Evening star., 1935-03-19
Mrs. Merrill Sponsors
Mr.. FOWler's Talk Tomorrow.

VuT. OWlerS s 1alk tomorrow.
Mrs. Keith Merrill, chairman of
the board of trustees, heads the list
of sponsors for the lecture which will
be given tomorrow afternoon at 4:45
O'Clock, at the Potomac School, by
Mr.. Burton P. Fowler, headmaSter
of the Tower Hill School of Whining
ton, Del. Mr.. Fowler will speak on
Education for Social Responsibility.
Others sponsoring the series of lee
lures, of which this is the fourth, are
Mrs. w. Warren Barbour, Mrs. Will
liam Phillips, Mrs. j. Pierrepont Moi
fat, Mrs. Eugene Meyer Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth, Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe,
Mrs. Charles Baird, jr. Mrs. William
Mckee Dunn, Countess de Sieyes,
Mrs. Fairfax Harrison, Mrs. William
Chaplin Huntington, Mrs. A. Cham
bers Oliphant,. Mrs. Henry Parsons
Erwin, Mrs. John w. Burke, Mrs
John Farr Simmons, Mrs. Armistead
Peters 3D.; Mrs. Reeve Lewis, Mrs.
Paul Henderson and Mrs. Robert
Clement Watson.
Mrs. Helen Churchill Candee will
conclude her series of Wednesday
morning lectures at Sulgrave Club on
the subject, Let Me Introduce to You
Your Household Gods" tomorrow
morning, when she will speak on
"Chinese Objects of Art"
Her talk will be illustrated with
slides loaned by the Metropolitan Mu-
scum in New York. Many of these
are photographs of rare and fine ex-
amples of the art of the different dy-
nasties of China.
The interest in this lecture is so
great that students from several
schools in town will attend.
Following the lecture, Mrs. Stokes
Halkett will entertain at luncheon
for Mrs. Candee and a group of her
friends at Sulgrave Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Little, Lyon
Park, Va, had as a guest over the
week end the latter's brother, Lieut.
Arthur l.. Walters of the U. S. S.
Ranger. stationed at Norfolk, Va.
Mrs. Mary v. Smith and Miss Doro-
thy Smith, who have been guests for
a week of Mr.. and Mrs. Russell A.
Lynn in Herndon, Va, returned to
their home in Purcellville, Va, yester-
day. Mrs. Smith and Miss Smith re-
Gently completed a months cruise
to South America and the West Indies.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Bee and their
son, Mr.. Haskell Bee, and Miss Cleo
Mae MaXon are spending the week
end In Mount Vernon, Ohio, as the
guests of Prof. and Mrs. Charles
WEIGH. Mr.. and Mrs. Bee formerly
resided in Mount Vernon.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. K. Cowherd of
Cumberland, Md, accompanied by
their daughter, Miss Louise Cowherd,
have come to Washington for a short
stay at the Willard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur H. Peter and
their daughter, Miss Charlotte Peter,
are at the Shoreham from their home
in Lakewood, Ohio. Mrs. John j.
aBartram of Washington is sister of
Mrs. Peter.
Mrs. Raymond Case of Purcellville
entertained at duncheon and bridge
Saturday in compliment to Miss Kath-
leen Steele, whose engagement to Mr.
Curtis T. Paxson has been announced.
Miss Steele, who is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs Will Steele of Purcell
willie, is a kindergarten teacher in the
Wheatley School in Washington.
Miss Margaret Barrows, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Barrows of Ia
koma Park, returned today after a
visit with her grandmother, Mrs. Jen-
nie Barrows, and other relatives in
Boston, Mass. She also spent short
time with her other grandmother,
Mrs. Margaret Furnival in Bridgeport,
Conn, on her way to Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. T. Thornton of
schenectady, N. Y, have come to the
Willard to meet their son, Lieut.. ]. T.
Thornton, jr, of Norfolk, Va.
Miss Catherine Garrett was host
ess at her Leesburg home Saturday
afternoon at bridge tea in compli-
nent to Mrs. Edward Norman of Pur-
cellville, who before her recent mar