Evening star., 1923-04-22

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her thanks and appreciation to the
mothers who helped her SO faithfully
and cheerfully.
The eighth annual convention OF the
District Of Columbia Congress of
+, Mothers and Parent-Teacher AssOcia-
! tiors was held Tuesday from 10 until
4 o'clock in the crystal room OF the
| Ebbitt Hotel The election of Off
+, GERS resulted as follows: Mrs: Giles
! Scott Rafter. PRESIDENT: Mrs. Joseph
j; NJ Saunders. first vice president; Mrs.
president: Mrs. J. II. Newton. third
vice president: Miss Blanche Patter-
! son. fourth vice president; Capt.
| Julius Peyser, fifth vice president;
Ms. ]. W. Byler. recording secre-
| tary; Mrs. Z. B. Blackstone. treas
| urer. The entire slate agreed upon
| by the nominating committee received
. the unanimous Endorsement of the
delegates to the congress. A com
/ mittee consisting of Mrs. J. w.
Bischoff. Mrs. W. NJ. Collins and Mrs.
! a. X. Wine were appointed to inter
view the superintendent of schools in
regard to the question of milk fund
restriction, sent to the principals of
all schools. This same committee was
authorized to go before the board
of education and demand supervision
of our school Fairgrounds; also solocit
cO-ODeI6ClOn Oh All ldlHSlS VI SCuool
children.
Miss Louise c. Lippett Of the Uni
verSity Of Wisconsin told of her eX-
perience at the university in connec-
tion with educational gymnastics.
B. Moss Of Business High School gave
two violin solos. Miss E S. Thompson,
teacher. at the piano.
4 committee, with Mrs. II. S. Par
sons 5 chairman. was appointed TO
make an effort to secure permanent
Mothers and Parent-Tea cher Assoc!a-
tions: also to secure a room for the
work Of the clothes conserva ton COM
mittee.
The delegates elected 10 the nation
n convention at Louisville. Ky. were
Mrs. G. S. Rafter. Mrs. !. S. Saunders.
Mrs. Il. s. Wolf. Mrs. J. NJ. Bischoff.
Mrs. j. Randall and Mrs. X. E. Wise
we'll
Miss Esch, public school teacher OF
the house OF detention. spoke Of her
of one Of her pupils who was asked
to write about spring. This is what
the child wrote: Spring has come,
but I'm in Jail
, Mrs William Wolf Smith gave
most interesting talk on Adde'S
! ence." She told of the, important re-
lation between parent and child from
infancy and during the adolescent
period. the effect upon the child
physically, mentally and morally
The mothers of the Langdon Parent
! Teacher Association have published
cook book containing recipes of ex-
pert houSekeepers. and the proceeds
Of the sale of this book will go toward
the playground equipment Of that
school.
The year book of the Congress of
Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associa-
tions is now in the hands of the
! printer and will be ready for distribu-
| tion by the last of this week
!. The West School had the largest
delegation at the convention. and the
John Burroughs had second largest.
Mr.: Thomas A. Lee spoke on wei
| fare Work"
vention at Louisville. Ky. left on a
! special train Saturday at 1885 O'Clock.
! The Baltimore and Ohio railroad fur
! nished special courier. who took en-
| tire charge Of the business part of
! the trip.
! The Petworth Home and School AS
! sociation met in the school building
| the president, Raymond S. Hart, pre-
| siding.
During a short business meeting it
! was decided to hold the annual school
| luncheon about the middle of May,
and all parents as we'll as pupils
were urged to attend.
An interesting exhibit from the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company was presented under the di-
rection of ]. NJ. Waters. 1t consisted
! of two small switchboards with which
| it was demonstrated just how calls
are handled.
The program consisted of a piano
solo by Miss Withelmena GUIDE, stu
dent at the Petworth School. two So
prano solos by Mrs. Harriet Harding
Guthrie, accompanied by Miss Wood,
instructor in music at the Petworth