Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-11-02
newark CLUB WOMEN
TO STUDY mexico.
Vacation Talks Will be
Given at First Meeting
OF Season on Monday
NEW CLUB HOUSE IS
NEARING COMPLETION

special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
NEWARK, Nov. Newark club
women will open their season next
Monday when the first meeting of the
New Century Club since spring VIII
be held. 1t promises to be the most
interesting year since the club was
organized in 1894, as extra plans have
oeen made because Of the new club
mousse now in course Of erection and
winch will be completed in a short
time. Plans are being made for vari-
Gus Dement'S to raise funds for paving
the debt on the new buildings. Dur
ing the season there will also he n
series of meetings when every
phase Of life in Mexico-governme
schools, religion, music, literature and
art-will be studied. DAYS have also
been set aside for the study of civic
problems.
The program for the year has been
arranged as follows: November 6. va
cation talks; November 10. legends of
Mexico, Miss Gertrude =. Brady and
Indian Tribes. Mrs. J. Pearce Cam:
November 20. lecture on "Feeble-
Minded in Delaware Miss Elizabeth
Kite, and Music, Miss Nellie Wilson.
chairman; November %. Music. Miss
Marie Ritz. and lecture, S. LEROY Law
ton; December 4. program by library
committee in charge Of Mrs. Samuel
G. Mitchell; December II. "Spaniards
in Mexico Mrs. c. A. Short. and "Tbe
character Of the Mexican People."
MIS-. Brown; December IS. arts and
crafts committee. Miss Mary % Rich
chairman; January s. program nv
clvics committee, Mrs. Harold e Tif-
iany' chairman; January Is. "Inde-
pendent Mexico to the Fall OF Diaz."
Mrs. Pollard: Relations Between
MeNlco and the United States" Same
period Mrs. c. o. HOughton; Januarv
a. MUSIC Miss Nellie Wilson. chair
man January 30, lecture on art nv
MISS Harriet Fl. Winslow: February
o program by school committee. Mrs
JACOBS, chairman; February -. PHYS
lcel geography of Mexico" Mrs. Rob
erts, commercial Geography of Nex-
lco' Mrs. Harry Hayward: February
~ reciprocity Day: February %
annals OF Amstel House" Mrs
Henry Handy Hav; March 3. business
lecture, DIR. w. Owen Sypherd: March
II, Mexico From the Fall to the Pres
emit Day' Mrs. Barnard and Mrs.
Mitchell; March 10. reception 10 Miss
Heydrick. president OF the State Fed
GRAFTON of Women's Clubs: March %
lecture on art, Miss Harriet H. Wins
low; April 2, Reciprocity Day: ApriI
9, Current Events of Mexico" Miss
Harter; Spanish Dancers and Music ("
by Mrs. Holton; April IS, nomina-
tons; April %, open; April 30. cleo
ton Of officers; May Z, installation of
officers.
Miss Frances B. Hurd is president
OF the club for this year, and she has
appointed the following committees.
who will have charge of much of the
work of the club; Library and free
reading room, Miss Maxwell, Mrs. S.
c. Mitchell, Mrs. Thompson and Mrs.
r. c. Reed; membership, Mrs. Charles
II. Blake, Mrs. e. Laurence Smith and
Mrs. Levi X. Bowen; program. Mrs.
Ernest Wright Mrs. L. II Cooch,
Miss Ritz civics, Mrs. Harold Il. Tiff
fany, Mrs. Z. Laurence Smith, Mrs.
H. l.. Bonham and Miss Biterworth:
hospitality, Mrs. Harvey Hoffecker,
Mrs f. Laurence Smith. Mrs. Bar
nard. Mrs. Charles A. McCue and Mrs.
Brown social service. Miss Elizabeth
Crime, Mrs J. p Wright and Mss
Marie Ritz; educational and visiting
schools, Mrs. Jacobs. Mrs. Thomas 4.
Manns and Miss Mary E. Rich; house,