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Evening star., 1939-04-09


many things In her life, but few have
attracted more general interest than
the hedge which incloses the>Pari-
seau home and garden.
The hedge, Is feet high. forms a
solid, evergreen barrier between the
outside world and the house within,
and is reminiscent Of Old World gar
dens, as we'll as many Of the copies
in CALIFORNIA; fashionable Beverly
Hills.
Fifteen years ago Mrs. Pariseau
says she wanted a hedge for the
home which she and her husband, a
retired Army medical officer, had
just purchased.
II wanted a cheap hedge and one
that was slow-growing," she ex-
planned, so bought 40 little hem
lock trees, about II inches high. I
have transplanted them four times
since the first planting and have
already cut of as much as from 8
to 10 feet"
Mrs. Pariseau explained how her
gardener had found it necessary to
invent a blade adaptable to slicing
off the tops of sturdy evergreen
trees. HE has taken a very stout
blade and attached it in some way
to gasoline engine" she explained.
Then he mounts ladder and while
an assistant works the machine, he
trims off the tops of the hedge"
Attracts Much Attention.
The hedge has attracted so much
attention in her neighborhood, that
scarcely day passes but some one
stops to inquire about it, Mrs.
Pariseau said.
"A neighboring priest has de-
scribed it as a perfect monastery
garden while nearby rabbi has
told me it is perfect background
for Succoth,'" Mrs. Pariseau laugh
ed, so it apparently might have
many uses"
The hedge originally cost $40, she
said, but a recent admirer passing
by offered her $500 if she would sell
it. The Pariseau home is coZy,
modest building entirely hidden by
the great hedge, and Mrs. Pariseau
stated that when the Wouldbe pur-
chaser was refused, he replied: 1T
looks like the dickens here"
Whether it looks like the dickens
or not, it will stay here" she replied.
Within the hemlock hedge Mrs.
Pariseau cultivates roses, and al
ready many bushes are set and
trimmed ready for the first early
blooming in May.
Girls Hobby.
II like all flowers" said Mrs.
Pariseau, but my taste runs par
ticularly to hybrid tea roses. They
are satisfactory because they bloom
all season. From the middle of May
Evening star., 1939-04-09
Pro Bonata Club
Meets TOMORROW

The Pro Bonata Club will meet to-
morrow at the home of Mrs. Ray
mond L. Keith, 4400 Dexter street
NV. Hostesses will be Mrs. j. w.
Lyles, Mrs. j. w. Dunham and Mrs.
E. F. McIntire. Mrs. J. Edwin Reid
will preside.
Mrs. Lee D. Ritter, entertainment
chairman, will present the guest
speaker. Mrs. Thomas P. Ahrens.
who will talk on Visit to the West
Coast of South America" 1t will be
illustrated with moving pictures and
native costumes. worn by Mrs. Ennis
Almond, Mrs. Alfred L. Fleming and
Miss Esther L. Beale.
The domestic section will meet
April 18 at 8 pm. at the home of
Mrs. Silas Baker. Mrs. Baker will
instruct the members in designing
and fitting dresses.
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Housekeepers
To Give Spring
Card Party

The spring card party of the
Housekeepers' Alliance of the Dis
trict will be held April q at pm.
at the home of Mrs. William Trauty,
1882 Park road NV.
Mrs. j. E. Atkeson, chairman of
ways and means, announces a COM
mittee meeting to be held at the
home of the president, Mrs. Fred
eric Newburgh, Thursday at 10 am.
to complete the plans.
Mrs. Trauty, chairman of the de-
partment of public welfare, will have
the Welfare Committee meeting at
her home April II at pm. She
will return from her visit to South
ern Virginia in time for the meet
ing.
Mrs. Morgan Otterback, chair
man of the division of child well
fare, announces that shoes, new or
old; clothing. new or used, provided
they are in good condition and
cleaned, are being collected for
distribution in the communities
where cases warrant. Deliveries
may be made to her home, 513 Sc
ward square Sc.
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Mrs. Noble Potts
Addresses
D. A. r. Meeting

