The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-08
WOmen's Clubs
What Club Women Are
Planning and Ac-
cOmplishing.

comprising.
The Philo- Classics Club met with
Mrs. Saber Stevenson at her home
on $3.50 Nineteenth street yesterday.
Mrs. Grant s.. Barnhart gave a
paper on The Mediterranean Cities
OF the Play based on the play of
Pericles, which the club is now
studying.
Mrs. S. c. Brinley, president Of
the club, told the story of the play
and Mrs. H. C. Glass, publicity
chairman, gave her report from the
District Federation meeting.
Five hundred and forty-one new
members have been garnered by the
Business Women's Council Of Wash
ington, it was announced last night,
for the month of October. At the
meeting In the Church of the Cove
nant, where Doctor Isaac Ward holds
a Bible class every Friday night,
the council celebrated the success of
their membership drive.
Mrs. A. e. Benner was chairman
Of the drive committee. Assisting her
in getting new members were Mrs.
AeuPPdA1p MISS EHeH D.
Evans, Mrs. c. Eldred, and Miss
Jessie Stratton.
The Voteless District Of Colum.
bia League of Women Voters will
give their first dinner of the sea-
son Thursday night at the Women's
City Club, 20 jackson place north
west.
Miss Ida Husted Harper, princi-
pal speaker of the evening. will
have for her topic HAS Woman
Suffrage Net Expectations" The
president and officers of the league
viii be guests and will speak
briefly. Reservations limited to
one hundred must be placed with
Mrs. Laura A. Bradley, 1885 Irving
/ street northwest. Columbia 437O,
not later than Tuesday.
The Battery Park Garden Club
VIII hold its next meeting on Tues
day at 10 a. ra., at the home Of
Mrs. Edward Holman on Wilson
lane and Fairfax road. Profess
sor B. =. Morrison will speak on
''The Iris
The Women's Club of Bethesda
will meet Tuesday at p. m, at the
! residence of Mrs. Wilson Offitt.
Miss Mabel Dill viii address the
members on Psychology and the
Home" Mrs. Offitt will be assisted
by Mrs. Elisha Hanson and mem.
bers Of the legislative committee.
A dinner in honor of Doctor Azure.
liza Henry Reinhardt, of Mills Col.
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Will be given by the Washington
branch Of A. A.. u. W., at the
clubhouse, 1894 street northwest.
Tuesday evening. The members Of
the Board Of Directors will also be
present. They are: Mrs. Helen
Thompson WooIey, Detroit: Mrs.
A. Ross Hill. Kansas CITY. Mo-: Miss
Margaret T. Corwin, New Haven:
Miss May L. Keller, Richmond;
Miss Florence Dymond, New Or.
leans; Mrs. Roscoe Anderson, st.
Louis: Mrs. Morrison Shafroth. Den.
yer; and Mrs. Frederick Faulkner,
San Francisco.
The College Women's Club, 1922
Eye street northwest, is conducting
the annual membership drive to
last until December Is.
AT the recent meeting Of the execu-
tive board the following new mem.
bers were admitted: Miss Hattie
2. Alexander, Miss Loa Evelyn
Bailey, Miss Hilda Molesworth.
Miss Emily s. Cook, Mrs. George
B. Roth and Miss Enola New.
houser.
On Monday tea win be given
for Mr.. r. o. Marsh and the white
Indians Of South America.
Mr.. Marsh will talk on "The
Finding OF New People" Mrs. Ger
rift s. Miller will be hostess of the
afternoon.
Saturday bridge and Mahjong
party will be given under section
or which Miss Edna Sheey Is
chairman. Miss Gertrude Leonard
Is chairman on arrangements and
tickets may be obtained from her.
The club now has an associate
membership, which includes those
on what has previously been called
the non-degree waiting list" the
non-degree members are those who
have had at least two years at a
college accredited by the club but
who have not received a degree;
applicants for non-degree member
ship have previously had to be
placed on a waiting list until the
proper apportionment of such mem.
bers had been reached, since such
members under the constitution of
the club can be admitted only in
a proportion of two to ten degree
members. The long delay which this
rule entailed has now been elimi.
mated by establishing an associate
membership for such applicants,
which gives them every privilege
of the club except that Of voting,
until such time as their names are
reached for membership, at which
time they become regular, voting
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