Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-03-06
Kean and Mrs. Royal de Ia Mater

MEAD.
pottei Ivy from Monticello, seedlings
Of oldfashioned flowers and packages
of seeds called Jefferson garden seeds"
and containing seeds of oldfaShioned
flowers similar to those In the Month
cello gardens will be for sale, as well
as garden tools and furniture.
A distinguished list of patronesses is
being assembled for the authors break
fast of the National League of American
Pen Women by Mrs. Theodore Tiller.
chairman of patronesses for the break
fast which is to take place this year,
Saturday. April IA, at noon, in the
Willard Hotel This will be the seventh
annual breakfast given by the league
and ii has become firmly established as
season in Washington.
A large number of out-of-town guests
will be present. as the biennial con-
vention of the league is being held from
April IL to l5 with delegates and visit
ing members present from all over the
country.
Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton. national
president. is arranging the literary pro-
gram which will be presented. and
which 1t is expected will be one Of the
most brilliant in the history of the
OlSd1llEaLloI.
English Speaking Union
Monthly Tea Tomorrow.
The monthly tea of the English
Speaking Union will be held i'll its head
quarters in the Carlton Hotel tomorrow
afternoon from 4:30 to O'Clock. The
hoSteSSes will be Mrs. Frederick c.
Hicks. Mrs. David Brodhead, Mrs. Mer-
chant Mahoney. Mrs. Frank Weeden
and Mrs. c. Roe Lockwood. Mr.. Gideon
A. Lyon will be the speaker.
Mrs. Emily Newell Blair's second book
lecture will be given at the Mayticwer
Thursday morning at II O'Clock, and
her subject will be Books for the
Questioning Mind" She will be intro
ouced by Mrs Frederic William Vile.
Additional patronesses for this popular
course of lectures are Mrs. Stephen
Bonsal and Mrs. Louis BroWnloW.
Patrons and patronesses for the re-
cital to be given by Miss Sylvia Lent,
Washington yiolinist. Friday afternoon
in the National Theater include Mrs.
william Howard Taft. Mrs: Nicholas
Ionsworth Mrs David A. Reed. Mrs.
joseph Clark Grew, Mrs. Minnigerode
Andrews. Mrs. w. Sinclair Bowen, Miss
Lucy Brickenstein. Mrs. Eugene Byrnes,
Mrs, Calderon Carlisle. Mrs. Carl A.
Droop. Mrs. Franklin H. Ellis. Mrs. Will
liam Corcoran Eustis. Mrs. Il: n.
Father, Miss Laura Harlan. Mrs. wal
ter Bruce Howe. Mrs. George II. Jloo,
Mrs. LYMAN B. Kendall, Mr.. William
Bruce King. Mr.. Homer l.. Kilt, Mrs.
Robert Lansing, Mrs. George Hewitt
MYERS. Mrs. Adolph Caspar Miller, Mrs
Edwin B. Parker. Mrs Thomas w.
Phillips. jr.: Mrs. z. Barney Pnilllps'
Mrs Ord Preston. Miss Janet Ricnaros,
Mrs Lawrence Townsend, Mrs. Frederic
w, True and Mrs. Charles warren.
The business and professional WON,
ems department of the Y. w. c: A. VIII
give a dinner Friday evening when the
Secretary of Labor and Mrs. James D.
Davis will be the guests OF honor: Inc
dinner is one of series OF forum
dinners under the general theme OF
It Comes. 10
which all young business and profess
sional women are invited.
Miss Alice Heaven will be hostess dur
ing the Woman's City Club book review
hour Friday afternoon at 4;30 O'Clock
in the clubhouse at % Jackson place.
Guests of honor and reviewers viii be
Miss Anne Darlington and Miss Susan
Baker. Miss Helen Calhoun will present
a character sketch. Other author guests
will be Mrs Charles Joyce. Mrs. Edith
Ogden Heidel and Mrs. Richard Gasch.
Among the literary club members VINO
will assist during the March book re-
view hours each Friday afternoon are
Mrs. John Mock, Miss Myrtle Bum,
Miss Grace Osgood, Mrs. William Lee
Corbin. Miss Ethel Bagley, Miss Agnes
Winn, Miss Virginia Benjamin and Miss
Helen McGown Members OF the club
invited. Miss Heaven will entertain the
reviewers at tea preceding the review
hour.
Additional patrons and patronesses
for the lecture on French North Africa
which Miss Dorothy Quincy-Smith
will give Saturday evening in Wardman
Park Theater include the Chief Justice
and Mrs. William Howard Taft. The
proceeds Of the lecture will 60 to La
Maison Francaise at Columbia Univer-
sifv Others who have given their names