The Washington bee., 1910-07-16
THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
Some of It's Social Features.

Social life at the nations capital
will be at its height during the week
in which the National Medical Asso-
citation will be in session, beginning
Tuesday, August p.
Tuesday night, Immediately after
the first session of the n NJ A, the
visiting doctors will be entertained at
True Reformers' Hall by the famous
Mu-So-Lit Club, of which Dr. A. NJ.
Curtis, a prominent member of the
n NJ. A, is president The Mu-SO-Lit
Club includes in its membership sew
enty-fve men, all eminent in profes-
siOnal and business life.
In the afternoon of the second day,
August "a, a lawn fete and open air
concert will be given in honor OF the
ladies of the n. NJ. A, by the wives
and daughters Of the local profession.
At the head of the Ladies Committee
is Dr. Abbie Mitchell, wife of DR.. J.
w. Mitchell. OF Howard University
Medical College. Associated with DR..
A. Mitchell are Q dozen of the best
known social leaders of Washington.
whose homes will be thrown open for
teas, receptions and other functions of
"a more or less private character.
The principal social function of the
week will be the grand reception and
dance in honor Of the n. NJ. a, at
Convention Hall, Thursday evening
August 25. music to be furnished by
HamiltOn's orchestra of thirty pieces
The arrangements are entrusted to 3
committee of twenty-five, headed by
Dr. A. NJ Curtis, who gives assurance
that this reception will rival, if not
surpass in brillianCy and social i'm
pOrJance, the quadrennial ball IN con-
nectiOn with the inaugural ceremonies
An excursion on the picturesque and
historic Potomac will be the feature
of Friday afternoon and evening
prominent citizens cooperating with
the local profession IL entertaining the
visiting doctors. Steamers will ply at
convenient intervals beginning at &c
A. NJ, between the city and Washing
ton Park, where popular amusements
and abundant shade are fittingly sup
plemented by cool breezes from the
Potomac This entertainment is in
charge of a large committee of forty,
headed by Dr. c. S. Wormley, a we'll
known dentist and local baritone.
In each of these functions, a Citi-
zens' Committee of 100, with Judge r.
II. Terrell at the head, is cooperating
with a degree of unanimIty and public
spirit that insuTeS success.
Many circumstances combine to
make the forthcoming meeting of the
n. NJ. A, at Washington, the most
successful in its history. Freedmen 5
Hospital, the finest and best equipped
in the city, and excelled by few i'll
America, in charge of DR.. w A. War.
field, surgeon in chief, has been kindly
placed at the disposal of the cOnven-
ton for medical and surgical clinics.
The buildings AMI campus of Howard
University, admirably located on hill
commanding a magnificent view of
Washington and its envirOns, has been
secured as a place of meeting through
the courtesy of DR. Thirkield, presi-
dent of the University, and DR.. w. c.
MCNeill, secretary of the Medical Col
lege. Nineteenth Street Baptist
Church has kindly rendered its audi
torium for the public meeting on Tues
day evening, August 23d, while the
best homes and foremost citizens are
planning numerous private affairs
which will make the week a gala one
and leave in the memory Of each visi-
tor a train of pleasant recOllections Of
the charm and beauty Of Washington
and the hospitality Of its citizens.