Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24

guests of members. Hostesses will be
representative of the various sections.
All members are invited to take advan-
tage of the guest privilege and present
their friends.
Capt. Holden Chester Richardson,
head of the design branch of the Blu
reau of Naval Aeronautics, will be the
guest of honor and will speak before
the current events section Tuesday aft
ernoon at $50 O'Clock. Current Events
in Aviation" will be the subject Of his
talk, which will be illustrated Miss
Grace Ross Chamberlin will be hostess.
All members are invited. Guest privi-
eges>
. ThE life members of the club. num-
herring 1856, will observe their annual
Life-Members day with a dinner We'd
nesday at $50 pm. A program will be
furnished by the members.
Mrs. Nina Swain Reed will be the
guest of honor and speaker at the book
hour Friday at pm. The review will
be Elizabeth and Essex by Lytton
Strachey. This will be the last of the
Lenten series of book hours. The guests
of honor have all been members of the
District of Columbia League of Ameri-
Heaven as chairman.
of the thimble section, reports Is work.
ing members present at the meeting
Wednesday morning and the compile
ton of several dresses, which will be
distributed between Central Mis-
sion and Myra Mccoy Andrews Day
Nursery A letter from Mrs. Prentice
of the Gospel Mission was read, in
which she expressed gratitude from the
recipients of garments. More of the
club members are invited to join this
section.
The Monday bridge section will not
meet during Holy week. A meeting Of
the sections officers is called for Easter
Monday at pm, preceding the regular
hour of play. New members of the Sec
ton are Mrs. G. H. Curl Miss Eva Bull
lard, Mrs. French White and Mrs. G..
A. Lally. During the social hour Mon
day Mrs. William Peyton Wright pre-
sided at the tea table, with Mrs. w. H.
Whitney assisting.
Mrs. Frederic r. whippler, chairman
of the Wakefield Memorial committee,
directs attention to the program OF the
National Memorial Association in its eff
fort to raise funds necessary for its
restoration and dedication as national
shrine in 1882. All members of the
club are invited to join the committee,
and the contribution of one dollar estab-
fishes the committee membership
and it is hoped the entire club will join
before May 8. when special meeting
will be held, and the money thus con-
tributed will be presented to the ma
tional chairman, Mrs. Harry Lee Rust,
ST.. who, with Mrs. Howard l.. Hodgkins,
State regent for the District of Column
bia, will be honor guests. The amount
needed to meet the terms of the John
D. Rockefeller, jr., gift is $4,000. An
appeal to patriotic America has been
made. and organizations and individuals
are interesting themselves in lending
aid to this project of such historic value.
William Lee Corbin will be Honor
guest and speaker at a forum luncheon
Saturday at / pm. when Mrs. Lyman
B. Swormstedt will preside. Mr.. Corbin
is librarian of the Smithsonian Instltu-
ton and on previous occasions has lee
tured on the drama and What Makes q
Book Live?" A talk Is promised and
reservations are now being made. All
club members are invited. Guest priv
leges.
Mrs. Gertrude Lyons, director of the
club chorus, announces preparations Tor
an interesting and diversified program,
which will be given April 9, when the
chorus will be assisted by Josef Kaspar,
who will direct a violin ensemble. Miss
Janet Coon will also be on the program.
The old-fashioned party given We'd
nesday evening under auspices OF the
and their guests mostly in period cos
tune. Ye old-tine games were played,
songs sung, dances enjoyed and the
grand march given before the judges,
who had difficulty in determining to
whom the prizes for costumes should be
given. For the most effective, Mrs. Ly-
man B. Swormstedt was presented the
award. She was gowned in her mothers
wedding wardrobe. Mrs. E. M. Lewis,
appearing in gown worn by herself at
a silver wedding anniversary Is years
ago, and Mrs. c. L. Butler, in velvet
gown of her mothers, were presented
awards for the most interesting. Other
outstanding costumes were worn by Mrs.
Edith Sears and gowns loaned from a
splendid collection she possesses were
worn by Miss Phyllis Robinson and Mrs.
Marjorie Fristoe DR.. A. Frances Foye
was representative Of the 1906 period.
Others gowned as of Is years ago were
Mrs. j. Garfield Riley, Mrs. Merritt o.
Chance, Mrs. Gertrude Lyons, Mrs. v. S.
Benjamin, Miss Edith Chase, Mrs. Frank
G. Stewart, Miss Virginia Shinn, Miss
Edith Oriani Fitzgerald, Miss Una
O'Connor, Miss Margaret Patch, Miss
Marie Saunders, DR.. Laura S. Brennon,
Mrs. Patrick Gallagher Miss Josephine
Willis and Miss Media Martin.
For guessing correctly the names of
club members from the exhibit of old
fashioned photographs the award was
given Mrs. William Chamberlin; "Fa-
miliar sayings" contest, Miss Marie
Saunders; Going to jerusalem" Miss
Nell Price, and the door prize" Miss
Julia Bannigan. The roster of judges
making the awards included Mrs. Mer-
rift o. Chance. DR.. A. Frances Foye,
Judge Mary O'Toole, Mrs. J. Garfield
Riley and Mrs. Laura A. Bradley.
Miss Hazel Swift, chairman of the
Tuesday evening free-and-easy auction
section, is giving a short talk on con-
tract bridge each week. Miss A. B. Allen
is hostess. Guests last week were Mrs.
T. P. Hayden, Mrs. Anna P. Libby, DR..
J. NJ Tibbetts, Frances E. Winters and
Miss Virginia B. Barr All members of
the club interested in bridge are invited
to the Tuesday evening meetings. Play
begins at 7:30 o'clock.
The District Of Columbia Federation
Of Women's Clubs will meet tomorrow
at the Hotel Roosevelt, II am.
Mrs Edgar B. Merritt, president, has
arranged a program OF interest. MRS
Robert j. Bates, chairman of the divi-
sion of child welfare, one of the divi-
sions in the public welfare department
of which Lieut. Nina Van Wrinkle is
chairman, has secured as a speaker fol-
the morning session, Mr.. George S. VIII
son, director of public welfare of the
District of Columbia. Mr.. Wilson viii
have as his subject, practical Work Of
the Child Welfare Department of the
District of Columbia" Following the
luncheon hour, a program Of music viii
De given under the direction of Mrs
Arthur j.. Seaton, chairman of music
who will present Miss Virginia Cureton
violinist, from the Musical Institute O.
Art of Washington pupil of Gebest
Mrs. L. B, Steine. chairman of the com
mittee on forestry, will have as