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presided.
Following the officers reports,
chairmen of the different departments
told of the work of their committees.
Mrs. John W. Frizzell reminded the
members that the insurance contest
of the Underwriters Association will
close April Is and that number of
Tie clubs were participating.
Miss Charl O. Williams of the Ma
:onal Educational Association spoke
On the country's betterment since
prohibition and the advantages OF ii
department of education.
April 16 will be the day of the
tree planting ceremonies to be held
along the Bladensburg road, in which
many clubs will participate.
Mrs. Marx T.. Oberndorfer, chair.
man of the music division of the
General Federation of Women's
Clubs, was the guest speaker and
told of the way all club members
could help in the movement for bet
Ter music.
At the musical meeting held at the
Ambassador Theater Tuesday after
noon. under the auspices of the music
and moving picture divisions of the
District Federation. Mrs. Oberndorfer
demonstrated the value of good music
in connection with moving pictures
and announced that a music memory
contest will be inaugurated in May
for the school children. Daniel
Breeskin played the violin and Mrs.
Ida V. Clarke, organist, played the
so-called popular classics.
Nomcn's City Club--Mrs. Margaret
Hopkins Worrell, national president
of the Wheel of Progress, will be the
hostess at tins afternoon tea. Mrs.
Ida Clvde Clark of New York Will
he The guest of honor and Mrs.
Frances Gurley Adams Coulson viii
give Il talk on her experiences in the
State of Nayarit, Mexico. Those
assisting Mrs. Worrell in receiving
will be Mrs. Rose Yates Forester,
Mrs. Wallace Streater. Mrs. jessie
Lee Webb, Mrs. John +. Fowler
Mrs. Alfred Anthony, Mrs. A. l..
Rheinstrom, Mrs. Lucy Cooper Shaw,
Mrs. Richard Floyd Irwin, Mrs.
Thacker V. Walker and Miss Sara +.
Grogan. Presiding at the tea table
will be Mrs. Frank Morrison. Mrs.
Frederick T. F. Johnson and Mrs.
Claes Dickson Hallencreutz, assisted
by Miss Ruth Coleman, Miss Anne
Cavendish Boyle and Mrs. Larken
Spear.
The Junior Section is sponsoring
the Easter dance on April 5. Miss
Thelma Schmitt is in charge of ar
rangements and is assisted by Miss
Phyllis Robinson. Miss Margaret
Norton, Miss Agnes Winn. Miss
Laura Winslow. Mrs. \. B. Manly,
and Mrs. Frank Gregory Stewart.
On April at 4:45 pm. the Cur
rent Events Section will have as its
guest Avery c. Marks, jr.. manag-
ing editor of the Washington Times
and the Washington Herald, who
x,-ilI ha hn
At pm. of the same day the
regular business meeting will be held
to hear report of the nominating
committee. Proposed amendments
to the bylaws of the club and the
proposed bill to abolish capital puni-
Shment in the District will be voted
upon.
The last forum luncheon under the
direction of the present committee,
of which Mrs. Laura A. Bradley is
chairman, will be given on April 10.
The guest of honor and speaker will
be Wilmott Lewis, Washington cor
respondent of the London Times,
who will speak on The International
Problem of Today" Mrs. Lyman B.
Swormstedt will preside.
The Monday bridge section fea-
tured guest day yesterday with a
bridge luncheon, with a hundred
women present. At the meeting OF
Monday Mrs. II. G.. EaSterday was
elected to membership. Mrs. c. J..
Morris presided at the tea table.
Twentieth Century ClQb.--The litera-
ture section will meet tomorrow at 8
pm. with Mrs. Frederick V. Coville,
1886 California street. The program
will be on the subject Science and
Literature, and will be in charge of
Mrs. Alfred Brooks. who will be as
sisted by Mrs. Philip S. Smith, Miss
Grace Willis, Mrs. A. c. Spencer and
Mrs. Z. w. Washburn.
At the club meeting Thursday Sen
ator Borah is expected to be the
speaker.
The International Society of Arts
and Letters will have a musical Wed
nesday evening at O'Clock in the
clubrooms at the Gordon Hotel. Vic
tor Valley will speak on The Ma
1ional Contest of the Federation of
Musical Clubs in the Use of Musical
Cross-wo Puzzles" Mrs. Josephine
Beach of New York will give read
ings. with musical accompaniments.
There will be "a trio with piano.
violin and cello. The artists will be
Mrs. Augustus Simpson, Duff Lewis
and Dore Walton
Der Deutsch Literarische Verein
met at the home of it's president, Miss
Anita Schade. 1929 Rhode Island ave
nue., Saturday evening. The George
Washington University quartet, COM
posed of Miss IneZ Becker, first violin;
Miss Ruth SeitZick, second violin;
Paul Gropp, viola, and Spencer
Prentiss. cello, opened the program
with the following three numbers:
"Ioure" q. S. Bachl. Lied an den
Sonnenschein" Robert Schumannl
and "Serenade" q. Haydn. Miss
Schade illustrated her recitation Of
Three German Volkslieder' by play
ing the melodies on the piano. after
which she told an amusing story OF
the first meeting between Prof. Jacob
Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen
in 1910 at Berlin. She closed her lit
tie talk by reciting Andersen's THE
Princess and the Pea" and Grimm S
The Golden Key" Three very old
German volkslieder. "Das sand
mannchen," "Spinn, Spin Mein Liebe
Tochter' (fifteenth century, and
Schuster's "Abendlied," comical
song of a later date also were sung.
The quartet followed with Am
T[amin'' Or. Schumannl. Canon"
august BerngerD and The MIL
J. Raft. The vice president. A. w.
Spanhoofd, closed the evening S
entertainment with an interesting
lecture on How Does a People Re
gard It's Language?" Two German
comedies are being rehearsed for the
Auril meeting of the club.
District League of American Pen
WOmen.-On Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, April 6-S, inclusive,
from 10 am. to 6 pm, the art sec.
lion of the District branch will hold
an exhibit of work presented by