Evening star., 1920-04-04

! women's City Club.-The Misses
Adela and Alice Heaven will be host
esses at the directors reception from
s to o'clock this afternoon. Miss
Natalie Lincoln, Miss Bertha Perrie,
Mrs. Harwood Read, Mrs. Henry II.
Tryon. Miss Katherine A. Grace and
Mrs. Charles Wright of Pittsheld,
Mass, will assist. There will be a
club dance tomorrow. The meeting
of the professional women's section.
under the leadership of Miss Gertrude
Leonard, scheduled for April 6. has
been postponed to April 9 at pm.
At the business meeting on April 4
the nominating committee Will an
nounce the names of the candidates
for the annual election in May. Mr..
! William Mather Lewis. director of the
savings division of the Treasury De-
partment. will give a short talk on
Thrift" at this meeting. Miss Mar
Jorie Webster will give an evening of
interpretative dancing and impersona-
tions Thursday. Saturday afternoon
at 445 Miss Alice Hutchins Drake
will give a talk on Fairies. Trees
and Gardens in Literature"
The Twentieth Century Club met at
the Cosmos Club Thursday. with Mrs.
Lyman B. Swormstedt, president pre-
siding. talk on The Crisis at Con-
win A. Grosvenor. whose long resi-
dence and extensive travel in Europe
and Asia have made him one of the
best known authorities in the United
States upon the Turkish question.
Mrs. Morgan Of the federal employ
ment service stated that S92 people
| were placed in positions last week
through the bureau located at 1410
Pennsylvania avenue, where domes-
| tics. clerks and all other kinds of
help are supplied. The women's ac-
| tivities of the Department Of Justice.
with Mrs. Sarah K. Lamb as chair
man for the club. were outlined and
Miss Mary c. Danforth of the De-
partment of Justice explained the at
tempt that is being made to reduce
the cost of food and all other mate
rials. A part of the program will be
chants and to publish their names.
They will also publish the names of
merchants who ask unreasonable
prices. The Twentieth Century Club
has indorsed this plan. which also
received the approval Of the Wom-
ems City Club.
The archaeology section will meet
| with Mrs Lowe at 1922 Woodley place
at 2:30 pm. April 6. The subject.
Metal and Mining" will be treated
by Mrs. Farquhar. The civic section
will meet April 8 at the Church of
Our Father. Recreation for Chill
dren" being the subject on which Mrs.
Neigh Of Neighborhood House will
speak. The parliamentary law sec
tion will meet April 6 at 1890 at the
home Of Mrs. Campbell. the Mendoza,
Mrs. Bethel in charge. The educational
section will meet at the home of it's
leader, Mrs. Cole. 1853 Ontario road.
April 10; subject. Local School Sit
uation." The French section will meet
with it's leader. Mrs. John l. Van
Schaick. April 3, at pm. The nature
section meets each Wednesday at
lis, Dupont Circle. for the weekly
hike, under the direction of Mrs. Will
liam H. Heron. Mrs. Henry Thur
tell. leader Of the reconstruction sec
club for help in making surgical
dressings for the local hospitals. Red
Cross workrooms are open Mondays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays at 16
Jackson place.
20O7 Columbia road. DR.. Fewkes. chief
of the bureau of ethnology. addressed
the members on the Cliff Dwellers of
the Mesa Verde Thursday evening
Walter Liggett, commissioner on immi-
grafton from North Dakota. spoke on
the NOn-HartlSan- League. zen.
Isaac Sherwood also made an address.
Mrs. George Barkley Taylor. Mrs.
Percy M. Bailey and Miss Mary Heyler
were elected delegates to the District
F. W. c. The league indorsed the pres
ent plan of financing the District. A
musical program was given by Mrs
Wayne Wheeler and Miss Cora Gibson
Wednesday. at $3.50. Mrs. Alexander
Wolf, president Council of Jewish
Women, will speak on the Palestine
restoration movement and Mrs. Charles