs Ida Porter Boyer. who is In charge
of the press department OF the Woman
Suffrage Association in Oklahoma, and Is
now preparing a photography Of woman
suffrage a member of the league, gave
| a. talk on our latest acquisition to state
hood, Oklahoma
"a Sketch of Richard Malcolm John
ston." by Mrs. Kate Alma Organ Of
Texas, was read by Mrs. Christine w
Dunlap: ''Our Bochim, a Poem of the
Civil War;" by Mrs. Amelia Stone Qufn.
ton of California was read by Mrs. Susie
Root Rhodes, and Camp Life In the
Yellowstone" by Mrs. Mary Walker Whit
worth OF Minnesota, was read by Miss
| Elizabeth A. Hyde.
The evening closed with music by Miss
| Varenius.
The organization meeting Of the Ell.
bertha Burns Van Ness Chapter. Chill
dren of the American Revolution, tool