Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
NEWS OF THE CLUBS
Mamie Lancaster.

, Mrs. Robertson will be the hostess
Mexico will be the subject of discus
sion al the dinner on Saturday eve
ming at $50, when Mrs. Alvin Dodd
will be hostess.
The study group in adolescence
held its first meeting Wednesday eve
ming. This group is being led by DIR,
Richmond, specialist in mental hySi-
enc and author of The Adolescent
Girl"
District Branch, League Of Ameri.
can Pen WOmen.--There will be a
chafing dish supper this evening at Z
O'Clock, at the clubhouse, for which
| reservations should be made. The
supper will be followed by an interest
ing program at s O'Clock, consisting or
a one-act play, "Overtones." given
under the direction of Anne Tillery
Renshaw, with the following players
in the cast: Blanche Mays. Gladys
Vickers. Lillian Swecker and Ethel
Bair. This will be followed by the
reading of two of Edgar Allen Poe's
poems. with musical accompaniment
"Annabelle Lee" read by Dorothy
Abrams, and The Bells" by Mrs.
Clare Speaker.
The juvenile literature group, Susie
! White MCGOWAN. chairman. will meet
| at the clubhouse tomorrow at 100
pm.
| The opening symposium of the Eng
| lish Coffee Shoppe, which has been re-
vived by the pen women, was held
| Friday afternoon at the clubhouse.
| From $50 to ) coffee was served and
the guests were given an opportunity
to meet socially. 1smail kalem Bey,
! charge d 'affaires of Egypt. was the
speaker of the afternoon, his subject
/ being "Egyptjan Literature" This
was followed by informal discussion.
as was the custom in the days of the
! Coffee Shoppe in England, following
| the Elizabethan period These literary
| symposiums will take place each Fri
| day afternoon during January, Feb.
ruary and March. Next Friday after
| noon the speaker will be Princess
| CantacuZene,
At the reception given Yesterday
by Mrs. Ellis Logan to honor Mrs.
| William Wolff Smith. president of the
| District branch Of the League of
American Pen Women. Mrs. Logan
was assisted in receiving by the Dis
| trict officers. Presiding at the tea
table were Mrs. Theodore Hance
| Tiller and Mrs. Harriet Hawley
Locher, both past presidents of the
| District league. Among the guests
were Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton,
president of the national league, and
other national officers. as we'll as
| others prominent in literary and art
| circles in Washington. Baskets of
roses were used throughout the house
| for decorations.
The following study groups met
| this past week: Music. short story,
| fine arts and parliamentary law
The Housekeepers' Alliance
| Through the courtesy of Mrs. Sumner,
| the January meeting of the alliance
was held in Administration Building,
| No. 2, Government Hotels, Tuesday.
! William E. Chamberlain presided.
| The speaker of the afternoon was DR..
Paul E. Howe, biological chemist in
charge of meat investigation, Bureau
| of Animal Industry. DR.. Howe dis
cussed the psychological factors IN
| food preferences as shown by human
beings in their daily diet, pointing out
| how there was an unconscious human
| choice and assimilation of proportion
ate amounts of food values, prefer
| ences being governed by such factors
as occasion, appearance, taste, Vari-
| CIV and habit. Mrs. Doak, vice chair
| man, representing the Federated
Farm Women of America, pleaded for
cooperation between city housekeep-
/ ers and farm women to promote di-
rect distribution of farm produce by
| parcel post. The. Thrift week cam
paign was Endorsed and a contribu'
ton made.
The Columbia Heights Art Club
Mrs. S. w. Morris and Mrs. Charles
| P. Grandfield were joint hostesses to
the club Thursday at the Woodley,
the home of the former. Mrs. Sara
| Wolhaupter, chairman, presided.
There were % members present and
2 guests, Mrs. E. T. Ginnis and Mrs
George Cook. Reports of officers fol
| lowed after which the program
opened with a paper on The Royal
Academy" given by Mrs. James D:
| Yeomans. The second paper was by
Mrs. John BOYLE, jr.. on George Rom
ney, 1734-1s02. Life, influence, Rl,
vairy with Reynolds. Both elected
much interested discussion. Mrs.
Ora ndfield read "Romney's Remorse,
by Tennyson. Roll call was responded
to with selections bearing upon the
study topic. Mrs. George Peckham
and Mrs E. G. Russell presided at
the tea table, which was fragra mt
with red roses. The next meeting VIII
| ne WIN MIS-. j. w. It itHHci' u" -
| Northumberland January 70. MRS.
Amy B. Leeds assisting hostess
The Susan b. Anthony Foundation
held a meeting of the board OF oil
rectors at the headquarters in the
Arlington Hotel on Tuesday evening
| ARRANGEMENTS were made for Inc
social meeting to be held on the eve
| ming of January II, at the Arlington,
! -r-;f 1aa
under the direction of Mrs. Warner
/ Gibbs. and a program under the d1rec-
| tion of Mrs William E. Chamberlfn,
chairman Of the program committee:
number of the members attended
the tea given by the Maryland
Branch, Thursday afternoon at the
Roland Park Woman's Club, Balti-
more. Besides several short ad'
hdresses on national representation
for the people of the District OF Co
| lurnbia and the Susan B. Anthony
| Memorial Building, Swepson Earle
exhibited an extremely interesting
| moving picture of the fish, crab and
oyster industry of the State of Mary
land. -,
The officers of the foundation will
| he informally at home In the Airing
ton Hotel on Saturday from to
pm.
All who are interested in the classes
in parlia mentary law, with Mrs. Nan
cite r. Paul as instructor, will please
amply to Mrs. Warner Gibbs, 1922 =
street.
The VOteiess District OF Columbia
League of Women Voters will hold its
January dinner on the evening OF the
seventeenth. at Z pm, at the
| Woman's City Club.
The speaker will be Harry E. Hull,
Commissioner General of Immigra-
ton. Mr.. Hull has chosen for his