Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-05

the HfSl meeting Ill sotpl'iiltVi.
Women's City Club.-The business
end professional wOmen'S section will
give its monthly subscription dinner
Wednesday at $50 pm. Col. James
Franklin Bell. Engineer Commissioner
Of the District, will be the guest of
honor and speaker having for his
subject washington of the Future.
Miss Fay Bentley will he hostess.
Reservations limited to 100.
| Among those attending the Free
and Easy Auction Club on Tuesday
were: Mrs. Mary {. u. Johnson. Mrs.
Retta b. Campbell. Mrs. George Rut
ley, Miss Jessie Lane. Miss Nerna
Custer. Mrs. Gertrude Lyons. Mrs. NJ.
l.. Whitmarsh, Mrs. Butler. Mrs. Don
Johnson, Miss Della y. n. Brewer.
Miss Cornelia Compson and Miss Ivy
Wentworth.
III >urOptimiSt luncheon was held
Weinc Sday at the La Fayette Hotel.
Miss Celeste B. Hodges, manager of
the interior decorating department
at Woodward & LOthrops. presided.
Louis Rothchild. manager of the Bet
ter Business Bureau OF Washington.
one of the As such institutions i'll diff
ferent cities, was the guest of honor
and gave talk setting forth the pit
falls made by the unSCrupulouS lo
trap unincumbcred dollars of the pub
lie, especially those of women. lie
told how the business men. neWSpa-
permen and bankers first formed this
bureau, not as philanthropic move,
but as a hard-hOilet business propoSl-
ton to enforce truth i'll advertising.
and to compel the dishonest or over
Jealous advertiser or department head
!, 10 - fhaFnhy n
spring the confidence of the public
by making advertisements really be-
lievable The bureau also helps the
business man to check mp on his
clerks, making il harder for the self
interested ones to increase their sales
Thereby making good showing or
larger commission by misrepresenta-
tons to customers.
They also set specific definition of
trade terms. AS an example. he used
the term "rayOn." When this CLOTH
was first made il was called by the
dealers artificial silk" which was
very misleading. because the material
contained no silk. but had the appear
ance and feel of silk. The bureau
thought that as it was an entirely
new product, it deserved IL name OF its
own and "rayon was decided on as
appropriate. lie lOiu now InlS tlotil
was made from cotton or other cellu-
lose materials by heins strained
through glass needles. He told the
| club that the bureau needed the help
of the business women and was look
| ing forward to the forming of com
mittee of them to give information to
the bureau as TO the reaction of the
public toward advertisements and as Il
help in protecting women against
frauds, especially those women with
no business experience. He said this
was very important as women spend
about "a per cent of all the money
that changes hands.
Miss Celeste Hodges, manager of
| the interior decorating department at
Woodward & LOthrOp'S, talked Of the
new Fall treatment of living rooms
and bedrooms.
Mrs. Ruby Lee Minar, president Of
the Ruby Lee Minar Real Estate Co.
| invited all the Soroptimists to visit
the model house at Lee Heights this
week as it will be the last chance to
see it completely furnished.
Miss Agnes VIM, in charge of the
primary school department of the Ma