Evening star., 1916-10-08

The League Of American Pen Women
| inaugurated it's twentieth season Mon
| day evening with business meeting
at the Public Library. A national
organization of women journalists.
authors and illustrators, 1t now num-
bers it's membership at nearly three
hundred. from every state in the
/ union, Alaska, Hawaii. England and
/ India.
Fifteen new names were added to
| it's roll by election: Mrs Gustine
| Courson Weaver, Mrs. Ida Vangandt
| Jarvis. Mrs. Dura Brokaw Cockre1,
| Miss Grace Dennen and Miss Nell An
! drews, all of Fort Worth, Tex; Miss
| Mabel Condor. Mrs. Eva Bird Bos-
| worth, Mrs. Minnie Brownson and Mrs.
Helen Lukens Gaut of Los Angeles.
| Cal; Miss Virginia Macleod. Riverside
Cal; Miss Ruth Brownson, Redondo
| Beach, Cal; Mrs. Elvira Adams At
! wood, Concord. n H.; Mrs. Florence
Howard johnson, Rochester, N. Y. and
Mrs j.. L. HotaIing. Mapleton, MINI.
Miss Jessie Amelia Griswold, presi-
dent of the league, called for reports
from chairmen of the committees FOR
mulating the program of this winters S
work. Mrs Edith Kingman Kern,
chairman of the committee, clean and
reliable journalism, will continue her
already fruitful efforts. 1t was an
nounced by this committee that fur-
ther work in the reform of ewspaper
reports of criminal news Would De
done. Mrs Ruth Mason Rice. chair
man of a newly appointed committee,
| literary outlook, discussed plans Tor
bringing league members In close
touch with the literary markets, es-
pecially with the object OF acquafnt1ng
them with new prize contests and de-
authors
rights committee will take up the
matter of reducing postage rates on
| manuscript matter
The president announced that two
formed in California, one with twenty
seven members in Los Angeles. Mrs.
Ellen Schutt Blackburn Of Osprey,
Fla, who was present, suggested that
a Florida auxiliary might be shortly
forthcoming. These auxiliaries mean
an enlarged scope for the leagues
work.
congratulatory telegram was read
from Mrs. Bertha Lincoln Heustis. the
leagues retiring president who now re-
mentioned that a dinner given by Mrs
Florence Baines-Reed, representative
at large, for the league in honor OF
Mrs. Heustis at Los Angeles. was at
tended by members of the auxiliary OF
that city. and that luncheon in her
honor, given by Mrs. Josephine Martin.
was attended by $50 literary lights" of
San Francisco.
Autographed volumes and booklets.
the recent work of league members.
were passed around at Mondays meet
ing, the authors being Katherine NJ
Yates. Annie Riley Hale. L. Byrd Mock.
Elizabeth A. Hyde and Mrs. T. A. Whit
worth.
Resolutions were drafted to send
condolences to the husband Of the late
Mrs. Mary Temple Jamison, known
familiarly as Meg" a charter member
of the league, who died recently at her
also expressed for Mrs. Ruth Everett
Beck, wife of Capt. Paul Beck, Z. S. A,
who is ill at her home in the Philip
pines.
A brief report was given by the MEM
bers of the league who attended the
meeting in New York of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs. with
which the league is affiliated in addi-
tion to the National Editorial Associa-
ton. Mrs. Della Hine Mertz. Miss
Frances Woolf and Miss Elizabeth
Barnes were delegates to the meeting
Other league members attending were
Mrs. Katherine J. Fenton, Mrs j. A.
Rich, Mrs. Leigh Chalmers and Mrs. X.
B. Knight.
The officers of the league for the
year are Miss Jessie Amelia Griswold,
president; Miss Ruth Norcross, ffrst>yice
president; Mrs. Della Hine Mertz, second
vice president: Miss Mary Carter, re-
cording secretary; Mrs. Gertrude b.
Thomas. corresponding secretary: Mrs
J. Harry Cunningham, treasurer: Mrs
Phflander ClaXton. auditor: Mrs. Emma
Triepel. librarian; Mrs: Virginia King
Frye, historian, and Miss Dora Simp-
kins, reporter.
The Club of Colonial Danes enter
tanned informally at cards followed
of
first time this season. These informal
parties. at which members can enter
tain friends who do not belong to the
club, will be given every Wednesday
afternoon during the season.
The Warrington Branch Of the ASSOC
citation of Collegiate Alumnae will meet
Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock with
its president, Mrs. Raymond B. Morgan,
80 B street northwest This is the first
meeting of the year and the program
will consist Of annual reports from
standing committees. showing the
work carried on by the branch
All college women in the city wish
ing to join the association will be well
come at the meeting. Application for
membership may be made to the pres
i ident or to Miss Alice Deal, the Vic
toria, chairman of the membership
I committee.
The Twentieth Century Club. Par
/ meet
Thursday morning at IL o'clock in
| the par1or Of All Souls Church. Mrs
Caleb S. Miller will give the lesson on
| Organization. Incorporation. Treas
urer's Reports, Auditing Accounts,
| Etc" The hostess for the day will be
| Mrs. e. F. Parham. Mrs. E. H. Town
is leader of the section.
| The sections of art and archaeology
whose leaders are Mrs. Dayton Ward
| and Mrs. John Lowe, respectively, will
| not begin their meetings until Noyem-
| Der.
There will be no meetings Of the
! travel section, Mrs W. F. Ham, lead
| er, until after Christmas.
The French section. Mrs. Ernest p.
| Btcknell. leader. will begin its BIZ
| weekly meetings October 25.
| The Cultus Club held its first meeting
| Of the season Tuesday at the residence
[ Of Mrs. ]. r. hewitt. 1890 Calvert street
| After a luncheon the members re-
! sponded to the roll call with personal
| lowed by a paper on the Physical Fea-
lures of the Americas and the Story of
! Atlantis" by Mrs. Appleton Clark jr,
| and paper on THE Norsemen," by Miss
Lila ]. Hefberger. LongfelIows THE
| Skeleton in Armor' was read. In-sd-
| dition to the members there were pres
! ent two associate members. Mrs. Elliott
| Hines, Mrs. Mertz, Mrs. Nixon, Mrs
Fehning and Miss Bailey.
The Shakespeare Society. Mrs. Mary
| E. Craigie. president, will meet Tues
day evening at Lyonhurst, Va. Follow
ing a brief business meeting Loves
| Labor Lost" will be presented by the