Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11


la Paloma" and LA Huntra." Span
ish songs. in effective manner. Miss
Goetz also sang two numbers. The
club will celebrate Christmas by pa
rolling one prisoner from San Quentin.
A resolution asking that boys under 10
years of age be kept off the street was
adopted. Punch was served by Miss
Alice Bartlett, Miss Grace Pease and
Miss Lorna Gregg.
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Rose Hill Parent Teacher association
held social at the home of Mrs. j. ].
Weeks. Huntington drive. last Tuesday
with twenty-five members in attend
ance. The regular monthly business
meeting of this circle will be held on
Thursday afternoon. t3
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The exhibition of American etchings
which Is arranged at the Friday Morn
ing club this week beginning Thursday
is under the direction OF the art COM
mittee. This is new line of work for
the club members, who had not taken
formal recognition of this important
feature until now, when the members
OF this new committee-Miss Olive Per-
cival, chairman; Mrs. Thomas Allen
Box and Miss Florence. Moore-have ar
ranged the first picture show. Repre-
sentative works by Whistler, Pennell,
Platt and MacLaughlan win be shown,
and the exhibit will contain about sew
enty-five examples of this form of ex-
preston.
The exhibit viii continue for three
days and will close Saturday afternoon
with a tea given by members of the
committee to Los Angeles artists and
their friends. The most liberal con-
struction is to be put on this phrasing,
as members of the club executive board
and of the committee wish not to be at
all selfish with their pictures, and ex-
tend a. welcome to every man or woman
who is interested in art or beautiful
things. Coffee and sandwiches will be
served all afternoon.
The next show to be given by this
committee will be an exhibition of
American book plates. This will take
place some time in February.
The Federation of College Women's s
Clubs met yesterday afternoon at Y. w.
c. A. building. Miss Pierson was in the
chair and Mrs. Seward A. Simons,i Mrs.
Nathan Weston, Miss Mary Bingham,
Miss Louise Barber and Miss Neva A.
Chappell gave interesting and timely
papers. The discussions We're along
lines of interest to the college women,
either from social, philanthropic or
civic standpoint The meeting was we'll
attended.
The reciprocity luncheon" at Chris
topher's last Wednesday was a splen-
didly brilliant affair, due in a large
part of the splendid address delivered
by Mrs. William G. Ritter of San Diego
Mrs Ritter took for her subject Sin
cerlty with the Child and her discus
sion was much from the standpoint of
the physician, an attitude which her
medical degree enabled her to take
with conviction.
Mrs. Ritter is president of the South
ern District Federation of Womans
Clubs, and was returning to her home
from the convention at San Bernardino.
Greetings were brought to the members
of the club by Mrs. Russell j. Waters
from the California Federation of
Woman's Clubs, of which she is presi-
dent; from the Political Equality league
by Mrs. Charles Farwell Edson assist
ant chairman of the organization de-
partment, and from the State Fedora
ton of Parent-Teacher Associations by
Mrs. A. L. Hamilton of Pasadena. Mrs.
Hamilton is treasurer of the state body.
Other well known club women who
were present were Mrs. Mary II, Grid
ley, president of the Tuesday Morning
club, Glendale, and Mrs. Shilling Of
Long Beach.
One of the minor difficulties which
writers contend with in marketing their
wares is that of proper preparation of
manuscript. The shop talk committee
of the Southern California Woman's
Press club, realizing this fact, has ar
ranged program for the meeting
Tuesday which will illuminate the way
for those less experienced members.
Samuel Travers Glover, publisher and
writer OF experience, will discuss the
preparation of book manuscript. Fol-
lowing this Mrs. Clara Shortridge Foltz
will give a short talk on Contracts"
dealing with the arrangements that
should be made between publisher ana
author before publication.
The question box is becoming one of
the most popular features of these shop
talk programs, and through it's medi-
um a freedom of discussion among
members is always interesting.
The club will give it's first formal
evening function Tuesday, December 81,
when Mrs. Agnes Cain Brown Girard,
Harry Girard and Henry Balfour, all
well known singers, will give recital
This is an invitation affair, and about
600 cards will be issued. The song cycle,
'The Trend of Time" composed sew
eral years ago by Mr.. Girard, will be
given for the first half of the program,
Mr.. Girard playing and directing the
singers. Miss Hazel Runge, contralto,
and Earl Couch, bass, will assist.
RAILROAD WINS ELECTION RIGHT
Topeka, Kas.. Dec 1O.--The SUI
preme court held today that railroad
company had the right to eject a pas
senger who had entered train with
out ticket to go to station where
the train was not scheduled to stop,
even though he offered to pay his fare.