The Washington times., 1927-04-26
Women S Democratic Club Purchases NelU Home;
Announcement Made at Luncheon Yesterday
Governor Ross Stir
ring Speech Steals the
Headlines; Organization
Active
By JEAN ELLIOT

VIE WONACA . %t1bAoAoA
j cratic Club has purchased the
residence 1926 New Hampshire Ave
nue.. in which its headquarters win
be established soon.
This news s'broke" yesterday at
the weekly luncheon of the Women,s
Democratic Club. but 1t seems TO
have escaped newspaper notice be-
caI,sa 4CSovernor'' Nellie Tayloe Ross
rfole the headline with her speech
fina brave utterance in which she,
tieyout Protestant, announced her
hone that a Catholic would be elected
president of the United States in
order to prove that we live in, true
republic, in which religious preju-
dice has no part.
MRS. woodrow Wilson, widow OF
tha wartime President. sat at the
sneakers table with Mrs. Ross. the
former Governor of Wyoming. and
many other representative Demo
Gratis were in the group which
greeted Governor Ross talk with en-
thusiastic applause.
Outgrew Its Quarters
Ever since it was founded, the
women's National Democratic CLUB
has occupied leased quarters at S2O
Connecticut Avenue, a pleasant Old
fashioned residence fitted out with
furniture of its period and rejecting
the discriminating taste of Mrs. Dor.
den Hartman, who was president OF
the organization at the time. But
tha club. one Of the most up-and-
coming groups in this Village Capt.
tai" Of ours, has long since outgroWn
Its present quarters.
For some time the powers that
be In the club have been searching
for a suitable house, some difficulty
being added to the situation by the
fact that they were divided into
two schools Of thought. The politl-
cally minded members of the club,
headed by the executive secretary
Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham,
were interested in securing adequate
office quarters for the work OF the
club in its capacity as national
clearing house for Democratic WON.
ems activities. But the social
bloc" thought that drawing room
space was more important.
The "Munn house," home of the
late Mrs. Charles A. Mum in Scott
Circle, was considered and aban.
doned for one reason or another.
The possibility of buying Mrs.
stephen B. Elkins' K Street house
was also considered, to be given up
because the price was too high.
But now a place seems to have
been found which suits both fac.
tions and which is within the finan-
cial reach Of the organization.
Social History
The house is a low, wide-flung
structure Of warm brown Drlck, a
house with a welcoming hospitable
atmosphere. It has a dining room
which will seat lao. a great ad-
vantage, since the Democratic Cluo
has been turning its members away
at its weekly luncheons and it's sat
urday evening forum suppers. More
over, there are 13 bedrooms. so
there will be provision for out-of-
town members who wish to make
their headquarters at the club while
in Washington.
It's a house which has had an In
teresting social history. The late
John w. Weeks made his home there
Tor q time while he was in the Sem
ate, and more recently, as the home
Uk Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wilcox. 1t
Was a meeting place for artists and
uauDtcians as well as for the smart
graAety folk with whom the VIII
coxes were affiliated.
The house was sold by Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilcox to Representative and
Mrs. Thomas w. Phillips of Penn
sylvania, who afterward decided
that they would prefer to remain at
21OS Sixteenth St., which they were
renting at the time from DR.. and
Mrs. Loren Johnson. So they ar
ranged a deal with the Johnsons by
which DR.. Johnson took over the
Wilcox house and Mr.. and Mrs.
Phillips became the owners Of their
present residence, and the house next
door, on the corner Of Sixteenth and
v Streets, IN. which Senator and Mrs.
Weeks lived after he became the
Secretary of War and which was
built by Charles Evans Hughes when
he was in the supreme Court.
Mrs. woodrow Wilson is honorary
president Of the Women's National
Democratic Club and the present
president is Mrs. Andreius A. Jones.
The Secretary of State and Mrs.
Kellogg will be the honor guests at
dinner this evening of the Minister
of Bulgaria and Nine. Radewa.
X y \
Mrs. Herbert Hoover will receive
the edelgates to the General Council
of the National League Of Women
Voters, meeting in Washington this
week, at her home this afternoon
at 5 o'clock.
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Representative and Mrs. Sol Bloom
and Miss Vera Bloom will leave to-
morrow to attend the apple blossom
festival at Winchester. They will
return to their apartment at the
Mayflower the end of the wwek.
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