Evening star., 1929-12-15
NEWS OF THE CLUBS

new through the British Isles and Cont
mental Europe, in search of antiques.
Miss Hendricks remarks covered eight
years of unusual experiences doing ac-
! tual collecting as an antiquarian, based
! on long study and interest in the old,
the beautiful and the artistic.
| League of Republican WOmen.-On
Friday, December o. the regular
monthly tea will be held at National
| teenth street, from to 6 o'clock.
On Monday, December 80, at l
O'Clock, the league will entertain at
luncheon at the Washington Club for
members and their guests.
VoteIess d. C. League of Women
VOters.-Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle pre-
sided at luncheon meeting of the eX-
ecutive board Friday at the Women's
City Club Members present were Mrs
Edna Johnston, Mrs. Harry Parkinson,
Mrs. William Harllee, Mrs. Charles Nc
Nary, Mrs. Alvin Dodd, Mrs. Ben Nc
Kelway, Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt,
Mrs. Louis Gutenberg, Mrs. William F.
Friedman, Mrs. Harwood Read, Miss
Fay Bentley, Mrs. Clara Wright Smith,
Miss Edna j. Sheehy and Mrs. Grattan
KeranS.
Mrs. Alvin Dodd, chairman of the
women in industry committee, is plar-
ming an extensive program for this
committees work.
Mrs. H. F. Cameron, chairman of the
committee on international co-opera-
ton to prevent war, will be in charge
of the information booth at the Confer
ence on the Cause and Cure for War,
which will be held in the Washington
Hotel, January Is to 19. Delegates will
be Mrs. A. j. McKelway and Mrs. Albert
M Putney; alternates, Mrs. Lester Pol
lock, Mrs. William Wright Smith, Mrs.
Louis Gutenberg and Mrs. Charles Nc
Nary.
Mrs. Richard Edwards, chairman of
the tenth anniversary and memorial
plan, was the guest of honor at din
ner at the Cosmos Club Wednesday eve
ming, when members of the executive
board gathered to learn of the progress
of the plan. Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle
was toaStmiStreSS.
Members of the league are invited to
hear DR.. Roscoe Dorsey, professor of
law at the Washington College of Law,
when he will be guest speaker before
the study group, led by Miss Elizabeth
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Legal
Status of Women in Ancient Times"
will be the subject of the talk.
Capitol Hill History Club held its
regular meeting Wednesday, December
IL. at the home of Mrs. H. F. Patter-
son, with Mrs. v. G.. Austin as assisting
hostess. After luncheon the meeting
was called to order and opened with
usual exercises. The study program in
cluded papers by Mrs. T. F. Rorke on
"IbSen, Bjornson, and the Drama and
Stockholm, the Venice of the North"
by Mrs. j. c. Hemphill.
The next meeting will be held Janu-
airy at the home of Mrs. Jason Water
man.
The Glover Club.-On Thursday De-
cember 5, the club held its fifth buSi-
Joseph F. Randall. AS the roll was
called common superStitions were given
by members present.
Mrs. Gertrude B. BiSchof and Mrs.
Lucien H. Mercier reported on the
recent program of the Protective Social
Measures Institute, which program was
sponsored by the Social Hygiene Society
of the District of Columbia.
Mrs Joseph F. Randall gave a re-
view of Strange FidelitieS," by Eiker.
Mrs. Mark LanSburgh gave a review on
Mrs. Wheeler gave a talk on The
Survival Of SuperStitions. Taboo and
Traditions in Our Modern Institutions
and Customs"
The December 19 meeting will be held
at the nome of Mrs. Mark Lansburgh.r
Mrs. D. E. White will speak on "Ad-
ventures in Friendship" The guest
speaker of the evening will be Mrs. Don
Smith, chairman of the educational de-
.E NnNNkS
dren'S Legends" will form the subject
of Mrs. Smiths talk.
Alliance Francaise.-M. Leon Vallas,
professor of history of music at the
Conservatoire of Music Of Paris. and di-
rector of a musical review, will be the
next lecturer of the Alliance FrancatSe
on Monday, December Is, at 4:30, at
the La Fayette Hotel.
The subject of the lecture, which
will be accompanied with stereopticon
views, is La Musique Vivante."
Sixteenth Street Heights Cuba
joint December meeting of the Six
teenth Street Heights Ladies' Club and
the Ladies' Auxiliary of the North
minister Presbyterian Chapel, Alaska
avenue and Kalorama road, was held
last Tuesday afternoon in the chapel.
! and dinner served to the members.
The Christmas party of the Sixteenth
! Street Heights Ladies' Club will be held
December 80 at the Oaks, Blair road.
The next meeting of the above club
will be held with Mrs. H. K. Hobart,
hostess, 1904 Chestnut street, Takoma
Park, on January IA, 1880.
Maryland League of Women Voters
TI11ara iOinf rnpetin0 Of the Mont.
gomery and Prince Georges County
branches of the league on Friday at
| the University Women's Club, 1884 !
street. Miss Engle, the State director,
presented the Winter program, which
embraces juvenile delinquency, migra-
tory child labor, poor farms, billboards
and the 1O0-day school attendance law,
and spoke on Congressional Leglsla-
ton of Particular Interest to Women:
These meetings are open to the public
| and a cordial invitation Is extended oy
| Mrs. B Ashby Leavell and Mrs Ben
jamin F. Wade, the league chalrmen.
The Political Study Club held a
meeting of its executive commlttee
tuesday in the Mayhower Hotel. Mrs
Bruce Baird, president, presided. A1tel
the routine business, the chairman Of
membership, Mrs. Virgil Miller, present
ed II names of ladies to be voted upor
for membership namely: Mrs. James
A. Robertson, Mrs. Russell Fleming
Mrs. I. B. Dodson, Mrs. G. Gordon
Asher, Mrs Hugh M. Adams, Mrs
Elizabeth Brown. Mrs. Harriet P. jun
kins, Mrs. ]. William Ridenour, MRS
David N. Houston. Mrs. Annie M. Bon
rer Mrs. George H. Macdonough, MRS
M. H. Rittenhouse, Mrs. James "A
Councillor, Mrs. Herbert w. Poole, MRS
John G. Klein. Miss Dorothy L. Beeoy
Mrs Floyd j. Baker and Miss Ruby M
Lockrldge, all of whom were unani-
mously elected as members to the club
Mrs. Gertrude Bischoff. chairman oi
program, announced Mrs. Nina Swain
| Reed as the sneaker for the DecemDeI