Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06

In WdSIlulSGUn W dkLClAO bAA
sani-annual meeting of the board o
directors slated to open tomorrow morn
ing at the N street headquarters.
A wide range of subjects relative Il
tie work OF the General Federation
will be discussed by these leaders during
the f1ve-day session, in addition there vii
be speakers from several of the universe
ties and Government departments VIII
will present their views of matters il
which the organization is interested.
DR.. DIN Templen, professor of phi
1oSopty and psychology at the Univer
sity Of Kansas, will be one of the out
side speakers to address an evening SEES
aion of the board.
President Coolidge will receive thu
visiting clubwomen, and it is expected
that Mrs. Coolidge also will be at home
TO them. The outstanding social even
of the week will be the reception which
will be held at headquarters on tht
evening of January g.. Several hun.
dred invitations have been extended
for this.
There will be general discussion OF
the program for the council meeting
TO be held at Swampscott, Mass. the
latter part of May. Mrs John A
Prick, president of the Pennsylvania
Federation, is chairman of the program
committee for the biennial council
meeting, and will make a preliminary
report on her program. She will ask
for suggestions from the clubwomen in
completing details.
Ample time will be given the visitors
70 visit Congress and the many other
points OF interest with which the Ma
fion's Capital aboundS. It is expected
will tn 1k@
The Mayf1ower, three blocks from head
quarters, has been designated as the Of
fetal hotel
A T one Of the most brilliant club
gatherings of the holiday season,
Mrs. Virginia White Speel, General Fed
Grafton director, and retiring president
OF the District of Columbia Federation
OF Women'S Clubs. was honored by her
associates in the local group who ten
dered her luncheon at the Roosevelt
Hotel Saturday afternoon, December 90.
More than 200 guests attended the af-
far, including many celebrities of ma
tional prominence in club and social
life
Mrs. Edgar B. Merritt, president of
the District group, presided. Mrs Ellis
Logan gave the invocation and toasts
were responded to by Mrs. John F. Sip
pei general federation president; Mrs.
Howard L. Hodgkins, Mrs. John w.
Frizzell and Mrs. Speel.
At the conclusion of the luncheon,
Mrs. Wallace Streater, on behalf of the
federation, presented Mrs. Speel with a
silver vase, inscribed as follows: Mrs.
Virginia White Speel, from the District
OF Columbia Federation of Women'S
Clubs. December 90, 1928"
A program of music, under the direc-
ton OF Mrs. Arthur j. Seaton, was CIV
en- by the following artists: Mrs Rosa
Polio JArman, soprano Soloist; &C.
companist, Mrs. Elizabeth Gardner
Coombs; Mrs. Rose Maxwell Dickey,
violiniSt; accompanist, Mrs j. Harry
Cunningham, and piano selections by
Mrs. CoombS.
The guests at the speakers table in
eNded Mrs. John F. Sippel, president
or the General Federation of Women's
Clubs; Mrs. Virginia White Speel. Mrs.
Louis c. Cramton, Mrs Adam Wyant,
Mrs. Harry K. Daugherty. Mrs. w. w.
Husband, Mrs. Minnie Evans Keyes,
Mrs. John w. Frizzell, Mrs. Howard L.
HodgkinS Mrs Ellis Logan, Miss Helen
Cummings, Mrs. Edgar B. Merritt, Mrs
D. P. Penhallow, Miss Lena Hitchcock,
Mrs. Wallace Streater, Miss Josephine
Junkin, Mrs. Boyd Carpenter, Mrs Will
liam j. LaVarre and Mrs. Gertrude
BiSchoff.
THE opening Of 'key homes in every
community, so called because In
them will be found the keys that un-
lock the vast storehouse of accumulated
knowledge about the infant, the child,
the adult, their housing, their food,
their clothing, their recreation, their
health, their education, is the big new
project Of the Department of the Amer
1can Home of the General Federation
Of Women's Clubs.
Mrs. John D. Sherman, retiring presi-
dent Of the General Federation, and
chairman of the American home de-
partment in the present administra-
ton, says of this nationwide &C
tivity:
The ideal key home will be home
controlled and supported by the COM
nunity for all homemakers and grow
ing with the demands made upon it by
woman and man homemakers of the
community. 1t will represent the best
type OF home that can be secured for
p AAOAOAobC Al blAC GRCSA14O
Hlunity. It will be furnished with the
best taste possible. 1t will be equipped
10 accordance with modern scientific
standards. It will be stated by ex-
perts in maternal and infant health,
h child psychology, in vocational home
economics, In home recreation. It
will be able to refer people to those
who could give them the assistance
rot yet available in the key home.
L will extend its influence through
home extension agents into the parts
Of the city or country that could not
be brought into personal contact with
the home itself. It will have base
ment auditorium, where parental edu-
cation courses and all lectures and ex-
hibitS of interest to the adult man and
woman homemakers will be held. In
short, it will be the clearing house for
educational thought on homemakers'
problems"
Mrs. Sherman urges the club leader S
to seek the interest and cooperation
Of the educational, social, civic and
business forces in making the key
homes" real centers of information and
inspiration for people of all ages, all
interests and all stations of life.
California has the distinction of being
This home" located in Los Angeles,
ts founded for community betterment,
stability of the American home and
counsel without fee or obligation t.
those seeking help with home problems
Hoover Ideals according to Mrs. j
w. Robinson, chairman.
Problems of budgeting, guidance fol
the young wife, personal health, the
problem child and situations found fo'
the unemployed are but a few of the
services rendered. It is a service &C
tivity, and when those needing service
are unable to visit the key home" the
experts go to them. Nothing is pro
NOTED and nothing is advertised, tho
sole aim being better American homes
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MEMBERS of the bulletin commit
AVA tee of the Woman's National Dem
ocratic Club are sponsoring an open
house benefit bridge party, TO be held a
tho clubhouse IN NnW HomnShira ave