Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-05

Combining war and community
activities with their parties is new
method of entertaining by Bethesda
hostesses and hostesses in the COM
munities adjoining Bethesda and is
becoming more and more popular as
the holiday season approaches.
An invitation that Mrs Robert E.
Freer Of Kenwood received a day or
two ago had this note attached to
1t: Bring with you cartoons, COM
plete stories clipped from recent
magazines, also old pocket books. old
felt hats or anything that can be
used by servicemen in hospitals for
their handicraft work" And on ar
irving at the home of the hostess.
Mrs. Ina Russell Stacy. the guests
found that they were to paste the
cartoons and clippings into scrap
books to be sent to hospitals in and
near Washington at Christmas time
and to sort out the handicraft ma
terlal into packages for delivery
AiAS pa ~ " osN Va IOul IlUl all
work. for there were coffee and
cakes before the guests left and
time for a brief chat with their
fellow guests.
The guests at the party were a
group OF women lawyers, all men,
bers Of Phi Delta Delta, interna-
t1onal law sorority, and pasting pic
Tires into H.
usual kind Of work But they all
entered into the spirit of the occa-
sion and enjoyed it.
IN ADDITION to Mrs. Freer, who
studied law before her marriage
she is now the wife of Federal Trade
commissioner Robert E. Freer-a1i-
other kenwood resident who at
tended the party and was one
OF the most enthusiastic workers
was Mrs, Russell Hardy, an attor-
ney on the Board of Appeals on Visa
Cases in the State Department.
Some OF the women from Ken
wood will be guests at another
luncheon on December IA and thew
are already collecting all sorts of
gifts for servicemen that the host
ess has asked them to bring along
to the luncheon. All the packages
will be wrapped after the luncheon
ready to be sent to the patients at
the Naval Hospital.
Mrs. CORTLAND D. Ferguson has
q little different way of combining
work and play. She has been GET
ing her two children, Lucille and
Courtland, and their friends to-
gether to recondition their dis
carded toys. These are painted end
repaired and when in sood connl-
tlon again they will be sent to chill
dren who otherwise might not have
Christmas.
MRS. Ferguson will discontinue her
work for few days while she has
mouse guests, Mr. and Mrs. John
Nuthai OF Darien, Conn, but she
Will take 1t up again when they
leave at the end CT the week.
Next Saturday DR.. and Mrs. Sid
ney S, Jaffe of Somerset will open
Their nome for the annual Somerset
party sponsored by the Somerset
Woman's Club. Mrs. Rufus Miles.
the clubs president, is planning a
delightful program of entertainment
Tor the guests. But the evening will
not be all fun and merriment be-
cause each guest is asked to bring
money contribution and at the
close OF the party the sum thus con-
tributed will be sent to the Mont
gomery County Social Service
League to help needy families.
The Somerset Christmas party is
one CT the traditions of this lower
Montgomery County community. 1t
has been held each year for more
than 20 years.
Another party for women who are
working along the lines Of ccm-
munity betterment will be held a
little later in the month. 1t is the
tea that Mrs. Walker S. Evans Of
Somerset will give when she dis
tributes the sewing material to the
women who are making layettes for
the new suburban hospital in Be-
thesda.
The layette project was started by
Mrs. Evans last spring and the wom-
On on her committee have already