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at 2:3O pm. with Mrs. John Boyle, jr.
1901 Ingomar street. The speaker will
be Miss Annie NJ Wilson, chairman oi
the fine arts committee in the Mont
gomery County Federation OF Women'S
Clubs. Wednesday the music section
will rehearse at 10 o'clock in the Chevy
Brown School At o'clock the execu-
tive board will meet for luncheon at the
Village Inn, the hoStesses being Mrs
r. Harvey Sargent. Mrs. w. Clark Dean
and Mrs. Hoover Hanger. After lunch
con the board will go to the home OF
Mrs. Sargent for business meeting.
Woman's Club Of Bethesda.-Dr
Thomas H. Healy of the foreign service
school of Georgetown University will be
the guest speaker at the December
meeting of the club, which will be held
Tuesday at pm. at the clubhouse
/ DR.. Healy. who comes at the invitation
of the department of international rela-
tions, Mrs. Errett Wallace chairman
has recently returned from The Hague
where he gave course of lectures on
international law.
| The hostesses for tea Tuesday will be
Mrs. John B. Bennett, Mrs. Charles L
Corby. Mrs. c. F. Dickens, Mrs. Benja-
min I. Elmore, Mrs. H. H. Classic, Mrs
E. L. Montgomery, Mrs. G. Wady Imirie,
Mrs. H. Latane Lewis, Mrs. E. B. Morris,
Mrs. John OShea, Mrs. Frederick A.
Parkhurst, Mrs. John Reside and Mrs.
Errett Wallace. chairman.
The president, Mrs. Gilbert H. Gros-
venor, will preside at the meeting.
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent. No.
| |, Daughters of Union Veterans of the
Civil War, met on Monday evening, with
! the president, Miss Ellen S. Meyers, in
the chair. Mrs. Meade acted as press
correspondent in the absence of that
| officer. Visitors we're Mrs. Kate P. Dom
| aldson of the BetSey Ross Tent of jack
| son, Mich; Past Comdr. Houck of Cush-
ing Camp, Sons of Veterans, and Mr.
! McElroy, secretary of Harding Camp.
John G. Bugbee and Theodore T..
Mitchell were obligated and Miss Myrtle
H. Palmer and Mrs. Alma A. Carroll
were elected to membership.
1t was announced that the tent is
, invited to a card party to be held by
Lincoln Camp, Sons of Veterans, on
Friday, December l3, at its hall, 808
street northwest
The following officers were elected for
the year 1890: President, Mrs. Horne;
senior vice president, Mrs Eckard; jun
ior vice president, Mrs. Lippold; treas
urer, Mrs. Rain: members of the coun-
cil Mrs. Manoly Mrs. Brodt and Mrs.
Burke; and patriotic instructor, Mrs.
Fauth. The tent is moving to its new
hall at 1902 Fourteenth street north
west where on December 16 1t will hold
its annual Christmas party for the vet
Grams, members and friends. The usual
basket of flowers will be sent to the
Soldiers and Sailors Temporary Home
to decorate their Christmas table, and
baskets and flowers sent to the needy
and sick
The chaplain, Mrs. Bugbee, conducted
the memorial exercise at the tomb of
the Unknown Civil War Dead at Ar
lington on December /, when a wreath
was placed in honor of Mrs Mary A.
Hayward, the first honored member of
the tent.
CrittentOn Wheel Club met on No
vember 81 with Mrs. Weber at her pretty
suburban home on Cathedral avenue.
Seventeen members and one guest were
present. The usual business was trans
acted and new ideas we're advanced for
ers and babes. The next meeting will be
held at Mrs. Hillman's. 1914 Varnum
street, on December IL.
League of American Pen Women of
the District of Columbia.-At the ar
lists tea, which will be held at the
studio in Stoneleigh Court this after
noon from to 6 o'clock Miss Clara
Hill, chairman, will present Mr. Henry
K. Bush-Brown, Washington sculptor,
who will speak on THE Artistic De-
velopment of Washington" Mrs. c.
Leonard Chambers will preside at the
tea table assisted by Mrs. Walter Miles,
Mrs Anne c. Manchester, Mrs. Turin
Boone and group of young girls, mem
bers of the student group.
The president, Mrs E. Richard
GaSch, has announced that the studio
will be open every afternoon from
until $50 o'clock and tea will be served
The following hoStesses will serve this
week: Monday, Mrs. Eli A. Helmick;
Tuesday, Mrs. Nelson D. Webster; We'd
nesday. DR.. Elnora c. Folkmar; Thurs
day. Mrs. Samuel Burleigh Milton;
Friday. Mrs. Hugh Irish, and Saturday,
Mrs. Ernest Virgins. The Christmas
sale Of original work Of members opened
last Tuesday and will continue through
Saturday, December 81. The first sale
made was a child's book by Susie White
MCGOWAN, based on her story which
won the Isabel Anderson contest prize
two years ago.
The playwriters' group, under Mrs
Edith Ogden Heidel, has arranged an
ming, to which all members of the
league are invited. THE Old Drama
and the New" will be the subject of a
lecture by Prof William L. Corbin, who
is librarian at the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition and lecturer in English at the
| American University. A one-act play,
Joint Owners in Spain,' will be given
by cast from the Renshaw School of
Speech under the direction of Jane
Plummer Rice. This group held a
! meeting this past week to decide on
rules for the $50 prize contest and to
| discuss further plans for the groups
| presentation of its members plays.
The regular meeting of the round
table, conducted by Miss Alice Heaven,
| will be held on Wednesday afternoon
at 2:30. That evening the monthly
book review program, under the chair
manShip of Mrs. Lily r. Hunt. will
take place. Mrs. William Wolff Smith
| will review THE Immortal Lover" a
Robert Burns romance by John A.
Steuart and "A Crown for Carlotta,' -
by d. M. Henderson. The French
| class, conducted by Madame Felian
Garzia, will hold its weekly meeting
Thursday afternoon at 4:30, and the
editing group, under DR.. Elnora Folk
mar, will holds its meeting that eve
ming at o'clock.
Much interest is being shown by
writer's and literary people of the Capt.
tai in the revival of the Old English
| Coffee House by the Pen Women of
| the District at their studio in Stone
leigh Court. The opening coffee house
talk will take place next Friday after
noon at 4:3O o'clock when Mrs. William
Wolff Smith, chairman, will present
as the guest of honor and speaker,
Princess Dur Ling of China, interna-
tionally known authoress, who is COM
! ing down from New York for the occa-
sion. Among the books she has writ
| ten are: "Kow Tow" Two Years in
| the TTorhidden Citv" and "Old Buddha {"