Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18
Congressional Club
Plans Final Friday
Meeting of the Year
DR.. Averardi, international
Educator, Will Deliver Adj
dress-Other Features of
Special Interest in Pro-
gram.

The last Friday afternoon program
of the year at the Congressional Club.
May %, promises to be one of the very
best. DR.. Franco Bruno Averardi, lee
turer for the Institute of international
Education, and visiting professor at
Western Reserve University at Cleve-
land, Ohio, will speak on THE Women
Of the Italian Renaissance" "a
This prominent young scholar was
born in Turin, Italy, of a well known
Piedmontese family and after receiving
the doctorate in both letters and phil
osophy at the University of Florence
he entered the diplomatic service and
took active part in the League of Ma
tons Conference and in the Naval
Conference here in Washington.
Later he left diplomacy and devoted
himself to literature and art, lecturtng
in Heidelberg, Germany; Florence, Italy,
and in other countries of Europe, be-
sides publishing books and magazine
articles. DR.. Averardi has recently been
appointed visiting professor to the Car
negie Endowment for International
Peace in Western Reserve University.
The lecture will be illustrated and
the usual large attendance is expected
for this last meeting of the club which
Tea will be served by the following
hosteSSeS: Mrs. Ray Lyman Wilbur,
Mrs. James Watson, Mrs. Frederic G.
Walcott, Mrs. Arthur Vandenberg, Mrs.
Charles Waterman, Mrs. Josiah Van
Orsdel, Mrs. Albert H. Vestal, Mrs. An
derson H. Walters, Mrs. ]. Mayhem
Wainwright, Mrs. Richard j. WEIGH,
Mrs. Wallace H. White, Mrs. Joseph
Whitehead Mrs. James Whitley, Mrs.
w. M. Wilmington, Mrs. Thomas S.
Williams, Mrs. William Williamson, Mrs.
Riley ]. Wilson, Mrs. Otis Wingo, Mrs.
John M. Wolverton, Miss Ellen p Wood,
c. Wright Mrs. Adam M. Wyant, Mrs.
Richard Yates and Mrs. Thomas A. Yon.
Mrs Charles Linthicum, wife of Rep
reSentative Linthicum of Baltimore, was
patronesS for the program at the Con-
gressional Club last Friday afternoon,
which was preceded by luncheon for
| the artist.
Dr. Katherine Gallagher of Goucher
College made the interesting obserya-
ton in her lecture Friday afternoon
that what she styled the American
Type of Mind" had been developed by
the pioneer life of the Nation. Taking
as an Illustration the period of 1895,
when Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin
formed the frontier, she read from the
| dAdty VI Oil CpAoCOpd1 WHO lG1Il-
Grated in this region, graphic descrip-
ton of the hardships, privations and
dangers of the life which, developed the
hardihood, self reliance, initiative and
perseverance Of the pioneers.
In this rugged life there was no place
for art, she said, and SO Americas ideal
became the love of prosperity, not
beauty. DR.. Gallagher denies that
Americans love money-but they do
love prosperity, she says. If parents
want their children to love art they
must encourage them to study it.
Miss Elsa Baklov, accompanied by
her sister, Mrs. Virginia Castelie, gave
a beautiful programs of vocal music, in
Guiding the productions of many famous
composers.
| The tea table was unusually attractive
and many guests were presented to the
artists by the president, Mrs. Porter H.
Dale.