Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

ID. c., FEBRUARY 3,
projects will share the attention of club
members. Tomorrow there will be a
joint hospital committee meeting at the
club house, when members of the hos
pital committees of the nearby clubs will
meet at the club house from II am. to
3 pm. to sew for the Montgomery
County Hospital. All women of the
community are invited to come and
help in this work. Saturday evening
the drama section of the fine arts de-
partment, Mrs. Thomas w. Pyle, chair
man, will present one of the three
plays to be given at the Bethesda
School auditorium. These plays are
given as tryout for the one-act play
tournament of the Community Drama
Guild of Washington. Maude Howell
Smith. fine arts chairman in the club,
and Mrs. w. B. N. Brookes, the presi-
dent, are cast for leading parts in this
play. The motion picture, How Life
Begins" which was shown at the Be-
thesda motion picture theater Wednes-
day afternoon under auspices of the
department of education, was a sue
cess, and all who saw it feel indebted
w Avail .. 0NCOL6 II. al AOCdu. CIIdkI IIldiI
of education department, and to Mrs.
Nina Church Brann, member of the
committee and chairman of the motion
picture committee, through whose eff
forts the film was secured.
The Washington Readers Club will
meet at All Souls Church, Sixteenth
and Harvard streets, Tuesday at pm.
The subject of the evening will be
"Occultism and Mystery" Miss Ada
Louise Townsend will have charge of
the entertainment.
W0men's Relief Corps No. s, at the last
meeting in the G. A. r. Hail. held a
joint installation. The department
president, Mrs Wingate, was present
with several of her staff and many
other women from different corps, who
gave much praise to the retiring presi-
dent, Mrs. Marie Bricker, for loyalty
and financial aid during the year. The
widow of Lieut.. w. A. Wilson was also
praised for her many acts of charity
and was presented with box of roses
and carnations and silk scarf, and
also had the honor to present the re-
firing president with her corps badge.
The commander Of Lincoln Post, Haz-
card Wheeler, presented her with a
testimonial from the post for loyalty
and interest in the post during her
term of Office.
S0rOptomist Club.-An interesting
program was given at the weekly
luncheon Wednesday afternoon at the
Hotel La Fayette. Mrs. Larz Anderson,
guest of honor at the speakers table,
touched upon the points of interest in
her trip to South America which are
included in her recent book, "circling
South America"
A history of the country of Czecho-
slovakia since 1918 was given by DR.
Peregrin Elsa, first secretary of the
CZechoSlovakian legation. Motion pic
lures of the festivity of the Sokol So
ciety of Chezoslovakia in the city
of Prague were shown.
Miss Ella Werner had as her guest
at the luncheon, Mrs. Paul Mcneil
Miss Georgia Bauer, registrar at the
Government hotels, was the guest of
Mrs. Celia Stach, and Miss Katherine
Pike, chief of the legal division of the
Bureau of Customs, and new member
of the club. had as her guest Miss
Conger of Los Angeles.
Miss Janet Richards will speak to
the club on Wednesday.
The Thimble Club of Washington
Council, No. %, Ladies of the u. c. c. E.,
met at the home of the secretary,
Mrs. H. w. Pote, Wednesday. A short
business session was held. Lunch was
served at noon, when the tables were
prepared for 500 and Bunco. Awards
were won by Mrs William Burton, Mrs,
Martha. Stops and Mrs. Mary Hohen-
stein. Consolation gifts went to Mrs
Agnes Robinson, Mrs. Annie Saul and
Mrs. Maude Neill.
The next meeting will be at the home
of Mrs. Jane Jones, 3 Linden avenue
Cherrydale, Wednesday. This meeting
will be devoted to quilting. Buses at
the Key Bridge, Georgetown, will take
one within one square of the house. as
viii the train at this same starting
point. This quilt is the making and
gift of Mrs. Jones.
The Department of the Potomac,
Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to
the Grand Army of the Republic, held
a council meeting Saturday at the home
of the president, Mrs. Mary Howard
Wingate. Minutes of the last meeting
were approved and recorded. The
treasurer's report showed the financial
condition of the department in good
condition and both the secretary and
treasurer were commended for their
work.
The business of the fortieth annual
convention of the Department of the
Potomac, w. r. c.. was acted on and
arrangements made for 1t. A new club
consisting of all past department pres
idents was formed, the president report
ed, and Mrs. Ida A. Oldroyd elected
first president. She appointed COM
mittee to promuigate rules and other
relative business.
The decision of the Secretary of War
to replace the Flagstaff and the Ameri-
can flag in front of the Arlington House,
where it has flown since 1864, was re-
ported by Mrs. Wingate. Reports of
committees we're given and money re-
ceived from activities that still remained
due.
A tribute was drafted by Mrs. Eliza
beth D. Shaw, Mrs. Julia West Hamil-
ton and Mrs. Nora B. Beattie, a token