Evening star., 1919-03-02

The Short Story Club met Tuesday
| evening at its headquarters, the W. c.
T. L. parlors. 522 9Th street, with
President Moore in the chair and the
program in charge of Mrs. p. ]. Hof-
! liger.
The minutes Of the preceding meet
ing were read by the recording secre-
| story of the evening, Faith and the
Mountain" was read by its author,
Miss Mary C. Farmer
I Miss Florence Mattice, accompanied
by Miss Lydia flanagan, rendered as
violin solos The Sextette,' from
! Lucia di Lammamoor" Beethoveu's
"Minuet in c." and The Venetian
| Love Song
Poems. 'sTribute to the City of Wash
! ington. by DIR, Calver, and The Song
of the Street Piano by Mrs. Hamil-
| trlbuted by their respective authors
| Mr.. II. w. Selah, after relating few
/ amusing anecdotes. recited the most
! eloquent passages from Webster g
| ply to Hayne. IngerSolTs peroration on
| Life, and the closing paragraphs OF
| Blaine's eulogy on Garfield delivered
| at the memorial meeting in the House
| OF representatives
Mrs. Sophie Hazard, accompanied by
Mrs. Schafer, sang Tit for Tat and
| silent Wooing.'
| Mrs. c. W. Culver gave two recita-
tions by DR., Henry nrummohd in
! French Canadian dialect 'rThe Habi-
| tanp and When Albani Sang.
| Current topics were dealt with in
| humorous vein by Mrs T. p Young
and selection from The Red Mil
was rendered by the Thomas Mandolin
| Club. accompanied by Miss Martha
Bradish.
The program for the next meeting
to be held March IL. will be in charge
| of Mrs. Blanche Sanborn.
| The District of Columbia Federation
of WOmen's Clubs met Monday in the
| assembly room of the District build
| ing. After a short business session
Prof. Axon addressed the meeting. his
| subject being Red Cross. Democracy
and the League of Nations"
Legion of Loyal women.-At the
meeting of the legion Monday even
ing reports of work done during the
sent to the clubrooms, corner of
Pennsylvania avenue and 1fth street,
for the use of convalescent soldiers,
sailors and marines, twenty-five Pill
lows for the chairs and sofas of the
clubrooms. :. box of rest pillows,
games. puzzle pictures and all the cur
! tains for the clubrooms. which the
women of the legion had made up
| at the request of the camp community
service commission in charge. The
legion was represented at the hear
i1g before the public buildings and
grounds committee by the president.
Mrs. Tucker. and this organization of
; greatly interested in the success of
| this plan. The president and officers
of the legion presented a bouquet of
roses. with their greetings, to the
COMMUNICATIVE chief. G. A r., Gen.
Adams, at the recent banquet given
| S. worth of the tags for sending eggs
and chickens TO France, to be given
| to the children in the devastated dis
tricts. AS soon as the weather viii
permit the legion is planning and has
been granted permission to plant a
memorial tree at Mount Vernon. The
next meeting will be a social one, at
| a members home, and hereafter there
will be one social meeting each month
At the recent social meeting at the
| Teachers Club Admiral Baird gave
a talk on ireland" and later other
subjects will be taken up by the So
ciety in its outdoor and pilgrimage
meetings.
| The Political Study Club was enter
| tanned Friday afternoon at the home of
its president, Mrs. Wesley Martin Stoner,
| 1927 Rhode Island avenue
1 ENTS. Arthur IAaClJCl1iO gave an 20-
! dress on the Purposes Of the Womap's
National Society of Keep-wells, of
which she is president She gave as
one of the objects of her society not
only to develop the physical keep-we1l
but the mental, moral and esthetical
keep-welI.
! Mrs. Macdonald is also president of
the woman's clinic. Her talk was fol-
flowed by an address of DR. Hugh Ma
i gill, who spoke of the Baer education
i bill.
| DR.. Tupper Of the First Baptist Church
| told anecdotes of Mexican life. The tea
table was presided over by Mrs n. G.
Gobe. Reports of officers and chairmen
of various committees were approved
Publicity Mrs. Arthur Macdonald.
chairman; Mrs. c. L. Gummel. Mrs. w.
NJ Stoner. Miss Elizabeth Askew Pro-
Mrs. J. Campbell Cantrill, Mrs. Frank
Hiram Smell, Mrs. William Leisher, Miss
Elizabeth Askew. Membership - Mrs
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mrs. Harvey
| O'Higgins, Mrs. H. c. Rand. Mrs H. L.
Van Auken, Mrs E. Hilton Jackson.
! " w. G. A Y. w G. \. has been
organized in Laurel. with the follow
/ ing officers: President. Mrs. r. F.
| Wade; vice president. Mrs. ]. p. Rob-
ertson; secretary-tr easurer, Miss Ford.
| Chairmen. of the various committees
Il
headquarters; Mrs. F. w. Knowlton,
community work; Mrs. Beall. religious;
Miss Margaret Edmonston, educa-
tional; Mrs. w. F. Taylor, recreation :
Mrs. z. F. Albee, girls work; Miss
NJ l. Sample. publicity; Mrs George
McCeney, finance: Mrs. A W. Patter-
son, social and membership.
| Beginning with Thursday evening,
7:30. at the home of Mrs. Robertson.
on Prince George street the board
will meet every other Thursday even
ling at the same hour and place, un-
less otherwise notified.
! Miss Helen Sweet has succeeded in
iorganiZing the Girls Reserve Clubs.
One Of these groups is interested in a
first-aid course, conducted by DR. w.
f. Taylor every third Tuesday even
ling These lectures are we'll attended.
i Two basket ball teams have been
organized in the high school, one
injecting on Tuesday afternoons and
the other on Friday afternoons. Miss
Miriam Petit is in charge of the high
school groups and later on a match
Twin beb arranged between the two
taems. Just as soon as the weather
permits tennis clubs will be formed.
! The youngest group of girls have
made the necessary flags and have
taken up wigwaggtng. They meet
! with Miss Sweet on Saturday after
moons. This group will be entertained
at Mrs. Tavenners on Friday evening.
/ Upon the opening of the new club
! headquarters all meetings and enter
tainments will be held there.
study CIub-The February meeting
| of the Study Club of Lanham, Prince
! Georges county, Md, met with Mrs.
Beckett. Mrs. Brown talked at length
| regarding the establishment of a ma
| tional department of education. Mrs.
Brown urged taxpayers to write and
| to appear on March before the board