Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27

United States only an acadeu.ic
question.
A conspicuous and a real achieve
ment of the congress was the gradUal
development of solidarity among tie
women present. This may have beer
due to the practicability with which.
the women regarded the questions be
fore them. In spite Of BACKGROUNDS
and conditions of infinite variety H.
India. Egypt. Australia. Europe ami
the Americas, opinions in the main
were formed and defended with cor.
slant reference TO facts and To actua!
experience. Theorists We're in t..
minority.
Several Thousand guests are expect
cd to attend the reception to he given
Wednesday night by the National
Woman's Party in honor Of the re
turning delegates from the Interna-
tional Suffrage Convention AT Paris
The party will he held in the his
toric garden at headquarters on Cap
tol Hill.
Miss Jessie y. Dell. United STATE
I'll service commissioner. who was
expected to arrive in Washington this
past week. will be one of the mos
distinguished guests Of honor Mis-
Dell. with Mrs. Florence Bayald
Hilles. national chairman, Miss Mahe
Vernon executive secretary Of Del
ware: Miss Doris Stevens Of NeU
| York. Mrs Clarence Smith. Mrs. Rni
| ert Walker and Mrs. Dixon of BALI
more are the members of the delccH-
ton who will he honored at the 81.
den party.
According to a change in plans r.
was announced al headquarters thI~
week that the national officers and the
national council will act as hostess"
Wednesday night instead of memhel rs
Of the local branch. Mrs. Edit
| Houghton Hooker. chairman Of H."
national council. will head the recel-
! ton committee.
/ Immediately following the demon
stration in London for equal rights, in
which members of the Woman'S PartT
resident in Paris and London Will pal-
| ticipate on July 3. headed by Miss
| Anita Pollitzer. national secretary,
| the American group will go To Ire
| land and to Holland to take part I'm
! similar demonstrations. which have
| been inspired by news of the one in
| England Officials at headquarters
! here in Washington have expressed
| themselves as being very much graft
! fed at the rapidity with which the
movement is gathering force as II
/ spreads through the nations OF EtI-
rope. They are particularly pleased
! that American women are ASSISTING
| those across the Atlantic in making
/ their plea for equal rights with men
| in the economic and social as we'll as
the political world.
Mrs Edward Nelson Bincley. first
/ vice president Of the League of Amer
lean Pen Women. will he the acting
/ executive of the organization during
the absence Of Mrs. Grace Thompson
/ Seton. president, who is in South
America with the Marshall Field eX-
petition sent out from the Field Nu-
scum Of Natural History in Chicago
to bring back botanical. biological
and geological specimens for the mU-
scum. Mrs. Seton, herself an expert
on medicinal plants. is serving in the
capacity of historian ON the South
| American trip.
The last edition of the league hui
| letin for the Summer. issued the first
week in June. shows that activities
of the members in book producing and
magazine writing are very extensive.
! The next full edition of the bulletin
will appear in October. when the for
nal activities Of the league begin
with the first Fall meeting OF the
| hoard.