The San Francisco call., 1910-11-28

The birthday breakfast which each
year EbelI celebrates with elaborate
ceremonies will take place Tuesday.
December 1s. with Miss Marie Babson
and Mrs. Thomas Bennett, two OF the
pioneer members OF the club, presiding
as hostesses. The program of the late
afternoon will be a notable one and is
being arranged by:
Miss Eva Powell Mrs. Clarence J. wetrore
Mrs ]. r. Scupham Mrs. j. Carroll Ewing
Mrs. Louis Cockroft Mrs. A. C. Posey
Mrs. ]. W. McClymonds
Covers will be laid for Ebell members
only on this occasion
The children will have their day De-
cember 20, when the mothers and grand
mothers will entertain in their honor.
The special treat will be the story tell
ing by Mrs Eric K. Olsen, who has
come to the coast from the east. Mrs.
Charles J. woodbury., Ebelrs president,
who has recently had published a child's
book of stories, will be hostess for the
day.
Following the business session Tues
day, December S, walter S. Howe, su-
perintendent of streets, and Mrs. S.. c.
Borland will be heard In short ad-
dresses This week Ebell will have no
meeting.
Stringent methods have been resorted
=,
which spoils so many good programs at
the club, and each Ebell member has
been formally requested in the Decem-
Der calendar which has just been is
sued, ito please remove the hat while
the program is being rendered"
Thursday evening the women of the
Twentieth Century club will issue their
edition of the Berkeley Gazette, from
which they hope to realize sufficient
funds to finish payment on the building
site which they are purchasing in the
college town. A large number of con-
tributions have been made to the inter-
esting magazine section of which Mrs.
| William Lawrence Jones is editor in
chief among the articles being those by
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Mayor Hodge
head of Berkeley, Charles Keeler, Count
Axel Wachtmeister; Mrs. Annie Little
Barry, president of Alameda District
Federation of Women's clubs; Mrs. Err
nest Page, president Of the Twentieth
Century club, and many others as prom
inently known.
The dramatic section of the Adelphian
club is asking the public to attend an
entertainment in the clubhouse Thurs
day evening. when the gifted members
will be seen in two farces. The section
in the short time which it has been or
RdnlZ6Q has uOHc HblCNOl LILY WOIh
which the women are anxious to share
with their friends.
'Piper's Pay" is splendid skit in one
act. for which have been cast Mrs.
George Sturtevant, Mrs. Walter Gar
rett. Mrs J. Sherman MacDowel, Mrs.
Henry Rosenthal, Mrs. w. c. Halsey,
Mrs Louis Ward and Mrs. w. NJ Gibson.
In the Home Guard" those who will
take part are Mrs. II. L. Eastman. Mrs.
Frank Otis. Mrs. George Barnes Bird,
Mrs. Shirley Mansfield. Mrs. W. H. Fos-
ter. Mrs. Frank Janisen, Mrs. ]. B. EN-
NAL, Mrs Nellie Rogers. The officers
of the section are: Curator, Mrs. Henry
Rosenthal; secretary, Mrs. George Stur-
tevant; treasurer, Mrs. Halvor Hauch.
Early in January the women who
have taken the responsibility of the
children and elderly women in the La
dies relief home at Forty-fifth street
and Telegraph avenue are planning a
big society vaudeville for the benefit
of the organization. Miss Matilda
Brown is president of the society.