Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
NEWS OF THE CLUBS
CONDUCTED BY MAMIE LANCASTER

of Islam Mrs. William Wolff Smith
District president, gave a brief story
of the origin of coffee houses in Eng
land following the Eliza bethan period
and Mrs Ernest Thompson Seton. ma
tional president. who has travelled ex
tensiVely in Egypt, introduced the
speaker
An equally large audience greeted
Princess CantaCuZene at the second
symposium last Friday. AS was the
custom in England the princess sat
in AN easy chair on a small platform
in the center of the group and dis
courScd informally on America S In
fiueuCe on European Literature" The
speaker for Friday. January 81, will
he Wiimot G. Lewis, Washington cor
respondent for the London Times.
Last Sunday evening students from
the Anne Tillery Repshaw School OF
Speech gave a production of over
tones" at the conclusion of the chat
ing dish supper.
The group for the study of feature
writing. Mrs. Victoria Faber Steven
son. chairman. met last Tuesday eve
ming The special subject under dis
cussion was New Year feature stories
as found in the daily press. Mrs
Alice Killam is secretary of this
group.
The juvenile story group, Miss
a large number present at its meet
ing Monday night. Several members
are planning TO submit stories in the
Isabel Anderson prize contest in the
Spring.
The, poetry group, of which Miss
Alice Hutchins Drake is chairman
VII meet tomorrow at Mount Pleas
ant Library at 8 pm. All league
members who are interested in verse
construction or in the appreciation OF
verse are invited to attend.
The first book review luncheon of
the new year will be held Tuesday
at the clubhouse, at l pm. Charles
w. Russell, eXMinister to Persia and
author of poems on Persian life, will
be one of the speakers. He will re-
view some of his own poems. and will
also discuss Persian literature. Miss
Margaret Wade, a league member,
will discuss her own book, Social
Usage in America" Reservations for
the luncheon should be made by call.
ing the clubhouse.
The class in parliamentary law,
Miss Bertha Frances Wolfe, chair.
man, will meet at the clubhouse
Thursday, at pm.
The tea which was scheduled for
this afternoon at the clubhouse will
not take place.
The District of Columbia Society,
Danes of the Loyal Legion, met
Thursday at the home of Miss Sophie
Pearce Casey, the Oakland; Miss May
S. Clark, president, in the chair. Re-
ports were read from the various Off
GERS. The larger part of the business
hour was consumed in considering
changes to the constitution of the ma
tional society suggested by the spe-
cial committee appointed by the presi-
dent of the National Society of the
Danes of the Loyal Legion, Mrs.
Mary Logan Tucker, at it's annual
last Spring. The suggestions
of the special committee had previous
ly been approved by the executive
board at Its December meeting. The
society approved the resolution pre-
scented and acted favorably upon by
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
at Philadelphia in October last to the
effect that the National Flag should
have no fringe, border, additions or
variations, and the purity of the flag
as established by Congress should be
preserved" The chair announced
that $233.10 had been sent to the
Nancy Hanks Memorial Association of
Lincoln University as a result of a
sale held at the December meeting at
the Roosevelt Hotel, the articles sold
having been made on hand looms by
the mountain girls, students at the
Plans were discussed for
the forthcoming breakfast held each
year at the New Willard by the So
ciety on February IL in honor of
birthday. Gen. Charles p.
L. S. A., and chief of
staff, will be the guest of honor and
give an address. The chair announced
that at this time a Danes of the Loyal
Legion flag will be presented as a
to Gen. William Thomas
Clark, late adjutant general of the
Army of the Tennessee, by his son,
Thomas S. Clark of New York City:
also that the prize of $25 for the best
essay on Lincoln competed for by the
students of the American University
will be presented. A letter was read
by Mrs Merrick Williams from the
haywood Home in Chicago for Civil
War Widows, thanking the society for
the Christmas box. A letter was also
read from Mrs. Hines, wife of the
former chief of staff, Gen. John L.
Hines, regretting her inability to at.
tend the meetings on account of re-
moval from Washington. The society
adjourned to meet in February at the
residence of Mrs. Virginia White
Speel, and reassembled to be guests of
Miss Casey at tea, assisted by Mrs
Robert J. Holmes.
The WOman's Auxiliary to the
American Institute of Mining Engi-
neers held it's annual meeting Tues
day. Officers elected for the ensuing