Evening star., 1928-12-30

4.3O 10 O'CLOCK IN the CLUBHOUSE, IL
Jackson place Members of the hos
pitality committee will be hostesses.
All club members are invited and guest
privileges can be arranged at the desk.
Mrs. Merritt O. Chance and Mrs. Burt
E. Barlow will preside at the tea table.
The business meeting of the club Will
be held Wednesday. 8 pm. This meet
ing is open to all members of the club.
Committee chairmen will report. The
current events section, Mrs. Grace Ross
Chamberlin chairman, will present at
the two scheduled meetings Miss M.
Bainbridge Hayden as speaker Tuesday,
January s, and Donald Craig will be
the speaker later in the month. Two
plays, under direction of Mrs. Edith
Ogden Heidel, chairman of the drama
unit, will be given during the month.
The business and professional section
will sponsor dinner Wednesday, jan
uary 8. Senator T. H. Caraway will be
guest speaker at the District history
dinner. Mrs Charles Alger will pre-
side at a forum luncheon Saturday,
January 26. Miss Helen O'Neill, chair
man of the sports section, is planning
with the chairmen of the Subcomm1t-
tees for the annual dinner, to be held
Wednesday, January 16 Miss Hazel
Swift, chairman of the Tuesday evening
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nounces a card party will be given un-
der auspices of this group Tuesday,
January IS. Mrs. Gertrude Lyons,
chairman of the music section, will pre-
side at the annual birthday dinner
given by members of the club chorus
Monday, January 81. Speakers at this
dinner will be Mrs. Joseph M. Stod-
dard and Miss Jessie MacBride. A re-
ception tea for new members will be
held during the month, Miss Ethel
Bagley chairman.
The Monday bridge section will meet
tomorrow afternoon at las o'clock.
Mrs. Francis D. Merchant, chairman
of the city planning committee of the
club, presided at a luncheon at which
Col. Grant, Sd, was guest speaker yes
terday. Maj. Cary H. Brown. engineer
of the National Park and Planning
Commission. and Charles Eliot, I'd, city
planner. were guests of the committee.
The Writer'S League of Washington
will meet at the Thomson School Fri
day at 8 pm. All interested in writing
are invited. The nineteenth chapter
of the composite novel will be presented
| by Miss Raphaella SchwarZ. There will
! be stories by Mrs. Zella Newcomb and
Miss Katherine Hobson and verse by
Mr.. Herndon.
At the last meeting Miss Stella Ma
deira Hetrich of Pennsylvania, critic,
was guest.
Miss Evelyn Crane reported that her
story, whats In a Name?" will appear
in the Washington Post soon.
| Miss Evelyn Crane, Mrs. zella New
comb and Felix Schwarz were appointed
a membership committee.
Honor" by Mrs. Luella Hahum,
hr0YYOhf ont pOy1cidpro hIn diScHCcinn
Mrs. M. H. Irish read an article CIV
ing history of the accordion.
Women Voters League-Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, president, urges the
leagues interest in the prevention of
war by enrolling in the study classes
which are being conducted in co-opera-
ton with the American Association of
University Women in their clubhouse,
1884 street. The next meeting of the
| classes will be held Thursday at IL am.
and pm. DR.. Esther 'Caukin will
lead in the morning and Mrs. Edith
Cameron in the evening.
A lecture on the "Multilateral Treaty
will be given at the Y. w. c. A. audi
torium by w. T. Stone, editor of the
Foreign Policy Information Service.
| Mrs. Harlee has charge of the reser-
vations for the luncheon of board men,
room of the Women's City Club Friday
at 1890 pm. The business meeting
follows the .ncheon.
ThimbIe Club of Washington Council,
No. 22-Owing to the semi-monthly
meeting falling the day after New
Year, it was decided to postpone it
and have the first meetings Wednes-
day, January and January %. The
meeting of January 9 will be held at
| the home of Mrs James T. Norvell,
1878 Oates street northeast.
Twentieth Century Club.-Merle
Thorpe, editor, Nations Business. will
be the speaker at the monthly meeting
of the club Thursday at IL am. at the
National Press Club. His subject will
be This Amazing Age"
The meeting of the parliamentary
| law section will be postponed until
Tuesday, January Is, at II o'clock at
the Y. w. c. A.
The American Association Of Univer-
sity Women's tea will be on January l..
| This is the annual New Year open
house for members and their friends.
Mrs. Carl Fenning, president Of the
club, will receive with the members of
Boyd Taylor will meet the beginning
pre-school study group at 1925 Colum-
bia road January at pm.
The international relations group will
meet Thursday. DR.. Esther Caukin will
lead the discussion of international
economics at II am. Luncheon will
follow. The evening group will meet
for discussion of international eco
nomics at 8 pm. with Mrs. Edith B.
Cameron as leader.
| Daughters of the American Colonists.
The national board of the Daughters
of the American Colonists met at the
| Willard Hotel December Is to confirm
new members and to formulate plans
for publishing the lineage book. The
society is growing and hopes in the fu-
ture to establish headquarters in Wash
| ington. Mrs. Livingston L. Hunter of
Tidiote, Pa, national president of the
organization, entertained her board at
dinner at the Willard Hotel before the
meeting. Miss Emma L. Crowell of
Philadelphia, national treasurer and
past recording secretary general of the
D. A. r., was among those present. The
District of Columbia is represented by
two national officers on the board. Mrs
Harry G. Grove, national recording Sec
retary, and Mrs. John F. Little, ma
tional registrar. Mrs. George Thatcher
Guernsey Is honorary national president
and also past president general of the
D. A. r.
The Daughters of the American
Colonists was organized to preserve
Colonial records and mark Colonial
historic spots of note. Among the
things this society has accomplished
have been the erection of marble
bench at Plymouth, the donation of an
iron fence around the old State house
ruins at Jamestown Island and the res