Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-18


necticut and Ohio, are attending the
Congress-Mrs. Trumbull as delegate
and Mrs. Myers Cooper. unofhcially-to
assist in Mrs. Lowell F. Hobarts CAM
paign. Mrs. Hobart is friend Of
Governor and Mrs. Cooper in their
home State and they have been much
interested In her effort to win the
place Of president general. Mrs. Trum-
bull, on the other hand. combines her
duties in the Congress with the
pleasant one of chaperoning her pretty
daughter, Miss Florence Trumbull. per-
sonal page to Mrs. BrosSeau and flancee
Of John Coolidge.
DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president Of
George washington University, who
gave the morning address yesterday, Is
an alumnus Of Leland Stanford Uni
versity, California, President Hoovers
alma mater. Mrs Marvin also halls
from the Golden State, although she
spent her student days in Los Angeles.
at the University Of Southern Cali
fornia.
Speaking of President Hoover, one Of
the members Of the Congress press
committee, of which Mrs. Amos Fries
is again chairman, is Mrs. C. Mantague
Irwin Of st: Paul, Einn., an ardent
Hoover Republican, VINO worked strenu-
ously during campaign days to secure
his election. Mrs. Irwin is the only
woman serving on the Great Lake-St.
Lawrence idewater Association, IN
which the President has long been
deeply interested, and she is at pres
ent its vice president. She was the
author of the pamphlet, est. Lawrence
Waterway and the American Home"
which was, used by the Hcoverites at
Kansas City.
She also served there as member
of the contact committee. Mrs. Irwin
has her Winter home here In Washing
ton now, and has become actively af-
filiated with the League Of Republican
Women of the District.
One of the famous figures Of the
Congress Is the war president" Of the
D. A. r., Mrs. George Thatcher Guern-
sey. With fine carrying voice, she is
pretty apt to dominate the scene where
ever she goes.
Her ability as an organizer brought
her to the foreground Of society af-
fairs. At the time she took ONCE, in
1917, the Daughters were in debt, hav-
ing undertaken the financing of
Memorial Continental Hall with what
proved to be insufficient funds. The
installation Of officers came almost
coincidentally with the declaration Of
hostilities, so that Mrs. Guernsey was
faced with double problem. She rose
equal to the emergency, cleared the
600 to be invested in Liberty bonds (the
interest Of which today Is supporting
the remaining Real Daughters"); an
other $50, 900 to reconstruct the ruined
water system Of village In northern
France. and guided the membership
through the sale of millions Of dollars
in bonds in support Of the Government.
She Is today one of the four honorary
presidents general, elected for life by
the society.
Not satisfied with having governors
ladies among those present, the
Daughters are boasting of q woman
mayor as one Of the delegates. She is
Mrs. r. J. Johnston, past treasurer gen.
eral, who, during business hours at
home, in Humboldt, Iowa, runs her town
as effectively as she ran the finances Of
the national society.
When American aviators 60 on peril.
Gus journeys, they are pretty apt, to
have along with them somes Of the
Of compressed foods so skillfully made
that it carries in very small space q
remarkable amount of nutrition. The
concocter Of the ration is Washing
ton woman, Daughter, the widow of
former Army medical ofiicer. She Is
Mrs. w. o. Owen.
Mrs. Owen has an unusual collection
Of opals and turquoise matrix in her
home here, taken from the mines of
the West. She busies herself with his
toric research.
Another District resident, on the star
Of the United States Bureau Of Educa-
ton and e member Of the national press
committee, Is Miss Bertha Frances
Wolfe. Miss Wolfe Is the founder and
honorary regent Of the chapter named
for one Of her own Revolutionary an
cestors, Capt. Wendell Wolfe, which is
to celebrate its nineteenth anniversary
next week at the home of Mrs. Alex
ander Hamilton Bell She Is register
general of the Order Of Lafayette, past
matron of the Eastern Star and past
national recording secretary Of the Ma
tional League Of American Pen Women.
In addition to these varied activities.
she is lecturer in parliamentary law
at the Young Wontens Christian Assoc
citation and at the University Of Mary
land.
One Of the. ice. presidents general
/ Who s Just ending her term Of oface y