The Washington herald., 1921-04-14
PENCONVENTION
ATTRACTSFAMED
WRITERS TO CITY
Book Fair Opens To-day.
4 Cast Chances at
Congress.

"Ar. the Pen women going to
start q Iobbyr is the question
which has started gossip In wash
incton club circles following the
reception rendered yesterday after
noon at the Congressional Club to
several hundred delegates upon
their arrival here for the first ma
tional convention of the League OF
American Pen Women, opening to-
day
me keen interest expressed by
delegates from every section of the
conntry yesterday in forthcoming
legislation may mean that the Pen
w'omen will decide this week to
maintain a legislative bureau here
70. safeguard the interests of all
pzoEessional women in the United
Ssates. Miss Fannie Wolfson, mem
ber of the reception committee,
said last night
Mrs. Du Puy SeutraL
Mrs William Atherton Du Puy,
national president of the organiza-
ton, for whose reelection there
appears to be an almost universal
demand. remains non-committal,
however. saying cryptically. Walt
until the business sessions OF the
convention Saturday"
Yesterdays reception at which
Mrs. Henry wilder Keyes. wife of
the Senator from New Hampshire.
and Mrs. Homer Hoch, wife of the
Representative from Kansas, were
hostesses TO the delegates, was q
brilliant affair. attended by prac-
ticaIly every woman who has ever
written a book Of consequence In
this country.
Members OF the National Board
: Entertained visiting delegates at
the clubhouse last night.
This morning the final touches
will be given to the setting OF the
Book Fair in the large ball room
of the New willard Hotel, which
will be officially thrown open to
the public at $50 o'clock this after
: noon
All States Have Booths.
With a booth for every State in
the Union. delegates from the auxil-
faries will preside at the exhibits OF
books. magazines, photographs.
sheet music and other objects rep
Tesentative Of the cultural achieve
ments of their States. Autographed
copies Of well known works will be
offered for sale for the benefit OF
the leagues professional Opportun-
i1ty Service.
- The fair will close at 6, but will
'reopen at $50 when the chiIdren's
pageant. Choosing the National
Flower" will be a colorful feature
under direction Of Mrs. Marie Moore
Forrest. The Book Fair will be cen
1inued tomorrow afternoon, followed
an the evening at 10 o'clock by the
Dig event of the convention. the au-
'thors' costumed ball.
Many Noted Writers.
Among those from a distance reg
sistered for the fair. are: Miss Nina
wilcox Putnam. Mrs. Anna Katha-
s1ine Greene, Mrs. Frank Abbott
tJane Abbottl, Miss Maibelle Heikes.
Justice, Ms. Ernest Thompson Sc.
ton, Mrs Annie Natha Meyer. Mrs
Minnie Ferris Hauenstein. Mrs. Ruth
Mason Rice, Miss Efie Farnham
Florence Partello Stuart. Mrs
Bunice Martin, Mrs, Daniel Lothrop
suthor Of '.Five Little Peppers" from
California; Mrs. William -Beckman,
Of San Francisco. completing a world
tour upon reaching Washington'
Mrs. Forrestine c. Hooker, Los An
Eeles; Mrs. Jane Fitzgerald, Of
Texas; Mrs william H. Wait, Mich
sean: Mrs. A. II Connolly. Kansas
City: Miss Dorothy Youngblood. Bir-
sningham; Mrs Bayard T. BuImer,
Norfolk; DR.. Sara L. Young. Lexing-
ton. From every State, hundreds of
Pen Women are pouring into the
Capital for the first convention ever
held of the writing women Of the
country