Mrs. Noble Newport Potts, organ
izing regent of the Mai. LEnfant
Chapter, Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, was the speaker at
an anniversary meeting last week at
the home of Miss Helen Bliss, 1921
Kalorama road NV. The chapter
was organized April 7, 1910. Mrs.
Potts spoke on its early days.
Assisting hostesses were Mrs. Rosa
Peake and Mrs. Irene Smoot. Mrs.
Edwin S. Bethlehem, the regent,
presided.
Miss Janet Richards will address
the Army and Navy Chapter at 2
pm. tomorrow at the Army and
Navy Club on The Founders" ;"
Business will include nominations
for three board members, delegates
and alternates.
A club luncheon will be served at
1890 pm.
The Col James Mccall Chapter
will! meet at the home of the chap
ter's honorary member. Mrs. H. C.
Linn, 1885 South Meade street, Ar
lington. Va, Tuesday at pm. Mrs.
Linn will have her two daughters.
Mrs. J. c. Slaughter and Mrs. Mar
garet Woolf. assisting as hostesses.
Mrs. William H. Wagner, State
chairman of Junior American Citi-
zens, will be the guest of honor and
speaker.
The Louisa Adams Chapter will
meet at 8 pm. Tuesday at Wesley
Hall. Hostesses will be Miss Mar
garet C. Smith, Mrs. Mildred L. Fry
and Mrs. Briscoe B. Gray.
There will be a short lecture on
Colonial Glass by an authority on
that subject.
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Ciuic and Study Clubs

s@sS Ost0 @suNI St~S0
Voteless District of Columbia
League of Women Voters-Tues-
day, pm, Department Of Eco
nomic Welfare, Star Building,
Room 104, subject. Unemployment
Insurance: 8 pm, Department
of Government and Legal Status
of Women. with Mrs. Pearl B.
Klein, 5000 Connecticut avenue
NV. Wednesday, 2 pm, Depart
ment of Government and Foreign
Policy, with Mrs. M. o. Lorenz,
3510 Porter street NV; Depart
ment of Government and Educa-
ton. Field trip.
Association of University
Women-Tomorrow, 3 pm, clas-
sical letter writer's; 3 to pm,
group studying child develop
ment, exhibit of educational toys;
$3.50 pm. tea, DR.. Kathryn Nc
Hale, hostess; 43O pm, branch
meeting and discussion; 7:45 pm,
applied art group. Mrs. Roy Palmer
will demonstrate metal craft.
Tuesday, 2 pm, beginners bridge
group; 8 pm, travel talk. Speak
er, Mrs. T. P. Ahrens, South
America" Wednesday, II am,
social welfare study group; 2 pm,
consumer research group. Thurs
day, II am, book review. Re-
viewers, Mrs. David Segel, Mrs.
Gilbert A. Bell; luncheon follows;
8 pm, art appreciation group.
Speaker, William Adams Slade,
"A Few Notes on the Library of
Congress Friday, 7:45 pm,
bridge: 8 pm, beginners bridge.
Saturday, lis pm, luncheon for
members of law for laywomen
group. Hostess, Miss Nellie Nc
Michael; $50 pm, Pan-American
dinner and dance. Chairman of
dance, Mrs. John Sharf.
Twentieth Century Club-Tomor-
row, pm, benefit card party,
Raleigh Hotel. Wednesday, 10:30
am, nature section to meet at
Dalecarlia Station, Va, for bird
walk. Thursday, l pm, civics-
education section luncheon at Y.
w. c. A. Speaker, Seton Darr,
Jury Duty in the Courts in the
District of Columbia"
Women's City Club-Today, 4:30
pm, tea. Hostesses, Nominating
Committee. Tuesday, S pm, cur
rent events; 8 pm, Board of Di-
rectors meeting. Wednesday, $50
pm, business and professional
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Pi Beta Phi
Session
2.Day Conference
Opens Here
April %

