Evening star., 1927-09-08
WOMEN OF LEGION
|NPAR|S PLANFETt
Mrs. Arthur W. Kipling, Irish
by Birth, to Be Hostess
to 5000.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
PARIS.-Being hostess to several
thousand strangers may seem a for
midable task. but it does not daunt
those in charge of the reception to
the women of the American Legion
convention in Paris.
Mrs. Arthur w. Kipling president
of the auxiliary unit of Paris Post,
No. ] will be hostess TO 5000 guests
when the convention is in full swing.
She does not expect, however, to be
any buster than the average hostess
with a big and important party on
her hands. Her poise, she admits, is
possible because she has been pre-
pairing for the 5000 visitors for more
than year.
Details Are Perfected.
Furthermore. she has been assisted
by a group of women who are MEM
bers of the Wonen's Auxiliary of the
Legion. For weeks before the open-
ing of the convention Mrs Lucy Boyd,
national secretary of the Women's
Auxiliary, has been operating an in
formation and organization headquar-
ters at the Hotel Continental French
and American staffs there worked dav
after day perfecting details of the
women's five-day convention program.
Mrs. Boyd. who comes from Indian
3pOlis, Ind, and Mrs. Kipling checked
every detail of the convention pro-
gram. 1t will begin Sunday, Sep
tember Is, with an Alloah breakfast,
and end Thursday, September %. with
a banquet of association secretaries.
The formal opening of the auxiliary
sessions will be held Monday. Septem-
Der -. Tuesday the women will meet
tho in n iCfY,
at the Trocadero. The following day
viii be given over to reports and elec.
ton of officers. The week end is to
he devoted to dedication ceremonies.
sight seeing and shopping by the
Legion women.
American by Marriage.
The Paris chief hostess to the lie.
gion IS an American by marriage only.
she was born in Ireland and did not
visit the United States until after her
marriage to DR. Kip,ing. an American
resident in Paris for many years.
Few French women have more dis.
tlnguished war records than Mrs.
klphng s. She is entitled to wear and
possesses the 1914 Mons Star from the
BRUSH Government. the Palms of the
French Academy. the French Medal
OF Gratitude and the Volunteers
Medal, as well as the white ribbon
with gold palms for nursing for
flance. She was one of the five WON
Ell who organized the American am
6ulance at the Lycee Pas.eur in Neu.
lily on August 5. 1914. She imnedi
ately prepared herself for AUXILIARY
nursing and was soon serving with a
volunteer motor ambulance service
organized by her husband and at.
tached to French and British armies
at the front. When the United States
entered the war she was one of the
highly trained canteen and library
center workers for the Red Cross and
one of the last officers they mustered
out OF their service in France.
Open September 10.
AS its chairman. Mrs. KipIinc will
give an official welcome to the mem.
bers of the auxiliary when the vom
ems convention opens September 19
at the Continental Hotel
| Among her assistants will be eipht
young and agile pages. who will run
| errands for the national and conyen.
! ton officers.
| One of them will be Miss Marget
! Boyd, the daughter of Mrs. Lucy
BOYD, national secretary of the aux.
| lilary. Miss Boyd graduated last June
from the Technical High School in
indianapolis. She is one of the most
enthusiastic of the Legion's debutantes
in the auxiliary.