Evening star., 1927-03-06


bassy i'm Paris. Mr.. and Mrs. Miller s;
| to the founder and honorary president
of the foundation, Mrs. Anna r..
Hendley. There will be attractive
awards and refreshments will be
served. Mrs. Leon Arnold, chairman
of the ways and means committee,
entertained the members OF her COM
mittee at a luncheon at the Hotel
Powhatan on Wednesday. Reserya
tions for the card party may be
obtained by calling Mrs. Leon Arnold,
West 1888.
The Washington Readers Club held
it's monthly meeting In All Souls
Church at pm. Tuesday. A business
session was conducted by the presi-
dent. w +. Bryant. Reports of II
various committees were read and
accepted. Two candidates were added
and several names proposed for
membership, to be acted on later The
club voted to hold it's annual Shake
speake banquet on the date of his
birth. April %, or as near that date
as possible. The president appointed
a committee, with Mrs Constance
Goodman as chairman, to locate a
arrange a program for the occasion.
After the business hour the program
was in charge of w. -. Waudby.
Subject, ireland" Mrs. Waudby read
paper on Ireland, telling of her
song, wit and humor. John Lock
gave several Irish songs, with Miss
Arnold at the piano. A unique fea-
ture of the evening, but no less en-
joyable. were the many sleighI Of-hand
performances done by julius Seid.
Miss Alice Robinson gave several
Irish readings. One with music was
much appreciated. "On the Banks of
Killarney" A special arrangement
of a scene from THE Colleen Bawn,'
given by Miss Ada Townsend. met
with much applause.
Battery Park Garden CIub.--The
next meeting will be held on March
II, at Bpm, at the Community House.
Timely Topics is the subject for
the evening w. r. Beattie of the
Department of Agriculture. will speak
on Spring Operations illustrating his
lecture with slides, and conducting the
usual round-table. Mrs. Irving Linnell
has the music for the evening in
charge. During the social hour re-
freshments will be served. This will
be the first of few evening meetings
which the program committee, Mrs.
f. II. Hartnet, chairman. plan to have
during the year in order to give the
men Of the community an opportunity
to share in the work of the Garden
Club.
The Curley Club held "A meeting of
the executive committee, consisting of
officers of the club and chairman Of
the various committees, on February
IS, at the home of Miss Monica Cor
don, 1916 F street. Suggestions and
plans We're discussed regarding an en-
tertainment and reception on May 2,
when Archbishop Curley of Baltimore,
will visit the Curley Club.
The next meeting of the club will
be held at the Hotel Gordon, March
s, at 8:15 pm. There will be a short
business meeting. At pm. Patrick
j. Haltigan. reading clerk of the House
| of Representatives will give a lecture
on THE Pilgrimage to Rome" The
members are at liberty to invite their
| friends to hear this lecture.
| The members took part in the sale OF
| tickets for motion pictures of the
| Eucharistic Congress-
! Initiation will not take place at the
meeting March 8, on account of the
| lecture.
Prince Georges County Federation
of WOmen's Cubs.-"Women's clubs
are recognized important factors in
social. educational and political life
| of today. Therefore, we can no
| longer be satisfied to carry on the
various activities of our clubs in the
| informal. irregular, amateurish man
ner Of the past. Efficiency is the
watchword of the times. To attain
| this, training is necessary, and club
| institutes are for the purpose of train.
| ing club women in the methods of
running the machinery of clubs. ire
| spective of their purpose" This is
the message sent by Mrs. John AL.
cock. president of the Maryland Fed.
Grafton of Women's Clubs, to the
women assembled for an institute
held at the Cameo Theater, Mount
! Rainier, this past week. Owing to
| illness, Mrs. Alcock was prevented
from officiating, but the State direc-
tor, Mrs. John r. Sippel. conducted
! the meeting, with Mrs. j. Enos Ray,
president of the Prince Georges
, County Federation. acting as hostess.
| A program had been outlined by
! Mrs. Alcock, and her staff of State
officers, who came from Baltimore
and nearby counties. presented the
purpose of the institute and gave
| suggestions.
! "Orga ganiZation" was discussed by
| Mrs. Ray. and three distinct types IF
| club were presented: The cultural
club tart, literature. music, the civic
/ club community welfare. including
public health. child welfare, super
vised recreation. better city manage
ment and all public interests), the
department club includes through its
various departments the cultural ard
| civic clubs, adding legislation.
Mrs. Sippel presented Mrs. John G.
Price, State corresponding secretary,
who gave a talk on Finances" and
| Clubhouse.
Club Relationships" was well han
died by Mrs. Nicoll of Baltimore.
Mrs. William III. Maltbie. State
chairman on education, discussed the
subject of programs and encouraged
| all women to learn to talk on their
| feet, beginning in their club with
programs to include all members,
rather than ono or two lengthy
papers.
| In a paper on THE Ideal Club" by
Mrs. Earl w. Chafee, she stressed the
three important "bones" necessary