Evening star., 1927-11-27
NEWS OF THE CLUBS
CONDUCTED RY MAMIE LANCASTER.

ANNIE LANCASTER.
he in charge of Miss Joanna Stopp
assisted by Miss Mary T.. Heyler
Please send all donations to Mrs Mary
+ Allen Adams 1879 Massa chuSettS ave
nue., or phone Mrs. Leon Arnold
West 1888. who will call for them
There will be n program of music and
recitations by Mrs. David kincheloe
and Mrs. Lily Charles McFadden. A
number of pioneer women who We're
associated with Mrs Anthony will he
present, among whom will he Mrs
Hester NJ Poole. - wears Of age. one
of the founders of the first woman 5
incorporated cluh in America. Mrs
George W. DalWick, hub Of tho Nan.
cite r. Paul wheel. will wear the cos
tune worn by Mrs. Hester NJ Poole
when she presided over n meeting. 40
years ago. of the Sorosis Club in New
| York.
All clubs interested in the life and
work of Susan II. Anthony and the
building oG the memorial in her honor
| will be cordially Welcomed.
The Wheel Of Progress Of the dis.
trict of Columbia will hold it's las
meeting before the Christmas holidays
| tomorrow at the Washington Hotel
| Glasses for the study of the Constitu.
tion under the guidance of Mrs. Claes
| Dickson-Ha llencreutz will begin
| promptly at 7:45 and end at $50. The
public is invited to attend these lee
| lures.
The regent. Mrs Rose Gouverneur
| Hoes. and the vice regent, Mrs. Jeter
| c. Pritchard. will be guests of the eve
! ming. Thomas w. Littlerage will de.
| liver an address on the subject:
"l.esislative Problems to Be Consider
ed BY the Coming Session of Con
GrcsS."
The American Federation of Indus
trial Women will give the first of a
series Of hostess dances Wednesday
night, to u pm, at the Wardman
Park Hotel.
There will he a waltz contest and
several exhibition dance specialties by
young society people.
The proceeds from these dances so
into the fund of the national athletic
committee of the federation.
Mrs. Ida B. Kelly of New York City.
who was the hostess at the federation
camp and athletic club for business
women and girls last Summer. near
the District line in Maryland has re-
Mrs. Kelly heads committee of -
hostesses, who will take an active part
in seeing that all present have an en-
joyable evening.
The New York City Chapter of the
federation will meet in the assembly
room of the WaldorfAstoria Hotel
tomorrow to plan for like series Of
hostess dances for its chapter. to be
held in the Waldorf-As Hotel dur.
ing the Winter. The proceeds Of these
dances will also so into the national
athletic committee fund to promote
the physical betterment of business
women. Miss Marian A. Denton.
chairman of the New York City Chap
ter. will serve AS chairman of the
hostess committee for her chapter
dances.
The ladies who will serve on the
hostess committee with Mrs. Kelly are
Mrs. c. e. Monahan. Mrs. r. a. Jami-
son. Mrs. Eunce Burks. Mrs. T..
Wilson. Mrs. Elizabeth Mason. Mrs.
c. r. Winters. Mrs. G. Kingsley, Mrs.
Grace Porter. Miss Ida La Porte, Miss
Helen Caleris and Mrs. c. Carroll
The Woman's Club of Bethesda
held it's November committee day
November %, IL am, at the home of
Mrs. Elisha Hanson, the president.
Each hour of the program was packed
full of interesting reports and talks,
the meeting proving one of the most
inspiring that the club has had. The
American home department had no
report. but provided a demonstration
of an unusually perfected cleaning ap-
paratus Mrs Robert Sears. chair.
man of education, who was in charge
Of the next period. presented as her
speaker l.. r. Alderman, of the Bu-
reau of Education, who gave a gen.
erai survey of illiteracy work in Amer
lea and discussed the world move
ment in adult education. referring in
particular to DR.. Thorndike's work
in proving that the adult mind has
in ne degree lost its capacity to learn.
Mr.. Alderman urged the encourage
ment of afternoon and night classes
in the public schools. citing various
cities in which the adaptation of the
school plant to this purpose had been
accomplished at small additional cost
20 taxpayers. but with large returns
in community benefit.
After the Informal noon luncheon
Mrs. Thomas w. Pyle of the motion
picture committee talked on the work
OF this new but active committee at
the Ambassador Theater One ilumi-
mating point made by Mrs. Pyle was
the fact that the circulation depart
ment of the Washington Public Lii
brary states that the filming of books
is an encouragement to reading, the
demand for works that have been
dramatized being always extremely
heavy after the screen version has
been shown. Librarians further
state that not only are the original
dramas in demand, but in the case
OF plays based on history, all sorts
of historical and biogra phcal reading
correlated to the period are sought for.
Thus the Importance of keeping mo.
tion picture standards as high as may
ha is shown, together with the re-
sponsibility resting upon club women
since an opportunity has been given
them to assist in arranging the Sat
urday morning programs for children
using them as foundation in build
ing for the movie" of the future.
Mrs. Pyle was assisted in illustrating
the musical appreciation project Of
the committee by piano selections
played by Mrs. Robert Gould Menafee.
Contests in this work are to he CON
Quoted in the early weeks of Decem-
ber. Saturdays program was built
on the theme of Our Allies" with
France as the keynote, using repre-
sentative French musical compost.
tons, including the MarseilIaise.
The closing hour was given over to
the department of international rela-
tions. the chairman, Mrs. F. +. Mid
dleton. introducing Mrs. A. 3. Barber.
a new member of the club, who spoke
on Our Changing World" Mrs. Bar
ber has had unusual equipment for
handling capably SO big a subject, and
part of her talk was based on an
address given by her before the Con-
ference for the Study of the Cause and
Cure of War, in Washington last Win
ter. Mrs. Barber touched briefly on
the recent trans oceanic flights and
the international radio conference, as
well as current scientific trend. as