Evening star., 1928-11-22

Mrs. Julius Parmelee, Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Wedderburn, Mr.. George We'd
derburn, Mrs. Gus Wedderburn, Miss
Emily Reeder, Mrs. w. L. Hazard. Miss
Katherine Bear, Mrs. Henry Wurdeman
Miss Josephine Timberlake, Mrs. S. H
CaShell, Miss Jessie Drayton, Miss
! Catherine Drayton, Mrs. Charles Warden
and Mrs. s. M. GiddingS.
DR.. r. M. Schippell, president of the
Washington College Of Naturopathy,
will address the members of the League
for the Larger Life and friends Sat-
urday evening at 8:15 o'clock In the
ballroom of Stoneleigh Court, 1706 L
street northwest The subject of the
address will be THE House That Serv-
ice Built" A reception in honor of
DR.. Schippell will follow the lecture.
Mrs. Nina Reed is chairman of the
celebrity breakfast of the National
League of American Pen Women, which
is to take place Friday, November 80,
in the Willard Hotel, for the benefit of
the Memorial Clubhouse of the League.
Attention is called to the change in the
hour, from / o'clock to IL o'clock. This
change was made to accommodate many
who desired to attend the breakfast and
still have the midafternoon free for
other engagements, the earlier hour per-
mitting the conclusion of the program
by 230 o'clock. The breakfast will be
the first Of series to be given by the
National League the last Friday of the
month in November, January, February,
March and April, at each of which
celebrities in the fields of art, litera-
ture or music will be presented as honor
guests and will entertain the company
Mrs. DeloS A. Blodgett chairman of
patronesSeS for the breakfasts, has re-
ceived additional acceptances to her list
from Mrs. William G. Gorgas, Mrs.
Everard R. Todd, Mrs. Joseph S. Wash
ington, Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, Mrs
Watson Freeman Clark, Countess de
Benque, Mrs. Harry Payne Moore, Miss
Kibbey and Mrs. Edgar S. Kennedy.
Tables for the entire series, or for
single breakfasts, as we'll as groups of
seats or individual reservations may be
made through Mrs. Rose Gouverneur
Hoes. No special invitation is neceS-
sary for attendance at these breakfasts,
and 1t is hoped that lovers of the best
in literature, art and music will avail
themselves of this opportunity to be-
come acquainted with the personalities
OF many of those whose work they al
ready admire. and to aid In making a
reality the building which the league
plans to erect as a memorial to Amer
ican women of genius.
Mrs, T. F. Espenchied, Mrs. Alfred
Savage, Mrs. Herbert Coward and Miss
Josephine Ransom of the committee of
Cornell women held meeting in the
n &F lIakA
for the luncheon on December l of the
women of the Cornell Association.
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge has accepted as
a patroneSs for the Kenmore ball.
which will be given in the Willard Ho-
tel Monday, December 3, under the
auspices of the District of Columbia
branch of the Kenmore Association.
Mrs. Coolidge'S acceptance is of special
interest because of the fact that when
the drive was opened to secure funds
for the purchase of this historic home
of Betty Lewis, sister of George Wash
ington, some few years age at Freder-
icksburg, Va, the speaker of that oc-
casion was Calvin Coolidge, then Vice
President of the United States. The
drive was most successful, the purchase
price of the house was raised and it is
now the property of the Kenmore ASso-.
citation, Incorporated in Fredericksburg.
The fund now being assembled is for
the restoration of the mansion and its
in the style in which it was
furnished in the days of its occupancy
by the Lewis family.
Mrs. Thomas H. Taliaferro is chair
man of the ball; Mrs. Edward A. Harri-
man is vice chairman; Mrs. William
Eaches Fendall, chairman Of boxes;
and Mrs. George H. Calvert, jr., chair
man of patroneSSeS. Mrs. Rose Gouver-
neur Hoes is in charge of reservations.