The Washington herald., 1916-01-02
AIRMAN To AID
diet KITCHEN
Domenjoz VIII Fly Over City
While Tags Are Be
ing Sold.
MERCHANTS OFFER PRIZES
Two Hundred Young Women Asked to
HeIp-Maj. Gen. Wood Praises
Swiss Aviator.

The women of the Washington Diet
Kitchen Association want 200 young vom-
en- 10 sell tags for their infant welfare
center next Wednesday and Thursday
while the Swiss aviator. Juan DomenJoz.
Is doing stunts over the heart OF the busi-
ness district OF Washington. They have
sent out a call for help and will open an
once in the Riggs Building, at Fifteenth
and @ streets, tomorrow TO receive young
women who may respond TO their appeal.
Miss Adelaide Heath, the secretary OF the
association. will be In charge.
The women who are promoting this
charitable enterprise, which will be
unique in that an entertainment OF
character unusual. will be provided, as
their girls tag the charitably inclined.
have perfected their organization and
will push the work vigorously this week,
Merchants Offer Prizes.
The officers in charge are Miss Mary
Gwynn, president Of the association: Miss
CorneIia Adds. FIRST vice president; Mrs.
George Howard, second vice president,
and Madame Hauge. Lady Spring Rice,
Mrs Allerton CUshmsn. Mrs. Horace
Westcott, Mrs. A. Garrison AcClintock.
Mrs. Cleveland H. Perkins. Mrs. Wood
bury Blair, Mrs. George Lothrop Brad
ley. Mrs. Joseph II. Bradley, Mrs. Lewis
&c. Ecker, Mrs. William A. Hammond.
Mrs. James S. Harlan. Mt. David Frank
lin Houston. Mrs. Edward B. Mclean.
Mrs. John H. Merriam, Mrs James F.
Mitchell. Mrs. William Dttauer, Miss
Marion Oliver. Mrs. Henry Kirke Porter
Mrs. John Henry PUrdy, Mrs. Stephen y.
L. Slocum, Mrs. John F. Storey. Mrs. A
II. Stavely. Mrs. wolcott Tuckernan
Mrs. Oscar Underwood, Mrs. George w
Vanderbilt, Mrs. Arthur Willert, and Mrs
John s wilkins. OF the board OF direc-
tors.
Merchants Of the city. who are CO.
operating in the work, will ofTer prizes
to encourage emulation among the tag
gers. The ladies OF the Diet Kitchen
Association are prosecuting this under
taking with great zeal because Il is i'm
perative that they have $1,000 before
the first Of February to meet the heavy
charges entailed by their philanthrophic
work. They are constrained TO appeal to
the good nature Of Washington citizens
because they have no government help.
Congress has never made any appropria-
ton in their behalf but their charity.
which deals with the poor Of all parts
of the city and OF all classes, Is steadily
broadening.
Army-Navy Men interested.
Domenjoz proved a successful sttrac.
! tion when he exhibited his proweSs for
charity at Goshen, n. Y, three weeks
ago The young woman who tagged
the Orange County folk as he made his
{ BleHot monopIane behave like a living
thing. collected nearly S2.OoO. And Cos
hen is a small town.
Army and navy officers in Washing
ton are msnifestInE a lively interest IN
Domenjoz and in his engine. which
has the reputation OF being considerably y
better than any OF this country. Il is
Gnome. Both branches Of the national
defense will be represented at the eiipse
lot when he flies before the pan-Amer-
ican Scientific Congress on Tuesday, and
at the Capitol when he gets in that
neiEhborhoOd in hts exhibitions OF
Wednesday and Thursday.
Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood and other Of
icers who met DomenjoI when he land
ed on the military reservation at Gov
ernors Island. one blustery day in No
vember, after having shut on his en-
gine at an altitude Of 1850 feet while in
the neighborhood of the woolworth
skyscrsper and voIplsned TO the island.
pronounced Domenjoz the most skilful
airman they had ever seen.
Having looped half a dozen
times over the Statue OF Liberty. IN
New York. Domenjoz intends TO do some
looping over the Washington Monu-
mcnt.