Evening star., 1927-04-03
NEWS OF THE CLUBS
CONDUCTED BY MAMIE LANCASTER.

Grattan Kerans, secretary, with Mrs
| Wymond Bradbury, Mrs. Peter "A
Drury, Miss Carolina V. Sudler, Mrs.
George Eastment. Miss Miriam Birds.
eye and Mrs. John Gleissner will re
view applications for membership IN
the club.
Last Tuesday evening the free-and
easy auction bridge section had IL
tables playing. Guests of the evening
were Miss Louise Foster, Mrs. Con
verse. Mrs. Andrews, Mrs. Antoinette
Funk, Miss Grace Paul and Miss Co
rinne Quarles Mrs. p. B. Sabin will
be hostess Tuesday evening. Mrs
| Lawrence Becker will assist in in
structing.
| The members monthly club meeting
will be held Wednesday at pm. All
| members interested in the business of
the club are invited to be present.
activities of their sections for the
month of March. The nominating COM
mittee will report it's findings.
The club will keep open house for
delegates to the Continental Congress
of the Daughters of the American Rev
olution the week Of April II, when a
committee of club members will be
present to welcome the delegates,
whose badges will entitle them to the
club privileges during their convention.
Like courtesies have been extended to
delegates attending conventions in
May.
The city cleanup committee of the
Women's City Club announces lunch
con to be given at the clubhouse Fri
day at l pm. District Commissioner
Proctor l.. Dougherty and Miss Ger
trude Bowling will be the guests of
honor and speakers. All members who
will cooperate in this work are re-
quested to inquire for pledge cards at
the desk.
All divisions of the sport section are
now functioning. Members are invited
to join the sections in which they find
recreation.
The French and Spanish classes
have as instructors women highly
qualified for the task, and club men,
bers have the advantage of entering
advanced classes or the beginners.
Mrs. Charles Brooks Smith, vice
chairman of the music section, is di-
recting that section during the absence
of the chairman.
Twentieth Century Club.-The inter
national outlook section will meet to-
morrow at 2 pm. at the Cleveland
Park Club, 1928 Reno road. J. Fred
Essary. Washington correspondent of
the Baltimore Sun, who recently re-
turned from Europe after more than
a year as European correspondent of
his paper, will speak on Our British
Cousins; Mrs. Albert G. Muhse will
report on recent happenings in China;
Mrs. Arthur Deerin Call will give the
latest news from the Balkans: Mrs.
L. G. 3. Pierce will explain matters
regarding President Coolidge's efforts
to call a conference on limitation of
naval ornaments, and a letter from
Mrs. Bicknell, left over from last
months program, will be read by Mrs.
Edward B. Clark, chairman.
Mrs. Paul Brockett and Mrs. Z. w.
Washburn will be hostesses to the
members of the section and will be as
sisted by Mrs. John Lowe, Mrs. Joseph
Fairbanks, Miss Ellen Vinton, Mrs. E.
E. Burchard, Mrs. B. M. Manly, Mrs.
George A. Kicker, Mrs. Edmund Platt
and Mrs. S. G. Cornwell.
The parliamentary law section will
meet Tuesday at ii am. at the Wom-
ems City Club, % Jackson place. Mrs.
William HI. Heron, chairman, will
open the meeting, which will be turned
over to Mrs. Lillian Cole Bethel, who
will conduct the class. This will be
the last time this season Mrs. Bethel
VIII be able to attend the section meet
tngs. The lesson will include gen.
eral review of the years work.
The nature section, Mrs. Leo D.
Miner, chairman, will meet Wednesday
at 10 am. at Dupont Circle, at the new
transfer place, for a trip which will
include a walk along the canal. Last
Wednesday the members discovered
during the days trip 81 different kinds
Of wild flowers and % different species
of birds.
At 1890 Wednesday the French Sec
ton will assemble at the Women's City
Club for the last luncheon of the sea-