Evening star., 1924-03-09
NEWS OF THE CLUBS

at the residence of the president, Mrs.
Virginia White Speel, 1856 N street
At the monthly meeting, which took
place Monday at the Gordon Hotel,
representative Israel M. Foster Of
Onlo gave talk on quotation from
Lincoln, Nothing is politically right
which is morally wrong" The meet
Ihe Pledge of the Flag and the
singing of The Star Spangled Ban
ner." Miss Winifred Banner gave
some musical numbers and Mrs. SpeeI
presided and gave a short talk.
Twentieth Century CIub-The par
liamentary law section, Mrs. William
Heron presiding. will meet tonor-
row at IL am. at the A. A. u. w.
clubhouse. Mrs. L. G. i. Peirce will
conduct the class.
The section of archaeology has post
poned it's meeting from March II to
March IS.
The French section, under the Lead
ership of Mrs. Francis Wakes, will
street
Club.
The music section. Mrs. Eugene
Byrnes leader. will meet Tuesday at
I2l7 NJ street at 2 pm. Mrs. Hendly
OF the Hendly- -Caspar School will
demonstrate the methods of the
school. She will be assisted by thirty
OF the younger pupils.
The art section meeting will be
postponed to a date to be announced
later, when the meeting will be held
at Mrs. Farrington's, and Joseph PEN
nell will speak.
The Juvenile Protective Association
committee of the civic section will
meet Thursday at IL am. at the
Woman's City Club.
international Association of Art and
Letters.-The annual election of Off
GERS took place last Monday. DR..
Clarence j. owens. president. was re-
elected for a second year. other Off
Gers elected were as follows: Vice
presidents, DR.. Alexander Henneman,
J: w. Hoffman, DR.. Tom A. Williams,
Mrs. G. Essery Barnard. NJ. II. Irish
and Mrs. Ben l.. Perkins: treasurer.
Charles W. Warden: assistant treas
nrer. Mrs. NJ. F..Smith: auditor, Mrs.
VI. +. Adams; recording secretary,
Victor Russell; CORE spending secre-
tary, Mrs Florence jackson Stoddarti;
assistant corresponding secretary,
Mrs. Emily Fairless: parliamentarian,
DR. l.. L. Thurston: historian. Mrs. NJ.
Spalding; council, DIR. Manoel de Oil
Charles Ferris. Mrs. Ida u. Peters,
Mrs A. S. Hamilton and Mrs. kath-
srine J. Fenton.
The president, who left Thursday
with the Egyptian minister. S. Yousry
Pasha, for Egyptian art and litera-
ture to be the subject dealt with at
the associations literary salon March
81.
The banquet OF the association was
held February IS at the Lafayette
Hotel. The dinner began at S o'clock
after William Jennings Bryan had
asked the blessing. The menu, COM
posed of dishes made according to
recipes of various nations, carried the
palate from America to italy. Scot
land. France. Spain. Persia, Russia,
Denmark, Brazil and Egypt. The idea
cf the evening, that the five conti-
nents of the world should be repre-
sented. was adhered to with con-
sistency. Interspcrsing the courses
a program symbolizing the five conti-
nents was carried out. Miss Char
lotte Bell of the Ojibway tribe,
dressed in national costume. sang In
dian melodies. Greece, as the oldest
song and tableauX of Greek friezes
was represented by the reading of
Gideon Lyons THE Pastime of Eter-
nifty" in condensed form, by Mrs.
Lyon. who wore a Persian costume;
for Spanish South America Miss Flor
ence Fenton gave Spanish dance,
and for Africa she arranged an Egyp-
tian ballet from Luigi with great ef-
tect, she herself with Miss Josephine
Burke and the Misses Groncke, TAX
ing part.
The president, DR.. Clarence ].
Owens, proposed the general toast,
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