Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-27

ervationS must De mace py ocIocR
wednesday night.
at Alta Vista station Rockville car
line) about 8 o'clock today and 60 to
the johnson home from which a de-
lightful walk is planned. Bring picnic
supper. Leaders, Mr.. and Mrs. Enocll
johnson.
The board of directors Of the wash
ington branch will meet tomorrow at
1890 for luncheon prior to the regular
monthly business meeting. Gideon A,
Lyon, associate editor of The Star, will
be the speaker at the Monday tea. His
subject will be Some of My Recent EX-
periences in the Far East" Mrs. Paul
E. Shorb will be the hostess.
The French classes of Miss Elizabeth
Carhart will meet Tuesday and Friday
at 2:30. A table will be reserved for /
o'clock luncheon.
On Friday, November /, at z o'clock
there will be a dinner arranged by the
educational committee in honor Of Miss
Edith Ford, supervisor Of one Of the
metropolitan school districts of London.
Miss Ford will speak on some phase of
English public school education. Mrs.
Katherine M. Cook will preside. Reser-
vations must be made before 8 O'Clock
Thursday night.
The education committee also an
nounces the schedule for study groups
for the season. Two groups on pre-
school education will be conducted in
cooperation with the Washington Child
Research Center. 1925 Columbia road
northwest, where the meetings will be
held. The beginning group will have its
first meeting Thursday evening at 8
o'clock, November IA.
Bi-MonthIy Meeting.
This group will meet bi-monthly I'M
der the leadership of Miss Edith
Thomas, Federal agent for home eco
nomics education. Federal Board for
Vocational Education; DR.. Cora Kay.
psychologist at the Washington Child
Research Center, and Miss Christine
Heining, director of the nursery school
at the center Topics of heredity, en-
vironment habit formation, food, sleep
and other problems concerning young
children will be discussed and oppor-
tunity afforded for observing and re-
cording their behavior. The advanced
group, meeting weekly on Monday aft
ernoon at o'clock, beginning Novem-
Der IL. will be under the leadership of
Miss Nell Boyd Taylor, assistant edu-
cational secretary of the American As
ISOLATION of University Women. The
subject for study and discussion will
be Interests of Young Children" in
Guiding such topics as play, playthings
and home activities. This group Is
planned for those who have studied
previously either individually or in 9TH
er pre-school groups.
Pre-adolescent Study.
The. psychology and hygiene of pre-
adolescence, meeting bi-monthly on
Wednesday morning at Gas o'clock.
beginning November 10. at 1884 / street
room 306, will be led by DR..
Kathryn McHale, educational secretary
and. acting director of the American
Association of University Women. The
study will include the most pertinent
physical, mental, emotional, moral and
social problems Of children from 8 to
IL years of age.
Discussion group for study group
leaders, meeting bi-monthly in the
evening (date and time to be announced
later will have Miss Ethel I. Sunny,
teacher of education at the Wilson
Teachers College. as leader. Content
and discussion will be based on the
group needs. Each member of the
group should have studied previously
In a group and at present time be
either a leader of discussion group
or preparing for such leadership. APP
plications for registration in this group
should be sent in not later than No.
vember Is to the educational office OF
the American Association. of University
Women, 1884 street northwest.
Legal Status of Women, Present,
Past and Future" will be non-technical
discussion of woman's position as wife,
mother and citizen as Illustrated by
the development Of the law. Miss
Elizabeth Harris, professor of law at the
Washington College of Law, will lead
this group, meeting bi-monthly, on the
first and third Tuesdays at o'clock
beginning November S, at 1884 street
Membership in all these groups Il
open to non-memberS as well as men,
bers. There will be no fee, but attend
ance at the first meeting Of each group
is urged by the leaders.
League Of American Pen Women Of
the District of C0lumbia.-The first Of
a series of musical teas, under the au-
spices of the music group of the league
will take place this afternoon at the
studio, in Stoneleigh Court, from 4 tc
6 o'clock.
Under the direction of Mrs. Dawson
Olmstead, chairman of the group, q
program will be presented consisting Of
piano numbers by Mrs. Charles INLAY
and several musical trioS by Mrs. Mar
shall Guthrie, Mrs. Frederick c. Smith
and Mrs. Ralph Wilson. Mrs. Alfred
B. johnson, formerly of Honolulu, q
musician new to Washington, will give
a number of pianologues. Assisting al
the tea table will be Miss Julia Schel.
ling. vice chairman of the group: Mrs
M. B. Hilton and Mrs. James Watson
Following the plan of having con.
tiV,f1A ~ kaa k{ek
bers of the league, today will mark the
opening of an exhibit at the studio BY
Mrs. Carolyn Van H. Bean, who ha,
just returned from the Bar Harbor col.
ony. The exhibit will continue for two
weeks and will consist of a number oil
New York street scenes painted durinf
the war days of 1918, water color scenes
of Charleston, S. c.; st. Augustine anc
Palm Beach, Fla; pictures of Wake.
field, the ancestral home of sGeorg'
Washington, and Of Stratford, the an.
cestral home of Robert E. Lee. Amons
the portraits will be one of the daugh.
ter Of Peter Augustus Jay, well known
in diplomatic circles.
Business Meeting Set.
Tomorrow night the monthly bust.
ness meeting will be held at the Studio
at 8 o'clock. Mrs. E. Richard Gasch
president, urges the attendance of all
members, as there is much important
business to be transacted.
On Tuesday evening the short story
group will meet at the studio at
o'clock. Mrs. E. G. Cullum, who /.
chairman Of this group, has made ar
intensive study of the short story anc
is pupil of John Gallishaw of New
York, whose methods she will use ir
conducting her classes. A meeting Of
the Round Table, Miss Alice Heaven
chairman, will take place Wednesday
morning at IL O'Clock. Members are
invited to bring manuscripts or recent.
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