Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-15
Story Telling for Children.

Drary gave assurance or the desire OF the
library to aid those who had in charge
the duty of interesting boys and girls by
story telling. She announced that the ia
cilities of the library We're at the dis
posal of all who could make use of them,
and told of special privileges to be grant
ed and of special efforts to provide sug-
gestive aids to narrators.
DR.. William B. Hudson, superintendent
of the bathing beach, expressed his opin-
ion that no playground was complete
without swimming pool. He also de-
clared the .inadequacy of the facilities of
the bathing beach, and its inferiority to
those of other cities.
Mrs. Israels announced the appoint
ment of the following committees:
Committee on athletics-Frank c.
Wood. DR.. Rebecca Stoneroad. DIR. Will
liam B. Hudson, Miss Mabel F. Towner
and E. j. Garmhausen.
Committee on folk dancing and fes-
tivals-H. b. F. Mcfarland, Miss Edith
L. Grosvenor. Miss Elva r. Whitcomb
Neigh.
John A. Embry. A: A. White, Mark
Thompson and Gordon Leech.
Committee on Camp Fire Girls activ.
ities-Mrs. Richard Wainwright, Mis-:
Harriet Winslow, Miss l.. Sayre, Mis-.
Caroline w. Stinemetz
Committee on local exhibitor. Thomas
Jesse Jones. Mrs. Steven B. Ayers, Miss
Florence NJ Kent, DR.. Rebecca Stone
road, John A. Embry. r.
Committees to Report.
These committees are to report a plar
of work for the season. The committee
on exhibits will outline plan to be fol
lowed in providing an exhibit for the
September congress, with an estimate OF
the cost. The committee on Boy Scou,
activities will report a plan to be ap
proved by the Washington Boy, Scout
organization, to be carried out by the
scout masters, and also will report a
plan for cooperation in the meeting Of
the Red Cross Society in May.
The objects of the International Con-
gress of Hygiene and Demography, which
assemblies here in September were ex-
planned at considerable length by DR.
Schereschewsky. He told Of the organiza-
ton of demograDhical and hygienic &C
tivities away back in 1855 when method
to fight the progress of cholera across
Europe was considered. The problems
encountered. he told. determined that
physicians alone were not competent to
solve them, and sociologists. economists
and other specialists in human energies
were asked to participate
Growing interest and participation in its
activities has been shown every year
since the organization of the world body.
The congress to meet in Washington in
September. he explained. was coming
here at the invitation of the President
and under the auspices of the United
States.
DR.. Schereschewsky told of the propos-
ed exhibit of ''child welfare activities
to be a feature of the congress. Physical
culture among the Greeks, said Dr. Scher-
eschewsky, produced it's mental superior
ity, and established the truth of the ak
iom, "A sound body is sound mind
How the mind is better nourished and
developed through the expansion of the
physical organs and arteries was
explained by him. Brain culture, he as
serted, has no better medium than ply
steal exercise, not violent athletics. but
such as not only make healthy body,
but require exercise of judgment and
tact pose, balance and involving the
mind in the body movements.