Evening star., 1924-04-01
MIRA Emily Newell Blair
Has Son and Daughter Here.


Miss Harriet Blair and Mr.. Newell
Blair are with their mother, Mrs
Emily Newell Blair, at $40 Connec-
ticut avenue, for the Easter holidays
Miss Blair is student at Goucher
College and Mr.. Newell Blair is at
Phillips Exeter. in New Hampshire.
Among those who have reserved
tables for the authors breakfast of
the League of American Pen Women
at the Hotel Washington April %
are: Mrs. Louis n. Geldert, national
president of the League of American
Pen Women, two tables; the Political
Study Club, two tables: Mrs. Harry
Atwood Colman, first national vice
president Of the league, two tables;
Miss Marie G. Redfern, two tables;
Mrs. Homer Hoch. two tables; Miss
Eliza PCpe Van Dyne, two tables;
Mrs. Dorothy De Muth Watson, chair
man of the composers group. four
tables: Mrs. Bernie Babcock. presi-
dent of the Arkansas branch. two
tables; Mrs. I.arz Anderson, an Off
Ger Of the District branch; M5s. Har-
rfet Hawley Locher. president of the
District branch; Miss Laura Thorn
borough and Mrs Fl. S. Mulliken
chatrmen of the motion picture
group; Mrs. Caroline Giltinan Har-
low, for the Virginia poets; Mrs.
Claude s. Watts, Mrs. Blanche Ray.
Mrs. L. NJ Wood, Mrs. Charles +.
Taylor. Mrs. Edward Nelson Dingley.
Single reservations have come in an
equal number and it is expected that
the salon of nations at the Wash
ington Hotel will be crowded to
capacity.
Mrs. Newbold Morris of New York
will arrive April in Washington
with a party of friends to spend sew
eral days en- route to the Hot Springs
Va, for & visit They will stay at
the Hotel Hamilton.
The marriage of Miss Fredericka
"ashburn Wade, daughter of Mrs.
Peyton Lisbey Wade. to Mr John
Shaw Billings, will take place Satur-
day. evening, April 19. at Beach Is
land, \. c. The ceremony will be
performed in the Presbyterian Church
and his bride will be at home at 1908
Connecticut avenue. Mr.. Billings.
who is a son of Dr. and Mrs. John
Shaw Billings of New York, is a
graduate Of Harvard in the class of
1921 and served in the Ambulance
Corps in the early days of the war,
later becoming a lieutenant in the
air service. He is grandson of the
late John 5. -'s..se.Tgs, who was at one
time surgeon general in the Army
and later librarian of Congress in
Washington. Later he became librarian
of the New York Public Library and
held the position until his death.
Final rehearsals for the tableau
which will be produced during the
first annuel charity bah to be given
by the council of Jewish women, in
the Salon des Nations of the Hotel
Washington this evening, were held
this afternoon. Mrs. Marie Moore
Forrest is coaching the tableau.
which will illustrate the work of the
council.
The floor committee, which will in
clude the executive committee of the
affair. Mrs. Leonard Schloss. Mrs
Stanley Lansburgh and Mrs David
A. Baer, will be augmented by the
officers of the council, Mrs. Alexan-
der, Wolf, Mrs. Adolph Kahn, Mrs. \.
Lehman and Mrs. Charles Frank.
Mrs. Charles Goldsmith and Mrs.
r B. Fl. Lyon are chairmen of the
ticket committee. Mrs. y. Lehman
is chairman of the committee for
flowers and cigarettes.
Mrs. Harr>t Taylor Upton, vice
chairman of the republican national
executive committee, is at home in
formally to republican women this
afternoon at Stoneleigh Court, from
to O'Clock.
Miss Hartshorne of the Tsuda
school, in Toxic, Japan. will be with
Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe Thursday
afternoon. Mrs. Radcliffe will not
but will resume her afternoons at
home after Easter
StatiSticians estimate the world
uses about 4,675, $50, 900, 900 matches a
year, or an average of seven matches