Plans have been completed for
the Pi Beta Phi conference to be
held here April % and 20 with the
Washington Hotel as headquarters.
Chairman and co-chairman of COM
mittees arranging the sessions
worked out final details at meet
ing last week at the home of Mrs.
B. Harrison Lingo.
Registration will take place at
pm. April %, and the opening
session at pm. the same evening.
It will be followed by a reception
at which the guests OF honor will
be Mrs. Samuel Spruce, Mrs. T. N.
Afford, DR.. May Keller, Dr. Mary
Harris, Mrs. Robert Wilde and Mrs.
j. S. Barnwell. The introductions
will be made by Mrs. James Greear,
president of the Washington Alum
nae Club of Pi Beta Phi.
A joint session of active and alum
nae groups will be held at $50
am. April 20. Subjects to be dis
cussed will include the Pi Beta
Phi Settlement School at Gatlin-
burg, Tenn, and how the alumnae
can help the Junior groups in the
fraternity.
The second afternoon will be de-
voted to sightseeing for out-of-
town delegates and in the evening
q banquet will conclude the con-
ference. Mrs. Wilbur Eccleston is
chairman of the Banquet Commit
tee. The conference guide is Mrs.
Lingo and assistant guide, Miss
Florence S. Bergman.
Delegates are expected from the
following active chapters of Pi Beta
Phi in Gamma Province: Goucher
College, Baltimore; George Wash
ington University, Washington;
Randolph-Macon Womans College,
Lynchburg, Va: College of William
and Mary, Williamsburg, Va; Uni
versity of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, N. c.: Duke University, Dur
ham. N. c., and the University of
South Carolina, Columbia, S. C..
The following alumnae clubs in
the province will also send dele
gates: Baltimore, Chapel Hill, Char
lotte, N. c.; Columbia, S. c.; Rich
mond, Va; Tri-City and Washing
ton, D. C.
This conference comedies with
the 50th anniversary of the found
ing of District of Columbia Alpha
Chapter Of Pi Beta Phi at George
Washington University.
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Gamma Phi
Beta Plans
For Farley
Entertainment
For Convention
In 1910 Mapped

Plans for entertainment of the
international convention of Gamma
Phi Beta Sorority, to be held in
Washington in June, 1910, is one
of the biggest jobs before the
alumnae chapter of this city, which
recently elected Mrs. Paul C. Whit
ney as its president.
Mrs. A. Burks Summers has been
appointed chairman of the conven-
ton by the national officers, and
with group from the local alumnae
will go to Birmingham. Ala, this
week to attend the province confer
ence of the sorority. at which con-
vention plans will be under discus
SON,
). Summers. who will leave
lesday. will be accompanied by
Miss Frances A. Ide, Crescent cor
respondent for the local chapter:
Miss Edna Buhrer, treasurer, and
Miss Ellen Lorena Kreider, cor
responding secretary. En- route to
Birmingham they will stop in At
anita. Ga, to attend dinner the
alumnae group of that city is plan
ming to give Thursday in honor Of
the national treasurer, Mrs. Alice
Cameron.
The international convention next
year is expected to bring from 500
to TOO members of the sorority to
Washington. All parts of the United
States will be represented, and it is
possible that delegates also will come
from London and Hawaii, where the
sorority has chapters.
The slate of officers elected by
the local chapter, in addition to
Mrs Whitney, includes: Mrs. H
A. Mathiesen, vice president: Miss
Buhrer, treasurer: Miss Kreider,
corresponding secretary; Miss Ide,
correspondent: Mrs. J. A. Rolls,
Panhellenic delegate, and Miss
Janet Feiker. alternate delegate
Mrs. George w. Lipscomb has been
appointed chairman of rushing.
The local organization has approx
mately IS members.
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A. A. i. w.
Schedules
Dance
Dinner Affair
Will Observe
Pan.American Day

