The Washington herald., 1911-03-12

The Short Story Club held its semi
monthly meeting at o. Sixth street
northwest. last Wednesday night, with
William Tyler Page. president, in the
chair. Miss Cornelia Louise Lloyd was
in charge of the programme, which
opened with an instrumental selection ad-
Imirably played by Miss Freida Hamilton.
! The minutes were read by Mrs. Myra
NJ Metcalf the secretary.
An analogy between life and the
short story" by Rev. James :. Lemon,
| Pm. H.. received applause. 4 rOllCkinE
! humor pervaded Prof. L. II. Wilder
| ''SuffraEette Phantasy." cliciting rippies
of laughter throughout, while the breath
Of the farm and the bounding plain was
| caught in Texas NOrthers,' by Mrs.
y. O. Estabrook, Mrs. Mary A. Agnew
! gave two exquisite poetic recitauOns,
| The Lovers Envy" by Henry Van
| Dyke. and The Suppliant," by Alan
! sullivan.
Mr.. Allen TorriIl's fine tenor voice was
heard most effectively in 90 Moon of
! My Delight Liza Lehmannn and "I.U
sing Three Songs of Araby'' ,CIayD, and.
| being heartily cncored. ne responded with
another selection. Miss Christine Church
| very pleasingly rendered Damon Max
| Strange and Love in May Parkcrl,
/ George II. Wilson being the sympathetic
a2companist to both singers.
| Fitting tributes were paid by the presi-
| dent 10 TWO old and valued members
whom the hand Of death has lust re-
moved. Mr.. Pitman Pulsifer and Mai.
/ F. !. Willis and floral tributes were con-
tThutcd by the club. Mcssrs. Holden.
and Sciah and Mrs. Metcalf were ap-
{ pointed a commttec 20 draft suitable
resolutions TO he spread upon the minutes
IanI ~oNt TO their respective families.
The League Of American Pen Women.
1T lis regular meeting last Monday night
in tho study room of the Public Library.
extended the glad hand Of fellowship
to one Of its distinguished members
| Mrs. Sophie Irene Loeb. Of McKeesDort.
| Pa, who is engaged in extensive jour
nalistin work for several New York pub
/ licati"nS. She supplemented a delight
tui talk hy the reading of her recent
article on "WOmen in the Realm of Jour
raliSm, in the January number Of the
American Suffragette. Ms. Rachel Ton
late Beck. the president, aptly comment
lrG, said: We raise the men who give
the votes: We raise the mothers of the
men-and this is our crown"
Mrs. La Sale CorbelI Pickett former
PRESIDENT of the league was present, and
received a glad welcome lengthy lecture
t'uiS ana literary lapoTS ndNlnS pre-
. vented her presence for many months
Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes the librarian
reported the accession of several new
( books to the library. HrS. Blanche Ty-
Ter BeatOn. corresponding secretary, pre-
Sented three copies Of Miss l. Byrd
MoCks Indian poem, The Maid Of Pend
d'OreilIc." cXquisitcly illustrated and
uniquely hound in cedar bark, brown and
black Calfskin. respectively one to he
Presented to the Library of Congress.
Miss Jessie \. GrswOId r-ad letters from
Miss Rea WOOdmHn, Of POughkeepSic.
y. j, author of the ''WOOdman Plays"
! Tor high schools and colleges, and Of
The open Door" a late poem from
Mrs. +. Cora De Puy. author, Of De
troit. Mich. and from Miss Harriet
Trork SwinefOrd, magazine critic, Phila-
GcIrhia
Mrs Withec present d a card from
Mr.. Jeremiah Curtin, row at Pasadena.
CAL. and read notices rom the Newark
Evening Star and several New York pa
TtrS, CVidenCinC the effective work being
done by MR.. Edith kingman Kern. vice
PRESIDENT and chairman of the league
comic supplement committee Mrs Kern
is addressing large Iudiencos in New
Jersey and New York. and 500 women
are n"w vitality handed together in the
fight for an CIcVatinG newspaper liter
aturo I" hc placed in the hands of their
children This report brought out the
announcement from Mrs Frye and Mrs
Hamilton that two prominent newspapers
already have responded to this popular
appeal in raising the standard of the chill
drenS sheet This met with gratified ap-
plausc and Miss HYDE was appointed TO
draw up a set Of CommendatOry rcsolu-
tuns to the papers in question.
II was directed that a letter of sym
pathy and flowers he sent to Mrs. Alice
r. Whitaker. who was reported as quite
i'll.
The Society Bug" a poem by Mrs
Jessie Sanborn Connolly, of Buffalo. n
Y, was read by Mrs. Virginia King Frye.
and Mrs. Martha s. GielOw made an
eloquent appeal in the interest of the
Impoverished AnglO-SaxOn children of
the Appalachian MOurtains.
The report of the historian, Mrs Annie
A Wilder, briefly outlined. is as fol-
lows: Mrs. Maud NJ Jackson. who ap-
pears in the dramatic world as q play
writer has had her Mother Goose Up to
Date" presented in Chicago with a cast
of 273 persons. Miss Marie F. Ryerson,
who edits the 'Margery Doom column
and Aunt Matty's Menu" in the New
ark Evening Star, is also giving travel
lectures and is the president of the New
Jersey WOmen's Press Club. the follow
ing members of which also belong to the |
league: Mrs. Hiram H. DEMO. of Orange; |
Miss Louise X Hardy, of South Orange, |
and Miss Ada ID. Fuller, of Jersey City |
Miss Z. Marguerite Lindley, of New
York City. is lecturing on Modern Phys |
iCal Economics before schools and as
srCiations in New York and New Jersey !
Mrs. Jane Belfield, of Germantown, /
Pa. has many productions TO her credit. |
among which is clever little article en- !
titled Her Natural Bent" to the effect |
that a woman SHOULD have the privilege
of choosing her own vocation in life |
Mrs Alice Herring Christopher, editor !
of Boston. has an article in the Boston |!
World on The Single Tax Experiment at |
Fairhope. Ala Mrs Adolph Roge
Charlotte Fiske Bates, who is living at |
Cambridge, Mass, sends most cordial |
greetings. as a whole and individually, |
to the league.
The splendid article py Miss Lucy Byrd |
Mock, THE Seattle Spirit, in the Prog
ress Magazine. covering thirty pages and |
Illustrated with forty photographs has |
been recently issued In Dook form. In the |
Overland Monthly for February is an |