Evening star., 1934-01-07
Committee to Meet.


Girls Friendly Society.-The Execu-
tive Committee will meet wednesday
evening at the home of the first wee
president, Mrs. A. S. Steuart, 3O5o n
street. III, -
The quarterly council meeting VIII oe
held at the parish house OF the Churcn
of the Epiphany January II at 1:3O pm.
The branch presidents, memoer repre-
sentatives. diocesan officers and cnan
men will discuss the plans Tor the neHC
few months and the work OF the society
since the last quarterly cou11C1 AAie
in october, 49,,
BEGINNING tomorrow, the regular rou-
fine and programs will be resumed III
the branches.
Petworth Woman's Club-A business
meeting was held Monday evening al
the Petworth School with the presl4ent'
Mrs Otto Hammerlund, in the CIai
Reports were read by section chaTnleL'
director to the D. c. Federation, cnaHs
man of the Visiting Nurses Unit ana
ni1airr,an ttt'.ii of the Florence Crittenton
Home Unit. The Educational Sectlon'
with Mrs. B j. Waldo as chairman, was
in charge of the refreshments ana en-
ter+ainnent features. Mrs. A. N. Jones,
vice president arranged program con-
sistinp of violin solos by Arsenic Ralon
of the National Symphony OrchestTa,
VINO was accompanied on the piano py
Mrs. RaIon; readings by Miss Carolyn
Sabastin. piano solos by MISS Allto-
Meta DeIucca, and orchestral numbers
bv the w. ], Oates Student Orchestra.
An informal reception followed. the re-
ceiving line consisting of the president
and executive board of the club; MRS.
Harvey Wiley, president OF the u. y
Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Ed
gar B. Merritt past president OF the
F. g Federation: Mrs Maurice Smith
l1resident of the Park View Woman S
Club: Mrs. P. B. Ashburn and Mrs l.
II Faris, directors to the federation
from the Park View Club; Mrs Freder-
lex L. Pratt, president Of the TaKoma
Park Woman'S Club; Mrs B. M Coon
and Mrs. P. w. Burk, directors to the
federation from the Takoma PARK
Club.
The Visiting Nurses Unit with Miss
Sue RichWine as chairman, Will meet
tomorrow afternoon to make surgical
supplies at the Georgia Avenue Branch
of the Visiting Nurses Society.
The meeting of the Literature Section
will be held tomorrow evening at the
home of Mrs. A. C. Norcross, 819 Taylor
street who will be assisted by Mrs.
Edith Crum and Mrs. S. Louise Weir. The
program will be in charge Of Mrs. Grit
fifth Evans. Mrs Maude Wiedemann.
Mrs. Philip Wright. Mrs. Frank
Schwartz and Mrs Grace Knox.
Mrs. G. E. Hudson will entertain the
Hospitalitv Section Wednesday after
noon at her home, 622 Allison street.
The Takoma Park Women's Club met
at the branch library Tuesday. Lunch
lNxT the following
fSn soatesSes: SaS MRS Sfrseu j. s. Barrows Bar Mrs,
Clinton. Mrs. Hubbard. Mrs. M. O..
johnson. Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Lawrence,
Mrs. Pailthorp. Mrs. Price, Mrs. Pratt,
Mrs Richards. Mrs. d. Stuart and Mrs.
Tighe. A talk was given on the pro-
posed new food and drug act, known
as the Tugwell bill, by Mrs. John 1.
Hardy, guest speaker Mrs. D. c. Ger
don gave dramatic readings. Memorial
services were held for Mrs. James ray
lor, who died December II.
The literature department will meet
tomorrow at 10 am. at the branch IL
brary. Mrs. Vernon w. Shives will re-
view Lockhart's book, British Agent"
The bi-monthly meetings of the
French department will be resumed
January and % at the library at
1880 pm.
The art department will meet at the
Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1900
Twenty-first street January IL, at 2
O'Clock. Mr.. Watkins of the Phillips
Memorial Gallery will be the speaker.
Members desiring transportation will
meet at the Takoma Library at
o'clock.
The Argye Study Club will meet at
the home of Mrs Edward Norwood,
SOIL Sixteenth street, January 9, at l
O'Clock. Mrs. Charles Morgan will re-
view the book, House of Exile"
ID. C. League of American Pen W0n-
en-Irene Shirley Moran. chairman
of poetry, on Tuesday held an evening
devoted to that subject. Charles Ed
ward Russell spoke on Sonnet Makers
and Sonnet Making" Catherine Cate
CobIentz. one of the editors of Caril-
Ion, spoke on Contemporary Sonnet
Writer'S
The third in the series of nom fiction
book reviews was given January 5 un-
der the chairmanship of DR.. Frances
Moon Butts. Mrs. Bess Heath Ohm
stead, a former vice president, played
DR.. Charles C. Tansill, member of the
graduate school faculty of the Ameri-
can University. spoke on Modern
Trends in the writing of History and
4iograRhy." :" Gertrude Stems. 1.-The