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son place. Sponsors for the new men,
berS have been specially invited. Mem
bers of the membership committee will
be hostesses. All club members invited.
Guest privileges
Mrs. Bruce Baird will preside at the
first of a series of District history din
ners, which will be given December 81
at $50 O'Clock. Miss Mary E. LaZenby
is chairman and invites members to
make early reservations.
Mrs. Gertrude Lyons and members
of the music study group will be host
eSseS at tea Sunday, December %, when
a program of music will be given, with
the singing Of Christmas carols as
special feature. All members are IN
vited
Mrs Henry T. Rainey will act as ad-
wiser on new legislation, serving with
the committee on law and legislation
Mrs. Clara Wright Smith is chairman.
Plans are being formulated for lunch
cons and dinners at which speakers on
subjects pertinent to District OF Column
bia interests will be provided.
HrS A. j. McKelWay, chairman OF
the child welfare committee, announces
Hlans for a round-table study of this
problem with members of the child
welfare committee of the Voteless Dis
trict of Columbia League of Women
Voters cooperating.
Mrs. j. Edwin Reid, chairman of the
Monday auction and contract bridge
section, will hear the seventh of the
series of talks on contract bridge at
the meeting tomorrow afternoon. High
est ScoresNfor November by those play
ing in the contract section were. first.
Mrs. T H. Dawson; second, Mrs.
Charles Wilcox, and third, Mrs. E. W.
Van Metre. Highest scores in auction
were held by Mrs. Mabel Whit
marsh; second Mrs. Elma Saul. and
third. Mrs. J. j. Stephens.
Guests at the meeting of the Tues
day evening free-snd-eaSy auction Sec
ton Tuesday evening were Mrs Mar
garet c. King. Mrs. Harold G; KING,
Mrs. Frederick w. CroWsll, Mrs. Charles
r. Ogsbury and Mrs. I. w. Jarvis. Mrs.
Mabel Whitmarsh and Mrs. Lawrence
Fortune are hostess2s; Miss A. Hazel
Swift. chairman.
Mrs. John l.. Munson, chairman Of
the thimble section, announces new
contributing members as Mrs. Bertha
M. Robertson, Mrs. Rose Pennell, Miss
Alice r. TreftS, Mrs. William C. Nc
Sparren, Mrs. Norman Ives and Mrs.
Letitia Snow Members and their
friends are being asked for outgrown
childrens clothing. which this group
will place where most needed. Regular
meetings are held in the sun parlor
from II am. to l pm. every WedneS-
day for sewing.
Mrs. Jennie o. Berliner, chairman of
the Spanish section. announces new
members joining the classes as Mrs.
Josephine E. Jones, Mrs. N. w. S. Will
hanson, Miss Hazel Hartman, Miss
Olive Cole, Miss Edna HoiSington, Miss
Dolly M Stone and Miss Doris Sabin.
Miss Susan c. Baker, chairman of
the French section. invites all members
interested in the study to join the
group dining together at the French
table" Tuesday evenings.
Miss Alice Heaven, chairman of the
reciprocal relations committee, adds
another club to the extensive group
enjoying this relationship, the Wom-
ans City Club of Baltimore.
Mrs. Bertha Frances Wolfe will meet
with members tomorrow evening at
o'clock at the club house for the or
ganization Of a parliamentary section.
Study to begin in January. Among
Mary OToole. Mrs. A. H. B. McKen-
ney, Mrs. E. E. Harper, Mrs. Ruth E.
Martin, Mrs. Helen Montague, Mrs.
Gertrude Lyons, Mrs. Ruth Snodgrass,
Mrs. Clara Wright Smith, DR.. E. L.
Allen, Mrs. L. B. Graves, Miss Mary
Gott, Mrs. Frank Golden, Mrs. William
LaVarre and Miss Elaine Eppley.
American Association of University
WOmen.-A special meeting of the
board Of directors, followed by a meet
ing OF the Washington branch, was
helo at the club house, 1884 street, on
Monday, December 9, at 4:3O O'Clock
with Mrs. Karl Fenning, the president
presiding. Upon recommendation of the
board, the branch voted to endoW an
international fellowship of $4,000.
Mrs. Alice T1sdale Hobart of New
York will be the guest of honor and
speaker at the tea tomorrow at the
az - Nrn
whose recent novel, "Pidgin Cargo" has
just been published, will speak on 1.-THE
Cultural Conflict Between the East and
west Mrs Edwin @. Nourse will pre-
sent the speaker Mrs. Wilson Compton
will preside at the tea table.
Mr.. Joseph Wood Krutch, dramatic
critic of the Nation, will give the second
lecture OF the series being sponsored by
the club entitled New interpretations
of the Changing Social Order" His
subject will be The Stage as Affected
by the Changing Social Order" The
meeting will be held at the club house
on Friday evening at $3.50. AS a dra-
matte critic, it is generally conceded
among New York theatergoerS that Mr..
krutch Is one of the most thoroughly
equipped and brilliant interpreters of
the rapidly changing dramatic develop
ments of the day.
STUDY Group Meetings.
The beginning group of the pre-school
education course will meet at the WASH
ington Child Research Center, 1925 Co.
lumoia road, on Thursday, December
l9, at pm, with Miss Heinig as
leader.
The advanced group will also meet at
the Washington Child Research Center,
but on Monday afternoon, December is,
at 2, with Miss Nell Boyd Taylor as
leader.
The pre-adolescent group will meet at
the club house, 1884 I street, on Wed
nesday morning, December 18, at Gas,
with DR.. Kathryn McHale, education
secretary and acting director of the
American Association Women, in charge
The women and law group meets al
3 pm. on Tuesday, December II, at the
club house. This group is led by Miss
Elizabeth Harris, attorney at law and
professor of law at the Washington Col
lege Of Law. 1t features a non n-techni-
cal discussion of woman's position as
an individual, wife, mother and citizen
as illustrated by the development OF
law, and is open without fee to mem
bers and non-members.
French classes will be conducted by
Miss Elizabeth M. Carhart Tuesday anC
Friday afternoons from 2:30 10 4:30 al
the club house. The French converse.
ton luncheons will be held on Friday.
at l instead of Tuesdays
The attention of members is called tc
the fact that the club restaurant viii
take orders for Christmas cakes, etc.
DR.. Roscoe Dorsey, prominent laWyeI
of Washington, will address the legs
study group on Tuesday evening Oh
THE Legal Status of Ancient Women
The meeting will be in the lounge @
the club house, 1884 street.
EOnta Club.-At the midweek lunch