Pan-American Day will be OBJ
served by the Washington branch of
the American Association of Uni
versity Women with a dinner and
dance Saturday at $50 pm. at the
clubhouse, 1884 I street NV, un-
der the joint auspices of the Educa-
tional Committee. the International
Relations Committee and the Hos
pitality Committee.
The Washington branch, which is
working to endow the Latin Amer
ican scholarship offered by the as
sociation, has long been interested
in Latin American relations and ex-
poets to make this entertainment an
annual affair.
The speaker will be DR.. Daniel
Samper-Ortega, counselor of the
Colombian Embassy, whose talk will
be on "A Frivolous Chat with Co.
lombian Women" Sonora de Sam
per- -Ortega also will be a guest of
honor.
Other guests will include Mrs.
Thomas Burke, Chilean. whose
husband is in the State Depart
ment Mrs. Burke, pianist, will
play a group of Spanish compost
tions at dinner. The program will
also include a dance by Nine. Basil
de Toutorsky. a native of Mexico,
who with her husband, a we'll
known musician, will be a guest of
honor.
DR.. Samper -Ortega, who was re-
Gently appointed to his post here,
is we'll known as a Latin American
scholar. In Colombia he is regarded
as one of the foremost educators
and was organizer of the Book Ex-
position of 1888 in which Is coun-
tries were represented. He has pub
lished a collection of Colombian lit
erature and is the author of novels
and plays
Dancing will begin at 9 pm with
bridge and Chinese checkers also
arranged for entertainment Mrs
John Sharf is chairman of the
Dance Committee.
Mrs. David L. Wing, chairman of
the Latin American Scholarship
Fund, will attend and Mrs. Robert
Olesen, president of the Washington
branch, will preside at the dinner.
Miss Elsie Green is chairman of
the Educational Committee, Mrs.
John Donaldson. the International
Relations Committee, and Mrs.
Frank Smith, the Hospitality Com
mittee.
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Mrs. Dunbar to Talk

