Evening star., 1927-04-26
Annual Maple Sugar Party
OF Vermont Society Nav 4.


The Vermont State Association o
the District of Columbia win hold its
twenty sixth annual maple sugar
party at Rauscher's Wednesday, MAY
4, the reception beginning at
o'clock and the supper at 1870 o'clock
Mr.. Ezra Brainerd, Interstate Com
merce Commissioner, will be guest
of honor. There win be two speakers
from Vermont, and Mrs. Fairbanks
will lead the singing, the program
concluding with dancing. Mr.. Bliss
n. Davis is treasurer; Miss Grace
Ross Chamberlain MODERATOR and Mr.
Lucius Q. Chaplin is clerk.
The seasons last meeting Of the
Kentucky Society win be held at the
Willard Hotel this evening at $50
O'Clock, Mrs. Maurice II. Thatcher
president, presiding. As a feature OF
the CLOSE of very successful season
the society will be entertained by two
former Kentuckians, Miss Iva Rob
erts and Mrs. Frances Metcaf Rodda,
a reader and singer, respectively, VINO
come from Boston and Baltimore to
furnish what is expected to be the
most attractive program of the sea,
son. After the. regular program ana
election of officers for the ensuing
year there will be the usual cards ana
dancing.
A very large attendance is expected,
as the last meeting of the season Is
always an especially enjoyable one.
Mrs. John Osborne Gheen and Mrs.
Harwood Read are heading a group Of
ladies' who have planned a May day
bridge breakfast. which will be given
next Monday at the Wardman Park
Saddle Club for the benefit of the
Episcopal Home for Children. Among
the patronesses are Mrs. John w.
.Brawner, Mrs. Glenn II. Leland. Miss
Emily Battles. Mrs. Jefferson Myers,
Mrs. William IL. Sholes, Mrs. Elizabeth
Northrop, Mrs. John S. Conway, Mrs.
Edgar K. Clarke, Mrs. +. Richard
Gasch, Mrs. William Cammack Miller,
Mrs. Dom Werner Smythe and Miss
Leila Draper.
Miss Catharine H. GuteIius has re-
turned to this city after spending Eas-
ter vacation with relatives in Pitts
burgh, Pa. and Canton, Ohio.
Mrs. Clarence Crittenden Calhoun
entertained at tea yesterday afternoon
in her apartment at Stoneleigh Court,
when her guests were members of the
general committee of arrangements
for the World Welfare Conference,
which is to be held in this city at
the Carlton Hotel next week, begin
ming Tuesday, May 3, and closing on
Mothers day, Sunday, May s. Mrs.
Francis Hopkins is chairman of this
committee and associated with her are
Mrs. Alexander Bentley, Mrs. Turin
Boone, Mrs. S. A. Boniface, Mrs. Fran.
els Barbour Clark, Mrs. William Boyd
Carpenter, Miss Margaret Patton
,s,. TN..,a aIy.s,
Mrs. Carl Droop, Mrs. Geneva Dun
ham. Mrs. Philip Julien, Mrs. William
Fitch Kelly. Mrs. Blaine Lipscomb,
Mrs. Stokeley Morgan, Mrs. James
Huntington Turner, Mrs. James
Pryor Taryin, Mrs. Alonzo Tyner, Mrs.
Dallett Wilson and Miss Elizabeth
Wood.
Among the chairmen of special com
mittees for the conference are Mrs.
Alonzo Tyner, chairman of the com
mittee on patronesses; Mrs. Dallett
Wilson, banquet, and Mrs. GenevS
Dunham, entertainment.
American Forest week will be OBJ
served by the District Daughters of
the American Revolution by an illus
trated talk on THE Lure of the For
est" given by MIR. Herbert n. Wheel
er, chief lecturer of the Forest Sery-
ice, Department of Agriculture, in the
auditorium of the National Museum
Saturday evening at SIS o'clock.
This lecture is under the auspices of
the committee on conservation and
thrift. Miss Nellie Grant Ross is
chairman.
Miss Anna r. Blanchard of Roch-
ester, N. ", has been the guest of MIR.
and Mrs. Hugh L. Kerwin Of this city
for q week.
The final list of patrons and patron
esses for the card party given by the
Dixie Chapter, United Daughters of the