The Washington times., 1914-11-04

that Dread loaVeS are OF 1ul anu
uniform weight.
I'VE need a minimum weight law"
Mrs. Logan said. Just as we need
law which shall require that each
loaf be wrapped. We can do little
about the latter except to agitate a
law which shall protect our homes
from the contamination of these un-
wrapped, germ-breeding loaves. But
we can do much in the matter of
short weight loaves by exercising
care. For example, a number of
women have been weighing loaveS
bought from various firms, and they
have found that most bakers sell
full sixteen-ounce loaf. One large
bread maker of this city. though,
has been putting out Ioaves that
weigh but a little over thirteen
ounces. In many families, especially
where there are children, the loss
from purchase of such loaves would
loom large in the family budget.
Housewives can protect themselves
from those bakers who give full
weight
For the third meeting the House
keepers Alliance will have charge Of
the program, and Mrs. Giles Scott
Rafter. president of the District
charge of the fourth. In December
Miss Janet Richards and other
speakers will discuss women III poll
tics. The January meetings will be
educational in their nature. Prof.
Mitchell Carroll, Mrs. George w.
Smallwood. Mrs ]. Finney Engle,
and Dean Wilbur, of George Wash
ington University, will talk on art
and literary topics.
Asked To Speak.
Members of both houses of Con-
gress will be invited to address the
meetings on topics of current in
terest for the February meetings.
In view of the wide philanthropic
work done by clubs of the federation
an effort to give club women
closer knowledge of charitable in
institutions of the District will be
made in March. Regents and heads
of such institutions will bring first
hand and accurate information of
their work. In April heads of the IL
brarieS. museums and art galleries
in Washington will be asked to give
similar talks about the aims and
work of their institutions.
Club table in the lunch room
at Woodward & Lothrop's will be
a twice a week feature after the
New Year. There on Mondays and
Saturdays club women, wearing the
federation's purple and yellow rib
bons, will gather for luncheon and
will welcome to their table all visit
ing club women. Many of the Loo
600 federated club women of this
country visit Washington annually
and this, as well as the art gallery
guides, will be a means of helping
them make their visit more enjoy
able.
A third place of welcome for these
IL, ha acta 1icl,
ed at Calvary Baptist Church, where
Mrs. Logan will conduct an open lee
ture Bible class. This class also IS
designed to appeal to women who
cannot find time to prepare their les
sons, but who wish to have them ex-
planned.
Besides, these general federation eff
forts there are the activities Of vari-
Gus clubs. in conjunction with the
federation, including the story hours
planned by Mrs. Louise Earll, and the
Red Cross relief event planned by
Mrs. Ada H. Wiss. A benefit was
held Monday evening of this week at
the Belasco Theater by the House.
keepers Alliance, and later the fed
Grafton will have a theater benefit.
A new federation committee is that
termed civil service" designed to at
tend to the many calls for inforr1a-
ton, more general than that obtain
able at the CIVIL Service COMMISSION
from women who contemplate taking
examinations for positions in Wash
ington.
Even the children of club women
will have a major share of the wiz
ter's program. In January they Will
assemble twice a month at the Pub
lie Library to listen to lectures given
BY Mrs. Logan on masterpieces or
art. Each child will be furnished with
reproductions of pictures and art Oh
jects under consideration.
children, too, help in the charitable
work of the federation by pasting
scrap books to be sent to shut lns
at hospitals. and invalid children IN
their own homes. Some of these scrap
books also will be forwarded to Bel
gian children.