Evening star., 1926-06-13
NEWS OF THE CLUBS
Conducted by Mamie Lancaster.


he observed as usual so that club
members who have been enjoying a
social chat at this time can again
have the opportunity of meeting in
this way. Miss E,line Eppley pre-
when the membership committee de-
partmental section received. Miss
Caroline Sudler is in charge of this
particular branch of committee work
and those assisting will be club mem
hers chosen from each branch of the
Government departments.
The free and easy auction. which
meets Tuesday evening of each week,
had the following additional players
present at the last meeting: Mrs. S.
&. Perkins, Miss Elizabeth Dulin. Miss
n. Baker. Miss NJ. X. Reinberg, Miss
+. b. Alexander, Mrs. n. w. Alex.
ander, Mrs. 1. r. Dodic and Miss 1.
Eaton, a guest from Chicago.
On Friday morning of last week a
new card section was created with
Mrs. George NJ. Talbot, chairman.
The junior section, Miss Grace Nc
Vey, chairman, is planning to take a
group oflittle orphans on an outing to
Rock Creek Park next Saturday. A
picnic supper is to be an important
part of the program Members of
the section who are to accompany
Miss McVey are looking forward to a
day well spent, if last years history
is repeated. Little children from the
Central Union Mission were guests at
that time.
Judge OToole has issued cards for a
''garden tea" to be held at the club
house tomorrow from 4:3O to pm,
at which time the lawyer members of
the club will have an opportunity to
meet, informally, the president, Mrs.
j. Garfield Riley. and Miss Olive Beat
". chairman of the law and legislation
committee. who will be honor guests.
The date of the tea has been changed
from June 15'to Monday, June IA, due
to the fact that Mrs. Riley, who has
been selected as dean of the Washing
ton College of Law, takes up her du-
ties with the opening of the Summer
school on June IS. Special guests are
to be the women Of the graduating
class of the Washington College of
Law, who will preside at the tea ta-
bles They are Misses Katherine
Louise Arnold, Elizabeth M. Buckley,
Helen NJ. Burns, Mary Winniford Can
non. Maude Cunningham Hawks, Hell
en- Hironimus, Carrie Elizabeth Hunt
er, Dorothea NJ. Wassman and Clare
Trick NVillison. Among other guests
will be the lawyer members of the
club and their privileged guest. who
must be a lawyer not member of
the club.
The chairman of the life member
ship committee reports two appli-
rants. Mrs. Stephen NJ. Chase and Mrs.
J. Leo kolb.
At the dinner given by the busi-
ness and professional section WedneS-
slay evening the president, Mrs. j.
Garfield Riley, presided and inst1-
tuted q "eet-acquainted-W1t
right hand-neighbor" movement. She
required that each guest in turn in
troduce her neighbor and tell some
thing the neighbor was interested in
or doing. After the dinner Mrs. Riley
introduced DIR. A. Frances Foye,
physician, who in turn introduced
Judge Mary O'Toole, who spends her
cdd moments knitting socks, this
being revealed by the doctor. Miss
Amy c. Leavitt, charter member and
musician, was next on the list. 9th.
ers were DIR. Nell Bertram, medical
expert of the Veterans Bureau, and
her guest, DIR. Mary Hyndman Of the
Brooklyn State Hospital: Miss Laura
Berrien, attorney, Bureau Of Inter
nal Revenue; Miss Marian Birdseye,
extension agent. Bureau of Home
Economics; DIR. Fay Bentley, director
of school attendance; Miss Alvina
Carroll, secretary to the superintend'
ent Of schools; Miss Henrietta Olding.
assistant auditor, Internal Revenue;
Miss Mary Oursler, custodian Of CEN
suS records from 1890 to 1920: Mar
Earet De Wolfe, Treasury Depart
1nent; Miss Marie Saunders, patent
attorney, and two guests, Mrs. Law
renee w. Kane, comparative shopper,
and Miss Jacobs, leather goods eX-
pert: Miss Olive Beatty, lawyer; Miss
Grace McEey, lawyer; Miss Caroline
Sudler, United States Shipping Board;
Miss Margaret Patch, administrative
assistant, census; Mrs. Frank u.
Stewart, Federal Reserve Board; Mrs.
Lucy Cooper Shaw, accountant, De-
partment of Internal Revenue; Miss
Sallie Turner, secretary to Senator
Overman; Mrs. Grace Doyle Wooster,
office manager of the Columbia Coun-
try Club, and guest. Mrs. Pratt, sec
retary to- Representative Shreve of
PENNSYLVANIA; Mrs. Edith B. New
man, translator in the State Depart
ment: Miss Helen MCGOWAN, librarian,
limited States Chamber of Commerce,
and librarian of the Women's city
Club Mrs. Walter Florence. proof
reader, and Miss Alice Trefts, Gov
errment Printing Office copy editor;
Mrs l.. Fl. Wardwell, lawyer, vet
erans' Bureau, and charter member;
Miss Sylvia West, controller gen
erals office: Mrs. Katheryn Shenk,
Treasury Department; Miss Elizabeth
Raymond, Civil Service Commission;
Miss Maybelle Raymond, Massachu-
sets Mutual Life Insurance Co.; MISS
Mary Black, Department OF Com
merce, Railroad Administration; Miss
Helen Brown. Post Office Department;
Miss Julia Bannigan, office service;
Mrs. Virgil c. Miller, chairman men,
bership committee; Mrs. Gertrude
Lyons, charter member and chairman
of music; Miss Kennett Vail, War De-
partment, and Miss Margaret Vail of
the Veterans Bureau. Many hobbies
and abilities of the guests were re-
yealed during the period of diversified
sntroductions.
DR.. Helen M. Strong. geographic ex-
bert in the United States Department
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
and recently appointed chairman OF
the business and professional section,
was presented and after a pleasing
talk met the guests informally. Miss.
Elizabeth Stepan, a. guest OF the eve
ming, sang, with Miss Amy Leavitt
as accompanist.
Miss Elizabeth Jarvis Raymond. a
valued club member, has BEEN the
successful competitor for the prize OF
SAD offered by the District of Column
bia Life Insurance Underwriters AS
sociation on the subject Life lnsur-
ance as a Protection in the Home"
Contestants were representatives
from many clubs in the city.
The District of Columbia Federation
of WOmen's Clubs will hold its last
meeting of the season tomorrow, IL
e.m.. at the Hotel Roosevelt. Reports
of the delegates to the biennial of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs
recently held in Atlantic City will
be heard at the afternoon session.