Evening star., 1929-12-15
twentieth Century Club.-fomorro

Twentieth Century CIub.-Tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock the beginners
class in French will be held at the
| home of Mrs. Charles j. Brand, 1861
| Crescent place.
On Tuesday, December II, the Gar
| den section, Mrs. Benjamin E. Smith,
chairman, will meet at the Y. w. c. A.
at 2 pm. The program will be given
by Mrs Fred w. Powell whose subject
| is Gardening From Your FireSide." !"
| There will be a brief supplementary talk
on the most practical and economical
way to make small garden.
| The clean city campaign committee OF
which Mrs. Albert N. PrentisS is chair
man and which comes under the direc-
| ton of the civic section OF the club
made trip into Cherry Hill, Va, where
the garbage refining plant is located,
on Wednesday morning. Accompanying
Mrs. Prentiss were Mrs. Truman Abee,
Mrs. w. P. Ballard, Mrs. F. w. Ballou,
| Mrs. B. P. Barnard, Mrs. Emile Ber-
liner. Mrs. E. E. Carter, Mrs. j. P.
| Campbell, Mrs. Proctor Dougherty, Mrs
| Gilbert GroSvenor, Mrs. Sidney H.
| Thompson, Mrs. Philip S. Smith and
Mrs. Otto Veerhoff. Mrs. George F..
! Bowerman president of the club, Mrs.
| c. T. Watson, chairman OF the CIVIC
| section, and Mrs. Richard Fay jackson
also accompanied the committee. Mrs.
Prentiss will make her report at a fu-
ture meeting of the civic section.
The nature section which usually has
an outing each Wednesday, and the
section of education which should meet
Oh Thursday will not meet this week
i because of the nearneSS of the holidays
The French section which should meet
on Wednesday and the parliamentary
law section which meets on Friday will
oil a. VonntinDC month
SOrOptimiSt CIub.-The annual elec-
ton of officers of the club took place at
the weekly luncheon on Wednesday at
the La Fayette Hotel. The following were
elected to serve for the year 1890:
President, Mrs. Mary Katherine Lewis;
| first vice president, Miss Nora B. Huff
man; second vice president, Mrs. Ada
M. Klein Peter; recording secretary
Miss Genevieve c. Bearmore; corre-
| spending secretary Mrs. Agnes /. Kin
near; treasurer, Miss Rosa M. Place;
board of directors, Miss Katherine r.
Pike and Mrs. Jane M. Ryan.
The club unanimously adopted the
| report of Mrs. Edna Hoffman, chairman
of civic and welfare committee, provid-
ing Christmas boxes for the Home for
| Aged Women, 1855 Wisconsin avenue
northwest.
| MIS-. ALlLld 0CIllOTGT OInlIIl, pTSSlOeLlL
of the Philadelphia Soroptimist Club,
was in Washington this week formulat-
| ing plans for the convention of the
American Federation of Soroptinnist
CLUBS to be held in Philadelphia in
June. Delegates will go from Phila-
delphia to London, England, to attend
the SoroptimiSt international conven-
| ton.
Plans are being formulated for the
installation banquet to be held on
January 8, 1880.
The luncheon on Wednesday at the
La Fayette Hotel will take the form of q
Christmas party. A full program in the
hands of Miss Nora Huffman and Mrs.
Ada Klein Peter, will be offered.
WOman's Club of Bethesda.--An-
nouncement of the presentation of THE
First Christmas" pageant with a mu-
sical setting, on Sunday afternoon, De-
cember IS, at o'clock, at the club
house, was made by Mrs. Rowland S.
Marshall, fine arts chairman, at Tues
days regular club meeting. Mr.. E. M.
Willis is chairman of the drama COM
mittee, sponsoring this production,
which is a repetition by request of the
play given last year at this season. Mrs
Thomas w. Pyle is directing with Mrs
| Albert KlaaS and Mrs. Frank Willnot
of the Newcomb Club In charge of the
music. The community in general is
cooperating actively in arrangements
for the affair, and the public is invited
! to be present. A silver offering will be
accepted to be devoted to local Christ
mas charity.
The president, Mrs. Gilbert H. Gros-
venor, stated that the executive board,
which met Immediately preceding the
general club meeting had recommended
that the Woman's Club of Bethesda