The Washington herald., 1909-11-21
NEWS OF THE CLUBS.

Potomac Chapter, D. A. r, held the
second meeting Of the winter season at
the home of their vice regent, Mrs. Wanna
maker, 2Jl9 Ontario road. Wednesday
evening. In accordance with the pro-
gramme in the chapter year book, Mrs.
| Wanamaker read a paper entitled Dos
/ ton port BILL while Mrs. Quirollo's paper
I gave an interesting account of the bat
1 ties OF Lexington and Concord. -Four new
members were added 20 the chapter. one
being by transfer from local chapter.
/ Mrs. Fitzhugh and Miss Powell. mother
and niece Of the hostess. poured tea dur
| ing the social hour which followed the
meeting
Miss Elizabeth F. Pierce entertained IN
honor Of her birthday. Wednesday even
ing. having as her guests the members or
The Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton who had been delegates to the as
ISOLATION conference at Silver Bay.
"reminiscences. songs. cheers. and anec-
dotes were much enjoyed. and a chapter
organized. to be known as the silver
Bay Chapter" of the Young Women's
/ Christian Association. Miss Margaret
| Taber Johnson was elected president and
Miss Ruth Olmstead secretary. The
chapter will meet in January at the home
OF Mrs. William II. Bayly, president OF
the association. A supper was served in
the dining-roOm. Those present were
Mrs. W. II. Bayly Mrs Olmstead. the
Misses Florence VI. Brown. Frances T.
Chickering, Margaret Taber Johnson.
| MignOnette o. Buckingham, Ludema
Sayre, Mildred Bartholow, Mae Catlett
Nellie Dom, Imogene James, Anna Will
son. Grace Miller. Rebecca Love. Elsie
Bunting. Miss Foster Ruth Olmstead
and Mr.. Louis Bayly.
The monthly meeting OF the Potomac
Literary Club was called to order last
Tuesday evening az 800 Sixth street north
west, with President Frank NJ. Hoadley
/ presiding.
Or. w. A. Croffut delivered a highly in
teresting lecture on How I discovered
the north pole" and after humorous
reference to the experiences Of Cook and
Pcary, Or. Croffut ingeniously contended
that, as the age OF man is computed
upon the passage Of days. and that as
near the north pole one is enabled TO
/ travel around the earth twice as often
as the earth turns on its axes. not only
do the days not pass. but the traveller &C
tually gets younger instead OF older
Mrs. Josephine Arnold Rich was In charge
OF the musical programme.
Miss Lillian Chenowith sang a contralto
! solo. Whisper and I Shall Hear" with
/ splendid effect. and responded with Lit
/ tie Boy Blue accompanied by Miss Bes-
/ sic Monaghan on the piano Miss Lulu
/ Waters gave whistling solo. "Mendels-
sohn's Spring Song" with Miss Monag-
! han as accompanist. As an encore Miss
| Waters gave an operate number.
The entertainment programme con-
cluded by Miss Florence GirOuard singing
| a soprano solo. "Carrlssima," accom-
panied by Mr.. Arthur Stephens. and re-
sponded to an encore with stolen
Wings"
DR.. w. A. Croffut. F. d. Shawn. and
Mrs. Mary +. Lyddane were unanimously
elected 10 membership. after which re-
! freshments were served.
President Hoadley announced that the
/ programme for the December meeting
would consist Of short selections RpDro-
/ pirate TO the Christmas season by the
members, and appointed the following
committee on refreshments for the meet
| ing; Silas Boyce. J. Orville johnson. r.
| a. Phillips. Mrs. Rosa L. Townshend.
| and Mrs. J. A Marin.