Evening star., 1927-03-06

residence of Mrs. Ramsay hewitt.
! Three papers comprised the program
| for the afternoon-''Iceland," by Mrs.
William r. Myers: Our Narcotic
, Peril" by Mrs. Oscar Wilkinson;
Topics or Issues of Today" by Mrs.
George w. Harris Next meeting
March 10 with Mrs. Lucy Copeland.
! The Sixteenth Street Heights Club
will meet Tuesday with Mrs. J. S.
Lay 707 Rittenhouse street. Mrs
Nina Reed will be the guest speaker;
her subject, Books and Things
| Talked About Today
The Speech Reading Club of Wash.
ing meets every Tuesday, pm, for
practice lessons. at 2515 Cliffbourne
/ place.
| 1t is for deaf and hard-o hearing
persons. and the club gives card par
| ties and other social affairs Miss
Florence 2. Spofford is president.
Columbia Floral Circle will meet to.
morrow. | m. at the home of Mrs.
ID. G. Vaughn, 31lS Eighteenth street;
Mrs. j. d. Timberlake assisting
| hostess.
The American Association of Uni
/ tive Robert Luce as the speaker at
tea tomorrow. Mrs. Henry Grattan
/ Doyle will be hostess, assisted by
, members of the hospitality committee,
! OF which Mrs. Karl F'enning is chair
man. AS usual. there will be the pop
ular pre-tea gathering of those who
come in from 2 to pm. to chat and
sew
| The art section. of which Miss
| Mary G. Riley is chairman, will meet
J Thursday at pm. The second of
, the series of talks on the art galleries
! of Washington will be given then by
| G, Powell Minnigerode, director of
the COrcoran Gallery of Art, on "The
Corcoran Gallery and Its New Wing"
At the tea preceding the talk. Miss
Lesley Jackson will be assisted in
| serving by Mrs. Veerhoff and Miss
. Ruby Nevins. Mrs. John Jay O'Con-
| nor, president of the club, will intro
! duce the members and their friends
to Mr.. Minnigerode, the guest of
| honor, and to Mrs. Margaret French
Cresson, sculptor, and Miss Catherine
| {. Critcher. portrait painter, and
| other artists, including Miss Bertha
| Noyes and Mrs. Elizabeth Evans
Graves.
At l pm. Friday the club will give
an auction bridge luncheon. Mrs. w.
| T.. Gregory, who is in charge, asks
| that reservation be made at the club
| house by March 10 and that players
! furnish their own prizes. if they wish
them, and their cards.
At 4 o'clock Friday the Washing
ton Branch. A. A. u. w, will hold
a business meeting to perfect plans
for the entertainment of college
women attending the national conven-
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here.
Miss Laura Zirbes, lecturer at
Teachers College, Columbia Cniver-
Sity. is to be the guest of honor at
the monthly club luncheon on Satur-
day. and will speak on Personality
in the Making" DR.. Lois Meek will
introduce the speaker. Saturday eve
ming there will be one of the popu-
lar club dances, with Mrs. Fred Meier
and Mrs. Charles Squire receiving.
National Memorial Foundation
The board of directors held It's month
ly meeting in the headquarters. 1916
G street, Thursday morning. with the
president Mrs. James Brattle Bur
bank, presiding. Reports given by
national officers indicated a healthy
growth in the society. Mrs. Harry G.
Barnes, chairman of relief, spoke of
the aid that had been furnished and
told in detail a case of stranded sol
der abroad which had been sent to
the foundation by the Chief Justice