Evening star., 1946-12-02

Bazaars Set

Ard these sales will add to the funds
for worthy charities.
The Little Museum at Hillcrest,
the Children's Village will benefit
from the annual bazaar which will
be held Saturday in the Edwin
Gould Cottage at 4119 Nebraska
avenue. Here will be found aprons
for kitchen and cocktails; fascinat-
ling bags and tea-towels, dressed
dolls and an intriguing assortment
of small, gaily painted wooden fig
ures and toys for Christmas stock
fings. Interesting features of the sale
will be the lavendar and pot-pourri
sachets and the Yule-tide logs for
the table. The logs will be decorated
with candles and appropriate
Christmas green's. Orders will be
taken for them to be delivered be-
fore December 25 and there also
will be varieties of potted plants and
caeti ready to carry home.
An innovation will be the table OF
rRelinquished Treasures" in place
of the White Elephant table. These
treasures" relinquished by their
owners to aid the Little Museum in
clude many things of beauty as well
as of use.
Hillcrest orange bread and Hill
crest mince pies may be had from
The food table and there also will be
Maryland cornmeal and Vermont
maple sugar, the latter in cunning
little figures.
The Little Museum Is recrea-
tional activity carried on in connec-
ton with Hillcrest and has an edu-
cational value as well for the chill
dren living there. The museum will
be opened to patrons of the bazaar
and tea will be served during the
afternoon.
Members of the board of lady
managers of Hillcrest, assisted by
the children themselves, will act as
hostesSes at the sale. Hillcrest
was founded In 1915 as the Wash
ington City Orphan Asylum as a
home for children who had been
left orphans and destitute by the
War OF 1912. Mrs. James Madison.
the famous Dolly Madison. wife OF
the then President, and Mrs. John
p. Van Ness, the former Marcia
Burns, were first and second direct
resses, respectively, of the board OF
lady managers. There also was a
board of trustees, men. of promi-
nence in the city at that time. The
two boards carry on the work today.
The present board Of lady managers
is composed of Mrs. Francis Bowes
Sayre, first directress; Mrs. Arthur
Wallace Dunn, second directress;
Mrs. Frederick w. Connolly, record
ing secretary; Mrs. c. Rogers Arun-
dell, corresponding secretary; Mrs.
B. Lowndes Jackson, jr, treasurer;
and Mrs. Clarence A. Aspinwan,
Miss Sally Bradley, Miss Katharine
G. Colt, Mrs. Fernando Cuniberti,
Mrs. William ]. Flather, jr., Mrs.
Rudolph Max Kaufman, Mrs.
Godfrey w. Kaufman, Mrs. George
Maurice Morris, Miss Portia Oberly,
Mrs. H. H. Smith Hutton and Mrs.
John w. Stenhouse.
Woman's alliance Sale
The Woman's Alliance Of All
Souls Unitarian Church has chosen
Thursday and Friday for its
bazaar, which will open Thursday
afternoon at S o'clock at the church
at 10th and Harvard streets. The
bazaar will continue Friday from
10 in the morning until 9 in the
evening. The event will have all
the color of a country fair and the
gaiety of the holiday season.
The tables will have many sug-
gestions for gifts to save shoppers
last-minute Christmas rush and one
of the big attractions will be the
turkey dinners served each day by
Mrs. Leo Raywid and the members
of her committee. A dessert bridge
party will start at o'clock Friday
and during that afternoon Mr.. VIII
liam A. Rhodes will be on hand to
read palms.
Mrs. B. r. Sonen is chairman Of
the committee for the apron table
and Mrs. Harold Fowler and COM
mittee have selected an interesting
number of books for children and
grown-ups, while Mrs. John Plugge
will take subscriptions for maga-
zines.
The children's table will be laden
with handmade gifts, for which
Mrs. David Haykin is chairman and
Mrs. ]. F. Vorkoeper is in charge Of
the large collection of potted plants.
The food and candy tables, always
part of a Christmas sale, are
under the direction of Mrs. Elmer
Stewart and Mrs. Wesly c. Clark,
respectively. Mrs. Grace j. Landon
is chairman for the linen and
needlework table, while Miss Edith
Rogers presides over the handker-
chiefs, scarfs and toiletries. And,
of course, there will be a white