The Washington times., 1938-12-14
Entire Nous Club
TOPreSentGiftS
To Patients
By TINA MARRANZANO

Love. laughter and labor went
into the making of bright
flowered cretonne bags by more
than 25 members of the Entire
Nous Club as their Christmas
gifts to the veterans of Walter
Reed Hospital.
The bags, which the veterans
use as bed kits, will be pre-
sented by Mrs. Charles P. Keyser.
president of the club since it
was organized Is years ago, to
Mrs. Mabel Shackelford, recrea-
tional worker of the American
Red Cross ct Walter Reed Hos
pital. They will be distributed
to the men on Christmas morn
ing.
WORK ROOM BUSY
Meeting at the Girls Hospice
of the Volunteers OF America
on Sixteenth Street, the entire
first floor was taken over by
the women. Some did basting.
and others worked at the eight
electric sewing machines placed
on the long dining room table
piled high with the bags.
The material was purchased
by Mrs. Miles C. Trowbridge,
who cut The bags and had them
all ready for the workers when
they convened for the sewing
session in the morning. One OF
the guests, prominently iden-
titled with club activities In
Washington jokingly stated that
she could now apply for a union
sewing card, join the Garment
Workers, and play a bit part
in their production, Pins ana
Needles"
Never was there such a spirit
of cooperation, of happiness, as
the women, some gray-halred,
bent to their tedious task with
all the ardor they would have
had had they been sewing for
their own children, or making
articles for their own home.
LUNCHEON SERVED
AS the hands of the clock
neared the luncheon hour.
group of ladies retired to the
kitchen, and prepared a deli
cious cold luncheon, made up of
baked ham, potato salad, pickles,
olives, rolls and butter, coffee,
with ice cream and cake for
dessert.
The women, however, delayed
eating to listen to q musical
program rendered by Herbert A.
CLAIR, former recorder and ar
ranger of music for the Amerl-
can Piano Company and a well
known radio entertainer. He was
introduced by Major H. Mills
Eroh. head of the Volunteers OF
America in the District Of Co.
lumbia. Mr.. CLAIR played three
hymns on the piano, with his
own arrangement: Let the
Lower Lights Be Burning,
Nearer My God to Thee" and
"Onward Christian Soldiers"
So enthusiastic was the ap-
plause that Mr.. Claar played an
encore: In the Sweet Bye and
Bye" with an arrangement reml-
niscent of George Gershwin.
MRS. SNODGRASS SINGS
Mrs, Ruth Snodgrass, second
vice president of the D. c. Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs, who
was heard earlier in the day in
a radio broadcast, sang Away
in a Manger," the Lutheran era
die hymn, and LAS With Glad
ness Men of Old" Mrs. Snod-
grass was accompanied on the
piano by Mr.. CLAIR.
Following u n h e o n, the
women returned to their tasks.
They had been making these
bags annually for 10 years, and
the Entire Nous Club was one OF
the first of the Federated Clubs
to inaugurate this bit of philan-
thropy.
The clup was organized fiji
teen years ago by Mrs. Keyser,
among eighteen personal friends.
It now has a limited member
ship of 35 Among its many
endeavors was that of furnish
ing the front room of the Girls
Hospice. 1t is a bright room,
containing a large olive green
Administer rug, a small baby
grand piano, wine brocade sofa
and chair, a green club chair
and an odd chair with back and
seat of dainty flowered tapes
try. Above the ivory fireplace
are hand painted vases and
bowls. Oil paintings and water
colors, the work of Mrs. Lloyd
W. Biddle and Mrs. Trowbridge,
decorate the walls.
BASKETS FOR NEEDY
In addition to this work, the
club also donates baskets Of
food and toys to needy families,
the names of which have been
supplied to them throughout the
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