Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09


PERTAINING on the part of society during
the Lenten period was thing not even
to mention and the weeks between Ash
Wednesday and Easter Monday were
given over to work for charity, attend
srce at church services and to meet
ings of the various sewing classes, sew
eral of them meeting every day. This
all has changed and except for the sew
ing classes there is little of the old
order of things remaining. Most of the
sewing classes, however, continue their
work for their pet institutions, and next
week will bring meetings OF most OF
them. One of the oldest Is that which
works in behalf of the Fresh Air AsSo-
citation of the Cathedral of St John the
Divine, Of which Mrs. Frank Hunter
Potter is president. The Fresh Air As
ISOLATION was organized in 1895 as the
Cathedral Mission, and 10 years later
was incorporated under its present title.
1t owns and conducts fresh air home
in TomkinS Cove, Rockland County. N.
Y, where a two-week outing is given in
the Summer to children and mothers
with infants from missions and mission
airy parishes of this city who are de-
pendent upon the association for help
The cathedral class will have its first
meeting on Tuesday March IL, at the
home of Mrs Stephen c. Clark, as East
SEVENTEEN street. Other meetings will
be held on Tuesdays at the homes of
Mrs. Victor Morawetz, 80 East Seventy
ninth street; Mrs. CARL Tucker. 1873
Park avenue and Mrs. M Orme Wilson,
East Sixty-fourth street
The class which works for the New
York Nursery and Child's Hospital will
have its first meeting Thursday at the
home of Mrs. Charles B. Alexander,
West Fifty eighth street. There will be
four other sessions on Thursdays, at the
homes of Mrs. Lawrence l.. Gillespie
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. Frank S.
Witherbee and Mrs Robert L. Gerry.
The clothing committee of St. Luke S
Hospital will hold its meetings on five
Tuesdays in Lent, beginning March IL
at the home of Mrs. Nicholas Murray
Butler. Other sessions will be held at
the homes of Mrs. Walter Phelps Bliss,
Mrs. Frederic E. Lewis, Mrs. John C.
jay. and Mrs. Darwin P. Kinesley. The
garments made during the sessions are
used by the children who are sent to
the country during the Summer by st.
Luke's Social Service and also are given
to the tubercular and other patients in
need OF clothing when dismissed from
st. Luke's Hospital.
The Greer Club Association. of which
mrs: Ryder Henry is chairman. will
meet March Ia at the National Church
Club for Women, 100 East Fifty-seventh
street. The others will be on March
19 at the home of Mrs. James McGosh
Magic, at the residence of the Misses
jackson, IL East Sixty-sixth street, and
Mrs. Clarence C. Chapman.
The class that sews in the interest
of the Cribside committee of the
Babies Hospital will hold its first meet
ing at the residence of Mrs. Oliver B.
Jennings, 1872 Fifth avenue; Mrs Harold
Van Tine. Mrs. CARL Tucker, Mrs. Will
liam Braden and the Colony Club, with
Mrs. Olney B. MARS as hostess.
The class OF the Rev. Mother Kath-
crime DreXels Auxiliary meets Thurs
day mornings during Lent at the home
Of Miss Mary H. Bowler. IA West
Forty-SiXth street. The auxiliary, which
is small organization of Catholic
women, provides assistance. financial
End otherwise, for the Sisters of the
Blessed Sacrament (the congregation
founded by the Rev. Mother DrexeD
who maintain st. Marks Convent and
School at SIS West 138th street
Another old Fifth avenue mansion
is to be RACED to make way for bust
ness. 1t is the Goelet residence. at the
southwest corner of Forty ninth street
and Fifth avenue, which was built in
1888 by Ogden Goelet. 1t is one of
the few last remaining famous homes
which once lined Fifth avenue and
where the smartest affairs in the city
were given years ago. It is four stories
in height, with a one-story extension
on Forty-ninth street The Aston, the
Gerry, the Iselin, Gould, Hartman. the
King and other notable homes have
disappeared from the famous thorough
fare, and all but one of the noted
Vanderbilt residences have given way
to business, including the dowager Mrs
Vanderbilt's mansion, Fifth avenue be-
tween Fifty-seyenth and Fifty eighth
streets; Mrs. Hamilton NICK. Twombly's
residence, Mrs. Henry Whites home
and the w. K. VanderbiltS. The only
one remaining is that of Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's house,
$40 Fifth avenue.
The seventeenth international flower
show will open March II at the Grand
Central Palace and will last for a
week. Theodore A. Havemeyer is chair
man of the show committee, which in
cllIdes Frederic r. Newbold. treasurer;
John Young, secretary; Mrs. Samuel
Sloan Mrs. William Lockwood, Rich
ardson Wright, William A. Delano and
Arthur Harrington.
AS usual there will be charming
tea room, located on the third floor OF
the palace, where tea, luncheon, din.
ner end refreshments will be served and
entertainment provided The proceeds
of the tea room will go to the National
Navy Club of New York, Inc. Mrs. w:
H. Hamilton, Mrs. e. G. Potter and
others will be IN charge of commit
tee for the tea room and Nine. Alma
Clayburgh will head a committee oil
young women who will act as captains
and mattresses.
The annual butterfly ball held under
the auspices of the Junior Auxiliary OF
the House of Rest at Sprain Ridge Will
take place on April % at the Ritz-Carl-
ton. Mrs Henry Leroy French Is
president of the auxiliary, Mrs. Car
ence c. Michalis, vice president; Mrs
Livingston French, secretary; Mrs. joel
Ellis Fisher, jr.. treasurer, and Mrs
Thomas Ellis Brown, advisory chair
man.
At the annual meeting of the Junior
League Glee Club held a few days age
Mrs. John D. Beales, jr., was unanl-
mously elected manager. Mrs. B. Hunt
Smith, the outgoing manager. who has
held office for two years. presided al
the meeting Othcr officers elected