Mrs. Saddle Orr Dunbar, who re-
turned last week from Columbia,
Mo-, where she led one of the dis
cussion periods at national con-
ference on consumer education, will
leave tomorrow for Florence, S. c.. to
speak at the convention of the
South Carolina Federation of Wom-
enc Clubs. She will be the speaker
at the Woman's Club of York, Pa,
Thursday.
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until last Thanksgiving I had roses
on the table from my garden"
Although horticultural subjects
take much of Mrs. Pariseau's time,
she declared her real No. hobby is
girls. !
"Yes, just girls" she laughed. "All
ages and all kinds. If I we're ever
invited to exhibit at hobby display,
I would have to place little girl in
the center of a table"
AS the mother of a married daugh.
ter, the head of the candidates" Of
the District for the Girls Friendly
Society and also a member of the
Juvenile Court Committee in Mont.
gomery County. Mrs. Pariseau has
choice fields in which to expand her
hobby; and its expansion has worked
untold good to her community, as
well as dozens of young girls, who
have turned to her for counsel.
Before her marriage in Boston,
Mrs. Pariseau gave three years of her
student days to the study of medi.
cine. This study has been a foun.
dation for all my social service
work." she declared. TT has helped in
numerous ways with many prob.
lems," "a
Doesn't Like Schools Now. "a
Mrs. Pariseau, who has definite
and interesting opinions on the ques.
ton Of education for girls, does not
think methods in modern schools
are adequate to equip girls for theil
real work in life.
They should be trained to cooA
and keep house as well as to man.
age their clothes on budget" she
said. Most girls marry and very few
are equipped to keep house properly.
Even if they are In business, they
must know how to manage a house.
So many girls have false value Of
the real things of life and many
think it is demeaning to do house,
work"
Practicing what she breaches
Mrs. Pariseau admits she enjoys
every phase of housework, from sew
ing to cooking. AS to cooking there
is little published on the subject she
contends, that she does not read.
Our librarian has asked me II ]
ever read anything besides cook.
books" she smiled.
AS member of the International
Relations Committee of the Be.
thesda Women's Club. she also il
interested in world affairs.
In spite of the fact that Mrs. Pari.
seau is hedged in by one of her hob
bies, it is only within the confines Of
her home, for her other hobbies carry
her far and wide into the world Of
clubwomen outside.
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and didn't think of myself in this
connection at all"
Mrs. Wiley also said she thought
any mention of her work for the
act should contain a reference to
Robert Mcdowell Allen, the legal
counsel for the American Pure Food
League which she headed. He was
our rhotivating spirit" she said,
land an old friend of my husband S
who had worked for the original act.
Another who worked for both the
original act and the new one was
Miss Alice Lakey of Crawford, N. j."
she added. "She was the leader
for the women back before 1906 and
was executive secretary for the re-
vived league when she died before
the new act was passed"
Mrs. Wiley, who is chairman of
the division of Indian welfare of the
General Federation of Women's S
Clubs, will leave Washington this
week in order to visit number of
Indian reservations in the West be-
fore the opening of the federation
council on May 8. She is one of
the delegates from the District fed
Grafton to the meeting.
Later, she will take a trip to
Alaska. being sponsored by the fed
Grafton, and will stop In Hanover
just two days before she is due to
return home.
Has Held High Office
In Various Groups.
Mrs. Wiley's activities are well
known in Washington, as she has
held high Office in numerous organ
izations. She was president of the
Housekeepers' Alliance in l9l2-l4
and again in 1924; president of
the Columbian Women of George
Washington University, 1929:
chairman of the National Woman's S
party. l929-32; president of the Dis
trict Federation of Womens Clubs.
1925; president of the Women's
City Club, 1868, and president of
the Kalorama Citizens Association,
1934-7. She also has served as re-
cording secretary of the Twentieth
Century Club and of the Washing
ton Institute of Mental Hygiene,
in addition to other Offices.
A native of California, she worked
in the Department of Agriculture
for two years after her graduation
from George Washington, and later
was in the Library of Congress be-
fore she was married to DR.. Wiley
in 1911.
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dinner. Friday, 7:30 pm, skating
expedition, Junior Guild.
Delphian Society," George Washing
ton Group-Wednesday. 10 am,
Georgetown Library. Reader, Mrs.
Simmisgalli. Topic assignments,
Mrs. Friest.
Community Clubs
Chevy Chase Woman's Club
Thursday, 2 pm. nature section,
round table discussion. Tea
hostess, Mrs. Lawrence Voorhees,.
Petworth Woman's Club-Tomor-
row, 7:45 pm, literature section
with Mrs. E. c. Magdeburger, 1912
Concord avenue NV. Wednes-
day, 1:3O pm, hospitality section
with Mrs. Leonard Russie, 37OT
Sixteenth street NV.
Park View Woman's Club-Tuesday,
8pm., with Mrs. Clarence Wood
ward TAO Newton place NV.
Takoma Park Womens Club-To-
morrow, 10 am, pottery class,
studio of Alexander Clayton;
12:45 pm, literature department,
Maryland Library. Book reviewers,
Mrs. F.. A. Richmond and Mrs.
Arthur Tool: l pm, bridge, with
Mrs. C. L. Head, I'll Elder street.
Tuesday, 10 am, physical educa-
ton class. Town Hall. Wednes-
day, 10 am, choral group re-
hearsal, LOT Tulip avenue.
Business and Pyofessionaf Clubs
Zonta Club-Tuesday, pm, Y. w.
C. A., dinner, honoring DR.. Helen
Pearce of Oregon.
Insurance Women's Club of Wash
ington-Tomorrow 6 pm, dinner
meeting, Taft House Inn, 1901 K
street NV.
Woman's Auxiliary to the American
Institute of Mining and Metal
lurgical Engineers, 1nc.-Tuesday,
11::3O am, Highlands, followed by
luncheon. Speaker. Dr. Hector
David Castro, Minister from Ell
Salvador.
Business Women's Council-Tues-
day. 7 pm,'at Covenant Presby-
terian Church. Goth annual home
missionary dinner. Speaker,
Earlene White.
Miscellaneous Clube
Woman's National Democratic Club
Tomorrow, l pm, luncheon.
Speaker, Mrs. Florence Kerr,
Americas Unfinished Business. "
Thursday, II am, round-table
discussions ON youth and the
Evening star., 1939-04-09

