Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-27

| fellow. digester of patents and trade
| marks. who returned recently from
| two years sojourn in Europe. will
give some unusual experiences and
| observations.
At the business meeting last week
| the following were elected on the
nominating committee to nominate of.
| ficers for the ensuing year: Mrs. Alice
T. Buchanan and Misses Emma
T. Hahn. Sarah f. Wetherall. karo-
| line Klager and Elizabeth Beresford.
Miss Melinde Havey, American Red
Cross representative in the club mem.
bership, is spending this week in
New York City and Red Bank, n. J.
The Catholic Daughters Of Amer
| ica.--Court District of Columbia. No.
212. held short business meeting Feb
ruary IS at headquarters. sol F. street.
A resolution was passed that the mem
bers of the court go on record as
pledging themselves to support whole
heartedly the movement for clean mo-
tion pictures and for modesty in dress
as advocated by the Archbishop of
Baltimore. Attention was called to
| the advantages attending membership
in the hospital guild. Mrs. Sarah
! Gantley will he glad TO hear from
members of the court wishing to join.
The chairman of the membership
committee spoke encOuragingly of the
progress made in the present drive for
new members. and discussed plans
designed to further that object.
A committee was appointed for the
entertainment of delegates passing
through Washington on their way to
attend the Catholic Daughters of
American convention in Asheville. n.
c.. in July.
The court arranged to be present at
the showing of the motion picture of
the Eucharistic Congress during the
period February 26 to March 3.
These matters having been disposed
| of. the meeting was turned over to
| the entertainment committee, when
refreshments were served and must
cal program presented.
PhiIo Classics.-The club members
met Mt the home of Mrs. w. F. Hall
| Thirty sixth and Lowell streets on the
afternoon of February 4. Mrs. G.. d
| Glass was the assisting hostess. The
meeting was presided over by Mrs. r
Bruce Bare. A short business session
was followed by the program for the
| day. Mrs. A. n. Williams read the
paper, the subject being 'Launce
Pure Fool or Humorist." after which
parts were assigned and the reading OF
Act III of Two Gentlemen of Verona
1 was finished. The hostesses dispensed
hospitality in the dining room. On
| February ID Mrs. Faber Stevenson re
ceived the members of the club in her
home, $3.50 Nineteenth street. The
president, Mrs. r. Bruce Bare, in the
chair. In a communication read to
the club were specifications Of the tab
| let's to be used as markers for the trees
1 In the arboretum. Mrs. r. G. Brinley
past president Of Philo Classics, pre-
sented the club with an appropriate
| sum to be used for a plate, the naming
| of the same to be the pleasure of the
members. Classical Mythology" was
! the subject of a paper given by Mrs
! Faber Stevenson. Characters were as.
signed and the reading of 1.-Two Gen
tlemen of Verona" was continued. The
| hostess served refreshments.
Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent. No. L.
The birthday anniversaries of George
Washington, Abraham Lincoln and
William b. Mckinley were observed
Monday night with patriotic exercises
by the tent and Sons and Daughters
of Union Veterans of the Civil War
at an open meeting held in the G.. A.
r. Hall.
Following an opening address by the
president of the tent, Mrs. Katherine
A. Rain, the meeting was turned over
to Mrs. c. B. Davis, patriotic instruct
ress.
The lives of the three former Presi-
dents were eulogized by Judge J. G..
Motion. Lemuel Warner and Ma ster
John Bugby. Judge Motion spoke of
an interview he had with Lincoln
shortly after the close of the Civil
War.
Original patriotic poems were read by
Mrs. Henry Riggs Rathbone, who also
played and sang. Miss M. Hunziker
presented the tent with a steel en-
craving showing Lincoln's cabinet
with Gen. Grant in the council cham
Der of the White House. A piano
bench was presented to the tent by
J. 3. Conliff.