The Washington times., 1921-04-24
PENGUINs LITTLE VOW,
NUT GIVE RIG lsR0MIaE.

BUT GIVE BIG PROMISE. rs
F"The Penguins." Well. perhaps YOU
haven't heard Of them YET. hut you
viii before long, For this Informally
organised little club gives promise of
playing an important part In the 80
cfal ana intellectual life OF WashinG-
ton. and should MI = place which no
other organization now In existence
here Is auaiihed to NIL (, i IA : 3,
Born at 4the "Wsyfarers' Hookshop
--rialntained by Mrs. George r. Odeil.
Mrs. Gilsen Gardner, and Mrs w.
Thompson Burch--which has for a
long time been one OF the farniiiay
haunts Of people who are making
literary and political history--The
Pepguins a Made up of men and
weineH who think and do writer's,
scientists. artists. musicians. news
paper men and women. and SO on.
And the only. requirements for mem
bership are that one should have IAN
a grseable personality. 9. certain recep-
tiyity for ideas, and the ability to
discriminate between ones own opin-
ions and the Ten Commandments"
IL Is planned to start the club in a
very modest way, and there will be
few Z, rules and regulate ms, just
enough organization. in fact, to hold
lHG tOBcthtT. hc locd 10
to provide modest quarters, where
meals can he served and wi ere con
genial spirits can get together to dis
cuss the proverbial "shoes and ships
and sealing wax. cabbages. and kings"
To- this end the club has rented a
suite Of rooms above the "Noah's Ark"
In Seventeenth street. The manage
ment of the restaurant will provide
the food end see to the service: and
the club has only to furnish the rooms
and make them comfortable and at
tractive. This is now ION the fire."
and when IL Ia done there's to be q
meeting to elect permanent officers.
CLUB MEMBERSHIP
WILL BE LIMITED.
Ever the name OF the club. THE
Penguins" Is tentative and subject
to change. 1.-The Liberal Club" was
first suggested, but disco rded as
being too formal: and by way OF
delicious foolery some one submitted
that such an organization really
should be known as the Royal Ben
gal Bicycle Club"
The membership OF the club will
be limited to 200 in order that the
atmosphere OF comeradie may not
be lost Many of the charter mem
DtFS are men anu women VINO useu
to frequent the restaurants at the
,Woman's party headquarters, and
who found. when that went out of
business, that they had no comfort
able and convenient place to come
together for an exchange of ideas.
Among them are the Odells-George
#. Odell. head OF the Philadelphia
North American bureau. is the tenn
porary president-the Charles Ed
ward Russells, the GARDENERS, the
Sinclair Lewises. the Norman Hap
goods, DR.. Eward d. Reed, the
psychologist, widely known as ''Dr.
x" Miss Elizabeth Brandeis, daugh-
ter of Justice Brandeis; Mrs. Abby
Scott Baker. Dick Boeckel and his
wife. who used to edit "The Suf-
fragist:" Frank P. Walsh, Miss Aline
Solomons and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry p.
Mussey.
These people-snd others. OF their
ilk-go to make up the interesting
literary ond artistic colony viii n
Washington Is fast accommodating
One of their haunts is the pic
turesaue old-fsshioned house at POI 1
I street, which Mrs. Charles Ed
ward Russell and Mrs. George T.
Odell have bought and remodeled
into apartments and have been lei
out to congenisl spirits.
The result OF this experiment in
cooperative home-making Is sir