college Tor more than 80 years and
annually attended its meetings, she
recalled.
The degree will be presented to
Mrs. Wiley less than two weeks be-
fore most of the provisions of the
new legislation, for which she worked
for five years, become effective-a
year after the signature of the Pres
ident.
Prominently connected with
number of civic organizations, Mrs.
Wiley won the support of club
women for the measure by frequent
speeches before various groups. She
was president of the American Pure
Food League, a revival of similar
league which worked for the first
act and which distributed literature
among other things. She also ap-
peared before each of the four con-
gressional hearings on the bill.
Speaking modestly of her work in
this connection last week, Mrs. Wiley
explained she supported the new
act because of her husbands interest
in the original bill. DR.. Wiley,
distinguished scientist, was chief of
the Bureau of Chemistry of the
Agriculture Department for %
years, and worked increasingly dur
ing that period for the Food and
Drugs Act of 1906 until it was
passed. The new act amended the
original legislation by adding cos
metics to the products affected and
by extending the LABEL to advertis-
Ing. among other features. 1t also
provides for reasonable" minimum
standards of qualities for foods.
First Honorary Degree
For Mrs. Wiley.
The honorary degree will be her
first, Mrs. Wiley pointed out, though
her husband earned number of
degrees and was honored by decora-
tions, medals and high Office, not
only in his own country but in sew
eral foreign nations as we'll.
MY only other degree is a B. S.
from George Washington University
in 1871" she said.
Accepting the honor means that
Mrs. Wiley, who already has her
hands full with her club work and
planning for two-month Western
trip. is, in addition, being asked to
send her measurements to Hanover
so that robe for the occasion can
be provided.
And I haven't the faintest idea
what sort of dress I should wear"
she lamented last week. Somehow,
I haven't happened to see woman
receive degree in a number of years
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Drama to Be Given

A melodrama entitled Little Nell
Pickeloff," or The Mortgage on the
Old Homestead, will be the pro-
gram feature at the meeting of the
District section, National Council of
Jewish Women, at 2:15 pm. We'd
nesday at the Jewish Community
Center.
The play is an original production
6y the members of the Kahalsimcha
Social Club of the Juanita K. Nye
Council House.
L. Spiegler will address the group
on the coming United Jewish Appeal
drive. A social will follow, with Mrs.
Adolph Krechel the hostess, assisted
by Mrs. Dunbar Rosenthal and Mrs.
Leroy King.
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Shoppers Meeting

Miss Hildegarde Kneeland of the
National Resources Committee will
address an open meeting of the
Washington League of Women
Shoppers on Tuesday at 4:45 pm.
at the clubhouse of the American
Association of University Women,
1884 I street NV. Her topic will be
"Our American Standard Of Living
What Are the Real Facts?"
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Mrs. H. w. Wiley to Receive
Honorary Degree From
Hanover College
Award to Be Given Widow of Scientist
For Work Toward Passage of
New Federal Food Act
BY FRANCES LIDE,
Women's Club Editor.

Western trip Mrs Harvey
IN Francisco will
honorary
learned
The degree offered Wiley appreciation for contribution
AS Mrs Wiley widow Wiley, frequently called
from College
personal sentiment Wiley
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L. D. C. Luncheon

The annual spring luncheon of the
Officers Club of the United Daugh.
ters of the Confederacy will be held
April 20 at 1:30 pm. at the High
lands, with the president, Mrs. w.
Garnett Lee, presiding. !.
Evening star., 1939-04-09
Rainbow Club to Meet

The Rainbow Club will meet to-
morrow at the home Of Mrs. Helen
Young. 1858 K street Sc, with Miss
Josephine Thornhill as co-hostess.
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Mrs. George Pariseau Hedged
In by One Of Her Hobbies
Bethesda Club Woman's Avocations
Include 15.Foot Evergreen Wall,
Among Other Interests
BY GRETCHEN SMITH.

To that Mrs George Peau Ridge Bethesda
hedged hobbie
hgrave 1t literal for in this the hobby
able and unusual hemlock
S
Girls Friendly Society and Community