Evening star., 1928-12-23
NEWS OF THE CLUBS
CONDUCTED BY MAMIE LANCASTER.

and early Winter, SO that officers an,
members alike feel justified in layin
aside club matters in favor of hom
and family interests until the holida
season is well past. The next regula
meeting will be held January 8, at
pm, at the clubhouse. The presiden
Mrs. w. B. N. Brookes, announces tha
an executive board meeting will pre-
| cede the club meeting on that day.
Members of the American Association
of University Women who hold degree
| from foreign universities will be host
esses at tea at the clubhouse tomorrow
at 4 pm. The program will be omitted
The book review group will meet will
Mrs. P. M. Anderson Thursday at /.
am. Mrs. Lewis K. Underhill will re-
view THE Happy Mountain" and Mrs
Anderson will review Point, Counter
Point"
The second number of the course
Interpretations of New Forms of Ole
Arts" will be given December %, a
8:15, at the Y. w. c. A. Auditorium
The club then presents Miss Ants
zahn, head of the Elizabeth Duncan
School of Dance in New York, in q
Oc1lkNC lGClId1, CIIC VIII Uc
by Raymond Bauman. the composer
who has arranged all her numbers fol-
her. Miss Zahn introduces each Of hel
compositions with a word about Isadora
Duncan.
District of Columbia Chapter, Daugh-
ters of Founders and Patriots of Amer
ica held its December meeting at the
home OF Mrs. Caroline A. Kinsley and
Mrs. Stephen j. Murphy. 1868 Monroe
street, the assisting hostess being Dr.
Laura B. Hawkins. The president, Miss
Lillian A. Norton, presided.
Reports of officers and committees
we're given. Plans were discussed for a
card party to be held in February. Mrs
Edison L. Whitney read a paper on
The Early Colonists." A social hour
with refreshments followed adjourn
ment of the business meeting.
Children of the Confederacy.-The
senior members held their monthly
meeting at the Confederate Home De-
cember s, when the following officers
were elected: President, Harriet Ryder;
vice president, Edgar Morris; cor
secretary, Martha Kemon;
recording secretary, Freda Thume;
treasurer, Lila Wallace; historian,
Frances Phillips After the meeting
which were sent by Mrs.
Werber of j. E. B. Stuart Chapter,
were served.
Daughters of Union Veterans of the
Civil War.-Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey
Tent, No. /, held it's Christmas party
for the Grand Army Veterans Decem-
Der II in G. A. R. Hall.
The president, Mrs. Olive c. john
son, was in charge of the program,
which was arranged by the committee
with Mrs. Margaret Brodt as chair
man, as follows:
Solos by Miss jeanette McCaffrey,
with Miss Kathryn McCaffrey at the
piano; readings by John Bugbee; Irish
dialect sketches by Mr. Perkins Santa
was there and distributed gifts to all
present.
Col, o. H. Oldroyd was presented
with box of cigars in love and appre-
citation of the dinner when he enter
tanned the daughters on their way to
at Denver, Colo. Col.
Oldroyd responded in his delightful
Patriotic songs were sung, with the
Mrs. H. Sutton, at the piano.
were served and the
party closed with pledge of allegiance
20 the flag. Offlcers will be installed
nd all friends are welcome to the meet
ng to be held January 7.
The executive committee Of the Dis
Erict w. C. T. U. met at headquarters
Wednesday, Mrs. N. M. Pollock, pre-
siding. Mrs. T. T. Moore conducted
devotionals. Routine business followed.
Christmas greetings were received from
Miss Anna A. Gordon, world president
Of w. G. T. u, and Mrs. Mary Harris
Armour, national director of the evan
yelistic department. A certificate that
Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler has recently
1een made a worlds memorial member.
vas received and ordered to be framed
md placed on the wall at headquarters
A luncheon will be given at the
Roosevelt Hotel December 20 at l pm
~ the Federation of Women's Clubs in
honor of the retiring president, Mrs.
Virginia White Speel. Members may
,btain tickets from Mrs. E. S. Henry
or this luncheon.
On New Year day the officers of
he w. C. T. U. in the District of Co
umbia will receive at headquarters.
i22 Sixth street, from until 10 pm.
The arrangements for this reception are
10 be made by the board of trustees Of
which Mrs. T. A. Williams of Belmont
street is president.
Attention was called to the coming
Cause and Cure of War" conference
% be held in this city from January l3
20 18, inclusive, at the Hotel Washing
on. Mrs. May Bell Harper, national
director of the w. G. T. U. International
Relations, will attend.
The quarterly convention will be held
n Eastern Presbyterian Church Janu-
ary 16. This date is the ninth birthday
If the adoption of the eighteenth
and the program will be
IN honor of this anniversary. A ban
guet also will be given that evening at
O'Clock in the Hotel Roosevelt, COM
nemorating the date, at which there
will be several speakers, including
Representative Gale H. Stalker of New
York, author Of the Stalker-Jones bill.
Miss Grace Leigh Scott, formerly con-
nected with the social morality depart
ment OF the w. G. T. u, now worker
IN the National Education Associa-
lion, and lecturer, addressed the execu-
tive committee. She is engaged in the
public schools throughout the United
States on Character Building" Four
years ago, when she spoke before the
public schools, she was
The National Capital Dahlia and Iris
Society was entertained Wednesday eve
ming at the Carlton Hotel by Prof. j.
B. S. Norton of the University of Mary
land, who described the results of his
dahlIa survey. The lecturer is a dahlia
grower, and has compiled a list of his
favorite varieties Of 35 of the country's
best known experts. In his question
naIre the growers were asked to submit
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