The Washington herald., 1912-04-07

night, April 10. Several of the FASH
forming theater parties for the concert,
and the forty young men of the glee
club, who are coming down from Hamil-
ton to give the concert, will be much
entertained. The patronesses are Mrs.
John Hay, Mrs. MacNeagh, Mrs Nagel,
Mrs. Charles Hughes, Miss Mabel Board
man. Mrs. Frances E. Warren, Mrs.
Hoke Smith. Mrs. Charles Curtis. Mrs.
Wesley Jones. Mrs. John Bankhead.
Mrs. Champ Clark, Mrs. Oscar Under
wood. Mrs. Albert Cummins, Mrs. Albert
S. Burleson. Mrs. Richmond p. Hobson,
Mrs. George Otis Smith, Mrs. William
A Mearns, Mrs. S. w. Woodward, Mrs.
Charles Ray Dean, Mrs. Charles w.
Fairfax. Mrs. Martin A. Knapp. Mrs.
E. g Harmon, Mrs. Archibald Hopkins,
Mrs. ]. B. Henderson.
The National Athletic Club will give
their grand annual ball on an elaborate
scale tomorrow evening in the old Ma
sonic Temple.
Limited invitations to AN evening
with Dickens and other authors" an
entertainment to be given by Jean Will
son at Sis o'clock Monday evening in
the ballroom OF the residence OF Mrs.
Arthur jeffrey Parsons. Eighteenth and
r streets northwest. are being extended
by Mrs. W. E. Andrews, rs Fairmcnt
street northwest.
Mr.. Macfarlane Brockett, the New
York tenor, was TO have taken part, but
he was detained from Washington. and
in his place Mrs. Ralph Barnard and
Richard Backing will sing. BY special
request Mrs. Barnard will sing "A Little
To- Nny a.
tions should be made to Mrs. Andrews.
The Ladies' Club Of the Washington
Saengerbund will have an Easter dance
tomorrow evening in the clubhouse, Sli
c street northwest.
The following ladies of Christ Church,
Georgetown. under the leadership of Mrs.
]. II. W. Blake, have united with the
ladies of Christ Church, Rockville. un-
der Mrs. John Mcdonald and Mrs. {. ii.
Manner, in taking charge OF one OF the
fancy tables at the annual bazaar, TO be
given at the Arlington Hotel, April "a
and .. for the benefit OF the Episcopal
Eve. Ear. and Throat Hospital: Mrs.
Robert S. Beale. Mrs. Joseph Bradley.
Miss Lucy NJ. Dorset, Mrs. w. T. GLOW
er, Miss GIovina B. Gordon. Mrs. L. S.
Kennedy, Mrs. Henry S. Matthews, ana
Mrs. S. Percy Thompson.
These ladies have sent across the sea
for new ideas and the result OF their
search is kept a secret, even from thelr
confreres until the opening OF the ba-
zaar-"just to show that women can
keen a secret when they want to, said
the chairman.
A hot supper, followed by dancing for
which music will be furnished by the
military bands stationed at Fort Myer'
will be features OF the bazaar.
The District of Columbia Federation
of women's Clubs held its regular
monthly meetings in the parlors Of the
Portner. the president. Mrs. William f.
Andrews. presiding, with other officers
and about sixty members present. Mrs:
charlotte Emerson Main, the general
federation secretary, announced plans
for the next biennial Of the clubs to be
held in June in San Francisco, and said
there would be a meeting Of the dele
gates from Washington organizations,
held in her apartments at the yelling
ton, in the near future, when final trans
portation arrangements would be made
for the delegation to go together from
the Capital and Join other Eastern State
in Chicago.
Later in the evening, Mrs. Main re-
ported as president OF the Aid Associa-
ton for the Blind, which has been
member of the federation since 1888. Its
100 active and nearly 400 sustaining MEM
bers have recently acquired a site in
opposite the new Montrose
Park in r street, where they will soon
begin the erection Of an ideal home for
the sightless people of Washington City
and its immediate vicinity. In this con-
nection, Mrs. Main called attention TO
the excellence of the chair Gaming, broom
and other kinds of work done
by the blind for their own support, and
asked the patronage Of the public on be-
half OF the workers.
Miss Georgia Robertson gave the Rect
proclty Paper for Housekeepers' Alli-
ance, one of the newly federated clubs,
and Miss Ellen a. Yinton. chairman of
is reference circle committee. told of the
Alliances efforts to raise the standard Of
domestic service hereabouts Mrs Lamb,
of the same club. asked for the cooper
alton Of the women in Washington in
promoting the use Of nonphosphorus
matches for sanitary reasons.
DR.. Isabel II, Lamb read a gratifying
'eport Of the work done by the woman's
Clinic and said that arrangements had
been made TO extend the service TO two
evenings each week. so as TO accommo-