The Washington times., 1936-10-21
OAR. CHAPTER
OPENS SEASON
WITH TEA
BY MARY PADGETT

Activities for the club season
will open for Livingston Manor
Chapter, Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, with tea and
card party tomorrow afternoon,
at 2 o'clock, at the home of Mrs.
Adams S. McAllister, 300 High
land Pl. N. w.
Mrs. Frederick K. Sparrow,
chairman of ways and means, has
been in charge of arranging the
party, assisted by Mrs. Natalie R.
Fernald, Mrs. G. C. Hertz, Mrs.
S. w. Mcintosh, Mrs. T. M. Mill
gan, Mrs. E. M. Shearer, Mrs. J. F.
Garland, Mrs. P. M. Bailey and
Mrs. j. F. Magee.
Assembled this afternoon in the
Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church are the members of the
Woman's Club of Chevy Chase
who are holding their first fall
meeting and luncheon.
Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin, vice
president of the National League
of Women Voters, is the guest
speaker, having as her subject
"Woman's Responsibility in Gov
eminent" Presiding is Mrs.
Frank A. Linzel, the club presi-
dent, and Mrs. Mark L. Whitney
is hostess at the luncheon.
Members of the clubs nature
section will leave the Chevy Chase
Circle at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning for a visit to the Letter
estate. Donald E. McHenry, park
naturalist, will lead the group
through the grounds.
A dinner, cards and dancing is
on the program of the social sec
ton when it gathers tomorrow
night at 7 o'clock at the National
Woman's Country Club.
HostesseS will be Mrs. Harrison
F. Fits, Mrs. Harold E. Burton,
Mrs. Eber B. Woodruff, Mrs. Rus
sell T. Edwards, Mrs. George w.
Lewis and Mrs. Edward Wlchers.
The literature section will meet
Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at
the home of Mrs. L. H. Sutton,
5601 Western Ave.
Mrs. Dawson Olmstead, presi-
dent of the Washington branch OF
the League of American Pen
Women, will present program OF
her own songs and poetry at the
meeting of the Women's City Club
book review section, tomorrow att
ernoon at 2 o'clock in the club
house. 1876 Jackson Pl. N. w. Mrs.
Ruth G. Gunnels is chairman OF
the group.
DR.. Edwin N. C. Barnes, director
of music in the District public
schools, will give the third talk in
his series of lectures on Mile
stones in American Music" next
Friday at S p. M, before the
women's City Club. DR.. Barnes
will take as his subject this time
"Stephen Foster, Americas 1rou-
badour."
Mrs. Rebecca Greenhouse, for
mer Assistant U. S. Attorney 1or
the District of Columbia, will speak
before the Government Workers
Council, at meeting tonight at
8 o'clock in the Alva Belmont
House, IA B st. N. E.
There will be brief business
meeting for members Of the Coun-
Gil, after which Mrs. Greathouse
will speak on the subject of mini
mum wage laws for women. She
will particularly refer to the re-
cent refusal of the Supreme Court
to grant a rehearing on its decl-
sion of last June holding the New
York minimum wage law for Wo-
men unconstitutional.
Mrs, Greenhouse, a prominent
attorney, is secretary of the Ma
tional Council of the National
woman's Party. In collaboration
with Mrs. Burnita Shelton Mat
thews, she wrote the brief pre-
sented by the National Woman's
Party and other organizations to
the Supreme Court in support OF
their request that the decision Of
the Court of Appeals of New York
invalidating the minimum wage
law of that State for women only
be upheld. Mrs. Greenhouse also
represented the National Woman's
Party at the Open Door Interna
tional Congress at Copenhagen
last year.
An important part in the educa-
tional program of the National
Congress of Parents and Teachers
for the next eight months will con-
sist of a radio forum on Growth
and Development of the Child"
which, beginning today, will be
broadcast every Wednesday after
noon from to 4:30 o'clock over
the National Broadcasting Com
pany.