Evening star., 1927-10-16

| from $50 to 1880 pm. Mrs. Jennie ".
Berliner is chairman and instructor,
and Miss Henrietta Olding is vice
chairman The class is open TO club
members and tuition is gratis.
The VoteIess District of Columbia
League of Women Voters will open
the new club year with a reception i'll
honor OF the leagues national Off
GERS at the home of Mrs. Clifford Pin
Chot, 1915 Rhode Island avenue, from
4 to PM. Mrs. Edward p. Costlgan.
District president, will preside, and
he national president, Miss Belle Sher-
win, will speak at ) o'clock on The
League Today" Invitations are be-
ing sent to both local and national
club leaders, and representative
gathering Is expected.
The executive board met at lunch
con on the tenth at the Women's City
Club, and welcomed Mrs. Costigan
back from her Summer in Colorado.
where she had done considerable
speaking on behalf of subjects of pri-
mary importance to the league. one
of these speeches, which was given
considerable space by the Colorado
papers, was given before the Denver
Women'S Club. of which she is a past
president. and concerned the work
of Colorado women here in Washing
ton.
The first issue of the new District
bulletin. The Voice of the Noteless,"
has made its appearance, and the edi-
tor has requested that any material
to he included in succeeding issues
must be given to her by the fifteenth
of eaLl month.
officers for the current year are:
Mrs, Edward Z. CoStigan, president;
Mrs. Laura G.. Williams. first vice
president; Mrs. Charles l.. McNary.
second vice president: Mrs. James G.
Cumming. recording secretary; Mrs.
Helen Gardner Cotton, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Harwood Read treas
urer,
The directors are Mrs. George W.
Eastment, Mrs. George A. Kicker.
Mrs. Albert Putney. Mrs. Norman
Titus.
Committee chairmen--Mrs. William
f. Chamberlain. finance: Mrs. Louis
Ottenburg, membership; Mrs. John NJ.
Hager. editor of bulletin. publicity:
Mrs. Edward Heating, efficiency in
government; Mrs. Edna Johnston, Dis
trict representative; Mrs. Albert Put
ney. international cooperation: Mrs.
r. Thomas West, child welfare; Miss
Laura Knott, educa ational; Mrs. Frank
Hiram Smell. legal status of women
Mrs. Rose Yeats Forester. women in
industry; Miss Julia Margaret Hicks,
new voters.
The Twentieth Century Club met at
Cosmos Club Auditorium on Thurs
day. Tho speaker of the day. James
l.. Fieser. gave n talk on some of
the experiences of the Red Cross in
the recent flood. The secretary stated
that the membership of the club is
now 400. The president, Mrs. Philip
Sydney Smith, announced the new
chairmen of the sections as follow:
Civics. Mrs. Robert p. Howard;
French, Mrs. Frederic harrington;
parliamentary law. Miss Emma Stri-
der. The continuing one are: Archie
ology. Miss Josephine Lowe: art, Mrs.
O. l.. Vierhoff; education, Mrs.
Thomas Sidvell: international out
look, Mrs. Edward B. Clark; litera-
ture. Mrs. George F. Bowerman:
music, Mrs. Eugene Byrnes: nature,
Mrs. Leo d. Miner. A tea. to which
all members of the club are invited.
will take place at the home of Miss
Agnes Miller. 1855 Highland place,
Cleveland Park, Friday, the 21st
from to o'clock. 1t was decided
to hold one more reception during the
year. This will take place some time
in the Spring. The nature section will
meet Wednesday at the Great Falls
Station. Rosslyn. at 1880 am, for
trip to Great Falls.
The section of education will meet
at the home of the chairman, 1901
Wisconsin avenue, October 90 at IL
am. Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, di
rector of the national illiteracy cru
SADIE, will speak on "The Tragedy of
Illiteracy." Her work. as originator
of the moonlight schools in the South
and as speaker about them, has given
ler a well earned fame. Mrs. Stewart
has undertaken TO further the aim of
the Federation of Women's Clubs to
eliminate illiteracy by 1880. Mrs
Bowerman will give a brief account
of the experimental college at Wis
consin University of which Prof.
Meiklejohn is chairman. A buffet
luncheon will follow the meeting. The
luncheon committee is as follows:
Mrs. Frederic Pyle, chairman; Mrs.
Frank w. Ballou, Mrs. Samuel M.
Brosius, Mrs. Z. +. Parham, Mrs.
William H. Heron. Mrs. G. Wallace
Hanger, Miss Jane Il. Young.
District of Columbia Federation Of
Womens Clubs.-Among those taking
tables for the card party to be held
| October 90 in the ballroom of the
Willard Hotel are: Mrs. John d.
Sherman, president of the Gener"I
| Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs.
| John Sipple. chairman of the finance
committee of the general federation.
| and past president of the Maryland
Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs.
| Medill Mccormick, Mrs. Sidney F.
| Taliaferro. Mrs. Howard H. Hodgkins,
Mrs. Clyde B. Aitchison. Mrs. H. l..
| Rust. Mrs. ]. G. Boyd Carpenter, Mrs.
David p. Penhallow, Mrs. Porter,
| Mrs. j. Harry Cunningham, Mrs.
| Frank Morrison, Mrs. Frederick T.
| F. Johnson, Mrs. A. L. Rheinstrom,
| Mrs. Roe F'ulkerson, Mrs. Nathan
Boone Williams. Mrs. Charles Lang
| ley, Mrs. William Durham, Mrs.
| Charles f. Ferguson, Mrs. B. E.
| Coakley. Mrs. Wallace Streater, Mrs.
/ S. H. Beasley, Mrs. G. l.. Peckham,
| Mrs. George Oliver Gillingham, Mrs.
| William j. Lavarre, Mrs. Hannah
Monroe. Mrs. Henry Churchill Cook,
Miss Mabel X. Botsch, Mrs. James A.
| West, Mrs. George Roscoe Davis, Mrs.
D. p. Bush, Mrs. Charles Baldwin,
Mrs J. Jerome Lightfoot, Mrs. Charles
Fisher, Mrs. William F. Collins. Mrs.
| Walter Campbell. Mrs. Ralph r.
Lawrence, Mrs. Frederick Hammer,
Mrs. J. C. Hemphill. Mrs. b. b.
Roundey, Mrs. Charles Landon Henry,
Mrs. Jesse Lee Webb, Mrs. lie