Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-03-24

Alice Virginia Fought. who We're run
into and seriously injured by an auto
mobile Friday OF last week, at 18th street
aud New York avenue, are improving and
are able TO receive friends. They are
still at the Emergency Hospital and
will probabl not be able to return to
their home for at least a month.
"How to Attract Wild Birds" Is to be
the topic of Ernest Harold Baynes, nat
uralist and writer, in an Illustrated lee
ture to be given at the National Mu
scum Wednesday evening at o'clock.
under the auspices of the Audubon So
ciety of the District of Columbia. DR..
l. o. Howard is to preside.
T.. Thomas Fortune. resident manager
of the New York Age. is to address the
Women Wage Farmers Association to-
morrow afternoon at 5 o'clock at 7O4
T street northwest on Waste in Home
Keeping" There will be a musical pro-
gram. All women and girls are urged
TO attend: admission is free. In the
evening the association will meet at
Plymouth Congregational Church a.
1880 o'clock to participate in a fra
ternal mass meeting of the Federation
OF Women'S Clubs.
Musical and literary numbers are to
be given al a meeting of the Florida
Society. to be held at Studio Hall. 1919
Connecticut avenue Thursday evening.
The program is to include readings by
C. W. O'Connor of the faculty of Studio
Hall; songs by Earl Carbauh. James
Young. j. Frank Duggan and Miss Vera
Budd; piano selections by Frank Ge-
best. violin solos by Charles Frailey
and an impersonation. Dixie Girl. by
Miss Virginia Porter. General dancing
is to follow the program
meeting of the newly organized
Cambrian Society has been called for
Tuesday evening at o'clock at Typo
graphical Temple The program will
irn nd u IN
commissioner of immigration, Arizona:
a report on the allied war sufferers
bazaar. recently held in Baltimore, by
ID. F. Roberts of Baltimore. and some
"hwyl, by Rev. j. r. Esaias. pastor of
Gorsuch Church, S.W.
program of dramatic readings and
songs is to be given by Mrs. Wilbur
John Carr Monday evening at o'clock
at the National Library for the Blind
The blind of the city are invited.
The Washington Alumni of the Uni
versity of Minnesota is to hold its an
nual dinner and business meeting to-
night at $50 o'clock at the New Eb
OF Minnesota, DIR. John II. Gray and DR..
J. II. Young. professors at the univer-
sity. and NJ. W. Williams and Pierce
Butler, regents, are to be among those
present. Charles J. Brand is to be
POSTMASTER.
DIR. A. w. SpanbOOfd, head of the de-
partment of modern languages in the
high schools of the District of Column
bia. spoke on, Difficulties in American
Schools at a meeting of the Germania
Society, at 1923 + street northwest last
night. DIR. Spanhoofd spoke of the
floating population as one of the
causes of problems
Miss Zip Faik, secretary of the Con-
sumers' League and Julius l. PeySer
n a
Temple Society. to be held in the vestry
rooms of the Eighth Street Temple to-
morrow evening at $50 o'clock
Complaint has been made to the po-
lice that young man more than six
feet tall. having light hair and COM
plexion and very large feet. has con-
tracted bills at several hotels and dis
appeared without settling them. He
represented himself to be the agent of
an automobile firm. The police Were
told he wore a gray mixed suit and
derby.
Edward Brooks. coIored, twenty
three years old. Occoquan. Va. yesterday
fell overheard from a scow of the Column
bia Granite and Dredging Company near
Oxon run and was drowned. His body
was recovered by William Simmons of
Alexandria, Va.
The West End Citizens Association is
to hold it's March meeting Monday even
ing at o'clock at Kidder Hall, S22 goth
street northwest.
The debating team of GonzaEn High
School was defeated by Loyola High
School team of Baltimore in a debate
at Baltimore last night the propo-
sition that universal military training
be adopted in the United States. De-
baters for Gonzaga were Daniel S.
Ring. Lawrence X. Downey and Charles
J. Ferd.
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